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THURSDAY, April 2, 2020

Full homes. Empty streets.

Photos by Tevin Stinson

What are usually some of the busiest streets in the city resembled a ghost town earlier this week after Stay-At-Home orders were mandated by Mayor Allen Joines and Governor Roy Cooper. The Stay-At-Home order went into effect statewide on Monday, March 30. (See full story on A2)

When you’re on your own, we are there with you. business to government to the health care system and schools, to the drastic impact on individuals and families.

And​w​e’ll be there to let you know about the good and extraordinary things happening in the midst of this crisis — citizens and nonprofit workers attending to the homeless community, the

volunteers bringing food to elderly people who cannot leave their homes, the healthcare workers putting themselves in harm’s way to care for the sick.

Amidst the sadness and anxiety, there are uplifting moments that remind us of the resilience of the human spirit, and we’ll be there to document those too.

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make sense of the situation and to help you navigate it.

Having fact-based, reliable reporting that provides public scrutiny and oversight is more important than ever.

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downturns, periods of extreme political and societal division.

This challenge is greater than any of those, but, rest assured, we’ll be here for you. Let’s stick together, and we will come through this, too.

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Stay-At-Home Order issued for Winston-Salem TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

In response to the growing number of COVID-19 cases across the country and the state, the City of Winston-Salem has issued a Stay-At-Home Order for all residents that went into effect at 5 p.m. on Friday, March 27.

The Stay-At-HomeOrder comes as an amendment to the state of emergency declaration issued in the City of Winston-Salem on March 13. Under the order all “non-essential” businesses must cease operation.

Non-essential businesses include but are not limited to; parks, water parks, playgrounds, recreations centers, theme parks, bowling alleys, movie theaters and other theaters, and social clubs.

With the Stay-At-Home Order, individuals may only leave their residence to complete essential activities such as for health and safety reasons, to purchase necessary supplies and services, to

engage in outdoor activity such as running or cycling.

Individuals will also be allowed to leave their residence to take care of a family member, friend or pet in another household.

All essential businesses have been encouraged to remain open while still complying with the social distancing requirements set by the CDC. Essential businesses include: stores that sell groceries and medicine, organizations that provide charitable and social services, media outlets, gas stations and businesses needed for transportation, financial institutions such as banks, hardware and supply stores, mail, postal, shipping and pick-up services, laundry services, restaurants (delivery or take-out only), homebased care and services, childcare centers, hotels and motels, and funeral services.

The order places new requirements on nursing homes, long-term-care facilities, and assisted living facilities relating to

staff and visitors.

Any person violating any of the restrictions included in the Stay-AtHome-Order will be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

At the time of publication, 42 people in Forsyth County have tested positive for COVID-19.

During the daily briefing held to update the community on the spread of the virus, Joshua Swift, Forsyth County Director of Public Health, encouraged the community to be proactive, practice social distancing, and stay home if you have any signs of illness.

“With community spread, everyone should continue to be proactive and practice good social distancing and stay home with any signs of illness,” Swift continued.

“Fourteen of the cases have been associated with travel. If you have traveled to an area in the past 14 days where widespread community transmission has occurred, such as New York, you must stay home for at least 14 days after

returning.”

The complete list of essential businesses, along with the full text of the Stay-At-Home Order is posted on the city’s website www.cityofws. org.

Forsyth County also issued a Stay-At-Home order.

Forsyth County’s Stay-at-Home Order is now in effect as of 5 p.m Monday, March 30, for unincorporated areas of the county and Kernersville, Tobaccoville, Bethania and Walkertown. The governor’s order does not replace the county’s order. We will review the governor’s order to determine its impact.

Remember, there’s no papers or permit needed to travel and you can still travel for essential activities like grocery shopping. For more details on the local order, visit the FAQ on Forsyth County’s website, www.forsyth.cc.

Separating fact from fiction about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic THE CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT

Since the coronavirus first started making news in January, rumors, myths, and fabrications started flooding our email inboxes and Facebook newsfeeds.

Although there has been helpful information shared via social media, there has also been a lot of misinformation that is causing fear and, in some instances, risky behaviors.

The Chronicle staff has reviewed information on several trusted sites and culled the facts from the fiction. Here is some of the information we have checked out.

Myth: Warm weather will kill the coronavirus.

Fact: According to the World Health Organization, COVID-19 “can be transmitted in ALL AREAS, including areas with hot and humid weather.” However, it is too early to tell if the spread of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 will be dampened by warm weather. The viability of the virus at different temperatures has not been studied.

Myth: The coronavirus was deliberately created by people.

Fact: Viruses can change over time.

Occasionally, a disease outbreak happens when a virus that is common in an animal such as a pig, bat or bird, undergoes changes and passes on to humans.

This is likely how the new coronavirus came to be.

Myth: Sipping warm water every 15 minutes will help prevent the virus.

Fact: There is no research to support this.

Neither will gargling with salt water, garlic water, vinegar water, or lemon

water, although salt water may relieve a sore throat.

NEVER gargle or drink bleach as it can kill you.

Myth: Eating bananas can prevent coronavirus.

Fact: Although bananas are a nutritious fruit, they cannot protect against the virus.

Myth: An early sign of coronavirus is the loss of smell and taste.

Fact: Many doctors around the world have reported that those infected with the virus have experienced a loss of smell and taste.

Myth: Corona beer sales dropped dramatically due to the coronavirus.

Fact: This is not true.

There is no connection between Corona and coronavirus.

Myth: We can stop “social distancing” on Easter Sunday, April 12.

Fact: COVID-19 continues to infect a large number of people and we are nowhere near the point when we can ease up on social distancing.

Coughs or sneezes or close contact with those who have the virus, even if they are not yet experiencing symptoms, is still a high risk for spreading the disease. President Donald Trump has extended the social distancing recommendation through April 30.

Myth: The virus can live on plastic grocery bags for up to a week.

Fact: According to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, SARSCoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can live in the air and on surfaces between several hours and several days. The study found that the virus is viable for up to 72 hours

on plastics, 48 hours on stainless steel, 24 hours on cardboard, and 4 hours on copper. It is also detectable in the air for three hours.

But what’s more important is the amount of the virus that remains. It’s less than 0.1% of the starting virus material. Infection is theoretically possible but unlikely at the levels remaining after a few days.

You are more likely to catch the infection through the air if you are next to someone infected than off of a surface.

Myth: You can get COVID-19 from pumping gas.

Fact: The virus can be spread from contact with any surface containing the virus and certainly, any item that is frequently touched by many people – gas pump handles, ATM pads, door knobs, handrails, light switches, can convey the virus. You should use sanitizers after you pump gas or touch any other surfaces in public places and wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water when you return home.

Myth: You can order online a kit to test yourself for the virus.

Fact: There is no self-test available nor any vaccine or over-thecounter treatment. If you experience the symptoms of COVID-19 – fever, cough, shortness of breath – call your healthcare provider to see if you need to be tested or need to go to an emergency room.

Beware of any “cures” in emails or in social media posts. They are preying on fears and misinformation.

Myth: Wearing a face mask will protect you from the disease.

Fact: For the

general public without respiratory illness, wearing lightweight disposable surgical masks is not recommended.

Because they don’t fit tightly, they may allow tiny infected droplets to get into the nose, mouth or eyes. Also, people with the virus on their hands who touch their face under a mask might become infected. People with a respiratory illness can wear these masks to lessen their chance of infecting others.

Myth: You need to sing the Happy Birthday song when you wash your hands.

Fact: Washing your hands frequently and thoroughly, using soap and water for at least 20 seconds, which is about two choruses of the Happy Birthday song (or one verse of “This Little Light of Mine”), is the best method for preventing infection from the virus.

Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water aren’t available. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands.

For more information on COVID-19 and how to stay safe during the pandemic, here are some of the sites we recommend for more information: *Johns Hopkins University and Medicine: www. https://coronavirus. jhu.edu/ *The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov/ oronavirus/2019-ncov/ index.htm *Snopes: https://www. snopes.com/collections/ new-coronaviruscollection/

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Kevin Mundy hopes to fill Dan Besse’s seat on City Council

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Last fall City Council Member Dan Besse announced his intention to run for the N.C. House of Representatives. Besse’s decision to run against Republican Donnie Lambeth for District 75 left the citizens of the Southwest Ward wondering who would represent them on the City Council.

In the primary election, voters seemed to have made their decision. In the race where Democrats Kevin Mundy and Scott Bowen faced off, Mundy, who works for Leadership Winston-Salem, defeated Bowen with 63% of the vote.

Mundy said although he was confident he had a chance to win, he was surprised when he won by such a large margin.

He said with Bowen being younger and having so much support from the under-40 crowd, he thought if he won, it would only be by a few votes.

“He was marking better with the under-40 crowd than I was, so I honestly didn’t know until returns starting coming in

Forsyth County, Northwest N.C., and in some cases statewide. I was exposed to so many more issues than the average corporate employee … they just wouldn’t have visibility to these issues and realize all of the needs that are out there in the community.”

The three most pressing issues Mundy plans to address are affordable housing, economic development, and workforce development. He said the issues we currently face are directly related to the city’s shift away from being a “Tobacco Town.”

Mundy mentioned there once was a time when people had a place to go and earn a livable wage, even if they didn’t go to college, but those times have passed.

