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THEY SAID IT

“If I’m at a light and it turns green, I’ll stay there because usually one or two cars go through. Someone runs a red light almost every time.”

Celebrate Her Success

Greenville resident Robert Morris, on proceeding with caution at green lights.

“What they see is probably more important than what I see.”

Greenville engineer and City Council candidate George Fletcher, on developing leadership among city residents in their 20s and 30s.

“I make no apologies for the nonpartisan vote. I was proud of the way we went through it.”

City Council member Susan Reynolds, on her prior support for stripping party labels from city election ballots.

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Meet the City Council candidates BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

bjeffers@communityjournals.com In less than two weeks, Greenville voters will go the polls for the Republican primary to elect members to two City Council seats.

The Aug. 11 primary is open to all voters regardless of party affiliation.

Absentee voting is also now open at County Square.

At-large incumbent Susan Reynolds faces two challengers: George Fletcher and Gil Crouse. District 1 incumbent Amy Ryberg Doyle faces challenger Bob Beam.

The Journal sat down with all five candidates to learn why they’re running and what they hope to accomplish if they win.

Amy Ryberg Doyle

Bob Beam INCUMBENT, DISTRICT 1

CHALLENGER, DISTRICT 1

Amy Ryberg Doyle first won a seat on City Council in 2007 and this year has drawn a Republican primary challenger in the District 1 election.

Bob Beam, chief financial officer of JWS Distributing and resident of the North Main community, grew up in Greenville. He has been a vocal critic of the city’s infill ordinance and how it applies to building homes in North Main, and has raised concerns about development in the city.

Doyle grew up in Aiken and moved to Greenville’s North Main area 10 years ago after going to college in Boston and living in New York City.

ON WHY SHE’S RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION Doyle said she’s committed to bringing downtown development further northward. She has championed the new Main + Stone development.

Another passion of Doyle is creating community parks. She said Falls Park and the new proposed park on the west side garner lots of attention, but she wants to make the neighborhood parks in her district more accessible. Green spaces are “what makes us different. That’s what makes the city livable,” she said.

One of her goals is establishing a special fund to help maintain small neighborhood parks, which she calls “absolutely vital to the community.”

ON WHY HE’S RUNNING “This whole election – this whole process – is about infill and development,” Beam said. Beam criticized developers for working late at night and on holidays and the small lot sizes.

“We’re not New York City. We don’t need to live on top of each other,” he said. Beam said he’s pro-development but wants better oversight.

“Responsible is the word,” he said. “Greenville’s attractive and that’s why they’re developing here. We don’t need to give the key to the city away.”

ON WHY SHE’S THE BEST CANDIDATE Doyle said her outlook as a mother of young children is “a perspective that is needed on any board” and allows her to better relate to people.

BECAUSE NO DEMOCRATS ARE RUNNING FOR THE DISTRICT 1 OR THE AT-LARGE SEATS, the

GOP primary will decide the winner of the general election unless a petition candidate files by Aug. 20. If a petition candidate files, the general election will be Aug. 3.

The at-large primary could go into a runoff if no candidate captures over 50 percent of the vote. In that case, the runoff will be held Aug. 15.

She added that she’s also run a successful e-commerce business and knows how to surround herself with people smarter than herself to help improve all areas of the city.

ON CRITICISM OVER NEIGHBORHOOD INFILL DEVELOPMENT She said Council regularly reviews ordinances to see what needs to be improved. Because she’s a resident of North Main, Doyle said she is able to sympathize with residents there who are near new construction. But Doyle cited studies that said denser cities facilitate urban growth better than sprawl.

“I certainly didn’t mean to come off as dismissive, but we just disagreed,” she said about meeting with her opponent about his concerns about infill.

The polling places for about 17,000 registered voters will change Aug. 11 due to scheduling conflicts. The city will notify voters affected by the change of their new polling places by letter.

ON ISSUES SHE WANTS TO TACKLE

For a complete list of polling places, visit bit.ly/ pollingsites2015.

As an avid runner, Doyle said she’s excited about how the Swamp Rabbit Trail continues to shape the city and turn it into a place friendly toward bikers and runners. She said she’s also excited about the new park coming to the West End.

Doyle said Stone Avenue and Wade Hampton Boulevard have been neglected and are “playing catch-up” as far as development goes.

She wants to bring more residential development to the Wade Hampton area.

ON WHY HE’S THE BEST CANDIDATE “I know Greenville; I know how it was. I’ve played in all these parks,” he said. “I think living in the North Main area for the past 10 years gives me some perspective.”

He added that having his MBA and CPA is an advantage with knowledge of management and finance. Beam said he realizes he doesn’t have all the answers but he is willing to listen to people.

“My goal is to grow District 1 reasonably and responsibly.”

He criticized his opponent, Councilwoman Amy Ryberg Doyle, for being dismissive when he and other community members came to her with concerns about developers. “We were treated like we were school students,” he said of his meeting with Doyle.

He said Mayor Knox White did more for the community than its own representative.

Beam said he can be a good communicator and actually do what the people want.

ON HOW HE CAN WORK THROUGH CONFLICT ON CITY COUNCIL Beam said being in a management position has helped him learn to deal with people. “Being … in town 50 years, you meet a lot of people; you know a lot of people.”

ON ISSUES IN HE WANTS TO TACKLE

ON THE FUTURE

Besides making changes to infill regulations, Beam said he would like to focus on improving Wade Hampton Boulevard going into downtown, saying it was a “bit of an eyesore.”

“Neon signs and 24-hour stores are hopefully not going to be part of the equation,” he said.

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Susan Reynolds

George Fletcher

Gil Crouse

INCUMBENT, AT-LARGE

CHALLENGER, AT-LARGE

CHALLENGER, AT-LARGE

Greenville native Susan Reynolds has lived in the Greenville area her entire life and owned an Augusta Road dress shop, the Alley Cat, for 20 years.

George Fletcher came to Greenville in 1975 and has worked for 29 years as a civil and environmental systems engineer.

Gil Crouse served as a Navy officer during the Vietnam War before becoming an engineer for private companies.

He owned a Hilton Head restaurant with his wife for four years before managing resort properties for Marriott.

She won one of the at-large seats on City Council in 2007 and now faces two challengers in the Republican primary.

ON WHY SHE’S RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION Reynolds said Greenville is at a “really critical point” and she wants to help keep the same quality of life that residents currently enjoy.

“There’s just so much growth and so much development going on,” she said.

She said the current makeup of council members works well. “I just feel like it’s important to have consistency right now during this time,” she said.

ON ISSUES SHE WANTS TO ADDRESS Reynolds said council is looking at the city’s outdated sewer system and studying ways to improve it to keep up with the growth in the city. Because of her background in retail, she said she’s also interested in taking a closer look at how the city attracts and retains businesses.

He has never held an elected position, but has served on multiple community organizations, including chair of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and chair of the committees that led to the creation of Fluor Field and CU-ICAR, and was Executive Director of the SC Council on Competitiveness from 2006-2013. He is currently a board member on the SC Research Authority.

ON WHY HE’S RUNNING Fletcher said he wants to have an impact on private/public partnerships to help create innovation. He wants to have more collaboration with agencies across the city.

“I know these people; I’ve worked with them, and I think I can bring that skill set to City Council,” he said.

ON ISSUES HE WANTS TO TACKLE “We’re in some ways victims of our own success,” he said. To maintain a good quality of life, he said parks are important and City Council should be cognizant of gentrification and review the infill and tree ordinances.

“This is all about balance,” she said. Being a council member has a learning curve, she said, and she has the advantage of being on a council that works well addressing problems such as infill development.

Fletcher said an at-large member must be sensitive to issues that affect the whole city. He has chaired the Renewable Water Resources Board and said the city needs a long-range plan to expand the sewer capacities so businesses can more easily hook into the main line. He also wants to get a plan in place for the proposed park on the West End.

“I take the job very seriously and I have a great passion for this job,” she said.

ON WHY HE’S THE BEST CANDIDATE

ON WHY SHE’S THE BEST CANDIDATE

ON THE MAYOR SUPPORTING HER CHALLENGER “I’m sorry that he’s not supporting me,” she said, “but I have … done exactly the same job that I would have done regardless of whether he is or is not supporting me, and part of that, I think, is because the other council members are very supportive of me.”

“One of the things I think I’m pretty good at is listening,” he said, adding that City Council has not done a good job of listening.

He mentioned the recent nonpartisan vote as an example.

He said he was ambivalent on the issue at first, but he would have listened to the 6,500 people who signed a petition asking the city to keep partisan elections.

ON NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS VOTE

ON WHAT SEPARATES HIM FROM THE INCUMBENT

Reynolds, who was on the yes side of a 4-3 vote to switch the city to nonpartisan elections (which was later reversed), said, “It’s not always a bad thing when you don’t agree,” referring to the split vote on council, both to initiate the change and repeal it.

Fletcher said he has a lifetime of experience in business, community and nonprofit involvement, and has more direct economic development experience than his opponent. He mentioned the city’s loss of Sealed Air to Charlotte, noting the city didn’t make an effort to keep the company until “fairly late in the game.”

She said the decision was tough and she didn’t expect the public backlash, but the issue is behind them.

“I make no apologies for the nonpartisan vote. I was proud of the way we went through it,” she said last week at a candidate forum hosted by the Greenville News and North Main Community Forum.

ON THE FUTURE He said he wants to develop leadership among people in their 20s and 30s because they will be the ones to address future needs of the city. “What they see is probably more important than what I see,” he said.

Crouse managed a beach club in the Bahamas as well as the Westminster retirement community in Greenville.

He now works at a company that recruits executives for engineering and manufacturing firms.

ON WHY HE’S RUNNING Crouse said three reasons drove his decision to run. He disapproved of the city’s process for choosing the final design of the Main + Stone development, saying the design changed right before approval and looked nothing like what hundreds of citizens had said they wanted in public forums. He objected to the way incumbent Councilwoman Susan Reynolds, his opponent, voted on the nonpartisan election issue. He also wants to see more support for neighborhood organizations, such as those in the Nicholtown area.

Crouse said he wants to change the city’s focus on community development in addition to midtown development.

ON ISSUES HE WANTS TO ADDRESS Overdevelopment threatens to ruin the city, Crouse said.

He said growth excites and worries him because he saw problems when he lived in Hilton Head with developers turning the place into a resort instead of a community.

He raised concerns about the city giving less money to neighborhood programs and focusing instead on development in the center of the city. “When I was in Pittsburgh, I saw a large city … [that] had all the big city stuff – symphonies, universities, sports teams – but what they really had was neighborhoods.”

He said the strong character of the neighborhoods helped Pittsburgh thrive.

