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THEY SAID IT

“IT WAS A HILL WE SHOULDN’T DIE ON. THERE ARE THINGS I’LL DIE FOR AS A CHRISTIAN, BUT THIS ISN’T ONE OF THEM.” Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit, on the reversal of the school’s ban on interracial dating.

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“Much of the information they use and the context in which they use it are bogus.” Jason McCreary, Greenville County Schools’ director of accountability and quality assurance, on U.S. News & World Report ranking South Carolina 50th in education.

“I truly hope the City of Greer does not think it can bulldoze houses anytime it wants from its citizens without notification or justification.” Chris Markwell, managing director of Redrock Capital Funds, which has filed a lawsuit claiming the city demolished a house last February without warning.

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The Big One

County Square is the urban development project that will define our city By Bobby Barreto

Since Greenville County announced its plan to redevelop County Square, real estate developers from all over the country have worked on coming up with what they think is the best plan for the project. For the next few weeks, the six development teams that submitted proposals will sit on pins and needles as they wait to see if they made it to the presentation stage in late May, with a final selection coming by the beginning of June. The fact is that this is the kind of project that people in the real estate development industry dream about (although, personally, it gives me anxiety just thinking about it). To paraphrase a line from the movie “Step Brothers,” “There’s so much room for activities!” Luckily, it is already known that the developers’ proposals will need to include a 250,000-square-foot office building that will house operations for Greenville County and a much-needed 1,000-space parking garage. So some of the guesswork has been taken out. However, that still leaves these teams with an unfathomable amount of space to develop. I’ll just go ahead and say it: Whoever is chosen to lead this monumental project should take the opportunity to add true livability to downtown Greenville. Currently, whether we want to admit it or not, downtown is mostly inhabited by people who only work and play within the confines of the city.

I use the word “inhabited” because there, frankly, isn’t a lot of living done in downtown Greenville. While there are certainly exceptions, downtown’s residents’ day-to-day lives require them to get in a car to go somewhere at least once every day. It’s no wonder, then, that traffic is becoming increasingly problematic as this city continues growing at an astronomical rate. It’s not anyone’s fault that it’s this way — Greenville is just in this awkward stage between being a small town and big city where the population has grown at a fast rate but the amenities of a large city haven’t grown fast enough to support that larger population. As a result, a city once known almost exclusively for its livability is slowly but definitively losing itself. The future developers of County Square have the opportunity, though, to change that by bringing more “livable elements” to downtown Greenville. These elements include things that people need on a day-to-day basis, like grocery stores, day care centers, gyms, medical offices, hardware stores, florists, and so on (think of any big city where people walk to everything rather than driving). If done correctly, these livable elements can be seamlessly and accessibly placed amongst office buildings, residential space, and retail/ restaurant spaces in a way that allows people to live their lives without ever having to add to rush-hour traffic. Simply put: We have enough restaurants, bars, hotels, and apartments — give the people what they need. The livability of this city hinges on the development of livable elements — it relies on the engagement between our city’s residents and the community of which they are part. I understand that there are some Greenville purists who wish their beloved city had never gotten this big in the first place. But the small-town charm that once defined Greenville isn’t going to be around much longer. However, by paying proper attention to the scale of developments, we’ll foster a livable city. “Scale” — that word might be the most powerful word that no one ever uses when it comes to urban development. It’s the glue that holds perspective together. It’s easy to lose sight of scale when you read about a project in downtown that will take up nearly 38 acres of prime real estate sandwiched between Falls Park, Fluor Field, and Church Street. Remember how big of a deal it was when it was announced that a baseball stadium and four-story mixed-use building were coming to the West End? County Square is about five times the size of that project. How about when redevelopment plans were announced for the space that now holds the ONE Building, ONE City Plaza, the Aloft Hotel, and the renovated Bank of America building? This is about 10 times the size of that. The scale of the impending redevelopment of County Square is massive. This, ladies and gentlemen, is The Big One — the urban development project the scale of which will define our city. The opportunity to create something on this scale shouldn’t be ignored nor taken lightly. Hopefully, whoever ends up being chosen by Greenville County is chosen because of their understanding of the power of scale and livability. Bobby Barreto is the CEO of Asterisk Development LLC, a member of the board of directors for the Greenville Area Parkinson Society, and an advocate for the continued growth of downtown Greenville.

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Greenville Zoo’s new red panda, Amur leopard

Zheng, an 8-year-old male red panda, was recently introduced to his outdoor area in the Asian Forest exhibit. Photo by the Greenville Zoo Chapter of the AAZK.

The Greenville Zoo has welcomed two new residents, Zheng and Nelkan. Nelkan, a 10-year-old male Amur leopard, recently made his debut in the zoo’s Asian Forest exhibit. He was transferred from Berlin in December through the Species Survival Program’s managed breeding program. In January, Nelkan was released from a mandatory 30-day quarantine period and slowly introduced to Jade, a 6-year-old female. The two leopards are now getting along and could produce between one and three cubs before the end of the year, according to zoo administrator Jeff Bullock. “This is a very important move for the population, as it will introduce another bloodline into the North American population,” Bullock said. The Amur leopard is one of the rarest cats in the world, with only an estimated 70 cats left in the wild. Their numbers have been dwindling for several decades due to poaching, as well as the loss of natural habitat and diseases. Jade’s cubs will stay in Greenville for at least 18 months before being transferred to another zoo to go on and have cubs of their own. Another resident to make his debut is Zheng, an 8-year-old male red panda from the Akron

Zoo in Ohio. He was transferred to Greenville in December through the Species Survival Program to breed with Colette, a 4-year-old female. Red pandas are found in high-altitude temperate forests in the Himalayas, mountains in Burma, and Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces of China. They can also be found in Nepal, India, and Tibet. Their conservation status is listed as endangered due to habitat loss, human interference, and poaching. Zheng is reportedly interested in his new partner, and Colette is tolerant of him. “Their introduction went really well, so we’re hoping to see one or two cubs sometime this summer,” Bullock said. Colette was previously paired with Firecracker, a 10-year-old male red panda who was brought to the Greenville Zoo from the Miller Park Zoo in Illinois in 2009. In 2015, she gave birth to Willie, a male red panda. Both Willie and Firecracker were transferred out of the Greenville Zoo last year through the Species Survival Program. Zheng, Colette, and Scarlett, an older female, can be seen daily in the zoo’s Asian Forest exhibit, and are most active when the temperatures are mild. The best time for visitors to see them is between 10 a.m. and noon and 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. On days above 70 degrees, they have access to an inside holding area with air conditioning.

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Lastly, the zoo’s new baby Angolan colobus monkey, born last October, is back on exhibit after a recent physical confirming the sex is female. Zoo staff have named her Zuri, meaning “white and lovely.” —Andrew Moore

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Greenville Humane Society constructing $2.9M medical center The Greenville Humane Society is constructing a new $2.9 million medical center that will double the amount of space for the spay and neuter clinic, vaccine clinic, and public and adoptable pet holding areas, according to Kim Pitman, executive director of the Greenville Humane Society. The 10,000-square-foot facility will be attached to the shelter’s adoption center at 305 Airport Road. The new medical center will feature a lobby, surgery suite, three exam rooms, and kennels that can hold more than 80 adoptable cats and dogs. Pitman said the shelter’s current adoption and medical facilities have been operating over capacity in recent years, requiring the expansion. The Greenville Humane Society is one of the largest no-kill shelters in the Southeast. The money for the medical center came from many donors and foundation grants, including a gift from the family of Jane Hipp, whom the shelter’s adoption center is named for. The adoption center was given as a gift by her children to honor her lifetime commitment to the Greenville Humane Society and the animals there. “The medical center was a community effort. We’ve literally had kids sell lemonade and donate their money,” Pitman said. “People who donated money to our campaign understand it’s important that the public have a choice of where they get affordable care for their pets. We’re really grateful for that.” The Greenville Humane Society started building the medical center in September. It should be complete sometime this summer, according to Pitman. However, the shelter still needs to raise about $100,000 to complete the new facility. The shelter is also hoping to raise an addi-

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Council votes to repeal supermajority rule for tax, fee hikes Last week, seven Greenville County Council members voted to repeal a longtime council rule requiring a “supermajority” of nine out of 12 votes to raise taxes or fees. They also voted in favor of fee increases to pay for road improvements and a new telecommunications system for emergency personnel. The vote followed unusually acrimonious debate in council. Fee opponent Joe Dill warned fellow Republicans that any vote to repeal the supermajority rule would constitute a betrayal of the party’s values. He said, “When you say that, ‘I’ll be against bigger government, I’ll be against higher taxes,’ and all of those kind of things, and yet you don’t want to require nine votes to raise taxes...” The rule was proposed and passed by Republicans in 2004, Dill said, and Democrats were the only ones who voted against it at the time. Two Republicans who favor the fees, Liz Seman and Bob Taylor, argued that the fees are necessary to discharge the core government duties of protecting public safety and providing infrastructure. Council will give the supermajority repeal a third reading later this month, but the spread is expected to hold. Even if the rule is repealed, eight votes will still be necessary to increase taxes, according to Butch Kirven, council chairman. The supermajority rule — called the “Taxpayer Protection Provision” — is at the center of the lawsuit filed by Dill, fellow council members Willis Meadows and Mike Barnes, and others. The defendants argue that council should have abided by the rule, but didn’t, when approving the fees by a simple majority of seven on March 7. —Rudolph Bell NEWS continued on PAGE 8

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EDUCATION

Furman nabs nearly $500,000 for science equipment Furman University has been awarded a fouryear, $497,183 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to purchase a confocal microscope, scanning electron microscope, and an inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer, tools which will be used by biology, chemistry, and earth and environmental sciences students. “This generous gift provided by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation is a testament to the exciting efforts ongoing in our science programs led by Furman faculty who view their students as scientific colleagues both in the research lab and the classroom,” said John Wheeler, Furman’s director of integrative research in the sciences. The new equipment will be housed in the interdisciplinary lab spaces in the university’s Townes Science Center on campus, and support faculty-mentored undergraduate research. It will also be available for curricular instruction for both majors and non-majors. “The addition of this equipment fully complements and supports Furman’s institutional commitment to experiential learning afforded by The Furman Advantage, which will promote interdisciplinary STEM scholarship at the highest levels and will give Furman students hands-on access to scientific instrumentation comparable in quality to the best-equipped laboratories in the country,” Wheeler said. — Andrew Moore

