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‘Right idea, wrong time’

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clandrum@communityjournals.com Saying it was the right idea but not the right time, Greenville City Councilman David Sudduth changed his vote Monday night on nonpartisan elections, paving the way for the city to return party labels to the municipal bal-

Attendees at Monday’s City Council meeting stand in response to a request that all opposed to the nonpartisan election ordinance stand up.

lot and ending a controversy that has enveloped Greenville for the past year.

Sudduth’s reversal came during a special called meeting to address a petition signed by more than 6,300 registered voters, seeking to repeal an ordinance the council passed last May to make municipal elections nonpartisan.

If Sudduth hadn’t changed his vote, the request would have gone to public referendum in November.

“It’s just time to move on,” Sudduth said in an interview after the vote. “We can’t

“Potholes are not partisan.”

Councilwoman Gaye Sprague, one of three council members who voted against repeal.

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keep doing this for seven months. We’ve got other issues we need to deal with. I think [nonpartisan] is the right thing to do but it’s probably not the right time to do it.”

The rest of council maintained the stances they took on the original vote: Mayor Knox White and councilwomen Lillian Brock Flemming and Jil Littlejohn voted against nonpartisan elections, and councilwomen Amy Ryberg Doyle, Susan Reynolds and Gaye Sprague favored the change.

Sudduth said while Greenville is atypical in the way it works across party lines on issues, it became clear to him Monday night that the city is not apolitical.

“I never realized how happy both sides were to be partisan,” he said during the

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One City Council member’s change of mind has opened the door to the return of party labels to municipal ballots

meeting. “I really underestimated that.”

Council’s final vote on the repeal will be held Wednesday, April 15, at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall.

If that happens – and Sudduth said his vote would not change again – council and the city’s Municipal Election Commission will set new filing and primary dates. The commission will meet on Monday morning to consider a new election schedule. If the council passes second reading of the repeal on Wednesday, it will consider the new schedule then. In a typical election year, filing would have been in March and the primary in early June.

The issue will not be discussed at Council’s regular meeting April 13.

JOURNAL NEWS “Right idea, wrong time.”

Councilman David Sudduth after the Greenville City Council meeting in which switched sides and voted to repeal a controversial ordinance that changed the city’s municipal elections to nonpartisan.

MORE PARTICIPATION, MORE CANDIDATES Greenville is one of a handful of South Carolina cities with more than 20,000 residents that select city council via partisan elections.

Doyle, Sprague and Reynolds said stripping party labels from the bal-

Greenville City Councilwoman Lillian Brock Flemming, center, at Monday’s City Council meeting. Council voted 4-3 to repeal a controversial ordinance that changed the city’s municipal elections to nonpartisan​.

lot would increase voter participation among independents, while a shortened election schedule would increase the number of qualified candidates.

“The issues we deal with are not partisan. An R or a D on the ballot tells you nothing about how that person will approach parks and recreation,” Sprague said.

Greenville’s black community reacted quickly when the ordinance was introduced last year, saying the change would disenfranchise minority voters. But Sprague, Doyle and Reynolds said the city will find it increasingly difficult to preserve two majority minority districts in the future because Greenville’s minority population is spreading out all over the city.

The switch would not disenfranchise minorities and would in fact increase a

Greenville City Councilwoman Amy Ryberg Doyle, right, talks with Patrick Tuttle from St. Anthony of Padua at Monday night’s City Council meeting.

minority candidate’s chances of winning an at-large seat, Sprague said. “Research shows that traditional party labels inhibit the cross-over votes needed for minorities to be elected to seats such as an at-large seat on Greenville City Council.”

Reynolds decried community chatter that the ordinance was a ploy introduced due to dislike of White and to ease his future defeat. Both are unfounded, she said.

“It is shocking to me in a local race, if people are tired of partisan politics and divisiveness, that they wouldn’t want nonpartisan elections. I’m stunned at the reaction, quite frankly,” she said in an interview before Monday’s meeting.

“But when you throw the race card or an emotional card in, you can’t have a

Greenville Mayor Knox White during Monday night’s City Council meeting.

conversation that’s not emotional.”

The issue became uncharacteristically divisive in a city that doesn’t tolerate divisiveness, White noted Monday night.

Greenville resident Carlyle Steele, one of 15 city residents who spoke before Monday’s vote, said early opposition to the change was limited to the black community and “a few yellow-dog Democrats like me,” but has since created a gratuitous and unnecessary divide in the city. “Repeal it. Repeal it now,” he said as he pounded his fist on the podium.

“The process worked,” Doyle said after the vote. “We got people engaged and brought the R’s and D’s together, and that’s good. Democracy is messy. I will continue to work on doing what it takes to get good people to run.”

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For the good of Greenville Councilman David Sudduth’s swing vote to repeal nonpartisan elections was the right choice for Greenville – for now.

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Greenville City Council’s 4-3 vote Monday night to return party labels to city elections was a civics lesson writ large for South Carolina – and another example of why Greenville continues to succeed where so many other municipalities flounder.

Last May’s vote to change to a nonpartisan election process – also 4-3 – reflected the majority’s sensible view that local elected office is itself nonpartisan. Party labels may matter in Congress and the White House, but they won’t offer a clue about whether a council candidate would overrule city plan- Councilman David Sudduth ners on a rezoning appeal, choose funding a new park over more police officers, or willingly invest in pothole repair.

Millienials and other independents resist political labels, and are increasingly shut out of an election cycle settled at the primary, the majority reasoned – and held firm against public entreaties and fellow council members who feared nonpartisan elections would favor incumbents and dilute minority influence in the city.

But the opposition was fiercer than anyone realized. A coalition of community, civic and business leaders across the political spectrum collected 6,593 signatures on a petition calling for the ordinance’s repeal – more than the 15 percent of registered voters (in the last city election) required to put the matter to referendum if the council refused.

Those speaking in favor of repeal at Monday’s meeting voiced credible fears: that absent the party cue they count on, minority voters will stay home; that erasing party labels will deprive voters of information and favor wealthy over poor, incumbents over challengers, whites over blacks. Candidates “shouldn’t hide who they are” by not claiming a party, said a Democrat who acknowledged the label once cost him a city race.

And speakers consistently decried a provision the council acknowledged was vetted poorly: The ordinance allows election by plurality, rather than 50 percent plus one, opening the door for fringe candidates to win seats with a fraction of the total vote.

Councilman David Sudduth cast the swing vote that shocked the crowd and, by his admission, himself. Nonpartisan elections remain “the right thing for Greenville,” he said afterward. But he had vowed to listen Monday night with his mind open, and to “try to understand it from everybody’s perspective, collectively.”

A referendum would be seven months away, and that’s too long “to have this hanging over our heads,” he said. “When council is dealing with a divisive issue like this it hurts the staff, it hurts everybody.” Nonpartisan elections are “the right thing to do,” Sudduth said, “but not now.”

That is the civics lesson – that act of public service, in response to a textbook demonstration of public will for change. As Councilwoman Amy Ryberg Doyle noted, democracy is not easy. Neither is leadership. This was a case where right was on both sides – and “not now” turned out to be right for Greenville, for now.

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Peace at any price Last May, Greenville City Council voted to change our election laws and follow in the footsteps of Columbia and Charleston by adopting a nonpartisan local election format. Since then, five people have called me to express interest in running for City Council and the Water Commission.

I was elated by this new interest in public service from civic-minded people.

The benefits private business gains from highly qualified job applicants are also true for government. The more people become engaged, the greater the competition, the better the process and results.

Good candidates drive voter turnout.

Unfortunately, City Council voted to return to partisan elections Monday evening. This controversial vote was necessary following a 6,300-signature petition to repeal the ordinance.

People in positions of power are putting their own interest ahead of their constituency and their city. They are very interested in maintaining the status quo and their power. Any change, even for the betterment of Greenville, is seen as a threat to them that must be eliminated.

Proponents of this nonpartisan reform say we need less division, less partisanship and less race-based thinking.

All but seven cities in South Carolina elect their leaders nonpartisan. Cities of similar size to Greenville that elect nonpartisan have strong minority representation on their boards. The minority population is rising in Greenville throughout the city, not only in special emphasis neighborhoods.

One prominent businessman who led the petition process told City Council Monday evening that we would know everyone on a list of businesspeople who donated funds for the petition process. At no time did anyone on this elusive list call me to discuss why this reform is needed. Hiding behind money is the worst form of politics.

Money whipping elected officials is offensive to any public servant.

Adding race to the discussion had a further polarizing effect and made proponents of election change appear as though they were not considering our

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minority communities. The fact that this was completely untrue didn’t matter; it was a useful tool to divide people and stir up an emotional reaction.

Prominent black leaders spoke in favor of returning to partisan elections.

“Keep Greenville partisan” and “We must go back to what it was” was a rallying cry. They have low expectations of working-class black people and uninterested white folk who don’t know anything more than “D” or “R” on a ballot. (The politically correct term is “lowinformation voter,” I have learned.)

In George Washington’s farewell address, he warned Americans of “the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party.” He warned of men who would design the political process for their own good.

One thing is encouraging. People are engaged. Folks signed the petition; people want more discussion. They showed up at City Council and spoke eloquently on their position. To those people, I thank you for coming and expressing your thoughts.

I would have preferred to send the referendum to the ballot and allow voters to decide if they want reform.

Democracy is not easy. It takes leadership to move forward.

Neighborhoods change, downtown is changing, the population is changing. City Council must be forward thinking on all policies.

We can do better than 15 percent voter turnout in this city. We can raise the low expectations these spokespeople have for the citizens of Greenville. We can encourage our neighbors to elect people based on merit, not party.

Let’s be informed. Read the paper. Let’s get engaged in neighborhood associations. Let’s VOTE. Amy Ryberg Doyle represents District 1 on Greenville City Council.

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25 years after passage of ADA law some cities are still catching up APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Sandy Hanebrink, an Upstate woman who uses a wheelchair, had trouble getting into a recent public meeting at Greer City Hall. She was met with a locked door near the accessible parking and had to ask a stranger to push her up a steep grade to a door that was open.

Hanebrink persisted that night, and attended the public meeting with the help of a willing stranger. Without that stranger, she wouldn’t have made it inside City Hall.

What Hanebrink encountered is not unusual. Nearly three decades after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, some citizens with disabilities continue to encounter barriers to getting around, accessing public facilities and businesses.

SETTING THE PACE This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the July 26, 1990, signing of the ADA. The law is designed to allow those with disabilities to “enjoy employment opportunities, to purchase goods and services, and to participate in state and local government programs and services,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which enforces the act.

Even 25 years later, some governments are still struggling to comply.

Under the Title II portion of the ADA, public places and local governments must provide access to those with disabilities in both facilities and programs.

Buildings constructed after 1992 had to be ADA-compliant and resources like 911 communication and websites must be accessible.

After telling Greer city officials about the locked door and access issues, Hanebrink said she was pleasantly surprised when the city moved almost overnight to comply with more ADA requirements.

“Greer now has, in a very short time, taken positive action,” Hanebrink said.

“The fact that they took such immediate action with some pretty key steps in place is very positive.”

“Over time, the goal is for everything to be barrier-free and accessible to all.”

