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“I think bald is beautiful, I never wore a wig or hat. Instead I chose to rock what I had. To me, that was a badge of honor.”

CHOP! Cancer contestant and cancer survivor Natalie Hahn.

“Together, let’s begin breaking the chains that bind us.”

From an open letter to the Upstate signed by 35 Greenville clergy.

“We focus on selling the assets we have. We don’t concern ourselves with what we don’t have.”

Jeff Poole, sports tourism manager for Greenville County Parks, Recreation and Tourism.

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“It’s a big symbol. Having the site just cleaned up meant the world to this community. It’s the symbol of things to come.”

Kwadjo Campbell, president of the Poe Mill Neighborhood Association, on the county’s effort to build a skate park at Poe Mill.

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Melting medicine SC heat and humidity can affect pharmaceuticals’ effectiveness KAYLA WILES | CONTRIBUTOR

kwiles@communityjournals.com Greenville summers are known for 90-degree temperatures coupled with high humidity. According to data by the National Weather Service, most days this

summer have reached highs between 85 and 100 degrees.

In addition to seeking shade or staying indoors, paying attention to medications is also important. One overlooked consideration is proper medicine storage.

“We all try to think of ways to keep ourselves and our children cool, but we may not think about our medications,” said Valerie Royal, a pharmacist and coordinator of ambulatory pharmacy programs who is affiliated with the Greenville Health System (GHS).

Major mistakes made by patients include storing medications in cars or bathrooms.

“The Weather Channel has recently published some data showing that on a 90-degree day, the car interior can reach 140 degrees within just 90 minutes,” Royal said.

“As most drug manufacturers recommend storing medications at a controlled room temperature of 68 to 77 degrees, the glove box of a hot car is not suitable.”

According to Royal, portable medications like inhalers could explode if kept at temperatures higher than 120 degrees.

Insulin and epinephrine pens could also be rendered ineffective in high heat.

“Just remember that heat can degrade the potency and stability of most any medication, including those purchased over-the-counter,” she said.

While bathrooms are not as susceptible to high heat as cars, humidity is often an issue. “Medications must be stored

“We all try to think of ways to keep ourselves and our children cool, but we may not think about our medications.”

Pharmacist Valerie Royal, on keeping medication effective in summer.

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in a cool, dry place – not in a bathroom ‘medicine’ cabinet or on a kitchen windowsill as commonly misconceived,” Royal said.

Aside from improper medicine storage, certain medications can make people more susceptible to heat-related problems. Dr. Joanne Skaggs, an internal medicine physician for GHS, worries about patients who are taking medicine for high blood pressure, diabetes or congestive heart failure during hot South Carolina summers.

“People with high blood pressure and those with congestive heart failure use fluid pills, which make them urinate out excess fluid,” Skaggs said. “So if someone with congestive heart failure were to go outside on a hot day, this person would dehydrate much more quickly than someone whose blood pumps normally without a need for these pills.”

Skaggs said small children and the elderly are most at risk for heat-related problems. “The elderly who have demen-

tia may forget to drink water,” she said.

Royal and Skaggs agree that taking a few precautions would help people to battle heat more effectively.

“If you can take medication with you, put it in your pocket book. If you can’t do that, keep a cooler bag in your car,” Royal said. “Refrigerated medications like insulins and eye drops would require ice packs for transportation.” The bottom line for proper medication storage is reading labels, she said. “Anytime, no matter what, make sure you’re looking at your [medications] before you take them.

If the color looks off, or if the tablets are melted together, I would not recommend taking those.”

Skaggs said it’s important to “drink a lot of water and be aware of fluids that dehydrate you, such as caffeine drinks and alcohol, which make you urinate more.

For elderly and children, someone needs to supervise their water consumption and encourage them to stay hydrated.”

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Upstate Forever names new executive director economically and environmentally. But we have to be proactive to achieve this goal.”

Cooper lived in Charleston Cooper for 20 years and led the “GrowFood Carolina” initiative to expand the market for local food along the coast. She also served as chair of the board of directors of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, a regional nonprofit organization similar to Upstate Forever.

She will start work in early October.

Wyche, who founded the environmental organization in 1998, will remain actively involved in the organization as a senior advisor. He retired from the executive director position in April of this year.

The selection of Cooper is the culmination of a national search that lasted for more than four months.

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bjeffers@communityjournals.com Upstate Forever is under new leadership.

The organization announced Tuesday that Charleston GrowFood Carolina leader Andrea Cooper would succeed Brad Wyche as executive director.

“I am honored and enthusiastic to lead this great organization and to build upon its remarkable success,” Cooper said in a release. “I strongly support Upstate Forever’s position that we can have it both ways—we can prosper both

“I am honored and enthusiastic to lead this great organization and to build upon its remarkable success.”

Andrea Cooper

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OPINION VIEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY, HEARD HERE

Every child needs to know he’s wonderful IN MY OWN WORDS

by David White

“Neglect is awful for the brain.” So says Charles Nelson, Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital. He continues, “[Babies] come into the world expecting someone to take care of them and invest in them, and then they form this bond or this relationship with this caregiver.”

What can we learn here? Children need care, check. Our children will get our care because they are ours, check.

I wish I could help the other children, check. And sadly, I have no idea how to help the other children, check.

And so it goes. Generation after generation, some children thrive while others survive and we have little control over this bleak reality.

Truth is, you care and care a lot. You believe all children deserve dignity and to be valued for who they are. Children are wonderful. Yet, you waver. Another child named “busy” gets in the way. A second child named “stress” runs through your

brain. A third child named “get-a-roundto-it” rolls into the room and gives you a list of reasons to not engage further, at least not today, or even this week. Perhaps another time. Perhaps.

Here are two reasons you must stop wavering and get involved: You know children are wonderful and deserve your attention, and you are now going to read what happens if you never get-aroundto-it.

Children suffer. We used to see children as able to show resilience and make it, despite their odds. Some certainly can without care from a cadre of adults, but put in a toxic environment, most struggle and many fail. As the good doctor states, “Neglect is awful for the brain.”

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES) shows that basically, the more stress and trauma a child has, the higher likelihood for adult medical issues in the form of diabetes, heart and lung disease, cancers and, of course, early death.

I work with children having significant adverse childhood experiences.

Dear Editor: Aug. 6, 2015 is the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. This was a pivotal time in history and today, 50 years later, we are faced with the same issues of voting disenfranchisement due to the Supreme Court destruction of Section 5 of the Act. Once again, many African Americans, other minorities as well as lowwealth citizens are facing new rules for voting when there are non-existent cases of voter fraud. These attacks on the inalienable right and privilege of being an American citizen cause our voting participation to be very low in South Carolina. So many are elected by less than 50 percent of the voters.

I urge us all to remember the legacy that was given to this country by passing the Voting Rights Act and the life Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Johnson for their work in the effort that passed this historical piece of legislation.

I urge us to also make every effort to remind our elected federal officials to do what is right and restore Section 5 back to the Voting Rights Act so that once again voting disenfranchisement does not continue, especially in the South.

Rev. J.M. Flemming, Greenville

Abused by their caregivers, no relatives able to take them, left in foster care, a system with really, really bad statistics.

And, I would say, despite having some really capable caregivers and servantleaders at every level.

Why then? Simply put: trauma. Trauma from the abuse, trauma from the removal from the abuse. Trauma from losses that don’t heal quickly and trauma from placement instability. For in foster care, moving around is the norm. If in care between one and two years, 37 percent of the children have entered their third, fourth or fifth placement.

To trauma, add multiple losses and quick goodbyes, truncating many relationships along the way. No one has died in the process, making healthy closure difficult. These people have left you, or asked you to leave them.

To top it off, as every child in this sad situation knows well, many moves are with a trash bag. Disposable is what the child hears. Possessions are few and “I am disposable, just like this bag, as I move out (again).” Really. That happens.

Often.

If hearing this bothers you, then get involved. Look for a child-focused charity in your community and donate your time, talents, and treasures, today and tomorrow. You will feel wonderful.

And, so will a child. A child living in a toxic situation. A child of promise. A child of hope. A child of dreams. A child who deserves a long, happy life filled with adults who know that child – yes, that child – is wonderful.

David White is founder and CEO of Fostering Great Ideas, a charity dedicated to improving the lives of children in foster care.

Reach him White at dwhite@ fgionline.org.

Fostering Great Ideas is found at www. fgionline.org; facebook.com/fgionline; or twitter/fgionline.

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OPINION VIEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY, HEARD HERE

After the flag A call to religious leaders in the Upstate IN MY OWN WORDS

by 35 Greenville clergy We are a cohort of religious leaders who have gathered to nurture and challenge our respective communities of faith as we seek to build a more diverse and inclusive Upstate. We do not all believe the same things. In fact, we disagree on many things, even deeply held commitments. Amidst these differences, we are clear about our shared call to end racism and bigotry in Greenville and the Upstate.

Several weeks ago, we gathered to reflect on the grief and horror each of our communities expressed after the brutal slaughter of our brothers and sisters at Mother Emanuel AME. We named that the man who committed this unspeakable act made commitments to white supremacy, and we confessed that these commitments were not formed in a vacuum.

We shared that we were moved and energized by the Confederate flag’s removal from the Statehouse grounds. Our gratitude runs deep for the way our state legislators, catalyzed by Gov. Haley’s call, moved swiftly. We applaud their conviction, and celebrate their collective action.

Even so, our communal self-reflection was clear. Pulling the flag down would not end racism in this community. The work, the challenge, lies sprawled and uncertain before us.

With that in mind, we the undersigned offer this open letter to the Greenville community and to religious leaders in the Upstate.

First, we join voices to express our distress that three senators representing the Upstate (Lee Bright, Harvey Peeler, and Danny Verdin) and a number of the area’ s state representatives voted against the flag’s removal. Arguments of heritage are not lost on many of us with congregants whose family stories are bound to the Confederacy’s.

Yet, for decades, many have articulated with perhaps too much patience that the flag has stood as a palpable symbol of subjugation and institutional violence. These representatives chose to ignore their calls for acknowledgement, solidarity, and progress.

Our great concern is that we assume these legislators voted with their constituents in mind. While the actual flag may be down at the Statehouse, the racism that left it there for decades continues to fester in the Upstate.

Second, we know that members of our houses of worship need more reflective and more honest conversations about the history, the lived reality, and the pervasiveness of racism in this community. We have begun discussions about how to do that, and look forward to developing resources and opportunities in the coming months. We do not pretend to have all the answers; we are, however, committed to hearing one another’s questions together.

Finally, we invite area religious leaders to join us in a conversation that seeks to transform our own presumptions and prejudices. We need good space to listen, challenge, and support one another. If you are interested in joining this conversation hosted by Greenville Forward, please contact upstateclergy@gmail.com.

The Confederate flag no longer stands as a reminder of the racism that remains tethered to the heart of this community. Together, let’s begin breaking the chains that bind us..

This open letter is jointly signed by: Rodney Acker Terre Balof Caroline Caldwell Johnna Camp Andy Casto-Waters Bob Chiles Eric Coleman Tiffany Gibson Cox Beverly CroweTipton

Vaughn CroweTipton Jim Dant Sean Dogan Greg Dover Karen Eller Tom Faulkner Emanuel Flemming Jerry Hill Pat Jobe

Kyle Matthews Michelle McClendon Tony McDade Jeremy Master Ben Mullinax Nancy Neal Deb RichardsonMoore Matt Rollins

John Roy Sally Sarratt Susie Smith James Speed Maria Swearingen Patrick Tuttle Jody Usher Marc Wilson Baxter Wynn

What’s Right in Health Care GHS Physician Named to National Committee Angelo Sinopoli, MD, vice president of clinical integration and chief medical officer, has been invited to serve as a member of the Guiding Committee of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network. This national network is part of a larger effort led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to transform the nation’s health system to emphasize value over volume and ultimately achieve better care, smarter spending and healthier people.

Neighborhood Health Partners GHS is committed to caring for patients in the neighborhoods where they live. The Neighborhood Health Partners (NHP) care team consists of a social worker and paramedic and is available in five neighborhoods: Belmont, Berea, Gantt, Greenville and Parker. The care team visits patients, conducts health screenings and helps establish a care plan and medical home. They also help connect patients with community resources, gain access to medications and enroll in insurance. To learn more, please call 455-9349 or visit ghs.org/nhp.

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Fields of (financial) dreams The furling of the Confederate flag and the end of the NAACP’s state boycott opens up even more possibilities for the Upstate’s burgeoning sports tourism industry “We’re a mid-size market with big city amenities,” Poole said.

