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Journal sports writer Vincent Harris, on the Tigers’ down-to-the-final-second battle to win in Phoenix. Read his account on page 10 about watching the game with 3,000 fans in the Bon Secours Wellness Arena.

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“Forty-two percent of the violent crimes in South Carolina involve domestic violence. That’s staggering.”

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Legislators postpone GHS board nominee vote Lawmakers await Supreme Court move on health system governance APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Greenville’s legislative delegation postponed a vote on a Greenville Health System board nominee this week and are waiting to learn if the Supreme Court will soon announce whether the justices will rule on the legality of GHS’ move to change its governance structure.

State Rep. Mike Burns said at Monday’s delegation meeting that he hopes the court will take the case, but if not, the lawsuit can be remanded to a circuit court. Burns and multiple other legislators have said GHS lacks the authority to lease its facilities to a private, nonprofit board in order to forge partnerships with other health care systems.

Sen. Mike Fair, who has chaired the delegation’s medical affairs committee in meetings with GHS leadership over the past few months, said “everyone is waiting on the court,” and the panel has no further recommendations beyond those already made.

Fair noted an SC Attorney General’s opinion that said the group does not have the authority to intervene as the delegation.

The GHS board of trustees voted last month to give final approval to a plan that paves the way for GHS to become part of a multiregional health system governed by a private, nonprofit board. GHS would continue as a public entity, but would lease its facilities and grant operational control to this independent board, which would be based in Greenville, GHS officials have said.

GHS board chairman Jim Morton said at the time that the health system would wait on action from the state Supreme Court before finalizing the changes. Morton and other GHS officials and board members insist that GHS has the authority to take these steps without the blessing of the legislative delegation, which currently approves board nominees.

GHS BOARD NOMINEES Legislators voted Monday to accept a trustee nomination for an open seat on the GHS board, Dr. Ira Williams, but opted to wait until the April meeting to vote on the selection. The seat is open because trustee Dell Baker moved out of the district he represents. Rep. Garry Smith objected to the district going without representation while other trustees continued to serve while their terms had expired. But Fair argued that a report had yet to be completed on the new nominee, and a vote this week would go against new protocol for voting on

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nominees.

Four members of the GHS board are due to rotate off the board; however, they are legally able to serve on the board for an additional six months, according to legislators. The four members are: James C. Morton Jr., Margaret L. Jenkins, Benjamin B. Waters III and William M. Webster IV. They cannot serve past March 31, according to GHS. “By law they have six months, but they have never taken that long,” said Sen. Karl Allen. He noted that the April 11 delegation meeting will be beyond the six-month mark.

Rev. Sean Dogan’s seat is also vacant because he moved outside the district.

In response to the governance move, several legislators prefiled a bill that says any government agency, body, commission or council whose board is appointed by a legislative delegation cannot convey its authority, duties and responsibilities to another entity, and creates a penalty for any that do. Burns said GHS sets a precedent for other state political subdivisions.

The GHS nominating committee met last week to consider candidates and will meet again Jan. 15, 19 and 21. At this point, board members are not considering applications for the additional boards created by the governance change, said GHS officials. The full board is scheduled to meet again on Jan. 21.

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amorris@communityjournals.com Greenville County’s land development regulations could soon make the distinction between minor and major subdivisions, creating a streamlined approval process for those who want to develop a subdivision of six or fewer lots.

Greenville County Council’s Planning and Development committee gave initial approval to the change on Monday.

Under the proposed changes, if a developer wants to create a subdivision with six or fewer lots and does not require construction of a new street, extension of public water or sewer or drainage improvement, the application can be approved by just the subdivision advisory committee and subdivision administrator.

The planning commission now reviews all subdivision applications, according to county engineer Judith Wortkoetter.

Any subdivisions larger than seven or more lots would be considered major subdivisions and continue to require planning commission approval.

If a minor subdivision site has special physical considerations or sensitive wildlife or is adjacent to historic sites, it may be referred to the planning commission under the proposed regulations.

First reading of the change is scheduled for Jan. 19 during the Greenville County Council meeting. A public hearing has not been scheduled as of press time.

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Wood Turner Tells His Cataract Story

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“When I left surgery, my vision was 20/20 the next day!”

– Mike Chandler, Clemson Eye Cataract Patient

echnology has always played an important role in eye care.

Today, just about every aspect of vision care has been significantly improved by a technology not available 10 years ago.

Cataract surgery is a good example of the great advances being made. But before we talk about the innovations in modern cataract surgery, let’s cover the basics of what a cataract is and how it occurs.

Understanding Cataracts A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear lens of the eye. Changes in the lens proteins and increased water content cause the lens to become cloudy and take on a darker yellow color, so that light can no longer easily be transmitted to the retina. This results in a painless, often insidious blurring of vision as well as glare and washed-out colors.

Cataracts are usually the natural result of aging, but may also be caused by trauma, medications, systemic or ocular disease, or genetic factors. The appearance and symptoms of cataracts can vary depending on their cause. A comprehensive eye exam is required for a definitive diagnosis and to determine if any other eye disorders are contributing to the blurred vision. Left untreated, cataracts can lead to blindness. They are the leading cause of vision loss in the United States.

To date there are no proven non-surgical treatments. When cataracts cause enough visual disturbance to interfere with a person’s work, hobbies or lifestyle (particularly driving), it is probably time to remove them.

Cataract surgery is one of the safest and most commonly performed ophthalmologic procedures in the United States.1 The surgery involves removing the clouded lens and replacing it with a permanent artificial one.

Innovations in Replacement Lenses Today, patients can choose the intraocular lens (IOL) replacement that best suits their lifestyle. For instance, a multifocal IOL, like the ReSTOR® lens, provides a range of vision. A full 85% of Clemson Eye patients never wear glasses again after their ReSTOR® lens implant.2 Note that patients can still opt for a traditional “monofocal” lens replacement, understanding that if they needed glasses before their cataract surgery, they will still be dependent on them after surgery.

Along with improved lens implant technology, cataract surgery has advanced to include the femtosecond laser. The laser replaces many of the surgical steps that used to be performed manually by the surgeon.

Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery Approved for use in cataract surgery by the FDA in 2010, and introduced in 2011, the femtosecond laser is now used by a number of select surgeons world-wide. It is used to make the initial incisions in the cornea, to create the incision in the lens capsule, to soften and break up the clouded lens for extraction, and to make incisions within the peripheral cornea to correct pre-existing astigmatism.

The patient benefits include more consistent and stable incisions,

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which facilitate faster healing, are more secure and have less risk of leaks and infection.3 The laser also allows the surgeon to recreate the exact same size capsule opening every single time. This improves the position of the lens implant in the eye and the surgeon’s ability to calculate the refractive power of the implant. With the astigmatism correcting incisions, this all adds up to improved visual outcomes for cataract patients.4 At Clemson Eye, patients who opted for Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (LACS) with an advanced lens implant generally achieved 20/20 vision without glasses, regardless of their age.2 Mike Chandler, wood turner and former optical engineer, is one such patient.

Mike Chandler, Wood Turner and Former Engineer “When I moved to Seneca, SC, one of the things I took up was wood turning,” says Mike. “I’d been wearing reading glasses since I was 45 years old. Wore them up until a year ago, when I had cataract surgery.

I found for the extremely small work I do, I needed increasingly higher powered lenses, which caused me to have to move in closer to be able to see. Now, after laser cataract surgery with the ReSTOR® lens, I can sit back comfortably to do what I used to have to do close up.

“I’m familiar with the lens, having worked on the manufacturing side of the ophthalmic business for years. I can tell you it’s an excellent product.

“People used to tell me: ‘You should wait until the cataract is more fully developed before having surgery.’ But that is old-school thinking.

When Dr. Parisi told me I had cataracts, he said ‘You can wait for the surgery or have it now.’ I asked if there was any issue with having the surgery now, and he said there wasn’t. So, I opted for sooner than later. When I left surgery, my vision was 20/20 the next day! You would not believe the difference in your vision once you’ve had this done. It is just amazing,” says Mike.

Eye Exam is Best Way to Know If you think you may have a cataract, we encourage you to book an eye exam. In terms of costs and payment, basic cataract surgery is usually covered by most health insurance plans. Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery and advanced lens implants require an additional payment. If you’re a Clemson Eye patient, you have the option of 24-month, 0% payment plans.

The surgeons at Clemson Eye were among the first in the country to perform Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery with advanced lens implants.

We use the most advanced suite of laser-guided surgery systems available today.

1. Nagy Z, Takacs A, Filkorn T, Sarayba M. Initial clinical evaluation of an intraocular femtosecond laser in cataract surgery. J Refract Surg. 2009; 25(12):1053-1060.

2. Clemson Eye Laser Cataract with Advanced Intraocular Lens Replacement Results, 2014.

3. “Laser Pretreatment Softens Cataracts, Allows for Safer, Easier Removal, Researchers Say”, Charlene Laino, WebMD Health News, (Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD), Oct. 25, 2011.

4. Palanker DV, Blumenkranz MS, Andersen D, et al. Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery with integrated optical coherence tomography. Sci Transl Med 2010; 2:58ra85.

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OPINION VIEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY, HEARD HERE

Race, guns, culture and change in S.C. IN MY OWN WORDS

by Phil Noble

I love South Carolina and the South – I really do. And I consider myself a reasonably serious student of our history and culture. But I am near dumbfounded by recent changes in attitudes among South Carolinians.

My family roots in Upstate South Carolina go back to the state’s earliest days. I revel in most every aspect of our Southern culture, old and new.

I love dirt track racing, hunting, country music, Southern politics, SEC football – and on and on. I also understand the dark underside of South Carolina’s history – the legacy of pure evil known as slavery and continuing racism, senseless violence, suspicion of outsiders, willful ignorance, poor treatment of women – and on and on.

All of this is to say that I’m not naïve about our history or today’s culture. So-

cial anthropologists tell us culture is the hardest thing to change – and when it does change, it changes slowly.

While I think this is generally true, the recent change in attitudes of many South Carolinians on a variety of subjects has been big and fast. Consider the findings of the most recent Winthrop University Poll, the most authoritative poll in the state: On the Confederate flag: Two-thirds of South Carolina residents think the S.C. Legislature made the right decision this summer to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds; 54 percent of white respondents said it was the right decision, while 93 percent of black residents supported it. By a 50 to 45 percent margin, Republicans thought it was the right decision.

On same-sex marriage: While 50 percent oppose same-sex marriage, 44 percent approve. Now that the Supreme

Court has ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, 63 percent believe that a county clerk should not be able to deny issuance of same-sex marriage certificates.

On guns: 80 percent support a mandatory waiting period and background check before a gun can be purchased; with 80 percent of Republicans and 83 percent of Democrats in support.

On immigration: 22 percent think illegal immigrants should be deported, 16 percent say they should be able to remain in the U.S. and work for a limited time, and 58 percent say they should be allowed to become U.S. citizens. For Republicans, the results were 35 percent deport, 21 percent work for a limited time and 42 percent become citizens, while Democrats were 7 percent deport, 17 percent work for a limited time and 78 percent become citizens.

