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Sheriff’s Office to discuss scams

The Spartanburg County Sheri� ’s Of-� ce is o� ering a free scam awareness seminar for the public. This seminar identi� es the most common scams cur-rently being committed within Spartan-burg County.

The class will be held at Philadelphia Baptist Church on Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in Pauline.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014 GREER, SOUTH CAROLINA VOL. 101 NO. 8 50 CENTS

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DespiteoppositionBY AMANDA IRWINSTAFF WRITER

During the Greer Plan-ning Commission’s pub-lic hearing held Monday night, Snow Road residents voiced opposition toward a potential subdivision, lo-cated off Highway 101.

Despite division, the project received approval from the Planning Com-mission on a 3-2 vote.

Residents’ concerns largely related to the po-tential hazards that could result from increased traf-fic on what they described

as a narrow road with blind curves. Phil Picket, a Snow Road resident, said he had walked the road that it’s only 16 feet wide, with some areas being slightly wider or narrower.

“That road is a single lane road. Maybe the de-veloper should expand the road out so that it becomes safe,” said Amy Macks, a Snow Road resident. “It’s a single lane road, it’s very dangerous and can’t sustain the kind of traffic that’s coming down.

“My guess is if I were a lawyer — which I’m not — but if my child got hurt on that road on a bus I’m gonna sue y’all, I’m gonna sue the developer, I’m gonna sue everybody I can

SEE PLANNING | A6

WWII vetrecreates landmarks BY BILLY CANNADAEDITOR

Dewey Williams has been whittling since he was nine years old.

More than 80 years later, his passion is giv-ing business owners in the Greer area something they won’t soon forget.

Williams has used his woodwork to recre-ate businesses such as the Sanitary Café, Greer Alignment Garage, Miller Cook Hardware, McCart-er’s Barber Shop and Smith and James Inc. The 91-year-old has spent hours constructing mini versions of these Greer landmarks and giving

them to the shops as he completes each project.

“When you get to be 91 years old you need a

hobby,” Williams said. “I just got started making stuff and I had a friend of mine ask me if I could

do the Sanitary Café. I re-member going there as a boy and thought I would

SEE MINIATURES | A7

BY AMANDA IRWINSTAFF WRITER

Editors Note: This is part of a month-long series celebrating Black History Month and African Ameri-cans who have made an impact in the Greer and surrounding communities.

Dr. Phinnize Fisher served as Greenville Coun-ty superintendent and, to date, she is the first and only female superinten-dent in the history of the county — but she wouldn’t tell you that.

“I was aware of it, but I never pushed that as such because I wanted to be a superintendent for all children — not just the first African-American female superintendent,” Fisher said. “Of course that was important, but what I wanted was to make my mark on the work and

the job of the superinten-dent.”

Fisher’s parents instilled in her that if she worked hard she could achieve whatever she wanted. Fisher’s parents died while she was in high school, but she brought to life the les-sons they taught her.

“My parents died, both of them, a year apart when I was in high school or just

SEE FISHER | A6

Greer in miniatureFisher pursued, became a first

Dr. Phinnize Fisher

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Dewey Williams, a 91-year-old World War II veteran, has found his new passion creating realistic replicas of famous Greer � xtures.


Local shop owners show o� their miniature business replicas, crafted by Dewey Williams. Pictured are, left to right, Mike Greer, Willie Rowe, Margaret Williams, Dewey Williams, Beverly Rowe and Brandon Price.

Snow Roadsubdivision isapproved

More than six inches fellBY AMANDA IRWINSTAFF WRITER

Last week South Caro-lina was one of many east coast states to declare a state of emergency due to the Winter storm that resulted in 6.3 inches of snowfall in Greer last week, 68 percent of which fell on Wednesday.

According to meteo-rologist Doug Outlaw, the typical amount of snow for this area in the month of February is 0.2 inches, and for the season, is 3.4 inches, however, this year resulted in a current total of 7.2 inches of snowfall.

Outlaw said the last time Upstate South Carolina was hit with this much snow was on Jan. 10, 2011, when 6.5 inches of snow accumulated.

“The past two winters were on the mild side. This winter, since around the end of December, we’ve had a persistent dip in the

jet stream over the east-ern part of the nation,” he said.

“Places further north around the Great Lakes and New York, they’ve had record amounts of snow-fall,” Outlaw said. “Once it

starts to get warm in the spring, there’s going to be a lot of flooded rivers from all the melting, of course we’re fortunate we don’t have to deal with that. For anybody traveling north

SEE SNOW | A9

Snow hindered city departments


Doug Crenshaw, along with many other Greer residents, shoveled snow out of walkways last week.

‘I had guys that came to work Tuesday

morning and didn’t go home until Friday

afternoon.’

Skipper BurnsPublic Service Department director

TODAY, FEB. 19THE AWANAS CLUB at El

Bethel Baptist Church, 313 Jones Ave., Greer, from 6:30 - 8:15 p.m. Kids ages 3-12 are invited. Call 877-4021.

GRACE PLACE in Greer will have its mini-mall open from 10 a.m. - noon. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.

THURSDAY, FEB. 20THE TAYLORS LIONS Club

at 6 p.m. at the “Clubhouse”, 500 East Main St., Taylors. Call Allen Culver at 350-6939.

THE TAYLORS LIONS Club at noon at the Taylors First Baptist Church Ministry Cen-ter (old Post O� ce) on Main Street, Taylors. The meeting will last approximately one hour. Call Jerry Hatley at 268-0567.

SATURDAY, FEB. 22COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

10 -11:30 a.m. at Calvary Christian Fellowship, 2455 Locust Hill Road, Taylors. Limited supplies available on a � rst come, � rst serve basis.

MONDAY, FEB. 24THE NEVER ALONE GROUP

OF NARCOTICS ANONY-

MOUS at 7 p.m. at the Greer Recreational Center.


TUESDAY, FEB. 25THE ROTARY CLUB of Greater

Greer at 7:15 a.m. at Southern Thymes. Call 334-6177.

BARBERSHOP HARMONY CHAPTER at 7 p.m. at Memo-rial United Methodist Church, 201 N. Main St., Greer. Call 877-1352.

GRACE PLACE in Greer will have its clothing closet open from 6-8 p.m. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.

GIG (GLUTEN INTOLERANCE GROUP) of Greenville meets at the Taylors Library, 316 W. Main St. The group meets from 7- 8:30 p.m.

GAP CREEK SINGERS will rehearse from 7:30-9 p.m. at The Church of the Good Shep-herd, 200 Jason St., Greer. For further information or to schedule a performance con-tact Wesley Welsh, President, at 877-5955.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26THE AWANAS CLUB at El

Bethel Baptist Church, 313 Jones Ave., Greer, from 6:30 - 8:15 p.m. Kids ages 3-12 are invited. Call 877-4021.

THURSDAY, FEB. 27KIWANIS CLUB at 6:30 p.m. at

Laurenda’s Family Restaurant.

Call Charmaine Helfrich at 349-1707.

THE SOAR BINGO CLUB from 10 a.m. - noon at Victor Gym. The cost is 50 cents per card.

FRIDAY, FEB. 28GRACE PLACE in Greer will

have its monthly dinner at 6:30 p.m. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

10 -11:30 a.m. at Calvary Christian Fellowship, 2455 Locust Hill Road, Taylors. Limited supplies available on a � rst come, � rst serve basis.

MONDAY, MARCH 3THE NEVER ALONE GROUP

OF NARCOTICS ANONY-MOUS at 7 p.m. at the Greer Recreational Center.


Calendar deadline is noon on Tuesdays. All list-ings are subject to editing and/or omission due to space constraints. Please submit information about area events, meetings, etc. to Amanda Irwin at 877-2076, email to [email protected] or mail to The Greer Citizen P.O. Box 70 Greer, SC 29652.

ROAD TO RECOVERY NEEDS DRIVERS

The American Cancer So-ciety needs volunteer driv-ers to transport patients to local treatment centers. Anyone interested in vol-unteering as a driver must have a good driving re-cord, valid driver’s license, automobile insurance and a vehicle in good working condition. The American Cancer Society provides free training for this pro-gram.

For more information on becoming a Road to Recov-ery volunteer, contact the local office at 627-8289.

MANNING HOUSE HOSTS COMMUNITY NIGHT FEB. 27

Always Best Care Senior Service and the Manning House of Greer are host-ing Community Night on Feb. 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Manning House of Greer, 10 Companion Court.

Guest speaker is Marilyn Smedberg-Gobbett. Limit-ed seating is available and registration is required.

For more information call Manning House of Greer at 989-0707 or email [email protected].

CYPRESS INTERNALMEDICINE OYSTER ROAST

On Feb. 28, the 10th annual Cypress Internal Medicine Oyster Roast will be held from 6 – 9 p.m. at 3315 Brushy Creek Road, Greer. Cost is $35 for

members and $40 for non-members. Register online at greatergreerchamber.com.

SAVED BY THE HEART SOIREE

The third annual Saved by the Heart Soiree by The Heart Companion Animal Services will be held on Friday, March 7 from 7 – 11 p.m.

Items will be auctioned off and food and beverag-es will be available along with live entertainment. All proceeds benefit spe-cial-needs and rescued animals.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit savedbytheheart.org.

CHAMBER SETS FIRST FRIDAY LUNCHEON

The Greater Greer Cham-ber of Commerce First Fri-day Luncheon presented by Greer Memorial Hospi-tal will be held on March 7, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Greer City Hall.

Admission is $10 for members and $15 for non-members. Visit greater-greerchamber.com.

BANK OF TR HOSTSCHAMBER EVENT

Handshakes and Hash-browns will be held today, March 19, from 8-9 a.m. at Bank of Travelers Rest, 140 Executive Drive, Greer.

The event is free for members of the Greater Greer Chamber of Com-merce. For more informa-tion visit greatergreer-chamber.com.

MTCC’S ROLLING ON THE RIVER

The annual Rolling on

the River fundraiser for Middle Tyger Commu-nity Center will be held on April 26 at 6:30 BMW Zentrum Center.

The event is an evening of games, food, music and prizes and the proceeds benefit children and fami-lies served by the MTCC. Tickets are $50 per person, which includes dinner.

Call Lisa Hall at 439-7760.

GOD’S PANTRYREQUESTS DONATIONS

God’s Pantry needs nonperishable food dona-tions.

Items can be dropped off at: 100 Enoree Road, Greer, on Thursdays from 10 a.m. – noon, 2481 Racing Road, Greer, on Thursdays 1 – 4 p.m. or 700 E. Main St., Duncan, on Wednesdays 9 – 11 a.m. For questions or to volunteer call Wendy at 963-4441.

GCM NEEDSSERVERS, FOOD

Greer Community Min-istries’ Fab Five donation of the week is spaghetti sauce. It is one of five items that go out in every food order.

Front desk volunteers are needed for Monday, Tuesday and Friday after-noons. Donate at the min-istry, 738 S. Line St. Ext., Greer, between 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Fri-day.

Visit gcminc.org or call 879-2254 for more infor-mation.

GREER MEALS ON WHEELS SEEKS DRIVERS

GCMs’ Meals on Wheels program needs drivers

for a number of routes, including weekly, month-ly or as substitutes, and presently biweekly drivers are needed.

A MOW driver must be a qualified driver with a valid driver’s license and have a heart for serving others. MOW has 19 deliv-ery routes in the greater Greer area. Meals are de-livered Monday through Friday. For more informa-tion, contact at 879-2254 or 877-1937.

DISTRICT FIVE FAMILY MINISTRIES COAT DRIVE

As the weather gets colder outside, District Five Families Ministries is sponsoring an ongoing coat drive. New or gen-tly used coats for men, women and children are accepted.

Please drop off at Mid-dle Tyger Community Center, at 84 Groce Road, Lyman, to help a family in need. You can also call the center for pickup at 439-7760.

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Romantic rosesRoses were in high demand last week. Here, Tim Bright creates a Valentine’s Day arrangement at McKown’s Florist.

Berkshire Hathaway Ho-meServices, the new real estate brokerage network operated by HSF Affiliates LLC, recently announced that Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. Realtors has joined the brand.

It is operating as Berk-shire Hathaway HomeSer-vices C. Dan Joyner, Real-tors.

The full-service broker-age, which has a presence in Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson and other up-state South Carolina mar-kets, is the next in a grow-ing roster of affiliates that have joined the network since September.

Berkshire Hathaway Ho-meServices now accounts for more than 23,000 agents and 600 offices in

30 states.Chief Operating Officer

David Crigler said the de-cision to join Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices was a simple one for he and Joyner, since the brand reflects Berkshire Hathaway’s values.

Joyner and Crigler com-memorated the brand and unveiled their new Caber-net and Cream yard sign during an event for agents at the Peace Center in Greenville.

HSF Affiliates CEO Earl Lee attended the event and welcomed associates to their new brand. “C. Dan Joyner, Realtors has a proud legacy of service and success dating back 50 years,” he said.

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Moremeetings scheduledBY KATIE JONESSTAFF WRITER

People packed into Greer City Hall recently to vent frustrations and concerns on what literally unites the community: Greenville’s roads.

The Greenville County Roads Commission heard from residents, police, lo-cal business representa-tives, Greer city council members, Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce representatives and Green-ville County Council mem-bers on the area’s many roads problems.

Northbound traffic from the South Carolina Inland Port is a problem, said Mark Ashmore, Ashmore Bros., Inc. president and Greer resident.

“All the traffic coming out of the ports author-ity, all of that traffic is on (State) Highway 80 and ei-ther hits on (State) 101 or (State) Highway 14 to get on (Interstate) 85. I don’t know if any of you have looked or ridden 101 from 80 to I-85, but it’s disas-trous. It can’t wait another 50 or 60 years. Neither can Highway 14. Those are major.”

Highways 101, 14, 290 and 29 repeatedly came

up through out the meet-ing.

The group also heard from the South Carolina Department of Transpor-tation, Greer City Admin-istrator Ed Driggers and City Engineer Don Hollo-man.

The South Carolina DOT is the fourth largest and has the fourth lowest user fee, unchanged since 1987, according to Brandon Wil-son, SCDOT assistant dis-trict engineer.

All the county’s needs can’t be done at the same time, Driggers said.

“What we recognize and we recognize greatly is that which is Simpsonville, Mauldin and Travelers Rest and Fountain Inn and for Greer, is good for all of Greenville County,” he said. “We recognize that decisions have to long-term be made that will have impact greater in one area more so than it may in another. We understand that the price tags for those type of projects are

going to vary from project to project, from commu-nity to community.”

The commission empha-sized that no decisions were being made, but that the meetings were for in-put.

The Roads Advisory Commission will meet again Feb. 20 at Gateway Elementary, 200 Hawkins Road, Travelers Rest; Feb. 24 at Sterling Community Center, 113 Minus St., Greenville; Feb. 25 at Val-ley Brook Outreach Center, 8323 Augusta Road, Pelzer and Feb. 27 at Mauldin Cul-tural Center, 101 E. Butler Road, Mauldin. The meet-ings are 6:30-8:30 p.m.

The commission will also meet 9 a.m.-noon March 1 at County Square, 301 Uni-versity Ridge, Greenville. Call 467-7055 for more information.

Comments can be made online through Greenville-county.org.

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The South Carolina House was on fur-lough this past week

and due to the inclement weather the Senate was also not in session. The House Ways and Means Proviso Committee did meet this past Tuesday and finished the provisos for this year’s budget. The full Ways and Means com-mittee will begin work on the budget this week.

I was supportive of the Concealed Carry Reform Bill, which the Governor signed in to law this past week. In an effort to preserve South Carolin-ians’ second Amendment rights, the bill allows for gun owners with a Con-cealed Weapons Permit (CWP) to carry firearms in restaurants that serve alcohol, as long as they do not drink alcohol.

It also allows an owner to ban individuals from carrying firearms in their establishment by posting a sign at the entrance. South Carolina is the 46th state to allow some form of legal carrying rights in these types of establish-ments.

Public colleges in the state would have to make cost cuts next year if the House approves a budget amendment passed by the Ways and Means Commit-tee this week. The House budget writers also ap-proved a proposed ban on any spending on academic standards not developed by the South Carolina Department of Education. The amendment is aimed at the state’s Common Core education standards, which have been criticized for being created outside South Carolina.

State prison officials are considering using infrared cameras for the first time in the maximum-security prison near Bishopville. Officials hope the cam-eras will allow correction officers to spot potential

escapees or outsiders smuggling contraband along the perimeter fences at night.

The biggest news of (recent weeks) was that Governor Haley signed the Department of Ad-ministration bill into law to a packed crowd in the Statehouse lobby. This was a major success for the House Republicans a few weeks ago, and marks another major step in making our state govern-ment more efficient. This journey was started by the late Republican Gov. Carroll Campbell, and his family was on hand for the bill signing.

The other major item was the election for Su-preme Court Chief Justice between current Chief Justice Jean Toal and Associate Justice Costa

Pleicones. You may have seen stories or received emails about this race over the past few weeks as it became contentious on both sides. Both Toal and Pleicones were ex-tremely professional after the election, and pledged that this will not affect their relationship on the court. Toal will have to re-tire in 2015, and Pleicones announced in the press Wednesday afternoon that he will run again when Toal retires.

A House Judiciary subcommittee debated legislation that will ban abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy. Cur-rent law sets that limit at the 24th week.

The House Education sub-committee passed out favorably the amendment to my re-authorization legislation for First Steps School Readiness. Parents as the first teacher and quality childcare and education in the public/private can truly make the difference for our young people.

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BY KATIE JONESSTAFF WRITER

The search for the new Greer Commission of Pub-lic Works general manager recently came to an end when the commissioners introduced Jeff Tuttle to staff.

Tuttle will take the helm as general manager on March 3. Randy Olson, operations manager, will continue to serve as in-terim general manager un-til then and he will assist with the transition.

Nick Stegall, the former CPW general manager, re-tired in September.

Tuttle answered ques-tions for The Greer Citizen via email.

The Greer Citizen: What’s the first thing you plan to do?

Jeff Tuttle: My first pri-ority is to listen and learn by meeting with CPW staff to better understand our challenges and opportu-nities. I had a chance to meet some of the staff last week and was impressed by their commitment to the community.

At the same time, a top priority will be to meet with key community stakeholders – the Mayor, City Administrator, City Council members, Cham-ber staff, business leaders, etc.

What are your goals for the CPW?

Our core purpose is to “improve the quality of life for the citizens of Greer.” This translates into safe, reliable, high quality and competitively priced ener-gy (electric and gas), water and waste water services. Energy and water have a profound impact on eco-nomic development, and my top priority is to be a catalyst for continued

growth and opportunities for our citizens.

Promote a culture of continuous improvement that ensures that CPW provides outstanding cus-tomer service, resource utilization, and efficiency that is among the best in the industry.

Any changes in mind?

I am not coming in with any preconceived changes in mind. I’ll work closely with the Commissioners and staff to set a vision and plan for the future.

What sort of obstacles are you bracing or pre-paring for?

Since change can cre-ate a level of anxiety, I will immediately work to establish trust with staff and key stakeholders by soliciting their ideas and input.

What about Greer ap-pealed to you? Had you been to Greer before you got involved with the

CPW?

I was impressed by the leadership and service that the Commissioners give to Greer. Such dedicated leadership is reflected in the long tenure of Mr. (Gene) Gibson, Mr. (Jeff) Howell and Mr. (Perry) Wil-liams.

Immediately following my interview with the Com-missioners, I spent several hours visiting downtown Greer. I felt at home by ev-eryone’s friendliness and hospitality. That impres-sion was reinforced by our recent visit to prepare for our move.

