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Special fe a t u r es

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Looking for grandmother

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City Council: in a league of their own

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HE SAID HE SAID

Where Is the Love?

By Larry Oldham & Dena Hill

The Money Club

Raising Capital During Hard Times

By Todd Boaze

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by Jack Garrett

ten financial tips for women

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GREEN THUMBS UP

A Cleaner, Sharper Tool= A Happy Garden

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A Better you

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Where is the Love?

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The year is off to a good start and then, “wham,” February hits.

Once again it is time to talk about “love.” I think about all the different kinds of love that people go through, so naturally, I think about you and me.

Leave it to you to work in your spiel, all the creature comforts that surround you.Yes, you mentioned our love one time, and you skirted around the love of Sophie (whom you refer to as our pet. She’s more like our child). If the truth be known you probably “love” your country ham biscuits more than Sophie or me.You would probably rather have a hot dog from Yum Yum’s and a chocolate ice cream cone than me. So, if you want to know some of the things I love, let’s see.

We met in high school, stayed friends all these years, went through many trials and tribulations in other relationships, put our high school reunions together every five years, and celebrated the growth of our children’s lives. I even think about growing up without pets and then coming into your life and discovering the love of a dog. Not a deep love, mind you, but an acceptance of having a pet in your life. I understand your need of course, because the dog doesn’t talk back, so you don’t have to listen to her opinions ad nauseum.

But, you do spend a great deal of time talking to her, feeding her, walking her, and worrying about why she sometimes doesn’t eat.

Now, I am not jealous of your dog per se, but I have not learned to love her with the same depth of feeling that you have. Since we are talking about “love” this month, I wonder if the love that we feel for each other is as deep as the love we feel for other things in our lives...for instance, FOOD. I do love food. For me, I love food more than the dog. I don’t love food more than I love you, of course, although country style steak and mashed potatoes sure are scrumptious. I guess the love of bread, soda, fries, and other gastronomical delights can’t really be considered the same kind of affection as the love of a human or even a pet. I just want to be fair and make sure we don’t forget the love of other things that are important. We shouldn’t be selfcentered when it comes to love; we should share the limelight.

LOVE equals FOOD, er, um I mean, LOVE equals YOU.

by Larry Oldham & Dena Hill

I really love to redecorate and remodel the house. In fact, there are so many coats of paint on the walls, that I’m sure the house is smaller than when I bought it. I love to sew and I want to learn to knit. I love snorkeling, travelling, and bargain shopping. Notice that I didn’t mention food or eating.

My New Year’s Resolution is to eat to live, not vice versa.

I can see that you are growing fonder of food as the years go by and the sight doesn’t look very pretty. I appreciate good food also, but I do know how to temper myself.You writing about your love of food and trying to equate it with February isn’t really endearing to me or our relationship.

Maybe I should step back and take a better look at what you say you love and help you get your priorities in order; I promise you that Krispy Kreme doughnuts will be way on down the list. That first priority should be to love me with all your heart even if you are starving to death. After all, I married you until death us do part. Pastor Joe didn’t say that you should eat yourself to death. He said you should honor and obey me until death us do part. I don’t want you to leave early from overeating.

Are you feeling the love yet?

Happy Valentine’s Day

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4 6 oz. salmon fillets 2 garlic cloves, crushed and minced ½ cup dry white wine 3 tbsp. of bacon drippings 3 tbsp. of lemon juice 1 tsp. whole tarragon 1 tsp. oregano 1 tsp. thyme leaves 8 tbsp. butter (1 stick)

directions Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a medium fry pan, fry bacon until it renders 3 tbsp. of drippings. Remove bacon (only drippings needed). Add salmon to bacon drippings and sauté salmon fillets over medium heat cooked nearly through.

Remove to baking dish to keep warm.

Add ½ cup of wine to deglaze pan, scraping residue from pan over fish.

In sauce pan, melt butter; add garlic, tarragon, oregano, and thyme. Cook for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until garlic becomes aromatic and tender. Remove from heat and add the lemon juice and remaining white wine. Pour this sauce over salmon, bake at 400 degrees about 10-12 minutes.

Serve over rice, spooning juices over top.

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Raising Capital During Hard Times

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Getting money for your dreams is like pulling a tooth from a bear.

Every entrepreneur must learn how to overcome challenges and meet expectations head on. Anyone working a job understands earning a paycheck is the same as making a living, but when you are an entrepreneur starting out to raise capital for your business during hard times, your chances are limited.

There are steps to this process where the number one thing to remember is competitiveness.

Venture capital groups, investors, and individuals receive hundreds and thousands of projects annually only to invest in a small fraction of them.

Typically, ninety-five percent will honor a review before being tossed in the trash.

What is left will have another chance for a closer look while only a fourth will ever be considered.

Why does this happen?

What can a person do to better his/her chances of raising capital for their new or existing business?

Find a referral.

by Todd Boaze todd@showcasemagazine.com

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

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senior consultants who will ensure that your needs are met and the work delivered to your satisfaction.

Venture capitalists are different than hard money lenders or angel investors - they demand the entrepreneur’s characteristics meet their expectations.

Getting your project to fit their profile will be determined by the following: • Private equity market • Return on investment requirements • Management experience • Five-year projected budget

Business Plans The Core Operation A business plan is not a business proposal.

There is a difference between the two.Your business plan is your documented map, while a proposal persuades. It incorporates a benefit statement into the description as quickly as possible - something that the decision maker cares about.

It is essential your business plan includes:

The Executive Summary - the most

Look for someone who can guide you right to reputable venture capital firms or trustworthy investors. Plan on setting aside some time to do this carefully.

Contact your own CPA or one that you trust. Politely tell them, in short, about your project and ask if they can recommend any venture capitalists.

important document for explaining your project to the lender. The document is prepared by the principal.

This is a synopsis of your project.You tell the reader what you are trying to accomplish, how you will accomplish it, what is needed to accomplish it, how you will exit the project, and why this is a great idea.

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The Company Summary - provide a brief

It does not matter which CPA, attorney, business owner, media contact makes the referral, if your proposal is unsolicited, then prepare for no response.Your contact with the principle at the firm must capture their attention with a precise business plan and proposal - with NO mistakes.

In today’s investment world, investors want an executive summary when they make contact with you. The complete outline of the business plan must show your ability to manage the financials, provide five-year cash flow, and provide a skilled management team.You must show that you are in control and willing to work along side the

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overview of the principal and history, background on the principal(s), and a brief bio. This applies to anyone with ownership of ten percent or more with company locations and facilities. Access or distance from airport and regular flights with other surrounding developments. This section should also provide survey and topographic maps accomplished with the nearest towns. If the property is not owned, is it optioned, optioned with the amount of the deposit or under contract with the amount of the deposit.

Products and Services - spell out a detailed description on competitive comparison with sales literature, sourcing, technology, and any future products

or services. Who is doing something similar, include numbers and why is what you are doing better.

Market Analysis Summary - flyers, ads, Internet, sales office, realtors, letters of interest, leases, presales, contracts etc. What has been done and/or what will be done to establish market segmentation, target market strategy, seeds, trends growth, and industry analysis.

Strategy and Implementation Summary - create graphs, charts, tables and visuals incorporated into high value propositions for a better competitive edge. Have a well-planned marketing and sales strategy. Tell how your sales forecast is derived from programs with strategic alliances. Explain what milestones are possible.

Management Summary – lay out your organizational structure. List the names and titles of the development team. Include development ownership, attorney, CPA, brokers, marketing team, consultants, architects, planners, engineers etc.