School Superintendent Royster contract extended to 2020

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Greenville County Schools Superintendent Burke Royster received a one-year contract extension last Wednesday. Royster will get a 1 percent increase to his annuity as well as any employee sal-

ary increase included in the school district’s 2017-18 general fund budget. His current salary is $249,238. The district’s contribution to his annuity will increase from 17 percent to 18 percent of his salary, the district said in a press release. Royster’s contract now runs through June 30, 2020. Greenville County Schools is the largest school district in the state and 44th largest in the nation with more than 76,000 students. “We are extremely proud that Dr. Royster was recently identified as one of Education Week’s Leaders to Learn From,” said board chairwoman Dr. Crystal Ball O’Connor, “and the board looks forward to working with him to ensure the district’s continued improvement.” Royster was named Greenville County Schools Superintendent in April 2012 and was given a three-year contract. He has received a one-year extension each year since. Previously, Royster had served as the district’s deputy superintendent since 2005. —Cindy Landrum

LAWSUIT

City of Greer demolished house but didn’t tell new owner, lawsuit claims In 2014, Greenville’s Redrock Capital Fund IV purchased a vacant house at 103 McDade Ave. in Greer for about $13,000 through a Greenville County tax sale. It was a routine purchase for the company, which focuses on delinquent property tax sales. But it was a deal that eventually turned sour. The house disappeared last year. Redrock Capital Fund IV has filed a lawsuit against the City of Greer in the Greenville County Court of Common Pleas claiming the city demolished the house last February and failed to warn the company of the impending teardown. Instead of notifying the company, the lawsuit claims, the city attempted to notify the previous owners who are deceased. Redrock Capital Fund IV’s managing director Chris Markwell said he learned about the demolition when his real estate broker drove by the property last year and noticed the house was missing. “The city had multiple chances before

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the property was demolished to recheck and make sure all owners, old and new, had been notified, and they failed to do so. Multiple attempts and calls were made early on in order to settle for much less than the value of the property,” Markwell said. The city hasn’t filed a response to the lawsuit in court, and a city spokesperson referred questions to the city’s lawyer, Andrew Lindemann, who could not be reached after multiple attempts prior to press deadline. Last year, Markwell received a county tax bill and was surprised to find a charge of $15,606 in unspecified fees from the City of Greer. Markwell, who paid only $670 in county taxes in 2015, claims the city charged him for demolition costs. The city’s Department of Building and Development Standards issued a demolition permit on Feb. 1, 2016, for the property. However, the city’s permit listed the previous owners rather than Redrock Capital Fund IV. The previous owners owed the county taxes from 2011, 2012, and 2013, according to land records. The lawsuit claims Redrock Capital Fund IV was the recorded owner of the property as of Jan. 29, 2016. The company’s purchase of the property was filed with Greenville County on Nov. 4, 2014, and the property’s tax deed was signed on Jan. 20, 2016, by a representative of the Greenville County Tax Collector’s office.

Redrock Capital Fund IV planned to eventually renovate the house and sell it to a nonprofit that provides housing for low-income families, according to Markwell. “I truly hope the City of Greer does not think it can bulldoze houses anytime it wants from its citizens without notification or justification, especially in good neighborhoods like this, one where their people work hard to maintain and improve,” Markwell said. The lawsuit seeks compensation for the house with interest and attorney’s fees. —Andrew Moore

POLITICS

Haley pal Templeton enters gubernatorial race After much rumor and speculation, union foe Catherine Templeton made her run for governor’s office official last week. Former Gov. Nikki Haley made Templeton her first Catherine Templeton Cabinet pick, naming her the secretary of labor in 2010. She was named director of the state Department of

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Health and Environmental Control in 2012. “I have never run for office, and I won’t run for the next one, but I can’t unsee what I saw in Columbia,” she said in a press release. “The corruption, waste, self-interest, and good ol’ boy system is alive and well. It’s ridiculous. Doing the right thing is not that hard if you are in it for the right reason.” Templeton will run as a Republican and will face Gov. Henry McMaster in the 2018 GOP primary. Former state Sen. Yancey McGill, a long-time Democrat turned Republican, is also running. Templeton, who was briefly considered for a position in the Trump administration, worked for textile magnate Roger Milliken and earned her law degree in 1998. She worked for the law firm Ogletree Deakins, where she specialized in union avoidance and advised Fortune 500 companies. She now owns her own management firm. “There is a right way to do things, and for the past 30 years we have sent a lot of our money to Columbia and we haven’t gotten a lot back,” she said. “Right now, we need politicians spending less time on scandals and more time doing math.” Templeton said in her release that South Carolina is ranked last in education and first in criminal domestic violence. She said there are problems with the state’s retirement system. “Plus, we have more people moving in, which means more time sitting in traffic, more kids in failing schools, and more health care costs for all of us,” she said. “We can’t keep kicking the can down the road. Einstein’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Right now is the time to send someone with practical experience running a business, making a home, and reforming government to call balls and strikes and do the math in Columbia. We can’t wait another decade to get started.” —Cindy Landrum

MUSIC

Joe Bonamassa sets December Well date Joe Bonamassa is one of the most popular blues artists in America today. His most recent album, last year’s “Live at the Greek Theatre,” garnered him a Grammy nomination, but it also topped Billboard’s Blues Album charts, the 17th time Bonamassa has done so in his nearly 30-year career. What’s more amazing is that Bonamassa has released all of his albums independently, carving a career for himself with a nonstop touring schedule and some truly soulful, lightningquick solos. He can handle anything from bigband old-school blues (check the full horn section on the “Live at the Greek Theatre” album) to small-combo sweat-drenched pyrotechnics (his version of Led Zeppelin’s “Since I’ve Been Loving You” is a must-hear). He’s also performed with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, and Derek Trucks, among many others. Bonamassa has been a consistent presence in Greenville, playing the Peace Center and then moving to the Bon Secours Wellness Arena, and he’ll be returning to the Well on Dec. 5 as part of a 40-plus-date tour that will take him across the U.S. and Canada. Bonamassa’s band for this tour will feature former “Late Show with David Letterman” drummer Anton Fig and former Stevie Ray Vaughan keyboardist Reese Wynans. Tickets for the Dec. 5 show are on sale now and can be purchased by calling 864-241-3800 or visiting bonsecoursarena.com. —Vincent Harris

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Are South Carolina schools really the worst in the nation? CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Dead last. The very bottom. That’s where South Carolina ranked in education in U.S. News & World Report’s inaugural ranking of all 50 states — rendering the state’s go-to response for bad education rankings, “Thank God for Mississippi,” useless. But what does the ranking really mean? Is South Carolina’s education system really the worst in the nation? Dr. Jason McCreary, Greenville County Schools’ director of accountability and quality assurance, said the magazine did not account for differences in states’ graduation requirements, demographics, or academic rigor. “The context in which they use the information is bogus,” he said. The report ranked South Carolina high for its four-year college graduation rate and its pre-kindergarten program. But the state ranked low in reading and math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a sampled test that is often called the nation’s report card, and had low preschool enrollment. The state’s two-year college graduation rate was also low, while college tuition and fees were high. McCreary said high school graduation rate was a big factor in the ranking. Yet the requirements to graduate vary greatly from state to state. South Carolina requires 24 credits to graduate, one of the highest totals in the nation, while California requires 13 credit hours.

Jason McCreary, Greenville County Schools’ director of accountability and quality assurance. Photo provided.

“We’re penalized for our rigor,” he said. As far as standardized test scores goes, McCreary said NAEP tests are just a sample of students from certain grades. “Years and decades of research shows that raw scores, especially in a sampled group, are going to be influenced by factors outside of the classroom such as poverty, the family unit, health care, and culture,” he said. “Using NAEP in this way has contextual value and is worthless.” NAEP itself cautions that when comparing one state to another, overall averages do not take into account the different demographics of the states’ student populations. South Carolina ranked 40th in NAEP scores, similar to where it ranks in poverty, he said. McCreary said using the ACT as a measure of a state’s college readiness is worthless, too, because only 11 states require all students, including special education, medically fragile students, and students who have no desire to go to college, to take the test. In other states, only college-bound students who have taken college prep classes take the test. “In other states those who are taking it are voluntarily taking the test on a Saturday,” he said. “That’s a very different group than in South Carolina.” All Palmetto State students take the ACT, and they do it during school hours. But Melanie Burton, executive director of the S.C Education Oversight Committee, an independent nonpartisan group, said the rankings show that South Carolina doesn’t have a good overall education system from birth to college and the workforce. “I don’t want to dismiss this ranking,” she said. “If we had an education system that really focused from birth through college, we wouldn’t be 50th. “It’s a signal there is lots to do to create a whole education system,” Barton said. “We’ve got to raise the bar. We’ve got to look at the whole education system rather than pieces. If I were a policymaker, I’d be asking how we can fix the entire system, because we’re not getting kids where they need to be to be successful.” Furman University education professor Paul Thomas said the education ranking is far less about education than socioeconomics. “This ranking is a direct reflection of political negligence,” he said. “Our schools don’t legislate. It’s not like our schools are without any fault, but how schools function is a reflection of political leadership. South Carolina is failing our children, not our children are failing school.” U.S. News & World Report used 11 met-

rics to measure a state’s education ranking, including college and high school graduation rates and standardized test scores. Three of the six pre-kindergarten-12 categories are test scores (ACT and National Assessment of Educational Progress), while the others are high school graduation rates, pre-K quality, and preschool enrollment. South Carolina ranked high in quality of its public pre-

50? kindergarten program, but ranked low in test scores and college readiness. “Schools in South Carolina and the U.S. reflect the inequities of communities, the failure of our policies, and as a result, they are ineffective as mechanisms of change,” Thomas said. At least 60 percent of test scores are correlated with out-of-school factors such as parental education levels, poverty, hunger, mobility, lack of health care, safety, and community resources, he said. Only 10 percent to 15 percent of test scores can be traced to teacher quality. Thomas said it has been known for decades that poverty and inequity are the greatest hurdles for children learning. But instead of addressing the problems, instead gradeby-grade standards are changed and students tested. “Our states have social and educational pockets of poverty,” Thomas said. “Food and home insecurity directly contribute to low academic output, and once they get into school, we make horrible decisions. Highpoverty children are sitting in larger classes with early-career and uncertified teachers. We do the exact opposite of what we should be doing.”

