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Tambra Chamberlain is one of a handful of social workers in Moore County Schools working to help the children in our community who are most in need.
Storysmith Greg Girard greg@sandandpinemag.com Creative Conjuror Amanda Jakl amanda@sandandpinemag.com Word Geek Rachel Dorrell Ad Peddler Marissa Cruz marissa@sandandpinemag.com
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Life Lessons
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24 Honoring principal of the year Shaun Krencicki of West End Elementary and teacher of the year Carrie Robledo, digital integration facilitator.
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Quicksand 6 Good Reads 10 Garden Variety 26 School Directory/ Parent Survival Tips 34 Beer Matters 42 Humans of Moore 44 Music 45
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Outdoor Learning
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Remember when kids used to play outside? A growing trend in education is recognizing and emphasizing the benefits of learning in the great outdoors.
The fig! It can be baked into cakes, cookies and breads or served with chicken and pork. It is a versatile fruit that’s kind of not a fruit at all!
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editor note "How do you not get attached and just want to take them all home?" That
was the question I asked Tambra Chamberlain, a social worker with Moore County Schools (MCS), after we had been talking for about an hour. I was speaking with Tambra for our story on student homelessness in Moore County. Her answer: “I have.” “I had a young lady I had worked with throughout the year who was 18 and had just graduated,” she shares. “Right after graduation night, she called me and said, ‘Miss Chamberlain, I’m in the car, my mom kicked me out and I don’t have anywhere to go. I’m scared.’ I said, ‘Let me talk to my husband and we’ll see. Well, my husband agreed for the weekend. The weekend turned into seven months.” Granted, Tambra adds that this was an unusual situation, but that brief story perfectly emphasizes the dedication and the role Tambra and the other social workers at MCS have with the children most in need within our community. There are about 350 children in the MCS system that are recognized as homeless, and each situation is unique. Those children look to MCS’s social workers for support, guidance and love—simply finding and
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holding onto someone who cares. It’s easy to fall for the bubble syndrome, that myopic affliction most of us have suffered from at one time or another where our lives consume us and we fail to think about anything but what is directly impacting us at the moment. Sometimes we just need a jolt that gets us thinking beyond ourselves. Just a day before going to print on this year’s annual Education Issue, we learned of the passing of Bruce Cunningham, a stalwart community advocate for decades, including as a longtime member of the Board of Education. If there is one among us who has never suffered from the bubble syndrome, it is Bruce. A few years back, Bruce wrote an op-ed for us on education (specifically on the Grimesey controversy of 2015) and we feel it’s appropriate to share some of his words here: “I believe Moore County Schools will take the recent event, learn from them, and come back stronger and better than ever. The enduring image I carry with me is looking out toward the audience in Carthage and seeing NAACP members sitting next to TEA party members, parents and students, young people and old, retired persons and members of the business community, people from all walks of life and from all parts of the county. “With the help and support of all segments of our wonderful county, we can’t help but succeed.” www.SandandPineMag.com | 5
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6,300 — (B.C.) Year that the first recorded map
is thought to be dated, plus or minus two hundred years. The map was on a 9-foot wall found in Anatolia, Turkey, with drawings of a route that meandered around buildings and a volcano. Although maps are thought to be as old as 16,500 B.C., physical maps didn’t come along until much later.
1996 — The year MapQuest launched the first
commercial web mapping service where users could print out directions before leaving the house. Google Maps would take over the “Are We There Yet?” industry almost a decade later, in 2005.
2 — Number of motorists in 2013 who followed an
erroneous Apple Maps route to Fairbanks International Airport that led them to drive directly across the runway. Both motorists ignored signs, road markers and lights that clearly signaled they were in the wrong area, all because their phone told them to go in that direction.
32 — The number of prisoners of war who escaped
Colditz Castle during World War II thanks to special playing cards created by the Bicycle Playing Card Company for British and American intelligence agencies. The cards could be soaked in water to reveal secret escape maps, once assembled in the correct order, of course. There are only two surviving decks and both are at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
441 — Weight in pounds of the largest atlas in the
world. Earth Platinum, created in 2012, stands 6 feet, 4 inches tall and only 31 copies were ever produced. You can buy one, but it will set you back a hundred grand.
1930s — The decade the use of "Paper Towns"
became prevelant in map creation. Cartographers would often add fake towns and streets into their maps as a copyright trap. The most famous was when Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers included the fake town of Agloe, New York (a combination of their initials) into their map of the state. Sometime later, Rand McNally printed Agloe onto one of its maps and Lindberg and Alpers believed their trap had worked. Turns out, however, someone had built an actual general store where they had put Algoe, thus turning the paper town into a real town.
1767 — Year the first jigsaw puzzle was created
thanks to cartography. John Spilsbury, an engraver and mapmaker, mounted a world map to a sheet of wood and used a hand saw to cut around country boundaries. He called his work "Dissected Maps” and sold them as a tool for teaching geography.
10M — Price, in dollars, of one of the most expensive
maps in the world. Known as the Waldseemüller Map, it is the first known map to use the word "America." The map was made in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller and purchased by the U.S. Library of Congress in 2003.
LOOK, LEARN & LISTEN
OUTER SANDBOX
PBS Parents Play & Learn There are countless educational apps on the market. And most leave the child to play on their own, with little or no involvement with their parents. This app allows parents to play with their little ones and be a part of the learning process. And who doesn’t get a thrill watching their child learn something new?
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Photomath As curriculum changes, parents can have a hard time keeping up with which method is being taught, especially in mathematics. Gone are the days of rote memorization. With the Photomath app, parents take a photo of a problem and receive a step-by-step breakdown on how to solve it. Brilliant for the math-deficient among us. Wow in the World If you’re worried about too much screen time for the kids, consider the NPR’s first podcast aimed at children. Hosts Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas discuss kid-friendly news headlines of the week—a great way to get kids involved in current affairs—and delve into the worlds of science and technology to answer pressing questions like “What is brain freeze?” and “Why do we have eyebrows?” The best part is that this podcast will delight children and parents alike. A mighty feat, we say.
Road trip! Beyond the boundaries of our little sandbox, there is much to see. Here are a few events worth checking out. For events with a more local flavor, check out moorechoices.net.
John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival High Point coltranejazzfest.com WHY: John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, a stone’s throw from Moore County, and grew up in High Point. This festival brings in some of the greatest in the genre, and you’ll notice that Eric Gales will be performing this year, just months after he graced the Sunrise Theater’s First Friday stage! WEEKENDS
Cowboy Capital Love Valley townoflovevalley.com WHY: An old Western town in every sense of the word. Vehicles are prohibited, so you’ll have to arrange to arrive in town via foot or horseback, shop at the country store and slake your thirst at the saloon. The town arranges events throughout the year, so check their calendar and plan accordingly. ANYTIME
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is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It‛s what separates us from the animals, except the weasel.
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Quicksand Lunchbox Nutrition By Ashley Carpenter, RD, FirstHealth
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ne of the main goals of parenting is not simply to take care of your children, but to teach them to take care of themselves. You teach them to get dressed on their own, brush their own teeth, and use the bathroom—so why not teach them to pack their own lunch? Children learn the most about food and nutrition with hands-on experiences, like grocery shopping and helping prepare meals. Plus, when they’re picking what they want to eat, they’re more likely to actually eat it. Less wasted food and complaints! Here is a systematic approach that lets you determine the nutritional quality and balance of the lunch, and allows children more say in what they choose to pack.
close packaging, how to use a knife to cut produce and spread condiments, etc. One of a parent’s top concerns may be that kids will pack lunches full of junk. While creating—and sticking to—a formula helps to establish parameters so this doesn’t happen, controlling what comes into the house from the grocery store is a key component, too. Parents are the gatekeepers when it comes to what comes home from a grocery trip. Protein Sources: rolled up turkey or ham deli meat around a cheese stick, Greek yogurt, hummus, cottage cheese, edamame, peanut butter sandwich, bean and quinoa salad, boiled egg, bean burrito and deli sandwich, to name a few.
Setting up a lunch packing station and providing a formula for what goes into a balanced lunch makes the process easy. For example, you could let your kids know that their lunches should consist of one protein, one veggie, one fruit, and one or two healthy sides. Make everything your kids need easy to access so they can work independently. You could put an illustrated guide on the refrigerator for everyone to refer to, and then label corresponding bins that contain two to three choices from each category.
