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The last time

It was seven years ago on a cold, wet night that began with a party and ended with a pledge: my anniversary, both terrible and beautiful. There’s really no way to tell how many drinks by Brian Clarey I had that night — back when I was doing my thing, it often seemed, glasses full of booze would appear in my hand out of nowhere — but I know it’s a number that would strike a reasonable person as excessive. I was not a reasonable person back then, at least when it came to the drinking life. In the years that have passed, I have maintained my abstinence from alcohol and the sort of dry goods that often accompany it mostly by thinking about my new life without them, a future taken in one day at a time. Now that those days are starting to add up, I feel like maybe I’ve finally got some things to show for it. My life has

become more than I ever thought it could before I quit drinking; I’m thankful for it every day. That’s what I’ve been thinking about this week, as the sweaters come out from the back of the closet and I can see the end of another year on the horizon: how grateful I am for it all. We’ve all got a lot of things going on — our family lives, or professional lives, our romantic lives, our intellectual and social lives, our health, our relationships — and right now, for me, they are all more or less working out pretty well. After seven years of clarity, my life has become more manageable. A lot of the things that were once important to me now don’t matter at all; other things that didn’t even exist the night of my last bender now consume all of my creative energy. I guess there’s no other big message here except for the eternal ones: The wheel turns; fortunes rise and fall; the things we have are the things we need. And the future is more important than the past.

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The negligence, ignorance and discrimination that we have been living in at Summit-Cone made people feel unwell and unwelcome. The Agapions must explain to us why they have been doing that to us. Are we not human beings like them? And really we are human beings. Why have we been treated like animals? -Louis Mashengo, resident of the Agapion’s Summit-Cone apartments, where a fire took the lives of five children earlier this year.

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THURSDAY Taste of the South @ the Ramkat (W-S), 6 p.m. Stop by for a night of decadent Southern dishes from local chefs along with beer and wine. Enjoy tunes from Martha Bassett and a performance from Authoring Action Teen Authors, the recipient of the proceeds from this event fund, that works to make creative endeavors accessible to local youth. Learn more on Facebook.

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Little Women the Musical @ High Point University, 7:30 p.m.

Presented by Bookmarks and the Reynolda House, this reading invites audiences to explore the history of the women codebreakers of World War II. Author Liza Mundy presents the tale of more than 10,000 women who ventured into this difficult field, with a discussion and reading from her book, Code Girls. Find the event on Facebook.

Bye Bye Business 40 Party @ Foothills Brewing (W-S), 12 p.m.

Join the goodbye party as Business 40 closes on Saturday. Commiserate or come out for the food and drink specials. Grab a Wrong Turn Taco or an Exit Only Cocktail, or take advantage of the 40-cent wing deal going all day. Find out more on Facebook.

Liza Mundy @ Reynolda House Museum (W-S), 6 p.m.

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For the 150th anniversary of Louise May Alcott’s Little Women, High Point University’s departments of theater, dance and music stage the Broadway version of the beloved story. Come watch the tale of the four March sisters among the American Civil War. Performances run through the weekend and are free. Find more information on Facebook.

FRIDAY Vintage Market Days @ Summerfield Farms (GSO), 10 a.m.

Chick-fil-A Chill Out Block Party @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 6 p.m. With the donation of a canned good for Second Harvest Food Bank, enjoy a free Chick-fil-A sandwich among other activities. Face painting, balloon art and an express ride make the event full of family fun. Check out the sounds of Eric & Chilltones, or sip on some hot chocolate. Learn more on Facebook. Heaven to Earth: A Journey @ Centenary United Methodist Church (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

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Nicole Uzzell @ Wherehouse Art Hotel (W-S), 7 p.m.

Step into the newest exhibit from the Wherehouse Art Hotel. Entitled Indoor Picnic, the exhibit features paper and other “uninvited guests.” Check out Uzzell’s artwork or even book a stay for a few nights. Find the event on Facebook.

Browse through artwork and antiques, or decor and desserts, during this festival of all things vintage. The market stays open through the weekend, so shop around for gifts for others or a treat for yourself. Learn more on Facebook.

The Winston-Salem Symphony Chorale performs a set delving into the themes of nature and the soul, along with true human experience. The concert will include songs from Aaron Copland, Ola Gjeilo and Jake Runestad. Find the event on Facebook.

Fall Festival @ Griffin Center Park (GSO), 6 p.m.

RiverRun Retro Presents Holiday Affair @ A/peture Cinema (W-S), 3 p.m.

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SUNDAY 17th annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show @ Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 9 a.m.

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Live & Let Die: The Music of Paul McCartney @ Westover Church (GSO), 8 p.m.

2018 Holiday Festival Parade @ Downtown High Point, 3 p.m.

Thursday November 15th Totally Rad Tacos & Trivia The Triad’s biggest, most entertaining pub trivia game RETURNS to Thursday nights at an ALL NEW TIME 7:30 p.m.! $3 buy in, up to six-playerteams! And like every Thursday, Battle Pub offers $1 off all domestic beers and half-off all tacos!

‘Pride and Pain’ @ International Civil Rights Center and Museum (GSO), 3 p.m.

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Friday November 16th Family Board Game Nights @Battle Pub They say that the Families who Game together STAY TOGETHER! That’s why Battle Pub will be hosting Family Board Game Night in our Event Space FRIDAYS from 6 p.m. to Midnight. So come out with your friends and families and enjoy hours of fun from our collection of more than 100 board and card games! Admission is simply a $5 Battle Bucks purchase, which can then be used to buy any food or beverages from our menu.

