Evince Magazine February 2018

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Calendar Clips

The Courtship of Thomas Day & Aquilla Wilson Page 13

Barbara Seamster

Book Clubbing for Kids Page 17

Putting Her Heart into the Community See Page 3

Photo by Michelle Dalton Photography

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Editor’s Note

What motivates you? If you are Barbara Seamster who is pictured on the cover, it’s enthusiasm for making our community and world better. Read more on page 3.

Carollyn Peerman thinks about the message she is sending into the future and that inspires her to “Make the Minutes Count.” See page 7. Peyton Hoenig wants to always give extraordinary customer service. Learn more on page 8 in “Spotting Exceptional Customer Service.”

The review in “Book Clubbing” on page 16 gives insight into how to become more fit. It’s really quite simple. For an in-depth article about motivation, turn to Linda Lemery’s “Reflecting Forward” on page 20. Finish your reading on page 22 to see all the happy people in “Photo Finish” who are part of Vision 2035. They are smiling because they are planning an exciting future for our area.

These articles are only the tip of the iceberg. You will also find Telisha Moore Leigg’s fiction on page 10; Annelle Williams’ recipe for Super Bowl Sunday on page 21; Kim Clifton’s humorous “Second Thoughts” on page 9; and Carla Minosh’s “Renovation Reality” on page 4. Then read “Calendar Clips” and the calendar with pen in hand so you can circle all the events you want to attend.

After absorbing all this valuable information, think about your internal and external motivations and where they are leading you.

If you like what you see in your future, that’s great! If not, it’s time for a change.

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February Contents

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Editor’s Note

Barbara Seamster / Putting Her Heart into the Community

by Lanie Davis

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Renovation Reality / Part 21

by Carla Minosh

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The Voice of Readers

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Spotting Exceptional Customer Service

by Judith Holt-Tillman

Contributing Writers

10 Michael Fiction by Telisha Moore Leigg

Business Manager Paul Seiple (1.434.709.7349) paul@evincemagazine.com

11 Accidental Astronauts review by Deb Henderson

Marketing Consultants Kim Demont (434.792.0612) demontdesign@verizon.net

12 Calendar Clips

Lee Vogler (434.548.5335) lee@showcasemagazine.com Sly Milam (434.728.1291) sly@showcasemagazine.com

14 Calendar 16 Book Clubbing No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness by Michelle Segar a review by Diane Adkins

Art & Production Director Demont Design (Kim Demont)

17 Book Clubbing for Kids What are you not reading to your kids?

by Jessamyn Jade Rubio

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18 The Wine Spot What is your motivation for drinking wine?

by Dave Slayton

Deadline for submission of March stories, articles, and ads is Monday, February 19, at 5:00 p.m.

Submit stories, articles, and calendar items to joycewilburn@gmail.com.

19 What’s Happening in the Public Libraries

For ad information contact a marketing consultant or the Director of Sales & Marketing listed above.

20 Where Can I Find Evince?

Reflecting Forward / What Motivates You?

by Linda Lemery

Editorial Policies:

21 Around the Table / Egg Roll Bowl

by Annelle Williams 22 Photo Finish

Carol Metz

MaKING PeoPLe LauGh ouT LouD PaGe 12

Photo of Barbara Seamster by Michelle Dalton Photography

Editor Joyce Wilburn (434.799.3160) joycewilburn@gmail.com

Diane Adkins, Andrea Burney, Kim Clifton, Cathy Cole, Lanie Davis, Joyce Fuquay, Adam Goebel, Karen Harris, Deb Henderson, Judith Holt-Tillman, Karan Johnson, Telisha Moore Leigg, Linda Lemery, Charlotte Litzenberg, Erica Lowdermilk, Kathy Milam, Margaret Milam, Carla Minosh, Carollyn Peerman, Danielle Pritchett, Jessamyn Jade Rubio, Dave Slayton, Shirley Spalding, Jay Stephens, Lisa Tuite, Annelle Williams

Second Thoughts / A Trivial Pursuit

by Kim Clifton

On the Cover:

CEO / Publisher Andrew Scott Brooks

Associate Editors Jeanette Taylor Larry Wilburn Lanie Davis, Intern

Make the Minutes Count

by Carollyn Peerman 9

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The LauNch PLace

Investing in the region’s future PaGe 48

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10 yearS of “fuN IN recorD TIMe”

2018 Inductees PaGe 28

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here’s so much going on here, if you get involved,” says Caswell County resident and successful businesswoman, Barbara Seamster, while sitting in her office at Kare Pharmacy & Compounding in Danville.

The Director of Marketing & Communications adds, “You will succeed if you put your heart into the community.”

Since 1980, Barbara and Mike Seamster have lived on the family farm in North Carolina and their son, Daniel, was the fifth generation to reside there.

Barbara, however, has always worked in Danville. Wanting to take an active role in the city’s life is one reason she joined Danville Riverview Rotary nine years ago and why she is on the boards of the River District Association and Goodwill and a member of RASAP— the Regional Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention.

Barbara believes putting heart and soul into the community means “bettering where you are” and a way to follow Rotary’s motto of putting service above self. “I like the camaraderie and friendship of people with diverse backgrounds. It’s really unique to bring together so many people from many walks of life,” she says. Despite the differences, club members focus on what they have in common.

“We’re all like-minded as far as civic duty, giving back, helping the community, and coming up with service projects. It’s not about our businesses or our industries, it’s about what we can do to benefit others and engage the community.”

With that in mind, Barbara agreed to co-chair the annual Riverview Rotary Polio Plus Valentine’s Dance with Rotarian Janet Hamilton. For six years, they have been the organizers of this event to benefit polio eradication worldwide and they try to make each year better than the last. Since 1988, Rotary

Barbara Seamster Putting Her Heart into the Community

by Lanie Davis has been involved in immunizing 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. Although polio is only endemic in three countries today, the efforts to totally eradicate it are still ongoing. “I’m always challenging myself to raise a little more money and find more sponsors,” she says with a smile and then adds almost without thinking, “It’s about service above self.” Mark your calendar and plan to join her for a pre-Valentine celebration. It’s the least you can do considering she’s put her heart into making it the best ever.

• Riverview Rotary Polio Plus Valentine’s Dance will be held from 8:00 p.m. until midnight on Saturday, February 10, at the Stratford Courtyard Conference Center, 149 Piney Forest Road. Single tickets are $25; tables for eight are $225 and are available at Rippe’s, Ben David’s or any Riverview Rotarian. Tickets include heavy hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, live music by the band, 6th N Main, and dancing. For more information, call 434.713.9996 or visit www.riverviewrotary.net

• Riverview Rotary was formed on December 1, 1988.

To become a member of Riverview Rotary, contact a current member. Meetings are held every Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. Some of their community projects include Riverview Rotary Danville Christmas parade, River Ride, and Ducks on the Dan. They also give dictionaries to elementary school children, help with supplies for God’s Storehouse and care packages for troops.

• Rotary is an international organization, with 33,000 clubs and 1.2 million members worldwide. The organization’s goals include promoting peace, providing clean water, supporting education, and fighting diseases. Danville has three Rotary Clubs: Danville Riverview Rotary. Rotary Club of Danville, and Danville After Hours Rotary. All can be found at facebook.com.

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Renovation Reality

24 Reid Street Chatham, VA 434.433.2264

Part 21

by Carla Minosh

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Reid Street Gallery is a great place to gather with friends!