Vegetables: frozen peas and carrots, any cut raw veggies with a dip such as hummus, peanut butter, or salad dressing, etc.
You will have to do some prep work for younger kids, such as making sandwiches, cutting veggies and fruit, and filling containers with dip. Do this ahead of time so the choices are ready in the bins for kids to pick from. As kids get older, you can teach them to do the prep work, such as how to open and
When you teach children to prepare food, you teach a vital self-care skill they will use for life. With a little guidance and encouragement, your kids can pack healthy lunches with minimal effort on your part. It’s a win-win for everyone!
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Good Reads by Darcy Connor
Picture Book The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! Written & Illustrated by Mo Willems
The Pigeon is back! What a fun way to kick off the school year with an enduring picture book character. This time, Pigeon does not want to go to school and, in true Pigeon fashion, he tries to think of every reason not to go. What if he learns too much? What if school is just no fun? Mo Willems does it again with the eighth addition to the Pigeon series. You and your little reader will be laughing out loud.
Elementary School Back-to-School Fright from the Black Lagoon (Black Lagoon Adventures #13) Written by Mike Thaler Illustrated by Jared Lee
Imagination can be both wonderful and dangerous. The kids in the Black Lagoon series are the perfect example. They’re constantly letting their imaginations run amok, creating all sorts of scary situations during field trips, talent shows, field days and more. Back-to-School Fright from the Black Lagoon is the 13th book in Mike Thaler and Jared Lee’s series, and this time the main character Hubie is petrified to go back to school as rumors swirl of a new, ultra-mean teacher awaiting them. Will it be as bad as Hubie thinks? There’s only one way to find out.
Preschool/Toddler Llama Llama Misses Mama
Middle School The Mysterious Benedict Society
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Llama Llama is not so sure about going to school for the first time. He’s afraid that he’ll miss his mama. He’s very sad when his mama leaves, but his kind zebra teacher and classmates are able to help him realize how fun school can be. In the end, Llama Llama realizes he can love his mama, and school too!
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It all starts with a strange newspaper ad asking for gifted children who are “looking for special opportunities.” After a series of mind-bending tests, only four unique children remain. Their challenge, if they choose to accept it, is to go undercover on a topsecret mission at a remote boarding school where their ingenuity, intelligence and friendships will be tested again and again. Very much in the “Lemony Snicket” genre of odd characters and strange happenings, The Mysterious Benedict Society is the first book in a four-volume series.
Battle of the Books 2019–20 Adult UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World By Dr. Michele Borba
On average, teens today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were 30 years ago. This lack of empathy, which Dr. Michele Borba calls the “Selfie Syndrome,” is dangerous not only to the individual child but to society as a whole. A lack of empathy in children is known to negatively impact academic performance and is attributed to an increase in cheating and a decrease in resilience. And when these children become adults, they often lack the necessary life skills to succeed in areas like collaboration, problem-solving and innovation. Dr. Borba believes, however, that empathy is a learned trait and offers a nine-step program to instill more empathy into our children—and perhaps gain a little more for ourselves along the way. From developing empathy, to practicing empathy to living it, Dr. Borba breaks down the steps in individual chapters like “Empathetic Children Have a Moral Identity,” “Empathic Children Can Keep Their Cool” and “Empathetic Children Want to Make a Difference.” UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World can help parents and educators “shift our children’s focus from I, me and mine to us, we and ours.”
Elementary School A Nest for Celeste Henry Cole Crenshaw Katherine Applegate Fish in a Tree Lynda Mullaly Hunt Front Desk Kelly Yang The Great Treehouse War Lisa Graff Greetings From Nowhere Barbara O'Connor The Key to Extraordinary Natalie Lloyd The Last Musketeer Stuart Gibbs
The League of Seven Alan Gratz The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Rodman Philbrick Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe Jo Watson Hackl Smells Like Dog Suzanne Selfors Tuesdays at the Castle Jessica Day George Ungifted Gordon Korman Woods Runner Gary Paulsen
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he walls of Tambra Chamberlain’s windowless office, tucked inside building Building 1 at Pinecrest High School, are littered with pictures of past and present students. There are thank you notes and Christmas cards tacked alongside smiling faces, both young and old. The bookshelves and several plastic cabinets are stocked with basic necessities, from toothpaste and toothbrushes to deodorant and soap. A large, wellused bean bag sits in the corner opposite her desk. A note written in whiteout on her small, round conference table says, “I love you Mrs. Chamberlain.” She shakes her head with a smile and says under her breath, “They know I don’t like that kind of mess.”
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G I R A R D of their living circumstance by making it possible for them to remain at the same school they’ve been attending as well as connecting them with local, state and federal programs that offer services like free meals, fee waivers, transportation, career and college guidance, school supplies and tutoring. According to Saunders, for the 2018–19 school year, 351 children were identified as homeless in Moore County Schools—a number that has fluctuated by about 20 (plus or minus) each year since 2015. One of Saunders’s roles is to raise awareness to help educators, student peers and the community identify children in need. Particularly for teachers, identifying characteristics of trauma in children while in the classroom is essential. “It’s just really helping people understand that these kids in the class or in the community are going through something traumatic,” says Saunders. “I mean, think about if you’re having to be pulled out of your house in the middle of the night and you’re going here, and you’re sleeping there, maybe you’re sleeping on a cold floor. You can see how that would be traumatic for a kid who’s now trying to sit in class and learn. That’s really what I’m trying to stress to teachers. Not giving the kids a pass, but if a student is acting out, figure out why and what are ways that we can help them out.”
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[ Saunders’ main responsibility is taking referrals from the social workers and getting the children set up with the services they need. But first the children have to be identified. “The key indicator is if it’s by choice,” Chamberlain says, explaining the challenge of identifying unaccompanied youth. Nationally, about eight out of 10 homeless youth situations are a result of physical, mental and sexual abuse, domestic violence, opioid use or incarceration. But Chamberlain, running through a list of cases she’s handled over the years, emphasizes that every situation is unique. “We’ve had cases that once the child turned 18, his parents threw him out of the house and he was living in his car,” she says. “I have a homeless parent right now who has two sets of twins and they’re living out of a car. We had a student whose mother had a brain tumor and there was no one else in her life. The mom was hospitalized and so the girl was on her own. We’ve had parents incarcerated and the children have nowhere else to go. Students come from living situations with no electricity or running water. Drug use, physical abuse, violence—we’ve seen just about everything.” For Chamberlain, while no school day is typical, the foundation of her work is to provide a safe environment for those students who need it. She points to her desk and talks about the many forms and programs she coordinates with Saunders on for the students. Along with the hygiene products in her office, down the hall is a storage unit that holds racks and cabinets filled with clothes and shoes. There’s a bathroom and tub where the students can wash before classes start. And utilizing donations from local churches, she can sometimes bring students shopping for clothing or a pair of cleats so they can participate in sports. “If our clothing closet doesn’t have the appropriate stuff, I might go out with them and buy $100, $150 worth of clothes that they can pick out,” says Chamberlain. “It’s truly amazing because it’s like Christmas for them but it’s something most of us just take for granted. When you go shopping with these kids, they’re picking out clothes and trying to be conscious of the cost. They’ll say, ‘This T-shirt is like $7.99, can we get it?’ I’m like, ‘Baby, get two!’”
