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“This is the South, and part of that high school experience is football and cheerleaders and bands.” Bob Collins, Shannon Forest Christian School president, on why the school decided to launch a football program.

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43 Number of years since a Presbyterian College football player was drafted to the NFL. This past April, Justin Bethel was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the sixth round. When Arizona opens the season Sunday with Seattle, Bethel will be on the team.

“What could you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” Miss Greenville USA Stacey Smith, on the question she heard in church that inspired her to pursue goals she considered impossible as a child.

“You should never miss a game because of a wedding … that’s what January-August is for.” Blog comment from a Clemson fan about the folly of scheduling a wedding during football season.

“I think that the country needs some sort of confidence builder, and I don’t think you’re going to get that if the current administration stays in office.” Realtor Seabrook Marchant, on the common worry throughout the construction industry about “what’s going to happen in November.”

“They’re passing away every day, and I want every veteran who can to see it.” Belton-Honea Path High School student Gracyn Moore, on why she is using her 16th birthday party to raise money to send veterans on Honor Flight Network trips to see the Washington war memorials.

“People were scalping tickets to the Warehouse Theatre.” Warehouse Theater Artistic Director Paul Savas, on Greenville’s reaction to the theatre’s 2010 production of “The Rocky Horror Show.”

600 Number of dogs, along with 900 participants of the human sort, that took part in the first annual Mutt Strut sponsored by the Greenville Humane Society. The event raised $44,000.

$211,000 Amount Wade Hampton students raised during last year’s Spirit Week. Eastside students raised $130,000. This week will end the decades-old tradition between the two schools.

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The Pickens County Museum of Art and History kicks off a new exhibition Sept. 8 that showcases the work of 25 regional photographers in an introspective light. “Now and Then: Some Photographers’ Work” explores the personal growth of the artists from their formative years until the present. In this invitational exhibition, each photographer was asked to submit two contemporary pieces along with two from their formative years. Allen Coleman, Pickens County Museum curator, said the concept “is very simple. It’s taking some committed photographers and asking them to show how they think they have grown.” Viewers may witness the use of 19thcentury printing processes alongside digital photographs; Photoshop-enhanced images opposite darkroom products. The established photographers featured in the exhibit include Debbie Cooke, Nathan A. Einstein, Polly Gaillard, Bryan Hiott, Diane HopkinsHughs, J. Michael Johnson, Bill Jordan, Del Kimbler, Sandy King, Cindy Landrum, Steve Marlow, Blaine Owens, Bev Peeples, Lynn Pilewski, Blake Praytor, Owen Riley, Bruce M. Schlein, Kim Sholly, Stephen Stinson, Rebecca Stockham, Sam Wang, Patrick G. Welch, Skip Woodward, Anderson Wrangle and Oliver Yu. Technology has advanced to the digital revolution, but that doesn’t mean artists are letting go of older processes. “When I started it was all primitive. Everything was new,” said artist Sam Wang, a former Clemson University professor of photography. “Now a lot of people, be-

cause of the digital camera, think everything is easier. For (them) traditional film is a limitation. It makes you look more seriously, with more concentration.” Wang has embraced digital technology, but still uses the darkroom often. “In the exhibit, two prints are from 1962. The two from today are shot with a film camera and scanned into the computer. They are a combination of both film and digital,” he said. Debbie Cooke, a former instructor at the Fine Arts Center of Greenville County, combines the old and new as well. “I’m always working with new media,” she said, “and now I’m back to a 19thcentury process. This is the oldest process of getting a color print. I’m also using my iPhone to get my images and I’m using Instagram and Photoshop to get my negatives. I’m combining the oldest of the old and the newest of the new.” For many of the artists, technique has improved. Artist Bruce Schlein, well-known for his work in the Upstate, says he began his affair with photography “somewhere around 1957 or ’58” with a borrowed Argus C3. “From what I can remember of my old stuff, the kind of vision is really simpler,” Schlein said. “I’ve learned how to eliminate, to frame up the things I’m photographing while shooting.” The “Now and Then” opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 8 at the Pickens County Museum, 307 Johnson St., Pickens, and continue through Nov. 8. Admission is free. For more information, contact the Pickens County Museum at 864-898-5963. Contact Shelby Livingston at slivingston@greenvillejournal.com.

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5K Race for the Cure set for Sept. 29 By APRIL A. MORRIS | staff

The SC Mountains to Midlands affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation unveiled a new, more scenic route for the Race for the Cure that winds through downtown Greenville, including Main Street. The Upstate Komen affiliate serves 22 counties in South Carolina in an effort to end breast cancer. It funds breast health screening, treatment, education and support programs along with national research. More than 5,000 runners pounded the pavement in last year’s race, said new executive director Bill Sorochak, and organizers are hoping for 6,000 this year. The 5K race is the affili- Sorochak ate’s largest fundraising event and helps fund the grants that the organization distributes to Upstate hospitals and community programs. Sorochak has worked the last 17 years in the nonprofit sector after leaving a position with a Fortune 500 company. It is rewarding to provide a service rather than a product, he said, and the Upstate is generous in supporting nonprofits, including the Komen effort. “People are coming on board for the mission,” he said. Melissa Morell, race co-chair for a second year and daughter of a breast cancer survivor, said in preparation for the race many downtown Greenville merchants will decorate with pink or offer pink merchandise as part of Go Pink for the Cure. Much of the money raised during the event comes from sponsorships and participant fees, but many runners also raise funds or form teams to fundraise, too, Morell said. There’s a one-mile course for families and walkers who prefer a shorter route, and for those who want to sleep in or who can’t attend, Komen offers the Sleep In for the Cure, where participants make a donation instead of paying a race fee.

“When the runners cross the finish line, we can take care of 22 counties in the Upstate,” Sorochak said. Morell said chip timing is available for competitive runners, who typically number around 1,000 each year. In addition, a contingent of about 1,000 survivors will be recognized at the race. There are approximately 2.5 million survivors in the United States, many of whom are alive thanks to early detection, said Sorochak. More than 300 volunteers make race day happen and organizers say more are needed. The local affiliate typically raises just under $1 million yearly, with 75 percent of net proceeds benefitting the Upstate, Sorochak said. The rest of the proceeds go to the national organization for research – and much of that money returns to the Upstate due to research at Clemson University, Greenville Hospital System and Spartanburg Regional Hospital System, he said. A major goal of the Upstate affiliate is to break the $1 million threshold. Sorochak said his move from the corporate to the nonprofit world came because his corporate job involved continuous travel and left him little time with his family. He loves the variance of his job, he said. “Every day is different; there is no such thing as a nine-to-five job in a nonprofit.” Following the Race for the Cure, Sorochak said the organization is planning another fundraiser for March 2013 that’s a departure from the race model. In addition, he wants to increase awareness of the affiliate’s service to the Upstate, along with expanding next year’s Race for the Cure to a weeklong event culminating in the 5K. Sorochak said he’s ready for the challenge of leading the organization and serving the people of the Upstate. “The stories I’ve been hearing so far are wonderful stories of hope and promise.” Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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Battling for the microphone Based on the howls heard ‘round the state, the battle for credit may outrank any fight for actual reform when legislators reconvene in January to grouse about how Nikki Haley stole their thunder once again. The governor’s plane-hopping trip to unveil her ethics package before heading for Tampa last week drew bipartisan sneers from elected leaders whose main beef seemed to be that she got to the microphones first. As always, Haley’s timing was impeccable – not just in self-promotion before stepping onto the convention stage, but in saving the roll-out until she was safely past her own ethics hearings. Our governor is warmly familiar with the loopholes she now seeks to close. But all ironies aside, Haley’s detractors would do us all a far greater good if, instead of teeth-gnashing, they tried to embrace that truism about the limitless accomplishments made possible when no one cares who gets the credit. South Carolina’s ethics rules are among the country’s weakest. The national Center for Public Integrity ranked the state the sixth most corruptible in the nation earlier this year after a study that called out our campaign finance regulations, asset disclosure laws and impotent ethics commission for specific criticism. State disclosure laws are so opaque they don’t even require our political class to reveal who they work for or what they do – which is why Haley, as a legislator, could work as a consultant for a Columbia engineering firm that did business with the state and keep the information to herself. The law also allowed Haley to take a paycheck as fundraiser for a Lexington hospital foundation while promoting, as a legislator, the hospital’s bid to open a heart-surgery center. Haley correctly says she broke no disclosure laws and did nothing illegal, as the House Ethics Commission so ruled earlier this spring. She also says – quite rightly – that this systemic lack of transparency cannot go on. The changes Haley laid out in her plane-hopping tour of the state are the barest minimum that should clear the General Assembly next year, and legislators know it. Most have made the reform lists for years: Full legislative compliance with the state’s open records laws. Total income disclosure from elected officials, including who pays them and how much. Stiffer recusal requirements for lawyer-legislators appearing before boards on behalf of private clients. The dissolution of legislative ethics committees in favor of onestop enforcement by the state Ethics Commission. And the only truly new one: no incumbent exemptions for election filings, forcing incumbent office-holders to follow the same election paperwork rules as their challengers. That last reform – raised in response to the 250 candidates tossed off the ballot thanks to paperwork malfunctions – may well be the lever that forces an ethics package into law in 2013. Ethics bills are the reruns of the General Assembly, on perpetual loop year after year. They typically collapse under the weight of all the good-government reforms legislators pile on in the annual who-gets-the credit race. Why focus on forging a law that might pass when posturing gets you more? However, the 2012 ballot debacle cannot go uncorrected – and the outrage it provoked has awakened public sensitivities to other ethical failings too long ignored. Reform is in the air. The question now is whether the governor and her competitors for the microphone have the character to turn reformist zeal into law – and share the credit.

A dream come true A recent column by Greenville attorney Ralph Gleaton introduced readers to the new federal immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). I would like to share my observations, both as a practitioner in this field and as a private citizen, on the positive development of DACA – a virtual oasis for undocumented young people in a harsh desert created by 20-plus years of congressional policy failure. DACA will benefit many young people who have spent their formative years in this country. In my office I have reviewed countless South Carolina school diplomas and report cards, in some instances reaching back to kindergarten. Proud parents have brought certificates of academic achievement and spoken to me of their dreams for their children to attend Greenville Tech and USC Upstate. Nearly all of the applicants I have met speak English as well as our own children. This is no accident: The United States Supreme Court ruled 30 years ago that all children, regardless of parentage or immigration status, were guaranteed a free public education through high school. However, after graduation, the states may decide who may attend public universities. DACA will hopefully help correct this imbalance. The new measure will bring thousands of young people into the full daylight of mainstream America. Although approval of a DACA application carries no right to permanent residence or citizenship, it does ensure permission to work, and with it the opportunity to apply for a Social Security card and (its supporters hope) a state driver’s license. It will be exciting to see how they will use these to their advantage to land better jobs, start and grow businesses, and contribute to our social and economic stability. The DACA program represents a muchneeded measure of common sense in a problematic, if not unreasonable, immigration law system. DACA may be viewed as part of “prosecutorial discretion,” a policy that began to take form about a year ago. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dragnet had accumulated record numbers of deportations, roughly

IN MY OWN WORDS by ALLEN C. LADD

400,000 per year, with many more in the enforcement “pipeline.” ICE realized the system could not process – much less actually deport – all of these individuals. And so in June 2011, the ICE director began issuing directives encouraging field personnel and attorneys to weigh positive and negative factors in deciding whether to prosecute low-priority cases. The results are encouraging, as parents of American citizen children have been allowed (albeit without work permits) to remain in the country, avoiding dislocation and preserving family unity. This trend toward discretion and deferral has been only a small point of light in a very dark and disappointing era of our nation’s immigration policy. Over more than 20 years in practice, I have witnessed a relentless tightening of the laws as Congress has forced a drastic reduction in professionallevel work visas (now at a mere one-third of the former allotment), stiffened requirements for religious worker visas and imposed a draconian 10-year bar on undocumented applicants for legal status – even for spouses and parents of American citizens. Which way will this see-sawing between reasonable rule-making in the Department of Homeland Security and empty rhetoric in Congress tilt in the coming months? Would a Romney White House choose to dismantle deferred action? Would a secondterm President Obama take up the banner of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress? We must wait and see. Allen Ladd has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1990 and represents immigration clients in the western Carolinas and elsewhere in the world. In 2013 he will expand his firm’s services to U.S. income tax representation of foreign nationals and American expatriates. His office is near Fluor Field in the West End.

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Sweet 16 seeks to honor the greatest generation Upstate teen opts to use party as Honor Flight fundraiser By APRIL A. MORRIS | staff

For nearly a decade, Honor Flight Network trips have transported veterans to visit the memorials dedicated to their service and their comrades-in-arms. On Sept. 18, the Honor Flight Upstate S.C. will take 75 World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the World War II, Vietnam, Korean and Iwo Jima memorials, in addition to the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. There’s an urgency to the mission of making sure the veterans have the opportunity to make the trip – many are in their 80s and some are more than 100 years old. Since 2007, the Upstate chapter has flown more than 600 veterans to Washington, D.C. With the upcoming flight, they will exceed 700. The flights are free for veterans, and the nonprofit Honor Flight Upstate S.C.