Bring a group for a fun day of shopping or sign up for a cooking or art class!

FEBRUARY CALENDAR OF EVENTS February 1 7:00 p.m.

Chatham First Monthly Meeting

February 3 Open House- Super Snack Suggestions Come by for 11:00 a.m. - samples and demonstrations of tasty snacks for your Big Game Party!

2.00 p.m.

February 3 Fused Glass with Aleen Wilson This popular class yields 11:00 a.m. a beautiful bowl or shallow dish. $45, minimum and maximum requirements to hold the class, reservations required 2 days before event.

February 6 6:00 p.m. or February 7 11:00 a.m.

February 10 7:00 p.m.

Lite and Easy Cooking with Clara Gutierrez Revamp your favorite dishes with lighter alternative ingredients and try some new ingredients to start the year off on the right foot! $45, minimum and maximum requirements to hold the class, reservations required 2 days before event.

Pittsylvania Literacy Program Benefit Mardi Gras Celebration! Celebrate Mardi Gras with this

fun benefit. Host a table at our Festival of Tables and invite 6-8 friends. Decorate your table in the theme of your favorite book and you and your friends may dress to the theme! Attendees will vote for their favorite table with dollars, which will be donated to the Literacy Program. Authentic Mardi Gras treats and beverages will be served. Admission, $10 per person.

February 14 Valentine’s Dinner Class with Clara Gutierrez 6:00 p.m. Clara will demonstrate an elegant dinner for 6 couples, from appetizer to entreé to dessert. Complete menu will be posted on our website. $110 per couple, reservations required by February 9.

February 17, Stained Glass with Aleen Wilson This new class is a more and intensive stained glass workshop, in two parts. Participants will learn February 24 basic techniques and finish three separate projects. All instruction and 10:00 a.m. materials included, and a light lunch. $200 per person, reservations 4:00 p.m. required by February 10, and minimum number of participants required.

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Featured Artist Katy Sulzman

Katy Sulzman is known for the colorful animal paintings she executes in pastels. She includes landscapes and portraits in her repertoire but loves capturing horses and domestic animals.

After a 40-year career in nursing, Katy retired to study and work in different mediums such as oils, acrylics and mixed media, doing both impressionistic and abstract work.

She studied at Wooster School in Danbury, CT, with Al Shundi, Chet Augustine, and Rob Hare. After moving to Virginia, she studied with Vera Dickerson at the Studio School in Roanoke.

She is influenced by the impressionists Cassatt, Degas and Manet, and a more recent interest in the work of Harley Brown, a master pastelist of Tucson, AZ.

Follow us on Facebook and check out our website for more events and information…..www.ReidStreetGallery.com

Unlike HGTV shows where home renovations are completed within 30 to 60 minutes, the Victorian house at the corner of Chestnut Place and Main Street in Danville has been under a transformation for 17 years.

This series that began in April 2016 explores the truth of home renewal from someone who has been there and done that. If you missed any of the installments, visit www.evincemagazine.com.

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ndy Compton, our talented faux-graining artist, has painted many amazing surfaces in our house including the dining room ceiling. Husband Tom created a design for the ceiling that had a series of sixteen borders with a central fleur-delis stylized flower symbol above a silvered/stained curved cove.

Andy would work at all hours and one evening he quietly continued to paint decorative details in the corner of the ceiling while we enjoyed dinner with family and friends. One latearriving guest was accustomed to seeing the room look like a construction zone and didn’t notice Andy at the top of the scaffold. He worked. We ate and talked. During the joyful noise of conversation, someone asked a question and Andy answered.

Our unknowing guest was momentarily shocked at hearing what seemed like a supernatural presence responding to the query. Her surprise changed to laughter when she looked up

and saw the proverbial fly on the wall who had been listening to the entire conversation. After the laughter subsided, Andy continued to work while we finished dinner. Not only did he beautifully execute the finished product, but he miraculously did it in a way that made a room whose walls aren’t parallel appear to have perfectly precise corners.

The walls of this room are also the result of Andy’s artistic abilities. We used a Lincrusta wallcovering with an Italian Renaissance design containing a large repeat of acanthus leaves flowing from a pomegranate center, bold floral designs, strings of pearls, and cascading ferns. Lincrusta comes in white and needs to be painted. We chose a harvest green color to complement the quartersawn oak and faux-grained wainscoting.

Andy provided us with a series of paint samples based on our theme colors, along with a cooler pallet of blue and gold. Our final choice incorporated hints of blue with burnt orange and gold-green dominating. He also worked in some reflective gold pigments as highlights that give the overall scheme a look of tooled, gilded, painted leather.

It is truly the icing on the cake.

Though we have begun to hang paintings throughout the house, we are loath to cover up even a single square foot of those walls.

They are masterpieces.

(to be continued)

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The Voice of Readers To the editor: I am missing “He Said/She Said.”

Have they (Dena Hill and Larry Oldham) retired? I don’t recall reading anything about it. I look forward to seeing what happens in Danville this year. I love your city.

Pat Hufford, Ruffin, NC

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Larry Wilburn.

So, gang up and come enjoy the creative lounging areas, bright lights, Ellen Davis and lively chatter! (See ad January 2018 page 4.)

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Photo Finish

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Telling the Rest of the Story See Page 3

Thank you, Pat, for inquiring into the status of “He Said She Said.”

With two new grandbabies this year, we have taken a month or two off to rejuvenate. Our plans are to come back soon with all of our new year stories. Thank you once again for being a dedicated reader.

Larry and Dena To the editor: Hanging out at Crema & Vine with buddies, breathing in the steaming coffee and hot chocolate and devouring delicious treats. Someone suggests that we tell Danville what a unique and charming gift this place is especially with live entertainment on Saturdays by classical guitarist

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Page 6 February 2018 I am pleased to nominate Peyton Hoenig for the Spotting Exceptional Customer Service Award. Peyton is employed by Wireless Zone/Verizon at 145 Holt Garrison Parkway.

Spotting Exceptional Customer Service

As Junior Samples, would say, my cell phone just “blowed up” one morning!

The screen was black; nothing I did worked.

Woe was me. Another phone purchase was

by Judith not in my budget. I Holt-Tillman went to the Wireless Zone/Verizon where Peyton, who had helped me with some simple things before, remembered me and seemed really glad to see me again. Poor man. He didn’t know what was coming. I handed him my injured red beauty and explained my dilemma. He soothed my fears immediately by smiling and saying that he couldn’t promise anything but he would try to rebuild it. After consulting a manual, he began the process of putting everything back into my phone, one by one, even the 268 photos. I told him not to worry about the pictures, but he insisted on retrieving each one individually. The rebuilding took almost three hours. During this time he was ever mindful toward other customers coming in and made sure they were given attention. He slowly and purposefully worked while attending to others, chatting with me, and always smiling.

When Peyton finished the job, I couldn’t heap enough praise on him or thankfulness. Before I left, he told me humbly about checking the manual and learning it might take three days to restore a phone problem like mine. He deserves more than I could say or give, but I did bake a triple-chocolate cake for him to share with his wife and young daughter. I will never forget this fine fella. Peyton Hoenig deserves this recognition. Thank you, Peyton.

Evince and the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce want to encourage and recognize exceptional customer service. When someone gives you exceptional service, please let us know. In 300 words or less, tell us what happened. Email your story to joycewilburn@ gmail.com or chamber@dpchamber.org.

