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As he prepares to leave the president’s office, Jim Barker reflects on 14 game-changing years at the university CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF
clandrum@communityjournals.com It could be argued that Jim Barker’s biggest regret as president of Clemson University was also his greatest accomplishment. His presidency began in 1999 with a lofty goal: for Clemson to be recognized as a Top 20 public university in the magazine U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings. In the 74th slot, Clemson had
been in the rankings’ third tier the year before Barker took office. “I wish I had said Top 25,” he said. “That would have been just as lofty, just as farfetched.” Although Clemson failed to make it into the Top 20 – it missed by one-hundredth of a point this year – the university has made the top 25 in each of the past six years and, more importantly in Barker’s eyes, raised its selfconcept and forced administration, faculty
and staff to focus on what’s best for students. “We now expect greatness and if it’s not there, we ask why,” Barker said. As Barker enters his last month at the helm of his alma mater, he said it is time to return to the past – he to the classroom and South Carolina to the time when higher education was considered part of the solution to improving the state’s economy rather than part of the problem. BARKER continued on PAGE 8
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Firm lists top-priority bike and pedestrian needs Projects could be part of county pedestrian and bicycle network plan APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF
amorris@communityjournals.com After several public open house events in November, Alta Planning has presented a list of 20 priority bicycle and pedestrian projects submitted by residents. The input sessions are part of an effort to create a comprehensive Greenville County Pedestrian and Bicycle Network Plan spearheaded by county planners and BikeWalk Greenville. Many project requests are improvements near schools, including Monaview, Welcome, Monarch and Bells Crossing elementary schools, Beck Middle and Riverside High School. Other suggestions included a new bridge at Hampton Avenue to replace one that was removed, sidewalks on
Haywood Road and intersection improvements at Fork Shoals Road and White Horse Road. More than 100 people attended the open houses and the events resulted in a total of 82 projects that formed the pool used to create the 20 priority projects based on a ranking system. Projects were given points according to whether they offered connectivity to schools, the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail, parks or recreation, shopping, workplaces and transit stops, among others. According to Tiffany Wedmore, transportation planner with Greenville County, there is currently no funding for the projects, but planners want to have something ready when money does become available. Many of the projects in addition to the 20 priority ones will be included in the plan, she said. The county Pedestrian and Bicycle Network Plan would have to be approved by Greenville County Council before implementation. The open house events come on the
heels of Greenville County Council’s discussion on whether to hold a referendum on a one-percent sales tax to fund transportation improvements. Advocates had pushed for inclusion of pedestrian, cycling and other amenities in the potential referendum, while no-tax activists vocally opposed the referendum. Council opted to create an 18-member transportation advisory commission to suggest road projects outlined in a resolution, but excised any reference to a sales tax in the version it passed in November. BikeWalk Greenville will continue to gather submissions for suggested improvements at greenvilleopenmap. info/WalkBikeSurvey.html. To date, the group has received more than 570 suggestions. A working committee on pedestrian and cycling met this week to determine the next step and hopes to present the complete plan to County Council in the next few months, said Frank Mansbach, BikeWalk Greenville executive director.
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OPINION VOICES FROM YOUR COMMUNITY, HEARD HERE
Restrictions protect property rights
Neighborhood character deserves protection
I am part of the “small, vocal minority” Sam Hunter referred to in his commentary in the Nov. 22 Greenville Journal, and I confess to being vocal. However, Mr. Hunter’s concept of minority is no more accurate than desecration of established neighborhoods is what he calls progress. He presents a developer’s point of view. Mine is as a homeowner, longtime resident and someone who appreciates the traits that make my neighborhood so desirable and who will endeavor to preserve them. Besides the proximity to town, what makes our neighborhood so desirable is the visual appeal: the charm of the older, well-maintained houses, the diversity of architectural styles, the size and individuality of the yards, and the tree canopy. Our neighborhood has character, and can be enjoyed by people from a range of ages, family sizes and socioeconomic stations. Most of us chose to live here because we liked what we saw, and what we love about our neighborhood is potentially being destroyed by people who see dollar signs before quality of life. Make no mistake: I am not opposed to remodeling a house. Nor am I opposed to new building, even when an old house might be torn down. What I am opposed to is a huge house on a small lot, a house out of proportion to the lot and nearby houses, a house so close to the property line that a person could spit from one to the other, a house with very little yard, and a yard with no substantial trees. Current city codes do not offer protection to neighborhoods for preservation of the very characteristics that make some neighborhoods so sought-after. Enormous houses can be built as close as five feet from the property line. Contrary to what Mr. Hunter believes, revising the codes, especially tying scale of new construction to property line setbacks, will not halt progress – it will help halt inappropriate building and character destruction.
As a homeowner in the Greenville city limits, I would like to share with you my thoughts on Greenville City Council’s infill zoning requirements. Unlike the developers and other builders you are going to hear from in the coming months, my interests lie in preserving the uniqueness and character of the neighborhoods, including the tree canopy and the varied home styles, and not how to make the greatest profit. I am in no way anti-development, but I do believe there has to be some balance when it comes to infill development. Without it, you will see the problems encountered in Decatur and Atlanta, where overzealous developers come in and knock down the existing structures and rebuild on the same lot a monstrosity not at all in character with the existing homes. Mr. Hunter (Greenville Journal, Nov. 22) asked you to imagine Greenville 10 years from now. Well, you don’t have to imagine these scenarios; they are very real and happening on a regular basis in North Main, Augusta Road, Cleveland Forest, Alta Vista and other neighborhoods. You sit down to breakfast on a Sunday morning to read the paper in your favorite chair and enjoy the warmth of the sunlight coming into your house. Only today, the sunlight no longer shines into your house. A developer has razed the 1,500-square-foot, onestory house that sat on the lot beside you and put up a 4,500-square-foot, three-story home on a postage-stamp lot. The house is 45 feet tall at the peak and blocks the sunlight that you used to enjoy streaming into your kitchen. Or… The home that sat beside your house for the last 50 years and only occupied one-third of the land now covers 70 percent of the lot. In addition, the cul-desac driveway and back patio installed on your new next-door neighbor’s lot now fully covers an additional 10 percent of the lot. When the rains come, instead of
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I very much appreciate those builders who have taken pains to make certain their projects are in scale, fit the character of the neighborhood and preserve as many trees as possible. Cities across the country are grappling with this “infill” issue, which is so pervasive that what used to be called McMansions are now referred to as “Hummer houses” and “garage mahals.” Some cities have taken far more drastic steps to preserve the character of neighborhoods than what Greenville will consider. Yet I am not aware of a single city where tighter restrictions against inappropriate development have actually halted progress, and I doubt Mr. Hunter can find an example. In my mind, building restrictions protect property rights. People may say, “My home is my castle and I ought to be able to do whatever…” They wouldn’t likely say that if my castle was next door and I put a dump there, or a few trailers or a cell tower. Most reasonable people understand that for quality of life, certain limits on “property rights” are both allowable and needed. In my mind, preserving the character of the neighborhood justifies what Mr. Hunter calls “encumbering restrictions.” My hope is that the city will take steps to ensure that neighborhoods are preserved by establishing sensible lot-line setbacks, construction density and scale requirements.
Vic Rosenthal is a retired medical case manager and 23-year resident of a “preservation-worthy” neighborhood. He was the chairman of the steering committee that led to the establishment of the Augusta Circle Neighborhood Association, and is acting chairman of the association zoning committee.
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permeating into the ground, the runoff from your neighbor’s house and driveway flows across your yard, eroding your landscape and overwhelming the sewer system. Or… The small house on the corner originally built on two lots in 1939 is knocked down and three larger homes are built in its place, all closer to the street than the original home. Or… The legacy trees that made Greenville the envy of many were cut down lot-by-lot, as larger and larger homes were built with nothing left other than a few shrubs – all in the name of “progress.” What a developer or others believe passes for tasteful or size-appropriate may not be construed the same by the neighbor who has to deal with the runoff, loss of tree canopy, and sunlight now blocked by a 45-foot structure five feet from his property line. We are a long way from a final decision by the City Council. The city hopes to include representatives with varied interests on the task force studying the infill issue. My hope is that consensus can be reached on a sensible sustainable plan and not benefit only those with the deepest pockets or the groups that have City Council’s ear. I for one don’t want to look back 10 years from now and say, “We could have done more to prevent the loss of our neighborhoods, but we didn’t have the courage.”
Martin Howell is a principal and construction contract auditor with Fort Hill Associates LLC, a consulting firm specializing in performing construction audits for hospitals and universities.
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OPINION VOICES FROM YOUR COMMUNITY, HEARD HERE
Cancer survivors need care after treatment, too I have worked in oncology for more than 25 years as a nurse practitioner, and I consider myself a very good one. But, like many in health care, I didn’t quite understand why we needed to improve and refine care for survivors. I was proud to be working diligently on improving earlier diagnosis and cure rates, lessening side effects, helping people go through a traumatic ordeal and then sending most of them back into their own lives afterwards. Then cancer hit me personally four years ago, with just a faint abnormality on a mammogram. On that Tuesday afternoon, I became a consumer of cancer health care. I had an early breast cancer, and per the National Cancer Institute standards, was considered a cancer survivor on that day of diagnosis. I was lucky; I had excellent care and a highly curative cancer. What I didn’t fully realize is how this ordeal would change my life, and how improving survivorship care would become a crusade leading to a job change after 17 years. I started reading about being a survivor, and people started talking to me about what was needed after treatment. At times and when appropriate, I shared that I was a survivor, too. I listened differently as well. My experience paralleled a growing national movement as cancer advocates increasingly demanded policy changes that help address patients’ long-term needs. The reality was that our health care community – at least at a national level – had a myopic lens towards survivors, with many thinking survivors should be happy that most of them were cured. But cure and success are just part of the cancer survivor’s vocabulary. Body image, sexual health, new normal, fatigue, uncertainty, fear of recurrence, financial distress and quality of life are very personal experiences each cancer survivor has with a wide variety of responses. It’s often said that we don’t remember periods of time, we remember moments. Well, one of mine was when I was asked by Greenville Health System’s Dr. Jeff Giguere to speak to a national oncology group on survivorship care. I didn’t work for him, but felt honored and obliged. Dr. Giguere is a senior oncologist at GHS Cancer Institute. I then learned just how much Dr. Giguere and Cancer Institute medical director Dr. Larry Gluck wanted a survivorship program
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here at GHS. This ultimately led to me coming to GHS to start its Moving On cancer rehab program in 2011. In June 2012, the Center for Integrative Oncology and Survivorship (CIOS) was established at the GHS Cancer Institute. Our CIOS team is committed to helping patients and clinicians realize that we need trained survivorship specialists in the same way we need great acute care teams in cancer care. Our holistic patient-centered approach helps address psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as physical needs such as nutrition and oncology rehab. The center is also a resource for survivors selecting integrative or complementary therapies such as yoga and acupuncture. Many of the therapies are free, thanks to tremendous community support and the GHS Office of Philanthropy and Partnership. Patients in our cancer rehab program will now also have access to the nation’s first Human Performance Laboratory (HPL) to be fully embedded into a cancer research and treatment program. The recently announced lab is a collaborative effort between GHS and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. The lab will allow us to evaluate survivors’ physical health and ability to exercise with the overall goal to determine how exercise affects survivors’ health and outcomes. Using that data, we hope to develop new cancer management techniques that will help patients overcome the crippling fatigue that too often accompanies treatment. I’m proud that our center, along with GHS, is dedicated to providing skilled multidisciplinary care to accurately identify needs, provide answers to sensitive questions and make the right referrals and recommendations. As health care leaders – and personally as a survivor – it’s the right thing to do for our community.
Gina Franco is the manager of the GHS Cancer Institute’s Center for Integrative Survivorship and Oncology. She has worked in oncology since 1981 and has received national recognition for her work in cancer survivorship programs.
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END OF AN ERA: Jim Barker looks back on 14 years of leading Clemson University, and looks forward to his return to the classroom. BARKER continued from COVER
“I’d like to see tomorrow look a little more like yesterday,” he said. “We need to return to the time when there was collaboration and communication and recognition that higher education was partly the answer.”
GAME-CHANGING LEGISLATION In the first half of Barker’s tenure, state legislators passed several major initiatives. They created lottery-funded scholarships; passed the Economic Development Bond Act that provided some of the earliest funding for the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research in Greenville; created an endowed chairs program to recruit world-class faculty members in research areas that support economic development; funded research facilities and enhanced scholarships for students majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. “Those were game-changers,” Barker said. That environment is now gone, he said – partly due to the recession and partly because new political leaders have risen in the
state’s General Assembly who want to point fingers rather than find solutions. Higher education is often is the target, he said, many times because of tuition increases that came in response to state budget cuts and building projects that carry multimillion price tags. “We need to return to the time when there was a true partnership between the General Assembly and higher education,” Barker said. “We’ve gotten away from that and we can’t show the last seven years were as productive as the first seven.”
