His friend, another man, meticulously arranges merchandise on the clothing and shoe racks, while their dogs, a long-haired dachshund and French bulldog, trot behind him with a sense of leisurely curiousness. 

One might assume, by observing this rhythm, that this consignment store has been open in Statesboro for a while. However, the store’s owner, Jared Burnsed, only decided to move the consignment store from its South Main Street location in Pembroke to Statesboro in December 2018. 

Reflective Collective has been open at its 39 W. Main St. address since the beginning of February. The story of how it arrived there is co-equally a story about it, Burnsed and the people who have helped Burnsed. 

When in Pembroke

By the spring of 2017, Burnsed had become discontent with his job at the time.  That April, businesswoman Sarah Williams opened the Shops on Main store in Pembroke. 

Her store served as an outlet for different vendors to rent space to sell their items, somewhat kind an antique or outlet store. 

“I was trying to actually get a job working for her, and she was like, ‘Hey, you love clothes,’” Burnsed said. “‘Why don’t you [Burnsed] rent a space from me [Williams] and sell clothes?’”

So, Burnsed had to go to thrift stores and other consignment stores to acquire his original inventory. After that, he maintained his booth at Williams’ store while still keeping up with his other job. Meanwhile, Burnsed had conversations with Williams about his aspirations and dreams.

“We had talked about different things he wanted to do, about wanting to go to New York,” Williams said. “You could tell he had a great sense of fashion about himself, so I told him that he didn’t have to go to New York to make his dreams come true.”

In July of 2017, Williams, whose business with her wedding venue started to increase, called Burnsed and asked him if he would like to run the Shops on Main. He agreed and put in his two weeks’ notice at his previous job. 

“It just all happened that way … a person who had known me for less than a year handed me a business,” Burnsed said. 

Williams, now a wedding venue owner in the Pembroke area, elaborated that, when she would bring her friends into the Pembroke store, Burnsed was very attentive to what kinds of clothes might look good on her and her friends, as well as the kinds of items they were interested in buying.

“He knows people’s sizes, so if cool pair of 7-and-a-half pair of wedges came through the door, he’d call me,” Williams said. “He’s just very personable, and everyone who met him immediately liked him.”

How others helped

The Shops on Main underwent several business changes, both appearance and business-wise. It became solely a clothing consignment store, so Burnsed acquired most of the clothing for the store via people’s donations.

As the Shops on Main was changing hands, Burnsed realized that he could not operate the store by himself. 

Enter Tre Knight, a friend of Burnsed’s whom he met in 2016. Knight started helping him then by redesigning the Shops on Main.

Knight clarified that, though he regularly assists Burnsed with his business, they have not been business partners, either at the old or the new consignment store. 

“It’s his business, and I’m just helping a friend that needs the help,” Knight said. 

Knight explained that his responsibilities typically involve visual merchandising, the process of sorting clothing items by their different fabrics and colors. 

For example, he periodically reorganizes the items on the clothing racks and redresses the mannequins. He also assists Burnsed with the store’s respective social media platforms. 

Burnsed elaborated how Knight also contributes to the vision for his consignment business. 

“Whereas I can see an idea that I want or an idea that I like and have no idea of how to put it together,” Burnsed said. “He [Tre] can see it, and he’s like, ‘Okay, this is how we make that happen.’”

Part of Knight’s abilities in that arena are bolstered by his experience in the fashion industry before he met Burnsed. 

Knight mentioned that he moved to New York City when he was 19. He started working in fashion as a makeup artist and progressed to doing styling, consulting and designing clients. 

Since fashion was such a part of Knight’s background, Burnsed entrusted Knight to guide and mentor him. Knight thinks that, overall, he pushes Burnsed to be more creative. 

“ I think we all have mentors as kids, and just from his [Burnsed’s] past and his history, he really didn’t have that,” Knight said. “He’s starting that now. He’s starting that later in life. It’s never too late to start something.”

With Knight joining Burnsed, Sarah Williams mused how the Shops on Main began changing in earnest from how she ran the store. 

“He began to bring in the clothes, and people loved it,” Williams said. “He began to get a following … he basically took over the shop and really made a name for himself in the community.”

The store’s name, Shops on Main, was changed to Reflective Collective in December 2017. 

