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ABHS Bands Press News: MSBOA District 16 – All-Star Jazz Ensemble
Congratulations to the four ABHS student-musicians who were selected to the MSBOA District 16 Honors Jazz Ensemble. This honors ensemble is made up of a select group of 17 students from Macomb, Oakland, and St. Clair county high schools. The District 16 Honors Jazz Ensemble will be taking part in virtual recording sessions and performance with Jazz Educator and professional jazz musician, Chris Johnson. These sessions will take place over the months of March and April. Those ABHS student-musicians include:

Jaden French, Trombone (11)
Jonathan Taylor, Trumpet (12)
Delaney Novach, Piano (12)
Collin Arena, Drums (12)

ABHS Instrumental Music News – CMU Jazz Weekend Awards & MSBOA Solo & Ensemble Honors
April 12, 2021
In March, the Anchor Bay High School Jazz Ensemble took part in the 48th annual Phi Mu Alpha/Central Michigan University Jazz Weekend. This year’s virtual festival featured high school jazz bands and combos from around the state of Michigan and Florida.

Congratulations to all ABHS Jazz Ensemble student-musicians! As part of the group’s overall outstanding performance, the Anchor Bay HS Jazz Ensemble was awarded one of the “Best Band” Awards in the Class AA division. In addition to the overall ensemble recognition, the ABHS Jazz Ensemble’s Rhythm Section was awarded with one of the “Overall Best Section” Awards in Class AA. Senior, Collin Arena (drum set and vibraphone), added to the awards by receiving one of the Class AA “Best Soloist” Awards. This recognition marks the 20th time in the past 24 years that Anchor Bay HS has received a major award at this prestigious event hosting Michigan’s best high school jazz ensembles and combos. It is the 7th time the school has been awarded the prestigious Best Band Award.
April 15, 2021
Congratulations to senior trumpet player, Jonathan Taylor! Jonathan was one of three trumpet players in the state to be recognized as having an “Outstanding Performance” in the Proficiency 3 category for this year’s MSBOA Solo & Ensemble Festival.

ABHS Mock Trial
The Anchor Bay Mock Trial team was awarded the 1st place award at the Macomb Regional tournament on Saturday March 6, 2021. The team will advance to the State Finals on March 20. This marks the 5th time that an Anchor Bay team is a State Finalist.
Team members are: Seniors Jonathan Taylor, Emily Appleton, Juniors: Patti Barravecchia, Ellie de Chavez, Sydney Mann, Ashley Mathews, Sophomore: Jacob Seger.
The team was coached by Teacher Denise O’Hearn and Anchor Bay Graduate and Mock Trial Alumni Jack Myrick who is currently a student at U of M and a member of the U of M Mock Trial team.

Art Show shout out to student excellence
Congratulation to senior Alaina Kiehl and her Art instructor Dave Stumpf, whose senior portfolio was accepted at the Anton Art Center Secondary Exhibit for Macomb, took best of show for one of her works, a multimedia design titled Aurora Borealis. Best of show is the top award given at the show for the single work judged to be the overall best from all works turned in. Attached are images of all her works that are currently on display for this exhibit at the Anton Art Center in downtown Mount Clemens. Dave is so proud of all the incredible work she has done with him over the years.

HOSA
Congratulations to the Anchor Bay HOSA Club. 24 students will be moving on to compete in the HOSA State Competition February 24th and 25th at the Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City! Congratulations to:

Public Health: Danielle Davidson, Alayna Cracchiolo, Katie Pfuhl, and Grace Swartz. They placed 3rd in their category!
Medical Terminology: Brooke Conforti, Kaitlyn LaFear, and Emily Goleski
Medical Law and Ethics: Isabella Moses. She placed 3rd in her category!
Forensic Science: Brianna Totty and Brooke Burgess
Medical Math: Andrew Kraemer
Medical Spelling: Nehderi Knowlin, Leah Troyer, Shamiya Rodgers
Nutrition: Olivia Loding
CPR/First Aid: Viviana Damm, Aniella Bowman. They placed 1st in their category!
Community Awareness: Eva Dixon, Emily Saski, and Makenna Somers
Health Education: Makayla Brooks, Elena Starna, Zarek Downs, and Daniel McNair. They placed 2nd in their category!

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Senior Tar Card
The Senior Tar Gold Card program is available to ANY resident of the Anchor Bay School District who is 60 or older.
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ABHS on AP Honor Roll
Twenty-three Michigan school districts are among 433 school districts in the U.S. and Canada honored today by the College Board with placement on the 7th Annual AP® District Honor Roll.
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North Central Association Accredited
Through accreditation and related services, NCA CASI continuously improves the quality of education and challenges education entities to prepare each and every learner for success. All Anchor Bay Schools are NCA Accredited.

Anchor Bay Offers Young Fives

Click here to learn about the Anchor Bay Young Fives Program!

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We are requiring this action to ensure the safety of your children.
Once again, thank you for your kind understanding and anticipated cooperation in this matter.

Anchor Bay Receives Readers Choice Award 1st Place

Feed the Bay Backpack
Our district has a Weekend Backpack Program to provide food for students to take home each Friday. These food packs are available due to a great partnership with the Watermark Church, the Anchor Bay Community, and volunteers. Food packs contain easy-to-cook (microwavable) meals, snacks, and fruit or vegetable item to help supplement weekend meals.
Click here for the form to sign up for the weekend backpack program. Forms can be returned to any school office. Only one form is needed per family.

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Tips can be submitted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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We are Hiring!
Join the Anchor Bay Team! We have part-time and full-time positions available. Apply today!
Click here to see our current job postings.

Documents

Daily Schedule & Conferences/Half Day Schedule & Exam Schedule

2022-23 Student Handbook/Student Code of Conduct

2022-2023 Scheduling Video

2023 Yearbook Staff Application
2023 Teacher Cadet Application
2023 Peer Mediation Application

2022-2023 Course Guide
2022-2023 Course Guide (Printable)

E2020 Online Courses

2022-2023 Parking Pass Information 
Parking Pass Permit Form (Please use online payment on lower left of ABHS website)

Volunteer Form

Medical Forms

PEBT NOTIFICATION LETTER
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Daily Announcements

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School Times

Standard Day: 7:17AM-2:09PM  
Conf./Half Day: 7:17AM-10:21AM
Exam Half Day: 7:17AM-10:47AM

Standard Day Schedule: 58 Minute Periods, 6 Minutes passing

Anchor Bay High School

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It’s Always a Great Day to be a Tar!

Thank you for looking at the Anchor Bay High School’s website. Our staff is very proud of our school. We pride ourselves on creating a child-friendly, educationally rewarding learning environment for our high school students!  Our district mission statement is, “Empowering all students to succeed in an ever-changing world.” Our staff has a commitment to see that this phrase is not just words, but something we constantly strive to achieve and live by. We focus on developing a strong, positive relationship with the students and parents as we work together as a team so that we can bring out the very best in each child.  With all of us working together…great things are bound to happen!

We are very proud of the accomplishments of our students and the involvement of our parents. We look forward to working with your family and providing your child an outstanding educational experience!  Please feel free to contact us at any time.

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Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

The relationship between the Saginaw Public Schools and the University of
Michigan is one that has had a tremendous impact on teaching and learning
in an urban school district, and can serve as a road map for school
districts seeking systemic change through successful staff development
partnerships. Saginaw is beset by the same urban problems and issues that
affect cities throughout the county. According to census data, Saginaw is
the seventh poorest city in the United States, with nearly one in three
of its 70,000 citizens living below the poverty line. The Saginaw Public
Schools have an enrollment of 13,500 students, two­thirds of whom
are minority. Nearly 75 percent of our students qualify for free or
reduced lunch. Many of our students come to school without desirable
conditions for learning. Many have little or no hope or vision of their
future. Yet despite demographics that would suggest otherwise, the
district has earned a statewide reputation for quality schools,
innovative programs and financial stability. It hasn’t happened by
accident and we didn’t accomplish it alone.

When I was named Superintendent of Schools in Saginaw in 1978, public
education was beleaguered. Coleman, Jencks and other university
researchers were telling us that schools couldn’t make a difference in
the lives of poor children, that socio­economic factors controlled
their destiny. The situation became magnified in 1983 with the
publication of “A Nation At Risk” and dozens of other studies eager to
spotlight the so­called “failings of American public education.” For
teachers in districts like Saginaw, the constant criticism of urban
schools cut deeply.

It took the “effective schools” research of Edmonds, Eurick, Lazotte and
Brookover and others, to re­focus the nation on the belief that all
children can learn, even those from the most economically disadvantaged
backgrounds, and that schools can make a difference if they concentrate
on the variables that lead to academic success. In Saginaw Schools, the
work of Edmonds and others triggered our first ten­year plan for
school improvement and we began to seek out staff development and
training programs to support our work. At the same time, we were
strengthening our school improvement infrastructure, which already
included a research, testing and evaluation capability to enhance our
data based decision making and a zero base budgeting process that enabled
us to direct our financial resources to the highest priority needs of the
district.