Make the Minutes Count

by Carollyn Lee Peerman “How are the children?” is the traditional greeting of the Mesai tribe in Africa. That is because children are important. They make up at least one-third of the population and all of the future. Having children and teaching them well is an investment in the future. They are our most valuable natural resource. “That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life,” noted social reformer, Henry Ward Beecher. The children in your life are the doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, mechanics, and plumbers of tomorrow. “The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation,” stated Dr. Ray L. Wilbur.

Be an inspiration to children by loving them and laughing with them and you are a success. At first you think you are giving to children but as years go by you realize how much children are giving to you. Children are the freshest gifts from the hand of God; they bring something of heaven into the midst of your rough earthly existence. They live in the present. Be their model and example not their critic.

Never break the tender, sensitive heart of a child. “A torn jacket is

soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child,” wrote Longfellow. Moreover, children may not listen to you but they will imitate the behavior and words that they see and hear. Strive to be worthy of their admiration.

Children will live up to what you believe of them. “A great man is one who has not lost the child’s heart,” said the philosopher, Mencius.

As you go through life, preserve the spirit of the child within you.

Let something of the nature of your first year of life always remain within you. That fresh spirit of enthusiasm and wonder is just too precious to lose. Bring it with you into your mature years.

Why let the fire of youth burn out?

Why let lethargy steal over your soul? Enter into the imagination of a child at play. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see,” wrote Neil Postman. They go before us and beyond us leading the way.

The time that you and I have to influence their impressionable minds is so short. Once children leave the borders of childhood, they can never return again.

Make the minutes that you spend with a child count. Remember, they carry your message to the future.

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A Day in the Life!

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Enjoy a Farm-to-Table lunch from our award-winning dining program. In the afternoon, perhaps they’ll take part in a painting class, join a book club or get moving in an exercise class. Your loved one’s full day winds down with dinner and a movie.

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Evince Magazine Page 9 enjoy the Alexa device, I think Amazon missed its chance to offer full service. Robert only asks her if he needs a jacket when he leaves the house. I need to know if the one I’m wearing makes me look fat. And that my keys are still in the pocket of the one I took off last night. What seemed like a fun Christmas gift for my husband has backfired. He’s got a new friend and I’ve got a new foe. Every day brings a new battle of wits between this talking can and me…too bad she’s the only one armed.

Second Thoughts

by Kim Clifton ©2018

A Trivial Pursuit I am no longer the smartest woman in my house. I just got canned by a talking one.

Her name is Alexa. For those who don’t know her, she’s the chatting gizmo from the Internet-based company, Amazon. Alexa knows everything that has ever happened in the world, back to a time when Adam and Eve were the only ones living in it. On the outside, she looks like a container for chicken noodle soup, but it’s on the inside that she really starts cooking.

talk when I should be listening.

She only speaks when spoken to. I tell you more than you wanted to know and she answers concisely like a cautious witness on the stand. Robert is intrigued that she knows so much. I’m intrigued that he believes her. He takes her word for anything he doesn’t know and questions me about things he shouldn’t. The other day he blindly accepted her declaration that the Cincinnati Reds won the 1940 World Series but got up to check when I said it had stopped raining.

Alexa answers questions about anything from anyone. There’s no computer, no keyboard, and no typing. I felt pretty stupid the first time I had a conversation with this brainy container. Now I feel pretty stupid that I’m outsmarted by it. Alexa can rattle off the value of Pi as effortlessly as she can tell you the recipe for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My husband is so reliant that he begins every day by asking her the forecast. It’s a bit disconcerting to think that he talks to her before he talks to me, but truthfully she does wake up quicker. All he has to do is say her name and she lights up for him. Not me. He knows better than to call out my name until I’ve had at least two cups of coffee and a hot shower.

As fun as it is, this Amazon toy isn’t the first talking appliance I’ve seen. My sister’s 1987 Nissan had a warning system that played voice alerts when problems were detected. I’m not sure which was scarier… riding with a door that was open or riding with someone who had to be told that it was. While Alexa is valuable now, she would have been invaluable back in the day. When I was in school, we researched the hard way. There was no machine to help. We had to actually leave the house, go to the library, flip through the card catalog and check out books.

It meant reading chapters and taking notes. It required commitment. It required time.

That’s a far cry from sitting in the den and calling out requests without looking up from a game of Candy Crush. As much as we

Alexa and I are so different. I

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fter the second baby, Beau, Michael and I moved on 245 Aragon Lane to a small, two-bedroom, brick house painted white in Boris, North Carolina. It had a small garage that we didn’t really need. It wasn’t like it snowed or rained too much. The house was beautiful. Ivy grew high on the left side of a stone chimney also painted. We had a white, picket fence. Both my babies, my Isabelle, now almost four and my Beau, just out of arms, shared a bedroom with pale, apple-green walls that I painted myself. I remember there were lavender curtains that were some of the last Mother helped me pick out. I was almost 24. Michael was 30. He had just finished his Ph.D. and gotten a position at a local community college, where he proudly taught five classes, one class straight from his dissertation on Faulkner. I think we were in love, if not with each other, then with the headiness of youth and accomplishment.

That day, Mother had just dropped me off from the grocery store because we had only the one car, and I saw him first in the kitchen with the lights off, Michael. He still wore the blue oxford shirt with the buttons at the collar that kept a tie in place that I had ironed

Michael fiction by Telisha Moore Leigg that morning; he had not changed.

Clicking on the light, I asked Michael, my husband, where the babies were as I rearranged applesauce and milk on the top shelf of the fridge. I remember I moved the stick butter behind the big bottle of ketchup because the butter tray was broken on the refrigerator door and it bothered me. Michael, sitting and pale, did not answer, and I ignored that. One of my papa’s stories said that there is an underworld that punishes people for their sins.

“Michael?” I quizzed, still bemused,

now stirring spaghetti in a pot on the stove. Michael looked out our window, the one beside the fireplace, the one where outside the ivy grew beside the garage. “They’re still at my mother’s,” Michael finally mumbled, but he trembled when the phone beside him rang. On the second ring, I went to get it, and he put one hand on my wrist on the receiver, his other hand to my left cheek. He turned me to him then, looked into my eyes, drowning through the water in his.

“Love me, Anna-Margaret, please?”

The Mourning Fields are the hell for unrequited love.

Michael was the valedictorian of a boys’ military school in South Carolina. His valedictorian speech was “Our Future Before Us.” He wasn’t a violent man.

His mother at the arraignment said he spoke and crawled at nine months and was a good, quiet boy. He had never been in a fight and didn’t want to go into service to fight. But his father, breaking down on the stand, said his son “knew his duty, by God, if he was called.” Michael never drank. He only occasionally smoked cigarettes, the butts of which I found in the backyard at the edge near the fence of our next door neighbor. I think that was his only secret shame.

I know he was not equipped for the knowledge of what he did. I knew how he would end. And me? Well, there is a hell for demigods and heroes, but I was not one of them.

At first, I thought he lost them in a store, Michael, my husband. That they could be found and fixed. I think I was begging my father’s gods at this point, but they would not hear me.

Michael sent me to the bedroom like we would make love, although I never particularly understood pleasure there. And I like a lamb went. He said he was going to get them, my babies, but he didn’t. Instead, he made a call, said they were lost. The police came.

Trembling, I waited about fifteen minutes behind that door and then came from the bedroom like a ghost.

The police stood over him as I moved toward him and sat down beside him. There was an island of Michael and me on the couch. It was the couch that my Mother’s friend, Ms. Marva, gave us as a housewarming gift. Others, neighbors, came over. I remember I held his hand, my throat swallowing and swallowing.

