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It Takes a Garden – A tale of hope, determination, and love in a struggling North Carolina town
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MEDAL OF HONOR HERO DAKOTA MEYER’S NEW FIGHT
TAKING HER PICK
Daniela Berry, 12, in Lenoir, N.C.
IT TAKESA GARDEN
A TALE OF HOPE, DETERMINATION, AND LOVE
IN A STRUGGLING NORTH CAROLINA TOWN
HOW TO START YOUR OWN
COMMUNITY GARDEN
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2012
TAKING HER PICK
Daniela Berry, 12, in Lenoir, N.C.
A TALE OF HOPE, DETERMINATION, AND LOVE
IN A STRUGGLING NORTH CAROLINA TOWN
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2012
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t’s Saturday morn-
ing at the community gardens in Lenoir, N.C., and the beds are
buzzing. Townspeople are digging, weeding, watering, wiping
sweat from their brows, then digging some more. There’s Helen
Dickson, a 75-year-old retired seamstress who’s been raising
vegetables since her farm-kid days; Eston Werts, 27, who returned
to his hometown of Lenoir after college and is now a garden manager; Dean Adorno, 24, a tattooed electrician who is reputed to grow the garden’s best tomatoes; and his 4-year-old son, Tristen, known for planting Toy Story action figures amid the beds. John “Doc” Scroggin, 83, a retired general practitioner, perches at a nearby picnic table providing color commentary. “You notice how spry these old folks are?” he asks. “That’s gardening! It keeps you hopping and moving and learning.” Together, Lenoir’s gardeners form a moving patchwork of shapes, sizes, colors, and ages, all brought together by a love for the soil—and each other. “People may come as strangers,” says Werts. “But they leave as friends.”
These friendships take many forms.
“I was raised by great-aunts and grandparents, so I love learning from the older folks,” says Paul Norwood, 52, as he pulls up weeds and stakes tomato plants with his wife, Janet, 40, and their two sons, Jacob and Jackson. “Everybody brings something unique.” Before they head home, the Norwoods will drop off a bag of fresh veggies for 86-year-old Elsie Harper, who worked for decades at their church day care center and now watches over the garden from her porch across the street. “The gardens don’t belong to this neighborhood or that neighbor-hood,” says Charles Beck, 60, Lenoir’s director of public works. “They belong to everyone, and they’re a
CULTIVATING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY Clockwise from top left: Kaye Reynolds, Lenoir’s communications and resource director; Jacob Norwood, who maintains a plot with his parents and brother; Sara Mursch, who was instrumental in creating the gardens, with her husband, Dick; 3-year-old Madeline Stark; and retired physician John “Doc” Scroggin with four students he mentors, Kaitlyn Carlton, Tanila Carlton, Shantel Harper, and Felicety Carlton.
How a community garden helped a struggling small town in North Carolina reclaim its pride
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source of pride for the whole town.” Pride has been in short supply in Lenoir in
recent years. In the past decade, the once thriv-ing manufacturing community (pop. 18,228) has watched as one factory after another closed its doors, mostly because of outsourcing to China. All told, Lenoir lost a staggering 8,000 jobs; the unemployment rate (which in 1999 was less than 2 percent) now hovers around 12 percent, four points above the national average. Many residents can’t afford fresh food, and two-thirds of the town’s adults and one-third of its children are overweight or obese. The two biggest gardens (located on opposite sides of town) are situated on the remains of a burned-down furniture factory and what was once a segregated playground. “They should be called Phoenix gardens,” says Scroggin, “because they’ve risen from the ashes.”
Planting the First SeedsLenoir could be a small town anywhere. Neighbors leave baked goods by the door when you’re new in town, and casseroles when you’re sick. Church sup-pers are plentiful. There are block parties and free Friday night concerts in summer and a Christmas parade down Main Street in winter. But driving through those same streets, you also come across boarded-up furniture and textile factories, painful reminders of the town’s decline. “I remember when they announced the big Lenoir [Furniture Corporation] plant was closing during Christmas 2006. That was the one plant people said would never shut its doors,” says Kaye Reynolds, 65, the town’s communications and resource director. “For some families, three generations had worked there. These were proud people who had never been on public assistance. What do you say when something like that happens?”
