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“Music therapy is not the music in the waiting room.”

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“We need to make sure we are thinking about current and future growth in a strategic and thoughtful manner, instead of simply making choices one development at a time.”

Price of the Welborn Street property that City Council voted to buy this week, which may become part of a new downtown park.

Dean Hybl, executive director, Ten at the Top, on a recent N.C. State University study warning of the choking impact of urban sprawl.

“A Christian has a covenant with God; so do Jews. Those two covenants overlap and we want to celebrate where they overlap.”

Greenville Rabbi Marc Wilson, on Torah Chayim, the “interfaith covenant community” he is launching in the Upstate.

“Until we attack that corner, the community will be defined by that corner.

This is about changing our gateway.”

“God gave me the strength to be brave and to be tough. My favorite verse is always in my heart – ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.’ I look at things as challenges instead of impossible things.”

Poe Mill neighborhood association president Kwadjo Campbell, on a mural project at Buncombe Road and Shaw Street to improve the gateway to the mill village.

Stephanie Timmerman, who was born with a rare condition that has required a tracheotomy since birth and a spinal fusion at age 8. She recently landed a role in SCCT’s “Wizard of Oz.”

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Following a shuffle in officers and tabling of a proposal for alternative management last month, members of the Greenville County Arena District Board continued to debate Tuesday how to increase attendance and bookings at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena and find additional funding sources to address the arena’s debt.

Assistant General Manager Beth Paul reported during a finance committee meeting last week that the arena should have beyond sufficient funds to pay two bond payments due in October. The arena must have roughly $1.3 million to pay its annual debt service.

General Manager Roger Newton said compared to other regional arenas of similar size, Bon Secours Wellness Arena ranks No. 2 in concert bookings after Greensboro’s arena.

Greensboro’s arena has approximately 2,600 more seats than Greenville’s.

Bon Secours Wellness Arena averaged 108 total events yearly between 2010-14, compared to 100 in Greensboro and 108 at Colonial Life Arena owned by the University of South Carolina in Columbia, according to Newton’s data. Many of the competing arenas host fewer concerts and more sporting events, including college basketball, which affects overall attendance, he said.

However, the arena could be seeing hoops action soon, as management anticipates additional revenue in 2015 if Clemson University signs a contract with the arena for men’s basketball games during the renovation of Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum, scheduled for completion in fall 2016. Word on the contract is expected within 45 days.

The board debated whether to further investigate an outside management proposal board members had tabled in July. The company, Global Spectrum, has since outlined a guarantee to cover the arena’s debt service.

Board member Paul Kearns said he was unsure how Global Spectrum could accomplish the task. Board Chairman Buddy Dyer was equally doubtful, saying many details were left out of the current proposal. The

board would need to consider competing proposals rather that just one if it opts to pursue outside management, Kearns said.

Current management is doing “a pretty admirable job according to market conditions in our region,” Dyer said. Other board members voiced support for the current management as well.

Dyer said the board is investigating “alternative financing methods to pay the bond issue,” but did not reveal specifics. Board member Dee Benedict said new, alternative funding “looks positive” and “will make a considerable dent in this debt situation that we have.”

Several board members had been working with staff to investigate booking smaller concerts not hosted before, “with the idea of keeping the lights on all the time,” Benedict said.

Last month, Simpsonville City Council chose not to renew the arena district’s management contract for Simpsonville’s Charter Amphitheatre. Dyer said last month the arena district would now not incur costs of running the amphitheater and could book more summer arena shows.

To research options, a committee of board members Michael Cashman, Dante Russo, Kearns and Benedict will “make a concerted effort to get all the data to decide what is the best route to take to manage this facility now and into the future,” Dyer said. He charged them to “peel that onion way down,” but did not set a deadline.

Greenville County Administrator Joe Kernell said after the meeting that the county wants the arena and the board to succeed. An offer that would guarantee coverage of the arena’s debt is attractive, as “it would remove the risk from the county,” he said.

The county issued bonds in 2012 to help finance renovations at the arena.

Phase one has been completed and phase two is expected to finish before the arena hosts an NBA preseason game between the Charlotte Hornets and Washington Wizards on Oct. 10.

Greenville County Council members Willis Meadows, Joe Dill and Fred Payne attended Arena District meetings in the last week. All said they came to listen. Dill said he wanted to be educated about the issues facing this board.

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City of Greer introduces mobile app SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com The city of Greer released a new mobile app that allows city residents and visitors to report issues such as potholes, burned-out streetlights, overgrown lots and barking dogs at any time with a few simple clicks on their smartphones or tablets.

The free Greer Connect app is available for download on iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Submissions to report issues may also be made through a portal on the city’s website.

“It isn’t always convenient for someone to come by Greer City Hall to report a problem, or an issue may arise overnight when city administrative offices are closed,” City Administrator Ed Driggers said. “The Greer Connect app allows a user to describe the issue and its location, then submit their notice to the city through a user account or anonymously.”

The app was created by WebQA, a developer of interactive technologies for state, county and local govern-

ments. The app is being branded under the city’s Greer Connect brand that launched in 2012 when a Blackboard Connect system gave city officials the ability to contact residents with important and emergency notifications.

“The app completes interactivity between the city and residents under the Greer Connect umbrella,” Driggers said.

“It isn’t limited to residents, however. The app includes a searchable directory of local businesses that should be of particular interest to visitors to the City of Greer.”

Also included are links to city news, frequently asked questions and city department information.

Submissions through the app will be frequently monitored and city officials will track response times to ensure rapid service. Driggers said the city also welcomes feedback from users in an effort to make the app as userfriendly and effective as possible.

More information on the app is available by clicking on the “Request a Service” link at cityofgreer.org.

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Israel’s right to self-defense The challenge of choosing On July 29 at NOMA Square in Greenville, Christians and Jews gathered to show their support for Israel and pray for peace and security, and to speak for Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorist aggression.

Three local rabbis and the Greenville mayor pro-tem stressed the importance of peace and security. They expressed sadness about the lives lost on both sides.

Fewer lives on the Israeli side, yes, because Israel has prepared shelters and safe rooms, and because they have developed the Iron Dome that deflects 90 percent of the rockets.

Israel takes care of its people – all of its people. Hamas sets their rocket launchers in schools and residences, forcing the people of Gaza to be human shields and sacrifices.

Muslim fanatics are attacking Christians, Jews and other Muslims in Europe as well as in the Middle East. The leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and ISIS say their intent is to wipe Israel off the map, and to eventually enforce Sharia law throughout the Western world. They have spoken of flying their flag over our White House.

European nations are already dealing with violence and hate-filled actions of radical Islamic groups in their countries.

We have recently learned that Iraq has told its Christian residents: Either convert, leave or be killed.

The people of Gaza are victims of Hamas, not of Israel. Hamas spent $1.25 billion building tunnels. This money was intended to be spent on schools, hospitals, jobs, for Gazans. Instead, Hamas used that money to develop weapons for the destruction of Israel. It is not only Israel that has closed its borders because Hamas agents have attempted to bring bombs and suicide bombers into Israel. Egypt has closed its border to Hamas for the same reason.

As of Aug. 20, there have been seven ceasefire agreements. Hamas broke each by firing rockets into Israel, or attacking through one of their tunnels. At the beginning of the Aug.1 ceasefire, Hamas terrorists entered Israel, killed two Israeli soldiers and captured one. He was also

SPEAK YOUR MIND The Journal welcomes letters to the editor and guest columns on timely public issues. Letters

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IN MY OWN WORDS by JUNE B. GREEN, PH.D

killed. They are refusing to return his body to Israel.

It is sad that so many Gazans have been killed and maimed. It is sad Israelis have been killed and maimed. Israel warns civilians before any strike to give them time to leave the area. Hamas forces Gazans to stay where they are, in harm’s way. It then uses those deaths for propaganda to gain sympathy. The people of Gaza are victims of Hamas.

Israel wants peace and security, like any sovereign democratic nation. It has a right to use force to defend its borders to stop terrorists from attacking their people. It is not only Israel’s existence at stake if the terrorist Islamists win. It is the existence of life as we know it, and want it, where all people, all faiths, all ethnic groups can live in peace. Israel welcomes all people to be citizens, go to schools, hold jobs and pray in their own way.

Israel has so much to offer the world.

Even now they are providing food, technology and medical services to people all over the world. Even to the people of Gaza, despite being attacked by rockets and a dangerous tunnel system.

The leaders of all peace-loving democracies – and the voices of the media – need to understand Israel supports peace, freedom and prosperity for everyone. It is in our interest to support Israel.

June Blumenthal Green is a resident of Rolling Green Village and holds a Ph.D. from Nova University School of Social & Systemic Studies in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Before Green retirement, she worked as a family therapist and addiction counselor. She will be traveling to Israel in October to visit family.

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Recently, a panel of state senators reported there will soon be a shortage of teachers in South Carolina. Their report stated that public schools in our state have about 4,000 teachers leave the classrooms each year and only about 2,000 new teachers are available to replace them.

State leaders need to quickly figure out incentives to encourage our top students to pursue teaching. No one can impact a person’s life as profoundly as a teacher.

Teachers can have the greatest impact on our state’s economy.

We are fortunate to have outstanding teachers in every school in our county. I had the privilege to represent the downtown Rotary Club as a jurist in selecting this year’s Greenville County Teacher of the Year.

It was challenging to select the top four teachers when each school was allowed to submit one nominee. After reading all the applications, visiting the classrooms and interviewing the top 10 teachers, I was amazed that all five judges had selected the same teachers for inclusion in the top four, though not in the same in order.

How can one fairly compare a secondgrade teacher who seamlessly moves children from small groups to a wholeclass activity and back without raising his voice or repeating himself, to an Advanced Placement calculus teacher who is a master of technology and shows his interest in his students by attending their afterschool activities?

We had a middle school special education teacher whose students performed on a high level because he had high expectations, taught concepts in ways that they could understand and showed them respect. There was a high school band teacher who started class with a lesson on his interactive board and ended with a jaw-dropping percussion performance on chairs. That’s right – they played on chairs, not drums.

Any of the top four teachers would represent Greenville County well at the next level, but we had to select one.

Jake Gambrell had creativity and enthusiasm that captivated the second-grade

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students at Oakview Elementary. Grant Hunter effortlessly prepared students for two levels of calculus exams in one class at Wade Hampton High. David Evette at Tanglewood Middle showed students how to plot coordinates on his Promethean board and reinforced the concept by having the students physically stand on the coordinates mapped out on the floor.

The judges understood that it may be easier for a band teacher to display creativity in his classroom than teach AP calculus, but we also recognized how Adam Scheuch has built the band program at Mauldin to one of great respect. He has assisted other band programs in the county. After the final bell, there is practice after school and band competitions on weekends. And there are the parents.

Teachers go into education to work with children. It takes a special teacher to be able to master a subject, teach a broad range of children, give up time with family to work with students and deal with parents who have the best of intentions, but can sometimes be overbearing.

Adam Scheuch is a special teacher who is well deserving of the Greenville County Teacher of the Year.

As this school year progresses, be mindful of the efforts and sacrifices the teachers of your children are making. Think of ways to show appreciation throughout the year.

Scott Powell is a principal with Craig Gaulden Davis, an architectural and interior design firm in Greenville. He has won numerous awards for school designs and represented the Rotary Club of Powell Greenville as a juror in selecting the 2014 Greenville County Teacher of the Year.

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Future shock Without “big changes,” by the year 2060, the Upstate could be a traffic and environmental nightmare, one study says SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com By 2060 the Upstate could be smack-dab in the middle of an urban sprawl crisis plagued with traffic nightmares and insect and wildlife concerns – that’s according to a new study by North Carolina State University released by the Department of Interior’s Southeast Climate Science Center and scientific journal PLOS ONE. The report says that unless “big changes” are made in the ways land is used and developed in the Southeast, by 2060 a massive corridor of traffic-choked urban sprawl – a Southern megalopolis – will stretch from central North Carolina all the way to Atlanta and possibly even as far west as Birmingham.

These regions are expected to double or even triple in size over the next 45 years, said Dr. Jennifer Costanza, a research associate at the Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center at North Carolina State University and co-lead author on the paper.

the magnitude, Costanza said.

“We all expected a large amount of growth in the Piedmont area, but we didn’t know it would lead to such a huge increase in urbanization. The projections showed a tripling of the urban extent.”

Brad Wyche, executive director of Upstate Forever, a nonprofit organization that promotes sensible growth and conservation, calls the study “yet another wake-up call that our region is in serious trouble.”

Wyche noted that this is the fifth study with similar data released in the past few years. “This is a very terrifying prediction. If we continue our current development patterns, we’re going to be a mess just a few decades from now.”

But that end result “is not a certainty and we can keep it from happening,” he said. Upstate counties must create “transformative policies” that tackle “how we grow and develop.”

