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The Whole Person, the Entire Community What happens if Obamacare is repealed without a replacement?

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By Suzie Foley and Nicole Lamoureux

“The heart of a volunteer is not measured in size, but by the depth of their commitment to make a difference in the lives of others.” Nowhere is this more evident than at the Greenville Free Medical Clinic, where each and every week at least 75 volunteer physicians, dentists and nurse practitioners provide comprehensive health services to hundreds of grateful low-income uninsured patients.

Dozens of nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists and students give their time each week, too.

Thirty years ago, the idea was formed in Greenville County to replicate the growing trend of opening volunteer-based free medical clinics to provide an alternative to costly emergency room visits for non-acute health issues.

While that need certainly is still a driving force today, services have since evolved to offer an assortment of primary care, specialty medical services, a pharmacy, diagnostic testing, oral health and dental services, health education and nurse counseling and mental health counseling.

You’ll hear the term “medical home” at the clinic, where we take a patient-centered approach to address the whole

person.

Just ask any volunteer here how grateful the patients are. The single mother struggling to stay well enough with her diabetes to continue to work and provide for her children. The young man with asthma between jobs and desperately needing an inhaler to breathe. The guy who had nowhere else to go but the hospital emergency department for his heart disease medications. The older diabetic woman who worked with the health education nurse to lose nearly 50 pounds and feels stronger than she has in years.

Has passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 impacted the clinic? The answer is a resounding “no” in the number of patients who fall through the gaps in coverage and affordability that remain. Yet the answer is also an emphatic “yes” in the way that the organization must actively respond to shrinking charitable support from individuals, foundations and churches, as well as the increasing pressures on our health care.

Which leads to the next big question: How will the recent election impact the clinic?

Change was the theme of this 2016 presidential election. Some people are jubilant with the result, and others

Letter to the Editor GAS TAX MATH: While reading the Jan. 13, 2017, article, “The Road to Wellville,” I wondered what a tax increase of 2 cents per year for five years’ tax would mean to me personally. “Let’s do the math,” I thought.

I average driving 18,000 miles per year, and my 2003 pickup truck gets 18 miles to the gallon. So that means I purchase 1,000 gallons of gas annually. The first year, I would have an out-of-pocket additional cost of $20.

An increase of $40 the second year, $60 the third year, $80 the fourth year and $100 per year thereafter.

The tax increase is a fixed amount, not a percentage of the increase in the cost of gasoline, so in the five years that the increase occurs, I’ll spend an additional total of $300, which on average per year would be $60, or $5 per month during that period.

Surely I am creative enough in my spending habits to figure out a way of diverting $5 per month from another expense to willingly, cheerfully and thankfully pay for the gasoline tax increase.

We should not ask the federal government for a waiver and put in a toll. I am totally opposed to creating toll roads in our state, preferring to fund the state’s crumbling roads and bridges by all the citizens who purchase gasoline.

Lewis Young

are heartbroken. The change each side expected is either not coming or not here yet.

South Carolina’s decision not to expand Medicaid coverage has meant that households below the federal poverty level have not even been eligible to take advantage of insurance premium tax credits and subsidies provided through the health care exchange market. For Greenville County, this has left approximately 18,000 adults in the “Medicaid gap” with absolutely no options for health care coverage. These individuals are a significant portion of the nearly 4,000 patients annually who receive their health care at the Greenville Free Medical Clinic. Those who fall in the gap, as well as others who don’t qualify or can’t afford coverage, make up the over 20 million nationally who currently remain uninsured. Repealing the Affordable Care Act without a reasonable replacement may mean the number of uninsured returns to and perhaps even exceeds the over 47 million people previously without insurance.

The greatest impact is and will continue to be felt by patients who have been diagnosed with a serious chronic disease such as diabetes or heart disease. Frequent followup care, specialty doctor visits and expensive prescription medications will likely be ignored or delayed, often resulting in costly in-patient hospital stays for avoidable complications and conditions.

No matter our party affiliation or opinion about Obamacare, we can all agree that we want our children to be healthy. We can all agree that waking up with the flu is awful. We can all agree that a cancer diagnosis is terrifying. And we can all agree that no one should go bankrupt or without health care because it is too expensive or not available.

Through the years, this clinic has worked tirelessly to change and respond to health care needs locally, without federal funding, through volunteerism, collaborating with health care partners and community charitable contributions. As the country begins to move forward in a new and evolving health and political environment, there can be a positive change in our communities through our actions and our words.

Suzie Foley is the executive director of Greenville Free Medical Clinic, and Nicole Lamoureux is the CEO of the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics in Alexandria, Va.

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“Up to half of patients stop using the eye drops and up to 90 percent don’t use them as directed,” says Dr. Parisi.

Glaucoma has been called “the silent thief of sight” as symptoms do not become overt until damage is done and vision is lost. It is the second leading cause of blindness in the United States, after cataracts. The only way to detect glaucoma is through an eye exam.

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Glaucoma is caused when the network of tissue that drains fluid out of the space between the iris and cornea becomes blocked or drains too slowly. The resulting pressure can damage the optic nerve and cause vision loss or blindness.

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The L-shaped iStent opens up a channel that drains fluid from the eye and reduces pressure.

“Currently, the iStent can only be inserted during cataract surgery. Roughly 20 percent of cataract patients also have glaucoma”, says Dr. Parisi. “The size of the stent requires complex microscopes and mirrors to make sure the device is placed correctly, which adds roughly 15 minutes to cataract surgery.”

Clemson Eye, a leader in eye care innovation, is one of the first practices in the area to offer this solution to its patients.

Understanding Cataract Surgery Cataracts, a clouding of the eye’s natural lens, affect about 22 million Americans over age 40. Left untreated, cataracts can lead to blindness. They are the leading cause of vision loss in the United States.

Surgery is the only known treatment for cataracts. Two things happen during the surgery: Your clouded lens is removed and an artificial intraocular lens is implanted. The lens requires no care and simply becomes a permanent part of your eye. You don’t see or feel the lens implant.

Cataract surgery is one of the safest and most commonly performed surgeries in the U.S.1 It is a 15-minute outpatient procedure. People with cataracts can opt for basic or laser cataract surgery.

Basic Surgery Basic cataract surgery involves removing the diseased lens and implanting a monofocal lens. The monofocal intraocular lens clears your vision at a single focal point.

It cannot correct astigmatism or other refractive errors, such as near- or farsightedness. This manual, bladed surgical procedure is covered by Medicare and most health insurance plans. It is a safe, excellent option. However, if you wore eye glasses before your basic cataract surgery, you will still need them after it.

Laser Surgery Laser cataract surgery involves using a laser and computerguided software system to create incisions that are up to 10 times more precise than manual incisions. Here, patients have the option of advanced lenses that can correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.

“Through laser cataract surgery with advanced lenses, we can deliver excellent visual outcomes for our cataract patients, regardless of their age,”2 says Dr. Joseph Parisi.

A portion of the cost of laser cataract surgery and advanced lens implants is covered by Medicare and most health insurance plans. However, an additional payment is required. Clemson Eye patients have the option of 24-month, 0% payment plans.

Beverly Sweitzer is a senior living in the Upstate.

When cloudy vision started to interfere with her passion, quilting, she booked an eye exam.

After discussing all the options with Dr. Parisi, Sweitzer selected laser cataract surgery with an advanced multifocal lens implant. This lens provides a full range of vision, from near to far away.

“The surgery was easy and painless,” says Sweitzer. “And I was very happy because the next morning I could thread these tiny needles I use to sew quilt patches together. I didn’t need glasses or the magnifying glass I used to have to use. I’m just delighted that I no longer have to wear glasses!”

Eye Exams Whether or not you think you may have a cataract, an annual eye exam is recommended for all seniors to help ensure your best visual health. Call Clemson Eye today to book your appointment.

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Clemson Eye Cataract Patient, Beverly Sweitzer, now enjoys quilting without the need of eye glasses.

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Thanks to the efforts of Anne Garner and Samantha Wallace, a contingent of locals will be boarding buses for the Women’s March on Washington.

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More than 400 Greenvillians heading to D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington MELINDA YOUNG | STAFF

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Dorothy Dowe is flying to Washington, D.C., over the presidential inaugural weekend — but not to see the new president sworn in, as she had planned when she bought her plane ticket several months ago. Instead, she will be joining more than 400 women from Greenville and 1,100-plus statewide at the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21, the day after the inauguration.

“The night of the Democratic convention when Hillary Clinton was nominated, I told my daughter that I’d buy plane tickets to fly to D.C. and see her inauguration. In my mind, there was no doubt she’d be elected,” Dowe says.

Things didn’t work out the way Dowe had expected, but when she heard about the Women’s March, she decided to not waste

her nonrefundable plane fare.

“I’m certainly not going to see the inauguration, but this is a way to do something on that weekend and have a voice,” she says.

An estimated 250,000 to a half-million women are expected to show up in the nation’s capital to march on behalf of women’s rights — and all rights, says Hayne Beattie-Gray, a Greenville native who lives in Charleston and is the state organizer for the Women’s March on Washington.

“We have 22 buses leaving Greenville, Columbia, Rock Hill, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach and Charleston,” Beattie-Gray says.

Eight of those buses are starting in Greenville, and they include two buses chartered by a couple of Greenville women and three chartered by the Greenville County Democratic Party. As of Jan. 5, there were about 50 seats still available in Greenville for purchase on one of the buses that would leave late Friday, Jan. 20, and return after the

march. Riders would not need to pay for a hotel, but could sleep on the bus.

The Women’s March event also will include local marches around the world, including marches in downtown Greenville, Clemson and Columbia, also held on Jan. 21.

The Women’s March on Washington is a callback to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It’s timed as both a civil rights demonstration for women and a way to show support for a more inclusive nation at a time when many women and minorities say they felt excluded by Donald Trump’s victory.