I think people think I must hate him, Michael, but I don’t. Love is such a slippery thing. Too much death, the covers pulled back showing its broken parts, and it slips away, or becomes invisible, and sits beside you watching like a ghost unburied.

I know loss like this kind of lover. So I sat there on the couch at almost 24 not thinking of my children as panic and fear ran rivers though me. I held his hand. If Michael had told me

outright, I would never have hidden his sin from others, but I knew. And some part of me wanted to hide Michael from them. So we sat there together until our futures came. My papa told me when I was a child that the Asphodel Meadows are where souls who didn’t do any wrong go.

The police didn’t look far as I held Michael’s hand. The police said the garage door should have been opened, that the exhaust….that they were too little. I started screaming then. I jerked on his hand, but Michael would not let go.

The coffee mug was still on top of the car. The paper he was looking for, some just-out- of-high-school kid’s half-assed typed work that Michael had red-marked and that was what took so long and he never found that damn paper. And they went to sleep, my babies. I like to think the gods took my babies, and I know the police took Michael.

Sometimes, now that I’m older, I go to pay phones. I go there and I call Michael’s parents and ask for them, my babies. They are old now, brittle, but always kind to me, even Mr. Ragslin. They always ask me to come home to them, to come see them like talking to a child.

They are not haughty to the-once 18-year-old girl who married their son in a shotgun wedding in my mother and stepfather’s living room.

They have forgiven me, but I guess I have earned that kindness in the cruelest way.

Michael hung himself in the holding cell the last night before the trial was to end. It was an accident, my babies, not his hanging. No, that he meant to do, and he left a note, tucked into the sole of his left shoe, something from Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! “There is something in madness which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork.”

Loss is a rowboat set on fire in an ocean of lilies. I am on fire. I want to go but I cannot. I want to be lost enough, but I cannot be.

I think of my classics-professor father’s stories of hell. I want to ask my papa. Where is my place? I remember my papa telling me there were levels of hell, rows and realms married to the pain. I search, Papa.

I search to find them on every level, but I cannot. Here is a secret. I call him; I call Michael. I cannot say what I say when I go to those pay phones and sometimes call him.

I know he’s gone. I go because he’s gone. Because, sometimes, I ask to speak to them...for Michael to speak for them. There is never any answer, just the bare and cold tones until the busy signal. I hope he is blessed, that they are blessed, because I am here and I am not.

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Accidental Astronauts

An Earth Sun Moon Adventure now showing at the Danville Science Center Digital Dome Theater a review by Deb Henderson Are your young children or grandchildren learning about the planets and the sun in school? Or perhaps they have expressed an interest in the solar system and you’ve been looking for a way to nurture that appetite for knowledge. If so, I have a movie recommendation for you-- Accidental Astronauts: An Earth Sun Moon Adventure.

This thirty-minute film made for youngsters ages three to eight is perfect for them, and I think adults will enjoy it, too.

Based on a book by an awardwinning children’s author, this animated movie is informative and entertaining. Set sometime in the future in a sunny location, a school field trip to a science center results in two students, Annie and Cy, and their dog, Armstrong, being launched into space. Although it’s probably not a good idea to leave kids unattended near a spaceship, don’t worry, they have an excellent adventure exploring the solar system. They also have lots of fun bouncing across the surface of an asteroid,

racing on the moon, and flying through a solar flare. This film is quite visually appealing and there’s plenty of humor and corny jokes so even older children will find it enjoyable.

Accidental Astronauts: An Earth Sun Moon Adventure receives a two thumbs up from me. Come see the exhibits at the Danville Science Center and check out this film before it leaves town.

I think you and the youngsters will be glad you did.

• Admission to the film includes a Live Sky presentation immediately after the film. A very knowledgeable DSC staff member displays and explains the local night sky.

This is a very impressive sight broadcast across the fortyfoot dome theater.

• Show times and prices vary.

For more information, call 434.791.5160, or visit www. dsc.smv.org or 677 Craghead Street. You do not have to be a DSC member to attend movies.

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Josh Lucia (l) and Ernest Gilliard (r) practicing the tango.

Brenda Ray and Fred Motley tell the story of Aquilla and Thomas Day.

Miss Jabberwock 2016 Megan Jones is shown with Danville Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. member Barbara Brown. Megan is a sophomore at Radford University.

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February Calendar Abbreviation Key

• 2 Witches Winery & Brewing=209 Trade St. Danville 434.549.2739 • AU=Averett University, 434.791.5600 www.averett.edu • Ballad Brewing=600 Craghead St. 434.799.4677 • DMFAH=Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, 975 Main St. 434.793.5644 www.danvillemuseum.org • DSC=Danville Science Center, 677 Craghead St. 434.791.5160 www.dsc.smv.org • HNT=Historic North Theatre, 629 North Main St. Danville 434.793.7469 www.TheNorthTheatre.com • PA=Piedmont Arts, 215 Starling Ave, Martinsville 276.632.3221 www.PiedmontArts.org • RSG=Reid Street Gallery, 24 Reid St. Chatham 434.203.8062 reidstreetgallery.com • The Prizery=700 Bruce St., South Boston, 434.572.8339, www. prizery.com

Ongoing

DSC Exhibit – From Here to There! explores how things move by land, sea, air.

Guided Walking Tours – Millionaires Row, Holbrook Street and Tobacco Warehouse District. Danville Historical Society. www.danvillehistory.org.

434.770.1974.

DMFAH self-guided audio-visual tours. 434.793.5644.

Public Library Events. See page 19.

Pickleball. River Oak gym 120 River Oak Dr Danville MWF 9am, Mon & Tues 5pm $2 434.793.9648 Pickleball. Chatham Rec Center 115 S Main St. Wed 9am, Thurs 6pm $3 434.793.9648.

Tai Chi with Wyona – A slow-moving exercise to enhance breathing, calm the mind, relieve stress $6. Ballou Rec. Center Mondays 11:15am-12:15pm & 5:45-6:45 p.m. Wednesdays 3:30pm-4:30pm 434.799.5216.

Let’s Dance – Learn new dances, make new friends. Donna Robbins teaches a variety of dances in a fun atmosphere. A partner is not necessary. Adults 18+. Tues 7-8.30pm. Ballou Rec. Center.

434.799.5216.

Art with Judie – Learn how to paint with acrylic, oil, or water color. M/ TU – Times vary. Ballou Annex.

434.799.5216.

Kuumba African Dance – a great workout with live drumming and energetic dancing. Kids M/W 5.30pm; Adults M 6-7.30pm. 434.799.5150.

Prime Time Fitness – Lowimpact aerobics workout with a mix of various dance steps. Tu/ Th 9.30-11am. Ballou Rec. Center.

434.799.5216.

Zumba Classes – Hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves create a one-of-a-kind interval training fitness program with fun routines that tone and sculpt the body while burning fat.

434.797.8848.

Art with Flo – Wet-on-wet technique of oil painting. Ages 18+. W 9.3011.30am. Glenwood Community Center; 6-8pm, Ballou Annex.

434.799.5216.

African Rhythms by Nguzo Saba – West African dance to live drumming. W 6-7pm. Pepsi Building. 434.797.8848.

Ballou Jammers – Acoustic musical jamboree. Bring a stringed instrument or listen. TH 3-5pm.

Ballou Rec. Center. 434.799.5216.