Financial Plan (Five-Year) is firm about your important assumptions and discloses any and all other information that may be pertinent to the transaction. Give key financial indicators on what are the risks to the lender and the project. There is always a risk! Provide negative factors for the principals with credit, foreclosures, bankruptcy, etc. Generally called Skeletons in the industry and must be addressed by giving a break-even analysis, projected profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet.

Writing a business plan is vital for securing financing, and it helps you plan for success by providing a foundation for expansion. If an investor can see value in your project, then you have generated value out of nothing but a simple thought. In other words, you may see your project worth fifty million while they see it only ten million.

Although raising capital is not appropriate for many young companies, negotiating with their own return requirements is based upon the risk of the investment, maturity of the company, management experience with a proven product or service and can demonstrate sales.

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A Cleaner, Sharper Tool = A Happy Garden

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by Emily Tomlinson

Ask the Gardeners!

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Spring is right around the corner, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about our garden tools. We work with them all year long, sometimes forgetting to store or clean them properly. This month we are going to talk about how to clean and sharpen your tools. Since the weather has been so unpredictable, on the cold days you can go through your tools in your garage or shed. On the nice, sunny days you can pull all your tools out and do some inventory. Let’s get started!

I like to divide and categorize my tools as I am going through them. For example, I put my digging tools in a separate pile from my rakes, and my hand tools separate from pruning tools.

I check to see what needs to be sharpened, cleaned or thrown out. Don’t discount your shovels with broken handles because the handle can be replaced, which means a brand new shovel is one less tool you’ll need to purchase in the spring.

My next step is to break out my cleaning supplies, which includes WD-40, rubbing alcohol, linseed oil, a steel brush or abrasive pad and sand paper. These are just a few of the basics to get started. Everyone has, or uses, different products, so find what is around the house that will be appropriate for cleaning up dirty, rusty tools.

It is a good practice to clean tools after each use. I don’t remember to clean them every time, but I try to do it regularly because of the risk of infecting my plants with a disease or virus.

Here’s what to do when cleaning your tools.

When I have a rusty shovel or loppers, my WD-40 comes in handy. I use a wire brush or abrasive pad to clean off as much rust as possible. Then I wipe it down with a rag to see if I need to do any additional scrubbing. After I clean all my rusty tools, I spray them with WD-40 and rub it in with another rag. This practice helps to protect my tools — as long as I don’t forget and leave them outside of course! I use the sandpaper to sand down my handles where they have become rough and splintered. After I sand them so nothing catches when I rub my hands along the handle, I put linseed oil on a rag and rub it into the handle. The oil is absorbed into the wood and helps to soften the handle. For those tools that aren’t rusty, use rubbing alcohol to sanitize parts that were used in cutting or digging.

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of the tools that can be used to sharpen shovels, loppers and shears. For those tools that need more sharpening than you as a home gardener are up for, such as your saw blades, there are people in the community who provide tool sharpening services.

Working with sharp tools makes life so much easier in the garden. Even our shovels need an edge put on them from time to time so that we can cut through soil and roots with ease. Here are a few pointers for sharpening a couple of tools, and then I will give a website to check out that I have found extremely helpful. When filing your shovel, place the file at a forty-fivedegree angle and file along the tip of your shovel from left to center, right to center. You will need to make at least fifteen strokes in order to show new metal. If your shovel is in need of more than just a sharper point, then the grinder will be the tool for you. Now for your loppers, start at the tip and make your way to the bevel. Apply pressure as you push the file away from you. When you see fresh steel, you know you have accomplished your goal. Just check the back side for any burrs, which can be filed smooth. To view photos of these and other pointers visit www.familyhandyman.com and search “sharpening garden tools.” This website provides step-by-step instructions and photos as well.

By cleaning your tools properly and keeping them sharp you will ensure that you make good, clean cuts on your plants and that they are healthy. Hopefully these tips will put you on the right track for getting one more thing accomplished before spring. Happy gardening!

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Looking for Grandmother

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Looking for Grandmother

A Short For me, December meant a choice between two Story

A Short Story

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religious holidays: Christmas, celebrating the birth of Jesus, and Chanukah, celebrating the victory of the Jewish rebels over their Greek rulers. Having spent thirty years of my life in a classroom, teaching Emerson and Thoreau and those other literary giants of the New England golden years, I tend to embrace all religions and to believe, as did Thomas Paine, that “My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” Therefore I was looking forward to observing Chanukah at Temple Beth Sholom with my Jewish husband and friends – but with one misgiving. On two days of each year, Easter and Christmas, my Christian grandmother, the love of my life, seemed to rise from her grave to remind me that I am by birth Baptist, Southern Baptist, a child of the cross.

My grandmother, Jennie Siler Sowder, was an angel on earth. I lived with her; I sat at her knees while we prayed together; I took her tithe to church when she got too arthritic to walk; I helped her count her savings for a fine funeral.

And all the while I blinked at the brightness of her halo.

Grandmother was unschooled, and so c-u-r-c-h was how she spelled our little house of worship.

Still I trusted her intelligence the way I trusted that a crinoline slip or a pair of rock-and-roll oxford shoes would make me popular at school.

What she believed, I believed. What she said to do, like get a college education, I did.

“You’re a sweet thing!” she told me at least once a day. What I remember most is the twinkle in her eyes when she said it, and the way her brow wrinkled up as if to imply that I, as common as cornflakes, puzzled her with my perfection.

Sweet was her favorite word; yet her life was, at best, bittersweet. Having lost her mother during childbirth, she grew up with a roving father who placed her in the hands of stepmothers, three of them. She married General Sherman Sowder (never a soldier) when she was sixteen. He gave her syphilis and a miserable life, and died young.

Her only child, my daddy, Ted, grew up to be a coal miner and an alcoholic.

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My mother blamed Daddy’s liquor allergy on his doting mother, whom she grew to hate. True, Grandmother made excuses for Daddy’s drinking, but she also made excuses for Mother’s lapses in temperament. She urged my five sisters and me to place our burdens at the foot of the cross and to never lose faith.

Grandmother taught by example; I never once heard her complain or criticize. I found out she had rheumatoid arthritis only after the aspirins she had taken on the sly caused ulcers and a stay in the hospital. Even after her body gnarled up as if struck by lightning, she cooked, cleaned, and cared for us grandchildren, especially me, a victim of juvenile arthritis.

As a child I loved to read books and do homework and was known as a bookworm. On each evening before a test, Grandmother provided me with a private study – a bathroom not much bigger than a closet with a commode seat, a bare-bulb ceiling light, and a space heater stuck in the wall. When my sisters whined that they had to go, she told them to hold it; when they gripped their down theres and swore they would die if they didn’t go that very minute, she tossed them a napkin and pointed to the woods. They called me her pet.

Grandmother died in 1987 at the age of 90. The church she had specified slumped in a hollow on Mud Creek in Eastern Kentucky, next to the sunken cemetery where General Sherman was buried.

It took days to locate a minister hungry enough to trek through briars, wild grasses, and squashy mud to preach the funeral. He didn’t know her, of course, and he began the service by mispronouncing her name, which was Sowder, not Sowders. From a note card almost as small as a postage stamp he proceeded to read her birth date and age and the names of her survivors.

When fate sent the postage stamp spinning to the floor, he turned to his Bible and took out a poem called “The Mothers of Men,” which he read aloud. He continued by talking about his own mother for whom the poem had been written, and he concluded by saying with complete indifference that my grandmother was no doubt a woman of equal merit. Then he said he simply could not resist this God-given opportunity to invite sinners to the altar.

I couldn’t believe it! Fire burned in my belly. All one-hundred pounds of me hungered to squeeze my hands around his Ichabod Crane neck while he gagged and pleaded for mercy until the very second I laid him down, laughing.

