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Lessons of the Glen Burney Trail We laughed when we saw the woman coming up the trail. Not to her face — we waited until the sweaty, huffing woman by Brian Clarey had passed before we got to it: She looked positively wiped out, like the trail had eaten her lunch and knocked her dessert on the floor. We figured her for one of those new App State parents from Charlotte or Raleigh, one who had ventured into downtown Blowing Rock looking for mountain fudge, or mountain honey, or a genuine mountain pie, and certainly had not been prepared to hike down to Glen Burney Falls, though it probably sounded like a good idea at the time. My wife and I are not exactly seasoned hikers — I think we’ve been on three, or maybe even four, hikes since we started heading up the mountain on the reg. Still, we felt the Glen Burney hike, with a trailhead right near the quaint retail cottages and tiny restaurants of downtown Blowing Rock, might be beneath our skill level — the red-faced woman in tennis shoes notwithstanding.
We were still chuckling through that first mile, even as other exhausted and wheezing hikers passed, and even a couple injured ones, arms slung over the shoulders of their fellow travelers. But near the start of the second mile, we were breathing too heavily to laugh. The Glen Burney Trail is hard, y’all. Thin passages slick with mud and the knotted, varicose veins of tree roots. Stretches of rockface to traverse. Steep drops fraught with loose stones. The whole thing runs almost four miles, past the ruins of an 1920s sewage-processing facility, through three stages of waterfalls and down to a sort of anticlimactic payoff at the base of Glen Burney Falls. We found Glen Marie Falls, a sheer-rock waterfall at the end of a 1.6-mile branch a bit further up, to be much more scenic. We weren’t the only ones with the wrong idea about the trail: We saw limping seniors, dead-eyed teens with their parents, crying children and more than one hiker in flat, strappy sandals, all of whom seemed surprised at the challenge of walking down to the falls. By the time we got back to the trailhead, we looked just like her, the woman in the visor and tennis skirt. And that was pretty funny, too.
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My consistent instruction to staff over the years, mainly [Deputy Attorney] Al Andrews, has been to pursue collection of all outstanding housing civil penalties referred to our office for collection.
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Friday, September 6th Saturday, September 7th
Roots Reggae feat. Dub Fire Saturday, September 8th
Folk Fest: Zinc Kings w/ Sam Frazier Saturday, September 14th
WEEKLY EVENTS Every Tuesday Industry Appretiaton Night $4 well drinks and Karaoke Anything goes with panda
Every Wednesday Open Mic Hosted by DC Carter
Every Sunday Julian Sizemore series This weeks guests: Sam Frazier, Eddie Walker & Ranford Almond
221 Summit Ave. Greensboro, NC
Bob Fleming And The CIC record Release W/ Old Heavy Hands, Gar Clemens and Night Sweats Sunday, September 22nd
Fiona Silver w/ J. Timber Friday, September 27th
Totally Slow, No One Mind, Scrub Pine Saturday, September 28th
Basement Life, Propersleep and Condado Saturday, November 2nd
The Devils Notebook, Zodiac Panthers and Night Terrors
Saturday, November 9th
Irata w/ Caustic Casanova Sunday, November 10th
Cimorelli (early show) Across from The Greensboro historical museum
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CITY LIFE Sept. 5-8, 2019 by Savi Ettinger
THURSDAY Sept. 5
Comprehensive Plan 2040 @ Scuppernong Books (GSO), 6 p.m.
The Humans @ Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance, 8 p.m.
For Greensboro’s First Friday of September, Scuppernong invites residents to witness the creation of a comprehensive plan for the city. The bookstore’s Artist in Residence series showcases the work of the Greensboro Planning Department. Learn more on Facebook.
This staged reading follows the story of an Irish-American, Erik Blake, as he and his family face their issues over the Thanksgiving holiday. The Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance performs the Tony-award winning play for free, to raise donations for PFLAG Winston-Salem. Find the event on Facebook.
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Lost Waterways of Winston-Salem @ a/ perture cinema (W-S), 5 p.m.
This free screening illuminates the local topics surrounding water. Let’s Talk About Water founder and project coordinator Linda Lilienfeld moderates a panel afterwards, drawing together the arts and STEM education to discuss these issues. Find the event on Facebook. Women’s self-defense seminar @ Macon’s Martial Arts (HP), 8 p.m. Get ready for an educational workout, with this seminar led by black-belt martial artists. The free course surrounds strategies in self-defense for women, specifically if an attacker has someone on the ground. Find the event on Facebook.
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SATURDAY Sept. 7
Race in Early-Twentieth Century American Illustrations @ Reynolda House Museum (W-S), 2 p.m.
It Release Party @ RED Cinemas (GSO), 7 p.m.
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2019 International WFTDA Playoffs @ Winston-Salem Fairgrounds, 10 a.m.
Paws for a Cause @ Barn Dinner Theatre (GSO), 6 p.m. SPCA of the Triad hosts dinner and a show to raise awareness and funds for their adoption-based rescue nonprofit. Pepper Moon caters the night, while guests can earn door prizes and enjoy the performances. Buy tickets and learn more on Facebook.
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This discussion dives into the world of illustrations through the lens of race, to uncover how art influenced public perceptions in the early 1900s. Robyn PhillipsPendleton leads the lecture. Find the event on Facebook.
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Reboot mural wrap party @ Reboot Arcade Bar (W-S), 5 p.m. This celebration unveils the finalized mural at this Winston-Salem barcade. Curbing Your Appetite food truck provides snacks, and DJ SK plays the soundtrack to this artfilled event. Learn more on Facebook.
