Evince Magazine January 2012

Emerging from a Cocoon Page 13

Corks & Forks Calendar Clips Page 18

BLAST Calendar Clips Page 18

Sarah Folmar: Always on the Run

January 2012

Photo by Lona Kokinda.

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Editor’s Note

My mom and dad blessed me with good genes and helpful habits. I’ve never made a New Year’s resolution to be organized or to lose weight, because there is no need.

(Yes, admitting that can cause one to lose friends.)

However, I’m a firm believer in setting goals. If you don’t, how do you know when you’ve accomplished them?

This issue is full of potential new goals and ways to renew your body, mind, and spirit.

For example, to renew your mind, Jane Wiseman suggests reading a book. See her review on page 15. For body renewal, read page 17, Dave Gluhareff’s tips on what to do and more importantly what not to do. Ché Chaney-Mitchell ponders her personal renewal program on page 5 and Sarah Folmar, who is featured in the cover story, has made it her job to help you.

I‘d like to suggest adding one more aspiration to your list— pick one day a month and do something new to recharge your mind, body, and/or spirit. Peruse the calendar on page 14 and the Calendar Clips on page 18 for ideas.

I’ve chosen the 12th of each month because this is 2012.

Looks like I’ll be going to the opening reception of a new art exhibit at the Danville Museum on January 12th. I hope to see you there. It’s free! What’s stopping you?

Sincerely,

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January Contents Editor’s Note

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Sarah Folmar / Always on the Run

by Joyce Wilburn

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She Said He Said / Marriage and The Art of Backing Up

by Dena Hill & Larry Oldham

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Renewing Body, Spirit, Mind Che’ Chaney-Mitchell

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Spring to Green with Sexy Trees

by Chris O’Boyle

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Second Thoughts / Take Me Far from the Madding Crowd

by Kim Clifton

12 Spotting Exceptional Customer Service

by Judy Dalton

Contributing Writers

James Barkhouser, Lynne Bjarnesen, Ché Chaney-Mitchell, Kim Clifton, Judy Dalton, H. Lee Fowlkes, Dave Gluhareff, Dena Hill, Telisha Moore Leigg, Linda Lemery, Chris O’Boyle, Larry Oldham, Susan Paynter, Jo Silvers, Libby Spainhour, Joyce Wilburn, Jane Wiseman, Annelle Williams, Mack Williams

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13 Emerging from a Cocoon

by Mack Williams

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14 Calendar 15 The Night Circus / A Book Review

by Jane Wiseman

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16 Reflecting Forward New Year’s Resolution: Get Rid of Stuff

by Linda Lemery

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17 Start This and Stop That / New Year’s Tips

by Dave Gluhareff 18 Calendar Clips 19 Around the Table / A Healthier 2012

by Annelle Williams

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itting in her CEO office at Danville’s YMCA, Sarah Folmar can barely contain her enthusiasm while talking.

“Running has been my passion since college. In 2000-2001, I ran in five marathons,” she says listing Chicago, Cincinnati, San Diego and Austin as cities where she ran the required 26.2 miles.

“It’s a great way to see a city—just run through it!” she quips as though that would be obvious to everyone.

“Marathons are hard on your body though, so I became interested in triathlons-swimming, biking, and running- but with family and work now, I usually just try to exercise on my own,” she adds. The Ohio native and University of Cincinnati Health Promotion graduate can often be seen running at the Y, on Main Street, or in her Brown’s Summit, North Carolina neighborhood beside husband, David, with two-year-old, Wesley, in the jogger.

Although it’s clear now that being a YMCA director is the perfect career choice for Sarah, that wasn’t always true. “When I went to college, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, so I enrolled in a variety of classes and started taking aerobics at the local Y, which was on the campus. I fell in love with group exercise and fitness,” she continues, smiling at the memory. Soon she was assisting the instructor, then she became the instructor, and after a short time she was training instructors. Those positive experiences encouraged her to search nationally for a YMCA fitness director’s job after graduation.

In 1997, the Knoxville, Tennessee, YMCA offered her a position and the career journey began that would eventually lead to Danville. In 2000, the Chicago

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accomplishments. They lose weight; they go off medicine; they gain friends and the Y has changed their lives. I thank God every day for my Y and for my staff and members. I thank God for allowing me to do what I do.”

In the five years that Sarah has been at the Danville Y, things have been improving at lightning speed and now the capital campaign to build a new facility is underway. It isn’t surprising that progress would happen so quickly under her leadership, because Sarah Folmar is a woman always on the run—both literally and figuratively.

YMCA CEO Sarah Folmar is surrounded by staff and Y members.

The children form the letters spelling YMCA. Photo by Michelle Dalton.

Sarah Folmar

Always on the Run

by Joyce Wilburn YMCA called her north to a different part of the world and a unique situation. “Their Y was huge with a 198-room hotel attached to it.

As fitness director and eventually operations director, I was second in command and learned a great deal,” she says, not mentioning the award for Outstanding Leadership, Services, and Dedication they gave her that is hanging on the wall behind her Danville desk.

After four years, a move to Ohio brought her to a Y that was closer to family. Then, on September 30, 2006, Sarah and David were married and exactly one month later she accepted the position as Chief Executive

Officer of the Danville YMCA—the first female to hold that job in its 126-year history. Sarah explains her motivation for taking on the new responsibility: “When I came to Danville, I realized the challenges and wanted to make a difference in the lives of those who live here. I wanted to make the Y as inviting as possible and make people feel like they could change their lives and be a part of something bigger than themselves.” After a slight pause, she continues, “People come to the Y for different reasons but at the end of the day, it is my job and our team’s job to help them become stronger in spirit, mind and body and to celebrate their

This artist rendering shows the new YMCA on the banks of the Dan River.

• Ground breaking for the new YMCA at the intersection of the Martin Luther King Bridge and Riverside Drive is scheduled for February or March. The new Y will face the Dan River and downtown.

• The opening of the new YMCA is scheduled for May 2013.

• Until January 31, potential members can bring in 5 canned goods or personal items to donate to God’s Store House and the joiner’s fee of $50 will be waived.

• For more information visit 810 Main Street or www.ymcadanville.org or call 434.792.0621.

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January 2012 because if I turned around and saw 50 pairs of eyes staring frantically at me when I was trying to back-up, I might just park that yellow monster and walk the students home.

SHE SAID

by Dena Hill

Marriage and the Art of Backing Up

It’s a brand new year and time to look forward to all the wonderful possibilities life has to offer; but I want to take a brief look backward.

That’s what the highway patrolman told me to do when I was 16 years old and taking my driving road test. I didn’t read anywhere in the manual where there was a specific time that a driver had to look backward when the car was moving in reverse.

I’ve learned since then that it’s anytime the car is backing up. He had the audacity to tell me that I turned around before I stopped the car completely.

Of course, I did; my neck was tired.

