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125 years of Greenville High memories By CINDY LANDRUM | staff
Identification badges cover a large table in the middle of the Greenville High main office – about 100 of them, all sporting pictures of parents who regularly volunteer at the school.
The children of many of them graduated years, sometimes decades, ago, but the parents keep on volunteering. “There’s a love for Greenville High that other high schools just don’t have,” said Principal J.F. Lucas. “The love for it is kind of con-
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“The staff recommended approval. The Planning Commission recommended approval. Why would you have those people even there spending our money if you’re not going to listen to them?” Spinx Co. CEO Stewart Spinks, on the Greenville City Council’s rejection of a rezoning request that would have allowed Spinx to build a gourmet market and gas station on two parcels across from Heritage Green.
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Council rejects Butler Avenue rezoning request Spinx Co. had proposed gas station, market on site across from Heritage Green By Cindy Landrum | staff
It wasn’t the high-end gas station and market that the Spinx Co. proposed to build that caused a divided Greenville City Council to reject a rezoning request needed to make the project work. It was what could be built on the site if Spinx decided not to go through with its proposal. Councilman David Sudduth said his concern was what might be built on the site if it was rezoned to a redevelopment district classification and Spinx could not get the special exceptions it needed to operate a convenience store from the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals. Sudduth said if the property – called a strategic location on the doorstep of Main Street – is rezoned to redevelopment district, it could become a day care center, multi-family housing, a kennel and indoor veterinary clinic, a bed and breakfast, a hotel or an auto service center. “If we rezone, we lose our leverage,” he said. “My concern is if we don’t have a seat at the table, then we basically are going to have to settle on whatever meets the minimum standards that we have in place.” Sudduth, Gaye Sprague, Lillian Brock Fleming and Mayor Knox White voted against the rezoning. Amy Ryberg Doyle, Jil Littlejohn and Susan Reynolds supported the rezoning request. “Why would they feel the need to have the leverage David Sudduth talks about if you already have rules in place?” said Stewart Spinks, Spinx Co.’s CEO. “The staff recommended approval. The Planning Commission recommended approval. Why would you have those people even there spending our money if you’re not going to listen to them?” Spinks said he has invested more than $1 million in the project, which company officials said would be unique for Spinx and the kind of project of which the community could be proud. “I would hope logic, passion and creativity would be allowed in the city,” he
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said. Spinks said he’s concerned about the city’s desire to control what goes where by splitting land owned by one property owner into two different zoning classifications. He said he owns another chunk of land on Buncombe Street that is divided into two zoning classifications. Residents of the historic neighborhoods that surround the property packed rows of seats in council chambers Monday night. Spinks told council members the company has worked to address the concerns of the neighborhood. He said the store would have half the number of gas pumps of the usual Spinx store – four – and they would be covered. He said he wanted the pumps to be manned by “goodwill ambassadors.” He said he would create a 12-foot easement to form a landscaped buffer between the business and surrounding neighborhood. Allison Spinks, wife of Spinx President Steve Spinks, described the store as a place that would have quaint cafe tables and rosemary topiaries, a place to hold a business meeting or lunch with friends. She said the store would have a gift corner with items for the kitchen and home and unique children’s gifts. She said the market would have a calendar of events, perhaps High Tea on Wednesdays. But Hampton-Pinckney resident Travis Seward said it would still be a convenience store. “Yes, they’ll put up really nice brick, put awnings over the gas pumps,” he said, “but that’s just lipstick on a Spinx station.” The market and upscale convenience store has been on the table for more than a year and Hampton-Pinckney resident Wade Cleveland said the company still would not “bind itself legally to any of the concepts.” Cleveland said if the rezoning was approved, he feared it would be a decision “we will all regret for a long time to come.” Council members who supported the rezoning request said they had confidence that Spinx would deliver what it proposed. Stewart Spinks said the company would consider its options. The company must wait a year before requesting the property to be rezoned again. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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Seeking solutions for a thirsty region Long-term drought cycles force states to rethink conservation measures
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of the major problems in managing the state’s water, environmental groups say. “To protect property values, Georgia must maintain water as a public resource; our rivers and aquifers are not a commodity that can be bought and sold to the highest bidder,” the Georgia Water Coalition said in a 2008 report coming on the heels of one of the most severe droughts in recent regional history. South Carolina still has not reached the level of water management being practiced by neighboring states, although the Legislature did pass a water withdrawal bill in 2010 in response to potential litigation with North Carolina over use of rivers with headwaters in that state. The most effective tool for the state has been the Drought Response Committee, which monitors conditions around the state and alerts various water systems when voluntary conservation measures are needed. The committee is a reactive – rather than a proactive – group. Georgia forced draconian measures on water users during the severe drought of the early 21st century. The state cut golf course irrigation, a measure never contemplated in South Carolina, even though drought watchers say the drought was just as severe here, particularly in the Upstate and neighboring North Carolina highlands. A draft report in 2008 by the Water Allocation Study team of the N.C. Environmental Review Commission found that strong population and commercial growth in the headwaters leaves water systems
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The potential effects of climate change are peeking at Upstate residents through depleted mountain lakes and low groundwater levels, particularly in the Savannah River basin, experts say. How much of an issue this will become for Upstate residents is a matter of viewpoint. “Water is just too valuable to just be used once,” said Ray Orvin, chief of Renewable Water Resources (REWA), a regional sewer authority. Consequently, REWA is making plans to bring a “purple pipe” water reclamation system online to provide outflow from the Mauldin Road treatment plant for irrigation and industrial use to customers in REWA’s service area. Sue G. Schneider, general manager of the Spartanburg Water System, has no plans to use purple pipe systems to conserve, since the system’s treatment plants are not located near potential users. She also said her drinking water supply is adequate for the next 75 years. “A lot of this has to do with which river basin you’re in,” she said. “In the Savannah Basin they’ve had problems. Rainfall here in the Broad River basin has been normal this summer and all of our lakes have stayed at full pool.” Lake Jocassee is down 25 feet, a repercussion of the severe drought in neighboring Georgia and the demands of keeping Lake Keowee artificially high to meet requirements for cooling reactors at the Oconee Nuclear Station. Lower than normal flows from the four small mountain rivers that feed Jocassee play a role, too. “What we’re seeing now with our water supply is what you’d expect as an effect of climate change,” said Richard Hilderman, a retired Clemson professor of genetics who has made the study of the science behind climate change his newest area of interest. “Long term, drought cycles and higher temperatures tend to deplete the aquifer and that, in turn, results in lower flows in rivers and streams,” he said. “The predicted increase in severe rainfall events we are experiencing now produce tremendous amounts of water that quickly runs off without sinking in.” Differing views on the state of water supplies, particularly between suppliers and would-be providers, points to one
with few options for additional supply. The report’s authors pointed to the high-growth, quickly urbanizing areas in North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. These are “largely concentrated in the Piedmont … and tend to be located on much smaller streams,” they wrote. “At the same time, they sit on rock that is hard and is underlain by relatively nonproductive groundwater sources. In other words, they are not in optimal places from a water supply point of view. Their growth has depended historically on the normally ample supply of annual precipitation that North Carolina receives. As North Carolinians from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the fall line have seen all too well in the past decade, it only takes a few months of rainfall shortages to put some water systems in the Piedmont under great stress,” the report said. Orvin said other states, such as Florida, which has made it illegal to dump sewer plant outflows back into rivers, have taken stronger conservation stands than South Carolina. “In Florida, treated water must be disbursed using purple pipe systems or ground disbursal systems. They have taken a stand down there that water should be used as many times as possible before being returned to the (natural) system,” he said. Schneider said downstream users would be impaired by reusing water in the Upstate, a charge Orvin denies. “The water eventually finds its way back into the natural system,” he said. As the National Wildlife Federation noted in 2008, “The second major drought of the last decade is a wake-up call for the Southeast United States, showing the region’s vulnerability due to its reliance on scarce supplies of fresh water. “The region has been operating under the best-case water availability for the last 50 years, during which drought conditions were relatively rare. But the region has historically experienced regular droughts. Global warming is the future wildcard, potentially causing both more extremely dry periods and more heavy rainfall events. At the same time, warming-induced sea-level rise will increase the risk of saltwater intrusion into important groundwater aquifers.”
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“Government Is Not the Answer,” proclaims a magnet on the back of my neighbor’s car. In the Aug. 31 issue of the Journal, an opinion was published with a similar theme. It stated, “Government cannot fix what’s wrong with this country. It is ‘we, the people’ who have the right and the responsibility to make this country a better place.” Using a quote from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution is an interesting irony if you consider that the quote continues as “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union...” and directly implies that our government IS “we the people.” Our Constitution and the form of government it establishes exist to allow us to govern ourselves. Thus to say government can’t fix what’s wrong, followed by saying we have to do it ourselves, makes government a villain while also saying we, the government, can do it better. Earlier in the same opinion, the author suggests ways to “improve our own corner of the world” by doing such noble deeds as volunteering at a soup kitchen or taking in a pregnant teenager. While these are marvelous acts of kindness, this personal approach to changing the world has extreme limitations. If we volunteer at a soup kitchen, it helps someone temporarily avoid hunger and helps us feel good about ourselves, but does nothing to address the larger problem of helping folks find a job, get training after losing one, or stay warm when the shelters are full. Suppose a homeless woman does find a job. Does she have a place to shower before work? How does she get to work? Who takes care of her children while she’s there? Are we willing to improve our corner of the world every morning by giving someone a ride to work and watching her kids while she recovers her financial stability? Similarly, can we as individuals pay the tab for someone who’s had an accident that resulted in large medical expenses, a lost job and lost medical insurance? When many of us are con-
It was the Democrats’ poor luck that the Labor Department’s August jobs report landed before the convention confetti was vacuumed away. But the depressing numbers serve to remind us that returning the economy to a sound footing remains the biggest challenge facing the next president. The job of American voters over the next two months is to decide who that man will be. The choice will be made by a narrow slice of the electorate, as the majority of the voting public is polarized to a draw that pre-exists Election 2012 by decades. A staggering degree of venom has infused the last three presidential elections, and the shouting hasn’t stopped. Voters guard a stash of nonnegotiables each considers good and right and true, and the party and candidate who disagrees is a danger to the republic. That attitude – that ideological polarization which says the opposing side is not just wrong, but traitorous – is the real danger to the republic, because it makes working a solution to our nation’s fiscal crisis impossible. This is a crisis of daunting proportions. The kind of reforms that will be required to alleviate it demand bipartisan compromise in the real sense of both words – not “I won, so do what I say,” but respectful, true-faith negotiations that realize finding common ground means neither side gets everything it wants. Not capitulation, not surrender, but the firm recognition that consensus is the only legitimate way to lead a divided nation. President Obama has not helped this country or himself by blaming Washington gridlock on Republican intransigence when he has been intransigent – starting with his “I won” reply to Republican ideas on the stimulus package his first month in office. Obama’s was not the only election in 2008. American voters elected Congress, too, in 460 individual contests that year that also reflected the will of the people. The branches of government are co-equal. Presidents don’t rule. They are as effective as their ability to persuade. A talent deficit in that area is less important when one party controls Congress and the White House; health care reform did become law without a single Republican vote. But the 2010 elections guaranteed a divided government will greet the president in 2013, be it Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. A divided electorate inevitably forces shared power. The voters have seen to it in 24 of the past 32 years, thanks to a shifting mass of independents who form the ignored center of our scorched-earth politics. We owe them our gratitude, because to gain any kind of public acceptance, tough reforms require both parties’ fingerprints. Solving this nation’s fiscal crisis long-term will require painful tradeoffs on taxes and entitlements – which can happen only if Republicans and Democrats leap together. As for the economy, the August jobs numbers are one more reminder that more of the same will not work. The national unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent only because 368,000 Americans abandoned the search. The labor participation rate – the percentage of the civilian working-age population either working or looking for work – fell to 65.3 percent, the lowest in 30 years. Meanwhile, TD Economics warned that South Carolina’s leading regional indicators signal a “substantial slowdown” on the horizon. Our presidential candidates offer starkly different visions for the future. This will be an ideological election. But when it’s over, the winner will face a still-polarized nation, a divided government and an economy in a defensive crouch. How each will deal with that daunting combo is the most important question left to ask.
IN MY OWN WORDS by BRIAN LOWE
cerned about our own jobs and financial stability, who is able to pay for someone else’s children’s doctor visits, inoculations, or school clothes? Consider instead that we ask a religious or civic organization to contribute money. This money will be used to help people in trouble, maybe by giving them a place to live, paying their medical needs while they get back on their feet, and financing a six-month training program and a few months of assistance while they work and save money. With a large organization this means only a few dollars a week out of most peoples’ pockets. Some form of this is happening right now all around the U.S. Now replace the phrase “religious or civic organization” with the word “government.” Suddenly the assistance is a “government giveaway” and the person getting assistance is a “deadbeat on welfare.” “Government” is a bad word. In truth, the big difference is only that instead of contributions, the help is collected as taxes. Why are taxes to help people considered bad and taxes for war good? Some help cannot be done “one community at a time.” If we wish to be a caring and successful society, we must act together. Believe it or not, collective citizen action is also good for the economy. To quote former President Clinton whose presidency had four years of fiscal surplus, “there’s not a single example on the planet of a successful economy that runs on the antigovernment model.” Brian (Al) Lowe is a father, husband and engineer in the Greenville area. He is deeply concerned about the future of his children and his country.
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Spartanburg City Council remains out front on the Upstate video gambling wars, taking the Machiavellian step Monday night of voting in new zoning rules that would allow Internet gaming in the city limits – provided the devices themselves pass muster with law enforcement. City fathers are betting there will be no flood of poker applications since the Internet cafes would be relegated to industrial zones with tough rules on corollaries like parking. Spartanburg’s action comes in the wake of conflicting rulings by two Greenville magistrates on just what constitutes an illegal gambling device in Greenville County. “We’ve been on the phone with officials over there,” said Kathy Hoefer McCabe, Spartanburg city attorney. “They’ve got a real situation over there.” Greenville Magistrate Charles Garrett ruled on Sept. 6 that a sweepstakes machine is legal – just weeks after sheriff ’s deputies raided three Internet gaming shops in the county after Magistrate Di-
ane Cagle ruled similar machines were illegal gambling devices. In his ruling, Garrett said sweepstakes machines are legal and not video poker. “This order should not be interpreted by anyone as support for video poker in South Carolina,” the judge wrote. The chaos created around the state by such conflicting judicial rulings – coupled with the Legislature’s refusal to intervene with a clarifying law on sweepstakes machines – forced the Spartanburg City Council to take the action it did, city officials said. “We just don’t know when some judge or state lawmakers will make this legal or illegal,” said City Manager Ed Memott. Spartanburg’s new law amending Section 512 of the Regulations for Video Casinos and Poker Machines will force Internet gaming promoters into narrowly drawn locations with tough rules defining operation. Locations are limited to light industrial districts and heavy industrial districts with no cafe within 1,000 feet of any religious institution; school or day care center; residential area; public park; hospital, doctor’s office or medical center; public building; nursing home; youth activity
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Passionate hockey fan and millionaire Fred Festa, the new owner of the Greenville Road Warriors, is confident he can make minor league hockey an entertainment and business success. It will not be an easy skate based on past experience. Despite respectable performances on ice, two prior owners threw in the towel after financial losses, although the first team, the Greenville Grrrowl, did exceedingly well at the outset. The Grrrowl brought hockey to the BI-LO Center upon its opening in 1998 and averaged 7,000 spectators per game in the first season. The team was league champion in 2002. But by the 2004-05 season, game attendance dwindled to a little better than 2,000, the club lost $1 million, a call for new investors failed and the team folded. Festa, chairman of W.R. Grace, a chemical company with annual revenues in excess of $3 billion, believes he can make it work where others have failed. “I am a pretty persistent person. We have the right people, the right general manager, the right advisers, and I have the financial wherewithal to stay for a period of time,” he said. “If an economic cycle hits, you have to have, as an owner, the staying power to survive that, and I do.” Over and above what he paid for the club, Festa plans to spend more than $1 million in the next 12 months “to get it where we need it to be.” Executive vice president and general manager Chris Lewis, who joined Festa in an interview with the Journal, said the Road Warriors are off to a good start. Sale of season tickets is “tracking about eight weeks ahead of last year,” he said, and he expects 25 percent more buyers than last season. Festa said ticket prices were cut 13 percent to “what would be attractive to the audience.” The Road Warriors play a 72-game season, half at home. The team has made early initiatives to become ingrained in the community. Gate proceeds from the opening exhibition game Oct. 5, plus a
The Greenville Road Warriors celebrate a win.
match of up to $45,000 from Festa personally, will be donated to The Children’s Museum of the Upstate. Festa is using his own money to make improvements to the arena club level and has asked the board that governs the BI-LO Center to replace the antiquated central scoreboard with a flashy HD board and to ring the arena with digital ribbon boards.
