TCB Nov. 14, 2024 — We Must Resist by Triad City Beat

THE PEOPLE’S PAPER NOV. 14 - 27, 2024

You can cry, you can shout, you can scream. But don’t let those feelings render you immobile.

SAYAKA MATSUOKA

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Drones in W-S PG. 6

GSO’s new leaf rules PG. 5 Photography empowers PG. 12

CITY LIFE

THURSDAY

An Evening with Sarah McQuaid @ High Point Public Library (HP) 6 p.m.

The High Point Public Library in partnership with High Point Museum is hosting a free concert featuring Sarah McQuaid. Born in Spain, raised in Chicago, holding dual Irish and American citizenship and now settled in rural England, McQuaid “brings the eclecticism of her background to her ‘captivating, unorthodox songwriting’ and choice of material, spanning genres and defying categorization.” More information at highpointnc.gov.

NOV.

14 - 16

Installation_003: Revive @ Etc.gso (GSO) 9 p.m.

Visual Canopy and Leigh Roberson are rallying to support the Asheville dance music community impacted by Hurricane Helene. All proceeds from this concert will benefit two DJs affected by Helene. Purchase tickets at https://posh.vip/f/1707d

FRIDAY

1808

Craft & Vine Grand Reveal Party @ 1808 Craft & Vine (GSO) 6 p.m.

Craft & Vine invites you to an evening of community, connection and celebration as they unveil the new look of the place. There will be a champagne toast, live music by Matt Page, raffles, wine and good company. Don’t miss the complimentary bites at 7. Visit the event page on Facebook.

Art Crush @ Downtown Arts District (W-S) 7 p.m.

Art Crush, a free night of creative expression, exploration and celebration, is held on the third Friday of each month featuring some of the city’s visual artists and performers. Visit the event page on Facebook for more information.

SATURDAY Nov. 16

Back on the Town with Patty Perrin & Friends @ Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts (W-S) 4 p.m.

Head to Reynolds Place Theatre for a concert celebrating the musical comeback of Patty Perrin, a local gospel and soul sensation. She’s returning to the stage after a life-altering car accident in 2018 that left her battling memory loss and seizures, forcing a musical hiatus. Enjoy an evening of music, comedy, spoken word and 14

CITY LIFE NOV. 17 - 21

delicious food including hors d’oeuvres and desserts. Doors open at 3:30. Purchase tickets at intothearts.org

Dear Sister @ High Point Bistro (HP) 8 p.m.

Dear Sister celebrates the best of ’70s to ’90s rock. Join them as they pay tribute to your favorite rock artists. More information on Facebook

SUNDAY

Holiday

Cider Fest & Vendor Fair @ Boxcar Bar + Arcade (GSO) 2 p.m.

Head to Boxcar to shop small, support local and sip on ciders! They’re hosting a holiday cider fest and vendor fair for you to kickstart the holiday season vibe with retail therapy. Visit the event page on Facebook for more information.

LGBTQ+ Bookclub @ Bookmarks (W-S)

4 p.m.

The LGBTQ+ book club with Price Winston-Salem is a public book club meets the third Sunday of every month at Bookmarks. This month’s selection is The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen. More information on Facebook

MONDAY

unWINEd after work/Adult Crafts @ the Art Gallery at Congdon Yards (HP)

5:30 p.m.

Head to Congdon Yards to unwind with your favorite beverage during this wool felting class. Each class features a different “make and take” activity. Register at tagart.org

OPINION

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Hope is an ax

It’s okay to cry. It’s okay to scream.

It’s okay to despair.

The re-election of Donald Trump has left a heavy cloud over many Americans who have fought for the rights of the most marginalized among us: poor people, people of color, trans folks, undocumented folks, people who need access to reproductive healthcare.

The re-election of Donald Trump is a blatant attack on all of those things.

It’s okay to be furious.

But do not let those feelings immobilize you.

