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“I want to tell everyone that we’re cooking a ton of meat.” Barbecue lover Jeff Bannister, on the 900-pound cow, llama and assorted pigs, chickens, goats, lambs and turkeys he and friends plan to roast over an open fire in Greer on May 19 as part of Bovinova 2.0.
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“I have sore ribs.” James Stowell, CEO of American Hearing Loop, on the grateful hugs from hearing-impaired customers reacting to the clarity of sound in public areas equipped with audio frequency induction loops.
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Hearing loop specialists Tony LaCavera, left, and James Stowell install a hearing loop into the floor of one of the classrooms at Furman University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Center.
the only person in the church.” To take advantage of a hearing loop, a listener must have a hearing aid equipped with a telecoil that can pick up the loop’s transmissions directly. Hearing loop technology has been more widespread in Europe, and has only started catching on in the United States recently, as the technology to miniaturize the telecoils has advanced. Now, telecoils are built into most hearing aids and cochlear implants sold here. “Having a hearing aid in the 21st century is like having a MacBook Pro on each ear,” said Stowell. The effectiveness of hearing loops is enhanced by the fact that each wearer’s hearing aid is customized for his own hearing loss, he said. Stowell is one of his own best customers. He started losing his hearing while serving in the Army, and now has lost all hearing in his left ear and 85 percent of the hearing in his right ear. He uses a few different hearing loops every day, including one designed for phone conversations. Venues such as Yankee Stadium and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
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Lucy Woodhouse, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman, had never heard of hearing loops before two different OLLI members asked her if she knew anything about them. But once she and Tim Hightower, Furman’s media systems manager, started researching them, they realized that hearing loops had great potential to help hard-of-hearing OLLI visitors. “We both determined that we’d be lucky to have the system in the building,” Woodhouse said. “It sounded like the technology was so much better. It just sounded like it was the way to go.” OLLI is not alone. Nearly a dozen public venues in the Upstate are now equipped with hearing loops – technically known as audio frequency induction loops, clarified James Stowell, CEO of American Hearing Loop. The company, with offices in Greenville, Atlanta and Raleigh, N.C., has installed a number of them throughout the Southeast. The hearing loop consists of a loop of cable around a designated area – which can be as big as a concert hall or sports arena or as small as a desk – that uses electromagnetic energy to transmit sound directly to the telecoil in a listener’s hearing aid. The listener hears just the sound he’s interested in – a concert, a sermon, his wife’s voice in a crowded restaurant – without the clutter of amplified background noise older assisted listening systems provide. “It’s a direct connection from the speaker to your brain,” Stowell explained. Stowell installed a hearing loop system at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville, with great results. “Some people have been going to St. Mary’s for 40 years and have never heard the sermon, because of the reverberation and the delay created by the speakers and the PA system,” he said. “When they sit in the loop, it’s as if they’re
City, the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., already feature hearing loops. Spartanburg audiologist Ben Dawsey donated a hearing loop system for the Chapman Cultural Center’s Daniel Reid Theatre. “The comments I’ve heard from people using it is that it makes a huge difference in their enjoyment level of the show,” said ticket office manager Melissa Earley. “A couple of our regulars have told me that it’s the first time in many years that they’ve been able to understand every word of a play.” “It’s been a great blessing to a lot of people,” agreed Steve Wong, the Chapman Cultural Center’s marketing director. The system has been getting “great reviews” from Chapman patrons impressed by the quality of the sound. “It really is the industry standard these days,” Wong said. “This is the way to go. It’s much better in terms of quality, and it’s easy to use.” But let the buyer beware, cautioned Stowell: The increasing popularity of hearing loops has attracted a number of “car-
petbaggers” who will “come in and throw a piece of wire on the ground and stick a magnet into it and call it a hearing loop.” The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has established standards for hearing loop sound reproduction; all of American Hearing Loop’s installations meet that standard, Stowell said. Even though the technology is gaining popularity regionally, with several systems operational in cities like Greensboro and Charlotte, N.C. and Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., hearing loops have been slow to take off in the Upstate, Stowell admitted. Price is one factor: The OLLI center is paying about $1,000 per room for their hearing loops, Woodhouse estimated. A small church can get wired for about $8,000, while a larger venue’s system may cost $18,000, Stowell said. A home system designed for a TV room costs about $500. “I haven’t found anybody who doesn’t want a hearing loop. In fact, they stand in line for them,” Stowell said. “The problem is, where do you get the funding for it?” Once a loop is in place, however, the reaction from hearing-impaired people is fairly predictable. “I have sore ribs,” said Stowell. “I have never been squeezed and hugged and kissed so much. When you see the tears in the eyes of grown men who have never heard their grandchildren, it just tears you up. The response has been unanimously, 110 percent, complete consensus, the most wonderful thing they’ve ever heard.” Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com. For more information, visit www.americanhearingloop.com or www.hearingloop.org.
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Election fiasco far from over There’s one certainty in the Great Primary Election Fiasco of 2012: The courts will be revisiting the Laurel and Hardy-esque mistakes that caused 180 candidates to be tossed off the June 12 primary ballot by order of the state Supreme Court. That’s one in five of the total number running statewide – a fiasco that creates “a ripe issue for review in the federal courts,” as John Crangle of the government watchdog group Common Cause noted last week to The Greenville News. Senate District 5 candidate Amanda Somers started the process last Friday, filing suit in U.S. District Court seeking an emergency restraining order to enjoin the printing of any ballots until the “chaos” is sorted out and the affected candidates given due process. The chaos turns on a technicality: State law requires candidates to file a paper statement of economic interest when they file for public office “at the same time and with the same official.” This is the law the Supreme Court upheld. However, many challengers – some on the advice of party officials – left off that step because a more recent, 2010 law requires the reports to be filed online. Those who brought a hard copy with them when they filed for office – as Greenville County Republican candidates were told to do – are in the clear, according to the Supreme Court. However, scores of others – 10 Greenville Democrats among them – received different instructions, a scenario that repeats statewide. Five Democrat and Republican challengers were off the ballot in Spartanburg. In Clarendon County, House District 24 had no candidates left. This is a vintage South Carolina mess, but it is not the Supreme Court’s mess. The court showed admirable restraint in refusing to legislate from the bench to untangle it. No, this is clearly the Legislature’s mess, and whether lawmakers can resolve it without jeopardizing the primary date is far from clear. By press time Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee had attempted a fix by amending a House bill to allow any candidate who tried to file the economic statement by April 20 back on the ballot. Other senators preferred the original deadline of March 30, in hopes of avoiding the federal review required for any change to state election law. The federal review could still come. The potential also remains for new lawsuits from candidates who met the original filing requirements and resent the appearance of favoritism this week’s flurry of legislative activity could be said to imply. With only four weeks to go, it won’t take much disgruntlement to delay the primary. Whatever retroactive fix lawmakers manage to concoct now, some long-term changes are clearly in order. First, the Legislature must take steps to reconcile these and any other conflicting laws remaining in the state election code, and ensure those who dispense advice to candidates at party headquarters or county election offices do so with accuracy. More training next time around would be wise. Second, lawmakers should seriously consider standardizing the filing process by getting the political parties out of it entirely. Rather than party headquarters, have candidates file at their county election offices, where employees presumably know election law or can consult it with due speed. Bureaucratic snafus of this magnitude only further public cynicism about the integrity of the election process. South Carolina candidates and voters deserve better than this.
The new world of retirement One of the most important questions many Americans face as they age is what retirement will look like. Can it be done at age 62? What happened to the nest egg? What about health concerns? What to do with the family home? These are not new questions by any stretch of the imagination – they have been asked in some variety or another for generations. But what has changed is the answers. Retirement communities first started cropping up in the 1950s and 1960s, mainly in places that featured almost year-round sun and were marketed to Snow Belt retirees. These often sprawling communities served a purpose at the time. But the need for better, healthier and more vibrant retirement options is the future. The next seven days will mark Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) Recognition Week. CCRCs are the new direction in retirement living, aimed at giving seniors a more active and healthier lifestyle, while providing necessities such as health care and assistance that are the hallmarks of retirement-age needs. These are not Seinfeld’s famous “Del Boca Vista.” CCRCs offer a new look at retirement. We at The Woodlands at Furman will celebrate next week with a drum circle, talent contest, softball game and barbecue. This is on top of regular programming that includes concerts, author lectures, nature trips, holiday carols and much more about introducing our residents to what the Upstate offers. The Woodlands is not alone in this approach. Almost all CCRCs (there are roughly 2,000 nationwide with close to 640,000 residents) strive to make retirement lively and exciting for their residents. CCRCs fill a need in the Upstate. Our population is growing older at a faster rate than anywhere else in South Carolina. Greenville has the highest population of people over 65, while Spartan-
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burg ranks third. Seniors are the third largest age bracket in the state and the second fastest growing, with more than 120,000 added in the past decade. This growth is fueled by the aging of our long-time residents – textile workers, teachers, doctors, attorneys, law enforcement officers – who have lived in the Upstate for years. It also is being fueled by people seeking the Upstate’s quality of life, which has become a wide-ranging demographic. Among them are the so-called halfbacks: people from Northern states who moved to Florida and now are in South Carolina “half way back.” Included are people from neighboring states such as Georgia and North Carolina, who were lured by Greenville’s downtown, access to the mountains and arts scene. There are even people who are leaving the oceanfronts of South Carolina for the Upstate’s foothills. These seniors will likely live longer than previous generations because of better nutrition and medical advances. They need retirement options that meet this development. The biggest hallmark of CCRCs is a sense of security. Everyone strives for and plans ahead to develop a comfortable retirement lifestyle. A desire for a predictable financial plan offering security coupled with pleasant amenities is a large part of why seniors are looking at these types of communities. CCRCs will be a binding thread in the fabric of our Upstate community for years to come. Walter Goldsmith is the chairman of the board for The Woodlands at Furman and a senior vice president of Davenport & Company.
