CityView Magazine

4 | May/June 2016 CityView is published eight times annually by CityView Publishing, LLC Mailing Address: P.O. Box 53967, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28305 Phone: 910.423.6500 Fax: 910.423.0096 Postage paid at Fayetteville, NC. Published eight times a year. Audit applications submitted. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission. Publication of an advertisement in CityView does not constitute an endorsement of the product or service by CityView or CityView Publishing, LLC PUBLISHER Marshall Waren publisher@cityviewnc.com EDITOR Erin Pesut erin@cityviewnc.com ART DIRECTOR Annette Winter awinter@cityviewnc.com • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Laney Branch, Marcus Castro, Carrie Kirkpatrick, Kiara Love, Rachael Santillan, Sharilyn Wells, Matthew Wonderly CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Ran Dolinger, Melissa Goslin, James Johnson, Bill McFadyen, Courtney Phillips, Alexandria Rappe, Rebecca Swibes • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • GENERAL MANAGER Ashlee Cleveland SALES & MARKETING ASSISTANT Jennifer Serda ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Julie Donahue, Suzanne Dudley, Ann Shaw, Robin Wiggs, Candace Williams DISTRIBUTION MANAGER David McRae • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • CityView editors corner facebook.com/cityviewnc Nice to meet you! I am so excited to be the new editor at CityView. A year ago, I arrived in Fayetteville from New York City, where I was studying at Columbia University and where I received my Masters in Fine Arts. As a writer, I love telling stories, but more importantly, I love sharing them. Earlier this year, I was a freelancer for CityView. You may know me from my story on Robert Lints and his bird, Macy, the macaw. Or the story I wrote about the women at Cinderella's Closet, or the family at McCormick Farm or Joe Sugar's favorite places to eat in St. Pauls. Around town, you may have seen me writing at the coffee shop, riding my bike, or walking my dog on the Cape Fear River Trail. We may have met at CAMEO ArtHouse Theatre or The Capitol Encore Academy. We may have met at the Adult Literacy tutor training program through Fayetteville Urban Ministry or at Operation Inasmuch, where I volunteer and serve breakfast. Maybe we met the night I ate at Taste of West Africa and fell in love with the food, the ambiance and the family behind the counter. Or maybe you've walked by when I was trying to beautify our own house, planting flowers, dragging branches to the curb. If we haven't met yet, it will be a pleasure when we do. And here's to many more editions of sharing Fayetteville's stories with you! See you around town!

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