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EMS still at forefront of council discussion APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com The future of the Greenville County Emergency Medical Service (EMS) again dominated discussion at the Greenville County Council meeting on Tuesday.

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System officials continue to insist they were left out of meetings with the county to explore options of a health system taking over the county-run EMS operations.

County Administrator Joe Kernell maintains that he had meetings with both St. Francis and Greenville Health System (GHS) on the future of EMS. He has said that the EMS department could also continue its operations as is without any changes.

Councilman Jim Burns attempted to set a meeting in October for the council’s committee of the whole to discuss EMS, but his motion was defeated in favor of one allowing council Chairman Bob Taylor to set a meeting time. Taylor said he was meeting with St. Francis CEO Mark Nantz this month and the meeting could be set in October.

Councilman H.G. “Butch” Kirven said that the council meeting on EMS should be at the discretion of the chairman and “when appropriate.” Burns said he simply wanted to hear all the options.

“If anybody has ideas about how to improve EMS, I want to hear them,” Burns said. “What I would wish is that we don’t choose sides.” Council member Joe Baldwin agreed the issue needs to be addressed quickly due to rumors in the community.

Nantz has said a county decision to allow GHS to oversee EMS operations could amount to a monopoly for the larger health system. “If we want to change it [EMS], we should do it together,” he told the Journal after the council meeting. Nantz did not speak Tuesday night, but was part of a contingent from St. Francis in attendance.

In the public input period, Greenville resident Nelle Palms spoke in support of collaboration, saying she had to tell EMS staff three times that her children should be transported to St. Francis following a car accident in May. “Apparently a funneling of patients already exists,” she said. “This is no place for a monopoly or implication of a monopoly.”

Kernell and council members say that patient choice has always been part of the EMS department and that would not change. Kernell told the council that EMS bills approximately $26 mil-

Arena District board seat open A seat on the Greenville County Arena District board is open after Greenville County Council rescinded a recommendation for James E. Smith Jr. to be appointed to the board. Gov. Nikki Haley must approve appointments to the Arena District board, which oversees the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in downtown Greenville. County officials said after receiving a state-conducted background check, council held an executive session and opted Tuesday night to rescind the appointment. The application process will be opened again for two weeks and applications can be obtained under “Boards” at greenvillecounty.org/county_council. lion yearly and collects roughly $13 million. The department operates at an approximate $4 million annual loss, according to Kirven.

Councilman Joe Dill said recently that he expects a recommendation from Kernell within the next month or so. Dill said several other health systems are served by EMS in addition to GHS and St. Francis and should be included in the discussion.

“All have to be considered, not just two in Greenville,” he said. Dill said he thinks the county should maintain ownership of EMS, but use the expertise of the local health systems. “There are all the professionals in the community that you could ask for [in two health systems].”

County officials said there is no timeline for a change in EMS. In other business, council passed a resolution in opposition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed changes in the definition of waters under the Clean Water Act. Assistant county administrator for community planning, development and public works Paula Gucker said that the change could contribute to longer wait times for permits and additional staff for plan reviews related to development.

Council also approved the 2015 county road-paving list, which includes roughly 33 miles at a cost of approximately $5.5 million.

Greenville County Council is scheduled to meet again on Sept.16 at 6 p.m. at County Square, 301 University Ridge, Greenville.

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A collaboration call Problems, people, process, planning, potential, progress and pretty creative solutions are all words that come to mind when I think of collective impact.

In 2011, the Stanford Social Innovation Review published an article that defined collective impact as “a group from different sectors that comes together for a common agenda to solve a specific social problem, using an organized form of collaboration.” However, the description leaves out patience, human complexities, trial and error, and firsthand knowledge of the identified situation, coined as “lived experience” by Paul Born.

In the old way of problem-solving, an isolated organization would identify a community problem that needed to be solved – like poverty, low graduation rates or unemployment – then gather data, tie on their “superhero” cape and fly off to save the day. The best minds of that organization would sit around tables, write on boards, collect ideas, seek funding and then charge out to accomplish the task. Needless to say, they often returned frustrated and unsuccessful.

Imagine what would happen if true collaboration and collective impact took place instead. Include representatives from the business, faith-based, nonprofit, financial, educational and health care sectors, along with those who have lived experience, to join the conversation and share knowledge to find solutions that can bring about undiscovered potential.

A great local example is the Greater Sullivan Community in the heart of Greenville. This neighborhood suffers from high unemployment and low graduation rates. Many facets of our community came together and focused on solutions for youth through a community gardening program.

The nonprofit community selected the participants and oversaw the operations. The faith community seeded the money and provided the land for the start of the project. The business community provided mentors, grants and employment opportunities. The educational institutions provided training and development. The health

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IN MY OWN WORDS by SEAN DOGAN

care community provided a platform to display produce. Financial institutions provided economic education.

Community members provided their skills and resources, a greenhouse, land and a livestock farm. Those with lived experience provided information, inspiration and intense passion.

This successful collaboration created undiscovered potential and hope. Hope is amazing because it is hard to measure its worth. Many nonprofit organizations in Greenville could benefit from and should expand their collective impact.

If you want to join the conversation about collaborative leadership, attend Shine the Light’s “Expanding Leadership Beyond Your Walls” session on Sept. 9 from 8 a.m.−noon at the Kroc Center. Sydney Rogers, executive director of Alignment Nashville, will be the keynote speaker. She is currently developing Alignment USA, a national network of collective impact organizations that adopt Alignment Principles, Structure, Process and Technology.

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“Eich naflu giborim! How the mighty have fallen!”

Our rabbis, themselves Holocaust survivors, would bitterly repeat David’s lament as they considered the righteous rabbi-scholars who perished during the Holocaust. They would invoke David’s outcry as they reminisced about the charismatic moral leadership commanded by the rabbis of Lithuania and Poland before Hitler.

We, their students, saw things inversely: We rejected moral authority and remanded our destiny to miscreants like Abbie Hoffman and Stokely Carmichael.

Some of us even dared trivialize Dr. King.

Fast-forward 50 years, and now listen to us bemoan: Where are the bold, moral voices of our youth? Dr. King, Nelson Mandela, William Sloane Coffin, Julian Bond, Abraham Joshua Heschel, JFK, Golda Meir? I refuse to believe that no one remains who is capable or driven to rouse a nation or even a local crowd to the higher good.

Anyone with sense knows that the events in Ferguson, Mo., are not an aberration, but the symptom of a pandemic that poisons all sides of this ugly issue.

Genuine resolution demands sweeping, elementary changes to every aspect of contemporary life. Some of the changes must return us to cherished American values. Others should prompt us to explore new ways of moving society forward. It is a complex process, long and hard.

That’s when my cranky old man voice kicks in: “How the mighty have fallen!”

I remember the days when we had men and women who stood out as moral exemplars, capable of mustering a crowd with charisma and determination to do the right thing. Their “Do not!” was as authoritative as their exhortation to “Keep your eyes on the prize!” They knew how to grab an audience’s attention and mobilize it to moral rectitude, or at least to reject violence.

Perhaps this generation is simply more cynical, and the vaccine will not take. If that is what you believe, you would be confusing cause and effect, for even the toughest among us could be transformed by the urging of a reso-

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nant, credible voice.

True, too, that these vaunted moral exemplars were badly flawed human beings. Then you obviously do not remember all our flawed Biblical heroes, starting with no one less than Moses.

I could not restrain myself when Rev. Sharpton stood before a crowd in Ferguson, ostensibly to call for peace. Instead, he used his considerable authority to muster the throng to continued violent protest. And no, this is not an AfricanAmerican issue. White folk respond the same way to men even in high political positions, who raise their voices to rally the rabble. Hatred is colorblind and the voice of moderation and basic human decency is rarely to be heard.

So, where is the new generation that will shape our idealism? Who will emerge to influence our world aright?

Where is the incubator to nurture them? Who will identify the capacity in our young people to be moral exemplars and spokespeople, before the capacity is forever swallowed up?

Where are the elders to urge a new generation to aspire to be the next Dr. King? Here and there, but not enough.

We will break the vicious cycle by beckoning the next generation forward. We need to give them a shot at awakening us to virtues as plain as human dignity and as complex as ending war, poverty, disease, abuse. In our encouragement, let us loudly affirm that, no, the mighty have not yet fallen.

Marc Howard Wilson is a rabbi and founder of Torah Chayim, an interfaith covenant community, in Greenville. He was on the leadership team for Greenville’s Year of Altruism project.

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Hollingsworth murders, LEC shooting linked SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com A gunman who shot a Greenville city police officer Monday night at the Law Enforcement Center before killing himself was also responsible for the murder of his stepfather and the slaying of two security guards on the Hollingsworth textile plant property Friday night, Greenville County Sheriff Steve Loftis and Interim Greenville Police Chief Mike Gambrell told reporters at a joint media briefing Tuesday.

The officer was shot multiple times and transported to the hospital Monday. The alleged shooter, Evan Casey Bennett, 23, died Monday night at the LEC of a self-inflicted gun- Bennett in 2011 shot wound to the head, Coroner Parks Evans reported.

Gambrell said Bennett arrived at the LEC around 10:20 p.m. Monday

night and attempted to enter the facility. Bennett, who was armed with a knife, 12-gauge shotgun and handgun, fired two rounds into the glass doors after finding them locked, Gambrell said.

The police chief said Bennett returned to the parking lot and hid behind a sheriff ’s vehicle. When a city of Greenville officer arrived at the LEC minutes later in response to the backup call, Bennett began firing at him, Gambrell said. The officer, who is a five-year veteran, fired only one round, which did not hit Bennett, Gambrell said. The officer suffered gunshot wounds to his right side and forearm, and is listed in serious but stable condition, Gambrell said.

“Out of respect and care for the officer, who is considered a victim in this case, we will not release his name,” the chief said.

Sheriff Loftis told reporters investigators believe Bennett also fired the shots that killed security guards Bobby Wayne Wood, 65, and Richard Ellison, 53, at the vacant Hollingsworth on Wheels plant on Laurens Road early

Friday morning.

Investigators found Wood’s badge in Bennett’s room at 18 Augusta Court after responding to a homicide there.

Gambrell and Loftis told reporters family members reportedly confronted Bennett about the Hollingsworth shootings less than an hour before the LEC incident. A witness told police Bennett confessed, argued with his stepfather, Gregory Jones, 58, then retrieved a shotgun from his room and shot Jones in the face. Bennett reportedly said “the war is just beginning,” and left the house wearing camouflage pants, black fingerless gloves and a black tactical vest.

Loftis said Bennett was unstable and had seen a psychiatrist at least once.

Bennett had one previous charge of stalking in 2011 but that was dismissed, officials said. He did not have a job, according to investigators.

Loftis said authorities believe Bennett acted alone. The sheriff called the Hollingsworth shootings “a senseless thrill killing” and said the LEC incident had “all the symptoms of suicide by cop.” The investigation is ongoing.

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For many, going to school means staying home More students are being home-schooled, attending school online CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com For a growing number of students, going to school means no school at all – at least in the traditional sense.

An increasing number of students in Greenville County and across South Carolina are being home-schooled or are attending school online through one of the state’s virtual schools.

“Education is not one size fits all,” said Suzanne Brown, a home-school mom who started the Upstate Homeschool Co-op in 1997, a place where home-school students can take courses taught by other home-school parents with expertise in those fields. “I think parents are realizing that the education system is failing children whose learning styles don’t fit inside the box.”

For a growing number of parents – unlike many of those who pioneered the home-school movement – the decision is not purely for religious or moral reasons.