HE SAID

by Larry Oldham Thank you for the compliment and you’re right. I have never had a problem backing up. (I can’t say that about driving forward though.)

The day I turned 16 and got my license I went to see a friend and drove into his driveway.

When I backed out, I hit the car parked across the street at his neighbor’s house. I left the scene of the crime and drove home.

There was no damage, thankfully, but I had learned a lesson.

She said He Said

Then as we travelled down the road, we came to a railroad crossing. I heard the train and I saw the track, but it didn’t really click in my mind that I should stop, until the last minute.

Fortunately, I managed to come to a smooth stop without slamming on brakes and ejecting my very important passenger. With his hand on the door handle, he said, “Whew!

I didn’t think you saw the sign or heard the train coming.” I assured him that I was in control. When my very nervous blue-uniformed guardian of the people returned to the highway patrol station, he solemnly handed me my license but also told me that he hoped my parents wouldn’t let me drive. I’ve always believed that people learn a lot during a testing situation and I never forgot those two traffic rules.

Now, here is one of those rare times when I have to pay you a huge compliment. I’m always impressed when I see you drive a car, truck, or bus in reverse (except, when you backed a U-Haul truck into the corner of my house). You don’t turn around; you’re adept at using mirrors and do it perfectly. You never turn around when you’re backing out of the driveway or a parking space.

I guess that comes from driving a school bus when you were 16 years old. The State of Virginia would probably pay me not to drive a bus,

Yes, I had my driver’s license, but that didn’t make me a good driver. Sort of like marriage. You have a marriage license but that doesn’t mean you know how to have a good marriage.

So as you reflect back about your driving skills or lack of knowledge about how to back up, I will reflect on our first year of marriage and how it has flown by.

Both of your sons were married, one in Chapel Hill and one in Charlotte. Thank God for your daughter’s help or we would never had made it through their weddings and definitely not through our own.

You even survived your youngest son’s commissioning in the Navy without too many tears.

We survived the year after hitting a deer on the highway late at night and being stranded while waiting for a tow truck. We got through Halloween by not giving out candy because we were out of town. We got through the year without gaining too much weight. So all in all we both moved forward without backing up and we made it through our first year of marriage. Amazingly we are still married and even though we don’t have a monster yellow bus, we do have two cars that prevent us from having to walk – even though one of them still has deer tracks on it.

Happy New Year, darling.

He Said / She Said can be seen in Showcase Magazine.

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Renewing Body, Spirit and Mind

by Ché Chaney-Mitchell

It is a new year and I have 12 months of resolutions that will hopefully renew body, spirit and mind.

To renew my body, I will think of it as a temple and respect it. Watching what I eat and controlling my portion size is the beginning of my 2012 weight loss plan. Losing weight takes courage, dedication and perseverance. It’s a journey and sometimes it feels as if I am on a roller coaster ride. This is not just an ordinary resolution; it is a lifestyle change. Also drinking lots of water, getting plenty of exercise and resting will help with my transition to a healthier life.

To renew my spirit, my Christian beliefs and passion for writing will give me willpower.

With prayer and my journal of thoughts, I will have the motivation and determination it takes to lose weight. When I am struggling with my results,

I need faith and power to keep moving. It takes energy to exercise so I will try to make it fun by dancing to upbeat music, taking Zumba classes or playing with my children. I believe it is possible to have fun while losing weight.

Prayer helps with renewing my mind. There are times when I feel stressed and burdened with reality and the pressures of my body image. Society has a way of making overweight people feel inferior because their bodies are not perfect. Having high self-esteem and confidence is important. It helps when rude comments or looks come my way.

I just simply say, “I am beautiful, love me for me and take me as I am.”

This year, when the journey becomes tough, I will turn my situation over to God so the weight of losing weight can be lifted from my shoulders.

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Evince Magazine Are you longing for spring and seeing your garden come alive?

Are you itching to go outside and dig in the soil? What can you do until then?

non-profit association, All-American Rose Selections.

If you have been interested in growing your own strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries, attend Small Fruits in the Home Landscape. Dr. Jeremy Pattison, Assistant Professor at N.C. State, will describe the soil requirements, fertility, irrigation, pruning and cultivar selection of these berries, especially blueberries. Pattison is a full-time strawberry breeder and his current research hopes to produce a better tasting, more nutritious berry.

Now is the best time to plan your gardens for the coming year.

Think about what worked last year and what didn’t. What type of changes are you contemplating?

Before you start planning, attend the Danville Master Gardener Association Spring to Green Horticultural Symposium. Don’t let the title chase you away-this event is not just for Master Gardeners or those in garden clubs. It’s open to the entire community. This all-day event is for gardeners of all levels, from the I-have-no-idea-whatI-am-doing beginner to the advanced gardener seeking new information.

Dr. Alex Niemiera, Associate Professor of Horticulture at Virginia Tech, will present the keynote address, Sexy Trees, revealing the obvious and not so obvious aesthetic virtues of his favorite trees and sensational shrubs. He will include using woody plants in the landscape and give an update on the pertinent issues relevant to landscape professionals and gardeners.

Niemiera is a published researcher, has written over 70 publications for the Virginia Cooperative Extension and has authored chapters in several books.

After the keynote address, participants will have a choice of attending three of the six breakout sessions. Do you have an exotic plant that has taken over your garden? Niemiera will teach about invasive plants, the impact they have on the natural environment and the balance between exotic and native plants in your home landscape in A

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Finally, learn landscape makeover in Robert’s Top 10 Worst Landscape Design Ideas. Robert McDuffie, landscape architect and associate professor at Virginia Tech, will present the principles of landscape design, the identification of some common errors and landscaping alternatives. He will also lead Garden Photography in the Digital Age. Over the past 14 years, McDuffie has taken groups to view the best gardens in the world.

While this provides great subject matter for photographs, some of the best shots can be found in your own backyard. He will explore how you can improve your personal photography.

Spring to Green with Sexy Trees

by Christine O’Boyle Fundamental Look at the Invasive Plant Problem.

Want to add more color to the sunny area of your garden? Consider roses.

David Pike, President of Witherspoon Rose Culture from Durham, will present Basic Rose Care-- selecting, planting, and caring for roses.

He will also offer Advanced Rose Care, providing information on

new roses, rose diseases and how to treat them. Pike oversees the maintenance of several rose gardens in Danville, including the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History and the Stratford Memorial Rose Gardens. Witherspoon Rose Culture is home to over 2,000 rosebushes and has been awarded the designation of Outstanding Rose Garden Maintenance by the

• The Spring to Green Horticultural Symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 19, (snow date is January 26) at the Stratford Courtyard Conference Center, 149 Piney Forest Road.

• Registration deadline is Monday, January 9.

• The $40.00 fee ($45.00 after the deadline) includes morning snack, lunch and attendance at four presentations.

• Vendors will be selling plants and other garden related items.

• For more information, visit www.danvillemastergardeners.org or call 434.799.6558.

