Showcase Magazine August 2013 by Andrew Brooks Media Group

The Local Guy with 100 NY Times Bestsellers

Chuck Adams

Chuck Adams is the Executive Editor at Algonquin Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Lee Vogler

One Year on City Council

Chuck Adams

The Guy from Pittsylvania County with 100 NY Times Bestselling Books

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By Larry Oldham & Dena Hill

From the Publisher

10 The Money Club

Fun and Games

24 A Better you

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Area Events Guide

New Generation Investment Tips By Todd Boaze

Just Map It! Take a Few Personal Fitness Notes By Dave Gluhareff & Suzanne Stowe

MYSTIFIED

Crossword, Word Seach, & Sudoku

Paws for The Cause By Paulette Dean

Summer Bids Adieu by Misty Brooks

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F ROM THE P u b l i s her When you wake up from a great dream, you immediately want to recount it to someone. The first few details are sharp and crisp and just as fast as you tell the story, the dream slips from your memory. It’s frustrating and our logical mind fills in the gaps in the story. The problem is that dreams aren’t logical. The more times you tell a dream you remember, the less like the original dream and more like reality it becomes. You can fly in dreams. You can be other people. You can relive life events and change them to what shoulda, coulda, woulda been different if only for this or that. You can set unrealistic goals and achieve them in your dreams. Our subconscious mind defines our dreams as making the impossible possible. But, our conscious mind defines our dreams as making the possible impossible. We are conditioned to think small. This built-in governor slows us down and keeps our mind from racing off uncontrollably. I’ve been fortunate to live a life where I control my dreams instead of letting them control me. I think big and then put forth all of the effort necessary to manifest those thoughts into reality. This month’s cover story is on a local guy who went off to New York to chase his dream and caught it. Chuck Adams grew up in Pittsylvania County and made the big time in the Big Apple. Chuck Adams is a humble man. Chuck is the Executive Editor of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. He is the editor of over 100 bestselling books, including Water for Elephants. But, he is so much more than that. In our feature story, we delve into a career filled with successes and we glide around who Chuck really is as a man. He is loving, trusting, perhaps even too trusting, honest to a fault, strong on many levels, weak in all the right places, and fearless. He is proud of being imperfect. He loves the countryside and the big city. He has faith in humanity and is embarrassed by its quickness to judge people. He is a

lover of food and keeps himself physically fit. Most of all, he is a great friend. He doesn’t think he’s any more special than anyone else in this world. He only wants to be treated the same as everyone else, with the same rights and responsibilities as the next person. But, to those of us fortunate enough to call him a friend, he is a wonderfully complex man. In him, I’ve found a role model I can look up to. Chuck is someone who inspires me and treats me as an equal even when I am anything but. I’ve been fortunate to co-author a book with him. It’s called BESTSELLER – How Talented Writers Become Bestselling Authors. It would mean so much to me if you would help make history by going to ImABestseller. com and supporting our crowdsourced book. The news has been filled recently with celebrities taking over Kickstarter and Indiegogo with their vanity projects, but BESTSELLER is truly what crowdsourcing is all about. It’s about a community coming together to stand behind a project that will make people’s lives better. Our book will help anyone who has ever thought, “I’d like to write a novel someday” to pour their heart into creating something amazing. We all know someone who is a writer, even if it’s only in their heart. Whether you buy it for yourself or buy it for someone else, or even if you just want to support us, I guarantee this book will help turn dreams into a reality. If the book lets you down for any reason, you can bring it to my office and I’ll personally hand your money back to you out of my own pocket. That’s how strongly I believe in this book. The best part is that I believe in BESTSELLER because I believe in Chuck Adams and I believe in myself. I genuinely hope you will visit ImABestseller.com to learn more about joining our team.

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She Said... Why do you need to retire to rest? You rest every day of the week. Sometimes when I think you’re playing on the computer, you’re actually “resting” your eyes.