“A VERY SEVERE PRICE TAG” Wyche lists four areas he says are key and must be addressed regionally: Zoning ordinances adopted at a “YET ANOTHER WAKE-UP CALL” county-wide level, a program to transfer development Costanza said the research team initially wanted to rights that can shift development areas, the creation know which places in the Southeast would be most of infrastructure and service area boundaries to atimpacted by urban sprawl and would have the most tract development in the right areas and the fundtrouble responding to climate change. “We knew ing of local conservation banks. These reforms would plants and animals will need to migrate, and growth have a lasting and meaningful impact, he said. of urban areas can make it more complicated. We Greenville County Council Chairman Bob Taylor thought it was important to provide data and visualsaid addressing urban growth is “a constant balancizations so that everyone could see and view our reing act.”

Growth is limited by the lack of utilities in the sults.” northern and southern portions of the county.

What the team wasn’t prepared for, however, was “The planning people, they kind of want to keep it that way,” he said. “You can’t really stop someone from wanting to develop their property and get the best use for it.”

However, if a company wanted to establish a significant presence along Highway 25, for example, utilities would be extended out there, Taylor said. Then commercial and residential growth would follow the utilities.

The current emphasis is on infill, which also can cause consternation, he said.

“Sprawl has a very severe price tag,” agreed Wyche. “It’s not just an environmental, quality-of-life issue. Running water, providing roads and other services to rural areas The 95 percent projected range of the proportion of each land cover type converted to urban. comes with a high price.”

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EPA Level III ecoregions and initial urban extent.

Source: “The Southern Megalopolis: Using the Past to Predict the Future of Urban Sprawl in the Southeast U.S.,” PLOS ONE.

DIVERSE HABITATS AT RISK The university study shows that the Southeast has experienced explosive growth over the past 60 years, with a rate of population increase nearly 40 percent larger than the rest of the United States. More than 77 million people now live in this region, where the typical new development pattern is suburban, automobile-dependent growth, the study found.

“In and around Greenville, our results show a high amount of growth,” Costanza said. ”The high growth rate in that region is in part because there are few geographic constraints there, like coastlines, wetlands, steep slopes or large protected areas [like Smoky Mountains National Park].”

According to the report, this sprawling urbanization favors low-density development that requires large areas of land to support single-family housing and extensive road networks. The region also contains high levels of plant and animal diversity, and many ecological communities in need of additional conservation.

“Some of the habitats in the South are some of the most biologically diverse in the world,” said Costanza.

“We need to take pride in the habitats we have instead of making priorities to just develop wherever we can.”

The study shows that as the urban corridors expand and become less fragmented, “novel habitats” will emerge that favor “an entirely different assemblage of species.” Not only will habitats and corridors for wildlife be eliminated, “the continuous urban corridor will have a warmer climate than surrounding rural areas,” the report said.

Other studies have shown that these urban and suburban habitats are already acting as corridors for the expansion of invasive species that take advantage of urban heat island conditions, researchers warned.

“I hope people look at the study and see that it’s just

JOURNAL NEWS one scenario of what urban areas in the South could look if sprawl continues,” Costanza said. “I hope that people use it as an example and think about ways to prevent this future from happening, and think about cities in a more sustainable way in the future – to minimize traffic so there are pleasant places to live, to minimize loss of working lands

A warning the Upstate should heed

By DEAN HYBL, executive director, Ten at the Top

With three distinct metro areas (Anderson, Greenville and Spartanburg) near a major interstate, not to mention the historical lack of transit as a viable transportation alternative in the South, the Upstate is already susceptible to sprawl, particularly along the major transportation corridors.

When you add the national trend of using more land per person for growth (reduction of density) and the fact that the region is between two major economic regions that are also spreading out (Charlotte and Atlanta), it makes it even more challenging for the Upstate to withstand the tendencies of growing in a sprawling pattern or of becoming just an undistinguishable speck within a larger mega-region.

This study provides another clear warning of what our future land use can look like if we don’t do things now to specifically address and reverse the pattern. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t embrace population growth, because it translates to economic vibrancy. Rather, we need to make sure we are thinking about current and future growth in a strategic and thoughtful manner, instead of simply making choices one development at a time.

This fall, through the Upstate Regional Planners Group (which includes public and private planners from across the region), Ten at the Top is working with the Clemson University Graduate School for City and Regional Planning to do a regional analysis of all the comprehensive land use plans in the Upstate.

All urbanized areas are required to have a comprehensive plan that includes public input and is intended to identify where future growth should go in an area. Doing a regional review will give an idea of what future growth in the Upstate will look like if

around them and minimize loss of habitat for important ecosystems.”

Journal writer April A. Morris contributed to this story.

MORE ONLINE Read the entire study online at bit.ly/southern-sprawl. current plans are followed. It should help quantify if indeed our plans are creating a pattern of sprawl.

If so, then the final map and analysis can hopefully help local communities and the region as a whole better understand what we need to address to ensure that we grow in a more strategic manner.

Of course, one barrier to this is that many of the comprehensive plans are not truly indicative of how some of our communities are growing. So while the review will hopefully serve as a good tool for local communities, it is only a glimpse.

Whether it is because of studies like the megalopolis one, the Strom Thurmond Institute land use study commissioned by Upstate Forever several years ago, the comprehensive plan review or something else, at some point if the Upstate really wants to grow in a manner that avoids the “doomsday” megalopolis scenario and preserves our local character, special places and vital environmental resources, leaders from across the region will have to make a conscientious decision to give more than lip service to growth boundaries and other mechanisms that can ensure that future land use doesn’t turn the Upstate (especially along the I-85 corridor) into one large undistinguishable urban area.

The Upstate Reality Check in 2009 and the Upstate Regional Growth Vision surveys done by Ten at the Top a year later both clearly showed that Upstate residents are worried about how we are growing and want to see us manage our growth better.

However, without a true commitment by those who have the ability to impact how we are growing to follow plans and regulations that are already on the books or enact additional regulations that can ensure that future growth is done appropriately, it will be very difficult to avoid a future similar to what is projected by this study and others – a continued loss of rural areas, an additional strain on our natural resources and an increasing difficulty to get from place to place across the region.

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Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day Sat., Sept. 13 • 9 a.m.-1 p.m. • Kroc Center Obtain health information and get free prostate screenings. Free clinical breast exams (this is not a mammogram) also are available. Find out more at 1073jamz.com.

Understanding Your Cancer Risk Mon., Sept. 15 • 12:15-1:15 p.m. • GHS Life Center® Learn how to identify your hereditary risk for cancer from GHS medical oncologist Carla Jorgensen, MD. Free; registration required.

Women’s Health Lunch & Learn Tues., Sept. 16 • Noon-1 p.m. • Smithfield Country Club Get information about current screening guidelines and common female health concerns. Free; registration required.

Girls on the Run® Sept. 17-Dec. 9 • Times and locations vary This program combines training for a 5K with esteem-enhancing workouts for girls ages 8-15. Fee: $199. Call 455-3252.

Stroke Education Series Mondays, Oct. 6-27 • 4-6:30 p.m. • Greenville Memorial Hospital This four-part series for stroke survivors and their caregivers offers poststroke education and coping techniques. Free; registration required.

To register, for more information or to see a full schedule of events, please visit ghs.org/healthevents or call 1-877-GHS-INFO (447-4636).

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City buys property that could become part of park CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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In the program, firefighters go doorto-door and install smoke alarms with 10-year batteries as well as pass out educational materials. The program also targets areas where fires have occurred.

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Two parcels of property on Welborn Street could become part of a major new park downtown.

City Council on MonBuncombe W. day voted to buy the 159 Welborn Street Street W as hin property from 159 Welgt on born Street LLC for Str Mayberry ee $523,800. t Park The city plans to demolish the warehouses on the parcels, according We lbo to a resolution authorizMa WM rn Str yb cBe ing City Manager John ee err eA t ve yS Castile to make the purMeadowbrook tre e Park t chase. The demolition could be delayed until the city learns if it will get money through a Within 72 hours of a fire, firefighters go FEMA Hazard Mitigation grant. door-to-door to homes within a certain The Greenville Health System Swamp radius and install smoke alarms in resiRabbit Trail, the well-used biking and dences. walking trail built on an old railroad Through the program, firefighters bed from Greenville to Travelers Rest, have installed more than 400 smoke is adjacent to the property. The city set alarms. The alarms have 10-year bataside $1 million in its Capital Improve- teries, meaning residents don’t have to ment Plan to buy land for the park. remember to change the batteries every Major Knox White has said the key to six months and cannot remove them to creating the park near the Kroc Center use in another device. and A.J. Whittenberg Elementary is reThe grant money will be used to locating the city’s public works depart- purchase special equipment such as ment from Hudson Street – land that is buzzers, strobe lights and bed-shakers in the floodplain of the Reedy River – to for homes that have hearing-impaired 33 acres of land on Fairforest Way next residents. to the Duke Energy Operations Center.

Council also gave final approval to White has said he expects engineers five annexations: 24.51 acres on Grove and architects to have a cost estimate Road owned by the Greenville Health for the relocation by the end of the year. System; 2.28 acres of land on Doctors In other action, the council gave ini- Drive and Park Creek Drive owned by tial approval to changing the hours in Cross Creek Medical Park Inc.; 9.536 which construction noise is exempt acres at 41 Park Creek Drive owned from the city’s noise ordinance. The by Grove Clinic LLC; 5.49 acres at 70 change would allow construction from Chrome Drive owned by Three Broth7 a.m. until 9 p.m., ending an hour ear- ers, LLC; and 4.03 acres at 12 Ketron lier than current regulations.

Court owned by BRR of Greenville, The city recently adopted new resi- SC LLC. dential infill design standards because Greenville Health System hopes to of an unprecedented increase in infill put an innovative elder care medical residential and commercial develop- center on the 24.51-acre Grove Road ment in recent years. site, said GHS spokeswoman Sandy Mayor Knox White voted against the Dees. The program, which will feature change because he believes the con- medical care as well as an adult daystruction noise restriction needs to cov- care center, is still under development er Sundays as well. and will require accreditation by apThe city is expected to re-examine propriate state and federal agencies in the infill development standards in six addition to related zoning/annexation to nine months. approvals by the city, she said. GHS Council also approved $37,638 in hopes to open the facility by early grant funds for a fire department 2016. smoke alarm program that targets 13 The elder care center will only use 3 neighborhoods. to 4 acres of the site, Dees said.

What’s Right in Health Care Cancer Institute a Nationally Ranked NCI Program The GHS Cancer Institute is one of just 34 programs in the U.S. lauded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a leader in community-site care delivery and research. And it is the only community-based program originating in South Carolina to attain this distinction. Along with national inclusion as an NCI program, the Cancer Institute was awarded a multimillion dollar grant—the largest in GHS history—to conduct clinical trials and research studies that improve patient outcomes and reduce health inequities. Learn more at ghs.org/cancer.

Para-Cycling Road World Championships GHS is proud to sponsor the 2014 UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships. More than 450 athletes from 45 countries are slated to compete in the event, which takes place August 29-September 1 at CUICAR. To learn more, visit greenvillesc2014.com.

GHS Launches Nurse Practitioner Fellowship GHS will launch the state’s first Nurse Practitioner Fellowship in Critical Care this January. Applications are being accepted through October 1. Find out more at university.ghs.org/npfellowship.

Children’s Hospital Radiothon ESPN Upstate, B93.7, 93.3 The Planet, WORD 106.3, Magic 98.9 and Classic Rock 101.1 will broadcast live from Greenville Memorial Hospital on September 11-12 to raise funds for GHS Children’s Hospital. Tune in and help out! To donate online, visit ghschildrens.org/radiothon.

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Poe Mill neighborhood to create mural Residents to help paint on Sept. 13 APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

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Join Us for a Tour and Learn About the Importance of Clean Water

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Public Relations Coordinator at ReWa.

Clean Water… it is essential for survival. Think of the clean water resources that we are so fortunate to have and the impact on our Community if we lost that luxury. We would be forced to change our daily routines.

Our drinking water supply is finite. That is why it is so important to look at ways to conserve our drinking water and use clean water when we can. ReWa treats wastewater at our water resource recovery facilities (WRRF’s) to produce clean water. To see this sustainable process in action, ReWa provides tours of WRRF’s. The concept of an all biological treatment process intrigues young students and adults alike, and the opportunity to

learn about this process is available to the public free of charge. We at ReWa strive to educate the Community so that everyone has an understanding and appreciation for clean water.

The reality is that clean water is a necessity and provides health and stability within a community.

Education and awareness are key in preserving our local aquatic resources.

To schedule a tour, please visit our website at www.rewaonline.org.

Can’t come to us? We’ll come to you! In-class presentations are also available for area schools and other organizations.

To learn more about our environmental initiatives, please visit www. befreshwaterfriendly.org.

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The corner of Buncombe Road and Shaw Street is considered the gateway to the Poe Mill Village, which surrounds the 11-acre site where the former Poe Mill cranked out textiles between 1896 and 1977.

The mill burned down in 2003 and only the two smokestacks remained. The site requires cleanup, partially funded by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants, before it can be redeveloped.

