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THE GREENSBORO TIMES Charlotte Mayor > from page 1 ▪ And she became the campaign’s favorite piñata, bashed repeatedly


by state Sen. Joel Ford and other critics while Lyles was generally able to remain above the fray.


Roberts was used to being the top vote-getter, whether running for


mayor or Mecklenburg commissioner. But she wasn’t the only Democratic incumbent to lose Tuesday.


Veteran council incumbents Claire Fallon and Patsy Kinsey lost their


seats in an election that saw the victories of four candidates 35 or younger. “I do often feel that there’s a true appetite for change,” said Aisha


Dew, a former Democratic party chair who ran the Lyles campaign. Lyles carried precincts across the city. She piled up big margins in


predominantly African-American precincts along Beatties Ford Road. She carried white liberal precincts in Dilworth. And she won areas in tony Eastover and Myers Park. At Eastover Precinct 18, she won 71 percent of the vote.


Most supporters at Lyles’ election night headquarters said they had


expected a run-off election. They were happily surprised. But Ruth Sloane said she was one of the few who expected a clean victory.


“I might be the only one,” Sloane said. “Everybody was saying run- off. I was saying, no, she’s going to win.”


Social Activism > from page 1 Prior to the peaceful gathering, Sharpton had expressed disdain over


how the Trump administration has sought to undo much of the progress of the country’s civil rights era.


The nearly two-mile march, which began shortly after noon at the


Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and stopped briefly for prayer outside the Trump Hotel before moving to the Justice Department building, coincided with the 54th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.


Johnnie Green, senior pastor of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church in Harlem,


New York, thanked Sharpton for organizing the march before taking shots at Trump and other GOP lawmakers.


“We’re here today, because many of those who sit in the seat of power — the president, the Republican Congress and the Republican Senate—they’ve once again written us a bad check,” Green said. “The check written to millions of Americans—Black, brown, Jewish, Muslim and many others—has come back stamped with insufficient funds.”


Green continued: “When you try to take away healthcare for 26


million Americans, you’re trying to issue us another bad check. When you co-sign the killings of people of color in the name of law and order, and leave our Black bodies lying in the streets for more than four hours and refuse to hear our cries of ‘I can’t breathe’ while choking us to death, you’re trying to issue us another bad check. When you tell us that there are good people among nationalists, White supremacists and neo-Nazis who commit terrorists acts here on American soil, you’re trying to issue us another bad check.”


Rev. Marshall Hatch, co-chair for the Chicago-based Leaders


Network, also gave a fiery speech, blasting Trump for what he said is an attempt to stop an investigation of “foreign meddling into our election.”


He went on to say that neither Trump’s recent pardon of former


Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio nor his “threatening of nuclear war and rumor of war,” via tweeted messages, pointed toward normalcy.


Hatch added that “refusing to condemn racism and anti-Semitism” also isn’t normal.


“Somebody has to have the courage to stand up and say, ‘this emperor has no clothes,’” Hatch said.


The march came on the heels of Trump’s sullen response surrounding


Piedmont Triad Regional Council Area Agency on Aging Operation Fan Heat Relief Begins Now


The Piedmont Triad Regional Council Area Agency on Aging is partnering with local providers of services to older adults to deliver Operation Fan Heat Relief (OFHR) Program. The program provides funding through generous donations by Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, that allows local senior service agencies to purchase and distribute fans to adults 60 years of age and older, as well as individuals with disabilities, to make their living environment more comfortable and safe during the summer heat. Last year, 1,022 fans were distributed to eligible households in


the twelve counties served by the Piedmont Triad Regional Council Area Agency on Aging. Blair Barton-Percival, Area Agency on Aging Director, stated, “We are happy to participate in a program that provides a measure of safety for individuals living with chronic heart or asthma conditions and other health issues.” Applications for a fan may be submitted through September 29,


2017.


For more information, contact Holly Sluder, Program Planner, at 336.904.0300 or hsluder@ptrc.org. The Area Agency on Aging (AAA) is authorized by federal and


state statutes to oversee the delivery of services to the aging population and their families by administering the allocation of government funds and brokering information among the aging and disabled, the media, the public, and service providers. The AAA is a department of the Piedmont Triad Regional Council (PTRC), a voluntary association of 73 member governments comprised of elected municipal representatives and county commissioners. The PTRC supports the twelve-county region through its Aging, Criminal Justice, Housing, Management Services, Regional Planning, Weatherization, and Workforce Development departments.


a White supremacist rally held earlier this month in Charlottesville, Virginia, after city officials had contemplated the removal of Confederate statues. A couple of days after the rally, in which counter protester Heather Heyer was killed, Trump blamed “both sides” for the violence that erupted during the event.


Jeffrey David Cox, president of the 700,000-member American Federation of Government Employees located in northwest D.C., told the crowd there’s no room in this country for hatred.


“It’s time to take those statues down,” Cox said. “But leave the base


so we [can] tell our children and our grandchildren what an evil wicked thing this country did.”


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