Friday Night Fun and Dance – Live music provided by the City Limits Band on the first, third, and fifth Friday. The Country Pride Band plays on the second and fourth Friday.

Ages 50+. F 7.30-10.30pm. Ballou Rec. Center. 434.799.5216.

Cascade Express Variety Band – Every Friday and every first & third Saturday; Cascade Community Center 3561 Huntington Trail 7pm 336.552.3703

February 1 (thru 25)

Images Along the Way: Museum art exhibit by artist John Maggio from Greensboro. Closes February 25, at 5:00 pm. DMFAH

February 2

Science After Dark: DSC 5:30-9pm $5 free for college students Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra: Danville Concert Association GWHS, 701 Broad St. 7:30pm $25/10 www. danvilleconcert.org 434.792.9242 Ripple Effect at Two Witches: 8-10pm Megan Doss: Ballad Brewing 6-9pm Food Truck available.

February 3

Big Game Snacks: An open house with demonstrations and samples for snacks on game day. RSG 10am-2pm The 17th annual Storytelling Festival: DMFAH 10am-2pm free Fused Glass with Aleen Wilson: Create a beautiful bowl or glass dish.

Reservations required. RSG 11am $45 George Hodges at Two Witches: 7-9pm 434.549.2739 Danville Symphony Orchestra Winter Classical Concert: GWHS, 701 Broad St. 8pm www. danvillesymphony.net 434.797.2666 Music by Paris Avenue: Ballad Brewing 6-9pm

February 5

Quizzo & Meet Up Monday: Doors open at 5:30pm; trivia begins at 6pm. 2 Witches

February 6 & 7

Lite and Easy Cooking with Clara Gutierrez: Learn how to make your favorite dishes with lighter ingredients. Registration required two days before event. 6pm on Feb. 6.

11am on Feb. 7. $45 434.433.2264

February 7

Demonstration by John Maggio: Gallery talk. See page 12.

Anja Arko at The Wednesday Club: See page 12.

February 9

Wonderwall Beatles Tribute Band: See page 12.

Andy Burnette. Two Witches. 8-10pm

February 10

Mardi Gras Celebration: Pittsylvania Literacy Program Benefit. Host a table with 6-8 friends, decorate your table to your favorite book, and dress up like the characters! Treats and beverages available. 7pm RSG $10 per person Riverview Rotary Valentine’s Dance: See page 3.

Motown Night @ Two Witches: The Michael Bennet Project will perform.

Music by Streamline: Ballad Brewing 6-9pm

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Ryan Greer: Two Witches. 8-10pm

February 17 (thru 25)

Grace & Glorie: Presented by Halifax County Little Theatre. Prices/ times vary www.prizery.com

February 19

Danville Historical Society Trivia Night: 2 Witches 7pm 434.549.2739

February 20

United States Air Force Heritage Brass: Heritage Brass will combine brass, percussion, and vocals.

HNT 7pm Concert is free, but tickets are required. 434.793.7469 www.TheNorthTheatre.com Black History Month Film Loving: Averett Student Center Multipurpose Room, 204 Woodland Dr., Second Floor. 7pm. Dr. Andrew Canady will discuss the historic significance after the film. This is the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision.

February 21

John Wilt: Performing classic Tony Bennett songs. Gretna Theater 107 Main St 6:30-8:30pm $15 434.656.3377

The Courtship of Thomas Day and Aquila Wilson. See page 13.

February 22 Winston-Salem State University Singing Rams: Averett Pritchett Auditorium, 150 Mountain View Ave. 7pm $5

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North Star Theatre Project: Mimi Grubb will speak about this project that offers youth ages 8-12 professional training and quality theatre performance experience. The Wednesday Club, 1002 Main St. free www.TheWedClubDanvilleVa.org Valentine’s Dinner Class with Clara Gutierrez: Clara will demonstrate a dinner for 6 couples. Menu will be posted on Reid Street Gallery’s website. Reservations required by Feb. 9. 6pm RSG $110 per couple 434.433.2264

God’s Storehouse Empty Bowls: See page 13.

February 15, 16 & 17

Upcoming

Les Liaisons Dangereuses: From the sumptuous private drawing rooms of 18th-century Paris to the decadent estates and chateaus of the French countryside, La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont hatch a long-distance plan of vengeance and seduction.

Mature content. Averett U. Pritchett Auditorium, 150 Mountain View Ave. 7pm $10 adults; $8 students/senior citizens (60+)

February 24

Jabberwock 2018: See page 13.

February 25

Drum Tao: Danville Concert Association GWHS, 701 Broad St. 3pm $25/10 www.danvilleconcert. org 434.792.9242

February 28

Janet Phillips “Growing Up Musically:” See page 13.

March 2

Burn the Bateau: Prizery: 7:30pm Prices vary.

March 3

Danville Symphony Orchestra Concert: Kathleen O’Hare, piano solo; Trio of Staley Lye, violin, Katherine Walker, Moto Nomura, flutists. GWHS, 701 Broad St. www. danvillesymphony.net 434.797.2666

For more events see Calendar Clips on pages 12.

The deadline for submitting information for the March calendar is Monday, February 19, at 5:00 p.m. Please send just the basic information following the format on these pages to joycewilburn@gmail.com.

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Book Clubbing A Review by Diane Adkins

No Sweat

How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness

by Michelle Segar

Got motivation? It’s that season when so many of us look at the flipping of the calendar as a time to start a diet or an exercise regimen.

Michelle Segar’s book suggests that we may be getting it all wrong.

She believes that our first mistake is defining our meaning for exercise, and that definition sets us up for failure. If exercise is a gift we give ourselves rather than a chore, that sets the stage for success. Why do we start to exercise? If it’s only to lose weight, that’s a goal so far in the future that it doesn’t keep us motivated. If we do it for fun, to improve our day-to-day feeling of well-being, that is an immediate reward and we all love immediate rewards.

The key to staying motivated is to pick physical activities we enjoy.

People will stay physically active if they incorporate pleasurable opportunities for movement into their lives. Those are often not the types of exercise that make us sweat and ache. Walking, playing sports that we enjoy, and finding the types of exercise that make us happy immediately are the things that are sustainable, that motivate us to continue moving.

For many of us, it’s hard to give ourselves permission to make taking care of ourselves a priority. We lead busy lives. Many women in particular find themselves in the role of caregiver, whether for children, for a spouse, a friend, or a parent. We often set our own needs aside. But research has shown that “when we do not prioritize our own self care because we are busy serving others, our energy is not replenished. Instead, we are exhausted, and our ability to be there for anyone or anything else is compromised.”

Once we take care of ourselves, we have positive emotions and experiences that allow us to fulfill our roles and reach our goals.

Segar states, “Our lives are like whirling tornadoes. If we throw something small in there at the beginning, like a feather, it can be easily integrated. But if we throw in a cow? Disaster!” Setting realistic goals is strategic, a way to incorporate the daily movement that fuels the things that matter most to us. In other words, don’t start with two hours of cardio and weights; start with a walk.

This book is well-researched, drawing on some of the newest findings about positive emotions, their mental and physical health benefits, and how those accumulate to build happier lives.

Movement that makes us happy is a catalyst for more happiness. Is 2018 your year to start moving more? Start small. Look at exercise as a gift, not a chore—one that helps you achieve what matters most.

Diane S. Adkins is a retired library director and sometime walker with renewed motivation.

