#Steve Chronister

[beardedmrbean]

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Hillsborough County family is asking for justice after a deadly road rage shooting Sunday.

The man accused of the murder made his first appearance in front of a Hillsborough County judge on Tuesday, Oct. 29.

2 decades after Tampa woman’s sexual assault, DNA helps identify suspect: detectives

Kentavious Gholston, 26 was arrested Monday and charged with second-degree murder for the death of Steven Powers, 61, after the two men got into an argument in traffic.

Power’s family is shocked by the crime.

“It’s just sad that it happened like this. It shouldn’t have never happened,” said the victim’s nephew Larry Davis.

“My Uncle Steve, very hard worker, caring person, would do anything for anybody,” Davis added.

The sheriff’s office said Powers and Gholston were driving north on U.S. 301 when Powers saw Gholston racing dangerously through traffic.

Sheriff Chad Chronister said Powers honked his horn, and Gholston became enraged. Gholston reportedly brake checked Powers before stopping his car in front of the older man’s van.

Florida man tries to kill wife twice, says he doesn’t want her to be alone: deputies

Powers then got out of his van, and the sheriff said the older man’s temper got the better of him. He tried to throw a punch, but the younger man easily threw him to the ground.

“You pushed him to the ground, the threats over,” Chronister said.

Instead, the sheriff said Gholston murdered Powers on the street in “execution style” fashion.

“Our homicide suspect fires three rounds into his back. He waits for a moment; he sees that he is still alive, so he fires two more rounds,” Chronister said.

On Tuesday, a judge ordered Gholston to be held without bond until a pre-trial detention hearing can be held on Monday, Nov. 4.

[weirdletter]

Shadows & Tall Trees 8, edited by Michael Kelly, Undertow Publications, 2020. Cover art by Matthew Jaffe, info: undertowpublications.com.

“Shadows & Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment's most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series.” — Peter Straub. “Shadows & Tall Trees epitomizes the idea of and is the most consistent venue for weird, usually dark fiction. Well worth your time.” — Ellen Datlow.

Contents: Alison Littlewood – Hungry Ghosts Brian Evenson – The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell Carly Holmes – Tattletale Charles Wilkinson – A Coastal Quest C.M. Muller – Camera Obscura James Everington - The Sound of the Sea, Too Close Kay Chronister – Too Lonely, Too Wild KL Pereira – You, Girls Without Hands Kristi DeMeester – The Quiet Forms of Belonging Kurt Fawver – Workday M. Rickert – The Fascist Has a Party Neil Williamson – Down to the Roots Rebecca Campbell – Child of Shower and Gleam Seán Padraic Birnie – Dollface Simon Strantzas – The Somnambulists Steve Rasnic Tem – Sleepwalking With Angels Steve Toase – Green Grows the Grief V.H. Leslie – Lacuna

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I don’t often toot my own horn on here, but..... The Globe and Mail just published a glowing profile on my dad’s press! I’ve been doing editing and design work for him for almost 10 years, and I couldn’t be prouder to be part of the family business. 

This article is available in the print edition for today (February 29 2020). The above link is behind a paywall, but I’ve copied the article below the cut. 

By Naben Ruthnum

The Shirley Jackson Award is one of the most prestigious prizes in horror, with recipients ranging from genre legends Stephen King and Neil Gaiman to literary crossover writers such as Emma Cline. In 2018, a Canadian publisher of horror fiction claimed their second Jackson. But you may never have heard of Undertow Publications, which is based in the small Ontario city of Pickering.

There are as many types of horror fiction as there are ways to be scared. The particular subgenre of horror that Undertow specializes in is “weird fiction”: a style that tends toward the high literary, enfolding the supernatural, tales of malaise in urban, rural and wild settings, and a sense of discomfort and eeriness that has more to do with atmosphere than reddened fangs.

While Undertow isn’t purely a one-man show, publisher Michael Kelly is the guiding acquiring and editorial eye on all books. “I always liked the literary sort of horror, weird fiction, and I wasn’t seeing it published.” As his inspirations, he cites the writers he was reading in 2009, around the time he started the press, "things like Arthur Machen, Oliver Onions, Walter De la Mare, Violet Paget.” Kelly was also reading Britain-based magazines such as Black Static and Supernatural Tales, pages that would introduce him to the authors he would eventually publish.

The press’s business operations began in his basement, and remain there, although the initial one-book-a-year output has grown to seven scheduled for 2020 and six planned for 2021. The prestigious small publishers of supernatural fiction that dot Britain and Ireland quickly recognized a peer in Kelly. Brian J. Showers, who runs Dublin’s Swan River Press, points to Kelly’s specific vision as a defining strength: “Michael Kelly guides Undertow with both taste and style, and with a dedication characteristic of only the very best small presses.”