Instead, let them thrust you forward into a new season of hope.

As the activist and abolitionist Mariame Kaba says, “Hope is a discipline.”

It’s an action, not a feeling.

Right now, many people are continuing to fight for their rights and those of others they don’t even know. People are making plans to move out of conservative states for fear that their marriages will be nullified. People are putting themselves in the spotlight to advocate for undocumented people’s rights. People are volunteering at abortion clinics so women have access to the healthcare they need.

And if you look to the past, we know that our ancestors, the freedom fighters of the past, left echoes of resistance all around us. They are the reason we have affordable healthcare now. They are the reason why the conversation around an increased minimum wage even exists. They are the reason why we have samesex marriage, trans visibility, housing advocacy. They are the reason why we have the good things in this world, even when they are hard to articulate in times like these.

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And as writer and activist Rebecca Solnit says, “[H]ope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky…. [H]ope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency; because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.”

Falling into a pit of despair and staying there is a privilege.

It means that somewhere, at some point, someone fought for those things. Because they knew what many of us have to remember now, in this moment: Hope is an action.

And if we are to resist and fight these next four years and beyond, we need everyone to take some sort of action, big or small. Volunteering, donating, protesting, letter writing. It’s all necessary. Because we can’t do this alone. We do this for and with each other.

For you, for me, for them, for us.

It is the only way.

So when you’re ready, it’s time to pick up your ax.

Sayaka Matsuoka

by Sayaka Matsuoka | sayaka@triad-city-beat.com

hen Greensboro City Council decided in August 2023 to change the way it collects fallen leaves, residents expressed their concerns.

Now, more than a year later, the leaves are falling off of the area’s oak, maple and birch trees, causing confusion and trepidation from Greensboro residents who have yet to come to terms with the new rules. Coupled with the threat of fines for uncollected leaves, the anxiety around fallen foliage has hit its peak.

Here’s what to know about the new rules, how to avoid fines and why this happened in the first place.

What are the new rules?

How long will the city do this?

reensboro residents must now put loose leaves in the 95-gallon carts that were distributed to households last year, or collect them in paper bags (yes, they have to be paper). If residents are using the carts, they don’t need to bag the leaves first — leaves can go directly into the cart. Only yard waste like leaves, branches, twigs, yard trimmings, grass, dead plants and mulch can go in the carts or bags. Soil, dirt, food waste and rocks cannot go in the carts or bags.

In addition to the bin’s contents, the city will collect up to 15 items — which include either bags of leaves or bundles of sticks — per household per week. The items, stacked curbside, and the cart will be collected each week on the resident’s trash pick-up day.

The city will not empty leaves put in personal trash cans or bins.

If residents need assistance moving the bins to their curb, they can call the city at 336-373-2489 for help.

What about the fines?

ity trucks will no longer drive around, sucking up loose leaves that are raked to the curb like in past years. If residents pile leaves at the edge of their property and leave them there, they could be fined. According to the city, “intentionally placing leaves in the curb line, in front of the property, could lead to fines being issued.”

In response to confusion about fines, the city released an update that residents will not be fined for leaves that “fall into the street in front of their property.” After a violation, residents will get two weeks to properly prepare the leaves for collection, and if after two weeks the violations are not addressed, then the city will fine the household $75.

Can you get an additional cart?

f residents wish to purchase an additional cart for leaves, they can do so for $65 by calling 336-373-2489.

Paper bags can be purchased online or at big-box stores or local lawn and garden centers. The city notes that smaller paper bags from grocery stores can also be used, but that they hold fewer leaves.

This system of loose-leaf collection started on Nov. 1 and runs through the second week of February. After that, only 10 bags or bundles of leaves and sticks will be collected each week in addition to the cart.

What about the environmental impact?

Last year, after announcing the new changes to leaf collection, the city also began pushing a new campaign called “Leave the Leaves.” Rather than raking or bagging the leaves, the city’s Office of Sustainability and Resilience urged residents to leave their leaves on the lawn or mulch them instead.