I’ve been thinking about this retirement idea that’s going around and I’m starting to get a little concerned.You have a plan every summer and a list of “projects” to Now, I’m not saying that you think only about accomplish before school starts back. Now yourself all the time, but actually you do. I’m sure there is something formulating in your mind for when we retire and I am With that statement out of the way, let me getting scared, to be honest with you. All address retirement plans.You will continue to summer long I’ve watched you work on see me “working on my projects” as you like every project on your list and last night you to call them. I don’t have specific plans when hinted that you may not finish all you had I retire, but I can promise you it will not be pHOTO BY mICHELLE dALTON pHOTOGRAPHY planned. This is not unusual for you each scattered gardening or sporadic grass watering. year, but this year was made more intense It will be more concrete actions and that may by the lack of time being spent with me. be taken literally if I feel something needs to be cemented, kind of like your backside is stuck to a lounge chair. In years past, you have worked from early morning until I get off work. I would come home and you would be all dressed up As far as your future retirement plans go, I don’t see much on and wearing my favorite perfume. Sometimes even have dinner the horizon that you haven’t been doing since I have known you. ready. But this summer was McDonald’s every night, hordes of You come home from work, sit down on the couch or front men traipsing throughout the house all day, and numerous trips porch and read a book, with your soda or iced tea and a candy to every fix-it store in town and out of town. If this continues bar. Then you ask me about supper, and if I am going to go for a each year until we retire and you insist on working like a dog all walk. When I leave for my walk, you go get on MY computer and summer, I have two points of contention: start facebooking all your friends. When I get back from the walk, you expect dinner in some form, and then you ask what we’re First point: It seems to me that there is a good chance you will doing the rest of the evening. Eventually you settle down to watch be worn out when you retire and you won’t be able to push me the TV that you are always saying you don’t watch. I know your around in my wheelchair when I want to go shopping. excuse is that you’re waiting for me, but that gets old after a while. Other men play golf, go hunting, browse through Lowe’s to see the Second Point: If you continue this path you’re on and continue to new tools, or shop for a new car. Based on what you’re saying, it love it so much, when we retire you may wish to work every day looks like our future retirement will be me babysitting you. I am from morning to night and I would not receive any attention at all. so not looking forward to retiring! Maybe I’ll start looking for a summertime job now that could work into a full-time job when A man has to look out for his future, you know. I mean, I can live I retire. At least I can earn money and wouldn’t have to listen to with a little gardening in the morning. Maybe painting one wall a whining all day. week till you get it done, might work. Watering the grass every once in a while would work. I am just worried that you will find Twenty-four hours, seven days a week of listening to you complain more major jobs to undertake when we retire and I am going to might keep me working until I’m ninety. be bored. I married you because you’re smart, beautiful, and can cook. All this work is making me tired and when I retire I am going to need plenty of time to rest. That is what retirement is all about, is it not?

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RETIRE?????

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New Generation Investment Tips

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There are fascinating subjects on investments. Some instruments can beat inflation, while others provide future security. But before you jump in head first as a new investor, you need to make sure you are clear on the rules. First, investing is not an end to itself. It is a way to achieve a predetermined set of financial objectives. In investing, there is no one correct plan.Your individual short-term and long-term needs and wants, and your comfort with varying risk levels, must be considered before any investment decision can be judged appropriate. Second, investment options must be flexible. As conditions in your life, the economy, and the world around you change, financial needs and goals also change. Opportunities arise that miss the attention of less sophisticated investors, which are embraced by the investor with watchful eyes.Your goal is to develop those watchful eyes, and focus them on investment targets in front of you and those that will most certainly present themselves over time.

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Money management tips, small business strategies and a variety of other financial concepts. Facts and information contained is not intended to provide specific legal, financial or tax advice, or any other advice for any individual or company and should not be relied upon in that regard.

The most effective way to begin investing is to consider what you hope to gain by looking at investment objectives.You must look at a number of personal factors, which include: a) Your age. b) Your present income and prospects for its growth. c) The income you desire for retirement years. d) Whether you have persons dependent upon you. e) The ages of your dependents. f) Whether you worry about money matters. g) Whether you have the time to keep abreast of money matters. h) Whether you enjoy the topic of investments. i) Your personal tastes, etc. With these personal factors in mind, you must balance your needs among the many investment objectives open to you. For example, if you have a sum of money that you want to keep intact for a specific purpose, safety of principle will be a vital concern.You may want to preserve an estate for your heirs, protect a fund set aside for your childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education, or the purchase of a home, or establish a special emergency fund in the event of illness or special need.

Investments for this purpose tend to have a low yield (percentage of profit on the principal) and grow in value relatively slowly. However, they cause little anxiety because it is next to impossible to lose the principle. While securities with a fixed interest return a constant number of dollars, the purchasing power of those investments, when liquidated, decreases in times of inflation. This means as prices go up, dollars buy less, although in many instances increased interest rates may counteract inflation. Another objective to consider is income return. If you are mainly interested in supplementing the income you now earn, or augmenting your retirement income, then income return will be your primary aim in investing. Income usually takes the form of interest, dividends, or rent. Examples of these investments: dividends on corporate stock; interest on corporate; municipal or government bonds; and rent from real estate. Your income as an investor may be called the return or yield. Return is expressed in dollars, while yield is expressed in percentages. For example, if a regular bank savings account offers a 6 percent annual yield, and you put $150 in the bank, your return (accumulated interest) is $9 a year. That is assuming there is no compounding. With dividends, the return is also the amount you receive. The yield is divided by the stock price. For example, a dividend may be $1 per share. This is the return. If the stock price per share is $20, the yield is $1 divided by $20, or 5 percent. But if the stock price rises to $40, then the yield drops to 2.5 percent. In other words, the yield changes whenever the price of the stock or the amount of the dividend changes. As you can see there are numerous investment instruments to satisfy personal objectives. I will touch more on these in the future. However, in the meantime, I want to leave you with some valuable insight on the future of investing in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. If you are new to investing, one thing for sure to protect yourself is NEVER purchase stocks or trade the day before a big name in the federal government speaks on the economy. Always trade the day after, because if you trade the day before, you are going to lose your shorts. The safest position to be in right now is a day trader.You will not make a pile of money, but you will be more secure with your money than large investors. Until next time â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Happy Investing! SM

