The headline, such as it was, seemed innocuous enough. âSchool system, city look for solutions on Hanes Park.â
School and city officials â specifically, the paid, professional staff employed in a city-manager-style government as practiced here in Winston-Salem â would be putting heads together in an effort to make Hanes Park safer for the public and Reynolds High student athletes who use it.
The public and Reynolds share the track at Hanes Park
A couple of incidents, one goofy and the other deadly serious, were cited as reasons why professionals ought to look again at how the park is used.
In one, a runner wearing earbuds blithely dashed through a practice in which discus and shotputs were thrown.