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Catch the screening of this 1949 Christmas film, and discussion with RiverRun Retro. Star Gordon Gerbert, who plays Janet Leigh’s son, talks of his career and of the production of the movie for its stop in Winston-Salem. Find the event on Facebook.

As Thanksgiving approaches, join Greensboro’s Parks and Recreation for a celebration of autumn. Family-friendly games and activities, music, and food all make up this free event. Find out more on Facebook.

This showcase of bottles, jugs, and other collectibles from more than 150 vendors returns for its 17th year. Bottle and pottery experts offer free appraisals during this shopping and learning experience. Find out more on Facebook.

Note that while our event space will be ALL AGES for Family Board Game Night, the seating area in our bar becomes 21 & up after 9 p.m.

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Toby Kishman leads an energetic commemoration of Paul McCartney’s music through the Greensboro Symphony. The multimedia experience will feature hits from McCartney and the Beatles. Find tickets and learn more at greensborosymphony.org.

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Linda Brown with the UNCG Department of History hosts a lecture about Greensboro civil rights protests in 1963 and the detention of protesters at the old polio hospital. The discussion is a part of a series of events exploring the history of the hospital. Learn more on Facebook.

Cheer for this annual seasonal parade, presented by the Guilford Merchants Association. Since 1925, the holidays have been marked by the festivities, with more than 100 organizations participating. Floats featuring beauty queens, bands and even Santa Claus himself bring the holiday joy to all. For more information, visit highpointparade.com.

9pm Sunday November 18th TV Club: The Walking Dead Season 9 The word is out, Andrew Lincoln will be leaving The Walking Dead in Season 9. So the question remains, how is Rick Grimes going out of the show?!? Find out with an AUDIENCE OF FANS when TV CLUB Presents the newest season of The Walking Dead! Part one begins at 9 p.m. Sundays, starting October 7th! FREE ADMISSION WITH DRINK PURCHASE!

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Jeff Sessions’ resignation by Jordan Green Close on the heels of Election Day, the most predictable thing ever finally transpired: Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned under pressure, ripping away a layer of insulation from the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. President Trump’s motive is glaringly transparent considering that he had complained that Sessions was useless to him if he recused himself from involvement with the Mueller investigation, as if the attorney general was his personal lawyer instead of the highest-ranking law-enforcement official in the land. With Sessions out of the way, oversight of the Mueller investigation moves from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to Trump’s handpicked replacement, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. The new acting attorney general has notably argued that Mueller would be crossing a red line if he looked into Trump’s finances. In an op-ed for CNN last year, Whitaker wrote, “It is time for Rosenstein, who is the acting attorney general for the purposes of this investigation, to order Mueller to limit the scope of his investigation to the four corners of the order appointing him special counsel. If he doesn’t, then Mueller’s investigation will eventually start to look like a political fishing expedition.” If Trump was worried that his presidency could be in jeopardy now that the Democrats have retaken control of Congress, his alarm appears to have been premature. With the favorable political winds of 2018 at their backs, Democrats appear to be more interested in finding a suitable nominee for 2020 than pursuing impeachment. Whatever findings are potentially revealed when the Mueller investigation concludes, it’s certain that Trump’s followers — now more or less indistinguishable from the GOP establishment and rank-and-file — are so immersed in conspiracy theories that they won’t believe a word of it. Likewise, whether it’s damning or exculpatory, progressives and the Democratic base will receive the findings as confirmation of Trump’s disgraceful conduct (I readily include myself in the latter camp). Whether the president can be indicted or not appears to be a matter of dispute, although Mueller could certainly keep indicting the president’s associates, including family members. A pardon for Don Jr. or Jared Kushner would certainly trigger outrage, but at this point would anyone honestly be shocked? The question of impeachment is actually political and has very little to do with what Mueller uncovers. Everything the Democratic

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House does between now and November 2020 will be about jockeying for the presidential election. The Democrats in the House and the Republicans in the Senate will be playing the usual Washington games of mutual accusations of bad faith and denying each other political wins. Trump will instigate successive outrages while the Democrats will attempt to look as reasonable as possible. (Guess who wins that game?) Impeachment is already off the table. “It depends on what happens in the Mueller investigation, but that is not unifying,” said Nancy Pelosi, the once and likely future Democratic House speaker, when asked about the possibility of impeachment. “And I get criticized in my own party for not being in support of that, but I’m not. If that happens, it would have to be bipartisan and the evidence would have to be conclusive.” So, any takers on the Republican side? “The whole issue of presidential harassment is interesting,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell chortled. “The Democrats in the House are going to have to decide how much presidential harassment they think is a good strategy. I’m not so sure it will work for them.” There you have it. Sounds like it’s time for the Resistance to emancipate itself from the Democratic Party.

Blue wave affects sheriffs, county commissions and school boards by Jordan Green Democratic candidates who took over sheriffs’ offices in Guilford and Forsyth County, and the school board in Forsyth, benefited from a surge of support from the suburbs.