The county sees lacrosse and ultimate Frisbee as additional sports with potential for Greenville, he said. “Ultimate Frisbee is unique. It attracts kids and adults and captures kids who don’t fit into the traditional youth sports. It’s a sport that is gaining By the numbers popularity beyond college campuses.”

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CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Signs of the Upstate’s growing sports tourism industry have been in full display these last two weeks.

The Amateur Softball Association’s Class A 18 and Under Girls Fast Pitch Nationals brought 104 teams to Spartanburg County’s Tyger River Park, filling hotels and restaurants in Greenville, Spartanburg and Cherokee counties.

The Big League World Series attracted baseball teams from near (the Upstate) and far (Chinese Taipei). ESPN, the cable sports network, televised Tuesday night’s championship game between the U.S. West champion from Thousand Oaks, Calif. and Guayama, Puerto Rico.

Training camp for the Carolina Panthers is expected to attract some 50,000 visitors to Wofford College before the NFL team breaks camp on Aug. 20.

These events and other youth and amateur tournaments have poured millions of dollars into the Upstate economy. Now that the NAACP has called off its boycott after the Confederate flag departed the Statehouse grounds – along with a concerted effort to market Greenville as a tourist destination – the Upstate is poised to attract an even bigger slice of the billions of sports tourism dollars generated each year nationwide.

Robin Wright, a senior marketing rep for VisitGreenvilleSC who specializes in sports tourism, was one of 10 South Carolina tourism representatives who met with NCAA President Mark Emmert in Indianapolis this week.

While bidding for NCAA championships for 2019-2021won’t open until next spring, Wright said it was important to show a joint state interest to host future NCAA major events. The Bon Secours

Details Sports tourism (travel that involves either observing or participating in a sporting event) has three categories: SPORT EVENT TOURISM – attending training camp practices or attending a game ACTIVE SPORTS TOURISM – participating in team or individual sports NOSTALGIA SPORTS TOURISM – visiting a Hall of Fame or museum

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Wellness Arena (then called the Bi-Lo Center) hosted the NCAA men’s basketball first and second-round games in 2002 before the ban went into effect.

“The state needs to re-establish a relationship with the NCAA,” she said, noting the effort to woo Emmert included representatives from Greenville, Hilton Head, Columbia, Charleston and Rock Hill. “We’re all looking to bid for events, but we need to show a joint state effort.”

BIG MONEY In 2014, sports events held at Greenville County Parks, Recreation and Tourism venues generated an economic impact of $24.8 million, said Jeff Poole, the department’s sports tourism manager. That was up from just under $13 million in 2013.

Poole credits part of the growth to the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail, a venue the county wasn’t marketing as a sports tourism facility but that attracts a slew of day visitors from outside of the county.

Also fueling the increase has been the opening of Conestee Park, a baseball complex connected to Lake Conestee Nature Park that has three high school and college-sized baseball fields, including an 8,000-seat stadium that once was the home of the Greenville Braves Double A minor league baseball team. Westside Aquatic Center, a swimming facility that is hosting the USA Swimming Southern Zones meet this week, is just four years old and still has the appeal of a new facility.

The $24.8 million impact total doesn’t include sports tournaments and events held at other venues in Greenville, such as Fluor Field, the Kroc Center Tennis

Complex, Bon Secours Wellness Arena, the TD Convention Center, Furman University and even Sirrine Stadium. Add those in and Greenville County offers some 70 different venues that sports tourism officials can market.

What Greenville lacks is a large indoor field house-type facility that would have multiple basketball or volleyball courts in one location. Adding such a facility would allow Greenville to compete for events in about a dozen more sports, officials say.

Even so, “We focus on selling the assets we have,” Poole said.

“We don’t concern ourselves with what we don’t have.”

Greenville has several advantages over the locales it typically competes against such as Raleigh, N.C.; Birmingham, Ala.; Charlotte, Atlanta and Orlando.

The Upstate county sits between Charlotte and Atlanta with interstate access. It has improved airline service since Southwest Airlines came into the Greenville-Spartanburg market more than a year ago, as well as less expensive hotels and dining choices than some of the bigger cities. Add in Southern hospitality and multiple areas of other activity choices, and the Upstate also has a lot to offer participants of weeklong tournaments.

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economic impact of Carolina Panthers training camp in 2014

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economic impact of events at Greenville County Parks, Recreation and Tourism facilities in 2014

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national direct economic impact of youth sports tourism nationwide

MORE TO COME Conestee will host the Special Olympics this fall, and the National Club Baseball Association will host a Southeastern college club baseball tournament, also in the fall.

Next year, the MeSA soccer complex will host the US Youth Soccer Region 3 championship. The event brought more than 7,000 people to town in 2012, the last time it was held in Greenville. Over the weeklong tournament, visitors and participants spent $3.3 million on lodging, eating out, transportation and entertainment. The tournament’s overall economic impact was $4.2 million.

Studies have shown youth sports tourism is recession-proof. While people will cut back on leisure travel when the economy falters, they’ll still spend money on their children, Poole said.

While it doesn’t involve youth sports, one of the Upstate’s longest-running sports tourism events – the Carolina Panthers training camp – is being held now through Aug. 20.

Wofford College has hosted the training camp since the team’s inception in 1995.

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Rising from the ashes Poe Mill revitalization plan includes skateboard park, now all that’s missing is money CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Tourism Department, said he included money for the skate park in the county’s latest two-year budget cycle but it was not funded.

Gallardo said he drives by soccer fields and sees nobody on them.

“There’s money for parks that aren’t being used,” Gallardo said. “I’d like to find money for a park that will be used.”

Skateboarding is a $4.8 billion industry in the United States. In 2014, there were 6.58 million skateboarders in the U.S. Houck estimates that 9,800 county residents would use a wheeled park at Poe Mill.

“Skating and other wheeled sports are activities that foster a sense of peer support and encouragement,” he said. “Cre-

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Poe Mill once supported a bustling neighborhood just outside the shadows of downtown Greenville. But after the textile mill shut down and a fire destroyed most of the 107-year old structure in 2003, the neighborhood felt neglected, the mill’s rubble a visible sign of the decay of the once vibrant mill village.

Skateboarders in Greenville felt neglected, too. They wanted a place to ride their boards and do tricks. But they weren’t allowed to ride in the city’s central business district for concerns about pedestrian safety and fear the boards would damage the expensive infrastructure of downtown’s renaissance.

So they created a makeshift skate park amidst Poe Mill’s Poe Mill was once the center of the community. A fire rubble. destroyed it in 2003.

Now, the effort to build a real skate park there is gaining momentum. The rubble has been cleared ating a sense of community that encourfrom the site, now owned by the Green- ages friendships and active lifestyles is ville County Redevelopment Committee. something any community can benefit “It’s a big symbol. Having the site just from. A wheeled park at Poe Mill creates cleaned up meant the world to this com- that community for nearly 10,000 citimunity,” said Kwadjo Campbell, presi- zens living in Greenville County.”

A skate park should be about dent of the Poe Mill Neighborhood Association. “It’s the symbol of things to 11,000-square feet, said Dana Souza, Parks and Recreation director for the city come.”

At a forum organized by the Children’s of Greenville, who oversaw the construcMuseum of the Upstate, hosts of this Sat- tion of a skate park in Portland, Maine. urday’s Innoskate 2015, skateboarders, The infield of a baseball field is just over city and county leaders and business 8,000 square feet. Poe Mill has about people discussed the future of skate- 17,00 square feet of space.

Souza said the skate park in Portland board parks in and around Greenville.

“The kids of Greenville deserve a skate was 90 percent privately funded.

Houck said because funding for a skate park,” said Adrian Gallardo, owner of Blazer, a skateboard shop on Laurens park has not been secured, his departRoad. “I’ve seen wheel parks change ment will continue to work with the community to develop a “shovel ready” neighborhoods.”

Ty Houck, director of Greenways, wheeled park design so the park can Natural and Historic Resources for the be constructed quickly when money is Greenville County Parks, Recreation and found.

For a list of Innoskate 2015 events at the Children’s Museum of the Upstate, see the Main Event on the What’s Happening pages of this week’s Journal. An Innoskate after party will be held at Poe Mill from 4-8 p.m.

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Target Zero team to reduce road fatalities and injuries New trooper unit will focus on 14 corridors statewide

Drivers can take an online pledge to support the effort to make the Palmetto State’s roads safer and share via social media with #TargetZeroSC. Visit sctargetzeroplan.org to see the plan and see maps of where the enforcement teams will operate.

APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com A counter on a new South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) website has exceeded 500. It’s not logging the number of site visitors, but the number of fatalities on South Carolina roadways.

SCDOT and the SC Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) recently launched a The SC Department of Transportation and the SC Department of Public Safety recently launched a new new 24-state trooper unit called the Tar24-state trooper unit called the Target Zero Enforcement Team to reduce highway fatalities and injuries get Zero Enforcement Team to reduce on state roadways. highway fatalities and injuries with “proactive enforcement,” according to SCDPS. just this summer. In 2015, 523 people failure to buckle up,” according to SCDPS. have died on state Targeted corridors include U.S. 25, U.S. The team is part of roads, far exceeding the 276 and I-385 in Greenville County. the Target Zero Traffic Top killers on SC roads “We believe that the loss of even one 444 fatalities logged by Deaths initiative to elimlife on our highways is unacceptable. We this time in 2014. inate traffic deaths and DUI Troopers will focus want every driver, every family in our reduce severe injuries.

Speeding on “three of the leading state to take the pledge to make Target According to SCDPS, killers in South Caro- Zero their personal goal,” said SCDPS di159 people have died on Failure to buckle up lina: DUI, speeding and rector Leroy Smith.

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amorris@communityjournals.com As chef, cooking instructor and former documentary filmmaker Mei Li Trapasso introduces her newest venture, her welcoming and open attitude shine through. “Just call me Mei,” she smiled as she welcomed

her visitors to Chef Mei’s Private Kitchen inside Greenville’s Park Avenue Pub. Lining a long table were fragrant dishes created as examples of the fare for her lunch-only restaurant that will serve fresh, family-style dishes featuring all styles of Chinese cuisine.

Trapasso served up a fresh fish stew, bok choy and mushrooms, mapo tofu, Szechuan green beans, pork dumplings and egg-fried rice. Toasted watermelon seeds and broad beans served as appetizers.

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Trapasso, a Chinese native, has taught Chinese cooking all over the world and most recently at Furman University’s OLLI program, The Cook’s Station and the International Center of the Upstate. She has partnered with Park Avenue Pub owner Robert Pruitt to open the lunch spot for a few hours each day, Monday through Friday.

Her goal is to replicate the Chinese tradition of sharing meals and creating fresh dishes for a communal table, she said. Each day, Trapasso will feature a daily special based on seasonal vegetables and the best meat available that day.

Diners can then sample the dishes family style and take more of whatever dish they like, leaving the rest for others, she said.

“Those who know each other and those who don’t know each other can chat” over the long table. “Food is something, for me, that always links people together,” she said.

Trapasso’s kitchen will also offer limited a la carte options. In addition, Trapasso plans to offer cooking classes on site along with catering and private events.

Chef Mei’s opened this week and plans a grand opening on Aug. 18.“I want people to feel love through cooking. I give you the best I can,” she said.

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Police chief seeks to cap private towing fees BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

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Miller said the absence of price limits on nonconsensual towing leads to “predatory practices” by towing companies.

He told the council the change is needed because drivers lose their vehicles

when they can’t pay the fees, and the lack of regulation “creates an environment where there’s significant friction and frustration” that leads to police being called on to intervene.

Miller proposed limiting the fee to no more than $100 for nonconsensual towing (which is not initiated by the Greenville Police Department) on private property. He also proposed limiting the storage fee for nonconsensual towing to $20 per day outside and $25 per day for

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THE NEWS IN BRIEF PUBLIC INPUT SOUGHT ON NEW LIBRARY The Greenville County Library System is building a new branch in the Five Forks area and invites the public to provide input on features they want to see in the new library located on Woodruff Road. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Aug. 11 at Monarch Elementary School, 224 Five Forks Road, Simpsonville. Architects McMillan Pazdan Smith will be on hand to hear suggestions.

The Five Forks branch will be roughly 30,000 square feet, nearly three times larger than other library system branches, providing “the opportunity for us to include features that we have not been able to accommodate in our smaller branches, such as a designated space for teens, quiet space for reading and study and a café,” library system executive director Beverly James said. For more information, visit greenvillelibrary.org.

INSURANCE FOUNDATION OFFERS MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP The BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation announced Wednesday a $800,000 grant to the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville Levi S. Kirkland Sr. M.D. Scholarship.