Sara Mursch, 76, a retired air force nurse, saw how her neighbors were hurting during her volunteer work at Lenoir’s Helping Hands Clinic, where many patients had trouble paying their bills. So three years ago, Mursch, a longtime gardener, came up with the idea of a community garden. “I like to see people eat right, and I knew it would be more meaningful to people if they could grow the food themselves,” says Mursch. “Gardening gives you a sense of satisfaction, and
plot for just $1 a year, as well as city workers to help clear and terrace the hilly, weed-fi lled land.
Soon, a handful of people became a hundred—including church groups, staff from the local hos-pital, 4-H club members, even a busload of Google employees (the company had recently set up a collection of computer servers nearby)—who all pitched in to help build beds, plant trees, and nurture seedlings. The fi rst garden was so success-ful that in spring 2010 another one, spanning 5.6 acres, was added across town, on the site of an old Singer furniture factory that had been destroyed in a fi re. In the three years since the gardens were established, eyesores have been transformed into plots bursting with lettuces, onions, squash, okra, tomatoes, beets, and carrots. Mounds of rubble have been replaced by a 150-tree orchard of apples, pears, and plums. The city cares for the land surrounding the beds and supplies water; seeds are donated or are purchased from the sale of surplus crops. Today, there are nearly 100 beds, and anyone in the community can sign up to tend one at little to no charge.
“I grew up on a farm, and eating fresh food every day was just a blessing,” says Helen Dickson. “I come here and it’s so nice to pick a good, fresh tomato.” She and her best friend, Mary Norwood, 71, also a retired textile worker, each have their own plots of green beans, peppers, tomatoes, and okra. And they’re happy to share their harvest. “If anyone wants to pick something out of our beds, they’re welcome to it!” says Norwood.
Hope Takes RootAcross the country, community gardens are blooming—an estimated 1 million of them dot places from Homer, Alaska, to Brooklyn, N.Y., according to the National Gardening Association. “Community gardens make neighborhoods more livable. They become a gathering spot for people, like a pocket park,” says Bruce Butterfield, research director at the NGA.
But in a city like Lenoir, the gardens also offer bountiful evidence of its citizens’ hardworking, hospitable spirit. “This is a town that could easily feel sorry for itself,” says Rose Noakes, 64, who runs the local bed-and-breakfast. “But it doesn’t. What this town does is take care of its own.”
Barbara Stark, 55, is unemployed and babysits
folks here could use that.” So that spring, she rallied a few fellow gardening enthusiasts from her church, and they pitched the idea to the city manager, Lane Bailey, who donated a half-acre
Recruit like-minded neighbors. “You could have a piece of land that’s perfect, but without a core group of committed people, it will be hard to get the project off the ground,” says Sean Cummings, program coordina-tor of VINES (Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments), a community garden organization based in Binghamton, N.Y.
Look for a sponsor. Reach out to local businesses that support agricultural or ecological causes; a sponsor can contribute tools, seeds, and other supplies. If you can’t fi nd one, you’ll need to come up with another way to raise funds, such as charging a membership fee.
HOW TO START A
COMMUNITY GARDEN
WHERE YOU LIVE
Draft a mission statement. It should spell out who can participate, what’s expected of members (a mini-mum hourly commitment, for example), and what the garden will grow (fl owers, veggies, or both?).
Green up your thumbs. Newbies can learn the ropes by volunteering at other nearby community gardens or taking free or low-cost work-shops run by state cooperative extension offi ces. (Find yours at nifa.usda.gov/extension).
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For more information, and to fi nd out if there’s already a community garden near you, visit the American Community Gardening Association’s website, communitygarden.org. —Madonna Behen
Scout out potential sites. Consider factors such as exposure to light (many vegetables require a minimum of six hours of full sun a day), proximity to water, and the condition of the soil.
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her 3-year-old granddaughter, Madeline; the pair walk down the hill from her home to the garden almost every day. “Growing here helps me feed my family,” says Stark, who weeds and waters some of the 35 to 40 communal beds used to help stock the local food pantries and soup kitchen. “Many of the folks who come here are trying to make food stamps stretch, so they often bypass stores’ produce sections,” says the pantry’s executive director,
HELPING THE TOWN TURN OVER A NEW LEAF From left: Retired factory workers (and best friends) Helen Dickson and Mary Norwood; Dean Adorno and his 4-year-old son, Tristen. (Tools and other supplies provided by Gardener’s Supply Company.)