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Evince Magazine ask where something was and their assorted responses were like flippers ricocheting us from one side of the store to the other. We’d roll back empty-handed only to be launched again in a different direction.

This was lunacy on steroids.

Other stores make you line up in an orderly fashion to buy the little doggy in the window. This one makes you surround your item until the cellophane is ceremoniously ripped off, thereby signaling for the fighting and screaming to begin. It was a pathetic sight. Grown men waiting to grab cheap TVs sealed in plastic salivated like sailors on shore leave looking at a see-through nightie.

Women tinier than Celine Dion rushed with more determination than quarterback Peyton Manning headed for the end zone.

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are developmental milestones A: There that an infant goes through within

the first year. Every child develops differently so these milestones are based on typical development. From 0 to 3 months a child should react to loud sounds, like jump or blink. From 3 to 6 months the child should recognize parents or caregivers voice. From 6 to 9 months the child should begin to turn toward sounds and begins babbling. From 9 to 12 months the babbling becomes language and words have meaning. For example “mama” is used for mom and “dada” is used for dad. At this stage the child will also begin to respond to music. If you have any questions discuss them with your infant’s primary care provider and schedule an appointment at Danville ENT Hearing Center, (434) 791-4170 for an audiological evaluation. If there is a decrease in hearing the sooner it is addressed the better.

Whether it’s Black Friday sales in November or White Sales in January, people become more primal when it comes to saving money, which really isn’t karma after all. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Let’s just hope that the economy picks up this year. From the fights I saw in the checkout lines to save some dough, I’d hate to see what it would look like in a breadline to eat some.

by Kim Clifton ©2012

Far from the Madding Crowd Don’t mess with karma. Beginning Black Friday sales on Thursday and pretending that 10 p.m. is really midnight causes the sun and moon to be in a weird alignment. When I shopped my first Black Friday to save a few bucks, I found myself in a parallel universe where everything looked the same, but nothing really was...starting with the store itself.

I won’t name names because I shop there all the time. I thought I knew this store like the back of my hand, but that wasn’t the case on that “Black Friday-Thursday” night.

Nothing was as it should have been.

Nothing was where it should have been. Store aisles were marked offlimits with the yellow tape like the cops use at crime scenes.

No one told me how these sales worked. I didn’t know they moved the best buys out of the toy department completely. Without a treasure map, I would have never thought to check cosmetics to get a claim ticket for a Mickey Mouse jeep. But that’s how it went down.

The main passageways were filled with mountains of merchandise.

Helium balloons swayed above them identifying the piles by price, not by name. Identical boxes were sealed

together in layers and layers of plastic wrap like a mummy convention was in town. Too bad it wasn’t. I stood a better chance of swiping a jewel from King Tut’s mask than one of those $5 Barbies.

Those who found their stacks stood beside them like they were guarding Fort Knox. People were huddled two and three deep making passage by them impossible. Nothing short of a battering ram could scatter those crowds, except maybe the threat of showing beach movies with Rosie O’Donnell sporting a thong.

My sister and I were naive enough to think that if we got there early, the toys would be on the shelves where they belonged. We’d schemed a plan wherein the men would grab the boxes and bring them to the garden center where we’d be lounging in chairs waiting for the time to check out.

Turns out that we ended up fishing and hunting more than camping. We fished for hints to find out where the toys were and spent the rest of the time hunting for them. Wild goose chases are more organized than shopping this way. Either the clerks really didn’t know where the items were located or they were having a great time playing human pinball with us. We’d

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aurel Knox checked her long sleeves, made sure they were over her cuts as she saw her brother, Matthew, pass her English classroom.

He, on his way to third period with his hands in his pockets, had no books on his back or under his arms, just his friends, Colby and Mark, beside him. At least they had books. Matthew took nothing but himself, bumping and bruising down the central wing of Clarkwin High School. Laurel felt fiercely that some people held hurt better than others, understood the equality of ache. Matthew didn’t.

Slipping grades, fighting at school with “that other boy,” Mama’s worrying at his late nights God-knew-where, Laurel knew her brother was losing whatever battle he was waging, and she was leaving at the end of the school year for college. Already, she’d been accepted by her fourth-choice college and was waiting to hear from her favorites.

Once she left, she wasn’t going to come back, not like her cousin Karen did, pregnant and sad, holding tea with her pain in her parent’s living room. Or like her mother, broken since her father’s defection made her like some leftover half-eaten sandwich. She could find other examples if she tried, if more data was needed. Fact was, women in her family didn’t seem to fare well in this area and she was getting out, was going to one of her three top choices as soon as they would allow it.

Laurel picked up her books, going to her next class, always moving forward.

But more than missing her mother who grieved or her father who gave her mother that grief, she would miss Matthew, at least the little boy she used to know whose sweaty hair curled as he slept and who hardly ever teased. She walked slowly behind him now, watched him go on and on as he kept down the hall until he turned the corner, gone from her view. She knew

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thought, that sleeping boy, that warm-frombath comrade-in-arms.

She wasn’t in time.

Because his eyes had the truth, bare and blank even in the crowd and the wrists making fists below the sleeves, bunches of rage because the world was going to be a shoe that just didn’t fit, because it all was going to hurt and keep hurting. Some people held hurt better than others, understood the equality of ache.

Matthew didn’t. His odds seemed bad.

Probability fiction by Telisha Moore Leigg what he was into, she thought. Kids whispered about him, things, little bits of money he didn’t really need but always seemed to have, things not his he seemed to possess. If he was hellbent on fighting the world, he had a bad plan of attack, choosing a way he couldn’t win. Laurel watched her little brother and knew. In his way, Matthew was leaving too, she guessed. Laurel took note, a sense of urgency gripping her, hoping she wasn’t too late.

Laurel was sitting in statistics class listening to Mr. Plington go over alternative hypothesis and ante, when the knowledge came to her. In that moment, Laurel understood the manipulation of facts, how numbers were like grief and pain, how sorrow was as neutral as a number, how it could be nonaligned about who it went to, a symphony of even distribution and elastic enough to encompass all.

Savagely, Laurel made herself concentrate on Mr. Plington—again and again his voice moving her pen to furious notes, taking more notes than she would ever review. Laurel thought life was how you looked at it, how you turned it to your purpose.

And if you couldn’t turn yourself to the way want worked, you made yourself stop wanting. Laurel fingered gently

the slightly raised cut in the inside crease of her arm. She would talk to Matthew today outside the lunch room by the parking lot and ask him if he was doing anything and if he was, to tell him to stop, just stop. Nothing was worth what he would do to their mother and even though her miserable father didn’t deserve any consideration, to him as well. When the bell rang, Laurel got up and put the notes in her binder; she walked briskly toward the cafeteria.

Across a crowded group of high school kids’ heads she saw him, laughing with his head tucked until he looked up, startled a little at seeing her, then nothing, just nothing. Mattie-boy, she

He felt alone, she thought, and she was leaving. Maybe the divorce hurt him more.

