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HOW MUCH DOES FEDERAL MONEY MEAN TO THE UPSTATE? For every dollar paid in federal taxes, South Carolina gets $1.35 back.

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LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER: Minor Shaw joins dad Buck Mickel in S.C. Business Hall of Fame.

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Roland Bergeron and Water of Life’s work in Africa and India resulted in 83 clean water wells — and the release of 350 child slaves. PAGE 39

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A footpath to prosperity Trail systems boost health and economic development

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The foot and bike path has become a road to prosperity for businesses and property owners adjacent to the Greenville Hospital System Swamp Rabbit Trail.

“Every time someone puts up a house that faces the Swamp Rabbit Trail, that’s economic impact,” said Ty Houck, director of the greenways for the Greenville County Recreation Department.

The first 13.5 mile section of the trail connecting Travelers Rest to downtown Greenville opened in May 2009. Four more miles of trail have been added in the interim, but are not yet connected to the main system.

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pegged by developments like Travelers Rest’s newly renovated downtown and the massive Greenville County Recreation Department’s Mauldin Road baseball complex, the economic potential is obviously tremendous, Houck said.

Data from the national Rails-to-Trails Conservancy gives a hint of that potential. In Indianapolis, the property values along the tram trail system increased by an estimated $140 million.

Jamie McDonough, founder of Reedy Rides, a bike rental business located in downtown Greenville, said she started the business late in 2009 with a few bikes to rent to visitors from out of town who wanted to ride on the Swamp Rabbit. Her first full year of operations was 2010. By 2011, business was up by more than 160 percent, she said.

Businesses like the Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery have popped up in economically challenged sections of town that front on the trail, transforming parts of what has been an economic wasteland into something more like Greenville’s booming downtown.

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“I can imagine the impact of the (Swamp Rabbit) trail in Greenville,” said Spartanburg Mayor Junie White. “Our own little (2mile) rail trail here in the city is always packed.”

White would like to see the city do more with the city’s trail system, but said financial constraints will make it slow going for the foreseeable future. “We’ve got a long way to go to catch up over here,” White said.

At a future date, Spartanburg could see its own version of the Swamp Rabbit take form.

There are plans on the table to connect the Mary Black Rail Trail, built on the old Norfolk Southern rail line, to the Palmetto Trail as it comes through Spartanburg.

The new spur to the Palmetto Trail would be called the Hub City Connector.

“When completed, the Hub City Connector will be a continuous 12-mile pathway of greenways, bicycle lanes, and safe, signed sidewalks through the city of Spartanburg. As of summer 2006, four sections of the connector are com-

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“You have to connect things with trail systems for them to really work as they should,” White said.

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Call Kincannon’s bluff If protesting too much is a proverbial red flag, Greenville Disabilities and Special Needs Board chairwoman Roxie Kincannon is waving scarlet banners with both arms in her venomous response to questions posed by a Greenville County councilman about the financial disarray at the DSN agency.

Councilman Willis Meadows rightly judges the personal attack as a diversion to distract attention from the financial issues and ethical concerns raised in a recent audit. And he and Councilman Joe Dill are correct to press council Chairman Butch Kirven to call Kincannon and other board members before the entire County Council for a frank conversation about the unraveling situation at DSN. The issues raised in the Oct. 14 audit by Clark Eustace Wagner, PA, are serious enough to prompt an independent audit by the state Department of Disabilities and Special Needs and the resignations of four board members earlier this year in protest of Kincannon’s handling of the Wagner audit and her divisive approach to leadership.

That approach is illustrated in a mocking email made available to the Journal that Kincannon sent three of the four after their request to serve on a selection committee for a permanent replacement for interim executive director Patrick Haddon. “Thank you for that,” the email said. “I have not laughed so hard in ages. I’m glad to see that despite your recent failures, you three are maintaining your sense of humor.”

Kincannon dripped similar contempt for Meadows after ignoring his request to appear before the public works and infrastructure subcommittee he chairs two weeks ago. In a press release, she accused Meadows of “embarrassing himself ” and abusing his chairmanship and invited him to “drop by … and confirm with his own two eyes that we are not secretly constructing bridges or installing clandestine sewer lines.”

Instead, Kincannon is resisting making a full public accounting of concerns raised in the audit and by state DSN director Beverly Buscemi about, among other issues, a five-fold increase in the amount the director can spend without board approval, the questionable process used to hire Haddon (who lacks minimum qualifications for the post), an expensive consulting contract with a former board chairwoman that duplicated staff duties, and a lack of internal control procedures in a variety of important areas.

Meanwhile, the agency had a budget of $21.5 million and revenues of $19.9 million in the period covered by the audit.

Technically, Kincannon is correct that Meadows’ subcommittee isn’t the best venue for a DSN accounting. But as a public body, DSN is answerable to any council committee that requests a meeting, the county attorney said.

Meadows saw a need and tried to address it. Kirven is content to meet privately with Kincannon and Haddon, as he did last week, joined by Meadows, Dill and Councilwoman Lottie Gibson. There are “too many balls in the air for a productive meeting” with the full council, he said.

Better to catch the balls and hold each one to the light. That audit is yet to have a full public airing. When the DSN finance committee voted to take it to the full board, Kincannon replaced the three voting in the majority with new members. How’s that for productive?

In her press release, Kincannon said she would appear before Dill’s human services committee, adding if Meadows “isn’t too busy volunteering for the Spanish Inquisition … he can drop by and sit in the audience.”

Call her bluff, Councilman Dill, if Kirven won’t. Meadows will have plenty of company in that audience.

Make sure your doctors listen This past Christmas, my 82- and 83year-old mother and father drove from Iowa to stay with our family in Spartanburg for seven weeks. We had a great holiday and were settled into our visit when we realized Mom wasn’t doing well.

Mom has multiple chronic illnesses, including heart and vascular disease, chronic renal failure and mild dementia. She was weaker and more confused and was eating and drinking less. Eventually, she suffered a fall in the bathroom.

As a visitor, Mom had no physician in town, so we took her to the emergency room.

The first doctor to evaluate her asked diligent questions about the events that led us there and her medical history. The usual lab work was drawn. Then a gurney arrived to transport Mom for a CAT scan. Surprised, I declined the test. The physician soon returned to ask why we refused a scan to rule out a head injury from the fall. I explained Mom did not hit her head when she fell. These were symptoms she had experienced many times in the past. They were usually treated palliatively at home and we hoped that would be the case here. He listened, respected our decision and cancelled the CAT scan. Because the labs verified that Mom had a urinary tract infection and was in acute renal failure, IV fluids and antibiotics were started.

About an hour later, another gurney arrived to take Mom for a chest X-ray. Again I canceled the trip, and again the doctor arrived to question why we declined an X-ray to “rule out” blood clots in her lungs, as one of her symptoms was shortness of breath.

I explained that Mom was often short of breath due to heart disease and it usually subsided with rest and decreased anxiety.

The doctor agreed that her lungs were clear and that he would honor our wishes.

The decision was made to admit Mom to Spartanburg Regional for management of acute renal failure. Around the corner came another gurney, this time for an ultrasound of her kidney. Again, we declined, and this time the admitting physician arrived to explain that a kidney ultrasound is standard protocol when someone is admitted in renal failure. I told him Mom had only one kidney,

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which functions at 40 to 50 percent. Her living will states she does not want aggressive measures if this kidney fails. She has always been clear that she never wants dialysis, that when God is ready to call her home renal failure will likely be what causes her death, and she is at complete peace with that fact.

Mom’s attending doctors were supportive and encouraging, watching her labs as her condition improved while honoring our request for non-aggressive care. Because she had physicians who listened to us and helped us honor Mom’s (and Dad’s) wishes, Mom avoided stressful and unnecessary tests that saved thousands of dollars and would not have changed the outcome of her two-day hospitalization. A week after her release, my parents were able to return home to Iowa.

April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day. One of my responsibilities at Interim Healthcare is teaching Advance Care Planning. As uncertainty grows over the future of our health care system, there has never been a more important time to consider your own medical future. By making advance decisions and working through the legal documents, you can plan your own medical future before someone else does it for you.

I am comfortable advocating for my parents most of the time, but even with all my experience, it was still not easy to confront the expectation that we test, test, test and treat, treat, treat. It is reassuring to know that when you have a written plan that you have discussed with your family, your health care power of attorney and your doctor, it is easier for those who love you to honor and defend your wishes.

Nancy Dereng has worked 19 years as a registered nurse at Interim Healthcare in Greenville, 15 of those with Interim Hospice. She may be reached at Nancy.Dereng@ interimcares.com.

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Three running for state Senate District 7 seat

By CINDY LANDRUM | staff

For the first time since 1997, there will be a new face representing District 7 in the South Carolina Senate.

Candidates in the Democratic primary include state House of Representatives member Karl B. Allen, former House member Ennis Fant and long-time Greenville City Council member Lillian Brock Flemming.

The primary is June 12.

The winner will face Republican Jane Kizer in the November general election.

Allen said his 12 years’ experience in the state House makes him uniquely qualified to replace long-time incumbent Ralph Anderson, who decided not to run Allen for re-election because of his wife’s health.

“I am the only candidate with multiple-term experience, the only candidate with two redistricting experiences, and I

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am the only candidate with relationships on both sides of the aisle that will allow me to advance the Democratic agenda on day one,” he said.

Allen said he would continue to work on economic development, education and health care.

He listed CU-ICAR, Michelin and Amazon as economic development projects he worked to get in Greenville. He said he will continue to support full funding for public education and will support teacher pay raises and new school buses.

Fant, a former state representative who was convicted in the Operation Lost Trust statehouse corruption scandal more than 20 years ago, said he wants to be a champion for the disenFant franchised in Greenville County by helping to steer more jobs to the Upstate, focusing on better funding for public education and not balancing the state budget on the backs of children, education and the poor.

Fant, who has said he learned from his mistake, said his campaign would transcend racial and socioeconomic lines.

He said he wants to make District 7, which includes some of the most economically depressed areas in Greenville County, a stronger and more viable place to live.

Fant grew up in Nicholtown and is the senior pastor at Pleasant View Missionary Baptist Church.

Flemming, who ran for the same seat in 2008, has served on the Greenville City Council for 30 years.

She said her leadership skills and her record make her the best Flemming candidate.

“I’m not a politician. I am a public servant,” said Flemming, whose day job is recruiting teachers and other professionals for Greenville County Schools.

She said her top issue is education.

“People talk about bringing in jobs, but you can’t do that unless you have an edu-

cated workforce,” said Flemming, a former high school mathematics teacher.

Having a more educated workforce could also reduce crime, she said. Nearly 70 percent of the state’s prison inmates do not have a high school diploma, she said.

“I think I bring a different approach to being a legislator,” she said. “I know you can’t do anything by yourself. I’ll work to try to get people together.”

Flemming said the work of the state Legislature is not new for her. She was president of the Municipal Association of South Carolina.

Flemming is a Blue Star Mother and chair of Brockwood Senior Housing and Southernside Community Center. She is a member of the South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center and AdvanceSC boards.

“I’m a leader who works,” she said.

Senate District 7 includes Mauldin, downtown Greenville, the Donaldson area, Berea, Welcome and Belle Meade.

Contact Cindy Landrum at 679-1237 or clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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State tax cuts will skewer local governments Legislature, governor tell cities and counties to ‘take a $1 billion whack’

By CHarles Sowell | staff

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Local governments’ dependence on federal tax dollars has been increasing steadily over the past few years as state monies have dried up due to tight budget times and tax code tinkering, local officials say.

South Carolina ranked 49th in overall local and state tax burden by the non-partisan Tax Foundation in 2009, with the average payout by residents totaling $2,742. Only Mississippi ranked lower and Tennessee had a slightly higher overall tax burden.

The Palmetto State is also one of the Deep South states that actually turn a slight profit on the tax dollars it sends to Washington, the foundation reports. In 2005, the last year for which figures are available, South Carolina got back $1.35 for every $1 paid in federal taxes. That trend has gone on uninterrupted since 1981, the foundation said.

“The reason we get so much back in federal money is because we’re poor,” said Ellen Saltzman, an economist with Clemson University’s Strom Thurmond Institute. “It sort of helps take some of the bite out of that fact.”

State Budget and Control Board data for 2004 to 2010 shows local governments got a huge spike in federal funding in 2010, up 43.7 percent to $1.3 billion, driven by federal economic stimulus funding. Federal funding from all sources was $783 million in 2004, rising to $905 million in 2009.

The average growth rate in federal funding for the period was 8.8 percent a year.

In the city of Spartanburg, federal monies from all sources totaled $4.9 million, according to the 2011 comprehensive audit report. State monies dropped 9 percent during the reporting period.

Spartanburg County saw the same kinds of figures, albeit

Construction barriers are loaded onto a flat bed trailer off of Flat Shoals Road while water main pipes wait to be installed. Money from the federal government funds infrastructure improvements like water lines.

on a larger scale. Total federal monies flowing into the county totaled $16.5 million. That figure includes federal passthrough money that came from state sources, the 2011 county audit report showed.

In Greenville, the same story prevailed, with the county taking in $17.6 million from federal

steady over the past few years – with the exception of stimulus money, which has been reduced from $8 million (at the height of the recession) to about $3.9 million,” said Steve Pelissier, executive director of the Appalachian Council of Governments (ACOG).

“The fact of the matter is, I don’t know what we’d do

“The reason we get so much back in federal money is because we’re poor. It sort of helps take some of the bite out of that fact.”

Ellen Saltzman, an economist with Clemson University’s Strom Thurmond Institute, about the fact that South Carolina got back $1.35 for every $1 paid in federal taxes in 2005 (the last year for which figures are available.) South Carolina is 49th in the nation in overall local and state tax burden.

sources and the city totaling $5.6 million, 2011 audit figures show.