“People are frustrated and angry at the rhetoric of the Republican candidate’s campaign and the fact that Republicans have not pushed back on this, so they want to make sure our voices are not lost,” says Kate Franch, chair of the Greenville County Democratic Party. The GCDP chartered

three buses to go to the Women’s March, and all have sold out.

The march’s organizers say the march is not an anti-Trump rally. “We want to shed light on issues that are important to us and not participate in fearmongering or demonizing any one person or party,” Beattie-Gray says. “It’s about advocating for the good, rather than raging about what’s bad.”

Some women heading to the nation’s capital say that demonstrating on Jan. 21, one day after the nation has a new president, is a way to bring new energy and forge new connections to the women’s rights movement.

“For me, I felt our country emerged from this election damaged culturally,” says Samantha Wallace, a Greenville business owner who helped to organize two independent chartered buses, each expected to be full for a total of 110 marchers.

“We were set back as a people,” Wallace says. “And I also realized that I was not

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doing enough to fight visibly, publicly for what I believe in, in terms of upholding principles of diversity, inclusion, civil discourse and, yes, civil rights.”

Greenville special education aide Anne Garner, who helped Wallace plan the bus trip, says she was reeling after the election and felt she had to do something on behalf of herself and her two daughters. The march seemed to be the right answer.

“We try to raise our two daughters in a way that they think of all people as equal, and I try to live my life that way,” Garner says. “While this is a Women’s March on Washington and is focused on women’s issues, I look at it as an equality march.”

Sons also need to see that women are treated as equals and that women marched to show their concern and make an impact, notes Amanda Scott, who will be driving to the march with a couple of friends.

Scott, who has a 7-month-old son, her first child, said she’s leaving him at home in Greenville with her husband for that weekend. But she has no regrets because she’s marching for his sake, as well as for her own.

“I want my son to know his mother found it to be important to go to the Women’s March on Washington,” Scott says. “We have to fight for the America we believe in.”

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Amanda Scott is driving with friends to the march.

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MARCHING ON • The Women’s March on Washington will meet at 10 a.m. on Jan. 21, at the intersection of Independence Avenue and Third Street SW near the U.S. Capitol. Attendees will include Gloria Steinem, Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee and Jessica Chastain.

• The Women’s March on Washington – Greenville, S.C. Rally will be held on Jan. 21 from noon–2 p.m. at the ONE City Plaza.

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A Lifetime of Good Works Greenville Women Giving co-founders awarded Order of the Silver Crescent EMILY PIETRAS | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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Last Saturday, during a ceremony at Embassy Suites Riverplace, Frances Ellison, Harriet Goldsmith and Sue Priester — cofounders of Greenville Women Giving — were awarded the Order of the Silver Crescent, one of three prestigious Governor’s Awards that “recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the life and well being of South Carolina and her people.” The award “is the state’s highest civilian award for significant contributions, leadership, volunteerism and lifelong influence within a region or community.”

“We honor you today, because your legacy and footprint in this community is important,” said Maggie Glasgow, co-chair of Greenville Women Giving, at Saturday’s ceremony.

Rep. Bruce Bannister, R-Greenville, who attended the event as Gov. Nikki Haley’s representative, said he had a chance to speak with the governor regarding the women’s accomplishments. Gov. Haley was pleased she could administer the award to the three women prior to her departure as the new

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Gov. Haley, Bannister said, noted that Ellison, Goldsmith and Priester’s work sets an important example for both women and young girls regarding the power and impact of organized action. Bannister read a passage from a letter written by Gov. Haley, which commended the women’s “wonderful inspiration to others [that] will continue to have an impact.”

Ellison, Goldsmith and Priester were “nominated individually for their work as a group,” said Bob Morris, president of the Community Foundation of Greenville. Morris, along with Dick Wilkerson and Minor Shaw, nominated the three women. The award came as a complete surprise to them.

“We knew nothing of the nomination process,” said Ellison.

In 2006, when Goldsmith had a vision of creating a women’s giving network in Greenville, she consulted Morris regarding other women with whom to collaborate. He recommended Ellison and Priester. Though the three women had never worked together previously, they successfully joined forces to establish Greenville Women Giving, which is under the umbrella of the Community Foundation.

Each year, Greenville Women Giving bestows grants to organizations in five categories: arts and culture, education, health, human services and the environment. Members are asked to initially commit to a threeyear term, and each member gives $1,000 per year.

In its first year, Greenville Women

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In 2016, Greenville Women Giving celebrated its 10th anniversary and awarded a record sum of $577,250 in grants to 12 organizations, including Greenville Little Theatre, Meyer Center for Special Children, TreesGreenville, YMCA: LiveWell Greenville and the City of Greenville Police Department, among others. In total, the organization has given $4.2 million in grants.

Last year also brought a milestone in membership. “For organizations like ours, 500 seems to be kind of a magic number,” said Priester. “Very few get over that, so we challenged ourselves in our 10th year — let’s see if we can do it. And we did. We got 525.

So just the fact that what we’re trying to do resonated with so many women is the biggest accomplishment.”

Morris noted that while Ellison, Goldsmith and Priester have individually “been

“These women are so individually accomplished that we could recognize just what they do individually, but they want the membership to be recognized,” said Morris on Saturday.

Priester said a long-term goal for Greenville Women Giving is “to develop and bring on leadership that will keep the organization going actively and strongly.”

“I think a realization that we are coming to is that this organization will probably outlast us, and that’s a different way of thinking about it,” said Ellison. “You’re shoring up a community institution that we hope is going to be here for generations.”

The women also hope to continue to build on the progress of the organization’s education committee, which Priester said is integral in creating “informed philanthropists.”

Every year, there is at least one informational session in each of the five grant-making areas, and they are open to the public. “It gives people who are working on a particular need in the community the opportunity to tell their story to a group of women who are interested,” said Ellison, regarding the im-

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outstanding in lots of different things,” the amount of growth that Greenville Women Giving has seen in a 10-year period, both in terms of membership and the amount of money given, is “remarkable.”

“It wasn’t a one-time thing,” said Morris, regarding the organization’s work. “It’ll continue. It’s very possible this will be the most significant philanthropic effort in the history of Greenville.”

Asked how receiving the Order of the Silver Crescent will inspire them going forward, Goldsmith said, “We don’t focus on ourselves. We focus on the organization. I think, if anything, it’ll just make us want to do a better job of what it is we’re already doing.”

portance of the education sessions.

The women credit the organization’s long-term success to job sharing, collaboration and democratic decision-making. They say their involvement in Greenville Women Giving has been among their most meaningful, enjoyable and personally satisfying life experiences.

“If you really care about something a lot, then you love to be around people who also care about it,” said Goldsmith. “And what’s what we’ve assembled — a huge group of women who care about all phases of the community.”

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Welcome to the Village

The water tower is made from locally recycled materials and represents the life of the community.

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After months of designing and working with the City of Greenville and 200-300 hours of cutting, welding and grinding, local blacksmith Ryan Calloway’s public sculpture marking the road to the Village of West Greenville was unveiled during the grand opening of the Spinx at the corner of Easley Bridge Road and Pendleton Street.

The structure stands 12 feet tall on top of a 4-foot-tall brick base, weighing nearly a ton — a crane was needed to maneuver it. Both recycled materials from a local steel yard and new metals were used to form the water tower, a structure Calloway has appreciated since he was a young boy. In the sculpture, the water tower represents the life of the community, while the gear represents the hard work done by those within the community.

“Water is essential to any community, and I think the many water towers in Greenville are quite beautiful, especially from the [Cedar Lane Road] bridge,” Calloway says.

Calloway’s interest in the culture of mill towns was inspired by his grandfather, who worked nearby at Judson Mill, and later settled in a mill village in Greenwood.

The new sculpture is specifically modeled after the water tower at Monaghan Mill, but Callaway says his other favorites in the area are Brandon Mill, the towers in the Dunean area and Taylors Mill.

Community Journals, the parent company of Greenville Journal, is located in the Village.

The gear represents the hard work done by those within the Village of West Greenvile community.

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Crews used controlled burns to prevent the fire from spreading. According to the Forest Service, controlled burns reduce the chance of a wildfire by removing understory brush that can go up in flames during drought.

In December, the S.C. Drought Response Committee updated drought statuses for 11 counties. Upstate counties, including Anderson, Oconee and Pickens, remained in severe drought status. The current drought conditions are the worst in the Upstate since 2012, according to Hope Mizzell, a climatologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.

During the controlled burns, specialists plan to closely monitor wind, temperature and humidity, and reschedule the burns if the conditions could enhance the fire or spread smoke to nearby cities, according to Dawson. Before igniting the burns, crews plan to construct firebreaks that ensure the fire doesn’t leave the designated areas.

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State plans controlled burns at Upstate parks to prevent wildfires The Beautiful Places Alliance, a Columbia-based nonprofit, has been awarded $35,000 from the Duke Energy Foundation to help the S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism conduct controlled burns at several state parks in the Upstate.

“These parks have seen 75 years of fire suppression with years of accumulated combustible fuels,” said Duane Parrish, director of the state Parks Department. “Controlled burns help us remain committed to the stewardship of our natural communities and the service we provide to park visitors.”

The burns will be conducted sometime this winter or early spring by state and federal fire crews, according to Dawn Dawson, director of corporate communications for the Parks Department.

Controlled burns will be conducted on 75 acres at Table Rock State Park, 300 acres at Oconee State Park, 40 acres at Devil’s Fork State Park and 22 acres at Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site.

“The recent fires across the Western Carolinas showed just how important it is to reduce the fuels that can feed these dangerous, unplanned events. Reintroducing fire back to Upstate parks will help restore the land to a more natural, sustainable and predictable environment,” said Linda Hannon, government and community relations manager for Duke Energy.