Named after the first African-American surgeon who worked for the Greenville Health System (GHS), the scholarship aims to provide support for under-rep-

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According to GHS, the fund will provide five students with $40,000 a year during enrollment at the medical school. Students who accept the scholarship also make a commitment to practice full time in South Carolina following their residency and work in the state one year for each year of scholarship support.

The foundation’s executive director Harvey Galloway said, “Diversity of the health care workforce is important to providing culturally competent care.

We wanted to support the Kirkland Scholarship to help increase diversity in this workforce, which will help expand access for the underserved, as well as lead to research in neglected areas.”

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Believe it or not, a soup kitchen can be a savory spot for an elegant meal – that is, if they’re serving at Project Host in downtown Greenville.

I had heard about the community dinners Project Host served up as part of its C.C. Pearce Culinary School training, and wanted to sample for myself the multi-course meal offered each month.

Students go through a 12-week program and spend many of their days preparing meals for the Feeding Hungry Children Project to gain skills to land gainful employment. Once a month, however, the budding chefs enjoy the challenge of preparing and serving a sit-down meal for nearly 100 people.

Before dinner, I was allowed into the kitchen to see how preparations were shaping up. Over prep tables lined with plates sporting patterns of olive oil and balsamic vinegar in preparation for the salad course, I talked with several students about their first community dinner, five weeks into training.

Shalese Paulding told me her favorite lessons were in knife skills and how to use all the commercial kitchen equipment, while Victoria Edmunds said she was enjoying learning how to make dishes from scratch. Learning how to balance flavors like sweetness and salty were also appealing, added Shambray Carroll.

As diners mingled in the room, outfitted with table-clothed tables for eight, students delivered cool shot glasses brimming with tomato or watermelon gazpacho. The watermelon version captured a sweet summer flavor tempered with mellow fresh basil and cucumber grown in the garden out back.

Caroline Wilson, 10, tasted the tomato gazpacho and her father, Reed Wilson, explained he comes to the dinners several times each year after being invited by a friend more than a year ago.

Added his wife, Ellen Wilson, “I love to cook and support those who are learning to cook and who are trying to make a difference for themselves.”

After nabbing drinks provided by Community Tap, diners drifted towards their seats. At my table was a group from the local Newcomers Club that volunteers regularly at Project Hope, and dines there often, too.

Cindy Robinson, who attends dinner nearly every month, mentioned the nonprofit has been the club’s community project for Newcomers for two years, and they often have volunteers working one day each week.

“What we can pull off in 12 weeks with students with no experience is nothing short of amazing.”

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Soon the first course arrived: a grilled watermelon salad, plated on the balsamic vinaigrette and garnished with feta cheese, mint and heirloom tomatoes from the kitchen garden.

The July dinner was inspired by summer, said executive chef Tobin Simpson, and the salad did not disappoint, balancing the sweet watermelon with mild feta.

Next came a pork ribeye garnished with blueberry barbecue sauce that was flanked by maque choux, “a fancy way of saying succotash,” said Simpson. Tasty, rosemary-laced roasted potatoes in hues of gold, purple and orange rounded out the main course.

The diners at the table, including myself, raved about the meal that easily re-

sembled any served up by Greenville’s finest restaurants: from the artful presentation and mouth-watering flavors down to the professional service.

As she cleared away plates, 2013 graduate Debra Robinson said she most enjoyed learning different preparation methods and knife skills. “I’ve learned so much with chef. I love to come back and help.”

Simpson, who has shepherded 17 classes through the program, said after five weeks together, this team is starting to gel. Students may come from a background where they don’t eat out and can’t afford to cook or arrive with barriers like addiction or illiteracy, he said.

“The first two weeks is like herding cats,” then the dynamic moves to “some fights and spats and everyone gets their feelings hurt,” he said. By the end of the course, “They’re friends and they hold their heads high.” For many, this is also their first graduation, he said.

“What we can pull off in 12 weeks with students with no experience is nothing short of amazing,” he added.

Indeed it was. Wrapping up the meal was a warm fried peach pie, complemented by smooth, homemade cinnamon ice cream. When only dregs of creamy sweetness were left in the diners’ bowls, they leaned back from the table and gave a loud round of applause for the students who had just emerged from the kitchen.

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In the lineup are 18 contestants repa badge of honor.” resenting a mix of survivors, providers Hahn said she is looking forward to and supporters. Teams of six will create visiting the park, a place where survivors an appealing appetizer, entrée and desand families can be surrounded by nasert that will feature cancer-fighting inture’s healing power. gredients and wow the judges. Proceeds “My family didn’t have that readily benefit the 6.8-acre available when I was diagnosed. They had Cancer Survivors friends and family, but they didn’t have a Park in downtown sanctuary or a place of peace other than Greenville. our home, but that’s where I was recovNatalie Hahn, an ering,” she said. “To be able to raise funds ovarian cancer surfor a cancer park, not just for patients, vivor, is competing but for families and friends, I think that’s to prepare a course really important.” with partner Dr. Jeff Edenfield. Hahn, 22, HAHN BACKING THE CHEFS was diagnosed as a Leading up to the Aug. 28 competition, college sophomore and as she was doing supporters can vote online for chefs with research, she looked for books on how to a $10 donation and a leaderboard keeps cope with cancer at age 19, she said. track of the top fundraiser. At the event, “There were none,” she said. “It’s a attendees can donate to add weird stage in life being a Know who time for their favorite team teenager, let alone going or allow the team to use a through cancer.”

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“When I was having a really Natalie Hahn “I’m not a master chef, but good day, I had to rememDonna Johnston I believe in the cause and ber that the people around Jacob Mann the organization and I think me were fighting this battle Bill Pelham it will be a fun execution,” with me and they needed Joyce Pratt he said. Dezen is partnered their time to cope as well.” with realtor Jacob Mann Her book touches on what Susan Reid and said he is raising funds it is like to lose your hair Jane Robelot during treatment. “Young Nigel Robertson women often identify with Dr. William Schmidt, III their hair and that’s a hor- Dr. Robert D. Siegel rible burden society puts on Dr. Melanie Thomas them. I think bald is beauAlita Webster tiful, I never wore a wig or Dan Weidenbenner hat. Instead I chose to rock Dr. Robin D. Wilson what I had. To me, that was MARK KIRBY / CONTRIBUTING

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in honor of the late Preston Reid, “a dear family friend” and Dr. Jeff Giguere, a role model. He plans to “turn up the heat” for gathering donations in August, he said.

Fellow competitor Donna Johnston, a sales representative for Community Journals, said the event appeals to her penchant for giving. “I get joy out of helping others,” she said, and is enthused about helping “to create a beautiful environment where people can go and connect with loved ones they have lost or who are battling the disease and find peace.”

Johnston, who is cooking with Dr. Bill Schmidt, will compete in memory of Debbie Martin, Michael Herbert and Susan Acker.

The fast-paced, timed competition format will “bring people together in a fun atmosphere,” Dezen said. “Come out and support us – I guarantee our team will be entertaining.”

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EVENT: Habitat for Humanity dinner with Deshaun Watson WHO WAS THERE: Almost 250 Habitat families and friends from five Upstate counties SPEAKERS: Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson THEME: The value of homeownership

The biggest pass completion of Deshuan Watson’s career didn’t come for the Clemson Tigers. Nor did it come while he was a high school superstar in Georgia.

It came after a Halloween season festival in Gainesville, Georgia. Tucked down in a bag filled with lollipops, hard candies and Tootsie rolls was information on Habitat for Humanity. The 10-year-old Watson had been telling his mother he was going to build her a house one day when he became an NFL superstar, but why not start now.

Deann Watson caught that pass, and it led to her family moving into a home of their own a few years later. Without that Habitatbuilt home, Watson doubts he would have ended up as one of the most hyped players in recent orange-and-white history.

“I honestly don’t know where I would be,” he said.

The Heisman candidate recently spoke to more than 250 Habitat for Humanity friends and families at the First Baptist Church of Mauldin, he wanted to share the important lessons he learned from going through the Habitat process.

HARD WORK AND COMMITMENT Watson referred again and again to the value of hard work – during his speech, to parents and children in the questionand-answer period that followed, during an autograph signing session. With a genial smile and serious eyes, he said, “Hard work and commitment are key on-andoff the football field.” For him, that commitment started with the Habitat house.

Families build the houses with community volunteers and the child Watson was no exception. While he was too young to do heavy work, he vividly recalled passing out tools and water to other volunteers.

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS Watson had promised his mother a house. It is a dream of many young boys to one day take care of those who took care of you, but he said his mother flipped

the program. During the long process of getting their house, she began to promise him a home first – something a long way from the dangerous federal housing apartments they lived in when he was growing up. Getting your own house “is a life changer,” he said. “I took a different approach to life after that. It’s something very special to be part of.”

FIND YOUR PLACE The Habitat home was more than just a new place to live that his family could own. It was a place where he could play in the backyard, do his homework in peace and feel secure. Watson’s athletic career began to take off when his family moved into their house. He sees a definite correlation between those two.

“I was able to go to school and come home to a happy place and not have to worry about something happening with the cops around or drug dealers walking around. Coming home safe, and with a smile on my face, was something special.”

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All amazing statistics that led to his calling to continue in football, but it was a different set of statistics that shaped Watson in high school. His mother was diagnosed with tongue cancer during his freshman year. Their family, which includes an older brother and a younger sister and brother, rallied together. He thanked them all during his talk and finished by giving his mother a bouquet of flowers.

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Perlman honored with Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award Local teen launched Jewish youth group

APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Greenville resident Ruthie Perlman was seeking a place to belong as a Jewish teen, so she created one.

In 2013, Perlman launched a chapter of the BBYO Jewish youth organization and began spreading the word.

The group has grown to about 30 eighth through 12th graders, including some teens from local congregations and others without affiliation.

Perlman said she founded the group because “I personally did not feel that Greenville had an outlet for me and other Jewish teens to be Jewish and feel comfortable in our Judaism.”

For forming the Gesher BBYO (gesher is the Hebrew word for bridge), Perlman was named as one of 15 recipients na-

tionwide of the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award, which honors those who have

successfully worked for change.

Each award carries with it a $36,000 prize to support the teen’s project or to further their education, according to the Helen Diller Family Foundation.

Perlman said she was “shocked and happy” to learn she had been named as an award-winner and it was very unexpected. Along the way many were supportive of her effort, “It wasn’t really a one-person task,” she said.

Perlman will travel with her family to San Francisco this month to accept the award. She plans to use the cash award to set up an endowment for Gesher BBYO and put some toward her college education.

The Gesher BBYO chapter comes together for a mix of social and recreational activities along with ceremonies and service projects, she said. From a Harry Potter-themed party to a Rosh Hashanah apple picking outing, the chapter’s activities have brought local Jewish young people together, she said.

Read on, Macduff Funding literacy with a Really Good, Really Big, Really Cheap book sale KAYLA WILES | CONTRIBUTOR

kwiles@communityjournals.com Every year, roughly 14,000 people flock to McAlister Square for the largest and cheapest summer book sale of Greenville County. While filling suitcases and backpacks with as many books as possible Aug. 14-16, attendees might not realize that each book purchased at the Really Good, Really Big, Really Cheap Book Sale allows the Greenville Literacy Association (GLA) to help adults earn GEDs, English fluency and certification

“It’s a big difference between the public paying $12,350 and us expending $685 per low-educated adult.”

Greenville Literacy Association director Carol Browning, on public cost for social support services versus cost of teaching a person to read

for entry-level employment.

From October to June, GLA receives performance-based funding from the federal government for each student whose literacy level improves through its programs, said executive director Carol Browning. Because that funding does not extend to the summer months, the GLA covers operating expenses through its annual book sale.

Book donations and public attendance are both crucial to the book sale’s success, Browning said. Since 2002, the sale has received an average of 130,000 book donations per year, with no book selling for more than $5.

Donations are accepted through Aug. 7, so readers still have a chance to clean their shelves. Anything donated after the deadline will be sold at next year’s sale or in the GLA’s store through Amazon.com.

FAR-REACHING IMPACT Out of the 360,916 adults over the age of 18 in Greenville County, 49,000 did not graduate from high school. While those without a high school diploma or GED do not make up the majority of adults in Greenville County, the majority pays the cost of illiteracy – unless literacy rates improve, Browning says. Raising rates has been the mission of the Greenville Literacy Association for the past 50 years.

Illiteracy “creates a problem in a num-

“It was a chance to connect with teens we didn’t know existed,” she said. “On the whole it has made the Jewish community more vibrant.”

