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Volume 44, Number 11
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
THURSDAY, November 16, 2017
Co-op grocery
store recruiting
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BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
SHARE Cooperative of Winston-Salem is recruiting
members to help open its Harvest Market grocery store in
the Peter’s Creek area.
SHARE (Supplying Honest and Respectful
Engagement), which is an initiative of Freedom Tree at
IDR (Institute for Dismantling Racism), held its first
member recruitment meeting at Philo-Hill Magnet
Academy.
It’s looking for the community to support its effort to
open a co-op grocery store in a food desert, which is an
area where fresh, healthy food isn’t available. Lifetime
memberships can be purchased for just $100 and will
give members a vote in the direction of the store and will
also include coupons and monthly “owner deals.”
Co-ops are democratically run by members, which
should let it put principles over profits, according to
SHARE organizers.
The nonprofit’s goal is to have 300 members by
March 2018 and 1,000 members before the store opens,
which organizers hope will be in a year. The $100,000
equity raised from members will help the group acquire
loans and grants for the rest of the $2.5 million it’ll need
See Co-op on A6
Photos By Todd Luck
SHARE organizer Rev. Gary Williams asks attendees to join the SHARE Cooperative of Winston-Salem dur
ing a meeting held last week, at Philo-Hill Magnet Academy.
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Veterans eat during a luncheon and symposium held at the Winston-Salem Urban League on Friday.
Veterans symposium
focuses on mental health
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
The Winston-Salem Urban League held a Veterans
Services Symposium with an emphasis on mental health
on Friday, Nov. 10.
Held at its headquarters the day before Veteran’s Day,
the symposium and luncheon were part of the Urban
League’s mental health initiative for underserved minori
ties. It showcased just how many services of are available
to veterans. It also showed the need for them, hoping to
dispel stigmas by encouraging veterans to get the benefits
they earned and the mental health services they need.
. Several veterans shared their stories of dealing with
the traumas of war. Jerry Dodd, a Vietnam War veteran,
said he thought he was fine when he came home. Then he
found he couldn’t go out on a quiet street by himself
because he was afraid something was going to happen. He
started experiencing health problems, which he found out
was due to his mental issues, and eventually saw a psychi
See Veterans on A7
County blacks
affected by GOP
redistricting plan
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE
During the third, Special Session of the NC General
Assembly last month, the Republican-led House passed
HB 717 - a bill to redraw all judicial districts across the
state. Sponsored by Republican lawmaker Rep. Justin
Burr (R-Stanly), who claims that his only goal is to make
judicial elections fairer, the law will radically change the
way District Court judges are cunently elected.
But according to many judicial analysts, Burr’s plan
not only seeks to get more Republicans elected to the
bench statewide, but specifically targets District Court
judges of color.
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As reported by The Chronicle in October, Isela
Gutierrez, associate research director with the non-parti
san, nonprofit Democracy North Carolina, charged that
judicial redistricting isn’t just about getting more
Republican district and superior court judges elected to
the bench, but, just as with legislative and congressional
redistricting, lessen the influence of black voters in overall
elections.
With the passage of HB 717, there was also a new
judicial redistricting map that Gutierrez alleged takes
resources and important programs, like alternatives for
incarceration for many people, away from large black
communities in Durham, Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Guilford,
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