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relies solely on contributions to send veterans on each flight, said director of development Jason Hucks. The staff is made up of volunteers and all donations go to fund the flights, which cost approximately $50,000 each. “We have a limited amount of time to say ‘thank you’ to this generation,” Hucks said. One almost-16-year-old Upstate girl wholeheartedly agrees – so much so that she’s turned her 16th birthday party into a fundraiser for the network. Gracyn Moore, a student at BeltonHonea Path High School and member of the Air Force Junior ROTC, who wants

The network is launching a grassroots campaign to ask 1,000 donors to pledge $10 per month, which would allow the network to add an additional flight each year. One community supporter, the Upstate South Carolina Chapter of the Defenders Motorcycle Club, a group of law enforcement, military, emergency services and public safety personnel, recently contributed $6,000 to help fund the September flight. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

SO YOU KNOW Gracyn Moore’s Sweet 16 Fundraiser Sept. 8, 7 p.m. Ebenezer Fire Department 1416 Due West Hwy., Anderson 864-933-4865 or ff.for.life@hotmail.com Honor Flight Upstate S.C. Sept. 18 864-869-VETS www.honorflightupstatesc.com At 8 p.m. that day, the public can greet returning veterans at Greenville-Spartanburg Airport.

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to attend the Air Force Academy, said she and her mother had always planned a big party for that teenage milestone. After her grandfather, veteran Carris Christian, died without seeing the memorials, Moore decided she wanted her Sweet 16th birthday to count for something more. “They’re passing away every day, and I want every veteran who can to see it,” she said. Moore has been raising money since July, selling cutout stars for a Wall of Heroes and speaking to various groups. She was surprised at the generosity of the Upstate and the attention her effort garnered. With $4,000 already raised, “I’ve surpassed my fundraising goals twice,” she said. “Now I’ve set my goal at $10,000 so I can send 16 veterans for my 16th birthday.” And the Sweet 16 party, scheduled for Sept. 8 at the Ebenezer Fire Department in Anderson, will still be the unforgettable celebration she and her mother envisioned – hundreds of people are expected to attend the event that will feature a Colors and Rifle demonstration, dessert and dancing. Hucks said such community support is vital to the continued success of Honor Flight’s mission.

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Evaluating Employee Strengths In “Good to Great”, author Jim Collins emphasizes the need to get the “right people on the bus and in the right seat.” This idea of hiring the best people LEE YARBOROUGH and placing them in the role that best suits their strengths is a common best practice. However, it is a difficult practice which requires strong management leadership. In the HR field, I often see personnel issues based on the fact that the employee was not in the right seat of the bus. Or maybe on the wrong bus entirely. Once an employee is hired and a manager realizes that the employee is not working out, a decision needs to be made. Is there another job in the company in which this employee would excel? Can the job description be modified to fit this person’s strengths or is this person not the right member for your team? As humans, we tend to give people extra chances or overlook their weaknesses, rather than deal with a potential confrontation. But as managers, we must evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each employee and make a decision on how each person benefits the team. If even one member of your team is not in the right position, then it can slowly hurt the whole organization.

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When evaluating employees, a friend always asks herself, “If I started my own company today, would I want this person to follow me?” If you can’t answer this in the affirmative for all of your employees, then you need to evaluate why. It may be as simple as changing their “seat on the bus” or you may have to tell them that they are not on the “right bus” at all. But when you finally have the bus filled with the right people, your company will travel great distances.

Greenville Tech looks to future while celebrating its past Tech commemorates its 50th anniversary By Cindy Landrum | staff

Former U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings cautioned the dignitaries who would turn the first shovels full of dirt at the ceremonial groundbreaking for Greenville Technical College not to dig too deep. He didn’t want them to get to the garbage. From its meager beginnings in 1962 with one building on a former city landfill and a dozen full-time faculty members, Greenville Technical College has grown into the fourth-largest higher education institution in the state – surpassed only by the University of South Carolina, Clemson University and Trident Tech – with four campuses and 118 different certificate, diploma and associate degree programs. And it’s not done growing yet. Greenville Technical College radiology students While the college celebrates its 50th anniverpractice their skills in this photo from 1973. sary, school officials are working on plans for the creation of an Enterprise Campus, a place where the area’s manufacturers can work side-by-side “Greenville Tech is probably more important to bring new ideas to life, find solutions to prob- to Greenville County now than it was when lems and test and produce new products. the college was started because of how the eco“Manufacturing is no longer the dirty shop- nomic needs have changed,” Miller said. “When floor environment,” said Greenville Tech Presi- Greenville Tech first opened, a worker could get dent Dr. Keith Miller. “Manufacturing is comput- a fairly good job with a livable wage with a high ers and robotics and requires a lot of training.” school education. Now, manufacturing and The Enterprise Campus will a play a large business require post-secondary education.” role in growing the Upstate’s pipeline of skilled Tech’s Enterprise Campus will allow for stronger workers, something that is mandatory if the internships and apprenticeships and give students region is to continue to attract high-tech man- more time in a hands-on environment, Miller said. ufacturers such as BMW, GE and Michelin. A location for the Enterprise Campus has “The image of manufacturing hasn’t changed not yet been chosen and a timetable has yet to as rapidly as the reality has,” said Dick Wilkerson, be developed, Miller said. retired Michelin North America chairman and Miller said area manufacturers have expressed president. “Even manufacturers a lot of interest in the idea. engaged in low-tech products “I am confident an Enterprise use high-tech processes to make Campus will be built. I think we them. Low-tech manufacturhave to do it because the need ing goes to low-wage countries. is so great,” he said. Midlands We’ve got be able be compete for Tech has an Enterprise Camhigh-tech manufacturers and to pus, but it is focused on highdo that, we need a workforce tech industries and is not manthat is ready and able to work in ufacturing-based, Miller said. a high-tech environment.” Wilkerson said high-tech Hollings centered his 1958 gumanufacturing is key to the Upbernatorial bid on the idea of atstate’s future and having a worktracting new business and indusforce with the skills to fill those try to South Carolina. The state jobs is mandatory. technical college system was “There are jobs in Greenville Greenville Technical College created to ensure South CarolinCounty now that are going wantPresident Dr. Thomas Barton, ians who grew up on farms and left, meets with U.S. Rep. James ing because there are not enough in mill towns were able to learn Mann during a visit to the school qualified workers,” he said. marketable vocational skills for by the congressman in 1971. Changing educational needs the first time, allowing them to The school’s main campus was of the Upstate is also driving obtain better jobs and wages. named for Dr. Barton in 2000. Greenville Tech’s new $205.8

Greenville Tech through the years September 1962 –

Greenville Technical Education Center opens on South Pleasantburg Drive on an abandoned city landfill with one building, 12 full-time instructors and 800 students. September 1966 – School

signs an agreement with Clemson University to begin a two-year college transfer program, the forerunner to the school’s current university transfer program. Dec. 11, 1968 – Greenville

Tech receives accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. 1973 – Greenville Tech Foun-

dation established to provide support for the college. July 1987 – Greenville Higher Education Consortium, which later became the University Center, is formed. It is now housed in the former McAlister Square mall. 1992 – Greenville Tech

switches to the semester system. August 1996 – Green-

ville Tech opens campuses in Greer and Simpsonville; University Center moved to McAlister Square. 1996 – Greenville Tech

begins offering Jump Start classes to high school students. 1997 – Greenville Tech be-

gins offering online classes. August 1999 – Northwest

Campus opens in Berea. April 2000 – Main campus named after Tom Barton, at that time the only president in the school’s history. 2006 – Greenville Tech

opens its first on-campus student housing facility. 2007 – Board votes to begin

national search for Baton’s successor. 2008 – Dr. Keith Miller

becomes college’s second president.

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Greenville Technical College as it appeared in 1971 with the original building in the foreground and construction underway behind it.

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lacks cohesion and feels more like a collection of unrelated buildings with associated parking lots than a college campus. The plan turns the school’s Technical Resource Center (TRC), which serves as the school’s library, into a student success center that will include the library, a learning center, a new counseling center, tutoring, distance education, a faculty resource commons, a media lab, cyber cafe, an auditorium, meeting space and classrooms. The plan also calls for construction of a new academic building to house the arts and sciences and the health science divisions. According to the plan, the University Transfer building which currently houses the arts and sciences division is in poor condition and would require extensive upgrades. The health sciences building is also in poor condition and has an inflexible structural system that makes renovation and enlargement of the science labs impossible. The new building would be built adjacent to the University

Transfer building. The master plan also calls for a pedestrian bridge to be built over the ravine to connect the student success center and the new academic core. The landscape on both sides of the ravine would be sculpted to create “Unity Park,” an accessible outdoor learning environment with an amphitheater, walking paths, open areas for recreation and a variety of seating. The University Transfer building would be renovated to accommodate the student services division now housed at the school’s Admissions and Registration Center in the old McAlister Square. The renovated facility would also house career services, veteran’s affairs, the bookstore, a fitness center, the personal trainer program and meeting rooms. The new heart of the campus would be connected to the community by the Swamp Rabbit Trail. At the Brashier campus in Simpsonville, construction of a fire-training facility in partnership with local fire departments would be built. In Greer, a new 21,000-square-

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million, 10-year academic master plan. “Fifty years ago, how people learned and how instruction was delivered was vastly different than it is today,” Miller said. “The new plan changes the campuses to focus on a more engaged, team-learning environment.” The majority of the work is slated for the main Barton campus on Pleasantburg. According to the master plan compiled by JMZ Architects and Planners, the Barton campus

Greenville Technical College student Roy Hedrick practices his welding skills in the school’s Automotive Technology Center.

foot addition would provide additional instructional and support space and allow the visual and performing arts program and the occupational and physical therapy programs to expand. A new Charter High School facility would also be built. On the Northwest campus in Berea, a library would be created, the

bookstore enlarged and a greenhouse built to support the campus’s flagship culinary arts program and a proposed horticulture program. The school is negotiating with the National Guard to construct a joint facility that will accommodate the school’s aircraft maintenance, truck driver training and diesel technology programs. If the negotiations fall through, the college plans to build a new facility to consolidate the three programs. Once the diesel technology program is moved from the McKinney Automotive Center, the school plans to begin new programs associated with hybrid cars and other sustainable technologies. The Buck Mickel Center is slated for demolition. Miller said it is likely the master plan will change before it is completely finished. He said now the school is focusing on how to balance the Enterprise Campus and work on the master plan. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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Keeping kids sober Yearlong campaign aims to change attitudes about underage drinking By april a. morris | staff

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Preventing youth and young adults under 21 years old from gaining access to alcohol is the focus of a yearlong drinking enforcement and education campaign backed by law enforcement and the Phoenix Center, the county’s authority on substance abuse. The third wave of activities in “Underage Drinking, Adult Consequences,” designed to encourage a safe and sober end of summer, included television spots, party patrols by law enforcement, checkpoints and compliance checks for stores and restaurants, said Curtis Reece, manager of prevention services for the Phoenix Center. Reece says the county has been making efforts to reduce underage access to alcohol for 10 years. In 2002, alcohol compliance checks of grocery stores and restaurants in the area confirmed that 45 percent of retailers were selling alcohol to underage youth. Now that number hovers around 10 percent, he says. Officials are trying to determine where underage drinkers get alcohol, Reece said. To determine if merchants are selling to underage drinkers, young volunteers go out with law enforcement and attempt to purchase alcohol. Last year, the Greenville Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Coalition was one of four organizations in the country to receive a $343,000 grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to curb underage drinking and save lives on roadways. “We’re getting the national

spotlight on Greenville for reducing underage drinking,” said Reece. Along with the law enforcement activities, the coalition is holding parent townhall meetings and working closely with local colleges to reduce underage drinking, Reece said. This fall, the media blitz will continue with a High School Game of the Week radio campaign that will feature interviews at local high schools and public service announcements. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, in 2009, about 10.4 million young people between ages 12 and 20 drank more than “just a few sips” of alcohol. The state’s Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services states that 69 percent of ninth- through 12th-graders in South Carolina have tried alcohol and one in 10 high school students has driven after drinking in the past month. In addition to reduction efforts, the coalition is surveying the area’s attitudes about drinking in partnership with Wake Forest University and will again survey residents after the campaign concludes with six “waves” in April 2013, Reece said. Parents interested in learning more about the campaign can attend coalition meetings the second Wednesday of each month at the Phoenix Center, he said. The first two waves, conducted in April and June, resulted in 160 citations or arrests. The third wave concluded at the end of August. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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A brew with a cause Founding Fathers brewery donates half its profits to support military families By SHELBY LIVINGSTON | contributor

After 23 years of working for a high-density, automated storage company in Minneapolis, Phil Knutsen decided to cut ties and take a giant leap in a very different direction: beer. Knutsen formed Founding Fathers Brewing Co., a Minnesota-based business that helps consumers revisit what it means to be an American. Knutsen has now brought his venture to South Carolina. Founding Fathers formally launched two premium domestic beers at a special Greenville Drive game Friday, Aug. 31. Knutsen began his endeavor with the simple concept of developing a brand name that aligned with the solid American ideals of old. He decided he would donate 50 percent of all his profits to local organizations that support the U.S. military and their families. In South Carolina, that means the S.C. Armed Forces Relief Trust, the National Guard Association

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of S.C. and The Independence Fund. “I formed Founding Fathers based on a concept very similar to Newman’s Own,” Knutsen told the Journal. “I wanted to donate to an organization that I felt was aligned to the founding fathers of our country, and that being the United States military. Newman’s donates to thousands of organizations but I wanted it to be specific – to support our military’s families.” Knutsen’s cause wasn’t a whim. His choice to support the military hits close to home – his father, father-in-law, son and college roommate all served in the armed forces for a time. As a result, Knutsen “feel(s) strongly about our military and the freedoms it gives us.” In the last decade, craft beer variety and sales have exploded, while domestic premium beers like Budweiser, Miller and Coors have suffered, according to the Brewers Association, the largest association of independent brewers in the United States. Knutsen sees the weakening of the domestic premium market as his chance to stake his claim in the brew industry – but F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N , V I S I T

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don’t call Founding Fathers a craft beer. “We are not a craft beer, not your typical microbrewery,” Knutsen said. “What we’ve done is we’ve launched a domestic premium beer. This is the first time in my lifetime that there’s been a new competitor to compete directly with Budweiser, Miller and Coors.” Another reason Founding Fathers avoided the craft scene and chose to brew a domestic premium is the rise of foreignowned breweries in operation in American territory. “With the sellout of Budweiser to the Belgians, Miller to the South Africans, and Coors, which is a Canadian-South African venture, we thought it was time to launch an American product that competed directly with them,” Knutsen said. Still, his main focus is on providing support for military

families. Beer lovers can rest assured that their contributions will go to the right people, he said. Founding Fathers is equipped with a military advisory board to help vet which organizations will receive donations. “Obviously, we want to be aligned with organizations that we feel are the most highly regarded,” Knutsen said. “My advisors make sure the organizations we partnered with are doing a tremendous job.” Currently, Founding Fathers has two beers on the market: Founding Fathers Lager and Founding Fathers Light. Knutsen promises more varieties down the road. In the meantime, he says, go indulge in a truly American beer for a great cause. But, please, don’t call it a craft beer.

