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Plague rats and the shifting sands of time I showered today — Tuesday.

Pretty sure it’s Tuesday. Shaved, too. No particular reason: I won’t be encountering any other humans

by Brian Clarey today besides my daughter, who is currently sequestered in her room, where she now attends high school. I see her for a few short minutes when she leaves her room to make lunch, which so far she has preferred to eat at her desk. Just like me.

It’s the second day of school. It doesn’t feel like the second day of school; it kind of feels like it’s still April. But here we are.

Five months in, the coronavirus has done something to us as Americans — besides making millions of us sick and killing off 173,490 as of today. It’s changed the way we live, yes, except for the plague rats, which is what my kids call the people who refuse to wear masks, who deny social distance, who insist the whole thing will disappear as soon as the election goes their way. But even plague rats can’t go to the movies.

Coronavirus has changed the way we perceive time. If it weren’t for the Triad

City Beat production schedule, my days and months would have no underpinning at all. Even now I have to remind myself that there’s an election coming up. Every Friday takes me by surprise.

Can this truly be autumn if we don’t see school buses jamming up the roads?

If there’s no high school football on Friday nights? If Halloween is canceled?

And believe me, buddy: Halloween is canceled. Unless you’re a plague rat. And even then.

Once you get beneath the planet’s orbit, the passing of the seasons and the position of the sun in the sky, time becomes a completely human construct that even in the best of circumstances cannot be trusted. Anyone who’s ever stayed up all night partying can tell you that the hours between 3 and 5 a.m. pass a lot more quickly than their afternoon counterparts.

The coronavirus has deconstructed our notion of time, and so the Lost Summer passes into an Anxious Autumn almost seamlessly, except now our kids are attending school in their rooms instead of watching YouTube or playing video games.

Through it comes a growing realization that, soon, another shoe will drop.

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CITY LIFE August 20-23

by Michaela Ratliff

THURSDAY Aug. 20

10-Minute Play Festival Video Auditions @ Little Theatre of WinstonSalem (W-S) All Day The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem and Winston-Salem Writers are seeking actors for seven plays featured in this year’s 10-Minute Play Festival.

Video submissions are accepted until Aug. 31, so submit yours before it’s too late! For more information visit the Little Theater’s website.

Pizza Playgroup @ City Lake Park (HP) 10:30 a.m.

Fit 4 Mom is hosting a mommy-andme playgroup where children make pizza using nature as their ingredients! This event is free but requires registration so you can receive the most up-to-date information. Visit Fit 4 Mom’s website to register.

The Hollirockets @ Radar Brewing (W-S) 7:30 p.m.

Slick’s BBQ @ Natty Greene’s Brewhouse (GSO) 6 p.m.

Stop by Natty Greene’s for a delicious combo of barbecue and beer! Slick’s is ready to satisfy your Southern barbecue cravings with ribs, pulled pork and more. Take a look at Slick’s full menu here.

Roman Holiday @ Marketplace Drive-In Cinema (W-S) 8:30 p.m.

Roman Holiday is a romantic comedy starring Academy Award-winning actress Audrey Hepburn. Being rated G makes it perfect for families to enjoy together! Tickets are only $20 a car and can be purchased here.

FRIDAY Aug. 21

Read-Aloud @ Reynolda House Museum of American Art (W-S) 10 a.m.

This is another event that’s perfect for the kids. Reynolda is hosting a virtual read-along full of fingerplay, songs and activities! To register, visit Reynolda’s website.

Doggos is excited to announce their second annual puppy prom, a night for pups and their owners to dress up, get out and enjoy themselves. The proceeds from this year’s prom will benefit the Humane Society of the Piedmont Triad. This is a membersonly, 21+ event. For more details, visit the event page.

SUNDAY Aug. 23

Yoga on the Deck @ Festival Lake Park (HP) 8 a.m.

SATURDAY Aug. 22

Food for All Farmers Market @ 1901 McConnell Road (GSO) 9 a.m.

The Bountiful Land Farmers Market aims to bring fresh affordable food to local food deserts by selling fertilizerfree, pesticide-free and herbicide-free produce. Volunteers are needed. Get registered on the event page.

If you like live music, great beer and Mexican food, Radar Brewing is the place to be. Enjoy the sounds of the Hollirockets while enjoying authentic Mexican cuisine from Pinches Tacos food truck.

Puppy Prom 2020: A Night Under the Stars @ Doggos Dog Park & Pub (GSO) 7 p.m.

Open Streets @ Downtown (GSO/W-S) 6 p.m.

Once again, the city is closing it down to open it up! Your favorite eateries are giving you the chance to dine al fresco and local businesses will set up shop outside for sidewalk sales. Visit the DGI or DWSP websites to view lists of participating restaurants and retailers.

All are welcome at this free yoga session hosted by Humbled Warriors. Relax and unwind with gentle stretches, poses and breathing exercises designed to have you feeling your best physically and mentally.

Visit Humbled Warriors’ website to register and to view future dates and events.

Always, Patsy Cline @ W-S Theatre Alliance (W-S) 8 p.m.

If you missed Always, Patsy Cline last week, no worries! You’re still able to catch the final performance. Join the theatre as they tell the story of the friendship between Cline and her fan Louis Seger with musical numbers and a little audience participation.

Visit the theatre’s website to purchase tickets.