Sharon Osborne. “You have never seen people get so excited about beans or potatoes.”
“Last fall I took 100 pounds of turnips to our food pantry and they were all taken home within 30 minutes,” says Werts. “It was so moving to see that even something like turnips, which many people would turn up their noses at, went to people in need within an hour of picking.”
Shortly after the gardens’ fi rst harvest, David
Horn, who with his wife grows okra, zucchini, cantaloupe, peppers, and sweet potatoes, noticed how often people asked for pointers on cooking their fresh vegetables. So Horn, vice president of business development at Caldwell Memorial Hospital—and a cohost of a popular cable access show called Two Men and a Stove—created a monthly cooking column in a local paper.
And last November, the gardens spread their tendrils even further when 12-year-old Daniela Berry asked her dad, Andy, who is the principal at Lenoir’s Whitnel Elementary School, if she could create a plot for the after-school program. With help from her mom, Daniela cleared a 1,700-square-foot parcel of land behind Whitnel, where 85 percent of the students are on free or reduced-price lunches. Soon after, she began giving lessons to other kids on how to tend the new beds. “A lot of them didn’t even know what a garden was,” says Daniela, “but they were so excited, running around, jumping, hugging me. It really made me feel like I’d done something special.”
On one such afternoon last spring, mother and daughter distributed trowels and supervised as
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When I was growing up,
brown- speckled bananas were treasures in the eyes of my mom. She used them to make banana bread during the fall and winter months. Even today, it’s something I look forward to seasonally. A slice of banana bread is a treat whether hot out of the oven or cut from the loaf days later. It’s a “cake” you never have to feel guilty about eating.
Since being diagnosed with celiac disease, I’ve had to swear off foods that contain gluten. But that doesn’t mean I can’t still enjoy this taste of childhood. It took a bit of tinkering to get the texture and density of this loaf just right. Whenever I’ve made the recipe (which appears in my cookbook, Deliciously G-Free) for my husband and children, Grace, Taylor, and Isaiah, they’ve loved it. And when the kids want more, you know you’ve got it right—you have a hit on your hands!
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some 30 students planted okra and picked potatoes. The kids took their work seriously, little faces flushed and not one electronic screen in sight. Two hours later, Bryant, a first grader with a big smile that sports an incoming row of teeth, proudly clutched some potatoes to take home. Now he and his pals know where french fries come from. “We feel like we’re helping to feed these kids, and feeding their spirit at the same time,” says Daniela’s mom, Darlene. Since the Whitnel garden was established, fi ve other county schools have planted their own campus vegetable plots.
Scroggin, who holds a master gardener’s certifi cate, estimates that he’s delivered thousands of Lenoir’s chil-dren over the decades, and he loves to see them tending the soil. “I remember one little girl who didn’t trust the advice I gave her grand-mother about burying to-mato seedlings because she was convinced they wouldn’t grow,” he says. “She kept saying: ‘Don’t do it, Granny!’ So I told her, ‘You think a baby grows sideways? These plants straighten themselves up just like you.’ ”
Even as Scroggin recalls the economic blight of recent years, his voice is tinged with pride. “I brought a county agent down here to see what we were doing and he said to me, ‘You know what? The vegetables aren’t the most important part. What you’ve raised here is a good crop of community.’ ”
Community Gardens
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KennectionsBy Ken Jennings
HOW TO PLAY
All � ve correct answers have something in common.
Can you � gure out what it is?
What kind of business did Albert, O� o, Alfred,
Charles, and JohnRingling found in 1884?
“Citius, altius, fortius”—meaning “faster, higher,
stronger”—is the mo� o of what sporting event?
What literary hero outwits the
dragon Smaug and later disappears
from Bag End on his eleventy-� rst birthday?
Titan, the second-largest moon in our solar
system, orbits which planet, the second-biggest?
William Howard Ta� , the heaviest U.S. presi-
dent, famously installed in the White House
what custom-made item measuring 7 by 3.5 feet?