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One final face-off Eastside and Wade Hampton square off for the last time as Spirit Week rivals By april a. morris | staff

It’s been 40 years since Eastside High School opened, making way for students coming from an overcrowded Wade Hampton High School. Soon after, a rivalry developed between the two that eventually turned mean-spirited. In 1979, the schools’ principals met to devise a way to end the negative behavior: They launched a spirit week that would pit the schools against each other – not for an athletic triumph, but for a charity fundraising victory. The schools were the first in Greenville County to hold a competitive spirit week to raise money for the needy. Spirit Week has since grown into an annual face-off for high schools across Greenville County, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process. This year, Wade Hampton and Eastside’s Spirit Week, which concludes this Friday, ends a tradition. The two schools, which last year raised over $130,000 and $211,000 respectively, will no longer face off as fundraising rivals. Spirit Week always ends with a football game, and Wade Hampton has moved up to the 4A classification, meaning the two rivals will only play each other once early in the fall. School officials felt the early face-off date with Wade Hampton forced too much Spirit Week planning into the summer, said student government representative and Eastside alum Sandy Mitchell. The fundraising will go on, she said, though “it’s a bittersweet thing, ending this tradition with Wade Hampton.” Eastside’s charity of choice this year is the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST), which researches a cure for the neurodevelopmental disorder. Actor Colin Farrell, who has a child with Angelman Syndrome, is spokesman for the organization and recently made a video in support of Eastside’s efforts. Mitchell said his digital promotion has even brought some donations from beyond the Upstate. Throughout the week, students raise funds and participate in events such as a pig pickin’, Sadie Hawkins dance,

dinner gatherings and a concert. Eastside’s 1,300 students work hard to put the week’s events together, Mitchell said. “It really is a big deal for the kids here. We want to keep the focus on the charity. We’re concerned about who we’re competing for, not who we’re competing against.” Wade Hampton High School has dubbed the week’s rivalry “Eastside Week.” This year, the 1,700 students chose Greenville’s Meyer Center for

“It’s not just a competition; they’re learning about giving back to their community.” Donna McCuen, a Wade Hampton High parent volunteer

Special Children, a nonprofit that offers early childhood education and therapy for children with disabilities, as its charity. Students from the Meyer Center visited the school on Wednesday, said Donna McCuen, a parent volunteer and mother of the student body president. She echoed Mitchell’s sentiment on the focus on charity. “This place is full of life and spirit right now. It’s not just a competition; they’re learning about giving back to their community.” Eastside Week kicked off with a midnight to 2 a.m. yard sale that resumed later in the morning and progressed to Poultry (a take on the Eastside Eagles mascot), where boys dress as girls and vice versa to create celebrity couples and solicit donations. McCuen said students also do a “blitz,” going door-to-door and “leaving their neighbors penniless.” Annie McCuen, student body president, said Poultry is popular, along with mud wrestling, a bonfire and “buyouts” that can get students out of class. “We’re really excited to have the Meyer Center as our charity and I can’t wait until Friday’s game so we can reveal our check to them,” said Annie McCuen. And as for which school gets bragging rights when the tallies are in this Friday, Mitchell said, “There’s no real loser if you’re handing a charity a check.”

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Pursuing her passions has been part of Stacey Smith’s life for several years. She’s taught herself photography and started a business, delved into book illustration and taken up painting. Now she’s set her sights on another passion: the pursuit of the Miss South Carolina crown. For some Southern girls, pageant life begins at a young age, but for Greenville resident Smith, it started just this spring. She applied to represent Greenville and will be competing for Miss South Carolina in November. Attaining the title is a step in the direction of attaining her ultimate goal: launching a mentoring program for girls, she said. If she wins, Smith wants to make connections and attain support for the program that would equip girls with essential life skills. Targeting students ages eight and older, the program would help girls focus on priorities, give advice and boost

self-esteem. “Education is important, but they also need to learn where their talents lie, how to manage finances and develop self-confidence,” she said. She hopes the program will Stacey Smith also feature volunteers who can provide one-on-one mentoring for high school students. Smith is not solely focused on the upcoming pageant, though she said it feels like running for office as she books speaking engagements and makes appeals for sponsorship. She has a degree in communications from USC Upstate and works as a licensed insurance producer for Allstate. In addition, Smith started her own photography business, Smit’N Photography, in 2011 after deciding to learn photography. She began shooting portraits for friends and they encouraged her to launch a business. Now she has several wedding shoots and portraits under her belt. She continues to pursue a smattering of interests, including painting and illustration – she recently wrote and illustrated a children’s book.

The evening’s music will include songs Oney has arranged and/or composed and will be selected from several of her critically-acclaimed touring shows including “Jazz Seasons,” “The Peggy Lee Project,” and her “Sweet Youth” CD release tour concert. Collaborative artists for this performance include fellow Commercial Music faculty including Dr. Gregg Akkerman on piano, Adam Knight on guitar, Shannon Hoover on bass and Tony Christopher on drums.

journal community “Everything I’ve wanted to do is reflective of my childhood,” she said. “I didn’t have an easy upbringing and I always dreamed of doing big things, but never thought it was possible.” She took to heart a saying she heard in church: “What could you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” Smith said her boss, Walter Jamison, has served as her mentor and cheerleader. “Most bosses push you to work for them – he also pushes me to improve myself,” she said. Smith has lived in Greenville since 1994, but not before residing in Arizona and, for three years, Trinidad and Tobago. She fondly remembers her years there, characterized by encounters with friendly neighbors and street parties. However, the tenure was also punctuated by a carjacking and spotty availability of electricity and water. Those years gave her an appreciation of the privileged life of Americans, she said. Smith has also studied abroad in Spain and recommends students spend time outside the comfort of the U.S. to offer perspective. On the pageant campaign trail, Smith has spoken to students at her former school, Robert E. Cashion Elementary, and has made several television appearances. She also was featured in an hourlong interview about her faith on Dove

Broadcasting’s “Night Line.” Never an ultra-feminine girl, Smith said she’s brushing up on fashion and working out for the swimsuit competition – not to mention giving up a favorite: bacon cheeseburgers. “As a kid, I used to watch Miss USA and Miss Universe. I’ve always wanted to do it, but I’ve never been a girly-girl – I’ve got the scars from being a tomboy. I don’t wear heels on the catwalk when I go to the beach, I just boogie board.” Participating in pageants at Southside High School, her only competition experience, was something to do between cheerleading and softball season, she said. This is her first statewide event, and it feels very different, she said. “When it’s cheerleading or sports, you’re with a team; with this pageant, it is just you.” She said facing uncharted territory will be worth it, if she can spread the word about her mission to mentor young women. She hopes to recruit notable personalities to speak to the program’s participants. “Kids listen to adults, but they listen to celebrities more so than they listen to regular adults. It tends to have a more lasting impression because that’s who they look up to.” Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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offered a half scholarship for football at Charleston Southern University, but was more inclined to pursue his interest in food. He applied for a scholarship to Johnson & Wales University, where he hoped to enroll in the culinary arts program. However, Scott asked him to visit Presbyterian and meet Bentley. Bethel was offered a full scholarship to play football and became the last player Bentley signed that year. Scott returned to Clemson, his alma mater, later that year and is now the receivers coach on Dabo Swinney’s staff. Bentley returned to Byrnes, where he is a school district administrator and offensive coach. Harold Nichols replaced Bentley at PC and built the Blue Hose defense around Bethel. Over the next three seasons, Bethel earned all-conference honors each year and was twice selected Big South Conference defensive player of the year, leading PC in tackles and interceptions, and twice special teams’ player of the year, leading the league in blocked kicks. His coaches remember a mature young man with a drive to succeed. Scott said he was the “perfect example of a kid who made himself a football

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player in the weight room.” Bentley characterized him as “sort of a renaissance man.” Nichols spoke of his leadership skills and the example he set for teammates. Bethel was invited to the NFL Combine last winter, where he blew away scouts with his athleticism and secured his viability as a draft pick. None of his coaches could quantify precisely what made Bethel a proficient kick blocker, agreeing that he seems to have the innate qualities of quickness, anticipation and fearlessness. Bethel, too, doesn’t find it simple to explain. He seems content to attribute it to his passion for building strength and speed and a willingness to take this next step on a new journey thousands of miles from home. Initially, most of his work will be on special teams while he learns the nuances of the pro game, though in Arizona’s final preseason game he led the team with seven tackles at safety. A member of the Cardinals said they believe Bethel was a hidden gem in the draft. “God gave me a gift,” Bethel said. “I have been blessed.”

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With many small businesses lacking anti-virus software, even more deploying unencrypted wireless networks, and most having no security plan, too many organizations lack essential protection for their network and sensitive data. From early viruses of the late 1990’s to recent denial-of-service attacks which freeze networks by overloading them with outside data, cybercrime is exploding. And with many organizations having scarce resources and insufficient time to monitor cybersecurity, they are particularly vulnerable to web-based crime. Yet it’s not only cybercrime that organizations have to worry about. Too many employees are negligent in protecting equipment and confidential information. With cybercriminals aggressively seeking victims to target, care is required to be well-protected from a data breach that can cripple your business. Employee email is indispensable to business. But unprotected email can pose significant risk to your most sensitive intellectual property, financial information and customer data. The results can be catastrophic: monetary loss, company disruption and legal action. Sixty-six percent of employees in a recent survey said they no longer worry about losing their laptop or portable device because data is encrypted, believing encryption fully prevents theft of information. Not so! Encryption is key, but other measures are called for.

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daughter is one of the nearly 500 students K3 through grade 12, so Kirkland’s wife encouraged him to offer his services. “We lose kids who want more of a high Two similar photos flanked Levon Kirkland’s ample shoulders as he sat at school experience coming out of middle his desk in the office off the gym at Shan- school,” said Collins. “This is the South, non Forest Christian School: one of him and part of that high school experience as a linebacker at Clemson University, is football and cheerleaders and bands. We wanted to offer some of that also as the other with the Pittsburgh Steelers. None of the three dozen players on part of the Shannon experience.” Kirkland dreamed of coaching while Kirkland’s team had a clue when he was hired as Shannon Forest’s first head serving as coordinator of minority recruiting in the football coach. Clemson admissions “They Google me,” office, and lobbied Kirkland said, smilTommy Bowden and ing at the notion. “But Dabo Swinney for their parents know.” the opportunity. “My While Kirkland was father often asked me willing to trade on the when I was going to celebrity from an Allcoach. I guess I really American and All-Pro wanted to be a coach football career for the before I knew it.” opportunity to start When Shannon a football program Levon Kirkland, Shannon Forest football coach hired him, Kirkland at a private parochial school in Greenville County, he would called friends and former colleagues for rather it be for his knowledge of the advice. Not about how to play, but rathgame accrued during an All-American er how to build a foundation. People career at Clemson and 11 highly deco- such as the Carolina Panthers’ first head coach and current Green Bay Packers rated NFL seasons. Kirkland does not want to cast a long defensive coordinator Dom Capers, and shadow. A native of Lamar, a village of bare- Steelers defensive coach Dick LeBeau. Originally, Collins said, the preferly a thousand in rural Florence County, he believes in what football can offer a young ence was to start with a junior varsity man in terms of discipline, self-confidence team of ninth- and tenth-graders. Kirkand opportunity, and in what sports can do land had a seven-year plan, starting with middle school. to galvanize a community. Beginning with a volunteer staff, Shannon Forest had contemplated adding football for years. Bob Collins, Kirkland cleared space last winter the school’s president, said they were for a weight room, and 36 sixth-, waiting “to see when it made sense.” seventh- and eighth-graders joined Upon meeting Kirkland, he said, it the program. Shannon Forest is playing a seven-game schedule this year made sense. Kirkland was hired last fall and given against teams of home-schooled stunearly a year to attend to the details of dents from Anderson, Columbia and assembling a staff and team, procuring Greenville. Anderson won the first equipment, compiling a schedule. He game, 28-6. Kirkland said he hadn’t said he has everything he needs, even if lost any of his original players. Eventually, Collins said, they intend it means sharing field time with other sports. It reminded him of when he to join the S.C. High School League and compete as a Class A team. joined the Steelers as a rookie in 1992. “One of the things I liked about Levon “Our practice field was 60 yards long,” he said. “The Pittsburgh Steelers had was that he took a long-range view,” won four Super Bowls and we practiced Collins said. “It was part of the assurance for me on a field 60 yards long. Plus we had to that Levon was the right guy.” walk a block in our cleats to get there.” Kirkland was on the staff at Woodmont Contact Ed McGranahan at High School when Shannon Forest asked emcgranahan@greenvillejournal.com. for advice on starting a program. His By ed McGranahan | contributor

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Supreme Court rules on Keowee marina plans

A divided South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that three men who bought into the company that proposed developing a marina on Lake Keowee buy out the man who started the company and put 60,000 shares of stock in escrow. Andrew Ballard had worked for years crafting a plan for the marina through Warpath Development Inc. He eventually sought the investment of Tim Roberson, Rick Thoennes and Rick Thoennes III, according to court records. According to an opinion written by Justice Kaye Hearn,

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Appeal to proceed in Pelzer double homicide case

The South Carolina Court of Appeals will hear on Sept. 10 the appeal of a man convicted of killing two men outside a house party in Pelzer that was organized on MySpace to settle an ongoing feud. Brandon Heath Clark contends the trial court judge erred in denying his motion for a directed verdict because the 13th Circuit Solicitor’s Office failed to present evidence he fired the gunshots that killed the victims. Clark was convicted of killing 21-year-old Kamron Wade and 26-year-old Christopher Garland. Wade and Garland were shot inside their car as they left a house party in rural Pelzer in July 2006. Clark was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

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On Wednesday, August 29, authorities arrested 45-yearold Rina Edith Padilla Mencia and charged her with homicide by child neglect in connection with the death of her 15-month-old daughter on July 30 at a mobile home park on Saluda Dam Road. On July 30th, law enforcement agencies received calls about an infant who had been run over by a vehicle at the mobile home park. Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office investigators said they dis- Padilla Mencia covered the suspect had been leaving the mobile home without making arrangements for someone to take care of the infant female. The infant was able to make her way into the road and Padilla Mencia struck her, after which she died on the scene, investigators said.

