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South Carolina’s race for U.S. Senate heats up SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

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In this most unusual of election years, South Carolina voters will be casting their ballots in November for two U.S. Senate seats at the same time. Two-term Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham faces six opponents in the June 10 primary (two Democrats and a Libertarian are vying for the seat as well), while freshman Republican Sen. Tim Scott faces one primary opponent, plus three Democrats and an American Party candidate.

Senate terms are six years and staggered, so both normally don’t expire in the same year. The anomaly is occurring because Scott was appointed by Gov. Nikki Haley to fill the seat left vacant in 2012 when Jim DeMint resigned to head the Heritage Foundation. That appointment expires in 2014, requiring a special election in November to fill the balance of DeMint’s term.

That winner must run again in 2016 to return the seat to its six-year cycle.

Not since 1966 has South Carolina elected two senators in the same year, and it’s only the fourth time in the state’s history.

Scott, who is facing his first statewide campaign, will make his own state history if he wins in November. An African-American has not won statewide office in South Carolina since Reconstruction in 1872. He is being challenged in the GOP primary by Randall Young of Greenville, while three Democrats – Joyce Dickerson, Sidney Moore and Harry Pavilack – are also vying for the seat. American candidate Jill Bossi has also filed with the FEC. The race for Graham’s seat is far more contested – and heated. Graham, who is running for a third term, has been called a RINO (Republican In Name Only) by a vocal contingent of the party faithful and has so far failed to receive endorsements from GOP incumbents, including Scott and Haley.

His Republican challengers include Columbia pastor and former attorney Det Bowers, state Sen. Lee Bright, businessman Richard Cash, lawyers Bill Connor and Benjamin Dunn, and Charleston PR executive Nancy Mace.

Cash, who says his is a “grassroots campaign,” has the most cash on hand at $255,432 according to a Dec. 31, 2013, report filed with the Federal Election Commission – more than any other opponent, but a far cry from Graham’s $7.6 million.

Mace, the first female to graduate

from The Citadel Corps of Cadets in 1999, has been challenging Graham on a number of issues such as Obamacare and term limits. Mace’s campaign is just behind Cash’s in cash on hand at $241,199 according to the FEC. Bright, a tea party favorite, has collected several outside endorsements, including U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas, a coalition of South Carolina’s tea party groups and the Gun Owners of America’s Political Victory Fund.

In a statement, Stockman said that he was “proud to endorse Lee Bright for the U.S. Senate. He’s a proven constitutional conservative who understands the proper limited role of government.”

Bright made headlines earlier this year when he announced plans to give away a Palmetto Armory AR-15 gun in a drawing. Bright says he believes “the right to bear arms is a fundamental guarantee of liberty” and he will oppose any type of gun-control legislation and protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Bright has the lowest amount of cash on hand for all candidates at $49,458.

Connor, a 23-year military veteran and military lawyer in Orangeburg, has kept his campaign low-key, officially filing to run on March 24. Connor says that “though a late entry into the race, we now have the largest and strongest statewide grassroots network.”

Newcomer Bowers announced his campaign on Feb. 3. According to a CNN report, Bowers said he understands “the complexity of the task, but I have every confidence this is exactly what I ought to be doing this season.”

The deadline to file for the race was March 30. Other challengers have filed paperwork with the FEC but have not kicked off formal campaigns.

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Haley gets unexpected challenge in governor’s race Ex-judge says DSS cases led him to run CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com The 2014 governor’s race has been expected to be a rematch between Gov. Nikki Haley and Democrat Vincent Sheheen, but the incumbent governor will have to get past an unexpected Republican primary challenge first.

Greenville lawyer and former circuit judge Tom Ervin jumped into the race, saying he is troubled by the testimony coming out of hearings concerning the state Department Ervin of Social Services.

Two coroners told a Senate panel in recent weeks that DSS is not adequately protecting the children of the state – citing the deaths of children who were supposed to be under agency supervision.

“Their testimony was that DSS only cares about good numbers that make our governor look good for political purposes,” Ervin said. “If we can’t protect our children as a core function of government, it’s time for a new day, new leadership. And that’s why I’m running.”

But Furman University political science professor Brent Nelsen said Ervin’s late entry into the race could work to Haley’s advantage because she’ll be able to hit up donors for more money.

State law limits the amount of money a person may give each candidate in each election cycle. Since Haley now has a primary opponent, she may receive the maximum from each contributor for the primary and, if she wins as expected, again for the general election.

Ervin is self-financing his campaign and said he expects to be subjected to third-party attack ads. With only 10 weeks before the primary, “clearly, I’m viewed as the underdog.”

Nelsen said he sees no chance of Ervin winning the Republican primary to take on Sheheen, the only Democrat to file, in the general election. Two third-party candidates are also on the ballot: Liber-

tarian Steve French and Morgan Bruce Reeves of the United Citizens Party.

“For an incumbent to lose office, one, there’s got to be a lot of people dissatisfied with the job the person is doing, and, two, there’s got to be a viable replacement,” he said. “For the governor, I don’t see a lot of people unhappy with the job she’s done. We haven’t gotten beyond first base, much less second base. I think Ervin will be a mere annoyance.”

Rob Godfrey, Haley’s campaign spokesman, said Ervin probably should be running as a Democrat.

“We appreciate Mr. Ervin’s desire for public service, but a trial lawyer and former Democratic lawmaker who wants to raise taxes and embrace Obamacare should probably be running in the Democratic primary,” he said. “Gov. Haley is focused on the legislative session, passing historic education and ethics reform, and keeping the fantastic economic and jobs momentum going.”

Ervin, who grew up in Honea Path, served two terms in the state House as a Democrat in the late 1970s and early ’80s.

“My core values never changed,” he said. “I’m a fiscal conservative and a so-

cial conservative.”

Ervin, who bought three radio stations last year, said the economic progress South Carolina has made during Haley’s term was part of an improving national economy. He said the progress has evaded the state’s rural areas that still have double-digit unemployment.

Haley has ignored problems with the state’s infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water and sewer, he said. She has no plan to improve the state’s roads and has already said an increased gas tax is off the table, he added, calling the gas tax a user fee that would be paid in part by truckers and non-residents.

“The gas tax has not increased since Carroll Campbell was governor,” Ervin said. “Carroll Campbell had vision to lead the state. He was a great Republican governor who understood that good infrastructure is critical to economic development.”

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Erase the labels Nonpartisan elections could inspire better candidates and more thoughtful voters.

Losing the shorthand is what opponents object to most about Greenville City Council’s move toward nonpartisan elections.

Like pulling on a fraternity jersey, the D or R beside a candidate’s name telegraphs a reputation – a predictable package of actions and beliefs that can ease the strain of a ballotful of unfamiliar names.

It’s this easy shorthand that low-information, straight-ticket voters count on come Election Day. The concern of opponents that voters will stay home without it is a legitimate worry council members should not dismiss lightly.

However, the challenge should then become how to get inattentive voters informed, rather than abandon a change that admits the non-role ideology plays in municipal elections.

Party labels may matter in Congress and the White House, but they won’t offer a clue about whether a council candidate would choose funding a new park over more police officers, overrule city planners on a rezoning appeal, or willingly invest in pothole repair.

Local government is about service delivery, economic development and quality of life. As Mayor Pro Tem David Sudduth noted at a recent council skirmish over the proposal, “I can’t think of a single vote I’ve made on council where party factored into my decision.”

Instead, supporters say party labels are driving good candidates away. Sudduth, a Republican, says candidates are put off by the local GOP’s demand that they sign allegiance to a platform of issues that “have nothing to do” with city government. Councilwoman Gaye Sprague, a Democrat, says office seekers tell her they don’t want to campaign under a party label on nonpartisan issues.

The council’s minority members understandably worry that the change would make it harder for minorities to be elected in “the most Republican city on earth,” as they make up less than 32 percent of the city’s registered voters now.

Two factors counter those fears: The city’s four single-member districts (two of which are majority-minority) will stay the same regardless, and Greenville voters have proven repeatedly they will cross party lines to vote for a favored candidate. President Barack Obama carried the city of Greenville in 2008, and Sprague buried her Republican challenger in the last city election with two-thirds of the vote.

The biggest argument in support of the change is city voters themselves: The city’s current council members were all elected with a voter turnout of 14 percent or less, and the city didn’t even hold a general election in 2011, as no primary candidates faced challengers from the opposing party.

Statistics show nonpartisan elections typically attract more candidates and voters – especially among young people, who increasingly disdain party labels. A national survey released last month by the Pew Research Center revealed 50 percent of millennials aged 18 to 33 don’t associate with any political party.

Erasing party affiliations would indeed change city elections, but in ways the council has yet to address. How would voters learn enough to choose wisely without the shorthand of a party label?

Town halls and public forums, for starters, which the city would be duty bound to offer. The obligation would fall on local media, too, to step up coverage and make it thorough and thoughtful.

Most important, voters will have to step up, too. Pay attention. Ask questions the candidates can’t squirm past. Shun that low-information label.

All change starts locally. It’s time for Greenville to make every election count.

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ReWiGo Ministries helped more than 60 families who needed help with emergency repairs and accessibility improvements to their homes in 2013.

It was our nonprofit’s biggest year since forming in 2006, but we also know it barely touches the surface of what is an unseen need in the Upstate.

That is why we are turning to the business community to “Ramp It Up” in 2014. The Ramp It Up campaign asks businesses to give $125 per month throughout 2014, which would help build one new project this year.

What is a ReWiGo project?

• Wheelchair ramps: Our volunteers can make homes accessible again for those in wheelchairs. Building ramps into homes is our biggest request.

• Emergency home repairs: Leaking roofs and unstable floors are more than just household nuisances; they are obstacles to a healthy home. Our volunteers can make quick repairs that will give you peace of mind.

• Safety railings: Grab bars and safety railings will give homeowners mobility as well as a way to get up if they fall down.

Home repairs and wheelchair accessibility are easy needs to overlook, but they are no less real. It is vital that we increase our capacity for volunteers and projects if we hope to meet more of this need – and your help is crucial.

ReWiGo works to solve a silent need in the Upstate. People can understand homelessness. They can understand children not getting meals. They can understand drug addiction.

Unsafe housing is different.

Think of the houses you pass on your drive to work and church.

Think of the houses you see when you take your children to a park.

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the lawns and trees and cars in the driveways? Many people don’t see it or understand it. But ReWiGo does and is doing something about it.

Thousands of people in the Upstate are living in unsafe housing without the health care accessibility they need or the ability to get it. They live in a world where most people don’t see the need.

At ReWiGo, we see those needs. The elderly and handicapped who need wheelchair ramps, but lack the means to buy or build them. The family with the roof leaking over one of their children’s bedrooms. The elderly person who needs help getting around the house without risk of debilitating injury.

ReWiGo is about more than just volunteers hammering nails.

ReWiGo is about promoting quality of life for people. Giving them a helping hand when they need it. We are about creating safe homes for the elderly and handicapped.

The demand for what we do is high. We have had some great partners. That includes church groups, corporations, small businesses, students and civic groups, whose members swung a hammer, used a saw and donated money.

That is why we are turning to the larger business community to Ramp It Up in 2014.

Chris Manley is the executive director of ReWiGo Ministries, which exists to create safe, healthy, sustainable home environments for elderly, disabled and low-income people. Learn more at rewigo.org. organized campaigns. We prefer electronic submissions. Contact Executive Editor Susan Clary Simmons at ssimmons@ communityjournals.com.

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Fewer doctors, more work ACA increases need for more nurse practitioners and PAs to handle patient care

providers like nurse practitioners and physician assistants allows them to “amplify the bandwidth of the physicians in the coordination of patient care,” he said.

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amorris@communityjournals.com Policy experts have been sounding the warning about a growing doctor shortage in the United States for years.

The alarm bells are ringing louder with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the 7.1 million people who have signed up for health insurance coverage through the federal marketplace. Some experts predict a shortage of more than 45,000 primary care physicians by 2025.

Whether more Americans will seek health treatment now that that they have coverage remains to be seen, but the gap between the number of patients and doctors available to treat them will create long waits to see a physician, experts say.

Physician assistants and nurse practitioners – clinicians who already have a role in team patient care – could fill the gap by taking on larger roles in an effort to deliver health care in a timely manner.

