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Route Review: Buffalo Creek Recreational Trail, WV

Running on the tracks of the former Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad, the Buffalo Creek Recreational Trail (BCRT) offers railbike and open-air railcar tours in a relaxed, interactive and highly hospitable environment. Under the umbrella of the Clay County Business Development Authority, the burgeoning trail is the grassroots beginning of an 18-mile (29-km) eco-tourism corridor for railbiking, cycling, horseback riding, kayaking, fishing, camping and Speeder-powered rail excursions. I pedalled the route on April 13th, 2019, the opening day of their second season of railbike tours. 

The Site

Check-in is at 867 Buffalo Creek Road, just outside of the town of Clay and near the confluence of the Buffalo Creek and Elk River. BCRT has a gift shop at the check-in office, which, as the staff explained to me with great pride, was stocked only with locally made product, contributing thousands of dollars into the local economy to support crafts and handiwork. The start of the ride is collocated with an active little league baseball field and a campground and lodge, all coming together as an exhibit of the strong sense of local community.

While this is one of only a few routes to be reviewed in this blog that is in no way connected to a heritage rail operation, BCRT does offer powered options to enjoy the scenery of the Buffalo Creek. In addition to railbikes, they run a Speeder pulling bespoke open-air trailers, and optionally will tow the railbikes as well.

The Route

We rode 12 miles (19.3 kms) round trip on a section of the 18-mile (29-km) former  Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad. The railroad was opened in 1904 and ran coal transport continuously until 1965, notably being the last US line to run steam engines in commercial operation. The route was reopened twice in the early 1970s and mid-1990s by other coal-related commercial interests, but saw its final revenue service in 1999. 

While the section of track we rode is in relatively good shape, much of the line was destroyed by a flood in 2016. FEMA funds are in the works for restoration of the entire line, which would create opportunities to expand the railbike excursions well beyond the current route. BCRT staff shared ideas they had for the future of the line, such as setting up cabins along the way and renting railbikes to campers and fishermen for longer stays. 

We were on the first run of the opening day of the season, so as it turned out, I was the only railbiker riding behind the speeder and trailers. We stopped several times to enjoy sights along the way, where BCRT staff shared history and local lore. While the entire route is through scenic forest canopy right along the Buffalo Creek, some of the noteworthy sites include former rail infrastructure, the remains of a derailed coal hopper, water-honed rock formations and a waterfall. The route passes through a clearing that was once a railroad company town called Adair, the only evidence left being a well-maintained cemetery. As described on a plaque in the clearing, the local school only gave instruction up to the eighth grade, so children rode the scheduled coal trains to get to Clay High School and back.

The Vehicles

In the DIY spirit of the the old coal rail line, BCRT keeps things simple. The railbikes are no-frills models from Railriders in Colorado. There are no seat belts and seat adjustments are held in place with eye bolts. This stripped down approach makes for a fast, fun ride, especially on the gradual slope of the return ride (where I had the fortune of riding 6 miles (9.7 kms) completely alone).

The only significant modification is the replacement of the stock urethane front wheels with cast iron wheels similar to those used on the Speeder and trailers. BCRT staff explained that the line has especially tight curves in which the urethane wheels would climb up the rails and derail, but the cast iron wheels slide through the curves. They also told me about some ideas they had for future modifications, such as adding motors and experimenting with driving the two front wheels independently (each wheel driven separately by each pedaller).

At the turnaround, BCRT staff had installed a jack-fitted lift for rotating the vehicles for the return trip. But it wasn’t necessary, the vehicles are light enough to pick up and turn.

Travel Notes

Clay is 47 miles (75.6 kms) from the West Virginia capital Charleston. A sane person would arrive there by car. At the risk of simultaneously bragging and revealing my lack of sanity, I arrived by bicycle. I loaded my road bike onto the Amtrak in NY and rode to Charleston the day before, then rode my bike to Clay and back to Charleston. I’m not sure if the mixed modes count as a century ride, but I did pedal over 100 miles, adding the distances of the bicycle and railbike.

My only advice for cycling in rural West Virginia: carry pepper spray. There a many, many loving dogs waiting their entire lives on porches just for the chance to chase a cyclist.

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The 2020 Democratic presidential campaign has been surprisingly promising when it comes to addressing poverty. Candidates have offered a host of ideas that would have a significant anti-poverty effect, from universal health care to debt-free college, a living wage, housing for all, universal child care, and more. They have also pledged to push for a debate focused exclusively on the issue—a promise they still need to make good on. But one region that hasn’t received the attention it needs in this or previous elections is the rural Black Belt, specifically the persistently poor counties in 11 Southern states that are home to more than half of the nation’s non-metro poor.

The name “Black Belt” originally referred to the region’s dark, clay soil, before eventually coming to signify its high population of African Americans as well. Today, the region’s roughly 300 rural counties—in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia—each have populations that are between 30 and 80 percent African American. As of 2008, the Black Belt was home to 83 percent of African Americans living outside metropolitan areas. We’re just two weeks away from the South Carolina Democratic primary, on February 29; six more Black Belt states will vote on March 3. It’s time for a presidential candidate to not only engage with the needs of people living in this region but also begin to rectify a history of exploitation and neglect.

There is precedent for it: then-Senator John F. Kennedy’s visit to West Virginia during the 1960 Democratic primary. As Ronald D. Eller describes in his 2008 book Uneven Ground, Kennedy was “genuinely stunned” at the mass poverty he saw, particularly that of unemployed coal miners. He pledged on camera to introduce an aid program for the state if elected—and, after he was, he created a presidential task force to explore a unique federal-state-local partnership for regional development in Appalachia. The task force outlined a program that would support highway construction, health care facilities, land stabilization, timber development, water facilities and sewer treatment, and vocational training. But it would take until 1965 for President Lyndon B. Johnson to succeed in pushing it through Congress, establishing the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC).

Since then, the ARC has received a total of $38 billion in federal funding (adjusted for inflation), benefiting counties across 13 states. While Appalachia still faces challenges such as labor force participation and poor access to health care, the ARC has contributed to largely eliminating the gap between the region’s rates of high school graduation and unemployment and those found nationally. It has helped both to cut Appalachian poverty from 31 to around 17 percent, and to lower the number of high-poverty counties in the region, from 295 to 107.

The idea for a corresponding regional development program in the Black Belt isn’t a new one. Scholars at Southern universities and some politicians—including Democratic US Representative (2003–11) Artur Davis of Alabama and the late Senator (2000–05) Zell Miller of Georgia—have pushed for it since the 1990s. The black rural South’s current unemployment rate of approximately 14 percent and child poverty rate of 51 percent are double those found in rural counties included in the ARC, according to a forthcoming paper from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

“I’ve heard it my whole life: ‘There’s nothing in the Black Belt.’ Are you kidding me?” says Dr. Veronica Womack, a Black Belt native and executive director of the Rural Studies Institute at Georgia College and State University. “This is a region where the people have always made a way out of no way. You can’t find any more hardworking, caring people—people who have continued to raise families, build community, go to church on Sundays, in spite of all of the challenges that have been put in place.” What has been lacking, Womack says, is a commitment to the region so people can “operate at their fullest potential.”

There have been piecemeal legislative efforts to increase the flow of investment to parts of the Black Belt. But none include all 11 states, focus exclusively on Black Belt counties, or—critically—prioritize community participation in designing and leading a commission to address the Black Belt’s unique challenges. “If you understand the tenacity and the resilience of the people who live there, then you understand the importance of them being a part of whatever solutions you have,” Womack says. “The commission has to know the history—the social, political, and economic dynamics of the place and space.”

In 2000, the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) was created as a state-federal partnership that is presided over by eight Southern state governors and a federal cochair. It includes some counties in five Black Belt states and received $25 million for fiscal year 2019. Seventy-five percent of the moneys are supposed to go to distressed counties, and half of those are required to be used on transportation and infrastructure. However, it does not include most of the Black Belt, and none of its board members are African American. It also lacks the community participation and leadership element that Womack says is key.

Arguably the most promising effort was the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC), created under the 2008 Farm Bill. Modeled after the ARC, it encompassed counties within seven Black Belt states, and was intended to focus on funding distressed communities for transportation, infrastructure, job training and entrepreneurial development, telecommunications, and sustainable energy solutions. However, while the SCRC was authorized to receive at least $30 million every year through 2019, it was never appropriated more than $250,000 at a time, and “does not appear to be active” as of March 2019, according to the Congressional Research Service. In contrast, the Northern Border Regional Commission—created in the same Farm Bill to address economic hardship in the primarily white populations of northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York—has received steady funding, including $10 million to $20 million in each of the past three fiscal years.

