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amorris@communityjournals.com Trading cash for a bag of pills on a street corner is not the only way Americans are getting high. The country’s deadliest drug epidemic can be traced to the spiraling abuse of prescription painkillers and stimulants legally obtained from doctors.

Close to 40 percent of the addiction cases seen by FAVOR (Faces and Voices of Recovery) Greenville are directly related to prescription drug abuse – a stark change from as recently as five years ago, said FAVOR executive director Rich Jones.

The Greenville organization provides recovery coaching and intervention services for addiction, serving approximately 2,000 individuals over the past year, he said.

A STIGMA REMOVED Many people wrongly assume that any drug prescribed by a doctor is safe to use – even if it’s someone else’s prescription, Jones said. “The taboo about prescription drugs has been torn down.”

However, opioid painkillers like Vicodin (a mix of hydrocodone and acetaminophen), OxyContin (an oxycodone) and Opana (an oxymorphone) come from the same narcotics family as heroin and can produce similar addictions, researchers say.

Depressants are another

type of prescription drugs subject to frequent abuse – particularly benzodiazepines (Xanax, Valium, Ativan and Klonopin) used to treat anxiety, to stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin, which target attention deficit disorder (ADD) or narcolepsy.

These types of drugs are “legitimized” in the public mind because they are prescribed by a doctor, said Adam Brickner, executive director of The Phoenix Center, the legislated authority on substance abuse for the Greenville area. “It’s in a little orange bottle, so it’s gotta be okay for me to take,” he said.

MEDICINE FOR REAL PAIN Many of the people taking these drugs are legitimately in pain, said Michael McLain, treatment manager for outpatient services at The Phoenix Center. However, a mounting tolerance to the drug – which requires larger doses to achieve the same effect – can lead to addiction.

“For back pain, for two or three months, 10 milligrams of Lortab may take care of that pain,” he said. “But after two to three months, they develop a tolerance to it – and the doctor’s answer is to up it to 20 milligrams.”

The patient’s tolerance “builds over time and the physical part of addiction takes hold – not because they’re an addict on the street

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amorris@communityjournals.com Clemson University has been awarded an $11 million federal grant to expand a bioengineering center that helps mentor junior faculty members as they research how lab-grown tissue can be used to treat debilitating diseases, the university announced Wednesday.

The funds, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), were awarded to Clemson’s South Carolina Bioengineering Center of Regeneration and Formation of Tissues (SC BioCRAFT), which partners with the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program nationwide.

According to Naren Vyavahare, SC BioCRAFT director, the grant will allow the program to maintain and upgrade facilities, along with supporting five junior faculty members’ research.

Faculty members who are participating in the second phase are Jeffrey Anker, Jeoung Soo Lee, Ying Mei, Agneta Simionescu and Chip Norris.

The $11 million grant was the largest from the NIH in university history, and brings the total NIH funding for the center to $20.3 million.

Researchers are seeking new ways to engineer cells and tissue to help the body function normally in the event of illness or injury, the university said.

Those working at CUBEInC (Clemson University Biomedical Engineering Innovation Campus), located in Greenville, are also working to create lab-grown tissue.

The facility was established by the first round of COBRE funding, and is designed to help bring research breakthroughs to use in the medical setting quickly. CUBEInC is also designed to foster biomedical startup businesses.

CUBEInC will also receive funding to support research on growing tissue – and eventually vital organs – in the lab. Researchers partner with Greenville Health System physicians for feedback on the real-world applications of their research.

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“An $11 million grant is a gamechanger,” said John Ballato, Clemson’s vice president for economic development. “That level of funding allows us to attract and retain the kind of talent the state needs to grow its portfolio of med-tech businesses.”

The NIH grant is expected to attract additional funds and eventually make SC BioCRAFT self-sufficient, said Vyavahare.

“This is seed money. The whole idea behind the center is to fund and mentor junior faculty and make them successful,” he said. “When they get their own major grant, we graduate them and get new people in. This is a unique program to help early career investigators to establish their research program quickly with the support of expert mentors and free access to world-class core facilities.”

Clemson also has a bioengineering partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, recently opening a bioengineering building on the MUSC campus, which includes labs for five fulltime Clemson faculty members.

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Curb abuse, not valid use, of prescription drugs

Help for Tent City People have lived under the Pete Hollis Bridge since it was completed. Providers for homeless services knew people lived there and often could call individuals by name.

Even though a homeless encampment was not ideal, at least providers knew where to go to provide mental health or other services. They also knew that people who lived there were not viable candidates for existing shelters because of a variety of issues.

When the community at large found out about the “Tent City,” the challenges of solving the problems of the Tent City came to the forefront.

Homeless people would rather live in a car or under a bridge than to live without their pets, which no homeless shelter can accommodate. Almost all shelters have few, if any, provisions for a man and woman to be together. The man must stay in the men’s shelter while the woman stays in the women’s shelter. For couples who depend on each other for their emotional and physical survival, this solution does not work.

Some people have severe mental or addiction issues that make staying in an established shelter out of the question. Shelter staffers rightly choose to protect their existing residents by not allowing a potentially dangerous person to stay in the shelter.

Some people have already stayed in every shelter and cannot return because of repeated rule infringement. Others prefer to be their own masters rather than live within the regulations of a shelter with safe beds and good food.

Having a Tent City is not acceptable in a caring community – yet coming up with short-term solutions is challenging at best. Making life comfortable under the bridge is not a solution to ending homelessness. So… do you open a shelter with few rules? What do you do with pets, cohabitating couples, and others who don’t fit the general shelter population? What do you do with people who just don’t want to

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be helped?

Homeless providers are discussing all of these issues. How can the residents of Tent City be helped in a gracious and caring way without jeopardizing the existing powerful and compassionate services already being offered by all the providers of homeless services? Conversations go round and round as solutions are suggested, tweaked, and either cast aside or implemented in a timely, gracious, and caring manner.

Representatives from Miracle Hill, Salvation Army, Triune Mercy Center, United Ministries, Greenville Mental Health, and Our Eyes Were Opened Inc. decided to have their most experienced caseworkers go to Tent City to help those who live there.

The providers committed to work together and to adjust existing rules that could impede the process. They are working with law enforcement officials, Greenville County, United Way, and others to come up with a gracious and caring way to eliminate Tent City – knowing that some of the residents will simply move elsewhere.

Reedy Place on Hudson Street best illustrates the ideal long-term solution for this population, with its 23 apartments for people who have severe addiction or mental health issues. It is a Housing First model that demonstrates that people are more likely to deal with issues when provided safe and secure housing first.

The solutions mean thinking outside of usual practices and committing to ending homelessness with compassion. This can happen!

Beth Templeton is founder and CEO of Our Eyes Were Opened Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to increasing public understanding about poverty.

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Prescription drug-related deaths now outnumber those caused by cocaine and heroin combined, according to a recent report by the Trust for America’s Health. Fortunately, South Carolina has just become the latest state to join the fight against this epidemic.

Gov. Nikki Haley recently created the Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Council.

The council, which includes representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services and several other state agencies, is examining the problem of prescription drug abuse and developing a proactive plan to combat it.

The Pain Society of the Carolinas, a nonprofit organization representing more than 200 physicians who treat chronic pain, also has been focused on developing recommendations to eradicate prescription drug abuse. We know, however, that success in this battle requires more than cooperation from the medical community.

More than 70 percent of Americans who abuse prescription pain relievers get them from friends or relatives rather than directly from a physician, reports the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. That means the battle against prescription drug abuse requires a community-based approach to educate patients and their families. It won’t work to simply target physicians and reduce the number of prescriptions.

Chronic pain is a debilitating condition that threatens the livelihoods of patients, and treatment can require medications that carry a risk of dependency and abuse. The reality is that we need doctors to manage chronic pain as a facet of a person’s overall health, not shy away from treating patients living with pain.

After Florida passed legislation in 2011 aimed at limiting the number of narcotic prescriptions, many physicians – afraid that they might inadvertently disobey the law – stopped prescribing pain medications altogether or even treating patients with chronic pain. Legislation that encourages indiscriminate reductions in prescriptions will only hurt patient care, and may even enable so-called pill mills by driving patients away from responsible physicians.

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The Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Council should focus on providing community-wide solutions to ensure that medications don’t end up in the wrong hands, while empowering the medical community with guidelines for safely prescribing pain medications.

Effective, safe prescribing practices should include taking a patient’s full medical history and performing a physical examination; considering the risks, benefits and alternatives to prescribing a narcotic; routinely consulting the state’s prescription monitoring program; testing patients for prescription and illicit drug abuse; and meeting an education requirement to acquire or renew a physician’s Drug Enforcement Agency registration to prescribe controlled substances.

Medical practices specializing in the treatment of pain should be owned and operated by board-certified physicians who are held to the highest standards of education and training. That’s why the governor’s council should require pain-medicine practices to register with the S.C. Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. Additionally, insurance companies should be required to include abuse-deterrent medications on their prescription formularies.

These reforms will promote safe prescribing without stifling access for patients who truly need prescription medicines to manage their pain.

To effectively fight prescription drug abuse, South Carolina should balance the need for enforcement and prevention with the need for appropriate access. We need to educate the community about the risks of medication-sharing, while creating a safe environment for physicians to responsibly treat patients living with chronic pain.

Dr. Warrick is a board-certified pain specialist and a member of the Pain Society of the Carolinas Advocacy Committee.

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Students say ‘study drugs’ help them cram and concentrate she said. Students she encountered believed there wouldn’t be any lasting effects because they take the pills only once The days are long gone when multiple or twice a month. cups of coffee ranked as the preferred stuResearch published in May by Kimberly dent booster for an all-nighter to crank Urban and Wen-Jun Gao in Frontiers in out a paper or cram for the next day’s Systems Neuroscience warned that the exam. Now high school and college stu- use of Ritalin by adolescents who did not dents are turning to prescription stimu- need it could damage brain development lants known as “study drugs” to gain that into young adulthood. Specifically, the academic edge. drug could change the development of the Doctors prescribe stimulants such as Ad- prefrontal cortex, which is in charge of derall, Ritalin or Vyvanse to calm students judgment, behavior inhibition, emotion, diagnosed with attention deficit disorder logical thinking and decision-making, the (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity study said. disorder (ADHD). However, experts say Perception and reality of prescription taking the drug without the disorder can drug abuse on campus varies widely, said have the opposite effect, proJennifer Goree, director of viding a powerful jolt of energy Clemson University’s Healthy that can be highly addictive.

Campus program. The univerThe Drug Enforcement Adsity conducts an anonymous ministration classifies these survey about students’ use of medications as Class 2 conalcohol and other drugs and percentage of trolled substances – the same “the number of students who 12th-graders who as cocaine and morphine – misuse prescription drugs is say they misuse ranking them among the most quite low,” she said. prescription drugs, addictive substances that have High-risk drinking is by far according to federal a medical use. the standout issue at Clem2012 Monitoring the According to the National son, with approximately half Future report Institute on Drug Abuse, one of students surveyed reporting in five college students admits they drank five or more drinks to using Adderall without an in one sitting in the last two ADHD diagnosis. weeks, Goree said. Six percent Patce Dutcher, a Furman of the students surveyed renumber of college University student, recently ported they used illegal drugs students who admit filmed a documentary surveying other than marijuana in the to using Adderall students at Furman and other last 30 days, approximately (amphetamine and Upstate colleges about differthe national average. The 2014 dextroamphetamine) ent “attention medications” and survey revealed that 4 percent without an ADHD their attitudes towards them. of students reported using amdiagnosis, according Dutcher discovered students phetamines in the last year, to the National take the medication not as a Goree said.

Institute on Drug Asked whether they think “party drug,” but because they other students are using the are stressed and behind on their Abuse. drugs, respondents report school work. they think 59 percent of their Students told her those with peers have used amphetamines a prescription for the drugs would give them away to friends or sell like Adderall at least one time in the past them for an average of $10 per pill – using year, Goree said. “Students believe their the “extras” left over in a month’s supply peers are misusing prescription ADHD because they don’t take them on the week- medication at much higher rates than they are actually reporting, so that is a misperends when they are not in class.

Some students have a genuine need for ception we are working to correct.”

Healthy campus advocates are watching these medications and “not everyone is selling their drugs,” Dutcher said. Howev- whether students are mixing alcohol and er, none of the students she surveyed were prescription drugs, as well as monitoring concerned with the health effects of taking national trends where drug use is moving from prescription medication to heroin. someone else’s medication.

“They viewed them as safer because it That trend is yet to reach Clemson Univerwas prescribed under a doctor’s watch,” sity, she said.

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What’s Right in Health Care Pediatric Asthma Action Team Receives NOVA Award The Asthma Action Team at GHS Children’s Hospital’s Center for Pediatric Medicine is one of just five programs in the U.S. recognized by the American Hospital Association for its efforts to improve the health of children and adolescents with asthma.

