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6.8% The March unemployment rate in Greenville county, down from 7.2 percent in February.

This puts Greenville tied with Charleston and Lexington for the lowest rates in the state.

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Roslyn Brock, vice president of Advocacy and Government Relations for Bon Secours Health System and chairman of the NAACP’s National Board of Directors.

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Grading for the approximately 1.5 acre park next to the Runway Café will begin in May, said Lara Kaufman, marketing director for the airport.

The airport has raised about $30,000 of the estimated $350,000 to $450,000 needed to complete the park, she said.

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pilots, said airport director Joe Frasher.

Pilots are expected to be in short supply nationwide within 15 years to 20 years, Kaufman said.

“If you talk to a lot of pilots, they say they became interested in aviation as kids,” she said. “But kids can’t experience aviation like they used to.”

Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks and resulting security changes, some 10,000 school-aged children toured the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport annually. They were allowed to explore areas of the airport the flying public doesn’t usually see and given the chance to board a plane.

National security restrictions no longer allow such freedom at GSP, but the same is not true for the smaller Downtown Airport, located between the commercial corridors of I-385, Laurens Road, Pleasantburg Drive and Haywood Road. And “smaller” is a relative word.

The Greenville Downtown Airport handles about 60,000 flights per year and

is the busiest general aviation airport in South Carolina. The Greenville Jet Center, which is located at the airport, is the largest fixed-base operation in the state.

With the construction of this park, Downtown Airport staff hope to fill a void for school tours that 9/11 took away.

The new park, which is offering naming rights, will have a playground, “runways” and a perimeter “taxiway” around the park for exercisers. A natural amphitheater will be available for school trip lessons and viewing the airport’s real runway activity. An antique airplane hangar will be transformed into a picnic pavilion and a plane fuselage will serve as the entrance to the park. Airplane wings will provide shade over park benches.

The Greenville Airport Commission is donating use of its land for the park.

Donations to the park are tax deductible, Kaufman said.

“We think this park will be a perfect addition to Greenville’s growing aviation- and transportation-oriented community,” said Hank Brown, owner of the Greenville Jet Center.

The first fundraising event for the park, “Party Down for the Playground Hangar Party,” will be held May 24 from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m.

Beach band Legends of Beach will perform. Tickets are $30 and admission is limited to those 21 years old or older.

Food, beer and wine are included in the ticket price.

Tickets are available online at www. eventbrite.com/event/2875439517 and at the Greenville Jet Center, 100 Tower Drive; Beach Bob Oldies Show, 103.3 WOLT-FM studio at 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive, Suite B3; Donaldson Jet Center, 126 Club Loop; and Smith Drug Company at 441 E. Henry St. in Spartanburg.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

Somers, Corbin, Miler battle for District 5 Senate seat Suit aims to keep last week’s entrants off primary ballot By jerry salley | staff

Within one week after S.C. Sen. Phil Shoopman withdrew from the District 5 Senate race, two new candidates had entered the competition, while a third had filed for an Shoopman injunction to prevent them from appearing on the ballot.

On Sunday, April 16, Shoopman announced his decision to withdraw from the race for District 5, which includes parts of northern Greenville and Spartanburg counties. By the next day, state Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly had decided to re-open filing for the seat for a 48-hour period, which ended at noon Wednesday, April 18.

On Monday afternoon, S.C. Representative Tom Corbin was the first to announce that he would file to run for the seat. Corbin, from Travelers Rest, Corbin represents House District 17, which overlaps Senate District 5. He will hold on to his House seat while he runs for the Senate seat, he said; if he wins, a special election will be held to fill his House seat.

“We need solid conservative representation in the district,” Corbin, a self-described conservative Christian, told the Travelers Rest Tribune. “I believe it is what God wants me to do, and it is in His hands.”

On Tuesday, Greenville small-business owner and political newcomer Wyatt Miler announced his candidacy. “My decision to run for the open District 5 seat was to Miler provide a new voice for the people of Greenville County,” he said. “I will work to reduce burdensome regulations that are hindering the

growth of our employers, to reduce taxes and keep a balanced budget.”

Amanda Somers, a Greer businesswoman and physical therapist, also a political newcomer, would have been the only candidate for the District 5 Senate nomination in Somers the June 12 Republican primary after incumbent Shoopman withdrew. With no Democratic candidate in the race, Somers would also have been the only candidate for the seat in the November election.

Her suit was filed April 18 in the Court of Common Pleas in Richland County

by Columbia lawyer Todd Kincannon, who alleged that “no lawful method was used to reopen filing.”

Kincannon, former general counsel and executive director of the state GOP, argued the law specifies that the decision to reopen filing can only come from the state GOP committee, meaning Connelly lacked the authority to declare a new filing period.

The suit names the South Carolina State Elections Commission and “all late-filing candidates for South Carolina State Senate District 5” as defendants.

Somers is asking the court to “enjoin the South Carolina State Election Commission from adding any more names to the South Carolina Senate District 5 primary ballot.”

“I am treating this election process the same way I do all business and personal decisions I make,” said Somers in a statement. “I am neither a lawyer nor a politician and I need a deeper understanding and a clear definition of the law. I feel that taking this course of action is a part of the due diligence needed to have a full and accurate understanding of the process. My ultimate goal is to serve the members of my community and as a hopeful future lawmaker that all laws and processes are followed as written. As the current situation stands, I am not clear as to whether or not that is the case.”

While she waits for the court to act, Somers said, she plans to continue her campaign.

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Some good economic news The best news about the recent high-profile economic development announcements in the Upstate – Michelin’s coming expansion in Anderson, BMW’s in Spartanburg – is that they are just a start on the economic good news.

As the Greenville Economic Development Corp. announced last week, 2011 was a record-setting year for encouraging new companies to locate in Greenville County and established businesses to expand. All total, the GEDC was instrumental in attracting $290.6 million in new investment and the promise of 3,092 jobs – in one year.

Meanwhile, the Upstate South Carolina Alliance is more than halfway to its five-year goal to recruit 18,000 new jobs and $4.5 billion in capital investment to the region by 2015.

The alliance is a public/private regional economic development organization formed in 2000 to market the 10 counties in our northwest corner of the state to the world. Last week, Alliance president Hal Johnson said the region has attracted 13,000 new jobs and $3.7 billion in capital investment “in difficult economic times” – a collective accomplishment that all the region’s local economic developers can celebrate.

Johnson also unveiled a new Alliance approach to Upstate business recruitment that will double down on the cluster strategy that South Carolina has been fine-tuning as a state since 2005.

This approach operates on the theory that nurturing high-impact firms in specific trade clusters will give a state (one of 15 clusters identified statewide) a competitive advantage because it promotes common interests. A 2011 Brookings Institute report agreed, saying “strong clusters foster innovation through dense knowledge flows and spillovers … (they) enhance productivity, income levels and employment growth in industries and positively influence regional economic performance.”

An obvious example is the Upstate’s automotive cluster – one of 15 clusters identified statewide – with 125 manufacturers, suppliers and related companies that together generate $29 billion in annual sales.

Johnson said after a two-year study, the Upstate Alliance staff has identified five targeted industries that have experienced the most activity in our corner of the state. Going forward, the group’s investment recruitment team will focus its energies on clusters of influence, aerospace and advanced materials, and biosciences and energy in addition to automotive-related industries, he wrote in a guest column in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

These clusters represent “our region’s greatest opportunity for growth” and will position the Upstate as a “global competitor for jobs and capital investment,” he wrote. “Globally, we are seeing more specialization in business recruitment, and if the Upstate is to compete worldwide … we at the Upstate SC Alliance need to specialize as well.”

The alliance will create a task force of Upstate leaders for each targeted industry to serve as sounding boards for the recruitment team, he wrote. The goal will be “a healthy mix of company headquarters, data centers, call centers, warehouses, information technology, back offices, and more. This means we target companies with 20,000 employees and with two.”

Last fall, Area Development Magazine named South Carolina fourth of 10 in a list of “2011 Top States for Doing Business.” The magazine credited the cluster strategy as a key reason the state has outpaced the nation in job growth in both manufacturing and professional business service sectors.

The Upstate Alliance is focusing its energies where it should, and we all will benefit. Good news, indeed.

Sports bring nationwide notice Some call it the fastest game on two feet; others call it the fastest game on turf.

Either way, it’s coming to the Upstate and it’s going to be exciting.

Greenville is in the final preparations to host the MCLA (Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association) National Championships, May 14 to 19. The competition will be held at Wenwood Park and Sirrine Stadium downtown, and will consist of 32 of the top collegiate lacrosse teams from around the U.S. and Canada, including BYU, Arizona State, Cal Poly and Michigan State, and regional hopefuls Georgia, Florida State and home favorite Clemson. All will compete in a single-elimination tournament leading to a national champion.

Competition begins with preliminary rounds at Wenwood Park in Divisions I and II on May 14 and 15. Then the competition shifts to Sirrine Stadium for the semifinals and finals Thursday and Saturday, May 17 and 19.

MCLA Board President Tony Scazzero said the “intimate setting of Sirrine and the welcoming nature of Greenville in general were major contributing factors in MCLA’s selecting Greenville to host over Denver and San Diego.”

The MCLA National Championship Finals will be covered live by Fox Sports South and the entire tournament week will be webcast live across the country. Local event organizers are looking to attract more than 3,000 spectators to the event throughout the week. With 32 teams, family members and spectators, the Greenville Convention and Visitors Bureau is anticipating a major economic impact of $2.5 million during championship week.

But MCLA is certainly not all that is on the horizon this spring. We are ramping up to one of the busiest event periods in some time. Simultaneous to the MCLA event is the annual BMW Charity Celebrity ProAm Golf Tournament, presented by Synnex Corporation, which attracts celebrity golfers and pairs them with local and aspiring pros from the nationwide tour.

The BMW event draws more than 5,000 spectators and hosts numerous events during tournament week. That same week, the Greenville Drive and Fluor Field will host the SoCon Baseball Tournament fea-

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turing competing teams from the Southern Conference. Add in the annual Greek Festival, and you have one busy week.

But that’s not all. The following week, Greenville rolls out the red carpet for the Greenville Hospital System USA Cycling Professional Championships, May 28 to 30, which has become an Upstate staple.

The USA Pro attracts more than 100 of America’s top professional cyclists and last year drew over 50,000 spectators over the course of the event weekend.

Combined with Freedom Weekend Aloft and the Scottish Games, this rounds out a very busy May. June picks up right where May leaves off, with the hosting of the U.S. Youth Soccer Southern Regional (Region III) Championships by the Carolina Elite Soccer Academy (CESA) June 14 to 24. Slated for the MeSA Soccer complex and other locations throughout the county, more than 280 teams will compete, generating nearly 18,000 room nights and adding $10 million in direct spending to the Upstate economy.

In addition, Greenville Country Club and the new Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center Tennis Complex will host the USTA South Carolina 2.5-3.5 Adult Championships June 1 to 4. As you can see, the Upstate has and continues to attract major sports and tourism events that can positively effect the economy and add to the quality of life and entertainment options for our residents.

Todd A. Bertka is vice president of sales for the Greenville Convention & Visitors Bureau.

A Certified Association Sales Executive with 21 years’ experience, Bertka worked with the Nashville CVB, the Hawaii Convention Center, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and the Indianapolis CVA before coming to Greenville.

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Y Camp Greenville kicks off its second 100 years Y Camp Greenville, high atop Standingstone Mountain, literally overlooks the top of our state at the exact edge of South and North Carolina. It is a haven of tall pines and ravens, a 1,400-acre wilderness of waterfalls, streams and lakes, where laurel and wild flowers flourish and wild animals make their homes. Standingstone Mountain, at an altitude of 3,200 feet, is the location of the finest co-ed adventure camp in the entire Southeast. Thanks to Mr. J. Harvey Cleveland and the Saluda Land and Lumber Company, the small tent camp that had begun in 1912 in Blythe Shoals, S.C., became a permanent camp in the glorious Blue Ridge in 1925. And thanks to the foresight of these donors, the camp property will always remain a camp.

Camp Greenville was created by leaders like Dr. Charles J. Kilbourne, who were focused on the proper raising and “rearing up” of young men. They were the leaders of the YMCA of Greenville and such civic organizations as the Greenville Rotary.

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living in towns as families left the farm and worked in the mills. Idealistic Greenville leaders were concerned that these youngsters, left to their own devices, would grow up rough and thoughtless. Spending weeks together in the wilderness with top-caliber leadership would teach them the vital lessons of good citizenship, living in harmony and Christian character traits while they all enjoyed a great campout.

In the early days, the camp leaders were professional men who gave up several weeks each summer to work at Camp Greenville to ensure that the boys had the proper guidance. And because of their devotion to helping raise young boys into good men, they were successful. Parents were impressed by the increase in their children’s manners and self-confidence and the kids were just as excited by the adventure of it all. The camp grew in size

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every year. The word was out – Camp nities and our state have missed without Greenville was the best place to spend Camp Greenville? And how much more the summer. And many campers elected special would our communities be if all to stay the entire summer. our children could attend camp?

Of the thousands of boys, and later girls, On Sunday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 who were fortunate enough to attend the p.m., everyone is invited to the mounlegendary camp, many went on to lead gov- taintop to experience this legendary ernment, business concerns, churches and spot for themselves, enjoy a raft of free non-profits. And, realizing that camp had activities and meet the Camp leadership. had a significant role in their character de- This is the official kickoff of the Y Camp velopment and success in life, these grown- Greenville Centennial year and a perfect up campers sent their children there as well. opportunity for you to find out what it is Many of the children who attend Camp and what it means. Camp is located about Greenville today are the grandchildren or an hour north of the city of Greenville, great-grandchildren of former campers. past Caesar’s Head State Park, off HighEven those campers who did not grow way 276. And, while you’re there, leave a into CEOs, mayors, senators or pastors message in the Centennial Time Capsule were, by their own admission, better men for the campers of 2112. and women because of the influence of the Camp Greenville experience. They were H.F. “Gally” Gallivan, better citizens, parents, spouses and role a Greenville native, models because of camp. The impact of has been in financial Complimentary leaders like Uncle Johnny Holmes, Monk Refreshments! services for 40 years. He Mulligan and Luther Marchant cannot be Drawings! is a Y Camp Greenville Door Prize Complimentary Refreshments! overestimated. What would our commualumnus.

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Finding families for ‘the supermodels of the dog world’ Joanne Johnson and Greyhound Crossroads work to rehome retired racing greyhounds

By JERRY SALLEY | staff

“There’s nothing like walking two or three dogs in a hoop skirt and a corset,” says Joanne Johnson.

She would know, having recently returned from a weekend of doing just that at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. She volunteers for The Hounds of East Fairhaven, a group that performs at festivals throughout the Southeast, in full period garb, promoting adoptions for greyhounds as well as other “sighthound” breeds, such as borzoi, whippets and Ibizan hounds.

Through her work with Greyhound Crossroads, finding good homes for greyhounds has been Johnson’s passion for the past decade.

“Ever since I adopted my first greyhound,” she said, “I just fell in love with the breed.”

Greyhound Crossroads, based in Greenwood, has been around since 1997, providing foster homes for more than 1,000 retired greyhound racers, and working to find permanent homes for them in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee.

