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Volume 43, Number 36
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
THURSDAY, May'll, 2017
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NAACP honors Pitt Marshall
BYTEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
During its annual Freedom Fund Gala
banquet, the Winston-Salem branch of the
NAACP took a moment to honor the life
and legacy of two men who helped shape
the city that we call home: Emie Pitt and
the late Walter Marshall.
Pitt, the founder and former publisher
of The Chronicle, was awarded the Charles
A. McLean Community Service Award
during the gala, held at the Hawthorne Inn
& Conference Center on Friday, May 5.
Each week over the past 43 years, the
city’s “oldest and most respected” commu
nity newspaper has reflected Pitt’s vision
and strong journalistic pedigree. The paper
has won dozens of state and national hon
ors, and, in the late 1980s became the first
black-owned newspaper to be named the
state’s top weekly by the N.C. Press
Association.
Before presenting Pitt with a plaque
engraved in gold lettering, Rev. Alvin
Carlisle, president of the local branch,
applauded Pitt for being the voice of the
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Photo by Tevin Stinson
Rev. Alvin Carlisle,
president of the local
NAACP branch, pres
ents Ernie Pitt with the
Charles A. McLean
Community Service
Award at the Freedom
Fund Gala on Friday,
May 5.
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Photo by Tevin Stinson
Last Saturday, Art for Art’s Sake held a ribbon-cut
ting ceremony to officially open its new headquar
ters on Liberty Street next to the ARTivity on the
Green park, which is owned by the nonprofit organi
zation. People can now view the park from the top
floor of the building.
Art for Art’s Sake officially
moves into new headquarters
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE_ . --
After serving the community for over a decade without
a permanent location, last Saturday Art for Art’s Sake
(AFAS), a volunteer-based nonprofit formed to build, edu
cate and celebrate community art, officially moved into its
new home on North Liberty Street.
The AFAS headquarters overlooks the ARTivity on the
Green park, which the organization opened in 2015.
Before the doors were officially opened last weekend,
hundreds of people gathered in the park to enjoy live
bands, food trucks, and other entertainment. While enjoy
ing the excitement, local photographer Owen Daniels said
he was excited to see AFAS finally have a permanent
home.
“I think this is just wonderful,” continued Daniels.
“Finally, Art for Art’s Sake has a real home here in
Winston-Salem.”
AFAS chairman and chief executive Harry Knabb
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Forsyth County participates
in historic N.C. eClosing
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
The Forsyth County
Register of Deeds made a
little history on Friday,
May 5, when it participated
in the state’s first full
eClosing with a Deed of
Trust.
In the test, Karen and
Jason Boccardi’s mortgage
refinance became the first
fully electronic mortgage
loan closing in North
Carolina.
It’s part of an eClosing
pilot program started by
Secretary of State Elaine
Marshall.
Marshall was at North
State Bank in Hickory,
where attorneys with the
Hunoval Law Firm sent
documents electrically for
a property in Forsyth
County on behalf of their
client. The firm’s owner,
Matt Hunoval, said this
makes the process cheaper,
quicker and easier.
“This is going to
change a trillion dollar
industry,” said Hunoval.
“This is going to render
geography meaningless in
terms of where the transac
tion takes place.”
The end-to-end fully
digital closing saved the
firm from having to mail
documents to a contractor
who would hand deliver
them to the Register of
Photo by Todd Luck
Register of Deeds Lynne Johnson looks on as
Randy Smith checks to see if they’ve received the
Deeds office.
“I think it’s very excit
ing to be the first county to
be able to accommodate
this type of recoding, said
Forsyth County Register of
Deeds Lynne Johnson.
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Trump HBCU statement confuses
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE_
Is President Donald Tramp standing
by his stated earlier commitment to
support historically black colleges and
universities (HBCUs), or is he backing
off, using some oblique constitutional
reason not to do so?
Last Friday afternoon, the Trump
White House issued a statement upon
signing H.R. 244, the Consolidated
Appropriations Act 2017, which was
recently passed by Congress to fund the
federal government by $1.1 trillion
through Sejptember 2017.
What was notable about the law
was that even Democrats, like U.S.
Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC-12), were
pleased with it. *
“This is a clean bipartisan budget
that’s good for the 12th District,” she
said in a May 3 statement. “Students
across the 12th District will now have
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