The SCRC was championed by the Democratic Representatives Hank Johnson of Georgia and Elaine Luria of Virginia, as well as majority whip James Clyburn, of South Carolina. “Congressman Clyburn has been committed to the SCRC since its inception,” says Hope Derrick, his communications director. “[He] is ready to fight for more funding when the administration appoints a federal cochair, the last hurdle in standing up the commission.”

Womack isn’t surprised by the lack of urgency the SCRC or Black Belt Commission proposals have received from most of the political elite. “When you start talking about policy that will be interpreted as benefiting a region significantly [comprising] black people, then where is the will to actually get that done?” she says. “Even though the Black Belt has all kinds of people in it, there is also a particular combination that our country has had a great difficulty addressing: poor people, and then poor people of color, and then poor black people.”

The need for a commission focused exclusively on the rural Black Belt is most apparent in places like Lowndes County, Alabama, where people are living with raw sewage in their yards.

Lowndes County is located between Selma and Montgomery, and every year tourists pass through, following the route of the historic 1965 civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mostly made up of small rural communities, it has a declining population of under 10,000 people, of whom more than 72 percent are African American. Residents here struggle against the soil that gave the Black Belt its name and made Alabama’s cotton king: Water can’t percolate smoothly through the chalky clay. Traditional septic tanks don’t work there; plumbing backs up when it rains, sending wastewater back into homes through sinks, tubs, and toilets.

The median household income in Lowndes County is $28,000 a year—and the kind of tank that residents would need can cost up to $30,000 for purchase and installation. Some residents resort to “straight piping,” which involves running a PVC pipe away from the home and into the yard, where it discharges untreated waste. As a result of not having affordable waste treatment, families have no choice but to contaminate their own properties. A 2017 study of Lowndes County residents by the Baylor College of Medicine found that 34.5 percent tested positive for hookworm, an intestinal parasite associated with the developing world. After the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty visited homes in Lowndes County and nearby Butler County, he described the waste crisis as “very uncommon in the first world…. I’d have to say that I haven’t seen this.”

“You can say all day long that [people] ought to just move, but [they] are born and raised here,” says Lenice Emanuel, executive director of the nonprofit organization Alabama Institute for Social Justice, who has worked with residents on this issue. “They don’t have the money to just uproot their lives and move to Montgomery 25 miles away. Then you have a transportation issue too—getting back and forth to their jobs,” since many work in the community. She also notes that there are businesses—most of which, advocates say, are white-owned—that do have the necessary infrastructure in place to treat their waste, just a half-mile away from homes dealing with raw sewage. Engineers say that simply expanding municipal sewer lines could help solve the problem for some Black Belt homes. For that, the County would need funding.

According to Emanuel, when county residents have invited state officials to come and witness the conditions firsthand, they have been subjected to “intimidation tactics” such as being threatened with arrest warrants, or even fined for lacking septic tanks they could not afford. These reactions from the state have also made it more difficult for residents to feel sufficiently safe to organize and advocate for change. While Alabama says it stopped issuing arrest warrants for sewage in 2002, a black pastor was arrested as recently as 2014 because a septic tank failed and his church wasn’t able to deal with the overflow. Emanuel says that the damage of past warrants is already done: Many people who received them now have a criminal record, and some have lost or can’t find jobs as a result.

Emanuel draws an analogy between the way people are being treated over the waste issue and the KKK’s showing up in their communities—“I liken it to that kind of terror.” She says it leaves people feeling “helpless” and “at the mercy of the institutions and power structures in the community. And it’s similar all over [Alabama’s] Black Belt counties.”

Alabama Democratic representative Terri Sewell sponsored the Rural Septic Tank Access Act—which passed in the 2018 Farm Bill—to help her constituents in Lowndes County and other rural areas access grants of up to $15,000 to install or maintain wastewater systems. This is still significantly lower than the cost of appropriate septic tanks in many homes. An aide to Sewell says she is working to increase the resources devoted to the issue, including the maximum allowable grant.

It can also be difficult for Black Belt communities to navigate the federal protocols to obtain funds—in part, Womack says, because these local governments just don’t have the staff to work on chasing grants. Case in point: Lowndes County is actually eligible for Delta Regional Authority funding, but if you look at the DRA’s most recent grants for infrastructure in Alabama Black Belt communities, the county with sanitation conditions comparable to the Third World is nowhere to be found. In contrast, the DRA did provide $509,000 to extend an industrial park’s water and sewer system to serve Enviva, the world’s largest wood pellet producer.

When Kennedy visited West Virginia in 1960, poverty in the region was stark: 33 percent of Appalachian families lived in poverty, compared to a national poverty rate of 20 percent; unemployment was 40 percent higher than the US average. Many more workers had given up on finding a job and left the workforce. That year, the Conference of Appalachian Governors declared that underdevelopment had meant that people in the region were “denied reasonable economic and cultural opportunities through no fault of their own.” Moreover, inadequate infrastructure for things like “transportation and water resources [had] hindered the local ability to support necessary public services and private enterprise.”

“The ARC is reparations,” says Spencer Overton, the president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. He says that in the coming months, the Joint Center will release a proposal for a Black Belt Regional Commission, hoping to address “an area of our country that once required a large number of people to work there. Those places became automated over time, but large populations are still there and there are fewer jobs. And so we have to come up with policy solutions. That’s the case when we talk about Appalachia; that’s the case when we talk about the Black Belt.”

Kennedy may have advocated for the ARC, in part, because he needed to win over West Virginia voters in the primary. As Michael Bradshaw describes in his 1992 book about the ARC, the senator’s visit to Appalachia came at a key moment in the campaign, when his challenger already had the support of organized labor. Kennedy announced his pledge for a state development program on the day before the vote. He had discussed black Southerners’ struggles during his campaign, but the fact that Appalachia was associated with white poverty made the program politically palatable to white voters and politicians.

Overton points to Appalachia and the Black Belt’s parallel histories of exploitation and resource extraction. In the case of the Black Belt, he says, it has been about “profiting off of cheap labor—whether that is slavery, Jim Crow, or the factories with low taxes, cheap wages, and no unions. Recognizing the unique history and consequent struggles in Appalachia, but not in the Black Belt, is like saying we’re going to treat the opioid crisis as a health epidemic, but we’re going to use the criminal code to deal with the crack epidemic.”

Andy Brack, former press secretary for the late South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings and a longtime journalist and editor covering Southern politics, has no doubt as to the root of the structural inequality we see in the Black Belt today. In a 2013 piece, he compared a map showing deep poverty rates with a map of slavery in 1860: “With the blink of an eye, it’s easy to see that these areas easily correlate with where enslaved people lived in 1860. The [Black Belt] is a remnant of plantation life…. One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, it’s time that this area starts receiving the same attention that Appalachia did.”

Researchers with the Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP)—an initiative founded by Stacey Abrams that focuses on policy solutions and capacity-building for vulnerable populations in the South—recently embarked on a listening tour in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina. (SEAP is a fiscally sponsored project of the Roosevelt Institute, where I am a journalist-in-residence.) As they spoke with nonprofits and grassroots groups to get a better sense of local challenges, there were some consistent concerns, including a lack of access to transportation, struggles with raw sewage and other environmental issues, and lack of investment from banks. One participant noted the “weight of racism”—as seen in housing separated by race, resegregated schools, and uneven development between predominately white and predominately black areas. Multiple groups cited the challenge of stigma, from outsiders who viewed their communities as hopeless and lacking potential.

Dr. Sarah Beth Gehl, SEAP’s research director, says that in western North Carolina and northern Alabama, which both have ARC funding-eligible counties, the local-state-federal partnership came up repeatedly—for example, for supporting children’s services, local government capacity-building, and transportation for those in addiction recovery. But when SEAP traveled to south Georgia or south Alabama, where counties aren’t covered by the ARC, the conversations were very different. “It was a lot about a lack of resources and a lack of attention,” says Gehl. “The infrastructure needed to take some innovative approaches to tackling deep challenges in these Black Belt communities—that piece was missing.” Moreover, when it came to what some people on the tour called “the basics needed for a dignified life”—like a grocery store, transportation, housing stock, or medical facilities—the resources just weren’t there.

“Economic progress for the Black Belt requires innovation and deep commitment, which means providing consistent investment to address the interconnected issues that hinder growth and block equity,” says Abrams in a statement to The Nation. “Funding the Black Belt Regional Commission would be a declaration of real intent to finally serve this Southern arc, and it is long overdue.”

It is easy to imagine the arguments against a Black Belt Regional Commission that would be loosely based on the ARC. If there is still extensive poverty in Appalachia, why would we repeat the model? But the ARC has had an enormous impact. In the 2018 fiscal year alone, it reported that its investments would create or help retain more than 26,600 jobs, and train and educate more than 34,000 students and workers. The ARC’s $125 million investment was matched by $188.7 million in public and other moneys, and is expected to attract over $1 billion in private investments.

