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Talk of the Town Ward Meeting
Mayor Joines and I will hold a Talk of the Town meeting on Monday, Sept. 29, to update residents and answer your questions about issues pertaining to city government and the Southeast Ward. A place and time will be announced soon.
Attention Neighborhood Associations
St. Andrews United Methodist Church on Butler Street is hosting a community meeting of neighborhood associations on Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 6:30 p.m. Representatives of the city staff will be present to answer questions and concerns. Phillip Carter, a lay leader at the church, is organizing the meeting. |
Working Together in the Southeast Ward
Our Southeast Ward has a wonderful heritage. It’s the second-oldest part of Winston-Salem, and includes residents whose families have lived here for generations on end. In recognition of this, our ward now includes three National Register historic districts in the Waughtown/Bellview neighborhood, the Centerville neighborhood and the Sunnyside/ Central Terrace neighborhood. The Sunnyside neighborhood also includes historically significant housing stock.
Perhaps the best part of our heritage is our history of working together. This was true fifty years ago when the residents of the racially-mixed Bellview neighborhood chose to live peaceably together, and it remains true today as we welcome a new level of international diversity. Our ward has become a multi-colored festival of nationalities, with residents not only from Mexico and Latin America, but Jamaica, Pakistan, Korea, and Senegal and other countries in Africa – and I’m sure I’m missing some! And the heritage of the ward is drawing residents from elsewhere in the city who are bringing new life to the hidden jewels in our housing stock.
I sense a new level of pride in the Southeast Ward. It shows in our growing neighborhood associations and in the yards and trees that have been planted. It shows in the efforts of the Waughtown Business Association and president James Douglas, and the Southside CDC, and in the new and refurbished businesses in our ward. I am particularly excited about the transformation of the grocery story on Waughtown into an international mini-mall. Ron Creasy has done a wonderful job in turning an eyesore into an asset!
I am particularly thrilled that the Boys and Girls Club made a $5 million investment in this ward when they built their new facility on Reynolds Park Road, helping our young people grow physically, mentally and spiritually. And I’m even more thrilled by their commitment to ensure that their old facility on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive would remain a useful part of our ward. Today it is the home base for the Southside Church, a new, integrated congregation started by Steve Angle. |
Council Member Evelyn A. Terry
Democrat
Southeast Ward
1224 Reynolds Forest Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27107
788-5008
E-mail Evelyn Terry
Neighborhood Assistance Specialist
Tabetha Bailey
E-mail Tabetha Baily
City Council Meetings:
First and third Mondays of each month (except when holiday)
7:30 p.m. in City Hall, Room 230
City Council Committee Meetings:
Second Monday & Tuesday of each month
City Hall, Room 239 All meetings are open to the public.
Southeast Ward Annual Report
Read more about Evelyn.
Read more about the Neighborhood Assistance Specialists.
Southeast Ward's boundaries are Reynolds Park Road and High Point Road on the north, just west of South Main Street on the West and the city limits on the south and east. Read more about the Southeast Ward.
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