“Some of the issues that we have now that disproportionately affect people of color and people of lower resources affordable housing, food insecurity - so many of these issues I think tie back to our transition from being a textile and tobacco town.” Mundy continued, “Even when I moved here in ’87 … if you graduated from high school, you

Although there wasn’t a Republican contender during the primary election, it is possible that Mundy could have a contender in the general election running as an Independent or Unaffiliated candidate.

The general election is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 3.

When asked what the people of the Southwest Ward can expect from him as a member of City Council, Mundy said, “What they can expect from me is someone who is going to be actively involved in the community and actively trying to communicate with my constituents.”

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Kevin Mundy that I was going to win for sure,“ Mundy continued.

“I was very relieved that it came out that way.”

Originally from Aiken, S.C., Mundy relocated to Winston-Salem in 1987 after graduate school at the University of South Carolina, to take a job with Sara Lee (now HanesBrands), where he worked for nearly 20 years.

While best known for his work in the business sector, Mundy is also well known for his work with various groups and organizations in the community. He serves on several boards and committees including March of Dimes, National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF), Crosby Scholars, Winston-Salem Symphony Chorale, Triad Pride Men’s Chorus, AIDS Care Service, City of Winston-Salem Senior Games and Silver Arts planning committee, and several others.

Mundy told The Chronicle his experience working with various organizations and initiatives in the community gives him a unique perspective of the city and the issues. He said, “I learned so much about the systemic issues that they are working to address in Winston-Salem,

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didn’t necessarily have to go to college to get a job in one of the Hanes’ plants or one the Reynolds’ plants.”

To turn the tide on these issues, Mundy said the answer is investing in small businesses. He said instead of looking for a Fortune 500 company to come in and hire thousands of people, the city should be looking for smaller businesses that can hire hundreds. To get businesses here, Mundy said the city must have the infrastructure to support the business and people in the community who can work.

“I don’t hold out a whole lot of being home to five Fortune 500 businesses anymore,” Munday said. “If we could get companies coming in who employ several hundred people, that’s probably where our new sweet spot is going to be, but we have to have employees who can go to work there. To get a business here, it’s a formula of what our infrastructure … or what I call the hardware pieces, but we also have to be able to provide employees for them. And so many of our younger citizens are leaving to look for other opportunities, so we have to make Winston-Salem an attractive place.”

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Editorial

Life after Covid-19

Putting the pieces of our lives back together

BY JUDIE HOLCOMB-PACK THE CHRONICLE

Right now, most of us are focusing on day-to-day survival. It’s hard to look beyond the struggle to find necessities such as food, toilet paper, antiseptic wipes and hand sanitizer, to even think about what life will be like when the virus finally recedes and we can once again hug our friends, go to church and work, eat out at restaurants, and do the everyday things we took for granted.

When I was growing up, my family often had a puzzle out on a table and when we had time, we’d sit down and put a few pieces together. We would start by dumping all the pieces out on the table, turning each piece face up so we could see the colors and designs.

Next we would find all the flat-edge pieces and fit the border together. Then we would study the picture on the box and move pieces with similar colors or designs in different piles before we started to fit pieces together.

Sometimes at first glance, pieces would look like they would fit, but when we tried to put them together, we found there was just a slight enough difference in shape so that they did not fit snugly.

Life today is like that puzzle. The pieces of our lives are scattered all around us - pieces that represent our family, friends, church, work, play, shopping, dining, travel, movies, theatre, concerts. We are all searching for those “flat edges,” the things that help us to feel safe, connected, loved. We’re wondering if we will ever put all the puzzle pieces of our lives back together.

One thing is certain: when the pieces are finally put together, the picture won’t look like the one on the box. We will never go back to how our lives were just a few short months ago. What I believe, however, is that the new picture will be a better one. There are already many stories of people helping their neighbors by picking up groceries or a take-out order, donating food to the needy, walking a senior’s dog, strangers coming together via a Facebook group to make masks for our healthcare workers, writing notes to shut-ins, and more.

I believe these acts of kindness and service will make us all more mindful of how connected we are to each other, our community and to our world, and how much we need each other to survive and prosper. Our priorities will have changed and things that we once thought were important will not be so significant after all.

And when the crisis ends – and it surely will end – we will be more compassionate people for it.

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COVID-19 keeps us inside and waiting indefinitely Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist The coronavirus has made us alter our lifestyles. If you have a job to go to each day, then you have been told by your employer to stay at home. How long you stay at home depends upon the coronavirus. If you listen to the President of the United States, you will be back to work in two or three weeks.

Some would say that is an optimistic timetable.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isn’t as optimistic as the

number of cases keeps climbing each day. Neither is Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. He is much more measured in his comments. Steph Curry of Warriors fame interviewed him and admitted that he had flu-like symptoms prior to the NBA stopping league play because of COVID-19. Curry said that it was important for young people to understand the seriousness of the disease.

The number of cases continues to skyrocket.

At the time I wrote this, there were over 142,000 confirmed cases in the United States. Surprisingly, the state of Louisiana is one of the nation’s leaders in new confirmed cases.

Currently, there are over 3,500 known cases in the

state with 151 deaths from COVID-19. The governor, John Bel Edwards, has issued a Stay-At-Home Order for residents.

New Orleans is known for its festivals and celebrations during the summer. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, originally scheduled for April and May, has been postponed for a later date.

The Essence Festival, scheduled for July 1-5, has also been postponed to a later date.

Of course, the Summer Olympics were scheduled to begin July 24 in Tokyo, Japan. Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) cancelled this year’s Olympics until 2021.

In my opinion, which is shared by many, there was way too much risk

involved to have them this year. The Olympic Games are widely popular, but human lives are much more important.

Now the coronavirus is keeping us inside of our houses. We can only go out when it is necessary.

Going to the grocery store and going to the doctor are really the only places that we should be going. We can’t visit family members and friends. That is a bitter pill for us to swallow. This is the difficult reality “we the people” are dealing with now.

We need exercise! It is permissible for us to go for a walk, ride our bike or jog around the neighborhood. If you have exercise equipment in your house, you have a distinct advantage and good for you! Many recreation and

fitness centers are offering free exercise sessions. All you have to do is turn on your television and follow the instructor. Why not do it as it will be great fun and will relieve stress.

I have almost washed the skin off my hands, but I am going to continue to wash them and follow all rules and regulations set forth by the government.

They are designed to protect us.

Don’t think you are immune from the coronavirus.

Healthy people are contracting it and passing away. We read about these stories every day. Be wise and don’t play around with this COVID-19. We can’t play games with our health and well-being. When you talk to your friends, tell them to wash their hands and to

keep them away from their face.

BREAKING NEWS! The President of the United States of America has just extended the social distancing guidelines until April 30.

Read Isaiah 40:31.

“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”

James B. Ewers Jr., Ed.D., is a former tennis champion at Atkins High School and played college tennis at Johnson C. Smith University where he was all-conference for four years. He is a retired college administrator and can be reached at evers. jr56@yahoo.com.

Forsyth Tech, WSSU center join to put students on ‘wheels’ to success John Ralley Guest Columnist The point hits hard every day for Forsyth County residents of low resources trying to get ahead: Transportation problems cut across every issue of poverty.

Those problems frustrate access to doctors, jobs, grocery stores and higher education.

Forsyth Technical Community College and WinstonSalem State University’s Center for the Study of Economic Mobility are researching the education part.

It takes significant time for Forsyth Tech students riding WinstonSalem Transportation Authority buses to get to school “from a particular location where they live, where they work, or where their daycare might be for their child,” Stacy WatersBailey, the executive director of student support services at Forsyth Tech recently stated, citing

recent surveys and forums with Forsyth Tech students.

For now, the school’s classes are online, like those of most other colleges, due to the pandemic. When regular classes resume, so will the transportation challenges.

For example, according to the city bus system’s online trip planner, traveling from the Food Lion on Waughtown Street in Southside to Forsyth Tech’s main campus takes 48 minutes, not including walking to and from bus stops. The same trip by a vehicle takes about 11 minutes, according to Google Maps.

For these students without cars, that has meant missing or dropping classes, the surveys have revealed. Others might attend Forsyth Tech if bus schedules could fit their needs. Instead, they rely on friends or family members to get to school, which isn’t always reliable.

The surveys are funded by a $25,000 grant from The WinstonSalem Foundation, one of several grants the foundation awarded in 2019 for innovative

strategies to confront transportation issues.

Forsyth Tech assembled a team, including WatersBailey, to come up with a plan to research how transportation concerns affect their students.

Forsyth Tech, in turn, awarded $10,000 of its grant to the Center for the Study of Economic Mobility for help in the research. The center’s previous research into transportation challenges helped launch, in 2018 and 2019, a community dialogue on transportation issues. That continued with a panel at Wake Forest University last month on sprawl, transportation and economic mobility.

“CSEM has the experience to help build a workable process together,” Waters-Bailey said. She added that Forsyth Tech had a number of conversations with the center’s founding director, Craig Richardson. “The timing was right. There was funding available. There were a lot of conversations going on across different organizations.” Her school and the center both focus on economic mobility, she indicated, and “it made

sense to partner.”

Forsyth Tech and the center, working with the city bus system, The Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation and the nonprofit datagathering group Forsyth Futures, created the survey for Forsyth Tech students.

Once the surveys are done this summer, the Forsyth Tech team plans to sit down with the Center for the Study of Economic Mobility and the other partners and analyze the results to develop strategies to make it easier for Forsyth Tech students, and potential students, to get to class.

