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With none of the five GOP candidates for state Senate District 8 earning a majority of the votes cast in last Tuesday’s primary, Joe Swann and Ross Turner, the top two vote-getters, are now preparing to face each other in a runoff election next Tuesday, June 26.

Meanwhile, the incumbent, David Thomas, is preparing to leave the Senate seat he’s held for 27 years. The bottom two vote-getters, Chad Groover and Jim Lee, have both endorsed Swann in the runoff.

Fewer than 10 percent of Greenville County voters went to the polls last week.

Swann earned 2,019 votes, less than 1 percent more than Turner, who earned 1,953. Thomas earned 1,509 votes.

Statewide, six incumbents lost their seats in the primaries, including Thomas, who was the chairman of the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee.

“I think there was a lot of anti-incumbency flavor this time,” said David Woodard, a political science professor at Clemson University and Republican political consultant. He attributed much of that to the state Supreme Court ruling in May that tossed more than 200 challengers off the primary ballots.

“A lot of voters felt that one of the essences of democracy is to have accountability from politicians, and they didn’t feel like they can get that when they’re never challenged,” Woodard said.

“There’s just a dislike of incumbents.”

Swann agreed that the loss of candidates contributed to the low voter turnout, but offered another explanation: “I think it’s a time of year when a lot of voters go to the beach.”

The loss of Thomas’ seniority may mean a continuation of the Upstate’s diminishing influence in the state Legislature, “but voters don’t take that into consideration when they vote for somebody,” said Woodard. “There might be a practical effect, but I don’t think it’s a dramatic loss.”

Turner was “gratified, but not necessarily surprised” at the results. “Over the last few years, I’ve heard more and

more people expressing the need for a local business owner’s perspective in Columbia.”

The other two challengers in the race, Jim Lee and Chad Groover, won 1,261 and 615 votes, respectively. They have both publicly endorsed Swann.

“Both gentlemen (Swann and Turner) are fine citizens,” said Lee, a business consultant and Internet talk-radio host in Mauldin. “However, I believe that Mr. Swann’s life experience, business and leadership skills, determination and vision set him apart and that he is best prepared to represent District 8 in the state Senate.”

If elected, Swann has pledged to use his Senate salary to fund a Greenville Tech scholarship.

Both candidates are now preparing last-minute efforts to get the vote out for the runoff.

“We’re just trying to reach out to as many voters as we can, and ask them to make the effort to go to the polls,” said Swann.

“We’re continuing to meet voters all across the district, making calls, and visiting homes and businesses,” said Turner. “Our ads are on the air, our literature is being distributed, and volunteers are making hundreds of personal calls. As a final push, we are planning a walk from one end of the district to the other this weekend and will be reengaging our get out the vote operation in the final days.”

If the voters choose Swann on Tuesday, “I’ll continue to run my business and raise my family,” Turner said. “I’ll stay actively involved in my church, civic, and charitable activities. And I’ll look for other ways to give back to this community and state that I love so much.”

And if the voters choose Turner, “I’ll still be a daddy and a granddaddy and a member of the Clemson board,” said Swann.

Runoffs on Tuesday will also decide the Republican candidate for the state’s new U.S. House District 7.

Legislature seats will be up for grabs in the Sumter area and in Chester and Fairfield counties.

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Charleston to get its own version of ICAR Advanced materials, the environment and energy will be center’s focus

By CINDY LANDRUM | staff

The Charleston area will have its own version of CU-ICAR. Clemson University has announced it will build the Zucker Family Graduate Education Center at its Restoration Institute on the former Navy base in North Charleston.

The education center will be a place where academics and industry meet, collaborate and bring innovation to the marketplace in industries such as advanced materials, the environment and sectors related to energy, power systems, logistics and transportation, said Clemson University President Jim Barker.

It will be patterned after the International Center for Automotive Research, known by its initials ICAR, in Greenville.

ICAR is a 250-acre campus where Clemson University automotive engineering graduate students, established automotive companies such as BMW and Michelin and new high-tech companies work sideby-side on automotive-related research.

There are more than 1,000 automotive assemblers and suppliers within a 500-mile radius of the Upstate.

In North Charleston, the focus is expected to be composite materials, advanced computing and energy systems.

It will also be used as a workforce development hub and a place where students of all ages – from middle school on – and scientists from all over the world can visit.

“What CU-ICAR has done to strengthen the automotive cluster in the Upstate, the Restoration Institute is doing in the Lowcountry for advanced materials, the environment and sectors related to energy, power systems, logistics and transportation,” Barker said. “The Zucker Family Graduate Education Center will be the hub where all these initiatives meet.”

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Family Graduate Education Center is being financed in part by a $5 million gift from the family that owns The InterTech Group, a global manufacturing holding company based in North Charleston. It is one of the largest privately held companies in the country.

The $20 million Zucker Center is expected to open in 2014.

By then, Clemson is expected to have finished construction on its wind-turbine drivetrain testing facility.

Clemson and its partners received a $45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy in November 2009 to build and operate a large-scale testing facility for next-generations wind-turbine drivetrains. The university and its partners are providing another $53 million for the project.

The testing facility will be the centerpiece of the Clemson University Restorative Institute complex and is expected be the largest of its kind in the world. Plans also call for a 15-megawatt grid stimulator.

Anita Zucker, CEO of The InterTech Group, said it is important for the state’s vitality to create a workforce with the right skills.

“Centers like this will help place South Carolina at the forefront of innovation,” she said.

North Charleston is where Boeing located its Dreamliner assembly plant.

Officials said The Citadel provided undergraduate engineering education in the Lowcountry, but the Zucker Center will provide opportunity for students to earn advanced engineering degrees and conduct real-world research shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers from leading companies already located in South Carolina.

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Texting ban fails again Take a ride on any interstate, city street or country road and you will see them: drivers typing into cellphones while piloting 4,000 pounds of aluminum, glass and steel at speeds that can kill if attention isn’t paid.

Of course, any speed can kill if attention isn’t paid, which is why distracted driving – and most especially texting while driving – is such a growing national concern. While any distraction can endanger safety, texting is the most serious because it involves all three types of distraction: visual (taking your eyes off the road), manual (taking your hands off the wheel) and cognitive (taking your mind off what you are doing).

Thirty-nine states now ban texting while driving for all ages, and an additional five outlaw texting by teen drivers. South Carolina – despite years of legislative debate – is not among them. And in typical Palmetto State fashion, that debate so far has focused more on limiting the reach of the laws proposed than on protecting the motoring public from texters.

House bill 4451, which had been the most promising of this year’s lot, made it illegal for “a person under the age of 18 to use a hand-held wireless electronic communication device while operating a motor vehicle on the public streets and highways of this state.” The bill also made it illegal for drivers of any age to use a cell phone in a school or highway work zone.

Yet drivers could still type in a GPS address, “activate any internal feature or function of the device” (such as an app for a smart phone) and text “while lawfully parked or stopped,” for example, at red lights. Refer back to the three types of distraction listed above. How do those exceptions line up?

Fines were also puny compared to other states. North Carolina and Georgia’s laws charge texters $100 and $150 on first offense, respectively. House bill 4451 proposed $50 on first offense, added two points off the driver’s license on second offense and didn’t reach $100 until the third. It demanded that police have a “clear, unobstructed view” of the cell phone activity and only check the phone for messages, not confiscate it.

So is a dollop of deterrence better than none? It’s hard to say. Legislators will consider their duty done when a texting bill finally passes, meaning it will be years before we see anything stronger. Mild though House bill 4451 had become by the time it died in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was tougher than the bills lawmakers debated to death in 2010 and 2011. They may stiffen their spines and toughen one of them to the point of actual deterrence come 2013. Sometimes it’s worth the wait.

And sometimes not. At least House bill 4451 targeted the worst offenders. Last year, 58 percent of 15,000 high school seniors surveyed by the Centers of Disease Control admitted to texting while driving. Researchers found that even those who admitted that the behavior is dangerous thought it was safer if they held the phone up so they could see the road while they text.

This is beyond foolish. Experts say focusing on a cellphone instead of the road leads to delayed reaction times, lane swerves and other potentially fatal lapses. Numerous studies concur that texting while driving is equal to driving drunk.

The primary value of a law is to change behavior. State legislators owe South Carolina one tough enough to compel drivers to put their cell phones down.

Innovating the Upstate Did you know that the Upstate is home to a company with more than 2,000 textile patents? Or that 20,000 Upstate residents work in the plastics industry?

How about the fact that our region of the globe has one of the leading centers for advanced materials?

Yes to all? No to all? Maybe some?

One of the goals of the Upstate SC Alliance is to tell the good economic stories of our region to the rest of the world.

And one of the stories we love telling the most is about advanced materials, which is the future of the manufacturing industry.

Our region is increasingly supplying advanced materials such as plastics, optics, photonics, textiles and metals to the rest of the world. We are becoming a hub for advanced materials for several key reasons.

The first is the people.

The Upstate S.C. Alliance represents a 10-county region that includes highly trained graduates, world-renowned professors, a developing dynamic workforce, cutting-edge technology and state-ofthe-art facilities.

The move to a more innovative Upstate is a region-wide effort that has its fingers in every pocket of our communities. That company with more than 2,000 patents? It’s Milliken, which is headquartered in Spartanburg. The plastics industry is buzzing with companies such as Greer’s Mitsubishi Polyester Film, which last year launched the first recycled liner film line in the industry.

Companies such as Optek Systems in Greenville, Woven Electronics in Simpsonville and Fibersource in Greenville lead the way in the optics/photonics industry. We can count Fisher Barton in Fountain Inn, Hoke in Spartanburg and Renfrow Brothers in Spartanburg amongst the leaders in metal working and fabrication.

Advanced materials are fueling the economy in all corners of the Upstate.

And if there is a hub to this growing sector, it has to be the Clemson University Advanced Materials Center in Anderson

IN MY OWN WORDS by HAL JOHNSON

County on Highway 187. The center is anchored by a world-class research facility that includes a 111,000 square-foot LEED Silver Certified building, the nation’s best electron microscopy laboratories, the most advanced official fiber drawing capabilities of any U.S. university, laser and chemical laboratories and Class 100 clean rooms.

The Advanced Materials Center also includes a composites manufacturing center, a laboratory for advanced plastic material and technology and the center of optical material science and engineering technologies.

The success of the businesses in our region, along with the Advanced Materials Center, is a story that the Upstate SC Alliance is proud to share with people and companies worldwide. We can show that the Upstate has the ability to create, innovate and prosper in this very important business cluster.

A strong advanced materials sector means jobs and financial security for the region. It helps keep our economy diverse and prosperous. It allows for growth. We expect to see many of the patents and products coming out of small start-ups to become major innovations – innovations that will lead to more jobs that can originate and stay here.

And that makes a stronger Upstate for everyone.

