Evince Magazine June 2018

Second Thoughts You Can’t Get There From Here Page 9

Spotting Exceptional Customer Service Page 9

Mark Gignac’s

Photo Finish Page 22

Family Curse Is a Good Thing Page 3

Photo by Michelle Dalton Photography

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Editor’s Note

How do you handle the challenges that life throws at you? If you are Mark Gignac who is pictured on the cover, you roll up your sleeves and start working. Read his story on page 3 and learn how he is helping our area to overcome its economic challenges. Casey Molloy has a more philosophical approach in “Meditation Moment” on page 7. Kim Clifton takes a humorous approach while traveling in NYC. Read “You Can’t Get There From Here” on page 9.

If you are faced with the prospect of keeping kids actively engaged mentally and physically this summer, read “What’s Happening in the Public Libraries” on page 19 for activities that are free and check out the calendar on page 14 for fun events. Read about Linda Lemery’s success in overcoming “Backyard Challenges” on page 20 and how Andre Law accepts the challenge of giving exceptional customer service on page 9.

Sometimes, the best way to meet a challenge is to give yourself time and space to think. With that in mind, take this Evince to a quiet corner and read every article, story, and ad. You might find inspiration for your next challenge in the most unexpected place.

June Contents

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Editor’s Note

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Mark Gignac / Family Curse Is a Good Thing

by Joyce Wilburn

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CEO / Publisher Andrew Scott Brooks Editor Joyce Wilburn (434.799.3160) joycewilburn@gmail.com

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The Voice of Readers

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Renovation Reality / Part 24

by Carla Minosh

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Meditation Moment

by Casey Molloy

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Second Thoughts / You Can’t Get There From Here

by Kim Clifton

Associate Editors Jeanette Taylor • Larry Wilburn Contributing Writers

Diane Adkins, Kim Clifton, Michael Doan, Robin Francis, Mimi Grubb, Karen Harris, Kathy Hurt, Telisha Moore Leigg, Linda Lemery, Charlotte Litzenburg, Kathy Milam, Carla Minosh, Casey Molloy, Carollyn Peerman, Danielle Pritchett, Dave Slayton, Shirley Spalding, Jay Stephens, Maria Thomson, Lisa Tuite, Liz Whittaker, Joyce Wilburn, Annelle Williams, Wyona Witcher

Spotting Exceptional Customer Service

by Robin Francis

Art & Production Director Demont Design (Kim Demont)

10 How Mean Keisha Gets Works Fiction by Telisha Moore Leigg

Finance Manager Cindy Yeatts (1.434.709.7349) Marketing Consultants Kim Demont (434.792.0612) demontdesign@verizon.net

12 Calendar Clips 14 Calendar 16 Book Clubbing Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved

by Kate Bowler a review by Diane Adkins

Lee Vogler (434.548.5335) lee@evince magazine.com

17 Accept the Challenge of a New Day

by Carollyn Peerman Sly Strader Milam (434.728.1291) sly@evince magazine.com

18 The Wine Spot / Take the Pink Wine Challenge

by Dave Slayton 19 What’s Happening in the Public Libraries 20 Where Can I Find an Evince?

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Reflecting Forward / Backyard Challenges

by Linda Lemery 21 Around the Table A Recipe for Any Occasion

by Annelle Williams

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Photo of Mark Gignac taken at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research by Michelle Dalton Photography

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i e was born near Chicago with a curse. The Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) in Danville acknowledges the inherited misfortune, but he’s not looking for a cure. “In my family we call it the Gignac Curse,” Mark Gignac says tongue-in-cheek and then explains, “We enjoy working! We like to make things better.”

That passion for work has led the Virginia Tech graduate with a degree in marketing to take several different career paths: working beside his father in the family business building electronic components for thirty-three years; serving on Danville City Council from 1992 to 1996; flipping houses; being the Director of Research at IALR; and since November 2017 leading the IALR in new directions as Executive Director.

“It’s very gratifying to be a part of improving Danville by making this institution more aggressive, more businessfriendly, more impactful. It’s challenging and enjoyable,” he notes, but he also reminds listeners that it’s a thirty-five member team effort. Admitting that it’s not always evident how the IALR is changing the local economy, he continues with an example. “Obviously, a welleducated workforce is extremely important to economic transformation,” he comments, referring to the Governor’s School Academy of Engineering & Technology, summer STEM camps, and other educational events whose positive outcomes will be apparent when students become active adult professionals in the community.

Citing an area that might not be as easily understood, Mark talks about endophytes, beneficial bacteria, being researched in the IALR labs.

The bacteria will be tested as a possible replacement for pesticides and fertilizers to treat plants naturally without genetically modifying them.

The endophytes project will be expanded over the next several years thanks to a Tobacco Commission grant. The research lab’s work was validated recently by a Boston company, Indigo Ag, that licensed a group of bacteria. “It’s the first licensing deal that has ever happened with the Institute. Even though

Mark checks his notepad while sitting in the Institute’s newly remodeled Megabytes Café.

Photo by Michelle Dalton Photography.

Mark Gignac’s Family Curse Is a Good Thing

by Joyce Wilburn this isn’t a Danville company, it’s a big deal and can have a lot of ramifications. This relationship with Indigo can put Danville on the map. Of course, they paid us and if the endophytes are used in their products, we’ll also be paid royalties,” he says.

Looking around the futuristic glass-and-steel building that opened fourteen years ago, Mark comments, “Most economic deals that happen in this community happen here.

I once heard an out-of-town economic developer make a comment that if this facility does nothing else, the positive message that this building sends is huge when prospects and clients arrive.” With that in mind, he states another goal

on his list, “One of the things I’m trying to do is increase the number of conferences here.”

He recounts how the recent industrial hemp conference brought in attendees from ten states and three countries.

That meant high-level business people and venture capitalists were exposed to the Danville community, probably for the first time. It was an opportunity to introduce the area to business people from a wide geographical region. “We have unique things happening here that are creating interest around the country and beyond,” he notes with pride.