How did you get into the utility business?

My first job after receiv-ing my Master’s degree was with Consumers Ener-gy, a large investor-owned utility covering almost the entire southern peninsula of Michigan. Early on, I felt drawn to the level of challenges, complexity, impact, and change facing the industry.

Meet Jeff Tuttle, the new CPW general manager

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New CPW general manager Je� Tuttle introduces himself to his sta� .

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Feb. 20: Gateway Elementary, 200 Hawkins Road, Travelers RestFeb. 24: Sterling Community Center, 113 Minus St., GreenvilleFeb. 25: Valley Brook Outreach Center, 8323 Augusta Road,

PelzerFeb. 27: Mauldin Cultural Center, 101 E. Butler Road, MauldinThe meetings are 6:30-8:30 p.m.

March 1: County Square, 301 University Ridge, Greenville9 a.m.-noon

Call 467-7055 for more information.

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Roads commission hears traffic concerns

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their

appointed rounds.”So said, according to Wikipedia, the

ancient Greek work of Herodotus, trans-lated by Prof. George Herbert Palmer, Harvard University, describing the Per-sian system of mounted postal carriers c. 500 B.C.E.

And Herodotus nailed it as I watched from the window, up the length of our nearly half-mile driveway, my rural car-rier (also my farmer neighbor, Wayne) carefully chug through the snow down our narrow country lane in his late-mod-el Explorer.

Personally, I think rural carriers, as well as our armed forces, police and fire-men, should never have to pay taxes. And it wouldn’t hurt to tip them, either.Rural carriers, unlike regular post of-fice employees, don’t get those nifty little white jeeps to tool around in- they have to supply their own vehicles and when you deliver to, well, rural areas, sometimes you take your life into your hands. As a matter of fact, up the road

in Tryon, N.C., a few years ago, one rural carrier was puttering along, minding his own business, delivering mail, when be-hind him, a team of mules being driven by a local farmer, suddenly bolted and literally ran over the length of his car. I kid you not. From bumper to hood. The driver, upon being interviewed, was quoted as saying, “All I saw was wheels and ears.”

Now, I’ve been told ours is a county maintained road but I’ve rarely seen evidence of this: most of us mow along the road in the summer unless we want to be hidden behind a bramble of hon-eysuckle and poison oak. When there’s a freak snowfall, as we all experienced this past week, there is no sign of sand trucks. The thick stand of pines along

the street, leaving it in shade pretty much 24/7, left it impossible to turn right out of my driveway for a week.

I put my binoculars down.“Mail’s come,” I said, with hope in my

voice.“You expecting anything?” Paul replied

from his office.“Couple of checks.” I called back,

knowing this ruse.“Then you get it,” he said, satisfaction

in his voice.“I just came in from checking on the

horses and picking their stalls!”“Then you’re all dressed for it.”“I already took all that stuff off!”“Well,” countered Paul. “I have a cold.”“And I,” I said, heatedly, “had to go out

and do the morning barn chores in 13-degree temperatures the morning after I was up all night with the norovirus!”

“They’re your horses. Not mine,” was his reply.

Why, I oughta ...Looking at the luge track of a driveway

before me, slicing between the two fields cloaked with a snowfall that Putin would have wept over, I declared,

“This should be a new Olympic sport. Who can wear down the other, first, to actually go outside and get the stupid mail?”

In the end, neither one of us did. I felt sorry and tremendously guilty for all of Wayne’s unappreciated hard work.

Herodotus would have been appalled.“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor

gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” but just try to get the receiv-ers off their lazy butts to walk a few minutes to retrieve it!

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I’M JUSTSAYING

PAM STONE

THE UPPER ROOM | CURIOUSLY AMANDA

AMANDA IRWINSta� reporter

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat

O� cers’ courage should not be taken for granted

It’s the kind of news that should be alarming, yet it’s all too common.

A local TV news station on Saturday (Feb. 15) reported that a man attempted to assault a Richland County deputy after being pulled over for driving more than 100 miles per hour. The suspect was subdued and arrested.

In this case, the assailant didn’t appear to have a weapon. Still, it was a stark reminder of the dangers our police officers face.

Other incidents this year in South Carolina have been more serious.

In early January, a Charlotte police officer was serving a warrant in Fort Mill, SC, when he was shot by an armed robbery suspect. According to media reports, the officer was struck in the shoulder and pelvis.

A couple of days later, in the small town of Piedmont, SC, an Anderson County sheriff’s deputy was involved in a shooting after a man tried to run him over in his vehicle. According to the Anderson Independent-Mail, the offi-cer shot and wounded the man, who was then charged with attempted murder.

In early February, a Richland County sheriff’s deputy had responded to a call about an argu-ment at a Columbia home when a suspect fired shots through the door of the home in the offi-cer’s direction.

The good news is that each of these officers survived. Sadly, that’s not always the case.

The men and women of law enforcement put their lives on the line daily to keep us safe. They work in an environment where even a routine call can turn tragic.

Many devote their lives to protecting people they don’t even know — including those who would do them harm. They work long hours, sometimes for very little pay.

And of course, they often receive very little appreciation. We all know the feeling: We see blue lights, we pull over, and we think more

about the inconvenience of being stopped for a burned out brake light than we do about the noble public service performed by the officer.

That’s a natural reaction. Still, it’s a shame. While it may seem like a routine traffic stop to us, our officers never really know what awaits them. Their courage shouldn’t be taken for granted.

Every year in South Carolina, lawmen, fire-fighters and other first-responders are killed in the line of duty.

While there’s no way to adequately thank those who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice for our safety, or to adequately console their loved ones, there are several memorials across the state that pay tribute to our fallen officers.

But perhaps the best way to honor the legacy of our heroic fallen officers would be to say “thank you” to those who still place themselves in harm’s way to protect us.

Let’s let them know we appreciate all they do whenever we come into contact with them – even when we get pulled over by those enforc-ing our traffic laws.

This guest editorial was submitted by South Carolina Comptroller Richard Eckstrom. He’s also Commanding General of the State Guard.

Moving mountains

Read Matthew 17:14-21

Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say

to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. -Matthew 17:20-21 (NIV)

After a discussion with friends, I realized my applica-tion on this verse from Mat-thew 17 was different than most. The disciples could not

understand why they were un-able to heal a young boy. Jesus explained that their faith was weak. With true faith, we can do anything, Jesus said – even move mountains.

Reading this scripture, many people envision a majestic mountain picking up her skirts of rock and trees and stepping left or right – making a path for their purpose. But in my vision, I am pushing a wheelbarrow and carrying a shovel. I’m mov-ing my mountain one rock at a time.

Even with strong faith, we rely on God’s timing for the mountain to move. Just as we believe in answers to our prayers, patience and petition (wheelbarrows and shovels) help create the miracles we seek. If it is God’s will, we can call on our faith in God’s power to move our mountains, rock by rock.

Prayer: Dear God, may our faith be strong enough to move mountains. Sustain us as we move them according to your plan. Amen.

Even with strong faith,

we rely on God’s timing

for the mountain to

move.

Rights and responsibility

Last week while many of us were snowed in, Gov. Nikki Haley was signing a

document to allow concealed firearms to legally be carried in restaurants and bars without the once required eight hour training and while abstaining from alcohol.

The passage of this law will force restaurant and bar owners to choose a side: allow customers to carry firearms or post signs prohibiting them. But, the law doesn’t require business owners to be edu-cated or even notified of their rights in regards to the law’s impact on their establishments.

What is most unsettling about this law is it’s only the beginning of the gun-rights expansions Haley hopes to pass. The governor has pub-licly stated she supports the “Constitutional Carry Act” — a proposal that if passed will make it legal for residents to carry guns — concealed and in the open — without permits or any training. Legislatures push-ing this law forward, such as State Senator Lee Bright, argue the second amendment allows citizens to carry firearms with-out government restrictions, including permits, training and background checks.

It has been argued the law isn’t as alarming as it seems because people who carry guns will go through training of their own freewill because they will want to shoot accu-rately and effectively. However, shooting effectively is just as important as learning firearm safety. Between ‘03 to ‘07, about 680 people were acciden-tally killed each year by guns, half of them under 25 years old. And, in 2008 of roughly 16,272 murders committed in the U.S., 67 percent were com-mitted with firearms. Between ’03 and ’07, 33 people were shot and killed daily and more killed themselves with guns than with any other methods combined.

As S.C. residents, we have a responsibility to our families, friends, fellow citizens and ourselves to assure that, while people deserve the right to car-ry firearms those rights should be taken seriously and issued hand-in-hand with the neces-sary training to make certain anyone firing a deadly weapon understands the potential hazards and consequences that come with the responsibility.

The men and women of law

enforcement put their lives on the

line daily to keep us safe. They work

in an environment where even a

routine call can turn tragic.

Personally, I think rural

carriers, as well as our armed

forces, police and firemen,

should never have to pay taxes.

And it wouldn’t hurt to tip

them, either.

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DR: If I were in your shoes, I’d work on paying down the student loans. That means you may never be in a Roth, but there are other things you can invest in and grow wealth.

I realize this may not seem right mathemati-cally, but I don’t always make financial decisions based exclusively on math. Many times I do things based on changing money behaviors—stuff like paying off debts from smallest to largest because it actually works. Personal finance is 80 per-cent behavior, and only 20 percent head knowledge. So sometimes you have to go with what actu-ally works best overall, in spite of what the technical math shows.

In your case, I think it’s going to be very valuable to have no student loans by the time you complete your residency. With three years to go, and living on a $90,000 a year income, you can do it. Then, when you come through the other side as a full-fledge doctor, you’ll have the great income and be sit-ting there debt-free. Not a bad place to be, right?

I understand the Roth seems like a pretty good idea right now, but my advice is to stick with becoming debt-free as quickly as possible. Once that’s done, you and your wife will be able to invest, save, and build wealth like crazy!

Don’t risk the family farm

Q: My wife started work-ing at a pharmaceutical company that gave her a few thousand dollars’ worth of stock. In the last year that stock has doubled in value. We’ve considered buying more just to see how it does. What do you think about this?

DR: I understand why you guys would be excited, but you’re still looking at a very risky proposition. Any stock that doubles its value in just one year is highly volatile. It’s very unusual when things like that happen, and the fact is, it could go down in value just a quickly.

I think you should be completely debt-free, ex-cept for your house, and have an emergency fund of three to six months of expenses in place before you start any outside investing. You should also make sure that 15 percent of your income is already going toward retirement.

I don’t mind you dab-bling a little bit as long as all the other stuff is taken care of first. But I’d advise you to never put more than 10 percent of your nest egg into single stocks. If you’ve got $50,000 in a 401(k) right now, limit yourself to $5,000 in this area. That way, if the stock tanks and you lose it all, it’s only a small blip on the radar. You’ll still be financially intact and able to retire with dignity.

It would be fantastic if this stock went through the roof and you two made a ton of money. That would be awesome! But make sure you limit the potential for damage by limiting your exposure. Don’t risk the family farm, as they say, to make this play.

DAVESAYS

DAVERAMSEY

BY BILLY CANNADAEDITOR

Last week Trade Street looked a little bare to Mike Bullock, owner of Bullocks Barber Shop.

The Greer businessman used a snow day to check on his business, but no-ticed his sign, which had hung in its spot above his shop for 40 years, had gone missing.

“I discovered it around last Wednesday morning,” Bullock said. “I had a guy come in and tell me that he noticed that it was gone about three weeks ago so I don’t know how long it had been gone.”

How did he miss it? Bullock said he just rarely goes in through the front door.

“I go in and out through the back door, so I never noticed it,” Bullock said.

Bullock filed a report with the Greer Police De-partment on Thursday and said he hopes something can be done.

“My theory is that either somebody has a bind for some old signs or it was taken to the scrap metal yard,” he said.

Leland Burch, who coined the local landmark ‘the center of the universe,’ has another theory.

“The sign melted away like the snow - too much hot air floating around, especially since Ronnie Bruce, Tommy Williams, Javan Collins Ken Emory and many more stop by several times a day,” he quipped.

Bullock, who has been in business in Greer since 1969, said whoever took the sign would have had

to climb a ways to gain access. He said he did not notice any other damage to the store.

Bullock’s Barber Shop has been on Trade Street since 1980.

If you have any infor-mation on the incident, please call the Greer Police Department at 848-2194.



Greer police are invesigating the disappearance of Bullock’s Barber Shop’s infamous sign, which hung outside its location on Trade Street for more than 40 years.

Famous Bullock’s sign stolen

Cabela’s to open in April

Cabela’s Inc., a hunting, fishing and outdoor store based in Nebraska, is ex-pected to create more than 200 jobs when it opens its Greenville location on April 3.

The 100,000-square-foot store is Cabela’s first South Carolina location and will be located in Mag-nolia Park.

It is expected to em-ploy approximately 235 full-time and part-time employees, most coming from Greenville and the surrounding area, accord-ing to the business.

A ribbon cutting cer-emony, hosted by Cabela’s executives and special guests, will begin at 10:45 a.m. on April 3 and doors will open for business at 11 a.m. Opening day will kick off a weekend-long celebration highlighted by celebrity appearances, family events, giveaways and more.

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Mike Bullock, cutting hair, has worked in Greer since 1969.

‘I go in and out

through the back

door, so I never

noticed it.’

Mike Bullock

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starting high school really, and that drive from that time was to take it upon myself to do whatever it is I needed to do. I went to college on scholarships, I was never a spin-thrift, never spent a lot of mon-ey on clothes or anything like that. I enjoyed college, but I worked hard … my parents, my mother and my father, instilled that work ethic to keep going,” she said. “I had other op-portunities and other op-tions but I chose to keep the path of enjoying life through education.

“One teacher — and I hate to think about this — told me once that I should get married because of not having parents and not having that support, that probably it would be eas-ier for me...if I should go on after high school and let a man take care of me,” Fisher said. “Well, that wasn’t what I had in mind for myself, and I think that inspired me to figure out how to go to college and how to work hard and how some things you just don’t need to get what makes you happy.”

Fisher attended St. Paul’s College in Virginia from 1965 – 1969 and she taught for a year before at-tending Rutgers where she earned her master’s and doctorate.

“Initially I had a lot of interest in education be-cause a lot of teachers re-ally helped and supported me along the way, and so after my very first year of teaching, I just felt I wanted to do more. In my classroom that first year I had 90-something chil-dren. I had three groups. But, I just felt that I could make a greater impact on this whole idea of educa-tion, the education world,” she said.

Her career began in Plainfield, N.J., where she was a second grade math and science teacher for 17 years before she moved to Montgomery, Md., where she met her husband, a Greenwood native. Fisher moved to South Carolina with him and she worked her way up from teacher to supervisor, then princi-

pal and finally superinten-dent — where she served for eight years before re-tiring in 2012.

Fisher said, in her time as superintendent, she doesn’t remember see-ing any instances of rac-ism. She believes that in schools, great strides have been made in mak-ing students and teachers conscious of what is im-portant and that race does not play a factor in wheth-er children can learn.

“I think [Black History Month is] important be-cause it gives everyone an opportunity to reflect on society, on how things can change, how everyone can make an impact on that change and it allows us to think about black Ameri-cans who have made and impact on our society — you know as scientists, as doctors, as writers,” Fisher said. “And it will help our young people today to see that and understand that they can make that same difference. That it’s up to each individual to decided what they want to do, what they want to be and how they’re going to impact their future and the lives of others. And also, to un-derstand the importance of: How do I give back? How do I give back to the community? How do I give back to my family? People who have helped me move forward, what do I do now to help them move for-ward?”

Fredrick Douglas and Benjamin Mays are two people who influenced her.

“Fredrick Douglas was re-ally what they call an aboli-tionist, but what impacted me was his understanding of struggle, and I always think about it whenever I’m down or something is very, very hard to do, and I remember his words that ‘without struggle there is no progress.’ And, I think about that as I go through a struggle, and then you can see the progress and the results of that.

“Benjamin Mays was ac-tually from Ninety-Six in South Carolina. [Benjamin Mays] really worked hard in the fields and he was a struggler,” she said.

Fisher doesn’t focus on her race or gender when reflecting on her past, and she said she doesn’t believe any female should use their gender as a crutch to not be as good as many men out there, though if asked, she doesn’t identify herself as a feminist either. She said her advice to up-coming generations is that even though it’s some-times difficult you have to move forward, pursue and work to get whatever it is you want.

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Frances Smith FraleyFrances Smith Fraley,

81, of Spartanburg, died Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center-ER. Born Sept. 22, 1932, in Spartan-burg County, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Viola Reid Smith of In-man. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Spartanburg.

Survivors include her husband, Fred Richard Fraley; one son, Dr. Paul Fraley and his wife, Nell Carpenter Fraley of Green-ville; one daughter, Marie Frances Duncan and her husband, Heyward Duncan of Greenville; four grand-children, James Fredrick Fraley of Jacksonville, Fla, Caroline Marie Fraley of Greenville, Mary Frances Duncan of Daytona Beach Shores, Fla, and Andrew Strother Fraley of Green-ville; and one sister, Ruby Smith Fields of Greenville.

Mrs. Fraley was a gradu-ate of Furman University and taught at Parker High School in Greenville until returning to Spartanburg County where she earned a Master’s Degree at Con-verse College in elemen-tary education and his-tory. Most of her 31 years of teaching was in Spar-tanburg School District Six, receiving the districts Teacher-of-the-Year recog-nition in 1983.

At First Baptist she was active in teaching Sun-day School in the Youth Department, served with Yesterday’s Teens, WMU, Encouragers Disciple-ship Group, and Young at Heart.

Visitation will be from noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, February 21, 2014, at First Baptist Church of Spar-tanburg-Parlor, 250 E. Main St., Spartanburg, S.C. 29306. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m., at the church, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Donald Wilton and Mr. Al Clark. Inter-ment will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, 1300 Fernwood-Glendale Road, Spartanburg, S.C. 29307.

In lieu of flowers, me-morials may be made to Spartanburg First Baptist Church Encouraging Word Broadcasting Ministry, 250 East Main St., Spartan-burg, S.C. 29306; or online at www.theencouraging-word.org/memorial-gift. An online guest register is available at www.floyd-mortuary.com.

Carolyn Jones Carolyn Dillard Jones,

67, of Duncan, passed away on Feb. 5, 2014. She was the daughter of the late Edward and Nelle West Dillard and wife of Carroll Jones.

She was a member of First Baptist Church of Gowensville and has been attending Pineview Baptist Church in Greer where she

was the Pianist.In addition to her hus-

band, she is survived by a sister, Susan Lindsay (Ted) of Greer.

The family received friends from 2-3 p.m. Sat-urday, Feb. 8, 2014 at Pet-ty Funeral Home. Funeral services followed at 3 p.m. in the funeral home Chapel conducted by Rev. Daniel Bryant.

Burial was at First Bap-tist Church of Gowensville Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Gowensville, 5650 High-way 14, Landrum, S.C. 29356.

Condolences may be left at www.pettyfuneralhome.com.

Perry Franklin PoseyVeteran

Perry Franklin Posey, 71, of Greer, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014 at his home.

Mr. Posey was born in Pickens Coun-ty, a son of the late Frank and Pauline

Smith Posey, a member of Apalache Baptist Church and was a U.S. Army vet-eran.

Surviving are his wife, Nora Posey; two sons, Don-nie Oliver (Sherri) of Greer and Mike Oliver (Beth) of Colorado; one sister, Mar-tha High of Greer; one brother, Prue Posey of Lib-erty; four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; as well as many friends and people that loved him.

