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Monday 30 April 2018

Re: cheat_training_group Your Cheat Race Questions Answered

I was just getting ready to ask about the shuttle. Nice touch on Calleva's part!

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 9:09 PM Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:

HI Cheat and Cheat Elite!

Thank you all for the best 2 months of the year! I love Cheat Training and can't believe it is ending. But not before the Cheat River Massacre-ence! If you have any feedback for us, we would love to hear it. You can send an email, write a review on Yelp, Facebook, Google, etc., or chat about it over the fire at Cheat Fest.

Wednesday May 2nd is the last day to register online for the Cheat Race. Here is the link for registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflivVsyEM7YAT6YON7VAsZ9Bl-_sWOwVTPH8kEFtefwkw1RQ/viewform
The level is plunging- it may be somewhere around 2 ft., not too scary.... unless you are in a glass boat. LAKS will not be providing any leadership during the race. You will need to paddle on your own or with a small group (6 or 7) and be able to self rescue.There is safety at the major rapids but that is just back up. If you want to use this list serve to get a group together to run the river that is fine. You will need to finish by 7 pm.

We will provide shuttle. We will only be able to shuttle boats for those in Cheat Training. We will have some extra bus space for others but likely won't be able to take anyone else's boat up the hill other than those in our program.

There is no where to see who has registered for which team. Dave Shook says, "I believe some have registered under team names that match up to the three Cheat Regulars groups. Does anyone know the official team names? I think they are:

Baddass Butterflies LAKS
Sea Cucumbers LAKS
CHEAT-ahs LAKS"

There are a few spots left in Yough Training. https://calleva.org/liquid-adventures-kayak/advanced/trainings/upper-yough-training/

Can't wait to see you on Friday! Best, Ashley McEwan

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cheat_training_group Your Cheat Race Questions Answered

HI Cheat and Cheat Elite!

Thank you all for the best 2 months of the year! I love Cheat Training and can't believe it is ending. But not before the Cheat River Massacre-ence! If you have any feedback for us, we would love to hear it. You can send an email, write a review on Yelp, Facebook, Google, etc., or chat about it over the fire at Cheat Fest.

Wednesday May 2nd is the last day to register online for the Cheat Race. Here is the link for registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflivVsyEM7YAT6YON7VAsZ9Bl-_sWOwVTPH8kEFtefwkw1RQ/viewform

The level is plunging- it may be somewhere around 2 ft., not too scary.... unless you are in a glass boat. LAKS will not be providing any leadership during the race. You will need to paddle on your own or with a small group (6 or 7) and be able to self rescue.There is safety at the major rapids but that is just back up. If you want to use this list serve to get a group together to run the river that is fine. You will need to finish by 7 pm.

We will provide shuttle. We will only be able to shuttle boats for those in Cheat Training. We will have some extra bus space for others but likely won't be able to take anyone else's boat up the hill other than those in our program.

There is no where to see who has registered for which team. Dave Shook says, "I believe some have registered under team names that match up to the three Cheat Regulars groups. Does anyone know the official team names? I think they are:

Baddass Butterflies LAKS

Sea Cucumbers LAKS

CHEAT-ahs LAKS"

There are a few spots left in Yough Training. https://calleva.org/liquid-adventures-kayak/advanced/trainings/upper-yough-training/

Can't wait to see you on Friday! Best, Ashley McEwan

[WardFive] FYI April 29

Thanks, Dr Roscoe Moore

Monuments: 'Civil Rights' vs. confederacy

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

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A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.

Replicas of the monuments inside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice are lined up in rows like coffins, intended to be taken back and erected in the counties where lynchings were carried out. Audra Melton for The New York Times

Campbell Robertson

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, a place for people who have been held accountable for their crimes and duly expressed remorse.

Just a few yards up the street lies a different kind of rehabilitation center, for a country that has not been held to nearly the same standard.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened today on a six-acre site overlooking the Alabama state capital, is dedicated to the victims of American white supremacy. And it demands a reckoning with one of the nation’s least recognized atrocities: the lynching of thousands of black people in a decades-long campaign of racist terror.