ON ISSUES UNIQUE TO AN AT-LARGE MEMBER He said being an at-large member is like running a plant.

The member must focus on priorities and make sure development in the individual districts ties together.

ON HANDLING CONFLICT ON CITY COUNCIL “You try to take into account as many factors as you can,” he said. But if you make a mistake, you have to be willing to admit it and keep adjusting, he said.

ON WHAT SEPARATES HIM FROM THE OTHER CANDIDATES “That’s in the eyes of the voter,” he said. Crouse didn’t want to give specific details.

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OPINION VIEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY, HEARD HERE

Cellphones best option for police oversight IN MY OWN WORDS

by Bill Rogers

Hardly a week goes by now without the surfacing of a cellphone video of police abuse, often of minorities.

These private camera videos are providing the best and often only record of police confrontations, such as the shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, or the more recent incident at a pool party in Texas.

This spring, state legislators passed a law requiring police to wear body cameras. But while they may do some internal good, don’t expect to see the images in the news.

The public and the press will not have access to the images from these police cameras. Their data is now legally “not a public record” and not subject to release under the Freedom of Information Act. The idea that these cameras could pro-

vide needed oversight of police actions was trumped in the Legislature by privacy concerns, real or imagined.

These cameras will cost taxpayers an estimated $22 million a year. Yet these recordings are secret.

So let’s look at the Walter Scott shooting.

The policeman who shot Scott in the back can be seen on the privately shot video planting his Taser by Scott’s body, likely to corroborate his original story that the unarmed man was shot in self-defense.

Without the private video, the truth might never have been known. This tragedy helped the body-camera bill gain traction at the Statehouse.

If such an incident reoccurred with a police body camera in use, would the public ever have seen it? The law now says a law enforcement agency, the State Law Enforcement Division, the Attorney General, or a circuit solicitor may release data recorded by a body-worn camera at

The challenge of going digital IN MY OWN WORDS

by Mary Louise Parisi Our transition to electronic health records (EHR) has been lengthy, expensive and challenging in many ways.

Forty-eight percent of medical providers are currently using or implementing an EHR system. Having come through the process, we can look back and see some reasons why 52 percent of practices haven’t acted and perhaps offer some encouragement.

Practices that are Medicare providers will begin to see a 1 percent annual reduction in reimbursements this year if they have not converted to an EHR system.

But those that have and can document “meaningful use” can receive incentive payments to help offset the costs of compliance. So far, only 0.1 percent of eligible providers have been paid an incentive from Medicare. We are proud to be among

them and to have received Medicare approval on our first application.

The biggest hurdle to get over is the cost.

It is extremely expensive, not only in the costs of hardware and software, but in staff time, training and hiring. Patient revenue dropped 10 percent in our first year as we reduced appointments to give the staff time to learn, to practice and to transition our hard-copy records to digital.

Unlike most new technologies, this is not one designed to save money by reducing staff. Quite the opposite: We added employees. The most significant

its discretion. But will they?

Even with police dash-cam videos, which are clearly open under the law, police have a poor record of releasing videos. A suit was recently filed in Aiken over SLED’s refusal to release the dash video from the fatal police shooting of an unarmed man in his car more than a year ago. A civil suit in the shooting has already been settled for more than a million dollars, but the public has not seen the video.

In Greenwood two years ago, the Highway Patrol had to be sued before they would release a video of the arrest of a city councilwoman.

Another bill, S. 647, was introduced late in the session that would make sure police cannot hinder or prevent a person taking a photograph of a law enforcement officer performing his or her official duties in a public place.

The important bill, by Sen. Gerald Malloy and others, says photographers

cannot be prevented from making photographs, be arrested or be intimidated.

Their cameras cannot be seized without a warrant and their recordings may not be destroyed by police. Let us all hope it passes next year.

With public access to police body camera footage limited, private cellphone cameras remain our best method of documenting police confrontations. My grandson is teaching me how to take videos on mine.

change for us was the addition of an IT department and scribes – trained medical information specialists who electronically chart information during patient exams. Without scribes, doctors would spend their time typing on a computer rather than engaging with and assessing the patient. Scribes will help doctors become more efficient without sacrificing that essential face-to-face interaction.

In our offices, we found the transition a challenging mind shift. It is a different way of practicing medicine than many realized. We practiced and used roleplaying extensively to acclimate our staff and help them understand the challenges for nurses, practitioners, and patients.

Still, despite our best efforts, not all staff adapted. I’ve seen talented clinical staff turned into poor performers. Not everyone survived the transition.

There will likely be no return on investment for medical practices converting to EHR. The big payback will be in the future focus of health care: delivering quality care with high patient satisfac-

tion at reduced cost.

We’ll get there through mining the massive amounts of information the electronic records provide. That information will fuel greater strides in medical research and analysis. Through it, we’ll learn what works to treat diseases and conditions faster and better. Potentially, the information we can gain from aggregating and analyzing this health data is the biggest benefit of EHR. Adopting EHR will be critical to practices that want to remain competitive and avoid federal cutbacks in the future.

Bill Rogers is executive director of the S.C. Press Association, an advocate for open government in South Carolina. Rogers

Mary Lou Parisi is CEO of Clemson Eye, which has five locations in Greenville, Anderson, Easley, Clemson, and a Lasik center, Spectrum Lasik, in Greenville. Parisi

Speak your mind The Journal welcomes letters to the editor and guest columns on timely public issues.

Letters should include name, city, phone number and email address for verification purposes and should not exceed 300 words. Columns should include a photo and short bio of the author and should not exceed 600 words. Writers should demonstrate relevant expertise and make balanced, fact-based arguments.

All submissions will be edited and become the property of the Journal. We do not guarantee publication or accept letters or columns that are part of organized campaigns. We prefer electronic submissions. Contact Executive Editor Susan Clary Simmons at ssimmons@communityjournals.com.

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Rubio talks foreign policy in Greenville BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

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are in danger … because of the information he has released,” Rubio said.

When asked about the recent nuclear deal with Iran, Rubio said the deal releases billions in frozen assets that will go toward funding terrorism.

He said he is confident that the Senate and House won’t approve the deal, but that getting enough Democrats on board to override a presidential veto would be difficult.

Rubio ended the forum by saying America is “the most powerful county in the world,” and he fears that if another country like China with poor human rights records took over that title, the negative impact would be global.

“Whether we like it or not, this extraordinary nation has been passed the role of being the leader of the free world, and it is not a role we should give up,” he said, “because the alternative is that the world will return to an age of darkness and of violence and a lack of freedoms.

That’s not a world I want to leave for my children.”

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Rubio answered a host of national security questions at Furman University on Tuesday at a forum hosted

by Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security. The event was his third this week in Greenville. He also stopped at Brewery 85 and Swamp Rabbit CrossFit Monday evening.

Rubio, who is one of 16 Republicans running for president, said other challengers have experience regarding foreign issues of the past but don’t understand the present situation of the world.

Rubio, 44, has come under question about a lack of experience on foreign policy, but has recently been promoting his youth as a way to

demonstrate he understands modern issues.

He said Tuesday at Furman that “government policies designed for the old economy and the old world couldn’t possibly deal” with the rapid changes of the modern era.

“One of the most important issues of this election is whether or not we are going to elect people to the highest office in the land and to government … that understand that you can’t regulate Uber like a taxicab and you can’t treat ISIS like some threat from the 20th century,” he said.

Questions about security addressed topics both foreign and domestic.

Rubio called Edward Snowden “a traitor” who put American soldiers in danger and compromised national security information and had a “devastating effect” on the way intelligence is collected.

“You may agree or disagree with our intelligence programs, but the fact is that today there are men and women in American uniforms who

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The life you save may be your own National Stop on Red Week reminds drivers to obey the scarlet signal

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APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

When you’re behind the wheel at an intersection, do you pause when your light turns green, just to be sure no other drivers barrel through the red?

That pause could save your life. Roughly 3.7 million Americans reported they ran a red light in 2014, according to the National Coalition for Safer Roads (NCSR).

Ignoring red lights also takes its toll in South Carolina.

The state Department of Public Safety couldn’t pull out statistics expressly on red-light running – DPS keep numbers on accidents caused by “ignoring a traffic signal or sign,” rather than running a red light – but says over the last three years, an annual average of 3,500 people were injured statewide in these accidents.

National Stop on Red Week, Aug. 2-8, was launched more than a decade ago to call attention to the danger of flying through the red, and the number of people injured or killed in often-preventable accidents.

Nationwide in 2012, 683 people were killed and 133,000 injured in accidents involving ignored red lights. In 2014, ignoring a traffic light or sign contributed to 3,711 injuries and 30 deaths in South Carolina, DPS reports. A total of 53,489 injuries and deaths were recorded statewide in 2014.

That same year, Greenville County accounted for roughly 10 percent of the statewide injury total 396 and 13 percent of the deaths (four) in accidents attributed to ignoring a traffic signal or sign. As of mid-July 2015, four people have died and 206 were injured in Greenville County in such accidents, preliminary data shows.

Drivers say they don’t approve of the behavior, yet continue to ignore red lights themselves. Of 432 South Carolinians surveyed, 82 percent said red-light running was a problem and 99.5 percent agreed that it was dangerous, according to a 1999 study by DaimlerChrysler Corporation, the American Trauma Society and the Federal Highway Administration.

Red-light runners aren’t always speed demons, either.

Many Upstate drivers can attest to seeing drivers in bumper-to-bumper traffic on busy corridors like Woodruff or Haywood roads pull forward and stop in an intersection, blocking progress for all.

LIKELY TO MEET A VIOLATOR Research consistently shows red-light running is commonplace. “Any time you get behind the wheel or step into a roadway, there is a very real risk of encountering a redlight violator,” the NCSR says.

Greenville drivers agree, according to an informal Journal poll taken one afternoon at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena.

“I think [the danger of running red lights] is right up there with texting and driving. A lot of times they’ve run it while they’re on their phones,” said Greenville resident Gail Cameron.

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Dwight Rust, who commutes to Greenville from Pickens, said he witnessed a close call just recently. “One day I was sitting at a light and got distracted. The light turned green, I stayed still and the car beside me took off; and a big truck and trailer hit the car – the woman actually died.”

“It’s very dangerous. Usually if I’m at a light and it turns green, I’ll stay there because usually one or two cars go through. Someone runs a red light almost every time,” said Greenville resident Robert Morris.

Greenville County Sheriff’s Office Master Deputy Mike McGaha agreed that the behavior is pervasive in the Upstate. “[Red-light running] is probably the No. 1 cause of collisions in urban areas,” he said. Statistics bear him out: According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, ignoring red lights, stop signs or other traffic controls cause 22 percent of urban accidents.

