WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM The Triangle St. Augustine’s triplets separateST. AUGUSTINE’Safter PUBLIC RELATIONS21 years RALEIGH – For most parents, watching their son or daughter walk across stage to receive their college degrees is a momentous occasion. However, imagine having three daughters do it at the same time. That was the case RIBUNE for the Bramwell family. Cadine, Colleen and Colliet Bramwell are identical TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE triplets. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the Bramwell triplets are ready to embark on the next chapters of their lives. However, on their new journeys, they will VOLUME 18 NO. 13 WEEK OF MAY 22, 2016 $1.00 go their separate ways for the first time in their lives. Colleen and Colliet said Cadine will have the hardest time with the sepa- ration. “She has always acted as if she was our mother,” they both said. Cadine, who is the oldest, said with a big smile while giving a side-eyed Johnson C. Smith look at her two sisters: “Our mother told me when we left home that I was offensive lineman responsible for making sure we were all OK, and that is what I did.” There is one thing, however, that the triplets agreed on. Zachary Dickey “We want people to know that since we were little we were taught to al- ways put God first,” Cadine said. “We also believed that God plus an edu- plans a new career cation equaled success. In the Tivoli Gardens community in Jamaica, our path. school’s motto was ‘Bloom where you are planted.’ Throughout our years of school, we took that motto and applied it in everything we did, and we know that we will continue to bloom everywhere we are.” Cadine and Colliet, who both graduated summa cum laude, are planning to make their marks in corporate law. Cadine headed to New York on May Please seeTRIPLETS/2A UNC Growing research pains finds increases gap in Durham sickle budgetTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS DURHAM – Citing the critical cellBy Stephanie ed Carson need to meet Durham’s grow- ing priorities, including pub- N.C. NEWS SERVICE lic safety, affordable housing CHAPEL HILL – At least and capital improvement, 5,000 people in North Car- City Manager Tom Bonfield proposed a 1.66-cent tax rate olina live with sickle cell DAFNEY TALES-LAFORTUNE disease, according to the increase above the City’s rev- Centers for Disease Con- Students, teachers and parents cheer at a pep rally. enue-neutral rate of 54.41 trol and Prevention. cents per $100 of assessed But new research from value, following Durham’s the University of North most recent revaluation of Carolina-Chapel Hill indi- real property. cates not all those patients State law requires taxing have access to educational units to publish a revenue- materials that can help neutral tax rate, which is the Douglas Elementary rate needed to produce the them truly understand their condition. same amount of revenue if Researcher Elizabeth real property had not been McClure, doctoral student reappraised. By Dafney tega Road, beat out 3,400 other educator but, for Since Durham’s last revalu- in department of epidemi- earns No.other magnet 1 schools ranking across Burns, who arrived at the ation in 2008, the city has ology, explains why the Tales-Lafortune the country, school principal school two years ago, Dou- disconnect is so important CORRESPONDENT seen an overall increase in Derek Burns said. glas was a strong contender. growth of about 16 percent. to recognize. RALEIGH – The screams “Being No. 1 in the country “After they left, I knew "If somebody is not able and cheers erupting from the “While that revenue growth is hard to put into words. It’s there was no way we would- was significant, changing the to read education materi- gym inside Douglas Elemen- almost surreal,” Burns said. n’t win,” he said. als and understand what tary School last week were value of a penny on the tax “It takes dedication. Every Magnet Schools of America rate from $2.5 million to to do, they may not know deafening. person involved has been all established the National what their risk of passing The celebration was well- $2.75 million, It just wasn’t in. They can’t believe their Merit Awards program to rec- enough to pay for many of the down the disease to their earned as the school cele- hard work has paid off.” ognize the top magnet kids might be," she said. brated being named the top increasing wants and needs It was a long process to get schools that show a commit- Durham residents called for "They might not know magnet school by trade or- to this point, he noted. It ment to high academic stan- when they