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Before moving to Greenville in 1946, Bob Jones University was located in Cleveland, Tenn.

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The Bob Jones University campus in Cleveland, Tenn., circa 1940, at the former Centenary College

A brief history of the world’s most unusual university

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Bob Jones competes in Division I of the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA).

s Bob Jones Sr. traveled the Chautauqua lecture circuit evangelizing in the 1920s, parents told him time and time again that they had sent their children off to college and when they returned home, they had rejected their faith. Jones’ answer: Start a college that would emphasize the Bible, evangelism, and high academics — and not one that would ram evolution down students’ throats. Ninety years after Bob Jones University opened its doors in the Florida panhandle in 1927, Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit said the importance of BJU is as great as ever. “Bob Jones University was founded to give students a Christian liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of one’s character,” said Pettit, who became the fifth president in the school’s history in 2014 and the first who is not a member of the school’s founding family. “I think there still is a need for that. I haven’t come here to change Bob Jones University. I came here to keep it on its mission.” After a stop in Cleveland, Tenn., the school moved to Greenville during the height of the post-World War II higher education boom 70 years ago. In the years since, the school has found itself embroiled in controversies, first over its racial policies and most recently when an independent nonprofit organization, Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, criticized its handling of reports of sexual abuse. Battles with a declining enrollment have also been a problem. “I do believe that Bob Jones University can grow. I can’t answer

Bob Jones displays Americans flags at the Wade Hampton entrance of campus to commemorate 9/11.

WORDS BY CINDY LANDRUM that question absolutely, but I am convinced we’ll do everything in our power to build the school,” he said. “I don’t believe we’re doing everything we can do right now. But we are improving, and I think we’ll show growth.” One of the keys to doing that is that the school has regained federal tax-exempt status, something it lost after a 13-year battle with the Internal Revenue Service over its racial policies. Bob Jones didn’t admit black applicants until 1971. For the next four years, it admitted black students only if they were married “within their race.” In 1975, the university started admitting unmarried black applicants but banned interracial dating. In 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the government’s interest in ridding education of racial discrimination trumped the university’s First Amendment rights to religious free speech, stripping the school of its nonprofit status. The university regained its nonprofit status in March after a reorganization that merged it with the operation of its nonprofit elementary school. Bob Jones restructured so that the elementary school’s nonprofit, called Bob Jones Elementary School Inc., was renamed BJU Inc. and the university was put under that umbrella. “Getting 501(c)(3) status was really quite a miracle,” Pettit said. “It was something BJU has needed to do for quite some time.” But the school did not try to regain its tax-exempt status until after Pettit took over. Pettit said it was fitting because the university no longer holds the same beliefs about race. “It was a hill we shouldn’t die on. There are things I’ll die for as a Christian, but this isn’t one of them,” he says. “Interracial dating is a social and cultural issue, not a biblical issue.”

THE BEGINNING

Bob Jones Sr. held his first revival meeting at the age of 12. At 13, he organized his own congregation. By 15, he was a licensed circuit preacher. By 1925, he was one of the most sought-after evangelists in the country, booking campaigns four years in advance and bringing in more money than all other evangelists except Billy Sunday, according to Dr. Daniel Turner’s “Standing Without Apology.” About this time, the teaching of evolution started taking hold, and fundamentalist parents told Jones their children were going off to school and discarding their faith in God and the doctrines of the

Bible because of the influence of unbelieving college professors, Turner writes. While sitting under a shade tree at a roadside rest area in Kissimmee, Fla., Bob Jones made a decision to found a “real Christian school,” Turner adds. When Jones told his wife, she said, “Robert, are you crazy? Honey, you don’t know anything about a school. You’re not an educator. You can’t found a school.” “I know I can’t. But God can,” Jones answered. The school opened in 1927 with 88 students.

BOOM TO BUST

The school’s start was tied to a new subdivision, Long Point on St. Andrews Bay near Panama City, Fla. Jones agreed to lend his name to the development in exchange for land for the school and some of the proceeds when the prime lots sold. The Great Depression hit two years after the school opened. But Turner wrote that the Florida land boom had turned to bust well before that. Very few students paid in full. One student even paid for his tuition with collard greens. By 1932, Jones told the faculty the school was broke. Talk had already begun about moving the school to a more accessible part of the country when Jones’ son, Bob Jones Jr., passed the boarded up Centenary College in Cleveland, Tenn. Immediately after the last “amen” of the final commencement in Florida was said on May 31, 1933, Mrs. Bob Jones Sr. and Bob Jones Jr. climbed into a car that had been brought to the back door of the auditorium and left immediately for Tennessee, starting a new chapter. Enrollment grew at the new school. By 1945, Bob Jones had to buy trailers from the federal government to accommodate an influx of returning war veterans. BJU had become the largest liberal arts college in Tennessee. The college needed room to expand, but some neighbors resisted selling. Finally, Bob Jones said the school was moving. Turner wrote that nine cities — including Asheville, N.C. — indicated interest in being the college’s next home. Orlando reportedly offered $1.5 million in financial aid and an old air base. But the city was eliminated from contention because it was unable to guarantee the required land options by the deadline. School officials were also concerned it was too far south.

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The Great Depression hit two years after the school opened. Very few students paid in full. One student even paid for his tuition with collard greens.

Asheville, N.C., was eliminated because a group of ministers took out newspaper ads saying they’d fight the move and that BJU was unwelcome in their community because of its fundamentalist theology, Turner wrote. Knoxville had offered 300 acres of land for $100,000. But when Jones showed up with enough money in his pockets to buy the land, the woman who owned the land backed out.

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Greenville wasn’t in the picture until realtor E. Roy Stone received a letter from his daughter, Martha Stone, a junior music major at BJU. “By the way, the school is considering a move,” she wrote. Stone wrote to Jones listing Greenville’s advantages, among them being in the heart of the Bible Belt and the city’s desire to become a cultural center. Stone later approached Richard Arrington, president of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and president of Union Bleachery, about attracting the school to Greenville. According to Turner, Arrington ordered the board to form a committee with instructions to get the college “whatever the cost.” But it seemed too late. Bob Jones and other college representatives were in a lawyer’s office in Knoxville ready to sign an option on some land when Stone reached them to urge them to check out Greenville. “I can remember so clearly when Dr. Bob walked out on this piece of land and stood by a tree out in front of the spot on which the library is built,” Turner quoted Stone as saying. “He turned around and swung his arm and said, ‘Lefty [Johnson, the school’s financial officer], this is it.’ Then he turned to me and said, ‘Mr. Stone, this is the land, isn’t it?’” Jones told Stone the least the city could do is purchase the land for the school. Two days later, the chamber had options on most of the land. On April 25, 1946, Bob Jones Sr. announced in chapel that the school was moving to Greenville. “Greenville was booming in the late 1940s. The textile industry did extremely well in World War II,” said Furman University history professor Courtney Tollison. But the move didn’t come without problems. The Chamber’s campaign to raise $175,000 for the land got off to a good start with $30,000 raised in the first day and $90,000 by the end of June. But fundraising stalled after a “satanic whispering campaign” in opposition to the school started, Turner wrote. Dr. John McSween of Fourth Presbyterian accused Bob Jones, which was nondenominational, of recruiting students away from state Presbyterian colleges, and he publically criticized those in Greenville who contributed money to the campaign, Turner wrote. The city’s more liberal religious leaders said the school would bring “a fanatical following of religious radicals” to Greenville that would “ultimately hurt the social development of the area and eventually take over the town,” Turner wrote. More than three decades later, the chamber settled the debt for $50,000, according to Turner.

Bob Jones Jr. served as president of BJU from 1947 through 1971, then as chancellor until his death in 1997.

GROWING ENROLLMENT AND INFLUENCE

BJU’s enrollment continued to grow, and the school had an increasing impact on Greenville County, both culturally and politically. After World War II, Bob Jones Jr. took a $30,000 acquisitions budget and started buying Baroque art, which had fallen out of favor with art collectors. The Museum & Gallery opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1951, with up to 40 paintings. It was a modest start to what has become known as one of the country’s best religious art collections, a collection that now includes work by Rubens, Tintoretto, Veronese, Cranach, Gerard David, Murillo, Ribera, Van Dyck, Honthorst, and Dore. The museum is currently closed for renovations and is expected to reopen in 2019. Many of Greenville’s artists have Bob Jones ties as well. “Bob Jones University has turned out some amazing visual artists, including Jonathan Andrews, Diane Kilgore Condon, and Kevin Isgett, to name just a few. Carl Blair, who taught in the visual arts department for many years, had a profound impact on individual artists both within and outside the university community,” said Metropolitan Arts Council Executive Director Alan Ethridge. “His influence is readily apparent in many of Greenville’s most accomplished and successful artists. Greenville is very fortunate to have these artists as part of its cultural community.” Politically, the university has had an impact, too, although its influence is being diluted as Greenville grows, said Furman University political science professor Jim Guth. In the 1960s, when Greenville was almost solidly Democrat, voters with BJU ties got involved in the county Republican Party, Guth said. He said the nomination of Democrat Barry Goldwater drew a lot of Christian fundamentalists into the Republican Party. By 1976, BJU graduates, faculty, and staff took over the local Republican Party by flooding precinct meetings. It was a time when enrollments topped 5,000. The number of graduates who pastored local churches increased the school’s reach.

