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Roberts announces County Council candidacy

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Rick Roberts announced Wednesday he will run for the Greenville County Council District 21 seat being vacated by Jim Burns.

Roberts, a resi- Roberts dent of Greenville since 1974, is currently president of KMC Benefits Inc. Roberts has served on the homeowner associations of multiple communities and served on PTAs at Northwood Middle and Buena Vista Elementary. He has been a member of the Meyer Center Board and is currently on the organization’s Ambassador Board.

In his announcement, Roberts said he will guard tax dollars, fight for growth

that is manageable and make honest decisions. He said residents should not have to read about millions of dollars wasted on a failed attempt to build an unneeded Welcome Center while roads are crumbling around them.

“I had never planned on entering politics,” he said.

“I am a businessman who sees decisions being made that in the business world would not lead to another four-year contract but instead be lead out of the office with a pink slip and personals in a box,” he said in a release.

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Attorney, councilwoman announce runs for legislature Greenville attorney Jason Elliott and long-time Greenville City Council member Lillian Brock Flemming announced Wednesday they will run for seats in the South Carolina legislature.

Elliott, a former district Flemming Elliott director for U.S. Sen. Jim Flemming, who lost the DeMint, will run for the 2012 Democratic primary race District 22 as a Republican.

Elliott, a former assistant so- for the seat by 412 votes, has licitor for the 10th Circuit who been on Greenville City Counnow is in private practice, said cil since 1981. She is a recruithis plan would focus on cre- er for the Greenville County ating collaboration between School District.

She said she will give Disthe city, county and state that includes improving roads, in- trict 7 residents greater representation and cites five critical frastructure and livability.

Republican Wendy Nanney areas of focus: job creation, education, transportation, serepresents District 22 now.

Flemming is running for nior services and health care. the state Senate District 7 seat now held by Karl B. Allen.

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myoung@communityjournals.com The Greenville area soon will have a new way for patients to connect with a doctor: via a smart phone app.

Both Bon Secours St. Francis Health System and the Greenville Hospital System are expanding telehealth to fit the millennial generation’s desire for convenient, fast health answers.

They’re in the early stages of rolling out different apps that make it possible for people to connect with doctors through a computer, smartphone or tablet. And they can receive medical advice any time, including weekends and nights.

“This is really new,” says Dr. Marcus Blackstone, senior group lead physician for primary care at Bon Secours Medical Group.

Bon Secours made its new telehealth app, called Bon Secours 24/7, available in January to the health network’s 23,000 employees, including 6,000 in Greenville. By Sept.1, it could be available to Bon Secours patients locally, he says.

“You go into the app and register at no cost and then you have the option of doing virtual doctor visits,” Blackstone says.

Fifteen physicians in Bon Secours’ Virginia region provide expertise for the virtual visits. Later, Greenville physicians could also be handling these. Each user of the app has the opportunity to select a physician to see virtually. People can view the doctors’ ratings by other patients, and they have an opportunity to rate the doctor they connect with, Blackstone explains.

All telehealth doctor visits set up by the app are face-to-face via Facetime or another video conferencing conduit.

“It boils down to patient convenience,” Blackstone says. “You do a five to 10 minute telehealth visit and don’t have to leave your home or workplace.”

During the rollout period, Bon Secours employees accounted for about 300 virtual visits, with women using the app about twice as often as men. One-quarter of people using the app are in the 2534 age group, he says.

“You look at the younger generation, and they’ve always got a phone in their hand, so they’re really used to a mobile life,” Blackstone says.

“They can pretty much do everything on their phone. So this is a natural progression to be able to do some form of medical care on their phone.”

The telehealth visits meet all federal privacy rules, and electronic prescriptions are very safe from inadvertent breaches.

No controlled drugs would be prescribed through the telehealth program, Blackstone adds.

GHS will start making it possible for patients to access care for minor illnesses, including bladder infections, sore throats, ear pain, and sinus infections, via computers and smart devices next month, GHS officials say.

Called SmartExam, the telehealth visit will guide patients through an online interview, even allowing them to upload photos if necessary for diagnosis.

A provider will review the patient’s responses, make a diagnosis and provide a treatment plan within an hour. And all prescriptions will be sent to the patient’s pharmacy of choice. The fee will be $20 that can be paid by credit or debit card at the time of service.

“Work and family demands sometimes make it difficult to visit a doctor, but SmartExams will give GHS patients an opportunity to receive a treatment plan within minutes,” said Dr. Sandra Hardee, the initiative’s medical director.

GHS patients can access the service by visiting ghs.org/smartexam or logging into their GHS MyChart app. Providers will respond between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. every day.

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OPINION: VIEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY

I knew Deontea As a community, we can learn from Deontea’s mistakes IN MY OWN WORDS

By Matthew Manley

Deontea Mackey, the young man who took the life of Officer Allen Jacobs and then took his own, was a friend of mine.

I met him a few years back and we spent a couple of hours a week hanging out over the course of two years. I befriended him through my involvement with the Nicholtown Bike Club, which is a group-mentoring program for middle school youth and one of the first branches of Momentum Bike Clubs. You’re not supposed to have favorites when you are working with a group of kids, but Deontea was my favorite.

He was a good-looking kid with incredible athleticism, a great sense of humor, a great sense of style, and a wide range of interests including art and music — interests that were never to be pursued. He was a leader and an encourager.

He was a ‘cool’ kid. We formed a bond. I loved that kid and he loved me.

Deontea grew up in an environment that lacked a lot of opportunity. The statistics are clear. Our youth that grow up without father figures, in neighborhoods that are heavily affected by crime and incarceration, are “at-risk”. The mission of the Momentum Bike Clubs, and other organizations, recognize this and are trying to provide support and guidance where there is little. They are striving to break the cycle. Deontea was a son of the Nicholtown community.

There are bright, shining lights in that neighborhood – people, including City of Greenville law enforcement officers, who

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are fighting for the lives of these kids and working as a community to address the issues that have plagued this neighborhood. My level of respect for these people is immeasurable. The people of Nicholtown loved Deontea and in many ways tried to fill the voids in his life and provide him with opportunities to make good choices so that he could have a bright future. Deontea did not take advantage of those opportunities.

Towards the end of my time with the Nicholtown Spinners, Deontea started getting in trouble with the law. The community responded by giving him even more opportunities to stay out of trouble.

I didn’t understand that gangs were luring him in with the promise of income and being the “family” he never had. He chose to not fulfill the responsibilities he was given at church, at the community garden or at the community center – where people truly cared about him.

He chose, instead, to be a member of a gang.

Are the opportunistic gang members that influenced Deontea grieving right now? In my naivety, I did not realize that we were competing for his life.

I am still not sure if that is where this tragedy begins or if it began at birth. Part of me thinks that something disastrous was inevitable given the circumstances of his early developmental years. Part of me thinks that is ludicrous; that he had opportunities to change and make better decisions. Part of me thinks I could have done more – that I could have changed his outcome. I certainly feel as though I failed Deontea. As did a lot of other people, but nobody more so that Deontea himself. He made a number of bad decisions as a teenager, but none as unspeakable and horrific as the taking of Officer Allen Jacobs’ life. Sadly, this is just one example of another young black man’s life ending in tragedy and another brave law enforcement officer’s life cut short; leaving families, friends

and entire communities to pick up the pieces.

If you are as saddened and angry about this as I am, then please do something to make a difference. The easy thing to do would be to turn your back in anger – that will only escalate the problem.

Do not perpetuate ignorance or let ignorance go unchecked amongst the people in your community. But rather, educate yourself about the root causes of these societal ills. Support the under-resourced people and programs that are trying to make a difference. Right now, as I write this, more children are being brought into this world by children. These kids will not have the opportunities they need to succeed unless we work together and commit our time, effort and resources to producing a different outcome.

I do not know what was going on inside of Deontea’s head on Friday. A 17-year-old, a gifted and talented young man, suddenly found his life choices had lead him to become a “cop killer”. Was he struck by the finality of his choices? I still don’t know what to think of him taking of his own life. But knowing that he did so on the trail that we used to ride down every week, in a place that we associated with happy times and natural beauty, in a place that provided access to the promising world outside of Nicholtown, well… all I know for sure is that my heart is broken.

Matthew is a Greenville county native. He spent 35 years in the upstate before continuing his career as a city planner in Lyons, CO, where he currently resides.

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Keep kids safe in and around the water week, the YMCA of Greenville along with Upstate Pool Management shared water safety instruction to close to 950 children and families in our community. The YMCA of Greenville offers water safety programs and swim instruction year round to adults and children of all ages.

These programs engage participants in the importance of water safety skills and certified swim skills.

The YMCA of Greenville offers sliding scale scholarships for learn to swim programs, and no one is denied access due to an inability to pay. The YMCA’s mission is to provide quality programs to all people in our community, and by offering scholarships, the Y hopes to further bridge cultural and access gaps that can prevent some children from learning essential water safety skills.

If you know how to stay safe in and around water, swimming can be a lifelong source of fun and exercise. Instead of keeping your children away from water, help them learn fundamental water safety skills by enrolling them in lessons.

To learn more about the YMCA of Greenville’s Aquatic programs, including swim lessons, please call (864)4120288 or visit: ymcagreenville.org/aquatics. If you would like to donate to the YMCA of Greenville visit: ymcagreenville.org/give

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Fatal drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages one to 14 years old. Last year, 10 children died in South Carolina due to drowning, ranking SC in the top three states in drowning deaths.

The problem is particularly acute in minority communities. The disparity is partly due to the lack of swimming experience among these children.

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City trying to get a handle on need for affordable units Part 1 of 2

Housing agency admits ‘we can’t produce enough’ CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com As high-end residential development in and around downtown booms and the relocation of the city’s public works complex clears the way for a new park expected to pick up the pace, one big question looms: What happens to the people who are already living in those areas and will they be priced out?

“It seems like we’re doing more to promote the outside (developers) coming in than we are to promote those living inside the city,” Allison Moon, a Greenville business owner who attends church in West Greenville, one of the development hotspots, told the City Council at a recent meeting.

Some are afraid that as high-end development explodes and property values in some of the neighborhoods on the fringe of downtown skyrocket, low- and middle -income residents will be pushed out of those neighborhoods and further away from their jobs and available public transportation.

The city has hired a consultant to determine the city’s affordable housing needs at various income levels, the current inventory, and strategies to increase availability. The study is expected to be completed by late summer.

Price of housing The 2015 median home value in the City of Greenville was $148,000, indicating affordability but the average sale price of $231,000 suggests otherwise, according to a 2015 affordable housing study by Development Strategies.

On the city’s south side and downtown, average prices were $296,000 and $342,000, respectively, largely unattainable for most of the population, the study said.

On the west side, the average sales price was $156,000, but one-fourth of the homes sold for less than $30,000.

“This variability in values provides a significant challenge to the city leaders, as many potential buyers are priced out of higher value neighborhoods, while in areas where home values are relatively low, the cost of developing new quality for-sale housing often exceeds the market value for the property,” the study said.

Need for affordable housing Housing is considered affordable if a family spends no more than 30 percent of their income to live there.

There is a great need for more affordable housing within the city limits, said Ivory Matthews, executive director of the Greenville Housing Authority.

People earning 120 percent of the area mean income ($48,700 for a single person, $69,600 for a family of four) are eligible for affordable housing help from the agency.

“It’s not just no income or very low income people. Individuals working in a lot of our businesses may not be able to live in Greenville,” she said. “There are school teachers, firefighters, employees at our financial institutions, who can’t afford to live in the community.”

Diane Smock, co-chair of the Greenville Neighborhood Vibrancy Task

Force, said the city doesn’t require its police officers to live in the city because “we know they can’t afford it.”

“Affordable housing is important because we need all levels of the entire workforce to live in the city, from the CEO to the person who unlocks the door,” she said. “The economy won’t run with just one group.”

The housing authority has 546 affordable housing units and is adding another 869 units for a total of 1,415 in the next few years. $15 million in federal funds are distributed by the agency to private landlords to subsidize rent for 2,768 families.

But it’s not nearly enough, Matthews said.

There are 7,000 people on the waiting list, a list that the agency last opened for a week in August 2014.

“We can’t produce enough affordable housing,” she said. “But that’s a good problem to have because we’re not living in a dying community where the tax base is decreasing.”

Encourage growth Clemson University associate professor of real estate development and city

and region planning Terry Farris said the city should encourage whatever type of housing can be built in the area surrounding the park.

“That neighborhood has been in decline for a long time,” he said. “The west side especially has been an underutilized industrial area. If the city has a chance to get middle and upper income people in, it should. That helps the existing neighborhood because it brings in more services, retail and opportunities for jobs.”

Farris said if gentrification in Greenville was more rapid, it would be a bigger concern.

“It’s an issue, but not as much of an issue in larger urban markets,” he said.

“There is a fair amount of affordable housing in the Greenville market – just not downtown. Not everybody can afford to live downtown.”

Next week: A look at what Greenville is doing to address the problem and what is being done in other communities.

Map shows the geographic boundaries of the city of Greenville, where affordable housing needs are growing.

The Manor at West Village is just one of a half-dozen projects in planning or in the pipeline of the Greenville Housing Authority.

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Land swap paves the way for affordable housing in 3 city neighborhoods CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com A land swap between the City of Greenville and the owner of property where The Allen School, an historic school for African-American students, once stood will increase the number of affordable housing units in the city.