“Home education has become more mainstream,” Brown said.

HOME-SCHOOL NUMBERS ARE GROWING The number of home-school students is growing in the Palmetto State, but the exact amount is difficult to determine because the state is not required to keep official numbers, Brown said.

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Brown said the Upstate Homeschool Co-op has 492 students this year, the most ever.

The Upstate Homeschool Co-op started with 19 students meeting in Brown’s house in 1997. This year, it has 492 students, the most it has ever had.

The co-op has 49 teachers. Not all are credentialed, Brown said, but all are experts in their fields.

“We’re turning people away,” she said.

“That’s a good problem to have for us, but a bad problem for parents trying

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The co-op also offers competitive sports teams, field trips, clubs, and produces a yearbook and a newspaper. And home-school students are now allowed to play high school sports for the public high school for which they are zoned.

Brown said she believes Common Core has had something to do with the increase. But she said the fact that parents are better able to meet the teaching load through co-ops, dual-credit programs and online classes helps, too.

Brown is seeing an increase in the number of home-school families with two working parents.

“There was a family two weeks ago where the dad took a shift job, and if they didn’t home-school, he wouldn’t have seen his kids,” she said. “During the last five years, there’s been a huge increase in home schooling in twoparent working homes.”

VIRTUAL SCHOOLS PRESENT ONLINE OPTION A growing number of South Carolina students are attending virtual schools.

The state first offered full-time cyber schools in 2008 when three virtual

schools opened as a part of the South Carolina Public Charter School District.

That first year, more than 2,000 students enrolled. Now, there are six virtual schools, and enrollment has quadrupled.

Lilah Westmoreland’s daughter, Tyler, attended South Carolina Connections Academy beginning in seventh grade.

She earned her high school diploma in three years and now attends Winthrop University on full scholarship.

Tyler, who has ADHD, started her seventh-grade year in a private school.

Halfway through the year, they decided to give virtual school a try.

“For us, it was not only a good choice, it was the best choice.”

Lilah Westmoreland

“I had a student who went from sixth grade – where she did poorly and was written off by teachers as a student who could not be successful – to one who was near the top of her class in high school, graduated in three years and went on to college,” Lilah Westmoreland said. “For us, it was not only a good choice, it was the best choice.”

But not all students do well.

Supporters of virtual charter schools say many virtual charter students are at-risk students who don’t stay in the program for all their middle school or high school years. That hurts their graduation rates, something that impacts their school report card grades.

Four of the six virtual charter schools received federal school report card grades in 2013. South Carolina Connections Academy and Provost Academy both earned C’s. South Carolina Virtual Charter earned D’s at both the middle school and high school level.

South Carolina Calvert Academy, an online school that serves students in kindergarten through the eighth grade, has earned F’s the last two report cards.

“If you’re willing to do the work, and some students are not, it’s very difficult to get behind at Connections Academy,” Lilah Westmoreland said. “For parents

WHY HOME-SCHOOL?

» Child has a physical or mental health problem: 15%

» Child has other special needs: 17% » A desire to provide a nontraditional

approach to child’s education: 44%

» A dissatisfaction with academic

instruction at other schools: 74%

» A desire to provide moral instruction: 77%

» A concern about environment of other schools: 91%

» Other reasons: 37% Source: U.S. Department of Education

who don’t want to be invested in their child’s education, it’s not going to work.”

Westmoreland said she didn’t consider home schooling her daughter even though she served as her daughter’s learning coach.

“I didn’t want to be responsible for setting the curriculum, but I was more than willing to be responsible for overseeing that she got the work done,” she said. “It was an amazing choice for our family.”

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With his company up and running, Anderson teamed with artist Terry Locke to create JEANNE PUTNAM | CONTRIBUTOR the Marine Corps Legacy T-shirt, which Anjputnam@communityjournals.com derson says is a tribute to his friends in the The brotherhood of the U.S. military lives branch because the Marines “honor past and on in veteran David Anderson’s Marine Corps present and carry their legacy into the future.”

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Partners Stand Tall to Help Veterans An army of community partners has joined forces with Greenville Health System (GHS) to expand services for the 100,000+ veterans living in the Upstate.

At GHS, our Military and Government Liaison Office aims to transform veterans’ lives. This office helps us connect with like-minded groups while forging new initiatives and partnerships for military heroes and their families. We salute our partners who fight for veterans: l GHS assists the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs by providing clinical services for upstate veterans. l With the Keowee Key community, our Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital (RCP) hosts “Honoring Their Service,” a weeklong respite for Marines and wounded soldiers with RCP therapists and adaptive sports equipment. l RCP sponsors a para-cycling team in partnership with Greenville Cycling & Multi-Sport that features elite athletes from around the country, some of whom are veterans. l The Driver Rehabilitation Program at RCP uses simulators to help those with combat-related injuries return to driving. Simulator exercises were evaluated by Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research and by DriveSafety. First tested at RCP, these simulators are used at military hospitals nationwide.

l GHS sponsors Honor Flight Upstate’s twice-yearly trips to Washington, D.C., by providing medical volunteers who accompany traveling veterans. l This season, we are teaming with The Warehouse Theatre to present plays focused on veterans and offer special events so the community better understands how to support veterans and their families. Earlier this year, we sponsored A Few Good Men at Centre Stage and hosted a community conversation about veterans’ issues. l GHS works with Upstate Warrior Solution, a nonprofit group that ensures area veterans have access to health care, education, housing and employment. l Other partners who honor veterans with community events include Greenville Scottish Games and A Hero’s 5K at Furman University, along with Military Appreciation Night at Fluor Field with the Greenville Drive. GHS also hosts a Veterans Day celebration for the community each November.

l GHS’ Peace House provides a home-away-from-home for veterans and other patients undergoing rehab. The house is managed by a Marine hired after completing a job training program for veterans. Generous individual and community support keeps the doors open.

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According to police reports, a woman and her boyfriend were involved in an argument in the parking lot of their condominium complex. The man allegedly reached into the glove box of his vehicle and pulled out a gun and began shooting. The woman, who had already ran back inside the condo, went to a neighbor’s home and called 911, reports said.

When deputies arrived on the scene, the man was on the front porch of the condo and ran back inside and locked the doors. Deputies called SWAT negotiators, who attempted to make contact with the man with no success, according to reports.

SWAT deputies were able to look through a window a short time later and saw the man lying on the floor. According to reports, he was pronounced dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The incident is still under investigation.

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Common Core conundrum South Carolina and Indiana get extended NCLB waivers, Oklahoma’s revoked CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com South Carolina, Indiana and Oklahoma have all un-adopted Common Core, a set of math and English language arts standards designed to prepare students for college or a career, which most states voluntarily adopted.

But Oklahoma has had its No Child Left Behind Act waiver revoked by the U.S. Department of Education, while Indiana and South Carolina have had theirs extended.

The difference is how the states unadopted Common Core.

In South Carolina, legislation passed earlier this year stepped up a review that would have occurred as a matter of course later and requires new standards to be in place by Aug. 2015. Common Core is still being used this year. A committee is working on the new standards.

Indiana’s new standards are a hybrid of Common Core and the state’s prior standards. They are being used this year and the state’s higher education institutions have said they are college- and career-ready.

Oklahoma, on the other hand, repealed Common Core entirely and reverted back to its old academic standards. The state’s higher education officials have not yet certified those standards as collegeand career-ready, a key requirement to keeping its NCLB waiver.

Common Core began in 2009 when the National Governors Association – former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was chairman of the Republican Governors Association at the time – and the Council of Chief State School Officers announced an effort to create voluntary national standards in math and reading.

The goal, they said, was to ensure students were better prepared for college or the workforce. Forty-five states adopted the standards.

But Common Core has been under fire since. In an annual PDK/Gallup Poll of attitudes toward public education released two weeks ago, 60 percent of adults said they oppose Common Core.

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amorris@communityjournals.com Pickens resident Francine Bryson is an award-winning baker, self-styled redneck and reality television star. This month, she’s adding author to her resume.

Bryson says her goal last year was not to gain notoriety as a contestant on CBS’ “The American Baking Competition” reality show, but to win the grand prize: a cookbook deal.

Bryson was a finalist in the 2013 competition featuring 10 home bakers.

Though she didn’t win, Bryson said she landed a book deal anyway. “After the last show, I had 26 publishing offers for a cookbook.”

It took her two weeks to select a publishing house and in the year since, she’s compiled recipes from a handwritten notebook.

“It wasn’t hard to do what I knew by heart,” she said. In recent months, she has been conducting interviews and a public relations tour.

On Sept. 9, Bryson is launching a book tour for “Blue Ribbon Baking from a Redneck Kitchen” in Spartanburg. She’s invited about 300 folks, and Bryson and her helpers, who call themselves “Team Redneck,” will be preparing 12 recipes from the book.

The blue ribbon reference in the book’s title is no joke – Bryson has won more than 200 baking competitions and is a member of the American Pie Council. Her Chocolate Peanut Butter Bacon Pie had the reality show judges talking and reportedly garnered 8 million online searches for the recipe.

In addition to showcasing her own recipes, Bryson said the book launch will also feature local products. “I wanted to share the limelight with people in the Upstate who I trade with,” she said.

A silent cake auction at the event will raise funds for No Kid Hungry.

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Bryson said she never expected her life to change as much as it did after being cast on the TV show, but she’s been enjoying the ride. The cookbook is already selling well. After two appearances on the shopping network QVC, both cookbook offerings sold out, she said.

After the book tour through Virginia, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina wraps in November, Bryson is set to begin filming her own TV show currently in development. The show will be filmed in the Upstate, she said.

She has also booked a Carnival cruise called “Baking at Sea with Francine” set to launch from Charleston in May. “I’ve been on a cruise, but not one where I’ve had to work,” she said.

Bryson is already working on a second cookbook, which will focus on a notebook passed down through her family that she calls “The Bible.” In addition to baking, the book will cover techniques for making items like pickles, pound cake and cornbread. It will also focus on using products of the Upstate, she said. “I’m going to keep it all at home.”

Bryson said she has been “working on this cookbook all my life.” Holding a copy is “like holding a brand-new baby – except without the pain and the epidural.”

MAKES ONE 10-INCH DEEP-DISH PIE

This is the pie that made me famous in the pie world, my first North Carolina Grand Champion–winning recipe, which has since been featured in magazines and made by probably hundreds of people. ... People sometimes think this pie is fake because the nuts on top are just so shiny and gorgeous. It’s a showstopper.

INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling 2 (9-inch) store-bought refrigerated pie crusts (see Blue Ribbon Tip, below) About 11/2 cups pecan halves 11/2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 tablespoon apple pie spice 11/8 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 6 cups sliced peeled baking apples

DIRECTIONS • Preheat the oven to 450°F. Thoroughly grease a 10-inch deep-dish ceramic pie pan (you must use a deep-dish pan) with all of the butter.

• On a lightly floured surface, roll each of the pie crusts until about 11 inches in diameter.

Transfer to baking sheets and refrigerate until needed.

• Starting on the bottom and working your way outside in, arrange the pecans, round side down, in the pan, covering it entirely and making sure there are very few gaps in between the nuts. Do the same up the sides, too. Spread the brown sugar over the nuts until they are entirely covered and then press one of the pie crusts down firmly on top of the nuts, making sure that the nuts do not poke through.

• In a bowl, stir together the flour, granulated sugar, apple pie spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice, and vanilla extract. Add the apples and toss to coat. Pour the apples into the pie crust as evenly as possible. Cover with the second pie crust. Fold the crust sides over each other and crimp together firmly.