At one time, it was common to see several BJU graduates on local governmental bodies and in the state legislature. The school was an obligatory stop for conservative GOP presidential candidates, from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. “Just about anybody who was anybody showed up,” Guth said. Former BJU president Bob Jones III said in 1980 that homosexuals should be stoned when he and a group of fundamentalist preachers went to the White House with a petition opposing the extension of the Civil Rights Act to homosexuals. He apologized in 2015. “Upon now reading these long-forgotten words, they seem to me as words belonging to a total stranger — were my name not attached,” the apology said. “I cannot erase them, but wish I could, because they do not represent the belief of my heart for the content of my preaching.” Controversy erupted once again during the 2000 campaign when Sen. John McCain made an issue of Bush not condemning the university’s ban on interracial dating during a campaign stop on campus. Jones III later said during an interview on “Larry King Live” the ban was repealed the afternoon before his appearance on the show. “You talked about the now-controversial Bob Jones University. The truth is, I guess, we have always been controversial,” Jones III told King. Later in the interview, Jones III told King the school couldn’t back up its dating rule with a verse from the Bible and that the school was not racist because the ban was in place before blacks were admitted to the school. But he told King he dropped the rule earlier that day because it was so insignificant to the school and never talked about, but so significant to the world. After the Bush flap, Republicans steered clear of BJU until this past presidential primary when Republicans Ted Cruz and Ben Carson made stops. The university also pulled back from overt politics during that time because Stephen Jones, who became president after Jones III, was not as interested, Guth said. “Bob Jones University made a much larger imprint on the community before Greenville grew. It’s difficult to foresee circumstances where the influence of the university is anything like it was in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s,” Guth said. About 25 percent of the school’s graduates — more than 10,000 — live in the Upstate, which has a population of 1.4 million. More than 100 pastors in the Upstate are BJU graduates, said Randy Page, the school’s director of public relations. Mayor Knox White said Bob Jones University’s true influence has been with its alumni and their contribution to the community. “Their students graduated and stayed here. The alumni have had a big impact on every profession and walk of life in Greenville,” he said.

THE FUTURE

Pettit said the school is now focusing on how it can be relevant to students and the world they’re living in today while maintaining its mission of providing a quality Christian education while developing BJU continued on PAGE 16

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90 YEARS OF

Dec. 1, 1926 Ground broken in Bay County, Fla., for Bob Jones College. April 1, 1933 Bob Jones College board votes to move to Cleveland, Tenn., at the former Centenary College. April 25, 1946 Bob Jones Sr. announces move to Greenville.

“Interracial dating is a social and cultural issue, not a biblical issue.” –Steve Pettit, president, Bob Jones University

Oct. 1, 1947 BJU in Greenville opens with more than 2,500 students. That same year, Bob Jones Jr. was elected president of the university. Thanksgiving Day, 1951 The BJU Museum & Gallery opened. Jan. 16, 1968 Bob Jones Sr. dies.

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students’ character. “We’re a much more relational organization,” Pettit said. A renovation a few years ago made the entrance to the campus more open. “Even though it hasn’t always been clear, the university cares about the community in which it lives,” said BJU social studies professor Linda Abrams. “The huge hedges around the university gave the appearance the school was hiding away and did not want to be part of the community. We had to correct that misperception. It’s taken a lot of work.” But, Pettit said, make no mistake: The mission of the school is still the same. “Anyone who comes here knows we’re different,” he said. While the university has students from 48 states and 42 countries, enrollment has dropped over time, something Pettit blames on the decline in size of churches and liberal arts programs as well as competition from

community colleges. “We lost 90 to 95 students this year because of financial aid,” he said. “They could go to community colleges for less money.” Pettit said the number of incoming freshmen has stayed flat and the school laid off some employees this year to “right-size” the school to its present student body. “We had been needing to do that for quite some time. We can’t go much lower,” he said, adding BJU had been on the higher end of staffto-full-time students among area schools. But Pettit said he’s confident the school can increase its enrollment. In 2012, it was estimated there were 1.5 million homeschooled children in the United States. If 10 percent of those are really conservative, that gives BJU a lot of potential students, he said. “We just have to do our part better,” he said. “I don’t know if we can grow to 4,500 to 5,000 students like we once had, but I think we can grow.”

A big push now is to improve the school’s facilities. Twenty-two of its buildings were constructed in 1946 and 1947 and many need to be upgraded to meet the needs of today’s students, he said. The school is updating its strategic plan and will embark on the silent stage of a capital campaign soon. The campaign would not have been possible without tax-exempt status, Pettit said. “We’re really like a stallion ready to bust out and run,” he said. “Our strategy is to focus, invest, and grow.” School officials are still working on details of projects to be included in the capital campaign. “I personally want BJU to be a blessing to South Carolina,” Pettit said. “We offer the liberal arts, a conservative lifestyle, and an evangelical, missions-oriented Christian education. We believe there are lots and lots and lots of people looking for that kind of education. We just have to do our part a little better.”

1971 Bob Jones III becomes president. First black student admitted after school changes policy to allow black students who are married “within their race.” 1973 The 7,000-seat Founder’s Memorial Amphitorium was opened to accommodate a growing student body. The building was dedicated to the memory of Bob Jones Sr. 1983 U.S. Supreme Court rules the IRS could revoke the university’s tax-exempt status because the government’s interest in ridding education of racial discrimination overrode the school’s First Amendment rights to religious free speech. Nov. 12, 1997 Bob Jones Jr. dies. 2000 Bob Jones III drops school’s interracial dating ban. 2005 Dr. Stephen Jones, the great-grandson of the school’s founder, is installed as president. 2006 School gets accreditation from the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. 2008 Stephen Jones apologizes for BJU’s past racial discrimination. 2011 BJU restarts intercollegiate athletics for the first time since 1933. May 2014 Stephen Jones resigns because of health reasons and Steve Pettit becomes the president. Dec. 10, 2014 Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment report criticizes the school’s handling of sexual abuse reports.

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The Wilkins House has long stood as a historic landmark in Greenville, and now, after being saved from demolition in 2013 and transferred from its original location on Augusta Street to 105 Mills Avenue in 2014, the home’s two-and-a half-year restoration is officially complete. And thanks to a preservation easement that dictates the building can never be moved again or torn down, the Wilkins House’s legacy is permanently secure.

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The home was originally constructed in 1878 for William T. Wilkins, a Spartanburg native who opened hardware stores in Union and Greenville that helped supply the region’s booming textile industry. His wife, Harriet Dawkins Cleveland, made the house a recognized site in town, often hosting extravagant parties and events for charitable organizations. After Cleveland’s death in 1930, the Wilkins House was leased to a funeral home until 1990, when it then became an antique shop and wedding venue. But in 2013, the home was planned

for demolition when a developer bought the property to build a nursing home and assisted living center. When word spread that the historic landmark was in danger of being lost, Kelly Odom of the Greenville County Historic Commission and other community members began to look for a solution to save the home. The organization connected with Michael Bedenbaugh, executive director of The Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation, and, with the help of city officials, got in touch with Neil

Wilson, owner of RealtyLink. Wilson had purchased the Wilkins House with the goal to preserve and restore it, but first it had to be moved to a new property, an undertaking that came with a $700,000 price tag. Wilson agreed that if half the funds were raised, he would match. More than 250 donors raised $300,000, which Wilson decided was enough to proceed. In September 2014, the 800-ton home was moved two blocks to its new location on Mills Avenue. The restoration included plaster repair, removal of 30 layers of paint in the interior and exterior, and brick repair, says Kyle Campbell, owner of Preservation South. The house’s Venetian Gothic architecture contributed to certain “character-defining features,” including a side porch, balcony, and chimney, which were recreated based on historic photos. One of the most painstaking endeavors involved refurbishing four original combination gas-electric crystal chandeliers. Additionally, one of the original over-mantle mirrors, provided by descendants of the Wilkins family, was reconditioned and put back in the house. “We’ve got the house as close to how it originally looked — especially on the exterior — as possible,” Campbell says. “We hope it continues to be a landmark for years to come.” “This effort is a true testament that Greenville cares about its past and recognizes its importance in shaping its future,” Odom adds. “It also shows that historic preservation does not hinder development but can enhance it.” During a donor reception held at the home April 6, The Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation introduced the newly established Bill and Woo Thomason Endangered Places Fund for Greenville County, which will engage the community in the effort to “help save buildings when they become endangered or at risk of being lost,” Bedenbaugh says. The Trust’s next to project is to ensure the long-term protection of the Franklin Fox Beattie House, which was sold back into private residence for $600,000 earlier this year.

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Before the home was moved from Augusta Street, additions from its time as a funeral home were removed. Photo provided by Kyle Campbell.

The 800-ton home was moved two blocks to 105 Mills Ave. in September 2014. Photo provided by Kyle Campbell.

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Spinx raises funds for March of Dimes Spinx stores collectively raised $164,448 for March of Dimes during the month of March. Each of the 82 Spinx convenience stores contributed to the total donation amount by encouraging customers to donate to March of Dimes while making their purchases at the counter. The money raised helps area moms have healthier pregnancies, assists families with newborns in the intensive care units, and helps fund research to fight birth defects and premature birth.

Subaru hosts Share the Love event Fairway Subaru’s Foster McKissick recently presented Meals on Wheels of Greenville with proceeds from the 2016-2017 Subaru Share the Love event on behalf of Subaru of America Inc. During the event, Fairway Subaru donated $250 for every new vehicle sold or leased to the customer’s choice of four national charities or Meals on Wheels of Greenville. The funds from Share the Love will provide 2,283 meals for the local homebound clients of Meals on Wheels.

8:45 AM and 11:00 AM in the Sanctuary Traditional Services with Brass and Handbells Dr. Robert Howell 8:45 AM and 11:00 AM in Sisk Hall Contemporary Services Dr. Justin Gilreath CIVIC AWARDS

Childcare is available for all of the services. Buncombe Street United Methodist Church To Be and To Make Disciples of Christ 200 Buncombe Street | In Downtown Greenville www.bsumc.com | 864.232.7341

Friends of Scouting honors community leader At a recent Friends of Scouting dinner in Simpsonville, S. Hunter Howard Jr. received the prestigious Ralph Hendricks Award for his contributions to the state of South Carolina and his involvement in scouting. Active in scouting most of his life, Howard is a businessman, community leader, and former state legislator who currently serves on numerous commissions and local business boards. Along with his wife, he operates The Springs, an assisted living facility in Simpsonville.