Maybe some folks had it worse. She could call him spoiled, but he really wasn’t. His truth was he hurt and he thought he was healing it.

Laurel felt for the marks on her arms and couldn’t really tell him that there wasn’t pleasure and comfort in a little destruction. She should tell him that life isn’t always this way, all your ice cream and blood melting with the candles on your birthday, but Laurel didn’t completely believe that herself.

Most days she held her own arms for comfort.

One consolation, for a few seconds, Laurel watched Matthew as he watched her-- both evaluating each other like a double-blind experiment where she couldn’t tell who was being treated and who was in control. All this over oven-baked fries and pizza, all through her eyes and the real probability of his ruin, just before he looked at her one last time and turned away.

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Spotting Exceptional Customer Service To encourage exceptional customer service, the Business Development Committee of the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce and Evince will recognize those who give it. When you experience exceptional customer service, tell us about it in 300 words or less. Include your name and phone number. Email your story to joycewilburn@gmail.com or visit www.dpchamber.org; click What’s New - Customer Service Award Nomination.

by Judy Dalton

I would like to recognize Earnest Fitzgerald, delivery person for Sherwood House, 120 Arnett Boulevard, for exceptional customer service.

My husband and I have a king-size mattress that needed twirling and we could not handle it due to the size. We purchased the mattress from Sherwood House, so I called the owner, George Perry, and asked if he had a delivery person who would be willing to help us out. He recommended Earnest and told me he would call that afternoon-- and he did. Earnest said he could do the job for us with no problem. He came the following Tuesday and completed the job in less than 10 minutes. He was the nicest person you will ever meet. We were glad to work with him and if we have other jobs, we certainly will contact him.

Stop by Sherwood House and say hello to Earnest and tell George what a valuable employee he has onboard. Earnest is a most deserving person of this award.

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Tom Belles takes advantage of a warm day and paints one of the ceiling medallions outside.

When my brother, Joseph Howe Williams, visited Danville, one of the sight-seeing items included in his trip was the Sublett-Miller house on Main Street’s Millionaires’ Row. At one time, that was the residence and medical office of Dr. E. Howe Miller, my brother’s delivering doctor and the person who was the inspiration for my brother’s middle name. We rode by the house where the present owners have put a great deal of time and energy into its meticulous restoration over the past 11 years. My brother seemed pleased that the house was being restored.

While walking past on another day, I noticed what appeared to be a string of decorative lights strung at the top of the intricate metal framework of the front porch. I’ve never seen those bulbs lit and when I first noticed them, their somewhat weather-worn look gave the appearance of butterfly chrysalises or moth cocoons strung together.

At other times, while driving by in the evening, I see a solitary light in only one room. I always assume

Emerging from a Cocoon

by Mack Williams that within the reach of that light, someone is working with steady dedication toward the proper resurrection of the Sublett-Miller House.

Seeing that light one night, I thought back to when I was the director of the Womack Museum on the campus of Danville Community College. I raised both Polyphemus and Luna Moth caterpillars to give the public a little something extra and alive at which to look. A clear plastic caterpillar container was sitting on my desk one day and I noticed a moth caterpillar beginning to construct a cocoon. Before the completion of its cocoon, I could still see the caterpillar working inside his solitary room.

The work being done in each of those solitary rooms of the SublettMiller house is like the work of that caterpillar. At its proper time, the former home of Dr. E. Howe Miller III will re-emerge from its time-spun cocoon in beauty, both inside and out.

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January Calendar Ongoing

Guided Walking Tour – Millionaires Row, The Secrets Inside. www. danvillehistoricalsociety.org. 434.770.1974.

Through January 14

Living Off the Land Exhibit. Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) – 276.634.4185.

Through January 31

Canned Food/Personal Item Drive.

See story page 3.

Through March 4

Damsels, Dragons and Ladies Exhibit – Pictures of damselflies, dragonflies and ladybugs along the Riverwalk. M-S 9:30am– 5pm, Sun 1–5pm. DSC – 434.791.5160.

January 1 (thru 15)

Holidays Job Fair – Virtual job fair opportunity to apply for professional and highly skilled positions throughout the region. Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce. 434.836.6990.

January 2 (thru 30)

Aerobics. MW 5:30-6:30pm. Community Center, Chatham – 434.432.3115.

Belly Dance Classes. Mondays. intermediate, 5:30pm, beginning 6:45pm.

Pepsi Building. 434.797.8848.

Boot Camp. M/F 6am. YMCA – 434.792.0621.

Spin Fusion. 12pam. YMCA – 434.792.0621.

January 5

Bob Ross Painting Class - Blue Run. 10am–3:30pm. Piedmont Arts Association (PAA), Martinsville – 276.632.3221.

Take the Wheel - Get the Best Car Deal.

6:30-8pm. Coates Rec Center. 434.797.8848.

January 5 (thru 26)

Curiosity Corner – Make crafts, play games and have fun. Ages 3-5. TH 9:30am12:30pm. Coates Rec. 434.797.8848.

Bite into Story Time – Read a story and make it come to life through crafts, music, movement and snacks. 10-10:45 am.

City Auditorium. 434.797.8848.

Master’s Swim Workout Sessions.

6:30pm. YMCA – 434.792.0621.

Kuumba-West African Dance – Live drumming and energetic dancing. TH 6:30-8pm. City Armory. 434.797.8848.

January 6

Zumba Gold w/Donna. Fri. 434.797.8848.

First Friday Art Walk – Visit the art studios, meet the artists, browse original works of art and participate in arts–related activities. 5-7pm. Studio 107, Martinsville – 276.638.2107.

January 6 (thru 27)

Story time – Share stories and songs with a set theme. Ages Birth-5. 10-11am.

DPL – 434.799.5195.

January 7

VA-NC Piedmont Genealogy Society Meeting - The new self-guided tour of the Holbrook-Ross Historic District (the first neighborhood for the African-American community at the turn of the century until the late 1960s) will be discussed. 6:30pm.

Free booklets. DPL. 434.792.3674.

Story Lab – Listen to stories while doing something creative with a special theme and art medium. Ages 5-9. 10-11am.

DPL – 434.799.5195.

DRBA’s First Saturday Outing – Fieldale Trail Hike. 10am. 276.647.3274.

Bob Ross Painting Class – Blue Run. 10:30am–3:30pm. Ballou Park.

434.797.8848.

January 3 (thru 24)

January 8

January 3

Sewing with Kitty. Tues 6:30-8:30pm.

Coates Rec Center. 434.797.8848.

January 3 (thru 31)

Bikes and Trikes – Ride around the gym or try the obstacle course. TU/TH 9-9:45am.

City Auditorium. 434.797.8848.

Koates Kids Pre-School Program – Different themed activities introduced each week through events, games, arts, and crafts. Ages 3-5. T/W 9:30am–12pm.