A memorial service was held 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014 at Apalache Bap-tist Church. Burial was pri-vate.

Visitation was held from 2-3 p.m. Sunday prior to the service.

The family is at their re-spective homes.

Online condolences may be made at www.thewood-mortuary.com.

Mora L. SnowMora Stewart Leonard

Snow, 94, formerly of 130 Main St., Reidville, widow of Collier Eugene Snow, died Feb. 16, 2014 at the Windsor House.

A native of Spartan-burg County, she was a daughter of the late George L. Leonard, Sr. and Zobelia Johnson Leonard, a retired employee of Ly-man Printing & Finishing Co., and was a member of Sharon United Methodist Church.

Surviving are a daugh-ter and son-in-law, Mar-tha and Richard Swift of Hendersonville, N.C.; son and daughter-in-law, Da-vid and Madeleine Snow of Greer; a brother, Wirron Leonard of Greer; a sister, June Cox of Greer; three grandchildren, Jacquelyn Pitts, Janet Quinn and Er-ick Snow; five great-grand-

children, Poppi Umberg, Gary Quinn, Laura Myers, Devin Snow and Ericka Snow and four great-great-grandchildren, Alexander Umberg, Ella Umberg, Jay Myers and Janie Myers.

Funeral services were held 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, at Sharon United Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. Matt Yon, Rev. Susan Ray and Rev. Murray Snow. Burial followed in the church cemetery.

Visitation was held from 1:45-3:15 p.m. Tuesday at the church prior to the service.

The family is at their re-spective homes.

In lieu of flowers, me-morials may be made to Sharon United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 418, Re-idville, S.C. 29375.


Kathleen a. WillinghamKathleen Ann Ogar Will-

ingham, 67, of Greer, died Feb. 13, 2014 at her resi-dence.

A native of Shelter Is-land, N.Y., daughter of the late Frederick and Florence Ogar, she was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Surviving are her hus-band of 40 years and the love of her life, Kensell Willingham of the home; one daughter, Mary Kris-tine Rawson (Stephen) of Greer; one son, Michael Willingham (Cassandra) of Georgia; three brothers, Fred Ogar, Walter Ogar and Arthur Ogar all of Shelter Island; two sisters, Rose Marie Waterhouse of DE and Alice Mayo of V.T. and five grandsons, Jacob, Nathan, Reece, Aidan and Carter.

Mrs. Willingham was predeceased by a sister Mary Ellen Ogar.

A memorial service and visitation will be held at a later date.

The family is at the home.

Memorials may be made to the Missions Fund or Fast Fund at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1301 Boiling Springs Road, Greer, S.C. 29650.


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think of who knowingly knew that road was dan-gerous and still allowed that to be built, and still allowed that road to stay narrow and nobody did anything about it. That’s wrong. That’s so wrong,” she said.

The potential subdi-vision will be an R-12 single-family cluster de-velopment, which allows for more open space and smaller lots on the 59.21 acres of land. Presently, the land is vacant, but once developed, both en-trances will be located off Snow Road.

“The circumstances that I’m struggling with on this is the cluster develop-ment, and the purpose for the cluster development is to preserve areas and pro-vide more open space and more recreational use for folks, and specifically not to allow the greater de-velopment of a property than you would otherwise get,” said commissioner Brian Martin. “The open space delineation in our ordinance is that the open space should have mean-ingful dimensions, propor-tions and placement, and the purpose of the open space being to encourage

the community develop-ment and the association of neighbors while at the same time preserving the land.

“It seems to me that the whole point in requesting the cluster development is to preserve open space for ecological uses, environ-mental protection, and I just don’t feel comfortable that this proposal does that,” he said.

Some other commis-sioners did not take issue with the proposed open space because the dimen-sions meet the open space requirements for cluster developments. Commis-sioner Chris Harrison said his concerns aligned with the residents’ in regards to

the narrow roads, which is an aspect of development that the Planning Commis-sion doesn’t control.

“My concerns unfortu-nately are some things that we don’t have control over, but I don’t want to punish the landowner and developer when they have adhered to the require-ments for their property,” said Harrison.

The subdivision received approval from the commis-sion, along with property on Brushy Creek and Alex-ander that also requested a residential cluster zon-ing for a potential sub-division. However, both properties were approved with the amendment that developers adhere to the planning staff’s recom-mendation that landscap-ing berms and sidewalks be removed from private lots and be placed in com-mon areas, making them easier to maintain.

During the business meeting, Chairperson Mor-ris Burton and Vice Chair-person Judy Jones were reappointed unanimously by the Planning Commis-sion.

The next regularly scheduled Planning Com-mission meeting will be held on March 17 at 6:30 p.m. at Greer City Hall.

FiSher: ‘Move forward, pursue, work’

PLanning: Chairperson reappointed

‘One teacher — and I hate to think about

this — told me once that I should get

married because of not having parents

and not having that support. That

probably it would be easier for me...if I

should go on after high school and let a

man take care of me. Well, that wasn’t

what I had in mind for myself...’

Dr. Phinnize Fisher

‘...i don’t want

to punish the

landowner and

developer when

they have adhered

to the requirements

for their property.’

Chris harrisoncommissioner

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try to recreate it like I re-membered it.”

He said the hobby contin-ued to grow from there.

“After I got through with that, I remember I used to do a lot of shopping at Smith and James, so I fig-

ured I would try that,” Wil-liams said. “Then I tried Mike Greer’s garage. It’s just something I enjoy. I give it to them, I don’t sell it.”

Williams’ current proj-ect, Hyman’s seafood res-taurant in Charleston, has just gotten underway.

“I started whittling when I was a young boy, but I re-ally didn’t do a lot of it un-til after I got on up in age,” Williams said. “I made a few things while I was serving in World War II out in the Pacific. It just kind of grew on me as I got a little more involved.”

Williams has also made more than 7,000 pocket-sized replica baseball bats that he gives away on a regular basis.

“I’ve been making those since 1990 and still make them,” he said.


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SINGLES BIBLE STUDYPELHAM ROAD BAPTIST

Pelham Road Baptist Church, 1108 Pelham Road, Greer, hosts a Sin-gles Bible Study each Sun-day from 6-8:30 p.m.

SMALL GROUPSGREER FIRST BAPTIST

ENGAGE Small Groups began this past Sunday. Groups offered include Co-Ed Young Adult Sin-gles (twenty-somethings - 35), Newlywed Married Couples (couples married less than five years), Mar-ried with Children (middle adult ages with children or youth) and Co-Ed Older Adults (married or single over 35). Groups will meet in the Family Life Center.

Doughnuts and coffee will be available beginning at 9:15 a.m. and the class begins at 9:45 a.m. There will be a large group time and the last part of the class will consist of small group discussion times. Class will be lead by Pas-tor Rick.

MAPLE CREEK HOSTS HEALTH CARE SEMINAR

New Horizon Family Health Services, a Certi-fied Application Counsel-or Organization with the Affordable Care Act, will

host several local seminars in an effort to educate res-idents on health care.

The group will provide assistance with enrolling into a health insurance plan through the Health Insurance Marketplace. This service is provided free of charge.

The seminars will take place at several area lo-cations, including Maple Creek Baptist Church, lo-cated at 609 South Main Street in Greer, on Feb. 22 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. More seminars are available.

Call 233-1534 ext. 2119 for more information.

GRIEFSHAREFAIRVIEW BAPTIST

Fairview Baptist Church, 1300 Locust Hill Road, Greer, will host Grief-Share, a support group led by Carol Allen, on the sec-ond Sunday of each month from 4:45 - 6:30 p.m.

For more information, contact Carol Allen at 292-6008.

CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOLREDEEMER LUTHERAN

Redeemer Lutheran Church, 300 O’Neal Road, Greer, conducts Sunday School at 9 a.m., followed by the worship service at 10 a.m. each Sunday.

Redeemer’s pastor is Scottie Burkhalter.

For more information, call 877-5876.

TNT TUESDAYS AT NEW BEGINNINGS OUTREACH

New Beginnings Out-reach Ministry will host a bible study entitled “TNT Tuesday” every other Tuesday at 105 Marshland Lane, Greer.

New Beginnings Out-reach meets on Sundays at 611 Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer, from 10-11:30 a.m. in the lower level of the strip mall across the street from Kia Dealership.

For more Information, call 325-2714.

GROWTH GROUP AT RIVERSIDE BAPTIST

Signups are now under-way for “Growth Goups” at Riverside Baptist Church.

These small groups study the Bible together and challenge each other to grow in their walk with Christ. If you are already in a Growth Group, there is no need to sign up.

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Although the snowstorm made delivery a few days late, Greer Community Ministries’ (GCM) volun-teers handed out Valen-tine’s Day cards to Meals on Wheels and Senior Din-ing recipients on Monday.

The cards were a combi-

nation of gifts from Wash-ington Baptist Church’s AWANA and Sunday school classes, and DoSo-mething.org’s youth vol-unteer organization.

The Meals on Wheels Association of America’s Love Letters campaign en-courages teens to make handmade Valentine’s Day cards to lift the spirits of older adults across the county during a peak time of isolation and depres-

sion. “We were thrilled to

have received 350 cards for our clients,” said Cindy Simpler, GCM executive di-rector. “As many connect-ed to our program know, we deliver so much more than a meal. These ador-able cards have warmed the hearts of over 300 homebound seniors in the Greater Greer area and we extend our gratitude to both groups.”

In total, more than 68,000 volunteers nation-wide made Valentine’s Day cards for nearly 100,000 of the 2.5 million vulner-able seniors receiving Meals on Wheels across the country.

Young people found lo-cal participating Meals on Wheels programs from a list of 356 across all 50 states.

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Aretha Duncan, left to right, Lewis Dennis and Doris Cook opened Valentine’s Day cards from Washington Baptist Church’s AWANA program and the DoSomething.org youth association on Monday.

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Showing appreciationAlexandra Crossland, left, and Helen Foxhall of the Greer Camellia Garden Club show their appreciation for Dr. Lori York, center, for her dedication to the organization. York has consistently designed covers for the yearbook and presented programs for the club.

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4. From 1 Corinthians 13:13, what is the greatest of virtues? Faith, Hope, Charity, Forgiveness

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BAPTISTAbner Creek Baptist Church2461 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6604Airport Baptist Church776 S. Batesville Rd., Greer • 848-7850Apalache Baptist1915 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6012Bible Baptist Church6645 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-7003Blue Ridge Baptist Church3950 Pennington Rd., Greer • 895-5787BridgePointe600 Bridge Rd., Taylors • 244-2774Burnsview Baptist Church9690 Reidville Rd., Greer • 879-4006Calvary Baptist101 Calvary St., Greer • 877-9759Calvary Baptist108 Forest St., Greer • 968-0092Calvary Hill Baptist100 Edward Rd., LymanCalvary Road Baptist Church108 Bright Rd., Greer • 593-2643Camp Creek Baptist Church1100 Camp Creek Rd., TaylorsCedar Grove Baptist Church109 Elmer St., Greer • 877-6216Community Baptist Church642 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 848-3500Double Springs Baptist Church3800 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors • 895-1314Ebenezer-Welcome Baptist Church4005 Highway 414, Landrum • 895-1461El Bethel Baptist Church313 Jones Ave., Greer • 877-4021Emmanuel Baptist Church423 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-2121Enoree Fork Baptist Church100 Enoree Dr., Greer • 268-4385Fairview Baptist Church1300 Locust Hill Rd., Greer • 877-1881First Baptist Church202 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 877-4253Freedom Fellowship Greer High • 877-3604Friendship Baptist Church1600 Holly Springs Rd., Lyman • 877-4746Good News Baptist Church1592 S. Highway 14, Greer • 879-2289Grace Baptist Church760 W. Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3519Grace Place407 Ridgewood Dr., Greer • 877-7724Greer Freewill Baptist Church110 Pine Ridge Dr., Greer • 968-0310Heritage Chapel Baptist Church218 Alexander Rd., Greer • 989-0170Highland Baptist Church3270 Hwy. 414, Taylors • 895-5270Hillcrest Baptist Church111 Biblebrook Dr., Greer • 877-4206Hispanic Baptist Iglesia Bautista Hispana199 Hubert St., Greer • 877-3899Holly Springs Baptist Church250 Hannon Rd., Inman • 877-6765Locust Hill Baptist Church5534 Locust Hill Rd., Travelers Rest • 895-1771Maple Creek Baptist Church609 S. Main St., Greer • 877-1791Milford Baptist Church1282 Milford Church Rd., Greer • 895-5533Mount Lebanon Baptist Church572 Mt. Lebanon Church Rd., Greer • 895-2334New Hope Baptist Church561 Gilliam Rd., Greer • 879-7080New Jerusalem Baptist Church413 E. Poinsett St., Greer • 968-9203New Life Baptist Church90 Becco Rd., Greer • 895-3224Northwood Baptist Church888 Ansel School Rd., Greer • 877-5417O’Neal Baptist Church3420 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0930Pelham First Baptist Church2720 S. Old Highway 14, Greer • 879-4032People’s Baptist Church310 Victor Avenue Ext., Greer • 848-0449Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church201 Jordan Rd., Lyman • 879-2646Pleasant Grove Baptist Church1002 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-6436

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church4899 Jordan Rd., Greer • 895-3546Providence Baptist Church2020 Gibbs Shoals Rd., Greer • 877-3483Rebirth Missionary Baptist Church2375 Racing Road, Greer • 877-0449Riverside Baptist Church1249 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 879-4400Second Baptist Church570 Memorial Drive Ext., Greer • 877-7061Southside Baptist Church410 S. Main St., Greer • 877-2672St. John’s Baptist Church2 Groveland Rd., Taylors • 879-2904Suber Road Baptist Church445 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 801-0181Taylors First Baptist Church200 W. Main St., Taylors • 244-3535United Family Ministries13465 E. Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer • 877-3235Victor Baptist121 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 877-9686Washington Baptist Church3500 N. Highway 14, Greer • 895-1510Welcome Home Baptist Church1779 Pleasant Hill Rd., Greer • 901-7674

CATHOLICBlessed Trinity Catholic Church901 River Rd., Greer • 879-4225

CHURCH OF CHRISTRiverside Church of Christ2103 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 322-6847

CHURCH OF GODChurch of God - Greer500 Trade St., Greer • 877-0374Church of God of Prophecy2416 N. Highway 14, Greer • 877-8329Eastside Worship Center601 Taylors Rd., Taylors • 268-0523O’Neal Church of God3794 Berry Mill Rd., Greer • 895-4273Pelham Church of God of Prophecy139 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 801-0528Praise Cathedral Church of God3390 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 879-4878

EPISCOPALGood Shepherd Episcopal200 Cannon St., Greer • 877-2330

LUTHERANAbiding Peace Ev. Lutheran Church401 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville •288-4867Apostolic Lutheran Church453 N. Rutherford Rd., Greer • 848-4568Immanuel Lutheran Church & School LCMS2820 Woodruff Rd., Simpsonville • 297-5815Redeemer Lutheran Church, ELCA300 Oneal Rd., Greer • 877-5876

METHODISTBethel United Methodist Church105 E. Arlington Ave., Greer • 879-2066Covenant United Methodist Church1310 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 244-3162Ebenezer United Methodist Church174 Ebenezer Road, Greer • 987-9644Faith United Methodist Church1301 S. Main St. (S. Hwy. 14), Greer • 877-0308Fews Chapel United Methodist Church4000 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-2522Grace United Methodist Church627 Taylor Rd., Greer • 877-7015Lee Road United Methodist Church1377 East Lee Rd., Taylors • 244-6427Liberty Hill United Methodist Church301 Liberty Hill Rd., Greer • 968-8150Liberty United Methodist Church4276 Highway 414, Landrum • 292-0142Memorial United Methodist Church201 N. Main St., Greer • 877-0956Mountain View UMC6525 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-8532Sharon United Methodist Church1421 Reidville Sharon Rd., Greer • 879-7926St. Mark United Methodist Church911 St. Mark Rd., Taylors • 848-7141

St. Paul United Methodist Church3856 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-5570Victor United Methodist Church1 Wilson Ave., Greer • 877-5520Woods Chapel United Methodist Church2388 Brown Wood Rd., Greer • 879-4475Zoar United Methodist Church1005 Highway 357, Greer • 877-0758

PRESBYTERIANBlue Ridge Presbyterian Church2094 Highway 101 North, Greer • 483-2140Devenger Road Presbyterian Church1200 Devenger Rd., Greer • 268-7652Fellowship Presbyterian Church1105 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 877-3267First Presbyterian Church100 School St., Greer • 877-3612Fulton Presbyterian Church821 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3190

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Thinned forests hardest hit

The South Carolina For-estry Commission is con-tinuing to conduct post-storm timber damage assessments.

“This is a complicated process due to the large extent of the storm’s im-

pact which covered much of the state,” said Scott Hawkins with the com-mission. “Fortunately, this week’s weather forecast supports aerial surveys already underway and ground-level work by FIA (Forest Inventory Analy-sis) crews.”

Hawkins said the com-mission is looking into requests for federal assis-tance in South Carolina.

“At issue are the pos-sible request for federal

assistance for landowners, providing landowners with advice on how to deal with damage, how to minimize damage impacts to the in-dustry and to individual landowners and establish-ing a realistic timeline for final data,” he said.

Hawkins said pines that thinned in the last few years bore the most dam-age from the storm, as they have little to “lean on” under the weight of frozen precipitation.

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Recovery efforts are still underway in South Caroli-na after a winter storm left thousands without power last week.

Gov. Nikki Haley said she is still working with emergency management officials, representatives from The Electric Coop-eratives of South Caro-lina, and the leadership of various electric coop-eratives still experiencing significant power outages, to determine what direct resources and support is needed to help ensure the most timely and efficient restoration of power.

As of Monday, there were more than 38,000 outages statewide.

“Gov. Haley has com-mitted law enforcement resources to help establish hazard-free environments for crews and personnel to continue restoration work,” Haley’s office stat-ed in a release.

As state agencies move into recovery operations, Haley’s office said the gov-

ernor and agency directors are focused on the debris removal process and con-ducting damage assess-ments.

“Due to the extensive nature of the winter storm, efficient debris removal operations and planning are critical,” the release stated. “Debris removal is a meticulous process in which all materials are ac-

counted for and disposed of safely in accordance with local, state and fed-eral waste disposal laws.”

Haley said joint prelimi-nary damage assessments will begin this week as county, state, and federal officials assess and docu-ment damage incurred during the winter storm.

Thousands still without power after winter storm

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Gov. Nikki Haley visits with responders after the storm.

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This photo taken after the ice storm shows main stem (trunk) snapping from which, forestry officials say, trees do not recover.

Legislation will be in-troduced this week in the South Carolina State Sen-ate that proposes the cre-ation of the “Senior Traf-ficking and Exploitation Reform of 2014.”

According to Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell, the leg-islation seeks to deter per-sons who have previously manipulated the system by closing existing loop-holes, increasing penalties for those who knowingly and intentionally cause harm and by addressing new forms of abuse and exploitation that were not recognized or defined by previous law.

“The 1993 Omnibus Adult Protection Act did not protect all seniors and limited their protections,” McConnell’s office state in

a release. “This legislation is a proactive approach to preparing South Carolina for a large influx of older adults, who are becoming increasingly vulnerable to new forms of clever schemes and creative tactics by scammers and predators alike.”