“It’s not fair!” I screamed to my oldest sister.

“Grandmother saved all her life for a fine funeral.

All she ever asked for herself was that funeral!

That rascal preacher didn’t even take the time to learn her name!”

“You’re a writer,” my sister replied. “Write something down.”

I didn’t need to write it; the words read from my heart like a scrolled tablet. Over the grave I said my grandmother was an angel, a real one.

I thanked her for cornbread and new buttons; I thanked her for calling out my spelling words and giving me a private place to study; I thanked her for clean sheets and a flickering porch light that meant curfew; and I thanked her for all her chicken-scratched letters over the years that encouraged me to keep the faith and place my burdens at the foot of the cross. I even reminded her of my baptism (age nine) when I was dunked twice, the first effort failing because at the last minute I turned to stare through the congregation – looking for my grandmother.

I think I did her proud.

Last December I celebrated Chanukah with my family at our temple, and not a curch. A rabbi conducted the service. Instead of candlesticks, we had menorahs. On the stained glass window, Moses with the Ten Commandments replaced Christ with the lambs.

Faced with years of guilt, I felt my grandmother light on my shoulder, and I was terrified that I had betrayed her.

“Grandmother, if you’re disappointed in me, I can always go back,” I told her.

She leaned over so that I could see the long white hair twisted into a tidy bun, wireframed spectacles polished on her apron hem, Cameo at collar, and tiny twinkling face with wrinkled brow that said I was still a puzzle, too good to be true.

“You’re a sweet thing!” she said, and that’s when I knew I had followed the right road. Squeezing my husband’s hand, I settled into the pew and showed Grandmother how well I could sing in Hebrew.

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First of all, where did you meet?

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He Said: It was a dark and dreary night in the South of France, I walked into a bar and there she sat…

name embroidered on the pocket. If someone’s name is going to be on my shirt, I want it to be mine.

She Said: In your dreams...none of that is true, of course. We met in high school in Greensboro, North Carolina. I won’t say which year.

SS: See what I mean. Multiply that by every minute of every day and WA LA! You have a ready-made column.

HS: I’ll tell you.

SM: Besides writing the column each month, what other interests do you both have?

SS: No you won’t.

SM: Now I see where your inspirations come from. You never agree on anything, right?

HS: I do, she doesn’t.

SM: Which leads to our next obvious question...

Where do your ideas and inspirations come from?

SS: You live with him for about five minutes and YOU’LL be writing a column or maybe a book.

HS: I told her when we met that I was different. She wanted something different in her life, so she got me.

SS: WRONG AGAIN...what you actually said was, “I know how to get a girl; I just don’t know how to keep one.” I had to find out for myself what that really meant.

SM: What is so different about him?

SS: Don’t you read the column? Actually, he takes great pride in being his “own man,” whatever that means.

SM: Give us an example.

SS: Everyone I know who goes into a department store looking for clothes, will ask for a name brand.

He is just the opposite. If he is shopping or if I am trying to buy him something to wear, he always reminds me, “Don’t get me anything with a name on the shirt.”

HS: That’s true. Why would I want to wear someone else’s name on my shirt? I have told her how to solve this dilemma. Buy me shirts and go have MY

SS: He is on many boards in town such as the Free Clinic (he is President this year), United Way, Danville Little Theater, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, plus he is an Elder in our church, and he loves to teach Sunday school. He is an excellent artist, but I can’t get him to sit down at his easel often enough... maybe because he would have to stop talking while he draws.

HS: She lives only to make me happy... just kidding.

She has raised three children for the last sixteen years as a single mother. She has sent them to college and given them a great home life. Both of her sons are studying to be physicians and her daughter is in the financial banking business. She is also on the nominating committee at our church and last year was instrumental in raising over 2000 pounds of canned goods for God’s Storehouse at her school.

She also tutors students at her school.

trying moment in marriage is not unique to us. We realize that every household and every relationship; married or not, mirrors our life. We just share our experiences with our readers, knowing that they understand, empathize, and sympathize. Our reader’s lives are just more private than ours.

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Showcase Magazine: There are many questions that our readers ask about you two and we thought it might be a good idea to get it out in the open.

Interview with He Said, She Said

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Showcase Magazine sat down with its resident lovebirds, Larry Oldham and Dena Hill, authors of He Said, She Said, to discuss life, love, and the happy relationship.

SM: Speaking of marriage, you just celebrated your first year of marriage. I understand you had a long engagement.

SS: I’ll say. We met in high school; he told me I had beautiful eyes and then waited all these years to propose. We didn’t date back then. He doesn’t like to move very quickly, and I mean that both literally and figuratively. Honestly, we both had children in college and we decided to wait and get them settled and fairly well established in their careers before we tied the knot.

HS: That sounds plausible and believable, but actually I have been saving my money all these years so I could afford her. She is very high maintenance, you know.

SM: Sounds like both of you stay pretty busy.

When do you have time to write the column and where do you get your inspiration?

SS: You don’t know what high maintenance is.

Keeping up a house, doing all of the yard, taking care of both of our cars, and listening to you whine...now that is the definition of high maintenance.

SS: There is never a dull moment around our house.

He sits on the couch and drinks tea, while I take out the garbage. Who wouldn’t be inspired by that?

SM: I think I feel another column coming on. I guess just being married to each other sparks ideas for your column.

HS: Someone has to be in charge around the house and make sure these things get done. If she didn’t take out the garbage, can you imagine how the house would smell? I give her all the credit for our fresh smelling home.

HS: Or drives us both to drink.

SM: It is pretty obvious where She gets her inspiration. Where does He get his inspiration?

HS: In all seriousness, we both know that every little quirk, every little petty argument, every little

SM: Well, you both are interesting and very brave to wear your hearts on your sleeves each month for everyone to see. I can see how much you love each other and although you seem to bicker in the column, we can see it is all in jest. We appreciate you both taking the time to sit down with us and let the readers understand a little more clearly; who these two people are who call themselves, He Said and She Said.Thank You.

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City Council

Ask any musician who grew up in Danville in the seventies to name their favorite local band and City Council usually tops the list.

City Council was formed after Danville’s Soulmasters broke up, ending a long and successful run. Founding member and former Soulmaster Rickie Fox played guitar in the band and recalls being approached by another musician who had been accompanying the group to gigs. Fox, who had previously played drums in Gene and the Team Beats, describes Danny Haymore (also known as “Fat Man”) as “a potentially good drummer himself.” Haymore suggested they form a group. They decided to call the band City Council.

City Council: In a League of Their Own

Keyboardist Bill Adams says the band formed in January 1970, although some recall seeing the band perform as early as 1969. Founder Rickie Fox is uncertain of the exact date, but Adams recalls joining in May of 1970. The group was originally known as “Siddy Kownsil,” or “Siddy Cownsill,” but confusion over pronunciation convinced the members to abandon the phonetic spelling for the more intelligible “City Council.”

Adams recalls that Fox started the group, recruiting Haymore on drums and Ron Dewberry on bass. Adams says equipment was immediately a problem, as Haymore didn’t have a set of drums.

A kit of chrome drums was purchased from Leon Paul, who ran L.B. Clark Music Company on Ridge Street in downtown Danville.

Fox says the original line-up consisted of himself, Danny Haymore, Ronnie Dewberry, Doug Hyler, Donnie Parrish, and John Irby.

An early shot of the band appeared in the Commercial Appeal, a weekly newspaper, and promoted a December 19, 1969, Empty Stocking Fund appearance at T-Bird Country, a country and western venue on US 58 run by WDVA disc jockey Homer “T” that also featured teen dances.