Richardson noted that “Forsyth Tech has been a true innovator in taking a deep dive into better understanding the transportation challenges in our area. With the operating costs of running a car at $6,000 yearly at a minimum, it’s critical for us to better understand the hurdles for those folks who want an education and a better job, but are held back by hours of weekly commutes. Once we understand those challenges, the hope is to work with WSTA and

others to make education more accessible.”

The strategies they develop could apply to other college students in the county and city.

So far, Waters-Bailey said, about 1,200 Forsyth Tech students across the school’s nine campuses have taken the survey.

Those students include ones who have taken the survey online and adult students in GED and ESL classes who have filled out hard-copy surveys.

Waters-Bailey said they also hope to distribute the survey to high school students who may attend Forsyth Tech. Students have also responded to the questions in focus groups.

Regarding WSTA, she said students “like the bus system. It just takes a little longer because they have to go to the hub and have to go downtown and catch another bus to get where they want to go. Overall, they’re positive on the bus system. It’s just a matter of how long it takes to catch multiple buses.”

If city bus fares were cheaper, she said, a number of students have indicated they would use that system.

Forsyth Tech plans to compare the survey

information with studentperformance data, especially in ZIP codes with high concentrations of federal Pell Grant recipients. It also plans to study what other community colleges are doing on transportation concerns.

The next step will be working with the partners on a potential project to ease transportation problems, and find the funding to do so.

“Transportation is definitely an issue for our students,” Waters-Bailey said. “How do we get them to Forsyth Tech to get them their education to have a better standard of living? How can we create some sort of solution that can help our community at large and partner with community groups and organizations? It is going to take all of us working together to build a better solution that is substantial for our community.”

John Railey is the senior writer and community relations consultant for CSEM. He can be reached at raileyjb@gmail.com.

The virus is our teacher ROBERT C. KOEHLER

Guest Columnist Last Sunday at 11 a.m.

I went for a walk. Even if it’s nothing special, a walk isn’t a normal thing to do these days. But this brief walk — around the block, consuming maybe 10 minutes of my time — had a transcendent dimension to it that continues to awe me, and I’m going to do it again.

It was a prayer walk: my response to Marianne Williamson’s call for two minutes of global prayer on that day, set for 4 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time and meant to include the whole world.

When I heard about it, I decided: Why not? “It is a global prayer, held in the silence of our own hearts . . .” And stepping outside seemed appropriate.

There was a bitterness to the weather, but I put my hand against my heart and started walking and I found myself actually loving the cold wind as it scraped my face. This moment was brand new, unlike any other. I continued to hold

my hand on my heart as I walked and breathed. I let loose, cautiously at first, a sense of hope and caring as I stared in wonder at this utterly familiar, yet unfamiliar, piece of Planet Earth I was traversing. The hope and caring swelled.

And then I was back at my house.

That’s it. Nothing more came of it. The news didn’t change much. Or did it? The next day U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called on the countries of the world to declare a ceasefire: “The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war,” he said.

“That is why today, I am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world. It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives.”

And somehow a statement like this makes more sense than it ever has in my lifetime — it seems, at long last, to transcend wishful thinking. The coronavirus: our salvation?

It is wrenching us loose from our certainties.

If nothing else, this looming pandemic makes the simplest aspects of life resonate like never before, and the sense of global connectedness that is emerging out of our

sudden social lockdown used to be merely a vague suggestion. Now it’s an actual fact.

Can lasting good come out of this situation? You know . . . a commitment at every level to recreate civilization, to transcend the simplistic and stupid myths that drive humanity, especially at its collective — corporate and national — levels? Will we begin, for instance, looking at the parallels between the coronavirus and climate change?

“The virus has shown that if you wait until you can see the impact, it is too late to stop it,” journalist Beth Gardiner writes at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies website.

She quotes climate economist Gernot Wagner: “COVID-19 is climate on warp speed.”

And Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, wrote recently at Time: In fact, I believe the last few weeks, as terrible as they have been for so many people, have taught us crucial lessons that we needed to learn in order to enter a new era of radical, collaborative action to

cut emissions and slow climate change.

The lessons of these last few weeks, she writes, include: 1. Global challenges have no national borders.

2. As a society, we’re only as safe as our most vulnerable people.

3. Global challenges require systemic changes — changes that can only be activated by government or companies. But they also require individual behavioral changes. We need both.

4. Prevention is better than cure.

5. All our response measures need to be based on science.

I pause at lesson no. 1: Global challenges have no borders. So much human wealth and certainty have been invested over the millennia in not knowing this. Is it that the world has simply been too big to grasp in its wholeness?

I think the reality is far more problematic: We need enemies! We need an “other.” This is how we have created nations and why we have endless wars. So my pause here is the same pause I took with me on my prayer walk: That which is broken will heal. The coronavirus looms frightfully, but also with unmistakable

clarity. The border is a farce, despite the billions of dollars the U.S. invests in its maintenance (and despite the nearly 40,000 detainees still held in custody by ICE).

And it occurs to me suddenly that the lessons Figueres cites aren’t merely lessons, but values at the core of being human, around which we should organize ourselves.

Consider lesson no. 2: We’re only as safe as the most vulnerable among us.

Another way to put this is that we are all vulnerable!

And self-protection means doing what we can to protect — and understand — everyone.

“I hope,” Figueres writes, that the shock of this pandemic will jolt people out of their desire to ignore global issues like climate change. I hope our growing sense of urgency, of solidarity, of stubborn optimism and empowerment to take action, can be one thing that rises out of this terrible situation. Because while we will, eventually, return to normal after this pandemic, the climate that we know as normal is never coming back.

Nor, let us hope, is the consciousness we know as “normal” coming back.

To be normal means to be taken for granted. Healing means growing into a larger awareness of what’s right in front of us, such as that we are one. Rather that needing an “other,” we need one another: Here, for instance, are the last lines of a poem (in translation) my friend Jan Slakov recently sent me,

by Italian poet Mariangela Gualtieri, called “March the Ninth Twenty Twenty”: ... To that grasp of a palm in another person’s palm to that simple act that we are now forbidden — we will return with expanded awareness.

We’ll be here, more attentive, I think. Our hand will be more delicate in the doing of life.

Now that we know how sad it is to stand one meter apart.

Even now, palms can grasp palms, at least in spirit, across the borders that we can see, at last, are not real.

Robert C. Koehler (koehlercw@ gmail.com), syndicated

by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor. He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

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Dr. Kornegay shares tips with families and couples on how to cope with the stress of COVID -19

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a tremendous amount of stress and confusion in our country, and Americans need some stress relief.

What’s adding to the chaos: there’s so many questions that are still unanswered. And what was once taboo for many in the black community has now become the norm.

Therapy! Online therapy has increased exceedingly and with good reason. “If we can’t get all of the answers we need about COVID-19, people could die from the stress alone.

The stress hormone can suppress the effectiveness of the immune system,� said Dr. Donna Chandler Kornegay.

She’s a practicing mental health counselor and has been in the mental health industry for over 20 years.

that as well. “There’s so much that people are now not able to do. My mother church is doing a drivethru service. They drive up to the church and the pastor preaches from the steps, while the members are sitting in their cars listening to the service.

That’s fantastic! Another way to cope is to take a break from watching any type of negative news stories about the pandemic, including social media, because that can be upsetting. Take care of your body and learn how to breathe properly. With the shut-in, there’s no excuse not to make time for exercise. It’s extremely vital to make sure you eat healthy and not buy a lot of junk food. Learn how to breathe properly and meditate. It helps relax your mind, and get plenty of sleep. Sleep is a great way to relieve stress.�

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lot less. They’ll learn how to play and make better decisions independently, said Dr. Kornegay.

I also asked, how do couples cope with the stress of being shut in 24/7 with their significant other and how do we give each other space? “Call or Facetime friends and relatives so you don’t lose that connection outside of your home. Check on the elderly in your area, because good deeds create warm and positive feelings, and that spirit will also spread throughout your household. Schedule a day and time that’s solely dedicated to you. Whether that’s watching your favorite TV show, working out, reading a book that you didn’t have time for, taking a nice quite bubble bath, anything that’s solely dedicated to you.�

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“All of my clients talk about worry and fear. They’re not only worried about contracting COVID-19, they’re worried about finances, elderly family members, losing their homes, how to deal with being quarantined for a long time, their children, family members with chronic illnesses.

So they’re worried about a multitude of things that can impact them personally as well,� she said.

I asked Dr. K how we can cope with this great amount of stress. “Remember, this too shall pass. Worrying about your finances at this point should be one of your least worries. Because the government has put into place some relief, the banks can’t bother you about late payments right now, the power and water companies are working with us, people are living in apartments where the evictions are postponed.

The government is issuing a stimulus check, and I know it’s not much, but every little bit we didn’t or don’t have will help.

So let’s focus on staying mentally and physically healthy. Trust God that this too will pass,� she said. Dr. K said she’s also dealing with clients who had to postpone weddings, family reunions, closing on a home, and missing church services. She gave some inspiring tips for

family physician about the stress of being home 24/7 with our children and if it is safe for them to go outside to give us a break.