“You know what? A hockey team will flourish and be successful here.” Fred Festa, owner of the Greenville Road Warriors
“Overall, it is a good arena for hockey, but it needs these pieces,” Festa said. “Fred is right. It would improve the fan experience so much, and quite frankly sell tickets,” said Roger Newton, president and general manager of the BI-LO Center. He said discussions are underway to “identify a way to fund these improvements.”
Sale of season Road Warriors tickets is tracking about eight weeks ahead of last year, according to owner Fred Festa.
The team also intends to create excitement outside the center and has asked for permission to erect a tent for fun activities and entertainment on the BI-LO Plaza. “We want to be viewed as a quality, affordable, family-oriented entertainment option, setting a festive atmosphere and seeing that there are things going on outside the area; and when you get into the arena, there are things for your kids to do other than just go find seats,” Festa said. He avoids attendance predictions but willingly said he wants to be above the league average that typically exceeds 4,200 per game. “If we continue to make progress every month and add to it every year, we are going to do just fine.” Festa bought the Road Warriors from Neil Smith, the former general manager of the New York Rangers, and Steven Posner, who purchased the financially failing Johnstown (Penn.) Chiefs in 2010 and moved the team to Greenville. After two seasons with a winning record but disappointing attendance averaging around 3,200, Smith and Posner “decided in the second half of the second season that we had to either sell it, or if couldn’t be sold, the inevitability would have been to fold it.” The team “lost quite a lot of money in the first two years,” said Smith. “Our definition of making it work was breaking even, and we couldn’t come close.” The fact is that hockey is not a priority for Southerners, who don’t grow up with the game, he said. “Even though we all know – and they all know – it is really good entertainment, they don’t come back as often as you need to get positive cash flow.” At the beginning of a season, Smith said, high school, college and pro football hurt attendance, followed by “a couple of pretty good months in January and February – but then the weather
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Major plans in the minor leagues By Dick Hughes senior business writer
For Fred Festa, the Greenville Road Warriors is just the beginning of a plan to own several minor league teams in different sports. To purchase the minor league hockey team, he formed Chestnut Street LLC with him as sole owner. “Ultimately, what I would like to do is own a number of different franchises in minor league sports, whether it is another hockey club or its football or lacrosse or soccer or whatever under that umbrella,” he said. Owning a hockey team was a natural fit for his first acquisition. A native of Rome, N.Y., and a graduate of the State University of New York in nearby Oswego, Festa grew up with hockey in his blood.
turns good in March, and then baseball starts up in April.” Smith, who moved to Greenville when he brought the Road Warriors here, said the abundant outdoor and entertainment options that make Greenville a great place to live “hurt hockey.” Still, he believes Festa can make it work, “but it is going to take time, certainly a lot more time then we gave it.” Newton of the BI-LO Center said while hockey never caught on in many Southern cities, “that’s not the story in Greenville,” as evidenced by the Grrrowl’s drawing 6,000-8,000 a game in the first couple of years. At times, “you couldn’t get a ticket,” he remembered. He is “optimistic that Fred and his team are going to make this team very successful. The resources he is giving his staff here and the quality of his frontoffice staff are very, very strong.” Beyond that, Newton said, “If anything, there are more hockey fans 10 years later than there were simply because the population has grown, and we’ve got more Northerners who have come down here to retire and work.” For the BI-LO Center, Newton said a team that averages 4,000 or more per game “would mean revenue north of a couple hundred thousand a year. One that is not drawing very well doesn’t have a huge impact on our bottom line.” Brian McKenna is commissioner of the ECHL, an AA league with 23 teams in 16
“I have a passion for ice hockey and am fortunate to be in a position to be able to buy a team,” he said. He purchased the Road Warriors from Neil Smith, the for- Fred Festa, owner mer New York Rang- of the Greenville ers president and Road Warriors general manager, and Smith’s partner Steve Posner. Festa wouldn’t reveal what he paid for the team – but according to Smith, “it wasn’t a lot.” Since the team never was profitable, Smith said its value was “mostly just hard assets. What we got didn’t pay the bills. We had to put more money in.” Chris Lewis, executive vice president and general manager of the Road Warriors, said having the Road Warriors as
the first Festa acquisition is an advantage because he “needs to make the first one successful to get the next one.” Festa, 52, is chairman and CEO of W.R. Grace, a global chemical company with 6,300 employees. He joined Grace in 2003 as president and chief operating officer, became CEO in 2005 and added on the role of board chairman in 2008. Since he joined Grace, revenues have increased from $1.9 billion to $3.2 billion last year. According to the company’s annual report, Festa’s total compensation for 2011 was $9.36 million. The total includes base salary, awarded options, non-equity incentive earnings, deferred earnings, pension value and other benefits considered taxable income. Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.
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A young fan with a Road Warriors player. Owner Fred Festa wants the hockey games to be viewed as “quality, affordable, family-oriented entertainment.”
states in its 30th year. He said building a strong fan base is not easy in the South, but it has been done. The South Carolina Stingrays were established in Charleston in 1993 and are the league’s oldest continuously operated team in a founding city. “Your core hockey base may be 500, 1,000, 1,500, but it is not enough,” he said. “You need to build casual fan attendance, not necessarily hockey fans – they are entertainment fans, and some will turn into hockey fans over time.” He said the league has become very strict in vetting of owners to make sure of their financial ability to sustain a club “over a long time,” that they have a credible business plan and are committed to integrating the team into the fabric of the community. “Fred met all those criteria,” he said. Festa spent two or three years look-
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the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who interviewed North Vietnam President Ho Chi Minh during a secret peace mission in the late 1960s. Henry Lay, founder of the company that makes Lay’s potato chips, is also a Greenville High graduate. So is Academy Award-winning actress Joanne Woodward and former South Carolina governors Carroll Campbell Jr. and Dick Riley. GHS graduates have become federal judges, ambassadors and inventors, attorneys, business owners and bankers. The hardwood floors they walked are still there, thanks to the dogged effort by parents and community members a decade ago to ensure the original school building remained during the Greenville County School District’s $1 billion school construction program. The district had considered building a new high school on the site because it would cost less money. “We saw something very important and treasured at risk,” said Jeff Dezen, a parent heavily involved in the Greenville High PTSA at the time. The Greenville City School District was established in 1886, capping an effort to build a public school started two years earlier by Mayor Thomas C. Gower. Classes were held in a single-frame rented house on the east side of Main Street between Coffee and North streets until two schools could be
journal community built. The first was Central, on Westfield Street. It wasn’t long before the school had 11 grades and residents were asking for a separate high school building. The current building on Vardry Street was erected in 1938. By 1941, Greenville High was considered a model high school. In 1947, it added a 12th grade. In 1948, Greenville High was the only high school in South Carolina with a graduating senior class. Dezen, who still announces at Greenville High baseball games even though his son has graduated college and is now working in Sydney, said the effort to save the original building wasn’t the most economical thing to do or the most expedient. GHS students had to attend classes for two and a half years at Parker High, the school’s old archrival, while the old building was renovated and a new classroom wing added.
The 1917 high school football state champions from Greenville High. The photo hangs on a hallway near the gymnasium along with other Greenville High state championship teams from a variety of sports.
But keeping a school building where generations of students built memories of a lifetime was the right thing to do, he said. Retired federal appeals court judge Billy Wilkins remembers the dedicated teachers and the outstanding athletic programs he enjoyed while he
was a student there. Wilkins said the school’s tennis team played the University of North Carolina freshman squad and beat them. “Greenville High has a sense of family,” he said. “Back then, there wasn’t a great deal of mobility in society, so if you started at Greenville High you
were likely to finish at Greenville High.” But, like the city of Greenville itself, Greenville High has had its struggles. Although integration was void of the problems seen at other high schools – the student body’s rallying cry was “it’s not black and white, it’s red and white” (the school’s colors) – enrollment plummeted as Greenville families and shops fled to the suburbs, said Tim Reed, a 1976 GHS graduate. The school district created magnet schools – Greenville High is one – with special programs in an effort to bring families back to its inner-city schools. Lucas said Greenville High wasn’t the most desirable place when he enrolled 19 years ago, but “once you get here, you find out what a sense of belonging this school has, what a love from the community it enjoys.” Greenville High now has a diverse population. Students
come from some of the city’s richest families and its poorest; some live in the city and some come from the suburbs. More than half are minorities, the rest white. More than 450 students are enrolled in the school’s magnet program, which now has an emphasis on law, business and finance. And each day, Greenville High students learn from attorneys, business people and bankers who were once Greenville High students themselves. “Greenville High has a way of getting into your DNA,” Dezen said. “Those who have experienced Greenville High know it’s something special. Those who haven’t experienced Greenville High don’t know what they’re missing.” Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@ greenvillejournal.com.
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Peace Center concertgoers got a taste of the completed renovations at the performing arts center this week during Vince Gill’s outdoor concert at the TD Stage that kicked off the 2012-2013 season. The Peace Center launched a capital campaign in 2010 to update the exterior and create a more open public space. Requiring a little more than a year to complete, the renovations include a revamped lobby area, a new plaza facing Main Street, an updated amphitheater and a patron’s lounge. The familiar brick columns at the front of the building are now integrated into the design of the lobby, which creates more room for crowds waiting before shows and during intermissions, said lead architect Mark Timbes of the Garvin Group. In addition, a fire lane was removed and a new public plaza facing Main and Broad streets added seating walls and will soon host outdoor events in collaboration with the city of Green- Megan Riegel ville, said Peace Center president Megan Riegel. The plaza features donor-named stones, adding to the feeling of community investment, she said. Transparent structural glass surrounds what once was the façade of the building, creating a “clear veil” designed to allow passersby to see what is going on inside, said Timbes. This design adds approximately 14,000 square feet to the lobby area and “makes it truly a community asset and link to the river,” he added. Last week, Genevieve’s Lounge, named for a donor and member of the Peace family, hosted its first event for patrons. This week, the lounge hosted a crowd during the Vince Gill concert. The high-ceilinged space overlooks the amphitheater and has a moveable wall for opening onto a terrace. Sound from the concert stage will be piped up to the patron lounge and the terrace, which Riegel dubbed a “giant skybox.” The terrace was built on the former Japanese dogwood lane. The reconfiguration of the performance space behind the Peace Center includes a slight rotation of the stage, a translucent canvas roof and stone seating walls. Scott Garvin, principal in charge at the Garvin
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Bring your brown bag lunch and join us Wednesdays at noon at the Upstate History Museum for an hour of stimulating conversation with Furman faculty about topics that are in the news and affect our lives. September 19 ““Deciphering the Affordable Care Act” Glen Halva-Neubauer, Professor of Political Science
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October 3 “Greenville and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A 50 Year Retrospective” Courtney Tollison, Professor of History
October 10 “Ballots and Bullets: The Civil War and the Election of 1862” Lloyd Benson, Professor of History
October 17 “Who’s Going to Win the 2012 Presidential Election?” Danielle Vinson, Professor of Political Science
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Greenville County has been named one of the 100 Best Communities for Young People by America’s Promise Alliance in recognition of the county’s “outstanding and innovative work in addressing the high school dropout crisis.” The county will receive a $2,500 grant, signage identifying the community as one of the nation’s 100 Best Communities for Young People, and access to America’s Promise Alliance’s community development resources. The county won the award once before, in 2007. Two programs were cited for the 2012 recognition. One, the Building Opportunities in Out of School Time (BOOST) program created by the United Way, comprises a network of 140 public and private programs focused on educational attainment for students in and beyond high school. The other, the Greenville Youth Commission, allows young people a voice in the legislative process by giving them advisory roles that help inform city officials’ decision-making. The 100 Best competition is part of the Grad Nation campaign, a movement of individuals, organizations and communities working together to end the dropout crisis. The goal of Grad Nation is to raise the national high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020.
Programs vie for Riley award
A pre-college academic enrichment program that helps Greenville County high school students who are economically or culturally challenged go to college and a Clemson University program that helps train teachers in reading are among the finalists for a statewide education award. Bridges for a Better Future, the Clemson University Reading Recovery Training Center and the state Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement’s Teacher Cadet Program are the finalists chosen for the 2012 Dick and Tunky Riley What Works SC Award for Excellence. The Riley Institute at Furman University and South Carolina Future Minds sponsor the award. The winner will be announced Oct. 17. The award highlights outstanding educational initiatives throughout the state. There were more than 50 entries. The winner receives a $10,000 grant from BB&T. The other finalists will receive $1,000 grants from the Riley Institute.
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South Carolina has the most dangerous roads in the nation. That’s according to a survey by carinsurancecomparison.com. Using data from highway safety reports, the study awarded points in six categories, including percentage of drivers not wearing seatbelts, highway traffic deaths, the amount of federal funding and the percentage of bridges rated obsolete or deficient. South Carolina’s roads ranked worst – and South Carolina was the only state in the Top 10 to rank in the bottom half of every single category. Other states with the worst highways were Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. States ranked safest were Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, Michigan and North Dakota.
Spartanburg district plans to apply for fed grant money
Spartanburg County School District 6 is among a dozen school districts across the state that have said they plan to apply for some of the $400 million in federal Race to the Top education innovation grants. South Carolina Superintendent of Education Mick Zais has refused to participate in the Race to the Top program, but the federal government is allowing individual school districts to apply for the latest round of money. More than $4 billion has been awarded to 18 states and the District of Columbia in the first rounds of the program. The federal Department of Education expects to award 15 to 25 districts fouryear grants ranging from $5 million to $40 million, depending on their size. The application deadline is Oct. 30 and winners will be announced in December. The grants are for districts to design personalized learning environments that use data-based and digital tools to meet the needs of individual students.