One of the year’s most memorable activities, she says, was when the group held membership inductions. They “kidnapped” several new members with the help of their parents and camped in a backyard overlooking Table Rock State Park. Around the campfire, members shared their feelings about their BBYO chapter, and “it was really amazing,” she said.

Many chapter members have followed Ruthie Perlman’s lead and gone on to become leaders themselves, getting involved in the Dixie Council, the southern regional BBYO organization, she said.

Perlman has passed the chapter presidency on to another member and said she would like to see the chapter grow and continue to be successful. “I’m excited to see how things go [this year].”

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ber of areas,” Browning said. “Low-educated adults – either without jobs or with only minimum wage jobs – usually can’t make it without assistance.”

With a poverty level designation of $11,490 a year in Greenville County, adults without a high school diploma earning only up to $10,800 per year are unable to contribute to the economy through taxes or Social Security, she said.

This translates to the community paying $12,354 per low-educated adult for housing, food stamps and Medicaid assistance, Browning said. “Multiplying this cost times the 49,000 adults without high school diplomas in Greenville County, the potential annual cost is just over $6 million.”

Browning said the GLA is currently taking in almost 1,200 students of that 49,000 through its adult literacy programs, and the financial impact is already significant.

“Less than 10 percent of our students come in at a high school level, and it costs GLA about $685 a year to educate each student,” she said. “It’s a big difference between the public paying $12,350 and us expending $685 per low-educated adult.”

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OUR COMMUNITY COMMUNITY NEWS, EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS Bon Secours Health System, Inc. and several of its subsidiaries were named by the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum as Most Wired for 2015. The 2015 Most Wired survey, representing more than 2,213 hospitals, examined how organizations are leveraging information technology to improve performance for value-based healthcare.

Those who participated in the 2015 Park Hop Scavenger Hunt are invited to the closing celebration on Aug. 14, 4:30-7 p.m. at Commerce Park in Fountain Inn. The evening will feature games, prizes and entertainment. For more information, visit livewellgreenville.org/park-hop.

Carolina Negphrology PA, in Greenville and Columbia Nephrology PA in Columbia formed the Carolina Kidney Alliance in 2014 with the mission to strive for excellence in the delivery of chronic kidney disease care. The alliance held its first statewide conference this spring and plans to

focus on patient-centered, cost-driven objectives that align with the hospitals in each community. The alliance will also provide a breadth of opportunities to develop new strategies to overcome barriers limiting patients’ access to care.

Six & Twenty Distillery has been selected for the 2015 Best of Piedmont Award in the Tourist Attractions category by the Piedmont Award Program. The program identifies companies that have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category.

Registration is open for the Sugar Creek Fun Run fifth annual Youth Triathlon, a USAT certified event open for youth ages 5-16 years. The triathlon is set for Labor Day, Sept. 7. Proceeds will benefit The Frazee Center and Daily Bread Ministries. Registration is available at sugarcreekfunruns.com.

The 2015 annual Tomato Pie contest, held during

Chief of Police Ken Miller, 2014 Winner Debbi Kaplan, 2015 Winner Liz Rhoads, Jennifer Glover of Carolina Girl Cooks and WSPA’s Megan Heidlberg.

Summer on Augusta at The Pickwick Pharmacy, announced the winner of the best tomato pie in Greenville.

First place winner is Liz Rhoads, second place is Mindy Hubble and third place is Colby Hubble.

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THE GOOD

EVENTS THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER

Culver’s restaurant is hosting Scoops of Thanks Day on Aug. 11. Culver’s will provide a single scoop of fresh frozen custard in exchange of a $1 donation, while supplies last. Proceeds will benefit local or state FFA chapters or other agricultural organizations selected by each restaurant. Proceeds of the event will benefit Culver’s Thank You Farmers program. For more information, visit culvers.com/farmers/fromgratitude-to-support.

On Aug. 13, Safe Harbor’s REP (Relationship Education Project) program will host a “train the trainer” event for middle and high school counselors: Recognizing and Responding to Teen Dating Violence: An Educator’s Guide. This training is a part of the Safe Harbor’s teacher education pilot project with the Greenville County School District. The event will train counselors to understand the dynamics and facts surrounding teen dating violence and how to respond effectively to a student who is experiencing this issue.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate will host its first thank you golf event on Aug. 14 at the Preserve at Embassy Suites Golf Club. The event allows Big Brothers Big Sisters to show gratitude to more than 25 Upstate companies that have supported the organization.

The nonprofit will host the seventh annual Pep Rally on Nov. 19 at The Huguenot Mill. General admission is $50 per person and sponsorship levels are available.

Tickets can be purchased at bbbspeprally.com.

Formerly of Greenville Forward, Gardening for Good is now a part of Project Host. Gardening for Good was launched in 2011 to provide a central location for community gardeners to connect with one another and learn about gardening techniques. Gardening for Good moved to Project Host in July and will continue

to function as an independent program. For more information, visit ggardeningforgood.com.

The Golden Corner Food Pantry received a $50,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation’s State Giving Program to support improved nutrition emergency and supplemental food to the disadvantaged and low income residents of Oconee County. In 2014 the pantry distributed about 1.6 m i l l i o n From left, Tom Fuss, Mark Torres (Golden Corner Food Pantry board members); Tammy Eidson, Clint pounds of Harris (Walmart); Father Bill Hearne, Ron Sandefur, food to more Ann Smith, Bob Kurek, Steve Finger, Richard than 1,600 Kulper, Jim Redmond and Marilyn Allen (Golden h o u s e Corner board members). holds per month. More than 250 volunteers collect donated food, store, sort and package food for distribution each week.

Through Aug. 15, customers will receive 15 percent to 20 percent off storewide at all Macy’s locations, plus $10 off a $30 purchase, with a $5 donation at the register.

Proceeds will benefit the Children’s Cancer Research Fund, Council of Fashion Designers of America Foundation, Inc., The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charites of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana, Ronald McDonald House New

York and The Fashion Incubators at Macy’s.

Meals on Wheels of Greenville was awarded a $2,500 grant from the Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation to help provide emergency meals for homebound, food insecure individuals in the community.

The grant money will be specifically used to provide frozen evening and weekend meals.

MilliCare commercial flooring company is participating in the nationwide MilliCare Month of Care CHAIRity program. MilliCare will donate $1 for each chair they clean during the month of August to Together We Rise, an organization supporting foster children and their families. MilliCare anticipates cleaning more than 1,000 chairs in each market during the monthlong program. For more information, visit millicare. com/CARES/Pages/default.aspx.

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As Christ Church Episcopal School begins planning its first combined Spirit Week with St. Joseph’s Catholic School, several student council members from each school recently gathered to serve the community through the Homeworks charity. They spent the morning working on a home for an older couple and the afternoon was spent at Christ Church School planning Spirit Week events.

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LOOK The Bon Secours Wellness Arena held a family-friendly open house for Clemson University basketball fans on Saturday. Several hundred people attended two open-house events designed to showcase the facility, recent arena renovations and Clemson branding at the team’s home court for the coming men’s basketball season. The team will play in Greenville while Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum is renovated.

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He’s Got Talent Benton Blount wants to make the most out of his second chance CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Greenville singer-songwriter Benton Blount has proven time and time again that he’s up to a challenge.

He hopes to be again Tuesday night when he performs live at New York’s Radio City Music Hall for a national television audience during the quarterfinals of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.”

Blount’s acoustic rendition of Dolly Parton’s hit “Jolene” on the July 28 show had the audience on its feet and the judges gushing praise. But one judge, former Spice Girl Mel B, questioned whether Blount and his guitar would be enough to win the show’s $1 million prize.

“Mel B put a little fire under my seat,” Blount said in an interview before he left for New York City with his wife, Ashley, and 2-year-old son, Jaxon. “My first two times on the show it was me and my guitar. I am diverse performer. I’m going to take what Mel B said and adjust accordingly.”

Adjusting is what Blount has been doing his whole music career, starting with his decision to abandon plans to accept a scholarship offer to play college football and pursue music instead.

Blount’s plans changed after the music pastor at the church he attended in North Carolina asked him if he had an instrument. When he said no, the pastor asked if he’d play in the church band if the church bought him a bass guitar.

He did, although he admits he wasn’t very good at it. But luckily for Blount, the music pastor heard him

Greenville singer-songwriter Benton Blount with wife, Ashley, and 2-year-old son, Jaxon.

singing along with the songs. “He told me I wasn’t very good at bass guitar and I should be singing instead,” Blount said.

By the end of the summer, his football career was over. Over the next year, he learned how to play acoustic guitar and write songs. Blount’s career eventually took him to Nashville.

He signed with an independent record label and was dozens of station visits into a radio tour for what would have been his debut single, “Carolina,” in the spring of 2010 when the label shut down. Three years later, the song was a hit for the group Parmalee.

“Nashville, I love everything about it, even the side that most people don’t see – the business side,” he said.

“I’m competitive and I love music. But in Nashville, you

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Blount’s acoustic rendition of Dolly Parton’s hit “Jolene” on the July 28 show had the audience on its feet and the judges gushing praise.

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have to fight people stepping all over you. I got tired of doing that.”

He released his own album, the money for production raised through a Kickstarter campaign.

Blount moved to Greenville and continues to work full-time as a musician while being a stay-at-home dad to his 2-year-old son Jaxon while his wife, Ashley, works as a paralegal in Greenville.

He decided to audition for “America’s Got Talent” instead of giving Nashville another try. He sang an original song for the producers via Skype and then Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away” for the show’s three judges and a studio audience.

“I think AGT is the best platform for me,” said the 36-year-old. “I saw an opportunity to show people what I can do musically. It’s more of a ‘getting to know you’ contest than some other shows. That’s what I want my career to be. I want my fans to get to know me. It seemed like a good fit.”

Blount said the show has given him the opportunity to support his family in a way he’s always dreamed of doing. His son got to see him perform for the first time in the “judge’s cut” show.

“I grew up in a single parent family. I never met my father. My mom made it so that I didn’t really notice that I didn’t have a dad,” he said. “But after I became an adult, I decided that once I had a child, I’d be the best Dad I could be.”

Blount said he’s been living a dream for the past two years with the birth of his son, auditioning for and making AGT and getting a chance to perform in front of a television audience.

The television audience will decide whether he moved on in the competition.

“Since I’ve moved here from Nashville, Greenville has really become my home. I’ve fallen in love with the people and the atmosphere,” he said. “I’m taking it to New York with me. I’m doing it for all of us.”

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Loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah Member of Beatles tribute band has Greenville ties CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Richard Stelling is more than a John Lennon fan.

He is John Lennon – at least when The Return, a Beatles tribute band that will be playing at the Greenville Little Theatre August 13 through August 15, is on stage.

“I compare it to being an actor on stage,” said Stelling, a Griffin, GA, resident with Greenville ties. “(The Beatles) had iconic looks and mannerisms. When you’re in a tribute band, you have to be in character every song, every minute you play.”

The Return got its start in 1995 when four friends from Griffin got together to play their favorite Beatles tunes. A friend talked them into performing at a party and they wore dark suits to mimic the

iconic band’s early look.

Stelling joined the band in 2001 after the group’s original John decided to quit to do original bluegrass music. Stelling knew the rest of the band from high school chorus, and “ran into a couple of the guys at a local football game and one of them asked if I would try out for the John part.”

Stelling, who went to the University of Georgia as a music major before switching to journalism, had first picked up the guitar in high school and took lessons from Michael Fulop, the band’s George. He hadn’t been involved in music for a couple of years before that fateful Friday night.

Stelling’s mother, Jane, has taught at Wade Hampton High and Sterling School. His grandfather, Frank Stelling, served as president of the medical staff at Greenville General and chief surgeon for Shriners Hospital in Greenville. His grandmother, Donna, was on the Greenville Little Theatre board.

Stelling said The Return is not a cover

band. “We’re a tribute band. We don’t just play Beatles’ songs. We try to get as close as possible to how they looked, what they did on stage. People remember that stuff.”

The Return has played The Cavern in Liverpool, England, the club where the real Beatles got their start, and performed a private concert at Abbey Road Studios in London. They headlined the 40th anniversary celebration of the Beatles’ visit to Tokyo and debuted their “Sgt. Peppers & Beyond” show in front of 10,000 people in Hermosillo, Mexico. They also performed a live concert on XM Radio for the 40th anniversary of the Want to go Beatles’ first U.S. visit.