City of Greenville ADA coordinator Mark Teal on full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The city appointed an ADA coordinator, required for public entities that employ 50 or more people. A coordinator is also responsible for conducting a selfevaluation and creating a transition plan for compliance. Governments of this size must also develop and publish a grievance procedure. All governments must post a public ADA notice.

The deadline for completing those plans was 1995.

Hanebrink, who serves as executive director of a nonprofit that helps those with disabilities obtain assistive technology and other products, said before the changes, Greer was “not unlike many municipalities” in compliance levels.

CITIES AND COUNTIES The Greenville Journal surveyed local governments and discovered several have appointed their ADA coordinator as recently as last month. One of them was Greenville County, which

“Every time I go into the restroom, the only stall that is full is the accessible stall and the other ones are empty.”

Sandy Hanebrink on how accessibility compliance under the Americans with Disabilities Act benefits everyone.

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Sandy Hanebrink at the ribbon cutting to celebrate the installation of the new Brown Road Fishing Pier in Anderson County on March 20, 2015. The pier is the only ADA accessible fishing pier of its kind on Lake Hartwell. Photo provided.

Five things required under ADA For all governments: • Adopt and distribute a public notice about ADA mandates.

For those with 50+ employees: • Designate at least one staffer to coordinate compliance and investigate complaints.

• Conduct a self-assessment.

• Create a transition plan for compliance.

• Develop and publish grievance procedures.

Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Division

named safety and health coordinator Warren Edwards as its ADA coordinator in late March.

County spokesman Bob Mihalic said that codes, property management and facilities management personnel had been assessing ADA compliance all along. Before Edwards was appointed, the county administrator’s office handled any complaints, he said. According to the county website, the ADA public notice and grievance procedure were added on March 23.

Simpsonville recently appointed human resources director Phyllis Long to the post. Long said she is in early stages of self-assessment for the city. In Mauldin, building official Joshua Cross serves as the ADA coordinator.

Travelers Rest’s small staff does not require an ADA coordinator, said city administrator Dianna Turner. She handles requests or complaints and noted that the city has brought its circa-1985 city hall up to compliance.

Greer building official Ruthie Helms

is the city’s new ADA coordinator.

Helms said she is familiar with the ADA’s facility requirements.

“The building code is black and white, but the ADA is a civil rights law,” she said, a distinction that Hanebrink also stresses. Greer is completing a self-assessment with the help of Able SC, a nonprofit that works to provide independent living services for those with disabilities.

“When we found out that we didn’t have the measures in place, we went right to work on that,” Helms said. Self-assessment “makes you think differently.” To date, Greer has installed additional signage, drafted an ADA public statement and created a grievance procedure. After a self-assessment, Helms said she will bring the noncompliant items to City Council. Helms said she plans to pursue coordinator certification.

ENFORCEMENT As it did in Greer, ensuring access often comes down to a complaint process.

The U.S. Department of Justice works with local governments to resolve

JOURNAL NEWS complaints, and has done so with multiple cities and counties in South Carolina, including Oconee County, Laurens County and the city of Isle of Palms. Those that fail to comply can be subject to Justice Department review or civil lawsuit.

“It’s the city’s responsibility to ensure they are serving all citizens in compliance with the law, not just the ones they think they can fund,” Hanebrink said.

“This is not just a building code, this is a civil right. The ADA is much more than the built environment.”

Noncompliance can equal a cut in funding if services come through the Department of Justice, she said.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division “is aware that not all state and local governments completed a selfevaluation plan and that some entities that were required to develop a transition plans never did so,” said Eve Hill, deputy assistant attorney general for the agency’s Disability Rights Section.

To prompt action, the Justice Department launched Project Civil Access (PCA) in 2000, with a goal to visit all states to compel compliance. The agency has reached settlement agreements with 211 public entities nationwide.

Local noncompliance could stem from lack of knowledge, Helms said, a view that Hanebrink also shares.

“Awareness is key,” Hanebrink said. “I don’t think the intent is to discriminate, I just don’t think they have the knowledge of what the requirements are. Our intent is to work with people to make the societal changes that are necessary.”

‘MAKING IT THE BEST YOU CAN’ The city of Greenville’s ADA coordinator was appointed in 1995. Mark Teal, who also serves as the city’s risk manager, said the majority of issues he hears about are physical access.

Older buildings can be modified and renovations should be compliant with the current ADA standard, he said.

“Over time, the goal is for everything to be barrier-free and accessible to all.”

Teal said he had a family member who used a wheelchair and saw firsthand how difficult it is to navigate places like a store’s tightly placed clothing racks or too-small doorways.

City Hall, built in 1972, recently underwent renovations on the first-floor restrooms. That project, costing about $15,000, created a “tremendous improvement in accessibility” within several inches of the ADA standards for new construction, he said.

Other departments seek out ways to make city facilities and attractions more accessible, he said. “People look for this as part of what they do. We work to do the right thing though we are not being watched.”

“I don’t know of anywhere that’s perfect,” Teal said. “It’s a balancing act of finding the best way to make it the best you can.”

TOTAL ACCESS Though it may be a long journey to total access, “we have to celebrate each milestone and celebrate what’s going on positively,” Hanebrink said. “It was very frustrating [in Greer] and the occurrence should have never happened, but they are taking very positive steps and kind of ahead of the game.”

Across the Upstate, “some places could be so much better, and it’s something simple like painting a curb or putting up a sign,” she said. “Putting policy in place doesn’t cost anything.”

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Good for everyone Making facilities ADA compliant “makes it easier for everyone,” said wheelchair user Sandy Hanebrink.

“At some point in your life, you or someone you know will have a disability, whether temporary like a broken bone, or permanent,” she said. Automatic doors and ramps can be helpful for parents with young children and senior citizens alike.

“Every time I go into the restroom, the only stall that is full is the accessible stall and the other ones are empty,” she said. “I don’t know why you wouldn’t make all of them accessible, because that is what people want.”

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Fraternity says lawsuit allegations unsubstantiated Tucker Hipps’ parents seek $50 million in lawsuits CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Sigma Phi Epsilon’s legal counsel said allegations made in two lawsuits filed by the parents of Tucker Hipps, the Clemson University fraternity pledge who fell to his death last year during a pre-dawn fraternity run, have not been substantiated.

Gary and Cindy Hipps are seeking $50 million in damages from Clemson University, the national and local chapters of Sigma Phi Epsilon and three fraternity brothers.

The lawsuits allege shortly before Hipps went over the railing of the S.C. 93 bridge into Lake Hartwell on Sept. 22, he had a confrontation with a fraternity brother over

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Hipps’ failure to bring breakfast of 30 McDonald’s biscuits, 30 orders of hash browns and two gallons of chocolate milk.

The lawsuits, which didn’t specify how Hipps went over the rail, allege one of the fraternity brothers shone a flashlight into the water but did nothing else to search for him or to make sure he was OK. It also alleges fraternity members deleted phone calls and text messages and lied to Hipps’ girlfriend to “buy time” while he was missing.

The lawsuits said the local Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter had a “long tradition” of “requiring, encouraging and forcing pledges to jump off one or more bridges over Lake Hartwell and swim to shore.”

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clandrum@communityjournals.com A tiny bit of relief to Woodruff Road’s traffic congestion could be on its way under a plan revealed this week.

A $300,000 two-lane connector from Market Pointe to Carolina Point Parkway – which would allow motorists access to REI, Whole Foods and The Shoppes at Greenridge without having to get on Woodruff Road – is part of a capital improvement program budget Greenville City Manager John Castile and Budget Administrator Matt Efird proposed at a City Council work session Monday.

The connector is one of only three new projects included in the plan that addresses capital improvements for fiscal years 2015-16 through 2018-19.

The dearth of new projects relates to the city staff ’s capacity to manage additional projects rather than diminished need, Efird said.

The city has more than 70 active capital improvement projects, representing $35.03 million in committed funding, he said. Among them are the first phase of a new city park in the Mayberry Street area, expansion of the city’s trail system, a new parking garage at the ONE development and the longanticipated relocation of the city’s public works department.

The two other new “projects” in the CIP are a $2 million capital project reserve that could fund unexpected capital projects such as the repair of the Woodland Way Bridge in Cleveland Park.

The Market Pointe Connector is one of the small fixes to Woodruff recommended by a committee comprised of lice Hipps fell behind the group and they didn’t realize he had not returned until he missed breakfast.

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Original blueprints for the Market Pointe Connector called for curbs and street lighting, but the CIP calls for only paving the road, reducing the cost from more than $1 million.

“We’re valuing functionality to at least try to help the traffic,” Councilman David Sudduth said, adding the city should continue to look for ways to help alleviate congestion on Woodruff on the other side of I-85 near Costco.

The CIP budget will get first reading on April 13 and go before the planning commission on April 16.

Final approval will coincide with passage of the city’s general fund budget on June 8.

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Raekwon Ny-Allah McLean, 19, of Villa Road, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, two counts of attempted murder, discharging a firearm into a vehicle and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, according to the 13th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

McLean was sentenced to 30 years in prison and must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence before becoming eligible for parole, authorities said.

McLean The Solicitor’s Office said the crime occurred in 2013 when several teenagers arranged to buy marijuana from the defendant at an apartment complex off of Villa Road in Greenville. During the drug transaction, police said McLean used a handgun to fire three shots that seriously injured one victim standing at the rear of a vehicle and then fired three more shots into the vehicle, killing the teenage driver.

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Dump debate continues Greenville County Council continues to talk trash, approves Sunday alcohol sales referendum APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Trash was on the agenda again this week as Greenville County Council continued debate on whether to accept outof-state waste at Twin Chimneys landfill.

Henderson County, N.C., recently issued a request for proposals for hauling services to several landfills, including Twin Chimneys. Councilman Joe Dill introduced a resolution Tuesday to prohibit taking any out-of-state municipal waste, which resulted in a vote to hold. Lottie Gibson, Lynn Ballard, H.G. “Butch” Kirven, Joe Dill and Willis Meadows voted in opposition of the hold.

The council remains sharply divided on the issue. Councilman Sid Cates took issue with Dill’s distinction between South Carolina and North Carolina waste, saying, “The rotten toma-

toes in Oconee County are no different from the rotten tomatoes in Henderson County.” In the face of budget needs, taking 75,000 tons of waste annually from Henderson County could generate up to $1.4 million, he said.

The landfill must strive for self-sufficiency and not draw additional property taxes, Kirven said. “I also don’t want to throw out the welcome sign for outof-state entities that don’t want to build their own landfill,” he said.

“We have a landfill that people in my district didn’t want. It may not fill up in my lifetime, but will fill up in someone’s lifetime,” said Ballard.

Councilwoman Liz Seman said discussions without an offer or proposal are premature. County Administrator Joe Kernell said he has not yet spoken with Henderson County officials, but potential tonnage charges could be between $19 and $24.

Dill said neighboring facilities charge between $40 and $57 for tipping fees. Twin Chimneys charges between $16 and $20 per ton, and the average tipping fee in South Carolina was $38 per ton in 2014, according to the SC Department of Health and

Environmental Control.

Kirven said council must set policy guidelines before talking specific rates.

Council must weigh how trash gets to the landfill and affects quality of life, he said, noting waste from North Carolina would travel the length of Greenville County to get to the landfill, compared to a shorter distance coming from Greenwood or Laurens counties.

Dill, Ballard and Meadows voiced concern last week about the damage that waste-hauling trucks could do to the county’s already beleaguered roads.

