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MARY ELIZABETH MCNAIR WAITED YEARS TO TAKE THE FIELD

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After years of surgery and therapy to help straighten

twisted bones in her legs and tendons that were too tight

to allow her to walk normally, Mary Elizabeth McNair’s soccer dreams are fi nally coming true.

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“When it comes to recommending potential board members, people tend to recommend people who look like them.

And that perpetuates the problem.”Nika White, Greenville Chamber of Commerce vice president of diversity and inclusion,

on the dearth of qualifi ed women and minorities on corporate and nonprofi t boards.

“Poetry is a great way to get out on paper what you hold inside.” Woodmont High School freshman Tristan Bellah, on her response to the Peace Center workshop Peace Voices.

“You get to yell and holler and be a little wild.”Rebekah Smith of FOX Carolina, explaining why women should give Road Warriors hockey a try.

“This site was hacked.”Image that appeared Dec. 22 on the state Department of Employment and Workforce website and 12 other websites nationwide.

Yearly salary for state lawmakers – nearly fi ve times the current salary – proposed by Rep. John King of Rock Hill.

1.8 millionApproximate number of state taxpayers who will receive letters informing them

that their personal information was stolen from the state Department of

Revenue last September.

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Here a few facts about the most common infection families face:• Flu season occurs in the fall and winter• Seasonal flu typically peaks in January and/or February, but it can occur as early as October or as late as May• Getting the flu vaccine is your best protection against the flu• Flu-related complications include pneumonia and dehydration

How does seasonal flu spread?Most experts believe that you get the flu when a person with the flu coughs, sneezes, or talks and droplets containing their germs land in your mouth or nose. You can also get the flu by touching a surface or object that has the flu virus on it and then touching your mouth, eyes or nose.

Who is at risk?Some groups are more likely to experience complications from the seasonal flu, including:• Seniors (those age 65 and older)• Children (especially those younger than 2)• People with chronic health conditions

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Public school employees with con-cealed weapon permits could have guns at school as long as they use “soft” bul-lets under a bill filed in advance of the 2013 South Carolina legislative session.

In addition, Rep. John King, D-Rock Hill, wants to increase the salaries of state lawmakers to $50,000 – nearly five times what it is now – saying it would give working-class residents a chance to run for the Legislature.

Those are among the proposals await-ing state legislators when the new legis-lative session begins Tuesday.

Legislators prefiled 348 bills, rang-ing from those that would create early voting in South Carolina and impose term limits on state lawmakers to those proposing to increase the penalties for homicide by child abuse, create a week-end where state residents could buy hurricane supplies with no sales tax and require that student athletes be taught about the risk of concussions.

Some of the bills are repeats of bills that didn’t pass last year. Others are brand-new. Some have no real chance of passing, while others are sure to spark big debates.

A bill filed by Rep. Phillip Lowe, R-Florence, just days after the school shooting in Newton, Conn., that left 20 first-graders and six adults dead, would allow teachers and other public school employees to have firearms on campus if they have a concealed weapon permit.

Under the bill’s provisions, the em-ployee would be required to keep the gun on his person at all times and concealed when not in use, use only “frangible bul-lets to avoid ricochets,” and be certified as a precision marksman by the State Law Enforcement Division. The teacher or school staffer could have no documented history of violence or unmanaged anger.

State Rep. Bill Chumley filed a bill that says any state official caught en-forcing President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care reform law known infor-mally as Obamacare would be guilty of

a misdemeanor and “must be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

But federal officials caught enforc-ing the law would be “guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined no more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”

Rep. Garry R. Smith co-sponsored the bill.

A bill filed by Rep. Bakari Sellers would establish an early voting period that would begin 30 days before an election and end three days prior. Early voting is different from absentee voting, as voters do not have to have a reason to cast a bal-lot during the early voting period.

Another bill would create a program to divert qualifying nonviolent military veteran offenders away from the crimi-nal justice system and into appropriate treatment programs.

Other bills would give a state income tax deduction to South Carolina residents to purchase identity theft protection in re-sponse to the cybertheft of Social Security numbers and other sensitive taxpayer in-formation at the state Department of Rev-enue. Another bill would provide a refund-able tax credit to taxpayers who sustain actual losses resulting from identity theft.

Another bill would eliminate the requirement that state residents have proof of insurance in their vehicle and to allow proof of financial responsibility to be displayed on an electronic device.

Several bills seek to increase penalties for criminal offenses. One would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty in homicide by child abuse cases. Another would increase the penalty for cock-fighting. A third would create gradu-ated penalties for weapons violations.

Another bill would require students to have an electrocardiogram before be-ing allowed to participate in interscho-lastic athletics.

Another bill would allow teachers to sue in civil court any student who assaults them at school or at a school-related event.

Sen. Lee Bright filed a bill that would prohibit members of the General Assembly from being elected as a judge until 20 years after they last served in the Legislature.

Another bill would allow counties to impose a local option motor fuel user fee of no more than two cents a gallon on retail sales of motor fuel for road im-provement and maintenance projects.

Contact Cindy Landrum at [email protected].

New bills await legislatorsProposals would allow teachers to pack heat at school, criminalize

implementation of Obamacare

By Cindy Landrum | staff

FREEDOM FROM SMOKING® Mondays, January 7-February 18 • 6:30-8:30 p.m.Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab, 299 East Pearl Street This is a comprehensive, systematic approach to quitting. The American Lung Association-trained facilitators will lead you through this seven-week program. Registration is required, with a fee of $50, and covers a participant workbook and light refreshments. Call the Joe R. Utley Heart Resource Center at 560-4472 for more information.

MEDICAL WEIGHT LOSS INFORMATION SESSIONTuesday, January 8 and Tuesday, January 29 • 4-5 p.m. Cafeteria Conference Room, Spartanburg RegionalThis free class covers information about our medical weight loss programs: Rapid Weight Loss, Healthy Lifestyle and 9- or 18-week Optifast. For more information or to register, call 560-7070.

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First things fi rst Inquiries will continue apace into the unprecedented cyberthe� at the state Depart-

ment of Revenue as lawmakers return to Columbia to begin a new legislative session. But as the long-promised noti� cation letters � nally begin to arrive, security and self-

defense will become far more critical for millions of freshly alarmed state residents. � e � rst New Year’s resolution for those who haven’t already done so should

be to register for the free, one-year credit-monitoring program the state has con-tracted to provide through Experian. State residents have until March 31 to sign up for ProtectMyID. Call 1-866-578-5422 or go online to www.protectmyid.com/scdor and enter the code SCDOR123.

Make sure to perform this step for every Social Security number a� ected or suspected to be.

State residents should also stay on high alert for scammers trolling for prey as those noti� cation letters con� rm worst fears about individual exposure to iden-tity the� . Expect potential gri� ers to represent themselves as banks, state agencies or private monitoring companies o� ering special protection from the hacking, state consumer a� airs o� cials warn.

Never give such callers personal information over the phone; state agencies, banks and legitimate private enterprises will never ask for it. Make direct, inde-pendent contact with your bank or any private company you may be considering for additional protection, and alert the state consumer a� airs department of any o� er you suspect to be a scam at www.consumer.sc.gov or 800-922-1594.

� e department’s website also has a number of consumer alerts and suggestions for minimizing the e� ects of the security breach. Go to www.consumer.sc.gov and select “Consumer Alert: Special Edition – Identity � e� .”

If this all has a too-little-too-late feel, well, that’s because it is – and unfortu-nately will continue to be as the Palmetto State stumbles forward into the post-hacking era. Everything state government does will be catch-up from this point on; the question will be how quickly and competently the catch-up proceeds.

� e Revenue Department is encrypting data, working on a dual-password system, and has adopted Division of State Information Technology cybersecurity measures like the 16 other Cabinet agencies under Gov. Nikki Haley’s control. Several Cabinet agen-cies have split the cost of hiring four new full-time employees to help provide 24-hour monitoring for intrusions and viruses, and the state is buying a program that will shut o� computers should they become infected or move suspicious amounts of data.

Meanwhile, the Legislature will be taking up bills to create a muscular state infor-mation-technology division and reimburse state residents for the costs of protecting themselves from identity the� beyond the one year the state is providing free of charge.

For however well state government manages to forestall future cyberthe� at-tempts – a questionable feat – the exposure for 6.4 million South Carolina con-sumers and businesses is a done deal.

� e fraud monitoring Experian will provide is an a� er-the fact program. It in-cludes $1 million in identity the� insurance and alerts to credit report changes – but those alerts will come only a� er a thief has used stolen personal information to apply for a loan, or medical services, or a credit card. � ere’s no way to get the stolen data back. It will remain a cyber-treasure trove for decades to come. State taxpayers will have to guard against identity the� for the rest of their lives.

Which means the � rst order of business this legislative session – the very � rst – must be to secure taxpayers’ personal data against any further attack. � is is a test of leadership for House Speaker Bobby Harrell, Senate President Pro Tempore John Courson and Gov. Nikki Haley – and failure is not an option.

Anyone who has lost a child has a heart-felt understanding of the tremendous grief felt by the parents of those children mur-dered at Sandy Hook Elementary School. � ough some may think that time heals all wounds, I know from personal experience that time cannot perform that miracle. � ose parents now know that the death of a child robs them of all that they are and all that they might have been.

For the sake of the victims, these mur-ders demand justice. Unfortunately, the Sandy Hook killer took the coward’s way out before justice could be served. � ough the killer’s motives are unknown and unjusti� ed, we know that he acted with depraved indi� erence.

Depravity as a reason for the murders has not been much focused on by the news media in their coverage of Sandy Hook. Rather than talk about the individ-ual responsibility of the killer, the pundits have used all of their bandwidth to focus on their perception of societal ills such as lack of gun control and lack of govern-ment funding for the mentally ill. � eir simpli� cation of the problem ignores the complexity of the issue and prevents ad-equate discussion to � nd a solution.

Many politicians, both liberal and conser-vative, have fallen into this narrow debate. Judging from their sound bites, it seems that the problem can be solved with either more guns or fewer guns. Many have de� ned the act as evil but few have focused on why indi-viduals act in a depraved manner.

Also largely absent from the national discussion are any religious leaders of note. Pope Benedict XVI commented that he was “deeply saddened by Friday’s sense-less violence” and that we should “dedicate ourselves more fervently to prayer and acts of peace.” � ough his platitudes were heartfelt, he would surely agree that the root cause of our societal ills will not be cut out by mere acts of peace.

On the Protestant side, America has had no mainstream Protestant minister to lean upon since the decline of Rev. Billy Graham. � e absence of such a person was apparent in the a� ermath of the Sandy Hook murders.

Almost 100 years ago, the poet W.B. Yeats wrote “� e Second Coming.” � e

poet writes not of Christ’s triumphant re-turn but of evil’s second coming a� er the decline of Christianity. � e o� -quoted lines, “� ings fall apart; the centre can-not hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / � e blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / � e ceremony of innocence is drowned,” poignantly de-scribe the events at Sandy Hook.

When trying to understand the killer’s dri� toward depravity, acknowledging the lack of mainstream religious guid-ance presents a necessary starting point. Our moral center has so� ened through years of neglect. It is not holding.

In our schools, young people are taught ethics without exposure to any underlying religious moral authority. In our churches, mainstream religious leaders have diluted traditional moral standards for the sake of increased “relevance” to society. In our homes, parents struggle to withstand the glo-ri� cation of violence and immorality found almost everywhere in our society. Without constant reinforcement of our moral foun-dation by all parties, a gradual dri� toward individual depravity is inevitable.

It has taken generations to create our problems and it will take generations to correct them. We need strong leaders, both religious and political, with the wis-dom to rebuild a moral center for our so-ciety. � at should be the discussion tak-ing place now.

Instead, weak-willed pundits and poli-ticians will try to take away our guns or anything else that will grab them a headline, while we watch our children devoured by an increasingly depraved society described by Yeats as that “rough beast” that “slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.”

Tommy Stringer is president of Stringer

Resource Group in Greer and represents District 18 in the S.C. House of

Representatives.

IN MY OWN WORDS by REP. TOMMY STRINGER

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Ownership of the 1-million-square-foot distribution center that Amazon leases in Spartanburg has changed hands.

Cole Corporate Income Trust, a real estate investment trust based in Phoenix, Ariz., acquired the building Dec. 17 for $63 million from Tango SC LLC, which is registered in South Carolina as a Texas company.

According to a filing with the Se-curities and Exchange Commission by Cole, it has an agreement to lease the distribution center to Amazon through Sept. 30, 2027, with renewal options of four and five years. The cur-

rent base rent is $3.4 million annually.In January 2012, Amazon an-

nounced plans to invest $50 million in the distribution center on John Rodd Road near I-26. The county granted the online retailer a property tax break in the form of a 6 percent in-lieu pay-ment.

Construction started immediately, and the first shipments left the center in September. It was anticipated that Amazon would have a workforce of around 400 but many more in peak buying seasons.

The Spartanburg facility is one of the largest distribution centers in the county after Adidas’ expanded 2.4-million-square-foot center. In 2011, Amazon opened a larger order

fulfillment center in Lexington Coun-ty, where it employs approximately 2,000.