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3 resign from Greenville disabilities board Chairwoman, son deny harassment; say they want to correct errors and fight defamation By CHarles Sowell | staff
Three members of the troubled Greenville Disabilities and Special Needs Board have resigned, two of them citing harassment by board Chairwoman Roxie Kincannon and her son, Columbia lawyer Todd Kincannon, in their letters of resignation. Maureen Kriese and former board secretary Judith Gibson resigned on May 2; Maggi Bailey filed her resignation on May 3. Roxie and Todd Kincannon visited the Journal’s offices on Wednesday for a two-hour session to discuss the resignation letters, allegations of harassment Roxie Kincannon, and the state of the chairwoman of agency since the fir- the DSN board ing of former executive director Brent Parker and hiring of Patrick Haddon as interim director. The two also discussed dozens of Freedom of In- Todd Kincannon, formation requests Roxie Kincannon’s son and a Todd Kincannon said he filed Columbia lawyer with county DSN boards around the state in the name of state Rep. Eric Bikas, demanding years of information concerning Chris Clark, author of a critical audit and management letter directed at the Greenville DSN board. Additionally, Kincannon filed FOIs for information on former GCDSN director Brent Parker, former board member Kriese and others. Kincannon said he filed the requests to give Clark and others a taste of “what it feels like” to come under pressure over actions taken during the past couple of years and to correct errors he said were contained in Clark’s October 2011 management letter. He also said he anticipates filing legal actions for his clients: Roxie
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Kincannon, former board Chairwoman Connie Holmes and board member Vena Lease. The resignation letters of Gibson and Bailey were provided to the Journal by county officials. In her resignation letter to Gov. Nikki Haley, Bailey wrote: “Recently, members of the Board have taken actions that may violate South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act and have created substantial Maggi Bailey conflict within the resigned from Board itself and beDSN board tween the Organizaon May 3 tion and its clients. As a result, I and other members of the Board who have objected to these activities have been subjected to intimidation and have not been provided with the information necessary to responsibly carry out our duties. “Due to this conflict, intimidation, and lack of openness by the Board’s leadership and the organization’s management and the conflict with the parents and family members of those consumers served by GCDSNB, I do not believe that the consumers are being afforded the advocacy and protections they deserve.” In addition to her resignation letter to Gov. Haley, Gibson wrote a letter dated May 2 to Beverly Buscemi, director of the state Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, saying: “In my opinion there is little need for me to continue on this board because any and all decisions and actions are made by Roxie Kincannon and her friends and family. She brought in her good friend to be Chair of the Nursing Practices & Policies Committee, a committee recently created by Roxie herself Judith Gibson, acting alone. Then former DSN board Roxie attempted secretary, resigned on May 2 to get the board’s
approval to hire this friend at an exorbitant salary as Assistant Executive Director, a position which does not exist. Roxie unilaterally provided the board with an Interim Executive Director, Patrick Haddon, who she has attempted to have hired on a permanent basis without a proper job search. These actions were taken by providing a surprised board with scripts to follow (copies enclosed) in lieu of the proposed agenda.” Gibson continued, “But by far the most disturbing thing to me is the involvement of Roxie Kincannon’s son Todd, a lawyer, who is now attending most if not all committee and board meetings. His influence can readily be seen in the flurry of ‘Chairman’s Rulings’ issued between February 20 and February 29, 2012, which she has asked be attached to the board minutes. I find Todd’s behavior threatening to members of the board and to the families in the audience. It is my understanding he has caused one board member to be subjected to harassing orders to provide years of emails and also records pertaining to her employment. This employment has nothing to do with GCDSNB. He has frightened clients’ family members with veiled threats of legal action and demands for personal emails.” A spokeswoman for Buscemi said the state DDSN had received Gibson’s letter and attachments on Tuesday but had no further comment. Gov. Nikki Haley has not commented directly to the Journal on the DSN controversy. However, at a question and answer session at a Greenville Rotary luncheon Wednesday, she said, “It sounds like you have a problem up here in the Upstate with some disabilities issues, (and) we are working closely with (County Council) on that to see what needs to be done to correct that problem.” Todd Kincannon told the Journal he filed FOI requests for board member Maureen Kriese’s entire email account with Spartanburg School District 5 “because she uses the District 5
account to conduct board business.” He said, “I’ll tell you one thing, there are no veiled threats of legal action. The threats of legal action are very explicit and they are going to continue as long as people are defaming innocent folks … I did not bully anyone. Have I threatened people with lawsuits? Absolutely. I have threatened people who have defamed my family and my clients with lawsuits. There is nothing wrong with threatening actionable defamation with a defamation lawsuit. That’s what lawyers are for.” Roxie Kincannon told the Journal she acted quickly to hire Haddon because the DSN agency was in dire straits after firing former director Parker and Patrick Haddon, could not afford to interim director of wait to get a new di- Greenville DSN rector in place. She said she had known Haddon for years and knew he had considerable financial experience. “I know him and he has the skills and talents that we need to help turn things around,” she said. The scripts mentioned by Gibson in her letter to Buscemi were suggested by Todd Kincannon to his mother in an attempt to help her bring un- Beverly Buscemi, ruly meetings into director of the state DSN a semblance of order, he said. “No one was required to follow the scripts,” Roxie Kincannon said. “And they were not distributed until just before each meeting.” Todd Kincannon told the Journal the FOI requests filed in regard to auditor Chris Clark were both in preparation for a May 15 County Council meeting scheduled with the DSN and to correct errors in Clark’s October management letter. He said Clark criticized the DSN board for actions Clark had himself urged the board to take 18
journal community months earlier in a “general practices” seminar. In an April 29 email to Clark, Kincannon wrote: “Withdraw your management letter to the GCDSNB that has created these problems. Send a letter to the GCDSNB explaining that potential problems with the factual basis of the letter have been brought to your attention, that you wish to investigate them and correct them if need be, and that you will re-issue a management letter after fully investigating the matters.” Within days of receipt of that email, Clark withdrew his management letter and issued a new one and Kincannon dropped his FOI requests. In his new management letter, Clark acknowledged that the board was acting on his advice, given 18 months earlier during a training session, when they voted to increase then executive director Parker’s authority to execute contracts without board approval from $15,000 to $75,000. Kincannon said he sought Rep. Bikas’ help with the FOI requests
because the issues involved Bikas’ constituency. Bikas, who has not attended a legislative session since early January, told the Journal last week he became involved because he wanted to help his friend Todd get to the bottom of the issues surrounding the DSN board. He was not aware of what the issues actually are. Contacted by the Journal, South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell said Wednesday, “It is totally inappropriate for Rep. Bikas to allow anyone to use his name to make FOIA requests unless he has an intention to use the information to perform his duties as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Since he has not attended a legislative session since January, it is highly unlikely that he plans to use any information that has been or will be gathered in his name.” Staff writer April A. Morris contributed to this story. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@greenvillejournal.com.
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When Monarch Elementary School opens in the fall, it won’t be like any other elementary school in Greenville County. Health sciences will be embedded throughout a curriculum that will be inquiry- and projects-based. Older students will have iPads, and some library books will be electronic, not hardback. Even the chairs will be different. Students in kindergarten through fifth grade will have “rocking chairs” instead of traditional desk chairs. The chairs aren’t the typical rocking chairs you see in nurseries or on front porches. Instead, the chairs are sturdy enough to provide support, but flexible enough to allow students to make gentle movements. Research has shown movement can help students perform academically, Monarch principal Vaughan Overman said. Desks will move and teachers will have workstations on casters to allow classrooms to be reconfigured quickly to support individual and group learning. There will even be stand-up desks for students who have difficulty sitting still. “We’re trying to do things totally differently to get the children today prepared for tomorrow,” Overman said. The school is partnering with the Greenville Hospital System. Doctors and nurses are expected to work with the school on lessons, and the hospital is providing students with pedometers as a part of the school’s emphasis on healthier lifestyles. “We can turn miles walked into math lessons,” Overman said. Teachers will integrate instruction across the curriculum, she said. For example, students can measure their heart and breathing rates during exercise in physical education classes and apply that data in a cellular respiration lab in science class. Overman said students in the upper grades will have iPads. She said there are many iPad applications out that can be used in science,
physical education and other classes. The school’s cafeteria will feature healthier lunches. Gone from the menu are school cafeteria staples such as chicken nuggets, hot dogs and pizza. In their place will be a menu that focuses on minimally processed, mostly made-
“We’re trying to do things totally differently to get the children today prepared for tomorrow.” Vaughan Overman, principal of Monarch Elementary
from-scratch entrees with an emphasis on fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and less salt. Each day a vegetarian entrée will be offered. The school will be one of the first in Greenville County to have ebooks in its library. “We want to turn the media center into a more 21st-century media center,” Overman said. Students in the upper grades will be able to check out eBooks for up to two weeks on their iPads. Students in lower grades will still check out print books. E-books are comparable in cost to print books, Overman said, but the school should save some money on wear and tear. Monarch Elementary is on Five Forks Road in Simpsonville and is designed to ease overcrowding at Oakview, Bell’s Crossing, Bethel and Mauldin Elementaries. Students already attending the four schools are being given the option to finish their elementary school years at those schools, but parents have to provide transportation. The school is also accepting applications for students to attend on special permission, Overman said. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com
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Tigers may be in the Greenville Zoo’s future. So might bears, a tropical rainforest, an animal “touch” area and a new entry complete with a water feature and park benches. It is likely elephants will not be, though. The zoo is working on a new master plan that would eliminate elephants from its animal collection during the second phase of a construction project expected to take at least 10 years to finish. The plan is in the final stages of design by Seattle’s PJA Architects, the same architectural firm that led the design of the animal exhibits at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. The new master plan, which still must be finalized by the architects and approved by the Greenville City Council, could cost $60 million to complete, said Andy Grant, one of the consultants hired by the city and Friends of the Zoo to work on the plan. Friends of the Zoo president Cindy Roddy said a feasibility study would be done and that fundraising would likely be completed in increments. Many zoos across the country – including some of the nation’s biggest – are considering giving up their elephant collections. Most zoos that have built or are building new elephant exhibitions have exhibits that are at least three acres because of concerns
of ever-increasing land requirements, said consultant Jim Brighton. Under a preliminary master plan unveiled at a public meeting Tuesday night, a new entrance plaza would be built between the two Cleveland Park parking lots and a new educational facility would be added. An open-air tiger exhibit would be built with a training wall where zoo visitors could watch zookeepers train tigers to offer their paws for the taking of blood samples or to open their mouths for a dental exam. A glass viewing area would allow visitors to see the tigers up close. A native Blue Ridge section would be constructed on some of the zoo’s undeveloped property that could include black bears, red wolves, otters, eagles, foxes, porcupines, wild turkeys and other species, Brighton said. A tropical rainforest indoor exhibit could have an aquarium with penguins, birds, small mammals, reptiles, insects and amphibians, as well as a new restaurant. The zoo’s orangutan exhibit would be expanded. An event lawn would allow the zoo to host nature-based programs as well as live theater and concerts, Brighton said. Eric Amstutz, who lives behind the zoo on Ridgeland Drive, said he was happy the zoo decided not to leave Cleveland Park, but said he was concerned about noise, lighting at night and protecting the heritage trees at the zoo. “The concerns we have are the concerns any neighborhood would have,” he said. He said the zoo becomes a quiet part of the neighborhood now after 5:30 p.m. save a few special events at night each year. He said neighbors were concerned about
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On June 12, voters in Greenville County will decide whether to send Republican Mike Fair back to the state Senate seat he has held since 1995, or whether one of his two GOP challengers, Tommie Reece or Chris Sullivan, will go to Columbia in his place. With no Democratic challengers announced for the Senate District 6 election, the winner of the Republican primary in June will most likely win the seat in the November election. Before serving in the state Senate, Fair, an Upstate native, was in the state House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995, and was a Greenville County Council mem- Mike Fair ber from 1976 to 1982. Fair is currently the chairman of the Corrections and Penology committee and the Subcommittee on Corrections and Public Safety. He also serves on the Education, Finance, Medical Affairs and Fish, Game and Forestry committees, as well as the Subcommittee on Sales and Income Tax. “I have learned a great deal from this service, and it has taken me a long time to build the relationships,” he said. Unemployment is the state’s biggest challenge, Fair said. “Jobs and more jobs is what South Carolina needs most,” he said. “Unemployment at or around 9 percent is unacceptable. We need as a state to continue to be business-friendly by cutting taxes and cutting out overly stringent regulations.” The state Legislature needs to be careful with tax restructuring “as we do it,” said Fair. “Our national ranking on all taxes places South Carolina around 40, with 50 being the best. Yet there are things we can do, and some of the sales tax exemptions were not intended to be eternal. We need to review the studies that have been done and implement carefully some of the recommendations.” Along with cutting corporate income taxes, Fair is a supporter of
“empowering parents to make the best (school) choice for their children, be it public or private.” Fair also favors the creation of a Department of Administration, which would eliminate the state Budget and Control Board. The DOA will absorb the board’s functions and streamline operations, he said. “Seniority should not be a ‘free pass’ to waste and poor judgment,” he said, but “I can offer a constituent service that will take my opponents a like number of years to be able to offer. Change for change’s sake should not be the determining factor of our Senate 6 election.” Tommie Reece, a Greenville native who works as the program manager of Learning for You at Furman University, considers the biggest challenges facing the state to be “economic Tommie Reece development, job creation and education, which all go hand-in-hand,” she said. “I will work to create a more business-friendly environment by reducing regulations and taxes which strangle businesses, and by securing the infrastructure needed for successful operations.” Reece comes from a family of entrepreneurs with deep roots in Greenville. “I grew up working in a family business and have been surrounded by entrepreneurs, from my parents and in-laws to my husband, sister and son, so I understand how important small businesses are for job creation and the quality of life in our community,” she said. To bring jobs to the region, “I will encourage private venture capital, an environment of free enterprise, and a comprehensive statewide economic development plan in conjunction with local and area development and recruitment efforts,” she said. “I would pursue a balance of business retention, business growth and recruitment of new companies. Our current legislators have allowed the state retirement system and the unemployment tax to spiral out of control.” Education is key, said Reece, who has served on the Greenville County School Board for 15 years. “As we at-
tract and develop these good jobs, we must be sure to have the well-prepared people to fill them,” she said. “I will work to reform education funding to make it equitable, stable, flexible, and distributed under a methodology which is easily understandable.” Like Fair, Reece supports school choice. “You can see the result of my work on the Greenville County School Board in the fact that we have over 9,000 students attending a school of their choice,” she said. “And we must also improve public education overall. I would take my experience from the local level to improve education across South Carolina.” Reece also agrees with Fair in favoring the creation of the DOA. Describing herself as a “fiscal conservative,” if elected, Reece will support a spending cap tied to inflation and population growth and will work to “streamline and combine functions (and) reduce administrative costs, targeting departments which duplicate, overlap and waste valuable resources.” She also noted that “there is not one single woman in our state Senate, even though over half of South Carolina’s citizens are women. That’s not why I am a candidate, but we do need to have women’s voices at the table.” A Greenville native and smallbusiness owner, Chris Sullivan cites job creation, economic improvement and education reforms as the biggest challenges facing Chris Sullivan District 6 and the state. “Because of decades of legislative manipulation, South Carolina has an antiquated and cumbersome tax structure,” he said. “Although we pay out enormous sums in incentives to attract new business, we are not really business-friendly. The government has never been good at picking winners and losers, which should be left to the free market.” Reform is necessary, Sullivan said. “South Carolina’s employers and business owners struggle under an unnecessary heavy burden of government
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Administration concept – “but not the way the Senate executed it,” he said. “As is so often the case, the Senate chose to undo the hard-won reforms adopted by the House, by replacing the single Budget and Control Board with nine different boards, commissions and panels. It is a clear example of why the State Senate is known as the ‘graveyard of reform legislation.’” Sullivan says he is “the only candidate in this race who has the conservative Republican beliefs as well as the will and energy to do what needs to be done. Regrettably, Ms. Reece is not a conservative Republican by philosophy. Sen. Fair has, for the last decade, become little more than a yes-man to the status quo in leadership positions in the Senate. Greenville ought to be providing real leadership in the Senate and right now we are not.” All three candidates have met the legal requirements for filing, according to the S.C. Republican Party, so all three should appear on the June 12 primary ballot despite the recent state Supreme Court ruling disqualifying 180 candidates statewide.
