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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Back home, a bootheel for the Garden City News

by Brian Clarey

I no longer read the Garden City News with any regularity, but when I was growing up in that Long Island community, everyone did. Everyone still

does. It’s the sort of community weekly that runs scores of village soccer games, hyperlocal news and social pages that namecheck people of prominence. Everybody loves the Office Cat column, which distills down the police blotter and combines it with rumors and eyewitness reports. It reads today just like it did in 1980. Bob Morgan, father of current Editor and Publisher Meg Morgan Norris, got it at auction in 1974, but it’s been around since 1923, and has been the official paper of Garden City — villages are required by New York state law to designate an official paper for its legal notices and such — since 1924. But on Jan. 17, Mayor Brian Daughney announced plans to remove that official designation. Norris is not exactly sure why. “They never did say why they are doing this,” she said by phone to City Beat. “I write editorials every week, and most of them are what you would consider softballs. But every now and then something annoys me, and I write about it, and I guess it upset the mayor.”

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Unlike in Guilford County, where revenue from legal notices can keep a newspaper afloat, the business model for village papers in New York is slightly different. “[The legal notices are] not really that big a portion of our revenue,” she says, about $10,000 a year, “but the mayor of Garden City was also trying to block us from getting press releases and columns they normally give us — parks and recreation, calendar stuff. It’s kind of crazy actually.” Doesn’t sound crazy to me. This is a place where government is predicated on a “Gentlemen’s Agreement” — since named the “Community Agreement” — drafted in 1919, by which the four property owners’ associations take turns appointing the mayor, rendering every election a complete farce. Everyone in Garden City knows who the next mayor will be months before the election. In a village of 22,000, “maybe a hundred people vote in that election,” Norris said. “If it works right, the agreement can actually involve more people in the process,” she said. “But the way it’s been evolving lately, it keeps people out of getting involved with government.” The change is scheduled for April, but a lot can happen between now and then. Like me, Norris grew up in GC. We both understand that you don’t mess with the Garden City News.

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Winston-Salem Cover: Melissa Harris-Perry speaks out against Wake Forest University. [file photo]

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CITY LIFE Jan. 31 - Feb. 6, 2019 by Savi Ettinger

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Opening reception @ Theatre Art Galleries (HP), 5:30 p.m.

Theatre Art Galleries opens Winter Exhibits with a free reception. The exhibits feature works by fashion illustrator Kenneth Paul Block, along with works from students of Guilford County High Schools. Find the event on Facebook.

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Renée Elise Goldsberry @ Wake Forest University (W-S), 6 p.m. Renée Elise Goldsberry visits Wait Chapel as a keynote speaker in Wake Forest’s Arts of Leading conference. Goldsberry, known for her role as Angelica in Hamilton, speaks about her life story and acting career. Find the event on Facebook.

The Gravy Boys @ Muddy Creek Cafe & Music Hall (W-S), 8 p.m.

Artists on Art @ Sawtooth School for Visual Art (W-S), 6 p.m. Leo Morrissey hosts a discussion at Sawtooth for his exhibit, Unpacking Leo Morrissey. During its run, the exhibition will grow, with more pieces from Morrissey’s daily work being revealed each day. Find the event on Facebook.

Madhu Chitrakar @ Greensboro Project Space, 6 p.m.

La Belle et la Bete @ a/peture cinema (W-S), 6:30 p.m. The 1946 Jean Cocteau film La Belle et la Bete shows as a part of the Classics, Cinema and Conversations series. Lauren Rogers and John Oksanish hold a discussion after the screening, looking at the story’s mythical roots. Find the event on Facebook.

Rhythmic acoustic tunes fill a concert from the Gravy Boys’ at Muddy Creek. The band bounces stories around through duet vocals, and dynamic harmonica and string playing. Find the event on Facebook. William Hinson @ Foothills Brewing (WS), 10 p.m. Singer and songwriter William Hinson performs a set of smooth indie pop. The North Carolina musician takes influence in artists like the Beatles and John Mayer, with a catchy, soft-rock sound. Find the event on Facebook.

Little Yellow Boots @ Weatherspoon Art Museum (GSO), 6:30 p.m. This documentary serves as a letter to director John Webster’s future great grandchild, while also looking at climate change and its effects on decades to come. Find the event at weatherspoon.uncg.edu.

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Threads and Shadows @ Greensboro Cultural Center, 8 p.m.

The Greensboro Fringe Festival continues with a night of original dance by a pair of choreographers. “Slaying Ghosts” by Alexandra Joye Warren centers around psychological trauma, while “A History of Dirt” by Sarah Council examines how bodies hold people’s pasts. Find the event on Facebook.

Woodwind festival and competition @ UNCSA (W-S), 9 a.m. UNCSA holds a weekend of recitals, presentations and classes all centering around woodwind instruments. Guest artist perform, while UNCSA faculty hold workshops on building reeds and preparing for auditions. Find the event at uncsa.edu.