These are very big changes in attitudes of South Carolinians from the stereotypes of the past. The cultural divide is shrinking; more of us are coming to-

The ‘Star Wars’ guide to history IN MY OWN WORDS

by Tommy Stringer

Popcorn rarely makes my surplus calories list, but I do partake at the movies – especially if my 10-year-old is with me. I cannot allow him to eat all of those artery-choking kernels by himself. This held true at the new “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” showing, where we all shared a small bag as Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill resumed their good actor/bad actor gig.

As the film opened with the prologue drifting off into space, I wondered if Americans could ever care about their real history as much as they did about a George Lucas creation.

My son, whose vast exposure to “Star

Wars” has been filtered almost entirely through Lego sets, can unravel all of the past empires, rebellions, separatist movements, republics and resistance groups without effort. If only he retains that amazing memorization ability when he reaches high school.

At least Lucas has made it easy to separate the good from the bad – a discernment of our own history that has become almost impossible by sensitivity-correct academics and a student population that has replaced independent research with a 20-second Google search. We easily see in “Star Wars” that totalitarian empires are bad, republics are good, evil exists and armed rebellions are sometimes necessary.

Lucas has consistently carried this message across a multitude of films. More

The “Star Wars” series may best convey the dangers of 20thcentury totalitarianism to a newly born 21stcentury audience. than all of the World War II films made since 1945, including Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” and “Schindler’s List,” the “Star Wars” series may best convey the dangers of 20th-century totalitarianism to a newly born 21st-century audience.

More importantly, Lucas carries forward the notion that totalitarianism ultimately dies at the hands of the individual. It takes a Han Solo, politically incorrect, unafraid to speak and

gether around shared values and common attitudes – and that’s a good thing, a very good thing.

The one group that seems to not get it is the politicians, who still seem locked in bitter political mud wrestling, where nothing is ever accomplished and the pettiness and acrimony only heighten with each passing crisis du jour.

As is so often the case these days, the people are way ahead of the politicians.

While the politicians fight about special interest agendas fueled by big-money campaign contributions and lobbyists, we the people, at least in South Carolina, are moving closer together in our attitudes and opinions.

This is a good thing – a very good thing.

Phil Noble is a Charleston businessman and president of the SC New Democrats, an independent reform group seeking real change and reform. Contact him at phil@scnewdemocrats.org.

individually armed, to defeat an empire.

In our early American history, we called those individuals Patriots or Founding Fathers. That was before they became casualties in the current War of Equalization, where historical figures are judged not by their broad historical impact, courage, personal sacrifice or intellectual vision according to their own time, but by their ability to pass a postmodern societal blacklist of contorted slights and offenses.

This War of Equalization is a temporary luxury for the ignorant. As Star Wars reminds us, we are only one episode away from the next great empire threatening our freedom – a lesson hopefully understood by a new American generation pressured from kindergarten to be quietly sensitive lest they give offense.

Greenville Republican Tommy Stringer represents District 18 in the S.C. Legislature.

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There oughta (not) be a law Report: State needs to reform criminal code to remove archaic, obscure laws

Breakin’ the law

In South Carolina, it’s illegal:

CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com South Carolina residents face an increased risk of prosecution for unknowingly breaking the law, thanks to a growing number of archaic and obscure laws, many of which do not require criminal intent, according to a new study.

“Overcriminalizing the Palmetto State,” a study just released by two researchers at the conservative think-tank Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, says South Carolina adds 60 new crimes to the books each year.

Many of its laws are regulatory, don’t cover obviously wrong acts and require no criminal intent, said Jim Copland, one of the researchers.

In South Carolina, residents can face legal penalties for telling fortunes without a license, playing pinball as a teenager or violating a myriad of obscure fish and wildlife regulations. It is still a crime for a railroad to frighten horses with its trains or to “remove” themselves from towns of 500 or more people. South Carolina law still prohibits working on Sundays.

The researchers recommend that South Carolina pass a bill requiring courts presume a criminal intent requirement for all crimes unless the Legislature clearly states otherwise. The state should also create a bipartisan legislative task force to conduct hearings and establish guidelines for creating new criminal offenses, and a separate commission to consolidate and clarify the state’s current criminal statutes.

“Nobody wants to be perceived as soft on crime,” Copland said. “Nobody wants to gut regulation and let businesses do what they want. That’s not what we’re suggesting.”

Copland said South Carolina should review its criminal laws and weed out those that are superfluous. A bill was pre-filed for the newly begun legislative session that would remove some of those archaic laws from the books.

The look at “overcriminalization” in the Palmetto State is the third such study conducted by the researchers. The first two were in Michigan and North Carolina.

“South Carolina is bit unique,” Copland said.

• To play pinball if you’re under 18 years old.

• To operate a “public dancing hall” on Sundays • To seduce a woman by promising to marry her afterward. (Though the man can’t be convicted on the woman’s testimony alone.)

• To challenge someone to a fight with a “sword, pistol, rapier or any other deadly weapon.”

• To tell fortunes without a license.

• For unmarried people to fornicate.

• To engage in adultery.

• For trains to frighten horses.

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The year of the cats It’s a good time to be a fan: The Clemson Tigers get within 5 points of a national championship, while the Carolina Panthers prepare for next week’s playoffs VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

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Heading into the 2015 season, ESPN had the Carolina Panthers ranked 16th, behind such surefire bets as the Chargers, the Dolphins, the Ravens and the Cowboys. In the preseason FPI poll, Clemson was ranked 19th, behind powerhouses like Georgia, Florida State and Auburn.

Amazing what a difference a few months can make, isn’t it?

Here we are in January, with the Clemson Tigers playing the National Championship game and the Panthers the No. 1 seed in the NFC South, seven games up on their closest team, the Falcons.

Though Clemson lost the championship game to Alabama, they went 14-1, winning the ACC Championship and beating Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl to advance to their first championship game since 1981. And the Panthers just closed out a 15-1 regular season and earned home field through the playoffs.

Anybody see any of that coming?

The fact is, these two teams that have confounded expectations have more in common than you might think, starting with their head coaches.

Both Panthers head coach Ron Rivera and Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney are gambling men. Under Rivera, the Panthers converted fourth downs 60 percent of the time this season, and there are few coaches as willing to risk giving the ball to their opponent with great field position as “Riverboat Ron” Rivera.

The Tigers have certainly converted their share of fourth downs this year, but Swinney tends to gamble with a little more flair. Sometimes his affection for razzle-dazzle trick plays backfires, but when those plays work, like kicker Andy Teasdall’s fake punt in the Oklahoma game that ended up as a first-down pass to Christian Wilkins, they’re a joy to watch. This is a coach who never seems to forget that at the end of the day, football is

MELISSA MELVIN-RODERIGUEZ, CAROLINA PANTHERS

still a game, and it’s meant to be fun.

When it comes to quarterbacks, the Panthers and the Tigers have a lot in common as well. The Tigers’ DeShaun Watson and the Panthers’ Cam Newton are cut from the same cloth: Both are fast on their feet, excellent passers and quick thinkers who can carry the offense on their shoulders.

Newton is a serious candidate for Most Valuable Player this season. Some

of his stats aren’t as impressive as other quarterbacks, but he has more than 4,000 passing/rushing yards. His closest rival in the MVP race is the Cardinals’ quarterback Carson Palmer, who’s had an incredible year. But Palmer isn’t the dual-threat that Newton is.

Cam can beat you with his arm or his legs; can you think of another NFL team with a rushing quarterback as effective?

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As for Watson, there aren’t any statistics to argue over. He is quite simply the best quarterback in college football.

He took home the ACC Player of the Year Award and the Davey O’Brien Award, and he finished third in Heisman Trophy voting. He is ranked first in pass completion in the ACC, first in passing touchdowns, first in passing yards, first in total touchdowns, fifth in rushing yards and second in total yards per play – and that’s just part of the list of incredible stats Watson has racked up this year. Like the Panthers, the key to the Tigers success this season stands under center.

At the end of the 2014 season, few expected the Tigers or the Panthers to excel as they have this year. The Tigers had gone 10-3 and lost a huge portion of their top-ranked defense, bringing in 40 freshmen to fill key positions throughout the team. The Panthers had just gone 7-8-1 and released their franchise-leading rusher, DeAngelo Williams.

But look where we are now. In short, it’s a good time to be a football fan in the Carolinas, and a bad time to put stock in pre-season polls.

Dabo Swinney named AFCA National Coach of the Year BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

bjeffers@communityjournals.com Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney was named the National Coach of the Year by The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA).

Swinney led his team to a perfect record and an ACC title before falling short in the national championship game to the University of Alabama. The Tiger’s 14 wins set a single-season school record.

The AFCA award is chosen exclusively by coaches, and Swinney is the first Clemson coach to receive the award since Danny Ford in 1981.

Swinney, who took over as head coach of the program in 2008, has led his team to 10 or more wins in each of his last five years, with a career record of 75-27.

He’s won two ACC championships and five bowl games with the Tigers and won or shared the ACC Atlantic Division title four times.

His .735 winning percentage ranks seventh among active coaches nationally with a minimum of five years as head coach.

The Tigers had a school record 17-game winning streak entering Monday night’s game with Alabama.

Clemson’s final No. 2 ranking is the second-highest final ranking in school history. Clemson was ranked No. 1 in the nation for all six weeks of the College Football Playoff Poll.

Growing up Clemson Memories from an Athletic Department ‘brat’

BY BONNIE BENNETT DIXON

Last week, I was in the attic putting up the rest of the Christmas decorations and came upon a box marked “Old T-shirts.” Inside I found my 1981 National Championship sweatshirt and brought it downstairs to put into my suitcase to take to Arizona.

There were many shirts in the box that reminded me of other games through the years, and I took a few minutes to look through them and go down memory lane.

I have been a Clemson fan all my life and have been going to games since I was five years old. My father, George Bennett, was the director of IPTAY for many years, which meant I grew up as an Athletic Department “brat.”

We attended every sporting event from baseball, tennis, wrestling, swimming, soccer, golf, basketball – and, of course, football.

The athletic staff was our family and it was always a tight-knit group. Most of us went to church together and ate Sunday lunch at the training table along with all the athletes. These students came to our house for dinner, to study, to get advice from my parents or just to get away from campus for a while. We loved being a part of their lives.

The coaches’ children were my friends and we celebrated together with each win and mourned together for the losses as well.

We roamed through Fike and later Jervey, talking to coaches, secretaries and players on a daily basis. I helped Captain Jervey work his crossword puzzles and had “Doc” Hoover chase me out of the locker room after a game when the players were trying to get dressed.

We traveled to away games together, driving through rainstorms, the dark of

Top: George and Nancy Bennett with Bonnie in Scottsdale, Ariz., last weekend before Clemson’s championship game in Phoenix.

