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“It’s like trying to get enough money to buy a house by going to Las Vegas.”

Butch Kirven, Greenville County Councilman, describing the hope of funding transportation projects by applying for a federal TIGER grant.

“I get tired of traditions that say this is what art should be, because painting has such a rich history and I’m just waiting to see it be reinvented.”

“Every year people come up to me and say things like ‘I didn’t realize I liked heavy metal,’ or ‘I didn’t realize I liked hip-hop.’ ”

Naomi Nakazato, winner of this year’s Brandon Fellowship from Greenville Center for the Creative Arts.

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USC Upstate to get new chancellor by end of year Mary Anne Fitzpatrick leads school in interim beginning Monday CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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On Monday, the University of South Carolina Upstate’s interim leader began work, following the departure of Tom Moore, the school’s former chancellor who was given a vote of no confidence by the school’s faculty last spring and retired effective July 30. USC Upstate has also announced that the school should have a new chancellor by the end of the year.

Moore’s no-confidence vote was sparked both by his handling of the controversy that erupted after 2013 freshmen were required to read the LGBT-themed book “Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio,”

and a decision to close the school’s child development center in 2014.

Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, the University of South Carolina’s vice president for system planning, began serving as USC Upstate’s interim chancellor on Monday.

USC President Harris Pastides, who anticipates having a new chancellor in place by the first of the year, called Fitzpatrick the perfect choice to lead the Spartanburg school during the transition. “She will not simply be a caretaker but will build upon USC Upstate’s momentum, advance the forward progress and ensure a strong foundation for a permanent chancellor,” Pastides said in a release.

USC Upstate has been among the fastestgrowing universities in South Carolina and it offers more than 40 bachelor’s degree programs. The school also has a large presence at the University Center, a consortium of seven colleges and universities that offer programs at the former McAliste Square shopping mall

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on Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville. The school also opened a downtown “campus” in an office building on River Street. Two classes

will be held there this semester. The space is also expected to house a new program in urban and regional studies.

Fitzpatrick has served as USC’s vice president of system planning for nearly a year. In that position, she was responsible for long-range planning for the statewide system, which has nearly 50,000 students across eight campuses.

As an associate vice president and vice provost, Fitzpatrick spearheaded USC’s On Your Time initiative, which re-engineered the academic calendar to include a third semester option during the summer that allows students to graduate sooner or pursue internship or study abroad opportunities.

When classes begin on Aug. 18, nearly 800 new freshmen students will be added to the school’s enrollment and 25 new fulltime faculty members will begin teaching.

Fitzpatrick will address the faculty and staff at the school’s annual University Day on Aug. 17.

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Greenville regroups after TIGER grant bid denied County will look at other funding opportunities with higher probability of success CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Greenville County, the city of Greenville and Greenlink won’t let the news that their bid for federal TIGER grant money to create a regional bus system and add electric buses to its fleet that are made locally by Proterra was denied again stop their efforts to improve the area’s public transportation system.

Greenville County Councilman Butch Kirven said the entities would look for other grant opportunities, such as the federal program that funds transit buses with zero or low emissions and recently awarded Clemson Area Transit nearly $4 million.

“We’ll do something with a higher probability of success,” Kirven said after Greenville wasn’t one of the 40 communities in 32 states and two U.S. territories that received nearly $500 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program.

It was the second year in a row Green-

“It’s like trying to get enough money to buy a house by going to Las Vegas,” Kirven said.

But he said, “There’s a will to do it. We’re going to find a way to do it.”

Greenville had applied for $11.5 million to create a new transfer station at the University Center and add two express bus lines serving the county’s outer reaches. Expanded service hours would better accommodate flexible work schedules and manufacturing shift changes.

The grant application included a five-mile extension of the Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit Trail from East Washington Street to Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research, a trail bridge on S.C. 253 and four connections between the transit system and the trail, creating “ladders of opportunities.”

The greenway would provide a multimodal “last mile” connection to jobs and educational opportunities along a major county thoroughfare, according to a grant summary.

Greenlink, Greenville’s public transportation system, has been trying to find the money to buy electric buses from Proterra for years. This year’s state budget included $300,000 to help Greenlink acquire a Proterra bus.

Kirven said Greenville would probably apply for a TIGER grant again because it has a good plan.

“We have a plan that we’ll implement one way or another with or without a TIGER grant,” he said. “We may have to do it in phases, but we’ll do it. It may change the timeline, but it will not change our direction.”

Horry County had the only application in South Carolina that was funded.

It won nearly $10 million for a $17.6 million freight railroad rehabilitation project between Conway and Chadbourn, N.C. The project will make freight rail service more dependable and efficient, helping existing businesses in Horry and Marion counties in South Carolina and Columbus County in North Carolina.

ville was rejected. Two-thirds of the winners were repeat applicants.

Kirven said Greenville officials had high hopes their application would be funded this year after receiving positive feedback from the U.S. DOT and making their suggested changes.

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5 tips to start the school year off with a win IN MY OWN WORDS

For rising kindergarteners, it could be practicing getting out of bed without drama in time for school. For rising

By Clayton Kale

Sometimes, waiting until the last minute isn’t a bad thing. For example, if you wait to buy a car until the end of the month, you can often get a good deal.

But more often, planning ahead can make life easier and much less stressful. For parents who are busy with work obligations, children’s soccer practices, duties at church, volunteer boards and everything else that comes with modern life, it is especially important to plan ahead.

That’s why we encourage parents to look ahead to the coming school year and be prepared. Here are five tips on being prepared for the coming school year.

1. Download the Greenville County School District school calendar, and make note of important dates. The first day of school?

Check. Last day of school? Check. Fall, winter and spring breaks? Check, check and check. Having those already saved to your smartphone calendar will prevent those days from sneaking up on you! The latest school calendars can be found at bit.ly/GCS-calendar.

2. Avoid the school supply rush. Depending on your child’s grade, you probably have a good idea of what they’ll need next year. Some schools have already made announcements. But in the case of general school supplies, start stockpiling now, and you won’t be hit with sticker shock.

And while you’re at it, consider buying an extra backpack, reams of paper and packs of pencils. The YMCA of Greenville is collecting school supplies to provide to students in under-resourced families. Want more information on that?

Contact us at ckale@ymcagreenville.org.

3. Get them to bed early. Long summer days mean more time to play outside, so your kids are probably enjoying later bedtimes. That’s a wonderful privilege to have during the summer, but remember that young brains need on average 9 to 11 hours of sleep every night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Consider bringing bedtimes back to the school year norm over the next few weeks. It doesn’t have to be drastic, but aim for 15 minutes earlier a week until you’re back at your school bedtime routine.

4. Put some work in now to make the morning routine get easier every year. Practice age-appropriate independence during the summer to make morning routines easier when the daily grind of the school year returns.

Every year, children and teens should be able to take on more responsibility for getting ready for their school day.

at the Y before the school year begins is an easy way to take something off the to-do list.

Registration is open now for the 201617 school year. To sign up, visit any YMCA of Greenville Member Services desk or call 864-412-0288.

Bonus: Remember that bit in Tip 1 about planning ahead for spring break and teacher in-service days? As a YMCA after-school participant, your student has a place to go for all-day care of at no additional cost. You don’t have to worry about finding childcare, and your student gets a day camp-type experience with fun games, arts and crafts, swimming and more.

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Go ahead, you busy planner parent, you.

Add a date night while you’re planning for childcare. You deserve it.

For parents who are busy with work obligations, children’s soccer practices, duties at church, volunteer boards and everything else that comes with modern life, it is especially important to plan ahead.

first-graders, it could be independently picking out clothes the night before, getting out of bed on time and getting dressed without prompting. Rising second-graders could do all of those tasks plus tie their own shoes. And so on.

Clayton Kale is the marketing media Keep up this routine through the years, and by middle manager at YMCA of Greenville, school, morning routines should be a well-oiled machine. and dad to a second-grader.

5. Prepare now for what your kids will be doing after the school bell rings at the end of the first day of school. For busy parents, knowing that their chilDrawn Out Loud by Kate Salley Palmer dren have a safe place to go after school is peace of mind that allows them to finish the workday.

The YMCA of Greenville offers after-school programming and pickups from more than 40 schools in Greenville County, and provides a safe, affordable place for students to wrap up their school day. Every day, students have time to do homework, play active games, socialize with peers and eat a healthy snack.

Busy parents know that signing up for after school

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Motorists may get some relief from traffic-clogged Woodruff Road from some unusual sources — Piedmont Natural Gas and Verdae Development.

Piedmont Natural Gas, which has a facility behind Target, is in negotiations with Verdae Boulevard to build a road from Woodruff Industrial Lane to Verdae Boulevard to provide an alternate way for the utility to get trucks out of its facility without having to get on Woodruff Road, said Adam Spry, manager of land management and acquisition for Piedmont Natural Gas. Potentially, the public could use the road, Spry said.

That byproduct excites city leaders as they have been searching for ways to address congestion and flow on traffic-choked Woodruff Road.

Dwayne Cooper, Greenville’s engineering services manager, said it could cost the city about $400,000 to connect the private road with Green Heron Road and Ketron Court, something that would give traffic going to and from the Magnolia Park development another option.

If the connector were made into a public road, the city would take over ownership and maintenance, Cooper said, and the city would seek C-funds from the Greenville-Pickens Area Transportation Study

for the project.

“I don’t think you’ll find anybody who has traveled Woodruff Road who wouldn’t say this is a good thing,” Cooper said. “This has great potential to help in the short- and long-term.”

The new connector would not take the place of a Woodruff Road connector that the city and state transportation officials have been talking about for years. That road could run from Miller Road to Verdae and perhaps extend to Salters Road, Cooper said. But its route hasn’t been determined and the project won’t get funding for easements until 2018, Cooper said. The Woodruff Road connector isn’t scheduled to get any construction money until 2021, and it could take two or three years to fund the entire project, Cooper said.

“If we connected with Green Heron Road and Ketron Court, it’s creating a grid, and that’s what you want to have,” Mayor Knox White said.

The connector could be similar to the Market Pointe connector the city is building on Woodruff on the other side of Interstate 85 near Whole Foods. Paving of that plain, two-lane road with no sidewalks or lighting is expected to start this week, Cooper said.

Rick Sumerel, president and CEO of Verdae Development, told City Council members on Monday that Verdae has plans to develop the swath of land it owns on the potential PNG connector.

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A lost generation of cancer patients

Too old for pediatric care, too young for adult care — adolescents and young adults sometimes fall through the cracks, but health systems like Bon Secours St. Francis want to catch them

HIGHLIGHTS Young people (ages 15 to 39) account for 70,000 cancer cases per year, but often feel out of place in both pediatric and adult care.

Health systems are beginning to focus on the needs of adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients.

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System is opening an Adolescent and Young Adult Activity Center for young people with cancer.

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Perry Belue had recently returned to the Upstate from a high school varsity golfing competition in Florida when he complained of pain in his side. The 16-year-old had been fishing and surfing, as well as playing golf — as active as he always was. His parents thought he might have developed a kidney stone.

But the first doctor’s visits didn’t go well, and soon the high school student found himself walking into a pediatric cancer center, feeling lost. “I will never forget his face: His look was, ‘What am I doing here?’” says Perry’s mother, Nicole Belue.

To Perry, it seemed like he was visiting a day care center. “There were young kids playing with toys and trying on all kinds of crazy hats, pink hats with sparkles,” he recalls. “I just wanted to leave and go home.

There was no one to relate to.”

After multiple diagnoses that took him from Spartanburg to Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude’s Hospital and back to the Upstate, Perry ended up with a diagnosis of Wilms’ tumor, a rare pediatric kidney cancer that rarely affects people after age 5.

Perry’s family chose not to return to the pediatric hospital with the “crazy hats” for his treatment and instead turned to Bon Secours St. Francis Health System with Dr. Hal Crosswell, who is the director of St. Francis’ Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology.

Older adolescents like Perry are part of a lost generation of cancer patients that traditionally have been bounced between cancer centers that focus on pediatrics or adult cancer patients. For instance, Perry also felt out of place visiting an adult center where the older patients stared at him in shock

Dr. Hal Crosswell

Perry Belue

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May, Clement’s Kindness Fund for Children gave Bon Secours St. Francis $83,500 to develop the AYA center and program.

“With the grant funding, we were able to renovate an area at our outpatient cenImproving outcomes for ter,” says Kaitlin Bomar, coordinator of AYA patients Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. “It Hospitals nationwide, including Bon Secis a room and area where AYA patients can ours St. Francis Cancer Center, now are bego for infusion time and between appointginning to focus on youth like Perry, ages 15 ments.” to 39.

St. Francis asked oncology patients and The group is called adolescents and young families what type of space they would like adults (AYA), and to provide the best care during the AYA Activity Center’s design for them, it takes collaboration between pephase. Perry Belue had suggested the Xbox. diatric oncologists and adult oncologists, as Activity center for “When I was receiving chemo, I just well as a health system providing special at- young adults watched TV and played games on my iPod, No one can say precisely why the AYA so I told them to put in carts, so kids could tention to their needs.