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One Year on City Council

feature Lee Vogler

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“That’s great, but you’ll never win.” This was a common response I heard from many people, including some close friends, when I told them I intended to run for City Council. The reasons ranged from being too young or too outspoken, to Danville not wanting any kind of change. Personally, I didn’t believe these things to be true. Fortunately for me, neither did most of Danville’s voters. So on May 1, 2012, I was elected as the youngest City Council member in the history of Danville. I often spoke of “A New Beginning” for Danville during my campaign. It wasn’t that I believed my election would drastically shake the foundation that Danville stood on, but rather it would be just another step in what, I believe, is a major transformation happening in our city. The River District, formerly known as downtown, is literally rising from the ashes that had begun to accumulate. The City has played a hand in this, but the private sector has certainly responded in a big way. Over the past 5 years, the city government has invested $24.5 million in the River District, while the private sector has invested $77.8 million. In essence, for every dollar the city has spent, the private sector has contributed three. I expect this gap to continue to widen. Danville’s rebirth, however, is not just limited to the River District. New businesses and industries are popping up all over town. Companies like Norhurst, Macerata Wheels, GOK International, Allergease, and others, will create an estimated 1,100 jobs over the next 3 years. We also have a budding relationship with China, not only with our Economic Development team but with Averett University, as well. The success and growth of both

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Averett and Danville Community College have played major parts in Danville’s turnaround and will continue to do so. As I campaigned for City Council, there were two major issues I promised to fight for once I was elected: getting the Dan River included in Virginia’s Scenic Rivers program and reforming the City’s sign ordinance to allow businesses to advertise on certain city-owned properties, creating a new revenue stream. Through the help of others, I can thankfully say that both of those things were accomplished within the first few months of me taking office. The Scenic Rivers designation always seemed like a no-brainer to me and I must credit former Vice Mayor David Luther, former Deputy City Manager David Parrish, and Delegate Danny Marshall for their roles in helping this designation become a reality. It will only enhance our efforts to market Danville as a beautiful “River City.” After several months of being on council, I decided to take the top seven “new ideas” I had advocated for at various stages and put them into a formal document entitled, The New Ideas Agenda: Danville,VA in the 21st Century. This would allow people to read the ideas, the reasoning behind them, and then share their feedback and subsequent ideas with me. Some of the proposals from that document are currently in the works, such as designating the River District as a Tourism Zone, to provide performance-based incentives to businesses locating, or currently located, in the district. Another, which has gained support from the public and local non-profits, is the creation of a Bike Transit system along our Riverwalk Trail and in the River District, similar to the Bike Chattanooga program in Tennessee. My intention in publishing the document was not to suggest that these ideas

were “silver bullets” for all of Danville’s problems, but instead was meant to serve as a point of discussion for larger reforms in our city. I hope they will do so. A city’s budget is always one of the most contentious issues a City Council will face. Over the past few years, images of overflow crowds at Council’s chambers had become a regular occurrence during votes on the budget. This year, however, turned out to be a little different. The City Manager and City Council made a decision, and a good one I believe, to start the budget discussions several months earlier than normal. This allowed council to discuss and scrap certain proposals, such as the creation of a cigarette tax and a meals tax increase, before they ever got off the ground. Even so, as January rolled around the council was facing a multimillion dollar budget shortfall and some controversial options still on the table, such as closing the Westover Library and Squire Armory, as well as a real estate tax increase. Over the next few months, however, we would go through the budget line by line trying to find areas where we could trim costs and reduce spending without eliminating necessary services. Through a combination of cutting discretionary spending, increased anticipated revenues and other efficiencies, we ended our budget sessions with a surplus of around $100,000. Those additional funds proved to be beneficial. Due to a drop in population shown by the 2010 Census meant state and federal funding were cut from our transportation budget, leaving the department with a $15,610 budget shortfall. To account for this, Director of Transportation Marc Adelman proposed increasing bus fares to close the gap. In light of the recent news of our surplus, I suggested that we take $16,000 from the surplus funds we had accumulated and use it to fill the shortfall, in order to prevent a bus fare increase. Thankfully, this suggestion found quick support from the other council members. I believed, as did they, that if we had an opportunity to prevent a bus fare increase that would have adversely affected those on low and fixed-incomes (the primary users of our transportation services) that we should take it.

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past year, it’s that Danville is a resilient city with a fighter’s heart and people who don’t know the meaning of the word ‘quit.’”