MAKING A CHANGE National Stop on Red Week aims to raise awareness about the dangers of red-light running and the physical and personal costs. Organizers ask drivers to sign a pledge that they will not endanger themselves, passengers or other drivers by running the light.

McGaha said deputies enforce the law regarding red lights and stop signs throughout the year and will be stepping up patrols in urban areas during the week.

“It’s absolutely dangerous” to ignore a traffic signal, he said.

His department doesn’t have any regularly patrolled red-light running hot spots, but pays attention to residents who report habitual violations in certain neighborhoods and intersections and responds with periodic focused enforcement.

“We get calls throughout the county. We will be out there and enforcing,” he said. Drivers pay the price if law enforcement catches them ignoring a traffic signal, McGaha said.

A ticket can cost between $80 and $237, according to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office. “It is a four-point violation, so make sure you come to a complete stop,” he added.

Morris said only a police officer at an intersection could deter offenders, “otherwise they’re just flying through.”

Technology could stop red-light running, Rust said. “Only way I know of would be to put a camera at an intersection where it has happened quite frequently and taking the tag number of whoever did it.”

Traffic cameras are an option favored by the National Coalition for Safer Roads, but South Carolina does not use the technology.

number of drivers nationwide who said they ran a red light in 2014

3,711

number of people injured in South Carolina in 2014 in collisions with a contributing factor of disregarding signs or signals

10.6

percentage of statewide injuries happening in Greenville County (2014)

4

number of people in Greenville County who died in collisions with contributing factor of disregarding signs or signals (2014)

396

number of people in Greenville County injured in collisions with contributing factor of disregarding signs or signals (2014)

99.5%

percentage of 432 South Carolinians surveyed who said red-light running was dangerous

22

percentage of urban accidents caused by ignoring red lights, signs or other traffic signals

1 in 3

number of people who say they personally know someone injured or killed in a red-light running crash

3.56 million

number of violations captured (an average of 9,755 daily) during a yearlong survey period of traffic signal cameras Sources: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, “A Nationwide Survey or Red-Light Running, Stop Distraction on Red: The Effects of Distracted Driving on Intersection Safety” and SC Department of Public Safety.

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Effort to save former Berea school on hold Developer still has option on property

process. This organization has indicated they have the expertise and financial ability to facilitate such a transaction.”

Guzzardo said bringing the building APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF up to current code would be expensive, amorris@communityjournals.com but the developer is investigating whether the organization has enough funds.

Berea community members working Berea resident Gwen Williams has been to preserve a circa-1939 school building working to organize community members on Farrs Bridge Road that once housed and develop committees for an effort pothe Berea Elementary School say their ef- tentially dubbed “Building a Better Berea,” forts are on hold pending a change to the she said. A recent meeting drew 200 parstatus of a contract on the property. ticipants, she said, adding, “I’m thrilled In April, Greenville County officials about the people who have come out; there voted down a rezoning request from the were so many who I didn’t know.”

School District of Greenville County that Williams said the school property would have moved forward a development can serve as a public gathering spot and from Florida-based Sembler Company. should be preserved. “It’s Berea’s prime piece of real estate.”

Because of its proximity to Furman University, Greenville Tech’s Northwest Campus and downtown Greenville, Berea would be a prime location for a coffee shop, brewery, restaurants and amphitheater, she said.

Berea community members are working to preserve a circa-1939 The area has mulschool building on Farrs Bridge Road that once housed the Berea tiple vacant big-box Elementary School. stores that could use tenants, she said, Sembler still has an option to purchase and the state has been asked to move the the nearly 4-acre site for $550,000, ac- Greenville State Farmers Market into the cording to school district spokesman Oby former K-Mart and Winn-Dixie or forLyles. The district had declared the prop- mer Sky City buildings in Berea. erty surplus in 1999 and leased it until At this time, Williams said she is 2008 to Greenville Technical College, working to get the school district to adwhich left when its Northwest Campus dress some maintenance issues with the was completed. building. It was in good condition when Sembler has a contract to purchase Greenville Tech left it, she said, but “sadthe property until Sept. 28, Lyles said. ly, it has been totally neglected.”

The contract can be extended at an adSince she has begun the preservation ditional cost to the developer, he said. effort, Williams said many residents have Sembler representatives requested a re- stopped by to visit and give her photos of zoning to commercial and presented a the school. “That school meant a lot to a plan to build an outparcel retail develop- lot of people.” ment that would contain an auto retail Greenville County Councilman Willis business, store and restaurant, but the Meadows, who represents the area, said rezoning was halted at second reading by he was encouraged by the “great turnout” Greenville County Council. at the community meeting and the “work Sembler is “engaged in conversations toward revitalizing that area of Berea.” with an organization that would allow At this point, “Sembler is in the driver’s for a possible outcome for preserving of seat,” he said. The debate over the propthe school structure,” Sembler vice presi- erty “has generated a lot of pride in the dent of real estate J.P. Guzzardo said in an community that has been latent … we email this week. “This is very early in the don’t want to lose that momentum.”

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Greenville Police to get firearms training simulator BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

bjeffers@communityjournals.com The Greenville Police Department could soon be getting a firearms training simulator to create situations based on real-life circumstances to help teach officers about the use of deadly force.

City Council gave first reading to an ordinance appropriating $34,697 in federal grant money available to the police department to pay for the simulator.

Situations based on real-life scenarios are projected onto a large screen and officers can interact verbally with simulations and choose whether to fire a gun.

Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller told City Council the simulator will help train officers to refine judgments in how to deescalate tense situations.

“Where we have concerns or as we’re training people annually, we can run

The Greenville Police Department may be getting a simulator similar to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office Firearm Simulator Training facility.

them through this and assess their proficiency as really trying to deescalate tension or being able to respond to threats as they come up,” he said.

Miller said the simulator could measure officers’ communication skills, tactics and safety in encountering potentially dangerous situations.

“We can evaluate and improve on their tactical approach, which is obviously of public concern nationally in this day and age,” he said.

In addition to officers, the police department plans to allow community members, such as those in the Citizens Police Academy and those with concerns on how police handle situations, to experience some of the training scenarios.

Using force is never a pleasant situation and many times people question police judgment, Miller said, but the simulator gives the department a platform to help people who may be critical of police action to understand and learn more about the process.

Miller said the grant money will cover most, if not all, of the cost to set up the simulator, which will be located at the department’s range facility on Mauldin Road.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF BLOUNT ADVANCES ON ‘AMERICA’S GOT TALENT’

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Greenville singer Benton Blount has advanced to the quarterfinals of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.”

Blount was one of seven contestants out of 20 chosen by Judges Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B, Howie Mandel and guest judge Marlon Wayans in Tuesday night’s episode to advance to Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Blount, a tattooed, stay-at-home dad, performed the Dolly Parton hit, “Jolene.”

Wayans said it sounded like the singer was in an argument with a girl who was leaving him. “I thought if that was on the radio then I’d buy that album,” Wayans said after Blount performed.

Klum said, “I think that you have a beautiful singing voice. It’s a little rough around the edges and I like it.”

COUNTY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS EMS AUG. 25 Greenville County Council has scheduled a special Committee of the Whole meeting at 6 p.m. on Aug. 25 at County Square to discuss a proposal for giving Greenville Health System (GHS) operational control of the countyrun emergency medical service (EMS).

According to councilman Joe Baldwin, council will hear input from Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, GHS and other stakeholders, as well as the public.

The EMS operation accounts for roughly $17 million of the county budget and county officials estimate it loses more than $3 million annually. Under the proposed plan, the county would pay GHS $1.5 million to help run EMS. The proposed plan also stipulates that St. Francis would be part of an advisory committee; however, hospital officials say St. Francis has been shut out of discussions about EMS or formulating the plan. Visit greenvillecounty.org under Mobile Integrated Healthcare Practice to view the plan.

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Some team members have played with Finotti since they were 13 years old, he said.

TWO EXPLOSIONS AT PROTERRA PLANT A fire broke out Wednesday at electric bus maker Proterra’s Greenville headquarters.

According to reports, two explosions occurred around 3:45 a.m. at the facility and smoke was seen coming from the building.

Firefighters discovered a bus on fire inside the facility.

The fire lasted until about 8 a.m. No injuries were reported.

Greenville Fire Inspector Claude Turner told the Greenville News that the investigators believe the explosions heard were from tires on the bus that blew out because of the fire.

The cause of the fire was unclear as of press time.

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Carolina Elite Soccer Academy’s (CESA) under-16 boys’ Premier 98 team recently played six games in seven days and came out as champs in the U.S. Youth Soccer Region III tournament. They competed in the National Championships last week.

The team went up against teams from Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Virginia, said coach Nick Finotti. The CESA team was one of 16 teams representing 12 states.

While the team fell short of the top slot, Finotti said, “I’m

The Miniature World of Trains is raising $80,000 to secure a new home and has scouted several potential locations since announcing last month it is closing its location at Falls Park Drive in downtown Greenville.

The original plan was to keep this test location open while transitioning to another downtown location, but executive director Frank Ruby said negotiations failed and a new location is being sought. Ruby cited the lack of parking in the West End and new construction eliminating more spaces as a factor in closing.

As of press time, nearly $20,000 had been raised. The museum must vacate its downtown space this weekend.

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The rhythms of life Our World Festival celebrates rhythms that connect CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Despite differences in language, religion and customs, rhythm unites cultures throughout the world. It’s that commonality that the Our World Festival will celebrate Saturday in the Village of West Greenville.

“Traditional rhythms are part of daily life in many cultures,” said Jeff Holland, a multi-ethnic percussionist, founder of Drum4Work and one of the organizers of the festival. “The idea is everyone can understand the universal language of rhythms and patterns. Through rhythm, we can make better connections within ourselves and with the world around us.”

The Our World Festival started four years ago as a weekend retreat in Flat Rock, N.C., that taught music and dance from different regions. The retreat was designed for educators, but Holland envisioned an expanded festival that would

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include other cultural activities, some of them free.

“We’ve been looking for the right venue and with the Village developing into a center for the arts, this is it,” Holland said.

This year’s festival includes 16 interactive drum and dance workshops highlighting the Middle East, West Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean and India. Single workshops are $15 but three-, five- and seven-workshop packages are available.

Kids Around the World workshops will offer one-hour “tours” of art, music, movement and theater.

A slate of free public activities are on tap as well, including wellness workshops, jazz performances by big bands from Greenville, Asheville, Spartanburg and Anderson, and international rhythm and dance performances. The jazz concerts are sponsored by the Greenville Jazz Collective, a nonprofit organization started in 2013 to create a greater awareness and appreciation for jazz music and history in the Upstate.