Nepalese artist Madhu Chitrakar showcases his skill in thangka painting, a medium that involves painting over fabric. Thangka painting finds its roots in religious traditions and ceremonies. Find the event on Facebook. Sahara @ Greenhill (GSO), 7 p.m. Sahara showcases the spirit of reggae music in a First Friday concert. Enjoy the energy and other downtown offerings, including a latte art competition and exhibits featuring local painters. Learn more at firstfridaygreensboro.org.

Super Bowl Party @ Joymongers Barrel Hall (W-S), 5 p.m. Gear up for the face-off between the Rams and the Patriots with Joymongers, open until the game ends. Wild Willie’s Wiener Wagon fuels the viewing party with hot dogs, chicken and fries. Find the event on Facebook. Chatham Rabbits’ album release @ the Crown (GSO), 4 p.m. This concert from Chatham Rabbits marks the debut of their album All I Want From You. The band plays off of warm folk melodies and Southern bluegrass traditions in the Crown, at the Carolina Theater. Find the event on Facebook.

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Your dog doesn’t like the bar as much as you do.

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we deemed unfit for the place — some of them for doing the very things dogs are known to do all day long: bark too much, bite someone, crap on the floor. The only dog I ever tolerated in the bar was a brilliant Catahoula hound named Buck. Buck had learned to let himself out of his yard, but he would only stop by when his owner had been sitting at the bar too long. Buck was a gentleman. He’d circle the place until he found his owner, nuzzle his hand and then the two of them would go home. Even Buck knew he wasn’t supposed to be there.

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This month, the Forsyth County Health Department began docking points against Winston-Salem breweries where dogs were present. Word spread fast among the leash-and-chewy set after Joymongers Barrel Hall woefully made a “no more dogs” declaration Monday on its Facebook page. Commenters quickly began organizing a campaign to pressure the county commission to save the puppers. But really, the Forsyth health department is just enforcing a law that’s been on the books almost forever, while at the same time quashing what has become one of my pettiest peeves. I love dogs — other people’s dogs, anyway. And I love bars, though not as deeply or as frequently as I used to. But I don’t ever need to see them together. A room full of drunks and animals together is just a bad idea on its face. Dogfights are bad; bar fights might be worse. Put them together and you’re talking about the kind of mess even the most seasoned bouncer — or cop for that matter — would hesitate to wade into. And let’s think about it from the dog’s point of view. No matter what fantasies you’ve projected onto your anthropomorphized pet, it’s a safe bet that your dog does not want to sit tied to a barstool while you stroke your beard and pontificate on hops or malts or whatever. When I was tending bar, we had a whole 86 list of humans

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No dogs allowed by Brian Clarey

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Activists plan direct action in response to hogtying death by Jordan Green Activists prepare to undertake direct action as Greensboro City Council and the Guilford County district attorney wipe their hands of the Marcus Smith case. With city leaders ready to move on from the controversy over the hog-tying death of Marcus Smith, activists pushing for police accountability signaled during a Monday-evening community meeting that they’re ready to undertake disruption, boycotts and other direct action to pressure city council and the district attorney. The 60 people who gathered at Shiloh Baptist Church — including workers, professionals, students and people experiencing homelessness — listened to testimonials from Smith’s family members, who have traveled several times from South Carolina to seek answers and justice. Presenters such as the Rev. Nelson Johnson cited at least a half dozen cases of police abuse which have resulted in settlements, while arguing that the city has done nothing to address the underlying pattern of mistreatment of people of color and poor people at the hands of police. But it was a question framed by Nikolaus B. Knight, an organizer who stood up near the end of the meeting, that instigated a flurry of ideas for taking on city council and the new district attorney, Avery Crump. “What do we feel like direct action could look like?” Knight asked. “I want to know: What does disruption look like?” One answer came from Alicia Muhammad. “If we come up with a calendar of where they are, this city was born and bred off of sit-ins and boycotts, so we know all about it,” she said. “Or at least we read about it, and we can get down with the program because it doesn’t take too much energy to sit somewhere and to be somewhere. What the students did at that time was take shifts. ‘You go down there at this time, and we’ll go down there at this time.’ Maybe we have to follow these council members around on their daily schedule, and that’s what disruption looks like, to make them uncomfortable.” Johnson added to the activists’ to-do list a request to research council members’ business connections. “We need a Twitter army and a re-