McConnell said this reform is needed. “There have been cases reported, for instance, where unscrupulous

predators trolled emer-gency rooms looking for elderly persons without any stable home environ-ment to return to after being discharged from the hospital,” McConnell said. “These predators will promise a place to live and care in exchange for the elderly person’s monthly income, but in reality, this elderly person may receive sub-standard care while their money has now been

handed over to a potential criminal.”

While the legislation maintains many of the ef-fective policies contained in the Omnibus Adult Pro-tection Act, the proposed bill’s language draws from legislation passed in other states, such as Florida and Alabama, in an effort to

strengthen our own state laws and expand the pro-tections afforded to all persons age 60 and older from the perils of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and human trafficking

“While we don’t want to discourage Good Sa-maritans from extending a helping hand to these vulnerable adults, we want to send a clear message - South Carolina will not tol-erate those of who inten-tionally set out to exploit or abuse seniors or adults with disabilities,” said Mc-Connell. “We recognize the importance and urgency of toughening our state’s ex-isting laws, and that’s pre-cisely what this legislation strives to accomplish.” South Carolina is cur-rently home to more than,

900,000 seniors, and that number is expected to double over the next 15 years, according to McCo-nnell.

A publication by AARP estimates between one and two million older Americans are abused na-tionally each year, but re-search suggests that only one out of every 14 elder abuse cases is reported.

“From financial exploi-tation to human traffick-ing to children taking ad-vantage of their parent’s well-being and livelihood, we’re going to continue to see more and more un-fortunate situations occur if safeguards are not put into place now,” said Sena-tor Thomas Alexander, sponsor of the legislation.

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over the next few weeks they really need to keep that in mind.”

As a result of the Win-ter storm, Greer’s Rec-reation Department was forced to close facilities and postpone day-to-day operations, including the planned cleanup of City Park pond.

“We were affected most greatly by our facilities being closed, city offices were shut down Wednes-day and Thursday, when that happens our opera-tions shut down,” said Red Watson, Parks and Recre-ation assistant director.

Once the department reopened, another day of work was lost because the parks and vehicles had to be inspected for damage, but Watson said thankful-ly no damage was found.

“We’ve had several ice storms and snow storms over the past few years so from a Parks and Rec-reation Department per-spective, I feel that we were prepared,” Watson said. “There’s not a whole

lot we can do with moth-er nature and we always keep that in the back of our heads because we deal with it year round. In the summer time it’s popup thunderstorms, in the fall it’s heavy winds blowing tents around that we have, and then during the win-ter it’s snow and ice, but we always keep it in the back of our head and we just kind of deal with it as it comes to us.”

Because of the snow-storm management con-ducted by the Public Ser-vice Department, Watson said they made it possible

for their employees to come back to work.

“They worked non-stop around the clock and I think they did a very good job,” he said.

Skipper Burns, Public Service Department direc-tor, said he had some em-ployees come into work on Tuesday who did not go home until Friday because of the storm management. Three to four trucks were running around the clock spreading sand and plow-ing roads to minimize the hazardous road condi-tions.

“I had guys that came to work Tuesday morning and didn’t go home until Friday afternoon,” Burns said.

“[The] main thing is stay off the streets. That’s what the highway patrol and ev-erybody — we were asking people not to travel,” he said. “That’s the biggest help to us. If a street gets blocked with automobiles — whatever the situation — then we can’t get to the next location. It’s just a hindrance to use to hunt another direction to go.”

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Emergency management workers across the Upstate were busy Friday answer-ing phone calls from con-cerned citizens about the 4.1 magnitude earthquake that hit at 10:23 p.m.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s web-site, it was centered 7 miles west of the town of Edgefield, S.C., and was felt as far west as Atlanta and as far north as Hick-ory, N.C., each about 150 miles away.

USGS geophysicist Dale Grant said the quake was a large one for the area. No injuries were immediately reported.

USGS geophysicist Dale Grant told WIS-TV the quake was only about three miles deep.

Derrec Becker with South Carolina Emergency Man-agement said he received calls asking if a train had collided or if a helicopter had flown overhead after the rumble.

He said state emergen-cy manage are calling all counties in the state to make sure everything is okay.

The earthquake origi-nated in Edgefield, near Columbia, and Edgefield County officials confirmed there was no significant damage in that area.

He said earthquakes can-not be predicted, and no

one should take Friday’s earthquake as a sign that more earthquakes will happen in the area.

An aftershock of the earthquake was felt by some in South Carolina on Sunday.

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Duncan Council ap-proved a motion that al-lows exploration of new ordinances for zoning code enforcement and business licenses, which would address nuisance violations for residential and rental properties.

“I went to a seminar, actually a training, in Co-lumbia with the Municipal Association and it was on economic development,” said Mayor Lisa Scott. “And one thing that was stressed to me, and it was kind of repeated over and over in the session, is that you have to have a nice ta-ble for people to come sit down to and if your table doesn’t look very nice then people don’t want to come sit at your table. And, it’s my opinion — and y’all probably will agree — that Duncan doesn’t have a very nice table because of the litter, people’s grass (being) grown up and other kinds of nuisances around town.”

It was suggested to get prisoners handle the litter problem, but Scott sug-gested rather council con-sider planning a day for the community to cleanup Duncan.

“I think that it doesn’t need to be prisoners nec-essarily doing the work, it needs to be individuals who live in this town and take pride in their commu-nity,” said Scott.

Scott said Duncan’s pres-ent ordinances for nui-sances do not have teeth in them, creating repeat offenders. On first offense

a red tag is issued to notify individuals of the nuisance and resident have 30 days to correct the problem. If corrections aren’t made offenders are given a ci-tation and fined $237.50. However, even if the fines are paid through offend-ers’ own will or a court mandate, the nuisance continues to go uncorrect-ed. The present ordinance also fails at reprimanding repeat offenders and the time frame to correct the issues creates problems as well. For example, the present ordinance states grass must be 18 inches high before the town can take action, but in the 30-day time frame given to alleviate the problem it continues to worsen.

An ordinance similar to Woodruff’s rental property ordinance is being consid-ered for adoption because rental properties without out-of-town owners have led to nuisance problems. Woodruff requires every rental property owner to register each property and provide contact informa-tion and rental property specifics, but Woodruff’s ordinance also requires business licenses for rental properties giving the town more avenues to prosecute repeat offenders.

A motion to allow Scott to explore ordinances that could be put in place to address these was unani-mously approved.

Scott presented a proc-lamation to Miss Duncan Teen Anna Grace Hatch-ette. Hatchette will com-pete for Miss South Caro-lina Teen in Columbia beginning June 24 – 28.

“Whereas when Ms. Anna Grace Hatchette was crowned Miss Duncan Teen Jan. 11, 2014, a great hon-or was bestowed on her by recognizing her character, confidence, dedication and service to the community. And whereas Anna Grace will be an advocate for children and education in her platform of children’s literacy,” said Scott.

The next regularly scheduled Duncan Town Council meeting will be held on March 10 at 6 p.m. at Duncan Town Hall, 153 W. Main St., Duncan.


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A Greenville man and a Spartanburg man were ar-rested Tuesday and could be facing multiple charges after security cameras at Duke Energy caught the two men stealing copper from their sub-station.

According to incident reports of the Greer Police Department, warrants re-quest on both Christopher Albert Burton, 26, of 1111 Gordon St., Greenville and Brandon Clark Burton, 28, of 226 Windson Way, Spar-tanburg, will be submitted for possession of a stolen vehicle, grand larceny, pos-session of meth with the intent to distribute, pos-session of a stolen tag and trespassing. B. Burton has already been charged with interfering with police and trespassing. C. Burton has already been charged with possession of drug para-phernalia.

According to police re-ports, officers were dis-patched to 335 W. Phillips Road when Duke Energy’s security cameras showed two suspects stealing cop-per from their substation.

Duke Energy advised the officer that the two sus-pects were in a four-door truck that had entered the property by cutting a fence. Officers located the vehicle and upon ap-proaching it, both sus-pects fled on foot before attempting to hide.

After threatening the suspects with a K9 unit, C. Burton surrendered and was immediately taken into custody. C. Burton re-fused to provide officers with the identification of the second suspect who refused to turn himself in to officers.

A K9 unit from the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office eventually located the second suspect (B. Bur-ton) in the woods. He was also taken into custody.

Officers confirmed through dispatch that the vehicle the two men had been in was stolen out of Greenville County and had a stolen tag on it.

An inventory of the vehicle showed 2 glass pipes used for smoking methamphetamine along with multiple distribution baggies and 2 grams of an off white colored rock substance believed to be methamphetamine.

C. Burton already had three active warrants with Greenville County. Both men were transported to jail.

(Note: All information contained in the following blotter was taken directly from the official incident reports filed by the Greer Police Department or The Spartanburg County Sher-iff’s Office or The Green-ville County Sheriff’s Of-fice. All suspects are to be considered innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.)

MULTIPLE CHARGESJavier Torrez, 27, of 132

Broadus St., Greer, has

been charged with reckless driving, faulty equipment, no state driver’s license and open container.

According to incident reports, an officer was on routine patrol when he ob-served a black Nissan trav-eling at excessive speed with an Arizona license tag.

The officer then ob-served the vehicle switch lanes without using a turn signal. The officer caught up to the vehicle and ini-tiated a traffic stop on it and its driver Torrez.

Torrez told the officer he didn’t have a driver’s license and he had been drinking a little that night. The officer observed an open container inside the vehicle but concluded that Torrez was not impaired.

Torrez told the officer that his turn signal was broken. He was arrested and transported to the Greer City Jail.

MULTIPLE CHARGESIda V. Jackson, 49, of

2215 E. Lee Road, Taylors, has been charged with: driving without lights at night, no registration in possession and driving under the influence (sec-ond offense) with a blood alcohol of .16 or greater.

According to incident reports, an officer was on routine patrol when she observed a gray sedan sit-ting across two lanes in the southbound lane of East Wade Hampton and Arlington Road with no headlights on. The officer then observed the vehicle turn left onto Arlington Road into the wrong lane before the driver jerked the vehicle back to the cor-rect lane.

The officer then initiated a traffic stop on the vehi-cle and its driver, Jackson. Upon approaching Jack-son, the officer observed her eyes to be bloodshot and glazed over and de-tected a strong odor of alcohol coming from her

person. The officer conducted

a series of field sobriety tests on Jackson that she failed.

She was arrested and transported to the Greer City Jail where she blew a .23 on a breathalyzer.

ASSAULT AND BATTERYFelissia Sandra Jones,

40, of 18 Cone Crest Court, Greenville, has been charged with assault and battery.

According to incident reports, an officer was dis-patched to an address on Morgan Street in reference to a fight in progress.

Upon arrival the officer spoke to the victim who stated Jones came into her home uninvited and grabbed her mother by the hair before throwing her to the ground.

The victim stated she tried to get Jones off her mother at which point Jones threw her (the vic-tim) to the ground and

punched her in the face several times. The victim’s mother then sprayed Jones in the face with mace at which point Jones ran to her vehicle.

The officer also inter-viewed Jones and found her to be the primary ag-gressor in the incident. She was arrested and transported to the Greer City Jail.

MULTIPLE CHARGESErwin Alcides Sosa, 30, of

710 Centric Court, Green-ville, has been charged with an expired tag, no state driver’s license (sec-ond offense), failure to ap-pear and misrepresenting his identity to law enforce-ment.

According to incident reports, an officer was on S.C. Highway 29 when he noticed a green Chevro-let whose year sticker on the license plate was ob-structed by a hanging bulb and wire. The officer ran the tag number of the ve-

hicle and it came back as expired.

The officer then initiated a traffic stop on the truck and its driver Sosa. When asked for his license, Sosa told the officer that he didn’t have his wallet and provided the officer with a false identity.

The officer eventually learned Sosa’s real iden-tity and learned he had a warrant out of Easley for a previous charge of being stopped without a driver’s license. Sosa was arrested and transported to the Greer City Jail where he was held for the Easley Po-lice Department.

DUS THIRD OFFENCEMichael Ray Collins, 40,

of 58 W. Harris St., Green-ville, has been charged with driving under sus-pension (third offense), interfering with police and disregarding a traffic con-trol device.

According to incident reports, an officer re-

sponded to the intersec-tion of W. Wade Hampton Boulevard and West Poin-sett Street in reference to a collision. Upon an inves-tigation into the incident, the officer learned a Ford Mustang driven by Col-lins had disregarded a red light and entered into the path of a Dodge Caravan. The officer asked who was driving the mustang and Collins stated that his wife was driving it but had left the scene to go pick up somebody. However the driver of the other vehicle along with two witnesses stated that Collins was the driver. Eventually Collins admitted he was driving.

The officer learned that his license was suspended. He was arrested and trans-ported to the Greer City Jail.

DUI, UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM

Edwin Earl Ritts, 35, of 111 Oakwood Drive, Ly-man, has been charged with DUI and the unlawful carrying of a handgun.

According to incident re-ports, an officer respond-ed to the area of Ashmore Road and West Wade Hampton Boulevard in ref-erence to a complaint of a possible drunk driver.

A second officer was able to locate the suspect-ed vehicle and observed it drifting in and out of its lane. That officer initiated a traffic stop on the car and its driver Ritts. The original officer arrived on scene and observed both of Ritts’ eyes to have nys-tagmus.

A series of field sobri-ety tests were performed on Ritts most of which he failed. He was arrested and transported to the Greer City Jail. While in trans-port Ritts told the officer that he had taken an extra Xanax prior to leaving his home.

A certified Drug Recog-nition Expert from Mauld-in City Police Department was called out to the jail and through an evaluation determined Ritts to be on depressants and marijua-na.

A loaded .38 revolver was located in an open slot in Ritts’ vehicle.

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rived opioid is generally considered the best high that money can buy, and one of the most afford-able. It has also gained a well-deserved reputa-tion as the one of the world’s most dangerous drugs. It triggers images of overdoses, needles, diseases and emaciated junkies with “tombstones in their eyes” (as the band Steppenwolf so aptly described them in the late ’60s).

But that shivering, sick streetwalker with track marks up and down his arms is no longer the face of heroin abuse in America. Today’s heroin epidemic is more of a middle-class problem, with most addicts starting with physician-prescribed opiates and then moving to the hard stuff when the funds and/or supply begin to slow.

America’s first smack epidemic hit a little over four decades ago. It’s esti-mated that 10-15 percent of returning Vietnam vets had become addicted to the drug while in Asia, vastly increasing demand for it upon returning to the U.S. Meanwhile, a lot of the hippies who had experimented with weed, LSD and other psyche-

delics in the ’60s had progressed into full-scale addiction. In major cities, addicts began scoring and shooting up in the city slums. Soon Methadone clinics began emerging in these urban areas, a trend that continues to this day. In the mid ‘80s, however, crack replaced heroin as the most popular in-ner-city drug and heroin demand and supply both shrank. It made a bit of a comeback in the ‘90s when teens began to snort and smoke it, but fell off again when Oxycontin hit the market at the turn of the century.

Ever since then, we’ve had a full-scale prescrip-tion drug abuse epidemic on our hands, with 16,652 fatal prescription opiate overdoses in 2010 alone. The Los Angeles Times recently reported roughly 12 million Americans cur-rently abuse prescription painkillers. But several new trends are finally

shaking up the prescrip-tion opiate market:

1. Purdue Pharma has changed the structure of Oxycontin so that it can no longer be crushed, melted and injected. This has driven the price of non-time-released Oxyco-done (the most popular of which is Roxycodone) up significantly.

2. Both law enforce-ment and state and fed-eral drug agencies have cracked down on “doctor shopping” (getting pre-

scriptions from multiple doctors), hampering black market supply and driv-ing street prices up even further.

3. As the supply and street prices of pharma-ceuticals remains incon-sistent, there has been a steady inflow of heroin coming in from Mexico. The DEA reported last year that the amount of smack confiscated on the US border increased 232 percent from 2008-2012.

Add it all up and we’ve got a heroin rebirth on our hands. 38 people have already died from fatal overdoses this year in Rhode Island, and heroin seizures in NYC are up 67 percent over the last four years. 65 percent more Americans died from heroin overdoses in 2010 than in 2000.

That total should continue to rise as long as prescription drug addicts continue to turn to heroin. Sadly, it’s the only logical outcome. Dr. Marc Siegel, a contribu-tor for Fox News, said in an essay this month that 80% of first-time heroin users started off abusing prescription drugs.

What makes this new heroin epidemic differ-ent than the one 40 years ago is that it is no longer confined to big cities. There is enough demand for it in America’s smaller towns for it to spread even further and faster than before.

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Enjoying the journey

In sports, no matter what level you’re play-ing on, championships

are the ultimate goal. Win-ning is the goal.

It’s something we talk about, but rarely is it real-ized. Teams go into every season thinking it’s their year.

We see great team after great team slip up in pursuit of what they’ve worked so hard for. This week, however, a couple of our teams are making the dream a reality.

Eastside wrestling is a dynasty. If you’re not aware of that, you haven’t been paying much atten-tion for the past 22 years. The Eagles have spent the last two decades atop their region — and a good bit of that time ranked in the state polls.

Monday night, they earned an opportunity to snag another state title.You could see it in their eyes. Kids who have endured hard practices, training in the offseason and numerous hours of conditioning finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They were on their way to a state title and they finally have their chance to become champions.

The way they did it was impressive, too. With an electric crowd on hand, the Eagles got off to hot start. A quick pin by Clay Walker set the tone, and it was all Eastside from there. The Eagles’ roster, featuring Charlton Clark, Ian Rodgers, Kaden Clark and others, dominated Belton-Honea Path, leav-ing the overwhelming feeling of relief — the feeling of an accom-plished goal.

The same is true at Greer, where a group of JV girls rode an unde-feated record all the way to a Greenville County basketball champion-ship.It’s one thing to get to a championship, but it’s an entirely different thing to do it while going unbeaten.

This team cruised through the regular season, making it look easy many times through-out. The postseason was no different. Greer defeated Greenville in the championship game by a 25-point margin. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

Everyone loves a good championship story, but lets be honest, you’re missing out if you only live for the playoffs.

While many teams prepare to win it all each year, the joy is often in the journey. Several local basketball teams will be taking a seat during the postseason this year, but made some lasting memo-ries in the regular season.

The Greer boys come to mind. This team is one of the most unpredict-able teams I’ve watched. At times, they looked like they could beat anybody in the state, but in other games they couldn’t seem to get anything to fall. Led by a couple of impressive seniors, Greer came up short in key game after game.

They’re not the only team that underachieved. The Blue Ridge boys caught fire late in the season, making the most noise when they took down Eastside on a buzzer beating shot a few weeks back. Teams like the Riverside boys and the Greer girls also had moments this season where they looked like they were heading for a breakthrough, but the truth is, you can only have one champion.

The point here is that championships don’t come that often. Savor them when you have the opportunity, but enjoy the journey in the meantime.

SPORTSThe Greer Citizen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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BY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

The Greer High JV girls’ basketball team would not be able to tell you what it is like to lose a game this season.

They have not done it all year.

The Lady Yellow Jackets put the finishing touches on its perfect season, capturing the Greenville County JV Championship with a 46-21 win over Greenville.

“Hard work pays off,” Greer coach Demarcio Downs said. “A lot of those same girls played to-gether during the summer, so they’ve been able to get some chemistry and they were able to click. It comes from a long summer of putting in hard work.

“They are some enjoy-able girls,” he said. “They’re fun to be around.”

Greer opened the post-season with a win over Wade Hampton, who took down the Lady Yellow Jackets in the first round last year.