At the center is a grim cloister, a walkway with 800 weathered steel columns, all hanging from a roof. Etched on each column is the name of an American county and the people who were lynched there, most listed by name, many simply as “unknown.” The columns meet you first at eye level, like the headstones that lynching victims were rarely given. But as you walk, the floor steadily descends; by the end, the columns are all dangling above, leaving you in the position of the callous spectators in old photographs of public lynchings.

The magnitude of the killing is harrowing, all the more so when paired with the circumstances of individual lynchings, some described in brief summaries along the walk: Parks Banks, lynched in Mississippi in 1922 for carrying a photograph of a white woman; Caleb Gadly, hanged in Kentucky in 1894 for “walking behind the wife of his white employer”; Mary Turner, who after denouncing her husband’s lynching by a rampaging white mob, was hung upside down, burned and then sliced open so that her unborn child fell to the ground.

The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, a companion piece to the memorial, explores how lynch mobs sought to preserve slavery. Audra Melton for The New York Times

There is nothing like it in the country. Which is the point.

“Just seeing the names of all these people,” said Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit organization behind the memorial. Many of them, he said, “have never been named in public.”

Mr. Stevenson and a small group of lawyers spent years immersing themselves in archives and county libraries to document the thousands of racial terror lynchings across the South. They have cataloged nearly 4,400 in total.

Inspired by the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, Mr. Stevenson decided that a single memorial was the most powerful way to give a sense of the scale of the bloodshed. But also at the site are duplicates of each steel column, lined up in rows like coffins, intended to be disseminated around the country to the counties where lynchings were carried out. People in these counties can request them — dozens of such requests have already been made — but they must show that they have made efforts locally to “address racial and economic injustice.”

For Mr. Stevenson, the plans for the memorial and an accompanying museum were rooted in decades spent in Alabama courtrooms, witnessing a criminal justice system that treats African-Americans with particular cruelty, or indifference.

Since 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative has offered legal services to poor people in prison, toiling away in a city awash in Confederate commemorations (Monday was Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama), in a state with the nation’s highest per capita death sentencing rate. Nearly every staff member is a lawyer with clients in the prison system, and they have continued to work a full schedule of legal defense work even as they painstakingly compiled the names of the lynched and planned the memorial.

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A Lynching’s Long Shadow

A possible burial site of Elwood Higginbottom in Oxford, Miss. Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times

Vanessa Gregory

Tina Washington can’t remember being told that white men lynched her granddaddy back in 1935. Somehow she’s always known. The crime echoed in her father’s character, in his watchfulness and distant love, in the yawning void left in place of memory. As a child, she tried to pry answers from her tight-lipped parents. “Where is my granddaddy?” she would ask. “I want to know my granddaddy.” Now, at 39, she asked different questions but mostly to herself. Would her father have gone to college if his daddy had lived? What did her granddaddy look like? What sparked his murder? Who were his people? She had no photos. Nothing.

But one hot and clear afternoon in September, a day before the 82nd anniversary of her paternal grandfather’s death, Washington sat in the back seat of her sister’s car ready to crack open her family’s painful history. Her father, E.W. Higginbottom, sat beside her in a white dress shirt and cuff links, and her sister and brother-in-law, Delois and Irven Wright, rode up front. Washington’s children — Trinity, Bailee and Rico — squabbled quietly in the S.U.V.’s third row.

They had left the suburbs outside Memphis, Tenn., and were headed south, past deep green woods and an old railway line, toward Oxford, Miss., where Washington’s grandfather lived and died. The family planned to meet there with staff members from the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, a Mississippi nonprofit, and tour sites significant in her grandfather’s lynching: the county courthouse, the killing grounds and two graveyards where he might be buried.