Cole Corporate said it acquired the Spartanburg facility under a Del-aware-registered subsidiary, Cole ID Spartanburg SC LLC.

Cole held 12 wholly owned corpo-rate and industrial properties in eight states as of Dec. 21. The total includes the Spartanburg property and three others acquired last month.

The company said in a prospectus that it has “no plan for any renova-tions, improvements or development” of the recently acquired properties.

Contact Dick Hughes at [email protected].

Amazon center in Spartanburg sold for $63 millionBy Dick HugHes | senior business writer

There’s an effort underway to make Greenville’s nonprofit and corporate boardrooms less white and less male.

The Greenville Chamber of Com-merce has started a Diversity Leader-ship Pipeline, a database of qualified women and minorities interested in serving in leadership capacities, includ-ing nonprofit and corporate boards of directors.

“Our community is rich with diverse talent; however, many of those individu-als just haven’t been presented with the opportunity to serve in a leadership po-sition,” said Nika White, the chamber’s vice president of diversity and inclusion. “Further, there is merit to broadening the pool of diverse leaders to avoid the same individuals being tapped for op-portunities.”

Boardroom diversity is not just a problem in Greenville.

Eighty-five percent of board mem-bers for Fortune 500 companies were white men. White women made up 12.6 percent of Fortune 500 boards, while minority men comprised 6.8 percent of board members and minority women 3 percent, according to the Alliance for Board Diversity.

A national effort, 2020 Women on Boards, is trying to increase the percent-age of women on U.S. corporate boards to at least 20 percent by 2020.

“When it comes to recommending po-tential board members, people tend to recommend people who look like them,” White said, “And that perpetuates the problem.”

Catalyst, a nonprofit membership organization that works to increase op-portunities for women in business, said fewer than one-fifth of Fortune 500 companies’ boards had more than 25 percent women. Catalyst said one in 10 had no women on their boards.

A study Catalyst completed in 2011 of boards with three or more women mem-bers had a 53 percent higher return on equity, 42 percent higher return on sales and 66 percent higher return on invest-ed capital.

2020 Women on Boards said women comprise about half of the total U.S. workforce, and more than half of all

managers are women.Women are also responsible for al-

most 80 percent of all consumer spend-ing, the organization said.

More than 200 women and minori-ties are now included on the Diversity Leadership Pipeline. The chamber has a goal of having at least 500 on the list by the end of the first quarter in 2013. The list will include informa-tion on a person’s experience and ar-eas of interest.

White said nonprofit groups and cor-porations sometimes contact the Cham-ber for suggestions for minority and women board members.

“Diverse boards lead to better gov-ernance and the Diversity Leadership Pipeline is a way to facilitate that,” White said.

The Chamber is working with various organizations on the list, including pro-fessional groups, Leadership Greenville alumni, the United Way and corporate affinity groups.

White said the pipeline would give people who are qualified to be commu-nity and corporate leaders but haven’t had the opportunity a chance to take on leadership.


Chamber program hopes to help more women, minorities get on board

Diversity Leadership Pipeline seeks potential

nonprofit, corporate board members

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Before she talks about her favorite sport, Mary Eliza-beth McNair has to show off the scars on her legs. The bubbly, ponytailed 11-year-old uses the nine scars as a springboard to tell about her journey toward a longtime

dream: to play on a soccer team.

Mary Elizabeth was slow to hit the mile-

stones of standing and walking, said her father, Alex McNair, and doctors quickly discovered that she had twists in her leg bones, not to mention tendons that were too tight to allow her to walk in a normal way. After much consideration and an evaluation in the Greenville Shriners Hospital’s gait lab (which uses mo-tion capture technology identical to that used in mov-ies), the McNairs opted for surgery to straighten Mary Elizabeth’s bones.

So at seven years old, Mary Elizabeth underwent her first surgery in 2007 that literally cut her femur bone in half, rotated it and then patched it back together. The recovery was long, said Alex McNair. And during that protracted recuperation, “her main inspiration was that she could maybe play on a soccer team.”

Mary John McNair, Mary Elizabeth’s mother, said the couple does not know where the fixation on soccer orig-inated, but it was definitely more than a passing, child-ish infatuation. Mary Elizabeth’s soccer focus endured through surgery to straighten her bones and lengthen muscles, painstaking physical therapy, a year in per-manent braces and a year in orthotics. After that, she continued to talk about the possibility of playing soccer even when the entire multi-year process was repeated for another leg.

Mary Elizabeth chose a soccer ball as the image af-fixed to the back of her plastic braces, said her father, “and the talk of soccer has never ceased.”

In December 2011, Mary Elizabeth had her final sur-gery to remove all of the plates and screws that had held her bones together. She was mobile enough to scoot

down the steps that Christmas morning, her father said.Dr. Jon Davids, former Greenville Shriners Hospital

chief of staff and Mary Elizabeth’s surgeon, said several decades ago children who could move as well Mary Elizabeth did would simply be left with walking difficul-ties. “Getting around was good enough.” But with the gait lab technology, Davids could identify four ways to improve Mary Elizabeth’s mobility.

And while Mary Elizabeth’s parents praise Dr. Davids and the Shriner’s staff, Davids says that the success also hinged on his young patient’s attitude.

“She worked very hard and she was very dedicated to that therapy,” he said.

Though the family constantly talked about the possi-bility of Mary Elizabeth playing soccer, her parents were unsure whether it would actually happen.

However, not even a year after her final surgery, Mary Elizabeth and her father ran into his friend Mark Dullea and Dullea’s daughter, not knowing that the chance meeting would set off a series of events that Alex Mc-

Nair described as divinely driven. “Mary Elizabeth spotted a group of girls in uniform

[including Dullea’s daughter] and they played for CESA (Carolina Elite Soccer Academy),” he said.

Dullea explained the ins and outs of the program and McNair was soon in touch with another acquaintance, Jack Puckett, chairman of the CESA board. Within the very competitive organization, said McNair, “we talked about the possibility of Mary Elizabeth joining a team, having a uniform and maybe being something like a coach’s assistant.”

CESA identified three teams of the 25 in Mary Eliza-beth’s age group that might be a good fit.

And then another seemingly divine intervention hap-pened, said McNair. Team coaches Bo and Karen Greene heard about the girl searching for a team and knew it was Mary Elizabeth, former classmate of their daughter, Del-aney. They readily agreed to add her to the roster.

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the house screaming. Dinnertime was pretty much over,” her father said.

The parents said the typical fears about their child joining a new group were am-plified for them and they were nervous about that first practice – whether Mary Elizabeth would be accepted by a group of strangers. It turns out that in addition to Delaney Greene, there were many fa-miliar faces, including several other for-mer classmates.

“We thought that was an answer to our prayer,” said Alex McNair.

The team of 10-12 year-olds, named “The Flying Burritos with a Side of Dan-ger,” welcomed Mary Elizabeth.

Outfitted with uniform and cleats, Mary Elizabeth was slated to simply help out during the game, but the team and coaches conspired to surprise Mary Elizabeth – and set a precedent for the entire season.

At the end of the first quarter, referee Jonathan Shaw blew the whistle, but none of the players left the field, said Mc-Nair. Mary Elizabeth was called out as a substitution and dribbled down the field, kicking a goal. Alex McNair said once again, they saw their prayers answered. Shaw was a veteran referee and had the experience and forethought to get Mary Elizabeth onto the field.

“It was a life-changing experience for Mary Elizabeth,” he said. “That first goal was a truly wonderful thing. Not only did it get Mary Elizabeth fully engaged, but the parents and girls from both teams joined in the fun cheering. It brought us all closer together on many, many levels and set the stage for the rest of the season.”

Coach Bo Greene said team sports are about much more than rules and skills.

“We tell the girls it takes courage to give something everything you have, knowing there is a chance you may fall short of your goal. But as in life, they will be better for it.

“I think the courage and passion that Mary Elizabeth displays at practice and in life had a profound effect on the other

players. Her ability to overcome physical challenges was an in-spiration to the rest of the team, and to us as coaches,” Greene said.

Now that she’s completed her first season, Mary Elizabeth said that participating is “awe-some” and she will be practic-ing over the winter months, getting ready for the spring.

“She’s talking about soccer play dates during the off-sea-son,” her father said.

Mary Elizabeth has learned everything from a straight kick to a side kick and added, “Coach Bo taught me to kick around the cones.” She drills with the team, often with the Greenes’ son, Robert.

“He would teach me cool moves,” she said.

Mary John McNair said one of the highlights was the “whole new world” that playing soccer has opened up for Mary Eliza-beth.

“They are a very strong group of girls, it’s very impressive,” she said. And though Mary Elizabeth wasn’t the most experienced player, they all embraced her, she said. “There have been so many miracles along the way, that from our perspective, God is in control.”

Karen Greene, who helps husband Bo coach, said, “When she came out to prac-tice, the girls were really looking forward to her coming and really wanted her to feel like part of the team.”

Each teammate alternates drilling with Mary Elizabeth so she always has a part-ner, said Karen Greene. Mary Elizabeth added a different dynamic: “When we get stressed out at practice or get frustrated with something small, Mary Elizabeth helps keep everything in perspective.”

The 11-year-old “always has such a great attitude, no matter what is going on,”

Greene said. “She works hard, she does practice and she comes to practice excited to show us what she’s learned, and I think it’s helped her in a lot of different ways.”

Teammate Anna Clair Byrd, 11, was in Mary Elizabeth’s third-grade class during her time of surgery and recovery. Byrd, also a first-time team member, said, “When I saw her the first day of practice, I was sur-prised at how well she could move around and how well she could run with us.”

“I thought she had a really good time and we all enjoyed it,” Byrd said. “She’s always very enthusiastic and she always put a smile on our faces.”

Anna Clair’s mother, Tyree Byrd, said, “Mary Elizabeth joining our team has shown the girls that anyone can overcome

a difficulty and come as far as she has.”

“It was very touch-ing to the parents on the sidelines when it was Mary Elizabeth’s turn to kick the ball and score a goal, to watch our girls assist her and watch the oth-er team do the same,” added Byrd.

Andrew Fleming, assistant programs di-rector for CESA, said the girls on Mary Eliz-abeth’s team quickly figured out how she could participate. And though they could be typical, silly girls, they were also very intelli-gent and mature about including her.

“You could almost remove the adults from the equation and things would have been pretty much the same,” he said.

“We did not win ev-ery game we played this year, nor did we win the championship,” Bo Greene said. “But our girls played with passion and they never quit. I think that was in large part to having Mary Elizabeth on the team and seeing the courage that she displayed.”

At home, recounting the stories from her first season, Mary Elizabeth displays a silver soccer ball signed by the team. She adds that she won’t be using it for practice, though. “I want to get a black and white ball because this one is special.”

And as she shows off her team trophy, Mary Elizabeth sums up the realization of an enduring dream in just a few words: “I slept with it the first night.”

Contact April A. Morris at [email protected].

The Flying Burritos soccer team: (back row, L to R) Coach Bo Greene, Coach Karen Greene, Ana Antonakis, Madelyn Spitzer, Lauren LaRosa, Delaney Greene; (middle row, L to R) Cailey Owens, Mary Elizabeth McNair, Anna Claire Byrd, Lucy Cassels; and (front row, L to R) Delaney Carter, Chase Beeby. Teammates not pictured are Margaret Coburn and Sarah Grace Swift.


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When Sarah Love’s son, Mat-thew, was in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and Greenville Hospital System Chil-dren’s Hospital, she told him stories every day. Matthew was born eight weeks early and weighed less than three pounds, only living for five months.

In memory of her son, Sarah Love launched a nonprofit program called Matthew Loves Books that provides books to the parents of children in NICUs, giving them a way to con-nect with their children. Books are provided for children who are ad-mitted to the NICU and can be tak-en home with the children.

Love started the program in May 2012 at Spartanburg Regional and expanded it to Greenville Hospital System in December. More than 100 copies of “I Love You Through and Through” by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak were recently donated to the GHS Children’s Hospital Bryan NICU.

“The NICU can be a scary and intimidating place, but also a place full of miracles,” Love said. “Mat-thew … loved to hear stories. The stories we were able to share let Matthew know we were with him. We really believe that’s how he learned to recognize us when we arrived at his bedside.”

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A focus on emergency preparedness after 9/11, anthrax attacks and Hurricane Katrina bolstered efforts of public health agencies to be ready for anything. How-ever, after funding cuts and complacency, preparations are suffering, according to “Ready or Not,” a public health report re-leased in late December.

Compiled from information from pub-lic sources or public health officials, the Trust for America’s Health report rates states on a list of 10 indicators. South Carolina earned a point for six out of the 10. It fell short on the number of residents vaccinated against whooping cough, cli-mate change adaption plan, evacuation and relocation plans for childcare facili-

ties and the ability to sustain staff surges in public health laboratories.

The Palmetto State garnered points for maintaining funding for public health programs, quick assembly time of key public health staff in an emergency, in-fectious disease control, emergency man-agement accreditation, chemical threat preparedness in public health labs and the ability for nurses to practice across state lines.