“We were really trying to take a step forward, beat-ing a (Class AAAA) school

and beating the team that got us last year,” Downs said. “That gave us some confidence.”

The Yellow Jackets de-feated Woodmont in the second round.

“They were athletic and they tried to press,” Downs said. “We were able to han-dle the press and control our ball movement.”

Downs said he saw tre-mendous effort from his team against Greenville in the finale.

“Greenville gave us our two best games all year long,” Downs said. ‘They were the only team to play us under 10 points. Both teams knew each other so it wasn’t anything knew. Our girls came out from the jump and scored the first ten points. They nev-er looked back.’

“They played like cham-pions,” he said.

Tori Henderson led the team all season, averaging more than 15 points per game.

“Everybody had a role and every girl found a way to contribute every game,” Downs said. “Tori might lead us in scoring in all the games, but we might have a bunch of different girls step up and contribute on any given night. They were a really good team. They had really good chemistry and played together.”

Downs said the future for Greer High basketball is bright.

“With this group of girls and with what’s already on varsity, during these next three years, Greer should be trying to make deep runs into the playoffs,” Downs said. “You’re going to be adding this team to the talented young team they already have.”

Despite the pressure of perfection, Downs said his team continued to power through and exceed expec-tations.

“Once we got going, it wasn’t about the unde-feated season,” Downs said. “All we cared about was the very next game. That’s the only one that counted. We just wanted continue to win the next one. We just kept handling business.”

With a young team re-maining on varsity, Downs said Greer’s JV teams should be in a position to succeed again next sea-son.

“We don’t want set the bar to high, but honestly, I really think they should almost repeat next year,” Downs said. “We’re prob-ably only going to lose a few girls. It will be a new blend of girls, but it’s still going to be girls that are putting in work.”


Playoffs pushed back Area teams prepareBY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

The winter weather brought more than poor driving conditions to the Upstate last week.

It also brought confu-sion.

The South Carolina High School Basketball League recently opted to push the boys and girls playoff

games back a few days, moving the start of the postseason to Thursday, Feb. 20. Second round games will be played on Feb. 22.

The original schedule slated games for Monday and Tuesday of this week.

All classifications, boys and girls, will begin post-season runs on Thursday.

Area teams were still completing games at the beginning of this week, with Greer and Blue Ridge wrapping up the regular season on Tuesday eve-ning.

The last day for regu-lar season games is today (Wednesday, Feb. 19)

The third round for girls and Class AAAA teams will be on Feb. 25. Class AAA boys will play the third round on Feb. 26.


Greer JV girls cap unbeaten season

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The Lady Yellow Jackets defeated Greenville 46-21 in the championship game.

Advance to state finalsBY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

It was a night to remember for Eastside wrestlers.

The Eagles cruised to a Class AAA Upper State title Monday night in a 51-15 win over Belton-Honea Path. The win advances Eastside to the state title match where they will face Socastee at River Bluff High in Lex-ington on Wednesday (Feb. 19).

“It feels good,” Eastside head coach Jack Kosmicki said. “It feels really good. There were some weight classes we won that we knew were going to be close and there were some weight classes they won that we were thinking we could win. It all evened out and, as always, it was a good battle.”

The win brings validation to a team that has only seen defeat four times this season.

“It’s worth it,” Eastside’s Clay Walker (138 weight class) said. “The season was worth getting here. It feels good at that point on the mats where you know you’ve got it locked up. It feels good, knowing how much we’ve put into it, that it’s finally starting to pay off.”

It only took Walker a few seconds to pin his opponent, but he was not the only Eagle that saw success Mon-day night.

“Kaden Clark (145) has really been turning it on with his aggressiveness and technique,” Kosmicki said. “He’s starting to feel it. That was a big in-dication of where we’re going.”

Clark won a 12-8 decision over B-HP’s Wayne Sless.

Michael Fernandez (195), Zane Mitchell (106), Charlton Clark (120) and David Walker (126) each earned pins, boosting the Eagles as the night progressed.

“It’s great,” Charlton Clark said. “All the cutting weight, all the late nights, all the working out early on Sundays, it just makes it all worth

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Eagles claim Upper State


Eastside moved one step closer to its goal of winning a state title on Monday night, defeating Belton-Honea Path 51-15 in the Class AAA Upper State � nal.

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The Greer High JV girls’ basketball team � nished the year with an unblemished 17-0 record, securing the Greenville County championship.

‘Hard work pays

off. A lot of those

same girls played

together during the

summer, so they’ve

been able to get

some chemistry and

they were able to

click.’

Demarcio DownsGreer JV girls basketball coach

‘There were some weight

classes we won that we knew

were going to be close and

there were some weight

classes they won that we

were thinking we could win.

It all evened out and, as

always, it was a good battle.’

Jack KosmickiEastside wrestling coach

SCHEDULE |First Round: Feb. 20Second Round: Feb. 22Third Round:

Girls and Class AAAA: Feb. 25Class AAA boys: Feb. 26

B2 THE GREER CITIZEN SPORTS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014


RIVERSIDERiverside coach Greg

Miller saw his team strug-gle last week, falling be-hind early in a 63-42 loss to Byrnes.

The Warriors had trou-ble finding their footing from the start, falling into a huge hole in the first quarter.

“Byrnes jumped out on us,” Miller said. “They were pressing us. I think we had a couple issues early with it. We finally got it under control, but could never get that push to kind of bring the lead down. They were pretty much in con-trol the entire game.”

Miller said he saw his team fight back, however.

“We had a couple of runs built in there,” Miller said. “That’s the great thing about this team. They keep coming back. They continue to keep trying and trying.”

Riverside faced Mauldin on Monday in its final game of the season. Re-sults were not available at press time.

“Mauldin is a solid team,” Miller said. “They’ve got good guard play and they can shoot the ball really well. Last time, their abili-ty to shoot the three really impacted the game.”

Riverside saw some ex-tended time off last week, dealing with the impacts of a major snowstorm that cancelled basketball activi-ties for a few days.

“It’s pretty tough,” Miller said. “It was a nice break for the kids because they got to rejuvenate their legs a little bit, but the skill reps, scoring and making shots gets a little rusty. It’s definitely not a good thing having so many days off, but there are some ways it can help you.”

Miller said his team is hoping to head into the offseason with some mo-mentum.

“We know this is our last game,” Miller said. “The best case scenario is that your last game is the state championship game. We’re just looking to take some

momentum into next year. We want these seniors to be able to leave their mark, and they’ve been pretty motivated by that.”

GREERAs has been the case

throughout the season, Greer came up just short when it mattered most last week.

The Yellow Jackets fell to Southside 78-66 last week, all but guaranteeing a postseason where Greer is on the outside looking in.

“We needed to win to make the playoffs and we lost,” Greer coach Jeff Neely said. “We were lead-ing at halftime, but we didn’t play well and they came out in the second half hitting shots.

“It was a critical game,” he said. “We ended up tied with Southside.”

The tie means Southside would get the nod for a playoff berth. Brackets were not available Tues-day morning.

Despite the loss, The Yel-low Jackets took on Blue Ridge on Tuesday in their final regular season game. Results were not available at press time.

“Our guys are up for that. They want to beat Blue Ridge,” Neely said. “It doesn’t really matter, but of course we want to win.”

Neely said this season places him in unfamiliar territory.

“There haven’t been many years in a long time that I haven’t been in the playoffs,” Neely said. “It’s a very unusual situation for me. I’m not used to not going to the playoffs. It’s tough.”

The coach said his play-ers were disappointed.

“It’s tough to tell them the whole scenario and have to break it to them,” Neely said. “They really didn’t know what it looked like. It’s a bad feeling when you have to tell your guys they’re not going to the playoffs because of a point here or there, but that’s the way it is.”

Greer had opportunities to turn things around ear-lier in the year. The Yellow

Jackets saw tight games against Travelers Rest, Eastside and Greenville slip through the cracks.

“They were disappoint-ed, especially the seniors,” Neely said. “We dug our own hole. We had an op-portunity to beat the best teams in the region and didn’t do it. We just missed opportunities and were in-consistent throughout the year. We had a lot of obsta-cles in our way throughout the year and a lot of adver-sity that caused us not to be successful.

“You live and learn,” he said. “Hopefully they’ll learn.”

BLUE RIDGEA 68-43 loss to South-

side put the final nail in the coffin for Blue Ridge, which has been battling back from a disastrously slow start all season.

“We put a lot on the Southside game because it was a big game for us,” Tiger coach Ray Riley said. “It was the biggest one all year. I thought we came out and played extremely hard, but didn’t shoot the ball very well.”

Riley said the Tigers have had to compete in one of the toughest regions, and believes the league may produce a champion.

“Southside is a very good basketball team,” Riley said. “I think what you’re going to see with Travelers Rest, Eastside, Greenville and Southside, is that it could be those four teams at the end.”

Blue Ridge bounced back from the Southside game with a win over Pickens.

“We had to play Pickens without a practice, but I thought we came out and ran our offense really well,” Riley said. “We had a tremendous mindset and shot the ball really well. We were able to take care of things early and got out to a big lead.”

The Tigers took on Greer on Tuesday, but neither team had playoff hopes. Results were not available at press time.

“It’s a big game,” Riley said. “It really doesn’t mean anything anymore as far as playoffs. It’s still a big game for both schools.”

Riley said one last win

would do a lot for his team.

“This is a big game for us because it means, since Christmas break, we would be 6-5,” Riley said. “That would give us a winning record in the second part of the season. That’s really important.”

Riley credits his staff and players for the turn-around after Christmas.

“Our staff has really worked hard,” Riley said. “It has been a team ef-fort all year. We’ve spent hours and hours watching film and going over game plans.”

BYRNESAn 8-4 record in the re-

gion has the Rebels sitting in a comfortable position heading into the postsea-son.

Byrnes earned its 14th win of the season last week against Riverside, jumping out to an early 19-point lead in its 63-42 victory.

Syverio Jones was one of 11 rebels to contribute points, leading the team with 13 on the night.

The game was Byrnes’

only contest of the week, as winter weather condi-tioned prevented any fur-ther basketball activities.

The Rebels will be look-ing at a playoff berth with opening rounds beginning on Thursday.

Brackets were not avail-able Tuesday morning.

EASTSIDEThe Eagles were unable

to avenge an earlier lost to Travelers Rest last week, falling to the Devildogs 65-46 before pulling out a win over 39-34 Greenville.

Eastside had its hands full with the Red Raiders, pulling away in the final minutes to secure the win.

Nigel Owens led the team with 12 points on the night.

Finishing in the top half of the region, Eastside will likely be looking at a home playoff game in the open-ing round this week.

As of Tuesday morning, brackets had not been an-nounced.


Byrnes too much for Warriors to handle

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Byrnes completed the series sweep over Riverside last week, defeating the Warriors by a score of 63-42. The Rebels improved to 8-4 in the region.


Greer was essentially knocked out of the playo� s by Southside last week, falling in a crucial region matchup

NORTH GREENVILLE GOLF ADDS THREE

North Greenville golf coach Lew Soulsby and as-sistant coach Brad Caldwell recently annouced the ad-dition of three players for the 2014-15 season.

For the men, Evan Gfeller competed for Montverde Academy in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. last season. As a high school senior, Gfeller ranks in the Top 75 of the Florida State Golf Associa-tion for Junior Boys, while also being a 2013 FSGA State Amateur Qualifier and Match Play Semi-Final-ist.

He has competed in over 100 tournaments na-tionwide, including being named tournament cham-pion of the 2012 Hurri-cane Junior Tour’s Kikkor Golf Series and the 2013

Greater Orlando Junior Golf Tour Summer Classic Champion.

“We are extremely ex-cited to have Evan join us here at NGU, he is very se-rious about the game and will only make our team better, ” Caldwell said.

On the women’s side, Morgan Reece, a native of Gainesville, Ga, was a key member on the Class AAA region and state champi-ons of Gainesville High School. Reece was a two-time All-State and All-Re-gion performer, while also being a member of the 2012 AAA All-State Team and a runner up finish at the 2012 AAA State Cham-pionship.

In addition to her suc-cess in the high school ranks, Reece was also a four-time winner on the Atlanta Junior Tour and a 2012 Hall County Cham-pion. The incoming fresh-man is also an active mem-ber of FCA, The Beta Club, National Honor Society and her high school’s stu-

dent counsel.The women’s team has

also added Meghan Burke, a transfer from in-state rival Limestone College, where she spent the Fall 2013 season.

“Meghan is going to be a huge asset to our team in the future. She had a great start to her collegiate ca-reer at Limestone and we are anxious to have her join us on the course in competition,” Caldwell said.

LADY CRUSADERS CRUISE PAST LEES-MCRAE

Nine players found the scoring column for the Crusaders, including four who scored in double fig-ures, helping North Green-ville past Lees-McRae 73-56.

NGU trailed briefly in the first half when Lees-McRae took a quick 11-6 lead with 17 minutes left in the first. Timisty Nelson tied the score at 11, however, with a pair of free throws, wip-ing out the Bobcat deficit.

North Greenville used a 10-2 run to take a 38-27 advantage into the locker room at the break.

The Crusaders would continue their solid play as the two teams came out for the second period. North Greenville took ad-vantage of 21 Bobcat turn-overs, which amounted to 24 points for the Crusad-ers.

The Crusaders would lead by as many as 14 twice during the second half. Its biggest lead came before the final buzzer when two free throws from Alisha Hope gave the Crusaders a 17-point advantage.

Hope finished as one of two players with 16 points to lead North Greenville, the other being Nelson, who finished with 16 points.

Others in double figures for North Greenville were Barrino, who finished with 12, and Emily Wampler, who had 10.

Wampler was 3-5 from beyond the three-point

arch. Hope led NGU with nine rebounds While Ci-ara Anderson provided a boost off the bench with four points, an assist and a steal.

The win improved NGU to 8-15 overall, and 4-11 in league play.

MENS’ BASKETBALLAll five starters scored

in double figures as the Crusaders swept the sea-son series over Lees McRae with a 94-77 victory last Monday night.

The Bobcats controlled the game for much of the first six minutes of play, building a nine-point lead with 13 minutes on the clock. A jumper by junior Micah Parker sparked a 13-2 run that allowed the Crusaders to take a slim 23-21 lead at the 8:20 mark of the half.

After Lees-McRae tied the game at 23-23 on back-to-back free throws by Jacquise Moore, the Crusaders used a 17-8 run over the final eight min-

utes of carry a 40-31 lead into halftime.

The Crusader lead built to as much as 15 points over the first five minutes of the second half, as their largest lead of 91-71 came with just over a minute re-maining in the game. Free throws by junior James Williams and a jumper by freshman Arthur Gray sealed the 17-point victory for North Greenville.

Phillip Brown recorded his 17th double-double of the season with 18 points and a game-high 11 re-bounds, while Keith John-son totaled 18 points, six rebounds and five assists.

Freshman Thomas Horn chipped in 15 points of his own in 30 minutes of ac-tion, as Parker scored 13 points on 5-for-11 shoot-ing from the floor.

Senior Chris Dean rounded out the double-digit scorers, pouring in 12 points and pulling down six rebounds in the game.

CRUSADER

CORNER

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BLUE RIDGEWith a home playoff

game guaranteed, Blue Ridge is spending this week preparing for the road that lies ahead.

The Lady Tigers got a welcomed break when the snow came in last week, and coach Byron Hardy said his team has had its sights trained on a regular season finale with Greer.

“We’ve been practicing a little bit trying to get ready for Greer,” Hardy said. “We want to go in there and end the regular sea-son on a very positive note and get ready for the first round of the playoffs.”

The Tigers took on the Yellow Jackets on Tuesday. Results were not available at press time.

“If you can’t get excited about a rivalry game at their gym, then there’s re-ally not much a coach can do for you,” Hardy said. “That kind of motivation has to come from inside.”

The game was a curtain call for a senior-led Blue Ridge squad.

“It’s a little sad for our seniors, seeing them play in their last regular sea-son game,” Hardy said. “Hopefully they’ve played enough throughout their four years to where they will remember all the good things and be able to for-get the bad things. That’s your goal. You always want positive memories.”

Hardy said his team is anxious to find out what bracket they will need to deal with in the postsea-son.

“We’re ready to get into the postseason,” Hardy said. “A lot of times your fate rests with what brack-et you fall into. I believe we’re going to be playing Palmetto. They’re a scrap-py team and well coached. We just have to come in and hopefully our style of basketball is good enough to progress in that type playoff.”

Blue Ridge could be looking at a second round trip to Columbia if it wins on Thursday.

“In the second round, we could be looking at a game in the Columbia area,” Hardy said. “That’s a totally different world of basketball down there. The girls are playing well right now, so hopefully we’ll be able to just take it one game at a time.”

EASTSIDEAfter a not-so-satisfy-

ing end to the Lady Eagle’s regular season, Eastside will hit the road during the first round of the Class AAA playoffs, likely facing a matchup with Daniel in the first round.

The Eagles wrapped things up last week, beat-ing Travelers Rest 61-41, but losing to Greenville 64-48 on Saturday.

Greenville jumped out to a 37-14 lead at the half.

“We dug ourselves into a deep hole,” Eastside coach Cindy DeHart said. “To dig that deep of a whole and

to turn it over 11 times in one quarter makes it very difficult to come back.”

Jessica Garlington led the team in games against Travelers Rest and Green-ville, scoring 21 points and 11 points respectively

“I’ll be honest. We looked like we hadn’t practiced,” DeHart said. “We just didn’t play well at all. You could tell they were a step off. Conditioning wise, we didn’t get up and down the floor like we’ve been do-ing. That’s not an excuse. Greenville did what they had to do to win and they hadn’t practiced either.”

DeHart said the Red Raider lead was too much to overcome.

“They never quit,” De-Hart said. “We played fair-ly even with them in the second half, but the hole was dug. It was like play-ing catch up.”

With the loss, Eastside secures a fourth place fin-ish and a likely first-round playoff matchup with the Lions. Brackets were not announced at press time.

“They’re the number one seed in their region,” De-Hart said. “They’re an un-defeated and very talented team. Very hard-nosed and they are very talented. Go-ing on the road is going to make it extra hard for us.”

DeHart said she will be looking for more from her team in the first round.

“We’re going to do what we do the best,” DeHart said. “We’ll have three days of practice so hope-fully we’ll be better pre-pared than we were Satur-day. We need to do a much better job of executing on

offense and go in with a much more positive atti-tude and confidence.”

Eastside believes it can give Daniel a run for its money.

“We know we can play better than we did against Greenville and we know we can compete with some people,” DeHart said. “We’ve got our work cut out for us, but I have con-fidence in my team that we’ll go over there and compete with everything we have.”

RIVERSIDEAn odd week that began

with a 53-42 loss to Byrnes is in the books for the Lady Warriors.

Riverside, along with all other schools in the area, adjusted game schedules for snow last week, but head coach Jenny Taylor said she liked her team’s effort on Monday.

“I feel like we played very strong,” Taylor said. “Brooke Jordan-Brown had some strong moves inside and Baylor Johnson had a great game. When she got in the paint, she went up strong, too.

“It made a difference,” she said.

Jordan-Brown and John-son had 18 and 14 points respectively.

Riverside led Byrnes 23-20 at halftime.

“Byrnes went on a run,” Taylor said. “They turned the ball over a few times in the first half and we capi-talized on those, but they went on a run at the begin-ning of the fourth quarter and built a seven point lead. We just couldn’t fin-

ish it out, but I was happy with the way we played.”

Riverside played at Mauldin Monday night in its regular season finale. Results of that game were not available at press time.

