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A hotel room of one’s own It was, I believe, the second-worst room in the Hotel Boulderado.

To get there I went up a flight of stairs from the lobby, across

by Brian Clarey the skyway and then down another flight to the end of a hallway, where my card-key unlatched the second-last door in the row. This was right at the entrance to the event hall, close enough that I could hear what people were talking about as they milled around. The big picture window afforded a ground-level view of a parking lot, one of the only places on the property where people could smoke cigarettes — in a tobacco-free — but, notably, not marijuana-free — downtown district.

And the room was absolutely glorious.

Consider that most of the year I share my house with at least three other humans, and also four cats, a lizard and whatever teenagers happen to be crammed into the place for the weekend.

Sometimes I sit in the garage just so I can be by myself for a bit.

This house of ours and its denizens require a near constant stream of labors large and small: cooking, cleaning, shop-

ping trips and rides. You get the idea.

And so, to a man in my position, a genuine hotel room — any hotel room, as long as it’s for one person and has a door — looks like a sanctum santorum. Clean towels, endless hot water, an entire bed.

Throw in a well-appointed lobby, a fitness center and a pool or spa, and I’ve got no complaints at all.

I should say that I love hotel rooms, preferring them every time to Airbnbs, actual B&Bs, guest rooms, campsites, hostels, space in the RV, friends’ couches and any other way to spend a night on the road.

In my room at the Hotel Boulderado, I sprawled across the king-sized bed and flung my dirty clothes across the floor. I talked to myself, I went to the bathroom with the door open, and all the other things I took for granted when I lived by myself all those years ago.

Each time I thought about calling the front desk to ask for an upgrade, I’d remember the heat and smell of my garage, the constant activity on the other side of the door. And then I’d shake my head and laugh, take another shower and dry off with another a clean towel.

For me, the second-worst room at the Hotel Boulderado was as good as it gets.

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CITY LIFE July 18-21, 2019

by Cason Ragland

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THURSDAY July 18

Gate City Acres Mini Golf @ Center for Visual Artists (GSO), 12 p.m.

Housed in the entire Center for Visual Artist’s gallery space, this nine-hole “exhibit” opened on Tuesday. The playable mini golf course was designed by local artists and features a different theme of “Summer” at each of the 9 holes. The course will be up until August 18. Find more info on Facebook.

FRIDAY July 19

Art Starts Ribbon Cutting Ceremony @ Winston Starts (W-S), 2 p.m.

Sunset Paddle @ High Point City Lake Park (HP), 7:30 p.m.

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Opening Reception for Painting Happy Hill @ SECCA

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Betsy Brown, director of Winston Starts and Dan Flow, CEO of Flow Companies, will unveil a new mural project this weekend. They’ve invited students from surrounding high schools and universities to team up with artist mentors and transform the stairways of 500 Fifth Street in WinstonSalem. The event’s Facebook page has more details.

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(W-S), 6 p.m.

Leo Rucker started his foray into art at the age of 5. He’s a Winston-Salem artist who’s new exhibit, Painting Happy Hill, will be on display at SECCA. The works depict life in the neighborhood of Happy Hill, one of the city’s oldest black communities. For more details, check out SECCA’s website.

Adult Recess @ Barber Park (GSO), 6 p.m.

When it comes to recess, it’s difficult for adults to find their footing. First of all, the kids just don’t put up much competition. Second, most schools host their recess time in the middle of the day when many adults are still at work. That’s why anyone who’s 21 or older is invited to Barber Park this weekend for a real nostalgia trip. The event’s Facebook page has more information.

High Point Parks and Recreation will host several guided river tours through September. This Friday, they ask for attendees to meet them at High Point Lake. If you’re interested in registering for the tour, call 336.883.3498. Check out the Facebook page for the event to find out more.

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SATURDAY July 20

Peach & Pancake Celebration Day @ Greensboro Farmers Curb Market (GSO), 8 a.m.

Moon Rocks @ Kaleideum North (W-S), 6 p.m.

SUNDAY July 21

How To Zine @ Scuppernong Books (GSO), 2 p.m.

July is International Zine Month and the Greensboro Zine Up Front News

Fill the Stands with Cans @ BB&T Point (HP), 6:30 p.m.

The High Point Rockers have a lofty goal of attaining a half-million meals for the Second Harvest Foodbank of Northwest NC. In order to do this, the team will need your help. Bring non-perishable food items or monetary donations to the gate of BB&T Point before the game starts.

The Piedmont Triad Apartment Association’s website can tell you more about the fundraiser.

The Big Chill @ Bailey Park (W-S), 3 p.m.

The Shalom Project of Winston-Salem will host their Big Chill celebration this weekend in Bailey Park. You can listen to live music, grab a bite at a food truck and indulge in a pint (or three) of ice cream. The Shalom Project’s website can fill you in on more.

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Celebrations are generally geared toward things like a country’s independence or the birth of a guy who claims to be the son of God. In any case, it’s important to celebrate the little things in life as well. If you feel like peaches and pancakes shouldn’t be taken for granted, go down to the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market this weekend and honor these delicacies. The Greensboro Farmers Market website has more info on the event.

Fest will get started on the 28th. Before then, however, you might want to make a zine of your own in order to share it with others at the festival. Scuppernong Books in downtown Greensboro invites all who wish to know more about zines and how they’re made. The website for Scuppernong Books has more details.