Since October, drought has caused more than 150,000 acres to burn throughout the Appalachians, according to the U.S. Forest Service. In December, after months of firefights, South Carolina’s Forestry Commission announced that fire crews had finally contained the Pinnacle Mountain fire, which burned more than 10,000 acres across Pickens County.

The controlled burns should mimic natural wildfires, which means trails and roads in or around the parks could be closed. Any closures will be temporary and clearly posted for the public. However, because the scheduling of controlled burns is dependent on weather conditions, advance notice will only be provided to local fire and law enforcement officials.

Once the burns are completed, the affected areas will look barren. However, the areas should recover within a few days or weeks as nutrients from the dead trees and brush will act as fertilizer, according to Dawson.

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Table Rock Reservoir reopens after months of testing Greenville Water System has reopened its Table Rock Reservoir, which provides more than 2 million gallons of drinking water per month to Greenville County residents.

Company officials decided to resume water withdrawal from the reservoir after “numerous samples revealed no change in the water quality following the Pinnacle Mountain fire,” according to a press release.

“While we anticipated these sampling results, we are very pleased to see them in black and white. These results validate that we are doing everything correctly in our watershed, and we will continue to provide quality water and a sustainable future for our customers,” Greenville Water CEO David Bereskin said.

On Nov. 18, the company stopped using water from the reservoir due to a large-scale burnout operation on Nov. 17 that covered about 2,000 acres, from Back Park Road to South Saluda Road and north to Table Rock Reservoir, according to Greenville Water Chief Operating Officer Rebecca West. The burnout was NEWS IN BRIEF continued on PAGE 12

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conducted to stop the Pinnacle Mountain fire from spreading farther in Greenville Water’s Table Rock Watershed.

The fire, which began in early November and was finally contained last month, burned 10,645 acres in Pickens County and cost $4.8 million.

After the burnout operation, Greenville Water withdrew and distributed drinking water from its North Saluda Reservoir and Lake Keowee and worked with Clemson University to test water samples from its Table Rock Reservoir for increased amounts of total organic carbon, a measure of the carbon contained within soil organic matter. – Andrew Moore

ZOO

Critically endangered monkey born at the Greenville Zoo The Greenville Zoo is celebrating its newest resident – a baby siamang monkey.

Staff discovered the newborn monkey during preparations for Winter Storm Helena, according to a news release. The new monkey is the second baby of Ella and Oscar.

In March, the two siamang monkeys welcomed their first baby, George. According to the release, the recent birth marks a new era for siamang

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breeding at the zoo. Siamang monkeys, which are typically found in Asia, are critically endangered due to habitat destruction from logging and agriculture.

Currently, there are more than 500 affordable housing units in Greenville, with 869 new units currently under construction or in the planning stages.

The cost: $186 million.

“This is another important birth for the Greenville Zoo and the Gibbon Species Survival Plan, but what will be even more exciting for our guests is watching these two youngsters growing up together,” Greenville Zoo’s administrator Jeff Bullock said.

Ella, the female, came to the Greenville Zoo from the Lee Richardson Zoo in Kansas in 2014. Oscar, the male, was born and raised at the Greenville Zoo. The two siamang monkeys were paired for breeding through the Gibbons Species Survival Plan, which makes recommendations and develops long-term research and management strategies for the species.

Bullock said the family of monkeys is doing well and that staff is closely monitoring them. The zoo plans to determine the new monkey’s gender over the next few weeks, allowing the family time to bond.

Public Safety

The Beattie House most recently served as the home of the Greenville Woman’s Club. When the club disbanded in 2014, the property reverted to the city. A deal with Black Knight International, the umbrella corporation for golf legend Gary Player’s business ventures, to buy the property and convert the house into an office fell through.

Nancy Whitworth, Greenville’s deputy city manager, said the new buyers plan to renovate the house and live there.

“Ella and Oscar have proven themselves to be great parents, and now we get to see what kind of big brother George will be,” Bullock said. – Andrew Moore

The Beattie House, which has a two-storied central portion and one-story flanking wings on either side, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974. It has been saved twice before.

HISTORIC HOME

Plans to extend Church Street from “the super highway” Wade Hampton Boulevard to Mills Avenue came about during World War II, and the Beattie House was in the way. When word of the house’s demolition surfaced in 1946, members of women’s organizations persuaded the city to buy the house for $92,500. The house was moved and leased to the women’s clubs for $1 per year to serve as a meeting place. The house was moved a second time in 1983 to make room for downtown high-rise office buildings and a parking garage. – Cindy Landrum

Historic Beattie House will return to private residence after sale Greenville’s historic Beattie House will once again become a private residence.

Greenville City Council has given preliminary approval to sell the antebellum home built by Greenville businessman Fountain Fox Beattie in 1834 for $600,000 to Ryan and Jori Magg. Final approval is expected on Jan. 23.

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Council gave final approval to using $2 million of the city’s fund balance to increase the amount of affordable housing in the city. As the Journal previously reported, a consultant hired by the city recommended the city combine $2 million of its money with $1 million from philanthropic, corporate and charitable sources to create a housing trust fund that would address affordable housing in the city.

According to a study completed by Alexandria, Va.-based urban planning and neighborhood development consulting firm CZB LLC, the city has a shortage of more than 2,500 affordable housing units. One problem the study found: Since 2000, the number and percentage of Greenville renters with incomes below $20,000 (those who can afford rents of up to $500 per month) and incomes between $20,000 and $24,999 (those who can afford rents closer to $650 per month) has held steady. But the number of rentals going for $650 or less has declined.

The city plans to use $1.5 million of the money to assist households in renting upgraded units or improving homes they currently own. The other $1.5 million would be used to acquire or improve up to 30 acres of vacant parcels for future mixed-income

Council has approved changing the name of the Commission on Fire and Police Practices to better reflect the board’s mission. The new name will be the Public Safety Citizen Review Board. Currently, the board receives citizen complaints about the police and fire departments in addition to addressing employment grievances from the uniformed personnel of the two departments.

The board will also increase from five members to seven.

Citizen review boards became an issue last July after local protests were held after the fatal shootings of black men by white police officers across the nation, including the high-profile shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston.

Greenville’s Commission on Fire and Police Practices dated back to the Civil Service Commission.

Protestors said the lack of complaints received by the commission over the years indicated it wasn’t an effective means of redress.

Zoo The Greenville Zoo will use a $10,000 grant from Nature Play Begins at Your Zoo and Aquarium, a collaboration between the Associations of Zoos and Aquariums and the Walt Disney Company, to establish dedicated areas to connect people with nature within and outside zoo boundaries. The zoo’s Nature Play Club will expand and sponsor quarterly, instructor-led nature hikes around Greenville.

STEAM Fest The city’s Public Information and Events staff will manage, develop and operate the 2017 IMAGINE Upstate STEAM Fest. Clemson University, which owns and operates the annual event, will pay the city $20,000 to do so.

Firefighters Greenville has received a $1.2 million SAFER (Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response) grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency to pay the salaries of 12 new firefighters for two years.

The grant, which does not require any matching funds from the city, will help with staffing needs for the city’s new fire station on Verdae Boulevard. The station is expected to open in early February.

While the new station will serve the Woodruff Road, Verdae Boulevard and CU-ICAR corridor, it will impact city residents who do not live, work and shop there. Currently, the city’s Pleasantburg station is the only fire station on the Eastside, and it falls well short of the national standard response times, which dictate firefighters be on the scene in four minutes or less 90 percent of the time.

QuikTrip City Council gave initial approval to the annexation of 2.974 acres at Fairforest Way and Laurens Road where QuikTrip Corp. plans to build a gas station and convenience store. The land will be zoned C-3, Regional Commercial. If QuikTrip does not close on the land within a year of the final reading of the ordinance, the annexation will not take place. – Cindy Landrum

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Dwight Rice was in jail when a medical emergency sent him to the hospital.

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Words by Melinda Young | Photos by Will Crooks With the help of AccessHealth Spartanburg, Dwight Rice was connected to health care providers and services following his incarceration.

It was the lowest ebb of Dwight Rice’s life when he landed in jail after making “some bad decisions.”

While incarcerated at the Spartanburg County Detention Center, Rice experienced extreme pain and was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with acute appendicitis and a hernia. An emergency operation saved his life. A week later, he returned to the hospital for another operation to remove an intestinal blockage.

Rice, age 45, admits that he might never have made it to the hospital if he hadn’t been

incarcerated. Every day he counts his blessings that he hadn’t ended up dead on the streets from a ruptured appendix.

But that was only the first blessing. The second one came after his operations when a case manager from AccessHealth Spartanburg met him in jail and offered to help him stay healthy when he returned home. AccessHealth is a privately funded nonprofit community-based group that connects uninsured and poor patients with doctors, medications and health care services at no charge.

“I was like, ‘Okay, what’s the catch?’ and they said, ‘There’s no catch. This is what we’re here for,’” Rice recalls.

For the past few years, Spartanburg Regional Health System (SRHS) and AccessHealth have worked with the local detention center to target inmates with medical and behavioral health problems.

The goal is to reduce hospital emergency room visits and reduce recidivism. And early data suggest it’s working.

“Some co-workers tell me they’re not seeing as many calls from the detention center,”

says Schenell Hawkins, a discharge planner with case management services at SRHS. Also, staff noticed fewer hospital admissions among inmates, because those who are chronically ill are receiving health care in the community with AccessHealth’s help, Hawkins says.

“We’ve seen a 20 percent to 40 percent reduction in emergency room utilization,” says Carey Rothschild, director of AccessHealth Spartanburg.

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insured and chronically ill people that AccessHealth helps. But they’re an important population, because keeping inmates healthy after they leave the local jail can keep them from being repeat offenders, says Neal Urch, who, until the end of 2016, was director of jail operations at the Spartanburg County Detention Center.

“It’s expensive to incarcerate someone.

