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Volume39,Number 17 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, December 20, 2012
Ptotot by Layu Gums
Dr. Tony Burton III introduces State Sen.-elect
Ear line Parmon at the groundbreaking.
Mudpies
adding to
Goler Depot
growth
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
After more than four years of planning and prepara
tion, Northwest Child Development Centers broke
ground on its newest facility, Mudpies Downtown East,
on Dec. 12.
The $3.4 million state-of-the-art facility will sit at the
corner of Seventh Street and Patterson Avenue in the his
toric Goler Depot community, which was once the center
of Mack commerce in Winston-Salem.
Founded in 1970, Northwest Child Development
Lenten is a non
profit organization
responsible for the
development and
cue of hundreds
of infants and chil
dren in Forsyth,
Davie and Stokes
counties. Mudpies
Downtown East
will be its sixth <
and largest facility <
to date. Mudpies i
facilities, which
primarily serve
children ages six
weeks to five
years, are highly
sought after.
Known for their
Dr. Eric Tomlinson addresses the near-pertect star
audience. ratings, highly I
qualified staff and
utilization of state of the art technology, Mudpies facili
ties typically have a waiting list for enrollment.
, "We've honed our intellectual capital over the past 42
tears of existence," said Dr. Charlie Shaw, the agency's
chief volunteer officer. "...Mudpies are not just babysit
ting centers. We are learning centers that foster intellectu
al curiosity."
The new facility will be an asset to the ever-growing
residential population, as well as the thousands who come
to the city's center to work, said Dr. Tony Burton m, chief
executive officer of Northwest Child Development.
"This was in an area where we knew growth was hap
pening," Burton said. "1 think this is going to be great for
our area, for our children and for society as a whole."
* Mayor Allen Joines, who presented a proclamation in
honor of the occasion, praised die NWCDC leaders for
choosing such a strategic location to erect die 16,000
square-foot center.
"It's so important," he said of the project. "We're right
here at the juxtaposition of Piedmont Triad Research
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Local parents reassured
in post Sandy Hook world
SY LAYLA GARMS
rHE CHRONICLE
Reverberations of the shots fired at Sandy
Hook Elementary are being felt across the
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world, as citizens struggle
to come to grips with the
tragedy.
The nation's collective
sympathies have quickly
turned to fears as parents
question the safety of their
own kids' schools.
1? an email sent to par
ents on Sunday - two days
after the Newtown tragedy- Superintendent
Don Martin sought to allay some of those
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JEFFERSON
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Photo by uyli farmer
Principal of the Year Nora Baker stands outside of Jefferson
Elementary School on Tuesday.
ART FOR $A1<E
Local residents bid on pieces by array of artists
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
In celebration of
Winston-Salem Delta Fine
Arts' 40th anniversary, art
lovers got a rare chance to
bid on pieces by noted
artists during an auction at
the gallery last Thursday
night.
Both silent and live
auctions were held for 44
pfeces by 38 artists whosov
work has been displayed at
the Delta Arts Center
gallery over the years.
Gallery Executive
Director Dianne Caesar
said that Delta only holds
auctions about once every
10 years to avoid having to
frequently request art
donations from artists, who
often get many such
requests from galleries
worldwide. The last auc
tion was held in 2002. It
raised $38,000, which
helped the gallery relocate
from its cramped Third
Street location to its cur
rent New Walkertown
Road site.
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Photo by Todd Luck
PJ. Williams, right, poses with her new pieces and Delta Fine Arts Board Chair
Cynthia Jeffries.
Works by area and
national artists were up for
grabs at last week's auc
tion, where Belinda Tate,
director of Winston-Salem
State University's Diggs
Gallery, served as auction
eer. Like the artwork itself,
minimum bids varied
widely, ranging from $75
for a silent auction sculp
ture by Greensboro artist
Terry Lee Nelson, to
$10,000 for the live auc
tion pencil piece by the late
Harlem Renaissance artist
Lois Mailou Jones.
A small group of bid
ders attended, comprised
of gallery board members
and other Delta supporters
Those who couldn't make
it in person did their bid
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Budding
Artists
Photo by LaytaOomH
Students at Diggs-Latham
Elementary School perform
in the school's production of
"The Nutcracker" last week.
Students of all ages con
tributed to the staging of the
timeless holiday classic. Read
more about the performances
in the Dec. 27 edition.
Lunch sparked two decades of racial solidarity
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From left:
Revs. Steve
McCutchan,
Carlton
Eversley and
Sam Stevenson
converse at a
local eatery.
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
It started with lunch. ?
A simple conversation among colleagues over an afternoon
meal.
But what resulted was anything but simple. Under the careful
leadership of Stephen McCutchan, Sam Stevenson and Carlton
Eversley, all Presbyterian ministers, a movement was bom that
would change the lives of its founders, and countless others who
would became a part of what would become the Presbyterian
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