GREENVILLE CONNECTION Barker said the economy since 2008 has posed a tremendous challenge. “We were hit as hard as any state in the country.” The state provided about 70 percent of the school’s budget when Barker was a student at Clemson in the late 1960s. When he took over as president, it was down to 40 percent. Now, it’s 10 percent. This has forced Clemson to seek new partnerships with businesses and communities. There’s no greater example of that than in Greenville, the state’s largest city without its
“I honestly believe as important a role of president of a university is, the role of faculty member is more important. The impact is not as broad but it is more personal.” JIM BARKER own four-year public university. First, Clemson joined the University Center, a collaboration of colleges and universities that provide undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Greenville. Next came ICAR, a 250-acre campus where academia, industry and government organizations collaborate on automotive research. Fifty companies are partners, including BMW and Michelin, and the facility has generated $250 million in investment. All of Clemson at the Falls’ business school components – the MBA program, the Small Business Development Center and the Spiro
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Institute – will move to the ONE building on Main Street in downtown Greenville in early 2014. The school’s graduate program in real estate development will locate there, too. “Our business students will be learning things they can’t learn on an academic campus,” Barker said. Clemson is Greenville Health System’s primary research partner, he said. In addition, Clemson has opened an art gallery in the Village of West Greenville, which will contribute to the economic revitalization of the area, he said. “As diverse as those all are, the all-around concept is adding to the quality of life and economic vitality of Greenville.” But to be able to respond to the needs of business and industry, Barker said the school needs more flexibility.
ACCOUNTABILITY Barker supports a performance-based funding model for the state’s colleges and universities using measures such as graduation rate, student retention rate, job placement and economic development impact.
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What’s Right in Health Care “The state needs to tells us what it expects and then reward us when we accomplish that. That’s how it works in business,” he said. “We need to have the right balance of flexibility and accountability.” Barker pushed the Clemson Enterprise Act last year that would allow the university to move some of its operations – such as business partnerships, research and athletics – to a separate division free from some restrictions and red tape. The bill passed the state Senate but the House failed to act on the bill before the session ended in June. “I knew it was going to be a challenge but I thought it wise to begin the process,” he said. It will be up to Barker’s successor, West Virginia University President Jim Clements, to continue the push. Barker won’t tell him how. As the first Clemson president to step down and remain on campus, “the one promise I made to Jim was not to give him advice,” Barker said. “He’s going to have enough advice from enough people.”
A TEACHER AGAIN As president, Barker taught one seminar course each spring and says he found it stimulating and energizing. “I admire the students who took the class. I know when I was a student I wouldn’t have taken a class if I had heard it was being taught by the president,” he said. He’ll return to the College of Architecture faculty and teach second-year students, an age Barker finds attractive because that’s when students start to figure things out. “I honestly believe as important a role of president of a university is, the role of faculty member is more important,” he said. “The impact is not as broad but it is more personal.”
FINDING A HOME Barker was a first-generation college stu-
dent. His dad died during his senior year of high school. As he walked across the Clemson campus during a visit, Barker knew he had found a place where he would be comfortable. “Walking across Bowman Field, I had a strong sense, for the first time since my dad died, that I would be OK,” he said. He said he would have had to drop out of school if two architecture faculty members hadn’t realized he was having financial difficulty. They found a scholarship for him that fit his grade point average and need. He and his wife, Marcia, spent their first year of marriage living in Clemson’s “married student housing,” small metal pre-fab buildings that had no air conditioning until one of Barker’s professors knocked on the door with an extra window air conditioner. Barker said the couple aspired to get one of the homes in the Douthit Hills student housing area – not the President’s Home on campus. Looking back on his tenure there, Barker says he will miss most the impromptu interaction with students – such as the memorable time a group of them rang the doorbell on a Saturday morning. Marcia Barker answered the door and told her husband the students wanted to talk to him. They were on their way to Bowman Field to play Frisbee, they said. “Do you wanna play?” “Can I go out and play?” Barker asked his wife. She said yes – as long as he was back by 3 p.m. for an appointment. Another time, a young lady stopped and asked to pet the Barkers’ two yellow labs. She had learned that day that her yellow lab had died back home, and wondered if the Barkers would let her walk their dogs. “I truly think it helped her,” he said. Barker said he hopes he leaves Clemson a little better than it was when he took over. “I owe Clemson so much,” he said. “My debt hasn’t been paid and it never will be.”
GHS Employees Receive CommUnity Hero Award WellCare Health Plans, Inc., a nationwide provider of Medicaid and Medicare managed care, presented Amy Picklesimer, MD, and Sarah Convington-Kolb of GHS’ CenteringPregnancy program with CommUnity Hero Awards. The award recognizes their efforts to reduce pre-term births and improve maternal health in the Greenville area. Baptist Easley Named Top Performer Baptist Easley Hospital was named one of the nation’s “Top Performers on Key Quality Measures” by The Joint Commission. Baptist Easley was recognized for exemplary performance in using evidence-based clinical processes that are shown to improve care for certain conditions, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. Internal Medicine Clinic Receives National Recognition GHS’ Internal Medicine Clinic has been recognized as a Patient Centered Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. This model of care emphasizes care coordination and communication, which leads to higher quality and lower costs. Outpatient Pediatric Echocardiology Lab Earns Accreditation The Outpatient Pediatric Echocardiology Lab at GHS Children’s Hospital and its outreach clinics in Spartanburg and Anderson have been accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). GHS has the only labs in the Upstate accredited by IAC to perform both inpatient and outpatient pediatric echocardiography. Labs accredited by IAC demonstrate a commitment to high-quality medical testing.
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Judge denies injunction in school prayer case Humanist group wanted prohibition on school event being held in places of worship CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF
clandrum@communityjournals.com A federal judge on Tuesday refused to grant a preliminary injunction that would have prohibited Greenville County Schools from holding school events in places of worship. U.S. District Judge G. Ross Anderson Jr. denied the American Humanist Association’s request during a court hearing in Anderson, according to court documents. The American Humanist Association had also sought a preliminary injunction forbidding student-initiated prayer during school events. The motion was part of a lawsuit the association filed against the school district because Mountain View Elementary School held its fifth-grade graduation ceremony in the Turner Chapel on the campus of North Greenville University, a private Christian college. The lawsuit also alleges that the inclusion of school-sponsored prayers during the event violated the separation of church and state clause in the U.S. Constitution. Mountain View Elementary held its fifth-grade graduation ceremony in the chapel in 2012 and 2013. In court papers, Mountain View Principal Jennifer Gibson said the event was moved from the school cafeteria because the cafeteria was “too small, cramped and uncom-
fortable” for the ceremony as the school population grew. Only three members of each fifth-grader’s family were permitted to attend. People who couldn’t get in often gathered in the hallway, blocking the exits and creating a safety concern, district officials said. Gibson said in court papers the decision to move the event to the chapel had nothing to do with North Greenville University being a religiously affiliated institution. Gibson said in her affidavit that the 2014 program will eliminate “any school-sponsored or endorsed invocations, prayers or benedictions,” a change she said was made after she heard about the association’s complaints following the 2013 ceremony. In 2014, the student speakers will be allowed to give messages of their own choosing. The messages will not be reviewed, censored or edited by any teacher or administrator, Gibson’s affidavit said. Lawyers for the American Humanist Association said in court documents that the chapel is an “overtly Christian place of worship, embellished with Christian iconography, including a cross and stained glass windows.” The association contends that there were numerous alternative secular venues available. The fifth-grade student listed as “Jill Doe” in court papers said she thought the school was “endorsing Christianity.” Her parents said in court papers they believed their daughter was “coerced into participating in the school-sponsored religious activity.” The parents have younger children attending schools in the district, court papers said. A trial date has not yet been set in the lawsuit.
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Consultants unveil Westside community plan SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF
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Longtime supporter gives NGU $3M for new arena Brashiers want the facility named for university president CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF
clandrum@communityjournals.com North Greenville University is getting $3 million from a Greenville couple who have been longtime supporters of the school. Greenville real estate investor T. Walter Brashier and his wife, Christine, gave the money to the school as part of the university’s $42.7 million GIFT God Campaign “Hallelujah” goal. The money will fund a new 5,000seat arena and worship center that the Brashiers consider to be the flagship building on the school’s Tigerville campus. The arena will be named after university President Dr. Jimmy Epting and his wife, Gretchen. “When we thought of all the names on the buildings located on the campus, not one honored Dr. and Mrs. Epting,” Walter Brashier said. Epting said, “We are not worthy or deserving of this honor. We are excited this facility will be used to change more lives for Jesus Christ.” The arena will house the Crusader basketball and volleyball programs, including a men’s volleyball team that will have its inaugural season in 2014. The 94,116-square-foot facility will have a president’s box, a “Jumbotron” scoreboard, two upper-level and two lower-level lobbies and student lounges, a mid-court Crusader Club section, locker rooms for home and visiting teams, upper- and lower-level conference rooms, a film room, a train-
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ing and sports medicine room, locker rooms for officials, six concession areas and 16 office spaces. Architect for the project is Robert C. Cashion Architect Inc. of Marietta. Blue Line Consulting LLC of Greer is the project’s civil engineer. Estimated completion date is fall 2015. The Brashiers’ support of North Greenville University dates back five decades. In the 1970s, Brashier built Brashier Hall, 10-unit apartment-type residence hall on campus. He also deeded a 10-story building to the school that housed its downtown extension program. The Brashier Family Endowment Scholarship supports students pursuing church-related ministries. In 2005, Brashier gave $1 million to name and support the T. Walter Brashier Graduate School in Greer. In 2011, he gave the former Steak & Ale building on Pleasantburg Drive. The building was named the Tim Brashier Center after the Brashiers’ late son and is being remodeled to house North Greenville’s MBA program. Tim Brashier was a 1976 graduate of the school. He was active in the family business, developing real estate, and running an aviation servicing company. “North Greenville University has not only honored Tim’s memory, but also has honored us as his parents by naming this new satellite campus the Tim Brashier Center,” Walter Brashier said. North Greenville University announced last February it had surpassed its initial GIFT God Campaign goal of $25 million. The school set a new “Hallelujah” goal of $42.7 million. The school said it had raised $31.4 million as of October.
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City moves closer to distracted-driving ban SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF
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municipality in S.C. to address the broader issue, said Assistant City Attorney Bob Coler, although “a dozen states have done so.” Fines could be around $100-$200 per violation with an escalating penalty, said Coler. The ordinance should include exceptions for law enforcement and emergency personnel, he said. Council member Amy Ryberg Doyle said when a ban was instituted in New York state, the fine was so high that people immediately started to self-
Greenville may soon become handsfree on the highway. City Council discussed Monday night a possible ban on the use of all handheld devices while driving within the city limits. A substantial body of evidence shows distracted driving – be it texting, talking on the phone or changing the radio station – is dangerous and a problem the city of Greenville wants to address. The discussion began several months ago when the council created a task force to look into the steps required to institute a citywide Mayor Pro Tem David Sudduth ordinance to address texting while driving. The task force gathered best prac- police. tices and research from the other cities South Carolina – along with Arizoacross the state and nation that already na and Montana – are the only three had citywide policies. They interviewed states in the nation with no statewide Greenville’s police chief, command distracted-driving laws of any kind, staff, the city legal team, government according to the Governors Highway affairs and public information officers. Safety Association. Numerous bills The task force also focused on what is have been filed in the state Legislature legal and enforceable. for years, but none have passed. “We soon realized it’s more than just Council consensus after Monday’s texting while driving. It’s distracted workshop was to seek additional pubdriving, and frankly it’s an epidemic,” lic input before moving forward. Maysaid Mayor Pro Tem David Sudduth. or Knox White suggested taking the For a distracted-driving ban to work, issue to neighborhood councils and the public must embrace it, he said. other community organizations to get Police Chief Terri Wilfong said that a “real cross-section of feedback.” City a ban on using handheld devices while Manager John Castile said city staff driving will be the easiest ordinance to will work on that and pull together a enforce, as police can easily spot driv- plan after the holidays with a timeline. ers with cellphones in their hands. Sudduth said he would like to “get If Greenville institutes a distracted- something done in a reasonable time driving ordinance, it will be the first frame.”
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Dr. Bill Schmidt, medical director of Greenville Health System Children’s Hospital, makes a few comments before the ribbon-cutting for the new lobby of the Children’s Hospital.
The 1,900-square-foot space features one wall painted with a yellow submarine and embedded with three interactive screens. The screens offer young patients and their families the opportunity to try their hand at games. Featuring a mirror window, children can see themselves while putting on virtual clothes in a dressup game. More than 200 colored metal fish hang from the ceiling and extend into the hallway toward the elevators. Dr. Bill Schmidt, medical director of the Children’s Hospital, expressed his thanks to the foundation and called it a “joyous occasion for us.” The wing was constructed about eight years ago, he said, but there weren’t enough funds to outfit a child-centered lobby. Hospital staff never expected to receive funding to help renovate the lobby, he added. Carolinas Credit Union Foundation president and CEO John McGrail said the project was to “create an environment where families – who are not here of their own free will but because they have to be—can engage in an area that is warm and inviting.” Children’s Hospital patient Jesse Cole, 16, helped cut the ribbon and spent time playing a puzzle game on an interactive screen. Jesse’s mother, Nikki Cole, said the space is definitely beneficial, especially to provide distraction. “She comes to the hospital a lot and when there are places like this, it gives her something to take her mind off what’s going on,” she said. “These places are really good for her and her brothers and sisters.”