Greenvillians recognized by the Garden Club of America

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The Garden Club of America Zone VIII recently presented awards of achievement to Brad Wyche, Major Knox White, Anna Kate Hipp, and Betty Stall. Wyche received the Conservation Commendation in recognition of his contributions to preserving and protecting our natural resources. White received the Zone Civic Improvement Commendation for bringing awareness to the importance of green space and public parks in the city of Greenville. Hipp and Stall received the Garden History and Design Award for their dedication to the preservation and restoration of Falls Park and the surrounding area. Submit community news items to community@communityjournals.com.

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Senior Jana Kelly was selected as a gold medalist and first place winner in the 2017 Joseph Vaughn Oratorical Competition recently held at Furman University. The theme of the contest was, “Hope, Harmony, Humanity: Are They Still Relevant in Contemporary America?”

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School to host annual Backyard Bash fundraiser The Chandler School’s fourth annual Backyard Bash and silent auction will be held at the school at 2900 Augusta Road on April 22 from 6–9 p.m. The fundraiser brings together families, school staff, local businesses, and the community to raise funds to further the school’s mission of empowering students with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities to become self-confident, lifelong learners. This year’s silent auction will include sought after items like the mysterious Las Vegas package and a raffle drawing for 2007 refurbished electric TXT E-Z-GO golf cart. For more information on how to participate as a sponsor, donor, or volunteer, call 864991-8443 or visit www.thechandlerschool.org. Submit education news items at bit.ly/GJEducation.

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2016 High lights Best Year Ever: Best year ever in 43-year history. The total organizational budget surpassed $2 million for the third consecutive year. This total includes both in-kind donations and gifts to our Endowment for the Arts. MAC awarded a record-high of $435,663 to arts organizations, individual artists and arts education programs throughout Greenville County. The Board of Directors and staff are committed to expanding the grants program every year. Glow Lyric Theatre

MAC Endowment for the Arts: In 2014, MAC launched its multi-year, $25 million Endowment for the Arts campaign. The endowment is exclusively for MAC’s grants program to ensure the highest possible level of financial support for the arts throughout Greenville County. As of March 24, 2017 the endowment had a balance of over $1,127,673 in cash and pledges. The endowment balance reached $1 million in 2016.

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SmartARTS: SmartARTS has a presence in 61 schools in Greenville County. Since federal funding expired in 2007, MAC has raised over $1.84 million to continue and expand this arts-integration program that has significantly improved academic achievement in participating schools. In 2016, TD Bank established the TD Bank Center for Arts Integration at MAC with a gift of $200,000.

MAConnect: MAConnect @ Alice Ratterree’s studio

In 2014, MAC launched MAConnect, its young professionals group. The mission of MAConnect is to further the goals of the MAC by organizing informative events that educate and enlighten the next generation of arts patrons so that Greenville’s cultural amenities will continue to be sustained at the highest level possible. Membership expanded to 150 in 2016.

Greenville Open Studios: Greenville Open Studios 2016 had 131 participating artists with outstanding attendance and record-high sales – 38,913 and $281,587.

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF COCKTAILS THE AMERICAN GROCERY TEAM OPENS A SPEAKEASY, VAULT & VATOR, AFTER MONTHS OF ANTICIPATION

Vault & Vator’s Kirk Ingram ages his Negroni for six months using a charred stave.

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aturner@communityjournals.com The Prohibition-era authenticity of Greenville’s first modern speakeasy, Vault & Vator, is evident from the get-go. Just finding the entrance is a challenge. Open since April 4, Vault & Vator is tucked away on the Falls Park side of the Edward Jones Building, 655 S. Main St., on the basement level. (Ladies, if you’re wearing heels, the walk down the steep hill from Main Street is a bit precarious. You’ve been warned.) Owned by Joe and Darlene Clarke of American Grocery Restaurant, Vault & Vator was designed to showcase the considerable skills of their bartender, Kirk Ingram, and the respect for cocktails of the Golden Age of Cocktails. On the entrance gate to the speakeasy is a list of house rules: no cellphones;

no baseball hats, sweats, or flip-flops; no standing; no Cosmos, shots, light beer, or Red Bull; no disrespectful behavior. In summary, have some class. Cellphone usage was allowed for the preview weekend, though we did try to be respectful of the unplugged environment when snapping a few photos. That rule will be strictly enforced moving forward, as will the no-standing rule. When all the seats are filled, incoming guests will be placed on a wait list and notified via text when a seat is available, and parties will not be seated unless all members are present. No reservations. No exceptions. Upon entering the vestibule, a thick, blue velvet light-blocking curtain must be pulled back to enter the bar, revealing almost nothing visible until your eyes adjust. The Edison-bulb lights are few but provide adequate lighting. Although there’s not enough space for a live three-piece combo, the thump

of the stand-up bass, with the beat of brushes on a snare and the melody of the clarinet playing over the speakers, creates the appropriate Jazz Age atmosphere. We slid into our half-moon booth and felt the faux alligator-skin table covering, and marveled at Joe’s handmade zinc-top bar. Meanwhile, the mismatched cut glassware and china dishes are vintage. Once our eyes adjusted to the dark, we perused the small-plate menu with such offerings as a classic shrimp cocktail and a nosh plate with olives, spiced nuts, and house pickles. I irreverently referred to the nuts as “crack” when offering them to our fellow imbibers. They’re truly addictive. Of the pickles, the green tomatoes were the table favorite — unexpectedly sweet and briny. The cocktail sauce features the right balance of horseradish — spicy but without causing sinus

trouble. Darlene says it received rave reviews during the preview. For something a little more filling, sliced Iberico de bellota at market price is also available. (It's Spanish prosciutto from pigs fed only hazelnuts during the final period.) But we didn’t come for the small plates, though they provided a tasteful backdrop for each of our cocktails. Guests will notice an absence of vodka cocktails, and instead discover a world of gin, mezcal, bourbon, cognac, and dark rum, all mixed so intentionally you might catch yourself enjoying a drink you wouldn’t have thought to order anywhere else. Our table started with That’s Amari (Bulleit bourbon, Lucano amaro, orange curacao, kirsch, lemon, egg white, simple syrup) and Aviation (Death’s Door gin, Luxardo maraschino, crème de violette, lemon), so named for its light blue tinge. Both were well re-

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ceived, with the favorite, because of its uniqueness, being Aviation. We then ordered Vow of Silence (mezcal, chartreuse, cacao nib-infused Luxardo maraschino liqueur, lime, molé bitters), Pimm’s Garden (Pimm’s No. 1, cucumber juice, house-made sherbet, ginger tea, mint), and Chef Goes ’Nanners (banana-infused dark rum, pineapple rum, dry orange curacao, allspice dram, lime, cinnamon, bark syrup). All were delicious and unique, but the clear favorite of the night was Vow of Silence. It was a perfect study in balance: the smokiness of the mezcal, the heat

and bitterness of the molé bitters, the dryness of the maraschino, the herbal hint of the chartreuse, and the freshness of lime. The hour-and-a-half flew by and before we knew it, we paid our tab and were ushered back out into the 21st century.

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Turquoise eggs complement the blue and white setting of the Easter table.

This year, my Easter egg obsession started early. I blame Instagram, where you can ﬁnd marbleized eggs, decoupage eggs, stenciled eggs, and eggs dyed naturally with coﬀee and onionskins. Over the years I have tried all these techniques with varying degrees of success. I don’t recommend the stenciled eggs unless you have the patience of Job, the manual dexterity of Edward Scissorhands, and the ability to cope with disappointment shared by Clemson basketball fans.

Unfortunately the coﬀee didn’t adhere to the eggs. I scrounged around and found a bit of brown watercolor paint in the “art drawer,” and began spattering with an old toothbrush. When the tiny specks had dried, I turned the eggs over and repeated the process.

This year, my egg decorating goals are simple. First, all three grown children will be home to celebrate Easter, and we’ll decorate eggs on the deck, weather permitting. The eggs they dye will match their personalities and not my decorating scheme, and that’s what makes it fun and charming.

Years ago, the Mister and I picked up some vintage Easter postcards at an antique shop. I had no idea how we’d use them, but I decided to put one at everyone’s place setting. It’s become a tradition. The illustrations are dear, but the best parts are the handwritten notes, which occasionally take a bit of deciphering.

My second, but still attainable, goal was to color some eggs the perfect shade of robin’s-egg blue to decorate our Easter table. I started with a Paas egg-dying kit, which I bought after Easter last year for 17 cents, and a dozen hard-boiled eggs. I dropped the green and blue tablets into glass bowls filled with water, poured in the white vinegar, and waited. Nowadays, all kinds of fancy egg-dying kits are available, but I like the simple process that includes the prickly smell of vinegar and the effervescent sound of fizzing.

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Into the blue, into the green, back into the blue, and so on until each egg was a slightly diﬀerent color. To complete my project, I planned to spatter the eggs with tiny speckles. Since I was in such a thrifty mood having used my 17-cent dye kit, I thought I could use leftover coﬀee for the speckling process.

The turquoise eggs really complemented the blue and white setting of the Easter table, and I think they’d also look terriﬁc with traditional spring pastels, subtle neutrals, or a modern orange or bright pink table setting.

My favorite card, dated 1912, reads, “Friend Orrie, I hope you enjoy Easter as well as a year ago. Just think where we were a year ago. They are very busy here now preparing for the show. Sincerely yours, MOS.” I’d love to know where they were a year ago. And I wonder what show they’re preparing for. Rather mysterious, I think. Even more mysterious is God’s great love for us. I pray you celebrate that love with joy this Easter. By day, Paula Angermeier is the head of communications for the Greenville County Museum of Art. Follow her on Instagram @townandcountryhouse.

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Faulk earned a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Clemson University. Faulk has spent the last five years serving as a professional recruiter in support of Upstate businesses in search of talented employees. Faulk is happy to have joined the C. Dan Joyner team to continue to live and work in the city that she loves. “We are thrilled to have Rebecca join the team at Augusta Road. As a Greenville native, with a strong history of service to Greenville, as well as to the Augusta Road community, she will be an asset to anyone who has the opportunity to work with her” said David Crigler, Broker-In-Charge of the Augusta Road office.