The state average is $50 per person per day in jail,” Urch says. “I do sympathize with the victims of crimes, but a lot of folks are cycling through jails for minor offenses like trespassing, shoplifting — misdemeanor

crimes with a 30-day or maximum 90-day sentence.”

Urch made it a goal to reduce Spartanburg’s jail population, saving taxpayers money and giving minor offenders like Rice a second chance at life. He’s done this by encouraging collaborations with community groups that can help with medical and mental health care, education and job training and other issues that prevent them from being effective members of society.

One result is a reduction in the detention center’s daily census from 815 on average in FY12 to 769 inmates on average in FY16.

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Those 46 fewer inmates produced a savings of about $1.4 million over two years, Urch says.

How does health care impact jail recidivism? Urch offers this example: “We had a lady who in less than two years had been in jail 16 times on 34 different charges, including public disorderly conduct, shoplifting, trespassing and other minor offenses.”

To a layperson, the woman “was crazy.”

Her last arrest was for spitting on a magistrate who was there for her bond. After that incident, she was diagnosed with a mental illness and given medication. Since she left

the jail more than a year ago, she has not returned and has even gotten a job as a hotel housecleaner, Urch says.

Providing emergency medical care to inmates like that woman is very expensive. In applying for a grant, Urch and AccessHealth studied the financial cost of just 20 people who were frequent fliers in both the county jail and the emergency room. Their total cost to taxpayers was about $2 million.

Rice’s case also illustrates how AccessHealth’s case management services can help reduce both jail recidivism and HEALTHY continued on PAGE 16

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emergency room visits.

After Rice’s surgeries, a case manager helped Rice fill out forms to obtain Medicaid and helped him find treatment for sleep apnea and blood clots in his lungs. When he was released from the detention center, “They went above and beyond their duties,” Rice says. “They connected me with people.”

They taught Rice how to organize

his resume and even contacted his old high school in New York to get a copy of his diploma.

“They basically became my family,” Rice says. “They really held my hands going through a lot of things I didn’t understand.”

The extra support encouraged Rice to lose weight and get healthier. He started going to a gym, even referring 10 other people to the gym and earning a free year’s membership. He met with a nutritionist and

began to pay attention to food labels and was motivated to be more health conscious.

Once his health improved, Rice focused on finding a job, and in 2016 — three years after his incarceration — he landed the best job he’s ever had. He’s a forklift operator and material handler for Lear, an automotive industry manufacturing plant. He has health insurance, a good salary and benefits. He also hasn’t had to visit the hospital since he had the blood clots removed.

And Rice is giving back to the community that helped him. He volunteers at several area agencies, including a homeless shelter, and regularly joins a team of people who visit the detention center to motivate inmates to seek help and get their lives together.

“I tell them that we have this program that won’t cost them anything but their time,” Rice says.

“When I go back and see guys in the position I used to be in, I know that I could be right back there, so returning as a guest to the detention center keeps it fresh in my face,” Rice says. “I have to keep moving forward no matter what.”

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College will host Education Day on Jan. 26

Northside Development Group wins affordable housing grant competition

Area school children from across Spartanburg and Cherokee counties are welcomed to the Fifth Annual “Growing Up Gold: Education Day” on Jan. 26 in conjunction with the Wofford women’s basketball game against Chattanooga. Tip-off is scheduled for 11 a.m. inside the Benjamin Johnson Arena.

The goal of “Growing Up Gold: Education Day” is to excite local area children about college at an early age and provide an engaging, positive atmosphere to reinforce the learning taking place at their school. The free event is targeted at children in third through fifth grades.

As this is the final season of Wofford basketball competition inside the Benjamin Johnson Arena, four school children will receive the special honor of removing the number “8” from the #BenJoFarewell countdown wall at halftime. This will be the final “Education Day” to be held in the BenJo Arena, as the Wofford basketball programs move into Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium for the 2017-18 season.

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U.S. News ranks College of Education among Top 10 U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Clemson University College of Education among the best online education programs in the nation in 2017. The college’s online education program ranks 10th in a highly competitive list of Master of Arts degree-granting institutions.

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Northside Development Group was recently awarded a $100,000 affordable housing grant through the TD Charitable Foundation for Housing for Everyone grant competition.

The grant will provide partial funding to develop a Phase One development project, a mixedincome, mixed-use community in the Northside of Spartanburg as part of the Northside Initiative.

The proposed Phase One development is a 6.25-acre site and will consist of approximately 100 multifamily mixed-income rental units, a 20,000-square-foot health care facility and 5,000 square feet of business incubator and retail space. The goal of the project is to provide affordable housing for a demographic in the Northside of Spartanburg where a large majority of all households are low-to-moderate income. As a part of the larger Northside Initiative, this development will promote further growth in the Northside of Spartanburg, providing residents a higher quality place to live, work and gather, while attracting new residents to fill the high vacancy rate in the Northside.

AWARD

United Way of the Piedmont honors Major Neal Urch United Way of the Piedmont honored Behavioral Health Taskforce founding member Major Neal Urch with the first ever Champion of the Behavioral Health Taskforce Award for his years of work on the Taskforce.

Open houses and campus tours will be held Jan. 27, Feb. 10 and March 3 at 9 a.m. for parents of students age 12 months through 12th grade. Visitors will have an opportunity to meet the superintendent and principals and ask questions about various programs. Call 234-7575 for more information.

Urch has more than two decades of experience in law enforcement, starting in 1987 in the Sheriff ’s Office Uniform Patrol. In 2012, Urch was appointed the jail director of the Spartanburg County Detention Center. That same year, Urch joined a small group of individuals, spearheaded by the United Way of the Piedmont, concerned with behavioral health issues in Spartanburg County. From this group was born the United Way of the Piedmont’s Behavioral Health Taskforce in May 2012.

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Last Saturday, thousands of fans lined the streets in downtown Clemson to celebrate the football team’s national championship win over the Alabama Crimson Tide. At the parade’s conclusion, a crowd of nearly 65,000 filled Death Valley to hear Coach Dabo Swinney and the Tigers, including Deshaun Watson and Ben Boulware, thank fans for their support and reflect on their experience at Clemson.

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Swamp Rabbit Café & Grocery will soon introduce Swamp Pizza, serving 12-inch pies made from strictly local ingredients.

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Great Leap Swamp Rabbit Café launches wood-fired pizza restaurant ARIEL TURNER | STAFF WRITER

aturner@communityjournals.com Swamp Pizza is a name you’ll likely start hearing more about in the coming weeks as the new venture from Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery (205 Cedar Lane Road) opens inside the shipping container to the left of the building.

The concept is simple: wood-fired 12-inch pizzas made from strictly local ingredients and local beer, soda and kombucha on tap, consumed outside on the patio.

“I think everyone loves pizza,” says Mary Walsh, coowner. “There’s a variety of different options and so many different ways to use local ingredients.”

Swamp Pizza will open as soon as they have enough staff to run it, Walsh says, adding that they are otherwise ready. (Hint: They’re hiring.)

The starting menu will be simple: Classic Margherita,

$12, (house-made tomato sauce, Tyger River Smart Farm fresh basil, Blue Ridge Creamery mozzarella); Sweet Potato Kale, $15, (house-made white parmesan sauce, Bioway Farm organic sweet potato, organic red onion, Hickory Nut Gap bacon, Crescent Farm organic kale, Happy Cow Creamery asiago); Classic Pepperoni, $12, (house-made tomato sauce, Blue Ridge Creamery mozzarella, Ashe County cheddar, Hickory Nut Gap pepperoni); Swamp Veggie, $15, (house-made tomato sauce, Crescent Farm organic kale, Crescent Farm organic carrots, portobello mushrooms, Cottle Farm organic cabbage, Blue Ridge Creamery mozzarella); Kale and Sausage Breakfast Pizza, $15, (house-made white parmesan sauce, Bethel Trails Farm sausage, Crescent Farm organic kale, Ashe County cheddar, two local farm eggs); and Kale and Pepita Salad, $6, (Crescent Farm organic kale, roasted Bioway Farm organic sweet potato and toasted organic pepitas, dressed in organic lemon and olive oil).

House-made gluten-free crust is available for $1 extra.

Walsh says the plans for adding pizza to the café have been in the works for a few years. Her love of pizza stems from her years in New York, while her business partner, Jacqueline Oliver, has Italian roots, so it seemed a natural addition to Swamp Rabbit.

After a few years of putting off the plans, it finally made sense this year in part because Blue Ridge Cream-

ery in Travelers Rest started producing mozzarella, giving Swamp Rabbit the ability to make pies with completely local ingredients.

After going through most of the planning, Walsh says they learned through the permit process that no custom oven could be made in Greenville County, so they had to look elsewhere. They chose a California Mugnaini woodfired oven made of concrete, block and other masonry elements that chef Judi Shetler watched being made while she was onsite for training.

The crust is made from Carolina ground flour milled in North Carolina. Walsh says it took months to get the crust right, because freshly milled flour is a difficult medium to work with. Each week during staff meeting, they’d try the newest version chef Shetler created. The chosen crust requires a starter and a two-day rise and is crispy from the baking process, but not ultra thin.

Walsh says once Swamp Pizza is open and the planned butchery, announced in December, is completed, she and Oliver don’t have any other projects in the works, but that might not mean anything.

“We both swore no more projects,” Walsh says. “But we are really bad at saying no to good ideas.”

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Print exhibit opens at Centre Stage Printmaker Sunny Mullarkey McGowan’s first solo show at Centre Stage, 501 River St., opened Jan. 13 and runs through Feb. 27. McGowan is known locally for her black-and-white prints of natural elements and recently for her work on the large mural on the side of The Anchorage restaurant in the Village of West Greenville. The exhibit is sponsored by the Metropolitan Arts Council. Visit centrestage.org for more information.

SUPPORTING ROLES The family that performs in plays together, stays together

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Sam, Suzanne and Allen McCalla all star in the upcoming four-day run of Sam Shepard’s “True West” at the Greenville Little Theatre.