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Football rivals help each other raise money for athletic booster clubs By CINDY LANDRUM | staff
Greenville and J.L. Mann are fierce rivals on the football field – but off the field, parents from the two schools are helping each other raise money for their respective athletic booster clubs. And it started with oysters. Two years ago, Mann’s girls lacrosse team planned to sell bark mulch to raise money. Julie Perry, one of the players’ parents, suggested an oyster roast instead. Three hundred people showed up and Mann’s lacrosse programs cleared $11,000. One of the people in attendance was Rita Stone, now president of Greenville High’s Red Raider Sports Booster Club. Stone asked Perry how Greenville High could hold a similar fundraiser for its athletic program. But instead of just telling Mann’s rival how to conduct a successful oyster roast, Perry and her husband, Van, gathered up
a group of Mann parents to help their Greenville counterparts. “Chins dropped when they saw a group of parents from Mann cooking their oysters,” Perry said. To commemorate the unusual occasion, the Mann parents donned Tshirts with “Your Mann Tonight” on the back and “Shut Up and Shuck It” on the front. Five hundred people showed up and Greenville High’s booster club cleared $35,000. The money was used buy a new sound system for Sirrine Stadium and to wrap a van with faces of Red Raider athletes. “They were with us every step of the way,” Stone said. Last year’s oyster roast netted the Greenville High athletic boosters more than $50,000, money that was used to pay coaches’ supplements, team transportation and the like. Now it’s Greenville’s turn to repay the favor.
Parents from J.L. Mann's athletic booster club helped out their Greenville High counterparts with an oyster roast fundraiser last year. This year, Greenville High returns the favor.
Mann’s athletic booster club will hold an oyster roast, Mann Alive!, on Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the Greenville Jet Center at the Greenville Downtown Airport and Greenville High parents will help. This year’s T-shirts will be printed with “Roasted by Raiders” and “Don’t Tell Our Kids We Are Here.”
“On the field, we’re big rivals,” Perry said. “Off the field, we’re big friends. I think it’s great that parents are willing to put the competition aside so everybody wins.” Stone said the GHS booster club even put a link in its newsletter for Mann’s event hoping to help ticket sales. “Yes, there’s a rivalry. But we’re not in the same conference anymore. I think that took the rivalry down a notch,” Stone said. “But when you think about it, it makes sense to help each other out. We’re the same community. We’re not really rivals except on the football field once a year. We all need the same resources and we all lack the same resources.” Tickets for Mann Alive! are $30. Reservations are due Oct. 21 and can be made at eventbrite.com. And all adults are welcome, even those without ties to Mann or Greenville High. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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Converse College is working hard to weed out student cheating and plagiarism before it reaches the scale recently encountered by Harvard University, where 125 students accused of collaborating on a spring take-home exam are under investigation. Converse routinely gives take-home exams, said Laine Sowell, a rising senior and chair of the student discipline committee that tries suspected cases of cheating or plagiarism. “But we also have an honor code that each student signs at the start of their freshman year,” she said. “It hangs on the wall at Wilson Hall for their four years here. “I’ve found myself going down there to look at my signature on that document when I’ve got a particularly hard assignment, and recommend that to students who are struggling.” Converse students face the same kinds of pressures that students at larger, more famous schools face, said a panel consisting of school President Betsy Fleming, Dean of Students Molly Duesterhaus, and Melissa Walker, former Johnson Professor of History. “The incentives are the same for our students,” said Duesterhaus. “There is the pressure of grades, scholarship pressures and the attitude that you do whatever it takes to get there.”
Major schools, including the national military academies, have all had their share of cheating scandals, and the Converse panel agreed that the greatest problem is with incoming freshmen. Many are unprepared for the increased pressures of college life, some have not had training in proper attribution in college papers, and others just have no idea what an honor code really means. “Last year we had about a dozen cases come before the committee,” Sowell said. “Action was taken in about half of the cases.” Plagiarism is the greatest issue for most students, Walker said. “In a small school like ours, where professors quickly come to know a student’s writing style, this is easier to catch than at a larger school. “In the day of the internet, plagiarism is actually easier to catch than in the past,” she said. “All a professor has to do is type in a phrase and all the similar phrases pop up.” Fleming said a drop in ethics standards on all levels of society plays a role, too. “At Converse, students have to own it (the honor code) and live it,” Sowell said. It’s tough for students to judge other students in honors violations, Sowell said. “We have a rule that members of the board can disqualify themselves if they feel they can’t make an impartial judgment. They can just walk out of the room, no questions asked.” Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@greenvillejournal.com.
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Wofford College has named the Presidential Search Committee to find a successor for Dr. Benjamin B. Dunlap, who announced his retirement effective at the end of June 2013. Dunlap is the 10th president of the college and will return to his appointment as the Chapman Family Professor in the Humanities after a yearlong sabbatical. The Wofford Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of: R. Michael James, a 1973 graduate and former trustee, who will serve as search committee chairman. He is a founding partner of WEDGE Capital Management in Charlotte, N.C. The Rev. Dr. B. Mike Alexander Jr., a 1973 Wofford graduate and a member of the Wofford Board of Trustees. He is a minister at Belin United Methodist Church in Murrells Inlet, S.C. Charles J. Bradshaw Sr., a 1959 graduate and a retired executive from Spartanburg; Linville, N.C.; and Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Dr. Ellen S. Goldey, chair of the Department of Biology at Wofford. Laura Jackson Hoy of Myrtle Beach, S.C., a Wofford trustee. Dr. Joab M. Lesesne Jr., president emeritus of Wofford College. Ronald L. Norman, a member of the Class of 2013 and president of Wofford’s Campus Union student government organization. Corry W. Oakes III, a 1989 graduate and a trustee. He is a partner in OTO Development LLC of Spartanburg. Stanley E. Porter, a 1989 graduate and a trustee. He is a consultant with Deloitte & Touche in Chevy Chase, Md. The Rev. Dr. Ronald R. Robinson, the Perkins-Prothro Chaplain and Professor of Religion at Wofford and a 1978 graduate. Edward B. Wile, a 1973 graduate and a trustee. He is senior vice president for UBS Financial Services in Atlanta. Dr. Dennis M. Wiseman, the Reeves Family Professor of Foreign Languages and dean of the Center for Innovation and Learning at Wofford. Serving as an ex officio member is J. Harold Chandler of Kiawah Island, S.C., a 1971 graduate and chairman of the Wofford Board of Trustees.
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Professional cyclist and Greenvillian George Hincapie may have just finished his last competition race through the Rocky Mountains, but this October he’s returning to his home training grounds of the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains to lead the Gran Fondo Hincapie, a celebration and charity ride. After 19 years in professional cycling, Hincapie announced his retirement in June, rode in the Tour de France and received a loving sendoff after his final race in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado in August. Over the course of this career, the 39-year-old Hincapie has started a record 17 Tour de France races (a record he shares with Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk) and finished 16 races. He is a Tour stage winner and the only rider who has also assisted teammates in winning the ultimate cycling race nine times. And just as the mountain foliage is chang-
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In the late morning when the riders from the 15mile route begin returning, a family-friendly festival featuring food, beverages, kids rides and live music will kick off at La Bastide, said Hincapie. The Hincapie brothers purchased the inn in July and plan to make it into an athletic and cycling destination. Rich Hincapie said there is construction under way at the inn and the festival will be a chance to introduce the brothers’ new endeavor to the cycling community. “It’s going to be a full day to celebrate George’s retirement. It’s a good time of year, good weather and a good ride,� said Rich Hincapie. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.
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Report: State should rethink sexual risk education By april a. morris | staff
A collaboration of state agencies, public health experts and nonprofits are calling for revisions on how South Carolina schools, families and health care providers approach ensuring adolescent sexual health and well-being. The State Alliance for Adolescent Sexual Health (SAASH) in South Carolina recently released the 2012 Call to Action report, which outlines ways to both create a supportive environment for the sexual health of young people and address persistent issues such as sexually transmitted diseases, a teen pregnancy rate above the national average and sexual violence. The report draws information from the most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which measures sexual activity and other risky behaviors. According to the 2011 survey, 19 percent of middle school students and 57 percent of high school students in South Carolina reported engaging in sexual intercourse at least once. SAASH is advocating for medically accurate and evidence-based sexual health
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education, said Dr. Deborah Billings, professor with the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health and an author of the study. “We had years of abstinence-only planning and preventing and in part this (report) was an effort to say, ‘That’s not working, that’s not good enough for our kids,’” she said. Abstinence-only programs may help students delay sexual activity, she said, “but when they do engage in sexual activity, they don’t have any information, they’re not able to protect themselves, and that really puts our kids in danger.” The report and collaboration supports an abstinence-based, not abstinenceonly, approach to sexual health education, she said. According to the SAASH report, South Carolina is already equipped with a blueprint: The 1988 Comprehensive Health Education Act (CHEA) provides guidelines for sexual risk education for middle and high school students. The problem is that CHEA has not been fully implemented in some districts, said Billings – including advisory committees made up of students, teachers,
health professionals, clergy and parents who review the materials and curricula. In addition, many teachers have not been supported with training to provide instruction, Billings said. The idea is not to add a burden to the state’s teachers; the state needs “to get back to creating programs that are manageable for teachers,” she said. With additional training, the teachers can feel confident in teaching a sensitive subject, she said. Greenville County Schools already comply with the legislation with sexuality education based on the requirements outlined by CHEA, said district spokesperson Oby Lyles. An advisory committee reviewed all the initial materials and reconvenes as needed if changes are required, he said. CHEA requires a minimum of 75 minutes per week for 36 weeks of health education for sixth-graders and a minimum of 250 minutes per week for nine weeks or the equivalent for seventh and eighth grades. High school students are required to have 750 minutes of reproductive health and pregnancy prevention education at
least once during grades nine through 12. Academic success has an impact on the risky behaviors that adolescents engage in, said Billings. Students who are engaged in school are more likely to delay sexual activity. “This is one of the first times in South Carolina that anyone has looked at how one has an impact on the other. Sexual activity and other kinds of poor and negative sexual outcomes we’re seeing are related to poor academic performance,” said Billings. In addition to action items for educators, the report lists recommendations for health care providers, parents and policy makers. Billings said she hopes that those who read the report will feel moved to implement some of the report’s action items. “We are encouraging people to not just read this document, but to use it.” To read the 2012 Call to Action report and see other resources, visit www.saashsc.org. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.
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“I never wanted to go to Africa,” said Cheryl “Wink” McLeod as she recalled the arduous journey into rural Kenya to visit the village of Akatuman and the nearly 800 students attending the school there she helped found. McLeod’s journey to the Turkana region began not with a mission trip, but with a horrific accident on Faris Road that took her daughter’s life in 2005 – the day before the 19-yearold was to leave for college. Maggie was McLeod’s only child and her best friend, she said. “I’d always thought my daughter was a gift.” The pain of losing Maggie was unimaginable and emerging from the grief was difficult, McLeod said. “It’s hard to find people who didn’t know Maggie or who didn’t hear about that day.” McLeod’s connection to Africa came a year before Maggie’s death when, halfway around the world, Bishop David Thagana of Glory Outreach Assembly in Kenya was called to preach in the Turkana region. He traveled to a remote desert area with a supply of food and 3,000 people showed up, McLeod said. The elders of the village of Akatuman asked for a church, a well and a school. Most of the people had never seen a car or a book and all were illiterate. Thangana began praying for the village’s needs, she said. Five months after Maggie’s death, McLeod’s sister, Connie Cheren, went to Kenya on a mission trip to Akatuman and met Thangana. Cheren did not share the need for a school in the region with her sister – but in the spring of 2008, McLeod said God spoke to her one day in the shower: She had to build a school. Thangana heard about McLeod’s vision to build a school and knew his prayers had been answered. McLeod said she was unsure about starting a school so far away, but when she learned about the situation of this nomadic people, she was committed. She knew her daughter had wanted to be a journalist and wrote poetry and songs, so providing an education for these students would be a fit-
ting honor to Maggie’s memory. McLeod pursued the quest to build a school nearly 8,000 miles away, dedicating it to Maggie in July 2008. Then, there were nearly 150 children and two teachers, watched over by a portrait of the girl from Greenville. In just a few short years, a small village has sprouted up around Maggie’s School, McLeod said. Nearly 800 students learn Swahili and English in four classrooms and are provided two meals each day. They receive school uniforms, supplies and medication. After school is over, the adults arrive to learn to read and write, McLeod said. Surrounding the school are two wells, solar panels for power and a pavilion for shade during mealtimes. There’s also a small farm with irrigation that will be soon growing watermelon, cowpeas and sorghum, McLeod said. And in the few short years since the school opened, Maggie’s School students have excelled, said McLeod. The school was named an official Kenyan government school in 2009 and participated in a school conference in Nairobi this year, placing second in a poetry competition among 1,000 students from five different countries. Maggie’s School has just a few staff members in Kenya and the U.S. staff is all volunteer, raising money to fund the school exclusively through donations, McLeod said. Thankfully, local residents remember her daughter and support the school, she said. Shortly after her death, Maggie’s classmates at Christ Church Episcopal School created a ReMEMber campaign (Maggie’s initials were MEM) to raise funds and create bumper stickers. Maggie’s School will benefit again this year from ReMEMber the ‘70s, an evening of 1970s garb and music. The event will be held on Oct. 12 and all proceeds will benefit the school, McLeod said. When the students finish eight years at Maggie’s School, they can go to high school. Secondary education is similar to boarding school, and McLeod wants to be able to provide scholarships. Funds raised will also help to construct a kitchen to house a new stove that can cook meals for up to 850 people at once. Maggie’s School also wants to provide oral hygiene care and education along with preventive medical services rather than simply symptomatic care, she said.
A student at Maggie's School in rural Kenya uses one of the wells near the school.
McLeod is thankful she was able to turn tragedy into a positive thing. “God sometimes uses us when it’s very painful. To me, I’ve done what a mother should do, I’ve honored my daughter.” She goes to Africa each year to visit her students. Maggie’s School has helped the Akatuman community and given her a reason to carry on, she said. The St. Francis nurse is alone with only her dog as company after her husband, John, died in 2007. “It’s been an incredible journey, having the worst thing happen to you as a parent and then comes this school,” she said. “I have purpose and because of that I’ve survived – I have 800 students depending on me.” Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.
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3 deputies returned to duty after killing suspects Taylors woman jailed for false report leading to one incident By jerry salley | staff
Greenville County Sheriff Steve Loftis had to admit that the events of Monday, Aug. 13, were “very unusual.” “I’ve been sheriff for 10 years, but I’ve been working with the sheriff ’s office since 1977,” he told the Journal in an interview last week. “And I don’t remember having two officer-involved shootings in one day as long as I’ve been working here.” Within the space of six hours that Monday, in two unrelated incidents approximately six miles apart, sheriff ’s deputies shot and killed two suspects: Patrick O’Neal Starks, 50, in his house at 22 Lermann Drive; and Anthony Lee Lamboy, 26, in the parking lot of the Red Roof Inn at 2801 Laurens Road. Deputy William Davis, who shot Starks, and Deputies David Picone and Suzanne Sarra, who shot Lamboy, were all returned to active duty on Aug. 24 after the sheriff ’s office reviewed both incidents, said Loftis. Meanwhile, a Taylors woman, 21-yearold Sabrina Michelle Smith, has been charged with filing a false report, the action that brought deputies to the Red Roof Inn in the first place. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is also investigating both incidents, a process which could take several months, Loftis said. At approximately 7:30 a.m. that Monday, Davis and other deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call at Starks’ house on Lermann Drive, where Starks was reportedly armed with a rifle and threatening suicide. The deputies removed a female from the home, then went back inside. Davis and fellow deputies entered the bedroom, where Starks ignored warnings and turned toward them holding the rifle, the sheriff ’s office said. 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. “From what we understand, there was some problem with drug abuse,” said Loftis. Just after noon on that same day, Sarra, along with Master Deputy Brandon Lackey, arrived at the Red Roof Inn to help Picone investigate Smith’s complaint of sexual assault. Smith pointed out Lamboy in the parking lot of the motel, and after speaking with the suspect briefly, the deputies conducted a warrant check. “They found out there was an outstanding warrant from Greenwood County for resisting arrest with a deadly weapon,” Loftis said. “When you hear that you’re confronted with a suspect who has a fairly serious outstanding warrant, then naturally the deputies are going to be on the alert. That’s when they told him he was under arrest, and that’s when he started to violently resist.” According to the sheriff ’s report, Lamboy knocked a taser weapon out of Lackey’s hands and attempted to use it on the deputies. Lackey and Lamboy both fell to the ground, and Lamboy managed to get his hand on Lackey’s weapon, still in its holster, and fire it once. The bullet passed completely through Lackey’s upper thigh. Lamboy was struck by all five rounds fired – four by Picone and one by Sarra. Afterward, Smith admitted that her initial report was false, said Loftis. “Through questioning, she admitted that she had lied about it, that they did have voluntary sex,” he said. Lackey is “doing well,” reported Loftis. “He seems to be in good spirits. The wound is healing, although he’s still going to be out for several weeks.” SLED is also still investigating an incident in May in which Master Deputy Steven Epps shot and killed a suspect, 56-year-old David Scott Hampton, who was allegedly threatening a woman with a knife. Loftis returned Epps to full duty nine days after the shooting. The GCSO has had a total of five officer-involved shootings so far in 2012, according to public information officer Deputy Jonathan Smith. Deputies fired on, but did not hit, suspects in two other incidents earlier this year. Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.