Chad Searcy Joins Coldwell Banker Caine in Seneca

Coldwell Banker Caine Berkshire Hathaway recently welcomed Chad HomeServices C. Dan Searcy as a residential Joyner, REALTORS is sales agent to its Seneca pleased to announce that office. Chad holds a BachRebecca Faulk has joined elors Degree in Behaviorthe company’s Augusta al Science from Anderson Road office as a sales asUniversity and a Master’s sociate. Searcy Degree in Human ReA Greenville native, sources from Clemson University. He has

both entrepreneurial and management experience, previously owning his own residential construction company and managing the operations of a large manufacturing business. In Chad’s free time, he enjoys participating in church missions, working on motorcycles, and outdoor activities. In addition to loving the outdoors, Chad works to keep the Upstate beautiful by volunteering in community trash pick up. He is married with three children. “Chad is a delightful addition to our Seneca team,” said Stephen Edgerton, President and CEO of Coldwell Banker Caine. “His knowledge and love for the area, joined with a robust education and work history, will enable him to better serve his clients in the Upstate.”

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Real Estate News continued Southeast Region: Cartus Corporate Business votes each year on the Best Relocation Departments in regions throughout the world. For the second year, Coldwell Banker Caine’s team, led by Lynne Thompson and comprised of Caroline Schroder, Michelle Carter, and Diana Horton, was named the Best Relocation Department in the Southeast Region of the United States. “More than meeting an objective for outgoing broker-to-broker referral closings in 2016 or demonstrating outstanding performance, Coldwell Banker Caine put extraordinary effort toward creating new business and helping customers find the same high level of service and professionalism wherever they were moving to or from,” said Scott Becker, senior vice president, Cartus Affinity & Broker Services. “We’re proud to honor Coldwell Banker Caine because they’ve delivered the very highest levels of results to both their customers and the Cartus Broker Network. Ultimately, this results in our ability to provide great value to our clients and their relocating employees.” “We’re thrilled to receive a Platinum Award, the Five Star Distinction, and to have the Best Relocation Team in the Southeast Region,” said Stephen Edgerton, President and CEO of Coldwell Banker Caine. “Our team has spent the entirety of 2016 putting a committed effort into achieving the best results for Cartus and their clients and transferring employees, as well as our brokerage. I applaud them and thank them for this honor.”

Allen Tate Realtors Simpsonville Honored with A-List Award Allen Tate Realtors Simpsonville was recently honored as a 2017 A-List Award winner by the Simpsonville Area Chamber of Commerce. The company was honored in the Relocation and Real Estate Services category and was selected based on votes received from

customers, peers and fellow business owners. The award was presented to Jennifer A. Hicks, branch leader of the Allen Tate Simpsonville office, at a luau-themed celebration held March 23 at the Events at Sapphire Creek in Simpsonville. “We’re very humbled to receive this award. We strive to provide excellent service and proudly represent the Simpsonville business community,” said Hicks. The Allen Tate Simpsonville office opened in 2014. It is located at 672-B Fairview Road in Simpsonville and is home to more than 20 agents and staff. To reach the office, call 864-962-4727.

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Amos Decker, the former professional football player and ex-cop-turned-private detective in bestselling author David Baldacci’s most popular series, is flawed. Decker is a former professional football player who was blindsided on his first regular-season play. When he wakes up — after dying twice on the field before the team’s head trainer successfully revived him — his brain has rewired itself. Decker now has hyperthymesia, a condition that gives him an extraordinary memory, and synesthesia, a mixing of the senses. After his family is murdered, he ends up homeless. Eventually, he becomes a PI. Today, he’s got a bad knee and a belly, and all of those memories that just won’t go away. “I love Amos Decker,” Baldacci said. “He has so many flaws. He crashes and burns a lot. He’s got this superpower that lifts him above other people in a narrow way.” Baldacci uses Decker’s conditions to his advantage. “With Decker’s perfect memory, I can take the plot in a new direction and turn it on a dime,” he said. “For three-quarters of the book, readers have no idea where the plot is going.” That’s good, because the lawyer-turnedauthor whose books have sold more than 110 million copies and have been adapted for feature films and television doesn’t outline the whole story when he starts writing a new book. “It evolves day by day. I never know the ending before I write it,” he said. “I try to get a feel for a character.” In “The Fix,” the third and latest book in the series that will be released April 18, Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters, where a man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk before turning the gun on himself. The killing baffles Decker, who cannot find a connection between the shooter and the victim. Decker and his team are ordered to back off the case by an agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency, who believes solving the murder is a matter of national security because critical information may have been leaked to a hostile government or an international terrorist group. An attack may be imminent.

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Baldacci, who will be in Greenville on the release date for a talk and signing at the Thornblade Club, uses Decker’s unusual memory to go back in time — and the series — to humanize his character and the struggles he faces. “It has to be judicious,” he said. “His life is like a rollercoaster ride. You can’t have the entire story being plunging down the scary mountain. In past books, I use his memories as a way to take a deep breath, to take a rest,” he said. Baldacci, who is authoring several series, said the creative process is difficult, and although he’s a global success, he sometimes thinks he can’t do it again. “Fear is the antidote to complacency. There’s the fear that you’re not going to be able to do this again and I think that gives you an edge.” Baldacci said passion is the reason he’s been successful. “You’ve got to get passion in the pages. Young writers oftentimes will chase what’s hot or what’s trendy. You do that and halfway through writing the book, you have no interest in it,” he said. “If you write about something that you would love to do one to three years of research on, that passion translates to the pages. That’s what lifts you out of the slush pile.”

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t’s been three years since Delvin Choice appeared on the hit NBC reality TV show “The Voice.” But in the time since the 27-year-old was eliminated in the semifinals — much to everyone’s surprise — he’s been hard at work learning what it’s like to be a juggler. OK, not a real, three-ring-circus kind of juggler, but an artist branching out into multiple fields and pursuits: community theater, a backup singer for an internationally touring artist, working on his solo career, rebranding his image, launching a jewelry line, and figuring out how to best support Greenville’s growing arts scene. Locally, he’s reprising his 2008 role in the S.C. Children’s Theatre’s production of “Seussical,” running April 29–May 7. In February, he starred in Carolina Ballet Theatre’s staging of “The Jungle Book.” Directed by Kim Granner, the 2008 “Seussical” was the second theater production in which Choice performed. The first was Greenville Little Theatre’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” where Granner discovered what the country would several years later. “I first saw Delvin at GLT in ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’,’ and thought I was looking at a 30 year-old-man who had been performing all his life,” says Granner, who is directing Choice once again in the latest production of “Seussical.” “When I read his bio, I saw it was his first show ever and he was only 17. I went backstage to meet him, extending my hand, and said, ‘Hi, I’m Kim Granner, and do you know you are going to be doing this for the rest of your life?’” Choice credits his years studying at the Fine Arts Center for his success on stage. “I am who I am because of the Fine Arts Center,” he says. “I found myself on the stage.” This year’s “Seussical” is the first time Choice has returned to theater since being on “The Voice,” and it’s something he says he plans to do more of as time allows. Since 2015, his main gig has been serving as a backup vocalist for R&B singer Musiq Soulchild, whom Choice says is like a big brother.

“I always imagined myself traveling, but I never imagined I’d be doing it in my 20s, nor did I imagine with an artist like Musiq Soulchild,” Choice says, adding that Musiq encourages him to work on his own career as well. The touring schedule has been light during the winter and spring, which is why he was free to rejoin the Children’s Theatre, but in between “Seussical” rehearsal dates he’ll travel to Phoenix for a Musiq show. “I’m excited to try both at the same time,” Choice says. “I’ve always wanted to do more theater.” The balancing act is new to him, but he knows this is what the fates have in store for him as he works on his solo career. “Being busy makes you feel like you’re doing something,” Choice says. “No artist enjoys the downtime. I’m getting the balance of reality versus my reality on stage.” Also during this break in touring, Choice is creating a jewelry line he hopes to launch by early summer. All the pieces are handmade using semiprecious and precious stones. As for his solo career, Choice has ideas for his first record, but he’s still working through what exactly he wants from it. “I don’t like to rush a product,” Choice says. “It has to make sense and convey what [my] message is.” One thing he knows: He wants to keep the recording as local as possible. “I want to bring the focus here,” he says. “We have a very small community, and the arts are very important, but they go unnoticed. I want people to see that if it wasn’t for the artist side of things, we wouldn’t have a lot of the things that we have.” More often than not, Choice says that when he mentions all the talent that hails from his home state, people are surprised. “There are great artists and athletes coming out of South Carolina, but people are shocked they’re from here,” he says. “I want to find a way to use whatever I can use to help myself and help those who are coming up.”

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Mike Sablone didn’t shy away from the heady topics when he chose the plays for his first full season at the helm of the Warehouse Theatre. “I wanted a mixture of plays that would give our audience a sense of the world outside Greenville and the world inside Greenville,” said Sablone, who has served as the theater’s producing artistic director since late January, replacing Paul Savas, who resigned last year. “I was looking for shows that are excellent shows and, at the same time, resonate on a local level and a time level.” So Sablone’s first full season will look at issues such as gentrification and gay marriage and celebrate the work of masters William Shakespeare and Eugene O’Neill. Warehouse will also stage a musical Sablone helped develop from its first draft all the way to its Broadway debut. “There’s always pressure picking seasons, but especially the first season in a place you haven’t lived before,” Sablone said. Sablone got his start in regional theater but spent much of his career before Greenville in New York and Los Angeles. He was production/development director for actor John Krasinski’s Sunday Night Productions and was executive director of the 2016 film “The Hollars” and the 2012 film “Promised Land.”

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Taking a cue from the Warehouse’s tagline of “intense, intimate, unexpected,” Sablone set out to find new plays by new playwrights and those that could help engage the community in conversations. “I describe the season as a whole as a playwriting and acting master class. All are relevant, and all can make you laugh and pull at your heartstrings,” he adds. “It’s a season about having human connections and conversations, but it’s entertaining at the same time.” Here’s the 2017–18 lineup.

“Clybourne Park,” Sept. 22–Oct. 8 The story: This Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play looks at the sale of a house in Chicago 50 years apart. When the house was sold at a bargain price in

1959, it brought the first black family into the neighborhood. In 2009, a young white couple who recently bought the house wants to raze it and build again, raising the disapproval of black residents of the soonto-be-gentrified area. Why he chose it: “It’s a play that is very applicable to Greenville right now and explores what happens in a community that expands,” Sablone said.

love-struck Josie seems to claim him as her own, he is hit with a wave of self-pity and remorse. When dawn comes, the moon is gone and so is Jim. Why he chose it: “I’m so proud of our current production, ‘All My Sons,’ I was inspired to find another classic by an American master. It’s still O’Neill. It’s not bright sunshine and rainbows, but there’s a lightness to it.”