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Coronavirus in the Triad:

(as of Tues, August 19th, compared to last week)

Documented COVID-19 diagnoses NC

147,932 (+10,037)

Forsyth

5,601 (+284)

Guilford County

5,975 (+282)

COVID-19 deaths NC

2,427 (+188)

Forsyth

60 (+8)

Guilford

160 (+4)

Documented recoveries NC

127,749 (+10,780)

Forsyth

4,867 (+637)

Guilford

3,584 (+281)

Hospitalizations NC

1,001 (-121)

Forsyth

20 (+1)

Guilford

563 (+30)

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Republican John Hardister (left) faces Democrat Nicole Quick (right) in November.

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While the candidates’ respective positions on education and healthcare fall along predictable party lines, the protests that erupted in the wake of the death of George Floyd have reshuffled the political deck on the issue of policing. For Hardister, who took heat from progressive constituents over his support of the controversial HB 2 law in 2016, it represents a leftward pivot.

Hardister said he met with protesters in Raleigh, adding that they raised a legitimate concern about police firing

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rubber bullets at largely peaceful protesters.

And he said he’s reconsidered his support for the state’s 2015 police bodycamera law, which prohibits the release of video without a court order.

“Police body-camera video needs to be more transparent,” Hardister said. “I know there were some legitimate concerns initially, but at this point transparency is paramount.”

He also said he supports the creation of a national database to prevent officers who are fired from going to work for another agency. House Speaker Tim Moore has taken notice of Hardister’s budding interest in police reform by appointing him to the new Select Committee on Community Relations, Law Enforcement and Justice, which is tasked with examining “North Carolina’s criminal justice systems to propose methods of improving police training and relations between law enforcement and its communities.

Quick supports both increasing access to police-body camera video and tracking officers who leave agencies under dubious circumstances.

“There’s definitely a need to address racial reform justice, and reform the criminal-justice system,” Quick said.

“For over three years, I’ve reached out to legislators to ask them to make police

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“I do support Medicaid expansion,” Quick said. “We’ve been sending those tax dollars in. They’ve been used by other states. That’s money we’re throwing away. Before COVID, it was 500,000 North Carolinians that fell through the cracks. Now, it’s much higher.”

Hardister said he doesn’t deny that lack of access to healthcare is an issue.

“How can we best get from point A to point B?” he asked. “This is a philosophical issue. I’m in favor of a quasi-publicprivate partnership. Under the Republican proposal, people in the coverage gap would pay a premium. Other states have put that in place and gotten sued.”

Hardister added that he wants to explore the possibility of health savings accounts that allow employees to contribute pretax income.

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she would not have run for the seat if it wasn’t redrawn to make it more competitive. She said her candidacy represents a natural evolution from educational activism when her son started school in 2013 to getting active with her party, where she served as Guilford County Democratic Party chair, in response to Trump’s 2016 election.

“I would say my primary motivation was my son,” Quick said. “He is highly gifted. He’s also on the autism spectrum.

Back in 2013, we were planning to send him to our neighborhood school. That was the year the Republican majority decided to gut education. Guilford County laid off 37 teachers. His occupational therapist called me and said, ‘He’s not going to have an [exceptional children] teacher.’ I was fortunate that I could stay home. I home-schooled him through fifth grade. He got into Lincoln Academy. They didn’t have a working air-conditioner on the second floor.”

Quick said she wants to see North Carolina reclaim its position as a national leader in education, hearkening back to the early 1990s, when Gov. Jim Hunt established Smart Start, an early childhood education program.

“Right now, we are below the national average in teacher pay and per-pupil spending,” said Quick, who is endorsed by the NC Association of Educators.

“We should at least be paying our teachers at the national average.”

Hardister, who was elected to the NC House in 2012, said North Carolina’s national teacher-pay ranking has moved from the low 40s to around 30. He said he regrets that pay raises for teachers haven’t been more equitable, noting that “those who’ve been in the profession for 25 years or more” haven’t benefited as their younger colleagues have.

“Sadly, the teacher pay issue has been politicized,” Hardister said. “We can do better. I was frustrated by the budget impasse in 2019, where we included funding for teacher raises. The governor vetoed the budget because it didn’t include Medicaid expansion. We’ve got to continue on the trajectory to raise teacher pay and accelerate it.”

The two candidates are predictably split over Medicaid expansion, with Quick calling for expansion and Hardister remaining noncommittal.

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The political map in Guilford County has become progressively more inhospitable for Republicans over the past two election cycles.

First, a court-ordered redrawing in 2018 guaranteed that one of three state House seats held by Republicans in the county would flip Democratic. Then, last year, another round of map-drawing made the District 59 seat at county’s eastern end — held by Majority Whip Jon Hardister — more competitive. The partisan index published by the conservative Civitas Institute gives the Republican candidate a 3-point advantage, making it one of the five most competitive districts across the state that lean Republican. The Democratic-aligned group Flip NC has identified District 59 as one of three “pivotal districts” in which a clean sweep would flip control of the House to the Democrats.

Based on fundraising totals at the end of June, Hardister’s opponent Nicole Ward Quick has raised almost twice as much money as he has. Planned Parenthood is running ads against him based on his record of opposition to Medicaid reform. During an interview at Panera Bread in northwest Greensboro, Hardister acknowledged that his race is tighter this year, but didn’t act overly concerned about his political survival, saying his “fundraising is coming along.” Hardister entered the store wearing a mask, but removed it for the interview.