The line-up for the show included former Soulmasters’ vocalist John Irby, Doug Hyler and Junie Walton on sax, drummer Danny Haymore, Fox and Dewberry on guitar and bass, and George and Donnie Parrish on trumpet.

by Jack Garrett Photos Courtesy of Jack Garrett (photo top) City Council in Ballou Park (l to r) Ronnie Newberry, Charles Hairston, Jimmy Matthews, Bill Adams, Danny Haymore, Bill Hundley, Paul Brooks and Rickie Fox

Adams recalls that City Council made its debut “playing anywhere they could, including a dive on Industrial Avenue,” a rough section of town in the heart of the city’s tobacco warehouse district. It was during one early performance at the notorious Eldorado Club that the group backed Garnet Mimms, best known for the song, “Cry Baby,” which topped the R&B chart and went to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.

By the time Adams joined on keys, City Council had a full horn section featuring Jimmy Matthews

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and Russel Kimbro on trumpet and Bill Hundley on sax. The group was fronted by ace vocalist Charles Hairston, a former Fox bandmate in Martinsville’s Team Beats. Matthews, Donnie Parrish, Doug Hyler, George Parrish and Bill Hundley were horn players who were in and out of the band.

Fox says the group went through many changes in personnel and style over the years, from a horn band, to a funk band, ending up as an amalgamation of all styles, “with an emphasis on creative expression.” City Council traveled the eastern United States, performing cover tunes and a few original songs.

Fox remembers City Council opening for or backing artists including the Tams, the Showmen, Arthur Conley and Major Lance. But City Council also played with current artists of the day, including the Brooklyn Bridge and Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds. The group played Bourbon Street in New Orleans and “loved to play in Daytona Beach.” The band traveled “as far as Flint, Michigan, but we were always glad to get down to Myrtle Beach to The Pavilion (Magic Attic) and The Electric Circus; we played clubs all up and down the coast, but Myrtle was more like home.”

Fan and former roadie (for Roanoke’s High & Mighty) Phil Romano recalls befriending the band at fourteen while catching City Council live in Myrtle Beach. Romano hung out with the band at the Sea Mist Motel and says he was impressed by their musicianship and versatility, noting they were better than many of the recording acts that frequented the Grand Strand.

Jim Talbott was another fan and became aware of the band as they were “phasing out the last of the horns.” He met the group through Wesley Earp, Danny Haymore’s half-brother.

He recalls that Danny, Rickie, Bill, Ronnie and Charles would practice at the Earps’ home and “all of us kids would be hanging out listening and trying to learn.”

He says Dickey Yates (Yeatts?) covered bass for a while, but Fox started playing most of the bass parts when Lonnie Woodall joined the band on guitar. Rickie covered guitar and bass, switching off with Woodall, another excellent guitarist.

During this period, the band all lived together in a large, two-story house on Green Street and Talbott says some of his best memories are of those times in the “Big House.” Every member had his own room equipped with a stereo and “each could give you an education in just about any kind of music.” There was a large living room where everyone would hang out, creating what Talbott describes as “a melting pot for musical ideas.”

From the Commercial Appeal newspaper advertising one of City Council’s earliest performances at the “T-Bird Country” in December 1969.

Bill Adams notes the group covered Blood, Sweat and Tears, Chicago, 3 Dog Night, Joe Cocker, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and “anything we liked and thought popular.”

He remembers opening for the then-unknown Allman Brothers band. While he knew nothing of the band, Adams points out that “a few months later, we were covering their songs.”

Bassist Ron Dewberry remembers backing recording star Major Lance (“Monkey Time”) at the South Carolina State Fair in Columbia, and was with the band until the group pared down to a five-piece unit in the mid-seventies and briefly changed its name to Arthur Boots. Dewberry says he and Darly Holland were cut as City Council went in a different direction, playing Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Fox says “Arthur Boots was a fictional character we invented who became a kind of imaginary hero.” He says the band “changed the name to Arthur Boots against the advice of our booking agent, because we were – well -- a little nuts.”

The name change “didn’t work out for us” and was short lived. The group changed its name back to City Council, which Fox says “thrilled our agent.”

The band went on for “quite a while” after that, evolving into the five-piece band which was “lean and mean” and worked the road a lot. Although no recordings were released, this version of City Council recorded a number of impressive demos.

Fox recalls spending hours refining arrangements

and creating “interesting versions of familiar tunes.”

Fox insists there was no conscious decision “to eliminate horns; it happened through attrition.”

The group’s agent was “always after us to ‘streamline,’ mostly for economic reasons, I’m sure.” The smaller group took songs that were recorded with horns, and did “arrangements that were as if the horns were never there.” Fox says this led to some interesting versions, and “brought out the creativity in everybody.”

One of these tapes found its way into the hands of a bootlegger and Fox recalls discovering an 8 Track of City Council performing the hits of the seventies at a truck stop en route to one of the band’s performances.

In addition to Adams, Kenni Hairston played keyboards in the band. Hairston recalls joining in 1976. He had just gotten out of the Air Force in Oklahoma and moved back to Virginia. While in the service, Hairston decided that he wanted to make music his career. He recalls that a “band of military guys, including myself (I can’t remember the name of the band) performed on weekends.

After winning local and regional contests, we eventually won an Air Force MAC (Military Airlift Command) talent contest.”

Before going into the military, Hairston played “with a couple of local bands in Martinsville,” including a group featuring vocalist Charles Hairston, who was also a member of City Council.

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was Gene and the Team Beats. He was thirteen at the time and remembers that Charles Hairston and guitarist Lonnie Woodall were both members. He describes both as “incredibly talented guys who died much too soon.”

Hairston says he “reluctantly left City Council” when he was offered a gig with the Royal Kings in Roanoke. He explains that the Royal Kings “were offering a lot more money and comparatively it was a bigger market than Danville.” He eventually moved to Richmond to perform with a band there and later re-located to New York.

After his stint with the Royal Kings, Hairston spent most of the next decade in the Big Apple, where he worked with a number of vocalists and bands, both as a performer and as a songwriter/producer. The recording artists included Cyndi Lauper, Nona Hendrix from LaBelle, and Mtume of “Juicy Fruit” fame.

Hairston also worked with Elliot Easton (The Cars) for his solo project and Cameo during the “Word Up” tour. He has also written and produced for various artists, including Vanessa Williams, Freddie Jackson, Sybil and CoCo Lee. He now lives Raleigh, and is still in the music business. In addition to teaching, Hairston works as a producer and composes and scores for video and film. And he continues to perform live in several bands around Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina.

But his fondest memories are as a member of City Council, noting the band “played in Myrtle Beach it seemed like all summer for years.” Those engagements included a club called The Electric Circus, where “we would play for a week at a time and would play there three or four times a summer.”

Hairston says the Myrtle Beach journeys were “always a lot of fun with all (the) young people out of school and partying all summer.”

Hairston became an integral part of the band, which broke up when he left. Fox says the remaining members “chose to disband rather than try to replace him.”

After a period of time out of the music business, Fox was called on to “quickly replace” Alan Rowe in the band Kicks. Kicks had two keyboardists, two drummers and no guitar, but “did quite well.” He says Kicks was “innovative, and did great material.”

When Waine Ryan left Kicks (to join the band Subway), Kicks took on Lonnie Woodall as guitarist/ bassist, and changed their name to Fox & Company.

Fox says he thinks this was “to capitalize on my single ‘Come On Danny,’ which was somewhat of a regional success.”

Fox is the most visible member of City Council today and continues to perform and record, both as a solo artist and with the band 58 West.