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SWAT team called out to bring in Taylors man
A SWAT team helped convince Taylors resident William Todd Miller of the wisdom of surrendering peacefully to Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office authorities on Thursday, Sept. 6. At about 11:30 that morning, sheriff ’s deputies arrived at Miller’s home at 12 Stevenson Road to serve him with an arrest warrant for criminal domestic violence, from an incident reported Aug. 27. It was at least Miller’s third such offense, according to the warrant. Deputies attempted without success to make contact with Miller Miller inside the home. Due to the violent nature of the offense and a prior resisting arrest conviction, the SWAT team was called out at approximately 12:30 p.m. Once the SWAT team was on site, negotiators made contact with Miller, and at about 1:45 p.m., the suspect surrendered to deputies without incident, said Master Deputy Laura Campbell, GCSO public information officer. Deputies arrested Miller and took him to the Greenville County Detention Center, where he is being held on a $150,000 bond.
Strike 2 means life in prison for Greenville man
Eugene Thomas, 51, will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole after being convicted by a Greenville County jury of attempted armed robbery. His conviction on Tuesday, Sept. 11, is his second “strike” – Thomas was also convicted of second-degree murder in Florida in 1981. State law mandates that a defendant convicted of two “most serious” offenses receive a life sentence, according to a statement from the office of 13th Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins. Attempted armed robbery is classified as a most serious offense in South Carolina, the solicitor’s office said. On July 22, 2009, Thomas entered an apartment on Forest Street in Greenville, pointed a handgun at the victim and told him to lie facedown, asserted Assistant Solicitor Jennifer Tessitore during the trial. After rummaging through the victim’s wallet, Thomas fled the scene, but was later apprehended. The jury also found Thomas guilty of third-degree burglary and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. In addition to the 1981 Florida murder conviction, Thomas had been convicted of eight criminal charges ranging from drug possession to criminal domestic violence in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Eastside student arrested after fight
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, just before 4:00 p.m., a fight among students broke out in the parking lot of Eastside High School. The school resource officer (SRO) at the high school observed a crowd gathering, found a fight in progress and attempted to break it up. Multiple units from the Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office responded to assist the SRO with possible crowd control issues, a department spokesman said. Two students, 17-year-old Tariq Alfuquan Minter, and a 16-year-old whose name was not released, were charged with public disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
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The Children’s Museum of the Upstate will get the city’s help to bring in its next traveling exhibition. By a 4-2 vote, the Greenville City Council approved giving the museum $20,000 from its state accommodations tax contingency fund to help pay for bringing a “Science in Toyland” traveling exhibit. Council members David Sudduth and Susan Reynolds voted against the appropriation, while Amy Ryberg Doyle, a Children’s Museum board member, abstained from the vote. Sudduth said he voted against the appropriation because the museum did not apply for accommodations tax money and the $20,000 is four times the money the museum had received in previous years. Museum officials said the museum missed the application deadline because of a change in leadership. “Science in Toyland” is a traveling exhibit from the California ScienCenter in Los Angeles that focuses on the science involved in traditional toys such as tops, levers and pulleys. Museum officials said it would cost $70,000 to bring to the exhibition to Greenville. The museum has 18 permanent exhibits and one traveling exhibit. About 30,000 visitors are expected during the course of the “Science in Toyland” exhibition. Nearly one-third of the museum’s visitors come from a distance of more than 25 miles. The council’s accommodations tax contingency fund will have a remaining balance of $30,000. The Council approved spending $1,138 in grant funds for new and replacement equipment for the Piedmont Type II Regional Response Team. The Greenville City Fire Department was awarded a $25,000 grant from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division for the regional response team’s equipment cache. SLED notified the city it was increasing the grant $1,138. Council gave final approval to purchasing some property at 135 Cleveland St. for a no-build easement to be used for a wastewater system. The city will pay WWG LLC, Martha Ann Peden Arnold and Mary Catherine Peden $75,000 out of its Haynie-Sirrine Rehabilitation Project fund. The city gave final approval to the annexation of 1111 Woodruff Road, 1.28 acres at 1 Commercial Drive and 9.94 acres at the corner of East Bramlett Road and West Washington Street. Council also gave final approval for the Greenville City Fire Department to spend a $59,525 State Homeland Security grant on advanced chemical detection and identification equipment for the Greenville Regional Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Team. The next regular meeting of the Greenville City Council is Sept. 24 at 5:30 p.m. in Council Chambers on the 10th floor of City Hall. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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Steve Edwards is a national speaker and author who has spoken to and mentored thousands of people in audiences all over the country on how to take charge of their lives. Steve is best known for his appearances with Fox News host Glenn Beck as well as appearing on Good Morning America. Steve’s presentations and mentoring are known to be fun, yet hard hitting that help people become much more effective and efficient in their quest for success. $18 per seat, reserve yours now at GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
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Get a behind the scenes look at “The Business of Sports & Entertainment.”
Speak with representatives of large corporations to learn how to do business with them, including:
Fred Roger Newton, BI-LO Center - General Manager Craig D. Brown, Greenville Drive - President & Co-owner Richard A. Krezwick, New Jersey Devils - President David Wyatt, Wyatt Sports, LLC - President Megan Riegel, The Peace Center - President Douglas McGrath, Southern Hospitality Group Event Management, LLC - Principal
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- Liberty Mutual - T-Mobile - Recruiting Solutions - The Hobbs Group, PA - Clear Channel Communications
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• Gain direct face-to-face contact with business owners and decision makers • Reach a captive audience and generate NEW CUSTOMERS immediately • Brand your business • Introduce new products and services
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• Clemson University • BMW • USC Upstate • Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center
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Free registration. Advance registration required. For complete schedule & to reserve your seat now visit GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
WORKSHOPS A series of topical breakout sessions led by business experts, on topics including: • Creating a Must-See Event Every Time • Igniting the Entrepreneurial Spirit Coordinated by • Driving Business Results with a Daily Dashboard • 9 Essential Qualities of an Interculturally Effective Professional • Legal Strategies to Keep Your Business from Driving Into the Ditch • Personal Branding: What Does Corporate America Know That I Don’t Know? • Women & Power: What Does It Mean in 2012? • Inspire Customers through Engagement Marketing
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Register Now! The Upstate’s Largest Business Expo “3 Secrets to Crush the Competition” presented by Steve Edwards
Driving Business. Tuesday, Sept 25 • One Day Only 8am-7pm • TD Convention Center Limited Exhibit Space Still Available! Sign Up Today! Call 864-250-9713 Register Online Today For Workshops & Special Events
GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com Hosted by
Steve Edwards is a national speaker and author who has spoken to and mentored thousands of people in audiences all over the country on how to take charge of their lives. Steve is best known for his appearances with Fox News host Glenn Beck as well as appearing on Good Morning America. Steve’s presentations and mentoring are known to be fun, yet hard hitting that help people become much more effective and efficient in their quest for success. $18 per seat, reserve yours now at GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
PROFESSIONALS
BlueCross BlueShield of South Caralina is an indeprndent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
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Produced by
BIZMATCH (Almost Sold Out)
Get a behind the scenes look at “The Business of Sports & Entertainment.”
Speak with representatives of large corporations to learn how to do business with them, including:
Fred Roger Newton, BI-LO Center - General Manager Craig D. Brown, Greenville Drive - President & Co-owner Richard A. Krezwick, New Jersey Devils - President David Wyatt, Wyatt Sports, LLC - President Megan Riegel, The Peace Center - President Douglas McGrath, Southern Hospitality Group Event Management, LLC - Principal
• Fluor • Windstream • Milliken • Michelin • Greenville County
EXHIBITION FLOOR - Free Admission
Meet business leaders in a speed mentoring setting, including:
The place to showcase your company, distinguish it from the competition and generate new business. Join companies including:
• Sam Konduras, President - SK Strategies, LLC • Russell Stall, Exec. Director - Greenville Forward • John Castile, City Manager - City of Greenville • Elizabeth Lyons, Director of Sales & Marketing TD Convention Center • Luanne Runge, Attorney / Greenville Chamber Chair-Elect - Gallivan White & Boyd P.A. • Kim Mazur, Director - Lockheed Martin • Herb Johnson, Director of Community Relations Michelin North America, Inc • David Peirera, Group CFO - Fluor • Ava Smith, President - Flat Fee Recruiting & HR • Ben Haskew, President - The Greenville Chamber • Tim Justice, President - Rescom Construction And more!
- Liberty Mutual - T-Mobile - Recruiting Solutions - The Hobbs Group, PA - Clear Channel Communications
- SunTrust Bank - International Plastics - Cambridge Financial & Insurance Group - Greenville - Hospital Systems
- Windstream - Brown Mackie College - Labor Ready - Poppingtons Popcorn - Sprout Health Vending
• Gain direct face-to-face contact with business owners and decision makers • Reach a captive audience and generate NEW CUSTOMERS immediately • Brand your business • Introduce new products and services
Coordinated by Leverage and Development
• Clemson University • BMW • USC Upstate • Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center
SPEAKERS
Advance registration required. Reserve your seat now at GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
Advance registration required, the ticket price $30, or corporate table of 10 seats for $300. Reserve yours now at GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
MOMENTS WITH MENTORS
Free registration. Advance registration required. Reserve your seat now at GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
Sponsored by
EXPERTS EXPERTS LUNCHEON
Limited booth space still available. Reserve yours now at GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
MAXIMIZE BUSINESS
NETWORKING BREAKFAST
CLOSE DEALS
BUSINESS
Hosted By The Greenville Chamber
EXHIBITS
GREENVILLE CHAMBER
presents
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT SERIES Interactive workshops led by South Carolina business women, including: How Career Women Can Leverage Gender Trends in the Workplace Nika White, Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion - Greenville Chamber Entrepreneurial Readiness Learn the common traits of successful entrepreneurs Christie McConnell, Director - South Carolina Women’s Business Center
Free registration. Advance registration required. For complete schedule & to reserve your seat now visit GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
WORKSHOPS A series of topical breakout sessions led by business experts, on topics including: • Creating a Must-See Event Every Time • Igniting the Entrepreneurial Spirit Coordinated by • Driving Business Results with a Daily Dashboard • 9 Essential Qualities of an Interculturally Effective Professional • Legal Strategies to Keep Your Business from Driving Into the Ditch • Personal Branding: What Does Corporate America Know That I Don’t Know? • Women & Power: What Does It Mean in 2012? • Inspire Customers through Engagement Marketing
NETWORKING MUSIC & MINGLE
MENTORS
$15 per session, 4 for $50. Advance registration required. Reserve your seat now at GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
Cultivate business contacts and relax to the music of Mark Bryan of Hootie & the Blowfish. Mark Bryan is the founding member, songwriter and guitar player for the multi-platinum, Grammy Award winning Hootie & the Blowfish. Advance Registration required, ticket price is $10. Get yours now at GreenvilleBusinessExpo.com
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Noah Guthrie will be featured at Rock Out Hunger, a concert to benefit Loaves & Fishes, to be held, rain or shine, at the Greer City Park Amphitheater Friday, Sept. 28. Guthrie will hit the stage at 7 p.m. and tickets are $10. Larkin’s On The River will be providing food and beverages. The Farm at Rabon Creek presents the first annual Farm Fresh Antique & Artisan Fair on Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Farm owner Lisa Stamm and event coordinator Catherine Neal Sandifer have teamed up to create a way local and regional artists and antique dealers can showcase their talents to the Upstate. Farm Fresh is a juried event that has carefully selected over 65 vendors comprised of antique dealers, artists, live music, food vendors and more. Admission and parking to the event is free. The Farm at Rabon Creek is located 20 minutes south of Greenville in Fountain Inn. For more information, visit raboncreekfarmfair.com or pinterest.com/raboncreekfarm. Upstate South Carolina author Rick Veal will be signing copies of his debut paranormal romance novel, “The Master of Whitehall,” at Fiction Addiction on Sept. 29, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Personalized copies can be reserved by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com. The Boys Home of the South Bull Riding Invitational will be held Sept. 21-22 at the T. Ed Garrison Arena. All proceeds will go to the Boys Home of the South in Belton, S.C., a nonprofit residential group home dedicated to the care, education and nurturing of young men ages 6 to 21. The two-night event, presented by Brown Family Ministries and Thunder Run Ranch, features professional bull riders, live music, mutton bustin,’ high-speed barrel racing and clown acts. Special guest Rob Smets will be present to share his story. Tickets are $10 at the door, and kids 10 and under are admitted free. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the bullride will begin at 7:30 p.m. To learn more about the event, visit www.brownfamilyministries.org. Ugly Words, Greenville’s only writing center for kids and young adults, is hosting its first fall workshop on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10:30-noon at the Augusta Road Library. “ADMIT ONE: Writing Non-Lame College Admissions Essays,” open to ages 16-18, won’t guarantee college acceptance, but it will help students write more insightful, honest and non-lame personal essays. Registration is free, but required at www.uglywordsgreenville.bellstrike.com. On Saturday, Oct. 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the fourth annual Blessing of the Animals will be held at Holy Trinity Church. The church is located on the corner of Buncombe and Lloyd streets. The Blessing by Father Lawrence C. Holcombe is in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. Fiction Addiction hosts a free children’s storytime every Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. at 1175 Woods Crossing Road. “Little Nelly’s Big Book” by Pippa Goodhart will be featured Sept. 20. For more info, call 864-675-0540. St. Francis offers community education programs each month. The LifeWise Shutter Bugs Photography Exhibition will be held Sept. 27 at 2:30 p.m. in the Courtyard at St. Francis Eastside. Free line-dancing instruction is offered at the Temple of Israel, 400 Spring Forest Road. For those new to line-dancing, a
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Bestselling Southern author Ronda Rich will be discussing and signing her newest collection of stories, “There’s a Better Day A-Comin’,” at Fiction Addiction on Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 but may be redeemed for $5 off any merchandise purchase made that evening. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 864675-0540.