Deputy cleared for duty after August shooting

Deputy William Davis has been returned to active duty after an investigation cleared him of wrongdoing in fatally shooting a suspect, Patrick O’Neal Starks, during an incident in August. On August 13, at approximately 7:30 a.m., Davis and other deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call at 22 Lermann Drive, where Starks was reported to be armed with a rifle and threatening suicide. After removing a female from the home, deputies went back inside to make contact with Starks. After warning Starks not to move, the sheriff ’s office said Davis and fellow deputies entered the bedroom, where Starks turned toward them holding the rifle. When Starks did not comply with further warnings, Davis “felt that he and his fellow deputies’ lives were in jeopardy,” and he shot Starks once, the report said. Starks dropped the rifle after being hit by the first round. Davis ordered Starks not to move, but the suspect picked up the rifle again, according to the report, at which point Davis fired again. Starks later died at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Sheriff Steve Loftis reviewed the internal investigation case file shooting and determined that Davis followed all department policies and procedures. He was cleared and returned to active duty as of Friday, August 24, 2012.

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On Thursday, Sept. 13, at noon and 6 p.m., at Ten Thousand Villages in Lewis Plaza on Augusta Street, Greenville local and Peace Corps volunteer Mary Elizabeth Watson will speak about her experiences in Ghana. Fifteen percent of the sales that day will be donated to Watson’s rabbit-rearing project in Ghana. For additional information, call 864-239-4120. For the second year in a row, Garlington Road neighbors Rolling Green Village and Shannon Forest Christian School will be collaborating for a fun run event on Saturday, Sept. 29. The course features a one-mile walk/fun run and 5K race. Early Bird 5K Registration Fee is $20 per person/before Sept. 15, 5K Registration Fee is $25 per person and cost for the fun run/walk is $8. For more information, contact Emily Watkins at ewatkins@shannonforest. com or visit www.shannonforest.com. Participants can also register at www.active.com.

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The South Carolina Native Plant Society will hold its next meeting on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. Brad Sanders, author of “Guide to William Bartram’s Travels,” will headline the meeting with a discussion of early botanical exploration in the Southeast. The meeting will be held in the Founder’s Hall Dining Commons at Southern Wesleyan University, Central. Visit South Carolina author Ronald Chapman for a launch party and book signing Sept. 15 at the Fiction Addiction bookstore. Celebrate Chapman’s new mystery novel, “A Killer’s Grace,” from 3-5 p.m. while enjoying Southwestern-themed refreshments. If you cannot make the signing, reserve a personalized copy by calling 864-675-0540 or emailing info@fiction-addiction.com. Fiction Addiction is located at 1175 Woods Crossing Road. St. Francis offers community education programs each month. Beginning on Sept. 12, a new series, “Awakening: A Mind, Body & Spirit,” will begin. This series will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Conducted on consecutive Mondays for eight weeks, this series teaches how the skills and benefits of relaxation, self-awareness and selfexpression can be incorporated into daily life. Class will be held at the St. Francis Eastside, Building 135, Suite 130. Call 864-675-4400 for more information and fees. For more programs, visit stfrancis.bonsecours.com and click on “news and events.” Paris Mountain State Park presents Music in the Woods 2012, a fall festival of music taking place every Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the park amphitheatre, September through October. These concerts are eco-friendly, using solar power to generate electricity for the bands. Music in the Woods is free after adult admission to the park. Sept. 8 will feature Dave Desmelik. For more information, call the park office at 864-244-5565, or email Gillian Trotter at parismountain@scprt.com. The Mauldin Garden Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11, at the Mauldin Cultural Center located at 101 East Butler Road. The featured speaker will be Tim Nichols, covering the topic of Japanese Maples. The Garden Club meets the second Tuesday of each month. For more information, contact Mauldin Garden Club President Anne Smith at jerryannesm115@charter.net. Fiction Addiction hosts a free children’s storytime every Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. at 1175 Woods Crossing Road. “Pirate Princess” by Sudipta BardhanQuallen will be featured Sept. 13. For more info, call 864-675-0540. The interim board of directors for the Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs Board will meet again on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 6 p.m. The board typically meets the fourth Thursday of each month. For additional information, call 864-679-0220. Visit www.gcdsnb. com for more information about the agency along with meeting minutes and agendas. Campers, former campers and fans of YMCA Camp Greenville gathered in Falls Park this week to celebrate the publication of a book documenting the 100-year-old resident camp. “YMCA Camp Greenville: High Atop the Blue Ridge” is filled with photos, stories and anecdotes. For more information, visit www.campgreenvillebook.org.

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River Falls Fire Department and the dilapidated state of its fire station was again a subject that dominated the Greenville County Council during its Sept. 4 meeting. Sixteen volunteer firefighters and residents spoke before an audience of area residents about the circumstances surrounding a potential tax increase to pay for a bond to fund the construction of a new fire department building. River Falls Fire Chief David Embry said the old fire station roof collapsed the previous weekend. The department hasn’t used the building since the summer, storing equipment and parking trucks at firefighters’ homes. County Council is ready to issue a bond for up to $950,000 to construct a new facility, but the community has yet to decide upon a plan for the building and a quote for the construction. An estimate for an approximately 6,000-square-foot station is about $600,000, but a firm number has not yet been proposed. Some residents spoke out against the suggestion that River Falls merge with another fire department in the area, citing an increased response time and a hike in homeowners’ insurance rates. The fire commission has voted to build a new station, but some community members are in favor of renovation, fearing the tax burden for a new building would be too much. Another community meeting will be scheduled soon to discuss the estimated tax that residents might have to pay, said Terry Hightower, a River Falls Fire District commissioner.

At the last council meeting, residents suggested that untaxed landowners, including several camps and conservation land trusts, begin to help pay for fire service. Councilman Joe Dill, who represents the area, said he would be willing to speak to these landowners and one is ready to contribute. In other action, council appointed new members to the Board of Tax Assessment and Appeals and the Greenville County Redevelopment Authority. Appointees to the Tax Assessment and Appeals Board include Steven Bichel, John Brumley, Jr., Paul Craven and William Henry. Reappointed were Eric Carnell, David Hill and Cynthia Zerga. The Greenville County Redevelopment Authority’s new board members are Kent Dillard, Charlotte Osmer, Charles Tremonti and Kyler Yeomans. Reappointed were Fletcher Martin and Tom Van Norstrand. Council also formally created the new Latosca Special Tax District and approved millage increases in the Chanticleer Community and Monaghan Mills special tax districts.

The Greenville County Council is scheduled to meet again on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 6 p.m. at County Square. The Committee of the Whole meeting times have been adjusted to 4:30 p.m. and the next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 18. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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The Hawkins Foundation will hold the “Not a Traditional Golf Outing, Take III” on Monday, Oct. 8, at 9 a.m. Celebrating its third year, the tournament will host up to 30 teams in a lively Color Ball Texas Scramble on the award-winning Chanticleer Golf Course at Greenville Country Club. A post-round fiesta will feature live entertainment from an authentic Mexican mariachi band and tapas bites, beer and margaritas. The top five teams then advance into a unique winner-take-all Cross-Country Shootout along the fairways to determine the winning team. All proceeds of the event will benefit The Hawkins Foundation and Greenville Free Medical Clinic. Cost is $1,250 for a five-person team, $250 for an individual player and $50 per person for the fiesta only. To register and for more information, visit www.hawkinsfoundationgolf.com. Sponsorships are available; contact Cecilia Hanna at cecilia.hanna@hawkinsfoundation.com or by calling 864-680-4923. The Guild of the Greenville Symphony will sponsor its 34th Annual Tour of Homes in the Cleveland Park area of Greenville, Oct. 5-7. Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 1-4 p.m. on Sunday. To launch the Tour of Homes, a Patron Party will be held at a Charleston-inspired home on Southland Drive on Thursday, Oct. 4. Advance ticket purchase is required for the Patron Party. The tour features five unique homes, including one owned by a local designer, a fully restored property on Crescent Avenue and a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home. Driving directions and maps, along with ticket locations and additional information is available at www.guildGSO.org. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 on tour days. All proceeds will benefit the Greenville Symphony. For additional information, call the Guild Office at 864-370-0965. The United Way of Greenville County kicked off its 2012 community campaign this week at the TD Convention Center. Paula Harper Bethea, executive director of the South Carolina Education Lottery, was keynote speaker. Jim Bourey, director of corporate development at Elliott Davis LLC, is leading this year’s campaign as the 2012 Community Campaign Chair. The campaign ensures 87 local programs are in place to help people in need right now and to advance the community-level priority issues of school readiness for young children, high school graduation for youth and financial stability for individuals and families. Last week, more than 40 members of AFL’s sales organization volunteered at Project Host Soup Kitchen and Homes of Hope in Greenville. The two teams contributed in a number of ways, including gardening, painting, cleaning and organizing materials. The Project Host volunteer team sorted and organized a pantry, sorted clothing, prepped the day’s lunch and worked in the garden. Volunteers for Homes of Hope spent time at the new transitional house, painting the mudroom and hallway and scraping the front exterior of the house. After completing the on-site work, team members presented each organization with a check for $1,500.

The Greenville Humane Society had a total number of 900 participants registered, a sold-out event, along with 600 dogs for its first annual Mutt Strut. In addition, the 5K event that featured runners and walkers with their four-legged companions raised $44,000 for the nonprofit. “Based on the enthusiastic response to this first year race, the Greenville Humane Society will definitely host the Mutt Strut again in 2013,” said the society’s director Kim Pitman. United Way Hands On Greenville has named Kim Diello and Billy Crank as the organization’s 2012 Volunteers of the Year. Diello and Crank received the awards after tallying more volunteer hours than any other female or male Hands On Greenville volunteer last year. Diello has volunteered for various city events, including Downtown Alive and Fall for Greenville. She has also served with projects at Centre Stage, Homewood Residence at Cleveland Park, Meals On Wheels and United Way’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Additionally, she assists with Hands On Greenville Day each year and has been a part of the planning process for the Piggy Bank Auction the past several years. Crank volunteers with Loaves & Fishes every weekend. He also leads Michelin’s team for Hands On Greenville Day each year. A Heroes in Recovery 6K Run/Walk is taking place on Oct. 6 at 8 a.m. in Cleveland Park to support those in recovery and break the stigma associated with addiction. The goal of the race is to garner support for people in recovery and to educate the community at large about behavioral health issues. The event will benefit The Family Effect, which works to reduce addiction as a leading cause of family collapse and harm to children in Upstate South Carolina. Early registration for all races is $25, regular registration is $30, and day-of-race fees run at $35. For more information and to register, go to www.heroes6k.com. Send us your announcement. Email: greenvillecommunity@greenvillejournal.com

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ScanSource celebrates 20 years of growth

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By DICK HUGHES | contributor

The six people who were ScanSource 20 years ago could hold a marketing conference in a small room. Today, it takes a convention center. Those employees, the company’s entire workforce at its founding in 1992, have now joined more than 500 employees in Greenville and 1,100 worldwide to enable ScanSource to produce annual revenue of $3 billion and net income of $74 million. They will be among nearly 1,000 customers, vendors and employees at ScanSource’s first inclusive national conference to be held over three days in Greenville starting Monday. The venue is not one room but several large ones all across Greenville – the TD Convention Center, the Peace Center, golf courses, a skeet-shooting range and, wrapping up, Court Street for a block party downtown. From 500 to 600 hotel rooms have been booked for visitors from across the country, Europe and Latin America. Mike Baur, CEO and a founder, said the conference mixes business and pleasure, introduces customers and vendors to employees in Greenville and showcases its host city and the Upstate. And it’s also a birthday party celebrating ScanSource’s phenomenal growth from an idea in December 1992: to bring bar coding to a wider retail world as a distributor of equipment through a vast network of sales agents – the first to do so. Bauer, Steve Owings, former CEO and now director, Greg Dixon, chief technology officer, and Leah Gangloff,

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Janet Rollins and Shari Huffman were ScanSource’s only employees at that time. All six remain. The concept for the business grew out of the experience of Baur and Owings at Gates/FA Distributing Co. in Greenville, where Owings was CEO. “Gates was in the lower-margin computer commodity business, and we wanted to get into something with more of a niche and with a higher margin, higher value, and that’s why we started ScanSource,” Baur told the Journal. They identified “three, four or five technologies that were under-distributed,” picking bar coding systems for automated checkout, communications systems for business and security systems. They decided communications and security would come later. Bar coding was a more opportune place to start. Since a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit had been scanned at a checkout counter in 1974, bar code scanning had become a $2.5-billion market with major retailers served by cash register and computer makers. ScanSource’s opening was as a middleman distributor between manufacturers of equipment and independent marketers to end-users in a deeper and broader retail market.