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While the vaunted blue wave failed to dislodge Republican incumbents in the Triad’s three congressional districts, the tide lifted Democrats in local races, with far-reaching implications for public education and law enforcement. Similar to other urbanized North Carolina counties, voters in Forsyth and Guilford counties elected black sheriffs, who happen to be Democrats, for the first time in history, while turning out Republican incumbents. And in Forsyth County, Democrats also swept the three at-large races for school board, tipping control of the governing body. As a gauge of the shift in voter sentiment, Democrat Danny Rogers made up 8.7 points in his rematch with Republican BJ Barnes in the Guilford County sheriff’s race, compared to his previous bid in 2014. And in the at-large race for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board, where voters can select up to three candidates, the Democratic contenders went from an aggregate of 49.5 percent of the vote in 2014 to 55.6 percent this year. Victorious Democrats in both counties saw some of their most dramatic gains in predominantly white, Republicanleaning precincts in the suburbs. Rogers more than doubled his votes — from 489 to 1,108 in SDRI, a sprawling precinct at the western end of Guilford County that includes the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market. And in a handful of precincts around Lewisville and Clemmons at the west end of Forsyth County, Democrat candidates increased their aggregate vote counts by upwards of 50 percent. Brandon Lenoir, a political science professor at High Point University, cautioned that it will take two or three election cycles to determine whether the 2018 midterms reflected a Democratic trend in suburban areas of the Triad, or only the unique circumstances of one election. And notably, the 2014-2018 comparison reflects an inverse, with Republican voters preoccupied with Barack Obama in 2014 and their Democrat counterparts obsessed with Donald Trump in 2018. “In a midterm election, though the

name of the president is not on the ballot, many of the people who are motivated to vote are motivated because of their displeasure with the incumbent party,” Lenoir said. “The shifts that we’re observing can be attributed to the backlash to the Republican administration. How that plays out in two to four years will determine whether this is a change in political structure.” The Guilford County precincts where Rogers doubled his vote count include H14, an upscale Republican precinct in High Point; NDRI, a rural and heavily Republican area FILE PHOTO Danny Rogers’ election to Guilford County sheriff, unseating longtime incumbent BJ around Colfax; JAM4, Barnes, caught a lot of people by surprise. southeast of JamesSen. Trudy Wade, a fellow Republican. improved on the previous Democratic town; H27B on the north end of High Some voters groused about how Barnes, nominee by 4.6 points. Similarly, in the Point; and SF1, in Summerfield. Rogers who has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan 13th Congressional District, Democrat tripled his vote count at G45 — the only Kathy Manning carried 60.2 percent of support from voters, took shots at Wade’s Democratic-leaning precinct where he the vote total in Guilford County, while Democratic opponent in campaign ads. saw a major gain — reflective of a surge losing the race overall to Republican Ted Wade narrowly lost her race to Demoin turnout at UNCG in Greensboro. Budd. Manning’s showing in Guilford crat Michael Garrett. In Forsyth County, Democrat school County improved 5.4 points over the Gladden said voters liked Rogers’ board candidates made significant gains performance of Bruce Davis, the Demoauthenticity, including how he responded in gentrifying urban areas of Winstoncratic nominee in 2016. to Barnes’ attacks on his past. (Barnes Salem like Ardmore, the West End and “While the [Guilford County] sheriff’s carried documentation of Rogers’ past West Salem, the southern rim of the race on its surface was a surprise, I argue brushes with the law, which Rogers accounty, the industrializing Union Cross that the key difference in this cycle was knowledged in media interviews, but did Road corridor in the southeast corner the top of the ticket and the amount of not address specifically.) of the county and a band of suburban groundwork and effort that the Kathy “Rogers had to own whatever BJ hintprecincts from Little Creek Recreation Manning campaign put in,” Lenoir ed about his past,” Gladden said. “His Center in southwest Winston-Salem up said. “The gap in the vote share that faith kept him grounded. He didn’t try to to Pfafftown. she got compared to Ted Budd explains be a politician about it. He was just real. There’s little consensus on what the effect on the down-ballot races. He owned what was true and acknowlmoved the needle for Democratic She pushed a lot of people to the polls edged it. He moved on and upward.” candidates in local races, although to that voted for her, and many of them Nicole Ward Quick, the chair of the one degree or another most agree that continued voting down the ballot for Guilford County Democratic Party, backlash against Trump and a blitz of Democrats.” echoed Gladden’s sentiment that Rogers advertising and campaign activity to win Byron Gladden, a Democrat member himself was the biggest reason for his back the US House drove up interest. of the Guilford County School Board victory. DD Adams, a member of Winstonwho was not on the ballot this year, said “Danny was everywhere,” she said. Salem City Council, topped the ballot he believes Rogers benefited from his “In any election, the campaign manin Forsyth County as the Democratic opponent being linked to Trump and ager or the campaign will tell you that nominee in the 5th Congressional District other Republican politicians. Barnes the biggest difference is the face-to-face race. And while Adams fell short in her campaigned with Trump in Greensboro interaction with voters.” bid to unseat Republican Virginia Foxx in 2016, and this year he endorsed state by 14.4 points, in Forsyth County she Continued on Page 8