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Paris Mountain State Park will hold a nature hike at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22. Led by Interpretive Ranger Cathy Taylor, participants on the Mountain Creek trail will learn how to “read the woods” along this easy to moderate, 2.5-mile round trip trail. The three-hour program costs $5, payable at the fee booth instead of admission, and will start at Park Center. Registration is required. To register, call the office at 864-2445565 or email ctaylor@scprt.com. For more information, visit SouthCarolinaParks.com or the Friends of Paris Mountain website at www.pmspf.org. Tony Payne has joined the Upstate Division of the March of Dimes as executive director. Payne was formerly the director of development for the Ellen Hines Smith Girls’ Home. Prior to that, he was with Lexington Medical Center as the foundation’s development manager. He has held positions with the Spartanburg Regional Foundation, and the American Red Cross in Spartanburg. He has served in the United States Marine Corps. This notice was Payne previously printed with the incorrect photo. The Greenville Hospital System offers classes throughout the year to promote healthy living. Greenville Hospital System is offering free prostate screenings on Sept. 13 at North Greenville Hospital, Sept. 18 at Hillcrest Memorial Hospital and Sept. 25 at Greer Memorial Hospital. Men age 50 or older or those with a family history of the disease are encouraged to schedule an exam. Free; registration required. To register, call 1-877-GHS-INFO (447-4636) or visit ghs.org/360healthed. On Monday, Sept. 17 at 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., or 12:30 p.m., learn the heart-healthy benefits of specific foods and nutrients at the Greenville Hospital System Life Center. Free; registration required. To register, call 864-455-4010. For more programs, visit www.ghs.org/360healthed. The YMCA Teen Achievers program has added two new Greenville locations, expanding to six Greenville County locations for the 2012-2013 school year. Teen Achievers is a national program that prepares teens for college and the workforce through tutoring, mentoring and job shadowing. Locations include the Sterling Community Center, Anderson Road Library, Heritage Community, Augusta Road Library, YMCA Metro Office and Eastside Family YMCA. Admission is free and open to all. The Teen Takeover: Y Teen Achievers Kickoff takes place Sept. 15 from 6-10 p.m. at the Caine Halter Family Y. The kickoff features a pool party, DJ, live music showcase, basketball tournament, admissions reps from local colleges and more. Visit www.ymcagreenville.org/teen-achievers.php for more information, to download an application or to volunteer. If you are sponsoring a community event, we want to share your news. Submit entries to email: greenvillecommunity@greenvillejoural.com
Knights of Columbus Charity Golf Tournament Sunday, October 7 Presenting Sponsor 1pm shotgun start—Best Ball/Captain’s Choice The Preserve at Verdae, Greenville SC $100 per golfer/$400 per foursome includes: Greens fees, range balls, cart, lunch, beverages, gift bag, steak dinner, prizes. $15 per extra dinner guest
All proceeds go to The Barbara Stone Foundation in support of people with lifelong disabilities in Greenville County www.barbarastonefoundation.org Tax-deductible hole and prize sponsorships are also available For more information or to register, contact
James Jones 864-370-6774 • james.w.jones@ustrust.com This event has been organized by the Knights of Columbus, Prince of Peace Foothills Council 9184
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Thomas McAfee Funeral Homes will host its 11th annual grief seminar at the TD Convention Center in Greenville on Sept. 18-19. The seminar is a public outreach project designed to provide a resource for those experiencing grief in their personal and professional lives. Dr. Robert Neimeyer and Dr. Janice Nadeau will speak at the two-day event. Register for the seminar at 864-235-8330 or online at www.thomasmcafee.com.
Miracle Hill Ministries recently received a gift of $350 from Holy Trinity Anglican Church. Funds were raised through a plant sale. Pictured, from left, Brother James Blackwell, resident monk; Leigh Nalley, St. Martha’s Guild; Father Lawrence Holcombe, parish priest; Frankie W. Powell, vice president of development at Miracle Hill; Patricia Broadley-Steves, fundraising; and Roger Steves, vestry secretary and master gardener.
A NAMI support group meets at First Presbyterian Church, 200 West Washington St., Greenville, twice each month. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is an organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. The church hosts a community NAMI Support Group that meets every second and fourth Wednesday evening, 6:30–8:30 p.m. in Room 254. For details, visit www.NAMI.org or call 864-672-0327. Tony Smith was awarded the Top Fundraiser Award by the March of Dimes for his fundraising efforts for March for Babies 2012 in Greenville. Raising more than $11,000, Smith is the top fundraiser in the state. On Sept. 15, at 8 p.m., “Dough for Mo” will take place at The Handlebar. Planned in honor of Monique Gesualdi, a recent Furman graduate and Greenville resident, “Dough for Mo” will bring Smith together area musical talent for a benefit concert. Gesualdi was a seemingly healthy 27-year-old when she was diagnosed with stage-4 liver failure, celiac disease, pulmonary edema, colitis and Factor V Leiden, a disease increasing her chances of developing abnormal blood clots. She was added to the transplant waiting list and a week later while in the ICU she successfully underwent transplant surgery. Following complications and two brain surgeries needed to alleviate the buildup of toxins, she has started her physical recovery. All proceeds from the $10 cover will go to the National Foundation for Transplants in honor of Gesualdi. Artists and bands performing include Taylor Moore and the Dirty Deacons, Jeff Santiago Y Los Gatos Negros, The Swinging Richards and My Beating Heart. On Sunday, Sept. 16, Rev. Dr. Reggie McNeal will be the guest speaker during morning services of the annual Missions Conference at First Presbyterian Church. Dr. McNeal is author of the book “Missional Renaissance,” which challenges churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. Worship services are held at 8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. in the sanctuary and 9:40 a.m. in Fellowship Hall, 200 West Washington St. For more information, visit FirstPres- McNeal greenville.org.
On Sunday, Sept. 16, at 5 p.m., Tabernacle Baptist Church, 400 S. Hudson St., will host a community and church benefit in tribute and aid of human rights organizer Efia Nwangaza, founder of the Malcolm X Center and WMXP-FM Community Radio. The tribute will feature gospel music, praise dance, acknowledgment of her community service and a “Christian-Giving March of Presentations.” Greenville’s Mast General Store is celebrating Friends’ Day in honor of Upstate Forever’s Reedy River Greenway Project on Saturday, Sept. 15. Ten percent of the store’s sales on Friends’ Day will go to this organization. Representatives from Upstate Forever will be on hand. For more information on Upstate Forever, visit www.upstateforever.org and for more information about Friends’ Day, visit www.mastgeneralstore.com. The Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts will host a golf tournament to raise money for arts education programs and scholarships on Wednesday, Sept. 26, noon to 6 p.m., at Carolina Springs Golf Club. Due the generosity of donors and sponsors, 100 percent of the proceeds will benefit the center. After the tournament, players can enjoy a Lowcountry shrimp boil. For more information, call 864409-1050 or visit www.fountaininn.org. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate was recently awarded a $12,164 grant from BI-LO Charities at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Greenville. These funds were part of $5.1 million raised in the 2012 BI-LO Charity golf tournament. Dozens of Upstate South Carolina charities were awarded a total of $1.3 million from BI-LO Charities. Send us your announcement. Email: greenvillecommunity@greenvillejournal.com
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Eighteen months ago, Rosenfeld Einstein received a phone call much like so many others it had received over the years. The answer, as usual, was, “No, we are not interested in selling or merging. Thank you for calling. Goodbye.” An investment bank in New York wanted to introduce the family that has owned the Greenville insurance agency for 79 years to a new approach by an interested party. “They were just another person calling us on the phone,” said Howard Einstein, one of three family principals. “It was interesting, but they would not tell us what the model was.” But the bank kept calling back, and eventually, Rosenfeld Einstein
The Rosenfeld Einstein leadership team, from left: Dan Einstein, president of the property and casualty division; Nathan Einstein, chairman; and Howard Einstein, president of the benefits division.
BI-LO Charities, which has raised more than $63 million with its Charity Classic golf tournament, is being merged with the charity of Winn-Dixie, the Florida-based supermarket BI-LO acquired, the company confirmed. It is expected, but could not be confirmed at press time, that the BI-LO Foundation will be disbanded and administration of the combined charity will move to Jacksonville, Fla., where the merged company is headquartered. The company said the 30th anniversary BI-LO Classic will be held in the Upstate next year as scheduled, but under the combined foundation’s administration. “Going forward as one foundation, there will be one annual charity golf tournament for the company’s suppliers and vendors beginning in 2013,” the company told the Journal. According to BI-LO, “the inaugural tournament” of the combined charity will be in Greenville next June, but “the tournament location may alternate between Greenville and Jacksonville in future years.” More specific plans “will follow.” Winn-Dixie is in the third year of BI-LO continued on PAGE 37
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Sempra U.S. Gas & Power has established a new regional headquarters in downtown Greenville that is expected to employ 40 people, the company said. The company will be located at 201 RiverPlace. Sempra, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy of San Diego, said the office “will support existing natural gas operations, as well as lead new business development throughout the Southeast region with a focus on energy infrastructure and services.” Sempra operates two natural gas distribution utilities in Alabama and Mississippi and has natural gas pipelines and underground gas storage throughout the Gulf Coast. It has more than 2,100 megawatts of natural gas, solar and wind generation operating or under construction in the United States. It is in the process of getting permits for a liquefaction plant in Louisiana with an export capability of 1.7 billion cubic feet per day. “Basing our natural gas operations in Greenville brings us closer to our existing customers and positions the company to take better advantage of the evolving market opportunities in the region,” said Mike Gallagher, regional president. The Greenville Area Development Corp. assisted in facilitating Sempra’s location in Greenville. “This is a progressive and respected company known across America for its innovation and technology,” said Christ Riley, GADC chairman. Greenville Mayor Knox White said Sempra’s decision to locate in downtown Greenville “proves that quality companies will seek out the right environment in which to grow and thrive.” Gov. Nikki Haley and Commerce Secretary Bobby Hitt also cheered the company’s decision to locate in Greenville. Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.
said yes. So it was that one of Greenville’s oldest continuously operated family businesses was acquired by the Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA), a subsidiary of global insurance broker Marsh Inc., which is a division of the $11 billion professional services conglomerate Marsh McLennan. The deal was announced Monday. Terms were not disclosed. Yes, Einstein told the Journal, the sale ends three generations of family ownership, and that outcome was the main – and only – argument against the sale. But he said the new approach MMA offered that the other suitors did not was this: “We get to keep all of our people. We get to keep our culture. We still get to run the business.” Rosenfeld Einstein will benefit from resources MMA offers to keep pace with a rapidly changing market ushered in by the Affordable Health Care Act, Einstein said. He is convinced changes brought about by the act will survive in whole or, if it is repealed, in part. MMA’s global resources also will benefit Rosenfeld Einstein’s growing list of foreign companies with operations in the Upstate and elsewhere in South Carolina, he said. “If a client doesn’t need the resources we have access to, then nothing changes. If they do, we can bring them to the table and meet them. Be a better partner. This is really what this is all about.” Serious negotiations did not begin until six months ago, the 48-year-old Einstein said. In the end, he, his father Nathan, 76, and his brother Daniel, 51, had to come to grips with “whether we can get over emotionally doing this deal. That was the only con.” He said the advantages for the business, employees and clients “kept growing and growing and growing. We have access to global markets. With health care reform,
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we get all their tools and resources with the changes that are coming.” What MMA gets is its first foothold in South Carolina with one of the state’s largest insurance agencies. Created in 2008, MMA is acquiring independent agencies in middle markets where the company has not had a presence. Rosenfeld Einstein is MMA’s 21st acquisition. “As a well-managed and growing enterprise with a strong platform of property/casualty and employee benefits and a reputation for service excellence, Rosenfeld Einstein is a perfect fit to join MMA in the mid-Atlantic,” said Thomas R. Brown, a senior MMA executive, in a statement. David Eslick, chairman and CEO of MMA, was instrumental in putting the deal together. He came to Greenville early in the negotiations to assure the Einsteins they would retain control under the MMA umbrella, Howard Einstein said. “That’s what is unique about it. They recognize that a lot of our clients don’t know who Marsh & McLennan is. We get to use their brand if we need it, but the reality is people know who we are, and we get to keep all of our people and all of our resources,” he said. “That is not typically what happens in a merger and acquisition.” MMA made sure the family stayed: “The way they structured it for us, it is too lucrative to leave,” Einstein said. As an indication of the priority MMA put on acquiring Rosenfeld Einstein, all MMA representatives traveled from their White Plains, N.Y., headquarters
to Greenville for negotiations. “I didn’t need to go” to White Plains, said Howard. “They want to be part of this community; I don’t want to be part of theirs.” When the Einsteins brought employees together to tell them about the deal, he said, their first concern was losing the company’s family culture. Before they agreed to the transaction, the Einsteins talked to five firms already acquired by MMA to determine if MMA’s model worked as advertised. “One thing that was common was all those cultures remained the same,” Einstein said. “What they do and how they manage their people.” Rosenfeld Einstein’s roots date to 1933 when William Rosenfeld started an insurance agency in Asheville, N.C., moving to Greenville five years later. His son-in-law Nathan Einstein joined the company in 1958, became president in 1974, and is now the chairman. Howard Einstein now holds the title of president of the benefits division. Daniel Einstein is president of the property and casualty division, a $9 million business. The hierarchal titles at Rosenfeld Einstein are an irrelevant formality, with the three family members equal partners within a flat organizational structure, Howard Einstein said. “Our receptionist is just as important as my father,” he said. “I don’t have a title on my card; never have and don’t want one. My dad doesn’t have one either.” No one has a designated parking place, everyone eats in the same lunchroom and there are no executive bathrooms, he said. “That’s our culture, and this is our family. It is important that we treat people with dignity. We don’t have a lot of turnover.” The company has 50 to 55 employees. Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.
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holding a charity golf tournament. The 2012 Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open takes place Oct. 15-21, 2012. It is a stop on the PGA’s “satellite” minor league tour sponsored by Nationwide Insurance. The tournament raised $1.6 million in its inaugural event in 2010 and $1.8 million last year. The more-established BI-LO Charity Classic raised $5.1 million this year and has surpassed more than $63 million in donations since it began in 1984. The proceeds are distributed to charities in the four states where BI-LO has stores: South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. The BI-LO Foundation gave more than $1.3 million in grants to 85 Upstate charities this year. The company said that combining the separate charities as the BI-LO/WinnDixie Foundation “will allow the company to combine best practices from both charitable entities and will enable it to make a greater impact locally.” Combining the charities minimizes overhead costs and maximizes “the dollars donated back to the charitable organizations throughout the united footprint, including here in the Upstate,” according to the company. The goal of the combined charity is to maintain similar levels of giving “to each of its communities.” Last December, Lone Star Funds, the Texas private equity firm that owns BI-LO, announced an agreement to buy WinnDixie, a larger supermarket chain, for $590 million. After closing on March 12, the company said headquarters would be in Jacksonville, where WinnDixie had excess capacity and a larger infrastructure. Almost all of BI-LO’s operational di-
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Legal Climate Gets Low Mark
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranks South Carolina 39th in its annual index of the legal system’s fairness to business. The chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform, which pushes for business-friendly legal changes across the country, noted no change in South Carolina’s environment since its last ranking in 2010. But it records improvement from 2008, when the chamber said the state had the 43rd worst legal climate. The 2012 index was released this week. California, Illinois and West Virginia have “some of the worst legal climates” and Delaware has the best, the chamber said. In 2011, the S.C. Legislature passed and Gov. Nikki Haley signed changes in the state’s civil litigation laws, putting a cap of $500,000 on punitive damages or three times compensatory damages. The law permits some exceptions. If a defendant’s actions constituted a felony, the punitive-damage cap rises to $2 million. If a defendant was under the influence of alcohol or drugs in committing the wrongful act, there is no cap. The tort law changes went into effect in January.