In the deal, the city will swap .569acre of property it owns on East Stone Avenue adjacent to the former site of the Allen School for three properties JJSC Enterprises, LLC owns in three different

historically black neighborhoods near downtown that total .613 acres.

The city will work with partners to redevelop the parcels – located on Mount Eustis Street in the Greenline-Spartanburg neighborhood, on Woodfin Avenue in the Greater Sullivan neighborhood and on Elder Street in Nicholtown -- into affordable housing, said Ginny Stroud, the city’s community development administrator.

The Allen School was built in 1936 as a part of the Works Progress Act. By the end of World War II, it had more than 500

City council approves moving public works complex Some say financing invites lawsuit, city says it’s allowed CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Greenville’s public works complex will be moved – something that eventually will make way for a new signature park on the west side of downtown.

But the final approval of the move didn’t come without some warning – from former Councilwoman Diane Smock, who said the city’s use of stormwater money could invite a legal challenge because that fund is restricted specifically for stormwater projects, and from Friends of the Reedy River which said the city needs a comprehensive stormwater plan.

The city’s plan to pay for the $25.6 million move calls for $18.3 million – or 71 percent of the cost – to come from the city’s general fund and $7.3 million – or 29 percent of the cost – to come from stormwater funds.

Smock, an attorney and former probate judge, told the council that the city of Columbia lost a case before the South Carolina Supreme Court over using sewer and water user fees for economic development projects. She said Tuesday that while Greenville’s use of stormwater funds wasn’t as egregious, it could be challenged in court.

Read the court ruling: http://goo.gl/ pFff1n Mayor Knox White, who was not present Monday, has said that stormwater fund money could be used for the relocation of public works because public works is the department that handles the

city’s stormwater projects.

Kai Nelson, director of the city’s Office of Budget and Management, said Monday that the percentages were calculated by determining each entity of public works’ share of total public works costs. At one time, the city thought stormwater funds would pay for up to 50 percent of the move, City Manager John Castile said.

Monday’s vote was 5-1 with Gaye Sprague, who has said she doesn’t think moving public works should be the city’s top priority, voting no.

Councilman David Sudduth said he realizes the city has a lot of needs.

“The list goes on and on. The general fund is the fund of last resort,” Sudduth said. “It has taken me a long time to get comfortable with (using the city’s general fund reserve for the project) and I am comfortable with it. If we’re ever going to move public works, we have to do it now.”

Sudduth said since the city started engineering and architecture work on the project, inflation has eaten up $2 million.

“If we wait another year or two, we’ll be spending more on inflation.”

Councilwoman Lillian Brock Flemming said some people wanted a tax increase to pay for the project so stormwater funds would not have to be used and that the city can revisit funding.

The $25.6 million approved is for moving the public works operation – $19.6 million for site work and construction, $2.6 million for architectural and engineering services, furniture and telecommunications equipment, $2.5 million for land acquisition and a contingency fund.

No money has yet been approved to demolish the existing facility or to pay for the proposed park.

students and served students up to the seventh grade. The school’s roots go back to 1865 when the first freed slaves were taught in rooms of the Goodlett Hotel.

When Greenville schools integrated in 1970, the school closed and sat empty for decades.

The property was sold in September and the school was torn down. Thirty-

one townhomes will be built and the city’s property provides a key access point to them.

Stroud said location of utilities and topographical challenges would have made the East Stone Street property difficult to develop as affordable and workforce housing.

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Funds OK’d for Woodruff Road sidwalks CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com In addition to giving final approval to move Greenville’s public works complex – the first step in making a signature city park on the west side of downtown a reality – the Greenville City Council dealt with sidewalks, a sculpture and street abandonments.

WOODRUFF ROAD SIDEWALK Part of Woodruff Road is getting sidewalks.

Greenville will receive $360,976 in federal funds from the South Carolina Department of Transportation for a project that will build 4,600 feet of new sidewalk along the north side of Woodruff Road from the Interstate 85 interchange to Roper Mountain Road.

The total cost of the project is $451,220.

The city is responsible for a 20 percent match and already has earmarked $100,000 for that in the city’s 2015-16 Capital Improvement Program budget.

HAYWOOD ROAD ULITITY LINES Council gave final approval to spending $2.1 million from the city’s utility un-

dergrounding fund to bury utility lines on Haywood Road from the Wells Fargo Bank to Interstate 385.

The fund to bury utility lines was started after a 2005 ice storm left some city residents in the cold and dark for as long as a week.

Duke Energy’s customers in the city have been paying an average $1 a month more on their electric bills since 2008 under an agreement with the city to share the cost of burying the lines.

The city’s share comes from an increased franchise fee paid by Duke. The city sets aside about $1 million per year for undergrounding. Duke matches it with about $500,000. Eighty percent of the fund goes to commercial projects.

MAKING WAY FOR QUIKTRIP City Council gave initial approval to the abandonment of Cherry Street and Dorn Avenue, a move needed to make way for a proposed QuikTrip convenience store at the corner of Academy Street and North Markley.

The two streets are low-volume residential streets owned by the city.

The QuikTrip proposal has been con-

troversial as several people have spoken before City Council to say the development didn’t fit with the importance of the site at one of the gateways to downtown.

The abandonment was contingent on QuikTrip’s acquiring all the property, planning and zoning approvals necessary to complete the project.

GILFILLING ROAD Council approved a resolution to give Shouse Development Corporation $50,000 from the Greenville Local Development Corporation Infrastructure Improvement Fund to assist with costs for improvements to bring Gilfilling Road into compliance with city road standards.

The improvements will support redevelopment of the former Travel Inn site for the Highview Townhomes.

A-TAX FUND City Council approved $3,000 in state accommodations tax fund money for the Black Pages’ Upstate Empowerment weekend in June and $5,000 for Fresh Start SC for the Mountains to Main Street triathlon and race festival in May.

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Greenville Tech receives $1 million gift for new manufacturing center

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Melvin and Dollie Younts recently donated $1 million to Greenville Technical College for the funding of two entrances to the college’s Center for Manufacturing Innovation (CMI), Two new entrances will be built with a $1 million gift to slated to open this fall at the Greenville Tech’s Center for Manufacturing Innovation.

Millennium Campus, next to ing, as well as a secondary entrance at Ilthe Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research lumination Way and a drive to the CMI, according to a release. The CMI is a col(CU-ICAR).

“We are blessed each year to be able to laboration between Greenville Technigive at least half of our annual income cal College and Clemson University in a to the causes we believe in most strong- response to the growing and significant ly – the advancement of education, the manufacturing industry in Greenville.

“We are very grateful to Melvin and support of Christianity, and the betterment of mankind,” said Melvin Younts. Dollie Younts for understanding the im“I served on the Greenville Technical portance of our Center for Manufacturing College Area Commission, and my son, Innovation,” said Keith Miller, president Laney, now serves on the Greenville Tech of Greenville Technical College. “The Foundation, so we are proud to assist a Younts name is associated with some college that delivers an education that of the most important educational efhelps people in our community succeed forts in the Upstate, and with our CMI providing entrance to growth and success in life.”

The gift will allow creation of a primary for manufacturers and individuals, it is entrance, to be called the Younts En- fitting that people will travel through the trance at Millennium Drive, with a drive entrances and on a drive bearing their over a new bridge extending to the build- name as they approach the building.”

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Metropolitan Arts Council awards

mances. She has been involved in the arts throughout her life. She was a strings specialist in public schools in Indiana and New Jersey for 34 years. She was director of Suzuki Strings at Montclair State University Prep Division. She has performed with the Foothills Philharmonic and in the pit orchestra for musicals at the Younts Centers for Performing Arts in Fountain Inn.

Greenville shows its artistic side through the contributions, commitment and vision of honorees

Carl R. Blair Award for Commitment to Arts Education Gary Robinson has served on the faculty of the Fine Arts Center since 1985. Though his daytime classes currently encompass the most comprehensive high school percussion program in the region, he has also taught winds and brass as well as advanced placement music theory.

He has served as director of the Young Artist Orchestra of Greenville County Youth Orchestras since his arrival. He served as Director of Greenville’s Foothills Philharmonic from 2000 to 2010. He has served on the conducting staff of Carolina Youth Symphony.

He has held adjunct positions as a percussion instructor at Limestone College, at the University of Connecticut and at Furman University. He currently performs with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.

CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com The Metropolitan Arts Council on Tuesday honored several individuals and businesses for their support of the arts.

Lifelong Support of the Arts Award Since Lorraine Goldstein and Hal Weiss moved to Greenville almost 15 years ago, they’ve immersed themselves in the area’s art scene.

Both have served on Centre Stage’s board of directors. They have donated generously to Centre Stage, the arts council, the Greenville County Museum of Art and the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, to name just a few.

They’ve also been involved in Falls Park on the Reedy and their support played a role in the acquisition of the red Joel Shapiro sculpture at the Wyche end of Falls Park.

Every year since 2007, they have received the Campaign for the Arts award from the council for their support of the organization’s fund-raising program.

“Lorraine and Hal are philanthropists in the truest sense – they live modestly and unpretentiously in order to support the organizations and causes whose missions they are passionate about,” according to MAC.

Visionary Award Sisters Caroline McIntyre and Sally Potosky have been instrumental in establishing and maintaining the Greenville Chautauqua Society. Without their vision,

Young Supporter of the Arts Award

Lorraine Goldstein and Hal Weiss received the Lifelong Support of the Arts Award at Tuesday’s Metropolitan Arts Council awards.

passion and persistence, the Greenville Chautauqua Society would not be one of the premier Chautauqua organizations in the U.S. McIntyre is a professional historical interpreter and, for the past 14 years, she has been the administrator for the Greenville Chautauqua Society and festival. She is a former history teacher, theater manager and corporate presenter.

Potosky is president and executive director of the Greenville Chautauqua Society, part of a national organization that produces interactive historical perfor-

Elizabeth Fletcher is the vice president for strategy and business development for Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System. She is on the steering committee for MAConnect, MAC’s young professionals group. She has served as a MAC grants panelist and is currently on the board of the Greenville Center for Creative Arts.

Michael Fletcher is a licensed real estate broker and attorney from Greenville. He played one summer of professional baseball and worked as a property manager and broker. He started Fletcher Development in 2012.

He has served as a MAC grants panelist and is on the steering committee of MAConnect.

The Fletchers were instrumental in beginning the former Young Collectors Group at the Greenville County Museum of Art. For a full list of the other award winners, visit: bit.ly/MACawards

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Greenville honored for music education

Saturday is Greenlink Fare Free Day

Greenville County was one of two school districts in South Carolina recognized the best communities in the United States for music education.

The National Association of Music Merchants has recognized efforts by teachers, administrators, parents, students and community leaders who work together to ensure access to music learning for all students as part of the school curriculum.

The designation has added significance this year due to December’s passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act that designates music as a recommended subject that is part of a well-rounded education.

The new law shifts more control to the states and encourages policy makers to allow non-tested subjects to play a more important role in the curriculum.

“We’re moving away from a time when curricula were narrowed due to pressure from testing and test-prep remediation to a broader view of what is important for all children,” Mary Luehrsen of the NAMM Foundation said in a release. “That includes access to a well-rounded education – and an opportunity to learn and grow with music.”

Research has shown access to music and the arts in the curriculum contributes to lower dropout rates, higher graduation rates and higher ACT scores.

All passengers on all routes ride Greenlink for free on Saturday, April 2.

Saturday is also the second annual iMAGINE Upstate Festival. iMAGINE Upstate showcases science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics learning experiences for youth and families. It will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the West End and at Fluor Field.

“Opportunities like Fare Free Day provide an incentive for first-time riders or riders who otherwise may be hesitant to use public transportation,” said Nicole McAden, Greenlink’s marketing and program specialist. “Also, by partnering with large attractions such as downtown festivals, we’re able to demonstrate how public transportation can help address issues such as traffic congestion and parking.”

Greenlink’s Google Transit application at www.ridegreenlink.com can help people plan their trips. For more information on the iMAGINE Upstate Festival, go to www.imagineupstate.org.

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First Person: Reporter, foodie hits the small plate crawl lgood@communityjournals.com As a reporter and amateur foodie, I participated in the Greenville Small Plate Crawl, a self-guided restaurant crawl produced by Carolina Epicurean Events that was held March 22-24. Each participating restaurant offered a special crawl menu priced from $4-$10. Individuals were also able to scan QR codes at the restaurants to be entered in prize drawings.

Before starting, I printed my “passport”

from the Small Plate Crawl website that had information on which restaurants were participating and the times they were hosting the crawl. A map of the restaurant locations and their menus were also readily available.

My first stop was at Oil and Vinegar in downtown Greenville. There, I decided to start off with a mango vinegar and orange spritzer, as well as a Mediterranean appetizer sampler. The appetizer plate included a filo cup with chicken mojo verde; pesto alla genovese crostini

with a cherry tomato; a smoked paprika chickpea pita pocket with tzatziki sauce, red Pepper and cucumber slaw; spinach salad with lemon-pomegranate dressing, goat cheese and pepitas; and a few Spanish olives. The small plate was a perfect choice to begin the crawl with.

Moving down Main Street, my next stop was at The Lazy Goat. I ordered Mediterranean pimento cheese that came with toasted bread. This small plate was also a good choice as a second appetizer. But as I became hungrier, I made a stop at Grill

Marks for a “larger” small plate. There, I chose a classic cheeseburger slider with French fries (You can’t go wrong with that). And finally, for desert, I opted for a sweet treat. So, I made my way over to Kilwins, but unfortunately didn’t make it in time to get an ice cream cake.