Washington, who wore rectangular glasses and a sleek ponytail, teaches high school Spanish and possesses an educator’s enthusiasm for history. She has visited Tuskegee University and George Washington Carver’s birthplace. She has walked across the Selma bridge, where Alabama state troopers beat nonviolent voting rights activists in 1965, and traveled to Booker T. Washington’s grave. The broad sweep of black history has come easily; her black family’s experience remained frustratingly elusive. “I’ve kind of seen the house where my mama lived as a child,” she said a few days earlier. “It was built over, but I kind of know where it is. I can go there. But I don’t know any of my daddy’s history.”

Higginbottom was 4 when the mob came for his father. He is now 87, with eyes set in a perpetual glaucoma squint and the strong voice of a younger man. He is the last remaining family member to have seen his father alive, and the thought of returning to Oxford was gnawing at him.

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Commentary

Breaking the Silence on American Lynchings

By BRENT STAPLES

A new memorial and museum in Montgomery, Ala., bring attention to a disturbing chapter of the nation’s history — one that in some ways lives on.

Martyrs to Hate, Memorialized in Alabama

By JESSE WEGMAN

Rain drips blood-red from the rusted steel columns that hang from the ceiling, commemorating the thousands of lynchings of black Americans.

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Thanks, Jackie McCray
Wall Street Rush to Scoop Up Black Art Sends Prices Sky High

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/black-art-spurs-gold-rush-as-collector-stampede-drives-up-prices

[WardFive] Meet and Greet Council of the District of Columba Chairman Phil Mendelson

Dear Neighbors, please come and Meet and Greet Council of the District of Columba Chairman Phil Mendelson

in our home on Friday, May 11, 2018,

7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Our address is 158 Adams Street, NW,

Washington, DC

RSVP to: Eric Rogers m.eric.rogers@gmail.com or register at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-greet-with-council-of-the-district-of-columbia-chairman-phil-mendelson-tickets-45652520919

Shelia and Robert Vinson Brannum

cheat_training_group Get pumped!!

People,

I cannot get enough of watching the video on this page: http://cheatfest.org/activities-2/down-river-race/

Looks like the level will be around 2 ft - great for competitors and scaredy-cats alike. :)

Yeeha!

Megan

On ‎Friday‎, ‎April‎ ‎27‎, ‎2018‎ ‎10‎:‎18‎:‎42‎ ‎AM, Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Cheat Original,

The last trip before the race is tomorrow! The Cheat is currently at 4 feet and dropping. It should land somewhere around 3.8 but expect rain and chillier temperatures. We will meet at the put-in at 10:30. CHEAT Elite is meeting at the take out, ready to load at 10 am. This should get them to the put in at 10:45 when we can all head down to the takeout together to run shuttle.

There is no attainment next week - we will be "tapering" for the race (eating chocolate cake, etc). I hope to see you guys tomorrow!

Best, Ashley

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:

My friends,

Our last week of Cheat Training is here! For tonight, the last attainment of the season, we are going to do a loop around Offut before heading up MD Chute. Tonight may be the night we can make MD! If not, head to VA. Wet Bottom will be heartbreaking, take a couple tries and then portage! We can try to get some surfs on Rocky. Turn around time is 7:45 pm.

I think we will be looking at a level around 4 feet on the Cheat this weekend.

There is no Creeking Clinic on Sunday due to the Seneca Showdown race. This is an event put on by Calleva and TRR. The attainment race (down and back up the breaks) starts at noon, the downriver race (Riley's to Pennyfield) starts at 1:20 pm. There is food after for all. There is no fee to enter but please pre-register and consider making a donation to team River Runner. https://calleva.org/ liquid-adventures-kayak/ intermediateadvanced/races/ seneca-showdown/

See you between 5 - 6! Ashley

Ashley McEwan
laks@calleva.org

Sunday 29 April 2018

[WardFive] Victory for NAACP DACA Lawsuit

WE NEED THE NAACP AND THE NAACP NEED YOU!

CONTACT NATIONAL OR YOUR LOCAL CHAPTER.

PLEASE SHARE!

NAACP DC MEMBERSHIP CHAIR

Shirley Rivens Smith, President

US Africa Sister Cities Foundation, Inc.