Don’t worry too much about appearances, as this will be the bottom of your pie. Using a fork, poke a few holes in the crust.

• Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 350°F, and continue to bake until browned, about 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and let the pie sit just until the bubbling stops, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip the pie out onto a serving dish while still hot—the pecans on top of the pie should be very

shiny, and all the pastry should be covered.

Serve warm.

Recipes reprinted from “Blue Ribbon Baking From a Redneck Kitchen.”

Copyright 2014 by Francine Bryson.

Store-bought pie crusts (I like Pillsbury) work best here because they’re sturdier than homemade and can hold up to all the heaviness from the apples and nuts.

Apple-Caramel Cheesecake I won a North Carolina State Apple Festival Grand Champion Ribbon with this one. If you like caramel apples, this is the cheesecake to go for. The Carolinas get some of the best apples in the country, and we stick to eating them in the fall, when they’re in their prime. I use something firm here, like Granny Smith or Fuji. I usually use pecans, because I really like them with apples, but hazelnuts or black walnuts would be good in this, too. The caramel comes from all that butter and sugar, and it just cooks down and coats those apples something perfect. Serve this up when it’s getting cold out, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a mug of hot apple cider in front of a warm fireplace.

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INGREDIENTS

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crust 1 cup graham cracker crumbs (about 14 crackers) 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans 3 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted cheesecake filling 2 (8-ounce packages) cream cheese, at room temperature 1/2 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract apple filling 1/3 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 4 cups thinly sliced peeled apples 1/2 cup chopped pecans

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. • Make the crust: In a large bowl, stir together the graham cracker crumbs, pecans, sugar, cinnamon, and butter.

Press onto the bottom and a little bit up the sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Bake until set, about 10 minutes.

• Set aside on a wire rack to cool. Prepare the cheesecake filling: Using an electric mixer, mix the cream cheese and sugar on medium speed. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Blend in the vanilla. Let the filling rest for about 5 minutes to allow air bubbles to rise to the surface. Pour the filling into the baked crust.

• Prepare the apple filling: In a bowl, stir together the sugar and cinnamon. Toss with the apples to coat. Spoon the apple mixture over the cream cheese layer and sprinkle with the pecans. Bake until set and slightly browned on top, 60 to 70 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the cake to loosen it from the pan and then let cool completely on a wire rack before removing the sides.

Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight before serving.

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After the transfer of a right of way from the Greenville County Economic Development Corporation (GCEDC) to Greenville County Recreation, the rail-to-trail bikeway can expand nearly five miles, connecting downtown Greenville to Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).

In 1999, GCEDC purchased an abandoned railroad right of way that runs 4.7 miles behind Laurens Road from Pleasantburg Drive to the CU-ICAR campus. Nearby landowners have donated additional rights-of-way the county also intends to hand over to Greenville Rec, Greenville County Administrator Joe Kernell said at a recent County Council meeting.

The trail expansion will follow the same scenario as the northern section, which opened in July, said Ty Houck, director of greenways, natural and historic resources for Greenville County Parks, Recreation and Tourism. The 1.2-mile addition just north of Travelers Rest was announced in March 2013 and completed as funds became available.

Greenville Rec will be seeking creative ways to raise money to prepare the land and build the trail, Houck said. The department applied for a $23 million TIGER grant, which would fund construction of the section along with many other recreation improvements, and is waiting on word on whether it will be awarded for Upstate projects, he said.

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University of South Carolina defensive end Gerald Dixon sacks Texas A&M quarterback Kenny Hill. Texas A&M won the game 52-28.

Clemson running back C.J. Davidson jumps over the line for a touchdown in the second quarter. The University of Georgia went on to defeat Clemson 45-21.

Clemson quarterback Cole Stoudt throws a pass in the second quarter.

Clemson defensive end Vic Beasley and defensive tackle DeShawn Williams tackle Georgia running back Keith Marshall.

Texas A&M defensive lineman Myles Garrett chases down University of South Carolina quarterback Dylan Thompson. The Gamecocks played host to the Aggies in the season opener.

University of South Carolina wide receiver Nick Jones hauls in a touchdown pass.

SOMETHING BOLD IS ON THE WAY. SEE WHAT’S TAKING SHAPE AT GSP. This summer, expect to see some exciting changes in our concourse area. Courtesy of WINGSPAN, this new addition is only the beginning of our transformation.

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Greer Middle College’s cross-country girls team came in first place and the boys team was fifth out of 38 teams in their division at the Western NC CC Carnival. Tabi Robinson led the girls to victory, coming in first place out of 304 participants. Tori Cooper came in fourth, Aysia Cooper, eighth, Jamie Kemp, 29th, and Rebekah Johnstone, 48th. Micah Williams came in first place out of 402 in the boys race and made Elite Status, which qualifies him as one of the top high school runners in the country. Ryan Hoffman finished 30th and Matt Stiles finished 32nd to lead the boys team.

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Greenville Technical College will recognize and honor student veterans at the opening of a new Student Veterans Center on Sept. 10, 2 p.m., at the Engineering Technologies Building (#103), Room 427A, Barton Campus. The center is funded by Lockheed Martin. The dedication will feature remarks by Dr. Keith Miller, president of Greenville Technical College, and Mike Felix, Lockheed Martin-Greenville Finance and Business Operations Director.

The 2014 St. Mary’s Lady Ducks volleyball team will play St. Joseph’s Middle School Lady Knights at St. Joseph’s on Sept. 9 at 4 p.m. The 2014 St. Mary’s cross-country team will participate in their first Carolina Middle School Conference meet on Sept. 9 at Mt. Zion Christian School at 4:30 p.m.

Classes that offer a full semester’s credit in 10 weeks or less are starting soon at Greenville Technical College. These classes offer the same content as their 15-week counterparts, but in a compressed format. Topics include English, math, psychology, Spanish, reading, theatre, art history and more. For more information, visit GTCoptions.com.

St. Joseph’s Catholic School senior Shane Lotts and sophomore Blake Rogers both recently earned their Eagle Scout Award. A six-year member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Troop #707, Lotts’ Eagle Project involved building a gazebo at St. Joseph’s Catholic School to house a shrine to St. Joseph while covering the old hexagon concrete platform facing the football field. A member of St. Mary’s Parish Troop #521 since 2004, Rogers’ project consisted of designing and building a prayer garden at St. Rafka Maronite Church. He raised funds and purchased a bench, statue pedestal, landscaping materials and plants. He restored a 100-year-old statue of Mary and installed an urn fountain.

Langston Charter Middle School will hold an enrollment lottery on Nov. 20. Prospective parents must attend one of the three application orientation meetings on Sept. 30, Oct. 11 or Oct. 23. Parents must also submit a lottery application available on Oct. 1 at langstoncharter.org. The deadline for all lottery applications is Nov. 3 at 4 p.m. Call Celanie Martin, registrar, at 864-286-9700 with questions.

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Greenville Classical Academy is kicking off its 10th year by making school history in its sports program. For the first time ever, the GCA Lions will be fielding a cross-country team. Runners for the GCA Lions are: Robert Clark, Charlie Gray, Blake Laps, Hunter Laps, James Martzin, Bryce Waldschmidt, Drew Waldschmidt, Kai Haskell, Nathan Janowski, David Janowski, Jonathan Esposito, Daniel Esposito, Preston Timms, Fedna Clark, Milienne Clark, Riley Clarke, Paige Dumortier, Peyton Dumortier, Amelia Gray, Lydia Martzin, Lindsay Tilley and Brianna Williamson. New athletic director Caleb Creel is the team’s coach.

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The Shannon Forest Christian School football team competed in a pre-season scrimmage on Aug. 23 against the Anderson Cavaliers. Crusader quarterback Ethan Bass connected with Jack Smith for a 30-yard touchdown and the extra point by 8th-grade kicker Caroline Stewart brought the score to 12-7. While the final score was 18-7 in favor of the Cavaliers, Stewart made SFCS history as the first female to score a point for the Crusaders.

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Justine Polomski, a senior at Powdersville High School and president of its Interact Club, won the Rotary Youth Leadership Award. The award seeks to provide young adults an opportunity to develop skills and character while exposing them to Rotary’s values of service, high ethical standards and peace.

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Presbyterian College recently announced that PC School of Pharmacy (PCSP) associate professor and director of research Dr. Edgar Alfonso Romero-Sandoval has been awarded a R15 $330,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. Romero-Sandoval’s R15 grant is an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grant awarded by NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Dr. Romero-Sandoval’s research focus is postoperative pain and his research project is entitled “Cell-directed therapy using nanotechnology for the prevention of chronic postoperative pain.”

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On Sept. 7, there will be Holy Eucharist at 10:30 a.m. and a picnic on the grounds from noon-3 p.m. to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 31 Allendale Lane, Greenville. Door prizes and children’s games will be part of the event.

The Upcountry History Museum presents a History After Dark program, “A Diverging Path: Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun and the Foundations of Secession,” on Sept. 9, 7-8 p.m. The program is presented by Kelly Smith of USC Upstate. For more information, visit upcountryhistory.org.

The first fall meeting of the Mauldin Garden Club will be at 7 p.m. on Sept.

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Celebrate Banned Books Week with Pat Scales at the book launch for her new book “Books Under Fire: A Hit List of Banned and Challenged Children’s Books” on Sept. 18, 4 p.m. Additionally, best-selling fiction author Lisa Wingate will be discussing her latest book, “The Story Keeper,” on Sept. 17, 3 p.m. Tickets are $10 and $15.89. On Sept. 11, 6 p.m., Sheri S. Levy will be celebrating the release of her debut young adult novel, “Seven Days to Goodbye.” All events are at Fiction Addiction. For more information, email info@fiction-addiction.com, visit fiction-addiction.com or call 864-675-0540.

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The South Carolina BLUE store will host multiple programs at 1025 Woodruff Road, Greenville. Health Care Reform 101 is on Sept. 8, Turning 65: Now What? is on Sept. 9, Health Care Reform: Understanding Subsidies is on Sept.

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First responders are invited to call or visit the box office to receive a complimentary pair of tickets. For more information, visit peacecenter.org/events/detail/ ana-popovic. Greenville citizens can also Text2Pledge a contribution towards the scholarship funds throughout the week. Text the keyword HERO1 to 414-44 and donate any amount. For more information, visit greenvilleheroes.org.

Meet Winston Groom, author of “Forrest Gump,” at the Poinsett Club on Sept. 10, 6 p.m. Tickets are $21 and include drinks, light hors d’oeuvres and a $4 donation to a local nonprofit serving veterans. The event is part of a series of military history talks sponsored by Tempus Jets and the Military Lecture Series committee. Advance reservations are required. Attire is business casual (no jeans). Fiction Addiction will be selling books on-site, but attendees are encouraged to reserve books when ordering tickets. Tickets and books can be purchased at fiction-addiction.com, at Fiction Addiction or by calling 864-675-0540.

The Main Street Resurfacing Project will work on McBee Avenue to Camperdown Way on Sept. 7-12 and on Camperdown Way to Augusta Street on Sept. 14-19 from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. While sidewalk access will be maintained, the roadway and parking spaces will be closed during work hours. Crews will begin blocking off parking spaces at 8 p.m. each night. The street will be reopened to traffic and parking at 7 a.m. For more information, visit greenvillesc.gov/ mainst. In addition, East Park Avenue between Church and Atlas streets will be closed through Sept. 19 for a sewer system upgrade. Traffic will be detoured via East Stone Avenue and East North Street.