Bottom: Peggy and Speck Farrar (top) with Bonnie Bennett (front), flanked by Clemson player, in 1974. Speck Farrar worked in Clemson’s Development and Communications office. night and sometimes leaving at the crack of dawn. My parents would even let us meet the basketball team on a school night at 2 a.m. to welcome them home after a big win on the road. My mom used to tell people, “For you it’s a game, but to us it’s a living.” And that was the truth.

As a Clemson native, a Clemson graduate and a former Clemson employee, I am thankful for my Clemson family and thankful to God for allowing me to grow up in this wonderful environment. It is fun to reminisce about the past, but also exciting to think about the future of our university as it continues to improve in all areas and rank as one of the top schools in the country.

Win or lose, “Dear Ole Clemson, We will Triumph and with all our Might. That the Tiger’s Roar may Echo o’er the Mountain Height.”

Bonnie Bennett Dixon lives in Greenville and posted this essay on Facebook, Friday, Jan. 8.

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Game On Talking points on sports with Vincent Harris

Let’s be honest here. “Good game,” that phrase we make players say to one another as they leave the field, is usually a bunch of BS. It’s a forced moment of sportsmanship in an otherwise merciless arena. It’s the low-quality, dollar-store bandage on a badly bleeding wound.

But as I sat in my seat in Section 101, Row G of the Bon Secours Wellness Arena on Monday night, I realized that, maybe for the first time in my experience, the phrase truly applied to the championship game between Clemson and Alabama.

Perhaps my rosy vision of this 45-40 contest was affected a bit by my surroundings. The Wellness Arena had a big championship game viewing party, with a DJ, halftime entertainment, contests, etc., and experiencing a game this tight and this important while surrounded by 3,000 rabid Clemson Tiger fans is bound to color one’s judgment somewhat.

This was a crowd that gave a partial standing ovation when Clemson won the coin toss. First downs were cheered like field goals, field goals were cheered like touchdowns and touchdowns were cheered like some sort of act of the Almighty. It was a heady atmosphere, for sure, and bless

the vast majority of these fans for staying until the clock hit double-zeros.

It was a more silent arena at 12:15 a.m. than the one I entered at 7:30 p.m., for sure, but how do you quit on a team that refused to quit on themselves? How do you walk out on a team that thinks they’ve held their opponent out of the end zone in a heroic last stand, only for an official to break their hearts 10 seconds later? How do you walk out on a team that, with less than a minute left in the ballgame and a seemingly insurmountable lead in front of them, gets right back in the game with a touchdown of their own?

The answer is that you don’t. So with 12 seconds left on the clock, Alabama still up by five and an onside kick coming, there were still plenty of people in The Well sitting, standing, staring at the screen or burying their faces in their hands, but all present and accounted for. That’s what “All In” means.

It means you keep fighting ‘til there’s nothing left. It means that, if you’re Ben Boulware or Wayne Gallman or Mackensie Alexander, you ignore the no doubt excruciating pain and defy what your body is telling you and go back out on that field, because the game isn’t over yet.

All of that – the fans, the players, the experience of joy and agony in an arena full of people – is part of what “good game” means to me now. But “good game” can also just genuinely mean “good game.”

It means the two best college football teams in the country got out there on the field and threw their most powerful punches at each other for 60 minutes. It means that going into the fourth quarter, the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams were separated by three points, and they were still only apart by five when that quarter ended. It means that the players on either side of the field, and the people sitting all around me, could look at each other when this contest ended and know that something special had just happened.

It means that the difference between winning and losing was two blown defensive assignments and an unexpected onside kick.

So yes, it was in fact a “good game.”

Now let us never speak of it again.

See you next year, Tigers.

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Haley asks for $19 million IN BRIEF: NEWS to fight domestic violence CLEMSON

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bjeffers@communityjournals.com Gov. Nikki Haley is asking for $19 million in the state budget to combat domestic violence.

Last year Haley appointed a 135-member task force to identify domestic problems in the state and recommend changes. For years, the state has ranked among the top 5 worst states for women killed by men, topping the list in 2015.

“Forty-two percent of the violent crimes in South Carolina involve domestic violence,” Haley said last week at a press conference. “That’s staggering.”

The governor said the funds would go toward Gov. Haley hiring 144 new prosecutors to help with domestic violence cases, appointing three new judges in circuit court and providing more money for public defenders.

According to 14th Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone, prosecutors handle an average workload of 376 cases, which creates long delays for domestic violence victims.

Haley said the $19 million would decrease the caseload for prosecutors and decrease the wait time for cases to be heard.

She said the additional prosecutors would alleviate the stress on police officers because South Carolina is one of only three states that allow police officers to handle domestic violence cases in court.

“I was mortified when I heard that law enforcement were the ones that were

prosecuting these cases,” the governor said. “There is no worse way to show a survivor they can make it than to have a law enforcement officer be the person that fights their case against a high-powered defense attorney.”

Haley also issued three executive orders to combat domestic violence. One of the orders mandates that all the governor’s cabinet agencies adopt a comprehensive human resources policy for domestic violence. Procedures could include providing employees an escort to their cars, granting time off for victims and changing work schedules to protect them, Haley said.

The other executive orders would extend the task force’s time frame, which was set to end after 12 months, and create a screening process for people receiving services from agencies to help identify people who have been abused.

Haley is also pushing for more information to be posted publicly alerting victims where they can get help.

“It’s not that South Carolinians don’t want to help. South Carolinians have never known how to help,” Haley said.

“Now we are empowered to say not only do we know how to help, we’re going to start talking about something that has been whispered about for far too long.”

Haley said the changes would augment the state legislation passed last year that strengthens the penalties against abusers and bans the worst offenders from owning guns.

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CIRCUS Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ending elephant acts in May

Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, will be the keynote speaker at the Clemson University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Commemorative Service on Jan. 19.

The service begins at 6 p.m. and will be held at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts.

Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., in 2012. The shooting sparked rallies, marches and protests across the nation. Zimmerman was eventually charged, tried and acquitted in connection with the death.

Since her son’s death, Fulton has become an advocate for preventing violence towards children and building safer communities.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s February stop in Greenville will be the last chance locally to see the circus’ elephant act.

The circus announced this week that all of the Asian elephants from their traveling circus units will be moved to their permanent home at the Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation in Florida in May. The move comes 18 months early. Last March, Feld Entertainment, the parent company of the circus, announced it would retire the 11 elephants now on tour. When announcing the move, the company said it has become increasingly difficult to organize traveling circus tours because so many cities and counties have passed “anti-circus” and “antielephant” ordinances.

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This year’s contest was one of the most competitive in history, garnering more than 1,300 entries from around the world, with entries judged by executives from all sectors of the industry.

VisitGreenvilleSC is being recognized with Gold Awards for its Best Town Ever commercial, radio advertisements, People Are Talking About Us commercial, Main Streets commercial, Valentine’s Day chocolate mailer, Euphoria invitation, THAT party and the Yeah That Greenville consumer leisure campaign.

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Council hears debate on Pelham Crossing zoning SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com Developers of Pelham Crossing, a proposed mixed-use project at Interstate 85, Garlington Road and Pelham Road in Greer, presented a requested zoning change from S-1 (services) and R-S (residential suburban) to an FRD (flexible review district) during a Greenville County zoning public hearing this week presided over by County Council.

A previous request to rezone all property to R-M11, multifamily residential district, which is less restrictive than FRD, went before Greenville County Council in November and failed in a 6-5 vote.

Greenville-based Central Realty Holdings would be the lead developer of the project and would work with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System on an ambulatory care center, which would serve as the project’s anchor. Fairfax, Va.-based Middleburg Real Estate Partners would construct a 302-unit apartment complex on the property. Office/professional and restaurant buildings are also planned for future phases of the development.

Rece Morgan, president and CEO of Central Realty, told the board the company has held two large neighborhood meetings regarding the project and is working with a core leadership group on traffic concerns. The company is also working with SCDOT on road improve-

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ments, which could include additional traffic signals and lanes on Garlington and Pelham roads and relocating Honbarrier Drive.

To alleviate neighborhood concerns regarding speeding, Morgan said Central Realty would consider installing radar readers and possibly speed bumps. Also, to give Greenville County and neighbors assurance the road improvements will be constructed, Morgan said Central Realty will post a bond or issue a letter of credit for the $1.5-$1.8 million estimated for the road work.

Shannon Forest residents voiced concerns regarding traffic along Garlington and Pelham roads, saying that nothing will mitigate the existing gridlock, let alone the additional 6,000 estimated cars from the new medical, office and apartment traffic. A proposed gated emergency-only exit onto Durham Road from the new apartment community was also questioned, and neighbors are looking for assurances that the exit will remain emergency-only and not allow residents to use it for pass-through traffic. An Ivybrooke resident proposed traffic circles

be considered instead of additional stoplights.

Residents also raised flooding concerns, saying both Rocky Creek and Shannon Forest Creek flood when it rains, and they are concerned that new apartment residents would be too close.

A St. Francis and Middleburg Real Estate Partners representative spoke in favor of the project. The board asked for a standing consensus from the audience.

Approximately 20-30 people stood in opposition and about 15 in favor of the zoning request.

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Plans for QuikTrip in West End move forward BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

bjeffers@communityjournals.com Plans moved forward this week for a new QuikTrip at Academy and Markley streets, but obstacles stand in the way before construction can begin.

Greenville City Council voted 6-1 this week to approve first reading of an ordinance to rezone about 0.6 acres of land from C-4 and RM-2 to C-2. Councilwoman Jil Littlejohn voted against the ordinance.

Michael Kerski, the city’s planning and development manager, said the new zoning of C-2 was recommended by the city because it allows council to place restrictions on the property and helps protect the neighborhood.

Council members expressed concern that the design of the QuikTrip wouldn’t

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fit with the rest of the neighborhood.

A representative from the company said the chain has a very rigid design but they are looking at ways to alter it to better fit with the design of the neighborhood.

In order for the work to move for-

ward, council members would still have to abandon nearby roads and alleys and grant exceptions for a convenience store to be open 24 hours in the area.

“Rezoning this does not automatically allow [QuikTrip] to do anything,” Kerski said.

Councilwoman Lillian Brock Flemming said she wants to make sure the city stipulates that the convenience store couldn’t sell single bottles or cans of alcohol because she wants to cut down on litter from the site.

Kerski said the city has spoken with representatives of the gas station chain about that stipulation and the company would accept that restriction.

ELECTIONS City Council appointed Littlejohn to

replace Councilman David Sudduth as mayor pro tempore and named Councilwoman Gaye Sprague as vice mayor pro tempore to replace Flemming. Both appointments were approved unanimously by council.

POLICE TRAINING AND SALTERS ROAD PROJECT Council gave final approval to appropriate a $50,000 grant for police training and approved the appropriation of $350,000 from the Capital Projects Fund for improvements along Salters Road.

The project includes construction of a five-lane road section from Millennium Boulevard/Carolina Point Parkway to Verdae Boulevard. The section will have bike lanes, curb lawns, sidewalks, planted medians and add new bridge over I-85.