Hal Johnson is the president and chief executive officer of the Upstate SC Alliance, a nonprofit organization made up of public and private investors aimed at promoting economic growth. Additional information is available through the Alliance’s website, www.upstateSCalliance.com.

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To make matters worse, there were calls to essentially just sweep the matter under the rug “in the name of fairness” or for primary favors as handed out by the governor. That is a fine lesson for our youth in civics by our governmental officials and political “leaders.” We must expect better and do better.

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Return of an American giant

The American chestnut has long, usually narrow leaves with short leaf stalks.

Hope blooms that American chestnut tree will stage a comeback

By CHARLES SOWELL | staff

Native range of the American Chestnut

The American chestnut tree inhabited 200 million acres of eastern woodlands from Maine to Florida, and from the Piedmont west to the Ohio Valley, until succumbing to chestnut blight during the first half of the 20th century. An estimated 4 billion American chestnuts, one fourth of the hardwood tree population, grew within this range.

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Cataloochee Ranch near Maggie Valley, NC, is the location of a backcross chestnut orchard.

mi, which is similar to a fungus, killed them all in the lower elevations of their range.

The outbreak of blight started in 1900, and by the 1950s the last of the huge trees were gone. Phytophthora began much earlier, but was blocked from the high mountains by the fungus’ intolerance for cold: It cannot survive in areas that experience deep freezes in the soil.

The attack was thorough and final.

Phytophthora kills the tree from the tip of its crown to the deepest root. Blight kills the tree to ground level.

“There were six huge trees on the property that I saw die, fall and rot away,” Coker said. “When you’re young it just doesn’t register … there are other things on your mind.”

One day, many years later, she was walking the grounds of her farm and encountered stump sprouts left over from those six monstrous chestnuts.

The sprouts, small trees on their own, had matured enough to produce a few chestnuts. Coker retrieved the burrs.

“A chestnut burr actually hurts to hold in your open palm,” she said. They are like glass porcupine quills. “But when they open up you find the seeds inside are wrapped in an inner coating that’s like brown velvet.”

Fifteen years ago, Coker planted the

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Judy Coker remembers the forest giants that once cloaked her father’s mile-high guest ranch above Maggie Valley in North Carolina.

“I was too young back then to think or know much about what was happening to the (American) chestnuts,” the 78-year-old Coker said. “It wasn’t until I was in my 60s that the impact of it all hit me.”

Today, Coker is pushing hard to bring the American chestnut back to the land where her father established Cataloochee Ranch in 1933.

“My father (Tom Alexander) was a forester. I think he’d like what we’re trying to do here,” Coker said last week.

Her dad and mom, who was known to the community as Miss Judy, purchased a large part of the present 800acre property on top of Fie Top Mountain from Verlin Campbell, the potato king of Haywood County, in 1938.

The high mountains of the Appalachians were the last refuge of a species of tree that once made up 60 percent of America’s Eastern forest. Chestnut blight, an Asian import, killed the last of those trees – but before that another Asian disease, Phytophthora cinnamo-

Judy Coker with some of the American chestnuts she is cultivating on her ranch.

three seeds she retrieved from those burrs. Two sprouted and are still alive today, if ravaged by blight. They keep coming back with new stump sprouts and produce burrs to this day. And that was the start of the backcross chestnut orchard at Cataloochee Ranch.

Once Coker saw the tree would still grow on her property, she contacted the American Chestnut Foundation and the group helped set up the backcross orchard.

In a backcross orchard, foundation scientists cross pure American chestnut trees with Chinese or Japanese strains of the tree, which have resistance to

blight, producing a blight-resistant tree with American and foreign traits.

The process is repeated again and again, gradually weeding out the foreign tree traits in the hopes of producing a genetic miracle – a tree that is almost purely American chestnut that has resistance to blight.

Mark Lemke, who works for the foundation out of its Asheville office, helps tend the 700-tree orchard, which is located on a high hill overlooking the ranch’s lodge. The foundation plans to inoculate all of the trees with the blight fungus this summer, he said.

They will save the seeds from the trees that show the most resistance to blight and destroy the less resistant trees.

In 2014, the foundation will replant the resistant trees at Cataloochee, Lemke said. These trees are expected to produce some that are highly resistant to blight. Those will become the parents of a seed orchard that will be used to repopulate the highlands of North Carolina with blight-resistant chestnuts.

“That’s the hope,” Lemke said. “The foundation has been working on this for decades and we’re really close now.”

The highlands along the spine of the Appalachians are the best place to plant the seed orchards, since there is no treatment yet for Phytophthora – although researchers are working on a resistant form of the tree at Dr. Joe James’ farm outside of Seneca.

If the research there bears fruit, the American chestnut could eventually be restored to its full range across the eastern United States.

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At Mauldin’s Sunset Park, you won’t catch a crew mowing or watering the turf on the Mauldin Miracle League’s home baseball diamond. That’s because it’s comprised of 48,000 pavers made from recycled tires.

And in the spring and fall, the diamond is filled with kids playing the beloved American game. For nearly 10 years, the Mauldin Miracle League has allowed any child, regardless of disability, to play baseball.

This past spring, more than 120 kids batted, ran the bases and scored runs during the season, said Mauldin Miracle League founder and director Dennis Raines.

With disabilities ranging from autism to spina bifida, participants play on Saturday mornings during two eight-week seasons each year. The league has played on the first handicapped baseball field in the state since 2005, starting with 26 players.

The players use a special ball and volunteer “buddies” help with fielding, running the bases and more.

Though the spring season just ended, signups for the fall season begin in Au-

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gust and all children can participate, said Raines. The league also offers scholarships sponsored by the Greenville Evening Rotary. “We never turn a child away.

We’re not real big on rules, we’re big on the kids having fun,” he said.

“I absolutely love it,” said Maggie Painter of Greenville, a 15-year-old member of the league’s Braves team. Painter will be starting her fourth season in the fall. “It’s given me an opportunity to rethink what I can do in my life.”

She also recommends the league to other kids. “Even with kids playing in wheelchairs, they would have a lot of fun. It gives them a chance to get out and do something that they wouldn’t normally do.”

Tom Painter, Maggie’s father, said the tailored league and buddies offer a chance for parents to simply watch their kids play, rather than assist them. “This is so valuable for kids with special needs. Their parents don’t usually get to just let go and be a spectator. We get to sit on the bleachers and watch our kids play baseball,” he said.

The Mauldin Miracle League closed its spring season with some serious training with college baseball players. The pro-

College ballplayers helped the Miracle Leaguers sharpen their skills at a spring clinic.

A Miracle League batter comes up to the plate.

gram partnered with Cal Ripken Baseball and the Chevrolet Youth Baseball program sponsored by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet to host a clinic with a dozen college players who offered multiple stations for skill training.

The local dealership also provided a donation, T-shirts and equipment, Raines said. Players and their families gathered for a cookout and clinic at Sunset Park.

“It was fantastic because all those guys who were working with the kids got to meet them during lunch and get to know them. Therefore the clinic went extremely well,” Raines said.

In partnership with the Greenville Drive, each year the players get to visit Fluor Field and play a game with Drive players as their volunteer buddies.

“The kids had an absolute blast. To take a five- or six-year-old … and they’re standing next to a Greenville Drive player, they think they’re in the pros,” Raines said.

Originally, he wasn’t sure that the game

would become a yearly tradition until he discovered that the Drive players were asking when the kids were coming back to play, he said.

Raines said now that the league is well established, he would like to recruit even more players. With the current facility capacity, he said the Mauldin Miracle League could serve twice as many children as it does now.

“The need is getting to the kids. We exist for the kids,” he said. Volunteer buddies are also needed. Raines said anyone over eight years old can serve as a buddy.

Many buddies are children, he said. “It is a great esteem builder for the buddies because they see a different type of life that the other kids are living day to day.”

Raines said the teams have grown so much that they require two divisions: All Stars and American League. The All Stars are open to all ages and skill levels and the American League includes players who can hit a ball pitched to them and can field a ball without a buddy. “They can slap that ball out of the field,” Raines said of the American League players.

Raines said the Furman University baseball team has also adopted the American League teams – not to serve as buddies, but to practice with them and work on skills.

And come August, the Cardinals, Red Sox, Yankees, Braves, Cubs and Orioles teams of the Mauldin Miracle League (named in homage to their major-league counterparts) will be ready for the fall season and some hot competition.

To join the league, volunteer or learn more about the Mauldin Miracle League, call 864-505-5417 or visit www.mauldinmiracleleague.com.

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

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Nearly 30 African-American men learned more about prostate cancer and screening for this second-deadliest cancer in American men as part of a study sponsored by the Gibbs Cancer Center, the University of South Carolina, and the UsTOO prostate cancer education and support network.

The educational study was designed to target black men ages 21 to 40 and determine ways to overcome barriers for them to access prostate cancer education and screening. Like a similar program creating an intergenerational link between AfricanAmerican women, the study, in its second year, connects older and younger men to encourage them to communicate and share knowledge about this deadly disease.

Under revised guidelines, AfricanAmerican men and those with a family history of prostate cancer should begin

talking about screening at age 45, while other men should begin discussions at 50, said project leader Dr. Daniela Friedman of the University of South Carolina.

According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, and one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Between 2003 and 2007, the average annual prostate cancer incidence rate among black men was 229.4 cases per 100,000 men, 60 percent higher than the rate in white men, according to the National Cancer Institute. “This ongoing program is helping a community at higher risk for prostate cancer to make informed decisions about prostate cancer screening and about their overall health,� said Friedman.

In 2011, the Gibbs Cancer Center and USC hosted a series of three National Cancer Institute studies and reached more than 200 participants. Friedman said organizers hope to expand the research and education on prostate screening and treatment decisions to the entire state if additional funding becomes available.

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Players come from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas to compete in the regional championships.

Tormey says organizers had been planning for the tournament for two years and it has been executed well. “We’ve got a tremendous support system in Greenville and Spartanburg along with firstclass facilities,” he said. “Soccer means a great deal to this community. We are delighted to host the best players and teams from across the region in this elite competition and utilize our top-tier facilities and volunteers.”

Teams that advanced through the semifinals, quarterfinals and finals will now move up to the national competition on July 24-29 that will crown 12 teams the national champs, according to U.S. Youth Soccer. Each year, approximately 185,000 young players throughout the country participate in the series.

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tournament not only allows the players to test their prowess against other leading regional teams, it gives them a chance to shine in front of nearly 100 collegiate soccer coaches who are actively recruiting for their teams, said Tormey.

In addition to hosting the athletes at the soccer facilities, the area also enjoyed the financial boon that such a gathering brings – a more than $10 million economic impact. According to U.S. Youth Soccer, approximately 12,000 rooms were booked at area hotels throughout the six-day tournament.