A physician assistant typically holds an undergraduate degree and completes a twoor three-year training program, including roughly 2,000 hours of clinical training. A PA can conduct physical exams, diagnose patients, order and interpret tests, assist in surgery and prescribe medication. They often work in a hospital setting.

A nurse practitioner completes a standard nursing degree and then a master’s or doctoral degree program. They are also required to complete clinical training, approximately 1,400 hours, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Nurse practitioners can also diagnose patients, prescribe medication and order and interpret tests.

Both clinicians also play a role in educating and counseling patients on disease prevention and overall health.

Using physician assistants and nurse practitioners as part of an evolving model of health care is one aspect of the patientcentered, medical home model gaining attention in the U.S. This model focuses on using a variety of providers, not just one primary care physician, in patient treatment.

The team approach is nothing new, but the increasing number of patients and lagging number of doctors makes it more of a necessity, said Dr. Angelo Sinopoli, chief medical officer at Greenville Health System (GHS).

“The demand for quicker access is the drive for increasing the use of these providers,” Sinopoli said. In a physician’s office, having a nurse practitioner on staff is

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Physician Assistant Amanda Brodie at work at Cypress Internal Medicine.

beneficial for seeing “work-ins” and running specialized projects, like an asthma program, he said.

Another benefit is that some patients prefer to see nurse practitioners because they often take a bit more time with a patient, he said. Some patients are reluctant to see an NP at first, he added, but after that first meeting, they develop a strong relationship.

“It’s just a matter of getting over the hump of having to see a doctor,” he said.

GHS is ramping up staffing levels for nurse practitioners, Sinopoli said. While the health system employs hundreds, it is hiring dozens more. In fact, there is a shortage of nurse practitioners prepared to work in specific areas and practices, he said, and GHS is working with universities to create a more organized path so candidates can step into a practice right away without additional training.

Anselmo Nunez, CEO of Bon Secours Medical Group, said Bon Secours is also increasing staffing levels for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Fielding a team that uses direct care

NURSE PRACTITIONER • Nursing degree • Master’s or doctorate degree • Approximately 1,400 hours clinical training • Often works in traditional doctor’s offices, health clinics and even workplaces and focus on wellness and preventive health care

A RAND study released in November 2013 said that a health care model that relies more on patient-centered medical homes and nurse-managed health centers “could help eliminate 50 percent or more of the primary care physician shortage expected to face the U.S. by 2025.”

The patient-centered medical homes and nurse-managed health centers use “a mix of medical providers that is richer in nurse practitioners and physician assistants than today’s predominant models of delivering medical care,” according to RAND. RAND predicts that achieving the 50 percent reduction in the physician shortage would require medical home teams to deliver close to 50 percent of primary care and nurse-managed health centers to expand to account for 5 percent of primary care. Medical homes currently provide approximately 15 percent of primary care.

Giving nurse practitioners and physician assistants greater responsibility would ease the burden for doctors, but would also involve changing “scope of practice” laws, RAND says. In South Carolina and many other states, nurse practitioners and physician assistants must be under the supervision of a physician.

There has been a movement in the nurse practitioner leadership to practice without physician supervision, but many doctors do not support the change, said Sinopoli.

He calls it an “ongoing debate.”

Sinopoli predicts responsibility will spread even further to diabetes educators and health coaches who maintain communication with patients and help them manage chronic disease or increase wellness.

Dr. Kahlil Demonbreun, a women’s health nurse practitioner and instructor in the University of South Carolina’s college of nursing, said rather than the role of

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nurse practitioners expanding to work independently of doctors, he believes S.C. health care providers will move to utilize nurse practitioners more effectively in their practices.

However, Demonbreun said the state could benefit from changing scope of practice laws to allow nurse practitioners to work without physician supervision, as is already the case in 17 other states.

“For us to meet the growing health care needs, address geographic disparities in health care access, and bring down the cost of care, I believe South Carolina needs to follow the research and allow patients full and direct access to nurse practitioner services,” he said.

CONTINUITY OF CARE

If serving patients means using more nurse practitioners and physician assistants, said Sinopoli, health care providers must “create access in an integrated fashion,” with the NPs and PAs communicating regularly with other team members.

The groups often work well together, but tension can arise if a patient sees a nurse practitioner in a different location, returns to their general practitioner and the doctor doesn’t know anything about the previous visit, he said.

Communication is essential, especially when some patients are getting care in the workplace through employee health initiatives or other locales outside a traditional doctor’s office, Sinopoli said.

Above all, a team care model that is “intentional and conscientious” offers an opportunity for cooperation, Nunez said.

“There’s a place for all members of the team, but collaboration is the key.”

“Practice settings that employ clinicians with diverse educations, skill sets and training ultimately benefit the patient consequently impacting their health outcomes,” agreed Demonbreun.

“[Nurse practitioners and physician assistants] can amplify the bandwidth of the physicians in the coordination of patient care.”

Dr. Anselmo Nunez, CEO of Bon Secours Medical Group

PATIENT ATTITUDES

Patients may be more willing to accept a nurse practitioner or physician assistant as a primary care provider than previously believed, according to a survey published by

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189,000

number of nurse practitioners in the U.S., according to American Association of Nurse Practitioners

95,000

number of physician assistants in the U.S., according to American Academy of Physician Assistants

45,000

number of additional physicians needed by 2025 to meet patient need

Michael J. Dill of the Center for Workforce Studies, Association of American Medical Colleges, in the journal Health Affairs.

The survey of approximately 2,000 patients suggested that faced with a one- or three-day wait to see a doctor for a minor ailment and the chance to see a PA or NP on the same day, patients opt to be seen by the nurse practitioner or physician assistant.

Initially, half of patients preferred seeing a doctor and one quarter preferred seeing a NP or PA. However, when the wait time was added, 66 percent preferred seeing a NP or PA if they couldn’t see a doctor within three days. In addition, the survey found that those who had seen a PA or NP in the past were more likely to prefer to see one in the future.

Age had an effect, too, with 41 percent of those ages 18-34 preferring an NP or PA and approximately 68 percent of those ages 35 and older strongly preferring to see a physician.

Nunez said he had seen a significant increase in doctor and patient acceptance of nurse practitioners and physician assistants over the past decade. He cited his own wife, a Baby Boomer, who saw a nurse practitioner with specific expertise as a primary health care provider. The most recent generation is more comfortable with emerging technology and a different care model, he said.

Demonbreun said in his 16 years as a nurse practitioner, he has witnessed an increasing positive attitude towards the specialty. As a male working in a women’s health setting, patients now request him as a provider more often than when he started in 1998. He noted that the option to see a nurse practitioner as a primary health care provider offers patients more choices.

Younger patients are more used to a variety of providers, Sinopoli said.

“The younger generation is actually happy receiving their care over an iPhone or iPad. They want to log in, describe their symptoms and get a prescription called in for them,” he said. “As time goes by, that’s how you’re going to see care delivered.”

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jtoppe@communityjournals.com It is no longer just talk: Using a hand-held electronic device while driving in the City of Greenville is now against the law.

Effective Tuesday, April 1, the distracted driving ordinance bans the use of hand-held devices while operating a motor vehicle, including at traffic lights and inside park-

ing garages. The ordinance requires drivers to pull over and park before operating a GPS device or talking or texting on a cellphone.

The ban also applies to motorcycles, bicycles and mopeds.

The law permits drivers to use hands-free devices that are voiceactivated and mounted or secured in some type of cradle or holder.

The city will continue its awareness campaign, including signage, billboards and social media, while asking residents to join in by changing their Facebook profile pictures to the city’s distracted driving logo.

A short warning period is expected before tickets are issued. Fines begin at $100 for a first offense and increase by $100 increments. After a third offense, a judge may confiscate and destroy the device.

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The Greenville Police Department received a report that a five-year-old child had a swollen right eye and bruising. The child allegedly told police his Ferguson mother (Ferguson) dragged him down carpeted stairs and struck him multiple times with a belt on his legs and back. Ferguson told police that she pulled the child down the stairs and spanked the victim on the back and legs with a belt, the report said.

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Sylvester Keejaun King was arrested March 26 and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

The Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office reported receiving a 911 call on March 16 at 13 Rangeview Circle in reference to a possible gunshot victim. Deputies found a deceased 42-year-old black female when they arrived on the scene, documents show. The subsequent investigation revealed the victim had been stabbed, the GCSO says.

King is being held in the Greenville County Detention Center without bond.

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Loftis was also honored with his 40-year service pin and a framed certificate presented by South Carolina Supreme Court Justice John Kittredge.

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jtoppe@communityjournals.com After more than 60 years in the care of the Greenville Woman’s Club, the Beattie House will be back in the hands of the city’s Park and Recreation Department once the club officially disbands on June 30.

Owned by the city and located at 8 Bennett St, in the East Park Historic District, the Beattie House was recognized on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and has been leased by the Greenville Woman’s Club since its founding in 1947.

Parks and Recreation Director Dana Souza presented options to the mayor and City Council Monday on what to do with the historic property once it is turned over to the city.

A first option would be selling the property without any restrictions or easement, he said. The new owner would be allowed to use the house in agreement with the city’s zoning ordinance for historic properties and would not be allowed to demolish the building unless council approved.

A second option would include selling the property with a preservation

easement that would prevent demolition of the house or subdivision, he said. The new owner would be permitted to use the property in accordance with the historic district guidelines.

A third option would be leasing the property to another nonprofit organization with the financial capacity to maintain the property, Souza said.

The city could also retain title to the land and sell the building to a nonprofit organization, or the city could retain title to the entire property and use it for city purposes such as event space, he said. “We’ve had a good tenant for 65 years, but now that agreement is coming to an end.”

Mayor Knox White expressed a need for maintaining the property’s historic value if it should be leased again or sold.

With an understanding the organizations will have to maintain the property, the city could entertain leasing offers over a period of time, but if the house should be sold, it will be done with a preservation easement, White said.

Although the house will be returned to the city June 30, there is no timetable for council to act.

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Schools get new leaders Principal shuffle begins in Greenville County CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Several Greenville County schools will have new principals next year as some current leaders retire, others switch jobs and some leave the district.

And, for the first time, the Fine Arts Center will have an assistant director.

Bethel Elementary Principal Brenda Byrd will become one of the district’s two assistant superintendents for leadership at the elementary level. Prior to her tenByrd ure at Bethel, Byrd had been principal at Mitchell Road Elementary and assistant principal at Buena Vista Elementary and Hillcrest Middle. She taught at Bryson Middle and in Anderson School District 5.

Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees are from Clemson University.

G. Bryan Skipper will be Hillcrest High’s new principal. Skipper, currently the principal at South Aiken High, replaces longtime principal Steve Chamness, who is retiring.

Skipper has previous experience as an assistant principal and teacher. He earned a bachelor’s degree from The Citadel. His master’s degree is from Furman University and he earned an educational leadership certification from Augusta State University.

Beck Middle Academy Principal Jason Warren will move to Greenville High to replace JF Lucas, who will as-

sume leadership of the Golden Strip Career Center in the fall.

Warren previously served as an assistant principal, administrator for special needs and director of bands.

He has a bachelor’s degree from Bob Jones University, a Warren master’s degree from Clemson University and an educational specialist degree from the University of South Carolina.

Eric Williams will become the new principal at Wade Hampton High. Wade Hampton’s current principal, Lance Radford, has accepted a job as assistant super- Williams intendent in another district.

Williams, now principal at Riverside Middle, has a bachelor’s degree from Grand Valley State University, a master’s degree from Furman and a M.Ed. and educational leadership certification from USC. Charles Ratterree is the Fine Arts Center’s new assistant director. Ratterree, who is board president of the Metropolitan Arts Council, is CEO and chief strategy officer at DNA Creative Communications. He has previous experience as executive vice president, art director, marketing manager and visual artist and writer with various corporations.

Ratterree has a bachelor’s degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a master’s degree from Yale University.

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Putting in the hours Habitat Greenville held its annual Quality Assurance Team and Task Leader luncheon. Ellen Butler, one of eight women who are part of the 35-member group, was recognized for 506 volunteer hours in 2013. In total, this dedicated group contributed 5,365 hours during 2013, providing leadership and overseeing volunteers on fourteen Habitat homes. The value of this volunteer contribution is more than $200,000. Habitat Greenville began its first build of 2014 with partner Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in February.

