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The Chronicle
Volume40,Number 1 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, August 29, 2013
Photos by Layla Garms
WSSU students Breanna Holmes,
Shae'Derrickah Henderson and
Kashira Coleman.
Rams vwr
to fight
voting
changes
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE '
Just weeks after arriving back on
campus, Winston-Salem State
University students are mobilizing for a
cause that hits close to home.
New Forsyth County Board of
Elections Chairman Ken Raymond has
been vocal about wanting to do away
with the early voting site at WSSU's
Anderson
Center,
where thou
sands,
including
many stu
dents, cast
ballots in
2012 The
Anderson
Center has
been used as
an early vot
ing site in
presidential
and midterm
election cycles, so any decision would
not take effect until 2014.
Raymond, a WSSU alumnus who
played on the school's football team,
served as a precinct judge at the
Anderson Center in 2010. He says he
did not like what he saw.
"Some of the students that came in
and voted talked openly about receiving
extra credit for voting," Raymond told
The Chronicle after being appointed to
the board in July. " This isn't something
1 that someone told me ... I heard it
myself. They talked as if they didn't
know they were doing something
wrong. But it is wrong - in fact it's a
felony."
WSSU packed last Tuesday's Board
of Elections meeting. Although
Raymond had made it clear that the
topic of 2014 early voting sites would
not be discussed, Student Body
President Bryant Bell said the students
wanted to show that they will fight to
keep the Anderson Center site, espe
cially after Republican-led Watauga
County Board of Elections voted
recently to end the early voting site at
Appalachian State University.
"I was upset by it because obviously
for the past couple of months or so in
the state of North Carolina, college stu
dents have been somewhat under
attack," said Bell, a senior economics
See Voting on A9
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Father miffed after
N-word incident
Ptnuo by I Jiyla Gamu
Kenneth and Evette Boston with their twin sons Preston and Jeremy
and daughter Tyra.
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Celebrity Chef Paula Deen lost her television show
and millions of dollars in endorsements; Philadelphia
Eagie isiiey cooper iacea ream dis
ciplinary actions and the ire of his
teammatess; and the campaign of
James Lee Knox, a Republican
Winston-Salem mayoral candidate,
sank after he lost the backing of his
party; but a local black man says that
a white person who directed the n
word at him and his children at a
local YMCA has not even received a
slap on the wrist.
As a child of the segregated
South, Kenneth Boston said being called racial epithets
is not new to him, but the city native and father of
seven is heated that his children were subjected to such
See N-word on A8
Patterson
Ptioios by Lay la Garms
Tanje Smith-Perry congratulates her shocked mother, birthday girl Cora Smith.
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League hosts birthday party for 90-year-old bowler
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Cora Smith got an unexpected reception when she
walked into Northside Lanes on Aug. 19 for the
Golden Age Seniors Bowling League meeting.
Smith, a longtime member of the league, froze
when she entered the room to find homemade cup
cakes and a roomful of smiling members singing
"Happy Birthday."
The South Carolina native quickly recovered from
her initial shock and began playfully swatting at her
giggling friends, scolding them roundly for their trick
ery.
"I'm beating up on everybody," declared Smith,
who celebrated her 90th birthday on Aug. 25.
"Oh my goodness y'all are going to make me cry!"
she exclaimed as League Coordinator Theresa
Cranford led her to her seat of honor at the front of the
room. "You all knew and didn't say anything."
See Smith on A2
Golden Age Senior Bowlers (from left): Hannah Barco, Margie
Bohannon and Sarah Brooks.
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Barnhill now thriving with his other God-given talent
Photo* by Todd
Luck
Norton
Barnhill's
paintings
adorn the
walls of
Sweet
Potatoes.
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
When Winston-Salem native Norton Bamhill was a
youngster, he had two dreams.
"I knew I was going to play in the NBA when I was
10-years-old; I dreamed about it," he said. "1 also
dreamed I was going to be an abstract artist, but I didn't
tell anyone about the art."
Specifically, he dreamed of playing for the Seattle
Supersonics after reading about the team in a newspaper
See Barnhill on A7 '
The artist at home.
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