Dr. Lee Crandall, chair of the depart-ment of public health sciences at Clem-son University, said one challenge for preparedness efforts is that there is no state funding for public health emergen-cy preparedness – just federal money that requires a state match.

South Carolina uses its public health activities to generate an in-kind match amount, but “it’s getting harder and harder for them to show that they have sufficient activities for the match. In the long term, that funding stream is fragile,” he said.

Even so, Crandall commended what the state’s public health agencies are do-ing. “It looks to me, however, given that

‘Ready or Not’ amount of limited resources, that the people of South Carolina are doing an awful lot with the money they have,” he said.

Crandall said he has also seen funding shift from public health agencies to hos-pitals for responding to natural disasters and other crises. This is not generating additional money for either, but is a posi-tive change since hospitals are becoming more involved in community health, he said.

A key advantage for the South Carolina public health system is the fact that the departments of health and environmen-tal control are combined, he said. In an emergency, many states have to coordi-nate two departments that are not accus-tomed to working together.

In South Carolina, the disaster vulner-ability lies in the Lowcountry as sea levels rise, he said. Health officials will have to prepare for hurricanes that are potential-ly larger than those ever seen before. An-other concern could be Upstate nuclear power plants that have disaster plans dat-ing before the creation of Lake Keowee, and the potential issues if the dam breaks, he said.

“That is something that is a very low probability, just as the Fukishima plants overrun by a tsunami was also

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very low probability, but those things that are the most unlikely to happen are the ones that we’re least prepared for,” he said.

A key focus is having response plans that are as flexible as possible, he said. Crandall said he also predicts that in light of recent incidents of gun violence, public health providers may also be asked to as-sist in the aftermath of such events.

According to the report, 35 states and Washington, D.C., scored six out of 10 or lower. Kansas and Montana scored the lowest, with three out of 10, and Mary-land, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ver-mont and Wisconsin scored highest with eight out of 10, said the report.

To help the country be even more prepared, the report made recommen-dations to dedicate funding to public health preparedness, modernize bio-surveillance that identifies and tracks threats, address antibiotic resistance, increase readiness for extreme weather systems and update the food safety sys-tem nationwide. Congress should also renew the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act, which was due to ex-pire at the end of 2012.

According to Crandall, all public health services suffer from a similar chronic problem. “To the extent you’re success-ful in preventing things from happening, people view those things as something we don’t have to worry about and don’t have to fund anymore. The more success-ful you are at preventing disaster, the less people are willing to fund disaster pre-paredness. We have to keep reminding ourselves that bad things can happen and will happen.”


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Just in time for Christmas, state resi-dents began receiving formal notification that their personal information had been stolen from the state Department of Rev-enue in September.

Some of the 1.2 million persons who live out of state got their notification earlier.

The notification letters arrived two months after Gov. Nikki Haley first an-nounced the massive cybertheft at DOR.

Waiting that long to send notices to af-fected South Carolinians is “way beyond pale,” Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego, told the State newspaper.

People who don’t follow the news or lack online access need notification as soon as possible, Givens said. Typically, such noti-fications are sent within 30 days of when a data breach becomes public, she said.

The state is paying SourceLink Carolina of Greenville to send notices at a cost of $1.2 million, according to the governor’s office.

About 1.8 million taxpayers in South Carolina will receive letters and more than 800,000 who signed up for credit-moni-toring from Experian will get e-mails.

In a related development, state officials have said that the state Department of Em-ployment and Workforce came under com-puter attack recently. The agency’s website was defaced, but no personal information was taken, DEW spokeswoman Adrienne Fairwell told the Associated Press.

WLTX-TV of Columbia reported an image appeared on the DEW website that said, “This site was hacked.”

Fairwell called the image a “website de-facement” and said the vandalism was tak-en down after a little more than an hour.

“Website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appear-ance of the site or a webpage,” the agency said in a news release. “This can be com-pared to graffiti on a wall.”

Fairwell said the defacement also occurred at about 12 other websites nationwide.

Contact Charles Sowell at [email protected].

Individual notifications of SC cybertheft begin arriving at lastBy CHarles sowell | staff


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Legacy Charter School is providing more than education to students – it’s also providing three square meals a day.

The charter school is the first public school in Greenville County to offer a dinner program through the Child and Adult Care Feeding Program adminis-tered by the state Department of Social Services.

Three schools in Spartanburg County – Jesse S. Bobo Elementary and Arcadia Elementary in District 6 and Pacolet El-ementary in District 3 – are among the 61 schools statewide now serving dinner to students, said Mary Young, program manager for DSS.

Legacy Charter, which has 92 percent of its students qualify for free or reduced-price school meals, began the dinner pro-gram in November and now feeds about 300 of the school’s elementary students and about 160 middle and high school students, said Fred Crawford, the school’s executive director.

That’s more than half of the school’s

800 students from kindergarten through 11th grade, he said. “With the mission of the school, it just makes sense.”

Legacy is the only public school in South Carolina to require all students to have 45 minutes of physical education every day. It also has a healthy breakfast and lunch program and serves no fried food.

According to Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, one in four Greenville County children are food insecure, meaning they don’t have consistent access to nutritious and adequate amounts of food necessary for a healthy life.

Food insecurity impacts a child’s mental and physical health, academic achievement and future economic pro-ductivity, Feeding America said.

Young said schools are eligible for the Child and Adult Care Feeding Program if they have an after-school or extended learning program, at least 50 percent of the student body qual-ify for free and reduced-price school meals and the after-school or extend-ed learning program provides educa-

tional or enrichment programs.She said the Legacy program started

in December 2010 as part of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act.

“We’re working to get the word out,” she said. “More schools have expressed

interest.”The dinners must meet USDA school

meal nutritional guidelines, and schools are reimbursed $3.0875 for each meal.

Young said the program is important because some children have to eat lunch early and are really hungry by 3 p.m. or 4 p.m.

“This is a wonderful opportunity to en-sure children who are in need of a nutri-tious meal after school get one,” she said.

Crawford said participation in the pro-gram is greater than school officials had anticipated.

“Students are coming in and taking care of their plates and if anybody else has anything left over, they take that, too,” he said. “A lot of our children may not have access to fruits and vegetables once they leave school. This is, for a lot of them, the last hot meal they have.”

Crawford said the meal is served be-tween 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. during the school’s enrichment program that runs until 5:30 or 6 p.m. each night.


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Matthew Wuhrman, owner of Red Fin on Main, ambles from his home across Main Street to his restaurant in bright yellow board shorts with sushi print – just a sample of his sushi clothing collec-tion. Sushi was not always his obsession, however.

“I used to despise sushi,” he says. That changed when he joined the military.

“A buddy of mine took me to a place

right outside the base in Fayetteville, N.C., and he bought pretty much the gauntlet. I learned how to enjoy it. ”

Once you have a handle on what turns you off about sushi – the texture or a par-ticular taste – you can narrow it down and find something you like, Wuhrman says. “There’s a roll for everyone.”

The Army veteran turned restaurateur spent 25 months in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division, an aggressive combat unit based out of Fort Bragg. Raised in Huntington Beach, Calif., the “typical

California surf kid” joined the military in August 2005.

“It’s not that I wanted to go to war nec-essarily, I was just very curious. My mind couldn’t comprehend the third world and someone initiating harm on others,” he said.

Wuhrman has been “all over that county, every single corner of it – Basra, Bagdad, Balad, Fallujah, Al Asad,” and sitting behind a gun in the Iraqi desert

Tour of sushiArmy vet brings ‘creative rolls’ to his sushi restaurant in GreenvilleBy NICHOLE LIVENGOOD | contributor

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for days on end gave him plenty of time to contemplate running his own restau-rant.

A� er two tours, the Army started tak-ing its toll. Deployments became frus-trating and he found it impossible to sustain a relationship of any kind.

“My buddy missed (his children’s) � rst words and walking and I couldn’t imagine having a kid and missing all those important things. I � gured I had done my bit and it was time to get out,” he said.

Wuhrman moved to Greenville to be close to his mom, who had recently relo-cated to the Upstate, and started looking for opportunities in the restaurant in-dustry. He was lucky to � nd a space that would be turnkey, and brought in an es-tablished sushi chef from New York.

He � nds the restaurant business to be a good � t. “I thrive in constant chaos. I’m ADD like crazy. I need 50 things go-ing on so I can � x 50 things. I love the details, both the beauty and the devils in them.”

What’s more, he has fallen in love with Greenville.

“It has such a big heart. I love the

fact that there are 60 restaurants in the downtown area and they are all busy and all able to sustain themselves. � e busi-ness owners are supportive and friendly, too. It’s been phenomenal.”

Red Fin specializes in creative rolls.

Rolls on the Specials Board will have names like the Mohawk Roll or Polar Bear Roll. For Christmas, there was a popular Christmas Tree Roll.

“We have the traditional sushi, but there’s also the fun, social aspect to it,”

he says. One of the sections on the menu is

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“Two guys can sit down and share a meal. It’s what I enjoy about the food and about Greenville. It’s very social and it brings people together. You can have a meal upstairs with your family, hang out on the couch or dine on the main level with a couple of friends, or get a drink at the bar downstairs here. I facilitate those basic human needs – food and interac-tion with others… and I do the dishes.”

Red Fin is open later than most restau-rants in Greenville, serving food until at least midnight every night, seven days a week. Sta� is currently working together on a new menu for the new year.

“I don’t like leaving. I love this place. I think I have the coolest customers in the world,” Wuhrman says. “I get to con-stantly meet new people and eat sushi. I just bounce around with a smile on my face.”

Contact Nichole Livengood [email protected].

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For women who think biscuits and icing are just another way to blow New Year’s resolutions, the Greenville Road Warriors would beg to differ.

The hockey team is throwing an ed-ucational event just for women at the BI-LO Center on Jan. 10 from 6 to 9:30 p.m., to school budding female fans on the terminology of the game and get them excited about hockey.

Hockey ’N Heels is a new program for the team’s female fans that gives women the opportunity to mingle with play-ers and team staff and learn about the sport. Local celebrities Alex Wilson and Rebekah Smith from FOX Carolina – one of the media sponsors for the team – will be hanging out with the ladies as they learn a little Hockey 101.

This is the first season Smith has been involved with the sport, and she’s learn-ing as she goes along.

“I knew nothing about hockey,” Smith said. “Being raised in the South, I grew up with other sports. Hockey is so fast-paced. That puck is flying across the rink, and it is such a con-tact sport, which is exciting. It is so aggressive. You get to yell and holler and be a little wild.”

Even when she is not appearing at the BI-LO Center as the “Face of FOX” to emcee and mingle with the crowd at games, Smith says she is going out to see the Road Warriors games with friends or family to enjoy the excitement.

“Especially being here in the Upstate, I think a huge issue is that a lot of people don’t know about the game of hockey. This event will definitely be a hockey crash course,” she said.

Women will glean the basics from team coach Dean Stork, learn how to make a pass and take a shot from as-sistant coach Dwayne Zinger, and learn a thing or two about game preparation, equipment and injury care from Road Warriors trainers. Coaches and players will also hit the ice for demonstrations.

“This event will help females with the rules of the game, and we will be teaching them shooting techniques along with passing of the puck and

some of the basic hockey techniques,” Stork said.

“If you’ve never been to a game before or only been to a couple, sometimes what’s happening on the ice can be a little confusing,” said Amanda Perkins, Road Warriors account executive.

“It helps to know what penalties and icing are, and it’s a lot easier to enjoy the game when you know why there are stoppages in play and what a high sticking or a boarding call is. We are just trying to get people who love hockey to understand it a little more.”

Tickets for the event are $60 and include a Premium Blue ticket to the Jan. 11 Road Warriors game versus Orlando. Along with the crash course in hockey, the women will have access to the locker room, media room and bench as well as a one-hour meet-and-greet with the entire hockey team in the newly renovated Concourse Lounge. Drinks and light dining fare will also be provided. The Warriors promise op-portunities for photos and autographs with the coaches and players, and par-ticipants will walk away with a special Hockey ’N Heels gift.

“We’re hoping to build our female fan base and give current fans a chance to meet the players one-on-one in a small-er setting,” Perkins said. “It will give them a chance to talk to some of the players and get to know them.”

Women may register by visiting GreenvilleRoadWarriors.com or by call-ing Amanda Perkins at 864-250-4926.

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For nearly four decades, the Ellen Hines Smith Girls’ Home has offered a safe, home-like environment for girls who are the victims of abuse and neglect.

Since its founding in 1974 as the Spartan-burg Girls’ Home, the nonprofit has expand-ed to serve girls, boys and entire families through its residential home and a Family Strengthening program that reaches out to families to prevent abuse and neglect.

As the new year begins, the nonprofit will be expanding its Spartanburg County in-home outreach program into Cherokee County, which has one of the highest rates of first-time child abuse in the state, said executive director Chamlee Loscuito.

With a $57,529 federal Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention grant admin-istered through the Children’s Trust of South Carolina, the Ellen Hines Smith Girls’ Home will also be able to further implement a Posi-tive Parenting Program it began in 2010.