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All summer long Kaleideum has been celebrating July 24, 1969, the day the astronauts of Apollo 11 touched down upon the moon, with exhibits, events and demos. On the Saturday the Moon Summer crescendoes with the Moon Rocks ball, featruing msic by Carolina Crossing, a Saturn V model rocket launch and stargazing through professional telescopes. Kaleideum North’s website has more details.

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Good Japanese food, Boulder and this year’s alt-weekly conference

by Sayaka Matsuoka You can’t really find it in North Carolina.

It’s salty and tangy and offers a bit of a kick at the end. You can eat it on its own, but I highly recommend eating it with freshly cooked white rice.

Mentaiko, or spicy pollock roe, is a rarity even in Japanese-owned restaurants in our state.

But in Amu, a little izakaya or Japanese style pub, next to our hotel in Boulder, it made the cut.

It looks kind of gross, to be honest. It’s pink and looks kind of like a chubby, severed finger slapped onto a plate. The membrane holding the thousands of miniscule eggs sometimes has fleshy veins that look like red flashes of lightning. It’s a popular dish in Japan and Korea, often eaten with pasta or rice, or for those brave enough, by itself.

Brian didn’t like it.

But I grew up eating the stuff. In fact, it used to be my favorite go-to lunch as a kid.

Kind of like an American’s peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich. Easy, fast, delicious.

Amu also listed other childhood favorites of mine on their menu: porkbelly braised with onions, agedashi tofu in a warm broth, or grilled sea bass, so buttery that it’s hard to look at other fish the same way after you’ve had just one bite.

Growing up Japanese American in the South it was hard to find my favorite foods in restaurants. Even now, you’d have to go as far as Waraji in Raleigh to find proper Japanese food, or my mom’s kitchen. But in a town like Boulder, where the culture is vibrant and there is more ethnic food than a city twice its size, finding these dishes came pretty easily.

I didn’t feel like an outsider for an hour. The staff spoke, although basic, pretty decent Japanese and the other customers ordered and ate stuff that people in North Carolina would at the least, be confused by, and at the worst, reject entirely. It felt good to be in the company of people who didn’t treat me or my culture as foreign.

That’s kind of how the entire trip to Boulder felt like, really.

At this year’s Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s annual convention, hundreds of weirdos like us gathered at the Hotel Boulderado for three days. Eccentric editors, investigative journalists, creative art directors and driven sales people commiserated and celebrated with each other over the trials and tribulations of working in this industry. While we’re lesser known than the dailies, there are hundreds of papers just like us, scattered throughout the country, working tirelessly in our communities to tell the stories others won’t touch.

And it felt good.

It felt good to be understood for our struggles and triumphs. The men and women there would get that same look in their eyes when someone mentioned another paper closing or a big media company buying up more publications. We laughed when snarky jokes were made when coming up with headlines for hypothetical stories or designing

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shocking but intriguing covers.

It’s a type of camaraderie that I hadn’t really experienced and understood until I was in the thick of it all.

Being a part of a community is essential to personal growth and development as a human being. I’m lucky enough to be a part of at least two that have shaped my identity in ways that have forever changed who I am and how I view myself and how I interact with the world.

And it’s an even better feeling when there are others to share that feeling with.

The HHS hustle

by Brian Clarey Medicaid expansion has become the hot topic as the North Carolina legislative session winds down and our esteemed representatives have yet to even agree on a budget. The House supports it — or, at least, some version of it — while the Senate seems to oppose it on principle. The governor has vetoed a budget without it already and has vowed to hold the line, which he’s able to do because the House doesn’t have enough votes to override him.

As our “leaders” wrangle new versions of the budget and variations on Medicaid expansion, Republican leadership has been seeking to convert just seven members of the House, which would negate Cooper’s veto power and make the whole Medicaid thing moot.

House Minority Leader Darren Jackson (D-Raleigh) told NC Health News last week that Republicans have been offering a new state DHHS facility — which would entail “hundreds of millions of dollars” from the budget and long-term jobs afterwards — to Democrats in five counties: Granville, Forsyth, Wayne, Cumberland and Harnett.

So far, no one has taken the bait.

Of note, though, is that the political discourse in North Carolina has now devolved into a naked exercise in quid pro quo. And that right there is some heavy BS.

by Jordan Green

News Opinion Culture Shot in the Triad Puzzles

organizations that provide essential public-safety services with hundreds of front-line employees.

However cities structure their personnel, there’s typically a leadership equivalent from one city to the next. Human relations is an exception.

Winston-Salem and Greensboro both have stand-alone departments with directors. But after the firing of its human relations director in 2015, the city of High Point reduced human relations from a department to an office headed by a manager who was required to report to Communications & Public Engagement Director Jeron Hollis. But Fanta Dorley, the human relations manager, recently left her position, and currently the highest-ranking employee in the office is Administrative Specialist Erica Talley, who earns a salary of $42,657. In contrast, Winston-Salem Human Relations Director Wanda Allen-Abraha and Greensboro Human Relations Director Love C. Jones earn $122,022 and $112,747 respectively.

The city of Winston-Salem has opened a wide lead over Greensboro and High Point in starting pay for firefighters. From 2017-18 to 2019-20, base pay for firefighters in WinstonSalem increased from $33,696 to $39,470, while it increased from $33,484 to $35,995 in Greensboro, and remained flat, at $35,888 in High Point.

Similarly, base pay for police officers in Winston-Salem increased from $39,470 to $41,443 from 2017-18 to 2019-20. Base pay for police officers increased from $25,556 to $38,222 over the same period in Greensboro, and remained flat, at $37,683, in High Point.