In addition to the two years of planning, the execution of such an extensive event requires volunteers – 1,200 to be exact, Tormey said. Those volunteers have come through to make everything run smoothly, he said. “It’s a huge undertaking, but everyone we have asked, they’ve done and more.” He said that they will be asking for help again, but not until organizers bid for the tournament’s return in a few years.

Wines of Spain By: Richard deBondt

Spain leads the world in acres of grapes, with over 2 million. Even though 97% of its grapes go into wine, it has never led in volume of wine production (France and Italy do). Ancient Spanish vines survive but give notoriously low yields. Since low production costs offset low yields, Spain gives good value for money.

There are 88 Spanish “Protected Designations of Origen” usually indicated by the initials “DO” after the label’s place name. Most of Spain’s unique, exciting wines bear a “DO” denoting their home region.

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Players from the Albion Hurricane Football Club (AHFC) in white and the Carolina Elite Soccer Academy (CESA) in red try to get control of the ball near the AHFC goal during their U-17 girls match at the MeSA Soccer Complex during the 2012 US Youth Soccer Region III (South) Championships.

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Most Spanish regions excel with red wine, but none make it exclusively. Rioja, Spain’s most famous export, uses predominately Tempranillo grapes, blended with Graciano, Garnacha, and Mazuela. In Catalonia Penedes, Priorat, and Monsat make distinguished wines from various grapes traditional and modern (Cabernet and Merlot for example). Spread around the country, Jumilla, Ribera del Duero, Bierzo, Ribeira Sacra, and Navarra also offer distinctive reds.

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The amendment allows for members of county boards and commissions to recuse themselves if they are associated with a company conducting business with the board or commission on which they serve.

The amendment requires board members to prepare a written statement describing the action and nature of the potential conflict of interest, and submit it to the board chairman with a copy to be sent to the council offices. Failure to comply may result in the removal of the board member.

The amendment brought spirited discussion at the council’s Committee of the Whole session, with Councilmen Joe Dill and Willis Meadows arguing to retain the current ordinance that requires board members to resign if there is a conflict of interest.

Council Chairman Herman G. “Butch” Kirven argued this held boards to a higher standard than County Council, whose members are allowed to recuse themselves.

The amendment failed in a 5-5 vote with council members Dill, Meadows, Joe Baldwin, Sid Cates and Lottie Gibson voting against. Councilmembers Dan Rawls and Liz Seman were absent.

Councilman Jim Burns then made a motion to review all current board and commission members for potential conflicts of interest and remove any for which conflicts are found. Burns’ motion passed 10-0. After further discussion, Baldwin moved to return the failed motion to the floor and the Council approved the original amendment 8-2, with Dill and Meadows voting against.

Burns said enforcement of the current policy will force the needless removal of many dutifully serving board members. Kirven said a recusal provision would bring transparency to the process. A second reading will be considered at the July 17 meeting.

During the regular council meeting, Council took the final step to dissolve the 12-member former Disabilities and Special Needs Board, appoint a fivemember interim board and establish a permanent board of seven members who will serve three-year terms. On June 5, Council chose the interim board members, including Pearlie Harris, chair of the board of directors of the St. Francis Hospital System; Bob Ariail, former 13th Circuit Solicitor; Alex McNair, vice president at March USA Inc.; and Jay Rogers, a Greenville attorney who has also served as a board member and former chairman of the Greenville Area Development Corporation.

On a motion by Dill, the council voted to require the interim board to report to Council on finances and other issues or concerns every other month.

The Greenville County Council is scheduled to meet again on Tuesday, July 17, at 6 p.m. at County Square.

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New guenons join zoo’s primate exhibit Greenville selected as breeding site for endangered forest monkeys

According to Bullock, TAGs “are composed of a panel of specialists in their field, including veterinarians, biologists and zoologists, so as to create recommendations that are designed to maintain a healthy, genetically diverse and

By GIVENS PARR | contributor demographically stable population.”

The Population Management Plan will determine the duration of Stewie and Zoe’s Greenville Zoo’s Primate Exhibit is the stay in the Greenville Zoo. Bullock said guenons give birth to one baby at a time and the new home of two rare forest monkeys.

Stewie, a 4-year-old male from Lowry gestation period is five to seven months.

“Our male is not quite mature, so we Park Zoo in Tampa, Fla., and Zoe, a 15-year-old female from the Brookfield would expect at least one year and a half before the first birth,” he said.

Zoo in Chicago, are both The babies that result from Schmidt’s spot-nosed the breeding program will guenons. Only 10 zoos in stay in captivity.

North America host this Zoo officials said gueendangered species. nons are native to subThe Population ManSaharan Africa and are exagement Plan (PMP) proceptionally vivacious and gram of the Association colorful. The forest monof Zoos and Aquariums keys maintain a varied diet selected the Greenville of fruits, seeds and young Zoo as a prime breeding leaves and can store almost location for this pair of as much food in their large Old World monkeys. cheek pouches as they can According to the zoo’s dihold in their stomachs. rector, Jeff Bullock, “When The typical guenon has a the Greenville Zoo found combined head and body out that our ring-tailed Zoe, female, 15 years length of about 12 to 26 lemurs were being transold, from Brookfield inches, not including its ferred to a larger group in Zoo in Chicago. long tail.

Bermuda, we notified the PMP programs are reOld World Monkey Taxon sponsible for over 300 Advisory Group (TAG) breeding and transfer that we would have a place recommendation operafor a breeding pair of Old tions for both endangered World monkeys.” and non-threatened speWhy guenons? cies. The Greenville Zoo “We wanted to use the voluntarily participates in space where it could do several breeding programs the most good,” Bullthrough the Association of ock said. The Old World Zoos and Aquariums.

Monkey TAG selected the The Greenville Zoo is species; the zoo’s goal “is open seven days a week, to work with the groups and is on a summer schedto provide spaces for the ule of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. animals most in need.” through September 30.

Old World monkeys Stewie, male, 4 years Entry ticket sales close at are native to both Afold, from Lowry Park 4:15 p.m. The admission rica and Asia: the “Old Zoo in Tampa. price is $7.75 for adults and World.” Scientists classify $4.50 for children ages 3 to primates indigenous to the Americas, like the spider monkey, as 15. For more information about the Green“New World Monkeys.” The Old World ville Zoo, visit www.greenvillezoo.com.

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The good news is that Lucy, an 11-month-old husky mix from Greenville, has won a national contest.

The bad news is that it was a nationwide search for the worst behaved dog in North America in Camp Bow Wow’s first “Bad to the Bone” contest.

Lucy is known as “The Destroyer” for her chewing habits.

“Lucy is a close part of our family – we love her dearly,” said Eve Memmer, her owner. “But she’ll chew on any- “Prison Break” thing in sight; she dashes out of doors and she lunges at other dogs when she’s on a leash.” Memmer won a year of services for Lucy from Camp Bow Wow and formal dog training from a Camp Bow Wow certified dog trainer. Lucy’s owner said she has failed previous dog training classes.

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Clemson President James Barker sent letters to more than 50 colleges and universities across the nation with tiger mascots soliciting support for the effort.

There are fewer than 3,200 tigers left in the wild, according to the National Wildlife Foundation. Three of nine subspecies have gone extinct, the organization said.

Students want to bring experts from around the world together at the national summit to discuss tiger conservation and develop plans to raise awareness of the shortage of the endangered animals.

“Our institutions adopted the tiger as our symbol because of its fierce strength, beauty and dignity,” Barker wrote in the letter. “We can hardly sit by as our mascot disappears.”

Clemson’s Tigers for Tigers was founded in 1997. It has collaborated with the anti-poaching organization Tiger Trust India and has sent more than 100 Clemson students to India over the past decade to study tigers in the wild.

Clemson’s Tigers for Tigers wants to have an intercollegiate coalition with chapters at partner schools across the country.

Each would participate in fundraising events to benefit tiger conservation efforts. A positive response has been received from the University of Missouri so far.

“It’s one thing to see a tiger in captivity, but to see one roaming in its natural territory will make you speechless,” said Carmony Adler, vice president for Tigers for Tigers. “If wild tigers come to no longer exist, the world we live in will have lost a special part of itself.”

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Contact: Oncology Rehab Navigator, 675-4656. A Breast Cancer Support Group is also offered on June 28 from 9-10 a.m. at St. Francis eastside, Bldg. 135, Ste. 130. This free program is led by a specially trained counselor, and this group is open to any woman whose life has been touched by breast cancer. Register online, www.stfrancishealth.org. Beginners Yoga for Cancer Survivors is held Thursdays from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. and intermediate/advanced Yoga for Cancer Survivors is held Tuesdays from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Both classes are held at HealThy Self, St. Francis millennium.

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Former Air National Guard pilot and now Lockheed Martin executive Maj. Heather Penney will be the keynote speaker at the public luncheon during the commencement of Clemson’s third annual Leadership Summit Friday, Aug. 10, in Greenville. Penney directs USAF Air Superiority Systems at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Washington, D.C. She was selected by the D.C. Air National Guard to be the first woman in the D.C. Guard to fly the F-16 and accumulated more than 1,000 hours in the F-16 Viper, including two combat tours in Iraq. Penney was in the first two-plane flight over the Pentagon and Washington, D.C., in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and also escorted Air Force One into Andrews Air Force Base later that day. She holds multiple Air Medals. The public luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Westin Poinsett in Greenville. Individuals can register to attend or find more information about Clemson’s Leadership Summit by visiting www.clemsonatthefalls.eventbrite.com or by calling 864-656-2200.

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.

Mensa, a high-IQ society, will offer testing in Greenville on July 14 at 9 a.m.

The testing will take place at The Woodlands at Furman, 1500 Trailhead Court, Greenville. The Mensa Admission Test is open to anyone age 14 and older. Anyone aged 14-17 will need parental consent to test. The test fee is $40. The test will take about two hours to complete. Anyone who scores in the top two percent will qualify for Mensa membership. Members enjoy a variety of benefits including the opportunity to attend social and intellectual events, a monthly magazine, a local newsletter, online forums, and the chance to join more than 150 special-interest groups. For more information, contact Mary Ann Cox at 864-963-2335, maryacraig@juno.com or visit www.us.mensa.org.

Greenville Hospital System is offering Tae Kwon Do Summer Camp. This camp is led by a certified Tae Kwon Do black belt and takes place Wednesdays, June 27-August 15 (no class on July 4), 1-2 p.m., at the Greenville Hospital System Life Center. Fee: $100.

Camp is recommended for children ages five and older. To register, contact 322-2884.

Other upcoming GHS programs include • More than Fat - Learn the heartBook Your healthy benefits of specific foods and Lunch with Atnutrients on Monday, June 25, at 12:30 lanta author p.m. at the Greenville Hospital System Wendy Wax on Life Center. Free; registration required.

Tuesday, July To register, call 455-4010.

