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57 In the Spirit By Tony Cross

59 The Kitchen Garden

34 PinePitch 37 Instagram Winners 39 Good Natured

41 The Omnivorous Reader

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45 Bookshelf 49 Drinking with Writers By Wiley Cash

55 Hometown By Bill Fields

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63 Wine Country

77 Birdwatch

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79 Sporting Life By Tom Bryant

83 Golftown Journal By Lee Pace

71 True South

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73 Mom Inc.

191 The Accidental Astrologer

75 Out of the Blue

192 Southwords

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67 Crossroads By Susan S. Kelly By Renee Whitmore

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94 Curtain Up, Light the Lights By Deborah Salomon How The Nutcracker brought two families together

96 Singing Tables

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111 Almanac

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205 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst

$1,150,000 MLS 190791 Deborah Darby 910-783-5193

Private and quiet 17+ acre horse farm with rolling pastures. Minutes from downtown. Ride out from your farm on endless trails. Whole house generator just in case. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

Chimbley House: c1922 has been completely renovated into an elegant updated home. Surrounded by a spectacular garden. Private but minutes from downtown. 5 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

35 Quaker Ridge Road, Pinehurst

233 Gails Road, West End

$919,000 MLS 193708 Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

Beautifully situated custom home built in 2012 in premiere gated CCNC. All the features make this well appointed elegant home easy living at its finest. 4 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

Custom home on over 4-acres in McLendon Hills. Gorgeous open floorplan overlooking infinity pool. Separate in-law/guest cottage, workshop, and garage. 5 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

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Old Town “Cottage Colony Schoolhouse”. Totally renovated with attention to detail and architectural integrity. Heart pine floors, 2 fireplaces. Walking distance to the Village. 5 bed, 5 bath.

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$925,000 MLS 195931 Cathy Breeden 910-639-0433

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Private beautiful CCNC custom-built home. 5.58-acre lot on the 8 th fairway looking at the 8 th green of the Cardinal course. 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms.

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24 Riviera Drive, Pinehurst

Forest Creek golf front home with impressive interiors and superb outdoor areas. Covered patios and decks overlooking the north course. 4 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

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775 St Andrews Drive, Pinehurst

Gorgeous home in Breezy Pines Farm, an equestrian community on 11.63-acres in Carthage. Privacy galore. Very spacious home. 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms.

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Golf front, brick home with PCC charter membership. Built in 2002 by Equinox. Large deck overlooks course No. 5. Over 2,700sf hardwood floors. Golfers dream home. 3 bed, 3/1 bath.

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35 Whistling Straight, Pinehurst $329,900 MLS 186408 Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

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$299,000 MLS 181341 Deborah Darby 910-783-5190

Close to the Village, transferable Pinehurst membership, all-brick custom home by Bolton Builders. Large garage, all one floor. 2,700sf. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

Luxury townhome in The Villas at Forest Hills. Updates galore hardwood floors, gourmet kitchen, fireplace, 2 master suites, patio, and 2-car garage. 4 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

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Traditional in every aspect, this one-story residence on the 17th hole of the Dogwood Course enjoys a premier location. Formal living & dining, 4 BR, 4 BA, and a game room create the perfect golf retreat. New Listing. Offered at $725,000

205 Merion Circle . Pinehurst

Inside and outside, the phenomenal attention to detail in this lovely home creates a perfect living environment. Open family room/kitchen with fireplace, 4 BR, 3.5 BA, 2003. New Listing. $399,000

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140 North Valley • Southern Pines

8 Middlebury Road • Pinehurst

Loblolly, a Southern Pines historic treasure, located on a quiet, tree-lined street, is a lovely combination of unparalleled building elegance embraced by comfortable living features. 5BR, 5BA, 8,050 sf. Offered at $1,650,000

This stunning golf retreat, overlooking the “unforgiving” par 4, 12th hole of the North Course in Forest Creek, captures the views at every opportunity. 3BR, 3.5BA 4,425 sf. Offered at $930,000

123 Pinefield Court • Southern Pines

451 Old Mail Road • Southern Pines

Built in 2006, this 6580 sq ft residence on 8 acres includes 5 BR, 6.5 BA, theater room, billiard room, open living plan, wine cellar, 3 car garage and outdoor kitchen. Gated privacy. Offered at $2,250,000

The jewel of Moore County’s horse country, Fox Hollow Farm is secluded on 10.52 acres with easy access to thousands of acres of equestrian land. 4BR, 4.5BA 5,276 sf. Offered at $2,200,000

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135 WIREGRASS LANE Attractive 5 BR / 3 BA two-story home w/spacious layout and great kitchen located in desirable Arboretum community.

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58 KILBRIDE DRIVE Lovely 4 BR / 3.5 BA custom home in gated golf community of Pinewild. Layout is bright and open w/natural stained white oak flooring.

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34 STONEYKIRK DRIVE Lovely 3 BR / 2.5 BA single level home located in beautiful Pinewild w/seasonal views of the lake across the street.

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121 CARTHAGE STREET Attractive historic 4 BR / 2.5 BA home w/tasteful and functional updates made throughout while maintaining historic details that make this home one-of-a-kind.

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SEVEN LAKES WEST • $397,000

104 BANCROFT COURT Amazing 4 BR / 3.5 BA custom home in desirable Seven Lakes West community. Home is well maintained w/an open concept kitchen as well as an abundance of space.

2 BLAIR PLACE Custom 3 BR / 2.5 BA brick and hardiplank home w/fairway views of 16th hole of PCC course #1. Home also offers large wraparound front porch and nice upgrades.

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14 LOCH LOMOND COURT Delightful and secluded 3 BR / 3.5 BA waterfront home in popular Pinewild CC. Home offers spacious layout and lovely water views.

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135 SMATHERS DRIVE Gorgeous, well maintained 3 BR / 4 BA custom home in gated community. Home offers spacious layout w/beautiful hardwood flooring throughout main level!

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44 PINEWILD DRIVE Amazingly beautiful 3 BR / 2.5 BA single level home built by Jackie Speight. Home sits on 1 acre lot and overlooks the 5th hole of Pinewild CC Azalea course.

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20 CRAIG ROAD Alluring 4 BR / 4.5 BA in beautiful Old Town location. Home has bright, open floorplan, gourmet kitchen and tons of curb appeal.

37 STRATHAVEN DRIVE Elegant 3 BR / 3 Full BA 2 half BA French Country home overlooking the 11th hole of the Holly course. Truly one of the most beautiful homes in Pinewild!

102 BATTEN COURT Amazing 4 BR / 4 full BA 2 half BA home on Pinehurst #9 course. This home was featured in Southern Living magazine as the 1999 Idea House.

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102 STRATHAVEN COURT Elegant 4 BR / 3 Full BA 2 half BA golf front home located on the signature hole of Pinehurst #9 course.

115 BLUE ROAD Gorgeous 4 BR / 4.5 BA home in the Village of Pinehurst – truly a special property. Beautiful home inside and out. Lots of living space and space for entertaining.

49 GREYABBEY DRIVE Stunning 4 BR / 4.5 BA contemporary home on 7th hole of the Pinewild Magnolia course. Interior is light and open w/beautiful gourmet kitchen.

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554 BROKEN RIDGE TRAIL Attractive 4 BR / 3.5 BA home on beautiful acreage w/great layout and nice salt water pool in back. Perfect reflection of NC Southern Charm!

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25 MAPLE ROAD Location, location, location….charming 4 BR / 3.5 BA cottage in the Village of Pinehurst w/artist studio tucked away in the garden. A must see!

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91 ABBOTTSFORD DRIVE Magnificent 5 BR / 3 full BA 2 half BA Tuscan Villa with THE best golf course and water views in Pinehurst.

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189 NATIONAL DRIVE Amazingly beautiful 4 BR / 4.5 BA home in National Golf Club. Interior is bright and airy w/great views of the 17th hole of Pinehurst #9.

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107 PATMAN COURT Custom built 3 BR / 3.5 BA brick home on beautiful Lake Auman located in a wide cove where you can enjoy long lake views.

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Above It All

The rewards of life’s upward climb

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Never lose the opportunity to see anything

beautiful, British clergyman Charles Kingsley once advised, for beauty is God’s handwriting, a wayside sacrament.

Because I rise well before dawn wherever I happen to be, I stepped outside to see what I could see from 4,000 feet. A fog bank was rolling silently down the side of the mountain like a curtain opening on the sleepy world, revealing 50 miles of forested hills in the light of a chilly quarter moon. The only other lights I saw were a few remaining stars flung somewhere over East Tennessee. The only sound I heard was the wind sighing over the western flank of Beech Mountain. An owl hooted on a distant ridge, saying goodbye to summer. In a world where it is almost impossible to get lost or find genuine silence and solitude, this moment was a rare thing of beauty. I stood there for probably half an hour, savoring the chill, an over-scheduled man of Earth watching the moon vanish and a pleated sky grow lighter by degrees, drinking in the mountain air like a tonic from the gods, savoring a silence that yielded only to the awakening of nature and first stirrings of birdsong. After an endless summer that wilted both garden and spirit down in the flatlands, a golf trip with three buddies to the highest mountain town in the eastern United States was exactly what I needed. A door opened behind me on the deck. My oldest friend, Patrick, stepped out, a cup of tea in hand, giving a faint shiver. “Beautiful, isn’t it? “ he said. “Hard to believe we’re not the only ones up here.” Such is the power of a mountain. The lovely house belonged to our friends Robert and Melanie, and though there were hundreds of houses tucked into the mountain slopes all around us, from this particular vantage point none was visible or even apparent, providing the illusion of intimacy— a world unmarked by man. “So what does this make you think about?” My perceptive friend asked after we both stood for several silent minutes taking in the splendor of a chilly mountain dawn. I admitted that, for a few precious moments, I felt as if I were standing on the deck of the post-and-beam house I built for my family on a hilltop of beech and birch and hemlock near the coast of Maine, our family home for two decades, surrounded by miles of protected forest. The skies, the views, even the smell of the forest were nearly identical. Sometimes I missed that place more than I cared to admit. “I remember,” said Patrick with a smile. “It was quite on a hill.” “The highest in our town. It felt like the top of the world. My sacred retreat for a transcendental Buddho-Episcopalian who has a keen fondness for good Methodist covered dish suppers.” Patrick laughed.

He knew exactly what I meant. Old friends do. We’ve talked philosophy and gods and everything else sacred and profane for more than half a century. In every spiritual tradition, mountains are places where Heaven and Earth meet, symbolic of transcendence and a human need to elevate mind, body and spirit. As long as our types have walked the Earth, hilltops and mountains have provided a powerful means of escape and spiritual retreat, a way to literally rise above the demands and hustle of everyday life. Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, which translates to mean “The Mount of God.” In Greek lore, it was believed that to spend a night on Mount Olympus would result in either madness or direct communication with the gods. Japan’s Mount Fuji is one of that nation’s three sacred mountains and a World Heritage site that has inspired artists and pilgrimages for centuries. “Being up here,” I added, “reminds me of an experience Jack had that I would like to have.” Jack is my only son, a documentary filmmaker and journalist living and working in the Middle East. He and his sister, Maggie, grew up with Patrick’s daughter, Emily. The three of them are all adults now, birds that have successfully flown the nest. We are proud papas. In January of 2011, though, as part of Elon University’s outstanding Periclean Scholars program, Jack and a few of his chums joined thousands of spiritual pilgrims for the five-hour night climb up Sri Pada — also known as Adam’s Peak — to see the sunrise from an ancient temple on Sri Lanka’s most holy mountain, a pilgrimage of 5,000 steps traveled annually by thousands of Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and Muslims for some 1,700 years. Jack had been asked by his advisor to go to Sri Lanka and make a film about the service work of the Periclean class ahead of his own class’ project with a rural health organization in India. The resulting 45-minute film, The Elephant in the Room, examined the environmental issues of Sri Lanka using the fate of the nation’s endangered elephants to tell a broader story about how the world’s natural system are under severe stress. Jack wrote, filmed, edited and narrated most of the film in partnership with two of his Periclean colleagues. As he reminded me the other day during one of our weekly phone conversations from Israel, his unexpected pilgrimage to the mountaintop came at a critical moment of his junior year when he had burned out from too much work and not enough rest. In addition to his studies, he was burning the candle at both ends, teaching himself to make films and working as an editor on the school newspaper. “When I look back, I realize I was getting pretty discouraged about both school and journalism at that moment,” he explained. “But the trip to Sri Lanka came at a good moment because it was the first time I got to make a film my own way about the things that struck me as important, just using my instincts about things we were seeing in our travels. It was a moment of real clarity and freedom.” The climb up Sri Pada in the pre-dawn winter darkness was one of the highlights of his Sri Lankan film odyssey, a surprisingly challenging climb even for a fit outdoor-loving kid from Maine who grew up climbing mighty Mount Katahdin with his mates. Jack and his fellow Pericleans paused on the ancient

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steps several times to catch their breath before pushing on to the summit. On the way up, they passed — or were passed by — the young and old, the healthy and feeble, men and women of all ages, shapes and sizes, rich and poor, trudging ever upward. He told me he saw young men carrying their grandmothers on their backs, others carrying torches, bundles and food — couples, families, pilgrims from the Earth’s four major faiths all seeking a common holy mountain top. “We arrived about 10 minutes after the sunrise,” he remembers. “But the whole mountaintop was bathed in this beautiful golden light. We stood in the courtyard of that temple sweaty and tired but also incredibly happy and at peace. It was very moving. I caught some of it on film. The view was incredible,” he recalled. “We were so glad we made the climb. It was just what I needed.” Though he’s gone on to make more than a dozen timely films about everything from debtor’s prison in Mississippi to the opioid crisis across America, my son’s earnest and charming little film about the fate of elephants in Sri Lanka — his first full-length effort — is probably his old man’s favorite to date, full of simple images that reveal his budding talents. It is filled with poignant fleeting encounters with ordinary people and moments that have become familiar hallmarks of Jack’s homegrown filmmaking style. A year after he made Elephants in the Room, his more ambitious and technically refined film about a pioneering rural health care organization in India got shown at a World Health Organization gathering in Paris. His sophomore achievement ultimately landed him a job at one of the top documentary houses before he went on to graduate school at Columbia, met his wife and began a promising career as an independent filmmaker. I saw a nice change in my son after he came down from that sacred mountain: a fresh resolve, a clearer mind. During our recent phone chat from Israel, I asked if he ever thinks about his climb to the mountaintop on

that winter morning in Sri Lanka. “I do,” he replied. “When I got back to Elon, I started to learn about meditation and developed a different attitude about what I was doing. I still think about that climb from time to time. It was an experience that stays with you.” We also talked about the last really challenging hike we took together, a grueling hike up Mount Katahdin with his Scout troop. I was 50 at the time. Jack was 13. Truthfully, I’d convinced myself that I was in excellent shape for a 50-year-old Eagle Scout. But I never made it to the top. My dodgy knees gave out a thousand feet below the summit, prompting me to rest my weary legs at the ranger station beside Chimney Pond while Jack and his teenage buddies scampered up Cathedral Trail to the summit. As I contentedly waited, a passage from James Salter’s beautiful novel Light Years came to mind. “Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see.” Above it all, as we watched the chilly sunrise from the top of Beech Mountain, my old friend Patrick simply smiled and nodded when I mentioned this. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com. You can see Jack’s work at www.JackDodson.net and The Elephant in the Room at: https://vimeo.com/30460629

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Art Reception The Artists League of the Sandhills will have an opening reception for the 25th Annual Fall Show and Sale from 5 to 7 p.m. on Nov. 8 at 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. The show and sale continue on Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information call (910) 944-3979 or go to www.artistleague.org.

Van Gogh at the Sunrise Van Gogh & Japan is the first of a two-part art series on Vincent van Gogh, with an introduction by Ellen Burke. Though Van Gogh never visited Japan, the film details the inspiration arising from the Japanese art the great painter saw in Paris. Van Gogh & Japan will be shown on Nov. 7 at the Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. The second film in the series, At Eternity’s Gate, starring Willem Dafoe as the lucid, mad, brilliant artist, will be shown on Nov. 14. Both films begin at 10 a.m.

Parade to the Park The 2019 Southern Pines Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, Nov. 9 will be followed by “Parade to the Park: A Veterans Day Event,” at the Downtown Park, 145 S.E. Broad St., from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be live music by the 82nd Airborne Rock Band and Jaycee, a beer garden of local breweries, food trucks, a vintage car show, tons of kids activities from LAMM Entertainment and the USO mobile unit and over 10 Veterans support agencies. Sponsors are Cooper Ford, The Heritage Flag Company and Cox’s Double Eagle Harley-Davidson.

Take a Turkey Hike Work up an appetite on Thanksgiving morning with a refreshing walk guided by a park ranger at the Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. (Ahem, that’s Nov. 28, ya’ll.) For additional information, call (910) 692-2167 or go to www.ncparks.gov. Bon appétit.

Treasure Hunting Find one-of-a-kind treasures at the Brownson Arts and Crafts Fair on Saturday, Nov. 9, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Brownson Presbyterian Church, 330 S. May St., Southern Pines. Handmade items from skilled artisans will include pottery, original art, baskets, jewelry, baked goods and more. There will be a silent auction and a cash raffle. For more information call (910) 585-1924.

Veterans Day Parade Show your support and appreciation at the annual Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, Nov. 9, in downtown Southern Pines. Pre-parade festivities, including a flyover by vintage aircraft, will begin at 9:40 a.m. The parade, featuring motorcycles, marching bands, ROTC groups, fire trucks, antique cars and, of course, our vets, begins at 10 a.m. For more information go to www.sandhillsveteransfestival.com.

Living with the Prince of Tides The Country Bookshop presents Cassandra King Conroy, who will talk about her memoir, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy, at the Country Club of North Carolina, 1600 Morganton Rd., Pinehurst, on Nov. 10, at 4 p.m. Tickets include an autographed copy of the book and can be purchased at ticketmesandhills.com. For more information go to thecountrybookshop.biz.

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Festival of Trees The 23rd annual Sandhills Children’s Center Festival of Trees begins on Wednesday, Nov. 20, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 24, at the Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. There will be beautifully decorated trees, wreaths, mailbox garlands and gift baskets available for bids in an online auction. The Festival Gift Shop will have stocking stuffers. Admission is by any monetary donation at the door. All proceeds benefit children who have special developmental needs.

Sparkling Lights Ring in the holidays with the annual tree lighting celebration in downtown Southern Pines on Saturday, Nov. 30, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Enchanted trees will twinkle on Broad Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Don’t forget to keep an eye out for Santa Claus.

It’s a Wonderful Life Adapted from Frank Capra’s 1946 movie starring Jimmy Stewart and produced in the style of an old-fashioned radio show, the Sunrise Theater will present a live rendition of the holiday classic at 2 p.m. on Nov. 30 at the Sunrise, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. For information call (910) 692-3611 or go to www.sunrisetheater.com.

Friday, Nov 1: Idlewild South. Allman Brothers–style band founded by keyboardist and vocalist Don Eason, a veteran musician whose initial influence came from a live performance of The Allman Brothers on Easter weekend of 1970 at The Winter's End Concert in Bithlo, Florida. Cost: $20. Sunday, Nov. 3: Shawn Camp. You may not know Shawn, but you know his work. He'll bring some mighty talented friends with him, including Mike Bub, Guthrie Trapp and Larry Atamanuik. Cost: $25. Friday, Nov. 8: Sam Baker. In 1986, Baker was on a train in Peru when a bomb planted by the terrorist group Shining Path exploded in the luggage rack above him. He suffered a brain injury and severe hearing loss, and required more than 15 reconstructive surgeries. Somehow during his long recovery, songs started coming to him. One great writer, and listener. Cost: $15. (Baker also performs at the Cameo Arthouse Theatre Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7:00, and offers a writing workshop Saturday, Nov. 9.) For more details: theroosterswife.org or call (910) 944-7502. Sunday, Nov. 10: Jamie Laval and Megan McConnell take their audiences on an exciting musical journey through Celtic lands, reimagining Gaelic love songs, boisterous peasant dances and ancient, mythic tales. Laval is recognized throughout the United States and Britain as one of the premier performers of Celtic music on the international touring circuit. Vocalist Megan McConnell is lauded for the ethereal, lyric beauty of her singing and her captivating theatrical style. Cost: $20. Wednesday, Nov. 13: Jontavious Willis and Jerron Paxton. Every generation or so, a young bluesman bursts onto the scene and sends a jolt through the blues community. Willis has just that effect on people. Through original lyrics, the gifted musician delivers a timeless album that features dynamic vocals and every variety of blues: Delta, Piedmont, Texas and Gospel. Although still in his 20s, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton is one of the greatest multi-instrumentalists you haven’t heard of — yet. Cost: $20. Sunday, Nov. 17: Jill Andrews began writing songs at 19. She went on to found The Everybodyfields, leaving the band in 2009 to embark on a solo career. Cost: $15.

Giving Guiness a Run “Read for the Record” will try to break the world record for the number of people reading the same book on the same day, beginning at 4 p.m. on Nov. 7. This year the featured book is Thank You, Omu! The event is sponsored by the Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. For more information call (910) 6928235 or visit www.sppl.net.

Sunday, Nov. 24: Chris Jones and The Night Drivers. Jones is a quadruple threat as a singer, songwriter, guitarist and — thanks to his role hosting SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction — one of the most widely heard broadcasting voices in bluegrass music. His immediately recognizable voice, warm sense of humor and abundance of talent have combined to make him one of music’s most distinctive personalities, and one of its strongest artists. He brings along a band of equals — accomplished writers, singers, musicians all. Cost: $20. Unless otherwise noted, doors open at 6 p.m. and music begins at 6:46 at the Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Prices above are for members. Annual memberships are $5 and available online or at the door. For more information call (910) 944-7502 or visit www.theroosterswife.org or ticketmesandhills.com.

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he image of buffalo roaming across the prairie is an iconic symbol of the American landscape in the 1800s before the pioneers moved in. Bison meat was good for people back then, and it is in demand even more in recent years because of its high nutritional value. Ranchers today are committed to raising their herds naturally and work hard to accommodate the natural behaviors of the bison, allowing them to roam freely. The U.S. Department of Agriculture does not allow bison to be raised using growth hormones. The National Bison Association’s code of ethics prohibits the feeding of antibiotics, crossbreeding, in-vitro fertilization or other artificial practices. This code of ethics requires ranchers to respect and conserve the natural and cultural heritage while striving to improve the quality of the buffalos’ lives. These naturally raised bison interact with their environment as nature intended — promoting healthy ecosystems and animals. This is a far cry from the standards of the commercial factory farming methods. Bison meat is naturally flavorful, tender, nutrient dense, high in minerals, and lower in fat and cholesterol than beef, chicken and even salmon. It’s also higher in protein, iron and B12, and a very good source of healthy fatty acids, like omega 3. Sales of bison meat have steadily increased as people discover that it is not only healthy and delicious, but also environmentally friendly. You can substitute it for beef in recipes, but beware — it is lower in fat, so be careful not to overcook it. The popularity of Keto and Paleo diets have increased the demand for ways to get the healthy protein people need on these diets. Bison is a great choice when planning the menu for the holidays. There are many recipes available using ground bison, bison steaks and roasts. I have been using bison for years and find it delicious and easy to prepare. Here is a great recipe that would be perfect for your holiday party:

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Ingredients: 1 pound ground bison 1/2 cup finely chopped mushrooms 1/3 cup finely chopped red onion 1 egg, beaten 2 cloves minced garlic 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning In a medium bowl combine all ingredients. Mix until well blended. Form into 24 meatballs, about the size of a walnut. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly oil. Place the meatballs on the pan and roast in a preheated 400-degree oven for 10 minutes. Serve with dipping sauce. Dipping Sauce: 2/3 cup mayonnaise 1/3 Dijon mustard 3 tablespoons chopped green onions Combine ingredients in a small bowl, stir to blend. Makes 1 cup. Give it a try this holiday. Surprise your family and friends with this delicious, healthy alternative. PS Karen Frye is the owner and founder of Nature’s Own and teaches yoga at the Bikram Yoga Studio.