Council had given Kernell permission to sell landfill space to entities within a 75-mile radius, Cates said, noting Henderson County is within that radius.

Assistant County Administrator Paula Gucker said the landfill has capacity in staff, equipment and space to accept additional waste. If the county made a

deal with Henderson County, the landfill would not have to hire additional staff, she said Tuesday.

A council workshop presentation showed the county would break even if a landfill receives 1,500 tons per day and charges $36 per ton on average.

The landfill accepts an average of 1,362 tons daily and can to accept up to 1,912 tons daily, she said.

SUNDAY ALCOHOL SALES ON BALLOT In other business, council gave final approval to allowing Sunday alcohol sales to go to a public vote on the November 2016 ballot. No speakers voiced opposition to the referendum at Tuesday’s public hearing.

The final reading passed on a 10-2 vote with Cates and Ballard voting against.

Greenville County Council’s next meeting is scheduled for April 17 at 6 p.m.

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Greenville court program rehabilitates veterans BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

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Deputy Solicitor and Veterans Court Program Director Andrew Culbreath.

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Two weeks ago, three veterans sat before Circuit Judge Charles Simmons in a packed courtroom, but these men weren’t on trial.

They were graduating from a Greenville County program designed to rehabilitate veterans charged with General Sessions crimes, which call for penalties of more than 30 days or $500 fines.

Over a course of 12-18 months, veterans accepted into the Veterans Court program must demonstrate behavioral improvement while completing weekly drug screens and attending regular self-help meetings and court appointments.

The court will dismiss charges against veterans upon successful completion of the program, and veterans have the possibility of getting the charges expunged.

At the end of the 45-minute ceremony, Alvin Brown, James Ivey and Marcus Wilson received certificates for successful completion of the Veterans Court program.

Andrew Culbreath, 13th Circuit deputy solicitor and Veterans Court program director, said the program helps veterans suffering from combat-related issues reintegrate into society.

“If a veteran becomes involved in the criminal justice system, I think we need to intervene and take the opportunity

to try and assist them any way we can in transitioning back to civilian life,” he said. The program provides help for problems such as substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mental health treatment and other veteran-related needs.

Culbreath, who served in the Army in Afghanistan, came to Solicitor Walt Wilkins in 2012 with the idea of starting a program to rehabilitate veterans.

Culbreath had come across a case where the charges stemmed from a veteran’s struggle with PTSD. Culbreath said Wilkins liked the idea of a program to divert veterans from the criminal justice system and help them reintegrate into society.

Community support plays a big role in helping veterans, he said. “The great thing about this program being in the Upstate is just how willing this community is to reach out an help their veterans.”

Veterans don’t have to plead guilty to enter the program, but they must com-

Veterans Court graduate Alvin Brown, left, receives his graduation certificate from Program Coordinator Lee Vining, center, while Deputy Solicitor and Veterans Court Program Director Andrew Culbreath extends his hand in congratulations during the 13th Judicial Circuit Veterans Court graduation.

ply with a set of requirements and demonstrate changed behavior.

Culbreath said approximately 25 names were recommended for consideration since the start of the program.

Ten of those recommended have been approved to participate, and of those 10, four veterans have successfully completed the program, Culbreath said. Two veterans are in the program at this time.

Program participants must appear in biweekly court appointments to assess their progress and take weekly drug screenings. The judge can sanction punishments such as community service or jail time for any program violations.

All the veterans are also assigned a volunteer mentor, who serves as a “friendly ear,” Culbreath said. Mentors help the veterans stick to a schedule and navigate the court and VA systems, he said.

Culbreath said he gets satisfaction from helping people who served the country get back on the right track.

At the recent Veterans Court graduation ceremony, retired U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Mastin Robeson praised the veterans for making the necessary changes to improve their lives.

“You manned up. You looked in your soul. And you found a way to do it differently,” he said.

County to build new summary court facilities First to house three magistrates in Travelers Rest area APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Some Greenville County summary court judges (also known as magistrates) who preside over cases in courtrooms housed in converted homes or double-wide modular buildings will be getting new facilities in about a year.

Seventeen magistrates work in 11 courts scattered across Greenville County. The courtrooms must be located within certain jury areas, requiring Greenville County to find available fa-

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cilities in the communities, said County Administrator Joe Kernell.

“The county found places for them, wherever they may be,” he said. “Some of the facilities are old, outdated and inadequate.”

In a little less than a year, a new summary court facility is due to be built near Trailblazer Park in Travelers Rest on the site of the former Travelers Rest High School, which the county purchased, Kernell said.

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housed in a modular building, Cleveland in a steel-clad building and Bates in a former residence. The county owns all three sites.

A larger building will allow more than one magistrate to be housed and provide adequate space for gathering of potential jurors during jury selection, Kernell said. The courts are funded primarily through fines revenue, but the county still must contribute about $1.2 million to the $4.6 million budget projected for 2015, he said.

When the new building in Travelers Rest is complete, Kernell said the county will probably sell the properties at Highlands, Cleveland and Poinsett Highway (Bates). The county will investigate consolidating other court facilities in a similar plan if it is feasible, he said.

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Above: Fourth-grade female students at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering in Greenville launch their rockets by jumping onto an empty 2-liter soft drink bottle. The students built the rockets as part of Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day held at the school.​Top: Volunteer engineer Laura Lopez-Sosa works with fourth-grade female students at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering in Greenville during Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. The girls assembled their rockets and launched them soon after.

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Anything you can do, I can do too.

That’s the message from the fourthgrade female students at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, after the Western Carolina Society of Women Engineers (SWE) put on an Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. An annual event across the nation, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day aims to give young girls a positive image of the engineering field and encourage them to pursue a STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) career path, according to discovere.org.

Women make up 48 percent of the U.S. workforce but just 24 percent of the STEM workforce, reports the U.S. Department of Commerce. Program director Lynn Mann said this event is important because research shows that fourth grade is when girls start veering away from these STEM careers.

“To have this event that’s girls only and female engineers only, to see these role models and these career paths, I hope that provides that extra ‘umph’ for these girls that says, ‘This is for you. You can do this,’” Mann said.

The two-hour event began with a talk by Dr. Serita Acker, head of the Women in Science and Engineering

Serita Acker, head of the WISE (Women In Science and Engineering) Program at Clemson University, conducts an experiment with the help of two students from A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering in Greenville during the school’s “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.”

(WISE) program at Clemson University, and was followed by a combined breakfast and small group discussion between the students and professional female engineers.

The highlight of the day was a smallgroup, hands-on activity making paper rockets headed by one of the professional female engineers. One group, headed by Laura Lopez-Sosa, a project engineer at HRP Associates Inc., said they wanted their paper rocket to be “all pink.”

Lopez-Sosa, who was participating for the first time, said she thinks it’s a good idea to expose young girls to different types of careers, and that making the rockets was “a good learning experience that everyday items can be transformed into something neat.”

Another group, headed by Susan Schlangan, an environmental engineer at HRP Associates, named their rocket “Doodle Rocket,” “because our background is full of random stuff,” student Sara Carveno said. The group debated whether to size their fin before or after they taped it and on how much tape to use.

Schlangan, who was participating for a second year, said she hopes the event inspires the young girls to not be afraid to pursue a STEM career path. “There’s

a lot of women out there blazing the trail for them and a lot of opportunities they might not be aware of,” Schlangan said. “They should feel like engineering is a place for girls, because it is.”

The students then launched their rockets outside with compressed air by jumping on a 2-liter soda bottle hooked up to a PVC pipe.

Mann then brought the students back inside and asked, “Who learned something new today?” and “Who had fun?”

All the hands shot into the air.

Student Kirby Shelton, who said her group’s rocket went the farthest, said she learned “that engineering can be a lot of fun.” Bellé Thompson said she learned “that there’s a lot of types of engineering, and they all answer a problem.”

Mann said girls typically want to be a doctor, nurse, teacher, fireman or policeman because those are the careers they have been taught and can visualize, unlike engineering.

“When I was their age I probably thought that an engineer drove a train,” Mann said. “If we want girls to choose these technical careers, we have to help them understand what those technical careers are and what they look like. You can’t choose what you don’t know.”

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festival capped week of events Crowds in downtown Greenville last weekend witnessed drones, robots, 3-D printers, hovercrafts and more at the inaugural iMAGINE Upstate festival. The festival capped a weeklong series of crowdsourced programs and signature events designed to promote cultural and economic development with a celebration and showcase of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), innovation and entrepreneurial activity in the Upstate.

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Faith + love + positive attitude = 100 birthdays Rose Diglio celebrates a century, credits God, caring and keeping active APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

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Rose Diglio just celebrated a centennial.

The Upstate resident who recently marked her 100th year credits her longevity to faith, caring and social connections.

Diglio has held all manner of jobs, including nurse and security guard. She was witness to the takeoff of Charles Lindbergh on his transatlantic flight in 1927 and regularly went ballroom dancing with her husband at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom. After living in Las Vegas, the Brooklyn, N.Y., native moved to the Upstate in 1992. Five of her 10 siblings also lived in South Carolina.

“You have to have faith, a positive attitude and love people,” she said when asked what is the secret to her longevity.

Clean living doesn’t hurt, either, she said, “You’ve got to also watch what you eat.”

Connecting with people through her work as a nurse was fulfilling, Diglio said. “I love to do things for people and love helping people.” She also credits the social relationships forged during her 20 years as a member of Bon Secours St. Francis’s LifeWise program as contributing to her long life.

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KEEP MOVING Recent research has indicated that social connections contribute health for senior citizens, and scientists are continuing to develop data on exactly how much. Diglio said activities offered by the LifeWise program “helped me to get to 100. It has been 20 years of golden happiness.”

The program, which is celebrating its 20th year, offers networking opportunities for those 55 and older to encourage independence and emphasize good health, said Kathleen Bitsura, LifeWise program coordinator.

LifeWise began with an effort to keep in touch with patients after they left the hospital, Bitsura said, and morphed into a membership program offering events and education.

Activity options for seniors in the Upstate have expanded in the decade that she has worked with LifeWise, Bitsura said. A growing number of families relocating to the area encouraged their parents to move with them, but find themselves alone in a new place as the adult children go to work and grandchildren to school, she said.

“Who wants to be a senior living alone and go out to eat alone? No one,” said Bitsura. “We feel we’re helping people overcome isolation.”

LifeWise offers lunch-and-learn programs featuring doctors talking about senior health issues along with meals out, day trips, physical activities and overnight trips. The program’s members organize their own common interest groups, including the Well Walkers at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena, photography, needlework, bridge and book groups.

“Every time someone attends an event, they connect with someone,” she said. “We want them as mobile as they can be, and we want them out of the house.”

Added Diglio, “I still love going places and go when I can.”

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sjackson@communityjournals.com The second annual Greenville Small Plate Crawl returned to the Upstate on March 2426 with even bigger prizes and more crawling fun. The three-day culinary event resulted in 1,458 visits at 24 participating restaurants.

Six and Twenty Distillery sponsored a spirits challenge in which bartenders from nine participating restaurants concocted a special drink using its spirits. Columbia restaurateur Kristian Niemi came to Greenville to judge the contest.

Six & Twenty Distillery partners Robert “Farmer” Redmond and David Raad presented High Cotton Greenville bartender Michael Wilson with $100 cash and a trophy for his winning “Make It Grain” cocktail.