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Commission: Roads projects will cost nearly $680M Needs include roads, paving, bridges and sidewalks APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com The Greenville County Citizen Roads Advisory Commission presented County Council with a $678.37 million list of urgent road improvement needs its chairman urged the council to find a dedicated way to fund.

Failure to do so threatens to “decimate our in­frastructure,” the report warns. “Every district, every municipality in our county has its documented share of deteriorat­ing roads, aging and dangerous bridges, traffic congestion and un­safe conditions.”

The presentation concluded a fourmonth discovery process launched in November when the council appointed the 19-member commission to gather public input and create a priority list of road projects.

Some council members predicted Tuesday that an ordinance outlining a potential additional 1 percent local option sales tax referendum to pay for the projects could be introduced as early as this month.

During council’s Committee of the Whole meeting, members of the commission’s subcommittees presented priority lists of road improvements, bridges, road resurfacing and pedestrian amenities they estimated would cost $678.37 million to complete.

The commission held seven public input meetings throughout January and February to hear residents’ concerns about roads. Members said the resulting project list included projects representing all council districts and from all enti-

ties that maintain roads in the county: state, county and municipalities.

Woodruff Road parallel routes were at the top of the road improvement list.

“The community is clamoring for this project,” said commission member Tim Brett. He urged the council to find a way to address the funding of projects.

The commission did not consider any improvement projects already assured funding through the Greenville Pickens Anderson Transportation Study (GPATS), the planning organization for the Greenville urbanized area.

The bridge project list was generated based on the need for replacement and safety, said commission member Nelson Neal. The pedestrian amenities list included many projects near schools, said member Donna Smith. The commission recommends council create a new zoning classification for schools that requires them to include pedestrian amenities in any new construction, she said.

The group also recommended that council require developers to “provide transportation impact abatement improvements” for new projects and pursue a dedicated funding source for road improvements.

Neely Ferry Road topped the priority list for resurfacing projects. At current funding, the resurfacing cycle of statemaintained roads in Greenville County is 83 years and is 53 for those maintained by the county alone, said commissioner Terry Bragg.

Several council members praised the commission for exceeding their expectations.

Councilwoman Liz Seman, who had previously voiced doubts that anything would come of the list, promised Tuesday night that the council will begin the work of digesting the report.

“The bigger question is how to fund the projects. The dollar amount is so

massive, there’s no other option [than hold a referendum],” she said.

Gordon Seay, an audience member who wore a sticker supporting a referendum, said after the meeting that the state may provide some money for road fixes, but “the meat of it has got to come out of Greenville County.” He added that repairing state-owned roads with funds collected within the county would be okay with him, “because they’re our roads and we live in Greenville County.”

Commission chairwoman Lisa Stevens said the group conducted a straw poll at each public meeting, asking residents if they would be willing to consider a dedicated tax for roads. The majority of the public was receptive to consideration, she said, and urged council to “actively pursue a way to implement this plan.”

The next step is for council to decide whether to put a local option sales tax referendum on the November ballot.

Council’s past resistance to a referendum resulted in an ordinance that created the citizen roads advisory commission with no mention of a sales tax to pay for the project list.

Council Chairman Bob Taylor said council must determine how a project list would be finalized, “and then we’d have to get that by council. It’s not an easy thing to raise $600 million worth of taxes… we’re going to address the issue.”

Councilman H.G. “Butch” Kirven said thanks to Tuesday’s presentation, “the odds have gone up a lot” that council will consider a referendum.

“We were [initially] discussing a referendum before we knew the magnitude of the problem,” he said. “If we don’t have any confidence that the state is going to fix them [roads], we have to fix them ourselves because they’re ours and they affect our lives. The state has lost cred-

ibility that anything is going to be done with roads. Citizens are frustrated, and this is an answer to their frustration.”

The local tax option is the only one available to council to address road issues, Kirven said. Local governments cannot use property taxes or general funds to pay for road improvements.

“Council would be derelict in its duty not to offer this [referendum].”

Kirven predicted a referendum ordinance could be introduced as early as April 15. Deadline for including a referendum on the November ballot is mid-August.

Visit greenvillejournal.com to see the lists of priority projects, and read the commission’s report at greenvillecounty.org/roadscommission.

By the numbers More than 880

number of online surveys submitted to Greenville County Citizen Roads Advisory Commission

311

number of Greenville County residents who attended public meetings for the Citizen Roads Advisory Commission

206 in favor and 57 opposed straw poll results of attendees at roads commission public meetings on whether they would consider dedicated tax for road improvements

$678.37 million

estimated cost for road improvement, resurfacing and pedestrian amenities projects submitted by Greenville County Citizen Roads Advisory Commission

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ince 1934, thousands of golf aficionados from around the world have descended upon Augusta, Ga., the first full week in April to attend one of the four major championships in professional golf. But after the sea of green jackets at the Augusta National Golf Club ebbs away, visitors to the city discover there is more to Augusta than just the Masters Tournament.

Downtown Augusta has a bohemian, artistic vibe with local-owned restaurants and shops. Artists Row along Broad Street features several local art galleries along with working art studios.

The Augusta Riverwalk, which spans Sixth and 10th streets in downtown Augusta, consists of two levels and offers a great place to enjoy a stroll along the banks of the Savannah River.

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Also along the Riverwalk at the Eighth Street plaza and bulkhead is a bricklined, pedestrian-only road that offers magnificent river views and is home to events such as the Saturday Market on the River and the Candlelight Jazz Series held every Sunday between the months of May and August.

To get oriented with Augusta’s history, hop aboard a historic trolley tour. The trolley departs from the Augusta Museum of History every Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and traverses Augusta’s historic district. The tour goes past historic homes on Telfair Street, the Thomas Woodrow Wilson House, the Medical College of Georgia (now a national historic landmark) and the haunted pillar on the cor-

ner of Fifth and Broad.

Visitors may dig deeper into the city’s past back at the Augusta Museum of History, which boasts the largest historical collection in the Central Savannah River area. Learn how the Savannah River parallels the South Carolina and Georgia border, dividing the city into Augusta on the Georgia side and North Augusta in South Carolina. The museum also showcases local legends including James Brown, the Godfather of Soul and an Augusta native.

Housed on the second floor of a historic office building, the Morris Museum of Art provides a cultural look into the art and artists of the South. The Morris has more than 5,000 works of art in 20 thematic galleries with a variety of paintings, watercolors, photographs and sculptures.

Another great way to explore the city is via the Augusta Canal. The hand-dug canal system is one of America’s oldest continually operating industrial canals and the nation’s only industrial power canal still in use for its original purpose.

The canal was built for water and hydropower in 1845 and served as a catalyst to the city’s then-emerging textile industry.

After the canal had fallen into disrepair, the city cleaned it up in 1996 and revitalized the old tow paths alongside the banks, where donkeys used to pull the boats, into biking and walking trails.

Two Petersburg boats, each named after original Petersburg boats from the 1840s, provide guided tours that leave from the Augusta Canal Interpretive Center, located in the Enterprise Mill, a revitalized 19th-century textile mill.

While technically not in Augusta, the Savannah Rapids Pavilion is a short drive and definitely worth a visit. This 33-acre park is located at the head gates of the Augusta Canal. Visitors can walk across a pedestrian bridge along the dam, see the locks (a device for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water of different levels), and view Reed Creek Falls as it flows into the canal. Picnic pavilions along with bicycle, kayak and canoe rentals are also available.

Also a worthwhile stop is Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, located about 15 minutes south of downtown Augusta.

The 1,100-acre park has 14 miles of biking and hiking trails and an education center run by the Southeastern Natural

Sciences Academy. Several boardwalks cross the wetlands alongside mossdraped trees, offering views of birds and other wildlife. The area was designated an “important birding area” by the National Audubon Society.

LOCAL EATS FROG HALLOW TAVERN features housemade cocktails and a farm-to-table menu including house-made sausage, bacon and chorizo. Shrimp and grits and braised pork shoulder are local favorites and staples on the ever-changing menu.

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STAY LOCAL THE PARTRIDGE INN, established in 1892, has served as a retreat for heads of state, captains of industry, international celebrities and other luminaries.

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amorris@communityjournals.com Health and wellness is the focus of the Healthy Living Expo coming to the Upstate on April 12 at McAlister Square in Greenville. Featuring film screenings and speakers, the daylong event also features exhibitors on everything from yoga and massage to organic foods and herbs.

As part of the event, two free film screenings will be held in the University Center auditorium. “May I Be Frank” is a documentary about Frank Ferrante and his 42-day journey from an unhealthy, lonely ex-addict to a healthy lifestyle as the result of a chance encounter at vegan Café Gratitude in San Francisco. A question-and-answer session after the film will feature Ferrante.

“The Grounded” is a film by Steve Kroschel that explores the claims that bare skin contact with the earth has healing properties. Residents of Haines, Alaska, reported relief from multiple

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maladies as a result of “grounding” or “earthing” and drew the attention of astronauts, doctors and scientists.

Dr. Laura Koniver, who is featured in the film, and producer Kroschel will be at the screening. Sharon Whiteley, founder of pluggz – shoes designed to conduct the earth’s energy to the wearer’s foot – will also be a speaker.

Roberta Balduc, publisher of Natural Awakenings magazine, which is celebrating five years in the Upstate via the event, said it offers the community the chance to see multiple vendors focusing on everything from nutrition to chiropractic.

“It will be a great place to be and is an opportunity to see what’s out there in the Greenville community to keep people healthy and well,” said Balduc.

Woodruff Road rezoning open to additional input APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Residents concerned about a proposed 120-unit townhome development near the intersection of Woodruff Road and South Bennett’s Bridge Road will get another chance at public input after the applicant amended a rezoning application.

The request initially was for rezoning to construct townhomes on an approximately 19-acre piece of property facing Woodruff Road and Dusty Lane, allowing up to eight units per acre. However, Mark III Properties representing Lewis E. McDonald requested an amendment in late March to R-M6 (multifamily residential), which allows up to six units per acre.

A public hearing on the amended application is scheduled for May 19.

Nearby residents have protested the

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rezoning, citing traffic concerns and wanting to adhere to the East Woodruff Road Area Plan, a citizen-driven plan developed with the county and adopted in 2008 that recommends two to four units per acre in the area.

The developer cited the need for townhomes in the area and said the property is not suited for single-family or commercial development.

Greenville County Planning Commission referred the initial rezoning request to County Council’s Planning and Development committee with no recommendation. County planning staff recommended denial of the eightunit request, citing the East Woodruff Road Area Plan.

The Planning Commission is scheduled to consider the amended request on May 28 and the Planning and Development committee will take it up on June 2.

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clandrum@communityjournals.com Pallets are stacked up on a concrete slab near the baseball field at Shannon Forest Christian School. Next month, some of the school’s middle school students will turn them into temporary housing for the homeless.

The project is the culmination of the school’s Design Challenge held during the school’s Silva-Mester pro-

gram in January.

During the Design Challenge, the school’s sixth- through eighth-graders learned about poverty and the challenges it presents locally, nationally and globally.

The students’ challenge was to come up with temporary housing solutions that could be used by people as nearby as Greenville’s tent cities and as far away as Haiti and Guatemala.

“The idea was to come up low-

cost housing that is nicer than what they have,” said eighth-grader Breezy Zacharias.

A group of the students have continued to work on the project – now called the D-team – even after Silva-Mester ended.

Thomas Riddle, the school’s vice president and upper school administrator, said the Design Challenge is part of the school’s Design 4 Good initiative.

The impetus behind the initiative was

the work of activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller, the subjects of the documentary “If You Build It,” and Riddle’s own son, Ben, who showed him that it is never too early for students to try to improve their communities.

The documentary follows Pilloton and Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest county in North Carolina, where they worked with high school students. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a

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Shannon Forest, the Greenville chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Roper Mountain Science Center are hosting two screenings of “If You Build It” this weekend.

The first screening is Saturday in the Hipp Auditorium in the Symmes Hall of Science at Roper Mountain Science Center at 7 p.m. The second screening is Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at Zen on South Main Street in Greenville’s West End. Miller will be at Sunday’s screening.

Riddle said he hopes the screenings will help spur other design-thinking projects throughout Greenville County.