The parenting program is an evidence-based approach that gives parents addi-tional tools, especially for those of chil-

dren with behavioral issues, Loscuito said. Staffers have been visiting homes since 2010, and now will be equipped with the Positive Parenting Program model.

“This takes their training to a whole other level,” Loscuito said. “Basically, it teaches parents appropriate discipline techniques that work at different ages.”

An in-home program also works better in many cases, she said, because of trans-portation issues associated with parents having to attend a class at a certain time and other factors.

The in-home interaction offers a clearer picture of the situation, she said. “Us going into the home is really meeting a huge need in our community. This way we’re able to meet them where they are and really ob-serve the interaction going on between the parents and the child so the input that we give to them is much more individualized.”

Reaching out to the community ideally will help to alleviate some problems before they get to the point that a child needs to be removed from his or her home and come to live in the Ellen Hines Smith Girls’ Home residential setting, Loscuito said. She antic-ipates the Positive Parenting Program out-

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more of a prevention focus so that we’re not just intervening when things get really bad,” Loscuito said. “Parenting can be really tough and we all need some support. Some people have more support built in than oth-ers… For those who don’t have that or for those who have children with severe behav-ioral issues, it can be really hard.”

The Ellen Hines home historically has housed girls who are victims of abuse and neglect until they can find a long-term place to live. The residential program serves about 35 girls each year.

The Ellen Hines Smith Girls’ Home is one of five organizations that received a grant for the 2012-2015 cycle. The Julie Valentine Center in Greenville also received funding, along with Hope Haven of the Lowcountry, the South Carolina Research Foundation and Windwood Farm Home for Children.

For the future, Loscuito said the Ellen Smith Hines Girls’ Home is investigating sources of funding to help create a transi-tional residential program for teens who are aging out of the foster care system and who are faced with issues associated with independent living.

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ReTeach Mastery Math Arts and Business Academy, a new charter school serving children from kindergarten through the fifth grade, is expected to be ready for students in 2014 or 2015, said Martha Evans, pastor of Resurrected Treasure Ministries.

It will be a school born of tragedy – Evans followed her path into the min-istry after a mentally disturbed young man killed her son. Years of working with the poor on the west side of Green-ville have taught her the value of a good education and the urgent need for better mental health care.

In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Conn., Evans wants to have teachers trained in National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) protocols for dealing with students and plans to have Michelle Ready, NAMI-certified instructor, on staff to help evaluate stu-dents at the school.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea to have more guns in the schools,” Evans said of calls for more police presence in Upstate schools. “Greenville County schools have not shown a great deal of interest in NAMI programs.”

Evans has been busy for some time talking with state education officials

about her plans for a charter school.

“They are on board with this,” Evans said. “We intend to accept any student, but don’t want to be-come a dumping ground for the Greenville School District.”

In Evans’ vision, the earlier stu-

dents get the help they need with prob-lems, the more likely a good outcome becomes.

The academy will occupy the space now used by Evans’ small church at 904 White Horse Road, she said.

The cost is estimated at $5.7 million to build the three-story structure. Furnish-ing and equipping the facility pushes the price tag to $7 million to $8 million. To help with fundraising, Evans has hired Development Systems International to handle coaching for the school’s board.

“We looked all over the country to find just what we need in Columbia, practically in our own backyard,” she said.


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Pastor Martha Evans of the Resurrected Treasure Ministries hands out candy to schoolchildren in the community room of the Fleetwood Manor Apartments. RTM runs the after-school program as one of the many community outreach programs Evans is involved with.

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It takes a lot of work to keep Fluor Field in immaculate shape, most of which goes unnoticed by fans attending a Class A Greenville Drive game, a college baseball game or one of the special events held at the field during non-baseball months.

“My ground crew is a fantastic crew,” said Greenville Drive head grounds-keeper Greg Burgess. “I’d put them up against anyone in the minor leagues.”

Burgess isn’t the only one who thinks the grounds crew is top-notch.

The Sports Turf Managers Associa-tion chose Fluor Field at the West End, the downtown home of the Class A Greenville Drive, as its 2012 Profession-al Baseball Field of the Year.

There are more than 225 professional baseball fields in the nation.

Fields are judged on their playability and appearance of the playing surface, innovative solutions employed to ad-dress challenges brought about by the weather and other factors, the effective expenditure of monies and the develop-ment of a sound agronomic program.

Keeping the field of Bermuda grass that is over-seeded with a perennial rye in tip-top shape is a yearlong job, Burgess said.

And although the minor-league base-ball season runs from April to around Labor Day, Fluor Field is in use from mid-February through mid- to late November.

“You have to have a strategic plan for the field,” Burgess said.

The rye grass gives the field its green color early; then as the weather gets hot, the Bermuda takes over.

“Our biggest challenge is balancing one grass dying with another that is greening up,” Burgess said.

On game days, Burgess, his assistant Ross Groenevelt and a crew of eight part-timers work from 9 a.m. until 11:30 p.m. or later. An eight-game home stand can mean a 120-hour workweek.

Burgess said the weather is his crew’s top challenge.

“The weather is great sometimes but other times, it can be your worst night-mare,” he said. “We have to make sure the game gets in if at all possible. If a game gets cancelled, it’s just Mother Nature.”

A good playing surface is more than aesthetics.

“The exceptional playing surface at Fluor Field really helps prepare our play-

ers to compete at the highest levels,” said Ben Crockett, director of player develop-ment for the Boston Red Sox. “Having a great playing surface allows players to focus on fundamentals without worrying about the consistency of their footing or a bad hop, and also keeps them healthy.”

Once, 15 minutes before the first pitch, a pipe burst behind the pitching mound, resulting in a geyser of water in the in-field. The crew quickly shut off the water to the field, sopped up the standing water and the game started on schedule.

“Our job is to ensure that the playing surface at Fluor Field is top-notch every night, so to receive such recognition for our work is personally very satisfying and also exciting,” Burgess said.

The crew is also responsible for the grounds outside the stadium, the berm where some fans sit along the left-field line and the bullpen.

“It’s not a lot of square footage, but it’s maintained in different ways and at dif-ferent times,” he said.

Greenville Drive General Manager Mike de Maine said the award recognizes what the organization already knew – that the ground crew is among the best in the business.

“Greg and his team do not have any control over the weather and other cir-cumstances that impact our field but they always control how they respond to those circumstances, and they always respond as consummate professionals,” de Maine said.

The Field of the Year Award began in 1992. Awards are given for baseball, foot-ball, soccer, softball and sporting grounds. For each field type, awards may be given in three categories: professional, college and university, and schools and parks.

Hillcrest High won the award for school and college baseball fields in 2005.


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The grounds crew cover the infield of Fluor Field before a rainstorm. The field was named best professional baseball field of the year by the Sports Turf Management Association.

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Hospice of the Upstate will host a Winter Grief Series, edu-cational sessions for those who have lost a loved one in the last year, beginning on Jan. 7. Both groups will run for five con-secutive weekly meetings. The groups will meet at Hospice of the Upstate’s Sadler Center, 1835 Rogers Rd., Anderson. Top-ics include symptoms of grief and common feelings, normal vs. abnormal grief, coping techniques for handling stress, and measurements. Both series are free and open to the public. Participants are welcome to bring a friend. For more informa-tion and to register, call Donna Davis, bereavement coordina-tor, at 864-328-1950 or 1-800-261-8636 x3115.

The Mauldin Garden Club will meet on Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Mauldin Cultural Center, East Butler Road, to discuss the beauty of using heirloom seeds in Upstate garden plantings. For more information, visit www.mauldingardenclub.org or contact Ann Smith, Garden Club president, at [email protected].

Glendale Outdoor Leadership School in Glendale, S.C., will host a Wilderness First Aid Course on Jan. 10-11. The 16-hour course provides entry-level training for outdoor enthusiasts to prepare themselves for outdoor trips. The WFA course covers topics ranging from preparation and prevention to assessment and treatment and meets the ACA guidelines. WFA is a two-year certification, but the American Heart Association Heart-Saver CPR is an optional extra that can be taken on the evening of day one. Cost is $185 for the two-day course and $20 for the CPR course. Lodging is $15 per night for on-site bunkhouse-style lodging. For details and to sign up, call 803-771-0870.

Fiction Addiction is offering a preschool story time on Jan. 17 at 10:30 a.m. for a featuring “Animals Don’t, So I Won’t!” by David G. Derrick Jr. For more information, call 864-675-0540.

Instructors with the Young Appalachian Musician program will resume teaching evening classes in acoustic instruments be-ginning Jan. 7. The program is designed to teach students to play by ear and offers guitar, mandolin, fiddle and banjo lessons for ages third grade through adult. The six-week sessions are $60 and are offered in Easley, Pickens, Clemson and downtown Green-ville. Enrollment period runs through Jan. 10. For more infor-mation and to register, contact Susan Ware-Snow, 864-979-9188 or [email protected] (Easley and Greenville); Steve McGaha, 864-283-4871 or [email protected] (Pickens); or Ryan Wilson, 864-360-4763 or [email protected] (Clemson).

Furman University’s Learning for You registration is underway and offers more than 100 trips, classes and camps for all ages, includ-ing a Social Media series, Pen and Ink Drawing, Cyanotype Photo-grams, Tai Chi, a World Flavors Cooking series and Composting and Organic Gardening. Online registration is available. Visit www.fur-man.edu/learningforyou or call 864-294-2153 for more information.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will present “Built To Amaze” at the BI-LO Center in Greenville, Jan. 30-Feb. 3. For more information, visit www.ringling.com.

The latest vehicles will take over the TD Convention Center in Greenville for the 2013 South Carolina International Auto Show on Jan. 11-12, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Jan. 13, 10 a.m-6 p.m.

This automotive event will offer an up-close look at the new-est cars, crossovers, trucks, alternative fuel vehicles and more. Admission is $8 for adults, and $5 for seniors (62 and older) and for children ages 7-12. Children six and younger are free. For more information or to purchase advance e-tickets, visit www.southcarolinaautoshow.com.

Roper Mountain Science Center and friends from around the state will celebrate oceans with fun-filled activities for kids and adults. H2Oceans! will take place Jan. 12 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Admission is $5 for children ages 5-12, $6 for teens and adults ages 13-59, and $5 for senior citizens ages 60 and over. No admission is charged for children under five years or for RMSC Association members. The science center is located at 402 Roper Mountain Road, Greenville. For more information, visit www.ropermountain.org or call 864-355-8900.

Local taxpayers can now schedule appointments to have their taxes filed for free by United Way’s Volunteer Income Tax As-sistance program. VITA, sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service and Bank of America, provides free income tax prepa-ration assistance to individuals and families with a household income of less than $51,000 a year. Appointments are now be-ing accepted for VITA sites via United Way’s 2-1-1 resource line. Appointment times are available in Greenville County begin-ning Jan. 16, followed by Pickens County on Jan. 23, Anderson County on Jan. 25, Spartanburg County on Jan. 30 and Laurens County on Jan. 31. VITA sites will remain open through April 18. For more information, visit www.unitedwaygc.org/vita.

North Carolina romance author Ryan Jo Summers will be signing copies of her debut novel, “Whispers in Her Heart,” at Fiction Addiction at 1175 Woods Crossing Rd, Greenville, on Jan. 19 from 1-3 p.m. If you cannot make the signing, you can reserve a personalized copy by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at [email protected].

Greenville Rec’s Westside Aquatic Complex is waiving the joining fee in January. Families save $55 on a household member-ship and adults save $35 on a single membership. Located at 2700 W. Blue Ridge Drive, Westside Aquatic Complex is Greenville’s premier indoor swimming facility featuring a 50-meter pool, a five-lane, 25-yard heated therapy pool, an exercise room and water fitness classes. For more information, visit www.greenvillerec.com.

The City of Greenville is once again sponsoring its annual “Grinding of the Greens” Christmas tree recycling program. Undecorated trees can be placed at the curb for collection on regularly scheduled pick-up days or taken to Holmes Park, Tim-mons Park, Gower Park and West Greenville Community Center for recycling. All listed locations will be open through Jan. 30, but curbside pick-up will continue as long as needed. Trees are ground into mulch at Twin Chimneys Landfill. For more infor-mation, call the Twin Chimneys Landfill at 864-243-9672. In ad-dition, all holiday boxes, tissue paper and wrapping paper (except foil-lined) can be recycled at the curb and at the recycling centers on 800 East Stone Avenue and 514 Rutherford Road.

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The Northwest Student Council sponsored a canned food drive to help the North Greenville Food Crisis Ministry. The drive capitalized on the University of South Car-olina vs. Clemson football rivalry and the USC fans won by collecting the most dona-tions. They donated several hundred pounds of food Nov. 1-Dec. 3.

Furman University senior Jerodis Williams was recently named a first-team Sports Network Football Championship Subdivision All-American as a kick returner. A two-time All-Southern Conference selection as a running back and also all-league choice in 2012 as a return specialist, Williams recorded his second consecutive 1,000-yard rushing campaign this fall, running for 1,170 yards and 11 touchdowns to complete his career with 3,097 yards. Williams is the 57th player in Furman football history to be accorded All-America honors.