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Aikeem, left, and Kareem McClam were born in New York and moved to Southern Pines when they were 3. Leadership working toward opening Tambra Place, a young women’s transitional home in Moore County Standing: Community Presbyterian Church Pastor Rod Stone, Jim Schneider, Buddy Howell, Cyndi Secura, Myron Dice and Michael McKay / Sitting: Ericka Granata, Dr. Christina Ganis and Tambra Chamberlain Not pictured: Bill Clemons, Dr. Matthew Bamber, Ann Morses and Tina Berrien
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“Mrs. Chamberlain helped me a lot anytime I needed schoolwork or tutoring or any help outside of school like food wise and stuff,” says Kareem McClam. “She was always like that kind of I guess motherly figure in school, cause not everybody has that at their school. That was her role.” Aikeem McClam, Kareem’s twin brother, nods his head. “She helped us out the same way. Both of us the same way. If I needed help with tutoring or something. I don’t know, it was something about how she did things that made it easier for us. I don’t think anybody else actually cares as much as Mrs. Chamberlain.” Aikeem and Kareem have a hard time sitting still as they talk about Mrs. Chamberlain and their lives growing up. If they’re not finishing each other’s sentences or reading each other’s minds or constantly
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moving in their seats, they’re arguing about a certain detail of their past. In typical twin fashion, they can agree and disagree at the same time, and then come to some conclusion that feels about right for both of them. Everything they say comes with a smile that can light up a room, even when a smile is the last thing you would think of doing considering the topic of conversation. At 19, Aikeem and Kareem are now typical young adults in the eyes of the world, but their path to this point in life was anything but typical. Born in New York, by the age of 3, New York state was ready to take custody away from their biological mother. With no father in the picture and to avoid putting them in the foster care system, their mother gave them to a friend, Cassy, who then moved with the boys to Southern Pines. They “moved around a lot” in those years with Cassy, who they refer to as their mom, until Cassy settled down with a boyfriend. Unfortunately, what little stability they found was short-lived. “[Cassy] got diagnosed with cancer when we were 12 or something,” says Kareem. “She passed away right before sixth grade started, the day before sixth grade started. I still went to school the next day.” Aside from a roof over their head, the two boys were on their own. The boyfriend let them live at the house—which they described as “a shell,” just a place to sleep— but that was about it. If food was in the fridge, it was because Aikeem or Kareem found food. Getting to school, finding clothes, doing laundry—every basic need
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was now on the shoulders of two 12-yearold boys. “The way we grew up, it could’ve been a lot worse, but the way we grew up shouldn’t of been that way for any kid, you know? It’s like being homeless within a home. It’s like you got a home, but is it really a home?” says Aikeem. “And right after our mom had passed, through that time span, me and Kareem really had to scavenge around for food.” “I don’t know how we ate, we like figured out places,” says Kareem. “We went to some people’s houses, sometimes we’d stay there a night.” Aikeem adds, “People that we stayed the night with, they could tell how hungry we were.” Aikeem and Kareem stayed in Southern Pines for a little over a year before moving to Hope Mills to live with their aunt. That living situation lasted for about three years, before they moved back to Southern Pines to finish out their high school careers (Kareem graduated in January and Aikeem plans to graduate this fall). Chamberlain says this moving around, transitional existence is very typical for unaccompanied youth like Aikeem and Kareem. And it’s that lack of stability that the F.I.T. program is trying to mitigate.
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But now that the McClam brothers are over 18, their options for assistance are few and far between. There are two shelters in Moore County, Friend to Friend and Family Promise, but neither handles unaccompanied youth who are adults in the eyes of the government but are still youths without a home or resources.
Tambra Place
To fill the county’s void of transitional homes, Chamberlain and a group of volunteers from Community Persbyterian Church are establishing Tambra Place, a young women’s transitional home. “This will be a transitional living program for youth that are 18 and up to 23, 24,” says Chamberlain. “They’ll have to have experienced some type of homelessness and be either graduating or have graduated from high school. The gap for a lot of rural communities is that youth homelessness occurs because there’s nowhere to send them. They’re not bad kids. They’re not in trouble. They don’t have a record. They just can’t afford their own place because they don’t qualify. “We also want to add a counseling piece because these kids have come from traumatic situations and adverse situations.
Counseling, teaching living skills, social skills, helping them find jobs, helping them find their own apartments, being able to self-sustain on their own, go on to college, if they want to go to college and inbetween, the interims when they don’t have a place to stay for college, they can come back to the transitional living program and still work out of there.” The hope is Tambra Place will open later this year.
Final Word
As for Aikeem and Kareem, there are still challenges ahead. Kareem is working and hopes to attend Fayetteville State University to earn a degree in business administration. Aikeem plans to graduate high school soon. He has a young boy, Dallas, to take care of as well, although he’s not as sure as Kareem what’s next. “As bad as it was, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Even though it was a struggle, it really made me who I am today,” says Kareem. “So sometimes it’s necessary to go through those things, I guess to be shaped and learn certain things. There’s always rain and all you got to do is maintain, and then you’ll see the sunshine afterward. It’s what I like to say. It’s all perseverance,” says Kareem. Aikeem shakes his head. “I don’t know how to do that. There’s a few things that I regret. I don’t know, there’s just things I wish that could have went differently. Man, being hungry, man.”
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TWO LOCAL COACHES ARE DEFINING SUCCESS BEYOND THE WIN COLUMN
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Chris Metzger took over a football team at Pinecrest High School on the brink of folding in 2008, and in 11 years, he’s built a winning program coming off its best season in school history. Mike Apple won an NJCAA Division III men’s basketball national championship in his first year with Sandhills Community College (SCC) in 2012, and six years later, was named the school’s director of athletics. The wins have been nice—neither Metzger nor Apple will deny this— but that success isn’t what’s defined the combined 21 years of experience coaching at their respective Moore County schools. Instead, they bring up words like “character,” “integrity” and, most important, “community.” “We’re preparing our young men for something bigger than sports,” says Metzger, the 2018 U.S. Cellular national Most Valuable Coach recipient for his work both on and off the field. “If they leave here better men and with the understanding that they can be an important part of their community, that’s when we’ve succeeded as coaches and educators.” “Community” carries special weight to Apple, whose ties to SCC go way back to his early childhood. His mother, Helen Apple, was an administrator for the school for over 30 years, and a big part of her role was “basketball secretary,” her son says, helping players with their academic schedules and finding a place to live. Her support earned an induction into the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015, and it instilled into Mike not only a love for basketball, but a love for SCC.
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“My mother was just so involved in the program, and my father was a great athlete, too,” he says, “it was easy for me to want to be involved. They were both huge supporters—not only of the school, but of me as well.” Apple attended Union Pines High School and earned a basketball scholarship at Guilford College, playing for the legendary Jack Jensen, who coached the Quakers for 33 years and won an NAIA national title in 1973. Jensen would have a huge impact on Apple’s career, guiding him to coach and teach at Union Pines for 13 years, Western Harnett for five and Pinecrest for eight before returning to the school that had meant so much to his family in 2011. And the timing couldn’t have been better. Apple was first approached by the college in 2008—the year it reinstated its athletics program after several years of hiatus—but he turned down the head basketball coach and director of athletics position because he was “very entrenched and very happy” as a coach and math teacher at Pinecrest High. Three years later, Sandhills called again. “I told myself, if I’m ever going to coach college basketball, this is my opportunity,” Apple says. “I knew I was coming into a great atmosphere, and I knew I would be working with tremendous people. I couldn’t say ‘no’ again.” Apple expected early growing pains—the team didn’t have an official “home,” instead playing its games in the small high school gym at the nearby O’Neal School. But his first roster at Sandhills was a familiar roster: A few of his athletes played for him at Pinecrest, and the chemistry was there from the start. Sandhills won its first 12 games out of the gate and stayed strong enough to earn a spot in the coveted NJCAA Division III national tournament, one Apple says is “much harder to make than any Division I
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“We’re doing more than just coaching them — we’re helping them grow as people.”
tournament” because it only accepts eight teams nationwide each year. The single-elimination format meant three games in three days, and those three games will stay with Apple forever. “We won the first game on a buzzer beater, won our semifinal game in overtime, and in the championship game, we set a record for the most points scored in a half and won it all,” Apple says. “It was just unbelievable how my guys played … how it all fell in line for us.” In eight years, Apple has compiled a 198-63 overall record, has seen action in several postseason tournaments and has seen his program grow from “homeless” national champion to established winning program with a new gym that seats 600 people. Apple remained head basketball coach when he accepted the director of athletics position in 2018, despite the heightened responsibilities. Community college coaches and athletic directors face a unique challenge with students who are usually on board for only two years, instead of four, which means more recruiting. He says the biggest change since becoming AD has been looking at the “big picture”—five sports and the overall experience for hundreds of studentathletes. “I’m a lifelong educator, so academics is very important to me,” he says. “Academics can be a challenge, especially for junior college athletes, so just as important as practice is providing the right advisors for them. Our success rate for graduating studentathletes has improved over the last few years, and we think it will continue to improve. “I get very inspired by what our college has been able to do for our students. We’re doing so much to help them in their transition from high school to college. We’re doing more than just coaching them— we’re helping them grow as people.”