While city leaders have traditionally felt pressure to maintain competitive pay so they can retain public-safety employees, they’re increasingly also hearing demands to increase pay for those at the bottom of the pay scale — crew members in field operations, water resources and parks and rec; couriers; custodians; and parking attendants and enforcement officers — as a matter of justice.

In the previous fiscal year, the city of Greensboro brought all full-time employees up to a minimum salary of $31,200, equivalent to $15 per hour. As a result, crew members, custodians and parking attendants in Greensboro earn significantly more than their counterparts in WinstonSalem and High Point.

The annual budget approved by Greensboro City Council last month also brings all roster employees — part-time, hourly workers who don’t receive benefits — up from $12.50 to $13.50 per hour. City council has committed to bringing pay for roster employees up to $15 per hour in the next fiscal year.

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Year after year, Greensboro Coliseum Director Matt Brown tops the list of most highly compensated public employees among the Triad’s three largest cities.

With a salary of $340,725, Brown and his operation are an economic powerhouse, responsible for booking major concerts and sporting events from Bassnectar to ACC Men’s and Women’s Basketball. As an indicator of its dominance in the events industry for the northern Piedmont region, the Greensboro Coliseum even took over booking for the Lawrence Joel Veterans Coliseum in Winston-Salem in 2014.

Brown’s nearest equivalent in the city of Winston-Salem, Fair Director Cheryl C. Hartley, earns only a fraction of his salary — $69,449. Likewise, High Point Theatre Director David Briggs, whose upcoming bookings include former Stray Cat Lee Rocker and family-friendly comedian Jeff Allen, earns $108,129.

At Brown’s scale, a 5 percent raise goes a long way: Only two years ago, he was earning a measly $288,445 salary.

After Matt Brown, city managers and city attorneys — the only two employees hired directly by their city councils — consistently earn the highest salaries. At a salary of $230,308, High Point City Manager Greg Demko holds a significant pay advantage over WinstonSalem City Manager Lee Garrity ($212,487) and Greensboro City Manager David Parrish ($204,552). Demko topped the list last year, as well, but widened the gap thanks to a 7.1-percent raise, in contrast to Garrity and Parrish, whose raises amounted to about 5 percent.

Among city attorneys, Charles D. Watts Jr. leapt to the front of the pack the moment Greensboro City Council hired him on May 29. A former general counsel for the NC Department of Transportation and partner at the Banks Law Firm, Watts starts with a salary of $190,000. In contrast, his predecessor, Tom Carruthers, earned $180,000 when he resigned last October. (Carruthers has since landed a position with Guilford County as an assistant sheriff’s attorney.) In contrast, Angela Carmon, the city attorney with the longest tenure, earns a salary of $179,467. Carmon’s salary of $179,467 is the same as it was for the last fiscal year, which began in July 2018. Carmon told Triad City Beat that Winston-Salem City Council is currently in the process of conducting her FY 2017-2018 evaluation, and any merit increase she receives will be retroactive to July 1, 2018. (That’s not a typo: Carmon’s evaluation is behind by almost two years. High Point City Attorney JoAnne Carlyle earns $181,938.

Following city managers and city attorneys, the cities’ police and fire chiefs command the highest salaries, as reflection of their roles leading

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The 2019 Triad Salary Guide

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Coliseum Director Matt Brown, Greensboro — $340,725 Deputy Coliseum Director Scott Johnson, Greensboro — $151,687 Theatre Director David Briggs, High Point — $108,129 Coliseum Maintenance Supervisor Michael R. Perdue, Greensboro — $103,107 5. Fair Director Cheryl C. Hartley, Winston-Salem — $69,449

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City Manager Greg Demko, High Point — $230,308 City Manager Lee Garrity, Winston-Salem — $212,487 City Manager David Parrish, Greensboro — $204,552 Deputy City Manager Randy McCaslin, High Point — $186,125 Assistant City Manager Tasha Logan Ford, Winston-Salem — $177,045 Assistant City Manager Randy Hemann, High Point — $160,705 Assistant City Manager Chris Wilson, Greensboro — $151,670 Assistant City Manager Ben Rowe, Winston-Salem — $147,516 Assistant City Manager Larry Davis, Greensboro — $146,460 Assistant City Manager Trey Davis, Greensboro — $144,000 Assistant City Manager Kimberly J. Sowell, Greensboro — $144,000 Assistant City Manager Damon C. Dequenne, Winston-Salem — $142,882 Assistant City Manager Evan Raleigh, Winston-Salem — $142,882 Internal Audit Manager Len Lucas, Greensboro — $101,662

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City Attorney Charles D. Watts, Greensboro — $190,000 City Attorney JoAnne Carlyle, High Point — $181,938 City Attorney Angela Carmon, Winston-Salem — $179,467 Deputy City Attorney Al Andrews, Winston-Salem — $128,325 Deputy City Attorney Terri A. Jones, Greensboro — $122,784 Police Attorney Brian T. Beasley, High Point — $115,457 Deputy City Attorney James A. Dickens Jr., Greensboro — $114,983 Public Safety Attorney Lori P. Sykes, Winston-Salem — $110,781 Deputy City Attorney John P. Roseboro, Greensboro — $109,262 Assistant City Attorney Meghan E. Maguire, High Point — $105,000 Assistant City Attorney Polly D. Sizemore, Greensboro — $102,397 Assistant City Attorney Jerry Kontos, Winston-Salem — $102,246