search team,” Muhammad echoed. “I know some people are connected to stores that their family owns,” Johnson said. “Others are connected to legal offices. We just need to find out how are they connected to sources of money.” Johnson cited the Kmart campaign in the 1990s, which addressed wage disparities between black and white employees. Johnson said after protesters blocked the facility, the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce called the company headquarters in Michigan and asked them to resolve the dispute. Mitchell Fryer, who was formerly employed at the Interactive Resource Center where Smith was a guest and where Councilwoman Michelle Kennedy is the executive director, called for an escalation of tactics. “We have got to be in JORDAN GREEN Mary Smith, the mother of Marcus Smith, speaks at a community meeting on the streets,” he said. “If Monday. you guys want to know sit-in participants, Bradley Hunt, was in right thing to do.” how the [Confederate] attendance at the community meeting After the NC Office of the Chief statues were pulled down in Durham on Monday. Medical Examiner ruled in early Decemand Chapel Hill, that was from people “I want to suggest that we not go too ber that Smith’s death was a homicide putting bodies physically in space, and far with particularities of plans,” he resulting in part from officers applying a forcing the state’s and the powers-thatsaid, “but to take somebody’s suggestion, Ripp Hobble, or hog-tie restraint, counbe’s hand to respond. What we know because we do need to make use of the cil members hastily voted to publicly right now is that city council is not element of surprise, and we do not need release police body-worn camera video. responding to us. We’re not part of their to have all of our business known by Some members, including Mayor Nancy larger political calculus.” everybody before we do it.” Vaughan said they wanted an explanaEd Whitfield, a longtime antiracist acIn addition to calling for the firing tion about why the initial city press tivist, responded to a call by one person of police Chief Wayne Scott, activists release indicated that Smith “collapsed,” to shut down an interstate by cautioning want District Attorney Avery Crump to while omitting any mention of officers that blocking traffic would be a “blunt set aside a decision by her predecessor, applying the restraint. City council instrument” that could hurt ordinary Doug Henderson, and charge the police members called for patience as they people who are trying to travel across officers responsible for Smith’s death. awaited a final determination from the town to get to a job. Bradley Hunt, a member of the district attorney’s office, which ultimately Some participants suggested occupyGreensboro NAACP, said the organizafound no criminal liability on the part of ing city council members’ seats on the tion’s president, the Rev. Cardes Brown, the officers. dais. Rev. Johnson noted that the tactic has met with Crump to discuss the case, Since then, the Greensboro Police was used by a group of students calling adding that the district attorney has Department has amended its protocol themselves Spirit of the Sit-In Movetaken a noncommittal stance. to no longer use the Ripp Hobble to ment in 2010 to protest alleged discrimi“She’s open I believe to hear from us, connect people’s hands and feet, in effect nation against black police officers, and but I think it’s going to take more presbanning hog-tying. The change brings that clergy followed suit by blocking the sure from the people,” Hunt said. “She’s the department’s policies in line with front entrance of the police department, not going to do it just because it’s the the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office and resulting in their arrests. One of the

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON FEBRUARY 5 REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO WIDEN RANDLEMAN ROAD (S.R. 1007) FROM GLENDALE DRIVE TO WEST ELMSLEY DRIVE IN GUILFORD COUNTY

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STIP PROJECT NO. U-5850 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to widen Randleman Road (S.R. 1007) between Glendale Drive and West Elmsley Drive in Guilford County. A public meeting will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at New Goshen United Methodist Church located at 3300 Randleman Road in Greensboro.

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The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT public meeting webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings.

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The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail by Feb. 19, 2019.

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For additional information, please contact Brian Ketner, NCDOT Division 7 Project Engineer at P.O. Box 14996, Greensboro, NC 27415-4996, (336) 487-0075 or, bkketner@ncdot.gov. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 276991598, at (919) 707-6069 or magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. And city leaders are exploring a proposal by Kennedy to deploy a mental-health team with police officers to provide crisis-intervention services, although budgeting and program specifics still need to be worked out. “We are looking at ways to embed qualified mentalhealth professionals as first responders instead of police when these incidents arise,” Kennedy told Triad City Beat on Tuesday. “We want to respond to these incidents as a public health issue rather than as a criminal-justice issue.” Council members have little appetite for calling on the city manager to fire the police chief. Kennedy, one of the three most progressive members on the council, said there’s a need for accountability but stopped short of calling for the chief ’s ouster. “I believe that any actions by any organization are ultimately the responsibility of the leadership of that organization, and accountability more than any place else should rest at the top,” she said. During the meeting, several people expressed a belief that the lives of black people, poor people and those who struggle with mental illness are devalued by the police. They listened with rapt attention as Aisha Marcus described being Tased twice while undergoing what she described as a “marijuana psychosis episode.” Marcus said she felt like she could have wound up like Sandra Bland, a young, black woman who was found dead from hanging in a jail cell after a routine traffic stop in Texas in 2015. She said she was ordered to write a letter of apology to the arresting officers as part of her plea agreement in mental health agreement. On Monday, Marcus read aloud from the letter she said she was not allowed to read in court. “This letter is a modern-day slander and lynching based on an unfair plea agreement, as I myself have become a statistic of our criminal justice system,” Marcus said. “I feel like a puppet being tossed around with no care, regard or concern of my mental health, physical health or emotional stability that these life-altering situations have caused beginning November 2016. “I apologize for being a black mother of three black sons that I try and teach to stay out of harm’s way with the police and abide so they do not get shot and killed,” the letter continues. “I apologize for knowing and believing I am a child of God and believing that a change is gonna come. I apologize for being a child of two parents that both suffer mental illness and have no hope of support for each other or myself. I apologize for trying, researching, learning and living a life of an unknown, true diagnosis. Am I bipolar? Am I schizophrenic? Am I normal? Why do I cause bodily harm? Why am I paranoid? Why does marijuana cause psychosis? What chemical imbalances are in what foods? Why do I have to take eight to 12 pills a day to function normally? What are you apologetic for.” The activists collected about $200 to defray the Smith family’s costs from traveling to Greensboro. Mary Smith, Marcus’s mother, said they wouldn’t be back once they’re done seeking justice in Greensboro. “It’s up to you guys,” she said. “I don’t live in North Carolina. It’s up to you to make that change. As Michael Jackson said, ‘Look at the man in the mirror.’”