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CHRIS METZGER wasn’t supposed to be a coach. He was going to take his communications degree from Kentucky Wesleyan University and become the next Al Michaels or Chris Berman. “I wanted to be in front of the camera,” he says. “I was going to do whatever it took to make that happen.” Even if that meant taking a factory job after college while trying to break into the broadcasting industry. Those plans changed after a phone call from a former college football teammate who was coaching at a high school in Louisville. That team’s receivers coach left unexpectedly, and they needed somebody like Metzger—a scrappy receiver in college with a good mind for the game—to fill in. Barely older than some of the players on the team, Metzger accepted. It didn’t take long for him to realize he’d found his passion. “This was my calling,” says the winningest coach in Pinecrest football history. “And it found me. I’m a lucky man to be able to say that.” That was nearly 30 years ago. Today, Metzger has been a head football coach for 21 years and has built a solid reputation as a man who can turn around programs. He did so at Lely High School in Florida before taking over a Pinecrest program in 2007 that was coming off an 0-11 campaign the prior year and had won just two games total the previous two seasons. There were rumors before his hire that the football program was facing extinction due to low player turnout and overall disinterest. In his 12 seasons (going on 13) at Pinecrest, Metzger has won 96 games and has turned in winning seasons nine times. The Patriots are coming off their most successful season in 2018, going 11-4 overall and advancing to the Class 4AA state semifinals for the first time ever (they beat No. 3 seed
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“More important than coaching football players is raising servant leaders who will one day have families, become fathers and become community leaders.”
Holly Springs and No. 2 seed Wilmington Hoggard to get there before losing to the No. 1 seed Wake Forest the following week). But it was another accolade Metzger received during his team’s recent playoff run that said more about the growth of his program than the wins. Last November, he earned the title of the nation’s Most Valuable Coach—an annual honor chosen by online voters and an all-star professional athlete panel of judges like Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Randall Cobb and WNBA star Maya Moore. The award meant an $80,000 prize for Pinecrest High School—a portion of the winnings was used to expand Metzger’s “Patriots Helping Patriots” program that has his student-athletes visiting local elementary schools and reading to the children. He says the award was an honor unlike any he’s received before, but the honor is less about him as a coach and more about Pinecrest High School and the Pinecrest community. “It was really our students, our school and our community that voted and made this happen,” says Metzger. “That was what was most rewarding about the whole experience—seeing our community come together and celebrate this. It made me very proud to be a part of something like this.” Something bigger than sports. It’s why his football players visit elementary schools and read to the next generation. It’s why his players take part in “No Student Eats Alone” programs that have them sit next to younger students who may not have a friend during this important social time. These outreach programs not only benefit the children who look up to these athletes as “local heroes;” they also instill a sense of responsibility into the student-athletes themselves. “They don’t realize it until the first time they walk into these schools wearing their green and gold, but these kids are role models,” Metzger says. “More important than coaching football players is raising servant leaders who will one day have families, become fathers and become community leaders. “That’s what we’re really hoping to do here. I had great role models growing up, and I’ve worked for some great coaches. My mentors instilled these beliefs in me, and this is what we’ve tried to instill in our student athletes.”
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SHAUN KRENCICKI PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR West End Elementary
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rincipal of the Year Shaun Krencicki is quick to point out that his role as principal is not the spotlight of the school, nor should it be. “The most important job is always just a classroom, a clean and well-lighted place where you’re teaching children. All the other pieces of the school district are to either support that or get unnecessary things out of the way.” Krencicki compares the role of principal to playing a game of chess: the ability to look ahead and think strategically. “What is exciting about being a principal is the opportunity to be creative and move the pieces around.” Krencicki is a California native who moved to Moore County in the early 2000s. After graduating college with an English degree, he started coaching his high school track team. “I just really loved it and tried to figure out a way to do that full time. And so teaching fit.” He taught at O’Neal and New Century before moving to Korea for a few years to teach and even open a school. When he moved back in 2005, he focused on achieving his master’s degrees and attended the year-long Principal Preparation Program at the Sandhills Leadership Academy. He took the helm at The Community Learning Center at Pinckney in 2014. “We reintroduced the night school there, broadened online learning and blended learning. We just really focused on getting kids graduated, and connecting with them in a way that lets them go at their own pace and get their stuff done.” Krencicki feels it was his time at Pinckney that led him to being named Principal of the Year at West End Elementary, where he’s been since 2017. “I’m very proud of the work we did at Pinckney. I think some of the votes certainly weren’t from the little time I’ve been here. It was for what was being done at Pinckney.” Krencicki hopes the award can bring more focus to West End Elementary. “West End is a sleepy little school that overperforms but doesn’t get a lot of attention. There’s nothing fancy. It’s just really good teaching with really dedicated teachers, and everybody who comes here knows that.”
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eacher of the Year Carrie Robledo always knew she’d end up teaching. Growing up, if she wasn’t tagging along with her mother, who worked as a teacher’s assistant, you could find her working as a counselor at summer camps, and at her local Parks and Recreation Department. There was always a pull toward teaching. “I didn't have an ‘A-ha’ moment, if you will, but I remember thinking, ‘I think this is my calling. I think this is what I was meant to do.’ But I would be in and out of [my mom’s] classroom, helping with bulletin boards. I always saw the work that went behind it and always appreciated what she did.” Robledo was raised by a single mom who put off going back to school to raise her young children. “She had to put her dreams on hold. Watching her have to give up her dream of being a teacher— that’s when I realized mine. I saw my mom and her struggles and realized, yeah, I need to do this. Not only for myself, but for my mom, too.” Robledo is in a relatively new position within the school system as a Digital Integration Facilitator, DIF for short. “We jokingly say that’s because we’re different.” She leads robotics and STEM lessons while also providing professional development to teachers. “Our ultimate goal is to build capacity in teachers, so that way, if I’m not here, they are making these STEM lessons. They can do this on their own.” She serves Elise Middle and Highfalls K-8. Even though her position emphasizes technology, she stresses the human connection first. “I think it’s very important that we first build relationships with our students. Once we have established those relationships and can relate to them on that human level, then everything else will come second.” Whether it’s running a robotics competition or building towers out of marshmallows and spaghetti, it’s clear that Robledo was born to do it. “I really do have the best job.”
CARRIE ROBLEDO TEACHER OF THE YEAR Digital Integration Facilitator
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Garden Variety
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Future Farmers of America BY DA NA SPICER N.C. COO P E RATIV E EXTENSIO N SERV ICE MAST E R GARDENER VO LUNTEER
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he bumper sticker is accurate: No Farm, No Food. In 1928, a group of young farmers founded Future Farmers of America (FFA). Their mission was to prepare future generations for the challenge of feeding a growing population. Almost 100 years later, FFA continues to prepare high school students for success in over 300 agricultural science careers. FFA is an intracurricular high school club with almost 700,000 members in 8,630 chapters in all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. More than 1,000 Moore County high school students are members. Pinecrest, Union Pines and North Moore High Schools each have their own chapter. Members meet monthly, participate in leadership conferences and summer camps, and attend such competitions as livestock judging, agricultural mechanics and public speaking. This past year, the Pinecrest FFA Veterinary Assisting Competition team placed first in the
state and will advance to the national competition this October. Enrollment in various agriculture/science classes such as horticulture and animal science is required for FFA membership. These classes are offered as part of the Career and Technical Education curriculum at all Moore County high schools. These classes encourage students' interests and abilities, and introduce them to real 21st century employment opportunities. Supporting these classes, local FFA chapters emphasize leadership, while preparing students to become not only future farmers, but future biologists, chemists, veterinarians, engineers or entrepreneurs. Offering 120 different scholarship opportunities, FFA awarded over $2.5 million in scholarships to 1,842 students in 2018. North Moore students, Charlotte Davis and Ethan Wallace, each received FFA scholarships this past school year.
As FFA prepares future generations, you can support our local chapters by: • Sharing your agriculture/science expertise with students or provide job experience/ volunteer opportunities. • Purchasing plants from FFA plant sales held several times throughout the school year. • Advocating for agriculture in our community and opt for local food and fiber products.
