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Volume39,Number28 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, March 7, 2013
Photos by Lay is Garms
Wake GOP President Felice Pete addresses
local Republican women.
GOP leader
questions
president's
faith, agenda
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Clark
Felice Pete, president of the Wake County
Republican Women, told local residents that
she's long taken heat for being black and
Republican. She "came out" as a Republican
when she was an undergrad at UNC Chapel
Hill, a school known for being both progres
sive and liberal.
"It was very difficult being conservative
and black and not falling in line with the lib
erai standard on a
college campus. It
was extremely hard
and extremely lone
ly," related Pete. "...1
was an outcast."
Pete, a Raleigh
nurse anesthetist,
spoke to a crowd of
about 50 on Feb. 28
on the West Campus
of Forsyth Technical
Community College.
J She was the guest
speaker at the regular
monthly gathering of i
Forsyth County Republican Women.
Pete told her fellow Republicans to hold
fast to the values and ideals that she says
make the party great. Despite the flack she's
received over the years, Pete, the mother of an
18-month-old son, said she has never wavered
in her political beliefs.
"I am a 'little r' Republican, because it is
the noun republicanism, because I do it every
day. It is my lifestyle - it's not just the p^rty,"
she remarked. "I'm like this everyday; I've
always got a Constitution and a Bible verse."
Pete, who calls herself a born-again
Christian, took aim at President Obama's reli
gious beliefs, calling him "a guy who kind of
has no religion, likes to kill babies and really
is not for women at all."
She said the black community has suffered
under his administration, citing disproportion
ately high unemployment rates and what she
says has been a lack of support for historically
black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
"Not only has he said things are well, he's
gotten rid of his jobs council, but yet he cares
about black people - that's what Democrats
say," she told the group. "...That's what
Democrats have done for many years is taken
See Pete on AIO
County eyes tax hike to
counter low revaluations
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Virginia Newell poses outside her Skyland Park home.
BY LAYLA OARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Property owners should
expect a rate hike as the city
and county scramble for
ways to
make up
the mil
lions
they will
lose as a
result of
recent
revalua
tions by
t h e
office of
the Forsyth County Tax
Assessor.
Ninety-three percent of
properties saw a decline in
value, some by 30 and even
50 percent. Property taxes
at the current rate (67.4
cents per $100 of value) on
the reassessed properties
would mean a $16-$ 19 mil
lion shortfall for the city
and county, said Ronda
Tatum. director of the coun
ty's Budget and
Management Department.
Though it will ultimate
ly be up to County
Commissioners to decide,
Tatum said she fully expects
property tax rates to
increase to make up for the
projected deficit.
"Because of the value
being so much lower, in
order for us to retain the
same amount of revenue.
See Taxes on A8
Camel Pride!
Phmo by Lay ta Gam*
Atkins High School
alumnus Carl "Moose"
Eller poses with mem
bers of the school's
football team Tuesday,
after Eller received an
Allstate Hometown Hall
of Famers honor. Eller,
a member of the Atkins
Class of 1960. was
elected to the Pro
Football Hall of Fame
in 2004. Read more
about his honor in the
March 14 edition.
Community service honors will
; feature Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Maynor
Jackson-Barnes
Wright
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The leader of the unstop
pable Winston-Salem State
University football program
and the mayor's right-hand
woman have been selected to
receive the top honors at this
year's Chronicle Community
Service Awards Gala.
Coach Connell Maynor's
Man of the Year honor and
Linda Jackson-Barnes'
Woman of the Year plaque
will be among the more than a
dozen awards presented dur
ing the Saturday. March 23
ceremony at the Benton
Convention Center. Rev.
Jeremiah Wright, pastor emer
itus of the Chicago mega
church once attended by the
First Family, will be the
keynote speaker.
In just two seasons,
Maynor has taken the Rams to
the pinnacle of success. Back
to-back C1AA championships
were topped with Division II
national title appearances.
Maynor's passion for football
and his players has spurred a
new and exciting wave of
Ram Pride.
As the assistant to Mayor
Allen Joines, Jackson-Barnes
works in the shadows, but the
impact she has had in making
Winston-Salem a better place
to live, work and play is unde
niable. In addition to her vast
City Hall duties, Jackson
Barnes has social and volun
See Honors on A10
Community helps end fresh food deserts
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BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
If the Dreamland Park community is a food desert, then
Attorney S. Wayne Patterson and his wife Tamica want their
Attucks Street shop to be an oasis.
The couple's Rebecca's Store Grocery & More is the first
local participant in the Healthy Corner Store Initiative.
Funded by the North Carolina Division of Public Health's
Community Transformation Grant Project, the Healthy
See Food on A9
Submitted Photo
T a m i c' a
Patterson (cen
ter) poses with
local growers
(from left):
Livingstone
M a w u t o r ,
Russell Johnson
and John and
Deloris Huntley.
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