“Leaving leaves to naturally decompose where they land creates natural mulch that enriches the soil and creates a habitat and food for beneficial microorganisms, insects and small wildlife, among other environmental benefits,” said S. Shree Dorestant, Greensboro’s chief sustainability officer.

The USDA has also promoted this idea, noting on their website that “the more leaves left on your garden, the more feed for these micro-organisms that make soil healthier and plants grow stronger. As the leaves decay, they add organic matter back into the soil, which lessens the need for fertilizer.”

Why did this happen?

According to several city councilmembers, the decision to change the way leaves are collected in the city is largely economic.

Councilmember Marikay Abuzuaiter said last year that the city has “spent millions of taxpayer dollars on workers comp claims by employees,” adding that they’ve been hurt by heavy yard-waste containers over the years. Abuzuaiter also said that piles of leaves on the streets can cause blockages and narrower roads, making it more difficult for cars or emergency vehicles to pass.

According to the city, canceling loose-leaf collection would save the city more than $10 million over the next 15 years.

The new carts cost about $4 million total to implement in the city.

Greensboro residents must now put loose leaves in bins distributed by the city or put them in brown paper bags for pick up every week.

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The Winston-Salem Police Department

is using drones in just one part of the city now. But they plan to expand the program in the future.

by Gale Melcher | gale@triad-city-beat.com

The Winston-Salem Police Department is currently using drones at one site in the city and has plans to expand the program to combat a lack of “manpower,” according to law enforcement officials.

At a city council public safety committee meeting on Oct. 14, Assistant Police Chief Jose Gomez gave city councilmembers an update on WSPD’s new program that uses drones as first responders, or DFR, explaining that the city has been using drones, “small unmanned aircraft systems,” since 2018.

They’re hoping that they can make drones a “force multiplier” to take some of the pressure off of the police department and other city resources.

According to WSPD, they’re being used in emergency situations such as looking for a lost individual. The drones are equipped with thermal imaging technology, which can be used to locate people in the dark.

Right now, drones are restricted to the two mile radius around just one site at UNC School of the Arts. WSPD uses the rooftop of Artist Village as a launch pad. Three other locations are in discussions, and Gomez noted that they’re finalizing the details and contracts on those now. They’re ultimately looking to have five to six locations. Drones won’t be allowed in certain places; for instance, restricted airspace such as hospitals. Locations are selected based on calls for service, according to the department.

However, Gomez added that these locations would not be disclosed yet “in case something falls through.”

So far, since June 5 when the program kicked off, the department’s drones have flown 175 missions and arrived at scenes 143 times before officers did. The average response time for the drones is 90 seconds.

“Usually it’s even lower than that,” Gomez said. Typically, the average response time of officers responding to a top priority call is 4 minutes and 30 seconds.

“This is a very manpower-intensive type of operation; we have to have a pilot in the DFR room and a pilot on the rooftop,” Gomez explained.

The program currently has 27 pilots and 19 in training. Drones are ready to be deployed at a moment’s notice from the WSPD’s Real Time Crime Center. According to the police department, the use of drones can save the officers time

because the machines are able to get to sites more quickly. One “success story,” Gomez explained, involved a bank alarm being triggered which prompted a dispatch of two officers. However, the drone arrived at the scene before the officers and determined that it was a “false alarm” caused by an ATM being serviced by a technician. The drone operator communicated that information which allowed the department to cancel the need for one of the responding officers.

In another instance, a drone helped locate a dementia patient and direct officers to their location, while another found people suspected of robbery.

Gomez also noted that young people are utilizing Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School’s Career Center to learn to fly the same drones as police. They’re coming out of the program with credentials and certifications; that means that the police department is “looking to hire them.”

Gomez said that part of the police department’s policy on drones is to not aim the cameras at people’s homes when they’re flying overhead.