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panded throughout the region with offices in Miami and Mexico City. Last year, the company bought Brazil’s dominant bar code/POS provider, giving it a foothold in South America’s fastest growing economy. If Bauer is disappointed with performance anywhere, it is in Europe, where it is has not been able to expand its communication business beyond the United Kingdom and Germany and where fading eurozone economies have slowed business. ScanSource has yet to extend security offerings to Europe. What really surprised Baur and Owings in the first decade was how fast and how big its U.S. bar code business would grow. To keep pace, the company relocated, expanded and added new automation to its warehousing in 2008. It moved its distribution center from Memphis, Tenn., to a new 600,000-square-foot facility across the border in Mississippi. It employs 175 there. Around that time, it also expanded its corporate offices, buying the building next door and an adjoining 10 acres on Logue Court off Pelham Road to have room for a third building if needed. “We had decided long-term that we wanted to stay in this area,” Baur said. “A lot of Greenville developers would love us to be downtown,” he said, adding that ease of access to GSP International Airport and to downtown via Interstate 85 make its location off Pelham more convenient. Still a work in progress is a new computer system that was to replace its antiquated system this year but has been delayed until 2013 and is expected to exceed its top estimated price of $38 million. “That’s the brains of our business,” said Baur. “If we don’t have a good computer system, we are out of business. Our business is high-transaction, high-volume. We did $3 billion last year and the average or-

der was $2,300.” With the traditional bar code/POS market peaking, ScanSource knows it must become more efficient and competitive and prepare for the next technology wave of POS systems. “The market has matured to about $6 billion in the last 20 years, and today it is about 60 percent of our $3 billion, so we have a pretty good chunk of the worldwide market,” said Baur. “Our market share has gotten us to where I’ve got to steal it from somebody else.” One of the features of the conference will be a presentation by Dixon, the CTO, on how “the tablet and smartphones are changing everything dramatically” and how ScanSource intends to stay ahead of those developments. “The whole mobile thing is a huge explosion for us,” Baur said. “We want to educate our customers on what that means and how they prosper in that world. Our job is to help educate, identify and use change. That’s what we are good at.” For example, he said, the day is coming when consumer checkout will be on a tablet at the counter, and ScanSource will “sell the accessories around a device like this to help fit it into a regular retail environment.” Another mission of the Greenville conference is to push sales synergies between bar coding/point-of-sale, communication and security divisions. In the past, each division held separate marketing conferences. Baur thinks having everyone together can bring “synergy between those different business units from a customer perspective.” Right now, “there are not a lot of shared customers.” Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

Kerscher named business leader of the year Josef Kerscher, president of BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg, is the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce Business Leader of the Year. “There is no doubt about BMW’s enormous economic impact on South Carolina,” said Otis Rawl, president and CEO of the chamber. “Josef Kerscher has also greatly impacted the Palmetto State, working to make South Carolina more competitive for manufacturing and all business.” Kerscher joined BMW in 1979 at the automaker’s plant in Landshut, Ger-

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many. After holding high management positions at BMW’s Munich plant, he was named president of the automaker’s South Carolina subsidiary in 2007. Kerscher will be honored at the chamber’s 33rd annual summit, “The Stars of Business,” on Nov. 8 at Wild Dunes on the Isle of Palms. — Dick Hughes / contributor

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After losing $243,000 in its first seven months, the fledging company turned profitable and ended its first fiscal year with earnings of $352,000 on sales of $16.1 million. In 1994, ScanSource went public, raising $4.6 million and setting off a period of 12 quarters in which sales grew at an annual compound rate of 80 percent and operating income 92 percent, according to company history. There were bumps in those early days, Baur recalled. In the beginning, Gates/ FA Distributing was a partner, providing equipment, warehousing, accounting and IT services “so we could concentrate on sales, marketing and technical support.” But in that first year, Gates was sold to Arrow Electronics, which was a competitor in bar coding. ScanSource bought out Gates’ interest and linked up with another company, which turned out to be “terrible,” and then a third, more satisfactory one. “We actually changed our IT system and warehouse three times in the first four years while we were growing 80 percent,” Baur said. “Those were some interesting times. It definitely was scary.” ScanSource expanded bar coding to the European market 10 years ago and added communication systems through an acquisition in 2009. It broke into the Latin American market in 2001 and steadily ex-

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Residential construction in Upstate defies trends By jennifer oladipo | contributor

Residential construction in the Upstate has grown rapidly in recent months, trending in the opposite direction of construction overall. Compared to last year, Census Bureau data show that authorizations for private housing units have increased about 68 percent in Anderson, 37 percent in Spartanburg, and 28 percent in the Greenville-Mauldin-Easley statistical area. These numbers compare favorably to the 21.8 percent growth in the South and 29.5 percent growth nationally. Much of the construction is multifamily housing that is slated for rentals. Real estate, planning and building professionals say the increase in rental properties has been fueled by an increase in demand for rental properties, including rental houses, as people seek alternatives to buying. Most of the projects are for upscale housing apartments, supplanting the trend toward condominiums that was evident prior to the recession. In Greenville, about half a dozen apartment complexes of more than 150 units have been announced in recent months, located in the Laurens Road, Woodruff Road and downtown areas. Residents began moving into the 44 units of downtown’s Riverwalk apartment complex this past spring. Grant Peacock, developer of the 100 East apartments downtown, recently announced plans to turn the foundation of a failed hotel project at the corner of McBee and Spring streets into additional luxury apartments. Seabrook Marchant of Marchant Real Estate Companies said several other developers are looking to build apartments in Greenville, which means their research is showing a demand and potential for profits in the area. Sherry Dull, senior planner with Spartanburg County, said Spartanburg County is experiencing a burst of residential building after a threeyear lull. “We’ve definitely seen it pick up, especially this last month. It seems like everyone’s coming out of the woodwork at once.” She said her office is receiving

many proposals for subdivisions on infill lots where there is already access to roads and utilities. She said the vast majority of the building activity is occurring on lots that had been plotted as many as four years ago but remained stagnant, usually for financial reasons. Most of the activity is occurring in the Boiling Springs area and around the lakes, but it is spreading throughout the county, she said. In Greenville, the uptick in building of single-family dwellings has been primarily in the area of contract homes, which are sold before the building starts, said Marchant. As banks remain unwilling to lend on speculative projects, those with ready buyers are much more likely to get the funds needed to build. “I would think that in general, the overall market has certainly seen a turnaround in the last three to five months, particularly maybe compared to last year,” and is gradually swinging from a buyer’s to a seller’s market, he said. The Upstate has escaped the worst of the residential construction slowdown that other parts of the country are still experiencing, Marchant said, but as tropical storm Isaac approached the Gulf Coast last week, he worried that resulting damage could raise fuel prices and negatively affect the building market. He also echoed the common worry throughout the entire construction industry about “what’s going to happen in November.” “I think that the country needs some sort of confidence builder, and I don’t think you’re going to get that if the current administration stays in office,” Marchant said. The national construction industry data clearinghouse Reed Construction reported in July that the growth in residential construction is likely to slow down by the end of next year. Construction spending is expected to increase 13.7 percent in 2012 and 11.8 percent in 2013, while starts are expected to increase 22.9 this year, and 15.1 percent in 2013. Contact Jennifer Oladipo at joladipo@greenvillejournal.com.

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Med School Branches Out

The Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM), which opened a branch campus last year in Spartanburg, plans to open its third campus in the Auburn Research Park in Auburn, Ala. The first class of 150 students is expected the fall of 2015, VCOM said. The college, which has its main campus in Blacks-

burg, Va., said the new school is needed to help address a shortage of general practitioners, family doctors and pediatricians in rural areas of Alabama. VCOM said “similar conditions” led to creation of the Spartanburg medical school, which recently matriculated its second class. “Our goals for a new branch campus are to provide state-of-the-art education and research, and train students to practice medicine in areas with the most need,” said VCOM Chairman John Rocovich.

Feds Back University Job Center

The U.S. Commerce Department has awarded Clemson University $2 million to help build a new graduate center in North Charleston. The grant will be used for the Clemson University Restoration Institute being planned to support students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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journal business Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank said the investment is an example of the Obama administration’s commitment to help South Carolina create a skilled and educated workforce for good-paying jobs. The Economic Development Administration grant will support North Charleston’s wind energy project that is being funded by stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, said U.S. Rep. James Clyburn. Clemson estimates the $2 million grant will create 110 new jobs and attract $2.9 million in private investment.

New Offices for Growth

The 14-year-old aeSolutions, a Greenville company that has been on a growth trajectory, last week consolidated its workforce from multiple locations into new offices on Commonwealth Drive. The company said it invested “upwards of $2 million” and plans to add 40 new positions to its workforce in Greenville within the next 18 months. It now employs approximately 140. Founded in 1998, aeSolutions supplies safety engineering and automation products, along with consultancy services, and has grown 100 percent in the last 24 months. The company’s 25,000 square feet of secondfloor space was completely renovated and all furnishings are new and ergonomically correct, the company said. Several rooms are equipped for teleconferencing.

“We want all of our people to feel they are connected, whether in Anchorage, the North Slope of Alaska, Houston, Johnson City, Baton Rouge or here in Greenville,” said Ken O’Malley, chief operating officer. The company’s fabrication shop remains in the Merovan Center on Woodruff Road.

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EarthWise Pet Supply, a new Simpsonville shop offering natural food, supplies, grooming services and self-service dog washing, holds its grand opening Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The new pet store is located in the Publix Shopping Center at Five Forks. Tim Tuck, co-owner with his wife Vickie, said representatives from natural food manufacturers would be at the grand opening “to answer questions and provide information regarding the benefits of providing your pet with proper nutrition.”

Architect Steps Out

Greenville has a new architectural firm. Ron Geyer, who had been in the ministry and cultural studio of Craig Gaulden Davis, has started Good City Architects. Geyer is a member of the religion, art and architecture advisory

committee of the American Institute of Architects. Visit his website at goodcityarch.com.

Europe’s a Drag on State

South Carolina “could be in for a substantial slowdown in the months ahead,” according to TD Economics’ monthly regional checkup. The economists said the Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s key leading index of economic health in South Carolina has been negative for the last three months. “Corroborating evidence from the Richmond Fed’s Carolinas Survey of Business Activity, released just last week, shows conditions have also deteriorated for the second straight month,” TD Economics said. The economists said “some of the slowdown can be chalked up to the stalling manufacturing sector, which accounts for 16 percent of South Carolina’s economy.” The decline in manufacturing is related across the nation to “a recessionary Europe and subpar growth in emerging markets,” the report said. The ill effects of the crisis in the eurozone are cutting into exports. TD Economics also reported a “mixed bag” for South Carolina in housing appreciation: “The Upstate region around Greenville is seeing very strong price appreciation, and the coastal areas around Myrtle Beach and Charleston are also doing well. But prices are still down across the central part of the state, especially around the capital of Columbia.” TD Economics is the economic research arm of TD Bank.

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Vendors get creative marrying football and weddings By JENNIFER OLADIPO | contributor

October is the new June for the Upstate wedding industry, pitting it head-to-head against the college football season. As brides, grooms and guests try to balance love of spouse with love of sports, vendors said they have to get creative about meeting everyone’s needs. While some University of South Carolina fans in the Upstate might feel the sting of a fall weekend wedding, vendors said it is the Clemson football schedule that most people have in mind. Some Clemson fans are more than perturbed when they are forced to choose between a game and a wedding. If their posts on www.fallweddingssuck.com can be believed, missing a game for a wedding can leave deep scars. One fan who missed a Clemson-Florida State game last year vowed, “I agreed to the wedding ’cause he is a close friend but this is the second time I’ve missed a game for a wedding and mark my words it is the last.” Another Clemson/USC fan advised, “Hang tough, guys … it’s College Football. You should never miss a game

because of a wedding … that’s what January-August is for.” Others spell out proper preparations and etiquette for dipping out of the ceremony to check the score. Some even vent about how their own weddings have threatened to keep them from knowing the score. Colleen Wheeler, founder of the Upstate Bridal Association, said vendors and families need to accommodate such attitudes. “Brides have to decide whether they want the beauty of autumn over their obsessed football friends,” said Wheeler. “If they think that people won’t leave to watch the game or check the score, they’re wrong, and it will affect the wedding.” It also affects an important industry in the Upstate. There were about 3,680 weddings in the Greenville metropolitan area in 2011, with a combined market value of more than $96 million, according to The Wedding Report, a national data clearinghouse on the wedding industry. Spartanburg hosted about 1,460 weddings, generating more than $37 million in revenues, while 800 weddings in Anderson generated about $20 million. Industry watchers said those numbers are

“Brides have to decide whether they want the beauty of autumn over their obsessed football friends. If they think that people won’t leave to watch the game or check the score, they’re wrong.” Colleen Wheeler, founder of the Upstate Bridal Association

expected to rise in the next four years. Some vendors acquiesce to reality and help brides bring the game into their nuptials. Wheeler said the promise of a vintage popcorn machine, a big-screen television and a few leather couches can forestall guests from leaving early or sending their regrets. She said she has seen wedding professionals successfully turn the reception into a pep rally, decorating with team colors and hiring their favorite mascot to make an appearance.