“What we do is very simple. We work with six counties (Patrick, Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania, Halifax and Mecklenburg) and the cities of Martinsville

and Danville for economic transformation through research, advanced learning, advanced manufacturing, economic activities and our conference center.”

Leaving Mark’s office that overlooks the welcoming plaza and feeling the positive energy that permeates the IALR lobby, departing visitors know without a doubt that the Gignac Curse has become a very good thing for the community.

• For more information, visit 150 Slayton Avenue in Danville, call 434.766.6700, or visit www.ialr.org.

• Summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Camps will be held June 4 through July 31 from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. daily. Each week will focus on a different topic and age group from rising first graders through twelfth graders. Cost is $100 for each camp per individual. Scholarships are available.

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Spotting Exceptional Customer Service Page 9

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The Voice of Readers To the editor: I was so pleased to see a bundle of Evince outside Food Lion at Southwyck Plaza today. I must have been too late to pick one up during previous months, but I am still reading through this edition. I wouldn’t know of so many events if not for this great paper. I thoroughly enjoy every page! Thanks for all the work that must go into producing Evince.

Sincerely, Joy Thompson Thank you for the compliments.

Unfortunately, some Food Lion locations have decided not to offer a space for distribution.

We’d love to be able to reach more readers who shop there.

If you notice that the Evince rack is missing, please let the management know you’d like to see it again. Our racks have also been removed from the former Piedmont Credit Union locations.

To the editor: I hope all your readers will see that Linda Lemery’s story about Xena isn’t just about dedication (A Different Slant on Dedication May 2018 page 20). It’s about compassion, caring and the ability to see things from another’s perspective--qualities we seem to be much in need of in today’s world. I find Linda an inspiration.

Sincerely, Pat Hufford What a nice note to receive about my story about Xena! I’m so happy to see that this piece resonated in a significant way for Pat. Evince has such insightful readers who are my inspiration to write about tiny facets of our complex world.

One goal for all of us, wherever we are in life and regardless of what issues we are facing, is to move toward understanding. I’m very grateful for these comments and for our readers because I learn so much from both.

Best, Linda

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Page 6 June 2018 Unlike HGTV shows where home renovations are completed within thirty to sixty minutes, the Victorian house at the corner of Chestnut Place and Main Street in Danville has been under a transformation for eighteen years. This series that began in April 2016 explores the truth of home renewal from someone who has been there and done that. If you missed any of the articles, visit www. evincemagazine.com. In this installment, Carla writes about the 1870’s wall-to-wall carpeting she found and had installed.

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arpeting was a luxury item in its time. It was produced on giant looms using a newly-patented method of punch cards that caused certain colors of threads to be pulled to the surface, creating elaborate repeating patterns without having to weave the carpet entirely by hand. The looms were driven by steam engine and could produce many yards of three-feet wide carpeting in a day. These pieces were then hand sewn together, matching up the patterns to make one

Renovation Reality Part 24

by Carla Minosh

continuous wall-to-wall carpet.

The nap of the carpet was shaved very short to give it a fine velvety feel.

Over time, we happened upon another such carpet, this one from an 1890’s Masonic Temple building that was to be converted into condominiums. At the auction where its entire contents were being sold, I attempted to purchase the ceremonial skeleton

and antique casket, but with my husband on the phone as I raised my bidder card for that item, his threats of divorce if I came home with a skeleton were enough for me to abruptly lower my card. Instead, he was quite happy when I was the successful bidder on the enormous wallto-wall carpet that all of the auction-goers were standing on in the upper ceremonial chamber of the building. The confusion

about what “rug” was being sold likely contributed to the ridiculously low price we paid for it. Either that or it was the lack of imagination on the part of the antique dealers present.

These antique rugs are so rare that the closest installer was in Lynchburg. They still make new ones for hotels and other venues. After much explaining and repeating, I was able to make myself understood that we had antique carpeting that needed to be installed in our home. The installer was in awe; he had never worked with anything but new carpeting before. He seemed excited about handling such survivors as the carpets we had found and he did an amazing job, making them really shine in their new home.

The irony is that we would have had to spend exponentially more money for new carpeting that would not have been even close to the quality of the antique carpets. Also, this beautiful carpeting looks like it has always been in the house in a way that new carpeting could never have achieved.

(to be continued)

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Meditation Moment

by Casey Molloy, RYT

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The poses and breathing practiced in yoga were created to prepare the body and mind to sit for extended periods of time in meditation. Photo by Clark Davis

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ometimes it seems like our lives are an ongoing series of challenges. Many of these challenges we willing choose and proceed to conquer. Other challenges blindside us and we become forced to dig deep to overcome them.

If there is the slightest lack in motivation to triumph, then our journey to the top will be labored. It is the presence of these mountains, or challenges, that allow us to grow and prove to ourselves that we are capable and qualified to succeed.

Often, I envision my challenges as mountains. When we encounter a mountain we have two choices: start climbing or try to walk around it. In my experience, when I attempt to take the perceived easy way out and walk around these mountains, there is usually another mountain waiting on the other side. This is the defeating moment when I realize that if I had just had the courage to climb the first mountain, I would have been able to see more clearly from the pinnacle. Challenges cannot be faced half-heartedly.

We have all that is required to prevail, but our greatest asset is our faith. We must have faith in our abilities and in the undeniable fact that everything will work out. Yoga has taught me that, most often, obstacles are purposefully placed along our path for our potential growth. We always have a choice on how to address challenges and once we cultivate the prowess to climb the mountain, we can stand tall at the summit as a newly discovered stronger version of ourselves with limitless appreciation for our life experiences.

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Evince Magazine Page 9 Start spreading the news if you’re leaving today. If you want to be a part of it, New York, New York, that is, you have to play by their rules, which brings me back to the conversation I’d had with the cabbie. “We don’t do addresses. We do corners. Don’t tell me you want to go to 851 Eighth Avenue. That’s a rookie error. Tell me ‘Corner of 8th and West 51st’ instead. That’s how we roll here in Midtown.”