Kelly, who is now focusing on Undertow full-time after his recent retirement from a 30-year career at the Toronto Star that ranged from the darkroom to syndicated sales, knew that keeping an eye on scale would be a crucial part of Undertow’s continued existence.

“I was reading stuff that really intrigued me in the small press, niche stuff, but there were only a couple of venues. I did my first anthology in 2009, and it was called Apparitions. Really – copies of the book were terrible. It was on very white, photocopy paper, done at one of those Espresso Book Machines – I knew a guy at McMaster who ran one. It was a bound book, but poorly bound.”

Despite the humble appearance of this first offering from a press that would soon be known for their beautifully designed and printed trade paperbacks, overseen by art director Vince Haig, Apparitions was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. The prestigious American award is well known to genre fans, and Undertow was quickly noticed by both readers and writers eager for a new venue for their weird fiction interests. But Kelly continued to grow the press slowly, guided by his own tastes and reading. Short-story collections – anthologies or single-author collections – form almost the entirety of Undertow’s output. One anthology series, Shadows and Tall Trees, has been going since the second year of the press’s existence, with the latest edition garnering awards recognition and the eighth volume appearing as Undertow’s first 2020 publication.

For years, Kelly has been finding authors in small magazines, online and in print – and while Undertow is a Canadian small-press success story, Kelly isn’t willing to let borders dictate what he’s going to publish. “I have published Canadian authors – Simon Strantzas, and Helen Marshall, and this year I’m publishing Richard Gavin. But I don’t do enough to get grant money, and I sort of want to publish what I want to publish.” Strantzas is a Canadian weird-fiction fixture, and his contribution to Shadows and Tall Trees 8 is definitively weird: “The Somnambulists” is the story of a hotel constructed from collaborative dreams. It’s a fantastical concept anchored by banality – a Ministry hotel inspector is being taken on a tour of the hotel – but even the dullness of the inspector’s official function doesn’t protect him from the creeping atmosphere of the place, and the possibility that his own family may be deeply involved in the dream that he is touring.

In selecting individual stories and collections, Kelly lets excitement guide him, as it did in the case of Kay Chronister, a young American writer whose first collection emerges from Undertow in March.

“Kay published a story I read online in a magazine called Shimmer that’s not around anymore. It was called ‘The Fifth Gable,’ and it knocked me flat. Last year, she had a story appear in Black Static, called ‘Roiling and Without Form.’ So I reached out to her, and asked her if she had any others, and she did.” Chronister’s stories, wide-ranging as they are, often seat horror in patriarchal traps of marriage and domestic expectations, while other elements in the same stories draw on horror mainstays such as witchcraft and or hereditary curses. As with other Undertow books, it’s the prose – in Chronister’s case, rich, descriptive, clean and never-purple prose – that melds horror elements that could work in a Hammer film with thematic content that would be at home in a New Yorker short story.

Kelly’s patience in growing his publishing list from year to year has also helped him wait on authors he particularly wanted. Priya Sharma, a UK-based writer who also works as a doctor, had been publishing stories for almost a decade before Undertow Press put out her first collection, All the Fabulous Beasts. “I was bugging her for years, then I gave up,” Kelly says. “Then, eventually, she emailed me. That book did very well.” Sharma’s collection won both the British Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award, and the book is Undertow’s best-selling single-author collection.Unable to offer the large advances of a trade publisher, Kelly is also emphatic about leaving all ancillary rights with his authors. “We don’t take any audio rights, film rights – some of these presses grab everything they can.” In an era where industries from podcasts to film are hungry for intellectual property, keeping these rights author-exclusive matters, and Undertow’s books have attracted the interest of scouts from Netflix, among other companies.

“I’ve never put any commercial thinking into the press. I don’t look at a writer and think I want to publish them because they’ll sell a lot of books. I publish books that I want to read.” In addition to Haig, the Undertow team is rounded out by two family members – Courtney Kelly, Michael’s publishing-program graduate daughter, who works on typesetting, interior layout and design, and Carolyn Macdonell-Kelly, Michael’s wife, who takes on proofreading and bookkeeping duties, in addition to joining him in the ever-important sales efforts of the press. Kelly is currently trying to buck the enforced reliance that many small presses have on a particular online behemoth.

“I have to sort of play ball with Amazon, which drives me crazy, but otherwise the books don’t get any distribution. As a small press, I’m sending out stuff to independent bookstores all the time, trying to get them to stock the books … percentage-wise, probably about 70 per cent of my sales are Amazon. I do have quite a few loyal customers – my e-mail list is close to 1,000 – and I have loyal readers who will buy all of my stuff directly.”