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The time had come to vote on the final budget for the upcoming year. While no budget is ever perfect, I believed this year’s budget was a vast improvement from what we were facing just a few months earlier. When all was said and done, a budget was passed that included no tax increases, no bus fare increase, and the Westover Library and Squire Armory remained open. There would be no jam-packed council chambers this year. As I write this, I have just passed the one-year mark of being on City Council (I was sworn in on July 2, 2012). People often ask me what it’s like being “the new guy” or “the young one” on Council. I can honestly say that it’s neither the constant battle that some believe it is, nor is it the go-along to get along society. The truth lies somewhere in between. Over the past year, my fellow council members and I have had good, honest discussions about the direction Danville should go in. Some discussions are more heated than others, but at the end of the day, we are all working towards making our city

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a better place. I believe Danville benefits from having different viewpoints shared and discussed. By and large, I think our Council works well together. From the start of my campaign to my oneyear anniversary on City Council, I have been blessed to have the support and encouragement of some of the finest people I’ve ever met. I have come to know the people of Danville in an entirely new light over the past year and my admiration for them and this city continues to grow. I must thank my family for all of their hard work and sacrifice during this time, as well. I know it’s not easy to be married to an elected official or to bite your tongue when you hear someone say something negative about your son. Without my family, I wouldn’t be where I am today and I love where I am. I love this city. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past year, it’s that Danville is a resilient city with a fighter’s heart and people who don’t know the meaning of the word “quit.” I consider it an honor every day to be their representative and that is something I will carry with me all of my days. SM

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The Guy from Pittsylvania County with 100 NY Times Bestselling Books

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It was the summer of 2006 and I was driving down a Caswell County road to meet the man who would turn out to be my hero. I was lost and late and sweating when I passed the state trooper going 41 miles per hour over the speed limit.The ticket was painfully expensive.Yet, when I finally walked into Chuck Adams’s eclectic group of local writers, I was still a man who thought he knew the secret to the world. In that room, in 90 minutes, I learned I had no clue about the person I was; much less knew anything about the world.

much more easily than most. He filled it with words from his mother’s library.

“I don’t live on a street,” Chuck Adams said.

“Huh?” the lady from the draft board said, puzzled and irritated but mostly just ready to move on to the next kid in line.

It was 1965, and the lady from the draft board looked at him with a blankness reserved for the jokesters and hucksters and out-of-style hipsters. “I need your street address for your draft card,” she said.

“Thank God for the bookmobile,” Chuck said.

“I mean, that’s my address.”

The lady sighed deeply and took a long, slow, tryingto-be patient breath.

And it was, at least until he graduated in a class of eighteen from Spring Garden High School and moved on to Duke University where he breezed through college and law school. With his degrees in hand, Chuck followed his brother’s footsteps to New York City.

Chuck thought back to his years growing up in rural Pittsylvania County (when he was still known as Charles; the Chuck came later, an effort to avoid being called Charlie). There was no stripe down the road and no neighborhood kids to play with. There was sun and stars and nature and everything a kid growing up in the rural south could ever know. He loved it, the beauty of the countryside, the slowness, the simplicity, yet he knew he was different than the other kids and sensed then it was not going to be enough for him. He spent much of his time in his imagination thinking about all the fascinating places he saw on television and read about in books and magazines. By himself, he was never lonely. His mind absorbed everything and he seemed to learn things

“I went to New York because of the fact that it was there. I knew an entire other world was there and I decided I had to be a part of it,” Chuck says. So he took a job on Wall Street as a lawyer and quickly figured out that he had spent all that time in school to be something that he wasn’t. “When you have a job and you wake up every day and think, can I be sick today, you need a new job.” Initially, though, his nights were even worse. With no friends to speak of, he spent evenings alone questioning his decisions. Eight million people in the city like bees in a hive and the nights alone are the loneliest moments on earth. “I knew I was going to make it when I finally made

“I live on Route 640 in Riceville,Virginia which is five miles from the Java Post Office.”

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His mother was a great reader. Her collection mixed the Bronte sisters and Charles Dickens with thenpopular writers like Daphne du Maurier and Edna Ferber. Chuck read them all plus the eight or ten books he could pull from the bookmobile that came to his father’s country store once a month.

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friends. New York is the best place in the world to find yourself, but it doesn’t happen overnight.You grow up no matter your age.” After receiving an unexpected 1-Y Army classification because of a minor medical issue (meaning no military service despite having already agreed to join the Navy for a four-year stint), Chuck made the conscious and well thought out decision to start his career life all over again. “I felt like I had four years of my life given back to me.” He walked away from law and took an entry level job in book publishing making $87 a week. “Publishing is the worst paying business in the world.” It wasn’t too shabby, though, considering the rent for his Manhattan apartment was only $98 a month, even if the halls smelled like cabbage. He flirted with making the move up the corporate ladder when the publishing house’s parent company CBS pulled him into the management training program, eventually offering him a television production job. He faced the crossroads of his childhood ambitions. Television or books, his two favorite things, and the decision would shape the rest of his life. Chuck chose books and began an illustrious career editing for celebrities and bestselling authors. “I quickly got a reputation as being able to work with people who were hard to deal with. I took on the authors that no one else wanted to work with.”