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skills in coding and programming to be more competitive in the workforce. Superintendent Burke Royster said that programming and coding make up a small proportion of IT opportunities and some of the resources the district already allocates to keyboarding could be redirected to coding and programming, but the amount would have to be proportional to other IT skills.

The district has several programs to introduce students to the IT career cluster, including MineCraft, a video gamebased program where students building environments using a type of block programming, as early as second grade, to Google CS First, a club-based program for fourth- through ninth-graders.

Some schools participate in “The Hour of Code,” while others have robotics clubs.

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Greenville County Schools is looking at how it could offer more rigorous and relevant information technology courses for middle and high school students.

South Carolina students are required to earn one unit in computer science to earn a high school diploma. Students are required to demonstrate mastery of keyboarding, which students in Greenville County accomplish by taking a halfcredit keyboarding course.

Thirty-nine sections of keyboarding are being offered in Greenville County high schools and 92 sections at its middle schools.

But Brooks Smith, the district’s executive director of career and technology education, said as teaching basic skills in technology moves to earlier grades, students could take other computer science classes that demonstrate their keyboarding mastery.

The discussion came up in the Greenville County School Board’s Committee of the Whole meeting this week.

About 40 courses satisfy the computer science requirement, Smith said, including desktop publishing and Project Lead the Way classes. Students at all 14 high schools have access to IT courses either on their campus or at one of the district’s career centers. In 2015, 61 of the 262 students, or 23 percent, in South Carolina who took the Advanced Placement Computer Science course were from Greenville County.

Board member Crystal Ball O’Connor said students would increasingly need

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Ambassador of taste Upstate’s Youngblood selected to promote savory spots in Palmetto State APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Chef Teryi Youngblood stands behind the counter at downtown Greenville’s Passarelle Bistro and shows off for a Journal reporter what’s on the menu for that night: locally raised Greenbrier Farms pork chop with sweet potatoes and braised cabbage, or a Moroccan tagine with quinoa, squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, dried fruit and a spicy tomato sauce.

She talks about learning the culinary trade, her favorite dishes and what she would like to accomplish as a new South Carolina Chef Ambassador.

Youngblood was named as the Upstate representative in the second year of the Chef Ambassador program launched in 2014 by the SC Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. She is ready to promote locally grown produce along with the state’s food destinations.

“I want to talk about everything we have to offer in the Upstate; growers, restaurants and the culinary scene,” she said. “I want to turn over those stones to find those little places that need exposure, as well.”

Ambassadors also will participate in cooking demonstrations and educational seminars, according to the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.

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ON-THE-JOB TRAINING Youngblood began her culinary career at the former Bistro Europa on Main Street in Greenville, first as a prep cook and later as lead line cook. In her first few weeks on the job, she recalls being presented with a whole fish and trying to meet the new challenge of prepping it.

Soon she met people who offered her opportunities to broaden her skills, including The Cazbah and later the Table 301 group.

“I love experimenting with different cultures’ authentic flavors … I could eat my way across every continent and study their traditions. I love to try to replicate

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authentic foods,” she said.

Youngblood began working in pastry, logging 13 years creating delectable desserts for Soby’s and Soby’s on the Side. At that point, she says she needed a change.

“I felt like I made every pastry in the professional pastry chef’s book twice,” she said.

In 2013, she was offered the chance to helm a restaurant and proposed a Frenchstyle bistro in the former Overlook Grill above Falls Park. If it didn’t serve food, it needed to be a café, she said. “You’ve got this gorgeous setting and you need to drink wine and coffee on that patio every day.”

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that we are using what they are producing without waste.”

If that partnership can happen, “then we would have a lot more freedom to use those rare items or get a grower to grow something really cool that they were afraid grow before because they didn’t know if anyone would want it,” Youngblood said. “I want to be that person to figure out how to facilitate that conversation.”

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‘An accommodating space’ Thyme and Play restaurant concept to cater to those with cognitive, physical and mental disabilities APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com A trip to a restaurant with kids can include impatience, surprise tantrums and other difficulties. Braving a restaurant with a child who may have auditory or texture sensitivity due to an autism spectrum disorder or other disability can be even more of a challenge, said chef Eva Vega.

Vega is proposing a new restaurant concept, Thyme and Play, which will be sensory-friendly and inviting to anyone with mental, physical or cognitive disabilities, she said. The recent culinary school graduate and Navy veteran is partnering with her husband, Henry, who has more than 15 years of culinary experience.

Thyme and Play stems from personal experience with her five-year-old son, who was diagnosed with autism two years ago, Vega said.

“What we found is that our son, who is very texturally and sensorially sensitive, when we went out with him, it wasn’t very accommodating. There was a lot of struggle to get him to enjoy the restaurant industry,” she said. “He [Henry] wanted our son to enjoy going out as much as he did.”

CATER TO THE CHILD Thyme and Play would offer sensory equipment like texture-friendly seats and booth materials that a child could touch for a soothing effect, she said.

“It will be an accommodating space.

Certain booths will be soundproof so you don’t have to deal with the noise around you and the seating and tables will be texture-friendly,” she said. Vega envisions children being free to move around the restaurant and use a large play space.

Custom-built booths could provide solace for kids when the activity gets too much, she said.

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“What I’ve noticed with my child is if he gets over-stimulated, his first response is to go under the table,” she said. The booths would have a space beneath that was “not dirty and a place where they can sit and relax and not be bothered with the people around them,” she said.

The monitored play area could also offer occupation for kids while Mom and Dad have a “date night” in the same restaurant, Vega said.

Thyme and Play’s allergy-friendly menu will focus on Caribbean fusion with an American tradition and tap into farm-to-table sources, she said. Vega is developing menu offerings like coffeeencrusted lamb chops, Caribbean chicken tortilla soup and slow-braised oxtail with chimichurri mangu.

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A survey of whether locals would support the concept and dine out at Thyme and Play has garnered nearly 200 responses, Vega said. She predicts a variety of customers will want to take advantage of the restaurant.

“I could see us having a huge following, even of families with typical children. Our goal is to create loyal, returning customers,” she said.

Vega has applied to several competitions for funding and connecting with

Clockwise from top left: Chef Eva Vega; Chef Henry Vega; Examples of dishes from Thyme and Play’s allergy-friendly menu— malta braised lamb loin shanks with potato crisp over a sweet plaintain purée (top) and slow-braised oxtail with chimichurri mangu (bottom)

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“Everything is just tailored for the child.

It’s to bring your home environment to the restaurant,” she said. “Our hope is to create a non-judgmental place.”

For more information, visit thymeandplay.com

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THE GOOD: Events that make our community better opmental Services (CDS) recently completed a large HVAC replacement project made possible by Greenville Women Giving (GWG) grant funding. CDS received $65,272 to purchase multiple 8.5-ton HVAC units to replace older ones. CDS serves medically fragile and developmentally delayed children who are dependent on a safe, therapeutic environment.

VALENTINES From left, Angela Bagwell, Woodlands; Angie Pruett, Woodlands; Amanda Manly, Safe Harbor; and Debbie Wilson, Woodlands at the donation for Safe Harbor.

DONATION Woodlands raises $3K for Safe Harbor The Woodlands at Furman donated more than $3,000 to Safe Harbor. The donation was made possible through the Woodlands’ annual Festival of Trees fundraiser. Twenty

organizations participated in the event that sponsored trees throughout the Woodlands.

GRANT GWG helps fund CDS renovation The Center for Devel-

Homemade cards for GHS Children’s Hospital patients Upstate residents are invited to create homemade Valentine’s Day cards for children at the GHS Children’s Hospital. Last year, the initiative sponsored by Magic 98.9 collected more than 5,100

cards. Cards can be dropped off through Feb. 10. Visit bit. ly/1RAH8ol for card guidelines.

DONORS Blood Connection, Clemson launch Donors for Life The Blood Connection and Clemson University have chartered the first Donors for Life club, a student-led club that encourages blood donation. Students approached The Blood Connection to sponsor two campus blood drives that collected more than 100 pints of blood.

Other colleges, universities and high schools can charter Donors for Life clubs, too. To find out how to start a club, contact Ashley Sweet at asweet@thebloodconnection. org or 751-3058.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING at ON THE STAGE Shoestring Players hold auditions for “Dogfight: The Musical” January 25 • 7:00 p.m., Performing Arts Center “Dogfight: The Musical” tells a tender and brutal tale of young people meeting in a situation certain to end in heartbreak. On the eve of their deployment, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of partying and maybe a little trouble. Performance dates are April 7-10. Contact Lee Neibert at (864) 503-5987 or at lneibert@uscupstate.edu.

EXHIBITS “Mac Arnold: Bluesman Close-Up” by Brian S. Kelley Through March 7 Upstate Gallery on Main, 172 E. Main Street A photography exhibit documenting the blues musician and farmer. Opening reception with Brian Kelley will be held from 5-8 p.m. January 21. A musical performance by Dr. Mac Arnold is set for 5-8 p.m. February 18. A portion of the proceeds from sales during this exhibit will benefit the Dr. Mac Arnold Scholarship Fund at USC Upstate. For contact Jane Allen Nodine at 503-5838 or jnodine@uscupstate.edu or Mark Flowers at 503-5848 or mflowers@uscupstate.edu.

She currently has trained and manages 150 national and international artists for the Golden Working Artist Program. For contact Jane Allen Nodine at 503-5838 or jnodine@uscupstate.edu or Mark Flowers at 503-5848 or mflowers@uscupstate.edu.

Art by Students at Lakeview Middle School January 18 - February 25 A reception for the artists will be held at 4:30 p.m., January 26 FOCUS Gallery in the Humanities & Performing Arts Center Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

The mission of the FOCUS Gallery is to offer a broad range of student-produced work from schools in the Upstate. The FOCUS Gallery is a teaching model and forges a relationship between K-12 schools and USC Upstate. For more information, call (864) 503-5817.

ATHLETICS Visit www.upstatespartans.com for the complete Spartans schedule. Follow the teams on Twitter @UpstateSpartans or connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com/UpstateAthletics.

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” by Patti Brady January 15 – February 19 A reception for the artist will be held January 28 at 4:30 p.m.

Curtis R. Harley Gallery, Humanities & Performing Arts Center Free and open to the public.

Greenville artist Patti Brady is the working artist program director for Golden Artist Colors. She has developed curriculum for acrylic classes for artists and art educators.

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LOOK Paw pride More than 75,000 fans filled the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona on Monday to watch the Clemson Tigers battle the University of Alabama Crimson Tide for a national championship. Although the Tide beat the Tigers 45-40, Clemson left Arizona with an impressive 14-1 record for the 2015 season — its first undefeated regular season since winning the national title back in 1981.

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The 2016 St. Francis Forum, a group of community members, met recently to start a year of learning about services offered by Bon Secours St. Francis. The forum meets monthly for in-depth looks at surgical services, cardiovascular services, the Institute for Chronic Health, hospice and home health care, oncology, the Pearlie Harris Center for Breast Health, orthopedics and community ministries.