“We will not allow the misuse of technology to erode our trust with our community,” Assistant Police Chief Wilson Weaver noted during a March 2021 public safety committee meeting about the department’s drone usage.

Weaver explained that it cost the department $18,000 for four drones plus their equipment. Some of the drones were purchased from Taser International, now known as Axon Enterprise, the company the department purchased more than 600 body-worn cameras from in 2014

Forsyth County also has a drone program, and will have a new equipment in their arsenal soon: GPS tag launchers that can attach themselves to fleeing vehicles.

As law enforcement agencies expand their surveillance capabilities with each passing year, public wariness and distrust lingers.

The ACLU encourages safeguards for drone usage, such as deploying them by law enforcement only if they have a warrant, only retaining data and images in certain circumstances such as “reasonable suspicion” of a crime or relevance to an investigation or trial, as well as allowing for accountability and open audits. They also recommend that drone usage policy be decided by the public’s representatives, not police departments.

A screenshot from a promotional video by the Winston-Salem Police Department shows the drones being used.

In NC, statewide races show even divide

by Brian Clarey

So now we know that former President Donald Trump carried North Carolina once again on his way to a victory that included a narrow sweep of the battleground states and strong showings in red territory. He took more than 51 percent of the vote in NC, meaning that Vice President Kamala Harris would have lost NC even without all the third-party candidates. In the end she fell behind by about 190,000 votes, slightly higher than the population of Cary. We’ll never know what effect the presence of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have had on the election.

But let’s put that aside for now and look at what happened in the undercard.

Of our 14 US House seats, 10 went to Republicans and just four for Democrats, their gerrymander affecting the balance of power in Washington. Nationwide, the House ended up with 214 Republicans and 203 Democrats. Fair districts in NC, where registered Democrats still outnumber registered Republicans by about 100,000 voters — smaller than the population of High Point — might have resulted in a more fair distribution of our

representation in Congress, and a more even balance in the House. Instead things went exactly as planned.

But it is impossible to gerrymander a statewide election, so our Council of State races portend what might have been. The governor’s race was the biggest one, the first to be called on election night, but it gets an asterisk because of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s scandal-ridden campaign. The other nine council of state races shook out in a way that seemed more representative of NC voters, with five going to Republicans and four to Democrats. And Democrats won the biggest races in that sector, securing lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general and superintendent of public instruction. In those last two races, attorney Democrats beat Trump-aligned Republicans by more than 2 points apiece.

The tallies track with the results of the presidential contest, and also the NC Supreme Court race, which was decided for Republican Judge Jefferson C. Griffin over incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs by just 7,641 votes, which is smaller than the town of Graham and close enough that it’s heading for a recount.

The numbers show just how evenly divided our state is and how slim the Republican majority is, but also how far apart we are in issues and ideology. No solutions here, just math.

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CULTURE

In the Weatherspoon’s Crip* show, artists reclaim, recontextualize and reconsider disability

by Sayaka Matsuoka | sayaka@triad-city-beat.com

n most art museums, visitors stand near works of art, sometimes peering at the small labels to read more detail about the pieces in front of them. They meander about, pausing at one work then another to take in the specific angle of a sculpture or the exact hue of a painting. In larger museums, benches may be offered off to the side or in the middle of the room for respite. More often than not, patrons stand.

But in the Weatherspoon’s upstairs gallery, one bright blue bench defies the norms of art gazing with an open message: “This exhibition has asked me to stand for too long. Sit if you agree.”

Built out of plywood with bright white text, artist Finnegan Shannon’s piece “Do you want us here or not?” from 2021 points out a common yet seldom talked about experience for many Americans.

“The artists in the show are mostly addressing different kinds of physical disabilities,” explains Emily Stamey, the curator of academic programming and the head of exhibitions at the museum. “And some of them identify readily as being disabled, and some of them don’t really use that language but you know, experience the world in a way that we might think of as different, which I don’t even like to use that word because that implies that there’s normal and there’s different. So they’re shaking up the ways we experience the world.”