Young people account for 70,000 cancer group shows less improvement, but Cross- have iPads and games when they played, diagnoses per year, a rate that is six times well says a first step to improving outcomes and Xbox and ping pong and comfortable the number of cancers diagnosed in chil- for young adults with cancer is to provide chairs,” Perry says. dren ages 14 and under, according to the oncology services specifically for this group.

The room, which is expected to open to Bon Secours St. Francis is working to ad- patients by the end of this summer, will feaNational Cancer Institute. The most common cancers in the age group of 15–24 years dress this need. Soon the health system will ture a large wall mural of the Liberty Bridge, are leukemia, lymphoma, testicular cancer open an Adolescent and Young Adult Activ- a computer workstation with a printer/fax and thyroid cancer, with breast cancer and ity Center for young people with cancer. In machine, wireless Internet, comfortable chairs, an art area with supplies and, yes, a flat-screen TV with an AYA CANCER FACTS Xbox.

• 70,000 cancer cases per year among young people “Having the space will let them • 5 percent of cancer diagnoses in the U.S. feel this is a place where they can be • 6 times the number of cancer diagnoses in children under 14 years old comfortable and welcomed,” Cross• Ages 15–24: most common diagnoses are leukemia, lymphoma, testicular cancer and thyroid cancer well says.

“We think we’re fulfilling a • Ages 25–39: most common diagnoses are melanoma and breast cancer need that’s not being met out there.” because of his age. “It would have been different if I’d had a place to go to play [computer] games and have fun while I’m sitting there getting chemo,” Perry says.

Source: National Cancer Institute

melanoma most common in those who are ages 25 to 39 years.

Statistics show that AYA people with cancer historically have had less improvement and survival from cancer than children under age 15 and adults ages 40 and over.

“When you look at epidemiological data, there’s an overall improvement in survival of 1.5 percent per year in the pediatric cancer population, which decreases starting at age 15 and continuing until age 40, and then annual survival goes up again,” Crosswell says.

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“This age group needs support”

Along with the goal of creating a welcoming space for AYA cancer patients, St. Francis plans to focus treatment care models and research aimed at this population, Crosswell says.

The older adolescent and young adult oncology population has far less participation in clinical trials than the pediatric oncology population. “About 60 percent of all pediatric patients across the country is enrolled in pediatric clinical trials,” Crosswell says.

“For all adults over age 18, the average enrollment is 3 to 5 percent.”

Young adults are developmentally in a stage of transition, whether from high school to college, college to workforce, being single to forming relationships or starting a family, he says.

“There’s a constant evolution, and so

they might have a delayed diagnosis or a lack of insurance,” Crosswell says.

Youth and young adults also need counseling and support geared toward their needs and stages of life. “This age group needs support, whether they realize it or not,” Bomar explains. “They’re constantly in flux between their independence and relying on friends and family and our health care team. So our No. 1 goal is to get them through therapy, supporting them in whatever ways we can, and psychosocial support is a huge portion of that.”

The Belue family welcomes St. Francis’ changes on behalf of Perry’s oncology peers, although they say they hope Perry will personally never need the new AYA activity center.

“Perry is done with treatment and cancerfree,” Nicole Belue says. “We hope he can visit the new center, but never has to use it.”

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Three Furman University professors are conducting research that could increase sustainable land-use and animal production at farms.

Biology professor John Quinn and earth science professors Brannon Andersen and Courtney Quinn are studying how silvopasture – a landscape that combines pasture, trees and animals – improves agriculture sustainability. The research project started at Greenbrier Farms in Easley; research is also underway at BioWay Farm in Ware Shoals; Spirit Creek Farms in Rutherfordton, N.C.; and Spirit Level Farm in Augusta, Ga. In 2011, Greenbrier Farms partnered with Furman University professors. Since then, the 300-acre farm has hosted multiple research projects.

In 2013, its pastures reached near-unusable conditions. Its pigs had consumed too much of the pasture.

The farm relocated the pigs to the nearby forests for feeding. In 2014, it partnered with

researchers to study the operation.

In February, researchers recruited three more farms for the study and were awarded $135,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Researchers began the project in June.

“There is a lot of degraded forestland that isn’t benefitting the farms,” said principal investigator John Quinn. “We’re trying to figure out the best approach to creating these sustainable farming operations in upland forest systems.”

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“Most of the farms are pastured, and they’re from the 1980s. So the soil is exhausted,” said Andersen. “It’s a great opportunity to document the soil’s reaction to these crops.”

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Student researchers collect soil samples at Greenbrier Farms in Easley, S.C. The researchers collect the samples and then analyze their carbon to nitrogen ratio, which acts as an indicator of fertile soil.

Researchers and their students are helping the farms restore patches of forests to silvopasture. Researchers allocated 5 acres at each farm for the restoration efforts.

The farms are releasing pigs into the patches to eat its invasive plants. Then farmers are planting rye, soybean, chicory, sorghum, sunflower, buckwheat and alfalfa.

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October, according to Quinn. Researchers are collecting preliminary soil samples until then. If successful, the restored lands could be beneficial.

Deep tree roots combined with pasture plant roots acquire nutrients from a greater range of soil depths, according to the USDA. The more nutritious plants create higherquality meats that farms can sell at a higher price.

Also, farms use rotational feeding so that these systems retain sustainable crop production. This technique involves animals feeding on one pasture for a short period of time — typically less than four days — before relocating to another pasture.

The feeding gap allows pastures to recuperate and also decreases sediment runoff that occurs because of the stomping that happens in the pasture. This in turn conserves the pasture and reduces the need for supplemental feeding, which can be costly for farms.

Rotational feeding can also boost animal production because short-feeding periods maximize vegetative plant growth, which allows animals to feed on better food faster.

The farmer can then send those animals to slaughter faster and earn more money.

Farms are managing the restored land through rotational feeding and seasonal planting. During that time, researchers plan to acquire data on soil fertility, identify suitable animal forage mixtures and test if the restoration efforts improved upland forest habitat.

Researchers are collecting soil samples from each of the farms throughout the project and measuring the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, which acts as an indicator for fertile soil. These measurements can also indicate which crops are best suited for shaded conditions.

As forage mixtures begin to sprout, researchers are observing the birds that forage and nest on the restored patches of land.

They’re also running a daily acoustic analysis that measures the number of birds present.

Birds are indicators of a much bigger find.

“It’s an indicator that the research is restoring the communities associated with a healthy forest,” said Quinn. “A healthy system is more acoustically complex.”

The results could better the process of establishing silvopasture systems on farms throughout the Southeast. But it could also hold the answers to improving soil conditions and establishing a healthier upland forest habitat, problems that are international.

The findings are being shared through field

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Farms across the Southeast are releasing pigs into patches of forested land to eat invasive plants.

The effort is part of a research project being conducted by three Furman University professors.

Those researchers and farms hope to convert the forests into landscapes that mirror savannas, providing multiple economic and environmental benefits.

days and publications once funding ends in 2018. Until then, researchers are surveying multiple producers throughout the Upstate to document their interactions and better understand how to disseminate results to farms.

“I don’t want the data and process to end with a publication in a journal,” said Quinn.

“My colleagues and I feel an obligation to ensure that this information goes to the community that helped us identify the questions and acquire the data.”

Researchers plan to monitor the farms indefinitely once funding ends. They also plan to request more funding and recruit additional farms, according to Quinn.

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Greer Fire Department offers free training for residents ANDREW MOORE | STAFF

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The Greer Fire Department plans to school residents in the art of firefighting this fall as it begins its first-ever Citizens Fire Academy, a two-month program to teach residents about the functions and daily operations of the department.

The free program, which begins on Sept.

29, features classroom instruction and hands-on training. Residents can expect to tour the city’s fire stations and dispatch center, learn fire behavior, try on protective equipment, extinguish fires, learn to use lifesaving equipment and techniques and much more, according to Greer Fire Chief Dorian Flowers.

“Residents are going to learn a lot of things that they can use in day-to-day life.

So it’s a great opportunity to create a more informed community,” said Flowers. “But it also helps us better connect with the com-

munity we serve.”

The Greer Fire Department started planning the program earlier this year after seeing the success of a similar program at the Greer Police Department. But it isn’t the department’s first educational outreach effort.

It offers annual fire station tours and safety presentations to residents and schools. The department also holds an explorer program that educates and trains teenagers in fire service and sends them to competitions across the Southeast.

The department has reached 28,273 residents through its educational efforts since 2011, according to City of Greer annual reports. The new training program could boost that number and benefit the department and city.

“Some people have misconceptions about fire departments,” said Flowers. “The academy should help people see that we’re not sitting around and waiting for fires. Fire-

fighting is really just a small part of it. We’re that must be returned to the City of Greer doing rescues, medical calls and a lot more.” Fire Department by Sept. 5. Residents can Flowers added that the program could email forms to Julie Hunter or mail to 103 also be used to recruit participants interest- W. Poinsett St. Greer, S.C. 29650. ed in pursuing a firefighting career.

The program is open to anyone at least 18 years of age, but space is For more information, limited. Interested residents must visit bit.ly/greer-fire. complete applications and releases

“Residents are going to learn a lot of things that they can use in day-to-day life. So it’s a great opportunity to create a more informed community.”

Greer Fire Chief Dorian Flower

GREER CITIZENS FIRE ACADEMY SCHEDULE Session 1: Sept. 29 (Station 1, 103 W. Poinsett St., Greer) • History of the City of Greer Fire Department • Organizational structure • Qualifications and training to become a firefighter • Station tour

Session 5: Oct. 27 (Station 1) • Fire behavior • Fire extinguishers • Hose, nozzles and appliances

Session 2: Oct. 6 (Station 1) • Daily activities • Community activities • Fire prevention

Session 7: Nov. 12 (Station 2, 1985 Hood Road, Greer) • Vehicle extrication • Rescue procedures • Aerial operations

Session 3: Oct. 13 (Station 1) • CPR/basic first aid/AED (not mandatory if you’re already certified) Session 4: Oct. 20 (Station 1) • Dispatch • 911 communications • Automatic and mutual aid

Session 6: Nov. 3 (Station 1) • Equipment and trucks • Personal protective equipment • Self-contained breathing apparatus

Session 8: Nov. 13 (Station 2) • Fire suppression (not mandatory, but a doctor’s release form is required) Session 9: Nov. 17 (Station 1) • Graduation (friends and family can attend)

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Police following leads in Pokemon player punch case CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Police are following leads in the case of a Pokemon Go player who they say was punched by a man, knocking him unconscious, in the Peace Center plaza in downtown Greenville last week.

Detectives received some tips after releasing a surveillance video photo of the suspect who was seen leaving the scene with a group of others, said Greenville Police spokesman Gilberto Franco.

With the punch, Greenville joined a growing list of cities where players of the popular smartphone game have been injured or become victims of crimes, as well as bigger South Carolina cities dealing with public safety downtown and in entertainment districts.

But Greenville Mayor Knox White said despite the incident, downtown Greenville is one of the safest places to be in the city. He said downtown attracts tens, and sometimes hundreds, of thousands of people at a time with very few incidents.

“Public safety is our number one priority,” he said. “People feel safe downtown. This

incident doesn’t reflect the way things are.

Downtown is safe. We’re not going to tolerate that behavior.”

Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said the police department has dedicated patrols in downtown and city garages, and the depart-

of robberies downtown and near the Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit Trail caused some to question downtown safety.

Miller said the Pokemon Go player was on the steps of the plaza at South Main and West Broad streets about 10:30 p.m. Wednes-

“This incident doesn’t reflect the way things are. Downtown is safe. We’re not going to tolerate that behavior.”

Greenville Mayor Knox White

ment has a task force that is deployed in different parts of downtown depending on the day and time of the week and events being held. The city is also upgrading its surveillance network downtown with high-definition and low-light cameras that can zoom to show a face or a license plate and track movement, Miller said.

The upgrade is part of the city’s 2013 plan to increase security downtown after a string

day, when a man walked up to him and said, “What’d you say to me?”

After the Pokemon Go player answered, “I didn’t say anything to you,” the suspect, a black male, punched him in the side of the head. The player, a 29-year-old Simpsonville man, fell and hit his head on the steps, knocking him unconscious, Miller said.

Police have classified the Wednesday night incident as attempted murder because of the

extent of the Pokemon Go player’s injury.

As the Pokemon Go phenomenon has spread across the country, law enforcement and emergency medical services agencies have reported driving accidents, pedestrian injuries, trespassing and robberies and other crimes connected to the game.

Greenville isn’t the only big South Carolina city dealing with public safety downtown and in entertainment districts.

Charleston passed a one-year moratorium on new bars in its entertainment district that could stay open past midnight in 2014 after the death of a man who was sucker-punched on King Street and complaints from neighborhood residents about noise, parking and safety problems.

In Columbia, safety in Five Points, a popular late-night student hangout, was questioned after Martha Childress, then an 18-year-old freshman at the University of South Carolina, was paralyzed after being struck by a stray bullet while waiting for a taxi.

Anybody with information about the incident is asked to call the Greenville Police Department at 271-5333 or Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME.

