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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C
THURSDAY, July S, 2018
Volume 44, Number 44
WSSU to regain early voting?
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Will early voting return to Winston
Salem State University and what will be
the hours for weekend voting?
Those are among the questions still
being considered by the Forsyth County
Board of Elections (BOE) as they develop
an early voting plan.
BOE Chairwoman Susan Campbell, a
Democrat, asked to have the Anderson
Center at WSSU as a site at the BOE’s
meeting on Monday, July 2. Anderson had
been an early voting site from 2000-2012
until a Republican majority BOE chaired
by Ken
Raymond
stopped using
it. BOE Vice
Chairman
Stuart
Russell,. a
Republican,
said he needed to think about it. He felt the
Anderson Center is too close to the early
voting site at the BOE office in the Forsyth
County Government Center.
“Why would we pick one that’s within
a mile of the Govermiient Cdnter?” said
Russell.
The traveling distance between
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Anderson Center and the BOE office is
just under two miles, which can be a six
minute drive but, for the many students
who don't have cars on campus, it would
be an approximately 40 minute walk.
Campbell said encouraging students to
vote was important and the center’s loca
tion on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive made
it convenient to the surrounding communi
ty, especially if Business 40 closes for con
struction during early voting.
“It’s a corridor, to all these neighbor
hoods that everyone knows where the
Anderson Center is,” said Campbell. “That
really works well, not just for the students,
but for the community.”
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In previous years, dozens of residents
have requested during BOE meetings for
Anderson to be an early voting site. Two
petitions in 2015 garnered more than 1,000
signatures asking for the site.
There were numerous potential sites
that Russell suggested that Campbell did
agree with like the BOE office, Mazie
Woodruff Center and the Southside, Rural
Hall, Clemmons and Lewisville Libraries.
They agreed to use the VFW Post In
Kemersville, in leu of the library there,
and Campbell wanted to use Polo Park
Recreation Center instead of Old Town
Recreation Center.
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Thousands of residents gathered at Quarry
Park last weekend for live
Photos by Tevin Stinson
music, food, and fireworks.
Thousands ‘Rock
Out the Quarry ’
over the weekend
Quarry Park provides a one-of-a-kind view of the city's skyline. Thousands got
to witness that view last weekend during the Rock Out the Quarry celebration.
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
For over a decade, chil
dren and residents in the
Southeast Ward have
known about the beauty of
the 200-acre quarry neatly
tucked away in the woods
off Reynolds Park Road.
Many have taken the
nearly one mile hike
through dirt and rough ter
rain as children just to
admire the beauty of the
natural wonder.
"For me and other peo
ple from my neighborhood,
the quarry has always been
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Protesters call
for family
reunification,
ending ICE
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE_
About 1,000 protesters took to the streets of down
town Winston-Salem to call for the reunification of
migrant children with their parents and to denounce long
standing U.S. immigration policy.
It was a national day of action against the Trump
administration’s policy that’s resulted in children being
separated from parents who entered the country illegally.
Btffthe local protest - sponsored by Indivisible Piedmont,
Sanctuary City Coalition, Winston-Salem Democratic
Socialists and Winston-Salem Socialists — also
addressed broader issues, with many protests calling for
an end to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
Immigration movie screening
“Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America” will
be screened at a/perture cinema on July 8 at 5:30 p.m. The
free screening is sponsored by Sanctuary City Coalition Win
ston-Salem, which will be holding a discussion on next steps
in local immigration activism during the event.
Photo by Todd Luck
Protesters march on Fourth Street on Saturday,
June 30, to protest ICE and family separation.
an agency, created by the 2002 Homeland Security Act
during the post-9/11 Bush administration. ICE has long
been criticized for its immigration raids, immigration
detention centers and other tactics.
Before the march, several protesters spoke at
Merschel Plaza on the policies of past administrations that
led the country to this point.
“This didn’t just happen overnight, this administration
didn’t just wake up and make this decision,” said John
Thornton. “This power was built over time.”
The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and
Responsibility Act under President Bill Clinton greatly
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Urban League meeting full of surprises
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
More than three
dozen residents with
invested interest in the
Winston-Salem Urban
League (WSUL) came
together last week to
find out what the future
holds for the nonprofit
organization geared
towards empowering
African Americans and
other disenfranchised
communities.
While many in
attendance during the
annual meeting held on
Thursday, June 28,
were there to hear pres
ident and CEO James
Perry give his report on
the financial status and
the state of the many
programs offered by
the WSUL, the most
shocking news of the
evening may have
come at the end of the
meeting, when Perry
announced the retire
ment of Patricia
Sadler.
For the past 15
years Sadler has served
as the WSUL's director
of workforce develop
ment. During her
tenure with the Urban
League, Sadler was
responsible for manag
ing the Senior
Community Service
Employment Program,
a work-based job train
ing program for older
Americans, which
operates in 11 counties
across the state.
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have to know about
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