Excellence in Patient Care Award Greer Memorial, Patewood Memorial and Baptist Easley hospitals have all been named 2014 Excellence in Patient Care Award winners by outcomes firm Studer Group®. To be eligible for this award, an organization must demonstrate outstanding performance in patient care.

Pilot Program Reduces Unnecessary ER Visits A pilot program between GHS and Greenville County EMS designed to reduce unnecessary ambulance transports and costly ER visits is seeing dramatic results. The program uses nurses to address non-emergent calls and help patients get care in a more appropriate, less costly setting than the ER. During the pilot year, EMS saved 684 hours, which translated to a savings of nearly $300,000 for Medicaid and other insurers. The pilot program is funded by a grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina Foundation.

GHS and Oconee Medical Center Approve Agreement The boards of GHS and Oconee Medical Center recently approved a binding agreement that makes Oconee Medical Center part of GHS via a long-term operating lease that takes effect October 1. To learn more, visit ghs.org/news.

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BY THE NUMBERS

259 million

number of prescriptions for opioid painkillers written in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

75.5 million to 209.5 million

increase in number of prescriptions written for opioid analgesics from 1991 to 2010, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse

40 percent

estimated portion of FAVOR cases directly related to prescription drug abuse

70 percent

number of 12th-graders who said they obtained prescription drugs from a friend or relative, according to 2011 National Institute on Drug Abuse data

225

number of prescription drug overdose deaths in South Carolina, according to 2011 data

39

number of prescription drug overdose deaths in Greenville County (2011), highest in the Palmetto State, according to an Office of Inspector General report

1 in 5

number of college students who admit to using Adderall (amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) without an ADHD diagnosis, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse

5,500

number of Greenville County residents served by The Phoenix Center in the last year

60,000

number of Greenville County residents who could benefit from addiction services, as estimated by The Phoenix Center

2,000

individuals in FAVOR programs 2013-14, 57 percent of whom are family members

6-7

average number of attempts to get clean for people with addictions, according to Adam Brickner of The Phoenix Center

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looking for a high, but because they’re only using the medication to address the pain,” McLain said. If the doctor won’t renew a prescription, the patient will go somewhere else looking for relief from physical withdrawal, he said.

McLain estimates 50 percent of people who come to The Phoenix Center for detox services have opiate use disorders – about 45 percent from prescription medications and the rest from using heroin.

The Phoenix Center served about 5,500 individuals in the past year, Brickner said.

But based on the population in Greenville County and the percentage of people affected by addiction, he estimates 60,000 residents are in need of treatment.

A PLACE OF COMPASSION Access to prescription medications has increased dramatically, with the number of prescriptions for stimulants jumping from 5 million to nearly 45 million between 1991 and 2010, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Prescriptions for opioid analgesics skyrocketed from 75.5 million to 209.5 million in that same time.

Addicts typically practice “doctor shopping” to obtain the prescriptions they need, said Rich Jones. Unless physicians report each visit, insurance companies have no way of knowing if a patient saw another doctor or went to the emergency room to get another prescription, he said.

“I wouldn’t even describe it as difficult,” because doctors are trained to alleviate symptoms, Jones said. People go in and get a few minutes with a physician and soon learn exactly what to say to get a prescription.

“And that comes from a place of compassion,” Jones said. “The doctors are doing what they’re trained to do. And for years and years, I think it wasn’t an issue, perhaps – but it is now.”

Brickner agrees that physicians are in a difficult situation. “There’s a balance that doctors have to deal with. They’re not addictionologists, so their primary focus is not trying to stop someone from becoming addicted, but to reduce the pain someone is experiencing. That’s what they’re trained to do and what they’re educated to do – and that’s an appropriate focus for them.”

INTO THE MEDICINE CABINET Addicts don’t just play the health care system for prescription drugs – they play friends and family as well, said McLain.

“Younger adults or teenagers will go to grandma or grandpa’s house and raid their cabinet,” he said.

Where alcohol and marijuana used to be the first drugs teens and young adults tried, “now it’s a toss up between marijuana and prescription drugs,” Jones said. Brickner said he has heard of teens taking opioid

pain relief patches, scraping off the gel and chewing it to get high.

Convincing people that overusing prescription medications could be hurting them is difficult, Jones said.

“It’s such an interesting and challenging conversation with someone who is getting the drugs from a doctor,” he said. “It’s very hard for me as a licensed drug and alcohol counselor to kind of trump the M.D.”

EPIDEMIC ABUSE Prescription drug abuse is “so much more prevalent than people will begin to let on,” Jones said. “One of the tragedies is the idea that addiction is basically poor people, downtrodden people” – a group that makes up only 9 percent of the addict population, he said. Studies show abusers come from all classes and age groups, shortening life spans and increasing family issues, suicide rates and mental health issues.

“How do you let people know that if you have a loved one who’s addicted to prescription painkillers, it’s just as much of a problem as the person holding up the convenience store?” Jones said. “There are people suffering in silence and family members instinctually know there’s something going on, but they don’t know what to call it because it doesn’t look like what they’ve been taught about addiction.”

REVERSING THE TREND The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports some states have made strides in reducing the numbers of prescription overdose deaths through prescription drug monitoring programs, including in Florida, New York and Tennessee.

A 2013 report by the South Carolina Office of the Inspector General found South Carolina’s efforts to combat abuse were “reactionary and fragmented” with no central agency leading the charge.

This March, Gov. Nikki Haley created the South Carolina Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Council to tackle painkiller addiction. The council is charged with creating a plan to combat and prevent prescription drug abuse in the state and presenting the plan to the governor and inspector general

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“Because of their euphoric and addictive properties, these drugs also have a high street value. A routine 90pill prescription of oxycodone (30 mg) costs $122 retail, or even less through a $25 insurance co-pay or $3 Medicaid co-pay, which can then be converted to a $2,675 profit through street sales.”

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electronic system established by the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control allows doctors to track prescriptions given to their patients by other doctors. However, only 22 percent of state providers use it.

Physicians reportedly have criticized the tracking system as cumbersome and timeconsuming. Even so, “technology is the best thing you can use” to track prescriptions, Brickner said.

THE WHOLE PATIENT Including recovery coaching in the everincreasing focus on whole-patient wellness in the medical community will also help to reduce prescription drug addiction rates, Jones said.

Physicians at the Greenville Health System and New Horizons Health have begun using another tool called the SBRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) program, which screens every patient for addictions. The doctors can then refer the patient to treatment, which carries a lot of weight with a patient, said Brickner.

Physicians are not always comfortable asking probing questions about substance use, said Brickner, but the SBRT screening gives them a tool to be able to do a “warm handoff ” to the recovery community.

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‘Through to the other side’ One local woman’s story of addiction and recovery APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Prescription drug addiction doesn’t exist in a far-off inner city or in rural mountain communities. It’s happening right here in the Upstate, as Adriane Hammond can attest.

Hammond, 30, is quick to tell you that she has been there and was fortunate to come out of addiction into recovery. She’s now a recovery coach at FAVOR (Faces and Voices of Recovery) in Greenville.

Hammond said she was first prescribed pain medications after a car accident and again after having her wisdom teeth removed. However, she marks the time shortly after her first child was born as the beginning of her addiction. At 19 years old, she began taking Percocet (acetaminophen and oxycodone) prescribed by her family doctor and Xanax (benzodiazepine) prescribed by a psychiatrist for separation anxiety.

“And then it became something I was dependent on,” she said.

By her early 20s, she recalls, “I started with all kinds of drugs and I think it originated with the prescription drugs. I would go to the hospital just to get pain meds. I would take all of my medication and have to get more. I doctor-shopped to get those medications – I was really in full-fledged addiction.”

By her late 20s, she was not only seeking the drugs, but also participating in criminal activity, Hammond said. “On Oct. 15,

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS TYPICALLY ABUSED: • Opioids (to treat pain) • Central nervous system (CNS) depressants, such as benzodiazepines (e.g., Xanax, Valium, Ativan, Klonopin), used to treat anxiety and sleep disorders • Stimulants, such as Adderall or Ritalin, used to treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) and narcolepsy

These medications can also be snorted or injected, creating a more intense high.

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PAINFUL WITHDRAWAL Abuse of prescription medications can lead to dependence and addiction, causing uncomfortable and painful withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, vomiting, confusion, irritability, cravings and diarrhea, just to name a few.

New developments in medically assisted detox, including a drug called Vivitrol, which blocks the body’s reception sites for the drugs, help those with addiction reduce withdrawal and anxiety about withdrawal, said Adam Brickner of The Phoenix Center. It also allows them to attend outpatient treatment, continue to work and “get on with their life,” he said.

2012, I was facing a lot of prison time for all that I did. And the judge ordered me to a year of rehab and probation.”

Hammond said she has been in recovery ever since.

The consequences have been steep. In addition to facing prison time, Hammond said her addiction caused her to lose custody of her children. She has lost jobs and her house and was unable to finish school.

“For some people, you’ll lose your kids and you’ll stop what you were doing [using drugs]. For me, that was an excuse to keep doing what I was doing,” she said.

Her oldest son “went through a lot during my active addiction,” Hammond said.

He participated in FAVOR groups for children and now has the knowledge that the student next to him could be going through the same thing.

Prescription medication is useful, Hammond said, but “I don’t think doctors are educating patients that the medication could cause addiction. At 19, I didn’t understand the long-term effect of being prescribed Xanax. The doctors didn’t educate me on these medications.”

Staying in recovery is a lot of work, Hammond admits. “If I can put in all the time every day to go get what I needed so I wasn’t sick [withdrawal], I need to be doing the same thing now.”

Hammond said she has learned coping techniques for stress or anxiety that don’t involve medication – an option she wasn’t offered when she saw that first doctor at 19 years old.

She derives strength from God, those also in recovery, friends and family. “I feel like God brought me through to the other side to share my story to people who can see there is hope.”

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2 Upstate hospitals dubbed ‘baby-friendly’ APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Two Upstate hospitals, AnMed Health and Greenville Memorial Hospital, recently achieved a baby-friendly designation from Baby-Friendly USA, an initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. The label means that the two facilities meet criteria for supporting nursing mothers and their babies.

According to Baby-Friendly USA, the hospitals have demonstrated “policies and care practices that meet the gold standard for mother/baby care practices related to breast-feeding.”

Baby Friendly USA says that breastfeeding offers a healthy start to babies, saves money for families, reduces absenteeism from work, lowers healthcare costs, and reduces waste created by formula production.

Through the Baby-Friendly process, hospitals make proactive changes such as eliminating formula samples for new mothers, encouraging mothers to have babies “room-in” during their entire hospital stay and initiating skin-to-skin contact for mother and baby right after birth.

Rooming-in helps with bonding and allows the baby to feed on demand, according to breast-feeding experts. Studies show early skin-to-skin contact also helps babies have a normal heart rate and blood sugar level right after birth in addition to beginning to breast-feed more easily.

Other benefits for newborns include protection against ear infections, asthma and obesity. Research shows breastfeeding also helps the mother burn calories faster and reduces the risk for postpartum depression, breast cancer, diabetes and ovarian cancer.

Hospitals use a 10-step process to help give new mothers confidence to try and stick with breast-feeding. The providers also support mothers who opt to bottle

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“We’re excited to see the hard work of many team members pay off with this designation,” said Hope Campbell, director of Women’s and Children’s Services for AnMed Health. “It feels like a victory for us, but the real winners are the infants who benefit from a heightened awareness by their parents and our staff. Breast-fed babies are healthier babies and we’re glad to adopt practices that will encourage new mothers to breast-feed.”

“We are ecstatic to receive this designation and proud to do our part in improving the health of Upstate families,” said Jennifer Hudson, M.D., GHS medical director of newborn services.

“Scientific studies show many benefits to breast-feeding and skin-to-skin con-

tact, and we have a responsibility to help families adopt these practices for the healthiest of outcomes.”

In the United States, 200 out of 3,200 birthing hospitals are designated babyfriendly.

Greer Memorial Hospital and partner hospital Baptist Easley Hospital are also pursuing the baby-friendly designation, according to Greenville Health System. In 2012, Bon Secours St. Francis Health System eliminated formula samples from its gift bags for new mothers and will have its baby-friendly assessment during World Breastfeeding Week in early August, said hospital officials.

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Street musician plugs back in after city compromise Increase in requests to use amplification prompted city to initially reject violinist’s request CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Violinist Jeff Neil said the city’s decision not to renew his permit to use amplification effectively eliminated his ability to make a living with his electric violin in the months he doesn’t have contracts to perform on cruise ships.

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The incident has prompted the city to conduct an internal review of the city’s ordinance dealing with street performers. Neil said city officials told him they would be making changes to the ordinance and that the amplified music he plays needs to “allow people that are 20 feet away in any direction to have a normal conversation.”