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Rehearsal space, storage and second performance space could be part of expansion CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Centre Stage Greenville is considering buying East Park Baptist Church’s property near East Washington Avenue and Laurens Road for a second space.

Glenda ManWaring, the theater’s executive and artistic director, said Centre Stage is not moving from its 501 River Street location.

“River Street is our home,” she said Instead, the theater is investigating the possibility of acquiring the property for rehearsal space, a second performance space and storage.

“Zoning is the first step,” she said. “It’s so far from a done deal.”

The Greenville Zoning Commission will consider at its August meeting a request to rezone nearly 1.5 acres of land at 12 Ebaugh St. from RM-1, single and multifamily residential district; OD, office and institutional

district; and C-3, regional commercial district, to FRD, flexible review district.

The application said Centre Stage is requesting FRD zoning because it would be limited to its specific use, therefore protecting the neighborhood from potentially unwanted commercial uses allowed within C-3 and OD zoning.

East Park Baptist Church’s congregation has decided to merge with another local church and sell the property, according to the application filed with the city.

According to the application, Centre Stage plans to rehabilitate the existing structures on site instead of building a new facility.

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That’s why I’m so excited that Animal Care is offering FREE spay/neuter for Pit Bulls and pit mixes! It even includes free vaccines to make sure the dogs who come in are going to be healthy and happy in the long run. If you know anyone who has a dog who’s at least part Pit Bull, please let them know about this special. It will mean less dogs like my friends will be homeless in Greenville County.

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They can bike

Local group provides fun on two wheels for kids with disabilities EMILY PIETRAS | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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Volunteers, who complete an orientation before the camp begins, instruct riders while providing motivational support and encouragement.

bike, I’d watch her struggle, and I’d go, ‘There has to be a special way to do this,’” said Bowden.

She heard about iCan Bike a few years ago while living in Atlanta, but there wasn’t a program available locally. That changed when the family moved to Greenville recently. “[This camp] is what she needs. This is great,’” Bowden said.

Through grant funding, when the camp ends, riders take home a bike so that they can continue riding and build on their progress. The Greenville Spinners, a local cycling club that has more than 800 members, provided the kids with helmets through their bike safety foundation.

“Riding a bike is one of those life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn,” Lindsay Buckles, development specialist at YMCA Greenville, said.

“We have 38 kids here that didn’t have the training or access [to learn to ride a bike] that now have that opportunity.”

Many camp volunteers are YMCA supporters, and the organization also partners with Grace Church, Coca-Cola, Texas Roadhouse restaurant and Kohl’s in Greer. Prior to camp, volunteers complete an orientation where they “learn how to best facilitate the needs of each rider,” explains Buckles. Two volunteers are paired with each rider, and they’re instructed to stay within arm’s length of the bike while providing guidance and encouragement.

Madeline Chandler, development specialist intern at YMCA Greenville, says her involvement with iCan Bike has been a great opportunity to combine her love of sports with her desire to help children with disabilities. The rising junior at Clemson University is majoring in recreational therapy, so iCan Bike has also provided her with valuable experience in her field of study.

Chandler’s connection to the camp is also personal, as one of the girls she nannies over the summer is a participant this year.

“It’s nice to see people you know benefit from this,” she says.

This week, a local gymnasium has been filled with 38 kids trying to reach a familiar milestone: learning to ride a bike.

Sponsored by the Eastside Family YMCA and held at Taylors First Baptist Church, iCan Bike camp teaches children ages 8 and older with disabilities how to ride a bicycle in five days. Children with conditions including Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism attend the camp. iCan Bike is a program through iCan Shine, an international nonprofit that collaborates with local organizations to host the camps. To date, iCan Bike is offered in 32 states and four provinces in Canada. The programs serve approximately 3,000 people each year. Last year, 85 percent of riders who finished the camp were able to ride a bike independently.

The Greenville camp is now in its fourth year. The local Down Syndrome Family Alliance heard about iCan Bike and wanted to bring it to Greenville, but they lacked the necessary volunteer and financial support. The organization reached out to the YMCA, which has used its resources to recruit volunteers and acquire grants and other funding opportunities to make the program come to fruition locally.

During the camp, children ride adapted bikes, which are provided by iCan Shine, for a 75-minute interval at the same time every day. The bikes are specially constructed to aid children with balancing. Instead of a back wheel, a circular roller provides more stability. The bike is adjusted every day so that stability and balance gradually decreases, and each rider adapts at his or her own pace.

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the kids will start to ride on two wheels outside.

“I was really fascinated with the way they have the modified bicycles with the balance wheel on the back,” Stacey Bowden, a mother of one of the campers, said. Her 11-year-old daughter Aliyah is attending the camp this year after having difficulty with balance when previTo learn more about iCanBike, ously trying to ride a bike. visit bit.ly/iCanBike-Taylors.

“Every time I’ve always tried to teach her to ride a

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This week, iCan Bike campers learned to ride a two-wheeled bike using specially modified bikes provided by iCan Shine.

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SHE 2016 looks to boost local businesses SHE Weekend prepares for its ninth annual event in Greenville ANJALI PATEL | CONTRIBUTOR

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The ninth annual SHE Weekend, formerly known as the Upstate Women’s Show, will take place August 5–7 at the TD Convention Center in Greenville.

The Upstate Women’s Show was founded in 2008 by Jacqui Bomar, president and owner of JBM & Associates, a Greenville-based event management and marketing company.

Advertised as “The Ultimate Girls’ Weekend,” SHE provides an opportunity for local women to shop, taste and create thanks to a handful of local vendors, retailers and more.

SHE Weekend features booths and demonstrations that highlight local artisans, crafters, retailers and at-home industries, as well as large-scale businesses. For example, Magnolia Scents will be conducting candle-making classes and Home Depot’s CREATE area will be crafting kitchen chalkboards. Local

Be sure to check www.greenvillejournal.com and social media for participating restaurants, menus, and more!

artisans will also be selling handcrafted goods in a new feature called Maker’s Market.

“It is our hope that SHE is the catalyst for these businesses to make names for themselves and to gain many loyal supporters and repeat customers,” said SHE Coordinator Latina Burrell-Karpinsky.

This year’s event will also feature some notable guests, including local chef Christina Halstead, who will be baking her famous $50,000 biscuit.

Not only does SHE benefit local businesses but also it partners with nonprofits. SHE typically has one charitable organization as its main beneficiary each year, and this time, proceeds from auctioned art items will benefit the Julie Valentine Center, a nonprofit that provides free, confidential services to survivors of sexual assault and child abuse.

The SHE team will also fill a bus with school supplies for local children with the help of The Urban League of the Upstate.

The event may be titled “SHE,” but it doesn’t just cater to women. “This event is for everyone,” Burrell-Karpinsky said. SHE covers a wide array of interests, and also features home improvement, health and wellness, automotive and tech-related vendors.

More than a year of preparation goes into SHE Weekend. Burrell-Karpinsky explained that preparation for this year’s event started well before last year’s event even began.

SHE Weekend 2016 kicks off Friday night with the JC Penney Men’s Fashion Show and cocktail samplings by Dark Corner Distillery’s Whiskey Girl. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door. Kids ages 5 and under are free.

To view the full schedule or to purchase tickets, go to SHEgreenville.com.

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Highlights in the heart of the city right off the Swamp Rabbit Trail EMILY PIETRAS | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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Part of an ongoing series featuring stops along the Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit Trail. For parts one and two on Travelers Rest, visit greenvillejournal.com.

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tainment, the market’s popularity also grew.

Today, more than 60 farmers, food producers and crafters gather at the TD Saturday Market to sell their goods, and thousands visit each week. All food sold at the market must be grown or produced within 100 miles of Greenville. Each week, the market features cooking demonstrations and live music performances.

Right now, the TD Saturday Market is held every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon until Oct. 29. Many of the vendors accept credit cards and checks, but make sure you have cash just in case. For a list of vendors, visit bit.ly/tdmarket-vendors.

PROVIDED BY SWAMP RABBIT CAFÉ & GROCERY/FACEBOOK

1. SWAMP RABBIT CAFÉ AND GROCERY 205 Cedar Lane Road, Greenville Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery aims to make fresh locally grown and produced food accessible within the mainstream Greenville market in addition to serving high-quality baked goods and coffee. At least half of their inventory is ingredients and products that come from sources within 150 miles of Greenville. Everything the café sells is made from scratch, and they choose ingredients carefully.

Many of the ingredients in their café and bakery items can be purchased in their grocery section, including milk from Happy Cow Creamery, free-range eggs from 10 different farms, fruit from Happy Berry and Beechwood Farms and beef from Greenbrier Farms, among others. The café serves Counter Culture Coffee, a coffee roasting company based in Raleigh, N.C., that forms partnerships with coffee farmers and producers all over the world.

To read more about Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery’s beginnings and growth, visit bit.ly/ swamprabbit-café via Upstate Business Journal.

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Spill the Beans combines two of my favorite things: coffee and ice cream. They serve chocolate and vanilla ice cream that is combined with the customer’s choice of mix-ins in a special blender to produce a gourmet treat. (If you haven’t tried their ice cream yet, you’re missing out; Spill the Beans just received a Best in the Upstate award for it.)

The store brews Dillanos Coffee, which is based in Sumner, Wash., and they offer a variety of traditional and alternative coffee drinks, served either hot or iced, in addition to smoothies and Italian sodas. Spill the Beans has a prime location right next to Falls Park, so if you need a break from the trail, grab your coffee or ice cream and enjoy the view.

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4. MELLOW MUSHROOM 1 Augusta St. #201, Greenville Maybe pizza isn’t the best meal to choose following a workout, but Mellow Mushroom is so close to the trail that we won’t blame you for giving in to temptation. Choose from a variety of specialty or build-your-own pizzas and calzones, salads and hoagies.

On Tuesdays, appetizers (I recommend the pretzels, even though they’re essentially just baked pizza dough shaped into big soft pretzels) are half-off from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and draft beer is $2.50. Trivia nights are Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.

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3. SPILL THE BEANS 531 S. Main St., Greenville

2. TD SATURDAY MARKET Main Street at McBee Avenue The TD Saturday Market began in 2003 with 20 vendors. As downtown developed into a hub for shopping, dining and enter-

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5. EGGS UP GRILL 31 Augusta St., Greenville

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If you need a breakfast or brunch fix after a morning run or bike on the trail, Eggs Up Grill is your solution; the restaurant is open from 6 a.m. until 2 p.m. everyday. The original location opened in Pawleys Island in 1986, and the restaurant prides itself on providing good food and a family-friendly atmosphere.

The restaurant offers standard breakfast fare, including a wide assortment of omelets, bagel and egg sandwiches, pancakes, waffles and French toast. For lunch, they serve burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads and soups. (Tip: Get the home fries as a side item.) The menu is so extensive that you’ll be hard-pressed to find something that doesn’t appeal to you — and you’ll probably be debating what to order for a few minutes longer than usual.

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Events that make our community better

On Thursday, July 21, Westminster Summer Adventures presented Meals on Wheels of Greenville with a check for $357.44. The funds were raised through a lemonade stand, held on Friday, July 15.

Five classes took turns helping at the lemonade stand to raise money for the homebound.

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Community news, events and happenings

CONSERVATION

Anderson University partners with Upstate Forever to protect park Anderson University partnered with local conservation group Upstate Forever to permanently protect Rocky River Nature Park. Anderson University committed 132 acres of wetlands and forest located less than two miles from downtown Anderson to create the park, which is operated for public use by the nonprofit Rocky River Conservancy. The project was made possible in part through a grant from the South Carolina Conservation Bank.

For more information about the park, visit rockyriverconservancy.org.

Activities, awards and accomplishments

Fifty-five students, ages 11 to 16, spent a week at the Peace Center participating in Camp Broadway, working with seasoned professionals to perfect their singing, dancing and acting.

SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE

Kristofer M. Neely joins SMC faculty Kristofer M. Neely was recently appointed as a professor of art at Spartanburg Methodist College (SMC). Neely is a visual artist and creative writer and the owner/creative director of Wet Paint Syndrome, an art gallery/ studio in Spartanburg. He is best known for his angel paintings he calls “Guardians.” He previously served as a dean, assistant professor and coordinator for studio art at Wofford College.

Neely is a member of the Northside Development Corporation’s neighborhood committee and is a past board member of Piedmont Care Inc. and the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg.

DEDICATION

GHS Children’s Hospital dedicates family room The Greenville Hospital System Children’s Hospital dedicated its fifth floor family room to Entercom Upstate, a collective of seven regional radio stations owned by Entercom Communications. The company has promoted the Children’s Hospital for the last decade through the Children’s Hospital Radiothon, an annual fundraising event that has raised over $2.6 million for the hospital to date.

For more information, visit entercomupstate.com.

The Greenville Chorale, the Upstate’s symphonic chorus, will hold auditions for experienced singers on Sunday, Aug. 7. Singers must be proficient in sight singing. To schedule your audition appointment, call 235-1101 or for more information, visit greenvillechorale.com.