“It’s tough not having played for a week, but we just have to go in and play as best we can,” Taylor said.

Although it has been a season full of struggles for the Lady Warriors, Taylor has confidence her team will continue to grow and get better.

“We’ve talked about be-ing fearless,” Taylor said. “We want to finish out on a strong note. There will be a lot of improvement over the summer and we’ll come back and try to be even stronger next year.”

GREER The Lady Yellow Jackets

battled some adversity last week, but coach Carlton Greene said that is noth-ing new.

Greer fell to Southside before the snow came in last Monday night, mov-ing one step closer to its finale against Blue Ridge this week.

“It was a tough game for us,” Greene said. “South-side is the top team in our region. They called us Monday morning and said they wanted to play that night. A lot of my girls didn’t even have their uniforms at school so we rounded everything up and went down there and played.

“We didn’t play very well and lost. That’s about the sum of it,” he said.

Greene said the weather required a tough adjust-ment.

“You try to get focused on what you’re doing and that sort of thing, but if you don’t have the right amount of practice or you have a younger team, the girls don’t really focus on what’s going on,” Greene said. “It’s very difficult to say, ‘Alright, we’re going to play in nine hours.’ You

have to be ready to go.”Greer took on Blue Ridge

Tuesday night in its final game of the season. Re-sults were not available at press time.

“Blue Ridge is in sec-ond place in our region,” Greene said. “They’re an excellent team and a se-nior dominated team. They’ve been playing to-gether for a very long time and we’re going to have to play really well to be able to play with them.

Greene said both teams are always looking for that signature rivalry win to put the finishing touches on the season.

“A lot of people think just because you played a game well last time that you’ll play it well the next time, but every game is different,” Greene said. “We need to work hard and play well, but we’ll just have to show up and see. It means a lot to us and I’m sure it means a lot to them. You can basically throw the record book out when we play each other.”

BYRNES The streaking Lady Reb-

els have nearly put them-selves in a position to do something they have not done in half a decade.

Byrnes has won its cou-ple of games, including a 53-42 win over Riverside, all but securing a fifth place finish in the region and a playoff berth.

Rebel coach Stacey Par-ris said the win over the Warriors was key.

“It was a very close game,” Parris said. “We were down at halftime and we just couldn’t get going. Finally, at the end, we were fortunate enough

to get up by a few points. We hit some major free throws. Sydney Dempsey and Brianna James made some key free throws to secure the win for us.”

James led the team with 18 points on the night. Dempsey added 13 of her own. Catherine Gil-lard had a big night on the boards for the Lady Reb-els, grabbing 11 rebounds to go along with her seven points.

“It was a tough game on the road,” Parris said. “The weather was coming in and it was just a weird day. We weren’t in our reg-ular routine and we were very fortunate to get out of there with a ‘W.’”

The Lady Rebels saw a key win over Mauldin in the previous week.

“We’ve had some big wins,” Parris said. “If we win out, we’re in fifth place, which gives us the possibility of going to a playoff game. I looked back and I don’t think Byrnes has been in the playoffs since the ’08-’09 season.”

Byrnes played Boiling Springs on Monday night. Results were not available at press time.

“It’s our first game back from being off all week,” Parris said. “We’re anxious to get this one done so that we can see where we end up.”

Playoff brackets were not announced as of Tues-day morning.

“It would be huge for our program to get back in the playoffs,” Parris said. “We really want to take that next step.”


Lady Tigers are poised for playo� run

FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN

Greer coach Carlton Greene said he didn’t see much go right for his team last week during the Lady Yellow Jacket’s loss to Southside.

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Riverside fell to Byrnes in a tight game last week. The Lady Warriors wrapped up their season against Mauldin this week.


The Byrnes girls’ basket-ball team may just make a playoff appearance this season and head coach Stacey Parris said senior Catherine Gillard has had a lot to do with the Rebel’s success.

“She has really been stepping up for us and she has done it all year long,” Parris said. “She’s been consistent for us on the inside.”

Gillard brought in 11 re-bounds and netted seven points in the Rebel’s re-cent win over Riverside, earning The Greer Citizen and Owens Insurance’s Player of the Week award.

Gillard said her team is finally starting to be iden-tified as a force to be reck-oned with.

“It means so much,” Gil-lard said. “I think people are starting to realize that we’re one of the best. It

means something that other people know we can do it.”

The forward has had one goal that trumps all others this season.

“I really wanted to make a playoff game for my se-nior year,” Gillard said. “We haven’t made it in like four or five years so I wanted to come back and just give it my all so we could move to the next level.”

Byrnes has faced some of the state’s toughest competition in region play this season, and Gillard said it has helped the team improve.

“We just improve every year,” Gillard said. “We keep playing the best in the state and keep get-ting better. I can’t wait to see what they’re like next year.”

Moving forward, the team will need to continue to find ways to get what it wants on offense.

“We’ve just got to keep pushing and do what we do best,” Gillard said. “We like to push the ball and do everything right.”

As far as the team’s po-

tential, Gillard said the sky is the limit.

“We can be champions,” Gillard said.


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PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Gillard hoping for playoff run

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Byrnes coach Stacey Parris, left, said senior forward Catherine Gillard has provided her team with a boost all season.

‘A lot of people think just because you

played a game well last time that you’ll

play it well the next time, but every game

is different.’

Carlton GreeneGreer Girls’ Coach

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it. It just makes the whole process worth it.”

Cole Anderson (132), Fred McCurry (113), Tay-lor Chemell (182), John Thorpe (170) and Ian Rod-gers (152) earned wins by decision.

Despite the steep margin of victory, Kosmicki said his guys were in several battles that could have gone either way.

“You have to give credit to B-HP,” Kosmicki said. “They played off the mats and they’ve got good wres-tlers.”

Walker said the team needs to keep its focus this week in hopes of se-curing another state title.

“We have to keep work-ing on our conditioning and practice hard every-day,” Walker said. “We have to stay on top of each other and make sure ev-

eryone is doing their job.”Charlton Clark said the

team showed promise, and will need even more guys to step up in the state championship.

“We have to continue to push our young guys,” he said. “We had Kaden Clark and Ian Rodgers step up big tonight. That was

huge. We have to continue to push our team and keep going at it.”



Eastside will take on Socastee in the state � nals today (Feb. 19).

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The Dick Brooks Honda Meals on Wheels Invita-tional golf tournament has opened registration for the May 9 event at Greer Country Club.

The 17th annual tourna-ment benefits Greer Com-munity Ministries.

Golfers and sponsors should register online at DickBrooksHondaMOW-golf.com. There is a limit of 48 teams of four and the deadline to sign up is March 31.

Each golfer will receive a gift bag, grilled lunch and snacks. Cost is $160 per individual and $640 per team. Teams will be split into morning and after-noon sessions with a shot-gun start. Winning teams will receive cash prizes.

Competitions this year include Closest to the Pin, Hole in One, Closest to the Line and a putting con-test.

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GOODWILL MUD RUNREGISTRATION CONTINUES

Registration continues for the Goodwill Mud Run, presented by St. Francis Sports Medicine.

The event will be held Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 7 a.m. and Sunday, April 13 at 4 p.m.

The run will be 3.5 miles with 35 obstacles. Teams will compete against each other and will be officially timed.

The cost to enter for a two-person team (Satur-day only) is $100. A four- person team is $140 and a JROTC team (this is for JROTC high school teams only) is $90.

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RIVERSIDE WRESTLERS QUALIFY

The Riverside Warrior wrestling team has extend-ed its season by qualifying for the first round of play-offs. Round one and two will be held this Saturday at Rock Hill High School.

Eight members of the Warrior wrestling team have qualified for upper state by placing in the top five of the regional tour-nament. Individuals will wrestle on Feb. 22 at Lau-rens High School. Those qualifying are: Michael We-ber, Daniel Troidl, Efrain Tello, Nick Cossey, Jack-son Boyd, Stephen Angel, Salo Arias and Stephan Garber.

WRESTLING: Eastside to face Socastee on Wednesday


A packed house was on hand to watch Eastside roll past Belton-Honea Path Monday night. Cole Anderson, Fred McCurry, Taylor Chemell, John Thorpe and Ian Rodgers all edged out wins via decision.

‘We have to keep

working on our

conditioning and

practice hard

everyday. We have

to stay on top of

each other and

make sure everyone

is doing their job.’

Clay WalkerSenior Eastside wrestler

SPORTS

ROUNDUP

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19

State Championship Wrestling.................... Eastside @ Socastee 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, FEB. 20

Playo� Basketball......................................Wren @ Eastside (boys), 7 p.m.Eastside (girls) @ TBD, 7 p.m.

TBD @ Blue Ridge (girls), 7 p.m.Byrnes (boys) @ South Pointe, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, FEB. 11

Baseball...............................Point University @ North Greenville, noon Toccoa Falls @ North Greenville, 3 p.m.

Basketball..........................................Erskine @ North Greenville, 6 p.m.

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B6 THE GREER CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014


A Hidden Treasure stu-dent received the first scholarship from the Edu-cational Credit for Excep-tional Needs Children.

Evan Cobb, a fifth grader at the Taylors pri-vate school, was recently awarded the first schol-arship from the Advance Carolina Scholarship Fund.

Evan’s mom, Dorothy Cobb, was excited about the scholarship. The Cobb family lives in Greer. Dor-othy Cobb hopes Evan’s scholarship will open the door for other special needs families.

“We’re excited for our family,” she said. “This is an opportunity for our family, but even more im-portantly, it’s not about us. More importantly, we’re encouraged by the opportunity that this rep-resents for all children in South Carolina with spe-cial needs. We’re not inter-ested in having the story focus on us, but focus on the issue. We’re just one little squeak on that.”

Evan Cobb has attention deficit hyperactivity disor-der (ADHD) and learning disability. Her other son, a seventh grader at Calvary Christian School, also has special needs.

The scholarship might help open the door for other families.

“It will open the door between impossible tu-ition and still a stretch but doable tuition at Hidden Treasure,” she said.

Tuition can often be a deal-breaker for families, said Burke Crohn, Hidden Treasure development director. Tuition there is $18,500, but every family gets a $3,900 scholarship.

“Anybody that has a stu-dent in private education, it’s expensive. It really comes down to, ‘Can we af-ford to put our student in private education, wheth-er it’s Christian education or other private school?’ and that’s what we deal with here…These scholar-ships will definitely help a lot of our families that

just struggle with keeping their kids in school.”

Evan is “a great little kid,” Crohn said.

“He is very active. He is doing very well,” he said. “He’s at that transition stage where he’s mov-ing toward some bigger courses and eventually for junior high.”

The school has about 40

special needs students and goes through 12th grade.

“We provide special education to basically the whole gamut of special needs,” Crohn said. “We have students who have autism, Asperger’s syn-drome, Down syndrome, learning disabilities, ADHD. We cover the whole gamut.”

The state legislature passed a program that “allows for the creation of what are called Schol-arship Funding Organi-zation,” said Neil Mel-len, president/founder of Access Opportunity, a nonprofit organization involved in educating the SFOs, schools and fami-lies.

“The SFOs are a special type of charity. They are structured as a regular, nonprofit charity, 501(c) 3, but they have the ability to do something very spe-cific and a little bit unique, which is they are able to accept donations in south Carolina for which the do-nors can get a tax credit, different than what the donor to a regular charity would get.”

The SFOs exist exclusive-ly to provide scholarships to special needs children and participating private schools, Mellen said. Oth-er states have similar pro-grams.

More information is available at independent-ed.org, including eligibil-ity requirements and do-nation information.



Darlene Sutton did not grow up wanting to be a teacher. Raised on a farm, she considered becoming a veterinarian, a county singer, a nurse.

Instead, she found her way to education. Sutton taught first grade at Pick-ens Elementary.

Now, as the South Caro-lina Teacher of the Year, Sutton spends her not in the classroom, but work-ing with CERRA (Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advance-ment).

Sutton recently spoke to a group of student teachers at USC Upstate, sharing her experiences and wisdom with student teachers.

While she is enjoying her time with CERRA, Sutton does miss the classroom.

“I miss getting to read books aloud to the kids. I love that time with them. Just spending time with them – they’re a great group of kids, a great age. There’s so much excite-ment and enthusiasm and willingness and desire to learn. I miss being with them. I love being with kids. That’s something I miss. The opportunity I have this year is just in-credible because I’m not just impacting the stu-dents in my class, I get a chance to, I hope, inspire and impact teachers across the state and celebrate the hard work that they do. There are some really dy-

namic teachers here, all across the state.”

Sutton and her family have moved to the Rock Hill area, so she won’t be returning to Pickens El-ementary after her year with CERRA ends.

“I won’t be going back to Pickens Elementary, but I hold it very near and dear to my heart,” she said. “I love children, but this ex-perience has provided me with different experiences, different level of skills and things. I’m just being very prayerful about what the Lord wants me.”

Lee Hurren, USC Upstate Dean of Education hoped Sutton’s passion for edu-cation was contagious to Upstate’s student teach-ers.

“I hope they learned to be passionate every day and to bring energy every day…Most positively, that they stay positive and that they bring energy and en-thusiasm, that they realize that they can make mis-takes and their students can make mistakes,” he said. “They can do better next time. Teachers make mistakes and shouldn’t always be seen as perfect, but striving to be that perfect. If they’re perfect, they’re probably done.”

Jayme Lively, a student teacher, comes from a family of educators. Her mom was special educa-tion assistant and her uncle was a principal. She has wanted to be a teacher since she was “wee, wee little bitty.”

“I come from a long line

of educators…It’s just what I’ve always wanted to do,” Lively said.

Stephanie Lusk, a special education student teacher, enjoyed hearing and meet-ing Sutton.

“I think she’s wonder-ful. I loved her advice and not really just (her) ad-vice but (her) knowledge,” Lusk said. “It’s wonderful. I loved how (she) related it to your past experiences because that’s what made me connect to you.”

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Evan Cobb, a � fth grader at Hidden Treasure Christian School, is presented with a $5,000 scholarship check from Melanie Barton, Executive Director of the Education Oversight Committee.

Hidden Treasure student receives scholarship‘We’re excited for

our family. This is

an opportunity for

our family, but even

more importantly,

it’s not about us.

More importantly,

we’re encouraged

by the opportunity

that this represents

for all children in

South Carolina with

special needs.’

Dorothy CobbEvan’s mom

Teacher of the year Sutton visits USC Upstate

MANDY FERGUSON | THE GREER CITIZEN

Darlene Sutton, South Carolina Teacher of the Year, spoke with student teachers at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

MANDY FERGUSON | THE GREER CITIZEN

Lee Hurren, USC Upstate Dean of Education, presented Darlene Sutton, South Carolina Teacher of the Year, with gifts as a ‘thank you’ for speaking at USC Upstate.

‘The opportunity I have this year is just

incredible because I’m not just impacting

the students in my class, I get a chance to,

I hope, inspire and impact teachers across

the state and celebrate the hard work that

they do.’

Darlene SuttonTeacher of the year

BY ED GAULDENFOR THE GREER CITIZEN

The Anderson Senior Follies will perform “Sweet Silver Dreams” at Ander-son University, Henderson Auditorium.

This is the Follies 25th silver anniversary of per-forming for the Anderson area. This is a two-act, five-scene play filled with 75 Anderson-area senior citizens who will razzle-dazzle the audience with professionally directed comedy, singing and danc-ing.

The Follies will perform “Let’s Go to the Hop,” “Standing on the Corner,” Beach Boys songs and more.

Performances are at 7 p.m. March 13 and 14, 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. March 15, and 2:30 p.m. March 16. The 12:30 p.m. March 15 show is already sold out.

Sweet Silver Dreams is produced and directed by Annette Martin who has been writing, choreo-graphing, accompanying, orchestrating and organiz-ing the show since 1988.

Amy Coleman and Fritzie Watson lend their assis-tance to the choreography on six songs. William Har-ris helps as vocal coach for some of the singing groups. Everyone is cos-tumed through the eyes

of Anita Elrod and the cos-tume committee.

The Anderson Follies are auditioning for the 2015 season. The details will be in the “Sweet Silver Dreams” program, in an article titled Casting Call,

2015. For information and tick-

ets, call 231-2080 or visit the Anderson University, Henderson Auditorium box office. Tickets are $12 and $18.

MILESTONESThe Greer Citizen

ANNIVERSARY |

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014 THE GREER CITIZEN B7

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Arrowood

Celebrate 50th anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Arro-wood, of Greer, celebrated their 50th wedding anni-versary on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014.

Bruce and Pat have two children, Jay (Lisa) and John (Julie), and four grandchildren (AJ, Jake,

Kate and Capp).The 50th celebration,

attended by family and friends and hosted by their sons and daughters-in-law, took place at the home of John and Julie Ar-rowood, 2 Osceola Drive in Greenville.

DEAR PAW’S CORNER:Recently, an elderly rela-tive was moved to a full-time care facility because she was unable to care for herself or her two dogs. We gladly took in “Sadie” and “Tasha,” both small, mixed-breed adult dogs. I think they’re very un-derweight, though -- their skin just hangs off of them. What is the best way to help them gain weight quickly? -- Jerry S., via e-mail

DEAR JERRY: First, take them to the veterinarian for a complete checkup. While they may very well be underweight, make sure this is the case, as some dog breeds have some-what loose skin. The vet also can determine their approximate age, check for any underlying medi-cal conditions and test for specific nutritional defi-ciencies.

From there, work with the vet to put together the best diet for the dogs. It likely will include a mix of dry and wet dog foods, in specific amounts, for a certain number of feedings each day. I would not be surprised if they need to be given a nutritional sup-plement. The vet may be able to sell these to you, or recommend where to buy them. And, if needed, they may be given medication. It’s very important that they take any prescribed medicines as directed.

If Sadie and Tasha do not have up-to-date vacci-nation records, the vet will give them the vaccinations they need.

While healthy dogs gen-erally need to return to the vet just once per year, Sadie and Tasha likely will need to be seen more frequently so the vet can monitor their weight gain and health, and adjust their diet if needed.

I commend you for be-coming Sadie and Tasha’s new family -- it sounds like they will be well cared for.

Music to soothe

anxious dog?DEAR PAW’S CORNER:

My mixed collie “Skipper” gets extremely nervous during storms and when construction is going on outside -- basically during

any unfamiliar noise. He cries and hides under the furniture, and I’m unable to approach him to com-fort him. Is there anything I can do? -- Anxious in Boise

DEAR ANXIOUS: Talk to the veterinarian first, so that he or she is aware that Skipper has an anxi-ety issue. Your vet can suggest a few solutions, including anti-anxiety medication and some training and behavioral techniques you can try.

Many owners want to avoid medication for anxious pets, as they’re worried about the side effects. And in some cases, medication does not resolve the problem. Those are among the rea-sons owners are looking to alternative solutions to treating anxiety.

Some swear by a homeopathic product called Bach’s Rescue Remedy, found in stores that specialize in herbal supplements (although it’s being sold more and more in pet stores). About five drops of the product are added to a dog’s water dish daily.

Other owners combine homeopathic supplements with other therapies, such as playing music specifically composed to calm dogs during stress-ful events like thunder-storms. Or they put their dog into a Thundershirt, a wraparound garment that exerts constant, gentle pressure.

No matter what therapy you choose, remember that the home environ-ment and your own emo-tions can affect Skipper. Make sure his life has routine -- same feeding time, same walking times, etc. When a stressful event happens, keep your-self calm and speak in a soothing voice to Skipper.

Send your questions or comments to [email protected].