As we expanded and sharpened the tools of change, we began to see
results. Test scores began to increase. Morale began to improve. Our
dropout rate began to drop dramatically. We began to see that a staff
development program linked to specific school improvement concepts could
have a positive impact on student achievement and staff performance. But
we also knew that in order to achieve fundamental, long­term,
systemic change, it was crucial that our staff development efforts focus
on not just arming teachers with the latest theories and techniques but
on empowering them as professionals. The traditional approach to staff
development could carry us only so far.

The UM Connection

In the mid 1980s, we began to design a staff development program that
would support fundamental organizational change. We set out to find
individuals who shared our optimism in the future of urban education and
who had a “break­the­mold” attitude. At the University of
Michigan’ s Center for Educational Improvement Through Collaboration
(CEIC), we were fortunate to find a group of university people who were
looking to forge a similar relationship with public education. Dr. Jay
Robinson and Dr. Patti Stock believed that staff development was a
two­way street, that public school teachers and university
professors could learn from each other. What evolved was a
symbiotic relationship: They had the content knowledge; we had the
experience of teaching in an urban setting. The University of Michigan
team presented themselves to our staff as colleagues, not experts, in the
same way we envisioned our teachers working with their students.

Saginaw’s association with the University of Michigan began a decade ago
with a seminar for teachers and administrators, entitled “Thinking About
Thinking in Michigan,” through which staff and UM professors had the
opportunity to simply discuss issues and share opinions about a variety
of topics. Out of this seminar grew the idea of teachers as researchers
who could contribute to their profession in ways they had not yet
imagined.

The first major partnership between Saginaw Schools and the University of
Michigan was a high school language arts collaboration entitled “The
Assessment of Writing Project. ” While improved student writing was the
overt focus of this effort, it was apparent from the beginning that a new
method of staff development, linked to instructional improvement, was
taking shape in the classrooms. Dr. Robinson and Dr. Stock were in our
classrooms, teaching and modeling behavior and learning from our teachers
and students. They were working with our teachers in the same way we
wanted our teachers to work with students as colleagues in learning. The
UM team walked the halls of our two high schools, got to know the
students, taught classes alone and in tandem with their teaching
partners, marveled at some students’ abilities, agonized over ways to
reach others who struggled academically, and attended staff meetings and
school events.

The most visible products of this ten­year association are two
anthologies The Bridge, published in 1988, and Footsteps,
published in 1991 based on the real­life experiences of students in
our two high schools. The most long­lasting product, however,
continues to be the rejuvenated and re­focused teachers in our
schools who will never go back to the traditional methods of teaching.

Not long after the start of the Writing Project, we approached another
University of Michigan professor, Dr. Bill Stapp of the Department of
Natural Resources, who had developed an approach to teaching
environmental science using a similar hands­on, applied,
real­world, team­oriented process. Dr. Stapp also became a part
of our schools, working with teachers to design and implement a water
quality testing program that would have as its classrooms the Saginaw
River and its tributaries. Through this project we realized the
importance of expanding our staff development efforts to include business
and industry representatives. Teachers, university instructors and
industry professionals, with General Motors taking the lead role, began
to change the way we deliver science education to our elementary, middle
school and high school students, taking them out of their textbooks and
into a real life situation that included the quality of the water they
depend on for daily living. Students from our most economically
disadvantaged neighborhoods, and their teachers, were working
side­by­side with university instructors and chemists,
environmental engineers and water quality specialists as partners in
learning. The Saginaw River Project, which involves hundreds of students
each year, has become nationally recognized for its innovative approach
to teaching and learning. More importantly, our staff has found new ways
of teaching science and motivating reluctant learners through a
collaborative approach.

What We’ve Learned

Through our work with the University of Michigan, and subsequently
Michigan State University and Saginaw Valley State University, we have
developed a set of guiding principles for staff development. They include
the following:

• Let the Mission Drive the Process: In Saginaw Schools, professional
  development is geared to the district’s mission and graduate standards
  that have been developed with the help of our direct customers business,
  industry and higher education. It is tied to the district’s school
  improvement goals and to each school’s annual educational plan.
• Listen to Those Closest to the Situation: More and more, we
  are attempting to link staff development with the needs of individual
  schools and the classroom teacher. Teachers play a major role in charting
  its direction. Those closest to the level at which teaching and learning
  occur have the best knowledge of what they need based upon what works,
  and what’s not quite perfect yet.
• Make Long­term Commitments: From our experience,
  professional development must be a planned, lifelong process of
  continuous learning that is best received when it occurs as a natural
  outgrowth of one’s work.
• Develop a Symbiotic Relationship: Experience has taught us that
  the most effective staff training programs occur when there is a
  partnership in which benefit accrues to all stakeholders.
• Select Your Partners Carefully: In addition to being caring,
  sensitive, empathetic and mission­driven, the partner must
  philosophically believe in organizational development through human
  development.
• Be Consistent: Don’t drop and add new programs and approaches
  every year. Educators are wary of change, and if you aren’t consistent
  over time, many will be rightly skeptical and simply wait out the latest
  trend. Long­term commitment to a long­term vision is critical.
• Address Fundamental Beliefs First: A change in human behavior
  occurs only when preceded by a change in the fundamental belief structure
  of the individual. Organizational change is preceded by a shift in the
  culture of the group. Do I really believe that all children can learn? Do
  I believe in teamwork? What does empowerment mean to me? Can I teach
  without a textbook? Can I feel comfortable taking risks and occasionally
  failing? Only when these fundamental questions are answered, through the
  experiences of the teachers, can a climate of change exist in a school.
• Trust One Another and Yourself: The real experts exist in the
  classrooms of every school system. A successful staff development program
  will create opportunities for staff to discover, discuss and share what
  works and why. If we want our students to be self­ actualized, we
  must select and build self­actualized teachers and role models.
• Involve the Students: Staff development that fails to include
  students as active participants in the process is not likely to achieve
  the desired results. Students must be viewed as colleagues and not
  passive learners.
• Make Training Relevant:Does it fit the mission? Will it help
  teachers in the classroom? Is it consistent with our beliefs? Does it
  address content areas? Our partnerships demonstrated to us that students
  learn best when they are engaged in work that affects them directly, that
  has meaning in their lives and draws on their experiences. Professionals
  are no different.
• Institutionalize It: In 1986, we opened the Instructional and
  Staff Development Center in Saginaw Schools to meet our expanded
  training needs. Located in a former elementary school, the facility
  served as a focal point for our staff development and instructional
  improvement efforts. While you don’t need a new facility to underscore
  the importance of staff development, a district does need to make it an
  important, on­going part of its operation.

Problems to Overcome

The first problem we had to address was at titudinal. There was a natural
skepticism on the part of staff that this was simply another new program
brought to the district by someone with something to sell. The skepticism
began to fade when staff discovered that this partnership with the
University of Michigan was different and that it had utility for them as
classroom teachers. They found out that these university people were not
going to hand them a program and leave but that they were going to be in
the classrooms with them, working side­by­side.

A second problem, and one we continue to wrestle with, is making time for
training. The current school day structure makes it difficult to provide
the training that is needed. We need an eight­hour, on­ site
workday without expanded caseloads, in order to accomplish the types of
professional development that are required. Until that is achieved, we
need to find creative ways to incorporate training programs during the
school day without continually pulling teachers out of their classrooms.
Until an eight­hour workday becomes a reality, we will be forced to
create whatever training opportunities we can for staff, during school,
after school and during the summer.

The Future

This new approach to staff development has evolved over the past decade
to encompass many areas of the school district. Dr. Stock, who later
joined the staff of Michigan State University as head of the Writing
Center, continued to be involved in our district through the “Write For
Your Life” project, through which students and teachers together explore
experience­based writing that focuses on health issues. A number of
our teachers have been involved for the past three years in the National
Writing Project through Saginaw Valley State University. We have since
developed several tri­partnerships with business/industry and higher
education that bring diverse human resources into our schools to work
directly with teachers and students on an ongoing basis. More and more of
our staff renewal efforts are targeted to meet the needs of individual
school improvement plans and classroom teachers. Teachers play a major
role in designing these activities. Such professional development changes
lives and empowers teachers and students. Schools can’t accomplish this
reform alone. Through multi­level partnerships we can have a
positive impact on the lives of inner city youth.

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Table of Contents of the Spring 1996 Issue of

On Common
Ground

Harbor in a stormy world

The ways of the Lord are inscrutable. How could our compatriot Marina Chernikova imagine more than 20 years ago that the theater of the young spectator would become her love and passion, a source of great joy and considerable excitement? But it was she who fostered the Youth Theater, and today it is difficult to imagine the cultural life of Kotovsk without children’s performances on the stage of the Great Hall of the Palace of Culture.

