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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Time travel in New Orleans Something happens to me when I see Lake Pontchartrain in all its vast, swampy grandeur, whether I’m driving over the

by Brian Clarey causeway, as long as a marathon, or flying above it as I come in for a landing at the airport now named for Louis Armstrong.

I feel lighter. Happier. Like my old self.

It’s hard to explain.

For me, there is no such thing as a simple trip to New Orleans. Every corner of the city triggers sense memory to the point that I can’t even go into a random bathroom in a French Quarter bar without having a flashback.

I can’t enter the Superdome without visions of my first Saints game there — 1989 — superimposed on everything I see. I can’t walk the streets of the Marigny without peeling back the layers of my time on these streets. I can’t look at the Mississippi River without feeling it flowing through me, too.

When I walk down Burgundy Street I still feel like I’m in my twenties, slightly put off that no one in the neighbor-

hood seems to know who I am anymore.

And when I pop my head into all the old places, I can’t help but look for faces I know, even though most of them are long gone from this place.

Sure, the city has changed a lot in the 18 years since I’ve been gone. Katrina passed through, bringing hordes of new people and construction. But there are 200-year-old restaurants still doing what they’ve always done, and as always there is music flowing through the streets.

It’s me who has changed.

I’m older and smarter. I have made a family with the woman I met in a bar on St. Charles Avenue on beautiful spring morning. I have gotten a handle on demons that in New Orleans I allowed to drive my whole life.

The demons still live in New Orleans, only they don’t recognize me anymore.

On Sunday night, before we departed, my wife and I sat on the banks of the Mississippi where it turns toward Algiers, watching the cars pass over the twin-span bridge, listening to the tannic water lap against the rocky seawall.

The river changes every minute of every day. And yet here it is, exactly where I left it.

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CITY LIFE Sept. 20-26, 2018

by Savi Ettinger

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SATURDAY

UNCSA Nutcracker kickoff @ Stevens Center (W-S), 10 a.m.

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A Midsummer’s Night Dream @ Weatherspoon Art Museum (GSO), 6 p.m.

Parks and Rec Trivia @ Small Batch Beer Co. (W-S), 8 p.m.

Channel Leslie Knope at join Geeks Who

Get a glimpse of Triad Stage’s rendition of the Shakespeare comedy. The play will introduce you to the world of the fairies going hand in hand with the museum’s current exhibit Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World. Find the event on Facebook.

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José Bedia and Alejandro Figueredo talk @ SECCA (W-S), 6 p.m.

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Be a part of a conversation with two Cuban artists and explore their works in the exhibit Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure, and Pain.

Learn about their artistic practice and its intersection with culture, politics and social life. The event includes a cash bar and is free and open to the public. Find more at secca.org.

Drink on a trivia night surrounding the popular show “Parks & Recreation.” Treat Yo Self and grab a beer while you test your knowledge. Find the event and register to play on Facebook.

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Enter the timeless and classic world of The Nutcracker as UNCSA commemorates the opening of its box office for the one of UNCSA’s most popular shows with activities for the whole family. Purchase discounted tickets, take photos with characters, and even win prizes in the Stevens Center. Check out more details at uncsa. edu.

Fiesta 2018 @ Milton Rhodes Arts Center (W-S), 11 a.m.

Local Foods Week Kickoff Celebration @ Budding Artichoke (HP), 6 p.m.

Prepare your taste buds for this kickoff event, including local-food tastings and meet-and-greets with local food producers. Enjoy wine-and-cheese pairing and live music as a week of celebrating and learning about our community’s food scene begins.

Find the event on Facebook.

Calendar Girls @ Little Theatre of Winston-Salem (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

The opening night of Calendar Girls marks the beginning of the Little Theatre’s 84th season. The play, based on a true story, tells the tale of a widow’s unconventional fundraising for charity, and is recommended for audiences 13 and up. Find out more and buy tickets at thelittletheatreofws.org.

Alan Alda @ UNCG Auditorium (GSO), 8 p.m.

Spend the evening with the 6-time Emmy and Golden Globe award winner as he visits UNCG to discuss his experiences with acting, improv, science and storytelling. For tickets and more information, visit

Experience a taste of Latin American culture through food, music and more as the Hispanic League’s annual street festival returns. All proceeds raised by the Hispanic League go towards various programs supporting the Hispanic/Latinx community.

Find the event on Facebook.

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Taste Carolina Wine Festival @ Commerce Place (GSO), 12 p.m.

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Hair @ the Taylor Theater (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

Experience the American tribal love rock musical about the hippie counterculture as UNCG’s School of Visual and Performing Arts brings it to life. Performances run through the weekend. Learn more and buy tickets at https://vpa.uncg. edu/theatre/performances-and-events/productions/.

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Grand opening celebration @ Reserving Royalty Children’s Venue (HP), 2 p.m.

The local character actor business invites you to step into a world of magic and fairy tales, during the grand opening of the first venue of its kind in the Triad. Meet their characters and be among the first to experience the enchantment at this kid-friendly event. Find more details on Facebook.

Mill Day @ Revolution Mills (GSO), 12 p.m.

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Sample a variety of wines from local wineries and visit food trucks, accompanied the sounds of the Stephen Legree Band and Brothers Pearl. The festival, with over a dozen years under its belt, will take place near the First National Bank Ballpark downtown. Buy tickets and learn more on the event on Facebook.

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International Food and Music Festival @ Corpening Plaza (W-S), 12 p.m.

Travel around the world through worldwide cuisine and cultural performances, browse crafts, and learn more about the local international community. The event begins at noon.