There are ways too that a Black Belt Commission could be done differently. The ARC covers a huge region, including areas that do not suffer from persistent widespread poverty; funds are weighted toward distressed areas, but the appropriated money is inadequate to cover that expanse. A Black Belt Commission could focus exclusively on distressed communities. Also, much of the early ARC money was spent on highway construction through Appalachia—which, as Michael Bradshaw writes, the original ARC director felt was necessary in order to connect poorer economies with wealthier ones. (He also thought it would show legislators “results.”) While infrastructure is vital, a Black Belt Regional Commission could equally emphasize investment in people—their health, education, training, and the creation of jobs that would allow for upward mobility.

Dr. Veronica Womack says she would start with education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as infrastructure development, including for broadband Internet access, investment in start-ups and rural entrepreneurships, and rural health services for people who currently live in “health care deserts.”

“That’s just a start. Because if you’re not healthy, or you don’t have the proper education and training, the likelihood of you being successful in the 21st century is very small,” she says.

Spencer agrees. “Too often, there has been the notion that economic development is attracting a poultry processing plant—very hard, low-wage, unattractive work without a lot of prospects for growth,” he says. “We need to invest in human beings. It gets back to the concept of Black Lives Matter: We really want to recognize the humanity of people, and invest in people so they can achieve their potential.”

In addition to having local elected officials at the table, Womack says a commission should include community-based organizations that have been working in the region for decades, such as the Black Belt Community Foundation, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Southwest Georgia Project, and other similarly focused organizations “connected to agriculture and the land—a big piece of how we can be sustainable.” She would also want to invite historically black colleges and universities, technical and community colleges, and land grant and rural institutions such as Georgia College and State University that “understand rural places and are working in the region already.” Crucially, the commission should also hear from activists who are not attached to any particular organization, Womack says, because “the people in their community look to them and their leadership.”

“These folks can tell you exactly where the hiccups are—where the challenges and barriers lie in their being able to develop their communities,” says Womack. “And so, if we are going to hit the mark, it’s going to require us to do a different type of policy and a different type of policy implementation that doesn’t block off people from even being able to participate in the decision-making.”

Yet none of this will be possible without presidential leadership—the kind Kennedy embraced when he visited poverty-stricken areas in West Virginia.

Bernie Sanders, who has called poverty a death sentence, visited Lowndes County last May and pledged to a resident, “This is just the beginning. We have to get attention to the issue, and then we’ll do something about it.” That resident, Pamela Rush, also spoke at a forum on poverty convened by Elijah Cummings and Elizabeth Warren in 2018. Pete Buttigieg noted at one of the debates that poverty hadn’t come up, and that “it deserves a lot of attention”; both he and Amy Klobuchar have struggled to win over black voters. And while Joe Biden has touted his poll numbers with African Americans, he has struggled to connect with younger generations, many of whom feel he falls short in addressing systemic issues.

If any of these or other candidates spend more time in the Black Belt, will they offer so bold a proposal as a Black Belt Regional Commission? Or will they ignore the generational poverty and continued isolation of the region?

Lenice Emanuel says that elected leaders need to take stock of how they are serving, or failing to serve, the people of the region. “We have got to look inward at our own culpability in maintaining these systems of inequity,” she says. “We have to be real with ourselves about that. That’s where the answer lies.”

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Government and health officials spar over tightened COVID-19 mitigations

Leslie Renken Journal Star @leslierenkenAndy Kravetz Journal Star @andykravetzNick Vlahos Journal Star @vlahosnick

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Nov 2, 2020 at 10:19 AM

EAST PEORIA – The Tazewell County Health Department and East Peoria officials are at odds over Gov. JB Pritzker’s order for tighter COVID-19 mitigations in Region 2, which includes the Tri-County area.

Shortly after the governor issued the order on Sunday, East Peoria Mayor John Kahl said in a Facebook post that the city will not be enforcing those orders. On Monday the Tazewell County Health Department posted a scathing reply, via their own Facebook page.

“While we appreciate an elected official can do as he/she sees fit for their community, no official, including Mayor Kahl, has had a recent conversation with TCHD or been given permission to speak for the health department on this developing issue… Denying that COVID-19 is real, disregarding the mitigations and ignoring strong public health guidance for safety only makes COVID worsen in our community and does nothing to get us back to normal or slow infection in our community,” the post read.

Gov. JB Pritzker announced on Sunday that Region 2, which includes Peoria, would join the rest of the state in stricter mitigation measures, which includes a ban on indoor service at restaurants and bars beginning Wednesday. The end of indoor dining could mean the end of some small businesses in East Peoria, said Kahl

“Here we go again, round two, and a lot of them, I just do not see where a lot of them can afford to shut down again,” he said during a phone interview Monday afternoon. “At the end of the day I’m a big believer that people can make personal decisions and choices on their own accord. I don’t think the government has to tell people how to live their lives. This virus is not going away any time soon. People need to take personal precautions, if you have issues or concerns, take what precautions you deem necessary.”

East Peoria is not the only community in the Tri-County area where officials are bucking the governor’s orders. In Woodford County, where State’s Attorney Greg Minger took a stand against Pritzker’s stay at home order back in April, Sheriff’s Office chief deputy Dennis Tipsword said the governor’s latest order will not be enforced.

“We will take no actions in enforcing the governor’s recommendations,” he said Monday.

Tazewell County Sheriff Jeff Lower said he would continue, as he has done since the spring, to not enforce COVID-19 mitigations. He has long maintained that the orders are without legal basis and thus not enforceable. But, he said, one thing has changed.

“There have been two judges that have ruled that he doesn’t have the authority to issue these so that’s one more step in that direction,” said Lower, referring to lawsuits filed in Clay and Kane counties

The decision in East Peoria has nothing to do with politics, said Kahl, who firmly believes the COVID-19 virus is real. It is an economic decision. Area businesses suffered greatly through the first shutdown, and the economic devastation is as real as the health consequences, said Kahl.

“We are talking non-essential businesses, restaurants and bars. What we saw play out in the first six to eight weeks, it was absolutely devastating to these small businesses that were shut down. They have a right to make a living, they should not be treated differently than the big box stores, which, as you know, have stayed open during the duration, and many actually saw an uptick in a number of patrons while these other businesses were shut down. We have over 900 businesses in East Peoria, and we’ve treated each of them equally and fairly, and we think they have a right to stay open just like any other business.”

There is no evidence that allowing eating establisments to continue business-as-usual will slow the spread of the virus, said Kahl.

“There is absolutely no evidence any restaurant or bar in East Peoria that is currently open has been responsible for spreading any type of infectious disease,” he said. “If that was the case the health department would have shut them down…if they could come back with data – we’ve pinpointed it, this is where this stuff is spreading – I’m all about that. But they’ve not proven anything, and nothing is showing in the numbers showing that the very businesses that they are going to restrict are spreading the disease.”

Region 2 was the last region in Illinois to cross the 8 percent positivity threshold where stricter mitigations are imposed under the state’s COVID-19 plan. As of October 29, Region 2 had a rolling positivity rate of 9.3%.

Though lower than the region, the rolling positivity rate in the Tri-County area as of Oct. 29 was also above 8%. Peoria was at 8.3%, Tazewell was at 8.5% and Woodford is at 8.7%. The rolling positivity rates across Region 2 vary quite a bit, from Marshall County with 4.9% as of Oct. 29, to 14.3% in Warren County.

Leslie Renken can be reached at 270-8503 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter.com/LeslieRenken, and subscribe to her on Facebook.com/leslie.renken.

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Whole bunch of new collection guides!

Folks at the UK Libraries Special Collection Research Center have been BUSY. Below is a list of all the new and updated collection guides (a.k.a. finding aids in archives lingo) available on ExploreUK. Highlights include:

Victor and Carolyn Hammer papers, prominent printers who worked at UK’s King Library Press (a fine arts press still in operation)

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth records, a grassroots community     organization working for economic justice, education, and much more

Louisville Courier Journal Washington Bureau records, research     materials for news stories from the 1950s-2010s

Here’s the full list:

NEW FINDING AIDS

Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt papers (62m3); The Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt papers (dated 1909-1978; 8.8 cubic feet; 22 boxes) consist of manuscripts, books, pamphlets, photographs, negatives, books, and research material, which document his career as a bibliographer,     author, and teacher.

Lawrence Sidney Thompson Printing in Colonial Spanish America manuscript (63m259) The Lawrence Sidney Thompson Printing in Colonial Spanish America manuscript (dated 1962, undated; 0.35 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of the typescript, illustrations, and photographic negatives for the text written by Hensley C. Woodbridge and Lawrence S. Thompson.

George Blackburn Kinkead papers (64m101) The George Blackburn Kinkead papers (dated 1905-1940; 0.6 cubic feet; 2 boxes) contain addresses and scrapbooks belonging to George Blackburn Kinkead, a Lexington, Kentucky attorney.