CELEBRATION

CDS celebrates its 16th birthday The Center for Developmental Services (CDS) recently celebrated its “sweet sixteen” since it first opened its doors in 2000. CDS celebrated the occasion with activities and a close-up look at emergency vehicles for children. The children were also given the opportunity to interact with first responders.

Volunteers from the Greenville Police Department, Greenville Fire Department and volunteers helped with the celebration.

For more information, visit cdservices.org.

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This week, Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County kicked off a firstof-its-kind campaign for veterans’ affordable housing in Greenville. Habitat has purchased a neighborhood (Grace Point off White Horse Road) and intends to build homes specifically for veterans and their families who are accepted into the Habitat program. All totalled, this is a $1.4 million project.

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Sponsored by the Eastside Family YMCA and held at Taylors First Baptist Church, iCan Bike camp teaches children ages 8 and older with disabilities how to ride a bicycle in five days. Children with conditions including Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism attend the camp. Read our story on page 14.

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Greenville High and Greenville Federal Credit Union announced plans in May to open a student-operated credit union branch inside Greenville High. Students have been “hired” and trained during July.

Wednesday was the first time the student “employees,” who are finance magnet school students, came to the high school as a group to see the branch.

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Home-schooled kids shine in Greenville Hurricanes team, both of which came under the umbrella of UHC. Ever since then we’ve added another sport or another level of a sport every year to the point where we have eight sports and 22 teams that serve about 400 kids.”

The decision to home-school a child is not easy.

Whether due to personal preference, religious beliefs or myriad other reasons, there are many parents across the Upstate who choose to teach their children at home.

But what if a home-schooled child excels in athletics or simply needs the social interaction, physical activity or sense of competition that sports can provide? That’s where Greenville Hurricane Athletics comes in.

Working under the umbrella of the Upstate Home-School Co-op, the GHA have created programs in archery, baseball, basketball, crosscountry, football, soccer and volleyball, all aimed at home-schooled children in grades six through 12.

For more information, visit greenvillehurricanes.com.

One of the most interesting things about the Hurricane Athletics program is how they launch their sports programs. “People would come up to us and say, ‘We think you should have a baseball program, we think you should have an archery program,’” Madson says. “So our Executive Athletic Director Mike Worley came up with a concept of how it would work.

If somebody wants to begin a sport under Greenville Hurricane athletics, they have to

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“Around 2008, the co-op realized there were not a lot of options for our home-schoolers to have athletics,” says Greenville Hurricane Athletics Executive Administrator Shelley Madson. “At the time, we created a basketball team and a soccer

The program has even grown to include the occasional non-home-schooled student. “The focus is for homeschooled athletes, but we’ve expanded to include any athlete whose school does not provide a certain sport. We have some charter school kids who play football, and we have some private school kids who play soccer.”

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where are you going to practice, what would you charge?’ — a whole raft of questions. Once we’re satisfied that they’ve thought it through, then we do an interest meeting with parents. If we find out if there’s enough interest, then we start moving.”

It’s not a job that’s going to make anyone rich, coaching these kids, but Madson says that in the Hurricane program, it’s about a lot more than money.

come to us with the ability to take on the leadership.”

Meaning that, in most cases, if you come to the Hurricanes and say you think a certain sport should be added, you’ll most likely be put in charge of making it happen. “Two years ago, a man came to us with an idea for baseball,” Madson says. “So we had him put together his plan, put together his budget, and then we asked ‘Where are you getting your athletes from, where are you going to play,

“The value of a program like this is that it creates a place where these kids are going to be able to shine, find their confidence and find their leadership skills. So for us to offer this, it makes homeschooling not strictly academic, but also a place where athletically gifted kids can thrive. This needs to be part of their education.”

Vincent Harris covers music and sports for The Greenville Journal.

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NAR Reports Significant Increase in Commercial Membership The median annual income and number of sales transactions of National Association of Realtors® commercial members decreased slightly as the number of new commercial members significantly increased in 2015, according to the 2016 NAR Commercial Member Profile.

The number of commercial members with less than two years of experience nearly doubled to 9 percent in 2016, from 5 percent in 2015.

The annual study’s results represent Realtors®, members of NAR, who conduct all or part of their business in commercial sales, leasing, brokerage and development for land, office and industrial space, multifamily and retail buildings, as well as property management.

“As the U.S. economy continues to experience strong, steady recovery, NAR has seen more and more members choose to specialize in commercial real estate,” said Len Fletcher, 2016 President of The Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® and Broker-Associate with RE/ MAX Moves in Simpsonville, SC. “Realtors® who practice commercial real estate help build and improve the economies of our local communities, so as a community’s commercial real estate market grows and improves so does the local economy.”

The median years of experience in real estate dropped to 15 years in 2016 from 20 years in 2015, as did the median years of experience in commercial real estate, down from 25 years to 20 years.

The median gross annual income for commercial members in 2015 was $108,800, down from $126,900 in 2014. Brokers and appraisers reported the highest annual gross income at $145,800 and $130,800 respectively while sales agents reported the lowest at $$67,300, which is in line with last year’s results.

Those with less than two years of experience reported a median annual income of $43,400 in 2015, down from $67,200 in 2014; and those with more than 26 years of experience reported a median annual income of $165,385 in 2015, up from $162,800 in 2014.

“The slight drop in annual income appears to be associated with a substantial number of new commercial members entering the industry,” said Fletcher. “The report tells us that the more years of experience in commercial real estate a member has the more revenue they take in.”

The increase in new commercial members has been predominately new sales agents and as a result led to a shift in license type. Fortyseven percent of NAR’s members who practice commercial real estate are brokers, down from 59 percent last year, while licensed sales agents made up 31 percent of commercial members, up from 24 percent. Additionally, 17 percent of

commercial members have a broker-associate license and 5 percent hold an appraisal license.

The median sales transaction volume among commercial members who had a transaction was $2,931,000 in 2015, an increase from $2,916,700 in 2014. Eight percent of commercial members reported not having a transaction at all, likely due to the influx of new members in commercial real estate.

Thirty-five percent of commercial members were involved in international transactions in 2015, up from 32 percent in 2014. Commercial sales agents had the most experience with foreign clients with 45 percent reporting an international transaction. Nineteen percent of all respondents saw an increase in international clients, while only 1 percent reported a decrease.

The median lease transaction volume in 2015 among members who reported at least one transaction was $600,000. While those members who manage properties typically managed 50,000 total square feet representing 17 total spaces in 2016, down from 75,000 square feet and 20 spaces managed in 2015. Those who manage offices typically manage 20,000 square feet representing five total spaces.

Forty percent of members who practice commercial real estate have a commercial designation. Twenty-seven percent of members have a designation with the CCIM Institute, 8 percent with the Institute of Real Estate Management, 7 percent are Certified International Property Specialists and 4 percent are Society of Industrial and Office Realtors®.

Seventy-three percent of commercial members are male, down from 75 percent in 2014, as more women continue to enter the industry. The median age remained the same as last year at 60 years old. Sixty-nine percent of members have a bachelors’ degree or higher.

The 2016 NAR Commercial Member Profile was based on a survey of 2,048 members. Income and transaction data are for 2015, while other data represent member characteristics in 2016.

Approximately 80,000 commercial real estate professionals are members of NAR, making it the largest commercial organization in the industry.

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Allen Tate Company Launches Updated Blog

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Allen Tate Company, the Carolinas’ leading real estate company, announces the renovation of the company blog and newsroom.

The blog, Everything and the Kitchen Sink, covers topics and trends of interest to buyers, sellers and homeowners, as well as happenings throughout the Carolinas. Articles include quotes from subject-matter experts and links to reputable industry resources. New posts are added at least twice a week.

Blog posts cover everything from tips for first-time home buyers and what’s new about credit reports, to landscaping on a budget and favorite local farmers markets and brunch spots. Occasional posts will feature properties for sale by Allen Tate with a special focus, such as “Fabulous Front Porches” or “Sensational Swimming Pools.”

In addition, the company newsroom has also been updated. In On the Record, you’ll find a searchable archive of press releases and other news items published for and about the Allen Tate Company.

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Justin McCall and Micah Zimmer join the Pelham Road office of C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce that Justin McCall has joined The Toates Team and Micah Zimmer has joined as sales associate at the company’s Pelham Road office.

A Greenville native, McCall earned a Bachelor of Science in secondary education social studies from Clemson University. Since graduation, McCall has garnered significant experience in sales and customer service. Most recently, he has served as an inside salesman for Roofing McCall Supply Group in Simpsonville.

“Our Pelham Road office welcomes Justin to The Toates Team and the C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS family,” said Duane Bargar, Broker-In-Charge of the Pelham Road Office. “We look forward to working with Justin as he makes his mark on the Upstate real estate market.”

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Turfgrass irrigation, along with mowing and fertilizing, is one of the basic management tools we implement when entrusted to the care of turf. Although the application of water to a turf to maintain adequate growth sounds rather simplistic, turfgrass irrigation is often done improperly leading to wasting water and turfgrass damage. When designing a conservative turfgrass irrigation program there are four questions to be answered: 1. When to irrigate.

2. How often should you irrigate.

3. How much water to apply at any one irrigation.

4. How to efficiently apply water.

Turfgrass irrigation should be considered nothing more than a supplement to rainfall.

If adequate rainfall is occurring, then the turf should be fine without added irrigation. In the absence of rainfall, supplemental irrigation is needed to maintain a healthy, green turf.

However, drought tolerant turfgrasses should be able to withstand drought conditions by going dormant. Once moisture is added through either rainfall or irrigation, the turf should resume normal growth patterns.

Within the state of South Carolina we grow both cool-season grasses including fescue and ryegrass as well as warm-season

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There is a difference in drought tolerance among the various grasses so be sure to choose a variety that will fit with your anticipated irrigation practices. The warm-season turfgrasses are the most drought tolerant with bermudagrass and zoysiagrass being the best. St. Augustinegrass and centipedegrass are moderately drought tolerant with the cool-season grasses fescue and ryegrass being the least drought tolerant.

Two questions often arise when discussing turfgrass irrigation: how do I know when to irrigate and how often should I irrigate.

Turf should be irrigated when it shows signs of moisture stress. The catch phrase that is often used in describing turfgrass irrigation is to water deep and infrequent. Apply enough water to soak the root zone down to 8 to 10 inches of soil, then wait until the turf has thoroughly dried before irrigating again.

As with many answers to questions, this often leads to several other questions: How do I know when my turf is dry and how long do I run my irrigation device to provide enough moisture to avoid moisture stress?

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and watch your footprints. If the grass in the print bounces back up then plenty of moisture is available in the plant. If the grass lays flat, you will need to water the next morning.

Keep in mind that not every blade of grass will dry at the same time. Most large areas of turf will develop localized dry spots; small areas that dry before the majority of the lawn. These areas can be hand watered when needed instead of watering large areas that show no signs of moisture stress. Persistent localized dry spots may indicate a hydrophobic condition which will inhibit water infiltration. If this is an issue, the area can be aerified or spiked. Another option is to apply a soil surfactant or penetrant. These products help break the surface tension allowing water to infiltrate.

The ideal time to water turf will be between 2am and 10am. During this time, winds are usually calm and loss of water through evaporation is minimized. The grass leaves will dry quickly from the irrigation which will lessen chances of disease. How often you irrigate will depend on environmental conditions including weather and soil types. Evapotranspiration rates (ET) can vary from day to day on turf and will be influenced by weather conditions.

Cool, cloudy conditions with a somewhat high relative humidity may cause ET rates to hover around .05 inch per day. Hot, dry conditions with a low relative humidity can cause ET rates

to climb to over .10 inch or more per day. Rates as high as .15 to .2 inches per day may also be seen under certain conditions, such as the extreme heat of summer. When developing an irrigation program, keep in mind that weather conditions can influence how quick a turf will dry and how often you will need to water.

When averaging ET rates for turf from various types of gauges, researchers have determined that the average weekly ET rate for turfgrass is 1 inch. Theoretically this means you should apply 1 inch of water per week to make up for the deficit. This may work well under controlled environments but may not work well in real world applications.

The final item to address with turfgrass irrigation is the method of water delivery. Inground irrigation systems can be very effective and can conservatively keep your lawn

well watered. However, the system needs to be properly designed and installed, ensuring that zones set up for watering turf are doing just that, watering the turf. Mixing turf irrigation with ornamental plant irrigation on the same zones can cause scheduling problems. Turfgrass is also watered overhead.

Watering shrubs and ornamental plants overhead increases the likelihood of disease.

You will need to become proficient at operating the clock system that is used to set the time and frequency run times of the system. When the turfgrass can be monitored on a daily basis, the clock should be set to manual and turned on as needed. Hose-end water sprinklers can also be used to water turf and can be very conservative as you are placing the sprinkler only where you need it. The important thing to do with hose-end devices is to determine how much water they are putting out. This can be measured using the same methods outlined above for in-ground systems. There are several types of timers that can be attached to faucets that will avoid overwatering. Be sure to check all water delivery items on a regular basis to make sure they are operating as needed and there are no broken rotors, risers or pipes. Finally, install a rain shut off device on all irrigation systems to avoid watering during rain events when the system is set to water automatically.