Kelly is excited to expand the range of horror subgenres Undertow publishes, moving beyond the subtle, literary weird that they are known for. Kelly describes a forthcoming collection by Steve Topes as “visceral, straight-out horror. Not really what I usually publish, but he does it so well. The writing is so descriptive, I liked it.” And Undertow is contributing to a longstanding horror subgenre with a coming collection of ghost stories from A.C. Wise, a Canadian who lives in the United States. Wise was excited at the chance to have a book with a press she’d long admired. “Simply put, Undertow publishes gorgeous books. When Michael approached me about doing a collection, I jumped at the chance, knowing the care that goes into everything he produces.”

Coinciding with Kelly’s full-time commitment to Undertow is a change in how the press sources its publications: They recently opened to submissions for the first time, and received hundreds of manuscripts. But Kelly’s efforts to move toward publishing novels instead of the short fiction that the press established itself with have not been altogether successful, yet. “We got hundreds of submissions, and only three of them were novels. We’re known for our short-story collections [and our anthologies], so that’s what we got. We were surprised, because we specifically asked for novels and novellas. Three novels, two novellas … and the rest were short-story collections.”

What hasn’t changed is Undertow’s selection process, as Kelly admits. “We ended up taking one novella and three short-story collections. We didn’t like any of the novels … and by ‘we,’ I mean me.”

[rapeculturerealities]

Recently released 911 calls posted by the York Daily Record clue the listener in to the interaction between former York County, Pa., Commissioner Steve Chronister and dispatchers.

“No weapons or anything like that, right?” the dispatcher asked, apparently trying to assess the situation.

“It’s even worse than that, but anyway, I can’t ... ,” Chronister started to respond.

But we all know that police can’t (and shouldn’t) be misinformed in situations like this, so the dispatcher cut in to clarify if there were any weapons.

“OK, sir, there’s no weapons, right?” the dispatcher asked, again.

“No,” Chronister said. “Other than her mouth, there’s not any weapons.”

A black woman using her words in an attempt to defend herself and her friends is apparently akin to a weapon. The more you know.

The five black women in question were just trying to meet up for a nice round of golf on a nice day at Grandview Golf Club. But that was quickly ruined. Sandra Thompson, an attorney and the head of the York NAACP, said that she and her party were on the second hole when Chronister complained that they were not keeping up with the pace of play.

Thompson insisted that this was not true, but she said they skipped the third hole to avoid any further confrontation.

No such luck, apparently. By the ninth hole, they were approached again by Chronister and several white male employees at the golf club and told that they had to leave. And somehow 911 ended up getting involved in the confrontation.

The women believe that they were racially profiled.

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A golf club in Pennsylvania has apologized for calling police on a group of black women after the co-owner and his father said they were playing too slowly and refused requests to leave the course.

“I felt we were discriminated against,” one of the women, Myneca Ojo, told the York Daily Record. “It was a horrific experience.”

Sandra Thompson and four friends met up Saturday to play a round of golf at the Grandview Golf Club, where they are all members, she told the newspaper.

At the second hole, a white man whose son co-owns the club came up to them twice to complain that they weren’t keeping up with the pace of play. Thompson, an attorney and the head of the York chapter of the NAACP, told the newspaper it was untrue.

On the same hole, another member of the group, Sandra Harrison, said she spoke with a Grandview golf pro, who said they were fine since they were keeping pace with the group ahead of them.

Despite that, the women skipped the third hole to avoid any other issues, she said.

It’s part of golf etiquette that slow-moving players let groups behind them play through if they are holding things up, and often golf courses have personnel who monitor the pace of play, letting golfers know when they are taking too long.

The five are part of a larger group of local women known as Sisters in the Fairway. The group has been around for at least a decade, and all of its members are experienced players who have golfed all over the county and world, Thompson said. They’re very familiar with golf etiquette, she said.

After the ninth hole, where it is customary to take a break before continuing on the next nine holes, three of the group decided to leave because they were so shaken up by the earlier treatment, the women told the paper.

Thompson said the man from the second hole, identified as former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, his son, club co-owner Jordan Chronister and several other white, male employees approached the remaining two women and said they took too long of a break and they needed to leave the course.

The women argued they took an appropriate break, and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off, as seen in a video Thompson gave the newspaper. The women were told that the police had been called, and so they waited.

Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone.

“We were called there for an issue, the issue did not warrant any charges,” Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel said. “All parties left and we left as well.”

A phone listing for Steve Chronister rang busy on Monday. He told the York Daily Record he didn’t have time to comment on Sunday.

Jordan Chronister’s wife and co-owner of the club, JJ Chronister, said Sunday she called the women personally to apologize.

“We sincerely apologize to the women for making them feel uncomfortable here at Grandview, that is not our intention in any way,” she told the newspaper. “We want all of our members to feel valued and that they can come out here and have a great time, play golf and enjoy the experience.”