Leonard R. Casper Robert Penn Warren: The Dark and Bloody Ground manuscript (64m140) The Leonard R. Casper Robert Penn Warren: The Dark and Bloody Ground manuscript (dated circa 1960; 0.3 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of two manuscript drafts and handwritten notes for Robert Penn Warren: The Dark and Bloody Ground, a critique of several major works by Robert Penn Warren.

Lancaster family papers (65m200) The Lancaster family papers (dated 1780-1916, undated; 1.35 cubic feet; 3 boxes) consists of letters and business papers, which document the Lancaster family of Georgetown, Kentucky.

Port Surgeon's Division, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation photographs (65m24) The Port Surgeon's Division, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation photographs (dated 1942-1946; 0.75 cubic feet; 3 boxes) consists of a historical report concerning the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation during World War II and photographs used to illustrate the report.

James Lyle Cassidy railroad collection (68m53) The James Lyle Cassidy railroad collection (dated 1945-1966; 1.13 cubic feet; 3 boxes) contains pamphlets, short books, photographs, mementos, and magazines about trains and railways with a focus on the southern United States during the mid twentieth century.

Family Service of Lexington and Fayette County records (68m65) The Family Service of Lexington and Fayette County records (dated 1945-1961; 0.45 cubic feet; 1 box) include annual reports, board member correspondence, meeting agendas, and minutes relating to the work of the agency within the Fayette County, Kentucky community.

American Library Association Committee on Resources     of Southern Libraries records (68m89) The American Library Association Committee on Resources of Southern Libraries records (dated 1934-1938, undated; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of a collection of surveys gathered for a report edited by Margaret I. King about sources available in Kentucky libraries in the 1930s.

Henry Clay papers (71m13) The Henry Clay papers (dated 1813-1852; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of letters, financial notes, a print, campaign buttons, a ribbon, and a newspaper that all relate to Kentucky politician Henry Clay.

Victor and Carolyn Hammer papers (1997ms409) The Victor and Carolyn Hammer papers collection contains articles and book manuscripts by the prominent printer Victor Hammer, biographical manuscripts written about Victor Hammer after his death, Carolyn Hammer's papers collected for King Library while she was curator of rare books for the University of Kentucky, as well as, the financial and business records for Anvil Press.

Clifford Amyx papers (1999ua082) The Clifford Amyx papers (dated 1957-1997, undated; 6.37 cubic feet; 17 boxes, 3 flat boxes, 1 wrapped item) comprise correspondence, collected works, research materials, stamp collection, slides, and artworks that document the work of Amyx as a professor of art and art history in the University of Kentucky Art Department; his work to index and analyze the portraiture of Henry Clay and the imagery of Daniel Boone; and his work as an artist.

Zachary family papers (2007ms089) The Zachary family letters (dated 1934-1945; 1.13 cubic feet; 3 boxes) primarily consist of letters written during World War II from serviceman Alvin L. Zachary to his wife Nettie Rich Zachary of Liberty, Kentucky.

Calvin C. Morgan music collection (2009ms068) The Calvin C. Morgan music collection (dated circa 1900-1901; 0.26 cubic feet; 1 box) contains 14 items: 10 handwritten original music compositions by Calvin C. Morgan, two musical arrangements of Calvin C. Morgan original works by Robert Crawfor and Evan B. Spiers, and two pieces of text that appear to contain lyrical content by Calvin C. Morgan or seem related to other pieces in the collection.

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth records (2010ms005) The Kentuckians for the Commonwealth records (dated 1969-2014, undated; 30.71 cubic feet; 30 record storage cartons, 3 document storage boxes, 1 flat box) comprises operating records, newsletters, publications, videotapes, audio cassettes, scrapbooks, subject files, and posters that document the activities and operation of the grassroots community organization Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC).

Earl Wallace papers (2015ms084) Earl Wallace papers (dated 1895-2003, undated; 3.08 cubic feet; 19 boxes, 3 items, 1 tube) consists of correspondence, subject files, photographs, and audiovisual materials that document the life of Earl D. Wallace and the development and preservation of Shakertown at Pleasant Hill.

Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass records (2016ms010)  The Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass records (dated 1939-2015, bulk 1977-2011; 6.07 cubic feet and 13.7 gigabytes; 11 boxes, 2 items, and 14,228 digital files) contain administrative records, publications, bulletins, financial records, photographs, meeting minutes, committee records, ledger books, and digital files documenting the community events, activities, and operation of the Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass.

Elliott family papers (2016ms042) The Elliot family papers (dated 1894-1899; 0.68 cubic foot; 2 boxes) comprise the handwritten recipes, newspaper clippings, cookery, and cookbooks collected and used by the Elliott family of central Kentucky.

Governor Julian M. Carroll speeches (2016ms057) The Governor Julian M. Carroll speeches collection (dated 1974-1977, undated; 1.8 cubic feet; 4 boxes) consists of speeches and remarks made by Julian Carroll during his term as governor of Kentucky.

Harlin family letters (2016ms059) The Harlin family letters (dated 1863-1881; 0.01 cubic feet; 4 items) consists of four letters written by members of the Harlin family concerning the Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee as well as experiences in California.

Abbott Lawrence papers (2016ms064) The Abbott Lawrence papers (dated 1844-1845; 0.1 cubic feet; 6 items) consist of 6 letters sent to Massachusetts industrialist and Whig Abbott Lawrence concerning the Henry Clay's financial problems following his failed presidential campaign in 1844.

Louisville Courier Journal Washington Bureau records (2016ms077) The Louisville Courier-Journal Washington Bureau records (dated 1952-2010, bulk 1990-2006; 19.35 cubic feet and 1.44 gigabytes; 19 boxes, 321 digital files) contain research materials for news stories about the Blue Grass Army Depot, 2006 Comair plane crash, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and Kentucky legislators.

Tommy Sharp and Anne Louise McMurtry correspondence     (2017ms003) The Tommy Sharp and Anne Louise McMurtry correspondence (dated 1940-1946; 3.6 cubic feet; 8 boxes) comprises hundreds of almost daily World War II letters and enclosures written and sent by Anne Louise McMurtry and Tommy Sharp 

Lancaster family photographs (PA65M200) The Lancaster family photographs (dated circa 1880-1890; 1.5 cubic feet; 5 boxes) contains many cartes de visite, cabinet cards, various sized albumen and printing-out paper prints and one cased daguerreotype of children and adults from 1880 until 1890.

 UPDATED FINDING AIDS (many of which were collection level records that now have inventories)

Marie Hochstrasser papers  (2010ms002)   

Marita Garin papers (2012ms078)

Ellen Churchill Semple papers, 1900-1932  (46M139)

Laura Clay papers, 1906-1920 (bulk dates),1882-1941 (46m4)

Darbishire family papers, 1751-1948, 1883-1919 (bulk dates) (62m68)

Robert Stuart Sanders typescripts, 1963-1968 (63m350)

Edward Stewart Jones letters, 1918-1919  (66m13)

Cahill family papers, 1885-1935, 1894-1936 (bulk dates) (66m32)

Carl and Anne Braden Papers, 1954-1964  (66m38)

William Cassius Goodloe Civil War scrapbooks, 1860-1865 (66m39)    

James Frazier Kelly daybook, 1829-1879, 1829-1845 (bulk dates) (67m220)

Leah Bodine Drake papers, 1918-1964, 1934-1964 (bulk  dates) (68m100)    

James Mitchum Graves ledger, 1849-1877, 1873-1877 (bulk dates) (68m56)

Fayette County, Ky. precinct records, 1964-1965 (68m98)

Thomas Harris Barlow papers, 1845-1955, 1856, 1954-55 (bulk) (68m99)

Simeon Slavens Willis papers, 1915-1959, 1932-1943 (bulk dates) (69m9)

Rebecca Caudill papers, 1919-1984 (81m1)

Anna Dudley McGinn Lilly papers (1997ms234)

John D. Whisman Papers, 1936-1995 (1997MS282)

Eastern Kentucky Housing Development Corporation records (1997ms353)

W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection (1997ms474)

University of Kentucky Athletics player files (2007ua023)

Eugene Erwin and William Russell papers, 1834-1868 (2009ms011)

Robert Houlihan papers (2009ms167)

Georgia Davis Powers papers (2011ms024)

Robert F. Sexton papers (2013ms0834)

Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence records (2013ms0846)

Ronald D Eller papers (2013ua007)

Robert G. Wallis scrapbook (46m7)

Kentucky Academy of Science Records (49m38)

Caleb Powers Papers, 1900-1941, 1903-1908 (bulk dates) (51w15)

Joseph Bruce Mathews papers (62m98)

Brent Spence papers (63m300)

Jesse Kitchen Lewis papers (64m2)

Grant Cochran Knight papers (64m77)

Scott family papers (64m98)