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$404,500

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$219,590 ORCHARD FARMS $218,680 LAKEVIEW FARMS $218,150 THE HEIGHTS

$217,910 GREYSTONE AT NEELY FARMS $216,570

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$212,930 SUMMER VALLEY $212,530

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This isn’t your mother’s kitchen With fall around the corner and the holidays on its heels, the realization that we might be entertaining family and friends in a few months might make us want to update a few things – especially our kitchens.

This led me to luxury appliance specialist Camille Cartee with The Cook’s Station in downtown Greenville. Cartee is certified in most, if not all, major high-end, chef-grade appliance brands. She not only educates clients about what is on the market but uses these same appliances at home, since cooking is a serious “passion” of hers.

Trends are “transitional styling,” which includes under-counter appliances, “building in place” design and induction and steam cooking.

Integration and counter depth are still musthaves, and “smart appliances” are getting smarter with each new product unveiled.

The big lifestyle trend, she says, is “aging in place” — people are downsizing and planning on staying in their homes for a long time.

“With this, they customize their kitchen with wall ovens, cooktops and appliance drawers that allow them to put the appliances at a comfortable height, eliminating the need to bend over,” she says. “This is an especially good

idea when removing hot items from an oven.”

What’s new from BlueStar and Miele?

BlueStar offers an electric wall oven with a built-in pizza oven and choices in chef-grade gas ranges from 24 inches all the way up to 75 inches in their Platinum Range Series. It is offered in 750 color choices of trim, enabling customers to customize even the most difficult color matches. At 25,000 BTUs, BlueStar offers the highest BTUs in residential gas ranges.

“We have the 48-inch in the showroom, and we have homeowners that drive from Atlanta to see it in person,” Cartee says. “You can also fit a commercial-size sheet pan in the oven. We have professional chefs that have this in their own homes, because it’s as close to restaurantquality as one can get for residential use.”

Miele, on the other hand, has tapped into a market that caters to individuals or families that may not have the time or knowledge required to cook a perfect meal every time. Their answer comes in a 24-inch wall combination oven that combines convection and steam.

Steam “doesn’t cook the flavor out of something, but rather warms it perfectly without drying it out,” Cartee says. Although it’s a smaller oven, “most people end up using it all the time in place of the 30-inch, and with three racks it can accommodate a lot of food.”

Miele also has a scrolling screen wall oven, the M-Touch, that takes out the guesswork when cooking. “The scrolling screen swipes like an iPhone and asks a series of questions specific to the food you are cooking and guides the cook through the cooking phase from simple all the way to gourmet,” Cartee says.

Camille Cartee participating in an appliance training workshop.

“Busy families or individuals that don’t have extensive cooking knowledge but want to cook

love this,” she says. “We are also finding that the size is becoming very popular with so many people who have purchased condos downtown and find they need something smaller.”

If the Miele ovens didn’t remind you of the Jetsons, maybe their dishwashers will.

With “knock to open” technology, interior lighting and “auto-open” BlueStar’s open flame gas range has the highest BTUs of any residential gas range on the market and is the first choice of professional chefs in their own homes. that opens the door at the end of the cleaning cycle to allow the the popular Keurig K-Kup Brewing System, dishes to air-dry, the choices of dishwashers eliminating the need to have a counter machine. have far more creature comforts than just As passionate as Cartee is about cooking, the number of cleaning cycles and exterior she’s even more so about her customers finishes. and goes to great lengths to ask questions Raiding the fridges about their wants and lifestyle so the kitchen appliances reflect their design style and meet Sub-Zero loyalists will be happy to know that their needs. “I don’t necessarily recommend a the company has now debuted its new 42single brand of everything, but I like to match inch French door model, and it’s still a true their needs with the appropriate appliances,” integrated unit. Sub-Zero offers the most she says. “This takes time; we like to sit down choices of true built-ins for a flush cabinet with the homeowner and look at what their result. Additionally, SZ-Wolf recognized expectations are. We’re a smaller store that the difference customers’ needs and space knows our customers — and those we don’t restrictions, and has started to design models know we take the time to get to know.” that “are designed for a sleek urban loft or a spacious entertainment-oriented kitchen.”

Aesthetics are wonderful, but let’s face it: The number one reason you buy a Sub-Zero is for its durability and longevity.

GE Café Series has one of the most advanced refrigerator door dispensers in the industry.

GE’s newest French door model delivers not only ice and water, but also hot water at a touch. More impressively, the dispenser houses

Kathryn Brown is a native Greenvillian and owner of Serendipity’s Cottage, a small interior design consultant business focused on residential coastal resort properties. She lives in downtown Greenville with her husband, Greg, and one very spoiled rescued German shepherd named Boaz.

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Amid the cacophany of an election year, the exhibition The Poetry of Place offers a respite and reminder that our country, and particularly the South, is home. From the colorful streets of New Orleans to the misty swamps of Florida to the undulant Smoky Mountains, The Poetry of Place invites you to re-discover America, where a picture is worth a thousand words.

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Gusto Fest showcases local music scene with, uh, gusto Saturday’s show at Soundbox features indie, death metal and hip-hop VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

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When Jason Gravley created the multiband Gusto Fest five years ago, his sole purpose was to help some friends.

“They were about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary,” Gravley says. “They wanted to throw a party, and they kind of let me talk them into booking some bands, so it turned into eight acts at a house. And that was the first Gusto Fest. Thirty-five or 40 people turned up, maybe. Everybody had a great time, and pretty much immediately afterwards, people started asking me when the next one was.”

Gravley, a passionate fan of the Upstate music scene, was happy to oblige. “I did the next one at a little DIY venue in Greenville called Garaj Mahal, and it doubled in size,” he says. “Eighty people showed up to it. So from there it went to Radio Room, and that drew about 170 people. Last year I was looking for a bigger venue, and I settled on the

Soundbox Tavern in Simpsonville. I liked the vibe, so that’s why I went with them again this year.”

This year’s edition of the Gusto Fest, which kicks off at Soundbox at 6 p.m. on Saturday, showcases a variety of local and regional musical talent from a wide array of genres, including indie-rockers The Guilty Remnant, alt-rockers About Time and The Hillary Keane Project, death metal trio Tone, thrash band Axattack, Southern sludge-rockers Waft and rappers Native$ and Jimmy Lee. “Native$ are the headliners, and they’re guys that I met at the first Gusto fest,” Gravley says. “And we just wound up becoming good friends. They’re all phenomenal artists and producers, and they blew the roof off the place at Gusto Fest 3. We have photos where you can’t even see them onstage, there’s so many people jumping around and going crazy.”

Gravley, who also hosts a podcast called “No One Likes Your Band” focusing on un-

derground heavy metal, punk and hipGusto Fest 5: The Return Of The Gusto hop artists from the Southeast, says that his main motivation in putting When: Saturday, Aug. 6, 6 p.m..

Gusto Fest together is to showcase Where: Soundbox Tavern, 507 W. Georgia Road, the amount of talented musicians in Simpsonville the area, regardless of genre.

“There’s this big community of Tickets: $10 people who create art, and they want Information: 864-228-7763; nothing more than to put it out into facebook.com/soundboxtavern the world,” he says. “And that’s where the growth of Gusto Fest has come tion about how there’s not any live music from. More than that, it’s about bringing all these different artists together and in town, but what they don’t realize is that letting them meet each other and realizing there are people doing shows every chance that they’ve got a lot of common ground. they get. They’re hungry for something difEvery year people come up to me and say ferent. They’re tired of what’s on television, things like ‘I didn’t realize I liked heavy met- they’re tired of what’s on the radio, they al,’ or ‘I didn’t realize I liked hip-hop.’ It hap- want something new and exciting, and it’s all right here. There are so many talented pens every year.”

Gravley believes that sense of commu- acts around here. We’re all in this together, nity has led to Gusto’s expansion. “People and the only way we’re going to compete want to go see good live music. Music that with places like Atlanta or Charlotte is to they’ve never seen or heard before,” he stop trying to be like them and find out who says. “There’s been this ongoing conversa- we are and push that into the world.”

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CULTURE Sound Check Notes on the Music Scene with Vincent Harris

Molasses keeps it sweet and funky I knew about 16 seconds into the first Molasses song I ever heard that I had to write about them.

I didn’t even know the name of the song, but I heard the congas blending with the drums, the nimble, slippery bass and the terse, clipped guitar riffing over a salty B-3-style organ sound; these guys are channeling the great instrumental funksoul of The Meters or the Average White Band, with a little Jimmy Smith or Booker T. thrown in.

This is tight, concise ensemble playing that locks into a groove and doesn’t let go, and it’s fantastic to have a band like this on the Upstate music scene.

Guitarist Troy House says that the band (which also includes keyboard player Aaron Bowen, drummer Tromell Blassingame, bassist Ethan Burkhardt and percussionist Jason Phillips) draws a lot of inspiration from Big Easy bands like The Meters, but there’s a heavy organ-trio jazz influence, as well. “Yeah, it’s New Orleans-influenced, for sure, but I like to call us soul-jazz,” he says. “We dabble in everything, but I really like the organ trio type From left: Troy House, Ethan Burkhardt, Aaron Bowen and Tromell Blassingame of Molasses

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of music. Jimmy McGriff, the Greyboy Allstars, Grant Green, that kind of stuff.”

It’s a gritty mix of styles that House likes to keep as organic as possible. “I try not to be smooth jazz or acid jazz or anything like that,” he says. “I like to stick with a sound that’s kind of acoustic in its own way. I try to steer away from electronic stuff like synths. I like that Blue Note-era organ trio stuff. I like to keep it funky, too.”

The key to the group’s seemingly effortless groove is that the quintet plays as a unit.

There’s little room for showing off when the music has to stay tight but loose.

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“I think it’s a group sound we’re going for,” House says. “You can play really simple stuff and it can still sound really cool when everybody’s on the same page. It leaves space for the music to breathe. It’s like a conversation; you don’t want everybody talking at once. You want a little space there, and to give a little room for everybody to say what they’ve got to say.”

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Keeping things tight is an increasing focus for House, who serves as bandleader and main songwriter. “Our songs started out really heavy on improvisation,” he says. “We’d have a melody and a groove and a couple of changes. But I’m trying to get more into a structured thing and not have so many solos per song. I want shorter solos and for us to stick to melodies and grooves and more song-oriented stuff.”

No matter how much he might want to refine the band’s songwriting, their sound is one that House talks about with a palpable joy. “The Meters and Booker T., they did jazz and funky stuff,” he says. “I always loved that. I like their instrumentation, the backbeat and the stinky guitar and the organ. I love that music because it makes you feel good.”

When: Saturday, Aug. 6, 8 p.m. & 10:15 p.m.

Where: Blues Boulevard, 300 River St., Suite 203, Greenville Tickets: $5 (plus $10 food/drink minimum) Info: 242-2583; bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com

Vincent Harris covers music and sports for The Greenville Journal.

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Greer opening art studios, classrooms in September ANDREW MOORE | STAFF

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Greer is one step closer to becoming an arts hub.

The city plans to open its “Center for the Arts” on Sept. 1, according to Ann Cunningham, director of the Greer Parks and Recreation Department.

“It’s so important that the arts grow and thrive here,” said Cunningham. “We’re hoping that this facility can become an anchor for our arts community.”

The building – located at the intersection of Snow Street and Davis Avenue – features four art studios, which can be leased for up to $100 per year. Interested residents must apply for a studio space. A selection committee formed by the Greer Arts Council is screening residents and will award studio spaces in mid-August.

Interested residents can apply by contacting Robin Byouk, director of the Greer Arts Council, at 864-848-5383 or artscouncil@ cityofgreer.org.

Once selected, artists will receive a security badge that allows 24-hour access to their designated studio as well as an art gallery, three classrooms, free Wi-Fi, American Disabilities Act-compliant restrooms and a kitchen, according to Cunningham.

Other additions in the building include a

Greer City Auditorium, future home of Greer’s Center for the Arts.

concession area and storage room.

The additions are just the first phase of a long-term project to transform the building.

The Greer Community Master Plan, which was adopted last year, established an arts district on the southern border of the central business district near downtown Greer.

The Trade Street Neighborhood Association approached Cunningham and other city officials soon after and proposed that the Greer City Auditorium – a building that once housed the International Cathedral of Prayer – be used for the arts.

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Greer City Council approved $100,000 earlier this spring to transform the building into a cultural center. The project is being funded by the city’s hospitality tax. So far, the city has spent about $58,920 of the $60,000 allocated to the first phase of the project.

The city plans to begin the second phase of the project sometime in September or October, according to Cunningham. That phase includes the addition of four classrooms for music and dance and an office for the Greer Arts Council. The city plans to hire a general

contractor to replace the roofing and add 299 theatre seats in the auditorium.

The second phase of the project is also focused on the surrounding outdoor area. The city plans to add a 3-acre park on the east side of the building that features a walking and biking path as well as an open grass area for recreation.