Though there are more residents and businesses moving into the village, the corner has been “characterized by a lot of illegal activity and in turn has defined the community,” said Poe Mill neighborhood association president Kwadjo Campbell.

To welcome residents and visitors and indicate renewal of the neighborhood in the Poinsett District, the New Poe Mill Neighborhood Association is launching a mural project next month.

On Sept. 6, volunteers from Home Depot will begin priming a wall of a convenience store. Community members are invited on Sept. 13 to paint parts of the mural designed by artist Adam Schrimmer, Campbell said. The event will also include music, food and children’s activi-

ties “to add to the festive feel,” he said.

The mural, which will feature images of the village yesterday, today and tomorrow, is part of an “environmental strategy” to renew the gateway, he said.

According to the grant application, crime in the area has been reduced significantly since 2007, but the perception of crime infestation deters new investment in the community.

“Until we attack that corner, the community will be defined by that corner,” Campbell said. “This is about changing our gateway.”

The project received $7,500 in funding from the Greenville County Redevelopment Authority (GCRA), United Way and Greenville County Council.

The GCRA recently received $800,000 in EPA Brownfields grants for assessment and cleanup of the former Poe Mill site, where hazardous substances and metals have been found in the soil.

Campbell said a contractor for the cleanup should be secured within two weeks.

Plans for the Poe Mill site following the cleanup include a skate park, which was informally established at the mill’s ruins, and a recreation area. As part of a creative inquiry class in 2010, Clemson University students in the School of Planning, Development, Preservation and Landscape Architecture had developed potential plans for the mill site, ranging from a park to additional housing.

Other planned improvements in the community include a traffic circle and additional lighting, Campbell said.

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Cliffs at Glassy pledges help to elementary schools Effort focuses on reading, technology

tage. The materials were worth about $25,000.

Castellano said teachers at Heritage Elementary told Glassy residents that every child who entered kindergarten CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF and first grade last year knew the alclandrum@communityjournals.com phabet and the sounds of letters – an accomplishment the school didn’t For years, residents of the Cliffs of see in years past. Tigerville ElemenGlassy have helped meet the needs of tary students showed improvement in individual students at Tigerville and reading scores on state levels, CastelHeritage elementary schools through lano said. backpack donations In addition, CRO and tutoring sessions.

Glassy bought 70 iPads Then, a couple of for Tigerville Elemen“Our three-year years ago, the Cliffs tary. They also bought strategic goal is to SmartTables and proResident Outreach have every child Glassy organization jection devices for decided to expand its classrooms. reading at grade philanthropy efforts “By putting an iPad level by third to two school-wide efwith the right apps in grade.” forts – supporting earstudents’ laps, they ly-grades reading prolearn and the learnMarietta Castellano, grams and increasing ing is exciting,” said president of the CRO technology.

Tigerville principal Glassy board of directors “We want to help inDiane Jackson. Each dividual students, but classroom has between we wanted to reach three and 20 iPads. The entire schools and all of the stu- goal is to have one for every student. dents and teachers,” said Marietta Glassy residents want to raise Castellano, president of the CRO $75,000 this year to put back into Glassy board of directors. “Our the two schools. About $62,000 has three-year strategic goal is to have been raised so far. Some of the money every child reading at grade level by comes from family foundations and third grade. We also want to help corporate match programs, and some our students be ready for middle from the more than 300 Glassy resischool and one way to do that is to dents writing checks. make sure they have been exposed The group will replace laptop comto technology.” puters at Heritage Elementary. Then, Last year, through a partnership residents will buy the schools more with Public Education Partners, the tablets.

CRO Glassy provided reading as“Our goal is to have some type of sessments materials and hundreds of device in the hands of every student,” leveled books for Tigerville and Heri- Castellano said.

Physician News GHS welcomes these new doctors!

Dermatology Jeremiah Miller III, MD Carolina Dermatology Greenville, 233-6338

Ophthalmology Alan Leahey, MD Carolina’s Eye Care Mauldin, 236-9888

Gastroenterology Gary Abrams, MD Joseph Baber, DO Lester Salwen, MD Madhusudhan Sunkavalli, MD GHS Gastroenterology Greenville, 455-2888

Orthopaedics Curtis Campbell, MD Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas Greenville, 454-SHCC (7422)

Internal Medicine & Pediatrics R. Stephen Briggs Jr., MD Heritage Pediatrics & Internal Medicine Greenville, 859-0740 (in collaboration with Baptist Easley) Lung Center Antine Stenbit, MD, PhD Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine Greenville, 454-4200 Neurology Jagannadha Avasarala, MD, PhD Neuroscience Associates Greenville, 454-4500

Pediatric Gastroenterology Liz Dancel, MD Greenville, 454-5125 Pediatric Neurology William Taft, MD, PhD Greenville, 454-5110 Pediatric Rheumatology Sarah Payne-Poff, MD Greenville, 454-5004 Plastic Surgery John Jarrell IV, MD Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Greenville, 454-4570

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Fury unleashed Carowinds to have world’s fastest, tallest giga coaster SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com Fury 325, touted as the world’s fastest and tallest giga coaster, will be buzzing into Carowinds amusement park in Spring 2015.

The new rollercoaster is part of a planned $50 million, multiyear investment to bring new life to founder Pat Hall’s original vision for Carowinds. The park will be revamped from top to bottom and include new rides and attractions, signature Carolina food offerings and entertainment.

Fury 325 will be the centerpiece of a new 8.2-acre main entrance plaza that includes a state-of-the-art ticketing and season pass processing area and expanded guest service facilities.

“Starting with Fury 325, we plan to make Carowinds a destination for thrill seekers to celebrate the Carolinas,” says Mike Fehnel, Carowinds vice president

For a virtual ride, visit carowinds.com/fury325 and general manager.

“The new ride will build on the heritage of the park, creating new memories and traditions for our loyal fans and future guests from around the world.”

The ride is designed to simulate the wild, daring and spontaneous flight of the hornet, the company said in a news release. Riders will

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Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office deputies arrested Sandon Matthew Sierad, 31, after an incident Saturday afternoon at the Wal-Mart on White Horse Road.

Deputies received a 911 call from a Wal-Mart employee saying an intoxicated man had attempted to rob the store, had caused a disturbance and was engaged in a verbal altercation with the management.

The incident was captured on a Wal-Mart security video, Sierad which, according to the Sheriff ’s Office, showed Sierad entering and exiting the store several times acting erratically prior to deputies arriving.

Sierad reportedly made a 911 call from the parking lot, saying he was looking for his truck while he was beside his vehicle. He reportedly told the dispatcher that she must have taken his truck.

According to the report, when the first deputy arrived, Sierad was in the parking lot and allegedly tried to reach for the deputy’s knife on three separate occasions while the deputy was attempting to calm him down and talk with him.

The deputy said in his written report that Sierad walked away from him several times and jumped into the bed of a Wal-Mart patron’s pickup truck that was driving through the parking lot. The driver slammed on the brakes and Sierad stood up, got out of the truck, and again began to walk around the parking lot acting erratic and ignoring the deputy, according to the written report.

He attempted to get in the bed of the truck a second time before the truck drove away, the report said.

When a second deputy arrived on scene, Sierad reportedly ran back into the Wal-Mart with deputies pursuing him. Deputies Tasered Sierad at least twice to no effect, the report said. A third deputy arrived and helped put Sierad into handcuffs.

Sierad was transported by EMS to a local hospital for evaluation before being placed into the Greenville County Detention Center.

Sierad was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, assault and battery, breach of peace and public disorderly conduct.

Sierad was released on bonds totaling $7,449. Deputies say they have learned that Sierad is not living at the address listed on his arrest warrant, 6 Cotton St., Greenville.

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Local conservation group Upstate Forever received a $5,000 grant last year from the TD Charitable Foundation to help expand its efforts to increase public awareness and appreciation for trees in the region. The project aims to showcase the benefits that trees provide by hanging educational tags on trees in high-visibility areas. The tags quantify the amount of stormwater runoff reduction, carbon reduction, electrical energy savings and property value benefits that each tree provides on an annual basis. More than 325 tree tags were hung at 50 locations in all 10 Upstate counties.

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Naturaland Trust selected to participate in Google Trekker program SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

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Building on the popularity of its Street View technology, which provides ground-level imagery made by a series of cameras mounted atop a car, Google developed the Trekker, a wearable backpack containing 15 cameras that take a series of panoramic images.

Stone, a photographer and executive director of Naturaland Trust, an Upstate conservation organization, applied online to be a Trekker about eight months ago. Google notified him that he was chosen, shipped him the backpack – which is on loan – and even sent a representative out to do training and show him how it worked.

The whole idea of Trekker is to “go where vehicles can’t go,” Stone said.

He completes a hike – not an easy feat with an additional 50 pounds strapped to his back –and uploads the data to Google, which will assemble the images to provide an online map of wilderness trails, rivers and other outdoor destinations.

“This is giving us a platform not just to tell and show people locally about the Upstate, but to nationally show people how great these places are,” he said. “It gives us a bigger audience to

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His contract with Google won’t allow Stone to say where he’s going or where he’s been, but he says the hikes all involve “various public places across the Upstate and Low Country.”

He’ll be mapping out places for another month or so and doesn’t know yet when Google will begin releasing the information.

Naturaland Trust was one of the organizations chosen out of thousands of applications, Stone said. “There are these really incredible places all over the world right now that are being documented and Greenville was chosen – that’s pretty cool.”

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Music therapist Laurie Peebles, left, sings and play guitar during a music therapy session.

Saying what is on their hearts New music therapy program helps cancer patients relax, express themselves

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amorris@communityjournals.com In a room off the lobby at Greenville Health System’s Cancer Institute, Laurie Peebles plays a guitar and sings, “Que Sera, Sera, what will be, will be.” Passersby peek in to see who is covering the familiar tune made famous by Doris Day. Peebles, a music therapist, is leading a session of the new music therapy program funded by a Livestrong Foundation grant to the GHS Center for Integrative Oncology and Survivorship.

Several people are gathered around Peebles,

either singing from a lyric sheet or listening.

After she finishes, she asks whether the group agrees with the lyrics. Multiple participants offer opinions, including Karen Johnson, who is a patient. The song reminds her of her son’s assurance, Johnson said: “Love replaces fear.”

Music therapy has been proven to reduce pain and promote relaxation in patients, said Peebles, something that can be very important to cancer patients.

It is now a part of GHS’ integrated oncology program, which also offers yoga, nutrition MUSIC THERAPY continued on PAGE 20

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support, a walking club and a kids support camp.

Launched in July, the music therapy program offers patients and family members an opportunity to sing, play instruments, write their own lyrics, improvise their own songs and recordings and compile playlists for listening during treatment.

Peebles, who trained at Converse College, said that the therapy isn’t just listening to music or hearing guest performers, though both certainly can uplift patients.

“Music therapy is not the music in the waiting room,” she said.

One patient comes in and requests to sing karaoke with a James Taylor song.

Peebles says a personal musical connection is important. “We want people to come in with their preferred songs.”

Music therapy is “a great tool for self-expression,” she said. Peebles encourages participants to dance, sing, play an instrument or simply listen.

She also provides “environmental music therapy” by playing in the institute’s lobby.

music therapy can : Promote wellness

Margaret Hitt, left, talks with music therapist Laurie Peebles during a music therapy session.

Manage stress

Johnson, a coronary care unit nurse who was there for a follow-up to her chemotherapy the day before, said about the session, “I think it’s wonderful. It’s peaceful, causes people to relax enough to say things that are maybe on their heart. When she was playing, you were thinking about things. It seems like an easy way to get opened up.”

In addition to the bimonthly music therapy sessions, Peebles has been taking her rolling cart packed with shakers, bells, drums and maracas to visit patients. Soon she will be bringing music to four units: inpatient and outpa-

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tient adults and children. She recounts a recent successful visit to the pediatric unit: “There were a lot of siblings on the unit that day, so I think the doctors and nurses were grateful [for the diversion].”

Johnson said the lyrics to “Defying Gravity” from the musical “Wicked” inspired her to do things she had never done. “I want to exercise more, I want to take better care of myself and want to try something new like ride the Swamp Rabbit.”

Gina Franco, manager of the Center for Integrative Oncology and Survivorship, said the program is one of the

ways the center is bringing back the personal side of medicine.

“There is so much anxiety and stress that people are walking around with,” she said.

GHS was one of 13 organizations nationwide to receive one year of funding, and is seeking ways to make the music therapy program sustainable, Franco said.

Though the program has been up and running for just a few weeks, “everyone seems to be getting something out of it,” Peebles said. “They seem to be walking away with a positive feeling about their experience in music therapy.”

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Everything’s better with bacon Simpsonville’s inaugural Bacon Labor Day offers all things swine Sept. 1 JEANNE PUTNAM | CONTRIBUTOR

jputnam@communityjournals.com Labor Day will be a squealing good time at Simpsonville’s Bacon Labor Day festival.