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Two candidates will be facing off in June’s primary to bid for Greenville County Council’s District 18 seat. Incumbent Republican Joseph Baldwin will be chalAlso Available many varieties of: lenged by fellow Repub- Joseph Baldwin lican and Greer businessman Mike Barnes. Baldwin, an attorney, was elected to County Council in 2008. He currently serves on the council’s Public Works and Infrastructure ComMike Barnes mittee and the Planning and Development Committee. He says that bringing more jobs and economic opportunity to the county is the most important issue at this time. “Maintaining our reputation for efficient, cost effective government 299-6677 • 1135 South Pleasantburg Dr. causes industry and other job creators to Between Cleveland Street & Mauldin Road take a good look at our county,” he said. Monday – Saturday 8:00AM – 6:00PM “We also need to encourage educational opportunities in the county as industry looks for areas where they can get a well-trained and educated work force,” Baldwin said. In District 18, Baldwin says there are vacant locations that could generate jobs and increase the tax base. “I plan to keep the Greer area as my priority with the Greenville Area Development Corporation and continue to support the Greater Greer Development Corporation in attracting business and jobs to the Greer area,” he said. Baldwin says his experience in county and municipal government qualify him for the seat. His position as an attorney brings him into contact with various facets of county government and he has an understanding of everyday issues facing government, he said. If reelected, Baldwin said he will continue to render “thoughtful, conscientious service and continue advocating the message of efficient government and helping to bring jobs to the county.” Joseph Baldwin holds a juris doctor (JD) from the University of South Carolina and had been practicing law for more than two years. He also worked for State Auto for more than 27 years. BaldOFF AUGUSTA win served as a Greer city councilman for NEW AUTHENTIC BAKERY WITH EUROPEAN FLAIRbefore being elected to County 15 years 11 Sevier Greenville, SC COME St. AND| TASTE OUR HOLDIAY SPECIALS! Council. He has been married for 24 years and has two children. A member of Me11 Sevier Street 864.282.8580 Greenville, SC 29605 morial United Methodist Church, Bald-
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Thousands drive over substandard bridges daily Four bridges in Spartanburg and Greenville make state’s Top 20 list By Cindy Landrum | staff
Four bridges in Greenville and Spartanburg counties – which together carry more than three-quarters of a million vehicles a week – are among the state’s most substandard.
The four bridges – two on Interstate 85 in Spartanburg County and two on U.S. 29 in Greenville County – made the state’s list of top 20 substandard bridges because they don’t meet federal standards for design or structural integrity, according to data compiled by the South Carolina Department of Transportation and AAA Carolinas.
Twenty percent of the state’s bridges – 1,880 in total – fail to meet U.S. Department of Transportation standards and are considered substandard. However, that doesn’t mean they are unsafe for use, said South Carolina Secretary of Transportation Robert St. Onge. “All South Carolina open bridges are
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spected biannually. The state DOT compiles a list of those that are substandard according to federal standards in the categories of structural integrity, design, function in the local community and economy, importance as a public safety route and whether the bridge is on an evacuation route. AAA Carolinas uses that information and an average daily traffic formula to select the top 20 substandard bridges affecting the largest number of motorists. A 54-year-old bridge in Richland County was ranked the state’s worst bridge for the 11th time. The bridge on Interstate 26 that passes over the CN&L Railroad is rated structurally deficient. It carries more than half a million vehicles a week. The Spartanburg County bridges in the AAA Carolinas top-20 substandard list – I-85 and Buffington Road and I-85 over Howard Street – were not ranked in 2011. Both were built in 1959. Both bridges carry 32,200 vehicles per day. The Greenville County bridges in the Top 20 are both on U.S. 29, one over Mountain Creek and the other over the
Enoree River. Both are less than five miles from Greer, were built in 1939 and handle 31,000 vehicles per day. One hundred forty-four Greenville County bridges and 140 in Spartanburg County made the AAA Carolinas substandard list. The state DOT estimates it needs $200 million a year for bridge maintenance, repair and replacement. It would take $2 billion to replace or repair all of the state’s substandard bridges, according to AAA Carolinas. South Carolina’s gas tax is the main funding source for the state DOT. It hasn’t changed since 1987. “It’s less expensive to keep bridges in good repair than it is to replace them,” said David Parsons, president and CEO of AAA Carolinas. “The state Legislature needs to step up and find a way to increase revenue streams South Carolina’s bridges and highways clearly need.” The average age of the top 20 substandard bridges is 57 years old. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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Lawmakers rush to clean up election mess S.C. Supreme Court ruling sweeps 180 from ballots, including 15 in Upstate By JERRY SALLEY | staff
In the wake of the South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision last week that effectively disqualified 180 candidates statewide from primary ballots, lawmakers are scrambling in Columbia to get most of the candidates reinstated. The chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Larry A. Martin (R-Pickens) – whose own primary opponent, Rex Rice, was removed by the Supreme Court ruling – called an emergency meeting of the committee Tuesday morning, May 8, to discuss legislation to get the disqualified candidates back on their
ballots. The committee voted to pass legislation that would allow all disqualified candidates back on the ballot, provided they had filed all of the necessary paperwork by April 20. However, Judiciary Committee member Sen. Jake Knotts (R-Lexington) raised objections to the bill, effectively blocking it. Katrina Shealy, Knotts’ primary opponent, was one of the GOP candidates eliminated from the ballot. Knotts’ move sparked what the Associated Press called a “heated exchange” with Roxanne Wilson, wife of U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, outside Knotts’ office. Saying that Knotts owed an explanation to “every Lexington citizen” for his actions, Wilson followed Knotts into his office. The two emerged minutes later saying they had “made peace,” with Wilson kissing Knotts on the cheek. Mrs. Wilson’s sister, Suzanne Moore, a candidate for clerk of court in Lexington County, was among the candidates removed from the ballot.
“The conduct of the political parties in their failure to follow the clear and unmistakable directives of the General Assembly has brought us to this point.” South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision
The Senate’s next move was to circumvent Knotts’ objection by attaching the measure as an amendment to a House bill that has already been approved. At press time, the Senate was expected to consider the amended bill Wednesday morning. Even if the legislation passes quickly, any change to South Carolina election
law must be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice – a process that can take up to 60 days, raising doubts that it can be completed by the scheduled June 12 primary date. Meanwhile, Amanda Somers, candidate for Senate District 5, which includes parts of northern Greenville and Spartanburg counties, filed a lawsuit on Friday, May 4, challenging the ruling. Citing “a set of Kafkaesque circumstances so bizarre as to be almost unbelievable,” the suit, filed by Columbia lawyer Todd Kincannon, calls the case “one of the strangest cases in the history of American election law.” A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for the lawsuit Thursday afternoon in Columbia. Kincannon argues the primary should be delayed because state election officials violated federal law by sending ballots to overseas and military voters that had only federal races on them. “The ballots that they mailed out
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JOURNAL COMMUNITY missing from those lists. In Greenville County, all of the disqualified candidates were Democrats. State Senate candidates Jeff Dishner (District 8) and Ennis Fant (District 7); state House candidates Israel Romero (District 20), David Gahan (District 22), D.C. Swinton (District 23), Tony Boyce and Selden Peden (District 25) and Renita Barksdale (District 27); Dexter Reaves, candidate for sheriff; and County Council candidate Ralph Sweeney were all struck from the Democrats’ list. In Spartanburg County, disqualified candidates include: Republican state Senate candidate Kerry Wood of Inman (District 11); Republican state House candidates Gaye Holt of Moore (District 34) and Jim McMillan of Lyman (District 36); Democratic House candidate John Lewis (District 31); and Republican County Council candidate Steve Collins of Woodruff. Incumbents are exempt from the economic disclosure rules, since they already had disclosure statements on file. In many cases, the candidates had filed their economic disclosures on-
line, believing that a 2010 law directed them to do so. However, the Supreme Court ruled that the candidates must also follow an earlier law that explicitly requires a paper statement to be filed along with the candidacy papers, with the same elections official. Greenville County Republican candidates were advised to bring a hard copy of the financial report with them when they filed, and thus remained on the GOP’s list of certified candidates. However, the ruling forced the state Democratic Party to remove 10 Greenville County candidates, who had not filed their paper financial statements. “We fully appreciate the consequences of our decision, as lives have been disrupted and political aspirations put on hold,” the justices wrote in their decision. “However, the conduct of the political parties in their failure to follow the clear and unmistakable directives of the General Assembly has brought us to this point. Sidestepping the issue would only delay the inevitable.”