Bon Secours Wellness Arena hosted more than 3,000 fans for the official viewing party for the NCAA Football National Championship game between Clemson and Alabama.

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Drama students at Travelers Rest High School welcomed a guest lecturer last week, as a clown from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus led a clowning and circus skills seminar. The circus comes to Bon Secours Wellness Arena Feb. 3.

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The cast of the musical “Newsies,” which closed its run at the Peace Center last week, held a Get Up and Go workshop for local students, encouraging healthy living.

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Shannon Forest students Mary Grace Williams, Marie Farmer, Gracie Floyd, Cassidy Van Houten, Laura Wellons, David Hammett and teacher Becky Heiser explore the Isle of Capri during a recent study abroad trip to Italy.

Shannon Forest Christian School students in the ninth through 12th grades are traveling, cooking (and eating), exercising, creating and exploring their way through their two-week SilvaMESTER session. Silva-Mester 2016 includes courses in culinary arts, fitness, rock climbing, sign language, Hollywood history, pottery, golf and an international trip to Rome, Pompeii and Capri.

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Weaver joins state oversight committee

BJU conductor places in national contest

Ellen Weaver, founding president and CEO of the Palmetto Promise Institute and a Bob Jones University graduate, has been appointed to the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee. She was appointed as Sen. John Courson’s business representative, replacing Deb Marks. The Palmetto Promise Institute is a nonprofit education policy organization. The EOC is an independent nonpartisan group of educators, businesspersons and elected leaders dedicated to progress within the education system.

Weaver is also a member of State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman’s Read to Succeed Advisory Panel.

Bob Jones University’s Dr. Eliezer Yanson Jr. was named as the third place winner for The American Prize in Conducting: College/ University Chorus Division for 2015. In consideration for the award, Yanson submitted the University’s production of Handel’s “Messiah” which he conducted in December 2014.

Yanson serves as assistant professor of music at BJU, where he conducts the University Singers and Lyric Choir and teaches undergraduate and graduate music classes.

TECH BJA launches TechClub Bob Jones Academy recently launched TechClub, an

after-school technology club for students in grades 1–6.

Students were selected following an application process and meet monthly to learn about current technology tools and equipment, including green screening, robotics, 3-D printing and coding. During their recent introductory meeting, students explored stop-motion animation. Each month students learn together and then explore and create together, completing a project before the conclusion of the meeting. Students also complete challenge activities and earn merit badges based on their achievements.

HONORED SJCS teacher featured in Upstate Parent Magazine St. Joseph’s Catholic School Middle School teacher Sarah Wicker was recently honored as an “Educator Who Makes a Difference” by Upstate Parent Magazine. Wicker is now

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in her eighth year of teaching at SJCS where she instructs middle school students in math and religion. She also serves as a Household Dean and is the moderator of the MS Origami Club and MS Math Team.

OPEN HOUSE Mitchell Road welcomes visitors Mitchell Road Christian Academy is hosting Open Houses every Wednesday in January and February from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. No appointment necessary. The school is located at 207 Mitchell Road, Greenville, 29615.

Call 268-2210 for more info.

FAIR Event kicks off Catholic Schools Week Our Lady of the Rosary, Prince of Peace, St. Joseph’s (Greenville), and St. Mary’s Catholic Schools will be joining together to kick off Catholic Schools Week by presenting a Catholic Education Fair at St. Mary Magdalene Parish on Jan. 31 from 10 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.

Representatives from all of the schools will be available to highlight the importance of Catholic education and provide information about their individual schools.

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Legacy Charter School to enhance music program

Blue Ridge Electric Coop pledges $50K to Greenville Tech

The SunTrust Foundation has awarded Legacy Charter School a grant to purchase string instruments for Legacy’s music program. Believing that music education is a key factor in academic achievement and social progress for students of all economic backgrounds, Legacy is committed to music education. Elementary students (second through fourth grade) have strings, percussion and general music each week. Middle school students choose a focus of strings, percussion or chorus. Legacy envisions a schoolwide orchestra and chorus with musicians from first through 12th grades performing, and the first step toward building both is to redirect funds from costly instrument rental into programming, says Lisa Ackerman, Legacy’s elementary strings program director.

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative has pledged $50,000 to the Greenville Tech Foundation to support scholarships for students pursuing manufacturing careers.

The gift was announced

by Charles Dalton, Blue Ridge president and CEO, and cooperative Board Chairman Ken Southerlin, who also serves on the Greenville Technical College governing board. “We’re committed to helping Greenville Technical College create opportunities for people in the Upstate,” said Dalton. “With a strong skill base, we can retain and attract excellent employers, thereby creating better-paying jobs and a stronger economy for everyone in the region.”

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OUR COMMUNITY: Community news, events and happenings HEALTH St. Francis honored for women’s programs Bon Secours St. Francis Health System was named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s 2015 annual list of 100 hospitals and health systems with great women’s programs. Those included on the list were evaluated on specialties like gynecology, obstetrics, womenfocused heart care and womenfocused cancer care, according to Becker’s. Roper Hospital in Charleston was the other Palmetto State hospital included on the list.

MOVIES Matinees offer sensoryfriendly screenings Regal Entertainment and Puzzles International are again hosting My Way Matinee, sensory-friendly film screenings for families living with autism and other special needs, where the lights are on and the volume lowered. Greenville’s Hollywood 20 is offering the films and upcoming titles include “Norm of

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the North” and “Kung Fu Panda 3.” Visit regmovies.com/mywaymatinee for more information.

bridge between personal story, creativity and the power of community.

Register online at regonline.com/ goplaypsychodrama2015 or by contacting ATC Executive Director Dale Savidge at dsavidge@appliedtheatrecenter.org.

RETAIL Rock House Antiques wins Lights on Augusta The Rock House Antiques was named winner of the Lights on Augusta Christmas decoration contest on Augusta Road. Clients, customers, neighbors and residents voted online for their favorite. Sassy on Augusta was named second-place winner, and Paws & Claws was named thirdplace winner.

ART Mauldin seeks artists for public trail The City of Mauldin’s Office of Cultural Affairs has opened the request for qualifications portion of the selection process for artists for the 2016 Mauldin Public Art Trail installation at the Mauldin Cultural Center. This year’s theme will be “South Carolina Strong” in recognition of the state’s resilience during

SCHOLARSHIP Students can win week in D.C. multiple tragedies in 2015. A new work will be commissioned each year to fill the nine pre-approved sites along the perimeter of the outdoor amphitheater at the cultural center. Submission deadline is Feb. 29. The RFQ and application are available at cityofmauldin.org/oca.

Contact the Office of Cultural Affairs at 335-4862 for more information.

A full breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m. A program honoring the memory and legacy of Dr. King will follow. The day will concluded with a friendly soccer tournament and camp for kids up to 12 and at The Salvation Army Kroc Center for kids 13 and up. The event is free and open to the public. Call 484-1009 for more information.

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Workshop blends story, creativity, community

On Jan. 18, Unity Sports will host its 22nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast and program at the historic Sterling Community Center, 113 Minus St., Greenville.

Heidi Landis will teach Go Play psychodrama training on Feb. 4-6.

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Laurens Electric Cooperative is offering an expense-paid week in Washington, D.C. to two students who live in the service area. The annual Washington Youth Tour contest includes an application and interview process. One SC participant will be eligible to compete for a $5,000 college scholarship.

Students who are entering their senior year in high school next fall are eligible to enter the contest and do not have to receive power from Laurens Electric Cooperative to qualify. The application deadline is Feb. 12. For more information, visit laurenselectric.com or contact Laurie Riser at laurier@laurenselectric.com or 800-942-3141.

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These Great Southern Homes have been tested by the Green Smart Homes program, to ensure maximum energy efficiency for optimal energy use. Honeywell’s Tuxedo Touch Home automation system is also a feature in the homes at Tucker Branch, which allows you to control your homes lights and security while away, at no extra cost. For more information please visit our website at www.greatsouthernhomes.com

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Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Welcomes Three Agents To Downtown Office 27 SPRINGLEAF COURT . $255,000 . MLS#1313888 4BR/2.5B Beautiful one owner home in cul-de-sac, backs to green space, two story foyer & great room and many awesome upgrades! Hwy 14 to Pollard. Left into neighborhood, then follow signs.

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Wraparound porch, 2 patios, with a creek. Roof (2005), Newer HVAC, New pipes & plumbing, thermostat-controlled laminate floors in basement, Windows (2009) Contact: Maggie Aiken 616-4280 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner REALTORS

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS announces the addition of three residential sales associates agents to the Downtown office located on Vardry Street.

John Greene joins the company following seven years as an account manager for an Upstate apparel manufacturer and distributor. A Greenville native, he earned a Bachelor of Science in business from the University of South Carolina. In his spare time, Greene enjoys playing and coaching soccer and advocating for organ donation.

Jason McClain brings over a year of Upstate real estate experience to his role within the company. Prior to real estate, McClain served in purchasing and sales roles in the power distribution and telecommunications industries.

He is a native of Piedmont, SC and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wofford College.

Christina Taylor also joins the Downtown office as an experienced agent, having amassed over 18 months of real estate experience in the Upstate.

Her background also includes nine years in catering sales management in the hospitality industry. A graduate of the College of Charleston, she holds a degree in historic preservation. Taylor originally hails from Lexington, SC and now lives in Greenville.

“As our Downtown office continues to expand, I am happy to welcome these new and seasoned agents,” said Teresa Cox, Broker-In-Charge of the Vardry Street location. “Their backgrounds, focus and enthusiasm align with our company’s commitment to being the Upstate’s real estate leader.”

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Katyn Hardin Joins Coldwell Banker Caine Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Katyn Hardin as an Experience Coordinator at its Spartanburg office. She will ensure the office environment is welcoming and provide a positive experience for both agents and staff by assisting with agent support and administrative needs.

Hardin joins the company with previous experience as an Education Advisor at Joined Inc. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature Hardin from Anderson University. Outside of the office, Hardin enjoys spending time with family and friends. She also enjoys traveling—international mission work took her to Kenya, Africa in 2013 and Bali, Indonesia in 2014.

“Katyn is a wonderful new addition to the Coldwell Banker Caine family,” said Stephen Edgerton, President and CEO of Coldwell Banker Caine. “Her upbeat and positive attitude will provide a wonderful experience for our Spartanburg agents and staff.”

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Coldwell Banker Caine recently recognized its top producing agents in property sales and listings from each of its five offices – Easley, Greenville, Greer, Seneca and Spartanburg – for the month of November.