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The Transformation of a University Two presidents elevate an institution

By D.G. Martin

Looking back 100

years to the situation at the University of North Carolina at the end of World War I might give a little comfort to current-day supporters of its successors, the University of North Carolina System and the campus at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The system is looking for a new president to replace former President Margaret Spellings, who left March 1, and for the acting president, Bill Roper, who plans to step down not later than the middle of next year. Meanwhile, UNC-Chapel Hill is searching for a new chancellor to replace Carol Folt, who departed Jan. 15. Both Spellings and Folt had been unable to work out a good relationship with the university system’s board of governors and the legislature. In 1919, the university’s situation was, arguably, even more severe. It was reeling from the recent death of its young and inspirational president, Edward Kidder Graham, and facing the challenges of dealing with an inadequate and worn-out set of campus buildings, along with a post-war explosion of enrollees. Meeting those challenges became the responsibility of Graham’s successor, Harry Woodburn Chase. Graham had been UNC’s president from 1913, when he was named acting president, until his death in 1918, a victim of the flu epidemic that scorched the nation at the end of World War I. The Coates University Leadership Series published by UNC Libraries recently released Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase. The book’s author, Greensboro’s Howard Covington, explains how the “fire” of Graham and the “stone” of his successor, Chase, transformed UNC from a quiet liberal arts institution into a respected university equipped to provide an academic experience that prepared students to participate in a growing commercial, industrial, and agricultural New South. At the time Graham became president, approximately 1,000 students were enrolled. The campus consisted primarily of a few buildings gathered around the South Building and Old Well. Classrooms and living quarters were crowded and in bad condition. In his brief time as president, the youthful and charismatic Graham pushed the university to reach out across the state. Speaking at churches, alumni gatherings, farmers’ groups and wherever a place was open to him, he preached that universities should help identify the state’s problems and opportunities, and

then devote its resources to respond to them. He coined the phrase “The boundaries of the university should be ‘coterminous’ with the boundaries of the state.” These words came from a University Day speech by Graham, although he used the term “coextensive” rather than “coterminous.” Leaders and supporters of the university often use this language to embrace a wider partnership with the entire state. He traveled throughout the state and delivered moving speeches about the role of education in improving the lives of North Carolinians. Graham’s ambitious plans to transform the university were interrupted by World War I when the campus and its programs were, at first, disrupted and then commandeered by the military. His death shortly after the war ended left the university without a magnetic and motivational figure to carry out his plans and vision. That task fell upon Henry Chase, a native of Massachusetts, who had gained Graham’s trust as a teacher and talented academic leader. Although he did not have Graham’s charisma, Chase had something else that made him an appropriate successor to the visionary Graham. He had an academic background, and a talent for recruiting faculty members who supported Graham’s and Chase’s vision for a university equipped to serve the state and gain recognition as a leading institution. Chase had the plans, but lacked sufficient resources from the state. However, he had an energetic organizer in the form of Frank Porter Graham, a cousin of Ed Graham and a junior faculty member. In 1921, Frank Graham helped mobilize the university’s friends that Ed Graham had inspired. Covington writes, “The campaign had been flawless. The state had never seen such an uprising of average citizens who had come together so quickly behind a common cause. Earlier rallies around education had been directed from the top down, with a political figure in the lead. This time, the people were ahead of their political leaders, who eventually came on board.” Chase took advantage of the public pressure on the legislature to secure the resources to expand the campus. He organized and found support for university programs that included the graduate and professional training needed to serve the public throughout the state, as Ed Graham had hoped. By 1930, when Chase left UNC to lead the University of Illinois, the UNC campus had more than doubled in size, and the student body approached 3,000, including 200 graduate students. His successor was Frank Graham. Chase’s ride to success had been a bumpy one. For instance, in 1925, about the time of the Scopes-evolution trial in Tennessee, Chase faced a similar uprising in North Carolina from religious leaders who attacked the university because some science instructors were teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. The state legislature considered and came close to passing a law to prohibit teaching of evolution. During the hearings on the proposal, one such professor,

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Finding Chika, by Mitch Albom The best-selling author returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they form — a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made. The Fall of Richard Nixon, by Tom Brokaw The NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, Brokaw writes of justice and judgment, in this nuanced and thoughtful chronicle, a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. He recounts Nixon’s claims of executive privilege to withhold White House tape recordings of Oval Office conversations; the bribery scandal that led to the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew and the choice of Gerald Ford as vice president; Nixon’s firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; travels with Henry Kissinger and how Nixon organized emergency relief for Israel during the Yom Kippur War in the midst of Watergate; Nixon’s “I am not a crook” speech; the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court that required Nixon to turn over the tapes; and other insider moments from this important and dramatic period. Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives — and Save Theirs, by Richard Louv Louv’s landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children and nature. Our Wild Calling makes the case for protecting, promoting and creating a sustainable and shared habitat for all creatures — not out of fear, but out of love. Transformative and inspiring, this book points us toward what we all long for in the age of technology: real connection. Louv interviews researchers, theologians, wildlife experts, indigenous healers, psychologists and others to show how people are communicating with animals in ancient and new ways; how dogs can teach children ethical behavior; how animal-assisted therapy may yet transform the mental health field; and what role the human-animal relationship plays in our spiritual health. Little Weirds, by Jenny Slate This collection of essays is a little weird — and very funny. Slate, who won the 2014 Critics Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy, was a literature major at Columbia University, where she helped form the improv group Fruit Paunch. She was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, a regular on the Jimmy Fallon Show and had a recurring role on Bored to Death.

The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire, by Francesca Cartier Brickell At the heart of this revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty — four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s — are the three brothers whose motto was “never copy, only create.” Thanks to their unique and complementary talents, they made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the 20th century. Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the Cartier brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. This book is a magnificent, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of a legendary family. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory that Changed American History, by Brian Kilmeade Recapturing this pivotal war that changed America forever, Kilmeade sheds light on the tightrope all war heroes walk between courage and calculation. Thanks to his storytelling, a new generation of readers will remember the Alamo. In March of 1836 Gen. Santa Anna led the Mexican Army in a massacre of more than 200 Texians, including Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett, besieged in a tiny adobe mission for 13 days. The defeat galvanized the surviving Texians, commanded by Sam Houston, who led them to a shocking victory in the Battle of San Jacinto, securing their freedom and paving the way for America’s growth.

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On Swift Horses, by Shannon Pufahl Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. She begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and gambling. Her freethinking mother died before Muriel’s 19th birthday and her brotherin-law, Julius, is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino, where he falls in love with Henry while the tourists watch atomic tests from the rooftop. When Henry is run out of town as a young card cheat, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another.

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Full Circle

In praise of the underdog, screenwriter Nick Basta takes on the charmed life of legend Yogi Berra

By Wiley Cash • Photographs by Mallory Cash

In the fourth grade, Nick Basta

loved two things: Yankees baseball and making his buddies laugh. While he enjoyed being on the diamond, he caught the acting bug when he made his friends laugh by impersonating the woman in the Enjoli perfume commercial (“I can bring home the bacon/ Fry it up in a pan.”).

Flash-forward a few decades and he is walking the red carpet alongside movie stars like Cynthia Arivo and Janelle Monáe. “I started out just wanting to make people laugh, to make them feel good,” Nick says. “And I kept going.” Nick has kept going over the years, and he is a long way from the snickers of his fellow Catholic schoolboys back in upstate New York. We are sitting at a corner table at Slice of Life in downtown Wilmington, drinking Pinner IPAs and eating pizza in the middle of a Monday afternoon when Nick lists all the

cities where he has lived and worked over the years: New Orleans, Boston, New York, Wilmington, places just as diverse as his acting roles, but in each city Nick has managed to carve out a career on stage and on the screen. He attended college at SUNY Alfred, where he majored in ceramics and where acting kept getting in the way. He appeared in plays like Our Town and worked with an improv group. After college he moved to New Orleans to pursue a music career, but the stage called him there too. He met his wife, Joey, when they appeared opposite one another in a play titled Once in a Lifetime. “Was it scandalous?” I ask. “The two leads meeting on set, dating, getting married?” Nick laughs. “No, it wasn’t scandalous,” he says. “Nobody noticed. There were 25 people in the cast, and some nights there weren’t even that many people in the audience.” He found his way to the big screen in New Orleans as well, and he received his Screen Actors’ Guild card after a speaking part in his first feature film, Tempted, starring Burt Reynolds. Ceramics, music: Nick had done his best to pursue something other than acting, but now he decided to focus on it. He and Joey moved north to Boston, where he enrolled at Harvard.

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CASSANDRA KING CONROY Tell Me A Story In Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy the woman he called “King Ray” looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust for life was fueled by a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his home. As she reflects on their relationship and the years they spent together, Cassandra reveals how the marshlands of South Carolina ultimately cast their spell on her, too, and how she came to understand the convivial, generous, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood man beneath the legend - her husband, the original Prince of Tides. Event will be held at The Country Club of North Carolina (CCNC) Each ticket includes an autographed hard cover copy of Tell Me A Story. The event will consist of a presentation from the author, audience Q&A, and a signing line after the presentation.

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“What was it like being in acting school after being on the stage for so many years?” I ask. Nick smiles, takes a sip of his beer. “It was the hardest thing I’d ever done,” he says. “Seventy hours a week of speech, movement, Shakespeare, appearing in several shows at once.” He pauses for a moment as if recalling the grueling years of graduate school. “At least it was the hardest thing I’d ever done until I moved to New York City.” After six years in New York, where Nick worked as an actor and Joey worked as an agent, they decided to look south after giving birth to their daughter. They heard about a small coastal city in North Carolina where Hollywood had taken root. They moved to Wilmington, where Nick’s first role in a feature film was as “Impatient Bus Customer” in Safe Haven. “The role called for a guy with a Boston accent,” Nick says. “I’d spent all that time at Harvard, so I thought I’d put that Boston accent to use.” Since moving to North Carolina, Nick has worked steadily in film and on television shows like Queen Sugar, True Detective and Under the Dome,

but he cannot help but be disillusioned by the fact that the industry that brought him to Wilmington now exists as a ghost of itself. “I haven’t shot a movie or a show in North Carolina in six years,” he says. “The industry is what brought us here. A lot of great people left the area and moved to Atlanta and New Orleans. It’s too bad.” While the film business in Nick’s adopted hometown has slowed over the years, the same cannot be said for his acting career. Next year he will appear as Gloria Steinem’s editor in the biopic The Glorias, starring Julianne Moore, Bette Midler and Alicia Vikander. This month he appears in the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet alongside Cynthia Arivo, Janelle Monáe and Joe Alwyn. As excited as he is to share the screen with such incredible talent in service of such an important historical figure, Nick admits that he is a little nervous about his onscreen persona. “I play a slave trader named Foxx,” he says. “I’m a really bad dude in this movie, and it was hard.” “What do you mean?” “It was just an emotionally tough movie to shoot,” he says. “There were a lot of tears on the set, and I’m not just talking about the actors. Assistant

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As the Washington Redskins

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dropped their fourth straight game in the early stages of another lousy NFL season on the same weekend my alma mater North Carolina came heartbreakingly close to beating Clemson, I had one thought: Thank goodness for Ohio State.

There is no way that sentence could have come from my keyboard prior to 2013, when I started dating Ohio-born Jen, whose sporting interests start and end with Buckeye football. They were her parents’ favorite and quickly became her team, too. Jen keeps track of the Buckeyes like a meteorologist watching a hurricane, then, when college football season is over, contentedly returns to reading, cooking or needlepoint. Since Ohio State wins regularly, it wasn’t a hard sell for me to become a fan, because who wants scoreboards making them sad several months a year? Washington has had only nine winning seasons since 1991, and although things are looking up for the Tar Heels with the return of coach Mack Brown, he is not a miracle worker. I’m not going to abandon my NFL favorite despite their owner or their nickname, both of which are problematic. I have rooted for Washington since Sonny Jurgensen was passing to Charley Taylor and still have the Sonny-signed 8x10 I sent away for. I had NFL bed sheets, a Redskins toboggan and jacket, and was glued to the television every time they played. During my childhood of fandom, Washington didn’t have a winning record until I was 10. But the Jurgensen-led offense could always move the ball, as evidenced in a 72-41 victory over the New York Giants in 1966, the 115 total points still an NFL regular season record. I remember well the joy of the 1983 Super Bowl, when Washington finally won the big one. I drove to Charlotte to watch the game with my

friends Brad and Lynne, Brad having grown up in the D.C. area and been a long-suffering fan like me. Washington was Super Bowl champion again in 1988 and 1992. In that decade I was well rewarded for many years of football futility, but recently, with the wayward team management, those highlight memories seem very distant. The Tar Heels played some of their finest football when I was in school at Chapel Hill, no surprise given their roster included Lawrence Taylor on defense and Kelvin Bryant on offense. Although I was typing for The Daily Tar Heel, which ruled out face paint or a flask in Kenan Stadium, those were heady days. In 1980, when UNC was 7-0 and traveled to perennially good Oklahoma, there hardly had been a bigger Carolina football game. Alas, the Dick Crum-coached Tar Heels were humbled, 41-7, but there was so much interest in the contest I was able to string for a couple of newspapers and make a few bucks to spend at the Porthole and He’s Not Here. Carolina won the rest of its games that season, concluding with a victory over Texas in the Bluebonnet Bowl, the only time I was in the Astrodome. After meeting Jen, I soon discovered that despite her longtime allegiance she had never attended an Ohio State game at “The Shoe.” We remedied that in 2016, driving to Columbus to watch OSU play Bowling Green State University. Jen was like Ned Beatty’s character in Rudy, finally going to a Notre Dame game after many seasons of watching on TV. Our seats were way up high, but the Buckeyes and The Best Damn Band in the Land were great, and so was the weather, gloriously warm and sunny. Final score: Ohio State 77, Bowling Green 10. The Buckeyes were scoring plenty of points in their early games this season, guided by quarterback Justin Fields, whose name makes their games even more fun for this fan. Come the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Jen and I will be in front of a television for Ohio State-Michigan. It’ll never be Carolina-Duke hoops for me, but I’m happy “The Game” is at least a little bit my game too. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent.

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By Tony Cross

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close to me: I don’t bartend much these days. Yes, that’s right — you’ve been duped. I’ve been making this up as I go along. Kidding. Well, kind of. It is true that you will not find me behind any bar, besides the one in my apartment. And by “the one in my apartment” I mean my kitchen.

I’m still very passionate about cocktails and everything that goes in them, it’s just that I’ve been completely devoured by my business. Oh, and if you haven’t heard, we batch cocktails for you to drink on draft. And while there are some in the cocktail community that are opposed to my business plan, I’d like to outline what I’ve learned in the past three years, and why I respectfully disagree. I got the idea to chime in on this because of an Instagram post I read the other day from a popular online magazine. The post went something like this: “Draft cocktails have divided the cocktail world. With a mix of avid supporters and vocal detractors, the practice of putting cocktails on tap is controversial as some ask: Are draft cocktails taking the craft out of craft cocktails? Sound off below.” As I scrolled through the comments, I was a little shocked (and delighted) to see more positive than negative feedback on draft cocktails. Now, the folks that are skeptical, or are just adamantly opposed to this style of drink, might be voicing opinions based on experiences in cocktail lounges. A common theme for naysayers is the fact that draft cocktails take away from the whole experience when you’re in a nice cocktail bar. Indeed, it does. And a few people didn’t like the fact that they’ve been to a quality cocktail bar, only to pay the same price for a draft cocktail as one made from scratch right in front of them. I agree with that as well. And then there were those that just had a crap cocktail that came from a keg. First impressions are lasting, and to those that experienced a bad drink on draft, I get it. My turn. I don’t think cocktails coming out of a keg are going to be huge in well-established cocktail bars around the world. Draught cocktails do help bars get out a drink when it's very busy and, sure, there are some that do it exclusively

(Yours Sincerely in Brooklyn and Draft Land in Hong Kong), but all other bars are making their drinks in front of you. And I like that. Where I do see draft cocktails expanding are places where you’re a bartender (maybe one who’s not devoted to making his own) who would like to figure out how to do draft cocktails to help with busy nights. If that’s the case, you’ll need a to do a few things. First, make sure your recipe is tight — it’s one thing when coming up with a new cocktail and learning to get the balance right, but it’s another when you’ve got 250-plus ounces at once. That’s a lot of cocktails (and money) down the drain with each mistake. Once you have your recipe ready to go and you’re making everything fresh (I hope), you’ve got about a week to sell this keg before it turns. Oh, and make sure you’re shaking the keg every couple of hours to ensure separation of ingredients. Now get to it. But wait. If you don’t know how to make a proper drink to begin with, how in the hell are you going to understand balance? You’re not. And I am not knocking any bartender that doesn’t. I know plenty of great bartenders that can whip my butt serving a ton of customers in a busy dive bar/club/etc. on a busy night. So, what am I saying? Over the past three years, my business, Reverie Cocktails, has catered to the needs of businesses that want a good drink that’s fast, consistent, and tastes good. You don’t need to sell our kegs in a week’s time (though, there are plenty of our accounts that do); our drinks hold just as long as beer and are made with quality ingredients. You’re probably not going to see our draft handle in any craft cocktail lounge, but you will see it in dive bars, large bars, restaurants, country clubs, breweries, music venues and more. We’re represented in three states (Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio) and will soon land a trial run in a NCAA arena. Fingers crossed. I totally understand the purists out there. There’s nothing like walking up to a bar and having a skilled bartender whip up a delicious Manhattan on a chilly night. However, Reverie has legs. And while it’s taken some time to really get going, the best is yet to come. There are waaaayyy more Average Joe bars than there are craft cocktail bars in this nation. I like those odds. PS Tony Cross is a bartender (well, ex-bartender) who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern Pines.

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Be It Ever So Humble Sweet potatoes and apples, the perfect pair

By Jan Leitschuh

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(finally!) can crisp up and take on a chill, I crave a favorite fall dish. It's a superstar in our household for four simple reasons: It's simple to make; it's seasonal; it’s highly nutritious; and it tastes splendid. It's a humble dish, but so very satisfying on so many levels.

Perhaps you'd like a crack at it, too. The recipe pairs two iconic fall superstars, sweet potatoes and apples, and the resulting marriage blends as comfortingly as turkey and stuffing. You can make a big dish of it at the beginning of the week and spoon it onto your plate as a side dish (or, dessert) all week. Sweet potatoes and apples — one is a root vegetable, and one is a fruit. Just use regular old orange sweet potatoes and any apples. I'm especially fond of Granny Smiths and Honeycrisps in this dish, but often use several varieties — whatever is available. The recipe is simple: Chop up some of both, drizzle with some wet stuff and spices, and roast until soft and bubbly. More on that later. Of course, this simple dish is not Thanksgiving-worthy, but only because every family has their own iconic dishes to trot out each Turkey Day. Otherwise, sweet potatoes-and-apples are the belly-filling, late-fall dish at our house, great to serve with pork, turkey leftovers, grilled cranberry and Brie sandwiches or just by itself. We know we're supposed to eat five to nine fruits and vegetables a day for better health. I find this dish a most pleasant option to knock out at least two. Apples are rich in gut-friendly pectin, according to the North Carolina Apple Growers Association. Pectin and mild acids found in apples help fight body toxins, aid digestion and pep up the whole system. Pectin also has been associated with helping to keep cholesterol levels in balance and is significant in helping to reduce the incidence of certain types of heart disease.

And, as we approach cold season, November is the time to consume apples. Studies have demonstrated a correlation between regular apple consumption and a reduced incidence of colds and other upper respiratory ailments. The old saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” has its roots in fact. Sweet potatoes are full of soluble and insoluble fiber — good for gut health — and packed with vitamins, too. Incredibly rich in beta-carotene, the antioxidant responsible for the vegetable’s bright orange color, sweet potatoes promote eye health and support the immune system. In fact, one cup of baked orange sweet potato, with skin, provides more than seven times the amount of betacarotene than the average adult needs per day So much for health. Then there's the seasonal/local aspect. You couldn't eat more local. For almost 50 years, North Carolina has been the top sweet potato-producing state in the nation. While we may wilt in heat and humidity, the humble sweet potato thrives. In 2016, North Carolina dug and marketed over 1.7 billion pounds of sweet potatoes, nearly three times as many as California — the second highest producing state. North Carolina grows more sweet potatoes than the rest of the United States combined. And the Tar Heel State holds its own with apples, too. North Carolina ranks seventh nationally in apple production. North Carolina growers favor apple varieties such as Rome, Golden Delicious, and Delicious, Fuji, Gold Rush, Honeycrisp, Jonagold and Pink Lady. Up to 4 million bushels of apples can be produced in a given year. How about them apples? As for taste, these two fall friends not only marry well, they invite others to share their autumnal happiness. At various times, with a free hand, I have tossed in a number of other additions that really upped the flavor quotient, nutrition and/or visual interest. To the chopped (or cubed, or sliced) dish I have added, variously, a drizzle of maple, sugar-free ginger syrup, or honey. Some prefer brown sugar — or no sweetener at all. For fall spices, I like cinnamon (especially with a tiny dash of warming cayenne to kick up the heat), fresh or chopped crystallized ginger, or pumpkin-pie spice — even a little curry or chai spice, if I’m feeling adventurous. Chopped orange peel (not the white pith, but the outer orange rind) also

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Maple-Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Apples Ingredients: 3 pounds orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (about 3 very large), peeled and cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick rounds 1 3/4 pounds tart green apples, (or any apples), peeled, halved, cored, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices 3/4 cup pure maple syrup 1/4 cup apple cider 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces 1/2 teaspoon salt Preheat oven to 375°F. In 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish, alternate potato and apple slices in rows, packing tightly. Combine remaining ingredients in heavy medium saucepan and bring to boil over high heat. Pour hot syrup over potatoes and apples. Cover dish tightly with foil and bake 1 hour. Uncover casserole. (Can be prepared 3 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature, basting occasionally with pan juices.) Reduce temperature to 350°F. Bake until potatoes and apples are very tender and syrup is reduced to thick glaze, basting occasionally, about 45 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and co-founder of the Sandhills Farm to Table cooperative.

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I love November. Sweater weather, fall-

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When the temperature turns down and the light of day gets a little dimmer, it’s time for wine that reflects the atmosphere. While I don’t recommend drinking pumpkin-spiced wine (although I do love a great, well-made pumpkinflavored porter or stout beer), I do look for wines with a richer, darker, fuller flavor than what is called for during warmer months. One of my all-time favorite wines for fall and Thanksgiving is syrah, or shiraz. It’s the same grape, just called different things in different growing regions. In general, Southern Hemisphere growing regions like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa will refer to their wines as shiraz, while Northern Hemisphere producers in Europe and the United States will call their wines syrah. It’s a red grape that has rich, dark berry and cherry, chocolate and a hint of pepper spice flavors. Sounds like fall to me. The grape produces a low tannin wine with a round mouth feel that is still “big” without being overpowering. For a great value I look to the Southern Hemisphere. Nine Stones Shiraz from the Barossa Valley in Australia is a medium-bodied wine with a little hint of eucalyptus and cocoa. A warm, continental climate like the Barossa Valley’s allows for wines with more power and black pepper than cooler areas. For a bigger, richer style, Fess Parker Syrah from Santa Barbara County, California, is rich and concentrated without being too much for the Thanksgiving turkey. Syrah grapes from the Santa Rita AVA (American Viticultural Area) benefit from the combination of steady and continuous breezes coming off the Pacific, and the dense fog that rolls in over the mountains, keeping the vines protected from the heavy sun, and allowing for ideal ripening. Both wines will shine next to all kinds of other holiday meats, too, especially

beef, and my favorite, syrah-braised lamb shank. For a starter, pair with a tasty, tangy goat cheese like Cypress Groves Bermuda Triangle. Drizzle with a little honey and serve with dried cherries. When the leaves cover the ground, there’s a chill in the air and we are preparing for the rush of the holidays, I still like to relax with a glass of white wine after a long day. Trying something a little off-dry this time of year pairs perfectly with autumn-spiced desserts, like spice cake, and rich hearty dishes. I love the diversity of riesling. While many rieslings are off-dry — slightly sweet — many are dry. An off-dry style like Fess Parker Santa Barbara County Riesling is bright, light and fruity on the palate and nose. Hints of traditional stone fruits and citrus blossoms, backed with a touch of acidity, make the wine light enough but structured, complementing heavy sides like vegetable casseroles and stuffing at the Thanksgiving table. It can follow you to the dessert table or help you start the meal off. Pair it with Purple Haze, a fresh goat cheese made in Northern California, that has added lavender and fennel pollen. The racy bite of the goat cheese and its floral notes help to balance the fruity wine. For dessert, a pineapple upside-down cake or carrot cake both have the richness to cut through the slightly sweet, slightly acidic characteristics of the riesling. If you haven’t had a riesling from Northern Italy, this is the time of year to try one. The rieslings of this area are rich and complex. The cooler climate and heavily mineral-driven soils make for wines with more petrol on the nose and rounder, slightly viscous palates. Lemon curd and lemon zest characteristics in Roeno Riesling from Trento, Italy, are a nice accompaniment to the richness of fried turkey and mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving. The acidity and minerality of the wine pair nicely with a robust cheese like Appalachian, made in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains by Meadow Creek Dairy. A house style “tomme” cheese made with raw milk from grass-fed cows is buttery, herbal and nutty this time of year from the richness of the summer milk. Heed the call of syrah and riesling this fall, and be grateful it’s finally cool enough to stuff ourselves! PS Angela Sanchez owns Southern Whey, a cheese-centric specialty food store in Southern Pines, with her husband, Chris Abbey. She was in the wine industry for 20 years and lucky enough to travel the world drinking wine and eating cheese.

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By Susan S. Kelly

Did you come by my house on Hallow-

een? You know, the one with no pumpkin on the stoop, no lights on, and a Grinch upstairs watching Netflix behind the shutters? I loathe Halloween, and with grown children, am now able to confess as much.