DC-Dakar

2000 Upshur St., NE

Washington, DC 20018

202-635-3138

It's a day for celebration, Shirley.

Ruling on an NAACP-filed lawsuit, a federal court in Washington, D.C. rejected the Trump Administration's bid to terminate the DACA program.

Federal Judge John Bates said the decision by the Trump administration to rescind DACA was "virtually unexplained" and as such "unlawful." He granted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 90 days to provide a legally sufficient explanation, and, if they fail to do so, DHS will be required to maintain the program.

Judge Bates' ruling marks the first time that any court has reached a decision that may enable new enrollees to participate in DACA since it was terminated.

Our lawsuit was filed last fall against President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, DHS Secretary Elaine Duke, and several departments within the administration. Two of the nation's largest unions – the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) – as well as Princeton University and Microsoft Corporation joined us in this fight to defend people of color eligible for the DACA program.

This administration attempted to renege on a promise that our nation made to undocumented young immigrants. The NAACP has protected that promise and seen justice prevail.

Sign up to stay informed about the legal battles to protect our lives, our rights, and our future.

In Solidarity,
Derrick Johnson

NAACP
President & CEO

Saturday 28 April 2018

Re: cheat_training_group CheatFest weekend

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend and taking photos of the race!

Paddle on!

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Jennifer Sass <sass.jen@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

I won't be kayaking with you this weekend - i'm starting to taper today :) But, I have registered for the race and plan to raft with Lisa Kara, to take pics of racers at Pete Morgan. So, practice running that rapid with a smile, while looking to the river-left bank!

For the race and festival weekend will be camping at the far back end of the Cheat Canyon campground - I will hang out a Canadian flag to mark the area, and all are welcome to join, as long as there is room. We usually get there early, around 2 PM.
http://www.cheatcanyoncampground.com/

Have fun this weekend - clean and fast!

-jen

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Cheat Original,

The last trip before the race is tomorrow! The Cheat is currently at 4 feet and dropping. It should land somewhere around 3.8 but expect rain and chillier temperatures. We will meet at the put-in at 10:30. CHEAT Elite is meeting at the take out, ready to load at 10 am. This should get them to the put in at 10:45 when we can all head down to the takeout together to run shuttle.

There is no attainment next week - we will be "tapering" for the race (eating chocolate cake, etc). I hope to see you guys tomorrow!

Best, Ashley

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:
My friends,

Our last week of Cheat Training is here! For tonight, the last attainment of the season, we are going to do a loop around Offut before heading up MD Chute. Tonight may be the night we can make MD! If not, head to VA. Wet Bottom will be heartbreaking, take a couple tries and then portage! We can try to get some surfs on Rocky. Turn around time is 7:45 pm.

I think we will be looking at a level around 4 feet on the Cheat this weekend.

There is no Creeking Clinic on Sunday due to the Seneca Showdown race. This is an event put on by Calleva and TRR. The attainment race (down and back up the breaks) starts at noon, the downriver race (Riley's to Pennyfield) starts at 1:20 pm. There is food after for all. There is no fee to enter but please pre-register and consider making a donation to team River Runner. https://calleva.org/liquid-adventures-kayak/intermediateadvanced/races/seneca-showdown/

See you between 5 - 6! Ashley

Ashley McEwan
laks@calleva.org

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Let there be no peace without justice, no worker without rights, no child without future, no elder without care, no individual without dignity. Let us take great care of Mother Earth. (adapted from Pope Francis on the Poor and Indigenous Peoples)

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[WardFive] Reminder - You are cordially invited to Meet and Greet Mayor Muriel Bowser

You are cordially invited to Meet and Greet Mayor Muriel Bowser

Sunday, April 29, 2018

2:00PM – 3:30PM

At the residence of

Alice and Junior Thompson

2316 First Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

RSVP to alice.thompson1946@gmail.com

[This is not a fundraiser.]

Friday 27 April 2018

Re: cheat_training_group Re: Cheat Week 8

Same thing happened to my dry suit a couple of weeks ago. Gorilla tape on the outside and waterproof first aid tape on the inside. Should hold through CheatFest.