During Shannon Forest’s designthinking project, students will turn the pallets and 2-by-4-inch lumber into a prototype for temporary housing for the homeless.

“I think they’d be quite happy with it,” said sixth-grader Luca Coban. “Imagine living under a bridge on Highway 14 versus a pallet house.”

While the students say a pallet house could give homeless a way to get out of the weather, it could also provide something else – hope.

“It could help them get back on their feet,” Zacharias said. “It could give them a sense of hope that things will get better.”

Clay Crockett, an eighth-grader who is a member of the D-team, said brainstorming about solutions to a problem sparks new ideas.

“It’s like a chain reaction,” he said.

“It’s building off each other to come up with something that works.”

Construction should start by the end of April. The students are trying to gather materials now. The biggest need is standard-length 2-by-4-inch and 2-by-3-inch lumber.

The pallet house will be 250 square feet and have a loft. Students say it will eventually be used for something practical, such as storage on the Shannon Forest campus.

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SO YOU KNOW WHAT: Screening of documentary, “If You Build It” WHEN AND WHERE: April 5, 7 p.m., Roper Mountain Science Center Symmes Hall of Science - 402 Roper Mountain Road and April 6, 5:30 p.m., Zen - 924 S. Main St. COST: Free REGISTRATION: required, go to eventbrite.com and search for “If You Build It Greenville”

Please call 864-232-8439 for an invitation or visit cancersocietygc.org for further information.

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PLAZAS TO ADD PUBLIC ART STOPS ALONG SWAMP RABBIT TRAIL, MURAL DEDICATION IS APRIL 10 APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com The scenery along the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail just got a bit more colorful with the completion of a mural, “Tortoise Has a Spare,” by Kathleen King. The mural is painted on a once-blank brick wall on mile marker SR 314 at Swamp Rabbit Green, which includes the Swamp Rabbit Café and other businesses.

“There is ample space to pull off the trail to spend time uncovering the hidden nuances of the mural,” said Ty Houck, director of Greenways, Natural and Historic Resources for Greenville County Recreation. “Swamp Rabbit Green, with Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery and the other businesses, is already a hopping-on point for trail users, and the bright, whimsical colors of the artwork can be seen from Cedar Lane Road, which reminds everyone as they hurry along

in their vehicles that part of life is having fun in your community and being out on the trail.”

Houck said organizers hope the mural is the launch of a series of public art plazas that will offer places to stop along the trail. The plazas would also be spacious enough to serve as a turnaround for cyclists pedaling a hand-cycle or specialized adaptive-use cycles, he said.

Weaving public art into the design of the trail is the vision. Organizers hope private dollars will help to commission artists to create works. Greenville County Rec will work with the Metropolitan Arts Council to enlist a panel of judges who will review submissions from local artists, said Houck.

A ribbon cutting and dedication for “Tortoise Has a Spare” is scheduled for April 10, 5-7 p.m., at Swamp Rabbit Green, 205 Cedar Lane Road. Tea and cake will be served and guests can get a temporary tattoo featuring the artwork.

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PLAZAS TO ADD PUBLIC ART STOPS ALONG SWAMP RABBIT TRAIL, MURAL DEDICATION IS APRIL 10 APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com The scenery along the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail just got a bit more colorful with the completion of a mural, “Tortoise Has a Spare,” by Kathleen King. The mural is painted on a once-blank brick wall on mile marker SR 314 at Swamp Rabbit Green, which includes the Swamp Rabbit Café and other businesses.

“There is ample space to pull off the trail to spend time uncovering the hidden nuances of the mural,” said Ty Houck, director of Greenways, Natural and Historic Resources for Greenville County Recreation. “Swamp Rabbit Green, with Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery and the other businesses, is already a hopping-on point for trail users, and the bright, whimsical colors of the artwork can be seen from Cedar Lane Road, which reminds everyone as they hurry along

in their vehicles that part of life is having fun in your community and being out on the trail.”

Houck said organizers hope the mural is the launch of a series of public art plazas that will offer places to stop along the trail. The plazas would also be spacious enough to serve as a turnaround for cyclists pedaling a hand-cycle or specialized adaptive-use cycles, he said.

Weaving public art into the design of the trail is the vision. Organizers hope private dollars will help to commission artists to create works. Greenville County Rec will work with the Metropolitan Arts Council to enlist a panel of judges who will review submissions from local artists, said Houck.

A ribbon cutting and dedication for “Tortoise Has a Spare” is scheduled for April 10, 5-7 p.m., at Swamp Rabbit Green, 205 Cedar Lane Road. Tea and cake will be served and guests can get a temporary tattoo featuring the artwork.

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Blythe Elementary School’s 2014 Blythe Blast will be on April 4, 3:306:30 p.m., at Greenville Tech’s campus on South Pleasantburg Drive. Admission is free and the event includes rides, games, activities and food.

Langston Charter Middle School is hosting a Parking Lot Party at 1950 Woodruff Road on April 5, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., with four food trucks, 30 craft vendors, the Blood Mobile, a game truck and 10 brand-new Ford cars and trucks for test drives. The school will earn $20 per test drive (one per household) from Ford.

Michael Seibert, a freshman majoring in music education at Bob Jones University, recently placed in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition held at the University of South Carolina. Seibert placed as Honors Recipient - Freshman Men and will compete in the NATS Mid-Atlantic regional competition April 4-5 in Greensboro, N.C. Greenville Technical College will offer a Cosmetology Career Showcase on

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April 14, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Barton Campus in building 106. The event will include tours, information on enrolling and financial aid, and a chance to talk to business and marketing professors.

Student demonstrations of hairstyling, hair coloring, skin analysis, nail art and makeup will be available. For more information, visit gvltec.edu/cosmetology.

door, and also by reservation at $10 for adults and $5 for students. In addition, a Play and Plate promotion on Friday will offer a meal before the show for $10. To reserve tickets, contact David Holland at 864-355-1875 or dholland@ greenville.k12.sc.us.

Southside Christian School will host an open house and campus tour for parents of students from age 18 months through 12th grade on April 11, April 25 and May 2. Informational sessions begin at 9 a.m. Visitors can meet the superintendent and principals. Anyone interested in learning more about Southside Christian School is invited to attend.

Matthew Jennings and Heather Madden are the winners of an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., sponsored by Laurens Electric Cooperative.

They will travel with Jennings other South Carolina students to the nation’s capital where they will join more than 1,400 students from across the country. Jennings is a student at Greenville Tech Charter High Madden School and son of Lorraine and Robert Jennings. Heather Madden is a student at Mauldin High School and daughter of Kim and Jeff Madden.

Blue Ridge High School’s first production of the season will be “Ragtime” on April 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. and April 26 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at the

Westcliffe Elementary School’s Challenge class recently placed second place for Best Structural Design in the 2014 Upstate Bridge Competition. Team members are Kate Leckie, Makayla Wilmont and Jenna Moore.

Ray Cox is their advisor.

Riverside Middle School will hold iMove, a 5K charity run to benefit Let There Be Mom and PAALS, on May 3.

For more information, visit greenville. k12.sc.us/rms.

Charles Townes Center at Sterling School students were recently selected for honor bands and orchestras: AllState Orchestra: Rachel Enggasser; alternate Jackson Caudell; Senior Honors Region Orchestra: Emma McFall and Sam Parrini; Junior Region Orchestra: Joseph Boen, Reuben Fitzer, Joshua Romoser, Rachel Enggasser, Andy Xu, and Jackson Caudell; alternates Karina Desai and Shona Fitzer; Junior Region Band: Dana Crytser; alternates Han-

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North Greenville University’s mass communication students brought home seven awards from the recent National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) International Christian Media Convention and Exposition. NGU students Rashad Simmons, James Smith and Meredith Wills took home third place honors in the 35-Digital News Challenge. Patrick Ford, Johnson Greene and Samantha McSwain achieved second place honors in the 36-Digital Audio Challenge. In the Radio/Audio-Feature/Radio Drama category, Chelsea Bailey and Samantha McSwain won first place. In addition, Elizabeth Pirkle and Seanna Walker took second place for their “NGU Twitter” entry. Mason Bayne won third place in the short film category, Steven Goransky took home third place honors for his music video and Chelsea Bailey won third place for her submission in the studio production category.

Three Bob Jones University students were recently awarded first place for their Public Service Campaign at the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System’s 74th Annual International School/ College Radio/Webcast Conference awards. Students honored included Andrea Sanford, Kristyn Barrett and Joel Whited. The campaign, titled “Saving Lives Together,” united three local universities – BJU, Furman and North Greenville – as they collected nearly 1,500 units of blood for the local Greenville community through The Blood Connection last fall.

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COMMUNITY NEWS, EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS

The Greenville County Economic Development Corporation (GCEDC) is conducting an online survey about Greenville County residents’ attitudes about their cars.

GCEDC hopes to get 500 or more county residents to share their opinions. Residents can take the survey at surveymonkey.com/s/HK2P9PR-ThoughtsAboutCars.

The Mauldin Garden Club will host its ninth annual Spring Fling on April 5, at the Mauldin Cultural Center, 101 E. Butler Road. This free community event will feature vendors, a plant sale, yard sale, magic show, storytelling, tool sharpening, silent auction, balloon animals, face painting, concessions and local musician Tom Campbell. Attendees can bring their own stringed instruments and join him on the lawn. The yard sale starts at 8 a.m., the other events run 9 a.m.-2 p.m. For more information, call 864-963-8267 or visit mauldingardenclub.org.

Greenville Chautauqua presents a discussion on Harry Truman led by George Frein on April 8, 7-8:30 p.m., at the Hughes Main Library in Greenville. The event is free.

Frein will perform as Harry Truman in the June 2014 festival. The discussion will explore how Truman, an unsuccessful farmer and failed businessman, found himself president and went on to end the war with Germany, use the atomic bomb against Japan, save a starving Europe, create a Fair Deal for Americans, start the nation on the road to civil rights, confront an expanding Soviet Union and wage war in Korea. For more information, visit greenvillechautauqua.org.

Greenville Technical College will offer an information session on Business Division programs and related careers on April 10, 5:30-7 p.m. The session will be held in the Engineering Technologies Building, Room 108, on the Barton Campus. The session is a chance to learn how to get equipped for the job market or to transfer to a four-year college with associate degrees in accounting, administrative office technology, computer technology, management, marketing and supply chain management.

First Monday in Greenville will be held on April 7 and the featured speaker will be Sen. Lindsey Graham. Reservations are required and can be made at firstmondayingreenville.com.

A Stories & Sweets event will be held on April 16, 7 p.m., at Fiction Addiction. The event will feature North Carolina authors Barbara Claypole White and Anne Clinard Barnhill discussing their latest novels, “The In-Between Hour” and “Queen Elizabeth’s Daughter: A Novel of Elizabeth I.” Refreshments will include homemade desserts and punch.

Tickets are $10 per person, which includes a $10 voucher that can be redeemed at the event. Tickets may be purchased at the door, in advance at bookyourlunch.com or by calling 864-675-0540.

Upstate Forever will publish a book featuring photographs and essays on the Saluda-Reedy watershed in collaboration with Hub City Press. The book, “Web of Water: Reflections of Life Along the Saluda and Reedy Rivers,” consists of images collected in the Saluda-Reedy watershed by four South Carolina photographers: Tom Blagden, Clay Bolt,

Jon Holloway and Ben Geer Keys, and essays by nature writer John Lane. All proceeds from book sales directly benefit the work of Upstate Forever on the Saluda-Reedy watershed.

There will be a premiere book launch event on April 17 in Greenwood. Events will also be held in Greenville on April 22 and Spartanburg on May 6. For more information, visit webofwaterbook.com.

Tours of historic Christ Church and its churchyard will be held at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on April 12. The tours are free and open to the public. Highlights of the tour include the church’s interior, featuring stained glass windows from Germany’s Mayer Studio, Markley Chapel and a churchyard walk featuring gravestones of early, prominent Greenvillians and South Carolinians like former Gov. Benjamin Perry and Greenville entrepreneur Vardry McBee. Earth Fest 2014 will be held at Greenville Tech on April 16, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., in the Student Center Courtyard on the Barton Campus. The event, spearheaded by biology instructors, is designed to encourage students, faculty, staff and members of the community to be environmentally responsible. Local earth-friendly companies and organizations will participate. The event is free, and everyone is welcome. For more information, visit gvltec.edu/earthfest or call 864-250-8767.