International rhythm and dance performers include Nirthyanjali School of Indian Dance, the Lissakeole Irish Band, Imani African Dance featuring Adama Dembele, Patrick Lopez Salsa Experience, Zabumba Brazilianan Samba Drum and Dance Group, Kevin “Kalimba Man” Spears, Dave Holland and DRUM4WORK. Five different venues – JHS Studios, Clemson University Visual Arts Center, the Greenville Center for Creative Arts, the Wheel and the Village field – will host Our World Festival events.

For more information, go to ourworldfestival.com or to the Our World Festival Facebook page, bit.ly/ our-world-facebook.

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clandrum@communityjournals.com In many ways, Meals on Wheels of Greenville has the same logistical challenges as retailers like Wal-Mart, FedEx and UPS – how to build the most efficient routes from a central “depot” to deliver its product to its “customers.”

But the nonprofit that delivers hot meals on weekdays to nearly 1,500 homebound Greenville County residents has challenges no for-profit company must consider, Clemson University professor Scott Mason said.

It depends on an army of volunteers, not paid employees, to deliver the meals on about 125 routes per day. If routes change too much, volunteers won’t want to deliver them. If the routes are too long, they won’t want to deliver them, either, Mason said.

When volunteers cancel or don’t show up, there’s a scramble to find somebody to cover the route.

“It’s not about simply minimizing drive time,” said Mason, who teaches supply chain optimization and logistics in the school’s industrial engineering department.

Four Clemson University students who took one of Mason’s industrial engineering classes spent an entire academic year analyzing Meals on Wheels’ operations to figure out how to improve its efficiency.

The project was the idea of David Stroup, a Fluor employee who took one of Mason’s classes after he returned to Clemson to pursue a Master of Engineering degree.

Stroup is on the Meals on Wheels board.

During discussions of routes and the need for more drivers, Stroup realized some of Meals on Wheels’ challenges sounded similar to his coursework. He wondered whether Clemson students could think of new solutions the board hadn’t considered.

The students started by delivering routes and talking to Meals on Wheels’ employees. They developed a mapping tool using Microsoft Excel and Google Maps to show

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the shortest drive times between clients.

They also analyzed information such as where the organization’s routes were located and how many drivers volunteered on which days.

They found that Mondays and Fridays were the days the organization had the most trouble filling routes. Meals on Wheels hired a part-time driver to help cover those days, which have the highest driver cancellations and no-shows.

Di Nguyen, a junior from Greenville, was one of the students working on the study.

“Meals on Wheels of Greenville, the sponsors and the volunteers are the ones who feed the people,” she said. “But I am glad our team could help make the whole process easier and quicker from a planning perspective.”

But even with the new part-time driver, Meals on Wheels continually needs volunteer drivers, especially in the summer.

To volunteer as a driver, contact Meals on Wheels at 233-6565 or go to mealsonwheelsgreenville.org.

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Go west, young vets Local veterans embark on wilderness trip to help U.S. Forest Service ANDREW REAM | CONTRIBUTOR

aream@communityjournals.com On a recent sweltering Monday afternoon, Upstate Warrior Solution board member Kevin McBride spent hours in a horse barn training

two veterans on the tedious task of tying knots to pack saddles. From balancing the load and horsemanship to avoiding bears, each lesson is essential to a successful wilderness experience for the two recently returned service members preparing to spend a week in the western woods.

As the result of a partnership between the nonprofit Upstate Warrior Solution, Greenville Health System (GHS) and the U.S. Forest Service, military veterans Travis Cox and Blake Draper will travel to Wyoming on Aug. 4 for

How to make life a little sweeter Cakes By U bakes cakes for customers to decorate kwyles@communityjournals.com Many people say that the best part of a cake is the icing – not just because of its smooth, colorful flavor, but also the fun involved with decorating a bare dessert.

“Baking and decorating are two separate places for getting dirty and creating,” said Nathan Vance. “Sometimes it’s more fun to take the fuss and mess of baking out of the equation.”

Vance’s knowledge about baking cakes first developed during his childhood in Saint Lucia of the West Indies. “There weren’t any local bakeries on this island at the time, so my mom made cakes for my family in her kitchen. Sometimes I would help her.”

Baking and decorating cakes soon became different skill sets for Vance as he took cake decorating classes in the U.S. and developed an online business, Cake Supplies 4 U. “There needed to be a more central location for better access to cake supplies,” he said.

Vance founded the brick-and-mortar Cakes By U in Greenville last year with the slogan “We bake – you decorate.”

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and enjoy refreshments, Cakes By U prepares bare cakes for anyone to drop in, decorate and take home.

“Most people are not artists, so it’s more about having a great time,” said Vance. Besides the dropin-and-decorate setup, Cakes

By U also provides decorating classes for girls’ night out, parties, groups and summer camp events.

Several businesses have taken advantage of group activities by Cakes By U to build team collaboration.

“With businesses, we like to split people up into groups that are more diverse, or who would not normally work with each other,” Vance said. “This might mean that an accountant and customer service person are working to create the best cake based on the business’s next innovative project.”

Very few cake-baking businesses in the U.S. offer the variety of services Cakes By U provides, Vance said. He hopes to one day build upon the uniqueness of the business and expand Cakes By U into a franchise, he said.

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A decade of Euphoria Food and drink festival celebrates with sporty and overnight packages APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com The crowd at Euphoria’s recent Tapas and Tinis preview event was a testament to Upstate foodies’ readiness for this year’s premier food and drink festival – which, by the way, is celebrating its 10th year.

Chefs dished up pork tenderloins with grits flavored with andouille sausage and crawfish gravy alongside highbrow tavern ham biscuits with pimento cheese. The evening also featured signature cocktails like Ginger Me Timbers and Pucker Up. All the savory eats were to prep palates for the main events at the Sept. 1720 festival, which features a mix of dinners ranging from intimate guest chef meals to a food truck roundup. Opportunities to enjoy live music and mingle with talented chefs happen throughout the four-day event.

Just announced this week, a Coast to Coast dinner at Hotel Domestique will

give diners the chance to sample the skills of Michelin-starred chefs Curtis Duffy of Grace in Chicago, Sean Gray of Momofuku Ko in New York City and David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, Calif., along with selections from sommelier Fred Dexheimer.

New events for this 10th-year celebration feature recreation like golf at the Cliffs and cycling with George Hincapie as a precursor to Friday’s expansive Taste of the South.

Also new this year are ticket packages that range from admission to the entire festival to just dinner and dessert.

Hotel accommodations at the Hyatt, Courtyard by Marriott, Westin Poinsett and Hampton Inn are included in 2015 ticket package offerings, too.

Sunday’s jazz brunch will feature the Healthy Lunchtime Throwdown competition, where local students have created their own recipes and noted chefs create the dishes for the judges.

Information about all events and tickets are at euphoriagreenville. com.

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11 days in Bridger-Teton National Forest and Jackson Hole.

The men will spend three to four days horse training and packing and another five clearing and maintaining Forest Service trails along with ranger station maintenance, said McBride, trip guide and also director of the GHS Military and Government Liaison Office.

“The therapeutic nature of the wilderness itself and the fellowship with other warriors really helps people who are struggling with different things,” McBride said. “The camaraderie, the fellowship and the opportunity for people to transition, is perfect.”

“The camaraderie, the fellowship and the opportunity for people to transition, is perfect.”

Kevin McBride on veterans spending time in the wilderness after returning from military service.

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number of miles away from the nearest dirt road that veterans Travis Cox and Blake Draper will be during their Wyoming trek

During the trip, the men will be on horseback and live rough in the wilderness about 60 miles from Jackson, Wyo., and about 30 miles from the nearest dirt road, McBride said.

Before the trip, Cox and Draper received basic first aid and CPR training as well as bear-avoidance instruction.

Additionally, the men will have general training in packing and horsemanship, McBride said.

“It’s good for everybody,” he said.

“We’re going to give the Forest Service a week of work, and they’re going to give these guys an experience of what the Forest Service is like to see if it’s something they want to pursue on a part-time basis or potentially a career.” The trip will also provide an opportunity to give back, McBride notes.

“This has been a dream of mine,” said Cox, a Marine veteran. Draper, an Air Force vet, said he wanted to “get outdoors and learn to rough it.”

“I hope they take away an appreciation for wilderness wildlife. But more than anything else, I hope they learn something about themselves,” McBride said.

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COMMUNITY NEWS, EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS The Burdette Branch Library, located on 316 W. Main St., Taylors, will be closed Aug. 3-8 for carpet replacement. The branch will reopen on its regular schedule Aug. 10. During this closing, all returns, renewals and account inquiries regarding library materials may be handled through any other Greenville County Library System location. Users may also access their accounts online at greenvillelibrary.org to renew items and place holds.

Secretary of State Mark Hammond will offer seven free regional notary public seminars this summer and fall for all South Carolina notaries and those interested in becoming a notary. Attendees are welcome to attend any of the notary seminars regardless of their county of residence or the location of the seminar. An Upstate seminar will be held on Oct. 13 at the Anderson County Council Chambers,

101 S. Main St. For more information and additional locations, visit scsos.com.

On July 26, Greenville resident Irene Cooley celebrated her 104th birthday in her home at Rolling Green Village retirement community. Cooley was born in Russia in 1911, but her family immigrated to the U.S. to escape the persecution against the Jewish people. When asked if she has a favorite memory, Cooley says that there are too many Cooley good ones to choose from.

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ACTIVITIES, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

WYFF meteorologist Dale Gilbert recently shared weather knowledge with elementary school teachers in classes by the Science P.L.U.S. Institute. These classes, funded by the SC Education Improvement Act grant, were offered at the Roper Mountain Science Center to provide science teachers with renewed enthusiasm for their subjects in the classroom.

Six members of the Bob Jones A c a d emy class of 2015 recently joined a select group of students Students (left to right) Maggie Nanney, Brooke from across Schmidt, Katherine Matesevac, Ann Thai, Hannah Perkins and Cristina Kielmeyer attended the the naAmerican Association of Christian Schools Youth tion for the Legislative Conference.

American Association of Christian Schools Youth Legislative Training Conference in Washington, D.C., which was designed to enable students to explore the inner workings of the U.S. political system.

EVENTS THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER

Greenville County DSS, GHS Children’s Hospital, Pendleton Place and United Way of Greenville County recently gathered for a half-day Assessment Center process meeting. Partners work together to identify what’s working and what needs improvement.

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INNOSKATE 2015 WHERE: The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College Ave. WHEN: Aug. 8, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

COST: Free INFO: tcmupstate.org SCHEDULE 11 A.M. Skateboarding lessons, learn to skate clinics 12 P.M. Open skate 12:30 P.M. Spark!Lab activities begin inside the museum

“They look for cities that are excited about innovation and are forward-thinking and embrace sports,” said Nancy Halverson, museum president and CEO. “That’s Greenville in a nutshell.”