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Chief Catrina Thompson, Winston-Salem — $173,349 Chief Wayne Scott, Greensboro — $171,957 Chief Ken Shultz, High Point — $154,421 Deputy Chief James Hinson, Greensboro — $117,454 Deputy Chief Brian L. James, Greensboro — $114,981 Deputy Chief Joel T. Cranford, Greensboro — $111,849 Deputy Chief Mike Richey, Greensboro — $111,849 Assistant Chief Ken Steele, High Point — $109,302 Assistant Chief Natoshia V. Miles, Winston-Salem — $107,526 Assistant Chief Jonathan T. Stroud, High Point — $106,238 Capt. Chris Lowder, Winston-Salem — $102,511 Assistant Chief James E. McNeill, High Point — $102,326 Capt. Michael Weaver, Winston-Salem — $102,284 Capt. Richard J. Newnum, Winston-Salem — $101,199 Capt. Douglas Nance, Winston-Salem — $100,663 Capt. Renae G. Sigmon, Greensboro — $100,258

Fire 1. Chief Trey Mayo, Winston-Salem — $164,880

2. Chief Bobby Nugent, Greensboro — $157,990 3. Chief Marion T. Reid, High Point — $155,139 4. Deputy Chief Richard T. Wright, High Point — $122,903 5. Deputy Chief Brian A. Evans, High Point — $116,632 6. Assistant Chief Michael Levins, High Point — $112,372 7. Deputy Chief Graham J. Robinson III, Greensboro — $117,828 8. Deputy Chief Ronald M. Swails, Greensboro — $117,828 9. Assistant Chief Harry J. Brown Jr., Winston-Salem — $109,429 10. Deputy Chief Dwayne S. Church, Greensboro — $114,057 11. Fire Marshal Timothy R. Henshaw, Greensboro — $102,861 12. Fire Marshal Christopher E. Weir, High Point — $90,846 Utilities 1. Electric Utilities Director Garey S. Edwards, High Point — $162,978 2. Utilities Director Courtney L. Driver, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County — $129,390 3. Assistant Electric Utilities Director Tyler R. Berrier, High Point — $122,826 4. Assistant Utilities Director Janis D. McHargue, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County — $116,597 5. Assistant Utilities Director for Business Services Michael J. Kovisto, WinstonSalem/Forsyth County — $100,612 Economic development 1. Director Loren H. Hill, High Point — $161,647 2. Administrator Sandra V. Dunbeck, High Point — $114,479 3. Economic Development & Business Support Manager Kathi Dubel, Greensboro — $105,635 Information technology 1. Chief Information Officer Thomas L. Kureczka, Winston-Salem — $160,723 2. Information Technology & 911 Communications Director Steve Lingerfelt, High Point — $141,507 3. Chief Information Officer Jane R. Nickles, Greensboro — $133,467 4. Systems Project Administrator Thomas E. Spencer, High Point — $134,472 5. Senior Information Technology Manager Christine Hofer, Greensboro — $127,809 6. Information Systems Project Coordinator Terry L. Nichols Jr., WinstonSalem – $117,218 7. Senior Information Technology Manager Rodney T. Roberts, Greensboro — $111,640 8. Public Safety Information Systems Manager Julia B. Conley, Winston-Salem — $108,459 9. Information Systems Operations Manager Ivan L. Spencer, High Point — $107,798 10. Information Systems Project Coordinator Sherri M. Gaither, Winston-Salem — $107,614 11. Applications Development Manager Eric M. Xavier, High Point — $106,113 12. Senior Network System Administrator Luciano Canziani, Greensboro — $103,297 13. System Security Engineer Kenneth S. White, High Point — $100,518 14. Communications & Information Services Administrator Frank L. Jacques Jr., High Point — $100,167 Finance 1.

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Chief Financial Officer Lisa M. Saunders, Winston-Salem — $154,555 Finance Director Rick Lusk, Greensboro — $151,875 Senior Financial Services Director Marlene Druga, Greensboro — $135,909 Financial Services Director Bobby D. Fitzjohn, High Point — $125,000 Senior Administrative Services Manager Christopher S. Payne, Greensboro — $119,813

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6. Accounting Manager Anita B. Wilson, Greensboro — $112,726 7. Assistant Finance Officer Angie S. Fisher, Winston-Salem — $102,374 8. Assistant Financial Services Director Heather L. Forrest, High Point — $101,200 Public works/services

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1. Field Operations Director Dale Wyrick, Greensboro — $150,500 2. Public Services Director Terry L. Houk, High Point — $149,587 3. Operations Director Johnnie F. Taylor, WinstonSalem — $139,905 4. Assistant Public Services Director Robby D. Stone, High Point — $122,167 5. Customer Services Director Troy R. Martin, High Point — $121,021 6. Fleet Services Director Gary L. Smith, High Point — $116,492 7. Senior Solid Waste Manager Christopher R. Marriott, Greensboro — $116,120 8. Street Maintenance Operations Manager Michael A. Mabe, Greensboro — $112,261 9. Assistant Public Services Director Derrick Q. Boone, High Point — $111,642 10. Wastewater Plant Superintendent James F. Crump, Winston-Salem — $108,620 11. Solid Waste Collection Superintendent Sammy Vanderzee II, High Point — $100,227 Water

