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Still Won’t be the Same
As hard as this community fought to get Medal of Honor winner Lawrence Joel’s name on the coliseum, it’s hard to stomach the possibility of it being renamed. We know that the city and
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Skills camp about more than b-ball
Two churches and two college basketball teams came together Saturday to hold a basketball camp for more than 100 children. It was the 12th year that First Baptist Church on Fifth Street and United
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Moore honored for leading BELL summer program
Boston, Mass.-based BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) has honored an employee for leading a successful local summer program last year. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools contracted with BELL – which offers after school and summer
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Finance company gives to NWCDC
Northwest Child Development Centers, Inc. has received even more financial support. Pittsburgh, Penn.-based Vision Financial Group, Inc. recently gave the non-profit $10,000. Vision COO Conrad Eimers flew to Winston-Salem to present the check to
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New college offers personal touch
When Dr. Lucas Shallua and his wife, Dorothy Edward, started Mount Eagle College, they thought about how fortunate they were to have gone to college in their native Tanzania, a country in East Africa
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Kids learn from the blindBlind
Students in Cathy Peters’ kindergarten class at Sherwood Forest Elementary School got a crash course in blind awareness on Monday. A group from Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind (IFB) led the children in
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Universal-free school breakfast eliminates stigma for poor students
A study by two UNCG professors has found evidence that giving all kids access to free breakfast at school, rather than qualifying kids based on income, decreases the stigma for kids from low-income families
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