Attempts to contact the city prior to the Greenville Journal’s print deadline were unsuccessful.

The city has been receiving a growing number of noise complaints from diners at sidewalk cafes and downtown pedestrians, said Angie Prosser, the city’s director of public information and events. None of the complaints were leveled specifically against Neil, she said.

The city has also received an GREG BECKNER / STAFF increased number of requests Jeff Neil plays the Canon in D by Pachelbel from street performers to use on his electric violin. amplification, she said.

City Council passed an ordinance about with an expired permit over the July 18 months ago that excludes street perfor- Fourth weekend, but Prosser said that mances with amplification unless the city wasn’t a factor in the original denial.

Neil said since the denial of his permit, determines the amplification “is necessary or proper for the musical or other sound he has acquired equipment to measure component of a performance and that rea- noise levels so he doesn’t violate the city’s sonable steps are being taken to avoid the noise ordinance. He said only once since he’s been performing downtown did he likelihood of undue public disturbance.”

According to the ordinance, necessary or have a business ask him to turn the music proper amplification includes (but is not down and that he moved to another localimited to) “background musical accom- tion to avoid conflict.

“I didn’t want to lose the privilege of paniment for dancing, juggling, singing or the like, as well as amplification for flute, playing downtown,” he said. Since his perpiccolo and other low-volume wind instru- mit was denied, he said he’s had multiple ments needing amplification to be heard businesses offering their storefronts. Some have told him his performing downtown outside.”

Since March 15 – when the first round had promoted sales. “I’m appreciative of of street performer permits issued under the chance to play downtown.”

Neil began playing violin when he was the new ordinance expired – the city has taken a harder look at permit applications, nine after he and his twin brother found a violin their great-grandfather made after Prosser said.

Eleven amplification requests have been the Depression because he couldn’t afford denied, including an application for drums to buy one for Neil’s grandfather.

Neil is classically trained but on the and an electric guitar. Six were approved – a dancer, a recorder player, two keyboard streets, he could be heard playing anything players and two flute players, cases that from Coldplay to the wedding classic Canclearly fall into the ordinance’s exceptions, on in D by Pachelbel.

Neil said he hopes to hear something Prosser said.

Prosser said 46 street performers cur- this week about cruise contracts for August and beyond. He said he’s “super happy and rently have permits.

“Can you imagine if all 46 used amplifi- thankful for the support from his fans that cation? It’s not the city versus street per- emailed and called the city.

“They made this happen. I couldn’t have formers,” she said. “But we have to balance the needs of outdoor diners, pedestrians done it without them and I’m just thankful and other downtown patrons with the that we were able to reach a positive decision.” needs of the street performers.”

Sherry Jackson contributed to this story.

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S.C. college tuitions going up CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com In what has become a familiar refrain, tuition and required fees for in-state students at South Carolina’s public colleges and universities are going up around 3 percent for 2014-15.

With the cost of housing and meal plans rising as well, going to college will take a bigger chunk out of students’ (and their parents’) wallets this fall. That’s really not news in South Carolina – a state that has seen double-digit tuition increases in the past and currently ranks eighth highest in average in-state four-year college tuitions in the country.

College officials blamed the tuition hikes on increasing payroll, retirement and health care costs and dwindling state support.

At USC, where tuition has almost tripled since 2000, in-state students will pay 3.2 percent more to attend in 2014-15.

USC officials said the school cut $30 million in costs during the past school year.

USC President Harris Pastides had offered to freeze tuition if the state Legislature would cover the cost of state-mandated salary and health insurance increases.

The proposal died, however, and state lawmakers instead allocated $4 million for an efficiency review committee to employ a consultant to pinpoint savings at all of the state’s public universities.

Eleven percent of USC’s budget comes from the state. Six years ago, state tax dollars accounted for 23 percent of USC’s budget.

2014-15 TUITION INCREASES Most South Carolina public universities and colleges have increased their tuitions for 2014-15.

Ç Coastal Carolina Ç College of Charleston Ç Francis Marion Ç Lander Univ. Ç S.C. State Ç USC – Columbia Ç USC – Aiken Ç USC – Beaufort Ç USC – Upstate Ç The Citadel Ç Winthrop University Ç Clemson University

3% $13,446* 2.9% $10,320** 3.2% $10,558 3% $9,966* 3.15% $10,423 3.2% $10,089* 3.2% $11,158 3.2% $9,312 4.8% $9,018 3.2% $9,748 2.4% $11,098 2.8% $13,812

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At Clemson University, in-state students will pay $171 per semester more in tuition, a 3 percent increase over last year. They’ll also pay a $25 fee per semester for facilities maintenance and renovations.

“The combination of additional state funding and ongoing efforts by the administration to operate as efficiently as possible has allowed us to minimize the impact of these mandatory cost increases on tuition,” said David Wilkins, a Greenville attorney and chairman of the school’s board of trustees.

Clemson President James P. Clements said the state budget provided $1.2 million for programs to increase four-year graduation rates and provide paid, on-campus internships.

“One of the best ways to hold down college costs is to get through in four years – and one of the best ways to land a job after graduation is an internship that provides relevant, marketable job skills,” Clements said.

At the College of Charleston, a popular choice for Greenville County students, tuition is going up 3.2 percent to $10,558 a year for in-state students.

“We have worked to minimize tuition increases over the past several years, while at the same time maintaining the high quality of our academic programs,” said Greg Padgett, chairman of the school’s board of trustees. “The board of trustees remains committed to maintaining our academic quality at an reasonable price.”

Winthrop is the most expensive state university at $13,812 per year.

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Starting this fall, Greenville Technical College will implement a pilot Creative Inquiry program to provide students with structured opportunities to carry out research projects in various fields.

Dr. Lee Edwards, general biology academic program director, and English instructor Dr. Kevin Morris jointly formed the Creative Inquiry Committee, which has been meeting since July 2013 to discuss the viability of such a program as well as outline how it might function Greenville Tech.

Given the nature of a community college, the committee had to determine the definition of “research” across academic and technical disciplines, the cofounders said. With few two-year institutional models to study, the group consulted Associate Dean Barbara Speziale of Clemson University for advice while drawing up a model for Greenville Tech.

The pilot program will initially offer seven research methods courses in several areas of study. Students will be able to propose and pursue research projects based on personal interests or work on faculty-driven projects. Students will be paired with a faculty member as either a research facilitator or mentor to determine the scope and requirements for the project.

To fulfill credit requirements, students must write a research proposal and fill out a research contract that will outline the topic, set a communication plan between student and faculty member, and define graded components. Contracts must be approved by the department head, dean’s office, and the Creative Inquiry Committee.

Morris said the model will also allow for small groups of four to five students each, and the committee is considering opportunities for students to present their research to the college community.

“We’re going to put a framework in place, where the courses are available and there is some kind of college-wide coordination with it, but then I think it’s a matter of the faculty and the students taking off and running with

“The point [of CMI] is educate differently, and so this type of research will be part of the learning process over there where students will work alongside experienced engineers and professionals and they will be engaged in research projects.”

Becky Mann

it,” Morris said.

In the program’s first semester, Greenville Tech faculty will be working with the students pro bono, though their involvement will count towards their professional development hours.

As the program expands, Morris and Edwards hope to see the Creative Inquiry involvement become part of the typical faculty load.

The Creative Inquiry program could lead to partnerships between the college and the technical, manufacturing and hospital industries in Greenville, Morris said. One such possibility is the Center of Manufacturing Innovation, an initiative in conjunction with Clemson to emphasize advanced manufacturing, to be located at CU-ICAR, he said.

“The point [of CMI] is educate differently, and so this type of research will be part of the learning process over there where students will work alongside experienced engineers and professionals and they will be engaged in research projects,” said Becky Mann, Greenville Tech’s director of public relations.

Edwards and Morris hope Greenville Tech can become a resource for other colleges trying to develop similar programs. Beyond developing professionalism, critical thinking, and communication skills in students, Morris sees Greenville Tech’s Creative Inquiry program offering multiple opportunities for relationships across campus between students, faculty and staff, resulting in a more connected college community.

“Look at the talent we’ve got here.

Why not use it?” he said.

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Roger Dennis Owens received the state’s maximum penalty Tuesday after pleading guilty to felony ill treatment of an animal, two counts of driving under suspension, and two counts of habitual traffic offender before Circuit Judge Letitia Verdin at the Greenville County Courthouse.

Verdin sentenced Owens to a total of 10 years and six months in prison, calling the case “one of the cruelest things I have seen since I’ve been on the bench.”

Prosecutors told the judge that Owens, 54, dragged a pit bull mix dog named Andra Grace behind his truck for at least two miles on Nov. 29, 2013. The dog was chained to the open tailgate of the truck by her front paws with her hind legs on the road. Assistant Solicitor Julie Anders said witnesses reported the truck was traveling at a high rate of speed and the dog was running, futilely trying to keep up. Witnesses pursued the vehicle, following a trail of blood on the road, and found the dog left for dead.

The incident took place in the area of Wildwood Road and Geer Highway in Marietta.

Andra Grace suffered injuries on her legs and feet, and the wounds on her knees were so deep that tendons were exposed, requiring extensive surgeries and a blood transfusion, prosecutors said. Her total care cost more than $13,000. She has since been adopted by a family in Florida.

Owens was driving under a suspended license at the time and admitted to Master Deputy Tina Adams that he had been

given marijuana and alcohol.

“This is a travesty, what happened to the animal,” Adams told the judge.

Prosecutors said Owens has been arrested three times for driving under the influence since 1986 and eight times for driving under suspension.

Owens’s public defender, Elizabeth Powers Price, said that Owens was drinking a great deal that day and asked the court to consider giving him five years because he had not previously been cruel to animals.

Verdin sentenced Owens to five years for ill treatment of animals, five years for one count of habitual traffic offender, and six months for one count of driving under suspension, all to be served consecutively.

All other terms for the other charge of habitual traffic offender and driving under suspension will run concurrent.

As of Tuesday, Owens had served 210 days in jail, which will not be counted toward his sentence.

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Over the last two months, food rescue organization Loaves & Fishes has been swapping surplus goods among its nonprofit partners to find takers in other areas.

Operations coordinator Bill Shell noticed during site visits that agencies frequently had a surplus of one particular item and a deficit of others. This led to Loaves & Fishes’ new Food Swap program.

Through an email list, the more than 94 agencies that participate in Loaves & Fishes’ distribution share what they have too much of and what they may need.

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“We take very seriously our commitment to help feed those in need and we have developed long-term relationships with our agencies that are built on trust to be able to have candid conversations about their needs. The Food Swap is an easy collaborative born out of our desire to ensure every donation is distributed where it’s needed the most,” said Loaves & Fishes executive director Paulette Dunn in a statement.

With the help of volunteers, Loaves & Fishes picks up perishable food from restaurants, caterers, churches, grocery stores, wholesalers and distributors and delivers it to agencies like food pantries, soup kitchens, community centers, senior programs and after-school programs.

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Jones, 54, has been featured in 126 movies and television shows,

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As a child, Jones said that he was inspired by “funny comedian types” like Don Knotts and Jim Nabors from “The Andy Griffith Show,” Bob Denver from “Gilligan’s Island,” and movie comedians like Jerry Lewis and Danny Kaye.

“I would watch them and absorb,” he said. “I relate to them because I watched skinny, goofy actors like me, which made me realize that I wasn’t a mistake with how I was born.”

A graduate of Ball State University, Jones studied theatre and trained as a mime with the university’s mime team, Mime Over Matter, after being invited to a show by the team’s leader Reed K. Steele.

Watching the performance amazed him because of “all the people on stage that were doing complete stories without one word spoken,” Jones said. He performed with the mime team all four years of college, eventually becoming its leader his senior year.

Jones credits that training as crucial to his skill with roles heavy on makeup and prosthetics. “It woke my body up to the dialogue that goes beyond human.”

When preparing for a role, Jones said he first goes to the dance studio at his

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gym and practices how he thinks the character should move, adapting his rehearsals after he’s fitted with costumes and makeup.

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never resented typecasting.

“I don’t look at typecasting as a cuss word,” he said. “If you are fortunate enough to have a body of work that you are known for, and if it’s typecasting, it’s not a bad thing. I am thought of as first PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES a tall, skinny, heavily made-up actor [who] plays characters from ic and lifelike, not like a guy in a suit.”

The combination has created some other worlds.”

However, the exposure he’s gained of Jones’ most well-known characters, such as Abe Sapien in “Hellboy” – a from his mask work has opened doors to character he feels most reflects his ac- roles without makeup. As he’s reached tual personality – to Pan and the Pale middle age, his body of work has led to several detective roles, he said.

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worked with on five films, including “Pan’s Labyrinth” and the “Hellboy” movies, for making the “monsters” he plays have more humanlike qualities.