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here is nothing new about kids making mud pies or swinging from trees, yet experts continue to conduct studies on the positive effects on children from spending more time outdoors. Outdoor learning includes simple actives such as nature walks to conducting traditional classroom learning outside. These outdoor classroom experiences vary—from simply taking books and worksheets outside to more play-based models, where children are encouraged to follow their interests in an unconstrained environment. Studies show openended curriculum benefits children mentally, physically and socially. Research also finds that time spent in bright outdoor light helps with vision development, especially with depth perception and lowering the risk of nearsightedness. An outdoor approach to education can also promote more hands on learning, which encourages children to work in groups, develop social skills and experience more engaging interaction. As for the Pines, we have a handful of alternative learning options. I was fortunate enough to spend the majority of my day visiting two “forest schools,” and I’ve never felt so relaxed after a day of work. My morning began at Timbernook of the Sandhills, where “programs intricately weave the therapeutic benefits of being outdoors with a thorough understanding of child development and alternative education.” As I walk into the woods behind McDonald Artisan Farm, I am greeted by the sound of laughing children and an overwhelming natural serenity. Dauphine Sisk, who runs Timbernook of the Sandhills, is there to greet me as I witness the magic of learning unfold in front of me. Timbernook is an international education model
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that provides a variety of experiences from weekly summer camps to year-round programs, ranging from one to four days a week. Sisk is a pediatric occupational therapist who looked to nature for therapeutic solutions after repeatedly seeing similarities in the children she was treating. “When I was an OT in the clinic, I was seeing kids with no core strength and no upper body strength,” she says. “I treated children with poor visual motor skills who were already in glasses.” What she was finding was that sitting at a desk all day did little to strengthen children’s core or challenge their balance. Focusing their eyes on a screen was affecting their visual depth development as well. It was witnessing this lack of core strength, balance, and motor and vision skills in her patience that inspired her to establish Timbernook. The benefits of Timbernook’s philosophy seemed to be all around me. I delighted in watching a small group of Top: A homemade bow children focus on catching fish and arrow. in the creek. Sisk explains that Middle: The entrance to at Timbernook children are Timbernook forest area. encouraged to develop ideas and work through implementing Bottom: Children work on them to achieve their goal. a papier-mache project. “Kids want to be learning,” she says. “They want to soak it all up if you give them the chance. We’re there to foster their interests.” Watching these children, clad in bathing suits, think through the materials and steps necessary to catch a fish may seem simple, but to a more trained eye, one can see them solving problems and working as a collective. Timbernook’s play-based model incorporates thematic lessons based on the season. There is free play built into the open-ended curriculum, and while watching the children play, I was surprised how effortlessly free play transferred into a group activity. The group’s age ranged from 6 to 9 years old, with an inclusivity in the play groups regardless of age. Children playing together, for example, focused on different activities. In one area, two girls sit on a blanket chatting and snacking while another young girl works out how to best climb a web-like net a few trees over. I couldn’t help but notice the peripheral adult supervision. These children know they are safe and looked after, yet are free to explore and play. Only when the children need something (rope for fishing line or a bucket to hold any fish they catch), did they seek out an adult. During my visit, I heard no whining or gripes of boredom, saw no disagreements or arguing and perhaps most surprising, no complaints of bugs or critters. When I asked Sisk about the elements, she smiles and refers to a well-known Norwegian quote, “There’s no bad weather, just bad clothing.” Each student gets a gear/pack list so they have exactly what they need for any weather. And the three rules of Timbernook could not be more fitting to their model and ideals: Be kind to yourself, be kind to others, be kind to nature. ▶
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OUTDOOR LEARNING TIPS FOR OUTSIDE EDUCATION 1. Take their homework outside: Consistent exposure to nature decreases stress and anxiety, while it may also help elevate mood and emotions. 2. Encourage movement while learning, whether it’s the alphabet, sight words or quadratic equations. 3. Set up a mud kitchen, complete with containers and utensils. Rain boots and a waterproof jacket (or a whole jumpsuit) are perfect for rainy days when puddles and mud pies are calling for play.
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ADYBUG FARM, owned and run by Shawna Fink, is an idyllic homestead nestled away in Pinebluff. The first thing I noticed was the playful quacking and shuffling of ducks and roosters. Ladybug Farms follows a 12-week schedule, according to the seasons. There are 10 children in each class and they come to the farm once a week. Fink was an elementary educator for years and incorporated outdoor learning strategically into her public education curriculum. Seeing the positive effects that gardening and nature had on her most challenging students, she became more enthused about the validity of outdoor learning. Explaining her approach, Fink says, “I show them the chore cards at circle time, but they’re free to choose their own activities.” Some of the chores include feeding the ducks and gathering chicken eggs. All around the farm I see encouraging signs, colorful chimes, multiple beds with greenery popping up, and wandering fowl. The ducks are swimming in their own private, shaded pool. Fink shares how the water runs down and waters the beds to fertilize the plants. She takes me past the guineas fowls and into the woods to their fire circle and story pavilion. We chat about fulfilling the curiosities of children along with the dichotomy of schooling and nature. “Children need this,” she says, gesturing at our surroundings. “It’s sensory-rich but not sensory overload, and they need that in order to go on and get curious about other things and continue to learn.” The children eat meals together and pick and prep some of their food. Fink shares how invested the children are in eating cucumbers after they planted, watched, picked, cleaned and used knives to prep them themselves. She notes children were more excited about what they were eating when they were involved in the process. “The biggest impact that outdoor learning has on kids is the freedom and curiosity,” she says. “The active movement of being outside, especially with the children who stayed for the whole year, getting to witness the change in seasons and the change in weather; knowing that even in rainy weather we can go outside and have a fun day. I think it completely changes their dynamic and their relationship with the Earth and with each other.” I learned a tremendous amount speaking with Sisk and Fink while walking around in nature. The irony is not lost on me: Curiosity is one of the biggest catalysts that engages everyone, regardless of age, in learning. As long as we continue to put the development and well-being of children in the forefront of their education, I feel confident that our next generation will be filled with empathy and problem solving.
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SCHOOL SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR PARENTS The most important thing for a parent of a child of any age is to be present and together find ways to enjoy the year ahead. Remember, your child will reflect your positive attitude and have a better school year because of it.
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• Help manage stress. It always seems each generation is surrounded by more stressors than the last, but many of the solutions to managing stress are much the same. Prioritizing sleep, encouraging exercise and eating healthy are the foundations to easing stress, no matter the age. To further help your teenagers navigate the stresses of high school and life, teaching them effective problem-solving skills, encouraging their involvement at school and in the community, and managing their online activities will help them find balance to each day.
• Help establish a routine. Your child will be taking on more responsibility in middle school, so establishing a daily routine will go a long way in helping her navigate her classes and activities. A set dinnertime, homework and bedtime routine will provide the consistency middle schoolers need to succeed.
• Start bedtime routine early. Develop a consistent school bedtime routine and begin practicing it up to two weeks before school starts.
• Encourage independence. Sometimes it feels like we’re raising a generation of the helpless and hopeless. Life skills—like time management, decision-making and self-advocating—are being forgotten as the helicopter and lawnmower parents take away all of life’s obstacles for their children. Resilience is one of the most important skills you can teach your child to prepare them for life on their own. Let them fail— they’ll be stronger for it. • Be patient. Ah, the teen years—a decade of parental angst. The neurons bouncing within your teen’s head are on a steady stream of energy drinks, so sometimes the decisions they make aren’t always the wisest. For most situations, that’s OK. Patience is certainly a virtue, and can often be in short supply, but if you try to put yourself in your teen’s shoes and take a few deep breaths, you’ll often be able to come to some common ground and have a healthier relationship for it.
• Be a listening ear—and a voice of reason. There can be a lot of emotional uncertainty during middle school as peer groups change and schedules become busier. As a parent, this is a time to help your child navigate relationships—be it with peers, teachers, coaches—but also don’t get caught up in the drama. And trust us, there will be drama. • Know your child’s friends. Some of the safety and innocence of elementary school relationships dissolve during middle school, replaced by a more complex, Lord of the Flies social environment. As your child becomes exposed to a variety of social and peer groups, it’s good for you to get to know your child’s evolving friendships and be wise to any unsavory influences. • Back away from the poster. It’s OK if your child doesn’t have the best diorama in class. Granted, the end result may not be Pinterestworthy and may look like it just survived a 40-minute bus ride before it even took a 40-minute bus ride, but letting your child do it on his own will positively impact his confidence and creativity in the years to come. • Meet the teachers. Instead of talking with just Mrs. Paul, your child’s wonderful fifth grade teacher who just loved your little Suzie, in middle school you’ll be dealing with four or five teachers for Suzie. Proactive teacher communication, therefore, is important for parents to be engaged in their child’s education. The best way to do this is to learn the school’s communication guidelines. Make an appointment, send an email, but respect the boundaries put in place by the school. If you do this, you’ll create a much better relationship with your child’s educators.