This weekend-long event sees several roller-derby teams facing head-to-head in a playoff. The Greensboro Roller Derby hosts this major showdown, where only three teams will move on to the world championship. Learn more on Facebook.
Head to one of the first screenings of It: Chapter Two, the sequel to the clowncentric horror film. Woods of Terror teams up with RED Cinemas to conjure a night of nightmares and monsters. Find the event on Facebook.
Diverse Works @ the Artery Gallery (GSO), 5 p.m. This artist reception features both digital and traditional pieces by Gene Kronberg. Graphite drawings and paintings sit next to digitally constructed work in this exhibit that runs until the end of the month. Find the event on Facebook.
SUNDAY Sept. 8
Jam-Out Bingo @ Small Batch Beer Co. (W-S), 1 p.m.
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Collage @ UNCG Auditorium (GSO), 7:30 p.m. This show serves as the starting point for a new academic year at the UNCG School of Music, as hundreds of students perform. Many faculty members join in too, making it a night of constant music. Find the event on Facebook.
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hef, food writer, spice-blender and commercially-rated pilot Belinda SmithSullivan will make a stop in the Camel City this weekend as part of Bookmarks’ 15th annual Festival of Books by Nikki Miller-Ka and Authors. Two events will feature conversations about her new book, Just Peachy, published by Gibbs Smith and plenty of parleying about peaches. The prolific Smith-Sullivan has a culinary arts degree from Johnson & Wales University and writes a monthly column for both South Carolina Living and Bella magazines. She also is a member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, International Association of Culinary Professionals, American Culinary Federation and Les Dames d’Escoffier. And yes, she is a commercially-rated pilot. And as the granddaughter of Mississippi sharecroppers, Smith-Sullivan is the go-to resource for everything peaches. She lives in Trenton, SC, in the heart of the Palmetto State’s peach country. Just Peachy has 70 recipes for breads, breakfasts, appetizers, soups and salads, entrées, desserts, peach pies, sauces, preserves and condiments and drinks.
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Morgan McPherson @ Common Grounds (GSO), 8 p.m. Pianist and singer-songwriter Morgan McPherson showcases her alternative rock skills inside this Greensboro coffee house venue. Spinstress kicks off the night with indie keyboard music. Find the event on Facebook.
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our flight crew. I’d sit in the jump seat and just stare at him in awe. I got my private certificate, instrument rating, commercial rating and now I am a certified flight instructor. To get that last one, I received an Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship through the Ninety-Nines [International Organization of Women Pilots]. I have my own plane; it’s in my backyard, a
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This performance shows off the impressive fingerpicking style of guitar playing that Richard Smith is known for. JD Wilson, a guitarist and songwriter from Winston-Salem, opens the night. Learn more on Facebook.
Why peaches? I started this personal-chef business, but this peach Beachcraft Sierra. thing kept nagging me. I looked for a peach cookbook and there wasn’t one. I sought out an agent, went directly to What is your favorite recipe in the book? publishers and no one would work The peach coconut cake is a with me. I didn’t fit the mold. I was an sentimental favorite. It was my unknown. During that time I became Want to meet her? mother’s favorite cake. Every a regular contributor to South Carolina Friday @ 10 a.m. @ Dewey’s Bakyear I gather the ingredients, Magazine, built a blog, and met an intent on making the cake ery, Thruway Shopping Center agent through a friend. The agent for her birthday, but I get too said, “I’ll take a chance on you.” - Saturday @ 3 p.m. @ Bookmarks emotional and don’t do it. I am Breezeway, downtown Winstongoing to try to make the cake When you’re not working, what are on a date that is nowhere near Salem you doing? her birthday even though that My first job out of college, I was a is the only time of year we got stewardess. I met David Harris, the to eat this wonderful goodness. first African-American commercial pilot in the US as part of
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Richard Smith @ Muddy Creek Cafe & Music Hall (W-S), 6 p.m.
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How did you get into cooking? Over the years I had been experimenting with writing, collecting and archiving my own peach recipes. After my husband and I found our retirement community in South Carolina, he reminded me that I always said I wanted to go to culinary school. I called up Johnson & Wales [in Charlotte], enrolled and the rest is history. Only 5 percent of chefs work in restaurants. I knew I didn’t want to do that. Small Batch invites all to end their weekends with bingo, bops and brunch. Grab a drink and a card, and see if you’ve got some luck during this weekly game session. Find the event on Facebook.
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Nik Snacks 5 questions for author and chef Belinda Smith-Sullivan
What is in store for you in the future? My plate is so full, I’m about to burst. I want to continue to grow my spice business, write more cookbooks.