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Book Clubbing

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What are you not reading to your kids?

by Jessamyn Jade Rubio

This essay was first published on the SoVa Parents facebook group in January 2016.

A while ago, a friend introduced a question for us to consider as parents: Did we read our child any books about people of color? We had books about trucks, trains and planes. Unicorns, dragons and ducks. And a whole lot of white people. Irk. My friend’s question wasn’t even specifically about events or racial histories. Just — did we have books about people of color?

Huh? Our son was two years old at the time. We just hadn’t thought about it, and by default we had accumulated books with characters that resembled our child and the kind of person he might grow into, gender and all. Not to mention, there’s a distinct shortage in the marketplace. Learn more about that disparity in The New York Times article: “The Apartheid of Children’s Literature.”

I’d like to issue you a challenge, not because I have this stuff figured out. I certainly do not. I am white. Most of my friends are white. Will reading a couple books solve the world’s problems? Nope. But it’s one very doable, very small step that can send the message that people who look different are worth talking to and about. Their stories are worth telling. Their stories are worth hearing. Maybe your child will have questions and create an opportunity window to impart how your family’s values relate to the realities of the world we actually live in.

Our kids are little sponges and soak up so many things from us. They are constantly observing what we do and say, and what we often forget is that they are also observing what we don’t do, what we don’t say.

Even if that omission is unintentional. Even if that omission is as subtle as the books on our shelf.

I was glad that someone pointed out this small thing as I strive to prepare my child to navigate our world, to befriend and interact with people in our community. We now have several books that are part of our son’s go-to bedtime reads that have also become some of his alltime favorite books. His favorites include The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont. He asks for them again and again. And we’ve added more titles that reflect multiculturalism in an empowering and non-stereotypical way. If you’re wondering whether it really matters, try thinking of this another way: if you are a white reader, imagine that you never saw a white character in any of your childhood books. I think you’d notice. Given everything that’s going on in the world today, updating your bookshelf is just one small thing. I hope that for my family and others it’s just a first step. It is a concrete action we can take to help raise a new generation. Take a moment and be intentional. Next time you’re at the library, pick up a book featuring a child who looks different than yours.

For articles and curated lists that explore this idea search online: • Coloursofus.com • 19 multicultural children’s books about kindness and empathy • Broadening the Story: 50 Picture Books Starring Black Mighty Girls • 10 Children’s Books that Teach Diversity • From GoodReads: Multicultural Children’s Literature List • Readbrightly.com: Black Boy Joy: 29 Picture Books Featuring Black Male Protagonists

The cute animal beside the flag of Australia is a koala not a ground hog!

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unday, February 18, is National Drink Wine Day! However, that’s not the reason I drink wine. How about you?

The blog, “The Academic Wino,” reports on a study of alcoholic beverage consumption conducted in Australia using participants representing different backgrounds, race, sex, income, and state. Eighty-six percent of participants reported that taste was the biggest motivator for drinking. Coping or reducing anxiety and drinking to enhance well-being were other common motives reported by participants.

I agree with the 86%. Taste is also my motivation for drinking wine, especially if it accompanies food where the wine and the food complement each other. One good example is Penfolds Bin 8 Cabernet Shriaz blend.

According to wine critic Robert Parker, “The 2011 Bin 8 Cabernet Shiraz is a blend of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon and 38% Shiraz that spends ten months aging in oak comprised of 10% new American barrels

The Wine Spot What is your motivation for drinking wine?

by Dave Slayton

a member of the Master Court of Sommeliers

and 5% new French barrels. Deep garnet-purple in color, the nose gives aromas of fresh black currant and blackberry, some red currant with undertones of charcoal, dried herbs and pepper with touches of mint. Medium to full-bodied, crisp and taut, it has medium levels of chewy tannins, decent fruit

Photo by Dave Slayton

concentration but is a little bitter in the long finish.”

Another reviewer said; “Try it with grilled beef served with a pepper sauce.” In my opinion that would be ace (Australian for very good).

So pop into a bottle-o (wine shop) and celebrate with a good bevvie

(beverage) of Australian wine because it will likely be bonzer (great). Cheers mate!

• Meet Dave during the wine tastings on most Saturday afternoons at Vintages by the Dan, 310 Main Street, Danville.

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Pittsylvania County Submitted by Lisa Tuite

Brosville/Cascade • Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: Activate, 9am. Join us for very easy exercises to motivate and energize you!

• Tuesdays: Needlework, 10am.

Bring your projects and questions to get help.

• Wednesdays for Wees: 10am.

Stories and fun for ages 0-5 and their caretakers.

• Wednesdays and Fridays: Open Maker Space, 4pm. Learn to make sock puppets.

• February 8: Try It Thursday, 6pm.

Learn to make a Valentine themed key chain.

• February 15: Book Bingo, 6pm.

Play bingo to win books and prizes.

Fun for the whole family.

• February 22: Digital Learning Day, 12 noon. Learn all about the library’s digital downloads with Jonathan.

Quilting Fun, 6pm. Learn the basics of making a quilt. Call for a supply list.

Chatham Library • Mondays: Mother Goose on the Loose, 11am. Stories, songs and rhymes for ages 0-3.

• Wednesdays: Story Time, 10am.

Stories, games and crafts. Ages 3-5.

Computer 1 on 1, 6-7pm. Get help with basic computer issues.

• February 1: Harry Potter Book Day, all day. Come in costume!

Enter to win a prize.

What’s Happening in the Public Libraries • February 2: Groundhog Day kid’s crafts, 9am-4pm.

Crochet, 3-4:30pm. Learn or just work on your project.

• February 7: Nutrition Program 10-11am. Learn to eat healthy from the VA Tech Extension Office.

Brown Bag Book Reviews, noon1pm. Bill Guerrant discusses his new book, Jim Wrenn!

• February 8: 2nd Thursday Discussion Group, 4-5:45pm.

Thoughtful talk about big issues.

February 13: Chocolate Party, 4-5pm. Happy Pre-Valentine’s Day. • February 14: Nutrition Program 1011am. Learn to eat healthy from the VA Tech Extension Office.

Brown Bag Book Reviews, noon-1pm.

Mark dePaulo reviews a title TBA. • February 16: Crochet, 3-4:30pm.

Learn how or just work with friends.

• February 21: Nutrition Program 1011am. Learn to eat healthy from the VA Tech Extension Office.

Brown Bag Book Reviews, noon1pm. Bill and Mary Lee Black will review two complementary books in one entertaining session.

• February 28: Dr. Seuss Story Time, 10am. A special Seussical end to Winter Reading for ages 3-5.