10, from noon • Body Burn - This group fitness class to 2 p.m. at takes on multiple formats and is taught The Lazy Goat. by multiple instructors on Saturday, Tickets are $25 June 30, 8:30-10 a.m., at the Greenville each and must Hospital System Life Center. No fee for be purchased in members. Guests pay $10. For more inadvance at www.bookyourlunch.com formation, call 455-4669. or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864• Exercise Prescription - Learn the 675-0540. Wax’s new novel, “Ocean components of a safe exercise program Beach,” is the sequel to her previous on Wednesday, June 27, 8:30 a.m. or book, “Ten Beach Road.”

12:30 p.m., at the Greenville Hospital System Life Center. Free; registration required. To register, call 455-4037.

The Greenville County Library System will offer a South Carolina Room Orientation and Tour on Thursday, July 12, from 6 to 9 p.m., at the Hughes Main Library, South Carolina Room. Participants will receive an in-depth tour and learn how to locate family information in the South Carolina Room. Space is limited. Registration is required. Call 527-9261. For a complete list of programs, visit http://millennium. greenvillelibrary.org/iii/calendar/list/.

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The Upstate Homeless Coalition (UHC) recently received, on behalf of the Spartanburg-based Butterfly Foundation, a grant for approximately $327,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The grant will provide homeless families and individuals that have special needs with permanent housing in Spartanburg, Greenville and Anderson counties. Along with housing, program participants will receive intensive case management to address their individual needs.

The Upstate Homeless Coalition is accepting the grant award as HUD’s regionally designated coordinator of planning and services for Upstate South Carolina homeless service providers. The Upstate Homeless Coalition is a nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness in Upstate South Carolina through programming, advocacy and the development of safe and affordable housing. UHC serves as the umbrella organization for homeless programs in 13 Upstate counties. The Butterfly Foundation’s goal is to change the odds against economically challenged individuals and families in the areas of education, job readiness and training, and adequate housing.

The Salvation Army Dining Hall, which serves more than 112,000 meals each year to emergency shelter and rehabilitation clients as well as the homeless on the streets, is in need of food donations. Meats, rice, potatoes, beans and sugar are needed to help meet the need of the hungry in the community. The Salvation Army is serving three times the number of meals of six months ago. Donations can be dropped off at 417 Rutherford Street. For additional information on how you can help, contact Pamela Garcia at 275-8205.

The Nature Conservancy will celebrate the completion of a major land acquisition project when they transfer the deed to 300 acres of significant mountain property to the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, June 22, at Jones Gap State Park. Following the ceremony, a ranger-guided hike will lead to the new property.

Dr. Walt A. McPhail, of Mauldin, was named National Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year by the American Tree Farm System at the group’s 2012 National Tree Farmer Convention in Jacksonville, Fla. McPhail was selected Southern Regional Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year for 2012 earlier this year, and was Forest Landowner Association’s 2011 National Forest Landowner of the Year. He is a member of the National Operating Committee of the American Tree Farm Program, serves on the SC Tree Farm Committee, and chairs the Outreach and Education Committee.

In dedication to providing safe, energy-efficient and affordable housing to the Upstate, Homes of Hope announces the completion of its second Mauldin housing development, Curtis Place. Curtis Place is an affordable development of five energy-efficient, stacked flat duplexes. To celebrate the completion and welcome new tenants, Horizon Church

Greenville County unveiled its newest community poster this week, featuring the Conestee community. The poster has an original watercolor painting on one side and a history of the community on the reverse. Launched in the 1980s, the series of posters depicts traditional mill neighborhoods and those that have undergone renewal. Others posters include Brandon, Brutontown, Dunean, Freetown, Judson, Mills Mill, Monaghan, Piedmont, Poe Mill, Renfrew, Sans Souci, Slater, Southern Bleachery, Sterling, Union Bleachery and Woodside. Copies can be purchased from the Greenville County Redevelopment Authority, 864-242-9801. and Homes of Hope will sponsor a block party on Saturday, June 23, at 11 a.m., at the neighboring twin development, Aleda Terrace at Miller Road and Rainbow Circle.

The Curtis Place duplexes, which are 1,100 square feet with three bedrooms and two baths, mark the Greenville developer’s second venture into the city of Mauldin. These homes are available to households earning 50 to 60 percent of the area’s median income. Financial partners include SC State Housing Finance and Development Authority, Greenville County Redevelopment Authority, the City of Mauldin and Regent Bank. Construction partners include Quinn Satterfield Inc., Wood Construction and CCAD Engineering.

Greenville Memorial Hospital has earned Quality Respiratory Care Recognition under a national program aimed at helping patients and families make informed decisions about the quality of the respiratory care services available in hospitals. Approximately 15 percent of hospitals in the United States have applied for and received this award.

This year’s Fifth Annual Laughing Matters Comedy Luncheon to benefit Diligent Hands…Gracious Hearts will feature award-winning stand-up comedian, speaker and writer Rog Bates. He has opened for Jeff Foxworthy, Ritch Shydner and many others. The event will be on June 25, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2310 Augusta Road, Greenville. Tickets are $15 and include lunch, but seats are limited. All proceeds from this event will benefit Diligent Hands…Gracious Hearts, a local nonprofit that provides free lawn care and home repairs for the elderly and homebound. For more information, call 864-608-1958 or visit www.dhgh.org.

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Life after ‘C. Dan’

The Art Bar on Main Street has closed – but a sushi restaurant could be going in the space …

Second generation is carrying the legacy forward at Prudential C. Dan Joyner Realtors

By DICK HUGHES | contributor

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The booming voice, cheerful greetings and unbridled enthusiasm of C. Dan Joyner no longer are heard at Prudential C. Dan Joyner Realtors – but the founder is ever present.

Six months after Joyner’s death Jan. 8 at age 74, his son Danny and son-in-law David Crigler reflected on the leadership transition of the family business that has dominated Greenville’s real estate market for years.

Three years ago, C. Dan stepped back from day-to-day operations to put succession in place. Danny Joyner became president and Crigler executive vice president.

“Our roles were to make decisions each week and report to him in meetings, letting him know what was going on,” Joyner said. “He would tell us what we were doing wrong, what we were doing right, and he would be very candid about it. So from a transition standpoint, the biggest thing is just not having his smiling face and great attitude to get you excited every day.”

C. Dan Joyner groomed his son, 45, and Crigler, 54, into leadership roles from their first days on the job selling houses, which for Crigler was in 1986 and Danny Joyner, four years later.

Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer David Crigler, left, and President Danny Joyner of Prudential C. Dan Joyner Company Realtors.

As Danny Joyner put it, “He moved us both through every division of the company through the years … We didn’t see a method to his madness then, but now we understand better why he did what he did.”

Combined, they have C. Dan Joyner 47 years in the business and, taking into account the day Crigler married Joyner’s sister, Beth, have been together 31 years, working side by side most of that time.

“We’ve always leveraged our strengths and not let titles get in the way,” Crigler said. “It is a collaborative effort.”

The two men operate with a less formal structure now. Rather than conference-room meetings, “Danny and I basically huddle up,” Crigler said. “We are in each other’s offices, and we do it with a little greater frequency.”

Joyner said with 225 independent agents and 50 corporate employees, the transition “has created even more resolve in everybody to carry on C. Dan’s legacy and not just sustain it but to grow it – take the company to an even higher level.”

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What sets the company apart, they believe, is the close relationship the company has with its agents and the comity among the agents. The agents “help each other out; they support each other,” Joyner said.

“That’s a testament not only to the type of people we have been able to attract, but to the integrity and honesty that C. Dan filtered down to everybody.”

After C. Dan’s death, the two men went around to see the agents to assure them the company’s core values hadn’t changed. Crigler said they wanted the agents to know their job “is real simple: sell homes and follow the Golden Rule. None of that changed.

C. Dan set that table.”

Those values have helped Prudential Joyner remain market leader in residential sales with “almost 20 percent

market share and our major competitors half of that or less,” Crigler said.

Closings are up 24 percent from a year ago, days-on-the market is down and inventory decreased 17 percent. Commercial sales also are up, but “the difficulty banks are having in lending on the real estate side has made it tougher to get commercial deals done,” Joyner said. “They take longer and you never know for sure if you’re going to close or not.”

They see “growth opportunity” in Spartanburg, where they have sales but no physical presence under the Prudential C. Dan Joyner banner. That will change in 2013, they said.

They plan changes, too, to streamline their mortgage business, which operated 15 years independently but has been in partnership with Wells Fargo for a couple of years.

The company also is antici-

“We’ve always leveraged our strengths and not let titles get in the way. It is a collaborative effort.”

David Crigler, Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Prudential C. Dan Joyner, on his relationship with brother -in-law Danny Joyner, who is president of the company.

pating more franchise support now that Brookfield Residential Property Service’s acquisition in December of the real estate division of Prudential Financial Corp. has taken hold.

Joyner has the luxury, they said, of being able to hold onto the Prudential brand identity under contract for several years while taking advantage of Brookfield’s strengths.

“One big thing they bring is they are the No. 2 employee relocation service in the world,” Crigler said. “That one piece alone really strengthened us

with international transfer business.”

While they miss their founder, the succession plan he put in place, the culture he fostered and the support of independent agents, “our most valuable asset,” has meant very little has changed day to day, they said.

“To be honest,” said Crigler, “we have kind of settled down.”

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@ greenvillejournal.com.

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• Olive Properties in the purchase of 22,000 square feet of net-leased investment property at 350 W. Phillips Road, Greer.

KDS Commercial Properties represented Pinnacle Bank in the sale of 6.4 acres on Woodruff Road to Asheton Lakes Commons.

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Coldwell Banker Commercial Caine represented: • Falls Place in leasing 1,338 square feet of office space at Suite RL-107, Falls Place, 531 S. Main, Greenville, to ATS Inc. of St. Cloud, Minn.; • Augusta Road Properties in the leasing of 3,650 square feet of office space at 1425 Augusta St., Greenville, to Greenville Hospital System; • Kathy Harris in purchase of a 2,050-square-foot office building at 10 Howe St., Greenville, from Tuesday Properties; • Toya Hegwer and Fred Abbatiello in leasing 8,000 square feet of retail space at 105 E. Rutherford St., Landrum, to Ed Lettelier;

• Gary M. Price of Design Elite in leasing 1,500 square feet of office space at 538 Old Howell Rd., Suite 102, Greenville, from HRO Developers; • West End Investments in leasing 2,375 square feet of retail space at 18 Augusta St., Greenville, to Amanda Henry’s Popcorn Parlor; and • 301 East McBee LLC in purchase of an 0.23-acre site at 301 E. McBee Ave., Greenville, from James D. Calmes II and others.