Del Toro “helps monsters relate to the human condition,” allowing creatures such as Pan from “Pan’s Labyrinth” to be leading instead of secondary characters, Jones said.

In the past, “actors who played otherworldly characters, like Lon Chaney and Vincent Price, were celebrated for their monster portrayals,” he said. “We kind of lost that somewhere when monsters were not focused on and the people became the focus.”

However, while Jones has played a plethora

of characters, he still has a few he would like to try his hand at.

As he has already played the Angel of Death, Jones said he would like to play a white-winged benevolent angel before he dies. He would also like to do a take on a classic vampire role like Nosferatu, with it possibly being filmed in black and white.

Additionally, since he has never done stage or Broadway, he would love to play Jack Skellington if there is ever a stage adaptation of “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

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Augusta Road Business Association Thursday, July 24 Capers Place Block Party

5 pm to 8 pm at 1803 Augusta Street Music by The West End String Band

Friday, July 25 Grillin’ & Chillin‘ - 5 pm to 8 pm at Augusta Commons 2222 Augusta Street Music by Charles Hedgepath, Jeff Buchanan & Brian Buffaloe

July 24 - 27

Saturday, July 26 Primrose School Playdate - 10 am to 12 pm at 404 Houston St. Kids play time! Playgrounds, young artist garden contest & plant a magic seed.

Mater Pie Contest - 2 pm to 4 pm at The Pickwick 3219 Augusta St.

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Shaggin’ on Augusta - Shag lessons from 5:30 to 6 pm and band will play from 6 to 8:30 pm at 1501 Augusta Street Music by The Royal Scotsmen Band

Blockhouse Summer Bash - 9 pm to Midnight at Blockhouse Music by Mark Dye & John Atkins

Sunday, July 27 Sounds for Hounds- 1 to 6 pm at Augusta Village 1818 Augusta Street It’s a pet friendly event to benefit Greenville Humane Society Music by Spencer Rush, Simple Syrup, Dead 27 and The Bad Popes

View events schedule at www.onlyonaugusta.com Participating Businesses 4 Rooms Alisa Marie Fine Lingerie Antiques on Augusta Augusta Grill BNC Bank Blockhouse Restaurant & Oyster Bar Chicken Salad Chick Como’s Pete’s Copper Penny Denim Salon by Beija-Flor First Citizens Gage’s Grease Monkey Harrison Lighting Lafayette Scientific Cleaners 20 THE JOURNAL | JULY 18, 2014

Legrand Bakery Lewis PLaza Merchants Association L’s on Augusta Moppets Muse Shoe Studio North Hills Automotive Paisley & Paper Palmetto Olive Oil Co. Paws & Claws Phil Hyman Photography Ponthieux’s Jewelry Design Studio Primrose School of Greenville Reedy River Dentistry Renita M. Owens, CPA

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Salon Beverly Saluda River Pet Food & Supply Center Sassy Kids on Augusta Sassy on Augusta Savvy Second Time Around The Elephant’s Trunk The Grey Goose The Local Taco The Pickwick Pharmacy & Soda Fountain Twill United Community Bank Vestique Wisteria Salon Spa

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What’s Happening on Augusta Road Free Standing Businesses Harrison Lighting - Tent Extravaganza at 3221 Augusta Street on Thursday and Friday with specials on HPL Design Fixtures, Custom Lamps and one - of - a - kind fixtures Ponthieux’s Jewelry Design Studio - Jewelry Trunk Show with work by Katie Poterala Thurs & Fri. 10 am - 5 pm and Sat. 10 am - 2 pm.

Second Time Around - Summer specials on shoes swim suits, Lilly & smocked clothes. We will have balloons for kids!

Palmetto Olive Oil - Buy two bottles and get third bottle of the same size at half price.

Lafayette Scientific Cleaners - Drawing each day for a chance to win $25 in free dry cleaning.

L’s on Augusta - Giving 'L's Bonus Cash Rewards' Thurs. - Sat. ($5 w/ $25 purchase & $10 w/ $50 purchase)

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Denim Salon by Beija-Flor, Savvy, Paws & Claws, Reedy River Dentistry, Salon Beverly, First Citizens Bank, Moppets and Rhodes-Stephenson Associates

Block Party - Thursday, July 24 from 5 - 8 pm. Music by West End String Band. Enjoy beer, summer drinks, & eats from local food trucks. Visit each biz & you’ll be registered to win a Capers Place gift basket!

Augusta Commons - Grillin’ & Chillin‘ - 2222 Augusta St.

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Grillin’ & Chillin’ - Friday, July 25 from 5 - 8 pm. Music by Charles Hedgepath, Jeff Buchanan & Brian Buffaloe. Enjoy Chicken Salad Chick, BBQ and Beer by Hi-Lo Smoke Co., Kona Ice & face painting, kids activities & visit with Reedy' Rip'It. Event supports Greenville First Steps.

Primrose School Playdate - 404 Houston Street off Church Street

Saturday, July 26 from 10 am - 12 pm. Food by Chick-fil-a! Be one of the first to play on our playgrounds and plant seeds in our garden. Plus get a magic bean take home kit! Young Artist Garden Art Contest (Entry due Tue. July 22nd – more details at http://www.primroseschools.com/schools/greenville) Our bus will shuttle neighbors to the Summer on Augusta events!

The Pickwick Pharmacy & Soda Fountain - 3219 Augusta St.

Saturday, July 26, 12 noon - 2 pm Book Signing “ Scotch-Irish Life in the Piedmont” by Millie Huff Coleman & Caroline Smith Sherman. 25% off special on all gift items that day & guess the number of bottle caps contest to win a free scoop of ice cream a month for a year.

Also on Saturday stop by for the Best Tomato (Mater) Pie Contest from 2-4 pm (visit www.onlyonaugusta.com/summer for details and to enter).

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Dance the night away Saturday, July 26 with beach music by The Royal Scotsmen Band. Shag lessons begin at 5:30 pm. Band plays from 6:00 to 8:30 pm.

BRING YOUR LAWN CHAIRS! Enjoy beer and wine, food by The Local Taco and Subway and BBQ by North Hills Automotive.

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Blockhouse Summer Bash - Saturday, July 26 from 9 pm to midnight with music by Mark Dye & John Atkins. Stop by anytime for beer, oysters and full menu!

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Sounds for Hounds - Sunday, July 27 from 1 - 6 pm. A pet-friendly event supporting Greenville Humane Society. Live music by Spencer Rush, Simple Syrup, Dead 27 and The Bad Popes. Silent Auction & Raffle for a golf cart! Augusta Grill is open w/ a cash bar outside. Sponsors: Croft Architecture, Sysco, Brewery 85, Priority One Security, Pam & Lee Foster, McKinney Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep, Inc, Smith Dray Line, Bouharoun’s, Smiley’s Acoustic Cafe, Professional Party Rentals, Greenville Journal and Garrett’s Discount Golf Cars

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With safety and recall announcements a major factor in the ever-changing world of high-dollar baby equipment, new parents may shy away from buying used items such as cribs, car seats, swings and high chairs.

However, consignment store owners in the Upstate say parents can manage some real savings – safely – on used baby toys and equipment with a few common-sense precautions.

With that warning in mind, Cynthia Fryer, manager of Children’s Advocacy for Safe Kids Upstate, recommends parents refrain from using or buying “any used items for their children that they do not know the history of.”

Since safety standards change so often, Fryer recommends parents check the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s website (cpsc.gov) for up-to-date information on recalls and safety recommendations.

“Many items that were considered safe 10 or even two years ago may be recalled or no longer fit the new safety standards,” she said.

This is especially true for car seats.

Major changes in safety regulations usually occur every six years or so, Fryer said.

Since the seats typically remain in cars rather than inside the house, the plastic components will break down over time due to the temperature changes throughout the year. Additionally, car seats be-

come ineffective after a car accident, even a small fender bender, she said. Whether or not the car seat has been in an accident is disclosed strictly on the discretion of the seller, Fryer warned.

Fryer’s recommendations were echoed

by Kristen Durham, co-owner of Once Upon a Child, a purveyor of “gently used” clothes, toys, and some furniture for babies. Durham said her store only sells “used cribs that were manufactured after November of 2011, provided they have not been individually recalled.”

Durham does not sell used car seats at all, but will carry used swings and highchairs that have not been recalled and still have all their original parts and pieces.

The store subscribes to CPSC’s email updates, she said, and “if an item on our floor is recalled while in inventory, as soon as it comes to our attention, it is immediately removed from the floor and discarded.” Once Upon a Child also will let sellers know if they bring in a recalled item and how to handle it, but will not purchase the item for resale.

The same recall policies are followed by consignments stores Kids & More and A Child Again. Both sell swings, cribs, high chairs, car seats, but do not buy items that are recalled.

Kids & More will not take car seats that are older than five years, said manager Paula Smith. Should an item in stock be recalled, A Child Again will attempt to remedy the recall, said owner Paige Burkhalter.

“We will order the parts with instructions. Normally, there is not a charge for the parts,” she said. “If there isn’t a part to remedy the recall, we let the consignor know that this item cannot be sold and should be discarded and not donated.”

Summer on Augusta arrives July 24 Summer on Augusta will be swinging onto Augusta Road July 24-27.

The festival is now a four-day event and features live music from The Royal Scotsmen Band, Simple Syrup, West End String Band, Dead 27, The Bad Popes, Spencer Rush, Charles Hedgepath, Doug Jones, Adam McFarlane, Jeff Buchanan, Brian Buffalo, Mark Dye and John Atkins.

The event kicks off with the Block Party at Capers Place at 5 p.m. on July 24.

Another featured event will be the Second Annual Tomato (Mater) Pie

Contest on July 26, which will be judged by TJ Reynolds of the Greenville Road Warriors, 2013 winner Reggie Reinovsky, Zach Freeman of Southern First Bank, Danny Joyner of Berkshire Hathaway C. Dan Joyner Realtors, Elizabeth Muncaster of Muncaster Financial Services, and chef Cynthia Williams of the Augusta Grill.

Other events include Grillin’ and Chillin’ on July 25 from 5-8 p.m.; and on July 26, Playdate at the Primrose School from 10 a.m.-noon, Shaggin’ on Augusta with shag lessons at 5:30 p.m., and Blockhouse Summer Bash from 9 p.m.-midnight.

The final event will be Sounds for Hounds, a pet-friendly event that benefits the Greenville Humane Society, on July 27 at 1 p.m. at Augusta Village.

For more information, visit onlyonaugusta.com/summer.

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A Revolutionary week Sons of the American Revolution to hold national conference in Greenville SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com For the first time in history, the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) will hold its annual conference in Greenville.

SAR is a historical, educational and patriotic society composed of lineal descendants of the men and women who wintered at Valley Forge, signed the Declaration of Independence, fought in battles of the American Revolution, served in the Continental Congress and supported the cause of American independence.

The national conference is expected to attract more than 700 delegates from around the world. Conferences are held annually, but this is the first time the conference has met in Greenville.

“We’re very excited about being in Greenville this year. Some of the most important battles of the Revolutionary War were fought here in South Carolina,” said Greg Greenawalt, SAR’s South Carolina state senior vice president.

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EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: – Friday, July 18, 10:45-11 a.m. Musket firing and wreath-laying ceremony with Revolutionary War period attire. Location: Statue of Nathaniel Greene on Main Street – Sunday, July 20, 12:45-1:30 p.m.

Christ Church memorial service, preceded by a Color Guard Processional from the Hyatt Regency Greenville to Christ Church.

– Sunday, July 20, 8-11 p.m. National finals for Joseph Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest. High school state winners vie for the national champion title, speaking on themes tied to the American Revolution. Location: Hyatt Regency Greenville

pens National Battlefield, Kings Mountain National Military Park and Ninety Six National Historic site, and learn more about South Carolina’s role in the America’s fight for independence, along with conducting the annual business of the society, Greenawalt said.

The national SAR was organized on April 30, 1889, on the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington, and chartered by an act of the U.S. Congress on June 9, 1906. The charter was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, who was an SAR member.

Today, the society consists of nearly 32,000 members with more than 500 chapters in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The S.C. Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, SCSSAR, was organized on April 18th, 1889, in a room at the South Carolina State House in Columbia.

SCSSAR has more than 800 members and 19 chapters across the state. Membership is open to any male who is able to trace his lineage directly to a man or woman who participated honorably in the American Revolution, either as a member of the Armed Forces, serving in government or by providing supplies and support to those actively engaged in the Revolution.

The group is a counterpart to the Daughters of the American Revolution and Children of the American Revolution organizations.

SAR MEMBERS INCLUDE: 16 U.S. presidents; brigadier, lieutenant and five-star generals; members of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

More notable members include Generals George S. Patton and Douglas MacArthur, Sir Winston Churchill, King Juan Carlos I of Spain and U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. and George W. Bush.