Greer Middle College Charter High School recently honored the athletes who made the 2012 All Region Teams: Tori Cooper, Micah Williams and James Page in cross-country and Diane Frank in volleyball. The school is also still enrolling for the 2013-2014 school year. For more information, visit www.greermiddlecollege.org.

Sargent Foundation Board Chairman Dr. Robert Wilson recently presented the Greenville Technical Charter High School board of directors and principal Charles R. “Bob” Bayne with a donation from the Sargent Foundation. Greenville Technical Charter High School is a public school that serves students in grades nine through 12 in the Greenville County School District. The school just ended its open enrollment for the 2013-14 freshman class with 384 students ap-plying for 115 seats. Students are chosen by a lottery that was held in November.

Christ Church Episcopal School sophomore Alex Mahaffey helped to raise more than $40,000 for the Chris and Kelly’s HOPE Foundation at the Red Ribbon Golf Challenge. The foundation supports organizations that treat drug and alcohol depen-dency in adolescents and adults. The Red Ribbon Golf Challenge was part of Ma-haffey’s CCES sophomore project.

Greenville Middle Academy’s Reflections winners and runners-up included: video/film production, Ben Finklestein, winner and Tyler Shirley, runner-up; pho-tography, Jack Jopling, winner; Justin Baustert, David Grier and Mary Beth Hughes, runners-up; literature, Anna Fox, winner; Davis Crews, Davie Marchant, Rebekah Matthews and Ekaterina Nechayeva, runners-up; visual arts, Katherine Thomas, win-

ner; and musical composition, Taelyn Kuykendall, winner. Students who placed at the Northeast Council PTA level included Anna Fox, first place; Ben Finklestein, first place; Jack Jopling, second place; and Katherine Thomas, third place.

Clemson University recently approved the addition of a concentration in intercolle-giate athletic leadership to its online Master of Human Resource Development program. MHRD is a program within the Eugene T. Moore School of Education’s Department of Leadership, Counselor Education, Human and Organizational Development. Created to provide academic leadership training to aspiring and current coaches in the areas of hu-man performance, athletic counseling and ethical decision making, the athletic leadership concentration is available to students through an online program or as a graduate cer-tificate program. For more information, visit www.grad.clemson.edu/programs/human-resources-development or contact Mike Godfrey at [email protected].

Mt. Zion Christian School will host a school fundraiser night at Chick-fil-A on Woodruff Road on Jan. 10 from 5-8 p.m. A portion of all sales at that time will go to support MZCS and participants can try to win a brownie party for their child’s class.

Clemson University and NASA are teaming up for a second year to ask sixth- through eighth-grade students to design a mission to an asteroid. The contest is open to teams of one to four students who will submit slide shows or video presentations to NASA outlining their plans to send a human crew on a trip to an asteroid. Winners of the Asteroid Contest will have their presentations highlighted on the NASA website. Submissions will be accepted Jan. 15-Mar. 8. For more information, visit www.clem-son.edu/psych/ugrad/nasa-challenge.

Spartanburg Day School students recently placed in the Urban League of Spartanburg’s “Why We Can’t Wait” poetry writing contest. Rebeka Wellmon and Jesseca Kusher were winners in the contest for students in grades eight-12 throughout Spartanburg County. Wellmon’s “Never Take Their Bait” and Kush-er’s “Sick of Waiting, Sick of Sinking” were honored. Runners-up also included Lauren Thomas’s “The Time is Now” and Ella Web-ster’s “Shade of Skin.” All of the finalists will be recognized at About A Dream on Satur-day, Jan. 19. The winners will read their po-ems at the event.

David Setzer, GTCHS board chairman; Charles R. “Bob” Bayne, GTCHS principal; Dr. Tom Barton, Sargent Foundation board trustee; Dr. Robert Wilson, Sargent Foundation board chairman; and Teresa Wilson.

(L to R) Rebeka Wellmon, Roberta Camp (Upper School English teacher), Lauren Thomas, Crystal Irby (Urban League of Spartanburg) and Jesseca Kusher. Not pictured: Ella Webster.


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The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, recently donated $166,000 to nonprofit organizations in South Carolina from August through October 2012. As part of TD Bank’s commitment to giving back to the community, the TD Charitable Foundation awarded 18 grants to nonprofit organizations that provide affordable housing, financial literacy and education, and environmental programs in South Carolina during the quarter, including South Carolina Hispanic Outreach, United Ministries Place of Hope, Charleston Trident Urban League Inc. (CTUL) and Waccamaw Community Foundation.

The Goodfellows Club, an activity of The James F. Daniel Jr. Post 3 of the American Legion in Greenville, recently distributed more than 1,000 food boxes to families in need identified by United Ministries of Greenville. The program has been going on for the past 87 years and is still taking donations to help fund the distribution. For more information, contact Donald Patterson at 864-271-2000.

Verizon recently presented Harvest Hope Food Bank with a $15,000 donation to help fund holiday meals for those in need. Verizon also collected 15,000 pounds of food through a corporate food drive. Last year, Harvest Hope provided food for more than 38,000 people a week across 20 S.C. counties and served almost one million families. For more information, visit www.harvesthope.org.

Upstate Forever recently announced the addition of Glenn Hilliard and Don Mc-Clure to its board of directors. Hilliard is CEO of Hilliard Group and founder of the Foothills Trail Conference. Don McClure is a retired orthopedic surgeon and 40-year resident of Spartanburg County who lives on a tract protected by Upstate Forever. Board officers elected for 2013 also include: chairman Dick Carr of Spartanburg County; vice-chair Brice Hipp of Greenville County; secretary Dianne Culbertson of Laurens County; and treasurer Tom Brown of Greenville County. In addition, John Frampton, former director of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, has joined Upstate Forever’s Advisory Council.

The Carolina Recycling Association has issued a call for nominations for the awards ceremony at its annual conference and trade show, “Recycling: No Time to Waste.” The awards honor the best programs, projects and individuals for outstanding achievement and commitment to the mission of the organization. For more informa-tion, categories and nomination forms, visit www.cra-recycle.org/2013.

Upstate Forever will welcome Nell Newman, founder and president of Newman’s Own Organics, as the keynote speaker at its ForeverGreen Annual Awards Luncheon on Feb. 21. An ardent supporter of sustainable agriculture, Newman will discuss the importance of organic foods and share her perspective on why living a more envi-ronmentally conscious life helps everyone. Newman has a direct connection to the Upstate since her mother, actress Joanne Woodward, graduated from Greenville High

School and launched her career at the Greenville Little Theatre. The annual event recognizes individuals and organizations for significant contributions in the fields of land conservation, water quality, air quality, sustainable development, public service and volunteer work. For more information, visit www.upstateforever.org.

Best Chevrolet of the Upstate recently donated $1,000 to the Miracle Hill Chil-dren’s Home in Pickens County. The donation came a little less than 24 hours after organizers of an annual Christmas event to give gifts to children at Miracle Hill said the holiday tradition was in jeopardy. An annual toy drive for Miracle Hill has been spearheaded by Michael Hedrick of Michael’s Pizzeria in downtown Easley for the past decade. Best Chevrolet’s donation along with several others will help make the event a reality, but the general community still is encouraged to donate items. For more information, call 864-855-0025.

Kids’ Chance of South Carolina, a nonprofit organization that provides schol-arships and support to dependents of South Carolina workers who have been killed or seriously injured on the job, recently announced the new members of its board of directors. The new members include: Amity Edmonds of Gallivan, White & Boyd, Greenville; Nicholas Haigler of Sowell, Gray, Stepp & Laffitte, Columbia; Michael Jordan of The Steinberg Law Firm, Charleston; and Sandra Walthall of Eastern Alliance Insurance, Charlotte. For more information, visit http://kidschancesc.org.

From left: Brother James Blackwell, resident monk; Father Lawrence Holcombe, parish priest; Julie Accetta, Meals on Wheels director of community relations; Joni Zeller of St. Martha’s Guild.

Holy Trinity Anglican Church, through its fourth annual St. Francis Blessing of the Animals, recently collected donations and contributions to aid Meals on Wheels in delivering pet food to their homebound clients. Help came from most of the pet own-ers who had their pets blessed by Father Lawrence Holcombe, and other generous parish pet own-ers. Holy Trinity Church will accept any pet food donations at the parish hall, located at 717 Buncombe St. in Greenville. For more information, call can 864-232-2882.

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Center and nationally acclaimed performance poet Gle-nis Redmond, herself a graduate of Woodmont High.

Redmond, the Peace Center’s artist-in-residence, is building a program that fosters creative expres-sion through writing and performing poetry among young and mature writers.

Peace Voices, which Peace Center President Me-gan Riegel expects to become the Peace Center’s sig-nature educational outreach program, will provide for the first time a space and a stage where the com-munity can come together to share original poems in a performance setting.

Peace Voices program allows students, adults to express themselves through writing and performance of poetry

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� rough the outreach, the Peace Cen-ter will host poetry events in its educa-tion center, host a youth poetry slam for the region and conduct artist residencies in local schools.

� e concept is unique to the region.“It’s not just designed to promote po-

etry, but people having a creative voice,” said Staci Koonce, the Peace Center’s vice president for education. “� ere’s a real need for this voice in the community. Teenagers o� en don’t feel connected to their community. We want to make the arts in general accessible for them, but also create a platform for them as artists.”

� e topics the teens tackle in their po-etry are serious.

“� e things they talk about in their poems are not public service announce-

ments,” Koonce said. “� ey are real, very honest. � ey are diving into themselves. � ey really do some soul-searching.”

� e question Redmond posed to the students at a recent workshop at Wood-mont High could not have been more timely, coming just days a� er the New-town, Conn. school shooting that le� the country reeling and asking why: “What is wrong with our planet? What is wrong with our world from your perspective?”

Redmond said the school shooting rocked her world because nobody thinks of 5-year-olds dying.

“I was at the grocery store that week-end and kept seeing parents with their 5-year-olds,” she told the students. “What do you think I thought? It took me back to Connecticut. You know, we all remem-ber what it is like to be a 5-year-old.”

One by one, the students listed one-

word answers to Red-mond’s question: Intoler-ance. Fear. Impatience. Doubt. Disbelief. Cruelty. Violence. Deception.

� ey looked closer to their own worlds – the hallways of their school: Backstabbing. Bullying. Immodesty. Degradation. Self-esteem. Pride.

� en they looked at what is good in the world: Acceptance. Humility. Truth. Equality. Joy. Jus-tice. Laughter.

� ey soon would begin weaving those words and some of their own memo-ries together into a new poem, their own recipes for a better world.

Redmond said she’s not trying to create poets out of all of the students she works with. Instead, she wants to get them to re� ect, to go “deep into their own wells.”

“I want them to develop a deeper connection with themselves,” she said. “When they voice that and somebody says to them, ‘Yes, I feel that, too,’ it gives them a deeper connection with others. � ey feel like they are not alone.”

Poetry is a way to navigate the land-scape of emotions, she said.

“I � nd these residencies glori� ed con-versations,” she said. “We have to talk about the world, art, literature and poli-tics to spark the conversation. Students � nd that there are words out there that are re� ective of them.”

Tyson Neal, a freshman at Woodmont, said while he has always enjoyed poetry, he didn’t realize he could write before working with Redmond in the Peace Voices program.

� rough poetry, he’s been able to see life through a di� erent perspective, he said.

“I see that there’s a larger world out there. I’ve been able to see how the world is larger than my perspective. It has in-spired me to try to look at everything in my life and how that has made me the person I am today.”

Tristan Bellah, also a freshman at Woodmont, said, “Poetry is a great way to get out on paper what you hold inside.”

On the Gunter Stage in November, McCasland performed a poem about her parents’ struggles as young parents and their ability to make things better for the family through hard work. She said the opportunity allowed her to express her feelings through poetry in ways that she’s never been able to through conversation.

“It’s yourself on paper,” she said.� e next Peace Voices student poetry

reading will be Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Gunter � eatre at the Peace Center. � e reading is free, but tickets are required due to limited seating. For tickets, call the Peace Center box o� ce.

Contact Cindy Landrum [email protected].

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Upward’s recently completed indoor volleyball com-plex is the big draw for the tournament heading to Spar-tanburg.

� e facility, located at 6655 Pottery Road, just o� Interstate 26 northwest of Spartanburg, “is the largest indoor volleyball facility in the Southeast,” said Corey Helle, director of Upward’s Club South Volleyball.

Helle, a former Wo� ord volleyball coach with exten-sive experience in the sport both on the collegiate and club volleyball levels, said Upward decided a couple of years ago to expand its athletics program to include old-er athletes with the Club South Volleyball Powered by Upward Stars program.

“We’re seeing private groups vying for a slice of the athletic tourism business,” said Jim Campbell, interim director of Spartanburg County Recreation.

� e county’s massive Tyger River so� ball and baseball complex had about $17.6 million in economic impact this year, a Clemson University survey found.