She said she hopes to meet with them to discuss how the club can use what happened as a learning experience and do better in the future.

Thompson said she’s not sure a meeting is what needs to happen.

“There needs to be something more substantial to understand they don’t treat people in this manner,” she said.

The encounter comes after two black men in Philadelphia were handcuffed and arrested on April 12 after a Starbucks employee called police because they hadn’t bought anything in the store. The two men told The Associated Press that they were waiting for a business contact to arrive.

[marcokd]

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BLack Women Shirt

BLack Women Shirt,Hoodie And Sweater The BLack women shirt! Once they were two holes in the game, Steve Chronister, who identified himself as the owner of the course, told a member of the group that they moved too slowly, the lawsuit alleges. The women argued in the lawsuit that they did not play slowly and said one of them told Chronister that he treated them differently than the other players…

[teaservedcold]

Of the group of Black women, who were ALL MEMBERS of the golf club AND have played #golf around the GLOBE, one of them is an ATTORNEY and the HEAD of the #York #NAACP 🤦🏾‍♀️ You know you done messed up, right? ------------------------------------------------------------ #SistersInTheFairway is an EXPERIENCED group of golfers who've been around for a DECADE. 5 of them joined at #Pennsylvania golf club Grandview Golf Club, where they all have PAID MEMBERSHIPS. At the 2nd hole, an older White man, identified as former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister approached the group, introduced himself as one of the owners (his son actually owns it) & told the ladies TWICE they needed to "KEEP UP with the pace of the play". ------------------------------------------------------------ A pro golfer present at the club told the ladies they were keeping up JUST FINE with the group ahead of them. The ladies decided to skip the 3rd hole to avoid further issues. Chronister reportedly CONTINUED harassing them. 3 women decided to leave while the other 2 played on. After the 9th hole, it's customary to take a break before the next 9 holes. The group BEHIND the women were on a beer break. Chronister approached the group AGAIN along with his son Jordan Chronister (co-owner of the club) & told the women they called the cops because the ladies were breaking too long & needed to leave. ------------------------------------------------------------ In the vid, you'll see Jordan had to be pulled back as he kept getting in the woman's face. Jordan's father, the former commissioner told Jordan “back off, this is what she wants. This is what she does for a living”. Cops arrived & once they saw the women were breaking no laws, THEY LEFT. The women, who are all in their 50s, publicly stated they felt discriminated against, as despite playing at the same pace as other players, they were the only ones who had police called on them. Steve Chronister's FB page is filled with comments, labelling him a "racist". His son, Jordan Chronister's FB page has reportedly been deleted. Jordan Chronister's wife "JJ Chronister", who co-owns the club with her husband, called & apologized to each woman.

[investmart007]

YORK, Pa | Black woman golfer: It was like we had targets on our backs

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YORK, Pa | Black woman golfer: It was like we had targets on our backs

YORK, Pa | April 24, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) — Black people have long complained about getting pulled over by police for “driving while black,” or being eyed suspiciously by store security guards for “shopping while black.” Now a group of women says it got into trouble for golfing while black.

Officials at the Grandview Golf Club in York called police on the group, accusing them of playing too slowly and holding up others behind them.

No charges were filed, but the confrontation Saturday touched a raw nerve after two other somewhat similar incidents. Two black men in Philadelphia were handcuffed and arrested on April 12 after a Starbucks employee called police because they hadn’t bought anything in the store. And employees of an LA Fitness in New Jersey wrongly accused a black member and his guest of not paying to work out and called police, prompting an apology from the company.

One of the black women golfers, Sandra Harrison, said they were at the second hole when representatives of the Grandview Golf Club told the group they were playing too slowly.

After the ninth hole, about an hour and 45 minutes later, they were told that they took too long a break and needed to leave.

Harrison said she and two other women left because they were so rattled by the treatment.

“It was like we were playing with targets on our backs,” she said. “What other reason could there be other than we were guilty of being black while golfing?”

The club called police on the two women who remained.

On Sunday club co-owner JJ Chronister told the York Daily Record she called the women personally to “sincerely apologize.” On Monday, she issued a second statement to the newspaper saying players who are slow typically leave the course when asked by club personnel.

“In this instance, the members refused to leave so we called police to ensure an amicable result,” the statement reads. It says the women skipped holes and took an extended break.

“During the second conversation we asked members to leave as per our policy noted on the scorecard, voices escalated, and police were called to ensure an amicable resolution,” it reads.

It’s part of golf etiquette that slow-moving players let groups behind them play through if they are holding things up, and often golf courses have employees who monitor the pace of play, letting golfers know when they are taking too long.

