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gridlocks and a lot of fight
ing."
Parmon, an avid sup
porter of social justice leg
islation like the Racial
Justice Act, which she co
sponsored, and
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compensation
for victims of the
state's eugenics
program, says
she expects new
voter identifica
tion Laws to be
proposed, and
other progres
sive agendas
such as women's
rights, to come
under fire.
"I just hope
I'm wrong in
being so pes
simistic. I hope I
will get a great
surprise on how
things will shape
up in Raleigh in
the General
Assembly,"
declared Farm on,
who served in the
Hnnc# nrinr to
her election to the senate.
"This is one time I'd be
very happy to say I was
wrong. I think the people
of North Carolina want to
see some balance in state
government. They want us
to create jobs and ensure
that education is accessible
to all people and I think
that's what those of us who
are going to Raleigh
should be willing to do."
Though there will
undoubtedly be some areas
where he doesn't see eve to
eye with his Democratic
counterparts, Republican
Donny Lambeth, who was
recently elected to repre
sent the North Carolina
House of Representatives'
District 75, said there are
likely also many areas
where they are in agree
ment. Lambeth, a retired
Wake Forest Baptist Health
top executive and current
chair of the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County
Board of Education, said
he will embrace public
education reform and
increasing health care
access, just as many pro
gressive legislators do.
Tackling tough issues such
as these will require both
sides to be flexible,
x Lambeth said.
"There are some very
important decisions that
need to be made," he stat
ed..We *te only going to
solve those (problems) if
we can work
together, and-1
think that
maybe there's
the mood and
the willingness
for people to do
that."
Ed Hanes,
Parmon's suc
cessor in the
NC House's
72nd District,
said he will
also focus on
reaching across
the aisles to
champion the
kind of legisla
tion he wants
to see passed.
"I just look
at this as an
opportunity to
go in and see
where we can
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meet ana uo
the work of the people,"
Hanes said. "...Outright
capitulation is not the
foundation of legislation. -
compromise is - and I
think as much as I can, as
much as it's reasonable to
do so, that's how I'm going
to approach my job in
Raleigh."
Hanes said he didn't
know much about
McCrory, but he's cau
tiously optimistic about the
state's new leader, based
on what he has heard.
"The only thing that I
can see is the work that he
has done as mayor of
Charlotte. Many of my
Democratic colleagues and
friends who are in business
in Charlotte frankly gave
him good marks for busi
ness. We'll see how he
reacts and interacts when it
comes down to some of
these harder social justice
issues that we're going to
see in the North Carolina
legislature," he comment
ed. "I think it's a little bit
of a wait and see. All we
can do is take the man at
his word and see what he
does when he gets there."
Dr. Donald Mac
Thompson, an associate
professor of political sci
ence and chair of the
Department of Social
Sciences at Winston-Salem
State University, also does
n't believe that McCrory
should be written off by
Democrats.
"1 think if he has a
focused agenda and is very
willing to work with the
state legislature, public
policy will be better for
North Carolina," surmised
Mac-Thompson, a regis
tered Democrat. "If we
look at the individual ver
sus the political affiliation,
I think that he's got the
experience. He is very
good at attracting small
businesses to Charlotte, for
example, and I am pretty
sure he will do the same
with the Chamber of
Commerce and the state as
a whole."
ratn
MacThomptoii
Nurses
from pa ft Aft
distribution of advanced
practice nurses who often
serve as the primary health
care provider in under
served rural and urban pop
ulation areas of North
Carolina," said Or. Lenora
Campbell, associate dean
of the Division of
Nursing. "The AENT sup
p o r t
Will
allot*
our stn
denttto
devote
more
time to
a c a -
demic
activi
ties to
enham e th
funding will also allow stu
dents to pursue full-time
versus part-time
study. Both of these will
help to address the state's
shortage of primary care
providers by graduating a
continuous supply of prac
titioners who are well qual
ified to provide high quali
ty, culturally relevant
healthcare."
WSSU is also partner
ing with Duke University
School of Nursing to estab
lish the Bridge to the
Doctorate program, only
one of two such programs
for nurses in the United
States. The $1,245,190
five-year project is being
funded by the National
Institute of General
Medicine. It is designed to
increase the number of
minority nursing students
enrolled in the master's
program at WSSU who are
prepared for the Ph.D. pro
grams in nursing and other
related biomedical and
behavioral science disci
plines at Duke
University. The two uni
versities will collaborate to
develop and teach courses
at both the WSSU and
Duke campuses, as well as
create two-year long men
toring wihrionihipi among
students and WSSU and
Duke researchers.
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Holiday Effort Supports Vets
Volunteers help with the distribution of hundreds of Thanksgiving bags for
local veterans and the families of deployed military personnel. Each vet or
family received a 14-pound turkey, canned yams, corn, green beans, cranber
8t sauce, instant mashed potatoes, stuffing mix, rolls and a pumpkin pie.
peration Thanksgiving Blessing, which took place at the National Guard
Armory on Silas Creek Parkway on Saturday, was sponsored by Agape Faith
Church and love Out Loud, a project of Winston-Salem First.
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Murals
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and furniture. The future is
represented through the
figure at the top leaping
through a computer screen
to grasp a book. The hope
for the future is in technol
ogy and education. The
project was made possible
through funding from a
grant through the National
Endowment for the Arts,
and was started three years
ago by Dr. LeAnne Disla,
from the Global
Leadership Institute and
Duke University, as a
"Stories through Murals"
project with Durham
Public Schools. This year,
the project expanded to
community colleges, and
DCCC was selected as one
of the partners.
Suzanne La Venture,
director of international
education and instructor of
Spanish who has been
instrumental in the project,
notes that a lot of team
work was required to bring
the project to completion.
"DCCC faculty, stu
dents and community
members spent months
gathering oral histories,
then spent more time
extracting the themes and
ideas," she says. "It's an
experience that I'll always
remember."
La Venture added that
she speaks Spanish, and
was able to communicate
with the artists quite well.
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individual motivation,
style and personality. "It
was truly amazing to watch
how they collaborated,"
she says.
"I can look at the mural
and see the bits done by
each individual and yet
still be impressed by the
cohesiveness of the mural
as a whole."
Members of both the
Thomasville and
Lexington communities
also found the mural proj
ect to be rewarding and
valuable. Joe Bennett,
mayor of Thomasville,
stopped by to visit the proj
ect throughout the week
and presented the artists
with a "City of
Thomasville" pin.
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