As sources of state money dried up, federal money was pumped into local governmental coffers through transfers like the federal stimulus act and extended jobless benefits. That gravy train may be coming to an end.

“The amount of money we’ve seen coming in from federal sources has been remarkably

without the federal money,” said Spartanburg Mayor Junie White. “We’d have to reduce services or increase taxes.”

The most recent flurry of tax reform measures making their way through the Legislature could, among other things, see business property taxes slashed by $1 billion over the next nine years. Gov. Nikki Haley wants to do away with corporate income taxes, or

slash them considerably.

Holley Ulbricht, a Strom Thurmond Institute fellow, called the business property tax plan “an unconscionable assault on local governments, because they (state leaders) don’t plan to replace that money with anything. They’re just telling local governments to take a $1 billion whack.”

Haley said her plan to end corporate income taxes will give the state an edge in recruiting new business and industry.

South Carolina already has a 5 percent corporate income tax rate, one of the lowest in the region, and lower than all of the surrounding states.

The end result will be lower taxes for some and an increased dependence on other sources of revenue, critics say. Either that or raise taxes and fees at the local level, which several municipalities in the Upstate have been forced to do.

Act 388, enacted in 2007, was supposed to ease property tax burdens and ensure stability at the local governmental and school level by making up for the reduction with a penny increase in the state sales tax. The results have been disastrous, with huge cuts in state funding at all levels of local government due to plunging sales tax income during the recession.

Part of the problem with dependence on sales tax revenue is the inherent instability of that revenue. The numbers can fluctuate wildly with the economy overall.

The other side of the sales tax issue is the Byzantine system of sales tax exemptions that have been enacted over the years by lawmakers eager to cater to special interest groups.

There is something on the order of 110 sales tax exemptions and no sales taxes on services in South Carolina. As a result, more than half of all potential tax revenue goes uncollected,

tax policy experts say.

The House is considering changes in sales tax policy. Almost two-thirds of the existing exemptions would be put on the chopping block if the House plan passes. However, lawmakers show no appetite for getting rid of what critics see as the poster child of bad tax policy – the $300 tax cap on automobiles – and no sign of implementing a sales tax on services.

110 The approximate number of sales tax exemptions in South Carolina. There are also no sales taxes on services in the state. As a result, more than half of all potential tax revenue goes uncollected, tax policy experts say.

The car sales tax cap means a poor person who buys a $5,000 clunker will essentially pay the same sales tax as the purchaser of a $50,000 Mercedes.

Right now, the stream of federal money flowing into the state seems to be safe, Pelissier said. That could change quickly as Congress is forced to deal with mandatory budget cuts that will start going into effect after the November election.

Those cuts are required by law since Congress could not come up with a deficit reduction plan last year.

“Part of the problem on the federal level is you’re really hard pressed to find two lawmakers who agree on anything, regardless of party,” Pelissier said.

Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@greenvillejournal.com.

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Living with type 1 diabetes One Simpsonville family has help from a keennosed British Labrador By april a. morris | staff

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It affects millions of people in the United States, but it’s not heart disease, cancer or stroke. Diabetes is a chronic health threat to an estimated 26 million Americans. What’s more, an estimated 3 million people nationwide have type 1 diabetes – sometimes called juvenile diabetes – an autoimmune disease that experts once thought only appeared in children or adolescents. However, more than half of all diagnoses are adults, according to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or JDRF. In South Carolina, an estimated 36,400 people have type 1 diabetes, said Kathryn Johnson, development director of the Western Carolinas Chapter of JDRF. Type 1 diabetes, or T1D, affects the way the body can transform food into energy using insulin, a pancreas-produced

hormone. People with T1D must either inject insulin or use an insulin pump to regulate their blood sugar. Treating diabetes with insulin does not protect the person from blindness, amputation, heart attack or stroke, all common longterm effects of diabetes.

For Simpsonville resident Missy Avant, the effect of diabetes is three-fold: her husband and two of her three children live with type 1 diabetes. Avant says she was in a fog after her 3-year-old daughter, Emma, was diagnosed during a routine checkup in 2006. This was after her husband, Michael, had been diagnosed at age 30.

“My diabetes knowledge came from ‘Steel Magnolias’ and Julia Roberts,” Avant said.

She was already on a steep learning curve when her older daughter, Haley, was also diagnosed at age 9 in 2008. So far, Avant’s oldest, son Tate, 16, is symptom-free.

With three diabetic family members, Avant said, at first denial “was my favorite place to be.” She began to count carbohydrates and monitor the children’s activities, ensuring that their blood sugar remained within normal range. Now you can’t tell they have T1D, she said.

Emma Avant gives her dog Emmett a treat of cheese. Cheese is used as a reward for Emmett anytime he alerts any of the Avant family members with type 1 diabetes that their blood sugar is too low.

“Now it’s normal. At the time, I thought we would never get back to normal.”

Because Emma was diagnosed so young, monitoring her condition was a challenge.

She couldn’t always communicate how she was feeling. In addition, she sleeps deeply and doesn’t know if her blood sugar

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So Avant checks on Emma every night. “I haven’t gone to bed before 3 a.m. in years because I’m checking on her.”

The worry and lack of sleep were a reality until a unique solution presented itself: a diabetic alert dog. For two years, Avant has trained Emmett, a British Labrador retriever, to sense with his keen nose when any family member’s blood sugar changes. To familiarize the dog with scents, she used gauze with family members’ saliva samples taken at different blood sugar levels.

During her research, Avant discovered very few organizations were training diabetic alert dogs, but did find another mom who trained a dog herself and who offered tips. The family acquired Emmett at seven weeks old, and he was already signaling at nine weeks.

He now sleeps with Emma. When he notices that a family member needs a blood sugar test, he picks up a fabric baton, called a bringsel, in his mouth or sits and bows. Using the bringsel utilizes Emmett’s natural retrieval instincts, Avant said.

Avant is currently training Emmett to indicate high blood sugar by using his favorite incentive: squeeze cheese in a can. “He will do anything for squeeze

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Emmett is not only an extra blood sugar sentry; he’s a welcome addition to the family. “We call him a pet with superpowers,” Avant said.

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On April 14, the family will attend JDRF’s Black Tie and Baseball Diamonds fundraiser at Fluor Field in Greenville. Proceeds from the event benefit research for a cure, funded by the Western Carolinas Chapter of JDRF, which serves the entire Upstate.

After the gala, life will go back to active normality for the Avants: dance and riding horses for Haley and dance and basketball for Emma. “We don’t let diabetes define us,” their mother said. “We just bring lots of juice with us when we go.”

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Greenville County top job in Mobile, Burke Royster, the man who has overAla.; and Dr. Lynn seen Greenville County schools’ day-to- Schools Moody, superintenday operations for six years, will assume dent of York District 3 in Rock Hill. his new role as superintendent on April 20, Royster, the son of a school superinthe same day Dr. Phinnize Fisher will retire tendent, had said his thorough knowlfrom the post she’s held for seven years. edge of the school district put him above In her resignation letter dated April 10, the other finalists because there would Fisher said she has no regrets about her decision to retire and she has no doubts be no learning curve.

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Royster said the school district’s greatest asset is its people – its students, teachers, administrators, parents and community.

The district can improve in all areas, but Royster said the area that needs the greatest focus is the delivery of instructional services. He said while innovative instructional practices are being used in Greenville County schools, more innovation is needed that can be shared and replicated.

Royster will be the 10th superintendent to lead Greenville County Schools since the school district was established in 1951.

The others were Dr. W.F. Loggins, Dr. M.T. Anderson, Dr. Floyd Hall, Dr. Roy Truby, Dr. Thomas E. Kerns, Dr. Timothy Jenney, Dr. Rudolph Gordon, Dr. Bill Harner and Fisher.

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Former Home Gold Chairman Jack Sterling is on his way to prison.

Sterling was found guilty of securities fraud in 2009 in connection with the collapse of HomeGold and its subsidiary Carolina Investors, but had remained out on bond while he Sterling appealed the case.

The state Supreme Court has notified Sterling that it would not reconsider its ruling earlier this year upholding the conviction.

Sterling was sentenced to five years in prison.

When Carolina Investors failed, about 12,000 people, many who lived in the Upstate, lost about $278 million.

Sterling’s attorneys had said the former executive didn’t know company officials were making false statements to investors.

Add one more to Greenville’s list of accolades.

Greenville will be profiled in “Where to Retire” magazine as one of the nation’s top retirement destinations.

The city will be featured in the May/June issue which will be available nationwide on April 17.

The magazine describes Greenville as “sporty” and talks about its mix of outdoor adventure and

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cultural opportunities.

“Hike through forested trails or bike along the Reedy River in the city, and enjoy live theater, concerts, art galleries and numerous dining options in the dynamic downtown,” says one of the magazine’s blurbs promoting the story about Greenville.

According to “Where to Retire,” about 700,000 Americans relocated to new towns to retire each year.

Generally, according to the magazine, relocating retirees are healthier, better educated and more affluent that those who do not relocate.

Greenville has already been featured on several national lists, including those touting the strongest job markets, fastest growing cities, best downtown, best city for young adults and top micro city of the future.

Students pursuing science-based degrees at Furman University could get some help from the National Science Foundation.

The foundation has awarded the school a five-year $600,000 grant to provide merit-based scholarships.

Beginning this fall, biology and chemistry majors entering Furman will be eligible for up to $40,000.

Between 15 and 21 students are expected to benefit from the Science Opportunities, Activities and Resources, or SOAR, Scholars initiative over the next five years. Furman will contribute funding for the program in the sixth year.

Furman’s program aims to enhance science opportunities for students from South Carolina racial and ethnic groups traditionally underrepresented in science fields, such as African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.

The National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports research and education across all fields of science and engineering.

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It will be Anderson’s first appearance at the event. He will be joined

by Rascal Flatts bass guitarist Jay DeMarcus, actor Danny Masterson of TBS’s “That ‘70s Show,” actor Grant Show of FOX’s “Melrose Place,” and Holly Sonders, host of Golf Channel’s “Morning Drive.”

“We are so thankful and excited to have this caliber of celebrities travel from across the country to the Upstate to donate their time and talents,” said tournament director Darin MacDonald. “This is a signature event for our community and the state of South Carolina, and I can’t stress the importance that it plays for our 27 benefitting charities. We are extremely grateful that they are willing to take time out of their schedules to join us.”

Other celebrity players include: Steve Azar, Lucas Black, Mark Bryan, Javier Colon, Jeffrey Donovan, David James Elliott, Dean Felber, Bruce Greenwood, Oliver Hudson, Josh Kelley, Greg Kinnear, Cheech Marin, Rob Morrow, Terry O’Quinn, Joe Don Rooney, Wyatt Russell, Kevin Sorbo, Gary Valentine and Patrick Warburton.

The BMW Charity Pro-Am is the only event on the PGA Tour’s Nationwide Tour where amateurs and celebrities are grouped with Nationwide Tour professionals in a four-day, better-ball

competition over three courses.

Amateurs, celebrities and pros rotate between three courses on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with the 14 lowest scoring pro-amateur/ pro-celebrity teams advancing to play Sunday’s final round at Thornblade Club in Greenville.

Celebrities play once at each course on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The professional winner of the overall 72-hole event takes home $108,000 from the total purse of $600,000. Amateurs and celebrities compete for individual prizes and cash donations to the charity of their choice out of the beneficiaries selected by South Carolina Charities, Inc. The event will be broadcast live on the Golf Channel on Thursday, May 17 and Friday, May 18 from 12:30-2:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 19 from 1-3 p.m.; and Sunday, May 20 from 2-4 p.m.

The 2012 tournament will take place May 17-20, 2012, at Thornblade Club, The Carolina Country Club and Greenville Country Club’s Chanticleer course.

Since 2001, the BMW Charity ProAm has raised more than $8.6 million for more than 150 charities.

Playing and sponsorship opportunities for the 2012 tournament are available at www.bmwproam.com.

For more information about the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation, call 864-2971660 or visit the tournament’s website, www.bmwcharitygolf.com.

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Greenville County Council Chairman H.G. “Butch” Kirven has no plans to ask the troubled Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs board to appear before council anytime soon to explain the agency’s current financial difficulties, despite a growing chorus of demands from other council members that the board be called into account.

Since Kirven controls the agenda of the Committee of the Whole, it is not likely the meeting will be held anytime soon, Councilman Joe Dill told the Journal.

“We intend to keep asking,” Dill said.

State Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Director Beverly A. H. Buscemi told the Journal Wednesday that her agency’s Internal Audit Department is in the process of conducting its own audit of the Greenville County DSN’s books.

The audit is not yet complete, Buscemi said.

Documents provided to the Journal by a source close to the situation at DSN show that former board chairman Connie Holmes signed a contract with the agency for consulting services on Jan. 1, 2011, that paid her $5,850 a month for a 30-hour week.

The move to hire Connie Holmes was questioned in the DSN board’s own 2011 audit report as a potential conflict of interest, and the contract with Holmes was terminated shortly after the audit came out in October 2011. She remains with the agency serving on a volunteer basis.

The situation leading up to Connie Holmes’ hiring was also questioned by the audit when the DSN board approved a five-fold increase in then-Executive Director Brent Parker’s ability to execute purchases from $15,000 to $75,000 in August 2010.

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The Holmes’ contracts gave the couple a $7,350 monthly income from DSN at a time when the agency has a shortfall of more than $1 million and was making sharp cutbacks in services and staff.

Kirven said he felt assured that the agency’s board is doing all it can to correct a smorgasbord of problems after a private meeting last week between Kirven, Dill, Councilman Willis Meadows, Councilwoman Lottie Gibson and DSN board Chairwoman Roxie Kincannon and interim Executive Director Patrick Haddon.