New Lab Tests Car Interiors
Clemson University officially opened a new laboratory Tuesday at its International Center for Automotive Research to test interior components built by Tier 1 suppliers to automakers. The new lab, which began operation in May, includes solar simulation and environmental, climate and vibration testing. Clemson built the lab at a cost of $2.2 million. “Some of the infrastructure in the lab will be the only equipment of its kind in the
United States, and Upstate automaker BMW Manufacturing Co. will accredit the laboratory for us by its suppliers,” CU-ICAR said. “The Component Testing Laboratory is a response to the industry’s need for local testing of interior components,” said Clemson President James F. Barker at the lab’s ceremonial opening. Being able to test interior components locally rather than having to send them to their own company facilities will save automakers “time and money” by faster delivery of innovations to the marketplace, said John Kelly, Clemson’s vice president for economic development.
InnoVision Award Finalists
The InnoVision advisory board has announced finalists for the 2012 InnoVision Awards. Finalists for technology development are Milliken of Spartanburg, Proterra of Greenville and Sealed Air Corp., which is based in New Jersey but has facilities in Duncan and Simpsonville. Milliken and Sealed Air also are finalists for technology application. Techtronics Industries, which has a plant in Anderson, is the third finalist. Clemson University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and its Social Media Listening Center are finalists in innovation in education. CardioMed, AssureFit, VidiStar and Zike are small-enterprise finalists. Finalists in sustainability are Climax Global Energy of Barnwell County, J.B. Martin Co. of Leesville, RockinBoat (Teknikem) of Laurens and The Technology Consortium of Greenville. Engenius and the Greenville County Library System are finalists for community service. Winners will be announced Nov. 7 at the 2012 InnoVision Awards Dinner.
New Course Joins BMW Classic
The Reserve at Lake Keowee’s 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course has been added to the rotation for the 2013 BMW Charity Pro-Am May 14-19. The 7,112-yard course replaces The Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg, which has been on the rotation since 2008, and joins the Thornblade Club and the Greenville Country Club’s Chanticleer in the rotation. “The BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corp. has contributed greatly to the Upstate over the last 12 years, and The Reserve community and our members are delighted to join such a worthy cause,” said Chuck Pigg, community manager for The Reserve at Lake Keowee. The BMW Charity Pro-Am has raised $9.5 million for more than 150 charities in the Upstate since 2001.
Player Resumes Course Construction
Construction has resumed on the Gary Player golf course at The Cliffs at Mountain Park, where work was suspended when The Cliffs ran out of money. Construction was resumed as The Cliffs Club and Hospitality Group, which owned golf courses, clubhouses and other lifestyle amenities, came out of bankruptcy under the ownership of Silver Sun Partners. “I have a tremendous amount of optimism for the future of The Cliffs under the new ownership, especially our project at Mountain Park that will be open for play in the fall of next year,” Gary Player said in a statement. Scott Ferrell, president of Gary Player Design, said close attention was paid to ensure the Mountain Park course has firm fairways, uses less water and fertilizer and takes “full advantage of the natural characteristics of the land.” Player’s Black Knight International headquarters are adjacent to the course, as
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Greenville Housing Market Rising
The Greater Greenville area is the only South Carolina market listed on the National Association of Home Builders’ list of metro markets showing an improving housing market. The NAHB’s First American Improving Markets Index “identifies metropolitan areas that have shown improvement from their respective troughs in housing permits, employment and house prices for at least six consecutive months.” The number of markets showing those improvements rose from 80 in August to 99 in September, the NAHB said. In the metropolitan statistical area that includes Greenville, Pickens and Laurens counties, building permits are up 3 percent since Sept. 30. 2010; house prices are up 1.9 percent from Dec. 31, 2010; and employment is up 3.6 percent since Sept. 30, 2009. David Crowe, chief economist of NAHB, said more people are considering newhome purchases, but “overly tight lending conditions for builders and buyers continue to slow this process considerably.”
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“Beauty Shop.” Nothing more needed to be said when answering the phone at Northgate Beauty Shop on a recent Friday afternoon. The shop is one of four businesses tucked away in the modest Northgate shopping center on North Main Street, a neighborhood mainstay since at least the 1930s. The beauty shop’s unpretentious phone greeting perfectly reflects the decor and atmosphere in the nearly 90-year-old business. Its brevity, however, does not. Owner Debbie Holcomb and her staff can talk – or mostly joke – nonstop about hair, romances, remodeling, deaths and the occasional crime-busting that goes on. The salon is not untypical, but its long history here is unique. In 1957, sisters Mary and Sarah Seizmore moved their hairstyling business to the Northgate shopping plaza from their home in American Spring Mill Village, where their father was a supervisor. Holcomb worked for them and took over after Sarah, who continued the business at Northgate, became ill. Today, Holcomb and eight other male and female stylists each see about 15 customers a day. They’ll even pick them up at home if needed. Stylist Noel Masters is an outspoken
Talking after lunch at the Northgate Soda Shop were, from left, Don Belue, Bob Parker, soda shop co-owner Ron Bell, and Jim Hardwick.
20-something who has vowed to make the shop more hip since she began working there in 2005. Holcomb said she never actually hired Masters. She only discovered Masters’ plan to work there when Masters handed her a business card that named Northgate Beauty Shop as her place of employment. The move wasn’t too brazen, since Masters had hung around the shop since childhood. She said she turned down offers at “swanky” salons after cosmetology school in favor of the homey air at the Beauty Shop, and teased about about taking over one day. Receptionist Nancy Gilstrap’s tenure has been similarly informal. She lived around the corner, taking care of Holcomb’s children while she ran her shop. She stayed around doing chores at the shop once the children were grown. Gilstrap finally got an official job when her predecessor died in 2003, though she said in jest that Holcomb “takes more out of my checks than I tell her to.” It was one of the tamer quips uttered by the (mostly) women that day; many others remain inside the Beauty Shop and out of print, even though they were delivered with pride and without a hint of embarrassment. Two doors down, the Northgate Soda Shop is an old-fashioned joint and a deliberate repository of local history. Photographs of Greenville from the early 20th century line waist-high walls that make nooks for cozy seating. One can have a burger and shake among images of long-gone mills, ancillary police brigades, theaters and streetscapes. Pieces of brick and mortar from buildings such as Textile Hall and Stone School auditorium sit atop one wall like modern art. The collection, which covers nearly every surface where food is not prepared
or served, started in the home of former owner Jim DeYoung. He owned the Soda Shop from 1965 to 2006. Having grown up a few blocks south of it, he was eager to take over the neighborhood spot when given the chance at age 25. The crowd back then was not too different from today, said DeYoung. City employees, young people, retired folks and workers of all sorts frequent the place. Before television became more popular in the late 1970s and early ’80s and more teens had cars, they would hang out at the shop until their curfews. As the neighborhood composition changed and street culture dwindled, DeYoung said it was friends from other parts of town whom he knew through school and 21 years as a reserve police officer that kept the business going. From there, word-of-mouth, loyalty and “a good hot dog” helped see the business through several recessions. That loyalty is returned. When longtime regulars pass away, gold-colored, embossed plaques with their names are affixed to a table. There seemed to be as many tables with such plaques as without. (Elvis Presley has one at the end of the bar, though DeYoung insists he is not really dead.) Iris and Ren Bell bought the shop from DeYoung in 2006, changing little about the place. They added things like karaoke and increased focus on “The Other Side,” the afterhours beer and wine part of the Soda Shop. DeYoung still visits the shop for a couple of hours every morning to visit with half a dozen regulars. He now lives a few blocks north of the shop and, in a way, is still one of the neighborhood kids just hanging out. Contact Jennifer Oladipo at joladipo@greenvillejournal.com.
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New owners bring Cliffs back from the abyss By DICK HUGHES | senior business writer
a lot of land at High Carolina, the group is focusing on selling lots and improving the communities in the seven communities where it has critical mass of homeowners and club members, 2,500 in total. Two lots that were sold within the last two weeks closed Wednesday, and he said the positive response of existing and potential property owners to seeing the financial uncertainty removed will encourage sales. “There are a lot of people sitting on the fence,” he said. “A lot of our property owners wanted to see what happened before they invited their friends back.” About 80 houses are currently under construction in the communities, short spans of roads are being finished in the communities of Mountain Park and Walnut Cove and, most significantly of all, work on the Gary Player golf course at Mountain Park has resumed. The course is expected to be ready for play by Sept. 1, 2013, and Johnston and Sezna are convinced it “will be a great draw for us” and generate substantial buzz in the golf community that The Cliffs are back. “The fact that we are opening a new golf course is going to be a huge story, and on top of that, it is a Gary Player golf course that I believe will be on one of the top 100
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Under new ownership, the exclusive Cliffs Communities is back in business with vigor following a financial collapse and bankruptcy that halted development and limited lifestyle amenities for the homeowners. “We’ve primed the pump to fire up the employees and the members to get back into why they are there,” said Davis Sezna, chief executive of the Cliffs Club Partners that manages the clubhouses, golf courses and other lifestyle amenities. Sezna and Brett Johnston, CEO of Cliffs Land Partners, talked about plans for breathing new life into the eight exclusive golf communities located in the Blue Ridge Mountains and foothill lakesides between Greenville and Asheville, N.C. They were interviewed at the new but unfinished corporate and marketing office on Main Street in downtown Greenville, which has become the hub for the newly reorganized Cliffs ownership and management. “We think the city of Greenville is an incredible resource,” said Johnston. “When people buy a second home, the men like to play golf and the women especially want to know there’s a place they can go
to have a nice meal, to see a show, to see art. Greenville offers that.” Johnston said the Greenville facility was designed “to use this not only as an office for the land side but also for the club side, a place where you can do wine and cheese tastings and, too, a drop-off place so people can go to the Peace Center.” The Greenville facility adds a “city club” to the “country club” Cliffs residents have in their mountain and lakeside home communities. They said Greenville is an ideal place to start potential customers who fly into the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport. Johnston said interest in purchasing lots in The Cliffs has picked up since The Cliffs Clubs & Hospitality Group (Clubco), which owned club houses, golf courses and other amenities in seven of the eight Cliffs Communities, came out of bankruptcy two weeks ago. Not included in Clubco’s bankruptcy was High Carolina, near Asheville, the last of the communities started by the prior owner, Jim Anthony, where very little infrastructure has been completed. The land intended for the Tiger Woods golf course there was not in Clubco’s bankruptcy. Johnston said while the partnership owns
Brett Johnston, CEO of Cliffs Land Partners, left, and Davis Sezna, CEO of Cliffs Club Partners.
in the country in the near future.” Sezna and Johnston said they could not be more grateful for the cooperation and patience of the property owners during the bankruptcy proceedings. “We have so many nice people from all over who invested in the Cliffs for lifestyle, and when you walk about different communities now, you see smiles again on their faces and not concern,” Sezna said. “They are actually talking about yoga, golf, hiking and bird-watching and not feeling compelled to create committees on the bad stuff. People are happy to be back to what they originally came here for.” Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.
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mance and communication skills, organizers say. Immediate areas of focus will include supporting the Paycheck Fairness Act and educating women about equal pay, diversity and worklife balance. The group also plans to undertake targeted research on subpopulations such as women veterans, young careerists and women in the green economy. There are six other BPW chapters in South Carolina. The Greenville chapter will meet Sept. 20 and monthly thereafter for workshops and networking. Call Greenville president Maria Meinke at 864-8713314 for more information or email Maria@cossban.com. Contact Jennifer Oladipo at joladipo@greenvillejournal.com.
Journal Sketchbook ‘Simply Sinatra’ singer does it his way By Cindy Landrum | staff
Steve Lippia says he is not a Frank Sinatra impersonator. He is an experienced Las Vegas nightclub singer who performs classic tunes to honor Sinatra and other legendary musicians. “Frank Sinatra’s songbook is really indistinguishable from the great American songbook,” Lippia said. “He was a powerful influence, such a force that he’s considered a genre itself. This is not an effort to be him.” The Connecticut-born singer brings his “Simply Sinatra” show to the Fountain Inn Center for the Visual and Performing Arts on Saturday. He’ll be back in Greenville to perform selections from his show “A Simply Sinatra Christmas” during the Greenville Symphony Orchestra’s Holiday at Peace show
Dec. 21 through Dec. 23. Lippia credits his love of the great American songbook and big band music to hearing his mother, a former professional singer, sing around the house during his childhood. “That music was always in the background,” he said. Lippia sang at church and in a rock band, but said he really got into music after he auditioned for a variety show at his high school. He sang a Sinatra song, “It Was a Very Good Year,” and his performance got a rave review in the newspaper. Lippia began working for the Bobby Kay Orchestra after high school, first as a roadie more than a singer, a gig he got by going through the Yellow Pages and calling big bands, asking for a chance. Lippia eventually stopped singing, moved to Florida and started a conLippia continued on page 44
These mountain musicians aren’t just fiddlin’ around Hagood Mill hosts South Carolina State Fiddling Championship By Cindy Landrum | staff
Bands and fiddlers had to be imported from western North Carolina in order for the Hagood Mill to have a full slate of musicians for its first old-time music festival 16 years ago. Times have changed. On Saturday, Hagood Mill will host the South Carolina State Fiddling Championship as a part of its 16th annual Ole Time Fiddlin’ Convention. “Old-time music wasn’t being appreciated as much back
then,” said Dean Watson, a fiddler and one of the organizers of the first Hagood Mill fiddling convention. “But there were only a couple of old-time fiddlers in the Upstate. I think we’ve restored interest in oldtime music.” The South enjoys a rich traditional musical heritage, and the Upstate has been a hotbed of tradition. One of the last of the official old-time fiddling competitions in the Upstate was held in 1924 at Tillman Hall on the campus of what was then
known as Clemson College, Watson said. Many non-musicians equate bluegrass music with old-time music, Watson said. But it’s not the same. “Bluegrass is older than pop music, but it didn’t get its start until the 1930s and 1940s,” Watson said. “Old-time music is pre-Civil War to 1930.” The main difference between bluegrass and old-time music is the way the banjo and fiddle are played, he said. Bluegrass banjo players use the three-finger roll popular-
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ized by Earl Scruggs. Old-time banjo players use the claw hammer, a high rhythm style, Watson said. Old-time fiddle players use a shuffle bow style. “They both have a distinc-
tively different sound,” Watson said. “At MerleFest, the largest on the East Coast, the music is so differentiated that they have a different stage for fiddling continued on page 44
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each. Old-time music is more of a Blue Ridge Mountains type of music.” That makes sense, since the mill is located about 100 yards up the Twelve Mile River, marking the beginning of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Dark Corner area of Greenville, Pickens and Oconee counties. Although the competition doesn’t begin until Saturday at 10:30 a.m., musicians will begin arriving Friday and will participate in a “Musicians’ Gathering” on Friday night beginning at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, awards and cash prizes will be given to the top three performers in each of the following categories: string band, guitar, “wildcat” open (anything musical), junior fiddle, junior open and fiddle. The winner of the fiddle competition will be named the 2012 South Carolina State Fiddling Champion. On Saturday, J.C. Owens, who was one of the last winners of the South Carolina State Fiddling Championships in the early 1960s when it was held at Greenville Memorial Auditorium, will perform at 10:40 a.m. The guitar competition begins at 11 a.m. on the main stage. At the same time, the junior open will be held on the stage behind the rock art building.