The five are part of a larger group of local women known as Sisters in the Fairway. The group has been around for at least a decade, and all of its members are experienced players who have golfed all over the country and world. They’re very familiar with golf etiquette, Harrison said.

Normally clubs don’t allow groups larger than four. Sandra Thompson told the York Daily Record she was the last member to arrive, and checked with a clerk to see if it was OK to join the four others, knowing a fifth member might be an issue. The clerk said it was fine, said Thompson, an attorney and president of the York branch of the NAACP.

Thompson posted a video on her Facebook page showing the interaction with club co-owner Jordan Chronister, his father, former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, and several other white, male employees.

In it, Jordan Chronister tells the women he’s been timing them and that they must leave the premises. The women respond that they took an appropriate break and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off. The women are then told that the police have been called. And so they wait.

Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone.

“We were called there for an issue, the issue did not warrant any charges,” Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel told the York Daily Record.

JJ Chronister, who owns the club with her husband Jordan Chronister, said she hopes to meet with the group of black golfers to discuss how the club can use what happened as a learning experience and do better in the future.

By Associated Press – published on STL.News by St. Louis Media, LLC(U.S)

[blackchurchpost]

Black Women Say Club Called Police on Them for Golfing While Black

Black people have long complained about getting pulled over by police for “driving while black,” or being eyed suspiciously by store security guards for “shopping while black.” Now a group of women says it got into trouble for golfing while black. Officials at the Grandview Golf Club in York called police on the group, accusing them of playing too slowly and holding up others behind them. No charges were filed, but the confrontation Saturday touched a raw nerve after two other somewhat similar incidents. Two black men in Philadelphia were handcuffed and arrested on April 12 after a Starbucks employee called police because they hadn’t bought anything in the store. And employees of an LA Fitness in New Jersey wrongly accused a black member and his guest of not paying to work out and called police, prompting an apology from the company. One of the black women golfers, Sandra Harrison, said they were at the second hole when representatives of the Grandview Golf Club told the group they were playing too slowly. After the ninth hole, about an hour and 45 minutes later, they were told that they took too long a break and needed to leave. Harrison said she and two other women left because they were so rattled by the treatment. “It was like we were playing with targets on our backs,” she said. “What other reason could there be other than we were guilty of being black while golfing?” The club called police on the two women who remained. On Sunday club co-owner JJ Chronister told the York Daily Record she called the women personally to “sincerely apologize.” On Monday, she issued a second statement to the newspaper saying players who are slow typically leave the course when asked by club personnel. “In this instance, the members refused to leave so we called police to ensure an amicable result,” the statement reads. It says the women skipped holes and took an extended break. “During the second conversation we asked members to leave as per our policy noted on the scorecard, voices escalated, and police were called to ensure an amicable resolution,” it reads. It’s part of golf etiquette that slow-moving players let groups behind them play through if they are holding things up, and often golf courses have employees who monitor the pace of play, letting golfers know when they are taking too long. The five are part of a larger group of local women known as Sisters in the Fairway. The group has been around for at least a decade, and all of its members are experienced players who have golfed all over the country and world. They’re very familiar with golf etiquette, Harrison said. Normally clubs don’t allow groups larger than four. Sandra Thompson told the York Daily Record she was the last member to arrive, and checked with a clerk to see if it was OK to join the four others, knowing a fifth member might be an issue. The clerk said it was fine, said Thompson, an attorney and president of the York branch of the NAACP. Thompson posted a video on her Facebook page showing the interaction with club co-owner Jordan Chronister, his father, former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, and several other white, male employees. In it, Jordan Chronister tells the women he’s been timing them and that they must leave the premises. The women respond that they took an appropriate break and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off. The women are then told that the police have been called. And so they wait. Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone. “We were called there for an issue, the issue did not warrant any charges,” Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel told the York Daily Record. JJ Chronister, who owns the club with her husband Jordan Chronister, said she hopes to meet with the group of black golfers to discuss how the club can use what happened as a learning experience and do better in the future. Source: Associated Press

[livevsongame-tv-blog]

Live Update: Golf club apologizes for calling cops on black women members

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Live Update: Golf club apologizes for calling cops on black women members

YORK, Pa. (AP) A golf club in Pennsylvania has apologized for calling police on a group of black women after the co-owner and his father said they were playing too slowly and refused requests to leave the course.

”I felt we were discriminated against,” one of the women, Myneca Ojo, told the York Daily Record. ”It was a horrific experience.”

Sandra Thompson and four friends met up Saturday to play a round of golf at the Grandview Golf Club, where they are all members, she told the newspaper.

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At the second hole, a white man whose son co-owns the club came up to them twice to complain that they weren’t keeping up with the pace of play. Thompson, an attorney and the head of the York chapter of the NAACP, told the newspaper it was untrue.