On any given weeknight, a parade of minivans and SUVs pulls through the S.C. Children’s Theatre parking lot, dropping off children of all ages for acting classes or play rehearsals. But rather than pulling back out on to Augusta Road, many from the caravan park in the adjacent gravel lot, and the drivers head into the building for the evening.

Some parents are there to wait it out; many, however, are just as involved as their children as not just backstage support, which is fairly common for any production involving young children, but as actors and actresses themselves.

“Being involved in theater, there are so many positives,” says Neil Shurley, who plays Lurvy in SCCT’s upcoming production of “Charlotte’s Web” with his son Shaw, 10, cast as Templeton. “It affects the entire family. Everyone has to be on board and OK with it.”

Shurley hits on a point that many of the stage parents echo: In order for their children to be involved in theater on a regular, often nightly, basis, and to not cause too much disruption to the family dynamic, they have to also be involved. Most often, these parents start out building sets, creating costumes and serving as stagehands during the productions. But then they eventually get pulled, sometimes dragged, into auditioning for a main stage production.

Such was the case for Gray and Stacey Kitchens, parents of three girls (Ava, 13, Kate, 9, and Lila, 6) in “Charlotte’s Web.” “We made our parents audition,” says Kate, who plays Fern.

“In that moment, it seemed like a good idea,” says Stacey, a SCCT board member who has volunteered backstage for productions her children were in.

Director Betsey Bisson says that most often, it’s the children who convince their parents to get involved and who also help coach them on their lines at home. It’s also why she offers free adult acting classes at SCCT, so parents or other adults in the community can get up to speed.

Neil Shurley says for him, acting alongside his son is a way for him to be involved in local theater without being away from his family every night of the week.

Gray Kitchens, a local dentist, had never been on stage in any capacity other than to build sets, yet after auditioning on a whim, found himself cast as Fern’s father opposite his wife, who play Fern’s mother.

He says after years of dropping the girls off for rehearsal and classes, he is enjoying participating in what he’s seen his children do for many years.

Todd Hamilton and his daughter Kaitlyn, 17, have capitalized on the commute from Anderson to Greenville for rehearsals.

“I love the car rides with my dad,” Kaitlyn says, who has a twin sister who is completely uninterested in theater. “We now have this common ground. I would have never known how alike we are if we didn’t have this time together.”

Fast forward a decade or two, and these families could find themselves in a similar situation to the McCallas at the Greenville Little Theatre.

Allen and Suzanne McCalla have run the theater since 1993, and their son Sam, 28, grew up running around during rehearsals and often being cast in productions alongside his parents. For them, it was a necessity for the whole family to be involved when Sam was young, because his parents were working, but his hobbyist involvement has grown into a profession. Today, he heads up

the GLT’s traveling performance company.

“My parents never pushed me into it, but I was very drawn to theater,” Sam says.

Suzanne says when Sam informed them he intended to go into acting professionally, she was worried.

“It’s a very difficult business to make a living in,” she says. “You can be incredibly gifted and still not make a go of it. You’re not going to be a wealthy person.”

All three McCallas star in the upcoming four-day run of Sam Shepard’s “True West” at GLT, with Suzanne playing Sam’s mother on stage. And this time, none of them are directing, which is not usually the case.

“People often ask us, how can you stand to live together and work together?” Suzanne says. “It’s such a big place, we sometimes don’t see each other at all. It’s awesome to be in a play together as just actors.”

“Charlotte’s Web”

by S.C. Children’s Theatre When: Jan. 27–Feb. 5; various times Where: Peace Center Gunter Theatre Tickets: $18–27 Info: 467-3000, scchildrenstheatre.org

“True West” by Studio 444 When: Jan. 26–28, 8 p.m.; Jan. 29, 3 p.m.

Where: Greenville Little Theatre Tickets: $15 Info: greenvillelittletheatre.org; Strong language. Recommended for ages 16 and older.

Through Our Eyes Project opened recently in the Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville, 200 Main St. Spearheaded by Jason Williamson, the project showcases images captured on disposable cameras by homeless people in the area.

The images were narrowed down to 20 finalists for the gallery show. Their work will be on display during the month of January. Visit throughoureyesproject. com for more information about the project and mission.

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Warehouse Theatre Forum Series continues The Warehouse Theatre Forum Series continues Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m., with a discussion of themes from the next main stage show “Important Hats of the Twentieth Century.” All forums are free and open to the public. Visit warehousetheatre.com for more information.

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Local auteur hosts screenacting workshop Local writer-director-actor Chris White is holding an interactive, practical class for screen actors and production staff members Jan. 22 and 29, 3-6 p.m. at Centre Stage’s rehearsal space, 207 Eisenhower Drive. Along with learning new skills, attendees will have a chance to network with other actors. The cost is $50 for the two three-hour sessions.

Visit chriswhitehq.com to purchase tickets.

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Amelia Taylor Hall of Horrible Girl & The Hot Mess remembers feeling like something wasn’t right. She was sitting in her freshman high school biology class, learning about the physical characteristics of males and females, and knowing that somehow, what she was hearing didn’t include her.

“You’re taught that physical traits determine who you are exclusively,” she says. “And I started around puberty to experience that really distinct sense of dysphoria, though I didn’t know that word at the time. I remember thinking, ‘This doesn’t feel right. There’s something wrong here.’”

It was that uneasiness that would fuel much of the next five or six years for Hall, who was born under another name with all the physical characteristics of a male. That’s how long it took Hall to identify herself as transgender, even if at that time, there wasn’t much information about the way she felt.

“I’d been experiencing these feelings for the majority of my life, but I didn’t have the vocabulary to describe them,” she says.

“There wasn’t anything in the media or anything else. I hid myself.

I was in a really dark place. Then I had this epiphany in the middle of a panic attack that I couldn’t pretend to be someone I wasn’t. I’m not the way people think I am.”

Will Crooks / staff That’s when, at 21, Amelia Taylor Hall was truly born. “At Proceeds from Benderama 2K17, a six-band show organized by will go to Gender Benders, a local support organization for around the same time I was going Hall, transgender youth. through this, Laura Jane Grace [born Thomas James Gabel] from Against in front of a bunch of people, then I’m going Me! came out very publicly in ‘Rolling Stone’ to be myself when I do it,” she says. “Music about her transition,” Hall says. “And they saved my life. It gives a voice to me and lets were a huge band. The things Laura de- me know that I was not alone. It was a way scribed, I experienced verbatim. Now I had for me to express myself.”

It’s in that spirit, and in the aftermath of an a punk rock role model. To see someone like that was so important to me. It helped me to election that left her feeling afraid for those like her, that Hall organized a benefit called say, ‘I’m Amelia. Hi. Nice to meet you.’”

That love of music sustained Hall through Benderama 2K17, a six-band show that feaher turbulent pre-transition years. In fact, tures Hall’s own gritty cowpunk band Horher first show as a singer/guitarist was only rible Girl & The Hot Mess, the dream-pop two weeks before she began her transition.

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Hall says that thanks to support from organizations like Gender Benders and her family and friends, she’s as happy as she’s ever been, and she made sure that Benderama 2K17 was an all-ages show so that young people going through what she went through can find their own support. “The fact is that we have a music community that supports us and stands up for us,” she says. “You can play rock and roll. You can make art. You can work in a bank. You can do whatever you want. You don’t have to have a life less than anyone else’s because of who you are.”

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Kennie Norris joins BlackStream Christie’s International Real Estate BlackStream | Christie’s International Real Estate is pleased to announce that Kennie Norris has joined the company’s Greenville office.

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She and her husband Danny have 3 daughters and 4 amazing grandchildren. Kennie worked for a local insurance company for over 20 years before the company relocated out of state. Her background there was in facilities, administration and project management. Since beginning her real estate career in 2014, she has quickly evolved into a multi-million Norris dollar producing agent. Kennie prides herself in getting to know her clients on a personal level. She strives to provides exceptional customer service, to get the results her clients expect, and makes the process simple and easy. She uses her negotiating, marketing and people skills to help her clients sell homes as quickly as possible. Kennie will focus on the needs and goals of her clients and will work with their best interest in mind.

Angela Reid Joins Coldwell Banker Caine in Greenville Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Angela Reid as a residential sales agent to its Greenville office. Angela joins Coldwell Banker Caine after spending the past 16 years raising her two children, while also maintaining a small catering business. She moved to Greenville in 2004 after living in Colorado, where she was an assistant to a top producing REALTORÒ. She attended Georgia Southern University and will be joining her mother in the business, Karen Mascaro, who has been with Coldwell Banker Caine for over 17 years.

Reid Angela has always spent free moments volunteering at her childrens’ schools, holding leadership positions on the PTA and numerous fundraising efforts. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, walking, entertaining, and watching her kids play sports.

She has been married to her husband, Kevin, for over 17 years.

“We are always thrilled when a family member of another talented agent joins our team,” said Stephen Edgerton, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker Caine. “Angela’s commitment to her family and empathetic spirit will be a strong addition to our Caine Family and her clients.”

The Marchant Company Recognizes Agents For Excellent Performance As the Upstate’s “Signature Real Estate Agency,” The Marchant Company is a small boutique business of just 30 agents that is consistently a top performer in Greenville. The March- Matheny Rapp McCrory & Turpin ant Company is proud to recognize the following REALTORS® for outstanding performance in December 2016: Congratulated by Seabrook Marchant, broker-in-charge, agents honored included: Bo Matheny – Top Volume Listing Leader of the Month Joan Rapp – Top Volume Sales Leader of the Month Nancy McCrory & Karen Turpin –Team of the Month

Monica McKiernan Joins Coldwell Banker Caine in Greenville Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Monica McKiernan as a residential sales agent to its Greenville office. Monica joins Coldwell Banker Caine with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the College of Charleston and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Converse College.