All in all, it was a unique experience and I can’t wait to try it again next year.

With more preparation ahead of time, I hope to visit more restaurants in Travelers Rest to fully experience all the Greenville Small Plate Crawl has to offer.

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lgood@communityjournals.com In an area where the Scots have played an important historical role, it comes as no surprise that Greenville hosts an annual celebration dedicated to the Upstate’s Celtic heritage. It is also “one of the only festivals with it’s own official bottled beer,” said Jay Spivey, marketing director for the Greenville Scottish Games.

As the sole beer provider at the games since they began in 2005, Thomas Creek Brewery is creating a special brew for the second year specifically for the Scottish celebration over the Memorial Day weekend.

“The Gallabrae Scottish Ale is based off true Scottish ale,” said Tom Davis, founder and owner of Thomas Creek Brewery. During a 14-day process, the ale is smoked with peat from a bog using a “peated malt” recipe, he said. The taste of the Scottish Ale can be described as a sweet, amber caramel flavor. “It smells like and tastes like a backyard BBQ got in it,” said Tim Smith, marketing analyst for the brewery.

The release of the Gallabrae Scottish Ale will be celebrated on Friday, April 1, at Thomas Creek Brewery where the City of Greenville Pipes and Drums and kilted participants will be in attendance. The Gallabrae Scottish Ale will be available at the games and for purchase at local bars, restaurants and stores across the Upstate.

Gallabrae, a two-day Scottish celebration presented by the Greenville Scottish Games, will kick off with a parade on Friday, May 27, on Main Street in downtown Greenville and continue with the 11th annual games on Saturday, May 28, at Furman University.

The Great Scot! Parade will march up Main Street from Broad Street to East North Street in downtown led by the Royal Highland Fusiliers, sponsored each year by the St. Andrews Society of Upper South Carolina. They serve as the honor guard of the games and will also open and preside over the military tribute ceremony at the games.

The games will also feature music, food, traditional competitions, skilled border collies in action, a British car show, and the Miss Greenville Scottish Games pageant.

The awards ceremony begins at 5 p.m. and for the first time will be immediately followed with “the greatest Scottish happy hour in the world” that will include a Celtic concert, pipe bands and beer starting at 5:30 p.m., according to the Gallabrae website.

Over the years, the games have been visited by numerous Scottish dignitaries including Britain’s Prince Edward, the Earl of Caithness; the Duke of Hamilton and members of the Queen’s Privy Council. Several U.S. senators, congressmen, mayors and the governor have also attended, Spivey said. The Honored Chief of the Greenville Scottish Games this year is Jamie Macnab of Macnab, 24th Chief of Clan Macnab.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gallabrae.com.

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Green Charter School teachers win achievement award MELINDA YOUNG | CONTRIBUTOR

myoung@communityjournals.com Teachers at Green Charter School on Pelham Road recently were given a surprise HiFIVE, a $200 award for each teacher who contributed to their students’ exceptional educational growth between the spring of 2014 and spring of 2015.

The school was one of four in the statewide charter school district, scoring at the highest level of student academic growth in math and English language arts (ELA) tests, says Elliot Smalley, South Carolina Public Charter School District superintendent.

The cash award is part of a new incentive program, called High Funding Instructionally Valuable Educators (HiFIVE), which rewards teachers whose students improved well above the expected rate of educational growth. The charter district started the HiFIVE program to encourage charter schools to strive for greater academic success, Smalley says.

Student achievement was measured by SAS EVASS, a sophisticated data program that compares state’s test scores by the same group of students from the spring of one year to the spring of the next year. It predicts how much they should have achieved, based on their first year’s scores and how much they have achieved – even accounting for different academic tests, he explains.

The data program is available to every public school district in South Carolina, costing districts nothing to find out how well their students actually are learning from year to year, Smalley says.

Green Charter has been expanding by

one grade each year since it was opened for the 2013-2014 school year, and will open a high school for ninth graders next year.

The other district HiFIVE winners were York Preparatory Academy in Rock Hill, Spartanburg Prep School in Spartanburg, and Royal Live Oaks Academy of the Arts and Sciences in Hardeeville.

The EVASS tool levels the testing evaluation field for schools with mostly lowerscoring students and those with mostly high-performing students. For instance, one of the charter schools that received a low student learning growth rating also had the highest state charter school ranking on test scores. This means the school already has very bright students, who score high on standardized tests, but the school’s students didn’t gain as much knowledge over the 12-month period as the data program predicted, explains Courtney Mills, director of academic programs for the charter district.

But this doesn’t mean that it’s easier

HOW THE STATE’S CHARTER SCHOOLS PERFORMED Of 32 schools: 3 – expected growth 3 – below expected growth 22- significantly below expected growth source: Elliot Smalley, superintendent, South Carolina Charter Schools District

SAS program projects each student’s expected performance MELINDA YOUNG | CONTRIBUTOR

for a low-scoring school to gain more knowledge than a high-scoring school, and Green Charter is an example of this, Mills and Smalley say.

Green Charter’s elementary and middle school students also are among the district’s highest achieving students on state tests, which demonstrates that their teachers didn’t coast on their students’ high scores, but pushed them to achieve even more, Smalley explains.

Green Charter’s students scored first in the charter district in math and were second in English language arts, says Adem Dokmeci, principal.

Smalley visited Greenville, on a recent Wednesday, to present the $5000 award.

All of the money will be distributed directly to teachers.

“We don’t do enough to shine a light on the great things our teachers do,” Smalley says. “So we’re going to come out and applaud the teachers – that’s what this program is about.”

The 3-year-old charter school’s 583 student body of kindergarten through eight graders is very diverse with students representing 35 nationalities. One in four students receives free or reduced school lunches, Dokmeci notes.

“We have 54 percent white, 20 percent Asian, 14 percent African American, and 12 percent Hispanic students,” Dokmeci says. “We have parents who drive their children to school from Easley, Moore, Travelers Rest, Anderson, and all different areas, although most live in Greer, Simpsonville, and Greenville.”

As a state charter school, any child with South Carolina residency can apply to attend. Attendance is based on a lottery system.

Teachers are highly motivated, spending after-school hours tutoring children who are low-achieving and providing math camps, science Olympiad, and other activities for students who are highachieving, Dokmeci says.

“One-third of our teachers also have their own kids at the school, so they’re invested in this environment,” he adds.

myoung@communityjournals.com The South Carolina Public Charter School District uses a complex data program to evaluate actual student learning. The data tool is paid for by the state and is available to all public school districts in South Carolina.

Called SAS EVAAS, the program provides details about each student’s actual learning growth compared with the same student’s expected level of growth. It analyzes results from state tests, including the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS) tests and last year’s ACT Aspire tests.

The data system follows the progress of individual students, giving school districts detailed information about which schools, teachers, and students performed as well as expected from year to year. Progress is measured on a five-point scale with five being the highest ranking. A score of four means they performed above expectations; a three is scoring at expectation; a two is below expectation, and a one is well-below expectation.

Teachers can use the reports to evaluate which students in their classes might need additional enrichment or tutoring. Principals can use the reports to determine which teachers are low-performing and need to be paired with a high-performing teacher to help them improve their effectiveness.

And school districts can use the overall school data to provide incentive rewards to high achieving schools.

SAS EVASS is based on the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS), which comes from methodology developed by researchers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

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Engenius opens 2016 website grant applications

Greenville Family Partnership receives two grants

Upstate web design and online marketing agency, Engenius, has opened applications for its annual grant program.

This program has provided over $150,000 to local nonprofits in the form of web design and online marketing services. This year’s recipient will get a fully developed website, web hosting and support for a minimum of 12 months, with a value of more than $12,000. The application deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, April 22.

To apply online, visit engeniusweb.com.

FASHION

Engenius with Upstate International, the 2015 Engenius Grant recipients, as it reveals its new logo [From L-R: Rachel

Fashion with a Passion raises Cantrell, Engenius account executive; Rachel Testa, Engenius marketing director; Eric Whitlock of 2/29 Design; Tracie Frese, over $150,000 Upstate International executive director; Anita Tam, chairman of the board.]

Safe Harbor hosted its annual Fashion with a Passion event on Thursday, March 10, with more than 450 guests in attendance at the Hyatt Regency. Attendees participated in silent and live

auctions and a runway show featuring the latest spring styles from local boutiques including Copper Penny, J. Britt, Monkee’s of the West End,

Splash on Main, Stella and Dot, Vestique and the Safe Harbor Resale Shop. The event raised $151,776 to support services and programs for victims of

domestic violence.

For more information, visit safeharborsc.org.

Greenville Family Partnership was recently awarded a Youth and Young Adult Prevention Grant and a Community Partnership Grant from the South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative to address tobacco’s impact on South Carolina’s youth and local communities.

The South Carolina TobaccoFree Collaborative provides grants to coalitions and organizations that work to prevent tobacco use initiation among youth, and address current youth and community use of tobacco products. These grants support local community-based organizations that hope to further the state plan, Ending the Epidemic: Plan for a Tobacco-Free South Carolina.

For more information, visit sctobaccofree.org.

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OUR COMMUNITY: Community news, events and happenings SHALOMFEST

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ReWa wins Spirit of Einstein Award

Florida storyteller, Caren Schnur Neile, will present the keynote address at Shalomfest, the Greenville Jewish Federation celebration, held at Temple Israel in Greenville on April 17 at 1 p.m. Neile will speak about her late mentor Roslyn Bresnick-Perry’s work. Perry was an awardwinning storyteller who wrote many short stories. Neile’s edited collection of the works will be available for purchase at the event.

For more information, visit templeofisrael.org/shalomfest.

URBAN FORESTRY

The Roper Mountain Science Center, Greenville County Schools, as well as the Roper Mountain Science Center Association recognized Renewable Water Resources (ReWa) for its business and philanthropic work with the Spirit of Einstein Award. This award is presented to people and organizations for creativity, imagination and innovation and encouraging the study of math and science. ReWa works to inform the community about water conservation through environmental education about local waterways. The organization created the Clean Water Challenge, which engages seventh grade science students. ReWa has also produced the Be Freshwater Friendly public education campaign and Project Rx: A River Remedy that provides information about disposing medication.

For more information, visit rewaonline. org or befreshwaterfriendly.org.

RUN Mental Health America of Greenville hosts color run

Model urban forestry project plants trees in Greenville county subdivision On Friday, March 18, TreesGreenville and the Laurel Grove subdivision in the Five Forks area launched a model urban forestry project to plant 28 trees in the neighborhood. TreesGreenville consulted on where to plant the trees and what species to plant to ensure maximum growth potential, and the Laurel Grove community developed a site plan for the project.

For more information, visit laurelgrovesc.com.

SWIMMING

Mental Health America of Greenville County (MHAGC) will be hosting the Colors4Hope run event on April 9. The race begins at 8:30 a.m. at Trailblazers Park in Travelers Rest. Volunteers are also needed.

To register and find answers to commonly asked questions, visit Colors4Hope. org. Tickets start at $20. All proceeds will go directly to MHAHC programs.

Contributions will also go to help sustain MHAGC in the Greenville community.

For more information, contact the MHAGC office at MHAGC@MHAGC.org.

Tickets cost $20 in advance or $25 at the gate. The classic car line-up begins at 2 p.m.

For more information about the event and charities, and to purchase tickets online, visit blueridge.coop/blueridgefest.

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Class tuition is $75.

Register online at visitpickenscounty.com/ calendar. All fees will be refunded if minimum enrollment requirements are not met.

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FUNDRAISER Papa John’s franchisee rallies support

Open hearth cooking class offered at Hagood Mill The Hagood Mill in Pickens is offering an open hearth cooking and lifestyle class on Saturday, May 7, from 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Students will learn how to cook fried chicken, cream gravy, wild greens, mashed potatoes, creamed corn, sweet potato biscuits, fruit cobbler and whipped cream, without electricity and running water. Instructor Carol Bozarth will also demonstrate how to care for cast iron and how to manage a fire. Students must be

Greenville-based Papa John’s franchisee Perfect Delivery Inc. will help raise funds for the family of fallen Greenville police officer Allen Lee Jacobs. Employees at 19 Papa John’s outlets throughout the Upstate will be collecting donations through Sunday, April 3. Individuals interested in participating in the fundraiser may add a donation onto a pizza order or drop off funds at any of the participating Papa John’s Pizza outlets. Perfect Delivery Inc. will match all funds raised up to $5,000 and present them to Jacobs’ family next month.

For more information, contact Smoak Public Relations at 235-8330.

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ENTERTAINMENT Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative announces event’s featured entertainment

Local YMCA locations offer water safety lessons The YMCA of Greenville, in collaboration with Upstate Pool Management, is hosting a Water Safety Week from March 28-April 1 that will feature free educational information for children ages 3 to 8, and adults. The Caine Halter Family YMCA, the Eastside Family YMCA and the YMCA Program Center-GHS are offering three free 30-minute classes.

Register by visiting one of the locations or calling 412-0288. Financial assistance is available to those in need. For more information visit ymcagreenville. org/aquatics.

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative and Blue Ridge Security Solutions announced that Jay and the Americans, Jimmy Beaumont & The Skyliners and Jim Quick & Coastline will be the featured entertainment for the 19th annual Blue Ridge Fest on Friday, May 6, from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative’s outdoor facility. The event will include a display of more than 500 classic cars. The festival raises money for local non-profit organizations in the Upstate.