Childhood dream pushed

As a child, Marina cherished the dream of becoming a music director in a kindergarten. Once she asked her parents for a violin as a birthday present, and began to attend a music school. The target shone like a beacon ahead, and in order to get closer to it, Marina enters the Tambov Pedagogical School named after Ushinsky after school, graduating with honors.
But our compatriot, a creative, energetic person, this is not enough, and she continues her studies at the choral department of the Tambov branch of the Moscow Institute of Culture. A new sphere – culture – draws her into its orbit like a magnet, and Marina, while still in her fourth year at the university, comes to work in the Kotovsky Palace of Culture. Under her creative care is a female vocal ensemble with an academic repertoire, whose performances were a joy for the residents of the city – true connoisseurs of high art.
But the received pedagogical education could not but play its role: Marina is trusted to lead the children’s choir, this is now her main job. However, she does not part with the vocal ensemble, which has become dear to her, continuing to direct it along the channel of inspired rehearsals and performances.
With the advent of Marina Chernikova, the children’s choir of the Kotovsky Palace of Culture shone like a bright, talented constellation. This is confirmed by diplomas and titles of laureates of festivals and competitions of various levels, in a word, a forest of regalia. The cohesion of the children’s team, the sincere enthusiasm of the children for rehearsals and rehearsals inspired our fellow countrywoman to stage the musical “The Story of the Cat Filofey” by Yakov Dubrovin. The result was amazing: the young audience and their parents were delighted with what was happening on stage.

Each performance is expensive

From that moment, in fact, Marina Chernikova’s retraining as a theater-goer began. In 1992, a theater for young spectators appeared in our city – a favorite brainchild of a woman. The beginning was laid by the play “The Story of the Cat Filofey”, the hall of the Palace of Culture was overcrowded. Over the past twenty-odd years, 40 performances have been staged, including “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, “Cat’s House”, “Well, wolf, wait a minute!” beyond the mountains”, the opera “Queen Toothbrush”, the drama “Princess Kru”… When I asked Marina Vladimirovna which production is most dear to her, she admitted: “Every performance is dear to me. They are like my own children for me; they need to be nursed, as they say, you need to put your soul into each one.” Although, of course, the audience has its own preferences: some were most impressed by “Teremok”, others – “Snegurushka”, and others – the last performance of the Youth Theater “Jolly Roger” But, most importantly, the performances do not leave anyone indifferent, they make the sensual strings of the soul and heart ring.0009
The creative composition of the troupe – 20 children, different in age, in character, but eager to play. Marina Vladimirovna has to act as a psychologist: the so-called energetic role will not suit a melancholic, and it will be difficult for a sanguine person to cope with a role that does not correspond to his temperament. Although there are exceptions to the rules. The director of the theater proudly speaks of his pupils: “Talented children.” For twenty years, a lot of Kotov’s children passed through her hands, their fate was different, but, undoubtedly, the Youth Theater played a role in shaping their worldview, life position. My interlocutor remembered how long ago she looked after one of the talented actors for her theater. The second-grader boy, a kind of lively, speaking on the stage of his school, was so inspired, artistic, that he simply amazed Marina Vladimirovna, and she invited him to the Youth Theater. And he came and played in such a way that the audience often began to applaud during his performance.
The director of the Youth Theater kindly remembers Andrei Popov and Olesya Alekhina, Pavel Kibirev and Olesya Breeva, Svetlana Tolmacheva and Natalia Antyufeeva, Yulia Zotkina and Svetlana Efremov, Yulia Makarevich and Alexander Gorelov, unfortunately, it is impossible to name all of them on the newspaper page. Marina Chernikova’s daughter, Irina, played with pleasure in her mother’s theater.

And even study the genealogy

The most difficult task for a young spectator theater director is to find a good play to put it on stage. Well, playwrights are not particularly eager to create works for children, and some sometimes offer something breathtaking – with hanging corpses and even obscene language. Once Marina Vladimirovna came across such, if I may say so, a children’s play – and she simply became dumb. In a word, you have to select the repertoire with special care, and it is better to turn to well-known authors. Of the modern ones, for example, Lyudmila Ulitskaya with her “Year of the White Elephant”, Vladimir Olshansky with his “Princess Kru” are preferred. It is also important to take into account that at least half of the troupe of young actors should be involved in the production. Well, the most “trick” for the director is to select music for a new performance, apparently, every time her musical education, coupled with creative imagination, is asked to be free.
The inspired work of the director of the Youth Theater Marina Chernikova is bearing fruit. More than once, her team became both a laureate and a diploma winner of regional competitions, including under the name “Magic Rainbow”. In 2003, for a significant contribution to the development of culture and art, Marina Chernikova was recognized as the winner of the A.T. Sergeyev.
In 2009, the theatre’s creative activity was highly recognized by the award of a grant from the department of culture and archival affairs of the regional administration for the play “And the day went beyond the mountains.” Marina Vladimirovna wrote this play herself, relying on Tambov folklore, on the traditions of Russian folk songs, and family traditions. She even in the course of creating a work, which was then every time accompanied by a full house, had to study her family tree, draw up a family tree, which she is only glad about: when else could she find time for this?
In 2012, the theater took part in the Tambov Festival of Young Theaters and captivated the audience, the jury and even the critic – Eleonora Makarova, who spoke favorably about the work of young actors from Kotovsk. In fact, the “Tale of Emel the Loafer” brought to the attention of the audience stood out noticeably from the background of others. The whole troupe was involved in it, it dispensed with scenery and relied on interactivity, that is, on the closest connection with the auditorium. The team returned home with a prize.
Now the Youth Theater pleases its audience with the play “Jolly Roger”, in which, by the way, the main, very dynamic role is played by the nine-year-old grandson of Marina Chernikova, Leonid Ulyanov. And at the same time, hard work is underway on a new production, the director was attracted by Vladislav Panfilov’s play “The Tale of Roasted Roosters”, which is very instructive, and therefore very useful for modern children. In general, the Youth Theater can be compared with a harbor in the modern raging world: here children are instilled with a love for high art.

Blitz-interview

– What is your hobby, Marina Vladimirovna?
-Reading. I have read all of Dostoevsky. Now I am interested in the last years of Pushkin. I respect the works of Akunin, Pikul, Marinina.
-What do you like to cook?
-I’m picky about food. But I can make this out of meat! My signature dish is meatloaf.
-What is your dream?
– I enjoy gardening. I dream of building unusual chairs from stumps on my site.
Is interior design your passion?
-Well, yes. In my apartment, the hall, for example, is decorated in an African style – a zebra carpet, figurines, bamboo … Now I am making a lamp myself.
– And what about the usual activities for women – sewing, knitting – is the situation?
– I know how to knit, but Irina’s daughter is far away, such amazing things come out from under her hands, I wear them with pleasure. But sewing – I really want to learn this. My mother, Maria Alekseevna Yanova, was a noble dressmaker.
-Director’s work does not interfere with directing the Russian song ensemble “White Willow”?
-On the contrary, and this business is a true pleasure for me. I have been walking through life with the team since 1995. Its backbone is Tatyana Ermakova, Tatyana Petukhova, Vera Khokhlova, Svetlana Nikitina, and there are 8 people in total.
-March 25 is the Day of Cultural Workers, and March 27 is World Theater Day. I wish you, Marina Vladimirovna, your Youth Theater – new wonderful performances and grateful spectators!

Head of the regional administration Oleg Betin about the Year of Culture in the Tambov region:

each of us. The efforts of government institutions, the education system, creative intelligentsia, public associations should be aimed at preserving the cultural and historical heritage, the Russian language, national history. Along with traditional arts holidays and festivals, within the framework of the Year of Culture in the region, we will pay close attention position of workers of culture and art, rural and urban cultural and leisure centers, children’s art schools.

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Sosnina Galina Ivanovna | Literary Amur Region

Galina Ivanovna Sosnina was born on October 11, 1943 in the village of Nikulino, Yartsevsky District, Krasnoyarsk Territory. In 1953, the family moved to a new place of residence in the city of Taiga, Kemerovo Region. In 1961 she graduated from high school and entered the Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Philology. After graduating from the institute, she worked as a teacher in the city of Tomsk, then at 1967 moved with her family to Yakutia. She worked as an English teacher, head teacher, director of a school, first in the village of Peleduy, later in the city of Lensk. In 1984–1985 temporarily lived in the city of Svobodny, worked as the director of school No. 9. Since 1989, she moved to a permanent place of residence in the Amur Region, in the village of Uglegorsk. She worked as a school director, head of the department for education, culture and youth of the village administration (2002-2005), a teacher at the Center for Children’s Creativity. In 2002 she was awarded the title of “Honorary Worker of General Education of the Russian Federation”, in 2006 G. I. Sosnina was included in the encyclopedia “The Best People of Russia”. Since 2008 he has been living in the city of Svobodny.