“I think it adds to the excitement and doesn’t take away from the wedding,” said Wheeler. “It adds a family-gathering type of feeling, and it’s another way to show the guests that you appreciate that they’re there.” Wedding professionals said it is common for people to hold off their wedding plans until they see the game schedule, which can put venues, photographers and marriage officiants in a tough spot. Tammy Johnson, owner of Liquid Catering, said she and other vendors are sometimes asked for proposals by people who refuse to book until Clemson’s season schedule is announced. On the other hand, Johnson said buyers might find some hidden benefits to choosing a game day, or even risking a home game day. They may find that they have more options for vendors such as caterers and limousine drivers. It would be a gamble in an era where weddings are planned 12 to 18 months in advance, she said, but might be worth it if football is not a priority. Contact Jennifer Oladipo at joladipo@greenvillejournal.com.

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Clemson University president Jim Barker toured the state Tuesday presenting the findings of a study that showed the school contributes millions to the South Carolina economy. He made his remarks in Greenville before about 30 business leaders, politicians and others gathered in the glass-walled gallery of the school’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), which released its own annual report this week. The Clemson University study measured economic impacts associated with Clemson operational and capital spending and the economic activity attributable to students and visitors in the decade from 2001 to 2010. Conducted by Clemson’s own Strom Thurmond Institute, it focused on Greenville, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee counties. It found that the school generated 25,000 jobs and $1.83 billion in economic output throughout the state. The study attributes $14.5 million of the value of goods and services produced on average per year in Greenville County to impact from Clemson’s activities in the county. Overall, the study shows that South Carolina makes money from the school even as the state spends money for its operations. In 2010, the state generated $156 million as a result of Clemson’s activities, creating a profit even after $90.6 million was spent on operating the school that year. In the decade from 2001 to 2010, the average net return for the state was $31.1 million. Barker said Clemson created 6,165 jobs in Greenville County in 2010, noting that many Clemson employees live in Greenville County. The report counted jobs created “through direct, indirect and

induced effects.” Campuses and activities in Greenville alone created 57 jobs and $1,272,000 in wages in 2010. They also contributed an estimated $4.9 million in additional disposable income per year on average during the study period. County and municipal governments in Greenville County received on net approximately $655,000 in revenues per year. Barker pointed out that the study did not include the economic impact of alumni who remain in the area, but the CU-ICAR annual report cited the 44 percent of its graduate alumni who are now employed in South Carolina as a major accomplishment. CU-ICAR’s report highlighted the progress made in the five years since its inception, illustrated by numbers of growth in many areas between 2010 and 2011. That includes 15 faculty (up 66 percent), 34 research partners (209 percent), eight scholarship partners (100 percent) and 1,600 guests at CU-ICAR events (250 percent). The report details the ways that CUICAR fulfills its mission of integrating research, education and business. One flagship program called “Deep Orange” allows graduate automotive engineering students to work within equipment manufacturing or supply companies, producing technologies that have already garnered national and international attention. The number of research partners grew from 11 to 34 from 2010 to 2011. Both reports are available online. See the full report on Clemson’s economic impact at sti.clemson.edu/cu_impact. Download the CU-ICAR annual report at cuicar.com/report/cuicarfinal.pdf. Contact Jennifer Oladipo at joladipo@greenvillejournal.com.

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‘Rocky Horror’ returns to Warehouse Theatre By Cindy Landrum | staff

the 2012 presidential election in November. “It’s really about the madness of it all,” said Ron Whisenant, who wrote the sketch show that touches on a variety of election-related topics. “I was

It was just two seasons ago that the Warehouse Theatre first produced the stage version of “The Rocky Horror Show.” But “The Rocky Horror Show” is the kind of performance some people want to see over and over and over again – and they’ll get their chance beginning Sept. Ragland as Frank-N7 when a “bigger, better, Will Furter. Stephen Boatright bawdier” version hits Photography the Warehouse stage. “There are people who take the opportunity to see it in any shape or form,” said director Brian Haimbach. “The Rocky Horror Show,” a British rock-musical stage play, tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist unveiling his new creation, a muscle man named Rocky Horror. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the famous 1975 film adaptation, became a cult classic as a midnight movie when audiences began participating with the film in theaters. “As a unified piece of art, the film falls apart,” said Warehouse Theatre Executive and Artistic Director Paul Savas. “The play stands up and is a good piece of theater.” Savas said the show’s run in 2010 was routinely oversold and he saw people selling tickets on Craigslist for $80. “People were scalping tickets to the Ware-

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Making fun since 1978 By Cindy Landrum | staff

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watching MSNBC one morning when I was half asleep and they were showing the new political ads for the president and for Romney. I was confused over which was which.” “Politics for Dummies” is an equal opportunity comedy. “The show is much more neutral than we are personally, or at least I am,” Susan Smith said. “It’s really about trying to make sense of the insanity.” The target is often the tone of the presidential campaign, not the candidates themselves, although some of the issues and incidents of recent months are mentioned. “We’re pretty equal opportunity,” Bill Smith said. “Regardless of your political bent, you’ll find something that resonates.” The actors can often tell which way the audience leans politically by reactions to certain scenes, said Jim Wilkins, who has been with Cafe and Then Some since 1998. In one scene, Wilkins plays Romney’s Irish setter, Seamus, spoofing Romney’s decision to put the dog in a crate and strap it to the roof of the family’s station wagon because there was no room inside for the dog to ride. A parody of the

beach song “Up on the Roof ” is part of the scene. “That one either gets a lot of laughs or absolutely none,” he said. The Smiths are part of the original cast of a theater troupe that began doing comedy skits at Walt Chandler’s sandwich shop in Greenville in 1978. It was a show about the nasty campaign between then-Greenville Mayor Max Heller and a young Carroll Campbell for the 4th Congressional seat that convinced them making fun of politicians could be a comedic gold mine. “There were a lot of tasty morsels in that election,” Susan Smith said. “It was fabulous.” It was also the first time the comedians felt like they had hit on something. “There was a big buzz. People were lining up in front of Chandlers trying to get in,” Bill Smith said. “Before, it was always fun. But that was the first time we realized people were paying attention.” They later took the show to the Red Baron on Main Street, and in 1983 opened the Cafe and Then Some. Traysie Amick has performed in at least 10 Cafe and Then Some productions. She said she admires what the Cafe and Then Some crew has built up over the years.

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Today’s audiences have been primed by “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” to make fun of the actions of politicians, she said. “It seems like nobody takes politics seriously anymore. When these guys started, the environment was so different.” Cafe and Then Some’s longest-running show was “Sanford in Love,” a comedy about former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair with his Argentinean ROCKY continued from PAGE 35

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house Theatre,” he said. So Savas said he decided to bring the wildly successful play back to open the theater’s 201213 season. But, he said, audiences shouldn’t get used to it. The theater has no plans to bring “The Rocky Horror Show” back after its 15-show run ends the end of September. “It’s about the experience,” Savas said of the success of “Rocky Horror.” “This one is different from the last time we did it and there’s also the influence of the audience and how they participate with the actors and the show. Because of that, each performance is different.” Haimbach said although this year’s version uses the same set, it has a new choreographer and costume designer. It largely has the same cast. Will Ragland, who was just named Greenville County Teacher of the Year, returns as Frank-N-Furter. Matthew Merritt returns as Riff Raff, Angie Price as Magenta and April Schaeffer as Columbia. Schaeffer is also the show’s choreographer. “Some of the staging is a bit more risque,” Haimbach said. “It’s a bit more glam that last time.” Haimbach said part of the popularity of the show is that many people know how to participate in it.

then-mistress. That show had an eightmonth run. News came out recently that the two are getting married, a development that Susan Smith and Whisenant said warrants a revisit. The Cafe and Then Some crew make it seem almost too easy to poke fun at politicians, especially since they live in South Carolina. “Politics is a hard topic if you’re a Democrat living in a Republican town,” she said. Having such a polarized nation and election actually makes it easier for the comedians, Bill Smith said. “You can put a broad stroke on a stereotype and you’re going to get somebody,” he said. “The process is more vicious. It’s easier to point out the lunacy.” Of course, the Cafe And Then Some audience will view the insanity of the political process through some familiar characters the cast has established over the years. The show’s scripts may be tweaked some in the remaining weeks of the campaign. It just depends on what the politicians do between now and then. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com. “If they’ve been before, they know what they’re supposed to do, they know it will be fun,” he said. “For some people, I think the hesitation is not the storyline but they’re afraid they’ll be the only one who doesn’t know what to do.” The theater plans to teach “Rocky Horror” virgins how to do the “Time Warp” before each show, Haimbach said. Participation bags will be available and will have instructions on when to throw confetti or put a newspaper on your head, Haimbach said. “It really gives the audience a chance to be part of the show.” Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

SO YOU KNOW: What: “The Rocky Horror Show” Where: The Warehouse Theatre, 39 Augusta St., Greenville When: Sept. 7-8, 13-15, 20-22 and 27-29 at 8 p.m.; Sept. 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 11:59 p.m. Tickets: $40 Extras: Pre-show talk: Discussions about Pre-World War II Cabaret and Welmar Republic Culture, Sept. 27, 30 minutes before the show. Free with ticket. Talk-back: A discussion with the cast and director, immediately following the Sept. 27 show. Free with ticket. Information: 864-235-6948

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‘Celebrities’ will guest star in SCCT’s ‘Sound of Music’ By Cindy Landrum | staff

Greenville Metropolitan Arts Council Executive Director Alan Ethridge had dreams of being the next Cary Grant. Those dreams ended when he was 10 when he was cast as a mushroom in “Hansel and Gretel.” Ethridge will return to the stage again later this month when he is the guest actor in the last show of the South Carolina Children’s Theatre’s run of “The Sound of Music.” Opening night is Sept. 7. The SCCT has tapped several local celebrities and community leaders to play the role of Frau or Herr Schweiger, the choir member who bows repeatedly to allow the von Trapp family to escape the Nazis toward the end of the classic musical. Celebrities named so far are Ethridge; WSPA-TV news anchor Fred Cunningham; Upstate storyteller and philanthropist Betty Farr; emediagroup owner and cancer survivor Bill Bishop; radio personality Lizz Ryals; River Falls Spa owner and arts advocate Lauren Skelton; Megan Heidlberg, a host of the “Your Carolina” television show; and Fox Carolina news anchor Diana Watson. “Over the years, we have found there are so many frustrated actors in town,” said SCCT Executive Director Debbie Bell. Having guest actors is nothing new to the SCCT, although the theater hasn’t done it since 2004, when local clergy members of various denominations played the priest in “Cinderella.” The theater also had various local public officials and celebrities play Judge Brandeis in the 2002 production of “Annie,” including Greenville Mayor Knox White.

The guest role is attractive because there’s no rehearsal, Bell said. “They’re all coming in pretty blind,” she said. “All they have to do is show up; we’ll get them ready for the show and show them what to do.” Unlike Ethridge, Farr is no stranger to performing. She had a role in “Babes in Toyland,” the SCCT’s first play at the Gunter Theatre. She is also a local storyteller who performs at libraries and other facilities in Greenville.

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“It’s not a big part, but ‘Sound of Music’ is my all-time favorite musical,” said Farr, who will perform at the 5:30 p.m. show on Sept. 9. “I never tire of watching it. I think you can’t help but feeling happy and humming songs after you watch it.” Bell said the SCCT didn’t want to limit the guest role to just females, so they asked men and women, young and older. The theater is offering specially priced tickets for the 5:30 p.m. show on Sept. 9. All tickets for that show are $16. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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Arts Calendar

Sept. 7-13, 2012 South Carolina Children’s Theatre The Sound of Music Sep. 7-23 ~ 467-3000 The Warehouse Theatre The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sep. 7-29 ~235-6948 Greenville County Museum of Art Cape Cod Colorists: Dodge McKnight & E. Ambrose Webster Through Sep. 9 ` 271-7570 Lowcountry Through Sep. 9 ~ 271-7570 The Peace Center Vince Gill Sep. 12 ~ 467-3000 Fine Arts Center Senior Art Show Through Sep. 14 ~ 355-2550 Centre Stage Brighton Beach Memoirs Through Sep. 29 ~ 233-6733 Greenville County Museum of Art Portrait of Greenville Through Sep. 30 ~ 271-7570 Works by Stephen Scott Young Through Dec. 30 ~ 271-75770 Main Street Real Estate Gallery Photography by Kim Sholly Through Sep. 30 ~ 250-4177 Jackson Marketing Group Visions Gallery Works by Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers Through Sep. 30 ~ 272-3000 Metro. Arts Council @ Centre Stage Works by Peter Helwing Through Oct. 1 ~ 233-6733 Metropolitan Arts Council Phil Garrett: Works on Paper Through Oct. 14 ~ 467-3132 Studio 220 at the Hyatt Regency Works by Carole Tinsley Through Oct. 31 ~ 248-1568 Café & Then Some Politics for Dummies Continuing ~ 232-2287

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THE WEEK IN THE LOCAL ARTS WORLD Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Highlands PAC : The Bluegrass Duel featuring Asheville’s Nitrograss and Athen’s Packway Handle. Both bands will perform a set and then jam together for a third set. A great evening of bluegrass. Tickets, $25, are available online at www. highlandspac.org or by calling 828-526-9047. Highlands PAC is located at 507 Chestnut St., Highlands, N.C. Nitrograss

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The Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts recently opened the new Grainger Foundation Sponsor Room on the second floor of the city-owned historic facility. The Grainger Foundation donated $10,000 to upfit the room for use as a seminar room, meeting room and sponsor room at the center. Work began in early July and the transformation was complete in August. The room will be available for area corporations to rent and will be used by the center for sponsor and member receptions. The South Carolina Children’s Theatre will present “The Boy Who Cried Bully,” a 60-minute production, including a question and answer session immediately following the performance, on Sept. 28-30. Based on the famous Aesop fable, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” it is a script that teaches as well as entertains. Performances will be held at SCCT Headquarters, 153 Augusta St., Greenville. Tickets are $7 per person. If available, tickets may also be purchased at the door. However, purchasing 2nd Stage tickets ahead of time is highly recommended, as seating is limited to 100. For more information and to purchase tickets, call 864-235-2885 or visit www.scchildrenstheatre.org. The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center will host the Ilene Knowlton Performing Arts Conservatory beginning on Sept 11. Through the Knowlton Conservatory, youth from all walks of life receive quality instruction in chorus, music and drama. The program provides local youth opportunities in chorus, guitar, music theory, drama, percussion, piano and brass instruments. The conservatory will be held at the Kroc Center in downtown Greenville Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. over the span of 36 weeks. The cost of $35 per week covers instruction and materials fees, as well as providing an instrument for the child. Partial need-based scholarships are available. For additional information, contact the Kroc Center at 864-527-5948 or 864-232-9027. Local artist Trinity Behrends will have her entire collection available for sale in a silent auction format on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 6 to 9 p.m. Each piece will show retail price and starting bid price. Bidding will increase in preset increments. All bids will be honored regardless of final price. Proceeds from select work will be donated to ICA (Interstitial Cystitis Association). Behrends is a painter working in water media and collage. Her pieces often contain collaged images such as maps, books and foreign language text combined with both paint and line work. Bidding may be done in person, via text or phone (864-901-2301). Visit Trinity Behrends Artist on Facebook to preview images leading up to the sale. Brooklyn band Black Taxi will be playing a free show on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 9 p.m. at Radio Room, 2845 N. Pleasantburg Dr., Greenville. Their most recent album is “We Don’t Know Any Better” and the band has been called everything from “grit pop” to “dance punk.” For more information, visit www.blacktaxi.com or www.wpbrradioroom.com.