When they’re in The Return, a Beatles tribute band Greenville, their conWHAT: Concert cert will be packed WHEN: Aug. 13-15, 8 p.m. and Aug. 16, 3 p.m. with early Beatles hits WHERE: Greenville Little Theatre, 444 College St., Greenville as well as songs from TICKETS: $35 the Sgt. Pepper era and later.

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Album Release

Four 14 celebrates ‘Horace Grisby’ release at Gottrocks Friday night VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

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When Greenville’s Four 14 band takes the stage at Gottrocks on Friday night to celebrate the release of their new album, Horace Grigsby, it will be the culmination of over a year’s worth of work. The sextet, who playfully call themselves Greenville’s “Friendly Neighborhood Jam Band” spent most of 2014 playing every gig they possibly could to save up enough money to travel to Compound Studios in San Diego and record the eleven-song album.

“It’s finally done and being released,” says Four 14’s singer/guitarist Kyle Rowland. “It’s exciting. We went out to California and did the recording, and we came back broke,” he adds with a laugh.

The basic recording sessions were done late last year, but Rowland says the band wanted their co-producer/engineer, Shelby Meddock of the Creative Media Pro production company, to take her time mixing and mastering the album. “We actually waited about two months to begin that process, because

we wanted there to be a bit of a break so she could come back fresh to the material.”

Four 14, which also includes sax player Tyler Bryant, bassist Blake Hamby, guitarist Spencer Bonezzi, percussionist Mark Ashley and drummer Chris Bradley, is an independent band, meaning that they’re responsible for everything from recording costs to packaging and promotion. Rowland says that there are pros and cons to that approach.

“The best thing is that you own everything,” he says. “It’s yours and it’s always going to be yours. We don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations other than our own. So that’s pretty cool. But it’s not cheap. It costs a lot of money.

Last year, we played an insane amount of shows to fund what we were doing.”

In addition to revenue from their shows, Four 14 received donations from their fans, a gesture that Rowland is still

a bit overwhelmed by.

“We’re still in awe of all the help that we got,” he says. “It’s was so crazy and so impressive that we really don’t know how to say thank you. We hope it’s an awesome album!” he says.

The songs on Horace Grigsby mix elements of jazz, rock and blues into the band’s jam-heavy formula, and Rowland says that the band worked hard to make every track on the album special.

“We tried to make this album as perfect

as we possibly could,” he says.

“We’re really proud of it, and I feel like if we’re proud of it then other people will be, too.

I think we did right by where we come from, too. We had a local artist to do the art for us, and we have special guests from Greenville on the album.

This is what you want to listen to if you want to know what Four 14 is all about.” The album release show at Gottrocks will also include performances by other local acts, including Lionz Of Zion, Milli Fungus and the Marcus King Band.

And what has the band learned from this experience?

“It’s work,” Rowland says. “I don’t mean that in a bad way because we love it, but every emotion you can go through as a band, this album has put us through. But in a way, it’s nice to struggle, because if you can struggle and overcome, then that’s a pretty big deal.”

For more info, visit www.gottrocksgreenville.com or facebook.com/Four14music.

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SOUND CHECK

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Small band, big sound NC’s Amigo will crank it up downtown on Aug. 13 One of my favorite bands right now is Charlotte, NC’s Amigo.

The trio, singer/guitarist Slade Baird, bassist Thomas Alverson and drummer Adam Phillips don’t mess around too much with genres.

This is raw, raucous rock & roll with some country heartache sprinkled on top.

Their 2014 album, WHAT: Amigo Might Could, scores bullseye afWHEN: Thursday, August 13th, 5:30pm ter bullseye, with the band creatWHERE: Downtown Alive ing sturdy melodies and steady rhythms, over which Baird cranks INFO: Admission is free. the amps and the heartaches. Amigo has an especially full sound both onstage and on record, and though Might Could features some guest players to fill out the sound, it’s just the three of them live.

“We’ve gotten the comment a lot that we’re a bigger sounding band than just a three-piece, and I think that’s because the space is all filled,” Baird says. “The main thing that a trio format does is that it makes us focus a little more. With a bigger band, it’s kind of easy to go on autopilot and just play, and I think what the smaller format does is boost the concentration. If we’re not all engaged and all there together, the spirit of the song gets lost. Whereas if you had a horn section or a keyboard player or even another guitarist you could just groove, but with a three-piece you have to be more aware of what’s going on. It puts the pressure on us to all be firing on all cylinders.”

One of the realities of being a band like Amigo is that the group lives on the road, constantly playing shows. Given the amount of time the musicians can spend together, Baird says that keeping a working band together isn’t just about being musically connected.

“At this point, we’ve been playing together out on the road for so long and we’re still all friends, which is really part of what makes it so much fun to do,” he says. “It’s pretty necessary that everybody gets along. When you spend that kind of time with each other, you’re either going to get closer or you’re going to want to kill each other.

I read a lot of rock & roll bios, and it seems like every single one of them hated each other. I think that can work if you’re a millionaire and riding around in a tour bus, but when you’re in a van, that band’s not going to last very long unless you like each other. It’s like a family.”

That having been said, Baird says that Amigo’s rhythm section is the musically the best he’s worked with.

“Both of those guys are such intuitive players and accomplished musicians that we don’t really have to work too hard to make something that sounds like us. We can all do our thing and trust each other.”

Amigo will play Greenville’s Downtown Alive stage on August 13, and Baird says he’s enjoying the response the band is beginning to get in Greenville.

“We’ve played there a bunch of different times in different venues,” Baird says, “but when we played our last show (at the Radio Room earlier this year), we definitely noticed a bigger crowd, and the people were dancing and paying attention to the songs, and it definitely felt like more of a special vibe than we’ve had before. It was a real pleasant surprise.”

VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR | vharris@communityjournals.com

Must-See Movies

By Eric Rogers

Recreating the birth of cinema In 1895 two French brothers named Auguste and Louis Lumiere built a movie camera they called the cinematographe.

The camera also worked as a projector and a printer. Although movie cameras existed prior to this, this is often considered the birth of cinema.

The cinematographe held about fifty seconds worth of film.

This was around the time that Thomas Edison’s company was producing 15-second long films of people sneezing or kissing.

Edison had actually patented the first movie camera in 1889, but it was the cinematographe that became the industry standard.

Like Edison’s employees, the Lumieres also used their camera to document daily life. They shot trains coming into a station or people leaving a factory. That may seem mundane by today’s standards, but imagine your reaction to seeing a train coming towards you on a giant screen if you had never before experienced such a thing.

Disney paid homage to the brothers in the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast by naming the talking candlestick Lumiere.

The documentary features some history of the camera and its inventors, but it also features a series of 50-second long films made by people such as David Lynch, Costa-Gavras, John Boorman, Spike Lee and many other directors. It’s interesting to see what each of them came up with.

Often it was a single shot, just like the Lumieres’ films, but some are expertly edited in camera.

Unfortunately, the documentary is tough to locate but it is for sale on Amazon. Also a number of the segments from the film are available on You Tube. Following are links to three of them but there are several others that can easily be found with a simple search.

You can find the Lumiere brothers’ films on You Tube. | http://bit.ly/ LumiereBros

In 1995, in celebration of the centennial of the film industry, a documentary called Lumiere and Company was released. The producers of the film took an old hand cranked cinematographe camera and gave it to contemporary directors. They offered them three attempts to shoot a short film with the same camera model made famous 100 years earlier.

Michael Haneke http://bit.ly/HanekeLumiere David Lynch http://bit.ly/LynchLumiere Spike Lee http://bit.ly/SpikeLeeLumiere

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

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clandrum@communityjournals.com When it comes to celebrating a 25th anniversary, most people want to include friends.

That’s true of the Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium, which will kick off its 25th anniversary celebration with “An Evening with Ray McGee & Friends” on Thursday, Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rainey Fine Arts Center at Anderson University.

McGee is a familiar name in Greenville.

As a young musician, McGee studied under Dr. Peter Rickett, director emeritus of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. McGee taught for Greenville County Schools until he retired.

McGee is currently an adjunct professor of double bass at the South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University. As a performer, he is best known for his orchestral work, having served as the principal bassist for the GAMAC Orchestra until his retirement in 2011. He has also performed as a member of the

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AUG. 7 – Purple Heart Day 2ND – where the Purple Heart ranks in order of precedence among personal military awards (behind the Bronze Star) 3 – words inscribed on the reserve side of the Purple Heart are “For Military Merit” 1782 – Year Gen. George Washington created the Purple Heart’s predecessor, the Badge for Military Merit (on Aug. 7).

2011 – Year Pentagon widened eligibility for the award to include battle-related concussions and brain injuries.

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Greenville Symphony Orchestra.

Joining McGee will be Ron Hamilton & The Carolinians Senior Jazz Band, Dr. Tommy Watson, Quarndra Battle-Ryan, pianist Kim Howard, percussionist Byron Burns, The Electric City Big Band, the Shannon Hoover Jazz trio and Wanda Johnson.

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A grill for all seasons Guides for traditional and unusual flame-cooked selections

While it may be a cliché, summer is the time for outdoor cooking. There is something about fighting off mosquitoes, standing next to an open flame when it is already 95 degrees and eating meat of questionable doneness that lets us know warm weather is here.

For you gurus of the grill, a number of books are out there that can provide guidance on this rite of the season.

Bobby Flay has become the face of the Food Network, appearing on what seems to be a 24-hour rotation. However, before he became a media superstar he was a chef, and was renowned for his grilling abilities. His book, “Bobby Flay’s Grill It,” is organized by primary ingredient, including standards such as beef and chicken, but also includes some more unconventional ingredients like fruit and lobster. Overall, this book is a great introduction to a wide range of grilling ingredients and techniques.

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Usually, when people think of grilling, meat is the first thing that comes to mind.

That doesn’t have to be the case, though, as shown in “The Gardener and the Grill: the Bounty of the Garden Meets the Sizzle of the Grill.” Authors Karen Adler and Judith Fertig do include a few meat recipes, but the bulk of the book is dedicated to showing that fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs from your home garden can provide a great meal on the grill all by themselves.

As the weather cools down, the end of the summer doesn’t mean the flame has to die. It just means football season, and another reason to break out the charcoal.

“The Southern Tailgating Cookbook: A game-day guide for lovers of food, football and the South” by Taylor Mathis, provides a handy guide to the recipes, culture and traditions that can make any tailgate a tasty success.

Review by Jed Cridland-Hughes, reference area supervisor with Greenville County Library System, greenvillelibrary.org.

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daily tomato servings went on for a full four and a half months. I started by hiding bites of tomato in forkfuls of rice and beans. Mercifully, by the end of the semester, I was able to Tomatoes used to make me Guest columnist eat a naked and undisguised gag. I mean visceral, involunbite of tomato. I even started tary, chills-down-the-spine to like it. Studying abroad gag. had indeed expanded my hoI spent the first 20 years of rizons. my life avoiding them – or with Emily Yepes Gazpacho, the cold tomato really, avoiding the dreaded soup of summer, ranked high gag reflex. Sometimes this on my list of foods to avoid meant that I skipped lunch, during my tomato-dodging because as a kid one typically years. But it has become doesn’t have much control something that I look forover the food one is served. If ward to making each August, the bread of a sandwich had when many of the ingredisoaked up any bit of sliced ents are in season. Eating tomato, I wouldn’t eat it. The gazpacho is symbolic of a only tomatoes I could stompersonal victory and an anach were those used to make nual reminder of my long ketchup and spaghetti sauce. and troubled history with the As I grew older, it became unavoidable tomato. harder to avoid the tomato as This recipe is for a chunky version of I graduated from “kid food” to being served the soup – I think of it as “salad soup.” The “food.” The tomato started popping up avocados are an unexpected addition and regularly, even in grilled cheese, the most lend a welcome creaminess to the othersacred of all kid food. By my teenage years wise crisp vegetables. August is the time to I had the sense enough to realize that some savor the last bites of these summer vegtastes are acquired, and maybe if I forced etables, so eat up! myself to eat the dreaded tomato then eventually I might be able to (at the very Emily Yepes is an advertising representaleast) politely eat what I’m served without tive at Community Journals and a fitness gagging. instructor at Barre Evolution and RevUp At age 15, I tried to tackle the situation Indoor Cycling. She is “just” a home cook head on. I stood over the kitchen trashwhose favorite hobby is to test and perfect can and bit into a whole tomato like an recipes for her annual family cookbook. apple. It was a total fail. I couldn’t swallow it, and vividly remember the white trash bag lining the can, gelatinous tomato innards and little whitish seeds clinging to the plastic, feeling defeated. The Trashcan Incident convinced me that the aversion was not a “picky kid thing” but rather a legitimate biological response.