So you know: What: South Carolina State Fiddling Championship at the 16th Annual Ole Time Fiddlin’ Convention Where: Hagood Mill, 138 Hagood Mill Road, Pickens When: Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information: 864-898-3963
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At 11:45 a.m., the banjo competition will be held on the main stage, while the wildcat open adult competition will be held on the second stage. At noon, the state Legislature resolution honoring the Pickens County Cultural Commission for recreating the South Carolina State Fiddling Championship will be presented. Competition gets going again at 12:30 p.m. with the string band competition on the main stage and the junior fiddle competition on the second stage. At 2 p.m., the adult fiddle competition will be held on the main stage. The second stage will feature an open stage for youngsters and the Pickens High School Bluegrass Band.
From 3:30 to 5 p.m., playoffs between the top three guitar, banjo, wildcat open, fiddler and string band entries will be held. The schedule is subject to change based on the number of registered competitors. The Hagood Mill is an 1845 waterpowered gristmill that will be running throughout the day. Fresh stone-ground cornmeal, grits and wheat flour will be available for purchase. Hagood Mill also holds a monthly Third Saturday event. Hagood Mill is three miles north of Pickens off U.S. Highway 178 at 138 Hagood Mill Road.
struction business. When the singing bug bit again, he tried a proven method to find a band – pull out the Yellow Pages and start dialing. But this time, unbeknownst to Lippia, he would get his big break. A friend of his father’s worked for the William Morris Talent Agency and passed a demo recording to Frank Sinatra Jr.’s manager. The tape eventually got into the hands of Vinnie Falcone, Sinatra’s music director and pianist. A year later, Lippia was headlining shows at the Rio in Las Vegas. “In this business, you need a break, actually several breaks, to make it,” Lippia said. “I got those breaks.” Lippia, who is quick to point out he does a lot of music other than Sinatra tunes, performs about 100 shows a year, about a third of them with symphony orchestras. Lippia admits his voice is better suited for America’s great songbook – the tunes Ol’ Blue Eyes made famous. “My voice is naturally there,” he said. “I’m an Italian kid from the Northeast. Sometimes people sound alike. I’m not trying to imitate him. I’m not. I’m doing my own thing.”
Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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So you know: What: “Simply Sinatra” Who: Steve Lippia When: Sept. 15, 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Where: Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 315 N. Main St., Fountain Inn Tickets: $18 and $20 Information: 864-409-1050
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The Carolina Ballet Theater performs “Ghosts,” a ballet inspired by Michael Jackson’s short film of the same name.
An anniversary thriller CBT commemorates 40th season with Michael Jackson-inspired ‘Ghosts’ By Shelby livingston | contributor
After 40 grueling years of daily classical training and countless performances, the Carolina Ballet Theater is ready to have some fun. CBT celebrates its 40th anniversary season beginning Oct. 26 with “Ghosts,” a one-night, Michael Jackson-inspired stage performance, complete with the quintessential “Thriller” music and dance. Following the Peace Center performance is a festive Halloween party for all theatergoers. “Ghosts” is inspired by the King of Pop’s short film by the same name. Hernan Justo, CBT’s artistic director, and Francesca Genovese, CBT’s resident choreographer, began with the film’s basic premise, added a bit of Michael Jackson’s choreography and created an original story they are sure will thrill and spook adults and children alike. Justo, who has been artistic director since 2000, called “Ghosts” “a huge spectacle with a lot of dancing.” “It’s extremely entertaining, especially because we use all kinds of special effects like smoke, explosions, strobe lights and black lights,” he said. But don’t think CBT abandoned its classical roots and en pointe techniques. “I think we broke the cliche about Michael Jackson because our dancers are so well trained – you can see the sophistication,” Justo said. “It is not exactly how you would see the ‘Thriller’ video.” The performance-party combination is the first in CBT’s history and acts as the fundraiser for the fall season. Jamie Prince, co-chair of “Ghosts,” said fundraising is vital to the ballet company. “Ticket sales from stage performances at the Peace Center allow us to do a lot,” he said, “but our staple and
our core is only made possible through donations from people as well as businesses.” CBT is the Upstate’s only resident ballet theater, meaning the dancers are on a full-time payroll with health benefits. Justo said the ballet company has “nine professional ballet dancers. This is their job. They wake up in the morning and as anybody would go to the office, they come to the studio.” The entire company has one goal in mind: to entertain. “Ghosts” will be “a crowd pleaser” intended to help the audience “get out of reality,” Justo said. “We are a company committed to entertaining our audience,” he said. “Our audience is our biggest concern. I want you to leave the place saying ‘I had so much fun. I didn’t expect that.’” The 40th anniversary season of CBT is poised to provide audiences with original, distinctive performances unavailable elsewhere, he said. “In Greenville, we have a very good and unique company. The things we do here you can’t see any other place. We go from ballet to [Michael Jackson performances]; contemporary works of great choreographers to traditional ballet. We do shows for families, shows for kids, shows for adults, shows to entertain people.” “Ghosts” will be performed at the Gunter Theater at the Peace Center for Performing Arts Friday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. The after-party will be held from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 each. Tickets for hosts will be $100 per individual and hosts’ names will be printed on the invitation. The deadline to become a host is Sept. 15. All tickets can be purchased at www. carolinaballet.org. Contact Shelby Livingston at slivingston@greenvillejournal.com.
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Best bets for local live music Here are some sure-fire musical bets around the Upstate over the next couple of months. 9/21, The Handlebar: JIMMY HERRING Renowned guitarist has played for Widespread Panic, in addition to appearances with Bela Fleck and jazz saxophonist Bill Evans. Tickets: $20. Call 864-233-6173 or go to www. handlebar-online.com.
9/29, Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium: 1ST ANNUAL BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL This multi-band beach music blowout features the Chairmen of the Board, Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs and more. Tickets: $35-$55. Call 864-596-3910 or go to www.crowdpleaser.com. 10/12, Peace Center: GREGG ALLMAN The legendary frontman for the Allman Bros. Band brings his solo group to Greenville. Tickets: $45-$65. Call 864-467-3000 or go to www.peacecenter.org. 10/12, The Handlebar: THE MELVINS Proto-grunge band (and favorite of the late Kurt Cobain) hit the Upstate as part of their “51 Shows In 51 Days” tour. Tickets: $15. Call 864-233-6173 or go to www.handlebaronline.com. 10/18, BI-LO Center: RASCAL FLATTS The red-hot country group returns to Greenville. Tickets: $29.50-$69.50. Call 864241-3800 or go to www.bilocenter.com. 10/18, The Handlebar: TIM O’BRIEN The bluegrass multi-instrumental whiz returns to The Handlebar after a long absence. Tickets: $20. Call 864-233-6173 or go to www. handlebar-online.com. 11/8, BI-LO Center: THE WHO The classic rock legends are back together and touring for the first time in five years, playing their classic album “Quadrophenia” in its entirety. Tickets: $39.50-$129.50. Call 864241-3800 or go to www.bilocenter.com.
Legendary songwriter tours with stripped-down roadshow and 40 years of stories By vincent harris | contributor
The Indianapolis-born John Hiatt has been among America’s premier songwriters for more than four decades, and legendary performers have cherry-picked his catalog for nearly that long. Bonnie Raitt scored one of her biggest hits with a Hiatt tune, “Thing Called Love,” B.B. King and Eric Clapton took “Riding With the King” to the top of the charts, and Roseanne Cash had a Top 20 country hit with “The Way We Make a Broken Heart.” In fact, over the years, Hiatt’s songs have been covered by everyone from Willie Nelson to Iggy Pop. In that time, Hiatt has developed onstage from a shy, usually seated singersongwriter to one of the most enjoyable live performers of his generation, eschewing set lists, laughing at his mistakes and spinning meandering, hilarious tales about his life both on the road and at home. Hiatt is bringing that lovable roadshow to Greenville’s Handlebar Listening Room on Thursday, Sept. 20, along with a stripped-down three-piece band called The Combo. Hiatt’s previous Handlebar show, a solo acoustic date in 2005, was a memorable one for Handlebar co-owner John Jeter, and he’s excited about the return engagement. “The fact that John Hiatt wants to play here again is pretty mind-blowing, honestly,” Jeter said. “I mean, he’s played the Peace Center, Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium, huge rooms, with Lyle Lovett and lots of other big names. It’s amazing that he’s coming back here; it feels pretty darn good.” After moving to Nashville in the early
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“Pink Bedroom,” “Radio Girl,” “Washable Ink” and “It Hasn’t Happened Yet.” After getting clean, getting married and getting dropped by Geffen Records in the mid-1980s, Hiatt finally began to receive acclaim as a performer and writer with 1987’s landmark “Bring The Family” album. Recorded in four days with a superstar band consisting of guitarist Ry Cooder, bassist Nick Lowe and drummer Jim Keltner, Hiatt unleashed his revitalized vinegar-on-sandpaper vocals on a series of instant-classic meditations on domestic life, sobriety and regret. “Bring the Family” houses some of Hiatt’s best-ever songs, including “Have a Little Faith in Me,” “Memphis in the Meantime” and “Lipstick Sunset.” From there, Hiatt has been on a roll that’s lasted 25 years, producing classic albums like “Slow Turning” (recorded with his touring band, The Goners), “Stolen Moments,” “Perfectly Good Guitar,” “Walk On,” the near-solo acoustic “Crossing Muddy Waters,” and “Master Of Disaster,” recorded with the North Mississippi All-Stars. His songs from this period have been covered by Buddy Guy, Joe Cocker, Jewel, Bon Jovi and Keith Urban, among many others.
SO YOU KNOW: Who: John Hiatt When: Thursday, Sept. 20, 8:30 p.m. Where: The Handlebar, 304 E. Stone Ave., Greenville Tickets: $36 Information: www.handlebar-online. com or 864-233-6173
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High Noon lectures move to Upcountry History Museum Weekly Furman lecture series tackles timely issues, historic events By Cindy Landrum | staff
Talk at High Noon in Greenville this fall will center on topics making headlines now and events that made headlines in the past. Among the topics capping the news feeds now are health care reform and the controversial Affordable Care Act, the upcoming presidential election and the economy. Discussion topics that made headlines in the past include the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil War and the election of 1862. All those and more will be covered during High Noon lectures to be held on Wednesdays at the Upcountry History Museum beginning Sept. 19. The free lectures will be held in the Resource Room on the second floor of the museum. In past years, when the lectures were held in the FYI center on South Main Street in downtown Greenville, attendance averaged about 100 people. The lectures are free and the series will run through Nov. 14. There will not be a lecture on Oct. 24.
The Upcountry History Museum is in Heritage Green at 540 Buncombe St. Here’s what will be debated this fall: “Deciphering the Affordable Care Act,” Sept. 19. President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010. Some health insurance reforms have already taken place, others are to come. Political science professor Glen Halva-Neubauer will take a broad look at the political implications of the Affordable Care Act, including how the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling affected the law and whether a Mitt Romney win in November might change its fate. “The Supreme Court and the Presidential Election,” Sept. 26. Furman President Rod Smolla, one of the nation’s top constitutional scholars, will look at how important arenas of constitutional law, from health care reform to abortion to affirmative action in education, can become central debate issues in a presidential election. “Greenville and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A 50-Year Retrospective,” Oct. 3. History professor Courtney Tollison will discuss the history of the Cuban Missile
Crisis, with a focus on the life and death of Major Rudolph Anderson of Greenville, the sole fatality of that international crisis. Her talk will also detail the efforts to further memorialize Anderson in Greenville’s Cleveland Park. “Ballots and Bullets: The Civil War and the Election of 1862,” Oct. 10. This fall marks the 150th anniversary of Antietam, one of the deadliest battles in American history, and the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. History professor Lloyd Benson looks at the country’s mood by examining how voters cast their ballots in the 1862 election that took place during the middle of Abraham Lincoln’s first term. “Who’s Going to Win the 2012 Presidential Election,” Oct. 17. While nobody knows for sure, political science professor Danielle Vinson will look at what has transpired in the presidential race thus far and talk about what might happen on Nov. 6. “How Effective is the Government in Managing the Economy,” Oct. 31. The current election hinges on the state of the economy and the government’s role in it more than any other issue. Since the Great In cooperation with
Depression, the public has grown accustomed to the government taking an active role in combating recessions through its spending and taxing powers. Economics professor Jason Jones looks at how current economic thought and research evaluate the effectiveness of such fiscal policy. “Who Won? Examining the Outcome of the 2012 Presidential Election,” Nov. 7. Political science professor Jim Guth will analyze what happened the previous night and talk about what the outcome might mean for the future of American politics. “Is the United States in Decline?” Nov. 14. Commentators around the world have been proclaiming the end of the American era in global politics. Are they correct? Is America in steep decline? Political science professor Brent Nelson will examine both sides of the question, pondering a world without a strong United States and conversely, how long a still-dominant America would be able to manage an increasingly complex global community. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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Furman University Cellobration! Sep. 14-15 ~ 294-2086 Greenville Little Theatre Smokey Joe’s Café Sep. 14-29 ~ 233-6238
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In a four-session workshop on clay jewelry design, students will learn techniques to carve and cast their own relief molds to create pendants, cameos and beads. Instructor Suzanne Vitti is a local artist who created the West End streetscapes for the City of Greenville. Clay, glazes and firing are included in the $19 lab fee, which is payable at the first class. There is a materials list online. Classes are held Saturdays, Sept. 15, 22 and 29, and Oct. 6, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Greenville County Museum of Art’s studio. Class cost is $99. To register, visit furman.edu/ learningforyou or call 864-294-3134 or 864-294-2158.
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On Saturday, Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 23 at 3 p.m., Maestro Edvard Tchivzhel will lead the Greenville Symphony Orchestra in their opening concert of the 2012-2013 season, “Made In America” at The Peace Center Concert Hall. The first of six in the Masterworks Series, “Made In America” boasts three “American-born” compositions and features Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez who will perform Gershwin’s fiery and jazzy Piano Concerto in F major. The evening includes Bernstein’s boisterous Candide Overture and Rachmaninoff ’s passionate and dramatic Symphonic Dances. The evening features the Active Listening program that allows con- Maestro Edvard Tchivzhel certgoers to listen to MP3 players with information about the orchestra and music. A free, pre-concert talk with also be offered in the Founder’s Room above Larkin’s on the River. Ticket prices range from $15-$49 and can be purchased through The Peace Center box office at 864-467-3000 or 800888-7768 or online at www.greenvillesymphony.org. On Sept. 24, the Emrys Reading Room at Ford’s Oyster House & Cajun Kitchen, 631 S. Main St., Greenville will feature Cathy Smith Bowers and George Singleton. Cathy Smith Bowers is a native of South Carolina and her poems have appeared widely in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, and Kenyon Review. George Singleton was born in Anaheim, Calif., and raised in Greenwood. He teaches fiction writing and editing at the South Carolina Governor’s School For The Arts and Humanities in Greenville. Singleton is the author of two novels; his fifth book of short stories is “Stray Decorum.” For more information, visit www.emrys.org or call 864-409-3679.