During the interview, which took place on Aug. 11, Hardister said it was taking him a while to adjust to a campaign season with little person-to-person contact. Three days later, he tweeted out a photograph of his Mustang in a new car wrap with a race-themed motif to advertise his campaign, writing, “Let’s get this race started.”

“It’s hard to gauge the political environment,” he said. “There are so many variables: the pandemic, civil rights.

Political polarization is probably worse than it ever has been. It’s going to be close.” Two other factors are likely to drive turnout among base voters for both parties, Hardister noted: Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is fighting to defend his seat from Democrat Cal Cunningham, and North Carolina is considered a “must-win state” for President Trump.

Quick said in a phone interview that

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Guilford County District 6 county commission candidates diverge on pandemic leadership, in-person schooling and policing

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As the pandemic rages on, renewed mobilization within the Democratic party may threaten the Republican candidate in the District 6 county commission race.

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Renewed interest in national politics may mobilize Democratic voters in Guilford County and put Republican county commission candidate Jim Davis in a tighter race against Democrat James Upchurch in the District 6 race, despite the district having been historically rightleaning.

In September 2016, there were slightly more registered Republican voters in the district — which covers the western portion of the county into Colfax and towards Oak Ridge to the north — but this year, Democrats have about 2,000 more registered voters compared to Republicans as of Tuesday afternoon. In February, Upchurch ran unopposed on the Democratic ticket while Davis won against Jason Ewing by more than 20 percentage points.

Republican incumbent Hank Henning, who is not running for re-election, has held District 6 since 2012 and served as chairman in 2015. In 2016, Henning narrowly fought off Democratic contender Rick Forrester, winning the district with 51 percent of the vote compared to Forrester’s 49 percent.

As might be expected in a Republicanleaning district, Jim Davis holds the fundraising advantage. As of July 10, Davis reported having $3,955 cash on hand while Upchurch reported about a third of that at $1,024.

Funding schools remains top priority

When interviewed in February, both candidates emphasized the importance of public education, and both continued to express the need for funding for school facilities but differed on the amount of investment.

“With the pandemic, that uncovered a lot of issues that people have been speaking about,” Upchurch said in an interview. “Not every student has access to a computer or the internet. I think it’s more obvious than ever than not every student has access to resources outside of school.”

While both of the candidates highlight education as pillars of their platforms, they diverge on the issue of funding,

specifically when it comes to the May vote in which county commissioners approved a $300 million bond referendum to put before voters in November, compared to the $1.6 billion that was requested by the Guilford County School Board.

Upchurch, a former public-school teacher at Ragsdale High School and Smith High School and currently an instructor at St. Andrews University, said he was shocked at the number that county commissioners approved at the end of May. “Because I have been a student and a teacher in our school system, I have a unique perspective of what happens in our schools,” Upchurch said. “It was a slap in the face. If I was a commissioner at that time, I would have advocated for a larger amount, and if I’m elected I will advocate for another bond in 2022.”

Davis, who won the Republican primary in February against Jason Ewing, also expressed initial “shock” at the final amount but said that it makes sense given the county’s financial situation due to the pandemic.

“I never thought they would approve $1.6 billion,” Davis said in an interview.

“When I looked at the county’s finances, I understand how they came up with that number. I think that the commissioners will certainly revisit that in the future once county revenues go back up…. I’m in support of a future bond.

The needs are still there; $300 million hasn’t fixed all of our problems.”

As school officials debate whether to open for in-person learning or not in the coming weeks, Upchurch said that he wants to be safe and work towards a proactive solution.

“We’re already in reactive mode,” he said. “We need to be figuring out what it’s going to look like and what it’s going to cost if kids go back to school. If it’s not done in a safe way, we can’t let it happen because it’s going to continue to spread.”

Davis said he supports kids going back to in-person learning, stating that kids need social interaction for their mental health.

“Our kids need to go back to school,” he said. “I think kids need to socialize with other kids, and the achievement gap will certainly widen. I think kids learn better in an in-person environment.”

Davis also said concern for parents who

Democrat James Upchurch (left) faces Republican Jim Davis on Nov. 3.

can’t work because they have to watch their kids if they are attending school virtually from home.

“We really need to look into that,” he said.

Differing views on how leadership has handled pandemic

When it comes to how the county has handled the coronavirus pandemic as a whole, both candidates expressed that they felt county leadership, including the current commissioners, have done what they can to help the community. Both said they wished the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding reached more people and that information around the federal funding was more accessible.

“They could improve communication to the public about what’s available through the CARES Act,” Davis said.

“There was confusion around small business grants versus loans. I don’t think people have taken advantage around that because they don’t know it exists.”

Upchurch on the other hand said he wished more CARES funding had been used for rental assistance.

For the most part, Upchurch said that he believes that local and state officials have done their best with dealing with the pandemic, stating that the situation is unprecedented.

“Governor Cooper has handled it well,” he said. “I do think it could have been handled a bit better but obviously this is a situation it doesn’t seem like they

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were prepared for.”

For President Trump, Upchurch had stronger words of disapproval.

“There hasn’t been a concise answer,” he said. “It’s been Don’t wear a mask, Wear a mask; This is a hoax; it’s gonna go away when it gets hot outside. It’s a huge problem.”

Upchurch said he feels there’s been misinformation “from both sides.”

“We don’t know what the truth is,” he said. “People are just saying things and we don’t have facts to back it up….

There’s a lot of misinformation being put out.”

However, he did emphasize the need for the community to work together to combat the virus.

“We need to come together and say we’re going to treat this seriously,” he said. “If everybody doesn’t come together, it’s not ever going to go away.”