NAI Earle Furman represented: • landlord in leasing 5,000 square feet for showroom and warehouse space at 297 Commerce Blvd, Anderson, to Event Rentals; • landlord in leasing of 5,000 square feet of industrial space at 150 Black Gum Rd., Roebuck, to unnamed party; • buyer in purchase of 10,640 square feet of retail investment property on Hwy. 544, Conway, from unnamed seller; • seller of a 68,645-square-foot Wal-Mart shadowed retail center at Hartsville Crossing, 1150 S. 4th St., Hartsville, for $5.1 million, to unnamed buyer; • landlord in lease renewal of 2,480 square feet of retail space at 932 NE Main St., Simpsonville to The Pantry; • seller of 1.06 acres on Highway 14, Simpsonville, to Simpsonville Family Dentistry; • landlord in leasing 1,525 square feet of office space at 222 LaDean Ct., Simpsonville, to Palmetto Design & Renovation Contractors

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S.C. Gets Development Award

Area Development, a leading magazine in economic development, has awarded South Carolina with it its 2012 Gold Shovel and Project of the Year awards.

The Gold Shovel award recognizes the state’s overall economic development accomplishments.

The project award is for enticing Continental Tire to invest $500 million in a tire plant in Sumter County, as well as expand its North American headquarters in Lexington County.

The awards are made in four population categories. South Carolina was judged in the 3 to 5 million division.

It was the second consecutive year the state has received a Gold Shovel.

South Carolina Goes Out of State

The S.C. Department of Insurance has awarded a contract for licensing exam systems to a California firm, PSI. Under the five-year contract, PSI will develop testing for adjusters, appraisers, surplus line brokers and bail bondsmen.

It will administer computer-based testing at centers in Greenville, Rock Hill, Aiken, Charleston, Columbia, Florence and Myrtle Beach.

PSI has been doing similar work for real estate licensing for the S.C. Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation since 2002.

Malaysian Company Expands

Genetec Global Technologies, a division of a Malaysian firm, will expand its Fountain Inn operations with a new automation center in Simpsonville.

The company said it would invest $1.2 million and add 160 jobs.

Dan Gehrman, vice president, said the “expansion will help augment our other businesses – Systems South in Fountain Inn and IP Systems in Denver.”

The company said it would add sales, engineering and assembly capabilities for providing custom automation equipment.

It said it would use local companies for much of its machining and fabrication.

Persons interested in applying for positions should visit humanresources@gentecautomation.com.

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Green Cloud, the Greenville start-up providing cloud computing to small and medium businesses, is building its second data center and expanding marketing.

The new data center will be in Nashville, Tenn.

The company completed $2.7 million in financing to fund the expansion. The bulk of the financing came from an investment by Millry Corp., a family-owned telephone carrier serving southwestern Alabama.

“This is another vote of confidence for Green Cloud’s strategy from a very savvy and experienced investor group,” said Shaler Houser, chief executive officer of Green Cloud.

Green Cloud earlier raised $1.2 million in financing and expanded into coastal South Carolina and Georgia and into Tennessee.

Firm Redoes ICAR Ceiling

Marsh/Bell Construction Co. of Easley has won the contract to replace 5,000 square feet of ceiling for the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research.

The company recently finished painting and carpet renovations at CU-ICAR.

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Upstate housing sales on the rise Competitive bidding is returning as prices inch up

By Dick Hughes | contributor

After four years of buyers holding sway in the housing market, sellers are beginning to see a slow swing of the pendulum toward balance in supply and demand.

“I definitely think it is still a buyers’ market, but there is a decrease in inventory,” said Kathie Gajda, president of the Greater Greenville Realtors Association and broker of Gajda & Gutbrod Real Estate Corner.

“It is not like when we had so many houses on the market at the same time, and the values were so depreciated.

It is now a steady market in Greenville, where housing prices have stabilized.”

New listings are declining, the glut of foreclosures and short sales is easing, prices

are inching up and, in some neighborhoods, competitive bidding is returning where desired housing is in short supply, according to South Carolina Realtors.

“Spring has brought both change and clarity to our local market,” the Realtors group said in its May report on Multiple Listing Service data.

“Some sellers are seeing competing bids on their properties, which can lead to modest price gains in selected neighborhoods. Buyers have fewer options from which to choose in many submarkets.”

New listings statewide decreased 17.5 percent and inventory levels declined 16.4.

The month’s supply index showed a decrease to 11.7 months. A year ago it was 15.2 months. In the boom year of

2007, it was less than six.

According to the MLS, 664 homes and condos were sold last month in the greater Greenville area, which includes Greenville, Pickens and Laurens counties. That’s up from 606 in April and an 8.1 percent gain over 614 in May 2011.

In Spartanburg, 212 homes

cent in Greenville and 11.1 percent in Spartanburg.

Statewide, the number of homes sold declined to 3,880 from 4,181 in April and 4,381 in May 2011, an 11.4 percent year-to-year negative.

From January through May, the median sale price in Greenville is up 4.4 percent to

“We are getting back on track. It is very easy to sell Greenville because it has so much going for it.”

Kathie Gajda, president of the Greater Greenville Realtors Association and broker of Gajda & Gutbrod Real Estate Corner.

were sold in May, three more than in April and down 15.9 percent from May 2011.

The market for the first five months of 2012 is up 8.8 per-

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$143,000. Another sign of increased activity is time between listing and sale, and that has declined to 109 days on average for the five months from 120 a

year ago. It was 108 in May. David Crigler, executive vice president of Prudential C. Dan Joyner Realtors, said there has been “sustained positive growth” across the board in the Greenville market since the last two weeks in January.

“All of our agents are busy.”

With inventory down 17 percent in Greenville, he said multiple bids on properties are returning and, in some cases, potential buyers “can’t find what they are looking for.”

Gajda said the agents she talks to are “very happy with a pickup in the market. We are getting back on track. It is very easy to sell Greenville because it has so much going for it.”

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@ greenvillejournal.com.

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Jobless Rates in Upstate Counties County

May

April

May

2012

2012

2011

Greenville

7.6

6.7

8.2

Pickens

8.5

7.4

8.6

Anderson

9.3

8.2

9.7

Oconee

9.3

8.2

10.1

Spartanburg

9.5

8.5

10.4

Laurens

9.5

8.4

10.2

Greenwood

10.4

9.6

11.1

Abbeville

10.6

9.4

11.2

Cherokee

11.7

11.1

13.1

Union

14.3

13.4

15.5

South Carolina

9.3

8.8

10.4

OCONEE 9.3%

County jobless rates for May 2012. Source: S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.

UNION 14.3%

ANDERSON 9.3%

LAURENS 9.5%

ABBEVILLE 10.6%

force searching for employment, and DEW continues to remain focused on putting South Carolinians back to work.”

Nationally, unemployment ticked up to 8.2 percent in May from 8.1 in April.

The number of people officially identified as unemployed rose statewide by 5,861 to 195,905 out of a workforce of 2.1 million.

Greenville added 2,260 to its unemployment, and Spartanburg added 1,371.

Only York County, which is benefiting from a spurt of economic growth as a suburb of Charlotte, N.C., saw a decrease in the jobless rate, from 10.8 to 9.8.

Seventy-five percent of the job increases in the state were in trade, transportation and utilities; professional and business services; and leisure and hospitality.

Manufacturing, which still leads the state year-todate in job creation, lost 200 jobs in May. In its June review of

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Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine data series. Online ads in South Carolina were about 2,100 higher in May 2012 compared to a year ago.

Abraham J. Turner, executive director of the Department of Employment and Workforce, noted that South Carolina historically mirrors trends in the national rate, “and this month is no exception.”

“Despite our unemployment rate edging up this month, more than 24,000 of our fellow citizens have found jobs in the past year,” Turner said in a statement.

“We are encouraged that people are entering the labor

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while the labor force added another 1,000 people.

Employment decreased by 400 people. Pickens County, which consistently has the second lowest unemployment rate in the Upstate, experienced an increase of 1.1 percentage points to 8.5.

Unemployment in Greenwood, Abbeville, Cherokee and Union was in double digits. Union’s jobless rate, which is the worst in the Upstate, was 14.3.

State officials were encouraged that online job ads in South Carolina showed a small increase of about 600 ads from April to May, according to the

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Unemployment rose in May throughout the Upstate and in all but one county across the state, according to the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.

Employment in the manufacturing sector, which had been a bright spot in growing jobs in South Carolina, appears to be slowing because of the problems dragging the economy in Europe, according to TD Economics.

Statewide, the jobless rate rose from 8.8 percent in April to 9.1 percent in May, the first increase in the rate after 10 months of steady but modest decreases.

South Carolina has the 45th highest jobless rate in the nation, but is holding its own or doing somewhat better in job creation than neighboring states.

TD Economics noted that “while the underlying pace of growth remains disappointing, South Carolina and Georgia registered solid gains in job creation in May. North Carolina, which had an unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, lost jobs.”

According to the state Department of Employment and Workforce, South

Carolina added 16,800 jobs to its workforce.

In the main, the increase in unemployment was driven by an increase in the number of people actively looking for work.

Unemployment jumped in Greenville County from 6.7 percent to 7.6 percent in May, but Greenville’s rate was the second lowest in the state behind Lexington County’s 7.3.

The rate in Spartanburg and Anderson counties rose a full percentage point to 9.5 and 9.2, respectively. Spartanburg unemployment increased by more than 1,300 people, the DEW reported,

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economic activity, TD Economics, a division of TD Bank, said reports of manufacturing activity in the South Atlantic, including South Carolina, are mixed, but that signs reflect a slowing of exports to Europe as a result of the growing uncertainty there of stability.

“After growing steadily throughout 2011, employment in durable-goods producing sectors has stagnated across the Carolinas in recent months,” the report said.

The bank’s economists said another drag on manufacturing in the South Atlantic is the threat of cutbacks in defense spending by the Pentagon. The economists added, however, that Maryland and Virginia are more vulnerable to this because “federal defense procurements make up a sizeable portion of state output.”

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@ greenvillejournal.com.

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Old textile buildings in West End to get new life OOBE to be lead tenant in first phase of Markley Terrace

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architectural aesthetics, such as the 15-foot ceilings braced by heart pine wood beams, interior walls with exposed brick and wide plank floors made of solid maple, he said.

“That can’t be re-created,” he said.

Patrick likened the difference in office space to the difference between homeowners who want a brand-new house in a brandnew subdivision and those who buy in a historic mill village or neighborhood like Augusta Road and renovate the old structure to meet their needs.

“I think a balanced community has some of both,” Patrick said.

“The West End is an opportunity

for people who want that historic niche. We’re one of the few people who have that available.”

OOBE, which has outgrown its space in the Old Cotton Warehouse building in the West End and has temporarily relocated on Park Avenue, is excited about being a part of the continued improvement of the West End, said founder and co-CEO Tom Merritt.