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WHAT’S THE “KENNECTION” BETWEEN ALL FIVE ANSWERS?
ANSWERS: 1. CIRCUS; 2. THE
OLYMPICS; 3. BILBO BAGGINS;
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KENNECTION: ALL HAVE RINGS
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What I see in the mirror and what I see when I view a photo of myself are so differ-ent. Generally, I’m satisfi ed with the “live” version, but I usually dislike that same face in a photo. Why? —Janet Bunn,
Muscatine, Iowa
Because your photographed face looks backward to you. What you see in a mirror is your image reversed from left to right, and you’re familiar with that look. A photo, how-ever, shows you what others see. When you see your face
Ask MarilynBy Marilyn vos Savant
“Find out if you get miles.”
“I never watched One Life to Live.”
that way, it looks strange to you—you notice every asymmetry (no face is sym-metrical) and imperfection.
For example, say one eye is
slightly smaller than the other, which is common. Because you’ve seen your eyes that way in the mirror all your life, you don’t perceive any difference. But when you view a photo, something about your eyes looks wrong. And when your face is the subject, “wrong” equates to “bad”!
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With his marineunit caught in an ambush, Dakota Meyer
knew what he had to do. In September 2009, Meyer and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez drove their Humvee into the thick of the action in the Afghan village of Ganjgal, stopping repeatedly under murderous fire so that Meyer could leave the vehicle to pick up stranded Afghan soldiers. Using a machine gun and grenade launcher to ward off the swarming Taliban militants, Meyer darted house to house searching for four missing Americans. They were dead, and while the precise details of the action have been a matter of controversy, an offi cial review of the battle credited Meyer with saving the lives of numerous fellow marines and Afghan troops.
Last September President Obama bestowed the Medal of Honor on Sgt. Meyer, 24, the fi rst living marine to receive the award since the Vietnam War. Sud-denly the farm boy from Ken-tucky had become a celebrity—greeted like a rock star, even becoming fishing buddies with
Certainly, there is no denying the need for solutions. Consider these sobering statistics: Among post-9/11 veterans, unemploy-ment stands at 9.5 percent, compared with a national average of 8.2 percent. Among younger vets, the problem is even more dire: Those 24 and younger have an unemployment rate of 29 per-cent; their civilian peers are closer to 17 percent. Meyer well knows
Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts. But as it turned out, Dakota Meyer had just begun to fight. His new mission: to use his fame to draw attention to the alarming unem-ployment rate among veterans who have served since 9/11. “I don’t care anything about being a Medal of Honor recipient,” says Meyer, who also served in Iraq, “but if I can use that to help veterans get jobs, I will.”
“If I can help veterans get jobs, I will,” says Meyer, whose memoir, Into the
Fire, will be published this fall.
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veterans � nd jobs back home BY BILL HEWITT
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the hurdles that vets face. Since leaving the Marine Corps in June 2010, he has
bounced among several jobs. Though he is in demand as a motivational speaker and recently became a liaison between Toyota and the military community, he has also worked in construction to make ends meet. “I faced the same struggles getting jobs,” he says. But he is emphatic on one point: The last thing he or any vet wants is char-ity. “I don’t see that anyone owes me anything for my service,” he says. “I don’t feel any sense of entitlement.”
In Meyer’s view, veterans haven’t been given the proper tools to market themselves to civilian employers. He points out that in the Marine Corps he was a sniper—not an occupation in great demand outside the military. So the challenge is to cast his experience in a
different light. “For example,” he says, “I’m good at task management in a stressful environment.” Enter the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s new guide to personal branding, sponsored by Toyota, which answers such basic questions as what to wear on a job interview but also gives more nuanced tips, like how to frame one’s military experiences to a potential boss. It’s all part of the cham-ber’s Hiring Our Heroes campaign, which encourages businesses to employ veterans and military spouses. “Many younger veterans, those who enlisted right out of high school, are stepping in front of an employer for the fi rst time,” says Kevin Schmiegel, a vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and a veteran himself of 20 years in the Marine Corps.