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OUR SCHOOLS: Activities, awards and accomplishments

Student Matthew Parcell receives a basketball award from Adam Allenspach, a Chandler parent and former Clemson basketball player.

CHANDLER SCHOOL Students Austin Mark and Seth Cedillo, along with adapted science teacher Cathy Bush, pick out a new class gecko with the help of PetSmart.

WASHINGTON CENTER Students pick out new class pet Students in Kim Skipper’s Washington Center at Hollis class are the new recipients of a classroom pet thanks to funds from a grant received from PetSmart through the Adapted Science Program at Washington Center. The students went on a field trip to PetSmart to pick out the gecko and all the equipment needed to take care of it. The class named him Rocky.

GREENVILLE TECH Phi Theta Kappa chapter wins regional awards Greenville Technical College’s Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society won 16 awards, along with $650 in scholarship money for students to travel to regional conferences at the Carolinas Regional Convention. Members of the group and faculty advisor, Anita Tam, were recognized as first runner-up in the Most Distinguished Chapter category out of 84 chapters in the Carolinas Region.

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY 29 students receive scholarships Twenty-nine Our Lady of the Rosary students were awarded scholarships, totaling $187,000, through the Diocesan St. Thomas Aquinas Scholarship Program.

Chandler School hosts first awards night Students, parents, and faculty gathered for the first Chandler School awards night. Academic and athletic awards were handed out.

FIVE OAKS ACADEMY Chess teams place in state competition The Five Oaks Academy upper elementary and middle school chess teams competed on Wednesday, March 16 in the South Carolina Independent School Association’s (SCISA’s) State chess competition in Sumter. The middle school team finished second out of 19 schools and the upper elementary team finished 10th out of 17 schools. Two members of the middle school team, Ranjan and Thomas, finished in the top ten.

Washington Center students and staff display a sample of flowers available for purchase during the school’s annual spring plant sale.

3rd graders from Blythe Academy met Governor Nikki Haley while touring the State House on a recent field trip.

WASHINGTON CENTER Students participate in gardening program Washington Center’s annual spring plant sale begins Wednesday, April 6 and is open to the public. The greenhouse is full of flowers, including impatiens, petunias, lantana, and geraniums. There are also vegetable plants. Classes participated in every part of the process along with teacher, Cathy Bush.

Students filled containers with soil and planted seeds or plugs, and also helped care for plants in the greenhouse. Money raised will provide funding to continue the gardening program.

Heather Beam, Beth Fleming and their 7th grade students from Einstein Academy recently presented the Live Wax Museum. Students spent weeks preparing by reading biographies and organizing information. Historically significant figures were represented including President Washington and President Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana and Pocahontas, as well as Steve Jobs, Jackie Robinson and Marilyn Monroe.

GREENVILLE TECH Southern First Bank creates endowment A $20,000 gift from Southern First Bank will be used to create an endowment funding scholarships for students attending Greenville Tech.

Once fully funded, the endowment will provide one half scholarship for a deserving student each year, to be used where the need is greatest.

Southern First Bank has supported the college’s mission of driving personal and economic growth through learning before, as a sponsor of the Greenville Tech Foundation’s Entrepreneurs Forum and Workforce Development Salute.

From left: Michelle McCallum of the Greenville Tech Foundation, Fred Gilmer of Southern First Bank, Bob Howard, president of the Greenville Tech Foundation, and Keith Miller, president of Greenville Technical College.

Principal Marianne Tully, Father Dwight Longenecker and St. Thomas Aquinas Scholarship recipients.

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« ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL Students celebrate Easter

The Blessed Triduum and Easter were celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic School on Thursday, March 24.

The seventh grade class performed the Living Stations of the Cross.

Fourth grader, Fiona Novak, shows her Last Supper project.

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K5 students wait to begin the Easter egg hunt.

(Left to right) Baker Ross, Miles Norman, Arabella Good, Felicity Upham and Eliza Carter

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LOOK A community mourns

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The death of Greenville Police Officer Allen Jacobs, wounded our community and Greenville mourned in many different ways. With tears and speeches, prayers and candles, parades and flags, Greenville said goodbye. We look through the lens of social media in a special memorial page online at bit.ly/acommunitymourns.

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The students at Augusta Circle Elementary dressed in blue and formed a heart in honor of Officer Allen Jacobs. Jacobs had visited the school and was part of a zoned patrol for the area.

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See you in the garden with Kathy Slayter

Spring planting Soil temperature key for your vege garden; herbs get a headstart in the house Between origin and goal, the ground and the fruit - lies the path. Well into the spring season, having passed the Vernal Equinox or first day of Spring, when the day and the night are of equal length, most of us gardeners are giddy with ambitious plans for our garden.

My mouth is watering for those Hillbilly, Abe Lincoln and Vinson Watts heirloom tomatoes I will be planting. Easter came early this year due to the full moon cycles. The lustiness of spring is here. With soil test results in hand, as discussed in my last article, and soils amended you can now begin to plant in earnest.

Keeping a watchful eye on the weather and mindful of soil temperature I have planted several types of lettuce, kale, arugula, cilantro, shallots, beets, spinach, parsley and an early row of bush beans (as an experiment) from seed. I have also started basil and other

herbs inside this season. Tomato, Eggplant and Peppers seedlings are up and doing well in the house with plenty of plants to be given away. Shallots, cabbage and onion sets have also gone in the ground. I always plant a small bed of potatoes (seed bought at my local WalMart) — it’s not enough to feed me for long, but I love to dig them up.

To plant, my Dad taught me to halve the spud where it’s “eyes” appear, dry them for a day and then plant. Digging them up in summer reminds me of Easter Egg hunting and my Dad. We always planted them together and I know he is with me in the garden as I plant.

When you pull up a clump of home grown potatoes it is a real thrill! It doesn’t take much to excite me these days. Check out www.clemson.edu/extension for a fantastic planting guide on when to plant, how to plant and how to care for your vegetables here in the upstate.

I wanted to remind you of a few things. If you make raised beds try to keep them no wider than 4 feet and preferably 10-12 foot long. Try not to walk on the soil in the beds for obvious reasons.

Leave room between your beds for a path wide enough to fit your wheel barrow through.

Watch the sun pattern through your yard as it is changing rapidly now if you are not familiar with how it travels. Vegetables need at least six full hours of sun per day.

After April 21 we are safe to set out tomatoes and many summer crops. Eggplant and peppers need really warm soil to do anything so you don’t have to hurry on those things.

Okra can be planted in May if you wish. Don’t stress yourself out trying to get it all done at once. Pace yourself! You want to try to stay ahead of the bug cycle — sure, you know about that! Cucumbers, beans and summer squash all benefit from early plantings as the bugs hit in full force in mid June and will sabotage your crops unless you spray, which I don’t.

I have learned to start these crops early. Be smart and group your veggies with crops that require a lot of water together. For example, herbs prefer dry soil, so think about that and do your research before you plant. Get online now and study how to stake your tomatoes and vining beans and cucumbers so you are ready for them when they start growing.

Plan to apply fish emulsion by mid-April once your plants are up and established and then every 3-4 weeks in the growing cycle. I love fish emulsion as an organic fertilizer. If you set the mower low like I suggested to fertilize, remember to set your mower

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lawn healthier and greener. You can use the clippings in your compost or your garden for mulch after three cuts if you used chemicals on the lawn.

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I dig a hole twice as deep as the plant plus roots. In that hole I put a scoop of powdered milk which adds calcium to the roots. If you do add a balanced fertilizer to the hole be sure none of it touches your root ball.

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Then set the plant in, water to fill the hole, then put dirt over all the stem up to the leaves bending the stem and covering it completely with dirt. This will make good sturdy roots for your plant. Stake it, mulch all around the plant with your choice of mulch ( I use my grass clippings free of chemicals) and then put your cage on. You should keep your plants at least two feet apart so you have room to maneuver through them.

There are heirlooms and hybrids, which have different growing patterns. Look up the difference before you make your buying decisions. Tomatoes rely on deep regular watering and don’t wet the foliage.

Kathy Slayter is a Greenville Realtor and third-generation gardener who became a Clemson-certified Master Gardener in 2007. She is passionate about growing, cooking and eating her homegrown food. Contact her at kathyslayter@gmail.com.

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Pending home sales rose solidly in February to their highest level in seven months and remain higher than a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Led by a sizeable increase in the Midwest, all major regions except for the Northeast saw an increase in contract activity in February.

The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, rose 3.5 percent to 109.1 in February from a downwardly revised 105.4 in January and is now 0.7 percent above February 2015 (108.3). Although the index has now increased year-overyear for 18 consecutive months, last month’s annual gain was the smallest.

Len Fletcher, 2016 President of The Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® and Broker Associate with Re/Max Moves in Simpsonville, SC, says pending sales made promising strides in February, rising to the highest index reading since last July (109.8). “After some volatility this winter, the latest data is encouraging in that a decent number of buyers signed contracts last month, lured by mortgage rates dipping to their lowest levels in nearly a year and a modest, seasonal uptick in inventory,” he said.

“Looking ahead, the key for sustained momentum and more sales than last spring is a continuous stream of new listings quickly replacing what’s being scooped up by a growing pool of buyers. Without adequate supply, sales will likely plateau.”

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“Any further moderation in prices would be a welcome development this spring,” adds Fletcher. “Particularly in the West, where it appears a segment of would-be buyers are becoming wary of high asking prices and stiff competition.”

Existing-homes sales this year are forecast to be around 5.38 million, an increase of 2.4 percent from 2015.

The national median existing-home price for all of this year is expected to increase between 4 and 5 percent.

In 2015, existing-home sales increased 6.3 percent and prices rose 6.8 percent.

The PHSI in the Northeast declined 0.2 percent to 94.0 in February, but is still 12.6 percent above a year ago. In the Midwest the index shot up 11.4 percent to 112.6 in February, and is now 2.5 percent above February 2015.

Pending home sales in the South increased 2.1 percent to an index of 122.4 in February but are 0.4 percent lower than last February. The index in the West climbed 0.7 percent in February to 96.4, but is now 6.2 percent below a year ago.

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clandrum@communityjournals.com Chuck Leavell knew he wanted to make music a career as soon as he saw Ray Charles playing the piano during a concert he attended when he was 13.

And he’s made music with the likes of the Allman Brothers Band, George Harrison, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, and Eric Clapton and, for the past three decades plus, the Rolling Stones.

Leavell, who is sometimes called the fifth Rolling Stone, will play music and tell stories from his music career on April 12.

Leavell dropped out during his senior year of high school and moved to Macon, Ga. where Capricorn Records was being started. Leavell joined the Allman Brothers in 1972.

“I think it was interesting and probably a good thing that the band did not look to try to replace Duane with another guitar player because you just don’t replace Duane Allman,” Leavell told NPR Morning Edition’s David Greene in a 2013 interview. “And so, this brought a whole other texture into the band – you know, having a piano.”

The first album he recorded with the band was “Brothers and Sisters,” which included classics “Ramblin’ Man” and “Jessica.”

“I’ve been very fortunate to have worked with very good musicians,” Leavell said in a 2007 interview with the Greenville Journal.

He joined the Rolling Stones in 1982, banging out hits like “Get Off My Cloud,” “Start Me Up” and “It’s Only Rock and Roll” on the keyboards, sharing the stage in packed stadiums all around the world with Mick Jagger and the rest of the legendary Stones.

“I still pinch myself from time to time.

I’ve had an amazing run and I love playing with them,” Leavell, who called Mick Jagger the most amazing front-man in rock ‘n’ roll and Keith Richards a masterful musician, despite his hard partying ways, told The Journal.

He’ll play some of those hits and share some of his personal stories from his years on tour.

Backstage pass with Chuck Leavell WHAT: Evening of stories and music with Rolling Stones keyboardist WHERE: Upcountry History Museum WHEN: April 12, 7 p.m.

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For generations, the cover of “Rolling Stone” magazine has reflected popular culture.

As chief photographer for “Rolling Stone” from 1967 to 1970, Baron Wolman pioneered a new genre of iconic rock photography. When his friend was starting the magazine, in 1967, Wolman signed on as photographer for free.

“Backstage Pass: Baron Wolman and the Early Years of Rolling Stone,” an exhibit that opens on April 6 at the Upcountry History Museum, looks at how the photographers and editors of “Rolling Stone” guided the creation of the “rock star” persona, from concert to cover to icon.

In its infancy, “Rolling Stone” provided a national voice to the counterculture and gave its readers unprecedented access to musicians before the days of personal branding. Wolman took an unobtrusive approach with his subjects and that technique resulted in photographs and magazine covers that captured a rawness and emotion of the artists and a generation.

“Backstage Pass” will allow visitors to rediscover the music they loved or discover these artists for the first time,” said Upcountry History Museum Curator of Collections Kelly Smith. “The photographs featured are from a period when the United States was in turmoil, but left us with music that inspired.”

Feeding the heightened political and cultural climate of the time, featured artists Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger and Frank Zappa came to represent generational ideas through music, words and visual imagery.

“I really love music, and I can’t play

Backstage Pass: Baron Wolman and the Early Years of Rolling Stone WHEN: April 6 through May 22 WHERE: Upcountry History Museum ADMISSION: Adults: $6, Seniors 65 and up and college students with ID, $5; Children and students ages 4 to 18, $4; Children age 3 and under and museum members, free.

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music, and I feel a great affection for the people who can and make me happy,” Wolman told the Wilkes-Barre (Penn.)