Burnsed did not start considering relocation to Statesboro until August 2018, and he did not definitively act until that December. 

He was motivated by the store’s slowed business, which, while it was not losing money, it was only sustaining itself and not earning Burnsed a significant profit. Moving before the January dead season was paramount to him. 

“You gotta do something,” Burnsed said. “It’s to the point of ‘Hey, we try this somewhere else, or we shut it down and find another job.’”

Planning a store move was very stressful for him, but friends like Shiloh Foreman, the owner of Southern Soaked, helped Burnsed because, by that point, it was the middle of December.

Foreman described Burnsed’s initial efforts as non-stop looking at buildings without being able to find a feasible spot for his business in Statesboro. She stepped in and contacted city entities, like the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority.

“They [the DSDA] said that it [the West Main location] might be a good spot, and so we got in touch with them [the realtor],” Foreman said. 

That same mid-December day, when Burnsed and Foreman contacted Manack Properties, Burnsed signed the contract for the lease on the West Main Street property. 

When January arrived, Burnsed and Knight feverishly worked to prepare the Statesboro store, doing everything from stripping flooring and laying down concrete to building the cache racks for the shoes and boxes on which the mannequins would stand.

The work seemed to pay off, though, when Reflective Collective officially opened to the public at the Feb. 1 First Friday event in downtown Statesboro. 

The customers 

For the new customers, Burnsed wants to continue emanating an authentic, comfortable store atmosphere.

 Burnsed mentioned how it is both easy and enjoyable for him to talk with customers in the store, and that his interacting with them is part of creating a good experience for them. 

“I hate when I go into a store, and people don’t pay you any attention, act like you shouldn’t be there [in a store],” Burnsed said. 

Burnsed added that, overall, he wants people to feel like they can relax in his store. 

“I want you [anybody] to come in here … and feel like you can be yourself, that you can let your hair down,” Burnsed said. 

As far as return customers, it is not unusual for Burnsed to see people come as far away as Vidalia or Savannah to visit the store’s new location. 

“If people like you and they like what you’re doing, then they’ll support you,” Burnsed said. “A lot of the times, it don’t even have to be like what you’re doing. If they like you, they’ll come in and buy the shirt they don’t even want.”

This article was previously published in the print Spring 2019 edition of The George-Anne Reflector.

Great Wall, a Chinese restaurant located next to the Fair Road Food World, is one of Statesboro’s many privately-owned businesses.

The restaurant’s owners, spouses Ping Lin and Yuquan Jiang, are immigrants from Fuzhou, pronounced Fu-jo, in China. They have managed the restaurant since it opened in 2009.

This video chronicles why they immigrated to Georgia and started their restaurant, as well as what obstacles they have faced and what it takes to run their restaurant on a daily basis.

The Charlie Daniels Band would have you believe that the devil came down to Georgia. However, a new play to be performed at Georgia Southern University chronicles the devil’s chaotic trip to Russia, so perhaps the truth is a little bit of both.

Georgia Southern theater students will perform the play “Master and Margarita” at the Black Box Theater on campus starting Wednesday, April 17.

The play was written by Mikhail Bulgakov and specifically adapted for Georgia Southern’s theater program by George Lester and Jánoz Szász.

It shows the ill-intended escapades of the devil, who is called Woland (pronounced Vo-land), and his band of demons, as they visit Stalinist-era Moscow. The group wreaks havoc as they indulge in a variety of activities ranging from vampire attacks to hosting a Satanic ball.

Tyair Blackman, the assistant director for the play and a junior theater major, described how the play dually explores the troubled romance of a man called the master and his love interest, Margarita.

The master, while navigating his relationship with Margarita, is trying to finish writing a play about Pontius Pilate, in the context of the anti-religious Communist society. And, as it so happens, Woland’s misadventures are woven into the fabric of the master’s story in some rather unexpected ways.  

Blackman elaborated that Nick Newell, the director of “Master and Margarita,” chose the play because of Newell’s belief in familiarizing students with many different genres of subject matter and Newell’s desire to push the actors and set designers in an overall learning experience.

As well, Blackman said that the play is more than a political commentary on just Stalinist Russia.