I do, however, love candy, and since you’re still picking Nestlé Crunch wrappers from your children’s pockets or out of your dryer lint trap, now seems as good as time as any for a little treatise on the topic. Blaming a parent for obsessions — never mind neuroses — is always convenient. I grew up in an era when mothers thought nothing of buying six packs of candy bars for dessert, the same way they thought nothing of serving syrupy pineapple slices straight from a Del Monte can. Hence my first true love: Black Cow suckers, which, tragically, are nearly impossible to find these days. I like Common Candy. By “common,” I mean common to convenience store aisles. Caramel Creams. Tootsie Rolls. Tootsie Roll Pops. Sugar Daddies. BB Bats. Kits. I like the cheap stuff, the fake stuff. And while my preferences are common, they’re not as common as my husband’s, who’ll actually buy and eat those jellied things called Orange Slices. Again, blame the previous generation. As a child among a dozen first cousins at their lake house, my husband’s grandfather took the passel of them each day to the gas station and let them pick out a piece of candy. If that ain’t cheap entertainment, I don’t know what is, and I plan to do the same thing with my grandchildren as soon as they get enough teeth in their head to rot. One friend has a candy drawer in her kitchen especially for her grandchildren. Now, that falls in the Great Grandparent category, beating Tweetsie Railroad or some old butterfly garden like a drum. Plus, I know where the drawer is. Like Mikey in the old Life cereal advertisements, my husband will eat anything even slightly candy-like, including peppermints. The only people who consider peppermints candy and not breath mints are children with candy canes at Christmas. I had a boarding school friend who ate Mentos like popcorn. I can still see her putting her thumb in the roll and wedging one out. Mentos are not candy. They were precursors to Tic Tacs. Peppermints are desperation candy in the same way that my sister thinks meatloaf is Depression food. Then again, I absolutely love meatloaf, which means that I keep a bowl of peppermints available for my husband. Each to his own tastes. Has anyone ever even eaten a Zero bar but me? It’s a personal process. You peel

off the waxy white coating with your front teeth, then the fake chocolate nougat, and finally, the peanuts, or almonds or whatever they are, after you dissolve the caramel they’re embedded in. This process may explain why I can’t eat M&Ms. The way I eat M&Ms, after about a dozen, my tongue has started to get raw and cracked, the way it did as a child with Sweet Tarts. Plus, milk chocolate. Eh. Higher up on my candy food chain: Snickers. Milky Way. Mounds. Rolos. 3 Musketeers. Yup. Beneath discussion: marshmallow peanuts and Peeps. Easter candy is a bust in general. Sweet Tarts = not candy. Also not candy: Reese’s cups. Butterfingers. Paydays. Junior Mints. Too much peanut butter, peanuts, and, again, peppermint. Still, in a pinch I’ll eat most of those, the same way you’ll settle for a Fig Newton if there are no real cookies around. Red Hots don’t really qualify as candy either, but they definitely qualify as common. Where else but the place where I get my tires rotated could I find a vending machine that cranks out a handful of Hot Tamales for a quarter? Not a fan of Pixie Stix — why not just buy a packet of Kool-Aid, sprinkle some powder in your palm, and lick it off? — but I’ve always loved those disgusting four-packs of Nik-L-Nips and the oversized wax lips only available at (you guessed it) Halloween. Seeing a pattern here? Clearly, I favor candy with taffy, teeth-pulling textures. Caramels, nougats, taffy itself, fudgy chocolate like a Tootsie Roll, Laffy Taffy. Milk Duds. Bit-O-Honey. Starburst in a pinch. For one birthday, a friend gave me a 12-pack of Sugar Daddys — vastly preferable to Sugar Babies — which I take to the movies. That (literal) sucker lasts the whole movie, especially if you eat the paper stick too, as I do. Nothing better than a spit-and-sugar soaked stick. I totally do not get Skittles, but I’ll buy a Costco jar the size of those things pink pickled eggs are usually found in if it’s filled with Jelly Bellys. But Jolly Ranchers? I’m not much on hard candy. Hard candy is for colonoscopy prep. Fancy-pants products from “chocolatiers” are trying too hard. Just keep your Toblerone and Godiva. Riesens are as upscale as I get. Nor have I ever understood Necco wafers, Pez, or Valentine hearts. Why not just eat chalk? Same thing for those elastic band necklaces strung with pastel candy discs that you eat while wearing it, though I admire the concept. You know that friend with the candy drawer? She keeps all her Halloween candy corn that’s gone rock hard for me. I love the stuff, and candy just doesn’t get any more common. So don’t think poorly of my October 31 antipathy. My attitude concerns the costumes, not the candy. Besides, I just love All Saints Day on November 1. Almost as much as I love Cow Tales. PS Susan S. Kelly is a blithe spirit, author of several novels, and a proud grandmother.

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“Where is what?” “My lunchbox — I know you took it and hid it somewhere. It’s not funny.” “No, I did not.” “Where is it?” “I don’t know, David!” “You hid it — I know you did!” “I did not take your stupid lunchbox!” he yelled as he stomped off to his room. I sat on the couch, grading papers on my computer, trying to ignore it all. “Mom, I know he took it. He thinks he’s funny, and he’s not. Who else would take it?” “Did you leave it in the car?” I asked, without looking up from my computer. He headed out the front door to check the backseat of the car, opening the door and slamming it shut at ludicrous speed. “It’s not in the car,” he said. “Did you leave it at school?” “No,” he frowned, considering. “I don’t think so. I guess it could be in the wrestling room.” “Well, look tomorrow. You can put your lunch in a Walmart bag.” “OK,” he murmured. That night we looked around for the missing lunchbox, but it was nowhere to be found. The next morning, I put his ham, cheese and ranch dressing sandwich, peanuts, Pringles and an apple — that I knew he wouldn’t eat — in a plastic Walmart bag and handed it to him. When I picked him up from wrestling practice, the first thing I asked was if he found his lunchbox. Nope. Still missing in action. That evening I packed the boys’ lunches for the next day (I really feel like I have my life together when I do that), and looked around some more, but no lunchbox. Another Walmart bag it was. The next day after school it was time to do a grid search of all known or suspected lunchbox locations. Everywhere we could think of — under the car seats, in his room, in the living room, in the bathroom, under the bed — it could be anywhere.

Finally, I decided I was tired of looking for it. I said a small prayer over its memory, praised it for its long and devoted service, and told him I’d pick him up another lunch box at Walmart for five bucks. “I’ll get another one at the store,” I told him. “I liked that one,” he said, and then he mumbled something about Kevin hiding it and how ridiculous it was that Kevin still plays these types of games. Whatever. I scratched “lunchbox” on my Walmart list. Before I left, I asked David to unload the dishwasher. “When will you be home?” he asked. He wanted to wait until the last second, of course, hoping to coincide placing the last dish in the cupboard with the sound of me turning the doorknob. “I don’t know. It could be 20 minutes — it could be an hour,” I said as I grabbed my keys. I barely made the Walmart parking lot when I got a text message from David: “Kevin hid my lunchbox he lied” I sighed. “How do you know?” I texted. “Bc I was unloading the dishes and put the strainer thing up and” His message, cut short for dramatic effect. It was followed by a picture. The picture showed the pots and pans piled on top of each other in the cupboard — a strainer tossed on top — and near the back, between the lids, there was a splash of blue. The missing lunchbox. Had I put his lunchbox in the cupboard without thinking? Hell, I found cereal in the refrigerator the other day that I put away with the milk. “Don’t blame Kevin. I might have put it in there,” I texted. “He did it hes laughing about it,” David replied. I took my pen and scratched lunchbox off my grocery list. At least I hadn’t lost my mind. Yet. The next day David sent a text from school: “there was a wasp in my lunchbox kevin put it in there” And away we go. PS When Renee isn’t teaching English or being a professional taxi driver for her two boys, she is working on her first book.

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Hungry No More Wouldn’t it be pretty to think so?

By Deborah Salomon

Thanksgiving wears many faces: the

college freshman’s first time home. The soldier deployed away from home. The traveler stranded by weather on the way home. The waiter serving “homestyle” mashed potatoes with “Grandma’s” giblet gravy. Oenophiles pairing Beaujolais nouveau with turkey. Homeless men eating processed turkey and canned green beans, gratefully, in a church hall. Xenophobes insisting that only born-in-the-USA Americans are entitled to celebrate a holiday based, ironically, on natives helping immigrants. Mustn’t forget pumpkin pie, football and early-bird Black Friday bargains. Putting aside commercial elements and recent traditions, Thanksgiving is about addressing hunger. Fifty percent of the Plymouth colonists died during the first year, many from illnesses exacerbated by a poor diet, since not enough food was grown and put by for the harsh Massachusetts winter. Perhaps the only thing worse than starving is starving sick, in the cold. Americans hear a lot about starvation. During World War II children were cajoled to clean their plates using the specter of “starving children in Europe.” Then, the babies of Bangladesh with swollen bellies and sunken cheeks. I have heard a 40-day hunger strike survivor describe the symptoms: headache, cramps, delusions. Men, women and children suffer these symptoms every day, not just in the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas or famine-ridden African nations. They exist in the Appalachians and inner-city ghettos. A few stand outside Walmart and Harris Teeter in Aberdeen, holding signs that say “I’m hungry.” Why? There’s no food shortage in the United States, no famine. Just the opposite. Despite flooding and global warming there’s still a glut. Yet prices keep rising, in part because Americans are spoiled rotten. Not enough white meat on your bosomy Butterball? Roast a separate breast in the same pan. Brussels sprouts must be baby and cranberries fashioned into chutney. Choose from a hundred flavors/varieties of yogurt, as well as milk from cows and half a dozen plant sources. Apples fly halfway around the world on first class tickets, the price suggests. Vegetarians want “impossible burgers” with a meat mouthfeel. Food has become fashion, which means the industry caters to those who can afford indulgence, pay almost $5 for a loaf of sliced bread, rather than finding ways to distribute basics at low prices — or free.

You’ve heard of inner-city “food deserts” where no supermarkets exist, forcing those without transportation to pay exorbitant prices for canned goods at corner stores — and no fresh produce or meats at all. What’s the good of food stamps without a place to buy food? Shame, shame in a nation with surpluses. Shame on the public school that recently gave a 9-year-old an “alternate lunch” because his account was a few dollars overdue. Shame on food producers who spend (and often lose) hundreds of millions diversifying mayonnaise into 10 flavors. The United States needs many things: One of them is not an entire supermarket aisle devoted to breakfast cereals, another to soft drinks. Local initiatives like food shelves and BackPack Pals soldier on. I’m wanting something grander. C’mon, Heinz. Let’s go, Nabisco, Coke, Kraft and Kellogg’s. Donate, without fanfare, year-round free meal programs to economically depressed areas. You could even use up all those ridiculous products that bomb. Imagine how many hungry folks could be fed for the price of a 30-second Super Bowl commercial. Here come the letters: “You oversimplify. It’s much more complicated.” No it’s not. Putting a man on the moon 50 years ago was complicated. Feeding the hungry couldn’t be simpler. Thanksgiving, originally an October harvest festival, has evolved as a food/ family event best portrayed by Norman Rockwell in his iconic painting which, don’t forget, was titled Freedom from Want, not Happy Thanksgiving — part of a series illustrating the Four Freedoms proclaimed by FDR in 1941. I have ridden a turkeymobile delivering holiday groceries to low-income families. I have attended Oxfam “hunger banquets” and many Thanksgiving dinner adaptations, including one where a historical museum recreated, as far as possible, the first: a tough, gamey wild turkey cooked outdoors over a spit, accompanied by corn bread and winter squash baked in the coals with maple-sweetened apples. The food was awful but spirits remained strong. I have also carried this crusade from job to job: fewer permutations, more basic foods easily accessible and at lower prices so everyone, every day, not just on Thanksgiving, can celebrate Freedom From Want as did Pilgrim immigrants and Wampanoag natives on that autumn afternoon in Massachusetts, in 1621. That, indeed, would be a reason to give thanks. PS Deborah Salomon is a staff writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com.

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The crow is an oft-maligned bird, even feared by

some. It is both smart and sneaky. Historically, crows were considered a bad omen: a common familiar of witches. Groups are still referred to as “murders.” Today the species remains the bane of farmers, being a large bird with a big appetite that tends to arrive with “murderous” intent when it comes to their crops.

Our common, year-round crow is the American crow. However, for a good part of the year we also have fish crows in the area. They, too, breed here but move east (and probably south) in the fall in large groups. Interestingly, they are often one of the first migrants to return to the Sandhills by early February. Although not noticeably different, fish crows are a bit smaller than their American cousins and have not a one- but a two-syllable call that is a very nasal “a-ah.” And as their name implies, these birds are drawn to wetter environments where they may feed upon the remains of fish and other aquatic creatures. (Ravens are a bird of a different feather and deserve a whole column of their own one of these days.) Crows are more scavengers than they are predators. Without hesitation, they will take advantage of defenseless young birds and animals, but are more likely to be found picking at prey left by others or feeding on roadkill. They lack talons and the raptorial grip of hawks and owls. Their bills are very strong, however. Crows can bite, tear and dig through a variety of materials. Vision is the one of the sharpest of their senses. In wet habitat, they will seek out female turtles laying eggs and lie in wait until the nest is complete. Even though the turtle may carefully rearrange the vegetation or leaf litter to dis-

guise the nest’s location, the crows aren’t fooled and after the female turtle has crawled off, they’ll make a meal of the eggs buried in the soil. Not only do they possess tremendous visual acuity, crows have demonstrated the ability to remember familiar patterns, such as the faces of people who feed them, or, conversely, torment them. In feeding experiments, not only were American crows able to remember where food was hidden, but in what order investigators left a series of treats. They have also been observed using tools: deliberately manipulating sticks with their bills to pry insect prey from cracks and crevices. For large birds, crow nests are well-concealed. In our area, they often use abandoned hawk or squirrel nests. When they do create a nest from scratch, it is most likely a stick-built affair, hidden at the very top of a tall pine. The only hint of its location tends to be parents chasing away intruders. Watch for a soaring hawk that is being harassed or a squirrel being pursued as it makes its way from tree to tree. But finding a nest’s exact spot requires the sharpest of eyes and may take some time, especially after the arrival of the young, prompting parents to make frequent trips in and out of the nest. American crows often gather in loose aggregations to breed. Two or three nests may be close to one another. That results in not only better protection but more eyes on the lookout for food resources. Also, adolescents — young from the previous year — may act as helpers during their first spring. It comes as no surprise that crows tend to be rather successful breeders. With our gardens, henhouses, bird feeders and compost piles, humans are a major source of food for crows. Given their patience and perseverance, they have figured out how to take advantage of us. Maybe the time has come for us to step back and appreciate them for the amazing creatures that they are. PS Susan would love to hear from you. Send wildlife sightings and photos to susan@ncaves.com.

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ed this time of year. It was late fall, not quite winter. I was at our duck hunting club named Whistling Wings, located on the Pamlico Sound close to Lake Mattamuskeet. I was holding forth on my own, as the other members had Thanksgiving holiday travels to complete.

Thanksgiving at our house was over pretty fast. My brother and sisters had other plans and couldn’t come for dinner; Tommy, our son, could only visit for the day because of business commitments. That evening after Tom had left for the mountains and all the turkey fixin’s were put away, Linda, my bride, and I were at loose ends. We were sitting by the fire talking about holidays and how they change as we grow older. “You know what, Babe? This is one of the quickest Thanksgivings ever. I think tomorrow I’m gonna ride up to the duck hole and check out things and see if ducks have arrived. None of the other guys will be there, but maybe I can get in a solitary hunt.” “I don’t know, Tom. I hate for you to be in the middle of nowhere by yourself. What if you have an accident, get bitten by a snake or something? You would be in real trouble.” “Lins, I also could get run over by a truck on May Street. I’m safer in the woods than anywhere.” Linda laughed and said, “You’re right. If the bears haven’t gotten you by now, they probably never will.” The next morning I was on the road early. It’s a five-hour motor to Mattamuskeet, and I wanted to be there by lunch to walk out to the impoundments and see if ducks were flying. North Carolina duck hunting season is split, with the early season coming in October for three days, then in November a period of a little over two weeks, which we call the Thanksgiving season, and then the final period in the cold months, beginning in December and ending in late January. Usually, the duck club does most of our hunting in the late season, but we try to get together as many times as we can. There are five of us in the club: John’s a lawyer; Jack’s a judge; Tom’s a textile mill owner; Art is also a mill owner but retired; and Bryan’s a textile broker. And me, I’m a writer and newspaperman.

A diverse group, we have spent many years experiencing the great outdoors, and in our own way, we’re pretty proficient in the wilds. This was my first visit to the little cabin that has served as home during duck season since late summer, when we all met to work on the impoundments and also to build duck blinds. We have three impoundments on the property bordering the Pamlico Sound. They are about 5 acres each, planted in corn during the summer and flooded with fresh water when duck season arrives. The impoundments are a food source and resting area for ducks of all species as they migrate south. In the early days in the Mattamuskeet area, impoundments were scarce; but now, as Uncle Tom has often said, “If there’s a ditch that’s got water, somebody’s gonna put an impoundment on it.” He knows what he’s talking about since he runs a thriving business cleaning ducks and is a native of Fairfield, a small town bordering Lake Mattamuskeet. In the early years of waterfowling at Mattamuskeet, just a few impoundments attracted loads of ducks. Now there are so many that waterfowl are dispersed all over the area. Great for ducks, but bad for hunters. I noticed several flights of teal ducks as I crossed the Pungo River. Teal are small fast fliers that migrate early and also the species that I think is the best table fare. If they are on the Pungo this early, they should be on the Pamlico. A good sign, I thought. Everything was quiet when I pulled in the parking area of our little cabin. I unloaded the vehicle, put together a quick lunch that I could take with me to the blind, strapped on my pistol in case I had to shoot a snake, and hiked out to our closest impoundment. Earlier we had built a permanent blind next to the dike right over the water. It’s very comfortable with bench seats and heavy brush on all sides, the perfect place to watch for waterfowl unobserved. I ate my lunch of sardines, crackers and a big slab of sharp cheddar cheese and topped it off with a frosty bottle of Blue Moon beer. There is absolutely no drinking while hunting at our club, but this afternoon I was going to just watch, no shooting, and acclimate myself to the wilds once again. After the long morning ride through so-called civilization, which included the madhouse on Interstate 40, the cold beer hit the spot. Daylight saving time was over and night comes a lot faster, so I packed my gear and watched the sun slowly sink into the marsh horizon. It was another beautiful sunset that can only be seen on the banks of the Pamlico. As I was slowly walking up the dike, I heard in the distance a couple of coyotes barking, and an owl hooted over in the tree line as he began his nightly hunt.

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Right at the end of the dike and just before the road widens on the way to the cabin, I paused and looked back toward the Pamlico. I could see silhouettes of ducks as they swarmed over the corn. They were diving into the impoundment as if they were using it as a roost. I watched until it became too dark and hiked on back to prepare supper. I chuckled to myself as I walked up the little path that served as a road. Ducks seem to have a builtin clock. In the morning, a duck hunter can legally shoot one half hour before sunrise and, in the evening, must stop hunting at sunset. These laws are strict and enforced by game wardens down to the minute. The only time I’ve ever had a mishap with game enforcement was when I was given a ticket for shooting three minutes after sunset. That’s another story, though, but I will say that I was exonerated after my day in court. The ducks that use our impoundments seem to be aware of the time, too, usually arriving too late and leaving too early. It’s a fun part of the sport though, trying to outwit a duck. Supper was easy. Linda had put together leftovers from Thanksgiving for me to bring, so there was no cooking. Just warm up a delicious dinner. Wonder why turkey and dressing always taste better the second time around? John had built a little kitchen island for the lodge to supplement counter space, and it usually worked out that after supper we all stood around the maple square enjoying an after-dinner drink while listening to our favorite music from a portable CD player. Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline entertained us with numerous famous country songs, but our favorites were “On The Road Again” and “Crazy.” Those CDs always get a good workout when the crew is all together. I washed my dinner dishes, and then to keep up the tradition, I poured a couple of fingers of Scotch, cranked up the CD player, and enjoyed Patsy as she sang the almost mystical songs of her short career. Before I retired after a long day, I turned off the outdoor lights and went out on the little porch, where we keep an outdoor grill. A quarter moon was high in the sky, and a soft mist, almost a fog, was lowering in the trees. I could hear the coyotes barking as they still looked for dinner; and in the far distance, the owl hooted as if it was tired of looking. As I turned to go inside, I heard the unmistakable whistle of widgeon ducks flying high, hopefully right to our impoundments. Sweet dreams, ducks, I hope to see you in the morning. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman and PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist.

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Seventies Shooter When the pros returned to No. 2 Johnny Miller

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marked by oil shocks, stagflation, bell-bottoms, hot pants, flower prints, sideburns, disco music, geometric architecture, lava lamps and round multi-purpose sports stadiums. It was a decade of transition from the turbulent ’60s to a softer decade of the ’80s when the baby boomers moved into their peak earning years and the “Me Generation” emerged.

And the ’70s marked quite the era of transition for Pinehurst. From 75 years of ownership by the Tufts family to a modern resort/residential developer named Diamondhead. From closed during the summer to round-the-year operation with air-conditioning. From a golf-only environment to one more inclusive of the family with a new tennis facility and lake/beach club. The 1970s also marked the return of professional golf to Pinehurst after a two-decade hiatus, which seems hard to fathom given No. 2’s firm spot in the modern USGA rota of major championship sites. The North and South Open was an anchor on the pro golf tour from its inception in 1902 until it was discontinued by owner Richard Tufts in 1951 over a dispute with golfers over the tournament purse. Then, after Diamondhead bought the resort and country club on Dec. 31, 1970, company president Bill Maurer believed Pinehurst should be back on golf’s center stage. “We’re always talking about Pinehurst being the golf capital of the world, so you could have the ‘World Championship’ at Pinehurst,” Maurer said. He sold Joe Dey, commissioner of the Tournament Players Division of

the PGA of America, on the idea of a “World Open” at Pinehurst — eight rounds over two weeks for the astronomical purse of half a million dollars and $100,000 to the winner. The dates were blocked for November 1973. A field of 240 players, including a sizable international contingent, convened in Pinehurst Nov. 8-17 for the World Open, played on courses 2 and 4. Miller Barber collected the title and the hundred grand prize, totaling 570 over eight rounds to edge tour rookie Ben Crenshaw by three shots. The veteran and youngster were tied through 13 holes on the final day, but Barber birdied 14 and 18, and Crenshaw bogeyed 16 after a wild drive to provide the final chapter. Pinehurst was back in the professional golf business and would be for exactly one decade. The finest golfers of the era would win at Pinehurst and place their stamps on the Pinehurst history scroll — Johnny Miller, Hale Irwin, Tom Watson and Raymond Floyd were among the victors on Pinehurst No. 2. Jack Nicklaus added to his North and South Amateur win in 1959 with a professional triumph in 1975. But it was also a star-crossed decade with a soft golf course played at bad times of the year, and events with shaky financial underpinnings throughout. The 1974 World Open, contested Sept. 12-15, coincided with the opening of the new World Golf Hall of Fame, a $2.5 million structure built behind the fourth green and fifth tee of No. 2. President Gerald Ford presided over the ceremony to induct the 13 charter members of the Hall of Fame — eight of them living (Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Gene Sarazen, Patty Berg and Nicklaus); and five inducted posthumously (Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Francis Ouimet, Harry Vardon and Babe Zaharias). The Hall of Fame was certainly a good idea, as the game of golf, for all of its rich history, had nothing along the lines of baseball’s Cooperstown or football’s Canton. Diamondhead funded the brainchild of Maurer, who was understandably sensitive to cynics who didn’t like the Hall of Fame funded by a company in the business of selling real estate and hotel rooms. “Everybody else had a shot at doing it for 600 years, and nobody did,”

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Maurer said. “If somebody else wants to build another one, fine. But I like the score I’m in the clubhouse with.” The 1974 tournament was a success, with warm weather, good galleries and Miller beating Nicklaus, Frank Beard and Bob Murphy in a playoff on the second extra hole. Miller laced a 3-wood second shot on the par-5 16th hole for a two-putt birdie and the victory. “So I lost another golf tournament,” Nicklaus said, “but I never enjoyed playing a golf course more. Pinehurst No. 2 is fabulous. I learned about five things about design this week — on a course 50 years old.” Tour dates in August and September the rest of the decade proved a wicked time to compete on a golf course that Donald Ross designed to run firm and fast. Course maintenance staff had to keep the greens, converted from Bermuda to bent in the summer of 1972, well-hydrated in the Southern heat and humidity; their softness allowed golfers to aim at flagsticks with abandon. For much of the 1970s, Diamondhead’s maintenance staff allowed the rough to grow thick around the putting surfaces, never understanding the concept of the Ross chipping areas. “Get rid of the rough and return the greens to Bermuda, and I’ll put No. 2 back in my top five in the world,” Tom Watson said after winning in 1978. Pinehurst officials did exactly that, but when Colgate departed as the headline sponsor following the 1979 tournament, financial problems suffocated the event. The Hall of Fame Classic lasted three more years but was gripped in a downward spiral of momentum. There wasn’t a big enough purse to attract the best players. Without the best players, the gate dwindled. And the purse got smaller. Diamondhead itself was in major arrears with its creditors as the early 1980s evolved; the company had lost Pinehurst, and the resort was in the hands of a consortium of banks when the last Hall of Fame Classic was held in September, 1982. It was during the 1970s as well that Pinehurst officials first reached out to the USGA with the idea of hosting the U.S. Open on No. 2. Those talks never went very far, however, as USGA executive director for rules and competitions P.J. Boatwright knew the course intimately from having lived in Pinehurst from 1955-59 while running the Carolinas Golf Association and was not happy with Diamondhead’s stewardship. But things changed over the 1980s: Robert Dedman Sr. bought the resort and club in 1984, restored its financial stability, and funded a total golf course and infrastructure expansion and overhaul. Penn G-2 grass was developed to allow golf greens to play firm and fast in the summer, and the greens were converted in 1996. The Open

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finally came to Pinehurst for successful runs in 1999, 2005 and 2014 with a one-off pairing that final year with the Women’s Open the next week. And now the clock’s been turned back to before that decade of the ’70s, with No. 2 reliving its earlier golden era of closely mown chipping areas, wide and firm fairways and sandy wastelands beyond the fairways. The changes came under the auspices of architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and were executed over two years from 2010-12. “P.J. talked so lovingly about what No. 2 had been years ago,” says David Fay, who began his USGA career under Boatwright in the 1970s and retired in 2010 as its executive director. “That picture he painted of No. 2 has always remained in my mind. “Yes, P.J. would love the changes.” One of those winners from the ’70s had a local perspective, with Floyd having grown up in Fayetteville and getting the occasional opportunity to play at Pinehurst with friends of his father, who ran the Fort Bragg golf course, or in junior competitions. “I remember my first trip was in the winter and the grass was dormant,” says Floyd, today retired from competitive golf and living in South Florida. “And I remember how tough it played, especially the front nine. I was excited because it was a treat to be leaving town to play another golf course, but I wasn’t even aware of the history or tradition. Back then, there was no such thing as rough. There was sand and pine straw and the natural environment was the rough.” Floyd beat Jerry McGee in a playoff for the 1976 Colgate championship. His last competitive rounds on No. 2 were played in the 1994 Senior Open there. “I was really impressed with the course that week because it was in such great condition,” Floyd says. “Among the players, No. 2 was known as a great golf course, maybe top five or top 10 in the world, but that wasn’t for its conditioning. It was just such a great layout. “Pinehurst is a golf mecca now with all the history and the great people of golf who have been there and won there. And Donald Ross was such a great architect. It’s definitely one of the world’s top golf destinations and there’s a lot of history there. Pinehurst No. 2 is one of great golf courses in the world and it’s always fun to play it.” And thankfully no one plays it today wearing bell-bottoms and Nehru jackets. PS Chapel Hill writer Lee Pace has written about Pinehurst, its golf courses and its personalities for more than three decades and has never sported the “full Cleveland look” on any of the resort golf courses.