“The Cake,” Dec. 1–17

“The Flick,” March 9–24, 2018

The story: Jen lives in New York but has always dreamed of having her wedding back home in North Carolina. She wants her late mother’s best friend and owner of a local bakery to made the cake. The friend is thrilled until she realizes Jen is marrying a woman. Why he chose it: “I have long admired playwright Bekah Brunstetter’s work. She writes very human characters. Her writing feels like she understands both sides of the issue from a human perspective.”

The story: In a run-down movie theater, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. This Annie Bakerpenned love song to the movies is a funny, heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fastchanging world. Why he chose it: “It feels timeless. It’s about choices made in life.”

“A Moon for the Misbegotten,” Jan. 26–Feb. 10, 2018 The story: In this Eugene O’Neill play, Jim Tyrone Jr. visits the home of his tenant farmer, Phil Hogan. He encounter’s Hogan’s daughter, Josie. During one moonlit night as the

“Much Ado About Nothing,” April 20–May 5, 2018 The story: One of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, “Much Ado” centers on the foibles of two pairs of lovers. Why he chose it: “It’s always a pleasure to do Shakespeare. It’s just a question of which one. Every time I see a production of this show, I leave smiling.”

“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” June 8–30, 2018 The story: This rock musical starts off as a broad satire of America’s seventh president and will help the audience ask how America’s great experiment of democracy works and how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Why he chose it: Sablone helped develop this musical from first draft until it opened on Broadway in 2010. “I love the show dearly. It’s about how we choose our leaders and how difficult it is for our leaders to lead.”

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Carew Rice now on view A native of the South Carolina lowcountry, Carew Rice was working in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the late 1920s when he discovered the art of cutting silhouettes. He worked from the Depression era up until 1970, when he cut silhouettes for South Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tricentennial celebration. He traveled the world creating portraits of politicians, royalty, and ordinary folks, and he became well known throughout the South for portraiture, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life meticulously rendered in this unusual and exacting medium.

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DANCE

Black Grace New Zealand’s leading contemporary dance group Black Grace brings an athletic, South Pacificinspired style to the stage; you can expect lots of snapping, clapping, and hard-charging movements.

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According to Black Grace member Sean MacDonald, the show should appeal to both those who are wellversed in dance and newbies. “It’s accessible and dynamic and for people who like sports as well as like art,” he says. The troupe was founded in 1995 Neil Ieremia / Contributing by choreographer, dancer, and artistic director Neil Ieremia as an all-male ensemble. “We were 10 men of Pacific heritage telling our stories,” MacDonald says. Since then, the group has added women, which is now comprised of five men and five women. “It’s a different energy,” he says. “It allowed a softness.”

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WHEN April 18, 7:30 p.m. WHERE Peace Center, Gunter Theatre

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CHARITY

Strike Out Parkinson’s Annual Walk

Parkinson’s classes in partnership with the YMCA of Greenville.

On Saturday, April 22, the Greenville Area Parkinson Society (GAPS) will hold their yearly Strike Out Parkinson’s Walk at Fluor Field. GAPS is a nonprofit that seeks to “offer support, advocacy, and education” to members of the community who have either been diagnosed with Parkinson’s or otherwise impacted by the condition. This fundraiser will help support the variety of programs GAPS offers, including peer support groups, a monthly community club, speaker seminars, and the Wellness Works Rx — Parkinson’s and Pedaling for

“Along with family in Greenville, our decision to move here a year and a half ago was support for Parkinson’s,” says Susan Smith, whose husband, Ken, has the condition. “GAPS has filled that need with educational and support groups. We encourage anyone with Parkinson’s and their caregivers to attend Strike Out and learn what GAPS can do for you.” Strike Out will include a walk around the warning track at Fluor Field, as well as demonstrations of dancing, kickboxing, and other movement that can help offset the progression of Parkinson’s disease, which impacts mobility. There will also be kid-friendly activities, including face painting and an open playground. This year’s fundraising goal is $50,000. Individuals or teams can sign up at bit.ly/StrikeOutGAPS2017 and are encouraged to set personal fundraising goals. Registration is also available on the day of the event. —Emily Pietras

WHERE Fluor Field, 945 S. Main St. WHEN 10 a.m.–noon ADMISSION Free

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CONCERT CONCERT

APR. 14

VA BENEFITS for Long Term Care

Did you know you could qualify for a tax-free reimbursement of up to $2,127.00 monthly to pay for in-home care, assisted living or nursing home care?

Seminar to also include general Medicaid & Memorial Planning strategies for anyone Join us on Wednesday, April 26 @ 10am

Brookdale Greenville – Activities Room

1306 Pelham Road, Greenville for an informative seminar regarding the VA Aid and Attendance benefit and to find out how to qualify. Also, Medicaid & Memorial Planning Strategies for financial advantages. Burroughs|Elijah Attorney, Katherine Willett, and Daniel Williamson with Dignity Memorial will be here to provide important information regarding benefits and answer your questions.

RSVP to Casey Mathis at Burroughs|Elijah by Monday, April 24 864-501-3205 cmathis@burroughselijah.com

Radio Room 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive 9 p.m. | $7

Heavy metal is a genre that’s becoming increasingly hyphenated, so it’s nice to see a band as straight-ahead as Greenville’s NeverFall. The band, which has been together since 2010, doesn’t play technical-death metal or progressive-stoner metal or anything of the sort. They play old-school thrash, plain and simple. “We saw Anthrax, Testament, and Death Angel together back in the day, and after seeing them that’s where we were like, ‘We want to play thrash,’” says singer/guitarist Sean Lock. “When we saw how much fun they have and how much energy they have, that’s the direction we wanted to go in.” The band, who just released a new video for their song “While Under Fire,” has had the same lineup since they formed, which makes them something of a rarity. “You have to be able to get along with each other and hang out outside of playing together,” Lock says. “If you have great chemistry playing together, that’s great, but if you’re all friends, playing live suddenly becomes more than a show. There’s a much better connection.” —Vincent Harris

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MUSIC

“Seven Last Words”

Westminster Presbyterian Church 2310 Augusta St. 7 p.m. | FREE The Sanctuary Choir of Westminster Presbyterian Church presents “Seven Last Words” by Michael Trotta on Good Friday. This newly commissioned work for choir and orchestra is a seven-movement choral journey through the Passion, delivering a powerful and captivating story encompassing a breathtaking palette of emotion, from intimate tenderness to majestic triumph. 864-232-2424 | bit.ly/2mYclVQ

MUSIC

Hustle 14

Gottrocks | 200 Eisenhower Drive 8 p.m. | $10 Greenville’s “friendly neighborhood jam-band” is back after some time off, and they’re still banging out all-smiles, groove-heavy improvisation, and acousticelectric rock. 864-235-5519 | bit.ly/2lI0eyP

MUSIC

Same As It Ever Was

The Spinning Jenny | 107 Cannon St., Greer 9 p.m. | $10 adv/$12 door The Talking Heads were one of the most musically restless rock bands of the ‘70s and ‘80s. They moved from twitchy new wave to funk to worldbeat without batting an eye. So it takes a special group of musicians to recreate their musical triumphs, and that’s what Same As It Ever Was can do. Expect to hear everything from “Psycho Killer” to “Wild Wild Life” and beyond. 864-469-6416 bit.ly/2k4Qz1b

MUSIC

Anni Piper featuring Joe DaSilva

Dr. Mac Arnold’s Blues Restaurant 1237 Pendleton St. 8 p.m. $10 One listen will tell you why in her homeland Anni Piper is known as the First Lady of Blues. Not only is she a sultry vocalist, but an insightful composer, accomplished bass player, and show-stopping

performer. Born and raised in Australia, her passion for blues was ignited by the sound of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Piper has called Cocoa Beech, Fla., home since 2014. 864-558-0747 bit.ly/2kUHE6T

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COMMUNITY

Greenbrier Farms’ 8th Annual Organic Plant Sale

Greenbrier Farms 766 Hester Store Road, Easley 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | FREE Greenbrier Farms will be open to the public selling organic starter plants such as heirloom tomatoes, pepper varieties, squash, cucumbers, okra, eggplant, herbs, flowers, and more – all from the farm. Greenbrier’s sustainably and humanely raised pasture and grass-fed meats will also be available for sale. In addition, there will be other local vendors selling locally raised landscaping plants. It’s a perfect day to visit the farm and see where your food comes from. 864-855-9782 bit.ly/2lSUyhn chad@greenbrierfarms.com

MUSIC

J. Michael Peeples

Blues Boulevard 300 River St., Suite 203 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. $8 Peeples is a skilled soul-jazz guitarist with a smooth sound that blends muted masters like Wes Montgomery with more laid-back players like George Benson. 864-242-2583 bit.ly/2jHkZKS

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FAMILY

Easter Egg Hunt

Biltmore 1 North Pack Square, Asheville The Easter Rabbit makes his annual appearance on Biltmore’s Front Lawn on Easter Sunday. Highlighting the day are the grand Easter Egg Hunts at 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. Children 9 and younger may attend the hunt for free when accompanied by an estate pass holder or a ticketed adult. 800-411-3812 biltmore.com

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THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Books & Beyond Club at Joe’s Place

640 South Main St. Suite 101-B 6:30-8:30 p.m. | FREE Joe’s Place Book Club will be reading “The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man” by W. Bruce Cameron before meeting. To participate, just come on in and buy a book. bit.ly/2oGurvR

COMMUNITY

Simpsonville Garden Club Meeting

Stony Waters Garden | 173 Falls Way 2 p.m. | FREE The April Meeting of the Simpsonville Garden Club will take place at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18. Owner and designer of Stony Waters Gardens Bill Bradshaw will discuss design elements of Japanese gardens. The Simpsonville Garden Club meets the third Thursday of every month. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to visit. bit.ly/2oEPCCG simpsonvillegardenclub@yahoo.com

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APR. 14-15

Artists in Bloom

CELEBRATING SOUTH CAROLINA'S EMERGING YOUNG ARTISTS

APRIL 20th, 2017

LOCATION:

TIME:

ZEN, 924 S. Main St., Greenville, SC 29601

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

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The 3rd Annual Artists in Bloom

Presented by the Governor’s

As South Carolina’s only public,

will feature music, dance and

School for the Arts Foundation,

residential high school for the arts,

drama performances and

proceeds from Artists in Bloom

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artwork from students of the

provide scholarships for SCGSAH

backgrounds the opportunity to explore

South Carolina Governor’s

students, bring world-renowned

and refine their talents in a one-of-

School for the Arts and

guest artists to the Upstate, and

a-kind, master-apprentice community,

Humanities (SCGSAH).

fund outreach programming to

while receiving a nationally-recognized

schools across the state.

academic education.