Mast General Store, 111 N. Main St., Greenville, will host multiple events in April and May. On April 12, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Christi L. Jeffcoat will share “A Tale of a Lonely Teddy Bear;” and on April 13, noon-3 p.m., Robbie Boman will be signing copies of “Miracles of the Upstate.” On April 19, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Donna Thornton will be signing copies of “The Easter Donkey” and artist Donna Landau will be in the store on May 3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Hatcher Garden & Woodland Preserve will hold its annual Spring Plant Sale, April 18, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and April 19, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. There will be a members-only pre-sale April 17, 3-6 p.m. Memberships will be available for $30 the day of the event. Members receive a 10 percent discount on all plants. This year’s sale will feature five varieties of Japanese maples and six different fern cultivars that are suitable for Spartanburg gardens.

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Free oral cancer screenings will be offered on April 22, noon-4 p.m., at Carolina Oral and Facial Surgery, 838 Powdersville Road, Suite E, Easley; and on April 24 at Carolina Oral and Facial Surgery, 39 Brendan Way, Greenville.

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Book Your Lunch with best-selling author Jane Green on April 23 at noon at The Lazy Goat. Tickets are $35, which includes a $10 book voucher, or $52.55 per person, which includes a copy of “Tempting Fate.” Tickets must be purchased in advance at bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.

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Wood“RUFF” Pet Resort & Spa, 70 Concourse Way, Greer, will host its third annual Easter Bone Hunt, benefiting CCA, on April 5, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. The cost is $10 at the door to participate in the Bone Hunt. Other games and photos by LJ’s Photography are an additional charge. All dogs must be current on shots and must remain on a leash. For more information, call 864-877-0488.

Finding Voice, an exhibition that seeks to raise awareness and funds for sexual abuse prevention and counseling programs, will be featured during Furman University’s SHARP (Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention) Awareness Week scheduled for the week of April 7. The Finding Voice exhibition will be on display April 8-10, 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m., in Trone Student Center on the Furman University campus. The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, visit survivorsfindingvoice.com or call 864-246-3960.

Locally owned Subway restaurants are thanking Habitat for Humanity volunteers at work sites across the Carolinas with a free catered lunch during National Volunteer Week, April 6-12. Approximately 2,000 Habitat for Humanity volunteers in Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Oconee and Spartanburg counties will be catered boxed lunches by the local franchise owners and employees of Subway restaurants.

The 17th Hope Ball will be held on April 25 at the Hyatt Regency. All proceeds benefit the Cancer Society of Greenville County. The Hope Ball, held every two years, is a black-tie dinner dance that involves hundreds of volunteers and individual supporters as well as many sponsors. The last Hope Ball in April 2012 raised more than $336,000. The 2014 goal is to raise more than $400,000, with the proceeds going directly for needed life-sustaining services for local cancer patients.

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The Greenville Road Warriors partnered with Nutra Manufacturing to treat children from the Meyer Center to an exciting, fun night of hockey. Nutra Manufacturing donated 250 tickets to the Meyer Center and provided children who normally would not get the chance to enjoy an event like a professional hockey game to experience a Road Warriors game.

On April 24, 8-9:30 a.m., Safe Harbor, Foothills Alliance and a group of Anderson community members are inviting men to “come to the table” at a community breakfast at ANMED Women’s & Children’s Hospital. “A Call To Men: Equipping Men to End Violence Against Women and Girls” will feature keynote speaker Tony Porter, co-director of a national organization called A Call to Men, who will discuss how men can be engaged in the movement to end violence against women. The breakfast is free, but seating is limited. Register at acalltomenanderson.com.

Tickets are on sale for the third annual SC Botanical Garden Moonlight and Magnolias Garden Gala on May 10, 6-10 p.m. The fundraiser features fresh-from-the-farm cuisine, music, a silent auction, local wines and craft beers in an event that supports the recovery and continued maintenance of the garden. Larry Mellichamp, professor of botany at the UNC-Charlotte Botanical Gardens, will be keynote speaker for the evening, and David Bradshaw, professor emeritus of horticulture at Clemson University, will be the honored guest.

Dress will be elegant garden party (garden hats are encouraged) and awards will be given out for fanciest hat. Tickets are $75 each and sponsorships are available. To become a sponsor, contact Darlene Evans or Shaunda Soto at 864656-3405. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit clemson.edu/ public/scbg/events.

Diaper Bank of the Carolinas is a small group funded through private/ personal donations to provide diapers to families in need. The group is seeking diaper donations or funds. For more information, contact Linda Russell at 864-987-9108.

Goodwill recently opened an expanded retail store and drive-through donation center at 811 Saco Lowell Road, Easley. Additionally, the location features the first Goodwill Job Connection in Pickens County. Job Connections provide free assistance to help job seekers connect with potential employers and find employment.

Services include access to resources like computers and the Internet, resume assistance, and job leads and referrals. Goodwill Job Connections can also serve as a resource for employers, connecting employers with pre-screened applicants, providing space for on-site interviewing, or organizing and conducting Job Fairs to help fill open positions.

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Governor’s School creative writers continue to be golden CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Before Jackson Trice applied for the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, almost nobody had read anything she had written outside of school assignments.

“I wrote mostly for myself,” said Trice, a Simpsonville native who is now a senior in the Governor’s School’s creative writing program. “I had shown my mom a

few things, but really, I wrote for my own enjoyment. Writing was something that made me happy.”

But the desire to get better and the lure of boarding school – even though it was not too far from home – prompted her to apply for the residential high school’s selective creative writing program.

The program enrolls around two dozen students and has built a reputation of having some of the best student writers in the country.

Trice, 17, won the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards gold medal for writing portfolio this year and the $10,000 check that accompanies it. Eight of the awards were given.

This is the fifth year in a row a Governor’s School student has won. The school has had 10 gold medal winners over the past nine years, at least one every year since 2010.

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In addition, six other Governor’s School students – Ian Burnette, Iain Espey, Cu Fleshman, Shelly Hucks, Kirby Knowlton and Mary McSherry – won silver medals for their portfolios. In individual writing categories, Governor’s School students took home 14 golds and silvers.

Scott Gould, creative writing department chair, said the school scours the state to find writing talent.

“I want people with potential and passion,” he said.

But potential alone doesn’t translate to success, he said. “It takes a lot of hard work. Writing is the hard work of getting your butt in the chair and writing. You have to put your time in.”

Students are in the creative writing program for two years, learning the craft of writing and trying to find their writing voices.

Hucks said the program’s success is due to the teachers, all practicing writers.

“They have high expectations and let us know that from the beginning,” Hucks said. “They’ve got the system perfected.

You don’t realize it’s working when you’re PHOTOS BY GREG BECKNER / STAFF South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities students Ian Espey, left, and Shelly Hucks. in the midst of it.”

On the first day, the tors who have been there, he said. “We’ve all been there. instructors tell students We can share what worked for us.” they don’t want to see stuGould said he was not surprised with Trice’s win bedents’ “old stuff ” or talk cause he knows how hard she worked. about what the students “When you work hard, good things happen,” he said. know; everybody starts “What surprises me is when I take a stack of essays from zero.

“It’s really tough putting yourself out there,” she said. home at night and I read one and say, ‘Where did that “The way to tell a story “You’re taking something that is part of yourself and let- come from?’” hasn’t changed,” Gould ting people rip it apart to get better.”

Gould said he considers all the awards “department wins.” said. “You still have to Burnette said the key to his success was making writ“When somebody wins, we all win,” he said. “I tell the have conflict. You still ing a part of his life rather than something he did in his students when somebody does good, they all played a have to have characters. spare time. part because they were in there workshopping and criYou still have to have “You’re writing every day and when you’re not writing, tiquing.” special details. And that you’re thinking about writing,” he said.

“It’s a lifestyle.”

Gould said that while the streak is nice, awards are won’t change. That’s how During their time in the program, students come into not the goal. you tell a good story.”

Scott Gould, chairman of the their own as writers.

“Our goal is that when they leave here, if you took the The school uses a workcreative writing department at “Finding your voice, sometimes it happens quickly, age off their writing, you wouldn’t know it was a high shop format; something the South Carolina Governor’s sometimes it takes a while,” Gould said. When students school writer,” he said. “We want to develop good writers that Trice said was terriSchool for the Arts and are struggling with something, it helps to have instruc- with a maturity level that belies their years.” fying for her at first.

“We want to develop good writers with a maturity level that belies their years.”

Humanities.

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GLT plans to follow big show with big season Three musicals on 2014-15 schedule CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com “Les Miserables” will have an impact on Greenville Little Theatre even past its June production.

Allen McCalla, the theatre’s artistic director, admits he felt some pressure when he set the theater’s 2014-15 lineup knowing it would follow “Les Miserables,” the world’s longest-running musical that was made into a movie.

But “Les Miserables” also brought a lot of new talent to GLT – those who won roles in the production and those who did not.

That led to a 2014-15 season that features three musicals, a Christmas production, a mostly true play about the adaptation of “Gone With the Wind” for the screen and three musical productions.

“It’s an ambitious season,” McCalla said.

The 2014-15 season opens with “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” a musical

McCalla has always loved but wasn’t sure GLT could do. That changed with “Les Miserables” auditions. “‘Legally Blonde’ has a lot of 20-somethings in the cast. It’s about law students ages 18 to 30, and we didn’t think there were a lot of them here,” McCalla said. “But we saw differently with ‘Les Mis.’ The theater scene has just gotten so strong here in the past few years.”

“Legally Blonde” runs from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4.

“Steel Magnolias,” a favorite of GLT audiences, is next up and runs Oct. 30 through Nov. 15. The story of the ladies who frequent Truvy’s beauty salon in a small Southern town was last performed by GLT 12 years ago. McCalla said the story is hilarious and poignant.

“There’s an awful lot of humor, and what makes it special is that humor comes from human emotions,” he said.

The show has an all-woman cast. “It is a great year for women at GLT.” December brings the Christmas classic, “A Christmas Story” – one of McCalla’s favorite Christmas movies. Anyone who likes the movie will love the stage version, he says. “It’s a very American story.”

Next up is “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the passion play centering on Jesus’ final days and his betrayal by Judas. The score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice created controversy when it first came out because some people didn’t think rock music should be mixed with religion.

“Pretty much everyone has gotten over that,” McCalla said. “Rock bands are now in churches.”

GLT’s production, running from Feb. 27 to March 14, will be biblically oriented with a small rock band, he said.

“It will be simple and beautiful,” McCalla said.

April brings the comedy “Don’t Cry for Me, Margaret Mitchell,” a mostly true comedy about the process of adapting “Gone With the Wind” from a novel to movie.

“It pays strong homage to ‘Gone With the Wind,’” McCalla said. “It’s really

a look at how things got done in Hollywood. It’s about the mores of Hollywood.”

The season concludes with the blockbuster musical, “The Sound of Music,” which McCalla calls “just a terrific story, and the music is part of our culture.”

The season also includes three special musical events.

“Splish Splash 2,” set for Aug. 17, is a rockin’ tribute to the music of the 1950s. “Wild Thing” will travel back to the 1960s in April and May 2015. Both feature local casts. The third musical event is a Valentine’s Day concert by Emile Pandolfi.

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Dinnertime is family time Cookbook author encourages families to “Come Home to Supper” CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Christy Jordan understands that putting dinner on the table on weeknights is challenging. Even so, gathering around the supper table is still so important, says the food blogger Jordan and cookbook author.

“I know it’s hard. I’ve got two kids and a husband and we’re going in four different directions every day,” says Jordan, publisher of SouthernPlates.com, a food blog that ranked in the Top 25 in the world in 2012.

The dinner table and the food you put on it are tools to bring the family together, she told the Journal.

“When you’re sitting at the dinner

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JOURNAL CULTURE table, the conversation starts,” she said. “You find out who your kid became today. If you miss too many nights around the table, you’ll find yourself sitting across from your kid wondering who that kid is.”

Jordon will be in Greenville on April 7 to promote her new cookbook, “Come Home to Supper.”

Jordan says the cookbook reflects the reality of today’s family schedules – its recipes are budget-conscious, kid-friendly and quick to make.