Heston, Faye Dunaway, Kitty Dukakis, Neil Simon, and Sarah Ferguson. Many of their books went on to become NY Times bestsellers. “Celebrities are guarded and it’s difficult to gain their trust. So, I developed some very useful tools. For example, the more someone screamed at me, the calmer I got. It tended to put out the fire.” With his reputation cemented, he started long-term relationships with established writers. He edited dozens of books, many reaching top spots on the bestseller lists, for Mary Higgins Clark and Jackie Collins, each the preeminent author in their genres. Chuck started relationships and worked with a diverse group of other bestselling writers including Sandra Brown, Susan Cheever, Johnny Evison, James Lee Burke,

Ellen Gilchrist, Joe McGinniss, Kinky Friedman, Barbara Delinsky, Charles Portis, Scott Eyman, Brock Clarke, and Alan Shapiro. Over 100 of the books he edited became NY Times bestsellers. Chuck spent 37 years in New York City, living the life of a New Yorker. He grew to fit in. He partied at Studio 54 and rolled with celebrities. He was comfortable with who he was and lived a life straight from a novel. And then the call came offering him the Executive Editor position at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. The publishing house had a great reputation for the exceptional books it released, and as an arm of the larger New York-based Workman Publishing, also offered a significant amount of security. Accepting the job would mean moving back to the area where he grew up and went to college. He gladly took the job and settled in Chapel Hill.

One of those early authors was General William Westmoreland who commanded U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968 including during the infamous Tet Offensive. “He had a book deal with us and nobody in our company wanted to work with him. I steadfastly opposed the war mainly because I didn’t want to die in the jungle. But, I volunteered to take on the project and it was not a bad experience.”

Over the next few years, he had some of the biggest successes of his career. He took in a small book by a virtually unknown writer named Sara Gruen that had been rejected by other publishers. He edited the manuscript and when the book

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was released, Water for Elephants became a world-wide phenomenon, eventually selling over five-million copies and spawning a big deal Hollywood movie. In the wake of the biggest success of his career, he took on another small book from a first-time novelist. In 2009, Robert Goolrick’s A Reliable Wife became Chuck’s second #1 book in two years. The results are even more amazing considering that Algonquin only publishes about twenty books a year and these were only the second and third NY Times #1 Bestsellers of the company’s nearly thirty-year existence (the first having been an Oprah’s Book Club pick).

Chuck with the Poets and Writers Magazine Writers for Writers Award Winners

Chuck with Esther Williams and the brass from Penguin and Simon and Schuster

Chuck edited best-selling author Kinky Friedman

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“The process of finding an exciting writer I can work with, and maybe help develop a little bit, that’s what keeps me going,” Chuck says. “It’s always the discovery, always the challenge of finding something new, somebody I can introduce to readers. I look for someone I can help polish and prepare them for years and years of writing ahead.” SM

Over a year ago, I approached Chuck about turning his wealth of insights on writing into a book. I’d known him for about six or seven years at the time and felt pretty comfortable with him but in the minutes before tossing the idea at him, I felt like a .200 hitter batting in the World Series with the championship on the line. Just before I was about to ask him, he smiled softly and leaned in a little, and all of my anxiety went away. Over the next year, together we wrote BESTSELLER – How Talented Writers Become Bestselling Authors. In August, we are taking the unusual step of releasing the book on a crowdsourcing site (such as Indiegogo. com or Kickstarter. com) before it is released in 2014 with a traditional publisher.You can help support us by going to ImABestseller.com and joining us in this indie publishing adventure.

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Just Fat Map It! Take a Few Personal Fitness Notes

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Dave Gluhareff

In the late 1990s David Gluhareff lost over 100 pounds. Dave then became a certified personal trainer with the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) and began his career as a personal trainer. In March of 2009 David earned the elite status of Master of Fitness Sciences (MFS) by the ISSA, their highest level of personal training qualifications. As a personal trainer, Dave has been helping people take charge of their physiques to help them feel, look, and move better through life. Visit www. VirginiaBootcamp. com for more information.

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People are always saying to me, “I eat healthy and exercise all the time, but still seem to gain weight and body fat. Why?” I also get this from clients who fall back into the same old rut. Well, let me tell you…they are lying? Maybe not intentionally or consciously, but they are absolutely not telling the truth! Let me make this simple and be a little blunt, and then I will explain Fat Mapping. No one is getting “obese” from eating lean proteins, good carbohydrates, good fats, fruits, vegetables, and water. It’s that simple. Even if you are overeating too much of these, you will not become obese…maybe gain a few pounds, but not obese. No one has ever gotten obese from eating too much whole grain bread and oatmeal. Fruits are NOT the enemy. No one has gotten obese from eating fruits. Dairy is NOT the enemy. No dairy farmer has become obese from his cow’s milk ever! Wake up and stop the excuses. People get obese from skipping meals, like breakfast, eating junk food in excess, malnourishing their bodies, being lazy, lack of iary D g n rest, high i p M ap levels of My Fat like stress, thing e m o wn s : and lack e do day h Writ c r ea of control o f s i th and selfsMeal discipline. snack S

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Ongoing - Boogie Mondays 7:00-8:30pm. $3. Enjoy an evening of dancing. All ages. Ballou Park Recreation Center. 434.799.5216.