Informal Club records (72m16)

John Craig Shelby papers (72m23)

Isabel Cook Bureau scrapbooks (74m2)

Kentucky Rivers Coalition records (89m2)

Goebel family papers (M-121)

Bruce Ferguson scrapbook (M-133)

Percy Haly scrapbook (M-137)

Rebecca Caudill papers [microfilm] (M-557)

Edwin Green Bedford papers (48m19)  

Grahamton Manufacturing Company records (53m18)  

Preston-Johnston family papers (60m150)      

Lyle family papers (62m49)

Cleanth Brooks papers (62m67)  

Marks Coal Company records (63m352)      

Carlos B. Embry papers (65m143)                

Smither family papers (65m148)  

Mary Kay Venable Weathers scrapbooks (46m34)  

Clara Warland White scrapbooks and  autograph books (46m5)                 

Mary Burch Breckinridge letters (59m64)

Todd family papers (62m40)

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Rolando, San Diego

This is from a three-part series that ran in Rolando's community newsletter last year. I'd interviewed people who grew up in the area between the late '50s and early '80s, but the self-indulgent second part was the one best received and now featured permanently on the RCC website. Kevin B. Staff, February 15, 2019

Growing Up in Rolando, 1960s - early 1970s

On a hot summer day in 1960, a young musical group piled into a car for a drive to North County. They called themselves Rosie and the Originals. Their destination was an airplane hangar in San Marcos that doubled as a recording studio. Their saxophonist was missing because he had committed to mowing a lawn, and his mom wouldn’t let him out of it. Another group member knew the rudiments of blowing a simple instrumental break, and the unpolished nature of the recording that resulted is probably part of what makes it so hauntingly appealing, as if emanating from no particular place or time.  

By fall, Rosie’s “Angel Baby” had become popular locally. By Christmas, it was an international hit.

In mid-September 1960, as the song was first getting airplay, our next-door neighbor on College Avenue walked me to Henry Clay School for my first day of afternoon kindergarten. My mom had broken a toe while chasing my little brother and me around the coffee table in our living room. The plan was to show me a definite route to follow—from College to Acorn Street to Seminole Drive to Solita—and, after a week of escort, to let me walk it on my own. There were no sidewalks along College Avenue in those days, but I was able to make the walk.

During that first week, a kid kept crying in class, and on one occasion tried to escape. Old Ms. Leber seemed to leap across the room in a single bound as she grabbed him by the collar and dragged him back. Resistance was futile. My best childhood friend, a year younger than I, spent several days with me trying to build an airplane out of bamboo strips and pinwheels that we thought we could use to fly away in, so that I wouldn’t have to go to school.

I came to like kindergarten after a while. I began to walk with a girl who lived in the back unit of a duplex near the corner of College and Acorn. I tried to impress her by breaking glass bottles on the wall of the Campus Drive-In until an old lady came out and made me sweep it up and that was the end of that. One day, I came to the girl’s door just as her father was rushing off to work. The screen door hit me and knocked me into a cactus garden by the side of the house. He actually seemed relieved to be able to call in late. While her mom telephoned my mom to explain what had happened, he took me into the bathroom, had me pull down my pants, removed a number of cactus needles from my bum and rubbed the area with Bactine. It was quite embarrassing.

The rest of my elementary school flew by, in retrospect, although a year seems to take forever when you’re a kid. Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961, To me, he was President for a long time. It was hard to think of him as young, since all adults seemed old and he was even older than my dad! He was assassinated while I was in third grade. We heard about it just before recess and did talk about it on the playground, but it wasn’t as if the world had stopped. We played ball and ate our lunches; I even bought a bag of Planter’s peanuts for a nickel that day.

We moved to our new house on Seminole Drive on Veterans’ Day 1965. Although it was less than a mile away, I didn’t see as much of old friends and started hanging out with a different set of kids. The area west of Henry Clay had been developing steadily since the early ‘60s. The apartments on the south side of Acorn Street went up around 1963; we used to climb around on the building materials until the workers chased us off. An old-style ranch house with a big front porch was torn down, and four houses, including the one we moved into, went up on the west side of Seminole. The shopping center where the BLVD63 apartments now stand started out as a large dirt lot with just a De Falco’s Food Giant on the east end.

As the rest of the shopping center developed, Thrifty Drug Store and College Theater opened, with a few small retail businesses between them. There was a vacancy between Thrifty and Von’s for several years, until Straw Hat Pizza Palace opened. It showed old Laurel and Hardy films and such, and instantly became a favorite hangout for older kids. The back of Thrifty had a tall flat wall and a good-sized parking lot that quickly became a place for playing handball and racquetball. We got to know most of Thrifty’s employees, who let us go up to the roof to retrieve our ball if we somehow hit it up there. We bought candy bars that over the years went from five cents to ten cents to fifteen cents while becoming smaller and smaller, and could get a scoop of ice cream on a cone for a nickel, with two scoops for a dime.

Sixth grade at Henry Clay ended in June 1967, just before the weekend of the much-remembered Monterey Pop Festival and several weeks after the release of the Beatles’ much- overrated Sergeant Pepper album. In the fall, I moved on to Horace Mann. Because I went to Sunday school in the College Area and had joined the church-sponsored Scout troop, I already had a collection of acquaintances from other elementary schools that I now saw every day. It was quite a change, having to go to different classrooms and listen to bells ringing every hour. Miniskirts were much in fashion, and we guys were beginning to notice.

For those who went through adolescence in the late ‘60s, the era has always been something of an enigma. That time in a kid’s life is chaotic and confusing enough, but we also had to deal with living in one of the most tumultuous eras in modern history. There was a lot of anti-establishment posturing by kids my age—mainly aping older siblings, I suspect. At heart, I think, teenagers are the most reactionary of conformists. If you were going to rebel against society, there was a very definite way to dress and behave. But political posturing aside, kids will be kids. We enjoyed going through what we called the A&W and Uni-mart storm drains, identified by the businesses nearest the tunnel entrances. We had raucous impromptu after-school football, basketball, and soccer games. We took off on long bike rides without bothering to tell our parents where we were going or when we’d be back. We threw water balloons at each other in hot weather.

In fall 1970 I started high school in 10th grade at Crawford. It seemed a much more easygoing place than Horace Mann, with basically no dress code and fewer ringing bells and public announcements. I didn’t take part in many extracurricular activities, having embraced the current drop-out-of-society ethos. That fall I took drivers training, then offered by public schools. Dad occasionally let me borrow the car, but I really wanted a motorcycle. In July, after working a few months at Campus Chuck Wagon, I was able to buy a little Honda CB160. By the middle of my high school years, several of us had small bikes and would take them on weekend camping trips in the backcountry. Although my Honda wasn’t built for off-roading, we did a bit of that too, often in the area that is now Mission Trails Park. There weren’t a lot of restrictions on where you could ride then. Soon enough, the noise and dust got on people’s nerves and laws changed.

I participated irregularly in wrestling and track, but for the most part was uninterested in school-related activities. I did stay active in the Boy Scout troop throughout high school because of its outdoor program. A half-dozen other boys my age felt the same way and we’d all become friends. It was through the troop’s outdoor program that I got to know most of San Diego County, particularly Anza Borrego State Park. We climbed Mount San Jacinto in the San Bernardino mountains each year, in preparation for an annual week-long trek through the Sierras. I’d climbed Mount Whitney twice by the time I was 16!

Watergate was just getting underway when I graduated from high school and American participation in the Vietnam War had ended earlier that year. For us, the feeling was that the ‘60s were definitely over but nothing particularly cool had come along to take its place. There was a lot of soft rock music, and it was considered fashionable to be a “sensitive male.” On the other hand, it was the era of the Guitar Hero–all about making a lot of noise while playing fast. To me, most of the hard rock seemed much less tuneful than ‘60s music.

I left San Diego that fall of 1973 to become an auto mechanic in Arizona. It seemed like a practical thing to do until I realized I intensely disliked the work. After a year, I joined the army. Although I came back to San Diego for short periods, I didn’t live here permanently again until 1997. The Rolando area was basically recognizable as the place where I grew up, until about ten years ago when the shopping center was demolished to be replaced by BLVD63, the Thrifty became Rite Aid and moved to its present location by the Post Office, and Henry Clay got some upgrades.

When I taught at Palomar College in San Marcos, I had the chance to ask Rosie Hamlin, the lead singer of Rosie and the Originals, if she remembered the location of the hangar where they recorded “Angel Baby,” but it was all too long ago and far away from her current life. In March of last year, Ms. Hamlin died. *The author of this article is Kevin Bradshaw Staff, Class of 1973 and is on the Rolando News Staff.