After adopting her first greyhound more than a decade ago, Johnson immediately volunteered to foster dogs, and is now the Greenville representative for Greyhound Crossroads.

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Joanne Johnson at the Carolina Renaissance Festival with her greyhounds Moose, standing, and Miles Per Hour, lying down in the background.

tives in Easley, Charleston, Columbia, Myrtle Beach and Augusta, S.C., as well as in Charlotte, N.C. and Augusta, GA., is the longest-running greyhound adoption group in the state. Greyhound Crossing describes itself as “progreyhound, racing neutral and anti-abuse.”

The racetracks aren’t necessarily the bad guys, Johnson explained. “We like to work closely with the tracks, with the trainers, and with the individual racing owners,” she said. “They’re taking good care of them and working very hard with us.”

Some of the greyhounds’ previous owners and trainers pay up to $80 to transport a dog to his new home, or pay for spaying and neutering, or

make other generous donations, Johnson said.

“In most cases, we’re taking a valuable athlete worth thousands of dollars from somebody who’s done their best to take care of the dog in the best way possible so they could be a successful racer,” she said.

Greyhound Crossing has no kennels, Johnson said. “We rely on a great network of foster homes to take in the dogs and work with them and teach them how to be in a house.”

The dogs have a lot to learn before they’re ready for their adoptive homes. “A lot of our dogs have never been in homes before,” Johnson said. “They’ve come straight from the racetrack.

So we need to teach them how to walk on shiny floors, because they don’t have many of those at racetracks.

We teach them how to go up and down stairs. Basic house manners. And usually they learn so fast. It’s just amazing that within a few days they can make that transition from living in a kennel to living in a home.”

Most of the dogs come from tracks in Florida, and have retired relatively young from racing. “We usually get them when they’re between 2 and 5 years old,” Johnson said. And since greyhounds typically live between 12 and 15 years, “they’ve got a lot of good years left when we get them.”

Some of the dogs in the worst shape, Johnson said, are the rescue dogs the group finds at shelters or accepts from families who are unable to care for them. “Usually, if a greyhound turns up in a shelter, the greyhound community will go to the shelter and get the dog and adopt it out ourselves,” she said.

“Greyhounds are very unique, just like all breeds are unique.

I know a lot about greyhounds, and the adoption community knows a lot about greyhounds.

And the Humane Society and groups that handle more breeds of dogs may not know as much about each specific breed that they’re handling. We believe that we’ll do a better job of placing that dog and educating the owners about this specific breed, because we just deal with this specific breed.”

Detailed knowledge of a spe-

cific breed is the philosophy behind several breed-specific dog rescue and adoption organizations in the Upstate and around the country. Locally, FootHills Golden Retriever Rescue in Greenville and Carolina Poodle Rescue in Greer are two groups providing breed-specific services. Nelly’s Nards in Liberty handles St. Bernards, and Ararat’s Doxie Haven works with purebred dachshunds.

A complete list of Upstate dog rescue and adoption groups is at www.sciway.net/org/ upstate-sc-animal-rescue.html

For example, those unfamiliar with the breed may not know that greyhounds have larger hearts than most dogs. “Not even all vets know that,” Johnson said. Greyhound Crossroads has a network of greyhound specialist veterinarians, and provides support for other vets.

New greyhound owners are also often surprised to find out their dogs aren’t speed demons. “We call them 45-mile-an-hour couch potatoes,” Johnson said. “They’re sprinters, so they do a 30-second race at the racetrack once every three to five days, and that’s it. I wish I could exercise that little and look as good as they do. They’re the supermodels of the dog world.”

For more information about Greyhound Crossroads, visit www.greyhoundcrossroads.com.

Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.

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Building inside out Judson pastor wants to help restore sense of community to area Near the Milliken mill in Greenville’s Judson community stands a brick church where Rev. Windell Rogers recently held a Pray for Judson event. Visitors and members could come and pray for the restoration of community identity, freedom from poverty and abundance.

Rogers has a vision for restoring the sense of community to this neighborhood that was once a vibrant mill village. With Greater Mt. Calvary Baptist Church as a neighborhood resource and his home base, Rogers wants to help spark interest in Judson as an affordable and beautiful place to live.

“It’s only two miles from Falls Park. This is one of the few places close to downtown that you can still find a decent structure with yard space,” he said.

Judson faces problems like a high home rental rate and high unemployment, Rogers said, and he wants to help facilitate change.

Rogers came to the Upstate from Columbia in 1980. After serving seven years active duty in the military, he became a manager with the U.S. Postal Service before beginning pastoral work.

Rogers has been pastor at Greater Mt. Calvary for 14 years. He said he knew this sort of outreach would be part of his focus after multiple mission trips to Mexico and Honduras.

Those trips “reminded me that we have some of the same conditions at home,” he said.

Rogers is often in the neighborhood on prayer walks with others, stopping to pray for residents.

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can cure many ills,” he says.

The church participates in neighborhood outreach each year at Thanksgiving, partnering with Southside Fellowship in Simpsonville to provide meals for the community through Boxes of Love. As a result of this work, Rogers met a grandmother who was raising her grandson the best way she could in adverse conditions. The two became close and Rogers, who has been married for nearly 40 years and has three grown children, became the guardian of the 10-year-old boy when the grandmother passed away about 18 months ago. He says going back to childrearing after being an empty nester required much prayer, but “he’s worth every minute that he’s been with us.”

Reaching out to the community through the church is vital, Rogers said. Greater Mt. Calvary Baptist Church moved into the area seven years ago and he considers the facility itself a fantastic asset, with 60 rooms, many of those unused.

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Can Learn” program that offers afterschool and summer enrichment for students. And there’s a clothes closet and food pantry for those in need. “We try to be a resource for this neighborhood. Ideally that’s what we’d like to be,” Rogers said.

He adds that there are many nonEnglish speakers in the area and he sees a demand for English as a Second Language (ESL) workshops and classes. He sees using some of the church’s space to allow artists or artisans to work and a community garden on the horizon.

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existing neighborhood resources in the Judson community, among them Hollis Academy and the Judson YMCA. He said he dreams of restoring the old mill village baseball fields to provide a gathering place and recreation for all ages.

Though he believes that community change should begin with the residents, Rogers admits that other resources are required.

“We are looking for someone to help with renewal. We need people who have monetary resources. I’m praying for people to get interested in Judson.”

To discover avenues for generating interest in the area, Rogers has been talking with residents and meeting with local businesses and law enforcement. He’s also partnering with Greenville Connect, a church, ministry and business alliance, to offer assistance in Judson.

“I believe that God wants us to help other people and we have that opportunity here in Judson.

We just want Judson to thrive.”

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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Haddon has refused comment on the issues raised in the DHEC reports and so far has not responded to the Journal’s requests to tour some of the agency’s group homes.

DHEC cited many instances of structural deficiencies at the group homes reviewed in the reports made available to the Journal.

Regarding fiscal issues, Haddon writes the agency is looking at its van replacement program; HVAC issues at the office building and facilities; spending cuts to all non-critical items; and elimination of positions with restructuring and streamlining the agency.

He also lists plans to outsource employee shots and cut one staff position.

These moves, Haddon writes, will save over $200,000 a year and bring the monthly payroll under the targeted goal of $435,000 a month.

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Haddon did not return the Journal’s requests for an interview as of press time Wednesday.

The eliminated positions include director of day programs, the administrative assistant for day programs, medication coordinator, healthcare coordinator and the human resources administrative assistant.

Haddon’s efforts to bring spending under control at DSN are one of the reasons he was brought in following the February firing of then agency director Brent Parker over spend-

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This year, sources close to the situation have said, the agency is projecting a slight surplus by the end of the fiscal year.

The document provided to the Journal lists the author as Haddon and came under the Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs Board name and logo.

In it, Haddon writes the agency is continuing to be vigilant in paying down its outstanding debt and shows about $125,000 in outstanding debt to vendors, with Bi-Lo listed as having the largest balance at $50,000.

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the news in brief Several organizations that rescued what is believed to be the last remaining slave structure in Greenville County from demolition were awarded the Palmetto Trust Preservation Award Tuesday.

The two-room 1840s Williams-Earle slave cabin is now at the Roper Mountain Science Center and is used to teach lessons on sharecropping, tenant farming and the Reconstruction era of South Carolina history.

The Williams-Earle cabin “If Walls Could Speak” project preserves and interprets the history of African-Americans in Greenville from 1790 to 1930. “If Walls Could Speak” tells the overlooked story of slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow through a single structure and provides social studies teachers with a venue to teach their students about the contributions of Upcountry African-Americans.

Since it opened in 2010, more than 8,000 students have been through the Williams-Earle cabin. The cabin is also open to the public as a part of Roper Mountain Science Center’s Second Saturday program.

The cabin was rescued from demolition in 2009 and moved to the science center with the help of the Earle family, volunteers and grants from The History Channel and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The science center, the Greenville County Historic Preservation Commission and Mountain Sturdy Oak Restoration received the award from the Palmetto Trust, the state Department of Archives and the Governor’s Office.

Furman University is one of 11 schools nationally to receive a highly competitive grant supporting scientific research by undergraduates.

The $77,200 Beckman Scholars Program Institutional Award will fund four Beckman scholarships in the chemistry department over a three-year period beginning this summer.

Furman is one of only three baccalaureate institutions to have received at least five awards in the program’s 15-year history.

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation invites about 100 schools, from baccalaureate to major research institutions, to apply for grants. Thirty-six were chosen for an extensive review by a panel of professors.

The chemistry majors chosen for the scholarships of $19,300 each will be required to do research part-time during one academic year and full-time during two summers.

Seven of Furman’s former Beckman Scholars enrolled in chemistry Ph.D. programs, four entered M.D. /Ph.D. programs and three attended medical school. Another entered graduate school in public health administration after serving for two years as a volunteer at rural health clinics in Africa and India.

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The "Willie Earle" historical marker on Highway 124 and Old Bramlett Road has been stolen. The sign, which marks the site of the last lynching in South Carolina in 1947, was last seen approximately two to four weeks ago. The Greenville County Sheriff's Office asks that anyone with information regarding the theft call Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME.

Live Oak Farms facing government seizure May be sold in connection with Ponzi scheme

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Ron Wilson’s fears seem to be coming true as federal prosecutors start the process of cataloging the former investor’s assets with an eye toward liquidating them and using the proceeds to pay off investors should Wilson be convicted of running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

“I don’t know how long we’ll have this place,” a glum Wilson told the Journal

from behind the counter at the Live Oak Farms store in southern Spartanburg County recently.

U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles has asked a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take charge of Wilson’s assets and come up with a fair way to distribute them should Wilson be convicted of mail fraud.

Wilson said he was doing OK in dealing with his legal problems. He was at Live Oak to take care of the store while his daughter, Allison Schaum, and her family were out of town two weekends ago. Schaum has refused to comment on her father’s difficulties.

Schaum owns and operates the farm, which

specializes in heritage breeds and is known for a massive solar panel array used to run the store’s cooling system. As of early this week, the farm was still open for business.

Federal investigators say the farm and Wilson’s Atlantic Bullion & Coin company share an office in Easley and are therefore linked in the alleged Ponzi scheme, which reportedly swindled 900 investors across the county out of millions.

“Records I have reviewed show the monies received from investors being used for Wilson’s and his family’s personal business interests,” Secret Service agent Thomas M. Griffin Jr. wrote in court documents filed earlier this month.

The federal government claims that Wilson told investors that he was investing their money in silver. He is accused of never actually purchasing the silver, but diverting the money for personal gain, court documents say.

William J. Watkins, the federal prosecutor in the case, said the government would seize the farm, and the receiver would have the power to sell the farm’s assets to recoup victims’ losses if Wilson is convicted.

Wilson is a former Anderson County councilman who lives in Powdersville.

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Eight years ago, when Christy Dias began suffering with excruciating abdominal pain, she was treated for reflux, had her gallbladder removed and endured batteries of tests without relief. One physician finally mentioned that the trouble may be with her pancreas, the organ that regulates blood glucose and aids in digestion.

Doctors at MUSC Charleston discovered that Dias had a congenital anomaly in which the pancreas was left divided when formed, as well as a malfunction of a pancreas duct.

Multiple surgeries failed to alleviate her symptoms for long; though they would go away, they would inevitably return. She could no longer care for her family. Some days, she couldn’t get out of bed.

Dias began researching a new surgical procedure and, in 2011, became the 49th person at MUSC to undergo surgery to remove her pancreas. The groundbreaking surgery required extensive recovery and left Dias a diabetic, but she no longer suffers pancreatitis symptoms.

Most people hear only about pancreatic cancer, which they know has a very low survival rate, Dias said. But there is little known, even in the medical community, about the pancreas and pancreatitis. “Many doctors were just taught ‘don’t touch the pancreas,’” she said. “It’s a tricky organ, but crucial.”

Pancreatic cancer is one of the top four causes of cancer deaths in the U.S., yet has very little funding for research, she said.

That is why, in 2010, Dias formed a nonprofit she calls “The Cranky Panky” to spread awareness for pancreas research.

The organization’s website exists as a forum for pancreatitis sufferers to talk, learn and share tips about daily life with pancreatic disease, which often involves severe pain and debilitating digestive problems.

To support the National Pancreas Foundation and create awareness in the Upstate, Dias is also holding a fundraiser, Create the Cure, on May 3 at Twigs Tempietto in Greenville.

Dias paints as therapy and is an art lover, so in addition to dinner, music and an auction, the event will showcase local artists, including Patricia Crandall, Justice Littlejohn, Marie Scott, Bridgett Crocker, Jacki Newell, Michelle Wright, Joy Evans and Rhonda Leonard. Dias hopes the fundraiser will become an annual event.

After nearly a decade of pain and several years of not knowing what the problem was, Dias still struggles daily to balance her health. “It’s certainly not ideal to live without a pancreas,” she says, “but living with a diseased pancreas can be deadly. I’m lucky to have my life.”

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Stephens announces candidacy for county seat Greenville businessman Scott Stephens announced this week that he will run as a Republican candidate for the District 20 seat on the Greenville County Council.

Stephens, owner of Camille’s Sidewalk Café and Director of Advancement for the Piedmont Women’s Center, said his business background and nonprofit experience will be a unique skill combination for a County Council member. He has worked with various nonprofits and said “many social issues can be solved if we empower the nonprofits to do their jobs.”

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The Greenville restaurateur could be operating the Overlook Grill restaurant at the entrance to Falls Park if the Greenville City Council gives final approval to the lease.

The city has leased space to Overlook Grill Inc. to operate a restaurant in the Falls Park building and lower plaza since 2004. But Overlook Grill Inc. President Sam Kleckly has requested the city assign the lease to the building and plaza to Falls Park Eatery, LLC. Sobocinski is Falls Park Eatery’s president.

City Parks and Recreation Director Dana Souza said that under the current lease, the Overlook Grill pays $22,000 a year in rent and the money goes into the city’s general fund.

Sobocinski has proposed that the city collect 2.5 percent of gross revenue and that the money go into the Falls Park Endowment. The city has proposed that 1.5 percent of the restaurant’s gross revenue go into the endowment and the other 1 percent go into the city’s general fund for the first five years of the lease.

Souza said in the Overlook Grill’s worst year, gross revenue was $660,000 and that would have generated $16,250. Its best year, with $1.1 million in gross revenues, would have generated $27,500, he said.