Like Upchurch, Davis’ view of how state and federal leaders have handled the pandemic lines up along partisan contours.

“Personally, I think [President Trump] got ahead of this thing by issuing travel bans early on,” Davis said. “He got our corporate partners building respirators.

I personally have not had any issues getting masks or hand sanitizer or PPE.” Davis continued by stating that he believes that Gov. Cooper has been too strict with keeping the state closed.

“I think he needs to revisit this Phase 2 lockdown that we’re in,” Davis said. “I

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body-camera footage public.” Noting that Rep. John Faircloth (R-Guilford) introduced the bill that restricted access to the video, Quick said, “My mom said, ‘If you’re doing something that you don’t want people to know about, you probably shouldn’t be doing it.’”

Similar to Hardister, Quick said, “We should have a database or registry of officers that have used undue force or have killed someone in the line of duty.”

She also said officers who see their colleagues using excessive force or otherwise violating civilians’ rights should be required to report it.

Hardister has also staked out a position on the pandemic that is moderate for a Republican. In contrast to the president and other members of his party who have demanded that churches, schools and businesses reopen while scorning mask-wearing, Hardister provides a running update on the pandemic on his Facebook page that includes data and analysis.

“We don’t have the right to get people sick,” Hardister said. “I believe in science. I’m close to my mom and dad.

They’re in their mid-seventies, so I don’t want to get them sick. The [Democratic] governor, he’s got a tough job. You won’t see me slamming him.”

Hardister joined fellow Republicans in voting to reopen fitness clubs in defiance of Gov. Roy Cooper’s emergency orders, but they were unable to muster enough votes to override his veto. Hardister said he also favors allowing bowling alleys to open at half capacity. He said that while he differs with the governor on some particulars, he doesn’t question his authority to impose restrictions to protect the public health.

“I think over all that most of the [Democratic] caucus supports Cooper because we believe in science and public health and safety,” Quick said. “Our primary issue — there is concern about the economic effects — I think public safety has to be our primary issue. We can’t address the other issues until we get the spread of this under control. The longer we take to get a handle on this as a country, it’s going to prolong the period of economic pain and more sickness and death.”

On the issue of gun control, Hardister said he is open to some changes, but Quick laid out a slate of reforms that would go much further.

“I was raised in southeastern North Carolina,” Quick said. “Everybody hunted. I grew up around guns. I am not out to take away anyone’s guns. I

do worry about our kids. I think there are common-sense things we can do: Prohibiting high-capacity magazines, prohibiting bump stocks, red-flag laws, closing gun-show loopholes. If you know people who have been violent — domestic abusers — they should be flagged to not have access.”

Hardister said he wouldn’t be “opposed to limits on magazine capacity.”

But he balked at the idea of requiring background checks for private gun transactions, citing the example of a grandfather passing along a firearm to a grandson as the kind of transaction the state doesn’t need to get involved in.

And he said red-flag laws are “tricky,” expressing discomfort with the idea that someone might have their guns taken away on the say-so of a neighbor with an axe to grind or on the basis of a domestic dispute.

Outside of education and healthcare, the issue where the candidates differ the most might be the environment, where Hardister’s support for business translates to different priorities.

“Our regulations need to be strengthened,” Quick said. “Take Duke Energy.

My opponent takes donations from [Duke Energy’s political action committee]. He has voted to give them the ability to raise rates to cover the coal-ash cleanup. I think that should come out of their own money. Maybe their CEO should not get that bonus.

“This legislature has worked to prevent people who live close to hog farms from filing civil suits,” Quick continued.

“They’re affecting people’s lives and health. We need to protect people’s lives and health and hold polluters accountable.”

Hardister took the two issues in turn.

“Executive salaries may be exorbitant,” he said, “but [Duke] has the right to set their compensation packages how they see fit. I think it’s important to note that they create a lot of jobs, and they do a lot of charitable work. It can get tricky.”

Hardister said the purpose of the law to limit lawsuits against hog farms, which he supported, was to prevent frivolous litigation.

“The legislation is to support farmers,” he said. “I talked to farmers and the agriculture commissioner, who is from Guilford County. I felt it was best to support the farmers. Bear in mind that willful negligence still applies. I understand the sensitivity to it; I’m a property owner.”

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Davis said that he supports officers in schools and that he wasn’t aware of any think for our county to have job growth, disparities between students of color and we need to move on.” white students when it comes to policing in schools.

On the racial justice uprising “I’m not aware of that,” he said.