“It’s extremely rare that I spend more than 30 minutes on dinner,” she said. “If I only had one cookbook for the rest of my life, this would be it.

These are my go-to meals and tricks.”

The cookbook was written for the everyday cook with step-by-step instructions and options to substitute ingredients or make your own.

“There are no exotic spices you’ll only use once,” Jordan said. “These use basic pantry ingredients.”

In addition to the recipes, Jordan includes time-saving tips such as using a stand mixer to shred chicken, the correct way to store bacon grease, using potato flakes to thicken soups, and making two casseroles – one for supper and the other for the freezer.

“When you do that, you have your own convenience food in your freezer,” she said.

Jordan is a big fan of slow cookers and one-skillet meals because cleanup is easier.

The Huntsville, Ala., resident said she learned to cook from her mother, who learned to cook from her mother.

“Whenever my mother was in the kitchen, I was there, too,” she said.

“Too many times today, parents sit their kids in front of the TV and make a mad dash to get supper on the table.

I think children should help. Getting supper ready is something families can do to spend great time together.

That way, when you sit at the table, the conversation is already going.”

Interactive film, ‘App,’ coming to the Upstate Smartphone technology allows audiences to enhance plot

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WHAT: “App,” an interactive Dutch film WHERE: Peace Center WHEN: May 10, 6:30 p.m.

TICKETS: $10 NOTE: Tickets go on sale Friday, April 4, at 10 a.m.

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clandrum@communityjournals.com Dutch filmmaker Bobby Boermans is a technology addict with qualms.

He knows smartphones and tablets can enrich his life, but he also realizes he’s responsible for what he shares and how. He, like many others, has no idea where his personal data goes.

“It stays on some faraway, unknown server, probably at some vague company in a distant country, and you can bet it’ll stay there forever,” Boermans said. “With that data, ‘they’ can do whatever they want, and eventually control what you see, hear or do.”

It’s that scary thought that led to “App,” a Dutch film about a college coed who wakes up groggy and hung over after a night of partying to find Iris (Apple’s infamous Siri spelled backward) has been added to her phone.

Initially, the app is helpful and clever, but it soon begins behaving in cruel, mysterious ways.

Naturally, it follows that Boermans would include an app for those who attend the film’s Upstate screening at the Peace Center on May 10.

“I really wanted to make a film that especially would appeal to a younger audience. Since most kids these days are glued to their smartphones (yes, let’s face it, even inside a movie theater), it became pretty obvious to me that we also had to develop an actual app, complimentary to the movie itself,” Boermans said.

The app, available for Android and iPhone, synchronizes smartphones of moviegoers with the movie screen

based on inaudible sound cues using audio-watermarking technology.

The movie offers 35 moments where the app will provide additional information or content.

But for those in the technological dark ages – i.e. without smartphones – the movie works just fine without the second screen as well. Tickets for the screening go on sale Friday, April 4.

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Bringing it home Mountain Homes stands out from the typical Americana I first saw the Upstate group Mountain Homes, whose membership has ranged from a quartet to a sextet since forming five years ago, at The Handlebar, opening for another group.

That headlining group’s name escapes me, but I was immediately taken in by the opening act’s distinctive sound.

Led by singer/guitarist Will Wong and his wife, cellist Lauren Wong, the band’s haunting acoustic sound WHO: Mountain Homes stood out from the typical Americana. The cello lent a mournful, elegant quality to Will Wong’s WHERE: Radio Room, 2845 N. plaintive-but-blunt vocals and his darkly lyrical Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville songs, while filling an essential role in the rhythm WHEN: Friday, April 4, 9 p.m. section with drummer Kevin Mavis. His subject INFORMATION: 864-263-7868 matter ranged from stories of hard-bitten everyor wpbrradioroom.com day heartbreak to Appalachian folklore, and the spare-but-melodic tunes felt like they could’ve been torn from the early 20th century thanks to the spidery banjo of Jason Hudson.

When I spoke with Will and Lauren about the origins of the band, I was surprised. Turns out this group started out playing the classics.

“We actually got together to play old Phil Spector and Sinatra tunes acoustically,” Will says. “I was playing banjo, and I sucked. So Jason picked it up and played it and just shredded. He was really good at it. He’s become one of the better banjo players I know of. At our largest, we were a six-piece, but it’s always really been the four of us at the core, and the rest of it was accompaniment.”

Wong cites his songwriting influences as artists who often wrote about the darker side of the human experience, from Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle to Leonard Cohen and Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. But he’s quick to cite other genres, as well.

“Jason’s really deep-rooted in bluegrass, but he’s deeply influenced by jazz,” he says, “and he takes a jazz sort of approach to everything he writes.”

Lauren Wong’s cello playing is probably the most distinct aspect of Mountain Homes’ sound, and she says she’s conscious of both holding down the rhythm and accenting the music.

“That’s what I like to do with the cello,” she says. “I like to keep the sound kind of eerie. But at the same time, I stick with the bass notes. Will actually bought me an upright bass for Christmas, and I’m starting incorporate that onstage.”

The band is currently finishing up their first full-length album after briefly considering releasing an EP at the beginning of March.

“We had enough material to release an EP, but it would’ve been really rushed,” Will says. “And we wouldn’t have been able to release the other songs that we’d been working on, which were the most important songs for us. This is our first completely self-produced project. We’re even releasing it on vinyl.”

“We really took our time with this album,” Lauren Wong says, adding that they hope to have it out by the end of April. “We’ve actually recorded the first song Will and I ever wrote together, and that was pretty exciting.”

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THE WEEK IN THE LOCAL ARTS WORLD

On April 5 at 8 p.m. and April 6 at 3 p.m., Maestro Edvard Tchivzhel will lead the Greenville Symphony Orchestra in the fifth concert of the 2013-2014 Masterworks Series, “The Russian Sorcerer and His Apprentice.” Speaker Paul Hyde will lead a free pre-concert talk in the Founder’s Room above Larkin’s on the River one hour prior to both concerts. Tickets range from $16-$57 and can be purchased through The Peace Center box office at 864-467-3000 or 800-888-7768 or at peacecenter.org.

The Artist Guild Gallery of Greenville, 200 N. Main St., will be hosting a sixweek workshop beginning April 7 at 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., and each Monday until May 5. The focus will be “Mastering Your Medium Through Still Life.” It is open to all mediums, including watercolor, acrylic or pastel, and will focus on the major elements of painting, such as light, color, shadow, texture and composition. Erin Cronin-Webb will lead the workshop. Cost is $125 and class size is limited to six participants. For further information, email the2webbs@charter.net.

The Clemson University Center for Visual Arts (CVA) Celebration, a social event with fine art, food and music, will be held on April 5. The evening supports art student research, internships, residency programs and student-generated curatorial projects. In the Garden is the theme and celebrates the beginnings of warm weather and springtime at the Madren Conference Center. Alumna Jane Robelot will be emcee. More than 100 unique works of fine art from regional and national artists will be available for purchase.

Tickets are $85. For more information, visit clemson.edu/cva/celebration.

The Furman University Theatre will present Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid” April 4-5 and April 10-12 at 8 p.m., with a matinee at 3 p.m., April 6. All shows are performed in the Furman Playhouse on campus. Tickets are available at the Theatre Box Office. Prices are $16 general admission, $13 for seniors, and $8 for students. For ticket information and reservations, call 864-294-2125.

Art and Light will open its second gallery in the Flatiron building in the Village of West Greenville with “The Memory of Place” featuring Elizabeth Rundorff Smith on April 4, 6-9 p.m. The Flatiron building is located at 1205 Pendleton St., Greenville.

The South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson University is hosting free spring concerts in the amphitheater at 7 p.m. Fridays, April 4-May 2. Visitors can bring blankets or stadium chairs. The lineup includes: Emily Lynch on April 4; Ali Riehm on April 11; Tugalo Holler on April 18; Christy LaFrance on April 25; and Tony Tidwell on May 2.

For more information, visit clemson.edu/scbg/events or call 864-656-3405.

Merge is partnering with local curator Kara Blanken to host of a conceptual exhibition of local contemporary art. The opening reception is scheduled for the evening of April 10 from 6-9 p.m. The show will be on view at the Merge offices at 411 University Ridge, Suite 225, Greenville, until the first week of June. The show will feature four local artists who are not currently represented by local galleries.

Greenville Little Theatre presents the children’s show “Miss Nelson Is Missing!” April 9-12. Performances take place April 10-12 at 10:30 a.m. Seats are $8 with group discounts available. A special performance will be on April 9, 7 p.m., with special discounts available. A combination ticket to any of the performances includes a pass to The Children’s Museum of the Upstate. For more information, call 864-233-6238 or visit greenvillelittetheatre.org. The box office is located at 444 College Street, Greenville, and is open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Simpsonville author Krystal Vincent has published her first novel, “Stilettos,” and will be signing copies at Barnes and Noble Bookstore at the Shops at Greenridge on April 5, 2-5 p.m. The event is free, with books available for purchase.

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All brick home with 3 car garage. Vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors throughout, main floor Master Suite with trey ceiling and master bath double vanity sinks, separate Jacuzzi garden tub and shower, plus another bedroom on the main floor. Great Room with vaulted ceiling, built in bookcases, gas log fireplace and a view of the landscaped backyard. Kitchen with stainless steel appliances, walk in pantry and breakfast area. Large deck overlooks landscaped backyard.

Brand new main A/C and Hot Water units....separate A/C units for efficiency.

Janet Sandifer REALTOR

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707 CARRIAGE HILL • $379,000 • 4BR/3BA • MLS# 1275042

REALTOR

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED HOME

538 Crestwood Drive, Greenville Amazing historic home with incredible updates and only 9 minutes from Downtown Greenville! This unique home includes updates from new lighting, to plumbing fixtures, refinished hardwoods, tile flooring, new carpet, new paint, tiled bathrooms, and gourmet kitchen. And that’s not all! There is a 4 car garage with office, work-out room, bedroom, bathroom and entertaining bonus area; additional lower level entertainment area, bar and wine room, with French doors opening out to the large rock garden with fish pond and waterfall! Entertain outdoors on the 122 foot long deck with beautiful stone fireplace and fire pit; custom saltwater pool and cabana with grilling station, full bath and entertainment area. This house is ready for your family to call it home!

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HOME INFO Price: $1,250,000 | MLS: #1276652 Bedrooms: 5 Baths: 4 full, 3 half | Square Footage: 6600-6799 | Acres: 3 Schools: Paris Elementary | Sevier Middle Wade Hampton High Contact: Gordon D. Seay | 864-444-4359 2014 Marchant Company Hall of Fame Agent The Marchant Company To submit your Featured Home: homes@greenvillejournal.com

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SPAULDING FARM

SPAULDING FARM

CHELSEA WOODS

11 RUFFIAN WAY . $565,000 . MLS# 1270598

300 SPAULDING FARM RD . $525,000 . MLS# 1262241

201 WATERFORD LANE . $509,000 . MLS# 1269836

4BR/3.5BA Wonderful home in great SD w/awesome amenities! Roper Mtn Rd to Hwy 14, turn on Spaulding Farm Rd, Left on Blockhouse, Left on Ruffian, Home in cul-de-sac

4BR/3BA Awesome home in desirable SD on .98 acre lot. DIR: Roper Mtn Rd to Hwy 14 NW, Right on Spaulding Farm Rd, Home on Right past Clubhouse.

4BR/3.5BA Beautiful family home with, high ceilings, deep moldings, and an excellent floor plan for entertaining! $7,000.00 buyer credit! Please call agent for directions.

Contact: Kate Anderson | 363-3634 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

Contact: Roger Tate | 630-2999 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

Contact: Karen Lawton | (864)444-7004 Keller Williams Realty Upstate

ROCKWOOD PARK /AUGUSTA RD

BLUE WATERS

TUSCANY FALLS

22 FRONTUS ST . $475,000 . MLS#

51 BLUE GILL . $369,000 . MLS# 1276056

204 DANTE LANE . $368,375 . MLS# 1275764

3BR/2.5BA Augusta Circle/Rockwood Park. Completely renovated. Huge bonus room. Screened porch with wooded views. Brand new kitchen and master bath. Take Rockwood off Augusta. Right on Myers. Left on Frontus.