Galina Ivanovna has been a member of the Svobodnensky Literary Association named after Pyotr Komarov since 1998, and since 2008 she has been its chairman. Member of the Union of Russian Writers since 2011. Author of poetry collections “My Fate is Russia”, “Echo of My Love”, a collection of poems for children “Smeshinka”, books “Far Eastern Space Harbor” and “Native Roots”. Twice winner of Komarov Prize .

Galina Ivanovna started writing poems and stories early, from her school years. Her work was first published in 1960 in the newspaper “Taiginsky worker”. While studying at the Tomsk Pedagogical Institute, Galina Ivanovna was a member of a literary circle, participated in a meeting of young authors of Siberia. Her works have been published in local periodicals and regional collections. In 2000, the city of Svobodny published the first book of poems, My Destiny is Russia, and in 2006, the poetic book Echo of My Love. The poetic work of G. Sosnina is filled with sincere feeling, cordiality, sings the beauty of the Amur nature. Sosnina’s most famous book, The Far Eastern Space Harbor, tells the story of the village of Uglegorsk and the Svobodny cosmodrome, a unique space facility on the Amur land. In the documentary story “Native Roots” G.I. Sosnina talks about four generations of her family. The main character of the book is the author’s mother, Ekaterina Mikhailovna Ponomareva, who managed to overcome all the life difficulties that befell her. In 2013, a collection of poems by G. Sosnina “I am not a stream – a river” was published. In the preface to the collection, Lyudmila Yakovleva, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, wrote: “I feel a kindred spirit in her and I was filled with love for her poems, bright and pure, like the breath of the wind. They have everything: civic position, love for the motherland, reflections, heartfelt and tender lyrics. She writes with her heart.

G. I. Sosnina

Separate publications

Sosnina, G. I. Take my light: memories, novels, stories, essays / G. I. Sosnin. – Blagoveshchensk: RIO, 2018. – 280 p. – Text (visual) : immediate.
Sosnina, G. I. Far Eastern Space Harbor: to the 40th Anniversary of Uglegorsk (1961–2001) / G. I. Sosnina. – Blagoveshchensk: RIO, 2001. – 173 p. : ill. – Text (visual) : immediate.
Sosnina, G. I. Scorched by war: novels and stories / G. I. Sosnina. – Free: [b. and.], 2015. – 142 p. – Text (visual) : immediate.
Sosnina, G. I. My destiny is Russia: poems / G. I. Sosnina. – Free: [b. and.], 2000. – 58 p. : ill. – Text (visual) : immediate.
Sosnina, G. I. I am not a stream – a river: poems / G. I. Sosnina. – Free: [b. and.], 2013. – 158 p. – Text (visual) : immediate.

From publications in periodicals and collections

Sosnina, G. Big dates and new books: [on the work of lit. about them. P. Komarova in 2013] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2013. – 30 Dec. – S. 26.
Sosnina, G. Vesna; haymaking; Hello birch groves; Our Amur wild rosemary: [poems]; Theatrical miniature for the “Komarov Readings” “The Bright Soul of the Poet”; Vacation in Razlivnaya (scenario) / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Svobodny literary: lit.-art. alm. – Free: [b. i.], 2011. – S. 231–242.
Sosnina, G. Blue fog before dawn: poems / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2005. – 30 September. – S. 8.
Sosnina, G. Democracy ; Poplar downfalls; I look at the proud hills with love …: [story, poems] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Amur region-2012: lit.-art. alm. – Blagoveshchensk, 2012. – S. 386-389.
Sosnina, G. Democracy; Poplar downfalls; I look at the proud hills with love …: [story, poems] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Svobodny literary: lit. -art. alm. – Svobodny, 2012. – P. 125–127.
Sosnina, G. “I gave him my heart and songs”: [about Komarov. readings] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2011. – 7 September. – S. 4.
Sosnina, G. To Davydov – to Zagan: [about a local history writer, a member of the Great Fatherland. War V. Ya. Davydov] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2010. – May 26. – S. 4.
Sosnina, G. It is not clear to me what is going on?… ; This fragile woman …; Love will come to you …: [poems] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 1993. – July 1. – S. 3.
Sosnina, G. My Indian summer; Maybe it’s gray hair hoarfrost: poems / G. Sosnin. – Text (visual): direct // First Alekseevskoe. – 2012. – 24 Oct. – S. 9.
Sosnina, G. A poem about mother: [poems] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2000. – August 8. – S. 3.
Sosnina, G. My Amur region: [poetry] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2000. – July 11. – S. 2.
Sosnina, G. Native roots: an excerpt from the story / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Amur region-2003: lit.-art. alm. – Blagoveshchensk, 2003. – S. 92–95.
Sosnina, G. With pain for Russia: [about the presentation of the book. B. Yakimov “Everywhere front” at a meeting of the city. lit. about them. P. Komarova] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2013. – June 7. – S. 15.
Sosnina, G. My heart is ready to scream: [poetry] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 1995. – 31 Jan. – S. 1.
Sosnina, G. My destiny is Russia: [verses from Sat. “My destiny is Russia”] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2000. – 29 September. – S. 3.
Sosnina, G. Where love lives: [story] / G. Sosnina. – Text (visual): direct // Svobodny literary: lit.-art. alm. – Free: [b. i.], 2008. – S. 217–220.

Literature about life and work

What happiness that I live! : for the anniversary of Galina Ivanovna Sosnina : [booklet]. – Text (visual) : Immediate / Intersettlement b-ka Svobodn. district; comp. L. L. Sandyreva. – Svobodny, 2008. – 6 p. : ill.
Kolesnikova, G. “Native roots” by Galina Sosnina: [about the book. G. Sosnina “Native roots”] / G. Kolesnikova. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2003. – 17 Dec. – S. 6.
Konovalova, L. Poetry that brings light: [on Sat. “My destiny is Russia” by G. Sosnina] / L. Konovalova. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2000. – 29 September. – S. 3.
Nikolaev, S. I. Sosnina Galina Ivanovna: [biogr. reference and list of references] / S. I. Nikolaev. – Text (visual): direct // Encyclopedia of the literary life of the Amur region of the XIX-XXI centuries / comp., ed., entry. Art. A. V. Urmanova. – Blagoveshchensk: BSPU Publishing House, 2013. – P. 359-360.
About G. Sosnina’s book “Far Eastern Space Harbor”: [reader reviews]. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2002. – February 22. – S. 3.
Pogodaev, O . Let’s spread our wings with my city! : [about creativity. meeting in connection with the anniversary. birthday of a member of the Union grew up. writers G. I. Sosnina with fans of her work, which took place in the Library named after. N. K. Krupskaya in Svobodny] / O. Pogodaev. – Text (visual): direct // Zeya fires. – 2018. – 17 Oct. (No. 42). – S. 22.
Sosnina Galina Ivanovna: [biogr. reference and list of references]. – Text (visual): direct // Bibliographic index / Svobodnen. lit. about; comp. N. Yu. Lazareva; ed. A. E. Padalko. – Svobodny, 2004. – S. 52–53.
My destiny is Russia: 70 years since the birth of G. I. Sosnina: [booklet]. – Text (visual): direct / MU “MB Svobodnen. district”; comp. O. A. Shkiryatova. – Podgorny: [b. and.], 2013. – 6 p. : ill.

Valentina Gonenko: “Our work is not a safe haven!” — Online publication Vestnik

We continue to introduce you to the workers of the oil industry. Today our guest is labor veteran Valentina Borisovna Gonenko, her total work experience at Surgutneftegaz is 41 years!

Our conversation with Valentina Borisovna began with the fact that she extended her hand and showed me the watch, proudly saying that it was a gift from the company in honor of the 40th anniversary of Surgutneftegaz. And this is not the first such present “from the company”: 10 years ago, the native enterprise also awarded the worker with a wrist watch, and she wore them for many years with the same trepidation as other awards.

– You know, I still remember how big we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the company! It was such an anniversary! – says Valentina Gonenko enthusiastically. – It was held in the Energetik sports complex. There were people! Everywhere familiar, all with medals! And what people were present at this anniversary! And Valentina Matvienko herself, and our “generals”, and the host of the evening was Larisa Verbitskaya.

SMALL, YES REMOTE

She broke away from home at the age of 21. She wanted independence so much that she decided to take this step overnight. An old friend of the parents, Vasily Vasilyevich Bakhilov, was just in Ishim, and Valentina went with him to Surgut, despite the persuasion of her relatives to stay at home. Walked 1967 year.

– When we got off the plane with Bakhilov, and it was an old airport, where the 25th microdistrict has now grown, I was struck by the sand all around. I have never seen anything like this: an endless amount of this sand, – my interlocutor recalls. – I remember, I stopped, and Vasily Vasilyevich said to me: maybe send you back? I kept silent, we went along the rut – then all-terrain vehicles went here, after them there were deep trenches. I’m small – about fifty meters, and, in principle, I did not see the city, but only the sky. Sky and sand.

