July 2021

ANNALEE HUBBS - COPY & DIGITAL EDITOR Vee Hottle checks out a succelent while browsing plants for sale during the soft opening of The Mobile Garden and Gifts of Grace Sunday, July 18, 2021 in

Patricia Brown Bell, 91, of Houston, Texas, passed away peacefully on Nov. 24, 2020, at the Abbey Retirement Community. Memorial Services will be held at a later date. Patricia was born on March 1, 1929

MARY LEE TALBOT - STAFF WRITER The Rev. Robert W. Henderson, senior minister at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, N.C., delivers his sermon “Out of Step” Sunday, July 18, 2021 in the Amphitheater. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER de la Paz Chautauqua Writers’ Center Week Four prose writer-in-residence, Oliver de la Paz, has actually primarily published poetry books. However, what sets his work apart — and makes it more