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NEWS
Group home owned by GPD deputy chief faces allegations of sexual abuse
by Sayaka Matsuoka Allegations of sexual abuse at a group home co-owned and run by Greensboro police Deputy Chief James Hinson calls into question whether there was a cover-up of the incident at a time when Hinson is potentially in the running for the department’s top position. A recent report by the state Division of Health Service Regulation uncovered allegations of sexual abuse against at least one minor at Center of Progressive Strides, a group home co-owned and run by Greensboro police Deputy Chief James Hinson. The report, dated July 31, goes into vivid detail about allegations of sexual abuse by a former staff member at the group home, which serves youth and adolescents under 21 years of age with mental-health issues. The report lists eight counts of deficiencies on the part of the organization, including failure to complete and submit an internal investigation into the alleged acts, failure to have an adequate number of employees during each shift, and failure to report the incidents to law enforcement or the county department of social services as required by law. The report also includes contradictory accounts between the agency and the victim’s mother regarding a signed statement that the victim’s mother said was falsified by agency staff. Hinson co-founded the group home in 2006 and runs the facility with Vice President Kevin Chandler according to annual business reports filed and signed by Chandler. Hinson joined the police department in 1991 and commands the investigative bureau, which oversees the criminal investigations division. The branch includes the family victims unit which is in charge of investigating all cases of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse and crimes against juveniles. The report, which spans 54 pages and can be found in its entirety online, alleges that Hinson and Chandler dismissed the allegations brought forth by a 15-year-old male client who claims that a staff member sexually abused him on two separate occasions. The victim is referred to as “client #2” in the report. The report does not explicitly list the client or Hinson or Chandler by name. However, the report repeatedly refers to a person listed as “Licensee #1,” who holds the position of co-owner and president of the organization, currently Hin-
son. “Licensee #2” is listed as the co-owner and vice president, or Chandler. Both Hinson and Chandler, who were reached by phone on Monday, declined to comment for this story. Additional persons referenced in the report include a “qualified professional,” or an unidentified former staff member who was hired by the group home in 2017 and as of July 31, no longer works for the company. The alleged abuser is listed as “former paraprofessional staff,” aka “FS #11,” in the report. According to interviews in the report with the victim by staff at the state Division of Health Service Regulation, the alleged abuser touched the victim “around his leg and private area” while transporting FILE PHOTO Greensboro police Deputy Chief James Hinson testified before a House Homeland him and another client Security subcommittee in Washington on July 25 about the opioid crisis in Greensboro. to drop off medication in High Point on May 17. the police department) so you might as the unidentified staff member, states that According to interviews, the victim was well drop it.’” the client’s mother didn’t believe her sitting in the front passenger seat and the The report notes that the victim knew son’s allegations or that further investigaformer staff member was driving when that Hinson was a deputy police chief tion was necessary. The statement also he was assaulted. A second unidentified and that he ran away from the group notes that she didn’t want to call the client was sitting behind the driver’s seat home after being told by Hinson that he police, noting that she believed that the and corroborates the victim’s allegashould “drop” the allegations. group home could handle the situation. tions, according to the report. Two days Hinson told investigators that he The statement also goes on to say that later, the victim alleges, the former staff “[doesn’t] think this incident happened the group home will be “documentmember forced him to perform oral sex at all and nothing occurred criminally,” ing the incident and determine if [the on him in the group home. According according to the report. accused employee] will continue is (sic) to the report, the victim The report also reveals employment with [the agency], but until contacted his uncle and that the victim’s mother further noticed he is suspended. [The his grandmother and then was called into the group agency] management team believes that his mother that night and home on May 20 where there was no criminal act that took place early into the hours of she met with Chandler, but will still further investigate.” May 20 about the abuse. the staff member deHowever, an interview included in the He also notified another scribed as a “qualified report with the victim’s mother on July 1 staff member, described in professional” and the revealed that she “never signed a statethe report as a “qualified victim for seven hours. ment indicating she did not believe that professional,” who reportAccording to the unidenher son was sexually abused by [the acedly relayed the allegatified staff member, the cused staff member].” In the report, the tions to Hinson. mother signed a statement mother is quoted as saying, “I signed a The report indicates in which she indicated statement saying it needed to be investithat the victim told investigators that that “she did not believe the allegagated. I told them DSS (the Department Hinson said the staff member “did not tions.” However, an interview between of Social Services) needed to be called. (I do this, so you might as well drop the the investigators and the victim’s mother told them) I think this man [the accused charges.” The report goes on to say that reveals that the agency may have falsified staff member] had inappropriate conHinson and Chandler “both said ‘the the statement. versation with [the alleged victim] and (police) don’t believe you downtown (at The statement, which was written by questioned if other things occurred.”
“‘The (police) don’t believe you downtown... so you might as well drop it.’”
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Sheriff’s Office take over the investigation. The allegations about staff mishandling alleged sexual abuse at Hinson’s agency come at a time when there are talks about who will take the place of Chief Scott, who announced plans to retire in January. Glenn said that he couldn’t comment on whether Hinson, who is still employed with the GPD, would be applying for the position because the vacancy hasn’t been posted yet. An employee with the Division of Health Service Regulation noted on Tuesday that according to their records, the Center of Progressive Strides is still open; their license is due to expire at the end of this year and the business hasn’t renewed their application. The group home, located on Glenside Drive in Greensboro, is currently vacant according to Johnny Whitaker, who owns the property. Whitaker said that Center of Progressive Strides moved out about two months ago and that a woman who is a friend of Hinson and Chandler is planning to open a new group home in the facility. The staff member said that the division has not received a new mental health licensure application for the same location.