Kirven called the meeting productive. “There are just too many balls in the air right now for a formal meeting between council and the board to be productive,” Kirven told the Journal this week.

Dill and Meadows, however, characterized the meeting as an attempt

by Kincannon to distract attention from the issues the board faces and instead attack the messenger by claiming Meadows has no authority to ask the DSN board for explanations.

In a press release following the private meeting with council members, Kincannon said, “Councilman Willis Meadows has embarrassed himself and Greenville County Council.

Mr. Meadows’ violations of Council rules, illegal demands, and recklessly false accusations leave no other conclusion. I hope the rest of Greenville County Council takes note of Mr. Meadows’ blatant abuse of his Public Works Committee chairmanship.

“The Public Works Committee has no authority over the Greenville Disabilities Board because we do not pave roads or build sidewalks,” she continued. “Apparently Councilman Meadows was unclear on that before today. If any question remains, I will happily invite Councilman Meadows to drop by the Disabilities Board and confirm with his own two eyes that we are not secretly constructing bridges or installing clandestine sewer lines.”

County Attorney Mark Tollison, who also attended the meeting with Kincannon and Haddon, said any council committee can, at any time, call for a meeting with officials of a duly constituted public body.

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Duke Energy won’t be chipping in to move power lines on a stretch of Augusta Street.

The Greenville City Council gave initial approval to use $177,100 from the city’s undergrounding fund balance to relocate utility lines on Augusta Street, from Lupo Street to Capers Street, from just inches off the street to behind the businesses.

Duke is not paying a portion of the cost because the lines are not being put underground.

After an ice storm left some city residents in the cold and dark for up to a week in 2005, Duke agreed to contribute some of its local revenues to a power line burial fund. The city’s portion is coming from an average of $1 a month more city residents have been paying on their electric bills since July 2008.

Work on the Augusta Street relocation is expected to begin this spring.

Work to bury utilities on a sliver of Haywood Road from the Wells Fargo bank to Toys’R’Us should begin in June. Work will be finished by the end of October so the city can keep a promise to merchants that construction will be finished before the start of the holiday shopping season. That project has a $1 million price tag.

Construction should start in July on line burial on Camperdown Way from South Main Street to River Street, including Rhett Street. The project will cost $900,000.

The council gave initial approval to using some of the settlement it received from the Cliffs of Glassy to develop a Table Rock watershed management plan and a wildfire response plan for the North Saluda and Table Rock watersheds.

The city received $100,000 from Cliffs of Glassy to settle a dispute over the Cliffs building Corbin Mountain Road on the city’s property contained within the boundaries of the North Saluda Reservoir.

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In other action, council gave initial approval to appropriating $22.9 million for its 2011-12 capital improvement plan. Final approval is expected when the council approves its operating budget. A public hearing is scheduled for May 21.

The next regular meeting of the Greenville City Council is scheduled for April 23 at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers on the 10th floor of City Hall.

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Homes of Hope thinks ‘LoCAL’ for latest affordable housing project Two West Greenville lots will be sites of LEEDcertified houses for poverty-stricken Greenvillians By jerry salley | staff

There are three persistent problems that Greenville’s poverty-level residents face every day, says Don Oglesby, CEO of Homes of Hope.

They need affordable housing that is energy-efficient. They need housing that appreciates in value. And the men graduating from Homes of Hope’s training programs need better jobs.

Oglesby hopes to solve all three problems with Homes of Hope’s new LoCAL Housing program initiative, launched with a “virtual groundbreaking” at Zen. Short for “Long-term, Compact, Affordable, LEED-Certified,” the LoCAL Housing initiative will provide poverty-level families with energy-efficient

houses with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) certification. Men participating in Homes of Hopes’ job-training program will assist in construction, receiving training in LEED certified construction, which the organization hopes will give them more opportunities for future job success.

Homes of Hope, a faith-based organization that provides affordable housing to local residents as well as job training for men struggling with addiction, will build two houses on lots in West Greenville, said Jordon Weldon, director of community relations for Homes of Hope. Construction should begin shortly, she said.

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“Homes of Hope has taken the vision for affordable housing and turned it into a reality that holds tremendous promise for the future of Greenville,” said Russell Stall, Executive Director of Greenville Forward.

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Former school board member Ann Sutherlin fought to get a new Fine Arts Center built on the Wade Hampton High campus.

Now the building’s recital hall will be named in her honor.

During her 16 years on the school board, Sutherlin earned the reputation as an independent-minded fiscal conservative who advocated improving arts education.

Sutherlin died last December.

“Mrs. Sutherlin was passionate about many things, but none more than the passion she showed for this district’s Fine Arts Center,” wrote Lynda Leventis-Wells, who won the District 22 seat on the board after Sutherlin decided in 2006 not to seek a fifth term.

Sutherlin, a former piano teacher, believed in developing the “whole child,” Leventis-Wells said.

While on the board, Sutherlin formed a nonprofit corporation to support the district’s school libraries after she found out some libraries had books on the shelves that talked about man’s dream of going to the moon.

She fought for a special academy for

expelled students and pushed for the new Fine Arts Center building. She was a vocal opponent of the district’s $1 billion Building Equity in Schools Today school construction plan and tax increases.

Once the naming receives final approval at the board’s regular April meeting, Sutherlin’s name will be placed on the soffit above the recital hall’s entrance.

In other action, the board gave initial approval to increasing the student enrollment cap for Greenville Technical Charter High School to 440 students. The change would allow each grade level an enrollment of 110 students instead of 105.

Greenville Tech Charter High said the increase would allow for student retention and sibling enrollment.

The board also gave initial approval to the renewal of the Greer Middle College Charter School.

The next regularly scheduled school board meeting is April 24 at 7 p.m. at the school district administrative offices on Camperdown Way. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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During her role as the mother-inlaw in the Fine Arts Center’s upcoming production of “Blood Wedding,” Anna Berry is supposed to sing a lullaby.

But in the play – based on a newspaper story about a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the enemy family’s son – Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca wrote the words to the song, but no music.

After an unsuccessful Internet search for music the Fine Arts Center cast could use, Berry, a violinist and singer, came up with a melody herself.

It will be played along with other music written by the 10-member ensemble cast during the advanced theater ensemble’s four-performance run of the Spanish tragedy, which begins Friday.

The students and Fine Arts Center theater instructor Teri Parker Lewis also worked with three adaptations of the play to create their own version.

“It’s our work. We created it. There’s no other production with the music we have,” Berry said. “It makes it our own.”

Lewis chose the play, which she describes as a Spanish tragedy very similar to “Romeo and Juliet,” for three reasons: the class wanted to do a drama, it had 10 parts evenly divided by gender, and the characters are about the same age as the students.

“I wanted to challenge them, but it wasn’t such a big stretch that they couldn’t pull it off,” she said.

Another incentive was that many of the students have experience as musical theater actors and do well with movement, something Lewis saw as a plus because Lorca was also a poet.

“A lot of my training for them is movement based,” she said. “The play is pretty realistic in the first act and then gets more and more abstract. That’s where their movement training comes in.”

Most of the student-written music comes in the first act – theater and jazz guitar student Keith Jones will play it on

Students (from left) Claire McCreight, Anna Barry and Keith Jones are some of the performers in the upcoming show at the Fine Arts Center.

a guitar he bought for $30 – or the transition between the first and second acts.

“The added benefit of having everything done by the actors is that it is a more personal experience for the audience and for us,” Jones said.

Mitchell Smith, a senior who plays Leonardo, the only named character in the play, said the student-written music is like a “soundtrack of (the characters’) lives.”

“I think us all working on the music together united us as a cast,” he said.

“We were feeding off of each other’s ideas. It really helped the characters’ relationship on stage.”

But having an original adaptation and music can be good and bad, some of the actors said.

“It can be more difficult not having anything set in stone because we can start changing things on accident,” said Samuel Farnsworth, a sophomore who plays the first youth and first woodcutter.

But that gives the actors freedom as well, said Kavon Berger, a senior who plays the father of the bride and one of the woodcutters.

“It’s still kind of changing,” he said. “It’s still possible one of the songs will change before Friday. The logistics may change, who starts it, who comes in. But it’s ours so we can do that if it feels right.”

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Fight the summer brain drain Summer camps abound for every kind of interest By april a. morris | staff

As summer days approach, students are already looking forward to the last day of school, lazy days and a break from daily reading, writing and math. Many parents, however, are searching for engaging daily activities that will keep their kids’ school skills sharp and allow them to explore new interests — not to mention exercise young bodies that may want to park for hours in front of a television or computer.

According to Sylvan Learning Centers, students can lose as much as two-and-a-half months of learning over the weeks of summer vacation. There are a variety of full- and half-day programs in the area that can slow the summertime brain drain and challenge idle minds. Many day camps offer hands-on learning and academics combined with generous amounts of physical activity to keep kids interested, learning and having fun. Here are a few of the many options: countywide-greenville Greenville County Recreation District June 11-Aug. 10 Swimming, field trips and other activities.

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Daughter joins father in S.C. Business Hall of Fame Minor Mickel Shaw takes different path to Junior Achievement honor

By Cindy Landrum | staff

When Minor Mickel Shaw was chosen this year for the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame, she became part of the first father and daughter team to receive the honor.

But the paths they took to get there have been very different.

Buck Mickel helped build Daniel Construction, a Greenville company started by his uncle, Charlie Daniel, into one of the world’s largest construction and engineering companies after it merged with Fluor Corp.

Minor Mickel Shaw runs Micco LLC, a private investment and real estate development company, and Mickel Investment Group, a family-owned investment firm, but is known more for her civic leadership.

“I’m a very unusual choice,” she said of her induction. “I think it’s more about the other types of business and economic development

in which I’ve been involved.”

“My picture has been in the Shaw is only the second chair paper a lot lately and I’m emof the Greenville-Spartanburg barrassed about that,” she said.

Airport Commission in the “I like to be in a leadership airport’s 50-year history. position, but I’d rather not be She is also chair of the Danielthe one to get the attention. It Mickel Foundation, which has takes a team. When really good contributed millions of dollars to things happen, it’s because philanthropic causes, and a trustthere’s a team of people workMinor Mickel Shaw, ee of the Duke Endowment. ing to make them happen.”

In addition, she’s a trustee 2012 inductee to S.C. Shaw said work by the Greenof the Hollingworth Funds Business Hall of Fame ville Housing Fund to increase and the Belle Baruch Foundaaffordable workforce housing tion and is on the boards of is vital, and the organization is BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, moving to become more regional. She said a Piedmont Natural Gas, Columbia Na- benefit bank that helps people access benefits tions Funds and the Palmetto Institute. they would otherwise not know they qualify “I believe strongly in connecting people for is helping to improve the community. and leveraging resources,” said the former “That’s community development, but college history major. “History teaches to me, that’s economic development as you to look at the big picture, to see how well,” she said. things connect. You look at how did you It is that kind of work she has focused get here and what led up to that point.” on, Shaw said.

She thinks her biggest contribution to the “Hopefully, I have had an impact on area was her participation in bringing South- things that help economic development west Airlines to the Upstate, which was key in a different way,” she said. to helping economic development in the UpThe work is keeping the mother of state and improving life for its residents. three and grandmother of seven, soon to

be eight, busier than ever.

Shaw, who enjoys fly-fishing and hunting, said she still keeps her calendar on paper. She already has meetings scheduled through 2014.

The South Carolina Business Hall of Fame was established in 1985 by Junior Achievement and The State newspaper to honor the champions of free enterprise and to present role models in business to youth.

Induction into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame is a lifetime achievement award for individuals who have made a major impact on South Carolina as visionary business leaders.

Shaw and this year’s other laureates – Bill L. Amick, real estate developer and former CEO of Amick Farms Inc.; and the late Jerry Zucker, founder of The InterTech Group, one of the largest privately held companies in the United States – will be inducted on May 24.

Junior Achievement of the Upstate plans to charter a bus for Upstate residents who want to see Shaw inducted, said Connie Lanzl, president.

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Perhaps one Furman University student gave psychology professor Charles Brewer the ultimate compliment.

“I have taken many Brewer classes while at Furman,” the student wrote.

“The toll on the GPA is well worth it.”

Brewer, who has taught at Furman since the Lyndon Johnson administration and is admittedly “old school,” is one of four Furman professors featured in “The Best 300 Professors,” a guidebook to America’s top undergraduate professors compiled by The Princeton Review and RateMyProfessors.com.

Other Furman professors making the list are Dr. David Bost, modern languages and literature; Dr. Timothy Fehler, history; and Margaret Oakes, English.

The professors featured in the book teach at 122 colleges and received high praise from the undergraduates they teach, class after class, year after year, in fields from ancient studies to neuroscience and sports management.

The 300 professors were chosen from among the 42,000 college professors ranked on RateMyProfessors.com, the country’s highest-trafficked college professor ratings site.

The top rankings were based on thousands of student surveys.

Brewer gives some of the lowest grades at Furman, but he routinely receives some of the highest student ratings, the guide said.

The key is enthusiasm, said Brewer, who grades anonymously in all of his courses.

“You can demand what you want to demand if you set out your expectations from day one,” Brewer is quoted in the book, “and if you are impeccably fair in evaluating your students.”

The American Psychological Foundation named its teaching award the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award to honor his contributions to psychology education.

“Yes, he is ancient and looks like he might croak at any moment, but he is more energetic than any teacher I have ever had,” another student wrote.

Bost has taught at Furman since 1981.

His courses include Intermediate Spanish and Introduction to Reading.