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17 - Museum Meets Margaritaville – Enjoy an afternoon of music, dancing, and margaritas! $25 advance; $30 at the door. Danville Community Market. 5-9PM.

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Ongoing - Friday Night Dances –Ballou Recreation Center. (434) 7995216. Doors open at 6:30 pm. 7:30pm – 10:30pm. Ages 50 and over.

6 - African Violet Club - Learn Garden tending, pest control, and more. Includes a covered dish meal. Ages 50 and up. Ballou Recreation Center. 12:001:30pm

3, 10, 17, 24, 31 - Danville’s Farmers’ Market – 7:30am – 12pm.

23 - Summer Movies in the Park “Madagascar” will be shown on a 20foot screen at the Ballou Park Stage. All Ages. 9:00pm

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2, 9, 16, 23, 30 - Book Swap - Ages 50 and up. Ballou Recreation Center. 9:00am-5:00pm. 31 - Danville PFLAG Meeting - 11AM-12PM. Danville Yoga and Meditation Center on Westover. 434429-1078.

6 - Cardio Step - Power Zone Fitness Center. Danville,VA. 8:30am - 9:30am. 434 797-8848 7 - African Dance by Nguzo Saba - All levels are encouraged to register. 6pm - 7:30pm. Pepsi Building, Craghead Street. Danville,VA. 434 797-8848 7 - Senior Bowling Tournament 10:00am at Riverside Lanes. $5. Call 791-2695 to register. Ages 50 and up. Ballou Recreation Center 7 - Summertime Bingo –Hardees on Riverside Dr. Please bring a useful gift to exchange. 1pm -3pm. (434) 799-5216. 8 - Kayaking on Moving Water – Abreu – Grogan Park. 6:30pm – 8:30pm. Instruction and equipment included www.showcasemagazine.com

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24 - The Band Perry - Gates open at 6 p.m. at the Carrington. Tickets are $45 reserved and $30 lawn. Ticket price increases $5 day of show. Purchase tickets at www.danvilleharvestjubilee. org or call the Welcome Center at (434) 793-4636.

5, 12, 19, 26 Tai Chi -$5 per class. All Ages. Ballou Recreation Center. 11:1512:30pm

17 - Virginia Safari Park Trip - Ages 5 and up. Glenwood Community Center from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost is $25 ($35 non-city residents). Call 799-5150.

17 - Farmers’ Market Summer Bazaar – Call to reserve a booth space. 7:30am – 12pm. (434) 797-8961

3 - Dan River Basin Association’s First Saturday Outing - Morgan Ford Bridge near Sandy Level,VA (GPS 36.558877, -79.746087). 10am. Call (336) 951-2751.

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17 - Dog Wash Small dogs - $10; Medium dogs - $12; Large dogs - $14; Nail trim - $5. Rain Cancels. 9am12noon. Danville Community Market. Danville,Va. (434) 799-0843

17 - Museum Meets Margaritaville – Enjoy an afternoon of music, dancing, and margaritas! $25 advance; $30 at the door. Danville Community Market. 5-9PM.

1, 8, 15, 22, 29 - Ballou Jammers Ages 50 and up. Bring a stringed instrument or just sit and listen. Ballou Recreation Center. 3pm

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12 - After School Care: Ballou Park Center (continuing through school year) Children ages 5-12 will enjoy afternoons in a fun and safe environment with dedicated time to homework and activities, which will keep them entertained. For information, call 7995150.

15 - Enchanted Evenings in Ballou “Chris Lane Band”. All Ages. 6:30pm

1 - Kuumba-West African Dance Company - Live drumming and energetic dancing. Danville City Auditorium. Danville,VA. 6pm - 7:30pm. (434) 797-8848

3 - Bug Day on the Riverwalk – Riverwalk Trail at Dan Daniel Park. 9am – 10:30am. Pre-registration required. Ages 6-12. Kids < 8 must be accompanied by an adult. (434) 799-5215

7 - Isle of Ballou $4. Call (434) 7995216 to purchase tickets. All Ages. Ballou Recreation Center. 12:00-1:30pm

1 - Get Moving - low impact exercise class ideal for adults ages 50 and above. Coates Recreation Center. Danville,VA. 11:30am - 12:30pm . (434) 797-8848

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6 - Ballou Choir Rehearsal Ages 50 and up. Ballou Recreation Center. 11:15am-12:30pm.

1 - Prime Time Fitness PM lowimpact aerobics workout. Pepsi Building, Craghead Street. Danville,VA. 5:30pm 7pm. (434) 797-8848

7 - Art with Flo - New students are welcome. Glenwood Community Center or Ballou Annex Building. Danville,VA. 9:30am - 11:30am or 6pm - 8 pm. 434 797-8848

5, 12, 19, 26 - Boogie Mondays – Ballroom dance class. $3 per class. All Ages. Ballou Recreation Center. 7:008:30pm

1 - Prime Time Fitness AM - lowimpact aerobics workout. Ballou Recreation Center. Danville,VA. 9:30am - 11 am (434) 797-8848

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5 - Art with Judie - Beginners welcome to attend. 1pm-3pm, 6pm-8pm or 10am12pm. Ballou Annex building. Danville,VA. 434 797-8848

August 2 - 4 Damn Yankees7:30 pm., August 4, 2:30 matinee; Gretna Little Theatre at the Gretna Movie Theatre, 107 N Main Street. 434.656.3377.