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The report also indicates that a second employee referenced only as “staff #9” was present on the evening of the second incident — in which the victim was allegedly forced to perform oral sex on the abuser — and that the victim approached that staff member almost immediately after the assault took place. The victim is quoted as saying, “I asked him (staff #9) what if a staff member inappropriately touched me and he said who, [the alleged abuser]? I didn’t have to tell him, he knew. It was not the first time [staff #9] heard this from a kid in the group home.” An interview with that staff member confirmed that the victim spoke with him after he came in for his shift around midnight on May 20. “He was telling me he felt uncomfortable around [the alleged abuser] because he said something inappropriate to me,” the staff member states in the report. The staff member went on to say that the alleged victim said the alleged abuser “was asking him… to pull out his penis or let him see it or something like that.” Ron Glenn, the public information officer for the Greensboro Police Department, said that when the department received the report, Chief Wayne Scott requested that the Guilford County
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A tale of two cities in civil penalties by Jordan Green While Greensboro goes after one notorious landlord for almost $700,000 in uncollected civil penalties on housing-code violations, its neighbor Winston-Salem has several lawsuits going to collect much smaller amounts. As a result of steady litigation, the total amount of uncollected civil penalties in Winston-Salem is less than half of what’s owed in Greensboro. In June, Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan vowed go after landlords who ignore ballooning civil penalties for housing-code violations on units deemed not fit for human habitation. At the top of the city’s list is the Agapion family, who recently sold the Summit Cone apartments where five Congolese refugee children died in a fire last year. The city made good on the threat, filing suit last month to collect the civil penalties. “It will send a message to the landlords that are out there who need prodding to do the right thing,” Vaughan told Fox 8 News in June. “That we’re gonna come after you and make sure that you do the right thing.” As of June, city officials said the Agapions owned about $700,000 in uncollected civil penalties — more than half of the $1.3 million total owed to the city by all violators.” In contrast, lawsuits by the city of Winston-Salem to collect civil penalties for housing-code violations are so frequent that they hardly warrant headlines. The city currently has 11 civil suits in play. In comparison to the Agapion family’s staggering liability, the highest outstanding penalty of any of the defendants in Winston-Salem is $59,400. And in comparison to the $1.3 million total for all outstanding civil penalties in Greensboro, Winston-Salem’s steady and consistent approach appears to have paid off with a significantly lower outstanding total — $555,662. “My consistent instruction to staff over the years, mainly [Deputy Attorney] Al Andrews, has been to pursue collection of all outstanding housing civil penalties referred to our office for collection,” City Attorney Angela Carmon told Triad City Beat. “Normally, a notice is sent to the property owner, initially, to attempt voluntary compliance and to establish a payment plan. If that does not yield the desired result, then a lawsuit is filed.” The landlord with the highest amount of uncollected civil penalties in WinstonSalem is Steven D. Smith, an attorney who owns two rental houses off Indiana
Avenue on the north side of the city. Between the two properties, the city alleges that he owes $59,400. After Smith, Eric Ellison — also an attorney and the former chair of the Forsyth County Democratic Party — owes the second highest amount: $48,550. The city’s lawsuit against Ellison indicates that staff issued a complaint on his rental property at 1711 Harrison Ave. in the Boston-Thurmond neighborhood in July 2016. Ellison failed to appear for hearing held by Ola Brown, the city’s housing inspector supervisor, the following month. Acting as housing conservation administrator, Brown made a determination that the property was unfit for human habitation, and issued an order for repair or demolition. The order provides opportunities for the property owner to make repairs or appeal the decision before any punitive action is taken. Two years went by before the city’s neighborhood & community development department issued a warning in October 2018, and the next month the city issued a citation for violation of Section 10-210 of the city’s Code of Ordinances, which imposes a $350 fine on an owner who fails to repair or improve a dwelling determined to be unfit for human habitation, adding an additional $100 for every day that the JORDAN GREEN 720 W. 25th 1/2 St. is among 11 properties currently subject to city lawsuits for uncollected civil housing penalties. violation remains uncorrected. The city filed suit to collect the civil intervention to maintain safe housing. hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil penalties on July 2. On Aug. 12, Ellison “The city has to enforce their code penalties and fees for their repeated and filed a motion for an extension of time to and maintain sound residential houswidespread violations of the Greensboro respond to the complaint. ing; I don’t disagree with that,” he said. Code of Ordinances.” Ellison said in an interview that he “I’ve found the city to be on top of it. The suit goes on to allege that the simply ran into difficulty repairing a We have a great housing rehabilitation Agapion family has disregarded city furnace, explaining that while he did office. They’ve done a great job over the orders by continuing “to rent, offer for walk away from the problem for a period years. They’ve got a job rent, and allow tenants and others to of time, he’s now in the to do.” occupy buildings found unfit for human process of correcting it. Ellison’s travails surhabitation.” “I have this furnace ‘The city has to rounding delayed repairs Basil Agapion, one of the defendants, that I probably paid referred questions about the suit to enforce their code on a single rental propthree contractors several erty in Winston-Salem’s Nexsen Pruet law firm. In a statement thousands of dollars, and and maintain Boston-Thurmond neighto WFMY News 2 last month, the it just couldn’t be fixed,” Agapion family said “they look forward sound residential borhood stand in stark he said. “I grew very fruscontrast to the picture of to vindicating themselves in a court of trated with the situation. housing.’ epic intransigence painted law,” arguing that they “are entitled to I didn’t deal with it. It has – Eric Ellison in the city of Greensoffset many, if not all, of the alleged fines been fixed — or, I’m in boro’s lawsuit against the and penalties through its investments the midst of finishing my Agapion family. of hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs. I think the city “Over several years, defendants improvements to their properties.” will be very happy.” have incurred, but flagrantly refused Carla Banks, the city’s director of Ellison added that he has no quarto pay, civil penalties and fees assessed communications and marketing, said rel with the city’s housing-conservation by plaintiff for defendants’ widespread the city of Greensboro plans to file suit program. While acknowledging his perviolations of the Greensboro Code of against other property with the high sonal frustrations as a property owner, Ordinances,” the lawsuit alleges. “Over amounts of uncollected civil penalties he came across as an enthusiastic and several years, defendants have incurred but hasn’t set a timetable to do so at this sincere proponent of local government
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Rudy Rizk said he was in his home country of Lebanon when the city issued a complaint and notice of hearing for housing-code violations on his rental property on Thurmond Street. The LLC for the house owned by Rizk lists an address in Wake County. In his response Rizk contends that he’s not responsible for a missing screen but doesn’t address a cited violation for a missing electrical outlet. “The tenant is the sole and only cause for the screen not being in place upon reinspection,” Rizk said in his response. “The tenant has willfully and intentionally removed the screen to create a controversy over compliance with the housing code. The tenant physically assaulted the defendant’s contractor, forcing him to leave the premises and taunting him with the fact that the tenant had removed the window screen to assure that the premises would not pass inspection. The tenant has repeatedly told the defendant before the issues are resolved she would own said property.” In another case, the 81-year-old owner of a rental house on Avera Avenue in the Old Town neighborhood in the city’s northwest side, pleaded that while he was making repairs his tenant was reporting new violations to the city without his knowledge. “I never believed there was actually outstanding work to be done until a gentleman from code compliance bought the still-damaged brick paver to my attention,” Don Anderson of Yadkin County wrote in statement to the court. Anderson also said his wife, Vickie, suffers from dementia. “To incur a debt of $6,450 would financially devastate me,” he pleaded.