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Front-door deco from your own backyard It all started when I convinced the Mister to paint our front door a beautiful soft blue-green. The Mister had planted lots of hydrangeas, ferns and boxwoods at my request, and I imagined guests walking up to our house and being met by billowy hydrangeas, airy ferns and stately boxwoods. We needed a door that would harmonize with those beautiful blue and green tones.

with blue-green pumpkins and ghost gourds. Christmas red ribbon, which I love, somehow seems a little garish against the pale blue-green shade, so I decorated with lemons and limes and a dark green velvet ribbon at holiday time. For Valentine’s Day, once again, red was out. I decided I needed a heart-shaped boxwood wreath. I searched online. Hmm, $15-$45, plus shipping.

Now I love our aqua-colored door, but I second-guess myself whenever I try to do any holiday decorations outside. Bright orange pumpkins need to be tempered

I scanned Pinterest for some DIY tips, and one morning while our dog was out for her — ahem — constitutional, it occurred to me that I had more than enough boxwood only

steps away. So, without further ado, here are my directions for making a heart-shaped boxwood wreath for zero dollars in less than an hour.

By day, Paula Angermeier is the head of communications for the Greenville County Museum of Art. By night, she writes about the art of living at TownandCountryHouse.com.

Heart-Shaped Boxwood Wreath You’ll need:

• A wire coat hanger

• Boxwood — I used two very full handfuls of boxwood trimmings 8 to 12 inches in length

• Floral wire • Wire snippers

Instructions First, shape your coat hanger into a heart. To do this, you’ll need to untwist the wire at the hook part of the hanger, bend the ends toward each other and re-twist back together. This takes a little bit of hand strength, so you might want to use pliers.

Creating a perfect heart shape isn’t necessary, because the boxwood will cover the frame.

Fresh boxwood will also create its own irregularities, which suits me fine.

Next, begin wiring your longest boxwood clippings to the frame. Start at the bottom point of the heart with the base of the clippings. Don’t worry about errant sprigs; they can be trimmed later, if you like. After you’ve covered the frame with longer stems of boxwood, take the floral wire and make a loop at the top center point of the heart, so it will be easy to hang.

Now it’s time to add shorter clippings to fill out the wreath. I cut my remaining boxwood into smaller 6-inch pieces, discarding any woody or forked stems.

Gather the smaller trimmings into groups of three or four and wire them to the wreath frame, starting at the bottom point of the heart and working your way on the left hand side to the center point of the top of the heart. Then repeat the process on the right hand side.

My wreath initially looked a bit unruly, and I was afraid it might not “read” as a heart from the street, so I trimmed some of the more raucous stems. I also flipped the wreath over and trimmed the wires, so they wouldn’t scratch the door.

And, truly, less than an hour after I started, this boxwood wreath was hung on our front door.

In cool weather, the boxwood will stay green for several weeks, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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Boo Hag w/ Prozac Dreams The Radio Room, 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive | 9:30 p.m.

Columbia’s Boo Hag duo, singer/guitarist Saul Siebert and drummer Scott E. Tempo, have only been together a year or so, but they’ve hit on an effective sound. Siebert, a self-confessed obsessive when it comes to guitars, lays down a blanket of surf- and goth-rock noise while Tempo thrashes away, deeply in the pocket and swinging hard. It’s what the band simply calls “kick you in the teeth rock ’n’ roll,” and Siebert says there’s no other drummer he’d rather play it with. “I didn’t audition anyone else,” he says. “It was kind of a love affair right at first.”

As for their sound, it’s not something that they gave too much thought to; it’s just how the music comes out. “I write the music and bring it to Scott,” Siebert says. “Scott adds his own dimension to what I write, and that’s what makes Boo Hag Boo Hag. I don’t know where it comes from. At the end of the day, we’re really simple. If it’s a good song, it’s a good song.”

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The Broadcast Independent Public Ale House 110 Poinsett Highway 9 p.m. | $7 By definition, Asheville’s The Broadcast is

10 a.m.-9 p.m. (1/20-1/21) and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (1/22) $8 Don’t miss the hottest new cars, trucks and SUVs as they roll into the TD Convention Center for the South Carolina International Auto Show. Attendees are invited to sample their favorite vehicles with dozens of the latest 2017 models available for test drives.

Guests will further be delighted to check out a collection of classic and custom autos on display at the show that most can only dream about.

233-2562 southcarolinaautoshow.com

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JAN. 21 Awkward Friday w/ Leos Need Love, Too The Soundbox Tavern 507 W. Georgia Road Simpsonville 9:30 p.m.

Awkward Friday isn’t ashamed of the fundamental roots of their sound: ’90s post-grunge rock, heavy on the guitars and crushing choruses. In fact, they even have enough of a sense of humor to tag their sound as “mid-life angst rock.” But it’s what they do with that foundation that sets them apart from a revival act, whether they’re playing an original or a cover. A versatile outfit with multiple vocalists, the band leans heavily on improvisation, even on familiar songs. “We like to have fun, so we play all kinds of things,” says singer/guitarist Caleb Griswold. “It’s helps jazz things up. We want to give credit to the writers of the song and do the song justice, but if we think we can do something fun with the song, we’re going to do that.” Part of the band’s strength is in their multi-vocalist attack, which Griswold says opens up the band’s playing. “It definitely gives us a lot more range,” he says. “It gives us a unique sound, and provides a nice change of pace during the set.”

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Women’s March on Washington Greenville Rally

One City Plaza Main and East Coffee streets noon-2 p.m.

FREE This event is coordinated with the national march in Washington D.C. 335-8491 Facebook.com/Women’s-March-on-Washington

SUN

22

FAMILY

Sundays at 2 Gallery Tour: Family Art Adventure Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 2-3 p.m. | FREE

Drawing is one of the best activities kids can do to build their imaginations! Bring the family for an introductory drawing lesson and stay to explore the museum. Recommended for ages 8 and up.

271-7570 | gcma.org

COMMUNITY

Furman Presents Events Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Furman University Daniel Memorial Chapel 3300 Poinsett Highway 5 p.m. | FREE MLK Interfaith Celebration with Rev. Hannah Bonner (Class of 2008), proclaimer of justice, love and truth and Marlanda Dekine (Class of 2008) poet.

294-2133 | furman.edu/MLK maria.swearingen@furman.edu

CONCERT

Music on Sunday Series presents Barynya Balalaika Duo Temple of Israel 400 Spring Forest Road 3 p.m. | $20/adult; $5/child Barynya Balalaika Duo in a program including classical, Russian, Gypsy, Ukrainian and international and popular music performed on Russian button accordion, guitar and balalaika, as well as vocals. Wine and cheese reception to follow.

292-1782 | templeofIsrael.org

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Greenville Chorale auditions FREE The Upstate’s Symphonic Chorus will hold auditions for experienced singers. Singers must be proficient in sight singing. Auditions must be scheduled.

235-1101 | greenvillechorale.com

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23

BOOK SIGNING

Meet New York Times Bestselling Southern Author and Reader Favorite Karen White

on the latest news in the City of Greenville, including his insight on developments for 2017. The Mayor will also give insight into the plans for the new park in West Greenville as well as other planned buildings buildings downtown. upstaterepublicanwomen@gmail.com

MON-MAR

23-17

FAMILY

Winter at Biltmore

Biltmore 1 North Pack Square, Asheville

Fiction Addiction | 1175 Woods Crossing Road

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2 p.m. $28/guarantees a seat, admits one to the event and includes one copy of “The Guests on South Battery” $10/standing room only, admits one to the event and includes a $10 voucher that can be redeemed at the event New York Times bestselling author Karen White invites you to explore the brick-walked streets of Charleston in “The Guests on South Battery,” where historic mansions house the memories of years gone by, and restless spirits refuse to fade away. Ms. White will be discussing this new addition to her Tradd Street series at a book talk and signing. After her talk, she will take questions from the audience and sign and personalize books.

675-0540 | fiction-addiction.com

LITERARY

Emrys Reading Room: Elizabeth Cox and Diana Pinckney M Judson Booksellers | 130 S. Main St. 7-8 p.m.

The Reading Room invites published regional writers, poets, novelists and essayists to share from their work then join in an audience initiated Q&A. Attendees are encouraged to come early to enjoy coffee or a snack prior to the reading. Authors’ books also will be available for purchase and signing. Elizabeth Cox has published novels, short stories and poetry. A native of South Carolina, longtime Charlotte resident Diana Pinckney has five books of poetry, including 2015’s “The Beast and The Innocent.”

215-681-9018 | emrys.org

POLITICS

Upstate Republican Women January Luncheon The Poinsett Club | 807 E. Washington St. 11:30 a.m.1 p.m.

Luncheon cost for members and guests in advance: $18; cost for nonmembers and those without a reservation: $20 Mayor Knox White will give the annual update

The Biltmore Company

In the early months of the year, Biltmore offers a peaceful retreat following the hectic pace of the holidays. Discover our great indoors in Biltmore House, America’s largest home.

Explore the conservatory with complimentary guided tours of Biltmore’s extensive orchid collection, offered weekdays. Winter specials include lowest admission of the year. Tickets include a free audio guide of Biltmore House for a limited time.

800-411-3812 biltmore.com

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SPORTS EVENT

MAKE A SPLASH WORK AT THE WATERPARK

CDS Night With the Swamp Rabbits

Bon Secours Wellness Arena 650 N. Academy St. 7 p.m. $15 when purchased through CDSHockey.com CDS Night with the Swamp Rabbits is presented by SANDLAPPER Securities LLC. The Center for Developmental Services will receive $5 for every seat that is purchased through cdshockey.com. Help make a difference for children with special needs and learning disabilities while you cheer on Greenville’s own Swamp Rabbits as they battle the South Carolina Stingrays. Additionally, throughout the month of January, CDS will receive a portion of the proceeds from the Greenville Swamp Rabbits’ Carrots for Caring program.