Kim and Robert Clifton enjoy their meals at Sardi’s.

Second Thoughts

tell us how to get to the Marriott that has the revolving restaurant on top?” Not a soul could help even though we were just a block away. The only things spinning were their heads with wonder.

Maybe so, but that’s not how we roll in my town. Forget GPS gadgets, maps and addresses.

They can’t get to places where things are. We can get to places where things aren’t. If I say “It’s the next right on 29 just past where the flashing lights used to be,” everyone knows I’m talking about the Chatham Middle School and the Career & Technical Center campuses even though it’s been decades since anything’s blinked there. That would never do in New York.

They can’t take me somewhere even with a name, street number, and a zip code. Or if they could, they won’t. They will take me to a corner. They just won’t turn one.

by Kim Clifton ©2018

You Can’t Get There from Here

We go by corners. They might, but I don’t. Long before we ever landed in LaGuardia, we’d carefully mapped out all of the places we wanted to see in Manhattan. Even though the borough is only thirteen miles long, how far something is -- and how long it takes to get there --are not the same thing.

Time is money which is likely why cabbies are seemingly only interested in going to corners, not door-to-door.

I don’t mind paying people for taking me somewhere. I do mind paying people for almost taking me somewhere. Even so, we obeyed and hoofed it in the cold, pouring rain. All that time I spent getting ready back at the hotel was totally wasted, I fumed, splashing my way down the sidewalk. Not only were my feet wet, I knew my hair would end up flatter than a Kansas skyline. When we eventually were seated, I don’t know who was more agitated…the waiter or me. I was dripping from where the skies had thrown cold water in my face and his greeting, because of our tardiness, was the verbal equivalent of the same. I felt about as welcomed as a skunk at a lawn party.

“Here you go,” said one as he pulled up to a traffic light.

“That’ll be $9.50.” “But, we have 7:00 p.m. reservations for Sardi’s and it’s five ‘til,” I whined. “Yeah, just walk half a block or so down that street,” he pointed. “It’ll be on the right.

Can’t miss it. That’ll be $9.50.”

New York City may be in the know, but most of the people we met were in the I don’t know. Unless it’s a destination icon like Macy’s or Central Park, they’d never heard of it. Walking through Times Square, my sister and I repeatedly went into storefronts and asked, “Can you

“Look lady, lemme let you in on a little secret. You wanna fit in like a New Yorker, you gotta talk like a New Yorker,” said the cab driver over his shoulder. “We don’t go by addresses. We go by corners.”

Spotting Exceptional Customer Service

Andre Law is a waiter/ bartender at Olive Garden.

by Robin Francis

Recently on a cold and rainy day, my sister and I had lunch at Olive Garden Italian Kitchen, 120 Collins Drive in Danville. We had such wonderful service, I just have to praise our waiter, Andre Law. As we enjoyed a leisurely lunch with lots of visiting, Andre made sure our glasses were always full and checked to see if we were in need of anything. He was very attentive and such a polite, personable, young man that he should be commended! All waitstaff, take note. It earns bigger tips!

Thank you, Andre!

Evince and the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce want to encourage and recognize exceptional customer service. When someone gives you exceptional service, please let us know. In 300 words or less, tell us what happened. Email your story to joycewilburn@ gmail.com or chamber@dpchamber.org.

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every night Ralphie whispered, as always, his prayers, not kneeling silent by a bed, but muffled yet rumbling, pressed onto my nightgown just above my heart.

This is how I learned the justice that comes with love.

e went by his middle nickname at home, Ralphie, my husband, and he was the judge. Not me.

“Hey, white lady!” a young black girl yells across the yard; she moves forward like thunder, a confrontation coming. I am not afraid; I know her, this girl, who Anna-Margaret and Fallon call Mean Keisha. Not coming any closer, she stands there, dark and June-sweat shiny, wearing another pair of too-short denim shorts and some cutoff and high-up t-shirt

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She will not beg, this Mean Keisha, as she stands there in the bare dirt and spring-scrubburning-no-grass yard in front of a poor, weatherboard house in a neighborhood nest of them I would rather not see. Ralphie’s cases were not grand; they would make no big papers. The county he judged in was poor, most crimes petty for which some bad but mostly mediocre men and women paid their prices. Over the years, I grew weary, their poverty and their sadness like a gown sewn with rocks better tossed into the river. I was glad when we moved to Boris, North Carolina, and I could leave that little town, and their proud, pinched looks of desperation.

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that says either “roxy” or “foxy” in wash-faded purple letters.

This Mean Keisha has unkempt braids that reach to her hips, some of them streaked with blue.

It is Sunday, and once again I am dropping off the young one, Fallon, Anna-Margaret’s other charity case. Anna-Margaret watches from the porch and says nothing before she moves inside the screen door. But it’s this Mean Keisha who shouts at me, burning, always the one left behind, dark and brooding.

Thirty years on the bench in a small circuit court in Georgia, most nights he was home by 7 p.m. my Ralphie. I made meatloaf or smothered chicken with herbs. I never wanted to know how he did what he did.

Only asked a question once, I never knew how he kept justice in his hand and heart, how he could bear to dispense it.

“White lady, you hear me!” this Mean Keisha hollers again,

holding her baby, named Kwon on one hip, his hands pulling on one blue braid, as she stares dead at me. She taps her hand on the hood of my car and then steps back to her place before. “When you gone let me work at yo sto’?” She never blocked me. I could have left any time I wanted. I don’t ask her about the hard strokes of life, her dreadsof-the-world either. Anna-Margaret is gone now, deep in the shallow bowels of her little home, with Fallon scurrying behind her. At 73, I’ve earned my peace, but I don’t get in my car this time. I am not quick to leave.

