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Mount Tabor getting ready ?See Page BIO Friendship Baptist has a new pastor ?See Page A3 The Chronicle Volume40,Number48 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, August 7, 2014 Public feedback window to close on Business 40 revamp Main entranceway into downtown still to be determined BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Photo by Todd Lock NCDOT's Jamille Robbins addresses locals. The public is still weigh ing in on a Business 40 improvement project that could close sections of the busy thoroughfare for up to two years. North Carolina Department of Transportation officials began informing local residents about the proj ect, which is now slated to begin in 2016, in 2007, when a series of public meetings were held and residents were surveyed about various con struction options. A 1.2-mile section of the Business 40 corridor between West Fourth and Church streets will close for up to two years so that improvements to bridges and ramps can be made. Officials had floated a piecemeal option that would have kept at least a lane of the highway open during the con struction process, said NCDOT Division Engineer Pat Ivey. That option would have taken at least six years and come with a higher price tag. Residents who were sur veyed choose the current plan - the one that will virtually shutdown the highway. "This project started on day one with an unprecedent ed public outreach cam paign," Jamille Robbins of the NCDOT's Human Environment Section said at the latest public meeting about the project on July 24 at the Miller Recreation Center. According to NCDOT numbers from 2011, 73,500 vehicles per day use Business 40. NCDOT's policy is to not reroute traffic through resi dential areas for safety rea sons. During construction, detours via non-residential roads will be utilized. Though the detour roads have not yet been determined, work is being done to make sure the city can handle the additional traffic. The Liberty Street Bridge at US 52 has been replaced; improvements have been made to US 52 at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive; and the See Bus 40 on A2 Pt?no? by Todd 1 utl The future homes for veterans on Cameron Avenue. ^ . More help pours in for Heroes project Pastor Barry Washington holds a check with Wells Fargo Business Banking Mangers (from left) Clarence McDonald, Leslie Hayes, Rusty Edwards and Steve Koelsch. BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Wells Fargo Bank pitched in money and manpower Friday to help convert dilapidated houses on Cameron Avenue into affordable units for military veterans. Whole Man Ministries is behind the Homes 4 Our Heroes project. Five houses were slated to be demolished by the city before the Ministries proposed the project, which will cost $631,000. The rain on Friday morning didn't discour age 18 Wells Fargo employees from aiding ren ovation efforts at three of the houses. The bank also presented Whole Man Pastor Barry See Veterans on A8 File Photo Fleming El-Amin sits on the three member Board of Elections. Early voting plan unpopular BY CHANEL DAVIS 1HI CHRONIC! E Sutton Some Forsyth County residents are fuming about a proposed early voting plan that they say is unkind to Democratic-friendly, minority communi ties. The plan was approved last month by all three members of the Forsyth County Board of Elections, including Democrat Fleming El-Amin. It calls for 10 early voting sites in October - Old Town Recreation Center, Sedge Garden Recreation Center, the Mazie Woodruff Center, South Fork Recreation Center. Polo Park Recreation Center, the Kernersville Senior Center, the Clemmons branch library, the Lewisville branch library, Walkertown branch library and the Board of Elections headquarters downtown. Only the Mazie Woodruff Center off Carver School Road sits in a vastly African American community, and critics say the racially diverse south side of the city is altogeth er ignored. El-Amin is defending his vote. He says the other alternatives that were con sidered would neither have included a Sunday of early voting nor any non-sub urban early voting sites. "Given that there would be no inner city voting besides the Board of Elections with the first plan, by all means, (the current plan is) a good plan," El-Amin said. "Is it the best plan? By no means, but it is better than what the chair (Republican Ken Raymond) had pro posed." El-Amin said he presented two options to the Board of Elections, one that included an early voting site at Winston-Salem State University's Anderson Center and another that included a site at the Winston Lake Family YMCA. Both El-Amin and coun ty staff included the Southside branch library in initial plans, but none of the three sites made their way into the cur rent proposal. See Voting on A8 Davenport hopes internships help foster success p tL * 2= < ^ 1=1 1 R - i u - zl LU S ~ '?5 ? ^ ?T j zg 2 sr* | p ^ V " v Photo by Chanel Davis John Davenport Jr. (second from left) poses with interns Darian Thompson, L a z a r Trifunovic and Sam Starks. BY CHANEL DAVIS I THE CHRONICLE John Davenport Jr. is determined to pay it forward "Everyone is not going to have parents who are con nected to the system. I am one of those kids, and it wasn't until someone said I should do an internship with the Department of Transportation that I thought about it. 1 applied, got a job and that changed my life." Davenport said. "What is important to me js that I don't want these students to wait and go to college before they get that con See Interns on A7 ASSURED STORAGE of Winston-Salem, LLC
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