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November �� Little Noise Not the involuntary shudder released when wakening or the deeper sigh escaping the reposing soul forsaking sleep, more a humph in the back of the throat but absent contempt, regret, arrogance or anger, pulsing the inner ear, the bony labyrinth of semicircular canals where it resonates with disquiet: it’s the little noise we make when a heart stops.

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Decades later LeRoy Neiman still makes an impression

By Jim Moriarty

f the beautiful people were there so was LeRoy Neiman, up close, with a sketchpad, a cigar and a mustache that, over his lifetime, seemed to grow in its flamboyance at the same rate as the artist’s renown. In 1959 one of those places was the Hunter Trials in Southern Pines, where the heirs of generational fortunes amassed in businesses as romantic as diamonds and gritty as tobacco gathered to ride to the hounds. Neiman came to illustrate his “Man at His Leisure” column in the risqué (at the time) Playboy magazine, so new it was barely more than a puppy itself. Outside the barn at Ginny and Pappy Moss’ Mile Away Farm, the epicenter of the hunt, Leonard Short ran into the painter. “I remember LeRoy Neiman introducing himself to me,” says Short, hardly more than a boy at the time. “I didn’t pay any attention to who he was. He asked if he could sketch some horses there. I said by all means, because we have a lot of artists around town that would do that anyway. Come to find out he was there to do the Hunter Trial course.” Sixty years later Short discovered a Neiman serigraph done in 1977 available at Leland Little Auction in Hillsborough. “That’s kind of one of my hobbies,” says Short, “much to my chagrin. It keeps me in the poorhouse. He was an impressionistic artist, which I never cared for, but I had to have that one with a little bit of Southern Pines history in it.” As stylistic as Neiman’s work could be, Short had no problem identifying Neiman’s representations of Margaret “Wiffi” Smith, W.O. (Pappy) Moss and Mrs. Winston Guest. “So it was,” said the Hunter Trail piece in Playboy, “that Neiman entered this world apart, observed the ancient and arcane sport of pursuing renard over hill and dale, met the well-favored followers of the hounds, observed them in their recherché habitat and transferred his vivid impressions to sketch pad and canvas. The scene has been written about by insiders and for insiders; it has been rendered in etching and old print. This is probably the first time, however, that a contemporary urban artist has spent five days as the guest of a hunt, caught its spirit and savored with total freshness of vision, and made notes — in words and pictures — of those things which struck him as unique and memorable.” Born LeRoy Runquist in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1921, Neiman was raised mostly by his mother, whom he describes in his autobiography All

Told as “a reckless woman, but I loved her. She was wild and irresponsible, got married several times. Feisty, she wouldn’t put up with this or that guy’s nonsense. She was a big influence on me. Her influence came through her independent spirit . . . she was a freewheeling soul and that’s what I got from her.” Having appropriated the last name of one of his mother’s husbands as his own, Neiman grew up hardscrabble during the Depression. “That’s where the Roaring Twenties went and where flashy small-time hustlers, stool pigeons, mutts and rummies acted out their dreams. You’re in a bar. You tell a story. It’s a tall tale, but as long as happy hour is going on, everybody buys it, so it becomes true,” he wrote. For entertainment Neiman and a friend would hop freights “to Duluth, Grand Forks, sometimes as far as Chicago . . . Looking out the open sliding door, it’s like a movie flashing by.” He sketched his way across Europe in World War II. “I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.” And, at one point, was arrested for being AWOL. Back in America he studied with Clement Haupers in St. Paul, then enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He married, divorced, became an instructor at the Art Institute and stumbled upon what would become his style. “I was still teaching full time . . . and getting into group and solo shows — but truth be told, I hadn’t figured out who I was as a painter,” writes Neiman. “In every artist’s life there’s an epiphany, the turning point that crystallizes everything that came before. I remember my turning point as if it were yesterday. One Saturday afternoon in ’52, Louie, the janitor for the apartment building next to my studio, was carting wheelbarrows of quart and gallon paint cans to a dump truck. When I asked what he was up to, he shrugged. ‘Gotta get rid of all these half-empty cans left over from painting the apartments!’ I looked at the labels. All high-gloss enamels. ‘Can I take them off your hands?’ I asked. “Louie was more than happy to let me have the lot. Back in my basement I lost no time pouring and dripping straight from the can, the paint dribbling and splattering, puddling and meandering like

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multicolored snakes. Then with artist’s palette knife and basic plastering tools I began spreading and swiping the thick, lustrous fluids. Since that day, liquid enamel paint and later adding in liquid acrylics have been my chosen medium.” The ’50s wanted nothing quite so much as to put war and Depression behind them. Neiman wanted to help. He was dating a woman, his future wife, Janet Byrne, who worked as a copywriter at the department store Carson Pirie Scott. One of her co-workers was a young man named Hugh Hefner. “Then one day Janet and I are walking down the street, and here comes Hef in the other direction. Without missing a step as we passed each other, he shouted out, ‘Hey, LeRoy, I’m starting a magazine. Will you do something for it?’” In the blink of a bunny, LeRoy Neiman was Playboy’s artist in residence. Then came Muhammad Ali, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Arcaro, Lenny Bruce, Joe Frazier, Dizzy Gillespie, John F. Kennedy, Rudolph Nureyev, Arnold Palmer, George Plimpton, Andy Warhol, Super Bowls, Masters tournaments, Kentucky Derbys, World Series, Toots Shor’s, casinos, Yogi Berra, Stanley Cups, Bill Clinton, Rocky Balboa, Mickey Mantel, Elvis, and even the Hunter Trials of 1959.

While it's unclear whether or not Neiman ever returned for the traditional Thanksgiving opening of the hunt season, he refers to it obliquely in his autobiography. “They say a proper initiation into the upper classes involves killing something,” Neiman wrote. “My introduction to this grand old pageant had kicked off in Southern Pines, North Carolina, where I witnessed the blessing of the hounds, as close to religion as I’d been since my wedding day. Considering these exquisite but high-strung creatures were born and bred to kill, I wondered if the blessing was an act of absolution.” Despite the massive popularity Neiman’s work achieved, and the storybook life he led, he didn’t enjoy the critical success reserved for “serious” artists. “Whatever the critics said about me, though, people were buying my paintings,” he wrote. “If the critics didn’t like it, to hell with them. I didn’t know how to paint any other way or, for that matter, how to live any other way. In fact, I was proud of my brash new style. I continued to exhibit, my solo shows embraced by the public but snubbed by the critics.” He sold canvases as fast as he could paint them, eventually becoming an industry of his own. “They wanted a Neiman and I was going to give it to them, no matter what any of the art police had to say about me.” It was a blessing all his own. PS

The Hallelujah Moment The opening of the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center gives the Sandhills a flagship venue worthy of the brightest stars By Jim Moriarty

hanks to a combination of the generosity of private donors and the availability of public funds, what was old has been made new again in the Stanley Bradshaw Performing Arts Center at Sandhills Community College. The November unveiling of BPAC, as it’s being billed, is nothing less than a generational achievement. It’s more than a renovation, it’s a re-imagining. “I haven’t been as excited about something opening on campus in a long time as I am about this,” says SCC President Dr. John Dempsey. “I think it’s a great opportunity for the community to have a place it can be proud of, that can bring us a diverse range of cultural events.” The Carolina Philharmonic and Judson Theatre, who both call BPAC home, will usher in this new era with November performances sandwiched around an appearance by Grammy Award-nominated pianist and singer Michael Feinstein. Maestro David Michael Wolff and violinist Natasha Korsakova will provide the soft opening on Nov. 5 for a small group of people who participated in the capital campaign. On Nov. 8-9 the entire Carolina Philharmonic, along with Korsakova, will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Feinstein, well known for his NPR series and his PBS-TV specials, performs on Nov. 15. That’s followed Nov. 21-24 by Judson Theatre’s production of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution, starring Alan Campbell. BPAC is actually four venues. The centerpiece is Owens Auditorium,

renovated for just under $4.5 million. The complex also includes McPherson Theater, a black box theater that will seat 80 and serve as a venue for rehearsals, piano recitals, anything that would be swallowed up in the larger auditorium; Evelyn’s Courtyard (named after Dr. Dempsey’s wife, Evelyn) between Owens and McPherson; and the McNeill-Woodward Green, the site of spring graduation and a location for outdoor concerts and theatrical performances. “It’s an audience-based renovation,” says Judson Theatre’s founder, Morgan Sills, of the revamping of Owens Auditorium. “It’s going to be really beautiful. I think the audience can expect a completely different experience, especially the sight lines and the acoustics will be much better. It’s so important for Moore County to have a flagship performing arts center. It’s been a long time coming, and now we have it.” In redoing Owens, the stage remained the same, but the rest of the theater was taken down to the dirt and recast. The size was reduced from 700 seats to 600, but now there’s not a bad one in the house. “Every seat feels like you’re really connected to the stage,” says Wolff. “All the sight lines are perfect. The seats are larger. They’re spaced out better. They’re more comfortable. It just feels like it’s intimate. It feels warm. “I’ve always found that when you’re entering a college campus and you see the performing arts — upcoming concerts, upcoming art exhibits — that informs the way you feel about the entire campus. You start to feel like you’re an artist in some way. Whether you’re studying science or math or literature or

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Owens Auditorium Lobby languages, you feel somehow that everything you’re doing is a creative enterprise, that you’re in a creative space. That empowers.” The auditorium’s lobby was doubled in size. Concessions will be available. It will be decorated by a 100-year-old, fully restored Bösendorfer grand piano and a painting of Korsakova created by Jared Emerson while Wolff played Rhapsody in Blue at the Philharmonic’s September gala. Besides Korsakova and Wolff, the new star of the Philharmonic’s opening concert might be a Steingraeber & Söhne 9-foot concert grand piano. “Steingraeber is the kind of piano where they’ll do two serial numbers a year. Franz Liszt’s final piano was one of these Austrian pianos. It’s like a Ferrari, a real work of art,” says Wolff, who was test-driving another piano when he sat down at the Steingraeber. “My fingers just kind of sank into it, it was just so fantastic. It just really had this translucent gorgeous sound.” But Wolff knew it was out of the college’s price range. Weeks later, Dempsey called him from outside Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. “David, we got that piano you liked,” he said. “It was one of those hallelujah moments,” says Wolff. Another one will be the official opening night concert. “The first night we’re going to have the brass section and percussion come outside 45 minutes before the show starts and have a sort of ribbon cutting just to enter the hall,” says Wolff. They’ll be performing Aaron Copeland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. “That will be a noble, outdoorsy, inspirational way to kick off the performing arts center.” Not all the attention will be focused on the stage. “Watch for the way you feel,” says Wolff. “If you look around you’re going to see everybody having a similar reaction. I think there’s going to be a real sense of joy and excitement and satisfaction that you’re going to feel through the college and the community. “It only happens once.” PS

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t has been a little over 10 years since David Michael Wolff loaded his worldly possessions in a U-haul truck and moved to Moore County, hellbent on starting his own orchestra. Taking a job as musical director at Sacred Heart Catholic Church to keep body and soul (no pun intended) together, he wasted no time creating The Carolina Philharmonic. “I read a book for young conductors,” says Wolff. “It was a wonderful, wonderful guide on how to build your career. There were five different pathways it outlined. The last way would be to found your own orchestra. The person who wrote this book — a respected conductor — said by no means should you pursue this pathway. Under no circumstances should you try to do this. I thought, I’m pretty hardheaded. This is for me.” A decade later The Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the anchors of the renovated Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, will give the opening performance Nov. 8-9, featuring the internationally known violinist Natasha Korsakova and Wolff, performing on BPAC’s newly acquired Steingraeber & Söhne concert grand piano. They will be performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Grieg’s Piano Concerto. “I wanted to have something that would feature the piano, that would feature the orchestra and would be music that anybody coming to the concert — even somebody who isn’t a big classical music fan — would feel like they were really touched by it,” says Wolff. “I chose two pieces that are two of the most popular pieces in the entire classical canon. The Tschaikovsky Violin Concerto is a searingly romantic piece for violin and is also very virtuosic. It’s full of fireworks. It’s something Natasha will just shine in. And then I’ll be performing Grieg’s Piano Concerto for the keyboard. It’s like a 30-minute piece for piano and orchestra, very romantic in an exotic and wonderful way. It will be a way to show off the piano.” Korsakova has been a regular featured performer with The Carolina Philharmonic since she and Wolff first played Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata together a little over five years ago. “We finished the first movement, it’s monumental,” recalls Wolff. “We’re in the middle of the second movement and suddenly people just started clapping. And I’m, what the heck? And she’d just done this little thing, a tricky, graceful, beautiful thing, and I think she just looked out at the audience and there’s a twinkle in her eye or something, and the entire audience just erupted in applause. I’d never seen anything like it before. To be able to play the violin like that, to express yourself like that but to also be the kind of person who’s so free and so uninhibited and so personable, is a gift. She has this charm about her that transcends her instrument.” Korsakova, who lives in a small town in Switzerland, was born into music. Her father was the violinist Andrej Korsakov

and her mother the pianist Yolanta Miroshnikova-Caprarica. Her first teacher was her grandfather Boris Korsakov, and the composer RimskyKorsakov is her great-grand-uncle. “Literally from the day I was born I was surrounded by music,” she says. “The apartment house where we lived was built for musicians only, so our neighbors were musicians, too. I played piano at 3 years old, with my grandfather — on his lap, actually.” There was never much chance she wouldn’t be in the family business, though there were flirtations. At 12 she wanted to race Formula One cars. “I had posters of Michele Mouton all over my room.” In addition to violin, Korsakova studied languages, mastering five, a skill she’s put to use writing two crime novels, Deadly Sonata and the just released Roman Finale. Both feature her recurring detective, Commisario di Bernardo, and take place in the musical world. Written in German, the first has been translated into Czech and Greek but is not yet available in English. “Crime novels are fascinating by the building of the plot,” she says. “As a violinist, I’m interpreting all the composers. I have music in front of me, and although every interpretation is different, it’s not something created by me from the beginning. Writing a book from the beginning is all mine. To be honest, I failed as a composer. But I haven’t failed at words.” Wolff appears as a character in the books but has yet to identify which one. “She said I’m going to have to read the books to find out. I said, ‘You’re not going to kill the conductor, are you?’ I think I survive,” he says. “I’m waiting for the English translation. The fact that she’s reinvented part of herself as an author and is making it look easy — she can do amazing things, making it look like nothing.” If the Sandhills has relished having Korsakova return year on year, the feeling is mutual. “I absolutely love the place and the people,” she says. “I like being in big cities but, for my heart, for my soul, I like small places more.” The timing of the opening of BPAC — more or less coinciding with Wolff’s 10-year anniversary — couldn’t be better. “The idea for a performing arts center was one of those things that I was dreaming about from the moment I came to town,” says Wolff. It became Dr. John Dempsey’s dream, too, and then the college’s reality. “We thought all along that David really needs a place to play,” he says. “That center is going to be David’s home.” And ours. PS Performances at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8-9 at Bradshaw Performing Arts Center. Tickets start at $30 and are available at www.carolinaphil.org.

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Judson Theatre Another of the pillars of the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, the Judson Theatre Company, will help raise the curtain on the revamped venue with its production of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution running from Nov. 21 to 24. “Agatha Christie remains the world’s best-selling author and the world’s most successful female playwright,” says Morgan Sills, the executive producer of Judson, which is concluding its eighth season bringing professional theater to the Sandhills. “Witness for the Prosecution is a classic wrong man story. She’s wonderful at all the things that are important in a play — plot, characterization, symbolism. It’s got a quadruple twist ending that is different from the ending of the short story that she originally wrote. The reason Agatha Christie started adapting her own work into plays is because other people began doing it and she didn’t like what they did — she thought they were too faithful to what was on the page. Both And Then There Were None and Witness for the Prosecution have endings that are different than in their respective literary sources.” Starring as Sir Wilfred Robarts, QC, is Alan Campbell, who was nominated for a Best Actor Tony Award when he starred opposite Glenn Close in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard. He logged courtroom time playing the assistant DA Derek Mitchell on the CBS crime drama Jake and the Fatman from 1987 to 1992, and also starred in the Tony Award-winning musical Contact. A Homestead, Florida, native, he did some singing for June Taylor while he finished his undergraduate degree in business at the University of Miami. She introduced him to Wayne Newton, who helped him get a contract with Howard Hughes’ entertainment corporation. “So, I was a lounge lizard in Vegas at 22,” says Campbell. Campbell was working in a bookstore in L.A. in ’81 (“the only really legitimate job I’ve ever had”) when he landed a recurring role on the soap opera Another World. “Kyra Sedgwick was my love interest,” he says. “She was 17 or 18 at the time and had to go to high school, so I worked in the afternoons. Those were interesting days.” When Jake and the Fatman hit, Campbell says, “I had a Porsche and a house in the Hollywood Hills, but the minute it all went away, I sold the Porsche and sold the house — which I wish I hadn’t.” During Sunset Boulevard he met and later married the actress Lauren Kennedy, a Raleigh native. In 2008 they started a summer series in North Carolina called Hot Summer Nights. “Our daughter, Riley, had been born,”

he says. “It was getting harder and harder to run it remotely. We just basically moved down here.” The couple split up in 2012, and Campbell found himself commuting back to Manhattan. “I got a chance to do Mamma Mia! for a year,” he says. “I did an off-Broadway show called Hello Again.” Campbell met Sills through a mutual acting friend, leading to his appearance in Witness for the Prosecution. “Alan was really an ideal candidate for that role because of his years stalking the courtroom in Jake and the Fatman,” says Sills. “We wanted someone with a detective series association that we also knew had the theater chops to do justice to a mountain of dialogue and stage business.” Another “local” actor — and writer — who will appear in Witness is Traci Loper, who moved to the Sandhills a year ago after a 20-year career chasing parts in Los Angeles. Loper grew up in a tiny town in Louisiana northwest of New Orleans. “We got our first stoplight in 1999,” she says. She moved to Nashville for her senior year of high school, graduated from Middle Tennessee State University, and headed for L.A. in 1998. “I’m going to be the court clerk. I’m excited, one, just to be on stage; but, two, about meeting people. Three, I get to work on my British accent,” she says. “It’s Agatha Christie, queen of crime, right? She’s not about the murder, she’s about solving the puzzle of the murder.”. PS Performances at 7:00 p.m. Nov. 21; 8:00 p.m. Nov. 22; 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Nov. 23; 3:00 p.m. Nov. 24 at Bradshaw Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $38 and available at www. judsontheatre.com.

Curtain U p, Light the Lights How The Nutcracker brought two families together

how biz runs in families: the Barrymores, Redgraves, Fondas, von Trapps, Sutherlands, the Sinatras, the Douglases, Judy Garland/Liza Minnelli, Debbie Reynolds/Carrie Fisher. Dancing their way onto the local list: the Epsteins and the Mays, where parents and children have appeared in Gary Taylor Dance’s production of The Nutcracker practically forever — which is one way to avoid hiring a babysitter during rehearsal season. Cast of Characters: Dr. Brooks Mays, endocrinologist, guitarist, local Dancing with the Stars participant. Katie Mays, family manager. Caroline Mays, 17, Pinecrest High School. Brooks Mays, 15, Pinecrest High School. Robbie Mays, 13, The O’Neal School. Mark Epstein, financial consultant, veganic farmer, musician. Jules Latham (Epstein), attorney, social activist, Imagine Youth Theater managing director. Max Epstein, 14, The O’Neal School. Nik Epstein, 11, The O’Neal School. As an aggregate, since 2008 they have performed almost every supporting role, since most dancers play more than one part. Casting memories bring shrieks of laughter, as when an onstage married couple is an off-stage father-daughter. Or something like that. Auditions begin in June, rehearsals (mostly in High Point) in July, boot camp in August. Commit and commute are bywords for the Mays-Epstein gang. But, given their enthusiasm, so worth it. In 40 years of ballet involvement, Rita Taylor has seen no equal. Parts were

never assigned pursuant to a family member’s involvement: “Each one earned their spot because they do a great job.” The two families met through ballet. “I was looking for a place to dance,” Caroline says. She was 5. Mom Katie found Rita and Gary Taylor. Rita’s enthusiasm impressed her. Coincidentally, Jules took ballet classes and, with her college minor in dance, did some teaching. She met Katie, not knowing they lived a mile apart in almost-twin houses built by the same builder. Friendship blossomed. Then, Rita needed parents to appear in the ballet’s party scene. “We just had to do some ‘stately walking,’” Katie recalls. Fine with dad Brooks, who had theater experience in high school. “I’ve always enjoyed the arts,” he says. “I like putting on makeup and wigs.” By age 7, Caroline was invited to join the ensemble. Eventually her brothers followed. Stagehand duties were assigned to Brooks Jr., who has autism. “Remember when Brooks saved the Christmas tree?” which had been caught in the curtain, Katie says, provoking chatter and laughs. The Epstein boys found their calling a different way: “I started as Max in The Nutcracker at 6,” Jules begins. “He played Fritz — a really big role for a really little boy.” (Fritz is Clara’s jealous younger brother, who breaks the nutcracker.) Where the girl participants had their mothers in the dressing room, Max faced navigating makeup and costume changes alone. Jules convinced daddy Mark to get involved by helping Max in the dressing room. Rita Taylor took one look and invited Mark onto the stage. Four adults, five children, months of rehearsals, and almost a dozen performances between Thanksgiving and Christmas, including three at Sandhills Community College Nov. 29 – Dec. 1. The logistics — formidable, but not insurmountable. Caroline: “I do speech and debate at Pinecrest. I pick and choose (other

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activities). It can be hard, but I make it work.” She was forced to sit out a year for knee surgery, but returned. Robbie’s into soccer and views dancing as another sport. He was afraid a broken ankle might keep him from participating this year, but as of now, he will be onstage, in costume sharing the role of the Prince with Max. “He’ll do everything the role requires except dance,” Katie explains. No problem, since the expression “break a leg” originated backstage.

utcracker has become an integral part of both families. “I’ve never experienced it without my parents being there,” Nik says. “It’s convenient.” “We got roped in from the beginning,” Katie adds. “We never just dropped the kids off.” Dancing, a vigorous exercise, builds energy and keeps the kids in shape. They do homework on the way to rehearsals in High Point. Dinner is often take-out except for the Epsteins, who are strict vegans, which means Jules prepares snacks and meals-to-go. The Mayses don’t mind missing a traditional Thanksgiving. Performance schedule precludes visiting family, which means family comes here. “Our cousins look forward to it,” Caroline says. Visitors attend a performance, then everybody goes out for dinner. Experience breeds confidence. Off-season, the Epstein and Mays siblings participate in school productions, from classics like Cinderella and Mary Poppins to a less-gritty version of Rent. Robbie has joined Max’s dance club. Caroline is looking for a college with a strong dance program, not as a career, but an activity that has been part of her life since little girlhood. Katie and Jules speak every day. The Mays kids swim in the Epsteins’ pool. The families even take a “beach week” together in the summer. “We’ve become really close,” Caroline says. As for the dance part, “It’s a welcoming environment. (Looking back) I laugh about the blisters and pain of point shoes.” Nik, the youngest, remembers the “friends and jokes and stuff,” calling the

experience “an amazing journey.” Max labels the group “a big, slightly dysfunctional family.” All because of The Nutcracker, which this year will add a sensoryfriendly performance with toned-down music and action for adults, children and families with special needs, such as autism. The idea was born, in part, because of Brooks Jr.’s participation. Rita Taylor sees dance as a discipline. “Students who train in the arts translate this into the courtroom, the boardroom, the operating room. They are building both physical and mental stamina.” Jules also sees benefits beyond curtain calls and backyard barbecues: “You know how we measure kids' (growth) by lines on the wall? This is a way to measure kids artistically, a yardstick to measure their growth as performers and people. I see already how they take care of the smaller kids.” Mark adds: “It’s a very professional production . . . nice to be part of it in our community.” Is there a less-hectic life for the Epsteins and Mayses after The Nutcracker? “Yes,” Brooks senior chimes in emphatically. “The kids put so much time and effort into it. For nine years, Nutcracker has been part of our lifestyle, like when it’s fall, it’s Nutcracker season.” Katie adds: “We’re fortunate to do something together. Otherwise, (the children) would have gone in different directions. This put us all in the same space doing something they enjoy.” Also something that contributes to the enjoyment of others. These days, few stories have happy endings. Breathe easy. Clara gets her nutcracker back. Tchaikovsky’s dreamy music gets its seasonal airing. And, once again, two families revel in the smell of grease paint, the roar of the crowd. PS Full feature performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29; 2:00 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30; 2:00 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1. Student performance series: 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26. Sensory friendly performance: 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 27. Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Sandhills Community College. Reserved seating tickets $22-$30 available at https://taylordance.org/nutcracker.

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Singing Tables A poetic meditation By Jaki Shelton Green

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’m never cooking alone, even at my most solitary moments. I am surrounded by generations of cooks, their wisdom, laughter, and their flawed and perfect recipes lifting my hands and heart savoring each ingredient as I realize that each ingredient represents all the joys, sorrows, healing and restoration of my life’s journey. These unseen hands hold me in passionate surrender to generosity as family and friends gather at my table reminding me that food creates community, holds my sense of identity, and conjures sensory surprises over and over again. The ghosts of other tables, other kitchens remind me that we are all just ingredients, and what matters is the grace with which I cook the meal. My food odyssey is a soundtrack re-mix like the texture of an autobiography offering a throw-back to prayer-song, dance, birth, death, sex and rock and roll. The backyard chicken coops, vegetable gardens and mini orchards are long gone like my elders and the neighborhood of my childhood. What remains is me . . . the brown woman-child writing down the sizzle of cast iron skillets, the bold of the beet, the hot of the pepper pot, the earthiness of walnuts, the bitter of arugula. Food helps me to express my past and present. Food helps me to create communal ties and honor my ancestral roots.