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point. In four out of 11 active civil complaints filed by the city of Winston-Salem to collect civil penalties ranging from $6,050 to $48,550, the city has indicated that the defendant has already brought the properties into compliance despite owing fines. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the houses are fit for human habitation: In one case, involving a rental owned by Timothy Shawn Green at 720 W. 25th and ½ St., the city acknowledged that a July 30 inspection confirmed that the house was vacant and secured. In four cases, the city has alleged that the dwellings were occupied in violation of the orders finding them not fit for human habitation. In 19 other cases, the property owners subject to outstanding civil penalties have set up payment plans, according to a list provided to Triad City Beat by the city. The city is currently researching three cases, and preparing for to initiate litigation in three others, while two of the deadbeat landlords have been identified as deceased. Responses by landlords to the city’s efforts to collect vary. Smith, who owns the two rental houses off Indiana Avenue, admitted in both cases that city staff issued complaints and notices for hearings and that he later received citations for violating the city’s housing ordinance, but denies that hearings were held where a determination was made that his units were unfit for human habitation. Smith could not be reached for comment. Other defendants are more voluble in their legal pleadings. Responding through his attorney, James A. Davis,
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Police mishandling of Klan in Hillsborough fits a pattern
Amplified by tweets from presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and journalist Soledad O’Brien, the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan’s impromptu rally in front of the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough on Aug. 24 made national headlines. The Loyal White Knights of the KKK are by Jordan Green so radioactive that Jason Kessler, the lead organizer for the disastrous Unite the Right rally, pleaded with them to not come to Charlottesville in 2017 because it would damage the reputations of the other constituents in the white-nationalist coalition. Although no one should doubt the capacity of Klan members to commit acts of devastating violence, their kooky robes and multiple-felony rap sheets do not exactly raise a profile attractive to the best prospects of a successful mass movement towards fascism. The more salient issue is law enforcement’s repeated failures to properly handle the KKK in North Carolina. This region of the state — the northern Piedmont along the Interstate 85/40 corridor — has a pretty bad track record. Going back to 1979, a Klan member and Greensboro Police Department informant named Edward Dawson led a caravan of Klan members and neo-Nazis into a black housing project, where they opened fire on antiracist demonstrators and killed five people. Despite the fact that Dawson’s police handler, Detective Jerry Cooper, was tailing the caravan, the police were somehow not on the scene to intercept the assault. If we were to view the Greensboro Massacre as an historical anomaly, we might be tempted to think: Lesson learned at a tragic cost. Let’s study what went wrong and do better next time. Enter Chris Barker, the 40-year-old imperial wizard of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, who has expressed admiration for Virgil Griffin, a Klan leader who was part of the motorcade that visited death on Greensboro. The FBI flipped Barker after he was caught DANIEL participating in a 2012 plot to build “a mobile, remotely operated, Roger Renick & CM Jenkins Klansmen Roger Renick (left) and CM Jenkins walk away from HOSTERMAN a group of law enforcement officers in Hillsborough on Aug. 24. radiation-emitting device capable of killing human targets silently and from a distance with lethal doses of radiation” that could be is going to be done? My people want to be there in peace, but your chief is not putting his used to kill Muslims, according to an affidavit by an FBI special agent. foot down. So a bloodbath will be on him!” Following two months of jailtime for violating a federal charge of possession of a firearm In Hillsborough on Aug. 24, witnesses photographed at least two members of the Loyal by a felon, Barker has been repeatedly arrested for offenses like driving while impaired and White Knights — North Carolina Grand Dragon Roger Dale Renick of Red Springs, and assault on a female (his wife, the imperial kommander), but with little to no consequence. Ohio Grand Dragon CM Jenkins of Middleton, Ohio — carrying firearms, In 2016, on the eve of a parade to celebrate the election of Donald Trump, in plain violation of a state law that bars people from carrying “dangerous Barker was jailed and charged with aiding and abetting attempted murder The Loyal White weapons” during any “picket line” or “demonstration,” and on the premises for his role in a knife attack against an Indiana Klansman who was considered Knights of the KKK of “any public place owned or under the control of the state.” Images taken disloyal. The following year, the top prosecutor in Caswell County dropped are so radioactive by photographer Daniel Hosterman show Renick and Jenkins speaking to the charge because the victim refused to testify — had refused, in fact, to that the lead law enforcement officers during the rally, so it begs credibility for anyone to return to Caswell County because Barker’s wife took out a warrant for his assert that the police didn’t notice the violation. organizer for the arrest on a bogus communicating-threats charge that wasn’t even in the right And yet that’s exactly what Sheriff Charles Blackwood has said. disastrous Unite the jurisdiction. “If weapons had been viewed during the