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Quick and Gladden also said Rogers benefited from a national dialogue about institutional racism that is reaching critical mass. “Danny’s message resonates,” Quick said. “You combine what he was saying about equality in hiring with kind of the sweeping tendency against police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement and all of that, I think that all helped.” Quick also said that Democrats benefited from an array of voter mobilization efforts that targeted young people and people of color. “The March for Our Lives had a march to the polls,” Quick said. “We had Souls to the Polls that Beloved Community Center and the Rev. William Barber spearheaded. A lot of organizations were trying to get folks to the polls. We had runners so that we could find out who voted and who hadn’t, and then give them transportation to the polls.” Quick said at least 100 UNCG students were in line trying to cast their votes when the polls closed on election night. A large number of the provisional ballots cast came from UNCG, she said, adding that when they’re counted on Thursday she thinks it’s possible that they’ll put the Guilford County Commission District 3 seat back in play, or at least close enough for a recount. Republican incumbent Justin Conrad currently holds a 290-vote lead over Democrat Tracy Lamothe. A reversal in the race would hand control of county government over to the Democrats after six years with Republicans in the majority. Quick also noted that Democrat candidates prospered in suburban areas. Larry Archie, a Democratic candidate for district court judge, defeated Jon Kreider, a Republican incumbent appointed in 2015 by former Gov. Pat McCrory. The vote wasn’t even close, with Archie winning 57.6 percent to Kreider’s 42.4 percent share. In addition to traditionally Democratic Greensboro and High Point, Archie also carried Republicanleaning precincts at the far eastern end of the county and one flanking Highway 29 at the north end. Pamlyn Stubbs, the party’s vice-chair called Quick’s attention to the surprise showing. “She thinks a large part of that reason has been our efforts in getting those precincts organized,” Quick said. “Those precinct captains were unstoppable. The precinct officers we had in place really worked.”

Agapions rebuked for complex marred by fatal fire by Jordan Green The Agapion family must complete repairs on 42 units at a Greensboro apartment complex that houses Congolese refugees

within 90 days, or the city will hire a contractor to do the work at the owner’s expense. The decision came through a 5-1 vote by the Minimum Housing Commission on Thursday afternoon. The repair order is the latest step in a process that began with a complaint triggering inspections after the five children died in an apartment fire in May. “One factor is the egregiousness of the violations,” said Peter Isakoff, the commission’s chair. “You have serious fire safety concerns, serious health concerns, with rodents in the property, with sewage, mold. Number two, I think time is of the essence here given that this is a large complex with people trying to get back in.” Speakers, including two residents and a number of people who have been working with the refugees at SummitCone apartments, told commissioners about a long train of abuses. “When you try to plug something in, there is a spark,” said Juma Juma, a former resident. “Also there is a shock when you are getting a little bit of water.” “I witnessed children playing catch with rats,” said Mary Anne Busch of the Center for New North Carolinians at UNCG. Busch said her agency declined to set up a program to work with the refugees because the conditions at Summit Cone apartments were so bad. Guilford College set up a tutoring program for children at the complex in early 2018 through the Bonner Scholars. Susan May, the student employment coordinator for the Bonner Scholars, said the tutoring program expanded into a complaint intake center when it became clear that the owners were not addressing maintenance problems. “In many apartments I went into there were no working smoke alarms,” May said. “Many appliances were faulty. People got shocked when they opened their refrigerators.” Danny Rodas, a Guilford College student, said complaints included broken railings, broken cabinetry and leakage. “Most of the complaints that we filed were never addressed,” Rodas said. Emily Wright, a social worker with Guilford County Schools, corroborated Rodas’ account. “Despite innumerable requests by the residents they told me their repair re-

Irene Agapion-Martinez defended her family’s properties in front of the Minimum Housing Commission.

quests were rarely if ever addressed,” she said. “The residents have told me that their apartments had chronic plumbing problems. You could see behind their cabinets where the water had been dripping from their toilets. In many cases, the wood had rotted and the cabinets were coming down, leaning off the wall. They had electrical problems — gnarly wiring in their kitchen area where their hot water heaters were. Mold, rats, roaches, faulty appliances.” Commissioners made stinging assessments of the conditions. “Some of the bathroom situations are abominable,” Vice Chair Robert Kollar said. “I think I’m being easy and kind on that.” Commissioner Suzanne Nazim added, “For children to play with mice and rats is just appalling to me.” Irene Agapion-Martinez, a representative and member of the family that owns the property, said she is working with the city to correct the code violations, but

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she reiterated a previous assertion that the owners were not responsible for the deaths of the five children. “Four different agencies agreed [the fire] was not the result of any negligence or any fault of the building,” AgapionMartinez said. An investigation by the Greensboro Fire Department, released in August, downplayed the possibility of a faulty appliance or wiring contributing to the fire, with the author writing, “There were no indicators that a malfunction of the stove was an ignition source.” Shortly afterwards, the police said they had no plans to press criminal charges in the matter and were ready to release the stove, which had been seized as potential evidence. Agapion-Martinez sought to shift blame to relocation agencies, arguing that the residents haven’t received adequate assistance in adjusting to their new lives in Greensboro. “They were left here living in another hemisphere, in another world, in places