First Monday in Greenville’s monthly meeting on Sept. 8, noon, will feature The Honorable Javier Díaz de León, Consul General of Mexico based in Raleigh, N.C. Reservations are needed for this meeting. Lunch cost is $18 for members and $20 for non-members. Visit firstmondayingreenville.com to make reservations.

Apple Inc. has approved a new update to the iOnGreenville mobile iPhone app to add comprehensive information for Bon Secours St. Francis Health System with the following functionality: physician locator with maps, driving directions and click to call, clinic locator with proximity search, news and events and links to multimedia hospital and urgent care information. For more information, visit iongreenville.net.

Clemson University’s College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities will explore Race and the University: A Campus Conversation throughout this academic year with a series of events, exhibitions and discussions beginning in September. A highlight of the series will be a keynote address in November by Craig S. Wilder, author of “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities.” For more information, visit calendar.clemson.edu.

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PEDALS FOR THE MEDALS

JOURNAL COMMUNITY Greenville played host to more than 600 athletes and support staff at last weekend’s UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships. Athletes competed on adaptive bicycles, hand cycles, tricycles and tandem bicycles. Team USA led the overall medal count with a total of 18 medals, nine gold, six silver and three bronze.

Next was Germany with 14 medals and Italy with 13 medals.

South African competitor Ernst Van Dyk edged out Italy’s Alex Zanardi to win the world title in the hand cycling road race. The women’s tricycle road race had a more definitive finish, with Australia’s Carol Cooke winning more than seven minutes ahead of second finisher Jill Walsh of USA and Jana Majunke of Germany.

Local competitor Ryan Boyle came out of his first international championship with a second place finish in the T2 time trial and a fourth place finish in the T2 road race. Aaron Trent placed 16th in the C4 road race and tandem cyclists Lance Footer and Shawn Olin placed 18th in the time trials.

MEDAL COUNT USA 18 GERMANY 14 ITALY 13

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PEDALS FOR THE MEDALS

JOURNAL COMMUNITY Greenville played host to more than 600 athletes and support staff at last weekend’s UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships. Athletes competed on adaptive bicycles, hand cycles, tricycles and tandem bicycles. Team USA led the overall medal count with a total of 18 medals, nine gold, six silver and three bronze.

Next was Germany with 14 medals and Italy with 13 medals.

South African competitor Ernst Van Dyk edged out Italy’s Alex Zanardi to win the world title in the hand cycling road race. The women’s tricycle road race had a more definitive finish, with Australia’s Carol Cooke winning more than seven minutes ahead of second finisher Jill Walsh of USA and Jana Majunke of Germany.

Local competitor Ryan Boyle came out of his first international championship with a second place finish in the T2 time trial and a fourth place finish in the T2 road race. Aaron Trent placed 16th in the C4 road race and tandem cyclists Lance Footer and Shawn Olin placed 18th in the time trials.

MEDAL COUNT USA 18 GERMANY 14 ITALY 13

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The LPGA Invitational Golf Tournament will be held Sept. 23 at 9 a.m. at Cross Creek Plantation in Seneca. All proceeds will benefit Safe Harbor and the Foothills Area YMCA. Grounds pass tickets are $50 each and are now available online. For more information in forming a team for the tournament, contact Mark Ernst at mernst@crosscreekplantation.com.

United Way of Greenville County announced this week the goal for the 2014 annual fall campaign was $17 million.

More than 1,000 volunteers and representatives from more than 700 businesses and organizations attended the annual kickoff celebration, where 2014 campaign chair Michael Cinquemani, CEO and president of Master Power Transmission, announced the goal. Thirty-four Pacesetter companies have already turned in employee pledges totaling more than $3.7 million, or 22 percent of the overall goal. The campaign runs through Oct. 31. Call 864-467-3537 to find out how to get involved and visit unitedwaygc.org/give to contribute.

Greenville will host the largest Welsh terrier gathering in the Southeast: the Welsh Terrier Walk 2014 on Sept. 12–14. The event will raise money and awareness for the WTCares rescue group. The weekend’s events include Welshies on Main Street followed by dinner at Mac’s Speed Shop and a Welsh Halloween Costume contest at the Phoenix Inn. WTCares is devoted to rescuing abandoned

Welsh terriers and finding them loving homes. For more information, visit wtcares.org. To register for the weekend events, visit welshiewalk2014tobenefitwtcares.eventbrite.com.

A $3.4 million endowment at the Community Foundation has been funded by Jim and Kit Pearce to provide perpetual support for nonprofit organizations providing food, shelter, clothing and medications to those in need in the Greenville community. The James T. and Ellis A. Pearce Endowment continues a legacy of planned giving by Jim and his wife, Kit, who passed away in 2013. The first grants from the endowment will be made in September to GAIHN, Triune Mercy Center, United Ministries, Gateway House, Habitat for Humanity, Homes of Hope, Project Host, Harvest Hope and Greer Community Ministries.

Fall for Greenville’s 2013 event awarded $5,000 grants to Sustaining Way, Loaves & Fishes and Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at Greenville Technical College this week. In addition, the festival presented a $20,000 grant to the Mill Village Farms Rooftop Initiative, which will help fund the first urban rooftop farm in South Carolina. The rooftop farm, located at the corner of East Washington and Main streets, will utilize vertical, aeroponic towers that can grow vegetables in 24 days. The 2014 festival is on Oct. 10-12 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit eight local charities. Festival taste tickets can be purchased at fallforgreenville.net through Oct. 1 and at Michelin on Main, 550 S. Main St., Sept. 22-Oct. 10.

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Girl Scouts of South Carolina–Mountains to Midlands has appointed Jean Shew as 2014 chair for its Emerald Circle–Greenville County. The Emerald Circle is a philanthropic group for women who annually support the Girl Scout Leadership Experience and is united with circles in other counties.

Shew is the health room manager at a local high school and formerly the director of the Entech 281 Robotics Team for two years, leading this high school engineering/technology team to two national championship events. For more information, contact Lee Ann Maley at 800-849-4475, ext. 2709.

The Greenville Tech Foundation recently received a gift of $19,970 from the BMW Charity Pro-Am, 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.

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Katie Rockwell plays Patsy Cline in the first-ever production by the Mill Town Players, a new theater group started

by Will Ragland. Rockwell's husband, Larry, plays the bandleader.

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THEATER Mill Town Players try to breathe new life into town, historic auditorium

Ragland, a fixture in the Greenville community theater scene and a former Greenville County Teacher of the Year, started a theater program at Woodmont High in the southern end of the county and turned it into an award-winner in just a few short years.

“Theater really helped change the school for the better,” Ragland said. “There’s a massive positive impact plays have on a community.”

Now he’ll try doing the same for an entire town – Pelzer, a town that straddles the Greenville-Anderson county lines – by starting a theater troupe aptly named The Mill Town Players.

The Mill Town Players will open its first production ever on Sept. 19. They will stage six shows in their first season, all directed by Ragland, who serves as executive artistic director.

“The arts can revive a struggling community in a way that nothing but the arts can,” said Ragland, while sitting in a wooden seat in the Pelzer Auditorium that was built in the 1920s during the mills’ heyday.

He points to several examples in Greenville County – from the construction of the Peace Center downtown and the revival of South Main and the West End to Fountain Inn to Greer and even the Village of West Greenville, after artist Diane Kilgore Condon bought the Brandon Mill company store building and turned it into the working studio space for artists called ArtBomb.

“Pelzer is struggling, let’s be honest,” he said. “It’s a defunct mill town with no industry. But it has a lot of pride in its history.”

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“WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY”

Ragland has wanted to start a community theater group for a long time. He looked at a lot of towns before the opportunity to start the Mill Town Players came up.

It happened like this: Ragland, who attended Anderson District 1 schools, received a call from Lynn King, one of his former teachers. King had directed the last production of the Heritage Players, a theater serving Pelzer, West Pelzer and Williamston, a decade ago. The group’s nonprofit status was inactive and was going to dissolve, Ragland said. King asked if he wanted to take over.

“The arts can revive a struggling community in a way that nothing but the arts can.”

Will Ragland

Ragland’s answer? “What an opportunity.”

The name was changed to Mill Town Players in tribute to Pelzer, Williamston and Piedmont.

“The name shows we’re not trying to be something we aren’t,” Ragland said. The theater won’t be high-falutin’ and will be inclusive and affordable.

The Mill Town Players expects to have enough money to buy the rights to the six shows they will produce in their first season and to get started with “Always… Patsy Cline.”

Said Ragland, “Our main focus will be to produce the highest quality shows at affordable prices. A lot of times in theater, those two words – quality and affordable – don’t go together. But they do here.”

The Mill Town Players are leasing the Pelzer Auditorium, a stately building on Lebby Street that was built in the 1920s, for $1 a year plus utilities from Anderson School District 1.

“I’ve always been a champion of the underdog and I love small towns. Pelzer is ripe for change,” Ragland said. “When you can take an existing, historic structure in a community devoid of culture and the right people come together at the right time with the right ideas

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RECONNECTING TO THE PAST

“Always… Patsy Cline” was a perfect choice for the troupe’s first production, said Katie Rockwell, a Greenville theater veteran who plays Patsy Cline.

“To be a part of something like this is an honor,” she said.

Ragland, who played Buddy Holly at the Centre Stage, and Rockwell had talked about the possibility of doing the show one day. With the Mill Town Players, the time was right.

“Patsy Cline could have performed on this stage during her life,” Ragland said.

“Pelzer loves history and loves music.

There’s something about the era of the ’50s and ’60s. Pelzer folks grew up listening to Patsy Cline and this show can reconnect them with a past they truly cherished.”

Rockwell’s husband, Larry, plays the bandleader. Leah Thomas plays Cline’s friend, Louise.

“There’s an authenticity about the show.

You feel like you’ve walked back in time.

It’s accessible, too. You feel like you’re sitting in the kitchen with Patsy eating bacon and eggs,” Ragland said.

The first season also includes “Dark of the Moon” Oct. 31 through Nov. 2, “A Christmas Carol” on Dec. 12 through Dec. 21; “Alice in Wonderland,” Feb. 20

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“It was all in good fun,” the owner of TNJ Trailers recalls, “but we got so many serious inquiries from folks who wanted to buy it. I’d just laugh, and tell everyone that my hot pink trailer wasn’t for sale.”

Then one day she got an offer she couldn’t refuse: Domestic Violence Assistance (www.dvasc.org), a nonprofit that provides household furnishings to those moving out of abusive homes, needed a new trailer. Wanda STILL refused to sell her pink trailer – she simply gave it to the organization instead.

“DVA picks up donations and helps move victims of domestic violence out of terrible situations,” Wanda says, “so they really do need a good trailer, and I felt like they were destined to have this one. I can’t think of a better use for my hot pink trailer.”

Everything else at TNJ is absolutely for sale – indeed, this is the largest in-stock dealership for commercial, residential and recreational trailers as well as parts and accessories.

“We have a wide inventory, typically 150-200 trailers on site at any given time, with the ability to fit any need or budget, so there is something for everyone,” says Wanda.

“We cater to roofers, landscapers, contractors, motorcyclists – really, anyone who has anything to haul.”

Dedicated to “selling the best and servicing the rest,” TNJ Trailers has a full-service shop specializing in maintenance, brake controllers, hitches and customizations.

TNJ – which stands for “Trailers, Not Junk” – has always been a family affair.