3BR/3.5BA Panoramic lake view w/over 300’ lake frontage. Stunning cedar home. Hwy 29 in Greer, Right on Hwy 101, Left on FewsBridge Rd, Right on Blue Ridge Dr, Left in SD.

5BR/3.5BA Pristine home with finished basement. Must see! Hwy 85 S to Exit 51, Right on Scuffletown Rd. Right in Tuscany Falls.

Right Versilia, Right Dante Lane.

Contact: Steve Hunt | 864-630-8184 For Sale By Owner

Contact: Jean Keenan | 380-2331 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

Contact: Kathy Cassity/Jeri Templer | 678-5250 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

HOLLY TRACE

SHENANDOAH FARMS

LINDEN PARK

307 HOLLY CREST CIR . $307,500 . MLS# 1276511

312 STRASBURG DR . $299,900 . MLS# 1271696

22 WORTHINGTON . $286,500 . MLS# 1265604

4BR/2.5BA Lovely home. Great location. Open floorplan. Lush landscaping. Conveniently located. Hwy 14 from Woodruff Rd, R into SD, Left on Circle Slope, Right on Holly Crest

5BR/4BA Striking home w/gorgeous. Huge Master. Screened porch, patio. 385 to Left on Hwy 417 Left on Hwy 14, Right on Pollard, Left on Jonesville, Right into SD -Strasburg

3BR/2.5BA Lovely home. Quiet neighborhood. Open floorplan. Wonderful features. Cozy backporch. Hwy 14, Left on Stokes Rd, Right into 2nd entrance of Linden Park , Home on Left

Contact: Tim Keagy | 905-3304 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

Contact: Chet Smith | 458-SOLD(7653) Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

Contact: Tim Keagy | 905-3304 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

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Southampton, Simpsonville This one of a kind 6 Bedroom, 5 full and 2 half Bath home is truly magnificent! The fabulous open floor plan is perfect for entertaining as well as everyday living. The owners’ meticulous attention to every detail is obvious. Beautiful designer lighting, custom ceiling treatments and moldings can be found throughout the house. The Kitchen provides an ideal entertaining area with knotty alder cabinets, large island, breakfast bar, top of the line stainless appliances, inviting Breakfast room and adjacent Keeping Room with an incredible stone wall with built ins and fireplace. Also on the main level, you will find an elegant Master retreat as well as a second bedroom. There is a 3 car garage and a 4th bay in the attached carriage house. You will enjoy many afternoons in the outdoor living area with covered porch, salt water pool, hot tub and Summer kitchen. This home is a must see!

HOME INFO Price: $1,520,000 | MLS: #1275205 Bedrooms: 6 Baths: 5 full/2 half | Square Footage: 6600–6799 Schools: Bells Crossing Elementary | Beck Middle JL Mann High Contact: Carole Atkison | 864.787.1067 BHHS C. Dan Joyner To submit your Featured Home: homes@greenvillejournal.com

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NEELY FARM

HOLLY TRACE

MILLER HEIGHTS

21 DAPPLE GRAY CT . $255,900 . MLS# 1275901

140 CIRCLE SLOPE . $253,500 . MLS# 1276141

10 SOUTHERN HEIGHT DR . $159,500 . MLS# 1274403

4BR/2.5BA Charming home w/Stainless Appliances, Fresh paint and Crown Molding. I-385 S - Right on Fairview - Right -Harrison Bridge. Right -Neely Ferry.

Right- Farming Creek. Right - Dapple Gray.

4BR/2.5BA Wonderful home in established neighborhood. Wooded lot w/creek.

Spacious rooms. Hwy 14 from Woodruff Rd, Right into SD, Left on Circle Slope

3BR/2BA Great home w/open floor plan. Nice manicured yard. Woodruff Rd, Left on Miller, Left in SD.

Contact: Deanna Arce | 593-5070 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

Contact: Tim Keagy | 905-3304 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

Contact: Becky Friddle | 320-6599 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

WALKERS CROSSING

CORBIN COURT

ON THE MARKET LAUREL LAKE

203 MCCRAY CT . $143,500 . MLS# 1274369

8 CORBIN COURT . $115,950 . MLS# 1276198

2BR/2BA Lovely home. Great location. Open floorplan. Conveniently located. Quiet neighborhood. I385S to Woodruff Rd, Left off exit, Right on Hwy 14, Right on McCrary Ct.

3BR/2.5BA Priced to sell! Townhome on Eastside. Spacious kitchen. E North St, Left on Cunningham Rd, Left on Corbin Court

Contact: Tim Keagy | 905-3304 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

Contact: Faithanne Arnold | 444-9655 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner Co.

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G’VILLE COUNTRY CLUB

102 E. Augusta Place MLS #1276632 $389,000

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25 Club Drive MLS #1276575 $$489,000

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RIVERWOOD FARMS 4 Garbor Court MLS #1275911 $434,000

5BR/4.5BA Gorgeous finished basement home in sought after neighborhood. Keeping room with stacked stone fire place off open kitchen, loft, 3 car garage. Wooded .7 acre lot. Great schools!

Contact: Pam McCartney | 864-630-7844 BHHS C. Dan Joyner

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WATSONS ORCHARD 6 Darien Way MLS #1275497 $840,000

Ranked #3 again! Out of 150 agents. #12 in Greenville County!

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R E A L E S TAT E N E W S GGAR MARKET OVERVIEW

You’ve seen the ads on TV. Esurance, is the nation’s largest publicly held personal lines insurer. Purchased by Allstate in 2011, Esurance is expanding into its �ifth national location, and the company chose Greater Greenville.

Esurance is making an undisclosed multimillion dollar investment in a sales and claims center. The company plans to create up to 450 jobs in the area, according to the Greenville Area Development Corporation (GADC).

The GADC said Greenville was the perfect choice because of three reasons – superb Class A of�ice space, a national caliber talent pool, and an attractive and diverse community that will draw new talent.

According to Kevin Landmesser, interim president and CEO of the GADC, “In just 11 years, the GADC and its partners have assisted over 200 businesses in expanding or locating here – representing over 16,500 new jobs and capital investment of $2.8 billion. ” The Greater Greenville economy has the momentum to build even more in 2014.

Capital improvements in transportation - $18 million in county roads and $50 million in terminal enhancements at Greenville- Spartanburg International Airport.

The new Greer Island Inland Port is set to move over 40,000 containers of grains and

goods. According to the National Waterways Foundation, one 15- barge tow can transport the same freight as 216 rail cars or 1050 large semi-tractor trailers. Barges can move one ton of cargo 576 miles per gallon of fuel, while a rail care can move the same ton of cargo 413 miles, and a truck only 155 miles.

And let’s not forget a fourth reason to choose Greater Greenville – affordable housing. Our home prices are still below 2008 levels. In January 2014, the median home price was $152,250, up 1.5 percent from January 2013.

Housing sales volume in January was up 3.8 percent year-over-year to 494 units and homes sold nearly two percent faster than the year before. There are currently over 5100 homes on the market in Greater Greenville, at a median price of $189,900, representing a much greater selection for homebuyers.

Considering the national median home price is $188,900, up 10.7 percent from January 2013, Greater Greenville homes represent a great bargain in a wonderful community that’s actively working to bring commerce.

Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® represents over 1,700 members in all aspects of the real estate industry. Please visit the Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® web site at www.ggar.com for real estate and consumer information.

“Every market is different, call a REALTOR® today.”

PEOPL E, AWA R D S , HONOR S

Coldwell Banker Caine Announces Annual Top Producing Agents and Awards

Each year, Coldwell Banker Caine recognizes its top producing agents with honors. This year, the company awarded over 60 agents across the Upstate for producing within the top local, national and international rankings during their annual meeting Monday, February 17.

Sharon Wilson was named top producing agent in Coldwell Banker Caine for 2013, #1 Volume Producer for 2013, and the #1 Coldwell Banker Sales Associate in South Carolina. The company announced the top 20 sales associates

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16 Richfield Drive, Eastside • $649,900 5 BR/3.5 BA • 2.7 Acres • MLS1274322

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in the following order: Sharon Wilson Jacob Mann Helen Hagood Nick Carlson Thomas Cheves Francie Little Faith Ross David Seaver Susan Reid Carolyn Dowling Heidi Putnam Jennifer Wilson Judy McCravy Berry Gower Patty Einstein Susan Gallion Virginia Abrams Marcia Hancock Beth Beach Jake Dickens Sharon Wilson and Jacob Mann qualified for the International President’s Premier Society, which is awarded to the top 1 percent of all Coldwell Banker agents internationally. This is the highest recognition Coldwell Banker awards throughout its global network.

Nick Carlson, Helen Hagood and Pat Loftis qualified for the International President’s Elite Society, which is awarded to the top 3 percent of all Coldwell Banker agents internationally.

Thomas Cheves, Steve Mussman and Jamie Ouzts, of The Cheves, Mussman, Ouzts Group, qualified for the International President’s Circle Team Society, which is awarded to the top 18 percent of all Coldwell Banker agent teams in U.S. and Canada.

Andrew Little, Francie Little, Donna Morrow, Susan Reid and Lori Thompson qualified for the International President’s Circle Society, which is awarded to the the top 6 percent of all Coldwell Banker agents internationally.

The following agents qualified for the International Diamond Society, which is awarded

to the top 11 percent of all Coldwell Banker agents internationally: Virginia Abrams, Beth Beach, Jake Dickens, Carolyn Dowling, Jere duBois, Shelbie Dunn Behringer, Patty Einstein, Susan Gallion, Berry Gower, Steve Hammett, Kathy Harris, Susan McCoy, Judy McCravy, Charlene Panek, Rhonda Porter, Heidi Putnam, Faith Ross, David Seaver, Sharon Tootell, Carol Walsh, Holly West, Jennifer Wilson and Linda Wood.

The following agents qualified for International Sterling Society, which is awarded to the top 16 percent of all Coldwell Banker agents internationally: Tracey Cappio, Suzanne Freeman, Lorraine Gibson, Felicia Griggs, Marcia Hancock, Trish Hollon, Hillary Hurst, Jane McCutcheon, Mary Jo Ochylski, Heather Parlier, Eva Sandfort, Beth Sarmento and Alicia Waynick.

The following agents qualified for International Bronze Society: Megan Coates, Kay Cox, Heather Durbin, Pete Edge, Mary Jane Freeman, Kathy Gallamore, Kaye McIntyre, Debbie Moseley, Brett Smagala, Sherry Sponseller, Annette Starnes, John Stephenson, Lisa Watson and Lynn West.

The #1 Unit Producer was Jacob Mann, #1 Increased Production was Helen Hagood, Top Relocation Agent was Eva Sandfort, Team Spirit Award was awarded to Kerstin JoslinVenus and the Team Leadership Award was awarded to Jane McCutcheon.

Coldwell Banker Caine was awarded the Chairman’s Circle award, recognizing the top 6 percent of all companies in the U.S. and Canada.

The Greenville, Williams St. office, was awarded the #1 Coldwell Banker office in South Carolina, the #1 office in the Southern Region by size category and the Premier Office Award recognizing the top 19 % of all offices in U.S and Canada.

“Coldwell Banker Caine agents continue to be leaders, both locally and internationally within the vast Coldwell Banker network,” said Stephen Edgerton, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker Caine “To be awarded such designations is an honor and a representation of what our agents strive for everyday: excellence, leadership and dedication.”

G R E E N V I L L E T R A N S AC T ION S M A R C H 10 - 14, 2 014 SUBD.