Times Leader in January. “Therefore, I tried in my photography to give them a level of excellence that matched the level of excellence of the music they were giving me.”

Wolman told the Times Leader he hoped the exhibit gives people a little understanding of what it was like to be alive in the 1960s.

“I always think that my pictures are a window into a very significant time in our society,” Wolman told the paper.

“There were changes going on, very dramatic changes, and I think the music certainly played a role in those changes.

This gives them an opportunity, just a brief opportunity, to experience visually what I experienced.”

The exhibit includes framed photographs, contact sheets and original magazine covers.

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HUANGRY Sensual and Not-So-Sensual Meals with Andrew Huang

A salad worth the chewing and broccoli, grape tomatoes, chopped bits of red onion, and smoky candied walnuts.

It’s then tossed with a subtle basil dressing.

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Saturday, April 9 Downtown Greenville The place: Sidewall Pizza Co. The order: Smoky Salad I know it seems like I really love food. And for the most part, I do. But I have a confession to make: There is one genre of food I really dislike. We’re talking serious, deep-seated, visceral distaste. That genre of food? Salads.

To be clear, I’m talking about your bogstandard green salad, the kind where lettuce and other leafy things predominate in volume and density. I know you can add in tons of things to spice up your salad—whole grains, meats, fish, nuts, fruit, cheese—but in my opinion, all that does is distract from how underwhelming the vegetable bits are, and it’s tempting to overload on those toppings to the point where the greens are an afterthought.

As with many deep-seated biases, you can trace my distaste for salad to my childhood.

That formative period is when I began associating salads with semi-wilted iceberg lettuce, dried out matchstick carrots, and slices of unripe tomatoes. Those salads were only good for one thing: transporting Thousand Island dressing into my mouth.

(I really loved Thousand Island as a kid. It reminded me of Big Macs and their special sauce, and, incidentally, how I’d much rather be eating a Big Mac than a salad.)

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It’s visually vibrant—a collection of deep purples and greens, hazard yellows, bright reds, creamy whites, and toasted browns, all topped off with a pleasing sheen from the dressing. It’s also a dynamic and playful salad, as every bite offers something different. The exact ratio of mild, creamy cheese, firm corn, bursting tomatoes, silky greens, crunchy walnuts, and punchy onions varies bite-to-bite, which means there’s no monotony here.

As unappetizing as those salads were, the bigger crime was that they were boring. You’ve had iceberg lettuce before, right? It’s monotonous to chew—watery, bland, flavorless, and not particularly filling—and even the crunch of a fresh leaf feels halfhearted. As a result, I’ve been conditioned to recoil from raw, leafy things.

Even so, every spring, when temperatures start climbing and everything begins blooming, it makes sense that I should try to like salads. After all, a pot roast is much less appetizing when it’s 80 degrees outside.

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Luckily, I found Sidewall Pizza’s Smoky Salad. To start, there’s nothing boring about this incarnation of spring mix. The organic leafy base—which forms the majority of the salad—is topped with roasted corn

Furthermore, there’s an undeniable fresh sweetness to this salad. It’s neither sugary sweet, nor does the dressing take over the way an over-application of balsamic vinaigrette can. It’s a balanced presentation that actually allows the produce to shine.

Is this one salad enough to overturn decades of ingrained intolerance? Probably not, but at $6 a bowl, I’m willing to give it a shot.

PROS + It’s a really pretty salad. + Each bite delivers something different, which means this salad is actually interesting to eat. + At $6, it doesn’t feel like you’re overpaying for raw vegetables. + Sidewall’s downtown Greenville location is opening soon, which means a slightly shorter trip for those who don’t live near Travelers Rest.

CONS - “Smoky” is a bit misleading—the corn and broccoli are lightly roasted, and so there’s not a really heavy smokiness.

- You’re at a pizza place, which means you’ll probably still order a pizza, wiping out the health benefits of this salad.

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Andrew Huang is the senior editor of TOWN Magazine. Follow his food misadventures on Twitter and Instagram at @ rooftoptales and #huangry.

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Influential art Exhibit highlights Carl Blair’s impact on local artists CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com There are few – if any – artists who have had more of an impact on Greenville’s artists than Carl Blair.

For the past half century, Blair, a retired art professor at Bob Jones University, has been a stalwart of the Greenville arts community and an inspiration for generations of students and other visual artists.

That influence and inspiration is recognized in the current Metropolitan Arts Council exhibit, “Artists Touched by Carl R. Blair,” a show featuring 55 works by artists influenced or inspired by Blair.

Amy Price Panosian has taken several of Blair’s classes.

“Some of the many phrases Mr. Blair said that influenced me are “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” and “art is 90 percent perspiration and 10

percent inspiration,” she said in her exhibition catalogue tribute to Blair.

“I wish I could take a class from him again,” she wrote, “27 years later.”

Blair’s barnyard animal sculptures inspired Raymond Giddens to try some whimsical garden sculpture of his own.

“I loved the whimsical wooden pieces of Carl’s I saw at his home during Open Studios and at the Greenville art museum,” Giddens said. “My garden sculptures are usually powder coated with translucent color to allow the polished metal to gleam through. I then paint some detail work and clear coat the entire sculpture.”

Diane Kilgore Condon said in her tribute that she briefly considered transferring from Bob Jones University in her sophomore year. Blair, her professor, listened as she worked through the pros and cons. After a few conversations, he told her, “Well honestly, I don’t see you as much of a quitter.”

“I wasn’t. And I didn’t – and it’s probably the reason I’m still here,” Condon wrote. “Trude Heller, Greenville’s first

mayor’s wife, and Holocaust survivor, spoke at my daughter’s school…Among the things she said was that she always wants to tell the stories of the people who helped her.

“Carl Blair helped the trajectory of my life form and went on to inform my character and my work,” wrote Condon, founder of the ArtBomb. “He is responsible for a great deal of what is lovely in my life.”

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The music of Jim & The Limbs is an interesting mix of pure-pop melodies encased in a shell of heavy guitar noise, which is exactly how singer/songwriter/ guitarist James Wesley Nichols envisioned it. “I grew up on the early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett,” Nichols says, “and it had this really trebly guitar sound with a lot of echo. There’s a lot of that psychedelic ‘60s guitar playing in what we do, but also a lot of ‘70s punk rock, especially Richard Hell & The Voidoids and every lick that Johnny Thunders ever played, either with the New York Dolls or the Heartbreakers. There’s a lot of Sonic Youth noise-rock in there, too. As far as the pop side of things, Nichols says it’s “drawn from everything from ‘50s Rock ‘n’ Roll like Buddy Holly on through the British Invasion with bands like The Kinks and a lot of ‘60s girl groups. All of that factors in to how our songs sound.”

After spending most of her adult life on the road touring, singer/songwriter Angela Easterling is now a mother of two. And no one’s more surprised about it than her. “I was definitely leading the life of a single musician,” Easterling says, “spending a lot of time on the road, not really planning on having a family, and then I just happened to fall in love with the guy I hired to play lead guitar with me.” Easterling’s newest album, Common Law Wife, deals with her new life, and it’s an infectiously melodic work that mixes upbeat rock and acoustic folk. Easterling says that writing about her family was something she had to adjust to. “I wondered if I should share that,” she says. “But I think a big part of being an artist and a songwriter is sharing your own truth. When you do that, it’s amazing to find out how many people can relate.”

AN EVENING OF DANCE & MUSIC W/ DISCORDIA ARTS, FEATURING MORGAN OF THE PINES Moe Joe Coffee, 20 S. Main St., Greenville Thursday, April 7th, 7:45 p.m.

You can call what the dancers from Discordia Arts do “belly dancing” if you want, but dancer and Discordia co-director Jaidra DuRant would like you to know that it’s not that simple.

“Bellydancing is really an umbrella term,” she says, “and there are tons of styles underneath that umbrella.” And at Moe Joe Coffee next Thursday, Discordia will be dipping into as many of those styles as possible, accompanied for part of the performance by Morgan Of The Pines, an Upstate group led by singer/guitarist Rex Akins. The group specializes in Gothic Appalachian bluesfolk-rock, heavy on the macabre. “Most of the time when we work with a musical group, we ask them to provide us with a list of songs,” DuRant says. “We listen to them and pick a few and tell them, ‘We’d like to dance to these three songs if you’re OK with that.’ We don’t get together with them and practice, though. Everything we do onstage when we dance is improv.”

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The Poetry ofnowPlace on view

Amid the cacophany of an election year, the exhibition The Poetry of Place offers a respite and reminder that our country, and particularly the South, is home. From the colorful streets of New Orleans to the misty swamps of Florida to the undulant Smoky Mountains, The Poetry of Place invites you to re-discover America, where a picture is worth a thousand words.

Rudolph Ingerle (1879-1950) Evening Sky, circa 1925

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Get outside!

These guides are great companions for hikers, bikers It’s officially Spring, and time to take advantage of living near fantastic hiking and mountain biking trails! Here’s a guide to three guides that will walk you through some of the best hiking our state – and the surrounding area – has to offer. ”Hiking and Mountain Biking Pisgah Forest”

by Jim Parham

Must-See Movies

By Eric Rogers

Peek behind the curtain Movies about movies show it’s not all glitz and glamour Making movies is tough, as the following two documentaries reveal. Both were made with behind the scenes footage that was shot during the production of large Hollywood films. In one case, the filmmakers prevailed, but not so much in the other.

These trials were captured on film by Coppola’s wife, Eleanor, and later pieced together into this fascinating behind the scenes documentary. The film has a 100 percent critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes.com.

Since I grew up in Pisgah Forest, I am going to lead with this brand new guide to the national forest. Located in Transylvania County, there’s never a shortage of cool sounding destinations – from Graveyard Fields to Pink Beds to Devil’s Courthouse. This has details of 20 day hikes, 12 overnight hikes, 29 mountain bike rides, and 21 waterfalls.

“Waterfalls and Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachians: Thirty Great Hikes”

by Timothy P. Spira This guide not only directs you to some great local waterfalls but it also targets plant lovers – or those who would like to learn more about them. Along with information about the trail difficulty and length, you will also learn about the plant communities you will pass through and the birds and other animals that you are likely to encounter along your way. ”Hiking South Carolina Foothills Trail”

by Scott Lynch With very concise but thorough hiking directions from each end of the 76.2 mile Foothills National Recreation Trail which begins and ends in South Carolina, this is a great pocket guide. It is the type you take out on the trail with you. It’s compact enough that it doesn’t weigh very much and it leaves out any extraneous information which may be interesting to read but not interesting enough to lug around in your pack. It only includes the necessities – like water sources. For each water source it will tell you how far you are from the next water source. It also details what to expect your daily mileage to be, and where to camp on several day through hikes.

It really simplifies trip planning.

Reviewed by Laura Chabot of Poor Richard’s Booksellers, 107 West Main Street, Easley, 859-0687.

“Lost in La Mancha” Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse” Directed by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola & Francis Ford Coppola In 1979, Francis Ford Coppola released what many think is the greatest anti-war film of all time, “Apocalypse Now.” It was based on a novella from 1902 by Joseph Conrad called Heart of Darkness. Conrad’s book is about a man named Marlow who travels up the Congo in search of a man named Kurtz only to find that he has gone mad.

“Apocalypse Now” is set in Vietnam in 1969 and is about a man named Captain Willard who is assigned to find an AWOL Army Colonel, also named Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando.

Coppola said of the film, “Apocalypse Now is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam.”

The film is largely about the descent into madness, and making the film was almost a descent into madness for Coppola and others. There were countless problems.

Brando arrived very much overweight and unprepared. Martin Sheen, who played Willard, had a mental breakdown and a heart attack. Expensive sets were destroyed by the weather and a six-week shoot turned into 16 months.

Terry Gilliam was the only American member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. By the late ‘90s he had found success directing films such as “Twelve Monkeys,” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” In 2000, he decided to make a film adaptation of Don Quixote starring Johnny Depp. Gilliam decided to shoot the film in Spain to save on costs. On the first day of shooting, military planes disrupted the shoot by performing maneuvers overhead.

The following day a torrential downpour occurred causing flash flooding that damaged some of the gear and altered the desert landscape where they had been shooting. After a few days of shooting the actor playing Quixote developed a herniated disc making it impossible to ride a horse, which was crucial to the story.

This series of mishaps was recorded and turned into this fascinating documentary about a great film that was never completed.

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

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Notes on the Music Scene with Vincent Harris

Deep Roots Records a leg up for artists to promote their sound

When Jake Garrett, who performs as John, The Revelator, formed the DeepRoots Family Records label in 2010, it was simply to put out his own work. Garrett is a prolific songwriter, and he had a backlog of material he wanted to get out. But in addition to releasing his own brand of dark acoustic folk-blues, Garrett always had a bigger plan in mind.

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“From touring, I’d met a lot of talented INFO: 283-7868; http://www. people,” he says. “These were people radioroomgreenville.com/home/ who were very good who weren’t getting opportunities to release their work; they saw that possibility as far-fetched. And I felt that I could show these people that it’s not that farfetched. You’ve got the talent within you, now here’s the logistics of how you do the not-sofun part of it.

So in 2014, Garrett and DeepRoots’ Head Of Operations Brittany Watson registered the label as an LLC and began signing other artists. Garrett works as their producer and as a musician on their songs, and came up with a plan for the artists that helped them book shows, learn how to move from the stage to the recording studio and how to promote themselves.