You can find the event on Facebook.

Oktoberfest @ Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Co. (GSO), 12 p.m.

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As Oktoberfest begins in Munich, Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company brings the celebration to the Triad. Add a tuba quartet, bratwurst, and of course lager to your weekend at this event that goes all afternoon. Find more information and reserve your meal on Facebook.

Greensboro’s rich textile history provides a backdrop for much of the city’s culture. Explore Revolution Mill during a celebration of this heritage featuring food trucks, apparel vendors, storytelling, beer tents, and more. Find the event on Facebook.

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Airport shoeshine

by Brian Clarey Walk through any major airport these days and it looks like the remnants of a slumber party, with people in dirty T-shirts, grubby shorts, yoga pants and even flip-flops, which I believe to be disrespectful in any venue besides the beach or the pool.

I remember a time when air travel was a semi-formal occasion — or, at least, when people used to wear pants.

I get it. People want to be comfortable when they’re buying $12 bags of trail mix and trying to convince gate agents that their comfort animals need to sit on their laps.

But if you know where to look, you can still find vestiges of the old ways in some of the busier airports: private lounges, oyster bars, upscale shopping. My personal favorite, though, is the shoeshine stand, once a fixture in every American airport (and bus station, and courthouse, and main commercial thoroughfare).

BRIAN CLAREY Brian Clarey still owns the kind of shoes that need to be shined.

Not too many people wear the sort of shoes that need to be shined these days. shine the sides of the soles and wrapped a well-used rag around two fingers to apply But I do. the polish before unfurling the towel and snapping it across the tops of my boots, all In July I caught a shine at the Charlotte airport for a quite reasonable $7, administhe while making friendly conversation. tered by a Latinx woman who used rubber gloves to massage the leather treatments When a good pair of shoes gets a professional polish, they look even better than and polis into my shoes. Last week I got one in the Atlanta airport — $12 for boots new.

And in a place like the airport, they really stand out.

— which was a bit more traditional: an elderly African-American man who cleaned the yellow threads of my boots with a toothbrush, used a small scrubber to clean and

Sept. 20 - 26, 2018 Up Front

That ridiculous Weather Channel reporter

by Jordan Green

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One thing that gave us some much-needed levity over the harrowing course of the weekend that Tropical Storm Florence crawled across our state was the clip of the ridiculous Weather Channel reporter in Wilmington seeming to lunge like a punchdrunk boxer against phantom gusts as two young men in short pants casually strolled past.

The clip immediately generated countless spoof videos made by inland dads lurching against the spray from garden hoses and ducking toys launched from offscreen.

It was fun to watch because that reporter was a fool, and his silliness deserved to be exposed. And let’s admit it, a lot of hurricane coverage is more hack-y dramatization than reporting.

But then there’s a dark side. While we were all laughing at this fool, a mother and her infant were crushed to death inside their house by a falling tree in Wilmington. Elderly residents were evacuated from a nursing home in Lumberton as family members frantically tried to determine their whereabouts. Storm refugees found themselves trapped on interstate overpasses or holed up in overcrowded shelters.

And inevitably, it wasn’t long before howls of “Fake news!” and, “If the media will like about this, what else are they lying about?” proliferated on social media. The rightwing precincts of the web also quickly surfaced an image of CNN host Anderson Cooper standing waist deep in water as his camera crew took up position a couple feet away in water that barely covered their ankles. As it happens, the footage was taken during Hurricane Ike in 2008, and Cooper pointed out that the depth of the water was variable; he said he could have taken two steps and the water would have been up to his neck. Snopes graded the meme “miscaptioned.” So who’s fake news now?

Sadly, the Weather Channel reporter in Wilmington was truly faking. The Weather Channel lamely defended the reporter’s clumsy performance, saying in a statement: “It’s important to note that the two individuals in the background are walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to maintain his footing on wet grass, after reporting on-air until 1:00 a.m. ET this morning and is undoubtedly exhausted.”

At the very least he deserves to be suspended for two weeks. This nonsense makes everyone in the profession look bad, and maybe if he gets some rest his judgment will improve.

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The Weather Channel’s reporter seems to be affected by a selective wind gust that spared two men walking behind him.

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The 2018 Triad City Salary Guide

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by Jordan Green

Under normal circumstances a well-run municipal government is invisible: We put our trash on the curb in the morning, and sometime while we’re away at work it disappears. We turn on the tap and water comes out; flush the toilet, and it flows back out. ¶ An adverse weather event like Tropical Storm Florence, which the Triad experienced as gusting winds and heavy rainfall over the past weekend, pulls the curtain back and shows civil servants doing a job for the public when it counts. Whether it was firefighters cleaning up debris after heavy wind ripped panels off the International Home Furnishings Center on Sunday, or Greensboro police blockading East Cone Boulevard on the same day to prevent motorists from driving into standing water, or water departments pre-positioning generators at pumping stations to ensure that a power outage won’t disrupt service, it’s clear that without them cities wouldn’t operate very long. ¶ Our annual survey of salaries for the top earners in the Triad’s three largest cities shows some clearance at the top of the pyramid. Greensboro saw the retirement of its city manager, Jim Westmoreland. But no city experienced more high-level turnover than Winston-Salem, where two veteran assistant city managers retired, along with the police chief, city-county planning director and community development director. ¶ Meanwhile, High Point City Manager Greg Demko hurtled over the $200,000 mark — the first time any city manager has done so since we started tracking city salaries in 2014 — with a 13.2 percent raise. And Matt Brown, a singular figure in Triad municipal government as the head of a publicly-owned enterprise that drives employment in the hospitality and food service industries, became the first Triad municipal employee in history to earn more than $300,000.