The festival is the result of an idea that came to event organizer Mark Rodeffer.

Rodeffer said he toyed with ideas about bacon and beer for at least five years, playing with names involving “BLT.” Suddenly the phrase “Bacon Labor Day” just came into being.

Rodeffer ran with the idea when he learned that Labor Day weekend was open for a new festival in Simpsonville, as the long-running Simpsonville Labor Day festival has been rebranded into the Harvest Moon Festival and will be held in October this year.

“The Labor Day festival ran for 39 years and Bacon Labor Day will serve as [sort of ] a replacement for what would have been the 40th year,” he said.

Bacon Labor Day will be a one-day event this year, but Rodeffer hopes to expand it into a three-day festival to support all of Simpsonville’s first responders.

The event will feature bacon-themed foods on the Bacon Strip, a variety of carnival style games for children in the Bacon Bits section, beer provided

by Railhouse Craft Beer and wine by Cityscape in the Pork Barrel section, and music, auctions, a car show, and entertainment on the Bacon Jam stage.

As part of Bacon Labor Day, the Simpsonville Police Department will be auctioning off ride-alongs, to help increase community awareness about what the police department does.

Additionally, 19 custom-painted piggy banks have been placed throughout Simpsonville businesses and some in Mauldin as part of the event’s Pigs on Parade charity feature. All of the money raised from these banks will be donated to support the K9 unit of the Simpsonville Police Department.

Since Bacon Labor Day is in its first year, Rodeffer said he opted to use the Pigs on Parade as the festival give-back, as it would allow him to donate directly to the K9 unit rather than have to de-

pend on the festival making a profit.

As part of the Pigs on Parade program, a “passport to the pigs” is offered on the Bacon Labor Day website. The passport allows people to visit 10 of the piggy banks and then be entered into a drawing to win 52 pounds of bacon.

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INSIDE THE OUTSIDE

WITH HEATHER BERGERUD NIX

Clean air means healthy people, strong economy Having clean air to breathe is something each one of us depends on and most of us take for granted. While we don’t face the tremendous air quality challenges of places like Los Angeles and Houston, you might be surprised to learn that our local air quality is borderline unhealthy.

A main pollutant of concern in the Upstate is ground-level ozone. Groundlevel ozone is formed when two types of pollutants react in sunlight on hot, sunny days. The two pollutants – volatile organic compounds (or VOCs) and nitrogen dioxide – come from a variety of sources ranging from industrial facilities, to consumer products and services (paints, dry cleaners), to gas stations, vehicles and lawn equipment.

When ozone is high in the upper atmosphere it helps protect us from ultraviolet rays; however, ground-level ozone contributes to a host of health concerns.

It aggravates symptoms of asthma, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis, and

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The Pickens County Biodiesel Facility converts cooking oil (right) into biodiesel (left).

also increases risks from heart and lung disease.

As the health impacts from these pollutants have become better understood, we realize that we need to lower levels to adequately protect our personal health.

Building on this new understanding, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to introduce more stringent air quality standards that the Upstate may not meet. If our air quality doesn’t meet the new standards, additional regulations become effective that may make it more difficult for some businesses to locate or expand in our area.

The good news is that the Upstate has already started improving local air quality. Regulations have resulted in reduced emissions from industrial facilities and from various products, such as low-VOC paints. Upstate governments have also been working for many years to improve local air quality with innovative cost-saving actions. Pickens County produces its own biodiesel fuel.

Anderson County provides electrified truck stops. The City of Greenville provides electric vehicle charging stations and uses alternative fuels for various heavy equipment. Greenville County uses an electric bulldozer at the Twin Chimneys landfill, improved emissions from its diesel engine vehicle fleet, and leads a number of additional initiatives.

Hopefully this brief list of highlights gives you an idea of the thoughtful solutions being implemented. Government, business, and community leaders continue to partner on fixing this problem through the Upstate Air Quality Advisory Committee. Led by Ten at the Top, this group’s success was recently recognized with a “Spare the Air” award from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

These behind-the-scenes efforts have been tremendously successful and de-

serve more praise than is possible in a few paragraphs. However, we haven’t solved the problem yet – and now we need your help. Much of our remaining air pollution is related to “mobile” sources – automobiles, trucks, lawn mowers, tractors – basically anything with a gasoline or diesel powered motor. We all rely on many of these tools each day and it’s not realistic to stop using them altogether. But we can be smarter about it.

Having clean air is vital to our health and that of future generations. We have the opportunity to take action now that will improve our local air quality, making the Upstate a healthier place for us to live, work, and play – and ensuring that the Upstate can continue to grow and thrive. Will you help us?

Heather Bergerud Nix is the director of the Clean Air & Water Program at Upstate Forever and can be reached at hnix@upstateforever.org.

IMPROVE OUR LOCAL A I R Q U A L I T Y:

• Lower your car’s emissions – and at the same time increase your gas mileage – by keeping your car tires properly inflated.

• Reduce your driving by carpooling, consolidating errands, and walking or riding your bicycle for short trips.

• Reduce the impact from gas-powered lawn equipment by having it tuned up regularly and mowing in the evening (especially during summer months).

• Avoid burning leaves and yard debris by composting. If you do need to burn yard waste, avoid doing so on days when air quality may be poor; you can find air quality predictions at bit.ly/ clean-air-upstate.

• Fuel your vehicle in the evening during summer months to avoid releasing ozone-forming pollutants when the sun’s heat will convert them to groundlevel ozone.

• And perhaps most importantly, avoid idling your car in parking lots, driveways, drive-thru lines, and school car lines. Doing so will reduce your costs and make a difference for our local air quality.

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List defines world as college freshmen know it has always been the only news program that really “gets it right.”

To date you even more, the Class of 2018 includes “Rocky” Sylvester Stallone’s daughter Sophia and “The Material Girl” Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon.

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Cartoons have always been something to watch on Sunday nights, not Saturday mornings.

And courts have always been overturning bans on same-sex marriages.

That’s according to Beloit College’s Mindset List, a 55-item catalog designed to give old-fogey college professors, military officers, ministers and others who hope to communicate with young people a look into the minds of 18-year-olds.

It’s not a chronological listing of things that happened in 1996, the year most members of the Class of 2018 were born. Instead, it’s an effort to identify their worldview, according to Ron Nief, the Wisconsin school’s former director of public affairs and co-creator of the list.

The list originally began in 1998 as a way to remind college professors of dated cultural references they may have been using in class.

For example, when members of the Class of 2018 see wire-rimmed glasses, they think Harry Potter, not John Lennon.

“Press pound” on the phone is now “hit hash tag.”

Joe Camel has never introduced one of them to smoking, but hard liquor has always been advertised on TV. To the Class of 2018, cloning has always been a fact and not science fiction, the water cooler is no longer the workplace social center and there has always been “TV” designed to be watched exclusively on the Web. And the Class of 2018 reminds the older generations how quickly time passes.

After all, they have no memory of George Stephanopoulos as a senior White House advisor, Salon has always been an online magazine and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”

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What are they thinking?

Every year, Beloit College in Wisconsin releases its Mindset List to give a glimpse of the world through the eyes of the incoming freshman class.

Some of the entries on the list for the Class of 2018: • During their first week of kindergarten, they were upset by endlessly repeated images of planes blasting into the World Trade Center.

• Celebrity “selfies” are far cooler than autographs.

• Bosnia and Herzegovina have always been one nation.

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• The Unabomber has always been behind bars.

• There has always been a national database of sex offenders.

• Bill Gates has always been the richest man in the U.S. • Two-term presidents are routine, but none of them ever won in a landslide.

• One route to pregnancy has always been through frozen eggs.

• Boeing has never had any American competition for commercial aircraft.

• U.S. soldiers have always been vaccinated against anthrax.

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WILKINS HOUSE GETS READY TO MOVE

The first set of Buckingham Power Dollies have arrived at the Wilkins House on Augusta Street. In all more than two dozen of the eight-wheel hightech remote control-powered dollies will be bolted to the frame holding the 140-year-old house for the move to Mills Avenue. The dollies will be operated by a remote control panel held by the operator who will walk along with the house as it moves. No tractor or truck will be used in the move, only the remote control-powered dollies.

Wolf House and Building Movers will move the building, and while the company has moved much larger structures, the Wilkins House, estimated to weigh more than 700 tons, will be one of the heaviest moves in the company’s history.

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Rabbi Marc Wilson is preparing for the first service of Torah Chayim, an “interfaith covenant community” in the Upstate. The community – not congregation, he points out – is designed to practice in the Jewish tradition of study, worship and doing good deeds.

The new “synagogue without walls” is open to people of any faith or those who are spiritually curious, said Wilson. There is a faith convergence between Christians and Jews, he says. “A Christian has a covenant with God; so do Jews. Those two covenants overlap and we want to celebrate where they overlap.”

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instruction gives life.’ Since I began serving a congregation in 1972, I’ve dreamt of doing something like this,” he said.

The community has been meeting in a variety of locations, but will celebrate its inaugural Shabbat service this weekend on Aug. 30 at Pelham Road Baptist Church in Greenville.

Those who have never been to a Shabbat service need not worry, Wilson said: Torah Chayim will offer a Paths Through Prayer orientation about the service, rituals and spirituality. In addition, a class in basic Hebrew reading will be offered this fall, and worshipers will be able to get a CD of service melodies.

The community grew out of a “confluence of needs, wants and visions that came together in June,” Wilson said. He had noted a growing desire in the Jewish community to “get back to basics.” After the Rally Against Hatred held in response to a Ku Klux Klan rally in Abbeville this summer, Wilson discovered an underlying unity in the Upstate “like a sleeping giant.”

The new community is not intended to replace a worshiper’s regular church or synagogue, he said, but to provide additional study, connectedness and service. He sees the group offering “spirited services, eclectic study and community service and social action.”

In addition to services, Wilson hopes that Torah Chayim will be able to offer two- to three-part seminars on various subjects featuring folks who are “outside the box,” untapped local resources like local academic experts on certain topics. Some programs will also feature dialogues between rabbis, pastors and laypersons on particular Bible passages.

Next for Torah Chayim is preparation for the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, on Sept. 25-26, Wilson said.

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OUR SCHOOLS

ACTIVITIES, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS AnMed Health recently finalized an agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston to become its first branch campus.

Selected third- and fourth-year MUSC students will complete their final two years of education at AnMed Health. Six students will arrive on campus next fall. By 2017, a total of 24 medical students will train in Anderson each year – 12 in each class. Students will rotate through each major discipline of medicine and will see patients once a week at the Anderson Free Clinic.

Jaime Cox, director of clinical studies for the respiratory therapy program at Greenville Technical College, has been named to the board of directors for the American Lung Association in South Carolina. Cox, a graduate of the respiratory therapy program at Midlands Technical College, joined the faculty at Greenville Technical College in 2007.

The Bob Jones University Symphony Orchestra was recently selected by audition to provide the featured performance at the general session of the South Carolina Music Educators Association’s (SCMEA) upcoming annual conference.

Under the direction of Dr. Michael W. Moore, the orchestra will perform a fulllength concert for the SCMEA membership in Columbia on Feb. 6. In addition, the Bob Jones Academy Elementary School Advanced Choir was selected by audition to perform at Anderson University on Oct. 10, 7 p.m., for the American Choral Directors Association’s (ACDA) South Carolina chapter fall conference for the first time.

Students at Greenville Technical Charter High School (GTCHS) recently unveiled a community greenhouse at Triune Mercy Center that was constructed by students. They were assisted by Greenville Tech students and construction technology classes. The high school students formed a Greenhouse Committee, and won a grant from DHEC to construct a plastic bottle greenhouse.

Fine Arts Center digital filmmaking student Sam Wickert recently traveled to India with the nonprofit organization Rice Bowls to work as cinematographer, editor and visual effects artist for a short film produced by the organization. The film is about a 7-month-old baby found on the side of the road and about the Indian orphanage, operated by Rice Bowls, where the child was nurtured back to health.

Wickert is a senior at St. Joseph’s High School and the Fine Arts Center. His latest film, “Chalk Warfare 3.0,” gained more than 3 million hits in the first two months of its release on YouTube. For more information, visit ricebowls.org.

Christ Church Episcopal School recently completed construction on the Garden Level of the Middle School, new home of all fifth-graders. Fifth-graders have their own level with new math, social studies, science, reading and writing rooms along with a common area. In addition, the school is preparing to break ground on its new $10.9 million performing arts center, which includes a 600-seat theater, 3,000-square-foot lobby, music classrooms, scene shop, costume shop and drum pad.

Local orthodontist Dr. Tom Atkinson recently announced that Hampton Park Christian School, Langston Charter Middle School and Shannon Forest Christian School are partnering with Dr. Tom’s BraceMobile, a mobile orthodontic treatment clinic. The schools will become the first in South Carolina to offer orthodontic treatment on school property. The partnership is expected to reduce the amount of class time ordinarily missed by students traveling for orthodontic office visits.