Coates Rec. 434.797.8848.

Chicks w/ Sticks – knitting & crocheting class. T/Th 11:30am-1pm. City Auditorium.

434.797.8848.

Zumba Class. Tues 5:30-6:30pm.

Community Center, Chatham – 434.432.3115.

African Dance Ensemble – Learn the art of African Dance. Tues 6pm. Coates Rec Center. 434.797.8848.

Belly Dancing Class. TU 7-8pm. Community Center, Chatham – 434.432.3115.

January 4

Ice Bowl Disc Golf Tournament. 9am-2pm.

Ballou Park Disc Golf Course. 434.799.5215.

Senior Bowling Tournament. 10am-12pm.

Riverside Lanes. 434.791.2695.

New Year’s Calendar Craft – Create a colorful calendar. Ages 6-10. 3:30-4:30pm.

Danville Public Library (DPL), Westover Branch – 434.799.5195.

January 4 (thru 25)

Zumba Gold for Seniors. 11am.

YMCA – 434.792.0621.

Power Yoga. 6:30pm. YMCA – 434.792.0621.

Art with Flo – Wet-on-wet technique. Weds.

Location/times vary. 434.797.8848.

Lighten Up for Life! – Fun fitness, nutritional programs, guest speakers, prizes. W 9-11 am. Ballou Rec – 434.799.5216.

Chatham Oboe Concert. See story page 18.

January 8 (thru Feb. 5)

Click Clique II Photography Exhibit.

See story page 18.

January 9

Anime Club – Come watch anime, talk manga, and enjoy things Japanese. 4-6pm.

DPL– 434.799.5195.

January 9 (thru 30)

Let’s Line Dance. 7-8:30pm. Ballou Rec Center – 434.799.5216.

January 9 (thru 31)

Art with Judie – Learn how to paint with oil or watercolor. Times/days vary. Ballou Annex. 434.797.8848.

January 9 (thru Feb. 13)

Zumba Classes – M/TU, 5:30 or 6:30pm.

434.797.8848.

January 10

An Evening with Congressman Robert Hurt. 6-8:30pm. Institute for Advanced Learning & Research. 434.982.5234.

January 10 (thru 31)

Sporties For Shorties – Little ones learn basic skills for baseball, basketball and soccer. 9-9:45am. Coates Rec Center.

434.797.8848.

ABC, Look at Me – Explore the world of letters, colors and shapes through art, movement, songs and finger play. 1010:45am. City Auditorium. 434.797.8848.

Southside Strollercise Club – Enjoying the companionship and support of other new parents while strolling. 10:30am. City Auditorium. 434.797.8848.

January 2011 S 1 8 15 22 29

M 2 9 16 23 30

T 3 10 17 24 31

W 4 11 18 25

T 5 12 19 26

F 6 13 20 27

January 10 (thru Feb. 2)

January 14 (thru Feb. 4)

January 10 (thru Feb. 7)

January 14 (thru Feb. 25)

Beginning Swimming Adventures.

Ages 6-12. TU/TH 3:30-4:15pm. YMCA. 434.799.5215.

Beginning Knitting. 5:30-8:30pm. The Artisan Center – 276.632.0066.

Intro to Fine Woodworking. 5:30-8:30pm.

The Artisan Center – 276.632.0066.

January 11

Polliwogs & Science Stars – Learn about clouds, rain, and snow; make a weather dial that will help see whether the weather is cold or hot. Ages 3–4, 1–2pm. Ages 5–7, 3:30–4:30pm. DSC - 434.791.5160.

January 11 & 25

Homeschool Wednesdays – 1/11-Earth Materials and Processes; 1/25-Enrichment Earth and Human Activity. Ages 6-10 & 11-18. 10-11:15am. VMNH – 276.634.4185.

January 11 (thru Feb. 5)

Facing Life’s Challenges – The climbing wall will serve as a classroom in teaching participants positive and constructive ways to overcome challenges and adversities Ages 8-12. 3:30-5pm. Ballou Park Nature Center. 434.799.5215.

January 11 (thru Feb. 8)

Intermediate Stained Glass. 5:30-8:30pm.

The Artisan Center – 276.632.0066.

January 12

Gretna Little Theatre Organizational Meeting – Actors read selections from a repertoire of short and full-length plays, humorous skits, religious dramas, adapted classics, short stories and familiar poems. 10am. Trinity Episcopal Church.

434.228.1778.

Teen Movie Night – Popcorn and lemonade will be served while watching the movie Super 8. Ages 13+. 4pm.

DPL – 434.799.5195.

January 12 & 26

57 Express Bluegrass Concert.

TH 7pm. Community Center, Chatham – 434.432.3115.

S 7 14 21 28

Pre-K Cheerleading – Pre-schoolers will learn basic cheers and movements.

9:30-10:15am. Coates Rec. 434.797.8848.

PAA Exhibits – Dianne Smith-Surface and Soul; Pottery by Bill and Susan Moore. PAA, Martinsville – 276.632.3221.

January 16

Museum Guild Meeting. 11am.

DMFA&H – 434.793.5644.

N. B. Tween Book Club. Ages 9-12. 4pm.

DPL – 434.799.5195.

January 19

Spring to Green Symposium.

See story page 7.

Just Everyday Women Walking by Faith.

11am-1pm. Mary’s Diner.

Winnie the Pooh Party – Come have honey cake, play forest games, and dress up as your favorite Pooh character. Ages 10+. 4pm. DPL – 434.799.5195.

Roxboro Chamber Banquet. 5:30pm.

Palace Pointe. 336.599.8333.

Sky Watchers – Observe the Great Nebula M42, Orion’s Red Giant, Betelgeuse, Gemini the Twins, Castor and Pollox, and the planets Venus and Jupiter. 6-8pm.

DSC – 434.791.5160.

Women and Money I – Learn to understand unique challenges faced by women. Fine tune spending plan and explore money values. 6:30-8pm. Coates Rec Center. 434.797.8848.

January 20

Art Fusion. An information and training session designed to train therapists and volunteers to integrate creative and healing arts into the lives of those affected by memory loss. 2-4pm. DMFA&H – 434.793.5644 or 434.973.6122.

Year of the Dragon – Explore Chinese culture through food, crafts and music.

Ages 7-12. 4pm. DPL – 434.799.5195.

January 21

January 12 (thru Feb. 2)

Beginning Digital Photography.

5:30-8:30pm. The Artisan Center – 276.632.0066.

Snow Tubing Trip – Wintergreen Ski Resort. 8:30am-4:30pm. 434.799.5215.

Concealed Handgun Class. 9am-3pm.

Community Center, Chatham – 434.432.3115.

Family Movie Matinee – Movies, popcorn and lemonade while watching Cars 2.

10:30am. DPL – 434.799.5195.