She suggested that we not allow our children to play with anyone other than those in our homes. I’m a parent of a 7-year-old boy that demands our attention hourly. So I asked Dr. K for a solution. “When you go for a run or walk, have your children join you on their bikes. Or have them walk or run with you. Walking or running releases endorphins, which trigger a positive feeling in the mind and body. And that’ll relieve stress for you and your children. Also create a regular routine for learning activities, because it’s a lot easier to cope with children when there’s structure. Create a schedule for learning time and fun time. Structure is critical at a time like this, because it breaks the monotony of children doing nothing, and also parents just cooking and cleaning every day.�

The veteran mental health counselor also shared that we need to make sure our children feel safe, and remind them that it’s OK to feel upset and confused. We must teach them how to cope with their own stress in times like these. Not talking about it isn’t such a good thing, but talking about it is a great thing because they’ll depend on you a

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not to be interrupted unless there’s blood or fire. If not, don’t interrupt me.� Dr. K said we all need our own free time, so expressing that to your family is not a bad thing. We all need those moments when we can calm down. She calls it “having your own brain.� “Tell them, ‘Let me have my own brain for a minute.’ If you can, do it for an hour. And asking for it is OK. If you do this every day, you’ll feel better about doing everything else during the course of the day.�

She shared that it’s important to get those personal things done that you couldn’t do while working full-time.

Lastly, we talked about how to cope when it’s essential for us to go out in public. “Pray before you leave the house; that will set the tone for how we interact with others.

Be mindful and patient, because everyone is just as stressed as you are. Offer assistance where you see the need, especially if they’re older. But keep that six-feet social distance. This is the time to be kinder and more considerate to each other.

If we don’t learn anything else, I hope we learn that.�

My phenomenal woman of the week is Dr. Donna Chandler Kornegay. To contact Dr. K, call her Google number at 984-235-0605.Â

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COVID-19 pandemic poses dire threat to N.C. prisons and jails

BY MELISSA BOUGHTON NC POLICY WATCH

Criminal justice advocates and family members of incarcerated individuals have been warning state and county officials for weeks about the potential for COVID-19 to ravage the populations of jails, prisons and other detention facilities. Their pleas, however, have mostly been ignored.

Citing the public health and safety of North Carolinians, Gov. Roy Cooper has closed schools, expanded unemployment benefits and ordered residents to stay at home. His administration, though, has been silent on issues facing some of the most vulnerable individuals in the state: incarcerated people and detention facility staff.

Cooper himself has acknowledged concerns facing these people, but his office has yet to order any formal changes or reviews to thwart an outbreak, despite staffing shortages and the inability of inmates to practice social distancing and other protective sanitation measures.

Several jurisdictions have implemented patchwork measures.

Some district attorneys are reviewing inmates for early release; some judges are enforcing orders to reduce the number of people in jails.

And some county jails are implementing new procedures and protocols to reduce COVID-19 exposure.

It’s not enough, however, according to advocates, academics and family members, who fear a grave emergency is on the immediate horizon.

Nikki Fowler’s husband has 15 days left to serve at the Burke Confinement in Response to Violation (CRV) Center in Morganton after allegedly violating his probation. She’s scared he’ll fall ill before she can see him again.

CRV centers incarcerate individuals for 90-day periods in response to alleged violations of probation, parole or postrelease supervision as provided

Those in prison are especially vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 by the Justice Reinvestment Act of 2011. The facilities provide minimum-security, dormitorystyle housing and offer intensive programming designed to modify behavior.

Fowler said her husband sleeps in a bunk bed in a large room with rows of other incarcerated men.

Social distancing is not an option for them; if someone gets sick, there’s nowhere to isolate them.

“All it takes is just one person to be in that dorm with coronavirus and then they’re all going to have it, because they’re so closely confined,” she said in a phone interview. “It’s really frustrating and it’s upsetting, because he could be home and be under house arrest for the last two weeks and he wouldn’t be exposed to anything. It’s almost like it’s not humane.”

‘Ripe for an outbreak’ The Burke CRV Center has 248 beds. Fowler said her husband described conditions at the center to her: Inmates aren’t allowed to have hand sanitizer because of the alcohol content (the prohibition is in effect at all state corrections facilities), and they can’t frequently wash their hands.

They used to have rehabilitative classes or programming several times each day, but it’s been reduced to once per day, and there are more than ten people in a class at a time, Fowler said. Most of the time, the men can’t go outside.

Fowler said her husband told her that the best advice he and his fellow inmates have received to help prevent catching COVID-19 was to “flip flop” in their beds, so the person on the top bunk has their head facing the opposite direction of the person in the bottom bunk.

“They’re not even six feet apart in the beds. Even if they flip or flop, how will they avoid a sneeze or a cough?” Fowler asked. “If [the virus] can populate quickly out here at Walmart, it can definitely populate quickly in a dorm-like place.”

She’s contacted her husband’s probation officer and other corrections officials to try to find out if he can be released early.

She’s written the North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission about the situation, but said she’s received no clear answers for family members about their loved ones and COVID-19 prevention.

“Since he’s so close to being

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released, I just want them to let him go and be safe,” she said.

“And I’m not asking for a special exception for my husband, but for anyone who has a certain amount of time left who is nonviolent.

In a normal situation, without a pandemic, this wouldn’t be a concern.”

Brian Elderbroom, a national criminal justice expert, visited the Burke CRV Center in the past year and said in an email that he could attest to Fowler’s description of confinement there and the impossibility of social distancing.

“This facility is ripe for an outbreak,” he said.

Elderbroom is the founder and president of Justice Reform Strategies, a consulting firm providing policy, communications and management support to organizations committed to improving the criminallegal system and reducing incarceration and correctional control.

He said a person on felony probation can receive a CRV disposition for an alleged crime or technical violation of supervision conditions, like failing to report to a probation

officer or failing a drug test.

Individuals who receive a CRV disposition are incarcerated for 90 days at either the Burke County or Robeson County CRV centers (Robeson is temporarily closed due to staffing shortages) or in state prison.

Avoiding a crisis CRV sentences, Elderbroom said, are imposed by a judge at the recommendation of probation officials or the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) and are not legally required.

Elderbroom and James Markham, a distinguished professor of public policy at the UNC School of Government, spoke about the many ways a CRV sentence could be reduced or changed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Markham said in an email that to the extent that CRV is a part of a person’s probation, a judge could modify the terms at any time. The governor could also commute the sentence or offer other clemency. The Secretary of Public Safety could also change the place of confinement for the CRV or extend the limits of confinement.

Markham wrote a blog post last year about his visit to the Burke CRV center. He remarked that both Burke and the nowclosed Robeson Center, which he also visited, had tighter living spaces than some prisons and noted that substance abuse treatment centers at DART Cherry and Black Mountain also have bunk-style dormitories with probation conditions that a judge could modify.

Elderbroom said that in addition to Markham’s recommendations on how to modify CRV sentences that already have been imposed, there are easy actions decisionmakers can take to eliminate new admissions to the CRV center.

“DPS should be using its delegated authority to impose community-based sanctions in lieu of recommending CRV’s, and judges should continue See Prison on B3

Panic buying adds additional stress in COVID-19 pandemic You don’t need a year’s supply of toilet paper

BY MERDIES HAYES OUR WEEKLY NEWS

Panic buying has been rife around the globe in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Customers have been stockpiling goods like hand sanitizer, bottled water, canned goods, paper towels and toilet paper.

The trend has seen stores in some nations ration products. The U.K. is limiting sales of hand hygiene products.

Australians have seen restrictions on paper goods. Americans now have to wake before dawn to purchase cases of bottled water, which are now limited to two per customer. America is also experiencing empty shelves.

Mass demand for rice and noodles in Singapore prompted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to assure the public that there was enough to go around. In Auckland, New Zealand, supermarket spending shot up 40% in about 72 hours.

Shoppers in Malaysia wanting to pad their “pandemic pantries” have driven an 800% increase in weekly hand sanitizer sales.

All of these places have confirmed cases of coronavirus.

Psychologists explain this phenomenon as “retail therapy,” defined as when, where and what we buy to better manage our emotional state. Experts suggest that the answer may lie in a fear of the unknown and believing that dramatic events warrant a dramatic response — even though in this case, the best response is something as mundane as washing your hands for 20 seconds.

In some ways, the trend of panic

buying is a way for people to take back control in uncertain times. Many psychologists have suggested that panic buying can be understood as playing to our three fundamental psychology needs in (1) autonomy—as in the need for control; (2) relatedness—better defined as “we shopping,” rather than “me shopping,” and (3) competence—whereby a level of accomplishment is achieved and making a purchase gives people a sense that they are “smart shoppers.”

Conflicting messages add to uncertainty. In the U.S., people initially received conflicting messages from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and President Donald Trump.

It was no surprise that people were worried when one organization says the matter is urgent, and another says it’s under control. With the virus present in all 50 states, and daily life has been altered from coast to coast, an unexpected “fear contagion” has taken hold.

Often in times of uncertainty, people can enter a “panic zone” that makes them irrational and—in rare cases—borderline neurotic. In other disaster conditions like an earthquake, tornado or hurricane, people tend to prepare because they know how many supplies they will need. It’s hard to do that with a virus that scientists around the world are still learning about.

Peter Noel Murray, a New York-based member of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Consumer Psychology, is uncertain that persons in authority have the power to calm the panic-buying trend.

“On the emotional side, the answer is

Some stores are now placing limits on purchases of necessary items. self-affirmation,” he said. “In our minds, we know one day we are going to be dead, and the mind deals with it through [seeking] control.” He said there is an “over-estimation” of fear and people’s minds need to respond to those kinds of feelings.

“The need for self-affirmation is triggered and that drives us to do unreasonable things like buying a year’s worth of toilet paper,” Murray explained.