“The percentage gives us the opportunity to share in the restaurant’s success,” Souza told council.

Falls Park Eatery would have the ability to extend the lease for two three-year terms. During the extensions, the restaurant would be charged $18 a square foot and contribute 1 percent of its gross revenue to the Falls Park Endowment.

The city would have to approve any changes to the restaurant’s menu. The restaurant would continue to be called Overlook Grill.

In other action, Council approved the purchase of 50 electronic ticketing machines for the city police department’s first responders at a cost of $41,879 through an Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance grant.

The department bought 70 of the machines last year.

The machines allow officers to scan a driver’s license and automatically print a citation instead of having to write it by hand.

“I’ve been assured they are totally officer-proof,” said Chief Terri Wilfong.

“So you’re saying it has spell-check,” Councilwoman Lillian Brock Flemming said during an exchange that got laughs from other council members.

In addition, council members gave initial approval to an ordinance that requires proposed nightclubs, bars and other establishments open after midnight to go before a technical committee comprised of city staff members before their request is sent to the Board of Zoning Appeals.

Jean Poole, the city’s planning and development manager, said the new requirement is to ensure applicants submit all of the information required by the board such as menus, percentages of income from food and alcohol sales and staffing.

The council also approved the rezoning of six parcels of property on Conestee Avenue, Woodside Circle, North Pleasantburg Drive and Woodruff Road.

The next regular meeting of the Greenville City Council is May 14 at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers on the 10th floor of Greenville City Hall.

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St. Francis Eastside is first hospital in state to earn Energy Star certification Usually you find the EPA’s Energy Star logo on clothes dryers or dishwashers, but the program that helps consumers find the most energy-efficient products also rates buildings. Bon Secours St. Francis’ eastside campus announced this week that it is the state’s first hospital to receive Energy Star certification for superior energy efficiency. This means that the building is ranked in the top 25 percent nationwide of similar facilities for efficiency.

The hospital celebrated the designation and Earth Day on Tuesday with an Energy Fair and staff picnic that showcased the ways the hospital is reducing waste, saving money and conserving energy along with several vendors.

Jerry Shepard, manager of the hospital’s engineering department, said the hospital began working towards energy saving in 2006 with concentration on the heating and cooling systems.

Hospital staffers worked to eliminate pockets of heat and cold in the building by making changes to the HVAC systems responsible for temperature and humidity regulation.

The adjustments have aided in areas where temperature and humidity are critical, helped with energy costs and increased employee and patient satisfaction, said Shepard. When the temperature outdoors is around 54 degrees, the building can use outside air

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for cooling, he added. “We can run on outside air for several months.”

St. Francis reports that energy consumption was reduced by 22 percent, and Shepard believes “we can get to 25 percent. I don’t think you’re ever done.” Cumulative system-wide cost savings are more than $1.1 million, the hospital reported.

Karen Schwartz, vice president of operations and facilities, is also head of the hospital’s Green Team that works with a multidisciplinary plan across both campuses. The group focuses on ways to reduce landfill waste, conserve energy and educate employees in ways to become greener. The Green Team also tracks the recycling rate; currently, 38 percent of the hospital’s total waste is recycled, Schwartz said.

“What we want to do is reduce our carbon output and the number of BTUs we use per square foot,” says Schwartz. “The biggest cost is heating, cooling and lighting.” Since 2009, the Eastside facility has reduced BTUs used by 24,534 million.

There is also an initiative to examine the hospital’s food service to use less energy, create less waste and offer the healthiest fare possible, Schwartz said.

According to Energy Star, there are 21 other certified Energy Star buildings in Greenville, including schools, stores and office spaces.

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Roslyn Brock knew she wanted to focus on hospital administration – after all, the assessment test she took in high school told her she would be good at it. It also said she would do well as a lawyer or doctor. She followed the hospital administration path and has truly made health advocacy her life’s work.

While she has focused on health in her career, many may know her from her volunteer work as chairman of the NAACP’s National Board of Directors. As an undergraduate at Virginia Union University, Brock says she discovered the NAACP, an organization that was allowing young people to take leadership roles.

“I saw young people running meetings and serving as leaders and I wanted to be a part of that,” Brock said. She has served more than 25 years in the NAACP. “I’ve literally grown up in the organization,” she said.

Because of her interest in health issues, she successfully lobbied to have the NAACP

board change the organization’s constitution to include good health as one of its civil rights issues. And in 2010, Brock was elected board chairman, the fourth woman to hold the post and the Brock youngest at 43.

This Friday, Brock’s two passions will bring her to the Upstate. Friday morning she will deliver the keynote speech at the Stand Against Racism Breakfast hosted by the Greenville YWCA, BMW and the Greenville Hospital System. The event is part of a nationwide Stand Against Racism Day involving 39 states and potentially 300,000 participants. The breakfast is designed to raise awareness and bring together organizations and individuals who want to eliminate racism and celebrate diversity.

Brock said the focus of her message will be what she tries to take with her wherever she goes in the U.S. “It is my prayer and life’s work to ensure fairness

in our communities and eliminate bigotry and racism wherever it exists.”

Racism still exists, she said, and is larger than issues affecting black and white: it also involves males and females, sexism, ageism and homophobia. “We all have the opportunity and responsibility to treat each other with respect and dignity. We can celebrate our differences and not have it divide us.”

Brock’s position as vice president of advocacy and government relations for Bon Secours Health System is another reason she will be in the Upstate this Friday. After working in philanthropy for the Kellogg Foundation for 10 years, Brock came to Bon Secours and has been with the hospital system for 11 years. Two years ago she became a vice president and focuses on health advocacy.

After the Stand Against Racism event, Brock will visit the Sterling community, where Bon Secours St. Francis is targeting its Building Healthy Communities Initiative to holistically improve the health of residents. This historic area is centered around Sterling High School (the first

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The Healthy Communities Initiative was launched in 2008 to help build the area’s health from the inside out, using the input of residents. This type of initiative produces stronger, more sustainable results, Brock said. “Relationships are primary and all else is derivative. The residents have to want to do it. People then see the success and results of their labor and it just grows, it snowballs.”

According to Maxim Williams, director of community relationship building for the Healthy Communities Initiative, the effort has used input from Sterling residents to do everything from establishing a farm that will generate healthy produce and income to forming a unique senior citizens’ program that meets five days a week throughout the year. And with the partnership of public and private entities, a sewer easement is being turned into a walking trail that winds through a portion of the community.

“I’m excited to see the Sterling community and how they are bringing about life, wholeness, healing and health,” Brock said.

She recently took responsibility for Bon Secours’ Community Works in the Baltimore area and says taking back the successes and challenges of the Sterling program will help with the Healthy Community outreach in southwest Baltimore.

Brock is particularly interested in how the Sterling initiative is utilizing social media to disseminate information and encourage people to participate. “This is cuttingedge and I’d like to take some of that back to Baltimore,” she said.

In addition to touring the Sterling community, Brock will be meeting with the people who have provided input on the project. “I’m excited about sharing with community leaders, but also meeting residents of the Sterling community and hearing about the work they’re doing. The Sterling community is a prime example of a community in action.”

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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Elected County Council members are the final stop when it comes to county policy and decision making, but before the issues reach the council chambers they are often heard by a group of volunteers.

Approximately 230 appointed volunteers serve on 34 boards, commissions and special tax districts and are helping to oversee everything from local transportation and libraries to fire protection and tourism.

Greenville County boards, either countywide or special tax districts, range in size from three to 12 members who typically serve two to three years.

Members are selected twice a year and go through a six-month long selection process. County Council voted on selecting members for 20 boards earlier this month and will begin the application process again in July.

According to Theresa Kizer, Clerk to Council, there is a 30-day application period when residents can apply for a position on only one board at a time. This allows candidates to choose the board they are most interested in and prevents changes in the ballots at the last minute.

Applicants must be Greenville County residents, registered voters and, if applying for a special tax district seat, live in the district involved. Council members receive copies of all applications, though the standing committee members review the applications for the areas they oversee. The committees then interview the applicants and make recommendations.

“It reduces the marathon sessions we used to have for review,” Kizer said.

Applicants are asked to list the district they live in, volunteer experience, understanding of the position, skills they can contribute and availability. Those with unpaid property taxes will hit a snag because the county verifies whether taxes are paid. In addition, applicants must disclose any criminal record, fines for ethics violations and whether they have served on other boards or commissions or in an elected office.

County Council chooses appointees from a final list of recommendations by

ballot vote. Some boards are high-profile boards, says Kizer, like the Greenville Area Development Corporation or Planning Commission. Others are joint boards with the City of Greenville, including the Airport Commission, the Airport Environs Commission, Greenlink (Greenville Transit) and South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center (SC TAC, formerly the Donaldson Commission).

In addition, the council may make recommendations that are sent to the governor for final approval, as with members of the Arena District (BiLo Center), Boiling Springs Fire District, Disabilities and Special Needs Board, Greater Greenville Sanitation and Recreation District. If the governor must approve the selections, the governor’s office will do a background check, Kizer said.

Generally, the process involves no campaigning, though applicants sometimes contact council members via email.

Until recently, newly appointed board members had orientation only with their board. However, the council has decided to reinstitute a short, general overview and orientation covering ethics, requirements for serving and council liaisons.

Once board and commission members have served out their terms, they can reapply for another term. “Sometimes having served once gives a member experience and they might get council to reappoint them, but sometimes they [council] members are looking for new members and new ideas,” Kizer said. Since there is not a very large pool of applicants for some of the special tax districts, there’s a higher number of reappointments, she said.

Once board members are installed, they cannot be removed unless they have a criminal conviction, move out of the district or county or have been reported to have excessive absences.

If members violate Greenville County codes involving conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest, they are required to resign. Members of a board who were approved by the state cannot be removed by the county government, but must be removed by the governor.

In the past 12 years, Kizer says she could count on one hand the number of board members removed. “We seldom remove for cause,” she said. She also recalls only one person who had applied for a governor-approved position and had a criminal record.

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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Nixon’s brother to discuss historic China trip Lecture is part of Wofford’s Hipp Lecture Series on International Affairs

By CINDY LANDRUM | staff

The late President Richard M. Nixon will forever be known for his failures: the Watergate scandal and his resignation from the highest office of the land.

But he should be judged on his accomplishments as well, according to his youngest brother, Ed. “History will eventually decide the best measure of this man, hopefully by remembering his accomplishments and his life in its totality,” Ed Nixon wrote on the website for a book he authored in 2009 titled “The Nixons: A Family Portrait.”

Ed Nixon will speak at Wofford College on May 3, describing how he retraced his brother’s footsteps on Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China 40 years ago, and discussing the future of U.S.-China relations.

The 7 p.m. lecture, the second event in Wofford’s endowed Hipp Lecture Series on International Affairs and National Security, will be held in Leonard Auditorium in Main Building on campus. It is free and Ed Nixon, brother of the open to the public.

The first event in late President the series was the Richard Nixon Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in November.

During his recent trip to China, Ed Nixon was honored at a state dinner attended by Mao’s daughter.

President Nixon’s visit to China was a milestone in the history of post-World War II American foreign policy, said Dr. John Farrenkopf, associate professor of government at Wofford, who teaches a course titled “China: Politics, Economy and Foreign Relations.”

“It helped set the stage for the establishment of full diplomatic relations be-

tween the United States and the People’s Republic of China in 1979 under the Carter administration and the initiation of a foreign policy of engagement with China – a policy which all subsequent presidents have followed,” he said.

Relations with China helped the U.S. deal with the Soviet Union during the Cold War and played a role in facilitating the remarkable economic rise of postMaoist China, Farrenkopf said.

Ed Nixon is the president of Nixon World Enterprises Inc. and the chairman of the Pyron Solar Advisory Board in San Diego, Calif.

“By reflecting on heritage, education, extensive world travel, plus the encouragement of his older brother,” the younger Nixon “tells the story of an ordinary family striving to make a positive difference in the world,” according to the book’s website. “Their global mission aims to inspire more young Americans to reach for a new threshold of greatness for the country.”

Dr. Li Qing Kinnison, associate professor of Chinese studies, says Wofford’s Chinese language and studies program would not exist

without President Nixon’s historic trip.

“The Chinese people love him as an old friend of China for his contribution to the normalization of diplomatic relationships between China and the USA, and for opening the door for both Chinese and American people to learn from each other and build up a strong friendship, which has mutually benefited both sides in every aspect, including education,” he said.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

SO YOU KNOW WHO: Ed Nixon WHAT: Speaks about his brother the late President Richard M. Nixon’s historic visit to China 40 years ago and the future of U.S.-China relations.

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School board members Tuesday night endorsed a new vision for public schools in South Carolina: “Educators envision a South Carolina public school system where race, ethnicity, socio-economic circumstances or where a student lives does not determine the quality of education they receive.

“They envision a system in which students routinely learn at least one foreign language, where five-year-olds enter school eager and ready to learn and high school students are given flexibility in the time it takes for them to earn a high school diploma.”

This “vision for public schools” has been endorsed by the South Carolina School Boards Association and the South Carolina Association of School Administrators.

The vision statement originated during a series of meetings of school superintendents around the state regarding what they wanted public schools to look like in the future.

In other business, the school board approved issuing $3.8 million in bonds under the federal Qualified Zone Academy bond program to pay for heating and air conditioning projects at Crestview and Fountain Inn elementaries.

At least 35 percent of the students attending each school had to be eligible for free or reduced-price lunches to qualify for the program, which requires a contribution from a private entity equal to the value of 10 percent of the proceeds each

school will receive.

The contribution may be in volunteer hours, and the PTA presidents from both schools have signed a letter saying their organizations will volunteer 8,914 hours.

The interest rate on the bonds will be less than 1 percent. The debt doesn’t count against the district’s 8 percent debt limit.

In other action, the board gave final approval to naming the Fine Arts Center’s recital hall after the late Ann Sutherlin, a staunch supporter of the arts and a member of the school board for 16 years.

Final approval was also given for an increase in Greenville Technical Charter High’s enrollment cap to 440 students. The change allows each grade level at the school to have 110 students instead of 105, which school officials say will help student retention and sibling enrollment.

And finally, retired Superintendent Dr. Phinnize Fisher returned to have her portrait unveiled in the boardroom at the school district’s central office. Fisher is the ninth superintendent to have a portrait hung behind the dais and the first woman.

Tuesday was Burke Royster’s first meeting as superintendent. He served as Fisher’s deputy superintendent.

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Guide expands tire maker’s efforts to help Yellowstone National Park cut emissions

By Cindy Landrum | staff

Michelin's new guide to Yellowstone National Park contains sightseeing information for the park's many geothermal areas and other natural wonders.

ficial tire of the Yellowstone Park Foundation after it announced a multi-year commitment to help equip the park’s fleet of industrial trucks, earth-moving vehicles, passenger cars and light trucks.

Michelin has provided the park more than $350,000 in tires.

The company also deploys field engineers to the park to consult with the park’s fleet managers to optimize tires for better fuel efficiency through proper care and inflation, meeting the demands of the harsh Yellowstone environment across more than 420 miles of roadways.

The guide suggests itineraries for trips to the park ranging from one day to five days.

The guide provides insider tips from park experts and recommendations for sightseeing and shopping, rental cars and accommodations.