Sometimes after a particularly hard case where Ralphie wouldn’t say the particulars, over a neat scotch on the rocks, I would hold his hand and stroke his ring finger. On those nights, safe at home, I would feel peace. I would know our children in their beds were safe. That was enough for me. We were married thirty-eight years. Past when he could retire, our children grown, successfully gone, tonight like

When Ralphie was dying after his third stroke and his heart giving in to going out, I was with him.

In a bed, I joked in his weakening arms that if he could, he would go back to the bench, that he loved it as much as he loved me.

“Keisha,” I say. I refuse to call a child Mean, although I am sure she can be. “Are Sundays agreeable with you as well?”

“More,” he said, “I probably love it more. You, our family, the law, the only hope I ever saw in this world. I hope I did you both right.” He was a good man. He would not ask any forgiveness when he had given his best.

“Yes, Ma’am,” she says, throat closing and opening. I can tell the moment she understood, when her face crumpled, lips puckered tight to hold hope in, and her eyes were shiny. I’m old, but not so old I could not feel that. Of course, she wanted more than to work in a store. She wants connection like Fallon has, opportunities too, but she had to start somewhere, and she was giving her best, and no one would notice. So, no she would not beg. Amen to that.

My Ralphie said his prayers aloud one last time in a hospital bed in our downstairs den. His nurse sat in the shadows keeping comfort.

He mumbled his prayers as I came nearer, but this time he did not need me. Just before he died, all justice sat like heaven in his eyes. Amen.

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June Calendar Abbreviation Key

• 2 Witches Winery & Brewing= 209 Trade St. Danville 434.549.2739 • AU=Averett University, 434.791.5600 www.averett.edu • DMFAH=Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, 975 Main St. 434.793.5644 www.danvillemuseum.org • DSC=Danville Science Center, 677 Craghead St. 434.791.5160 www.dsc.smv.org • HNT=Historic North Theatre, 629 North Main St. Danville 434.793.7469 www.TheNorthTheatre.com • PA=Piedmont Arts, 215 Starling Ave, Martinsville 276.632.3221 www.PiedmontArts.org • RSG=Reid Street Gallery, 24 Reid St. Chatham 434.203.8062 reidstreetgallery.com • The Prizery=700 Bruce St., South Boston, 434.572.8339, www.prizery.com

Ongoing

DSC Exhibit – From Here to There! explores how things move by land, sea, air.

Guided Walking Tours – Millionaires Row, Holbrook Street and Tobacco Warehouse District.

Danville Historical Society. www. danvillehistory.org. 434.770.1974.

See page 13.

DMFAH self-guided audiovisual tours. 434.793.5644.

Public Library Events.

See page 19.

Cascade Express Variety Band – Every Friday and every first & third Saturday; Cascade Community Center 3561 Huntington Trail 7pm 336.552.3703 People Pets & Pilot: Have a professional picture taken of your pet. $30 fundraiser for those with brainrelated disorders and disabilities 434.709.0695 Reid Street Gallery Summer Camps: See page 15.

June 1-3, 6, 8-10

The Hunchback of Notre Dame: North Star Theatre Project Production HNT $15/$12

June 1-30

Here Comes the Bride: See page 12

June 5-8

Summer Art Camps: PA ages

5-7; 9:30am-noon $65 member/$75 non-member Advanced registration required.

Riverside Dr. Walk on the Riverwalk Trail afterwards. free and open to the public. 434.421.3060

June 5 - June 19

June 12-15

Throw Paint at Cancer: DMFAH Tuesdays 4-6pm

June 7 - June 21

Throw Paint at Cancer: Thursdays DMFAH 3-5pm

June 7

Painting with Ed Gowen: 9am-3:30pm PA “Hibiscus” $75 member/$85non-member Learn to paint an original oil painting.

All supplies provided. Advanced registration required. Registration closes at noon June 6.

Summer Reading Kickoff Party: See page 12 William Guerrant Book Signing: See page 12 Local author presentation: Sonya Falls speaks about her book Boy Genius: and Other Possibilities 6:30pm Halifax Public Library, 177 South Main St., Halifax

June 8

Opening reception: The Light in Fog: Glenn Scarboro Photographs a Retrospective DMFAH See page 12.

Kayaking for Beginners: AbreuGrogan Park Memorial Dr. Danville 434.799.5150. 6-8pm

June 9 -10

DMFAH: free admission

June 9

Art on the Lawn: DMFAH See page 12.

June 11-15

Elements of Art: taught by Linda Gourley 11am-1pm drawing, printing, painting for ages 7-13.

All supplies and a snack included.

DMFAH $75

June 12

Living Well @ the Y: focus on diet/exercise and other lifestyle habits that help reduce risk for cancer and other chronic diseases.

Bryan Price, Education and Outreach Specialist, UVA Cancer Center, will discuss Finding the Right Health and Wellness Program for You. Nutrition and Exercise - putting it all together.

Light, healthy lunch provided if registered by 5pm June 8. noon1pm Danville Family YMCA, 215

Summer Art Camps: PA ages 8-12; 9:30am-noon $65 member/$75 non-member Advanced registration required.

June 14

Music on Main: Cruize Control Band (beach, boogie, blues) 111 Main Street Plaza Danville 6:30pm 434.793.4636

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Danville Braves Opening Night: 302 River Park Drive www.dbraves.com

June 22 – July 1

Oklahoma! The Prizery See page 13.

June 22-24

Southern Fried Funeral: Little Theatre of Danville See page 13.

June 22

Piedmont Arts Garden Party: with Slick Jr. & The Reactors. GravelyLester Art Garden 5:30-8:30pm $15 Enjoy beer, wine, snacks, games, live music, cash bar and food trucks.

God’s Storehouse Benefit Golf Tournament: See page 13 Tender Loving Christian Sisters of Danville: buffet lunch Mary’s Diner, 1201 Piney Forest Rd. speaker and music by Tara Stovall; door prizes, 50/50 raffle, secret sisters $12 Call Suzy for a reservation 540.422.9378.

