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May 10, 2022

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4 UCW MAY 11 - MAY 17, 2022, 2022 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM STAFF PUBLISHER Bill Bowman Bill@upandcomingweekly.com OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Paulette Naylor accounting@upandcomingweekly.com EDITOR Emily Sussman editor@upandcomingweekly.com ASSISTANT EDITOR Hannah Lee assistanteditor@upandcomingweekly. com PRODUCTION MANAGER/ GRAPHIC DESIGNER Dylan Hooker art@upandcomingweekly.com STAFF WRITERS Alyson Hansen Ashley Shirley Cindy Whitt Jason Brady MARKETING ASSOCIATE Linda McAlister linda@upandcomingweekly.com DISTRIBUTION MANAGER/SALES ADMINISTRATOR Laurel Handforth laurel@upandcomingweekly.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Margaret Dixon, Cynthia Ross, COVER Designed by Dylan Hooker. Photos by K. Kassens, USAJFKSWCS –––––––––––- 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 of unsolicited manuscripts or material. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy submitted for publication. Up & Coming Weekly is free of charge and distributed at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Army Airfield, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Readers are limited to one copy per person. © 2020 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. Various ads with art graphics designed with elements from: vecteezy.com and freepik.com. 82 64 82 83 79 82 63 64 83 66 64 65 THU MAY 12 FRI MAY 13 SAT MAY 14 SUN MAY 15 MON MAY 16 TUE MAY 17 86 65 84 65 81 56 71 53 75 56 78 57 Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy PM Showers Showers Showers Sunny Association of Community Publishers PUBLISHER'S PEN Sometimes we receive letters from the community that are just too important and relevant to ignore. Below is one of them. I gladly relinquish my space to share this message with our readers and the entire Fayetteville community. —Bill Bowman, publisher, Up & Coming Weekly I am Margaret Dickson, a business owner, journalist, former state senator and representative from Cumberland County. I am Rick Glazier, a lawyer, former Cumberland County school board member, Fayetteville State University professor and state representative. former state senator from Cumberland County. downtown business owner and former state representative from Cumberland County. Together for many years, we repre- sented Cumberland County in the NC General Assembly. Together, we fought for public educa- - tection, economic development, and environmental and social justice. Today, we write together to support state senators, Kirk deViere. When COVID-19 hit, he answered by - lions of dollars for Cumberland County to prevent evictions, home foreclosures When public education needed a - gotiating with the Republican legisla- tive leadership. He did this for, quite literally, hundreds of millions of dol- lars in teacher pay, additional school nurses, textbooks, teacher assistant positions, early childhood education funds, broadband funds, school lunch monies and more social workers in the Leandro funding. While many have failed for 10 years in the executive and legislature, Kirk has been at the forefront of negotiat- has gotten all parties to a place where summer. When our waters were polluted along the Cape Fear River basin, Kirk led the charge to go after the pollut- ers and get the state and the polluting companies to take responsibility, stop remedy the damage. When voices cried out for social justice and civil rights, he has been on the front lines of criminal records ex- punction, driver's license restoration, removing occupational licensing bar- rights for all and equal justice for our daughters as well as our sons. When predatory lending compa- nies tried to enter North Carolina, he stopped them. When community watches meet everywhere in the county, he is there, listening and always responds. Kirk has always been that way; as a military veteran of 11 years, Fayetteville city councilman, local business owner and state senator. by his colleagues in Raleigh and is thought of as one of the brightest state senators in the country. and the last to leave at night. He is thoughtful, intelligent, in- formed and compassionate, just as the four of us tried to be in our public service. Only — he does it even better! He is a statesman and a rare com- for all the right reasons; someone who listens and not just talks; someone who values authenticity and morality over ideology and expediency; some- one who delivers for our children, our families and our community. He is, in our collective opinion, everything you want and we need in public service, in leadership and a model of community engagement. He is a man of uncommon sense and sensibility. Together, we are proud and honored to endorse Senator deViere for re- election.* *Our endorsements are personal and are made in our individual capacities and not on behalf of any organization to which we are a member. Margaret Dickson Values matter, trust is earned, we speak as one by MARGERET DICKSON, RICK GLAZIER, DR. ERIC MANSFIELD, DIANE PARFITT Rick Glazier

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