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1. Director Steven Drew, Greensboro — $150,346 2. Senior Water Resources Manager Michael M. Borchers, Greensboro — $121,839 3. Stormwater Director Keith Huff, Winston-Salem — $120,994 4. Senior Water Resources Manager Kristine W. Williams, Greensboro — $118,154 5. Water Resources Customer Services Manager Jeffrey S. Kimel, Greensboro — $108,673 6. Water Resources Operations & Administration Manager Adam L. Conn, Greensboro — $107,270 7. Water Treatment Plant Superintendent William C. Brewer, Winston-Salem — $104,061 8. Water Reclamation Manager Elijah L. Williams, Greensboro — $101,450 9. Water/Sewer Mains Superintendent Greg D. Hall, High Point — $100,167 10. Stormwater Manager David J. Phlegar, Greensboro — $100,027 Planning

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1. Planning & Development Director Lee Burnette, High Point — $145,540 2. Planning Director Sue Smotherman, Greensboro — $135,655 3. Planning Development Services Director Aaron E. King, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County — $127,500

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4. Deputy Planning Development Services Director Christopher R. Murphy, Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County — $106,141 Transportation 1. Director Mark V. McDonald, High Point — $146,432 2. Director Adam W. Fischer, Greensboro — $135,978 3. Director Toneq’ McCullough, Winston-Salem — $120,721 4. Assistant Director John L. Covington, WinstonSalem — $105,516 5. Engineering Manager Christopher R. Spencer, Greensboro — $103,984 6. Planning Manager Tyler R. Meyer, Greensboro — $100,330

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Engineering & inspections 1. Engineering & Inspections Director Kenney McDowell, Greensboro — $144,544 2. City Engineer Robert J. Prestwood, WinstonSalem — $138,747 3. Engineering Services Director Brian K. Pugh, High Point — $128,669 4. Building Construction Specialist James T. Mitchell, Winston-Salem — $126,119 5. Facilities Manager Butch Shumate, Greensboro — $112,699 6. Senior Electrical Engineer Philip L. Hiatt, High Point — $108,264 7. Civil Engineering Design Manager Andrea L. Keyser, Winston-Salem — $105,338 8. Electric System Supervisor Darrell E. Damron, High Point — $105,225 9. Engineering Manager Ted A. Kallam, Greensboro — $104,824 10. Electrical Engineering Manager William A. Ball, High Point — $104,545 11. Business Center Manager Ute C. Munro, Greensboro — $103,939 12. Electric System Supervisor Dereck J. Breedlove, High Point — $103,374 13. Inspections Administrator Reggie L. Hucks, High Point — $102,679 Budget 1. Budget & Administrative Director Eric Olmedo, High Point — $141,954 2. Budget & Evaluation Director Patrice Y. Toney, Winston-Salem — $106,877

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1. Director Carmen Caruth, Winston-Salem — $141,545 2. Director Angela Kirkwood, High Point — $141,324 3. Director Jamiah Waterman, Greensboro — $136,547 4. Credit Union Manager Gerald A. Wise, Greensboro — $120,488

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Libraries 1. Director Brigitte H. Blanton, Greensboro — $135,655 2. Director Mary M. Sizemore, High Point — $121,776 Parks and recreation

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Communications/marketing/public affairs 1. Community & Public Engagement Director Jeron F. Hollis, High Point — $120,305 2. Communications Director Carla Banks, Greensboro — $120,004 3. Marketing & Communications Director Eddie J. McNeal — $112,716 Legislative Director Linda J. Barnes (Office of the Mayor), Winston-Salem — $108,964 City Clerk Lisa Vierling, High Point — $101,851 City Clerk Angela R. Lord, Greensboro — $90,000 City Secretary Sandra R. Keeney, Winston-Salem — $65,161

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* The minimum salary for Winston-Salem firefighter trainees is $37,590.

Police officer 1. Winston-Salem — $41,443 * 2. Greensboro — $38,222 3. High Point — $37,683 * The minimum salary for Winston-Salem police officer trainees is $39,470.

Crime scene 1. High Point (crime scene technician) — $35,888 2. Greensboro (crime scene investigator) — $35,289 Custodian 1. Greensboro — $31,200 2. Winston-Salem — $27,040 3. High Point — $22,031 Courier 1. Greensboro — $31,200 Sanitation operator (garbage truck driver) 1. Winston-Salem — $36,466 2. Greensboro — $31,200 3. High Point — $29,526 Sanitation laborer/worker 1. Winston-Salem — $27,820 2. High Point — $25,505 Landfill mechanic/tech 1. High Point — $34,178 2. Greensboro — $31,200

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1. Winston-Salem — $39,470 * 2. Greensboro — $35,995 3. High Point — $35,888

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1. Director Wanda Allen-Abraha, Winston-Salem — $122,022 2. Director Love C. Jones, Greensboro — $112,747 3. Administrative Specialist Erica Talley, High Point — $42,657

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The president tweets fear, and immigrant solidarity activism grows

The growth of the Siembra NC Solidarity Committee tracks pretty closely with the escalation of immigration enforcement arrests in North Carolina over the past year.

Isabell Moore recalls that the committee started with four or five people meeting around a table at a coffeehouse to support Siembra NC’s work protecting immigrant

by Jordan Green communities from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and from deadbeat employers. Then a wave of raids by federal agents across North Carolina in February prompted a burst of new interest in the solidarity committee, and they moved into the community room at Deep Roots Market.

Tonight, thanks to a threatened crackdown by President Trump and a recent rally that drew about 500 people at Governmental Plaza in downtown Greensboro, the solidarity committee is again upsizing.

The group of 40 or so, heavily weighted towards women, takes seats around long tables in the fellowship hall at Congregational United Church of Christ off Friendly Avenue on Monday evening.