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CALENDAR « EDUCATION Golden Paint Lecture

Greenville Center for Creative Arts 25 Draper St.

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6-8 p.m.

FREE Join Golden Artist Colors working artist Phil Garrett for an educational presentation of Williamsburg Oils, the new Golden Watercolor QOR, and an in-depth look at the Golden acrylic paints, gels and mediums. Phil will share tips for how to extend paint to save money and discuss the lightfastness of pigments, proper acrylic priming techniques, digital mixed media applications, correct varnishing tips and health and safety concerns while demonstrating mixing paints with gels and mediums to create textural surfaces.

735-3948 | artcentergreenville.org

TUE-FEB

Alzheimer’s disease, while grappling with their own demons and strained family dynamics.

233-6733 | centrestage.org

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LITERARY

“Pablo in the Snow” storytime

Fiction Addiction | 1175 Woods Crossing Road #5 10:30 a.m. | FREE Bring your preschool children for a storytime reading of the picture book “Pablo in the Snow”

by Teri Sloat and illustrated by Rosalinde Bonnet.

675-0540 | fiction-addiction.com

THU-FRI

26-27

Register Now: Church Music Conference

Furman University | 3300 Poinsett Highway

“Memories of the Game”

$40-95

Centre Stage | 501 River St. Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. | $10 and $15 The Fringe Series presents “Memories of the Game.” The show centers on the McIntosh household, an African-American family of four, who must struggle with their father’s progressing

THU-SUN

26-29

444 College St.

THEATER

“True West” Greenville Little Theatre

Thursday-Saturday 8 p.m. and Sunday 3 p.m. $15

EDUCATION

THEATER

son, the now-retired professor of organ and church music at St. Olaf College. Together they will team up to provide two days of education sessions and music-making. A highlight of this year’s conference is Thursday evening’s Hymn Festival, which will be held in the sanctuary of Greenville’s historic First Baptist Church. Registration for the event is $95.

Registration for full-time students is $40.

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Furman University Music Department will host its 2017 Church Music Conference on campus and other venues Jan. 26-27. Registration includes two days of conference sessions, a conference music packet and a Friday luncheon. Hosted by Furman music faculty members, the conference features two legends of American church music, André Thomas of Florida State University and John Fergu-

Studio 444 presents “True West,” a modern American classic by renowned playwright Sam Shepard.

This serio-comedy examines the relationship between Austin, a screenwriter, and his older brother Lee. The screenplay that Austin is writing gets taken over by the pushy, con-man tactics of Lee, and the brothers find themselves forced to cooperate in the creation of a story that will make or break both their lives. Featuring Allen, Suzanne and Sam McCalla with guest artist Justin Tyler Lewis. Guest directed by Carrie Smith Lewis. Strong language.

Recommended for ages 16 and older.

233-6238 greenvillelittletheatre.org/studio-444

COMMUNITY

Upstate Boat Show TD Convention Center 1 Exposition Center Drive noon-6 p.m. $7 (adults), $6 (students & seniors) Experience all the boating lifestyle has to offer: the newest recreational boats, fishing boats, ski boats, personal watercraft and even some collectors’ antique boats. The show has expanded in the number of boat dealers and exhibit space to make this year’s Upstate SC Boat Show the biggest ever. Come out and get a head start on summer at the lake.

233-2562 | upstatescboatshow.com

FRI-SUN

27-05

THEATER

“Charlotte’s Web”

Peace Center Gunter Theatre | 300 S. Main St. Various times | $18-27 This heart-warming classic about an unlikely friendship between a lovable pig and everyone’s favorite spider will come alive before your very eyes. Hailed as “the best American children’s book of the past 200 years” by the Children’s Literature Association, this story teaches life lessons on unselfishness and loyalty and is sure to touch the hearts of all. scchildrenstheatre.org

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Inviting all local businesses to bring your co-workers for a lunch break with SEC Women’s Basketball!

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SC Bar YLD host Family Fair in Greenville

Upstate Church 679 N. Harrison Bridge Road Simpsonville 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | FREE 843-284-9500 janthony@anthonyandmoore.com

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28-29

CONCERT

Greenville Symphony Orchestra presents “In the Company of Great Romantics” Greenville Symphony Orchestra Peace Concert Hall 300 S. Main St. Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. $18-69 Weber’s brilliant Overture to Oberon evokes a magical atmosphere of a medieval fairy tale, setting the stage for the exciting debut of rising star, Edisher Savitski, who simply “takes off to the sky” in Prokofiev’s wild and striking Third Piano Concerto. Schumann’s innovative 4th Symphony, called initially “A Symphonic Fantasy,” is admired by audiences for an abundance of beautiful, soaring melodies and contrasting, stormy, ecstatic and triumphal episodes.

467-3000 | peacecenter.org

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CycleBar BLAST Free Intro Rides

CycleBar Greenville 307 E. McBee Ave. FREE CycleBar is a boutique cycling studio with rides tailored to all fitness and experience levels. With luxury amenities and personal performance tracking, CycleBar offers a cycling experience like you’ve never had before. Each ride is led by a specially-trained CycleStar instructor and fueled by amazing music and energy-enhancing video graphics. No memberships or contracts required. Ride packages are available for purchase in 3, 10, 20 or 50 ride increments. See website for scheduled classes.

263-3271 greenville.cyclebar.com

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29

VISUAL ARTS

Sundays at 2: Community Connection with NEXT High School Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 2-3 p.m.

FREE Meet some of the design students of NEXT High School who’ve been working on develop-

ing interactive exhibitions around social causes.

Join in their project, provide feedback and learn about design in this family-friendly activity.

271-7570 | gcma.org

COMMUNITY

Furman Presents Events Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

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Furman University, Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center 3300 Poinsett Highway 3 p.m. | $50

Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Gala sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Greenville Foundation.

380-5781 furman.edu/MLK, alphagreenville.org mlkgala@alphagreenville.org

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Carolina Bride and Groom Mauldin Cultural Center 101 East Butler Road 3 p.m. $3, plus a donation

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Watch models strut the runway wearing the top-trending dresses and tuxedos for 2017 prom and pageants. You’ll be the first to know what to rock when you attend this fashion show, featuring a live runway, silent auction, door prizes and swag bags. There will be a free gift certificate to every high school attendee. All proceeds benefit the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home.

963-9333 | mauldinculturalcenter.org

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COMMUNITY

BringFido Hiring Event Pour Taproom | 4 Falls Park Drive

5-7 p.m. | FREE Calling dog lovers in search of a fun job, a more fulfilling career or a way to spend extra time with your pooch in the new year. BringFido, the world’s largest pet travel website, is seeking to fill full-time and part-time positions at its dogfriendly headquarters. Applicants and their pups can mingle with BringFido staff, enjoy a beverage and participate in a round of speed-dating style interviews. Dog beer and “yappetizers” will be provided. To secure a speed-dating interview spot at the event, apply in advance by emailing a resume and cover letter to jobs@bringfido.com

by Jan. 24.

233-3776 x17 | bringfido.com wendyh@jdpr.com

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Bird-Loving Celebrities ACROSS 1 Small packages 8 Barely gets, with “out” 12 Lyric penner Gershwin 15 Bamboozle 19 Sea-related 20 Bit of 19-Across flora 21 Brew barrel 22 Sampras of tennis 23 Bird-loving “Hud” Oscar winner?

25 Bird-loving former Argentine first lady?

27 Hip-hop’s Snoop — 28 Speed skater Eric 30 Saffron, e.g.

31 Bird-loving “Show Boat” composer?

34 With 111-Down, put in reserve 36 Fit to be ingested 39 Invoice fig.

40 Ending for Saturn 41 More ghostly 44 Hershiser of the mound 45 Butte relative 47 Circle’s lack 49 Bird loving co-star of “The Parent Trap”?

52 Seize with a certain tool 54 URL-starting letters 56 Old Russian despots 57 Bird-loving Rolling Stones frontman?

61 Hones

62 Certain PC readout 65 Diarist Nin 66 Iris feature 69 In name only 71 Twirled 72 Bird-loving host of “The Tonight Show”?

75 O’Hara plantation 76 “Madame” of wax 78 Insightful 79 Popular dorm dish 80 Beatified Mlle.

81 Free of dirt 83 Bird-loving “Private Benjamin” star?

86 Fleece 87 Violinist Hilary 89 Humorist Bombeck 90 Bird-loving “Lethal Weapon” co-star?

94 Truck type 96 Final Four gp.

100 Basso’s solo, say 101 Is grinning 103 State treasury 105 Even a bit of 106 Cinnamon gum brand 109 Snow-capped peak 110 Bird-loving “Santa Baby” singer?

113 Like pixies 115 City on the Rio Grande 117 “That’s not for — say” 118 Bird-loving “Que Sera, Sera” singer?

By Frank Longo

121 Bird-loving “White Christmas” songwriter?

125 Boastful 126 Lyrical poem 127 Call for 128 Ceramic casserole dish 129 Pull along 130 Lie-down 131 “Jane —” 132 Tainted DOWN 1 Soda 2 Campus life 3 Witty replies 4 Payload 5 Mind-boggler 6 Required driving doc.

7 Philos., e.g.

8 Cafe patron 9 “Eine — Nachtmusik” 10 “Goodness!”

11 Carrier of a demo case 12 U.S. prez with Mamie 13 Charges (up) 14 Showing awe 15 Superficially plausible 16 Brain parts 17 — -Z 18 Most priests 24 In the lead 26 Concealed 29 No, to Hans 31 Road tie-up 32 Kagan of justice

THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA

LEGAL NOTICE RATES ABC Notices $165 All others $1.20 per line 864.679.1205 864.679.1305 NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that MG Restaurant Group, LLC DBA/ Miso’s International Bistro intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE, & LIQUOR at University Square Shopping Center, 5000 Old Buncombe Rd., Suites 44, 45, 46. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than January 22, 2017. 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

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE There will be a PUBLIC HEARING before the GREENVILLE COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2017 AT 3:00 P.M. in CONFERENCE ROOM –D at GREENVILLE COUNTY SQUARE, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, S.C., for the purpose of hearing those persons interested in the petitions listed below.