This pageantry of memory continues to feed my upper-crust soul. This pageantry was the backdrop for all the whispered gossips and secrets of uppity church women in between “a piece of this and a little dab of that.” “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good looking So hush little baby, don’t you cry.” — Dubose Heyward The smell of coffee brewing, bacon frying and hot biscuits browning were the only summer alarm clocks in our house. The first few weeks following school vacation, my brother and I spent lazy days playing between our house and Aunt Alice’s house or hanging out at Uncle Ervin’s Service Station pretending to be proprietors behind the counter taking money for gas, candy, milk, bread, but never the cigarettes. That fun would be interrupted when “the garden came in” with lima beans, snap beans, wax beans, okra, peas, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, cantaloupe, cabbage, lettuce, watermelon and corn. The litany from porch to porch throughout the neigh-

“Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of his Spirit, washed in his blood” — Frances Crosby My grandmother, Eva White Tate, hosted the Ora Shanklin African Methodist Episcopal Missionary meetings, which gathered monthly on first Monday evenings during the springs and summers of my youth. An agenda of devotions, song, prayer and Scripture segued into Old and New Business, projects to raise money for their many charitable activities, missionary dues, and a “love offering” for the sick. My grandmother, mother and aunts raced around all day preparing food and setting an elegant table for the elaborately coiffed church ladies in their flawless pristine summer linen, pastels, crepe de chine, patent leather and sexy slingbacks that made ticky-tacky squeals across the glistening, freshly waxed wood floor. This monthly soiree featured milk glass vases holding peony globes and arrangements of snapdragons, Queen Anne’s lace and foxgloves strategically placed on the crisp white linen tablecloth adorning the antique oak dining table, monogrammed linen napkins, and the heirloom silverware that was left to my tiny hands to polish on a monthly basis. I was impressed that the deviled eggs required their own unique platter, designed especially for — deviled eggs. Mounds of homemade chicken salad garnished with apples, pecans and grapes, potato salad, pear walnut salad, canapés of cucumber-dill cream cheese, pimento cheese, stuffed olives, and perfectly browned chicken legs were presented on sparkling crystal and carnival glass serving platters. The inlaid glass sideboard was majestic with a centerpiece of magnolia, camellia and gardenia blossoms fresh cut from my grandmother’s flower garden and hosting cut glass pedestals of scrumptious coconut cake, petit fours, homemade (pink, green, yellow) mints, fresh strawberries, chocolate-covered peanuts, and my grandmother’s famous secret recipe egg custard. Pitchers of brewed mint tea and punch bowls bearing icy rainbow sherbet flanked both sides of the dessert display waiting to be admired and devoured by the white-gloved missionaries. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 2019

borhood addressed to our bored little brown bodies was, “Shut up whining, your little bellies will be glad to get this food come wintertime. Don’t put those hulls in that bowl.” So we pouted in-between snapping, shucking, peeling and rinsing so the grown folks could can, freeze, stew and preserve. These were the summers when our “Up South” Northern kin folks took a notion to jump in a car or hop a bus or train and show up unannounced, usually with five or six children in tow. Our family had abundant land and food, so this uncouth behavior never daunted my mom, grandmother and aunts. They knew how to “hold their mouths right” and bring forth their best masks of civility so refined that no one ever read their furious annoyance hidden beneath the labor of love they laid out for two or three weeks presenting daily breakfast, lunch and supper smorgasbords of cured smoked ham and red-eye gravy, scrambled cheese eggs, grits, salmon croquettes, biscuits, bacon, sausage, homemade peach, strawberry, blackberry, pear jelly and preserves, stewed apples, potato cakes, cinnamon rolls and toast. The “guests” would feast and then retreat to the front porch, into the yard, watch television, or return to bed to sleep away their city blues. With the guests “out of the way,” the women folks washed dishes, swept crumbs, cleared the table and talked in hushed ridicule and dismay about their hungry citified relatives. After they caught their breaths and a few of the leftover table scraps, they started the operation for lunch or “just a little something to tide them over,” which was usually homemade egg, tuna or chicken salad, the optional ham and cheese sandwich, tossed salad, chilled watermelon and cantaloupe, iced tea and fresh lemonade served outside on the porch. Fried chicken, fried fish, turnip salad, chicken and dumplings, stewed tomatoes, potato salad, rice pudding, fried okra and squash, pound cake, apple pie and yeast rolls made the “Up South” folks remember where home really was. They never suspected by our good manners how their unannounced visits interrupted our summer explorations, building camps and forts in the woods, fishing, skinny-dipping, catching tadpoles, making June bug whistles, chasing lightning bugs and baking mud-pies all day in the sun. “If you want to know Where I’m going Where I’m going, soon If anybody ask you Where I’m going Where I’m going soon I’m going up yonder

I’m going up yonder To be with my Lord” — Tremaine Hawkins Death often disrupts my family and community. We gather with food because food is the ultimate and final expression of how we love and the culture of our community. Feasting with the dead even now and in my past continues to provide me a way to reconnect and maintain connections with my ancestors and my daughter. My family and extended tribes have never needed a copy of “Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral.” It’s in our blood . . . we know what we know about the power of fried gizzards, leftover meat loaf, turkey necks, fried croakers, okra gumbo and moonshine. The laying out of the dead and the laying out of the food pulls me closer and closer to that vortex of all things familiar and comfortable. These are forever images imbedded in my mind’s rolling video screen of the deaths of my father, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins and my daughter. When my precious daughter Imani died, people came with their stories of her life neatly folded in the corners of picnic baskets. They delivered their stories of her whimsy, her sass and her bravado rolled inside a fresh loaf of sourdough bread, slithering across roasted vegetables laced with slow-drizzling balsamic, baked inside a piping hot strawberry rhubarb pie. The stories were alive inside the food. Imani loved food. Imani loved to feed people, so her stories became the food itself … roasted with superfluous green garlic, cilantro, cumin, basil, a rack of lamb Imani threatened to throw at her brother one Easter, the duck medallions I cooked for the last Christmas meal of her life with us, or the wild salmon steaks she’d hide in the freezer. What I know that I know is food heals. Food covers the wounded heart. Food holds the raging storm and invites Spirit to the table. “I will love you anyway Even if you cannot stay I think you are the one for me Here is where you ought to be I just want to satisfy you

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Though you’re not mine I can’t deny you Don’t you hear me talking baby? Love me now or I’ll go crazy” — Chaka Khan Appearance. Taste. Texture. Symbolism. Succulence. The Interaction of Colors. The Dance Behind Oven Doors. Edible Metaphors. Velvety. Heavy Cream. Spice Jars. Simmer. Pan Fry. Cold Wash. Knead. Roll. Curl. Caramelize. Braise. Soak. Stir. Roast. Open Fire. Hot Oil. Blend. Fold. Mortar and Pestle. Pine Nuts. Raspberries. Almonds. Champagne Grapes. Mango Preserves. Muscadines. Tomatoes. Expresso. Le coq au vin. Charred Romaine. Mousse. Rose Water. Artichokes. Truffles. Butter. Candied Ginger. Chocolate. Dirty Rice. Brie. Cherries. Figs. Saffron Threads. Cinnamon. Nutmeg. Chutney. Parfait. Hazelnuts. Orange Peel. Lime Zest. Gar-licky Collards, Ambrosia, Chow Chow. Red Rice. Rosemary Sea Salt. I love the way these words, sounds and ancient cooking rhythms sing inside my mouth . . . and honey chile’ don’t forget the Honey. “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him. The people who give you their food give you their heart.” — Cesar Chavez I remember the first meal I ever prepared for my husband. Lots of talking and long glances over a table full of lush sensuality. Mango gazpacho. Grilled salmon with a black bean-ginger-garlic glaze. Roasted asparagus. Brussels sprouts, beets, feta and walnuts drizzled with fig balsamic vinaigrette. Basmati rice. Yeast rolls. Arugula salad. Sparkling pear cider. Mixed berries dusted with coriander. Once upon a time, I prepared a “last supper” for a lover I was kicking to the curb. It seemed best to leave a taste of me on his lips. Filet of beef in puff pastry and Madeira cream sauce. Caramelized shallots, carrots and

mushrooms. Roasted lemon-garlic artichokes. Grand Marnier cheesecake. My first memory of a romantic meal was sharing a tomato sandwich made with tomatoes I’d grown in a small bucket as a child with a little boy visiting my grandmother with his grandparents. I was mesmerized by his seersucker plaid shorts and matching bowtie. Crisp white shirt. White crew socks. White bucks. Magic happened between us when the juicy tomato dripped down his long elegant hands and he slowly licked the essence of my first harvest. My husband and I love to cook. Our food landscape is forever changing, moving, reinventing itself, but what remains always is “sauce” so rich and soulful that it requires the licking of fingers, eyelids, noses, jelly-roll laughs, and oceans of soft fluttery kisses. Our food adventures continue to awaken our passion . . . PS This piece was previously published in The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food (2016); Eno Publishers.

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A Piece of Work Fox Hollow — like a posh resort in the country By Deborah Salomon • Photography by John Koob Gessner

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hrough the brick posts and iron gates, down the long and winding drive, past the pond stocked with large-mouth bass, the waterfall, pasture, putting green, guest house into the courtyard where a white Italian sports car stands in front of a house with enough wings to take flight, formed from ancient bricks and stones — Fox Hollow Farm answers best to a single word: Ahhh . . . Words two through five: Peaceful. Green. Luxurious. Perfect. “Living here is like living at a resort,” says Mike Martone, who lives at Fox Hollow when not in residence at alternate homes in Banner Elk, North Carolina, and Naples, Florida. Likely a golf resort, given the hundreds of golf awards, crystal trophies and memorabilia on display throughout the house. Equally an equestrian retreat filled with hunting art, medals and statuary. “Horses and golf, that’s what attracted us,” Martone says of the estate he purchased deep in Southern Pines horse country, in 2002. He recalls his daughter as a little girl, coaxing her pony into the shallow pond. However, the house at Fox Hollow wasn’t always resort-quality. This tract originated as a gristmill, one of only two in southeastern Moore County, operated by a Mr. Buchan. A drawing archived at the Moore County Historical Association shows Buchan’s home made of pine boards, while a map dates it from the 1780s. Still standing is the stone well house; Martone found matching stones in Virginia to face renovations to a wing, also the garage with adjoining workout room. For a project undertaken by a previous owner, weathPineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 2019

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ered bricks were imported from Italy. As a whole, the house exudes the aura of sporting gentry, despite the rough-hewn front door thought to be from the original cabin.

n the early 20th century Southern Pines developed as a winter haven for wealthy Northern equestrians. “Horse country,” between Young’s Road and Connecticut Avenue, gained panache when the Firestone tire family built an estate on Old Mail Road, as mentioned in the 1994 New York Times obituary for Raymond Firestone, son of founder Harvey. Fox Hollow, originally 35 acres, now about 10, changed hands, submitting to several adaptations before Sam Morton — son of Master of the Hounds Tom Morton — grew up there, from 1961 to 1983. “Before the Firestones it was just woods,” Morton says. “There used to be a tennis court with grandstands” in addition to the spring-fed swimming pool and copper gutters, worth a fortune, that young Sam Morton once cleaned. Mostly, the house was party central for his brother’s college classmates, a departure from the “pink” hunting coats and high leather boots scene. “The whole fraternity came down from N.C. State . . . they slept on the floors, everywhere. There were bodies all over the carriage house.” Living room rugs were reserved for girls. Watch out for the snakes — everywhere. “I remember a water moccasin that swam across the pool and up the rocks on the waterfall,” Morton says. He also recalls the queen of Thailand, visiting a college classmate who lived in Pinehurst, came to lunch, but Morton’s mother banished her unruly son, so they never met. And those are just Sam’s tamer stories. “I was an outlaw in those days,” he says, fondly. “We put a lot of energy into that house.”

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he Martone iteration is calmer, richer, more dignified. The house juts out in half a dozen directions, creating several living/sitting/TV rooms, a large but simple kitchen with breakfast room, medium-sized dining room, many bay windows with upholstered seats for enjoying the views. Some floors are an imported wormy chestnut instead of native heart pine. One bedroom overlooks the waterfall composed of descending stone steps, guaranteeing a babbling lullaby. A baby grand piano fits perfectly into a nook in the central living room. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My wife had a dream that our daughter would be a concert pianist,â&#x20AC;? Martone says. The dream fizzled but the piano still graces the space. Instead of music awards, her room was plastered with blue ribbons from equestrian events. Dark woods predominate in paneling, floors, beams, rafters; formal furnishings blend into this background. Primary colors are passed over for pale and dark leather, animal skin rugs and printed fabrics of yesteryear, continued in Martoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study/office with deep green walls. Definitely single malt territory. The master bedroom stands as one of several exceptions, with a fanciful wrought iron bed, white linens and narrow beams accenPineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 2019

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tuating a raised ceiling. Light streams through window walls surrounding its seating area dominated by a frilly double-wide chaise longue. Instead of polished cherry or mahogany, the dining room tabletop is inch-thick plate glass with beveled edge, suggesting Art Deco, but crystal chandeliers channel The Phantom of the Opera. Souvenirs recall worldwide travel, particularly China and India. Martone, now retired, was CEO of a data processing company employing 50,000 in 120 countries. Formal and traditional, yes, but Martone demands comfort and livability “I was one of six kids; we grew up in a modest house in Rochester, New York. I converted a small laundry room into a bedroom, or else I’d have to share with my brother.” Martone insisted on heated floors and towel bars in the remodeled bathrooms. “I wanted everything in the house to be used, to be enjoyed.” That includes upholstered pieces unlike his grandmother’s house, where “the furniture was covered with plastic. You’d stick on it when you sat down.” Every morning, after working out in his fitness studio, Martone sits on his screened porch overlooking the pond and terrace with massive stone fireplace, drinking coffee, watching blue heron fish for their breakfast, enjoying the camellias and azaleas he planted. More than a home, like a fine suit, Fox Hollow Farm is tailored to the pleasure of its inhabitant. “You can’t live here without thinking what a special house and environment this is,” Martone concludes, then adds, “Even better than some resorts.” Ah . . . PS

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November n By Ash Alder

November is cold mornings and cashmere. Before the earliest skein of geese break the silence of the day, you unearth your winter wardrobe, rediscovering the ageless sweater that, despite its annual reappearance, always feels brand-new. When the geese trumpet across the sky, you are cradling your coffee by the kitchen window, watching the backyard squirrels zigzag like pinballs as they unearth their own buried treasures. November is time to take stock. On the back porch, there is kindling to split. And back in the kitchen, one dozen Bartlett pears resemble a Claude Monet still-life. What will you bring to the table this month? One dozen Bartlett pears now peeled, cored, and chopped, simmer on the stovetop with three pounds of cranberries, two cups of dried cherries, one cup of sugar. November is equal parts sweet and bitter. Your bones seem to know that winter is near, yet your skin sings in cashmere. Even as the autumn leaves descend, the Earth continues to give, give, give. Pastel sunrises. Winter squash and rainbow chard. Murmurations of starlings. And camellia blossoms which, despite their annual reappearance, always feel like tiny miracles.

What Will You Create?

Thanksgiving is celebrated on Thursday, Nov. 28. As you craft your Thanksgiving plate with the zest of a landscape architect, consider what you are creating on a larger scale. Are you building a life that is savory? Bitter? Sweet? Or does it offer a little bit of everything — bursting at the seams with color and flavor, yet with enough space for gratitude and magic?

Looking Up

According to National Geographic, three of the top sky-watching events of 2019 happen this month, beginning with the Transit of Mercury on Nov. 11. Of course, you won’t be able to witness what will look like a tiny pinhole traveling across the sun with the naked eye, nor should you attempt this without safety precautions (eclipse glasses, solar binoculars, solar filters, etc.). According to the article, “This will be the last transit of Mercury available to North Americans until May 7, 2049.” On Sunday, Nov. 24, don’t miss brilliant luminaries Venus and Jupiter close as ever in the southwest horizon — just 1.4 degrees apart. And on Thanksgiving Day, 45 minutes after sundown, take another look low in the southwestern sky and see what National Geographic calls the “celestial summit meeting” of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and a hairline crescent moon.

The Power of Gratitude

The correlation between gratitude and happiness was common sense long before it was research material. And yet, time and again, psychologists’ findings support what poets and sages of the ages have long been conveying: Gratitude is good for you. Moreover, it can radically change your life. A recent article by Harvard Medical School’s Harvard Health Publishing offers six simple practices for cultivating gratitude: 1. Write a thank-you note. 2. Thank someone mentally. 3. Keep a gratitude journal. 4. Count your blessings. 5. Pray. 6. Meditate.

Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable, the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street or road by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese. Both are warnings of chill days ahead, fireside and topcoat weather. — Hal Borland

And while we’re on the subject, here are three powerful quotes on gratitude that suggest its utter potency: “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” — Eckhart Tolle “We need to learn to want what we have, not to have what we want, in order to get stable and steady happiness.” — Dalai Lama “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey Happy Thanksgiving!

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Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, costs, status and location before planning or attending an event. BOOKWORMS BOOKCLUB. Are you in grade K–5 and want to join a book club? Find the Bookworms display in the library to take home the book of the month, pick up your discussion questions and grab some activities. When you have finished reading the book, fill out the book review to post on the library’s wall. This month’s book is Flying Lessons. Can’t read yet? Read along with a grown-up. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. BOOK SALES. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday–Saturday. Monthly sale — paperback and hardcover novels are buy one, get one free, some exclusions apply. Given Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-7002. JOY OF ART STUDIO. Join Winter Arts, an afterschool program. It develops art skills for all ages. The studio also offers home school science through art, Preschool Little Emerging Artist, Saturday Art for the Day Integrative creativity, Creative Crafts, Creative Arts for Women, Private Lessons, Mixed Media Medley, Workshops and Classes for Adults and much more. Classes are held at Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or www.joyof-art.com or Facebook link www.facebook.com/Joyscreativespace/ for a complete list of events this month.

Friday, November 1 FAMILY LITERACY DAY. All day. Celebrate National Family Literacy Day and Night. There will be story times from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. there will be games and activities for the whole family. This event

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is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. FAMILY LITERACY DAY SPPL. The library will offer self-guided stations in the children’s area for families and children to explore ways to learn together. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. POTLUCK LUNCHEON. 12 p.m. Seniors 55 and older can participate in a free potluck lunch. Bring a small dish and enjoy great food and fellowship. Ten games of bingo will follow the lunch with prizes for winners. Cost: $2 for Southern Pines residents; $4 non-residents. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or www.southernpines. net/136/Recreation-Parks. FOOD TRUCK. 5-8:30 p.m. Burger 21 Food Truck. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. OPENING RECEPTION. 6-8 p.m. Join us for the opening reception of the art exhibit “New Work: New Directions.” The exhibit will remain open through Dec. 21. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.mooreart.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Idlewild South. Cost: $22. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. THEATER. 7:30 p.m. Cape Fear Regional Theatre will be presenting No Child. Performances run through Nov. 17 and times and tickets can be found on the website. Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: www.cfrt.org/project/no-child/.

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Saturday, November 2 KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Join us as we make things for birds and learn about local birds and animals. Bring a friend and sign up for a free library card. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www. giventufts.org. SENIORS TRIP. 10 a.m. Seniors 55 and older can join Southern Pines Recreation & Parks to travel to Albermarle to the Stony Mountain Vineyards for a tour and tastings. Lunch to follow at Sir Pizza. Cost: $24 for Southern Pines residents; $48 for non-residents. Bus will depart at 10 a.m. from the Campbell House Playground parking lot and return by 4 p.m. Campbell House Playground, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. STORYTIME. 11 a.m. Come enjoy Story Time at the Symphony. Experience classical fairy tales and folktales told by the professional Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra musicians and enjoy music from Disney movies. Fayetteville Academy Gym, 3300 Cliffdale Road, Fayetteville. Info: www.fayettevillesymphony.org. FOOD TRUCK. 12-8 p.m. California Taco Food Truck. They will also be at Southern Pines Brewing Company on Nov. 13, 20 and 27 from 5-9 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. EQUESTRIAN EVENT. NCDCTA Autumn Leaves/2019 NCDCTA Championships. This event will continue through Nov. 3. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or https:// www.equestriansecretarialservices.com/ALD.php. CHORUS CONCERT. 7-9 p.m. The Golf Capital Chorus performs famous songs from fabulous foursomes. Pinecrest High School Auditorium, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC SUNDAY. 2-4 p.m. Duo Harpsichords: Elaine Funaro and Beverly Biggs. Reception to follow the performance. Cost is $25/Weymouth members; $35/non-members; free for students under 18. Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261. Info: www.weymouthcenter. org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

LECTURE. 6:30-8 p.m. Nicole Camastra, Ph.D., will speak about “Why Do We Still Read Hemingway?” Hannah Center Theater, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

WRITING GROUP. 3 p.m. Interested in creating fiction, nonfiction, poetry or comics? Connect with other writers and artists, chat about your craft and get feedback on your work. All levels are welcome. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. BEAVER HABITAT HIKE. 3 p.m. Join a ranger on a 2-mile hike to find out what North America’s largest rodents are up to at Weymouth Woods. The active beaver dam isn’t right along the trail, so be prepared to hike off the beaten path. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Shawn Camp. Cost: $25. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, November 4 WORKSHOP. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Learn about chalk pastels during a workshop with Rich Flanegan. Cost is $39 per person. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-4677. ART SHOW. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Broadhurst Gallery hosts landscape artist William Mangum. Broadhurst Gallery, 2212 Midland Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-4817 or www.broadhurstgallery.com. MOORE REPUBLICAN WOMEN. 11:30 a.m. Join this community club and participate in projects, meet great people and stay current with events. Pinehurst Member’s Club, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: www. mrwnc.org. BOOK EVENT. 5:30-7 p.m. Karen White with her first holiday novel, The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street. Tickets to the event include a copy of the book. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. CHAMPAGNE PALMER. 6:30 p.m. Join in for an evening with Palmer & Co. for a Champagne Wine Dinner paired with a four-course culinary experience. Cost: $68. Limited seating. Tickets required. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775 or www.elliottsonlinden.com. EVENING WITH AUTHORS. 7 p.m. Join us as we kick off a new series to highlight Moore County authors. Local authors will speak about their books and answer questions. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org.

winter wonderland of holiday decor at Hollyfield Design. Refreshments available. The open house continues on Nov. 9 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Nov. 10 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Christmas pet photos will be offered on Nov. 10. Hollyfield Design, 130 E. Illinois Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7243.

Wednesday, November 6

FUN IN THE FALL. 10 a.m. Come explore what makes this season so wonderful as we read a book, hit the trails for a hike and make a craft. Geared toward 3-5-year-olds to do with their parents. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

POTTERS EXHIBITION. 3-5 p.m. Several Seagrove potters will have work on display during the Annual Seagrove Potters Exhibition. This fundraising event is for the Northern Moore Family Resource Center. Hastings Gallery at the Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Southern Pines. HOLIDAY ART SALE. 4-7 p.m. Come to the annual Holiday Artists Studio Clearance Sale. Enjoy wine and light refreshments while browsing original artworks, holiday note cards, prints and much more. All art will be on sale. Jane Casnellie, Jessie Mackay, Charlie Roberts, Louise Price and Ellen Burke look forward to welcoming you. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 639-4823 or www.hollyhocksartgallery.com.

Thursday, November 7 ART SERIES. 10-11:30 a.m. The first of a two-part art series featuring post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh with introductions by Ellen Burke. The film travels to France, the Netherlands and to Japan to explore the heritage that affected Van Gogh and made him the artist we know today. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 12-5 p.m. WHES Schooling Day (D, XC, SJ). WHES Schooling Days are open to everyone and allow competitors to school any or all phases. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. SALE AND RAFFLE. 1-5 p.m. Come shop the annual White Elephant Sale and Raffle for gently used furniture, art, household items, baked goods and more. The pre-sale is Nov. 8 and the sale and raffle are Nov. 9 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sponsored by Women of Sacred Heart and the Knights of Columbus. Founders Hall, next to Sacred Heart Church, intersection of N.C. 211 and Dundee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-0704. ART RECEPTION. 5-7 p.m. Join us for the opening reception for the 25th annual Fall Show and Sale. The opening weekend for the show and sale will then be Nov. 9 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artistleague.org.

READ FOR THE RECORD. 4 p.m. Read for the Record tries to break the world record for the number of people reading the same book on the same day. This year, the featured book is Thank You, Omu! Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

FOOD TRUCK. 5-9 p.m. Bo’s Kitchen Food Truck. They will also be at Southern Pines Brewing Company on Nov. 22 from 5-8:30 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www. southernpinesbrewing.com.

FOOD TRUCK. 4-9 p.m. Pink Pig BBQ & Shrimp Food Truck. They will also be at Southern Pines Brewing Company on Nov. 13 and 21 from 4-9 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com.

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Sam Baker. Cost: $15. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife. org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

READ BETWEEN THE PINES. 5:30 p.m. Join the library’s newest book club for adults to discuss amazing books. This month’s book is The Light Between the Oceans, by M.L. Stedman. Southern Pines Fire Station No. 2, intersection of Waynor Road and N.C. 22, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Featuring Natasha Korsakova, violinist. Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0287 or www.carolinaphil.org.

CAMEO ART HOUSE. 7:00 p.m. Sam Baker at the Cameo. Cameo Art House, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www. ticketmesandhills.com.