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If you’re trekking the Swamp Rabbit Trail as it winds its way through Travelers Rest, you’ll be well-advised to stop for a bite to eat and enjoy some true Southern hospitality at The Whistle Stop at the American Café.

The oldest café in Travelers Rest—founded in 1945 by Troy Styles Sr. and now owned by his granddaughter, Vickie Vernon Hawkins—won’t be hard to find. In honor of its history as an authentic whistle stop in the 1940s, a vintage steam engine, and with a replica of the Swamp Rabbit Train, greet visitors in the parking lot. The Caboose Express, a unique red caboose, was designed to serve visitors through a walk-up window. In the original cafe, an electric train chugs along near the ceiling, while train and other vintage paraphernalia decorate the walls of this all-American Southern diner.

Amidst vintage signage and bar stools tucked under the original 1932 counter, kids can enjoy food served in train-shaped containers. Everyone can enjoy Southern favorites such as fried green tomatoes and shrimp and grits, along with brick-oven pizzas, as old tunes play on a Wurlitzer Jukebox. Stop and shop for pink or blue conductor hats, bandannas, t-shirts, wooden whistles—with The Whistle Stop brand—as well as cast iron or bronzed steam engines, swamp rabbits, covered wagons, and many other keepsakes.

The old American Café, now doubled in size, includes an upscale dining room with a rock fireplace. Rooftop seating welcomes diners to Victoria Station, where they can relax in

the warmth of a cozy fireplace, while enjoying a beautiful view of a quaint church and the Swamp Rabbit Trail below.

“I want to continue to serve our life-long friends and relatives, along with the residents of Travelers Rest who have supported the café for almost 70 years,” says Vickie, who has owned the cafe since 2013. With its unique setting and distinctive characteristics, The Whistle Stop Café is fast becoming the newest destination spot in the Greenville area.

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A four-part lecture series sponsored by the Riley Institute and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute that begins Tuesday will examine poverty and the working poor in South Carolina.

“Poverty is such a huge issue,” said Jill Fuson, assistant director of the Riley Institute. “It’s polarizing and there are a lot of stereotypes. By focusing on the working poor, it throws some of those stereotypes out.”

While the economy is improving, some people are still struggling, Fuson said. Some are underemployed and making less money than they did before the recession. Some simply can’t make ends meet despite holding down jobs.

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Losing” is the fourth of the annual summer series that focuses in a nonpartisan way on an issue facing South Carolina.

“The idea is to give people a broader, deeper understanding of the issue,” Fuson said. “We want to move beyond political rhetoric. We want to forget the name-calling and labeling and get to the issue.”

The series begins on July 22 and runs on Tuesdays through Aug. 12 at the Younts Conference Center on the Furman campus. Admission to the entire series is $45 for the public and $35 for OLLI members. Single sessions are $15.

The idea for “Two South Carolinas” came out of conversations about the upcoming election, the critical issues and what it means in South Carolina, Fuson said. “We’re trying to show people the complexity of some of these issues and that disparities exist. We try not to present it in a political way.”

The July 22 program focuses on who

in South Carolina gets to live an “American dream.” Jessica Hennessey, a Furman University assistant professor of economics, will look at definitions and measures of those who are in and near poverty and how South Carolina compares to the rest of the country. South Carolina state representatives Gilda Cobb-Hunter and Kenny Bingham will join program moderator Mark Quinn, former host of SCETV’s “Big Picture,” in a conversation about the role in government in improving the plight of the working poor.

On July 29, “Questioning the American Dream: Families and Neighbors Living on the Brink,” looks at the bills, dollars and pennies of a family who is barely getting by.

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“Questioning the American Dream: Families and Neighborhoods Living on the Brink” is the Aug. 5 program. Sarah Sattelmeyer, senior associate of financial security and mobility for Pew Charitable Trust, will talk about economic mobility and two women will share their experiences with moving from poverty and up the economic ladder.

“Revitalizing the American Dream” is the focus of the last program in the series. Spartanburg’s efforts to revitalize its Northside will be highlighted.

Jim Sinegal, cofounder and former CEO of Costco Corporation, will talk about why paying good wages is good for business and good for the economy.

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On July 28, Greenville County Rec will host a Mountain Bike Camp for kids who want to hit the trail. The camp is based at Gateway Park, location of the Bike Skills Flow Park. The camp will cover skills like proper riding position, proper gearing and braking and basic mechanical items. Visit greenvillerec.com/mtbikecamp for more information.

93.3 The Planet’s Birthday Bash presents The Rockstar Energy UPROAR Festival, which stops in Simpsonville’s Charter Amphitheatre on Aug. 29. Tickets are currently on sale for the show that includes Godsmack, Seether, Skillet, Buckcherry, Pop Evil, Escape the Fate, Redlight King, 3 Years Hollow, Within Reason, New Medicine, Sons of Revelry, SuicideGirls burlesque show, These Raven Skies and Tattered. For more information, visit rockstaruproar.com.

The Friends of the Greenville Zoo wants suggestions for the name of the expected baby giraffe at the Greenville Zoo. Any person who gives a minimum $10 donation to the Friends through friendsgreenvillezoo.org or by mail, 102 East Park Ave., Greenville, S.C. 29601, can submit a male and female name for the baby giraffe, due later this summer at the zoo.

Monkey Joe’s is hosting a customer appreciation event for National Ice Cream Day on July 20, noon-6 p.m. Participating locations will offer discounted admission of $7 and free ice cream cups to kids. Monkey Joe’s is located at 2437 Laurens Road, Greenville. For more information, call 864-675-1414 or visit monkeyjoes.com.

Southern women’s fiction author Wendy Wax will be discussing her latest book, “The House on Mermaid Point,” at Fiction Addiction on July 19, 2 p.m. The $10 ticket includes one admission to the event and a $10 voucher that can be redeemed at the event. The $15.90 ticket includes two admission passes to the event and one copy of the book. Tickets may be purchased at fiction-addiction. com, at the store or by calling 864-675-0540.

An all-alumni Berea High School reunion will be held Aug. 23, 2:30-5:30 p.m., at the school. The event is open to students from every decade who attended Berea as well as former staff, coaches and administrators. Other supporters of the school are also encouraged to attend. Registration forms are available on the committee’s Facebook page (Berea Alumni Reunion) and can also be obtained by emailing bereaalumni@aol.com. Deadline for registration submission is July 18. The school is located at 201 Burdine Dr., Greenville.

The Woodlands at Furman will be hosting author Susan Bailey for a discussion on her book “The Twain Shall Meet” on July 22, 4 p.m. Written with genealogist Deb Gosselin, the book tells the saga of Bailey’s lifelong search to find her birth mother, leading to Mark Twain’s family. Those wishing to attend should call 864-371-3100.

The Upcountry History Museum will host a Royal Pajama Party on July 25, 6:30-9:30 p.m. The evening will feature family fun in The Amazing Castle, special castle guests, castle crafts and a royal movie with popcorn. Cost is $5 for members and $10 for other guests. Call 864-467-3100 to reserve a place.

The Travelers Rest Farmers Market will be hosting Bike Day on July 26, 9-noon, with a Tomato Sandwich Taste-off. Participating restaurants and chefs include Restaurant 17, Hungry Drover, Swamp Rabbit Cafe, Shortfields, Williams Hardware, Orleans, Whistlestop Cafe, Healthy Farms, Elvis (from Whole Foods) and more. Samples are $5. Sunrift Adventures will be at the market with a performance with unicycles along with a vintage bike show, bamboo bikes for test rides and a bike ride. For more information, visit travelersrestfarmersmarket.com.

During July, Greenville County Animal Care is lowering the adoption fee on all $49 dogs to $25, with the purchase of collar and leash, heartworm preventative and ID tag. For more information, visit greenvillecounty.org/acs or call 864-467-3950.

MADD recently announced the addition of MADD license plates to allow those who support MADD’s mission to demonstrate their support for preventing the tragedies associated with drunk driving in South Carolina. About $10 of the $20 plate fee goes to MADD South Carolina to fund free services to DUI crash victims and education to the community about drunk driving. Drivers can purchase the plates at scdmvonline.com.

The Hagood Mill, 138 Hagood Mill Road in Pickens, will host Banjo Extravaganza with Charles Wood as part of its Music in the Mountains 2014 series on July 18 starting at noon. The mill will be open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. that day.

For more information, call 864-898-2936 or visit visitpickenscounty.com/calendar. eDocHome is hosting a free seminar for veterans and their family members regarding healthcare access on July 22, 8:30-9:30 a.m., at the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, 24 Cleveland St., Greenville. The seminar will be cover how telehealth can address many health care challenges facing veterans. For more information and to register, email veterans@edochome.com.

The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour recently traveled to Greenwood to host the Greenwood Junior Challenge. Winners in each division receive an automatic bid into the 2014 Tour Championship Dec. 6-7 and Mid Season Invitational June 22-24. Winners included: Boys Division 15-18, Colman Self finished first and Michael McKee second; Girls Division 15-18, Jaelen Tindal was first, Jodee Tindal was second and Emily Cox was third; Jackson Tyler finished first in the Boys Division 11-14; and in the Girls Division 11-14, Anna Grace Brock was first and Emily Dunlap was second.

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The American Cancer Society is seeking volunteer drivers for its Road to Recovery program. The program uses volunteers to provide free transportation to and from cancer treatment for local patients who otherwise wouldn’t have a way to get to there.

Anyone interested in volunteering must have a good driving record, valid driver’s license, automobile insurance and a vehicle in good working condition. Rides are needed Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and the schedule is flexible.

The American Cancer Society provides free training. For more information, contact Fronde Merchant at fronde.merchant@cancer.org or 843-744-1922.

The Rotary Club of Greenville awarded Ellen Featherstone the first ever Service Above Self scholarship.

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Greenville tournament was held with a record 475 players and club pros participating in the tournament on four courses. Since the tournament’s inception, Golf for Greenville has raised more than $3.5 million for local charities. Golf for Greenville was developed and founded by Fluor employee volunteers in 1989 with the first tournament held in 1990. Record turnouts have encouraged Fluor to reach its fundraising goals each year as support continues to grow. The event is chaired and co-chaired by Fluor professionals as a leadership enrichment opportunity.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas recently awarded the Center for Developmental Services (CDS) a grant for $4,221. The grant will fund additional security cameras for the facility and parking lots. u

Dee Kivett of the Greenville Rotary presents the Service Above Self scholarship honor to Ellen Featherstone.

The Urban League of the Upstate recently received $75,000 from Fluor Corporation’s Golf for Greenville charitable golf tournament. Proceeds will be used to purchase a bus, tires and maintenance of existing fleet vans in order to continue programs targeting under-resourced students in grades K-12. The 25th annual Golf for

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The TD Charitable Foundation will award $2.5 million in grants in 2014 to support the creation or preservation of rental multifamily housing units for families with children through its ninth annual Housing for Everyone grant competition. The competition invites local nonprofit organizations from Maine to Florida to submit proposals that address the most acute affordable housing needs in their communities. Twenty-five organizations throughout TD Bank’s footprint will each be awarded a $100,000 grant. Proposals will only be accepted online at TDBank.com (click on Our Community) and must be submitted by 4 p.m. on Aug. 29. Winners will be notified in mid-November.

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The Greenville Humane Society will hold its third annual Mutt Strut on Aug. 23, 9 a.m.-noon, at the Greenville Tech campus and along the Swamp Rabbit Trail. The Mutt Strut features a 2-mile run/walk course and is an easy outing for participants and their dogs. Although dogs are encouraged to attend, they are not required. This year’s event features an expanded vendor village (Mutt Market), complimentary refreshments, live entertainment and special attractions. To register as an individual or a team, visit ghsmuttstrut.com. All proceeds benefit the Greenville Humane Society.

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Art exhibit focuses on violence against women, censorship CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Some topics, no matter how uncomfortable they may make some people feel, need to be talked about.

“The ugly truth should be out there.

Not talking about it perpetuates the problem,” said Kay Larch, an artist at The Ward Artist Studios and participant in the studio’s current exhibit, “The Uncensored Truth,” which focuses on censorship and violence against women.

Several of the pieces in the exhibit have been censored in some way – removed from art shows for “not being appropriate” or forbidden from being displayed in rented studio spaces because they were “too scary” or “too violent” or “too something.”

Others are the therapeutic creations of women as they work their

“Rape Culture,” Gracie Holtzcloth

way through a personal or traumatic experience. Still others are works by local artists who were inspired by the strength and courage of women who have endured “unspeakable” pain.

Violence against women is a subject that has attracted more attention in South Carolina in recent months.

More than 36,000 cases of domestic violence – a crime that many times goes unreported – are investigated by S.C. law enforcement agencies each year, and the state ranks No. 1 in the nation in the rate of women killed by men.

