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THE CH RON IC EE
Volume 45, Number 13
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
THURSDAY, November 29, 2018
New East Ward rep. sworn in
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
With family, friends and other loved ones seated in the
first two rows of the City Chamber on Monday, Nov. 26,
Annette Scippio was sworn in as member of City Council
and representative for the East Ward.
A native of Winston-Salem, Scippio was selected in
October by fellow Democrats in the East Ward to replace
Derwin Montgomery, who is a co-owner of The
Chronicle, and was elected to fill the 72nd District seat in
the N.C. State House vacated by Ed Hanes earlier this
year.
Before she was persuaded to run for the vacant seat on
the City Council by friends throughout the East Winston
community, Scippio made a name for herself in the Twin
City, serving as executive director for Leadership
Winston-Salem, a nonprofit community leadership pro
gram started by the Winston-Salem Chamber of
Commerce and the Delta Fine Arts Center. She also
worked within the private sector at General Food Corp.,
Del Monte Corporation and RJR Foods.
Scippio, who was raised in the Reynoldstown com
munity, graduated from Anderson High School. After high
school, Scippio earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from
Howard University and later a Masters of Arts degree
from Duke University. She said she was honored to be the
advocate for the citizens in the East Ward and all of
Winston-Salem. She said the heartbeat of our community
is the citizens and she wears red to be reminded of that
every day.
Annette Scippio takes the Oath of Office from Forsyth County District Court Judge Denise Hartsfield on
Monday, Nov. 26. Scippio will serve as the Representative for the East Ward.
See Sworn in on A2
AP Photo/Kim Chandler
Protesters carry a sign reading “Justice for EJ.” during a protest at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover,
Alabama, Saturday, Nov. 24. A police shot officer dnd killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.
of Hueytown while responding to a shooting at the mall on Thanksgiving evening. Police said Bradford
was fleeing the scene with a weapon. Hoover police initially told reporters Bradford had shot a teen at the
mall, but later retracted the statement.
Alabama police blame
gun in fatal shooting
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOOVER, Ala. — Police in Alabama offered sympa
thy Monday to the family of a black man killed by an offi
cer responding to a shooting at a shopping mall, but said
the man's visible handgun "heightened the sense of
threat" to police in an already chaotic scene.
Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr., 21, of Hueytown, was
shot and killed by a police officer responding to a
Thanksgiving night shooting that wounded two people at
the Riverchase Galleria mall outside Birmingham.
Hoover police initially portrayed Bradford as the gun
man saying officers acted heroically to "take out the
threat" within seconds of shots being fired in the crowded
mall. Then they retracted the statement, saying Bradford
was likely not the gunman responsible for the initial
shooting, who remains at large.
See Shooting on A2
General
Election
Forsyth votes
really finalized
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
In comparison to 2016, when the Election Canvass
lasted a few days, the canvass to finalize votes from the
2018 General Election went over without many issues
this month.
The canvass in 2016 was prolonged after former Gov.
Pat McCrory requested a recount after then Attorney
General Roy Cooper led by less than 10,000 votes. The
local Board of Elections was also held up by protests filed
by Forsyth County GOP Vice Chair Linda Petrou, claim
ing that two felons voted. The claims by Peatrou were
later dismissed, along with four others.
Although this year the i—, —
votes were finalized on CAMPAIGN
Friday Nov. 16, the Forsyth
Count) Board of Elections &
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Wednesday. Nov 21. after
sexen provisional ballots
were discovered by election
workers.
According to BOE Director Tim Tsujii, the ballots that
were discovered were incorrectly placed inside the enve
lope used for holding provisional ballots and the
envelopes appeared to be empty.
"We double check everything so when these workers
were going through, they felt these and they felt different.
They looked inside and found the applications and they
knew right then and there that there were additional pro
visional ballots,” said Tsujii. “It can happen, you know,
poll worker error. They should’ve put the application in
the front but these are things we can address in training.
The main thing is that there is a process in place where
See Votes on A2
Public Works
Committee begins
discussions on scooter
regulations
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BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
Less than 24 hours
after members of the
Public Safety Committee
voted to remove all Bird
scooters from city side-
walks, members of City
Council listened to recom
mendations from the city
staff and discussed ways
to regulate use of the
scooters and make them
safer for riders and pedes
trians.
The scooters first
arrived on city streets in
early September when
Bird dropped 100 scooters
in various locations across
the city. In the short time
they’ve been on the
streets, dozens of citizens
have voiced their frustra
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