1. Coliseum Director Matt Brown, Greensboro — $324,500 2. Deputy Coliseum Director Scott E. Johnson, Greensboro — $143,868 3. Theatre Director David Briggs, High Point — $106,013 4. Fair Director David L. Sparks, WinstonSalem — $100,514

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Year after year Matt Brown ranks as the most highly compensated government employee in the Triad but in 2018 he cracked the $300,000 mark, earning a 12.5 percent raise that boosted him from $288,445 to $324,500.

Executive 1. City Manager Greg Demko, High Point — $214,999 2. City Manager Lee Garrity, Winston-Salem — $202,298 3. City Manager David Parrish, Greensboro — $194,260 4. Deputy City Manager Randy McCaslin, High Point — $179,346 5. Assistant City Manager Latasha Logan Ford, Winston-Salem — $173,573 6. Assistant City Manager Randy Hemann, High Point — $154,145 7. Assistant City Manager Christian Wilson, Greensboro — $146,524 8. Assistant City Manager Barbara Headen, Greensboro — $146,103 9. Assistant City Manager Ben Rowe, Winston-Salem — $144,623 10. Assistant City Manager Damon Dequenne, Winston-Salem — $140,080 11. Assistant City Manager Evan Raleigh, Winston-Salem — $140,080 High Point City Manager Greg Demko received a 13.2 percent raise, pushing him to the top of the stack among the executive leadership of the three cities. David Parrish received a $46,671 pay bump with his elevation from assistant city manager to city manager in Greensboro, following the abrupt retirement of his predecessor, Jim Westmoreland, in April.

Legal 1. City Attorney Tom Carruthers, Greensboro — $180,000 2. City Attorney Angela Carmon, WinstonSalem — $179,467 3. City Attorney JoAnne Carlyle, High Point — $177,501 4. Assistant City Attorney Al Andrews, Winston-Salem — $125,809 5. Deputy City Attorney Terri Jones, Greensboro — $119,197 6. Police Attorney Brian Beasley, High Point — $113,129 7. Deputy City Attorney Jim Dickens, Greensboro — $111,396 8. Public Safety Attorney Lori Sykes, Winston-Salem — $108,609 9. Deputy City Attorney John Roseboro, Greensboro — $105,675 10. Assistant City Attorney Jerry Kontos, Winston-Salem — $100,241

Police

1. Chief Catrina Thompson, Winston-Salem — $169,950 2. Chief Wayne Scott, Greensboro — $164,544 3. Chief Kenneth Schultz, High Point — $147,661 4. Assistant Chief Wilson S. Weaver, Win-

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STIP PROJECT NO. I-5880 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to provide information on the proposed improvements to the NC 109/I-40 Interchange in Forsyth County (NCDOT Project No. I-5880).

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at First Waughtown Baptist Church from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

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NCDOT TO HOLD A PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE NC 109/I-40 INTERCHANGE IN FORSYTH COUNTY

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ston-Salem — $132,600 5. Deputy Chief James Hinson, Greensboro — $113,519 6. Deputy Chief Brian James, Greensboro — $111,046 7. Assistant Chief Larry Casterline, High Point — $110,371 8. Deputy Chief Joel T. Cranford, Greensboro — $107,914 9. Deputy Chief Mike Richey, Greensboro — $107,914 10. Assistant Chief Kenneth Steele, High Point — $106,581 11. Capt. David J. Perry, Winston-Salem — $104,878 12. Assistant Chief Natoshia V. Miles, Winston-Salem — $103,351 13. Capt. Danny R. Watts, Winston-Salem — $103,122 14. Assistant Chief Jonathan Stroud, High Point — $101,741 15. Lt. Tyrone L. Phelps, Winston-Salem — $100,884 16. Capt. Cherie Maness, High Point — $100,142

First Waughtown Baptist Church 838 Moravia Street Winston-Salem, NC 27107 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

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Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at https://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/.

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The public may attend at any time during the hours mentioned above. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regarding the project. Please note that no formal presentation will be made. The public will have an opportunity to submit written comments at the meeting. The deadline to submit comments via phone, email, or standard mail is Wednesday, October 24, 2018. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops.

For additional information, contact one of the following individuals: Connie James, PE Division Project Engineer Planner NCDOT Division 9 375 Silas Creek Parkway Winston-Salem, NC 27127 336-747-7800 ckjames1@ncdot.gov

Steve L. Brown, PE Senior Transportation HDR 555 Fayetteville Street, Suite 900 Raleigh, NC 27607 919-900-1647 stevebrown@hdrinc.com

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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 meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Fredrick Haith, fdhaith1@ncdot.gov or by phone (336) 747-7800 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and 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.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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1. Chief Trey Mayo, Winston-Salem — $158,478 2. Chief Bobby Nugent, Greensboro — $153,720 3. Chief Thomas Reid, High Point — $149,980 4. Deputy Chief Richard Wright, High Point — $118,733 5. Deputy Chief Brian Evans, High Point — $112,971 6. Deputy Chief Graham Robinson, Greensboro — $112,491 7. Deputy Chief Ronald Swails, Greensboro — $112,491 8. Assistant Chief Michael Levins, High Point — $109,319 9. Assistant Chief Harry J. Brown Jr., Winston-Salem — $105,180 10. Assistant Chief William Lentz, Greensboro — $100,873