The guide has sections on seven areas of the park: the Old Faithful area, Madison-Norris, Mammoth, TowerRoosevelt, the Canyon area, Yellowstone Lake and Grant Village.

The 106-page guide is available online at www.shopmichelin.com and will be available at the park beginning May 15.

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Michelin hopes its first travel guide for a national park will help the country’s oldest national park, Yellowstone, in its goal to become greener.

The nearly 3,500-square mile Yellowstone National Park is one of the last remaining strongholds of the grizzly bear and home to hundreds of waterfalls, extensive remote mountain ranges and more than half of the world’s geysers.

“The notion of greening Yellowstone may seem counterintuitive,” said Dan Wenk, the park’s superintendent. “But it uses a tremendous amount of fossil fuel and water and it generates a lot of solid waste. We’re working to make it the greenest park in the national park system.”

Michelin teamed up with the Yellowstone Park Foundation to produce “The Yellowstone Park Foundation’s Official Guide to Yellowstone National Park.”

Proceeds from the book will go to the foundation to help pay for projects in the park including sustainability efforts, research on bears, upkeep of the park’s cultural and historic sites and new exhibits, said Karen Kress, the foundation’s president.

Kress said the guide would help engage a larger portion of the park’s 3.3 million annual visitors in the foundation’s sustainability efforts while heightening awareness of environmental stewardship in the park.

Yellowstone has been working on sustainability for about 20 years and is about to launch a set of new goals for 2016, among them increasing its use of renewal energy sources by 20 percent, decreasing water consumption by 20 percent and overall energy consumption by 35 percent and diverting 75 percent of the solid waste the park generates from landfills, Kress said.

The guide expands Michelin’s relationship with the park.

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One of America’s most distinguished authors will combine talents with Converse alumna for a reading, book signing and art exhibition in Twichell Auditorium on Friday, April 27. National Book Award winner and Elizabeth Boatwright Coker visiting writer Joyce Carol Oates will give a reading at 3 p.m., followed by a reception featuring artwork by alumna Jane Yarborough Creech, whose portrait of Oates was selected for the cover of Oates’ book, “A Widow’s Story.” Limited edition prints of Creech’s portrait from “A Widow’s Story,” as well as books, will be sold for signing by both the artist and the author. The event is free and open to the public. For additional information, contact Catherine Hayes, Catherine Hayes Art + Sculpture 864-353-6151.

The Greenville Earth Market opens its second season May 17. The market will take place outside the Michael McDunn studio at 741 Rutherford Road, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. every third Thursday from May through September. This year the market will have 14 producers, including two new beef producers: Gibson Farms and Walker Century Farms. The Greenville Earth Market opened in 2011 and is the first Slow Food Earth Market in the United States. Earth Markets are a group of 24 specialized communityrun farmers’ markets that have been established according to the strict guidelines set by Slow Food International. Products sold at an Earth Market must be raised according to environmentally sustainable methods – without chemicals, hormones, antibiotics and genetically modified organisms in any part of the food chain.

Memorial Day weekend will again be filled with high-flying hot air balloons, live music and family fun as the 31st annual Freedom Weekend Aloft festival returns to Simpsonville’s Heritage Park May 25-28. Festival organizers announced this week that individuals and families can take advantage of free admission on Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27 during the first 100 minutes gates are open, noon-1:40 p.m. Free admission will continue all day or 450 minutes on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, on Bi-Lo Day. Regular admission is $8 in advance at Bi-Lo stores and $12 at the gate with children 12 and under free. Parking is $5. The festival also features live music, with headliners Colbie Caillat and Gavin DeGraw performing Friday, Jake Owen on Saturday and Eddie Money on Sunday.

Visit www.freedomweekend.org for more information.

Family Fun Day at the Augusta Road (Ramsey Family) Branch of the Greenville County Library System will be held Saturday, April 28 from 11 a. to 4p.m. There will be Zumba for ages 15 and up, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.; Hoops Dance for ages 15 and up, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.; storytime for ages 4 to 8 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.; South Carolina Children’s Theater Glee Club for all ages, from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; salsa dancing for ages 15 and up, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; a 39 Clues scavenger hunt for ages 6 to 12, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; and a family movie for all ages, from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 277-0161.

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Project Rx: A River Remedy will hold its fourth drug take-back event on April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., encouraging community members to properly dispose of unused medications. Project Rx will continue in partnership with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to provide multiple collection sites across the Upstate. Interested participants can visit the drive-thru locations including McAlister Square, 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive; St. Francis Millennium Campus near CU-ICAR, 2 Innovation Drive; and the Greenville Tech Greer Campus, 2522 Locust Hill Road. The collection sites offer free and anonymous acceptance of unwanted or expired prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, vitamins and supplements, and veterinary medicine. Sharps or syringes will not be accepted. Event managers ask that participants use a black Sharpie to eliminate any personal information on prescription medication labels, but to leave the name of the drug visible to ensure proper disposal procedures. For more information, visit the Project Rx website, www.aRiverRemedy.org, or call 864-467-4099.

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SCBT Financial Corporation’s 2012 Souper Bowl of Caring raised over $105,000 to alleviate hunger in the local communities it serves in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. In addition to collecting cash donations in branches, employees conducted various fundraising activities, collected 14,596 pounds of canned goods and also volunteer 626 hours in their local communities. This year’s competition raised $105,846 – 100 percent of which goes directly back into the local community.

The Northwestern Mutual Fun Fest benefiting the Center for Developmental Services will be held on Friday, May 11, at Fluor Field. There will be games, food, inflatables, face painting, live music, characters and mascots. There will also be an exhibition game played by the Mauldin Miracle League. The Mauldin Miracle League is a baseball league for special needs. The gates open at 5:30 p.m. The cost to attend is $5 per person. There will be a fireworks show at dark. For more information, please contact Joy Blue at joy.blue@cdservices.org or 331-1314.

On April 15, nearly 400 people participated in the Let There Be Mom Seek and Snap digital scavenger hunt. Teams competed to locate and take photos of items and locations based on clues. The event raised more than $10,000 for the nonprofit that provides a legacy for parents facing a life-threatening illness. For more information, visit www.lettherebemom.org The American Heart Association’s Upstate Heart Walk had a record setting year raising $515,000. In addition to surpassing the event’s goal by $40,000, there was also a record setting attendance with more than 4,000 walkers. For information on participating in the Upstate Heart Walk, please call the American Heart Association at 864-627-4151 or visit www.upstateheartwalk.org.

Greenville Family Partnership has received a $5,000 grant from the TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, to support the Hispanic Outreach Program.

GFP has been serving Greenville County for almost 28 years in areas related to substance abuse prevention. The Hispanic Outreach Program will provide culturally appropriate life skills, economic and educational training for the under-served Hispanic families who are at-risk.

The Alzheimer’s Association South Carolina Chapter is hosting the 24th Annual Upstate Alzheimer’s Education Conference, entitled “Navigating the Challenges of Dementia” on Tuesday, May 22, from 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, 424 Westfield St. The conference is for individuals and professionals caring for someone with dementia. Speakers include neurologist John Absher, MD; geriatric psychiatrist, Vonda Gravely, MD; and caregiver and actress Karen Stobbe. There is a $25 registration fee, $50 if educational credits are required. Please register by visiting www.alz.org/sc or by calling 800-272-3900 by May 11. The Alzheimer’s

Senior Action has opened an upgraded Orchard Park Fitness Center. Facility renovations, state-of-the-art equipment, along with newly established fitness programs tailored to seniors’ needs were part of the project made possible by generous grant funding on behalf of Greenville Women Giving. Additional financial support was also provided by the World Acceptance Center. The fitness center and its programs are designed with the needs of older adults in mind.

Margaret Nix tries out brand-new, Daily group fitness classes offer a variety “senior-friendly” exercise equipment of exercise types—from low-impact aerduring Orchard Park Fitness Center’s obics to muscular stretching. Additiongrand re-opening last week. The ally, professional staff is available on-site machine is an “Octane” seated to customize wellness plans for seniors elliptical that allows for greater that incorporate both fitness goals and muscle engagement through a smooth, low-impact elliptical motion. personal needs.

Association can help arrange in-home care for a person with dementia at no cost for their caregiver to attend. Please call at least three weeks in advance with first time request.

The Third Annual BBQ Cook-Off & Festival benefiting Project Host Soup Kitchen will be held April 27 and 28 in downtown Greenville. Sanctioned by the S.C. Barbecue Association, the two-day event consists of a pork barbecue cooking competition, a people’s choice “Best Wings” competition, and unlimited sampling. Held at the corner of Main and Broad Streets, the event is open to the public. Friday evening features a “Best Chicken Wings Ever” event from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is free and samples are $1 each. Attendees will also have an opportunity to vote for their favorite batch of wings in the people’s choice “Best Wings” Award, the winner of which receives $250. On Saturday, festival hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Barbecue pork samples will be available for $1 each from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; the barbecue competition prizes will be announced at 3 p.m. Plates of barbecue pork (includes sides) will be available for $10 each from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. The festival will feature music from DJ Phat Father Pat on Friday night and local favorites The Note Ropers on Saturday night. Face painting and a variety of other children’s activities will also be available. Beer, wine and other food and beverages will be sold separately. For information, visit www.projecthost.org.

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Taking chances in tough times Developer Bo Aughtry looks to the future with Main @ Broad

By DICK HUGHES | contributor

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Members of the management team of the Windsor Aughtry Company, from left to right: Russell Smart, Principal, Chief Financial Officer; Bo Aughtry, Principal, President of the Commercial Division; and Drew Norwood, Principal, Residential Division.

When Windsor Aughtry Co. moves into Main @ Broad, it will nearly complete occupancy of the Greenville hotel, office and retail complex the company planned in good times but started and finished when the economy was in bad shape, costs were high and the future uncertain.

Those were not the times when most developers were willing or able to ride out a $45-million construction project, least of all one in a downtown urban center.

Adding to the nervousness was the fact that the centerpiece 135room Courtyard Marriott would be in competition with the company’s own 115-room Hampton Inn & Suites at RiverPlace.

In an interview, Bo Aughtry, founder and managing director, talked about those risky times, how the company got through them better than many did and what it sees on the horizon.

In the latter regard, the company has “for some time been

sniffing around” Greenville for opportunities to build apartments and has in mind “a larger project that would add a meaningful number of units to the downtown market.”

But nothing is imminent, he said. “We are working on a couple of locations, but we’ve been chasing this for three years. That’s the nature of the commercial development business.”

On the hotel side, the company is “working on an urban hotel in Western Virginia.”

After coming out of 2009, “the worst year we had,” Main @ Broad opened in May 2010 when activity, while picking up, still was slow, Aughtry said.

“When we started, we saw an upward trend, but when construction was under way and when we opened I was very concerned about the impact on the Hampton. But the horse was out of the barn, and I had to ride it.”

“The project was a major expense, major, major,” Aughtry said. “We built that project, one

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could argue, at the worst economic time since the Great Depression. That project was priced out at the absolute peak of construction costs at the cusp of the downturn.”

Aughtry is satisfied Main @ Broad “is working, albeit not at levels we were accustomed to. The hotel is doing good, not great.” He said getting to 90 percent occupancy, including the company itself taking space, was fortunate given the short time it has had securing leases in a soft economy.

What helps, he said, is that “Greenville with its downtown vibrancy and panache has fared certainly better than most … (and) was never a hot market so it didn’t have as far to fall” in the downturn.

On July 10, Aughtry is scheduled to move his 22-employee company from the Green Point office park – where it has been for 25 years – into 7,500 square feet on the fifth floor of the sixstory Main @ Broad.

The city sold the lot for the building – named for the intersection of Main and Broad streets next to City Hall and across from the Peace Center – to Aughtry for $3 million and retained a voice in how it was to be developed.

Aughtry said financing with Carolina First (now TD Bank)

was “nip and tuck,” closing in early 2008 as “the river headed toward the waterfall” to drown credit access across the country.

What made the project possible, he said, was $27.5 million in New Market Tax Credits from Carolina First and Greenville New Markets Opportunity. The federal tax credits, which banks take over a seven-year period, typically reduce construction costs by about 20 percent.

During Main @ Broad’s construction period, the company’s “earnings were depressed” by the housing collapse. Its housing business took “a huge hit” with sales off 55 percent and margins down 90 percent, Aughtry said.

Business at the company’s hotels (through separate entities, the company had seven) was off just 8.5 percent, unlike some “friends who had hotels that were down 45 percent,” he said.

“We never had a hotel that didn’t experience positive cash flow.”

As difficult as those times were, Aughtry said the company was able to ride out the recession and emerge “healthy today” because Drew Norwood, his partner who runs the residential side, and Russell Smart, chief financial officer, were instrumental in keeping ambitions in check and debt low.

“We were fortunate. There

were things we didn’t do in the prior 10 years that might have given us the opportunity to expand to greater earnings, but also would have … required us to take on more debt.”

Main @ Broad was the fourth commercial project Windsor Aughtry has built in downtown Greenville. The Hampton and Marriott hotels are just two of 14 hotels it has built and owned across the country since 1993.

Six have been sold. In addition to the Hampton and Marriott in Greenville, the company’s entities own Hampton Inns in Columbia, Johnson City, Tenn., and Tallahassee and Gainesville, Fla., and a Hilton in Columbia. A Hampton Inn & Suites is near completion in downtown Baton Rouge, La. The hotels are managed

by Hospitality America Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. Windsor Aughtry receives a percentage of revenues from the franchising hotel chains. The company is designated as a “preferred developer” for Hilton, which owns the Hampton Inns.

Most of the commercial developments, including the hotels, are done as separate single-asset limited liability companies in which “almost without exception, 50 percent or more of the capital for whatever the endeavor is comes from individuals asso-

ciated with the company.”

For example, Aughtry explained, Broad @ Main is owned by a separate LLC. Windsor Aughtry “developed the project for a fee for that entity.” Ownership is separate from Windsor Aughtry, although Aughtry, Norwood and Smart are principals and managing partners.

The company was formed in 1988 with the merger of Aughtry’s commercial development and brokerage business and Windsor’s residential business.

Trim and fit at 62, Aughtry is an avid outdoorsman. He moved to Greenville, his mother’s hometown, from Columbia when he was seven and attended public schools. After graduating from the Citadel, he moved back to Greenville “literally not knowing what I wanted to do.”

At a friend’s suggestion, he started selling real estate on commission, and he credits mentoring by Greenville Realtor Tommy Huguenin with teaching him the business.

“I am very fortunate in a lot of ways,” Aughtry said.

“I still love my business, and it still stimulates me. You’ve got construction, finance, so many aspects of business within that spectrum.”

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

Upstate job picture improves dramatically Unemployment rate drops for every county in March

By DICK HUGHES | contributor

With warm weather pushing jobs in hospitality, South Carolina’s unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent in March, and every one of the state’s 46 counties witnessed a decrease.

It was the first time in more than three years that the state’s jobless rate was below 9 percent.

Abraham J. Turner, director of the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce, said “this means South Carolinians are finding jobs.”

Nationally, the unemploy-

ment rate was 8.2 percent in March, down from 8.3 percent.

The unemployment rate fell from 7.2 percent in February to 6.8 percent in Greenville County, which matched Charleston and Lexington with the lowest rates in the state.

A year ago March, Greenville’s rate was 7.9.