Rare promo shot of Arthur Boots (formerly City Council)

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Although there were many “Valentines” throughout history, the one that most people are aware of is the poor guy that thought it would be a good idea to attempt to convince Emperor Claudius II of Rome that he should abandon his pagan ways and embrace the Christian god as his own. Valentine was quickly dispensed with in a gruesome fashion. We now refer to him as Saint Valentine despite the fact that the Catholic Church neglects to recognize his martyrdom. It would appear that this unfortunate fellow really has nothing whatsoever to do with our modern interpretation of Valentine’s Day. The real Mr.Valentine would likely be offended by his association with such a commercial event.

In fact, it would seem the blame or honor, depending on how you consider it, resides with Geoffrey Chaucer. You remember Chaucer? He’s the famous bard whom we were all forced to read in high school English and author of The Canterbury Tales. He once wrote a story containing the line “For this was Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh to choose his mate.” Now, I’m not sure how you feel about being compared to fowl, but many women have become accustomed to being referred to as “chicks,” so perhaps it’s not too far of a stretch.

During medieval times, which are also known as the “Age of Chivalry,” people really started to get down to business.

Specifically, the men. The gentlemen in pursuit of their ladies fair wrote poems and created dazzling illuminated drawings as a means of expressing their eternal devotion. Unfortunately, many of the ladies wooed were of a married variety which led to many a dead knight. Alas, history repeats itself.

As Americans, we simply couldn’t bear the pressure of having to rely on our own creativity and original thought.

Around 1847, Esther Howland, daughter of a Massachusetts stationery magnate, came to our rescue with some of the first mass-produced cards that we refer to as “valentines.” The greeting card industry will forever honor her memory as it was estimated that over one billion cards were sold last year alone.

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Valentine’s Day is upon us once more. There appear to be two general schools of thought in regards to this “holiday.” The first is held by those tender souls who hold deep-seated beliefs in true love and lifelong desire. The second and more common ideology results in a vague feeling of malaise.

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The result, however, was the foundation of the holiday as we know it.

Although Valentine’s Day is now quite the commercial event with greeting card sales skyrocketing and jewelry sales at their highest, it was not so long ago that a handwritten note was considered the best way to express one’s affection. Not wishing to be misunderstood, as commercialism keeps the electricity turned on and a car on the road, but perhaps a return to simpler times would be best for us all.

by Jessica Keatts

Many lovers feel an oppressive obligation to spend excessive amounts of money for what is, let’s face it: a made-up holiday. Would it not be more dear to receive a thoughtfully written love letter than a greeting card with a signature? It doesn’t have to be penned on embossed, scented stationery, either. Notebook paper will suffice if the sentiment within is genuine.

“Roses are red” and all that jazz isn’t necessary. Why not, “I really appreciate it when you put the clothes in the dryer after the wash cycle is complete”? Or, “Thanks for scratching the middle of my back”? Is it really so challenging to take a moment to sit down and jot a note to let the object of your desire know you care?

Don’t be fooled by anyone’s cynicism, either. The most ardent cynics were once believers. The significance of Valentine’s Day is simply a message of hope. Hope that one day each of us will find another to share our dreams and desires. Hope that someone will recognize us for who we are and love us in spite of that knowledge. If a little boost from a date on the calendar can inspire you, by all means embrace it!

If you are lucky enough to have a cherished one in your life, I suggest you take a moment to write a note this year to let them know how much they mean to you. Let’s get original and use our hearts and minds to create a gift that will outlast jewelry trends, flowers, and the pounds added by chocolate consumption. The worst case scenario: Show this article to your wife after you give her a sheet of notebook paper for Valentine’s Day! www.showcasemagazine.com

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A Better You

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by Dave Gluhareff

“My clients do not do diets. We learn how to make healthy food choices throughout the day and how to troubleshoot cookouts, travel, snacks, special events, etc. “

Get Healthy Now! Life is Too Short!

No Time for Excuses!

For some unknown reason many of us constantly procrastinate. At times I am guilty of this too. We tend to put things off till tomorrow what we should be doing today. Maybe it’s laziness, lack of motivation, fatigue, loss of inspiration, or maybe even hereditary. Well for whatever reason, many of us have, do, and will procrastinate about things in life. After procrastination, we succumb to pressure and usually get stressed trying to catch up on all the things we have put off. Enough is enough! We have to break the procrastination cycle, especially when it comes to our health and well-being.

Our health is too important, and as I have said before “Our Lives Hinge on Our Health!” Everything we do depends on whether our health is good or not. If we are tired, fatigued, obese, diabetic, or have many of these preventable health problems, we will not be productive people. We will not be at our best as an employee, as a business owner, as a family member, as a friend, or as a servant of God. We were given a body which helps us reach out and touch people’s lives through family, friends, and our work. We have a responsibility to take care of our body which helps us to become more productive in society. If you are an obese, diabetic, tired missionary for your church weighing 400 pounds, you are limited to how you can reach out to people. If you are the CEO of a company with so much body fat that you have sleep apnea and have to use a machine to regulate your breathing while you sleep , then you are shorting yourself, your employees, your family, and friends of a better more productive YOU! If you are an employee who eats junk all day, gets no exercise, and has blood pressure, sugar, obesity, and cholesterol problems, which lead to missed work, then you are cheating yourself and your company.

Life is too short! There really is no more time for excuses.

I get calls, emails, and messages all week from prospective clients. I hear the same old crappy excuses which do nothing but hurt these people and enable them to keep on killing themselves with their own bad habits. Listen; there is no good excuse for being hugely obese. There is no good excuse for eating high-sugar junk all day with little activity or exercise and becoming diabetic. There is no good excuse for becoming a world riddled with preventable diseases and an overall huge health mess. The days of excuses and procrastination about getting healthy need to exit your mind. We need to stand up to obesity, stand up to high blood pressure, stand up to high cholesterol, stand up to acid reflux, stand up to osteoporosis, stand up to diabetes, stand up to sleep apnea and STAND UP for our own health and well-being

No More Diets!

Too many times we want to try a drastic diet because we have let our weight get out of control. Why do we do this?

Shouldn’t we just clean up our eating habits and exercise? It

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is like trying to get a tutor to help your kid with his/her grades when they don’t attend the class!

If we are eating high-calorie junk foods and chugging gallons of sugary soda, shouldn’t we just cut that out first? I hear it time and time again; someone calls me for help, as their personal trainer, and wants to know what type of diet I will put them on. I do not do diets. My clients do not do diets. We learn how to make healthy food choices throughout the day and how to troubleshoot cookouts, travel, snacks, special events, etc.

We all get the same high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high sugar, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, acid reflux, aches, pains, fatigue, and stresses whenever we DO NOT take care of our bodies and gain a lot of body fat. The same health problems stem from being overweight with all the groups I speak to; whether they are a business women’s group, a senior citizen’s church group, a men’s group, or a high school group.

When we neglect our Exercise, Nutrition, and Rest schedules, our bodies also get out of whack and all systems get out of control. We need to take care of our bodies by exercising regularly, making the proper nutritional choices, and getting plenty of rest and recovery time.

Now is the time to stop making excuses and do something positive about your health! Anyone who really has the desire to get healthy, can and will be healthy. Remember, not Age, Race, Religious Beliefs, Occupation, nor will Gender stop you if you really want to reach your healthy goals! “Our Weight Don’t Discriminate!”

No More Diets, they do not work. We all need just good old fashioned Exercise, Healthy Eating/ Nutrition, and Plenty of Rest!

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

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Executive Director, Danville Humane Society

In February, we think of ways to let people we love know that we love them. Usually, for men that translates into buying chocolates and roses. A huge lesson about love and giving comes from a child I never met.

Many years ago, a particular elementary school held a donation drive for the animal shelter. On the appointed day, I went to the school to teach about being kind to animals and collect the donations. I was overwhelmed by the large amount of dog and cat food, paper towels, animal treat, and toys.

