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Hazel Mack, the former leader of Legal Aid of North Carolina, has been promoted as director of outreach at Wake Forest University School of Law.
Mack had served as the interim director of outreach. Mack started at Legal Aid of North Carolina in Wilson before moving to the Winston-Salem o� ce, where she was eventually promoted from senior managing attorney to regional managing attorney.
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GUILFORD COUNTY — The continuing political fall-out from the change in county school board elections to parti-san races will play out again this coming year.
In 2016, all nine Guilford County Board of Education members ran in the same elec-tion cycle as their races shifted for the fi rst time in modern his-tory from nonpartisan to parti-san contests.
In a par tisan election, the party affi liation of the candidates is paired with their name on the ballot. In the 2016 general elec-tion, Democrats ended up with control of the school board by the narrowest of margins, 5-4.
Usually school board mem-bers ser ve four-year terms. But under the legislation ush-ered through the N.C. General
Assembly earlier this decade by state Sen. Trudy Wade, R-Guil-ford, the change in par tisan elections limited fi ve of the nine school board members elected in 2016 to two-year terms. The reason is to create a new set of staggered four-year terms for the
school board for future elections.That means the five school
board members who initially
served two-year terms will face
SEE ELECTIONS/PAGE A2
Partisan elections take twist in ‘18BY PAUL B. JOHNSONENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
H I G H P O I N T
It’s lucky enough that she claimed the title of fi rst baby born in High Point in 2018. But it’s just plain
ironic that she came into the world at 11:11 a.m. and that she shares the birthday with both her grandfathers.
On Monday, Farkhanda Malik and her husband, Nawazish Ali, looked down at their fi rst child, Hoorain, in a room on the fi fth fl oor of High Point Regional. They had been trying to have a baby for two years and now their miracle had arrived. She was born 19 inches long, weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces.
Malik said she liked the name Hoorain because it was unique and she didn’t know anybody with that name.
“It means beautiful, big eyes. Even though she hasn’t opened her eyes much,” she said, laughing.
She takes after her mother in that sense. Despite the challenge of childbirth, Malik’s eyes were bright, she smiled easily and she had an upbeat attitude. Her husband, standing beside her, could barely take his eyes off his new daughter.
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NEW YEAR’S NEWBORN
BY STEPHANIE BUTZERENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT — Richard Wilson is all too familiar with the weight of carr ying too much, well, weight, around with him every day.
Wilson, of Lexington, once topped the scales at 600 pounds. His weight had fl uctuated all his life and didn’t particularly bother him. He was happy. He enjoyed going fishing and hunting, although the activities were get-ting increasingly diffi cult because he had a tough time getting around. That, paired with a grim warning from his heart doctor, convinced Wilson to look at how he could alter his life’s trajectory.
A seminar at High Point Regional Health changed every-thing. Today, Wilson weighs in
at around 273, an impressive change for the 6-foot-2-inch man. His mobility has improved and
health problems spurred by the extra weight have started to fade.
It was all thanks to gastric sleeve surgery last December.
Wilson was never unhappy with his weight. It was something he accepted as part of his life.
“I’ve always been a happy
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Man loses 330 pounds through bariatric centerBY STEPHANIE BUTZER
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
CINDE INGRAM | HPE FILEGuilford County school board members, from left, Dianne Bellamy Small, Anita Sharpe, Pat Tillman, Wes Cashwell, Superintendent Sha-ron Contreras, Deena Hayes-Greene, Alan Duncan, Darlene Garrett and Linda Welborn are pictured. Not pictured is Byron Gladden.
Richard Wilson weighed in around 588 in the photo on the left, and in the more current photo on the right, he was well under 300 pounds. Wilson had a gastric sleeve surgery to help him lose the weight.
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KEY 2018 ELECTION DATES
Here are some key election dates for the 2018 political season:
Feb. 12-28: Candidate � ling for county, state legislative and congressional candidates
April 13: Voter registration deadline for primary
May 8: Primary electionOct. 12: Voter registration
deadline for general electionNov. 6: General election
First local baby of 2018 arrives at 11:11 a.m.
