Community
section B aiso Sports, Religion and Classifieds march 13, 2014
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Community
Calendar
State championship tickets
available
Winston Salem
Preparatory Academy, 1215
N. Cameron Ave., is selling
tickets to the NCHSAA 1A
State Championship game the
school will play on Saturday,
March 15 at the Dean Smith
Center in Chapel Hill. Tickets
are $9 each in advance and
$10 at the Dean Dome. Tickets
will be sold today (March 13)
and tomorrow at the school
from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Free sign language
workshops
A sign language work
shop series will be hosted at
the Central Library, 660 W.
Fifth St., every Wednesday at
6 p.m. during the month of
March. Barry "Jonny
AppleSign" Geller will lead
the workshops, which are free
and open to those of all lev
els. Call 336-703-3026 for
more information.
Medicare help
The Medicare Low
Income Subsidy program will
be at the Carver School Road
Branch Library, 4915 Lansing
Drive, on Friday, March 14
from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. to pro
vide assistance and answer
residents' questions. The pro
gram helps qualified
Medicare recipients pay for
their Medicare prescription
drug program costs, such as
premiums, deductibles and
coinsurance. No appointment
is necessary.
Dance
Garden of Iris Temple
#220, 1405 N. Patterson Ave.,
will present a St. Patrick's
Day /Birthday Dance on
Friday, March 14 from 8 p.m.
- 1 a.m. Admission is $5.
There will be refreshments
and door prizes.
Bennett open house
Bennett College will hold
its Spring Open House on
Saturday, March 15 from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. for high school
students, counselors, transfer
students and residents of the
community who are interested
in completing their undergrad
uate degree at Bennett
College. Participants will have
the opportunity to tour the
campus, meet with faculty and
students, inquire about schol
arships and financial aid and
apply for admission. For more
information or to RSVP, visit
Bennett's web site at
www.bennett.edu/open or call
1-800-413-5323 or 336-370
8624.
College prep
The Preparing for College
Series at Central Library, 660
West 5th St.. will host the free
seminar "College Study
Skills" on Monday, March 17
at 6:15 p.m. Topics will
include time management,
tackling large assignments,
communicating with profes
sors, survival tips away from
home and more. For more
information, call 336-703
See Community on B3
Photos by Todd Luck
Attendees watch an interview with sit-in activist Carl Matthews.
Malloy Jordan Director Yolanda Bolden holds up photos and DVDs donated by Karim Sharif.
Karim Allah Sharif speaks.
(Above) The
DVDs donated
to Malloy
Jordan library.
(Left) Johnny
X. Williamson
was among the
attendees.
Library accepts
collection of
interviews with
stalwarts
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
A collection of DVDs
featuring interviews with
sit-in activist Carl
Matthews and Coach
Clarence "Big House"
Gaines and other local
" black history legends has
been donated to the
Malloy Jordan East
Winston Heritage Center.
Karim Allah Sharif
presented the interviews
and a few photos to
library officials on
Wednesday. Feb. 26, after
screening some of the
DVDs and discussing
them with an audience of
about a dozen. Sharif
himself interviewed the
icons from 1992-2009
for his show, AAP
(Active and Aspiring
People) Magazine on the
now defunct local com
munity access channel
CAT TV. Before his
donation, he converted
the interviews from VHS
tapes to DVDs in order to
make them more viewer
friendly.
"These are very sig
nificant people in this
community, and they
should be acknowledged
because they didn't make
headlines, but they still
did some things that were
very significant that
brought about a change in
this community," he said.
Sharif had several sit
downs with Gaines, who
led Winston-Salem State
to the pinnacle of basket
ball success, touching on
his legendary career, the
stellar players he coached
and his legacy. Another
of the donated DVDs fea
tures interviews Dr. H.
Rembert Malloy, the late
former surgeon for whom
the library is partly
named; Matthews, who
See DVDs on B2
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