Davis and Upchurch also understand“That’s never been brought to my attenably have differing views when it comes tion. I would certainly like to find out. If to responses to the racial justice uprising that’s happening, we need to fix that.” and demands that the community has According to 2015-16 national data made in the wake of George Floyd’s analyzed by the ACLU from the US Dedeath. Upchurch, who was raised in a partment of Education, Black students conservative household but is a generawere arrested at a rate three times that tion younger than Davis, said that he of white students in schools. In Guilwould sit down with community leaders ford County for the 2017-2018 school and activists to come up with solutions to year, Black students were five times as address racial inequities in the county if likely to receive short-term suspension elected to the board. as white students, according to data “A couple of groups have put out cerpublished by the Southern Coalition tain demands, and that’s a good start,” for Social Justice (SCSJ). For the same Upchurch said. “If elected, I think the school year in Guilford County schools, county commissioners need to take into Black students made up 73.6 percent of account what the people want. People short-term suspensions even though they want leaders who are going to listen.” only made up 40 percent of the school When pushed to state which specific depopulation. While the SCSJ stated in mands he supports however, Upchurch their April 2018 “State of Discipline didn’t give a response. in NC Schools” report that there is not “I don’t have demands that I’m going enough evidence on the impact of SROs to ask for, but I am going in schools, the report did to be meeting with many state that increasing presIn 2016, Republican Hank groups,” he said. ence of officers in schools Davis was even more Henning won the district correlates with an increase ambiguous in his responsby two percentage points. in the number of students es around racial justice. being referred to court He said that he supports for minor behavior. In peaceful protests but that he “doesn’t 2016-17, the Division of Juvenile Justice think of color.” reported that almost half of all juvenile “I have coworkers from different complaints came from schools, according ethnic backgrounds and to me, a man’s to the report. a man and a woman’s a woman, but I Davis volunteered later in the intercertainly see that there’s some injustice view that he doesn’t support defunding in the world,” he said. the police and pointed out that the curWhen asked specifically about the rent sheriff, Danny Rogers, is Black.

Guilford County sheriff’s office’s partner“Our leadership at the county sheriff’s ship with Guilford county schools to department are African-American; provide officers in schools, both candithey’re minorities,” Davis said. “Not evdates supported the use of officers in ery police officer is bad. There are some schools, but Upchurch said he doesn’t bad ones in this country but generally I think they’re the best answer. Upchurch think we have good people. I don’t think was working as a teacher at Smith High they wake up and think, I’m going to go arSchool in December 2018 when an rest this guy, I don’t think they do that. We armed man came onto the campus, leadhave good people.” ing to a lockdown. No one was harmed Upchurch also stated that he does not during the event and the suspect was believe in defunding the police, but said arrested by the school’s police officer and he thinks officers need additional traintwo school administrators. ing and he will look at the department’s “I am for our schools being safe,” budget closely.

Upchurch said. “At this point, I feel they “I do think that with every department are needed…. But SROs are not the I need to look at their budget and if best answer. I’m sure there are better there need to be cuts then we’ll do that, answers out there…. There needs to a but it would be in conjunction with the wholesome approach to fixing the issue. sheriff,” he said.

Maybe a security guard that doesn’t have The general election takes place on Nov. 3. To a gun? There’s a lot of conversation that find more election coverage, visit triad-city-beat. needs to take place and I’m someone com/category/election-2020. that will be leading that conversation.”

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Forsyth sheriff’s office updates policy in wake of John Neville death

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Four law enforcement officers and one nurse were arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter due the death of John Neville

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risk of positional asphyxia, the use of the maximal face-down restraint technique should be avoided. If it is necessary to position a person face-down under restraint, then the subject must be closely and continuously monitored.”

Following the revelations about Neville’s death in the Forsyth County jail, calls for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office to ban hogtying, or prone restraint, have come from a range of stakeholders, including Triad Abolition Project, the Winston-Salem Urban League and Kathy Manning, the Democratic nominee in the 6th Congressional District.

Responding to the policy revisions on Friday, Bailey Pittenger, a co-organizer of Triad Abolition Project, said the changes don’t go far enough.

“This still isn’t a ban on the prone restraint, which is what we’re requesting,” she said. She also said it’s disappointing that the restrictions only apply to the detention center and don’t include deputies in the patrol division.

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his buttocks.” Neville repeatedly said, according to both the autopsy and video “I can’t breathe,” and, “Help me,” as of the incident, when detention officers detention officers held him face down made him lie face down on the mattress. and tried unsuccessfully to remove his Neville is at least the second person handcuffs, first with keys, and then with to die after being placed in the prone bolt cutters, and then he stopped breathrestraint at the Forsyth County jail. ing. He died two days later at Baptist The News & Observer reported that Hospital. His autopsy listed the cause of Sheila McKellar died after being bound, his death as “complications gagged and placed faced of positional and compresdown in a holding cell at The change sional asphyxia during the jail in 1992. prone restraint.”

The use of the prone prohibits staff Previously, following the restraint, also known as from utilizing the hogtying, has been controannouncement that five detention officers and a for some time. Marbent leg technique versial nurse were charged with cus Deon Smith died after involuntary manslaughter, when individuals being placed in a prone rethe use-of-force policy was

by Greensboro poare restrained in a straint revised to state that “resistlice officers in September prone position. ing individuals, who must 2018, in what the medical be placed into a prone (face examiner ruled a homicide down) position to be subby positional asphyxiation. dued, should be positioned to a sitting In the December 2019 issued of Policing position or placed on their side as soon magazine, Dr. Lawrence Heiskell, an as restraining devices are applied.” emergency physical and veteran reserve Notably, Neville was already restrained officer with the Palm Springs, (Calif.) Poin a chair and was being compliant, lice Department, wrote: “To reduce the

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The policy change, which was added yesterday, prohibits staff in the detention center from “utilizing the bent leg technique” in situations “when individuals are restrained in the prone position,” and instructs staff to “avoid physical holds that put pressure on an individual’s back, neck, chest or abdomen except as a temporary measure to gain the individual’s compliance for the safety of themselves and others.”