The Shannon Forest Christian School community recently celebrated the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year and its launch as an independent school and ministry. Student Ambassadors launched balloons as part of the school’s celebration. Pictured from left: Gabriel Makowski, Braden Tuttle, Jacob Bettano, Cassidy Van Houten, Rebecca Welch, Katelyn Pittman, Lily Reid, Sam Garrison, Brooke Tattershall, Breezy Zacharias, Annabelle Armfield, Riley Watkins, Sarah Nachtmann, Jack Cummings, Ryan Flynn and Julius Peter.

Christina Neiger has been accepted into the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston for the fall semester. Neiger was also commissioned into the U.S. Air Force in August as a second lieutenant. She received an Air Force scholarship and will serve four years as a military doctor. Neiger’s father, Frank, served four years in U.S. Marine Corps and nine years in the U.S. Air Force Reserves, and her mother, Regina, served four years in the U.S. Air Force.

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COMMUNITY NEWS, EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS

Senior Action recently announced the participants for the fifth annual Dancing with the Carolina Stars fundraiser. This year’s participants include: Julie Brasier of Julie’s Jewels and Gifts, Charles Brewer of the Poinsett Club, Stacy Coulter of The Spa at West End, Bo Knapp of Perfect Delivery, Laura Linen of Community Journals, Liz Seman of Greenville County Council, Bo Stegall of Bo Stegall, The Salon and Caludia Wise of Lutheran Hospice and BeWell Home Service.

Dogs are invited to participate in Greenville County Rec’s Waggin’ at the Waterpark where they can take a swim at Discovery Island and Otter Creek. The first event, Waggin’ at Discovery Island Waterpark, is Sept. 6. The second event is Waggin’ at Otter Creek Waterpark on Sept. 20. Owners are encouraged to pre-register their pets.

Forms and releases are available at greenvillerec.com. The pre-registration fee for one dog and one person for a two-hour swim is $17 or $30 for both events. Additional people are $4 each. Same-day registration is $22 per dog with one person. For more information, visit greenvillerec.com or call 864-676-2180, ext. 126.

Mental Health America of Greenville County’s (MHAGC) will host its annual Call for Compassion educational seminar on Sept. 11, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at John Knox Presbyterian Church, 35 Shannon Drive, Greenville. “Opening the Door to Those Who Suffer with Mental Illness and Poverty” is sponsored by MHAGC, local faith leaders, mental health professionals and those who have who have found hope and healing. Participants will learn how to better understand and respond to the needs of those who are trying to cope with mental health problems. Visit mhagc.org to register.

Friends of Jocassee is sponsoring VIP Day (volunteer, improve and preserve) to clean up Devils Fork State Park and Lake Jocassee on Sept. 13, 9 a.m.noon, at Devils Fork State Park. The event is in conjunction with SC Annual Beach Sweep and National Public Lands Day Volunteer Event. Volunteers receive free park admission, T-shirt and hot dog lunch. For more information, visit friendsofjocassee.org or email friendsofjocassee@gmail.com.

Spartanburg Methodist College will mark the official start of the 2014-2015 academic year with its annual convocation ceremony to be held at 11 a.m. on Sept. 10. The program’s keynote address will be delivered by New York Times best-selling author Mary Alice Monroe. There will be a book signing and free reception 9-10:30 a.m. at Spartanburg Methodist College’s Buchheit Board Room, 1000 Powell Mill Road, Spartanburg.

Monroe Dr. L.L. “Chick” Gaddy will be discussing access to the lush mountains and coves of the Blue Ridge Mountains just across the North Carolina border on Sept.

16, 7 p.m., at the SC Native Plant Society meeting at Southern Wesleyan University in Central. Copies of Gaddy’s book, “Alpine South,” will be available for purchase and book signing after the presentation. For more information, visit scnps.org.

Thomas McAfee Funeral Homes will present its 13th annual grief seminar on Sept. 8-9 at the TD Convention Center in Greenville. The three-seminar series is a public outreach project that aims to provide a resource to those experiencing grief in their personal and professional lives. Dr. William G. Hoy will speak. For more information, visit thomasmcafee.com.

AnMed Health has been recognized as one of the nation’s Most Wired hospitals and health systems, according to the 2014 Most Wired Survey. Patient medical records have been electronic since 2000, and AnMed Health was the first in the state to implement PACS, a picture archiving and communication system that gives doctors and clinicians instant and remote access to radiology images. AnMed Health has also introduced speech recognition software that transforms dictated reports into electronic text. Physicians use a computer-based portal to view laboratory results, medications, vitals, imaging results and nursing documentation.

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THE GOOD

EVENTS THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER

A dedication ceremony designating a portion of I-385 as the Veterans Corridor of Honor will be held on Sept. 5, 10 a.m., at the Railhouse Restaurant, 1003 N. Old Laurens Road, Fountain Inn. A 12-mile portion of the highway is being designated to recognize those who served in 20th- and 21st-century wars involving the United States of America. Acting upon a request by Foothills Chapter (No. 301) of the Korean War Veterans Association, the S.C. General Assembly passed a resolution to allow the recognition. Signs will be installed along the 12-mile portion. The Korean War Veterans Association raised the money to pay for the signs within a week.

The Grainger Foundation has donated $5,000 to the Greenville Tech Foundation to purchase five state-ofthe-art drill presses that will be used in training mechatronics students. The program currently serves 80 students each year. This donation was recommended by Ryan Tiller, senior director of regional distribution, and Paul Ellis, market manager of W.W. Grainger Inc.’s Fountain Inn and Greenville locations, respectively.

Ryan Tiller, W. W. Grainger, Fountain Inn, places a decal recognizing the support of the Grainger Foundation on a donated drill press.

John Wardlaw’s “Why Not” Fund recently awarded $40,000 in inaugural education grants to two nonprofit organizations serving Spartanburg County: Adult Learning Center Inc. (ALC) and Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM). Recipients were recognized at an awards ceremony at The Spartanburg County Foundation. For more information, visit spcf.org.

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Donald P. Cresswell was recognized for 44 years of continuous, dedicated and committed community service to our country, the community, the church and the Greenville Civitan Club. Cresswell was named “Greenville Civitan of the Year” and presented with a Greenville Civitan Life Membership. Cresswell was named “Distinguished Civitan Extraordinaire” for his hundreds of hours as a bell-ringer for the Salvation Army, volunteering at Camp Spearhead, serving many Civitan Candy Boxes, and delivering Claxton Fruit Cake to grocery stores.

CVS Caremark, in partnership with IBM, recently announced a $1.5 million commitment to the Technology Solutions for Smarter Health grant program in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). The grants will support the use of innovative technology in community health centers to increase patient engagement and to improve patient care and outcomes. Technology Solutions for Smarter Health grants will be awarded to community health centers that are in need of advanced technology.

China and glassware valued at more than $27,000 have been donated to the Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at Greenville Technical College by The Cliffs.

The donation will be used by culinary students as they train and learn dining room services as well as food preparation and presentation.

Erwin Penland’s 17th annual Dog Days fundraiser culminated in Bring Your Dog to Work Day and a check presentation to the Greenville Humane Society. The weeklong campaign raised more than $5,800 to benefit the no-kill animal shelter. This year’s fundraising events included a “Yappy Hour” and silent auction at NOMA Square with live music and food and beverages provided by Roost, along with other internal fundraising initiatives at the dog-friendly agency.

Safe Harbor’s Oconee Shelter officially opened its doors for victims of domestic violence and their children on Aug. 14. On March 1, 2013, Safe Harbor launched a capital campaign to raise $990,000 to open a 24-hour emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children and raised more than $1.1 million.

Victims of domestic violence seeking assistance throughout Safe Harbor’s fourcounty service area (Greenville, Anderson, Oconee or Pickens counties) should call Safe Harbor’s 24/7 crisis line at 800-291-2139.

The Center for Developmental Services’ (CDS) board of directors announced its selection of Dana McConnell as executive director. McConnell served as the nonprofit’s director of finance and operations and was on their leadership team. Outside of work, McConnell serves on the board of directors for Patients First/Cancer Survivors Park.

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The American Advertising Federation Dis- McConnell trict 3 (AAF D3) leadership committee recently named Leah Garrett as the 2014 AAF D3 Diversity Scholarship recipient. Garrett will receive a check for $1,000 to be used for post-secondary education. Garrett is a graduate of Woodmont High School and will attend Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.

Previously, Garrett was selected to participate in AAF Greenville’s 2013 Minority High School Internship program.

The Palmetto Bank has pledged an additional $25,000 to support an endowed scholarship fund established in 2004. The scholarship provides assistance to qualifying students in any field of study at Greenville Technical College.

Samuel L. Erwin, chairman and CEO of The Palmetto Bank, with Greenville Technical College president Keith Miller.

Dan Cruver was recently selected by U.S. Sen. Tim Scott as a recipient of the 2014 Angels in Adoption Award. Cruver serves as founder and director of Together for Adoption (T4A). He and his wife, Dr. Melissa Cruver, are residents of Travelers Rest and have three children, two of whom are adopted.

The Bank of Travelers Rest has pledged $25,000 to partially fund a renovation creating a learning commons at the Northwest Campus of Greenville Technical College. The remodeled area will include an expanded library for the campus, a Pictured left to right are Dr. Keith Miller, president of Greenville student computer lab, an office for testing and Technical College; Cindy Davies, dean of Learning Resources disability services counat Greenville Technical College; Betsy Steifle, vice president seling, study rooms and and relationship banker with the Bank of Travelers Rest; and Bruce White, president of the Bank of Travelers Rest. a conference room.

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From left: Kaitlyn Hamilton as Dorothy, Felicia Graf as Glinda and Stephanie Timmerman as a munchkin in SCCT’s production of “The Wizard of Oz.”

One of SCCT’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ cast has been beating the odds all of her life

CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Even though Stephanie Timmerman has never said a word in her life, she wants her next role on stage to be a speaking part.

Long odds? Maybe.

But beating the odds is something the 29-year-old Timmerman has done every day of her life.

“I’m going to take that as my next challenge,” she typed furiously with her two index fingers into an iPad, a device she uses to communicate with those who do not know sign language.

Timmerman will play a Munchkin in the South Carolina Children’s Theatre’s production of “The Wizard of Oz” that opens on Sept. 5. It is her second SCCT production. She played a townsperson in the theater’s 2004 production of “Cinderella.”

“I’ve always loved ‘The Wizard of Oz,’” said Timmerman. “I know all the songs.

Plus, it’s a show everyone loves.’”

Timmerman was born with cerebrocostomandicular syndrome, an ex-

tremely rare condition where the ribs do not form properly and the jaw is abnormally small. Many babies with the condition die immediately after birth because of breathing problems.

In Stephanie’s case, doctors immediately performed a tracheotomy.

“They expected her to die within 24 hours. When she made it overnight, they said maybe days, then they said maybe weeks and after that probably no more than three years,” her mother said. “Then, they quit saying.”

Becky Timmerman said her pregnancy appeared normal up until the day of Stephanie’s birth. Back then, ultrasounds were not performed for each pregnancy as a matter of course.

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Stephanie spent seven months in the neonatal unit at the Greenville Hospital System. When she finally went home, a ventilator, heart monitor, apnea monitor and a 24-hour nurse went home with her.

“Our house was like a mini-ICU unit,” Becky Timmerman said.

Over the years, Stephanie had other surgeries, including a spinal fusion when she was eight to correct a case of scoliosis that was so bad doctors feared one of her ribs would eventually puncture her heart or lungs. After the surgery, conducted in Minnesota because that’s where the only specialist who would do the procedure practiced, Stephanie didn’t grow any more.

Stephanie eats with a feeding tube.

She still has the trach.

“She now functions on her own,” her mother said.

Stephanie credits God for giving her the strength to overcome.

“God gave me the strength to be brave and to be tough,” she typed into the iPad. “My favorite verse is always in my heart – ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.’ I look at things as challenges instead of impossible things.”

S O Y O U K N O W. . .

What: “The Wizard of Oz” Who: South Carolina Children’s Theatre Where: Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre When: Friday, Sept. 5, 12 and Sept. 19, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 6, 13 and 20, 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 7, 14 and 21, 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 7, 5:30 p.m.** Tickets: $26 for adults, $17 for children 17 and under. ** Special price of $16 per ticket for this performance only To order tickets, call 864-467-3000 Information: scchildrenstheatre.org.

Stephanie first became interested in theater after her younger sister, Hope, landed a part in the SCCT’s production of “Oliver” in 2002. Stephanie decided to audition for “Cinderella” and was cast in the role of a townsperson.

Getting a part in “The Wizard of Oz” has given her “new purpose,” her mother said. At first, Becky Timmerman wondered if her daughter would

Kaitlyn Hamilton (back) as Dorothy and Stephanie Timmerman as a munchkin in SCCT’s production of “The Wizard of Oz.”

be able to handle the demands of being in a musical.

