United Way highlights neighborhoods for Black History Month (part 3)
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Throughout Black History Month Kelsher Entertainment will be running a series of shorts on cable television that will acknowledge and honor Black citizens in Winston-Salem whose life’s work has made an impact on the city.
Whole Man Ministries (WMM) has renovated several houses around the city for use by homeless veterans. After almost a year, their current project is almost complete for another veteran to call home.
The Castle Heights neighborhood is one of the target areas of the Place Matters initiative for the United Way of Forsyth County. Throughout Black History Month, the United Way will feature a resident of one of their target area neighborhoods and this week it was the Sudler family’s turn to share their story.
Fears of an explosion forced local firefighters and thousands of residents to evacuate the area on Monday night, after a fire broke out at the Winston Weaver Company fertilizer plant located on Cherry Street.
A few years ago, the United Way of Forsyth County unveiled their plan to help revitalize several neighborhoods in the eastern portion of the city with several community partners. Their initiative, “Place Matters,” has a goal to positively impact the community by attacking issues plaguing these selected areas, such as under/unemployment, education, housing and healthy living.
After three years waiting in limbo for approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to sell Crystal Towers, an 11-story public housing unit located on West Sixth Street, HAWS has announced that they will keep Crystal Towers and work with the City of Winston-Salem to make renovations.
Last year, Target launched their HBCU Design Challenge which was a competition where students from Historically Black Colleges & Universities submitted designs for Target’s celebration of Black History Month. One of the challenge winners was Winston-Salem’s own Trajan Baker, who is an architecture student at Hampton University and a graduate of Atkins High School.
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