The medical examiner who completed Neville’s autopsy said that when detention officers placed him face down on a mattress in a cell, his legs were “flexed into a trifold position with his heels near

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We are not set up for this

On the first day of school in Guilford Seriously, there’s got to be at least County, the countywide software solu50 movies and hundreds of pieces of tion to distance learning crashed when post-apocalyptic fiction that posit this everybody tried to log on at 9 a.m. very premise. Surely some government In Chapel Hill, clusters of COVID-19 agency somewhere on the planet made outbreaks in dormitories and a fratera playbook for this. Right? nity — all but two of the Sigma Nus in The short answer is: Yes. New Zearesidence tested positive, according land had one and famously defeated to the Daily Tar Heel — necessitated the virus a couple months ago, going an emergency meeting on Monday, 102 days without a new case — until this with the rest of the semester hanging week, when a new cluster of cases was in the balance. All classes have moved discovered in Auckland. online. Another cluster at an NC State The United States had a plan, too. off-campus residence put that school Barack Obama created a Pandemic on notice.

Response Team and a COVID-19 is ravaging playbook for just this sort our jails and our assistedof thing, which the curHow did the living communities. It’s rent administration totally coronavirus running through our ignored. factories, our restaurants, Still — that doesn’t pandemic our churches. It comes explain the lack of catch us so flat- preparedness in local with a cost.

We have given up so government, higher footed? much this summer: live education, manufacturmusic, movie theaters, ing and even healthcare, block parties, street which has been strained festivals, family reunions, travel, wedfor resources from the beginning. dings, live sports… all those things. It’s We weren’t set up for this, because affected how we live, but also why we so much of what we do involves being live, as those things we enjoy so often together in large groups. We weren’t involve being around others. ready for this, which has been obviIt’s disrupted everything. And if we’re ous from the start, because we never being real, we must acknowledge that allowed for the possibility. there’s no end in sight.

And now, five months into the global But how did this pandemic catch us coronavirus pandemic, a vaccine far so flat-footed? It was almost as is no on the horizon and our battle losses one ever asked the question before: mounting, we still don’t know what to What if we get a super-virus that causes do. a global pandemic? What then?

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Paletas are made from fresh fruits or rich, creamy ingredients such as dulce de leche.

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not part of the original family business. It refers to a loosely connected network of ice cream shops, typically family owned. La Michoacana to Mexicans and Mexican-Americans is to ice pops like Aspirin is referred to as a generic type of painkiller. In Greensboro, La Super Michoacana continues the paleta tradition as an ice cream parlor that offers scooped and dipped ice cream alongside sweet treats with a savory edge, like esquites, a popular Mexican snack made from sweet corn mixed with mayonnaise, crumbled cotija or queso fresco, lime juice and chili powder.

The varieties of paletas at La Super Michoacana are expansive. Sure, you can pick a standard strawberry or watermelon paleta, but they also come in flavors like pecan, spicy pineapple jalapeño and nanche: a small yellow fruit similar to a cherry. It has a tart-sweet mouthfeel with honeyed undertones, flecked with faint cherry and earthy apricot flavors. In the midst of summer, paletas offer a unique experience. Each flavor is super refreshing but has none of the artificial flavors of most standard ice pops. Thanks to the color variety, they’re instantly Instagram-worthy.

Sweating it out in the summer heat may not be so bad when you know you have a freezer full of flavorful and colorful paletas on hand.

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Florida and Illinois. Along with paletas, La Princesa sells fruit cocktails drizzled with tamarind-based sauce called chamoy, smoothies and savory snacks such as Dori-Locos which are Doritos topped with sauces, cheese and a variety of other toppings like spiced peanuts, duros and pickled jalapenos.

Paletas are shipped from the family’s factory in Florida every two weeks. From the 22 flavors to choose from, Sanchez said, watermelon and pineapple are his favorite while coconut is the most popular.

“The shop sees about 100 customers a day, and the pandemic has not hurt us at all,” he says. “I am glad about that.”

His wife, Eloisa Ramirez, and his son and brother-inlaw help run the shop. When asked about retirement, he said he’s not ready to give it up yet.

“I think it’s about time. Not soon, but maybe in three or four years, but not yet,” he said. “I still have more to do.”

The beginning of the paleta industry in Mexico traces back to Tocumbo in the state of Michoacán in the 1940s. This is where a family paleta business, La Michoacana, flourished and spread to the rest of the country. Today, La Michoacana operates in thousands of cities and towns in North America.

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ever seen.

The small parking lot outside of La Princesa was bursting with trucks, cars, parents with children in strollers, teens on their cell phones in a line snaking out of the door all waiting to escape the blazing sun outside and order their choice of paleta.

Freeze ice, freezer pop, ice Lollipop, ice lolly, icicle, ice pop, picolé, Popsicle, ice block — Whatever you call it, the paleta is the thing.

Mango, blackberry, cantaloupe, coconut, guava and cherry were arranged side by side with strawberry, vanilla and – no, that brown one isn’t chocolate, it’s tamarind. Every paleta is loaded top to bottom with fresh fruit or whole ingredients. No artificial flavoring here. I was hard pressed to decide on just one flavor, but I finally bit into a paleta de arroz and became an instant addict. The bar itself didn’t look very impressive: mottled brown with white flecks of rice and a shower of ground cinnamon in splotches across the surface. But the taste did me in: sweet and creamy with soft, plump, cooked rice grains suspended throughout the bar, it tasted like frozen rice pudding but with no pesky raisins invited to the party. I tried another. And another. Buttery, creamy and smooth mango and coconut paletas tasted just like the tropical delicacies that they are.