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they’ve told me they’re not familiar with “This is actually a form of discriminaindoor plumbing, unfamiliar with Westtion,” he said. “What it is, is discriminaern appliances, and left to live on their tion of fair housing, and some of the own without any kind of assistance,” tools that are used against these indishe said. “I’m gonna believe that that’s viduals are language barrier.” a huge source of the tragedy that took Commissioners questioned Agapionplace.” Martinez on how quickly she was movJuma and May disputed Agapioning to make the repairs. Agapion said Martinez’s claim, and by extension the half of the units have either passed or conclusion of the fire investigation. are awaiting inspection. She repeatedly “Although there was a pot on the urged commissioners to direct questions stove, they did not use that stove for a to inspectors so they could corroborate long time because it didn’t work properher assertion that the project was making ly,” May told commissioners. “So maybe progress. it was unattended cooking, but the stove “The units that have passed, have came on. That’s, to me, a very misleadpassed the minimum standard,” Code ing line…. There were a lot of times Enforcement Officer Kenneth Taylor when the burners would come on or go said. “It’s not always been a steady off by themselves.” course. They have been making repairs. May said she believes that treatment It’s been a sporadic process.” of the residents at Summit-Cone apartMark Wayman, the interim code ments amounts to discrimination. compliance manager, said the Agapions’ “I feel like newcomers, refugee famichoice of contractors could have been lies are targeted in a way,” she said. “I better, characterizing some of the workfeel like there’s a lot of ers as “aimless.” discrimination going on in “Some of the work this situation. I’ve felt that hasn’t been done in a ‘Some of the bath- professional manner,” he for a long time. They’re placed there. They know said. “We have to show room situations that they don’t speak the them what to do. I have language well. They may concerns about the qualare abominable. not know that they have ity of the work.” I think I’m being housing rights, so they As an example, he said don’t say anything. And that workers impropeasy and kind on the conditions get worse erly installed mortar mix and worse; it’s never fixed. that.’ around a foundation — Vice Chair Robert Kollar vent, preventing the vent And then ultimately we had a fire that killed five from opening and closing. children. They used interior-grade “There was a lot of fear of speakscrews, brackets and hasps that lack ing out,” May continued. “People were corrosion resistance for exterior repairs. afraid that they would be kicked out. Or And they used screws to secure screens, their rent would be raised. In fact, durwhich could prevent emergency egress ing the summer there were two rent rate for an elderly or disabled person. hikes. And a lot of the families felt like Although the problems were corrected it was a direct result of them speaking once he shared them with the Agapions out.” and the city inspectors, Wayman said Agapion-Martinez took exception to they’re the kind of mistakes that a conthe allegation of discrimination. tractor shouldn’t make in the first place. “My family is actually immigrants,” Louis Mashengo said in a letter read she said. “We have people on staff aloud by Susan May that while many who speak French, Spanish and other people in Greensboro have moved on, languages. To my knowledge, there’s not the residents will never forget the deadly another agency that speaks these lanfire that took the lives of five children in guages. I don’t think that’s an issue.” May. Commissioner Quentin Brown “The negligence, ignorance and endorsed the view that the chronic discrimination that we have been living violations coupled with the unique in at Summit-Cone made people feel vulnerability of the residents amounts to unwell and unwelcome,” he said. “The discrimination, while cautioning that the Agapions must explain to us why they commission does not have the authority have been doing that to us. Are we not to address civil rights violations. (The human beings like them? And really we Greensboro Human Relations Departare human beings. Why have we been ment is responsible for investigating fair treated like animals?” housing claims.)

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The rock star who wasn’t The story of LA rock band Threatin, which broke

through social-media and pop-culture circles in the post-election news cycle, is indeed the story of our times. Threatin boasted tens of thousands of Facebook fans, worked through a booking agency and promoter, had a million YouTube views and a solid touring record — according to all online sources — before booking a tour through European clubs, guaranteeing advance sales. In case you missed the turn in this story: Threatin turned out to be a guy named Jered, who played all the instruments on Threatin’s songs, faked live footage of the band, bought more than 38,000 Facebook likes and fabricated a booking agency by the simple acts of building a website and creating an email address for it. So nobody — literally nobody — showed up for his first couple shows, though the next few have attracted a few looky-loos because of the sheer audacity and boneheadedness of the move. It must have taken Most of us know Jered Threatin years to that even real pull this caper: writing the songs, recordpeople don’t show ing them, staging the up at Facebook videos, making up the stupid name. events. Then he created social profiles and outright purchased tens of thousands of friends, likes and views, all before booking the European tour: calling the clubs, recruiting a band, making a poster and logo. Dude made a logo! Imagine if he had poured these hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars into his music instead of creating an invisible army of bots whose sole purpose is to help him live his lie. It’s important to navigate these gaps between our digital lives and the actual world, to recognize that things online are not always as they are, as they say, IRL. Most of us already know that even real people don’t show up at Facebook events. Perhaps Jered never got that far in his thinking, positing the mere fact of Threatin’s European tour as a success, categorizing the lack of a single European fan as a mere inconvenience. Or — and this is terrifying — he was one step ahead, counting on notoriety from articles like this one to jump-start his career. Perhaps his shows this weekend in Italy and Denmark will be packed, and he will convert them all to the way of Threatin. But probably not. Sure, more people know about Threatin today. But users can differentiate between good content and bad, no matter how many Facebook likes it has.

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One terrifying night 30 years ago, on a stretch of lonely roadway on the Forsyth-Davidson county line, Scott Routh’s life changed abruptly. Michael Charles Hayes, a 24-year-old man troubled by substance use and mental illness, reached a point of desperation by Jordan Green when his parents threatened to sell the moped repair shop that he operated in response to his history of embezzlement. Around 11 p.m. on July 17, 1988, Hayes stepped out into the middle of Old Salisbury Road with a gun and opened fire on passersby, wounding nine people and killing four. Routh’s stepfather was one of the nine people who were shot that night, and a volunteer firefighter saved his life. The event prodded the teenaged Routh to join Gumtree Fire & Rescue as an Explorer — the junior firefighting program for 14- to 18-year-olds. Seventy-two percent of North Carolina firefighters are volunteers, according to the Federal Emergency Management Administration. And nine out of 10 fire departments in this state are, like Gumtree, mostly or allvolunteer based. Essentially, if you live outside a city or town with a professional fire department and your house catches fire, a group of volunteers who likely have other full-time jobs will be responding. Residents who live in the Gumtree fire district, which straddles Forsyth and Davidson counties pay a 10-cent surtax to support their fire service. A man with an iron handshake and a sparkplug build, Routh now serves as chief of Gumtree Fire & Rescue, a role he fills after putting in 40 to 50 hours a week at his regular job as an assistant fire marshal with Forsyth County. Daniel Henderson serves as captain and recruitment coordinator at Gumtree, after putting in his hours at his regular job as a member of the Lexington Fire Department. “He doesn’t get paid enough,” Routh observes. “He mows yards on the side.” Both Routh and Henderson get the same compensation as the other 41 volunteers on the roster at Gumtree — $3 per call, and they qualify for $170 in monthly retirement benefits after 20 years of service. Outside of one person who works 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, no one else gets paid at Gumtree. Routh points out that the volunteer firefighter requires the same certification as their professional counterparts — a yearlong course of training that requires 200 to 300 hours. Certification to serve as an EMT takes an additional six to eight months. The kind of person that volunteer fire departments need