Innoskate fits the museum’s mission of learning through play as well as its desire to advance plans to build a skate park at the Poe Mill, Halverson said, citing several

Panel discussion: 50 Years of Skateboard Innovation and Invention w/ demonstrations by local skaters 1:15 P.M. Open skate 1:45 P.M. Panel discussion: Greenville as a Place of Invention w/ local inventors and innovators 2:15 P.M. Open skate 2:45 P.M. Panel discussion: Skateboarding as an International Incubator of Invention 3:30 P.M. Best Trick Contest 4 P.M. Closing remarks

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Where most people saw skateboarders, Jeff Brodie saw creators and innovators.

While some people see skateboarding as a sport of those who don’t fit in, the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation saw teachers of scientists and entrepreneurs.

“Skateboarding is surrounded by a culture of inventive creativity and imagination,” Brodie said.

In 2013, using the Washington Monument and National Mall as the backdrop, Brodie organized Innoskate, a festival that featured professional skateboarders and explored technological innovations in the sport’s wheels, board design and materials as well as the engineering and physics that go into making decks and performing tricks.

The unique look at skateboard culture is coming to the Greenville Children’s Museum on Aug. 8.

During Innoskate 2015, participants will get to learn to skate, design their own skateboards and skateboard parks, see 50 years of skateboard innovation as demonstrated by local skaters, and compete in a best trick contest.

Greenville is the fourth city to host Innoskate, which is free and includes admission to the museum.

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Innoskate celebrates innovation of skateboarding culture

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examples across the country where a skate park helped revitalize an area.

“When you give kids a safe place to engage, positive things happen,” Halverson said.

Halverson said skateboarding is science and engineering, both of which are used by inventors and innovators.

“There is science behind everything.

You just have to look for it,” she said. “We want to find ways to engage kids first before they get to the lesson. When kids build their own skateboard, they’re using math, science and chemistry. When they invent their own skate park, they’re using math, engineering and design principles. For us, this is an amazing opportunity to have kids learn while they’re having fun.”

Pro skater David Loy, who just got off a six-country European skate tour with the legendary Tony Hawk, will participate in Innoskate 2015.

After Innoskate 2015 events conclude at the museum, an after-party will be held at the Poe Mill, the site of Greenville’s proposed skate park.

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A modern take on a classic fairy tale New ‘Cinderella’ coming to the Peace Center CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

“Cinderella” has gotten a makeover – and so has her prince.

The original Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, written for television and broadcast live on CBS on March 31, 1957, told the story of a young woman forced into a life of servitude by her evil stepmother and stepsisters. With the help of her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella is transformed into a princess and finds her prince.

The Broadway touring version that opens in Greenville next week still begins with Cinderella as the oppressed chambermaid.

But the Prince, duped by the prime minister into passing some bad laws, is a self-doubting leader who wants to do right for his kingdom. Cinderella, a spirited woman with savvy and soul, longs to escape the drudgery of her life and instead work to make the world a better place. She fights for her own dreams and inspires the prince to find his own greatness.

“It’s a step back in time with a modern sensibility,” said Andy Huntington Jones, who played Prince Topher in the Broadway version and continues in the role on tour. “He’s a young guy born into responsibility who wants to do a good job. She’s incredibly empowered. It’s the story we all have known that’s appropriate for a modern audience.”

“Cinderella,” one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most popular titles, made its debut in 2013, as an adaptation rewritten

by Douglas Carter Beane.

The new score includes the bestknown songs from the original version

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with other songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalogue. Songs include “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/ It’s Possible,” “Ten Minutes Ago” and “Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?”

Jones said it’s easier to play Beane’s version of the Prince than the archetypal version.

“I like that he is trying to figure things out. I like it when the romantic lead stumbles and doesn’t really know who he is,” he said. “I see myself and I think that’s true for the audience, too. The pressure is way off.”

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Jones said enjoys the humor in Beane’s book, something that many audiences don’t expect in “Cinderella.”

Jones said his favorite scene for his character is the 10-minute waltz the prince has with Cinderella at the end of Act I. His favorite part of the show is when Cinderella meets her Fairy Godmother and is transformed on stage, clothing change and all.

“She spins around and she’s wearing a different dress,” he said. “It’s a magical part of the show and always gets a gasp from the audience.”

In collaboration with The Cinderella Project and the Cinderella touring company, the Peace Center will accept donations of gently used formal gowns, handbags, shoes, jewelry and accessories from Aug. 4 through Aug. 9.

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Andy Huntington Jones as Prince Topher and Paige Faure as Cinderella in “Cinderella”

Greenville residents can be fairy godmothers to girls in need during the run of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” at the Peace Center.

The Cinderella Project provides no-cost formal, bridesmaid and prom dresses to young women who don’t have the money to buy a gown for their high school prom.

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The Young Lawyers Division of the South Carolina Bar adapted the national service project in 2002 and provides prom dresses and accessories for disadvantaged high school girls.

Items in good, clean condition can be dropped off at the Peace Center box office that week. The box office opens that week at 10 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday and will stay open through the start of the performances.

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LOOK Career beginnings The Peace Center’s Camp Broadway program hosted 58 theater-loving students, ages 11-16, last week. Students worked with professionals on singing, dancing and all things theater, leading up to a public performance last Friday.

“Grease” is presented b

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Numerous law enforcement agencies participated in a static display of police vehicles during Criminal Justice camp at Bob Jones University.

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by the Mill Town Players, and directed by Will Ragland at the Historic Pelzer Auditorium. The show continues through Aug. 8.

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The Greenville Drive played host to the Asheville Tourists in a South Atlantic League baseball game. Reedy Rip’it, the Drive mascot, celebrated his 10th birthday.

Tournament director Robbie Gravley presented Zack Siefert, pictured above, with the Leon Gravley Cup, after Siefert won the 2015 Purple Power Greenville County Amateur Championship at Holly Tree Country Club.

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Spinning Jenny gives new life to Greer Opry House Drew Gibson opens the repurposed space with acoustic concert on Monday VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

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For nearly 20 years, the Greer Opry House on Cannon Street was a place for people who loved country music and loved to dance. Cofounder Ernest Harvey was an important figure in the country music industry for decades as a musician, venue owner and mentor, and his venue was a downtown Greer institution.

But times inevitably change, and downtown Greer has undergone an extensive transformation over the last few years. Harvey died of cancer years ago, and the building’s current owner, Steve Sandlin, decided it was time for a change earlier this year.

He wanted to renovate and re-purpose the Greer Opry House into a multipurpose arts and entertainment venue that would aim towards bringing a younger audience in. He already had a new name: The Spinning Jenny, a reference to the spinning wheels of cotton in Southern textile mills. And luckily, he had already met the person who would help him complete the transformation.

“Almost two years ago, I was at an estate sale in Green-

Singer/songwriter Drew Gibson will play The Spinning Jenny’s first show on Monday.

ville,” says Sharon Murry, The Spinning Jenny’s new general manager. “I used to work at the The Handlebar, and I was wearing my old T-shirt from there. A man struck up a conversation with me as I was purchasing a couple things, and I told him about this vision I have for a venue that could house all forms of the arts, including concerts, and how I had been dreaming and talking about it for about 10 years. He told me he might have just the space I was looking for in Greer.”

Murry, a public speaking and communications professor at USC Upstate who has been involved in fine arts throughout her academic career, took over managing the venue on June 1, and the hard work began on the

10,000 square foot building.

“We’ve redone the ceiling, scraped down the walls to reveal the brick, remodeled the bathrooms, brought in new lighting, painted, and added some really cool features,” Murry says. “We’re still working towards redoing our back room into a restaurant and creating a green room for the artists. We’re also working on the exterior and getting up new signage, so people can find us more easily. There are many small projects we will be working on, but the space has come a very long way in two months.”

The upfit was designed by David Langley, of Langley & Assoc., a Greer architecture firm. After the renovations are complete, the building is expected to have a seated capacity of around 650 people.

The first show of The Spinning Jenny era will be a solo acoustic concert by singer/songwriter Drew Gibson this Monday. Murry says that she and Sandlin share a vision both for the venue and for its role in Greer’s revitalization.

“I believe the arts change people’s lives for the better,” she says. “We hope that The Spinning Jenny will help be a catalyst to grow the arts community in Greer. I believe we will be providing a space that is easy to access for anyone living in the Upstate to come and enjoy music, hang out, and make new friends. When communities come together and experience the arts and make connections, I believe it’s very powerful.”

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Drew Gibson delivers the fingerpicking goods Drew Gibson’s album “1532,” released earlier this year, is a fascinating listen. His dazzling, virtuosic fingerpicking (on a very specific acoustic guitar – but more on that later) creates overlapping layers of melody and rhythm, allowing him to both lay a foundation underneath his songs and give greater expression to their melodies. His playing sparkles with a joy that melds nicely with the muted poetry of his lyrics.

Gibson picked up the guitar as a child after a brief flirtation with the piano, and he made a transition to fingerpicking for a simple, if unexpected, reason.

“I stopped playing with a pick in high school because I kept dropping them,” Gibson says with a laugh. “They were just annoying to me. So I started growing my fingernails out on my right hand to use those as picks.”

Gibson, who will play at the Spinning Jenny in Greer on Monday, says that presentation was also on his mind when he changed his playing style.

“I always wanted the guitar playing to be interesting for people to sit and WHO: Drew Gibson watch when I’m performing by myself,” WHERE: The Spinning Jenny, 107 Cannon he says. “And I try to make strumming St., Greer as interesting as possible. After college WHEN: Monday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m.

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The lyrics on “1532” mix poetic metaphor and conversational honesty, and Gibson says that he strives match his words with his inspired guitar playing.

“I think they both have to be expressive,” he says. “Music comes easier to me, as far as finding something cool to play that I really like. The lyrics are where most of the work goes. And there’s a melding of the two. When you find a melody that you like, you’ve got to have the lyrics work. It’s all got to come together. I look at lyrics hoping that they could stand on their own as some sort of prose or poetry. They have to go hand-in-hand.”

“1532,” which Gibson co-produced, is very much a family matter; from the title (his childhood address), the album’s dedication to his father (who passed away in 2012) to the guitar he plays.

“When I was in middle school, I found this guitar that belonged to my mom’s younger brother, who had died of leukemia when he was 13,” Gibson says. “He had this 1958 Gibson LG1 and I wanted to learn how to play it. It was my dad who bought me the Mel Bay guitar book to help me learn. I still have the memory of him being in that music shop with me and saying, ‘If this is something that you’re interested in, I will do this for you.’”