Organizers of the event, local Greenville food blogger Nichole Livengood of Gap Creek Gourmet and Western North Carolina food writer Laura Huff of Carolina Epicurean, said they are “insanely happy about the outcome of this year’s event.”

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St. Joseph’s Catholic School seventh-graders Julia Van Putte and Elizabeth Tamura placed first and second, respectively, in the seventhgrade category at the Duke Energy Invention Convention for Van Putte’s Soothing Sandals and Tamura’s The Zero Blind Zone Wheelchair.

Mitchell Road Christian Academy students recently placed in the ACSI Annual Math Olympics, including Alex Peterson, William Railey, Cole Bostrom, Luke Vaughn and David Morrow.

In addition, 18 students had ACSI Creative Writing Festival entries judged excellent to superior.

Christ Church Episcopal School’s fifth-graders thought up nearly 50 inventions for the recent fifth-grade Invention Convention. Pictured are Annie Jennings and Crosby Reed.

The students in the Sterling School Creative Writing Club visited the Skivers Book Craft Studio at the Taylors Mill. Owners Frankie and Lace Daniels showed them how books are created and restored.

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ACTIVITIES, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Members of the Blue Ridge High School FBLA chapter received recognition in competitive events at the FBLA State Leadership Conference. A number of the 19 members placed in the competition and qualify to compete in the national conference in Chicago this summer.

Southside Christian School recently held its annual Lower School Science Fair. Thirty-three students in grades two through six were selected to present projects to qualified judges on topics ranging from forensic science to the physics of appropriate ball inflation for sports.

Pictured from back left to right: Marc Western, Gabby Leonard, Jonathan Coggins, Wilton Smith, Addison Callahan, Hannah Pendergrass, Shadda Corwin, Taylor Holton, Savannah Reeves, Isabel Greene, Abrianna Hill, Heather Fitch, Charlee Wilkerson, Hannah Cox, Hailey Chapman, Alicia DiPerri, Karlee Gibson, McKylie Bowen, Stephanie Casey-Collins and Emily Steadman.

Anna White, a junior at Hampton Park Christian School, has been selected to represent the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative at the 2015 Electric Cooperative Washington Youth Tour. White will join approximately 1,500 other students in Washington, D.C. this summer.

The Lego Robotics Team from L a n g s t o n White Charter Middle School, Gear Turners Unleashed, recently placed second in the state overall out of 58 teams in the S.C. First Lego League Robotics Tournament in Lexington.

They advance to the Arkansas Invitational Tournament at the University of Arkansas.

The Potter Quartet of Greenville is the third-prize winner in the 2015 University of South Carolina Chamber Day and Competition. Coached by Hannah Patkoski at the Greenville Fine Arts Center, quartet members are violinists Rachel Yi and Sam Parrini, violist Hannah Patskoski and cellist Samuel Tam. The Southside High School Speech and Debate Team recently won its eighth consecutive overall SC District Championship at the 2015 South Carolina National Speech and Debate Association District (National Qualifying) Tournament at Riverside HS. In addition, 15 students qualified to attend the National Tournament in Dallas this summer.

Students in the St. Anthony SkyKnights, an aviation club at St. Anthony School, recently received a gift of an aircraft, and the SkyKnights will end the year with a synchronized flight across the gym as their own version of the Navy’s precision flight team the “Blue Angels.” Pictured are Father Patrick Tuttle and a sixth-grade SkyKnights student.

Chapin High School varsity lacrosse player Jack Enright recently suffered a broken neck on the field. Christ Church Episcopal School JV and varsity lacrosse teams wore ribbons with Jack’s #28 during their game at Chapin, in show of their support. The Chapin varsity girls commented on how much they liked the ribbons and the CCES players gave them their ribbons after the game.

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COMMUNITY NEWS, EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS

Greenville’s third Annual Healthy Workplace Conference, LiveWell, will be held at the TD Convention Center on April 23. Registration is $30 now or $25 with promotional code UBJ2015. For more information, visit livewellgreenville.org.

The Uniform Data System ranked AnMed Health

Rehabilitation Hospital in the top 10 percent of qualifying rehabilitation hospitals for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR) for the seventh year.

Project Rx, which helps to protect Upstate rivers and residents by properly disposing of unused medication, will not hold a River Remedy day this spring because

the partners have seen a growth in people utilizing the permanent medication drop box at the Greenville Law Enforcement Center, and legislation has been changed to allow distributors of medications to provide a disposal method. There will be a fall disposal event. For more information, visit ariverremedy.org.

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Artists in Bloom

THE GOOD

EVENTS THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER

AN E VE NT S UPPORT I N G THE GOVERNOR’ S S CHOOL F OR T HE A RT S FO U N D AT I O N PRE S E NT E D BY

FEATUR I N G P E RF O RM A N C E S BY ST U D EN T S O F T H E

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The Harvest Hope Youth Leadership Board, comprised of 23 Greenville County high school students, raised $16,720 and over 2,000 pounds of food at a March on Hunger concert event featuring Delvin Choice at the Charter Spectrum Amphitheatre. Students can apply for the 2015-2016 Youth Leadership Board in late April at harvesthope.org.

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The President’s Young Alumni Awards NICOLE BEHARIE Class of 2003 Acclaimed film and television actress Hometown: Orangeburg, SC

MAGGIE GOULD Class of 2008 Freelance violinist and teacher

Greenville Civitan and Wade Hampton Junior Civitan recently hosted a Junior Senior Prom at the Homewood Residence at Cleveland Park, an assisted-living facility.

On April 25, Rolling Green Village Retirement Community will host its third annual Festival of Giving event, which includes a bass fishing contest and a 5K. All proceeds will go toward four charities: Miracle Hill Ministries, Loaves and Fishes, the Alzheimer’s Association and Meals on Wheels. To register, visit rollinggreenvillage.com/festival-of-giving.

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Hincapie Sportswear representatives, Wheels for Meals committee members and Meals on Wheels of Greenville staff and board chair all gathered to present the $20,000 check to Meals on Wheels of Greenville from Hincapie Sportswear.

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George and Rich Hincapie of Hincapie Sportswear recently presented $20,000 to Meals on Wheels of Greenville to help the organization provide meals to homebound individuals. The donation comes from proceeds generated by the annual Gran Fondo Hincapie, ridden by more than 1,300 cyclists from around the globe.

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I don’t really know what it’s like in prison,

but my sister was arrested for public intox, hot night, rum and coke, frat bros. I don’t know

the sting of a needle in-and-out, inking skin, but there’s an iris scribbled on my right hand

drawn in black pen. I’ll wash it off later.

Nothing’s permanent. Last night a mayfly crawled

out from under a smooth stone, shucked the shell of its dark youth, flew off to find a mate,

died. I don’t know what it’s like in prison, but I punched Owen Eberhart right in the soft spot

under his ribs, sucked the air out his lungs, funny how his eyes seemed more blue with tears

in them, how strong his gasps made me feel, grey day, wind whipping across the harbor, flag

pole noises, must’ve been March. I don’t know what it’s like to hit a woman, but I shattered

the mirror on the bathroom wall after my parents found the empty Corona Lights hidden behind the shed,

smashed the glass out with my elbow, picked up each piece off the cold tile floor,

blood falling the length of my forearm.

You know broken glass. You know May,

spending the night at her house the first time, thin sheets on the inflatable mattress her father

blew up for you in the living room. You know waking in the middle of the night, how hard

it is to sleep under high ceilings, crossing over to her room, how everything creeks

when you’re doing something you shouldn’t, floorboards, tiles, her bed frame, parents two rooms

removed. You know summer, green mountains, flecks of mica, thunderheads, rock labyrinth, prayer,

stinging nettle, scarlet tanager. You know isolation, waiting for letters you’ll never get.

You know the wide-eyed tarpon in the aquarium.

You know Stephen Dunn’s collected works

on the back porch, late night runs because it’s too hot to run in the day,

and if you sit still any longer the ivy clinging to the awning might just swallow

you. You know senior year, your best friend side-by-side with her everywhere: his beard, her braids,

his shoulders, her hips, his stride, her traipse, in the ceramics studio, coming back

from Sunday brunch, swinging together in the courtyard. You know relax we’re just friends and stop being so jealous and you’re an a**hole, and have fun writing poetry the rest of your life.

You know kissing a friend from middle school just to get your mind off the two of them,

this girl’s mouth small, tongue pushing its way past your teeth, tastes like leftover lasagna,

wasted patience. You know walking new girl’s lab afterwards, fire trucks lining the sad hospital

building on Ashley, everything red, red, how your mind wanders back to that night in May,

the softness of arms, birthmarks forming constellations, around collarbones, some astrological foretelling:

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Attending readings by his sister, Eliza, when she was a student at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in 2010 only cemented that notion.

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But then McClure read “The Lives of Rocks,” a collection of short stories by Rick Bass, a writer who lives in Montana with a reputation as an environmental advocate.

“I found out you can write in a masculine voice,” McClure said, “that writing can be anyone’s thing.”

It’s definitely McClure’s thing. He won the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards gold medal for writing portfolio, one of the most prestigious and coveted awards for young authors.

The Governor’s School creative writing department – which has fewer than 30 students – has had at least one top winner for six consecutive years and 11 winners over the past 10 years.

Students from across the country submit their best works to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition – this year, 255,000 works were submitted. Works that advance to the national level from regional competitions to the national level are blindly judged and about 1,800 gold and silver medals are awarded, mostly to individual works.

Sixteen portfolios receive a gold medal, half of those in writing, and a $10,000 award.

McClure, who is a senior from Charleston, was not the only winner from a Greenville school.

Two other Governor’s School students won gold medals: Maroon Tate in both poem and short story and Summer Sandyford in personal essay/memoir. Three Governor’s School students won silver medals: Katherine Holcombe in writing portfolio, Timothy Thousand in poetry and Gabriella Lott in personal essay and memoir. Lott also won a silver medal with distinction for her writing portfolio.

Three Fine Arts Center students won medals in the competition.

They are Aidan Forester, gold medal, poetry; Anna Huff, silver medal, art portfolio; and Chloe Mello, silver medal, poetry.

Scott Gould, the Governor’s School creative writing department chair, credits the program for the success

from finding students from across the state with writing talent to developing that talent. Students are in the creative writing program for two years, learning the craft of writing and trying to find their writing voices.

“Two years is the ideal time,” he said.

On the first day, the instructors tell students they don’t want to see students’ “old stuff ” or talk about what the students know; everybody starts from zero. McClure said he came into the program overconfident.

“I was humbled,” he said.

After McClure was “taken down a few pegs last year” and started to build himself back up, his writing took off, Gould said.

“I write a lot more about things outside myself now. When I first came here, I wrote a lot about atmosphere.

Now, I concentrate on the characters.

My poetry is much more present.”

McClure’s portfolio entries touched on some heady topics: a rough breakup with a girl, the tendency to try to bury bad things under the rug, teenagers falling off the rails, how diverse populations interact and how the land plays a part in that.

The school uses a workshop format so McClure’s win is a “department win,” Gould said.

“When somebody wins, we all win,” he said. “They all played a part in it.”

McClure wants to attend Wofford College to major in environmental studies and minor in writing.