The response so far has been promising—pledges to hire have topped 156,000. To keep the numbers moving in the right direction, the chamber will host 400 job fairs for veterans around the country, and in a fi rst, 60 of those events will be held on military bases. Private sector volunteers will be on hand to help service members and vets craft more effective résumés and improve their interview skills. On Labor Day, the chamber is also unveiling the Fast Track Program, which will identify for vets the 100 U.S. cities with the greatest job growth. “No one’s been taking the time,” says Schmiegel, “to
show vets where the jobs are.” For Schmiegel, there’s an added
urgency to get vets employment help. “I see this as a national security issue,” he says. “How many people are going to want to serve in an all-volunteer force if they’re 50 percent more likely to be
unemployed?” The hope is that Meyer, who will be speaking at selected job fairs, can be the face of change. As was the case that day in Ganjgal, he shows no signs of ducking the challenge. Asked what he’d like to do for his career, he doesn’t hesitate: “Make a difference.”
Meyer, seen here receiving his Medal of Honor, will be making appearances on behalf of Hiring Our Heroes. For more information, go to uschamber.com/hiringourheroes.
State-by-state Settlements have been reached in class action lawsuits challenging the installation of fiber-optic cable within railroad Rights of Way. Under the Settlements, Sprint, Qwest, WilTel, or Level 3 Communications (together called the “Defendants”) will pay valid claims for persons in 24 states who own or owned land next to or under railroad Rights of Way where fiber-optic cable owned by Sprint, Qwest, WilTel, or Level 3 Communications is buried.
Who Is Included?
Class Members include current or previous owners of land next to or under a railroad Right of Way at any time since the cable was installed in the 24 states listed below.
To find where the Rights of Way included in the Settlements are located and when fiber-optic cable was installed in a particular Right of Way, visit www.FiberOpticSettlements.com. If you still have questions, call 1-800-378-1670.
What Are the Proposed Settlement Terms?
Class Members who submit a valid claim will receive cash based on factors that include:(a) the length of the Right of Way where the
cable is installed,(b) the length of time they owned the property,
and (c) whether the Right of Way was created by a
federal land grant.
The Settlements provide Defendants with a permanent Telecommunications Easement. The Easement will grant any rights the Defendants don’t already have to use the Rights of Way for Telecommunications Facilities.
Dates of Final Approval Hearings
Arkansas 12/6/12 Maryland 11/30/12 North Carolina 12/13/12Colorado 12/19/12 Michigan 11/5/12 Oklahoma 11/19/12Delaware 12/7/12 Minnesota 11/9/12 Utah 1/14/13Florida 11/7/12 Mississippi 1/16/13 Vermont 11/9/12Georgia 12/5/12 Missouri 1/15/13 Virginia 11/7/12Indiana 11/16/12 Nebraska 11/20/12 West Virginia 11/26/12Iowa 12/7/12 New Jersey 11/14/12 Wisconsin 12/13/12Kansas 11/14/12 New York 11/15/12 Wyoming 1/8/13
If You Own or Owned LandUnder or Next to Railroad Rights of WayWhere Fiber-Optic Cable Was Installed
You Could Receive Money from a Class Action Settlement
Legal Notice
For More Information: Visit www.FiberOpticSettlements.com or call 1-800-378-1670
What Are Class Member Rights?
�� ��� ���� ����� ��� ���� ������ ���� ��� ����� ���opportunity to claim cash benefits. You will be bound by the decisions of the Court. You can’t sue Defendants or the railroads in the future for any claims in this lawsuit, and a Telecommunications Easement will be granted on the railroad Right of Way next to or through your property. If you think you are a member of the Class, but did not receive a mailed notice, call 1-800-378-1670.
�� ������������������ ����� ������������������means you cannot file a claim for cash benefits but will keep the right to sue the Defendants in the future.
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Who Represents Class Members?
Class Counsel have been appointed by the Court to represent you. They will request an award of attorneys’ fees, which will vary by state, to be paid by Defendants. If you wish, you or your own attorney may ask to appear and speak at the hearing at your own cost. See the website for more information on attorneys’ fees.
Will an Approval Hearing Be Held?
Approval hearings will be held in each state for which there is a Settlement. Refer to the chart below for the dates of each hearing. Please visit the website or call the toll-free number to find out the time and location of the hearing in the state where your property is.
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