Saturday, November 9 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8-10 a.m. WHES Schooling Day 2 (XC, SJ). Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. HORSE TRIALS. WHES Championships and Horse Trials. There will then be a luncheon and awards ceremony on Nov. 10. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

BOURBON AND BACON. Join Sly Fox Pub and The Sway for a bourbon and bacon tasting. Limited seating. Tickets required. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com.

CRAFT FAIR. 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Find one-of-a-kind treasures at the Brownson Arts & Crafts Fair. High quality handmade items from skilled artisans will include pottery,

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CA L E N DA R original art, baskets, jewelry, gift baskets, baked goods and more. There will also be silent auction items and a cash raffle. Brownson Presbyterian Church, 330 S. May St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 585-1924. VETERANS DAY PARADE. 10 a.m. Come support the annual Southern Pines Veterans Day Parade as we show our appreciation to our troops and veterans. If you are a local veteran, let us honor you by being in the parade. Info: www.sandhillsveteransfestival.com. STEAM. 11 a.m. Craft tables will be out all day. At 11 a.m. join the library staff and become a Junior Architect. This program is for children kindergarten through fifth grade. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. SECOND SATURDAY. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. This month’s celebrations will be about Patriots in the Pines and will benefit The Patriot Foundation. The Heritage Flag Company, 230 S. Bennett St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1540 or www.theheritageflag.com/second-saturday/. FOOD TRUCK. 12-6 p.m. King Hot Dog Food Truck. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing. com. MET OPERA. 1 p.m. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. WINE WALK. 4-8 p.m. Celebrate Veterans Day Weekend with Reds, Whites & Brews craft brew and Wine Walk in the Village. There will be a dozen stops to sample fall tapas paired with wines and craft beers. Tickets: $35; $30 for military. We will also be featuring businesses that are

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PIG ROAST. Come out all day for the annual Veterans Day Pig Roast. Cost: $19.95 and $9.95 for veterans and active duty military. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com.

CONVERSATION CAFE. 3 p.m. The topic will be “What does the American Dream mean to you?” This event will be an open, hosted dialogue, lasting approximately an hour and a half. Anyone interested in the opportunity to listen, reflect, and share ideas is welcome to join. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. VETERANS DAY HIKE. 3 p.m. Join us for a hike to commemorate veterans and honor their service and sacrifice. Everyone is welcome on this 2-mile hike. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6922167 or www.ncparks.gov. MUSIC DOCUMENTARY. 4 p.m. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice. A music documentary about one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves. Linda Ronstadt’s own voice narrates her journey all the way to her retirement in 2011 due to Parkinson’s disease. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. BOOK EVENT. 4-5:30 p.m. The Country Bookshop presents Cassandra King Conroy on tour with her new memoir, Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy. Tickets include an autographed copy of the book. Country Club of North Carolina, 1600 Morganton Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Jamie Laval. Cost: $20. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.

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PHOTO CLUB. 7 p.m. The Sandhills Photography Club will meet and this month’s speaker will be Gary Baird speaking about bird photography. Guests are welcome. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org.

Tuesday, November 12 LECTURE. 6:30-8 p.m. Nicole Camastra, Ph.D., will speak about “Why Do We Still Read Hemingway?” This is part two of her talk. Hannah Center Theater, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Wednesday, November 13 BABIES, SONGS AND READ ALONGS. 9:45-10:15 a.m. Join us for a new library program for ages 0-3. We will combine simple stories, music and movement to engage and entertain the little bookworms. Limited seating. Registration required. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. Sign up with www. ticketmesandhills.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Jontavious Willis and Jerron Paxton. Cost: $20. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9447502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com

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MOVIE. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. At Eternity’s Gate, a look at the life of painter Vincent Van Gogh starring Willem Dafoe. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

OPEN HOUSE. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Moore County Veterans Service Office is hosting an open house. Learn about the services available to Moore County veterans and their families and speak with representatives from county, state, federal and community resources. Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. Info: (910) 947-3257.

ALL ABOARD FOR CHRISTMAS. 10:30 a.m. Lunch and Learn featuring Helen O. Von Salzen, whose talk will be based on the book, All Aboard for Christmas. Cost is $25 per person. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 295-4677. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 p.m. Jim Pendersen, Moore County Veterans Service Office director, will answer questions and provide information for veterans and their families as we honor veterans. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. BEER AND WINE NIGHT. 5 p.m. Come out and watch the football game while enjoying beer specials and an all you can eat wing bar. Cost: $17.95. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com. EXPLORING ART. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Join Ellen Burke for an evening of wine and art appreciation with the topic of “Sibling Rivalry: Georgia and Ida O’Keefe, Jackson and Charlie Pollack and the Starn Twins.” Cost is $20 which includes wine. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Open mic with The Parsons. Free to members. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9447502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Friday, November 15

COMEDY PLAY. 4:45 p.m. Join Kirk Tours to go see Noises Off, a comedy play. Cost: $130/person. Bus departs at 4:45 p.m. and the performance starts at 8 p.m. Cost includes premium seating, a three course dinner and transportation. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or www. kirktours.com. FOOD TRUCK. 5-8:30 p.m. Bulkogi Food Truck. They will also be at Southern Pines Brewing Company on Nov. 29 from 5-8:30 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www. southernpinesbrewing.com. MOONLIGHT HIKE. 5:30 p.m. All ages are welcome to walk the trail and listen to the sounds of the night on a 1-mile hike. Discover nature by moonlight. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Bring a flashlight. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods Visitor Center, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CASINO NIGHT. 5:30-10 p.m. Join Carolina Horse Park for a night of great food, open bar, and casino fun to

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Saturday, November 16 POTTERY KILN OPENING. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Join us for the Holiday Kiln Opening at Curry Wilkinson Pottery. The large wood fired kiln and pottery studio opens to the public. Shop, learn about wood-fired pottery, and meet the potters. Light refreshments served. The kiln will also be open Nov. 17 from 1-5 p.m., Nov. 23 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Nov. 24 from 1-5 p.m. Curry Wilkinson Pottery, 5029 S. N.C. Hwy 49, Burlington. Info: www. currywilkinsonpottery.com. WILDINGS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. Bring your kids ages 6 -10-years-old as we take a short hike to learn about the owls that call the Sandhills home. Head inside to dissect owl pellets. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods Visitor Center, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. CHILDREN’S PROGRAM. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Join this month’s program where the theme is “We are F-A-M-I-L-Y,” moms, dads, sisters, brothers and more. For children of all ages with a parent or guardian. Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. RSVP to: konoldm@sandhills.edu. FOOD TRUCK. 12-5 p.m. Fully Loaded Fritters Food

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Sunday, November 17 ENGLISH CARVERY. 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Enjoy a carvery of our traditional Sunday roast. Cost: $21.95. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www. theslyfoxpub.com. SANTA IN THE GARDENS. 1-4 p.m. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be visiting the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens. Bring your kids for a visit and storytelling as well as facepainting, crafts, cookies and hot chocolate. Event is free but registration is required. Hoad Children’s Garden in the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 695-3882 or landscapegardening@sandhills.edu. BOLSHOI BALLET. 1-4:30 p.m. Le Corsaire. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. FAMILY TALES. 3 p.m. Children ages 3 through third grade and their families can enjoy stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading as well as social-emotional development. Capacity is limited to 25 children and their caregivers per session, and check-in with a valid Southern Pines Public Library card is required. Southern Pines Fire Station #2, intersection of Waynor Road and N.C. 22, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. BOYD TRACT HIKE. 3 p.m. Join us for a 1-mile hike of the Boyd Round Timber Tract as we discuss the history of Weymouth Woods and the preservation of one of the last remaining old-growth stands of longleaf pine, with a visit to the world’s oldest known living longleaf pine tree. Meet at

the Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. PINTS AND PIES. 3-5 p.m. Come out to a special Pints and Pies event with The Sway. Three pies paired with three beers. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Jill Andrews. Cost: $15. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, November 18 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30-11:30 a.m. The monthly business meeting will begin at 10 a.m. followed by speaker Linda Parsons, executive director of the Moore County Chamber of Commerce. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261. Info: www. weymouthcenter.org. SIP AND PAINT WITH JANE. 5–7 p.m. Join local artist Jane Casnellie for a fun painting class suitable for all levels, including beginners. No experience necessary and all materials included as well as your wine. Take home your own masterpiece. Cost: $35. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 639-4823 or www. janecasnellie.com. HAMMER & STAIN. 5-9 p.m. Come to a fun DIY event with local workshop, Hammer & Stain. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com.

Tuesday, November 19

VOTERS MEETING. 11:30 a.m. The League of Women Voters of Moore County will meet for a program and luncheon. Cost is $20. Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club, 1010 Midland Road, Southern Pines. Info and RSVP: charlottegallagher@gmail.com. JAMES BOYD BOOK CLUB. 2-3 p.m. This month’s book is Throwed Away, Failures of Progress in North Carolina by Linda Flowers. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. LIT WITS. 5:30 p.m. Join the library’s teen book club for 11 to 15-year-olds. You can check out your copy of this month’s book, The Boys in the Boat, at the library from Nov. 1 through Nov. 18. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Wednesday, November 20 FESTIVAL OF TREES. Join in the holiday fun at the 23rd annual Sandhills Children’s Center Festival of Trees with beautifully decorated trees, wreaths, mailbox garlands, and gift baskets all available for bids via online auction. The Festival Gift Shop will have affordable stocking stuffers and more. Admission is by any monetary donation at the door with proceeds benefitting children who have special developmental needs. The festival will continue through Nov. 24. Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Dr., Pinehurst. Info: www.FestivalofTrees.org. ARTISTS MEETUP. 5-6:30 p.m. Jewelry artists will share their journeys. Free. Paul Harkness Jewelry Design, 110 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.mooreart.org. TRIVIA NIGHT. 6:30 p.m. The theme is The Pilgrims.

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THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Chris Jones and The Night Drivers. Cost: $20. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9447502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker will be historian, author and preservationist Charlie Knight. His presentation will be “The Flags of North Carolina in the Civil War.” Meeting starts at 7 p.m. Open to the public. Civic Club, corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and Ashe St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-0452 or mafarina@aol.com.

Monday, November 25 SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Speaker to be announced. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www. sandhillsnature.org.

Thursday, Nov. 21 — Sunday, Nov. 24

MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 6-9 p.m. Bring your instrument and your love of music. The jam session and song circle meets monthly. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

THEATRE SHOW. 7 p.m. Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie starring Alan Campbell. There will also be a performance on Nov. 22 at 8 p.m., Nov. 23 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Nov. 24 at 3 p.m. The play is presented by Judson Theatre Company. Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Southern Pines. For info and tickets: www.judsontheatre.com.

Friday, November 22 BOOK EVENT. 4 p.m. Shannon Messenger with Keeper of the Lost Cities. Free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

ART WALK. 6-8 p.m. Enjoy the inaugural Southern Pines Art Walk, featuring local creatives making their art in downtown shops. Each shop will have a bite or beverage to enjoy. Downtown Southern Pines. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Saturday, November 23 CRAFT DAY. Stop in the library anytime during the day for this self-led program featuring Thankful Art. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

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SCOOP ON SQUIRRELS. 3 p.m. Join a ranger to learn about squirrels during a presentation and short hike. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

BOOK CLUB MEETING. 10:30 a.m. The Douglass Center Book Club will meet for discussion. Books can be picked up at the library. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

HOLIDAY EXRAVAGANZA. 4:45 p.m. Join Kirk Tours to celebrate the holidays with a musical extravaganza at UNC Pembroke. Cost: $130/person. Bus departs at 4:45 p.m. and the performance starts at 8 p.m. Cost includes premium seating, a three-course dinner and transportation. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or www.kirktours.com.

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TURKEY TROT. 9 a.m. Join in for the annual First Health Pinehurst Turkey Trot. There will be 1-mile and 5K races. Village Arboretum, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.runsignup.com/Race/NC/Pinehurst/ PinehurstTurkeyTrot. VISIT WITH SANTA. 1-3 p.m. A holiday visit with Santa plus holiday treats. Cost is $25 per family. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info and tickets: (910) 295-4677 or www.sandhillswe.org. MET OPERA. 1-5 p.m. Philip Glass’ Akhnaten. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

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Thursday, November 28 THANKSGIVING DAY HIKE. 10 a.m. Get some exercise before Thanksgiving dinner on a refreshing walk with a park ranger. Hike for about 2 miles and see what nature is up to this holiday. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THANKSGIVING DINNER. 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Enjoy a three-course dinner with salad, turkey, ham, the trimmings and a dessert bar. Cost: $42. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com. THANKSGIVING DINNER. 12-6 p.m. Make your reservations for dinner. Cost: $49. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775 or www.elliottsonlinden.com. MOVIE. 7:30-9:30 p.m. The Last Waltz. Free. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

Friday, November 29 GREEN FRIDAY AT NO. 4. 10 a.m. The Carolinas Golf Association is hosting its 6th Annual Green Friday outing on the No. 4 Course of the Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Fee is $225 and includes a voucher to play The Cradle. The event benefits the Tufts Archives which preserves and displays the unique history of Pinehurst. Register online at www.carolinasgolf.org.

Friday, November 29 — December 1 BALLET PERFORMANCE. 7:30 p.m. Gary Taylor Dance returns with a performance of The Nutcracker. There will also be performances on Nov. 30 at 2 p.m. and Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. Tickets range from $22-$30. Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info and tickets: www.taylordance.org.

Saturday, November 30 FOOD TRUCK. 12-6 p.m. Cousins Main Lobster Food Truck. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. LIVE PLAY. 2 p.m. It’s A Wonderful Life. Produced in the

CA L E N DA R style of an old-fashioned radio show and adapted from Frank Capra’s holiday classic of the same name. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING. 4:30 p.m. Ring in the holidays with our tree lighting celebration. Lighted trees line the streets lending that extra sparkle. Keep an eye out for Santa Claus who is available for pictures (bring your own camera). Festivities include the lighting of the Christmas tree. Complete your celebration at one of the great downtown Southern Pines restaurants. Downtown Southern Pines. For more information call 910-692-4330.

UPCOMING EVENTS Thursday, December 5 RUTH PAULEY LECTURE SERIES. 7 p.m. Michael Mann will present “Leaving the Madhouse: The Path to Climate Change.” Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www.ruthpauley.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Jonathan Byrd and The Pickup Cowboys. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills. com.

WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays COFFEE AND CONVERSATION. 9-10:30 a.m. Adults 55 and older can come out to watch their favorite morning shows or discuss different topics. Bring your own coffee or bring $1 to share ours. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

INDOOR WALKING. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Improve balance, blood pressure and maintain healthy bones with one of the best methods of exercise. Classes are held at the same time Monday through Friday. Ages 55 and up. Cost for six months: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Southern Pines Recreation Center, 210 Memorial Park Ct., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. BABY RHYMES: READ TO YOUR BUNNY. 10:30 a.m. This story time, reserved for ages birth to 24 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy brainbuilding practices. Dates this month are Nov. 18 and 25. The session on Nov. 4 will be held at the library. Programs are limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in with their valid Southern Pines Public Library full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Fire Station #2, intersection of Waynor Road and N.C. 22, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MASTER GARDENER TRAINING. 6-8 p.m. Receive a high level of training in all aspects of horticulture. Training fee is $85 for those accepted into the program. Moore County Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. Info: (910) 947-3188. WORKOUTS. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to get their workout on. Cost for six months: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. The gym is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376.

Tuesdays TRIVIA GAMES. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Adults 55 and older can compete with friends in trivia games to see who know the most about everything. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. BABY RHYMES: READ TO YOUR BUNNY. 10:30 a.m. This story time, reserved for ages birth to 24 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy brainbuilding practices. Dates this month are November 5, 12, 19 and 26. Programs are limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost per class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. GAME DAY. 12 p.m. Enjoy Bid Whist and other cool games in the company of great friends. For adults 55 and older. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TABLE TENNIS. 7-9 p.m. Enjoy playing this exciting game every Tuesday. Cost for six months is $15 for residents of Southern Pines and $30 for non-residents. For adults 55 and older. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

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YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike. Free for CFBG and YMCA members, $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221, ext. 36 or www.capefearbg.org. (Must register one day prior). Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org. CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

Thursdays GIVEN STORY TIME. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3-5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022.

(1 hour and 15 minutes each). Also by request. Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or www.kirktours.com.

Fridays COFFEE AND CONVERSATION. 9-10:30 a.m. Adults 55 and older can come out to watch their favorite morning shows or discuss different topics. Bring your own coffee or bring $1 to share ours. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. GAME FRIDAYS. Stop by the library for a interactive games that provide challenges for kids, teens and adults to enjoy: Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. TAP CLASS. 10-11:30 a.m. For adults 55 and older. All levels welcome. Cost per class: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music. Cost: $15/person. Must be 21 years of age or older. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of eight or more. Soda, water and award-winning wines available for purchase. Food vendor on site. No outside beverages (alcoholic or non-alcoholic), coolers, picnic baskets or cooking devices permitted on premises. Birthday cakes, cheese trays and small items are acceptable. Anyone bringing in outside alcohol will be asked to leave with no refund. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www.cypressbendvineyards.com.

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TODDLER TUNES. 10:30 a.m. Especially for children ages 18-36 months, this program will incorporate stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games to foster language and motor skill development. Dates this month are Nov. 7, 14 and 21. This event is limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHESS. 1–3 p.m. All levels of players welcome. You need a chess set to participate. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6-7 p.m. Bring a yoga mat, water bottle and open mind to enjoy this all level class to improve flexibility, build strength and relax. Cost per class: Free/member; $10/non-member per session or $30 for four classes. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221.

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Our Patients have the Best Spines in the Pines! A huge THANK YOU to all of our wonderful patients for voting us into the top 3 for Chiropractic, Massage and Alternative Medicine. We appreciate you!

Southern Pines Chiropractic

Dr. Joseph D. Wahl, Chiropractic Physician 361 N.Bennett Street •Southern Pines 910-692-5207 • www.ncchiro.com

November

Friday, Nov 1: Idlewild South. Sunday, Nov. 3: Shawn Camp. Friday, Nov. 8: Sam Baker. Sunday, Nov. 10: Jamie Laval and Megan McConnell Wednesday, Nov. 13: Jontavious Willis and Jerron Paxton. Sunday, Nov. 17: Jill Andrews Sunday, Nov. 24: Chris Jones and The Night Drivers.

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Idlewild South the Rooster’s Wife

11/12

Nicole Camastra, Ph.D. - Part II Hannah Center Theater

11/2

Famous Songs from Fabulous Foursomes Robert E. Lee Auditorium

11/13

Jontavious Willis and Jerron Paxton in Concert The Rooster’s Wife

11/3

Classical Music Sundays Duo Harpsichords Weymouth Center for the Arts

11/14

Open Mic with The Parsons: The Rooster’s Wife

11/15

Michael Feinstein Owens Auditorium

11/17

Pints & Pies Southern Pines Brewing Company

Shawn Camp The Rooster’s Wife

11/4

Karen White’s First Holiday Novel! The Country Bookshop

11/5

Nicole Camastra, Ph.D. - Part I Hannah Center Theater

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Bourbon & Bacon Bites The Sly Fox Pub Sam Baker at the Cameo Cameo Art House Theatre

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Jill Andrews in concert The Rooster’s Wife

11/22

Artists in Action: The Inaugural Southern Pines Art Walk Downtown Southern Pines

11/24

Chris Jones and the Night Drivers in Concert The Rooster’s Wife

11/30

Breakfast with Santa Filly & Colt’s at Little River

Illustrations: Keith Borshak

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to GUIDE GIVING PineStraw is helping you kick off the season of giving! As you begin planning for your holiday parties, your never ending shopping lists and where to house your visiting in-laws, we hope that you carve out some time to give back. Volunteer at a local food bank, buy gifts for a family in need or make a year-end donation to one of the dozens of local non-proďŹ ts in need of your support. Guide to Giving is a compilation of charitable organizations in Moore County that rely on annual fundraising. With your help, be it monetary or hands-on, we can grow this local network of do-gooders.

We thank the local businesses that made our Guide to Giving possible through their sponsorship. To learn how your business can sponsor the 2020 edition, please call (910) 693-2481.

Made in the U.S. with products produced in North America! We can accommodate any budget Representing Custom Cabinet Vendors: Adelphi Kitchens & Cabinetry Greenfield Cabinetry • DuraSupreme Cabinetry • Siteline Cabinetry Levant Kitchen Furniture • Kith Kitchens

A LEGACY OF TRUST IN CABINETRY DESIGN (910) 691-1666 • (910) 691-7099 • DWILSON@ARTISTIC-KITCHENS.COM

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Companion Animal Clinic Foundation is a volunteer organization dedicated to reducing euthanasia of adoptable companion animals through affordable spay/neuter at the Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic in Vass, NC. CACF is an all-volunteer organization.

Companion Animal Clinic Foundation

6,500+

clients served per year

75,000

surgeries provided

$132,000

in tax dollars saved annually per county through prevention

97 Million

potential shelter animals prevented

YOUR COMMUNITY SOLUTION TO ANIMAL OVERPOPULATION

GOALS:

VOLUNTEER:

Replace equipment and expand the Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic in Vass, NC to accommodate the increased number of surgeries in our 13-county service area.

SERVICES AT THE SPAY NEUTER VETERINARY CLINIC: • Spay/Neuter for Cats and Dogs • Cryptorchid Neutering • Rabies Vaccines • Microchips • Umbilical Hernia Repair • Antibiotics

FUNDRAISING EVENTS: Galas, parties, trail rides, wine tastings, silent auctions, movies, and more.

Email info@companionanimalclinic.org Or stop by our office at 683 SW Broad St. in Southern Pines, NC.

CONTACT THE SPAY NEUTER VETERINARY CLINIC FOR AN APPOINTMENT! 910-692-FIXX (3499) www.spayneutervet.org 5071 U.S. 1 Suite C Vass, NC

MAKE A GIFT: www.companionanimalclinic.org Companion Animal Clinic Foundation PO Box 148 Southern Pines, NC 28388

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A Brand New Way to EXPERIENCE and be INSPIRED by Theatrical and Musical Performances in the Sandhills OUR FLAGSHIP VENUE A TRUE BLACK BOX THEATER OPEN-AIR OUTDOOR VENUE MUSIC UNDER THE PINES

This newly renovated 597-seat auditorium features a state of the art 32-channel digital mixer, fully digital LED lighting with follow spots, and a multi-screen projection system. There is not a bad seat in the house. This 80-seat venue will create an immersive experience with the purpose of connecting the audience with the performers. This is an ideal setting for rehearsals, one-act plays, musical artists, recitals, lectures, and so much more. This beautifully designed courtyard adjoins the Owens Auditorium and McPherson Theater and features a stage for intimate performances as well as plenty of space for receptions and entertaining both before and after events. Located in the center of the SCC Campus, this recently renovated green space will provide a large outdoor venue for concerts, theatrical performances, andmusic festivals. This is also the staging ground for SCC’s annual graduation.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES 11/8 -9 : Carolina Philharmonic 11/11 : The SCC Jazz Band 11/12 : Colonel (R) Heath Niemi Lecture “Transitions: The New Waves of War” 11/15 : Michael Feinstein “The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook” 11/21-24 : Judson Theatre Presents Agatha Christie’s “A Witness for the Prosecution” 11/26 : SCC Faculty Recital featuring Dr. Ryan Book (Guitar) and Dr. Kristina Henckel (Piano) 11/29-12/1 : Gary Taylor Dance’s “The Nutcracker” 12/3 : Piano Duo Concert featuring Dr. Amanda Virelles (Cuba) and Dr. Kristina Henckel (Czech Republic) 12/4 : SCC Faculty Recital featuring Dr. Kristina Henckel 12/5 : Ruth Pauley Lecture Series presents Dr. Michael E. Mann (Climatologist) 12/8 : Sandhills Community College’s Holiday Concert featuring the SCC Music Department

FOR TICKETS AND SHOWTIMES VISIT WWW.SANDHILLSBPAC.COM

The Bradshaw Performing Arts Center would not have been possible if it were not for the generousity of so many long-time friends of Sandhills Community College who shared a vision of providing both our students and our community with a center for cultural and educational engagement.

Be Engaged, be Inspired, and be a Part of the Excitement coming soon...

Friends of BPAC

Pictured: Jennifer Dail, Director of Development; Dr. John Dempsey, President of SCC; Germaine Elkins, Vice President of Institutional Advancement; Cassidy Benjamin, Associate Director of Foundation Outreach.

PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE SANDHILLS

4,212

curriculum students served

618

college credit courses (2017-2018)

618

high school graduates took advantage of the SCC promise last year

15:1

student to faculty ratio

Associate Degrees

career technical certificate & diploma pathways

THE SANDHILLS PROMISE: 1,485 High School Students Earned College Credits Last Year 13,900 Hours of College Credits High School Students Earned Last Year 242 High School Graduate Took Advantage of the SCC Promise Last Year 54 CCP College Transfer Courses 23 Career Technical Certificate & Diploma Pathways

EVENTS: • Annual Coca-Cola Classic Scholarship Golf Tournament • Jazz Band Concerts • Boyd Library Events • Flyers Athletics Games • Annual Community Homecoming & 5K Run

VOLUNTEER AT THE KELLY TUTORING CENTER: Contact Shalishah Russell, Coordinator 119 Logan Hall 910-246-4138 russells@sandhills.edu

ARRANGE A CAMPUS TOUR OR ATTEND A LUNCH IN OUR CULINARY DEPARTMENT: Germaine Elkins, Vice President Institutional Advancement 910-695-3706 elkinsg@sandhills.edu Jennifer Dail, Director of Development 910-695-3712 dailj@sandhills.edu

ENSURE OPPORTUNITY: The SCC Guarantors ensure that no deserving student will be turned away because he or she cannot afford a college education. The Guarantors Program helps students who are faced with significant financial challenges to stay in school. Guarantors support provides tuition, books and fees as well as other expenses that are critical to the student’s capacity to stay in school and succeed in his or her program of study.

