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STAFF
PUBLISHER
Bill Bowman
Bill@upandcomingweekly.com
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Stephanie Crider
editor@upandcomingweekly.com
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Paulette Naylor
accounting@upandcomingweekly.com
EDITOR
Jenna Shackelford
jenna@upandcomingweekly.com
HOPE MILLS AND SENIOR SPORTS
EDITOR
Earl Vaughan Jr.
EarlUCWSports@gmail.com
REPORTER
Jeff Thompson
news@upandcomingweekly.com
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Elizabeth Baker
art@upandcomingweekly.com
MARKETING ASSOCIATES
Linda McAlister Brown and Melanie
Twine
linda@upandcomingweekly.com
melanie@upandcomingweekly.com
MARKETING COORDINATOR FOR
WOMEN'S VIEW AND FAYETTEVILLE
LADIES POWER LUNCH
Caroline Schafer
caroline@upandcomingweekly.com
DISTRIBUTION MANAGER/SALES
ADMINISTRATOR
Laurel Handforth
laurel@upandcomingweekly.com
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
D.G. Martin, Pitt Dickey,
Margaret Dickson, Karl Merritt, John Hood,
Jim Jones, Shanessa Fenner, Prudence
Mainor, Avery Powers, Crissy Neville
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Up & Coming Weekly
www.upandcomingweekly.com
208 Rowan St.
P.O. Box 53461
Fayetteville, NC 28305
PHONE: 910-484-6200
FAX: 910-484-9218
Up & Coming Weekly is a "Quality of Life"
publication with local features, news and
information on what's happening in and
around the Fayetteville/Cumberland County
community.
Up & Coming Weekly is published weekly
on Wednesdays. Up & Coming Weekly
welcomes manuscripts, photographs and
artwork for publication consideration, but
assumes no responsibility for them. We
cannot accept responsibility for the return
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& Coming Weekly is free of charge and
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throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Air
Force Base, Hope Mills and Spring Lake.
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& COMING WEEKLY. COM-
MENTS? BILL@upandcomin-
gweekly.com. 910-484-6200.
While we must grudgingly accept the new normal here in our com-
munity for at least the next few weeks, we are determined to make
the best of it. So, please be aware that everyone here at Up & Coming
Weekly, Kidsville News! and Women's View Magazine maintains our
commitment to providing our readers in Fayetteville, Fort Bragg and
Cumberland County with local news, views, arts and helpful, uplift-
ing information that celebrates and defines the community while in-
forming and entertaining our readers. Attitude is everything, and we
want to provide local content that gets you joyfully through the week.
We plan to continue our normal publishing and distribution
schedule for all publications. We even added a new dimension by
partnering with and supporting local restaurants and eateries. See
page 22. ese businesses are providing U&CW newspapers with
their takeout orders and including it with their delivery orders. It is
the perfect solution for those who want the publication but are not
out and about. We are advertising and promoting the participating
businesses free of charge and allowing them to insert their menus
into the publications. It's a win-win for both the businesses and the
community. So, if you have interesting news or stories about what's
going on in your neighborhood, keep us posted. We want to know
what is happening in your world. Send your information to editor@
upandcomingweekly.com or HopeMills@upandcomingweekly.com.
Truth, honesty and knowledge are power for us all, and as we
spend less time in face-to-face dialogue and interaction with each
other, free weekly newspapers like Up & Coming Weekly help main-
tain that sense of community we all seek.
No doubt about it, we need to share the good news with each other
so that while we are honestly aware of the challenges everyone is
facing, we can still uplift each other and share our joys, successes and
accomplishments.
Accuracy matters more than ever.
Because the COVID-19 phenomenon is the biggest crisis — and the
most talked-about event of our time — it is also the least accurately
talked-about event of our time. We encourage you to vet all your
news sources and go to and trust only firsthand primary sources of
information like these:
For Cumberland County information, visit co.cumberland.nc.us/
COVID-19 and https://coronavirus-response-cumberlandgis.hub.
arcgis.com/.
For details about COVID-19 — symptoms, preventative measures
and recommendations — go to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention website at CDC.gov.
For worldwide and national statistics on the numbers of cases and
fatalities, visit www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/, which aggre-
gates data and links directly to its primary sources in each country.
A final word — tomorrow will belong to those who make the best
use of their time today. Change, even unwelcome change, brings
new and exciting opportunities. New ways of doing things will always
present themselves. ose who use this stress-laden and uncomfort-
able time to observe the changes, resist panicking and prepare for
their future will be far more likely to survive and find prosperity when
this crisis is over.
On behalf of everyone here at Up & Coming Weekly, stay healthy,
stay vigilant, and never allow yourself to become complacent. Con-
tinue to market and promote your products, services and organiza-
tions, for they will be desperately needed very soon. And, for heaven's
sake, don't believe everything you see online. Stick with sources you
know and trust.
We wish good health to all our readers and advertisers, and we look
forward to the day we can shake hands again and begin to seize the
new opportunities that await us on the other side of this crazy crisis.
ank you for reading Up & Coming Weekly!
Change brings opportunities
by BILL BOWMAN
No doubt about it, we need to share the good news with each other
so that while we are honestly aware of the challenges everyone is
facing, we can still uplift each other and share our joys, successes,
and accomplishments.
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