“He knows so much about the Spanish language and is able to convey it in a fun and meaningful way. His class is definitely challenging, but manageable,” a student wrote.

Students say history professor Tim Fehler is essential to a complete history major.

Fehler, who also serves as director of undergraduate research and internships, said while he most often gets the most intellectual fulfillment from teaching more advanced courses, he finds himself with more dramatically exciting teaching moments in introductory courses when a “hitherto uninterested student suddenly discovers something interesting or gets excited about analyzing a complex story that was previously difficult.”

Oakes practiced securities regulation law in Chicago before coming to Furman in 1996 as an English professor. She specializes in English Renaissance literature.

Oakes believes an interesting class is a challenging class where the tools for learning – but not necessarily the answers – are provided for students.

She said she tries to provide students with information that makes the material they’re studying “relevant and living to them,” the book said.

It is not unusual for Oakes to come into class with a contemporary news story, piece of literature or song, according to her profile. When the classes discuss the frequent anonymity of early modern authors and the transition to a culture in which authors got paid for their work, she may bring in an ad for rare books showing how monetary value is placed on certain authors.

“A first edition of a Harry Potter book can bring in more than $13,000,” she said.

A professor from Wofford and five from Clemson University also made the list.

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Bon Secours St. Francis Health System has been named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for joint replacement and orthopedic surgery in 2012. This designation comes from HealthGrades, an independent source in hospital quality ratings.

Tours of Historic Christ Church and its churchyard will be held at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 5. The tours are free and open to the public. Highlights of the tour include the church’s interior featuring stained glass windows from Germany’s Mayer Studio, Markley Chapel and a churchyard walk featuring gravestones of early, prominent Greenvillians and South Carolinians. Christ Church is located at 10 North Church St. in downtown Greenville. For more information, contact Marie Taylor at 271-8773 ext. 133 or mtaylor@ccgsc.org.

Former Mexico President Vicente Fox will talk about relations between the United States and Mexico on the Furman University campus Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. His talk is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the university’s Hispanic Organization of Learning and Awareness, College Democrats, College Republicans, The Cicero Society, FUSAB, SGA and the Department of Political Science. Fox served as President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006 and was the first president elected from an opposition party since 1910. For more information, contact Furman student Kayla Lattimore at 678-477-6404.

Greenville County Library System will celebrate Greenville Hospital System’s 100th anniversary with three presentations by historian Dave Partridge. Joined by members of the Fountain Inn Repertory Experience, Partridge shares the fascinating story of a small city hospital that became today’s regional hospital system.

“The Early Years of GHS” will be presented Thursday, April 12, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “The Great Epidemics” will be presented Thursday, April 19, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “A Century of Change in Medicine’ will be presented Tuesday, April 24, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

All programs will be held in meeting rooms B-C at the Hughes Main Library. Call 527-9252 to register or visit www.greenvillelibrary.org.

The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center will host a free family fun night April 20, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., for members and non-members to visit the Boys and Girls Club. There will be carnivalstyle games, board games, a Kinect challenge, a Wii Fit challenge, table tennis, pool table games, arts and crafts, book readings and signing, an obstacle course, basketball, rock climbing and more. The Boys and Girls Club is in Kroc Center, located at 424 Westfield St.

The South Carolina Department of Transportation recently named Greenlink the state’s Public Transit Provider of the Year at the Transportation Association of South Carolina’s Annual Training Event and Exhibition. Greenlink also received the Most Improved Transit Provider Award and two Greenlink staff members received individual honors: Teresa Duck was named Outstanding Paratransit Driver for Large Urban and Shelia Schmitt received the Transit Director’s Award. Pictured left to right in the attached picture: Greg Baney, transit planner/grants manager; Teresa Duck, paratransit driver; Allison Brockman, parts technician; Steve Chastain, transit operations superintendent; Shelia Schmitt, general manager; Doug Frate, SCDOT.

Greenville’s Mast General Store will host Backpacker Magazine’s Get Out More Team on Saturday, April 21, at 2 p.m. This interactive mobile media and education outreach program is designed to inspire readers and encourage participation in active outdoor pursuits. The Get Out More tour is a 75-minute seminar educating attendees on trip planning, choosing the right outdoor gear and apparel, safety in the outdoors and more.

These students from Travelers Rest High School were among the 475 Greenville area high school and middle school teens who enjoyed Young Life weekend camps at Windy Gap, NC earlier this year.

The Greenville community and friends of Young Life reunion will take place at the Greenville Drive baseball game on Sunday, April 22, starting at 2:30 p.m. with a 4:05 p.m. game time.

Pre-order Young Life tickets which include a Young Life gift bag with game admission and free drink at YLGreenvilleDrive.eventbrite.com or by calling the Young Life Greenville office at 2714396 for more information or to purchase tickets by cash or check.

The Transportation Museum of the World featuring the Miniature World of Trains will hold a fund raising event at Mimi’s Café, 1133 Woodruff Road in the Greenridge Shopping Center. The “Food, Friends and Fundraising” event will be held on April 19, from 4 p.m to 9 p.m. The Transportation Museum mascot will be there from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m.

Local ENT physician, Thomas Sellner, D.O., will perform a balloon sinuplasty procedure in a nationally offered web-cast available beginning 12 p.m. on April 17.

The web-cast will be available on www.stfrancishealth. tv. This procedure opens sinus passages to relieve pain and sinus pressure associated with sinus infections and frequently inflamed sinus tissues.

Foothills Family Resources and North Greenville Hospital will present the 10th annual Strawberry Festival. Benefiting Foothills Family Resources and Blue Wall Group, the festival will be held on Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Slater, six miles north of Travelers Rest on Highway 276. Activities will include musical performances by the Slater-Marietta Elementary School Greenwave chorus, Young Appalachian Musicians and The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show; food and craft vendors; and children’s activities including pony rides, a jump castle, the Slater-Marietta Fire Department’s “smoke house,” arts and craft classes, and an open playground. Visit upstatestrawberryfestival.com.

Friends Day at Paris Mountain State Park will be held Saturday, April 21, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission and most activities are free. There will be more than 40 exhibitors this year and activities for kids and adults. There will be music by the lake with the Drovers Old Time Medicine Show. The rain date is Sunday April 22. For information, visit http://pmspf.org/new/pages/friendsDay.htm.

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THE GOOD

EVENTS THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER

April is National Donate Life Month and to celebrate LifePoint and Donate Life South Carolina will host Linking Hands for Life to help raise awareness about the need for more organ, eye and tissue donors on Saturday, April 21 at 2 p.m., at Greenville Hospital System’s Patewood Campus. This free event is open to the public and will feature live music and family fun.

Certusbank will present the 3rd annual Reedy River Jazz & Wine Festival, Friday, May 4, at the Huguenot Mill Loft. Tickets are $55 in advance or $65 at the gate. Wine and food tasting will be from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Larkin’s On the River will provide food tasting, desserts will be by Art Eats Bakery and there will be a coffee station by Larkins, specialty drinks by McDonald’s Franchise owner/operators will also be available. Event performers will include the Anderson University Jazz Ensemble, Jean Calvert, the Sonny Thornton Trio, Maria Howell and Lao Tizer with Karen Briggs. The performance artist for 2012 will be Elizabeth Henderson. For more information, visit www.reedyriverjazzandwinefestival.org. The Ronald McDonald House is the beneficiary of this event.

The SC Mountains to Midlands Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has invested more than $424,500 to breast cancer research and programs this year. Of this total, $117,099 has been granted to fund national breast cancer research and the remaining $307,416 was awarded to local non-profit organizations to provide breast cancer services to underinsured individuals. The Komen SC Mountains to Midlands Affiliate is part of the 125-Affiliate network of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting to end breast cancer forever. Through local events and activities like Pink

Sunday and Race for the Cure, the SC Mountains to Midlands Affiliate educates community members while raising funds to support community-based breast cancer programs.

“Pet Project Runway” will take place on Thursday, April 19, at 6 p.m. at the Wyche Pavilion at 300 North Main St. in downtown Greenville. The event will feature local celebrities modeling with the pet of their choice or an available adoptee from the Greenville Humane Society. Celebrities and their canine models will be competing for the “Best In Show” prize, based on the originality and creativity of their costumes. Celebrity models and their pets will be competing for the most money raised via web-based voting, ticket sales and individual donations. Individuals can cast their vote for their favorite pair (at $10 per vote) by going to www. petprojectrunway.com until April 18. Guests attending the event can vote that evening for their favorite model. VIP tables for eight can be purchased for $800 or general admission tickets can be purchased for $50 each. Guests can “credit” their favorite celebrity with the ticket sale. Tickets can be purchased by going to www.petprojectrunway.com or calling the Greenville Humane Society at 242-3626.

Agapé Hospice, along with other national, state and community organizations, are leading an effort to highlight the importance of advance healthcare decisionmaking—an effort that has culminated in the formal designation of April 16 as National Healthcare Decisions Day. As a participating organization, Agapé Hospice is providing information and tools for the public to talk about their wishes with family, friends and healthcare providers, and execute written advance directives

(healthcare power of attorney, living will, and 5 Wishes) in accordance with South Carolina state laws. On April 16, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Agapé Hospice and the Greenville Chamber of Commerce will have free information about advance care planning and advance directive forms at the chamber office in the main boardroom at 24 Cleveland St. For more information, contact Jessica Burns with Agapé Hospice at 591-2004 or visit www.nationalhealthcaredecisionsday.org.

The Laurens Electric Cooperative’s and Touchstone Energy’s 10th annual Hole In One Shootout to benefit The Beach Ball Foundation will be held at the Eagle Zone Golf Improvement Center on Pelham Road, Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21. Golfers will have the chance to win $1 million. Ten players will qualify each day by being closest to the pin to compete in the finals. Qualifying times are Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The finals will follow on Saturday at 6 p.m. Other prizes include $500 each day to golfers with shots closest to the pin, and during the finals, $1000 to the golfer closest to the pin, $500 for the second closest, and $250 to third.

On April 28, the Greenville Literacy Association will host A Novel Event at the Hilton Greenville, 45 West Orchard Park Drive. There will be a dinner and dance from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. There will be live and silent auctions with a wide variety of items appropriate for graduation, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gifts or a personal wish list and the popular wine cellar. Music will be provided by Black Tie Music. Tickets are $75 for a single ticket, $130 for a couple, or $650 for a table of 10. RSVP

by April 13 by calling 467-3456 or on www.greenvilleliteracy.org.

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Fiber optics project connects Upstate and Africa AFL partners with Nigerian Dangote to build $120 million network

By DICK HUGHES | contributor

A $120-million Nigerian project to connect Africa’s most populous nation with a high-speed, high-capacity fiber optic network translates into jobs continents apart – from the Upstate to the United Kingdom to Africa and places in between.

It is an illustration of an economy that increasingly makes the global local and the local global.

The hundreds of miles of cable for the project are supplied by Duncan-based AFL from its plant in Swindon in southwest England. Jobs ripple beyond manufacturing through AFL’s chain of research, engineering, servicing, marketing and administration in the Upstate and elsewhere.

AFL, a subsidiary of Fujikura of Japan, is a major international supplier of optical ground wire, black jacket cable and premise cable. It is a business that has had “32 percent annual growth,” a spokesperson said.

The company has four plants in Duncan and is adding a fifth in June to accommodate growth in its conductor accessories business. In March, the company set records in cable manufacturing. AFL’s workforce in Spartanburg has grown from 613 to 685 in the past 12 months.

The Woodlands at Furman, a senior living community adjacent to Furman University, is planning a special event on May 30 as part of International Senior Health and Fitness Day… Expect to see a new Dunkin’ Donuts opening on Main Street in Mauldin by the end of April. This is the first wave in that city’s hope of transforming its main business corridor…

Boye Olsanya, managing director of Dangote, left, receives a commemorative award from Kurt Dallas, vice president of cable systems for AFL.

Last week, Boye Olusanya, managing director of Dangote, the private Nigerian company building the network, was in Duncan to confer with AFL executives and technical experts on the next steps in their business relationship.

“Ultimately, our intention is to find ways to continue to collaborate with AFL because we are comfortable with them, and not just on the fiber side of the business

but on other initiatives,” he said.

Olusanya and Kurt Dallas, AFL’s vice president and general manager for cable systems, took time from meetings at AFL’s Duncan headquarters to talk to the Journal about the ambitious Nigerian project and what they expect will follow.

Under the initial contract, AFL is supplying more than 1,300 miles of Skywrap,

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Fiber optic cable is manufactured in various colors at the AFL Duncan manufacturing facility.

about 12 African countries.

So in size and scale, we’ve become quite huge,” Olusanya said. The company is on course to do $12 billion to $13 billion in annual revenues, he said.

Dallas and Olusanya envision leveraging the broadband network, which Dangote will operate as a wholesale supplier, for other users to take connectivity to the retail level. They said Dangote will also “start deploying fiber into their network operating centers, perhaps to data centers and to other technologies.”

While the Skywrap is manufactured in England, the next steps “take you to a number of products that are manufactured here,” Dallas said.

Olusanya said the number of mobile phone users among Nigeria’s 150 million people in a geography twice the size of California grew

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a fiber cable that can be wrapped around existing overhead lines, making for faster and easier installation through Nigeria’s rugged terrain that spans rainforest in the south to sub-Saharan desert in the north.

The project involves more than 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) of fiber. Dangote has completed about 750 km in Nigeria’s tropical south and southeast and is ready to begin construction in the predominately subSaharan north.

“We’ve done about $30 million U.S., and we are looking at about $120 million U.S.,” he said.

The network will serve as the backbone for broadband data communications that will put Nigeria at a higher level than many other nations. It also gives AFL a showcase for its technology.