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Information technology 1. Chief Information Officer Thomas L. Kurecza, Winston-Salem — $157,571 2. Communications & Information Services Director Steven Lingerfelt, High Point — $137,611 3. Systems Project Administrator Thomas Spencer, Greensboro — $129,384 4. Information Technology Senior Manager Chryste Hofer, Greensboro — $123,970 5. Information Systems Project Coordinator Terry L. Nichols Jr., Winston-Salem — $117,218 6. Information Technology Senior Manager Rodney T. Roberts, Greensboro — $107,801 7. Information Systems Project Coordinator Sherri Gaither, Winston-Salem — $107,614 8. Public Safety Information Systems Manager Julia B. Conley, Winston-Salem — $106,322 9. Information Systems Project Coordinator Randy W. Pressley, Winston-Salem — 105,189 10. Information Systems Operations Manager Ivan Spencer, High Point — $105,169 11. Applications & Database Coordinator Nancy L. Brown, Winston-Salem — $103,579 12. Applications Development Manager Eric Xavier, High Point — $103,000

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Finance

1. Chief Financial Officer Lisa M. Saunders, Winston-Salem — $151,524 2. Finance Director Rick Lusk, Greensboro — $147,660 3. Financial Services Director Jeffrey Moore, High Point — $138,335 4. Financial Services Senior Manager Marlene Druga, Greensboro — $131,127 5. Administrative Services Senior Manager Chris Payne, Greensboro — $115,425 6. Financial Services Assistant Director Kelly Latham, High Point — $112,401 7. Accounting Manager Anita B. Wilson, Greensboro — $107,946 8. Assistant Finance Officer Angie S. Fisher, Winston-Salem — $100,368

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1. Director Loren Hill, High Point — $157,119 2. Administrator Sandra Dunbeck, High Point — $111,376 3. Economic Development & Business Support Manager Kathi Dubel, Greensboro — $102,344

1. Electric Utilities Director Garey Edwards, High Point — $155,809 2. City County Utilities Director Courtney L. Driver, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County — $126,853 3. Senior Electrical Engineer Phillip Hiatt, High Point — $104,025 4. Electrical Engineering Manager William Ball, High Point — $101,500

10. Customer Services Director Troy Martin, High Point — $117,250 11. Solid Waste Director Janis McHargue, Winston-Salem — $114,311 12. Fleet Services Director Gary Smith, High Point — $114,001 13. Solid Waste Senior Manager Chris Marriott, Greensboro — $112,862 14. Infrastructure Services Coordinator Todd Porter, Winston-Salem — $110,506 15. Facilities Manager Darrell W. Shumate, Greensboro — $108,860 16. Street Maintenance Operations Manager Mike Mabe, Greensboro — $107,481 17. Public Services Assistant Director Derrick Boone, High Point — $105,179 18. Purchase Director Jerry J. Bates, WinstonSalem/Forsyth County — $103,792 19. Solid Waste Engineering Supervisor Edward L. Gibson III, Winston-Salem — $103,746 20. Solid Waste Collections Manager Sheldon Smith, Greensboro — $102,711 21. Engineering Manager Ted Kallam, Greensboro — $100,985

1. Field Operations Director Dale D. Wyrick, Greensboro — $146,285 2. Public Services Director Terry Houk, High Point — $146,124 3. Engineering & Inspections Director Kenny McDowell, Greensboro — $140,329 4. Operations Director Johnnie F. Taylor, Winston-Salem — $137,162 5. Facility Services Director Timothy McKinney, High Point — $135,042 6. City Engineer Robert J. Prestwood, Winston-Salem — $136,027 7. Engineering Services Director Brian Pugh, High Point — $126,325 8. Property & Facilities Management Director James T. Mitchell, Winston-Salem — $126,119 9. Public Services Assistant Director Robby Stone, High Point — $119,465

1. Water Resources Director Steven D. Drew, Greensboro — $146,131 2. Stormwater Director Keith D. Huff, Winston-Salem — $118,621 3. Water Resources Senior Manager Mike Borchers, Greensboro — $116,626 4. Water Resources Senior Manager Kristine Williams, Greensboro — $112,941 5. Wastewater Plant Supervisor James F. Crump, Winston-Salem — $106,491 6. Water Resources Customer Services Manager Jeffrey Kimel, Greensboro — $104,145 7. Water Resources Operations & Administration Manager Adam Conn, Greensboro — $102,882 8. Water Treatment Plant Supervisor William C. Brewster, Winston-Salem — $102,021

Planning 1. Director Lee Burnett, High Point — $142,584 2. Director Suzanna Smotherman, Greensboro — $125,374

With Paul Norby’s retirement in July, the top job in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Planning Department is open. Norby, who has worked for the combined city-county department for 19 years, earned $183,545, equivalent to some assistant city managers and more than any city attorney.

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STIP PROJECT NO. U-5898 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed improvements at the U.S. 29/N.C. 150 interchange in Guilford County. The primary purpose of this project is to improve traffic operations and upgrade the interchange to meet interstate standards for U.S. 29, which has been designated as the future I-785.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 20, 2018 at the Crooked Tree Golf Course located at 7665 Caber Road in Browns Summit from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation.

1. Budget & Evaluation Director Larry Davis, Greensboro — $129,279

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting.

Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam via email at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919) 707-6072 as early as possible, so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and 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.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Jennifer Evans, P.E., by phone at (336) 487-0075 or by email at jenniferevans@ ncdot.gov or Consultant Project Manager Brandon Johnson, P.E., by phone at (919) 322-0115 or by email at brandon.johnson@summitde.net.

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1. Workforce Development Director Lillian Plummer, Greensboro/High Point/Guilford County — $130,924

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As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/.