“It’ll give people an area to fly kites or throw a Frisbee,” said Cunningham. “We’re going to look at a couple of options in the future, though. We might add a playground and outdoor stage for music and theatre. It’s really all conceptual at this point.”

The city plans to finalize all second-phase renovation plans on Tuesday. If approved, that phase will be completed sometime in 2017, according to Cunningham. City Council will most likely rename the building and dedicate the park once the second phase is finished.

But it doesn’t stop there. The city plans to examine opportunities for growth that could lead to a third phase and more funding from the city. It would include the addition of a 90-seat balcony in the auditorium.

“The plans for a third phase are just an idea. There’s not even a cost estimate yet,” said Cunningham. “We’ll have to look at growth and really determine whether or not we’ll stay in this facility or look for something bigger. But that’s probably 10 years away.”

Fero tells tales of boomers on the road LETY GOOD | STAFF

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“I had this story in my head for a long time and I said, ‘I need to see if I can write this,’” said local author Pat Fero.

Born and raised in Lancaster, Fero spent more than 25 years in the private club and hospitality industry before Pat Fero settling into Greenville and becoming a full-time author.

Her first novel, “www.queenmotorhome. com,” is the story of two baby boomer characters, Leslie and Liz, who embark on an adventure of a lifetime. In their mid-50s, the two friends have reached a peak, with successful careers, families and financial

security many baby boomers strive their whole lives for. They’ve joked for years about running away in a motor home. That’s when Leslie’s world takes a turn.

She sends Liz their secret SOS code: www.queenmotorhome.com, and they set out on a journey in their newly acquired motor home.

“It’s about their road adventure and how it changed their lives,” Fero said.

Fero’s second novel and sequel, “The Reunion,” revisits Leslie and Liz’s life on the road. A new adventure takes them to their 40th high school reunion on Georgia’s Jekyll Island during hurricane season.

On the brink of another midlife crisis, Leslie and Liz decide to make lasting memories by the coast and go through even more life-changing experiences. “‘The Reunion’

will make readers smile and laugh as they reminisce about their own youthful days and experience self-evaluations, inner thoughts and relate to life changes,” Fero wrote on

her website.

“The Reunion” recently won two national awards. The novel was named as a finalist in the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the chick-lit category. It was also named an honorable mention in the 2016 Hollywood Book Festival in the general fiction category. The annual book festival competition celebrates book that deserve greater recognition from the film, television, game and multimedia communities, according to the Hollywood Book Festival.

Fero said she has two additional sequels written, “Sex on Wheels” and “Home Sweet Home,” but is waiting to publish them. She is currently working on her fifth novel.

Fero’s novels are available at Fiction Addiction, Barnes & Noble, online at Amazon and via Kindle. For more information, visit queenmotorhome.com.

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CULTURE Sound Bites ALARM CLOCK CONSPIRACY Smiley’s Acoustic Cafe, 111 Augusta St., Greenville Saturday, Aug. 6, 10 p.m. | Free The music of Asheville’s Alarm Clock Conspiracy is so tight, so concise and so blissfully melodic that it’s difficult to imagine that a band this dedicated to melodic guitar rock could’ve ever been into jam-band experimentation. But it’s where they got their start. “About seven years ago, me and [guitarist] Chris Carter were in another band called Marsupial,” says singer/guitarist Ian Reardon. “It was more of a jam, prog-rock band. But we were getting kind of frustrated by the jam-band scene.

It seemed like it was riding the end of a wave, and we were looking more to get more into songwriting and vocal harmonies and the music that we grew up on like the Beatles. It was more about writing a good song than noodling away on our instruments. You take the jam away from a song and what do you have? The bands in the ‘60s that we loved would improvise after they had written a really great song.”

JORDAN IGOE VILLive Concert Series, The Village of West Greenville Friday, Aug. 5, 6 p.m. | Free Charleston singer/songwriter Jordan Igoe has a vocal style that’s so viscerally emotional that it’s difficult to believe she’s not venting her own feelings of heartbreak and anger. Over an infectiously raw mix of ragged guitar rock and country grit, Igoe seems like the ultimate spurned lover. But that’s not necessarily the case, at least not anymore. “I feel like it’s kind of half-and-half now,” she says. “It was more like a diary when I first started writing, but I’ve gotten more creative with stories. I just think I enjoy storytelling and using my imagination.” Igoe will be performing an acoustic set at the VILLive show, as opposed to the full-band recordings on her recent “How To Love” album, but she’s used to that. “I’ve done acoustic solo for so long that I’m really comfortable with it,” she says. “And it also allows me to connect with the audience a little more, because I’m not leading a band or having to cue people and whatnot. It gives me a little more freedom.”

Remembering women in jazz Greenville playwright pays homage to jazz’s female greats with ‘A Month of Sundays’ LETY GOOD | STAFF

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LOCAL GREEN DANCE PARTY III, FEATURING APRIL BENNETT, JOSH FORBUS, AUDREY HAMILTON, RYAN M., MATT FASSAS, KELLY JO, NEIL ALEXANDER, SAMUEL KRUER AND DARBY WILCOX Gottrocks, 200 Eisenhower Drive, Greenville Saturday, Aug. 6, 10 p.m. | $10 The Local Green musical collective, an Upstate group that includes members of the LOZ Band, Audrey Hamilton’s Soul Service and various other bands, is a busy group. So when they can make the time to get together, they want to have fun just as much as their audience does.

That’s why the Dance Party shows, which happen every six months or so, are covers only.

“We’ve got 10 people; five musicians and five vocalists,” says LOZ Band guitarist (and Dance Party musical director) John Durham. “It won’t be all of the Local Green family but what we like to call the Local Green All-Stars, doing pop hits from the ‘60s to today.” When it comes to the material, Durham says he’s learned to let the singers decide what works for them. “I take my cues from the singers,” he says. “I leave it to them. I have a list of seven to 10 songs for each of them that might work, and I send the lists to them to have them approve. I let them accentuate their own strengths.”

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Immersed in the arts from a young age and raised by a mother who co-founded one of the first African-American theater groups in North Carolina, Dawn Hilton-Williams quickly grew to love the stage and jazz music. Now, she’s ready for the Greenville premiere of her musical, “A Month of Sundays: Remembering Women in Jazz,” an homage to some of the jazz era’s greatest voices, like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.

Written by Hilton-Williams, the play tells the story of a woman who turns an inherited piece of property into a jazz club. Throughout the play, memories and jazz standards come to life.

The cast for performance features local, regional and movie actors including E. Roger Mitchell and Maria Howell, who appeared in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” Howell, who plays the role of the would-be club owner Nadia Valentine, opened for Ray Charles at a Peace Center concert more than 20 years ago.

Mitchell, who plays the role of the attorney handling the estate, said he enjoys getting to learn about history and how jazz shaped our society through his role. “It’s an honor to be a part of it,” Mitchell said. “It makes people think, dream and remember. When we give, we live, we walk lighter on our feet, we’re optimistic.”

“Greenville is a special place for me,” Howell said. “And it’s always a good feeling to work with people you like and love. It’s like going back to family, celebrating something we have in common.”

Local artist LaNell Rice Rollins, an Ander-

son native who comes from a gospel singing background, portrays Ella Fitzgerald in the show. She sings two of the jazz icon’s most popular songs, “How High The Moon” and “Summertime,” and said she even had to learn how to “scat” like Fitzgerald.

“Ella set the bar pretty high,” Rollins said.

“So even to be able to walk in her shoes just for a minute is just an honor.”

Hilton-Williams began her playwright career by writing on the side while working a full-time job. After some ups and downs in her personal life and career, she made playwriting her full-time job. “I took out my 401(k) and so I said, ‘I’m just gonna take an investment on myself,’” Hilton-Williams said.

In 2011, Hilton-Williams also co-founded the charitable organization Power is Giving with her daughter, Nadia Hilton-Adams.

The nonprofit, the play’s partner, focuses on helping underserved youth in the Upstate, but has also focused its sights elsewhere.

In 2011, Hilton-Adams was able to raise and donate $12,000 to the Maria Sharapova Foundation and United Nations Development Program that provides education scholarships to Chernobyl disaster victims.

“A Month of Sundays” debuted at the National Black Film Festival in Winston-Salem in 2007. Since then, it has been staged at the Booth Playhouse at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, N.C. With that show, Hilton-Williams started a giving tradition, donating 100 tickets to Charlotte Housing Authority youth residents. She also gave a trumpet to a middle school student and contributed $500 to support community arts programs

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CULTURE Must-See Movies By Eric Rogers

Abandoning structure, from Kubrick to Tarantino In 1979, Syd Field wrote the book “Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting.” Field had been a script reader for a major studio and he had noticed a certain pattern that appeared in successful Hollywood movies. He refers to this pattern as the “script paradigm.”

It is one that contains three acts. The first act is called the “Introduction” and comprises the first 30 minutes of a two-hour film. In this act the audience is introduced to the primary characters, and at the end of the act a “plot point” occurs. This plot point is a major event that causes the protagonist to engage in whatever would then become the plot of the film.

The second act, known as the “Confrontation,” comprises the next hour of the film and involves a series of challenges for the protagonist. At the end of the second act another plot point occurs that leads to a way to conclude the film in the final act; therefore the third act is known as the “Resolution.” It contains the climax of the movie and allows the protagonist to achieve his or her goal and then live happily ever after.

There are many movies where this paradigm can clearly be seen, and as a result many of them, particularly the summer blockbusters, are formulaic and predictable. In the 1990s, though, Quentin Tarantino abandoned this three-act formula. His films often have five or six acts and multiple plots. And whereas Syd Field’s paradigm involves following one main

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in underserved communities.

For a 2010 show in Spartanburg, she donated 75 matinee tickets to the Boys and Girls Club of Spartanburg. She also donated $750 to a single mother who was attending University of South Carolina Upstate.

For Greenville’s show, Hilton-Williams is providing complimentary matinee seating for up to 100 young individuals participating in Urban League of the Upstate and the Phillis Wheatley Repertory Arts program.

They will participate in a Skype workshop with Vincent Gardner, lead trombonist for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and meet the cast of “A Month of Sundays.”

A donation of $500 will also be made to the Metropolitan Arts Council (MAC) for SmartARTS program to benefit an Upstate title 1 elementary school. And Hilton-Wil-

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character throughout the film, Tarantino’s scripts have multiple main characters.

“Pulp Fiction” offers one of the best examples of this change in story structure, but none of Tarantino’s films use the traditional Hollywood paradigm. Directors like Guy Ritchie (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch”) and Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire,” “Trainspotting”) also use a structure more similar to Tarantino’s than the paradigm described by Field.

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But Tarantino wasn’t the first person to make a major Hollywood film in this style. Back in 1956, Stanley Kubrick directed “The Killing.”

It’s about a group of men who plan to steal a couple of million dollars from a horse racetrack. Like “Pulp Fiction,” it does not follow a linear timeline but goes back and forth in time. Also, minor characters that appear to be extras in early scenes show up later in the film as major characters. The plot itself is actually much more similar to Tarantino’s first film, “Reservoir Dogs,” which is about a group of criminals who plan a diamond heist. Tarantino has stated that “The Killing” was a strong influence on him. Tarantino fans would do themselves a favor by becoming acquainted with this early Kubrick masterpiece.

Eric Rogers has been teaching filmmaking at The Greenville Fine Arts Center since 1994.

liams will present the $500 Defoy Glenn Scholarship, named after her uncle, to a single mother at Greenville Tech.

“You just have to give,” Hilton-Williams said. “I’m trying to promote the idea that you can give and change people’s lives, and then you can teach people how to give.”

For more information, visit great-plays. org or peacecenter.org.

“A MONTH OF SUNDAYS: REMEMBERING WOMEN IN JAZZ” When: Aug. 19, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 20, 1 p.m. (matinee) and 7:30 p.m.

Where: Peace Center Gunter Theatre Cost: Tickets start at $42.50 Information: peacecenter.org or 467-3000

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NAOMI NAKAZATA

Get to know the GCCA Brandon Fellowship recipient Naomi Nakazato before she heads to graduate school at the New York Academy.

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things too seriously. I get tired of traditions that say this is what art should be, because painting has such a rich history and I’m just waiting to see it be reinvented.

There is a heavy cultural influence in your work; tell us a little bit about that.

I’m half Japanese, and that’s the premise of all my work: life as a biracial person. Experiencing growing up and having an absence of heritage and those experiences. Every time I go to Japan, I’m always learning more about myself. Recently my sculptural work and installation work has been based on the idea of memories and how at then end of the day they don’t belong to you. You have a memory and you can contain it, but the more you try to pressure it to be what you think it should be, the more contrived and fake it feels. I like to work with plastics and artificial materials — it’s cheap but holds personal value. Once I contain those objects and put them together, I then sell the piece.

It’s kind of like letting go of those memories.

It’s not that they don’t exist, it’s that I’m letting go of control of them.

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he Greenville Center for Creative Arts (GCCA), housed in the Village of West Greenville’s Brandon Mill, is propelling diversity in Greenville’s art community. One of the many ways GCCA is doing this is by awarding a yearly Brandon Fellowship to support local artists. The fellowship provides a university-style studio space and a stipend for art supplies to local promising artists.