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Melissa Harris-Perry clashes with WFU over MLK comments by Sayaka Matsuoka After speaking out against Wake Forest University at an MLK event on Jan. 21, Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor at the university, claims the university retaliated against her by threatening to close an academic center and offering her a “payoff.” Melissa Harris-Perry, a former MSNBC host and prominent professor, is clashing with Wake Forest University after giving an MLK Day speech critical of the institution. On Jan. 21, Harris-Perry, who has been the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University since 2014, gave a speech Union Baptist Church in Winston-Salem for the 39th annual MLK Noon Hour Commemoration. During her speech, she criticized the university’s role during slavery and outlined the struggle of the city’s black residents over the years. Harris-Perry described the unfair labor practices of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co., the second largest tobacco company in the country, against black workers in the 1940s and argued that questionable labor practices take place within the university today. According to the Wake Forest University factbook, the college moved from Wake Forest to WinstonSalem in 1941 after accepting a proposal by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation set up by Mary Reynolds Babcock, RJ Reynolds’ daughter. Babcock and her husband donated much of the RJ Reynolds family estate as the site for the new campus. Harris-Perry also claimed that the school fires its foodservice workers every summer, and then rehires them in the fall before classes start. The university has since disputed Harris-Perry’s claims and told City Beat that their employees are on either a “12-month or 10-month term based on student demand” and that “it is not accurate to say [their] dining service staff are fired and re-hired each year.” On Jan. 24, just days after HarrisPerry spoke out against WFU in front of more than 500 people, she posted on Twitter multiple times saying that she had been retaliated against by the university. She claimed that university provost Rogan Kersh emailed her asking her to eliminate the Alice Julia Cooper Center, an interdisciplinary research center founded and directed by Harris-Perry since 2012. “Academic freedom is truly dead @

WakeForest,” she tweeted. “Two days after a public MLK address where I called into question the university’s labor practices Provost @rtkersh sends an email ‘inviting’ me to eliminate @AJCCenter as a university entity & offering a ‘goodwill’ payoff. #notforsale” In a series of following tweets, Harris-Perry explained how she helped to develop multiple programs at WFU, including the Alice Julia Cooper Center, and implemented Wake the Vote, a civic engagement program for undergraduates at the university. She also revealed that she doesn’t have an office despite being a tenured professor. In response to Harris-Perry’s Twitter allegations, WFU issued a statement saying that her “recent comments are misleading and disappointing.” A Wake Forest HR employee confirmed on Monday that Harris-Perry is still employed at WFU and an employee in the department of politics and international studies said Harris-Perry was “getting ready to have an office [there].” “There is no question that I am a ‘difficult employee,’ Harris-Perry tweeted. “I don’t play nice or toe the line or pretend injustice does not exist. On Monday I reminded our community @WakeForest benefited from slavery & Jim Crow and we should raise questions as it encroaches downtown. #notforsale” According to the 1935 History of Wake Forest College, Volume I by George Washington Paschal, the “College Building” on the Wake Forest College campus before it moved to Winston-Salem, was built in 1837 by slaves owned by the builder, Captain John Berry. The building burned down in 1933. Many academics, including Marybeth Gasman, a professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke out in support of Harris-Perry online. On Jan. 24, Gasman tweeted, “Thank you @MHarrisPerry for critiquing systemic racism. You have my support. #racism #highereducation” Gasman told City Beat she was particularly affected by Harris-Perry’s tweets about academic freedom. “I think black women in particular feel the squeeze of academic freedom,” Gasman said. “Their rights to speak up are being hampered.” As the director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Gasman said she agrees with the things HarrisPerry said during her MLK speech.

“She should be able to critique the institution,” Gasman said. “And talk about race and class and to do it freely. Universities want more people of color; they want the demographics; they want to appear to embrace diversity but what happens often is they’re willing to invite people to dinner but not willing to let them eat when they get there.” On Twitter, Harris-Perry admitted to being “difficult” to work with because of her outspoken nature. On her last post on Jan. 27, Harris-Perry tweeted that she had no plans of leaving WFU. “So @rtkersh and @WakeForest administration should be clear. I am NOT leaving or being silent. This is my alma mater. This is my home. The betrayal is painful & scary. But I will not break #notforsale”

Melissa Harris-Perry at the 2016 Politicon at the Pasadena Convention Center

Harris-Perry has been critical of the university in the past. In September 2017, she took to Twitter, calling out the university about their plans to revise the school’s Code of Conduct. “It’s like performance art each time @WakeForest sends totalitarian emails abt proper behavior & plans to sanction disruption #FirstAmendment,” she tweeted. JoAnne Allen, the president for Action For Now NC and a native of WinstonSalem, said she has mixed feelings about Harris-Perry’s speech and her subsequent tweets. “How can you want to come out and talk about RJ Reynolds and Wake Forest University when you’ve probably benefited during your time through your employment?” Allen asked. Allen, who ran as a write-in candidate for mayor in 2016, has been outspoken against current Mayor Allen Joines, whom Harris-Perry praised in her MLK speech. “[Harris-Perry] benefits through her employment, the events she goes to, whether she travels and by representing Wake Forest University,” Allen said. On Jan. 28, Harris-Perry continued to