“OOBE has been a longtime resident of the West End and we support many business partners here, such as the (Greenville) Drive (baseball team),” he said. “The fact that Markley Terrace has its roots

grounded in the textile industry, like OOBE, and is within easy walking distance to incredible restaurants, shops,

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OOBE, a textile company that started making outdoor apparel and expanded into custom-designed corporate uniforms, will be the lead tenant in a new 67,000-square-foot mixed-use development that will continue the revitalization of Greenville’s West End. Markley Terrace will turn three buildings in the 100 block of Markley Street that were used

as a train-loading depot for textiles and machinery in the mid1900s into office, light industrial and event/retail space.

The development could also feature a restaurant with outdoor and rooftop dining.

“We didn’t go out looking for a development project to do,” said Jenks Patrick, president of Jenks Inc. Realty. “If it wasn’t for the buildings and their current structure, we wouldn’t be doing it.”

Patrick said downtown has a shortage of “creative architecture cool Class B office space” downtown.

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Downtown Greenville has always been a place for business – but with the construction of more and more downtown housing, an increasing number of people are calling the city center home. People need services – all kinds – so it’s not surprising that among the service providers gathering to deliver them are dentists: five of them, in fact.

Though the urban dwellers offer a ready client base, several of the dentists locating downtown say the walking-distance appeal of restaurants, shops and galleries is what draws them, too.

Dr. Judson Suber worked in an Easley dental office, but fell in love with Greenville’s West End after buying a condo at RiverPlace. He opened West End Dental on South Main Street in June, renovating a 100-year-old space that was once the bottling building for Coca-Cola.

A guitarist, painter and photographer, Suber calls the renovation his “gigantic art project.” With an art studio planned for the back of the office, he said he hopes to eventually become part of the First Fridays events and Artisphere.

Starting a new practice from scratch rather than purchasing one from another dentist is a big step, he said, but the West End is “becoming more of a self-sus-

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tained area.” He’s already had passersby walk in to request a cleaning and believes the foot traffic that sustains West End restaurants and stores will bring patients to his door.

Dr. Beatriz Dennis of Waterstone Dentistry has been downtown on East Washington Street for nearly four years, and established her practice for the same reason as Suber: “I just love the feeling of downtown.”

About 50 percent of her patients live and work in the downtown area, she said.

Due to the compact nature of the downtown community, she said, word of mouth has proved to be the best form of referral for her. And though she’s downtown, she said she “has great parking, too.”

Dr. Brian Derrick considered the local demographics and feasibility of a lease before starting Falls Park Dentistry a little more than four years ago. Foot traffic is his friend, he said. He may have a smaller practice space than some suburban dentists, but he doesn’t have to pay for advertising or marketing because of his central location.

Downtown residents don’t want to drive for all of their amenities, he said. “If you work downtown, drive to the dentist and drive back, you’ve probably spent about three hours of your day.”

Derrick said he thinks dental pro-

fessionals are coming in to fill a need.

“From some of my patients I hear that all the dentists used to be downtown. I think it’s coming with the resurgence of downtown.”

Dr. C. Barton Aiken III, who owns Dedicated Dentistry on North Main Street, can speak to that earlier time: he has practiced in the spot for 25 years.

“There were nearly 50 dentists downtown in the 1950s and 1960s, but there was one left when I came here,” he said.

That dentist’s patients transferred to Aiken when his office closed.

Aiken said his location is “fabulous,” but his fledgling practice had a slow growth curve. “I nearly starved the first few years.” However, he, too, has benefitted from Greenville’s urban resurgence.

“They come for the same reason they come downtown for the weekend: They’re looking for something different.”

Dr. Trey Kenna, who is opening Downtown Dental at McBee Station this month, is also starting a practice from scratch. He said he “originally wanted to buy a practice from a dentist who was retiring, but since the economy’s been so

bad, many dentists were holding onto their practices.”

Kenna grew up in Atlanta and attended Furman. He said his decision to establish his practice at McBee Station grew from his love of the area and trying to center his family’s life in the city. He hopes the proximity to McBee Station’s residences and stores will bring patients his way.

And whether or not the patients expect it, urban dentists are offering something different. Dennis’ office features massages, early appointments, warm towels and neck warmers. Derrick’s office has paraffin hand wax treatment, evening hours, and noisecancelling headphones to drown out the drill. Suber also has the headphones, along with no instruments in plain sight, televisions and integrated artwork. Aiken also offers a relaxing atmosphere in his downtown space. He echoes what several other dentists said: “I want to offer treatment choices that I would want for myself.”

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

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Jenks Patrick with Jenks Inc. Realty inside the former Smith Dray Line and Storage Company building on Markley Street. The building is one of three that will be part of Markley Terrace.

art and entertainment options makes it ideally suited to our corporate culture.”

Markley Terrace will be between South Main Street and Academy Street, providing a link between Fluor Field and the Kroc Center, Patrick said.

Patrick said he will be one of the owners of the site and the deal should close before Aug. 15.

Construction should start in the fall and OOBE hopes to be in its new space

by April, Patrick said.

Patrick said he is talking to three other companies about locating in the project.

“I don’t think we’ll have a problem filling the space,” said Patrick. He said he is targeting “large space users” who need 10,000 square feet. He did say there would be one 5,000-square-foot space available.

The two other buildings will be done on a build-to-suit basis, he said.

Balconies and patios will be added to the rear of the building, which has a panoramic view of downtown and the Blue Ridge Mountains. The design will also feature an outdoor plaza with a stage for special events.

The buildings will get new heating and ventilation systems, windows, roofs and facades.

Streetscape improvements to Markley and Rhett streets are planned, such as new sidewalks, reducing the number of telephone poles and new trees, Patrick said.

The buildings have been vacant since Smith Dray Line moved to near the interstate at least 15 years ago, Patrick said.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com

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“Have You Forgotten,” Worley’s biggest hit, topped Billboard’s country charts for seven weeks in 2003. Its chorus begins: “Have you forgotten how it felt that day/To see your homeland under fire, and her people blown away?”

“When he sang that song, he brought the house down,” Betros said. “And after that, I always kept Darryl in my mind.”

Worley will perform at the Nashville Connection Heroes Salute Gala at the TD Convention Center on Saturday, June 30, at the end of four days of activities for musicians and music lovers, with proceeds going to groups supporting veterans and their families.

The event evolved from a show called “The Nashville Connection,” which Betros produced for a television station in Fairfax, Va., years ago. The show brought aspiring singers and songwriters in the Fairfax area together with pros from Nashville, Tenn., to learn about the music industry.

Betros said when the show ended, a friend convinced her to broaden the idea into a multiday festival to include “music, art, entertainment, patriotism – the best mix in America. And that’s exactly what I did. We just

kind of pulled together the different widgets to make that vision come true.”

Last year’s Nashville Connection “was small, but it was mighty,” Betros said. “We definitely took it up another level this year.”

The four days of events begin on Wednesday, June 27, as an escort led by motorcyclists from the Patriot Guards and Rolling Thunder brings the Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall to the grounds of the convention center, with a dedication ceremony at 2:30 p.m. The wall, which will remain until July 1, is a 252.4-foot-long replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., bearing the same names.

Also on June 27, “Rockin’ the Wall,” a documentary about rock music’s role in bringing down the Iron Curtain, will screen at Camelot Cinemas at McAlister Square.

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Will Ragland returns in the role of Dr. Frank N. Furter.

There are four midnight shows scheduled and no matinee performances.

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In October, the theater will perform “November,” a non-political, non-politically correct farce set in the Oval Office on the eve of Election Day. Savas, who will play the president, said, “It really is topical, not just because we’re having a presidential election, but because of what I think is a well-deserved scorn of our elected leaders.”

“November” runs Oct. 19 through 21, Oct. 25 through 28 and Nov. 1 through 3, the weekend before the election.

Christmas will bring two offerings – one family-friendly, the other geared toward adults only.

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Another documentary, “Into Harm’s Way: The Story of the West Point Class of 1967,” will be shown there June 28.

A day of workshops for musicians on June 28 harks back to the Nashville Connection’s beginnings, allowing singers, songwriters and bands to learn from and network with vocal coaches, songwriters, image consultants and entertainment law experts.

“It’s going to be an incredible leg up in the music business, to meet this caliber of people,” said Betros.

Bands will compete on Friday, June 29, at the Greenville Marriott on Parkway East for the opening slot at the gala concert on Saturday. Wildcard slots in the band competition will be determined the night before, at an openmike event at the Handlebar on Stone Avenue, and at battle-of-the-band competitions at The Channel and Wild Wings Café downtown.

The gala concert Saturday night will be preceded by a reception and live and silent auctions at 6:30 p.m. Along with Worley and the winner of the band competition, singer/ songwriter Mike Corrado, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marines, will perform.

And, of course, there’s Martha Reeves, whose string of

will be performed early on Dec. 7 through 9, Dec. 13 through 16, Dec. 20 through 22 and Dec. 28 and Dec. 29.

Evenings those same days, two David Sedaris shorts will be performed.

Ryan Bradburn will perform the oneman show “Santaland Diaries,” an adult comedy based on the Christmas season Sedaris spent as an elf to a Santa at Macy’s. “Season’s Greetings” will star Kerrie Seymour and features the dysfunctional version of those Christmas family “newsletters” that give all the ins and outs of the lives of distant family friends and cousins thrice removed.

Next comes “Eurydice,” the Sarah Ruhl play that retells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice from Eurydice’s perspective.

“She has a way of making you cry joyful tears and sometimes you’re not even sure why,” Savas said. “I think she

Motown hits with the Vandellas in the ‘60s includes “Dancing in the Streets,” “(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave,” “Jimmy Mack” and “Nowhere to Run.” Although Reeves has no obvious Nashville connection, Betros said that this year’s focus on Vietnam veterans prompted the soul diva’s inclusion. “We took a poll, and everybody came up with two or three names, but Martha was at the top of that,” she said. “Especially for the Vietnam veterans.”

This year’s Nashville Connection Heroes Salute will benefit the Gold Star Moms, the Vietnam Veterans of America and Honor Flight Upstate. Funds will also go to Not Alone, a Nashville group that helps soldiers and families affected by post-traumatic stress disorder; and Welcome Home, a transitional home for displaced veterans in Spartanburg County.

FUTURE (Families United Toward Universal Respect), a nonprofit founded by Betros and her husband Fareed, now retired from the reserves, will also benefit. Through FUTURE, Betros organized the Hugs for Healing program, which in 2010 flew a group of Gold Star Moms to Iraq to meet with Iraqi women.

Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.

is one of the most talented contemporary playwrights of this country.”

“Eurydice” runs Jan. 25 through 27, Jan. 31, Feb. 1 through 3, Feb. 7 through 10 and Feb. 14 through 16.

“Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare’s classic tale of doomed impetuous love, will be performed on March 22 through 24, March 28 through 30, April 4 through 7 and April 11 through 13.

Closing out the season is the musical “A Little Night Music,” which Savas calls Sondheim at his best and his most accessible. “Send in the Clowns” is the musical’s most recognized song.