“Particularly with how more heavy-handed the [American] government is being in today’s political climate,” Blackman said, “it’s sort of adding another frame of reference to whether things that happened that are kind of similar to what’s happening now are happening.”

Maybe today is the day you give your animal companion a special snack, that coveted belly rub or a behind-the-ear scratch.

Maybe your furry companion likes to play with you and their favorite toy, or perhaps they enjoy going on walks. Whatever your pet enjoys, there are many ways you can give them special attention today.

On a more serious note, National Day Calendar suggests several different ways you can keep your home or apartment safe for your animal companion. Their website suggests that pet owners:

• Go through any pet toys and discard unsafe items (like choking hazards)
• Walk through their living space and store cords and cleaning materials away from where pets can pry.
• Check that their pet is up to date on all of their vaccinations.
• Check that their pet’s collar tags are current.

We want to see you and your pet! To share with us, post a picture of you and your pet or pets on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #reflectyourpet.

Georgia Southern University’s Auxiliary Services will celebrate the university’s students on Wednesday with a variety of activities. There will be giveaways, a raffle, refreshments and a sidewalk sale, all happening next to the University Store from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Recycled Boat Regatta

The Center of Sustainability is celebrating No Impact Week by having a recycled boat construction and race competition on Wednesday. Participants will build the boats from recycled materials at Lake Ruby starting at 2 p.m. Then the center will host the race at 5 p.m.

Relay For Life

The Relay For Life of Bulloch County and Georgia Southern University will host its annual spring event on downtown Statesboro’s Vine Street on April 12 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Activities there will include a survivor and caregiver walk and lighting ceremony to remember those lost to cancer at the event.

ArtsFest

Georgia Southern University and the Statesboro Bulloch County Parks and Recreation will host ArtsFest, the annual visual and performing arts festival, at Sweetheart Circle on April 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Some of the festival’s art stops will include tables for ceramics, paper flowers and paintball art. For a full list of sellers and activities, go to the ArtsFest Facebook page.

One could only experience these things at an event like the annual Savannah Comic Con. The convention is happening this weekend at the Savannah International Convention Center.

Doors open for Day 2 of the convention today at 11 a.m. Events start at 11:30 a.m. and continue until 5 p.m.

During the convention’s first day, Saturday, the event’s main exhibition hall offered a variety of entertainment options catering to everyone from the casually curious to avid fans. Here are some of the highlights from the first day.

The cosplays

One of the signature parts of attending the convention, for many of Saturday’s attendees, was donning a costume, or cosplay, from their favorite movie or television show.

Many cosplayers, like Abygail Gutierrez of Savannah and Logan Dixon of Statesboro, dressed as characters Izuku Midoriya and Shoto Todoroki from the Japanese anime show “My Hero Academia”.

Even though them seemed like they had known each other for a while, Gutierrez and Dixon said that they actually had not met each other before the convention.

Dixon was not the only Statesboro attendee at the convention. The George-Anne’s own Tandra Smith attended the convention, cosplaying as Garnet from “Steven Universe.”

“We had already planned a trip to Savannah, but we heard about the con and came here [to the con] last minute,” Moulton said.

He added that they usually attend cons in the Boston area, and that this was their first time attending the Savannah Comic Con.

Art, merchandise and more

While many people seemed to enjoy the conversation around cosplays, many others meandered throughout the aisles on the convention floor.

Products sold included everything from patterned clothing to character buttons and stickers to regular and body pillows.

Then, there were also many artists at the convention. Their works represented a variety of approaches and main themes ranging from witty or playful colored pencil and ink works to sensual and grotesque works.

Once people looked at the art and merchandise, they often wandered in between booths and tables to other activities, such as the face painting offered by Colorful Day Events’ owner, Chela Waterfield.

Skylar Vaughn of Beaufort, South Carolina, had a unicorn painted on her face as she donned a Captain Marvel costume.

Tithanie Vaughn, Skylar’s mother, described how excited her daughter was to get that particular costume for the convention.

“As soon as it [the Captain Marvel movie] came out, she was like, ‘I want to be her for Comic Con!’”, Vaughn said.

Tithanie and Skylar attended the convention because Vaughn’s partner. David Gregory, bought all three of them tickets for the event.

“Yeah, he got me my birthday present to come here,” Vaughn added.