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criticize the university. She cited increasing tuition costs for students but claimed that salaries for professors have not gone up at the same rate. In a separate tweet, Harris-Perry posted a graph by Mother Jones showing how salaries of university presidents have increased at a much higher rate, including the salary for Nathan Hatch, the president at WFU. “Here too @WakeForest participates,” Harris-Perry tweeted. “In 2017 Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch was the most richly compensated university president in the entire country.” She also pushed back on the university’s response that they do not hire and rehire food workers every year. “The pervasive @Aramark 10 month contract effectively creates an effect in working class W-S that is a bit like having this recent government shutdown-EVERY YEAR.” A few minutes later, Harris-Perry tweeted, “a single university does not and cannot have all the answers to addressing inequity within the Academy or in our communities. But institutional leadership has a responsibility to openly engage these issues even if it doesn’t make for neat and tidy press clippings.” Harris-Perry declined to comment for this story.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FEB 7 REGARDING THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INTERSECTION OF AIR HARBOR ROAD AT LAKE BRANDT ROAD IN GREENSBORO, GUILFORD COUNTY STIP PROJECT NO. U-6019

The N.C. Department of Transportation is proposing to make improvements to the intersection of Air Harbor Road and Lake Brandt Road in Greensboro.

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A map of the proposal is available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/.

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Interested citizens may attend at any time between 4 and 6 p.m. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation. Maps of the proposed improvements will be displayed at the meeting and staff of NCDOT will be on hand to provide information and answer questions.

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An open-house public meeting will be held at Covenant Grace Church located at 1414 Lake Brandt Road in Greensboro from 4-6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 7, 2019. The purpose of this meeting is to provide interested citizens the opportunity to review maps of the project, ask questions and provide feedback.

For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Engineer, Jennifer Evans, PE, (336) 487-0075 or jenniferevans@ncdot.gov. Comments will be accepted at the meeting, by mail or email, and should be submitted by March 1, 2019.

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Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

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NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam, (919) 707-6072 or Lnputnam@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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Phil Berger Jr., the son of state Senate leader Phil Berger Sr., threw his name into consideration this week for the state Supreme Court. Berger Jr. is to Berger Sr. sort of like the Whopper Jr. is to the Whopper — it’s still barely edible, but there’s a lot less of it. With the retirement of Chief Justice Mark Martin — one of just two remaining Republicans on the bench — next month, the post will likely go to Paul Newby, who will be the sole Republican after Martin’s departure and also the longest-serving justice. It is Newby’s seat that Berger Jr. desires. It’s up to the governor to name a new chief justice and appoint a successor to whomever ascends to the post. And it’s unlikely that Gov. Roy Cooper would appoint Berger Jr. to the court, and not just because he’s the offspring of Cooper’s chief political rival. We haven’t heard much from Berger Jr. lately — not Berger Jr. is to Berger since he lost his bid to replace Sr. sort of like the th Howard Coble in the 6 Whopper Jr. is to the Congressional District in 2014 Whopper — it’s still to Mark Walker. barely edible, but How the son of the most there’s a lot less of it. powerful legacy Republican in the state Senate — with the same name! — lost a primary to the pastor of worship and music for Lawndale Baptist Church, a straight-up political newbie, remains barely explicable. Since then, Berger Jr. has become ensconced in the judiciary. While Walker was being sworn into Congress, Berger Jr. was appointed as a state administrative law judge in January 2015. In 2016 he won an eight-year term on the Court of Appeals, defeating incumbent Linda Stephens, a Democrat, by half a percentage point. That campaign, by the way, is the subject of an ethics investigation because of allegations of campaign-finance violations — or, at least, it was. The state board of ethics and elections — formed largely by Berger Sr. and his crew — was disbanded this month by the federal courts for being unconstitutional. But the most telling chapter from Berger Jr.’s rap sheet, the one that truly disqualifies him from serving on the state Supreme Court, lies deep in a Google search of his name, buried beneath pages of meaningless namechecks. It wasn’t all that long ago, 2011, when Berger Jr., who was then Rockingham County district attorney, was ordered by a district court judge to dismantle an eavesdropping system Berger Jr. had installed in the new county courthouse. The system allowed the DA to listen in on bench discussions between defense attorneys and judges, among other illegal advantages. It was never investigated. While it’s true we do need some Republican representation on our state’s highest court, Berger Jr.’s aspirations should be short-lived.