“It overwhelms the knowledge that we don’t need to be doing that.”

There is a difference in disaster panic and general panic. Toilet paper has become the symbol of the latter. For instance, weather forecasters are able to predict with much greater certainty that a hurricane is barreling toward a certain region. They can provide more information about a cluster of tornadoes

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about to come your way (though warning times are uncertain at best). With an earthquake, of course, there is little way of predicting that. In these cases, you know it is going to happen and you usually know ahead of time that the emergency will last a couple of days. You’re able to prepare yourself by being somewhat rational with what you buy.

In public health issues, we have no idea about the duration and or intensity.

Therefore, the messages we receive daily may encourage some to go into panic mode and purchase far more than needed because it’s often the only way to maintain a sense of control.

But why purchase huge amounts of toilet paper? Dr. Dimitrios Tsivrikos, an expert in consumer and behavioral science See Panic on B3

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Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

God’s Just Servant Scriptures: Isaiah 42:1-9 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Explore the concept of Messiah; *Sense the wonder of Jesus’ role as servant to the nations; *Imitate Jesus as a servant of God who executes justice.

Background: Isaiah is probably the best loved of the prophetic books. Isaiah himself was referred to as the “evangelical Prophet” because he spoke much about the grace of God toward Israel. Isaiah is also recognized as the most quoted of the prophets. There are in Isaiah four “Servant Songs” which refer to Christ; 42:1-3 verses are the first in that group. As you read, you find that servant also refers to Israel God’s chosen nation, and Moses is identified as God’s servant. Servant in the lesson is both Jesus and Israel.

Lesson: The passage here overall looks forward to the ideal world of the future, where justice will reign and the covenant between Israel and God will be observed perfectly. In His introduction of His servant, God says, “This is My servant, whom I uphold, My chosen one, in whom I delight. I have put My spirit upon him, He shall teach the true way to the nations.” “This is My servant” is a deliberate contrast with the pagan gods and their worshippers in the previous verse, “They and their” (41:29). God chose him, God upheld him, and God enabled him to succeed in his mission … that servant is Jesus. He will not accomplish his mission through preaching (verse 2) or aggression (verse 3), but by example. Verse 4 says that nations far away will know God as a result of God’s treatment of Israel.

Verses 5-6 paint an image of God as the creator and sustainer of Israel. Israel continues to exist by virtue of the covenant God formed with their ancestors …

“A covenant people, a light of nations “ (verse 6). The nations of the world will witness God’s faithfulness to the covenant when Israel is redeemed. Note that the Israelites are a light to the nations by virtue of what happens to them, not because of what they do - “servant Israel.” Verse 7 comes back to “servant Jesus” – during the millennial reign on earth, spiritual perception will replace Israel’s spiritual blindness. Note too, Jesus also fulfilled this prophecy when He performed physical healings and freedom from spiritual bondage while He was on earth. Verses 8 and 9 are simply God’s guarantee to the servants, all servants. Because God is the creator and the sponsor of the servant – salvation is guaranteed. God is doing a new thing … through His “Messiah-Servant.” (The Jewish Study Bible, The New Interpreter’s Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible, the Oxford Bible Commentary and the UMI Annual Commentary 2019 -2020).

For Your Consideration: What is the “servant’s” primary responsibility?

Application: God is the universal creator, and the breath and spirit with which the “servant” is endowed comes from Him. People seek a champion of justice.

Who can and will defend and uphold the cause of justice?

As God’s “servant community” Israel and we as “heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ” have a confident expectation that people and nations will see the work of Christ in us. We must live our lives before men as an example of the capacity to effect justice a spirit filled life can have. We must practice the written word … we all can’t be preachers, but we can be examples for Christ.

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Family Services provides meals for families in need

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Armed with face masks, gloves, and of course, hand sanitizer, representatives and volunteers with Family Services partnered with OSO Restaurant Group (o’So Eats) to provide 500 meals for families in need at First Baptist Church (Highland Avenue) last week.

According to Michelle Speas, Family Services chief development and public relations officer, the effort to provide the meals was put together in just a few days. Speas said in less than a week’s time, they had to contact families, find a venue, and find volunteers to help distribute the meals.

“I got a phone call from a contact who put me in contact with one of

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In response to the COVID-19 outbreak Family Services rallied together and provided 500 meals to families in need. the organizers and this was Saturday, and we were like ‘how fast can we get this done?’” Speas continued.

“But we were able to mobilize pretty quickly … we had 100 families, 500 headcount if you count the children.

“There’s just a lot of folks now who don’t know where to go for resources and don’t know how to secure them.

Our community is very generous and because of the network Family Services has, we’re able to

tap into that very quickly.”

Speas said Family Services is working on holding other giveaways and events in the near future. She said, “We decided as an agency to go back and ask families what they need. Is it mental health support? Is it food and nutrition? We think mainly its going to be food and nutrition, so this is just a trial run.”

Family Services was founded in 1905 by a group of people concerned with helping impoverished families. Today, Family Services provides professional services and partnerships that foster the development of children, advance the safety, security, and success of families and individuals, and help build a sustainable community.

For more information on Family A volunteer with Family Services during the food giveaway last week at First Baptist Services, visit www.

Church (Highland Avenue). During the event Family Services was able to feed 500 familyservicesforsyth.org. people.

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BY SYBRINA OSHODE Why when going through life’s issues and our world is tossed about We look to man for answers and the way to work things out?

We should be looking for a source, that’s more than capable To turn our situation, into something spiritual When pulled in all directions, things around us out of whack We know that we’re the target of a spiritual attack We reach into our arsenal to fight our enemies But carnal weapons will not work on principalities When sick within our body and the medicines don’t work Our heart begins to fail and then our organs go berserk These earthly doctors telling us that nothing can be done That’s when our body needs to seek our Father and his Son And what about our families that’s losing all control All broken down and scattered with the need to be made whole We desperately are hoping there’s a chance of fixing it Since they’ve become like puzzles, but the pieces just won’t fit Our funds are now depleted and foreclosure’s coming next Our mind is at its wits end and our spirit’s being vexed We try to remain hopeful, while we search to find our way We know that prayer’s the answer, but don’t know the words to say

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Just know in God is our strength, when our burden’s really huge And in our time of trouble, in the Lord is our refuge If we give it all to Jesus, we’ll see our troubles disappear For He said he’ll fight our battles, but we need to keep Him near

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We look at all our issues and we start to realize That each and every problem that we’re facing is God sized We start to call on Jesus, for the one thing that we know Our awesome Lord and Savior, is the only way to go

First Waughtown Baptist Church Live Stream Dr. Dennis W. Bishop, senior pastor of First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC), will deliver the Palm Sunday morning message via Facebook Live at 10:00 a.m. Sunday, April 5. Please join us at https:// www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/ or https:// www.firstwaughtown.org to hear a word from the Lord. Also, we invite you to prepare for Communion by setting aside your cracker or bread and grape juice as we will partake of the Lord’s Supper together virtually.

All in-person events are currently suspended.

Regular, face-to-face worship services and activities will restart as soon as it is safe to do so. FWBC is located at 838 Moravia Street in Winston-Salem.

We need a God that’s able and a God that understands When we’re too weak to go on and can’t find our Spirit man A God of much, more than enough, when a multitude He fed Or the God that called to Lazarus and raised Him from the dead A God of great compassion and a God that knows our plight A God of Grace and Mercy that will make our fight His fight Or a God that walks on water and can calm a raging sea For to fix a God sized problem, needs a God Sized remedy To All My Earthly Brothers And Sisters: Prayer Is The Answer. Read 2nd Corinthians 7:14

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THURSDAY, April 2, 2020

COVID-19 pandemic poses dire threat to N.C. prisons and jails

BY MELISSA BOUGHTON NC POLICY WATCH

Criminal justice advocates and family members of incarcerated individuals have been warning state and county officials for weeks about the potential for COVID-19 to ravage the populations of jails, prisons and other detention facilities. Their pleas, however, have mostly been ignored.

Citing the public health and safety of North Carolinians, Gov. Roy Cooper has closed schools, expanded unemployment benefits and ordered residents to stay at home. His administration, though, has been silent on issues facing some of the most vulnerable individuals in the state: incarcerated people and detention facility staff.

Cooper himself has acknowledged concerns facing these people, but his office has yet to order any formal changes or reviews to thwart an outbreak, despite staffing shortages and the inability of inmates to practice social distancing and other protective sanitation measures.

Several jurisdictions have implemented patchwork measures.

Some district attorneys are reviewing inmates for early release; some judges are enforcing orders to reduce the number of people in jails.

And some county jails are implementing new procedures and protocols to reduce COVID-19 exposure.

It’s not enough, however, according to advocates, academics and family members, who fear a grave emergency is on the immediate horizon.

Nikki Fowler’s husband has 15 days left to serve at the Burke Confinement in Response to Violation (CRV) Center in Morganton after allegedly violating his probation. She’s scared he’ll fall ill before she can see him again.

CRV centers incarcerate individuals for 90-day periods in response to alleged violations of probation, parole or postrelease supervision as provided

Those in prison are especially vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 by the Justice Reinvestment Act of 2011. The facilities provide minimum-security, dormitorystyle housing and offer intensive programming designed to modify behavior.

Fowler said her husband sleeps in a bunk bed in a large room with rows of other incarcerated men.

Social distancing is not an option for them; if someone gets sick, there’s nowhere to isolate them.