South Carolina’s rate of women killed by men was 2.54 per 100,000, more than double the national average. The state has a much higher rate than other states in the South except for Tennessee, according to a study released by the Washington, D.C.-based Violence Policy Council.

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South Carolina has placed in the top 10 in the rankings – which are based on crime reports collected by the FBI – in each of the past 10 years.

However, Vitti and some of the other artists with work displayed in the exhibit say domestic abuse is not talked about near enough.

“There’s still a notion that if a woman’s smiling at someone or if she’s wearing something that some consider provocative, that’s she’s asking for it,” said Vitti, who said she was molested when she was in the sixth grade and suffered from guilt for years. “It’s not something a woman has asked for. It’s not something a woman has done.”

The idea for the exhibition came after Vitti and her husband, David Hubbard, saw a report on the news about Gracie Holtzclaw, a recent high school graduate whose artwork titled “Rape C u l ture” w a s r e jecte d f o r t h e

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Greenville County High School Juried Exhibition at Artisphere.

The school district said that the print of a topless tattooed woman with a black bar covering her naked breasts was inappropriate for the exhibit because of its title and content.

Holtzclaw has been quoted saying that when she attended a Christian school as a child, girls were taught that women had a responsibility to cover up and be modest and it was the woman’s fault if a man got turned on.

She has said she did the piece to say victims of sexual assault were not at fault and that it is the responsibility of everybody to exhibit self-control.

Allison Anne Brown, a Greenville native who attended both the Fine Arts Center and the South Carolina Governors School

for the Arts and Humanities and now has a studio at Taylors Mill, said nudity symbolizes humanity at its core, yet it is often a subject that is censored.

“Part of the point of art is having our own inward conversation,” she said. “My gut feeling is that when you censor something, it usually means it’s something you need to think about. Why does it scare you? Why does it make you uncomfortable?”

Other artists participating in the exhibit are Jennifer Lynne Ziemann, Jackie Shapiro Rosen, Peggy Tanner Day, Karen Leigh, Kymberly Day, Kim Sholly, Lindsay Louise McPhail, Liz Lynch, Jeff Lynch, Pat Prine Kraemer, Rebecca Romanek Johnson, Carey Morton, Kelly Lynch Murphy and Carol Ann Kronyak.

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Ready to ‘Testify’ Asheville’s American Idol winner Caleb Johnson is living the dream When Caleb Johnson from Asheville, N.C., made it to the Top 42 during the 10th season of “American Idol” in 2012, he almost certainly had no idea it would be another year before he’d be back on one of the country’s most popular programs.

He’d auditioned once before and was invited to Hollywood, but got no further than the next round. Ultimately he was cut again in 2012 when he had trouble with his performance of WHAT: “American Idol Live!”

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First off, tell me a little about the “American Idol” show. What can people expect?

It’s just a great, high-energy show. There are duets, there’s group numbers, there’s solo numbers, there’s an incredible light show. You’re going to hear a lot of highlights from the show, and it’s going to be really incredible.

You’ve said that after being eliminated in 2012, you starting improving your stagecraft. What did that entail?

You’re honing your craft and doing gigs and busting your butt and playing with your band. I went out and got as many shows as I could and I got comfortable. Not nervous or scared, but just being excited to perform for people. That really helped a lot and it really showed when I came back. I was right there in the thick of it.

After this tour, you’re doing a tour with your own band, right?

Yeah. The record (“Testify”) comes out in August and I’ll be touring with my band in the winter and the fall.

What’s that album and tour going to be like?

It’s going to be rock ’n’ roll. I’m super proud of the album; I can’t wait for people to hear it. It’s raw, and it’s theatrical.

You worked with a lot of high-profile artists on “Testify.” Was that an intimidating process at all?

I deliberately didn’t check out what they did. I just went in not knowing who any of them were, sat down and started writing. There were no preconceived ideas of who each person was.

Do you feel like you were able to make the album in your own style?

Yeah, absolutely.

You’ve essentially been going 24/7 since you won “American Idol.” How do you avoid getting burned out?

I don’t really get burned out. I haven’t gotten crispy yet; my fat hasn’t gotten crispy. I just love what I’m doing, and just getting to hang out with everyone.

When you play the Peace Center, you’ll be close to home. What does that feel like, coming back after achieving success?

I seriously cannot wait to get back into the South. I won’t be in Asheville, but I’ll be close, and hopefully I can get half a day to go home or see people from Asheville at the show.

How has your perspective changed since you won “American Idol”? You had a dream, and it came true. Does it look or feel different from what you expected?

That’s actually a really good question. I just want to keep that momentum going, to keep that dream going so that I can keep doing music for a living. The dream is now a reality, and it’s a huge honor and a blessing, and I’m so thankful to the people who have supported me through this whole process. I can’t wait to continue making music and singing and doing all kinds of crazy stuff.

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Cranford Hollow Intriguing violin-spiked Southern rock.

Call 864-235-5519 or visit facebook. com/GottRocks.Rocks.

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Candace Morris Inaugural “Greenville Sings!” winner.

Call 864-242-2583 or visit bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com.

John Hiatt/Robert Cray Once-in-a-lifetime pairing. Tickets: $45, $55. Call 864-467-3000 or visit peacecenter.org.

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On the heels of their 17th studio album, “Redeemer of Souls,” metal icons Judas Priest will be on tour and swing through the Carolinas with a stop at Simpsonville’s Charter Amphitheater on Oct. 26. Tickets go on sale on July 18 at 10 a.m. Visit charteramphitheatre.com for more information.

Live on the Green LLC will hold its inaugural Live on the Green concert featuring pianist, singer-songwriter and composer Bruce Hornsby on Sept. 20 at Barnet Park in downtown Spartanburg. General admis-

sion is $20 ($27 at gate, day of event). Gold Circle Level seating is $35 with limited availability. Tickets go on sale July 18 and can be purchased through spartanburgonthegreen.com. Rain location will be the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.

The Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville is seeking artists to participate in its fourth Small Works Juried Competition. The show’s juror is Judy Verhoeven, who has more than 20 years of experience as a multimedia artist. Entry deadline is Aug. 29 and each piece of art can be no larger than 12 inches by

Let me put my 11 years of award-winning experience to work for you!

12 inches, including the frame. Visit artistsguildgalleryofgreenville.com for additional information.

Bob Jones University recently announced the schedule for its 2014-2015 concert, Living Gallery and drama series. All performances are open to the public. Performances include: BJU Symphony Orchestra on Oct. 2, “The Taming of the Shrew” on Nov. 20-22; Cantus on Jan. 27, 2015; and Living Gallery “Rivals on the Road” on April 2-4, 2015. For more information and tickets, visit bju. edu/tickets or call 864-770-1372. Individual tickets for all productions will be available for purchase on Sept. 1.

Susan McMillen REALTOR®

864-238-5498 Susan.McMillen@allentate.com

CALL ABOUT AVAILABLE RESIDENTIAL LOTS NEAR SIMPSONVILLE! $67,900-99,900

PELZER-3BR COUNTRY RANCH HOME ON 2.4 ACRES W/RV CARPORTQUICK TO GHS & I85#1282888/$134,900*

COOPERS LAKE-UPGRADED 2BR/2BA BRICK CONDO W/SUNROOM NEAR BUTLER RD#1282082/$162,900

SPARROWS POINT-SWEET 3BR/2.5BA IN FIVE FORKS, LOVELY CONDITION, MONARCH ELEM#1283162/$164,900*

SADDLERS RIDGEFANTASTIC 3(OR 4)BR RANCH W/DR, COVERED PATIO, NICE UPDATES#1282790/$169,000*

HUNTERS WOODSTRADITIONAL 3BR W/ BONUS ROOM, CONVENIENT & EST N’BORHOOD#1282838/$173,900

HARTS LANE-3BR W/ LOFT, MSTR ON MAIN LEVEL, NEAR HWY 14, EASY LOCATION#1276561/$179,500*

WHITEHALL PLNTNWONDERFUL 4BR/3BA W/ANXIOUS SELLERS, SUNROOM, C-D-S#1280388/$217,000

MORNING MIST-NEATLY KEPT 4BR W/FLEX RM, BOTH FORMALS, LOVELY LANDSCAPING#1281151/$224,900*

LEGACY FARMS-LARGE LOT W/MASTER ON MAIN & 4CAR GAR!3(OR 4)BR, UNFIN SPACE, PRICE TO SELL-#1280109/$249,900*

MORNING MIST-PREV MODEL HOME, 4BR/3.5BA, FINISHED BSMNT, LOADED W/EXTRA ROOMS#1282791/$256,900

HIDDEN ACRES-6 ACRES, CUSTOM 4BR/3BA W/ MASTER PLUS GUEST RM ON MAIN, NEAR AUGUSTA RD#1276554/$299,900

CHANDLER LAKE-BARELY LIVED IN 4BR/3BA ON OVERSIZED LOT! 2-STORY GREAT RM, GUEST RM ON MAIN- #1276654/$324,900

BRADLEY OAKS-OFF WOODRUFF RD-4BR/3.5BA W/TWO MASTERS! HUGE LOT! MONARCH ELEM! BSMT- #1279032/$349,000

PLNTN GREENE-FANTASTIC 4BR BRICK HOME! BOTH FORMALS, OFFICE, MORNING RM, ON CDS#1282192/$399,900

WEATHERSTONE-CUSTOM 4(OR 5)BR/4.5BA BRICK HOME W/MASTER ON MAIN & 3-CAR GARAGE! #1279486/$464,900

WEATHERSTONE-CUSTOM BRICK HOME W/5BR/3.5BA PLUS BONUS RM! CUSTOM PATIO, 3CAR, CDS LOT! #1282589/$469,900

NEAR PELHAM-SOUTHERN LIVING ON 3 ACRES! 4BR/3.5BA PLUS SEPARATE APTMNT! I/G POOL, OVERSIZED 3CAR GAR& MORE! #1280295/$649,900

*INDICATES PROPERTY IS ELIGIBLE FOR 100% USDA FINANCING

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED HOME

DETAILS Rockwood at Augusta Lot 9 Jenkinson Ct Greenville 29605 O PEN SUN D AY, J ULY 20 FRO M 2–4PM

Looking for a Craftsman style bungalow in the heart of Augusta Rd? Built by renowned Dillard Jones Builders – Southern Living Builder of the year – twice! Lot 9 is complete so come see this fabulous home. Measuring just shy of 3000 sq. feet , you will be amazed with the utilization of space. Truly an exceptional floor plan with a spacious master on main, an open floor plan for today’s lifestyle and all the finishing touches that you would expect from such a quality builder. Lot 8 is well under roof and is offered at $539,900 with 2600-2799 sq ft. Both homes offer a secondary bedroom on the upper level and the lower level offer 2 more additional bedrooms and recreational space. The attic storage and basement unfinished space on both is amazing.

HOME INFO Price: $597,500 | MLS: #1271064 Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 3 full, 1 half Square Footage: 2800–2999 Schools: Augusta Circle Hughes Academy | Greenville High Helen Hagood 864.419.2889 hhagood@cbcaine.com Coldwell Banker Caine helenhagood.com

To submit your Featured Home: homes@greenvillejournal.com

Agent on Call in Easley/Powdersville

Agent on Call in Greenville/Greer

Agent on Call in Simpsonville

Kim Redden 864.608.0253

Tammy Kingsley 864.561.2811

Tracy Tchirkow 864.238.2561

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OPEN THIS WEEKEND CHANCELLORS PARK

O P E N S U N D AY, J U LY 2 0 F R O M 2 – 4 P M VERDMONT

GREEN VALLEY

2 KNIGHTSBRIDGE DRIVE . $270,000 . MLS# 1278146

1 VALCOURT CIRCLE . $270,000 . MLS# 1281671

201 EAST ROUND HILL ROAD . $425,000 . MLS# 1281291

3BR/3.5BA You will love this European-style home in Chancellor’s Park. No details are left undone in this home, for a bargain! You will love this European-style home in Chancellor’s Park. No details are left undone in this home, for a bargain!

3BR/2.5BA This beautiful Charleston style 3000+sf has tons of upgrades & is the best deal in Verdmont. Come take a look!

This beautiful Charleston style 3000+sf has tons of upgrades & is the best deal in Verdmont. Come take a look!

5BR/3.5BA Mature hardwoods and beautiful landscaping surround this Impressive Colonial home on 1.5 acre estate lot. Mature hardwoods and beautiful landscaping surround this Impressive Colonial home on 1.5 acre estate lot.