Christy Solomon was struggling with an addiction as a resident of Rockingham County. With her mother’s help, she found a treatment program across the state line in Virginia, but she wasn’t able to stay with it long because she had criminal charges there. by Jordan Green There were “no recovery support or resources, no jobs” in Rockingham County, so Solomon and her partner moved to Wilmington. Because she’s uninsured, she has to pay out of pocket for bloodwork, and has had to miss work for doctor and dentist visits because local providers are prohibitively expensive. Her best friend, who was also uninsured, died from an overdose in January 2018. Solomon thinks her friend might be alive today if she and her husband had insurance and had been able to access treatment. “Regular people, addicts, people with mental health issues, they just want a chance at life, too,” said Solomon, who works as a restaurant server. “That’s why we seek recovery and we seek treatment. It was so hard for me to get in a treatment facility because I had no insurance.” Since 2013, Republican lawmakers have repeatedly rejected entreaties to expand Medicaid to cover those who make more than the federal poverty level — the current cutoff for the program — but less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level required to qualify for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. For a family of four, the coverage gap falls between $25,100 and $34,638. North Carolina is one of only 13 states that has refused to expand Medicaid while turning away billions of dollars in federal funding and leaving hundreds of thousands of residents without coverage. One of the powerbrokers responsible for denying people like Solomon coverage is Phil Berger, the Republican leader of the state Senate, who represents Rockingham County. “Because of this misguided decision I continue to see many folks frozen out of our healthcare system,” said Dr. Steve Luking, who maintains a family medical practice with his brother in Reidsville. Luking said he recently saw a patient whom he had previously hospitalized for a serious stroke. The man stopped showing up for regular checkups after he, along with hundreds of others, was laid off from the MillerCoors plant in Eden, and his insurance eventually ran out. Luking said his patient came back complaining about “bad headaches, high blood pressure through the roof, and out of all his medications, which prevent him from having another stroke.” The man refused to get the bloodwork that Luking ordered because there was no way he could afford the $200 bill. “I don’t know if I’ll see him again, or when I’ll see him again,” Dr. Luking said. “I just know he’s at serious risk for another stroke. The next one will likely put him in a nursing home.” Just 25 miles to the north, the fortunes of the working poor have dramatically turned. Jean Jackson, of Danville, Va., was driving home from a

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second-shift job at night when she began to have trouble with her vision. An eye doctor told her she had cataracts. “I walked around for a year with blurry vision and getting home before dark if I had to drive was a must,” she said. In July 2017, she made the difficult decision to retire early at the age of 62. On one hand she knew that by retiring she would lose health coverage, but she also knew it wasn’t safe for her to continue driving at night. The following spring, Jackson also received a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, and wondered how she would be able to afford to pay for medication. But in May 2018, the Virginia legislature voted to expand Medicaid. Up to 375,000 residents expect to be added to the rolls, according to a report in the Washington Post. Jackson got a letter stating that she was approved in December. On Feb. 8, she will be able to get cataract surgery. She held up the letter during a press conference hosted by the NC Justice Center at Rockingham Community College on Tuesday. “When I opened it, I danced like David danced because I’m going to be able see again and I’m going to be able to drive at night,” Jackson said. “Medicaid expansion gave me hope because now I’m learning how to take care of myself so I can have a longer, happier life to share with my children, grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.” Jackson added. Solomon, who left Rockingham County to get treatment in Wilmington, said she won’t return. Her partner has a good job in Wilmington and there’s not much reason to look back. But she hasn’t forgotten. She remembers working at Chaney’s Restaurant in Eden with her mother for a period and serving Phil Berger. “I just don’t understand how Phil Berger can sleep at night,” Solomon said. “He is the voice for Rockingham County, and he’s not speaking up at all. People in Rockingham County are dying all the time. My newsfeed on Facebook is filled with it. My heart’s broke from my best friend dying. I deal with it every day. Five years ago, if he would have voted yes, she would still be here.”

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The tuna mayo (left) and shiojake (right) onigiri are two of my favorite flavors.

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comfort food. In Ari’s version, lumps of tuna mayo (which is basically just tuna salad) and salted salmon sat on top of the balls of rice as well as in the center. The extra protein on top added a layer of flavor and texture that you don’t normally get with regular onigiri, which you kind of have to eat in two bites to get the middle filling distributed evenly with the rice and seaweed. Think like a jelly or custard-filled donut. The restaurant also offers shrimp katsu onigiri; all three flavors cost two bucks a ball. At the end of the day, most people will come to Ari’s to get their hibachi fix and maybe their ramen. But if you get a chance, branch out and expand your Japanese palette with some curry or onigiri or maybe even some of the katsu options. There’s more to Japanese food than just hibachi, sushi and ramen. Trust me, your lunches will be better for it.