PRICE SELLER

$7,248,177

$3,800,000

$1,449,975

$1,110,000 ALLEGHENY $800,000 PLANTATION ON PELHAM $780,000

$750,000 MONTEBELLO $750,000

$625,000 PARKINS KNOLL $570,000 CONNOR’S CREEK $565,000 PARK HILL $545,000 CLUB FOREST $468,000 KILGORE FARMS $433,588

$400,000 IVY GROVE $399,384 BRIGHTON $377,500 STONEHAVEN $365,000 HIGHLANDS $363,000

$350,000 LINKSIDE $350,000 WOOD BRIDGE $337,500 KILGORE FARMS $336,000 CREEKWOOD $330,365

$330,000 SHENANDOAH FARMS $321,000 STONEWYCK $305,000 ESTATES@GOVERNOR’S LAKE $299,000 BATESVILLE RIDGE $290,000 VERDMONT $287,522

$285,000 WOODLAND CREEK $282,305 COTTAGES@RIVERWOOD FARM $280,000 CREEKWOOD $261,250 MILL POND@RIVER SHOALS $261,042 THE PARK DOWNTOWN $260,000 HERITAGE POINT $256,070

$255,000

$240,000

$240,000 BRIDGEWATER $238,500

$238,000 LAKEWOOD $235,000 HOLLINGTON $234,900 FORRESTER WOODS $230,000 RESERVE@PLANTATION GREENE $225,600 WINDSOR CREEK $225,406 CROSSGATE@REMINGTON $220,392 TOWNES@RIVERWOOD FARM $218,000 WOODRUFF LAKE $216,900

$208,000 REMINGTON $206,313 CARRIAGE WEST $203,000 FOX TRACE $201,159 FOX TRACE $195,070 POINSETTIA $195,000 ABERDEEN HIGHLANDS $193,000 CYPRESS RUN $192,200 LANDING@SAVANNAH POINTE $192,000 MULBERRY AT PINCKNEY $189,900 MEADOWS@GILDER CREEK FARM $186,000 MEADOW BREEZE $178,641 COUNTRY VIEW $178,353 RESERVE@GREEN VALLEY $176,000 VILLAGE@WINDSOR CREEK $173,170 GILDER CHASE $170,861 ORCHARD FARMS ARBOR WALK $170,000

Distinctive Homes To Fit Your Life.

Projects Spanning All Sizes.

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$398,000 • 1276337 • 4 BR/3.5 BA

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THE WEEK IN PHOTOS THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA FORFEITED LAND COMMISSION SALE 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 May 12, 2014 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.

Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING Hearing of the Commission to enlarge the boundaries of the Greater Greenville Sanitation District to include certain properties in Drexel Terrace off Old Spartanburg Road and East North Street and to provide public notice thereof.

PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that on April 22, at 5:30 p.m. in the Commission Room of the Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission Headquarters located at 1600 West Washington Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29601, a public hearing will be held for the consideration of enlarging the boundaries of the Greater Greenville Sanitation District to include certain properties in Drexel Terrace off Old Spartanburg Road and East North Street.

Anyone wishing to be placed on the Agenda for Public Comment is asked to call Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission at 2326721 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday thru Thursday. Public comments will be limited based on the number of persons addressing the Commission. Public comment can also be sent via email at info@ggsc.gov. www.GGSC.gov

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Blue Ridge Olive Oil. LTD, Co., intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of LIQUOR at 4 Market Point Drive Ste F, #2, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 6, 2014. 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 2 Little Men LLC / DBA: The Cigar Boxx, 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 23 College Street, Greenville, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 13, 2014. 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 Blue Ridge Olive Oil. LTD, Co., 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 at 4 Market Point Drive Ste F, #1 Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 6, 2014. 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 Creative Arts, LLC / DBA Dr. Mac Arnold’s Blues Restaurant, 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 1237 Pendleton Street, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 13, 2014. 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 South Carolina CVS Pharmacy, L.L.C, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 2446 Hudson Rd., Greer, SC 29650. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 6, 2014.

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

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: RFP# 49-04/29/14, Architectural and Engineering Design Services for an Ice Rink, April 29, 2014, 3:00 P.M. A preproposal meeting will be held at 1:00 PM, EDT, April 16, 2014 at the Greenville County Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Pavilion, 400 Scottswood Road, Taylors, SC 29687.

LOOK WHO’S IN THE JOURNAL THIS WEEK Washington Center students Caitlin Burton (left) and Britney Herbert enjoy an outing at Frankie’s Fun Park thanks to funding from the school’s PTA. Every year, each teacher at Washington Center is given the opportunity to apply for a PTA grant. This year, Amy Garbe’s class used their PTA grant to fund a trip to Frankie’s Fun Park.

The students played skee ball and Guitar Hero, rode a motorcycle in a video game and played lots of other fun games. The day ended with hamburgers and french fries at Johnny Rockets. Students practiced using appropriate social skills and had positive interactions with those in the community.

The Stone Academy Battle of the Books Club celebrated the end of the tournament season with a Pie Party. Seventeen students shared homemade pies during the lunch meeting in honor of the book “Pie” by Sarah Weeks, one of the books from the SC Children’s Book Award nominees list. Stone’s Library Media Specialist Alice Littlejohn sponsors the club and coordinates the district’s Battle of the Books program. Pictured with Littlejohn are Jemyah Jones, Kaylee Tollison, Anna Atkins and Frank Braga.

The Langston Charter Middle School Lego Robotics team, Gear Tuners Fury, competed against 78 teams at the South Carolina State Robotics Championship and won second place for Teamwork in Core Values and placed tenth in Robot Performance. Team members first row (left to right): Haseeba Karim, Roann Abdeladl and Michael Causey; second row (left to right): Steitler Buisch, Jacob Stuff, Matt Thomason, Anton Aarnink and Elijah Budd.

RFP# 50-04/24/14, Tennis Court Resurfacing, April 24, 2014, 3:00 P.M. A pre-proposal meeting will be held at 3:00 PM, EDT, April 16, 2014 at the Greenville County Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Pavilion, 400 Scottswood Road, Taylors, SC 29687.

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

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More than 150 faculty, staff and students volunteered their time on Friday, March 28, for Greenville Tech Gives Back. Volunteers assisted with community gardens through Greenville Forward’s Gardening for Good, sorted and packed food at Harvest Hope Food Bank, and cleaned up Lake Conestee with River Sweep.

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32 Salinger title 13-yearold 34 Two-time U.S. Open winner Trevino 35 Brillo, for one 41 Baja bear 43 California nine, in sports crawl lines 46 Café au __ 47 Forum talk was in it 48 Archeological sites 52 Include 54 Chocolate Mr. 56 Slide subjects 57 King Minos, e.g.

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62 Number of hills di Roma 65 Enjoy Olive Garden, say 67 Dancer Sally with just a few fans?

68 Everywhere 71 City on Utah Lake 74 Trap setter, when it works 75 Deal with 76 Yosemite Sam’s “Scram!”

79 OneStep 600 producer 81 -y to the max 83 Break indicator 85 It may involve pasting 86 Back 89 Ball queen 90 Electronics chain 92 One of the Allman Brothers 94 Skelton’s Kadiddlehopper 95 Wheel spinner’s buy 96 However, briefly 97 It merged with Penguin in 2013 99 Short smoke?

102 Pharaoh’s cross 104 Criticize 105 Bed with bars 109 Wall St. locale 111 Lummoxes 113 Faux __ 116 Thoroughbred ancestor 117 Embroidery slogan,

and an alternative title for this puzzle 120 Mortgage feature?

121 Built 122 Swiss calculus pioneer 123 Do stuff 124 2002 Adam Sandler role 125 “Lohengrin” heroine Down 1 Slender-necked pear 2 “The Simpsons” bus driver 3 “Who knew?”

4 Court call 5 Ring event 6 Santa __: offshore winds 7 Garage unit 8 “__ girl!”

9 Pulled (in) 10 Challenges 11 Form letters?

12 Thompson of “Family” 13 Sound from a nest 14 More than enough 15 Pocahontas’ spouse 16 Fretted fiddle 17 Aunt with a “Cope Book” 18 It’s often reserved 20 Pave over 24 Bird in a covey 29 Admit, with “up” 31 Make the grade 33 Secure with lines 35 Play in a line

36 Leadership nucleus 37 Badger 38 Classic muscle car 39 Trailblazer 40 Writer Rooney 42 In most cases 43 Many an October baby

Easy

44 “Encore!”

45 Syrian leader 48 Palestinian political party 49 Copy 50 Garage alternative 51 John on the farm 53 Minnesota United

FC org.

55 Visibly embarrassed 58 Wrestling holds 60 Deal 63 “West Side Story” duet 64 Plug in the den?

66 Beta release, e.g.

68 Maker of old strings 69 Sign again 70 Vanity item 71 Verdi creation 72 Sometime ally of Godzilla 73 Say somethin’, say?

76 Collector of views 77 Key chain 78 Central idea 80 Where agua flows 82 Party supply 84 Martha Stewart Living topic 86 Bus. course 87 Blue 88 “Microsoft sound” composer 91 Melville tyrant 93 Roast host 97 Matched shirts and skirts?

98 Waste creator 99 __ Monday: postThanksgiving event 100 Cupcake cover 101 Prepare, as Parmesan 103 Big name in packaged soups 105 Big party 106 Met solo 107 Indonesian island on its own sea 108 Like LAX 110 Gospel singer Winans 111 Blown away 112 Anti-doping targets, briefly 114 Iowa city 115 Evening at Lake Como 117 Shut (in) 118 Canonized mlle.

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DAD, M.D.

BY JOE MAURER

That’s how it goes After finishing my undergraduate studies, I considered a career in education. In pursuit of this goal, I spent a brief time substitute teaching, figuring it was a fun way to earn some extra money to pay for repairs on my 10-year-old T-top Nissan Pulsar.

My first day in a middle school science class started well. Three minutes in, after I wrote my name on the board, an energetic, prepubescent boy sitting in the front of class audibly quipped, “Mr. Maurer needs a shower.”

When I asked what he said, he mumbled, “Nothing.” As I leaned over him to ask again, he quickly announced to the class, “Dude, you need to trim your nose hairs.”

When I arrived back from escorting him to the principal’s office, the desks were aligned in a large rectangle and the entire class was climbing around them like a group of wild orangutans. The day continued in that fashion. (God bless our educators. They are underpaid and under-appreciated.)

Thankfully, over the course of that

year I grew to enjoy teaching. I ended up working in a special needs classroom, an experience that taught me how inspirational children are – resilient, honest and forgiving, filled with life and possibility.

It was working with a young autistic child that encouraged me to pursue medicine. Ralph was a pudgy, playful toddler who was happiest when he was hugging someone. Generally, he was well behaved and pleasant. He made most school days enjoyable.

One day, however, his parents forgot to give him his medications. The difference was incredible. It was as if he was infested with an army of tiny chiggers just underneath his skin that were chewing their way out. He spent that whole morning hitting, biting and yelling at me.

The next day, as if some guttural demons had been exorcised, he walked in the classroom and hugged me.

Watching this transformation allowed me to see what a dramatic effect medical intervention offers some children, and

furthermore, the great strength children have to bear their illnesses. Children possess the awesome ability to overcome adversity and challenge.

So, gratefully, I made it to where I am today, blessed with a great education, many wonderful mentors and teachers and some powerful learning experiences.

I’m in a practice with an amazing group of doctors, nurses and staff. We are fortunate to have many wonderful families that allow us to help them raise their children.

Importantly, the children I treat also remind me on a daily basis of two crucial aspects of my job: humility and humor.

I continually learn similar lessons at home. My second daughter, Anna Jane, enjoys cutting her hair, for example.

She apparently believes she’s better at it than any stylist. Usually a new trim requires only a missing chunk or two, typically a few days, or hours, before family pictures or major holidays.

About a month ago, despite my belief that I’d convinced her to restrain from any further demolition, I arrived home to another chunk of black hair in the middle of our white rug. (Amazingly, she cannot find her shoes when it’s time

to go to school, but she can readily locate the scissors we’ve locked eight feet high in a kitchen cabinet.) When I found her in her bedroom I asked, “Anna Jane.

Did you cut your hair again?”

She looked incredulously at me and stated, deadpan, “That’s how it goes.”

Well, yes, I guess it is.

I love my family, and I love my job. I’m grateful for the chance to share some of my experiences in this column. As a pediatrician, I plan to offer some up-to-date information on advancements in medical care. I will pick relevant and innovative pediatric topics and share the newest advancements. As a father, I plan to make them relevant to parents and families.

I am grateful for the frequent experiences in my life that continue to remind me of the importance of humility and humor.

I hope this translates well in my writing.

I appreciate this opportunity and welcome any feedback – as long as it isn’t regarding my nose hairs.

Dr. Joe Maurer is a pediatrician with The Children’s Clinic, a nine-doctor practice that is part of the Children’s Hospital of the Greenville Health System. He and his wife, Kristen, are blessed with three rowdy kids aged 6, 5 and 2.

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