(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

PAWS CORNER

SAM MAZZOTTAKing Features

Helping a dog gain weight

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The Anderson Senior Follies will perform ‘Sweet Silver Dreams’ at Anderson University March 13 and 14.

Follies present ‘Sweet Silver Dreams’

When I was younger, normal school and kid stuff kept me

busy. School, homework, sports, chores, clubs, learning to drive, holding a part-time jobs, hang-ing out with friends and family – all that occupied my time.

Now, when I have (rare) free time, I don’t know what to do with myself. What do you do after you’ve taken care of everything, read, watched TV, exercised?

During the snowstorm, I read, watched TV, went for walks, played in the snow, baked cookies and cooked a couple of tasty meals. Cooking wouldn’t work as a hobby would work for me — I don’t have a lot of storage space and I’m usually only cooking for two.

I still found myself bored.

Dale and I started a puzzle during the snowpocalypse, but never

finished it. My attention span for puzzles is about 10 minutes, tops.

I think part of the prob-lem is cabin fever. Now that the weather is warm-ing up, I’ll venture back outside. Most, if not all, of

my warm-weather hobbies have been on hold during the winter. Swimming, hiking, baseball games and doing almost any-thing outside after work has been on hold.

How do you start hob-bies as an adult? This is what I’ve been pondering since the Snowmaggedon of February 2014, when I found myself with a lot of time on my hands. I can only read, watch TV or clean for so long before I start going crazy.

College was no differ-ent than high school and before. I was busy with normal activities – class, projects and studying (or at least pretending to or procrastinating). There were part-time jobs and working for the newspa-per.

And there was no short-age of socializing – I lived in a dorm with something like 800 other girls. When I wanted to hang out with friends, it was as easy as

walking next door. Now, it’s more difficult to ar-range time together.

At USC (and most col-leges), there’s an abun-dance of free (or nearly free) activities. I saw lots of free movies, visited museums, all kinds of stuff. That is part of the issue as well -- I’m looking for cheap or free hob-bies. As much as I would love to collect antiques or travel abroad, it’s just not in the cards right now.

I’m only sporadically crafty. Pinterest helps in this respect, with its abundance of do-it-your-self projects and crafts. Crafts can get pricey, though, and I eventu-ally would reach a point where I had enough. I only need so many hand-made coasters, decorated picture frames or painted end tables.

I’m always open to sug-gestions, dear readers. How do you spend your free time?

A hobby deficiencyKEEPING UPWITH JONES

KATIEJONES

How do you start

hobbies as an

adult? This is

what I’ve been

pondering since

Snowmaggedon of

February 2014...

GREENVILLE COUNTYGMC STUDENTS VISIT DC

Greer Middle College Charter High juniors and seniors recently traveled to Washington, D.C for a four-day sightseeing tour.

Some of the highlights of their trip include tour-ing the US Capitol, the Pentagon, the Holocaust Museum and Smithsonian Museum. They observed a session of the House of Representatives and visit-ed several monuments.

Senior Geoffrey Barnett designed and created a wreath that was placed on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

RMS STUDENTS HOLD MOCK INTERVIEWS

The RMS Career Educa-tion students in Susan Mathewson’s class pre-pared all semester for their mock interview day.

Students were inter-viewed by members of the business community that volunteered their time to take on the role of hiring manager. The students were evaluated on their resume, having three ref-erences and being dressed for success along with how well prepared they were to answer interview questions and knowledge about the job and compa-ny they were interviewing for.

ANNE FRANK EXHIBIT WILL VISIT RIVERSIDE MIDDLE

“Anne Frank, A History for Today,” the traveling exhibit from the Anne Frank museum, will be at Riverside Middle School Feb. 18-March 28.

The exhibit will be open to schools for field trips March 11-28 and to the public March 15-27 during select hours.

Visit greenville.k12.sc.us/rms/ for more infor-mation and times. Contact Mary Higgins at 355-7902 to schedule a field trip. A $1 donation per person is requested.

RIVERSIDE HIGH’S DALBY TO PUBLISH PAPER

Riverside High science teacher David Dalby’s pa-per titled “Simple Colliga-tive Properties Laboratory Experiment” has been ac-cepted for publication.

The article will appear in the peer-reviewed journal The Chemical Educator. TCE is a working journal, a reference to current topics, experiments, and teaching methodology.

This paper adds to the list of over 20 scientific publications authored by Dalby including a chapter contribution to Prescott & Dunn’s Industrial Micro-biology 4th edition, the world’s most renowned in-dustrial microbiology text book.

The article, which is de-signed for college and high

school students, describes a novel procedure to allow students to determine the molar mass of unknown compounds by freezing point depression using safe and common chemi-cals. In addition to the laboratory experiment, a method of evaluating stu-dent’s work is presented which avoids the typical lab work sheets.

The newly presented method, which focuses on accuracy of results, typically changes the de-meanor of the class from playtime to serious work since the student’s grade is based on accuracy of the work. Using the sys-tem described, the student quickly comes to under-stand the importance of preparing for the labora-tory experiment, accurate and precise measurement, attention to details, and careful and focused labo-ratory work. With the methods presented, stu-dents learn how science really works rather than how nonscientists think science works.

BJA FORENSICS TEAM WINS FIRST PLACE SWEEPSTAKES

The Bob Jones Acad-emy (BJA) Forensics Team participated in a foren-sics tournament with nu-merous teams from the Charleston area on Feb. 1 at Academic Magnet High School in N. Charleston, S.C.

The BJA team won the First Place Sweepstakes Trophy, as well as the Per-centage Trophy for the highest ratio of students on the team placing at the tournament.

The following students won individual awards at the tournament:

Julianne Doney of Green-ville – 1st Place, Original Oratory

Will Christmas of Easley and Davis Fleisher of Tay-lors – 1st Place, Duo Inter-pretation

Elliot Lovegrove of Greenville – 1st Place, Ex-temporaneous Speaking

Sandeep Kattepogu of Greenville – 1st Place, Im-promptu Speaking

Michael Leung of Simp-sonville – 1st Place, Chil-dren’s Literature

Jacquelynne Perry of

Greenville – 1st Place, Oral Interpretation

Elliott Kelley of Easley and Callie Gieck of Green-ville – 1st Place, Public Fo-rum Debate

Ghevont Panosian – 2nd Place, Original Oratory

Helena Sullivan of Eas-ley – 2nd Place, Dramatic Interpretation

Elliot Lovegrove of Greenville and Haley Bram-mer of Greenville – 2nd Place, Duo Interpretation

Will Christmas of Easley – 2nd Place, Children’s Lit-erature

Ashley Gillespie of Simp-sonville – 3rd Place, Origi-nal Oratory

Haley Brammer of Green-ville – 3rd Place, Dramatic Interpretation

Andrew Clater of Easley – 3rd Place, Extemporane-ous Speaking

Jacquelynne Perry of Greenville – 3rd Place, Im-promptu Speaking

Carter Henderson of Taylors – 3rd Place, Chil-dren’s Literature

Ranna Harley of Green-ville – 3rd Place, Oral In-terpretation

LANGSTON CHARTER HOSTS SPIRIT NIGHT AT STEVO B’S

Langston’s Spirit Night is 5-8 p.m. Feb. 27 from at Stevi B’s Pizza on Wood-ruff Road.

The restaurant will do-nate $1 for each person who mentions Langston.

LANGSTON TO PARTICIPATE IN REEDY RIVER RUN

Langston Charter School will participate in the Fit’s Cool School Challenge as part of the TD Bank Reedy River Run on Feb. 28 and March 1.

Runners can register for the Reedy Great Youth Mile, 5K or 10K races for the reduced rate of $14. Registration forms and checks made out to LCMS are due Feb. 14 and may be turned into the school office.

Contact Barbara Myers 286-9700 with any ques-tions.

LANGSTON TAKING ITEMS FOR HUMANE SOCIETY

Langston is collecting towels, blankets, canned food, baby wipes, and hand sanitizer for the Greenville Humane Society.

Items can be dropped off in the collection box located in the front office.

WASHINGTON CENTER STUDENTS GROW PLANTS

Erin Sosebee’s class, in conjunction with Washing-ton Center’s Adaptive En-vironmental Science (AES) program, has been work-ing with plants in a variety of ways.

The objective of the ac-tivities over three weeks was to study the life cycle and growth of plants. Stu-dents were given a choice of pumpkin, marigold or bean seeds. The class spouted seeds in plastic baggies with a damp paper towel, placed the seed bag-gies in a sunny area and observed the daily growth of the plants.

The plant activity con-tinued with planting the seedlings in soil dur-ing AES class as further growth will be observed in the school’s green-house. Students are look-ing forward to taking the plants home in the spring.

WASHINGTON CENTER CLASS MAKES VALENTINES

Rebecca Williams’ Wash-ington Center class has the privilege of going out into the community one to two times weekly for com-munity-based instruction (CBI).

Their CBI trips vary from week to week depending on what they are working on in the classroom. The class recently took a trip to Dollar Tree and pur-chased craft supplies so that they could make their families Valentines cards. They will be taking a trip to the post office to mail hand-made cards the week of Valentine’s Day.

BYRNES’ HILL IS NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FINALIST

Months before gradua-tion, Byrnes High School senior Deiontre Hill could soon have some huge help for his future c o l l e g e plans. Hill has been named a finalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Program.

The program, sponsored by the National Merit Or-ganization, recognizes ac-ademically promising Af-rican American students

throughout the country and awards scholarships to the most outstand-ing participants. More than $2.5 million in col-lege scholarships will be awarded this spring.

DUNCAN ELEMENTARY CELEBRATES 100TH DAY

Duncan Elementary stu-dents celebrated the 100th day of class with several fun activities.

Throughout the campus, they could be found count-ing in sets of 100, writing about what they would do with $100 and what the world would be like in 100 years.

Teachers, and students dressed as 100-year-old characters.

WELLFORD ACADEMY HOSTS FAMILY READING

Students at Wellford Academy were treated to a fun family reading night this week.

The event included breakout sessions on lit-erature-based activities for students and their par-ents, and a special magic show.

At the end, students picked a free book and one family won a Kindle.

DR HILL MIDDLE MATH COUNTS HEADED TO STATE

D.R. Hill Middle School Math Counts team won first place at this year’s Spartanburg County com-petition. The group is now headed to the state finals at USC in Columbia on March 8. Kelly Marsh, Leilani Cassie Crook, Drew Rodgers, and Thomas Bur-kett make up the team.

BFA TEACHER TO SERVE ON BOOK AWARD COMMITTEE

Byrnes Freshman Acade-my teacher, Candi Vaughn has been asked to serve on the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Com-mittee for 2013-14. Byrnes librarian, Jamie Gregory, was also selected for the committee.

The group, sponsored by the South Carolina As-sociation of School Librar-ians, is responsible for re-viewing hundreds of new Young Adult titles and selecting nominees for the annual award. Students from the state then get to vote for the best book.

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The Langston Charter Middle School Lego Robotic Team, Gear Turners Fury, showed o� their winning robot, advancing to the State Lego Robotics Competition, which was held in Columbia on Feb. 15. Front row, left to right, Michael Causey, Steitler Buisch and Matt Thomason; second row, left to right, Jacob Stu� , Haseeba Karim and Anton Aarnink (standing); and back row, left to right, Elijah Budd and Roann Abdeladl.

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The Bob Jones Academy Forensics Team won the First Place Sweepstakes Trophy at a tournament in Charleston on Feb. 1. The team also had the highest ratio of students placing in the tournament.

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BAND STUDENTS NAMEDTO ALL-STATE, ALL-REGION

Dozens of District Five students were selected for All-Region and All-State band honors. More than sixty students were tapped to play in the state, region or as an alternate, the highest number of any Spartanburg County dis-trict. All-State Band or Alternate

Byrnes HighAshley CampbellCaitlin RobersonJessica SpurlingMatthew PowellNicole BridgesZane BridwellFlorence Chapel MiddleChristian GylesJennifer LydiaMeg Gurley*Thomas ScholzD.R. Hill MiddlePayton Kennemore*Quincy Eigner

All-Region band or alternate

Byrnes HighAdam ZeitzAmber WhelchelAndrew PridemoreBen TealBrady WardCarson DuthuDylan PulleyHaley Jones*Hooper Stevens*Jarred SareaultJody BlackKennedy PetersonKingston ArmstrongKorey CravenMea AbrahamsMelvin RobinsonMichael Blackwell* Michael Whitehead*Nicole BridgesParker DavisQuinn Kinzie* Rachel OwingsRachel Seto Tanisha Berry*Taylor AbrahamsTia FlowersWill JohnsonWilliam BembenekZane BridwellFlorence Chapel MiddleAaron AndersonCaleb MasonChase EthridgeChris Cole*Clayton CrileCody RossCole TutenJake BrownMatthew HerndonNic OwensPawel PodedwornyRiley KennedyThomas Scholz*Trent BurneyD.R. Hill MiddleBen KilgoreCaitlin RobersonDrew RodgersVictoriya MelnikBeech SpringsIntermediateMadison GarnerBerry ShoalsIntermediateBennett Donovan* Breanna WeberBrennan PonceConner SaundersConnor GregoryDaniel GuntonWarren Proper* Denotes first chair

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REIDVILLE STUDENTS VISIT ROPER MOUNTAIN

Reidville Elementary fourth graders recently visited the Roper Mountain Science Center. One class had hands-on encounters with vertebrates and inver-tebrates as they learned to

classify animals. Another class, called “Arcs and Sparks,” allowed students to build their own circuits and experiment with insu-lators and conductors.

PRINCIPAL PUCKERS UP FOR GOOD CAUSE

Abner Creek Academy principal Karen McMakin recently puckered up, all in the name of charity. Ab-ner Creek students raised more than $500 for Relay for Life, in order to see Mc-Makin kiss a live pig.

The students exceeded their goal, raising $516 for the good cause. The school had a great time watching Mrs. McMakin and teacher, Erica Clyburn, give “Ba-con” the pig a big kiss.

STUDENTS ‘SEW’ LESSON FROM POPULAR BOOK

Reidville Elementary teacher Christina Wilson patched together the per-fect activity for her fourth grade ELA/Social Studies students this week.

The lesson came after reading “Sweet Clara and Her Freedom Quilt”, a book about a young slave girl who sewed her way to the Underground Rail-road and freedom. Stu-dents were challenged to use their knowledge about fiction elements to “quilt” squares that included complete sentences and detailed author evidence.

Their finished quilt now hangs in Reidville’s 100 hallway as a real reminder of what they learned.

TECH PRESENTS ‘AND THEN THERE WERE NONE’

The Agatha Christie thriller, “And Then There Were None,” will be pre-sented by the Greenville Technical College Visual and Performing Art’s Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27-March 1 and at 3 p.m. March 2 at 3 p.m.

The play will be held on the college’s Barton Campus in the Technical Resource Center (build-ing 102). For reservations, contact [email protected] or call 250-3021.

LOCAL STUDENTS NAMED TO CLEMSON DEAN’S LIST

The following local resi-dents have been named to the Dean’s List at Clemson University for the fall 2013 semester:

DuncanKelsey BrownApril DriscollLynda KongJillian MassettiLexi MathisJoshua MillerKolton MillerArliss NicholsonKevin RussoJoshua SuttonGreerCameron AbarotinMadison AllenAustin AndersonRachel AndorferSamuel AshmoreBrent AyersShelbie BagleyPreston BaileyJohn BakerSantiago BarbosaMatthew BarkalKevin BarnettWilliam BlackMeredith BlackAndrew Blasko

Karuiam BookerAndre BourgClay BowdenLillian BriceJeremy BuffAlexander BurnikelSierra CrainThackston CrandallSara DartezAlexander DavisKayla DixonJonathan DoyleMyles ElliottJoshua FergusonMatthew FourspringKaitlin FryJustin FurgursonDavid FurtickZachary GilstrapKathleen GonzalezMatthew GreeneXiaoqing GuJohn HalloranRobert HanlinGeorge HelmrichMatthew HollidayNathaniel HuygenAlyssa JamesColton JamiesonKathryn JenkinsWesley JohnsonMarshall JuneHaley KaminskiCarlie KerechaninKaren KerechaninAmethyst KiplingMichael KnottsHaylee KnottsAlexa KramerSteven LakadoschCharles LanderErin LangCarlen LeaphartWilliam LehneJeffrey LehnerRebecca LelandParker LelandMariana MalkiLina MaloneyCallie MartinHaley McCallKyle McGuiganNirali MerchantJoseph MooreSarah MorrisAndrew MorrisLaura MurphyLindsay NeeleyJennifer NelsonBrian NesterMadison OsborneCharles PalmerSamuel QuinleyHannah QuinleyMorgan QuinleySarah RhodehamelParker RhodenForrest RogersJulia RomanBryan RubyAustin RussellMauricio SaenzClint SalterLal SangKateland SatterfieldCara SizemoreGina SkrobolaHeather SnyderAllison TateThomas TeasleySarah ThackstonPaul ThomasKelly ThompsonKeith TormeyCierra TownsonAriel WhatleyKai WilsonElijah WilsonBenjamin ZacharyLymanGeorgia GoodmanAlexander PalkaCaroline ShinTaylor WarrenTaylorsNick AndersonAudrey ArmstrongAlex BarrettAllison BellBailey BennettBrittany BroomeAlyssa CarlandElise CoxAnne EndebrockOlivia FelberLauren FrenchHannah Gaulden

Jessica HayesDenny HuynhNatalie KramerAustin LowreyEmmet MartinHana MillerHannah MorganStephen OehrigFrederick PerrySarah PrattAndrea RojasGabriel SeppalaJoanna SmyersJoseph StefanelliCarlee SteppeMadelene TetschJeremy TheallKenneth YeagerTo be named to the

Dean’s List, a student must achieve a grade-point aver-age between 3.50 and 3.99 on a 4.0 scale.

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ELEMENTARYThursday – Thai sweet chili

chicken over brown rice, baked potato creation sta-tion, roll for all, vegetation station, corn chowder, pinto beans, choice of fruit, milk.

Friday – Barbecue sandwich pizza vegetation station vegetable beef soup broccoli choice of fruit milk.

Monday – Grilled chicken sandwich with lettuce and tomato, cheese quesadilla, vegetation station, broccoli cheddar soup, pinto beans, choice of fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Chicken potpie, black bean burger, vegeta-tion station, Asian ginger soup, vegetable medley, choice of fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Hamburger with lettuce and tomato, macaroni and cheese, with broccoli and roll, vegetation station, vegetable beef soup, peas, choice of fruit, milk.

MIDDLEThursday – Toasted cheese

sandwich with tomato basil soup, chicken gumbo over brown rice with whole grain roll, grilled chicken salad with whole grain roll, broccoli, garden salad, assorted fruit, milk.

Friday – Hot dog with chili, meatball sub, chef salad with whole grain roll, Cole slaw, sweet potato bites, assorted fruit, milk.

Monday – Chili with corn-bread (2), Thai sweet chili chicken over brown rice with whole grain roll, mandarin chicken salad with whole grain roll, carrots and broc-coli, assorted fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Chicken fajita, baked Mexican macaroni with bread stick, southwest

chicken salad with whole grain roll, black beans, corn, assorted fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Cranberry chicken wrap, sweet and sour chicken with brown rice and whole grain roll, chicken Caesar salad with whole grain roll, vegetable medley, gar-den salad, assorted fruit.

HIGHThursday – Toasted cheese

sandwich with tomato basil soup, chicken gumbo over brown rice with whole grain roll, grilled chicken salad with whole grain roll, broccoli, garden salad, assorted fruit, milk.