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Beyond afterschool YouthBase offers academic and behavioral help for the youngest at-risk students By april a. morris | staff
A Greenville afterschool program that focuses on struggling and at-risk students is expanding to serve parents and target younger students as well. YouthBase provides academic and behavioral help for students who are below grade level or have been identified as needing support. In the coming 2012-13 school year, YouthBase will begin to focus on students in kindergarten to second grade, said Executive Director Linda Tassie. The program now serves 13 students ranging in ages from kindergarten to fifth grade. They come from Hollis Academy and A.J. Whittenberg Elementary, and soon from Stone Academy, Tassie said. All receive free or reduced lunch, more than 90 percent are African-American and a majority come from single-parent households. YouthBase has provided a free afterschool program since 2006. Volunteers and staff work closely with teachers to identify students who are at-risk and to collaborate on tailoring services for each child. YouthBase communicates with teachers on students’ needs and progress, Tassie said. “Teachers are very responsive because we’re partnering
with them. You’re walking alongside them and working with them.” Ansel Sanders, program director at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary, said YouthBase’s approach of communicating with teachers and parents gives students the support they need. “It’s certainly an afterschool program that we’re big fans of at A.J. Whittenberg,” he said. “Ms. Tassie is an engaging person and her program is the same way.” The program is becoming wellknown at his school, Sanders said. “We now have students asking, ‘Can I go to YouthBase?’” Whittenberg kindergarten teacher Libby Able said YouthBase “has been amazing for one of my children. His behavior changed dramatically within the first month as well as his academics. They are working with the actual school, not just doing what is appropriate developmentally.” Able said the field trips have proved to be especially beneficial to her students. “I really love how they incorporate field trips into the community. Those life experiences help the students in the classroom.” Funded partially by the United Way, grants and now through a new corporate sponsorship, YouthBase has one full-time staff member and multiple volunteers who help with the program. The America Reads America Counts initiative funds Furman University work-study students who help with tutoring. Tassie said the decision to target younger students came almost as an accident while she was attending a kin-
A different sort of prom offers a safe place for special-needs students to relax and have fun By april a. morris | staff
This weekend, students with special healthcare needs will gather at the Hilton Greenville for an event that offers them a chance to be themselves without the fear of embarrassment or physical limitations. Sherry Fields, Upstate coordinator for Family Connection of South Carolina, said the idea for the Come Dream With Me prom was inspired by her daughter, Amanda, who had more than 100 surgeries and was paralyzed from the waist down from complications of hydrocephaly, spina bifida and epilepsy. Fields says her daughter lived life to the fullest, but died at 19 without attending a prom. Family Connection, an organization that provides parent-to-parent support to families with special needs, and other sponsors want to provide a worry-free experience for both the attendees and parents, Fields said. They quickly put together a well-attended event last year that “had more than 100 on the dance floor and close to 300 in all,” she said. This year, organizers are hoping for an even bigger turnout. “It’s a spectacu-
dergarten individualized education program meeting with a parent who had older children who participated in YouthBase. The girl had no preschool readiness, knew only a few letters and didn’t know how to write her name. Tassie added her to the program, and with YouthBase’s academic assistance, the girl improved quickly. “She was meeting all of her goals every time. It wasn’t that she needed special education, it was just the lack of exposure.” Tassie said the intention of the new focus “is to grab the kindergarteners and first graders who were held back so they can have a better start in the fall.” The students often meet as a group for discussions on behavior, Tassie said. “We focus on social skills depending on what’s going on with the group.” They recently worked on tattling and talked about the power of words. “They understand and it’s great to see them apply these skills,” she says. Though the school year is nearly over,
lar, red-carpet event for children with special needs,” Fields said. She asked the parents to “just dream with me. If we could dream about this amazing event where children and young adults could just come and have a great time.” Parents of special needs children are understandably very protective, Fields said, and there will be a special space where parents can be at the event. However, they can also go out for a date night of their own if they wish. “Parents can sit back and not worry because the kids are amongst their peers.” The gala evening will feature the redcarpet entrance, along with all the foods the students said they loved, like pizza, soda, punch, a chocolate fountain and more, said Fields. There will also be live music, dancing and a photo booth to capture the memories. Before the event, Virginia College cosmetology students are offering hair and makeup services, and some businesses have donated prom wear, Fields said. She has also heard of students from as far away as Charleston and Atlanta who are planning to attend.
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“We literally took the TV show and took still shots of the rack. That’s how we built it,” Cunningham said. The 16-foot rack is mounted on a 12-foot pole sunk five feet into 2,000 pounds of concrete, added Bannister. Sean Porter helped construct the rack with the assistance of one of Bannister’s employees, who is also a professional welder. Ken Flournoy made sure they had hot running water and Cunningham ensured that Web cameras were broadcasting the proceedings. They dubbed the event Bovinova and invited employees, clients and friends to witness the process and enjoy free barbecue. Despite rainy and windy conditions all night, not to mention the beef catching fire multiple times, the crew cooked up a butterflied, 863-pound cow, yielding about 400 pounds of meat. The beef
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pigs, chickens, goats, lambs and turkeys. As far as Bannister knows, this is the largest cow to ever be cooked on an open fire. “I want to tell everyone that we’re cooking a ton of meat,” he said. The organizers hope to draw nearly 600 people, including local chefs and barbecue lovers from as far away as North Carolina and Virginia. Diners who aren’t ready for llama or goat can enjoy more traditional fare like hot dogs and hamburgers. Local caterers will provide side dishes. And the Cooking Channel will be onsite to shoot footage for a new show called “Man, Fire, Food,” Bannister said. Preparations begin Friday and the team will cook through the night. On Saturday, the party begins with food, live music and children’s activities. They are
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positive about South Carolina. “You never know, when you’re standing in line at the gas station or a grocery store, if you’re standing next to a CEO who’s considering doing business here,” she said. Haley also spoke about how a political rumor in March about her possible indictment by the IRS on tax fraud “went all the way across the country; it made national news.” This sort of coverage hurts the entire state, she said. “I was in the process of talking with CEOs about coming here. Who wants to move to a state where they hear the governor’s being indicted? That’s the bad part and that’s part of what we’re trying to get the media to stop.” Haley closed with saying that she recently met with business leaders in Charlotte and they asked, “How did you get this done in a year and a half?” Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.
Greenville residents won’t pay higher taxes, but they will pay more for solid waste pickup under a proposed 2012-13 budget. The Greenville City Council got its first look at the budget at a work session Monday night. The $133.4 million budget raises trash pickup fees by $1 per month to $13.50 because of higher fees charged to the city to take its trash to the Greenville County landfill. It also includes a 3.2 percent inflationary rate increase to stormwater fees. The budget holds the line on business license rates and sewer fees. City Manager John Castile told council members that the budget shows minimal growth while addressing increasing costs for employee wages and benefits and fuel costs and the city’s need to invest in infrastructure and “rolling stock” such as police cars, public works equipment and fire trucks. The budget adds nine jobs, eight of which are tied to expanded bus service to Mauldin and Simpsonville and the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research. The other new job is a civil engineer to champion the city’s utility undergrounding program. The budget includes 14 new police cars, a new fire pumper truck, $30,000 for playground equipment at Summit Drive Elementary School and $20,000 for onetime improvements to the Wenwood Soccer Complex that will serve as home for the 2013 men’s college lacrosse tournament. The budget also includes $10,000 to hire an outside consultant to review the city’s laws on sexually-oriented businesses. City employees will get a 2 percent cost-of-living raise and another 0.5 percent will be used to start implementing the recommendations of a recently completed compensation study which showed that the salaries of a number of entry-level positions were not competitive with the market. Castile told council members that the city faces several long-term issues, including an increasing cost of providing basic transit services, rising pension costs and a backlog of needed replacements and deferred maintenance on the city’s capital equipment, facilities and infrastructure. Budget director Phil Robey told council that income from licenses and fees is expected to rise 3.6 percent, but property tax collections are projected to fall 1.5 percent because of lower commercial property values. A public hearing and first reading of the budget is scheduled for May 21. Final approval is expected May 29. In other action, the city is considering an amendment to its solid waste regulations that would allow landscapers to leave grass clippings and other small yard debris at the curb at residences and businesses eligible for city trash pickup. The city now requires landscapers to haul off yard debris. Castile told council members that illegal dumping of yard waste in the city could be dealt with by the city’s illegal dumping laws. The next regular meeting of the Greenville City Council is Tuesday, May 29, at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers on the 10th floor of City Hall.
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Gov. Nikki Haley visited the Upstate this week, touring General Electric’s turbine plant and speaking at the Greenville Rotary’s regular meeting. It was her first visit to the GE facility that produces gas turbines exported all over the world, she said. “The investment that this company has put in and the 3,500 employees they employ really goes to why we need to take care of the businesses we already have and focus on what it takes to make them successful.” At the Greenville Rotary meeting, Haley continued her message of supporting manufacturing and business. Haley also spoke on the importance of tax relief for both businesses and taxpayers and on maintaining a balanced state budget. She added there will be more funding for mental health programs in the next fiscal year because that department has been starved for funding. Treating patients will save money that has been spent on caring for them through the emergency rooms and jails, she said. She answered questions from the group, citing a new national certification program that will help college graduates find jobs, a focus next year on boosting the K-12 education system, and her plan for tax reform that included reducing property taxes and corporate income taxes. She cited positive developments in her administration thus far, saying there is no gridlock in the legislature as the media portrays, and encouraged everyone to be
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JOURNAL COMMUNITY • Line Dancing: Location: Temple of Israel, 400 Spring Forest Road. Fee: free; registration not required. • Beginner: Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. For those new to line dancing who want to learn the basic steps and easy dances or need a refresher course. • Intermediate: Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This class is for those with a strong grasp of basic line-dancing steps and with line-dancing experience. • Heartsaver® CPR AED (Adult, infant and child): June 20 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This American Heart Association class covers understanding and recognizing symptoms of and emergency resuscitation for adult heart attack, stroke and choking, as well as choking relief techniques and rescue breathing for infants and children. Location: St. Francis eastside, Classroom 301. Fee: $40/person; register online, www.stfrancishealth.org • Facts of Life for Mothers & Daughters: May 22 and June 26 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Designed for mothers and daughters, this class discusses adolescent development. It is geared to the 10- to 12-year-old female and is best suited for girls approaching or in the early stages of adolescent development. Location: St. Francis eastside, Classroom 301. Fee: $15/mother & daughter; register online, www.stfrancishealth.org.
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The TD Saturday Market is now open Saturdays through Oct. 27 (excluding Oct. 13), from 8 a.m. to noon. This year’s market will feature 54 vendors on Main Street running from Court Street to Washington Street. In addition, the market will accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, providing shoppers with the option to use Electronic Benefit Transfer cards when purchasing fresh produce. Along with providing fresh produce each week,
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Project Rx: A River Remedy, a community-driven medication collection, held its fourth event collecting 2,824 pounds of medication from Upstate residents. The event was held at 22 locations across the Upstate in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Drug-Take Day. The collected medication will be disposed of through secure incineration with law enforcement, which is the most environmentally preferred method. Notables from the collected materials included medications dating back to 1971 and from as far as Germany and China. Since the inaugural event in November 2010, the semi-annual medication collection events have yielded a total of 5,537 pounds of medication for safe disposal. Bon Secours St. Francis Health System will host the following events. • Just Walk!: May 12 at 9 a.m. Join cardiologist Barbara Moran-Faille with Upstate Cardiology for this free event. Includes heart-healthy snacks, free T-shirt and pedometer. Location: St. Francis millennium, 2 Innovation Drive. Fee: free; registration not required • 5th Annual Prostate Cancer Screening: June 9 at 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. All men age 40 and older are encouraged to attend this important screening. Includes lab work, education and exam by a physician. Co-sponsored by the Upstate Chapter of Us TOO Prostate Cancer Support Group. Location: St. Francis downtown, Outpatient Center. Fee: free; registration not required
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the market will also offer free monthly educational events in the It’s More than Just a Market activities area. The area will also feature monthly children’s activities planned by The Children’s Museum of the Upstate, live acoustic music and cooking demonstrations. For more information about the TD Saturday Market, visit www.saturdaymarketlive.com or follow the event on Facebook at facebook.com/saturdaymarket and Twitter at twitter.com/gvillesatmarket. Join Pedal Chic, at 651 S. Main St., each Sunday at 5 p.m. to learn safe biking riding as a family on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. The ride will be approximately one hour long and will be perfect for all skill levels - including beginners! This will be a very easy ride - kids will be able to participate.
