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Peter St. Onge: August 2012
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, August 4, 2012. Making a statement with our sandwiches. Saturday's column in the print O:. Found myself near a Chick-fil-A one day this week. Not Wednesday, when drive-thrus were backed up with supporters for Chick-fil-A appreciation day. Not Friday, when some of the chain’s restaurants were hosts to a gay “kiss-in” protest. It was Thursday morning. I was hungry. I wanted a sandwich. What about our iPads or iPhones, which were buil...
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Peter St. Onge: An anthem for a lifetime of passion
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, February 11, 2012. An anthem for a lifetime of passion. 8220;I’ll sing for free,” she remembers telling him, and so she did. Then she did much more. All the while, she sang on Sundays in the choir. For 50-plus years. “She is,” says current music director Jimmy Jones, “a force.”. But two years ago, on a visit to the dentist, Harriette learned that parts of her jawbone had deteriorated. By last year, cancer had spread toward her ...
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Peter St. Onge: Making a statement with our sandwiches
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, August 4, 2012. Making a statement with our sandwiches. Saturday's column in the print O:. Found myself near a Chick-fil-A one day this week. Not Wednesday, when drive-thrus were backed up with supporters for Chick-fil-A appreciation day. Not Friday, when some of the chain’s restaurants were hosts to a gay “kiss-in” protest. It was Thursday morning. I was hungry. I wanted a sandwich. What about our iPads or iPhones, which were buil...
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Peter St. Onge: November 2012
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, November 10, 2012. For gay marriage, a quiet historic night. It arrived in somewhat muted fashion, tucked in the fine print of an election night. You might even have missed the results that flashed briefly on your television screen, or the commentators using words like “milestone” before moving on to the bigger news of the day. History doesn’t always reach out to shake us. North Carolina, of course, isn’t one of them. In ...There m...
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Peter St. Onge: February 2012
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, February 11, 2012. An anthem for a lifetime of passion. 8220;I’ll sing for free,” she remembers telling him, and so she did. Then she did much more. All the while, she sang on Sundays in the choir. For 50-plus years. “She is,” says current music director Jimmy Jones, “a force.”. But two years ago, on a visit to the dentist, Harriette learned that parts of her jawbone had deteriorated. By last year, cancer had spread toward her ...
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Peter St. Onge: Getting the 'W' without the win
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, September 1, 2012. Getting the 'W' without the win. Let’s begin with an important distinction about Lance Armstrong’s fight against doping charges: He did not merely quit that battle this week. He lost it. And now he’s tired? No Armstrong is acknowledging that this time, he isn’t going to get the win. That’s the thing about cheaters – getting the win, the “W,” is more important than actually winning. For some, that’s almost u...
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Peter St. Onge: For gay marriage, a quiet historic night
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, November 10, 2012. For gay marriage, a quiet historic night. It arrived in somewhat muted fashion, tucked in the fine print of an election night. You might even have missed the results that flashed briefly on your television screen, or the commentators using words like “milestone” before moving on to the bigger news of the day. History doesn’t always reach out to shake us. North Carolina, of course, isn’t one of them. In ...There m...
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Peter St. Onge: December 2011
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, December 24, 2011. Finding the lightness on this day. Today's Observer column. Merry Christmas, everyone:. Eight mornings before Christmas, a man walked into the Kmart on Freedom Drive and asked to see a manager. He wanted to pay off some customers’ layaway accounts. He decided on three criteria in paying off layaways: First, the accounts needed to be weeks old, to show that someone was planning and paying off a balance bit by bit&...
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Peter St. Onge: January 2012
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Peter St. Onge. Columns and conversations on the place we live. Saturday, January 14, 2012. In a difficult moment, a picture of grace. The picture was taken after the meeting began. David Knoble and Amelia Stinson-Wesley, two candidates for a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board seat, were seated next to each other. They had met just two days before and had talked only briefly, so when Stinson-Wesley reached for his hand 10 minutes into the meeting, Knoble was surprised. But he didn’t let go. Knoble’...