“But I also know how Stephanie always finds a way, in her own way, to make it work. She makes it work for her,” Mrs. Timmerman said. “I also know the people here at the Children’s Theatre don’t see people’s disabilities.

They see people’s abilities here.”

In addition to her role in “Wizard,” Stephanie volunteers one day a week at the Children’s Theatre and also volunteers at the Greenville Humane Society.

“I want people to see Jesus in my heart because he has done so much for me. I want them to take my verse and say it to themselves when they’re going through a hard time,” she wrote.

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‘Having a wonderful time’ Tamela Mann talks faith, music and reality TV APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Singer and actress Tamela Mann has been traveling recently, performing and “having a wonderful time.” She is also preparing to take the stage along with a host of others during SpiritFest 2014 at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena on Aug. 31.

Mann’s single “Take Me to the King” was certified gold in early August, and she’s joining Kirk Franklin, Tye Tribbett, Erica Campbell, Rance Allen, The Gospel Legends and Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC’s for SpiritFest. This year’s focus is “Real Fathers, Real Men.” In between tapings for her family’s new TV reality show, “Meet the Manns,” for Black Entertainment Television (BET), Mann talked about her journey from singing in her family church to appearing onstage in Tyler Perry’s plays, being featured in films and starring in a television sitcom.

“Singing is my first love,” said Mann, as she recalled singing in church and later joining a group with Kirk Franklin and The Family. Mann is a Dove, Stellar and Image award winner along with being a Grammy Award nominee.

After singing with Franklin, Mann said she was recruited to do a cameo appearance in a stage play in 1995. “I just walked on and sang.”

Her promoter later connected her with Tyler Perry, then an up-and-coming playwright. Her husband, actor and comedian David Mann, auditioned for Perry – and explained that the couple “comes as a package,” she said. So beginning in 1999, they began appearing in Perry’s productions. “We did so many different plays with Tyler Perry.”

Mann landed the role of Cora Simmons, originally created as an uncle, on stage and in the films “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea Goes to Jail” and “Madea’s Big Happy Family.” She played the role in “Meet the Browns,” which started as a play, then evolved into a film and a TV show. The television version on TBS, also starring David Mann, ran for four seasons.

Acting was a new and intimidating experience for Mann, she said. “I told them, ‘I’ll sing for you, but acting, I’m

not ready for that.’” She credits Perry and her husband for believing in her talents. “They got me ready and started grooming me.” She worked to hone her skills and was soon ready for the stage.

She had to overcome fear to take on the acting roles, Mann said. “That’s the thing about fear; fear will trap you.

I was so afraid to give it a try.”

This is the message she wants to take to young people, she said. “Failure is not the end. Actually what happens is it makes you become better. It makes you work harder if you have a

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passion for what you want to do.”

Mann also gives credit to God. “My faith plays the major role in my life because if it wasn’t for my faith, I wouldn’t be where I am today. My upbringing was built from the church – it was actually my foundation. My mom told me, ‘Tammy, love the Lord with all your heart and the Lord will take you far.’”

Mann never dreamed that her single would go gold, she would have her own entertainment company or would get a call from “The View” because fan and host Sherri Shepherd wanted Mann to sing on TV for her birthday.

And as far as balancing work and family life, which includes four children and eight grandchildren, she said, “It’s not balancing. Family comes first, everything else comes after that.”

At SpiritFest, Mann anticipates a day of “laughter, praise and worship.

We just come out and have a good time. It will probably be a rollercoaster ride.”

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SOUND CHECK

WITH VINCENT HARRIS

‘On our terms’ Thanks to Kickstarter, acoustic quartet releases first independent album It was a sound that stopped me mid-conversation, which is not easy to do. I hadn’t been paying much attention to the sextet onstage while they set up and started playing, but within seconds I was listening intently.

The band, Mountain Homes, created a spellbinding, slow-building acoustic backdrop for singer/guitarist Will Wong’s dark, imagery-rich songs, fusing together elements of folk and Appalachian music and their own mysterious musical chemistry. Between Jason Hudson’s masterful, spidery banjo up top and Lauren Wong’s mournful cello holding down the bottom end, it was a unique sound that I couldn’t wait to hear on record.

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one, because Mountain Homes (now a quartet of the Wongs, Hudson and percussionist Kevin Mavis) just finished up their first fulllength album, called “The Warm Seasons Wild.” And thanks to the fundraising site Kickstarter and some generous fans, the album can now go through the mastering and pressing phases, which Mountain Homes couldn’t afford to do themselves.

“It was important for us to get in the studio and make a record,” Will Wong says.

“And that process took a lot of time and money. And we were left with this thing that was really cool, saying, ‘Wow. What do we do now?’ But I talked to my brother-in-law, who’s been a professional musician since I was a kid, and he said, ‘Listen, [Kickstarter] is something that helps professionals in every part of the music industry.’”

Even with that endorsement, both the Wongs and Mavis were doubtful that a Kickstarter campaign would raise the amount they needed, which was close to $4,000.

“Making a record takes a lot of money,” Will Wong says, “and I’m a pretty proud person, so asking for money in any situation is a weird thing to me. But we got a lot of support from the Upstate. Gene [Berger] from Horizon Records added our information to his mailing list; Jamarcus Gaston at WYCW put us on TV and let us promote it. It’s amazing how awesome the Upstate is for independent music.”

“It was relatively new to me,” Kevin Mavis says of the Kickstarter campaign. “I thought it was possible, but I couldn’t really see us making what we asked for. Then the money started coming in really slowly, and then it just picked up and picked up.”

“I came into this very skeptical,” Lauren Wong says. “It’s humbling. It’s an amazing feeling. We got funded a week prior to the actual ending date. It’s the craziest feeling that people believe in us and enjoy our music.”

As for the album itself, Will Wong says the music is “at the same time the darkest and poppiest thing we’ve ever done. We’re just trying to be ourselves. And it’s turned out really well. I’m super-proud of what we’ve done here and I hope everyone likes it.”

The album marks a change in Mountain Homes’ approach as well, because rather than relying on Will Wong as the primary songwriter, the quartet composed songs together for the first time.

“When we went down to a four-piece, we really started to write together,” Wong says.

“Kevin’s had more input on these songs that he has in the last four years of us playing together, and there are a lot of decisions that Kevin and Lauren made that influenced the direction of the song. It’s really everyone together writing for the first time.”

Wong says if were up to him, Mountain Homes would always make their albums this way.

“We really are an independent band, and we hope to stay an independent band,” he says. “If we could continue to make records and do it on our terms, and let people be a part of it, I would do this forever. I want to say thank you to everybody that helped us out. We’re very excited to show all of you the record.”

VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

vharris@communityjournals.com

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THE WEEK IN THE LOCAL ARTS WORLD

Vino & van Gogh will offer drawing and painting courses presented by Luis and Nancy Jaramillo. Nancy Jaramillo will teach “Take a Good, Long Look and Draw It,” Morning Block I, Sept. 8-29; “Take a Good, Long Look and Draw It,” Evening Block I and Block II, Sept. 8-29; and “Take a Good, Long Look and Draw It,” Morning Block II, Oct. 6-27. Luis will teach “Think Bauhaus!” on Oct. 1-29, and “Think Bauhaus! Part II” on Nov. 4-25. Students who register by Sept.

1 may use the discount code EARLYBIRD at checkout and take 20 percent off.

For more information, visit vinoandvangogh.net or call 864-434-3054.

Joe’s Place will host an opening reception for local artist Hallie M. Gillett on Aug. 30, 2-5 p.m. Her collection, “Faerie Tale Feet,” is on display in the children’s book section. In addition, she will also bring some of her other art and jewelry for the opening. The collection will be on display at Joe’s Place for the next six to eight weeks. Also on Aug. 30, Joe’s Place will offer a wine-tasting event hosted

by Vidalco Wine Distributors. On offer will be tasting for six wines along with a cheese-and-cracker small plate. Joe’s Place is located at 640 S. Main St., Suite 101B, Greenville.

The South Carolina Children’s Theatre will present “The Wizard of Oz” Sept. 5-21 at the Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre. For more information and for tickets, visit scchildrenstheatre.org.

Centre Stage will present the musical “Hands on a Hardbody” by Doug Wright, Amanda Green and Trey Anastasio Sept. 11-27. The production focuses on 10 contestants competing to win a new truck at a Texas dealership where the last person with a hand on it wins. Tickets are $25-$35 with student rush tickets at $20 30 minutes prior to show time. For tickets and more information, visit centrestage.org.

The Greenville Chorale recently announced its 2014-2015 season. Upcoming concerts include “Peace and Hope” on Oct. 27, “Christmas with the Chorale” on Dec. 12, “Sacred Music for a Sacred Place” on Feb. 22, and “Music’s Power” on April 26. For more information, visit greenvillechorale.com.

Are You Ready To Go Over The Edge?

Over the Edge for a Brighter Tomorrow is a partnership event benefitting non-profits within Upstate South Carolina. Led by the Goodwill Foundation, this exciting rappelling experience is a first-time opportunity for not only Greenville, but for all of SC. On October 4th, participants will rappel 15-stories from atop the Bank of America Building, located at 101 North Main Street, overlooking ONE City Plaza and all of Main Street.

But that’s not the exciting part... each of the 70 participants—or Edgers—will be braving the 228-foot-drop in support of their specified non-profit, all to raise funds for their cause.

Visit www.OTEgreenville.com to learn more.

First Friday in the Village will be on Sept. 5, 6-9 p.m. at the Art & Light Studios, 16 Aiken St., Greenville. The exhibition “Magnetic Collision” will be featured with an opening reception at the Art & Light Gallery, 4 Aberdeen Drive in Greenville on Sept. 19, 6-9 p.m. For more information, visit artandlightgallery.com.

Riverworks Gallery and Benson Campus Galleries are hosting an exhibit entitled “Exploration/ Resolution” featuring the works of Tom Dimond and Terry Jarrard-Dimond now-Sept. 28. There will be an artists’ reception on Sept. 5, 6-9 p.m., at the Riverworks Gallery at 300 River St., Suite 202, Greenville. The gallery is open 2:30-5 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday, and 1-6 p.m. on Thursday-Sunday. The Benson Campus Galleries are located at 2522 Locust Hill Road (Hwy. 290) in Taylors and is open 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday.

Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Mu- Felix seum & Gallery at Heritage Greenville, Spartan- by Tom Dimond burg Art Museum, Upcountry History Museum, and Spartanburg Science Center will participate in Smithsonian magazine’s Museum Day Live! Day on Sept. 27. Museum-goers can get a free ticket, good for two people, by visiting smithsonianmag.com/museumdaylive.

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John Temple Ligon will lecture on Jasper Johns during a show opening and artist talk on Sept. 5, 6-8 p.m., at Gallery Seventeen, 17 W. North St., Greenville.

For more information, visit gallery-seventeen.com.

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“We are excited to have Brian join our brokerage group, and are confident that he will be a valuable team member and producer,” said Steve Smith, CBRE’s Managing Director of South Carolina.

CBRE’s Investment Properties is the world leader in the acquisition and disposition of income-producing properties for third-party owners and corporate occupiers and is comprised of more than 400 dedicated sales professionals located in over 50 markets across the United States. Dillard will work with Associate Brett Floyd in the Greenville market.

Prior to joining CBRE, Dillard worked as a development associate, developing triple-net leased retail properties in the eastern United States. He founded a real estate brokerage company performing site selection and predevelopment of triple-net leased retail development throughout South Carolina. In addition, Dillard brought experience in multifamily and student housing financing and development in the Southeast, Northeast and Midwest United States.

Dillard is a graduate of Clemson University’s Master of Real Estate Development program.

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John Yukich Team

Hubber

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Missy Rick Team

Sheehan

In the Greenville Office, Jill Gabler was Top Listing Agent and Gina Calvin was Top Producer.

The Robby Brady Team was the Top Listing and Producing Team for the Greenville office.

In the Easley Office, Val Hubber was Top Listing Agent and Jackie Crane was Top Producer.

The Missy Rick Team was the Top Listing and Producing Team for the Easley office.

In the Greer Office, Kathy Sheehan was Top Listing Agent and the Top Producer.

The Herseys (Paul and Marcia) were the Top Listing and Producing Team.

For the Greenville-Woodruff Road Office, Susan McMillen was the Top Listing Agent and the Top Producer.

The John Yukich Team was the Top Listing and Producing Team.

The Marchant Company Recognizes Agents for Excellent Performance in July 2014 The Marchant Company, the Upstate’s local “Signature Agency” in Real Estate, representing buyers and sellers of residential, land, and commercial properties, is proud to recognize select REALTORS for outstanding performance through July 2014.

Congratulated by Seabrook Marchant, broker-in-charge, agents honored included: • James Akers, Jr. - Top Volume Listing Leader of the month; • James Akers, Jr. - Top Unit Listing Leader of the month; • Barb Riggs & Kathy Slayter - Top Sales Units Leader of the month; • Barb Riggs - Sales Volume Leader of the month; • March to Sold Team: Anne Marchant, Jolene Wimberly, Brian Marchant - Top Sales Volume Team of the month; • March to Sold Team: Anne Marchant, Jolene Wimberly and Brian Marchant -Top Sales Unit Team of the Month

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March to Sold Team

Coldwell Banker Caine Names Upstate’s Top Producers from June and July 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 months of June and July.