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On Friday, Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m., the Fountain Inn Center for Visual & Performing Arts welcomes the Nashville-based Farewell Drifters. Tickets are $12-$15 and are available at Fountain Inn Center Box Office at 315 N. Main St., Fountain Inn, online at www.ftinnarts.org or by phone at 864-409-1050. The William Felton School of Crafts is offering fall pottery classes in beginner pottery, basic pottery, intermediate, raku fired pottery beginning Sept. 24. The William Felton School of Crafts is located at 250 Mill St., Taylors. For more information, call 864-325-4233 or email feltonschool@gmail.com. Two cello concerts will be performed at Furman as part of the 33rd annual South Carolina Cello Choir Cellobration. The first, on Friday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. will feature guest artists Wesley Baldwin and Lawrence Stomberg. The second concert will be performed by the Cello Choir on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 5:30 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. The concert featuring Baldwin and Stomberg is $15 for adults and $5 for students. Saturday’s concert by the Cello Choir is free and features the guest artists and more than 100 other cellists. Baldwin is a professor of cello at University of Tennessee and Stromberg is an associate professor of cello at University of Delaware. For more information, contact Christopher Hutton at christopher.hutton@ furman.edu, or 864-294-2019. Send us your arts announcement. Email: greenvillearts@greenvillejournal.com
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The Fine Arts Center will introduce their new faculty member, head of voice Dr. Brittnee Siemon with a concert on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. in the center’s recital hall. Siemon, a mezzo-soprano, will perform with Josh Barbour on piano. The recital will feature early and modern works, as well as chamber pieces by Brahms and Ravel. Clemson University’s bioengineerThe Shannon Forest Christian School (SFCS) ing senior design team won the annual made school history on Sept. 6, hosting its National Collegiate Inventors and Infirst-ever home football game. The Crusadnovators Alliance (NCIIA) BMEStart ers, under the direction of head coach Levon Kirkland, faced the Greenville Hurricanes. The undergraduate design competition day also featured a special tailgate cookout. for its project AssureFit, a novel chest The Crusaders hosted the Anderson Cavaliers tube-anchoring device. Under the dion Sept. 13 and will host the PAC Panthers rection of professor John DesJardins, on Friday, Oct. 12. In addition, students are the biomedical device was developed preparing for the school’s first IMPACT service by a team of undergraduate bioengiday on Sept. 26 where students in 7th–12th neering students as part of their senior grades will serve at area food banks, shelters design project. Team leader Breanne and other agencies in the Upstate. T. Przestrzelski of Swannanoa, N.C., and teammates Carlyn M. Atwood of Greenville, Lauren E. Eskew of Mount Pleasant and Brennen C. Jenkins of Liberty partnered with Greenville Hospital System pediatric surgeons Dr. John Chandler and Dr. Robert Gates to develop the innovative device. The AssureFit chest tube stabilization device is used to prevent surgical drains from dislodging following procedures, saving time and medical expense. The team has filed a provisional patent and hopes to have the device licensed for manufacture.
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Langston Charter School Library – The current Langston Charter School library fundraiser has reached 90 percent of its goal and will end on Oct. 10. Proceeds will be used to stock the new library with needed books. To make donations, visit www. funds4books.com and enter the Langston school code, 4fdf. Contact Deann McKinley, Langston library coordinator, at rndmckinley@bellsouth.net with any questions. Christ Church Episcopal School’s Achievement Center will host a gifted education specialist from the Duke TIP program for an Open House on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 6 p.m. Parents of children in grades 5-8 who are interested in Duke TIP are invited to attend. The event is free and open to the public. Dr. Catherine Sepko, Dean of School of Humanities at North Greenville University, has been named Who’s Who Publishers VIP Member of the Year in her field. VIPs may be honored for awards and honors they have received, years of dedication and service to their industry, leadership skills, day-to-day performance or any mixture of the above. Sepko is a graduate of Pineville High School in West Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language Arts Education from West Vir- Sepko ginia Tech. She received her master’s degree in English and Mass Communication from Marshall University and her Ph.D. in English Education Curriculum and Instruction from Clemson University. She began teaching in the public school system middle and high schools beginning in 1971 for 17 years. She was a director of Christian education for four years before moving to South Carolina and teaching in the public schools until 1996 when she arrived at NGU. She became the department head in 1998 and continues to teach English. Submit entries to: Greenville Journal, Our Schools, 148 River Street, Ste. 120, Greenville, SC 29601 or e-mail: greenvillecommunity@greenvillejournal.com
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Coldwell Banker Caine Unveils Trade Street Real Estate Gallery at Grand Opening September 10, 2012 – The grand opening event for Coldwell Banker Caine’s Trade Street Real Estate Gallery will offer a first-hand look at Coldwell Banker Caine’s strategy to better facilitate real estate research and activities as they happen. Featuring state-of-the-art technology, a variety of meeting spaces and stylish décor, this innovative space will serve as a real estate office and community information center for the Greer community. The free event is open for guests to enjoy hors d’oeuvres and preview the space. A short ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 5:30 p.m. with the Greer Chamber of Commerce and Coldwell Banker Caine executives formally opening the Trade Street Real Estate Gallery.
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THE BUXTON SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT COMMISSION HAS REQUESTED THAT GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL APPROVE AN INCREASE OF THREE AND EIGHT-TENTHS (3.8) MILLS FOR A TOTAL AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE LEVY OF TWELVE (12.0) MILLS FOR THE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE OF THE BUXTON SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT PURSUANT TO S.C. CODE ANN. § 6-1-320, AS AMENDED BY ACT NO. 57 OF 2011. THE REQUEST OF THE BUXTON SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT COMMISSION REPRESENTS A THREE AND EIGHT-TENTHS (3.8) MILLS INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR’S AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE LEVY. HERMAN G. KIRVEN JR., CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL
SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Correctional Medical Records Software, RFP# 03-10/04/12, October 4, 2012, 3:00 P.M. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillevillecounty.org or by calling 864-467-7200. SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Qualifications for Septic Contractors, RFQ# 0410/05/12, October 5, 2012, 3:00 P.M. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty.org or by calling (864) 467-7200. SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Facility Renovations at 200 University Ridge for Greenville County, IFB #06-09/21/12, 3:00 P.M. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillevillecounty.org or by calling 864-467-7200. SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Trenholm Road Area Drainage Improvement Project, October 3, 2012, 3:00 P.M. A mandatory pre-bid meeting and site tour will be held at 9:00 A.M., EST, September 19, 2012 at Greenville County Procurement Services Office, County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillevillecounty.org or by calling 864-467-7200.
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.
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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, 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, P015040100400, P015040100401, P015040100402, P015040100404, and P015040100405. 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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J Dew interviewed audience members during the kickoff of the United Way of Greenville County’s 2012 community campaign.
Campaign Vice Chair Art Seaver takes the stage at the TD Convention Center to talk about incentives offered by local businesses and corporate leaders for the 2012 campaign. Left: Jim Bourey, director of corporate development at Elliott Davis LLC, the 2012 Community Campaign Chair, announces this year’s fundraising goal, $15,800,000.
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BMW Manufacturing Co. President Josef Kerscher, left, speaks to local and industry officials, CU-ICAR students, faculty, staff and members of the media at the official opening of the Component Testing Laboratory at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research. The new lab will allow Tier 1 automotive suppliers to test interior components under a wide array of parameters, complementing existing full vehicle testing and systems integration research at CU-ICAR.
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Clemson University President James Barker makes his remarks at the official opening of the Component Testing Laboratory at ICAR. Photos by Greg Beckner / Staff
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Clemson University Vice President for Economic Development John Kelly, right, hands scissors to BMW Manufacturing Co. President Josef Kerscher, center, so Kerscher and Clemson University President James Barker, left, can cut the ribbon for the new Component Testing Laboratory. The City of Greenville has given two used fire trucks to Greenville Technical College’s Fire Service Technology program. The two pumpers will be used to train students on the safe, proper and effective use of equipment commonly used in firefighting operations. Fire Chief Steve Kovalcik, left, gives vehicle titles to Philip Hill, assistant dean of technologies at Greenville Technical College.
W. Burke Royster, superintendent of the Greenville County schools, left, and Dr. Megan Mitchell-Hoefer, principal of Summit Drive Elementary, right, spoke during the opening of the new community playground.
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Students, faculty, city officials, school board members, PTA and community members gather in front of Summit Drive Elementary for the official opening and ribbon-cutting of the new community playground. The playground was made possible by grants from the City of Greenville and the Greenville County School District, and financial contributions of individuals and businesses throughout Greenville. Summit Drive Elementary also raised more than $35,000 through fundraising activities to help pay for the playground equipment and walking path.
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Summit Drive Elementary School PTA member Jennifer Hincapie, left, has a scissor malfunction while trying to cut the ribbon for the new community playground while Greenville City Councilwoman Amy Ryberg Doyle tries to help.
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sunday funday on a whole new level Come out to this euphoria Sunday tradition a New Orleans-style Jazz Brunch buffet featuring dishes from over 20 local restaurants and live jazz music on Sunday, September 23. Sund Adult and Child tickets available. New this year...a Family ticket option. Purchase tickets at euphoriagreenville.com
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Across 1 Venomous African snake 6 Slants 11 Actor Keach 16 Martes, por ejemplo 19 Pan Am rival 20 “Delta of Venus” author Nin 21 Actor/public speaker who often began “Unaccustomed as I am to speaking ...” 22 Before, in ballads 23 Where there’s no rest for the weary? 26 And not 27 Exhibit presenters, briefly 28 Swedish imports 29 Some Deco collectibles 30 Agent Scully on “The X-Files” 31 Consider judicially 32 Old Clevelandbased gas company 34 Got burning again 35 Word from a crib 38 Precinct high jinks? 43 Multiple choice options 45 Rural “What if ...?” 46 “Damn Yankees” role 47 Adman’s demo reel? 50 Mason’s jobs 55 Fruity wine concoctions 56 Rifleman’s aid
57 “Permit Me Voyage” poet James 58 NBC sketch series 59 Staircase shape 62 Sports venue 63 Engross the financial district? 69 __ d’Alene 70 Can’t-miss 71 Links target 72 Yank or Jay 73 Whomp, biblically 75 Learning period 80 Cadenzas in concertos, say 82 Court defense team? 85 Soccer great who wore #10 86 Court conclusion starter 87 Home of Oral Roberts University 88 Where meteorologists relax and talk shop? 95 Draft picks 96 Birds named for a Greek titan 97 Big name in wrap 98 Turkic tent 100 Utopia 101 __ Cup: classic candy 103 Extremely tiny 105 Actress Farrow 108 Large expanse 109 Overpromotion of a Stephenie Meyers fantasy novel series? 113 Elevator compart-
ment 114 German wine region 115 Glacial ridge 116 Port-du-__: French cheese 117 Prince Valiant’s boy 118 Puppeteer Lewis 119 Epic accounts 120 Bobby pin target Down 1 California college Harvey __ 2 China setting 3 __ media 4 Flickable lighter 5 Materialized 6 Jaunt through the jungle 7 Turning point? 8 Aardvarks have long ones 9 Quipster 10 Sound of a leak 11 Zhivago portrayer 12 Skin tones? 13 Singer India.__ 14 Navy NCOs 15 Hither’s partner 16 Highest North American peak, to natives 17 Like “Big deal!” 18 Do a worm’s job 24 Hat-tipper’s word 25 Giggle 30 New Jersey/Pennsylvania border river 31 What a gal has that a gent doesn’t?
32 Visit Amazon.com, say 33 Seine tributary 34 Part 35 Meteorology tools 36 Hocus-pocus opening 37 Full __ 39 Retired jets 40 Tax prep pro
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51 Usage fee of a kind 52 Molding style 53 Monthly expense 54 New Zealand parrot 56 Ladies of Sp. 59 Windex targets 60 Pulitzer journalist killed in combat in 1945 61 1945 battle setting, familiarly 62 Collar 63 Links shirt 64 Angler’s favorite dance? 65 From the Continent 66 Part of BTU 67 An article may be written on it 68 Get under control 69 __ in Charlie 73 Pamplona parlor 74 C-ration successors 75 In __: as found 76 Crouch down 77 “Aqualung” band Jethro __ 78 Fluency 79 Dietary amts. 81 Muscle mag display 82 Cornstarch brand 83 Ten up front? 84 Brandy label letters 86 Undercover, for short 88 Diet Squirt alternative 89 Worrywart’s words 90 Gain again, as trust 91 Mutt, vis-à-vis Jeff 92 “Fighting” college team 93 Pedals 94 Fling 99 Rudely awaken 101 [Air kiss] 102 Elton John/Tim Rice musical 103 Video file format 104 Little bit of Greek? 105 Wide margin 41 Hardly a jolly good 106 Debtors’ letters show 107 Hill workers 42 Bread in a skillet 109 Conan’s network 44 Screen blinker 110 Isn’t without 48 POTUS’s alternate 111 Vocal syllable title 112 Road crew’s supply 49 Soft mineral 50 Fish feature Crossword answers: page 57
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WHERE I’VE BEEN BY BILL KOON
‘Platinum and beyond’ and other loyalties My identity crisis has lasted longer than most; I’m qualified for the AARP but am still no more sure of who I am than I was back when I had pimples. A number of others, however, seem to know me precisely. I signed up for a movie service. I choose a flick, they send it to me, I watch it and then send it back, and they send me another one. It is really simple and I enjoy it. Everything but the popcorn is in my mailbox right there with my credit card bill. The curious thing is that this company is constantly sizing me up. I’ll order one of my typical choices, say “Pulp Fiction” (which I have seen about 50 times), and they’ll flood me with recommendations. I’ll get a pop-up that says something like, “Hey, Bill, since you liked ‘Pulp Fiction,’ we think you’d like the ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ or Driller Killer’” – as if I might be watching my movies on death row or through a mask like that of Hannibal Lecter. Sometimes they go for geographical identity. Even if I ordered the Met’s production of “Aida” (which is unlikely), they’d send me a pop-up about what they think people in South Carolina like to watch. That gets us to “Smokey and the Bandit.” Occasionally they get artsy with a recommendation like “Deliverance” or some other orthodontic extravaganza, but mostly they stick with stuff about moonshine and stock cars or chain gangs. I like to dig out some old favorites – “Zorba the Greek,” for example. The flick company spots me for an old man who used to like to dance and sing, and they recommend “Singin’ in the Rain.” The “Greek” reference sends them into their atlas of titles like “Blue Hawaii” or “Springtime in Paris” or “Roman Holiday” – perfect stuff for geezers. In any event, they recognize an opportunity to sell some ad space to the hearing aid people or to some reverse-mortgage company which wants me to renew the mortgage I have finally paid off. I use some of those shopper loyalty cards. I don’t like them much, but I hate to go into a grocery store or a pharmacy and pay the exorbitant prices levied on
non-members or on those who can’t find their loyalty cards. The corporate guys know not just who I am but what kind of canned soup and deodorant I use. They can tell you if my dental floss is waxed or unwaxed or give you the details of my acid reflux. We recently did a long driving trip through New England, and I liked stopping at some of the chain stores where I used my loyalty cards to get discounts on some more bottled water and potato chips. I can imagine the corporate bean counters of those companies trying to figure out why a fan of “Smokey and the Bandit” was noodling around in Vermont and New Hampshire where most people have never driven a stock car or tasted moonshine. I bet that stumps them. I’m pretty sure they will give up and send me an email: “Hey, Bill, what the heck were you doing in Vermont and New Hampshire? Could we interest you in a GPS?” When I checked into a popular chain motel, the desk clerk asked me if I was a member of their “Platinum and Beyond” loyalty club. I wasn’t, so, there on the spot, she offered me a family membership in this exclusive outfit. The benefits, she explained, included a free breakfast buffet and an upgraded plastic room key that would prove to the breakfast hostess that we were entitled to a free breakfast. Plus, I’d get 500 points towards another free breakfast. I didn’t even have to fill out a form, she said, since she had everything but my passport and floss type in her computer. Believe me, I sprang for it. I worry a little about my privacy; I’m pretty sure there is a corporate “Big Brother” out there. But I have to admit that I like being “Platinum and Beyond” almost as much as I like a free breakfast. And I am flattered that this company thinks that a “Smokey and the Bandit” fan might be a great fit for their five-star hotel in the Bahamas. Bill Koon lives in Greenville. He can be contacted at badk@ clemson.edu.
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