Wanda founded the company back in 1989 with her late father, “Big Jim” Bagwell, and continues to run it with her husband Mark who, by the way, she met in 2006 when he stopped by TNJ to shop for a new trailer. “That was a great day,” she smiles. “I sold Mark a trailer and gained the greatest husband – and trailer mechanic – in the world!”

Three of the Alexanders’ five children work there, too.

The youngest daughter, Jennifer, just recently joined TNJ in January. Wanda hopes to pass her “Trailer Queen Crown” on to the next generation.

“We are proud to be a successful, family-run business,” Wanda says, “God has blessed us and we are happy to give back to the community.”

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Greenville native documents change through objects CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Documenting change is a common theme that runs through photographer and Greenville native William Mebane’s work.

Whether it’s photographing objects in American households or people in a developing country half a world away, Mebane’s work provides a sort of time capsule.

“The rate of change is unbelievable,” said Mebane, who attended Christ Church Episcopal School and is now a full-time freelance photographer in New York, where his photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Esquire and advertisements.

When Mebane decided to work with fellow New York photographer Martin Photographs by William Mebane and Martin Hyers, from "Empire" Hyers on a long-term project, he had Because of that, he decided the proj- could go to their houses and “photojust returned from a nearly yearlong stay on a Fulbright scholarship in Ne- ect with Hyers would not include pho- graph their stuff.”

“You get good at spotting people pal, a country known for Katmandu and tographing people. The two chose to Mount Everest. While there, he photo- photograph objects instead, and create who are game to that,” Mebane said.

It helped that they used 4x5 Crown graphed dozens of people, attempting a time capsule of America.

They began in public places such as Graphics, a type of press camera used in to show through portraits how change and roller rinks. Then, in West the 1950s and ’60s, with an on-camera in the developing country was affecting The Upstate’s Bodyhotels Shop Alternative Virginia, they asked strangers if they flash. its culture.

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“We’d go into a playroom and see a bookshelf of World Book Encyclopedias,” he said. “We had those when I was growing up. It was a privilege to have them in your house. Now, some kids don’t even know what encyclopedias are.”

Same with television screens. During the three years he photographed the project, Mebane said he didn’t see one single flat-screen television. Instead, there were big heavy televisions, some consoles that were decades old.

“You’re aware that technology is changing rapidly,” he said. “We didn’t encounter flat-screen televisions. Now, you can’t buy one that isn’t a flat screen.”

They took 9,000 large-format photographs of everything from old family photos, furniture and other belongings in dozens of homes in 30 states. They didn’t record addresses or names of homeowners. They didn’t take photos

of items that could identify a region of the country.

“We wanted objects of American identity, not regional or local identities,” Mebane said.

In 2008, the photographers began photographing houses at night, a strobe light attached to the roof of their car.

They photographed 1,800 of them from California to New York.

Together, the two series reduce America to objects and buildings.

The collection has been published in “Empire,” named one of the nine best photography books of the summer by Art News. Daylight Publishing published the book with support from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

Mebane is working on his next book project, “To the Sea,” a series of photographs made in the area covered by Sherman’s army’s march from Atlanta to Savannah.

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Taylor’s career has spanned decades. “Carolina in My Mind” was his first hit off a self-titled debut album released in 1968.

Over the decades since, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer produced a laundry list of hits: “Fire and Rain,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “How Sweet It Is (To be Loved by You),” “Something in the Way She Moves,” “Country Road,” “Sweet Baby James,” “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,” “Shower

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‘Power to the people’ Reggae takes center stage at IPA Over the next two months, the Independent Public Ale House, located at 110 Poinsett Highway in Greenville, will be featuring a series of artists that highlight the past, present and future of reggae music.

IPA’s talent booker, Robert Boggs, has used years of experience as a musician, band manager, engineer and agent to find the best representatives of the musical style he’s loved since childhood.

“Going back to when I was a little kid, there was always reggae in my life,” Boggs says. “I’d go through phases where I loved metal or other kinds of music and that’s all I would play, but reggae was always a staple in my life.

Then when I got an opportunity to go out on the road with a band B-Side Players called The Movement about three years ago, and they toured around the country for a number of years, that was my first connection to the reggae community.”

Starting with the veteran B-Side Players band on Sept. 12, Boggs has lined up shows with Fortunate Youth, Simplified, Taj Weekes, Sun-Dried Vibes, Spiritual Rez, the Lionz of Zion and Passafire. The bands represent everything from rootsreggae (Taj Weekes) to funk-reggae (the B-Side Players) to regional reggae musicians (Lionz of Zion, Passafire).

Boggs says that the shows are coming to IPA from various sources, from an upcoming festival nearby to his own connections.

“A lot of it has to do with a festival up in Wilmington, N.C., called the California Roots festival,” he says. “It brings bands from all over the world to Wilmington. At the same time, if it’s a show I think we can sell here in Greenville, then I try to take it.”

Boggs says that the artists playing IPA honor both evolution and tradition when it comes to reggae music.

“It’s a really small musical community once you get out there,” he says. “There are only 20-30 bands that fit the genre, but none of them sound the same. It’s really cool to see the genre to be interpreted differently by each artist. At the same time, I think anyone can relate to [reggae] because at the end of the day, reggae is about giving power to the people, and all of us living together. It’s music that makes you feel like you’re on vacation instead of stuck in your daily grind.”

Here is a sampling of some of the artists that Boggs has scheduled for IPA, and why he’s excited about them: B-Side Players (Friday, Sept. 12): “This is their 20th anniversary tour. I was lucky enough to get them, and I haven’t seen them live yet, so that’s one of the shows that I’m looking forward to most.

Fortunate Youth (Tuesday, Sept. 16): “Fortunate Youth is a band out of California. They’re one of those bands where you’ll see them live, you’ll go home and put the record on and just relive the experience over and over again. Their singer is one of the most charismatic people I’ve ever seen.”

Taj Weekes (Wednesday, Oct. 1): “He’s never been to South Carolina to perform his music before. He’s from St. Lucia and he reminds me a lot of the early Bob Marley records, where it’s all about unity and he talks about fighting for your rights and for humanity. It music where he’s not just a singer, he’s an activist.”

Passafire (Wednesday, Nov. 12): “They’re some local boys from Savannah, Ga., but they’ve only played Greenville once. They’re one of my favorite bands on- and offstage. They’re really good guys.”

For more information, contact Independent Public Ale House at 864-552-1265 or visit ipagreenville.com.

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The SC Watermedia Society’s 37th annual exhibition at the Anderson Arts Center, 110 Federal St., Anderson, runs through Sept.12. Best of Show goes to Vickie Bailey Ebbers for “Bill’s Bucket.” SCWS awarded $8,800 in awards. Other honorees are: Xiao Xing Hu’s “Little Miss Evelyn,” Randy Armstrong’s “Sparkling Stream,” Carrie Burns Brown’s “And the Beat Goes On,” Steve Garner’s “Prairie Power,” Barbara St. Denis’s “Time Series 162: On an Upward Swing,” Jane Doyle’s “Racing Time,” Sandra Roper’s “Thinking of Home,” and Lynn Greer’s “One Arrow.” For more information, visit scwatermedia.com.

Fifteen-year-old blues guitarist Quinn Sullivan will open the inaugural Live on the Green concert featuring Bruce Hornsby on solo piano.

The event will be held on Sept. 20 at Barnet Park in downtown Spartanburg. Tickets start at $20 and can be purchased at spartanburgonthegreen. com, at Thomas Hannah YMCA, Bob’s Car Wash and the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium. Rain location will be the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium. Bruce Hornsby’s new live double album “Solo Concerts” will be included with the purchase of each ticket.

James Taylor and his All-Star Band are coming to Bon Secours Wellness Arena on Nov. 22. Taylor has been performing for more than 40 years, sold more than 100 million albums and won multiple Grammy awards. Tickets go on sale on Sept.

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Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg at Chapman Cultural Center presents painter Aimee Wise’s exhibition “Mechanisms of Resilience” now through Sept. 27. Visit Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. The exhibition is free. Additionally, the 41st Annual Juried Show Reception and Awards will be Sept. 6, 6-9 p.m. The reception, held in Spartanburg Art Museum at Chapman Cultural Center, honors the works of the artists from North and South Carolina accepted into the exhibition and presents them with awards in the following categories: Best in Show, Excellence in 2D, Excellence in 3D, and People’s Choice. It is free to attend.

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$179,900 $178,000 SHELBURNE FARMS $177,035 THE HEIGHTS 100 COURT ST CONDO $176,000 TOWNES@BROOKWOOD $175,375 BROOKFIELD EAST $173,500

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$170,001 ORCHARD FARMS BAKER’S GARDEN $170,000 FAIRVIEW CHASE $170,000 WINDSOR FOREST $169,900 MOSS CREEK $169,000 ORCHARD FARMS $167,000 EASTCREEK $165,000 ORCHARD FARMS $165,000 FOXWOOD $164,000 PARKER’S PLACE $163,000 DEL NORTE ESTATES $159,900 $159,000 PONDEROSA $158,900 ROSEMONT VICTORIA PARK $158,080 BRYSON MEADOWS $157,709 CANEBRAKE $157,000 WATERMILL $156,857 FARM@SANDY SPRINGS $156,500 REVIS FALLS $156,500 SHELBURNE FARMS $155,000 HERITAGE HILLS $152,000 WHITE OAK RIDGE $150,000 LIBERTY PARK $150,000 COUNTRY VIEW $149,900 AVONDALE FOREST $148,000 FAIRVIEW LAKE $145,500 $145,000 SADDLER’S RIDGE LISMORE PARK $145,000

$141,000 BROOKS@AUTUMN WOODS $140,000 HOLLY SPRINGS $139,900 STONEBRIDGE $139,900 CHARTWELL ESTATES $139,000 SHADOW CREEK $137,500

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PE OPLE , AWA R D S , HONOR S Four Agents Join The Pleasantburg Office Of Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors

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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce the addition of four new Sales Associates at its Pleasantburg office. Isabelle Fleshman, Zoe Graham, Jessica McKnight and Nancy Floyd Turner join the company’s largest office with more than 60 agents and the no. 1 office in the Berkshire Hathaway HomeService’s U.S. South Region.

Isabelle Fleshman joins The Chet & Beth Smith Group as a Sales Associate. As a sales agent for Eastwood Homes, she has strong real estate experience. A member of the Home Builders Association of Greenville, Fleshman attended the Business College of Athens, Greece and is certified as a buyer/merchandiser.

Originally from Asheville, she now lives in Greenville, has two grown children and enjoys hiking, swimming, yoga, scuba diving and traveling.

Zoe Graham has more than 15 years of experience, including running her own property management company and working in operational management for Bentley Motor Cars. She holds a British Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA), a BA Honors Degree in Business and a post-graduate teaching degree in Education. She received her real estate license from the Wyatt Institute of Real Estate in Greenville, S.C. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with family and friends, supporting local nonprofit organizations and participating in mission trips to Guatemala and South America.

Jessica McKnight joins The Morgan Group as a Sales Associate. A graduate of Eastside High School, McKnight currently lives in Fountain Inn with her husband Scott and their daughter Tenley.

Nancy Floyd Turner is new to the real estate industry and brings with her a wealth of business and marketing experience as president of Turner Healthcare Product, Inc. Here, she invented and marketed several medical products, including the Marsupial Pouch®, a product designed to help breast cancer survivors after a mastectomy. A Greenville native and graduate of the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree, Turner is married to Ladd Sanders, and she enjoys decorating, golf, tennis and biking.