should see a ganization Magnet Schools of at public meetings, including began with submitting an ap- dards, curriculum the Coffees with Council, over doctor and all the things America. The honor, the plication that was scored by innovation, successful de- that might effect day-to- Ronald P. Simpson Distin- the past few months,” Bon- a panel of educators. As a fi- segregation and diversity ef- field said. day life, living with sickle guished Merit Award, is con- nalist for the top spot, a com- forts, and parent cell disease." sidered to be the highest The proposed tax rate gen- mittee then visited the involvement, according to its erates a tax bill of $1,005.32 Sickle cell disease is a honor a magnet school can school to see instructors and website. The award also group of inherited condi- receive. on a house valued at students in action. The visit comes with a $5,000 prize. $179,297.50, the median tions that affects hemo- Douglas, located at 600 Or- would have unnerved any globin, the protein that Please see RALLY/2A house value for the city, ac- allows red blood cells to cording to the Durham carry oxygen to all parts of County Office of Tax Admin- the body. istration. McClure found when Bonfield recommends a she and fellow researchers KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR total preliminary budget for reviewed free patient-edu- FY 2016-17 of $403.7 million, cation materials, many of a nearly 4 percent increase the documents required from last year, and includes a levels of reading and math FriendsBy Latisha Catchatoorian bond over belly dancing $180.9 million budget for skills just too high to be [email protected] services covered by the gen- helpful to most Ameri- eral fund, a little more than 5 cans. April LaMar and Debbie percent increase from last The CDC suggests pa- Richardson became friends in an year. tient-education materials unconventional way – by learn- Fighting crime and funding should be understandable ing belly rolls and hip shakes. other public safety needs con- to at least 90 percent of As part of the Sunanda Tribe at tinue to warrant a significant people who read them, Morrisville’s World of Motion portion of the city’s proposed but the researchers scored Studio, LaMar and Richardson budget, with about $2.5 mil- the sickle cell information are the only two African-Ameri- lion dedicated for public at a literacy index of be- can female belly dancers at the safety pay and retention. tween 44 percent and 76 studio. Also included is funding for percent. The Sunanda Tribe, which 20 additional sworn officers McClure says she's seen stands for “delightful,” employs and a three-year phase-in of a oral health and sleep-care the American Tribal Style prac- Take-Home Car program to materials with the same tice, which is a type of dance and encourage officers to live in pitfalls. follow style. Durham neighborhoods and "There just should be “(The tribes at the studio) are promote community policing. Debbie Richardson and April LaMar (center) with the Sunanda Tribe. more information avail- differentiated by the style of Durham also will introduce able," she said. "And when belly dance,” LaMar said. “It’s a like, ‘I want to do this.’ So my And she told me I had to meet a new “City Hall on the Go” we do develop more infor- lead and follow kind of dance husband encouraged me to find April,” Richardson said. program for city employees mation, we need to be where you learn different cues a class. I didn’t start off doing the LaMar had been belly dancing to meet face-to-face with making sure that it's both and moves. If the person you’re style that I’m currently doing; I for 10 years, but when she Durham neighborhood resi- culturally appropriate and dancing with knows those cues started doing Egyptian style. I moved to North Carolina she was dents to encourage them to at an appropriate reading and moves, you can dance with told my husband that I wasn’t introduced to the ATS through get involved with their com- level." anyone in the world.” (really liking it) anymore, and he WIM instructor Dawn Ruckert. munity and city government. Nationwide, sickle cell With ATS there are certain sets told me to look for something “She’s one of the only teachers Neighborhood mini-grants disease impacts about of moves and with those moves, else,” Richardson recounted. on the East Coast that teaches will be offered to help beau- 100,000 Americans and one can put them into various Richardson happened upon this kind of style. It originated in tify neighborhoods and pro- occurs among one in sequences. the current owner of WIM, who California, so it was just a really mote public safety.