“All it takes is just one person to be in that dorm with coronavirus and then they’re all going to have it, because they’re so closely confined,” she said in a phone interview. “It’s really frustrating and it’s upsetting, because he could be home and be under house arrest for the last two weeks and he wouldn’t be exposed to anything. It’s almost like it’s not humane.”

‘Ripe for an outbreak’ The Burke CRV Center has 248 beds. Fowler said her husband described conditions at the center to her: Inmates aren’t allowed to have hand sanitizer because of the alcohol content (the prohibition is in effect at all state corrections facilities), and they can’t frequently wash their hands.

They used to have rehabilitative classes or programming several times each day, but it’s been reduced to once per day, and there are more than ten people in a class at a time, Fowler said. Most of the time, the men can’t go outside.

Fowler said her husband told her that the best advice he and his fellow inmates have received to help prevent catching COVID-19 was to “flip flop” in their beds, so the person on the top bunk has their head facing the opposite direction of the person in the bottom bunk.

“They’re not even six feet apart in the beds. Even if they flip or flop, how will they avoid a sneeze or a cough?” Fowler asked. “If [the virus] can populate quickly out here at Walmart, it can definitely populate quickly in a dorm-like place.”

She’s contacted her husband’s probation officer and other corrections officials to try to find out if he can be released early.

She’s written the North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission about the situation, but said she’s received no clear answers for family members about their loved ones and COVID-19 prevention.

“Since he’s so close to being

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released, I just want them to let him go and be safe,” she said.

“And I’m not asking for a special exception for my husband, but for anyone who has a certain amount of time left who is nonviolent.

In a normal situation, without a pandemic, this wouldn’t be a concern.”

Brian Elderbroom, a national criminal justice expert, visited the Burke CRV Center in the past year and said in an email that he could attest to Fowler’s description of confinement there and the impossibility of social distancing.

“This facility is ripe for an outbreak,” he said.

Elderbroom is the founder and president of Justice Reform Strategies, a consulting firm providing policy, communications and management support to organizations committed to improving the criminallegal system and reducing incarceration and correctional control.

He said a person on felony probation can receive a CRV disposition for an alleged crime or technical violation of supervision conditions, like failing to report to a probation

officer or failing a drug test.

Individuals who receive a CRV disposition are incarcerated for 90 days at either the Burke County or Robeson County CRV centers (Robeson is temporarily closed due to staffing shortages) or in state prison.

Avoiding a crisis CRV sentences, Elderbroom said, are imposed by a judge at the recommendation of probation officials or the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) and are not legally required.

Elderbroom and James Markham, a distinguished professor of public policy at the UNC School of Government, spoke about the many ways a CRV sentence could be reduced or changed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Markham said in an email that to the extent that CRV is a part of a person’s probation, a judge could modify the terms at any time. The governor could also commute the sentence or offer other clemency. The Secretary of Public Safety could also change the place of confinement for the CRV or extend the limits of confinement.

Markham wrote a blog post last year about his visit to the Burke CRV center. He remarked that both Burke and the nowclosed Robeson Center, which he also visited, had tighter living spaces than some prisons and noted that substance abuse treatment centers at DART Cherry and Black Mountain also have bunk-style dormitories with probation conditions that a judge could modify.

Elderbroom said that in addition to Markham’s recommendations on how to modify CRV sentences that already have been imposed, there are easy actions decisionmakers can take to eliminate new admissions to the CRV center.

“DPS should be using its delegated authority to impose community-based sanctions in lieu of recommending CRV’s, and judges should continue See Prison on B3

Panic buying adds additional stress in COVID-19 pandemic You don’t need a year’s supply of toilet paper

BY MERDIES HAYES OUR WEEKLY NEWS

Panic buying has been rife around the globe in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Customers have been stockpiling goods like hand sanitizer, bottled water, canned goods, paper towels and toilet paper.

The trend has seen stores in some nations ration products. The U.K. is limiting sales of hand hygiene products.

Australians have seen restrictions on paper goods. Americans now have to wake before dawn to purchase cases of bottled water, which are now limited to two per customer. America is also experiencing empty shelves.

Mass demand for rice and noodles in Singapore prompted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to assure the public that there was enough to go around. In Auckland, New Zealand, supermarket spending shot up 40% in about 72 hours.

Shoppers in Malaysia wanting to pad their “pandemic pantries” have driven an 800% increase in weekly hand sanitizer sales.

All of these places have confirmed cases of coronavirus.

Psychologists explain this phenomenon as “retail therapy,” defined as when, where and what we buy to better manage our emotional state. Experts suggest that the answer may lie in a fear of the unknown and believing that dramatic events warrant a dramatic response — even though in this case, the best response is something as mundane as washing your hands for 20 seconds.

In some ways, the trend of panic

buying is a way for people to take back control in uncertain times. Many psychologists have suggested that panic buying can be understood as playing to our three fundamental psychology needs in (1) autonomy—as in the need for control; (2) relatedness—better defined as “we shopping,” rather than “me shopping,” and (3) competence—whereby a level of accomplishment is achieved and making a purchase gives people a sense that they are “smart shoppers.”

Conflicting messages add to uncertainty. In the U.S., people initially received conflicting messages from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and President Donald Trump.

It was no surprise that people were worried when one organization says the matter is urgent, and another says it’s under control. With the virus present in all 50 states, and daily life has been altered from coast to coast, an unexpected “fear contagion” has taken hold.

Often in times of uncertainty, people can enter a “panic zone” that makes them irrational and—in rare cases—borderline neurotic. In other disaster conditions like an earthquake, tornado or hurricane, people tend to prepare because they know how many supplies they will need. It’s hard to do that with a virus that scientists around the world are still learning about.

Peter Noel Murray, a New York-based member of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Consumer Psychology, is uncertain that persons in authority have the power to calm the panic-buying trend.

“On the emotional side, the answer is

Some stores are now placing limits on purchases of necessary items. self-affirmation,” he said. “In our minds, we know one day we are going to be dead, and the mind deals with it through [seeking] control.” He said there is an “over-estimation” of fear and people’s minds need to respond to those kinds of feelings.

“The need for self-affirmation is triggered and that drives us to do unreasonable things like buying a year’s worth of toilet paper,” Murray explained.

“It overwhelms the knowledge that we don’t need to be doing that.”

There is a difference in disaster panic and general panic. Toilet paper has become the symbol of the latter. For instance, weather forecasters are able to predict with much greater certainty that a hurricane is barreling toward a certain region. They can provide more information about a cluster of tornadoes

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about to come your way (though warning times are uncertain at best). With an earthquake, of course, there is little way of predicting that. In these cases, you know it is going to happen and you usually know ahead of time that the emergency will last a couple of days. You’re able to prepare yourself by being somewhat rational with what you buy.

In public health issues, we have no idea about the duration and or intensity.

Therefore, the messages we receive daily may encourage some to go into panic mode and purchase far more than needed because it’s often the only way to maintain a sense of control.

But why purchase huge amounts of toilet paper? Dr. Dimitrios Tsivrikos, an expert in consumer and behavioral science See Panic on B3

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Community Calendar Please call ahead to make sure your event is still happening. We will post cancellations/postponements announcements when received.

NOW – Volunteer Center of the Triad The Volunteer Center of the Triad is responding to COVID-19 by bringing the volunteer community together. We have designated a portion of our website www. volunteercentertriad. org to assist our nonprofit community as their needs arise around the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you are interested in volunteering, visit www. volunteercentertriad.org click COVID-19 Response and search volunteer opportunities available.

May 7 - 9 – Used book sale The Shepherd’s Center of Greater WinstonSalem will hold its 33rd Annual Used Book Saleon Thursday, May 7 and Friday, May 8 from 9 am to 9 pm, and on Saturday, May 9 from 8 am to 2 pm.

(1/2 Price on all items!).

The book sale is one of the largest in our state!

Parking and Admission are free.

May 17 – “Writing Your Manuscript” series “Finishing Your Manuscript: Revising, Rewriting, Beta-reading, and Reaching Your

Goal,” part 4 of the public series on Writing Your Manuscript from Triad Sisters in Crime, with Rase McCray, MFA, at High Point Library, 1:454 p.m., 901 N. Main St., High Point. Stay to 5 p.m. to chat with authors.

The following events have been canceled or postponed due to COVID-19 April 5 & 7 – Concert series – POSTPONED to July 18 -19 The Winston-Salem Symphony presents the Classic Series entitled Beethoven Celebration on April 5 & 7. The concert at the Stevens Center of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 405 West Fourth Street in downtown WinstonSalem. The Music Lovers Luncheon scheduled for Friday April 3 has been cancelled is expected to be rescheduled closer to the new concert date in July.

Ticket holders will receive new tickets for use at the rescheduled concert or can exchange their tickets for another concert this season. Tickets for the Tuesday, April 7 concert will be exchanged for the Saturday, July 18

concert. The Symphony will also offer a tax letter in exchange for any ticket relinquished to the Symphony Box Office by March 31, 2020. The box office can be reached by calling (336) 464-0145, or emailing to boxoffice@ wssymphony.org.

May 8 – WSSU graduation ceremony – POSTPONED (Date: TBA) The health and safety of our WSSU students, faculty, and staff remain our foremost concerns.

Given the projections for the spread of COVID-19, and federal and state regulations about large gatherings, the difficult decision was made to postpone the May 8, 2020 commencement ceremony.

Please note, this is NOT a cancelation. Planning for rescheduling the ceremony is underway and will be announced in the coming weeks.