Helle said he expects the volleyball center and subse-

quent tournaments to have a similar impact for the area.“� ere will be about 200 teams of eight players. Each

team will bring along family members. � at will � ll a lot of hotel rooms and seats at local restaurants,” he said.

� e tournament is a regional volleyball event and games will be split among private facilities in Greenville and Spartanburg counties, Helle said.

“Ours is the biggest,” he said. “And the facilities are excellent.”

Work on renovating a large building at Restoration Church, located in the former Wacammaw Pottery Mall,

started earlier this year, Helle said. “What has come out of that is a state-of-the-art facility” – for Upward and for the sports tourism potential of the area.

Globally, sport tourism amounts to a $600 billion business. More than 100,000 people visited Tyger River Park last year, according to Clemson. � e economic impact of the 60,000 out-of-towners was impressive, County Council was told last fall.

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Across the state, cities and counties are buying into sports tourism. � e state Municipal Association re-ported last year that Rock Hill has become a pioneer in sports tourism with its Cherry Park hosting state, re-gional and national tournaments year-round.

Cherry Park is part of a complex of sports facilities in the city that have brought 475,000 visitors to Rock Hill with an estimated direct economic impact of $59 mil-lion in the past six years.

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Go for the big pictureStringdusters quintet strives for the fresh and unconventional

In March of this year, the Infamous Stringdusters, an award-winning acoustic quintet formed in Nashville, Tenn., in the mid-2000s, will pick up their instruments and head onstage.

Nothing out of the ordinary about that, until you discover that the stage is a gigantic underground cave. The Stringdusters will be taking part in the “Bluegrass Underground” radio and TV show, filmed over 300 feet below ground in Cumber-land Caverns, located in McMinnville, Tenn. They will play in a natural amphithe-ater called the Volcano Room.

“It’s a really unique show,” says the Stringdusters’ guitarist, Andy Falco. “It’s actually, literally in a cave. You walk through caverns down into the cave, and that’s where the show is. It’s really unbe-lievable. You’re literally playing inside the belly of the Earth. It’s an incredible space.”

Sure, it’s a bit of an unconventional venue, but it’s fitting for a group that has become increasingly less conventional in the six years since their debut recording, “Fork In The Road.” That album won the band two International Bluegrass Music Association awards, but Falco says they’ve changed quite a bit since that first album.

“I don’t think of us as a traditional bluegrass band at all, actually,” he says. “The band started out in the more traditional bluegrass world, but it’s evolved into some-thing completely different. There is bluegrass in the roots of our music; that’s un-deniable. But everybody in the band grew up listening to and playing all kinds of different music, and we allow all those influences to come out in our own music.”

The Stringdusters have expanded their palette to include jazzy improvisation, pop-music melodies and a wide range of material (including U2’s “In God’s Coun-try” and The Police’s “Walking On The Moon”), but Falco says he doesn’t worry about categorizing the band’s music.

“Our goal is just to make the best music that we can, and not try to ‘make’ it bluegrass or anything else,” he says. “If you talk to someone who listens to a lot of Bill Monroe or Flatt and Scruggs, we’re nowhere near a bluegrass band. But if you talk to somebody who listens to the Avett Bros, we seem more traditional. So it’s all perspective. As it grows, music changes and morphs. If you look at rock ’n’ roll, Led Zeppelin is rock ’n’ roll, but very different from Buddy Holly, who is also rock ’n’ roll. Rock ’n’ roll has changed over the years, and I think that bluegrass and roots music have done the same.”

Falco says as time has passed, the band has become more comfortable letting the music progress organically, which has contributed to its movement away from a more traditional sound.

“I think our music has naturally evolved as we’ve gotten more comfortable with ourselves and as a band, and as our songwriting has gotten better. Everybody writes, so everybody has ideas, and everybody brings in material. We’ve gotten more com-fortable with letting the music do what it’s going to do and go where it’s going to go. And then ideas start flowing and we put it all together.”

Falco says the Stringdusters strive to keep things fresh on the road as well as in the studio.

“It’s important to us to experience life as much as possible,” he says. “We’re into cy-cling; we’re into skiing; we’re into rafting. We take advantage of all of that on the road. And those experiences add to the music. To us, it’s about the bigger picture of life.”

The Infamous Stringdusters are playing Greenville’s Handlebar Listening Room on Friday, Jan. 11.

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Frank Ruby and his fellow volunteers have big dreams for the Transportation Museum of the World they are planning to build in Greenville County. But a� er three years of obstacles and frustrations, they are willing to start smaller.

“Fundraising is the biggest problem,” said Ruby, who owns Blue Ridge Hob-bies. “We have the plans drawn and we’re ready to get going on this, but we can’t get the cash together to get in a building somewhere.”

Ruby said approximately 250 volun-teers have worked toward the creation of the museum for the past three years. Var-ious county and city o� cials, area busi-nesses and corporations have said they like the idea of a transportation museum, which would use miniature model rail-roads, model buildings and technology

for education and entertainment. “� ey want to collaborate on it, but

when we ask for cash, they pull back,” Ruby said, adding that the recent reces-sion and � scal cli� worries have created some reticence.

But the volunteers have remained en-thusiastic, and organizers have looked into a variety of possible venues, includ-ing the former Belk’s at McAlister Square, the former Best Buy on Laurens Road and, Ruby’s top pick, the former Sam’s on Laurens Road.

“� at’s right near I-85, and for this to be a tourist attraction, we want it to be easily accessible from Atlanta and Char-lotte,” he said.

However, at 133,000 square feet, the Sam’s Club was larger than they needed, and with $120,000 cash in hand, the or-ganization is well short of the $500,000 required for the security deposit and op-erating capital, so the plan was shelved.

“Our thought process has changed, so now we’re looking to start smaller, with a 7,000- to 10,000-square-foot building,” Ruby said.

To stir up interest and raise funds,

the Transportation Museum operated a Miniature World of Trains 2012 Christ-mas model train display at Fountain Inn’s History Center, in conjunction with the town’s Spirit of Christmas Past events. More than 3,000 visitors came to see the trains, participate in a scavenger hunt and meet the museum’s mascot.

On Dec. 21, the display moved to a temporary o� ce on North Pleasantburg Drive.

� rough the miniature displays, Ruby hopes to show that the Greenville com-munity and surrounding area would sup-

port the museum.“Banks don’t like our numbers, be-

cause this is an out-of-the-box concept and they don’t have anything to compare it to, except in Germany,” he said. “� ey don’t think we can achieve the numbers. But I disagree.”

He and his board members expect up-wards of 100,000 people per year would visit the museum in its � rst year, and that the project will create 150 jobs and have a 2.5 million annual impact on the com-munity.

Ruby hopes to replicate the success of Miniature Wonderland, a massive mu-seum billed as the world’s largest model train set that has brought in more than one million visitors per year in Hamburg, Germany.

“� ey’ve got a 12-year jump on us, but we want to take what they’ve done and do it more prototypically, to teach about transportation systems,” Ruby said. “� e technology is there, and we just want to do it on a grand scale.”

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Greenville artists Signe and Genna Grushoven-ko have spent 10 years translating old photo-graphs into paint. In a new exhibit at the Art & Light Gallery, the duo features paintings based on photos of subjects in motion. The “all dancers” series will be unveiled at a reception on Jan. 4, 6-9 p.m. Art & Light Gallery is located at 4 Aberdeen Drive, Green-ville. For more informa-tion, call 864-363-8172 or visit www.artandlightgallery.com.

Riverworks Gallery will present the “Student Exit Portfolio” exhibit Jan. 8-27. Greenville Technical College’s graphic arts students complete their course of study by preparing an exit portfolio. This exhibit features the work of five graphic design graduates: Alessan-dra Bennett, Alex Petkus, Christopher A. Radecke, Catherine Roberts and William

Swett. In addition, the exhibit features Adam Rogers, a student at Sa-vannah College of Art and Design. There will be an opening reception on Jan. 9, 6-8 p.m. The Riverworks Gallery is operated by and for the faculty and students of the Department of Visu-al and Performing Arts at Greenville Technical College. The gallery is located at 300 River St., Greenville. For more

information, call 864-271-0679 or visit www.gvltec.edu/vpa.

Fans of bluegrass and old-time moun-tain music won’t want to miss the Young Appalachian Musicians’ Winter Jubilee on Jan. 11 and 12, 2013, at the Perform-ing Arts Center at Pickens High School. Ten bands from North and South Caro-lina will compete in the Blue Flame Blue-grass Band Competition on Friday eve-

ning. Saturday will feature the Little Roy and Lizzy Show, performances, acoustic music workshops, open jams and more. Proceeds support the Pickens High School Bluegrass Class and the YAM program, an after-school program. The YAM program is sponsored by Preserv-ing Our Southern Appalachian Music Inc. (POSAM), a nonprofit organization. More information and tickets can be found at www.yamupstate.org.

The big-band, swing-dance musical revue known as “In the Mood” will be performed Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on the Furman University campus. “In the Mood” is presented by Artbeat Inc., a not-for-profit arts present-er. For more information about the event, go to www.artbeatshows.org. Tickets are $29-$49 and available at Timmons Arena or Ticketmaster. For ticket information, call the Timmons Arena Box Office at 864-294-3097 or visit www.timmonsare-na.com. Tickets may also be purchased through Ticketmaster by calling 800-745-3000 or at www.ticketmaster.com.

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Great floor plan. Butler Rd, right on Tanner Rd, right into s/d on Old Hall Ln, 1st right on Cobb Hall, home on right. Scott Holtzclaw, 884-6783 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co.

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Road office. Originally from Williamsburg, VA, Wajciechowski graduated from Bethel High School and earned her degree at Thomas Nelson Community College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Marketing.

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She has 20 years experience in the real estate industry. Patte served as Residential Sales Broker in Denver, Colorado. She was awarded the Silver Sales Award and Bronze Sales Award, and named Site Manager of the Year. “We are excited to have Patte join the Pelham Road Office,” said John Moore,

Broker-in-Charge. “She is a welcome addition to the Spaulding Group.”Wajciechowski currently resides in Spartanburg with her husband, Wayne and daughter Madison. In her free time, she enjoys sailing, interior decorating, and “repurposing” household items. She is a new member at First Baptist Church in Spartanburg.