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At the meeting there will be maps of the proposed plans as well as project team members who will be available to answer your questions and receive feedback. All comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail no later than October 22, 2018.

1. Director Carmen Caruth, Winston-Salem — $138,769 2. Director Angela Kirkwood, High Point — $138,459 3. Director Jamiah Waterman, Greensboro — $132,680 4. Credit Union Manager Jerry Wise, Greensboro — $116,578 5. Human Resources Senior Manager Tiffany Brown, Greensboro — $110,000 6. Total Compensation Manager Joan Blackburn, Greensboro — $109,062 7. Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner Karen Wilkinson, Greensboro — $100,377

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1. Director Mark McDonald, High Point — $139,732 2. Director Adam Fischer, Greensboro — $126,763 3. Director Toneq’ McCullough, WinstonSalem — $118,354 4. Assistant Director John L. Covington, Winston-Salem — $103,447 5. Transportation Engineering Manager Chris R. Spencer, Greensboro — $100,965

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS AT THE U.S. 29/N.C. 150 INTERCHANGE IN GUILFORD COUNTY

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3. Deputy Planning & Development Service Director Chris Murphy, Winston-Salem — $99,329

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2. Budget & Administrative Director Eric Olmedo 3. Budget Evaluation Director Patrice Toney, Winston-Salem — $104,782

Community/neighborhood development

Emergency services 1. Metro Communications Director Melanie A. Neal, Greensboro/High Point/Guilford County — $122,490

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1. Community Development Director Michael McNair, High Point — $126,605 2. Community Development Director Marla Y. Newman, Winston-Salem — $126,437 3. Neighborhood Development Director Stanley E. Wilson, Greensboro — $116,885 4. Senior Project Supervisor Mellin L. Parker, Winston-Salem — $112,718 Michael McNair rises to the top of the heap as the most highly compensated community development director in the three cities, thanks to the retirement of Ritchie Brooks in Winston-Salem at the end of 2017. Brooks earned $173,816 at the time of his retirement after 31 years of service. His replacement, Marla Y. Newman, earns only 72.8 percent of his salary.

1. Director Wanda Allen-Abraha, Winston-Salem — $119,629 2. Director Love Crossling, Greensboro — $109,200 3. Human Relations Manager Fanta Dorley — $64,736

Communications/marketing/public affairs 1. Communications Director Carla Banks, Greensboro — $116,137 2. Communications & Public Engagement Director Jeron Hollis, High Point — $115,359 3. Marketing & Communication Director Ed McNeal, Winston-Salem — $110,506

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Libraries 1. Director Brigitte Blanton, Greensboro — $124,943 2. Director Mary Sizemore, High Point — $117,012

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Legislative 1. Director of the Office of the Mayor Linda Barnes, Winston-Salem — $108,964 2. City Clerk Betsey Richardson, Greensboro — $108,839 3. City Clerk Lisa Vierling, High Point — $97,001 4. City Secretary Melanie M. Johnson, WinstonSalem — $67,461 1. Parks & Recreation Director Nasha S. McCray, Greensboro — $123,962 2. Parks & Recreation Director Phillip Tillery, High Point — $118,581 3. Recreation & Parks Director William L. Royston, Winston-Salem — $101,939

Museums 1. Museum Manager Carol Hart, Greensboro — $78,895 2. Museum Director Edith Brady, High Point — $57,691

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All that rainfall that hit the Triad on Sunday flowed back to the coast.

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three hours later, the agency announced it had “identified a source of fuel,” adding, “There is no immediate threat to water service disruption. We believe that this is a reliable supply that should last us through the duration process after Hurricane Florence.”

• Volunteers and National Guard members piled thousands of sandbags along the south and west sides of Lumberton over the weekend, only to see the temporary levee give away around 3 p.m. on Sunday and water pour in from the Lumber River, according to a report by the Asheville Citizen-Times. On Saturday, the Cajun Navy from Louisiana and volunteers from the region had evacuated residents from the Highland Acres nursing home in Lumberton. “We had to take these poor people out on backboards in the rain, no coverings except a sheet,” Ben Kennedy, a volunteer from South Carolina, wrote on Facebook. “We had to put them in boats and haul them in the rain to an extraction point through flooded streets.

All of them were scared to death and soaked to the core.”

Robeson County had suspended all emergency services, including medical, sheriff’s office and public transportation at 7 p.m. on Friday due to dangerous weather conditions, according to local news reports.

• Beginning late Saturday morning, the state Department of Transportation began closing down sections of Interstates 40 and 95. On Saturday, around 5:30 p.m., Renae Perrett found herself stranded on an overpass over Interstate 40 near Burgaw after trying to return to check on her house in Hampstead. “Bottom line me and my dogs are waiting for a water rescue boat because it is flooded on both sides of the overpass too,” she wrote in a Facebook post that went viral. “There is nowhere to go except into the water. I don’t think I have ever really felt like I was near death until today. Big life lesson. Evacuate, far far away and don’t come back until everything is back to normal. Not a second before.”

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The heavy rain didn’t really lay into the Triad until Sunday evening, as Tropical Storm Florence trudged across the Carolinas.

Much of the rainfall drenching the western end of the two states over the next couple days will be draining back to the coast, engorging

by Jordan Green rivers and dumping more water into already saturated low-lying communities along a 200mile band from Greenville, NC down to Cheraw, SC. While Winston-Salem’s rainfall collects into the Yadkin River, and then into the Pee Dee en route to the South Carolina coast, Greensboro lies at the headwaters of the Haw River. The narrow tributaries of Buffalo Creek and Reedy Fork feed into the Haw north of Burlington. Similarly, High Point drains into the Deep River. The Haw and the Deep meet south of Jordan Lake and form the Cape Fear River, which shoots down to Lillington and Fayetteville. It all empties into the Atlantic at Wilmington.