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Miracle Hill is hosting an open house for the Overcomers’ Program on Friday, May 18, at 9:30 a.m. at the 1916 N. Pleasantburg Drive facility. The open house will inform the community of the free program and provide tours of the Miracle Hill. Their will be a program graduation that morning at 8 a.m. Miracle Hill’s Overcomers’ Program helps men break the bonds of addiction through applying Christian principles. For more information, contact Curtis Pitts at 268-5589. Taste of the Upstate will be held June 3 at the Embassy Suites Greenville on Verdae Boulevard from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The event brings together the chefs and restaurants in the Upstate, corporations and individuals who help to raise funds needed to end hunger in the community by helping to fund Loaves & Fishes. Live entertainment will be provided by Encore. The event will feature foods from local restaurants, wine and mircro beers as well as a live and silent auction. Tickets are on sale at all upstate Bi-Lo stores and online at www.tasteoftheupstate.com. Tickets are $60 in advance or $75 at the door. The Michelin Red Ribbon Golf Classic will be held Monday, Sept. 24, at Green Valley Country Club. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. The Marriott Red Ribbon Kick-Off Party will be held Sunday, Oct. 21, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Greenville Marriott. These red ribbon events supports drug prevention programs in schools, churches, businesses, etc. For more information, contact Judy Barton at 467-4099 or judy@gfpdrugfree.org. On June 2 at 8:15 a.m., the seventh edition of the Safe Harbor Cycle Tour will roll out from the Civic Center in Iva. The ride benefits Safe Harbor, a nonprofit organization serving victims of domestic violence and their children in Anderson, Greenville, Pickens and Oconee counties. The Cycle Tour starts in Iva and then rolls into northern Abbeville County through hills that form the banks of the Savannah River, Lake Russell and Lake Secession. Then the course heads back into southern Anderson County where the terrain levels. After the Cycle Tour, lunch awaits under the outdoor canopy beside the Civic Center. Riders can choose between a 25-mile or 65-mile course. The $40 registration fee includes a T-shirt, lunch, snacks, SAG, and course map. Or, register for $110 for an event jersey as well! All proceeds from this event will benefit Safe Harbor. Register online at www.safeharborcycletour.org. NAMI Greenville (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is hosting the NAMIGreenville 5K Walk on Saturday, June 2, as part of their Strike Out Stigma campaign to help raise donations for the nonprofit, as well as raise awareness of mental illness in the Greenville community. Registration for the walk will be at 8 a.m. and the walk will begin at 9 a.m. at Fluor Field. There is no fee to walk as entry is by donation. The NAMI-Greenville 5K Walk will begin on the field and will tour around the streets of the city and the Swamp Rabbit Trail before ending at Fluor
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High Cotton presented $4,575 to Communities in Schools. The money was raised from High Cotton’s 4th annual Administrative Professionals Day Luncheon on April 25 where 100 percent of the proceeds went towards Communities in Schools. Field. After the walk, activities will include music and comedy shows. In addition, there will be booths with mental and general health information. Chick-filA will be offering breakfast and lunch items for sale with a portion of the sales going to NAMI. For information, visit www.strikeoutstigma.com. Participants in the walk earn a chance to be entered into a contest for an eight-day cruise for every $50 of online donations. Generations Group Homes will host its annual Luncheon for Second Chances on May 16 at the TD Convention Center. The event will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn more about Generations’ programs and its mission to stop and prevent the cycle of sexual abuse among adolescent boys. As a nationally accredited nonprofit organization that works with at-risk boys ages 10-19, Generations offers structured, specialized programs that give its residents both a place to heal and the opportunity for a second chance. To date, the nonprofit has graduated over 800 boys from its programs with a 98 percent success rate of them never being incarcerated for the same offense again. Individuals interested in learning more about Generations’ Luncheon for Second Chances, or who would like to attend the event as a guest, are welcome to visit www.generationsgrouphome.com, or contact Roseanne Brown at Roseanne@generationsgroup.com. Send us your announcement. E-mail: greenvillecommunity@greenvillejournal.com
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Aiming to become a technology hub
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The Next Big Thing Managing Director Peter Barth plays pool on the company’s pool table, which doubles as its conference table.
Coming to Greenville for the summer: 12 software teams with bright ideas for the Next Big Thing, mentors from big-name companies to coach them and venture capitalists with dollars to get the best of them to consumers. There’s more at play than taking high-tech startups to market. The Next Big Thing at the NEXT Center gives Greenville a chance to become the Southeast hub for smart technology, a sort of a Rocky Mountain Boulder, Colo., in the Blue Ridge foothills. “It has all the marks of putting Greenville on the map as a technology hub,” said Kevin Survance, who was chief technology officer in development of MapQuest. Survance now lives and works in Greenville and will be bringing a new app for smartphones to the three-month incubator. “But it won’t happen overnight,” he said. Even if the goal is distant, the connections are in place, explained Peter Barth, managing director of The Next Big Thing and a successful technology entrepreneur in his own right. The Next Big Thing is modeled after Boulder’s successful TechStars, which was originated by Brad Feld, an early investor in Facebook and Twitter, and the inspiration for the high-tech component of President Obama’s Startup America Partnership. That Greenville became the exclusive Southeastern location for a TechStar-modeled incubator was not happenstance. In conversations with Feld, Barth learned that NEXT continued on PAGE 32
The Pickwick bottles up some history By JERRY SALLEY | staff
First, the bad news: They don’t make the pig-shaped buns anymore. The buns, custom-made for the Pickwick Pharmacy and Soda Fountain for many years, at one time surrounded the Pickwick’s signature barbecue sandwich. The Pickwick ordered the buns from Claussen’s on Augusta Street for 15 years until the bakery stopped making them. “This was not your ordinary sandwich,” remarked pharmacist Dwight Odom, whose family has owned the Pickwick, at 3219 Augusta St., since 1947. “As a child, that barbecue sandwich was my favorite thing on the menu. I can still remember the taste. It’s one of those childhood memories that stay with you forever.” The good news is that the barbecue sandwich, with a non-pigshaped bun, is still on the menu at the Pickwick. And the even better news for fans of the Pickwick’s signature “sweet and Southern” barbecue sauce is that now, you can take some of it home with you for about $5. In late April, the Odom family began selling bottles of the Vidalia onion-flavored sauce in their store. The sauce is an updated version of the Pickwick’s 1947 recipe. “It’s a sweet and tangy Carolina-style sauce, which compliments the smoked barbecue,” said Bern Dupree, a Pickwick regular whose family has PICKWICK continued on PAGE 32
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lived in Greenville since the 1800s. “We take pride in the legacy that the Pickwick brings to Greenville,” said Kelly Odom, Dwight’s son, a pharmacy technician who bought the Pickwick with his brother Chad in 2007. Their grandfather, Edgar, bought the Pickwick in 1947, expanding the soda fountain to add a pharmacy and drive-in. One new menu item to feature the sauce is the Q-Dog: pulled pork barbecue served on a hot dog bun. It’s proving to be a popular item at the soda fountain, which the Odoms re-opened in 2007 after several years of operating the Pickwick as just a pharmacy. The barbecue sauce brings back tasty memories for longtime Pickwick customers. “The barbecue sandwich was so delicious and so good on the pig buns,” said Jane Wallace, a Greenville native who used to visit the Pickwick’s drive-in restaurant. “You couldn’t get them anywhere else. I spent many an afternoon after school at the Pickwick with my friends chatting about school over a barbecue sandwich and a cherry Coke, or on a date at the Pickwick drive-in. I am happy to see that tradition is coming back.” Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.
TechStar was going to link a national network of incubator programs with Startup America and that there was a “kind of hole” in the Southeast. Barth resolved to fill that hole in Greenville as long as it could be a significant program with international reach. He met with community leaders, investors and supporters of NEXT, including its developer, Bob Hughes, and told them, “Here’s the opportunity. If we grab this now, we will be up on Atlanta and Charlotte. It will be Greenville. We got people to put money in if we could pull it off.” He won commitments of $500,000. “This is not like raising money for a company. A lot of our local leaders … are putting in their money as a charitable contribution because they want to see something cool happen here.” With money in hand, Barth turned to the other essential, making sure the Greenville program could recruit topflight mentors from “really significant” high-tech companies on the West Coast and Northeast. He gave himself two weeks to find 20 from the West Coast. It only took six days. Confident “we can make it happen,” Barth incorporated The Next Big Thing, cleverly co-opting the phrase for the quest, and paid the fee to join the TechStars network. At the kickoff in New York, Barth was on hand as The Next Big Thing became one of 22 initial members of the global TechStar and Startup America
high-tech network. On June 11, it will welcome its first group of 12 entrepreneurial teams chosen from applications from 321 young companies from 19 different countries. About half come from the Southeast and the rest “from throughout the country.” Financial potential as a consumer product was a major criteria for selection. Each team is given “a little feed capital to cover some of their living expenses.” The Next Best Thing underwrites the cost of the program, including free space at NEXT, seven MBA interns and five graphic designers who will work directly with the teams individually. “We provide them with significant mentorships,” said Barth. “We have about 100 mentors lined up. They are significant folks who are successful entrepreneurs, as well as executives from all the big tech companies. They will be here for the summer.” The teams already have working prototypes of software products with consumer applications. They are in varying stages of market research into customer demand, benchwork tweaking and development of business plans and all the legal and accounting issues that accompany that. What they need to bring their products to market is money. On demonstration day, Sept. 13, “all the teams will pitch in front of about 350 top seed-stage investors” who will fly in from across the country looking to get in on the front end of what
could be the next big thing. Survance and his Greenville company, Eleos Technologies, are well into the customer development stage with their new product: an advanced iteration of a product already on the market called Drive Axle, which lets truck drivers transmit documents to their home
affordable for anyone, from individuals to universities, to conduct learning online. Barth said a Chicago Web startup that taps into adults who participate in amateur sports of all kinds “probably has the biggest market” potential of the 12 teams. The software creates a network for team and individual stats, profiles, schedules, records and social networking. Companies like Nike and Reebok “probably already are interested in using the site to sell their goods.” What Barth, Survance and the financial backers of The Next Big Thing are hoping is that many of the young tech companies that come from elsewhere to spend summers at The Next Big Thing choose to stay in Greenville, as will the local Kevin Survance, chief technology officer startups. That has been Boulin the development of MapQuest. der’s experience, Barth said. Out of every 10 companies base with their smartphones. participating in the Boulder For Survance, The Next Big program, he said, “they are Thing is an opportunity “to in- keeping their best three compateract with the other startups nies and adding three or more on a daily basis as well as with from other places.” That in turn the mentors who will be circu- has attracted companies like lating around the environment Google, Microsoft and AOL to in the course of the summer. establish offices in Boulder. “But probably what is more “The cool thing about Greenvaluable to me is the ability to ville is you not only get to experilaunch a product within the con- ence technology but also the comtext of The Next Big Thing, and munity,” said Survance. “People that is exactly what we intend to live in Boulder because it is Bouldo,” he said. “We want to do it on der. Greenville has that ambience. the wings of the energy, the P.R. It is really attractive to technoloand the connections that The gists, especially the twenty-someNext Big Thing has.” things who tend to dominate the DUO Interactive, a “very disciplines in these programs.” small development company in Greenville,” is participatContact Dick ing with a Web application Hughes at dhughes@ designed to make it easy and greenvillejournal.com.