Friday – Hot dog with chili, meatball sub, chef salad with whole grain roll, Cole slaw, sweet potato bites, assorted fruit, milk.

Monday – Chili with corn-bread (2), Thai sweet chili chicken over brown rice with whole grain roll, mandarin chicken salad with whole grain roll, carrots and broc-coli, assorted fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Chicken fajita, baked Mexican macaroni with bread stick, southwest chicken salad with whole grain roll, black beans, corn, assorted fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Cranberry chicken wrap, sweet and sour chicken with brown rice and whole grain roll, chicken Caesar salad with whole grain roll, vegetable medley, gar-den salad, assorted fruit.

SWEET POTATOES• Instead of potato chips,

peel and slice raw sweet pota-toes and serve with a fat free dip for a healthy snack.

• Dip strips of sweet pota-toes in egg substitute and bake on a lightly oiled pan at 425 F for 25-30 minutes to make sweet potato fries.

• Bake sliced sweet potatoes with apples and cinnamon for a hot dessert.

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COREY SMITH TO PLAY THE BLIND HORSE

Touring sensation Co-rey Smith will be bring-ing his hits to Greenville, S.C. at 7 p.m. March 1 at the Blind Horse Saloon, 1035 Lowndes Hill Road in Greenville.

The rising singer-song-writer has logged more than 1000 plus shows, sold more than one mil-lion tickets and brought Zac Brown Band, Brantley Gilbert and Florida Geor-gia Line along for the ride as openers. Amassing ac-claim as an independent artist, Smith has sold over 1.8 million digital singles and 250,000 albums. He has been recognized as one of country music’s hottest new artists by Country Weekly and Music Row Magazine and featured on the cover of Pollstar as a Hotstar Top Artist.

Currently, Smith is in the studio working on his ninth full-length album with renowned producer Keith Stegall (Zac Brown Band/Alan Jackson).

For more information, visit CoreySmith.com.

JAMES GREGORY WILLPERFORM AT CENTRE STAGE

James Gregory, “Ameri-ca’s Clean Comedian” will perform at 7 p.m. March 1 at Centre Stage, 501 River St. in Greenville. Tickets are $30, $35 or $42. For tickets, call the box office at 233-6733 or go to cen-trestage.org.

VIVA LES DIVAS TO SING JAZZ AT CHAPMAN

Viva les Divas, a smok-ing-hot jazz-and-blues-singing duo, will perform at Chapman Cultural Cen-ter Feb. 20, when they take to the stage along with a six-piece band led by the legendary Dale Burke.

This will be the second of three concerts in Chap-man’s Winter Jazz Series. The show starts at 7 p.m., and tickets are only $10 each for adults and $5 for students.

The Viva les Divas are Spartanburg-native Jean Calvert and her cohort Whitney Walters, two la-dies who have lived the jazz lifestyles both near and far. For the past few years, they have joined together along with Burke to create one of the most in-demand live jazz shows in the Carolinas. They sing the songs that all jazz lov-ers know — tunes from the Great American Songbook. But their performances are more than just two women singing: It is a well-coordi-nated show designed to engage and enthuse the audience.

Viva les Divas is the second concert in Chap-man Winter Jazz Series, sponsored by J M Smith Corporation. The last concert of the series will feature Spartanburg Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Sing-ers on Feb. 27. For tick-ets, call 542-ARTS, go to ChapmanCulturalCenter.org, or purchase in person at Chapman box office. For more information, call 542-ARTS.

WEEKLY EVENTS SCHEDULE AT STOMPING GROUNDS

7:30-10:30 p.m. Feb. 21: Uncle Spud

7:00-10:00 p.m. Feb. 22: Elizabeth Wood, Acoustic Oldies, Motown, & Soul

Feb. 24: Robert Decker pencil drawing class $10

GREER OPRY HOLDS SATURDAY DANCE

The Greer Opry House at 107 Cannon St. presents Classic Country Band with Ed Burrell on Saturdays at 8 p.m.

Admission is $9 per person. Free line dancing from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. No

alcohol, smoking or out-side food and drink. Fam-ily entertainment. Visit greeropryhouse.5u.com.

FLAT ROCK PLAY HOUSE PRESENTS THE BEATLES

The Flat Rock Playhouse is proud to announce the next ‘Music on the Rock’ series concert: The Beatles Feb. 20-23. The show will feature Music on the Rock regular Ryan Guerra.

One of Music on the Rock’s most popular con-certs returns. With new songs and amazing per-formers, this will be an un-forgettable celebration of the Fab Four’s music. With only four performances, expect this extraordinary tribute to the most iconic band of all time to sell out quickly.

The concert series is in celebration of The Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which is 50 years ago this month.

Performances will be Thursday through Sun-day at 8:00 pm each evening. All tickets are $24 and can be purchased by calling the Playhouse box office at 828-693-0731, toll-free at 866-732 8008 or online at flatrock-playhouse.org. Playhouse Downtown is located at 125 S. Main St. in Hender-sonville NC.

USC UPSTATE PRESENTS SANDBURG MUSIC

Although Carl Sandburg is known as poet of the people, Pulitzer Prize-win-ning historian, biographer, novelist, collector of folk songs and author of chil-dren’s literature, it was the guitar that held a nearly life-long fascination.

Come hear the music that Sandburg loved to listen to, what he wrote about the guitar and how the guitar inspired him: “The Guitar and Carl Sand-burg: A Story, Performance and Tribute,” performed by Dr. John C. Akers from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Feb. 27, in Recital Hall 101 in the Hu-manities and Performing Arts Center.

Akers is an associate professor in foreign lan-guages at nearby Wofford College. He is a cum laude graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont and earned his Ph.D. in His-panic languages and lit-eratures from UCLA.

Akers has been the au-thor of articles on Span-ish and Mexican American literature, has presented research to the Modern Language Association, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Philo-logical Association of the Carolinas, and the state language organization of North Carolina.

An avid classical guitar-ist, Akers has performed at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Notre Dame Univer-sity, Piccolo Spoleto Festi-val in Charleston, SC, and the Free Library of Phila-delphia. He also has been a featured performer at the Carl Sandburg Home during the annual Poetry Celebration.

EVENTS AT THE CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER

Sundays Unplugged: Frank Walker: Feb. 23. Free weekly Singer-Song-writer Concerts, 2-4 p.m. On Feb. 23, instrumental keyboardist Frank Walker performs. Most museums and galleries are open with free admission as well to give you and your family the unplugged experience you need to complete the weekend. For more infor-mation, please call 542-ARTS.

USC Upstate Honors Jazz Concert: Feb. 23. USC Upstate presents its Com-mercial Music Honors Con-cert at Chapman Cultural Center on Feb. 23. The concert includes music of various genres--pop, jazz, and folk--performed by so-loists and small ensembles within the Commercial Music program, starting at 2:30 p.m. The USC Up-state Guitar Ensemble, Up-state Vocal Ensemble, and Commercial Music Combo will be featured. Free. For more information, please call 542-ARTS.

Ballroom Dance Class: Rumba: Feb. 24. Ballet Spartanburg is bringing the rhythm of the Rumba to Chapman Cultural Cen-ter on Monday evenings in February. Seasoned ballroom dance instruc-tor Marian Norman leads the class, 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the dance studios. Bring a partner or find one there. Call Ballet Spartanburg at 583-0339 for costs and other information.

Winter Jazz Series: Spar-tanburg Jazz Ensemble: Feb. 27. Chapman Cultural Center’s Winter Jazz Se-ries features hot jazz for those cold, winter days. At 7 p.m. Feb. 27 seven-teen musicians of Spar-tanburg Jazz Ensemble will perform with two jazz vocalists. This concert is the last of the series, and costs $10 per person. Call 542-ARTS for more info.

Lunch & Learn Spartan-burg: Feb. 28. Spartanburg Regional History Museum at Chapman Cultural Cen-ter hosts Lunch & Learn, a monthly lunchtime lec-ture series focusing on an interesting topic of local history. On Friday, Feb. 28, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., bring your lunch and listen to “A Clifton Mills Story.” Author Anne Phil-lips tells the tale of one family’s experience work-ing in the Mills. Admission to Lunch & Learn is $5 per person. Call 596-3501 for more info.

Funniest Man in America James Gregory: Feb. 28. Chapman Cultural Center brings back The Funni-est Man in America James Gregory for a side-splitting night of entertainment. Sit back and howl with laugh-ter on Feb. 28, starting at 7:30 p.m. The hilarious performance is sponsored by Budweiser of Spartan-burg and MKT Entertain-

ment. Tickets are $27 per person. Call 542-ARTS for more info.

Community Grants Project Deadline: Feb. 28. Chapman Cultural Center wants your ideas on how to positively impact the arts in Spartanburg Coun-ty. Apply for a community grant and your vision could be awarded up to $1,000. For projects between April 1, 2014 and June 30, 2014, the deadline to apply is 5 p.m. Feb. 28. Learn more about the parameters and process by navigating to the “Community Grants” page under “The Arts Part-nership” tab at Chapman-CulturalCenter.org. Call 542-ARTS.

SHOESTRING PLAYERS’ ‘OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD’

The University of South Carolina Upstate Shoe-string Players will perform Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker February 20-22 at 8:00 p.m. and February 23 at 3:00 p.m. in the Perform-ing Arts Center Theatre.

In June 1789 in the pe-nal colony that was later to become the city of Syd-ney, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the king’s birth-day. He casts the play with the English convicts who populate this distant Aus-tralian prison camp. Few of them can read, let alone act, and the play is being produced against a back-ground of food shortages and barbaric punishments – brilliantly juxtaposed against the civilizing in-fluence of theatrical en-deavor. The “hangman,”

himself a convict, has been recruited along with a woman, wrongfully ac-cused of stealing.

Ticket prices are $8 for general public and $4 for USC Upstate students, fac-ulty, and staff. For tickets, please contact the Perform-ing Arts Center Box Office at 503-5695 or email your tickets requests to [email protected]. Box office hours are Monday-Friday, 1 – 5 p.m.

For further information, contact Michael Dickins, box office manager, at 503-5848 or [email protected].

‘VOLUMES’ EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY AT USC UPSTATE

The “volumes: women bound by art” exhibit will be on display through Feb. 21, 2014. Conceived and curated by artists Susan Livingston and Doni Jor-dan, each artist was given a volume of an encyclope-dia and complete creative control. “volumes 2:wom-en bound by art” is the re-sult of that creativity.

This show will be exhib-ited in conjunction with selected works from vol-umes: women bound by art which was created in 2012 and was exhibited at the main branch of the Lexington County Public Library, Lexington, and at Portfolio Art Gallery in Co-lumbia.

The art exhibit includes a collection of 17 altered books created by 18 wom-en artists: Eileen Blyth (Co-lumbia), Cynthia Colbert (Columbia), Jessica Cruser (Columbia), Heidi Darr-Hope (Columbia), Janette Grassi (Charlotte, N.C.), Tonya Gregg (Columbia,), Mary How and her young daughter Macy How (Co-lumbia), Doni Jordan (Co-lumbia), Susan Lenz (Co-lumbia), Susan Livingston (Orangeburg), Gina Moore (Columbia), Yukiko Oka (Columbia), Kay Reardon (Columbia), Liisa Salosaari Jasinski (Newberry), Vir-ginia Scotchie (Columbia), Kathryn Van Aernum (Co-lumbia) and Katie Walker (Greenville). The group in-cludes art therapists and professors, potters, fiber artists, graphic designers, illustrators, mixed media artists, painters and pho-tographers.

The Standard Interna-tional Encyclopedia, 1954, was donated to the artists by Hal McIntosh, thanks to help of artist Cynthia Colbert. Encyclopedias, the forerunners of today’s electronic search engines, where first written by an ancient Roman scholar and focused on grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, mu-sical theory, medicine, and architecture.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Gallery events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jane Nodine, gallery direc-tor at 503-5838 or Michael Dickins, gallery manager at 503-5848 or go to face-book.com/CurtisRHarley-ArtGallery.

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PICKS OF THE WEEK“12 Years a Slave” (R)

-- Solomon Northup was an accomplished violin-ist who had a relatively comfortable life with his wife and children, living in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in the 1800s. He was a free black man, born free in the north. This movie, based on Northup’s memoirs, be-gins with an establishing scene of him working on a plantation after he was kidnapped, shipped south and sold as a slave.

The film already is guar-anteed classic status. As Northup, Chiwetel Ejiofor musters bottomless pain and disbelief without go-ing over the edge. Director Steve McQueen manages a fine balance between the darkness of human villainy and the beauty of world around them.

“Hours” (PG-13) -- No-lan (Paul Walker) and his wife Abigail (Genesis Ro-driguez) rush to a New Orleans hospital because of complications with her pregnancy. In a short span, Nolan loses his wife and is presented with his new-born daughter -- who will require a respirator for the next 48 hours. Then Hur-ricane Katrina shows up. Then go the lights. Then the hospital is abandoned. Then there goes the rule of law.

With the recent loss of Paul Walker in a car ac-cident, it’s intriguing see how the leading man of the “Fast & Furious” franchise could support a different kind of on-screen tension. The movie takes you for a ride, with Walker behind the metaphorical wheel, but this isn’t a full-throttle thriller. Walker balances grief and joy and shock and the will to fight.

“Girl Rising” (PG-13) -- This is a collection sto-ries from young women around the world that are processed, acted out, filmed professionally and animated with little flourishes. The global storytelling jumps from topic to topic, continent to continent, but a few com-mon threads exist. Stories include an account by a Haitian girl who defiantly attended school after the earthquake, even though her family could no longer afford the tuition. A host of celebrity voiceovers and visualized statistics can make things a little dis-tracted. Still, it’s a moving and valuable study of the will of girls to find their place in the world despite adversity.

“The Grandmaster” (PG-13) -- Ip Man is the revered legend of Kung Fu -- a man who, during a transfor-mative period in China’s history, made a name for himself as the undefeated master of martial arts. While he would later go on to train Bruce Lee in Hong Kong, Ip Man’s story starts in southern China, where he started training at the age of 7. The film is re-plete with creative and en-grossing fight scenes, all set to the backdrop of the foreign invasion of main-land China. It’s not a quest for revenge or beat’em up action flick, but rather a swift and stunning biog-raphy of a larger-than-life warrior.

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THE BOLD ANDTHE BEAUTIFUL

Liam reminded Katie that she must hurry up and let Ridge know how she felt about him. However, Katie thought it would hypo-critical if she were to act on her feelings for her for-mer brother-in-law. Rick put his past resentment toward Ridge aside for the sake of Brooke’s hap-piness. Bill contemplated making a grand gesture toward Brooke as a means to win her back. Katie was forced to come to terms with the sacrifice that she was making in the name of family and honor. Feel-ing that he had lost Brooke forever, Bill drowned his sorrows in a large bottle of scotch. Donna made a bold move when she planted a passionate kiss on an un-suspecting recipient. Wait to See: A Forrester family secret begins to emerge.

DAYS OF OUR LIVESAbigail informed Sami

that she and EJ shared a secret. A mysterious figure spied on Rafe and Jordan. JJ defeated Theresa once and for all. Jennifer took another step in moving on from Daniel. Marlena grew increasingly suspicious of Nicole. Abigail confessed to EJ that she couldn’t just walk away from him. Sonny and Gabi got into a heated argument when he accused her of throw-

ing Kate and Sami under the bus. JJ finally admit-ted the truth to Jennifer. Brady and Eric had a bit-ter encounter, resulting in Brady getting drunk with Theresa. Daniel defended Nicole to Marlena. Wait to See: Jordan must face her past.

GENERAL HOSPITALPatrick gave Robin an

ultimatum after finding out why she was distanc-ing herself from her fam-ily. Felix wondered if he and Brad wanted the same things. Morgan warned Lucas about Julian’s true nature. Julian and Ava’s bond was tested as the war escalated between the Corinthoses and the Jeromes. Just as Robin and Patrick were about to solve their differences, Victor showed up unan-nounced. An emboldened Elizabeth hoped Nikolas

would see things her way. Lulu was happy for Dante but had trouble hiding her true feelings. Emma and Patrick were heartbroken by Robin’s announcement. Michael wondered if he could ever trust Kiki again. Sam was surprised by Ju-lian’s vulnerability. Wait to See: “General Hospital” celebrates its 13,000th episode on Monday.

THE YOUNG ANDTHE RESTLESS

Hilary was jealous of Kelly’s chemistry with Jack. Chloe was surprised to see Chelsea at the ben-efit but asked her to stay anyway. Tyler agreed to meet with Mariah. Colin told Cane that he didn’t think it would be long before everyone realized he’d changed. Meanwhile, Lauren confronted Jill about her relationship with Colin. Jack convinced Chelsea to stick around for the auction. Sharon had another encounter with Cassie and asked if she was haunting her because of the secret she was keep-ing from Nick. Later, Nick urged Sharon to move up her therapy appointment. Across town, Avery and Dylan enjoyed a romantic evening together without having to sneak around. Ian realized that Summer and Faith were Nikki’s grandchildren. Wait to See: Jack confronts Billy.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: For some reason, I have gotten into the habit of checking my pulse when I walk or when I sit. While I watch TV, my pulse is about 100. Isn’t that way too fast? -- C.K.

ANSWER: Pulse and heartbeat are one and the same. When the heart ejects blood, a pressure pulse is created in the all the body’s arteries. You can feel the pulse beat in the neck, the ankle or the thumb side of the wrist.

A normal pulse rate (heartbeat) is 60 to 100 times a minute. Your 100 is normal, but at the high end of normal.

Since you have no symp-toms, you don’t have to rush to see a doctor. But at your next exam, mention your high pulse rate. The doctor can judge if con-ditions that lead to a fast heartbeat need to be in-vestigated. An overactive thyroid gland and anemia are two such conditions.

The booklet on heart-beat irregularities ex-plains the heart’s many rhythm problems. Atrial fibrillation is the chief one. You do not have it. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 107W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I do hope you will be able to reply to my question. It is something that quite upsets me.

My granddaughter had a tattoo put on her arm from shoulder to elbow. Why she ever did this is beyond me. She is to be married next September. She is trying to cover the tattoo with makeup so it won’t be seen.

Is it possible to have it removed? Do plastic sur-geons take these things off? -- C.G.

ANSWER: People mull-ing over the wisdom of a tattoo should consider it like they would a diamond -- something that lasts for-ever. It could make them pause.

Yes, tattoos can be re-moved with lasers. Treat-ment is expensive, time-consuming and sometimes cannot get rid of all traces of the tattoo. It depends on the pigment used, but lasers do a pretty good job. Work is under way for the development of pig-ments that are more read-ily erased.

Plastic surgeons, derma-tologists and other doc-tors are adept at removing tattoos.

Older treatments, still used from time to time, in-clude cutting out the skin (done with small tattoos) or abrading the tattoo, similar to abrading acne scars.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: What can I do to get rid of a carbuncle? I have had it for four months. -- M.G.

ANSWER: Carbuncles are huge boils that pen-etrate more deeply than do boils. They have to be opened and drained of the pus within them. An-tibiotics generally are pre-scribed, too.

Often, the antibiotic cho-sen has to be one that’s effective against MRSA (meth ic i l l in - res is tant Staph aureus, pronounced “mersa”). MRSA is one of the new supergerms that are touched only by a few, rarely prescribed antibiot-ics. Carbuncles are found most often on the neck, back, thighs and buttocks. You must have a doctor treat them. You’re not go-ing to meet with success on your own.

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer in-dividual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newslet-ters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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