It so happened that the state farm “Surgutsky”, owned by oil workers, needed an accountant, and the girl was accepted there. On August 23, 1967, she took up her duties. But she did not like working there. Maybe because the living conditions seemed quite bad compared to her home: she lived in an apartment where it was damp, dirty, cold, maybe just accounting is not her thing. But the Komsomol has become a true love.

Komsomol member, activist…

Almost everyone joined the Komsomol at that time. Active and provocative young men and women stood out among the general mass. Valentina became an activist. Someone had to compile reports on the affairs of the Komsomol organization, collect membership dues. They entrusted her, because they knew that she would not let you down! A responsible person, she was in the local Komsomol organization in full view, carried out all the instructions, went to Komsomol conferences together with her comrades, local leaders – Gennady Ponomarev Dmitry Makushchenko.

Remembering her school years, Valentina Borisovna admits that she loved literature, but hated mathematics and physics, did not know these subjects.

After school, Valentina entered an agricultural technical school at the accounting department in her hometown. Why she chose this particular profession, she cannot explain, as well as much in her life. She entered and acted, she says, she had to do something. Everything happens as if by itself. Without the slightest effort on her part. It must be so, and nothing else. As if her fate had been prepared for a long time, as if a track had been made, and she was walking along it calmly, without turning anywhere.

But where did the preferences in choosing professions come from, I realized when I found out who the parents of Valentina Borisovna and her brothers were. Her father was an engineer in Gazstroy, and her mother was an accountant. But if Alexander and Vladimir set themselves clear goals, then the choice of my heroine happened by chance.

COMPREHENSIVE PROFESSION IN THE WORKSHOP

Valentina Borisovna’s further path was also predetermined by fate. In 1971, she was settled in the first women’s hostel for oil industry workers, located on Naberezhny Avenue. Having moved to a new place of residence, she got a job in the TsPKRS workshop (underground well workover workshop) of NPU Surgutneft as an operator, then they introduced the position of a rationing officer, to which she was transferred. Thus began the real work – for life. At 19In 1985, on the basis of UPNPiKRS, NGDU Bystrinskneft was formed, where she worked until her retirement. She comprehended the essence of rationing in the shop. She looked at books in her specialty, but most importantly, she had good teachers who worked nearby. Vera Nikolaevna Sukhorukova gave her a lot, who suggested how and what to do, always extended a helping hand in difficult situations.

– Vera Nikolaevna worked in this workshop as a rate-setter, then at the Surguneft Oil and Gas Production Department, in the labor department, as the head of the TsBPO and PO, and retired as the Deputy Head of the Surgutneft Oil and Gas Production Department for economic issues, – says Valentina Gonenko. – A wonderful person with whom I have been connected by many years of friendship. We still maintain good relations. She helped everyone! Both to their own people and to strangers.

Work at the well, from installation to dismantling, is scheduled by the minute. The masters made daily reports, which were not always clear to a young specialist. They also helped to understand the numbers, told, showed. Valentina studied while working. Such masters as Zvyagintsev, Maslov, she still remembers with a kind word. Everyone I contacted tried to help. If you didn’t know something related to technology, then geologists connected – they gave explanations and recommendations.

Special thanks to Valentina Gonenko to Anatoly Sergeevich Nuryaev, First Head of Bystrinskneft Department (today First Deputy General Director of OAO Surgutneftegaz) and Leonard Mikhailovich Kochetkov, Head of Surgut UPNP and CRC (now retired).

– It was very interesting to work in the workshop, – recalls Valentina Borisovna. – We normalized daily reports, considered output. You hand over your salary, you “close” the month and you think: my God! Shoulder stone! And in a day or two it starts all over again. I have been doing this all my working life at Surgutneftegaz. As a standardizer, she traveled a lot around the fields. At the wells, we conducted the timing of the working time. All this took place in an open area. An icy wind blows, it snows or rains, and people work – it was a sin for us, in warm rooms, to complain.

WHEN YOU NEED

– The main thing for me is work in the workshop, continues the labor veteran. When you work, you feel that you are needed. You are always in sight, you know everyone, all the native people. And it was there, in the workshop, that all the most interesting things happened. Our labor department is not a place where salaries are only issued, it is not a safe haven, as it may be in other organizations. We have so many shops! So many economists, standardizers! Lots of interesting people!

Ten years have passed since Valentina Borisovna retired. During this time, a lot has changed in Surgutneftegaz. The team has changed, young specialists have come, there is no one left from the “old” ones. Well, time goes by, generations change. It is very important that colleagues do not forget each other, they still communicate, congratulate each other on anniversaries, celebrate important events together.

And the most important thing is that OJSC “Surgutneftegas” does not forget its employees. Non-working pensioners are often invited to various events, excursions, and trips. Recently, Valentina Gonenko, together with other pensioners, visited Khanty-Mansiysk. So our heroine does not have to be bored.

“It is possible to live on a pension,” Valentina Borisovna admits. – You don’t have to be afraid of it. You can always find something interesting to do.

And Valentina Gonenko does it. After all, she has not only pleasant memories and old friends, but also a beloved family.

Read Safe Harbor online by Nicholas Sparks – LitRes, page 2

His hair turned white when he was barely twenty, prompting mild banter from his friends. This did not happen gradually, when gray hairs appear here and there. No, in January he was a burning brunette, and by the next January he had not a single black hair left. For the older brothers, such a quirk of fate has passed – their whiskey has only recently become silver. Neither mother nor father could explain such a play of nature: as far as everyone knew, there was no such early gray hair as Alex Whitley’s in the family on either side.

However, this did not hinder him, and in the army it even contributed to a speedy promotion. Alex served in a criminal investigation unit stationed in Germany and Georgia and spent ten years investigating crimes committed by the military, from AWOL to burglary, domestic violence, rape and even murder. He was promoted regularly, and at the age of thirty-two he retired as a major.

After finishing his military career, he moved to Southport, his wife’s hometown. In anticipation of the appearance of his first child, he thought to look for a job in the police, but his father-in-law offered to buy the family business from him.

The store was old-fashioned, rustic, with white wood paneling, blue blinds, a canopy over the entrance and a bench next to it – such establishments had long outlived their golden age and almost disappeared. Living rooms were on the second floor. Half the house was shaded by a huge magnolia, and a mighty oak grew at the entrance. Only part of the parking lot was covered with asphalt – the other part was covered with gravel, but the site was often empty. Father-in-law had started trading before Carly was born, when there was little but farmland in the area, he prided himself on his ability to understand people and tried to have everything they might need in stock, which was why the store was always crowded. Alex agreed with his father-in-law and conducted the business without changing anything. Five or six aisles were occupied by groceries, hygiene and beauty products, the refrigerators against the far wall were full of cola, water, beer and wine. Rows of jars of pickled cucumbers and boiled peanuts and baskets of fresh vegetables were placed near the checkout counter. And, like any department store, there were stands with chips, candy, and other small things that people usually take at the checkout. However, this is where the similarity with the supermarket ended. The shelves here stocked the most intricate fishing equipment and the freshest bait, and in the corner was a grill where Roger Thompson, once a Wall Streeter who moved to Southport in search of a simpler life, grilled burgers, sandwiches and hot dogs. . There were tables next to the grill. Alex’s shop sold CDs for rent, sold a wide variety of equipment, raincoats and umbrellas, and had a small selection of bestsellers and classic novels. There were also spark plugs, drive belts, gas cans, and Alex made duplicate car keys on a machine in the back room.

He had three gas stations by the parking lot and another behind the store, on the marina, the only place to fill up besides the port. From the side of the pier was the second entrance to the store.

To his surprise, it was not at all difficult to select an assortment. Some items always sell out, others don’t. Both the previous owner and Alex had a rare intuition about what customers needed – they immediately saw what the person came for. Alex always noticed and remembered things that others did not notice, a quality that helped him a lot in his time in the criminal investigation unit. He constantly changed the assortment in an attempt to adapt to the changing tastes of customers.

Alex never thought that he would have to go into trading, but the decision to buy a store turned out to be successful, if only because he had the opportunity to look after the children. Josh is already a schoolboy, but Kristen won’t start school until the fall, so she spent her days at the store. He arranged a place for her to play behind the counter, and his clever talker was very pleased. Although she was only five years old, she had already learned how to manage a cash register and count change. She stood on a stool to reach the buttons, and Alex was amused by the look on the faces of first-time buyers who looked into the store when Kristen began to punch through their purchases. However, this was not ideal conditions for a child, even if the baby did not know anything else.

To himself, Alex admitted that the children and the store took all his strength away from him. Sometimes he felt like he was just sewing himself up – he had to pack Josh breakfast and take him to school, order goods from suppliers, meet with wholesalers and serve customers, while amusing his daughter. In the evening it was not possible to sit down at all. He honestly tried to pay maximum attention to the children – he rode bicycles with them, flew kites and fished with Josh, but Kristen loved to play with dolls, draw and make all sorts of crafts, and he was not strong in this. Throw in cooking dinner and cleaning rooms, and it becomes immediately clear that he was barely able to cope. Even after putting the children to bed, Alex could not relax – there were always some things to do. He no longer believed that he would ever be able to rest.