Cosplay contest and celebrity panels

In addition to stops like face painting, there will also be more celebrity panels today at the convention center’s auditorium.

John Wesley Shipp will be participating in a question-and-answer panel at 1 p.m., and Summer Glau will be participating in a panel at 2 p.m.

Shipp, who played the role of Barry Allen’s father, Jay Garrick/Flash and Earth-90 Flash in the newest “The Flash” series. He also played the role of Barry Allen in the 1990s version of the superhero series.

Glau is perhaps best known for her roles as River Tam in “Firefly” and Ravager in “Arrow” from 2013 to 2014.

After these celebrity panels, the votes for the convention’s cosplay contest will be collected at the judging table in the Oglethorpe Auditorium from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.

The results will be announced at 4:45 p.m. from the convention center’s main lobby stairs.

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It’s not your average fruit-flavored beverage. It comes packaged in a glass bottle, and its labels boast of organic ingredients. One of those ingredients is hemp cannabidiol, more commonly known as CBD.

This was one of the Vybes drinks, which Soyumi recently got back in stock at their restaurant. Though the Vybe flavors sold there include interesting combinations such as strawberry lavender or blueberry mint, many people may be first wondering about the CBD.

What the hemp?

Simply put, CBD is the non-psychoactive compound from the hemp plant, according to Medium’s 2018 post comparing hemp and marijuana. Additionally, because the drink has no THC in it, only CBD, you can’t get high off of it.

As well, hemp-derived CBD is partially legalized now, since President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill into law in December 2018. The new law, among other things, removed hemp from the list of controlled substances.

However, the Food and Drug Administration maintains that, even after that law’s passage, it still has to approve for Vybes and other companies like it to market CBD-infused products across state lines.

Vybes currently promotes their drinks as a way to help people alleviate their stress or anxiety and improve their mood. It is not known whether the FDA is pursuing specific action against Vybes.

As well, it seems like Vybes has been steadily increasing the amount of CBD in its drinks, from 11.05 milligrams, according to their website, to 15 milligrams, according to a 2019 Atlantic article, to 25 milligrams, according to the label on the drink sample for this review.

Tasting Vybes

In total, Soyumi sells the peach ginger, blueberry mint and strawberry lavender flavors.

For this review, I drank the peach ginger Vybes drink.

The drink had this translucent sheen to it. Perhaps that was because it was a juice-based drink. In addition, the drink’s label advises shaking it to re-mix ingredients that may have separated.

The drink liquid contained this soothing base of peach juice with the spicy tang of ginger. At first, the tang seemed overpowering to my unprepared palette.

However, the ginger became normative after a couple of minutes, muted by the peach notes.

These flavors were more noticeable when the drink was chilled, but post-refrigeration, it was not all bad either, since the more subtle ginger notes accompanied the warmer temperature.

For those concerned about caloric intake, the drink only had 25 calories. The 30 milligrams of caffeine was also lower than that in popular 12-ounce cans of soda.

Care is advised when handling a Vybes bottle, since it is glass. The size of it, though, makes it easy to stick in the side pocket of a book bag if you like to consume your drinks over time or later after purchasing it.

The price was less than expected too, at $8.56 for the 14-ounce bottle. Each bottle constitutes one serving.

Vybes is one product among many that is taking advantage of the hemp-derived-CBD food and beverage trend.

While, as the Atlantic article outlined, the FDA and city entities are looking to place regulations on such products, the trend toward CBD-infused foods and drinks only seems to be growing.

Whether the next steps in the market are increased government regulations or increased mass production remains to be seen.

She auditioned for American Idol. She received a golden ticket to advance to the singing competition’s Hollywood Week, and she is also a Statesboro native.

Twenty-five-year-old Gazzie White will be one of the singers featured on the Monday, March 25 episode of “American Idol,” which airs from 8 to 10 p.m. on ABC.

Statesboro High School, White’s alma mater, will be hosting a watch party for the episode from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the high school’s auditorium Monday night.

White took a break from taking classes at Georgia Southern University in order to focus on music, including her “American Idol” aspirations.

She described how her passions to pursue music go back to her childhood.

Desire and musical background

“For the longest, as a little child, I always dreamed of going on American Idol,” White said.