Cheers

Mark

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 27, 2018, at 9:19 PM, brandon thompson <flippinthompson@gmail.com> wrote:

If anyone has a spare dry top, or even a paddling jacket for tomorrow, I would greatly appreciate it being able to borrow it. Mine is a men's large, but I'll take whatever.
My neck gasket ripped bad tonight when I was putting it on. I thought I might be able to just tape it up, but I don't think that's gonna cut it. It was a real deep tear.
Anyways, I'll see ya'll out there either way.

-Brandon Thompson

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 10:18 AM Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Cheat Original,

The last trip before the race is tomorrow! The Cheat is currently at 4 feet and dropping. It should land somewhere around 3.8 but expect rain and chillier temperatures. We will meet at the put-in at 10:30. CHEAT Elite is meeting at the take out, ready to load at 10 am. This should get them to the put in at 10:45 when we can all head down to the takeout together to run shuttle.

There is no attainment next week - we will be "tapering" for the race (eating chocolate cake, etc). I hope to see you guys tomorrow!

Best, Ashley

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:
My friends,

Our last week of Cheat Training is here! For tonight, the last attainment of the season, we are going to do a loop around Offut before heading up MD Chute. Tonight may be the night we can make MD! If not, head to VA. Wet Bottom will be heartbreaking, take a couple tries and then portage! We can try to get some surfs on Rocky. Turn around time is 7:45 pm.

I think we will be looking at a level around 4 feet on the Cheat this weekend.

There is no Creeking Clinic on Sunday due to the Seneca Showdown race. This is an event put on by Calleva and TRR. The attainment race (down and back up the breaks) starts at noon, the downriver race (Riley's to Pennyfield) starts at 1:20 pm. There is food after for all. There is no fee to enter but please pre-register and consider making a donation to team River Runner. https://calleva.org/liquid-adventures-kayak/intermediateadvanced/races/seneca-showdown/

See you between 5 - 6! Ashley

Ashley McEwan
laks@calleva.org

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Re: cheat_training_group Re: Cheat Week 8

If anyone has a spare dry top, or even a paddling jacket for tomorrow, I would greatly appreciate it being able to borrow it. Mine is a men's large, but I'll take whatever.

My neck gasket ripped bad tonight when I was putting it on. I thought I might be able to just tape it up, but I don't think that's gonna cut it. It was a real deep tear.

Anyways, I'll see ya'll out there either way.

-Brandon Thompson

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 10:18 AM Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Cheat Original,

The last trip before the race is tomorrow! The Cheat is currently at 4 feet and dropping. It should land somewhere around 3.8 but expect rain and chillier temperatures. We will meet at the put-in at 10:30. CHEAT Elite is meeting at the take out, ready to load at 10 am. This should get them to the put in at 10:45 when we can all head down to the takeout together to run shuttle.

There is no attainment next week - we will be "tapering" for the race (eating chocolate cake, etc). I hope to see you guys tomorrow!

Best, Ashley

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Calleva's Liquid Adventures <callevaliquidadventures@gmail.com> wrote:
My friends,

Our last week of Cheat Training is here! For tonight, the last attainment of the season, we are going to do a loop around Offut before heading up MD Chute. Tonight may be the night we can make MD! If not, head to VA. Wet Bottom will be heartbreaking, take a couple tries and then portage! We can try to get some surfs on Rocky. Turn around time is 7:45 pm.

I think we will be looking at a level around 4 feet on the Cheat this weekend.

There is no Creeking Clinic on Sunday due to the Seneca Showdown race. This is an event put on by Calleva and TRR. The attainment race (down and back up the breaks) starts at noon, the downriver race (Riley's to Pennyfield) starts at 1:20 pm. There is food after for all. There is no fee to enter but please pre-register and consider making a donation to team River Runner. https://calleva.org/liquid-adventures-kayak/intermediateadvanced/races/seneca-showdown/

See you between 5 - 6! Ashley

Ashley McEwan
laks@calleva.org

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