By 1 p.m. on Saturday, the city of Fayetteville had issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents living within a mile of the Cape Fear River. Downstream, Wilmington became a virtual island over the weekend with flooding blocking roads in and out of the city in every direction. Town like Burgaw (Pop. 4,110) have become almost completely submerged. And all that happened before the heavy rainfall really started at the collection points upstream in High Point and Greensboro. (The latest report from the National Weather Service indicated the Cape Fear would crest at 2 a.m. on Wednesday.)

We’re just beginning to see the faint outlines of an unfolding catastrophe whose most acute agonies no doubt lie in the quiet, personal difficulties of families far removed from the histrionic footage of giant waves lashing the beach houses at Surf City or Anderson Cooper standing in a ditch to achieve a properly dramatic waist-high flood visual.

Here are some indicators of the fragile and vulnerable state of the vast low-lying across the coastal plain of the Carolinas: • On Saturday night, heavy rains caused a slope to collapse at the coal-ash landfill at Duke Energy’s retired Sutton Plant near Wilmington. Gov. Roy Cooper told reporters during a press conference on Sunday that he simply didn’t know the impact of the breach because no one can reach the power plant.

• On Sunday, at 10:09 a.m., the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, which serves Wilmington and New Hanover County, reported a “critical need of fuel to keep our water treatment plants running,” warning that a failure to obtain fuel in the next 48 hours would mean the utility would not be able to provide water for fire suppression or supply drinking water. “It is with a heavy heart that we share this information with our customers, however, we want to give you as much notice as possible,” the agency advised.

“Please begin to make contingency plans for you and your family. Now is a good time to begin filling up bathtubs and water jugs as a contingency to a loss of water delivery.” But

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rible aspects of the news — our state’s unpreparedness for serious flooding, a travesty of a confirmation hearing for a secretive Supreme Court justice, that thing Stormy Daniels said about the mushroom character from Super Mario Kart — and turn to something more pastoral and positive for our community right here.

This week the PGA, the governing body of professional golf, gave Greensboro’s Wyndham Championship a serious upgrade.

Starting next year, the tournament will have a big cash injection: the overall purse increases by $30 million, and the Wyndham’s status as the last regular-season tournament will be acknowledged with a playoff structure and the naming of a regular-season champion.

And it’s time the Wyndham got its due.

Twenty years ago, when the tournament was known as the Greater Greensboro Open — or, alternatively, as the “Pop-Top Open” — it was something of a joke, held in the spring when the field was still wide open, bereft of status or a heavy purse for the winners.

But when the tournament This week the began in 1938, it was one of PGA, the governthe biggest golf events of the ing body of proyear. Sam Snead won it eight times, the last in 1965. Ben fessional golf, Hogan, Gary Player and Chi gave GreensChi Rodriguez and Seve Balboro’s Wyndham lasteros all won it before 1980, when it began to lose its luster. Championship a Moving the tournament to serious upgrade.

August in 2007 was a masterstroke. By making it the last opportunity for golfers to make the playoffs, it began to attract bigger names and better television audiences. Sedgefield Country Club’s Donald Ross course inspired the proper reverence from the PGA faithful, and also from the players, who have been known to put up season-high scores on the cozy fairways and small greens.

And frankly, it should have happened a few years ago.

But golf, as fans of the game can attest, moves pretty slowly even in the face of such an obvious opportunity.

Now, there’s too much money and prestige to be denied. We’ll start attracting better golfers next year. The Wyndham will be the starting point for a new playoff structure that has profound effects on the game. And Greensboro will regain its position in golf pantheon with a major tournament, and all that goes with it.

Sure, it’s just golf — like all professional sports, a diversion from the real world and its problems. But we needed some good news around here.

This is big a win for Greensboro, for the tournament and for the game. Not even Trump can sully this.

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CULTURE Firewood, and the neutralizing power of coffee

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Wess Daniels, whose day job is teaching religion at Guilford College, named his coffee-roasting company for a plant that grows in volcanic ash.

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ireweed is more than just a cool name for a coffee company.

“Fireweed is a wildflower that grows in volcanic ash that basically breaks up all the sediment and re-neutralizes the earth so other things can grow,” Wess Daniels, a small-batch, single-origin coffee roaster in Greensboro, says.

“Our friend Seth Martin is a folk singer from near Mount St. Helen’s…and has a beautiful song called ‘Fireweed Mountain’ that’s up on the site and he would talk about fireweed as an agent of healing... and I just love that,” Daniels continues. “When I was thinking about

the coffee, I wanted a name that had some depth of meaning to it. I think about fireweed a lot and how I can be more like fireweed in my own life. Plus, it connects us back to our time in the Northwest, which is where I learned to roast coffee and became a coffee nerd.”

His journey to nerd-dom began humbly. As a first-generation college student, Daniels worked his way through school at his stepfather’s doughnut shop.

“It was great to have the job but I had to be there at 3 in the morning, and so I started to drink coffee because I needed to survive,” Daniels says. “It was just diner coffee. Lots of cream, lots of sugar, totally doctored up. But that was my start… and I’ve always loved coffeeshop spaces. I feel like there’s something about sitting down with someone over a cup of coffee because you know you have that person for the next hour or so. It’s a nice way to connect.”