Professional actress and singer Mimi Wyche will play Desiree.

Season tickets purchased by July 15 will cost $175 for adults and $130 for seniors. After that, the price increases by $20.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

Spartanburg native explores relationship between man-made and natural worlds By the time he had spent two hours at Bald Rock near Caesar’s Head State Park, Matthew Harrison had collected five or six trash bags full of beer cans, soda bottles and other garbage.

“It amazes me. People go out to nature to get away from the urban settings but once they get there, they trash nature so it looks like an urban setting,” said the Spartanburg native.

Harrison uses his art – paintings and assemblage sculptures – to explore the relationship between man-made items and the natural world.

He combines cast-off items such as wood screws, drill parts and other things he finds discarded on trash day with items found in nature – bamboo roots, acorns and cicada shells – in his work that features representations of the human spirit.

Harrison’s art can be seen in an exhibition at the Sandor Teszler Library Gallery at Wofford College through Aug. 17.

“Matt Harrison’s works dance with vibrant primary colors and with a hefty dose of darker emotional tones,” said Oakley Coburn, director of cultural affairs and dean of the library at Wofford.

“His assemblage sculptures often seem aggressive in their need to speak to the viewer.”

For instance, Coburn said Harrison’s “Apocalypse Demon” bares a mouth filled with red-painted wood screw teeth. A tongue of cast-off cicada shells drifts out of the side of the mouth. There’s a head of a garden hoe embedded in the side of the demon’s head.

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“While initially unsettling, such works suggest a wide range of human emotions and invite exploration of the disparate elements recombined in fresh ways,” Coburn said.

Harrison said the demons in his work have nothing to do with Satan or evil.

“I wanted to exude the large human emotions everyone is capable of having,” he said. “Sometimes when people face their fear, it’s not a fear any more.”

Harrison also said the pieces are meant to encourage viewers to think deeper than first appearances.

“Because something is unattractive on the outside doesn’t mean it should be automatically discounted,” he said.

Harrison graduated from the University of South Carolina Spartanburg in 2002 with a degree in English. He’s worked in sales and delivery and has traveled widely, including a month backpacking alone in Spain and Portugal.

Harrison, who lives in Seneca, is now doing coursework at Greenville Technical College to get certified in teaching English as a Second Language. He hopes to pursue a teaching career overseas so he

can continue to travel and explore the world and seek out new forms of inspiration for his art.

Harrison has no formal art training. He credits Kris Neely, a Spartanburg artist who holds Pop-Up Art Gallery events at his WetPaintSyndrome studio, and David McPherson, an artist and English teacher at Spartanburg Day School, for getting him started in art.

“I’ve always had an interest in art and the different genres,” Harrison said. Using found man-made objects and natural items in his art is, well, natural, he said.

“I’m a recycle freak, for one thing, and a nature enthusiast, so it all fits.”

This is Harrison’s first exhibition.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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The Mauldin Cultural Center’s Railroad Concert Series continues with a performance by Alan Barrington on Friday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the center’s outdoor amphitheater. Alan Barrington, based in Rock Hill, has had an extensive career throughout the southeast. He has become a regular at the Charlotte Symphony Summer Pops Series and has won multiple awards at festivals around the country. Barrington has brought his unique acoustic new folk and blues sound to audiences throughout the country. The concert is free, but tickets are required to enter in the event of inclement weather. Lawn chairs, blankets and coolers are welcome, and encouraged. This concert is supported through a grant from the Metropolitan Arts Council and with the support of the City of Mauldin. For tickets and information, visit www.mauldinculturalcenter.org or call 864335-4862. The Mauldin Cultural Center is located at 101 East Butler Road.

Greenville Little Theatre’s Studio 444 will hold auditions on Monday, June 25, at 7 p.m. for “?!? Not So Shakespeare ?!?” which includes three one-act plays to be presented on August 3 and 4. Roles are available for up to 24 men and women. The plays to be presented are “Shakespeare Gets An M.F.A., “ Green Eggs and Hamlet,” and “Macbeth Mixed Up.” The auditions will take place in the main auditorium of the theatre and rehearsals begin on Monday, July 16.

For more information, please visit www.greenvillelittletheatre.org or call 864-233-6238.

Upstate music veterans Whitney Walters and Jean Calvert will perform in a new collaboration as Viva Les Divas at Center Stage. This special event will take place on June 23 at 8 p.m. The Viva Les Divas show will feature the jazz and blues standards known as the American Songbook, interspersed with some history Whitney Walters and personal commentary.

Viva Les Divas just finished recording a CD, which will be available at the show for $15. To purchase tickets, Jean Calvert contact the Centre Stage Box Office at 233-6733.

Organizers recently announced that they will be developing a feature film, “Ugly,” and filming in the City of Mauldin. “Ugly” will showcase Grammy nominated “American Idol” semi-finalist Chip Days, platinum recording artist DJ Unk and actress and model Monica “Danger” Leon. An investors meeting is scheduled for June 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Mauldin Cultural Center in Mauldin. For more information, call 864-351-9122.

Francesa Genovese, a member of the Carolina Ballet Theatre Company, will offer dance workshops for first grade and up at the Fountain Inn Arts Academy in Fountain Inn. “One, Two, Three” Dance for grades 1 – 6 will be July 9-13. Tuition is $150 and includes required Centre Stage recently announced its 2012-2013 season. Productions scheduled include dance shoes. “Five, Six, Seven, Eight” Dance for grades 7-12 will be July 16-20. Tuition is Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” “Angel Street,” also known as “Gaslight,” a family $150 and includes required dance shoes. Tap Intensive will be offered for ages 8-13, July 23- holiday show: “Miracle on 34th Street,” the original concert “Rock ‘n’ Roll Forever,” a musical 27; and ages 14 and up, July 16- 20. Tuition is $150 and includes required dance shoes. In comedy: “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” a farce “Fox on the Fairway,” addition, a Fosse Intensive for ages 13 and up will be July 23-27. Tuition is $150 and includesB:10”and the musical drama “Next to Normal.” For more information, visit www.centrestage.org. dance shoes. For more information, call 864-409-1050 or visit www.fountaininn.org.

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Two local students have been selected as the 2012 recipients of American Leprosy Missions’ Dorothy Marron Memorial Scholarship. American Leprosy Missions established the Dorothy Marron Memorial Scholarship fund in 2008 to provide new scholarships annually to students pursuing a degree that will lead to a vocation in international service focusing on poor, disenfranchised population groups in the developing world. This year, two students were selected to each receive a $2,000 scholarship. Leah Gaffney has participated in local volunteer work at the Frazee Dream Center and on a mission trip to Kenya. She was a member of the National Honor Society and the student council at Wade Hampton High School and is involved at Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church. She plans to attend Clemson University and study education. Emily Childes, a homeschool graduate, recently participated in a medical mission trip to Kenya, which piqued her interest in medicine and helping others. Childes worships at North Hills Community Church and has been accepted into the Clemson University nursing program.

The Gap Creek Singers awarded four scholarships at their annual Spring Scholarship Concert at First Presbyterian Church in Greer on Friday, June 15.

Each year, the Gap Creek Singers award scholarships to graduating high school seniors who plan to major

the U.S. Department of Education and in partnership with Clemson University, local teachers will join 3,000 others across the country who will use this out-of-school time to expand their knowledge and understanding of how best to teach writing. UWP will also offer Summer Inquiry sessions July 9-13 and 16-20 to expand Teacher Consultants’ knowledge in Common Core State Standards with high poverty students. These inquiry sessions will lead into the professional development that UWP provides for schools around the Upstate during the school year. For more information, visit www.upstatewritingproject.org.

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School celebrated 6th grade graduation with a special mass and graduation ceremony. The students received many awards including a Presidential Citizenship Award and two Presidential Academic Excellence Awards.

in music and plan careers in music. Scholarships were awarded to Sara Beam, Hunter Brons, Stephanie Simon and Jacob Wylie. The program featured a selection of numbers by the Gap Creek Singers, including folk music and show tunes along with performances by the scholarship winners.

Twenty local teachers will be given the unique opportunity to participate in the Upstate Writing Project’s (UWP) Summer Institute June 4-29. With funding support from

B.J. Jackson instructs attendants at the Legacy Charter School Youth Basketball Camp. Jackson, the former head basketball coach at Southside High, is now basketball coach and athletic director at Legacy.

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200 CHAMBLEE BLVD - $749,000 4BR/3.5BA. Beautiful home under construction in gated community 4 car garage.MBR on main. Great Rm & Living Rm & much more. From GVL, I-385 to Roper Mtn Rd exit, turn L, go approx 5 miles & turn R into SD. Margaret Marcum/Leigh Irwin, 4203125/380-7755 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1232943

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138 LANNEAU - $404,000 204 SANDSTONE - $399,000 4BR/3BA. Complete renovated home. New 5BR/4.5BA. Donít miss this immaculate, 5 construction upstairs/downstairs hardwood BR, 4.5 BA golf course home! Lush lot backs floors, refurbished 100 yr old heart pine stair- up to 7th green at Linkside. Hardwood floors case. MBR on main. New garage. Augusta throughout, SS appl’s in kitchen. 2nd den Rd to McDaniel Ave, R on Lanneau, Home on lower level. MOVE IN! VALERIE MILLER o R Billy Webster, 630-4951 Prudential C. www.valeriejsmiller.com, 864.430.6602 Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1242020 The Marchant Company MLS#1239427

16 ALTAMONT FOREST DR - $359,900 3BR/3.5BA. Mountain Retreat with beautiful views. Large open great room with fireplace.

Master suite with private deck. Lower level features spa pool with lounging deck, garage, and workshop. A must see! Tal Cloud, 864-477-8327 Carol Pyfrom Realty MLS#1242047

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

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

119 CHARLESTON OAK LANE - $488,500 5 SANIBEL OAKS - $449,500 3BR/3.5BA. Elegant hm w/bonus room 4BR/2.5BA. Bonus, over an acre, fncd bkyd, is being newly constructed. From GVL heated pool & hot tub. Outside Kit. LR/ take I-385 S to Roper Mtn Rd Exit, Turn L, Office. Gas FP. Granite ctrs. 385 S to Right continue across Garlington, just after light on Fairview Rd, go approx 3.7 miles to Right @ Feaster @ Roper Mtn turn Left into The into SD on Sanibel Oaks Dr, Home on L Chet Oaks. Cynthia Rehberg/Rhett Brown, 884- & Beth Smith, 458-7653 Prudential C. Dan 9953/915-9393 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Joyner Co. MLS#1238920 Co. MLS#1229267

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103 MEADOWLANDS WAY - $244,900 3BR/2BA. Immaculate patio home. Lg screened porch overlooks private backyard.

