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A week of photography events in downtown Wilson kicked off Monday afternoon with 30 local students getting a chance to take photos with a real camera — not a cell-phone.
For the second year, Pe-ter Fitzpatrick, chair of the photography department at Columbia College Chicago, headed up a weeklong work-shop, teaching 150 local kids the basics of photography. The workshop is held in con-junction with the outdoor photo festival Eyes on Main Street that starts officially on Saturday.
Columbia and Canon were eager to come back this year, he said, after last year’s suc-
cessful program.“We had such a great time
last year,” Fitzpatrick said. “We didn’t think about not coming back.”
On Monday, 30 kids from Save a Youth’s afterschool program headed out to desig-nated spots in downtown Wil-son to take photos of people, nature, buildings — anything that seemed interesting to them.
Students Jeda Graham and Mekhi Morris took photos of each other on the grounds of the Wilson County Public Library Monday afternoon. They also shot photos of the building and the rose garden before heading to their next destination.
Last year, a slide show ran
Photography takes center stage
Jeda Graham reviews the photos he took Monday at the Wilson County Public Library. Jeda is one of around 150 students participating in a photo workshop this week, using Rebel cameras on loan from Canon. Lisa Boykin Batts | Times
2017 Eyes on Main Street launches this weekBy Lisa Boykin BattsTimes Associate Editor
• Carol Johnson will give a lecture at 10 a.m. Saturday at Imagination Station. Johnson is the former curator of the prints and photographs division of the Library of Congress. She will talk about photographic processes and best storage methods of photos and will then give personal consultations on participants’ photographs and provide a date range and type of photographic process.• At 2 p.m. Saturday, photographer Omar Havana will give a lecture on his book “Endurance,” about the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal and the resilience of the Nepali people. Havana was based in the area at the time and was an eyewitness to the drama.• The third edition of Eyes on Main Street officially opens at 5:30 p.m. Saturday with a party behind Imagination Station. The
event includes live music by the band The Pinkerton Raid and free barbecue, while supplies last.• On Sunday, Jo Ann Walters will give a lecture at Imagination Station at 11 a.m. The award-winning photographer will present work made in the Mississippi River valley and other working-class towns and rural communities across the country.• At 3 p.m. Sunday, Russell Frederick will be guest lecturer. His lecture title is “Misunderstood, Marginalized and Invisible: The Untold Stories of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,” one of the largest black metropolises in America in the 1980s and 1990s.All lectures and workshops are free, to reserve a seat, email [email protected]
Weekend Events
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Some folks just want more mud.In response to that sentiment, the or-
ganizers of the Wilson Swamp Stomp have promised to deliver.
Greenfield School, situated just up-hill from naturally muddy Bloomery Swamp, will be the new location for the fifth running of the 5-kilometer run.
About 30 students from the Chick-fil-A Academy are taking the lead from Wilson Parks and Recreation in build-ing the course behind the school.
“We are doing the Swamp Stomp here this year and that is a 5K through the mud and everything here in the swamp,” said student Patrick Smith. “Wilson Rec has been looking to make it even better and we decided that we could help them. It’s basically just a 5K, but it’s not just a normal run. There’s obstacles and then the mud, so you are going to be able to get muddy and ev-erything.”
Last year, some 300 participants a raised $6,403 to donate to Hope Sta-tion, the Wilson-area shelter and food pantry serving the needy.
This year’s fundraising goal is $20,000.
The big idea behind Chick-fil-A Academy is impact through action and the Greenfield School students took on a revamp of the Swamp Stomp as a project.
“It really teaches you not only the leadership skills you need, but how to become the good leader and make that step and connections with people and be a good leader through your actions instead of just what you say,” Smith said. “I think it is going to be a big suc-cess with everybody from Greenfield coming together.”
According to student Mary Margaret Coats, the event’s major sponsors are Bridgestone and Merck.
The school’s location offers plenty of space to have a 5K with many ob-stacles.
Students were sent home with an un-usual homework assignment in trying to come up with interesting obstacles for the course.
“We’ll have 25-plus obstacles, so now we are working on clearing the trails back there on the school campus,” Coats said.
Organizers already had 17 obstacles and the students are adding the rest.
Teachers told students to think up creative challenges that they could build on Saturdays before the event.
“We have ladders. We have a zipline,” said Coats. “There’s going to be a river crossing and a bunch of obstacles where you have to crawl through the mud under wires and stuff.”
Students will be making the 25 parts of the obstacle course the week before the event.
“My dad’s an architect, so I kind of think like him, so I went home and showed him what I wanted to do,” said student Sumer Hassan. “I went home and watched a lot of the Tough Mudder videos. I saw all their stuff. One that I definitely want to do involves tires. I al-ready have the tires at my house.”
The brains behind everything and the event founder is Michael Darr, a Bridgestone engineer who is also on the board at Hope Station.
“All of our ideas and everything, we run them by him,” said Hassan. “What I like about him the most is that even with kids and their ideas, he still listens and thinks.”
Participants will be able to run the
The future is bright for a young Nash County entrepre-neur building solar farms up and down the East Coast.
Growing up, Cesar Men-doza’s father worked con-struction, so it became an obvious career path for the eldest of four siblings.