Caswell County Heritage Festival: Historic Yanceyville, NC Town Square 10am-4pm www.caswellcountync.gov SPCA Paws for the Arts: See page 13

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June 25 – July 30

Danville Children’s Festival: amusement rides, Roll N Gamez gaming trailer, outdoor laser tag, caricatures, sensory tent, Fish the Magish, scrap exchange, Make-nTake, backyard bass, Inspiration Lab, Danville Fire Department’s Smoke House, splash zone Carrington Pavilion, 629 Craghead St. 10am4pm 434.793.4636 Run for Justice: 5K,10K Run/ Walk, Kid’s Fun Run; Register at www.DanvilleRunner.org Milton Street Fair: Historic Downtown Milton, North Carolina; free tours of The Thomas Day House, Museum of Milton, Visitors’ Center, WRAL Tarheel Traveler Scott Mason, music, food, exhibits, vendors, art 10am-4pm facebook. com/MiltonStreetFair 434.728.5115 blanchardfarm@gmail.com for vendor info.

K of C Antique Car & Motorcycle Cruise-In: 3777 Westover Drive 4pm Donations accepted for local charities.

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Fathers’ Day

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June 23

Forms in Clay: pottery class on Mondays 6:30-9pm $95 DMFAH members/$105 for others. Students may use the studio during DMFAH hours. 434.792.5355 to register.

June 28

Music on Main: 111 Main Street Plaza Danville Mel Melton & the Wicked Mojos (zydeco) 6:30pm 434.793.4636

Upcoming July 3

Danville Braves Fireworks Night: following the final inning; tickets at DBraves.com 434.797.3792

July 4

Patriot Challenge: 5K/10K/ Children’s Fun Run Anglers Park 8am 434.793.4636 Fourth of July Celebration: free entertainment by The Wampler Brothers Band and Carolyn Smith, arts & crafts, Captain Jim’s Magical Illusion Show, fireworks at dusk, concession, crafts, commercial vendors, amusement rides Carrington Pavilion, 667 Craghead St. Danville, 6pm 434.793.4636

For more events see Calendar Clips on pages 12.

The deadline for submitting information for the July calendar is Tuesday, June 19, at 5:00 p.m. Please send just the basic information following the format on these pages to joycewilburn@gmail.com.

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Book Clubbing a review by Diane Adkins

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved

by Kate Bowler

I am certain that Kate Bowler did not intend to be famous, at least not for this. Who would have expected that the most recognizable name connected to Duke University outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium would be that of a Divinity School professor (as noted in the Duke alumni magazine)?

Bowler’s second book, which has spent time on the bestseller lists, is an account of what happens when she finds out at age thirty-five that the pain in her stomach is stage 4 colon cancer. She has a great husband, a toddler, and has landed a teaching job right out of grad school at her alma mater. She has, as she often calls it, a shiny life.

Suddenly she’s become a “celebrity of terrible.”

Bowler’s academic research to this point had centered on the prosperity gospel about people who believe that everything in one’s life—-the money you have, your health, your amazing new car—is an expression of your relationship with God. This type of Christianity “prays to God like he was a candy dispenser.” Fortune is God’s blessing on your life. Misfortune is a sign of your failure, “a mark of God’s disapproval.” Through the experience of being diagnosed with cancer, Bowler understands she has her own underlying prosperity-type belief, too. It is the idea that “God had a worthy plan for my life in which every setback would be a step forward.” The lived experience of grappling with an incurable cancer stripped that belief away. It has been replaced by a faith that is more nuanced, more hard-fought, more her own.

I suspect that one thing about this book that appeals to so many is Bowler’s gentle but clear-eyed ability to cut through all the inadequate, disheartening, and unhelpful answers that people give when bad things happen. She even includes a section entitled “Absolutely Never Say This to People Experiencing Terrible Times: A Short List.” She is courageous enough to grapple with the questions most of us ask at some time or another: “Why do some people get healed and others don’t?” “Why do some babies die in their cribs and some bitter souls live to see their great-grandchildren?”

Despite the serious topic, the book has comedic moments. This faithfilled seminary professor takes up swearing for Lent. She decides she wants Matthew McConaughey to play her surgeon and Winona Ryder to play her in the movie version of the book. She describes the managing tone of the young intern sent to give her the bad news “hostage negotiator neutral.” Bowler is such a natural, true voice that her friends, her family, her army of those who stand with her in this crisis, all seem remarkable, funny, faithful, courageous, and above all, real. This is a book for anyone who faces a crisis and wonders why or anyone who wrestles with life’s meaning and purpose or has a friend who does. And who doesn’t?

Diane S. Adkins is a retired library director.

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Accept the Challenge of a New Day

by Carollyn Lee Peerman You will encounter many challenges today. Every time that happens remember what Dale Carnegie, the self-improvement guru, said, “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” Achievers are able to keep moving forward because they recognize a challenge and accept it no matter what might happen. Failure does not make them failures. Do not take mistakes personally; just pick yourself up after failure and continue with a positive attitude.

If you lose today you may win tomorrow. Forget the past and focus on the future.

A good example of this is Ronald Reagan who wrote in An American Life that if he’d gotten the job he wanted at Montgomery Ward, he might never have left Illinois. His

failure in not being hired pushed him out of Illinois and into a much wider sphere that eventually led to his becoming President of the United States. If you do not look ahead you will remain behind. All of your energy and attention should converge on accomplishing the goal before you.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. There are no reruns.

There are no second chances. We might receive new chances but not second chances in the same set of circumstances. The great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold of and uses the first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him wrote author Thomas Hughes. Take the first chance and score. Life is full of chances, changes, and challenges. Be ready to accept them all.

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Photo by Dave Slayton

The Wine Spot Take the Pink Wine Challenge

by Dave Slayton

a member of the Master Court of Sommeliers

D

o you believe that a pink wine always means a sweet wine?

In the U.S. rosé wines are now being viewed as wines that vary in sweetness and their consumption is on the rise, particularly the drier varieties.