The top producing agents from each office are ranked by the total volume of business closed last month and include: Easley: Lisa Watson, Suzanne Cook, Angie Dickmeyer Greenville: Helen Hagood, Holly May, Jacob Mann Greer: Susan Wagner, Charlene Panek, Shelbie Dunn Behringer Seneca: Pat Loftis, Barry Voeltz, Wendy Brown Spartanburg: Francie Little, Lori Thompson, Annette Starnes Top listing agents in each office are recognized for listing the highest total volume of residential properties last month and include: Easley: Mary Lou Barnhardt, Suzanne Cook, Lori Hope Greenville: John Stephenson, Jacob Mann, Lou Lipomi Greer: Faith Ross, Charlene Panek Seneca: Pat Loftis Spartanburg: Rhonda Porter, Francie Little, Eva Sandfort

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Eclectic: More than just another style Choosing a design style Make one style Guest columnist for your home can be dominant challenging. Do you go Keep one style domiwith midcentury modern, nant while mixing in a transitional, traditional, few unique pieces from farmhouse modern, conwith Barbara Dalton a diff erent style. Add temporary or French Incontemporary pieces dustrial? Can you mix to a traditional room or your grandmother’s anpull a midcentury modtique secretary with a ern chair into a modern track-arm linen sofa and farmhouse. Combining an Eames lounge chair? rustic with contempoAbsolutely! Why not rary, vintage with arts hang a cherished pastoral and crafts, or French Inpainting over a modern dustrial with modern can chest? Eclectic rooms are refresh a tired look. more inviting than oneBegin with neutral style rooms that somewalls to create a seamless times feel too staged. Bebackdrop, and then place your favorite low are some ideas to keep in mind when pieces to establish your dominant style. creating the sophisticated and collected, Keep the unexpected to 20 percent to yet comfortable and personal, look you complete the room, which helps to avoid want. a used-furniture-store look.

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Chairs are the perfect 20 percent starting point for an eclectic style. The curved lines of a recovered French chair combine with the straight lines of a modern sofa to create interest in a modern setting. Velvet, or another more transitional print, works best on the chair to blend the two styles.

Recently, I placed two Selig Z-inspired chairs beside an old fireplace in a historic craftsman home, blending a client’s modern taste with the character of the house. A Turkish antique rug with subtle neu-

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tral tones was also helpful in marrying the two styles.

Accessorize Balance is also important in achieving an intentional eclectic style. A pillow across the room can balance a brightly painted piece of furniture. Take a risk on a bold abstract painting to mix modern with other styles.

In a desk nook, I blended an unexpected modern chair with traditional cabinetry, architecture and artwork to work with the clean lines of a Thomas Pheasant chest. An instant fix for traditional lamps is to replace existing shades with barrel shades that blend seamlessly with a modern style.

Repurpose Repurposing old doors, windows or other interesting objects can add a rustic, vintage look to midcentury modern, and relax other

more formal styles. Recently, I hung old windows with chipped paint and rusted hardware over a console to bring rustic charm to a traditional foyer.

Start small for big payoffs A small space is an easy place to mix a reclaimed bench into a dressier, more traditional home – try it in a mudroom!

Look for things that inspire you and begin experimenting. Step back and look for balance and connecting elements, such as lines, colors or wood grains.

Remember – you can always keep adjusting from room to room, as eclectic design allows you to update more often and frees you from having to be pure to one style.

Interior designer Barbara Dalton is an American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) associate member and serves Upstate clients from her downtown Greenville office. Barbara’s passion is working with clients to create spaces that reflect their desires and personalities to produce exceptional interior environments.

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Inside, enjoy the open floor plan with gourmet kitchen that includes top of the line appliances and wine fridge. There is a new family room with kids den (or office) and new half bath. Upstairs the master suite features a sitting area and large walk in closet. The owners have retained the “older home” charm found in the area and made it extremely livable for today’s lifestyle. You wont be disappointed with all this home has to offer!

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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) In The Orchard, 1973

Helen DuPre Moseley (1887-1984) untitled, 1964

Lynne Drexler (1928-1999) Gotterdammerung, 1959

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Ooh, Baby, It’s a Wild World Discover a few of the wild animals that lurk at the GCMA. Ranging from breathtaking realism to fantastical imaginary creatures, this exhibition invites you to explore your wild side.

Wonderful World of Color Whether bold and brilliant or subtle and subdued, color serves as both a stimulus and a deterrent throughout the natural world. This exhibition welcomes viewers to consider the power of color and their own responses.

Andrew Moore Part of an ongoing project that focuses on the American South, large-format color photographs by Andrew Moore capture architectural elements and urban landscapes as they are slowly reclaimed by nature.

Carolina Zeitgeist Organized largely from the GCMA permanent collection, Carolina Zeitgeist surveys post-World War II paintings and sculpture created by both North and South Carolina artists. A number of Upstate artists are featured in this exhibition.

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GSO concert honors Tommy Wyche Champion of conservation was also a pianist and composer CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Greenville attorney, civic leader and conservation champion Tommy Wyche was a man of many talents.

Next weekend’s Greenville Symphony Orchestra’s “Poetry and Drama of Life” Masterworks concert will highlight his musical talent by presenting the world premiere of “Moonbeams,” one of Wyche’s piano compositions that GSO music director and conductor Edvard Tchivzhel arranged into a piece for a full orchestra.

The Saturday, Jan. 23, performance marks the one-year anniversary of Wyche’s death.

Tchivzhel came to Greenville with the USSR Symphony in 1991 as part of a monthlong U.S. tour. While visiting Chuck E. Cheese’s, Tchivzhel told Lena Forster, then general manager of the Greenville Ballet, that he wanted to defect. An attorney in Wyche’s firm, Larry Estridge, worked on the case.

Tchivzhel defected on the last night of

Left: Tommy Wyche; Right: Greenville Symphony Orchestra music director and conductor Edvard Tchivzhel.

the tour and the next morning was taken to the Wyche law firm for an interview.

Tchivzhel met Wyche then and later got to know him much closer.

“It is my personal tribute, a way to pay homage to a great man,” Tchivzhel said. Wyche and his wife, Harriet, were staunch supporters of the Greenville Symphony, from its first concert in 1948 until their deaths.

The idea to feature one of Wyche’s compositions at a GSO concert came from Henry Parr Jr., an attorney at the firm who is a member of the GSO board.

“I thought it would be a wonderful experience for the community to hear one of his compositions. He left us with this musical memory,” said Parr, who said Wyche once told somebody music would be the last thing he’d give up. “‘Moonbeams’ was originally written for piano but it is even more beautiful performed by an orchestra.”

Tchivzhel said it is not unusual for a piano composition to be rearranged as an orchestral piece. Often times, the

orchestral version becomes more popular than the original piano piece.

“Actually, it happens very often,” he said.

Tchivzhel said when he arranges pieces he starts by trying to imagine what the composer himself would like.

Using the harmonies Wyche provided, Tchivzhel expanded the score. Three pages became eight.

Tchivzhel said “Moonbeams” is meditative and reflects Wyche’s love of nature, the silent night and moonlight.

In addition to “Moonbeams,” the program features works by two Scandinavian composers.

“All of the pieces on the program reflect the beauty of nature,” Tchivzhel said.

The program includes Edvard Grieg’s “Peer Gynt, Op. 23.” The music, as it follows the plotline of a Norwegian fairytale, is dramatic and powerful and reflects parts of Scandinavian nature – beautiful forests, lakes, the sea and the dark night, Tchivzhel said.

The concert will conclude with Jean

So you know “POETRY AND DRAMA OF LIFE,” a Masterworks concert honoring the late Tommy Wyche WHO: Greenville Symphony Orchestra WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 24, 3 p.m.

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Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2, Op. 43, in D major, often called “The Symphony of Independence.” It was composed during a time when Finland was struggling for liberation from Russia.

“It is very beautiful music, very sincere, very romantic,” Tchivzhel said. “It may not only be romantic but sometimes wild. It’s all about the mystery and poetry of Finland.”

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What’s in a name?

Paris shootings force band to change name “The night the terrorist attacks happened, we knew it was going to affect our name in some way,” Doyle says. “We This Friday at Independent Public Ale spent that night and the next week tryHouse, a band called Glass Mansions is ing to figure out what we should do. Will playing. If they don’t sound familiar, you we have to change the name? How will might know them by their old name: we go about doing that? We decided to black out all of our band’s Death of Paris. social media pages, so that For the past six years, “We decided to it didn’t seem like we were the band, led by singer trying to exploit the trageJayna Doyle and guitar- black out all of dy. We just kind of laid low ist/keyboard player Brent our band’s social and kept talking to each Arambula, had built momedia pages, other and getting people’s mentum with a heavy opinions, and we decided touring schedule and a so that it didn’t that it would be for the propulsive blend of rock seem like we were best moving forward to and electronic dance muchange the name, because sic. They were planning trying to exploit we don’t want to remind for 2016 to be their busiest the tragedy.” people of the tragedy every year yet in terms of tourJayna Doyle, lead singer of time we play.” ing, but on Nov. 13 last Glass Mansions, formerly Arambula adds that year, much like the rest of known as Death of Paris with the increased scope the world, they watched of their touring, they were in horror as the terrorist going to be encountering a lot of music attacks in Paris unfolded. Everything else fans who hadn’t heard of them before. on the schedule was on hold while the “We felt like a lot of people would’ve been band dealt with something they never exasking if we’d gotten that name from the pected to be a problem: their name.

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Melodic paint Local artist Olaf Sorenson featured in Hyatt gallery FAITH AUSLAND | CONTRIBUTOR

Local artist Olaf Sorensen may be in retirement professionally, but his artwork is nowhere near the end of its career.

The Hyatt Regency in downtown Greenville is featuring a new display of artwork by Sorensen in the gallery at Studio 220. The event space is in NOMA Square, and the Hyatt uses the studio to showcase work by artists from the Greenville community.

The hotel is hosting a reception on Jan. 15 that is open to anyone who would like

attacks. And rather than continually having to explain ourselves, it just felt right to move forward with a different name.”

It’s no small thing for a group that’s spent six years building equity in their name to change it. There are social media pages, music-streaming and purchasing sites and merchandise factors to consider. But Doyle says that compared with what happened that night in Paris, this decision was nothing.

“It’s worth it at the end of the day because it’s for the best,” she says. “It was done for the right reason. Us changing our name is so petty in the scheme of this attack. The least we can do is change our name in out of respect.”

Even so, the change is “a very scary thing,” Doyle says. “It’s like we’re starting over in a way. We’ve gone through lineup changes in the past, so we’ve had moments of starting over and getting our

to view the artwork and meet the artist.

Sorensen constructs the paintings’ canvasses himself, nailing wooden pieces together in 3-D shapes, before stretching the canvas across. The multidimensional theme continues in the paintings themselves as the artist paints over glued folds of canvas, giving the impression of flowing fabric.

He describes his art as musical, with the lines, curves and contrasting colors representing melodies and harmonies. Just as different instruments complement the overall sound of an orchestra, the different details of the paintings work together to contribute to the totality of the

footing again, but it’s a little different when you change your name, because we’re the same band. But we wanted to move forward on the right foot.”

In fact, the band’s new name was at least partially inspired by the feeling of fragility that Doyle says she felt after the Paris attack. “‘Glass Mansions’ created this image for me,” she says. “This large house that’s so strong and sturdy, but it’s glass, so it’s fragile and breakable.

musical theme, he says.