“This is a marquee for us because it is a great model of a partnership where you can take not only a single technology, which is Skywrap, but take in some of the other technologies where we are going to take to this longterm,” said Dallas.

“Dangote has the vision and the means it takes to do a full infrastructure, and that is a model that can work in many other developing areas.”

Dangote is “the biggest private business in Nigeria, and we have expanded into

“from zero 10 years ago to about 100 million.” But there remains a need for the multiple-purpose data connectivity Dangote is building with its network.

“We expect other African countries will want us to do the same kind of solution,” he said.

This puts AFL in a good position to benefit as a supplier of cable for the long haul all the way to the application to the end-user, Dallas said.

The Nigerian contract “is not the biggest one we’ve done,” he said. “We’ve done a number of projects around the world – fiber optic links from Europe to Asia across Siberia in one of the most rugged areas to build lines. We’ve done projects in other parts of Africa, in Latin America, in the upper parts of Norway.”

Still, he said, the Dangote contract “is a real marquee project for us. It taps into some other opportunities that we hope we can leverage.

They are active in many other industries, and we are talking about different applications for different industries, potentially oil and gas and other industries where AFL has technology advancements.”

Nigeria is the world’s 12th largest oil producer, and AFL has a strong niche position in supplying cabling for the oil and gas and mining industries.

From left to right, U.S Senator Lindsey Graham, Chairman and President of Michelin North America Pete Selleck, and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley talk with one another in front of one of Michelin’s earth mover tires at the end of Tuesday’s press conference.

Michelin spends big to build huge tires South Carolina on track to become No. 1 producer of tires in United States

By Dick Hughes | contributor

Michelin will spend $750 million to build a new plant in Anderson and expand an existing one in Lexington to build giant tires for earthmovers to be shipped worldwide, the company announced Tuesday.

The added Michelin capacity, along with that from plants being built by Bridgestone and Continental, will make South Carolina the nation’s top tire producer next year, said Gov. Nikki Haley, who attended the announcement ceremony at Michelin’s North

American headquarters in Greenville.

“I’ve never loved tires so much,” she said.

The new plant, to be located in Starr in Anderson County, plus the expansion of the company’s earthmoving tire capacity in Lexington, will create more than 500 jobs, said Pete Selleck, Michelin North America’s chairman and president.

Construction will begin next week on the Anderson plant on One Bib Way, he said. The first tires will begin coming off the line in late 2014, with full production building up

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Graham, who also spoke at the announcement ceremony. If dredging is not done and other improvements are not made, he said, the state will lose its competitive advantage in attracting and keeping manufacturing.

Selleck said the expertise of Michelin’s South Carolina workforce was instrumental in convincing the Michelin’s top management in France to expand the earthmoving tire production here rather than in China, India, Brazil or Europe.

“Michelin could have built this plant anywhere in the world,” he said, but chose South Carolina because “you can’t find a better workforce anywhere else in the world.”

To encourage Michelin to build and expand at Anderson and Lexington, the state gave Michelin $9.1 million in grants for infrastructure and training and granted job development credits. Job credits reduce a company’s state income taxes for each new employee, according to the S.C. Department of Commerce.

The job credit value, depending on several variables, varies from $1,500 to $8,000 per job credited “and can limit up to 50 percent of the employer’s income tax liability,” the commerce department said.

In addition, Anderson and Lexington counties are giving Michelin a cut rate on property taxes through a payment in lieu of taxes that is lower than the rate for everyone else. The Anderson County Council approved this tax break for 40 years.

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Details of the plant’s size and footprint were not released.

Training of workers will be ongoing as construction proceeds, he said.

The upgrade at Lexington will be primarily in equipment, since the company has 825,000 square feet of space at Lexington. Earthmoving tire production will begin there in October.

Michelin did not break down the apportionment of the investment between Anderson and Lexington, but Anderson County officials have said they expect Michelin to spend $550 million or more for the Anderson plant.

The new plant in Anderson, which already has two, will be Michelin’s ninth in the state and 19th in North America. The additional jobs will raise Michelin’s workforce in South Carolina to approximately 8,000.

Selleck said the new expenditure brings to $1 billion Michelin’s investment in South Carolina in a year’s time, and brings to $5 billion its stake since Michelin started production here in the early 1970s. That does not include $2 billion put into research and development, he said.

“We anticipate additional developments in the near future,” he said.

Haley said Michelin was a pioneer in opening the state as a location for other manufacturers. “Had it not been for the success of Michelin, we would not have these other companies.”

The company’s expansion is driven by global demand for Michelin’s earthmoving tires, which are among the largest and technically superior ever built, the company said.

“The market for earthmover tires grew by more than 20 percent between 2009 and 2011,” said Jean-Dominique Senard, managing general partner of Michelin.

“Nearly every earthmover tire is sold before it is produced,” Selleck said. He told an informal news conference that he anticipates that 30 percent of the earthmover tires will go to Canada, 50 percent will be exported worldwide and 20 percent sold domestically.

With current and anticipated production destined for international markets, Selleck said it is critical that the Port of Charleston be deepened to handle supertankers regardless of tide when the Panama Canal’s widening is complete.

Other port facilities must be upgraded.

Selleck said the port brought Michelin to South Carolina, and the company needs to continue to depend on it for easy access to world markets.

“We have to get our act together in terms of the port,” said Sen. Lindsey

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Technology Gadgets Bring Increased Risk

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e love our gadgets. From Androids and iPhones to iPads and more, we’re a country of gadget lovers. And while the pleasures are many, today’s technology can create major headaches for business.

It’s common practice for today’s workers to bring personal technology into the workplace, whether smartphone or laptop. And why not? Gadgets make us more accessible, more productive, more proactive than ever before.

But… Smart handhelds may be small in size, but they represent a significant threat to your business. They’re loaded with confidential data, from sensitive emails and proprietary PowerPoint presentations to Excel spread sheets packed with client data, pricing and customer lists.

And letting viruses and data stealing Trojans access your corporate network through our gadgets may be even more dangerous than letting sensitive data out. Most organizations focus technology defenses on the perimeter of the corporation, so a breach of defenses can wreak unfettered havoc with inside systems.

Companies must prepare for such risks, and saying no isn’t an option. This consumer-led revolution has produced gadgets so pervasive, powerful and easyto-use that employees demand them – there’s no turning back.

Expect increasing numbers of credit card number thefts and “fake apps” that solicit corporate or personal information and passwords from the unwary. Viruses and malware are cropping up, and hacker attention is growing. Phone thieves incur massive bills, or tap into location-tracking services – making them a stalker’s dream.

So while road warriors embrace iPad as a way to finish reports on the road, and athome associates download spreadsheets on iPhones to work on after the kids go to bed, put a plan in place to protect your organization and deal with the devices you’ll see employees using for years to come.

Here are some suggestions: •Be Proactive: Decide what corporate resources devices can tap into.

Even email can still access sensitive attachments, so assess risks and decide how to control usage. Technologies exist that ensure only authorized users gain access to company resources.

•Be Prepared: Loss and theft of devices is a certainty, so be sure that all smart gadgets that access corporate resources use data encryption and password protection. Be sure your IT staff can remotely monitor employee devices to wipe data off if lost or stolen.

•Plan Ahead: Plan methodically for the kind of mobile security you want.

Called “secure by design,” decide on the levels of security you’ll need as use of gadgets grow. Decide what resources to make available through mobile devices, and build plans from the ground up, creating policies and installing technology defenses – rather than scrambling when a problem inevitably occurs.

Gadgets are fun, make us more productive, and can enhance business performance. Just make sure to develop your plan on how to safely manage this brave, new world of connected consumer devices.

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How Mister Steamy Did It

Louis Foreman, chief executive officer of Edison Nation, will be featured presenter April 19 at the first of a series of guest events sponsored by Wells Fargo at the University of South Carolina Upstate’s Johnson College of Business in downtown Spartanburg.

Foreman will deliver a presentation about how his Charlotte, N.C., company helps inventors and entrepreneurs bring their ideas to market.

Louis Foreman, CEO of Edison “His talk will help our students recognize their potential for Nation creativity and innovation,” said Darrell Parker, dean of the business school.

Foreman’s Emmy-award winning “Everyday Edisons” TV production is credited with giving Mister Steamy, Gyro Bowl and Emery Cat their starts.

Edison Nation pays the cost of obtaining patents and licenses, markets innovative products and splits royalty costs evenly with inventors.

Following the presentation, attendees are welcome to join a Business After Hours reception sponsored by the Spartanburg Chamber and USC Upstate. Tickets are free but seating is limited. For reservations, contact Bea Walters Smith at (864) 503-5235 or bwsmith@uscupstate.edu.

Dialysis Device on FDA’s Fast Track

CreatiVasc Medical, a Greenville company with a device that potentially reduces complications and expense for dialysis patients, has been chosen for the FDA’s new fast-track approval process.

It is one of three devices nationwide chosen for FDA’s new Innovation Pathway program that offers the opportunity to get it on the market within 24 months if it is determined safe and effective.

Called the Hemoaccess Value System, it is in human clinical trials at the Greenville Hospital System.

The technology was developed by Dr. David Cull, a vascular surgeon at GHS who founded CreatiVasc in 2004.

Unlike current dialysis-access grafts, Cull’s system is implanted when a patient’s access graft is created, allowing blood flow to be turned on and off through the patient’s graft as needed for dialysis.

Under common procedure, a Teflon tube is implanted in a patient’s arm to provide access for dialysis. These tubes “frequently clot and require costly interventional surgery,” CreatiVasc said.

The company cited a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that 75 percent of dialysis grafts fail and require surgical intervention within the first year.

Megan Moynahan, the FDA’s associate director for technology and innovation, said the Hemoaccess Valve was selected for fast-track approval because it has the potential of reducing these complications.

“This is a great example of how government and the private business sector can work together to advance technology that will benefit patients nationwide,” said Cull.

The company noted that “kidney failure and associated dialysis cost the U.S health care system more than $46 billion annually, and the highest concentration of the disease is here in the Carolinas and Georgia. The primary causes of endstage renal disease are diabetes, obesity and hypertension.”

Steve Johnson, president and chief executive officer of CreatiVasc, said 95 percent of the company’s investors are from the Upstate. He credited seed money from the S.C. Research Authority’s SC Launch as being instrumental in taking Cull’s technology from drawings on paper to a rough prototype to a finished device for clinical trials.

“Being selected from all the other great companies and universities out there to be part of FDA’s new program reinforces our high expectations for our system and validates the outstanding confidence of CreatiVasc’s local investors,” said Johnson.

CreatiVasc holds multiple patents on the device in the United States and other countries.

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Locals Manage for Californians

Vista Capital Management Group of Greenville has been selected to manage the multi-family properties owned by Highridge Costa Investors of Gardena, Calif.

Vista said the six properties involved have a total of 619 residential units. The properties are located in Spartanburg, Columbia, Warrenville, Leesville and Columbia.

Vista provides property and management services throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic and has a management portfolio in excess of $400 million, the company said.

Bank Profitable in Bad Times

Pinnacle Bank said it was profitable for the third consecutive year in 2011.

The bank said it had a profit of $513,695 last year, 43 percent better than earnings of $358,698 in 2010. Total assets rose to $136 million, an increase of 6.3 percent.

“There are still many in our community struggling, and we believe we can best help by being a responsible bank providing value and choices to our customers and by being an alternative to some of the financial craziness around us,” said David Barnett, chief executive officer.

Pinnacle, which is privately held, has its main office in Greenville and a branch in Powdersville. It began operations in 2006, just ahead of the credit collapse in late 2007.

S.C. Business Week applications now open to interested high school students

By CHARLES SOWELL | staff

Students with a yen for business can apply for this year’s South Carolina Business Week program set for July 15 through 20 in Columbia.

Applications and sponsorships are being taken now. To apply, sophomores, juniors and seniors in the top one-third of their class who possess demonstrated leadership skills through school and community activities are encouraged to apply by filling out an application available at www.scbusinessweek.com.

Companies interested in providing student sponsorships for Business Week should visit www.scbusinessweek.com, or contact Robbie Barnett at 803-255-2625.

Business Week 2012 is presented by the South Carolina Cable Television Association (SCCTA), a nonprofit trade association that advances the common interests of the cable industry in South Carolina.

“Business Week is just one program the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce offers, supporting a comprehensive approach to education and workforce development in South Carolina,” said Mary Anne Jacobs, SCCTA Board Member. “The South Carolina Cable Television Association recognizes the benefits of preparing South Carolina young adults for the

business environment. We are thrilled to sponsor the program and anticipate robust results.”

Business Week contributes to the preparation of young adults for the business environment by introducing them to the principles of leadership, teamwork and the American free enterprise system, while promoting self-reliance, individual responsibility and entrepreneurship.

During the week, teams of students develop mock companies, led by company advisors loaned from some of South Carolina’s most successful businesses. Students attend workshops to learn about all aspects of business and test their newly acquired knowledge in a business simulation designed to achieve a real company feel with challenging, real-world situations.

“Business Week gives business leaders the unique opportunity to teach students what to expect in the business world,” said Otis Rawl, president and chief executive officer of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.

“By giving these students the experience of running their own mock companies, they are preparing for the choices they will make as future business leaders.”

Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@greenvillejournal.com.

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Arts exec learns: Administration’s easy, comedy’s hard Bob Howard takes to the stage to raise money for Warehouse Theatre

By Cindy Landrum | staff

Greg Beckner / Staff

Bob Howard will be performing his comedy routine for the benefit of the Warehouse Theatre on Saturday, April 20 at 7 p.m.

Bob Howard, the performer, got his start because Bob Howard the arts organization administrator was trying to save a few bucks.

Howard was signing checks as the executive director of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and asked about the recipient of one of the checks he was signing.