The employment picture in Spartanburg improved dramatically, edging below the state rate for the first time in months. The March unemployment rate of 8.7 percent was down from 9.4 percent

in February and 10.1 percent in March of last year.

Anderson County experienced one of the largest monthto-month declines, going down to 8.4 percent in March from 9.8 percent in February. Pickens’ rate dropped more than a full percentage point to 7.5.

According to the state employment agency, the biggest gains in employment came in leisure and hospitality industries with the addition of 8,400 jobs, most notably in food and beverage services.

Transportation and utili-

ties employment was up 3,800 jobs, mostly in the retail trade subsector, while professional and business gained 2,600 jobs, and government, mostly local, gained 1,400.

Employment in manufacturing, which had until the last couple of months led the state in job creation, rose a modest 600, but that sector still leads the state in yearto-year job growth of 3.75 percent.

Construction employment showed a modest increase of 200 jobs in March. While

hands, its new owners have said Advance America’s headquarters will remain in Spartanburg and that it will continue to operate under the Advance America brand.

Advance has about 250 corporate employees in Spartanburg and about 5,000 spread across 29 states in about 2,500 centers. It also has stores in Canada and the United Kingdom, but has said they are unprofitable and were to be sold or closed.

The purchase gives Grupo Elektra its first financial holding in the United States.

The Mexican company offers banking services and credit and other financial products to “underserved consumers” in Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Peru.

The holding company is publicly traded on the Mexican stock market exchange. Advance America was delisted on NASDAQ Tuesday.

Negotiations between the two companies began in May 2011. Grupo Elektra’s first offer of $8.50 per share was rejected out of hand by Advance America. After months of back and forth, Advance America’s board accepted Grupo Elektra’s “last offer” of $10.50 per share Feb. 15, a premium of 33 percent over the market closing price of $7.91 on that day.

As part of the negotiations, Advance America sought and secured 45 days to find another buyer willing to pay a higher price. That window closed April 2 without any competing offers.

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

By DICK HUGHES | contributor

It’s a done deal. Advance America, Spartanburg’s homegrown payday lender, became a part of Grupo Elektra, the giant Mexican financial services firm, closing on the sale Monday.

Under the terms of the sales agreement, shareholders of Advance America will receive $10.50 per share. The company said they will receive payment “shortly.”

The sale is valued at $780 million.

The biggest individual shareholder is George D. Johnson, the Spartanburg businessman who started the company, along with others, in 1977. According to Yahoo/ ABC Financial, Johnson held 3.3 million shares in indirect ownership as of August 2011, the latest recording available.William Webster of Greenville, also a founder, held 1.3 million shares in indirect ownership as of October 2010. Patrick O’Shaughnessy, president and chief executive officer, held 827,645 shares as of Feb. 28, 2012.

Still, the largest paydays will go to institutions and mutual funds that hold 83 percent of Advance’s common shares available for trading. Insiders holding more than 5 percent of the company constitute 13 percent.

The closing followed approval of the deal Friday at a special meeting of Advance’s shareholders. The sale was approved by holders of 47.7 million shares of Advance America’s common stock, representing 99.7 percent of those voting and 76.2 of total shares entitled to vote.

Although the company now is in foreign still slow, that uptick signifies an upward trend, considering construction employment is down 3.13 percent from last March.

Citing the Conference Board’s tracking of online help-wanted ads, the state agency said online job ads in South Carolina increased 1,600 in March to

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aeSolutions invests in new HQ

aeSolutions, a supplier of safety engineering and automation solutions, will invest $2 million and add 43 new jobs in consolidating Upstate facilities in a corporate headquarters in Greenville, the company said Thursday.

The company will upgrade to 24,000 square feet of “state-of-the art” office space at 250 Commonwealth Drive for its corporate, engineering and research and development teams, the company said. The new personnel will be added to its existing workforce of 140. aeSolutions’ automation and manufacturing will remain in the Merovan complex on Woodruff Road. aeSolutions was founded in Greenville in 1998 by Chief Executive Officer Brian Merriman, Vice President of Engineering Ken O’Malley and Vice President of Process safety Mike Scott.

The company provides process safety engineering and automation solutions for the petroleum, chemical and process manufacturing industries. It has service and delivery offices in Anchorage, Alaska; Baton Rouge, La.; Johnson City, Tenn., and Houston.

It recently developed a software products group. Its first product, which automates industry-standard safety lifecycles, is “growing in popularity,” the company said.

“We are pleased to expand our corporate headquarters, engineering and research and development operations here in Greenville County and appreciate the support and leadership of the Greenville Area Development Corp., the South Carolina Department of Commerce and all who assisted in making this advancement a reality,” said Merriman.

Auto Supplier Expands

JTEKT Automotive, a Japanese company, will invest $102 million in a new plant next to an existing one in Piedmont “to expand our product line and reach new customers,” the company’s South Carolina president said Tuesday.

JTEKT will add at least 80 new jobs over two years, said the Greenville Area Development Corp., which joined in the announcement along with Gov. Nikki Haley, Commerce Secretary Bobby Hitt and Greenville County Councilman Butch Kirven.

The company also has a technical center for bearings in Clemson’s International Center for Automotive Research and bearing plants under its Koyo division in Orangeburg and Walhalla.

Katsuhiko Ishikawa, president of JTEKT Automotive South Carolina, said the new plant at Piedmont will increase the company’s driveline component capacity and flexibility.The company will begin hiring for the new positions in October.

“JTEKT is a world leader in the automotive industry and had no shortage of options of where to place this investment and new positions, so we’re delighted that they have selected Greenville County,” said Chris Riley,

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SCBT scoops up Peoples Bank Sale gives SCBT its first branches in Anderson, Pickens and Oconee

By Dick Hughes | contributor

It cost South Carolina Bank and Trust $41.8 million to acquire The Peoples Bank -- $28.4 million in a stock exchange and $13.4 million to get Peoples off the hook for the preferred shares it sold to the U.S. Treasury in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) rescue program.

The sale was completed after approval of Peoples’ shareholders.

Under the agreement, shareholders of Peoples receive 0.1413 shares of SCBT common stock for each Peoples share. There are a little more than 7.1 million shares of Peoples shares outstanding. The aggregate total of SCBT shares given in exchange is approximately 1 million, SCBT said.

“We are fortunate to add such a great bank to the SCBT franchise,” said Robert Hill, SCBT president and chief executive officer.

Hill said SCBT was “glad to announce that SCBT repurchased” Peoples’ preferred stock shares sold under TARP. SCBT also took TARP money ($64.8 million), but was among the first banks in the country to pay it back.

The two banks, which have had a long cooperative relationship, agreed to the acquisition in December, saying it was a natural fit.

SCBT strengthens its position in the Upstate, adding Peoples’ eight branches to the seven it already has. Peoples operated three banks under separate charters: Peoples National Bank, Bank

chairman of GADC. In 2006, Koyo and Toyoda Machine Works merged to create JTEKT. It has nearly 37,000 employees worldwide.

Its North American headquarters is in Plymouth, Mich.

Bank Has Best Quarter in Three Years

Southern First Bancshares, parent of Greenville First Bank, increased net income by 28 percent to $688,000 in the first quarter of 2012 over that of the same quarter last year, the company reported.

After paying the dividend on TARP preferred shares, net income to shareholders was $399,000 compared to $253,000 in the first quarter of 2011.

“Our first quarter earnings represented the strongest quarterly earnings performance in over three years,” said Art Seaver, chief executive officer.

The bank said net interest margin rose to 3.45 percent from 3.18 percent a year ago. Core deposit balances increased $17 million to $430.1 million.

The percentage of nonperforming loans to total loans was 1.79 percent; the average is around 5 percent for state banks. The total of Southern First’s nonperforming loans, including delinquent and foreclosed loans, was $13.8 million at the end of March, down $1 million from last March.

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of Anderson and Seneca National Bank. SCBT gets its first branches in Anderson, Pickens and Oconee counties.

John F. Windley, president and chief banking officer of SCBT, has said he expects the three Peoples banks to be converted over three consecutive weeks to be “operating under the SCBT flag” by the end of July, first of August.

Windley and Andrew Westbrook, president and chief executive officer of Peoples, said a majority of Peoples’ 120 employees would be retained. There could be a few jobs eliminated where duplication occurs, they said.

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

Tank Farm Expands for Biofuels

Lincoln Energy Solutions of Greenville is building new storage tanks for biofuels storage at its facility in Belton.

The new tanks will add 1.5 million gallons of storage capacity for ethanol and 400,000 gallons of storage for biodiesel fuel, the company said.

The company also is building a 225,000-gallon water tank for its foam fire suppression system and expanding its rail line to accommodate six additional biodiesel tank cars.

The expansion will cut off-loading time for an 80-tanker train by half to 48 hours. Construction is expected to be complete the end of May. “This is an important project for us because the entire off-loading process will be expedited, which means faster biofuel delivery to meet customer demand,” said Jim Farish, chief executive officer and founder of the company.

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International Automotive Components Group, which is located in Greenville, has been recognized by the S.C. Smart Business Recycling Program as one of three leaders in “protecting the environment and conserving resources while improving their bottom line.”

Also honored were Rodeway Inn’s Mount Pleasant motel and the Lexington Medical Center.

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The S.C. Smart Business Recycling Program is administered by the Department of Health and Environmental Control.

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Greenville Dermatology is building a new fully computerized, environmentally friendly 6,400-square-foot office on Woodruff Road in Greenville.

The office, which is expected to be open in the summer, will have sitting for 30 patients. The site, with access to Halton Road, offers space for additional medical and office development, the company said.

The practice, which is led by Dr. Matthew Miller, offers cosmetic, medical and surgical procedures. It is moving from St. Francis Drive.

Cisson Construction is general contractor for the new offices. Brickell Architects is project architect, and ID Studio Interiors is interior designer.

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Stag Industrial Inc., a Boston company that buys and manages industrial properties, paid $9.1 million for 400,000 square feet of warehousing in four adjoining buildings on approximately 25 acres at 160 National Ave. in Spartanburg.

The buildings were sold by Bridgeport Properties National, which had owned them since 2008. Grace Hunt and Ford Borders of NAI Earle Furman represented the seller. The buildings are leased to Louis Dreyfus Commodities Cotton Storage for storing and distributing cotton. Stag, which focuses on industrial properties with single tenants, said the lease has four years to run.

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Singer-songwriter detours from Indigo Girls’ folkrock to explore territory from punk to gospel

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First things first: The Indigo Girls are not breaking up.

The Atlanta-based folk-rock duo released its 13th album last year, and has scheduled tour dates in the western states later this spring. But before that tour launches in June, singer/songwriter and guitarist Amy Ray is taking the opportunity to promote her own new album, “Lung of Love,” with a tour that brings her to the Handlebar in Greenville on Thursday, May 3.

The record, Ray’s fourth solo album, was released in February by Ray’s own non-profit record label, Daemon Records. “Lung of Love” may hold some surprises for listeners who are only familiar with the Indigo Girls’ bestknown work, particularly their 1989 self-titled platinum album and its sunny, dual acoustic-guitar driven radio hit, “Closer to Fine.”

“Lung of Love” gives Ray a chance to explore more of her diverse musical influences, from punk to gospel.

“It’s not like I felt short-changed or blocked by the Indigo Girls,” said Ray of her solo career, which started with

Members of the Shabel family appearing in the Saint Peter’s Players production of “The Sound of Music,” from left to right: Ron, his granddaughter Delaney, his son and Delaney’s father Ken, Ken’s wife Jessica and Ron’s granddaughter Brittany.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” is all about family.

So it seems only fitting that the St. Peter’s Players’ production of the classic musical features eight different families, including one that has three generations in the cast.

“I know it sounds trite, but it brings us closer together,” said Ken Shabel, who has been with the theater ministry of St. Peter’s since it was formed in 2000.

Shabel plays Captain von Trapp, a decorated World War I veteran with seven children.

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To pull off “The Sound of Music,” a cast must have a strong Maria and strong children, Zimmerman said.

The production’s Maria, Emelyn Pagel, is a member of the church choir and the daughter of a professional opera singer.

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her 2001 release, “Stag.” “But there was something I was trying to express that didn’t fit into that format.”

Working with producer and co-writer Greg Griffith in his Greensboro, N.C. studio, Ray reunited with drummer Melissa York and guitarist Kaia Wilson of the Durham, N.C. punk band The Butchies. The band had backed Ray up on “Stag” and on her subsequent tour.

Julie Wolf, who has also played with Ani DiFranco, Maceo Parker, Bruce Cockburn and Dar Williams, plays keyboards on “Lung of Love,” while Griffith plays bass and guitars.

Griffith recorded the album on analog tape, and “even though they had to constantly wrestle with the machine, it was worth the glue it provided,” said Ray. The songs on “Lung of Love” cover a lot of musical territory, from the punkish thrash of “From Haiti” (a tribute to that country’s earthquake survivors) to the Appalachian gospel-influenced “The Rock Is My Foundation.” The album’s title song, a song about “trying to rekindle love after absence,” which Ray wrote after being on the road, has a soulful, funk-influenced groove that

Indigo Girls singer / songwriter and guitarist Amy Ray is promoting her own new album, “Lung of Love,” with a tour that brings her to the Handlebar in Greenville on May 3.

Ray credits to her collaborator.

“I couldn’t make the song translate the way I heard it,” she said. “But this is where I think Greg really shines. He has such an in-depth and creative musical language to draw from.”

“Lung of Love” is the first project in which Ray has worked with a cowriter. She and her Indigo Girls partner, Emily Saliers, both usually write their own songs and then collaborate

The church’s choir director has worked with the children in the cast since last fall, she said.

“It’s ‘The Sound of Music’ – if you don’t have singers who understand music and singing, it probably won’t be successful,” she said.

Ken Shabel met his wife in the Vanderbilt University chorus.

“It’s a wonderful experience to spend time with your children, your extended family and your church family,” Jessica Shabel said. “It’s great to put on a production that is age-appropriate for all ages.”

Zimmerman said she’s cut some songs and interludes between scenes to try to cut down the production’s length.

But the songs that have become standards, including the title song, “The Sound of Music,” “Edelweiss,” “My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” and “Do-Re-Mi” remain.

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on the arrangements.

Ray and Saliers met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, GA. Their major-label debut, 1989’s “Indigo Girls” (Epic Records) included their most well-known song, “Closer to Fine,” which made it to the Billboard Hot 100 and still receives radio play today. The album was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy, but lost to Milli Vanilli.

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formed many secular plays such as “Pollyanna,” “Little Women,” “A Doll’s House” and “Our Town.”

“I like to do great American classics,” said Zimmerman, who is directing “Sound of Music.” “We use the theater to glorify our Lord and bring the community to our church.”

The Players usually do one big production and one small production a year, she said.

Auditions and the productions are open to the public.

“It is a celebration of theater in God’s house,” Zimmerman said.

The church setting is especially fitting for “The Sound of Music,” she said, because several scenes in the musical are set in an abbey and there’s a wedding as well.

“The great thing about ‘The Sound of Music’ is that it is a secular play with a spiritual message,” Ken Shabel said.

“Performing it in a church gives a whole new meaning to a special piece of theater.”

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Shabel’s wife, Jessica, plays a nun. His father, Ron, plays German Admiral von Schreiber. Shabel’s 7 ½-yearold daughter, Delaney, plays the youngest von Trapp child, Greta. And his niece, Brittany Carr, plays a nun.