GREG BECKNER / STAFF

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The road to reading

Miss Julia series continues

Greenville Literacy Association celebrates 50 years of service

Author says fictional town yields plenty of characters and storylines

side funding critical, Browning said.

The gala is a fundraising opportunity to help the GLA continue its mission to “enrich our community by increasing the literacy and employability of our citizens,” Browning said.

NATALIE WALTERS | CONTRIBUTOR The mission is still steep. Today, nwalters@communityjournals.com 49,000 Greenville County adults lack a high school diploma and 14,000 adults “In a world that is in a tailspin toward are not fluent in English, according to doom, we have a strategy that can save the 2013 Census. GLA volunteers not the world – but strategy is not good only help students learn to read, but without an army. That is why I am here also to speak English, as they are servtonight to recruit you as an army in a ing students from 63 countries. battle around the world against illitJim Smeaton, a retired engineer, has eracy.” been a tutor for Dr. Frank LauGLA for more than bach, known as “the six years. He started apostle to the illitafter receiving a call erates,” spoke these in early 2009, saywords in 1965 at a ing, “We need you community banon Monday” to help quet for 200 comwith an influx of stumunity leaders at dents looking to furBuncombe Street ther their education Greenville Literacy Association United Methodist after the recession. volunteer Jim Smeaton Church in an effort Each of the volunto rally support for a solution to the teers brings something special dependgrowing problem of illiteracy in the ing on their education and vocational Greenville area. background, Smeaton said, but all want That solution was the Greenville Lit- to help students progress. “Our job is to eracy Association (GLA), which is cel- try to see that [the students] have evebrating its 50th anniversary on April erything we can provide to allow them 18 with a gala marking its history and to succeed this time around.” honoring former executive directors Smeaton said his most memorable Bessie Lee and Jane Thomas. moment came when he asked one of his Carol Browning, current executive advanced math students, who lacked director of GLA, said she is excited to confidence, to help tutor another strugshare the association’s history. Before gling math student. It was a “win-win the establishment of GLA in 1965, situation,” he said, as the more adGreenville was mainly a mill town and vanced student “rose to the occasion workers didn’t need to know how to and ended up developing her own lesread, Browning said. But everything son plans that worked effectively with changed when new industries moved to his abilities and needs,” and the other town looking for cheap, hard workers “progressed significantly in his math who were also literate. skills and moved ahead.”

Lee, who served as executive direcSmeaton and Browning are both extor for more than 20 years, wrote about cited to celebrate moments like this with canvassing for students in September gala attendees, which will be a melting 1969. Lee was assigned to the Judson pot of students, tutors, board members, Mill community and her recruiting directors and fellow supporters. team was expecting to find a large num“It’s an opportunity to bring different ber of eager students, considering that segments of the community together 25 percent of adults in the area were il- that wouldn’t normally get to meet,” literate, according to census data.

Browning said.

“Strangely, not one person admitted needing help,” Lee wrote. “With many, many years of program experience, I WHAT: GLA 50th Anniversary Gala now know that this was not the wisest WHEN: April 18, 6-9 p.m. student recruiting technique.”

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“Our job is to try to see that [the students] have everything we can provide to allow them to succeed this time around.”

SO YOU KNOW

CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Hendersonville author Ann B. Ross didn’t set out to write a series when she started the first of her Miss Julia books in 1999.

“Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind,” which is still in print, told the story of a proper Presbyterian wife who was getting used to the role of rich widow when Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a child she says is the bastard son of Miss Julia’s late husband.

“I thought I had said and Julia has said everything in that first book,” Ross said.

Luckily for her, Abbotsville is like many real small towns that yield plenty of characters and storylines.

The 16th book in the “Miss Julia” series came out this month, “Miss Julia Lays Down the Law.” “Abbotsville has become so populated with characters, when I sit down to

SO YOU KNOW WHO: Ann B. Ross, author of “Miss Julia Lays Down the Law” WHAT: Book talk and signing WHEN: April 14, 2 p.m.

WHERE: Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Road, Suite 5 INFO: 675-0540 or fiction-addiction.com

write a new book, one of them pops up with a problem for Miss Julia to solve,” Ross said. “Writing a series is easier in that sense because you’re not starting with ground zero. You’re picking up a minor character in an earlier book and giving them their space.”

In “Miss Julia Lays Down the Law,” it is up to Miss Julia to sort out the murder of the hoity-toity newcomer Connie Clayborn, especially since she’s on the suspect list.

Although the Miss Julia books are set in a small North Carolina town, their appeal is not limited to Southern women in small towns. The first book has been translated into Japanese, Polish and Croatian.

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Lyrical steel Artist Yuri Tsuzuki explores dichotomy with colorful and airy steel sculptures AMANDA CORDISCO | CONTRIBUTOR

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“Two very different styles side by side.

One is very colorful pieces. They are playful, and then you’ll see some pieces I’ve made out of found steel objects.”

She wants her audience to ask, “How are these two pieces related?”

Tsuzuki completed half of the steel pieces in her exhibition in Bogota, the other half in Greenville. She welds the steel and paints each piece herself. The pieces that aren’t painted were found and then strategically placed together.

She said she makes steel light, airy and feminine through changing structures and adding bright, vibrant colors.

“My pieces are not static; their goal is

Yuri Tsuzuki considers her art an exploration of the dichotomy of life. Old versus new, nature versus city.

The Greenville sculptor spent her childhood traveling from Greenville, where her parents had moved in the 1960s to work in the textile industry, to their hometown of Tokyo.

“Tokyo is a city of dichotomy; you have the old versus the new. Tradition versus the way technologically advanced,” Tsuzuki said. “You have the old temples, and then you have this contemporary architecture, and everything is a mix mash but it works. That dichotomy is something I would really like to investigate in my artwork.”

In Japanese, Tsuzuki’s name means “to construct a city.”

“The Japanese characters themselves are geometric, rigid and very precise. If you make one line the wrong way, the character is going to mean something else.” While the characters of her first name, Yuri, look free, effortless and feminine, Tsuzuki said that combination “of Artist Yuri Tsuzuki with a work in progress. my name is why I have those two styles in my Hampton III WHAT: Heart of Steel: An Exhibition by Yuri Tsuzuki Gallery exhibition” appearing WHERE: Hampton III Gallery, 3110 Wade Hampton Blvd., now through April 18.

Taylors Tsuzuki spent most of 2014 WHEN: Now through April 18 in Bogota, Colombia, inves- April 11, noon – artists talk tigating and learning how to INFO: hamptoniiigallery.com use steel as her new art material. “I test the limits of the medium,” she said. to show movement,” she said. Her piecHaving majored in sculpture at es explore both nature and city in what Princeton University before moving on she calls “a playscape. Not a cityscape to painting, steel was a change, she said, or a landscape. Because that’s what we but she felt ready for the challenge. want as humans: a place to play.”

“Steel pieces are usually recognized “No matter how large or how small, as large, towering, not fragile, and mas- I feel a great sense of intimacy with my sive. How can I make this material that is work,” Tsuzuki said. “My work in steel something so masculine into something is physical. It’s manual and requires a that is so free, airy and liberating and thoughtful strength. I begin. I stop. I’m doesn’t seem like steel? I want it to reflect constantly pushing, pulling, holding, light; to seem like it’s dancing in the wind. stepping back, tugging, testing, cutting.

I want it to be what it’s not,” she said.

I may leave the piece for a while, ignore This is what she said her exhibition it. Then, return to it with open arms. at the Hampton III Gallery explores: It’s like a courtship,” she said.

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Many bluegrass camps welcome at Albino Skunk Fest It’s a debate for the ages, right up there with “nature vs. nurture,” “chicken vs. egg” and “Pepsi vs. Coke”: progressive bluegrass vs. traditional. For every combo that sticks to the bluegrass fundamentals of acoustic instrumental interplay, wellworn standards and tight, high-lonesome harmonies, there’s another that’s playing seven- or eight-minute songs, throwing in oddball covers of contemporary pop songs or adding electronics or even (gasp!) drums.

It’s a timely discussion to bring up, especially since Glynn and Susan Ziegler’s Albino Spring Skunk Fest has just kicked off. For years, the multi-day, (usually) biannual music festival, held on the Zieglers’ farmland in Greer, was called the Albino Skunk Bluegrass Festival, until the sheer variety of bands on the bill outgrew the title.

And perhaps it’s even more fitting that a band like San Francisco’s Front Country is playing that festival. The sextet, which formed in 2011, has a lot of traditional bluegrass roots.

Front Country Their harmonies would make Del McCoury WHAT: Albino Spring Skunk Fest WHERE: 4063 Jordan Road, Greer INFO: albinoskunk.com proud, and both their WHEN: April 9-11 ensemble playing and their soloing are impeccable. But they specifically define themselves as “progressive bluegrass,” and their music bears that title out. There are nods to jazz, pop and jam-band-style experimentation all over their debut full-length album, last year’s “Sake of the Sound.”

So have they been criticized for their neo-bluegrass approach? “We definitely fall in the more progressive camp for sure,” says Front Country’s lead guitarist, Jacob Groopman. “I don’t know if we’ve received direct criticism, but every now and then I’ve heard through the grapevine that somebody has said that we’re not bluegrass or what we’re doing is very different from traditional bluegrass. But it’s never really been something that’s been thrown at us directly.”

Groopman is uncertain why the debate started in the first place, though he does have some theories. “I think it has to do with the fact that the traditionalist faction feels that if the music we’re creating on the more progressive side is called ‘bluegrass,’ then it threatens the very existence of traditional bluegrass,” he says, “which I’ve never quite understood. And it seems like the folks on the more progressive side have nothing but respect for traditional bluegrass and the people who created it. We all come from the same place.”

And for those who tend to disparage progressive bluegrass, watch out: Front Country is getting more progressive all the time. “We leave a fair amount of room for improv, and recently, we’ve been stretching out a little more,” Groopman says.

“I don’t want to call it ‘jamgrass’ or anything like that, but we’ve been letting some sections go a little longer, and letting soloists take a little more time. More and more things are happening the longer we play as a group.”

And then, maybe to soothe the traditionalists, Groopman added with a laugh: “It’s almost like group improvisation, but not quite like the Grateful Dead.”

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Vacation home sales boomed in 2014 to above their most recent peak level in 2006, while investment purchases fell for the fourth straight year, according to an annual survey of residential homebuyers released today by the National Association of Realtors®.

NAR’s 2015 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey,* covering existing- and newhome transactions in 2014, shows vacationhome sales catapulted to an estimated 1.13 million last year, the highest amount since NAR began the survey in 2003. Vacation sales were up 57.4 percent from 717,000 in 2013.

Investment-home sales in 2014 decreased 7.4 percent to an estimated 1.02 million in 2014 from 1.10 million in 2013. Owner-occupied purchases fell 12.8 percent to 3.23 million last year from 3.70 million in 2013. The sales estimates are based on responses from nearly 2,000 U.S. adults who purchased a residential property in 2014, and exclude institutional investment activity.

Matthew Thrift, 2015 President of The Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® and Owner and Broker-in-Charge of Humble Abodes Realty in Greenville, SC, says vacation sales in 2014 showed astonishing growth, nearly doubling the combined total of the previous two years. “Affluent households have greatly benefited from strong growth in the stock market in recent years, and the steady rise in home prices has likely given them reassurance that real estate remains an attractive long-term investment,” he said. “Furthermore, last year’s impressive increase also reflects long-term growth in the numbers of baby boomers moving closer to retirement and buying second homes to convert into their primary home in a few years.”