“It just seemed like a great way to get our music out there,” Watson says. “We all contribute to the label, whether it’s musically or with booking or promotion. It’s a grass-roots company, and we feel like a really big family. Jake really believes in these musicians and has faith in their music, and this is his way of getting their music out there and helping them. We like to view ourselves as a stepping stone for people to get their music out there and be heard and possibly get picked up by a bigger label.”

In addition to John The Revelator, DeepRoots Family Records current roster includes Before There Were Gods (a vocals-bass-drums trio that specializes in corrosively heavy noise-rock), the bluesy trio Mason Jar Menagerie, electronic-music duo Soulless Robots, the frenetic indie-rock outfit Dables and two acoustic singer/songwriters, The Last Southern Gentleman (aka Chad Hudson) and Amy Lynne Reed.

“With Deep Roots behind me, the production has come into focus and it’s really given a structure that I wouldn’t have had otherwise,” Reed says. “Jake is able to take the raw sound that he hears and the ideas of the artist and combine them together in ways that you wouldn’t, as a singer/songwriter, have been able to do on your own. It’s a big confidence-booster. I’d gotten discouraged, and backed off of playing music and thought it would never be possible.

And when I finally saw everything he was doing and how he had put everything together, it suddenly just revitalized everything for me and gave me a hope that I didn’t have before.”

The label has planned a showcase concert this Friday at the Radio Room, with John The Revelator, Mason Jar Menagerie, The Last Southern Gentleman and Amy Lynne Reed performing. “It’s a way to show that you can transcend genres and put these different acts together and show them to the same crowd,” Garrett says. “I think a lot of people don’t know they like certain types of music until they hear it, and they’ve just never been exposed to it. It’s a way to open up the crowd to different genres.”

Vincent Harris covers music and sports for The Greenville Journal.

Reach him at vharris@communityjournals.com

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April 1

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The evolution of Borderlands A home for the geek in everyone hosts Comicon this weekend VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

vharris@communityjournals.com

Every year from 1996 to 2010, Robert Young and Stan Reed would go to dinner.

Reed was the owner of Borderlands, a comics, games and hobby shop on Laurens Road., and Young was his former store manager. And every year, Young tried to buy Borderlands from Reed.

“Every year Stan would make me buy dinner and then tell me ‘No’,” Young says. “It became our running gag.”

In 2010 though, something changed. “I went to dinner with Stan, and he bought dinner,” Young says. “He wrote a number on the back of the receipt, and he slid it across and said, ‘You deserve your chance.’”

To know what this meant to Young, we have to go back a bit. He was from a military family (the Navy, specifically), and moved constantly throughout his childhood. “By the time I was 20, I’d lived in more than 20 places that I could remember,” he says. “The only things I could always find were comics and baseball cards. So they bring me back to this thing that’s comfortable.”

Young eventually settled in WinstonSalem, where he was a frequent customer at the local comic shop, called Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find. Reed, whom Young calls his mentor, was in upper management with Heroes at the time.

“They had three locations, and one of

them was in Greenville,” Young says. “I’d shopped in there, and they knew I had retail experience, I’d managed for some major chains. And they asked me if I wanted to manage a comics shop. I took the job, having never seen the store or the city, because I wanted an adventure.

Now here we are 25 years later, and I own a comic book shop.”

After six months of negotiation, ending with a number that Young laughingly says both he and Reed were “uncomfortable with,” Young became the owner of Borderlands, and immediately set out to put his store on the map, not just as a successful retail spot, but as a community hub.

“From the beginning I said, ‘I’m running a business, yes, but what I also want to do is create a place where geeks, people like me, feel comfortable,” he says. “Where I can walk in and it’s OK that I like “Star Wars” or that I want to talk about Warhammer or Batman. We want people to feel like family as best we can. That’s a larger success than anything we’ve done numbers-wise: Creating something where people feel comfortable.”

It’s that customer-first attitude, along with a cinematic resurgence in comic book heroes, that’s driven Borderlands’ success in the last five years. “I’ve been doing it for 25 years and all of a sudden everyone else is looking at it and going, ‘Hey, this is kind of cool!’ Young says.

“So people are more open-minded to the medium, but I think there’s a misconception that because there’s a new Captain America movie, people are rushing into comic book stores. There are new POTENTIAL customers out there, but you have to reach out to them.”

One of the most visible things Bor-

Furman University, Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Hwy. 8-9:30 p.m. | $12/adult, $10/senior, $5/student The Furman Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo will present a concert featuring guest trumpeter Tito Carrillo. Carrillo is has established himself as a fixture in the Chicago jazz and Latin music scenes. Furman’s Dr. Matt Olson conducts the performance which includes music by Charlie Parker, George and Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hernandez, Bronislau Kaper, and Maria Schneider, among other composers.

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Robert Young, owner of Borderlands, below, says he’s creating a community where people feel comfortable, not just a store.

derlands is doing to reach out is the SC Comicon, an annual event at the TD Convention Center that the store hosts. SC Comicon begins Saturday, and the list of guests scheduled to appear is nearly 200 names long. “We reached out and got Greg Capullo, an artist for Batman, who only does five or six shows a year,” Young says. “We got George Perez, the first guy to draw Deathstroke and Nightwing, We got Neal Adams, creator of Ras Al Ghul from Batman and a legend in our industry.”

It’s an impressive collection of guests, especially for an independently-run convention. But Young says that as its reputation for good work grew, Borderlands started attracting attention.

“When it matters every day how you treat people, over time, your reputation starts to grow. And when you put that same attitude into a convention, word spreads pretty fast.”

For more information, visit sccomicon. com or borderlands.us.

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150 women who register. group. The retreat is limited to the first of the facility determines the size of our Please understand the seating capacity

Homemade Desserts 3. Restoration from the Raw Grip of Loss Also thanks to: Thomas McAfee Funeral Home Please join Mom/Grief us forRecovery a dayFacilitator of encouragement, Lori Worley, Our Wonderful Volunteers 8:15 RegistrationSalad Plate pampering, loving support, comfort food, Phone #: 8:45 Opening Session -Menu Kathy Schultz Psalms 46:10 Lunch authentic presenters, theencouragement, love of Please join us and for sharing a day of pampering, loving support, comfort food, Deadline to register is April 5th.

9:30 Break Checks may be made to FBC Simpsonville. that am God.” Email: Christ, our Great Healer andIComforter.

Ruth our Green, SusanHealer Jones and Comforter. authentic presenters and sharing the love Christ, 9:45of Circle of FriendsGreat (Share our Stories) Simpsonville, SC 29681 “ Be still and know Laura Boehm, Rebecca Ferguson Name of Child: We welcome mothers at all points along of all faiths We welcome mothers andFirst at all points 10:45 Small Groupalong Sessiontheir journey 3 Hedge Street Music Provided by their journey of healing regardlessof of the the age Group of healing regardless age of the11:35 childSecond or theSmall length ofSession time since the death. (For Memory Wall)FBC Simpsonville Foundational Scripture: of the child or the length of time since the 12:20 Lunch Convention • Please circle 4 sessions from the first list on death. registration fee to: 1:05 Third Group Session Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist the back. You may number them in order of 2:00 Ending Session - Dr. Frank Page • Please return this form with the $10 To honor the memory of our children, those Dr. Frank Page - President and CEO, Chief interest and we will do our best to select 2 the retreat.

Session 3 Choices. who wish may bring a pictureat ofthe herend childofto classes from your choices for Session 1 & 2 Our Guest Presenters The pictures will be returned Kathy Schultz - Mother and Bible Teacher display Small Small Groups...then Groups...then select select only only 1 1 from from display on on our our Memory Memory Wall Wall for for the the day. day.

101 Church Street Kathy Schultz - Mother and Bible Teacher The pictures will be returned Our Guest Presenters classes your choices for Session 1 & 2 who wish may bring a pictureat ofthe herend childofto Sessionfrom 3 Choices.

Registration: 8:30 am • Registration Cost - $10.00 (Includes the retreat. interest and we will do our best to select 2 Dr. Frank Page - President and CEO, lunch) Chief To honor the memory of our children, those • Please return this form with the $10 2:00 Ending Session - Dr. Frank Page the back. You may number them in order of Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist 1:05 Third Group Session registration fee to: death.

To RSVP & receive registration brochure, please contact: • Please circle 4 sessions from the first list on Convention 12:20 Lunch of the child or the length of time aadholman@gmail.com since the • 864-979-3198 FBC Simpsonville Foundational Scripture: 11:35 Second SmallProvided Group Session (For Memory Wall) their journey of healing regardless of the age Music by jan@pdtm.us • 864-963-3543 3 Hedge Street 10:45 First Small Group Session We welcome mothers at all know points along Name of Child: Laura Boehm, Rebecca Ferguson “ Be still and Simpsonville, SC 29681 Brochures and Small Group descriptions be found at :(Share www.fb 9:45canCircle of Friends our csimpsonville.org Stories) Ruth Green, Susan Jones Christ, our Great Healer andIComforter.

Email: that am God.” Checks may be made to FBC Simpsonville.

9:30 Break authentic presenters, and Psalms sharing 46:10 the love of Lunch -Menu Deadline to register is April 5th.

8:45 Opening Session Kathy Schultz Phone #: pampering, loving support, comfort food, 8:15 RegistrationSalad Plate Please join us for a day of encouragement, Please understand the seating capacity of the facility determines the size of our Homemade Desserts Over the Rainbow Gift Shop

Saturday, April 9, 2016 • 9:00 am - 3:30 pm First Baptist Church, Simpsonville

MACKEY MORTUARY group. The retreat is limited to the first the Day Coffee, Tea, and Water will PARK be available Child WOODLAWN FUNERAL HOME MEMORIAL 150 women who register.

Address: for theSchedule day.

DILLARD-HILLCREST PARK throughout FUNERALS & CREMATIONS Have Experienced The Death ofMEMORIAL a Name: GREENVILLE MEMORIAL GARDENS A Day Retreat For Women Who PALMETTO CREMATION SERVICE Registration Form OCONEE MEMORIAL PARK

TICKET OFFICE LAST CHANCE APRIL 7, 6:30 P.M. OUTCRY Bon Secours Wellness Arena Cost: $103.95, $52.95, $42.95, $32.95 To purchase tickets: 800-745-3000; GSP Box Office at The Bon Secours Wellness Arena; ticketmaster.com Info: Hillsong Worship, Kari Jobe, Jesus Culture, Passion, Elevation Worship, Marin Smith, Brian Houston Submit your Last Minute Ticket Sales for Upstate Events at bit.ly/LastTicketsGville For Upcoming Ticket Sales, enter them at bit.ly/UpcomingTicketsGJ

EDUCATION

Greenville Million March Against Child Abuse County Square 301 University Ridge 1-4 p.m.

FREE Event to raise awareness concerning child abuse. People + Signs = Change 770-330-4423 greenvillemmaca@gmail.com

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thru April 3

CONCERT

FAMILY

The Greenville Symphony Orchestra presents Poetry and Drama of Life

Off the Wall: Scientists as Artists

Peace Center | 300 S. Main St. Tickets range from $17-$60 April 2 at 8 p.m. and April 3 at 3 p.m.

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FAMILY

Trivial Pursuit: Travel to Idaho The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. Sat. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. and Sun. 2 p.m.

Free with admission

NEW 2ND OFFICE LOCATION NOW OPEN! 135 Botanical Circle, Travelers Rest, SC 29690

Did you know that Idaho was known as the “Potato capital of the world?” Learn about Idaho’s most famous crop today with hands-on activities and stamping. tcmupstate.org FAMILY

iMAGINE Upstate Festival fueled by Scansource

“ 2015

This very special concert opens with a tribute to one of Greenville’s great community leaders, the late Tommy Wyche, as we play one of his very own compositions, Moonbeams. The evening continues with the dramatic and deeply heartfelt incidental music of Grieg’s Peer Gynt and concludes with the grandiose finale, Sibelius’ patriotic Second Symphony.

467-3000 | greenvillesymphony.org todd@greenvillesymphony.org

Dr. Tarvin has been wonderful to work with for my first hearing aid. Initially I went elsewhere for the testing and receiving recommendations, but just did not feel comfortable with the costs presented or services. This small, local business understands taking care of patients.

Wish I had gone there initially. I was very reluctant to get a hearing aid, but glad I did (so is my wife!) - and am happy with the services from Davis Audiology.

– Paul Wetzel, Simpsonville, SC

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Fluor Field & Main Street | 945 S Main St. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE iMAGINE Upstate fueled by ScanSource is a celebration and showcase around STEAM, innovation, creative and entrepreneurial activity in the Upstate. In addition to the street experience, the festival features six unforgettable track stages. Plan your day and win prizes by downloading the app in Google Play or the App Store. #imagineIF 656-1863 | imagineupstate.org info@imagineupstate.org

April 2 & 8

Davis

CONCERT

Redleg Husky Live

Kristin Davis, Au.D. Doctor of Audiology

Alexandra Tarvin, Au.D. Doctor of Audiology

Over 20 Years Experience Improving Patient Satisfaction With Their Hearing HealthCare

4318 East North Street, Greenville, SC 29615 135 Botanical Circle, Travelers Rest, SC 29690 www.davisaudiology.com

CALL 864-655-8300 TODAY FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT!

April 2, 3-5 p.m., Quest Brewing 55 Airview Dr. April 8, 9:30-11:30 p.m., Velo Fellow, 1 Augusta St. #26 FREE Americana/roots trio Redleg Husky (Asheville, NC) brings their unique blend of boot-stompin’ folk. redleghusky.com redleghusky@gmail.com

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. | 2-4 p.m.