Brown Bag Book Reviews, noon-

Danville Public Library

Submitted by Danielle Pritchett

• Mondays: Storytime for ages 0-18 months 11-11:30am Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm • Tuesdays: Storytime for preschoolers 11-11:30am Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm Crafters Club: 4-6pm • Wednesdays: Family Storytime @ Westover 11-11:30am Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm • Thursdays: Intermediate Computer Classes 3:30pm • Fridays: Large Group Storytime 11-11:30am Game Geeks for grades 5-12; 2:30-4:30pm Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm • February 1: It’s Elementary STEAM activities for grades 1-5; 6:00pm • February 5: Computer Basics: Meet the Computer 11am • February 5: Monday Matinee: Read It, See it. Me Before You (PG-13) 11am • February 5: Lego Engineers 4pm • February 6: Genealogy Open Lab 11am • February 7: Computer Basics: Introduction to the Internet 11am • February 8: Olympic Winter Reading Kick-Off Party 4pm • February 8: Let’s Talk Genealogy: Finding Your Enslaved Ancestors 6pm • February 12: Computer Basics: Introduction to Email 11am • February 12: African American Voices Author Talk: Robert Roberts & Faye

McGhee 4pm • February 12: Maker Mondays: Makey Makey-Two Player Board Games 5pm • February 13: Genealogy Open Lab 11am • February 13: Book Club @ Westover Branch 11am • February 14: Computer Basics: Intro to Microsoft Word 2016; 11am • February 14: Romance Readers Social 3:30pm • February 15: One Family…Many Stories: Storytime with Fred Motley 6pm • February 16: Chinese New Year Party 3:30pm • February 19: Computer Basics: Introduction to Social Media 11am • February 20: Genealogy Open Lab 11am • February 21: Computer Basics: Review 11am • February 21: Crafternoon @ Westover Branch 4pm • February 26: Maker Mondays: Make Music with LittleBits Synth Kits 5pm • February 27: Nerds Night Out at the Library 5pm All programs are free but require registration at ww.playdanvilleva.com.

For more information visit DPL, 511 Patton Street, www.readdanvilleva.org or call 434.799.5195. For the Westover Branch, visit 94 Clifton Street or 434.799.5152.

1pm. Jerry Davis reviews The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, by Patricia Bell-Scott.

Gretna Branch Library • Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: Group Fitness, 10am. Get fit together using DVDS from the library’s collection. Adults.

• Tuesdays: Mother Goose on the Loose, 10am. Nursery rhymes, movement and music for ages 0-3.

• Wednesdays: Preschool Read & Rhyme, 10am. Stories, songs, rhymes and crafts for ages 0-5.

• February 2: Groundhog Storytime, 3:15pm. A special story time for a special day. Six more weeks of winter, or not?

• February 12: Valentine’s Day Cards, all day. Make a Valentine for someone special.

• February 13: 2nd Tuesday Recipe Club, 5:30pm. Theme: “Casseroles and Pies.” Bring a dish and the recipe to share. Call to register.

Mt. Hermon The Mt. Hermon branch library is moving on Monday, February 5, to the new location in the Tuscarora Shopping Center, 4058 Franklin Turnpike. The Bookmobile will visit the original location on Mondays from 12:30pm until 4:30pm to provide limited services. The date of the reopening has not been determined.

History Research Center & Library No events are scheduled, but stop by to work on your local and family history projects.

Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free. For more information, contact Gretna Library, 207 A Coffey Street, 434.656.2579; Mt. Hermon Library, 2725 Franklin Turnpike, 434.835.0326; History Research Center and Library, 340 Whitehead Street, Chatham; 434.432.8931; PCP Main Library, 24 Military Drive, Chatham, 434.432.3271; Brosville Library, 11948 Martinsville Highway 434.685.1285 or www.pcplib.org.

Gunn Memorial, Caswell County

Submitted by Erica Lowdermilk

Groundbreaking for the library expansion at 161 Main Street East is Wednesday, February 14, at 10am. All are invited. Light refreshments will be served.

Children • Tuesdays: Bookbaggers ages 6-12; 3:30pm • Wednesdays: Lambs and Lions ages 0-5; 10am Teens • Thursdays: 3:30-4:30pm ages 1218. Snacks provided.

Adults • February 12: Book Club 6pm Review of The Curious Incident of the Dog

in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon • February 19: 5:30-7:30pm Writer’s Group; Wayne Drumheller presenter • February 22: 10am Black History Program For more information, visit the temporary location at 118 Main Street West, Yanceyville, North Carolina, or www.caswellcounty.gov/library or call 336.694.6241.

South Boston Public Library Submitted by Jay Stephens

• Mondays: Makerspace: 1-5pm ages 8-adult • Tuesdays: Itsy Bitsy PALS: 12:301:30pm ages birth-2 years PALS: 2:30-4:30pm ages 2-7 Tweens and Teens: 4:30-5:30pm ages 8-17 • February 9: Art @ the Library 4-5pm ages 5-17 • February 13: Adult Crafts 1 pm

• February 16: Art for Adults 3-5pm ages 18+ • February 23: Art @ the Library 4-5 pm ages 5-17 For more information, visit South Boston Public Library, 509 Broad Street, or www.halifaxlibrary.org, or call 434.575.4228

Halifax County Public Library Submitted by Jay Stephens

• Wednesdays: Itsy Bitsy PALS: 12:30-1:30pm ages birth-2 years PALS: 2:30-4:30pm ages 2-7 Tweens and Teens: 4:30-5:30pm ages 8-17 • Thursdays: Art @ the Library: 4-5 pm ages 5 -17 • February 9: Easy Exercise for Adults 10am • February 14: Adult Crafts: 1pm

• February 15: Art for Adults: 4-5pm ages 18+ • February 20: Tea & Book Discussion 2:30-3:30pm • February 23: Easy Exercise for Adults 10am For more information, visit Halifax Public Library, 177 South Main St. in Halifax or www.halifaxlibrary.org or call 434.476.3357.

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hen I want to motivate myself, I open a cabinet.

I’m inspired by air space--something that is sadly lacking in our cluttered house.

With no air space in the cabinet, I create some by discarding items that have expired and stacking empty containers.

Why is space so important? Because with more space, I can create order.

Franklin Turnpike Area

I’m also motivated by deadlines.

When they’re far off, I work on a project slowly and really think it through. When they’re sudden (like tomorrow), stress hyperventilation gives me a workout that qualifies as an aerobic exercise.

In Chatham Area

Motivators can be classified as extrinsic (external rewards) or intrinsic (driven from within, like my desire to create order). I’m engaged most happily when the motivation is intrinsic. However, most motivators in my life are extrinsic: small-scale initiatives that have to be completed so my husband Steve and I can resolve the next crisis. Here are examples:

Food Lion Medo’s PCP Library @ Mt. Hermon Ruben’s Too Village Pizza

Community Center Chatham Health Center Chatham Public House PCP Library on Military Drive

In Tightsqueeze

Food Lion Frank’s Pizza American National Bank URW Community Credit Union

In Gretna

American National Bank Carter Bank & Trust Food Lion Hickerbilly’s Kitchen

In South Boston

Bistro 1888 Halifax County Public Library O’ Sole Mio South Boston Halifax County Museum of Fine Arts & History Southern Virginia Higher Education The Prizery Toots Creek Antiques Mall

In Martinsville

El Ranchito Elizabeth’s Pizza Martinsville Visitor Center The Pacifica Bay Restaurant

In Yanceyville, NC

Gunn Memorial Public Library The Drug Store

We were rushing out of the house to meet friends for dinner. Steve realized he’d forgotten something and tried to go back in, but the doorknob broke off in his hand.

Cracked. Evidently it didn’t like freezing weather. The repair required a side trip to a hardware store and the shivering installation of a new doorknob. Extrinsic motivator.

The temperature’s recent plunge into the single digits had us worried about our two geriatric chickens who live in a backyard coop. Steve had previously hung a light in the coop to warm it slightly, but the chickens were freaked by it to the point that they stayed outside in the cold all night. After stewing over what to do, we sneaked outside to the coop, wrestled the nesting box open, snatched the chickens, put them in a waxed cardboard cat crate with air holes and two inches of wood shavings, and set them in a cool but temperaturecontrolled back room for the night.

During the day, they stayed in the coop, but for the next four nights, they went to their temporary digs.

Another extrinsic motivator.