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Expanding the boundaries along I-85
NAI Earle Furman’s acquisition of Orion Properties of Spartanburg gives the Greenville commercial real estate firm its first physical presence in Spartanburg and gives Orion brokers access to Furman’s major Upstate and global marketing, research and support resources. Dan Dunn, who had been president and chief broker of Orion, and broker Andrew Babb joined the Earle Furman team, and Orion is being rebranded under the NAI Earle Furman name. Two additional brokers, Rob Schmidt and Ken Anderson, will focus on Spartanburg out of the Greenville office. The acquisition of Orion gives NAI Earle Furman offices in the three main Upstate counties along the I-85 corridor. Earle Furman previously opened an Anderson office. “Their existing real estate portfolio and strong reputation in the Spartanburg market complement our efforts in Greenville and Anderson perfectly,” said Earle Furman, chairman. “NAI Earle Furman will now provide complete coverage of the commercial real estate market of the Upstate with nearly 6 million square feet under management and 36 brokers.” Dunn said Orion is adding 60 active listings of retail, office, warehouse distribution, manufacturing and land to the Earle Furman portfolio. Dunn said the merger is timely because the Spartanburg market is picking up. “A lot of very positive things are going on in Spartanburg.” In an interview, Furman said while the company had long operated in Spartanburg, it “recognized that without a physical presence there we were not taking advantage of the potential of that market.” The merger presents an opportunity Earle Furman “would only dream about without them.”
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For Orion, Dunn said, the Spartanburg brokers gain access to Earle Furman’s strong marketing, research and staffing resources, along with the global reach of the NAI network. “The merger will have an immediate and significant impact on our sales efforts as NAI Earle Furman offers a multitude of resources, including full marketing and support teams, that will allow us to further focus on our core competency of selling the Greer and Spartanburg market,” he said. “In today’s market, information and its analysis is critical,” Furman said. “Because of market competitiveness, it has to be delivered in a very timely fashion, and the only way to do that is to maintain large databases internally, which we do, and also pay for quite expensive additional fact-form products.” Unlike Earle Furman, with a staff of “nearly 60” to support these services, smaller companies can’t afford “to have all these people running around,” he said. Dunn and Furman said the merger recognizes, too, that domestic and international companies looking to locate or expand in the Upstate want sophisticated visual packaging and fact-based presentations of available properties and of the area. They see the Upstate as one market, Furman said. “When we show properties, we don’t remain in a single county. The boundaries here are 80 miles long up and down I-85.” Dunn founded Orion Properties in 1992, and Babb joined the firm as a broker in 2007. Earle Furman started his firm in 1986 with a small office to specialize in industrial properties. It has grown to offices in three counties handling the full spectrum of commercial real estate with 36 brokers and nearly 60 support and administrative personnel.
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Restaurateur Sees 5-Year Rise
Denny’s said same-store sales grew at both storeowned and franchise units in the first quarter and net income of $5.9 million was up 42.2 percent from the prior year. The net income of 6 cents a share was a penny better than the consensus expectations of Wall Street. Same-store sales, a key measure of retail activity, were up 2.7 percent at franchised units and 0.8 percent at company-owned restaurants. John Miller, chief executive officer, said Denny’s “achieved the highest quarterly system-wide same-store sales increase in almost five years despite the persistently challenging economic environment.” Revenue declined in the quarter to $126.7 million. The Spartanburg company said it opened six franchised restaurants, including one in Puerto Rico and one in Canada. The company reduced its outstanding debt by $8 million to $190 million. It said a new loan of $190 million with a $60-million credit line will further “reduce interest costs and increase balance-sheet flexibility.” The company’s annual shareholder meeting will begin at 9 a.m. on May 15 at the corporate offices at 203 E. Main St. in Spartanburg. All 10 board members were nominated for re-election. In addition to that vote, shareholders will vote on a nonbinding resolution to approve compensation of top executives. The board, citing last year’s overwhelming approval of the compensation mixture of base salaries and performance incentives in stock and cash, proposed no change for the fiscal year. In the calendar year 2011, Miller, who was hired as CEO effective Feb. 1, was paid $2.3 million in total compensation. F. Mark Wolfinger, chief financial officer, received $1.1 million, and Francis Allen, chief marketing officer, was paid $832,279. Chief Operating Officer Robert Rodriguez earned $824,847 in 2011. He left the company in March.
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Brian Nash, director of business development for the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce, was elected as a new director of the South Carolina Economic Developers’ Association (SCEDA) at its annual meeting in Hilton Head last week. Nash was the only officer from the Upstate elected at the meeting. George Wolf, of the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Columbia, was named president. Other than a Brian Nash, new returning director from Aiken, all officers and directors are from director of SCEDA Columbia and Charleston.
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Regional Management Corp., which went public in March as a subprime consumer finance company, reported net income of $5.1 million on revenue of $31.5 million in the first quarter. The Greenville-based company has offices in Spartanburg, Boiling Springs, Greer, Greenville, Woodruff, Belton, Easley and Anderson. Excluding one-time expenses for the initial public offering, the company said its income was $6.8 million, 37 percent better than the first quarter of 2011. The company priced its IPO of 4.2 million shares at $15 per share and sold out at that price. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It closed at $16.55 on Monday. The company said it added 19 new stores in acquisition of two loan companies in Alabama and received a license to operate in New Mexico, where it planned to open a store this month.
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Rosenfeld Einstein says its biannual survey of employee benefit programs has generated 100 responses from companies at the midpoint of its free submission offer. The online survey seeks to collect information on benefit programs that will be compiled and analyzed by Rosenfeld Einstein, a Greenville-based regional insurance agency and consultancy. Each participating organization receives a customized analysis comparing its plan to others regionally and nationally, the company said. “All information is held in total confidence and participating company information is only shared with that company.” The 2012 South Carolina Employer Benefits Survey takes about 20-30 minutes to complete. It is available at www.RosenfeldEinstein.com. The deadline for participation is May 25.
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ScanSource, the Greenville-based international supplier of barcode systems, communications and security products, reported net income for its third quarter of $14.8 million, a 10.8 percent decline from the same period a year ago. Net sales were up 15.4 percent to $708 million. “Results for the quarter were in line with our expectations, with strong performance in our North America barcode and security units offsetting weak results in our international business,” said Mike Baur, chief executive officer. He said North American units had double-digit sales increases; international units were down single digits. For the nine months ended March 31, ScanSource had net income of $54.5 million on net sales of $2.3 billion. In the same period a year ago, net income was $53.9 million on sales of $1.9 billion.
2012 UNITED WAY HANDS ON GREENVILLE DAY THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS AND CORPORATE SPONSORS! Thanks to the hard work and elbow grease of more than 6,500 volunteers, 275 projects were completed throughout Greenville County on May 5, 2012. Special thanks to these companies, whose sponsorship was critical to making Hands On Greenville Day 2012 a record success. On behalf of United Way Hands On Greenville and the thousands of people who have been helped, thank you for your generosity.
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The vacancy rate for office space in the greater Greenville market has returned to pre-recession levels, according to Lee & Associates. In the first quarter of 2012, the office vacancy rate of 10.8 percent was “a pretty significant drop from the end of 2011 when it was 11.3 percent,” said Randall Bentley of the Greenville Lee affiliate. “It has been declining steadily since the first quarter of 2010 and is now back to pre-recession figures.” Even with the addition of 31,423 square feet of space in three new buildings, there was a net absorption of 135,664 square feet in the first quarter, the company reported. The company said the vacancy rate for industrial buildings in the entire Upstate was 10.1 percent, roughly the same as the last quarter of 2011. Because most of the moves were internal, the absorption rate remained negative. The retail vacancy rate of 6.1 percent in the Upstate is “the lowest it has been in at least six years.” The report said the rate has been declining steadily from 7.7 in the first quarter of 2010. The net absorption of 240,109 in the first three months of 2012 was the ninth straight positive quarter. The average retail rental rate of $10.03 per square foot is up from a low of $9.60 in the third quarter of 2011. Coldwell Banker Commercial Caine completed the following transactions: Represented both parties in lease of 2,833 square feet of office space at Suite 705, Green Gate Office Park, 25 Woods Lake Road, Greenville, to Frant Reichert & Fogleman. Represented landlord Charles S. Martin Jr. in lease of 2,485 square feet of office space at 1003 Grove Road, Suite E, Greenville, to SpeechWorks Inc. Represented seller SCB&T in sale of 5,842-square-foot office building at 4115 E. North St., Greenville, to DCPeek Holdings. Represented landlord Anne Potter, trustee, in lease of 1,500 square feet of retail space at 503 N. Main St., Mauldin, to Ross Turner for Senate. Represented landlord TCD Properties in lease of 1,645 square feet of office space at 2015 Laurens Road, Suite B, Greenville, to Jason Staiger. Represented Augusta Road Properties in lease of 3,650 square feet of office space at 1425 Augusta St., Greenville, to the Greenville Hospital System. Represented landlord Mountain City Land & Improvement Co. in lease of 6,295 square feet at 148 River St., Suite 101, Greenville, to oneminutenews.com. Represented TCFM in lease of 3,000 square feet of office space at 131 Main St., Suite 108, Spartanburg, to the American Red Cross. Represented Northside Development Corp. in purchase of two lots at 265 and 267 Arch St., Spartanburg, from Longbow Realty. Represented Northside Development Corp. in purchase of a lot at 547 Howard St., Spartanburg, from Freda Johnson. Represented Dorothy A. Quinn, trustee, in sale of two lots at 175 and 205 Weldon St., Spartanburg, to Northside Development Corp.
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Greenville artist Julie Hughes Shabkie will be participating in Artisphere for the first time.
As a new festival artist, everything is new to Shabkie But Shabkie is getting help – from Artisphere and some of the local artists who are veterans of the downtown Greenville festival – through a new Emerging Artist scholarship program. Judy Verhoeven, a mixedmedia artist from Greenville, has been on Artisphere’s Artist Row six times. She also ex-
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hibited at Art in the Park. “The first one, everything is surprising,” she said. “I didn’t have any idea what I was doing.” But over the years, Verhoeven has learned that sunscreen is essential, power tools are a must (but never leave them in the tent overnight) and that it’s helpful to stash some deemerging continued on page 38
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While preparing for her first outdoor arts festival this weekend, Julie Hughes Shabkie has encountered a new surprise every day. “There are revelations all the time,” said Shabkie, who owns her own studio on Pendleton Street in
Greenville’s Far West End. From trying to figure out how to display her large original cycling and landscape paintings on three walls in a 10-by-10 space at this weekend’s Artisphere, to making sure she has enough inventory for the three-day festival, to remembering a chair and sunscreen – it’s all new to Shabkie.
