For over a decade HARRY (Helping Advocate Research Respond for You) Veterans Community Outreach Services has marked Memorial Day with their annual Memorial Day Commemoration ceremony. This year the event was held at Happy Hill Cemetery, where several World War I veterans are buried.
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On May 26, just a few days before Memorial Day, North Carolina native Lieutenant Colonel Dominic Gaskin will take command of the 343rd Reconnaissance Squadron.
On May 21, 1865, over 800 enslaved people in the Village of Salem gathered at St. Philips to hear an announcement that would change their lives. On that day, General Orders No. 32 were read to the congregation which proclaimed that all enslaved people were free.
The history of Happy Hill, the first African American neighborhood in present day Winston-Salem, dates back more than 150 years, and to honor that history Old Salem has opened an exhibit that includes rare photos, stories, interviews, current research and memories of Happy Hill titled “Selections from Across the Creek.”
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Since 2018 Rally Up Winston-Salem, a local grassroots organization geared toward ending street and gang violence, has done its part to make Winston-Salem a safer place. And at a place in time where gun violence is at an all time high, last weekend members of the organization took to the streets to call for the violence to stop.