Above: Farkhanda Malik and her husband, Nawazish Ali, wel-comed their � rst child into the world at High Point Regional Monday at 11:11 a.m. They named her Hoorain Ali.
Left: Hoorain was born on New Year’s Day weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces. She was 19 inches long at birth.
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE BUTZER | HPE
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the task of running for re-election in 2018 for full four-year terms. The school board members whose seats time out after two years include Republican Wes Cashwell of High Point.
Cashwell told The High Point Enterprise that he plans to run for another term.
“I have appreciated the opportu-nity to serve as the lone High Point resident on the Board of Education and I hope to have the opportunity to continue that service,” he said.
According to the Guilford County Board of Elections, the school board seats that will be before voters this year are:
• District 6, served by Cashwell• District 2, represented by
Republican Anita Sharpe of Greens-boro
• District 4, served by Republi-can Linda Welborn of Greensboro
• District 8, represented by Dem-ocrat and board Vice Chairwoman Deena Hayes-Greene of Greensboro
• At-large, a countywide seat
held by Democrat and board Chair-man Alan Duncan of Greensboro
Cashwell said that he doesn’t expect the atypical timing of the school board election to confuse or deter voters.
“I believe that the mix of federal, state and local races will create suf-fi cient interest among voters. Candi-dates will have ample opportunities to express their views,” he said.
The upcoming school board elec-tion takes place against the back-drop of recent dissent on the board, primarily among Republican mem-bers, about the service and perfor-mance of Superintendent Sharon Contreras.
This fall, emails surfaced show-ing there was an effort among some school board members to oust Con-treras, though that feud has sim-mered down publicly since the emails were made public. Since that time, the school board and Contre-ras have worked together on a set of student performance goals to both improve student achievement and set benchmarks for assessing the performance of the superintendent.
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Ali said the staff was fantastic at the hospital and kept them updated as often as they could throughout the delivery process. From night shift to day shift, the nurses and doctors were always helpful, he said.
Ali and Malik married in April of 2015 and both wanted children. Since it was more diffi cult than expected, Malik didn’t believe she was pregnant when a test came back positive.
“I used a pregnancy stick and thought, ‘Oh, I think this one is expired, let me get two more,’” she said. “So, I bought two more and found out
it was actually positive. Then I thought, ‘No, let me get a blood test just in case.’ So I got blood work and they said it was positive.”
Her pregnancy was relatively easy, aside from morning sickness early on, she said.
Her due date was Jan. 11, which would have just fi ne as it continued the pattern of “ones,” she said, smiling.
Her contractions started shortly before the Times Square Ball started dropping in New York City. She watched it from her phone.
“I was having small contractions while the ball was dropping so I wasn’t even in the mood,” she said. “I was already starting to have pain.”
Around 2:30 a.m.
Monday, they drove to the hospital. And at 11:11 a.m., Hoorain made her debut.
The day was a whirlwind of introducing the newborn to the rest of her family. More than a dozen aunts and uncles and cousins sat in a nearby waiting room with colorful balloons and presents.
When they are able to leave the hospital to return to their home in Archdale, Malik and Ali both plan on adjusting to life with a baby and ensuring responsibilities are shared. Ali said he wants to help as much as he can.
“I’ll be by her side every time,” he said.
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person,” he said. “I just had the attitude of, ‘I’m big and I’m carrying the weight and everything is great.’ But I got to the point where my activity level had dropped off a lot because I wasn’t able to do as much. I still enjoyed things, but I just wasn’t able to do things as much because I would get out of breath.”
He had to s ta r t using a cane and a rol-lator. When mowing the grass, he’d push the mower for fi ve minutes and rest for 10 minutes. Walking down the aisles of Walmar t became a challenge.
“My heart doctor told me point blank that if I didn’t lose some weight that I wasn’t going to be here much longer,” he said. “My heart was going to give out on me and I wouldn’t be around. I’ve never been scared to die. I actually made a joke about it. I said, ‘Doc, well look at me. I am around.’ Of course he didn’t crack a smile. He was serious.”
The issue became more consequential to Wilson as he thought of his family — his mom, his wife. He needed to be around for them.