How did Americans develop this perception of rosé wines as sweet wines? Some say that in the seventies, because of good growing conditions, there was an abundance of zinfandel grapes--a black-skinned grape, not pink. Simultaneously, white wine was much more popular than red and some resourceful California winemakers starting making a zinfandel blush (pink) wine and called it white zinfandel. They left a fair amount of residual sugar in the wine and it sold well. Even before that in the 60s, rosé entered the U.S. market with sweet, slightly sparkling, Portuguese imports such as Lancers and Mateus. I have read that wine-drinking Millennials don’t share the perception that pink equals sweet and they are increasingly enjoying rosé wines,

not the sweet varieties but rather the drier ones.

How is rose wine made? The traditional method is to allow fermentation of grapes with their skins for a short period of time in order to extract color. When the winemaker has the desired shade of pink, the skin is separated from the juice and fermentation continues as with white wines. Rosé wines can be made with many different grape varietals. For example, the black Spanish grape tempranillo from the Rioja region can be used to make, in my opinion, a delicious crisp, tart, fruit-flavored rosado (Spanish for rosé).

So challenge your pink wine perceptions, if you have them, because you may discover something you really enjoy. Cheers!

• Meet Dave on most Saturdayafternoons for a wine tastings at Vintages by the Dan, 312 Main Street, Danville.

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Pittsylvania County Submitted by Lisa Tuite

Register to participate and maybe win a prize in the 2018 Summer Reading Program, “Reading Takes You Everywhere!”

Brosville/Cascade • Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays: Activate 9am. Easy exercises to motivate and energize.

• Mondays: Movie Matinee 2pm family-friendly films • Tuesdays: Needlework 10am Work on projects with other needle crafters. Summer Reading Fun 10am @ Brosville Methodist Church. Stories and fun followed by lunch.

• June 8: Cup & Crochet 10am Bring your beverage and learn basic crochet stitches.

• June 14: Craft Night 6pm Paint with flour.

• June 21: Book Bingo 6pm Win books and other prizes.

• June 28: Quilting Fun 6pm Learn quilt-making basics. Call for supply list.

Chatham Library Events • Mondays and Wednesdays: walking program 9:30am • Mondays: Movie Matinee 2pm family-friendly films • Tuesdays: Summer Reading Fun for ages 5 and younger 10-11am stories, crafts Summer Reading Fun for ages 6-12; 2-3pm stories, crafts • Wednesdays: Computer Help 6-7pm one-on-one help with basics

What’s Happening in the Public Libraries • Thursdays: Summer Reading for Teens 3-4:30pm.

• Fridays: Makerspace 10-11am all ages • June 7-12: Take a selfie with the LOVE sign.

• June 13: Father’s Day Craft and Cards 2-4pm.

• June 14: Discussion Group for Adults 4-5:45pm • June 20: Art Class: pencils 2-4pm Registration required.

• June 26: Critique Group 4-5pm Preview new books.

• June 27: Bingo 2-4pm Win books and other prizes.

Gretna Library Events • Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays: Group Fitness 10am Get fit with library DVDs. ages 18+.

• Tuesdays: Summer Reading Program for Kids, 11am OR 2pm stories, crafts • Wednesdays: Movie Matinee 11am OR 2pm family-friendly films • Thursdays: Summer Reading Program for Kids 11am. Learn to Crochet 5pm all ages and levels work/learn.

• June 5: Summer Reading Kickoff 2pm with special guest visitor from Oz. • June 7: Makerspace 12-2pm. Make a rainbow magnet.

Danville Public Library

Submitted by Danielle Pritchett

• Mondays: Game Geeks ages 17 and younger 4:30-6:30pm • Tuesdays: Little Explorers Storytime for preschoolers 11-11:30am • Wednesdays: Family Storytime @ Westover 11-11:30am. Craft and Tales 2:30-3:30pm • Fridays: Game Geeks ages 17 and younger 2:30-4:30pm • June 1: Dinosaur Day 3:30pm • June 2: Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History: Then and Now 10am • June 4: Computer Basics: Meet the Computer 11am • June 4: Read It...See It Movie Matinee: Black Panther (PG-13) 11am; LEGO Brick Engineers 4pm • June 5: Genealogy 101: Getting Started 11am; Healthy Living Series: Sugar & Sodium 6pm • June 5: It’s Elementary STEAM activities grades 1-5; 4pm • June 6: Computer Basics: Introduction to the Internet 11am • June 7: Intermediate Genealogy: Preserving Your Research 11am • June 9: Family Movie Matinee: Jumanji (PG-13) 10am • June 11: Computer Basics: Introduction to Email 11am; Summer Block Club @ Westover 4pm; Maker Monday 5pm • June 12: Genealogy 101: Navigating Ancestry.com 11am; Westover Branch Book Club 11am; Healthy Living Series: I Lost 100 Pounds and Kept It Off! 6pm

• June 13: Computer Basics: Microsoft Word 2016 11am • June 14: Intermediate Genealogy: Findagrave.com 11am; STEM Mobile Learning Lab 5:30pm • June 18: Computer Basics: Review 11am; life-size Chutes and Ladders 4pm • June 19: Genealogy 101: Familysearch.org 11am; Our Civil Rights: A Common Table-Understanding Food in the South 5:30pm; Healthy Living Series: The Importance of Exercise 6pm • June 20: Crafternoon @ Westover Branch 4pm; Teen Trivia Night 5:30pm • June 21: Intermediate Genealogy: AncestryDNA 11am; Irish Dance Troupe 5:30pm • June 25: Coding Club 5pm • June 26: Genealogy 101: African American Ancestry 11am; Healthy Living Series: Healthy Nutrition Choices & Habits 6pm • June 28: Intermediate Genealogy: Courthouse Research 11am; Dan River Twins Puppet Show 5:30pm • June 30: Infinity Acres Exhibit 10am All programs are free but require registration at ww.playdanvilleva.com.

For more information visit DPL, 511 Patton Street, www.readdanvilleva.org or call 434.799.5195. For the Westover Branch, visit 94 Clifton Street or 434.799.5152.