And what about the chicken’s water freezing and the ice splitting its container? We’re low-budget people, so Steve modified a cinderblock to install a light bulb inside it. We put the new chicken waterer on the heated block, then watched the water freeze again. After redrilling the cinderblock to raise the bulb closer to the waterer and upping the bulb wattage, only the water at the rim froze, and it froze more slowly.

Later, Steve glued the split in the old chicken waterer for backup, and we resolved to watch the state of the water more carefully. Yet another extrinsic motivator.

On the other hand, why do I write?

To better understand what I think, to create order, to better appreciate the world. Why do I write these columns? By looking at things differently, maybe readers and I can make more sense of a small slice of our world. The motivator? Intrinsic, intrinsic, intrinsic.

Which is more satisfying—intrinsic or extrinsic? It depends on interests, time constraints, goals, frustration levels, preparedness, service orientation, skills, and more.

Regardless of the stimuli, people have to be motivated to action and getting the right things done is how the human race moves forward.

So what does this mean to us? It means Steve and I are repeatedly checking our doorknobs, watching the thermometer and trying not to scare the chickens. It also means that we should all be paying closer attention to our intrinsic motivators and our individual notions of order so we can become happier, more fulfilled people.

About the author: When she’s not trying to squeeze past the next crisis, Linda Lemery llemery@averett.edu works as Circulation Manager at Averett University’s Mary B. Blount Library in Danville. She welcomes reader comments.

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Egg Roll Bowl

by Annelle Williams

Are you planning a Super Bowl Party? It’s the most celebrated football game on the planet so it’s hard to avoid even if you’re not a fan. I look forward to the food. It’s the one time of year when we throw caution to the wind and enjoy our favorite (usually very unhealthy) snack food. What would a Super Bowl be without wings and Fritos with clam dip, our personal favorites? We usually have an Italian roll or pizza, too. Once I went to a party where everyone was asked to bring their number one secret worst favorite snack food. Mine was potted meat on saltines! It’s a family favorite with an airplane-size bottle of Crown Royal.

No more of this terrible snacking for me—at least not in the daylight in front of other people. I’m trying hard to clean up my bad habits and make things a little better for all these internal organs I carry around. This isn’t a new year’s resolution. I gave up on that years ago. My husband and I began this journey about nine months ago in an effort to be healthier. It’s a slow process, and there has been some backsliding, but we feel better than we have in a long time. If you’re looking for a healthy way to eat your way through a good party, put this on your menu. It would also be great as a main course over rice. Serves 8-10 as a snack; serves 4 as a main course.

Egg Roll Bowl (adapted from blog: I don’t have time for that!)

1 lb. ground pork (or chicken or beef) 1 T sesame oil 1 cup chopped onions 1 bag shredded slaw mix (cabbage, carrots) or 8 cups shredded cabbage and 1/2 cup shredded carrots 1/4 cup chicken broth (bone broth if you have it)

1/4 cup thinly shredded kale 1 T soy sauce 1 T citrus-flavored ponzu sauce 1 T ground ginger 1 T garlic powder 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. pepper 1 package won ton wrappers olive or canola oil

Instant Pot Directions: Set on sauté and add sesame oil, pork and onions stirring until browned.

Add soy, ponzu and spices, stir to combine. Turn pot off. Add chicken broth and shredded vegetables on top of browned pork. Do not stir. Turn pot on pressure. Close top and set to pressure cook. When pot reaches pressure, turn off and quick release steam. That’s right, just get it up to steam to get those vegetables softened to the right texture. Remove lid and stir to combine.

If there is too much liquid, strain it.

Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400°. Cut wonton wrappers into strips and place on parchment paper on sheet pan. Brush very lightly with olive or canola oil.

Sprinkle a little salt over them. Cook for 5-6 minutes or until browned and crisp. They burn easily. Serve in little bowls with baked strips to dip. Offer hot sauce, hot mustard or other sauce of your choice.

Stovetop Directions: Add sesame oil to large pot over medium heat. Brown pork and onions.

Combine soy and ponzu sauce, broth and spices and add to pot. Add vegetables and toss with tongs to coat with sauce. Cover pot and steam until cabbage is wilted and vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally. Continue as above.

Questions or comments?

Email me: AnnelleWilliams@comcast.net I look forward to hearing from you!

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Photo Finish On a cold Saturday in January, Middle Border Forward (MBF) presented Vision 2035 at the MBF Bash in the Community Room at Danville’s Community Market. At this free event, guests enjoyed lunch from a Tastes of the Region Food Court, live music, line dancing, a dance demonstration by New City Dance Space, more music by Big Fade Entertainment, and a community project competition.

The public voted on top goals for the region over the next seventeen years in six different areas: arts and culture, business, education, environment, health and wellness, and infrastructure. To learn more, visit www.middleborderforward. org or 326 Main Street or call 434.483.2894.

Sonya Wolen, Sherri Wright, Megan Pollock, and Inez Rodenburg socialize in the environment section.

Karice Luck poses with Jerry Wilson, lead singer of The Rocking Soul Band, after enjoying their music.

Middle Border Forward is a nonprofit community development movement on a mission “to cultivate inclusive leadership, inspire community engagement and create equitable access to opportunities within the Middle Border region” (Danville and Pittsylvania Counties in Virginia and Caswell County in North Carolina).

Sheriff Mike Mondul shows Kim and Mark Custer how to use drones in the infrastructure display.

Captions by Lanie Davis.

All photos by Von Wellington.

For more info visit www.vonwellington photography.com or call 434.770.3553. See more pictures on Facebook.

Regina Lewis and Charles McWilliams decorate rocks at the Making Danville Smile table. Later, the rocks will be distributed around the area.

Rusty Lovell displays information about the Southside Area Tennis Association in the health and wellness section. Rusty won the VISION Quest Community Impact Project Idea Pitch Competition for a plan that will provide tennis camps for area youth.

Varun Sadana (right), The Launch Place’s Vice President, poses with Pat Eastwood and Larry Chattin after they voted for goals in business.

Marlo the Magician surprises Sariah Austin with a wallet that burst into flames.

Travis Hill and Kendall Ratliffe, MBF Program Coordinator, enjoy food from the Tastes of the Region food court.

Tia Yancey and Pleshette Bowens serve cupcakes and cookies.

Evince Magazine Page 23 Janet Davis votes on what she thinks is the most important priority in the education category.

Sara Shorter and Kathy Milam, Development/ Executive Director of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, show how much phones have changed at the “Then and Now” table in the arts and culture exhibit.

Darrin Edwards, Brandon Atkins, and Lynette Anderson help at the registration station.

Brian Price leads the Southside Urban Line Dancing group.

Fabian Martinez with Dell’Anno’s Pizza Kitchen serves Charmaine Redd a slice of delicious pizza.

Thanks to all the readers who participated in the January Evince quiz (page 23).

Congratulations to Stephen Staats who correctly identified the restaurants that serve the Lady Astor Martini!

He receives a gift certificate from each of the Danville restaurants pictured.

1 - Schoolfield Restaurant 1009 West Main Street

Vincentt Sutton shows off Chala, his beagle/lab mix.

2 - 616 Farm to Table

616 North Main Street

3 - Me’s Burgers & Brews 215 Main Street

4 - Cotton at Riverside Mill

109 Bridge Street

5 - Golden Leaf Bistro

215 Craghead Street

6 - Berry Hill Resort & Conference Center

3105 River Road, South Boston, VA

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