“We are very excited to continue to grow the Pleasantburg office and add real estate professionals to our team with the same commitment to quality and integrity that C. Dan Joyner is built on,” said Fritzi Barbour, Broker-In-Charge of the Pleasantburg Office. “We look forward to working with these new members of the C. Dan Joyner family and know they will provide home buyers and sellers with the level of service expected of a C. Dan Joyner agent.”

The Sheila Newton Team Joins Anderson Office Of Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce that The Sheila Newton Team has joined its Anderson office and brings two experienced real estate agents to work with homebuyers and sellers throughout Anderson, Greenville, Pickens, Oconee and the surrounding region.

Sheila Newton has more than 25 years of real estate experience and has built a successful team serving the needs of homebuyers and sellers in the Anderson Newton area. Newton is a Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) with special training to assist with short sales. A native a Central, SC, Newton lives in Anderson with her husband, Charlie, and they have two daughters, Rachel and Hillary. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, camping, volleyball and DIY projects.

Lisa Nations has nine years of real estate experience and is a Sales Associate Nations with The Sheila Newton Team. Originally from Pickens, S.C., she is a graduate of Tri-County Technical College. Nations has five children and lives with her husband, Neal, in Piedmont, S.C. She enjoys camping with family and attending church at White Plains Church.

“We are very excited to welcome Sheila and Lisa to the C. Dan Joyner family and our Anderson office,” says Anush Showghi, Broker-In-Charge of the Anderson Office. “We look forward to working with The Sheila Newton Team.”

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C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS’ Offices Top Rankings in South Region of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Network Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS continues to rank at the top of real estate companies in Berkshire Hathaway’s U.S. South Region, which spans from the Carolinas to Texas. The rankings are based on total GCI (Gross Commission Income determined by completed transactions) and total number of residential units sold in the second quarter of 2014, and offices are categorized by number of licensed agents.

Based on closings between April 1, 2014 and June 30, 2014, the following C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS’ offices received top rankings in their respective categories: Pleastanburg Office - #1 in total GCI and total residential units Pelham Rd. Office - #2 in total GCI Augusta Rd. Office - #1 in total GCI (for offices with less than 20 agents) Easley/Powdersville Office - #3 in total residential units (for offices with less than 20 agents) In addition to the office achievements, three C. Dan Joyner teams earned top rankings. The Chet & Beth Smith Group is the #1 team in total GCI. For both total residential units and total GCI, The Spaulding Group is ranked #2 and The Toates Team is the #3 team in South Carolina.

“We are so proud of these accomplishments and attribute our continued success to the quality and dedication of each and every one of our agents and support staff,” says Danny Joyner, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS. “To rank at the top in our region, which consists of very competitive markets including Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, is not easy to do, and this recognition is a testament to the hard work the C. Dan Joyner team provides our clients every day.”

Candas Glover Joins Coldwell Banker Caine in Spartanburg

Glover

Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Candas Glover as a residential sales agent to its Spartanburg office.

Glover joins Coldwell Banker Caine with 15 years of real estate experience. She previously worked as Owner and Appraiser for Express Appraisals Inc. and Realtor Broker for Better Homes & Garden.

Glover is active with her church and enjoys taking cruises, riding her family’s

Harley Davidson, flipping houses and spending time with family and friends.

She and her husband, Travis, have three children.

“We are excited about Candas joining our Spartanburg team,” said Stephen Edgerton, President and CEO of Coldwell Banker Caine. “She will succeed with Coldwell Banker Caine due to her extensive real estate expertise.”

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R E A L E S TAT E N E W S Pending Home Sales Pick Up in July

Pending home sales rebounded in July and have now risen in four of the last �ive months, according to the National Association of Realtors®. All major regions experienced healthy gains except for the Midwest, which saw a slight decline.

The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forwardlooking indicator based on contract signings, climbed 3.3 percent to 105.9 in July from 102.5 in June, but is still 2.1 percent below July 2013 (108.2). The index is at its highest level since August 2013 (107.1) and is above 100 – considered an average level of contract activity – for the third consecutive month.

Jon Pickhardt, 2014 President of The Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® and Coowner of Flagship Properties SC and The Of�ice Centers LLC in Greenville, SC, says favorable housing conditions are behind July’s higher contract activity. “Interest rates are lower than they were a year ago, price growth continues to moderate and total housing inventory is at its highest level since August 20121,” he said.

“The increase in the number of new and existing homes for sale is creating less competition and is giving prospective buyers more time to review their options before submitting an offer.”

Pickhardt adds, “More importantly, steady job additions to the economy are helping family

�inances and giving them added con�idence to enter the market.”

The PHSI in the Northeast jumped 6.2 percent to 89.2 in July, and is 8.3 percent above a year ago. In the Midwest the index marginally fell 0.4 percent to 104.6 in July, and is 6.4 percent below July 2013.

Pending home sales in the South increased 4.2 percent to an index of 119.0 in July, and is now 1.0 percent below a year ago. The index in the West rose 4.0 percent in July to 99.5, but remains 6.0 percent below July 2013.

Pickhardt expects existing-homes sales to be down 2.1 percent this year to 4.98 million, compared to 5.09 million sales of existing homes in 2013. The national median existing-home price is projected to grow between 5 and 6 percent this year and 4 and 5 percent next year.

The National Association of Realtors®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America’s largest trade association, representing 1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

1Total housing inventory in July 2014 was 2.37 million existing-homes available for sale, the highest since August 2012 (2.40 million).

The Pending Home Sales Index is a leading indicator for the housing sector, based on pending sales of existing homes. A sale is listed as pending when the contract has been signed but the transaction has not closed, though the sale usually is �inalized within one or two months of signing.

The index is based on a large national sample, typically representing about 20 percent of transactions for existing-home sales. In developing the model for the index, it was demonstrated that the level of monthly salescontract activity parallels the level of closed existing-home sales in the following two months.

An index of 100 is equal to the average level of contract activity during 2001, which was the �irst year to be examined. By coincidence, the volume of existing-home sales in 2001 fell within the range of 5.0 to 5.5 million, which is considered normal for the current U.S. population.

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.

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

When you are done reading this paper, please recycle it.

Agents on call this weekend

TODD BARKER 991-1819 PELHAM ROAD

KAAREN ANDERSON 979-9954 GARLINGTON RD

LINDA BALLARD 449-6302 EASLEY/ POWDERSVILLE

LINDA BOBO 982-8322 SIMPSONVILLE

LANG CHEVES 313-1113 AUGUSTA ROAD

LENELLE TANNER 423-1417 N. PLEASANTBURG DR.

JADA BARNETTE 879-4239 GREER

BRITTNEY ZEIGLER 915-0224 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC NOTICE THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 6-11470 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. 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 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, 0538010113100, 0538010113200, 0538010113300, 0538010113400, 0538010113500 and 0538010113600 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. NO BONDS WILL BE ISSUED

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

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

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NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA GREENVILLE COUNTY The General Election will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014. The ballot will feature candidates for Federal, State, County, and other local offices, and Constitutional Amendment Questions and local referendums. Any person wishing to vote in this election must register no later than Saturday, October 4.

Voters will be asked to provide one of the following Photo IDs when voting in person: • S.C. Driver's License • ID Card issued by S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles • S.C. Voter Registration Card with Photo • Federal Military ID • U.S. Passport If you have one of these Photo IDs, you are ready to vote. Voters should remember to bring one of these Photo IDs with them to the polling place. Voters without Photo ID can get one free of charge from the Department of Motor Vehicles or their county voter registration and elections office. Voters who cannot get a Photo ID should bring their paper voter registration card without a photo with them to their polling place. These voters can then sign an affidavit swearing to their reason for not being able to get a Photo ID and vote a provisional ballot. This ballot will count unless the county board of voter registration and elections has grounds to believe the affidavit is false. For more information on Photo ID, visit scVOTES. org or contact your county voter registration and elections office.

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

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

Waterpark Pool Repair, RFP #17-09/23/14, 3:30 P.M. Mandatory pre-bid meeting and site tour, 10:00 A.M., EDT, September 11, 2014, Greenville County Procurement Services, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601.

RFP# 11-09/22/14, Beverage Vendor, September 22, 2014, 3:00 P.M.

On Friday, November 7, at 12 o’clock noon, the county board of canvassers will hold a hearing to determine the validity of all provisional ballots cast in this election. This hearing will be held at County Square, 301 University Ridge, Greenville, SC 29601 in County Council Chambers.

RFP# 15-09/23/14, Concessions Vendor, September 23, 2014, 3:00 P.M.

The following Constitutional Amendment Questions will be placed on the ballot: Amendment 1 Must Section 7, Article XVII of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to provide that a raffle is not a lottery prohibited by this section, if the raffle is conducted by a nonprofit organization for charitable, religious, fraternal, educational, or other eleemosynary purposes, and the general law defines the type of organization authorized to operate and conduct the raffles, provides standards for the operation and conduct of the raffles, provides for the use of proceeds for charitable, religious, fraternal, educational, or other eleemosynary purposes, provides penalties for violations, and provides for other laws necessary to ensure the proper functioning, honesty, and integrity of the raffles, but in the absence of any general law, then the raffle remains a prohibited lottery?

Explanation A 'Yes' vote will allow certain nonprofit organizations to conduct raffles and use the proceeds for charitable, religious, or educational purposes.

A 'No' vote maintains the current law that considers a raffle to be a lottery and is prohibited.

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

RFP# 16-09/24/14, Type I Ambulance, September 24, 2014, 3:00 P.M. Solicitations can be found at http://www.greenvillecounty. org/Purchasing_Dept/RFP.asp or by calling 864-467-7200.

LEGAL NOTICES Only $.99 per line ABC NOTICE OF APPLICATION Only $145 tel 864.679.1205 fax 864.679.1305 email: aharley@communityjournals.com

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that BONEFISH GRILL, 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 1515 Woodruff Rd., Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than September 21, 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

At 9:00 a.m. on election day, the county board of voter registration and elections will begin its examination of the absentee ballot return envelopes at the County Voter Registration and Election Office, Suite 1900, County Square, 301 University Ridge, Greenville, SC 29601.

Amendment 2 Must Section 7, Article VI of the Constitution of this State relating to state constitutional officers and Section 4, Article XIII relating to the Adjutant General and his staff officers be amended so as to update references to his title; to provide that the position of Adjutant General is recognized as holding the rank of Major General, as opposed to Brigadier General; to provide that upon the expiration of the term of the Adjutant General serving in office on the date of the ratification of this provision, the Adjutant General must be appointed by the Governor, upon the advice and consent of the Senate; to provide that the appointed Adjutant General serve for a term not coterminous with the Governor and may be removed only for cause; and to require the General Assembly to provide by law for the term, duties, compensation, and qualifications for office, the procedures by which the appointment is made, and the procedures by which the Adjutant General may be removed from office?

Explanation A 'Yes' vote will require, beginning in 2018, the Adjutant General be appointed by the Governor with consent of the Senate. The General Assembly will set the term, duties, compensation and qualifications for office and procedures by which appointment is made and how an Adjutant General can be removed from office.

A 'No' vote maintains the current method of electing an Adjutant General.