Private label wine, artist demos among new Artisphere offerings this year This year’s Artisphere will have both the familiar and the new. That goes from the festival’s exhibiting artists to its silent auction to demonstrations and discussions by local and exhibiting artists. Forty-four of the 120 artists on Artist Row are new to the festival, but there will be some familiar faces, including local artists and Artisphere veterans Kent Ambler, Lynn Greer, Marie Gruber, Signe and Genna Grushovenko, Danielle Miller-Gilliam, Llyn Strong and Judy Verhoeven. Local artists will be featured on Artist Demonstration Row, which will be on the Main Street bridge. Artists will demonstrate glassblowing, print-
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SO YOU KNOW What: Artisphere When: May 11-13 Where: downtown Greenville Popular attractions: • Artist Row, featuring 120 visual artists from across the country • Art in Action, visual performing artist Brian Olsen • Kidsphere, a place where children can learn art techniques
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odorant behind the booth. Most important, it’s critical to be prepared for any type of weather. “People often say you never know what the weather’s going to be like, but at Artisphere, it’s going to rain and be windy at some time,” she said. Liz Rundorff Smith, Artisphere’s program director, said the Emerging Artist program is a way to get more local artists into the festival. One hundred twenty artists were chosen out of an applicant pool of nearly 900 for Artist Row this year. Twelve of the artists are from the Greenville area. “Local artists can be at a disadvantage because of a lack of knowledge about what they need to do to compete against artists from all over the country and get juried in,” Smith said. “Artists who are unfamiliar with doing festivals simply don’t have the set-up to do festivals successfully. That’s not a reflection of their work.” The Emerging Artist scholarship gives NEW continued from PAGE 37
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making, ceramics and metalwork throughout the festival. Artisphere will conduct an online auction during this year’s festival. Artworks in the auction will be on display at a gallery at the intersection of Camperdown Way and Main Street. Bids will be taken through the Artisphere website, www.artisphere. us, during festival hours. A wine tasting will be held under four tents on the Peace Center plaza Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. For a $10 ticket, festivalgoers of legal drinking age will be able to sample eight wines from among the dozens available. Artisphere’s own private-label wine
a local artist a chance to experience an outdoor arts festival without having to invest in a booth – something that can cost $2,000 and up. Shabkie’s booth will mostly feature her new body of work: bicyclist figures. Shabkie began painting her figurative cyclists a couple of years ago when she participated in a fundraiser exhibition that benefited Global Bikes. Bicycling is important to Shabkie and her husband, Don. Her husband commutes by bike to Travelers Rest via the Swamp Rabbit Trail and Shabkie commutes to her studio from the North Main Street area. She paints her cycling pieces from photographs taken by her or a friend, Eddie Helton. “You can’t paint from life when you’re painting cyclists,” she said. Shabkie likes to paint large. One painting of George Hincapie in a pack of cyclists will take up one wall in her Artisphere booth. If Shabkie decides to do other outdoor art festivals, she said she’s already will also be available by the glass at all beverage booths and by the bottle at the festival’s merchandise booth. Kidsphere, the children’s section of the festival, will include crafts and a Jelly Belly jellybean mosaic. Kid’s Mini Picasso art classes will be offered on the Broad Street Culinary Arts Café stage. Adults will get their chance at the creative process with a Vino and Van Gogh art class on the Culinary Arts Café stage on Saturday. Gift certificates can be purchased in increments of $25 from the Artisphere website and can be redeemed at any of the Artist Row artist booths. And, finally, a Coffee and Conversation with the Artist series at the Chairman’s Exhibit on Sunday from 1 p.m.
• Culinary Arts Café and Stage, demonstrations by local artists, food • Music and performing artists • Chairman’s Exhibit, Founder’s Room above Larkin’s on the River • Artists of the Upstate, juried art show, Centre Stage Cost: Free, although art, food and drinks will be for sale Information: 271-9398 or www.artisphere.us
learned something from the experience. “I would definitely start painting smaller, faster and sooner,” she said. Shabkie, who has participated in the Metropolitan Art Council’s Open Studios, said she’s excited about having a new venue for her art. “I’m looking forward to seeing how my work is received,” she said. “Artisphere is a great way to get your work in front of a lot of people who otherwise might not see it.” Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
to 3 p.m. will feature Carl Blair, West Fraser and other exhibiting artists. The Chairman’s Exhibit will be in the Founder’s Room above Larkin’s on the River, and will feature work from Helena Fox Fine Art in Charleston, Blue Spiral I of Asheville and Hampton III Gallery in Greenville. Familiar festival attractions will include Brian Olsen’s “Art in Action,” the Artists of the Upstate exhibition at Centre Stage, musicians and performing artists. The festival opens Friday at 4 p.m. with an opening ceremony and unveiling of a new sculpture dedicated to the late Buck A. Mickel. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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Pianist calls last Christmas best ever despite house fire By CINDY LANDRUM | staff
It’s been a little more than four months since a Christmas Day house fire ripped through pianist Emile Pandolfi’s home, and he’s still discovering what items he lost. The first time he went on the road, he realized he didn’t have a suitcase or anything to pack in it. The first time he needed a
light jacket, he remembered he no longer had one. But it is what he didn’t lose – his family and the support of the Greenville community he’s called home for decades – that he thinks about the most. “There was so much more wonderfulness than awfulness that came out of that day,” Pandolfi said. “It truly was the best Christmas ever.”
Pandolfi and several family members and close friends will be playing a concert, “Emile Pandolfi and Friends: A House Is Not a Home,” at the Peace Center on May 18 at 8 p.m. The concert will feature Pandolfi on the piano, his nephew and gypsy violinist Nick Conventry, his nephew and jazz pianist Chris Coventry, violinist Barbara Coventry, Spanish gui-
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tarist Rodrigo Rodriguez and vocalist Dana Russell. Visual performance artist Jared Emerson will create a painting during a Pandolfi piano solo. The painting will be auctioned off during a champagne reception immediately following the concert. The Peace Center is underwriting the administrative and production costs, so all of the proceeds will be donated to the Pandolfi family.
“Emile is like family to us,” said Peace Center president Megan Riegel. “We decided that sponsoring a concert allowing the entire community to enjoy Emile’s music was the perfect answer.” Tickets are $5 to $35 and can be purchased by calling 467-3000 or going to the Peace Center’s website at www.peacecenter.org. “Everybody has been so incredibly kind and generous,” Pan-
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instead of the things you don’t have, it’s pretty easy to go forward,” he said. Pandolfi, who has sold nearly 3 million records, said the fire was a wake-up call to the family that was already close. “It made us even closer,” he said, “and we found out how many friends we have and what a special place Greenville is.” Pandolfi said he and his family are living in a rented townhouse while they decide where they want to live. One thing is certain: It will be in Greenville. “Greenville’s home, and everybody has been so good to us,” he said.
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dolfi said. “People have been standing in line to help. It’s been overwhelming what Greenville has done to help us. With the concert, at least we can give Emile Pandolfi something back.” Pandolfi wasn’t home at the time of the fire because he had gone to his studio to look for a misplaced Christmas gift for his wife. On his trip back home, he said he could see smoke from a long way away. Then he realized it was his house. Pandolfi’s wife, Judy, escaped in her bare feet, while the couple’s son-in-law, two adult daughters and a friend climbed out onto the roof. A neighbor had a borrowed extension ladder on which they used to escape. “Once I knew they had gotten out, I don’t think I even cared about the house and the things in it,” Pandolfi said. “When you are in danger of losing something and you don’t, it makes you appreciate what you have.” He said most of his music survived, but some sheet music he had since he was about nine years old was lost. He lost his piano, but has another in his studio and an electric piano at his temporary residence. “If you focus on all the things you have
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Greenville Chautauqua presents their 2012 festival, “They Came to America,” on June 15-23. The free festival is nine days full of interactive history performances by nationally acclaimed historical interpreters. Figures include Lafayette, Winston Churchill, Golda Meir, Denmark Vesey and Carl Jung. The festival opens on Friday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. under the Chautauqua Tent at Greenville Technical College with Winston Churchill, the half American, half British aristocrat that was all bulldog. Then meet Golda Meir, the Russian-born, American-raised fourth Prime Minister of Israel; Carl Jung, the Swiss founder of Analytical Psychology and student of America’s dreams; Denmark Vesey, the free man in a slave world and mastermind of the 1822 Charleston Slave Rebellion. And back by popular demand, one night only will feature Lafayette, the hero of two worlds. All events are free and events are held in Greenville, Spartanburg and Asheville. For more information and full schedule, visit www.greenvillechautauqua.org. The South Carolina Arts Commission will host a “Network & Knowledge” workshop, one in a series of capacity building workshops to be held across the state, at the Mauldin Cultural Center on Thursday, May 18, from 5:30-8 p.m. The workshop offers local arts leaders and board members the opportunity to network with colleagues; learn more about the SC Arts Commission’s programs and services; and get hands-on skill building in developing a board that understands its roles and responsibilities. The event is free, but registration is required by visiting www.southcarolinaarts.com or www.mauldinculturalcenter.org. The Mauldin Cultural Center is located at 101 East Butler Road. The Upcountry History Museum will be hosting a Family Art Activity, Storytelling Workshop with Tim Lowry, on May 19 at 10:30 a.m. Through whimsical character voices and an animated style, storyteller Tim Lowry connects participants to the traditional art of storytelling and invites them to develop stories of their own. Families can attend the workshop and register for a recording session for their own family story. Cost for the workshop and story recording is $20 per family, workshop only is $10 per family. Reservations are recommended. For tickets, call 864-467-3100 or e-mail info@upcountryhistory.org.
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L o w o o d L a n e , C h a n t i c l e e r, G r e e n v i l l e A truly elegant home in one of the most desirable locations in Chanticleer. Lowood Lane is quiet with very little traffic. This home is immaculate in every way. On the exterior of the house, the manicured lawns and beautifully designed landscape are accented with brick walls and iron gates creating a picturesque setting. The inside of the home has been beautifully updated with all you desire in a family home. Enjoy the spacious formal rooms, four bedrooms, four full and one half bathrooms, and three fireplaces. Master bedroom is on the second level and features a separate jetted tub. The large gourmet kitchen features stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops, and step just outside where a brick walled garden with fountain makes outside grilling extra enjoyable. The screened in porch and the lower level den with bar and fireplace are family favorites. This home has been upgraded with energy efficient improvements including icynene insulation and tankless hot water. Enjoy all the convenience of one of Greenville’s premier
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HOME INFO Price: $649,000 | MLS#1239161 4 Bedrooms, 4.5 Baths, 3600-3799SF Screened Porch, Walled Garden with Fountain Valerie Miller 864.430.6602 valerie@marchantco.com www.valeriejsmiller.com The Marchant Company Send us your Featured Home for consideration. homes@greenvillejournal.com
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April 24, 2012 – The Chet & Beth Smith Group of Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS has earned a spot in the top 100 sales professionals or teams in the Prudential Real Estate Network. The team was honored as a PREA 100 Award winner at Prudential Real Estate’s annual Sales Convention in Orlando, Fla., in March. The Chet & Beth Smith Group ranked # 34 in closed residential units out of 50,000 network members. “I congratulate the Chet & Beth Smith Group on receiving such a high honor. The PREA 100 represent the mega producers of the network and are ranked among the best in the nation. The Chet & Beth Smith Group succeeds because of exemplary service, innovation and dedication,” said Danny Joyner, President, Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS.
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April 26, 2012 – Prudential C Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® is pleased to announce that Courtney Cochran Thompson has joined the company and will serve as a sales associate at the Greer office. She will be part of the Jan Walker Team concentrating on real estate in the Greenville/Spartanburg area. “We are really pleased to have Courtney join our family of Realtors”, said Avanelle Pelfrey, Broker-in-Charge at the Greer office, “and we look forward to working with her.”
C.
Dan
Joyner
Announces
May 2, 2012 – Prudential C Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® is pleased to announce that Janet Solesbee has joined the company and will serve as a sales associate at the Greer office. Prior to joining Prudential C. Dan Joyner Company, Solesbee worked for 20 years as a Controller in the automotive industry. “We are really pleased to have Janet join our Greer office”, said Avanelle Pelfrey, Broker-in-Charge. “We welcome her to our family of REALTORS”.