Free with admission Gear up for Imagine Upstate in Downtown Greenville this week by participating in art projects with a science focus. Ages 5+. Off the Wall takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 1 to 4 p.m. on weekends. tcmupstate.org

thru April 5 EDUCATION

Apple iPhone: Doing More Verizon Wireless Store 1227 Sandifer Blvd., Seneca April 2, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

3513 Clemson Blvd, Anderson April 2, 8-9 a.m.

4 Market Point Dr April 5, 11 a.m.-noon FREE This class is perfect if you want to learn the advanced features of your iPhone.

225-4626 | bit.ly/VerizonWorkshopsSp2016

April 5-7 CAMP

Greenville County Senior Retreat Pleasant Ridge Camp and Retreat Center 4232 Highway 11, Marietta noon-11 a.m. | $100 each Whether you are hiking, trying your skills on the zip line, taking an arts and crafts class or just enjoying the charming atmosphere in a rocking chair on the porch – not to mention the great food prepared just for your group – you’ll love the Greenville County Senior Retreat at Pleasant Ridge Camp and Retreat Center.

This retreat is designed for adults ages 50+ who reside in Greenville County.

660-1065 | jdilworth@greenvillecounty.org greenvillerec.com/event/greenville-countysenior-retreat-2/

April 5-9 FAMILY

Story Time and More: April Showers Bring May Flowers The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. | 10 & 11 a.m. & 1 p.m.

Free with admission

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We have all heard that April showers bring May flowers. Come join us as we celebrate spring. Children will have fun making an umbrella craft and listening to a book about rain. For ages 5 and under. tcmupstate.org

April 5-10 FAMILY

Off the Wall: Trivial Pursuit Art The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. Tues.-Fri. 2-4 p.m. and Sat. 1-4 p.m.

Free with admission Travel through the fifty states in this week’s art project. Ages 5+. tcmupstate.org

April 6 LAUNCH

Porsche of Greenville Grand Opening and 911 Launch Porsche of Greenville | 2668 Laurens Road 5:30-8:30 p.m.

FREE Celebrate the Porsche of Greenville grand opening with complimentary hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment, and the launch of the new 2017 Porsche 911. This red carpet event will include a drawing for the Porsche Driving Experience. The experience will include a Personal Driving Coach, the opportunity to drive the Porsche 911 and refreshments at the cafe.

501-3690 | VIPReply.com jgarcia@forcemktg.com EDUCATION

Retirement: More than Money, Much More

April 7 CONCERT

Outcry, featuring Hillsong Worship & Kari Jobe Bon Secours Wellness Arena 6:30 p.m. $32.95-$103.95 Outcry 2016 is coming to Greenville featuring Hillsong Worship, Kari Jobe, Jesus Culture, Elevation Worship, Martin Smith and Brian Houston. bonsecoursarena.com/event/outcry/ CONCERT

Build-A-Band 3.0 Independent Public Alehouse 110 Poinsett Hwy. Upstate musicians combine to form brand-new bands for a night.

552-1265 ipagreenville.com CONCERT

KICK: The INXS Experience w/ The Boo Jays as Metallica Radio Room 2845 N. Pleasantburg Dr. Two great, but very different, bands get a one-night tribute show.

263-7868 radioroomgreenville.com CONCERT

Arvie & Bunny Bennett

LET’S ADD A DIPLOMA TO THAT

Smiley’s Acoustic Café 111 Augusta St. FREE Country music duo.

282-8988 smileysacousticcafe.com

PURPLE HEART

ARTS EVENT

Upcountry History Museum-Furman University 540 Buncombe St. | noon-1 p.m.

FREE

Paintings by Armin Mühsam on Display in Furman’s Thompson Gallery

Furman University High Noon Series presents Dr. Jack Hansen, author of “Shaping a Life of Significance for Retirement.” He’ll discuss what really gives satisfaction and fulfillment once we leave full-time career pursuits. Hansen, a former NASA executive, offers a perspective born of in-depth interviews with retired men and women from all parts of the U.S. What emerges is the importance of preparing for and living into the personal and relational dimensions of this life stage.

467-3100 upcountryhistory.org/programs/high-noonlecture-series-2/ info@upcountryhistory.org

Furman University Thompson Gallery of Roe Art Bldg.

3300 Poinsett Hwy. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday FREE

WE OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS THAT CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO JOBS FOR THE BRAVE SOLDIERS WHO HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY, SO THAT THEY CAN PURSUE THEIR DREAMS. IF YOU KNOW A VETERAN WHO NEEDS A HELPING HAND, HAVE THEM CONTACT US TODAY.

Paintings by Northwest Missouri State University Professor of Art Armin Mühsam will be on display in the Thompson Gallery. A reception with Mühsam is set for Tuesday, April 5, 6 -7:30 p.m., with a talk by the artist at 6:30 p.m. in the gallery. The exhibition, “Clear Cut Spaces,” is presented by the Furman University Department of Art. 294-2074 newspress.furman.edu/?p=21174 marta.lanier@furman.edu

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Furman University Chamber Choir April 7, 8-9:30 p.m. • Furman University • Daniel Memorial Chapel • 3300 Poinsett Hwy. • $12/adults, $10/seniors, $5/students 294-2086 • newspress.furman.edu/?p=21633 • furmanmusic@furman.edu Under the direction of William Thomas and accompanied by University Organist Charles Tompkins, the Chamber Choir will take full advantage of the Daniel Chapel setting and the Hartness organ in presenting an evening of sacred choral music. Highlighting the performance is a rendering of Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece “Rejoice in the Lamb,” a cantata for four solo voices and choir written in 1943.

« DHEC Upstate National Public Health HEALTH/FITNESS

Week Open House

Greenville County Health Department 200 University Ridge | 4-6:30 p.m.

FREE DHEC Upstate Public Health Region is celebrating National Public Health Week between April 4-10. Join us for our first ever Public Health Open House at the Upstate Headquarters. Learn all about what the local public health departments have to offer.

Enjoy fun health characters for children, free refreshments, health education information, healthy food demonstrations and general health screenings - including a free body fat analysis and blood pressure check.

282-4100 | scdhec.gov | halllm@dhec.sc.gov

April 8

Learn about bears in Alaska and create your own bear mask on this Fantastic Friday. tcmupstate.org CONCERT

GlowRage w/ Stoags Ground Zero 3052 Howard St., Spartanburg Tickets: $16-$20 Electronic dance-music group.

948-1661 | reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2 CONCERT

Ryan Hutchens Moe Joe Coffee (Greenville) 20 S. Main St. Singer/songwriter combines folk, indiepop, Americana.

263-3550 | moejoecoffeeandmusic.net

FAMILY

April 8-10

Fantastic Fridays: Travel to Alaska

CONCERT

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 10-10:30 a.m. | Free with admission

The Greenville Symphony Orchestra presents Some Enchanting Evening Peace Center, Gunter Theatre | 300 S. Main St.

April 8 at 8 p.m.; April 9 at 8 p.m.; April 10 at 3 p.m. | $43 The Greenville Symphony Orchestra presents its final Chamber Orchestra concert of the 2015-16 season with Some Enchanting Evening featuring GSO Concertmaster Xiaoqing Yu. Enjoy some delightful hits of the violin repertoire in this beautiful concert.

467-3000 | greenvillesymphony.org todd@greenvillesymphony.org

April 9 FUNDRAISER

Kelley’s Kure Run/Walk Five Forks Baptist Church, parking lot 112 Batesville Rd, Simpsonville 8:10-9:30 a.m. | $16, $26, or $29 In honor and memory of a wife, a mom, a daughter, a daughter-in-law, a friend, a very special young woman, Kelley Upchurch. And to bring hope to those facing the challenges of this disease – to raise funds for S.C. Ovarian Cancer Foundation and cherished memory builders Let There

Be Mom while bringing awareness for the cancer. Help us to bring hope.

979-6432 | sonyashepherd@hotmail.com go-greenevents.com/event/id/4962 FAMILY

Kids Fest @ Heritage Green presented

by Primrose School-Greenville Heritage Green | 10 a.m.-noon FREE Kids Fest at Heritage Green, presented by Primrose School of Greenville, is an annual celebration to kick off Week of the Young Child. This festival is geared towards our youngest learners and is filled with age appropriate activities for kids 1-5 years old. Each Heritage Green entity will have a booth on the lawn with opportunities for families to experience what their museum or entity provides our community every day. tinyurl.com/kidsfestheritagegreen

WANT TO SEE YOUR EVENT HERE? Complete our easy-to-use online form at www.bit.ly/GJCalendar by Monday at 5 p.m. to be considered for publication in that week’s Journal.

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that WHR Social Club, Inc., D/b/a Lavish Ultralounge, 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 & NON PROFIT PRIVATE CLUB LIQUOR BY THE DRINK at 1701 White Horse Road, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 3, 2016.

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

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Sanders Wine and Spirits, LLC d/b/a Parkway Spirits, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of WINE & LIQUOR at 427 The Parkway, Greer, SC 29650.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 10, 2016.

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

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Atrium TRS III, LP 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 670 Verdae Blvd., Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 3, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Shakers Social Club Inc. D/B/A Shakers, 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 & NON PROFIT PRIVATE CLUB LIQUOR BY THE DRINK at 2935 White Horse Road, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 10, 2016.

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

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Thomas Creek Brewery, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of LIQUOR at Greenville Spartanburg International Airport 500 Aviation Parkway A1, Greer, SC 29651. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 3, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Greenville Verdae Greens Golf Course, LLC, 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 650 Verdae Blvd., Greenville, SC 29607.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 3, 2016.

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

SUMMONS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF GREENVILLE CASE NO. 2016-DR-23REF. NO.: 2015-DR-23-1465 SUZAN MASOUD, PLAINTIFF, -VS- KARIM SAHLOUL, DEFENDANT. TO THE PLAINTIFF ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Summons and Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the Summons and Complaint upon the subscriber at 1010 East North Street, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601 within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer the Complaint within that time, the Defendant will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Complaint.

THOMAS C. BRISSEY S.C. Bar # 886 1010 East North St., Suite C-3 Greenville, S.C. 29601 (864) 271-8900 NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT COUNTY OF GREENVILLE 2016-DR-23-1233 Date filed: March 23, 2016 Time filed: 1:07 PM Otilia Marcial Mendez and Oscar Ramirez Gonzalez, Plaintiffs, vs.

Bulmaro Jose Garcia In Re: EJM, a minor under the age of fourteen, Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is attached and herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to this Complaint upon the subscriber, at 304 Pettigru Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29601, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer the Complaint within the thirty- day period, the Plaintiff (s) will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein and judgment by default will be rendered against you.

David J. Rutledge Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 10664 Greenville, SC 29603 (864)-467-0999

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GREENVILLE COUNTY ZONING AND PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE There will be a public hearing before County Council on Monday, April 18, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in County Council Chambers, County Square, for the purpose of hearing those persons interested in the following items: DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2016-26 APPLICANT: Douglas F. Dent for Greenville Revitalization Corporation CONTACT INFORMATION: ddent@greenvillerevitalization. org or 864-242-9801 PROPERTY LOCATION: McBeth St. PIN: 0142001500100 EXISTING ZONING: I-1, Industrial REQUESTED ZONING: R-MA, Multifamily Residential ACREAGE: 6 COUNTY COUNCIL: 19 – Meadows DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2016-27 APPLICANT: Samuel L. Carrington for Connector Plus, LLC CONTACT INFORMATION: lcarrington@bellcarrington.com or 864-272-0556 PROPERTY LOCATION: I-185 and S. Old Piedmont Highway PIN: 0608030101500 and 0609030100101 EXISTING ZONING: I-1, Industrial and S-1, Services REQUESTED ZONING: R-S, Residential Suburban ACREAGE: 460 COUNTY COUNCIL: 25 – Gibson and 26 - Ballard DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2016-28 APPLICANT: Hunter B. Garrett for Christopher Chambers, et.al.

CONTACT INFORMATION: hgarrett@naief.com or 864-505-6813 PROPERTY LOCATION: I-85 and Staunton Bridge Road PIN: WG10060100500 and WG10070100401 (portion) EXISTING ZONING: R-S, Residential Suburban REQUESTED ZONING: S-1, Services ACREAGE: 16.6 COUNTY COUNCIL: 25 – Gibson DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2016-29 APPLICANT: Jimmy Francis, Easlan Capital CONTACT INFORMATION: 864-288-4002 PROPERTY LOCATION: 400 Block of State Park Road PIN: P030000101003 and P030000101004 (among the 333 parcels of the existing PD) EXISTING ZONING: PD, Planned Development REQUESTED ZONING: PD, Planned Development (Major Change) ACREAGE: 6.8 (363 total for the PD) COUNTY COUNCIL: 20 – Cates and 23 – Norris DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2016-30 APPLICANT: Robert Robarge and Dave Black for Arthur J. Robarge CONTACT INFORMATION: richardrobarge@msn.com or 864-617-9288 PROPERTY LOCATION: 524 Mills Avenue PIN: 0104000200300 (portion) EXISTING ZONING: C-1, Commercial REQUESTED ZONING: C-2, Commercial ACREAGE: 0.3 COUNTY COUNCIL: 24 – Seman All persons interested in these proposed amendments to the Greenville County Zoning Ordinance and Map are invited to attend this meeting.

At subsequent meetings, Greenville County Council may approve or deny the proposed amendments as requested or approve a different amendment than requested.