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jputnam@communityjournals.com The Greenville County Library System will help military families communicate with loved ones overseas from Dec. 14 through Dec. 28 as part of its Military Families Connection program. The initiative, which will take place at four branch locations with up to 132 total sessions, offers families an opportunity to use the voiceover-IP and instant messaging service Skype to connect with a distant loved one for up to an hour on a library computer. Participants prearrange sessions. “We are very excited about offering the chance for families to connect to their faraway loved ones this holiday season,” said Daneen Schatzle, communications coordinator for the Greenville County Library System. Military Family Connections is in its first official year this year, said Schatzle. The program was available last year, she said, but participation was minimal because “we pulled it together later than we usually do for programming,” she said. “We are expecting much more participation this year and look forward to contributing to some special holiday moments.” signed written agreement with the birthing center. A later memo said a doctor is not required to be at the clinic during all service hours, but must be “available in the traditional ‘on call’ sense of the word.” DHEC said it inspected birthing centers in the state for compliance after an investigation in to a newborn’s death in Fort Mill at the Carolina Community Maternity Center in August following labor complications. Renewal of the center’s license, which expired Oct. 31, is pending, according to DHEC documents. Some birth center advocates say the enforcement stemmed from pressure from the medical community that sees the birthing centers as competition. Birthing center operators say the on-call doctor requirement is not necessary because a midwife will send a mother to the hospital in the
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A member of the South Carolina House of Representatives has prefiled a bill calling for a new constitutional convention to limit the power of the federal government. Rep. Bill Taylor, R-Aiken, the primary sponsor of the bill, said an Article V Convention of the States would allow states to “restrain a runaway federal government.” “It’s no secret that Americans aren’t happy with Washington, D.C.,” Taylor said in a press release. “Career politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have ignored the best interests of this country, allowing debt to spiral out
of control while stripping states of their rightful power and robbing citizens of their personal liberty. This isn’t new; it’s been happening for decades.” There are two paths to amending the Constitution – one started in Congress and the other launched by the states. Article V says if two-thirds of the state legislatures approve, Congress must call a Convention of the States to propose constitutional amendments. Three-fourths of the states must ratify an amendment through their legislatures or special ratifying conventions for the amendment to become law. “This is not a Republican or Democrat issue – this is an American issue and all sides should join together to course-correct a federal government that has way overstepped its bounds,” Taylor said. “The Convention of States is the safest, most legitimate, lawful and most effective means
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THE BLOTTER A former South Carolina trooper received an eightyear federal prison sentence for robbing a North Carolina bank at gunpoint. Robert Owens of Simpsonville pleaded guilty earlier this year to robbing the Macon Bank in Hendersonville, N.C., in February 2012, according to court records. Owens also was ordered to pay $50,000 to the bank and $23,000 to an insurance company, the Asheville Owens Citizen-Times reported. According to the federal indictment, Owens walked into the bank and spent about five minutes at the customer counter appearing to fill out bank documents. Owens then went into the bank manager’s office. During a five-minute conversation, Owens asked if the bank had $100,000 on hand daily. He then showed the manager a gun he had tucked into his waistband and ordered him to retrieve the money from the vault. A Greenville County deputy followed Owens’ car briefly but did not pull him over because the initial description of the getaway car said it had Georgia tags. He did write the tag number down, and that eventually led to Owens. Owens was at Charter Hospital in Greer when he was arrested. He was arrested a month before the robbery for criminal domestic violence. A Fountain Inn man is jailed on charges of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. John Wendell Pruitt Jr., 46, of 393 S. Nelson Drive, is being held at the Greenville County Detention Center. He is accused of shooting to death his stepmother, Sandra Nelson Pruitt, during an argument at the home Sunday. Pruitt A Greenville public works employee died Nov. 29 after he was run over by a garbage truck. Bruce Gordon III, 22, died from blunt force trauma to the head, according to the Greenville County Coroner’s Office. Gordon was on the back of the truck as it backed up to a trashcan. Authorities said they believe as Gordon was getting off the truck, he slipped and was run over. The incident happened on Marshall Court. The Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office is investigating a string of auto break-ins in the Holly Trace subdivision in Simpsonville. Six auto break-ins were reported in the subdivision, while several others were reported at other Simpsonville addresses. Anybody with information about any of the incidents is urged to call Crimestoppers at 23-CRIME.
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This year, visitors will also be able to have family portraits taken by a professional photographer in Santa’s living room right next to Santa. The portraits will be available for an additional fee. MONDAY, DEC. 9 WADE HAMPTON WOMEN’S CHOIR, 6:30PM IN THE OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE Be sure to stop and visit Winter Wonderland and be entertained by carols and other holiday songs sung by the Wade Hampton Women’s Choir. Feel and enjoy the spirit of the holidays!
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TUESDAY, DEC. 10 MONARCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHORUS, 6:30PM IN THE OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE Don’t miss the performance by the Monarch Elementary School Chorus. Enjoy the lights of Winter Wonderland while listening to music that will get you into the holiday spirit.
Winter Wonderland n Santa (through Dec. 24) n A Gift Shop n Balloon art from the Balloon Elf n Face Painters n Mascot Appearances and Performances by local school groups on selected nights n Concession Stands—drinks, snacks, and S’more Roasting Kits to make over a fire pit right there in Winter Wonderland n NEW THIS YEAR! Santa’s Living Room where you may purchase family photos taken by a professional photographer n 22 Giant Holiday Cards created by students from local Greenville County Schools
Stay connected through Facebook and our website, RoperMountainHolidayLights.com. ADMISSION PER VEHICLE: Car, Minivan or SUV: $10 Mon–Thurs; $15 Fri–Sun Activity Vans: $25 | Buses: $50 Multi Car Pass: $25. Good for three (3) visits. Saves $5–$20! Purchase at Gate. Cash and Checks Only.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11 MEET ROWDY AND SEVERAL MEMBERS OF OUR GREENVILLE ROAD WARRIORS HOCKEY TEAM, 78PM – Wear your Road Warrior jerseys, and come out to meet several of our Road Warriors along with Rowdy, the team mascot, right in Winter Wonderland! THURSDAY, DEC. 12 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHORUS, 7PM IN THE OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE Enjoy the singing of the Lake Forest Elementary School Choir as they perform in Winter Wonderland. The lights will be twinkling among the sounds of the holidays. MEET REEDY RIP’IT, 6:307:45PM Don’t miss the chance to meet Reedy, the famed mascot of the Greenville Drive, as he comes out of his off-season hibernation to meet his friends at Holiday Lights! SUNDAY, DEC. 15 THE CASHION CHORUS, ROBERT E. CASHION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 6:30PM IN THE OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE Park your car and stroll through Winter Wonderland while listening to the performances of the Robert E. Cashion Elementary School Choir. They will help get you into the spirit of the season among thousands of twinkling lights! MONDAY, DEC. 16 LEAGUE ACADEMY ADVANCED CHOIR, 6:457:15PM IN THE OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE Enjoy the music of the League Academy Advanced Choir while enjoying the lights and activities in Winter Wonderland. They will definitely get you into the holiday spirit. DOG NIGHT Dogs are welcome on the Mountain for the last time in 2013! Don’t miss out on your last chance to bring your dog to Holiday Lights and enjoy the evening with a stroll through Winter Wonderland. THURSDAY, DEC. 19 MEET THE TIGER, 78:15PM The Clemson Tiger will be greeting fans right in Winter Wonderland. Don’t miss the chance to shake paws and get a picture! THURSDAY, DEC. 26 THROUGH MONDAY, DEC. 30 DON’T MISS THE HOLIDAY BEAR!, 69PM The Holiday Bear will be visiting Holiday Lights and in Santa’s Workshop within Winter Wonderland. Don’t miss a chance to meet him and say hello. (Optional photos with the Bear may be purchased.)
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Local residents sign up for healthcare through exchanges, many on paper peals, she said. As of Nov. 26, New Horizons had enrolled 670 residents through paper applications and 40 online, she added. Those who submit paper applications don’t know their eligibility for tax credits right away and must wait to hear about their eligibility, she said. Over the last few weeks, using the online portal at the beleaguered healthcare.gov has become easier, she said. Before then, it was hit or miss whether the counselors could complete an application.
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amorris@communityjournals.com The online federal health insurance marketplace has been plagued by problems since its launch in early October, giving opponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, additional ammunition in their argument to repeal the legislation. Some Upstate residents, however, are signing up for healthcare coverage provided through the ACA since enrollment opened. “I enrolled someone online yesterday,” said Stephania Talley-Priester of New Horizon Family Health Services last week. New Horizon has been offering enrollment assistance and information through 12 certified application counselors, three of those hired as full-time counselors, said Talley-Priester. The counselors differ from navigators in that they don’t offer services like ap-
SUCCESS STORY “Not everyone agrees with it and not everyone is happy” about ACA, said Talley-Priester, but there are some who are benefiting. She recently met Mary, who worked part time and was paying $180 each week (about $720 each month) for health insurance through her employer. After paying for healthcare, Mary was left with approximately
$35 each week, said Talley-Priester. After enrolling in a bronze-level plan, she was paying $91 each month. “She was ecstatic,” said Talley-Priester. BETWEEN THE CRACKS Talley-Priester is hopeful that more people will move to sign up for benefits online now that the healthcare.gov website seems to be working better, noting that she met a man recently who waited before signing up after learning of all the technical problems. There are still some people who won’t be able to get coverage because the state opted out of Medicaid expansion, she said. One woman who attended a recent informational meeting learned that her income was too low and she did not qualify for tax credits, she said. A predicted 194,000 in South Carolina will fall into a coverage gap between Medicaid and premium subsidies, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
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have insurance, she said. “The demand is here in the Upstate.” Word of mouth has been an effec-
tive tool for reaching those who could sign up, said Talley-Priester. “Everybody knows someone who’s not covered.” And New Horizon is billing itself as a source of information and guidance, including showcasing a “Holiday Shopping in the Insurance Marketplace” float during Greenville’s upcoming Christmas parade. PART OF HISTORY Talley-Priester said she sees the changes in healthcare as momentous and that the counselors and others involved will be able to look back and know they were part of history.
Furman University will host its annual Moravian Christmas Lovefeast service on Dec. 8 at 5 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Reservations are not necessary. Based on traditions originating in the early Apostolic church, then later in the Moravian church, the Christmas Lovefeast includes the serving of Moravian buns and coffee and the lighting of beeswax candles crafted in Old Salem, N.C. Furman will provide special music for the service. For more information, call 864-294-2133.
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County Council votes down tax decrease request APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF
amorris@communityjournals.com A proposed resolution to put a potential property tax decrease on a referendum in November 2014 was voted down by Greenville County Council during its Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday night. Councilman Joe Dill proposed to lower Greenville County’s millage by two mills, from 51.9 mills to 49.9 mills. Dill and Willis Meadows supported the resolution while H.G. “Butch” Kirven, Fred Payne, Joe Baldwin, Sid Cates, Jim Burns, Bob Taylor, Xanthene Norris, Liz Seman and Dan Rawls voted against it. Lottie Gibson was absent. Payne put forward a counter-resolution that recognized the county’s “22year efficient and effective financial management” and AAA bond rating without raising millage. Payne’s resolution passed in an 8-3 vote with Dill, Meadows and Baldwin voting against. Noting that the county has a $51
million reserve balance, Dill said that one month ago, the council was considering a referendum to raise the sales tax to fund roads, but now won’t allow one to lower taxes. “We have a black eye out there and the council just changed the whole scope of the debate,” he said. “Rather than discussing whether we have been thrifty, we should have been discussing whether to put a referendum out there.” Kirven said the council should not change a sound fiscal policy that was put in place by previous members of council. The reduction “would signal a change in policy that has brought us through thick and thin.” Kirven added that millage changes should be made during the budget planning process rather than midyear. Dill countered that if a referendum passed in 2014, the change would be timed perfectly with the next budget process. Meadows argued that even though the county has not raised millage rates, property taxes have increased
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the two-mill reduction. That motion failed in a 3-8 vote with Dill, Baldwin and Meadows in favor and Cates, Burns, Taylor, Norris, Seman, Rawls, Kirven and Payne against. Payne said the goal should be raising the income in Greenville County to the national average and creating an “abundance mentality.” In other business, council voted down 5-6 a rezoning request of property on 1504 Brushy Creek Road from a planned office development to planned development, with Kirven, Burns, Norris, Seman and Rawls in favor and Dill, Baldwin, Meadows, Cates, Payne and Taylor against. Council will consider at its next meeting an amendment to the zoning ordinance to allow backyard chickens in certain areas. Council members will be submitting names for the Greenville Citizen Roads Advisory Commission this month. The commission was created to draft a list of priority road projects in Greenville County and resulted from the discussion of a potential local option sales tax referendum to fund road improvements. Greenville County Council is scheduled to meet again on Jan. 7, 2014, 6 p.m., at County Square, 301 University Ridge, Greenville.
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ICE FOLLIES Experts offer tips for staying safe when the mercury drops SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF | sjackson@communityjournals.com
With the National Weather Service’s Winter Weather Awareness in full swing this week and holiday travel plans in the works, it’s time for a refresher on winter weather safety. According to the S.C. Department of Public Safety, five people died on S.C. roads during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. AAA Carolinas estimated 567,000 South Carolinians drove during the holiday weekend, an increase of 11,600 over last year. Before hitting the road, AAA Carolinas advises travelers to carefully monitor weather forecasts, and if a winter storm is looming, to consider altering plans to avoid traveling through the worst of it. Also, be sure to check the car battery before heading out. When starting your car in the morning, turn on electricity first and wait 30 seconds for the battery to warm up before starting. During the winter months, AAA Carolinas expects a 25 percent increase in batteryrelated calls. The National Weather Service (NWS) says that each year, dozens of Americans die due to exposure to cold. Add to that number vehicle accidents and fatalities, fires due to dangerous use of heaters and other winter weather fataliSEE ties, and that constitutes a significant threat. The NWS issues outlooks, watches, warnings and advisories for all winter weather hazards. According to its Winter Storm Preparedness Guide, an outlook means that winter storm conditions are possible in the next two to five days. A
watch is issued when winter storm conditions are possible within the next 36-48 hours. Warnings mean that lifethreatening severe winter conditions have begun or will begin within 24 hours. An advisory is issued when winter weather conditions are expected to cause significant inconveniences and may be hazardous. The NWS recommends listening to local officials’ recommendations and to NOAA Weather Radio for the latest winter storm information. Neil Dixon, a meteorologist at the NWS at GSP, says that even though the overall precipitation outlook for the Upstate is showing a 30-40 percent chance to be drier this season, we can still expect at least one or two highimpact winter weather storms. “We usually have at least a few high-impact winter weather events during the season that are one- or two-day events.” Dixon says now is the time to put together a preparedness kit. He suggests stocking up on nonperishable food and water “in case there is a prolonged power outage.” Dixon also says it’s a good idea to have at least a couple weeks’ PAGE 30 supply of infant formulas and diapers if there are small children in the household, and to have enough medications on hand. Also, “if you rely on propane for heating, keep fuel levels with enough reserves to make it through a week to 10 days,” he says.