Naomi Nakazato is a 2015-2016 recipient of the Brandon Fellowship. She graduated from Anderson University with a focus in painting and drawing and will begin graduate school in September at the New York Academy.

We sat down with her to hear how she got started, how GCCA propelled her career and her perspective on the arts community in Greenville.

When did your interest in art start?

I grew up in D.C., and my mom was a public school teacher, so she was very invested in my art education. We would do trips to museums and she would enroll me in art classes. The actual formal education started at Anderson University. I did painting and drawing there and graduated in 2015.

When did you decide that you could make your art a career?

My second year of art in college in my painting one class. I wanted to be a graphic designer at first, because I thought that’s how you make it a career, and I saw that more as illustration than just moving text around. My professor introduced the idea of sharing

work that you thought was invaluable to contemporary art and why you liked it, and I realized at that point it might not be something immediately attainable but something to strive for.

What were you sharing?

For that assignment we would find photos and images of art in America or art magazines. Painting is becoming this disappearing part of contemporary art, but it’s starting to come back, and I find that really interesting.

My influencers are other painters — you have the same problem of mastering paint as a medium, and painting is how you solve that in your own artistic way. I really like Jenny Morgan and Chloe Wise. Artists with a sense of humor — I don’t think you should take

How did you hear about the Brandon Fellowship?

I heard about it through a professor who suggested I apply and again from someone that works here. Hearing it from both people really reinforced it. Once I was accepted, everything kind of fell into place. I applied for the position of program director at Belton Center of the Arts and having this fellowship helped me get that job. After being here a few months, I applied to graduate school and got in. It feels like all of that happened because of this fellowship.

How has GCCA propelled your career?

Before I was here, I was in a home studio. I moved back to D.C., and the arts scene there seemed dated and didn’t have the same energy as Greenville. Greenville is almost like an incubator and everything goes. I moved back because I had connections here. Being exposed to a lot of different people helps — being exposed to the art market, being around people who have a lot of knowledge of art and people who don’t have really helped me with describing my work to other people. I want to use my art for communicating and sharing my experiences.

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The Brandon Fellowship Exhibition is Friday, Aug. 5, at the GCCA, where you can see more of Nakazato’s work and the other Brandon Fellowship recipients. GCCA is currently accepting applications for the 2016-2017 Fellowship through Sept. 16. For more information, visit artcentergreenville.org.

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Local celebrity chefs sharpen their knives to CHOP Cancer STAFF REPORT

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Local celebrities are preparing to get their CHOP on.

CHOP Cancer, the amateur cooking competition to benefit the Cancer Survivors Park Alliance, will have its second annual fundraiser on Friday, Aug. 26, at the TD Convention Center.

The event will feature 18 local celebrities and Upstate community leaders, including Dr. Suzanne Fanning, Bill Bishop, Danny Joyner, Susan Reynolds, Dr. Chris Siachos, Charlie Stone, Mary Freeman, Dr. Alex Yang, Nancy Welch and more.

The celebrity chefs will create food with cancer-fighting ingredients, having their creations judged by professional chefs. The public also can vote online for the chef they like best. Each vote costs $10.

All money raised will support the nonprofit Cancer Survivors Park, which has a mission of engaging, educating, empowering and enhancing anyone touched by cancer.

The 6.8-acre park is along the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail. It will include a pavilion, specialty gardens, sculptures and educational elements. The park formally opened in January this year with a 1,000-foot boardwalk that creates an ADA-accessible connection from the park and Swamp Rabbit Trail to Church Street. The park’s second phase is beginning this summer.

Chef Peter Collins of Chef360 Catering at last year’s inaugural CHOP Cancer event.

CHOP Cancer When: Friday, Aug. 26, 6 p.m.

Where: TD Convention Center, 1 Exposition Dr., Greenville Tickets: $125 Information: chopcancerupstate.com; 255-5010; info@ cancersurvivorspark.org

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VILLive Concert Series The Village of West Greenville Free Blissfully melodic folk-rock singer. facebook.com/sweetlimeladies

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Tickets can be purchased at the door or online.

Creek Ranger Hike

Rock and Roll is Here to Stay

Paris Mountain State Park, 2401 State Park Rd. 10 a.m.; $7

Greenville Little Theatre, 444 College St.

June through August on most Friday mornings at 10 a.m., families will be led on a nature hike, looking for animals and their habitats in or near water. Part of the program will be spent in the creek using nets, so bring water shoes, or use some of the park’s water shoes.

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Adults: $35; Seniors: $33; Juniors: $25

SHE Weekend (formerly known as the Upstate Women’s Show) is a weekend full of shopping, creating, learning, tasting, making, laughing, and having a great time. We formally invite you to experience an all-new SHE Weekend, with more unique vendors, more choices, extended hours, more activities, and more fun.

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Augu. 5-7, 11-13 at 8 pm; Aug. 7 & 14 at 3 pm A phenomenal local cast and band will thrill you with some of the greatest hits from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. You do not want to miss this nostalgic rock and roll revue.

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House Concert with Kerry Patrick Clark Friday, August 5 • 7-9 p.m.

Standing on the Side of Love Coffee House Tigg’s Pond Retreat Center 212 Fiddlehead Ln., Zirconia $15 and $10 for students

• 2014’s TOP Charting Folk Artist Kerry Patrick Clark is an American singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. A native Ohioan, Clark’s career spans more than three decades with chart-topping singles, as well as prominent placement in film and television scores, most significantly on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN special commemorating the sixmonth milestone of September 11, 2001. CNN featured Kerry’s “9/11 Songs to Heal a Nation.”

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Free

8 p.m. | Wednesday through Saturday

Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. Wednesday-Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Sunday at 3:30 p.m. through August 14

Children ages 6-11 celebrate the start of the Summer Olympic Games with stories, crafts and activities.

288-6688 | greenvillelibrary.org pelhamroad@greenvillelibrary.org

$20

Free with admission

TRUMPED: the Musical is a brand new, original musical comedy. Join our merry band of characters as they fret about the upcoming elections and poke fun at all the candidates. And one of them even decides to launch a campaign for public office. Starring Susan Smith, Maureen Abdalla, Traysie Amick, Jim Wilkins and Bill Smith.

What makes an Alka-Seltzer rocket shoot into the air? Find out in Random Acts of Science.

233-7755 | tcmupstate.org

ARTS EVENT

Summer BOGO Days

TRUMPED: The Musical

ARTS EVENT

Artist’s Reception: Critters

232-2287 | CafeATS.com info@cafeats.com

Riverworks Gallery 300 River St., Suite 202 6-9 p.m.

CONCERT

Free

Soul Ripple

Trapped in the surreal, forced to adapt to human-made forces, yet retaining our idealization of cute, maybe even warm and fuzzy, these are the critters created by sculptor Anne Lemanski, printmaker Meghan O’Connor and photographer Alice Sebrell.

271-0679 | gvltech.edu/dva fleming.markel@gvltec.edu

Museum & Gallery at Heritage Green 25 Heritage Green Place

Greenville Heritage FCU Main Street Fridays NOMA Square

Every friday and saturday in August

Free

In August, every Friday and Saturday at M&G at Heritage Green will be buy one get one free admission. Enjoy the newest exhibition, The Art

Upstate music veteran Joe Jones leads versatile blues-rock band. bit.ly/greenville-main-street-fridays

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828-697-0680 tiggspondretreatcenter.com tiggspond@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Fly Tying for Beginners Cabela’s, 1025 Woodruff Rd. Ste. H101

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free From Wooly Buggers to Mop Fly’s, let our fly fishing Outfitter’s show you the basics of fly tying. This is an introductory seminar. All equipment will be provided.

516-8100 | Cabelas.com

FUNDRAISER

Run2Overcome Cleveland Park East Washington and Cleveland Park Dr. 7 a.m.

Come participate in the annual Run2Overcome event, benefiting the Julie Valentine Center.

All proceeds will go towards helping victims of sexual assault and child abuse.

Run2Overcome.org

ARTS EVENT

Irish Dancing workshop West End Dance Company 21 Augusta St., Unit 1

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Come to the West End Dance Company for an amazing Irish Dance workshop with guest instructor Kenley Lesak of the Drake School of Irish Dance.

320-2754

EDUCATION

Weekend Programs: Sink and Float with Summer Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m.

Free with admission Enjoy special lessons taught by our phenomenal programming team centered around various topics that encourage learning through play.

This weekend, cool down with our sink and float activities in Creation Station. Find out why some things stay on top and others sink to the bottom. Free with admission.

Burn Halo w/ American Evil Ground Zero 3052 Howard St., Spartanburg Trend-free metal band from California.

948-1661 reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2

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CONCERT

Molasses Blues Boulevard (Greenville) 300 River St., Ste. 203 $5 (plus $10 food/drink minimum) Instrumental band plays infectious New Orleans funk.

242-2583 | bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com

CONCERT

Jazz trio with Jean Calvert

233-7755 | tcmupstate.org

BOOK SIGNING

Free

Read Up - A World of Words

The Starving Artist Cafe is a delightful blend of fresh local food, local art, and local musicians.

Jean Calvert Jazz Trio is returning to the venue to bring you some great swing tunes, blues and more right from the Great American Songbook.

Peace Center, Gunter Theatre 300 South Main St. 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

The event is free to all with the exception of the keynote events.

jeancalvert.net/

Free

CONCERT

Read Up Greenville is a celebration of young adult and middle grades books and authors.

There will be book sales, author signings, panel discussions and keynote speakers. The day will feature nine panels specific to different themes. readupgreenville.com/ yolina@brightcomarketers.com

Alarm Clock Conspiracy

per line

Indie-rock/power pop quartet.

282-8988 | smileysacousticcafe.com

CONCERT

Gritty, atmospheric indie-rock.

228-7763

This summer heats up with the newest regional car show at The Bridge of Greenville. On Saturday, August 6th, come enjoy live music, food, prizes, local vendors and a beautiful array of cars in every category, and stay for an evening concert.

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Soundbox Tavern 507 W. Georgia Road, Simpsonville

The Bridge Community Club 1310 Cedar Lane Rd. 1-5:30 p.m.

LEGAL NOTICE RATES

All others

Smiley’s Acoustic Café, 111 Augusta St.

NOW THRU

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that TSD 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, & LIQUOR at 1119 Cedar Lane Road, Greenville, SC 29617. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 7, 2016. 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

$165

Shallow Palace w/ Jim & The Limbs, Fed To Lions, Psycho Psycho & Anonymous Concept

Greenville Cruise-In at the Bridge

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: • Replace/Install Caterpillar 3306 Engine (Reman or New), RFP #09-08/22/16, due at 3:00 P.M., E.D.T., August 22, 2016.

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

CONCERT

The Starving Artist Cafe 114 NW Main St., Easley 6:30 p.m.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Events on Augusta, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE, & LIQUOR at 3214 Augusta Road Suite C, Greenville, SC 29605. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 7, 2016. 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 Coastal Crust Grenville LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 1180 Pendleton Street, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 21, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

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PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on 8/6/16, at 9:00 a.m. at East North Storage, 4329 East North Street, Greenville, SC, the undersigned, East North Storage will sell at Public Sale by competitive bidding, the personal property heretofore store with the undersigned by: 1. Unit: A020, Mark Bradberry, Misc. household; clothing 2. Unit: A052, John Thies, Teak dining room set & 6 matching chairs 3. Unit: A093, Cathy Grasso, Misc household boxes 4. Unit: A110, Tonya Edwards, Washer/Dryer; electric stove; side by side fridge; Misc household 5. Unit: A136, James Randolph, Cherry Curio cabinet; misc household boxes 6. Unit: B110, Nartarsha L Miles, Misc. household, clothing, & kids bikes 7. Unit: B147, Jennifer Harris, Misc furniture; tv’s 8. Unit: B322, Joshua Francisco, Sectional couch; vacuum, misc household 9. Unit: C012, Lloyd Evans, Lawn mower (Gas), washer & dryer; small tools NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE FAMILY COURT No.:2016-DR-23-1328 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS TO LOIS MICHELLE FELTMAN You have been notified pursuant to SC Code Ann Sec.15-9-710, that adoption proceedings have been initiated under the abovereferenced case number by Isnardo H. Lobo Cardenas.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED AS FOLLOWS: 1. That within thirty (30) days of receiving notice you shall respond in writing by filing with the Clerk of Court at 301 University Ridge Greenville, South Carolina 29602, notice and reasons to contest,intervene or otherwise respond; 2. That the Court must be informed of your current address and any change of address during the divorce proceedings.

3. That failure to file a response within thirty (30) days of receiving notice will constitutes judgement by default rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Nathalie M. Morgan (69848) 201 West Stone Avenue Greenville, SC 29609 (864)242-6655 (864)242-6111 (facsimile) Attorney for Plaintiff

Vaccines, spay or neuter, testing & microchip included!