She described how at the church her family used to attend, her mother, who was the choir director, would often encourage her to join the church’s youth-adult choir. She noted that she was the only child in the choir because she had a high soprano voice.

“So, my family, we’re very music-oriented,” White said. “Every time we get together, we’re singing. We’re dancing, just doing everything.”

She also mentioned that she and her family moved to Statesboro from the adjacent Screven County when she was in third grade.  

From that time, White became involved in chorus while attending school, and she stayed involved through her senior year at Statesboro High School.

“For one show with the [high school] band, we did an Aretha Franklin-kind of tribute,” White said. “With the band, I would be their prop, and I would sing as they went out during halftime, and that was always fun.”

Once in college, White continued singing by participating in singing competitions and local ministries like Chi Alpha.

And, as she took time off from university classes, White started performing more with her husband, Deven White, as part of their duo, called Unique Worship. White described their duo as playing mostly soul and gospel music, with an openness and reach toward more genres.

From Atlanta to Idaho

White participated in the pre-auditions for “American Idol” in Atlanta during September of 2018.

“They [the judges there] said, ‘Hey, we want to send you to Idaho, the audition where you can possibly get a golden ticket,’” White said.

The Idaho auditions were that December, so when the time came, off White went to Idaho.  When she arrived, White said she did not necessarily feel a competitive spirit among the participants.

“It’s ‘Oh wow, you are really desiring the same thing I desire,’” White said. “‘I wish you the best of luck. If it’s not me, I hope it’s you.’ It turned into a friendly, encouraging place.”

During the golden ticket audition

White further elaborated on her time at the Idaho audition by calling it both fun and surreal.

“You see all of these judges on T.V. all of the time, so you finally have the chance to meet them in person,” she said.

White described how, though Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan were all celebrity judges, none of them gave off presumptuous or condescending vibes.

“Of course they kept their standard,” White said, “but they did make you feel welcome, like ‘Hey, right now, this is not a celebrity [thing]. It’s just me and you. Sing for me. What do you have?’”

The overall impression White took away from the audition was one of satisfaction.

“I don’t regret anything, because I definitely told myself, ‘When you go in here, you’re going to give everything you have,’” she said. “And I did give everything I had, and I pretty much laid it at their [the judges’] feet.”

White recalled how Katy Perry suggested that White develop who she is as an artist more. White agreed with that sentiment.

“I just sing, and I put all of my feeling into my singing and not necessarily my body movements, or eye contact,” White said. “Now, every time I sing, after hearing her say that, I try to incorporate all of those [things] into one performance.”

Post-audition

Though White has made it to Hollywood Week for “American Idol,” she is continuing to make music with her husband through Unique Worship.

“We have a lot of songs we want to put out, my husband and I,” White said. “We are travelling, having events like outside of Statesboro and also within Statesboro.”

They are also planning to make an EP project. In the midst of these several efforts, White is still working her full-time job.

“I absolutely love my nine-to-five, but I want to be able to smoothly transition into doing music full-time,” White said, “because that’s my heart’s desire, and that’s his [her husband’s] heart’s desire.”

No matter the reason for the music, White just wants to be herself while singing, which for her means loving God, giving him everything she has, and encouraging and uplifting people through her music.

“That’s what I do,” she said. “I don’t sing just because I sound good, but I really want to send a message out. Music helps me out so much, so if it helps me out, I’m sure it does the same for others, and I want to be able to be a venue and a path and a light to others through music.”

The Chartreuse trio, formed by cellist Helen Newby, violist Carrie Frey and violinist Myra Hinrichs, will perform several music compositions at Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro campus as part of the “On the Verge” concert series.

Specifically, GS will host the concert inside the Carol Carter Reception Hall of the Foy Building from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.

For those who may not be familiar with Chartreuse, Frey described the trio’s music as reminiscent of movie music.

The trio have pieces like Kaija Saariaho’s “Cloud Trio (2009)” in their repetier which seem to evoke this sense. In their rendition of the song, the high-pitched, nuanced sound of the violin leads into eerie soundscapes constructed by the mellower viola and the deep, resonant sounds of the cello.

The group members also explained how travelling and living in different cities influences their sound and repertoire. Hinrichs, Frey and Newby live in the cities of Chicago, New York City and San Francisco respectively.