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Winter Driving Tips From AAA Carolinas: • INCREASE YOUR FOLLOWING DISTANCE from 3-4 seconds to 8-10 seconds. On dry pavement at 20 mph it takes about 20 feet to stop. On ice-covered roads at 25 degrees, it takes 145 feet to stop – seven times further. Keep your speed appropriate to the needed stopping distance. • BRAKE GRADUALLY with steady pressure on the brake. If you begin to skid, steer in the direction you want to go. If you have anti-lock brakes, keep the brake firmly engaged; if you don’t have anti-lock brakes, gently depress the brake pedal. Don’t slam on your brakes; it can cause you to lose control. If the brakes lock, release the brake and gently brake again while keeping your heel on the floor. • BE ESPECIALLY WARY ON HILLS. Observe how other vehicles are reacting. Build momentum at the bottom of the hill and reduce speed when cresting the hill. • STAY IN THE MOST RECENTLY CLEARED LANE on snowy four-lane highways. Avoid changing lanes because of potential control loss when driving over built-up snow between lanes.
a slightly different line. Fresh snow or less polished areas almost always offer better traction. • AVOID USING CRUISE CONTROL in rainy, slick or snowy conditions. • BE CAREFUL CROSSING BRIDGES and overpasses, as these freeze before the regular roadway. • KEEP YOUR LIGHTS ON. Using your headlights improves visibility, both yours and other drivers. Many states, North and South Carolina included, require your headlights to be on when your windshield wipers are in use.
• TRACTION IS GREATEST right before the wheels start to spin. Press gently on the accelerator and use a higher (second or third) gear when first getting started. Keep in mind that roads are the slickest during the first 15 minutes of a rain shower. • SLOW DOWN SOONER and gradually when approaching an intersection to allow yourself more time to react. Watch out for polished or packed snow at stoplights or intersections, which can make halting more treacherous. Heavy-footed drivers also spin their tires when starting, which worsens the problem. If possible, stop or start safely on
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The St. Anthony Catholic School Mixed Choir welcomes the crowd with Christmas carols.
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Here comes Santa Claus Right down Main Street for the Poinsettia Christmas Parade SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF
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Christmas officially begins in Greenville with the annual Poinsettia Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. The parade has been a favorite holiday tradition for Greenville families for more than 20 years. This year, outgoing Clemson University President Jim
Barker will serve as grand marshal, leading more than 90 floats and marching units on a one-mile parade route down Main Street in downtown Greenville. After nearly 14 years Barker as Clemson’s president, Barker recently announced plans to retire and return to the faculty of the School of Architecture. “We are thrilled to welcome President Jim Barker as the grand marshal for this year’s parade,” said Mayor Knox White. “With the exponential growth of Clemson University over the last decade, we have seen Barker’s vision of making Greenville Clemson’s ‘home city’ become a reality. We are honored to have the opportunity to recognize him for his visionary leadership alongside the thousands of people who will attend one of our signature events.” The city kicked off the event with a 15-day countdown that began Nov. 22 with photos of parade entrants posted on the city’s main Facebook page.
Santa has been known to make an early appearance prior to some years’ parades.
Floats will include one from the students of A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, and The Children’s Museum of the Upstate will debut their “Clifford’s Big Red Christmas” float. Other parade walkers will include the Riverside High School Marching Band, WSPA Channel 7 and Tom Crabtree, Spotlight Dance Company, Paws 2 Care, BSA Pack 11 Cub Scouts and the Greenville Skating Club. The one-mile parade route will
stretch down Main Street from North Street to Augusta Street and feature musical marching groups, elaborately decorated floats and, of course, Santa Claus. The parade is free to the public and spectators will find ample places to view the parade, with prime seating located from the Main Street Bridge south toward Falls Park. The parade will be featured next week on GTV (Charter channel 15 and U-verse channel 99). For more information, visit events.greenvillesc.gov.
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Light displays to brighten the holidays jputnam@communityjournals.com The holiday season is full of traditions to light the spark of the season, and one is holiday light displays. While there are many options to enjoy lights, here is a list of family-friendly displays:
Hollywild Animal Park
2325 Hampton Road, Wellford Attractions: Lights in displays of all shapes and sizes; Santa’s Village; meeting and petting animals including camels, bison, horses, goats, alpacas, antelope, deer and zebras; bonfires; and hot cocoa. Open: Nightly through Jan. 4. Cost: $6 per person for drive-thru lights with access to Santa’s Village; $10 per car for optional Enchanted Deer Forest Experience, which includes animal food. For information: visit hollywild. com or call 864-472-2038.
Roper Mountain Science Center
402 Roper Mountain Road, Greenville Attractions: Drive-thru lights; Winter Wonderland with photos with Santa Claus, cards by local students and concessions. Open: Nightly through Dec. 30. Cost: $10 for car, minivan or SUV on Mondays-Thursdays; $15 for car, minivan or SUV on Fridays through Sundays; $25 for activity vans; $50 for buses; $25 for multi-car pass (good for three visits) For information: visit ropermountainholidaylights.com.
Lights of Hope
Darwin Wright Park, exit 21 off I-85 in Anderson Attractions: Drive-thru lights; and Santa’s Village featuring Santa’s
Lodge, Mrs. Claus’s Kitchen, ELF Radio and other activities Open: Daily at 5:30 p.m. Closes at 10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday through Christmas. Cost: $8 per car; $10 per church van; and $20 per bus For information: visit andersonlightsofhope.org or call 864-940-9371.
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Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, 500 Wildlife Parkway, Columbia Attractions: Walk-through light displays; snow machines; fire pits for roasting marshmallows; photos with Santa; and concessions Open: Nightly through Dec. 30 Cost: $10 per adult, $8 per child For information: visit riverbanks. org or call 803-779-8717.
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106 Shearbrook Drive, Mauldin (inside of the Butler Station development) Attractions: Lights with a 21-foot mega tree operated by a 16-channel computerized controller; hot chocolate and popcorn. Open: Through Jan. 1, SundayThursday, 6-10 p.m. Cost: Free, but donations are accepted.
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Representatives from SYNNEX, SYNNEX Share the Magic and the four local children’s charities receiving funds – Make-A-Wish Foundation of SC, Pendleton Place for Children and Families, A Child’s Haven and Clement’s Kindness – at SYNNEX for the check presentations.
SYNNEX raises more than $1M for local charities This week, SYNNEX Corporation presented four local charities with approximately $1.07 million following its 2013 Share the Magic fundraiser. The charities include A Child’s Haven, Clement’s Kindness Fund for the Children, Make-A-Wish Foundation
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Children walk to the front of the room at SYNNEX to announce the total raised at this year’s SYNNEX Share the Magic Gala during the check presentation event for four local children’s charities. $1,065,804 was raised at the event.
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While the rest of the Southeast is blasting heaters and stoking the wood stoves in preparation for cold winter nights, Mignon Durham is enjoying her perfectly tempered, 68-degree house and its $0 heating bill. With the help of Blue Ridge Energy Systems (BRES), Durham built a house that is so well insulated she never expects to pay an energy bill again. In fact, Durham will be producing so much energy that a bidirectional meter will place the excess energy back on the grid for Duke Power Co. to use for other homes, she said. “Duke Power will credit my bill for the amount of energy [produced paid per kilowatt], so in theory I will have a $0 bill,” Durham said. The key to energy sufficiency is to “build well, insulate tight and ventilate
mornings and evenings, so we try to avoid those windows or use them sparingly,” said Jamie Shelton, project manager and partner at BRES. Using North Carolina’s Arboretum as a guide, BRES created a rain runoff garden that siphoned the rain from the steep driveway and sawtooth roof into a small pond below the house. This prevents stormwater from eroding the creek on the property, Shelton said. Durham was adamant that the house be designed to impact nature as little as possible. “What I do here matters to the people across the street. What I do on my land matters to the people who live down the stream from me,” she said. In addition to positioning for optimal sun exposure, two-by-six-inch framing allowed for more insulation between the walls than an average two-by-four, Durham said. The builder added “a plastic sheet called a vapor barrier that runs from the floor all the way up to the ceiling that is taped and seamed,” she said. “There is no infiltration of outside air to the inside. They wrap this plastic around every hole created in the outside of the house. It’s like wrapping the house in a plastic bag.” This labor-intensive process elimi-
nates air leakage from the house so that it stays a perfect 68 degrees in the winter and 70 degrees in the summer, she said. However, a tightly insulated home still needs fresh air circulating inside, so Durham’s builders turned to a heat recovery ventilator, which uses the temperature of outgoing air to moderate the temperature of incoming air. “It saves energy by reducing the heating and cooling requirements so that the [incoming] air, after being filtered, is at the same 68 degrees as the rest of the house,” Durham said. The next step for BRES and Durham is the application of 10 Kw AC photovoltaic panels on her roof. BRES designed a section of the roof over the garage specifically for this purpose. “We added the butterfly roof section over the garage to provide a place to put a photovoltaic array [solar panels] and to add visual interest – it’s a contemporary twist to an early industrial architectural,” Shelton said. “Cost and payback is a factor in virtually all of our material selections and building decisions,” he said. “Our homes cost little more than conventional construction to build, but the annual cost of living in them is about $2,500 less than conventional construction.”
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The gift of reading Shoppers can share their favorite children’s books through Reach Out and Read APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF
amorris@communityjournals.com After the Black Friday furor, shoppers are most likely still browsing the well-stocked shelves for gifts this holiday season. Those who pick up books or other literary gifts at Barnes and Noble at Greenridge have the opportunity to donate a children’s book to a child who may not have any books at home. Reach Out and Read Carolinas is collecting books now through Dec. 31 and distributing them to children through pediatricians and nurse practitioners. The healthcare providers also emphasize the importance of reading aloud daily to children. Young patients receive a book at each checkup between 6 months and age 5, a critical time in brain and language development and school readiness, said
Reach Out and Read gives about 40,000 books each year to children in Greenville County through their regular doctor visits. The organization stresses daily reading to young children.
Reach Out and Read executive director Callee Boulware. The partnership offers gift-givers the chance to purchase “fantastic gifts of literacy” and give additional books to Reach Out and Read programs, she said. The program reaches about 120,000 children annually across the state and 20,000 each year in Greenville County, said Boulware. In about 15 clinical locations, practitioners give out approximately 40,000 books each year, along with age-appropriate tips.
“A lot of the families we are serving are living in a pretty high level of poverty and don’t necessarily have access to children’s books in the home,” said Boulware. Shoppers don’t have to stick to a predetermined list of children’s titles to donate, said Boulware; they can choose their favorite childhood books or their children’s favorite to share. “All of those books that are given through Barnes and Noble in Greenville
stay in Greenville County and support the children in that local community,” she said. Reach Out and Read also wants to emphasize reading to all children, she added. “The national average is only 48 percent of kids are read to every day, so 52 percent of children are not read to daily – and that’s including way more families than those living in a high level of poverty,” she said. “We know that it’s an essential piece of a child’s life and it needs to happen every day. It’s critical that we don’t let that daily reading with our families slide.” For more information, visit reachoutandreadsc.org.
Paying it forward Another opportunity to “pay forward” blessings this season is contributing to the Upstate-based Set Free Alliance, which is offering a gift swap to benefit recently freed slave children in India. The charity is providing food, clothing and shelter for 525 slave children who were released from slave labor in a quarry in Andhra Pradesh, India. Donors receive a Christmas card with photos of the children to send to family, friends or coworkers. “We just ask that whatever you were going to spend on a tie for Uncle Joe is what you spend instead on a card that will provide for these children,” said David Moorhead, president of the Set Free Alliance. Visit setfreealliance.org to purchase a card.
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As part of Computer Education Week, Dec. 9-15, CODE is sponsoring an Hour of Code Campaign. This campaign is designed to introduce students to 21stcentury computer programming. Southside High School was selected as South Carolina’s winner for the Hour of Code Campaign and will receive $10,000 for computer hardware and accessories. Students of Southside High School will participate in the Hour of Code on Dec. 10 during fourth period. St. Joseph’s Catholic School Fine Arts Department will sponsor two Christmas concerts featuring the middle school and high school music programs. The Middle School Chorus, Band and Strings Ensembles will perform on Dec. 10 and the High School Chorus, Band and Strings Ensembles will perform on Dec. 12. Both concerts begin at 7 p.m. Admission is free and guests are asked to bring one non-perishable food item to help stock local food pantries. The public is invited to attend holiday music performances at Greenville Middle Academy: Dec. 10, chorus holiday concert; Dec. 16, band holiday concert; and Dec. 17, strings holiday concert. All concerts will be at 7 p.m. at the school.