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Abbott says counties can indirectly coerce use of face coverings

By ROBERT T. GARRETT Austin Bureau [email protected] AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday appeared to give his blessing to a move by the county judge in San Antonio to slap fines on businesses if they don’t make their employees and visitors wear masks when they’re less than six feet apart. At least, Abbott didn’t oppose the new edict by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff. Appearing on KWTX-TV in Waco, Abbott said Wolff had “figured out” that the authority to demand more wearing of masks was lying in plain sight — in Abbott’s executive orders on COVID-19 — but only through indirect coercion by private business. “There has been a plan in place all along that all that was needed was for local officials to actually read the plan that was issued by the state of Texas,” he said. “It turned out earlier today that the county judge in Bexar County finally figured that out.” Abbott, a Republican, spoke as rising numbers of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations in Texas have raised new questions about his reopening of businesses and other activities. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said that on Thursday, he plans — after conferring with business and hospital leaders — to propose an order similar to Wolff’s that would compel businesses — with the threat of fines — to make people wear masks and take other safety precautions. “Hopefully we can get that enacted very soon,” he said. The easing of the mask impasse came a day after Abbott clashed with mostly Democratic local officials who said he had stripped from public-health officials’ arsenal a key weapon in the coronavirus fight — requiring people to wear face masks when in public. Abbott chastised the mayors and county judges, especially Jenkins, saying they wanted to abuse their powers and punish individuals for not wearing masks — and that he wouldn’t let them do that. But on Wednesday, Abbott did not object to a plan that Wolff, a Democrat, announced earlier in the day: fines of $1,000 on businesses that fail to require the wearing of masks by workers and customers when they’re near one another. As Wolff put it: “All commercial entities providing direct goods and services to the public must develop and implement a health and safety policy. It must require at a minimum that all employees and visitors wear face masks when they’re less than 6 feet apart.” Without elaborating, Wolff said the commercial operations “can certainly” adopt “other mitigating measures designed to control and reduce the transmission of COVID-19.” Wolff said his emergency order takes effect Monday. No objections Abbott raised no objections, telling KWTX anchor Pete Souza: “Just like they can require people to wear shoes and shirts, these businesses can require people to wear face masks if they come into their businesses. Now, local officials are just now realizing that that was authorized.” After Abbott’s interview, Jenkins tweeted that he was glad Abbott had “listened to science and changed his mind.” He noted that the city of Dallas and Dallas County had been following the state’s reopening recommendations until Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote to cities to demand that the steps not be required. “This will save lives,” Jenkins said. As for Abbott’s saying Wolff “figured out” the path forward, Jenkins told The Dallas Morning News : “I think he was spinning a story there. I think it would be even worse for him, and of course all of us here in Texas, if he had actually written an order as if it was a riddle, and then allowed people to spread COVID for a month and a half before he agreed someone had uncovered his riddle. I don’t think he seriously believes that happened. Remember, we were doing what Bexar County is proposing to do in May … and they told us to stop.” Later Wednesday, Jenkins’ counterparts in Houston and Austin — Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and interim Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe — said they were considering whether to emulate Wolff and require businesses to make workers and customers wear masks, according to the Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman . Wednesday evening, Austin Mayor Steve Adler signed an order mirroring Wolff’s that will take effect Thursday, the Texas Tribune reported. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who appeared with Wolff at the morning news conference in the Alamo City, updated his municipal emergency orders. They now conform with Wolff’s demands for businesses to adopt safety plans and require employees and visitors to wear face coverings when they’re near one another. Republican Mayors Betsy Price of Fort Worth and Jeff Williams of Arlington, however, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that they didn’t plan to require businesses to order the wearing of masks. The National Federation of Independent Business’s state director, Annie Spilman, objected to making business owners enforce safety rules. “Orders like Judge Wolff’s puts owners in the difficult position of policing their customers while trying to reopen and rebuild their businesses,” Spilman, an advocate for small businesses, said in a statement. It echoed calls by many Republicans in Congress — and by large corporations — for federal liability protections that would shield businesses from coronavirus-related lawsuits. Democrats criticize Abbott Democrats seized on the surge in positive test results for COVID-19 in most big Texas cities to assail Abbott. U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, an Austin Democrat whose district extends to San Antonio, fired off a letter rebuking Abbott for gladly letting local elected officials enforce his COVID-19 edicts early in the pandemic, only to hobble them as he caved to Republican activists demanding faster reopening of the economy. “In March, you hid behind local control, as our cities led in making tough decisions to stay home and work safe — including painful but correct decisions to cancel SXSW and Fiesta,” Doggett wrote, referring to festivals, respectively, in Austin and San Antonio. “Unshackle local leaders to lead,” he urged. Abbott has had an evolving policy on punishments for violations of COVID-19 orders. In March, he gave local authorities the power to enforce his orders and threatened fines and up to 180 days in jail for violating them. Then on April 27, just days before he let restaurants, stores, movie theaters and certain other entities reopen at 25% of capacity, Abbott put this in Executive Order GA-18: “Individuals are encouraged to wear appropriate face coverings, but no jurisdiction can impose a civil or criminal penalty for failure to wear a face covering.” About a week later, after a state district judge in Dallas put hair salon owner Shelley Luther in jail for contempt of court after she refused to close her business, Abbott made a show of erasing any jail time for violation of his COVID-19 decrees. Republicans also critical The question of punishments is a fraught one for Abbott, who has also been under fire from libertarian and socially conservative quarters of the Texas GOP for assuming too much power over Texans’ lives during the health crisis. Former GOP state Rep. Matt Rinaldi tweeted that Abbott hasn’t been consistent. “Every business and every individual in Texas is at the whim of @GovAbbott and whatever mood he may be in any particular day,” Rinaldi said. On Wednesday, Abbott told Souza he’s been consistent all along. “We want to make sure that individual liberty is not infringed upon by government and hence government cannot require individuals to wear masks,” he said. “However, pursuant to my plan, local governments can require stores and businesses to require masks.” Staff writer Joe Hoyt in Dallas contributed to this report. Twitter: @RobertTGarrett

 but only through indirect coercion by private business.

what the hell does that even mean??? waffling- no direct order he can be held to

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COVID-19 Coverage: Be Mindful

COVID-19 Coverage: Be Mindful

Mike Coonrod, sbjLive producer

Mike Coonrod, sbjLive producer

Posted online November 2, 2020 | 8:43 am

Daniel Ogunyemi, learning, development and inclusion partner with Burrell Behavioral Health, says being mindful has helped him deal with isolation during the pandemic. Find coping mechanisms that help you. Ogunyemi is one of SBJ’s 2020 12 people You Need to Know.

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Top 10 Roofing Contractors in Palm Beach County!

1.  Build Masters Lc

Build Masters is a certified roofing contractor doing business as Roof Masters (CCC 1327296) servicing Broward and Palm Beach counties, specializing in residential and commercial roofing services. They have over 100 years combined experience in The South Florida roofing industry and have extensive knowledge in Tile, Metal, Shingle and Flat roofs. Build Masters LC is a BBB accredited roofing company with an A+ rating and we are authorized installers by GAF, Tamco, Owens Corning, Polyglass and CertainTeed. To get a FREE consultation and quote from Build Masters LC, call at 561-757-6587, 954-333-8512.

2. Leo Roofing

LEO provides residential and commercial roofing services. They offer planning, managing, and executing construction projects of all kinds. Frank Leo, its President, has over 15 years experience in the construction industry. He has developed the knowledge essential to being qualified roofing and building contractors. 

3. Altec Roofing

Family Owned and Operated since 1984, Altec Roofing has installed some of the finest custom single-family, multi-family, and commercial roof systems throughout South Florida. Whether asphalt, metal, tile, or roof coatings, Altec Roofing stays on the leading edge of technology, utilizing the most advanced options available.

4. RoofPro

RoofPro is a professional roofing company that offers several commercial roofing solutions as well as residential roofing styles including tile roofing, metal roofing, shingle roofing, and flat roofs. 

5. Turner Roofing Company

It’s family-owned and operated. We’re a local roofing company in Palm Beach County, serving both Palm Beach and Martin Counties. They offer roof repairs and roof replacements services since 1980.

6. Dobson Roofing 

It was established in 1992 by John P. Dobson. Committed to the fact that quality work and expert customer service can be attainable for a competitive price, they focuse on providing a variety of options for custom homes and commercial properties. Their roofing services include: cement tile, clay tile, barrel, slate, flat bur, metal and roof repairs.7. The RoofSmithEstablished in 2006. The RoofSmith offes variety of roofing services in Palm Beach County or Martin County area. 

8. Aastro Roofing Inc

They offer a full line of roofing services including commercial and residential roofing to roof repair and replace for residential and commercial roofing.

9. JJ Quality Builders

Located in Palm Beach County, JJ Quality Builders of the Palm Beaches delivers exceptional workmanship and very affordable services. They provide  residential  and commercial roofing installation.  