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As a graduate student, he recalls cycling to Pete’s Coffee in Pasadena, Calif., where he would nurse a single cup as long as possible even though the ultra-dark roast didn’t suit his palette. But when he and his wife Emily found themselves in Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ original café in Portland, Ore. on a job search, he had himself a cup that “was like when in the Wizard of Oz everything went from black-and-white to color,” he says. “And I realized what coffee could taste like. That set me on a path to, How can I drink coffee like this all the time?”

The answer, in short: Find it fresh. Daniels says coffee has about the same shelf life as bread and buyers should look for bags that reveal the batch’s roast date. Right now, he sources his beans from Sweet Maria’s in Oakland, Calif., and tends toward Central and South American coffees in personal taste, but it pains him to pick between children, so to speak.

“If it’s roasted well and it’s fresh, I just think of it as an ad-

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When Daniels and his wife Emily found themselves in Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ original café in Portland, Ore. on a job search, he had himself a cup that “was like when in the Wizard of Oz everything went from black-and-white to color,”

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Market, where marketgoers can buy by the bag or the cup. Otherwise, coffee lovers can order up a French press of his latest brew at the People’s Perk.

For Daniels, who teaches Quaker studies classes in Guilford College’s religion department and serves as director of the college’s Friends Center, the microroasting venture is primarily a creative outlet; the idea is to experiment and break even.

“I love brewing the coffee, I love drawing on the bags, I love talking with people at the markets; all the parts are fun,” Daniels says. “Who knows what will happen over time… but I want that core creativity and joy to stay for me. As long as that’s there, and people are enjoying the coffee, I’m happy.”

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venture,” Daniels says. “I have a Kenyan He opens an unroasted bag, releasing right now that tastes like drinking a potent fragrance similar to papaya. For cab[ernet] and I like that it’s something this batch, he’s using a stovetop Whirly different from what you often see, like Pop rigged with temperature gauges for blueberries. The beans are coming from both bean and atmospheric temperadifferent farms so every farm the bean ture. Now that he’s roasting for others, tastes different… which I enjoy. The he scribbles detailed notes as he moniwater, the elevation — all that stuff tors the beans’ progress. matters.”

“Because I was just doing it for Emily Every step in the coffee bean’s journey and I, I was spending as little money on influences its taste and aroma. Once it as possible so it’s very manual,” he harvested, there are two traditional says, “But because I’ve been doing it that methods to extracting seeds for roastway for so long, I’ve learned the sight, ing: a wet prothe sound, the cess in which smell, I’ve got the fruit is simthat down and Learn more and place orders at ply washed off I’m ready to fireweedcoffeeco.com. with water, and upgrade. We’re a natural protalking about cess of letting getting a [serithe fruit dry ous] roaster beout before colcause it’s hard lecting seeds, which results in a stronger to do more than three or four pounds flavor. Today, he’s roasting up a batch of over the stove at a time.” beans extracted using a relatively new His arm is feeling weary after the last process he is still learning about called few days. “black honey.”

The process takes less than 15 min“How it was explained to me is they utes, from measuring the beans to swifttake the skin off but the innards of the ly cooling them off in a colander to prefruit stay on and ferments, and then vent further roasting. From there, they they take it off,” he says. head to Greensboro’s Corner Farmer’s

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CULTURE In Homeless, a docu-feature cast with Winston-Salem locals

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rom the seats in one of Aperture Cinema’s theaters, the air onscreen is visibly frigid on WinstonSalem’s Cherry St. where teenaged protagonist Gosh, pronounced “Josh,” tilts his gaze upward to behold a Moravian star, a luminous emblem of the city’s colonial heritage, hanging from a lamppost.

This is among the opening montage of Homeless, a narrative feature film based on a true story from husband-and-wife team Clay and Tif Hassler. The duo directed and produced the film in the Twin City over a combined 25 days back in 2012 on a tight, $12,000 budget. The couple, who now live in Nashville, made a point to feature only locals with little to no acting experience. The screenplay, co-written with Anna Fields, grew out of a happenstance encounter with Gosh, a young man portrayed by Michael McDowell, who’d fallen into destitution and homelessness after his grandmother passed away.

“What was so surprising to Clay and I was that this 18-year-old kid was homeless just because his grandmother passed away,” Tif Hassler says in a postscreening interview. “He didn’t have a support system at all; he was completely on his own.”

Speaking on a panel following the Sept. 13 screening, both filmmakers stressed the importance of working in the Samaritan Ministries shelter leading up to and following film production; they spent a week filming in the actual shelter with its staff and residents. Their aversion to sugarcoating or relying on stereotypes of people experiencing cyclical homelessness shows throughout the film.

“We loved being there,” Tif says. “We found real community and met a lot of people who it was one thing after another and all of a sudden they were homeless, no fault of their own. It was the circumstances around them and the lack of support either in the family they do or don’t have…. Every story is different.”

In the film, Gosh’s begins with a stint at Samaritan’s men’s shelter. Lance Megginson portrays an older man with a penchant for the piano at the shelter who approaches Gosh again and again in attempts to afford the teen with another form of shelter — friendship, and hopefully, mentorship. He acts as a pseudo-bodyguard so Gosh can finally take a shower un-harassed and, eventu-

Homeless is the story of an 18-year-old boy who was forced to live on Winston-Salem’s streets after his grandmother dies. Clay and Tiff Hassler wrote the script after a happenstance meeting with Gosh, the lead.