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in cost. Ages 12 to adult. Pre-registration is required. Cost $14, $17 (non-city residents). (434) 799-5215. 9 - Milton, NC Day Trip - $18 CR; $21 NCR. Reserve a seat (434) 799-5216. 10am-2pm 9 - Summer Movies in the Park Free All Ages. “Secondhand Lions” Ballou Park Stage. 10 - Firearm Safety Class: Glenwood Community Center, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost is $50 ($65 non-city residents). Call (434) 7995150. 10 - Ride the Wind Summer Zip Line – Dan Daniel Memorial Park (meet at Skate Park). 3pm – 4:30pm. Ages 8-adult. Kids < 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Advance registration is required. (434) 799-5215. Cost $12/ person 12 - Hunter Safety Education –Located at Ballou Nature Center. 6pm – 9:30pm. Call 1-888-516-0844. 13-14 - Seniors on the Move Overnight Trip to Cherokee, NC - Call Deloris Crews at Ballou Recreation Center (434) 799-5216 for details and cost. 13 & 15 - 2-Day Pickleball Clinic - Coates Recreation Center. 10am-12pm. $9 CR; $11. Call Cindy Jones at (434) 799-5216 to register. 15 - Gardening Basics-Fall Lawn Care: City Auditorium Conference Room, 6 p.m.7:30 p.m. There is no fee, but you must preregister. Call (434) 797-8848. 15 - Fall Lawn Care - Danville City Auditorium. Danville,VA. 6 pm - 7:30pm. 434 797-8848 15 - Senior Citizens Club Covered dish luncheon. Ages 50 and up. Ballou Recreation Center. 12:00-1:30pm 15 - Summertime Bingo –Danville Library. Please bring a useful gift to exchange. 11am – 12pm. (434) 799-5216. 16 - Just Everyday Women Walking by Faith –Banquet room of Mary’s Diner. 11am1pm. $9.00, 434-793-1075 or 434-836-9113 17 - Friday Night Dances $5 Live music by the “City Limits Band.” Ages 50 and over. Ballou Recreation Center. 7:30-10:30pm 19 - Summertime Bingo – Emeritus at Danville. 432 Hermitage Dr . 2pm – 3:30pm. Please bring a useful gift to exchange. (434) 799-5216. 20 - Summertime Bingo – Abingdon Place. 149 Executive Ct, Danville. 10:30am – 12pm. Please bring a useful gift to exchange. (434) 799-5216.

Martinsville Hobbies/Sports

1 - Bridge Club Adult Craft Class – Henry County –Variety of items including, tile coasters, altered domino necklaces, stamped greeting cards and more. 6pm - 7:30 pm (276) 634-4645 for more information. 5 - Photo Club –Henry County Administration Building Everyone is welcome. 7pm. Contact parks and recreation at 634.4645 for more information. 6 - Senior Bingo - Henry County Administration Building. 1:00pm. 50 and over. 634.4643 for more information. 10 - Smith River Fest – Smith River Sports Complex. 1000 Irisburg Rd, Axton. 9am – 5pm - (276) 634-4640 for more information. 13 - RC Club –Radio Control Model Aviation. Located in Field Behind Jack Dalton Park. Contact parks and recreation at 276.634.4645 for more information. 7pm 22 - Martinsville Urgent Care Screen – 276.634.4644 for more information. 9am – 11am. 24, 25 - Washington, DC Trip – Henry County – 276-634-4645 for more information.

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9 - Movie in the Park – Henry County – “Madagascar 3” 276-634-4645 for more information. 15 - Bridge Club – Henry County – 50 and above. 276.634.4643 for more information. 12:30 pm.

Upcoming Events Danville

Sept 7 - Grandparents Day Lunch Ballou Recreation Center. 11am-1pm. Just for grandparents and grandkids. Sept 7 - Ribs Rhythm & Blues Soul Festival - Carrington Pavilion. 3:00 PM - 10:00 PM. Sept 10 - Natural Bridge Trip - Call Deloris Crews at (434) 799-5216 for details and cost. Sept. 11 – Oct. 16 - “Telling Your Story” Workshop - Call (434) 799-5216. Ballou Recreation Center. Wednesdays 2-4pm Sept. 27, 28, 29 - Averett University Homecoming – Located at 707 Mount Cross Rd. Averett University Homecoming is not just for alumni or students, it is for everyone in the community.

27 - Senior Breakfast Club – Henry County - Fieldale Café. 8:30am. 276. 634.4643 for more information.