A teacher came up to me and said, a little bit apologetically, “One of my students wanted to give something, but he doesn’t have a lot of money.” So, she gave me a little sandwich bag of cat food, and told me that her student poured a little bit out of his cat’s food bowl to bring.

The lesson we can learn from this is – gifts do not need to be huge and pricey. Gifts come in all sizes and with a vast range of price tags.

With the opening of our new adoption center early in February or early March, we need small gifts for the animals. Many people have donated money to help us build the center, but we also need small gifts of cat and dog toys to enrich their lives while at the shelter. We need treats for all kinds of animals, including dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and birds. We need bleach and paper towels, and all kinds of office supplies.

We also need people who are willing to give the fabulous gift of time. The shelter animals love the attention volunteers can give them.

I can assure you that each and every gift will be appreciated, by the humans and by the animals.

Lucy is about six months old.

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2 – Women and Money II: Coates Rec. Center: 6:30-8pm: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

2 – Dan River District Cub & Boy Scout Roundtable: St. Luke’s UM Church: 7-8pm: 434.710.4408.

8 – Tuscarora Chapter of the Order of the Arrow Chapter Meeting: St. Luke’s UM Church: 7-8pm: 434.710.4408.

9 – Tunstall Music Booster Meeting: Tunstall High School: 6:30pm: 434.710.4408.

11 – Senior Saturday Shopping Trip: 434.799.5216: www.playdanvilleva. com.

14 – H.A.D. – Health Awareness Day: Danville Community College: 10am-2pm: 434.797.8419: www.dcc. vccs.edu.

14 – The Methods of Chiropractic Medicine: Danville Science Center: 6:30pm: 434.791.5160: www.dsc.smv. org.

15 – Ella’s Quilt: Wednesday Club, 1002 Main St.: 3:45pm. 434.797.9302.

16 – Women and Money III: Coates Rec. Center: 6:30-8pm: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

16 – Dan River District Committee Meeting for the Boy Scouts of America: St. Luke’s UM Church: 7-8pm: 434.710.4408.

17 – Just Everyday Women Walking by Faith: Mary’s Diner: 11am-1pm.

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1-29 – Youth African Dance: YMCA: W 4:30pm: 434.792.0621.

2 – Fine Arts Evening: Sacred Heart School: Open House 6:15pm; Program 7pm: 434.793.2656.

2,9,16,23 – Curiosity Corner: Coates Rec. Center: TH 9:30am12:30pm: 434.797.8848: www. playdanvilleva.com.

2,9,16,23 – One Block at a Time: City Auditorium: 10-10:45am: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

2,9,16,23 – Read & Play: Mt. Hermon Library: Ages 3-5: 11am: 434.835.0326.

2,9,16,23 – Trey’s Sports Day for Kids: YMCA: 4:30pm: 434.792.0621.

2-28 – Bikes and Trikes: Coates Rec. Center: TU/TH 9-9:45am: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

4 – Storytelling Festival: Danville

2,16 – 57 Express Bluegrass Concert: Community Center, Chatham: TH, 7pm: 434.432.3115: www.chathamcares.org.

3 – Tchaikovsky St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra: GWHS Auditorium: 7:30pm: 434.792.9242: www.danvilleconcert.org.

3 – Gospel Extravaganza: Danville Community College: 7pm: 434.797.8419: www.dcc.vccs.edu.

3 – Chatham Concert Series: Emmanuel Episcopal Church: 7pm.

11 – Bids, Brew & BBQ: Sacred Heart School: Open House 6-11pm: 434.793.2656.

11 – Danville Firefighters’ Ball: Sacred Stratford Conference Center: 7-11pm: www.danvillevaevents.com.

14 – Love Is a Reasonable Affliction: Little Theatre of Danville: Stratford Courtyard Conference Center: 7pm: 434.792.2672, 434.203.8995: www. danvillelittletheatre.org.

14 – Illusions of the King: Gretna Theatre: 7pm: 434.656.3377 or 919.422.0826.

15 – Senior Day at the Movies: Gretna Theatre: 2pm: 434.656.3377.

23,24,25 – All My Sons: Averett

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24,25,26 – The Kitchen Witches: Little Theatre of Danville: Mt. Hermon Courtyard: 434.792.2672, 434.203.8995: www.danvillelittletheatre.org.

24,25,26 – The Piano Lesson: Gretna Theatre: 7:30/2:30pm: 434.228.1778.

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Thru March 31– Damsels, Dragons and Ladies Exhibit: Danville Science Center: Free/$6/$5: M-S 9:30am–5pm: Sun 1–5pm: 434.791.5160: www.dsc.smv.org.

Thru Sept. 3 – Wild Music Exhibit: Danville Science Center: Free/$6/$5: M-S 9:30am–5pm: Sun 1–5pm: 434.791.5160: www.dsc.smv.org.

1-22 – Art with Flo: Times/ Locations Vary: 434.797.8848: www. playdanvilleva.com.

4 – Bob Ross Painting Class: Ballou Park Annex Building: 10:30am-3:30pm: $65: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva. com.

13-March 6 – Art with Judie: Ballou Park Annex: M/TU, Times Vary: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

Museum of Fine Arts & History: 10am-2pm: 434.793.5644: www. danvillemuseum.org.

7,14,21,28 – Jump into Books: City Auditorium: 10-10:45am: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

7-29 – Koates Kids Pre-School: Coates Rec. Center: T/W 9:30am12pm: 434.797.8848: www. playdanvilleva.com.

8 – Polliwogs & Science Stars: Danville Science Center: Polliwogs, Ages 3–5, 1–2pm; Science Stars, Ages 5-7, 3:30–4:30pm: $3/$6: 434.791.5160: www.dsc.smv.org.

8,15,22,29 – Youth Adventures Series: Ballou Nature Center: 3:30-5pm: 434.799.5215: www. playdanvilleva.com.

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21 – Man Know Thyself: Danville Community College: 11am: 434.797.8419: www.dcc.vccs.edu.

21 – Keeping Well in Mind, Body and Spirit: First Presbyterian Church: 11:30am1pm: 434.766.6650.

22-March 21 – Sign Language Classes: Ballou Rec. Center: W 5:15-6pm: 434.799.5216: www.playdanvilleva.com.

24 – Dinosaurs Under the Microscope: Danville Science Center: 6:30pm: 434.791.5160: www.dsc.smv.org.

25 – Danville Area Humane Society Adoption Fair: Piedmont Mall: 11am-2pm: 434.799.0843: www.dahsinc.com.

28 – Black History Trivia Game: Danville Community College: 11am: 434.797.8419: www.dcc.vccs.edu.

29 – Poet Joanna Catherine Scott: Wednesday Club, 1002 Main St.: 3:45pm.

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Hobbies/Sports

1 – Senior Bowling Tournament: Riverside Lanes: 10am-12pm: 434.791.2695: www.playdanvilleva.com.

1 – Valentine Craft Hour: Ballou Rec. Center: 12:30-1:30pm: 434.799.5216: www.playdanvilleva.com.

1-29 – Bingo: Times/Locations Vary: 434.799.5216: www.playdanvilleva.com.

1-29 – Zumba Gold for Seniors:YMCA: 11am: 434.792.0621.

1-29 – Aerobics: Community Center, Chatham: Mon & Wed 5:30-6:30pm: 434.432.3115: www.chathamcares.org.

1-March 7 – Belly Dance Class: Danville Public Library: W 6:30pm: 434.797.8848: www. playdanvilleva.com.