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Langston Charter Middle School eighth-grader Anish Chaluvadi is the S.C. state merit winner for the 2012 Discovery & 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Chaluvadi’s entry, a portable ethanol generator, was selected for its ability to use common household refuse to create ethanol for use as fuel. In addition, Chaluvadi was the S.C. state winner of Doodle 4 Google, a contest where students redesign Google’s homepage logo. He was selected as one of 50 finalists among more than 114,000 submissions. Chaluvadi’s win- Chaluvadi ning art was on display at the Gibbs Museum of Art in Charleston during the month of July. Greenville Technical Charter High School faculty members Ken Gillespie, Gay Durham, Cherie Furr, Jason Schmidt and Vance Jenkins recently participated in an Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory through Brown University’s Educational Alliance in Providence, R.I. Funded by the Arthur Vining Davis and Carnegie foundations, this grant opportunity will provide GTCHS faculty with strategies that will assist students in reading awareness and comprehension in all academic disciplines. Greenville Technical Charter High School has been named a Gold Award recipient by the State Board of Education and the South Carolina Department of Education for the 2011-2012 school year. A new-student informational meeting for the freshman class of 2013-2014 will be held on Oct. 16, at 6:30 p.m., in the TRC Auditorium, building 102, on the Thomas Barton campus of Greenville Technical College located on Pleasantburg Drive. Open enrollment for the 2013-2014 school year is Oct. 1-Nov. 1. Applications are available on the school’s website at www.gtchs.org. The third Annual Greenville Scholastic Open chess tournament will be held at Prince of Peace Catholic School on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tournament is open to all public, private and homeschool K-5 to eighth-graders who enjoy chess. For more information, visit www.greenvillechessopen.info. Families of students who are deaf-blind can learn more about job opportunities, educational programs and special equipment at a weekend seminar Sept. 21-23 at the S.C. School for the Deaf and the Blind in Spartanburg. The seminar will be led by adults who are deaf-blind and professionals in the fields of education and rehabilitation. Through a series of activities, families will learn how to plan for the future and access available resources. Facilitators will work with families to develop step-by-step plans for transitioning from school to the future. Student participants should be 14 to 21 years old, still enrolled in school, and deaf-blind. Cost is $20 per family and includes food, lodging and materials. Travel expenses can be reimbursed through this grant-funded program. For more information or an application, contact Elaine Sveen, project manager, at 864-577-7770 or by email at esveen@scsdb.org. Mt. Zion Christian School is still accepting students for the 2012-2013 school year. Please call 864-297-6646 to schedule a tour of the P3–eighthgrade classes. Mt. Zion is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. For more information, visit www.mzcs.net.

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Fannie Mae offers custom 4BR/3.5BA home. Eastside gated comm. 3500 sf on 0.5 ac culde-sac. Brick & stack stoned details. MBR on Main, 2-story GR, formal DR, cust kitch, bkft nook w/keep rm, 2 gas fpls, scr’d porch & deck. Flat scr TV mounts, security & irrigation sys., side entry gar, fenced yd, hdwds, new carpet & bronze fixtures. KATHY SLAYTER 864.982.7772 MLS# 1246308

LF E GOURS CO

$329,000 CHANTICLEER TOWNS

3 BR/2.5 BA, 1story brick townhome with fantastic views. 240 sq ft of screen porch. Updates include: Arch roof (2007), HVAC (2012), gutters and Andersen Windows. Stainless steel appliances, plumbing fixtures, lighting, carpet, hardwoods, irrigation and security system. TOM MARCHANT 864.449.1658 MLS# 1245446

TIA ET S N I PO

$189,921 POINSETTIA

5BR/3BA. Lrg corner lot, in est. neighborhood. 1 BR on main level, formal LR w/ french doors, spacious family rm w/fpl, 5 wood plank floors, tons of cabinets, huge scr-in porch, large deck, 2-car side entry gar, big bkyd, lots of parking, spot for a vegetable garden, mature oak in yard for the perfect swing and brick exterior. VA and FHA eligible. JOAN RAPP 864.901.3839 MLS# 1228853

T EA ON GR ATI C LO

Ruskin Square at Hollingsworth Park It’s happening at Verdae. Ruskin Square at Hollingsworth Park features a new style in city living with maintenance-free lawns and homes interset amid shared pocket parks, plazas and pedestrian-friendly streetscapes. It’s an easy stroll to the 20-acre central park and residents enjoy being close to everything. Classic homes are under construction now. Buyers may build the custom home of their dreams or select from a

$185,000 101 RAMBLEWOOD

3 BR/2BA One story living, well maintained home in a super location. Close to schools, Fine Arts Center, BJU, downtown and shopping. Lrg corner cul-desac lot. Hdwds, tile BA, lrg kitchen, spacious den w/fpl, has built ins, interior wooden shutters on all windows. Extra storage in attached carport. Home features a front porch and patio w/fp. MARY PRAYTOR 864.593.0366 MLS#1236459

IS W E LE LAG VIL

$77,500 LEWIS VILLAGE

2BR/1BA upstairs unit w/LR, DR & full size stacked washer/ dryer. Recent udpates include new HVAC & thermal windows. Great location facing homes on Aberdeen Dr. Walking distance to downtown, Cleveland Park, Falls Park and so much more. Neutral colors, carpet in relatively good condition. TOM MARCHANT 864.449.1658 MLS # 1245958

Land/Home packages from the mid $200s Lot Sizes: 40’x100’ and larger

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R EA L E STAT E Faith Ross Joins Coldwell Banker Caine in Greer August 30, 2012 – Coldwell Banker Caine’s Greer office recently welcomed Faith Ross as a residential sales agent.

The Experience & Expertise you can Trust!

Brenda Busby

A seasoned real estate professional, Faith has been in the business for more than 25 years. Faith’s background in the trade ranges from to general real estate to custom home building and design. She has been awarded the President’s Circle, an award given to agent teams who rank among the top in their real estate network, as well as the Chairman’s Circle given to individuals and teams meeting various unit and volume goals. Faith and her husband have two sons and she enjoys gardening and spending time with her grandsons.

Cell: 864.275-9855 bbusby@cbcaine.com

225-3 Baldwin Road, Seneca MLS#1228795 • $469,900 • 4BR/2 full, 2 half BA Lake Hartwell waterfront, minutes from stadium

Heidi Putnam Joins Coldwell Banker Caine in Greenville August 27, 2012 – Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Heidi Putnam in the Greenville office as a residential sales agent.

109 Bentwater Tr, Weatherstone MLS#1231509 • $422,900 • 4BR/3BA Just reduced in rapidly growing Simpsonville!

A former marketing director for an Upstate real estate firm, Heidi is no stranger to the business. Her background also includes Designer, principal for Cityscape Landscape Design and Marketing Manager for Datastream Systems, Inc. She is a graduate of Wofford College where she earned a BA in English and also The Conway School where she earned an MA in Landscape Design. Heidi serves on the PTA boards of both Augusta Circle Elementary andHughes Middle School. She is a volunteer coach for the Greenville Junior Tennis Team and also works with Meals on Wheels and the United Way. She is a member of First Presbyterian Church. In her free time Heidi enjoys playing tennis, gardening and cycling. She and her husband Matt have two children, Pearce and Miller Kate.

206 Steadman Way, Brighton MLS#1245445 • $409,900 • 4BR/2 full, 2 half BA New Listing, Eastside location basement home

12 Cureton Street, Augusta Rd MLS#1240236 • $279,900 • 3BR/2.5BA Upscale newer construction with garage!

www.cbcaine.com

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We get it. Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. has ranked #1 in Upstate residential home sales for more than 20 years. Real estate is what we love. It’s what we do best. And, our clients’ needs are our first priority. We are the true real estate leader in the Upstate.

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Agents on call this weekend

SCOTT CORRIGAN 908-8787 PELHAM RD.

ANGELIKA SCHMIDT 430-1671 SIMPSONVILLE

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA At 9:00 a.m. on election day, the County Election Commission will begin its examination of the absentee ballot return envelopes at Greenville County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900, Greenville, SC 29601. On Friday, November 9, at 12 o’clock noon the County Board of Canvassers will hold a hearing to determine the validity of all provisional ballots cast in these elections. This hearing will be held at Greenville County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900, Greenville SC 29601. The following Constitutional Amendment Question will be placed on the ballot: Amendment 1 – Beginning with the general election of 2018, must Section 8 of Article IV of the Constitution of this State be amended to provide that the Lieutenant Governor must be elected jointly with the Governor in a manner prescribed by law; and upon the joint election to add Section 37 to Article III of the Constitution of this State to provide that the Senate shall elect from among the members thereof a President to preside over the Senate and to perform other duties as provided by law; to delete Sections 9 and 10 of Article IV of the Constitution of this State containing inconsistent provisions providing that the Lieutenant Governor is President of the Senate, ex officio, and while presiding in the Senate, has no vote, unless the Senate is equally divided; to amend Section 11 to provide that the Governor shall fill a vacancy in the Office of Lieutenant Governor by appointing a successor with the advice and consent of the Senate; and to amend Section 12 of Article IV of the Constitution of this State to conform appropriate references? Explanation – A 'Yes' vote will require, from 2018 onward, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor to run on the same ticket and be elected to office jointly. As a result, the Lieutenant Governor will no longer preside over the Senate and the Senate will elect their presiding officer from within the Senate body. A ‘No’ vote maintains the current method of electing the Governor and Lieutenant Governor separately. The Lieutenant Governor shall continue to serve as President of the Senate. 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 Baker Creek Belle Meade Bells Crossing Belmont Berea Boiling Springs Botany Woods Bridge Fork Brook Glenn Canebrake Carolina Castle Rock Chestnut Hills Circle Creek Clear Creek Conestee Darby Ridge Del Norte Devenger Donaldson Dove Tree Dunklin Eastside Ebenezer Edwards Forest Enoree Feaster Fork Shoals Fountain Inn 1 Fountain Inn 2 Fox Chase Frohawk Furman Gowensville Granite Creek Graze Branch Greenbriar Grove Hillcrest Holly Tree Jennings Mill Kilgore Farms Lakeview Laurel Ridge Leawood Locust Hill Long Creek Maple Creek Maridell Mauldin 1 Mauldin 2 Mauldin 3 Mauldin 4