THEATER PRODUCTION

The Musical “Oklahoma” Comes to Pelzer

Pelzer Auditorium, 214 Lebby St., Pelzer Fridays $10 for general public Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which

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277-0161 | greenvillelibrary.org augustaroad@greenvillelibrary.org

ARTS EVENT

Sundays at 2: Artist’s Demo

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St.

Patricia Kilburg will demonstrate encaustic, the art of painting with pigments dissolved in hot beeswax--the same process used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Today’s artists use modern tools to achieve the same beauty and versatility of this luminous medium. We’ll also take a closer look at the Jasper Johns encaustics currently on exhibit.

271-7570 | gcma.org media@gcma.org

FAMILY

Family Fun Day Upcountry History Museum 540 Buncombe St. 1-4 p.m.

Free with admission Family Fun Day celebrates our newest special exhibition, Storyland. Make sure you stop by to see this colorful, character filled exhibition. Enjoy story time, art, bingo, and don’t forget your camera so you can get a selfie with Mouse.

467-3100 upcountryhistory.org/programs/programsfamily-fun-days/

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Truck Inn Tuesdays Swamp Rabbit Inn, 1 Logan St. 6-9 p.m. | 2nd tuesday of the month Free Come enjoy live music by The Hampton House Fires, fresh food by Automatic Taco and beer and wine by The Community Tap this Tuesday. swamprabbitinn.com/truck-inn-tuesdays

FAMILY

Homeschool Fair Greenville County Library - Greer Jean M. Smith Branch, 505 Pennsylvania Ave. 10 a.m.-noon Free Children ages 5-11 visit interactive stations to try out online resources as well as programs like Craftime, Science Station and Adventures in History. Door prize drawings throughout event.

Adult caregiver required.

877-8722 | greenvillelibrary.org greer@greenvillelibrary.org

Monday Movie Matinee

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ABCs of Amazon

Greenville County Library Augusta Road | Ramsey Family Branch 100 Lydia St. 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free Learn tricks and tips for navigating Amazon.

$85 + $30 for materials

Two’s Enough 4 Now The Peace Center, 300 South Main St. 7 p.m.

Come enjoy Two’s Enough - a keyboard and guitar-playing duo that plays famous songs from the ‘70s and ‘80s.

467-3000

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10-12

Back-to-School Fair

10-11 a.m.

Children ages 5-11 enjoy crafts and activities designed to get them into the school spirit.

Registration required.

862-2576 | greenvillelibrary.org fountaininn@greenvillelibrary.org

HEALTH/FITNESS

Practicing Meditation Hughes Main Library, 25 Heritage Green Pl. 5:40-6:30 p.m.

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 1-4 p.m.

Back by popular demand. In this printmaking camp, we’ll experiment with gelatin plates and colors, shapes and textures. Finding inspiration in paper cut-out collages by Henri Matisse, students will create their own collage-based prints.

Instructor - Katie Jones 271-7570 | gcma.org

CAMP

Summer Art Camp for Ages 11-14: Fused Glass Artwork

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 1-4 p.m. $85 + $35 for materials

Making fused glass is a fun way to create original art filled with colors, shapes and patterns.

Campers will create one-of-a-kind designs including jewelry, magnets and creative home decor items. Instructors - Karoline Shaffer and John O’Rourke.

271-7570 | gcma.org

$75 + $20 for materials

Greenville County Library Fountain Inn | Kerry Ann Younts Culp Branch 311 N Main St., Fountain Inn

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Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Take a break from the heat at the Upcountry History Museum. Enjoy classic films and documentaries throughout the summer in our very own theater. This week, “Miss Potter” will be featured. Drinks and snacks will be for sale at each movie.

FAMILY

Summer Art Camp for Ages 8-10: Gelatin Printmaking

Summer Art Camp for Ages 5-7: Clay Critter Creations

Upcountry History Museum, 540 Buncombe St. 2 p.m.

TUE

Certified 200-Hour Yoga Instructor Sarah Rhodes teaches an introductory series to mindfulness, guided imagery, gratitude and compassion mediations. No experience necessary.

Dress comfortably in non-restrictive clothing.

CAMP

FAMILY

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Perfect for kids who love animals – it’s squeezable, squishable, mashable, moldable clay week.

Campers create several fun critters using handbuilding techniques like pinch pots, coils and slabs. All their clay pets will be painted and ready to take home on Friday. Instructor - Katie Jones.

271-7570 | gcma.org

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Greenville Drive vs. Charleston

Fluor Field at the West End, 945 S. Main St. 7 p.m.

Come watch your Greenville Drive take on the Charleston Riverdogs all weekend.

240-4500 | milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t428

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Used Book Sale: Oconee County Friends of the Library

Walhalla Library Basement 501 W. South Broad St., Walhalla 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Second Thursday of the month Free The Friends of the Library hold a used book sale in the lower level of the Walhalla Main Branch.

They also hold special Saturday sale four times a year from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the same location. They offer hard cover books, paperback, CDs and DVDs, games and puzzles and more. Prices are reasonable, and proceeds benefit the Libraries. oconee-.lib.sc.us

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Mourning Dove Radio Room, 2845 N. Pleasantburg Dr. Ethereal folk duo.

263-7868 | radioroomgreenville.com

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Casting Crowns with special guest Jeremy Camp Biltmore Estate, 1 Lodge St., Asheville 7:30 p.m.

Christian musical group Casting Crowns and Christian singer and songwriter Jeremy Camp perform live on Biltmore Estate’s South Terrace.

800-411-3812 | biltmore.com

6-11 p.m., at the West End Community Center.

A Sunday worship service will be at 11 a.m. at Tabernacle Baptist Church on 400 S. Hudson St. 915-7606 | johncwhiteside@gmail.com

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Second Annual Greasy Corner

Calhoun Street, Hudson Street and West End Community Center The gathering and church service is free.The banquet is $25.

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27th Annual Breazeale Family Reunion

Dorchester Baptist Church 134 Dorchester Road, Belton 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free

CONCERT

Jason Crabb and Point of Grace Taylors First Baptist Church 200 West Main St., Taylors 7:30 p.m. $20 general admission Come enjoy Christian music by recording artist Jason Crabb and band Point of Grace.

655-3560 | globalpromo.org

CONCERT

Machine Funk Gottrocks, 200 Eisenhower Dr. $8 per person Band pays tribute to Widespread Panic.

235-5519 | gottrocksgreenville.com

This large family was a part of the early settlement of South Carolina along with allied famiiles of Griffni, Woods, Kirksey, Wynne, Duckworth, Dellishaw, Bushilieu and others. All those who are interested in these families are invited.

Bring a covered dish for lunch at noon. Drinks and paper products are furnished. Come visit meet and greet and following lunch there will be a sharing time and short business meeting.

Family history material will be available.

704-489-2171 | stilljanice@aol.com

CONCERT

Benton Blount The Pumphouse, 2640 Poinsett Hwy. Show is free.

The Upstate’s own “American’s Got Talent” contestant plays old-school country.

735-0567 | thepumphousegrill.com

FUNDRAISER

The Salvation Army’s Superhero 5K Kroc Center, 424 Westfield St. 8 a.m.

CONCERT

$35 for adults, $30 for kids

Shane Pruitt

Run or walk through Downtown Greenville dressed as your favorite superhero on Saturday, Aug. 13. All proceeds benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Greenville. Stay after the race for free inflatables and activities for the whole family. All youth will be given a breakfast snack and lunch after the race.

Fruit and granola bars will be given to adults.

Delaney’s Irish Pub, 117 W. Main St., Spartanburg Blazing blues guitarist.

583-3100 | delaneyspubsc.com

COMMUNITY MEETING

2nd Annual Greasy Corner Reunion Corner of Calhoun and Birnie streets $25 in advance, $30 at the door for banquet The Gathering will be Friday, Aug. 12, at the corner of Calhoun and Birnie streets, 5-9 p.m.

The Legends Banquet will be Saturday, Aug. 13,

527-5948 | bgcgreenville.org

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Past and present with Dr. Courtney Tollison Hartness

Upstate athletes have sparked historic Olympic flames Over the next two weeks, our nation and world will be consumed with the Olympics, a riveting global athletic spectacle occurring every four years. Tears will be shed in victory and defeat, and nations will rejoice and mourn. The physicality of our common humanity, with all the strengths and limitations of the body, will be put to the test, and world records will be broken, redefining the spectrum of human psychical capability.

Undoubtedly, as I watch these amazingly athletic specimens from all around the world, I will marvel at the behemoth undertaking that has become of Pierre de Coubertin’s vision for a modern Olympic games. After approximately 1,500 years, the Olympic Games were resuscitated in an attempt to promote fellowship and peace amongst participating countries. In 1896, the first modern Olympiad was held in Athens, Greece, seat of the ancient civilization that birthed the original games. Two hundred and forty-one male athletes from 14 countries participated. In the past 120 years, the games have grown significantly; in Rio, 206 nations will send approximately 10,500 male and

Lucile Godbold, 1922.

female athletes to the games.

As the Rio Olympics draw near, I began to wonder about our community’s connections to the games. Those of us who lived here in the mid 1990s remember the excitement surrounding the 1996 Atlanta games, with local leaders such as former Mayor Max Heller running with the Olympic torch down our Main Street. The anticipation of the torch’s arrival was diminished, however, by controversy surrounding an anti-gay resolution passed

by County Council weeks before; in protest, Olympic officials decided that the torch would be placed in a van and driven while inside county lines. Within the city limits, however, runners once again carried the torch along the route. Crowds of approximately 8,000 gathered along Main Street to see Heller run the last leg and light the torch to the cauldron in front of the Peace Center.

Just before and during the Atlanta Games, Greenville Gymnastics served as the training facility for the Chinese men’s and women’s gymnastics team, while ticket-holders flooded Greenville’s hotels.

Greenville and the Upstate have other connections to the games as well, including one athlete who helped tread a path to open track and field events to women. In 1922, after the International Olympic Committee refused once again to hold women’s track and field events for the 1924 Olympic games, Paris hosted what was known as the “Women’s Olympic Games.”

Lucile Ellerbe Godbold, a six-foot-tall Winthrop College graduate, participated in the shot-put, discus throw, javelin throw, 300 meter and 1000 meter races and the long jump. She won a gold medal in the shot-put and a bronze medal in the javelin throw.

In 1928, women’s track and field events began to be held alongside events for men at the Olympics in Amsterdam.

In 1956, British 4 x100 relay team sprinter David Segal finished fifth in the 1956 Melbourne games. Four years later, Segal won a bronze medal at the Rome games in 1960. After the games, Segal left Great Britain and moved

to the U.S. to attend Furman University, where he was a member of the track team.

Furman welcomed him into the university’s athletic hall of fame in 2008.

Furman alum and current member of the Furman music faculty Jay Bocook, a resident of Greenville since the late 1970s, is regarded internationally for his musical compositions. His musical arrangements were featured at the 1984, 1996 and 2002 Olympic games.

In the mid-1980s while enrolled at Furman, business major and swimmer Angel Myers won four individual national titles, a first in NCAA history. She also set three NCAA Division II records and became the first American woman to break 55 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle. In the 1992 games in Barcelona, Angel Myers Martino set a new world record and won gold in the 400-meter freestyle. Four years later, she Kyla Ross served as captain of the U.S. Women’s Olympic Swim Team.

At the Atlanta games, she won two gold medals, one in the 400-meter medley relay and another in the 400-meter freestyle relay, which set new Olympic and U.S. records.

In the last Olympiad in London in 2012, gymnast Kyla Ross, a member of the famed Fierce Five, won a team gold medal. Although she and her family moved around the country several times during her youth, Ross enrolled in her first gymnastics class at Greenville Gymnastics.

This year, several local athletes came within seconds or less of making Team USA. The Furman Elite Professional Running Club sent four athletes to the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. Jeff See ran in the men’s 5K and assistant Furman track coaches Craig Forys and Cory Leslie competed in the men’s steeplechase. In the women’s steeplechase, Stephanie Garcia held a second-place position, but clipped the last barrier, ultimately finishing fifth and missing a spot on the team.

Wilkerson Given, a 2013 Furman graduate, placed 54th of 168 men in the Olympic Marathon Trials. Troy Reeder, a current Furman undergraduate, narrowly missed

becoming the first Furman undergraduate to qualify for the Olympic Trials in track and field. See, Forys, Leslie, Given and Reeder are coached by Furman’s Robert Gary, a 1996 and 2004 Olympian in the steeplechase.

Jasmine Stowers, a standpoint at Pendleton High School, ran in the 100-meter hurdles, but did not qualify for one of three Olympic slots; Brianna Rollins, a 2013 graduate of Clemson, will represent Team USA in Rio in this event, however. Finally, Greenville High School graduate Sandi Morris will compete in the high jump for Team USA, and seems poised to set new records in that event.

So, over the next two weeks, as we revel in the talent of athletes from all the world over, we can marvel at the knowledge that our local champions have thrived, and continue to thrive, on that same global stage.

Tyler Edmond of Greenville, a junior history and anthropology major at Furman, contributed to this article. Dr. Courtney Tollison Hartness teaches history at Furman University. She can be reached at courtney. tollison@furman.edu.

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