is someone willing to not only put in the time to get the proper training, but also drop everything at a moment’s notice to respond, and that includes family and work. “When the phone rings and they’re calling 911, they’re calling for help,” Routh says. “Just because you’re enjoying the race, or you have newspapers to deliver….” Thanksgiving is an especially busy time for volunteer firefighters. More house fires. More car accidents. “Then you got to go back to that family gathering,” Routh says, alluding to the psychological adjustment of returning from a potentially catastrophic fire or accident scene. So why do it? An increasing number of volunteer firefighters are asking themselves that very question. Gumtree’s roster is down to 43, from 67 five years ago, Routh says. And he estimates that 15 to 20 of his members have put in more than 20 years, making them eligible for retirement. The erosion of membership at Gumtree Fire & Rescue tracks with volunteer agencies across the state. The NC Association of Fire Chiefs and the International Association of Fire Chiefs is launching a two-year campaign focusing on more than 50 agencies located across the state, including Forsyth and Guilford counties, to address what the agencies call a “critical shortage of volunteer firefighters.” Routh points to one overriding reason for the decline in volunteers: a change in the nature of work. Large-scale employers like RJ Reynolds that once promoted voluntarism have drastically downsized. Farming, an occupation with built-in flexibility, doesn’t employ as many people as it used to. Routh notes that North Carolina being a right-towork state, employers can fire workers at will. That makes potential volunteers increasingly wary of commitment. Routh and Henderson both say it’s rewarding to run into people at the grocery store who remember them from the time they showed up when their house was on fire, and say thank you. Henderson says he took the training to become a firefighter to increase his qualifications so he could be a police officer, like his father. But he fell in love with firefighting and decided to make it a career. “Fire service is truly like family,” he says. “It goes back to the term ‘brotherhood.’” And volunteer firefighters enjoy a connection to their community that is increasingly rare. “We do a lot of smoke-alarm installs,” Routh says. “We see a lot of people that way. And we have trick-or-treat here at the firehouse. Parents know it’s a safe haven for the kids in a scary world. Interacting with the community, that’s where it’s at.”

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describes himself as a slow learner, says he loves working at the shop. “The customers make us feel welcome and speak to us and ask us if we’re having a good day,” he said. Cockerman used to work at UNCG but said that “they put a lot of people with special needs in the dish room.” This job allows him to interact with customers. “Greensboro should have more jobs for special needs,” he added. “We’re a part of the community and the community should be a part of us.” In addition to the coffee — which is roasted by the owners of Green Joe’s on Battleground — A Special Blend offers locally baked goods, smoothies, tea and even a rentable meeting space. “We’re really trying to give people as much reason for coming as we can,” Hughes says. On opening day, Hughes says about 1,200 people showed up, creating a line that wrapped around the SAYAKA MATSUOKA building. She says one family Like at Chez Genése, most of the staff at A Special Blend have developmental or intellectual disabililties. made a lasting impression. “It was a young family opened the restaurant because she wanted to give people a coming with a child with Down’s Syndrome,” Hughes says. second chance or a first opportunity. Hubert, who has three “And I remember the mom saying, ‘You know, it’s not bad cousins with autism and has worked with Autism Society of for people to wait for this group of people, to teach them NC and in special education classrooms, says Chez Genèse patience.’” employees 22 people, 12 of whom have disabilities. A few miles away in downtown, a number of people “Our goal is to be an inclusive work environment,” said huddled inside Chez Genèse, also waiting, practicing patience. Hubert in an email. “There is no visual differentiation between The new French restaurant, which opened last month, occuour staff members. We are all on an pies a space at the end of Elm Street equal playing field because we believe near Mellow Mushroom and also that everyone has a skill set to conemploys those with intellectual and Chez Genèse is located at 616 S tribute and we celebrate that.” developmental disabilities. Kathryn She says she hopes that the restauHubert, the owner of the restaurant, Elm Street and A Special Blend rant helps its employees gain skills says that French cuisine is the perfect is at 3900 W Market Street. Find that could be taken to other jobs as way to express their mission. well. out more at chezgenese.com and “The French know how to serve “We are focusing on independence, and really value the connection that aspecialblend.org. multi-tasking, learning how see the happens around the table,” Hubert big picture, how to say no and stand said. “Our hope is that you feel transup for yourself,” Hubert said. ported when you walk through our She says only two of the employees doors and that our space invites community and encourages have prior experience working in a restaurant. relationships to be built.” “It’s important to value people,” she said. “It’s a good thing The restaurant offers a breakfast menu featuring classic to see the world through someone else’s eyes and to recognize French dishes like quiche, crepes and a variety of omelets and the many ways that beauty can be manifested.” eggs while lunch options include soups, salads, sandwiches And for parents like Hughes with loved ones with intellecand cheese boards. And of course, there’s always the flaky, tual and developmental disabilities, places like A Special Blend buttery croissants. and Chez Genèse are more than just feelgood businesses. On the wall next to the front door, a sign reads, “The place “It gives hope to families,” Hughes says. “It lets them know of new beginnings.” they’re not in the shadows anymore and that there’s a future.” Hubert, who trained in France for a year, says that she