The top producing agents from each office for June are ranked by the total volume of business closed that month and include: • Easley: Susan McCoy, Kathy Gallamore, Suzanne Cook • Greenville: Jacob Mann, Helen Hagood, John Stephenson • Greer: Shelbie Dunn, Linda Wood, Faith Ross • Seneca: Pat Loftis, Barry Voeltz, Lu Smith

• Spartanburg: Judy McCravy, Lori Thompson, Donna Morrow Top listing agents in each office for June are recognized for listing the highest total volume of residential properties that month and include: • Easley: Mary Lou Barnhardt, Suzanne Cook, Wanda Stewart • Greenville: Helen Hagood, Karen Mascaro, Virginia Abrams • Greer: Alicia Waynick, Linda Wood, Susan Wagner

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HOLINGSWORTH WOODRUFF RD & ROCKY $35,345,000

$17,300,000

$2,469,500 CLUB VIEW RANCHETTES $1,390,000 SOUTHCHASE $1,150,000 PENNINGTON PARK $840,000 JOHN RUSSELL $798,162 CLEVELAND TER $755,640

$700,000 ALTA VISTA $695,000 DEERLAND PLANTATION $650,000

$640,000 ABERDEEN HIGHLANDS $630,000 FIVE FORKS PLANTATION $570,000 THORNBLADE $514,000 GARDENS AT THORNBLADE $506,000 MCBEE STATION RESIDENTIAL $499,000 SPAULDING FARMS $495,000

$460,500 WEATHERSTONE $445,000 FAIR HEIGHTS $430,000

$424,675 POINSETT CORNERS $415,000 WELLINGTON $410,000 HAMPTON’S GRANT $405,000 COURT YARDS ON W GEORGIA ROAD $390,000 CARILION $389,000 HOLLAND TRACE $387,500 COURTYARDS ON W GEORGIA RD $378,251 COACHMAN PLANTATION $372,277 RIVERSIDE COURT INDUSTRIAL PARK $368,000 BRADLEY OAKS $363,000 POINSETT CORNERS $360,000 RIDGEWATER $358,612 RIVER OAKS $340,000 BELL’S GRANT $330,000 STONEHAVEN $328,000

$325,000 PELHAM ESTATES $320,000

$300,000 ASCOT $300,000 BRAEMOR $295,346

$295,000 TERRA PINES ESTATES $292,500 HIGHLAND PARC $290,000 PELHAM ESTATES $285,000

$282,500 STONE LAKE HEIGHTS $279,000 JAMESTOWNE ESTATES $277,500 WEST FARM $276,446 BUXTON $276,000 WOOD BRIDGE $275,000 ADAMS CREEK $274,919 HOLLINGSWORTH PARK AT VERDAE $274,817 MORNING MIST $270,140 KELSEY GLEN $268,890 GLASTONBURY VILLAGE $264,675

$264,000 HUNTERS RIDGE $264,000

$257,000

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PEOPL E, AWA RD S, HONOR S • Seneca: Pat Loftis, Connie Williams, Jere duBois • Spartanburg: Annette Starnes, Judy McCravy, Francie Little The top producing agents from each office for July are ranked by the total volume of business closed last month and include: • Easley: Melissa Hall, Carol Walsh, Lisa Watson • Greenville: Holly May, Lisa Humphreys, Susan Gallion • Greer: Hilary Hurst, Charlene Panek, Shelbie Dunn • Seneca: Pat Loftis, Jere duBois, Brett Smagala

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• Spartanburg: Francie Little, Kristi Moon, Kaye McIntyre Top listing agents in each office for July are recognized for listing the highest total volume of residential properties last month and include: • Easley: Suzanne Cook, Susan McCoy, Kathy Gallamore • Greenville: Jacob Mann, Jake Dickens, Helen Hagood • Greer: Faith Ross, David Glenn, Shelbie Dunn • Seneca: Pat Loftis, Lu Smith, Barry Voeltz • Spartanburg: Francie Little, Judy McCravy, Lisa Hauser

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R E A L E S TAT E N E W S Existing-Home Sales Continue to Climb in July

Existing-home sales increased in July to their highest annual pace of the year, and the ongoing decline in distressed sales reached an important milestone, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

Total existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, rose 2.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.15 million in July from a slight downwardly-revised 5.03 million in June. Sales are at the highest pace of 2014 and have risen four consecutive months, but remain 4.3 percent below the 5.38 million-unit level from last July, which was the peak of 2013.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, says sales momentum is slowly building behind stronger job growth and improving inventory conditions. “The number of houses for sale is higher than a year ago and tamer price increases are giving prospective buyers less hesitation about entering the market,” he said. “More people are buying homes compared to earlier in the year and this trend should continue with interest rates remaining low and apartment rents on the rise.”

Yun does warn that affordability is likely to decline in upcoming years. “Although interest rates have fallen in recent months, median family incomes are still lagging behind price gains, and mortgage rates will inevitably rise with the upcoming changes in monetary policy,” he said.

The median existing-home price for all housing types in July was $222,900, which is 4.9 percent above July 2013. This marks the 29thconsecutive month of year-over-year price gains.

Total housing inventory at the end of July rose 3.5 percent to 2.37 million existing homes available for sale, which represents a 5.5-month supply at the current sales pace. Unsold inventory is 5.8 percent higher than a year ago, when there were 2.24 million existing homes available for sale.

Distressed homes – foreclosures and short sales – accounted for 9 percent of July sales, down from 15 percent a year ago and the first time they were in the single-digits since NAR started tracking the category in October 2008. Six percent of July sales were foreclosures and 3 percent were short sales.

Foreclosures sold for an average discount of 20 percent below market value in July, while short sales were discounted 14 percent.

Yun says the deepest housing wounds suffered during the Great Recession are beginning to fully heal. “To put it in perspective, distressed sales represented an average of 36 percent of sales during all of 2009,” he said. “Fast-forward to today and rising home values are helping owners recover equity and strong job creation are assisting those who may have fallen behind on their mortgage due to unemployment or underemployment.”

All-cash sales in July were 29 percent of transactions, down from 32 percent in June and representing the lowest overall share since January 2013 (28 percent). Individual investors, who account for many cash sales, purchased 16 percent of homes in July, unchanged from last month and July 2013. Sixty-nine percent of investors paid cash in July.

According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage fell for the third consecutive month to 4.13 percent in July from 4.16 percent in June, and remains the lowest rate since June 2013 (4.07 percent).

The percent share of first-time buyers in July rose slightly for the second straight month to 29 percent (28 percent in June), but remain historically low.

Jon Pickhardt, 2014 President of The Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® and co-owner of Flagship Properties SC and The Office Centers, LLC, in Grenville, SC, says the new credit scoring calculation recently announced by Fair Isaac Corp., or FICO, will improve access to homeownership. “NAR supports efforts to broaden access to credit for qualified homebuyers, especially those who have been shut out of the housing market or forced to pay higher interest rates because of flawed credit scores,” he said. “A solid credit score is necessary to keep borrowing costs down.”

The median time on market for all homes was 48 days in July, up from 44 days in June; it was 42 days on market in July 2013. Short sales were on the market for a median of 93 days in July, while foreclosures sold in 58 days and non-distressed homes typically took 45 days. Forty percent of homes sold in July were on the market for less than a month.

Single-family home sales increased 2.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.55 million in July from 4.43 million in June, but remain 4.2 percent below the 4.75 million pace a year ago. The median existing single-family home price was $223,900 in July, up 5.1 percent from July 2013.

Existing condominium and co-op sales remained unchanged in July from June at an annual rate of 600,000 units, and are 4.8 percent below the 630,000 unit pace a year ago. The median existing condo price was $215,000 in July, which is 3.3 percent higher than a year ago.

Regionally, July existing-home sales in the Northeast stayed at an annual rate of 640,000 for the second consecutive month and are now 9.9 percent below a year ago. The median price in the Northeast was $273,600, an increase of 2.4 percent from July 2013.

In the Midwest, existing-home sales increased 1.7 percent to an annual level of 1.22 million in July, but remain 4.7 percent below July 2013. The median price in the Midwest was $175,200, up 4.1 percent from a year ago.

Existing-home sales in the South rose 3.4 percent to an annual rate of 2.12 million in July, and are now up slightly (0.5 percent) from July 2013. The median price in the South was $192,000, up 5.0 percent from a year ago.

Existing-home sales in the West climbed 2.6 percent to an annual rate of 1.17 million in July, but remain 8.6 percent below a year ago. The median price in the West was $304,100, which is 6.3 percent above July 2013.

NOTE: For local information, please contact the local association of Realtors® for data from local multiple listing services. Local MLS data is the most accurate source of sales and price information in specific areas, although there may be differences in reporting methodology.

Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® represents over 1,800 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.

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014, AT 6:00 p.m. (or at such time as other public hearings are concluded) IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING PUBLIC COMMENTS IN REGARDS TO THE FOOTHILLS FIRE SERVICE AREA OPERATIONAL BUDGET AND MILLAGE LEVY FOR THE TAX YEAR 2015; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENDITURES OF THE REVENUES RECEIVED BY THE FOOTHILLS FIRE SERVICE AREA DURING THE TAX YEAR. THE FOOTHILLS FIRE SERVICE AREA BOARD HAS REQUESTED THAT GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL APPROVE AN INCREASE OF THREE-TENTHS (0.3) MILL IN THE FIRE SERVICE AREA’S AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE LEVY FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FOR A TOTAL MILLAGE OF TEN AND EIGHTTENTHS (10.8) MILLS. THIS INCREASE REPRESENTS CPI AND GROWTH AS ALLOWED UNDER S.C. CODE ANN. SECTION 6-1-320(A).

BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 AT 6:00 p.m. (or at such time as other public hearings are concluded), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, TO CONSIDER THE MILLAGE REQUEST BY THE LAKE CUNNINGHAM FIRE DISTRICT FOR THE 2015 TAX YEAR. THE LAKE CUNNINGHAM BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF S.C. CODE ANN. SECTION 6-11-275, AS AMENDED, HAS REQUESTED THAT GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL MAINTAIN THEIR PRESENT MILLAGE RATE OF THIRTY-TWO AND SEVEN TENTHS (32.7) MILLS FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, WHICH IS ABOVE THE FIFTEEN (15) MILLS ESTABLISHED BY STATUTE FOR THE LAKE CUNNINGHAM FIRE DISTRICT. THE REQUEST OF THE LAKE CUNNINGHAM BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL REPRESENTS NO INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR’S AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE LEVY. BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014, AT 6:00 p.m. (or at such time as other public hearings are concluded), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, TO CONSIDER THE MILLAGE REQUEST BY THE BOILING SPRINGS FIRE DISTRICT FOR THE 2015 TAX YEAR. THE BOILING SPRINGS BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF S.C. CODE ANN. SECTION 6-11275, AS AMENDED, HAS REQUESTED GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL MAINTAIN THEIR PRESENT MILLAGE RATE OF TWENTY-FOUR (24.0) MILLS FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, WHICH IS ABOVE THE TWENTY (20) MILLS ESTABLISHED BY STATUTE FOR THE BOILING SPRINGS FIRE DISTRICT. THE REQUEST OF THE BOILING SPRINGS BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL REPRESENTS NO INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR’S AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE LEVY. BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014, AT 6:00 p.m. (or at such time as other public hearings are concluded) IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, TO CONSIDER THE MILLAGE REQUEST BY THE DUNKLIN FIRE DISTRICT FOR THE 2015 TAX YEAR. THE DUNKLIN BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF S.C. CODE ANN. SECTION 6-11-275, AS AMENDED, HAS REQUESTED GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL MAINTAIN THEIR PRESENT MILLAGE RATE OF TWENTYSEVEN AND NINE-TENTHS (27.9) MILLS FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE. THIS REQUEST INCLUDES ONE AND SEVEN-TENTHS (1.7) MILLS FOR A RESERVE ACCOUNT PREVIOUSLY LEVIED PURSUANT TO S.C. CODE ANN. § 6-1320(D).

THE REQUESTED MILLAGE, WHICH IS ABOVE THE TEN (10) MILLS AUTHORIZED BY LAW FOR THE DUNKLIN FIRE DISTRICT, REPRESENTS NO INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR’S AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE. BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

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SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following:

PUBLIC NOTICE THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 6-11470 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED.

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ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014, GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL ADOPTED A RESOLUTION WHICH ENLARGED THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT BY INCLUDING CERTAIN PROPERTIES LOCATED WITHIN THE DREXEL TERRACE SUBDIVISION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ORDERLY COLLECTING AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE, GARBAGE AND TRASH WITHIN GREENVILLE COUNTY.

