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12 UCW JULY 12-18, 2017 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM NEWS Local authors from all over the Sandhills area are set to gather at the Cumberland County Headquarters Library for a free meet-and-greet with readers July 23, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Pate Room. e showcase is designed for com- munity members to learn more about the books they are reading and the authors who wrote them. Once the au- thors make it through the application process, they're granted free space to connect with the community. Jane Casto, Cumberland County Li- brary headquarters services manager and showcase presenter, said attend- ees will have the chance to purchase books and get them signed. In the past, the local author show- case was held during Fayetteville's 4th Friday event in July. Casto said this year the event is strategically set to be held on a Sunday to "give authors extra time to talk and hopefully get people to buy their books." e showcase traditionally includes a variety of authors and books, includ- ing books that were self-published, borrowed from a series, poetic and written for children. is showcase, specifically, will include 16 authors with many self-help books thrown into the selection, Casto said. "e Local Author Showcase was started in response to the increase in independent and self-published writ- ers in our area," Robin Deffendall, in- formation services librarian, said. "e requirements of the library collection development policy make it harder for these authors to place their books in the Cumberland County Libraries, and our programming guidelines do not support author readings by self-pub- lished authors either. We initiated the Local Author Showcase to support and give a forum for these authors to reach their audiences." Casto said there's "just as much, if not more interest" from people to read locally-written and published literature, and "there are a lot of ways in which this is very valuable to the community." She said gathering local authors draws readers who want to meet the authors, but it also draws aspiring authors who want to gain inspiration or advice from those with more experience. Information about the following groups on writing will also be avail - able at the event: Write On, Right Now; Spilled Ink, a group for teen authors; and HerStory: Women Writing Memoirs. Deffendall also serves as the coor- dinator or — as she said she likes to call herself — "e Final Authority" for Write On, Right Now. is group, comprised of in-process writers, she said, strives to support each other "in any way possible." e showcase is sponsored by Friends of the Library, an organization that "supports the library in fulfilling its literary, educational, technological, community and cultural purposes," according to the Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center website. Casto said the authors will give back to the library by donating 20 percent of their book sales during the showcase to the Friends of the Library. Find more information about be- coming a friend of the library on the Cumberland County Public Library website under the "GIVE NOW" tab or by calling (910) 483-7727. Local Author Showcase Brings Authors and Readers Together by SARAH KAYLAN STRICKER In the shadow of large ar- tillery ranges and parachute drop zones, a tiny, rare but- terfly flourishes. And experts say the U.S. military gets the credit. e frosted elfin is a butterfly with a 1-inch wing- span. It has found homes at several defense installations, including Fort Bragg, be- cause of the way the military manages open spaces, said Robyn Niver, an endangered species biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. e Military Times brought the phe- nomenon to light this month. "Military training requires vast open areas, so these bases are some of our last great wild places," Niver said. Fort Bragg's artillery impact areas and parachute drop zones are ideal homes for the dainty butterflies to thrive. In addition to Fort Bragg, the little brown butterfly was confirmed at Westover Air Reserve Base and Camp Edwards in Massachu- setts and Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. e common thread among the bases is the way they man- age vegetation through controlled burns, which cre- ate the perfect conditions for wild blue lupine and indigo to grow, the frosted elfin cat- erpillar's two host plants. Frosted elfins can be found from New England to Florida and as far west as Texas. ey are not on the federal list of endangered species, but they are headed there, Niver said. Several states already list them as protected, and they have dis- appeared completely from others. Twenty years ago, environmental- ists found that longleaf pine trees that dominate hundreds of acres of training areas at Fort Bragg were breeding grounds for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. e Army undertook a program, which remains in effect today, to protect the species. 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