LEGAL NOTICES Only $.99 per line ABC NOTICE OF APPLICATION Only $145 tel 864.679.1205 • fax 864.679.1305 email aharley@communityjournals.com

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: IFB# 68-05/02/16, Staunton Bridge Community Center Gymnasium, May 2, 2016, 3:00PM. A pre-bid meeting will be held at 10:00 A.M., E.D.T., April 11, 2016, Greenville County Procurement Services Division, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601.

Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty. org/Purchasing_Dept/ or by calling (864) 467-7200.

FORFEITED LAND COMMISSION SALE NOTICE The Forfeited Land Commission (FLC) of Greenville County will begin selling assignments on properties not sold at the Greenville County Delinquent Tax Sale. This sale will begin Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. in the Greenville County Treasurer’s office, 301 University Ridge, Suite 600.

Random numbers will be drawn to establish place in line at 1:00 p.m. The FLC will accept offers-to-purchase equal to the published price for each property.

Offers-to-purchase will be considered in the order submitted. The FLC reserves the right to reject any offer-topurchase that does not meet these published requirements.

Payment will only be accepted in the form of cash, cashier’s check or money order from a recognized financial institution and must be received at the time the sale is made. Property is sold “as is”. Tax accounts of buyers must be in good standing with the Greenville County Tax Collector. A list of the properties as well as an offer form can be obtained in the Forfeited Land Commission section of the Greenville County Treasurer’s web page –http://www. greenvillecounty.org/County_ Treasurer/ or in the Greenville County Treasurer’s Office.

EMPLOYMENT NOTICE COUNTY OF GREENVILLEGOVERNMENT TRANSPORTATION PLANNER PLANNING AND CODE COMPLIANCE DIVISION SALARY: $44,972.73 ANNUALLY Description: A Transportation Planner carries a variety of duties related to the growth and development of transportation systems in Greenville County and the upstate of South Carolina.

This position staffs not only the County of Greenville, but of the Greenville-Pickens Area Transportation Study (GPATS) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), encompassing the transportation needs of the Urbanized Areas of five counties and sixteen municipalities. The duties of this position includes extensive GIS Mapping and coordination of Bicycle and Pedestrian initiatives as well as public meeting facilitation, development of planning programs and documents, assistance in the management of GPATS functions and additional support for the community area plans and longrange plans. This position will interact with local politicians and the general public and will be required to research, prepare and present findings in a detailed and concise manner. Knowledge of computer mapping programs; knowledge of transportation and land use interactions; knowledge of best transportation planning practices and planning standards.

Qualifications: Master's degree or Bachelor's degree in planning, transportation or considerable experience in related field, or any equivalent combination of training and experience.

American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) designation is preferred. A copy of Motor Vehicle Record required.

Closing Date: April 15, 2016 Apply online at: www.greenvillecounty.org County of Greenville is an EEO/ AA/M/F/Disability/Protected Veterans employer.

COMPLAINT NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO: 2015-CP-23 Plaintiff, vs. Mariel L. Robinson and Floyd Sullivan Defendant(s).

In re: 1988 Lincoln Towncar VIN # 1LNBM82F2JY618786 Plaintiff, County of Greenville, complaining of the Defendants, would respectfully show unto this Honorable Court: 1. Plaintiff, County of Greenville, is a body politic and political subdivision of the State of South Carolina and is authorized by SC Code Ann.§ 56-5-6240, as amended, to initiate this Complaint for the forfeiture of that certain, 1988 Lincoln Towncar, VIN #1LNBM82F2JY618786, which is the subject of this action.

2. Upon information and belief, Mariel L. Robinson and Floyd Sullivan are citizens and residents of the County of Greenville, State of South Carolina.

3. On or about November, 25, 2010 Defendant Mariel L. Robinson was arrested and charged in Greenville County, South Carolina with, among other charges, Driving Under Suspension (“DUS”), 6th offense.

4. At the time of the arrest, Defendant Mariel L. Robinson was driving an automobile, more particularly described as a 1988 Lincoln Towncar, VIN # 1LNBM82F2JY618786.

5. According to the records maintained by the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (“DMV”), Defendant Mariel L. Robinson is the registered owner of the 1988 Lincoln Towncar, VIN #1LNBM82F2JY618786.

6. Upon information and belief, Defendant Floyd Sullivan may claim an interest in the automobile that is the subject of this action.

7. At the time of Defendant Mariel L. Robinson’s arrest for DUS 6th offense, Defendants Mariel L. Robinson and Floyd Sullivan lived together at 486 Davis Road, Piedmont, SC 29673.

8. According to the records maintained by DMV, there are no lienholders.

9. The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, pursuant to the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. §56-5-6240, as amended, seized the subject automobile at the time Defendant Mariel L. Robinson was arrested. The subject automobile has been in the care, custody, and control of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office since November 25, 2010.

10. Defendant Mariel L. Robinson was convicted of the charge of Driving Under Suspension on August 16, 2011.

11. The subject automobile was seized and confiscated by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office in accordance with the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. §56-5-6240, as amended, in that Defendant Mariel L. Robinson, at the time of the offense: (A) Had either been convicted, pled guilty or nolo contendere to the offense of Driving Under Suspension on at least three prior occasions within the last five years; (B) Was the owner of the motor vehicle that is the subject of this action, or (C) Was driving the motor vehicle that is the subject of this action with the express or implied authorization of Defendant Floyd Sullivan.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff prays: 1. That this Court order the 1988 Lincoln Towncar, VIN #1LNBM82F2JY618786, be forfeited to Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 56-5-6240, as amended; 2. That this Court order the subject automobile be sold by Plaintiff by way of public auction; 3. That this Court order the net proceeds of the sale, after payment of any liens, be paid to Plaintiff, and 4. For such other and further relief as this Court may deem just and proper.

Jeffrey D. Wile (SC Bar # 6102) Assistant County Attorney 301 University Ridge, Suite 2400 Greenville, SC 29601 (864) 467-7111 Attorney for Plaintiff SUMMONS NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO: 2015-CP-23Plaintiff, vs. Mariel L. Robinson and Floyd Sullivan Defendant(s).

In re: 1988 Lincoln Towncar VIN # 1LNBM82F2JY618786 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the undersigned at his office at 301 University Ridge, Suite 2400, Greenville, SC 29601 within thirty (30) days of the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Jeffrey D. Wile (S.C. Bar #6102) Assistant County Attorney 301 University Ridge, Suite 2400 Greenville, SC 29601 (864) 467-7110 Attorney for Plaintiff

46 | GREENVILLE JOURNAL | 04.01.2016 | CULTURE FIGURE. THIS. OUT.

Wee Beings ACROSS

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37 Matador 39 Low mark 40 Diet Coke alternative 44 Banjos’ cousins, in brief 47 Boxer Roberto 51 Duncan of dance 52 L.A. winter hrs.

54 Bit of web video gear 56 Burrito kin 57 “American Pie” actress Reid 58 Aesop’s language 61 Robert Louis Stevenson short story, with “The”

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90 One issuing a revision 93 Deer daddies 95 Filmdom’s Kazan 97 Cookie baker in a tree 100 Part of UNLV 102 Least confined 104 Horace’s “— Poetica” 105 Swimmer with a long, flattened snout 110 Singer — Marie 112 Destroy the inside of 115 Lacto- — diet 116 Like some perfect games 117 Wide shoe spec 119 With regard to pitch 121 New film’s initial showings 123 Spago restaurateur 125 Licorice-tasting liqueur

By Frank Longo 126 One way to serve café 127 — Lauder 128 Alcoves 129 Surgical inserts 130 Performers DOWN

1 Little slip-up 2 Sweeping stories 3 Greek island 4 Duet + one 5 Enter by foot 6 Change to fit 7 Greek letter 8 One of four on a sedan 9 Kind of whale 10 Smear mark 11 Design on skin, in brief 12 Atlantic fish 13 Actress Graff 14 Rely 15 Appeared 16 Woodsy lair 17 Bisected 18 Iron output 19 Bush row 24 Stalking sort 28 Totally get 32 Artery: Abbr.

34 In — (mired) 35 Fix, as a dog 36 — wave 38 Lured

40 Is in session 41 Jr.’s exam 42 — avis (oddity) 43 Sharp turn 45 Green start?

46 The Devil 48 Police action 49 Crest 50 “Negative” 53 BBQ pest 55 Weekday letters 59 Propel a boat 60 Golfer Els 61 Tow-headed 62 Emit coherent light 64 Big name in advice 65 Garbo of film 67 Hulking and dumb, maybe 70 Elocute 71 Mineral suffix 72 Does in 73 City in Colombia 74 Arena area 75 “1984” writer 78 Gets closer 79 Blanchett of “Elizabeth” 80 Stunt puller Knievel 81 Toiler of yore 83 Online “Ha!” 85 Wipe 89 Jamie of TV 91 Intend to do 92 Crazy 94 Holy French ladies 96 “— all possible ...”

98 Singer Gloria 99 Summer, in Savoy 101 Hog noises 103 Just manage 105 Really succeed 106 Like lambs 107 Of the fifth element 108 Novelist Nevil 109 Tap-dancer Gregory 111 Les — -Unis

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112 Thigh-rotating muscle, informally 113 Peptic disorder 114 Moppets 118 Her, to Henri 120 Lhasa — (small dog) 122 Wind dir.

123 Used to be 124 “Shoo!”

Crossword answers: page 42

by Myles Mellor and Susan Flannigan

Sudoku answers: page 42

CULTURE | 04.01.2016 | GREENVILLE JOURNAL | 47 COMMUNITY VOICES The classroom window with Trevor Barton

The lost art of listening should start with what someone’s face tells us

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The lost art of listening should start with what someone’s face tells us On my best days, I am quiet. “You have two ears and one mouth,” my Grandpa said one day as we walked together down a row of tomatoes. “So you should listen twice as much as you speak. You might learn something if you listen.”

I looked into his watery blue eyes, watery with memories from his childhood on a dairy farm and service in World War II and work in heating and air conditioning, watery with tenderness from raising five children and caring for my Grandma and tending gardens, and I grinned at him with a twinkle in my own watery blue eyes. I didn’t say a word. I was quiet. I was listening.

One evening, I was sitting on a bench on Main Street reading my worn copy of “Cry The Beloved Country”, marveling at the way Alan Paton listened to life, writing in my notebook, wondering at the life around me, when I looked up and saw an old man shuffling by. He wore a tattered, torn raincoat, a baggy pair of pants splattered with mud, and a pair of leather shoes with the sides split out of them revealing sockless, bruised feet that were battered by hot, hard streets. I watched him quietly, without speaking, only listening as he passed by.

I was listening to something without words, because he wasn’t speaking to me or to anyone around him. Or was he? “You should listen twice as much as you speak,” I remembered.

“Maybe,” I thought, “Just maybe that’s because the most important things in life are quiet and speak to us twice as much without words as with words.” I listened in a way I had never listened before. I listened to the old man’s face.

Yes, I listened to the old man’s face. I listened to each wrinkle along his forehead and around his eyes. “What made that wrinkle?” I asked myself. “Was it laughter...or tears? Is it natural old age...or deep suffering? Was it carefree living...or a heavy, heavy heart?” I listened to the sadness in his watery blue eyes. “Why are you looking down as you shuffle by?” I asked myself. “Are you holding back tears? What have you seen with those eyes?” And I listened to his dirty, unshaven cheeks. “Do you have anyone to take care of you?” I thought. “Are you lonely...are you alone?”

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Listening to faces is hard work and has to be developed slowly over time. We live in a world that teaches us to speak twice as much as we listen, or to speak without listening at all.

Yet, over time, listening to faces will grow the most important thing we can have in our hearts — deep empathy for each person we encounter every day. And, over time, listening to faces will grow the most important thing we can have in our hands and feet and, indeed, our words — simple kindness that guides us to put our arms around the shoulder of a shuffling old man and say, “Would you like to sit down and have coffee with me? Would you like to be my friend?”

I found a friend because I listened to his face.

As a public school teacher, I work hard to listen to the faces of my students. Just this week I was talking with Geraldine about a wonderful book she is reading, “Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy “ by Karen Foxlee. “Oh Mr. Barton,” she said with a giggle, “I’m just like Ophelia in the story because she’s a curious kind of kid and I’m a curious kind of kid because I want to know everything about everything.”

Then she became serious. “But she’s a nervous kind of kid, too, because she’s had a hard life and I’ve kind of had a hard life, too.” I looked into her earthy brown eyes and thought about the ground and soil from which she came, for she came here from the farms and fields of Mexico with her family. For the first time I noticed the faintest of dark circles around her eyes, the slightest of a downward turn at the corners of her mouth, and a hint of tiredness and sadness that should not often be on a 10-year-olds face.

“Geraldine,” I asked, “What’s your life like?” And she told me her story. “I share a room with my Mom, my aunt, my sister, and my two younger cousins,” she began, “And my family works really hard.”

As she talked with me about the book and about her life, a tiny tear appeared in the corner of her eye. I wondered if it came from giggles or from sadness. I caught the tear in my hand as it rolled off her cheek.

“See how I caught your teardrop?” I asked. “As your teacher, I’m here to catch your happiness and your sadness, Geraldine. I’m here to help you learn everything about everything so you can be anything you want to be. I am here.”

I was there because I listened to her face.

What are the stories of the people around us? What are their faces saying?

With our two ears, and with the ears of our hearts, let’s listen.

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

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