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FOX TRACE $1,750,000 CYPRESS COMPANY AT FOX T S C PILLON HOMES INC 1371 DOGWOOD DR SW $630,000 HOLTZCLAW WELDON E DEBRUIN GARY F (JTWROS) 30 W DARBY RD HAMMETT CREEK $586,100 CORNELIUS CARA R AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL R 6 PENN CTR W 2ND FL LAURELWOOD $570,000 WATKINS LIVING TRUST O’BOYLE LISA M 956 LAURELWOOD WAY FIVE FORKS PLANTATION $564,450 NVR INC ODOGWU MADUKA H 18 STRATTON CHAPEL CT $517,778 FIRST FEDERAL BANK YISTICO LLC 107 GRAYSTONE RD TRAXLER PARK $465,000 DOBSON BELINDA J PHILMON TIMOTHY RYAN (JT 33 BYRD BLVD TRAXLER PARK $435,000 SANDERS SUZANNE W HILL JOHNATHAN C (JTWROS 56 WOODVALE AVE RIVER OAKS $395,000 WHAT NEXT LLC HILLABRAND BRENT (SURV) 314 NEW TARLETON WAY PEBBLE GROVE $385,000 SCOTT CARRIE M OSBORNE CHERYL L 113 AMANDAS AUTUMN LN LANNEAU DR HIGHLANDS $362,000 ADVANCED AUTOMATION INC MOORE J DAVID (JTWROS) 17 LANNEAU DR ESTATES AT RIVERWOOD FARM $359,000 HENZEL ROSS RIEMENSNIDER LAURA (JTWR 304 GLADSTONE WAY SUMMER PLACE $356,000 KNAPP ROBERTA E KIM GINA BRENDLE 213 GOVERNORS SQ CLEAR SPRINGS $350,773 BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT ROBB RON (JTWROS) 1 ANGELINE WAY ABLES & RASOR $350,550 PLANTE JENNIFER J KRAMER AARON JOSEPH (JTW 22 CLUB DR RIVER WALK $345,000 THORNLEY REBECCA L SAYEGH JUDITH 14 GILDERVIEW DR CLARK MANOR $340,000 ROBB LEIGH B (JTWROS) FREYTAG AMY S 201 GERALD DR HOLLINGTON $334,630 BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT HAMMOND JEFFREY P (JTWRO 23 CADOGAN DR VILLAGE AT THE CLIFFS $315,000 BURKETT GLENDA R STARBUCK STEPHEN 10609 COYLE CIR GREYTHORNE $313,789 S C PILLON HOMES INC CARROLL JASON G 220 DAIRWOOD DR BRAEMOR $311,820 D R HORTON INC TUCKER JAMES (JTWROS) 115 YORKSWELL LN $300,000 MOON JOSEPH T TRANSTECH OF SOUTH CAROL 709 AUGUSTA ARBOR WAY RIVER WALK $299,000 BLACK JOHN R JEFFREY BENNY (JTWROS) 7 DEER TRACK RD GREYSTONE COTTAGES $273,434 ROSEWOOD COMMUNITIES INC FANER MADELINE S 230 ASHLER DR PARKER CREEK $272,465 DISTINGUISHED DESIGN LLC HILGEMAN BRANDON PATRICK 1220 N PARKER RD RAVENWOOD $270,868 RELIANT SC LLC SPILKER SAMUEL J 116 RAVEN FALLS LN GREYTHORNE $269,373 S C PILLON HOMES INC WILSON BRIGETTA 104 DAIRWOOD DR HEARTHSTONE AT RIVER SHOALS $266,075 NVR INC LINARDI ANTHONY J 6 TIPPECANOE ST GREYSTONE COTTAGES $265,085 ROSEWOOD COMMUNITIES INC DILEO JANET E (JTWROS) 609 CASTLESTONE DR $265,000 POE KATHERINE L MURDOCK ANDREA LYNN 9 MARSHALL CT CREEKWOOD $263,500 BUSBY BRENDA K FLORES EDWIN JR (JTWROS) 201 WILD MEADOW DR DOVE TREE $262,500 MOODY BRADLEY D ARMSTRONG DAVID (JTWROS) 102 SHINLEAF DR $260,000 BLAKELY GRETCHEN ANNE BLACKWELL JOE CLEVELAND 120 LAKE CIRCLE DR BRIDGEWATER $254,770 BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT GRUBEL ROGER 307 BRIDGE CROSSING DR NEELY FARM-HAWTHORNE RIDGE $252,900 WISEMAN SUE B JENNINGS CAMELIA (JTWROS 602 FARMING CREEK DR HOLLY TREE PLANTATION $252,000 JONES BENJAMIN A LOVE JESSICA (JTWROS) 103 GILDEN LN GREYTHORNE $250,820 S C PILLON HOMES INC SHENOY AJITA MANOHAR (JT 256 DAIRWOOD DR AUGUSTA RD HILLS $246,000 MURDOCK ANDREA L RUSSO WILLIAM (JTWROS) 220 CAMMER AVE $245,000 BUFF JOHN PHILLIP FARRIS CHRISTOPHER P (JT 302 E FARIS RD THE TOWNES AT HIGHGROVE $243,556 NVR INC VONDERHAAR GEORGE T JR 30 PATEWOOD DR STE 257 $237,000 TARPON POINT LLC CARLSON VIVIAN C 24 COOLIDGE AVE RESERVE AT PLANTATION GREENE $231,900 GREENE VILLAS LLC MEYER ROBERT BRUCE (JTWR 43 BARNWOOD CIR WOODLANDS AT WALNUT COVE $231,250 ROSEWOOD COMMUNITIES INC BRESCIA EDWARD V (JTWROS 16 PEBBLEBROOK CT CLIFFS AT GLASSY $230,000 GRANO VIVIAN MOORE MEREDITH PAIGE 139 CATNIP TRL ADAMS RUN $230,000 WALTERS GEORGE A (JTWROS ERICKSON RAYMOND E JR 9 WAXWING CT SHENANDOAH FARMS $226,110 BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT CROMER BRANDON K 364 STRASBURG DR $225,000 CHURDAR CAMERON O LACY JOHN E 334 DELLWOOD DDR CROSSGATE AT REMINGTON $224,047 D R HORTON INC CAZESSUS KRISTINA RENAE 215 KINGS HEATH LN CHANDLER LAKE $223,875 Y AND Y DEVELOPMENT CORP BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT PO BOX 1039 HARRISON COVE $223,065 EASTWOOD CONSTRUCTION LL SANGHANI BHAKTI B 313 CYPRESSHILL CT GREYTHORNE $221,519 S C PILLON HOMES INC MCBRIDE JULIE LYNN (JTWR 10 LAZY WILLOW DR PELHAM FALLS $220,000 BOYD BRETT M HAMMOND FLOR-CAMILLE A 107 BRIARPARK DR MERRIFIELD PARK $214,700 KIM GINA B NORVELL ERIC G 101 PARLIAMENT RD THE COVE AT SAVANNAH POINTE $214,225 BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT BARTLEY AMY Y 123 SHEEPSCOT CT THE RESERVES AT RAVENWOOD $212,870 RELIANT SC LLC GENTRY ANTHONY LEE (JTWR 2109 GARDEN DISTRICT DR $208,725 R & J ENTERPRISES OF EAS BANKS CRAIG PO BOX 670 BROOKFIELD WEST $202,000 LAWSON ROBERT W JR HARMON DAWN C 104 BRITON WAY NORTHWOOD HILLS $201,000 BROOKS KATHERINE A GODBEY MICHAEL CORY (JTW 308 COVINGTON RD CEDAR COVE $200,000 JONES RALPH E BURROUGHS EVE L (JTWROS) 419 SE MAIN ST STE 4000C CHARTWELL ESTATES $198,199 HERRERA DIANA M FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAG PO BOX 650043 TOWNES AT RIVERWOOD FARM $198,000 WILSON BARBARA G GROPP PHYLLIS M REVOCABL 13 BELFREY DR KANATENAH $197,000 JONES VIVIAN MARIE A HANNA PAUL D (JTWROS) 101 OREGON ST $195,000 JENERETTE LISA L POWELL JOHN DANIEL 329 VIEWMONT DR EBENEZER HEIGHTS $192,500 KOZIC DAVID M CHAPMAN HEIDI E 10 THUNDER RD PELHAM FALLS $192,000 SMITH JEREMY J FISHER CHRISTIAN (JTWROS 7 WOODWAY DR GRESHAM PARK $185,930 EASTWOOD CONSTRUCTION LL QUIGLEY EDWARD J JR 4 CARTER RUN CT PARTRIDGE RIDGE $185,000 OSTEEN JASON L FOY ALLISON MCCANN (SURV 104 CHUKAR WAY RABON CHASE $184,900 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAG LEWIS SUSAN ADELE 113 RABON CHASE CT HERITAGE CREEK $184,805 S C PILLON HOMES INC GALLOWAY WILLIAM 267 OAK BRANCH DR SHADOW CREEK $184,200 MARK III PROPERTIES INC EASTWOOD CONSTRUCTION LL 2857 WESTPORT RD FLAGSTONE VILLAGE $183,450 ENCHANTED CONSTRUCTION L RIDGEWAY CHAD MICHAEL 61 LEBANON CT THE FARM@SANDY SPRINGS ORC. $182,592 D R HORTON INC HUBARTT TIMOTHY P 160 MAREHAVEN CT HERITAGE CREEK $181,035 S C PILLON HOMES INC PARKER KIMBERLY D 258 OAK BRANCH DR $181,000 FORRESTER WAYNE ALLEN MANJI ZIA 913 LAURENS RD BOULDER CREEK $180,000 MONARCH HOMES OF THE UPS BOONE CANDICE H 305 MELLOW WAY $180,000 MANWARING BEVERLY(JTWROS ROWE HARVEY RANDAL 838 PRINCETON HWY #76 AVALON ESTATES $178,250 GOINS LORI COX AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL R 6 PENN CTR W 2ND FL AUTUMN TRACE $177,456 JACKSON W TRUITT SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND 4400 WILL ROGERS PKWY STE 300PINE BROOK FOREST $176,000 STRATTON SUE E BONNER RONALD STEVEN 217 CANNON CIR IVYBROOKE $173,000 LUKANIC PAUL KNOWLES ROBERT L (JTWROS 496 HARBOR POINT DEVENGER PLACE $170,000 CATOE WILLIAM P JR & SAN CATOE JOHN LELAND 216 HEDGEWOOD TER THE PARK DOWNTOWN $170,000 WOOD AMY A BUFFALO MATTHEW BURTON 204 E PARK AVE UNIT 1203 AVALON ESTATES $169,900 AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL R EGAS ADAM CHRISTOPHER 204 COLLINGSWORTH LN SHOALS CROSSING $164,307 EASTWOOD CONSTRUCTION CO ROBERSON SCOTT WILLIAM 7 HARTLINE CT NORTHCLIFF $160,997 INGRAM ELISABETH C SCHULT RONALD F 224 NORTHCLIFF WAY ALLISON’S MEADOW $160,500 AGARWAL MUKESH K SECKINGER AARON J (JTWRO 528 HORTON GROVE RD CHESTNUT HILL PLANTATION $160,000 FISKEY EMERY STANSBURY CHRISTINA L 506 AUSTIN WOODS CT