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Films that make you go “Hmmmm” Ever read a book that changed your perspective? Noam Chomsky’s “Power and Terror” is the most recent one that caused me to channel Arsenio Hall and go, “Hmmmm.”

Believe it or not, film can have that effect, too, so this week I bring to your attention five documentaries that may cause you to re-evaluate some opinions.

“The House I Live In” Directed by Eugene Jarecki Available on Netflix.

Did you know the United States has the secondhighest prison incarceration rate? Seventy-one percent are non-violent offenders.

This film explores the failure of the War on Drugs and the “success” of the prisonindustrial complex.

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A common perception during the Iraq war was that Al Jazeera was the voice of Al Qaeda. Al Jazeera is actually a statefunded news organization based out of Qatar, one of our

allies. This documentary explores the media coverage of the war from a non-American point of view.

“Vanishing of the Bees” Directed by Maryam Henein & George Langworthy Available on Netflix.

In 2006, the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder caused beekeepers to lose 30-90 percent of their hives. As a result, farmers have to import bees from elsewhere to pollinate their crops.

This film explores the possible reasons for the decline in honeybee populations and explores some possible solutions as well.

“Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve” Directed by Jim Bruce Available on Netflix and for rent on Amazon.

The Federal Reserve has the ability with a single public statement to affect markets worldwide. It would be nice to think the people running it are the best financial gurus we have. This film just might inspire you to bury your money in the backyard.

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PE OPLE , AWA R D S , HONORS Pelham Road Office Of Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Adds Two Agents Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS announced the addition of two Sales Associates to the company’s Pelham Road office. The additions bring the office’s agent total to 85, making it the largest office for the company.

Emily Clough joins the company following a year spent serving the Columbia real estate

market as a licensed agent.

A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Clough holds a Bachelor of Arts in business with majors in real estate and management.

Clough She is a Simpsonville native currently residing in Greenville.

Logan Galloway joins Rex and Kary Galloway as a member of the Greenville Team. A graduate of North Greenville University, he earned a Bachelor of Science Galloway in marketing, as well as distinction as a Palmetto Scholar.

“The Pelham Road Office of C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS continues to grow,” said Duane Bargar, Broker-In-Charge of the Pelham Road Office. “I welcome both Emily and Logan and look forward to working with them as they establish their real estate presence in the Upstate.”

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From soil to soul When a thirdgeneration gardener plants, memories come with the harvest

cow, chickens (daddy sold eggs around town for 2 cents apiece) and always a hog. The garden sustained them.

We went to the farm regularly when I was a child, where I learned that with Kathy Slayter the work in a garden is never-ending. Each season I have always gardened. brings its own rhythm. BeAs far back as I can reing in the garden puts you member I was in the garin touch with the pulse of den, and I come from a the earth. long lineage of gardeners.

Grandmother had a My father’s kin hailed from massive garden. She althe Shenandoah Valley of ways had chores for my Virginia, back in the early brother and me to do in 1800s. The family farm was the garden – weeding, in Beaver Creek, one of the hoeing the potatoes, pickmost beautiful valleys in ing beans. Our favorite the Shenandoah. summer chore was to pick My grandmother moved to the “city” on a 4-acre spread when the corn when it tassled out, shuck it, she married. My grandparents had a throw it into a boiling pot of water, then devour as many ears as we could.

My grandmother was a smart woman.

My brother and I would stay busy cracking black walnuts (with a hammer and a cracking rock, mind you) all afternoon with promises of cookies in return. She showed me how to pickle, preserve, dry apples, store roots in the dirt cellar under the house, eat honey and drink water from a spring.

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my garden. Each spring I marvel at their return.

I garden with passion and delight. I grow a large vegetable and herb garden spring, summer and fall. Like my grandmother, I preserve, freeze, can and give away my garden bounty. Following the advice of the Farmer’s Almanac, I try to seed, plant, prune, turn the soil, and harvest by the signs of the moon. Makes sense, really, when you come to know the rhythm of nature: Our bodies are mostly water, and the moon controls the tides.

Think about how the moon’s light and energy may affect plants, seeds and us.

Did you know that now is the time to be planting your fall garden? Yes, right now. You can grow turnips, potatoes, beets, onions, garlic, cucumbers, squash, kale, chard, lettuces, fennel, carrots, rutabagas; so many choices to plant! Prepare your planting beds now.

Let’s travel together through my garden and hopefully you will learn a little something each time I write to you. There is much to discover. Your spirit might stir as you step out into your garden and dig deeper into the soul of your life. See you in the garden.

Kathy Slayter is a Greenville Realtor and third-generation gardener who became a Clemson-certified Master Gardener in 2007. She has worked her own garden on Greenville’s Eastside for 20+ years and is passionate about growing, cooking and eating her homegrown food.

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA GREENVILLE COUNTY ZONING AND PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE There will be a public hearing before County Council on Monday, August 17, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in County Council Chambers, County Square, for the purpose of hearing those persons interested in the following item: DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-46 APPLICANT: Bill Grove for James Lee Vaughn, Tina Vaughn Dover, L. B. Vaughn Jr. Trust and B. Ann Stephens CONTACT INFORMATION: 864-297-3027 PROPERTY LOCATION: Neely Ferry Road PIN: 0566010103300 EXISTING ZONING: R-S, Residential Suburban REQUESTED ZONING: R-15, Single-Family Residential ACREAGE: 113 COUNTY COUNCIL: 26 – Ballard DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-47 APPLICANT: Joel Silos and Jessika Ramos CONTACT INFORMATION: 864-320-7485 or 864-483-9567 PROPERTY LOCATION: 118 Gordon Street Ext. PIN: 0240030103700 (portion) and 0240030103800 (portion) EXISTING ZONING: R-10, Single-Family Residential REQUESTED ZONING: R-S, Residential Suburban ACREAGE: 0.4 COUNTY COUNCIL: 23 – Norris DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-48 APPLICANT: James D. Martin, III for 401 Brushy Creek, LLC, Mark Cothran CONTACT INFORMATION: jaymartin@arborengineering. com or 864-235-3589 PROPERTY LOCATION: 401 Brushy Creek Road PIN: P016010200300 (portion) EXISTING ZONING: R-20, Single-Family Residential REQUESTED ZONING: C-1, Commercial ACREAGE: 10 COUNTY COUNCIL: 20 – Cates DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-49 APPLICANT: James D. Martin, III for Triangle Real Estate of Gaston and Tony Edward Abercrombie CONTACT INFORMATION: jaymartin@arborengineering. com or 864-235-3589 PROPERTY LOCATION: 762 and 756 Fairview Road PIN: 0566010100900 and 0566010101000 EXISTING ZONING: C-1, Commercial and R-S, Residential Suburban REQUESTED ZONING: R-M14, Multifamily Residential ACREAGE: 22.6 COUNTY COUNCIL: 26 – Ballard DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-50 APPLICANT: R. L. Fogleman Jr. for Wellington Homes, Robert Julian CONTACT INFORMATION: rlf@frfinc.net or 864-271-8633 PROPERTY LOCATION: Mary Street PIN: 0228000101000 and 0228000100100 EXISTING ZONING: R-10, Single-Family Residential and C-2, Commercial REQUESTED ZONING: R-7.5, Single-Family Residential ACREAGE: 0.80 COUNTY COUNCIL: 25 – Gibson DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-51 APPLICANT: James McCutchen (on behalf of Dr. Jeff Summers) for Jack E. Shaw CONTACT INFORMATION: jamiem@ccadengineering.com or 864-286-3056 PROPERTY LOCATION: 25021 East North Street PIN: 0541050110700 EXISTING ZONING: R-20, SingleFamily Residential REQUESTED ZONING: POD, Planned Office District

ACREAGE: 1.3 COUNTY COUNCIL: 22 – Taylor DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-52 APPLICANT: Randall P. Bentley for Christopher T. Corley, Corpro Properties, LLC CONTACT INFORMATION: rbentley@lee-associates.com or 864-704-1041 PROPERTY LOCATION: 300 Ben Hamby Drive PIN: 0530050102901 EXISTING ZONING: I-1, Industrial REQUESTED ZONING: S-1, Services ACREAGE: 2 COUNTY COUNCIL: 21 – Burns DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-53 APPLICANT: John Andrew Connelly for City and County of Greenville, SC CONTACT INFORMATION: jconnelly@brittpeters.com or 864-271-8869 PROPERTY LOCATION: Perimeter Road (Donaldson Center) PIN: 0400010100100 (portion) EXISTING ZONING: C-2, Commercial REQUESTED ZONING: I-1, Industrial ACREAGE: 3 COUNTY COUNCIL: 25 – Gibson DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2015-54 APPLICANT: Mike D. McNicholas for Thomas L. Henderson, James C. Henderson, Charlotte H. Roberts, James C. and Dolly Henderson, Sr.

CONTACT INFORMATION: mike.mcnichoals@holdings. com or 864-272-0088 PROPERTY LOCATION: Woodruff Road and Sunnydale Drive PIN: 0548020104100, 0548020104101 (portion) and 0548020104102 EXISTING ZONING: R-S, Residential Suburban and S-1, Services REQUESTED ZONING: PD, Planned Development ACREAGE: 18.9 COUNTY COUNCIL: 21 – Burns DOCKET NUMBER: CZ2015-55 APPLICANT: Greg Saad for P.E.S., LLC CONTACT INFORMATION: saad@charter.net or 864-430-5166 PROPERTY LOCATION: 1801 Rutherford Road PIN: P004000100200 EXISTING ZONING: I-1, Industrial REQUESTED ZONING: S-1, Services ACREAGE: 25 COUNTY COUNCIL: 20 – Cates All persons interested in this proposed amendment to the Greenville County Comprehensive Plan are invited to attend this meeting.

At subsequent meetings, Greenville County Council may approve or deny the proposed amendment.

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Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty.org/ Purchasing_Dept/RFP.asp or by calling (864) 467-7200.

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: RFQ# 02-08/12/15, Architectural and Engineering Services for Infirmary, August 12, 2015, 3:00 P.M. IFB# 08-09/01/15, Parking Lot Improvements at Westside Park, September 1, 2015, 3:00 P.M. A pre-bid meeting and site visit will be held 10:00 AM, August 13, 2015 at the Greenville County Procurement Services Division, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601. The site visit will be held at 2700 W. Blue Ridge Drive, Greenville, SC 29611.