demonstration, officers would Barker’s FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force handlers, according to reporting by Right rally pleaded have made arrests,” the sheriff said in a prepared statement on Aug. 26. with them to not veteran journalist Nate Thayer, were Greensboro police officers Rob Finch “However, reports of firearms and confirmation of same were not available come to Charlottesand Steven Kory Flowers. at that time. Investigators have since positively identified two individuals in When the Loyal White Knights of the KKK organized a rally in Charlotville in 2017. possession of firearms at the demonstration, and the investigation is ongotesville in July 2017 — a month prior to the violent Unite the Right rally — ing.” Imperial Kommander Amanda Barker warned Charlottesville police Capt. Now, under pressure from antiracists and other community members, the sheriff’s office Dave Shifflett of a bloodbath. has issued warrants for Renick and Jenkins’ arrests. “Because of the threats, I will have my concealed weapon permit in the crowd,” she said The Loyal White Knights are not only the most violent and extreme faction of the KKK in an email to the police captain. “Armed and waiting for anyone to shoot at us. I will not let in the country, but they’re one of the most heavily monitored by police intelligence. How my people die. So if I was you, I would check everyone in the crowd. If not, my people will did this possibly sneak up on the police in Hillsborough? hurt others for shooting us. This will be on you, I would check everyone in the crowd. What
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After two mass shootings in Texas, an bullets used in military-style weapons. Aug. 3 episode in El Paso and another More significantly, Walmart asked that this weekend in Odessa — both perpeits customers stop openly carrying guns trated by frustrated white men, it should into the stores, even in those states where be mentioned — real change has come to it is legal. our country’s relationship with firearms. Remember, the El Paso shooting from And it comes not from the federal earlier in August happened inside a government, charged with interpretation Walmart — the company’s initial reof the Constitutional right to bear arms, sponse, delivered to Bloomberg News nor from state governments, who are via a flack named Randy Hargrove, was, hamstrung on gun regulation by single“There’s not been any directive to any issue voters, as well as the money and stores around the country to change any influence that flows through the NRA. policy.” Quite the opposite: In Texas, 10 new So this is not only a fast 180 from the laws loosening gun regulations, signed stance they took the day after a shootby the governor at the end of ing in an actual Walmart, it’s the legislative session in June, a bold public move from a By its own went into effect on Sunday, company that is often aligned estimations, just hours after 21 people were Walmart is with the status quo. shot by a madman in Odessa. to the bottom responsible for line.It’sBya hit No, this move towards its own estimations, 20 percent of sanity comes from Walmart, Walmart is responsible for all ammunition 20 percent of all ammunition the world’s largest company, the world’s largest retailer, the sales in the US. sales in the US — one out of world’s largest private emevery five. ployer — and, here in the US, And surely Walmart will be perhaps one of the most pilloried publicly alienating many of the rural consumers traded corporations on the exchange. on which it relies — though in most of They run mom-and-pops out of business; those markets, Walmart has already run they contribute to public-assistance rolls everyone else out of business. So it’s a because many of their employees don’t bully-pulpit moment of the sort we’re not make living wages; they use accountused to seeing from the likes of the Waling methods to reduce their corporate ton family. And it’s a rare moment when a tax burden below the federal rate of 35 for-profit corporation steps in to handle a percent and are currently contesting their problem that government is either unwillproperty-tax bills in dozens of counties ing or unable to address. across the country. Maybe corporations are people — and They also, as of this week, stopped it’s good to see them start pulling their carrying bullets, particularly the kinds of weight.
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This year, the 15th annual Bookmarks Festival in Winston-Salem lands on the same weekend as the second North Carolina Folk Festival in Greensboro. Starting Thursday through Sunday, authors, musicians and performers will descend upon the two cities and bring with them unique live performances as well as impressive works of the written variety. Rather than choosing one event or the other to cover, this year we’ve decided to highlight musicians and writers from each festival under shared themes. Here you’ll find insight into how and why these artists to do what they do.
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The Bookmarks Festival takes place from Thursday through Sunday. More info including a schedule of events can be found on their website at bookmarksnc.org. The NC Folk Festival takes place from Friday through Sunday. More info including a schedule of performances can be found on their website at ncfolkfestival.com. Both events are free and open to the public.
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Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome appear at the Kids Area (parking lot next to Bookmarks) for Bookmarks on Saturday from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. and for storytime at Footnote from 3:30 to 4 p.m. The North Carolina A&T State University Cold Steel Drumline performs on the Lee Wrangler Stage for the North Carolina Folk Festival on Friday from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m.