“There’s a sense of helplessness,” says Kathy Clark. “People want to alleviate those feelings of anxiety and angst through action.”

The facilitators tell volunteers that by the end of the meeting they want everyone to sign up for at least one subcommittee. The verifiers subcommittee, whose members are dispatched to locations of reported ICE activity to confirm their presence or dispel rumors, draws the most interest by a show of hands. Childcare and data entry also get a respectable showing, while hands rise more tentatively in response to a call for fundraising talent.

“We’ve had confirmed ICE arrests in Virginia, Florida, New York and Minnesota, but as of today we don’t have any reports of arrests in North Carolina,” reports Shana Richards, a school counselor employed with Guilford County Schools who has been active with the solidarity committee for about six months. “There has been ICE activity in the area, and we have verifiers out there figuring out what’s going on. If people are worried about ICE, they can’t go to the doctor’s office because they’re afraid a family member might get arrested. If school were in session, people might be afraid to send their children to school.”

A fifth campaign subcommittee is temporarily on hold — a victim of Siembra NC victories before the solidarity committee can get up to speed. And they’re not tired of winning yet.

In early June, Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers withdrew support from HB 370 and an alternate proposal by the NC Sheriff’s Association that would require sheriffs to honor ICE detainers, which are requests to – Kathy Clark hold undocumented people in jails without a judicial warrant.

“If you saw on the news about Sheriff Rogers coming out against HB 370, if you were a part of the push that helped advocate for that or helped sign a letter or anything, can you raise your hand?” Moore says. “Awesome. A lot of people in this room played important roles.

“Another reason this committee is on hold for the moment is every time we have a breakout to plan for a campaign, then Siembra

Shana Richards, with Siembra NC, orients new volunteers during a recent meeting.

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wins before we implement our plan,” she continues. “Which is an awesome problem to have. They won that it’s in writing that the sheriff’s office has a judicial warrant policy. We had a whole letterwriting campaign to roll out around that, and then he stated that he had added it to the handbook; it was no longer an issue.”

During a breakout session for the verifiers subcommittee, Moore tells the new volunteers that when she took the training she had to learn to distinguish between her discomfort and actual risk. All of the verifiers are people with valid driver’s licenses who are not at risk of deportation. Some verifiers have approached ICE agents and asked them what they’re doing while informing them that their presence is a cause for concern.

“I had to do some of my own Southern, white-woman fear-shedding,” Moore recalls.

The facilitators are aware that the campaign they’re building will be a long one, and its success will depend on maintaining high spirits and good energy. After almost two hours of information-sharing and strategizing, they suggest that the social session — drinking and spending money optional — at the burger bar across the street should be considered part of the meeting.

“You came because you’re feeling enraged; you came because you’re feeling helpless,” the Rev. Sadie Landsdale, pastor at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greensboro, tells the newcomers. “You know that change isn’t going to happen unless you put your shoulder to the wheel, and we hope that you leave with some emails, a plan of action and more information than you had when you came in.”

‘There’s a sense of helplessness.

People want to alleviate those feelings of anxiety and angst through action.’

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At the Association of Alternawhile depleting the opponent’s retive Newsmedia conference this past sources. It’s how Muhammad Ali beat weekend in Boulder, Colo., a hotel George Foreman. full of publishers and editors grappled It’s also, Cooper said, how President with the significance of a new round of Trump is deflecting real threats to his ICE roundups announced for the very presidency, notably the announcement weekend of the gathering. of an appearance by Special Prosecutor A portion of the programming was Robert Mueller that neatly coincided given over to DACA recipients living with this newest round of ICE raids, as in fear of deportation to a country they the last round of ICE raids dovetailed never knew, or risked everything to flee. with Mueller’s last public statement on Their message resonated through the May 29. room like mournful howls in the desert.

This is not to say that Trump’s ICE By phone, text and email, editors raids are inconsequential — they have scrambled reporters in markets across led to the most egregious human-rights the country to cover the violations on American coming ICE action. In Trump’s ICE raids soil this century and instill Boulder, near the hotel, fear among undocuhave led to the protesters gathered in mented people and their a park and marched loved ones. most egregious through downtown with And it’s not to insinuate human-rights their signs. that the response hasn’t As it all began, Roxaccomplished great gains, violations on anne Cooper, current including training for American soil this those vulnerable, public publisher of Raw Story, which is the largest opawareness to the plight of century. eration in the association, immigrants, the quantum and newsroom veteran growth of the Siembra of decades, sat at a café table and NC Solidarity Committee and a rising scowled. opposition to the machinations of the “I don’t know,” she said. “It looks like a White House and those who enable rope-a-dope to me.” them.

You know the rope-a-dope, even if But if there is one ongoing theme you don’t. to the Trump presidency, it the barIt’s a tactic in which an actor tires out rage of ridiculous actions that outrage the opponent by allowing a salvo of good people everywhere. Between the offensive maneuvers that, ultimately, tweets, the executive orders and the cause little to no damage to the actor general absurdity, it’s hard to keep up.

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Nik Snacks Tomato season is here, and it’s sweeter than ever

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o you’re gonna tell me you don’t have no Lemon Boys, Pink Ladies, or Cherokee Purples?

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by Nikki Miller-Ka Yellow Pears, voluptuous Sun Prides, striated Green Zebras, fat German Johnsons, standard Brandywines, Kellogg Breakfasts, Celebritys? You’re gonna stand there and tell me you don’t got no Juliets, Sun Golds, White Wonders, Black Princes, Yellow Stuffers, Romas, Super Sweet 100s, Hillbillies or even one single Pink Pounder?