10. Mark Terlep Roofing

They offer roofing services. Whether it is a small roof repair job or a brand new customized roofing system on a residential or commercial building we can help. The Bottom Line:

You can find many other roofing contractors in Palm Beach County Florida but this list is taken from Google My Business Search Result. You can contact to anyone from the above given list of Roofing Companies for your residential and commercial construction projects. If you finding hard to choose the best one for your construction project, please feel free to call us at 561-757-6587.

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A Time to Plant…A Time to Reap

by Cynthia Brian

 “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1

With the power disruptions and fire fears of October in our rearview mirrors, we welcome November with open arms and grateful hearts. It won’t be long before the rains arrive. Driving or walking throughout the region, we witness a marvelous display of fall foliage as leaves on many deciduous trees turn from green to saffron to tangerine to crimson before dropping to the ground. 

Time to fertilize heavily. In autumn, plants quit sending minerals and water to leaves and blooms. The nutrients are instead directed to increase the roots while storing food for the winter months.  We witness the foliage color change to our great delight .

When you fertilize at this time of year, you’ll be feeding your trees, shrubs, plants, and lawns. This dormant feeding is crucial for the success of your garden for the following seasons.  The roots are busy storing nourishment even though the above-ground growth has halted. It’s best to do this heavy feeding after the first rain to assist the fertilizer to go deeper into the ground. The soil is still warm and will soak up the fertilizer. 

Time to feed lawns. Lawns especially need fertilizing now. The blade growth has slowed, a signal that roots are digging deeper. Gradually start mowing your lawn shorter and fertilize heavily to prepare the grass for the long cold months ahead. There is still time to aerate if your clay soil is compacted. After the first rain is a good time to re-seed grass or install new sod. Make a personal batch of grass patch by mixing a bag of potting soil in a wheelbarrow with enough lawn seed until you see 20 or more seeds per handful. Scratch or till any bare patches, scatter the seed over the fresh soil, rake lightly, water, and wait for the seedlings to sprout. Keep the area damp until grass is established. Do not let it dry out.

Time to prune dead branches and rake leaves. No plant or tree is fireproof. 

Dead branches, dry leaves, and grasses are highly flammable. Reduce fuel laddering by pruning trees 6-10 feet from the ground and several feet from roofs. A person should be able to walk under a tree without being hit by a branch. Clean out your gutters, eaves, porches, and decks. 

Time to watch for rodents and skunks. It’s mating season for rodents and skunks. The recent fires have impacted wildlife movement allowing animals to migrate closer to residential development, including a plethora of rats. Vector Control Inspector, Joe Cleope, alerted me about the new procedures and protocols instigated in the district. Many people don’t know that Vector Control is a free service. If you have a question or concern, please visit the website for assistance. https://www.contracostamosquito.com.

Time to plant garlic. Vampires may not like garlic, but foodies do! Planting just a dozen cloves will yield you a harvest of more than 120 cloves. A bulb has several cloves to break apart before planting in a sunny location in rich, well-drained soil. Put the pointy side up and the flat side down, cover the cloves with a layer of mulch, and they will multiply forming a new bulb. Harvesting will be late summer when the tops have yellowed. You can then tie or braid the stalks or cut the leaves above the bulb. Always save a large bulb for the next year of planting.

Time to harvest and eat pineapple guavas. Called feijoa, the fruit is self-harvesting. It falls from the tree when ripe, however, you can also pick the fruit. When cut, a fully ripened feijoa will have clear-colored jellied sections. If not ripe, put in a brown paper bag for a few days with an apple. Scoop out the sweet/tart jelly and eat raw or make jams, sauces, glazes, or add to salads. The perfume from the fruit is as delicious as the fruit!

Time to cut hydrangea blossoms. If you enjoy drying the flowers of hydrangeas, November is a perfect month to do so. If not, once the flowers fade, cut back the stems to encourage new growth.

Time to plant succulents. Succulents are drought and fire-resistant. Many boast beautiful flowers, unique shapes, and striped striations. Planting a selection in one designated area presents a bigger impact of form, texture, and color.

Time for final grape harvesting. The crops of grapes have come to season’s end.  If you still have bunches hanging on the vine, take the opportunity to cut them to refrigerate or dehydrate. Use the red-hued leaves in your autumn decorations and place settings.

Time to give thanks. We all have so much for which to be grateful. As Thanksgiving nears, take time to express your appreciation for the blessings and gifts you have received. Remember the people in your life that have been there for you on all occasions…the good, the bad, and the ugly.

To everything there is a season and now is the time to turn, turn, turn. 

Happy gardening. Happy growing. 

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Cynthia Brian, The Goddess Gardener, raised in the vineyards of Napa County, is a New York Times best-selling author, actor, radio personality, speaker, media and writing coach as well as the Founder and Executive Director of Be the Star You Are!® 501 c3. 

Tune into Cynthia’s StarStyle® Radio Broadcast at www.StarStyleRadio.com.

Buy a copy of her books, Growing with the Goddess Gardener and Be the Star You Are! Millennials to Boomers at www.StarStyleStore.net

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A lot’s happening in Acworth, Kennesaw and Marietta.  A week filled with family fun and laughter with a wide variety of events to choose from!  Pick one, two or all!

NOW THROUGH APRIL 12 LENT FAMILY FISH DINNERS Every Friday during Lent at Saint Joseph Catholic Church’s Marist Hall, 87 Lacy Street, Marietta, GA. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus & St. Vincent de Paul Society Now through April 12, 2019 (except Good Friday) 5:30PM till 7:30PM. Tickets available at the door. Adults $10.00, Children 3-13 years: $6.00. Family Maximum: $30.

FRI APR 5- FRI OCT 25 ACWORTH FARMERS MARKET – NEW LOCATION – The Historic Downtown Acworth Farmer’s Market will begin this season on Friday, April 5 and continue each Friday morning from 8:00 a.m. until noon through Friday, October 25. The market is moving to the Logan Farm Park Expansion Parking lot (4405 Cherokee Street). The Acworth Farmer’s Market is proudly sponsored by the Acworth Downtown Development Authority. If you are interested in more information on being a vendor or just have questions about the market, please call 770-917-1234.

SAT APR 6 POPS CONCERT AT LOGAN FARM PARK 6:30 PM. Join us for the first music event at Logan Farm Park (4405 Cherokee Street)!  On Saturday, April 6, the Acworth Arts Alliance will be partnering with the City of Acworth to bring you Pops at Logan Farm Park!  The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will feature Cobb New Horizons Band, who will be performing their selections from show tunes to contemporary hits for the crowd to enjoy until approximately 8:15 p.m.  Tables are available for reservation on the Acworth Arts Alliance website or guests are welcome to bring a chair from home to enjoy the symphony classics. There is no charge to guests who bring their own chair or blanket. For more information on this event or to purchase a table, please visit http://www.acworthartsalliance.org

TUES APR 9 KENNESAW BUSINESS ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON. Networking starts at 11:00. Luncheon is held at the KSU Continuing Ed Bldg. Cost is $15.00 for members, $20 for non-members. More information and be sure RSVP at kennesawbusiness.org.

TUES APR 9 HELPING ONE GUY.HOG will honor Brian Kelly at Northstar Church on Tuesday April 9 at 6:30 pm.  Brian’s wife, Laurie suffered a ruptured aneurysm last summer and survived. She is fighting her way back through a long journey to health. The public is invited for dinner Catered by O’Charleys and Cakehouse on Main.  No charge for dinner, but donations for Brian and his family are appreciated.  Register online at Eventbrite.com.

TUES APR 9 KENNESAW GRAND PRIX KICK-OFF PARTY at Big Peach Running Co., Kennesaw.  The fun begins at 5:00 and lasts til 8:00. A launch party to kick off the 2019 Kennesaw Grand Prix 5K Race Series will be held Tuesday, April 9, from 5 – 8:00 p.m. at Big Peach Running Co. Kennesaw, 1625 Ridenour Blvd. The evening will include a group run at 6:30 p.m. with 1-5 mile options (all levels welcome). Race directors from all six races will be on-site to process your registration and answer race questions. Register for all six races in the Kennesaw Grand Prix Series and receive a discount of one series race free (at this event only).

TUES APR 9 HISTORICAL SOCIETY LECTURE On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 7pm, historian Dr. Tom Scott will present “World War II and the Origins of Modern-Day Cobb County. Scott will recount the building of the Bell Bomber plant in Marietta and the role it played in transforming Cobb County. The presentation is open to the public and is free. It will be held at Roberts School at 4681 School Street, Acworth. Event Sponsors: Save Acworth History Foundation and Kennesaw Historical Society. For further information contact: Lynne Brown – 239-292-0613.