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Teresa Brady
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In the Greenville Office, Teresa Brady was Top Listing Agent and Lisa McDowell was Top Producer. In the Easley Office, Missy Rick was Top Listing Agent and Top Producer. The Murphys (Celia, Gary and
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Originally from Spartanburg, T h o m p s o n attended Broom High School and earned a degree in Communications at the College of Charleston. Courtney Thompson She currently resides in Inman, South Carolina with her husband, Jeff.
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Originally from Travelers Rest, Solesbee a t t e n d e d Travelers Rest High School and earned a degree in Business from Greenville Technical College Janet Solesbee with a major in Accounting. She currently resides in the Blue Ridge area of Greer with her husband, Jamie and children Jessica and Ashley.
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May 2, 2012 – Charlotte Rigby, Broker-In-Charge at Allen Tate Realtors, is proud to announce Top Agents for March.
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Shaun), were the Top Listing and Producing Team for the Easley office. In the G r e e r Office, Jim Sharpe was Top Listing A g e n t and Alan Jim Sharpe Bagwell was Top Producer. The Herseys (Paul and Marcia) were the Top Listing and Producing Team for the Spartanburg office.
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NOTICE OF ACTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE FAMILY COURT THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT C/A No. 2012-DR-23-1470 Briana Nadine Smith, Plaintiff, vs. Derrick R.Q. Smith, Defendant. YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Summons and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court in the Family Court of Greenville County, South Carolina, the object of the prayer is to obtain a divorce from Derrick R.Q. Smith. Contact: The Carruthers Law Firm 111 Toy Street Greenville, SC 29601
SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Sidewalk Installation – Lily Pond Lane and Gaithburg Square, MAY 31, 2012, 3:00 P.M. A mandatory pre-bid meeting and site visit will be held at 9:00 A.M. on May 17, 2012 in the Greenville County Procurement Services office at 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty.org or by calling (864) 467-7200.
GREENVILLE COUNTY ROAD NAME CHANGE PUBLIC HEARING There will be a public hearing before the Greenville County Planning Commission on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 4:00 PM in Conference Room D, County Square, for the purpose of hearing comments from those persons interested in the following road name change: APPLICANT: VFW Post PROPERTY LOCATION: From Hwy 20 S/Grove Rd, turn left onto White Horse Road, turn right onto Old Grove Rd; take the second right onto Davis Road; turn right onto Jeff Street EXISTING NAME: Jeff Street (D-231) REQUESTED NAME: Charles Gandy Way
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Wings Bar & Grill, 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 50 Orchard Park Drive, Greenville SC 29615. 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 27, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 898-5899
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Falls Park Eatery, LLC DBA Overlook Grill, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON AND OFF premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 601 South Main Street, Greenville, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than May 20, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 898-5899
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that 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 OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that CEG Woodruff Road, 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 1117 A 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 20, 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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PUBLIC NOTICE THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 6-11470 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. ON TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012, GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL ADOPTED AN ORDINANCE WHICH ADJUSTED THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT TO INCLUDE THAT AREA KNOWN AS TAX MAP NUMBERS 0552010100328, 0555010100700 and 0552010100902; AND DIMINISHED THE FOUNTAIN INN FIRE SERVICE AREA BY THE SAME. THE PURPOSE FOR THE ENLARGEMENT WAS TO PROVIDE FOR FIRE PROTECTION BY THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT TO THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREA. THE RESULT OF THIS ACTION IS THE NEW BOUNDARY LINE, WHICH IS AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE FOR VIEWING. NO ADDITIONAL BONDS WILL BE ISSUED BY THE DISTRICT NOR WILL THERE BE ANY CHANGES IN THE COMMISSION OR THE PERSONNEL OF THE PRESENT COMMISSION OF THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT HERMAN G. KIRVEN, JR., CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that CES Woodruff Road, 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 1145 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 20, 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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Photos available from Greenville County Historical Society - 233-4103 A hotel company was formed by Alester G. Furman Sr. and Harry Haynsworth at the beginning of the twentieth century. They were joined by two Main Street merchants, Alonzo A. Bristow and Jesse R. Smith. The five-story Ottaray Hotel was constructed in 1908-1909. The memorial to Greenville’s Confederate soldiers was placed in the middle of North Main Street in 1892 by the Ladies Memorial Association. At the time the surrounding area was mainly residential and lacked motorized traffic. During the extensive new construction of the 1920s, the city council decided the monument had to be moved. Although removal began in 1922, there followed a period of confusion as to where the statue should be placed. Finally in 1924 the Confederate Monument was installed to the left of the entrance to Springwood Cemetery, slightly north of its original location.
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Matt Bird was one of the volunteers participating in Hands on Greenville Day on May 5. This year’s event drew 7,008 volunteers who participated in 283 projects throughout Greenville County, totaling 27,000 hours of service and an economic impact of more than $605,000.
Visitors to the KilgoreLewis House take part in a traditional English High Tea during the annual Spring Garden Tour. The tour featured the gardens at the Kilgore-Lewis House as well as six other private gardens in Greenville.
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Mitzi McCall, left, with the Laurens Road Garden Club, and Virginia Clarke, second from left, president of the Greenville Council of Garden Clubs, talk with Connie Nodine, right, and Diana Rincon, second from right, at the entrance to the Kilgore-Lewis House as Nodine and Rincon arrive for the annual Spring Garden Tour.
Lilah Westmoreland, a member of the Prism Content Solutions Hands On Greenville Day team, shovels cedar chips at the Cleveland Park Dog Park during HOG Day’s volunteer blitz on Saturday, May 5.
Volunteers work in the Berea Community Garden during United Way Hands On Greenville Day. The event was held to complete projects for local nonprofits that will save them from having to spend budget dollars to get them completed, saving more dollars for programs. PHOTOS BY GREG BECKNER / STAFF
Co-chair of the Tea and Spring Garden Tour Bernadine Rivera, right, pours tea for Ann Poole during English High Tea at the Kilgore-Lewis House during the annual Spring Garden Tour.
Mary Lou Jones takes a look at the spring on the grounds of the Kilgore-Lewis House during the annual Spring Garden Tour while her friends (from left to right) Mary Jones, Tamah Jones and Fran Smith, talk with one another.
Volunteers from Sealed Air worked at Homes of Hope during United Way Hands On Greenville Day.
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Across 1 Invites 5 Miami’s former county 9 Wild fancy 14 Yaks and yaks 18 Old U.K. carrier 19 Last stage of insect development 21 Posturepedic maker 22 Company with a cool-looking logo? 23 Music group that can’t march in a straight line? 26 Iditarod terminus 27 Doomed mission 28 German menace 29 Quip 31 Hill regulars 33 “There!” 37 Change for the better 38 Preoccupied with a green liqueur? 43 ER procedure 44 Waitress at Mel’s 45 Put a line through, maybe 46 Serb, for one 47 California locale where “Maria Maria” fell in love, in a Santana hit 51 Brindled cat 54 Spreadsheet input 56 Times to remember 58 New England seafood 59 Engross 61 See-through item 63 NBC post-prime time staple
64 Bundle 65 One with a mouse 67 Garfield’s “purebred clown” 69 Manhattan Project, e.g. 71 Growl 74 Draft critiques? 77 “... long __ both shall live?” 78 Reuben component 80 Summers on the Seine 81 Opera starter? 83 Sandbox reply 84 Letters in TV Guide 86 Genesis grandson 88 Home of The Trop 92 Flowering tropical plant 93 One may involve scales at La Scala 95 Shpeak thish way 97 Daisy lookalike 98 Belle and Bart 100 __ buco 102 Sylvan bounders 104 Beach shade 105 Linguistic ending 106 Single-malt liquor store 110 Ghanaian former U.N. leader 112 Perot’s “giant sucking sound” maker 113 Chick chaser? 114 Precipitated, in a way 116 “To recap ...”
119 Speed reader? 123 Lobster delicacy 124 New Year’s Eve assurance? 129 Little bit 130 Many a chat room visitor 131 Had a bug 132 View from Presque Isle State Park 133 Small-runway aircraft acronym 134 Swampy tract 135 Brand of women’s socks 136 Old wanted poster word
Down 1 Magician’s opening 2 Motown genre 3 __ Sutra 4 Red Lobster offering 5 Finished 6 Attacked from hiding 7 Apply, as finger paint 8 Thick & Fluffy breakfast brand 9 U.S. Army medal 10 Antique auto 11 Sympathetic attention 12 French high spot 13 Forgotten social network 14 Spicy liqueur? 15 Item in a fall stash 16 Hit the roof 17 Come across as 20 Early Norwegian king
24 Whistle time 25 Preppy jackets 30 Gridlock 32 Old Ford luxury car 34 Warming the bench, maybe 35 Some corporate rides 36 Forward motion
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life is so daily with steve wong
A mother’s gift of gab Some people say I write good stories. Not works of fiction that start with “Once upon a time” or end with “And they lived happily ever after,” but rather short and flavorful slices of real life that I hope feed a bigger hunger than the one in my own protruding belly. When complimented or bashed for something I wrote, I always say, “They are just words” – printed words that sometime linger in the mind like the memory of a perfect meal, or the nasty aftertaste of words that just won’t get out of your head after you’ve heard the worst news of your life. As long as these words stick with you in one fashion or another for at least a little while, I feel I’ve accomplished my task. And if you stop reading this column here and now, well, I guess I’ve failed again. At the risk of writing to no one, I must give credit where credit is due, especially as I think about Mother’s Day. I am wondering what in the world I can get an 80-yearold woman in failing health. I owe her something for passing on to me her knack for telling stories. Unlike me, Mother is verbal and can keep an audience, though I doubt that is ever her intention. She just likes to talk, and the people around her like to listen to her. There really is no telling what she’ll say next. So using words (written words) came somewhat naturally to me.
I, however, cannot finish telling a story verbally because people usually just stop listening after the first few sentences. I’ll start talking, and their eyes will go blank, they start eavesdropping on nearby conversations, and before I’m finished, poof! They are gone. I admit it: I’m boring in person. So I keep writing in hopes of being heard. Anyone who knows Mary Ellen Kimbrell Wong Plattenburger expects her to tell stories. By “stories” I do mean stories of the Southern euphemistic kind that sometimes pass as mountains made from molehills or embellished little white nontruths. To her any story worth telling is worth telling again… and again… and each time it is her God-given gift to flavor it just a little more. To Mother, a grain of salt (truth), the twang of vinegar (a splash of exaggeration), and Texas Pete (oh, she just pulled that out of nowhere) can spice up just about any bland meal of daily living. She always serves up more than enough to feed the imaginations of those around her, and she has no qualms about stowing the leftovers for many days yet to come. You know what they say about a pot of homemade soup: It is always better the next day. You don’t want to know what clinical dietitians say about week-old liver mush sandwiches. This Mother’s Day, I think I’ll go with a sure thing. I’ll visit my moth-
er and will spend an unrushed afternoon listening to her stories. I won’t look at my watch as she tells me about distant relatives who have married, dated, divorced, remarried and had babies out of the sequence of common decency. These will be too-colorful people with names like Dunie, Pee Wee, Borce, and Papoose. They will feign sickness, backstab, disavow, reconcile, and gather at the river. I will listen, and take it all in for columns yet to be written. But as mothers usually do, she will give me more than just the time of day – which is what I’ll be giving her. She will listen to me; actually truly listen to whatever mundane and boring things that might come out of my mouth. There will be no way I can compare and certainly not compete with her litany of over-the-top tales, but to her it won’t matter. I’ll be there, and we’ll be talking, having a happy Mother’s Day. Steve Wong and his wife Kathy Woodham live in Gramling, S.C., with their dogs Futar, Bella, Gus, Mattie, Baby, Samir and Dude, and an outside cat whose name he cannot remember. Their adult children, Adam and Allyn, have flown the coop. Contact Wong at Just4Wong@Gmail.com.
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