I got over my tomato aversion when I studied abroad during college in Costa Rica and was faced with the tomato for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I was not going to be the ungrateful American gagging at the food that my homestay family so graciously served me.

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Chunky Gazpacho 2-3 large tomatoes, chopped 1 c. chopped cucumbers 1 chopped bell pepper 3 sliced green onions (green parts only) 2 chopped avocados 2 Tbsp. chopped cilantro 1/4 c. olive oil 2 Tbsp. white wine vinegar juice of 1 small lemon 1 32 oz. jar of tomato or vegetable juice (I recommend Lakewood Organic brand, available at Whole Foods) salt and pepper to taste (a good season salt is great here) Optional: thin sliced celery, chopped herbs such as marjoram or lemon verbena, diced hot pepper or hot sauce

Mix it all together in a large bowl and keep refrigerated. The soup will taste better after it sits for an hour or so, giving time for the flavors to meld. The amount of salt will depend on how much sodium is in the tomato (or vegetable) juice that you choose. Taste the soup without any added salt, then add tiny bits, tasting after every addition, until it tastes heavenly.

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June Top Producers Listed By Office: Anderson Office Top Team: 1. The Clever People 2. Theresa Nations & Associates

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“On behalf of our entire company, I extend congratulations to these agents for their incredible work in June,” said Danny Joyner, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS. “Their efforts, along with those of each of our associates throughout the Upstate, continue to create results for our buying and selling clients.”

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Preserving tomatoes: Canning COURTESY OF CLEMSON EXTENSION

Quality: Select only disease-free, preferably vine-ripened, firm fruits for canning.

Quantity: An average of 21 pounds of whole or halved tomatoes (22 pounds of crushed tomatoes), is needed per canner load of 7 quarts; an average of 13 pounds (14 pounds of crushed tomatoes) is needed per canner load of 9 pints. A bushel weighs 53 pounds and yields 15 to 21 quarts, an average of 3 pounds per quart.

Caution: Do not can tomatoes from dead or frost-killed vines. Green tomatoes are more acidic than ripened fruit and can be canned safely with any of the following recommendations.

Acidification: To ensure safe acidity in whole, crushed or juiced tomatoes, add 2 tablespoons of bottled lemon juice or ½ teaspoon of citric acid per quart of tomatoes. For pints, use 1 tablespoon bottled lemon juice or ¼ teaspoon citric acid. Acid can be added directly to the jars before filling with product. Add sugar to offset acid taste, if desired. Four tablespoons of vinegar with a 5 percent acidity per quart may be used instead of bottled lemon juice or citric acid. However, vinegar may cause undesirable flavor changes.

Recommendation: Use of a pressure canner will result in higher-quality and more nutritious canned tomato products. If your pressure canner cannot be operated above 15 PSI, select a process time at a lower pressure.

Altitude Adjustments: The processing time and pressures given for canning tomatoes and tomato products are for an altitude of 0–1000 feet. If you are canning at a higher altitude, make the following adjustments.

In a Boiling Water Bath: At altitudes of 1,001–3,000 feet, add 5 minutes to the processing time.

In a Dial Gauge Pressure Canner: As the

altitude increases, the processing time for each food stays the same, but the canner pressure must be increased as follows: • At altitudes of 1,001–2,000 feet, the pressure is not increased; process at 11 pounds pressure.

• At altitudes of 2,001 – 4,000 feet, process at 12 pounds pressure.

In a Weighted Gauge Pressure Canner: At altitudes above 1000 feet, the processing time for each food stays the same, but the food must be processed at 15 pounds pressure.

WHOLE OR HALVED TOMATOES (PACKED RAW WITHOUT ADDED LIQUID) Procedure: Wash tomatoes. Dip in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds or until skins split, then dip in cold water. Slip off skins and remove cores. Leave whole or halve. Add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to the jars. (See acidification directions.) Add 1 teaspoon of salt per quart to the jars, if desired. Fill jars with raw tomatoes, leaving ½-inch headspace. Press tomatoes in the jars until spaces between them fill with juice. Leave ½-inch headspace. Wipe jar rims. Adjust lids and process using one of the following options.

Option 1 — Process in a Boiling Water Bath: Pints or Quarts… 85 minutes Option 2 — Process in a Dial-Gauge Pressure Canner at 11 pounds pressure or in a Weighted Gauge Pressure Canner at 10 pounds pressure Pints or Quarts… 25 minutes WHOLE OR HALVED TOMATOES (PACKED IN WATER) Procedure: Wash tomatoes. Dip in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds or until skins split; then dip in cold water. Slip off skins and remove cores. Leave whole or halve.

Add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to jars.

(See acidification directions). Add 1 tea-

spoon salt per quart to the jars, if desired.

For Hot Pack: Add enough water to cover the tomatoes and boil them gently for 5 minutes. Fill jars with hot tomatoes or with raw peeled tomatoes. Add the hot cooking liquid to the hot pack, leaving ½-inch headspace. Adjust lids and process.

For Raw Pack: Heat water, for packing tomatoes, to a boil. Add 1 teaspoon salt to each quart; ½ teaspoon to each pint jar, if desired. Pack prepared tomatoes in hot jars, leaving ½-inch headspace. Fill hot jars to ½ inch from top with boiling water. Adjust lids and process using one of the following options.

Option 1 — Process in a Boiling Water Bath: Pints… 40 minutes Quarts… 45 minutes Option 2 — Process in a Dial-Gauge Pressure Canner at 11 pounds pressure or in a Weighted Gauge Pressure Canner at 10 pounds pressure Pints or Quarts… 10 minutes WHOLE OR HALVED TOMATOES (PACKED IN TOMATO JUICE) Procedure: Wash tomatoes. Dip in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds or until skins split, then dip in cold water. Slip off skins and remove cores. Leave whole or halve. Add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to the jars. (See acidification directions.) Add 1 teaspoon of salt per quart to the jars, if desired.

Raw Pack: Heat tomato juice in a saucepan. Fill jars with raw tomatoes, leaving ½-inch headspace. Cover tomatoes in the jars with hot tomato juice, leaving ½-inch headspace. Adjust lids and process.

Hot Pack: Put tomatoes in a large saucepan and add enough tomato juice to completely cover them. Boil tomatoes and juice gently for 5 minutes. Fill jars with hot tomatoes, leaving ½-inch headspace.

Add hot tomato juice to the jars to cover the tomatoes, leaving ½-inch headspace.

Wipe jar rims. Adjust lids and process using one of the following options: Option 1 — Process in a Boiling Water Bath: Pints or Quarts… 85 minutes Option 2 — Process in a Dial-Gauge Pressure Canner at 11 pounds pressure or in a Weighted Gauge Pressure Canner at 10 pounds pressure Pints or Quarts… 25 minutes CRUSHED TOMATOES (WITH NO ADDED LIQUID) This recipe yields a high-quality product, ideally suited for use in soups, stews and casseroles.

Procedure: Wash tomatoes and dip in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds or until skins split. Then dip in cold water, slip off skins and remove cores. Trim off any bruised or discolored portions and quarter.

Heat one-sixth of the quarters quickly in a large pot, crushing them with a wooden mallet or spoon as they are added to the pot. This will draw out the juice.

Continue heating the tomatoes, stirring to prevent burning. Once the tomatoes are boiling, gradually add remaining quartered tomatoes, stirring constantly.

These remaining tomatoes do not need to be crushed. They will soften with heating and stirring. Continue until all tomatoes are added. Then boil gently 5 minutes.

Add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to jars. (See acidification directions.) Add 1 teaspoon of salt per quart to the jars, if desired. Fill jars immediately with hot tomatoes, leaving ½-inch headspace.

Wipe jar rims. Adjust lids and process using one of the following options.

Option 1 — Process in a Boiling Water Bath: Pints… 35 minutes Quarts… 45 minutes Option 2 — Process in a Dial-Gauge Pressure Canner at 11 pounds pressure or in a Weighted Gauge Pressure Canner at 10 pounds pressure Pints or Quarts… 15 minutes

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PE OPLE , AWA R D S , HONOR S Amy Ray Joins Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors

Two New Agents Join The North Pleasantburg Office Of Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce that Amy Ray has joined the company as a Sales Associate at the Augusta Road office.

Ray starts her real estate career following an assignment in sales at Ray ScanSource and time as an executive assistant at Bosch RexRoth. A Greenville native, she holds a business degree in marketing and management from the University of South Carolina.

“We welcome Amy to her role at C. Dan Joyner and look forward to helping her as she begins her real estate career,” said David Crigler, Broker-In-Charge of the Augusta Road Office.

In her spare time, Ray enjoys taking advantage of all the Upstate has to offer, including exercise, running and outdoor activities.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce the addition of two new Sales Associates to its North Pleasantburg office. Carlyle Gillis and Jon Gillis McDonald McDonald join the company’s second largest office as its newest real estate professionals.

Pelham Road Office Of Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Welcomes Two Experienced Agents Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce the addition of two experienced Sales Associates to its Pelham Road office. Barbara Bozich and Cate Thompson are the newest real estate professionals to join the company’s largest office.

Bozich brings two years of Lowcountry real estate experience to her new role with C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS. A native of Irwin,

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Gillis joins Robyn Gillis in the formation of the The Gillis Group.

Possessing a Bachelor of Science in Hotel, Recreation, Tourism Management from the University of South Carolina, she brings promotional marketing and catering sales experience to her new role.

Gillis resides in her hometown of Greenville.

MacDonald joins the MacDonald Home Team following eight years with EAN Holdings in Greenville, where he served as a branch manager. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Furman University. A Greenville native, MacDonald resides in Greer with his wife and daughter.

“Our entire office extends a warm welcome to Carlyle and Jon,” said Fritzi Barbour, Broker-In-Charge of the North Pleasantburg Office.

“They will be valuable contributors to their respective teams, our Pleasantburg office and the C. Dan Joyner company, as a whole.”

Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Greer.

Thompson has close to two years of real estate experience in the Upstate. In addition to her real estate credentials, she possesses Bozich Thompson Master and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Education and Administration. A Greenville native, Thompson currently resides in Easley with her family.

“On behalf of the Pelham Road office and C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS, I welcome Barbara and Cate,” commented Duane Bargar, Broker-InCharge of the Pelham Road Office. “Their real estate experience will serve our home buying and selling clients well.”

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PE OPLE , AWA R D S , HONOR S Two New Agents Join The Pelham Road Office Of Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce the addition of two new Sales Associates to the Pelham Road office. Jeremy Bouknight and Ed Given join the company’s largest location as its newest real estate professionals.

Bouknight brings more than a

year of Upstate residential real estate experience as he joins the Toates Team. A native of Irmo, SC, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture from Clemson Univerity. Bouknight and his wife, Laura, reside in Greenville.

Given joins the company’s Senior Services Division and commences

his real state career following seven years as Executive Director of a senior living facility in Hendersonville, NC. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. A Philadelphia native, Given and his wife, Vickie, have made their home in

R E A L E S TAT E N E W S Millennials Favor Walkable Communities, Says New NAR Poll

Millennials prefer walking over driving by a substantially wider margin than any other generation, according to a new poll conducted by the National Association of Realtors® and the Transportation Research and Education Center at Portland State University.

The 2015 National Community and Transportation Preference Survey found that millennials, those aged 18–34, prefer walking as a mode of transportation by 12 percentage points over driving.

Millennials are also shown to prefer living in attached housing, living within walking distance of shops and restaurants, and having a short commute, and they are the most likely age group to make use of public transportation.

The poll also found that millennials show a stronger preference than other generations for expanding public transportation and providing transportation alternatives to driving, such as biking and walking, while also increasing the availability of trains and buses. Millennials likewise favor developing communities where people do not need to drive long distances to work or shop.

“Realtors® don’t only sell homes, they sell neighborhoods and communities,” said Matthew Thrift, 2015 President of The Greater Greenville Association of Realtors® and Owner and Broker-in-Charge of Humble Abodes Realty is Greenville, SC. “Realtors® aid in improving and revitalizing neighborhoods with smart growth initiatives, helping create walkable, urban centers, which is what more Americans want in their neighborhoods. While there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all community, more and more homebuyers are expressing interest in living in mixed-use, transit-accessible communities.”

As a whole, the survey found that Americans prefer walkable communities more so than they have in the past. Forty-eight percent of respondents reported that they would prefer to live in communities containing houses with small yards but within easy walking distance of the community’s amenities, as opposed to living in communities with houses that have large yards, but they have to drive to all amenities. And while 60 percent of adults surveyed live in detached, single-family homes, 25 percent of those respondents said they would rather live in an attached home and have greater walkability.