On the same hole, another member of the group, Sandra Harrison, said she spoke with a Grandview golf pro, who said they were fine since they were keeping pace with the group ahead of them.

Despite that, the women skipped the third hole to avoid any other issues, she said.

It’s part of golf etiquette that slow-moving players let groups behind them play through if they are holding things up, and often golf courses have personnel who monitor the pace of play, letting golfers know when they are taking too long.

The five are part of a larger group of local women known as Sisters in the Fairway. The group has been around for at least a decade, and all of its members are experienced players who have golfed all over the county and world, Thompson said. They’re very familiar with golf etiquette, she said.

After the ninth hole, where it is customary to take a break before continuing on the next nine holes, three of the group decided to leave because they were so shaken up by the earlier treatment, the women told the paper.

Thompson said the man from the second hole, identified as former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, his son, club co-owner Jordan Chronister and several other white, male employees approached the remaining two women and said they took too long of a break and they needed to leave the course.

The women argued they took an appropriate break, and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off, as seen in a video Thompson gave the newspaper. The women were told that the police had been called, and so they waited.

Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone.

”We were called there for an issue, the issue did not warrant any charges,” Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel said. ”All parties left and we left as well.”

A phone listing for Steve Chronister rang busy on Monday. He told the York Daily Record he didn’t have time to comment on Sunday.

Jordan Chronister’s wife and co-owner of the club, JJ Chronister, said Sunday she called the women personally to apologize.

”We sincerely apologize to the women for making them feel uncomfortable here at Grandview, that is not our intention in any way,” she told the newspaper. ”We want all of our members to feel valued and that they can come out here and have a great time, play golf and enjoy the experience.”

She said she hopes to meet with them to discuss how the club can use what happened as a learning experience and do better in the future.

Thompson said she’s not sure a meeting is what needs to happen.

”There needs to be something more substantial to understand they don’t treat people in this manner,” she said.

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A Brain Surgeon’s Bespoke Dream 1957 Chevy

There’s a definite Colorado connection associated with the 1957 Chevy 210 two-door sedan featured here, and it begins with the car’s earliest days as a Dusk Pearl 1957 Chevy sold new with Colorado license plates. After four or so decades of Colorado registration the now-faded Mauve-hued 1957 Chevy found its way to Enid, Oklahoma, as a family inheritance. The years spent in Colorado had taken its toll on the 1957 Chevy, so the inheritors contacted their friend Harold Clay at Harold’s Hot Rod and Custom Shop in Enid, to get an idea what was involved to bring the old Bow Tie back to life. The expenditure for a ground-up restoration was going to be more than the family wanted to invest in the 1957, so Clay bought the Chevy as the basis for a future project.

Not a lot of time had passed when Dr. Bruce Pendleton, an esteemed neurosurgeon and longtime friend of Clay, expressed the desire to build a Tri-Five Chevy to enjoy in his upcoming retirement and subsequent move from Enid to somewhere in Colorado. Clay advised Bruce he’d save money by finding a Tri-Five at auction and then customizing it to suit his tastes, but Bruce knew a bespoke build would deliver the exact car he was looking for.

A deal was struck and Bruce was the new owner of a 1957 Chevy 210 two-door sedan. First on Bruce’s list of specific requirements was the old Chevy had to handle like his new Porsche. Clay’s solution was to toss out the original Tri-Five frame, and mount an AME (Art Morrison Enterprises) GT Sport Tri-5 chassis under the car. Clay explained because of excellent customer service and repeated successes an AME chassis is the only chassis Harold’s Hot Rod and Custom Shop will use. The process starts with a call to AME salesperson Steve Webb, and from there it’s a known fact the car is going to handle like it’s on rails—mandrel-bent, 2×4-inch rectangular tubing to be exact. Consistent, stable, and predictable handling is accentuated with AME’s standard equipment Detroit Speed quick 20:1 ratio power rack-and-pinion steering.

For brakes, springs, and shocks the frontend is equipped with Wilwood 12-inch disc brakes with four-piston calipers, and sprung with Strange Engineering externally adjustable coilover shock absorbers. Up front rolling stock is a pair of 17×8 Schott Performance Americana wheels shod with 245/45/R17 BFGoodrich G-Force Comp-2 tires. The tail end brings up a 3.70-geared 9-inch Strange rearend sprung with Strange externally adjustable coilover shock absorbers, and two Schott Performance Americana 18×10 wheels shod with 275/40R18 BFGoodrich g-Force Comp-2 tires. The rear brakes are Wilwood 12-inch discs with four-piston calipers.