Contact: Jake Dickens | 864-616-6005 Coldwell Banker Caine

Contact: Jake Dickens | 864-616-6005 Coldwell Banker Caine

Contact: Rick Horne | (864)982-7653 Custom Realty, LLC

LEXINGTON PLACE

CHANDLER LAKE

WHITEHALL PLANTATION

16 SUFFOLK DOWNS WAY . $349,500 . MLS# 1283112

1 TEA OLIVE PLACE . $324,900 . MLS# 1276654

6 DUNBERRY COURT . $217,000 . MLS# 1280388

4BR/2.5BA 4BR/2.5BA w/partially finished, walkout basement home on large cul-de-sac lot near Pelham Rd shopping, dining. Open floorplan. See it Sunday! 4BR/2.5BA w/partially finished, walkout basement home on large cul-de-sac lot near Pelham Rd shopping, dining. Open floorplan. See it Sunday!

4BR/3BA Spacious home w/guest rm on main! Gourmet Kit! Two-story great room w/stacked stone FP! Oversized lot! Near shopping in Simpsonville!

4BR/3BA Wonderful ranch home w/sunroom & split BR plan! Convenient in Five Forks area! Motivated sellers!

Contact: Phil Romba | 864-349-7607 Carol Pyfrom Realty

Contact: JOANN WILLIAMS | 864-420-4019 ALLEN TATE REALTORS

Contact: SHELLY DEVREESE | 864-607-2826 ALLEN TATE REALTORS

MIDDLE CREEK

NORTH HILLS

EASTDALE

100 SHEFWOOD DR. . $324,900 . MLS# 1278443

116 WALTON COURT . $384,781 . MLS# 1275264

302 SYCAMORE DRIVE . $149,900 . MLS# 1282350

5BR/3.5BA Fannie Mae owned 5BR renovated 3500+ SF southern style home, situated on .50ac corner lot. Resort living! Community Amenities. Fannie Mae owned 5BR renovated 3500+ SF southern style home, situated on .50ac corner lot. Resort living! Community Amenities.

5BR/4.5BA Gracious Southern Living, simple pleasures & privacy Spacious home. 1.25acre Gracious Southern Living, simple pleasures & privacy Spacious home. 1.25acre

3BR/2BA Great home in great location!

Freshly painted & many updates.

Contact: Kathy Slayter | 864.982.7772 The Marchant Company

Contact: Susan Burch | 346-3864 Berkshire Hathaway C. Dan Joyner REALTORS

Contact: Tim Keagy | 905-3304 Berkshire Hathaway C. Dan Joyner REALTORS

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F E AT U R E D H OM E

209 Old House Way

$1,125,000

211 E Park Avenue

$835,000

520 Carilion Lane

$399,000

105 Trails End

$278,000

113 Lowood Lane, Greenville 29605 This is a must have! Exciting renovation overlooking Chanticleer golf course! Vaulted and trey ceilings, open floor plan, and all new kitchen with granite and stainless steel appliances. All new bathrooms, new roof, new driveway, new windows and doors as well as mahogany front door are just a few of the many updates. Master bedroom on main and additional bedroom with full bath on main level. Two bedrooms upstairs share 3rd full bathroom.

Lower level rec room provides great extra living space. Screened porch and nice sized deck with beautiful views of the golf course. Enjoy premier living at 113 Lowood Lane today. See all of our listings at wilsonassociates.net.

Nick Carlson Wilson Associates

HOME INFO

Cell: (864) 386-7704 nick@wilsonassociates.net wilsonassociates.net

Price: $799,500 | MLS: #1283317 Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 3 full, 2 half Square Footage: 4000-4199 Schools: Augusta Circle | Hughes Academy Greenville High Sharon Wilson 864.918.1140 | sharon@wilsonassociates.net Wilson Associates 864.640.8700 | wilsonassociates.net To submit your Open House: homes@greenvillejournal.com

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OPEN THIS WEEKEND

O P E N S U N D AY, J U LY 2 0 F R O M 2 – 4 P M

ROSEMONT

BUXTON

7 IVEYROSE . $165,000 . MLS# 1282012

104 WINDSFORD DRIVE . $169,000 . MLS# 1277282

2 WHITE EMPRESS . $189,500 . MLS# 1274619

3BR/2BA Fantastic well maintained brick ranch Fantastic well maintained brick ranch

2BR/2BA Wonderful end unit. Hardwood floors, gaslog fp, 2 car garage. Wonderful end unit. Hardwood floors, gaslog fp, 2 car garage.

3BR/2BA Ideal location. Well maintained. Large lot. Ideal location. Well maintained. Large lot.

THE RAVINES @ CAMELLIA VILLAGE

Open 1–3pm Sunday!

Contact: Olivia Grube | 385-9087 Berkshire Hathaway C. Dan Joyner REALTORS

Contact: Tammy Copeland | 404-0013 Berkshire Hathaway C. Dan Joyner REALTORS

Contact: Beth Crigler | 420-4718 Berkshire Hathaway C. Dan Joyner REALTORS

R E A L E S TAT E N E W S

HOLLAND PLACE

SELLERS: WHAT YOUR REALTOR® CAN DO FOR YOU

212 NETHERLAND PLACE . $339,900 . MLS# 1280559 5BR/3.5BA Custom traditional.Terrace levle w/ Rec Room & Gym. Deck & Patio Custom traditional.

Terrace levle w/Rec Room & Gym. Deck & Patio

Contact: Chet Smith | 458-7653 Berkshire Hathaway C. Dan Joyner REALTORS

A real estate practitioner is licensed and regulated by the state to sell real estate, but service levels are far from standard. REALTORS® belong to an international association that promotes education, experience and expertise.

REALTORS® help you price your home and to prepare it for market.

They help you �ind the right buyer and shepherd the transaction to a smooth closing.

Your REALTOR® has a wealth of data and personal experience to share with you about local real estate market conditions, comparable homes on the market, and current lending and appraisal requirements. Her knowledge and experience will help you develop a pricing and marketing strategy that will bring about the quickest sale for the highest amount and best terms possible.

Your REALTOR® will help you prepare your home for sale in a critical marketplace. He will offer staging, cleaning and repair suggestions, as well as help you understand what buyers are looking for in today’s market.

Your REALTOR® will market your home on the MLS, third-party sites and on signs, �lyers, blogs and other media. But don’t be surprised if your �irst showings come from your agent’s community of contacts such as previous clients, current buyers and other personal and professional contacts.

Your REALTOR® will qualify buyers to make certain they’re serious and �inancially able to buy your home. He will help you evaluate and negotiate

offers of purchase, and write counter-offers with a sales price and terms as likely to meet your goals as possible.

Murphy’s Law was written for closings. Your home can fail to meet the buyer’s appraisal price, or the inspection may �ind a water leak. Your REALTOR® knows how to solve any problem that comes up, as well as take preventative and curative measures to keep lenders, closing agents, contractors, and you on task. Her goal is to get you safely to closing.

A great agent’s job isn’t �inished when you turn over the keys. He can help you �ind and buy your next home, providing the same level of service to you when you become the buyer. Your agent can keep you alerted to good housing investments, second homes or homes for your children.

For great REALTORS®, it’s about building a relationship that lasts, from helping you buy your �irst home, to helping you sell your home and move up, to downsizing when you become an empty nester.

The only way to build a life-long relationship is to give you the results you want.

The Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® represents over 1,700 members in all aspects of the real estate industry. Please visit the Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® web site at www.ggar.com for real estate and consumer information.

“Every market is different, call a REALTOR® today.”

PE OPLE , AWA R D S , HONOR S GRIFFIN PROPERTY SOLUTIONS EXPANDS IN ANDERSON MARKET Griffin Property Solutions announced on June 30, 2014 that it will expand it’s market presence in Anderson and Greenwood counties with the addition of Jay Ashley.

Mr. Ashley joins Griffin Property Solutions as a commercial real estate agent with focus in the western upstate of South Carolina markets including Anderson, Abbeville, and Greenwood. Mr. Ashley specializes in commercial property sales and leasing

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from retail, office, and industrial, to land brokerage. Mr. Ashley’s highly decorated military background spans well over eighteen years. Mr. Ashley has just recently retired off of active duty and is proud to start his next career in commercial real estate with Griffin Property Solutions. During the span of his military career, Mr. Ashley was awarded many disguised medals for his service to our Country. Mr. Ashley was awarded a Bronze Star Medal during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Army Commendation Medals (4), Army Achievement Medals (4), Combat Action Badge, Iraqi Campaign Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, and National Defense

Service Medals (2), to name a few.

During his military career, Mr. Ashley was responsible for managing two Army National Guard facilities, including management of payroll for over one hundred and eighty individuals, overseeing military rental agreements (contracts, coordination, and operational support), personally accountable for over sixty million dollars in operational equipment, and preparation of quarterly reports. Mr. Ashley brings his highly organized and strong military management skills to the table when representing his clients. He attributes his strong work ethic, commitment, and communication skills to his years of military

and combat training. His military education includes substantial coursework in leadership development and business management.

His military courework is equilivant to over two hundred course credit hours of civilian education. Mr. Ashley is originally from Abbeville County and a graduate of Dixie High School in Due West and attended Piedmont Technical College. Mr. Ashley is happily married with three children and resides with his wife in Abbeville County.

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Beautiful custom all brick home!

1101 KENSINGTON LAKE DR EASLEY • 4BR/3.5BA • $364,500 • MLS 1278488 • 3200-3399 Sq. Ft. • Hardwoods throughout

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• Granite in kitchen and baths • All closets have new closet systems • Newer Architectural Roof • 0.58 acres, irrigation system • Powdersville school district

Call for an appointment!

The Custom House, 820 S. Main St., Greenville Only TWO of these Luxury Downtown Residences remain!!!

These both have it all; private 2 car garages, private elevators, 10 foot ceilings, AMAZING VIEWS, private outdoor living areas, approximately 4000 square feet, Wolf and sub-zero appliances, beautiful hardwood floors, Granite, the list goes on and on!!!

At $1,200,000 with approx 4000 feet in downtown Greenville’s West End on Main Street AND all of the above mentioned features, you can’t go wrong!

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CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION Jacob Mann Coldwell Banker Caine 864.325.6266 View my listings at 325mann.com or Cbcaine.com To submit your Featured Home or Neighborhood: homes@greenvillejournal.com

SFreeman uzanne O: 864.250.2850 M: 864.982.3800

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ON THE MARKET AUGUSTA RD AREA

LEXINGTON PLACE

3 CRABAPPLE COURT . $383,999 . MLS# FOR SALE BY OWNER

16 SUFFOLK DOWNS . $349,500 . MLS# 1283112

3BR/2.5BA Beautiful 3BR/2.5 w/ open floor plan w/main level master - large bonus room - screened porch fenced yard- 2 car carport -Home Warranty located on cul-de-sac Street.

4BR/2.5BA 4BR/2.5BA w/partially finished, walkout basement home on large cul-de-sac lot near Pelham Rd shopping, dining. Open floorplan. Media, play areas. Screened porch, deck overlook wooded common area. Well maintained.

Contact: Doug Hamer | 8646301141 Doug Hamer

Contact: Phil Romba | 864-349-7607 Carol Pyfrom Realty

GREYTHORNE

MONTEBELLO

5 Meadow Ridge

$184,991 • MLS#1282951 • 3 BR/ 2 BA

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116 Walton Court

$399,8711 • MLS#1275264 • 5 BR/4 BA

susanburch Results that MOVE you! www.susanburch.com

864.346.3864 sburch@cdanjoyner.com NEW LISTING

117 KETTLE OAK WAY . $379,000 . MLS# 1276337

320 SORONA DR. . $699,000 . MLS# 1276718

4BR/3.5BA Incredible custom-designed/built Craftsman-style home with an awesome floor plan and gorgeous private yard. MBRs up & down, plus bonus room/5th BR, large Kitchen with upscale touches. 20 minutes from Downtown.

4BR/3.5BA A unique opportunity in Villaggio. A superb quality built custom home situated with breathtaking views of the downtown skyline and the Blue Ridge.

Contact: Tom Marchant | 864.449.1658 The Marchant Company

Contact: Nancy McCroy | 864.505.8367 The Marchant Company

CATALINA ESTATES

ROPER MEADOW

5 DOLPHIN POND LANE . $799,000 . MLS# 1276269

20 WILLOW OAK COURT . NEW PRICE $291,500 . MLS# 1282706

4BR/3.5BA Near Five Forks Area, stunning custom home on 2.4 acres in gated community, master on main, bonus room, keeping room, screened porch, 3-car gar, much more! Well maintained! Very convenient!

4BR/2.5BA Open floor-plan combined with quality craftsmanship. Many updates including granite countertops. Wonderful fenced backyard.

Great Location just off Roper Mtn Rd.