Solicitations can be found at http://www.greenvillecounty. org/Purchasing_Dept or by calling 864-467-7200.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that American Food Resources DBA/ Upstate Shuckin’ Shack, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE AND LIQUOR, at 3620 Pelham Rd. Suite 4, Greenville, SC 29615. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 16, 2015. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Jerkins Enterprises, LLC /DBA Bellacino’s Pizza & Grinders, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER AND WINE, at 123 S. Main St., Greenville, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 9, 2015. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that KYFS Social Club, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE AND LIQUOR, at 6300 White Horse Road, Suite 110, Greenville, SC 29611.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 2, 2015. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Sushi Yama, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER AND WINE, at 319 South Main St., Travelers Rest, SC 29690. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 9, 2015. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that F&M Enterprises of Upstate, Inc/DBA Franko’s Party Shop, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of LIQUOR, at 328 White Horse Road, Greenville, SC 29605. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 2, 2015. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

PE OPLE, AWARDS , HONORS Cole Oraham Joins Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS announced that Cole Oraham has joined the company as a Sales Associate at the Anderson office.

Oraham brings over two years of Upstate residential leasing experience to his new sales role. A native of West Palm Beach, Florida, he currently resides in Pendleton where he is a member of the Clemson Area Chamber Oraham of Commerce. He spends his spare time enjoying football, golf, fishing and water sports.

“I extend a warm welcome to Cole as he joins the Anderson office of C. Dan Joyner. Each member of our company looks forward to working with him as he embarks on his sales career,” said Anush Showghi, Broker-In-Charge of the Anderson Office.

864 Real Estate Team Joins North Pleasantburg Office Of Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce the addition of the 864 Real Estate Team, comprised of Kevin and Melissa Patton, to the company’s N. Pleasantburg Drive office.

Kevin Patton brings 15 years of commercial leasing experience to his sales role at the company. His previous K. Patton M. Patton company, Patton Properties, was twice recognized as the Small Business of the Quarter by the Laurens County Chamber of Commerce. A

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Hurricane season requires emergency planning Being adequately prepared for emergencies takes on new urgency during hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through Nov. 30 in the northern hemisphere. Senior care experts are encouraging families to prepare their senior loved ones for severe weather emergencies and the possibility of evacuation. Here’s a suggested checklist to help you and your older adult family members get ready for potential weather emergencies: Tune in. Contact the local emergency management office to learn about the most likely natural disasters to strike your area. Stay abreast of what’s going on through your local radio or television station.

Take stock. Decide what your family member can or can’t do in the event of a natural disaster. Make a list of what would be needed if a disaster occurred; for example, if your loved one uses a wheelchair, determine an evacuation strategy ahead of time. Prepare for whatever disaster could hit the area.

To go or to stay put? When deciding to evacuate, older adults should go sooner rather than later. By waiting too long, they may be unable to leave if they require assistance.

Make a plan. Schedule a family meeting to develop a plan of action. Include in your plan key people – neighbors, friends, relatives and professional caregivers – who could help.

Know your escape routes. Develop at least two escape routes: one to evacuate your home and one to evacuate your community. The local emergency management office can tell you escape routes out of the community.

Meet up. Designate a place to meet relatives or key support people outside the house, as well as a second location outside the neighborhood, such as a school or church. Practice the plan twice a year.

Get up and go kit. Have an easy-tocarry backpack, including three days of non-perishable food and water with an additional four days of food and water, readily accessible at home. Have at least 1 gallon of bottled water per person per day. Refresh and replace your supplies at least twice a year. And don’t forget a blanket and paper products, such as toilet paper.

Pack extras and copies. Have at least a one-month supply of medication on hand at all times. Store other important documents in a waterproof protector, including copies of prescriptions, car title registration and driver’s license, insurance documents and bank account numbers, and a spare checkbook. Also pack extra eyeglasses and hearing-aid batteries. Label every piece of important equipment or personal item in case they are lost.

Your contact list. Compile a list of important contacts, including the senior’s support network, doctors and other important healthcare professionals.

If you can’t be there. If you’re not living close by to help your loved one, enlist the help of family or friends, or contact a professional caregiving company.

PE OPLE , AWARDS , HONORS native of Woodruff, Kevin attended the University of South Carolina where he studied business.

Melissa Patton joins the company following three years as a social media speaker/trainer and six years in Upstate real estate. A graduate of the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Melissa holds Accredited Buyers Representative and Graduate, REALTOR Institute designations.

The Pattons, parents to three children, currently reside in Simpsonville where they are active in the community.

“On behalf of our entire company, I am delighted to welcome Kevin and Melissa to C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS,” said Fritzi Barbour, Broker-In-Charge of the N. Pleasantburg Office.

“Their professional experience and commitment will serve our clients well.”

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Page turners

A part of history

HOME OF THE

Books about kids who made a difference

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“Ron’s Big Mission,” written by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden and illustrated by Don Tate, is an inspiring story based on an important incident in the life of astronaut Ron McNair.

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GLASS SLIPPERS ARE SO BACK.

In the book, nine-year-old Ron, an African-American boy in Lake City, S.C., is on a mission. He loves to visit the public library and read books, but living in segregated South Carolina in 1959, he is not allowed to check them out. One day, he is determined to check out books himself. After the police and his mother are called, the librarian eventually gives Ron his own library card.

Ron McNair, the determined boy who dreamed big, grew up to be an astronaut. Tragically, he lost his life aboard the space shuttle Challenger when it exploded in 1986. But he is remembered in Lake City as a hero, and the old public library is now a museum dedicated to the man who didn’t let the struggle for civil rights interfere with his dreams. The Ronald E. McNair Life History Center now has plans to expand into a science and technology museum for South Carolina students.

The Upcountry History Museum offers this children’s book and many others about kids who were a part of history.

These stories may just inspire a child to become the next Ron McNair.

More inspiring reads: “Back of the Bus” by Aaron Reynolds – Rosa Park’s historic act of defiance told through the eyes of a child.

“Colonial Voices: Hear them Speak”

by Kay Winters – Follow an errand boy through the streets of Boston as the Revolutionary War nears.

“First, You Explore: The Story of the Young Charles Townes” by Rachel Haynie – A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the laser and Greenville native.

Children can explore even more history with the museum’s current traveling exhibition, The Magic Tree House, based on the popular book series

by Mary Pope Osborne, open through Sept. 6.

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AUGUST 4-9 O P E N S T U E S D AY PEACE CENTER peacecenter.org 864.467.3000

Reviewed by Heather Yenco, curator of collections and exhibitions at the Upcountry History Museum - Furman University, upcountryhistory.org.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

TICKET OFFICE – GOING ON SALE – SNOW WHITE AND THE PRINCE Sept. 11–27, 7:00 p.m.

Peace Center Gunter Theatre Cost: Adults $27, Child (18 & under) $18 On Sale: August 1 at 10:00 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 467-3000, www.scchildrenstheatre.org Additional info: From the creative team that brought audiences Rapunzel.

Rapunzel. and How I Became a Pirate, comes this NEW imaginitave musical adaptation of Snow White. The beloved characters are here...from the vain, vengeful queen and her smart-talking mirror to the kind young heroine’s seven funny friends in the forest (they do go off to work, but they don’t heigh-ho on the way), and a prince who believes love is stronger than magic. Best for ages 4 & up. Meet the characters after each performance.On Opening Night only, Snip-It’s will be providing their services of glitter strands and braids to young girls.

JERSEY BOYS Oct. 27 Peace Center Concert Hall Cost: $55-$85 On Sale: August 14 at 10 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 467-3000 Peace Center Box Office peacecenter.org

Our World Festival FREE EVENTS

CONCERT TENT 1-2:15 p.m. – Spartanburg Jazz Ensemble 2:15-3:30 p.m. – Electric City Big Band 3:30-4:45 p.m. – Asheville Jazz Orchestra 4:45-6 p.m. – Greenville Jazz Collective 6:10-6:40 p.m. – Patrick Lopez Experience w/ International Dance Academy 6:40-6:50 p.m. – Jeff Holland Drum Circle 6:50-7:10 p.m. – Nrithyanjali School of Indian Dance 7:10-7:20 p.m. – Jeff Holland Drum Circle 7:30-7:40 p.m. – Amy Bright Bellydance 7:40-8:10 p.m. – Kevin “Kalimba Man” Spears 8:10-8:20 p.m. – Jeff Holland Drum Circle 8:20-8:50 p.m. – Lissakeole 8:50-9 p.m. – Jeff Holland Drum Circle 9-9:30 p.m. – Imani African Dance School 9:30-10 p.m. – Samba Party w/ International Dance Academy

July 31 CONCERT

Volcanoes in the Kitchen Moe Joe Coffee (Greenville) Sibling trio blends acoustic folk and indie pop.

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True Blues Main Street Fridays NOMA Square

DIRTY DANCING

CHILDREN’S TENT 11 a.m.-1 p.m. – The Balloon Guy 6-10 p.m. – TimTV & the Secret Cirkus

Sept. 29 Peace Center Concert Hall Cost: $25-$85 On Sale: August 7 at 10 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 467-3000 Peace Center Box Office peacecenter.org

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OTHER EVENTS

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WORKSHOPS World Drum and Dance Workshops Kids Around the World Workshops Modern Dance Workshops Ethnic Food Fair Food Trucks Artisan Vendors Wellness Vendors

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Aug. 1 CONCERT

Chris Botti Peace Center | Peace Center Concert Hall 101 W Broad St., Greenville 8 p.m.

Tickets start at $45

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Grammy Award winning trumpeter Chris Botti is the largest-selling American instrumental artist. His unique style, sound and stage presence have earned him a loyal international audience.

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Stereo Reform Smiley’s Acoustic Café FREE Electro-dance-rock duo brings the party.

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Bon Secours Wellness Arena Cost: free Additional info: bonsecoursarena.com Bring the family to The Well to check out the game day set up for Clemson basketball. Expect to see all things family and fun with inflatables, face painting, the tiger and more. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

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»FAMILY Fantastic Fibers The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College Street 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $10 adults $9 child Weaving sunflowers with paper plates, yarn and pipe cleaners. Make your own sunflower to take home. This project is for children six and up. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org | mbaugh@tcmupstate.org

Doll and create other Kawaii-inspired crafts after visiting Story Time in Be Anything. Free with admission.

233-7755 | tcmupstate.org info@tcmupstate.org

Aug. 3

WALK

Julie Valentine Center Run2Overcome 5k, 10k and Children’s Fun Run Cleveland Park | Julie Valentine Memorial 150 Cleveland Drive 7:30 AM-9:30 AM $25 5k. $30 10k. ($5 more onsite registration) Free Children’s Fun Run T-shirts given for the first 400 pre-registered participants. Awards will be given by age category following the race. Early Packet pick up will be on Friday-July 31st from 2:00-6:00 at Julie Valentine Center at 2905 White Horse Road Greenville SC 29611. You may also pick up your race packet the morning of the Run at the race site in Cleveland Park (shelter 30 in front of the zoo).