When told this recipient was the man who played Santa Claus for the symphony’s holiday concert series, Howard decided he would assume the role so he wouldn’t have to raise the money to pay somebody else.

He even went to Santa school.

When an auctioneer was needed to raise money at a Greenville Symphony gala, Howard went to school and became a licensed auctioneer.

Next Friday night, Howard will take to the stage to help raise money for the Warehouse Theatre – again.

During a budget crunch two years ago that forced the Warehouse to cut staff and expenses, the theater’s executive director, Paul Savas, told Howard he needed to do a fundraiser and asked if he had any ideas.

John Malik takes the nontraditional route to authorhood When John Malik finished writing his first novel, he decided against taking the traditional publishing route.

“Until about two years ago, publishing houses took submissions, but they don’t do that anymore. They work strictly through agents,” say Malik. But unless an agent immediately connects with your book, it could be years before your manuscript finds a publisher, if at all.

“Unless you are anointed by the publishing company or are a Nicholas Sparks or a pop-culture figure with an

instant market, you have to go out there and hustle and do your own marketing and readings. It’s a lot of legwork,” he said. So in midsummer 2011, he decided to quit chasing agents and self-publish through Amazon’s CreateSpace.

Self-publishing options have opened the market to writers who either did not have the time to chase down a publishing contract or whose work was passed on by traditional publishers and agents.

At the same time, the popularity of ereaders such as the Kindle and Nook are transforming the book business.

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Howard continued on page 36

This former chef is cooking up a novel

By Nichole LIvengood | contributor

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Amazon was selling over one million Kindles a week,” Malik said.

His first novel, “Doughnuts for Amy,” came out as an Amazon.com e-book at the end of November. He self-published it in paperback a few months later.

Self-publishing sites like Lulu, CreateSpace, iUniverse and Xlibris offer options at little to no cost to the author for basic write, edit and upload services, especially for e-books. But there are high-end self-publishing book packages available that offer premium editing services for as much as $5,000.

Malik continued on page 36

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Howard said he did – and developed a one-man comedy show that helped raise thousands of dollars. He hopes to repeat that success April 20.

“Twice Told Tales: An Evening of Comedy with Bob Howard” will include stories, jokes and tales about topics such as fishing, hunting, politics and men and women’s interpersonal relationships.

“This isn’t Aesop’s Fables,” he said.

The Warehouse will also unveil its 2012-13 Main Stage season that night.

Howard said the second comedy show should be easier than the first.

“I know it works,” he said.

“It’s still frightening, though.

I’m glad I’m doing this, but I’ll be glad it’s over.”

Howard said his experiences on stage have given him a new appreciation for performing artists.

“I go to a play and wonder how in the world do they know their lines? How do they memorize all that?” he

MALIK continued from PAGE 35

“The arts are so important to a community. I’m just trying to help.”

Bob Howard, who will be performing his stand-up comedy routine to benefit the Warehouse Theatre

said. “I know the stories, I just have to tell them.”

Howard, who is president of the Greenville Tech Foundation, said he thinks about whether he has done all of these unconventional things for arts organizations because he secretly has longed to be a performer himself.

SO YOU KNOW WHAT: Twice Told Tales: An Evening of Comedy with Bob Howard WHERE: The Warehouse Theatre, 39 Augusta Street, Greenville WHEN: April 20, 7 p.m.

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EXTRA: The Warehouse Theatre will announce its Main Stage season schedule for the 2012-13 season at the show.

“I wonder if that’s the reason I don’t say ‘no’ more,” said the former banker.

After all, there doesn’t seem to be a limit to what he’ll do – from going to Santa school, to becoming a licensed auctioneer, to doing “Thriller” in a local edition of “Dancing with the Stars” to benefit the Carolina Ballet Theatre.

His efforts to help the arts earned him an Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award for the Arts, the state’s highest arts honor.

“The arts are so important to a community,” he said.

“I’m just trying to help.”

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“The margins are better through self-publishing, but you have to get out there and do your legwork properly. If you are independent like me, then you have to figure out how to get your book in front of people. It can be challenging. You have to be clever, creative, persistent. It’s a never-ending process,” he said.

He just hired a press agent, someone he met through Twitter. “There are all these different avenues that can get you in front of people now. She is going to help us coordinate all that stuff.

It’s time-consuming,” he said.

Malik has not given up hope of being picked up by a publishing house, but says he knows writers who are making money from self-publishing who insist they won’t ever go back to a traditional publisher – especially those who “already have a market for their books and are writing additional books for an established market.”

Malik calls himself a writer trapped in cook’s body. He and his wife, Amy, are both chefs. They owned and operated 33 Liberty, a popular Greenville restaurant,

from 2001 to 2008. Malik received a James Beard semifinalist nomination for Best Chef in the Southeast in 2008, and has since been the executive chef at two retirement communities in Greenville.

“Doughnuts for Amy” follows Nick St. Germaine, executive chef at an upscale retirement community, as he approaches the second anniversary of his wife’s sudden death. He begins to piece his life back together again and find his groove as a single parent.

The journey also leads to new love where he least expects it.

Malik’s novel is loosely based on his own experiences in the kitchen and the characters he has met along the way, but he is keeping the details a mystery.

The book is available on Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and at Fiction Addiction in Greenville.

These days, you can find Malik cooking in the kitchen at Stella’s Southern Bistro in Simpsonville – when he’s not working on his second book.

For more information about the chef and writer, go to chefjohnmalik.com.

Contact Nichole Livengood at nlivengood@greenvillejournal.com.

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A reel opportunity for filmmakers Inaugural film festival to feature screenings, workshops and 42 films

By Nichole LIvengood contributor

Every new venture brings surprises – but 185 film entries from 33 countries “was a big shock” for a first-year film competition, says Miguel Berg, executive director of the inaugural Greenville International Film Festival.

Organizers narrowed 105 hours of film footage to 42 films and 23 hours of material for the April 25-28 festival. It was a difficult task, Berg said. “We received some significant films, especially from students. The students have touched on a lot of topics that are more mature for their age.”

Student entries arrived from 28 states; some from entire classes where making films was part of the curriculum. Riverside High School student James Wiley’s film, “Substreet Parkour Team,”

was chosen as one of the middle/ high school submissions for the festival’s Emerging Filmmaker category. “Shoot the Moon,” directed by Alexander Gaeta, a student at Chapman University in California, was another student film chosen for the festival.

“Shoot the Moon” tells the story of a single mother down on her luck in Detroit during the economic recession of 2008, who looks to a game show to change her life, Berg said. Another film, “Camp Unity,” examines the aftereffects of the Iraq war, documenting the journey of a Texas nonprofit that went to the country to teach Iraqi youth theatre, performance orchestra, hip-hop dancing and the arts.

“It’s about arts education in Iraq. Post 9/11 and the Iraq war, that’s not something you would even put together in a thought, but we have it here at the film

festival,” Berg said.

“Dying Green,” produced by a filmmaker in Washington, D.C., and filmed entirely in South Carolina, explores how the town physician in Westminster is using green burials to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves. “It was happening in our own backyard and I had no idea,” Berg said. “All of the films hold true to the independent spirit and are about what is happening worldwide.”

The four-day festival, to be held at the Zen building at 924 Main Street in Greenville, will include screenings, workshops and a 6:30 p.m. opening ceremony on April 25 featuring a film that is anticipated to be picked up by one of the major motion picture companies. “The film is called ‘Searching for Sonny,’ and you will get to see it in this market first,” Berg said.

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Berg expects the educational and networking component of the festival to be a great resource for filmmakers. Adam Daniel Mezei, a producer of film marketing and distribution (PMD), will conduct workshops on building industry relationships and a fan base, budgeting, marketing campaigns and the ins and outs of film festivals.

Emmy award-winning documentarian Harvey Hubbell V will screen “Dislecksia: The Movie” and explain what is behind a good documentary.

Clemson University Digital Production Arts professor and Academy Award winner Dr. Jerry Tessendorf will teach a workshop on making digital effects without breaking your budget.

“At the film after-parties, people can meet the filmmakers and talk about new ideas and the process

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they have gone through making the films,” Berg said.

“Film is about a dream, about making your thought or idea happen, but not really knowing how you are going to get there,” he said. “It’s a self-guided adventure sometimes. That’s the beauty of it, when you are also growing with your film and at the same time, are able to impact so many lives. That is really what it comes down to for me.”

Berg said the goal of festival organizers is “to reach out to all the Upstate and foster arts education and promote film making in the area. There are countless stories to be told here.”

Check www.gviff.com for trailers, screenings, workshop times and tickets.

Contact Nichole Livengood at nlivengood@greenvillejournal.com.

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Upstate ministry quenches thirst for life, freedom

By Jerry Salley | staff

© Lisa Worsham Photography

When Roland Bergeron decided to extend his Water of Life ministry from western Africa to India last year, he had a pretty good idea what he’d find.

Working in villages without access to clean water, he had already seen huge amounts of human suffering in four African nations. “People are sick all the time,” he said, “and it’s particularly brutal on the children.”

He saw many of the same problems in India: thirst, filth, disease and death, especially among the lower “untouchable” castes. Water of Life started doing what it had done before in Africa –trying to make a difference, one well at a time.

But when he began hearing about Indian children working as slaves in slate quarries, he realized that there were problems that clean water alone couldn’t solve.

Bergeron’s ministry started at Brookwood Church in Simpsonville, after a meeting with a founder of Living Waters International. “My eyes were kind of opened,” he remembered. He learned that more than 800 million people worldwide lack access to clean water, “something we don’t think about here.”

At that time the owner of Bergeron Builders, a home-building company, Bergeron went to Central America in 2002 to drill water wells in support of a missionary working in Honduras. This led to his founding Water of Life and taking the ministry to Liberia in 2004,

Roland Bergeron reaches out to children in a southeastern Indian village. Along with wells, Water of Life also develops indigenous churches, to be nurtured by the locals.

then throughout western Africa, into Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Gambia.

“The most desperate problems are in the countryside and the villages,” Bergeron said. “A little village in Liberia that’s got 500 people at the end of a dirt road is not where the aid or the missionaries go. So we end up in the villages and remote areas, providing clean water for the people who need it most.”

Support has come from Upstate churches, including Brookwood, Easley First Baptist, Southside Fellowship in Greenville, Heritage Bible Church in Greer and North Hills Community Church in Taylors. Some of these

© Lisa Worsham Photography

Former child slaves, freed from a slate quarry in southeastern India.

churches have joined Water of Life on its missions, teaming up with local workers to drill the wells.

“Drilling is pretty hard work, and it’s pretty technical,” said Bergeron. “You just can’t take anybody who was pushing a pencil last week and put them at the controls of a drill rig. But they can pick up a shovel and dig a hole.”

The effects of their work are gratifying, Bergeron said. “When we put in a clean water well, it’s immediate. I get to go back to these places and ask them what impact did it have, and they say, ‘Oh, it’s amazing. We’re not sick anymore. And our babies aren’t dying.’”

So far, Water of Life has drilled 83 wells and established 405 churches throughout western Africa and India.

“We work very closely with indigenous churches, so wherever we are putting water wells we’re also helping the local churches to spread the Gospel, or planting new churches,” Bergeron said. “We’ll leave a water well, and we’ll also leave the beginnings of a church, which is nurtured by the locals. So we kind of have an immediate effect on their health and then an effect on their eternal health as well.”

In one area in India, where fewer than 3 percent of the population practices Christianity, “within a month the

For more information, or to donate to Water of Life, go to www.givefreshwater.org

church doubled in size. Since then, in a year’s time, all 6,000 people in the village have accepted Christ.”

Bergeron made his first trip to India in March, 2011. Working with Christian pastor Praveen Chakravarthy, Water of Life has set up 24 wells so far in southeast India, at a rate of three a month.

Last fall, Chakravarthy started telling Bergeron about child workers in some of India’s slate and granite quarries. “They were slaves,” Bergeron said. “The parents had given them up to the quarries at about 8 or 9 years old to pay a debt.”

Last September, after seeing the quarries himself, Bergeron posted a

“It’s the most rewarding thing you’ll ever do, to do something for other people who can’t possibly do anything back for you.”

Roland Bergeron, founder of Water of Life, a ministry that provides clean water for communities in Africa and India

message online: “My heart is broken.

Can’t stop crying. God help me.”

He returned home to the Upstate and immediately set to work, organizing support and working with Chakravarthy to pressure government officials and the quarry owners to free the children.

In November, 350 of the children were released to Chakravarthy’s custody. The congregation at Brookwood has donated funds to care for the children.

Bergeron returned to the Upstate for a short while in late March, but Water of Life’s work continues, in western Africa and India, with the progress documented at www.givefreshwater.org.

Why does he do it?

“The simple answer is, ‘God asked me to,’” said Bergeron. “It’s the most rewarding thing you’ll ever do, to do something for other people who can’t possibly do anything back for you. Just the totally unselfish giving of yourself.”

Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com

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The Furman University Department of Music will present a concert led by internationally acclaimed conductor John Nelson on Sunday, April 15 at 3 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. Maestro Nelson will lead the Furman Symphony Orchestra, Furman Singers, Furman Chorales, and three professional soloists in a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, “Lobgesang.” Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 seniors 60 and older, and $5 for students/youth. This concert marks the concluding performance for the 2011-2012 Sound Quality Series. The public is also invited to a free “Meet Maestro Nelson” gathering on Friday, April 13 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel. For more information or to order tickets by phone, please call the Furman Music Office at 864-294-2086, or email FurmanMusic@Furman. edu, or visit the department’s website at www.FurmanMusic.org.