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WOODRIDGE $432,500 CHIPLEY, BRANT W CARSON, MICHAEL COREY 818 OAKCREST RD $310,000 MCMICHAEL, ROBERT DALE HAWK, JEFFREY P 1004 FISH CAMP RDBROWN ARROW $253,725 GARBAR, FEDOR HANLEY, MARK T 211 BROWN ARROW CIRDILLARD CREEK CROSSING $253,704 S C PILLON HOMES INC WILKISON, WILLIAM 515 HORTON GROVE RDLONDONDERRY $252,350 URQUHART, MARIE OTT, TIMOTHY E 353 E KILLARNEY LKCOBBLESTONE $245,000 CARSON, MICHAEL COREY CABLE, CONSTANCE L 846 REDSTONE DRCLARK ESTATES $235,000 SCRUGGS JR, JAMES B UPCHURCH, RON C 316 WILD AZALEA DRMEADOW BROOK FARMS $225,000 COOLEY, JOSEPH C REEVES, ROBERT W 421 BELCHER STDILLARD CREEK CROSSING $222,437 S C PILLON HOMES INC PFISTER, BABARA LOT NUMBER: 129 $216,000 RIDGE JR, HENRY W QUALITY HAULERS INC 13101 HIGHWAY 221SHORESBROOK $202,000 WILSON, BRENNAN T WIND, WARREN 832 SHORESBROOK DRPIERCE ACRES $195,550 COLLINS, SCOTT D SMITH, CHRISTOPHER N 344 FAIRLANE DRWATERFORD $192,500 SHACKLETON, CHRISTOPHER GREGORY, PAUL J 162 WATERFORD DRGLENLAKE $182,500 ENCHANTED CONSTRUCTION LLC SQUIRES, CHADWICK S 266 BRIDGEPORT RDREIDVILLE CROSSING $179,205 S C PILLON HOMES INC DOTSON, PATRICIA 132 E FARRELL DRCHESTNUT HILL $160,000 SHEPHERD, ROBIN GIBBS, MARSHA H 326 HEATHWOOD DRHOLCOMBE CREEK $158,900 ASHMORE HOMES INC PEARSON, BJORN M 26 HOLCOMBE RDWESTGATE PLANTATION $158,000 HARTMAIER, HOLGER DESAI, MIT K 100 FLINDERS WAYBLACKBERRY FARM $156,500 AMBRIA PROPERTIES LLC SILL, DAVID 427 SILVER THORNE DRWOODSBERRY $155,000 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE LINDMAIR, JILL M 522 FOREST SHOALS LNSILVER LAKE $154,900 R&R BUILDERS LLC MOFFITT, KRISTIN T 115 DILLARD RDFOUR SEASONS FARMS $150,000 OTT, TIMOTHY E GABER JR, ROBERT F 252 STONECREST DR $149,000 MARLOWE, JAMES DOUGLAS TARDIF, MARGARET M 95 BEN HURT RD EXTPATRIOT HILL $140,000 SINOBAS, JAVIER WILKINS, VERLANTRA T 308 BRANDON OAKS DRBENT CREEK PLANTATION $139,900 NICHOLSON, KOEY W BRYANT JR, JACK D 402 WEEPING WILLOW CT $139,000 WELKER, DONALD F WATKINS, JUSTIN W 164 GREEN ACRES STDOGWOOD ACRES $138,000 TURNER, NANCY H GARBER III, MILES D 215 DOGWOOD CIRKINGSLEY PARK $135,000 ANTRIM JR, DAVID E ROGERS, ADAM C 212 N HAMLET CTSTONEWOOD CROSSING $134,784 MUNGO, HOMES INC PITTS, SHIRLEY A 559 BRANCH WOOD DRROGERS MILL $132,000 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE WHITTED, JOHN TERRY 641 S MORNINGWOOD LNGREENBRIAR CREEK $130,000 TYO, JAMES M COCHRAN, BENJAMIN 655 HIBBARD FARM RDDORMAN ACRES $129,900 MASON, JON BROWNING SITMAN, JOSHUA D 111 LURAY STWYNBROOK $123,100 ECHANTED CONSTRUCTION LLC EVANS, ROGER D 603 CLARION CTSCAY RIDGE FARMS $123,000 MARTIN, ADAM WADE HOWARD, AMANDA M 247 SUMMER LADY LNHUNTWOOD $121,000 HOWELL, MICHAEL E SPITZLI, JONATHAN A 315 COURSON CTPANORAMA ESTATES $119,900 CONN, JAMYE NICHOLE HAWLEY, MATHEW STEVEN 213 BLALOCK RDE Z HEIGHTS $119,500 DAVIS, REGINA DUNCAN, JOSEPH 37 LEE STCROSS POINTE $118,000 UPCHURCH, RON C WRIGHT, TERRY J 123 CHANDLER DOWNS TRLSTONEWOOD CROSSING $114,153 MUNGO HOMES INC RHODE, JOHNNY L 281 STONEWOOD CROSSING DR $113,250 FAZZONE, HELEN M DUNVEGAN PROPERTIES LLC 224 N LANFORD RDSTONE STATION $113,000 HOBBS, MICHAEL D MOWRY, LORI M 292 AUGUSTINE DRLYMAN FARMS $110,000 PYHALA, LORENA E NETHERY, SHANNON C 102 WALCOTT DRHAWK CREEK NORTH $109,000 ENCHANTED CONSTRUCTION LLC HOBBS, MICHAEL D 532 WESBERRY CIR $108,900 CANTRELL, WILLIAM W JOHNSON, ROBERT GENE 237 CLEARVIEW HTSCOUNTRY GLEN $106,000 WHITE, BRIAN K SEGET, ANNA R 643 BUSHY CREEK RDBEAVER CREEK $99,900 COLLINS, ROBERT W BAKER, PRESTON 120 BEAVER CREEK DRLAWSONS FORK $92,000 HICKS, JAMES B SELBY, AUDREY L 103 GOWER RDHUMMINGBIRD HILLS $87,400 HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT MANISAY, DOUANG 230 HUMMINGBIRD LNGLYN OAKS $85,000 CHIVACHAREN, MALEE MCKINNON, AUBRE 2433 OLD FURNACE RDPACIFIC MILLS $85,000 PAGE, ROGER J BAXTER, JEFFREY T 16 UPLAND STKILGORE FOREST $85,000 LANGSTON PROPERTIES LLC WOMBLE, BLAKELY S 121 REAGAN LNWESTON TOWNES $79,000 JARRELL, RODGER C ELTZ, JESSICA L 222 WESTON VALLEY DRCEDAR ACRES $75,000 KORIKOVA, ANZHELIKA V CORBITT, TERRELLW 111 HANCOCK AVEHUNTINGTON WOODS $75,000 WELLS, WILBERT EARLE, JONSI 110 LANDIS ST $73,500 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE BLANTON, AMANDA ROSE OLD FURNACE RDPOPLER CREEK FARMS $68,000 WALKER, PATRICIA A REGIONS BANK 153 LOBIOLLY DRTIMBERWOOD ACRES $66,000 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE MCCUAN, BRENDA OSBORNE LOT NUMBER: 31CAMPBELL ACRES $61,765 MELTON, DONNA C DAVIS, MICHAEL T 650 GROGAN RDFALCON RIDGE $60,000 HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT I & I PROPERTIES LLC 168 FALCON RIDGE DRBROOKFIELD HEIGHTS $58,000 MURDOCK, TERRY TWEED, BARRY LOT NUMBER: 1-3ARCHER ACRES $57,000 MAHAFFEY, TRACY C LUCIER, ROBERT STEPHEN 415 JASMINE STTHE HERITAGE AT LAKE FOREST $56,000 FBSA 1 LLC HURST, JUDITH KORBLER 113 HERITAGE LAKE FOREST DR $52,000 BLACKWELDER, MATTIE MAE SORRELS, DAVID D 2244 COUNTRY CLUB RDOAK FOREST $51,000 CITIMORTGAGE INC GRACE UNLIMITED INTERNAT’L 4729 WORDEN DR $50,000 WILKINS SR, BOBBY L LOVING, DENNIS 480 N HIGHWAY 150SAXON VILLAGE $50,000 POWELL BILY, L FLEMING, MACK DANIEL 4 MANNING ST $47,189 SOLESBEE, MARION HARDING, CAROL M 420 BLACKWELL DROAKLAND HEIGHTS $46,550 HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT REMAT LLC 652 MOGA DRTRAMMEL CROSSING $45,000 LANGSTON PROPERTIES LLC STENSEL, GARY W 2543 TRAMMEL RDVILLAGE AT BENT CREEK $45,000 MCCLEER CONSTRUCTION CO LLC MCCLEER, FRANK LOT NUMBER: 8 $45,000 CANTRELL, SUSAN D VANWYK, JOHN SCOTT 2850 E MAIN ST EXTSOUTH TYGER HILLS $40,355 CMH HOMES INC JENSON, J W 255 S HILLS DRBUSHY MEADOS $40,000 COLEMAN HOMES LLC WIRTH, ANDREAS 715&719 OLD BETHEL RDRIVER FALLS PLANTATION $38,500 BOWERS, MARC KEITH PAGE, ROGER J 301 RIVER FALLS DRGLENLAKE $32,500 MARK III PROPERTIES INC NVR INC LOT NUMBER: 204 $32,001 MILLWOOD, STEPHEN JAY OLIVARES, VERONICA P 612 S KENTUCKY AVE `COBBS CREEK $26,500 COBBS CREEK LLC SPAULDING QUALITY HOMES LLC 518 ELLERSLY CTCOBBS CREEK $26,500 COBBS CREEK LLC SPAULDING QUALITY HOMES LLC 514 ELLERSLY CTHOBBS, ARCHIE LEE $25,000 HOBBS, ARCHIE LEE NELSON JR, KENNETH O 227 ELIJAH SIMMONS RD $25,000 MARTIN, JAMES H HUTCHINS, CHAD 165 HUSKEY RDINMAN MILL $22,300 LITTLEJOHN, SUSAN R PYHALA, LORENA 4 B STKILGORE FOREST $22,000 SIMMONS, WENDELL FISKE, CLAUDIA 1521 KILGORE BRIDGE RDSOUTH TYGER HILLS $21,000 MAREADY, RONNIE EARL CMH HOMES INC 255 S HILLS DR $18,055 CITIMORTGAGE INC WALL, JERRY L 408 RICHLAND STFAIRVIEW HEIGHTS $18,000 SMITH, JOHNNIE KINCS, ZOLTAN 237 GRANDVIEW DRALLENE COOLEY ESTATE $16,900 FIRST PIEDMONT FED. 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lapband® information sessionMonday, november 12 • 6:30-8:30 p.m.tuesday, december 4 • 6:30-8:30 p.m.Medical Office Building Community Center

This free class covers detailed information about LapBand® weight loss surgery. This procedure has no stapling, cutting or intestinal rerouting and is adjustable.

This class is led by Paul Ross, M.D., who has performed more than 1,300 surgeries in his career. For more information or to register, visit spartanburgweightloss.com

or call 864-560-7070.

for men only: the silent health crisisthursday, november 15 • 6:30 p.m., dinner provided

Medical Office Building Community CenterChristopher A. Smith, M.D., of Village Family Medicine, will lead an informative dis-cussion about why American men are, on average, less healthy and have a shorter

life expectancy than women. Issues like stress, screenings and healthy lifestyles from a man’s point of view will be covered as men try to balance the demands of family, profession and personal well-being. He will also discuss how a decrease in testosterone can affect a man’s mood, energy and sexuality, in addition to increas-

ing the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Register online for this free event.

diabetes self-management educationWednesday, november 21 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m.Wednesday, december 19 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Medical Office Building Community Center Diabetes affects every organ in your body, and Carolinas Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology can help you learn how to manage it. You must have a physician’s

referral to participate, and insurance will be filed for the program’s cost. Participants receive a free blood glucose meter and diabetes reference book.

Call Erica Moore at 560-6465 for more information and to register.

considering surgery? know your optionstuesday, december 11 • 12 p.m., lunch provided

Medical Office Building Community Center Derek Brenda, M.D., of Village Surgical Associates will discuss surgery basics: the

difference between laparoscopic and standard “open” surgery, the three most common surgeries and what you can do to make any surgery have a better

outcome. Register online for this free event.

To know the latest on the innovative and patient-centered care provided through Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, watch Discover Health TV segment on

Sundays at 12:30 p.m. on WYFF, Channel 4.

Keeping you healthy, active and informed!

register today at villageatpelham.com or call 864-849-9470.

The campus features the Village Hospital, the Medical Office Building, a wide variety of medical practices and the Surgery Center at Pelham. It is conveniently located at

Westmoreland Road and Highway 14 in Greer.

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LAPBAND® INFORMATION SESSIONMonday, January 7 • 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Medical Office Building Community CenterThis free class covers detailed information about LapBand weight loss surgery. This procedure has no stapling, cutting or intestinal rerouting

and is adjustable.This class is led by Paul Ross, M.D., who has performed more than 1,300 surgeries in his career.

Visit spartanburgweightloss.com or call 560-7070 to register.

What is a Medical Home and Why Do I Need One?Thursday, January 10 • 12 p.m., lunch provided

Medical Office Building Community CenterE.G. “Nick” Ulmer, Jr., M.D., of Village Family Medicine will discuss how health care and its terminology is changing. Join us to find out

how your primary care physician provides a “medical home” for you, including treatment of chronic conditions like high blood pressure and

diabetes, and referring you to specialists as needed. Register online for this free event.

DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT EDUCATIONWednesday, January 16 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Students from St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School get some help putting on their ice skates during skate night at Greenville Technical College Ice on Main. Fluor Corporation sponsored the skate night for the school.

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Stone Academy students attending the SC Children’s Theater production of “Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,” from left: Mallie Medlock, Emma Grace Haines, Chaz Haines (starring as Herbert, Junie B.’s best friend), Chloe Arnold, and Joe Medlock in front. Not pictured: Stone Academy third-grade student Karis Phillips, who played Charlotte in “Junie B.”

First-graders at St. Anthony of Padua School made and decorated gingerbread houses as part of their Christmas celebration.

For three days, Blythe Academy fifth-graders explored all that Barrier Island’s unique environment has to offer. Using all five senses, students had experiential lessons in biology, ecology, conservation, astronomy, botany and more.

In a nod to the CATCH program that Blythe Academy uses daily, this year’s school-wide holiday party was filled with fruits, vegetables, grains and lean meats. Candy was out and healthy eating was in.

Washington Center students enjoyed percussion instruction from parent John Dalby (left) as para-educator Robert Poole and music teacher Julie Dail assist student Davis Dalby in playing the drums.

Washington Center students Cleveland Davis (left) and Paul Barnette, assisted by teacher McKenzie Riley (center), create baked treats as gifts for the school staff.

Best Chevrolet of the Upstate’s Peter Mirante presents a check for $1,250 to the Shriners Hospital for Children.

The St. Anthony’s Student Council spent December collecting canned goods and nonperishable foods to help those in need in their community. The students collected over 100 food items and delivered them to the St. Anthony’s Food Pantry.


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JOURNAL CULTURE

LIFE IS SO DAILYWITH STEVE WONG

So how’s that New Year’s resolution going for you so far?

It’s just a few days into 2013, not re-ally enough time to tell if you’ll stick to your self-made promise to be a better person. Or is it?

How many Mountain Dews did you drink today? Did you eat just � ve po-tato chips with just “a taste” of sour cream onion dip (did you know that you can reinforce Lays chips by stack-ing them together, therefore allowing you a lot more dip per scoop)? How about those eight laps around the track? (In the rain? Are you kidding?) Crunches?

Yes, I heard a lot of crunches as I ate those stacked-together potato chips, dulled only by the high-fat content of the sour cream coursing through my arteries.

As I’ve approached middle age (and I do promise to stop lying about my age), I’ve stopped telling other people my New Year’s resolutions. Oh, I still make them; I just keep them to myself.

You might think this would only serve to make me less accountable – that if other people knew I was try-ing to improve something in my life, I might try harder just to keep from em-barrassing myself in the eyes of others. But it doesn’t really work that way. No one else cares if I keep my New Year’s resolutions or not. � ey have their own loathsome habits to break and would never think of calling the kettle black. A sort of “don’t ask, don’t tell” tradition.

What I have found is if I make a promise to myself and tell no one else, I am much more likely to keep it. It is like some deep dark secret that gets to haunt me into compliance. No one else can see it, hear it, feel it, know it, but I do; and if I don’t do something

about it… well, that’s an episode of “Being Human” just waiting for me to write. (Reminder: Google Syfy/Being Human/sta� writer.)

Promises made to one’s self are among the strongest and most impor-tant ever to be le� unsaid. A� er all, it’s easy to break them and disappoint your parents, your spouse, even your kids. � ey all love you no matter what. But break one to yourself and you’ll never forgive yourself. (Go to church.) Everyone else knows you’re just hu-man, but tell that to the guy in the mirror, and he’ll roll your eyeballs in a sneer of “told you so” that you’ll never live down. Do you know how hard it is to put in a contact lens and not look yourself in the eye?

Yes, I’ve made my New Year’s reso-lution, and I have every intention of keeping it. And when I do (as I’ve done before), I’ll rejoice in the privacy of my own company. No one will know (not even my therapist) that I succeeded where so many have failed.

It might be the loss of a few pounds or the saving of a few dollars. It might be being a better friend (the line forms to the right) or giving an at-risk child my spare time (to the front of the line, please). All these things and many more need to be addressed in my life, and I promise…

Happy New Year, and good luck with those resolutions!

Steve Wong is a writer living in Spar-tanburg County. His strange opinions and

ideas on life are all his own. If you feel com-pelled to comment on his overly complex thoughts, he can be

reached at [email protected].

I resolve not to tell you

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