331-0560 run2overcome.org rlongino@julievalentinecenter.org

Aug. 1-31 FAMILY

Kamishibai Storytelling The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College Street 2-3 p.m. | Monday-Friday $9 children, $10 adults, free for members and children under 1 Kamishibai is a form of storytelling that originated in Japan where performers would use a series or large, illustrated cards to tell stories. Join us at 2 p.m. in Be Anything to listen to a Kamishibai story. Illustrate your own Kamishibai story afterwards in Off the Wall. Free with admission.

233-7755 | tcmupstate.org info@tcmupstate.org FAMILY

Off the Wall: Kokeshi Dolls The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College Street 1-4 p.m. | Monday-Sunday $9 children, $10 adults, free for members and children under 1 Art this month focuses on traditional Japanese crafts. Design your own Kokeshi

HEALTH

Free Zumba at SC BLUE SC BLUE retail center 1025 Woodruff Road 6:10 PM-7:10 PM FREE Zumba is the perfect way to dance yourself into shape. Burn some calories with this fun and effective workout.

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Aug. 3 BOOK SIGNING

Barton Swaim Book Talk and Signing Fiction Addiction | Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Rd 6:00 PM-8:00 PM FREE South Carolina native Barton Swaim will be discussing his new book, The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics (Simon & Schuster, hardcover, $25.00, on sale 7/14/15), at Fiction Addiction on Monday, August 3rd, at 6pm. An intimate and hilarious look inside the spin room of the modern politician: a place where ideals are crushed, English is mangled, people are humiliated, and the opportu-

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Aug. 3-5

Aug. 4 CONCERT

Mountain Homes & Mourning Dove

CONCERT

Zen Tickets: $5

Zach Deputy

HeyLook! Entertainment & Fete Greenville introduce their new monthly concert series with two great Upstate bands.

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Pedal Chic 651B S. Main Street, Greenville 5-8 p.m. | $80 Girls ages 10-15 can learn the anatomy of a bike, how to ride safely, fix a flat and proper attire at this evening workshop.

Participants should bring their own bike, helmet and water. Pedal Chic also has bikes available to rent for $45 for the three days. RSVP required, spots are limited.

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TRAINING

CAMP

Crisis Intervention Team Training (CIT) is a program designed to educate individuals to recognize signs and symptoms of mental illness and to respond safely and empathetically to people who are experiencing psychiatric crises. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will be conducting 4-hour CIT sessions in Greenville on Aug. 4-5. The training is free of charge, but registration is required.

Seating is limited. The deadline for registration is July 15.

331-3300

Aug. 6 EDUCATION

Success for College Workshop Greenville Tech Northwest Campus 8109 White Horse Road 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $150

FAMILY

This one-day workshop will help rising high school seniors narrow their college choices, untangle the mysteries of the Common Application, write your resume and essay, and much more.

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Story and More: Spider Science

COMMUNITY EVENT

Aug. 3-8 The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College Street 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $10 adult, $9 child Tarantulas are special arachnids; did you know they have eight legs and eight tiny eyes? Learn fun facts about these hairy and not-so-scary spiders in this program and see a tarantula up close. Free with admission.

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Deputy blends laid-back acoustic jamming with dance-friendly electronic beats.

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Aug. 7

FREE

Southern Belles Teen Bike Clinic

Independent Public Ale House Tickets: $10 advance/$14 at door

Aug. 4-5 NAMI’s Crisis Intervention Team Training

WORKSHOP

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Teacher Appreciation Book Sale Merovan Center, Suite E2 1200 Woodruff Road- Across from Kohl’s, Greenville 9 a.m.-noon FREE Teacher Appreciation Book Sale sponsored by Friends of Greenville County Library System. Books for pre-school - adult. Library discards and donations.

Proceeds help fund Greenville County Library programs.

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JL Mann High School Dance Camp JL Mann High School 160 Fairforest Way 9 a.m.-12 p.m. $30 The JL Mann Dance Team is hosting their annual camp for ages 5-13.

Price of admission includes t-shirt and snack. Registration is online via the front page of the JL Mann High School website. greenville.k12.sc.us/jlmann/ jlbowers@greenville.k12.sc.us CONCERT

Maharajah Flamenco Trio

Sudoku puzzle: page 38

Blues Boulevard (Greenville) Tickets: $5 (plus $10 food/drink minimum) Led by Romanian-born guitarist and vocalist Silviu Ciulei, Maharajah Flamenco Trio delivers a moving and dynamic expression of Flamenco Nuevo.

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Thurs. Fri, Sat. @ 8, Sunday @ 3 $35, $30, $25 Toe-tapping concert, fun for the whole family.

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FIGURE. THIS. OUT. THE GLOVED ONE ACROSS

1. Reunion attendees 6. Snoop Dogg song title 10. Lag behind 15. Sludgy stuff 19. 100 paisa 20. Wet nurse 21. Roger follower 22. Au fait 23. Castaway’s site 24. Number of children in subject’s family 25. Biblical patriarch 26. ___walk, subject’s signature move 27. Subject’s top-selling albums 31. Guinness suffix 32. Family 33. Doofus 34. Opportunities 35. Reverence 37. Public hanging?

39. Kind of star 41. Subject’s self-proclaimed title 47. “Back in the ___” 48. Subject’s first solo hit 51. Some bowls 52. Rodin sculpture at the Met 53. Beat 55. New Zealand conifer 57. It’s a scream 58. Moth type 60. Came close to empty

By Myles Mellor and Sally York

62. Use a trawl 63. KLM announcement 64. Ballerina’s partner 65. Talk idly 66. Some of subject’s siblings 73. Lying, maybe 74. School employee 75. Linux mascot 76. Foot or potato 77. ___ Powers 78. Remained 81. “Now I see!”

84. Rebozo, for one 86. Scout leader?

87. Whimper 88. ___ of Langerhans 90. Chance 91. Quaint dance 93. Single released by subject in 1971 96. Camelot, to Arthur 97. Kind of race 98. Turk. airlines 99. Command to desist 101. Put one past 103. 24-across plus one 105. Ruffle 108. Subject’s full name 115. Hostile to 116. German mistress 117. Make edgy 118. Come to pass 119. Diagonal 120. Rent a room to 121. Majestic

122. “El Capitan” composer 123. Waveless 124. Piece in Harper’s 125. Half of quatorze 126. Knight mare?

DOWN

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50. Wiesel book 54. Research facil.

56. Large antelope 59. Pot 60. Silklike fabric 61. Drafted 63. Graybeard 64. Loving to death?

SUDOKU

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66. Quagmire 67. Bananalike plant 68. Précis 69. Mediterranean evergreen 70. Founder of Scholasticism 71. South American monkey 72. Book of the Apocrypha 78. Scapegoat 79. 1969 Peace Prize grp.

80. Center of a ball?

81. Black and tan ingredient 82. One of L.B.J.’s beagles 83. Took a course?

85. Novel 87. Sp. simoleon 89. Personality of subject 92. Fit to be consumed 94. Metal containers 95. Sight from Messina 96. Certain bias 99. Membranous sacs 100. Animated 101. ___ bugle 102. Rabbit 103. Sucking insect 104. Bounce 105. Emerge 106. Provoke 107. Work, in a way 109. God offended by Daphnis 110. Pubmates 111. Wool sources 112. Calumet 113. British tax 114. Gut feeling?

115. Early hit for subject’s group Crossword answers: page 37

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COMMUNITY VOICES LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE WITH CHRISTOPHER MYERS

A grain of truth Once upon a time there was a substance called porridge, which passed for food in what passed for civilization. Given the other choices – mud, mud with water, watery mud and earwax – porridge dominated dining, reaching its apogee in “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” a story thought by today’s literati to be either an allegory on climate change (first too hot, then too cold) or a warning to millennials (who eat food they don’t grow, break things they cannot make, lie in any bed they find, then act surprised when things don’t end well).

Alas, it is just a fairy tale, like the editorial page of The New York Times, without the condescension.

The smart ones in the story are the bears, which go for a walk rather than eat porridge, a slop of grain and dodgy fluid used to punish our forebears (or in this case, three). To make porridge all one needs is cereal, water and a taste for sawdust.

The word “cereal,” from the Greek “ceres” (meaning “Free Toy Inside”), refers to any edible grain, the variety of which testifies to porridge’s unique status; in this politically correct world, it is one of the few things allowed to be both white and diverse.

All human civilizations have a history of porridge-eating, the specifics of which can be tragic. Take Russia for a lesson in how a minor decision can have dire consequences. In 1356, Tsar Damitzcoldowtzyde (whose nickname was “Dean,” but that’s pushing it) faced a difficult choice over what grain the people should eat – barley or wheat. He picked the former, which left the wheat farmers with lots of product and idle hands, both of which fermented. Thus was born vodka, the Curse of Russia, the source of perpetual alcoholism (not to mention crushing debt from importing olives and vermouth).

Around here the story was different. In the days before casinos, Native Americans used ground corn to support their families. Some people called this slop “hominy,” others preferred the term “grits,” proof once again that in the South no subject is too small for argument. In the Civil War, the food was employed to detect spies. Those suspected of working for the Union were given a bowl of grits and a

spoon. Many’s the Yankee who chose the gallows rather than take a bite.

In Great Britain, the cereal of choice was oats, though the average Englishman would sooner confess to watching Benny Hill than admit to eating the same grain as a Scotsman or, God forbid, an Irishman. Scotland’s blackest mark – keep in mind that this is the country responsible for golf, bagpipes and Sheena Easton – is haggis: sheep’s stomach stuffed with oatmeal. Several years ago the Scottish High Court banned haggis (and kilts, but that’s another story) from prison kitchens, cit-

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ing the trope against cruel and unusual punishment. The only people allowed to eat it now are tourists.

But back to the English, who are passionate about breakfast, the only meal they know how to cook and which they will defend with their native weaponry – umbrellas and misaligned dentition.

The debate is about how to prepare the oats. I’ll explain: Oats are seeds and have a hard outer shell (like a supermodel) with very little of substance within (ditto); these edible bits are called “groats.” The argument turns on whether it’s better to flatten the groats or to chop them up before cooking them. Breakfast wonks will argue until they’re blue (or red) in the face about the virtues of rolled (or steel-cut) oats, an argument that seems ridiculous given that they are really the same thing.

Next time: The difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Christopher Myers is a physician in Greenville, where he grows tomatoes despite squirrels of such lazy cunning they must be in government. Emailing him at cbmyers32004@yahoo.com will go unanswered unless the subject line contains compliments so elaborate as to embarrass a man of more substance.

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