THE REASON FOR THE INCLUSION OF THE AFORESAID PROPERTY IS DUE TO THE PROPERTY OWNER HAVING PETITIONED THE COUNTY TO BE ANNEXED INTO THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE SANITATION SERVICE FOR THEIR RESIDENCE. THE RESULT OF THIS ACTION IS THE NEW BOUNDARY LINE WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE AREA AND TAX MAP NUMBERS LISTED ABOVE. MAP OF THE NEW BOUNDARY AND A LEGAL DESCRIPTION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE.

A mandatory pre-bid meeting and site tour will be held at 9:00 A.M., EDT, September 3, 2014 at Greenville County Procurement Services Office, County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601.

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

GREENVILLE COUNTY ZONING AND PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE There will be a public hearing before County Council on Monday, September 15, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in County Council Chambers, County Square, for the purpose of hearing those persons interested in the following items: DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2014-38 APPLICANT: Convergent Property Group for Timothy William Lyda and Paula Kim Parris Living Trust CONTACT INFORMATION: james@convergentpg.com or 864-751-1000 PROPERTY LOCATION: N. Pleasantburg Drive and Worley Road PIN: 0174020600700 EXISTING ZONING: R-12, Single-Family Residential REQUESTED ZONING: C-2, Commercial ACREAGE: 2.97 COUNTY COUNCIL: 23 – Norris DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2014-39 APPLICANT: Jamie McCutchen for W. R. Hale & N. H. Riley as Trust CONTACT INFORMATION: jamiem@ccadengineering.com or 864-250-9999 PROPERTY LOCATION: East North Street and Kimbrell Road PIN: 0538030102000 portion EXISTING ZONING: R-15, Single-Family Residential and R-M20, Multifamily Residential REQUESTED ZONING: R-M5, Multifamily Residential ACREAGE: 33.82 COUNTY COUNCIL: 20 – Cates DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2014-40 APPLICANT: Jamie McCutchen for Carol Pierce McKinney CONTACT INFORMATION: jamiem@ccadengineering.com or 864-250-9999 PROPERTY LOCATION: Rocky Point Way PIN: 0533020100703 EXISTING ZONING: PD, Planned Development REQUESTED ZONING: R-S, Residential Suburban ACREAGE: 12.10 COUNTY COUNCIL: 21 – Burns All persons interested in these proposed amendments to the Greenville County Zoning Ordinance and Map are invited to attend this meeting. At subsequent meetings, Greenville County Council may approve or deny the proposed amendments as requested or approve a different zoning classification than requested.

THE NEW BOUNDARY LINES TO RESULT FOR THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT WOULD INCLUDE GREENVILLE COUNTY TAX MAP NUMBERS ("TMS#") 0538010102301, 0538010104000, 0538010104200, 0538010104201 0538010104400, 0538010104600, 0538010104800, 0538010104900, 0538010105000, 0538010105100, 0538010105200, 0538010105300, 0538010105400, 0538010105500, 0538010105600, 0538010105700, 0538010105800, 0538010105900, 0538010106100, 0538010106300, 0538010106401, 0538010106600, 0538010106700, 0538010106800, 0538010106900, 0538010107000, 0538010107100, 0538010107201, 0538010107300, 0538010107400, 0538010107500, 0538010107700, 0538010107800, 0538010107900, 0538010108000, 0538010108100, 0538010108200, 0538010108300, 0538010108400, 0538010108500, 0538010108600, 0538010108700, 0538010108800, 0538010108900, 0538010109000, 0538010109100, 0538010110400, 0538010110500, 0538010110600, 0538010110700, 0538010110800, 0538010110900, 0538010111000, 0538010111100, 0538010111200, 0538010111300, 0538010111400, 0538010111500, 0538010111600, 0538010111700, 0538010111800, 0538010111900, 0538010112000, 0538010112100, 0538010112200, 0538010112300, 0538010112400, 0538010112500, 0538010112600, 0538010112700, 0538010112800, 0538010112900, 0538010113000,

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BY THE DISTRICT, AS A RESULT OF THIS ACTION, NOR WILL THERE BE ANY CHANGES IN THE COMMISSION NOR IN THE PERSONNEL OF THE PRESENT COMMISSION OF THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT. BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014, AT 6:00 p.m. (or at such time as other public hearings are concluded), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, TO CONSIDER THE MILLAGE REQUEST BY THE SOUTH GREENVILLE FIRE DISTRICT FOR THE 2015 TAX YEAR. THE SOUTH GREEVNILLE BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF S.C. CODE ANN. SECTION 6-11-275, AS AMENDED, HAS REQUESTED GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL MAINTAIN THEIR PRESENT MILLAGE RATE OF THIRTYSIX AND TWO TENTHS (36.2) MILLS FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, WHICH IS ABOVE THE SIXTEEN (16) MILLS ESTABLISHED BY STATUTE FOR THE SOUTH GREENVILLE FIRE DISTRICT. THE REQUEST OF THE SOUTH GREENVILLE BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL REPRESENTS NO INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR’S AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE LEVY. BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Dave & Buster's of South Carolina, Inc, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/ permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1025 Woodruff Rd., Suite P101, Greenville, SC 29607.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 31, 2014. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Pohl Property Management, LLC dba Phoenix Inn of Greenville, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 246 N Pleasantburg Drive Greenville SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 31, 2014. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Huntin’ Camp BBQ & Grill Inc.., intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 2221 Hwy 25 North, Travelers Rest S.C. 29690. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than September 7, 2014.

For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that H. T. Grills, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1025 Woodruff Road, #J105, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than September 14, 2014.

For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

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Students at St. Anthony School were excited to reconnect with teachers and fellow students as they began a new school year.

The Greenville Tech Foundation has received a gift of $19,970, which will benefit Greenville Technical College and its students. Part of the gift is based on volunteer work done by representatives of GTC and GTF. Sterling Green, Bo Robertson, Shantell Brown, Brooke Culp, Melissa DeSantis and Monica Ravnell each volunteered for at least six days. Proceeds from the event benefited 24 other Upstate organizations. From left: Greenville Tech Foundation board member John Slipke, GTF Development Officer Kristy Way, GTF President Bob Howard and GTF Development Coordinator Stan Starnes.

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As one of the 30 local companies who agreed to run their United Way workplace campaigns early, prior to the official community-wide kickoff on Sept. 3, UBS employees contributed a record amount to do their part to get this year’s campaign off to a running start. As a reward to employees, the UBS branch manager, Curt Hall, had his head shaved as part of a recent company-wide celebration at the UBS office in downtown Greenville. Shaving Hall’s head is barber Horace Littlefield of Horace’s Hair Designs.

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Greenville High School freshmen play tug-of-war during first week activities at the school.

Greenville High School freshmen take part in team building activities during the first week of school.

The Greenville Middle Academy PTA welcomed teachers and staff back to school with a breakfast earlier this month.

Greenville High School students have lunch during the first week of school.

Fourth-graders in Mary DeSantis’ class enjoyed lunch on the first day of school at Ellen Woodside Elementary.

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Crossword puzzle: page 46

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ACROSS 1 Thingamajig 7 Toronto team, familiarly 11 Schnauzer of fiction 15 Jack Jones’ record label 19 Place for an ace?

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64 Some coins 66 The dating service photographer was happy when __ 71 Finally 73 The last Mrs. Chaplin 74 “I’m buying!”

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84 The arctic photographer had to consider __ 89 Lao-tzu followers 91 Meat-filled pastry 92 “Help me out here, bud” 94 ER command 95 Single 96 Barenboim is its current music director 100 Modesto vintner 102 Prior to, in poems 103 Peso part 104 The dessert photographer took a set of __ 106 Arcade pioneer 109 Mead milieu 111 Computer acronym 112 The stressed-out photographer __ 116 Passionate 120 Envelope abbr.

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3 Vintner’s prefix 4 Ben Franklin’s belief 5 Is of use 6 Downward movement 7 Star of TV’s “The Fugitive” 8 Supped 9 Hindu mystics 10 White-robe providers 11 Not much 12 Oskar Schindler, to many 13 Half of sei 14 California’s Santa __ Mountains 15 Done for 16 Pub offerings 17 Prepare for a trip 18 “That’s rough” 25 Word with pool or table 26 Twain of country 28 Shift neighbor 31 Piquant 32 Fred Astaire’s birthplace 33 Quieted, in a way 34 Dutch cheeses 36 Bulldoze, in Bath

37 St. comprised of two peninsulas 40 Cab in a bottle, say 41 Southwest competitor 42 Disdain 43 AHL’s Iowa Wild, when they were in Houston 45 Skosh 47 Set-__: arguments 49 Bring to mind 51 Makes serious demands on 53 Webzine 54 Not of the cloth 55 Puff up in the breeze 58 Chant 62 “Rocky III” actor 63 Genetic letters 64 Airer of many RKO films 65 Vermont ski resort 66 Slip by 67 Luis’ “Let’s go!”

68 Laugh-a-minute 69 Calvary inscription 70 Prepares for use, as software 71 1999-2004 Olds 72 Snake venom, e.g.

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101 Underworld god 103 Ill-tempered type 104 Made fun of 105 Conceals 106 At a distance 107 South American monkey 108 Farm workers 110 Vision: Pref.

113 NYC traveler’s option 114 Holiday veggie 115 Verdi’s “__ tu” 117 Victorian __ 118 Marshal under Napoleon 119 NFL scores Crossword answers: page 45

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PAST AND PRESENT WITH COURTNEY TOLLISON HARTNESS, PH.D.

A monument to a visionary Modern-day Greenville is the legacy of creative and bold people. Directly and indirectly, our community has benefitted from their inspired visions, impassioned and stalwart efforts, and remarkable talents.

Some of them, such as wooden-legged tap dancer Peg Leg Bates, Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene, visionary Mayor Max Heller, educator Pete Hollis, the “father of Greenville” Vardry McBee, statesman and botanist Joel Poinsett, physicist Charles Townes, and the courageous Sterling High School students, have been honored with statues at the very heart of our community on Main Street and its arteries.

In Greenville, as in every city, the landscape and cityscape represent the results of strategic decisions about how best to use and occupy land and how to improve the community’s quality of life: How do we balance economic progress with the need for green space? Should we build a bank, construct a parking garage, establish a performing arts venue, create a park, or grow a garden?

Do we place a statue on that city corner, and if so, of whom?

Those decisions are either consciously or subconsciously guided by a community’s ideals, and one can readily grasp those ideals by examining who a community acknowledges as its leaders, and how. The statuary that punctuates the cityscape of any community reveals that community’s identity and values. The cityscape is a community’s self-image.

Greenville’s self-image is rich in legacy yet bleak in recognizing the role that women have played in its history. Many women have contributed creatively and courageously to Greenville’s evolution.

Greenville Woman’s College Lady Principal Mary Camilla Judson, African-American youth advocate Hattie Logan Duckett, and Jim Perry, the first woman to be admitted to the South Carolina bar, are just a few noteworthy examples from Greenville’s past. Yet, with the exception of the young female figure included in the Sterling High School monument on Main Street, Greenville has not recognized any women in statuary form.

Until now.

On Thursday, Sept. 4, our community will gather to dedicate a statue to a

The public is welcome to attend the dedication of the statue in Dr. Uldrick’s honor on Thursday, Sept. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Governor’s School, at the intersection of University and Howe streets.

ness, Genevieve Sakas Manly, Buck and Minor Mickel, Connie and Bill Timmons, and hundreds of others like them who would say, “Here she comes again!” and then generously give to make her vision a reality. The city and county of Greenville offered 8.5 acres on the land that formerly hosted the men’s campus of Furman. The Legislature awarded Greenville with the school, Minor Mickel Shaw co-chaired the state effort to raise necessary funds, and Dr. Uldrick became the school’s first president.

The Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities itself stands as a monument to Virginia Uldrick. Since it graduated its first class in 2001, it has enriched this state and the nation by providing a wellspring of new artistic talent. As a public residential high school, its students receive intensive pre-professional arts training and strong academic and humanities instruction leading to a high school diploma. Its graduates perform on the

world’s stage.

At the entrance to the Governor’s School will stand a perpetual tribute to Virginia Uldrick. This statue, created

by Greenville artist Zan Wells, will hold deep meaning for Dr. Uldrick’s friends, family, admirers, and the thousands she helped nurture. It, along with the school, will serve as a monument to an ideal: how one person can create a legacy that deepens and multiplies as it endures. The statue of Virginia Uldrick will be a most apropos fixture in front of the school she established.

For Greenville, the dedication of the statue of Virginia Uldrick marks a pivotal moment in our efforts to ensure that downtown Greenville’s cityscape accurately reflects those who have helped create it.

Dr. Courtney Tollison Hartness is an assistant professor of history at Furman and museum historian at the Upcountry History Museum.

woman, Virginia Uldrick, a passionate, relentless and visionary advocate for young artists. Her efforts to create and develop the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities has transformed the lives of some of South Carolina’s most talented young people.

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