January 12 (thru Feb. 9)

January 23

January 13

January 23 & 30

January 13 (thru Feb. 24)

January 25

Pottery I. 5:30-8:30pm. The Artisan Center – 276.656.5461.

Youth Swimming Lessons. M-F. Ages 3-14. Times vary. YMCA – 434.792.0621.

Corks & Forks. DSC See story page 18.

Friday Fun Runs – Distance determined by runner with each activity led by a group leader. 12-12:30pm. Crossing at the Dan. 434.799.5215.

January 13 (thru March 11)

Expressionism of Dick Morrill Exhibit.

Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History (DMFA&H). See story page 18.

January 14

Senior Shopping Trip. Ballou Rec. Center.

434.799.5216.

The Virginia Repertory Dance Co. The Prizery. See ad page 17.

Special Concert – Featuring The Golden Triad Show Chorus of Sweet Adelines International & The Sapphire Quartet.

7:30pm. The Kirby Theater – 336.597.1709.

Teen Book Club. Ages 12-19. 4pm.

DPL – 434.799.5195.

Kayak Roll Class – Learn how to roll a whitewater kayak. 6:30-7:30pm. YMCA. 434.799.5215.

Doodle Bugs – Land and Sea. Ages 3-5.

10am & 3pm. VMNH – 276.634.4185.

January 28

Boating Safety Education. 9:30am-5pm.

Ballou Park Nature Center. 434.799.5215.

Mario Kart One-Day Tournament – Show your Mario Kart skills and win prizes and glory. All ages. 11am. DPL – 434.799.5195.

Wild Music Exhibit – Hunt for sounds of forest creatures, investigate the songs of whales, record a musical memory, lay down a beat and add tracks with animal sounds and recordings of your own voices.

M-S 9:30am–5pm, Sun 1–5pm. DSC – 434.791.5160.

Mountain Heart Bluegrass. The Prizery.

See ad page 17.

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January 30

Open House. Preschool-4th grade 9-11am; 5th-9th grades 8:30am-2:45pm. Sacred Heart School. 434.793.2656.

January 31

Easy Soap Making. 5:30-7:30pm. Ballou Rec Center – 434.799.5216.

1859 Coffeehouse Lecture Series Federal Taxation - The Real Story & Letting Their Hair Down: Community in the Barber Shops and Beauty Salons of Film. 7pm.

Averett, Jut’s Cafe. 434.791.7189.

Upcoming Events February 1

Poetry-Drama-Dialogue. 7-9pm.

PAA – 276.632.3221.

February 1 (thru 21)

Art with Flo – Wet-on-wet technique.

Weds. Location/times vary. 434.797.8848.

February 2

Fine Arts Evening – Showcase of the school 6:15pm; Program 7pm. Sacred Heart School. 434.793.2656.

Women and Money II. 6:30-8pm. Coates Rec Center. 434.797.8848.

The Importance of Being Earnest.

7-9pm. Martinsville HS Auditorium. PAA, Martinsville – 276.632.3221.

February 3

Tchaikovsky St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra. See ad page 8, story page 18.

Chatham Concert Series – English Vocal Music from Butterworth to the Beatles featuring baritone Dr. David Castonguay with the Saturn String Ensemble. 7pm Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 66 North Main Street, Chatham. Admission is by donation.

February 3 (thru 5)

The Foreigner. 7:30pm/3pm. The Kirby Theater – 336.597.1709.

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The Night Circus review by Jane Wiseman

As January blusters, think of curling up with a good book. Why not treat yourself to one of the most charming reads of the previous year, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus?

This first novel about rival girl and boy magicians has been compared to Harry Potter and to the Twilight series, but also to more serious literature. It’s actually not a kiddie book. Be warned, though, reading it will make you feel like a kid again.

The story is set in Victorian-era English and American landscapes where, with no warning at all, a magical circus mysteriously appears.

The circus is only open between the hours of dusk and dawn, and its color palette is totally black and white. Inside, enthralled visitors see the most marvelous sights: acrobats pulling off impossible feats of contortion and strength and agility; fortune tellers who have eerie insights into their visitors’ inmost thoughts; an entire room full of wondrous ice sculptures that seem uncannily alive. The name of this amazing circus is Le Cirque des Rêves (the Circus of Dreams).

The tale’s main characters are Celia and Marco, two exceptional children mentored by powerful sorcerers. The novel is partly a coming-of-age story as Celia and Marco mature from childhood into young adults who question the wisdom of their mentors. The mentors are both famous stage magicians. Prospero (Celia’s mentor) and the mysterious Mr. A. H___ (aka “the man in the grey suit,” Marco’s mentor) have long thrilled audiences with the brilliance of their magic acts.

But their magic is no illusion. They pull real rabbits out of their hats. If a woman is sawn in half on stage, she really is cut in half. Early in the book, the sense of danger hovering about both men grabs us and won’t let go.

We readers are not sure how long the magicians have been alive, but it’s on the order of centuries.

They have fought a long-standing proxy war through a series of young children in whom they have identified a talent for the amazing. They send these children out to battle with their magic powers and it’s often a battle to death. Meanwhile, the magicians lay quiet wagers on which protégé will succeed and which will go down to defeat. In the wake of their rivalry, they leave a trail of broken lives.

As we grow to love Celia and Marco, whose magic manifests in distinctly different ways, we grow more and more fearful on their behalf. Befitting a novel with so many Shakespearean references, our fears intensify as a Romeo-andJuliet relationship begins to develop between them.

A number of critics have pointed out that the magical events of the story can seem a bit forced and the characters a bit cardboard, but

readers seem to have reacted with a resounding “Oh, poo!” to these sourpusses. Will Celia and Marco be able to step out from the shadows of their powerful controllers? Will they be able to act of their own free will, or are they only pawns in some dangerous game with rules they don’t understand? Most of all, is their love doomed or will true love triumph at last?

Author Erin Morgenstern seems like a bit of a magician herself.

The Night Circus is her first novel, and she wrote it under unusual circumstances. Each November has been declared National Novel Writing Month by an organization billing itself as NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org).

It’s dedicated to those who have always intended to write a novel but have just never gotten around to it. The NaNoWriMo challenge is to start writing on November 1 and by November 30 finish a full-length draft of 50,000 words. If you join up for the month, you’ll receive motivational messages and connections with your fellow sufferers. At the end of the month, you file º50,000 words and consider yourself a winner. It’s the writer’s equivalent of running a marathon. The emphasis is not on quality but on sheer survival, and for most entrants, that’s as far as it ever gets.

But Morgenstern, a visual and multimedia artist who aptly lives in Salem, Massachusetts, submitted her NaNoWriMo exercise to a publisher, and the rest is publishing history. It’s clear that the novel intersects with Morgenstern’s other artistic interests, too. Her web site, erinmorgenstern. com, shows her visual art, like her novel, to be chock-full of mythological and phantasmagorical references pointing you down hidden pathways and arcane rabbit holes. The most interesting project is her Phantomwise Tarot, a deck of tarot cards she designed totally in black and white, like the colors of the Night Circus.