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Black excellence demands black cultural tradition. The constant downgrading and erasure of black achievement and black brilliance makes necessary a ritualized custom of celebration. Poets, political leaders, musicians and athletes, mostly but not exclusively black, populate the children’s books of Lesa ClineRansome and James Ransome, a wife-andhusband team who are respectively writer and illustrator. Children’s books have a particularly important role to play in allowing black children to see that they, too, can reach extraordinary heights of achievement. Lesa Cline-Ransome has said that she’s attracted to characters who must overcome Writer and illustrator Lesa Clineadversity to achieve greatness. Ransome and James Ransome “In our book Satchel Paige, I like demonstrating for kids that you don’t always have to walk a straight path,” Lesa Cline-Ransome said during a talk with her husband at the 2013 National Book Festival. “Sometimes your life takes many different diversions, but you could still wind up in a very great place. You can still go on to do amazing things. In our book Satchel Paige, he spent time in a reform school. But it prepared him for the Negro Leagues. And Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist, he was the object of hostile racism, but it motivated him in a way that major circumstances may not have.” Like a great children’s book author team, the excellence of a renowned marching
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band at a historically black university is a matter of repeat performance. It would be hard to imagine a more tangible expression of black pride than a university marching band. While much of the academic and research prowess at an institution like NC A&T University goes unseen by the larger community — this is a university with an engineering program that produced astronaut Ronald McNair — the marching band functions as a cultural ambassador. And this is a great marching band, renowned for a legendary rivalry with Florida A&M going back to the 1950s, and multiple appearances in the Macy’s Day Parade in New York City since the 1970s. —JG
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Stacy McAnulty appears on Saturday at the Bookmarks Festival, for the Children’s Author Pancake Breakfast at 8 a.m., Space Storytime at 11 a.m. and Footnote Middle School Stinks at 1:45 p.m. Jon Sundell performs on the Family Stage at the Folk Festival on Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 12 p.m.
Mwenso & the Shakes performs on all three days at the Folk Festival. Find out more at ncfolkfestival.com. Rajia Hassab speaks during the Finding Home panel at the Bookmarks Festival on Saturday from 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the Reynolds Place Theatre inside the Milton Rhodes Arts Center.
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Being an immigrant is kind of like having a superpower. Like being a chameleon who adapts quickly to different situations, with an increased empathy for those not like us. At least that’s how musician Michael Mwenso thinks about being an immigrant. “It lets you understand different people,” says the frontman and singer for the group Mwenso & the Shakes. “It definitely has allowed me to have a unique ability to connect with people because of all of the places that I’ve been to.” Mwenso grew up in Sierra Leone but moved to London as a teenager. Eventually, he made his way to New York City, where he met a group of diverse musicians and perWriter Rajia Hassib formers who would form the global nine-person troupe. Influenced by a background in African-American music such as jazz, funk and blues, Mwenso & the Shakes twist, turn and spit out refreshing sounds that defy strict categorization. The group even has a tap dancer. Their debut album, Emergence, which came out in August, offers a live recording of their setlist. Being an immigrant is a part of Mwenso’s identity, as inseparable to him as being a musician is. “I want to represent the world,” he says. “You know it’s so mixed now…. You want to be able to say, ‘I can connect with that person or say that I can connect with this band because it’s so multifaceted.’” For Egyptian-American writer Rajia Hassib, the immigrant experience can be both freeing and constraining at the same time. “I definitely feel like The musical group Mwenso & the Shakes there’s a pressure to represent an ethnicity or an immigrant experience,” she says. “But I’m fine with it. I’m not rejecting that pressure of representation. I think that minorities are underrepresented in general.” Growing up in Egypt, Hassib wrote in Arabic but read a lot of books in English. She eventually left her home country and moved to the United States and began writing her own novels in English. “You develop a hybrid identity in a way,” she says. “I definitely have ethnic roots of having grown up in Egypt… but I’ve changed a lot since moving to the US so I’m both.” Hassib’s most recent novel, A Pure Heart, tells the story of the bond between two Egyptian sisters. For Hassab, portraying Arab women helps to deconstruct stereotypes. “People bring comfort in trying to categorize people that they don’t know well,” she says. “They take shortcuts, but no one is definable in this way. I think so many of the problems that we are facing today… are rooted in hate stemming from misunderstanding. But once [immigrants] are able to express themselves, we can unpack this fear and understand that there is no need to fear the other.” —SM
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Creating children’s entertainment, as both author Stacy McAnulty and musician Jon Sundell know well, requires being able to communicate and keep the attention of audiences much younger than themselves. Jon Sundell musicalizes folktales and educational stories, while McAnulty authors books for middle schoolers and new readers alike. “Let’s be honest,” Stacy McAnulty says. “[Kids] have better imaginations than we do.” McAnulty, who has authored more than a dozen children’s books, has ventured through a field of hypotheticals, requiring her to look Writer Stacy McAnulty at things from a more childlike perspective. It’s fitting that her latest book, The World Ends in April, began as a dinnertime conversation with her three kids. “We just asked each other: ‘If you knew the world was going to end in six months or a year, what would you do?’” She says. “What would you want to knock off your bucket list in those six months or a year?” At the Bookmarks Festival, she hopes to engage with her audience, and meet other creators over a pancake breakfast. With writing aimed from children to middle schoolers, McAnulty pulls from both silly jokes and NPR podcasts to build the “what if’s” that spark her stories. She credits her background as an engineer for what she does after the question. “You start with an idea,” she explains. “You perhaps do some research on that idea. And then you make that draft. And then you reevaluate that idea. And then you make that draft better. “And that’s what we did in engineering, too.” While Stacy McAnulty writes stories, Jon Sundell knows how to share them. At the North Carolina Folk Festival, he will perform on the Family Stage, singing out tales from Southern folklore, English myths and picture books alike. “I’m what you call an edu-tainer,” Sundell says. The hybrid word meshes together Sundell’s two performance priorities: educating young audiences and entertainment. He spins folk tales into songs, twisting in interactive movements, questions and choruses like a Winston-Salem-based Musician Jon Sundell bard. As much as Sundell employs acoustic instruments and plot, he saves a slot in his musical toolbox for balloons animals to keep smaller children engaged. One work involves Sundell building a balloon dog as Daniel Boone superglues a halved dog back together. He makes the children count to five as Boone holds the pieces together, and then he proclaims the dog’s all fixed. “‘Well, almost,’ I tell them. ‘Daniel made just a little mistake, he was in such a hurry.’” Sundell chuckles. “And then I take the back end of the balloons and I twist them so the back legs are upside down.” —SE
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Author Dhonielle Clayton appears at the Bookmarks Festival on Saturday at the Hanesbrand Theatre for “Monsters, Magic, and Warrior Women” at 10:30 a.m., and at the Reynolds Place Theatre for “Urgency of Now: Why the World Needs Diverse Books,” at 1 p.m. Musician Kiran Ahluwalia performs Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Folk Festival. Visit ncfolkfestival. com for exact times.
