MAY 2, 2025 POETRY GROUNDCOVER NEWS Ancient Wisdom Tracy Bennett 13 Groundcover Vendor Code While Groundcover is a non-profit, and paper vendors are self-employed contractors, we still have expectations of how vendors should conduct themselves while selling and representing the paper. The following is our Vendor Code of Conduct, which every vendor reads and signs before receiving a badge and papers. We request that if you discover a vendor violating any tenets of the Code, please contact us and provide as many details as possible. Our paper and our vendors should be positively impacting our County. • Groundcover will be distributed for a voluntary donation. I agree not to ask for more than the cover price or solicit donations by any other means. • When selling Groundcover, I will always have the current biweekly issue of Groundcover available for customer purchase. • I agree not to sell additional goods or products when selling the paper or to panhandle, including panhandling with only one paper or selling an issue more than 4 weeks old. • I will wear and display my badge when selling papers and refrain from wearing it or other Groundcover gear when engaged in other activities. • I will only purchase the paper from Groundcover Staff and will not sell to or buy papers from other Groundcover vendors, especially vendors who have been suspended or terminated. • I agree to treat all customers, staff, and other vendors respectfully. I will not “hard sell,” threaten, harass or pressure customers, staff, or other vendors verbally or physically. • I will not sell Groundcover under the influence of drugs or alcohol. • I understand that I am not a legal employee of Groundcover but a contracted worker responsible for my own well-being and income. • I understand that my badge is property of Groundcover and will not deface it. I will present my badge when purchasing the papers. • I agree to stay off private property when selling Groundcover. • I understand to refrain from selling on public buses, federal property or stores unless there is permission from the owner. • I agree to stay at least one block away from another vendor in downtown areas. I will also abide by the Vendor Corner Policy. • I understand that Groundcover strives to be a paper that covers topics of homelessness and poverty while providing sources of income for the homeless. I will try to help in this effort and spread the word. If you would like to report a violation of the Vendor Code or leave positive review of a Vendor experience please email contact@ groundcovernews.com or fill out the contact form on our website. Thank you! ACROSS 1. Restrain 5. Out of fashion 10. Bodhrán, in an Irish band 14. State that's home to the "Troll Hole Museum" 15. Artfully dodge 16. Luxurious lifestyle 17. Humdinger 18. Artifact of another time 19. Showed wear and tear 20. Moral: "Those who would mend others, should first mend themselves" 23. Longtime news inits. 24. Yellow-rinded muskmelon 28. Moral: "It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it" 32. Port-au-Prince's land 34. Sympathetic anagram of 35-Across 35. Hell's half ___ 36. Every bit 37. Helpful inserts for pointy shoes 40. The time of one's life, maybe 41. Eponymously massage 43. Bake sale array 44. Air force trainee 46. Moral: "Might makes right" 49. Pan's group, in myth 50. Tree that's a gateway to the Underworld, in Celtic lore 51. Source of this puzzle's morality tales 58. "What a relief!" 61. Wolf pack member of W.W. II 62. Mother's sister, e.g. 63. Guatemalan greeting 64. Creator of Winnie-the-Pooh (and Tigger too) 65. Zip 66. Go against 67. Medieval knight's "trusty" transport 68. Fairy ___ (magical sprinkles) DOWN 1. Stable youngster 2. "No way" 3. Poke to provoke, as a bear 4. Bunch caught at a reception 5. Get way off track 6. French "with" 7. What animals can do, in folk tales 8. Correct a narrative, say 9. Poured into cups 10. Salt lake bordering Jordan 11. Many a Scott Joplin tune 12. Application 13. Rx prescription 21. Illuminated from below 22. "What a relief ..." 25. Consent (to) 26. Ballet studio fixture 27. Really irked 28. Soldier's lodging 29. Make housebound by winter weather 30. Where necklace clasps rest 31. Wildebeest's main diet 32. Stags 33. Polynesian greeting 38. Pogo and others, in comics 39. Milan's opera house La ___ 42. "Peter Pan" song about taking off for Neverland 45. Item worn by a soccer team's captain 47. Wrath 48. Lifted, as a heavy weight 52. "In memoriam" piece 53. May festival fixture 54. Able to think clearly 55. Kalua Pua'a feast 56. Conclusions 57. Walks or runs, e.g. 58. Third degree, for some? 59. Home gardening tool 60. Magical creature of Celtic lore
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