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All are invited to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season at Shannon Forest Christian School on Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m., with a special evening of music and dining. The Shannon Concert Choir, Middle School Choir and special guests will present “Thrill of Hope” by Joel Raney in the East Campus (LS) Gymnasium. The evening will also feature a three-course dinner. “Thrill of Hope” is a dynamic retelling of the Christmas story divided into four parts: Hope, Love, Peace and Joy. Proceeds will benefit the Shannon Forest Concert Choir trip to New York City in March 2014. Tickets are $20 per person or $150 to reserve a table for eight. Special, hand-painted, commemorative ornaments will also be available for $10. Tickets are available by calling 864-678-5107 or stopping by the main office of the school. Strings students recently performed at Greenville Middle’s first Related Arts Showcase. Students and parents received an overview of all Related Arts classes and viewed student work. Alan Ethridge from the Metropolitan Arts Council was the featured speaker. Alan Ethridge of the Metropolitan Arts Council with Greenville Middle PTA co-presidents Susanne Dziekan and Tammy Menches.
Shannon Forest Christian School recently sent a record number of middle and high school students to Columbia to participate in the 2013 YMCA Youth in Government Conference. The SFCS delegation was named as a Premier Delegation. Thomas Gasque and Noah Weaver earned the Outstanding Bill Award; Luke Anderson, Jack Cummings, Daniel Nickles and Carolina Stewart were named as Outstanding Statesmen; and for the first time, SFCS had bills signed into YIG law. Samuel Glenn was named as Outstanding Statesman; the team of Kyle Bradley, Seth Garrison and Samuel Glenn earned the Outstanding Bill Award; and Daniel Juarez was chosen to attend the YMCA Youth Conference on National Affairs over the summer. Samuel Glenn was chosen as the SFCS alternate. In the recent Augusta Circle Elementary Clemson vs. Carolina Food Drive, the students collected and donated 2,666 items to Loaves & Fishes. This was a total of 2,750 pounds and the largest single donation Loaves & Fishes has ever received.
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ACTIVITIES, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS This year’s Shannon Forest Christian School Homecoming Spirit Week raised $3,620 for Blankets of Hope, a project of Defenders for Children and Safe Families for Children. Both are organizations that provide aid for children who have been victims of abuse. Blankets of Hope is a local organization that gives blankets to children in Greenville who are taken out of their homes because of dangerous situations. The Safe Families for Children program provides hope to children and parents in crisis and a safe alternative to child welfare custody.
Legacy Charter School recently hosted its first annual Legacy Upstate Basketball Classic. Schools from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia participated in the tournament. The participating schools were Atlanta Sports Academy, Faith Baptist, Riverside Christian, Bull City Prep, 22FT Academy, Gray Military and Mountain Mission. Author Jonathan Miller visited Ellen Woodside Elementary to
Furman University talk to students about being an author and illustrator. Miller shared his newest book, “The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder education professor Dachshund: Sammy in Space,” with students in all grades. Paul Thomas has been named the winner of the 2013 George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language by the National Council of Teachers of English. Thomas was honored for his blog post, “Evidence? Secretary Duncan, You Can’t Handle the Evidence,” which challenged U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s support of Common Core academic standards. Bob Jones Academy first-graders have partnered with Greenville Memorial Hospital to prepare cards of encouragement for children who are admitted to the hospital after visiting the emergency room. Each month students make seasonally themed cards, include cheerful messages and decorate them.
Seventy St. Joseph’s Catholic School high school students attended the YMCA’s annual Youth in Government Conference held recently at the State House in Columbia. Junior Claire Andrew received the Terry Haskins Christian Leadership Award, senior Sean Rusnak was chosen to argue and won the constitutional bill challenge against the Youth Attorney General in front of the Supreme Court, senior Noah Schammel was selected to attend the Committee on National Affairs next summer. Senior Austin VanHouten and juniors Christopher Baumgarten, Keyes Gilmer and Glenn Andrew were chosen to be alternates. Senior Wil Magaha received an Outstanding Statesman Award for the Senate. Senior Kira Sawyers and junior Caroline Baer had their bill selected as an Outstanding Bill Award. Advisor Meby Carr received the Bobby O’Rear Outstanding Advisor Award for 2013. The entire high school delegation received the Premier Delegation recognition.
St. Joseph’s Catholic School junior Claire Andrew and SJCS history teacher Meby Carr were recently honored at the annual Youth in Government Conference.
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The Greenville High SCUBA Dive Team has been awarded a grant from the Greenville County Soil and Water Conservation Department for habitat improvement of underwater freshwater fish and mussels. The project will be to develop artificial freshwater reefs for sport fish and freshwater mussels, so as to improve water quality and promote student knowledge of water aquaculture. The study will begin this winter and continue into early summer 2014. It is expected to be a long-term project of several years and will be the springboard for future studies. Lisa Stoiser, a 2011 Greenville High graduate, is a Johnson Scholar at Washington & Lee University. The Johnson Scholarship program is a prestigious scholarship that fully funds Stosier’s education. She worked at a neuroscience lab in Dresden, Germany, and her collaborative research dealt with chemosensory perception in renowned German scientist Thomas Hummel’s lab. Washington Center has been focusing on science using the Unique Curriculum. The classes made science fair projects using the scientific method. Sharon Russo’s class focused on Sink or Float, asking, “Do candy bars sink or float?” They experimented with six types of candy bars and students made their own predictions using eye gaze through symbols. Washington Center teacher Sharon Russo displays the results of her class science project with students (from left) Iver Solis, Jason Moo and Mya Ballenger.
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The Mauldin Garden Club will have their Christmas dinner on Dec. 10, 6:30 p.m., at the Kilgore Lewis House. The Jan. 14, 7 p.m., meeting will cover the topic of compostology with special speaker Barbara Wilder. The club meets in the Mauldin Cultural Center, East Butler Road. To learn more, visit mauldingardenclub.org or contact Ann Smith at jerryannesm115@yahoo.com. Artios Academies of Greenville will present the annual “Christmas Extravaganza” on Dec. 12, 6 and 8 p.m., at the Kroc Center. The family-friendly musical revue is a tribute to Irving Berlin’s holiday classic “White Christmas.” A cupcake dessert reception will also be provided by With Love and Confection. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Artios scholarship fund, which provides needbased assistance to qualifying families. Tickets are $10 and are available at artioschristmas2013.eventbrite.com or at the door. Maximum cost is $39 for a family of four or more (immediate family only). For more information, call 864-420-5179. The Earth Market Holiday Market will be held on Dec. 14, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at NoMa Square, 220 N. Main St., Greenville. Earth Markets feature producers selling their own products and are pesticide-, herbicide-, steroid- and hormone-free. For more information, visit slowfoodupstate.com/earthmarket.
Junior Achievement will host an Ethics in Sports Discussion and Luncheon on Dec. 13, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., at USC Upstate. Area high school students will participate in facilitated discussions and attend a panel discussion featuring Dr. Steve Geary, physician with Steadman Hawkins and team doctor for multiple sports teams; Willie Green, former receiver for the Denver Broncos, player in two Super Bowl championships and VP of external affairs and government relations at World Acceptance Corporation; Dr. Colleen Keith, president of Spartanburg Methodist College; and Billy Webster and Kyle Young, Clemson University associate athletic director and former Clemson football player. Members of the business, academic and civic communities are invited. Tickets are $20 each. To register, visit jaupstatesc.org/events/ja-ethics-luncheon. For more information, contact Connie Lanzl at connie.lanzl@ja.org or 864-244-4017. Five historic homes will be festooned in holiday finery and will receive visitors on Dec. 14, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Featured homes include Whitehall, which is celebrating 200 years; a 1920 arts-and-crafts bungalow at 328 W. Earle St.; a 1910 prairie-style home at 800 N. Main St. at Earle; a 1927 colonial revival home at 106 James St.; and a 1920 clapboard family home at 201 E. Earle St. Tickets are $20 and available at Horizon Records, Foxfire, Mast General Store, The Emporium, at ceehda.com or by calling 864-414-5952 or 864-901-7155. Tickets will be available on the day of the tour for $25 at the homes. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to The Salvation Army. Enrollment is underway for the Evening Music Program of Appalachian music lessons in guitar, mandolin, fiddle and banjo. The next session will begin the week of Dec. 16. This program is open to ages third-grade to adult and is designed to teach students to play Appalachian music with acoustic instruments. Six-week sessions are offered at Easley First Baptist Church, Pickens Senior Center, Saint
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Monster Jam’s monster trucks will roar into the Bon Secours Wellness Arena Jan. 24-25. The event will feature Monster Jam trucks Grave Digger, Wolverine, Predator, Prowler, Samson, Higher Education, Iron Warrior and more. Tickets are $32-$52 and some seats are $5 for children 2-12. Pit passes are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets are available at the arena box office, Ticketmaster or by calling 1-800-745-3000. An Angel’s Attic Children’s Consignment Sale is taking consignor applications for its spring/summer public sale at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, 2252 Woodruff Road, Simpsonville, on Jan. 23-25. The event is a semi-annual fundraiser for youth programs. For more information, visit anangelsatticsale.org. Greenville Health System recently purchased a RIVA fully automatic IV compounding pharmacy, the first in the region. Manufactured by Intelligent Hospital Systems, the automatic pharmacy can increase safety and accuracy, according to hospital officials. The technology is expected to be in operation in 2014. Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site outside Hendersonville, N.C., will host holiday musicians and storytellers every Saturday at 11 a.m. through New Years. This celebration will honor Carl Sandburg and highlights the Sandburg family tradition of singing holiday music. Guided tours are available and children can participate in sing-alongs and crafts from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Performers include Carroll Ownbey on grand harp, the Southern Appalachian Chamber Singers, Pat Corn on the guitar and Jim Fox and Gayle Asburn on autoharp and hammered dulcimer. The park is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years days. For more information, call 828-693-4178 or visit nps.gov/carl.
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The Piedmont Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals recently presented the Philanthropy Day awards to seven Upstate philanthropists. Riley Fields, director of community relations for the Carolina Panthers, was the guest speaker. Those honored included: Lemia Clarence Batts Jr., selected by The United Way of the Piedmont; Kenneth R. Couch, R. Ph., selected by Mobile Meals of Spartanburg; Greenville Women Giving, selected by Meals on Wheels Greenville; Robert E. Gregory Jr., selected by Spartanburg County Foundation; Golden Strip Church Coalition, selected by Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County; Stephen M. Grant, selected by Miracle Hill Ministries and The Family Effect; and E. Smyth McKissick III, selected by Clemson University. The Mary Black Foundation recently announced the re-election of three trustees and officers for 2014: Jack McBride, Byrd Miller and Betsy Teter were elected for an additional four-year term. Officers for 2014 include: Ruth L. Cate as board chair, William A. Coker as vice-chair, Ethan Burroughs, Sr. as treasurer, and Katherine Dunleavy as secretary. McBride and Miller will also serve on the foundation’s executive committee. Additional information is available at maryblackfoundation.org. The Apple Gold Group, a franchisee of Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar, partnered with the Nicholtown Community Choir to raise more than $1,000 at a recent Flapjack Fundraiser. All proceeds will go toward an annual Christmas project to help construct a building for its senior citizens. In addition, Dance United raised more than $1,500 with its Flapjack Fundraiser. Proceeds from the breakfast will be used to send the dance members to upcoming competitions throughout the Southeast. The Children’s Museum of the Upstate will hold The 2014 Chocolate Soiree on March 20 at The Poinsett Club in Greenville. There will be a new aspect of the fundraiser, which will allow the chefs to mix and mingle with guests. In addition, the event will feature Sweet Seats, an art project that will include 10 handcrafted
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In connection with the volunteerism of 47 staff members from Wells Fargo Bank on three Habitat home builds in Travelers Rest, Wells Fargo presented Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County with a contribution of $15,000 in support of its mission. From left, Karen Lambert, Upstate SC area president of Wells Fargo; Matthew Smith, president of Wells Fargo’s Upstate Volunteerism Chapter; and Hamlet Almonte, Wells Fargo assistant vice president and store manager of the Haywood Road office, present the grant award to Monroe Free, president and CEO, Habitat Greenville; Gail Peay, grants and donor relations manager; and Barbara Martin, vice president of development, Habitat Greenville.
benches by local artists. Winning bidders in an auction receive naming rights for the bench and can later donate it to a school, church or community center after one year. The evening will also include a Tombola Wall where those who win in an auction can select a box from the wall. Donations are being taking for the wall; call 864-553-7935 or email jhernandez@tcmupstate.org. Sponsorship and ticket packages are on sale at thechocolatesoiree.com. The Center for Development Services recently received a $25,000 grant from the Hollingsworth Funds. The grant will help fund family support partnership programs during 2014. Greenville Pickens Anderson Transportation Survey announced that three Greenville County schools, Legacy Charter Elementary, Cherrydale Elementary and East North Street Academy, will receive planning assistance to develop a Safe Routes to School Action Plan. The plans will address the infrastructure currently in place, including sidewalks and pedestrian signage, and make recommendations on how to make it safer and easier for students and others to walk and bike to school. The consulting team will work closely with staff and parents and will finish each plan in about four months. Funding is provided through the Community Transformation Grant. The Frame Warehouse and Gallery in Greer raised approximately $3,500 for the Greenville Health System’s Cancer Institute at its Holiday Open House. Harvest Hope Food Bank recently celebrated the grand opening of their new Emergency Food Pantry with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The pantry will provide those in need with a five- to six-day supply of food. Food packages vary depending on donations but usually include non-perishable and perishable items such as fruit, vegetables, bread, meat and dried goods. For more information, visit harvesthope. org or call 864-281-3995.