Though paletas may look like ordinary popsicles, this dessert packs a much larger punch. Paletas means “little stick” or “trowel” or “little shovel,” because of the dessert’s shape: The wooden stick is the handle and the frozen bar looks like a scoop. These Mexican frozen treats are made from fresh fruits and natural ingredients such as strawberry, mango or made from rich creamy ingredients such as dulce de leche and chocolate. The right mix of these main ingredients with secondary ones such as water, milk and condensed milk among others, opens a whole new world of flavor possibilities.

At La Princesa in Winston-Salem, owner Juan Sanchez talks about how he got his start in the paletería business.

“We come from Cleveland, Ohio,” Sanchez said.

“Back in the ‘80s my brothers were laid off from a steel company. So, we all got together and everyone put in a little bit of money to start.”

He and his four brothers have an aunt who had a successful paletería in Chicago. Her business was the impetus for the Sanchez brothers to become entrepreneurs. That was in 1984.

In 2001, Sanchez and his family came to North Carolina and opened up shop on Clemmonsville Road. The other brothers have La Princesa businesses in Texas,

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CULTURE Greensboro’s Quilla works to preserve endangered languages

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nna Luisa Daigneault likens language to traveling by car.

“It’s about going inside it and going somewhere,” she says.

“You’re seeing through the windows of the vehicle; you’re using the engine and the seats and you’re soaking in all of the experiences accumulated through generations and generations.”

The Greensboro musician who produces and performs under the stage name Quilla is known for her musical talents, but her other passion in life is preserving endangered languages.

“Before, languages would live on after the lifetime of one individual,” she says during a video call. “The language was full of poetry and jokes. That richness, it’s almost like a different side of your personality.”

But a decade ago, during her college years at McGill University, Daigneault learned a startling statistic.

“I learned that there are 7,000 languages in the world,” she says. “And half of them are endangered or disappearing.

Before 2099, over 3,000 languages are going to disappear.”

That’s how Daigneault got involved with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, a nonprofit that works to document, maintain and revitalize endangered languages. She’s been working with the organization for the last 10 years and currently serves as the program director.

Her own family’s relationships with languages also drove Daigneault to this line of work. Daigneault, whose father is French-Canadian and mother is from Peru, noticed the loss of certain languages among older generations of her family when she was a child.

“I realized as I was growing up that we were speaking colonial languages,” she says. “I wanted to learn more about the other languages, like Quechua. My grandmother was a native speaker. It’s an indigenous language from the Andes that had not been passed down to her descendants.”

Thankfully, Quechua is not an endangered language, but Daigneault says that no one in her family speaks it anymore, including her grandmother, Leonor.

“She stopped speaking it at the age of 16 when she emigrated from Arequipa near the Andes mountains to Lima,” Daigneault says.

For more than 60 years, Leonor has

been speaking Spanish, which is how Daigneault has communicated with her grandmother all of her life.

“I felt a sense of grief that my family had lost certain languages,” she says.

In 2010, Daigneault started taking Quechua courses in Lima and has been making incremental progress through online classes. She says she wanted to learn the language to connect to her heritage. Her stage name means “moon” in Quechua.

“People should be paying attention because it’s a long-term impact of cultural assimilation,” Daigneault says. “Slowly we’re becoming more and more homogenous. On the one hand you could say that’s a good thing because we can communicate with each other, but at the same time, we are losing all of the generations and generations of wisdom that is encoded in this languages, the traditions, the music…. We should appreciate the cultural and linguistic diversity we have in the world and not just let them disappear.”

Recently, Daigneault participated in Greensboro’s TEDx series and spoke about the importance of the work. For the event, which was recorded in an empty auditorium, Daigneault wore a dress she and local textile artist Ann Tilley made using pancake batter and dye.

“Languages are shared museums of the mind,” is scrawled on the dress in English, French, Spanish, Quechua and Ɨshir, in Daigneault’s curly handwriting.

COURTESY PHOTO Anna Luisa Daigneault (right) with Edgar The last language, Ɨshir, is an endangered indigenous Ferreria. language spoken in Paraguay by the Chamacoco people.

Daigneault was first introduced to the language in 2009 “Seeing the language in print and celebrated increases the when she traveled there on a Living Tongues trip in search of prestige for the language,” Daigneault says. “It’s a useful thing language hot spots, or areas in the world with high levels of to have. Where else would they be able to find those words language endangerment, high levels of diversity and low levels when the elders pass away? The dictionary becomes a legacy of documentation. The group she was with was searching for a item.” speaker who was already engaged with documenting and preAccording to the Living Tongues Institute, there are fewer serving an endangered language whom they could help. That’s than 1,500 speakers of Ɨshir, mostly located in communiwhen Daigneault met Andres Ozuna. ties along the upper Paraguay River. After its publication, “We just clicked in that moment,” she recalls. “He already Daigneault says Ozuna hand-delivered copies of the dictionhad the bones of his [Ɨshir] dictionary. He had been writing it ary to community schools and other places where they will be by hand on paper. He had all of these stacks of paper everyuseful. where.”