Under the hood of Bruce’s 1957 Chevy lives a Chevrolet Performance 376-inch 430hp Connect and Cruise LS3 sourced from Summit Racing Equipment. The exhaust system exits through a pair of AME stainless steel headers especially engineered for a flawless fit to mate up with the AME GT Sport Tri-5 chassis. Silencing the LS3 occurs through dual 2-1/2-inch Dyno Max Super Turbo mufflers dumping into dual 2-1/2-inch tailpipes. The induction is standard fare LS3 fuel injection breathing cold air through a Spectre air cleaner. The engine is capped with custom “Doc Holiday” covers hand lettered by Manny’s Fineline of Oklahoma City. An included component of Chevrolet Performance’s Connect and Cruise package the automatic overdrive transmission is a 4L65-E linked to the Strange differential via a custom-made driveshaft by BB Machine & Supply of Enid. Engine cooling is handled with a PRC aluminum radiator from Boonville, Indiana. The hood glides on polished billet aluminum hinges by Eddie Motorsports.

The bodywork Harold’s Hot Rod and Custom Shop performed on Bruce’s 1957 was a combination of the normally expected having to replace rusted lower quarter-panels along with a fraction of the floor, but it’s the fanatical major details Clay undertook to satisfy his own creativity that sets this 1957 Chevy apart from all others. Slab siding is a subtle yet tedious detail that entailed Clay investing countless hours into reshaping the factory-cued bowed doors and quarter-panels by shrinking the sheetmetal until the sides of Bruce’s 1957 Chevy were absolutely flat—notice there’s no distorted funhouse mirror reflections glaring off the sides.

The project’s lead builder was George Gordon along with Grant Rodbinson and Hunter Hay. After the final stages of metal finishing, and the gaps were adjusted, the next step was onto DTM (direct to metal) primer followed by hours of guidecoating and block sanding. For color Harold sprayed Doc Holiday Red a custom mix in Axalta products followed with a color sand and rubout. Parts that weren’t done in wet paint were sent to Scott Stanley at S&S Coatings of Enid, Oklahoma, and expertly powdercoated.

Thanks to the 1957 Chevys popularity almost back to the year it was introduced, and restoration parts companies like Danchuk, it wasn’t hard for Harold’s Hot Rod and Custom Shop to outfit the exterior with new trim. Relocating the rear license plate took place by installing a Danchuk 1957 Chevy station wagon bumper. Paul’s Chrome Plating of Evans City, Pennsylvania, handled the chrome plating work.

A peek inside reveals a totally custom one-off interior by CRI (Chuck Rowland Interiors) of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Look closer at the center of the dashboard and don’t be fooled by the radio-delete plate, just below it Lynn Lamb installed a state-of-the-art sound system using a Clarion head unit backed with Oklahoma-grown Kicker amp and speakers. The factory original look continues thanks to a Vintage Air Sure Fit system that operates from a stock 1957 Chevy control panel; an armada of billet louvers (vents) disperses ice-cold A/C throughout. Perhaps one of the most iconic gauge clusters ever, the stock 1957 Chevy unit is fitted with Classic Instruments’ instruments adding yet another authentic stock touch while incorporating an upgrade. The steering wheel is a Billet Specialties mounted on an ididit steering column and power windows by New Relics. The wiring is an American Auto Wire harness custom installed by Wayne Chronister of Noble, Oklahoma.

Bruce’s Chevy left Harold’s Hot Rods with a fresh wall-to-wall flooring of Dynamat thermal acoustic mat, and then Chuck Rowland Interiors (CRI) laid Russet-colored cut pile carpeting color matched to the upholstery. The front buckets and rear bucket-bench seats were custom fabricated in-house by CRI, starting with bending the steel tubing to TIG welding and then deep padded with CNC water jet profiled high-density foam. Rowland hand cutting the patterns and stitching Russet-dyed European leather together with French seams was the finishing touch. A Lokar shifter sits nestled in a CRI custom-fabricated center console wrapped in Russet leather.

Harold christened Bruce’s 1957 Chevy “Doc Holiday” because every time he reached Bruce by cell with a progress report the doctor was on holiday with his wife in their motorhome exploring the countryside.

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YORK, Pa | Black woman golfer: It was like we had targets on our backs

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YORK, Pa | April 24, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) — Black people have long complained about getting pulled over by police for “driving while black,” or being eyed suspiciously by store security guards for “shopping while black.” Now a group of women says it got into trouble for golfing while black.

Officials at the Grandview Golf Club in York called police on the group, accusing them of playing too slowly and holding up others behind them.

No charges were filed, but the confrontation Saturday touched a raw nerve after two other somewhat similar incidents. Two black men in Philadelphia were handcuffed and arrested on April 12 after a Starbucks employee called police because they hadn’t bought anything in the store. And employees of an LA Fitness in New Jersey wrongly accused a black member and his guest of not paying to work out and called police, prompting an apology from the company.