Heather Meadors, director of community relations for JHM Hotels, said the Hyatt features several different artists throughout the year, but will leave Sorensen’s paintings on display until the summer.

“A lot of the time we get recommendations from other artists we’ve worked with,” Meadors said, referencing how she came to find Sorensen’s work.

Sorensen is a retired professor emeritus at Furman University, where he taught art classes for 29 years.

He said he hopes that whoever observes his paintings will feel some of the excitement that he felt as he created them.

So you know Hyatt Regency Studio 220 reception features local Greenville artist Olaf Sorensen’s work and offers chance to meet the artist WHEN: Jan. 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

WHERE: The Hyatt Regency Studio 220, 220 N. Main St., Greenville COST: Free INFO: olofsorensenart.com

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SOUND CHECK

WITH VINCENT HARRIS

Current affairs

ON STAGE THIS FEBRUARY

Foster Davis of Lifted Gville digs down to the soul of electronic dance music Foster Davis, the founder of Lifted Gville, loves electronic dance music, or EDM. In fact, Davis, age 30, created Lifted (which he describes as “a collective of likeminded individuals out for the same goal: to create a forward-thinking music scene”) three years ago to help promote not just electronic music, but the arts and culture surround- Kaminanda ing the genre.

So you know He’s done so because as EDM becomes more popular, he’s worried that overex- LIFTED GVILLE PRESENTS posure and commercialization will take KAMINANDA W/ KRUSHMODE their toll.

WHERE: Gottrocks, 200 Eisenhower Ave. “I call it the ‘EDM bubble,’” Davis says.

“Everything’s getting blown up. There’s a WHEN: Friday, Jan. 15, 9 p.m. sense of things being about dollar signs. COST: $8 in advance/$10 day of show Me, I’m more focused on the underINFO: 235-5519; gottrocksgreenville.com ground. Stuff you’re not going to hear on the radio. I’m standing back and waiting for that bubble to pop. It’s not the route that I’d like to go. What I’m trying to do is bring music and art to people’s eyes and ears that they haven’t been exposed to. I want to create an environment that people of all ages can experience and enjoy, using music, art and sport that revolves around the EDM culture. I want to bring it all together because no one’s really doing that.”

Since creating the organization in 2014, Davis has put his own money into Lifted Gville and used it to book EDM artists that share his vision of an organic approach to electronic music. He brought the instrumental electronic/hip-hop hybrid group Big Gigantic to town in 2014, selling out the Handlebar in its last year of operation.

He’s teamed with Gottrocks for another show this Friday that features Stephen Kaminanda, who performs under his last name only, and local EDM artist Krushmode.

Given Davis’ all-encompassing approach to the culture of electronic music, it’s difficult to imagine a better choice for one of his shows than Kaminanda. The Victoria, B.C., producer, composer and performer makes music that’s danceable but not frenzied. His songs are typically lush, multilayered tracks that are meant to move the soul and the mind as much as the body.

“I believe that the central inspiration and intention of music is to allow people to move back and forth between their masculine and feminine sides,” Kaminanda says.

“I feel that by allowing the listener to explore both sides of their energy, it allows for a deeper understanding. And that comes through the use of melody, which tends to affect the emotions, and though harmony, which tends to open up more of the body, and through beats and basslines, so people can explore movement. From my experience, dancing is an extremely potent portal for healing, and a way to really learn about oneself.”

Vincent Harris covers music and sports for the Greenville Journal.

Reach him at vharris@communityjournals.com.

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Must-See Movies

By Eric Rogers

Page Turners

Documentary or sensationalism?

In the shadow of the bomb

You decide

Books shed light on life in the Atomic Age

A recent Gallup poll reveals that only four out of 10 people have “a great deal” of trust in the media.

While some of this distrust seems to be based in paranoia and propagated by people promoting conspiracy theories, the very beginning of filmed journalism demonstrates that some skepticism is not a bad idea.

In the earliest days of filmmaking, films were mostly just documenting daily life like people eating, kissing or leaving work. Then, with the help of people like Edwin S. Porter, Cecil B. DeMille, George Melies and D. W. Griffith, films became elaborate productions of dramatic stories.

By 1916, with Griffith’s film “Intolerance,” movies had reached epic proportions with massive sets and utilized hundreds of actors. But then, in the early 1920s, an explorer by the name of Robert Flaherty returned to the original roots of filmmaking.

Flaherty was also a writer for the Geographical Review and had taken a camera with him as he was doing a story on Inuit people in Canada. Unfortunately, since the film was nitrate-based and therefore flammable, he lost most of it when a spark from his cigarette ignited it.

But a few years later he was able to secure financing to go to northern Quebec where he found an Inuit family who allowed him to document their daily life.

So in 1922 “Nanook of the North” was released and the feature documentary film genre was born.

Flaherty earned the title “Father of the Documentary.”

Throughout the film Nanook, the Inuit paterfamilias, is seen hunting walruses and building igloos to keep his family alive. Nanook’s real name was Allakariallak, but I guess “Nanook of the North” has better alliteration. Two women play his wives in the film, but they were actually common-law wives of Flaherty. In real life, Nanook generally used a gun to hunt, but Flaherty encouraged him to use a spear, like his ancestors.

Nanook died a couple of years after the film was made, and Flaherty spread a rumor that he had died of starvation when in fact he likely died of illness.

So perhaps Flaherty would be better referred to as the “Father of Sensationalism,” but that doesn’t negate that this is a must-see film for any film buff.

“Nanook” is available at the Greenville County Library or online for free: bit.ly/NanookoftheNorth.

On that same note, last week I mentioned the fascinating Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” When you finish watching, it would be a good idea to do a Google search on the case, as the filmmakers apparently left out some crucial details.

Living under the threat of an atomic blast shifted American culture in the 1940s. Readers can

Eric Rogers has been teaching filmmaking atThe Greenville Fine Arts Center since 1994.

delve into that time and how it changed the nation with these selections.

What’s more, the Upcountry History Museum-Furman University offers another insight in its new exhibit, “Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb, 1945-1965,” from Jan. 30-March 16.

“THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY”

by Denise Kiernan Welcome to Oak Ridge, Tenn., 1942. World War II is going strong, and you and many other women have been invited to work at a mysterious location, only knowing that you might be there for half a year or more, and that everything you do is top secret. All around are strange factories, long rows of prefab houses and “hutments,” and feet-sucking mud.

Readers peer behind the veil of secrecy surrounding Oak Ridge in this title about the women behind the building of the A-Bomb. Many of them came from humble beginnings and were suddenly transported to this wartime city of 70,000. They lived their days as Rosie the Riveters, doing secretarial, factory and scientific work, always being told that “loose lips sink ships.”

It wasn’t until President Truman announced the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima that these women, never sure what they were working on, learned that they had been helping build the most powerful bomb ever made.

More good reads: “THE BLETCHLEY GIRLS”

by Tessa Dunlop Women did their part in defeating fascism in England at Bletchley Park, the top-secret military installation where the German “Enigma” code was broken and the end of WWII was brought much closer. They then had to pack their bags and keep quiet about their involvement until recently, when the story has come out through books and television.

“CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS”

by Chris Bohjalian This is a YA novel set in an alternate present that tells the story of Emily Shepard, a girl who has to flee her home after the nuclear power plant her father works at explodes, making an entire section of Vermont uninhabitable. Her attempts to live on her own and keep people from finding out who she is, all while taking care of a fellow homeless boy, make this powerfully written novel not just dystopian fiction, but both poetic and uplifting.

“COUNTDOWN”

by Deborah Wiles Franny Chapman is 12 years old in 1962 living in Washington, D.C., and her family life is complicated. Yet everything gets much more complicated when the country is facing the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Reviewed by Katie Womble, curator of oral history at the Upcountry History MuseumFurman University, upcountryhistory.org. All books except for “The Bletchley Girls” are available through Greenville County Library, and “The Girls of Atomic City” is also available for purchase at the museum gift shop.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

Jan. 15-17, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. • TD Convention Center • One Exposition Ave. • $8 for ages 7-61; $5 for seniors; under 6 free • Children under 12 admitted free Jan.17 233-2562 • southcarolinaautoshow.com New cars, trucks and SUVs will fill the TD Convention Center for the South Carolina International Auto Show Jan. 15-17. Close the loop on your auto show research, plus see highend exotics and ultra-luxurious models on display all in one location. Showgoers are invited to explore the newest rides, experience the latest in-car technology and even take a test drive right at the show.

thru Jan. 15 ARTS EVENT

South Carolina Poetry Exhibit James B. Duke Library, Furman University 3300 Poinsett Hwy. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE A new exhibit showcasing South Carolina poetry is open at Furman University’s

James B. Duke Library, Special Collections and Archives. The exhibit, “Celebrating South Carolina Poetry: An Exhibition to Mark the Acquisition of The Ninety-Six Press Archive” is free and open to the public. Furman English professors William Rogers and Gilbert Allen founded The Ninety-Six Press in 1991 to publish book-length works of poetry by South Carolina authors.

294-2714 | newspress.furman.edu/?p=19301

Jan. 15 CONCERT

Furman Faculty Present Chamber Music Furman University, Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Hwy. 8-9:30 p.m. $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students

Fuman Music Theory and Collaborative Piano Instructor Carolyn CarrierMcClimon hosts 13 Furman music faculty who present a diverse array of older and newer repertoire for chamber ensemble.

294-2086 furman.music@furman.edu furman.edu/academics/music/ ConcertsandEvents/Pages/MusicTickets.aspx

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Minds Like Clockwork w/ Chasing Ghosts, In Hope We Return & I, the Supplier Ground Zero NC band combines hardcore metal and melodic pop.

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The Independents with The Boo Jays & Tableshake Independent Public Ale House Tickets: $7 Over 21/$10 Under Veteran horror-ska-punk band.

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MLK Dreams in Action Scholarship Breakfast

Johnny Cash & Friends Live Moe Joe Coffee (Greenville) | Tickets: $8

Commerce Club | 55 Beattie Place 9-11 a.m. | Registration required FREE The Urban League will award eight scholarships totaling over $100,000 in scholarships to Upstate Youth at the Annual MLK Dream Scholarship Breakfast. The event will feature special guest speaker G. Travelle Wharton, USC coach and former Carolina Panther and special guest Cee Cee Michaela from the hit show Girlfriends and The Zoe Green Girlz. Tone Hollywood of Hot 98.1 will serve as the host for the event.

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Randy Paul & The Revelry Connelly’s Pub

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Hands to Heaven Gospel Celebration Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Tickets: $28 ADV/$33 DOS The Hands to Heaven gospel celebration will feature the Mighty Clouds of Joy, The Fantastic Violinaires, The Evereadys and more.

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Storyteller singer/songwriter with a powerful voice.

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Tyler Farr Blind Horse Saloon | $22 ADV/$25 DOS

All-star list of bands pays tribute to the Man In Black. Music from Little Lesley & The Bloodshots, Justin Johnson, Dallas Wesley and more.