MAKE A GIFT: sandhills.edu/giving SCC Foundation 3395 Airport Road Pinehurst, NC 28374

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Giving is not just about making a donation, it’s about making a difference. 910.637.0307 • WWW.ELOISETRADINGCOMPANY.COM • 111 WEST MAIN STREET • ABERDEEN NC

JDRF’s mission is improving lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat type 1 diabetes (T1D) and its complications. JDRF collaborates with academic institutions, policymakers, and corporate partners to develop and deliver a pipeline of innovative therapies to people living with T1D.

CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT TYPE 1 DIABETES PIEDMONT TRIAD CHAPTER SERVING MOORE COUNTY

39 students in Moore

County Schools with T1D

$2.8 million

annual fundraising goal

1.25 Million+ Americans have T1D today

$14 Billion

annual T1D-associated US healthcare costs

WHAT IS TYPE 1 DIABETES? Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas are mistakenly destroyed by the body’s immune system. T1D can be diagnosed without warning—at any age. People with T1D are dependent on injected or pumped insulin to survive. Although they share the name “diabetes,” Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are quite different.

• Make plans to attend the TypeOneNation Summit in Winston-Salem on March 21, 2020

FUNDRAISING EVENTS: • Tennis to Tent to Tee - September in Pinehurst • Annual Hope Gala - February 22, 2020 in Greensboro • One Walks - Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Alamance County, and High Point • Ride to Cure Diabetes

WHAT HAPPENS IN A PERSON WITH T1D? Most people with T1D spend the majority of their time with blood-glucose levels outside the recommended healthy range, resulting in potentially deadly episodes of hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Chronic high blood sugar often causes devastating health complications later in life, including blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, and nerve damage that can lead to amputations.

HOW YOU CAN HELP: • Assist with fundraising events • Mentor families who are newly diagnosed with T1D • Learn more at jdrf.org/triad Facebook.com/jdrftriad, or @JDRFtriad on Twitter

MAKE A GIFT: jdrf.org/donate • (336) 373-1768

OUTREACH AND SUPPORT: JDRF provides support and ways for families and individuals dealing with T1D to connect—both in person and online. • Join “Triad T1D Talk” at Facebook.com/ groups/TriadT1DTalk

JDRF - Piedmont Triad Chapter 216 West Market Street, Suite B Greensboro, NC 27401

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The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sandhills is to inspire, enable and educate young people from all backgrounds and circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

CREATING STABLE, SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENTS FOR CHILDREN & TEENS

988 registered members 2,066 youth served

62%

of members come from single parent homes

63%

of members qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch Program

96%

of teen members expect to graduate from high school

71%

SPONSOR A CHILD:

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:

The Sponsor a Child Campaign helps address key issues that Club members face: living in singleparent homes, lack of good nutrition, healthy habits and life skills, a safe place to go to avoid the lures of gangs and other negative behaviors, and a chance to graduate on time with a career plan that is well suited for each individual member. Individuals can sponsor a child for $82 per month.

• Homework Helpers • Tutors • Kitchen Staffing • Front Desk Attendant on weekday mornings • Events Hosting Contact Gina Fragale at 910-692-0777, ext. 2229 or gfragale@sandhillsbgc.org

MAKE A GIFT:

EVENTS: • Great Futures Youth of the Year Gala on February 20, 2020 • Gathering For The Pines: Swing, Sip, Savorbenefitting Boys & Girls Club of the Sandhills, Foundation of FirstHealth, and Friends of Pinehurst Surgical Clinic May 7-9, 2020 • Moore Trivia with Moore County Chamber of Commerce, October 16, 2020

www.sandhillsbgc.org/donate Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sandhills PO Box 1761 Southern Pines, NC 28388

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Buyer, Purveyor & Appraiser of Fine and Estate Jewellery 229 NE Broad Street • Southern Pines, NC • (910) 692-0551 Mother and Daughter Leann and Whitney Parker Look Forward to Welcoming You to WhitLauter.

Beefeaters is proud to serve Moore County and support Backpack Pals!

Locally Owned & Operated for Over 25 Years Dinner Mon-Sat 5-10pm | Lounge 5pm-until | Mon-Sat 5:00pm-10:00pm 910-692-5550 | 672 SW Broad St. Southern Pines, NC www.beefeatersofsouthernpines.com

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The Backpack Pals’ program meets the nutritional needs of children at risk of hunger during weekends by providing discreet bags filled with weekend meals that fit inside of a child’s backpack.

SUPPORTING CHILDREN FACING HUNGER OVER THE WEEKEND

HOW IT WORKS:

30 1,200

children served in 2005

children served every week in 2019

46,800

BackPack Pals bags distributed during the school year MAKE A GIFT:

Backpack Pals bags are compiled at the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC location on Sandy Avenue in Southern Pines. These packs provide healthy meals and snacks for children and their families to ensure children return to school on Mondays or after a long school break ready to learn. Volunteers receive the food from the Food Bank, load it into bags, and deliver it to the school or program for distribution each week. Common foods in a Backpack Pals bag include: proteins (tuna, beef stew, or peanut butter), fruits (canned or fresh), breakfast items (cereal or bars), snacks, and beverages (fruit juice and/or milk). The backpacks are assembled by volunteers and delivered to a school partner each week. Normally, the packs are distributed on Thursday or Friday, with kids returning them on Wednesday of the following week. Since the program began in October 2005, teachers and schools have reported improvements in test scores, positive behavioral gains, decrease in number of unexcused absences, and an increased recognition of potential career paths.

DONATE ONLINE: Online donations are a fast and easy way to support the work of the Food Bank. Using a

credit card or bank draft, make a one-time gift or continue your support as a monthly contributor. Honor or memorialize a friend or relative by making a tribute gift. Consider hosting a virtual food drive for friends and family to get involved. foodbankcenc.org

DONATE FOOD: Food donations are essential in meeting the needs of those who suffer from hunger in our 34-county service territory. The Food Bank seeks donations from individuals holding food drives, farmers with excess produce and corporate bulk donations of food and non-food essential items.

PROVIDE OTHER MONETARY SUPPORT: The Food Bank accepts many types of monetary support including stock donations, bequests by will or trust, company matching gifts, and corporate partnerships.

MORE WAYS TO SUPPORT: Support the Food Bank with a gift-in-kind such as equipment or a vehicle. Individuals can contribute eBay proceeds or AMEX rewards points. The Food Bank has also partnered with GoodSearch and AmazonSmile.

Backpack Pals c/o Food Bank CENC 195 Sandy Avenue Southern Pines, NC 28387

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The mission of St. Joseph of the Pines and Trinity Health is to serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

FULFILLING PROMISES... ENRICHING LIVES

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Charitable Giving at St. Joseph of the Pines works to support the mission by supporting the residents and colleagues that live and work in and on the seven campuses serving seniors of all income levels with short and long term care. St. Joseph of the Pines offers a full aging service network with life plan communities, health care, and home and community based services for older adults as well as community outreach to those in need.

MAKE A GIFT:

affordable housing apartments for seniors are managed by SJP

St. Joseph of the Pines 100 Gossman Drive, Ste. B. Southern Pines, NC 28387

of the 744 seniors served by SJP are low income

VOLUNTEER:

39%

For More Information: Call Caroline Eddy, Director of Development at 910-246-3145 or caroline.eddy@trinity-health.org

Contact Ted Natt at 910.246.3125 or tnatt@trinity-health.org

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As a long-time member of Sacred Heart Church in Pinehurst, Lin had first-hand knowledge of the Senior ministries provided by the diocese of Raleigh through St Joseph of the Pines and the Sisters of Providence. St Joseph’s of the Pines was a pioneer in Continuing Care Retirement Communities and continues to be a leader nationally. In its early history, St Joseph of the Pines was funded largely by private donations. To continue the Mission of providing passionate care to a variety of income levels, private donations are more important than ever. As a member of the Board of St Joseph’s of the Pines, Lin supports this Mission and calls others to assist in continuing this long-standing tradition. Lin has been in this area since 1978. She served on the Boards of The O’Neal School, the former Moore Regional Hospital, the Lee County Commission on Youth and together with her husband, chaired the Hospital Ball in 1991. In addition to SJP, Lin serves on the Board of Partners in Progress and Rotary Club of the Sandhills. As Founder and Owner of Lin Hutaff ’s Pinehurst Realty Group, Lin’s second passion is Real Estate. Lin is consistently in the top 1% of MOORE County Realtors and top 3% of U.S. Realtors, selling over $2 Million in Real Estate monthly. Lin and her team of EXPERIENCED Agents offer a KNOWLEDGABLE, COURTEOUS, and CONFIDENTIAL Real estate Experience with the very best outcome possible! “With our experienced Group of Realtors, we can be available to our clients whenever they need us!” Call Lin if you are considering buying or selling a home. 910.528.6427

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Our Mission. To Prevent. Protect. Prevail.

HELPING SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING REBUILD THEIR LIVES Last Year Friend to Friend provided:

2,978 days of safe shelter provided

4,355

counseling/guidance advocacy sessions

1,085

crisis calls received

347

protective orders completed

65%

of serenity house clients moved to safe housing

SERENITY HOUSE:

THOUSAND EYES WIDE OPEN:

• Donor Relations Volunteer • General Office/Admin Assistance • General IT/Tech Support • Hospital Accompaniment • Board of Directors • Internships Available

Equipping trainers, businesses, individuals, parents, students, and more on how to identify and report signs and symptoms of human trafficking.

SEXUAL ASSAULT + DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS LINE: 910.947.3333

HOSPITAL ACCOMPANIMENT:

HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE: 910.947.3333

A safe sanctuary where individuals, families, and pets are welcomed and empowered to reclaim their lives through the complex healing process.

Screened and highly trained volunteers provide 24-hour on-call advocacy to sexual assault victims.

COURT ADVOCACY: Court advocates in Carthage assist clients in filling out domestic violence restraining orders and accompany clients to their court-ordered date, providing support, assistance, and counseling.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: • Thousand Eyes Wide Open Campaign • Transportation • Serenity House Improvement • Special Programming • Social Media Volunteer

TO VOLUNTEER: 910.947.1703 or email volunteercoordinatorf2f@gmail.com

MAKE A GIFT: www.friendtofriend.me/donate-1 Friend to Friend 101 Monroe Street PO Box 1508 Carthage, NC 28327

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Divorce/Family Law Personal Injury Wrongful Death Social Security Disability Collaborative Law Real Estate Closings Probate/Estate Wills, Trusts Elder Law Business Law 230 N. Bennett Street, Suite 2, Southern Pines, N.C. 28387

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WORKING TO REDUCE THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN MOORE COUNTY

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The mission of Drug Free Moore County is to provide information on prevention, treatment, and recovery on addiction/substance use disorder to all citizens in Moore County.

Prevention and Recovery Resources

FUNDRAISING GOAL:

$35,000

STRATEGY:

COMMUITY RECOVERY CENTER:

Educational efforts through community presentations, resource guide, social media, and networking with Moore County Schools, FirstHealth of the Carolinas, treatment providers in Moore County and Moore County Detention Center. We also have the Peer Support Program. A Peer Support Specialist has at least two years of recovery and certification training, who are embedded throughout the county that offer support to those in recovery.

Located in Carthage, the county seat. Its called Moore ReCreations. We are working on a capital campaign to purchase a building located on the Courthouse Circle.

EVENTS:

Email drugfreemc@gmail.com or call 910947-1902 and leave a message to volunteer.

The Run for Recovery 5K Fun Run/Walk in September is an annual fundraiser that raises awareness and money to help with recovery efforts.

A dropbox for old or unused medications is available 24/7 at the Moore County Sheriff’s Office at the Courthouse Square in Carthage.

VOLUNTEER: • Event Staffing • Community Recovery Centers People who have been in recovery for at least a year may be trained as a peer counselor.

MAKE A GIFT: Drug Free Moore County PO Box 639 Carthage, NC 28327

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The mission of Sandhills Children’s Center is to constantly strive to be a recognized leader and pre-eminent provider of educational and therapeutic services to young children ages birth through 5 years through continuous organizational growth and collaboration with our community partners.

INCLUSIVE EARLY EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN

CLASSROOM WISH LIST: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Baby Wipes Kleenex Diapers – sizes 3 or 4 Batteries (AA, AAA, C and D) Books (Ages 0 – 5) Board books for babies Construction Paper Glue, washable paint, washable markers, art materials Outdoor Toys (buckets, shovels, balls, outdoor games) Powdered Laundry Detergent (Dye and Fragrance Free) Lysol Spray Bleach Clorox or Lysol Wipes Children’s area rugs (New – any size)

EVENTS: 23ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF TREES November 20 - 24, 2019 The Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst

INNAUGURAL CLAYS FOR KIDS SPORTING CLAY SHOOT & SOCIAL March 26, 2020 DeWitt’s Outdoor Sports in Ellerbe

KELLY CUP GOLF TOURNAMENT March 2020 Pinehurst No. 8

EVENT HELP: Volunteers are needed in a variety of capacities from serving on planning and auction committees, to decorating for events, to staffing events and more.

PROGRAM HELP: Volunteers may come to Sandhills Children’s Center to rock babies, read to toddlers, and help out in the pre-K rooms. Contact Cassie Staufenberger to volunteer at 910.692.3323

MAKE A GIFT:

SIP & SAMPLE April 29, 2020 The Fair Barn in Pinehurst

BACKYARD BOCCE BASH

www.sandhillschildrenscenter.org Sandhills Children’s Center 1280 Central Drive Southern Pines, NC 28387

August 2020 National Athletic Village in Southern Pines

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At Penick Village, we are a family creating a loving community by making each day great for one another

HONORING AND VALUING ELDERS AND THOSE WHO CARE FOR THEM

number of residents who have been asked to leave due to lack of funds in 55-year history

13%

of residents receive Benevolent Assistance annually

1.4 Million given in annual financial assistance

BENEVOLENT ASSISTANCE: Bishop Penick founded Penick Village in 1964 with the vision, mission, and promise that no resident would ever have to leave because of lack of funds. The Penick Village Foundation provides assurance to its residents that Bishop Penick’s promise is upheld and has an uncompromising commitment to deinstitutionalize the aging experience.

EVENTS:

OUR BOARD LEADERS: James Heisey Foundation Board Chair Dr. Gary Krasicky Board of Directors President Jeffrey Hutchins Chief Executive Officer

MAKE A GIFT:

14th Annual Art Show- Friday, February 28, 2020 100% of proceeds go to Benevolent Assistance

VOLUNTEER: • Volunteer with the Life Enrichment Department • Join the Giving Society and become a Penick Promise Partner • Join the Friends of Penick For all inquiries please contact Malorie at mwolf@penickvillage.org

www.penickvillage.org/penick-villagefoundation.html Penick Village Foundation 500 E. Rhode Island Avenue, Southern Pines, NC 28387

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SUPPORT AIMS THROUGH THE

AngelTree AT THE COUNTRY BOOKSHOP

AIMS provides an unparalleled experience and books for kids by partnering with local bookshops and publishers to coordinate New York Times Bestselling Author visits at local elementary and middle schools. Teachers and administrators believe the experience of interacting with rockstar visiting authors, combined with book ownership, encourages students to read more, encourages literary discussions in the home, and grows young readers into lifelong book lovers.

Give the gift of a book to a needy child for Christmas

Angel Tree books are 20% OFF

Receive a complimentary card with every Angel Tree purchase to let your family and friends know about the special gift you gave in their name.

Contributions may also be made over the phone with a credit card.

The Country Bookshop 140 NW Broad St, • Southern Pines, NC • 910.692.3211 • www.thecountrybookshop.biz • thecountrybookshop

Authors in Moore Schools (AIMS) seeks to promote the love of reading by bringing students, parents, schools, communities and authors together through great books.

SERVING K-8 STUDENTS IN AND AROUND MOORE COUNTY

35 60

schools in AIMS program

bestselling and award winning authors

10,000+ 14

free autographed books

community partners

SMALL TOWNS, BIG AUTHORS: AIMS-Authors in Moore Schools is a Southern Pines based nonprofit that provides an unparalleled experience for children by partnering with local bookshops and National publishers to coordinate New York Times Bestselling Author visits at elementary school and middle schools in Moore County and beyond. AIMS mission is to grow a love of reading in young people by bringing students, teachers, authors, parents and communities together through great books. Teachers and administrators believe the experience of interacting with rock star visiting authors, combined with book ownership, encourages students to read more, encourages literary discussions in the home, and grows young readers into lifelong book lovers.

MAKE A GIFT: Visit the Angel Tree at The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines during the holiday season, or visit AIMS facebook page @AIMSauthorsinmooreschools or email authorsinmooreschools@gmail.com for more information.

Donations may be mailed to: Authors in Moore Schools C/o Angie Tally, 55 Shadow Lane, Whispering Pines, NC.

OUR BOARD: Angie Tally Founder and Program Director of AIMS, Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manager at The Country Bookshop Pam Moore Moore County Schools Teacher Christine Leo Moore County Schools Teacher Julie McPherson Moore County Schools Administrator Kelly Starling Lyons Loretta Scott King Award Winning Author

FUNDRAISING GOAL:

$7,000

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Buddy with his adopters!

The mission of Moore Humane Society is to ensure that all animals are treated with compassion and respect and to end euthanasia as a means of controlling pet overpopulation in our community.

THE FOUNDERS OF ANIMAL WELFARE IN THE SANDHILLS

$50,000+

cost of veterinary care in 2019

received from government funding

$250,000

annual operating cost for Moore County’s no-kill shelter

MOORE HUMANE SOCIETY has been serving our community for over 50 Years. Tens of Thousands of homeless animals in need have passed through our doors. Virtually all need some degree of medical care; others benefit from our programs and services. While our desire to help homeless animals is unlimited, our financial resources are not. Moore Humane Society is a “No-Kill” 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization funded entirely by its membership and tax-exempt donations. Donations are critical for the continuation of our life saving mission!

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES: • Rescue, rehabilitate, and adopt homeless animals • Low cost spay/neuter • Reuniting Lost Pets • Helping to manage feral cat population through the Trap, Neuter and Release Program • Maintaining the Pooch Park in the Pines in Southern Pines for dogs and their owners to exercise and socialize • Humane education to local schools, day care facilities and other organizations • Courtesy Listings: Provide opportunity for pets to be matched with adopters through national database if our shelter is at capacity or animal is not a good candidate for shelter environment. • Emergency Placement Partner for the Humane Society of the United States

FUNDRAISING: The operating expenses of Moore Humane Society exceed $250,000 annually. Hundreds of homeless animals pass through the doors of MHS every year, and nearly all of them require some degree of medical care.

VOLUNTEER WITH US: • Working/socializing with shelter dogs and cats • Staffing special events • Fostering animals • Photographing animals • Public Speaking • Fundraising Fill out an application at moorehumane.org to volunteer.

DONATE: moorehumane.org/wish-list/ Moore Humane Society PO Box 203 Southern Pines, NC 28388

CONTACT: moorehumane.org 5355 NC Hwy 22 Carthage, NC 28327 910.947.2631

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We provide opportunities for thousands of local children every year to experience the joy of exceptional music through interactive orchestral programs in partnership with schools across the region.

PRESENTING EXCEPTIONAL CONCERTS THAT ENTERTAIN, EDUCATE AND INSPIRE AUDIENCES

$200,000

is needed per year to offer/ support cutting edge music education programs to over 3,500 local children

5,000

guests welcomed to our eclectic seven concert season programs

14,000

young lives touched by Carolina Philharmonic (to date), without federal or government support

EVENTS: • Grand Opening of the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center - November 8 & 9, 2019, 7:30pm • Holiday Pops at The Carolina: A Pinehurst Tradition - November 27 at 8pm and November 30 at 3pm • Pops: The Silver Screen January 18, 2020, 7:30pm • Painted Piano February 22, 2020, 7:30pm • Don Quixote March 14, 2020, 7:30pm • Three Tenors and a Soprano April 18, 2020, 7:30pm • Season Final: Cannons and Fireworks May 16, 2020, 7:30pm

FUNDRAISING GOALS: Each year with no federal or state assistance we need to raise $200,000 to support our music education programs for the children of Moore Co.

We fundraise throughout the year for children’s music programs. This year between Encore! Kids (K – 3), Link Up (4th graders) and our Junior Orchestra we have about 3,500 total students in our programs.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: • Distribution of promotional posters throughout the community for concerts • Usher, sell tickets, check in at concerts • Helping out with special events • Miscellaneous office work Contact the box office: 910.687.0287

MAKE A GIFT: The Carolina Philharmonic 5 Market Sq Pinehurst, NC 28374

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CELEBRATING 31 YEARS OF BUILDING SAFE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR HARDWORKING HOMEOWNERS IN THE SANDHILLS Approximately

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• No experience necessary • Construction Supervisors and tools provided • Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 8:00am-1:00pm

Furniture, household items, lawn & garden, recreational, automobiles, RVs, boats, & more. Habitat ReStore 2268 NC Highway 5 Aberdeen, NC 28315

VOLUNTEER IN THE RESTORE: • Merchandisers • Cashiers & Cashier Assistants • Monday through Saturday, morning or afternoon VOLUNTEER IN THE OFFICE • Receptionists • Committee Members Contact Volunteer Manager, Rosemary Weber 910-295-1934 ext. 2270 or rweber@sandhillshabitat.org

MAKE A GIFT: sandhillshabitat.org Habitat for Humanity of the NC Sandhills 2268 NC Highway 5 Aberdeen, NC 28315

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The Moore County Airport & Total Flight Solutions are working with Sandhills Community College to promote their new Professional Aviation Program. Contact Sandhills Community College at www.sandhills.edu/aviation for more information.

The 3rd Annual Festival Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Avion April 17th - 18th Tickets on sale now!

Contact the Airport at csr@moorecountyairport.com or Peter Stilwell at peterstilwell@tarheelcommunications.com for more information.

Total Flight Solutions provides On-Site Aircraft Maintenance and the On-Site Flight School. Helicopter & Fixed Wing Flight Training Available. www.totalflight.com â&#x20AC;˘ 910-692-5511

Moore County Airport

7825 Aviation Drive Carthage, NC 28327 910-692-3212 www.moorecountyairport.com

Sandhills Coalition was established in 1986 to coordinate available resources and assistance provided to Moore County families in need. Services are made possible through generous community backing, the support of dedicated volunteers, and sales at The Coalition Resale Shops.

ALLEVIATING HUNGER AND FINANCIAL STRAINS OF STRUGGLING HOUSEHOLDS IN MOORE COUNTY

prevented eviction of

124 families

maintained utilities in

867 households

ANNUAL EVENTS

MAKE A GIFT:

• Sandhills Coalition Golf Classic • Pack the Pickup food drive • Empty Bowls event

VOLUNTEER:

provided food for

6,327 residents

• Greeter: Register clients for services • Screener: Interview clients • Driver: Transport clients • Clothing: Help clients select clothes • Job Counselor: Help with job search • Food Pantry: Package groceries • Store clerk: Work in a thrift store • Sorter: Sort donations

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146 families

www.sandhillscoalition.org Sandhills Coalition 1500 W. Indiana Ave. Southern Pines, NC 28387

IN KIND DONATIONS: The Coalition Resale Shops 1117 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines Mon-Fri 10am-4pm • Sat 9am-12pm

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Moore Free & Charitable Clinic’s mission is to provide a primary care medical home for low income uninsured residents of Moore County, North Carolina, giving access to consistent care and prescription medications for disabling chronic diseases.

WITH COMPASSION AND RESPECT, MOORE FREE & CHARITABLE CLINIC PROVIDES HEALTH CARE TO THE LIMITED INCOME, UNINSURED OF MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

$18.4M Total value of services 13,176 Total number of prescription

medications provided or dispensed by Moore Free & Charitable Clinic at little or no cost to patients

5,905 Total number of patient encounters

1,428 Total number of unique patients $419.81 Avg. annual cost per patient

Our organization’s goal is to provide access to compassionate, quality primary health care and other services to the nearly 14,000 uninsured adults in Moore County. By doing so, the overall health of our community will be improved at the population level. The burden on local hospital emergency departments is mitigated when uninsured residents have a better, more costeffective alternative for routine care. Communities benefit socially and economically when medical insecurity is reduced. Moore Free & Charitable Clinic’s strategic priorities are to: 1) Strengthen fundraising efforts to increase available resources to carry out its mission, 2) Expand the capacity to serve more patients by adding space and staff, and 3) Increase community outreach and education about the services offered by Moore Free & Charitable Clinic.

EVENTS Each year, Moore Free & Charitable Clinic hosts a fundraiser called the Hearts and Hands Brunch that falls near Valentines Day. In the fall, the major fundraising event is Dining in the Pines™, which features special dining experiences called Chef Tables, held at local fine dining restaurants. In 2019 the Chefs Tables were held at Wolcott’s and 195 American Fusion Cuisine.

FUNDRAISING GOALS: Thanks to the generosity of this community, Moore Free & Charitable Clinic recently began a space expansion project to add additional examination rooms, expand the pharmacy and waiting area, and add a triage area. To be able to complete this project, buy furnishings and add needed staff, the Clinic would like to raise $50,000 by the end of the year.

VOLUNTEER: Moore Free & Charitable Clinic always can use clinical volunteers, including, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, mental health professionals, dentists, registered nurses, pharmacists and pharmacy techs. Opportunities also are available for clerical positions, such as reception, enrollment and eligibility, filing and other office jobs. Please contact Tony Price at 910-246-5333 Ext 207.

MAKE A GIFT: Donations by check may be made out to Moore Free & Charitable Clinic and mailed to: 211 Trimble Plant Road, Suite C, Southern Pines, NC 28387. Credit card donations made be made at www. MooreFreeCare.org. The Clinic also can accept gifts of securities; for more information call Tony Price at (910)246-5333 Ext. 207.