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h g t r h r e W A e l g a n y! i J Greenville author asked to write pirate Christmas story to be turned into play CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF | clandrum@communityjournals.com
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hen playwrights Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman were looking for something to turn into a Christmas play for children, they thought of Greenville children’s book author Melinda Long. The pair had previously turned Long’s “How I Became a Pirate” children’s book into a more than hourlong musical. They wanted to revisit the story of Jeremy Jacob and Captain Braid Beard’s band of friendly pirates, and asked Long to write an original story they could turn into a Christmas play. The end result is “Jingle Arrgh the Way! A Christmas Pirate Adventure,” a musical that will be performed by the South Carolina Children’s Theatre this weekend and next in the Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre. The first of six productions is Friday at 7 p.m. Long said “Jingle Arrgh the Way” is a story about the spirit of Christmas told through a child’s eyes. “He’s trying to explain to the pirates who had never heard of Christmas what Christmas is all about,” she said. “It’s the spirit of giving and the spirit of loving.” “How I Became a Pirate,” told the story of Jeremy Jacob, a boy who is building a sand castle on the beach when he sees a pirate ship sail into view. The pirates rowed to shore and told him they needed a digger. He learned to be a pirate and he decided he liked it – until he
found out pirates don’t tuck kids in at night or read bedtime stories. Eventually, he gets home and the pirates bury the treasure in his back yard.
Other than Captain Braid Beard, none of the pirates in Long’s book had names. But that changed when Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman wrote their adaptation of the book, one of two published versions available for children’s theaters to perform. “When the pirates were given names and developed personalities, the play just started to write itself. The songs started to happen,” Vogt said. “We really wanted JINGLE continued on PAGE 46
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to stay faithful to Melinda’s story because it was so charming and full of life. We wanted fans of the book to be able to see it come to life on stage.” They developed Shark Tooth, described as the most fearsome pirate on the seven seas but really a gentle soul at heart; Swill, the pirate who gets blamed for everything that goes wrong; Pierre, the French cook; and Max, a character who carries a stuffed parrot on his shoulder throughout the entire play. The rest of the pirates know the bird is not real but don’t have the heart to tell him. “Mark and Janet are amazing,” Long said. “With ‘How I Became a Pirate,’ they stuck to the storyline. I am so looking forward to seeing ‘Jingle Arrgh the Way.’” In that story, a mysterious message left in the crow’s nest – “if it’s treasure you know, seek the land of Christmas snow” – brings the pirates back to North Beach to ask Jacobs to join the crew again and help them find the treasure. Jacobs agrees to go but reminds the captain that he must be back in time to perform in his school’s Christmas play. The pirates sail to the North Pole in a ship decked out in lights and Christmas decorations. “When they reach the North Pole, things happen to help them discover the real treasure of Christmas is the spirit
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of giving,” Friedman said. “It’s all over the news about stores opening on Thanksgiving and family time being cut down because everybody has to get out and shop. It makes it seem like Christmas is all about presents or the dollar, but it’s not. This show is about the real spirit of the holiday.” Vogt said that while the characters are the same in the two pirate musicals, each story stands on its own and people who didn’t see “How I Became a Pirate” can follow and enjoy
“Jingle Arrgh the Way.” Long said she has been amazed at the public reaction to her pirate books and she attributes some of it to the fact that Disney released “Pirates of the Caribbean” about the same time as “How I Became a Pirate” was released. “Pirates Don’t Change Diapers” followed. “Everybody was pirate-crazy,” she said. She said a third pirate book is in the making – she’s completed the writing – and she’s hopeful “Jingle Arrgh the Way” will be published as a book as well.
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‘Living a constant Christmas gift’ Violinist Mark O’Connor brings ‘Appalachian Christmas’ tour to Peace Center CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF
clandrum@communityjournals.com Through Mark O’Connor’s eyes, life is a continuous Christmas gift. The Grammy-award winning artist is in the midst of his second Christmas tour based on his chart-topping “Appalachian Christmas” album released in 2011 – and says the method he authored to teach violin that features all American music is growing in popularity. “Honestly, since the O’Connor Method was released, I feel like I’m living a constant Christmas gift,” he said. “Every day, I hear about some child who was awakened by it.” O’Connor says Appalachia is the original melting pot of this country, featuring more diverse styles of American music than pretty much anywhere else. His “Appalachian Christmas” album reflects that. The album features traditional Christmas carols, folk, bluegrass and jazz recorded with a slate of guest artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor, Renee Fleming, Alison Kraus and Jane Monheit. While those guest artists won’t be
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with O’Connor during his Dec. 10 concert at the Peace Center, O’Connor said he and his band would play the entire album, plus some surprises. “It’s very organic, real and true,” O’Connor said. The band includes his son, Forrest, who sings one of O’Connor’s favorite songs from the album, “Now It Belongs to You.” Steve Wariner wrote the song – about a fiddle that was passed down through generations of a family – specifically for O’Connor. “The song is a direct reference to the fiddle, but it is a great metaphor for anything,” O’Connor said. That includes family holiday traditions, he said. “The family unit is not as strong as it used to be. It’s harder to establish a strong culture, a tradition.” O’Connor said celebrating American music is key to his violin teaching method. “I saw an opportunity to bring a new idea into an environment coming undone,” he said. “We were not nourishing future classical musicians. I saw a cultural issue. There was a lack of creativity and new players in classical music with bold ideas. I was seeing it by the thousands. There was a trend line there and it was not healthy. I thought American music could put the pieces together.” O’Connor said modern classical violin students who develop a working knowledge of folk fiddling, jazz music and world music styles can enjoy a lifetime of music-making.
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Greenville native Lee Billings pens otherworldly debut JEANNE PUTNAM | CONTRIBUTOR
jputnam@communityjournals.com Greenville native Lee Billings will return home to promote his first book, “Five Billion Years of Solitude,” at Fiction Addiction on Dec. 12. Billings, a science journalist who has written for Psychology Today, Popular Mechanics and Scientific American, said his interest in science developed at an early age. “One summer when I was young, my mother was teaching illiterate adults how to read at the Symmes Branch of the Greenville Library and I came along each time,” he said. “I kind of ended up reading all the astronomy and science books because of all the pretty pictures.” That particular book-filled summer, combined with field trips to the planetarium at Roper Mountain Science Center, looking at the stars with a department-store telescope with his dad, and seeing a scale model of the solar system at Furman University added to his love of science, Billings said. That early love of science prompted
Billings to attend the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis after he graduated from Riverside High School in 1999. “I wanted to be a scientist or astronomer, but midway through my coursework I came to the realization that I was much more verbal than mathematical and ended up going into journalism,” he said. “I worked for the school paper for awhile and wanted to be close to scientists and science since I couldn’t do it.” Billings graduated in 2003 and couldn’t get a job in journalism in Minnesota, so he did odd jobs such as loan processing and telemarketing until 2005, when he decided to move in with friends in New York. “I slept in a crawlspace above a closet and worked as a bookseller at Barnes and Noble by night, but was lucky enough to land an internship at Psychology Today,” he said. Billings credits his career in science journalism with leading him to discover the topic of exoplanets – planets that revolve around a star much like Earth around the sun – and to write a book
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about it. However, Billings said that the path to get the book published was not an easy one. “I started thinking about the book in 2007, but when I was looking into it in
2009-2010, people didn’t think planets were cool,” he said. As a first-time author, “it took me a little over two years to work out a proposal for the book that publishers would look at,” he said. “I signed the contract in September 2011 and delivered the manuscript in November 2012.” Billings said a lot of travel went into the research. He spoke with scientists in California and Pennsylvania. The book is equally about the people doing the exoplanet research as much as it is about exoplanet discovery, he said. While Billings is supporting “Five Billion Years of Solitude” through promotional visits, he says he is not sure about when his next book will come out. “I am doing a good amount of feature writing and focusing on longform features because that’s where books come from,” he said. “There is a lot more to this topic because it’s a hot topic in astronomy, but I think I captured things really well and don’t think I need to revisit in the form of a book for several years. I’m waiting on the field to catch up.”
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Make a journey to holidays past BJU Museum offers a Victorian Christmas SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF
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sjackson@communityjournals.com There are several places across Greenville to get a touch of holiday cheer – but if you want to combine the visit with a history lesson, then the Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery is the place to go. The museum is located in an unassuming building on the campus of Bob Jones University that belies the vast collection of more than 400 paintings, 200 pieces of furniture and in excess of 1,000 antiquities that Dr. Bob Jones Jr. amassed during his lifetime. A second satellite location at Heritage Green is housed in the old CocaCola building in front of the Hughes Main Library. This location is smaller and offers more themed pieces that are rotated around every 18 months. Currently the exhibit at Heritage Green features “Charles Dickens: The Continuing Victorian Narrative,” which takes a look at the Victorian era. Several vignettes represent London’s notable settings and visitors can get a glimpse into Queen Victoria’s England through day-to-day environments and Dickens’ writings as a journalist. You can see a publishing office, a drawing room, the Mannette’s dining room and a seamstress room. Now through Jan. 12, the Heritage Green location has taken the Dickens exhibit and “provided a Victorian touch of Christmas,” says Erin Jones, museum director. Several current holiday traditions such as greeting cards, decorating and caroling came from Victorian times, Jones said. “Christmas greeting cards were first attributed to Sir Henry Cole,” she said. “Like us, he had gotten so busy during the holidays that he wasn’t going to have time to write the traditional handwritten note. So, he commissioned an artist and sent cards to family and friends.” Decorating for Christmas was also very important to the English during that time, says Jones, and “they used whatever greenery they could” to deck the halls. Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” includes several scenes emphasizing the importance of decorating at
The Withdrawing Room, part of the ongoing Victorian exhibit at the Bob Jones Museum and Gallery at Heritage Green, has been decorated for the Christmas season.
Christmas time, she said. The museum at Heritage Green will also host a Victorian Christmas dropin on Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Dickensian Christmas carolers will perform, and wassail and sugarplums will be offered. At the main BJU location, holiday festivities are on tap for this weekend, but then the museum closes – along with the campus – from Dec. 12 through Jan. 14. Friday night, Dec. 6, will be the Music with the Masters event from 5 p.m. until 6 p.m. that will feature harp ensembles and musicians in each of the museums galleries. This takes places right before the campus tree lighting and nativity display. On Saturday, Dec. 7, at the BJU main location, will be a Baroque children’s Christmas celebration. This event is for children ages five through 12 and pre-registration is required. Jones says this annual event takes “Christmas traditions from other times, places and periods and opens children’s eyes to other cultures. Bach was writing music, Rembrandt was painting.” After the young visitors learn that Queen Victoria was trying to impress her guests when she had gingerbread people made to look like them, they will get to sample gingerbread. “It’s a great tradition that parents and grandparents like to bring their children to,” says Jones. For more information, visit bjumg.org.
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Six Shot Revival Sleazy, swaggering Southern rock. Call 864-948-1661 or visit reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2.
Heather Lutrell Whiskey-soaked blues/Americana. Call 864-552-1998 or visit southernculturekitchenandbar.com.
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The Broadcast Hard-hitting, soulful rock band tours behind new album, “Dodge The Arrow.” Call 864-235-5519 or visit reverbnation.com/venue/255976.
Hed PE Punk-rock/gangsta rap underground stars. Call 864-948-1661 or visit reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2.
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Megan Jean & The KFB Quirky, haunting Americana. Call 864-263-7868 or visit wpbrradioroom.com.
Morgan Of The Pines Wild, searing backwoods acoustic music. Call 864-263-7868 or visit wpbrradioroom.com.
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Stereo Reform Dance-rock duo. Call 864-282-8988 or visit smileysacousticcafe.com.
Marcus King Band Stunning 17-year-old blues guitar prodigy. Call 864-233-6173 or visit handlebar-online.com.