So if smoke and mirrors enchant you, The Night Circus is the book for you. When you dig into this guilty pleasure of a novel, it’s like opening the best, most opulent candy box you’ve ever received and eating all the chocolates at one sitting. It’s addictive, it’s slightly shame inducing, and it’s delightful.

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Reflecting Forward New Year’s Resolution: Get Rid of Stuff

Last year I is finding the was delusional time and energy enough to to go through believe that I all the stuff and could make organize it...and no New Year’s falsely thinking resolutions that I’d ever use and our lives any of this stuff

by Linda Lemery would fall into again. place; we’d magically live in a clean house For example, I couldn’t bear instead of something that looked to give away the entire 7-book like it needed to be condemned; Harry Potter series because I dinner would always be planned thought I might actually find and served on time (as opposed the time to read past book to whatever box mix was closest #1 someday. And how could to the front of the pantry and I consider discarding my two could be thrown together in wrought iron swiveling sunroom a heartbeat and then sailed chairs, even though we don’t onto the table) and we could have a sunroom? If we build have a room that would always one in the future, I’d really be ready for overnight guests kick myself for not keeping the (without having to move stuff chairs. And no, I will not throw either across the street to one away anything of my elderly neighbor’s spare bedroom or mother’s while she’s still alive; into another neighbor’s garage). if she wants any of her things, I have to be able to lay hands on Well, how stupid was that? them. I store these things out Now that both kids live away, the of love and respect for her and house is more cluttered than that decision is not negotiable. ever, to the point that I now have So, knowing that I like to have an extra freezer stuffed full and stuff for any eventuality, how am sitting on a dolly in the kitchen, I going to get rid of stuff? along with two tables and bakers’ racks that stay covered with junk I know I need to make hard and the pantry is crammed so choices. Maybe two instead of full that even the box mixes won’t four snow shovels is enough in fit. All of my mom’s stuff that this climate in which some years we’re storing is stacked to the it doesn’t snow at all. Maybe ceiling on the old loft bed in one we don’t need to keep a small bedroom and in the former den. couch in my son’s old room The floor-to-ceiling shelves in the just for the dog. And maybe we dining room are full of books, don’t need all those paper draft papers, and other miscellanea. copies of my unpublished short As to the guest room that’s stories and novels. I’ll have to always ready for guests, well, think harder about all this as it took me a week of moving soon as I recover from moving stuff around the neighborhood all our extra furniture and other just to clear a place to put the junk back from the neighbor’s bed. Feng shui is not a phrase garage. Still, at times it’s almost one would apply to the Lemery overwhelming ... making me family. think that maybe we just need to buy a bigger house.

This year I am not delusional.

About the Author: When she’s The scales have fallen from my not moving furniture around the eyes. Here’s my New Year’s neighborhood, Linda Lemery resolution: to get rid of stuff. It’s llemery@averett.edu is Circulation not that I’m a hoarder. I have Manager at Averett University’s Mary B. Blount Library in Danville. She no problem with giving away welcomes your comments. things if somebody needs them.

I just donated acres of too-big clothes (the diet is working) to a woman who lost her home in a fire and a bunch of books to a family with children. My problem

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Start This and Stop That New Year’s Tips

by Dave Gluhareff MFS,CFT-ISSA

New Year’s resolutions usually focus on things to do and this list includes that. In addition, there is another list of what not to do.

Follow these tips and 2012 will be a great year because you will be making positive changes for your body, mind, and spirit.

Start exercising; stop being lazy.

Start eating healthy foods; stop eating junk.

Start eating small meals and snacks in moderation throughout the day; stop eating big meals and a big dinner before bed time.

Start getting 8 hours of sleep each night; stop staying up late and getting up tired.

Start napping each day; stop adding stimulants like caffeine and sugar.

Start spending more time with family; stop wasting time watching TV and playing video games.

Start communicating openly with your loved ones; stop holding your emotions inside.

Start thinking positive; stop being negative.

Start being thankful for what you have; stop taking for granted what you have.

Start good habits; stop bad habits like smoking.

Start playing with your kids outside; stop letting the TV, video games and Internet babysit your kids.

Start saying kind things; stop complaining and gossiping.

Start moving; stop sitting.

Start taking the stairs; stop taking the elevators or escalators.

Start eating more fresh meats, fruits, and vegetables; stop eating processed foods.

Start getting regular physical check-ups; stop putting your health on hold.

Start consistently telling your family and loved ones you love them; stop assuming or hoping they know.

Start believing in yourself; stop doubting yourself.

Start being a better listener; stop dominating conversations.

Start setting a good example for your kids; stop nurturing bad habits that lead to obesity and diabetes.

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Calendar Clips Clip it. Post it. Do it.

For more activities, see the calendar on page 14.

Sunday, January 8

Friday, January 13

Chatham Concert Series

Starting at 3:30 p.m. Gabriel’s Oboe will be performed by William Parrish at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 66 North Main Street, Chatham. Parrish is principal oboist for the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. Prior to joining the RSO he played English horn and oboe with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and also played with the San Francisco Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He was an educator at the Julliard School of Music. The program also includes the Saturn String Ensemble and Claudia Jones Patterson on piano. Admission is by donation. (submitted by Susan Paynter)

Sunday, January 8

Click Clique II Photography Exhibit

From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. there will be an opening reception for this exhibit in the lobby gallery of the Caswell County Civic Center, 536 Main Street East, Yanceyville, North Carolina. The work of four Danville photographers will be featured: Jonathan Scollo, Kurt Lindquist, Kenneth Bond, and Glen Scarboro. This free and open-to-the-public event, co-sponsored by the Caswell Council for the Arats and the Caswell Civic Center, will remain on view through February 1. (submitted by H.Lee Fowlkes)

Thursday, January 12

The reception is free and open to the public. There is an admission fee at other times. Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.. Admission is free to residents of Danville, Caswell County and Pittsylvania County the first Saturday and Sunday of each month. (submitted by Lynne Bjarnesen)

Corks & Forks

From 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., a smorgasbord of 5 white and 8 red wines from little-known wineries around the world will be featured at this annual event that benefits the educational programs at the Danville Science Center. White wines include crisp Australian and New Zealand, dry French, light and sparking Italian, fruity German, and luscious Argentinean and West Coast. Red wines include Tempranillo, Grenache, Malbec, Merlot, Syrah, Cahors and blends. Wines can be paired with food: seasoned beef tenderloin, roasted turkey, poached salmon, gourmet cheeses, light vegetables, and desserts. The tasting wines can be ordered and picked up later at the Gourmet Frog on Main Street. Wines by the glass will be available for $5. Specialty beers will also be available. Tickets are $40 per person. Attire is dressy casual. For more information, call 434.791.5160 or e-mail dscfoundation@smv.org. (submitted by Libby Spainhour)

Saturday, January 14 BLAST!