• June 8: Makerspace LEGO Lab 1-3pm free play • June 12: 2nd Tuesday Recipe Club 5:30pm. The theme is “Scrumptious Salsa.” Bring a dish and recipe to share.

• June 14-15: Drop-in Craft. Make a card for Father’s Day. • June 15: STEM Lab 1-3pm. Try a STEM activity.

• June 22: Makerspace LEGO Lab 1-3pm free play.

• June 29: STEM Lab 1-3pm Try a STEM activity.

Mt. Hermon Library Events • Tuesdays: Read beTWEEN the Lines (Summer Read-Aloud series for tweens) 11am Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library. Teen Tuesdays 2pm. games, escape rooms, arts & crafts, snacks for ages 12-17 • Wednesdays: Eating Smart, Being Active 10am-noon. Join Stephanie Johnson of the Virginia Family Nutrition Program for a 4-week program. To register, call 434.432.7770. Open Stitch 4pm.

Bring your projects and meet fellow crafters.

• Wednesdays and Fridays: Read & Play 10am stories and more for ages 0-5.

• Thursdays: Read beTWEEN the Lines 11am Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Summer Studio 2pm hands-on projects for ages 6-11 • June 1: Friends of the Library Book Sale 10am-6pm. Stuffed Animal

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Sleep-Over all day. Drop off a favorite friend for a sleepover in the library.

June 2: Friends of the Library Book Sale 10am-2pm. Pick up Stuffed Animal Sleep- Over friends and find out about their adventures.

June 4: Knitting Group 6-7:30pm beginners June 9: LEGO Free Play 10am-2pm all ages June 16: Kids Chess Club 11am12:30pm ages 8-12 no experience necessary June 18: Knitting Group 6-7:30pm beginners June 23: Train Town Free Play 10am-2pm all ages. Hooks and Books 4:30-6:pm. Amigurumi.

Supply list available at the front desk. Crochet experience required.

History Research Center & Library • June 2 & 9: Roots & Branches 12:30-2pm basic genealogy 434.432.8931 to register • June 6: Pop-in Genealogy and tours 10am-2pm • June 26: Created Equal 6:308:30pm. Film and discussion series on race and civil rights.

Sponsored by PCP Library, History United, Chatham First, Pittsylvania Together, and Rosebud Baptist Church.

Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free. For more information, contact Gretna Library, 207 A Coffey Street, 434.656.2579; Mt. Hermon Library, 4058 Franklin Turnpike, Tuscarora Shopping Center, 434.835.0326; History Research Center and Library, 340 Whitehead Street, Chatham; 434.432.8931; PCP Main Library, 24 Military Drive, Chatham, 434.432.3271; Brosville Library, 11948 Martinsville Highway 434.685.1285 or www.pcplib.org.

South Boston Public Library Submitted by Jay Stephens

• Mondays: Makerspace: 1-5:00 pm ages 8+ • Tuesdays: Itsy Bitsy PALS: 12:301:30pm ages 2 and younger PALS: Dive into Great Books 2:304:30pm ages 2-7 Tweens and Teens: An Ocean of Reading 4:30-5:30pm ages 8-17 Fridays: Art @ the Library 2:304:30pm ages 5-17 • Second Tuesday: Adult Crafts 1-2:00pm

• Third Friday: Art for Adults 10noon ages 18+ • Summer Meals Program: Mondays-Thursdays free lunch at noon and free snack at 3:40pm.

For more information, visit South Boston Public Library, 509 Broad Street, or www.halifaxlibrary.org, or call 434.575.4228

Halifax County Public Library Submitted by Jay Stephens

• Wednesdays: Itsy Bitsy PALS: 12:30-1:30pm age 2 and younger PALS: Dive into Great Books 2:304:30pm ages 2-7 Tweens and Teens: An Ocean of Reading 4:30-5:30pm ages 8-17 • Thursdays: Art @ the Library: 2:30-4:30pm ages 5 -17 • Fridays: Easy Exercise for Adults 10-11am • Second Wednesday: Adult Crafts: 1-2:00pm • Third Thursday: Art for Adults: 10am-noon ages 18+ • Third Tuesday: Tea & Book Discussion 2:30-3:30pm. Book is

The Woman’s Hour.

• Summer Meals Program: Mondays-Thursdays free lunch at 12:15pm and free snack at 3:40pm.

• June 7: Author Sonya Falls will talk about her book Boy Genius: and Other Possibilities. 6:30pm • June 29: Senior Game Day featuring trivia, bingo, light refreshments 3pm For more information, visit Halifax Public Library, 177 South Main St. in Halifax or www.halifaxlibrary.org or call 434.476.3357.

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Reflecting Forward Backyard Challenges

by Linda Lemery

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Where Can I Find an Evince?

Ten thousand copies of Evince are distributed each month at over 100 locations. Find your copy at:

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Goodwill Gunn Memorial Public Library The Drug Store

W

hen we accept a challenge, we grow in multiple, sometimes unexpected, ways. Challenge equals growth, and we crawl out of the learning tunnel knowing more.

For example, I wanted a structure for our chickens that I could walk into for cleaning, like an airy screen house with lofty roosts.

After almost fainting from seeing store prices, husband Steve watched “How to Build Chicken Runs” on YouTube videos. My walk-in chicken run shrank to a four-foot tall Quonset hut made of wire, PVC pipe, and a hardwire door that neither of us will fit through. “We’ll just move it when you want to clean it,” said Steve.

Oh, boy, I thought.

Another recent growth opportunity involved my buying a 10x10-foot canopy tent at a yard sale. The tent bag was so heavy it came with built-in rollers. An incredible hulk had to hoist it into the car. Steve paled when we tried to move it.

What better to shelter the new chicken run than a canopy tent?

That’s when Steve found out the metal scissor struts were sheared off in multiple places. Eventually, he cannibalized my metal curtain rods to surgically repair the scissor struts. We put the canopy in place just before the torrential rains began.