The following local referendum will appear on the Greenville County ballot: GREENVILLE COUNTY SPECIAL SALES AND USE TAX “I approve a special sales and use tax in the amount of one percent (1%) to be imposed in Greenville County, South Carolina for not more than eight (8) years or until a total of $673,193,630 in sales tax revenue has been collected, whichever occurs first. The sales tax revenue will be used to pay the costs of the following projects including engineering, design, construction, right of way acquisition, administrative expenses, and related drainage facilities: Project 1: Improvements to highways, roads, streets, and intersections to include widening, realignment, and signalization of existing roads and construction of new roads. Amount: $297,770,000. Project 2: Improvements to bridges to include replacing, installing, constructing and rehabilitating bridges. Amount: $27,800,000. Project 3: Improvements to pedestrianrelated transportation facilities to include adding, improving and repairing sidewalks, crosswalks, trails, and bike lanes. Amount: $47,623,630. Project 4: Resurfacing of highways, roads, and streets. Amount: $300,000,000.”

Instructions to Voters: All qualified electors desiring to vote in favor of levying the special sales and use tax shall vote YES, and, all qualified electors opposed to levying the special sales and use tax shall vote NO. The following precincts and polling places will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.

PRECINCTS Greenville 01 Greenville 03 Greenville 04 Greenville 05 Greenville 06 Greenville 07 Greenville 08 Greenville 10 Greenville 14 Greenville 16 Greenville 17 Greenville 18 Greenville 19 Greenville 20 Greenville 21 Greenville 22 Greenville 23 Greenville 24 Greenville 25 Greenville 26 Greenville 27 Greenville 28 Greenville 29 Aiken Altamont Forest Asheton Lakes Avon Belle Meade Bells Crossing Belmont Berea Boiling Springs Botany Woods Brook Glenn Canebrake Carolina Chestnut Hills Circle Creek Clear Creek Conestee

POLLING PLACES League Academy 125 Twin Lake Rd Greenville, SC Summit Dr Elementary School 424 Summit Dr Greenville, SC Stone Academy 115 Randall St Greenville, SC Sears Shelter 100 E Park Ave Greenville, SC Mount Calvary Baptist Church 115 Cedar Lane Rd Greenville, SC W Greenville Recreation Center 8 Rochester St Greenville, SC West End Community Development Center 404 Vardry St Greenville, SC Springfield Baptist Church 600 E McBee Ave Greenville, SC Sterling School 99 John McCarroll Way Greenville, SC Augusta Rd Baptist Church 1823 Augusta St Greenville, SC St Matthew United Methodist Church 701 Cleveland St Greenville, SC Augusta Circle Elementary School 100 Winyah St Greenville, SC Pleasant Valley Connection Center 510 Old Augusta Rd Greenville, SC Trinity United Methodist Church 2703 Augusta St Greenville, SC Meals on Wheels 15 Oregon St Greenville, SC Sanctuary Church 302 Parkins Mill Rd Greenville, SC Eastlan Baptist Church 625 S Pleasantburg Dr Greenville, SC Beck Academy 901 Woodruff Rd Greenville, SC McCarter Presbyterian Church 2 Pelham Rd Greenville, SC E North St Academy 1720 E North St Greenville, SC Overbrook Baptist Church 1705 E North St Greenville, SC Francis Asbury United Methodist Church 1800 E North St Greenville, SC J L Mann High School 160 Fairforest Way Greenville, SC Alexander Elementary School 1601 W Bramlett Rd Greenville, SC Redeemer PresbyterianChurch 6150 Old Buncombe Rd Greenville, SC Five Forks Baptist Church 112 Batesville Rd Simpsonville, SC Changing Your Mind Ministries 3506 Edwards Rd Taylors, SC Disciples Fellowship Baptist Church 105 Crestfield Rd Greenville, SC Bells Crossing Elementary School 804 Scuffletown Rd Simpsonville, SC Belmont Fire Station 701 Fork Shoals Rd Greenville, SC Berea Elementary School 100 Berea Dr Greenville, SC Devenger Rd Presbyterian Church 1200 Devenger Rd Greer, SC Lutheran Church of Our Saviour 2600 Wade Hampton Blvd Greenville, SC Brook Glenn Elementary School 2003 E Lee Rd Taylors, SC Buena Vista Elementary School 310 S Batesville Rd Greer, SC Carolina Academy 2725 Anderson Rd Greenville, SC Dunean Baptist Church 21 Allen St - Fellowship Hall Greenville, SC Cross Roads Baptist Church 705 Anderson Ridge Rd Greer, SC Pleasant View Baptist Church 110 Old Rutherford Rd Taylors, SC Reedy River Missionary Baptist ChurchConestee Rd @ Lakewood Dr - Family Cntr Greenville, SC

Darby Ridge New Velocity Church 1720 Reid School Rd Taylors, SC Del Norte Brushy Creek Elementary School 1344 Brushy Creek Rd Taylors, SC Devenger St Giles Presbyterian Church 1021 Hudson Rd Greenville, SC Donaldson Donaldson Center Fire Dept 2291 Perimeter Rd Greenville, SC Dove Tree Dove Tree Clubhouse 2 Sugarberry Dr Greenville, SC Dunklin Dunklin Fire Station 11353 Augusta Rd Honea Path, SC Eastside Eastside High School 1300 Brushy Creek Rd Taylors, SC Travelers Rest, SC Ebenezer Heritage Elementary School 1592 Geer Hwy Edwards Forest Taylors Elementary School 809 Reid School Rd Taylors, SC Enoree Enoree Career Center 108 Scalybark Rd Greenville, SC Feaster Shannon Forest Presbyterian Church 830 Garlington Rd Greenville,SC Fork Shoals Fork Shoals Elementary School 916 McKelvey Rd Pelzer, SC Fountain Inn 1 Younts Center for Performing Arts 315 N Main St Fountain Inn, SC Fountain Inn 2 Fountain Inn Activities Center 610 Fairview St Fountain Inn, SC Furman Woodlands at Furman 1500 Trailhead Ct Greenville, SC Gowensville Gowensville Community Center 14186 Hwy 11 Campobello,SC Grove Grove Elementary School 1220 Old Grove Rd Piedmont, SC Jennings Mill Cleveland First Baptist Church 5 Church Dr Cleveland, SC Lakeview Lakeview Middle School 3801 Old Buncombe Rd Greenville, SC Laurel Ridge St Mark United Methodist Church 901 St Mark Rd Taylors, SC Leawood Hampton Park Baptist Church 875 State Park Rd Greenville, SC Maple Creek Southside Baptist Church 410 S Main St Greer, SC Travelers Rest, SC Maridell New Liberty Baptist Church 1798 N Hwy 25 Mauldin 1 Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church 739 N Main St Mauldin, SC Mauldin 2 Forrester Woods Clubhouse 424 Piney Grove Rd Greenville, SC 150 S Main St - Fellowship Hall Mauldin, SC Mauldin 3 Mauldin First Baptist Church Mauldin 4 Mauldin United Methodist Church 100 E Butler Rd Mauldin, SC Mauldin 5 Mauldin Miller Fire Station #1 802 Miller Rd Greenville, SC Mauldin 6 Ray Hopkins Senior Center Corn Rd @ 699 E Butler Rd Mauldin, SC Mauldin 7 Mauldin Middle School 1190 Holland Rd Simpsonville, SC Mission Morningside Baptist Church 1115 Pelham Rd Greenville, SC Monaview Monaview Elementary School 10 Monaview St Greenville, SC 255 W Mountain Creek Church Rd Greenville, SC Mountain Creek Mountain Creek Baptist Church Mountain View Mountain View Elementary School 6350 Mountain View Rd Taylors, SC Neely Farms Christ Community Church 700 Harrison Bridge Rd Simpsonville, SC Northwood Northwood Middle School 710 Ikes Rd Taylors, SC Oakview Oakview Elementary School 515 Godfrey Rd Simpsonville, SC Palmetto Grace Church 2801 Pelham Rd Greenville, SC Paris Mountain Piedmont Park Fire Station Hdqt 2119 State Park Rd Greenville, SC Pebble Creek Pebble Creek Baptist Church 1300 Reid School Rd Taylors, SC Pelham Falls Cornerstone Baptist Church 8508 Pelham Rd Greenville, SC Piedmont Community Center-Beattie Hall 3 Main St Piedmont, SC Piedmont Pineview Canebrake Fire Dept 100 Hillside Church Rd Fountain Inn, SC Poinsett Duncan Chapel Elementary School 210 Duncan Chapel Rd Greenville, SC Raintree The Bridge Church 257 Harrison Bridge Rd Simpsonville, SC Reedy Fork Reedy Fork Baptist Church 3115 Fork Shoals Rd Simpsonville, SC River Walk River Walk Clubhouse 103 River Walk Blvd Simpsonville, SC Rock Hill Mitchell Rd Elementary School 4124 E North St Greenville, SC Rocky Creek Rocky Creek Baptist Church 1801 Woodruff Rd Greenville, SC Rolling Green Rolling Green Retirement Center 1 Hoke Smith Blvd Greenville, SC Royal Oaks Rock of Ages Baptist Church 105 Donaldson Rd Greenville, SC Saluda Berea Fire Station 7401 White Horse Rd Greenville, SC Sandy Flat Double Springs Baptist Church 3800 Locust Hill Rd Taylors, SC Sevier Sevier Middle School 1000 Piedmont Park Rd Greenville, SC Silverleaf Heritage Bible Church 2005 Old Spartanburg Rd Greer, SC Simpsonville 1 Simpsonville City Park Center 405 E Curtis St Simpsonville, SC Simpsonville 2 Plain Elementary School 506 Neely Ferry Rd Simpsonville, SC Simpsonville, SC Simpsonville 3 Simpsonville United Methodist Church 215 SE Main St Simpsonville 4 Westside Church 611 Richardson St Simpsonville, SC Simpsonville 5 Center for Community Services 1102 Howard Dr Simpsonville, SC Simpsonville 6 Calvary Baptist Church 207 Davenport Rd - Chapel Simpsonville, SC Skyland Skyland Elementary School 4221 N Hwy 14 Greer, SC Slater Marietta Slater Marietta Elementary School 100 Baker Cr Marietta, SC Southside Southside High School 6630 Frontage Rd Greenville, SC Spring Forest Greenville Nazarene Church 1201 Haywood Rd Greenville, SC Stone Valley Springwell Church 4369 Wade Hampton Blvd Taylors, SC Stonehaven Advent United Methodist Church 2258 Woodruff Rd Simpsonville, SC Suber Mill Praise Cathedral 3390 Brushy Creek Rd Greer, SC Sugar Creek Sugar Creek Clubhouse 103 Sugar Creek Rd Greer, SC Sulphur Springs Armstrong Elementary School 8601 White Horse Rd Greenville, SC Sycamore First Presbyterian Church 510 E Curtis St Simpsonville, SC Tanglewood Tanglewood Middle School 44 Merriwoods Dr Greenville, SC 200 W Main St - Ministry Center Taylors, SC Taylors Taylors First Baptist Church Thornblade Oakleaf Village@Thornblade 1560 Thornblade Blvd Greer, SC 25 Tigerville Elementary School Rd Taylors, SC Tigerville Tigerville Elementary School Timberlake Aldersgate United Methodist Church 7 Shannon Dr Greenville, SC Trade Needmore Recreation Center 202 Canteen Ave Greer, SC 881 Tigerville Rd - Youth Center Travelers Rest, SC Tubbs Mountain Enoree Baptist Church Wade Hampton Faith Baptist Church 500 W Lee Rd Taylors, SC Walnut Springs Clear Spring Baptist Church 301 Bethany Rd Simpsonville, SC Welcome Welcome Elementary School 36 E Welcome Rd Greenville, SC 4108 E North St - Fellowship Hall Greenville, SC Wellington LifeSong Church Westcliffe Westcliffe Elementary School 105 Eastbourne Rd Greenville, SC Westside John Calvin Presbyterian Church 1801 W Parker Rd Greenville, SC Woodmont Woodmont Middle School 325 N Flat Rock Rd Piedmont, SC Woodruff Lakes Woodruff Rd Christian Church 20 Bell Rd Greenville, SC Mt Pleasant Mt Pleasant Community Center 710 S Fairfield Rd Greenville, SC Baker Creek Valley Brook Outreach Baptist Church8323 Augusta Rd Pelzer, SC Bridge Fork City Church 416 Holland Rd Simpsonville, SC Castle Rock Washington Baptist Church 3500 N Hwy 14 Greer, SC Fox Chase Northwood Baptist Church 888 Ansel School Rd Greer, SC Frohawk Grace United Methodist Church 627 Taylor Rd Greer, SC Granite Creek Pleasant Grove Baptist Church 1002 S Buncombe Rd Greer, SC Graze Branch Holly Ridge Baptist Church 260 Adams Mill Rd Simpsonville, SC Greenbriar Messiah Lutheran Church 1100 Log Shoals Rd Mauldin, SC Hillcrest Hillcrest Middle School 510 Garrison Rd Simpsonville, SC Holly Tree Faith Baptist Church 906 Highway 14 Simpsonville, SC Kilgore Farms Gilder Creek Farm Clubhouse 404 Grimes Ave Simpsonville, SC Locust Hill Fairview Baptist Church 1300 Locust Hill Rd Greer, SC Rocky Creek Missionary Baptist Church 239 Rocky Creek Rd Simpsonville, SC Long Creek Moore Creek South Greenville Fire Station #6 1800 W Georgia Rd Simpsonville, SC Oneal Living Way Community Church 3239 N Hwy 101 Greer, SC Ranch Creek Robert E Cashion Elementary School 1500 Fork Shoals Rd Greenville, SC Riverside Riverside High School 794 Hammett Bridge Rd Greer, SC Sparrows Point Immanuel Lutheran Church 2820 Woodruff Rd Simpsonville, SC Standing Springs Standing Springs Baptist Church 1111 W Georgia Rd Simpsonville, SC Travelers Rest 1 Travelers Rest City Hall 6711 State Park Rd Travelers Rest, SC Travelers Rest 2 Renfrew Baptist Church 951 Geer Hwy Travelers Rest, SC Tyger River Chandler Creek Elementary School 301 Chandler Rd Greer, SC Verdmont Hopewell United Methodist Church 1420 Neely Ferry Rd Simpsonville, SC Ware Place Ellen Woodside Elementary School 9122 Augusta Rd Pelzer, SC