Now, Daigneault is working on additional dictionaries of Daigneault and others got to work with Ozuna to create a other languages, including online versions available through dictionary of the Ɨshir language and just a few months ago, the Living Tongues Institute. She’s also continuing to further amid the pandemic, their decade of work was completed. her personal language journey by practicing Quechua in her The dictionary was published in Paraguay and is composed free time. of multiple pages of text in which Ɨshir words are translated On a recent visit to Canada — where her mother’s side of into Spanish. Embedded alongside the the family, including her grandmother, translations are vibrant paintings by lives — Daigneault showed clips of Edgar Ferreria, an Ɨshir artist. news reports and televisions shows in Learn more about Daigneault’s While this isn’t the first time an Quechua, which is making a comeback Ɨshir dictionary has been created, in Peru, to her grandmother. work and the Living Tongues Daigneault says it’s the first time a “She started laughing and staring Institute at livingtongues.org. native speaker has been a part of the at the screen,” Daigneault says. “She publishing process. In fact, Ozuna did can’t speak it anymore, but she undermost of the translating and creatstood.” ing the dictionary, while Daigneault During these visits with her grandmother, Daigneault served as the editor. Mindful decisions were made to include gathered stories from Leonor’s childhood, including memoarchaic terminology, ones that are being replaced by the domiries of an annual pilgrimage to a particular spot in the Andes nant language, in this case Spanish, in the text. Daigneault mountains. says when a dominant language starts being used to replace “They would walk and camp for two days,” Daigneault certain words, it’s often a key indicator that a language is explains. “Even though I’m not able to talk about the language disappearing; she hopes having a physical dictionary will help yet, I can talk about the different experiences she had. Eventuto combat that. ally, I hope to do that same pilgrimage.”

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Artist Anna Jarrell decided to do the 100 portrait project as a personal challenge.

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Ricardo Murga holds a portrait of himself that Stockton painted.

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nna Jarrell sits alone in her home Joines who’s been in the position for 19 years and whose art studio as she paints a portrait portrait completed the series. of Hill Stockton, third-generation After receiving a push from family, Jarrell included an owner of men’s clothier Norman extremely familiar face as portrait 96 — her own!

Stockton, with her left hand. These Originally from High Point, Jarrell double-majored in art strokes express her fascination with and psychology at Wake Forest University. Portraiture is her the rich history of the family business, favorite subject, but it was another sort of image that set including the original Trade Street locaher up for success. tion featuring a hitching post for horses “I did a watercolor painting of my parents’ home and out front. posted it on Instagram and people started saying ‘Paint Stockton is one of 100 subjects feamine! Paint mine! Paint mine!’” she says. “So all of a sudden tured in Jarrell’s portrait series, the goal I had a business I could do from home while my son was of which was for Jarrell to get to know napping.” the faces of Winston-Salem during COCompleting the project proved to be difficult. Some days VID-19, and to improve her alla prima, or were tough, due to quarantine and a lack of childcare. Her wet-on-wet, painting technique in 100 family moved during this time, so she split days between days. painting a portrait, childcare and settling into a new home.

Each of the portraits was completed Although she wanted to give up, Instagram was the angel with oil paint on a 16-by-16 canvas in one on her shoulder telling her to keep going. sitting. Each one took about three or “Putting it out on Instagram and telling everyone that I four hours to complete, plus the drawwas going to do this gave me a lot of accountability,” she ing before painting which took about says. “Whereas I think if I kept this as a silent practice projan hour. Jarrell expressed that when she ect, there definitely would’ve been times it needed to get is painting alla prima, value is her main put on hold.” focus.

Jarrell remained determined to complete the portraits, “In order to create an illusion of walking away with a stronger work ethic. depth, you have to have the correct “I have to carve out this time every day,” she says. “Even if value scale,” she says. “That’s lights and my kid’s gonna be on the floor playing with Legos under my darks, so color is really not as important, feet, I still have to buckle down and get this done.”

I think, as value.”

Once she decided to make the series a community project, A stickler for skin tones, Jarrell wanted she realized it could support a good cause. She reached out to depict the subjects as realistically to Wake Forest Baptist Health, and the project raised more as possible, opting to take the time to than $10,000 towards their COVID-19 relief fund. mix shades for each individual rather Now that the project is complete, Anna is focusing more than using “flesh tone” paint. Besides a on settling into her new home with her husband, Jesse, and few light streaks of beige, she decided 6-year-old son, Will. She’s anxious to continue working on against adding backgrounds to avoid disa backlog of paid commissions she has when she’s more traction from the subject. Most of them settled in her new art studio at her house. She is also excited posed head-on and smiling, but some to get back into another creative process she loves — cooksubjects offered Jarrell a side profile to ing. paint.

“I love making bread. I do a lot of sourdough bread. CookJarrell was careful with how she ing bread is really fun to me. I love the physical process of picked her subjects, who ranged from it,” Jarrell says. prominent figures She is also patiently waiting for the in the community state to enter Phase 3 so the Southto small business eastern Center for Contemporary To learn more about Anna, owners, to show Art can open. The portraits will be on follow her on Instagram @ the diversity of the display at SECCA as part of an upcomcity. ing show, giving subjects the chance ajarrellart and Facebook.

In addition to to finally see their images in person.

Stockton, there The portraits were met with positive was the “newspareviews by the subjects, but Jarrell is per guy” she saw anxious for them to see their portrait every day. She realized she knew nothing outside of Instagram. about him but a short interview later, Her goal of the project was not only to build better the “newspaper guy” became Michael, a personal relationships with those in her community, but to 5-year salesman for the Winston-Salem also give a name and story to those that appeared as just Journal who has two grown children and faces to some. She wanted to celebrate the residents of the takes care of his niece and nephew in the city while celebrating what she foresees by the time SECCA afternoons. opens, the community making it to the other side of this Jarrell also sat down with Mayor Allen pandemic, happily.

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