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20 - Volunteer & Senior Services Expo - Ballou Recreation Center. 10am-3pm. (434) 799-5216. 29 – Oct 17 - Lighten Up For Life After Hours Edition Thursdays, $21.50 CR; $25 NCR. This evening program is for ladies 50+ and includes fitness, nutrition and fun. (434) 799-5216 to register. Ballou Recreation Center. 5:30-7:30pm.

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by Paulette Dean Executive Director, Danville Humane Society

As a fundraiser, we sell many designs of t-shirts and totes that have wonderful pictures of animals, along with good, solid messages. One of the designs we sold in 1992 had the message, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Animals are little people in fur coats.â&#x20AC;? For some reason, I never liked that message. Not all animals have fur, and animals have such unique characteristics and needs. They are not little humans; they are created beings in their own right. We are all living beings, but we are different.

I thought about that this morning as I picked up little piles of fluff in the living room. My dog, Wally, loves to tear apart stuffed toys that I buy him. I learned very quickly after I adopted him a year and a half ago not to buy expensive stuffed toys because they will be destroyed within a few minutes. He joyfully receives the toys, then a few minutes later, looks at me so he will be given another one since the first one no longer has stuffing in them, the eyes are gone, the body is in pieces (you get the message). He is very disappointed when he does not have an endless supply of toys to destroy in one evening. One thing that makes humans different from the animals is the ability to completely understand consequences. I suppose young children also have that inability, unless they are taught. Wally loves to rip toys apart, but does not think of the consequence of that, which is the toy will be gone and no longer fun. Adult humans need to realize that actions have consequences. You can choose your actions, but not always the consequences of that action. The consequences of not spaying/neutering your pets include a completely-full animal shelter, a severe pet overpopulation, and the reality that there are not enough homes for all the cute puppies and kittens. The consequences of not reporting what you think may be neglect or cruelty may include the death of the animal, or the prolonged suffering. As we consider the consequences of our actions, it could be that we would change our actions. SM

Fred

This friendly ferret was picked up as a stray in Ballou Park. He was covered with fleas, but is clean and happy now. Ferrets make wonderful pets, but they do need special care.

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Summer Bids Adieu

mystified Misty Brooks

Month to month, you will find Misty stating the outrageous or ridiculous truths in her day-to-day life, and you will realize that you are not alone in this maniacal concept known as parenting. Yes, welcome to 5150 Lunatic Lane- Where skills and tactics are tried, tested, and often fail. But she keeps doing it anyway! Misty’s children Jason- 21, Corey-13, Spencer-11, Tucker-10, and Kendall-9 know all too well the joy and sorrow of being a big family. And new husband Scott is still waiting for the punch line.

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” -William Shakespeare It’s early Thursday evening. The children are outside having a water balloon war. The grass is half-mowed, and no one’s had supper yet. There’s one pink cloud still hanging above the trees. The Moon is in its gibbous phase watching the shifts of nature about to take place. How you spend the summer is a reflection of your inner soul. Spring renews what’s around us, but summer renews what’s inside us. If you do nothing differently by the end of summer, I feel sorry for your soul. Everyone needs renewing. Summertime is an opportunity to let your inhibitions go, and dive into your heart to see what’s there. If you let summer pass you by without having changed the pace of your life at all, then I know a great counselor you need to go see. Summer break is nearing the end of its run for 2013. It always seems to slip away, ignoring my pleas to stay. I try to hold on, but it flows through fingers like…well…a summer’s break breeze. I’ve been busy entertaining the children and enjoying living by somewhat of a free schedule. But that’s all about to change. Real life awaits this household. Responsibility lurks in the shadows. The return to school is among us. But I can’t complain. We went to the beach a few times, joined a pool, watched dozens

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of movies together, went skating, bowling, and even got to meet and feed some wild animals. Soon those activities will be traded in for binders, folders, and index cards. Fun. Back-to-school time is always exciting for me. I loved going back to see everyone and getting to know my teachers. So, I’m excited for my children to go back, too. Plus, I totally enjoy getting some quiet time back for myself. But there’s a downside that everyone, including myself, despises…the early wake-ups, the homework, and the lunch packing…ugh. Is it too late to home-school? As if the whole end-ofthe-summer ordeal wasn’t rude enough, I have another bittersweet advent ahead… Jason’s twenty-first birthday! I already have the back-to-school party planned for myself on August 12, but I still don’t have all the details worked out for Jason’s birthday party. When did this even happen? Just a few months ago he was asking me to drive him downtown to get a worker’s permit for his summer job when he was fourteenyears-old. And just last week, at seventeen, he graduated high school. I mean, those things did JUST happen, right?

I have a lot of planning and shopping ahead of me, that’s for sure. All the while, I’ll be reminiscing about those long, lounging summer days and be thankful that I had them. I’ll also be thinking back over the first twenty-one years of Jason’s life. I’m sure there will be a sigh of relief. Raising a child is hard work. One down, four to go! There’s one person that I am especially thankful for at the end of every summer, and that’s Scott. Without him, I’d be a working mom, missing out on all the adventures (and sometimes tortures) of summer that I get to experience with the children. Thank you, Scott, for being a blessing to the children and me; not only in the summer, but always. We love you. SM

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