Crip* is on display at the Weatherspoon Art Museum through April 26, 2025. Visit weatherspoonart.org for more information.

Crip*, which opened at the Weatherspoon on UNCG’s campus in early September, was brought to the museum from the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. When Stamey saw that the exhibit was looking for a space to travel to, she immediately reached out to bring the show here.

“In many ways, we’ve been talking over the last few years about how the museum can be more accessible, and I truly mean that in the broadest sense,” Stamey says. “Like, ‘How do we just make it feel more welcoming to people in the community?’”

As a commentary on disability, 17 artists have works on display as part of the exhibit. And as referenced in the title of the show, the context or definition of disabled or disability is purposely broad.

“The show is Crip* with an asterisk at the end, and that’s very intentional,” Stamey explains. “So ‘crip’ is a reclaiming of the word cripple, so the asterisk reminds us that this word comes from a larger word that was derogatory and has been reclaimed and made into a positive term, but an asterisk also sort of denotes the need for more information.”

Near Shannon’s bench on a raised platform, artist Christopher Robert Jones arranges a pile of bright yellow violins atop a scramble of black wires and small black speakers. Played on violins, the song “Pure Imagination” from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory streams through the little machines. The immobile instruments, strewn in a pile and made from plywood and glue, are obviously not the sources of the song. And yet, their connection to the wires and prosthetic USBs implies a causal link.

The artist, Jones, who identifies as a queer person who is disabled, forces viewers to reconsider what gives objects — and by extension — people, utility and full ability.

“They’re thinking about these notions that we have of, what does it mean to be ‘functional’ and what does it mean to be ‘not functional?’” Stamey poses.

And the answer, like most things in the world, is not black or white, good or bad, abled or disabled. In fact, the asterisk used in the title of the show references the history

of crip theory which rejects the notion that people are defined by one thing, but are instead, intersectional beings. More than just a disability or a race or a gender. We are all of these things and more. And that’s why the museum and artists in the exhibit have been careful to use what activists have been calling “person-first language.” Rather than calling someone a deaf woman, they might say a woman who is deaf. But some people prefer disability-first language, Stamey points out. That’s because the ways in which people talk about disability is being reclaimed as not a negative thing but just as another aspect of a person’s identity.

“There’s an idea of countering notions we have around disability,” Stamey explains. “That it is associated with loss or lack or pain or grief. Like all these negative

“Do you want us here or not?” by Finnegan Shannon

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“PureImagination_Sextet” by Christopher Robert Jones

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associations that we have with it and remembering that there can be lots of positive associations. For so many artists, their experience of disability is just another way to experience the world.”

To prepare the gallery and museum for this exhibit, Stamey explains that she and her staff read the book, Disability Visibility — a collection of first-hand accounts of disability — and even put together a small advisory group to take suggestions on the layout of the show. In inconspicuous corners throughout the gallery, little asterisks call out to the expansive nature of the show. The printed labels are in larger font than usual and each comes with its own QR code that can be scanned from further away than a regular QR code to play an auditory description of the piece. At the bottoms of some of the raised platforms, staff put a band of black tape to better distinguish where the white riser ends and the floor begins for those with visual impairments. They’ve also put more seating in the gallery for visitors to take breaks.

In a way, putting on the show has been just as much of a learning experience for those working at the museum as it has been for those who come to view it.

“It’s been this really amazing opportunity to be a community of learners,” Stamey says.

Those who visit the exhibit, which runs through April 26, are encouraged to visit the show and view the works for themselves to engage in these kinds of nuanced conversations. On Nov. 16, UNCG students will be performing mini plays inspired by Crip* at the Weatherspoon from 1-4 p.m.; on Nov. 21, the museum will be showing Finding Dory to complement the works on view.