The Fountain Inn Repertory Experience (FIRE) will present the Tony award-winning musical “Bye Bye Birdie” at the Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts, April 19-29. The musical revolves around rock ‘n’ roll superstar Conrad Birdie (loosely based on Elvis Presley), who is about to be drafted into the Army, much to the dismay of his adoring fans. Tickets are $17 for adults, $14 for senior citizens and $8 for students and children. For tickets and more information, call 409-1050 or visit www.ficiviccenter.org.

The Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts will hold a fundraiser called Bubbles, Brews and Barbecue on Saturday April 14, 5:30 – 8 p.m. at the Pavilions at Commerce Park to raise money for the Cultural Arts Foundation. This event will feature the music of INNfusion. Tickets are $25 a person. For more information, visit www.ftinnarts.org.

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The South Carolina Children’s Theatre’s summer theatre camp offerings are now available online, along with price listings and dates. Most camps are one-week, part-day or full-day camps divided by rising grade level. Participants who sign up by 5 p.m. on April 24 may deduct $25 per camp. To view these listings go to www. scchildrenstheatre.org/education and select “class listings” and then “summer.”

Registration for the community is underway for evening and weekend art classes at Furman including Still Life in Oils, Beginning Stained Glass, Beginning Digital Photography, Field Photography, Beginning Drawing and more. Visit www.furman.edu/ learningforyou or call 294-2153 or 294-3134 for a schedule and registration.

The Greenville Chamber Singers will present their spring concert, “Song of a Lady”, Thursday, May 10 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Michael Lutheran Church, 2619 Augusta St., Greenville. The concert will feature selections that highlight what it means to be a lady - spirit, beauty, character and love. The GCS, an auditioned women’s ensemble, is a musically versatile ensemble that focuses on community service and choral excellence.

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Stone Academy’s third grade presented a play, “SC Forever My Home.” Students from Betty Russell’s third grade class are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SUMMONS AND NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT COUNTY OF GREENVILLE 2012-DR-23-1466 David Henry Vaughn, Plaintiff, vs. Pamela Gabrel Vaughn, Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED; You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is attached hereto and herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to same upon the subscriber at 100 Williams Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29601, within thirty (30) days after the service of the same, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer said within the thirty day period, the Plaintiff(s) will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein and judgment will be taken against you by default.

Thomas B. Outlaw Attorney for Plaintiff South Carolina Bar No.: 71952 100 Williams Street Greenville, SC 29601 864-232-0003 Office 864-232-0006 Facsimile Greenville, South Carolina Dated: March 26 , 2012

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on 4/21/12, 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:

ORDER REGARDING CHILD SUPPORT NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF GREENVILLE CASE NO.: 2009-DR-23-4550 Jennifer Owens Putman, Plaintiff, vs. Christopher Todd Putman, Defendant This matter appearing before the Court pursuant to an Affidavit for child support to be paid through the court pursuant to a Final Divorce Decree signed by Judge Robert N. Jenkins, Sr. on December 30, 2009. The Affidavit supports that the Defendant in the above referenced matter is not current on his child support payments and payments shall now be directed to the court.

Furthermore, Plaintiff is not precluded from bringing a Rule to Show Cause as to any arrearages related to this matter.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, that Defendant shall make all future child support payments through the Clerk of Court.

AND IT IS SO ORDERED. Rochelle Y. Conits Judge of the Family Court Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Greenville, South Carolina This _26th day of __Oct, 2011.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT COUNTY OF GREENVILLE 2011-DR-23-3809 Tammie Rene Witherspoon, Plaintiff, vs. Donyell Lokey Witherspoon, Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED; You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is attached hereto and herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to same upon the subscriber at 100 Williams Street Greenville, South Carolina 29601, within thirty (30) days after the service of the same, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer said within the thirty day period, the Plaintiff(s) will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein and judgment will be taken against you by default.

Thomas B. Outlaw Attorney for Plaintiff South Carolina Bar No.: 71952 100 Williams Street Greenville, SC 29601 864-232-0003 Office 864-232-0006 Facsimile Greenville, South Carolina Dated: August __, 2011

1. Unit: B277 Aundra L. Wilson, 324 Rexford Dr., Moore, SC 29369 Furniture, Boxes/Bags/Misc.

2. Unit: C106 Mark Moon, 1101 Roper Mtn. Rd. # 239, Greenville, SC 29615 Speakers, Wires, Misc.

3. Unit: C113 Pamela R. Kay, 127 Kay Drive, Simpsonville, SC 29681 Bags/ Boxes/Misc., Luggage, Collectible 4. Unit: D03 Jeffrey Clifton, 1409 Roper Mtn. Rd., Apt. 514, Greenville, SC 29615 Furniture, Exercise Equip., Boxes/Misc.

5. Unit: D05 April E. Walker, 1409 Roper Mtn. Rd., Greenville SC 29607 Furniture, Toys/Misc.

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PUBLIC NOTICE THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 6-11470 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. ON TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012, GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL ADOPTED A RESOLUTION WHICH ADJUSTED THE BOUNDARIES OF THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT BY INCLUDING CERTAIN PROPERTIES LOCATED OFF OF LAKE DRIVE AND SANDRA DRIVE AND A PROPERTY LOCATED OFF OF EAST MOUNTAIN CREEK ROAD. THE NEW BOUNDARY LINES TO RESULT FOR THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT WILL INCLUDE THOSE AREAS KNOWN AS: THOSE CERTAIN PROPERTIES LOCATED OFF LAKE DRIVE AND SANDRA DRIVE DESCRIBED AS GREENVILLE COUNTY TAX MAP NUMBERS (“TMS#”) 0252000100116, 0252000100203, 0252000100205, 0252000100401, 0252000100701, 0252000100800, 0252000100803, 0252000100804, 0252000100805, 0252000100808, 0252000100809, 0252000100813, 0252000100817, 0252000100818, 0252000103100, and 0252000103200; and THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY LOCATED OFF EAST MOUNTAIN CREEK ROAD DESCRIBED AS GREENVILLE COUNTY TAX MAP NUMBER (“TMS#”) P024000200611.

A MAP OF THE NEW BOUNDARIES AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE. THE REASON FOR THE PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT IS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORDERLY COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE, GARBAGE AND TRASH WITHIN GREENVILLE COUNTY. NO ADDITIONAL BONDS WILL BE ISSUED BY THE DISTRICT, NOR WILL THERE BE ANY CHANGE IN THE COMMISSION OR IN THE PERSONNEL OF THE PRESENT COMMISSION OF THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT. HERMAN G. KIRVEN JR., CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

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148 River Street, Suite 120, Greenville, SC 29601 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012, AT 6:00 p.m. (or as soon thereafter as other public hearings are conducted), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADJUSTING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT AND THE FOUNTAIN INN FIRE SERVICE AREA SO AS TO ENLARGE THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT, AND TO DIMINISH THE FOUNTAIN INN FIRE SERVICE AREA. THE BOUNDARY LINES TO RESULT WILL INCLUDE THAT AREA KNOWN AS TAX MAP NUMBERS 0552010100328, 0555010100700 and 0552010100902, INTO THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT, AND WILL REMOVE THE SAME FROM THE FOUNTAIN INN FIRE SERVICE AREA. A MAP OF THE BOUNDARIES AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE. HERMAN G. KIRVEN, JR., CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

ABANDONED VEHICLE NOTICE The following vehicle is subject to towing and storage charges/liens.

Being held by Roger David Mccall at 706 Meadow Ridge Road Easley S.C. 29642 phone 864 269 6335. {1} 1970 Plymouth Satellite vin # RH23goc249233. Additional storage and processing cost will be added after the date of this notice.

This vehicle will be sold at public auction by the Greenville County Magistrates office.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Greer Lao Hu Cheng Asian Bistro, 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 at 912 South Batesville Road, Greer, SC 29650. To object to the issuance of this license/ permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012.

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) 898-5899

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that 2 Little Men, LLC / DBA The Cigar Boxx, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of LIQUOR at 25 College Street, Greenville, SC 29601.

To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 22, 2012. 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) 898-5899

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Green Apple of NC, 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 1221 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/ permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012.

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) 898-5899

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Green Apple of NC, 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 430 Congaree Road, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/ permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012.

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) 898-5899

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Green Apple of NC, 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 3944 Grandview Drive, Simpsonville, SC 29681. To object to the issuance of this license/ permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012.

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) 898-5899

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Green Apple of NC, 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 6200 White Horse Road, Greenville, SC 29307. To object to the issuance of this license/ permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012.

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) 898-5899

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Chipotle Mexican Grill of Colorado, 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 4 Market Point Drive, Suite C, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012. 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) 898-5899

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF ELECTIONS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE The Republican and Democrat parties will hold primaries on Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Any necessary runoffs will be held on Tuesday, June 26. Any person wishing to vote in the primaries and runoffs must register no later than Saturday, May 12. At 9:00 a.m. on Election Day the County Election Commission will begin its examination of the absentee ballot return envelopes at 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900.

On Thursday, June 14, at 12:00 Noon the County Board of Canvassers will hold a hearing to determine the validity of all provisional ballots cast in this election. This hearing will be held at Greenville County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900. The following precincts and polling places will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.: Precincts Polling Places (location) Greenville 01 Greenville 03 Greenville 04 Greenville 05 Greenville 06 Greenville 07 Greenville 08 Greenville 10 Greenville 14 Greenville 16 Greenville 17 Greenville 18 Greenville 19 Greenville 20 Greenville 21 Greenville 22 Greenville 23 Greenville 24 Greenville 25 Greenville 26 Greenville 27 Greenville 28 Greenville 29 Aiken Altamont Forest Asheton Lakes Avon Baker Creek Belle Meade Bells Crossing Belmont Berea Boiling Springs Botany Woods Bridge Fork Brook Glenn Canebrake Carolina Castle Rock Chestnut Hills Circle Creek Clear Creek Conestee Darby Ridge Del Norte Devenger Donaldson Dove Tree Dunklin Eastside Ebenezer Edwards Forest Enoree Feaster Fork Shoals Fountain Inn 1 Fountain Inn 2 Fox Chase Frohawk Furman Gowensville Granite Creek Graze Branch Greenbriar Grove Hillcrest Holly Tree Jennings Mill Kilgore Farms Lakeview

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF ANDERSON 2010-CP-04-1065 Dell Jones and Lorraine Jones, Plaintiff, vs. Bradley H. Batson and James C. Owens, individually and doing business as Tylar Construction Company, Inc. and Capital Indemnity Corporation, Defendants, AND Bradley H. Batson, individually and d o i n g business as Tylar Construction Company, Inc., Third-Party Plaintiff, vs. James C. Owens, individually and doing business as Tylar Construction Company, Inc., Third-Party Defendant.

TO: THE DEFENDANT AND THIRDPARTY DEFENDANT, JAMES C. OWENS, INDIVIDUALLY AND DBA TYLAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. YOU will please take notice that the Summons and Amended Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in Court of Common Pleas on October 4, 2011, and is now on file therein.

You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Amended Complaint in this action upon the subscriber at his office, 116 West Whitner Street, Anderson South Carolina, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service and if you fail to answer the said Amended Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded.

Robert L. Waldrep, Jr. Robert L. Waldrep, Jr., P.A. 116 West Whitner Street Anderson, SC 29624 (864) 224-6341

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE GREENVILLE COUNTY PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE, HEARING OFFICER ON THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012, AT 10:00AM, IN ROOM 5150 OF SUITE 5100, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE CASES PERTAINING TO THE HABITABILITY OF STRUCTURE(S) ON THE PROPERTY. A. CASE NO: 11-187 PROPERTY OWNER: ALMA A. DEVORE, MAURICE MILES AND COLLEEN A. BROCKMAN PROPERTY LOCATION: 442 DUBLIN ROAD A.K.A. LOT 2 A.K.A. ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND IN BUTLER TOWNSHIP, GREENVILLE COUNTY, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 2 OF THE PROPERTY OF GEORGE W. ALLEN AND HAVING ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF SAID PROPERTY MADE BY W.J. RIDDLE, SURVEYOR, IN DECEMBER OF 1949 TAX MAP NUMBER: 533.3-1-20 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 21 B. CASE NO: 11-2043 PROPERTY OWNER: WILLIAM M. DICKSON, III PROPERTY LOCATION: 611 EDGEMONT AVENUE A.K.A. PT. LOT 75 & 76 A.K.A. ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR TRACT OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON THE SOUTHERLY SIDE OF EDGEMONT AVENUE, IN THE COUNTY OF GREENVILLE, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS A PORTION OF LOTS 75 AND 76 AS SHOWN ON PLAT OF G. J. DOUGLAS ESTATE, AS PREPARED BY CENTURY LAND SURVEYING COMPANY DATED JANUARY 2, 1979 TAX MAP NUMBER: 145-2-10 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 19 C. CASE NO: 11-2744 PROPERTY OWNER: WALLACE H. SMITH PROPERTY LOCATION: 1 UNEEDA DRIVE #B A.K.A. PT. 2, LOT, 1 UNEEDA DRIVE A.K.A. PROPERTY IS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF LOT 35, BLOCK 3, SHEET 374 OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY TAX MAPS A.K.A. PT 3, ATHELONE HEIGHTS A.K.A. OLD EMMA SHERMAN PROPERTY, .78 ACRES TAX MAP NUMBER: 374-3-35.1 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 25 D. CASE NO: 11-2885 PROPERTY OWNER: AMANDA LAFATHE KING A.K.A. AMANDA MESSER, RESERVING TO JERRY WAYNE KING, A LIFE ESTATE FOR HIS NATURAL LIFE (JERRY WAYNE DIED SEPTEMBER 4, 2008) PROPERTY LOCATION: MARION A.K.A. 133 W. MARION ROAD A.K.A. 135 W. MARION A.K.A. W. MARION STREET (CURRENT DEED HAS INCORRECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION, DOES NOT LESS AND EXCEPT THE CORRECT DEEDS), A.K.A. PT. LOTS 1 & 2 PLAT M-27, A.K.A. LOT W. MARION ROAD, A.K.A. LOT WEST MARION STREET, A.K.A. LOT 133 W. MARION ROAD, A.K.A. ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF GREENVILLE, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBER 1 AND 2 AS SHOWN ON PLAT OF ELIZA D. WARE, PREPARED BY DALTON AND NEVES, DATED OCTOBER 1941 AS SHOWN IN PLAT BOOK M AT PAGE 27 TAX MAP NUMBER: 133-4-51 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 19 E. CASE NO: 11-4333 PROPERTY OWNER: WILLIAM H. WASHINGTON PROPERTY LOCATION: STEPHENSON STREET A.K.A. 122 STEPHENSON STREET A.K.A. ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND IN CHICK SPRINGS TOWNSHIP, GREENVILLE COUNTY, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA NEAR THE TOWN OF TAYLORS TAX MAP NUMBER: T6-13-3 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 18 F. CASE NO: 11-4422 PROPERTY OWNER: MARK TIMOTHY HELLAMS AND BARBARA K. HELLAMS PROPERTY LOCATION: 407 PALMETTO AVENUE A.K.A. 407 PALMETTO DRIVE A.K.A. LOT 5 BLOCK P RIVERSIDE A.K.A. ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF GREENVILLE, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT ENTITLED "SURVEY FOR MARK TIMOTHY HELLAMS AND BARBARA K. HELLAMS" BY LANDRITH SURVEYING, INC. DATED JULY 10, 1998 TAX MAP NUMBER: 146-10-5 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 19