The children fell asleep, but he spent the rest of the evening alone. Although he knew almost everyone in the town, he had few true friends. The friendships with the families she and Carly went to, whether for barbecues or dinners, slowly faded away. Partly, of course, from the fact that working in the store and taking care of children took away all the time. However, Alex felt another reason – those who knew him were uncomfortable, he became a walking reminder that life is unpredictable and scary and that everything can fly apart in one second.

His life has been one of hard work with a fair amount of self-isolation, but the thoughts of Josh and Kristen kept him going. The nightmares that tormented children after Carly’s death became much less frequent. When the babies woke up crying at night, the father would take them in his arms and cradle them, whispering that everything would be fine until they fell asleep again. Children visited a psychologist, drew pictures and talked about their feelings, but this helped less than Alex expected. From time to time, when he was coloring sketchbooks with Kristen or fishing with Josh, the kids suddenly quieted down and Alex knew they missed their mom. Kristen sometimes spoke about this in a childish trembling voice, and tears rolled down her cheeks. At such moments, his heart broke, because he could not change anything. The psychologist assured that children quickly recover from grief and if you surround them with love, nightmares will gradually stop and tears will become less frequent. Time has shown that the doctor was right, but now Alex faced the other side of the loss, no less heartbreaking. Children came to their senses, but their memories of their mother steadily weakened, as if faded. They were very young when Carly passed away, four and three years old; it means that the time will inevitably come when mother will turn into a shaky memory. It could not be avoided, but Alex could not bear that son and daughter would not remember Carly’s laughter, the tenderness with which she held them as babies, how much she loved them.

He didn’t like to take pictures, it was Carly who kept her camera, so there was a whole heap of pictures of him and the children, and only a few were of her. Although Alex always leafed through a photo album when telling children about his mother, he had a feeling that stories were turning into … just stories. The feelings associated with them were losing their shape, like sandcastles being washed away by the waves. The same thing happened to the portrait of Carly that hung in his bedroom. In the first year after the wedding, he insisted on taking a studio shot of his wife, despite her protests, and was very pleased. A beautiful, independent, strong-willed woman looked from the photo, captivating his heart, and at night, when the children were sleeping for a long time, he sometimes did not take his eyes off his wife’s face with confusion in his soul. And Josh and Kristen were passing by.

He often thought about his wife and missed being with Carly – friendship was the cornerstone of their happy marriage. In the back of his mind, Alex knew he wanted it again. He was alone, even though he didn’t like to admit it. For many months after the funeral, he resolutely could not imagine a relationship with another woman, not to mention a new love. Even a year later, he kept such thoughts from himself – the pain was too strong, the memory was too fresh, but a few months ago he took the children to the aquarium, and when they stood by the pool with sharks, Alex spoke to a beautiful woman standing nearby. She also did not wear a wedding ring and came with the children. The kids turned out to be the same age as Josh and Kristen, and while the whole four wandered along the glass wall of the tank, pointing fingers at the sharks, the woman laughed at Alex’s joke and suddenly seemed attractive to him, vividly reminding him of what he once had. The conversation soon came to naught, and they parted, but, leaving, Alex saw that a new acquaintance was waving goodbye to him. He badly wanted to run up and ask for a phone number, but he remained standing, watching her car pull out of the parking lot. He never saw this woman again.

He thought that in the evening regret would wash over him and he would reproach himself for his indecision, but nothing of the sort happened. His own behavior didn’t seem wrong to him, it looked… normal. Not an attempt to assert himself, not an intoxication with prospects, but just normal, and Alex realized that he was starting to come to his senses. He was not ready to devote himself to a single life. If it doesn’t work out anymore, then it’s fate. And if it works out? Alex reasoned that he would figure it out when someone showed up, and was ready to wait until he met someone who would bring joy back to his life and love his children as much as he did. However, Alex knew that the chances of finding such a woman in Southport were negligible – the town was too small. Virtually everyone he knew was either married, retired, or went to the local school. There were not so many single women around, and even fewer who would agree to marry a widower with children, and there were no other options. Maybe he is burdened by loneliness, maybe he lacks communication, but he will not sacrifice children – they have already suffered enough without that. Son and daughter will always be his main concern.

Still, it seemed to Alex that his case was not hopeless. He was interested in one girl, although he knew almost nothing about her, except that she was not married. From the beginning of March, she went to the store once or twice a week. On his first visit, she seemed to him a pale infirmity – he would not have looked at such a second time. People who came to Southport often went to the store for cola, gas, or some Snickers, and Alex rarely saw them again, but this girl was not like them. She silently wandered along the shelves, like a ghost in human form, her head bowed low, trying her best to be invisible. However, she did not succeed: she was too beautiful. She looked to be about twenty-eight years old. With a homemade short bob, without makeup, with high cheekbones and large, wide-set eyes, the stranger seemed elegant and fragile.

When the girl first approached the cash register, Alex saw that she was even more beautiful than she seemed from afar. She had greenish hazel eyes with golden sparks, and a short, distracted smile faded as quickly as it appeared. On the counter, the girl laid out the simplest goods: coffee, rice, oatmeal, pasta, peanut butter and some hygiene items. Alex intuitively understood that trying to strike up a conversation would only create awkwardness, so he made purchases silently. And then he heard her voice.

– Do you have beans? she asked.

“Sorry, it doesn’t happen,” he replied.

Putting her shopping in a bag, he noticed that the girl was looking out the window, absently biting her lower lip. For some reason he thought she was holding back tears.

He coughed.

– If you often take beans, I will gladly bring them. Which one do you prefer?

“I don’t want to bother you,” she answered almost in a whisper.

The girl paid in small bills, took the bag and left. To his surprise, she crossed the parking lot without stopping, and when he realized that she had come on foot, this further fueled his curiosity.

Beans appeared in the shop next week. Alex brought three varieties – variegated, plain and lima round, though only one bag each, and when the girl came again, he said that the beans could be found on the bottom shelf in the corner, near the rice. She brought all three bags to the cash register and asked if he had any onions. He pointed to the onion nets in the huge basket by the door, but the girl shook her head.

“Just one onion for me,” she muttered with an uncertain, apologetic smile. Her hands shook as she placed the money on the counter. And again she went on foot.

From that day on, both beans and onions were always on sale one at a time, and in the following weeks the girl became something of a regular customer. Time passed, and she, still quiet, no longer looked so exhausted and nervous. The black holes under the eyes disappeared; the weather was good, and the girl got a little tanned. She had gained weight, just a little bit, so that her delicate features became softer. Her voice grew stronger, too, and although that didn’t promise him anything, she learned to hold her gaze longer. They hardly spoke, except for a short one: “Did you find everything you wanted? “Yes, thank you,” but now, instead of jumping out of the store like a frightened doe, she remained to wander between the aisles for a bit and even spoke to Kristen if no one was around. Alex first saw a new client without the usual shell. The ease and gentle expression of her face spoke of affection for children, and Alex realized that in these moments he saw her as she was before and could be again – under normal circumstances. Kristen also noticed the change, because after the girl left, she told her dad that she had a new friend named Miss Cathy.

This, however, did not mean that Cathy was ready to communicate with him. Last week, while chatting with Kristen, she, as Alex noticed, read the annotations on the book covers on the shelf, but did not choose anything. When at the checkout he had the imprudence to ask who her favorite author was, the girl again cringed with fear and anxiety.

“Nothing, nothing,” he hastened to add. It doesn’t matter, forget it.

She stopped at the door, holding the package on her bent arm.

“Dickens,” she said in a barely audible voice and left, walking quickly along the road.

Now Alex was thinking about her more and more, but the thoughts were vague, almost mysterious, accompanied by the realization that he didn’t mind getting to know her better. But he didn’t know how to approach it. Apart from a year of courting Carly, he had no experience of romance. In college, after studying and swimming, he had no time for girls. In the army, he thought exclusively about his career, working overtime and steadily rising through the ranks. He tried to get to know each other, but the novels each time turned out to be fleeting, of those that begin and are limited to bed. Sometimes, looking back, he didn’t recognize the person he’d become, and he knew Carly was the cause. Yes, sometimes he was hard and lonely. He missed his wife, and he swore, though he never told anyone, that Carly was still there, watching over him and trying to make sure he was all right.

…Thanks to the beautiful weather, there were more shoppers on Sunday than usual. When the store opened at seven in the morning, three motor boats were already moored at the pier, waiting for their turn to refuel. As usual, when paying for gas, boat owners asked for food, drinks and ice packs. Roger put on his apron in the morning and couldn’t move away from the grill, and people crowded around the tables, munching sausage sandwiches or cheeseburgers and consulting what stocks are best to take today.