“If you’re all in the same place, you’re all meeting the same people [to collaborate with],” Newby said. “So, if you’re in three different cities, you get to meet three different sets of people and experience different things all the time and bring all of those ideas back to the group.”

They also have toured venues from California in the United States to Norway in Europe. Newby explained that has allowed Chartreuse to be more of a project ensemble, opening opportunities for collaborative projects.

Frey added that working with different musicians helps her and the others challenge themselves, such as when they played a piece by their violinist friend Leah Asher.

“So when we were learning her piece, it pushed us to find these sounds that we would not have thought of on our own, just improvising,” Frey said. “It was this cool in-between place where we were creating something to try to get closer to the shapes she had put on the page.”

Why bring them to GS?

GS music professor Martin Gendelman, Ph.D, is the main organizer for “On the Verge.”

Gendelman, who is the head of the Statesboro campus’ music theory and composition area, elaborated on how he decided to invite Chartreuse to GS.

Gendelman met Frey, Hinrichs and Newby in 2015 at a music festival where the trio was performing.

“They’re always programming interesting music by contemporary composers whose music is performed in the major cultural centers here [in America] and in Europe and South America,” Gendelman said, “but not so much in our region [Southeast Georgia].”

For the concert, Chartreuse has four pieces planned. These pieces are Sofia Gubaidulina’s “String Trio”, Marcos Balter’s “Vision Mantra”, Salvatore Sciarrino‘s “Codex purpureus” and the “Cloud Trio (2009)” piece. In terms of classical music, Frey said that all of these composers and their music are relatively well-known.

After the concert, students will be able to discuss Chartreuse’s music with the trio members.

Hinrichs said, “If you have any questions, please ask us after the concert or come talk to us or look at our music.”

The March 1 event, themed an “Arbor Day Paw Walk”, was hosted at the Statesboro City Dog Park]. The event featured several different options for canine attendees, such as the canine costume contest, dogs biscuits and the open play areas of the dog park.

The dogs, in addition to wearing their own costume or accessory, each have unique stories about how their owners or guardians met them.

Ruby

Ruby’s guardian, senior biology major Angel Tumminello, attended First Friday with The Service Dog Training and Education Program and The Future Veterinarians Society from Georgia Southern University.

Tumminello is working with Ruby through the Southeastern Guide Dogs organization through its puppy raising program.

“So I have her until [she’s] three months old to around 16 months old,” Tumminello said. “And then she’ll go back to Southeastern Guide Dogs, and she’ll do about three to six months of formal harness training and hopefully become a guide dog.”

Tumminello mentioned that Ruby could also become a service dog, as Southeastern Guide Dogs has a program to provide service dogs to veterans with PTSD.

Petey

Trent Tarver explained that his daughter, Penelope, enjoys spending time with Petey. She even likes to walk Petey when she gets the chance.

Tarver explained that he originally found Petey on the side of a road, after possibly being hit by a car.

However, having three legs did not seem to Petey from enjoying the First Friday event with the family, as Petey had a chipper demeanor during the night.

Buttercup

Danny Garrigus, crime prevention coordinator and Sergeant of Investigations, attended with his Chihuahua, Buttercup, in tow.

“She’s lounging,” Garrigus said, referring to the meat he had just given her. “She’s like ‘Now we got a full belly, and we’re good now.’”

Buttercup was a foster failure that Garrigus and his family took in to live with them and several of their other dogs through fostering or adoption.

Garrigus mentioned that his wife, Kristy Garrigus, manages ReTails, a thrift shop affiliated with the Statesboro Humane Society. Purchases from there benefit the society’s rescue and spay/neuter programs.

Bentley

Amanda Muldrew, Bentley’s owner and a tenth grader at Statesboro High School, mentioned that she and her family often bring Bentley out to First Fridays. She described how, in 2010, the monthly event brought her family and their dog together.

“We literally found him as a puppy when he was a few months old, and he was running down the middle of First Friday,” she said.

Luckily for her and Bentley, the roads were blocked off, so Bentley could not wander into traffic.

“And we tried to find his owner,” she added, “but he didn’t have one [there], so we scooped him up.”

The Statesboro City Dog Park is located between East Cherry and East Grady Streets along the Blind Willie McTell Trail.