“It’s always been a thrill to be on stage with my dad and it’s my daughter’s first play.

I’ve seen her gain confidence and have such a wonderful time, it brings a tear to my eye,” Ken Shabel said. “It’s great to get out of our normal element, to escape and get out of the normal hustle and bustle, and it’s great to do it together as a family.”

Robyn Zimmerman founded St. Peter’s Players as a theater ministry for the church.

“The plays we do must have some kind of message, usually about family,” she said.

But the plays aren’t the religious-themed productions that many churches stick to for their drama programs.

St. Peter’s Players have per-

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The Fountain Inn Arts Academy located in the Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts has partnered with Hillcrest Memorial Hospital to provide original artwork for display in their lobby. Each quarter, a new group of artists will be selected to be on display in the lobby of Hillcrest Memorial Hospital. This quarter’s artists are: Sandra Dickson’s “Palm Trees,” Cami Ingles’ “Bird on Branch,” Anna Knutson’s “Love,” Sydney Hyer’s “Northern Lights” and Sandie Gemmet’s “Running Horse.” For more information the Fountain Inn Arts Academy, visit www.ftinnarts.org or call 864-409-1050.

Carolina Bronze, a handbell group, will hold spring concerts in April and May. Founded in 2001 by a group of experienced ringers and directors, this auditioned ensemble recently joined the Greenville Symphony Orchestra at the 2011 Holiday at Peace Concerts. The free spring performances will feature a mix of original and sacred melodies, spirituals and folk music: May 6, 5 p.m. at Boulevard Baptist Church, Anderson and May 10, 7 p.m. at the Hughes Main Library, downtown Greenville. Visit www.carolinabronze. net for more information.

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Dave Partridge will present a program on “Transformation: The Story of the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center” at the spring meeting of the Greenville County Historical Society on Sunday, May 6, at 3 p.m. at Greenville Hospital System. This meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, call 233-4103 or email info@greenvillehistory.org.

Firewater Photography and Canvas One Creations recently teamed up to create artwork for Greenville City Hall. Photographer Kris Decker of Firewater Photography captured an image of the Liberty Bridge at twilight and Canvas One Creations printed and stretched the photograph over 4 panels, for a combined size of roughly 6 feet by 14 feet. The work hangs just above the front desk in City Hall.

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Book Your Lunch will host bestselling Southern author Mary Alice Monroe on Tuesday, May 8, from noon-2 p.m. at The Lazy Goat in Greenville.

Monroe’s latest book, “Beach House Memories,” is a prequel to “The Beach House.” She weaves together issues of class, women’s rights and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s. Tickets are $55 each and the price includes a copy of “Beach House Memories” to be provided at the event. Tickets must be purchased in advance at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.

The Foothills Chorale will presents John Rutter’s “Mass of the Children” on April 29, 3 p.m., on the campus of Southern Wesleyan University in Central. This is the first complete performance of this work in the Upstate and will feature the Seneca High School Honors Women’s Chorus and soloists from the SC Governor’s School with chamber orchestra and organ. Also on the program is the premiere of Lyndell Leatherman’s “We Are the Music Makers,” prize winner of the international composition contest. Tickets are available online, by phone or at the door. Visit www. foothillschorale.org or call 1-888-937-4642 for more information.

The City of Greenville’s Fidelity Investments Moonlight Movies return on Wednesday, May 2, with a new location in Falls Park. The temporary venue is a result of the construction at The Peace Center Amphitheatre. The free film series will run for five weeks and feature movies from a wide range of genres and periods, including “The Muppet Movie,” “An American in Paris,” “Angels in the Outfield” and a special Viewer’s Choice. The films begin at sundown (approximately 8:30 p.m.), but moviegoers are invited to arrive early, bring lawn chairs, blankets and a picnic. Individuals consuming alcohol at the event must purchase a $1 wristband. For more information, contact Will Young at 467-4484 or visit events.greenvillesc.gov.

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Local artist Bob Doster was the Lower School Artist in Residence in April at Christ Church Episcopal School, helping students to create metal sculpture selfportraits.

Mauldin Middle School’s Wind Ensemble recently traveled to Florida to compete in Festival Disney. The ensemble has earned Superior ratings at Festival Disney for several years. The middle school musicians were scheduled on a weekend and ended up competing only against high schools. To be judged rather than rated, the group opted to be judged as a high school band and received a Superior rating, first place in the class (high schools with 600 or fewer students) and the Silver Award for all bands, topping 16 high school bands.

All 10 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists and both National Achievement Scholarship semifinalists at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM) were recently announced as finalists. The National Merit finalists are now among 15,000 students from across the nation competing for 8,300 scholarships worth more than $34 million. The National Achievement finalists are among 1,300 students from across the nation competing for 800 scholarships worth more than $2.4 million. Local GSSM’s National Merit Finalists include Max Franks of Greenville, John Isenhower of Greenwood and Karl Schober of Greer. In addition, Karl S. Schober and Hannah J. Brown of Spartanburg, a Spartanburg High School student, were named as National Merit Corporate-sponsored winners.

APEX Adventure Day Camp Program is a day camp program being offered through Langston Charter Middle School this summer. Campers will experience whitewater rafting, mountain biking, hiking and more in the mountains. Five sessions are being offered: June 11-14, June 18-21, June 25-28, July 9-12, July 16-19 and July 30-August 2. This camp is open to all area middle schoolers. For more information, e-mail Matt Griffin at mgriffin@langstoncharter.org.

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forming Arts. For more information, call 355-1085 or contact email tibrown@greenville.k12.sc.us.

Blue Ridge Middle School announces the art students, under the direction of Kent Peggram, who won in the 2012 GC Middle School Juried Art Show. Their work is on display at the Greenville County central office downtown. All works entered are in the Artsonia web gallery and will be on display soon in the Blue Ridge Middle School lobby, along with the other 25 works entered. This year’s winners include: 6th grade: Marina Gallegos, Honorable Mention in Sculpture for “Dog and Bone” and Reagan Wofford, Honorable Mention in Mixed Media for “Crayon Caverns,” 7th grade: Elizabeth Gibson, Third place in Drawing for “Wolf ” and Noah Stafford, Second place in Painting for “Skunk,” 8th grade: Jordan Grissop, Honorable Mention in Drawing for “Imagination & Creation.”

Registration is underway for Furman’s academic enrichment day camps, Microscope, Kaleidoscope and Telescope throughout the summer for grades 1-8. Small group swim lessons for beginners and strokes classes are also offered. Visit www.furman.edu/learningforyou or call 864-294-2153 for more information.

Local students recently traveled to Nicaragua to construct community buildings for the children in the community of La Pintada with Clemson University’s Engineers Abroad.

The group is a Creative Inquiry team that built an official baseball field for the community that included a new fence, benches and real bases. Baseball is the primary community activity for children in the area. Local members of the group are: Matt Kofoed of Simpsonville and Chris Hapstack of Greenville. The group plans to return to Nicaragua this summer to complete construction of a school and imple-

A trio of students at Legacy Charter School won a poetry contest and were recognized April 14 at Greenville Hospital System’s annual Minority Health Summit, where they had a chance to attend a special meet-and-greet with the event’s keynote speaker, Dr. Maya Angelou. The winners are: Isaiah Chapman, elementary school, Scotdaija Jenkins, middle school and Valentina Vasquez, high school.

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The Travelers Rest High School Fine Arts Department will perform “Singing in the Rain,” a musical based on the classic 1952 MGM movie, on three successive evenings, May 3-5, at 7 p.m. The production features 60 TRHS drama, music and choral students. Tickets are $8. The full-length play is sponsored by the Metropolitan Arts Council, the City of Travelers Rest, the school PTSA and the Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Per-

Registration is open for The Young Writers’ Camp, June 18-29, Upstate Writing Project Film Camp, June 18-29, and Upstate Writing Project Gaming Camp, July 9-13. All will be held at the University Center in Greenville. Young Writers’ Camp offers kids the opportunity to tap into their own experiences as they create and share writing with new friends. Film Camp helps young writers bring their words to life as they use different types of technology to create movies and other multimedia presentations.

Gaming Camp allows students to take their writing to a new dimension as they write their own video games and use software to bring them to life. All camps are open to students entering grades 4-8. For more information, visit www.upstatewritingproject.org or call 864-735-8897.

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200 CHAMBLEE BLVD - $774,000 4BR/3.5BA. Beautiful home under construction in gated community 4 car garage.MBR on main. Great Rm & Living Rm & much more. From GVL, I-385 to Roper Mtn Rd exit, turn L, go approx 5 miles & turn R into SD. Margaret Marcum/Leigh Irwin, 4203125/380-7755 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1232943

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120 TUPELO LANE - $219,900 3BR/2BA. Beautiful, new patio/garden home in excellent location w/many amenities, handicap friendly. Hwy 123 to Easley, L on Powdersville Rd @ Jimmyís Restaurant, R on McCalister Rd, L on Couch, R into SD. Joanne Beresh, 505-1646 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1212438

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201 RIVERSTONE WAY - $599,000 5BR/5BA. Over 5200 square feet. 3 car garage. .68 of an acre. Fully finished walkout basement. Stunning open floor plan!

Charlotte Sarvis, 864-346-9943 Carol Pyfrom Realty MLS#1236658

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164 RIDGELAND DRIVE - $539,000 2BR/3BA. Wonderful open floor plans, 10’ clngs, granite countertops, stainless appliances, 10x12 covered patios & much more.

McDaniel Avenue from Augusta Rd. Left on Ridgeland, follow signs to Sales Center Beth Crigler, 678-5263 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1222397

41 CHARLESTON OAK LANE - $530,500 3BR/3BA. Study & bonus, expansive kit w/ keeping rm opens to screened porch & deck. Gated community. I-385 (from DT) to Roper Mtn Rd, Turn L. Cross Garlington, after light at Feaster & Roper Mtn Turn L in SD Cynthia RehbergRhett Brown, 8849953/915-9393 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1225360

119 CHARLESTON OAK LANE - $488,500 3BR/3.5BA. Elegant hm w/bonus room is being newly constructed. From GVL take I-385 S to Roper Mtn Rd Exit, Turn L, continue across Garlington, just after light @ Feaster @ Roper Mtn turn Left into The Oaks. Cynthia Rehberg/Rhett Brown, 8849953/915-9393 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1229267

104 HONEY CRISP WAY - $279,900 5BR/3.5BA. Wonderful home in a Swim Community. Over 4000SF, four living areas.

Move-in ready. Huge MBR suite w/His & Her closets. Woodruff Rd past Five Forks Area, R into SD on Shippers Ln, L on Grimes. Steve May, 346-2570 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1239306

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212 RAVEN FALLS LANE - $206,980 416 WOODRUFF LAKE WAY - $192,900 38 BUTLER CROSSING DR - $169,900 4BR/2.5BA. Home to be built. A wonderful 4BR/2.5BA. Beautiful home on waterfront 3BR/3BA. Gated community, lovely tree-lined floor plan in a great community in a very culdesac lot. formal LR/DR, kitchen w/Corian entry, open floor plan, vaulted ceiling, 2 car convenient location. I-85 to I-385 to Woodruff cntrs, GR w/fp & spacious bonus. At the garage & more. I 385 Exit 34, R on Butler Rd. Rd, Continue past Five Forks area, SD on intersection of Hwy 14, take Woodruff Rd Right past Mauldin H. S. Apprx 1 block to R Left. Dona Sero, 477-0708 Prudential C. (SE) toward Five Forks, SD on R. Cynthia into SD, 1st L. Hm on R. Diane Shapuite, Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1232237 Akins, 640-3167 Prudential C. Dan Joyner 505-3692 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. Co. MLS#1235995 MLS#1230166

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HOUSES

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200KARSTEN CREEK DRIVE - $167,500 4BR/2.5BA. Wonderful home in excellent location. Open floor plan, 2 story foyer, huge master suite, fenced backyard & more.

Woodruff Rd, R on Scuffletown, L into 2nd entrance of SD, Home on R. Tim Keagy, 905-3304 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1235006

SUN 2-4PM (4/29)

40 WOOD POINTE DR, #39 - $135,000 3BR/2BA. Pristine, spacious end unit.

Abundant storage, superior quality. 385 S. to Haywood Rd, L over bridge, cross Pelham, SD on L. Wanda Reed, 270-4078 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1233388

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204 Sandstone, Linkside, Greenville, SC Immaculate golf course, brick home in A+ condition! .75 acre, fully sprinklered, lush lot backs up to the 7th green at Linkside. Spacious home with extra large screened in porch with cathedral ceiling. Porch opens off den and overlooks the beautiful landscape with a clear view of the 7th green. Home is spectacular at night with outdoor lighting that illuminates trees and landscape. Beautiful hardwood floors throughout the main floor and recent updates to kitchen, bathrooms and lighting. 4390 SF, 5 BR, 4 1/2 BA with 2 fireplaces. Lower level has second

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6 MONTAIN CHASE - $123,900 3BR/2BA. Ranch home w/bonus, culdesac fenced yard, lots of home for the money.

Wade Hampton to Rutherford Rd, R on Mtn Creek Church Rd, R on Tanner, R on Mtn Fork Dr, L on N Mtn Fork Dr, R on Mtn Chase Valorie Cardell, 979-2913 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1235458

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23 SUNBRIAR DRIVE - $124,900 2BR/2BA. Move in ready! Freshly painted with new carpeting. Sits on corner lot in newest section, Summerside. Open floor plan w/additional square footage in kitchen bfast area. Great community with amenities.

Valerie Miller, 864.430.6602 The Marchant Company MLS#1237087

MARKET

MONTEBELLO SANIBEL OAKS ACADIA THE VALLEY AT TANNER ESTATES DEERLAND PLANTATION KILGORE PLANTATION NORTHGATE ELLINGTON PARK CREEKWOOD SUGAR CREEK KILGORE FARMS COTTAGES AT RIVERWOOD FARM KILGORE FARMS TERRA WOODS ABERDEEN HIGHLANDS SHENANDOAH FARMS

PRICE $950,000 $800,000 $784,000 $650,000 $620,000 $575,000 $520,000 $459,437 $400,000 $397,000 $390,000 $380,000 $365,000 $340,000 $337,000 $316,725 $315,000 $297,250 $294,500 $288,000 $280,000 $260,000 $260,000

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SELLER GEC JR INVESTMENT PROPER NIEMALA CURT E SOMERO CLIFFORD R SHACKELFORD ELIZABETH B CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT GROU MARLER JOHN C LORTZ NITA HAYNES KOHNER DANIEL J BRANYAN BENITA BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT BRAGDON WILLIAM G COLLINS PROPERTIES L P JENKINS JACQUELINE PHILL HOGAN SEAN T BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT WEAVER KEVIN B FRANKLIN GABRIELA FARMER STUART S CARTUS CORPORATION ARKFELD TIMOTHY J (JTWRO FREEMAN JAMES ZACHARY BK RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCT

2012 BUYER JPM INVESTMENTS LLC SK BUILDERS INC SAMOYA ALISSA M (JTWROS) BYRD HOUSE OF GREENVILLE CREHAN SABINE (JTWROS) KELLEY J DON HYDE GARY K (JTWROS) CLARA DANIEL E (JTWROS) NORRICK ANITA E (JTWROS) BROWN DEREK C WORLEY BENJAMIN A (JTWRO JACKSON BILL R (JTWROS) MCDOWELL MICHELE M (JTWR RYBERG KYLE MATTHEW (JTW SMITH CORY EICHLER ULRICH PETER DISHER BRIAN L (SURV) CARTUS CORPORATION WALKER G LARRY (JTWROS) MELCHOR MARTHA LETICIA S POWELL ADAIR O (JTWROS) BLUME LAURA KAYE KLINE JAMES CHRISTOPHER

ADDRESS 15 SANTUCK ST 52 ST MARKS 532 FOREST CT 62 ROCK CREEK DR 105 CHAMBLEE BLVD 136 STILLWATER CT 8 MONET DR 10 SANIBEL OAKS DRIVE 125 ACADIA AVE 15 ROCKHAMPTON DR 21 JONES AVENUE 14100 E WADE HAMPTON BLVD 1 KILGORE CT 30 N AVONDALE DR 105 ELLINGTON CREEK LN 129 CREEK SHOALS DR 106 CREEKSIDE ROAD 40 APPLE RIDGE RD 210 MEDFORD DRIVE 10 GARDEN CORNERS CT 103 TERRA WOODS LN 305 MELVILLE AVE 381 STRASBURG DR

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DIGEST C. Dan Joyner Co. Named One of Prudential’s Top Companies

April 16, 2012 – Prudential c.

Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS has received the 2011 Gibraltar Circle Award, which is given each year to the top 50 companies in the Prudential Real Estate Network.

105 Fairlane Circle | $35,000 Great opportunity to build near Gower/Laurens Rd. MLS#1216151

The company was recognized during a special awards ceremony at Prudential Real Estate’ Sales Convention held in Orlando, Florida, in March. Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. was ranked No. 34 in network, as one of the industry’s leading real estate brokerages.

18 Ben Street | $396,000

4 Bedrooms, 3 Baths in Alta Vista.

MLS#1237194

“We are very excited to receive the Gibraltar Circle Award,” said Danny Joyner, President of C. Dan Joyner Co. “We applaud our agents for this accomplishment.”

103 Beechridge | $215,000 3BD/2BA Parkins Mill area with lake view. MLS#1299148

2 Bay Springs | $132,000

Great location near Mauldin and Simpsonville w/amenities. MLS#1236273

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APRIL SUBD. BRIDGEWATER AUGUSTA CROSSING

PRICE $254,440 $254,000 $250,000 RICHGLEN $250,000 FORRESTER HEIGHTS $245,000 $240,000 SILVERLEAF $235,000 ABBEYHILL PARK $218,000 $200,000 THE VALLEY @ GILDER CREEK FARM $200,000 EDWARDS FOREST $200,000 THE RESERVES AT RAVENWOOD $198,682 SUMMERWALK $198,000 LISMORE PARK $190,000 RICHGLEN $189,000 WOODLANDS AT WALNUT COVE $185,000 MERRIFIELD PARK $185,000 FAIRVIEW POINTE $182,000 WINDERMERE $182,000 DOVE TREE $180,000 STEEPLECHASE $178,500 VICTORIA PARK PH.1 $175,000 PARKSIDE @ LISMORE $172,235 THE COVE AT SAVANNAH POINTE $172,075 OAKWOOD PLACE $169,900 FORESTVILLE ESTATES $169,000 SAVANNAH POINTE $161,460 GRESHAM WOODS $161,000 MILL POND AT RIVER SHOALS $155,199 CHURCHILL FALLS $154,000 PINE MEADOW $153,000 POPLAR FOREST $150,000 KELSEY GLEN $148,500 REEDY SPRINGS $146,200 THORNBLADE CROSSING $142,200 CARRINGTON $141,278 STONEBRIDGE $139,900 $137,500 VICTORIA PARK PH.1 $137,000 QUINCY ACRES $135,000 $135,000 CANTERBURY HILLS $134,900 HOLLIDAY HILLS $132,500 NORTH GARDEN $130,732 $130,000 COBBLESTONE $130,000 FOWLER CHASE $128,900 OAK FOREST TOWNHOMES $125,000 $125,000 REID VALLEY $125,000 EASTBROOKE VILLAS $125,000 PHEASANT RIDGE $123,700 $123,000 BRYSON HOLLOW $119,900 CLAREMONT $118,000 LENHARDT VILLAGE $117,500 STRATFORD $116,169 PARIS VIEW $114,762 SUMMERFIELD $113,500 COLEMAN HEIGHTS $107,000 AIRPORT VILLAGE FARMS $106,000 THE BROOKS AT AUTUMN WOODS $105,000 HUNTERS VALLEY $103,500 HAMPTON RIDGE $102,000 $100,000 BRYSON HOLLOW $100,000 NORTH HILLS $100,000 $99,540 BETHEL PLACE $97,500 FOREST PARK $97,300 $97,000 SPRING CROSSING $96,250 CLAREMONT $94,000 GALLERY CENTRE $93,000 STANDING SPRINGS ESTATES $92,958 FOREST ACRES $92,500 SHERWOOD FOREST $90,100 COUNTRY CLUB CROSSING $90,000 POWDERHORN $90,000 MEADOW FARMS $87,100 CROSS CREEK $85,000 SHOALS CROSSING $84,000 GRAY FOX RUN $80,000 FOREST CREEK $79,900 EAGLEWATCH $77,699 $76,000 $75,000

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2012 BUYER PERRYMAN-WYNN FAYE E SIMONS JAMES P ATLAS SC I SPE LLC SMITH AMY KASPAR (JTWROS MILLER JOHN LEE (JTWROS) DAVIS LUKE ALLEN HARVEY JOHN D KETTELS HEATHER L SOUTHERN FIRST BANK N A FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAG BROWN SHARON M DODD CINDY L HONER FRANZ JOSEF BEESLEY BRIAN HENDERSON LYNNE T KORTH CAROLYN H (JTWROS) WEBB JOHN T (JTWROS) ST CLAIR NANCY M (JTWROS GARREAU PIERRE PHILLIPPE BURROW ELIZABETH F (JTWR REO SOLUTIONS LLC SUBER CURTIS DINH HUONG HOLSCHER STEVEN G GRISSOP TRAVIS LEE (JTWR FRANCIS MICHAEL J ROBY GRACE BOESE CARLIE S WILK MAURO STUART MARY ELLEN FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAG KAISER KAREN L ELLER JONATHAN C HUMBERT CRYSTAL M EKEBERGH BENGT JONAS (JT FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGA HORNER ELIZABETH R PRICE CAROLYN A (JTWROS) BOITER SUSAN H ALLEN CRAWFORD C JR STERLING CHAD L (JTWROS) HAULTER JAMES L (JTWROS) HOWARD NICHOLAS D FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAG WOLF ENTERPRISES INC EPPRECHT MICHAEL J (JTWR ROSSELLO COURTNEY CAMARI CRANE ROBERT (JTWROS) SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND AYDT MICHAEL J BAILEY ANN MURPHY JOHN SULLIVAN EDDREKUS L GALLOWAY CUSTOM HOMES LL HARRIS DENISE E SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND HORIZON RESIDENTIAL LOAN MESSER MICHAEL C CENTRAL INVESTMENTS LP BORUTA ANDREW E VASQUEZ GLORIA J QUALES ANDREA (JTWROS) MAULDIN HERBERT DANIEL GOLDMAN SACHS MORTGAGE C FAIRCHILDS SEAN M LISTER PROPERTIES LLC STROMBERG STEVEN W FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAG WARD SALLY ANNE BARBER ERIC C FRANKS LISA MARIE HONG MICHAEL SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HOU FIRST ALVERNON PROPERTIE MCKAY JAMES BENTHAM WALK FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAG GRACE LIANA HAYNIE CLIFFORD H JR RICHARDSON JUSTIN KEITH GLUR GERALD SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGA EMERSON DONALD R LAMBRECHT TIMOTHY SIMMONS REGINA MAULDIN

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Photos available from Greenville County Historical Society - 233-4103 As Greenville experienced a downtown boom in the 1920s, some of those involved in that boom were putting up substantial residences in new, fashionable neighborhoods. The most dramatic building constructed on Main Street during that period was the 17-floor Woodside Building. The building was financed by the Woodside Securities Company owned by John T. Woodside and three of his brothers. John T. and Lucile Woodside built their new home on Crescent Avenue. Designed by William Ward, the two-story residence was constructed of cream-colored brick. When the Woodside Securities Company fell victim to the Great Depression, the Woodsides moved into a more modest dwelling on Broadus Avenue.

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While undergoing extensive renovation in 1947, the former home of the Woodsides was damaged by fire. The structure was restored after the fire as a one-story residence. The home as it appears today was rebuilt to the original design in 2002-2003.

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journal sketchbook THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA GREENVILLE COUNTY ZONING AND PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE COUNTY COUNCIL ON MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012 AT 6:30 P.M. IN COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, COUNTY SQUARE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING ITEMS: DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-15 APPLICANT: MIKE TAPIO CONTACT INFORMATION: MIKE@TAPIOBUILDERS.COM OR 444-7444 PROPERTY LOCATION: E. COLEMAN ROAD AND ROBERTS CIRCLE PIN: 0534010100800 (PORTION) EXISTING ZONING: R-S, RESIDENTIAL SUBURBAN REQUESTED ZONING: R-M3, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE: 1.58 COUNTY COUNCIL: 21 - BURNS DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-16 APPLICANT: ALLAN HILL CONTACT INFORMATION: AHILL@GREENVILLELAW.NET OR 242-4995 PROPERTY LOCATION: E NORTH STREET PIN: 0541020101602 EXISTING ZONING: POD, PLANNED OFFICE DISTRICT REQUESTED ZONING: POD, PLANNED OFFICE DISTRICT (NEW STATEMENT OF INTENT AND CONCEPT PLAN) ACREAGE: .59 COUNTY COUNCIL: 22 – TAYLOR DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-17 APPLICANT: NARRAMORE HOLDINGS, LLC CONTACT INFORMATION: DVNARR@GMAIL.COM OR 242-9881 PROPERTY LOCATION: WHITE HORSE ROAD AT SALUDA DAM ROAD PIN: B013030101001 (PORTION) AND B013030100901 EXISTING ZONING: C-2, COMMERCIAL, R-M20, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL, AND S-1, SERVICES REQUESTED ZONING: C-3, COMMERCIAL ACREAGE: 2.65 COUNTY COUNCIL: 19 – MEADOWS DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-18 APPLICANT: JERRY CALLOWAY CONTACT INFORMATION: JERRY@CECCONSTRUCTIONLLC.COM OR 968-1243 PROPERTY LOCATION: CEDAR LANE ROAD PIN: B012000101900 (PORTION) EXISTING ZONING: R-M20, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL, AND R-10, SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL REQUESTED ZONING: C-3, COMMERCIAL, AND R-M20, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE: 7.8 COUNTY COUNCIL: 19 – MEADOWS DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-19 APPLICANT: ARBOR ENGINEERING FOR WHS PROPERTIES CONTACT INFORMATION: BRS@ARBORENGINEERING.COM OR 235-3589 X 105 PROPERTY LOCATION: PELHAM ROAD AT BOILING SPRINGS ROAD PIN: 0533040101701 EXISTING ZONING: O-D, OFFICE DISTRICT REQUESTED ZONING: NC, NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL ACREAGE: 1.23 COUNTY COUNCIL: 21 – BURNS DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-20 APPLICANT: TRESA LYLE CONTACT INFORMATION: POEMILLPARK255@GMAIL.COM OR 395-4457 PROPERTY LOCATION: A STREET PIN: 0150000300100 EXISTING ZONING: NC, NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL REQUESTED ZONING: C-3, COMMERCIAL ACREAGE: .8 COUNTY COUNCIL: 23 – NORRIS ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THESE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE GREENVILLE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE AND MAP ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS MEETING. AT SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS, GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL MAY APPROVE OR DENY THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS AS REQUESTED OR APPROVE A DIFFERENT ZONING CLASSIFICATION THAN REQUESTED.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that T-P Greenville, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1034 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 May 13, 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 On December 19, 2012, W. Benjamin McClain, Jr. was definitely suspended from the practice of law for two years, retroactive to March 13, 2007.

He has now filed a petition to be reinstated.

Notice is hereby given that members of the bar and the public may file a notice of their opposition to or concurrence with the Petition for Reinstatement. Comments should be mailed to: Committee on Character and Fitness, P.O. Box 11330, Columbia, South Carolina 29211. These comments should be received no later than June 18, 2012.

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 doing 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

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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SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Carpet Cleaning Services, on May 11, 2012, 3:00 P.M. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillevillecounty.org or by calling 864-467-7200.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012, AT 6:00 P.M. (or at such time thereafter as the hearing may be concluded), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC 29601, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNING AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND EXHIBIT A, ESTABLISHED AS AN ADDENDUM TO ORDINANCE NO.4079, AS LAST AMENDED

BY ORDINANCE NO. 4459, SO AS TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL OPERATING FUNDS FOR TOURIST RELATED PROJECTS. HERMAN G. KIRVEN JR., CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL 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

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

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

League Academy Summit Dr Elementary School Stone Academy Sears Shelter Mount Calvary Baptist Church W Greenville Recreation Cntr YWCA Springfield Baptist Church Phillis Wheatley Cntr Augusta Rd Baptist Church St Matthew United Methodist Church Augusta Circle Elementary School Pleasant Valley Connection Trinity United Methodist Church Meals on Wheels Sanctuary Church Eastlan Baptist Church Beck Academy McCarter Presbyterian Church E North St Academy Overbrook Baptist Church Francis Asbury United Methodist Church J L Mann High School Alexander Elementary School Duncan Chapel Fire Station Five Forks Baptist Church Changing Your Mind Ministries Valley Brook Baptist Church Disciples Fellowship Church Bells Crossing Elementary School Belmont Fire Station Berea Elementary School Devenger Rd Presbyterian Church Lutheran Church of Our Saviour Crossroads Community Church Brook Glenn Elementary School Buena Vista Elementary School Carolina Academy Washington Baptist Church Dunean Baptist Church Cross Roads Baptist Church Pleasant View Baptist Church Reedy River Baptist Church St Andrews Presbyterian Church Brushy Creek Elementary School St Giles Presbyterian Church Donaldson Center Fire Dept Dove Tree Club House Dunklin Fire Station Eastside High School Heritage Elementary School Taylors Elementary School Enoree Career Cntr Shannon Forest Presbyterian Church Fork Shoals Elementary School Fountain Inn Civic Cntr Fountain Inn Activities Cntr Northwood Baptist Church Grace United Methodist Church Mt Sinai Baptist Church Gowensville Community Cntr Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Holly Ridge Baptist Church Messiah Lutheran Church Grove Elementary School Hillcrest Middle School Faith Baptist Church Cleveland First Baptist Church Gilder Creek Farm Clubhouse Lakeview Middle School