What I’m saying is: You better get yourself some heirloom tomatoes and get ‘em fast.

Tomato season is like Beaujolais Nouveau season, where people wait all year for a brief window of seminal opportunity to get the best ones. We aficionados wait until the beginning of July for the right to choose what we think will be the sweetest, least acidic, most versatile fruit to enjoy in our salads, sandwiches, pies and even desserts. We call it a vegetable and usually treat it like one, too.

In certain circles, they are sprinkled with sugar or basted with honey and dried in the sun until the skin curls up and the flesh gives up all its moisture in order for us to savor that flavor. Botanically, they’re berries. Technically, we don’t care. As long as they are ripe and easy for the pickin’.

Thousands of cultivars and varieties of summer’s favorite fruit of choice exist.

The Climax tomato is one cultivar that was developed at Whitaker Farms in Climax.

“There’s less core, less seeds,” says Hannah Trainer, an employee working at the Robert G. Shaw Piedmont Triad Farmer’s Market. “It’s perfect for sandwiches. Our farmer worked with NC State to develop it.”

Generally I tend to buy my tomatoes — the last time I grew a tomato it was because I threw out a cardboard box that happened to have some seeds in it. In six weeks’ time, I had two stalks rising up behind my trash receptacle area.

And local farmers markets are flush with the fruit right now.

Some suggestions for your first tomato of the season: A BLT with thick strips of crispy, cured porkbelly; a pie piled high with slices, augmented with mayonnaise in an all-butter, hand-rolled crust; Catalonian tomato con pan with garlic-rubbed croutons topped with fresh crushed tomatoes.

My grandmother hailed from Bertie County, and every summer she would make a tomato

Tomato season is upon us, y’all.

pudding. The recipe was simple: overripe tomatoes, stale bread or day-old biscuits, granulated sugar and black pepper. These days, I make a crushed tomato vinaigrette that is laced with red wine and extra-virgin olive oil.

But the most ubiquitous recipe remains the classic tomato sandwich.

Harriet M. Welsch, title character of the children’s book Harriet the Spy took a tomato sandwich to school every day for five years — “her mouth watered at the memory of the mayonnaise.” She knew exactly what she was doing at age 11. She had grasped what many adults have yet to realize: Tomato sandwiches are perfect.

Perfect tomato sandwiches require ripe, juicy tomatoes, preferably fresh off the vine, from the farmer’s market or a roadside stand. If you don’t have a tomato like that, don’t make a tomato sandwich. This is not the time for gas-ripened supermarket tomatoes.

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When you have the fresh tomato, you need only four other ingredients: White bread, salt, black pepper and mayonnaise.

There’s a stance that is only germane to tomato-sandwich eating: feet spread shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent and torso leaned forward slightly so your chest is horizontal to the sink. Hold the sandwich with both hands, arms akimbo, elbows out. Take the first bite. Tomato juice will squirt from the sides of the bread. Bread crumbs may drop like fresh fallen snow. Mayonnaise will ooze out. Slippery seeds may cascade down your arms. Hopefully you’ve rolled up your sleeves.

When you’re finished eating, it will be easy to wash up and go on another search for another perfect tomato. Be on the lookout for Better Boys, Mountain Prides and Mortgage Lifters, and be prepared to take another messy bite.

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of Sarah. She’d just had a baby. singing these songs as ways of promoting activism,” she said.

“Sarah heard the stories of Toby,” said Harris. “And when he Sarah knew that Toby heard what she’d said and she packed walked down her road, she stood up and said, ‘Toby, please, I up her things that night. Toby came down the road the next day. hear that you remember how to fl—.’”

The overseer and master were preoccupied. Sarah asked if today Sarah couldn’t get the word out. The overseer was within earwas the day she’d learn to fly. shot and the master sat on his porch with a cup of iced tea.

“Toby nodded his head and whispered [a few words] into her Virginia Hamilton, an award-winear,” said Harris near the end of the ning author born in 1934, adapted an story. “Sarah couldn’t quite underAfrican-American folktale to write stand what he said but something Many other stories from The The People Who Could Fly in her aninside of her changed. She grabbed People Who Could Fly: American thology by the same name. Hamilton her baby tight, left her things behind Black Folktales can be found on wished to preserve the stories she and the next thing you know Sarah heard from her relatives in text while began to — ” and on the word “fly”, Google Books. still retaining a colloquial tone to the Harris shook her toca seeds. “Higher prose. than the cotton, higher than the “I wanted the sound of a teller, as fences, higher than the trees, floating if the stories were spoken by somebody, because that’s the to a beautiful land called Freedom.” way they were told,’’ said Hamilton in an interview with The Toby freed more slaves in the following days. The master and Chicago Tribune. overseer knew he was the one behind all of this. When Toby Harris’ adaptation of Hamilton’s adaptation brings the story learned of their newfound knowledge, he whispered to himself of Toby and Sarah back to its oral roots. and flew towards the sky. “[Spirituals are] important for remembering and learning “You don’t have to be in slavery,” said Toby. “You may not African American history,” said Harris in an interview during have wings to fly but you can use your feet and take that the intermission of her show. “They’re also important because railroad under the ground. I never want you to forget about the they still carry so much emotional intent. There are people people who could fly, and I never want you to forget about that now singing, ‘I feel like a motherless child,’ and they’re thinkbeautiful land called Freedom.” ing of the child migrants who’re locked up in cages. They’re

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his is a story about a slave named Toby and how he led his people to a land called Freedom.