Folk musician Anya Hinkle performs at the Folk Festival on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Visit ncfolkfestival.com for the full schedule. Writer and scholar Meredith McCarroll moderates the Appalachian Reckoning panel at Bookmarks on Saturday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Mountcastle Forum on the second floor of the Milton Rhodes Arts Center.
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Both Kiran Ahluwalia and Dhonielle Clayton find their experiences as women of color affecting their creative careers. Composer and songwriter Kiran Ahluwalia strings together the cultural influences of being born in India but raised in Canada using her music. Meanwhile author Dhonielle Clayton draws from a childhood of searching for more African American literature to guide both her creative and administrative work. Writer Dhionelle Clayton “I am what I am,” Kiran Ahluwalia says, “and I want to be truthful to that.” Ahluwalia performs at the North Carolina Folk Festival in Greensboro with a sound that draws from each step in her personal life. The musician began learning Indian music at the age of five, and from there continued to merge her heritage with Western influences she picked up while living in Canada. “I wanted my music to be a reflection of my identity, and I am a hyphenated individual,” she says. “I am an Indo-Canadian.” Having released seven albums, Ahluwalia says that drawing from jazz, classical music and R&B, along with desert blues from the Sahara, has helped her build a sound that represents her life. Her latest album, Seven Billion, is a culmination, exploring social issues such as the need for feminism and cultural acceptance. “There’s 7 billion of us on the planet,” she says, “and so there are 7 billion different and relevant ways of looking at things.” Author Dhonielle Clayton addresses Musician Kiran Ahluwalia representation in her own creative process and her administrative work. Clayton, who appears at the Bookmarks Festival to discuss fantasy and diversity in literature, fills her schedule as the co-founder of Cake Literary and the chief operating officer of We Need Diverse Books. Clayton says the drive came from her own childhood want of a greater variety of books representing herself. “Even though I come from such a great literary tradition, that I am proud of that I love — the greats of Toni Morrison and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker,” she says, “I wanted to read all of their things, but I was also looking for more, more versions.” She compares her childhood self to Matilda, stacking up library books, searching for some type of fantasy world where she could find herself. Now, from working as a schoolteacher to writing to administrative work, she finds she can ease the search, promoting fun in books for children of marginalized backgrounds. “We’re just asking and looking for balance,” Clayton says. “That’s all.” —SE
Anya Hinkle vs. Meredith McCarroll
Bound together by the spine of a mountain range, the Appalachian region stretches from the southern parts of New York to northern Mississippi. As a whole, the area connects 13 states, including southwest Virginia, where musician Anya Hinkle grew up. “It’s an isolated part of our country,” says Hinkle, whose music is steeped in the tones and traditions of bluegrass and folk. “It’s a very beautiful place. I also felt that the isolation of the area really informs that feeling in the music Musician Anya Hinkle of the lonesome sound.” After leaving the region for decades, Hinkle found herself returning to the mountains of Asheville, where she formed the band Tellico. Despite cultural differences, folk music possesses the ability to translate emotion and experience, even in the most unlikely places, says Hinkle. When Hinkle visited Japan a few years ago with her family, she discovered a small group of folk and American roots-music enthusiasts who reignited her passion for the tradition. “Music is something that can really connect people,” Hinkle says. “Music is one way to present something of [your] culture on an international stage in a way that’s deeply appreciated.” Author Meredith McCarroll has been steeped in Appalachian culture her whole life too but explores it through the written word. Having grown up in Waynesville, just 30 miles west of Asheville, McCarroll says that understanding the culture only came to her when she left the area. “I have very deep roots there and I grew up with lots of family around,” she says. “But I don’t know that I had a real perspective of what it was like to grow up there until I left.” Now, McCarroll writes and teaches about what it Writer and academic Meredith means to be from Appalachia at Bowdoin College McCarroll in Maine. Popular culture and the recent popularity of the memoir Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance has created a misunderstanding, says McCarroll. “It’s a far more diverse place than many people assume, especially if you’re basing your understanding on TV and movies,” she says. “There’s been more diversity around race, class, diversity in terms of language, in terms of religious beliefs, political beliefs. It’s a place that’s often scapegoated and othered but once you spend some time speaking with people in the region it’s hard to categorize. “There’s a fierceness to Appalachian people because of how extractive industries have abused the region and abused the people in the region,” she continues. “There’s a long history of protest and organizing in the region that doesn’t often get highlighted. A lot of people see the region as passive and stupid… they say the reason people are poor is because they are okay with it.… My instinct was to complicate that singular narrative and to gather together a chorus of voices and then you wouldn’t only be hearing his story.” —SM
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