Alex usually worked at the cash register until noon, and then handed over the reins to Joyce, who, like Roger, made his life much easier. Joyce, who worked in court until her retirement, went to him, one might say, along with the store – Alex’s father-in-law hired her ten years ago. Even though she was in her eighties, her energy never waned. She was widowed many years ago, the children parted, so Joyce treated her customers like family. The elderly cashier was as much a part of the decor as the goods on the shelves.

She thought that children should not sit in the store from morning to evening, and she needed to keep fit, so when she came to work, she immediately stood at the cash register and bossily told Alex that he was free. She did not refuse the role of a nanny either: only Alex left her children if she had to leave. It had only happened twice in the last couple of years, when he had met an old friend in the Railay, but Alex still considered Joyce a gift from heaven: she always helped him out.

While waiting for Joyce, Alex walked around the shelves, looking around the shelves. The computer, of course, made it easier to monitor the assortment, but Alex knew that columns of numbers did not always accurately reflect the true situation. Sometimes ideas came to mind when he saw with his own eyes what was sold out the day before. Profit depended on the speed of turnover, so Alex kept goods that were not in supermarkets. He brought homemade jams and jellies, “secret recipe” seasoning powders flavored with beef and pork, and locally preserved fruits and pickles. Even those who habitually shopped at the Food Lion or Piggly Wiggly often stopped by on their way home to pick up local delicacies, which Alex kept a close eye on.

He was even more interested in the volume of sales when the product sells best, information that can not always be learned from numbers. For example, after seeing that hot dogs are in great demand on weekends and almost never in demand on weekdays, and ordinary bread is the opposite, Alex began to offer these products on the right days, and sales increased. A small but sensible approach helped keep the humble business afloat when the supermarket chains bankrupted many small shops.

Noticing the situation on the shelves with a trained eye, Alex absentmindedly thought about what to think of today and decided to arrange a bike ride. Carly loved nothing more than putting her kids in her bike stroller and rolling her around the city. But one bike is not enough for the whole Sunday. Maybe go to the park? The kids will love it.

After glancing at the glass door to make sure there weren’t any new customers yet, Alex hurried to the back wall of the store, to the exit to the pier, to look at his son. Josh was fishing at the far end of the dock – fishing was his passion. Alex did not like that Josh was sitting so far away alone – many would have condemned his father for frivolity, but the entire pier was visible on the video monitor near the ticket office. Staying within sight was the strictest rule, and Josh strictly observed it. Kristen, as usual, sat at a table in the corner behind the cash register. She arranged the clothes of her American Girl doll into several piles and dressed her up, changing clothes every now and then. Each time, picking up another option, she raised her eyes and with a cheerful innocent smile asked if he liked the doll in this dress. As if the father could say that he didn’t like it …

Little ones can melt the hardest hearts.

…Alex was leveling the condiments when the bell rang. He raised his head and saw Cathy.

– Hello, Miss Cathy, – said Kristen, leaning out from behind the cash register. – Do you like my doll?

From his seat, Alex could barely see Kristen’s head above the counter. In her hand she held… Vanessa? Rebecca? Whatever the name of the brown-haired doll, it was very kind of Cathy to point her out.

“Very nice,” Cathy said. Is this her new dress?

– No, she already had it. But lately she hasn’t worn it.

– What is her name?

“Vanessa,” she said.

Vanessa, thought Alex. Now he will praise Vanessa’s outfit as a proper, considerate father.

– Is that what you called her?

– No, the name was also for sale. Can you help her put on her boots? I can’t dress her.

Kristen handed the doll to Kathy, and the girl began to conjure soft plastic boots. Alex knew from experience that they were not as easy to deal with as they might seem, and that the little girl would never put Vanessa’s boots on. He used to suffer a lot himself, but with Katie everything came out easily and effortlessly. Handing the doll to the girl, she asked:

– How are you?

– Excellent, – praised Kristen. “Do you think we should put a coat on her?”

– But it’s not cold outside.

– I know, but Vanessa sometimes freezes. Probably better to wear. – Kristen’s head disappeared behind the counter and popped out again. – What color? Blue or purple?

Cathy touched her fingers to her lips with a serious expression:

– I think it’s better than purple.

Kristen nodded:

– I think so too. Thank you.

Cathy smiled and immediately turned back to the shelves, staring at the shelves with exaggerated attention, apparently feeling his gaze on her. Alex moved the mustard jars and sauces closer to the edge of the shelf, watching out of the corner of his eye as Cathy took the small plastic basket and walked down the other aisle.

Alex returned to the checkout. When Miss Cathy looked at him, he waved his hand:

– Good morning.

– Hello. She tried to tuck a strand behind her ear, but her hair was too short. – I only take a few small things.

– Tell me if you can’t find anything. Sometimes goods have to be relocated.

She nodded and continued down the aisle. Standing behind the cash register, Alex glanced at the monitor. Josh was still fishing in the same place, and the boat was slowly mooring to the pier.

– Dad, how are you? – Kristen pulled her father’s leg and showed the doll.

– Wow, what a beauty! Alex squatted down. – And a smart coat. What, Vanessa is cold?

– Yeah, – said Kristen. “But she wants to go to the swing, so we’ll have to change her clothes again.”

“Swings are great,” Alex said. – Shall we go to the park? Do you want to swing?

– I don’t want it, Vanessa wants it. And it’s all a game, dad!

“Oh,” Alex said, straightening up. – OK.

“So the park is closed,” he thought.

Momentarily gone into her own world, Kristen again began to undress the doll. Alex glanced at the monitor to see how Josh was doing, but then a half-naked teenager in long shorts peeked into the store and held out crumpled bills.

“For gas station at the pier,” he blurted out and immediately jumped out into the street.

Alex put the order in and set up the gas station when Katie walked up to the checkout. Standard set plus a tube of sunscreen. As she stole a glance across the counter at Christie, Alex noticed the rare shifting color in her eyes.

– Did you find everything you wanted?

Yes, thank you.

He started putting his purchases into a bag.

“My favorite Dickens novel is Great Expectations,” he began amiably, trying to strike up a conversation. – And yours?

The girl did not answer immediately, obviously surprised that he remembered her answer about Dickens.

“A Tale of Two Cities,” she answered softly.

– A good novel, but with a sad ending.

“That’s why I like it,” she said.

Knowing that she would walk, Alex dropped the shopping bag into another bag to be sure.

“Since you have already met my daughter, you should probably introduce yourself to me,” he said. – Alex. Alex Whitley.

– And her name is Miss Cathy, – immediately said Kristen from behind him. “I already told you.

Alex glanced at his daughter over his shoulder, and when he turned around, Cathy was holding out the money with a smile.

– You can just Katie.

– Nice to meet you. He pressed the right buttons and the cash drawer clattered out. I take it you live somewhere nearby?

She did not answer. Glancing at her, Alex saw only eyes wide with horror. Turning sharply to the monitor, he saw what Cathy saw: Josh floundering in the water, shirt sleeves flickering. Alex caught his breath. Driven by instinct, he jumped out from behind the counter and shot like a bullet across the trading floor to the second entrance, hitting a pack of paper towels along the way, which then scattered across the floor. Ranging the door towards himself, the young man jumped over the hedge, cutting off the path. Without slowing down, he rushed over the wooden blocks and jumped into the water, already seeing Josh choking, moving his arms randomly.

With his heart pounding in his ribs, Alex made a long arc in the air and crashed into the water a couple of feet from Josh. It was not deep here, about six feet, and the legs almost to the knees sank into soft, unpacked silt. Alex rushed up, arms outstretched in advance to grab Josh.

– Hold on! he shouted. – I’m holding you!

But Josh struggled and coughed, unable to catch his breath, and Alex had to hold him back while he got out with him in shallow water. With the utmost effort, he threw Josh onto the grassy shore, feverishly remembering how to do artificial respiration and gastric lavage. He tried to get Josh to bed, but the boy would not give in, twitching and coughing, and although Alex was shaking with excitement, he thought that the dying did not fight back like that.

He didn’t know how much time had passed—maybe only a few seconds, but it felt like a lot longer—when Josh finally started coughing, water came out of his mouth and he was able to breathe for the first time. A sharp breath again caused a cough, but it was already leaving the remnants of water from the throat. Josh was breathing deeply, still haunted by his fear and beginning to realize what had happened.

He reached out to his father and Alex pressed him to his chest. Josh started crying, his whole body trembling, and Alex got really sick at the thought of what could have happened. What if he hadn’t noticed that Cathy was looking at the monitor? What if he missed precious seconds? As he imagined the answers to those questions, he trembled almost as much as Josh.

Crying out, the boy spoke his first words after being pulled out of the water by his father.

“Daddy, I’m sorry,” he sobbed.

“Forgive me too,” Alex whispered, not letting go of his son, as if afraid that time would turn back and this time the ending would be different.

Finally unclenching his hands, he noticed that a small crowd was staring at them, running to the second entrance to the store. Roger was there, and there were shoppers munching on hamburgers; stretched their necks and two strangers – apparently just approached. Kristen was also here, and Alex felt like a useless parent, because his baby in Katie’s arms is crying, afraid and wants to go to her dad.