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it’s otherwise known in Japan. A large, easy-to-read menu hangs on the wall, making ordering at the counter a simple process for first-timers. Customers can choose from familiar hibachi (which means “grilled,” by the way), entrées like teriyaki chicken, hibachi shrimp, steak and a vegetarian tofu option which comes with steamed or fried rice and two picks of sauce. For a noodle alternative, three ramen flavors occupy the menu. All come with a type of meat-based broth but the most popular and traditional one is the tonkotsu, or pork bone-based soup. A choice of wavy or straight noodles and a pick of meat rounds out the DIY process. In addition to the hibachi and ramen items, the restaurant offers a few lesser-known Japanese comforts. A beef curry, which is sweeter and thicker than Thai or Indian curry, and some katsu, or panko-fried proteins, like chicken and shrimp also make an appearance. We went with the classic tonkotsu ramen with chicken, a side of shrimp katsu and one shiojake and tuna mayo onigiri each. The ramen came out first, in a huge bowl, enough to feed two. Chopped pieces of green onion floated atop the creamylooking broth while long, stringy bean sprouts occupied space on the side of the bowl. In the middle, four sizeable strips of grilled chicken sat on top of the wavy noodles we had picked. At ten bucks a bowl, the ramen at Ari’s was a bit pricey in my opinion for the amount of ingredients that accompanied it. To compare, Tampopo in the Super G shopping center adds mushrooms and an egg in addition to sprouts, meat and green onion to their ramen, all for the same price. Still, the Ari’s version satisfied with a flavorful broth and al dente noodles that complemented the brisk afternoon. The side of shrimp katsu was also overpriced for the portion, but delicious. Panko fried until golden brown, the three pieces of crispy shrimp let out an audible crunch when bitten into. Try it with the tonkatsu (not to be confused with tonkotsu) sauce and mustard. In the end, I would go back for the onigiri. It’s just rice, protein and seaweed but when done right, it’s just damn good

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y school lunches didn’t look like other kids’. Instead of sandwiches or Lunchables, I’d bring bento boxes with rice, veggies and meats. My favorite days, though, were when my mom packed me onigiri. And now, Little Ari’s Japanese Kitchen in Greensboro offers my childhood treat. Onigiri, or rice balls, are a Japanese staple. They look kind of like giant sushi rolls — various ingredients embedded in a ball of rice, covered by a sheet of seaweed. We eat them on the go — almost all Japanese convenience or grocery stores have them stocked individually wrapped in various flavors on their shelves; they’re as ubiquitous as sandwiches are here. They’re our go-to easy lunch or snack. My favorite flavors are the shiojake, or salted salmon, and tuna mayo. And Little Ari’s Japanese Kitchen on Spring Garden Street has both. Situated just past Pho Hien Vuong before you hit Market Street, the fastcasual Japanese restaurant seemingly popped up out of nowhere at the end of the last year. Opened by the same minds behind Arigato’s Steakhouse, Ari’s offers a pared down menu of hibachi entrees, ramen bowls, onigiri, salads and a few other Japanese favorites. On a recent Sunday afternoon, a halfdozen customers filled the bright space and slurped ramen noodles while others doused their entrées in white sauce. My fiancé and I opted for a classic combination: a bowl of ramen with some onigiri and a side of shrimp katsu, or ebi fry, as

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ighty-thousand Jews, among other targets of the German Nazi regime, died of typhus and starvation during the first year of internment in the Warsaw ghetto, the largest of the more than 20,000 confinement centers which, at its height, housed more than 400,000 occupants in an area of about 1.3 square miles. On Sunday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Winston-Salemites gathered at a/perture Cinema for the world premiere of Who Will Write Our History, a documentary that uplifts the lived experiences behind horrific statistics. The film, directed by Roberta Grossman and produced by Nancy Spielberg, is based on historian Samuel Kassov’s book by the same title. It combines interviews with leading scholars, original footage shot by Germans for use in propaganda films and historically-informed, dramatic scenes that endeavor to fill the gap in the historical record from the perspective of Holocaust victims. All dramatic dialogue is sourced from the Oneg-Shabbat Archives, more than 60,000 documents compiled in the ghetto between entrapment of Jews in November 1940 and their mass deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp in July 1942, at which point the project’s architect Emanuel Ringelblum directed the archives to be buried. The contents of two burial sites rest in the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw; the third site is yet to be recovered from under the onceleveled cityscape. Who Will Write Our History revolves around the narratives of a handful of the roughly 60-member clandestine collective of journalists, historians, artists, rabbis and community leaders who, as members of the Oneg-Shabbat collective, amassed tens of thousands of artifacts during German occupation, documenting Nazi atrocities and human anguish in the swiftly impoverished, overcrowded ghetto. “They write their own works of scholarship about life in the ghetto and then they recruit hundreds of people to collect everything they can, whether it’s newspapers printed by the authorities, underground newspapers printed by resistance organizations, but also jokes that Jews are telling one another just to get through their worsening situation, candy wrappers, comic books, anything they can, they put into this archive,”