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Jan. 16-17 FAMILY

Cowpens National Battlefield Celebrates 235th Battle Anniversary Cowpens National Battlefield 4001 Chesnee Hwy, Gaffney | 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE The park will host free activities including a wreath-laying, 18th century weapons firing demonstrations, Revolutionary War cavalry demonstrations, ranger-led battlefield walks, and author and historian talks. On Jan. 16, the Saturday evening lantern tours begin at 6 p.m., reservations required and can be made with Margo Blewett at 461-2828. nps.gov/cowp/specialevents.htm katherine_lynn@nps.gov

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United Community Bank Ice on Main Village Green | 206 S. Main Street $10 for Adults and $8 for Children United Community Bank Ice on Main, located in the heart of downtown Greenville, is an open-air ice skating rink - the only one of its kind in Upstate South Carolina. On Jan. 18, show an Ingles Advantage card and save $2.

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Standing on the Side of Love Coffee House, Tigg’s Pond Retreat Center 212 Fiddlehead Lane, Zirconia, NC 7-9 p.m. | $20

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All That Jazz - Live Jazz Performance and Langston Hughes discussion Hughes Main Library 25 Heritage Green Place | 6:30-8 p.m.

FREE Enjoy a performance of the Greenville Jazz Collective and fascinating discussion of poet Langston Hughes led by Dr. Gilbert Allen, Furman University. Free copies of Langston Hughes book available prior to program call for books and program registration.

527-9258 | greenvillelibrary.org asklibrarian@greenvillelibrary.org EDUCATION

Seniors Taking Charge - 2016 Thrive Assisted Living and Memory Care 715 S. Buncombe Road, Greer 10-11 a.m. | Tuesdays thru Feb. 16 FREE St. Francis LifeWise, C. Dan Joyner Senior Services Division, Thrive Assisted Living and Memory Care and Always Best Care Senior Services invite you to attend an informative series of free talks on topics that are important to all of us as we age: Jan. 19 - Reverse Mortgages: Mark Schumacher, Retirement Funding Solutions; Jan. 26 Legal Matters: elder law attorneys from Babb & Brown; Feb. 2 - Home Choices: John Moore, C. Dan Joyner, Berkshire Hathaway; Feb. 9 - Home Transitioning: the Golden Girls from Golden Years Moving; and Feb. 16 - Senior Living Communities: Bruce Meyer, Always Best Care Senior Services. Seating is limited so please RSVP at Toni.Edge@ThriveAtGreer.com or 4694335. LifeWise members register www. stfrancishealth.org/events. alwaysbestcare.com/usa/sc/greenville-county/ seniors-taking-charge-2016

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The Poinsett Club | 807 East Washington Street noon-1 p.m. lunch available for $17/members and associate members and $20/non-members FREE Candy Carson, wife of presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, will address the Upstate Republican Women’s Club 843-540-9021 | bksbourne@mail.com

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CONCERT

Outshine, every Wednesday fthrough May 11. This free tutoring program, covering all school subjects, is for CDS children ages 5-13 and their siblings. Spanish interpreters will be available as well.

331-1445 | kim.perez@cdservices.org cdservices.org/event/homework-help-cds/ CONCERT

Matt Olson Saxophone Recital

Sandbox Percussion Furman University, Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Hwy. | 8-9:30 p.m.

FREE Furman University Partners in the Arts initiative presents Sandbox Percussion 8 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Daniel Recital Hall.

Brought together by their love of chamber music and the simple joy of playing together, Sandbox Percussion captivates audiences with performances that are both visually and aurally stunning. Through compelling collaborations with composers and performers, Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum and Terry Sweeney seek to engage a wider audience for classical music.

294-2086 | sandboxpercussion.com FurmanMusic@furman.edu

Jan. 19 & 21 EDUCATION

Cook Local Swamp Rabbit Cafe & Grocery 205 Cedar Lane Road Jan. 19 - Toasty Soups and Sandwiches Jan. 21 - Cooking with Winter Spices 5:30-7:30 p.m. | $30 each Join Chef Season Stepp for a fun and handson cooking class using local and organic ingredients. Jan. 19 will focus on hearty soups and melty sandwiches. Participants will leave with three to four recipes. Jan. 21 will focus on using spices in dishes such as Spiced Chutney, Jamaican Jerk, and Mulled Cider.

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Jan. 21-Feb. 14

Furman University jazz studies and saxophone professor Dr. Matt Olson presents the music of Billy Strayhorn Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on campus. Admission is free.

294-2086 | furman.edu/academics/music FurmanMusic@furman.edu

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Jan. 21 CONCERT

Charles Tompkins Organ Recital Furman University, Daniel Memorial Chapel 3300 Poinsett Hwy. | 8-9:30 p.m. $12/adults, $10/seniors and $5/students Furman University Organist Charles Tompkins presents a recital Thursday, Jan. 21. The recital, performed on Furman’s Hartness Organ (Opus 121 of C.B. Fisk Organ Builders) will feature works for solo organ by two Baroque composers (Nicolas de Grigny and J.S. Bach) and two contemporary composers (Swiss composer Carl Rütti and Greenville’s own Robert J. Powell).

294-2086 | newspress.furman.edu FurmanMusic@furman.edu

Jan. 21-22

Jan. 20 EDUCATION

Furman University, Herring Music Pavilion, Harper Hall, Daniel Chapel and other locations 3300 Poinsett Hwy. | noon-5:30 p.m. $90 after Jan. 7

Center for Developmental Services (CDS) 29 N. Academy St. 3-4:40 p.m. | Wednesdays thru May 11 FREE CDS will host a homework help program,

294-2086 | newspress.furman.edu

Furman University, Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Hwy. | 8-9:30 p.m.

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Drawing church musicians from all over the Southeast, the conference features nationally known clinicians who present lectures and conduct workshops relating to the practice of church music. Guest clinicians for this year’s conference are Dennis Keene and William Bradley Roberts.

Furman University Hosts Church Music Conference

Furman University will host its 2016 Church Music Conference. The conference is open to the public.

Heart & Soul Rock Show

Centre Stage | 501 River St. 8-10 p.m. | Thursdays-Sundays $35, $30, $25 Centre Stage’s annual hit rock show featuring rhythm, blues & Motown hits.

“Heart & Soul” captures those great songs that brought us all together mixed with a dose of rock n’ roll.

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COMMUNITY VOICES WHERE I’VE BEEN WITH BILL KOON

Testing 1, 2, 3 Nearly all of the people we deal with day by day have been tested to verify their skills. Your electrician was tested for his license; so were your contractor and your plumber. Your lawyer and your doctor and your accountant and your architect have been tested endlessly.

Even English teachers like me have been tested without mercy. I took a daylong exam to get into graduate school; then, in order to get out, I took a 12-hour written exam and two oral exams of about three hours each.

My children have been tested high and low, far and wide. Pre-SATs, SATs, GREs and heaven knows how many exit exams to see if the entrance exams had been accurate. And a recent news story indicated that still more tests are coming for grades two through 11. Entrance exams for medical school will increase to seven and a half hours next year. Makes you want to buy stock in the company that makes No. 2 pencils.

To finance the life and family of an English teacher, I moonlighted for the Educational Testing Service. This is a huge outfit near Princeton, N.J. These guys make and grade every kind of exam you can imagine, they do it amidst security that is tighter than the CIA, and they are experts. I enjoyed Princeton and the posh circumstances, though I wasn’t thrilled to read hundreds of Advanced Placement essays and hundreds of National Teachers exams.

Now, to my point. Here we sit in the midst of the most incredible political muddles. Our politicians have led us right up to the border of the third world.

And we get screwball bills which include something sensible, like keeping the government open, or funding Homeland Security for a few more weeks, on the condition that we repeal Obamacare.

Newly minted Congress members think nothing of firing off letters to foreign powers warning them about negotiating with the U.S. Others decorate their offices in the mode of “Downton Abbey,” right to the ostrich feathers – pretty extravagant and not very patriotic, I’d say.

Another one exposed himself on his cellphone; one of our presidents defined Oval Office hanky-panky with the neuter pronoun, “It”; a senator (once governor of the Palmetto State) confused the

Appalachian Trail with Argentina (both of which start with Hawthorne’s scarlet letter “A”).

Meanwhile, our legislature is hard at work on a bill to outlaw the tattooing of pets while they dream about appropriating money for highway repairs while cutting taxes. I call this the “filling pockets while filling potholes” bill. The governor of Texas warns that the U. S. military is building bunkers under Wal-Mart.

Our native son, Lindsey Graham, briefly ran for president on the platform that he has never sent an email. Maybe he can read some of Hillary’s when we find them. I just hope Lindsey has electricity and hot water at home.

To cut through some of this nonsense, logic tells me that we should start testing politicians. I’m talking about a simple qualifying exam, something you might take if you were thinking about running for office. I’m sure the ETS could rig up a fair three-or-four hour morning session on American history. And I bet they could narrow things down after lunch with an excursion through the Constitution and a little workshop on ethics.

Aspiring politicians could thereby qualify themselves for office. Once they pass the exam, they would, in effect, become card-carrying pols just as I am a card-carrying English teacher. And they would need to present this card if they decided to register to run for office, just as I present my registration card when I go to vote.

The qualifying score would not have to be terribly high; we don’t require genius.

But we’d want a sensible baseline in general – and a few extra points for cabinet members and the presidency.

Wouldn’t you love to have cold, hard proof that our leaders were reasonably intelligent sorts and not just gifted fundraisers? I imagine that many of our D. C. and Columbia folks would pass a sensible test – and we’d be well rid of those who didn’t.

But whatever the scores, such testing would indicate that we take lawmakers seriously, at least as seriously as we take our English teachers.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Pour Taproom, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON & OFF premises consumption of BEER & WINE, at 7 West Camperdown Way, Greenville, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2016.

For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that RJ Rockers Brewing Company, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of LIQUOR, at Greenville Spartanburg International Airport, 500 Aviation Parkway A1, Greer, SC 29651.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Thomas Creek Brewery, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of LIQUOR, at Greenville Spartanburg International Airport, 500 Aviation Parkway B1, Greer, SC 29651. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2016.

For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: RFQ# 49-02/03/16, Space Needs Assessment, February 4, 2016, 3:00PM Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty.org/ Purchasing_Dept/RFP.asp or by calling (864) 467-7200.

GREENVILLE COUNTY ZONING AND PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE There will be a public hearing before County Council on Monday, February 15, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in County Council Chambers, County Square, for the purpose of hearing those persons interested in the following items: DOCKET NUMBER: CP-2016-01 APPLICANT: Greenville County Council CONTACT INFORMATION: Pstjohn@greenvillecounty.org or 864-467-7373 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT: The proposed amendment will revise the Future Land Use Map for the Greenville County Comprehensive Plan for the Scuffletown Area.

All persons interested in this proposed amendment to the Greenville County Comprehensive Plan are invited to attend this meeting.

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