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ally, Gosh opens up about his plans to save up for an apartcity scenes like Camino Bakery’s Fourth Street storefront or ment with Megginson’s (unnamed) character. the colorfully-painted pillars at the bus depot between Liberty “A lot of people say that,” he replies, “They’re always outand Trade streets. No scene feels forced, but plenty mimic side that door at 7[p.m.]” the isolation that accompanies homelessness: Long stretches Hassler juxtaposes Gosh’s perpetual state of dejection pass without dialogue, only sullen piano chords to accompany with a few spikes of joyfulness, though. He laughs, playing at ashen backdrops like Gosh’s visit to his father at Randolph Northside Bowling alongside a new friend, Krystal (Hosanna County Correctional Center in Asheboro.

Gourley), and enjoys a tender moment on Christmas mornGosh is on a steadier path now and, he reports during the ing, but the levity never lasts. Even characters like Tina, who evening’s panel, happy. He works a landscaping job in Greensinvites Gosh to sleep on her couch and helps him secure a gig boro, finds pride in holding down his apartment and sees his holding signs for egg drop soup lunch specials at Hanes Mall, father, since released from incarceration, frequently. But this disappoint eventually. But there are no tall tales about good news comes the better part of a decade after the Hasslers and evil in Homeless. The single decided to help Gosh tell his story. mother barely able to provide gro“We alone did not help Gosh, it ceries is treated as fully human even was a team of people, wrap-around Learn more at homelessthefilm.com. as she betrays the striving protagoservices,” Tif says. “Samaritan did nist in her desperation to stay afloat so much for him. It’s cliché but it financially and emotionally. took a village to really surround a It’s laudable that Clay is careful kid like him who didn’t have anyone. not to sentimentalize Gosh’s relationships with Tina or the An individual can make change, but it’s an individual within a man at the shelter, and those tenuous relationships mirror community that can really make changes. In the community in the fragility of his situation. He finds, time and again, that on board, we could change the world.” pure perseverance is not always enough in the face of stigma, It’s fitting that Homeless leaves viewers unsettled, and a assumed moral failing and systemic roadblocks, not the least little exhausted, as they find Gosh with no more money than of which is a simple question on every formal job application: he carried at the outset and no place to call home. Despite it What’s your address? all, Gosh gazes skyward at the end of the film to the Moravian So while it’s a feature film with three acts, Homeless might stars, those radiant symbols of hope lighting the way against feel more like a documentary at times to those familiar with the unforgiving chill.

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CULTURE Transcending the strip club, and the art of the pole

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Descending Angels owner Nikki Craven picked up the artform as a way to recover from spinal fusion surgery, a result of years of living with scoliosis.

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life, genders, orientations, age ranges and body types to come decided to try pole dancing after seeing an ad on Facebook. take classes. She notes how pole dancing can help those with “This is the first thing that I’ve been able to stick with and remental or physical health issues and mentioned how it even ally enjoy.” helped one woman regain confidence in herself after a divorce.

She even ordered a pole through the studio for her home And for those that still look down on the art form, Craven and plans to install it in her bedroom. has some choice words.

“I’ve always had chronic aches “I just don’t give a rat’s ass,” she and pains and I feel better now says. “I don’t see things as simply than I have in a long time,” Carroll Descending Angels is located at 108-B bad because it’s sexual. It’s a way John Wesley Way in Greensboro. Learn says. to express ourselves. No one has She says that she plans on more at descendingangels.com. any business telling us what to do continuing her classes so she can with our own bodies.” eventually do inversions like CraHeather Carroll, who has been ven does. coming to Descending Angels for “I have a doctor’s appointment three months now, is one of the studio’s most avid students coming up and it’ll be the first time that I’m seeing my doctor and an example of someone whose life has been changed by since I started working out here,” says Craven, smiling, “I’m the art. really excited for him to see my level of health and fitness now “I had a really hard time getting back into exercising consisversus three months ago.” tently since my son was born five years ago,” says Carroll, who

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ikki Craven grips the pole with both of her hands and lifts her muscular thighs up into the air.

Still suspended, she slowly wraps her legs around the pole and twirls as gravity gently brings her snaking body to the floor. She turns around, now facing the mirrored wall and rocks her back and hips against the pole and sensually runs her fingers through her hair before reaching up and regripping the pole above her head. With one swift motion she hoists her body up and flips until she’s completely upside down, still hugging the chrome pole like a magnet.

She grasps it using the pockets behind her knees and lets her hands go. Her curly purple hair hangs loose as she dangles freely for a few seconds before she relaxes her legs muscles and slithers back down.

Craven, the owner and one of the instructors at Descending Angels dance studio in downtown Greensboro, has been pole-dancing for 13 years and running the studio for the last 10.

“It’s pretty addicting,” says Craven, who picked up the artform as a way to recover from spinal fusion surgery, a result of years of living with scoliosis.

“It was too painful to do even mundane things like pick up milk,” she says.

“Nothing helped like pole; it improved my physical and mental health.”

While many may still associate pole dancing with strip clubs, the roots of using a pole for sport or art actually dates back hundreds of years, according to verticalwise.com, a website focused on aerial and pole dancing. It’s related to ancient sports like mallakhamba in India, where gymnasts perform gravity-defying feats using a vertical pole, and pole climbing in China. It wasn’t until the late 1900s that it started being used as a sensual act in circuses, then in burlesque shows and, eventually, strip clubs.

Despite any of the negative connotations that the art form may have, Craven hopes that her studio, which also offers classes in sensual floorwork, aerial dance and ab and butt workouts, helps people feel empowered and shows them what their bodies can do.

“I still hear from students that I had several years ago,” Craven says. “They say how it’s changed their body image and self-confidence.”

She says that while most of the students in her classes are femme women, she encourages people from all walks of

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