THE CHRONICLE
Volume43,Number48 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. j THURSDAY, July 28, 2016
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BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Ground was broken on
the Winston Lake Aquatic
Park on Friday, July 22,
which the city is hoping to
make into a major water
attraction.
Winston Lake Park,
which is located near the
corner of New Walkertown
and Waterworks roads, is a
park with its own lake
that's currently used for
fishing. From 1963 to 1992
it also had a pool, which is
no longer there. The aquat
ic park will turn it into a
water park complete with a
pool, slide and lazy river.
The $5 million construc
tion project, which is
expected to be completed
next year, is part of the
voter-approved 2014 bond.
City council members
repeatedly referred to the
park as a hidden gem that
would now get the atten
tion it deserved.
"What we are doing
here today is something
that will allow people for
generations to come to
enjoy the greatness that is
.
Winston Lake Park," said
City Council Member
Derwin Montgomery, who
represents the East Ward,
which contains the park.
This was music to the
ears of Marva Reid, presi
dent of the East Winston
Neighborhood Association.
For many years the East
Ward has lacked a public
swimming pool, something
that Reid had been advo
cating to change. She plans
to be among the swimmers
who come out to enjoy the
pool when it's completed
next year.
"I'm so excited for the
children in the neighbor
hood because they get to
benefit from this," said
Reid.
The aquatic park will
have a variety of attrac
tions:
*A pool that will be 82
feet long by 45 feet wide
and range in depth from 3.5
See Park on A8
Photo by Tcvin Stinson
More than 100 people protesting Donald Trump gather outside the entrance of the LJVM Coliseum on
Monday, July 25.
Anti-Trump rally takes
protest to the streets
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BYTEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE ,
More than 100 people marched in the blazing heat
Monday evening in protest of Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump, who made a campaign stop in the
city.
The peaceful protest that was scheduled to be held in
the 2800 block of Shorefair Drive started out slow, with
only a handful of protesters. But that quickly changed
when protesters decided the parking lot of the Senior
Services Building wasn't a prime location for the anti
Trump rally, and decided to take to the streets surrounding
the Fairground Annex, Trumps first official stop following
the Republican National Convention.
As they marched on University Parkway, the line of
protesters and number of signs discrediting Trump seemed
See Rally on A2
N.C. Republicans rally
with Trump in W-S
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
North Carolina
Republicans flocked to
presidential nominee
Donald Trump and his run
ning mate, Gov. Mike
Pence, as they appeared on
Monday, July 25, at the
Winston-Salem
Fairgrounds Annex, which
seats 4,000 people.
Thousands attended the
rally, where many
Republicans running for
office spoke, just days after
Trump became the party's
official nominee at last
week's GOP convention.
Most notable among the
speakers were Sen. Richard
Burr and Gov. Pat
McCrory, who had not
appeared at Trump's
numerous recent visits to
North Carolina.
Trump opened by say
ing that he felt Sen. Bernie
Sanders, who lost the race
for the Democratic presi
dential nomination, had
given up by endorsing
Hillary Clinton. Sanders
made a speech at the
Democratic National
Convention on Monday
night urging support for
Clinton, after he'd gotten
numerous concessions in
the platform, such as free
college tuition for families
earning $125 /XX) or less
and a public healthcare
option.
Trump said he shared
Sanders' stance on trade, in
opposing deals like the
Trans-Pacific Partnership,
which Clinton now oppos
es, too. He said the
Vermont Senator's support
ers will now vote for him
because this was Sander's
main issue. During the pri-.
mary, Democrats criticized
Sanders for being too
focused on issues of wealth
inequality and getting big
money out of politics,
which he talked about far
more than trade.
Trump said that the
United States shouldn't
take refugees from the civil
war in Syria, where the
U.S. and its allies are cur
rently fighting ISIS.
Instead, he'd build a safe
zone in war-torn Syria and
make Middle Eastern coun
tries pay for it.
See Trump on A2
^^PAIGN^
N.C. NAACP
to bring fight
for Smith,
Sharpe here
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE . '
The N.C. NAACP is once again joining with the
movements to free Kalvin Michael Smith and Dontae
Sharpe - two black men supporters say were falsely
accused, convicted and imprisoned for crimes they did not
commit - in "major statewide actions" to demand that
Gov. Pat McCrory and State Attorney General Roy
Cooper "compel justice and hasten the Department of
Justice " to release them.
"It is immoral to forget the pain of those behind bars
so easily - though they may be separated from us by con
crete walls and the label of criminal, they are our brothers
and sisters, and they are God's children," Rev. Dr. William
Barber, president of the N.C. NAACP, said in the state
ment.
Kalvin Smith is serving
up to-.29 years in prison,
chained with the December
1995 brutal assault in
Winston-Salem of an assis
tant store manager, even
though there was no physi
cal evidence connecting him
with the crime.
Witnesses placed Smith
on the other side of town at
the time, and subsequent
investigations, including by
a retired FBI agent, note that
the Winston-Salem Police
Department's original
investigation was shoddy at
best.
Cooper, however, has
refused to join with Smith's
attorneys to ask for a new
trial.
Cooper and McCrory are running for governor of
North Carolina this year; Cooper as a Democrat and
McCrory as a Republican.
Dontae Sharpe has been serving a life sentence since
1994 for a murder during a drug buy in Greenville. Sharpe
was reportedly offered a plea deal by the Pitt County
District Attorney for time served, but turned it down, say
ing that he could not accept it for a crime that he did not
commit.
The Duke University Wrongful Convictions Clinic is
working on Sharpe's case.
In a recently released statement, the N.C. NAACP and
the N.C. NAACP's Youth and College Division designat
ed Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31 as not only spe
cial days of advocacy for Sharpe and Smith in Greenville
and Winston-Salem respectively, but also days of tribute
to the work and memory of the late Darryl Hunt.
At the age of 19, Hunt was falsely convicted of a 1984
Winston-Salem murder. He served 19 years in prison,
even though DNA evidence proved him innocent a decade
before he was released. After his release. Hunt worked
diligently to help other victims of false prosecutions.
Darryl Hunt died last March.
The civil rights organization has previously called for
justice in both cases, most recently last March when the
N.C. NAACP joined with the families of Smith and
Sharpe in calling for the governor and state attorney gen
eral to intercede on their behalf.
"We are sending a message in North Carolina to all
those running for elected office," Barber said. "People of
good will not end our advocacy on behalf of these two
See NAACP ooA9
'Pilgrimage for Justice For
Donate Sharpe and Kalvin
Smith, Saturday, July 30,
in Greenville, N.C., 10
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. March
begins 10 a.m. at Thomas
Foreman Park, 400 Nash
St.
*A Community Worship
Service linked to A Pilgrim
age for Justice For Donate
Sharpe and Kalvin Smith,
Sunday, July 31, at Union
Baptist Church, 1200
North Trade St., Winston
Salem, 6 p.m.
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