COMPLAINT NOTICES A complaint has been brought before the Code Enforcement Division of a dangerous, insanitary and unsafe structure located at the following locations: 442 Dublin Road a.k.a. Lot 2 a.k.a. all that piece, parcel or lot of land in Butler Township, Greenville County, State of South Carolina, being known and designated as Lot No. 2 of the property of George W. Allen and having according to a plat of said property made by W. J. Riddle, Surveyor, in December of 1949, Greenville County Tax Map Number 533.3-1-20, Greenville County, SC. 611 Edgemont Avenue a.k.a. Pt. Lot 75 & 76 a.k.a. all that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being on the southerly side of Edgemont Avenue, in the County of Greenville, State of South Carolina, being known and designated as a portion of Lots 75 and 76 as shown on plat of G. J. Douglas Estate, as prepared by Century Land Surveying Company dated January 2, 1979, Greenville County Tax Map Number 145-210, Greenville County, SC. 1 Uneeda Drive #B a.k.a. Pt. 2, Lot, 1 Uneeda Drive a.k.a. property is the northern portion of Lot 35, Block 3, Sheet 374 of the Greenville County Tax Maps a.k.a. Pt. 3, Athelone Heights a.k.a.

Old Emma Sherman Property, .78 acres, Greenville County Tax Map Number 374-3-35.1, Greenville County, SC. Marion a.k.a. 133 W. Marion Road a.k.a. 135 W. Marion a.k.a. W. Marion Street (current deed has incorrect legal description, does not less and except the correct deeds), a.k.a. Pt. Lots 1 & 2 Plat M-27, a.k.a. Lot W. Marion Road, a.k.a. Lot West Marion Street, a.k.a.

Lot 133 W. Marion Road, a.k.a. all that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Greenville, being known and designated as Lot Number 1 and 2 as shown on plat of Eliza D. Ware, prepared by Dalton and Neves, dated October 1941 as shown in Plat Book M at Page 27, Greenville County Tax Map Number 133-451, Greenville County, SC. Stephenson Street a.k.a. 122 Stephenson Street a.k.a. all that piece, parcel or lot of land in Chick Springs Township, Greenville County, State of South Carolina near the Town of Taylors, Greenville County Tax Map Number T6-13-3, Greenville County, SC. 407 Palmetto Avenue a.k.a. 407 Palmetto Drive a.k.a. Lot 5 Block P Riverside a.k.a. all that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Greenville, as shown on a plat entitled "Survey for Mark Timothy Hellams and Barbara K. Hellams"

by Landrith Surveying, Inc. dated July 10, 1998, Greenville County Tax Map Number 146-10-5, Greenville County, SC. Any persons having interest in these properties, or knowledge of the property owner should contact the Codes Enforcement Office at 864-467-7459 on or before April 26, 2012.

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the week in photos

look who’s in the journal this week

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photos by Greg Beckner / Staff

The Area 4 Special Olympics Spring Games opening ceremonies were held at Paladin Stadium at Furman University.

Brock Mayer, right, lights the Olympic cauldron with help from his teacher Amy Wylie to mark the start of the Area 4 spring games.

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Don Oglesby, president/CEO of Homes of Hope Inc., speaks to the crowd gathered for the City of Greenville and Homes of Hope ribbon-cutting ceremony for Bethel Place Apartments.

The event was in conjunction with National Community Development Week. National Community Development Week is held each year to recognize the importance of the Community Development Block Grant, Home Investment Partnership Grant and other federal funding provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to implement revitalization efforts and promote affordable housing.

Officials and dignitaries cut the ribbon of the new Bethel Place Apartments.

Greenville Mayor Knox White talks about the renewal of the neighborhood around the Bethel Place Apartments.

Greenville City Councilwoman Lillian Brock Flemming talks to the people gathered for the ribbon cutting of the Bethel Place Apartments. Each home is 936 square feet and has two bedrooms and one bath. The monthly rent will be $395. The city invested $65,000 in home funding for the development.

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THE WEEK IN PHOTOS

LOOK WHO’S IN THE JOURNAL THIS WEEK

PHOTOS BY GREG BECKNER / STAFF

Kayleigh Jones, 7, of Woodruff, eats a hot dog while waiting for the start of the Greenville Drive’s home opener at Fluor Field.

Kayleigh plays second base for her Little League team.

The Greenville Drive’s new manager Carlos Febles smiles as he talk with umpires prior to the start of the Drive’s home opener.

Tracy West leans as far back as she can to take a photograph of her son Jackson West and Greenville Drive third baseman David Renfroe while her husband Jamie West, center looks on prior to the start of the Drive’s home opener of the 2012 season at Fluor Field.

A large American flag is unfurled in center field for the singing of the national anthem.

Danny Joyner throws out the ceremonial first pitch. Joyner’s father C. Dan Joyner was honored at the beginning of the Drive’s game.

Greenville Drive team members and fans stand and place their hands over their heart for the singing of the national anthem.

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Across 1 C-section docs 4 Carrying on 10 See 88-Down 14 Al Jazeera’s country 19 Top of some suits 20 Where Excalibur was forged 21 Terrier of mystery films 22 One-time TV medical expert Art 23 Geisha wear 25 Hollywood Walk of Fame feature 26 Intestinal 27 Attorney general before Dick Thornburgh 28 Minor key of Beethoven’s “Moonlight” 30 Hornswoggle 31 Memorial __-Kettering: NYC hospital 32 Almost win 35 Oven seen at Colonial Williamsburg 39 Gmail outbox folder 40 Cuthbert of “24” 41 Shatner’s “__War” 42 “And how!”

43 Be complimentary (of) 48 Ventilate 50 Corp. symbols 53 Youngest Brontë 54 Diamond head?

55 Chews out 56 Become useless, as

a well 58 Places to perch 61 Cold War prez 62 __ Mountains: Missouri range 63 Stick a fork in 65 “This __ emergency!”

67 Cheeky 71 “Scarlett” setting 72 Form of bank fraud 74 Password creator 75 Surfboard fin 76 Jocular “Gotcha” 77 __ Birds: cellphone game 78 The “a” sound in “afire” 79 ATM maker 81 Seek advice from 83 “This is yours now!”

84 Presses on 87 Lennon’s lady 88 Droids, e.g.

90 Mule’s parent 91 Umbrella-garnished drink 92 Warehouse worker 97 African snake 98 Kick and Zero colas 100 Joins forces 101 They may be rolled over, for short 105 Friendly greeting 109 Outcast 110 Extremely thin 111 Terr. that’s now two states 112 Have a go at 114 Deals with

116 Big name in china 118 Dip in “Swan Lake”?

119 Prepare a seder, say 122 “Whether __ or lose ...”

123 Mary Kay rival 124 Hilltop homes 125 Cold-climate seabird 126 Painter of café scenes 127 Scads 128 Egyptian currency 129 Decorates mischievously, for short

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8 Persona __ grata 9 Italian dumplings 10 Party to remember 11 Abbr. on a cornerstone 12 Beatles drummer after 10-Across 13 La Brea attraction 14 Football surprise 15 Perfectly fine 16 Justin Bieber, e.g.

17 Gasteyer of “SNL” 18 DVR button 24 “Endymion” poet 29 Penn of “Milk”

33 Take a shine to 34 Set a price of 36 Discontinuing 37 Hard on the eyes, in a way 38 Minor quibbles 40 Counting-rhyme starter

44 It may have a theme 45 Bridge installer’s deg.

46 “Get over yourself!”

47 Private aye 49 Sears associate 50 Harness racing events 51 Mall melodies 52 Simple trap

57 “The facts, ma’am” series 58 Runner-up’s demand 59 Former acorn 60 Language in which “Shazbot!” is a profanity 63 “Zip it!”

64 Basil-based sauces 66 Whichever 68 Milo of film and stage 69 Comedian Black 70 Cries of annoyance 72 Turning green in the backseat, say 73 One may be returned for a TD 78 Encl. with a manuscript 80 He debuted in Action Comics in 1938 82 Kanga’s little one 83 GI’s lullaby?

84 All-in-one Apple 85 Beer-brewing mixture 86 “Zip it!”

88 With 10-Across, Beatles drummer before 12-Down 89 Moccasin material 93 Gather discriminately 94 Patella 95 Nap, in British slang 96 Iranian money 99 Stick to policy 102 Charge 103 Get in the game 104 Long-legged waders 106 “Embraced by the Light” author Betty 107 Round of shots 108 Boxy Toyota 110 Explain away, with “over” 113 Griffey and Griffey Jr. 115 Squeezed (out) 116 Seeker in personals, briefly 117 Stew veggie 120 LBJ’s antipoverty agcy.

121 Sch. named for an evangelist

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It may not be a crime against humanity, but I’m just as guilty as the next Baby Boomer-turned-Empty Nester of poohpoohing my children’s efforts to infuse a little global awareness and social consciousness into my self-absorbed life.

But on March 7, my son, Adam, shared a link on my Facebook page, asking me to watch a 30-minute online video about Joseph Kony.

“Who is Joseph Kony?” I wondered as I scanned through the posts from old high school chums, too-cute photos of dogs and cats, and notices from local non-profit agencies strategically and allso-subtly asking me for tax-deductible donations.

I came so close to not watching the video, thinking “Hey, I’m a busy man, and 30 minutes is a long time to devote to making the world a better place.” But once again, parental guilt got the better of me, and I clicked on the YouTube link and settled in my chair for what I was sure would be another passing fad among the beer-drinking, tree-huggers of Portland, Ore. Thirty minutes and now some 30 days later, I can’t think about that video (much less watch it again) without swallowing a huge lump of choking remorse.

It’s a solid balance of personal detail mixed with grass-roots spunk. When I hear a teenager wish for death rather than being captured by Kony, or see the lipless, mutilated faces of victims flash by, I can’t help but feel my emotions well up, compelling me to get out of my

comfort zone, to take a stand.

As April 20 – the Day of Action – approaches, I keep asking myself, “Where can I get a bunch of those red posters?”

For if all goes as planned, when we wake up on Saturday, April 21, the world will have a new celebrity: Joseph Kony, the Ugandan warlord who has captured 66,000 children during the past 20 years and turned them into killing machines or sex slaves.

Everywhere we look that morning, we should see the words “Kony 2012” printed against a blood-red background.

You will either ask yourself, “Where did all these signs come from?” or rub the sand out of your eyes because you spent the night hanging posters and raising awareness against the No. 1 criminal on earth.

Surely, you already knew about this global effort to create awareness of these crimes against humanity. Surely, you’ve at least heard about the video’s maker, Jason Russell, the young man who has dedicated most of his life to this cause – and was arrested for acting crazy and running naked through the streets.

What about the gotcha, backlash stories that say the whole effort is based on media misinformation and marketing manipulation? Hasn’t someone forwarded you an email link to some website somewhere that talks about Joseph Kony? Aren’t you among the 100 million online viewers? And, yes, it has been on the evening news and in the old-school real paper newspapers. Hey, pay atten-

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Technically, the Kony 2012 campaign has out-performed the “ridiculously photogenic guy” online phenomena, but only because it has been around a lot longer. The handsome PR guy who managed to flash the most winning of smiles during the grueling Cooper River Bridge Run in Charleston has only about 59 million hits. But he got them much faster and is still gaining market share. I guess people would just rather see a 25-year-old man win fame and fortune for being in the right place at the right time, than the ugly face of murder and rape. Go figure.

Yes, this is a test, and there will be winners and losers. Some will win big by making videos, headlines, tie-in products, and, one hopes, a difference.

The biggest win will be if enough people simply take notice. Watch the video: Kony2012.com. Understand the problem. Let the image of Kony burn into your brain until you just can’t take it anymore and you take some real action – like writing a letter to your congressman. But until then, find that blood-red poster. Walk proudly out into the night on April 20 and hang it for the world to see. Let’s make Kony infamous.

Steve Wong lives in a peach orchard in Inman with wife and their four cats and three dogs. Contact him at Just4Wong@ Gmail.com.

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