No matter what visitors take away from the exhibit, Stamey hopes that a larger understanding of the human experience is what arises.

“I think a lot of the artists are looking at the ways in which we can help each other, and ways that experiences of disability would be a lot more different — and maybe we wouldn’t call them an experience of disability — if the world was just a little bit more accommodating of differences,” Stamey says. “There’s lots beyond that.”

Capturing their moments

Photography exhibits in Winston-Salem center seniors, veterans by empowering them with cameras

by Gale Melcher | gale@triad-city-beat.com

How many times a day do we whip out our phones to slip a sliver of our lives into our camera rolls? The thousands of photos sit in our virtual galleries as preserved memories.

The Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness is located at 114 W. 30th Street in Winston-Salem. To learn more,visit generationscenter.org.

But older adults, who may not own smartphones, have less opportunities to capture what’s meaningful to them. That’s where teachers at Sawtooth School for Visual Art come in.

“How can I make the barrier of tech low?”

That’s the question C. Stephen Hurst, director of photography at Sawtooth, asked himself when planning a program for older adults who recently had their photo works displayed in the exhibit, A Photographic Journey of Winston-Salem as Told Through the Eyes of Her Elders, at the Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness. The first iteration of this program’s photos were displayed in April; the second was up through October.

Community donations of point and shoot cameras contributed to the success of the program in which seniors were encouraged to take pictures of things in their lives for the exhibit. And in Winston-Salem, the possibilities were endless, Hurst says.

Hurst, who spent decades in New York City, moved to Winston-Salem to be with family around Halloween in 2020.

“There’s opportunities to photograph things that I just wouldn’t have had the opportunity to photograph in New York,” Hurst told TCB

Plus, there’s beautiful light here, he said, with fewer big buildings towering overhead. There are so many artists in New York trying to make it, but in Winston-Salem, people are “practicing their craft.”

“In many ways, I find it more creative here than in New York,” he said.

“What I’ve found is a lot of times seniors are somewhat forgotten, or their knowledge base is not appreciated, or their way of seeing,” Hurst said. “It’s always about, like, ‘How can we take care of you?’ as opposed to, ‘Let me hear your voice outside of special occasions when there’s something to commemorate.’”

Despite having creative agency, the gap in technology use can pose barriers for older adults to create art.

According to a 2021 Pew Research poll, only 61 percent of adults 65 and older own smartphones compared to 96 percent of adults aged 18-29.

Plus, operating a camera can seem daunting to people of all ages.

But Hurst found that the students, many of whom had spent decades or their whole lives in Winston-Salem, were in tune with the city’s landscape changes over the years.

One student took a photograph of a Walgreens. While at first glance the subject appeared random, the student revealed that the land the pharmacy stood on was once the home of the student’s church.

“The only thing that commemorates [the church] is a little plaque that’s about 50 feet away from the front door of the Walgreens,” Hurst said. “But if you didn’t know that,

you’re just going in to get your toiletries and whatever.”

The insight and memories of older Winstonians give the photos a deeper sense of history.

“When you’ve lived long enough to have people around you pass away, you know that life is fleeting. And so maybe there’s more of an appreciation for the everyday,” Hurst explained, adding that he loved the “merging of the photograph with the story within the photograph” that students brought to the classroom.

The students also took photos of objects that were meaningful to them. One shot depicted a plant that has survived for 25 years, one that was given to the photographer at her husband’s funeral.

“That’s really powerful, the fact that she still has a part of him in this thing that’s in her living room,” Hurst said.

The photo’s story struck a chord with him and the other participants.

“There’s beauty in the everyday, and I think sometimes we kind of forget that,” he said.

Another observation Hurst had from working with this group was that the photos they took weren’t like social media influencers’, it wasn’t about “chasing likes” for them.

“They were just trying to create moments.”