WED APR 10 MARIETTA GARDEN CLUB MEETING.  The upcoming meeting is on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 9:30am.  Come and socialize and listen to this month’s program on “Spring Gardening and a Plant Swap”.   This presentation will feature a talk on Spring Gardening, a plant swap (bring a plant to swap) and the Installation of the new officers.  The meeting also informs you on what the garden clubs are doing in the Marietta area. The meeting will be held at the Marietta Educational Garden Center, 505 Kennesaw Ave, Marietta, GA, 30060, 770-427-3494.

THURS APR 11 ABA LUNCHEON Thursday, April 11 11:30-1:00 pm at NorthStar Church 3414 Blue Springs Rd. Kennesaw, GA 30144 Learn more and RSVP at http://www.acworthbusiness.org.

THURS APR 11 KBA AA5 5:30-7:30. Join us for a fun evening of networking at TRACKSIDE GRILL on Main Street in downtown Kennesaw. Come help kick off the Big Shanty Festival with our annual Low Country Boil.  Sponsored by JRM Management, Funfare, Bright Side Newspapers, Great Gig Dance, and Trackside Grill. Bring lots of cards and network. http://www.kennesawbusiness.org.

THURS APR 11 ABA AA5 5:30-7:30 pm.  Join us for our Alive After Five hosted by Jim & Nicks BBQ & Sponsored by ShawHankins. Enjoy great drinks & networking from 5:30 – 7:30 PM!  Visit acworthbusiness.org to RSVP.

THURS APR 11, -SUNDAY APRIL 21 – EARL SMITH STRAND presents Dark Matters , a new interactive inter-dimensional murder mystery that uses the entirety of The Strand’s historic building to immerse the audience in a thrilling criminal investigation This interactive theatrical event challenges the audience to investigate the true story behind a nefarious crime and identify the criminal with the motive to commit it. Tickets are $45 and are on sale now at http://www.earlsmithstrand.org

FRI APR 12 ACWORTH EASTER EGG HUNT at Acworth Sports Complex 6:30 pm. The Easter Egg Hunts will be held on the baseball fields and we ask all participants to please park on the baseball side of the complex. We will have gates and concessions opening at 6:30 p.m., and the first hunt begins at 7:30 p.m., so make sure you arrive early. This year the hunt will consist of 50,000 eggs and the Easter Bunny will be SKYDIVING in for the fun!  The Acworth Egg Hunt is broken down into five age groups and the start times will alternate between fields.  For more information or to volunteer visit  http://www.acworthegghunt.com.

      ARTIST’S STUDIO AND GARDEN TOUR – Saturday, April 13

An artist’s studio and garden tour is planned by the Acworth Arts Alliance for Saturday, April 13, 2019 (Rain Date: April 27) from 11a.m. to 4p.m. Gardens are nature’s version art, while paintings are our contribution to art. Acworth Arts Alliance founding artists Carol Allegood, Cathy Green and Palma Rhoades are opening their homes for you to enjoy the colors of spring in their unique art studios and distinctive gardens. Carol is noted for her beautiful water colors, while Palma’s love of the Tetons is reflected in many of her paintings.  Right now she is focused on bison – both painted and in clay.  Cathy Green, director of the Acworth Arts Alliance is a watercolorist and has recently taken up acrylics – taking classes at the Art House. This is a self-guided tour. Admission is $20 per person, $35 for a couple. Tickets can be purchased at the Art House, 4425 Cherokee Street, Acworth, GA 30101 or at  acworthartsalliance.org/events. Pictured above  Carol Allegood in her art studio and Palma Rhoades in her garden.

SAT 13 – BIG SHANTY FESTIVAL PARADE. We love a parade kicks off the celebration at 9:30 am on Saturday, April 13. So grab your sister, brother, neighbors, friends, round up your church group, scout group, bring your business vehicles and let’s all parade down Main Street. It is an exciting way to start the Festival. For parade registration: call 770-423-1330 or email [email protected].

SAT/SUN APRIL 13/14 – BIG SHANTY FESTIVAL The Superior Plumbing Kennesaw/Big Shanty Festival features over 250 Arts & Crafts booths, 25 food booths two entertainment stages, including the Local Entertainment Stage, Jurassic Kingdom Presented by LOUD Security Systems Inc., K’9s In Flight Presented by Kennesaw Mountain Veterinary Services, Robocars Presented by Carl Black Kennesaw.Peter Hart’s interactive Puppet show Presented by Elder Law Firm,  and the huge Interactive Kids Zone, as well as live acoustic music in the new Food Court throughout the weekend.  Something for the entire family!  The Superior Plumbing Kennesaw/Big Shanty Festival is held in downtown Kennesaw on both sides of Main Street (Highway 293) and is co-sponsored by the City of Kennesaw and the Kennesaw Business Association (a non-profit organization).  The hours of operation are 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., on Saturday, April 13, and noon-5:00 p.m., on Sunday, April 14.  Admission is FREE.  For more information call Jonathan Jenkins or Bill Watson at 770-423-1330.

SUN APR 14 MARIETTA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Egg Hunt at Marietta FUMC, 56 Whitlock Ave, Sunday, April 14 12:30 – 2:30. There will be a traditional egg hunt for babies thru 5th graders plus petting zoo, face painting, balloon animals, prizes, and a picnic lunch.  There is no cost to attend, all are welcome!

SUN APR 14 OAK SANCTUARY WORKSHOP Herb Sunday will be held Sunday, April 14. People from various cultures have relied on medicinal plants to soothe and repair the mind, body, and spirit. The use of healing herbs dates back to 3000 BC. Natural herbs have the power to calm everything from your anxiety to your toughest skin problems. For more information, please visit http://www.theoaksanctuary.com. This workshop will be held Sunday, April 14 beginning at 4pm at Core Bodyworks, 4358A Southside Drive, Acworth, GA 30101. The cost is $20. Please RSVP.

    What’s Happening the week of April 6-April 14 A lot's happening in Acworth, Kennesaw and Marietta.  A week filled with family fun and laughter with a wide variety of events to choose from!  

#ABA #ACWORTH EASTER EGG HUNT #Acworth Farmer&039;s Market #ARTIST STUDIO AND GARDEN TOUR #Big Shanty Festival #KBA #Murder at the Strand

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Jail-Building ‘Boom’ Financed by Dept of Agriculture Funds: Study

Rural communities are in the midst of a quiet jail boom, financed in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), according to a new study released by the Vera Institute of Justice.

“USDA funds are now increasingly being directed to helping some rural counties build new, expanded jails, and helping others stay in the business of immigrant detention,” authors’ Jack Norton and Jacob Kang-Brown said.

This past summer, the Trump administration announced that the USDA would give farmers up to $12 billion around harvest time to insulate them from the effects of the administration’s trade wars, the study, titled “Farm Aid for the Big House,” noted.

At the same time, according to public records, the Trump administration also increased USDA investment in jail construction, the study continued. 

“Over the past four decades, and in the context of increasing inequality and economic decline in rural areas, the construction and expansion of the infrastructure of incarceration has been justified in terms of rural development.”

Researchers looked specifically at USDA funding in New York, Green County and Baker County, Florida, and found that USDA funding is building new jails that the majority of the community does not want.

In upstate New York, Greene County is going forward with a $39 million low-interest loan application to the USDA to build a massive new jail “that many in the community simply do not want.” And, in Baker County, Florida, a USDA refinancing loan is essentially bailing out investors in a large, county-run jail and immigrant detention center.

The planned Greene County facility was designed to hold nearly 100 people, despite an average daily population of 50 in the jail last year. Filling the new jail would put Greene County in the top 10 largest New York jails on a per capita basis, the study noted. To pay for the project, which is unusually costly because it will be sited on poorly drained clay, the county has submitted a $39 million loan application to the USDA, according to authors. 

Researchers found the debate over the proposed jail in Greene County has become a debate over the meaning of development in this rural county.

“What they [the USDA] seem to be doing,” one Greene County activist said in the report, “is helping to make people more disadvantaged upstate. And one of the key questions is, are they really encouraging people who borrow money to have more [jail] beds?”

More, in 2008, Baker County, in northern Florida, took on $45 million in debt on the municipal bond market to build a 512-bed jail, data showed.  The objective, according to documents sent to investors, was to rent the new beds to federal agencies in order to create a revenue stream.

“By building a jail that far exceeded the county’s needs, Baker hoped to earn enough to pay for incarcerating an increasing number of people held for the county,” authors said.

Researchers concluded that the USDA, by offering low-interest loans for jail construction in agricultural areas, is facilitating investment in incarceration rather than other community needs.

“The USDA Community Facilities program, meant to improve economic development and quality of life, is instead increasingly being used to fund the infrastructure to detain and incarcerate more people in rural counties across the country.” 

A full copy of the report can be found here.

This summary was prepared by TCR staff writer Megan Hadley.

Jail-Building ‘Boom’ Financed by Dept of Agriculture Funds: Study syndicated from https://immigrationattorneyto.wordpress.com/