Kim Harris lifted a toca-seed shaker above her head. She jostled the short stick and the shells’ rattle carried throughout the large worship hall at the New Garden Friends Meeting house in Greensboro.

“Now they say that in Africa, there were some people who could fly with beautiful, black shiny wings,” she said.

“You could see them floating in the air the way you or I might walk up a set of stairs. But somehow… a few of them had gotten caught. A few of them were chained, a few of them got marched to the west coast of Africa… a few of them endured the middle passage and they forgot how to fly. But there was one who did remember. One who found himself enslaved… and the master called him Toby. Now, Toby had been enslaved in the same place for many years, he and the master became old men together.

One day, the master said to Toby ‘We’ve gotten old together.’”

The master took pity on Toby and left the man to his own devices.

When slaves couldn’t organize an outright rebellion due to the societal powers that kept them marginalized, they turned to the symbolic messages within music and storytelling to spread their ideas of liberation, Harris said.

Last Sunday, the New Garden Friends Meetinghouse in Greensboro held a concert to honor the 200th anniversary of the Underground Railroad in Guilford County. The organizers invited Harris, associate professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who sang old spirituals and informed the crowd on the beginnings of black activism in the United States.

The concert also celebrated the life of Logie Meachum, a Greensboro blues artist, teacher, activist and storyteller who died in December.

Toby walked around the plantation. He chatted with the blacksmith and spoke with the gardeners about their day. In the afternoon, he got a bucket of water and a ladle to quench the slaves’ thirst. “[He did this so much] that people began to sing about him,” said Harris.

“They’d sing, ‘Bring me a little water, Toby/ Bring me a little water now/ Bring me a little water, Toby/ Every little once in a while.’”

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CULTURE Hunger personified through dance by Terpsicorps Theater

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our dancers stomp simultaneously, shooting a reverb throughout the wooden panels beneath their feet. They mirror each movement as another group sprints out from behind painted brick walls. Each of the dancers in the front kicks out a leg to vault forward, the tattered white fabric wrapped around their bodies bouncing into the air as the backing track from the Tune-Yards repeats the chorus.

“No water in the water fountain,” the disembodied voice echoes, as the company congregates in three lines onstage.

A man tears through the crowd, kicking his knee up which catapults him into a spin. The song cuts as the group falls to the floor, limbs sprawled out in a tired collapse, ending a section titled “Hunger for Sustenance.”

The routine begins Heather Maloy’s Hunger, the headlining work that the Terpsicorps Theater of Dance brings to the Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem. The longform dance piece — divided into a dozen sections all with their own subtitles — spotlights hunger in its many forms. Though some parts explore more abstract ideas, Maloy challenges audiences to contextualize their own hunger, and remember their most basic needs.

The work arose as Maloy educated herself on the issue of food insecurity in North Carolina.

“It so much surpasses what I think anyone really realizes,” she says.

Through a partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC during her troupe’s Winston-Salem stop, and MANNA FoodBank in Asheville, Maloy hopes to bring attention to the topic using her own training. Beth Bealle, a member of the fundraising team with Second Harvest Food Bank, reads out statistics gathered from the organization that places the number of food insecure people in the region at one in seven people.

During a section called “Hunger for Love,” a woman rushes around the few men who step out of a line of people that circles her in slow, steady steps. She jumps into the arms of one, who quickly spins her and lowers her to her knees.

Even as she attempts to wrap her arms around his legs, he rejoins the group, leaving her alone. Another man steps out, first promising her a lover’s dance, but he soon grabs her wrists, puppeteering her limbs. Her face contorts in pain.

Maloy explains that using what she

William Fowler dances on stage as part of “Hunger,” which spotlights hunger in its many forms.

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describes as “dance theater” provides a clear narrative to returning to the crowd, Lydia McRae steps in behind her. She make audiences consider the abstract concepts more closely. gently touches the woman’s arm, facing the audience. The “That makes you sort of contemmusic slows to an end, and McRae plate that thought of, Well I really gives her a gentle smile as their hands hunger for love. But what if I didn’t meet.

Find out more about the theater even have food? Would I even have McRae, a member of Terpsicorps group at terpsicorps.org. time to hunger for love?” she says, “If from Kernersville who studied at I would do these things to find love, UNCSA, says details like the look on what would I do to try and feed my her face help convey the theatrics family?” in Maloy’s choreography. She refers As the dancer looking for love circles yet another man to her onstage self as a character, prioritizing her role as an

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Lydia McRae, a dancer from Kernersville, performs on stage as part of the Terpsicorps Theater of Dance.

man walks onstage on his hands, his legs straight up in the air with a ball between his calves. A woman claps two together as she saunters downstage, letting the noise of the impact guide her beat.

Another man walks onto the stage, his hands tucked into his armpits, and he bobs his head back and forth like a chicken. He stops facing the audience, and relaxes his legs, a ball falling from between his legs like an egg.

“You can make a bold statement,” Maloy says, “and still have people laugh about it.”

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“You really have to make sure your characters come across not only in your dancing with your legs and your arms,” she says, “but your facial expression has to be on point all the time.”

One moment, “Hunger for More,” transforms ballet and contemporary dance into comedic tools to portray both greed and ambition. A flurry of light-up bouncy balls ricochet around the stage, as dancers struggle with one another to gather the most. A

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