We will engage members of the Class of 2020 in the planning to ensure the event is memorable.

We feel strongly that we do not want students or their families to miss this momentous occasion.

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Winston-Salem Symphony postpones or cancels all remaining concerts for the 2019–20 season The Winston-Salem Symphony is committed to the health and safety of everyone in our community. In accordance with the latest recommendations from the CDC and to assist in the containment efforts and support the well-being of our community, patrons, and musicians, the Symphony has decided to postpone or cancel all remaining concerts through May 31.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all sectors of society emotionally, physically, and financially, with the arts being heavily affected,” said E. Merritt Vale, Winston-Salem Symphony president & CEO. “The Winston-Salem Symphony is definitely feeling the impact. We have had to cancel seven concerts that were scheduled to take place between now and May 31, 2020.

This poses significant financial challenges for us and has a tremendous effect, not only on our staff and organization, but also on our musicians, many of whom have effectively lost all sources of income for the foreseeable future. Our board and staff are working diligently to ensure that we are being good financial stewards of the Symphony during this difficult time.

All six members of the Symphony’s leadership team have volunteered to accept a 15% reduction in pay for two months to help our organization weather the storm.”

“Many patrons have asked how they can help,” Vale continued. “Ticket holders have the opportunity to return their ticket as a donation. These ticket donations will be used to help support the Symphony’s musicians and the organization during this exceptionally challenging time.

Subscribing now to the 2020–21 season and supporting the Symphony through our Crescendo Campaign (annual fund) are also ways to help. We are fully aware that everyone is facing significant challenges during this pandemic and our hearts go out to all affected. We are all in this together and together we will prevail.”

The following concerts have been rescheduled: *The Classic Series concert cycle

is working on rescheduling an alternative/ multi-level playing experience for Youth Orchestras Program musicians on July 18.

Further information on this concert will be announced as plans progress.

The following concerts have been cancelled: *“Music Explorers! Discovering Music Around the World” that was scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 19, has been cancelled. An exciting new “Ignite” Family Series is launching this coming fall and ticket holders for “Music Explorers”! have the option to exchange their tickets for one of the Ignite concerts. *The next sensory friendly concert will be “Babar Comes to WinstonSalem” on November 1, 2020 at 3 p.m. at the Hanes Auditorium at Salem College.

Ticket holders may also choose from two additional ”Ignite” concecerts: “Piece of the Puzzle” on February 7, 2021 at 3 p.m. and “My Great Orchestral Adventure” on May 9, 2021 at 3 p.m., both of which will take place at R.J. Reynolds Auditorium.

More information on this wonderful new series can be found at wssymphony.org/ season2021/. *The P.L.A.Y. Music Spring Seminario, featuring the talented young students of the Winston-Salem Symphony’s Piedmont Learning Academy for Youth Music (P.L.A.Y. Music) education program, that was to take place on May 4 at 6 p.m. has been cancelled. *The Classic Series concert cycle entitled “Wagner’s Ring” that was slated to be performed on Sunday, May 3, at 3 p.m. and Tuesday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. has been cancelled. The Music Lovers’ Luncheon scheduled for May 1 also has been cancelled. Ticket holders may exchange their tickets for another Classics concert during the 2020–21 season. *The Renaissance Concerto,

by Lukas Foss, that was to be performed at the Wagner’s Ring concerts, will be presented next season as part of the Mahler’s Sixth Symphony Classics Series on November 14 at 7:30 p.m. and November 15, 2020 at 3 p.m. at the Stevens Center of the UNC School of the Arts. For more information about Mahler’s Sixth

entitled Beethoven Celebration that was scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 5, and Tuesday, April 7, will now take place on Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 3 p.m. at the Stevens Center of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 405 West Fourth Street in downtown Winston-Salem. Tickets for the Tuesday, April 7 concert will be exchanged for the Saturday, July 18 concert. *The Music Lovers’ Luncheon scheduled for Friday, April 3 has been cancelled and is expected to be rescheduled closer to the new concert date in July. *The Pops Series concert entitled Free Fallin’: The Music of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers that was to take place on Saturday, April 18 has been rescheduled to Friday, September 18, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at Reynolds Auditorium, 301 N. Hawthorne Road in Winston-Salem. *The Symphony Unbound concert featuring Dan Tyminski that was to occur on Saturday, May 9 has been rescheduled to Friday, September 4 at 8 p.m. at the Ramkat, which is located at 170 West 9th Street. *The Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras Program Spring Finale scheduled for May 11 at 7 p.m. has been cancelled. The Symphony

Symphony and all the classics concerts next season visit wssymphony.org/ season2021/.

Ticket holders will receive an email with information regarding purchases.

Ticket holders have the opportunity to return their ticket as a donation. All ticket donations will be used to help support the Symphony musicians and the organization during this time. Ticketholders may also exchange their tickets for another concert next season or receive a refund (refunds are offered for cancelled concerts only; they are not available for rescheduled concerts). The Symphony will also offer a tax letter in exchange for any ticket relinquished to the Symphony Box Office.

All ticket donations, exchanges, and refunds must be made by April 20, 2020.

For questions about ticketing options or other questions, or for the quickest response, please email boxoffice@ wssymphony.org or call 336-464-0145.

Voicemails left at the box office phone number will be returned on Tuesdays and Thursdays while Symphony staff are working remotely due to the COVID-19 situation.

For the most up-to-date WinstonSalem Symphony information related to COVID-19, please refer to the website at wssymphony.org/covid19/.

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The City of Winston-Salem has suspended its annual bulky item collection until further notice due to the impact of the COVID-19 virus. Suspending collections will ensure sufficient staffing for garbage collections and prevent crews from being exposed to contaminated household items.

For more information, call CityLink 311.

A message to recruits from the WSSU Department of Athletics

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sports-related processes have taken a hit.

Here’s a letter from WSSU athletics department to recruits.

Thank you for your continued interest in Winston-Salem State University Athletics.

As our country implements steps to stop the progression of COVID-19, we hope that you and your loved ones are staying safe and following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended guidelines.

The NCAA

including coaches and athletics staff members, are working remotely from our homes, but we want to hear from YOU. Please feel free to reach out to the members of our coaching staff that you have been corresponding with and/or reach out to any member of our staff for a sport you would like to receive more information about. Our coaches and staff can reply via phone, text, email,

preparation, please make sure that our coaches have your highlight film, stats, recent transcripts, general information about you, and those things important to you to get to know you better. Be sure to register with the Eligibility Center (EC) and keep your file in the system current. Stay plugged into your high schools, prep schools, junior colleges and fouryear universities to ensure

has instituted a complete DEAD PERIOD for all member institutions thru April 15, which includes a delay in our ability to issue a 2020-21 National Letter of Intent (NLI). Much of our campus community,

videoconference, and some social media.

Once life returns to normal, we will resume onand off-campus recruiting activities, including unofficial visits to our campus in WinstonSalem, North Carolina. In

you finish this spring semester strong. Also pay attention to any updates from College Board regarding modifications to the ACT and SAT testing dates.

We look forward to seeing you in person soon.

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Girl Scout cookie sales to benefit “hometown heroes” COLFAX - Despite the current need for social distancing and “stay-athome” orders, Girl Scouts are staying connected to each other and to their community.

“Our girls are staying engaged and staying connected with one another through virtual meetings and online programming, but they miss doing their community projects and volunteer work. They also miss being able to meet the public and sell their cookies in person,” said Lane Cook, chief executive officer for Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont.

Not to be deterred by the challenges of a more isolated population, Girl Scouts have come up with

a way to complete their 2020 cookie program and serve the community at the same time.

“We’re asking everyone to make a donation to Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont, and, in turn, we will connect with our Girl Scout troops to send cookies to the local “Hometown Heroes” of their choosing, such as healthcare workers, first responders, grocery store clerks, and others who are giving of themselves during this difficult period,” said Cook.

Proceeds from the sale of cookies goes to fund Girl Scout activities such as camping, field trips, programming, and community service

projects. For a minimum donation of $20, which will purchase five boxes of cookies, people can give back to the community while supporting the local Girl Scout organization.

“Ever since the founding of Girl Scouts in 1912, girls have given back to their community in times of uncertainty or struggle, and sending these boxes of cookies to community members who are serving on the front lines of this crisis, is a gesture of gratitude and appreciation for their sacrifice,” said Cook.

To make a donation, visit https://gscp2pfriends. everydayhero.com/us/ cookies-for-courage.

April 2, 2020

AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR NEIGHBORS

Helping our neighbors during this unprecedented crisis

The world is facing unprecedented challenges due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and the long-term global financial and health implications are vast. As this outbreak has steadily moved in our direction, you may wonder how some of our neighbors are faring locally.

Imagine being a single mom living in a longterm motel with three young children, already experiencing hard times.

You lose your job due to COVID-19, without enough money to pay for another day, let alone a week, and the manager tells you that you have until noon to pay or you must leave. What would Tips for working at home with your fur-kid you do?

SUBMITTED ARTICLE That’s just one of the bathroom break whenever rubs! Save the extra love you get up to take yours, and affection, and perhaps many calls of distress Having your fur-kid or vice versa. Also, if you a quick stroll or some our organizations and as a co-worker can be can work with your pet on playtime, for a designated nonprofits an added bonus when your lap, great. Otherwise, time like your lunch break. countless have received in the past you’re working from be sure to place your pet’s No Time for Chit home. Working with your bed in the room so he can Chat week. Other callers have pet can be very therapeutic nap.