One of the black women golfers, Sandra Harrison, said they were at the second hole when representatives of the Grandview Golf Club told the group they were playing too slowly.

After the ninth hole, about an hour and 45 minutes later, they were told that they took too long a break and needed to leave.

Harrison said she and two other women left because they were so rattled by the treatment.

“It was like we were playing with targets on our backs,” she said. “What other reason could there be other than we were guilty of being black while golfing?”

The club called police on the two women who remained.

On Sunday club co-owner JJ Chronister told the York Daily Record she called the women personally to “sincerely apologize.” On Monday, she issued a second statement to the newspaper saying players who are slow typically leave the course when asked by club personnel.

“In this instance, the members refused to leave so we called police to ensure an amicable result,” the statement reads. It says the women skipped holes and took an extended break.

“During the second conversation we asked members to leave as per our policy noted on the scorecard, voices escalated, and police were called to ensure an amicable resolution,” it reads.

It’s part of golf etiquette that slow-moving players let groups behind them play through if they are holding things up, and often golf courses have employees who monitor the pace of play, letting golfers know when they are taking too long.

The five are part of a larger group of local women known as Sisters in the Fairway. The group has been around for at least a decade, and all of its members are experienced players who have golfed all over the country and world. They’re very familiar with golf etiquette, Harrison said.

Normally clubs don’t allow groups larger than four. Sandra Thompson told the York Daily Record she was the last member to arrive, and checked with a clerk to see if it was OK to join the four others, knowing a fifth member might be an issue. The clerk said it was fine, said Thompson, an attorney and president of the York branch of the NAACP.

Thompson posted a video on her Facebook page showing the interaction with club co-owner Jordan Chronister, his father, former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, and several other white, male employees.

In it, Jordan Chronister tells the women he’s been timing them and that they must leave the premises. The women respond that they took an appropriate break and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off. The women are then told that the police have been called. And so they wait.

Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone.

“We were called there for an issue, the issue did not warrant any charges,” Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel told the York Daily Record.

JJ Chronister, who owns the club with her husband Jordan Chronister, said she hopes to meet with the group of black golfers to discuss how the club can use what happened as a learning experience and do better in the future.

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YORK, Pa. (AP) A golf club in Pennsylvania has apologized for calling police on a group of black women after the co-owner and his father said they were playing too slowly and refused requests to leave the course.

”I felt we were discriminated against,” one of the women, Myneca Ojo, told the York Daily Record. ”It was a horrific experience.”

Sandra Thompson and four friends met up Saturday to play a round of golf at the Grandview Golf Club, where they are all members, she told the newspaper.

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At the second hole, a white man whose son co-owns the club came up to them twice to complain that they weren’t keeping up with the pace of play. Thompson, an attorney and the head of the York chapter of the NAACP, told the newspaper it was untrue.

On the same hole, another member of the group, Sandra Harrison, said she spoke with a Grandview golf pro, who said they were fine since they were keeping pace with the group ahead of them.

Despite that, the women skipped the third hole to avoid any other issues, she said.

It’s part of golf etiquette that slow-moving players let groups behind them play through if they are holding things up, and often golf courses have personnel who monitor the pace of play, letting golfers know when they are taking too long.

The five are part of a larger group of local women known as Sisters in the Fairway. The group has been around for at least a decade, and all of its members are experienced players who have golfed all over the county and world, Thompson said. They’re very familiar with golf etiquette, she said.

After the ninth hole, where it is customary to take a break before continuing on the next nine holes, three of the group decided to leave because they were so shaken up by the earlier treatment, the women told the paper.

Thompson said the man from the second hole, identified as former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, his son, club co-owner Jordan Chronister and several other white, male employees approached the remaining two women and said they took too long of a break and they needed to leave the course.

The women argued they took an appropriate break, and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off, as seen in a video Thompson gave the newspaper. The women were told that the police had been called, and so they waited.

Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone.

”We were called there for an issue, the issue did not warrant any charges,” Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel said. ”All parties left and we left as well.”

A phone listing for Steve Chronister rang busy on Monday. He told the York Daily Record he didn’t have time to comment on Sunday.

Jordan Chronister’s wife and co-owner of the club, JJ Chronister, said Sunday she called the women personally to apologize.

”We sincerely apologize to the women for making them feel uncomfortable here at Grandview, that is not our intention in any way,” she told the newspaper. ”We want all of our members to feel valued and that they can come out here and have a great time, play golf and enjoy the experience.”

She said she hopes to meet with them to discuss how the club can use what happened as a learning experience and do better in the future.

Thompson said she’s not sure a meeting is what needs to happen.

”There needs to be something more substantial to understand they don’t treat people in this manner,” she said.

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