Move-in ready. From Downtown, take a Left on Haywood Rd, R on Pelham, Left int SD. Ginger Sherman, 313-8638 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1241871

141 NOTTING HILL LANE - $240,000 Cottage and bungalow style homes starting from the $230s. Hwy 14 & 1-85 toward Village at Pelham Hospital, turn at Westmoreland 1st Left onto Abner Creek Rd. Subdivision on Right, Home on left Dan Hamilton, 527-7685 Hamilton & Co. Keller Williams Realty MLS#1227515

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HOTTEST 105 GILDER CREEK DR - $228,000 4BR/2.5BA. Bonus room, screened porch, fantastic backyard. Community swim team.

Close to Woodruff Rd & 85. From Woodruff Rd turn on Miller Rd, R on Hamby, 3st street on L, Gilder Creek Dr Phyllis MacDonald, 313-3753 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1236667

10 CROSSBROOK WAY - $210,000 4BR/2.5BA. Open floor plan, GR w/raised hearth stone fp, hardwoods throughout most of 1st flr, open kitchen w/granite & island.

I-85 to I-385 to Woodruff Rd, Continue past Five Forks area, SD on Left Dona Sero, 477-0708 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1241638

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200 KARSTEN CREEK DR - $163,500 4BR/2.5BA. Wonderful home in excellent condition. Open floor plan, 2 story foyer, huge master, fenced backyard & more.

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

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Ruskin Square at Hollingsworth Park It’s happening at Verdae. Ruskin Square at Hollingsworth Park features a new style in city living with maintenance-free lawns and homes interset amid shared pocket parks, plazas and pedestrian-friendly streetscapes. It’s an easy stroll to the 20-acre central park and residents enjoy being close to everything.

Classic homes are under construction now. Buyers may build the custom home of their dreams or select from a

collection of the pre-approved land/ home packages that are priced from the mid $200s. Premium lot selections are going fast, so plan a visit soon.

The community’s Sales Office, located at 18 Shadwell Street, is open daily.

For more information, call (864) 3298383 or visit www.verdae.com.

NEIGHBORHOOD INFO Land/Home packages from the mid $200s Lot Sizes: 40’x100’ and larger Pelham Road Elementary Beck Academy JL Mann High School

Amenities: Walking/Biking paths, 20-acre Legacy Park, Legacy Square – Neighborhood Professional/ Retail District, The Preserve Golf Course at Verdae, Shopping and Entertainment

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF ACTION Valarie Fox-Robinson and Tyler Lee Robinson, Plaintiff, vs. Billy Stevens, 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 termination of parental rights of Billy Stevens and to seek an adoption by Tyler Lee Robinson of the child born to Valarie Fox-Robinson and Billy Stevens.

Contact: The Carruthers Law Firm 111 Toy Street Greenville, SC 29601 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE GREENVILLE COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS There will be a PUBLIC HEARING before the GREENVILLE COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2012 AT 3:00 P.M. in CONFERENCE ROOM –D at GREENVILLE COUNTY SQUARE, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, S.C., for the purpose of hearing those persons interested in the petitions listed below.

PERSONS HAVING AN INTEREST IN THESE PETITIONS MAY BECOME PARTIES OF RECORD

BY FILING WITH THE BOARD, AT LEAST THREE (3) DAYS PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED DATE SET FOR HEARING, BY WRITING THEIR ADDRESS, A STATEMENT OF THEIR POSITION AND THE REASONS WHY THE RELIEF SOUGHT WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PROPERTY SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE GRANTED. CB-12-23 APPLICANT: VALAFONTAE SIMMONS PROPERTY: Tax Map #412-1-9; 1513 Fork Shoals Road, Greenville, SC REQUEST: Appeal from the Zoning Administrator’s Decision CB-12-24 APPLICANT: SC GREENVILLE WOODRUFF PM, LLC PROPERTY: Tax Map #547.3-11.30; 1219 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC REQUEST: Variance in Rear Setback Requirement.

CB-12-25 APPLICANT: ANITA STEVES PROPERTY: Tax Map #555.2-19.1; 1451 Jones Mill Road Fountain Inn, SC REQUEST: Use by Special Exception for Home Occupation.

CB-12-26 APPLICANT: 1550 WEST BLUERIDGE, LLC-Eric Leineweber/SINCLAIR & ASSOCIATES-Jonathan Smith PROPERTY: Tax Map #146-1114/15 &14.01; 1607 West Blue Ridge Drive, Greenville, SC REQUEST: Variance in Left Side Setback Requirement

COMPLAINT NOTICE A complaint has been brought before the Code Enforcement Division of a dangerous, insanitary and unsafe structure located at the following locations: 105 Conyers Street a.k.a. Lot 229, Section 1, as shown on a plat entitled "Subdivision of Village Houses, F. W. Poe MFG. Co., Greenville County Tax Map Number 15111-15, Greenville County, SC. 1509 Bramlet Road a.k.a. 1509 Bramlett Road a.k.a. 1509 W. Bramlett Road a.k.a. Lot 16 of East Summit View Subdivision

a.k.a. all those certain pieces, parcels, or lots of land, with the improvements theron, situate, lying and being on the southern side of Bramlett Road, in East Summit View Subdivision, in Greenville County, South Carolina, which are known, shown and designated as Lots 16 of that subdivision, Greenville County Tax Map Number 130-341, Greenville County, SC. Any persons having interest in these properties, or knowledge of the property owner should contact the Codes Enforcement Office at 864-467-7459 on or before June 28, 2012.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that South Carolina CVS Pharmacy, LLC Store # 3380, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 1922 Augusta Street, Greenville, SC 29605. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than July 8, 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) 896-0110 NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that South Carolina CVS Pharmacy, LLC Store # 3886, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 3218 W. Blue Ridge Drive, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than July 8, 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) 896-0110 NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that South Carolina CVS Pharmacy, LLC Store # 5569, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 7501 Augusta Road, Piedmont SC 29673. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than July 8, 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) 896-0110

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Soccer matches take place at various fields at the MeSA Soccer Complex during the 2012 US Youth Soccer Region III (South) Championships.

The top 200 boys and girls US Youth Soccer teams from Region III competed at the MeSA Complex.

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Dan Driscoll, left, talks with Bob Drew, both with Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling of the Upstate, inside the Peace House. Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling of the Upstate, in cooperation with GHS, is working with a variety of tradesmen, vendors, suppliers and volunteers, including Lowe’s employees from 14 area stores, to modify the existing structure.

Above: Volunteers from Lowe’s pose for a photo at the Peace House.

Left: The 3,500-square-foot home will provide living facilities for five to six families and will be equipped with bedrooms, handicappedaccessible restrooms, and living room and dining room areas.

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Salvation Army Majors Bobby and Kay Lancaster are presented a plaque

by Matt Good, Advisory Board Chairman. Bobby Lancaster, a 41-year Salvation Army veteran, oversaw the construction of Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center. The Lancasters are leaving Greenville for Charlotte, N.C., where Bobby Lancaster will be the Area Commander.

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Majors Grady and Shelly Pearson are presented a plaque by Cliff Collie, The Salvation Army of Easley council chairman. The Pearsons, 24-year veterans of the Salvation Army, will leave Greenville to serve as Corps Officers in Oconee County.

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Salvation Army Lieutenants Ashley and Jimmy Taylor are presented a plaque by Kroc Center church member Ben Anderson. The Taylors are leaving Greenville to serve as Corps Officers in Burlington, N.C.

Chad Medford, a volunteer with Lowe’s, uses a pry bar to remove pieces of the old ceiling of the Peace House. When renovations are completed, the Peace House will be a “home away from home” for patients and families undergoing intensive rehabilitation therapy at Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital.

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By Peggy Henderson

Keeping up appearances I can’t help it if I’m a people-watcher.

Perhaps this is why I fail to accurately complete my grocery list as I cruise up and down the aisles. I also frequently fail to obey the Bible scripture, “Judge not, lest you be judged.”

Honestly? I’ve been wishy-washy living with that scripture ever since the first grade. I preferred to ride bikes with boys rather than play with dolls with my girlfriends.

Although this childhood confession has little to do with people-watching, it does illustrate my penchant for discovering what makes the sexes tick, and brings me to ask myself why people like to form clubs and exclude others and make rules about how to dress and how and where to live.

That being said, here’s another confession: It’s taken me 67 years to accept that it’s not the above social traits that really matter. If a person is content with his or her environment, so be it. What is difficult to accept is that as we age, our bodies – hopefully, not our minds – lose their sense of gravity and balance.

Mirrors are no longer our friends.

We wonder how we arrived at a size 14 from a size 10. Year by year we rationalize that it doesn’t matter anymore; it’s a natural progression of growing old. The unkind euphemism “she let herself go” is a four-word sentence that no one wants to hear, much less digest.

The process of no longer caring about oneself is a work in progress. It creeps up unknowingly, like a simple cough morphs into pneumonia. The culprit is basically laziness. Reaching a certain age doesn’t mean exclusion from positive work habits and the quintessential virtue of personal responsibility.

In our heroic battle to remain authentically realistic about this journey we seniors are negotiating, I’ve decided that I have two choices in the way I live out my advancing years. I can either gripe my way to the end or grin and bear the challenges gracefully. I choose to grin. I refuse to join a pity party. I’ll hang with the doers and shakers. Sing and dance.

However, there are a few issues to

attend to, pronto.

The numerous health articles about preventive this and preventive that make me grumpy. Not because the medical facts are not valid, but because it sounds like extra work and I’ve always assumed, being a naïve optimist, that all would be hunky-dory. After all, I’ve enjoyed lovely health and I can still touch my toes and walk a straight line.

My problem is I spend hours in front of the computer. I keep finding myself hunched over my desk, spine curved into a C, head and neck resembling a dog in a prayer pose. I can’t erase the image of me walking the previously mentioned straight line with my shoulders and neck so far out and over in front of me, I can’t even see the line.

The good news is I’m taking the preventive advice and ordering a posture perfector, which looks like a rubber butterfly. My plan is to replace my pajamas with the butterfly before I dress for the day. I guess I’d better order more than one.

So pro-action is better than no action. Maybe as a bonus, my uplifted lungs will send more oxygen to my writing brain. Hope springs eternal, as my father would say.

Keeping up with keeping up is plain hard work. It takes steely motivation, healthy intentions and spiritual guidance. Yoga helps too.

In closing, I found a joke in Ed Fisher and Jane Thomas Noland’s book, “What’s So Funny About Getting Old?” A bald-headed, well-dressed gentleman has invited a well-dressed female out on a date.

“What are you wearing?” he asks.

“Chanel No. 5? Moonlight Musk? Love Mist?”

Her reply: “Vicks.”

I believe there’s a lesson to be learned here. I prefer Chanel No. 5. My lovely husband gave that to me as his first gift in our dating life. The man still has good taste, especially in women.

Contact Peggy Henderson at peg4745@aol.com

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