Vacation-home sales accounted for 21 percent of all transactions in 2014, their highest market share since the survey was first conducted. The portion of investment sales fell to 19 percent (20 percent in 2013); owneroccupied purchases declined to 60 percent (67 percent in 2013).

“Despite strong rental demand in many markets, investment property sales have declined four consecutive years to their lowest share since 2010 as rising home prices and fewer distressed properties coming onto the market have further reduced the number of bargains available to turn into profitable rentals,” says Thrift.

The median sales price of both vacation and investment homes declined in 2014. The median vacation home price was $150,000, down 11.1 percent from $168,700 in 2013. The median investment-home sales price was $125,000, down 3.8 percent from $130,000 a year ago.

According to Thrift, the decrease in vacation and investment sales prices is likely due to the increase in vacation and investment buyers purchasing condos and townhouses, which contributed to a decline in the median size of 200 square feet for both. Additionally, the rise in vacation buyers purchasing distressed properties and buying in the South, where home

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prices are often lower, contributed to the overall decline in the sales price of vacation homes.

The share of vacation buyers who paid in cash fell to 30 percent from 38 percent in 2013.

Investment buyers who paid in cash decreased to 41 percent from 46 percent a year ago. Of buyers who financed their purchase with a mortgage, nearly half (48 percent) of vacation buyers and 41 percent of investment buyers financed less than 70 percent of the purchase price.

Forty-five percent of vacation homes and 44 percent of investment homes purchased in 2014 were distressed properties – either a home in foreclosure or a short sale. In 2013, 42 percent of vacation homes and 47 percent of investment home purchases were distressed.

Characteristics of Vacation-Home Purchases The typical vacation-home buyer in 2014 had a higher median household income ($94,380) than those in 2013 ($85,600) and purchased a property that was further away (median distance of 200 miles) than a year ago (180 miles). Buyers plan to own their property for a median of 6 years, unchanged from 2013.

Forty-six percent of vacation homes purchased last year were in the South (41 percent in 2013), 25 percent in the West (28 percent in 2013), 15 percent in the Northeast (18 percent in 2013) and 14 percent in the Midwest (unchanged from a year ago).

NAR released a study in late-2014 that identified the top housing markets likely to see a boost in home sales to leading-edge baby boomers1. The findings revealed that metro areas – including many in the South and Southwest – with a lower cost of living and sunnier weather are poised to see an increased number of baby boomers moving in and buying a home in coming years.

Characteristics of Investment-Home Purchases Investment-home buyers in 2014 had a median household income of $87,680 ($111,400 in 2013) and typically bought a detached single-family home (61 percent) that was a median distance of 24 miles from their primary residence (20 miles in 2013).

Thirty-seven percent of investment buyers last year purchased a property in the South, 26 percent in the West, 20 percent in the Midwest and 17 percent in the Northeast. Investors were most likely (32 percent) to buy in a suburban area, followed by an urban or central city (26 percent), rural area (21 percent) and small town (16 percent). Five percent of investment buyers bought in a resort area.

The bulk of investment buyers (86 percent) and vacation buyers (85 percent) reported that now is a good time to purchase real estate.

The National Association of Realtors®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America’s largest trade association, representing 1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® represents over 2,000 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.

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PE OPLE , AWA R D S , HONORS Three New Agents Join The Pelham Road Office Of Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce the addition of three new Sales Associates to its Pelham Road office. Sherrie Wile, Jeffrey Shepherd and Anna Shepherd join the company’s second largest office as its newest real estate professionals.

Wile begins her real estate career after several years as the

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Jeff Shepherd, a native of South Carolina, will be joining the Pam McCurry Team. Shepherd has 30 plus years of experience as a Department Supervisor at Santee Cooper Electric Utility. In his spare time, Jeff enjoys

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Shepherd and his wife, Anna, currently reside in Greer.

Anna Shepherd will also be joining the McCurry Team. Shepherd has a background in office management and administration, and currently lives in Greer with her husband, Jeff. In her spare time, Shepherd enjoys traveling, reading and cooking.

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

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$290,000 LAUREL VALLEY $289,900 TUSCANY FALLS $289,423 COVE@BUTLER SPRINGS $283,007 CAROLINA OAKS $280,000 GOWER ESTATES $277,070 WOODLAND CREEK $276,325 FORRESTER HEIGHTS $275,000 ST JAMES PLACE $275,000

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$249,492 CASTLE ROCK $247,000

$240,000 KELSEY GLEN $238,930 TERRACE ACRES $237,000 WETHERILL PARK $234,900 BRYSON MEADOWS $231,208 ASCOT $230,000 ANSLEY CROSSING $229,000 ANSLEY CROSSING $228,988 MORNING MIST $226,490 ABBEYHILL PARK $225,000 SHOALLY RIDGE $220,000 GARDENS@ROSE RESERVE $219,900 LISMORE PARK $219,182 AUTUMN TRACE $215,000 MERRIFIELD PARK $210,000

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF TPR & ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE FAMILY COURT THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 2014-DR-23-4407 Elizabeth and Bostin Blunt, Plaintiffs, -vs- Cody S. Bullock, Sr., Defendant You will please take notice that the original Summons and Complaint in the aboveentitled action were filed with the Greenville County Clerk of Family Court on the 14th day of October, 2014.

You are further notified that this proceeding relate to a termination of parental rights/ adoption action. You are further notified that if you wish to contest, intervene or otherwise respond you must, within thirty (30) days of receiving this notice, respond in writing by filing with the Court notice and reasons to contest, intervene or otherwise proceed. You are further notified that failure to file a response within thirty (30) days of receiving notice constitutes consent for such divorce.

You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint and to serve a copy of your answer to the pleadings upon the subscriber at the Godfrey Law Firm, LLC, 10 East Avenue, Greenville, South Carolina 29601, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of service.

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PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on 4/25/15, at 9:00 a.m. at Woodruff Road Storage, 1868 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC, the undersigned, Woodruff Road Storage will sell at Public Sale by competitive bidding, the personal property heretofore stored with the undersigned by: 1. Unit: D37, Nora Hussein Cedar Chest, File Cabinets, Boxes, Misc.

2. Unit: E16, Allison C Burnett Furniture, TV, Appliances, Boxes, Misc.

3. Unit: D30, Tony J Bucciero Furniture, Clothing, Misc.

4 Unit: B050, Latoya Sanders Clothing, Hats, Electronics, Misc.

5. Unit: C188, William Donald Air Compressor, Clothing, Misc.

6. Unit: C233, Jessica Pitts Furniture, Children’s Items, Boxes, Misc.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Frankie’s Fun Park of Greenville, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR, at 45 Park Woodruff Drive, Greenville, SC 29607.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 26, 2015.

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 THE DIVE “N”BOAR LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR, at 2541 N. PLEASANTBURG DR. SUITE K, GREENVILLE, SC 29609.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 12, 2015.

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

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Baptist Easley Hospital Foundation hosts the Gala on the Green on April 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the Madren Center in Clemson.

Tickets are $150 per person.

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On April 11, The Twisted Trio will play at Mac Arnold’s Blues Restaurant at 8 p.m.

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Easley will host a Family Unity Festival featuring a fashion show on April 10 at 7 p.m. at the Dream Center and a parade at noon on April 11.

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Hagood Mill presents Roots of the Blues on April 11 from noon to 3 p.m. as the kickoff of the 2015 Clemson Blues Festival. The event features blues historian Andy Cohen, Steve McGaha and Rev. Gary Davis.

Gov’t Mule will play at the Peace Center April 11. Tickets are $35 and $45.

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The Arts Council of Pickens County will host its annual Spring Fling on April 11 from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Easley Farmers Market in downtown Easley. The event will feature art, demonstrations, children’s activities, crafts and live entertainment. artscouncilofpickenscounty.org

The Greenville Little Theatre presents the comedy “Don’t Cry For Me, Margaret Mitchell” April 10-25, featuring the outrageous, mostly true story of adapting “Gone With the Wind” for the big screen.

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Lust of Decay, The Blood of Isis, JYNZO, Abhorrent Deformity and Haymaker will play at Ground Zero April 11.

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552-1265 ipagreenville.com

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The Patriot 5K Run to benefit the Jason Karella Memorial Hike for Higher Ground will take place April 11 at Willow Creek Neighborhood & Golf Club in Greer. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and run at 9 a.m. go-greenevents.com/event/id/4538 415-7927

D AT E N I G H T, A N Y ON E ?

The SC Children’s Theatre is offering a Kid’s Night Out for K3-fifth grade. The April 11, 6-10 p.m., event has a Cats & Dogs theme. scchildrenstheatre.org

LEARN SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Eliza A.H. Lord will offer classes in homesteading at Hagood Mill. Lord is a certified permaculturist, Master Gardener and Master Naturalist. In various classes, students will construct a small kitchen garden and learn how to set up a homestead from scratch. Cost is $55-$65 for each class. Advanced registration is required and students must be at least 18.

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The Pride of Greenville Men’s Chorus presents “The Great White Way” on April 11 at 7:30 p.m. at West End Community Development Center, 404 Vardry St., Greenville.

Tickets are $20-$30. sites.google.com/site/prideofgreenvillemenschorus/home

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The Younts Center for Performing Arts presents “…Here & Now - The Testament of Freedom” with the Ft. Inn Chorale on April 11. Music will include modern choral classics, spirituals, Billy Joel and The Beach Boys. Tickets range from $5-$12.

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Ryan Stroh will play at Southern Culture April 12. Admission is free.

There will be a Family Celebration of Jewish Storytelling with Caren Neile at Shalomfest 2015 on April 12. The traditional tales in this family storytelling concert are sure to entertain audience members from seven to 107. jewishgreenville.org jewishgreenville@gmail.com dev22@rocketmail.com

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Furman Theatre will present “The Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill April 15-18, 22, and 25 at 8 p.m., with matinees April 18, 19, and 25 at 3 p.m. in the Theatre Playhouse on campus.

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The Spring Skunk Music Fest will be held April 9-11 and will feature live music, camping, food, kids activities, craft vendors and beer garden at the Skunk Farm in Greer.

Weekend tickets range from $55 to $110.

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F N AT IVE P LANT S ALE SC Native Plant Society will conduct their spring sale with trees, shrubs, and perennials adapted to our local soils and climate. A specialist on invasive species will also be in attendance.

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Laura Ann Garren will talk about her book, “The Chattooga River: A Natural & Cultural History,” on April 16 at 6 p.m. at the Pickens County Museum of Art and History.

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The Clemson Players present Shakespeare’s comic tale of twins, mistaken identity, romance and mystery on April 13-19.

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A Red Cross Club Blood Drive will be held at Furman University on April 16 from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Use terra cotta and hand-build a sculpture during the first session of this class on April 13 from 6-8 p.m. and apply the faux bronze patina during the second session April 27 6-8 p.m. The price is $85 and covers both sessions. vinoandvangogh.net 434-3054

APRIL 14 F AUT HO R Ann B. Ross will discuss “Miss Julia Lays Down the Law,” her latest addition to the New York Times bestselling series, on April 14 at 2 p.m. at Fiction Addiction.

This event is free and open to the public.