Between sessions of assisting Steve with scissor strut repairs, I weeded the iris garden. Dig, dig, dig, help Steve, dig, dig, dig while muttering how peonies in neatly mulched clumps in our friends’ immaculate yards would never dare slump over because of the tongue-lashing they’d get.

Not so in our gardens. Once I’d wrenched out the dog-tall weeds, I dumped six bags of mulch onto the irises in a thin layer to retard weed growth. Let the strongest prevail, I thought as I left the garden.

It was then we noticed that the canopy was bulging with accumulated rainwater on all four sides because it had stretched so much. When I pushed up the sagging canopy with a mop head, the water sluiced down on my feet. After four push-ups, I was practically swimming in my shoes. While I said adding PVC ribs to bow out the canopy might help, Steve said he’d just poke holes. I objected because the weight of the water would split the fabric and widen each hole, but then a new idea simultaneously struck us that would drain water while still reinforcing the cloth.

“Grommets,” we said in one voice.

That idea is still under debate.

Our immaculate garden friends say that we live in chaos. We certainly stretch our brains fixing broken equipment, creating structures from videos, coexisting with animals so that everybody wins something, and keeping a few flowers alive. It’s all a challenge, but feels like growth.

Maybe answering why we live like this and why we keep trying to love a chicken and a dog with irreconcilable differences are the biggest challenges. Or, maybe this is just us.

About the author: When she’s not cleaning, fixing something, or breaking up an interspecies fight, Linda Lemery llemery@ averett.edu works as Circulation Manager at Averett University’s Mary B. Blount Library in Danville, VA. She welcomes your comments.

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A Recipe for Any Occasion

by Annelle Williams

This recipe is so versatile you can use it for a picnic, a brunch, a casual dinner or even as an appetizer. Adults and children like it and it can be served hot or cold. That’s what put this recipe for Hawaiian Stromboli on my go-to list.

We have Hawaiian pizza lovers in our family.

That also encouraged me to give this recipe a try. It eliminates the red sauce and adds a savory topping that really raises the flavor level. There’s also a short-cut you can take if you’re really pressed for time--use pre-made pizza dough rather than using the hot roll mix. Try this recipe for your next gettogether or weeknight meal. It will be a big hit and one that you’ll be asked to repeat.

Hawaiian Stromboli (adapted from Craving Home Cooked website)

1 box hot roll mix, prepared as directed on box for pizza dough (I use Pillsbury.) extra flour for kneading extra virgin olive oil to grease dough and hands baking spray 1/4 cup mayonnaise 8 generous slices of deli ham 8 generous slices of Swiss cheese

1/2 cup crushed pineapple, drained

Topping

3 T butter, melted 1 T Dijon mustard 1 T poppy seeds or sesame seeds 1 tsp. onion powder 1 T brown sugar chopped parsley, optional

Blend flour and yeast from hot roll mix. Add 1 ¼ cups warm water and 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil. Stir and combine until dough begins to come away from sides of bowl. Place dough on a floured surface and knead for a couple of minutes, adding more flour if needed. Add a little olive oil to hands if dough begins to stick to hands.

Place parchment paper on a sheet pan. Spray parchment with baking spray. Place dough on paper and press evenly to edges of pan. (Greased hands will help.) Brush dough lightly with olive oil. Cover with plastic wrap.

Let dough rise for 15 minutes. With wrap still in place, press dough down evenly on parchment paper. Remove and discard wrap. Spread mayonnaise on top of dough followed by cheese, ham and drained pineapple. Roll long edge over itself, pressing seam together, ending with seam side down. Mix topping ingredients and sprinkle on dough. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until dough is brown on top and bottom. Let sit for 5 minutes or more before slicing. Sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving.

Questions or comments?

Email me: AnnelleWilliams@comcast.net I look forward to hearing from you!

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Photo Finish Evince photographer, Von Wellington, found Main Street Plaza in Danville to be a very busy place on a warm evening in May, especially around the JTI Fountain and inside at Me’s Burgers & Brews where Theology on Tap was taking place. Theology on Tap is a monthly event designed to allow all voices and opinions to be heard in a respectful environment.

Participants don’t need to be religious to join the discussion. All that is required is an open mind and a courteous demeanor. For the date and time of the next meeting, visit www.facebook.com

Beth Stultz (holding Bella, a wheaten terrier), John Stultz and J enjoy an active evening before heading home.

Deborah Qamar reads the Book of Samuel while watching Tadaisha Taborn, Jazmyn Adkins, Aaron Taborn, and Kanasisa Taborn play.

Kim Whitlock from Martinsville catches up on the latest news from Joyce Obstler.

All photos by Von Wellington.

For more info visit www.vonwellington photography.com or call 434.770.3553. See more pictures on Facebook.

Julissa Booth and Danville Police Chief Scott Booth stop for the camera on a stroll through Main Street Plaza.

Kristy Burton listens while Lisa Nordan makes a point during the discussion.

Ryan Barber (center, holding balloon) is surrounded by friends and family who gathered to celebrate her sixteenth birthday: Jasi Redd, Nyla Redd, Chevy Wilkinson, Austin Pearson, Ryan, Amy Lacks, Alexandria Compton, Paige Bryant, and Caribbea Sheets.

Nancy and Scott Zepp accompany two-year-old Freya Zepp to see what she calls “my fountain”.

Evince Magazine Page 23 The current Theology on Tap moderator, Bobbie Henley, is pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church in Danville.

Scott Jones and Kendall Ratliffe prepare for an evening of exchanging ideas.

Server Cynthia Hall quietly takes orders during Theology on Tap as Loren Cahill and Brad Goad listen.

Kerr Thompson from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Glenn Williamson from Halifax join the group for the evening.

Everyone has an opportunity to speak and be heard.

Curtis Crews and Tom Richardson wait to participate in the conversation.

Brian Pruitt and Jesse Mimms listen intently before responding.

While Theology on Tap is happening on the upper level of Me’s, it was business as usual downstairs.

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