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For love of vinyl Record Fair returns to The Handlebar Horizon Records’ Gene Berger can tell you how many tables will be at this weekend’s Record Fair, which will take place at The Handlebar: just under 50. He can tell you there are dealers coming from as far away as Maryland and as close as around the corner from his store on 2 W. Stone Ave. He can speak with excitement about the staggering amount of used, rare and collectable vinyl that will be on display. Just don’t ask him how many years Horizon has been putting on the Record Fair – that’s where it gets a little fuzzy. “I’ve kind of lost track,” Berger says. “I think it’s the sixth annual Record Fair. But I can tell you that it’s a gathering of dealers of vintage, rare and collectible, budget and bargain vinyl. We load up the WHAT: Greenville Record Fair Handlebar Listening Room wall-to-wall with tables and crates and boxes and rows and rows of reWHEN: Saturday, Dec. 7, 10 cords. There are people from Greenville, but there a.m.-3 p.m. are people who travel overnight or from farther WHERE: The Handlebar, 304 E. away, from Maryland, Virginia, Atlanta, Charlotte Stone Ave. and Greensboro, and a great many of them have ADMISSION: free been to all the Fairs.” Berger’s enthusiasm for the Record Fair, and for INFO: 864-235-7922 or the business of selling records, is infectious. He blog.horizonrecords.net says that there’s something about collecting albums for everyone. “It’s such an open-ended thing. It’s like a rainbow of opportunity. There are people who like to dig around in $1 or $2 records, and there are those who are excited about finding a really high-end, rare piece,” he said. “You’ve got people collecting punk, you’ve got people collecting classic rock, you’ve got the entire spectrum of R&B, jazz and funk. You’ve got collectors of classical, string band, old-time, hillbilly, every flavor. Record collecting doesn’t limit itself to one genre. There are people who get excited about finding a $3 Boston record, and there are people who are obsessed with the icons, like the Beatles and the Stones.” And the best thing about an album is that once you’ve bought it and appreciated it as a collector, there’s always the music. “I like that about buying and selling records in general, and I like that about the Record Fair,” Berger says. “It’s not like collecting baseball cards; vinyl is functional. Cards are nice, coins are nice, but when you have a record, not only do you have that piece of art, the album cover, you’ve got an object that you can put on your turntable and it does wondrous things.” Berger says attendance and interest seem to keep building every year, and the endurance of both the Record Fair and the vinyl album itself have taken him by surprise. “Business is on the upswing, and I can’t name all the exact factors, but the resurgence of vinyl is definitely one of the most obvious and powerful,” he says. “And I keep thinking the Record Fair is going to level off or pass away, but it’s seeping into different generations. The whole vinyl thing in general has surprised me. I’ve been through eight tracks, cassettes and CDs, but I’ve always sold records.” The Record Fair, which is free to the public, kicks off this Saturday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. at The Handlebar on Stone Avenue. In addition to the cornucopia of vinyl goodness, DJ Culture Prophet will be on hand in the afternoon to spin some of his favorites, and for the first time, a special “Pre-Record Fair” party will be held at the Velo Fellow (1 Augusta St.) on Friday, Dec. 6. The Velo Fellow party is being hosted by DJ King Harold and starts at 9 p.m. VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR
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THE WEEK IN THE LOCAL ARTS WORLD
Celebrate the holiday season with the Boston Brass and the Brass AllStars Big Band as they present “Christmas Bells are Swingin’” at 8 p.m. on Dec. 6, at Clemson University’s Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets and information are available at clemson.edu/brooks or by calling the box office at 864-656-7787, 1-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. In addition, the Clemson University Singers continue a Christmas tradition with their Candlelight Christmas Concert on Dec. 8, 7 p.m., at Clemson First Baptist Church. The free concert is open to the public. For information, call the Brooks Center Box Office at 864-656-7787, 1-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. The community-based, all-volunteer Foothills Chorale presents “Holiday Magic” on Dec. 8, 3 p.m., at the Newton-Hobson Chapel and Fine Arts Center of Southern Wesleyan University in Central. Individual tickets are $18 for adults and $6 for students. Tickets are available at the door and in advance at foothillschorale.org. Season tickets, which also offer admission to the December and May programs, are available for $30 for adults, $10 for students. Call 864-287-2236, 864-944-6565 or 864-221-7630 with credit card orders. Centre Stage will hold auditions for “The Producers” by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan on Dec. 8 at 6:30 p.m. with callbacks on Dec. 9. Performance dates are March 27-April 19, 2014. For more information, visit centrestage.org. To sign up for auditions, email auditions@centrestage.org. The Blood Connection at 435 Woodruff Road, Greenville, will feature the paintings of Melinda Hoffman and Johnny Nutt’s pottery through Feb. 14. An artist reception will be held on Dec. 10, 5:30-7 p.m. For more information, visit thebloodconnection.org/about-us/artist-showcase. Riverworks Gallery, located at 300 River St., Suite 202, Greenville, will host an artist reception on Dec. 6, 6-9 p.m., for the “27 Awards” exhibition. The exhibit showcases the VPA Annual Student Exhibition and will run from Dec. 6-20. Riverworks Gallery is open 1-5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. For more information, call 864-271-0679, email fleming.markel@gvltec.edu or visit gvltec.edu/vpa and click on Riverworks. Bob Jones University presents its annual Christmas Carol Sing and Lighting Ceremony on Dec. 6, beginning at 6:15 p.m. with a prelude by the University Singers and the Carol Sing at 6:30 p.m. Students and staff will hang more than 70,000 Christmas lights, 3,000 feet of garland and hand-tie more than 400 bows. At 7:30 p.m., there will be a Symphonic Wind Band concert in Rodeheaver Auditorium. For more information, visit bju.edu. Art Takes Over: Gallery of Eclectic Elements of Style will hold a launch party on Dec. 6, 6-9 p.m. The new gallery, located at 5 Smith St., Greenville, specializes in repurposed furnishings, original art, pottery, metalsmith jewelry and lighting. Hours are Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Visit atogallery.com or email atogallery@yahoo.com for more information. An Arts at Twilight concert on Dec. 13 will feature guitarist Amy Brucksch and violinist Joanna Mulfinger Lebo at With Love and Confection at 838 Powdersville Road, Easley. The evening will feature holiday music from Catalonia and ethnic selections from Bulgaria and Spain. Admission is free. For more information, visit facebook.com/withloveandconfection.
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Gorgeous, ready to move in 5 bedroom sprawling executive home in the highly desired River Walk neighborhood! This home is situated on a beautiful private lot on a double cul-de-sac street. You will love all the quality upgrades and improvements made to the home. When you enter into the two story foyer you will find a beautiful formal living room that opens into the formal dining room. The recently renovated chef ’s kitchen is stunning, open and ready for entertaining. Stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, travertine tile back splash, overhead island vent, and much more. This home also features a 2nd stair case that connects to the bonus room and upper level. The upstairs has 4 Bedrooms with walk-in closets and 2 full baths. The spacious family room has built in bookshelves/cabinets and a gas burning fireplace that could be converted into a wood burning fireplace depending on your preference. The master suite is located on the main level with beautiful French doors that lead out to the 3 Seasons room. Don’t miss out on the spa designed master bath which includes custom built cabinetry, double head & faucet shower with pebble flooring, and walk-in closet with custom shelving. This house is perfect for entertaining! The expansive 3 season’s room with Eze-Breeze windows has direct access to the deck, patio, and fenced back yard as well as to the breakfast area & Kitchen, family room... Per seller, home has new windows throughout with lifetime warranty.River Walk is a wonderful neighborhood with 4 miles of walking trails, Jr. Olympic sized pool, lighted tennis courts, club house and fitness center. Great active neighborhood with tons of social events!
HOME INFO Price: $474,900 | MLS: #1267638 Bedrooms: 5 Baths: 3.5 Square Footage: 4000-4199 Schools: Monarch Elementary | Mauldin Middle | Mauldin High Contact: Charlotte Sarvis | 864.346.9943 Carol Pyfrom Realty To submit your Open House: homes@greenvillejournal.com
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A local homebuilder, a legendary name… For over 12 years, American Eagle Builders has built a reputation as one of the finest custom homebuilders in the Upstate area by being passionate about the difference we make in a community and in our customers’ lives. Recently, Arthur Rutenberg Homes, a Florida legend in homebuilding selected us to build their award-winning designs here in the Upstate. We are premiering our newest design, the Somerset Show Home, in the prestigious community of Claremont. Built with our signature level of standards, the Somerset features a dramatic entrance foyer with a curved staircase, cedar beamed ceiling in the spacious club room, a fully appointed kitchen with granite countertops and stainless appliances, a first floor owners’ suite with detailed trey ceiling and sumptuous owners’ bath. Detailed trim throughout with a featured barrel ceiling joining the morning room and keeping room, three additional upstairs bedrooms each with their own baths, are only a few of the inclusions. We can build on your lot anywhere in the Upstate area. Fully furnished show home open daily 10-6 and Sunday 1-6. Or call for your own private tour. Contact: Somerset Show Home | 864.558.0066 205 Chamblee Blvd., Greenville, SC
PE OPL E , AWA R D S , H ON OR S Mary Lou Barnhardt Joins Coldwell Banker Caine in Easley Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Mary Lou Barnhardt as a residential sales agent to its Easley office. Barnhardt joins Coldwell Banker Caine with nearly 10 years of real estate experience in the Upstate and South Florida. Prior to her real estate career, Barnhardt was Vice President for Essex Savings Bank. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from
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Ohio University. Business and Professional Women awarded Barnhardt first runner-up for the 2013 Career Woman of the Year. She also received the Platinum Award from the National Institute of Savings Institutions. Barnhardt actively serves her community as a member and ambassador for Easley Chamber of Commerce and
as treasurer for Business & Professional Women of Easley. She also served as past president for Easley Newcomers club. In her free time she enjoys swimming, sewing and attending Broadway shows. She and her husband, Gerald, have four grown children and four grandchildren. “We are thrilled about the opportunities that are available to Mary Lou given her background in real estate,” said Brad Halter, Chairman of Coldwell Banker Caine. “And we are certain that she will have a long and successful career with Coldwell Banker Caine.”
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Allen Tate Company Names Kathy Weeks Area Manager of Upstate S.C. Region Allen Tate Company (www.allentate.com), the Carolinas’ leading real estate company, has named Kathy Weeks as area manager for the company’s Upstate South Carolina region. In her new role, Weeks will work closely with Phyllis Brookshire, senior vice president, Allen Tate Realtors®, overseeing all
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aspects of Upstate operations. Weeks will also serve as branch leader of the Greenville and Easley/Powdersville sales offices. She is an award-winning career professional with 17 years of real estate experience, establishing the top-producing Kathy Weeks Team with Allen Tate before moving into leadership with the company. She was promoted to sales manager for the company’s University
office in 2010 and to branch leader for the company’s Lake Wylie, S.C. office in 2011. Prior to her real estate career, Weeks worked as a public school teacher in North and South Carolina. Weeks is a member of the National Association of Realtors, the N.C. Association of Realtors and the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association. She is a member of the Lake Wylie Chamber of Commerce, past member of the Charlotte Chamber and served as chairperson for the Allen Tate 2011 Cultural Campaign. “Kathy’s broad base of experience – from managing a top-
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R E A L E S TAT E N E W S Realtors® Demand Immediate Relief for Homeowners Impacted by Unforeseen and Exponential Increases in Flood Insurance Premiums Home Owners across the country should not be forced to pay for the sudden and dramatic flood insurance premium increases that are the unintended consequence of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, insisted the National Association of Realtors® today in testimony before the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance. “We need a ‘time out’ from the implementation of the law,” said 2013 President of The Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® and Broker-in-Charge of Keller Williams Realty in Greenville, SC, Bill Lawton. “No one could have imagined rate increases of this magnitude. During the debate over Biggert-Waters, the prevailing wisdom was that actuarial rates would range from hundreds to thousands of dollars, not tens of thousands of dollars or the 1,000 percent rate increase shocks that we are learning about now.” As the leading advocate for private property rights and housing issues, NAR strongly supports maintaining access to affordable
flood insurance. NAR was a vocal advocate for the Biggert-Waters legislation to extend the program for 5 years and end the uncertainty of shutdowns that were stalling 40,000 home sales each month. However, due to the unprecedented scope of premium increases and other unintended consequences, NAR recommends that Congress seize the opportunity to pass the “Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act.” This bicameral, bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and by Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., would delay further implementation of major rate changes until the Federal Emergency Management Agency completes an affordability study required by Biggert-Waters; creates an office of the Advocate to investigate flood insurance rate increases; and reports to Congress with proposed solutions to any identified problems. In the interim, NAR calls on FEMA to convene a national summit
with key stakeholders to develop a longer term affordability solution. Realtors® believe the agency already has ample authority under current law to begin the discussion and should not wait for Congress to enact legislation. “NAR stands ready to work with Congress and the administration to help homeowners transition to new rates and bring clarity to housing markets subject to Biggert-Waters reforms,” said Lawton. The National Association of Realtors®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America’s largest trade association, representing 1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® represents over 1,700 members in all aspects of the real estate industry. Please visit the Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® web site at www. ggar.com for real estate and consumer information. “Every market is different, call a REALTOR® today.”
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producing real estate team to supporting, guiding and mentoring agents as a member of the Allen Tate leadership team –establishes her as the right person to nurture and grow our solid presence in the Upstate,” said Brookshire. A native of Greenville, S.C., Weeks has lived in Charlotte for 27 years. She has three children and four grandchildren.
Rhett Brown Joins Allen Tate Upstate Leadership Team Allen Tate Company the Carolinas’ leading real estate company, welcomes Rhett Brown to the company’s Upstate South Carolina leadership team. Brown will assist with branch operations, management and Brown training of Allen Tate agents and staff in the company’s Greenville, Easley/Powdersville and Greer offices. Brown is an accomplished professional with more than 20 years of real estate experience,
mostly recently working as part of a top real estate team in the Greenville area with personal closed sales volume of nearly $6.5 million in 2013. Her experience includes positions as a residential appraiser, mortgage loan officer, short-sale negotiator for an attorney, new home sales and residential brokerage. Her professional designations include Certified New Home Sales Professional and Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource designations. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in art history and art management from the College of Charleston. Brown is an active community and schools volunteer, working with A Child’s Haven Development Center, the American Red Cross, Greenville Humane Society and United Way. She has chaired the Arts Alive fundraiser for Stone Academy of Communication Arts and was named as 2013 Volunteer of the Year. “Rhett is a great addition to the Allen Tate Upstate leadership team. Her experience as a top-producing agent, coupled with knowledge of the entire real estate spectrum, will be incredibly valuable to our agents and staff in the Upstate region,” said Pat Riley, Allen Tate Company President and COO. Brown is a lifelong resident of the Greenville area. She and her husband, J, reside in downtown Greenville with their son, Jace, and two rescue pets.