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• Choose back to school items together. Create a list and find the items together. This will encourage excitement and also keep you and your child focused on the essential items needed for elementary school success. • Plan menus. Together, create healthy, easy breakfast and lunch options. • Create familiarity. If your child is nervous about going to a new school, ask the school for a tour or, if possible, meet the teacher before the crowded Back to School Night. For children new to school, read stories about going back to school and discuss questions they may have. • Set up a space and plan for homework. The younger you start establishing a routine and making homework a nightly priority, the more habitual it will be for your child later in the life. • Keep organized. From school forms to doctor appointments to after school care, you’ll be filling out more paperwork than would seem necessary, but it’s often all essential. Keep a folder specifically for school forms and make copies, if you can, of all forms you hand in. • Control screen time. Recreational screen time should be a reward for all your child’s hard work during the school year, not a prerequisite before dinner.
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Moore County School Directory Elementary Schools
Aberdeen Elementary 503 North Sandhills Blvd., Aberdeen, NC 28315 Aberdeen Primary 310 Keyser St., Aberdeen, NC 28315 Calvary Christian School 400 S Bennett St., Southern Pines, NC 28387 Cameron Elementary 2636 N.C. Hwy 24-27, Cameron, NC 28326 Carthage Elementary 312 Rockingham St., Carthage, NC 28317 Episcopal Day School 340 E Massachusetts Ave., Southern Pines, NC 28387 Highfalls Elementary 1220 N.C. Hwy 22, Bennett, NC 27208 Highland Christian Academy 5587 U.S. Hwy 1, Vass, NC 28394 McDeeds Creek Elementary School 2953 Camp Easter Road, Southern Pines, NC 28327 Moore Montessori Community School 387 West Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines, NC 28387 Pinehurst Elementary 100 Dundee Road, Pinehurst, NC 28374 Robbins Elementary 268 Rushwood Road, Robbins, NC 27325 Sandhills Classical Christian School 387 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines, NC 28387 Sandhills Farm Life Elementary 2201 Farm Life School Road, Carthage, NC 28327 St. John Paul II Catholic School 2922 Camp Easter Road, Southern Pines, NC 28387
Southern Pines Elementary 255 South May St., Southern Pines, NC 28387
New Century Middle 1577 Union Church Road, Cameron, NC 28326
Southern Pines Primary 1250 West New York Ave., Southern Pines, NC 28387
St. John Paul II Catholic School 2922 Camp Easter Road, Southern Pines, NC 28387
STARS Charter 140 Southern Dunes Drive, Vass, NC 28394
Sandhills Classical Christian School 387 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines, NC 28387
The Academy of Moore County 12588 U.S. Hwy 15-501, Aberdeen, NC 28315
Southern Middle 717 Johnson St., Aberdeen, NC 28315
The O'Neal School 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines, NC 28387
STARS Charter 140 Southern Dunes Drive, Vass, NC 28394
Vass-Lakeview Elementary 141 James St., Vass, NC 28394
The Academy of Moore County 12588 U.S. Hwy 15-501, Aberdeen, NC 28315
Westmoore Elementary 2159 South N.C. Hwy 705, Seagrove, NC 27341
The O'Neal School 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines, NC 28387
West End Elementary 4483 N.C. Hwy 211, West End, NC 27376
Westmoore Elementary 2159 South N.C. Hwy 705, Seagrove, NC 27341
West Pine Elementary 272 Archie Road, West End, NC 27376
West Pine Middle 144 Archie Road, West End, NC 27376
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High Schools
Calvary Christian School 400 S Bennett St., Southern Pines, NC 28387
Father Capodanno High School 4364 U.S Hwy 1, Vass, NC 28394
Community Learning Center at Pinckney 160 Pinckney Road, Carthage, NC 28327
Highland Christian Academy 5587 U.S. Hwy 1, Vass, NC 28394
Crain's Creek Middle 4631 Union Church Road, Carthage, NC 28374
North Moore High School 1504 North Moore Road, Robbins, NC 27325
Elise Middle 180 West Elem St., Robbins, NC 27325
Pinecrest High School 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines, NC 28387
Highfalls Middle 1220 N.C. Hwy 22, Bennett, NC 27208
Sandhills Classical Christian School 387 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines, NC 28387
Highland Christian Academy 5587 U.S.-1, Vass, NC 28394
Union Pines High School 1981 Union Church Road, Cameron, NC 28326
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Figs By Karen Caulfield, mooreeats.com
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y grandmother was a champion canner, pickler, freezer and maker of jelly. Every summer she would turn her garden into jars of pickles, jams and jellies, and seemingly endless supplies of frozen vegetables. On occasion, she would purchase peaches, but the majority of her stocks were her own. There was, however, one thing she bartered for: figs. There were years when my grandmother’s garden yield wasn’t enough to swap for the figs, but any of the years she could get a hold of some figs, she would make fig preserves. I admit, this didn’t impress me too much as I was growing up. I was much more interested in peach preserves, field peas and her creamed corn, but when I got married, I discovered that my husband was partial to fig preserves. So every time we would make the trek to Georgia from New York, we would return with at least one jar of fig preserves. Eventually, I came to my senses and we both enjoyed them. I tried to reproduce the fig preserves, with only moderate success, once my grandmother
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At the turned 80 and stopped doing as much food preservation. I used dried figs and my preserves came out more as a fig sauce. That is when I branched into fresh figs. Figs can be eaten fresh or dried. Figs are high in natural sugars, minerals and soluble fiber. Figs are rich in minerals including potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and copper, and are a good source of antioxidant vitamins A and K, which all contribute to health and wellness. They can be baked into cakes, breads or cookies, like the Italian treat, cuccidati. They can be savory, served with chicken or pork. One of my favorite appetizers is fresh figs, halved, topped with goat cheese and broiled, then served with either honey or balsamic vinegar drizzled on top. The fig fruit is of the fig tree, right? Wrong. What we commonly consider the tree’s fruits are actually inverted clusters of hundreds of tiny flowers. The true fruits of the fig are the crunchy things that are referred to as seeds. The unusual structure of this pseudo-fruit is the result of thousands of years of coevolution with the fig’s pollinator, the fig wasp. In the wild, miniscule fig wasps hatch inside figs, immediately mate, and then dig a small hole to get out of the fig. Male wasps, which have no wings, die after helping the females burrow out, and females fly away, covered in the pollen of the flowers inside the fig in which they were born. The females then find a new immature fig in which to lay their eggs. They enter the fig by way of a small hole called the ostiole, lay their eggs (inadvertently pollinating the tiny fig flowers), and the cycle repeats. There is a chemical called ficin, which dissolves any wasps that may die in the flowers, converting them into protein. The majority of commercially produced figs, however, reproduce without pollination as a result of thousands of years of cultivation by man. Native to the Mediterranean, figs can be cultivated anywhere winter lows don’t drop
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Montalcino Chicken with Figs and Buttered Gnocchi with Pancetta and Nutmeg By Rachael Ray 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, 4 turns of the pan 1/3 pound thick-cut (1/4-inch) pancetta, cut into sticks 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken, breasts and thighs combined, cut into large chunks
Salt and pepper Flour, for dredging 1 large onion, thinly sliced 4 cloves garlic, crushed 14-16 dried figs, halved 1/3 bottle dry red wine 1 to 1 1/2 cups chicken stock
Heat a deep skillet over medium high heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil, 4 turns of the pan, and the cut pancetta. Brown the pancetta, 3 to 4 minutes then remove with a slotted spoon and reserve. Place a pot of water on the stove to boil for the gnocchi. While pancetta browns, season the chicken chunks with salt and pepper and dredge in a little flour then add to the hot pan. Brown the pieces a few minutes on each side over high heat, then scoot the meat to the edges of the pan and add the onions, garlic and chopped figs. Sauté 5 minutes, combine chicken with onions and figs then add the wine and cook it down 5 minutes or so until only about 1/3 cup remains. Add chicken stock, parsley, lemon zest and thyme to the chicken and stir to combine. Reduce heat to simmer cook another 10 minutes, while you make the gnocchi. Add salt and gnocchi to boiling water and cook to package directions, 4 minutes for fresh gnocchi, 6 minutes for frozen gnocchi, then drain. Heat a medium nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Melt butter and brown it. Drain gnocchi and add to skillet. Raise heat to medium-high and lightly brown the dumplings. Season gnocchi with salt, pepper and nutmeg, turn to coat, add chives, and toss and remove from heat. Adjust the seasonings on the chicken with figs. If you would like a little more sauce, add the other 1/2 cup of broth to the pan. Mound the chicken and figs in shallow bowls and pile the gnocchi on top of the chicken in the center of the bowls. Garnish with the crisp pancetta sticks and serve.