2,9,16,23 – Kuumba-West African Dance: City Armory: 6:30-8pm: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

2-27 – Prime Time Fitness: Ballou Center: M/TH 9:30-11am: 434.799.5216: www. playdanvilleva.com.

2-28 – Chicks w/Sticks: City Armory: T/TH, 11:30am-1pm: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

3,10,17,24 – Friday Fun Runs: Crossing at the Dan: Fri. 12-12:30pm: 434.799.5215: www. playdanvilleva.com.

3,10,17,24 – African Drum and Dance: YMCA: 6:30pm: 434.792.0621.

4 – Ice Bowl Disc Golf Tournament: Ballou Park: 9am-2pm: 434.799.5215: www. playdanvilleva.com.

6 – Kayak Roll Class:YMCA: 6:30-8:30pm: 434.799.5215: www.playdanvilleva.com.

6-29 – Blood Pressure Checks: Times/ Locations Vary: 434.799.5216: www. playdanvilleva.com.

6-March 12 – Beginner Shag I & II: Ballou Rec. Center: 7-8pm/8-9pm: 434.799.5216: www.playdanvilleva.com.

7,14,21,28 – Zumba Class: Community Center, Chatham: TU 5:30-6:30pm: 434.432.3115: www.chathamcares.org.

7,14,21,28 – African Dance Ensemble: Coates Rec. Center: TU 6pm: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

7,14,21,28 – Sewing Classes: Coates Rec.

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Series: Jut’s Café, Averett University: 7pm: 434.791.7189: www.averett.edu.

7,14,21,28 – Belly Dancing Class: Community Center, Chatham: TU 7-8pm: 434.432.3115: www.chathamcares.org.

7-March 27 – Let’s Line Dance: Ballou Rec. Center: TU 7-8:30pm: 434.799.5216: www. playdanvilleva.com.

8 – Valentine Bingo: Ballou Rec. Center: 13pm: 434.799.5216: www.playdanvilleva.com.

10,11 – Whale Watching Trip to Va. Beach: Ballou Park: 5:30pm-9:30am: 434.799.5215: www.playdanvilleva.com.

14-March 8 – Beginning Swimming Adventures:YMCA: Ages 6-12: TU/TH 3:304:15pm: 434.799.5215: www.playdanvilleva.com.

16 – Sky Watchers: Danville Science Center: Nightfall: 434.791.5160: www.dsc.smv.org.

16,23 –Beginner Archery: Coates Rec. Center: 6:30-8pm: 434.799.5215: www. playdanvilleva.com.

20-March 26 – Belly Dance Class: Pepsi Building: Mon. Intermediate-5:30pm, Beginning, 6:45pm: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

25 – Outdoor Gear Sale: Ballou Nature Center: 9am-12pm: 434.799.5215: www. playdanvilleva.com.

Martinsville Arts/Exhibits

Thru Feb. 25– Living Off the Land Exhibit:Virginia Museum of Natural History: 276.634.4185: www.vmnh.net.

2 – Bob Ross Painting Class: Ballou Park Annex Building: 10:30am-3:30pm: $65: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

2-March 8 – Traditional Oil Painting Techniques: Piedmont Arts: TH 6-8pm: 276.632.3221: www.piedmontarts.org.

3 – First Friday Art Walk: Studio 107: 57pm: 276.638.2107: www.piedmontarts.org.

9-March 1 – Beginning Photoshop: The Artisan Center: 6-8pm: 276.656.5461: www.

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15-March 14 – Basic Glass Fusing: The Artisan Center: 5:30-8:30pm: 276.656.5461: www.TheArtisanCenter.org.

16-March 15 – Wheel Thrown Pottery: The Artisan Center: 5:30-8:30pm: 276.656.5461: www.TheArtisanCenter.org.

21-March 20 – Machine Sewing Techniques: The Artisan Center: 5:30-8:30pm: 276.656.5461: www.TheArtisanCenter.org.

21-March 20 – Intro to Woodworking Hand Tools: The Artisan Center: 5:30-8:30pm: 276.656.5461: www.TheArtisanCenter.org.

Kids/Family

8 – Homeschool Wednesdays: Matter: Ages 6-9 & 10-15:Virginia Museum of Natural History: 10-11:15am: 276.634.4185: www. vmnh.net.

24 – Kid Pan Alley Concert: Piedmont Arts: 6:30-8pm: 276.632.3221: www.piedmontarts. org.

29 – Doodle Bugs - Fizzle, Float, Pop!:Virginia Museum of Natural History: Ages 3-5: 10am & 3pm: 276.634.4185: www.vmnh.net.

Entertainment

1 – Poetry-Drama-Dialogue: Piedmont Arts: 7-9pm: 276.632.3221: www.piedmontarts. org.

2 – Mask Acting Master Class: Piedmont Arts: 2-3pm: 276.632.3221: www.piedmontarts. org.

2 – The Importance of Being Earnest: Martinsville HS Auditorium: 7-9pm: 276.632.3221: www.piedmontarts.org.

10 – Music Night: Spencer-Penn Centre: 5:30pm: 276.957.5757: www.thecentreatspencerpenn.com.

16 – Managing Your Business Cash Flow: Virginia Museum of Natural History: 2pm: www.yesmartinsville.com.

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2 – Seniors in the Know: Spencer-Penn Centre: 10am: 276.957.5757: www.thecentreatspencerpenn.com.

2 – Photography Club: Spencer-Penn Centre: 6:30pm: 276.957.5757: www.thecentreatspencerpenn.com.

4 – DRBA First Saturday Outing: Fairy Stone State Park: 10am: www.danriver.org.

9 – Book Discussion: Spencer-Penn Centre: 7pm: 276.957.5757: www.thecentreatspencerpenn.com.

18 – Bob Ross Painting Workshop: Spencer-Penn Centre: 10am:-4pm: 276.957.5757: www.thecentreatspencerpenn.com.

21 – Couponing: Spencer-Penn Centre: 6-5pm 276.957.5757: www. thecentreatspencerpenn.com.

Sml/Bedford Entertainment

Thru 29 - American Needlepoint Exhibit: Goose Creek Studio: 540.586.8482: www. goosecreekstudio.com.

Thru 29 - Photographer Jeff Goggin: Goose Creek Studio: 540.586.8482: www. goosecreekstudio.com.

Thru March 17 - Black & White Exhibit: Bower Center for the Arts: Wed-Sat 11am4pm: 540.586.4235: www.bowercenter.org.

5 – Winter Lecture Series: SML State Park: 3-4pm: 540.297.6066: www.dcr.virginia.gov.

11 - Read to a Dog: Moneta/SML Library: 540.425.7004: www.visitsmithmountainlake. com.

11 - Winter Book Sale: Bedord Public Library: 10am-6pm: 540.586.8911: www. friendsofbedfordlibrary.org.

11 - Karen Nichols Concert: Bower Center for the Arts: 7:30pm: 540.586.4235: www. bowercenter.org.

11,12,13,14 - Happy Valentine’s Day: Peaks of Otter Winery: 12-5pm: 540.586.3707: www. peaksofotterwinery.com.

16 – Tax Tips Seminar: Westlake Library: 35pm: www.visitsmithmountainlake.com.

28 - Black History Month Program: D-Day Memorial: 12pm: 540.587.3619: www.dday.org

Roanoke Entertainment

2,3,4,5 – Kazim Temple Shrine Circus: Roanoke Civic Center: Times Vary: 540.853.5483: www.roanokeciviccenter.com.

9 – Aaron Tippin Concert: Salem Civic Center: 7pm: 800.745.3000: www. salemciviccenter.com.

10,11,12 – Log Home Show: Roanoke Civic Center: 10am: 540.853.5483: www. roanokeciviccenter.com.