Contact: Susan McMillen | 864-238-5498 ALLEN TATE REALTORS

Contact: Rex Galloway | 864-630-1111 Berkshire Hathaway C. Dan Joyner REALTORS

305 Holly Tree

$247,981 • MLS#1283402 • 4 BR/ 2.5 BA NEW LISTING

14 Swenson Ct.

$199,981 • MLS#1283155 • 5 BR/2.5 BA

love where you live

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$19,300,000 LAKEVIEW TERRACE $1,647,000

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$1,200,000 J.S. WATSON $1,025,000 CLIFFS VALLEY LAKE RIDGE CROSS $1,025,000 COLLINS CREEK $939,000

$850,000 CLUB FOREST $730,000 CHANTICLEER $712,000 THORNBLADE $654,000 SHADOWOOD $625,000 GREEN VALLEY ESTATES $607,500

$565,000 STONEHAVEN $555,000 MCRAE PARK $517,131 PARK HILL $515,000

$506,000

$485,000 FIVE FORKS PLANTATION $436,481 GREEN VALLEY ESTATES $420,000 AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT $403,380

$399,000 STONEHAVEN $385,000 HILLCREST CIRCLE $382,000 BERKSHIRE PARK $375,000 RIVER WALK $372,000 BRIARWOOD MEADOWS $361,950 LINKSIDE $360,000 HOLLAND TRACE $355,000 LAKE FOREST HEIGHTS $345,000 HIGHLAND PARC $334,360 SHADOWOOD $325,000 TUSCAN WOODS $323,900 GOODWIN FARMS $316,403 ASCOT $315,000

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104 Barksdale Greene • 4BR/2.5BA • $589,000 Convenient custom home. Mn. fl. master suite, family rm opens to sunroom. Fresh interior paint and updated kit. Walk to Sara Collins, minutes to town and CCES. MLS 1273361

GREAT HOME!

147 Mustang Circle • 4BR/3BA • $689,000 12 Parkins Mill Court • 4BR/4.5BA + Bonus • $669,000 Stunning contemporary on nearly 4 acres of privacy! 2 garages Totally updated! Vaulted ceil & lg FP in Den, all new Mst BA, new (one with workshop), gunite pool, garden shed, barn with pasture. deck, circ drive and fenced yard. Minutes to interstate, hospitals, Fabulous gardens. Your own little paradise! MLS 1280194 CCES school and downtown. MLS 1279567

Successfully selling Greenville year after year.

Kathy Rogoff Call me. 864-420-4617

www.allentate.com • 864-297-1953 • 88 Villa Road, Greenville, SC 29615

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$300,000 MORNING MIST $297,000 HAVEN@RIVER SHOALS $296,535 SILVERLEAF $293,000 RIDGEWATER $290,000 DOVE TREE $289,900 THORNHILL PLANTATION $289,000 SHANNON CREEK $288,000 GREYSTONE COTTAGES $287,256 WOODLAND CREEK $281,775 HERITAGE POINT $281,145 SILVER RIDGE FARMS $280,000 BOXWOOD $280,000 KILGORE FARMS $276,762 BUMCOMBE PARK $275,000

$270,000 PEGGY J KELLY $270,000 BRIDGEWATER $263,289 CRESCENT TERRACE $260,000 WATERSTONE COTTAGES $259,100 SHADOWOOD $258,400 BRIDGEWATER $255,980 FIELD HOUSE CONDOMINIUM $254,500 ROPER MEADOW $252,500 BROWNSTONE CROSSING $249,310 SHENANDOAH FARMS $245,000 CROSSGATE@REMINGTON $238,902 NORTHSIDE GARDENS $233,000

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$230,000 RESERVE@PLANTATION GREENE $225,000

$225,000 AVALON ESTATES $225,000 MORNING MIST FARM $224,500 MORNING MIST FARM $223,000 WETHERILL PARK $221,522 RAVINES@CREEKSIDE $218,000 PELHAM FALLS $216,000 WOODSTONE COTTAGES $215,000 ACADIA $215,000 COVE@SAVANNAH POINTE $214,644 CROSSGATE@REMINGTON $212,915 MILL POND@RIVER SHOALS $212,000 AVALON ESTATES $210,000 AUGUSTA RD HILLS $210,000 SUMMERFIELD $206,500 TRAXLER PARK $200,500 SILVERLEAF $200,000 REMINGTON $199,848 TWIN CREEKS $195,885 GARDENS@ROSE RESERVE $195,000 SUMMERWALK $195,000 TOWNHOMES@PENDLETON WEST $192,000 IVYBROOKE $187,250 CHARTWELL ESTATES $180,800

$180,000 TOWNES@RIVERWOOD FARM $180,000 ADAMS RUN $179,900

$179,500 THE BRIO $179,000 DEVENGER PLACE $179,000 LANSDOWNE@REMINGTON $175,000 SHELBURNE FARMS $174,000

$173,000 CRESCENT TERRACE $172,207 ORCHARD FARMS $170,000 WINDSOR FOREST $169,000 HUDDERS CREEK $168,000 FAIRVIEW LAKE $168,000

$165,000 DEVENGER PLACE $165,000 TOWNES@BROOKWOOD $159,950 CANEBRAKE $159,900 CANEBRAKE $157,600 AUTUMN HILLS $154,900 LONG CREEK PLANTATION $154,000 CARDINAL CREEK $149,900 SPRING RIDGE $148,500 WATERMILL $147,927 WEDGEWOOD PLACE $147,000 THE GROVE $147,000 HALF MILE LAKE $145,458 FARMINGTON ACRES $143,900 WINDSOR FOREST $143,000 ORCHARD FARMS BAKER’S GARDEN $139,900 DUNWOODY OAKS $138,000 NORTHWOOD HILLS $137,700 EASTWOOD TERRACE $137,500

$137,500 TOWNES@CARDINAL CREEK $135,960 THORNBLADE CROSSING $135,000 TIMBER TRACE $135,000

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Action from the Girls Under 13 match between Team Elmhurst Select from Illinois wearing gray and Sting East Gray from North Texas wearing blue. Sting East Gray won 1 to 0.

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By John Lieb

Down 1 Trapped 2 Float site 3 Lipton product 4 Facebook request 5 Repel, with “off” 6 Katniss’s weapon in “The Hunger Games” 7 Lawless state 8 Hang up the spikes 9 Paparazzi’s target 10 Ticked off 11 Lemon aids?

12 Singer DiFranco 13 Scrapes 14 The 1973 Mets’ “Ya Gotta Believe!,” e.g.

15 Hoover’s wife 16 Humbly apologizes 17 Pulitzer-winning biographer Leon 18 __ cava 19 Vortex 25 Barbarian 27 “Buon __”: Italian greeting 33 Explosive trial 34 Flattened 35 “Decisions, decisions ...”

37 Homer, for one 38 Oral health org.

39 “__ and stop me!”

40 Horror star Chaney

42 London lockup 43 Bring aboard 44 Runner down under?

48 “Overhead” engine parts 49 Moonfish 50 It might be cc’d 51 Cord under a tarp 52 Abrupt 53 Word with gas or oil 54 Dry skin tip-off 57 More agile 61 Dough-dispensing convenience, briefly 63 Overcharge, say 64 Turf __: common football injury 65 Important star 67 Gas additive brand 69 Like some kindergarten programs 70 Plenty, in verse 71 Menlo Park middle name 72 Clutter-free 73 ‘Iolani Palace site 74 Condo, e.g.

75 Set components 79 Cornerstone abbr.

80 Nixon confidant Rebozo 81 Judge’s setting 83 Disdain 85 Haggard

86 The lord in “The Lord of the Rings” 87 Stare at rudely 90 Like many faithful adherents 91 Genetic material 92 Off-rd. ride 93 One who isn’t with us 95 Movie props?

98 Hail Marys, often 100 Future ferns 101 Strengthened, with “up” 102 Floating 103 Cigar brand that comes in grape and peach flavors 104 Violent protester 105 Ted of “CSI” 107 “Game of Thrones” airer 110 Chocolate caramel bar 111 Parcheesi destination 112 Rocket scientist, e.g.: Abbr.

114 Frat letters 115 Jazzy Horne 116 Fivers 118 Cajun staple 120 Topeka-to-Peoria dir.

121 “Ew, I didn’t need that mental picture!”

122 Plunk preceder

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Across 1 Spruce (up) 6 Employees with many perks?

14 45 holder 20 Mother-of-pearl 21 Intimate 22 Really well-off 23 “You __ big trouble, mister!”

24 View from much of the Oregon coast?

26 Kid-friendly, in a way 28 Country singer who was an 8-year-old “Star Search” contestant 29 Yank

30 Delight at the comedy club 31 Site of the first cover-up?

32 Rise: Abbr.

34 He appointed Sandra to the Supreme Court 36 What Ceylon, Siam and Upper Volta are nowadays?

41 Racetrack sounds 45 Comic Amsterdam 46 Board-certified talk show host 47 Attribute 48 Pop-up ads, e.g.

51 List of The Duke’s

films?

55 Do impressions of 56 Wrong 58 2002 Streisand album 59 Latin law 60 “Bohemian Rhapsody” addressee 62 Browning and more 66 Carp cousins 68 Double eagle in a PGA event?

76 Tall, dark and handsome 77 Actress Zellweger 78 Sheet of stamps 79 Subside 82 Petal picker’s word

84 “It follows that ...”

88 With it 89 Battleship game setting?

94 Spicy stews 96 “Fun, Fun, Fun” car 97 Savvy about 98 Possessive in many church names 99 Triangular soil deposits 101 Hank Aaron’s 715th home run, at the time?

106 Character in “Scooby-Doo”?

108 __ Domini 109 Samoa’s largest city

110 “The Cosby Show” son 113 U.K. award 114 Oro y __: Montana’s motto 117 Alaska’s __ Sound 119 Pneumatic tube in a drive-thru?

123 Intertwines yarn 124 “Later, dude” 125 High standing 126 “Star-cross’d” lover 127 Battle of Thermopylae victor, 480 B.C. 128 Utter failure 129 Trim

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WITH PEGGY HENDERSON

Look before you leap The first stages of retirement are akin to a honeymoon.

Getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, an unhampered feeling of freedom keeps a smile on your face. You have to keep telling yourself this is not just a summer vacation. If you avoid the mirror and ignore your cranky knees, you’d swear you could walk 18 holes carrying your golf bag – or in my case, play three sets of singles.

It’s like any other major change in life; you need space to get your arms around it. Unfortunately, those fantasies of the long-awaited retirement (no matter how well planned, financially and passionately) can fall prey to an unanticipated reality: How can it possibly be that a spectacular sunset at Sun City could become normal? Even worse, after the new normal, comes boredom. Is this all there is?

I wouldn’t tell my best friend what to do, where to live or what happens when you get there. I’m just saying the only way to make sound decisions is to learn from others’ perspectives.

My husband sold his company and took early retirement in his 50s and didn’t actively pursue another career right away. We bought a two-bedroom condo at Kiawah Island and used it as a second home. We were fortunate to have the opportunity to revel in our two grandchildren when we all were “young.”

Now that those granddaughters are young adults, that makes us old boomers.

We have sold the condo. David loves his second career and I’m contentedly sitting in my writing chair. Looking back, we realize we are blessed at the good timing of early retirement.

My humble advice is if you have bloomed where you are planted, then don’t dig up the garden. If you are asked what home means to you and there are no words to describe it – don’t move. Or move somewhere else in your community.

According to research from The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, “Aging in place is an ongoing process as older residents, 65-84, renegotiate the inevitable shifts over time in health, finances, relationships, family and social supports.”

The key takeaway is this: It remains simpler to adjust to physical aging and the inevitable loss of loved ones if the stability of beloved landmarks and meaning-

ful memories are still there to lend us emotional comfort. Even though living in a beach or lake community like Sun City offers stimulating growth opportunities, I’d rather age well with 40-year-long relationships with friends who know my history.

It feeds the soul.

Here are a few words to the wise before you pack your belongings and move to Hawaii.

You’ll be surprised how few times your close friends will make the trip to your new haunts to spend time with you. As they grow older, it’s easier to stay home and use Facebook.

You and your grandkids’ memory-making window is pre-kindergarten to about age 12. If you have moved permanently and built a family/resort house, you have at best seven years of quality time with your darlings. After that, the darlings will want to bring a friend or even drive your car to go see friends, and you will be left with either 24/7 entertainment or wandering around sporting a worry hat.

Research shows that older people “who have a lot of social contact are healthier, live longer, and they experience fewer hospitalizations,” according to Robert Bornstein, a psychology professor at Adelphi University.

No getting around it, unless we die early, retirement represents a huge turning point in our lives. One thing we can be certain of is that extended honeymoons don’t exist – but we wise boomers already know that.

Peggy Henderson is a 60 & Beyond former freelance writer turned newspaper columnist. Besides appearing in the Greenville Journal, her column is syndicated with Senior Wire News Services. In addition, she’s a staff writer for the website Go60.us. Contact her at peg4745@aol.com

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