Fig Clafouti Chef Karen Littlefield, Filly & Colt’s
This is one of the easiest, fastest (and best) recipes to use with any fruit: figs, blackberries, blueberries, peaches, black cherries or any combination! 15-18 fresh figs trimmed and halved 3/4 cup flour 1/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt Dash of nutmeg 2 cups milk 3 eggs
Spray a 10-inch deep pie pan, glass baking dish or cast iron skillet. Combine all ingredients (except figs) in a blender and pulse till combined. Pour batter into prepared pan and arrange figs, cut side up, in batter. Bake at 375 F for 45 minutes or until the clafouti is set. Cool and serve with garnish of your choice. Enjoy!
Spicy Cauliflower with Figs savoryspin.com 3 tablespoons oil of your choice (grapeseed, etc.) 1 onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, chopped 1 teaspoon ginger, freshly grated 1 tablespoon mustard seeds 7-10 whole cloves 7-10 cardamom pods 1 head cauliflower with cauliflower florets, separated
2 teaspoon coriander 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1/4 teaspoon chili powder 6-7 California dried figs, chopped 1/8 cups water Salt and pepper 2 tablespoon cilantro leaves, chopped
Add oil to pan over medium heat and also add in the chopped onion and mustard seeds. Let onion and mustard seeds sauté a couple of minutes. Then add in the ginger, garlic, cardamom pods and whole cloves. Let these sauté about 8 more minutes, stirring occasionally so they don't catch. Add cauliflower florets, sprinkle the turmeric, smoked paprika, chili powder and coriander. Add the water to the pan and place the chopped figs on top. Reduce heat to low-medium, cover pan and let cook for about 10 minutes, check occasionally to make sure the water isn't running dry. If it does, then add in another tablespoon or two of water. When done, stir well. Season with salt and pepper to taste and stir. Then garnish with chopped cilantro and enjoy.
much below 20 F. But not all types grow equally well in all areas. In the Sandhills, Brown Turkey seems to prevail, but I have seen a few Calimyrna. Below are some of the more widely available varieties. Kadota is less sweet than some and has light-green skin and few seeds. Calimyrna is large, with golden skin, pinkish-white flesh, and a nutty flavor. Black Mission is very sweet and has blackish-purple skin and pink flesh. Brown Turkey is large, with maroon skin and mild flavor. Some figs have two harvests, one in June and a second in the fall. The early harvest tends to be acidic, while the autumn harvest is longer and the fruit is sweeter. Choosing ripe figs isn’t a matter of color, which varies among types. Instead, look for fruits that are heavy for their size and soft, yielding to gentle pressure. A ripe fig can be plump, but often the best ones are a little shrunken and wrinkled, possibly showing cracks in the skin. Look for a distinct bend at the stem. Avoid fruits that are very firm or overly squishy or that show signs of milky sap at the stem. And look carefully for signs of mold, the biggest enemy of ripe figs. To keep figs in top form, watch them carefully and use them within a day or two. You can set them out on the counter with space for air circulation. I have also used an egg carton. Having them out in full view keeps them top of mind and prompts me to check them frequently for mold (turn them at each time so don’t rest on the same spot). Those with juices oozing should be eaten quickly. If you find mold, scrape it away with the tip of a knife, rinse the fruit, pat it dry, and use it pronto. Figs will last a little longer in the fridge, but not enough to make it worth it and it doesn’t improve their flavor. If you don’t make your own jam, you can get F.R.O.G. (fig, raspberry, orange and ginger) jam at Johnson’s Family Produce and General Store on 15-501 between Carthage and Sanford.
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Beer Matters
Beer Flavors ... Deconstructed
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id you know that a beer can have coffee or chocolate flavors without adding either of those ingredients? I often have customers put a 4-pack of beer back on the shelf because the label stated the beer has mango or pineapple flavors. When I ask why they are putting it back, the answer is usually “I don’t want any fruit in my beer.” Beer flavors are derived from five different categories of ingredients: malt, hops, yeast, water and additives/adjuncts. The topic of flavor is incredibly complex and involves a bit of chemistry, which I won’t dive into here, but let’s take a quick tour into the flavoring of beer. Malt has a two-part role in beer. Its primary purpose is to provide sugars that can be turned into alcohol. Additionally, malt provides a range of flavors. When brewers are designing beer recipes, they balance the malt’s ability to provide both fermentable sugars and flavors. Malt can provide a range of flavors based on how the malt kernels were modified by the maltster. Malt kernels need to be dried and a maltster can vary the heat, time and humidity used during the drying process to coax different flavors. A good rule of thumb: the darker the malt, the richer the flavors. The color of the malt also provides the color for the beer. An experienced taster can look at a beer and guess with a high degree of accuracy what malt flavors they can expect. Light-color beers will have flavors of white crackers or white bread. Amber-colored beer will have a wheat bread, biscuit, maybe even a little caramel. In brown-colored beer, drinkers can expect toasted bread, toffee and possibly some light chocolate flavors. The dark color of stouts and porters carry highly roasted malt flavors of roasted
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BY JASON DICKINSON, CERTIFIED CICERONE®
coffee beans and dark or bittersweet chocolate. Therefore, you can have a beer with a noticeable coffee flavor without the brewer adding actual coffee. Hop flavor can be easily understood if you think of it analogous to how a chef uses spices in cooking. The brewers will add specific hops in the later stages of the brewing process to add flavors and aromas. Beer judges think of hop flavors based on where the hops were grown. Germany/ Czech Republic grow noble hops that carry grassy, spicy, herbal flavors. English hops have an earthy or floral quality. New World hop growers (United States, New Zealand, etc.) have pine/resinous, citrus and stone fruit flavors. This is why some beer labels will have fruit flavors listed, which doesn’t always mean fruit was actually added. This is why it’s best not to try to guess hop flavors by reading a beer label; the same hop name can carry wildly different flavors based on where the hop was grown, how it was processed for packaging and the brewing technique used. A good crop of mosaic hops, for example, can have a noticeable blueberry flavor, but not all beers featuring mosaic will have that flavor. Yeast provides a massive amount of flavor depending on what strain is used and the temperature/fermentation time the brewer chooses. The best way to understand how yeast creates flavors in beer is to drink Belgian-style ales. Most
of the flavors found in a Belgian beer comes from the yeast. Yeast can provide spicy flavors like fresh cracked pepper or cloves, fruity flavors like banana, oranges, lemon and random flavors like butter. Water usually does not provide specific flavors but will impact malt and yeast flavors based on mineral content and pH levels. If the brewer is lacking specific minerals that the yeast needs for healthy fermentation, one can expect that the flavors the brewer planned for won’t be in the final product. Most brewers have intimate knowledge of their water profile and adjust it based on the style of beer being brewed. One famous example of water that does directly add flavor is the original Gose style brewed in Germany. The river used to provide the water for the beer had a salty flavor that is evident in the final product. Some brewers use adjuncts, which, like malt, provide fermentable sugars. One example is rice used in Budweiser or corn used in Miller products. Another source of flavor in beer is additives, which add flavors without adding fermentable sugars (in most cases). This is where a brewer may elect to add chocolate or coffee to their stout. If a brewer elects to use additives, they will almost always be listed on the label as a selling point. So let’s say you order a standard American Pale Ale and you notice it has flavors of pine and wheat bread but nothing else. You now know the hops provide the pine flavors and the malt provides the bready flavors. Since you are not picking up anything else, you can assume the brewer used a yeast that doesn’t impart flavors. When I taste Pilsner Urquell, for example, I get three primary flavors: I get a grassy flavor from the hops, a bready flavor from the malt and a slight buttery flavor from the yeast. If the brewer just used the four primary ingredients (malt, hops, water and yeast), you can make the following assumptions: malt provides bready to chocolate/coffee flavors; hops provide citrus/stone fruit, pine/resinous, earthy or herbal flavors; and yeast can often provide fruit or spice flavors. Hopefully you now have a better understanding how a beer might have a citrus flavor without any actual fruit added.