Blue Feet by Glenn Scarboro

The Expressionism of Dick Morrill Exhibit The opening reception for this new exhibit at the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, 975 Main Street, will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Dick Morrill makes narrative paintings, portraits and bas reliefs, capturing in highly charged images the spectacle of social folly and vagaries of the personality.

His work critiques power relations and examines the inner lives of individuals. Using bold colors and fractured forms, Morrill is both an expressionist and a humanist.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Morrill created a series of sculptures of abstracted figures in carved wood, cold cast metal and papier-mâché. In the mid-‘60s, influenced by the Vietnam War, Morrill began working on politically-charged images. With these paintings, the artist saw his mission to question authority and started the complex, narrative paintings that are the focus of his ongoing practice. In the 1990s, he entered a new phase with his painted portraits and the parallel sculpted bas reliefs. These works combine the social self with an examination of the private self, as revealed in faces with a complex, faceted topography.

Starting at 8 p.m., this Tony and Emmy Award winning sensation features 38 brass, percussion, and visual performers in an explosion of music and motion. Born on athletic fields across the nation and steeped in the tradition of military and outdoor pageantry, the production evolved from the spectacular showmanship of drum corps, marching bands, and color guards, where athleticism, musical talent, and kaleidoscopic movement merged into a thrilling new art form. Caswell Council for the Arts presents BLAST! for one performance only at the Caswell County Civic Center, 536 Main Street East, in Yanceyville, North Carolina. Tickets available at the Caswell County Civic Center Box-Office, at 336.694.4591and online at www.ccfta.org. (submitted by H.Lee Fowlkes)

Friday, February 3 Danville Concert Association

Tchaikovsky St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Roman Leontiev, one of Russia’s acclaimed conductors, will perform in Danville at GWHS Auditorium, 701 Broad Street, starting at 7:30 p.m. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition will be one part of the program. The orchestra shines in the works of the Russian Romantics. Brimming with bold Russian spirit, this orchestra promised to enchant its hearers in this inaugural American tour. Adult tickets are $25; students $10. For more information, call 434.792.9242 or visit www.danvilleconcert.org. (submitted by Jo Silvers)

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A Healthier 2012

by Annelle Williams

In 2012, I’m going to focus on healthier, more conscientious choices making 2012 a voice of health, hope and love.

My favorite winter meals are soups and stews—meals that feed the body and the soul. Some are a little more time-consuming than others, but all are simple flavors building on each other. The result can be surprisingly complex and delicious. This recipe is made with a filling I use for cannelloni, burgers, and Italian meatloaf, so the soup could be a second dinner the next day. And finally, adding pasta to a soup turns it into a full meal at our house, especially if it’s a filled pasta.

Stuffed Pasta Dumplings & Vegetable Soup (To save time, buy fresh tortellini or ravioli and skip to soup recipe. However, your own pasta will be delicious and making it is very therapeutic.)

Pasta Filling 2 tsp. olive oil 1⁄2 sweet onion, diced 2 garlic cloves, minced 1⁄2 lb. ground veal (may substitute pork, chicken, beef or even mushrooms) 2 oz. sherry (may substitute wine, balsamic vinegar, apple juice, etc.)

3 oz. prosciutto 3 oz. salami 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese (or other cheese of choice) 1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley 1 egg, beaten 1⁄2 tsp. salt

1⁄2 tsp. pepper 1/4 tsp. nutmeg

Pour olive oil into soup pot over medium heat. Add onions and garlic. Cook until they begin to soften. Add sherry and ground veal, stirring and cooking until veal is no longer pink. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.

Add prosciutto, salami and parsley to food processor with cooled veal mixture, Parmesan cheese and parsley. Pulse until well-blended. Add egg, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Pulse a few more times to combine. Set aside to make pasta.

Pasta 1 1⁄2 cups plain flour (or pasta flour) 3 eggs, beaten

1 tsp. olive oil 1 beaten egg to brush pasta

Combine flour, eggs and oil until ball forms. Knead dough until smooth (+-5 minutes). Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about an hour.

Remove from refrigerator; cut into 4 pieces. Working with one piece, roll into long strip (about 3x24 inches) either with rolling pin or pasta machine.

Add about 3⁄4 tsp. filling at 2-inch intervals down one edge of the strip.

Brush remaining exposed pasta strip with beaten egg. Fold pasta over filling and press to seal. Cut away extra pasta. Press between each area of filling with fingers to separate and seal each piece and cut apart with pasta cutter or small knife. Cook in boiling, salted chicken broth, about 3 minutes. Remove with slotted spoon to bowl and repeat with remaining pasta and filling. Add cooking broth to soup.

Vegetable Soup 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 cup chopped carrots 2 stalks celery, chopped 1 sweet onion, chopped 1 tbsp. chopped fresh rosemary and thyme, mixed

1 red pepper, chopped 1 can chopped tomatoes 32 oz. chicken broth, plus pasta cooking broth salt and pepper to taste grated Parmesan cheese to garnish

Pour oil into soup pot over medium heat. Add carrots and cook for a couple of minutes. Add celery; stir and cook another couple of minutes.

Add onions, fresh herbs and red pepper and cook for several more minutes, stirring a few times. Add tomatoes and chicken broth, stir to mix and bring to low simmer. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Add filled pasta to soup along with pasta-cooking broth and heat. Serve with toasted rustic bread and a little Parmesan cheese.

Find more recipes, on my blog: http://aroundannellestable.blogspot.com/

Deer hunting is again in season. Deer are moving around, and the number of deer-related accidents is rising.

A vehicle accident is truly a traumatic event; however, being prepared and knowing exactly what to do in case of an accident can lower your stress level and protect you from further injury.

First, don’t panic! Stay calm, move your vehicle to a safe location and turn on your emergency flashers.

Take every precaution to minimize the risk of further accident or injury to you and others. Call 911 and report the accident. The 911 operator will dispatch the appropriate responders.

Locate your license, registration and proof of insurance, then take the time to record the license plate numbers of all other vehicles involved.

If your vehicle is non-drivable, law enforcement personnel on scene will ask if you have a preferred tow truck operator. If you do, inform the officer.

If not, the officer will dispatch one based on a rotation schedule. You

will need to tell the tow truck driver where you want your vehicle towed. If you have a preferred collision repair facility, that should be your destination.

Finally, notify your insurance company of the accident as quickly as possible.

By law, your insurance company can neither require you to use a particular repair facility nor require multiple damage repair estimates.

For reasons I’ll discuss in the future, yours may attempt to influence your decision using phrases like “preferred facility,” “can’t guarantee their work,” “price differences,” etc. Do not be intimidated. You need the highest quality repairs performed by a repair facility of highest integrity. Research collision repair facilities now, before you actually need one!

Safe driving!

James Barkhouser Barkhouser Ford Lincoln Precision Collision Center