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THE CHRONICLE
Volume 45, Number 14
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
THURSDAY, December 13, 2018
But it’s not winter yet
FROM CHRONICLE STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Meetings and church services were canceled as well
as events and school as an early winter storm dropped at
least a foot of snow in Winston-Salem Sunday and part of
Monday. The cancellations lasted through Wednesday.
Plans were to resume classes in the Winston-
Salem/Forsyth County Schools system on Thursday. The
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education
announced that the meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Dec.
11, is being held today, Thursday, Dec. 13. The board will
meet in open session at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the
Education Building, 4801 Bethania Station Road. The
agenda and supporting materials can be found on the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School website.
The City of Winston-Salem announced that all
garbage, recycling and yard waste collections would
resume Thursday.
Streets were treacherous Sunday but by Tuesday, the
city of Winston-Salem reported that by mid-afternoon,
street clearing was at 100 percent of major roads and
approximately 85 percent of collector streets.
The Associated Press reported that snowed-in
Southerners made the best of a day without work or
school. Monday while officials warned that roads
remained treacherous even as the worst of a wintry storm
departed.
Snow, sleet and freezing rain tapered off across states
from Georgia to West Virginia that were recovering from
outages, canceled flights and numerous car wrecks. The
storm was blamed for at least three deaths in North
Carolina.
See Winter on A8
Photo by Donna Rogers
A City of Winston-Salem snow plow clears Lansing Drive near Carver School Road on Sunday, Dec. 9, at
12:49 p.m.
Photos by Tevin Stinson
Groups hold
session on
positive change
in the county
BY JUDIE HOLCOMB-PACK
FOR THE CHRONICLE '
Members of the Carver High School Chorus perform during the City Hall Holiday Music Series on
Wednesday, Dec. 5.
Carver kicks off 2018 City
Hall Holiday Music Series
SPECIAL TO THECHRONICLE
On Wednesday, Dec. 5, students
from Carver High School kicked off
the ninth edition of Mayor Allen
Joines' City Hall Holiday Music
Series.
Since 2009, Joines has invited
local choruses to spread holiday
cheer on the main staircase at City
Hall during lunch time from Dec. 5
until Dec. 14. Students from local
elementary schools and several area
churches and senior groups are
scheduled to attend the performanc
es.
Students at the Winston-Salem
Christian School and the Senior
Power Think Tank joined city
employees in the main lobby as local
talent sung many holiday
favorites. Choruses and choirs from
Parkland High School, Salem
College, Glenn High School, UNC
School of the Arts, Reagan High
School, and East Forsyth High
School are scheduled to participate in
the 2018 City Hall Holiday Music
Series.
The public is invited to come
enjoy the performances. For a com
plete list and schedule of participat
ing schools, visit www.cityofws.org.
Age-Friendly Forsyth, Forsyth Futures, Imagine
Forsyth and The Forsyth Promise hosted an evening to
report on the collaborative progress they have made to
bring about positive change in Forsyth County, as well as
to gather input from attendees as to the challenges and
opportunities for the future.
The event, held at the Strickland Center of Forsyth
Technical Community College on Thursday, Dec. 6,
attracted over 150 attendees, representing many of the
agencies providing services to Forsyth County residents,
According to the program, over 50 community partners
are working together to “strengthen our systems of edu
cation, improve health and wellness outcomes, and sup
port older adults as they age.”
Victor Isler, director of Forsyth County Department of
Social Services, was the moderator and introduced sever
al participants to give overviews of their results so far.
Panelists were: Dr. Jewell Cherry, co-chair of Forsyth
Promise; T. Lee Covington, immediate past chair of Age-
Friendly Forsyth leadership team; Eric Aft, member of
the leadership table for Imagine Forsyth; and Allan
Younger, board vice chair of Forsyth Futures.
Younger noted that Forsyth Futures is accumulating
data that is used to make better decisions as they work
toward eliminating racial and socio-economic disparities.
It uses the collected data to understand causes of chal
lenges in Forsyth County and to communicate data in
accessible ways to inform positive change.
Covington, the CEO of Senior Services, reported that
in 2015 Forsyth County was ranked near the bottom in a
report on age-friendly communities. Now, just three years
later, Forsyth County is a designated Age-Friendly
Community with six key areas of focus: physical and
mental health, financial health, housing and safety, acces-
sibility
See Change on A2
The Geek in
Heels opens
in Hanes Mall
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
For as long as she can remember,
Shalisha Morgan has had a passion for
technology and IT work. A native of
Kansas City, Kansas, Morgan said from
the moment she put the family computer
together by herself as a child, she knew
she had found her calling.
"I've just always loved it. I've always
been able to build things without instruc
tions no matter what it was. So I've always
been hardware driven. I just love being
that problem solver." Morgan said.
In 2013 while still working a full-time
job and raising two children, Morgan
decided to turn her passion into a business
when she founded The Geek in Heels
LLC, a one-stop shop for all your IT
needs, from hardware repairs to virus pro
tection.
Two years later, Morgan took a promo
tion at her job which relocated to Winston-
Salem and she brought Geek in Heels with
her.
See Geek on A2
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