POLLING PLACE LOCATION League Academy 125 Twin Lake Rd Summit Dr Elementary School 424 Summit Dr Stone Academy 115 Randall St Sears Shelter 100 E Park Ave Mount Calvary Baptist Church 115 Cedar Ln Rd W Greenville Recreation Cntr 8 Rochester St YWCA 700 Augusta St Springfield Baptist Church 600 E McBee Ave Phillis Wheatley Cntr 40 John McCarroll Way Augusta Rd Baptist Church 1823 Augusta St St Matthew United Methodist Church 701 Cleveland St Augusta Circle Elementary School 100 Winyah St Pleasant Valley Connection 510 Old Augusta Rd Trinity United Methodist Church 2703 Augusta St Meals on Wheels 15 Oregon St Sanctuary Church 302 Parkins Mill Rd Eastlan Baptist Church 625 S Pleasantburg Dr Beck Academy 901 Woodruff Rd McCarter Presbyterian Church 2 Pelham Rd E North St Academy 1720 E North St Overbrook Baptist Church 1705 E North St Francis Asbury United Methodist Church 1800 E North St J L Mann High School 160 Fairforest Way Alexander Elementary School 1601 W Bramlett Rd Duncan Chapel Fire Station 5111 Old Buncombe Rd Five Forks Baptist Church 112 Batesville Rd Changing Your Mind Ministries 3506 Edwards Rd Valley Brook Baptist Church 8323 Augusta Rd. Disciples Fellowship Church 105 Crestfield Rd Bells Crossing Elementary School 804 Scuffletown Rd Belmont Fire Station 701 Fork Shoals Rd Berea Elementary School 100 Berea Dr Devenger Rd Presbyterian Church 1200 Devenger Rd Lutheran Church of Our Saviour 2600 Wade Hampton Blvd Crossroads Community Church 416 Holland Rd Brook Glenn Elementary School 2003 E Lee Rd Buena Vista Elementary School 310 S Batesville Rd Carolina Academy 2725 Anderson Rd Washington Baptist Church 3500 N. Hwy. 14 Dunean Baptist Church 21 Allen St - Fellowship Hall Cross Roads Baptist Church 705 Anderson Ridge Rd Pleasant View Baptist Church 110 Old Rutherford Rd. Reedy River Baptist Church Conestee Rd @ Lakewood Dr - Family Cntr St Andrews Presbyterian Church 1860 Reid School Rd Brushy Creek Elementary School 1344 Brushy Creek Rd St Giles Presbyterian Church 1021 Hudson Rd Donaldson Center Fire Dept 2291 Perimeter Rd Dove Tree Club House 2 Sugarberry Dr Dunklin Fire Station 11353 Augusta Rd Eastside High School 1300 Brushy Creek Rd Heritage Elementary School 1592 Geer Hwy Taylors Elementary School 809 Reid School Rd Enoree Career Cntr 108 Scalybark Rd Shannon Forest Presbyterian Church 830 Garlington Rd Fork Shoals Elementary School 916 McKelvey Rd Fountain Inn Civic Cntr 315 N Main St Fountain Inn Activities Cntr 610 Fairview St Northwood Baptist Church 888 Ansel School Rd. Grace United Methodist Church 627 Taylor Rd Mt Sinai Baptist Church 1101 Roe Ford Rd Gowensville Community Cntr 14186 Hwy 11 Pleasant Grove Baptist Church 1002 S. Buncombe Rd. Holly Ridge Baptist Church 260 Adams Mill Rd. Messiah Lutheran Church 1100 Log Shoals Rd Grove Elementary School 1220 Old Grove Rd Hillcrest Middle School 510 Garrison Rd Faith Baptist Church 906 Hwy 14 Cleveland First Baptist Church 5 Church Dr Gilder Creek Farm Clubhouse 404 Grimes Dr. Lakeview Middle School 3801 Old Buncombe Rd St Mark United Methodist Church 901 St Mark Rd Leawood Baptist Church 401 State Park Rd Fairview Baptist Church 1300 Locust Hill Rd. Rocky Creek Missionary Baptist Church 239 Rocky Creek Rd Brushy Creek First Assembly of God 3610 Brushy Creek Rd New Liberty Baptist Church 1798 N Hwy 25 Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church 739 N Main St Forrester Woods Club House 424 Piney Grove Rd Mauldin First Baptist Church 150 S Main St - Fellowship Hall Mauldin United Methodist Church 100 E Butler Rd

PRECINCTS Mauldin 5 Mauldin 6 Mauldin 7 Mission Monaview Moore Creek Mountain Creek Mountain View Mt Pleasant Neely Farms Northwood Oakview Oneal Palmetto Paris Mountain Pebble Creek Pelham Falls Piedmont Pineview Poinsett Raintree Ranch Creek Reedy Fork River Walk Riverside Rock Hill Rocky Creek Rolling Green Royal Oaks Saluda Sandy Flat Sevier Silverleaf Simpsonville 1 Simpsonville 2 Simpsonville 3 Simpsonville 4 Simpsonville 5 Simpsonville 6 Skyland Slater Marietta Southside Sparrows Point Spring Forest Standing Springs Stone Valley Stonehaven Suber Mill Sugar Creek Sulphur Springs Sycamore Tanglewood Taylors Thornblade Tigerville Timberlake Trade Travelers Rest 1 Travelers Rest 2 Tubbs Mountain Tyger River Verdmont Wade Hampton Walnut Springs Ware Place Welcome Wellington Westcliffe Westside Woodmont Woodruff Lakes

POLLING PLACE Mauldin Miller Fire Station #1 Ray Hopkins Senior Cntr Mauldin Middle School Morningside Baptist Church Monaview Elementary School South Greenville Fire Station #6 Mountain Creek Baptist Church Mountain View Elementary School Mt Pleasant Community Cntr Christ Community Church Northwood Middle School Oakview Elementary School Living Way Community Church Grace Church Piedmont Park Fire Station Hdqt Pebble Creek Baptist Church Cornerstone Baptist Church Beattie Hall Canebrake Fire Dept Duncan Chapel Elementary School The Bridge church Robert Cashion Elementary Reedy Fork Baptist Church River Walk Clubhouse Riverside High School Mitchell Rd Elementary School Rocky Creek Baptist Church Rolling Green Retirement Cntr Rock of Ages Baptist Church Berea Fire Station Faith Temple Church Sevier Middle School Heritage Bible Church Simpsonville City Park Cntr Plain Elementary School Simpsonville United Methodist Church Westside Church Center for Community Services Calvary Baptist Church Skyland Elementary School Slater Marietta Elementary School Southside High School Immanuel Lutheran Church First Church of the Nazarene Standing Springs Baptist Springwell Church Advent United Methodist Church Praise Cathedral Sugar Creek Clubhouse Armstrong Elementary School First Presbyterian Church Tanglewood Middle School Taylors First Baptist Church Oakleaf Village@Thornblade Tigerville Elementary School Aldersgate United Methodist Church Needmore Recreation Cntr City Hall Renfrew Baptist Church Enoree Baptist Church Chandler Creek Elementary School Hopewell UMC Faith Baptist Church Clear Spring Baptist Church Ellen Woodside Elementary School Welcome Elementary School E North St Baptist Church Westcliffe Elementary School John Calvin Presbyterian Church Woodmont Middle School Woodruff Rd Christian Church

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that El Palacio Social Club, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1115 Cedar Lane Rd., Greenville, SC 29617. To object to the issuance of this license/ permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than September 9, 2012. 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

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012, AT 6:00 P.M., (or as soon thereafter as other public hearings are concluded), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER THE BOUNDARIES OF THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT SHOULD BE ENLARGED TO INCLUDE THOSE CERTAIN PROPERTIES LISTED BELOW 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: A. That certain real property located off of Coxe Drive described as Greenville County Tax Map Number (“TMS#”) P035000100902; B. That certain real property located off of Mountain Creek Road described as Greenville County Tax Map Numbers (TMS#) P036000100400, P036000100401, P036000100402, P036000100403, P036000100500, P036000100501, P036000100502, P036000100503, P036000100504, P036000100600, P036000100601,

P015040100400, P015040100401, P015040100402, P015040100404, and P015040100405.

P036000100602, P036000100603, P036000100604, P036000100605, P036000100606, P036000100607, P036000100609, P036000100611, P036000100612, P036000100700, P036000100701, P036000100702, P036000100703, P036000101502, P036000101504, P036000101505, P036000101507, P036000101508, P036000101600, and P036000101700; C. That certain real property located off of Piedmont Grove Park and P & N Drive described as Greenville County Tax Map Numbers (TMS#) WG10010200102, WG10010200104, WG10010200105, WG10010200106, WG10010200108, WG10010200109, WG10010200110, WG10010200111, WG10010300300, WG11000200100, WG11000200101, WG11000300100, and WG11000300500; D. That certain real property located off of East Warehouse Court described as Greenville County Tax Map Numbers (TMS#) P015040100101, P015040100105,

E. That certain real property located off of Mackey Drive, and Old Cleveland Road described as Greenville County Tax Map Numbers (TMS#) 0608030100100, 0608030100400, 0608030100500, 0608030101002, 0608030101400, 0608030101500, 0608040100301, 0608040100304, 0608040100305, WG06020300100, WG06020300200, WG06020300300, WG06020300400, WG06020300401, WG06020300402, WG06020300403, WG06020300404, WG06020300500, WG06020300601, WG06020300700, WG06020300800, WG07000100100, WG07000100600, WG07000200200, WG07000200201, WG07000200202, WG07000200300, WG07000200302, WG07000200504, WG07000200700, WG07000200701, WG07000200702, WG07000201500, WG07000201501, WG10020100200,

WG10030100100, WG10030100103, WG10030101700, and WG10040100100; and F. That certain real property located off of Frontage Road and Park West Boulevard described as Greenville County Tax Map Numbers (TMS#) 0252000102900, 0252000101009, 0252000101010, 0252000101102, 0252000101201, 0252000103000, WG10070100100, WG10070100102, WG10070100103, WG11000300302, and WG11000300307. A MAP OF THE NEW BOUNDARIES AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE. THE REASON FOR THE PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT IS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORDERLY COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE. NO ADDITIONAL BONDS WILL BE ISSUED BY THE DISTRICT, NOR WILL THERE BE ANY CHANGE IN THE COMMISSION OR IN THE PERSONNEL OF THE PRESENT COMMISSION OF THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT. HERMAN G. KIRVEN JR., CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

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60 Fence-sit 62 Conserve, in a way 63 Short hops 65 They’re often full of hot air 66 Stick (on) 67 Bubbly mixer 68 Diminished 70 Soda bottle size 71 Chat with colleagues 74 Award coveted on “Mad Men” 75 Big bag of wind? 77 Penn of “Harold & Kumar” films 78 Yellowstone feature 81 Deal 82 Polynesian pendant 83 Country W. of Somalia 84 Posh 85 Rubbernecked 87 Break __: take the lead 88 RNC’s group 89 Navy mascot 90 Else 91 Jet bridge? 97 Part of an act 100 “Say it isn’t so!” 101 They may be tall 102 Tick off 106 Light bulb units 108 The truth about Zeus, Apollo, etc.? 111 “Un Ballo in Maschera” aria 112 Capable, facetiously

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All hail the King of Stain My dream for the house had always been new wall-to-wall carpet. This seemed luxurious, yet essential to me. I’ve spent a good deal of my life on the floor – writing, drawing, playing guitar, sleeping off a bender – and quality carpeting had padded my cheeks through these low-level adventures in my youth. So I was spoiled. Forget fixing the faulty plumbing, the gas leak, or the refrigerator that sometimes catches fire. I wanted new carpet. The problem was Petey, the miscellaneous dachshund/terrier the wife and I had inherited from her parents. Petey, a squat, nervous mutt, was not the sort of dog who could retrieve the newspaper, catch a Frisbee, or do anything a dog owner might consider useful or sporting. What Petey could do, with the expert craftsmanship of a true professional, was throw up on the floor. It wouldn’t necessarily indicate any serious illness or even minor stomach flu. There was just a 50/50 chance any given day that breakfast or dinner might make a return engagement. A floor show, if you will. And since we spent so much time toweling up after Precious Pete, I was certain that no amount of Stainmastering could stand up against the onslaught of this hairy little fire hose. I decided my new carpet was a dream deferred. I’d have to wait until Petey’s demise. But Petey, true to his disobedient nature, would not die. Even after going blind and deaf, even after losing much of his mobility to arthritis, he staggered

on. Even after developing liver cancer and thyroid dysfunction, which caused regular seizures that might take down a racehorse, Petey would merely shake off the disorientation, lose his lunch, and blindly stumble on with his day. We thought for sure his advanced wobbliness would do him in at age 14. By age 19, it seemed the dog would live to be drinking age. He already had the stagger and spew for it. The irony in his longevity was that, at one point or another, everyone wanted to kill this dog. In his younger days, frisky and full of manic anxiety, Petey whined incessantly. Not only whined, but yowled in terror and anticipation at nearly anything out of the ordinary, no matter how ordinary. He flipped out when the car made a left

turn, he spazzed when someone walked out the door, he freaked if someone on the right side of the room moved slightly to the left. He yelped as if being waterboarded during a bath and, had he been able to speak (he certainly tried), he would have given up the secret location of the guerrilla freedom fighters at the first threat of a nail trimming. He was, by far, the most nerve-wracking dog I have ever encountered. Petey got by on his looks. He had a furry little terrier face, with what Melissa referred to as his “60 Minutes” eyebrows. He had shaggy ears like a spaniel and, protruding from the center of his skull, a perfect, natural Mohawk of blond hair. He was, by all accounts, adorable. And this is why we did not kill him. This is why he was allowed to mature into a mellow, stumbling old age. We effectively rewarded Petey for nearly 20 years of daily aggravation by scrubbing his spills, keeping him clean, trimmed, free of ticks and stickers, medicating his ailments, and feeding him the preferred dog food, treats and occasional French fries that we’d see again later. And we did all this because, in spite of our sandblasted nerves, we loved Petey. It’s easy to love an adorable puppy that licks your face, snuggles peacefully in your lap, and brings nothing but joy. It’s no trick to show kindness to the infinitely cute (well, unless it’s Zooey Deschanel). But our real humanity is revealed when we love and care for those we’d much

rather bludgeon with a 9-iron (like Zooey Deschanel). When we refrain from killing those who constantly whine and complain and stink up our homes, and instead, provide them with the affection that allows their annoyances to thrive, this is how we know we are civilized people. And so, in this spirit of tolerance, after giving up the idea that this 19-year-old irritant was ever going to go to Doggie Heaven, I purchased my wall-to-wall dream carpet for the little mongrel to stain persistently. And stain he did, for nearly a year, until the day came when the spews outnumbered the meals, and we knew the indestructible little heaver would finally wobble no more. Just a few days ago, Petey went to that great padded, cut pile flooring in the sky. I have my carpet all to myself now. It’s held up well under the constant scrubbing. I like to sit on the wellcushioned floor, sketching, eating, picking at scabs, enjoying the comforts of a hurl-free environment. But I sit very still, as is my conditioning, so as not to upset Petey. Ashley Holt is a writer and illustrator living in Spartanburg. His neurotic quirks and extreme sensitivity to broad social trends are chronicled in The Symptoms, an illustrated blog. Check out his website at www.ashleyholt.com.

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