* * *

It wasn’t until father and son changed into dry clothes that Alex found out how it all happened. Roger was cooking the children’s hamburgers and fries, and the four of them sat at the grill table, showing no interest in food, though.

– The fishing line caught on the outgoing motorboat. I didn’t want to lose the fishing rod, I thought the hook would not stand it, it would come off, but I was pulled off the pier, and I swallowed water, tried to breathe and could not, and it was as if something dragged me to the bottom. Josh hesitated and added, “I think I released the bait.

Kristen sat next to her brother with red, tear-stained eyes. She asked Katie not to leave, and the girl remained, holding the baby by the hand.

– Nothing, I’ll rummage around at the bottom. If we don’t find it, I’ll bring you a new one, but next time, pull your hands away right away, got it?

Josh sniffled and nodded.

“Sorry, Dad,” he said.

“Okay, it happens,” Alex reassured him.

– Now you won’t let me go fishing…

“Let me in at the risk of losing you?! No way”.

– We’ll discuss later.

– What if I promise to let go of the line next time?

– Later, we’ll talk later. Now let’s eat.

– I don’t want to.

– I believe. But now it’s lunch time, we need something to eat.

Josh reached for a fried potato, took a small handful and reluctantly began to chew. Kristen did the same. At the table, she always copied her brother. It drove Josh to a fever pitch, but he didn’t have the strength to resent it now.

Alex turned to Cathy, swallowed his saliva, getting agitated for some reason, and asked:

– Can I have you for a minute?

She got up from the table and he took her aside. When they were far enough away that the children couldn’t hear them, Alex coughed and said:

– Thank you for everything.

– I didn’t do anything! she protested.

“No, they did,” he said. If you weren’t looking at the monitor, I wouldn’t know what’s going on and I might be late. He paused. And thanks for looking after Kristen. She is the most wonderful baby in the world, but very sensitive. Thank you for not leaving her alone and waiting while we went upstairs to change.

“I didn’t do anything special,” Cathy insisted. In the ensuing pause, she suddenly realized that they were standing very close to each other, and retreated half a step. “I really need to go now.

“Wait a minute,” Alex said, and quickly went to the refrigerators against the far wall. – Do you drink wine?

She shook her head:

– Sometimes, but…

Before she could finish speaking, Alex opened the door and took out a bottle of chardonnay.

“Please,” he said. – I want you to take it. This is a very good wine. Of course, you don’t think that you can find good wine here, but I was taught to understand wines by a former colleague, an amateur expert. He still advises what wine to buy. You’ll like it, you’ll see!

– You don’t have to…

– It’s the least I can do, Alex smiled. “Let me express my gratitude in this way.

For the first time since they met, Cathy met his gaze.

“Okay,” she finally agreed.

Alex collected her purchases, the girl left, and he returned to the table. After persuasion, Josh and Kristen finished their lunch, and Alex went to the pier to look for a fishing rod at the bottom. When he returned, Joyce was putting on her apron at the checkout counter, and Alex took the kids out on their bikes. After that, he drove them to Wilmington, where they watched a movie and ate pizza, an old weekend backup plan. The sun had already set when they got home, exhausted, showered and put on their pajamas. Alex lay on the bed between his son and daughter and told stories for an hour, and then turned off the light.

In the living room, he turned on the TV and changed channels for a while, but he wasn’t in the mood to watch anything. He thought of Josh again, and even though his son slept peacefully in his room, Alex’s heart sank with the horror he had experienced and the dreary sense of his father’s inadequacy. He tried his best and loved his children as few people do, but this was always not enough.

Later, when Josh and Kristen were asleep, he went to the kitchen and got a beer from the fridge. The morning incident did not go out of his head, but now he was thinking about how Kristen hugged Katie, burying her head in her neck.

The last time he saw his daughter’s gesture was when Carly was alive.

Safe Haven. Pride and Prejudice of Victorian Women

Again, the pain in her stomach brought Mary back to reality. Wow, this is something serious! This time the contraction went on and on, the woman having to breathe deeply, letting the air out slowly through clenched teeth. Then she relaxed and patted her stomach with satisfaction. No doubt, this is childbirth. Finally! Although experience and common sense told Mary that no baby stays in her stomach forever, the last few days have made her very tired. Caring for a pregnancy in hot summer London is still a pleasure, even though their house is on the outskirts, and the atmosphere here is almost rustic. I wish I could get back to my normal size and see my legs again! Lace your own shoes, don’t ask a maid! There are so many little joys in life that you remember only when you lose them. Lucky for men, they are deprived of this dokuki. They get a child without deserving it and take it for granted. After all, men are created so that the goddess Fortune generously sprinkles them with miracles from her horn! However, Mary grumbled rather out of habit. Despite the hardships of pregnancy, she was more satisfied with life than ever and suspected that the time of luck was not yet over.

* * *

The miracle entered Mary’s life gradually and gradually. And this is very good. If all the gifts that fate had prepared for her after many years of ordeal had fallen on her head at once, Mary would probably have been frightened and ran away. And so she herself did not notice how she again found herself in a sweet captivity of feelings. But this time love connected her with a much more worthy person.

Still sad after the break with Imlay, Mary nevertheless understood that with a small child in her arms one should not indulge in melancholy. She quickly prepared her letters from Scandinavia for publication, and the book came out in January 179.6 years old The circulation sold well, bringing the author enough income to last the first time. The book was translated into German, Danish, Swedish and Portuguese, published in America, and in the drawing rooms and salons of two continents they again started talking about the copper-haired supporter of the emancipation of women.

She finally parted from Imlay in March 1796, and in April, at one of the receptions, she renewed her acquaintance with William Godwin. By that time, he was already the author of the treatise “Discourse on Political Justice”, where he developed a utopian project of building a society of independent workers, whose products of labor are distributed among everyone according to needs. He was writing the novel Caleb Williams, about a young servant who was unjustly convicted at the behest of his landlord, but escaped from prison and obtained an acquittal.

What happened next is best described by William himself. “The inclination that we had for each other was exactly of the kind that I always considered to be the purest and most sublime kind of love feeling,” he recalls in his memoirs. It grew and grew stronger with equal strength in the hearts of both and did not at all need the advantage that long-established custom bestowed on one of the two sexes. When the natural course of events brought us to an explanation, neither she nor I needed words. There was no anguish that always accompanies such stories. It was friendship, smoothly flowing into love.

The explanation took place in the late summer of 1796, and in March of the following year, 1797, Mary and William were married in St. Pancras Cathedral. They settled next door, in two small houses that were part of the Polygon, a new ring-shaped quarter in Clarendon Square in north London. A portrait of Mary, painted by John Opie during this period, shows us a woman with copper-blond curls, in a white dress, with a high waist in the Empire style and in a black beret. This time she does not look at the viewer, but is immersed in her thoughts and smiles softly at them. And although the eyebrows were also mockingly raised, the look became softer. Her strong rounded hands rest on her knees. From the picture breathes, if not serenity, then peace. In the first portrait, she seemed older than her years, and in the second, she was definitely younger and fresher. The pregnancy is not yet noticeable, but perhaps Mary owes it to her that inner light that pours on the viewer from the picture.

Mary’s evenings and nights belong to Godwin, during the day she is raising her daughter and working on a new book: the novel “Mary, or the Delusions of a Woman.” The epigraph to it could be the words that she once wrote in “Defence of the Rights of Women”: “Women rarely have a serious occupation … a circle of insignificant worries and the fulfillment of vain whims disperse the mind and health, women become only natural objects of feelings … If ever for women a nobler goal becomes real, then they may be closer to nature and reason, and, invoking more and more respect for themselves, become more virtuous and useful to society.

The novel tells the story of the unhappy marriage of the young and enthusiastic Maria, whose parents preferred her brother Robert to her and did not care at all about her upbringing. Having read novels, Maria fell in love with the son of neighbors, George Venables, not knowing that he was not passionate about her, but about her dowry. After her marriage, Mary soon realized what a mistake she had made. George turned out to be a gambler and a cynic who doesn’t care about a woman’s feelings. When his wife got tired of him, he simply sold her to his friend. Pregnant Maria ran away from her husband and wandered around the country for a long time. George pursued her, caught her and, after the birth of the child, sent his wife to an insane asylum. (Mary visited Bedlam in February 1797 years to get impressed.) Nervous and impulsive, but by no means crazy, Maria is forced to grow up and use her mind to escape from the “house of sorrow”. She became friends with her maid Jemima and through her met her neighbor Henry Durnford, who was also imprisoned here because of the intrigues of relatives. Maria and Henry fell in love and are going to run away together…

Mary does not yet know what will happen next. Of course, she wants the story to have a happy ending, but common sense suggests otherwise – George will use the help of the law to return his wife to his roof, Henry, who does not have a strong character, will leave Mary, and she will have no other way to freedom, except suicide.