Although the exhibit by the seniors has since come down, the space at the center will soon be occupied by photos taken by a new group. This time, military veterans were behind the camera, gathering each week to share their photos and stories. The exhibit will focus on “seeing the world through their eyes and what the military has taught them about life,” Hurst said. The exhibition will open on Nov. 13 and will be up until spring.

Hurst’s father served in the military and his mother worked for the veterans administration as a nurse and worked with paraplegics and quadriplegics.

Hurst recalled a high school project where he was instructed to interview someone at his mother’s workplace. He got paired with a medic who told him that his job was to fly in after battle and “patch people up.”

“He said, ‘You would hear someone screaming and you would go over there, and then you would just have to walk away from them because you knew that their injuries were so lethal that there was nothing you could do to save them, and you had to save the ones that could be saved,’” Hurst recalled. “I wasn’t expecting that as a 14-year-old, to hear something so dramatic, but at the same time I recognized that when he was talking to me, he was there.”

Even though years had passed, the medic was transported back to that experience.

“That just left a really powerful impact upon me that people in service and the things that they have to live with, like in a snap they can go back 10, 15, 20 years to that space and that place, and how that must affect them long-term,” he said.

That’s why, like with the seniors, Hurst hopes that this new exhibit will allow the veterans to explore parts of their lives and their pasts through the lens of photography.

“It made me think about, like in certain ways like with this project, there’s always going to be something under the surface,” Hurst said.

A senior student poses with the exhibit.

PHOTO BY C. STEPHEN HURST

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PUZZLES & GAMES

by Matt Jones

CROSSWORD SUDOKU

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Across

1. Swedish automaker

5. Long-lasting style

9. Fighting words

14. Experienced

15. WWII opponent

16. Specialized market

17. British elevator that flat-out doesn’t work?

19. Does a vet’s job

20. Greek vowel

21. “___ be here soon”

22. Move briskly

23. Movie star known for silly and bumbling characters?

27. Rubber squeakers, e.g.

30. A in German class

31. Floating out there

32. California’s La ___ Tar Pits

33. Med. insurance option

36. “This event totally reminds me of a traveling carnival”?

41. Musical aptitude

42. “___ Calm and Carry On”

43. Cuba libre garnish

44. Served as

45. 2015 Emily Blunt crime film

48. Two focuses of a Grateful Deadthemed vegan restaurant?

52. Company found at many airports

53. “South Pacific” Tony winner Pinza

54. Rubber duckie’s home

57. ___ Sark (scotch brand)

59. Group that reports on a single Greek island?

61. “Ignore that last comment”

62. “What’s Hecuba to him, ___ to Hecuba”: Hamlet

63. “Because of the Times” group Kings of ___

64. Cares for

65. General ___ chicken

66. Office furniture

Down

1. Out of trouble

2. Touch upon

3. “Dark Angel” actress Jessica

4. Arthur of “The Golden Girls”

5. Minuscule

6. Napoleon and Peron, for example

7. Rummage (through)

8. Ariz. setting all year long

9. Contacts

10. Go quietly (around)

11. Snowman accessory

12. “Stop kidding around!”

13. Avian homes

18. Napoleon Dynamite’s uncle

23. Trading card figure

24. Soft ball substance

25. “Mon ___!” (French cry)

26. ___ empty stomach

27. Go out with

28. Accident-preventing org.

29. Equipment

32. Fast jazz subgenre

33. “Aquarius” musical

34. Rogers once married to Tom Cruise

35. Cookie that partnered with Coca-Cola

37. Furniture retailer with a blue and yellow logo

38. Recognized

39. Get out the message?

40. TV chef Bobby

44. Broken beyond belief

45. Defiant challenge

46. Van Gogh bloomers

47. Nile snapper, for short

48. Implied

49. Egg cell

50. Feel at home

51. Razzes

54. Swing support

55. Unusual crafts

56. Top or bottom bed

58. QB’s gains

59. “This is ___ normal”

60. Long familiar

Thu 11/14