Wake Forest professor Barry Trachtenberg, director of the Program in Jewish Studies, said as he offered context before the screening. In alignment with the OnegShabbat project’s ethos, the film affirmed the value of ordinary people’s experiences; dramatic Rachel Auerbach — a journalist who collaborated on the Oneg-Shabbat project while ANNA scenes play out overseeing the ghetto’s soup kitchen — is the film’s narrator, voiced by Joan Allen. WLOCH like illustrations of journal entries photographic scenery: and juxtapose grainy, black-and-white “We know there are people denying this Nazi footage. [history] and my fear would be that they “For a very long time, most historiwould say that’s on the edge of fabricatans of the Holocaust dismissed Jewish ing something,” she said. “There’s no voices, almost entirely,” Trachtenberg said fabricating what we saw. If anyone would post-screening, as he guided discussion use that as an argument, I’d hope people amongst the audience. “Many of these would just stand up and say, ‘That’s imwere Jewish historians, some survivors possible.’ You can’t fabricate that kind of of the Holocaust, some refugees from horror.” Germany or Austria. They felt that witness Who Will Tell Our History filmmakers voices were unreliable, that they could not make a point to open the film with footbe trusted and there was no way to verify age of violent manifestations of contemwhat was being said in these works, and porary anti-Semitism, notably a view of they relied almost exclusively on Gerhandmade memorials for the 11 murdered man documents, official Nazi records and victims of a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh propaganda.” synagogue last year — all reminders that He said that the Soviet regime then anti-Semitism endures. silenced Jewish survivor-historians, adding “We often think of the past as a narrathat “those voices of tive and we want… survivors disappeared those endings to be Learn more at for decades” until uplifting,” Trachtenwhowillwriteourhistory.com. Holocaust memoirs berg said. “Even here, cropped up in the there’s something of popular consciousa natural arc: in the ness. end, they find the [archival] materials. The Diary of Anne Frank isn’t straightBut then you realize there’s no compensaforward testimony, though, as the tion, there’s no happy ending to this story, audience learned; the published version nothing good came out of it with this is an amalgam of her diary, her retrospecamount of destruction and devastation tive creative nonfiction revisions and the and nothing can make up for it.” final revisions by her father Otto Frank. “It’s one of those things we have to Elie Weisel’s Night originated as an angry keep probing and examining and quesYiddish-language manuscript before the tioning, and I think projects like this publisher forced a re-write. archive make ethical demands upon us Post-screening, audience discussion because they were writing so that their centered the ways in which survivor stovoices would not be silenced,” he added. “I ries are framed for consumption, and the believe the making of this film, our viewimportance of re-examining marginalized ing of this film… means that we are makhistories. One audience member called ing an ethical choice to take this burden into question the filmmaker’s decision on, of witnessing and remembering, and I to occasionally superimpose actors on can’t think of a more important task.”

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triangle, turning it yellow as it shows a quote from former Greensboro police Capt. Pam McAdooRogers. “I think it’s important for people to see that you can contribute to your community Attendees can interact with new exhibit SAVI in various ways,” at the Barber Park Event Center which ETTINGER opened Friday. Tillary said. “You don’t have to be a prominent political figure in order to contribute to your community.” Like many of the women featured in the tribute, Ruth Wicker influenced her community by following her interests. Wicker involved herself in multiple clubs, including the Greensboro Council of Garden Clubs. She also worked with the Daughters of the American Revolution and studied family genealogy, while also being involved in the Christ United Methodist Church. Prior to the ribbon cutting on Friday, Wicker’s niece, Mary Susan Caldwell Wilkie, told of her aunt’s rich life, including a fund Wicker set up for lectures at the Greensboro History Museum, and the nursing scholarship set up at UNCG to commemorate her late sister — Wilkie’s mother. “She knew what she wanted,” Wilkie said. “And she went for it.”

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“She based her design on Mr. Wicker’s original design for the building,” Tillary said. “So the whole building itself kind of has that Wicker touch to it.” The structure rests in an opening in the woods, with trails tangling around the building. A roofed corridor juts out from the brick and tan slats in front and invites people inside, while windows cover most of the building’s rear. Inside the first room, colorful triangles surround wall displays, each with information on local community organizations like the Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro or Neighborhood Congress. With no restrictions on whom to honor, the department invited people from the community to nominate women for the exhibit. After several months of group meetings between city staff, community members and members of the Greensboro Commission on the Status of Women, a total of 31 women, all with different careers, found their names in the Ruth Wicker tribute, along with four organizations. “There’s not really any focused, women-only exhibit in the state,” Tillary said, “and only a few in the country that are solely dedicated to the contributions of women.” Questions written in white, lit-up script welcome visitors into the next room, asking, “Will you inspire?” or “Will you imagine?” to those who enter the room. A crowd surrounds a table-top screen, tapping on stars with women’s names to learn more about them. A man views a short biography about musician Rhiannon Giddens, while the woman beside him reads about news anchor Sandra Hughes. A couple presses a red star on the screen to view a photo of athletics director Aggie “Jean” Jackson, while another visitor taps on a different

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small girl peeks her head over a table. A digital screen blankets the table top, and on it appears a small, off-white box with blue and purple triangles reaching out from each side. She reaches over and taps the box, which unfolds like a paper fortune teller. But rather than telling the future, these panels tell the past and present. The Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department opened the Ruth Wicker Tribute to Women, an exhibit housed in the new Barber Park Event Center, on Friday. The upscale space offers an additional venue in East Greensboro’s Barber Park, and houses the show which highlights women who have helped the city grow. Planning and Project Development Division Manager Shawna Tillery explained the decade-long process that parks and rec underwent to create the facility. Ruth Wicker donated a sum of $900,000 to help the city construct the exhibit upon her passing in 2008. The city added approximately $2.1 million to expand the center, and chose Barber Park as the location. Architect Shermin Ata used concept plans from John Wicker — Ruth’s late husband who designed the Greensboro Coliseum — to create its design.

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