When you’re on the experienced job loss, - helping you to better cope Stay on Track with a phone or participating no access to lifesaving with the daily stressors. Daily Routine in a video conference, medicines, a lack of However, your pet + work Pets need a regular the last thing you want is doesn’t always equal routine to keep them even- your “chatty” pet chiming affordable Internet causing harmony. Here are some keeled. Like many humans, in. If you have a pet that their children to miss tips on staying focused and they can get anxious likes to “chit chat,’ you online teaching, and the productive while working if they’re not on their can introduce him to your list goes on. alongside your new furry usual schedules. It’s very other co-workers and Now is the time for co-worker. important to stick with a clients at the start of the all of us to support our Plan for Distractions consistent routine for your meeting to keep it light Since you’re working pet to be happy and for you and let them know he may neighbors, like the young from home, your pet will to have the highest level try to participate, too. If mother described above. likely think you’re all of productivity. Make that option is not the best, We’re fortunate that his! From engaging in play sure you both wake up given your particular Forsyth County has a strong to pawing and whining, at the same time each circumstances, you can your pet will do his best morning and start the day always move your pet to network of nonprofits that to get your attention. Rest with the usual morning another room during your have historically risen to assured that even if your rituals. When it’s time for phone calls or meetings. the challenge during past home office space is not you to report in for work, Other ways to cut down crises. We’re proud of how a spot where your dog be sure to be at your desk on your pet’s loud chatter normally likes to hang out, and your pet situated, include putting a halt to quickly these organizations he will be in there now that ready for the day ahead. door knocking and the have mobilized once again you’re in there.

Maintain Your doorbell ringing. If you’re to try to prepare to serve One way to temper his Willpower expecting packages, you the needs of families attempts to distract you is Don’t look now, but can place a sign on the impacted by COVID-19. to tire him out before you here come those puppy front door stating: “Please However, the potential start your workday. A long dog eyes! You know what don’t knock or ring the magnitude of this crisis walk or run, an interactive I’m referring to - that look doorbell - leave packages game, or fetch in the that says, “Pleeeeease at the door.” Again, bring is without precedent, backyard usually does the pet me now!” If you’re out the entertaining toys to and how long the threat, trick. Before you clock not careful, you’ll be keep your pet distracted, in, be sure to have some down on the floor in two especially when you need disaster, and recovery times will last is unknown. entertaining (non-squeaky) seconds flat, snuggling quiet surroundings. toys in your workspace to up with your fur-kid.

Be sure to enjoy your Our community must keep him occupied. Kongs Although tempting, do time working from home rally together to support and lick pads work great. your best to not succumb with your fur-kid, aka the these nonprofits as they Another tip is to let to giving those belly best co-worker ever! provide vital services to him go outside to take a our neighbors. To help in these efforts and working in partnership, the United Way of Forsyth County, The Winston-Salem Foundation, the City of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, and Community Application deadline extended through April 6 Organizations Active in SUBMITTED ARTICLE policies and Disaster have established (Mecklenburg, Gaston, healthy and Union counties). environments focusing the COVID-19 Response The American With the increased specifically on COVID-19 Fund for Forsyth County to Heart Association is community needs due relief.

Individuals or support local community working to improve heart to the coronavirus community organizations members impacted by the health among North pandemic, the American that have already submitted novel coronavirus.

Carolina’s most at-risk What will the COVID-19 Response Fund for Forsyth County fund do? The fund

Is your pet your new co-worker?

American Heart Association increases health mini-grant funding for COVID-19 relief programs

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will provide flexible resources for immediate, emerging, and long-term needs to local nonprofit organizations working with individuals and families in Forsyth County who are disproportionately impacted by coronavirus and the economic consequences of the outbreak. The fund is designed to complement the work of government and public health officials to address all aspects of the outbreak in Forsyth County.

The COVID-19 Response Fund cannot award grants to individuals but will award grants to community-based organizations that will directly support local residents who are most affected by emerging economic and health challenges.

The first phase will be proactive and responsive grants that will fund nonprofits with onetime general operating support to respond to client needs resulting from the COVID-19 virus. More specifically, initial funding will benefit disproportionately impacted community members including: residents without health insurance and/or access to paid sick leave; individuals experiencing homelessness; healthcare workers; hospitality and service industry workers; unauthorized immigrant populations; and communities of color, and in particular, residents with limited English language proficiency.

We don’t know yet everything the community will need in the coming weeks and months; however, we do know we are in this together. While we are prepared to respond to the needs emerging now, we will remain flexible to address what may be needed later as funds allow.

Additional phases of future funding will be developed by evaluating the funds available, community needs, and government response. Both of our organizations and the N.C. Center for Nonprofits are consistently monitoring the most requested services submitted to the 2-1-1 phone line (and 211.org) in Forsyth County, and we’re also learning what resources families and individuals are requesting through our community

partners.

Although COVID-19 has created an urgent situation that must be addressed quickly, we are committed to being excellent stewards of this important fund. No administrative fees are being charged to administer the fund, so all donations will go to help those in need. Grant applications are being reviewed and grant decisions made by representatives from the City of Winston-Salem, Hanesbrands, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity, Reynolds American, Truist, United Way of Forsyth County, Wells Fargo, and The Winston-Salem Foundation. The group will evaluate applications using information about what needs are in the greatest demand in Forsyth County. Organizations will receive a grant decision within two weeks of applying, and hopefully sooner. Funds will be released on a rolling basis as fundraising continues throughout the outbreak and recovery phases of the crisis, making it possible to move resources quickly and adapt to evolving needs in subsequent funding phases. All grants given and all donations received will be posted at covid19forsyth.org.

How can you help? We are looking for you, all of our friends and neighbors (both corporate partners and individuals), to support this fund. To date we’ve received gifts from $5 to $1 million—every gift is impactful. Together we can make a major difference at this difficult time. Our community has a long history of supporting each other in times of need.

We hope you will join us in continuing this legacy through this important effort.

To learn more and to donate to the COVID-19 Response Fund for Forsyth County, visit covid19forsyth.org.

Sincerely, Cindy Gordineer President & CEO United Way of Forsyth County Sincerely, Scott Wierman President The Winston-Salem Foundation

TFAS surpasses $25 million campaign goal to continue support for college students

populations. Part of this initiative includes a call for mini-grants for communities to implement their ideas to promote heart health in the Triangle (Wake, Durham, and Orange counties), Triad (Guilford and Forsyth counties), and Charlotte

Heart Association is nearly doubling the initial community mini-grant investment of $20,000 for each of the markets.

Community partners are encouraged to continue applying for mini-grants ranging from $2,500 $10,000 to support heart

applications are welcome to submit an additional COVID-19 focused application. To apply and for more information, interested partners should visit www.heart.org. The community health minigrant application deadline is April 6, 2020.

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The Fund for American Studies (TFAS), which provides North Carolina college students with full and partial scholarships to its academic programs, has announced that it met the goal for their largest ever fundraising effort: raising $25 million to coincide with the organization’s 50th anniversary. This successful campaign will allow North Carolina students to continue receiving scholarships to this program.

North Carolina business leader and TFAS trustee Louis DeJoy and his wife Dr. Aldona Wos pledged $500,000 in TFAS scholarships over a five-year period in support of the TFAS 50th Anniversary Campaign. Their gift, funded through the Louis DeJoy and Aldona Wos Family Foundation, provides an annual full scholarship to one student from Estonia, and full and partial scholarships to North Carolina students, with priority given to students with financial need.

Selected students attend TFAS D.C. Summer Programs for a comprehensive academic experience that combines

courses for credit, internships, site briefings, guest lectures, a professional development series and mentorship program.

The most recent class of scholars included 10 students from North Carolina.

Selection for the 2020 class is ongoing and will be announced soon. Over the past 14 years, DeJoy and Wos have provided scholarship assistance to enable more than 100 students from North Carolina to participate in TFAS programs.

DeJoy is the former chairman and chief executive officer of New Breed Logistics, a major employer in the Triad region, which he merged with XPO Logistics in 2014. He is currently the president of Greensboro-based LDJ Global Strategies. Wos served as ambassador to Estonia from 2004 to 2006, and from 2013 to 2015 she was head of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. As of May 2017, Wos serves as vice-chairwoman of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.

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open-cut. Also a SCADA telemetry system will be installed on all of the Town’s 18 sewer pump stations.

The work performed under this Contract shall include,

but may not be limited to: the furnishing of all labor, ma-

terials, equipment and services, whether specifically

Shacoura Wellington, Plaintiff vs.

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This the 19th day of March, 2020

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Mountain, at 124 West Main Street, Pilot Mountain, NC

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cally on a weekly basis) Bonding Policy:

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Lynch & Sons, Inc. for their portion of the work. All M/WBE subcontractors will be allowed to work under Jimmy R. Lynch & Sons, Inc. Performance & Payment

Bonds to the Owner

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Agreements to all M/WBE subcontractors. Please request a Joint Check Agreement in writing. We will work

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Quick Payments:

It is Jimmy R. Lynch & Sons, Inc. policy to provide

Quick Payments to all M/WBE subcontractors. Jimmy R Lynch & Sons, Inc will provide payment to all

M/WBE subcontractors on a weekly basis if the work for which payment is being requested is complete and

accepted by the Owner

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to utilize 2nd and 3rd tier MBE/WBE (DBE) Subcontractors.

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