Cassavechia Joins Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® is pleased to announce that Carol Cassavechia has joined the company and serves as a Broker Associate at the Pleasantburg office. With 20 years real Cassavechia estate experience she earned the Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR), Certified Buyer Representative (CBR), Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), Graduate REALTOR Institute (GRI) and Broker Associate designations. She was a Multi-Million Dolllar Producer with Century 21 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. “We are excited to reintroduce Carol (Bailey) back in Greenville and real estate,” said Fritzi Barbour, Broker-in-Charge. “She was always a great agent to work with, and I’m thrilled she chose our office.” Cassevechia has two married children, six grandchildren and one great grandson. In her free time you enjoys hiking, gardening and spending time with family.
NEW PRICE! 120 LAKE POINT DRIVE • $369,900 4 BR/2 FULL BA/2 HALF BA LAKE BOLING ESTATES • MLS 1261563 A jewel of a lake front home just minutes from everything. Gourmet kitchen with JennAire and LG stainless appliances, master on main has two walk-in closets and sitting room overlooking the lake, plus a second bedroom on the main. Two very good size bedrooms on the second floor. Wrap around front porch and lovely screened porch lakeside.
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This home boasts of rich hardwoods throughout the first floor. Beautiful 2-story foyer with a formal living room / office or library with French doors leading to a lovely front porch. Great room has a brick hearth fireplace with gas logs that are very welcoming and warm. Spacious deck overlooking a private wooded backyard. Designer colors and lighting cast a warm glow throughout the entire home. Gourmet kitchen is accented with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, eat-in bar area, and beautiful cabinets- a great place to cook and entertain. This home has a very open floor plan. Pelham Falls offers one of the best amenities packages in Greenville with a community pool, tennis courts, basketball court, playground, common areas, and a beautiful walking path along the Enoree River.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Never On Sunday, Inc., intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER & WINEat 210 East Coffee Street, Greenville, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than December 15, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Pebble Creek Clubhouse LLC /DBA Clubhouse Grille, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/ permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 101 Pebble Creek Drive, Taylors, SC 29687. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than December 8, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Zorba Lounge, Inc, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1414 East Washington Street, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than December 8, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that VLJ Social Club, Inc. / DBA 25 Live, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 6013 Augusta Road, Greenville, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than December 8, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that A & H Food Group Inc./ DBA Cheers Sports & Spirits, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/ permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 3505 W. Blue Ridge Drive, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than December 22, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Greenville Universal Restaurant Group Inc., intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 300 E Stone Avenue, Greenville, SC 29609. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than December 22, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110
NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that MB Social Club, Inc. / DBA The Swaggs Sports Bar, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1418 White Horse Road Greenville, SC 29605. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than December 22, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110
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NOTICE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF JACKSON IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 13 CvS 465 UNITED COMMUNITY BANK (GEORGIA) Plaintiff vs. HORACIO M. REPETTO AND SHAUNA A. REPETTO, Defendants NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GREENVILLE COUNTY To: Horacio M. Repetto and Shauna A. Repetto: TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: The sum of $223,680.88 as of the 25th day of June, 2013, plus interest as it continues to accrue at the rate of $35.78 per diem from said date, until the date Judgment is entered, then interest at the maximum legal rate; attorney fees in the amount of $33,552.12, and the costs of this action. YOU ARE REQUIRED to make defense to such pleading not later than January 6, 2014, and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. THIS the _____ day of November, 2013. VAN WINKLE, BUCK, WALL, STARNES AND DAVIS, P.A. By: MARK A. PINKSTON North Carolina State Bar Number: 16789 Attorney for Plaintiff 11 North Market Street (28801) Post Office Box 7376 Asheville, NC 28802-7376 828-258-2991 (Telephone) 828-257-2767 (Facsimile)
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LOOK WHO’S IN THE JOURNAL THIS WEEK A large crowd was on hand for the annual Simpsonville Christmas Parade last Sunday. Parade watchers were treated to a variety of floats, music and other entertainment moving along Main Street.
PHOTOS BY GWINN DAVIS / CONTRIBUTING
WHO PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA’S DEVELOPMENT BOOM? WHO DOES?
The UBJ’ upcoming event, Who’s Who recognizes the people in our community who are committed to advancing their fields. Whether new on the scene or veterans in the trenches, they’re the professional to look out for and look up to. Many have gone uncelebrated. Until now.
NOMINATE SOMEONE TODAY! Nominations will be accepted from
SEPTEMBER 20–DECEMBER 16
Also including A third party panel of Community Leaders will select 8 “Who’s Who” recipients, from the nominations submitted, that will be announced in February 2014. Self Nominations are also encouraged.
FORMS CAN BE FILLED OUT HERE: upstatebusinessjournal.com/whos-who
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Clemson wide receiver Sammy Watkins catches a pass from quarterback Tajh Boyd during their game against the University of South Carolina.
Clemson running back Roderick McDowell runs for a touchdown in the third quarter against USC.
USC quarterback Connor Shaw runs for a first down against Clemson.
USC wide receiver Shaq Rowland makes a catch against Clemson.
Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd scrambles for a touchdown in the first quarter against USC. Carolina won the game 31 to 17 for its fifth consecutive victory over its state rival, the Tigers.
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JOURNAL CULTURE
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ACROSS 1 Tex-Mex casserole 8 Woodworking tool 13 Where tie-dyeing may be done 19 Came to 20 Phylicia of “The Cosby Show” 21 Muse of comedy 22 Foster 23 Rush hour traffic reporters? 25 Confrontation-ending device 26 What the Tin Man had 28 Krypton, for one 29 Like some contracts 31 More than cool 32 Diplomatic office 34 Like auxiliary vbs. 36 List that includes “full,” “round” and “wide”? 39 Hardly rah-rah 43 One-named “I Do!” singer named for a Jackson 45 National No Socks Day month 46 13 for Al, e.g. 47 Music genre heard in the film “The Big Easy” 48 Ticket seller’s query 50 Happy 52 Rival of 56-Down 54 H.S. offering 55 Makes up (for) 56 Foes with bows?
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61 Kitchen gadget 62 Activity center 63 Lacquered metalware 64 “Then ...” 65 Tony’s portrayer on “NYPD Blue” 66 Adjective for a 93-Across 68 Ready to bloom 72 Certain girder 74 More like a mountain road 76 MLB exec Joe 77 Reason for a strange smell coming from the trunk of the car? 81 Commercially, it started around the time of the Boeing 707 launch 82 Pal of Harry and Hermione 83 Second-century date 84 NFL scores 85 Like a dirt road vis-àvis pavement 86 Exceedingly 89 Pentagonal plate 92 Fr. neighbor 93 Quaintly named lodging 94 “__ the Beat”: 1982 hit for The Go-Go’s 95 “Chantilly Lace” and “Blue Velvet”? 99 No. after a dot 100 Divulged 102 Hockey legend 103 Love-crazy Le Pew 105 Go along with
108 Make an error on, as a check 111 Early 20th-century Oklahoma boom town 114 Group of sweettalking experts? 116 Pittsburgh skyscraper builder 118 Baseball’s Posey 119 Hun king 120 Pension collector 121 Guides 122 Nos from Nikita 123 Jules Léotard and Amelia Bloomer, for two DOWN 1 It’s pitched 2 Blue shade 3 Hasty remark? 4 Genre featuring big hats 5 Deer or elk, sometimes 6 Court suffix 7 Adam’s first home 8 Texas border city 9 Hollywood canine 10 What’s left 11 Clinton imitator on “SNL” 12 Big name in ice cream 13 Gillette razors 14 Dry 15 Having good night vision 16 Sacha Baron Cohen alter ego 17 Flaky mineral
18 Hand at dinner 20 1986 Indy champ 24 Supercomputer maker 27 Wild revelry 30 Depicts in words 33 “Homeland” terrorist Nick
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34 Ivy League city 35 Encourage with cheers 37 Fork over 38 Greet with two letters? 40 Cab starter 41 Slush Puppie maker
42 Shepherds, perhaps 44 Inclined to forget 47 Greek known for paradoxes 49 Oxygen-dependent organism 50 Stubborn stain 51 Sore 53 Thwart 56 Rival of 52-Across 57 Called forth 58 Bits of antiquity 59 Privileged classes 60 “Amahl and the Night Visitors” composer 62 New Hampshire state mineral 67 Lt. Columbo, e.g. 69 Food for thought? 70 Pressing 71 Some farm machinery 73 Gas station acronym 75 Trim to fit 77 Sprouted 78 Travel randomly 79 10 C-notes 80 It’s nothing to Nero 81 Cocktail with a sprig of green 85 Scout group 87 Prize ribbon feature 88 Noted gatekeeper 90 Almost out of gas 91 Try to make peace 92 Actor Reynolds 95 Señorita’s blossom 96 Alpine tunes 97 Merry refrain 98 Gets busy with 101 Anatomical canals 104 Applied (for) 105 Homes for B-52s, briefly 106 Superfluity 107 Demolish, in Dorset 109 Bad mood 110 __-et-Loir: French department 112 Come across as 113 Many microbrews 115 TV chef Martin 117 Pennant race mo.
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JOURNAL CULTURE
THE SYMPTOMS BY ASHLEY HOLT
T.G.I. Black Friday This is the way I remembered it: My mother had signed me up for swimming lessons that I didn’t want when I was about six years old. I knew that this preschool swimming course was going to conclude with a leap off the diving board into the deep end of the pool. This was the qualifying exercise, the rite of passage that would signify we were no longer merely children filling a pool with pee, but masters of the chlorinated seas. But I knew that diving into this deep end, where one’s feet did not touch the bottom, is where my death by drowning would occur. So I confided in my mother that I was terrified of this plunge into my watery grave. And my mother was then convinced that continuing the swimming lessons would be too traumatic for her delicate, precious baby. So I was allowed to remain a landlubber, spared my fate of sleeping with the fishes. At least this is what I thought had happened until this past Thanksgiving, when I recounted this memory to my family at the dinner table. But my mother corrected me on the end of this story: I hadn’t been allowed to skip the final swim lesson. Despite my appeal for clemency, I had been forced to walk the plank and had made the deadly jump. Hearing this was enormously liberating. All this time I had been emotionally flogging myself over this incident. But having this story of childhood wussitude corrected filled me with self-assurance, as if I now had the courage to face any fear that modern life could generate. And that’s why I went to Wal-Mart on Black Friday. Among my list of neuroses is a fear of crowds. I have no problem being in an audience of relatively still people all facing the direction of Corey Hart’s comeback tour, but a swirling mass of people – say, storming the breakfast bar or the closeout aisle – can make me pretty antsy. So, what better arena to face this fear than Black Friday at Wal-Mart? Like you, I’d read about trampled consumers and other violent altercations during the Black Friday mêlées
of Novembers past. Now I wanted to confront this retail Running of the Bulls, to feel the adrenaline rush that makes you wonder if you would live or die in a struggle over the last Vizio flatscreen. What I actually encountered at Wal-Mart fell short of the Benghazistyle eruption of mob violence all those YouTube clips had promised. Having missed the initial opening rush at 6 p.m., what I saw inside wasn’t a plague of marauding hoarders fighting over Barbies and Hoovers, but lots of people with loaded carts in queues that snaked around the store aisles. This wasn’t the swirling masses I had feared, but a bunch of consumerist cattle waiting their turn to be slaughtered in the checkout lane. Extra employees had been hired to manage this throng, all of them sporting flimsy, disposable vests in neon yellow. Appropriately, they look like an interstate road crew, directing traffic around a four-Tahoe pileup during rush hour. I asked several of these confused and frightened temps what kind of discount I might expect on certain electronic items and the answer I got each time was, “No idea.” It was clear that the dedicated shoppers knew exactly which items had the primo markdowns, but the employees didn’t have a clue. Automotives turned out to be a reliable safe area. Wiper blades and Pennzoil are simply too practical to be of interest to holiday bargain hunters. But though this area was comparatively calmer than the electronics section (by far mecca for the Black Friday faithful), it became clear that stopping to browse in any section was a bad idea. Customers are climbing over endcap displays to move past the logjammed line of shopping carts. People are passing charcoal grills and bicycles over the heads of the others like crowd surfers over a mosh pit. Attempting to actually shop in the middle of this action could result in serious injury. Read the ingredients labels some other time. I dodged and weaved my way through this retail Mardi Gras for about an hour before I got bored
with it. As baptisms of fire go, this didn’t seem like a big deal. Maybe that’s how we know we’ve successfully conquered what frightens us – when it ain’t no thang. I was reminded that I’ve sometimes found myself feeling terribly nervous driving on some big-city freeway, trying to stay alert and alive in hectic, high-speed traffic. But the perspective which overcomes this anxiety is in realizing I’m witnessing hundreds of people hurtling forward in their Audis and Volvos who are NOT crashing into each other. Somehow, mankind has forged enough order out of chaos that people can become unified by a basic need to avoid killing each other. And so, what’s to fear in Black Friday? For every isolated incident of someone trampled to death while southern loading up onskyline toasterpresents ovens, there are millions who simply charge into
the store, buy a bunch of brandname crap they don’t need, and go back to their otherwise empty lives of nine-to-five toil and “Duck Dynasty” reruns. What truly gives me hope is remembering what I overheard from one Wal-Mart customer leaving the store when I did. He raised his voice in disgust to his friend: “Man, I ain’t coming back here on Black Friday, Blue Tuesday or Orange Thursday.” Braving this sort of craziness is all well and good, but he’s adopting an alternate perspective: You can’t drown if you don’t go near the water.
Ashley Holt is a writer and illustrator living in Spartanburg. His neurotic quirks and extreme sensitivity to broad social trends are chronicled in The Symptoms, an illustrated blog. Check out his website at ashleyholt.com.
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