By the time of the seminar at High Point Regional in September 2016, Wilson had gotten down to 488 pounds on his own, but wanted a sustainable, more per-manent fi x. At the meet-ing , he and other par tici-pants met Dr. Nik Teppara, the hospital’s B a r i a t r i c & Weight Loss C e n t e r l e a d surgeon.
Teppara talk-ed about the gastric sleeve procedure, and other weight l o s s s u r g e r -ies. In a gas-tric sleeve surgery, the stomach is reduced by removing part of it. It would be reduced to the size of a small banana, Wilson said. He liked the idea of it. It would take just fi ve small inci-sions, all done micro-scopically.
With the support of his wife and encourage-ment from friends, Wil-son called back soon after the seminar to set up an appointment with Teppara.
In November, the hospital’s bariatric cen-ter received national
accreditation as a Com-pr ehens ive Center, formerly known as the Center of Excellence designation, under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surger y Accreditation and Quality Improve-ment Program. It certi-fied that patients were receiving high-quality treatment in a multi-disciplinar y program, according to a previous Enterprise article.
“Ever y aspect o f their care — nursing care, surgical care, pre-operative care, postop-erative care — all the staff and services have been looked upon as being either standard of care or higher than
s t a n d a r d o f care,” Teppara previously told The Enterprise. “That means when a patient comes her e , they know what they’re getting — the highest quality of care they can get.”
The process is hardly just a one-time visit. Wilson visited
High Point Regional many times: For nutri-tion classes to learn how food impacts his health, how to keep his plate proportionate, how his stomach would feel full quicker after the surgery. He talked with exercise specialists, who taught him how to exercise safely. He talked with a psycholo-gist to make sure he had the right mindset and that he understood this wasn’t a fi x-all. He talked with people who had had the surgery, to learn what to expect.
He continued to see specialists for some of his other health con-cerns, which included heart issues and sleep apnea, Wilson said. And about a month away from the surgery, doctors per formed an endoscopy on Wilson, so they knew what to expect during surgery.
When it came time, Dec. 6, 2016, the doc-tors knew ever ything there was to know about Wilson’s health, his body and his history.
“I told the anesthesi-ologist when he came in to put me to sleep, I told him, ‘You can’t put me to sleep until you start smiling,’” he said. “I was happy. I said, ‘Ever y-body has to be smiling. Nobody can be frown-ing.’ I was so excited about it.”
So, how did it go?Let’s just say that
shor tly after the sur-gery, Wilson was walk-ing around. So much so that he was sore for a week. He was thrilled.
Wilson now exer-cises five days a week at his local YMCA. He said he’s still blown away by how far he’s come in the past year. He no longer has to take medication for his dia-betes or blood pressure. Moving around is much easier. He even went fi shing in a kayak a few months ago, something he couldn’t have done before because of the weight limit.
“It’s really one of the best things I’ve done for myself as far as health-wise,” he said.
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SPECIAL | HPEFor the � rst time in a while, Richard Wilson was able to go out on a kayak to � sh.
Richard Wilson now exercises � ve days a week at his local YMCA. He said he’s still blown away by how far he’s come in the past year.
NEW YORK — Bill de Blasio began his second term as New York City mayor Mon-day at a swearing in ceremony outdoors in freezing tempera-tures, taking the oath of office administered by Brooklyn native and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sand-ers of Vermont.
“By Vermont stan-dards this is a warm and pleasant afternoon,” Sanders, joked the crowd at City Hall Park.
De Blasio won re-election handily in
November, becom-ing the fi rst Democrat to return to City Hall in New York since Edward Koch 1985.
He boasted about the city recording the low-est number of annual homicides since the early 1950s. The police depart-ment’s preliminary count is 290 homicides for 2017, a 14 percent drop from the year before.
“We have brought police and community together like never before,” De Blasio said. “We have dedicated ourselves to a vision of true neighborhood
policing and it works.”As a national leader
in progressive politics, de Blasio said he envi-sions a city that serves more than the elite and Wall Street titans.
“The deepest, tru-est stakeholders of this town are the peo-ple who do the work, who ever y day make this city come to life but have too often not reaped the rewards,” he said. “We have a responsibility, ever y one of us, to ensure that New York remains a beacon to our nation and to our world.”
NYC Mayor Blasio begins 2nd term at City Hall
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