When choosing a new home, respondents indicated that they would like choices when it comes to their community’s transportation options. Eighty-five percent of survey participants said that sidewalks are a positive factor when purchasing a home, and 79 percent place importance on being within easy walking distance of places. Women in particular value walkability in their communities, with 61 percent indicating that having sidewalks with stores and restaurants to walk to is very important.

When it comes to respondents’ thoughts on transportation priorities for the government, 83 percent indicated that maintaining and repairing roads and bridges should be a high priority, with expanding roads to help alleviate or reduce congestion as the next highest priority, at 60 percent.

While consumers’ top two concerns are related to driving, over half of survey participants stated that expanding public transit and providing convenient alternatives to driving should also be high priorities.

TREC’s research on active transportation and urban housing choices provided a foundation to build upon in working with NAR for this poll. “It’s great to work with an organization that reaches so many professionals and has such an effect on people as they decide where to live,” said Jennifer Dill, director of TREC. “This poll shows again how strong a role transportation plays in housing decisions.”

The survey of 3,000 adult Americans living in the 50 largest metropolitan areas was conducted by American Strategies and Meyers Research in May 2015 and analyzed by researchers at Portland State University.

TREC, the Transportation Research and Education Center at Portland State University, produces timely, practical research useful to transportation decision makers and supports the education of future transportation professionals. TREC houses the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation and the Portal transportation data archive.

The National Association of Realtors®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America’s largest trade association, representing 1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® represents over 2,200 members in all aspects of the real estate industry. Please visit the Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® web site at www. ggar.com for real estate and consumer information.

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

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“Jeremy and Ed are welcomed additions to the ever-growing Pelham Road office,” said Duane Bargar, Broker-In-Charge of the Pelham Road Office. “I look forward to helping them grow their real estate presence in the Upstate.”

Bouknight

Given

Coldwell Banker Caine Names Upstate’s Top Producers from June Coldwell Banker Caine recently recognized its top producing agents in property sales and listings from each of its five offices – Easley, Greenville, Greer, Seneca and Spartanburg – for the month of June.

The top producing agents from each office are ranked by the total volume of business closed last month and include: • Easley: Suzanne Cook, Watson Group, Susan McCoy • Greenville: Jacob Mann, Tracey Cappio, John Stephenson • Greer: Faith Ross, Hilary Hurst, Alicia Waynick • Seneca: Pat Loftis, Brett Smagala, Jere duBois • Spartanburg: Francie Little, Andrew Little, Annette Starnes

Top listing agents in each office are recognized for listing the highest total volume of residential properties last month and include: • Easley: Heather Parlier, Wanda Stewart, Susan McCoy • Greenville: Jacob Mann, Robert Diamond, Virginia Hayes • Greer: Faith Ross, Alicia Waynick, Shelbie Dunn • Seneca: Jere duBois, Pat Loftis, Barry Voeltz • Spartanburg: Francie Little, Donna Morrow, Lori Thompson

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

DANIEL HU / CONTRIBUTING

Innoskate 2015

August 8, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. • free • The Children’s Museum of the Upstate • tcmupstate.org SCHEDULE 11 a.m. – Skateboarding lessons, learn to skate clinics 12 p.m. – Open skate 12:30 p.m. – Spark!Lab activities begin inside the museum Panel discussion: 50 Years of Skateboard Innovation and Invention featuring Paul Schmitt and demonstra-

Aug. 7 HEALTH/FITNESS

Qi Works Studio classes Qi Works Studio 404 N. Pleasantburg Dr., Greenville Drop-in $12; unlimited monthly membership $40 ($30 for seniors) Wild Goose Qigong & More - Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at noon

tions by local skaters. Skate demonstrations using decks from the 1960s to present day will demonstrate how technology, design and materials fundamentally impact what can be achieved on a skateboard.

1:15 p.m. – Open skate 1:45 p.m. – Panel discussion: Greenville as a Place of Invention w/local inventors and innovators. Participants

Qi-Weights Class - Monday, Wednesday and Friday Tai Chi Yang 24 Forms - Beginners - Monday, Wednesday and Friday; 10-10:50 a.m.

Panda Bear Tai Chi For Kids and Families Tuesdays 3:40-4:30 p.m.

When practiced on a regular basis, Wild Goose Qigong benefits all the systems and functions of the body. Qi-Weights uses combination of light weights/slow movements

to improve muscle tone. Tai chi reduces stress, increases balance and strength.

Panda Bear TaiChi is for children and one or both of their parents or grandparents.

Cost for elementary students is $10, middle school is $15 and high school is $20 in addition to adult fee. For all classes, space is limited, call or email if you plan to attend.

Always check schedule at website.

420-9839 | QiWorksStudio.com QiWorksTaiChiHealth@gmail.com

ou Y e Lik It n a Me

UPCOMING FREE EVENTS:

to include Jay Long of Michelin.

2:15 p.m. – Open skate 2:45 p.m. – Panel discussion: Skateboarding as an International Incubator of Invention featuring the stories of skaters in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Cuba.

3:30 p.m. – Best Trick Contest 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. – Innosake after-party at Poe Mill.

INNOSKATE: 8/8, 9am-5pm, ALL AGES! COUNTDOWN TO KINDERGARTEN: 8/13, 6-8PM, Families with rising K5 Kindergarteners

CONCERT

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

242-2583 bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com

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Swingin’ Country - Final performances Centre Stage 501 River St., Greenville 8-10:10 p.m. $35, $30, $25 Within every country song is a great story.

Saddle up with your partner and mosey on down to Centre Stage to enjoy this toetapping concert.

233-6733 | centrestage.org information@centrestage.org

Aug. 8 THEATER PRODUCTION

Outdoor Summer Movie Series: “Back to the Future,” Dinner, Dancing Swamp Rabbit Cafe & Grocery, 205 Cedar Lane Road, Greenville 6:30 p.m. $10 advance/$12 at the door for movie and after party Dinner, drinks, and dessert provided by J. B. Tingle’s food truck, the Swamp Rabbit Cafe, and Sweetly Twisted Frozen Yogurt truck begin at 6:30 p.m. Buy a ticket to stay and watch “Back to the Future” at 9 p.m. on the big screen outside. When the movie ends, stay and dance the night away to an “Enchantment Under the Sea” themed dance with the band Gold Light and DJ King Harold.

255-3385 swamprabbitcafe.com/events info@swamprabbitcafe.com EDUCATION

Boating on Rivers, Locks and Lakes Cabela’s, Greenville 9:30 a.m.-noon FREE Lake Hartwell Power Squadron is offering a seminar covering special navigation rules for rivers, locks and western river system of buoys and marks.

281-9774 education@lake-hartwell.org CONCERT

Unify Greenville Bon Secours Wellness Arena, 650 N Academy St., Greenville Doors open at 6 p.m. Concert begins at 7 p.m. $10 (discount for groups) A worship night to unite all churches in Greenville. The goal is to put aside denominational preferences and come together under the one thing agreed on–Jesus.

230-2314 | unifygreenville.com unifygreenville@gmail.com

CONCERT

Four 14, w/ The Marcus King Band, Lionz of Zion & Milli Fungus Gottrocks Tickets: $10 The Upstate’s “Friendly Neighborhood Jam Band” plays album-release show for their new release, “Horace Grigsby.”

235-5519 | gottrocksgreenville.com

Aug. 8-Dec. 12 CONCERT

Second Saturday Concert Series Hagood Mill Historic Site 138 Hagood Mill Rd., Pickens noon-2 p.m. | Every 2nd Saturday of the month FREE Hagood Mill presents traditional roots, gospel, and bluegrass music with the Heartstrings. Visitors will be delighted by the traditional sounds created by instruments such as the autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, stand-up bass, guitar and mandolin. Hagood Mill is located 3 miles north of Pickens off of Hwy 178 at 138 Hagood Mill Rd. 898-2936 | VisitPickensCounty.com BillyC@co.pickens.sc.us

Aug. 10-15 FAMILY

Story and More: Edible Insects The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College Street 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | Monday- Saturday $9 children, $10 adults, free for members and children under 1 Stop by Story Time and More to learn about an insect’s anatomy with these edible insects. Marshmallows, pretzels and icing will help us create delicious insect treats. Free with admission.

223-7755 | tcmupstate.org info@tcmupstate.org

Aug. 10-Sept. 7 COMPETITION

Competition Dining Series Dinner Battle Larkin’s Sawmill, 22 Graves Drive, Greenville 6-10 p.m. $55 (8/10-11, 8/17-18); $59 (8/19, 8/24-26); $69 (8/31-9/1); and $75 (9/7)

This celebration thanks living veterans of World War II, honors deceased veterans, recognizes the accomplishments of our Greatest Generation and educates younger generations.

610-9043 TravelersRestHistoricalSociety.org lamarmccarrell470@gmail.com

Competition Dining Series, a single-elimination tournament highlighting the best of the state’s food, agriculture and culinary talent, is pitting 14 highly competitive chefs against each other in interactive Iron Chefstyle dinner battles. The best part - you can be a judge. Diners enjoy a blind six-course meal grading dishes without knowing which chef created each. Visit www.competitiondining.com to see chef brackets and additional event dates, or to purchase tickets.

919-802-4304 competitiondining.com/events/competitiondining-series-greenville-sc morians@boltpr.com

Aug. 10

Aug. 13

EDUCATION

CONCERT

Democratic Women of Greenville County August Meeting

An Evening with Ray McGee & Friends

Aug. 9 FAMILY

Spirit of ‘45 Upstate Younts Conference Center at Furman 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville 3-4:20 p.m.

FREE

Southern Fried Green Tomatoes, 1175 Woods Crossing Road, Greenville noon-2 p.m.

Lunch buffet $15 per person. RSVP required.

Guest speaker is SC Rep. MaryGail Douglas. Topic of talk is taking care of yourself while taking care of others.

232-5531 headquarters@greenvilledemocrats.com

Rainey Fine Arts Center, Anderson University 316 Boulevard, Anderson 7:30-9:30 p.m. $35 per person For 50 years, double bassist Ray McGee has been entertaining audiences from the stage and inspiring students in the classroom. Join him as he celebrates an extraordinary career with some of the best jazz, blues and gospel musicians working

in the Upstate today. The evening will feature performance by Wanda Johnson, Quarndra Battle-Ryan, The Electric City Big Band, Brenda Benson, The Shannon Hoover Jazz Trio and many more.

231-6147 | gamac.org dgencarelli@gamac.org CONCERT

Amigo Downtown Alive FREE Trio plays raw, raucous rock ‘n’ roll. bit.ly/downtown-alive CONCERT

Awake Ground Zero Delaware quintet blends progressive rock, pop, metal.

948-1661 reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2 HEALTH/FITNESS

Free Yoga at SC BLUE SC BLUE retail center 1025 Woodruff Road, Greenville 6:10-7:10 p.m.

FREE Improve your flexibility, tone your muscles and build strength at a free yoga class. Bring your own mat.

286-2285 scblueretailcenters.com/events info@scblueretailcenters.com DINNER

Southern Pressed Juicery Raw Food Pairing Dinner Southern Pressed Juicery 2 West Washington Street, Greenville 6:30 p.m. $55 per person + tax and service charge Executive Chef Xavier Bonnafous will prepare a six-course menu featuring raw cuisine including selections such as Mushrooms Stroganoff, Raw Peas with Mint & Avocado Soup, and Cauliflower-Nia Rolls.

Chef Xavier partnered with Soby’s Wine Director Kevin Born to pair each course with a sustainably sourced wine. Seating is very limited. Call to purchase tickets.

232-7007 southernpressedjuicery.com

Aug. 14 CONCERT

Kate & Corey Moe Joe Coffee (Greenville) Duo plays acoustic rock, pop, folk originals.

263-3550 facebook.com/moejoecoffeegreenville

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CONCERT

Royal Scotsmen Band Main Street Fridays FREE Beloved band plays beach music, shag classics. bit.ly/main-street-fridays

thru Aug. 15 ADOPT-A-PET

lison will discuss the lawsuit regarding the failure of South Carolina to provide a minimally adequate education for all its children. This is free and open to the public. Please RSVP by August 12th to Kathleen Kempe @ 864-213-9504 or lwvgreenville@yahoo.com. greenvilleco.sc.lwvnet.org

entertainment, vendors, and exciting new attractions. One hundred percent of the proceeds benefit the Greenville Humane Society, one of the largest no-kill facilities in the Southeast. Register or donate today to help raise funds for homeless pets.