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THE WEEK IN PHOTOS

LOOK WHO’S IN THE JOURNAL THIS WEEK

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Fall for Greenville presented $35,000 to four local nonprofit organizations this week. Fall for Greenville awarded $5,000 grants to Sustaining Way, Loves & Fishes and the Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at Greenville Technical College. The festival presented a $20,000 grant to the Mill Village Farms Rooftop Initiative.

RUSSELL STALL / CONTRIBUTING

People assemble for the celebration of the opening of Pedrick’s Garden at Falls Park.

Pedrick’s Garden is on University Street behind the Warehouse Theatre.​

The TD Convention Center’s ballroom was packed for the annual 2014 United Way Campaign Kickoff celebration.

Attendees listen as David Lominack, Upstate-Midlands market president of TD Bank and 2014 United Way Campaign vice chair, announces the Pacesetters campaign had raised $3,745,570 as of Aug. 21.

Michael Cinquemani, president of Master Power Transmission and 2014 United Way Campaign chair, announces at the kickoff celebration that this year’s goal for the campaign is $17 million.

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Greenville’s newest fountain at Pedrick’s Garden.

​Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit, right, along with faculty and staff, assisted students moving into the residence halls at BJU. BJU began its 88th academic year Sept. 3.

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By Julian Lim

THE TABLE IS SET, GRAB A SEAT.

Reserve a seat at the table and in three weeks you’ll be able to enjoy all you can eat, sip and listen at euphoria2014.

For more details and to purchase tickets, visit euphoriagreenville.com.

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ACROSS 1 Wax museum founder Marie 8 Many a Jordanian 12 Pacts 19 1992 David Mamet play 20 Fancy drink garnish 22 Reveal 23 Outdoor dining area with no chairs?

25 __ trading 26 Link clicker’s destination 27 Inter __ 28 Man of steel?

30 Suffix with 62-Across 31 Thurman of “Kill Bill” 32 Become adept at aerobic exercise?

36 Santa __ 37 Boxer with titles in eight different weight classes 39 Went hastily 40 “Curses!”

42 Sch. with the mustachioed mascot Hey Reb! 43 Kept the dance floor busy, briefly 45 Gets down 48 __ nod: acting honor 51 Biblical name meaning “hairy” 53 Biol. majors’ awards 55 Spanish neighborhood known for its kisses?

59 CNN medical correspondent Sanjay __ 60 Ring punch 61 Pay ending 62 Exemplary 63 Hertz opening?

64 Scale fifth 65 “Holy __!”

66 Chaney of old horror films 67 River of Germany 69 Put the cuffs on 72 Author Dinesen 74 Refine, as ore 76 Montréal moniker 77 Texas NLer 78 Pained shrieks 80 Contest to win an objet d’art?

83 Colluding 85 User’s reversal 86 Ancient Indo-European 87 Canadian french fries dish 88 “Why not?”

90 Mudville number 92 __ butter: cosmetic moisturizer 93 Ersatz 95 Drug-induced hostility 99 Book after John 101 Brit’s New York signoff?

105 Sound file suffix 106 However, informally 107 Blow a gasket 108 Like weak hand-

shakes 109 Exude 110 Leaf-wrapped Mexican dish 112 TV station mascot?

117 “Once more ...”

118 Tune with many high notes 119 Winter beverages 120 Jewel case holders 121 Rebel against 122 Expand, as a home

DOWN 1 50-50 shot 2 Last syllable 3 Northwest airport named for two cities 4 Sensible 5 Fish-chips link 6 Down Under school 7 Emmy-winning sportscaster Patrick 8 Familiar fruit logo 9 Show again 10 Diplomat’s case 11 Tang dynasty poet Li __ 12 Subject of corroboration 13 Do some necking 14 Skin malady, perhaps 15 __-Wan Kenobi 16 Contact a provisions room on a shortwave?

17 Get into gear?

18 Perfect Sleeper maker 21 Moto portrayer 24 Pet for Pedro

29 “That’s strange” 32 2013 Literature Nobelist Alice 33 Cough and sneeze, say 34 Comprehensive command 35 Hinder’s opposite

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36 Do-it-yourself floor covering 38 Farmyard sound 41 Sailor, at times 43 2000 Peace Prize recipient Kim __-jung 44 Anniversary bash 45 Tumult

46 Asian New Year 47 Govt. ID issuer 48 Protest singer Phil 49 “Go away!”

50 Buyer of “Gangsta’s Paradise”?

52 Patronizes, as a motel 53 Sports __ 54 Sandwich ingredient for many?

56 “Check it out!”

57 Adidas founder Dassler 58 Let 63 Internet __: viral item 65 Five iron, old-style 68 Pay homage (to) 70 Domingo number 71 Godsend 73 Harvester’s paths 75 Party leaders 77 More certain 78 Pup squeak 79 Roxy Music alum 80 Sushi topper 81 Temp. takers, at times 82 “I’m on it!”

84 Resting 88 “__ Aeterna”: Requiem Mass song 89 Omit 91 Sundial number 93 Fancy dresser 94 Not at all settled 95 Forfeited wheels 96 Asleep no more 97 Watch in awe 98 Yet 99 Top story 100 Vitamin-rich veggie 102 Gets eaten away, in a way 103 HDTV part, for short 104 Post of good manners 107 Gas partner: Abbr.

109 Prefix with -pus 111 Mental health org.

113 “The Unknown” director Browning 114 Half a dance 115 Coal scuttle 116 “__ be sad if ...”

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WHERE I’VE BEEN WITH BILL KOON

Awesome opportunities I try not to let people know that I’m a recovering English teacher.

They clam up or ask me about a novel I should have read. There are times, though, when I just can’t hold myself back; I fall off the wagon and just have to say something about language.

For example, the adjective du jour seems to be “awesome.” That’s a powerful adjective – one that might work well with Vesuvius or the Grand Canyon. But, as best I can tell, we apply it indiscriminately. Like, “that guy is wearing awesome socks,” or “boy, that cotton candy is awesome.”

We’ll have to redefine “awesome” soon. “Awesome” may not be very “awesome” much longer.

We have had a struggle with simple hellos and good-byes. I liked my generation’s “later.” It was ambiguous, as in “I hope to see you later” or “I hope I won’t see you again until much later.” I used to make the peace symbol with one hand when I said “later.” My students of recent years were completely flummoxed by that.

They didn’t know whether to check the time on their iPads or look up to the heavens.

Their generation is slathering on “Have a nice day,” which, of course is fine except that we destroyed “nice” a long time ago, as in “she’s a nice old lady, bless her heart.” I don’t know how to respond to those good wishes – should I say “have a nice day yourself ”? Or maybe I should go for “have an awesome day.”

Here in my maturity, I’m getting old-fashioned. “Good morning,” “good afternoon,” and “good evening” seem to me to be serviceable. I like the ambiguity – these phrases convey good wishes or indicate that it is time to head for the door. I stir in an occasional “hello” or “good-bye” for variety.

When I finish this and ask my laptop to “shut down,” it will tell me that I shouldn’t “power off.” I like the idea that I’m powering something, but I’m not sure I want to power it “off.”

I’d rather power it “on” or “up”.

Same goes for “proactive.” Man, that sounds like we are really going to get with it. But isn’t “active” enough – and doesn’t “proactive” imply that there can be a “con active”? Some-

how “proactive” makes me think of a dog chasing its tail.

My favorite among these guys is “negative equity.” This one usually comes up when we think about buying another used car before we have paid off our current used car. I guess it encourages customers who are in debt with one car loan to add to their debt with still another. “Negative equity” sounds better than “repossessed.”

“Debt forgiveness” is in the same category. Sounds biblical, doesn’t it?

But what it really means, of course, is that some loan outfit will lend you more money even though you haven’t been able to pay off earlier loans.

That is, they’ll forgive you for being in debt although your debt survives as you add to it. It’s like forgiveness for murder – awesome, but the victim is still dead and you are still headed for lethal injection – if your state can come up with drugs that will kill you painlessly.

I also like “window of opportunity.”

It could refer to something for me to jump out of in an emergency or it could warm the heart of a burglar.

Either way you spin it, it sounds like “negative opportunity” to me – not like an awesome opportunity.

What do you think of “reverse mortgage”? If Fred Thompson and Henry Winkler are financial wizards, many of us would be cashing in our best investment in order to go on one last cruise or paint the fence. When I took out my first 31-mortgage, the bank wished me a long life. I have a feeling that, if I took out a reverse mortgage, my longevity might not be what the bank had in mind.

Consider this: Old Fred Thompson tried to become president of our country. Had he succeeded, his successor would have discovered quickly that the White House belonged to the bank. I’m not going to forgive Fred or Henry Winkler – or lend either one of them any money. I do, however, thank Winkler for not running for the presidency – yet.

I feel better now and will hush for a while.

Later.

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Bill Koon lives in Greenville. He can be contacted at badk@clemson.edu.

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