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The Pickens County Museum of Art and History, in conjunction with the Clemson Blues Festival, will host “A Bluesman’s Close-Up: Photographs of Mac Arnold” by Brian S. Kelley April 15 through May 30. A reception to meet the photographer will be on April 25 from 1 until 4 p.m. Fifty percent of sales from the exhibit will be donated by the artist to support the Dr. Mac Arnold Scholarship Fund.

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The Blue Wall Birding Festival includes experienced birders guiding small groups to habitats within the mountains and upper Piedmont. Table Rock State Park will serve as the hub during the multi-day event. gcbirdclub.org/BlueWall.html F

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Centre Stage presents “Agnes of God” April 7-22 as part of its Fringe series. Tickets are $15.

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Emrys will offer two writing workshops this spring, including “Creative Nonfiction: Or How I Learned to Tell My Story” with Scott Gould and “Using What You Know to Write What You Don’t: A Poetry Workshop” with Mamie Morgan. Both classes will be held at SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and cost $100 each. Space is limited.

F S T ORY T I M E Fiction Addiction hosts a free children’s story time at 1175 Woods Crossing Road every Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m.

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Monty Python’s “Spamalot” comes to Centre Stage through April 26 with favorites like killer rabbits and other Python icons set to song. Tickets are $25-$35.

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Bon Secours St. Francis Health System hosts Well Walkers every Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come walk the 1/4-mile track around the arena concourse. Parking and admission are free.

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F ARTI S TI C R E AL E S TAT E Main Street Real Estate Gallery is hosting works by Edith McBee Hardaway through April 30.

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Cancer patients, survivors and caregivers are invited to walk every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Cancer Institute of Greenville Health System.

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Night Lights on Reedy The Blood Connection hosts an art exhibit featuring the work of Blaine Owens now through May 14.

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For the Fine Arts Center’s 40th Anniversary, the Sheffield Wood Gallery is holding a four-part exhibition series, Ties that Bind. The series will run through May 27 and is currently in its third installation: Ties that Bind: Community. The fourth installation: Student Exhibit begins April 13.

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F S I D N E Y D I C KI N S ON The Greenville County Museum of Art presents Sidney Dickinson (1890 - 1980) and the Alabama Suite through Sept. 6.

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F F URMAN SENIORS ART Art by 11 Furman seniors will be on display through May 9 in Thompson Gallery of the Roe Art Building on campus. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, and 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, May 9.

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The Greenville Little Theatre presents the children’s show “A Duck Called Ugly” April 16-18. Tickets are $10.

233-6238 greenvillelittletheatre.org

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The Greenville Council of Garden Clubs will hold its annual garden tour April 17-18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Tickets cost $18 in advance and $20 the days of the tour and can be purchased at area garden centers and at each garden on tour days.

232-3020 kilgore-lewis.org council@kilgore-lewis.org

APRIL 17 & 23 T RI UNE EV ENTS

Two upcoming events will benefit Triune Mercy Center. On April 17, Duncan Morrow, a high school senior, is staging a concert of several local rock bands for his senior project. The concert is free with a love offering. On April 23 the Upstate Women’s Club will host an art sale and auction of work by homeless artists. Titled “Peace of Triune,” the show will be held at the Hyatt Regency from 7 until 9:30 p.m.

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The second annual Climb the Ridge Trail Run on April 18 will benefit Camp Spearhead. The five-mile trail run winds its way through the new trail system at Pleasant Ridge Park. Cost is $25 for the trail race, $15 for the kids race and $5 for the fun run. greenvillerec.com 660-1065

SPRING NATIVE PLANT SALE

The Upstate Native Plant Society’s Spring Native Plant Sale will be held April 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Conestee Park, 840 Mauldin Road. scnps.org

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Greenville will host the USA Cycling Professional Criterium and Team Time Trial National Championships April 18-19, with competitions in downtown Greenville and on Interstate I-185. bikevilleclassic.com

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FREE ZUMBA AT S C BL UE F

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Lake Hartwell Sail and Power Squadron is hosting a Spring Shakedown Cruise on April 18. The day will also feature a free vessel safety check at the Portman Marina courtesy dock from 9 a.m. to noon.

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The Greenville County Republican Party will host its convention on April 18 at 9 a.m. at the TD Center. greenvillegop.com

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Gardening for Good and Greenville Forward will host a Community Garden Summit on April 18 at Roper Mountain Science Center in Greenville.

239-3725 gardeningforgood.com

The SC Native Plant Society meeting on April 21 from 7 until 8:30 p.m. will feature Gale McKinley on nature journaling. The meeting will be at Southern Wesleyan University in Central. scnps.org

Zumba is the perfect way to dance yourself into shape! Join us for a free Zumba class and burn some calories with this fun and effective workout.

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Susan Boyer will sign copies of the third book in her bestselling Liz Talbot series, “Lowcountry Boneyard,” at a launch party at Fiction Addiction on April 21 from 5 until 7 p.m. fiction-addiction.com

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Are you making the right decisions when it comes to retirement? Do you understand your Medicare options? Join us to make sure you’re on track.

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On April 21 at 8 p.m. the Clemson University Singers present a performance of this mixedvoice ensemble of students from across majors. Cost is $8 for adults and $5 for students.

656-7787 clemson.edu/brooks

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High Cotton will host the seventh annual Administrative Professionals’ Day luncheon on April 22 from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 335-4200

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Happy Hooves Therapeutic Equestrian Center will host a golf event at Fox Run Country Club on April 22. Proceeds benefit the program at Eden Farms that serves children of all ages with all types of disabilities. edenfarms.net

JOURNAL CULTURE F F R E E Y OG A AT S C B L U E Improve your flexibility, tone your muscles and build strength at a FREE yoga class. Bring your own mat!

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A two-day Digital Mixed Media workshop taught by Phil Garrett will be held April 23-24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Cost is $250 for both days.

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Spring session art classes with instructor Jo Johnston begin on April 23 at the Pickens County Museum. Preregistration is required.

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JAZZ AND WINE CELEBRATION

Ronald McDonald House presents the sixth annual Reedy River Jazz & Wine Festival at the Peace Center on April 24 at 6 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Ronald McDonald House.

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LiveWell Greenville hosts its annual Healthy Workplace Conference on April 23 at 1 p.m.

In addition to speakers, the Healthy Workplace Awards will be presented. Cost is $30.

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SCCT brings the most mischievous cat from the page to the stage! Adults and kids alike will enjoy this action packed production of FUN!

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Natural Awakenings Upstate is screening “You Can Heal Your Life” on April 23 at 7 p.m. at Zen in Greenville. Tickets are $10. eventbee.com F

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Effective Communication with your Child: Win-Win Strategies for the 21st Century Parent. April 23 at 6 p.m. at the Simpsonville Arts Center. 110 Academy St.

467-3000 scchildrenstheatre.lrg michelle@scchildrenstheatre.org

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An Oil Landscape Workshop taught by Libby Smart will be held April 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $165.

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The Community Tap sponsors a Craft Beer Festival showcasing more than 40 breweries on April 25 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Greenville Downtown Airport. Cost is $55 per person. fest.thecommunitytap.com

Tickets are $100 per person.

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Greenbrier Farms will host a brick oven brunch at the farm on April 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets are $35 and children are free.

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Orvis is offering free fly-fishing classes for varying skill levels. orvis.com/flyfishing101

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Join the public opening of the Greenville Center for Creative Arts! Stop by the Center, learn about the programming and sign-up for a class. The facility will be open from 6-9pm for public tours.

735-3948 artcentergreenville.org

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The SC Children’s Theatre hosts its Caribbean Crush fundraiser on May 1, 7-11 p.m., at Zen in Greenville. Cost is $60 per person or $175 for event patron. scchildrenstheatre.org

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Centre Stage hosts A Gala Knight wrap party for “Monty Python’s Spamalot” on May 1, 7 p.m., at the Downtown Airport.

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United Ministries will present Robert Lupton on May 11 at the TD Convention Center. Lupton is the author of “Toxic Charity.”

Tickets are $50-$100.

The festival boasts the largest classic car cruise-in event in the Upstate. In 2014, the event raised more than $172,000 to benefit local non-profit organizations in the Upstate.

235-8330 united-ministries.org

800-240-3400 blueridge.coop/blueridge

Greenville Center for Creative Arts is offering adult art classes in the historic Brandon Mill in the Village of West Greenville.

Media offered include painting, drawing, jewelry, mixed media, and fiber.

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JO Y FUL G AR DE N T OU R

Benefiting the historic grounds of Christ Church Episcopal, The Joyful Garden Tour will be May 8-9 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The tour will showcase six gardens in the McDaniel/Crescent Avenue area of Greenville. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the tour. Tickets may be purchased online and in person at Christ Church. ccgsc.org/gardentour.php

ART CLASSES START MAY 11

735-3948 artcentergreenville.org info@artcentergreenville.org

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The SC Children’s Theatre is offering a Kid’s Night Out for K3-fifth grade. The May 16, 6-10 p.m., event has a Dragons & Princesses theme. scchildrenstheatre.org

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Carefully read the Medication Guide before you start taking RAGWITEK® and each time you get a refill.

This Brief Summary does not take the place of talking with your doctor about your medical condition or treatment. Talk with your doctor or pharmacist if there is something you do not understand or if you want to learn more about RAGWITEK. What is the Most Important Information I Should Know About RAGWITEK? RAGWITEK can cause severe allergic reactions that may be life-threatening. Stop taking RAGWITEK and get medical treatment right away if you have any of the following symptoms after taking RAGWITEK: • Trouble breathing • Throat tightness or swelling • Trouble swallowing or speaking • Dizziness or fainting • Rapid or weak heartbeat • Severe stomach cramps or pain, vomiting, or diarrhea • Severe flushing or itching of the skin For home administration of RAGWITEK, your doctor will prescribe auto-injectable epinephrine, a medicine you can inject if you have a severe allergic reaction after taking RAGWITEK. Your doctor will train and instruct you on the proper use of auto-injectable epinephrine.

Talk to your doctor or read the epinephrine patient information if you have any questions about the use of auto-injectable epinephrine.

What is RAGWITEK? RAGWITEK is a prescription medicine used for sublingual (under the tongue) immunotherapy to treat ragweed pollen allergies that can cause sneezing, runny or itchy nose, stuffy or congested nose, or itchy and watery eyes. RAGWITEK may be prescribed for persons 18 through 65 years of age who are allergic to ragweed pollen. RAGWITEK is taken for about 12 weeks before ragweed pollen season and throughout ragweed pollen season. RAGWITEK is NOT a medication that gives immediate relief for symptoms of ragweed allergy.

Who Should Not Take RAGWITEK? You should not take RAGWITEK if: • You have severe, unstable or uncontrolled asthma • You had a severe allergic reaction in the past that included any of these symptoms: o Trouble breathing o Dizziness or fainting o Rapid or weak heartbeat • You have ever had difficulty with breathing due to swelling of the throat or upper airway after using any sublingual immunotherapy before.

• You have ever been diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagitis.

• You are allergic to any of the inactive ingredients contained in RAGWITEK. The inactive ingredients contained in RAGWITEK are: gelatin, mannitol, and sodium hydroxide.

What Should I Tell My Doctor Before Taking RAGWITEK? Your doctor may decide that RAGWITEK is not the best treatment if:

• You have asthma, depending on how severe it is.