235-8330 | ghsmuttstrut.com temily@smoakpr.com

Aug. 16

thru Aug. 25

ARTS EVENT

CONCERT

The Greenville Chorale auditions

Truck INN Tuesdays

Furman University FREE

Swamp Rabbit Inn 1 Logan St, Greenville 5:30-8:30 p.m. | Tuesdays FREE

TICKET OFFICE – GOING ON SALE – GO TO BED, LITTLE RACCOON! Aug. 22–Nov. 10, 10 a.m.

SCCT Headquarters Cost: $8 On Sale: Aug. 3 at 10:00 a.m.

To purchase tickets: scchildrenstheatre. org/2nd-stage/667 Additional info: Wee Play Theatre brought you the hugely popular Teddy Bears’ Picnic and is now offering up fantastic, interactive fun for the very young. Mama Raccoon, played by Traysie Amick, is trying to get her wee one, Little, to go to bed. Surprise, surprise! Little doesn’t want to stop playing. Join these two on what can often be the dreaded journey to bedtime. You may even create a positive nighttime experience for your very own little.

Home of the Free Adoption Event

The Greenville Chorale, the Upstate’s Symphonic Chorus, will hold auditions for experienced singers on Sunday, August 16. Singers must be proficient in sight singing. Call to schedule your audition appointment.

235-1101 greenvillechorale.com ac@greenvillechorale.com

Greenville County Animal Care 328 Furman Hall Road FREE

Aug. 17

Aug. 29

PERFORMANCE

FUNDRAISER

MERCY ME

Greenville Chamber Singers Auditions

The 5K Race for Pendleton Place

Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.

Bon Secours Wellness Arena Cost: $25-$60 On Sale: August 7 at 10 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 1-800-745-3000 Tickmaster.com

Aug. 15 CONCERT

The Gipsy Kings Peace Center 8 p.m. | $40-85 The Gipsy Kings’ influences span many different genres, from Bob Marley to The Eagles, and their performances are brilliantly infused with cues from Brazilian and Carribbean culture. Their music, described as a blend of traditional Flamenco styles with Western Pop and Latin rhythms, has earned them a Grammy and features in Toy Story 3 and Glee. They’ve played the streets of Cannes, toured in countless countries, and reached the top of American and World charts.

467-3000 | peacecenter.org boxoffice@peacecenter.org EDUCATION

The failure to provide a minimally adequate education 100 Goldenstar Lane, Greer 9:00 AM-11:00 AM FREE The Honorable Rita Allison, SC House of Representatives, will speak. Rep. Al-

John Knox Presbyterian Church, Sanctuary 35 Shannon Dr., Greenville 4:30-6:30 p.m.

FREE Do you love to sing? The Greenville Chamber Singers - a four-part women’s chorus - will hold auditions for all parts.

Please fill out and submit an audition form found on the “Audition Information” page of the Chamber’s website. Call Pat Fuller at 244-3340 for questions or more information.

244-3340 greenvillechambersingers.org patfuller101@bellsouth.net

Aug. 22 FUNDRAISER

Falls Park on the Reedy 601 South Main Street, Greenville 8-10 a.m. $30 for runners who register online, $35 for runners who register raceday $15 for Kids “Fun Run” race The 5K Race for Pendleton Place is a race in Falls Park that will benefit Pendleton Place, a local organization that works with at-risk young adults. There will be breakfast and T-shirts for all runners in addition to some great prizes. The Kids “Fun Run” will take place at 8:15 a.m. for $15 a runner. This is a dog-friendly event.

(704) 909-2564 eventsignup.org/ecmrace Pensack@ecmins.com

thru Sep. 7

4th Annual Mutt Strut benefiting Greenville Humane Soceity

FAMILY

Greenville Tech’s Barton Campus 506 S. Pleasantburg Dr., Greenville 8 a.m.-noon $25 individual registration until midnight Aug. 18, $15 team registration before midnight Aug. 17

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St., Greenville $9-$10

This 2-mile race will lead two- and fourlegged competitors along the beautiful Swamp Rabbit Trail and through Greenville Tech’s campus, ending in the expanded ‘Mutt Market’- featuring live

Interactive Tokyo Exhibit

Experience Tokyo’s vibrant culture in a new interactive exhibit called “Hello from Japan” from May 30 - Sept. 7 at The Children’s Museum of the Upstate.

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

YOUTH PERFORMANCE SERIES Oct. 29-April 14, 2016 Peace Center Cost: $10 On Sale: August 11 at 10 a.m.

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

Additional info: Special guests Phil Wickham, Tim Timmons and John Lynch

– LAST CHANCE –

PHOTO BY CAROL BOONE STEWART

Adoption fees for cats and kittens are waived all summer long at Greenville County Animal Care.

467-3950 | greenvillepets.org adoptapet@greenvillecounty.org

Food Trucks. Cool treats. Live music. Local makers. Adult beverages. Bike rides. If this sounds like your ideal Tuesday, then we’ll see you at the Inn every Tuesday from 5:30-8:30 this summer.

517-4617 | swamprabbitinn.com swamprabbitproperties@gmail.com

AUG. 8; 7 P.M. UNIFY: JESUS IN GREENVILLE Bon Secours Wellness Arena Cost: $10 To purchase tickets: GSP Box Office at The Bon Secours Wellness Arena or unifygreenville.com

AUG. 7-9 CINDERELLA Peace Center Cost: $55-85 To purchase tickets: 467-3000 Peace Center Box Office peacecenter.org Submit your Last Minute Ticket Sales for Upstate Events at bit.ly/LastTicketsGville For Upcoming Ticket Sales, enter them at bit.ly/UpcomingTicketsGJ

WANT TO SEE YOUR EVENT HERE? Complete our easy-to-use online form at www.bit.ly/GJCalendar by Monday at 5 p.m. to be considered for publication in that week’s Journal.

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FIGURE. THIS. OUT. OUT OF THE DARKNESS By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Prosodic foot 5. Actor Fiennes 10. King ___ 15. Habit 19. Miscellany 20. Little ___ 21. Acoustic 22. Benjamin Disraeli, e.g.

23. Lived in a different galaxy 27. Subject of appraisal 28. Full of pecans 29. Plays “Reveille” 30. Unbroken series 31. Purpose 32. Certain W.M.D. 33. Dissect 38. Inconstant person 43. Equivalent 44. Otalgias 48. Special effects: Abbr.

49. Conceal one’s talents 55. London’s ___ of Court 56. The ___, doo-wop band 57. Figure of speech 58. Three-way joint 59. Some votes 60. Tosspot 61. Flower starter 62. Theocritus poem 64. Moon of Saturn 67. Ragnarok, e.g.

70. Indian melodies

74. Old verb ending 76. Ottoman officer 78. Chemistry Nobelist Otto 80. French collagist 81. First patriarch 85. Countrify 88. Sacramento’s ___ Arena 89. Revise one’s opinion, in a way 92. One way to stand 93. White grape 94. Arm of the sea 95. Relative by marriage 99. Cause of Sir Francis Drake’s death 102. Overwhelm 103. Faces 106. Beldam 107. Sharpeners 110. Adult insect 112. Sophists 117. Dance 120. River in northeastern England 121. Couple 122. Dispatch 123. Crackers 124. Chemical ___ 125. Wetlands formations 126. Debaucher 127. Point in the right direction?

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2. Resigned remark 3. Hit alternative 4. Tree trunk 5. Tacks together 6. Phidias subject 7. Deceased 8. Carry on 9. Howler 10. Bill of fare 11. Depose 12. Farm call 13. Green 14. Old-fashioned warning 15. Gas up 16. Sculls 17. Fox or turkey follower 18. “The moan of doves in immemorial ___”: Tennyson 24. Kamakawiwo’ole 25. Razor-billed bird 26. Coupler 31. Sports figures 32. Pinched, as a voice 33. Windward group member 34. Synchronized 35. Bean type 36. Squeaks (out) 37. Go back over 38. Not flat 39. “And I Love ___” 40. Genuine 41. Kind of arch

42. Guitarist Lofgren 45. Grind 46. Hydrocarbon suffixes 47. Kind of drive 50. Distant 51. Attendee 52. Chest protector 53. About-face

SUDOKU

54. Pop 59. Even if, briefly 63. Pastoral expanses 65. Part of ERA 66. Fits 68. Object, slangily 69. “Purple ___” 71. Use mouthwash

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SPONSORED BY:

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Sudoku answers: page 23

72. Zodiac symbol 73. Erratic 75. Prosciutto 77. Seed cover 79. Cabinet acronym, once 81. Small vipers 82. Vanquished 83. Mesh of veins 84. Kind of system 86. Singer DiFranco 87. Domain 88. Is not on the street?

90. Flattery 91. Tongue 96. Move forward 97. Egyptian Christian 98. Go quiet 100. Mudhif 101. Break time 103. Sorcerers 104. “Yecch!”

105. Barbarians 107. Organ knob 108. Set straight 109. Acclivity 110. Pelvic parts 111. Hand holder?

112. Play group 113. Cuba’s ___ of Youth 114. Greek promenade 115. Twitches 116. ___-free 118. Hurricane heading: Abbr.

119. LAX overseer Crossword answers: page 23

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THE CLASSROOM WINDOW WITH TREVOR BARTON

Climb aboard the bus those involved in the struggle for civil and human rights in Clarendon County, you can read “Dawn of Desegregation: J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott” by Ophelia De Laine Gona, and “Uncommon Courage: The Story of Briggs v. Elliott, South Carolina’s Unsung Civil Rights Battle” by James Clyburn and Jennifer Revels.

Every morning at 7:15 a.m., the doors of our school open wide to a line of bus riders ready to come inside. “Hello, Jaheem,” I say with a smile.

“Hey, Imani. I hope you’re having a good day. I’m glad you’re here.”

I love our students – the sparkle in their early morning eyes, the beauty in the varied colors of their skin, the hope in the fact that they come to school each day.

They walk past me to the cafeteria for breakfast. I stand at the doors for a moment and watch the big, yellow buses puff their diesel exhaust and chug their way to the garage until it’s time for their afternoon run.

Around 80 years before Levi Pearson’s petition, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified by Congress. Placed in the Constitution to protect former slaves after the Civil War, this amendment continues to remind us that the Constitution is a living document that helps us build a freer, more human world for all people, ALL people – no mat-

Is there a more universal symbol for public schools than a big, yellow school bus?

There was a time in the 1940’s when school buses were not so universal.

In fact, the Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit began with a school bus in South Carolina. I was getting my master’s degree before I took a civil rights course and learned of Levi Pearson and his determination to get his children and all the other African-American students seats on school buses. The first chapter of Richard Kluger’s monumental book “Simple Justice,” which is about the Brown decision, outlines the steps of the Pearson case.

In 1947, about 74 percent of Clarendon County’s 8,906 public school students were black. There were 30 school buses in the county. All of them were used for white students. When the AfricanAmerican community asked the superintendent to provide bus transportation for their children, he explained that black citizens didn’t pay much in taxes and it wasn’t fair for white citizens to pay for buses for black children.

So on July 28, 1947, Levi Pearson, a farmer, legally petitioned the superintendent, asking for school buses for African-American children. His three children had to walk to school each day while their white counterparts in school

ter their skin color (see Brown v. Board of Education, May 17, 1954), no matter their sexual orientation (see Obergefell v. Hodges, June 26, 2015), no matter anything constructed by the prejudices of people and history – and helps us extend the equal protection of the law to everyone.

I offer humble thanks to Levi Pearson and to all the courageous and committed people who work hard to build a world where all people have a seat on the bus of liberty. I offer humble thanks for the 14th Amendment that makes justice possible. I climb aboard that bus with them.

Trevor Barton is a reading intervention teacher at Berea Elementary School.

He believes we all have stories to tell and loves to listen.

buses passed them by in clouds of dust.

The petition was met with months of silence.

On March 16, 1948, attorneys Harold Boulware and Thurgood Marshall filed a brief in U.S. District Court in Florence County, asking the court to prohibit the Clarendon County School District from “making a distinction on account of race and color.” Pearson v. County Board of Education would eventually evolve into Briggs v. Elliott and then into Brown v.

Board of Education.

Not only did Mr. Pearson get buses for all of the children in Clarendon County, but also the United States got a little closer to living out it’s most endearing creed: “With liberty and justice for all.”

In 2004, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor after U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) and then-Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC) introduced legislation to award the highest congressional honor to the Clarendon County heroes who fought for desegregation. Pearson’s family set up a scholarship fund in his honor to continue to help educate young people in Clarendon County.

To learn more about him and all of

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