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

125 Twin Lake Rd 424 Summit Dr 115 Randall St 100 E Park Ave 115 Cedar Ln Rd 8 Rochester St 700 Augusta St 600 E McBee Ave 40 John McCarroll Way 1823 Augusta St 701 Cleveland St 100 Winyah St 510 Old Augusta Rd 2703 Augusta St 15 Oregon St 302 Parkins Mill Rd 625 S Pleasantburg Dr 901 Woodruff Rd 2 Pelham Rd 1720 E North St 1705 E North St 1800 E North St 160 Fairforest Way 1601 W Bramlett Rd 5111 Old Buncombe Rd 112 Batesville Rd 3506 Edwards Rd 8323 Augusta Rd. 105 Crestfield Rd 804 Scuffletown Rd 701 Fork Shoals Rd 100 Berea Dr 1200 Devenger Rd 2600 Wade Hampton Blvd 416 Holland Rd 2003 E Lee Rd 310 S Batesville Rd 2725 Anderson Rd 3500 N. Hwy. 14 21 Allen St - Fellowship Hall 705 Anderson Ridge Rd 110 Old Rutherford Rd. Conestee Rd @ Lakewood Dr-Family Cntr 1860 Reid School Rd 1344 Brushy Creek Rd 1021 Hudson Rd 2291 Perimeter Rd 2 Sugarberry Dr 11353 Augusta Rd 1300 Brushy Creek Rd 1592 Geer Hwy 809 Reid School Rd 108 Scalybark Rd 830 Garlington Rd 916 McKelvey Rd 315 N Main St 610 Fairview St 888 Ansel School Rd. 627 Taylor Rd 1101 Roe Ford Rd 14186 Hwy 11 1002 S. Buncombe Rd. 260 Adams Mill Rd. 1100 Log Shoals Rd 1220 Old Grove Rd 510 Garrison Rd 906 Hwy 14 5 Church Dr 404 Grimes Dr. 3801 Old Buncombe Rd

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

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St Mark United Methodist Church Leawood Baptist Church Fairview Baptist Church Rocky Creek Missionary Baptist Church Brushy Creek First Assembly of God New Liberty Baptist Church Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Forrester Woods Club House Mauldin First Baptist Church Mauldin United Methodist Church Mauldin Miller Fire Station #1 Ray Hopkins Senior Cntr Mauldin Middle School Morningside Baptist Church Monaview Elementary School South Greenville Fire Station #6 Mountain Creek Baptist Church Mountain View Elementary School Mt Pleasant Community Cntr Christ Community Church Northwood Middle School Oakview Elementary School Living Way Community Church Grace Church Piedmont Park Fire Station Hdqt Pebble Creek Baptist Church Cornerstone Baptist Church Beattie Hall Canebrake Fire Dept Duncan Chapel Elementary School The Bridge Church Robert Cashion Elementary Reedy Fork Baptist Church River Walk Clubhouse Riverside High School Mitchell Rd Elementary School Rocky Creek Baptist Church Rolling Green Retirement Cntr Rock of Ages Baptist Church Berea Fire Station Faith Temple Church Sevier Middle School Heritage Bible Church Simpsonville City Park Cntr Plain Elementary School Simpsonville United Methodist Church Westside Church Center for Community Services Calvary Baptist Church Skyland Elementary School Slater Marietta Elementary School Southside High School Immanuel Lutheran Church First Church of the Nazarene Standing Springs Baptist Springwell Church Advent United Methodist Church Praise Cathedral Sugar Creek Clubhouse Armstrong Elementary School First Presbyterian Church Tanglewood Middle School Taylors First Baptist Church Oakleaf Village@Thornblade Tigerville Elementary School Aldersgate United Methodist Church Needmore Recreation Cntr City Hall Renfrew Baptist Church Enoree Baptist Church Chandler Creek Elementary School Hopewell UMC Faith Baptist Church Clear Spring Baptist Church Ellen Woodside Elementary School Welcome Elementary School E North St Baptist Church Westcliffe Elementary School John Calvin Presbyterian Church Woodmont Middle School Woodruff Rd Christian Church

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

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1 Hoke Smith Blvd 105 Donaldson Rd 7401 White Horse Rd 5080 Sandy Flat Rd 1000 Piedmont Park Rd 2005 Old Spartanburg Rd 405 E Curtis St 506 Neely Ferry Rd 215 SE Main St 611 Richardson St 1102 Howard Dr 207 Davenport Rd - Chapel 4221 N Hwy 14 100 Baker Cr 6630 Frontage Rd. @ White Horse Rd. 2820 Woodruff Rd 1201 Haywood Rd 1111 W. Georgia Rd. 4369 Wade Hampton Blvd 2258 Woodruff Rd 3390 Brushy Creek Rd 103 Sugar Creek Rd 8601 White Horse Rd 510 E Curtis St 44 Merriwoods Dr 200 W Main St - Ministry Cntr 1560 Thornblade Blvd 25 Tigerville Elementary School Rd 7 Shannon Dr 202 Canteen Ave 6711 State Park Rd 951 Geer Hwy. 881 Tigerville Rd - Youth Cntr 301 Chandler Rd 1420 Neely Ferry Rd. 500 W Lee Rd 301 Bethany Rd 9122 Augusta Rd 36 E Welcome Rd 4108 E North St - Fellowship Hall 105 Eastbourne Rd 1801 W Parker Rd 325 N Flat Rock Rd 20 Bell Rd

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

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From left to right, Hughes Academy’s Adeline Beeks was named the SCPTA Student Volunteer of the Year, Dr. Patrick Mark was named SCPTA Middle School Principal of the Year, and Carole Flashpoehler was named the SCPTA middle school volunteer of the year.

Dr. Patrick Mark receives high fives from the students and faculty of Hughes Academy in recognition for his being selected as the SCPTA Middle School Principal of the Year.

These 19 high school students from the area competed in the Junior Achievement Titan Challenge in the business simulation competition in downtown Greenville on Saturday, April 14 at Clemson at the Falls. The culminating competitive simulation placed each student in the CEO’s seat to help increase understanding of business while they competed for college scholarships.

J.L. Mann teacher Jennifer Cook’s AP French class traveled to France for a 12-day visit and exchange with sister school, the Lycee Godefroy de Bouillon in Clermont-Ferrand, France. This exchange has been an integral part of Cook’s French program since 1996 when the first exchange occurred. As always in the past, students spent the last four days of the exchange in Paris.

The first-place team, winning scholarship money, were, from left to right: Eastside High School students Travis Dixon, Dane Greinke, Kira Coker and Daniel Justice, and John Petruxick from TD Bank, who mentored and volunteered for Junior Achievement with the students.

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look who’s in the journal this week Approximately 600 students, faculty and staff from Furman University converged on Poinsett Highway recently for a day of service that officially kicked off the Poinsett Corridor Revitalization Coalition (PCRC) project. The Poinsett Corridor Revitalization Coalition is a collaborative venture to revitalize the Poinsett Highway corridor in order to establish a vibrant atmosphere conducive to the economic development the corridor deserves.

Paula Cawfield, Food Services Director at St. Francis, left, gets information on the vegetable plants she just bought from Rebecca McKinney, Sustainability Specialist, Community Ministries, St. Francis Health System.

Photos by Jeremy Fleming / Furman University

Photos by Jeremy Fleming / Furman University

Natalie Dougherty, Health Promotion Coordinator with the Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, left, talks to St. Francis Surgical Tech Terry Holcomb about an upcoming book of recipes and garden tips submitted by St. Francis employees that will be sold to raise funds for the St. Francis Community Garden. The pair were at the Energy Fair and Earth Day picnic at St. Francis Eastside. Dougherty was selling organically raised vegetable plants to raise money for the community garden.

Ana Lark with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System pedals a blender bike at the picnic.The stationary bike was fitted with a device that operated a blender when pedaled. The blender was being used to make smoothies.

Photos by Greg Beckner / Staff

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System employees line up to get their picnic lunches in the courtyard of St. Francis Eastside during the Energy Fair and Earth Day picnic. St. Francis Eastside is the first hospital in South Carolina to earn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star certification.

Furman University recently hosted a “WaterWalk” on campus to raise awareness about the developing world’s need for water and to raise funds to construct a water system for a Guatemalan village. For approximately one mile, participants carried water in various-sized containers along a selected route on campus. The walk simulated what millions of people in the developing world do where there is no ready access to water. The purpose is to raise $12,500 to match a grant from The Duke Endowment of Charlotte, N.C. Furman students and faculty will use the funds to help with the construction of a water system in the village of Esperanza San Antonio in Guatemala.

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Across 1 Colorful talker 6 Hair net 11 Thai currency 15 Legal opening?

19 Prominent period 20 New Mexico county whose seat is Alamogordo 21 Buck chaser?

22 Elliptical 23 Steal 25 Shows no restraint 27 Hit sign 28 Work out an agreement 29 Wouk work, with “The” 30 Honorary Muslim title in old India 32 Fed. auditing agency 34 Crib sheet users 35 2000 Sean Penn film, with “The” 40 Spoils 45 WWII Italian beachhead 46 Waterfront org.

47 It’s gone in less than a flash: Abbr.

49 Go for an ace, maybe 50 Corporate honcho 51 King in “The Tempest” 53 Bilko and Klinger, e.g.: Abbr.

56 “The Namesake” director Mira

57 Busy, design-wise 59 Have a drink 62 Blowup source, briefly 63 Shield border, in heraldry 65 Germany, to Meg Ryan: Abbr.

66 Conference clip-on 67 Defended 69 Nailed down 71 “It’s my fervent wish!”

74 French monarchs 76 Dr. visit 77 “Cheers” bartender 80 Last book in Robertson Davies’ “Deptford Trilogy” 83 Mexican man, say 85 Summer treat 86 Whim 87 Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David 89 Had too much 90 Sole protectors 92 Said three times, a story shortener 94 Sudden death cause 95 Last word in doughnuts 96 Self-important boss, facetiously 99 Sage advice 102 Aid factor 104 Sun Valley loc.

105 Parts of some area calculations 106 Laurel and Hardy film set in Brushwood Gulch

111 They take things in stride 114 Go downhill, in a way 117 Basically 118 ‘30s show tune that became a 1960 Dion and the Belmonts hit 120 Fictitious 121 Time co-founder 122 Board 123 Topple 124 1944 Normandy battle site 125 Unwanted messages 126 Prevailing tendency 127 Giving lip

Down 1 Cat calls 2 On __ with 3 Empire-building activity 4 “Eew!” kin 5 A-list 6 Cook for three minutes, say 7 Abbr. on many a can 8 Eye, in Versailles 9 Maker of Taco Kits 10 “How stupid of me!”

11 Indonesian island on its own sea 12 Isn’t for couples?

13 Show off 14 Have an easy catch with 15 Disappearing word 16 Declare 17 Tabula __ 18 Tiger, e.g., briefly

24 Something to be proud of 26 Fails to prevail 29 Troubles 31 Bad gut feeling 33 When a memorable movie gunfight occurs 35 Aired, as a TV show

36 Harden 37 Ran smoothly 38 Dwindle 39 Break a promise 41 Had a feeling 42 Benjamin of “Law & Order” 43 Walled Spanish city

44 Easing of govt. restrictions 48 IV amts.

51 Spray 52 Extend one’s visit 54 Confess 55 How rebukes are administered 58 Schlepped 60 Sadat’s predecessor 61 “__ man who wasn’t there ...”

64 Bath scrubber 67 Anger 68 Rather rival 70 Othello’s lieutenant 71 “If only!”

72 __ Minh City 73 Hydrox rivals, once 75 Driver’s license, often 77 Fries and slaw 78 Prefix with meter 79 Computer accessory 81 Like some humor 82 Spoils 84 Sculptors’ subjects 88 Get close to 91 One may get congested 93 “Go ahead!”

95 Former children’s clothing chain 97 Chewable Asian leaves 98 Clinched 100 Reindeer name 101 Baylor University site 103 “Rock Around the Clock” label 106 Mental faculties 107 Gray area?: Abbr.

108 Whoop it up 109 Munch Museum city 110 Appear to be 112 Nice bean?

113 Online __ print 115 Guy dolls 116 Fedora-wearing adventurer, familiarly 118 Driver’s lic. stat 119 FDR program

Crossword answers: page 37

Sudoku answers: page 37

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LIfe after 60 by peggy henderson

Color choices: to dye, go gray or wear a hat?

Let’s be honest. When it comes to making a lifestyle choice of giving up the color sessions with your hair stylist and going cold turkey with your present natural hair color (gray), it can be risky business.

Why risky?

When an average American, regardless of age, sees gray hair, it’s an automatic reaction like lightning is to thunder, or after spring comes summer. The brain registers “old.” It doesn’t matter whether the grayhaired person is perky, runs an Ironman marathon, or drives a snazzy BMW sports car. Cultural perception dictates either “over the hill,” or, even worse, “slowing down.”

In the competitive workplace, gray heads remain an obstacle to promotion or an uninvited push for early retirement.

Doing my research for this column, I revisited the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which was created to protect employees 40 years of age and older. I’m gratified to know that there is such a law on the books, but I can just imagine the subtle, blurred transparencies that must play out in professional of-

fices, corporate hierarchies and administration boards around the country.

I was disheartened to find, in a study on geriatrics and gerontology from the University of South Carolina, that among workers in the middle- to- upper-level income bracket, the researchers found there were definite footprints of age discrimination. Results indicated that “more than 81 percent of the older workers encountered at least one workplace discriminatory treatment a year.”

Unfortunately, sexism along with ageism still shadows the workplace like a timeless albatross.

Men score equally in regards to their shared hair anxiety as women. However, men continue to carry a slight edge with the perceived status that males aged 50 and older carry an air of being especially seasoned, or possess an entitled, distinguished vibe.

Have you noticed that President Obama keeps his hair closely cropped? The more he asks his stylist for a “shower cut” the grayer his hair appears. Presiding in the White House can do that to our Executive Chiefs.

On the flip side, for females middle-aged and up, no matter how classically or stylishly in-touch the haircut, most of the time the response to natural gray is to see the woman as matronly, bored on the job or maturely jaded. It’s the “I’ve seen it all; been there” vibe.

A tip from a networking firm called Gray Hair Management advises women to start with the salt and pepper look or blond and gray streaks, and in time let the “salt” become permanent.

For me, being a senior, seasoned female without hair prejudice, I try to observe and not judge.

Personally, the first time I noticed those squiggly, uncontrollable strands of gray sticking out of my crown, I wasn’t surprised. If I remember correctly, I was around 50 and I determinedly plucked them out. One by one. Being a strawberry blonde and always outdoors more than in, I probably then didn’t even notice the gray. Now, 17 years later, I am still and plan to continue to be a colored, understated, strawberry blond.

I duly applaud the smart ladies who go natural with

their shining, silver manes signaling their self-esteem.

It’s a glorious, wordless statement. Count Hubert de Givenchy, renowned fashion designer and founder of The House of Givenchy in 1952, said in Vogue, “Hair style is the final tipoff whether or not a woman really knows herself ”.

I’ve read that healthy, gray hair is tricky to maintain.

Like silverware, it requires constant polish. Not to worry; I’ve learned since age 50 that the whole nine yards of aging gracefully means daily maintenance forever.

No wonder we ask ourselves why the months and years zoom by far too fast.

The truth is, we must be living a blissful existence if all we have to worry about is the color of our hair. It’s the little, commonplace decisions that entertain our moments, that make it easier to accept the big life hiccups that challenge our souls.

Just an ending thought: On bad hair days, just wear a saucy hat.

Contact Peggy Henderson at peg4745@ aol.com.

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