• You suffer from lung disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

• You suffer from heart disease such as coronary artery disease, an irregular heart rhythm, or you have hypertension that is not well controlled.

• You are pregnant, plan to become pregnant during the time you will be taking RAGWITEK, or are breast-feeding.

• You are unable or unwilling to administer auto-injectable epinephrine to treat a severe allergic reaction to RAGWITEK. • You are taking certain medicines that enhance the likelihood of a severe reaction, or interfere with the treatment of a severe reaction. These medicines include: o beta blockers and alpha-blockers (prescribed for high blood pressure) o cardiac glycosides (prescribed for heart failure or problems with heart rhythm) o diuretics (prescribed for heart conditions and high blood pressure) o ergot alkaloids (prescribed for migraine headache) o monoamine oxidase inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants (prescribed for depression) o thyroid hormone (prescribed for low thyroid activity).

You should tell your doctor if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines, including medicines obtained without a prescription and herbal supplements. Keep a list of them and show it to your doctor and pharmacist each time you get a new supply of RAGWITEK. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking RAGWITEK. RAGWITEK is not indicated for use in children under 18 years of age.

allergic reaction. If you tolerate the first dose of RAGWITEK, you will continue RAGWITEK therapy at home by taking one tablet every day. Take RAGWITEK as prescribed by your doctor until the end of the treatment course. If you forget to take RAGWITEK, do not take a double dose. Take the next dose at your normal scheduled time the next day. If you miss more than one dose of RAGWITEK, contact your healthcare provider before restarting.

Are There Any Reasons to Stop Taking RAGWITEK? Stop RAGWITEK and contact your doctor if you have any of the following after taking RAGWITEK: • Any type of a serious allergic reaction • Throat tightness that worsens or swelling of the tongue or throat that causes trouble speaking, breathing, or swallowing • Asthma or any other breathing condition that gets worse • Dizziness or fainting • Rapid or weak heartbeat • Severe stomach cramps or pain, vomiting, or diarrhea • Severe flushing or itching of the skin • Heartburn, difficulty swallowing, pain with swallowing, or chest pain that does not go away or worsens Also, stop taking RAGWITEK following: mouth surgery procedures (such as tooth removal), or if you develop any mouth infections, ulcers or cuts in the mouth or throat.

The Medication Guide has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

How Should I Take RAGWITEK? Take RAGWITEK exactly as your doctor tells you.

RAGWITEK is a prescription medicine that is placed under the tongue.

• Take the tablet from the blister package after carefully removing the foil with dry hands.

• Place the tablet immediately under the tongue.

Allow it to remain there until completely dissolved.

Do not swallow for at least 1 minute.

• Do not take RAGWITEK with food or beverage.

Food and beverage should not be taken for the following 5 minutes.

• Wash hands after taking the tablet.

Take the first tablet of RAGWITEK in your doctor’s office. After taking the first tablet, you will be watched for at least 30 minutes for symptoms of a serious

What are the Possible Side Effects of RAGWITEK? The most commonly reported side effects were itching of the mouth, lips, or tongue, swelling under the tongue, or throat irritation. These side effects, by themselves, were not dangerous or life-threatening.

RAGWITEK can cause severe allergic reactions that may be life-threatening. Symptoms of allergic reactions to RAGWITEK include: • Trouble breathing • Throat tightness or swelling • Trouble swallowing or speaking • Dizziness or fainting • Rapid or weak heartbeat • Severe stomach cramps or pain, vomiting, or diarrhea • Severe flushing or itching of the skin For additional information on the possible side effects of RAGWITEK talk with your doctor or pharmacist.

You may report side effects to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.

This Brief Summary summarizes the most important information about RAGWITEK. If you would like more information, talk with your doctor. You can ask your doctor or pharmacist for information about RAGWITEK that was written for healthcare professionals. For more information, go to: www.ragwitek.com or call 1-800-622-4477 (toll-free).

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FIGURE. THIS. OUT. TITLES GONE WRONG ACROSS 1. Castaway’s home 6. Clothing, slangily 13. Poet Browning 19. Has a treble and a bass 21. Eccentric 22. Overdue sum 23. Title change to suit the perps 25. Honey 26. “I am the greatest” speaker 27. Disneyland souvenir 28. Agronomists’ study 30. Internet locale 31. Not well-groomed 34. Staff symbols 37. Government agency 38. Up, in a way 39. Balderdash 41. Disposing of in a lottery 44. Fruit 47. Bring on 48. Harmful 53. Title change for top handiman lead role?

58. Less original 59. Thomas the Tank Engine’s number 60. Goes with madre 61. Vessel 62. For the birds?

63. Shed tears 65. Smart 66. Terminal info 68. Sweetie 69. Cries at fireworks

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71. Small club 73. Put in a nutshell 76. Dutch export 80. Cat sound 83. Mop: Var. 87. In a state of readiness 88. A collection of antidotes 89. In neutral 91. Atty group 92. Seas 94. Title change where a Clooney movie gets confused with a guitar great?

97. Rear seat in auto of yesteryear 99. Parks in a bus 100. Flying high 101. Public convenience 104. Provide food for 106. Spore sac 110. Any boat 111. Cube of meat on a skewer 113. “Study, study, study” types 117. Hymn 118. Slope 120. Between ports 122. I found out!

123. Immoral 125. Title change with a gender switch for Jon Voight?

130. Not moved from the original location 131. Glut 132. Let 133. Living room piece 134. Airplane routes 135. Weeping willow

By Myles Mellor DOWN 1. Imam’s religion 2. Flat 3. Carl or Shari 4. Piece of history 5. Sawbuck 6. Coiled 7. Literature Nobelist Hermann 8. South American cruise stop 9. Muff it 10. Continues 11. Become extinct 12. In a sequence 13. Energy measures 14. Pay dirt 15. Full of chutzpah 16. Hair raising 17. Indian side dish 18. In a tough spot 20. Musical literary piece 24. Freshwater carp 29. Extended 32. Cousin of a herring 33. Goes up and down 35. Robinson Crusoe’s righthand man 36. Rani wear 38. Work up 40. Boorish 42. Yard barrier 43. Vetoes 44. Farm equipment 45. First rate 46. Get ready, for short 47. One of a matched pair 49. Cabbages

50. Mix 51. Ham or veal 52. Ospreys’ cousins 54. Pick on 55. Mins. and mins.

56. Based on instincts 57. Loser’s place?

64. Colorful bird 67. Zeno follower 70. Cork screw, church key, etc.

72. Brook 73. Fine, black stuff 74. Extraordinary 75. Carriage 77. Hoover is one 78. ___seed 79. Photography lens 80. Bad atmosphere 81. Mental flash 82. Complete 84. One joule per second 85. Mitch Miller’s instrument 86. Boston or Chicago, e.g.

90. Famous Greek physician 93. R.S.V.P. facilitator: Abbr.

95. Catch 96. Trim 98. Gorbachev was its last leader (abbr.)

102. Henley Regatta site 103. Debts 104. Uses a blackjack 105. Go along with 106. An eccentric orbit 107. Divider of Paris 108. Art able to 109. Not healthy

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Difficult 112. Far from form-fitting 114. Browning’s Ben Ezra, e.g.

115. Wild Asian dog 116. Communicator 118. Model-making need 119. Irritable 121. Had something

Sudoku answers: page 53 124. Arapaho foe 126. Even as we speak 127. Sep or traditional 128. Lennon’s Lady 129. Family head Crossword answers: page 53

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THE SYMPTOMS

BY ASHLEY HOLT

Physician, keel thyself There’s something vindicating about outliving your doctor. It gives you pause, certainly, to consider the fragility of life, as someone’s death always does. But in a perverse way, when the person advising you on your health keels over from a big, greasy heart attack, it means you win. All those lectures about diet and exercise are instantly nullified. What does a dead guy know?

Not that Dr. Rivers was a bad guy. He was a jovial, backslapping sort, quick to cut through the malarkey and give it to you straight about your urinary tract infection or your six weeks to live. It’s just that the guy was in terrible shape. Not just overweight, but a chainsmoker, constantly wheezing and dripping sweat. He huffed around the office, beet-red throughout his balding head, his clipboard slippery from his wet fingers – and let’s face it, a doctor who appears to need immediate hospitalization does not instill confidence. I mean, you wouldn’t buy smoke detectors from a guy engulfed in flames, would you?

Dr. Rivers and I served as two opposing forces during my visits: the hypocrite and the hypochondriac.

Sensing that my real trouble was uncontrollable anxiety, and not, as I insisted, full-blown cancer of the Lyme disease, the moist doctor would, between slugs of Mountain Dew, lecture me on the importance of a healthy diet and exercise routine to reduce anxiety-induced stomach ailments, emphasizing his point with a six-minute coughing spasm.

This was the standoff. Doctors, as we all know, consider any patient’s attempt at self-diagnosis a personal attack. Whereas I, as a hypochondriac, don’t feel I’m getting my money’s worth if my innumerable symptoms are not acknowledged. At these prices, I feel I should be getting a real diagnosis of some kind. Restless Leg or Shaken Baby or something.

Rivers cheerfully pooh-poohed my self-diagnosed brain lesions, never suggesting we run tests or X-rays or

doctors all had in common were their robust, healthy glow and trim physiques. Whether catering to my health anxieties or brutally rejecting them, none of these doctors would do so while sweating feverishly and gasping for breath. And noticing this, I’ve started to realize why I miss Dr. Rivers.

A hypochondriac, you see, can never completely trust a healthy person. He needs some indication that the physician he’s dealing with knows about illness firsthand. Because only a sick person knows that sickness is sometimes real, and not just wishful thinking. What the hypochondriac needs, ultimately, is a genuine condition to distract his focus from the imaginary ones. A left arm lost to a band saw, verifiable with a rush me over to ICU before the coma set in. He’d simply pat me on the back in a manly fashion and send me back to Reception with a sopping handprint on my shirt to dole out a $20 co-pay for nothing. I’d wander away, feeling I’d once again been duped into believing I was a well man when I knew perfectly well I could go into convulsions at any time – and all because I was taking medical advice from a man oozing deep-fried fat from his pores.

But the next thing I knew, Dr. Rivers sat down one night and had himself a croak. He had one last private session of Pall Malls and perspiration before his heaving heart finally gave out. And on hearing the news, I instantly knew that I had been right about everything. Obviously, a doctor too clueless to have foreseen his own bacon-induced death had no business telling me my hysterical blindness was all in my head.

The physicians I’ve seen in the years since the death of Dr. Feelbad have been a mixed bag. Some met my every gripe about dull pains or skin rashes with what appeared to be genuine alarm, while others seemed deeply offended by my suggestions that I didn’t feel well. But what these

mere glance at the infected stump, can be a godsend to the patient ordinarily worried about bird flu.

And even though my worst fears were often dismissed, Dr. Rivers himself, swollen with carbs and raging blood pressure, remained living proof that real illness still existed.

His enlarged heart and emphysema were not the products of runaway anxiety, not the ravings of a discombobulated hypochondriac, but were very real, very serious physical maladies that eventually exploded in his chest and sent him to his sweaty death.

So there’s hope.

Ashley Holt is a writer and illustrator living in Spartanburg. His neurotic quirks and extreme sensitivity to broad social trends are chronicled in The Symptoms, an illustrated blog. Check out his website at ashleyholt.com.

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