PERSONS HAVING AN INTEREST IN THESE PETITIONS MAY BECOME PARTIES OF RECORD

BY FILING WITH THE BOARD, AT LEAST THREE (3) DAYS PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED DATE SET FOR HEARING, BY WRITING THEIR ADDRESS, A STATEMENT OF THEIR POSITION AND THE REASONS WHY THE RELIEF SOUGHT WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PROPERTY SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE GRANTED. CB-17-03 APPLICANT: GOODWILL INDUSTRIES/Masstar Signs TAX MAP#: 0183.03-01-004.01 LOCATION: 2500 N. Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville SC REQUEST: Variance from signage requirements.

CB-17-07 APPLICANT: ETHOX CHEMICALS/Sign A Rama TAX MAP#: 0400.01-01-009.00 LOCATION: 1801 Perimeter Road, Greenville SC REQUEST: VARIANCE from Sign Setback requirement for placement of a new sign on site

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Demolition of Structures, IFB #48-02/07/17, due at 3:00 P.M., E.S.T., February 7, 2017. A Pre-Bid meeting will be held at 11:00 A.M., E.S.T., January 26, 2017 at Greenville County Procurement Services, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601.

Solicitations can be found at http://www.greenvillecounty. org/Procurement/ or by calling 864-467-7200.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017, AT 6:00 p.m. (or at such time as other public hearings are concluded) IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS REGARDING AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE AND APPROVE THE TRANSFER OF APPROXIMATELY 6.33 ACRES OF REAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE WOODSIDE MILL COMMUNITY TO CAMPBELL YOUNG LEADERS, A SOUTH CAROLINA NONPROFIT CORPORATION, OR ITS ASSIGNS, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE EXECUTION OF A DEED AND ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE DOCUMENTS AND AGREEMENTS RELATED THERETO. BUTCH KIRVEN, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

ESTADO DE CAROLINA DEL SUR CONDADO DE GREENVILLE EN LA CORTE DE FAMILIA C.A. No.:2016-DR-23-5360 NOTA DE ACTOS A: JUAN RAMIREZ Usted ha sido notificado de acuerdo al Código de Carolina del Sur Ann Sec. 15-9-710.

Que actos de divorcio han sido iniciados bajo el caso arriba mencionado por Claudia S. Alfaro.

USTED HA SIDO NOTIFICADO COMO SIGUE : 1. Que dentro de treinta (30) días de haber recibido la notificación usted responderá la clasificación por escrito a nuestra oficina localizada en 201 W. Stone Ave., Greenville, SC 29609 o con la Corte del Tribunal que se encuentra localizada en el 301 University Ridge, Greenville, SC 29602 la nota y las razones para refutar intervenir ó de otro modo responder: 2. Que el Tribunal debe ser informado de su dirección actual y cualquier cambio de domicilio durante el proceso legal de divorcio.

3. Que si no presenta una respuesta dentro de (30) días de recivir el edicto constituye juicio de manera predeterminada rendido contra usted para el alivio demandado en el reclamo.

Nathalie M. Morgan (69848) Nathalie M. Morgan, LLC 201 West Stone Avenue Greenville, SC 29609 (864)242-6655 (864)242-6111 (facsimile)

33 Hint of color 97 Actress FitzGerald or 112 Gymnast Strug 35 Grade for sophomores Stasey 114 Zilch, to Juan 37 Maui wreath 98 Basketballer Walker or 116 Mice, to owls 38 First in line? painter Watteau 118 Netflix item 42 Summer hrs. in PA 99 Positive vote 119 Dinghy thing 43 Take on, as the challenge 102 Pitcher Tom 120 “Indeedy” 46 Name in low-carb dieting 104 Shutterbug’s equipment 122 Some sporty autos 48 “War is hell” general 107 Flunking grades 123 Gathered together 50 Glossy fabric 108 Medium-hot mustard 124 Flanders of Springfield 51 P-U linkup 111 See 34-Across Crossword answers: page 33 53 A.M. drinks 55 They beat deuces 57 Ship poles 58 Data for processing

by Myles Mellor and Susan Flannigan 59 Result in 60 Shapely leg, slangily 61 Old TV’s John-Boy and Erin 62 Alpaca kin 63 Rod of baseball 64 Quaffed 67 O’er and o’er 68 Chuckle 70 Person from Provo 72 Minty quaff 73 Lofty goals 74 Toon frame 77 Like sore muscles 79 Dreamy sleep phase 82 Luring smell 84 Resign, as a position 85 Like Joyce and Yeats 86 Mimicking a mad dog 87 Phone service providing aid 88 “How — you?”

90 Pat 91 Radio host Shapiro 92 Nation of West Africa 93 Repulsive 95 Actor Zac Sudoku answers: page 33 Hard

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Animal Care’s

The Classroom Window with Trevor Barton

You say ‘tomato,’ but Grandpa saw a lesson in caring

Correspondent

One early spring day, my grandpa called me.

“Hey, Trev. How you doin’?” he said. “Listen, a friend of mine called and wants to give us some extra tomato plants that he doesn’t have room for in his garden. So I told him we would take them.”

“Oh yeah? That’s kind. How many is he gonna give us?”

You need to know that the week before this phone call, Grandpa and I had planted 500 tomato plants in the garden. We were already going to have enough fruit to put a tomato on every plate of every person in Greenville County. But I figured a few more plants would be okay. Boy, was my figuring off.

Featuring Ruff Reporter:

Mattie

“250,” Grandpa said.

“250? Did you just say 200 plus 50 extra tomato plants?”

My Journey from Chain to Sofa

“Yep! There is kindness in the world.”

I could sense his grin through the phone line.

“Kindness in the world?!” I said. “Well, let me tell you, if we plant 250 more tomato plants in the garden, there’s gonna be more than kindness in the world. There’s gonna be tomatoes! And lots and lots of them!”

“Yep.” “Listen, if we plant 750 tomato plants and each one produced 40 pounds of tomatoes as they’re supposed to do, we’ll have 30,000 pounds of tomatoes. That’s 15 tons of tomatoes! What are we gonna do with that many tomatoes?!”

We often began our conversations with the word “listen.” It was our word. When I spoke to him, my words were the most important words in the world. And when he spoke to me, his words were the most important words in the world. We never spoke past each other, only with each other. We never formulated what we were going to say next when the other was speaking. We listened to each other. Really listened, as listening should be done.

“Well, we’re gonna have to buy lots of Bunny Bread and lots of Duke’s Mayonnaise, because we’re gonna have to eat lots of tomato sandwiches,” Grandpa said.

I could sense the twinkle of his sky-blue eyes through the phone line, too.

Early in summer, when more and more tomatoes were changing from shades of green to shades of red, we set out first thing one morning to check on the ripening fruit. When you are a farmer, there is a thankfulness deep inside of you when the growing is almost done and the harvesting is about to begin. You yourself are in the crop, and the crop is in you.

I came across a tomato that was developing a dark soft spot on its skin.

This tomato was much smaller than the other tomatoes on the vine. It was at the bottom of the vine and very nearly touched the ground.

“I’m gonna pick this one and throw it out,” I said. “It has the blight on it.”

“Don’t pick that tomato. Listen, I want to teach you something about the world. Follow me.”

I followed him. We walked out of the garden and into the work shed at the back of the yard. That place was a place of wonder to me. Inside of it were Mason jars filled with nuts, bolts, screws and nails. There were all sorts and varieties of tools hanging on the walls. And at the center of it all were the things I will always remember him by — Duck Tape, baling

wire, WD-40 and aloe. Not only could these things fix the stalled engine of a tractor, a sputtering faucet in a sink or a dangling clothesline on a pole, but they could also create a basketball rim (he wove one out of baling wire and hung it above the door of the shed for me), assuage arthritic knees (he used to spray WD-40 on his knees in the early morning to help him get around) and cure the common cold (he would drop a mixture of aloe and water into my nose to soothe my scratchy throat). If you are looking for a miracle, find a farmer with those things and you will find one.

“Hey, that tomato is small, broken and at the bottom,” he said. “But you know what? It could grow into something beautiful if we care for it.

Who knows, it might become the tastiest tomato we’ve ever grown. So let’s be the ones who don’t throw it out. Let’s be the ones who take it in. Let’s be the ones who care.”

He carefully cut out a square and two rectangles from some old plastic pieces he stored in the corner of the building. He bound them together with some Duck Tape. He sprayed the edges with WD-40. We made our way back to the garden and to the small, broken lowly tomato.

He held the tomato in his calloused hands and ever-so-gently spread aloe over the blighted part.

Skillfully and lovingly, he attached the handmade shelter around the tomato with baling wire.

“This will protect it from the heat of the sun and keep it off of the ground,” he said. “This will give it a chance.”

I did learn something about the world that day. The small, the broken and the lowly have intrinsic worth and beauty. We could throw them away, but we could care for them. And that kind of care could mend a broken world.

For the tomato.

Trevor Barton is a reading intervention teacher at Berea Elementary School. He believes we all have stories to tell and loves to listen.

For those of you who read my story in December, you know I’ve spent most of my life on a chain. I was saved by the nice people at Animal Care who nursed me back to health using the dollars you donated to the Second Chance Fund. Now I have a forever home with my new mom, Mel. She and I are quite the pair. I tell her when it’s time to go on our walks every day and she gives me lots of toys and treats.

I’ve taken over the sofa - a dog’s got to have her spot. Mel doesn’t mind. I’ve learned how to give “paw” and “lay.” I like to show off my skills to new people, especially when I get to go to work with my mom. Thanks for helping to save my life. To us, it was worth every penny.

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