11 – J. Anthony Brown w/ George Willborn: Roanoke Civic Center: 7:30pm: 540.853.5483: www.roanokeciviccenter.com.

17 – Kroger Cabin Fever Series - The Embers: Roanoke Civic Center: 6:30pm: 540.853.5483: www.roanokeciviccenter.com.

18 – Blake Shelton Concert: Roanoke Civic Center: 7:30pm: 540.853.5483: www. roanokeciviccenter.com.

24,25,26 -Southwest VA Boat Show: Roanoke Civic Center: 1pm/11am: 434.610.5991: www.roanokeciviccenter.com.

25 – Disney Live’s Phineas and Ferb: Roanoke Civic Center: 4pm/7pm: 540.853.5483: www.roanokeciviccenter.com.

26 – Girls Night Out: Roanoke Civic Center: 6:30pm: 540.853.5483: www. roanokeciviccenter.com.

28 – Celtic Woman Concert: Roanoke Civic Center: 6:30pm: 540.853.5483: www. roanokeciviccenter.com.

North Carolina Entertainment

3,4,5 – The Foreigner: Kirby Theater, Roxboro: 7:30pm/3pm: 336.597.1709: www. artsinperson.com.

5-March 7 – Rockingham Studio Group Exhibit: Caswell County Civic Center: 2/5Opening Reception 2-4pm: 336.694.4591: www.ccfta.org.

9 – Wine, Women & Chocolate: Roxboro Country Club: 6-10pm: 336.599.8333: www. roxboronc.com.

10 – Wine, Women & Chocolate: Union Plaza, Roxboro: 6-10pm: 336.599.8333: www. visitroxboronc.com.

12 – Chairmen of the Board Concert: The Kirby Theater: 7:30pm: 336.597.1709: www.artsinperson.com.

16 – The Blues Brothers: Caswell County

Civic Center: 8pm: 336.694.4591: www.ccfta. org.

18 – Bluegrass at the Kirby: The Kirby Theater: 7:30pm: 336.599.4039: www. artsinperson.com.

24,25,26 – Red Stocking Revue: Roxboro: 336.504.9182: www.roxboronc.com.

south Boston Entertainment

4 – Brandon Cutrell & Ray Fellman: The Prizery: 7:30pm: 434.572.8339: www.prizery. com.

7-April 4 – Around The World In Art The Prizery: TU 3:30-4:30pm: 434.572.8339: www. prizery.com.

16,17,18 – Commemoration of The Crossing of The Dan: Times vary: 434.470.1350 or 434.476.2483.

17-25 – The Jungle Book: The Prizery: Times Vary: 434.572.8339: www.prizery.com.

UPCOMINGEVENTS MARCH 2012

DANVILLE

1 – Bob Ross Painting Class: Ballou Park Annex Building: 10:30am-3:30pm: $65: 434.797.8848: www.playdanvilleva.com.

3 – Danville Symphony Orchestra Winter Classical Concert: Stratford GWHS: 8pm: 434.797.2666: www.danvillesymphony.net.

7 – Botanical Gardens for Southern Virginia Presentation: Wednesday Club, 1002 Main St.: 3:45pm. 434.793.0884.

9 – Chatham Concert Series: Emmanuel Episcopal Church: 7pm.

10 –Green Legs & Hamstrings 5K, 10K & Half Marathon: Anglers Park: Registration 8:30-9:30am. Race Meeting - 10:15am: 434.799.5215: www.playdanvilleva.com.

24 – Bowl for Kids’ Sake: Big Brothers Big Sisters: Riverside Lanes: 14pm: 434.710.2754: www.biglittledanville.org.

South Boston

4 – Christopher O’Riley: The Prizery: 434.572.8339: www.prizery. com.

22-31 – Dreamgirls: The Prizery: 434.572.8339: www.prizery.com.

Martinsville

1 – Bob Ross Technique Workshop: Piedmont Arts: 10am-3:30pm: 276.632.3221: www.piedmontarts.org.

2 – First Friday Art Walk: Studio 107: 5-7pm: 276.638.2107: www. piedmontarts.org.

8 – Book Discussion: Spencer-Penn Centre: 7pm: 276.957.5757: www.thecentreatspencerpenn.com.

9 – Music Night: Spencer-Penn Centre: 5:30pm: 276.957.5757: www.thecentreatspencerpenn.com.

North Carolina

2-11 – Little Women - The Musical: Rockingham Community College: 7:30pm/2:30pm: 336.627.0228: www.tgrc-nc.com.

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truths in her day-to-day life, and you will realize that you are not alone in this maniacal concept known as parenting. Yes, welcome to 5150 Lunatic Lane- Where skills and tactics are tried, tested, and often fail. But she keeps doing it anyway!

Misty’s children Jason-19, Corey-11, Spencer-10, Tucker-9, and Kendall-8 know all too well the joy and sorrow of being a big family. And new husband Scott is still waiting for the punch line.

“But time makes you bolder. Children get older.

I’m getting older too.”

-Landslide, Dixie Chicks (Originally performed by Fleetwood Mac)

Time has wound its way through my soul and kept me here another year.

Happy birthday to me.

my cell phone sometimes, but I think I’m allowed that. We all are. We need balance in life. There must be some down time.You can’t always work, and you can’t always play.

Finding the right mixture is the key. (Some are better at that than others.)

In a typical day of the typical person there is much haste, but doing what? Did shopping for that sweater online really save you time?

Time has given me wrinkles and six gray Maybe, but only until you fell victim to the sidebar of “Items you may also like.” Now hairs! Time has given me true friends. you will really be looking forward to Friday Time has taught me to invest in what because it’s when your new sweater, boots, really matters. and scarf arrive!

Time is a teacher. Time is a friend. Time And don’t even get me started on is life. And life is a limited time offer. procrastination. And yes, I’m guilty too. There I learned long ago not to wish my time are a number of things I dread doing, like bathing dogs and going to the DMV with my away.You will never hear me say on Monday morning, “I wish it was Friday.” marriage certificate to change my last name That’s just silly. Time is precious people! on my driver’s license.

Love every day. And respect time. It’s all What do we tend to do while we’ve got. procrastinating? Crazy things such as At the beginning of this month I started organizing everything in the pantry and keeping a journal of the things I do on a refrigerator by color following the Roy G Biv daily basis. And let me tell you...I do way system because we dreaded mowing grass. more laundry than I ever thought. But, I once started sorting all of Jason’s old I wanted to see where my time was going. If you too are asking, “where did clothes according to season and size to avoid the time go?” during any particular day cooking supper. That was the night we ate scrambled eggs, baked beans, and chicken then we are in the same club. rice because Corey cooked.

I have very little time to spare as it is.

And by the way, which comes first the dread Sure, I waste time on Facebook every or the procrastination? day, and that stupid game I play on

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I really don’t have much to say this month, but I do want to say this; We are all blessings to this Earth and should use our time wisely. I’m thankful for time. Thankful for life. Take a good look at your life and make sure you aren’t wasting time.

Don’t hate the time, hate the clock.

Just In Time Time will judge you and ask you to wait.

Turn its back when you challenge fate.

Time doesn’t hear your cries in the dark.

But swims around you as a ravenous shark.

Time knows your secret and your goal And dangles them around with no console.

Unwilling, unforgiving, undeserving is Time.

But in the blink of an eye Time has passed by Feeding your needs and hearing your cry.

Soon you can see that Time offers hope.

You can’t even see it along the tightrope.

Stripped you down and robbed you blind Is the same that held you and taught you that Time Will only heal you and nourish your strength.

Not only is Time an undying length.

But the very tool you need to survive For Time is the only thing keeping you alive.

by Misty Brooks

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