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910-684-8817 • 215 Capital Dr. • Whispering Pines • NC 910-400-5613 • 4379 NC Hwy 211 • West End • NC

We provide a fun, healthy event to raise funds in which to award grants to Moore County’s teachers for student benefited projects and ideas that otherwise would not be financially feasible.

SERVING ALL STUDENTS AND FACULTY IN MOORE COUNTY’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS

12th annual race 1,000+ participants in 1 mile, 5K & 10K races

$20,000$25,000 raised each year for Moore County teachers & schools

EVENTS:

TO VOLUNTEER, CONTACT:

The ShamRock ‘N Roll Road Race This event is approaching its 12th year and all proceeds raised are placed with the Public Education Foundation. From there we award grants to teachers to implement worthy classroom projects/ideas.

Jill Saunders Jsaunders@SouthernPinesAce.com 910-638-3686 Runsignup.com

MAKE A GIFT: www.ShamRocknRollRace.com

END OF YEAR FUNDRAISING GOALS:

The ShamRock ‘N Roll Road Race 26 Goldenrod Drive Whispering Pines, NC 28327

$30,000-$40,000

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: The Village of Whispering Pines residents, staff, police, fire & maintenance personnel are instrumental in the race’s volunteer roles. School groups like Honor Societies and running groups also typically volunteer and there is always a need for additional help.

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PINEHURST

OOT SPECIALIST

Specializing In Surgical and Medical Foot Care

Glenn H. Dunlap, DPM

Supporter of Life Care Pregnancy Center

James K. Smith, DPM

6 R E G I O N A L D R I V E, S U I T E D • P I N E H U R S T, N C 28374 • (910) 295-9255

St. Luke’s Medical Practice proudly supports the Life Care Pregnancy Center. 334 Mill Creek Rd. • Carthage, NC 28327 • (910) 725-0809 • stlukesmedical.net

Life Care Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry that promotes the sanctity of human life by providing Christian direction, compassionate care, accurate information and practical assistance for individuals and families facing crucial decisions surrounding an unplanned pregnancy or pregnancy related crisis.

SERVING PREGNANT WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM CONCEPTION UNTIL CHILD’S 2ND BIRTHDAY

1,292

client visits receiving life skills, education and material assistance

clients received pregnancy tests

clients received sonograms

133

clients received lactation consultations

50,000+

diapers distributed from Earn While You Learn Program

$165,480+

worth of health and social services freely provided

Life Care Pregnancy Center focuses on: • Alleviating social service burdens on local government • Facilitating public health through consultation with medical professionals and referrals for ongoing care • Building healthy families through education and support • Clients are served without regard to age, race, income, nationality, religious affiliation, disability or other arbitrary circumstances

OUR FREE AND CONFIDENTIAL SERVICES INCLUDE: • Pregnancy Testing • Ultrasound for pregnancy confirmation • Lactation consultation • Pregnancy options education • Post abortion support • Prenatal and parenting education • Medical referrals • Adoption referrals • Community resource referrals • Maternity and infant clothing and supplies

END OF YEAR FUNDRAISING GOALS: • Purchase of building at 402 Monroe Street Carthage NC 28327 • We will be closing on this property on December 6, 2019 • Our goal of $188,000 to pay off mortgage

TO VOLUNTEER, CONTACT: Call 910.947.6199 or lcpc01@embarqmail.com to obtain a volunteer application Opportunities for all levels of volunteers – from special one-time projects to one-on-one advocacy with clients

MAKE A GIFT: www.friendsoflcpc.org PO Box 519 Carthage, NC 28327

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Coordinating care for families facing the challenges of health and aging.

Our Services CLINICAL SUPPORT Comprehensive Health Planning RN Wellness Check-Ins Medication Management End of Life Care & Support

HEALTHCARE CONSULTING Transition Care & Consulting Life & Legacy Planning Home Modification Health Coaching

SOUTHERN PINES

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HEALTHCARE PLANNING Aging In Place Transition Care & Consulting Life & Legacy Planning Health Crisis Planning Life History Writing

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The mission of Moore Buddies Mentoring is to champion successful youth through mentoring and empowering families.

SERVING SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN AGES 6-17 IN MOORE COUNTY

different schools

hours per week

12,000

volunteer hours invested in helping children to stay in school and do better in life

Caring adults heal childhood trauma. Pairing a positive, caring adult with a child at risk of failing or dropping out of school helps the child to stay in school, do better and have a successful life. Kids feel loved and encouraged and better about life and about themselves.

EVENTS: STUFF THE BUS! (School supply drive) Let’s Make a Deal, and other fundraisers.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: • • • • • •

Mentor/Tutor a child Help Stuff the Bus! Host a monthly event for the kids Attend a fund raiser Share your talent of baking, painting, etc. Host job shadowing at your place of employment • Donate to Tuesday’s Child for kids needs

TO VOLUNTEER, CONTACT: END-OF-YEAR FUNDRAISING GOAL: $15,000 We have one mentor coordinator and 28 schools, and children on a waiting list. We need other coordinators to widen our service area and serve more children and families. We would need $15000 for a part-time coordinator, or for two coordinators with fewer hours.

Joyce@moorebuddiesmentoring.com, or tim@moorebuddiesmentoring.com 910-295-1072

MAKE A GIFT: Write a check to Moore Buddies Mentoring PO Box 223, Pinehurst, NC 28370

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Friends of Pinehurst Surgical Clinic is set up to serve its community with a primary focus on healthcare, education, and disaster relief.

SERVING ITS COMMUNITY WITH A PRIMARY FOCUS ON HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, AND DISASTER RELIEF SERVING

FUNDRAISING GOAL:

$75,000 All ticket sales, auction proceeds, and sponsorship money will be given to charities (Friends of Pinehurst Surgical Clinic, Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhills, and Foundation of FirstHealth).

The organization is working in cooperation with Pinehurst Surgical Clinic to support indigent and charity care in the community. Friends of Pinehurst Surgical Clinic will also be awarding scholarships to Sandhills Community College students. In an effort to best serve our community, Friends of Pinehurst Surgical Clinic will work collaboratively with Pinehurst Surgical Clinic to identify and offer support for indigent and charity care patients, partner with Sandhills Community College to aid in student scholarship needs, and work alongside local municipality groups to meet community needs in the event of a disaster.

FUNDRAISING

VOLUNTEER Accepting volunteers for any fundraising events Contact Julie Wohlrab at jwohlrab@yahoo.com

DONATIONS Mail check to: Pinehurst Surgical Clinic, 5 FirstVillage Drive Pinehurst, NC 28374

The May 2020 Gathering for the Pines charity event will be a 3-day fundraising event with a goal of $75,000. It will include a golf tournament, wine and dine to meet a local artist, and cook off and auction. All ticket sales, auction proceeds, and sponsorship money will be given to charities (Friends of Pinehurst Surgical Clinic, Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhills, and Foundation of FirstHealth).

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WE SPECIALIZE IN GIVING Pinehurst Surgical Clinic is proud to be a part of The Guide to Giving.

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Our sponsors are leaders in our local community and beyond whom share our core beliefs. Without their support we would not be able to make the impact that we do. We would like to thank the following and encourage you to support those who do so very generously. We would like to thank our 2018 annual sponsors:

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Quantico Tactical

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who bought tickets and came out for BEEF AND BEER 2019! Thanks to all of you guys, our wonderful volunteers, awesome auction donors and incredible sponsors, we hit $100,000 for the weekend events! All of those funds will go right back to the community via youth scholarships, Gold Star support and helping out our SF brothers and sisters in times of need.

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We would also like to thank our 2019 Beef & Beer Sponsors:

Jason Jones Memorial Scholarship Foundation APK Charities Coast II Coast Foundation

The Bell Tree Tavern Railhouse Brewery The Sly Fox Southern Pines Brewing Company Red Oak Brewery Reverie Cocktails James Creek Cider House Quantico Trigger Time Triangle Wine Company

“When it is our time to stand next to the families that our brothers leave behind, we will fulfill our promise.” — Chad Lawson, Board Member and Founder

The Duskin and Stephens Foundation is a 501c3 that provides direct support to members of the United States Special Operations Community and their families through a youth scholarship program and support to special operations members and their families during times of financial and emotional need.

SERVING THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMUNITY AND THEIR FAMILIES

FUNDRAISING GOALS:

32 Scholarships Awarded to

Date Totaling $275,000+

$78,000 in Youth Scholarships Awarded in 2018

$25,527 in Gold Star Support Awarded in 2018

$23,523 In Gold Star Healing Awarded in 2018

$100,000 was raised during the 2019 DSF Memorial Day Weekend events. ALL OF THOSE FUNDS WILL GO RIGHT BACK TO THE COMMUNITY VIA YOUTH SCHOLARSHIPS, GOLD STAR SUPPORT AND HELPING OUT OUR SF BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN TIMES OF NEED. BIG MIKE AND RILEY WOULD BE HELLA PROUD. We hope to surpass that in 2020!

VOLUNTEER: We welcome volunteers. Please contact Aslynn Rust at aslynn@duskinandstephens.org.

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The DSF Memorial Day weekend lineup kicks off every year with Beer and Beer on Thursday evening, followed by a HERO Workout, Gold Star Family Range Day and Golf Tournament. BEEF & BEER – THURSDAY OF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND – FAIRBARN – 6-10PM What started with the idea to buy a keg, grill some burgers, and celebrate the lives and legacies of Mike Duskin and Riley Stephens with their families has evolved into a highly organized event attended by over 1,500 people celebrating the lives of all fallen Special Operators and their families. Join us for a fun-filled family event to remember at this annual Sandhill’s favorite! Ticket price includes live music, massive silent auction with loads of FIREPOWER and of course BEEF AND BEER!

EVENTS: Every year DSF hosts various Memorial Day Weekend events to remember and honor fallen Special Ops brothers and sisters. ALL of the events are absolutely FREE for Gold Star Families.

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Adult & Teen Challenge Sandhills, NC is a residential faith-based, long-term recovery program for men struggling with life-controlling addictions.

BRINGING WHOLENESS TO THE HOPELESS

CURRENT NEEDS:

• 10 Student Scholarships $1650 per month per student • Six Stackable Electric Washers/Dryers • Four Commercial Vacuums • Curriculum Sponsor • Lawn Equipment • Replacement Carpet for Multi-Purpose Room

HOW IT WORKS:

ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BANQUET:

An ideal place for recovery, Adult & Teen Challenge of Sandhills, NC is located on 31 tranquil acres in the heart of Moore County, and is a 12-month residential program. Sandhills Teen Challenge provides food, clothing, a warm bed, academic materials, etc., which are necessary to ensure the student receives the spiritual, emotional, vocational, and academic training required to help him overcome the problems which led to his addiction.

Celebrating “A Night of Hope” December 12th, 13th, or 14th, 2019 at 6:30 pm Enjoy a delicious dinner with music and testimonies. Cost to sponsor a table: $100 per table of 8 people. Or cost per person: $15 (Adults Only Please). For reservations, please call 910-947-2944

CORE VALUES: • Biblical foundation • Accountability • Stewardship • Integrity • Commitment • Discipleship

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To complete your reservation, please send checks to: Adult & Teen Challenge of Sandhills, NC PO Box 1701 Southern Pines, NC 28388

MAKE A GIFT: sandhillstc.org Sandhills Adult & Teen Challenge P.O. Box 1701, Southern Pines, NC 28388 Please make checks payable to: Adult & Teen Challenge of Sandhills, NC @SandhillsTC

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The United Way of Moore County assists local nonprofits in the Moore County community who provide health and human services in the areas of education, financial stability and health to the people of Moore County.

50+ YEARS OF ADVANCING THE COMMON GOOD IN OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION, FINANCIAL STABILITY AND HEALTH Last year, donations to United Way provided:

4,934

families were helped to get back on stable financial ground

families avoided homelessness

families received food, clothing, and shelter after losing everything in a house fire

238

children received a new pair of athletic shoes, some for the first time

19,102

meals were served assisting elderly, disabled, and temporarily disabled

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The United Way of Moore County’s mission is to advance the common good by focusing on these building blocks for a good life in our communities: • quality education that leads to a stable job • sustained financial independence • good health The United Way of Moore County is the largest private sector investor in health and human services in the community. United Way works to impact the quality of life in Moore County through assisting local nonprofits who focus on education, financial stability, and health. The United Way of Moore County also provides 2-1-1 Information & Referral Service to the community connecting local people to services available to them in Moore County.

EVENTS: • The United Way hosted the Tour de Trike (adult tricycle race) at its kick-off event in September. • In January 2020, the United Way will present the Cornerstone Award & Banquet which honors an individual(s) who has demonstrated

extraordinary commitment, creativity, leadership, inspiration, and sustained service in the community.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: The United Way of Moore County is seeking volunteers to work on special projects assisting local nonprofit partner agencies. United Way also helps connect individuals to our nonprofit partners who are looking for volunteers. Anyone interested in volunteering may contact the United Way at (910) 692-2413 or visit the United Way website for information on volunteer opportunities at www.unitedwaymoore.com .

MAKE A GIFT: Donors can mail a contribution to the United Way of Moore County at PO Box 207, Southern Pines, NC 28388; visit the office at 780 NW Broad Street, Suite 110 in Southern Pines; Text-to-Give at (910) 915-8275; or give online at www.unitedwaymoore.com.

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The mission of Prancing Horse, Inc. is to enhance the lives of individuals with special needs by providing a safe environment for therapeutic horsemanship.

A PREMIER ACCREDITED THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER IN THE SANDHILLS

5 ponies 8 horses 10

Moore County Public Schools served

children with special needs of active duty or retired military served since 2016

90+ volunteer hours per week 100+

Prancing Horse, Inc. serves individuals with special needs from age 4 to over 50 years old. They address physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges, and work with exceptional children’s classes from public schools, veteran programs, and private riders. Our program is designed to encourage and inspire our clients to reach their highest potential and possibly attain goals once thought out of reach. Our program strategy is to develop, monitor and assess an individualized activity plan for each participant.

EVENTS: • Barn Dance fundraiser in the spring • The Prancing Horse Farm Tour fundraiser in October • End of Session Horse Shows

END OF YEAR FUNDRAISING GOALS: By end of year, our goal is to meet or beat our 2019 operating budget of $200,000.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: 1. We use volunteers in the arena to work directly with clients during class. This requires the ability to walk for one hour over uneven terrain. The volunteers are reinforcing the lesson taught by the teacher that day and are ensuring the safety of the students.

2. With special training volunteers can also be a horse leader during the class. 3. We welcome volunteers to serve on any of our standing committees including fund development, marketing and publicity, long range planning, and finance. 4. Our gently used tack shop, A Bit Used, always needs volunteers to work in the store helping customers purchase items for their horse related activities. 5. Our 30 acre farm is maintained by a wonderful cadre of volunteers who would welcome others to join them. 6. Volunteers can serve on special event committees which organize our two annual fundraisers – the spring barn dance and fall horse farm tour.

TO VOLUNTEER, CONTACT Judy Lewis at prancinghorsecenter@yahoo. com or Claire Pollard at prancinghorseinfo@ yahoo.com

MAKE A GIFT: www.prancing_horse.com Prancing Horse PO Box 327 Southern Pines, NC 28388

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Our mission to is to provide a hot, nutritious, diet-specific mid-day meal, Monday through Friday (including all weekday holidays) to homebound individuals who are unable to prepare a meal, regardless of their age or ability to pay.

PROVIDING FOOD FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO PREPARE A MEAL FOR THEMSELVES

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Less than 40% of all our clients are able to pay for their meals

Through volunteers, we deliver between 85-95 noontime meals every Monday through Friday including all weekday holidays to those in need regardless of their ability to pay our nominal fee of $3.75 per meals ($75 per month).

EVENTS: We have partnered with Vision4Moore on concerts as well a had a golf tournament in conjunction with Pinewildâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outreach committee. We also have a dinner in early December. We solicit table sponsors and then ask all attendees to make a monetary donation to our program to assist with the annual cost of the food. Last year, we paid more than $69,000 for food to prepare our daily meals. Our total annual budget is about $102,000.

FUNDRAISING GOALS: To secure more than $50,000 towards the cost of meals.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:

teams of recipients. We are very closes to expanding our service area to the West End/ Seven Lakes area, which will be our 10th team. Volunteers are needed on a permanent basis (i.e., once a week, twice a month, etc.) as well as those that can be contacted at the last minute to substitute. Please email or text the Executive Director for information about becoming a board member. Visit our website at www.mealsonwheelsoftheSandhills.com, complete the information request. Email the director at rklistrom@yahoo.com or text/call 910-691-1517.

MAKE A GIFT: Donations can be made via our website www.mealsonwheelsoftheSandhills.com or by mailing to: Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills 500 East Rhode Island Avenue Southern Pines, NC 28387

Nine Volunteers are needed every Monday through Friday to deliver one of our nine different

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Our mission is to help young mothers in treatment for breast cancer live their lives to the fullest by awarding stay grants that extend and enhance their recovery from any type of breast cancer treatment, and award Respite Grants for Stage IV moms.

SERVING YOUNG MOTHERS AT ANY STAGE OF BREAST CANCER TREATMENT

36 grants awarded since 2014 132 children impacted by their mom’s cancer

27 states grants awarded in 19 sister charities we work with 2 mom’s night out events at The Wine Cellar in Southern Pines

We evaluate a mom’s needs, and to the best of our resources, award a Genevieve Memorial Breast Cancer Recovery Grant that fulfills those needs. We also provide personal assistance to anyone who calls us to find needed services by going through our database and referring to other groups/services that can better serve them.

Our goal is to award a cancer fighting cookbook to every mom who applies for a grant, at an annual cost of approximately $1,100. We are looking to expand our grants to include 4 weeks of housekeeping services for our grant recipients at a cost of approximately $1,800.

VOLUNTEER:

EVENTS: “Fresh Foods For Families” “Young Women Get Breast Cancer Too”

FUNDRAISING GOALS: Our goal is 8 “Fresh Foods For Families” a year at a cost of $750/presentation, for a total cost of $1,900.00. We are looking to expand both programs to groups that cannot afford to underwrite our programs. Our goal is to award 12 grants per year at a cost of $12,000. Each Recovery Grant gives mothers a few days of respite and healing after a treatment for breast cancer. Since Stage IV are always in treatment, they receive the same benefits as a Respite From Cancer. Grants include hotel, meals, and transportation for a mom and a caretaker. Special arrangements are made when children come to visit.

We welcome volunteers who can assist us in coordinating events in their communities! If you have a connection to a church, preschool program, or mother’s group, we’d love to talk to you and help you organize an event to raise awareness. We also need volunteers to assist us with fundraising. Contact Anne Rickmeyer: mail@genshelpinghands.org 516.458.2034 or www.Genshelpinghands.org

MAKE A GIFT: www.genshelpinghands.org Genevieve’s Helping Hands, 263 Division Ave, Hicksville, N.Y. 11801

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Sip While You Shop Enjoy fresh local-roasted coffee carefully crafted by our talented baristas! Shop our handmade market featuring handcrafted gifts from over 50 talented artists! Because something handmade is so much more meaningful! Proud Neighbors and Supporters of Sunrise Theater BEST COFFEE SHOP BEST CONSIGNMENT

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The Sunrise Theater is a thriving entertainment center featuring first run and independent films, music concerts, First Friday community concerts, local theater, and live broadcasts of the Met Opera and Bolshoi Ballet

THE CORNERSTONE OF THEATER ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE NORTH CAROLINA SANDHILLS DEDICATED TO SERVING THE COMMUNITY

34 People announced special moments on the marquee

40 Groups rented the theater for a private event

65 Children attended summer camp

2,600 Pounds of popcorn & 347 pounds of butter were consumed

30,000 Sunrise movie tickets sold

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The Sunrise provides a welcome, friendly, and enjoyable atmosphere with outstanding customer service, a broad range of entertainment, and delicious concessions.

The Sunrise Theater is primarily a volunteerrun organization. The theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board, Committees, and most theater staff are volunteers. Opportunities are broad and range from box office/ticket sales, concessions sales, ushering, movie selection, event planning, and event set up/clean up. Stop by the Sunrise Theater office during regular business hours or send an email to volunteer@sunrisetheater.com.

EVENTS First-run movies, classic movies, live concerts, First Friday free community concerts, Bolshoi Ballet & Met Opera simulcasts, National Theatre Live rebroadcasts, BroadwayHD performances, Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theater Camps, live community theater, documentaries, private rentals & community events.

FUNDRAISING As a historic building, maintenance and continual improvements are the key to sustainability. The Sunrise Theater is currently fundraising for new theater seating, a marquee restoration, and updated lighting

DONTATIONS Donations can be made by mail, in person at the Sunrise Theater office, by phone to 910692-3611, or online at SunriseTheater.com Checks may be sent to The Sunrise Theater, 244 NW Broad Street, Southern Pines, NC 28387

7,000 People attended First Friday free community concerts

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Our mission is to conserve the land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within North Carolina.

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CABARRUS, CUMBERLAND, DAVIDSON, DAVIE, HARNETT, HOKE, IREDELL, MONTGOMERY, MOORE, RANDOLPH, RICHMOND, ROWAN, SCOTLAND, AND STANLY

120 miles of river & stream frontage conserved

3,700 acres conserved in 2019 Over 6000 acres transferred to the public for recreation

13,328 acres of farmland conserved Over 45,000 total acres conserved

Three Rivers Land Trust is a private, non-profit conservation organization working with private and public landowners to protect the special natural areas, family farms, rural landscapes, and historic places of the Piedmont and Sandhills. Operating in a 15-county region, the Land Trust works to conserve the legacy of our natural and cultural heritage for future generations while also conserving lands for public access, and protecting water quality to ensure the longevity of our natural resources. If we expect to enjoy the rural landscapes and natural areas of our state in the future, we must act now to conserve them. The appetite for land seems insatiable. Hundreds of acres of agricultural lands, natural areas and open spaces, historic sites and timberland that have defined Central North Carolina and the Sandhills since time immemorial, vanish each day. Partner with us today to help us conserve these lands, these vistas, and the essential nature of our region by making a donation online today.

EVENTS: We host events to appeal to sportsmen and women, paddlers, hikers, and anyone who loves to get outside and connect with their surroundings: Paddles, hikes, youth days hosted by our Leopold Society, hunter education classes, and pig pickins. We also hold several yearly events, like our Dove Hunt and a Ladies Deer Hunt. RiverDance is held in Salisbury, NC, representing the Western portion of our 15-county footprint. Our eastern fundraiser, which will be a Kentucky Derby-themed soirĂŠe, will

be in Southern Pines in May 2020. Visit us at our website www.threeriverslandtrust.org for more details! Next Event: Jazz on the Rails December 7, 2019, 9AM-4:30PM Pinehurst #1, 1 Carolina Vista, Pinehurst, NC 28374 For More Information: Visit threeriverslandtrust.org/jotr/

FUNDRAISING GOALS: Our goal for our year-end philanthropy campaign is to reach at least 100 new households in North Carolina, and raise $100,000 in year-end donations.

VOLUNTEER: We currently have an exciting volunteer opportunity for people who are passionate about getting more involved with local conservation in Moore County. Three Rivers Land Trust is starting a Sandhills Chapter, and we are looking for inaugural members to take leadership roles in the chapter. We are also recruiting volunteers for our Party Planning Committee for our spring Kentucky Derby-themed fundraiser. Contact Ellie Daniels if interested! Contact Ellie Daniels Eastern Regional Director ellie@threeriverslandtrust.org

MAKE A GIFT: www.threeriverslandtrust.org/donate 204 East Innes Street, Suite 280 Salisbury, NC 28144

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NOURISH PEOPLE. BUILD SOLUTIONS. EMPOWER COMMUNITIES.

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1.5 Million meals provided to seniors 15 Million pounds of disaster relief

food and non-food essentials distributed following Hurricanes Florence and Michael

82.3 Million pounds of food distributed

ANNUAL GOALS: INCREASING FOOD ACCESS • Expand benefits outreach and targeted programs • Build agency network and infrastructure to support growth • Expand Retail Donation Program, Produce Distribution, Kids Summer Meals Program, and CSFP (Commodity Supplemental Food Program, for seniors)

BUILDING SOLUTIONS TO END HUNGER • Host 2019 Closing the Hunger Gap Conference, with focus on finding solutions to root causes of hunger • Create client-centered nutrition programs • Develop health care and institutional partnerships • Establish multi-tiered service partners

STRENGTHENING THE ABILITY TO SERVE • Improve branch infrastructure • Implement IT updates and efficiency initiatives • Execute developed and approved revenue strategies

RAISING AWARENESS & ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY • Expand public and advocacy capacity • Refresh the Food Bank brand to reflect the organizational vision • Establish goals and benchmarks for serving the community

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES • Warehouse • Backpack Pals • Administrative Support • Special Events • Social Media Ambassador • Food Drive Organizer To find more information about volunteering or supporting the Food Bank by donating money or food, visit foodbankcenc.org.

MAKE A GIFT: Food Bank CENC 195 Sandy Avenue Southern Pines, NC 28387

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Arts & Culture

SAVE THE DATE

Arts & Crafts Fair Saturday, November 9, 2019 9:30 AM -2:00 PM

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Opening Reception: November 8 • 5 PM - 7 PM Open House: November 9 • 10 AM - 4 PM “Pinecones,” a lovely painting by Laureen Kirk, will be raffled during the opening weekend. Tickets are for sale from Artists League members or at the League. A book of six tickets is available for $5.00 or $1.00 per individual ticket. The raffle winner will be announced on Saturday, November 9, at 3:00 PM. You need not be present to win.

Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday 12-3pm WORKSHOP: BASICS OF IMPRESSIONISTIC PAINTING - OIL Connie Winters - March 18, 19, 20. 129 Exchange Street in Aberdeen, NC • www.artistleague.org • artistleague@windstream.net

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