“I did some remodeling of houses, then got into solar about five years ago through a close friend of the family,” Mendoza said. “I started as labor then worked my way up to supervisor before starting my company about two years ago.”
East Carolina Commercial Services is a solar installa-tion company with between 20 and 30 employees trained on the newest technologies to build farms of all sizes.
“Being this young, I can keep up with any technolo-gies or tools that come out to make the job easier and more efficient,” Mendoza said. “That sets me apart from other companies because they usually have old-school ways to do stuff, but I’m always re-searching more efficient and better ways to do the job.”
East Carolina Commercial Services recently acquired a new system from Germany, building the country’s first
solar farm with INEMA Tech-nology in Hope Mills.
“We stay on top of any new trends and systems that come our way then adapt quickly,” he said.
Mendoza’s crews were a part of constructing GCL New Energy solar farms in Wilson.
East Carolina Commercial Services has worked for the three largest solar farm build-ers in the country, but Men-doza says staying near his roots is important. In addition to heading to the altar soon with his fiancée, Mendoza works hard to provide a good example to his sister and two younger brothers.
“They really look up to me
and our dad as far as role models,” he said. “As far as getting ahead, you have got to be a hard worker to get what you want.”
Being a young entrepreneur isn’t always easy in a blos-soming industry, though.
“It has been a really hard, bumpy road,” he said. “You are going to knock on a lot of doors and you’ll have a lot shut in your face, but the key is not giving up and believing in what you do.
“Doing quality work is the best advertisement of all.”
Mendoza said he enjoys be-ing part of the proliferation of
Wishing for squish: Swamp Stomp 5Kgets mucky remakeBy Drew C. Wilson Times Staff Writer
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The ‘green’ light: Solar provides business opportunityBy Brie HandgraafTimes Staff Writer
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green energy. Experts es-timate solar accounts for about 1.5 percent of the country’s power grid, but they predict the market will grow to to provide 10
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“I see solar growing re-ally fast,” he said. “For the eastern part of North Car-olina, it is just up and com-ing. We haven’t scratched
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Solar: ‘Just up and coming’
Cesar Mendoza hasn’t strayed far from his Nash County roots with his business East Caroli-na Commercial Services, which constructs solar farms across the east coast. Brie Handgraaf | Times
each night at 203 Nash St., showing the students’ work. The slide show is back this year as well.
The same project was launched last year with Canon’s Rebel with a Cause program loaning 30 Rebel cameras. Students took hundreds of photos last year; many of them are displayed this year on the BB&T building on Nash Street as part of Eyes on Main Street.
THE FESTIVALThat exhibit of 51 stu-
dent photographs is one of several new exhibits held in conjunction with Eyes on Main Street this year.
“Before Facebook: Da-guerreotypes, Tintypes, Cartese De Visite” will feature portraits and street scenes starting from around 1850. It will be housed at Imagination Station.
“Eyes on Taiwan” will also be at Imagination Sta-
tion. That exhibit includes the work of 10 contempo-rary Asian photographers focusing on Taiwan. A number of Taiwanese visi-tors are expected at Satur-day’s kickoff event.
“Tomorrow’s Entry is Not Guaranteed” will focus on work by photog-rapher Hareth Yousef with photographic and written personal narratives based in Palestine. See that show, presented by Co-lumbia College Chicago, at 115 Goldsboro St.
The main feature of the festival, of course, will be the 100 large-scale photo-graphs that currently line storefronts along Nash Street. The exhibit was cu-rated by festival founder Jerome De Perlinghi of Wilson and co-curated by Catherine Coulter Lloyd and Régina Monfort.
The 100 photographers are from 31 countries with an equal number of men and women.
The photographers include the late Marc Ri-boud, Olivia Arthur, Linda
Bournane-Engelberth, John Feely, Omar Havana, James Nachtwey, Martin Parr, Eugene Richards, Gaia Squarci and Jo Ann Walters.
The festival’s goal for De Perlinghi has always been to bring people to downtown Wilson, where he lives, and to revitalize the area.
SATURDAY’S EVENTSThis weekend is the big
kickoff for the festival, which runs until July 16. De Perlinghi is expect-ing more than two dozen featured photographers at the weekend events. The main event is a party Saturday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. behind Imagination Station featuring indie pop band Pinkerton Raid of Durham.
Free barbecue is on the menu for Saturday night as long as it lasts.
Weekend events also include lectures by re-nowned [email protected] | 265-7810
Photography: New exhibitscontinued from page 1A
course as individuals or in teams.
“When you sign up on-line, you can pick your time, because there will be waves of 15 minutes to avoid congestion during the race,” Coats said.
Groups, like baseball teams and soccer teams, are encouraged to gain pledges to help with the $75 cost to enter.
Underwriting opportuni-ties come in sponsorships at various levels from $100 to $2,500.
Participants can sign up
and pick a start time by go-ing online to www.wilson-swampstop.com, or reach-ing out to Darr via email at [email protected]. People can also call the school and ask for Melody Powell or Sarah Bradley at [email protected] | 265-7818
A runner participates in the annual Wilson Swamp Stomp in 2016.The event is forecast to be muddier than in previous years. Times File Photo
Swamp Stomp: Goal is $20,000continued from page 1A
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