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People always tell me, when I'm singing at local places, that I should have tried out for The Voice or American Idol or America's Got Talent, and I always think that's funny because I've tried out for all those shows. Tried out for American Idol five times, the Voice three times. My grandma was on American Idol more than I was. My family all had shirts on that had my face and it said, "Who's the next American Idol? It's Crystal clear." And they're all standing there and here's Ryan Seacrest and they're like, "Grandma, how do you feel about your granddaughter not making it on the show?" And she's like, "I'm pissed." And they ask, "Well, what do you want to do about it?" And then she's says, "If Simon was here, I'd want to punch him in the face." And this is a little old lady that's hunched over, rings all over her fingers, looks like she's from New York. And Simon is walking down the conference hall from the bathroom. He's got his bodyguards and they call him over on the little radio, bring him up, and they're like, "Simon, she wants to say something to you." And he's like, "What do you want to say to me?" They do this whole banter back and forth and they get it all on film because they just think it's great that this little old lady wants to beat him up. 44 | SAND& PINE MAGAZINE August/September 2019
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DIY
By PATTI RANCK, Indigo Earth Events
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How to
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DIY THE STUFF • One 16 inch x 20 inch or larger (depending on your available wall space) art canvas stretched on a wooden frame. Be sure to get the type that has the canvas fabric wrapped around the back, completely covering the wood frame (not the kind that is only stapled to the side of the frame with the cut edge exposed). And remember to find a 40 percent off coupon; every craft store has one! • Cork tile square. Be sure the cork is thick enough to accommodate the push pins and not go through and into the wall behind it. • A smallish piece of faux leather (pleather??); size will depend on the dimensions of your art canvas. The reason I chose this fabric was because it is very durable, (you can even wipe it with a damp sponge to clean) and doesn’t fray, so you can leave the cut edge exposed. Be sure to check the remnants bin first: not only will there be less waste (since you are buying a smaller piece), but the price per yard is discounted as well, so saving every which way in the long run.
• Pencil • Chalk • Exacto or utility knife • Black chalk paint • One cheap chip brush
• Pack of thumb tacks; if you wanna get fancy you can hammer in upholstery tacks instead, but I think they can be a bit pricey, so I stuck with the tacks (Ha, get it?? Stuck … tacks? #punster
• White craft glue
• Metal ruler; or at least one with a metal edge.
• Push pins
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• Pack of mini eyelet screws • Twine • Scissors
• Pen to hang from the board • A grocery list-style memo pad, the long thin ones • A wall calendar • Wooden clothes pins • A fine-point dry marker or mini letter stamps and ink pad • File folders
• Flip the canvas over (Yes, that’s right; we are using the “wrong” side). With the chalk paint and the chip brush, paint all wood frame and all sides. Wash the brush so you can use it for the gluing. • Measure your cork squares to fit across the top 2/3 of the canvas. I used one whole tile and a few inches of another. (Again, final size depends on dimensions of the canvas you chose.) Use your ruler and utility knife to get a nice, clean cut edge.
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DIY • Pour glue over the measured off area and spread evenly with the paint brush. Be sure to add glue to the edges of the cork, too. Now push down firmly into position and, on a flat surface, weigh down with some heavy books while it dries. Ideally wait several hours. I cooked and ate dinner, watched Jeopardy, and then resumed the project and it was good. • After the canvas has dried, measure your pleather fabric: approximately 7 1/2 inches by 8 inches (I actually doubled this and then folded the fabric over, just to give it a little more strength) and 1 inch wider than the interior of the canvas itself (the fabric will overlap 1/2 inch on each side of the wood frame). This is where you will place the tacks. The top should overlap the cork area a bit. Measure then mark with pencil and cut to size with scissors. • Begin tacking at each corner to be sure the fabric is properly positioned. Then fill in with the remaining tacks. (I had a little trouble pushing the tacks into the wood. That stuff is hard—I actually broke 2 tacks!) I avoided scratching the top of the tack by using my big roll of duct tape to push each one down. (I mean, isn’t it true, duct tape can just solve all of our problems!) Now you have a pocket for the file folders! • At this point you will add a design around the painted wood frame. I chose a Mudcloth style because I like it, but also because it is such a forgiving design. It is meant to look handmade and imperfect, so no artistic talents really necessary. I planned the design on tracing paper, to be sure it would fit the narrow frame, and then I chalked the back side of the paper with chalk and transferred it over to the border area. You can choose any style or colors that fit your house décor, though. Maybe even hot glue some cute fabric trim if that’s easier for you. • Get ready to strategically place some of the mini eyelet screws. They are the handiest little devils! Measure the width of your memo pad adding 1/4 inch on either side and mark that distance with chalk on the underside of the wood frame in the top, right corner. (See diagram—this is a
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DIY weird spot to explain.) Get a hole started by pushing a tack in about halfway and removing. Now screw the eyelet into the hole. Add another to the right side of that to hang the pen. Put 2 more eyelet screws at the very bottom of the frame to hang the calendar. Last, put 2 on the top of the wood frame so it can be hung on the wall. Consider the eyelets in pairs, and tie twine as tautly as possible at each set of 2.
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• Now for the little extras. Each file folder will get a child’s name for all the school papers that come home and need to be reviewed, signed, etc., by the parent. I used plain for this example, but many times it is super helpful to keep things color coded. (That worked great when my four kids were growing up: anything and everything was color coded.) • The clothes pins will work as little alerts to be put on each folder: ”sign,” ”schedule,” ”read,” ”urgent” or “now,” ”done” or whatever pertains to your family. • Feel free to paint a quote that is meaningful to your family at the top of the cork board.
Although most of these message boards have a chalkboard section, I did not add one because, let’s face it, they’re kind of dusty/ messy, and doesn’t everyone just lose the chalk and eraser? Plus, if you make your shopping list on a chalkboard, you can’t just put it in your purse and take it with you; you’d still have to rewrite it on paper anyway. So I thought it best to omit. That being said, you can always add one to the side of the cork board, or simply in lieu of the cork if you really love a chalkboard. Still, your work is not done yet. Be sure to train the fam to visit the message center as soon as they walk in the door and again when they are packing up their backpacks for the next school day. OK parents, I guess you’re on your own with the family training part, I ain’t got a handy DIY for that. Have a great school year!
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Last Word Aesop's First Fable Aesop, the attributed author of a collection of classic fables, was believed to be an enslaved Ethiopian
living in ancient Greece around 600 B.C. While there have been attempts throughout history to establish him as a real person, many scholars now believe the name was simply made up to provide an author for the collection of fables that used animals to convey a moral lesson. In fact, many of Aesop’s fables were later discovered written on Egyptian papyri that pre-dated Aesop’s supposed life by 400 years. Academics believe it is more likely the original Aesop book was a compilation of oral tales from various cultures, including the Greeks. While Aesop’s stories are certainly simple, short in length and meant to teach children, their moral lessons became just as relevant for adults and the political environment engulfing Greece at the time. Many of the fables were used as criticisms against the government and fables in general—not just Aesop’s—became a powerful tool for the lower classes, political dissenters and educators. The great Greek philosophy Aristotle wrote that in the absence of any concrete evidence for proving one’s point, a fable could support an argument just as well. There are 725 fables of Aesop and chances are you’re familiar with one or two: The Hare & the Tortoise (moral: the race is not always to the swift) and The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse (moral: poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty) come to mind. You can find many of them on read.gov, but here are two short favorites. The Bull and the Goat A Bull once escaped from a Lion by entering a cave which the Goatherds used to house their flocks in stormy weather and at night. It happened that one of the Goats had been left behind, and the Bull had no sooner got inside than this Goat lowered his head and made a rush at him, butting him with his horns. As the Lion was still prowling outside the entrance to the cave, the Bull had to submit to the insult.
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