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licing bagels at Brueggers. Bagging groceries at Food Lion. Folding pants at American Eagle. For most of us, first jobs happen in our teenage years as a regular part of life. They fund movies on weekends or help save up for the latest video game. For those with developmental or intellectual disabilities, however, getting a job has never been a given. Two new businesses in Greensboro are looking to change that. At just past 5 p.m. on a recent Saturday evening, A Special Blend in Greensboro, a new coffee shop off Market Street which opened earlier this month, is bustling with activity. A young man greets visitors as they walk through the doors, escaping the blustery weather outside. Behind the counter, half a dozen employees serve cappuccinos, smoothies and various baked goods. For many of them, this is their first job. According to a report by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017, only 18.7 percent of persons with a disability were employed, while for those without a disability, it was 65.7 percent. “For some of these guys it’s the first time they’re receiving a paycheck,” says Jo Hughes, one of the board members of the shop. The shop, which employs 40 people, has 22 paid staff and 18 volunteers. All are considered essential parts of the business. “We want to push the idea that everyone is trainable,” Hughes says. She says the idea came from Bitty and Beau’s, a Wilmington coffee shop which employs those with disabilities. Opened in 2016, the business has been extremely successful with the owner even winning CNN’s Hero of the Year in 2017. Hughes says they were inspired to open a similar business here. “No one had run a coffee shop before,” admitted Hughes. “We’re all just misfit volunteers chipping in.” But for Hughes and her husband Dave, the experience is more personal than that. The two have a 20-year-old daughter, Maddy, who has Sotos Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes her to have intellectual and developmental disabilities. Hughes says her daughter works at the shop as a volunteer employee and that she loves it; it’s her first job. When asked what having a place like A Special Blend means to them as parents, Dave begins to choke up, tears welling behind his glasses. Jo chimes in. “There are no words,” she says. “Every person deserves to feel useful and needed and this place gives the opportunity to have that. It’s priceless.” Grey Cockerman, who’s 56 and

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CULTURE Jon Kirby and Winston-Salem’s liner notes by Lauren Barber

oveted vinyls and the latest issue of Oxford American rest in the backseat of Jon Kirby’s pinecolored 2002 Subaru Outback as we sail past downtown Winston-Salem on Highway 52, en route to a southside recording studio on a brisk November afternoon. Carl Johnson rides shotgun and Kirby’s voice cracks when he attempts to sing falsetto along to a Teentones track Johnson wrote more than five decades earlier. Kirby, a Winston-Salem-born freelance writer and music historian, penned an article for the Southern digest’s North Carolina music issue centering Wesley Johnson, a little-known musician who left Winston-Salem to become an Italian pop mega-star . Johnson got his start playing alongside his best friend Carl Johnson, the piece’s main interviewee. Kirby, who became fixated with regional soul music while studying journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill, has long shown his ardor for uplifting obscure and underrated artists as a former editor at Wax Poetics and a producer with the Chicago-based re-issue label the Numero Group. He’s the kind of guy who earns Grammy nods for painstakingly detailed liner notes and who takes his hands off the wheel when the music is too damned good. Recently, Kirby moved home to Winston-Salem to be near family, and to extend his search for sidelined North Carolina artists and their yet-to-be uncovered recordings. “When you hear this Teentones record, these are the accents and sounds that were happening here in the sixties,” Kirby says. “You get the real Winston extract when you find these local records that were made in a local studio, with a local engineer, with a band really just playing what was in their head and in their heart.” Kirby spends his days chasing down the doo-wop, soul and rock & roll records that would have resonated through East Winston in the early sixties in unfamiliar garages, record and thrift stores, Cook’s Flea Market and a wordof-mouth networks of vinyl connoisseurs. When he’s not on the hunt, he’s sitting down with aging musicians and recording for posterity the many narratives of Winston-Salem soul. “My awakening in this local music economy was this [1974] record by the Eliminators called Loving Explosion,”

