| St. Philips to restart Sunday Socials
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On Sunday, November 10, St. Philips
Heritage Center in Old Salem Museums &
Gardens is hosting a Sunday Social: Homowo
Harvest Food Tasting. Sunday socials were a
vital part of the church life at St. Philips in
Salem. This Sunday Social will take place at
the St. Philips Heritage Center, 911 South
Church St., from 1-4 p.m. and will feature a
food tasting of plants native to Africa and
foods traditionally associated with African
American cuisine.
Clarissa Clifton, an 18th/l9th century peri
od cook, will prepare "Fried Yard Bird" over an
open pit. She also will serve sweet potato bis
cuits, brandy cornmeal pound cake and a vari
ety of vegetables will be available for tasting.
Some of the foods to be tasted are grown from
seeds from Old Salem's Homowo Harvest seed
collection. Homowo is a word from Ghana,
West Africa which means "hooting at hunger."
Clifton is the food historian for Latta
Plantation in Charlotte, NC. She is the author
of "One Hearth, One Pot: For Love of Food and
History." Her cookbooks will be available for
purchase at the event.
All Sunday Social activities are included
with the purchase of an All-In-One ticket (dis
counted Sunday rates apply, which are $18 for
adults and $9 for children). Purchase a ticket
online, oldsalem.org, or at the Visitor Center,
900 Old Salem Rd.
For more information, please call 336-721
7399.
Ptioco courtesy of Old Salem
Acclaimed cook Clarissa
Clifton will be on hand.
NCCU
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around the goal of preparing
students for career success and
global leadership. Under the
Summer Youth Business &
Entrepreneurship Academy,
high school sophomores and
juniors take part in a two-week,
non-residential business and
entrepreneurship immersion
program. Students participate
in lectures, corporate visits, and
a case competition, where they
work in teams to prepare a busi
ness plan. A panel of judges
from the business community
evaluates the plans and awards
a prize to the winning team.
"This generous gift from
The Executive Leadership
Foundation will enable NCCU
to invest in training for the next
generation of business leaders,
entrepreneurs and scholars,"
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pipeline of skilled individuals
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Taylor said he and East Ward
Councilman Derwin Montgomery were
instrumental in pushing for the creation
of an Entertainment District on the north
ern end of downtown that Taylor believes
will have a big impact on increasing the
city's entertainment value - and appeal to
young professionals - in years to come.
If re-elected, Taylor says improving
the public safety in his ward will be a top
priority, beginning with seeing to fruition
the opening of a Winston-Salem Police
Department district office. The office,
which Taylor has proposed to be installed
in the Nissen Wagon Works building on
Waughtown Street, would serve as a com
mand center for officers in the area, pro
viding increased police presence in the
ward 24 hours a day.
"We've worked on jobs and economic
development," said the North Carolina
Central University alumnus. "Now we've
got to work on safety."
In his first term, Taylor said he has
proven his worth as a public official and
his dedication to the constituents of his
ward time and again.
"I think it helps being an incumbent
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understand that I've done exactly what I
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but there's a lot more work to be done,
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Taylor's challenger. Republican Mike
Hunger, did not respond to an interview
request before press time.
As a unit, Leight said she, Taylor and
their colleagues on the Council have
worked hard to support residents all
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life for everyone concerned.
"I think we've worked well together
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ty well in bringing in new businesses."
Leight, who is seeking her third term,
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has pushed for ordinances that demand
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trees and streams, as well as pushing back
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ward.
If re-elected, Leight said she will con
tinue to champion the rights of the resi
dents, fighting back against measures
such as an ordinance change that would
allow for the construction of new cellular
towers in residential areas.
"It's a real self-serving ordinance,"
Leight said. "We'll have to do a lot of
work to make sure that that doesn't hap
pen." .
Leight said she would continue to
support improvements to the downtown
core and look for innovative ways to fund
projects that help Winston-Salem live up
to its City of the Arts moniker, through
public art exhibits, displays and other
ventures that tap into the talents of the
city's vast artistic ability.
Leight said she has worked hard to be
accessible and accountable to the resi
dents of her ward and all across her
hometown.
"I do pay attention to the people in my
ward and to the problems of the city as a
whole," she said. "I'm definitely a public
servant. I am not a politician. I truly am
in this just to serve the city and its citi
zens."
Leight's opponent. Republican
Nathan Jones, did not respond to an inter
view request before press time.
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