Kirby says. “I turned the jacket over and was reading it in a thrift store and it said, ‘These 14 talented gentlemen from Winston-Salem have come a long way since…’ blah blah blah. We don’t celebrate the underdogs of our history. You only learn about the top-tier folks. The Eliminators were a group that had a record on Brunswick Records, a major American record label. And I thought, How am I just now hearing about this, at age 26 in 2006?” Kirby recognized his former Paisley Middle School band teacher as the saxophonist on the back of the jacket; degrees of separation trend low in cities like Winston. “Lo’ and behold,” he says. “That was the first thread of the sweater I began pulling on. It’s amazing how the history provides a path for you if you pay attention and you really invest yourself in it; the stones are just waiting to be LAUREN BARBER Jon Kirby, left, scours the Camel City’s sonic archives with the help of turned over. That’s why I think this Carl Johnson, center, and Ryan Pritts. work I’m doing is so important because when these guys are gone, I’m gonna write a hit,” Johnson jests, bubbling with recovered there’s no one else I can go to. Your Rolodex shrinks every memories. “I can see it in my mind right now, we went over to year.” his house in the wintertime.” Joe Robinson, a jazz trumpet player who continues to book “What would’ve happened if you never came by? If you gigs around town well into his seventies, is one of the coolest never called me?” Twin City musicians in Kirby’s contacts and he’s offered up an unreleased session recording from the mid-sixties when It’s been more than five decades since the recording and he and Johnson played in an ensemble called the Staccatos more than four since he’s last heard these unreleased tracks. before moving on to make bigger waves with the Eliminators. The trick is to locate it amongst hours of Robinson’s practice “Don’t you feel like you’re goin’ into the pyramids right recordings on a reel-to-reel. now, hearing something that’s never been heard? It’s like you Local musician and producer Ryan Pritts, whose studio and can hear the room almost,” Kirby says. “It’s such an intimate, practice space are nestled in a converted house next to his unpretentious, raw way to experience human creativity. And own Sunnyside home, is Kirby’s go-to in these cases. Pritts perwhat better company?” forms test after methodical test on the delicate reel recording in his cozy studio, steeped in earthy oranges and browns, to Johnson’s eyebrows relax as the lyrics he penned more than find the right content and transfer the material to a computer a half-century ago resurface. He remembers a riff he adapted file that can later be burned onto CDs. Everyone knows the from a Marlboro commercial and croons along to the sweet fast-forwarded cacophony of Robinson practicing trumpet melodies pouring into Pritts’ studio. over Grover Washington tracks is worth the payoff of finding the Staccatos session and Pritts’ Kirby feels doubly blessed. This ear catches just the moment. is exactly the process that brought A tight rendition of “The Girl’s Learn more at oxfordamerican.org and he and Johnson together nearly a Alright with Me” by the Temptajoin Kirby and Johnson at the Gas Hill decade ago, when the Teentones tions suddenly bleeds forth from material surfaced and paved the Drinking Room (W-S) on Nov. 29 for a the disharmony. way for the Oxford American reading and conversation. Found it. article they’ll both thumb through tonight, in awe that none of it was The handful of tracks that a dream. follow are all originals including “God Created Love,” the first song Johnson wrote as a ninth“That moment, it really is like the pay off, the kif, the icing… grader at Atkins High. finding a tape like that, listening to it with the artist and enjoying the moment. There’s nothing better.” “You see, I was sayin’ I’m gonna be like Smokey Robinson,

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olored lights bounced off of metallic bomber jackets and neon shirts in a dim room. Pop hits from Madonna and Prince prevailed. Xylophones and cymbals hung from tall bookshelves that stretched to the ceiling, where they met fabric scraps dangling down. All three floors of the Elsewhere Museum and former thrift store opened for its 10th extravaganza on a recent Friday, its rooms themed to the 1980s for the evening of time travel. Creative Director Emily Ensminger said the theme varies for the extravaganza every year and serves as inspiration for dress and music. Performers also utilize the prompt for their own works. “A lot of us were eighties babies,” Ensminger remarked. The occasion showcases not just the era of synth and shoulder pads, but the museum itself. Each room of the building contains experimental sculptures and interactive installations. The decade-old museum encourages The Elsewhereans convert all three floors of the museum and gallery into themed rooms for the Extravaganza. people to, as artist Anne “the Wondercabinet” Weshinskey puts, “accept the abnormalities.” all in their early twenties, omitted the mic stands for the most Weshinskey herself carries an unusual part. Instead, they preferred to weave around the onlookers history. Her background as a tightrope stopped in doorways and on either side of the small informal walker for a circus inspires her piece. She stage. The bass reverberated through the wooden floorboards calls it “umbrella trauma.” as they rhymed. It made sense that she kicked things After a year of giving shows, the band noted that their off. Though the night centered around Elsewhere concert yielded a diverse atmosphere, in both the the ’80s, the three floors hosting three attendants and surroundings. simultaneous acts seemed like the rings “We’ve never performed in a space with so much history,” under a big top. singer-songwriter Elijah Rock said. After Weshinskey coated the tips of They noticed the quirky atmosphere maintained the moher socks in paint as red as her dress, she mentum and allowed for genuine expression. Other entertainheld a candlestick headstand. Then, users shared this attitude. ing her dyed feet, she lifted a parasol up “The energy vibrates off the walls,” a breakdancer by the and spun it open. The pigment formed name of B Girl Chaos mentioned, after circles on the her performance with the Raleigh canopies of Rockers ended. two umbrellas Visit the Elsewhere Museum at Past a room brimming with ribas she twirled bon, another staircase offered a rare 606 S Elm St (GSO), or learn more them during glimpse into the museum’s third floor. at http://www.goelsewhere.org/ her acrobatic A lounge flooded with blue lights routine. hosted a bar, where partygoers orBy her own dered cocktails inspired by Beetlejuice claims, she or The Breakfast Club. stumbled a few times, unnoticed by After dancing and teaching a workshop, Jaleel Cheek of many audience members. voguing duo the Twinz sipped a Pretty in Pink, a drink that “The umbrellas are a little finicky,” she mixed spiced rum and bourbon with cranberry, lemon and joked. “They’re like cats.” rosemary. Cheek delighted in how vogueing, with its rich past, Up a staircase sporting decoupage of is “expanding to all genres of people.” paper cards and tickets, a distinctly dif“It opens up an underground world of art and dance,” he ferent act commenced. A hallway lined excitedly rambled. Like many of the performers, Cheek’s craft with rooms of art exhibits provided an harmonized well within the context of the museum, and not intimate space for Greensboro-based just during a celebration such as this. rap band Bad PPL Collective. The group, Cheek pointed out, “Art can be anything.”

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