Merck Mountain Spring Jam, featuring Tiger Junction, The Trolls, Adam Carter, Mason Jar Menagerie, Gary Fann, Musta Bones, Bad Mojo, Sliver Tongue Devils, sympl, Dustin Owens and The First Amendment, Taught By Heroes, the LOZ Band, and Noveil

CMY

TICKETS $100

310 Browning Road, Central 6:45 (Friday), noon (Saturday) $15 (covers both days) (proceeds go to Helping Hands of Clemson)

For years, Clemson siblings Sheila and Mark Merck threw an annual, two-day music and camping party called the Merck Mountain Jam on a large patch of property they owned near Six Mile. Sure, it was more a hill than a mountain, but it featured great local bands and the money went to a good cause, Helping Hands of Clemson, a foster home for neglected and abused children. But after last year’s Jam, Sheila says the family didn’t think they’d be doing any more of them. “We all had too much going on to dedicate the time that creating the festival requires,” she says. “So we had to put the brakes on for a minute.” Luckily, thanks to sponsorship from the Greenville production company Koolflix, the Mercks were able to sort all of that out, and now they’re bringing more great bands to play, including the Friday and Saturday night headliners, Mason Jar Menagerie and Noveil. “Mason Jar Menagerie has played for us before, and everybody loves them,” Merck says. “Their drummer is amazing, and her brother Jake has this dirty blues guitar sound that makes everybody go crazy. And Noveil are a heavy rock band from Oconee County that was started by Jimmy Stiff, who was in Jackyl back in the day.” —Vincent Harris

Sponsorship Opportunities Available

Presented by

TICKETS?

864.282.1570 OR gsafoundation.net/artistsinbloom

For sponsorship information and tickets, visit gsafoundation.net or call 864.282.1570. All proceeds benefit the students of the South Carolina Governor's School of the Arts and Humanities.

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Christian Learning Centers of Greenville County TD Convention Center | 1 Exposition Drive 6:30-8:30 p.m. | $60 Unite with fellow warriors for Christ at the 20th Anniversary Friends & Fundraising Banquet featuring keynote speaker Josh McDowell. This year’s banquet is a celebration of the amazing work God has done with this organization for the past 20 years and will motivate and inspire us to continue sharing His word with urgency to the youth in Greenville 864-242-2326 bit.ly/2niXDIK

THEATER

Maya Angelou, Chautauqua Talk led by Glenis Redmond

Greenville Chautauqua Hughes Main Library | 25 Heritage Green Place 7-8:30 p.m. | FREE Discuss the inspiring words and life of poet Maya Angleou with Glenis Redmond, poet-in-residence at the Peace Center and State Theatre New Jersey, Kennedy Center teaching artist, founder of Peace Voices and Greenville Poetry Slam, and author of “Backbone,” “Under the Sun,” and “What the Hand Knows.” 244-1499 | greenvilleCHAUTAUQUA.org

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CONCERT

Home Free

Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. 7:30 p.m. | $25-40 The five-man band has become known for their show-stopping performances that mix their signature no-instrument, all-vocal music with their quick-witted humor. In the past three years, Home

Free has crashed the world music scene, selling 250,000 albums, gathering more than 100-million YouTube views, and entertaining more than 150,000 people live in concert. Tickets and VIP package are available online. 864-467-3000 peacecenter.org

LITERATURE

Bob Strother book launch at Fiction Addiction

1175 Woods Crossing Road #5 5:30-7:30 p.m. FREE Local author Bob Strother will be celebrating the launch of his new historical novel, “A Fire to Be Kindled,” the sequel to the highly-praised “Burning Time” at his launch party on Wednesday, April 19, from 5:307:30 p.m. at Fiction Addiction. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served. 864-675-0540 bit.ly/2m8IF8z

COMMUNITY

Sierra Club’s Community Tap Social

The Community Tap 217 Wade Hampton Blvd. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE This is going to be very laid back, no formal meeting, no sales pitch, no forced mingling, and nonmembers are always welcome. Just an opportunity to have fun and meet nice environmentally-minded people. After the success of last year’s “beer event,” the time has come for “Environmentally Responsible Beer 2.0.” Come on by for fun and drinks. bit.ly/2oVANaJ

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MUSIC

Mason Jar Menagerie w/ John The Revelator, Sinners & Saints, and The Long Canes

Radio Room 2845 North Pleasantburg Drive 9 p.m. | $5 (over 21)/$7 (under 21) This is hands-down one of the best examples of the Southeast’s musical strength and diversity. Old-school power-trio rock from Mason Jar Menagerie, serrated, spirited acoustic blues stomp from John The Revelator, two-piece folk-rock from Sinners & Saints, and pure, chaotic guitar-assault indie rock from The Long Canes. 864-263-7868 | bit.ly/2m4fFSp

LITERATURE

Robert Morgan

Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Road #5 6 p.m. | $10-17 North Carolina author Robert Morgan will be celebrating the paperback release of his latest novel “Chasing the North Star,” a story about a slave running to freedom and the hope that perserveres in the darkest times, at a book talk & signing on Thursday, April 20, at 6 p.m. This will be a standingroom-only event. Purchase a $17 ticket today to guarantee a seat and a paperback copy of Morgan’s new novel. First-come, first-served seating available with a $10 ticket. 864-675-0540 | bit.ly/2m8IF8z

ART

Third Thursday Tour: Wyeth Dynasty Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 11 a.m. | FREE Meet in front of The Salon near the front door for a free docent-led tour of the exhibition “Wyeth Dynasty,” presented by United Community Bank. 864-271-7570 | gcma.org

FRI

COMMUNITY

Rendezvous In Paris

Centre Stage Poinsett Club | 807 E. Washington St. 7 p.m. | $125 Heavy hors d’oeuvres, drinks, dancing, and a 1920sthemed cabaret. The evening will be spectacular as you are transported to the beautiful and romantic city of Paris. bit.ly/2kQG1mm

MUSIC

Edge of Paradise w/ Black River Rebels, Silver Tongue Devils, & Osara

Soundbox Tavern 507 West Georgia Road, Simpsonville, SC 9 p.m. | FREE A great sampling of hard-rock and heavy metal here, but the real band to watch is Black River Rebels, a no-BS Social Distortion-style punk-metal band that pumps like a freight train and puts on a hell of a show. 864-228-7763 | bit.ly/2lmqBL8

COMMUNITY

Trivia Night at Joe’s Place

FRIDAYS 5:30PM-9:30PM NOMA Square - FREE Admission Fo r f u l l s c h e d u l e , v i s i t

www.GvilleEvents.com

Joe’s Place 640 South Main St. Suite 101-B 7 p.m. | FREE Questions will cover random trivia including, but not limited to books, wine, and art. Previous categories have covered musical instruments, cereal, and common bonds, just to name a few. The winning team will receive their bar tab (including food) paid up to $50! The team in second place will get to chose a book each from the Joe’s Place secret stash. You can have teams up to six. Please note that food/drink ordered after the winning team is announced cannot be included in the $50 prize. 864-558-0828 | bit.ly/2oGurvR

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JL Fulks

Downtown Alive, NOMA Square 5:30 p.m. | Free JL Fulks, a singer/guitarist who splits his time between south Florida and Greenville, is still in his 20s, but he comes on like a veteran bluesman and bandleader onstage. His soloing skills are dazzling, and he leads his band through roadhouse rockers, 12-bar blues, and soulful ballads with equal ability. Some of that confidence comes from his time touring as lead guitarist for veteran Memphis blues singer and harp player Brandon Santini. “I learned a lot,” Fulks says of his time with Santini. “When I was able to come back and start my own band, I knew how to treat my own band members right from the experience, and how the whole business was run.” Fulks has spent the last several years devoting himself to his songwriting instead of concentrating on guitar pyrotechnics, and it’s paid off. His song “You & I” recently won Blues Song of The Year at the IMEA (International Music & Entertainment Association) awards. “I started to focus on songwriting rather than being the best guitar player in the world, because there are so many guitar players out there,” he says. “I want to write songs that people really connect with.” —Vincent Harris

MUSIC

Mozart & Strauss

Furman University McAlister Auditorum 3300 Poinsett Highway 8 p.m. $12/adults, $10/seniors, $5/students The Furman Department of Music presents the Spring Oratorio, comprised of the Furman Symphony Orchestra and the Furman Singers and Chorales. They close this academic year with a dramatic program including W.A. Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C major, K. 317, and “Death and Transfiguration” by Richard Strauss. Conductors are Furman Music faculty members Thomas Joiner and William Thomas. Furman senior Kevin Edens provides organ accompaniment. 864-294-2086 | bit.ly/2dSO2qr furmanmusic@furman.edu

FRI-SAT

21-22

THEATER

“Swan Lake, Act 3” & Other Works

International Ballet | Gunter Theatre | 300 S. Main St. 7:30 p.m. | $35 This spring will feature the dramatic third act of the iconic classic “Swan Lake,” best known for the “Black Swan Pas de deux” showcasing the crafty swan Odile, who tricks Prince Siegfred from saving the fated white swan, Odette. Other works will include “La Viviandére,” or “Markitenka,” and new choreography from International Ballet. Tickets are available at the Peace Center Box Office or by phone. 864-467-3000 | internationalballetsc.org

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Spartanburg Soaring! International Kite Festival

Chapman Cultural Center Barnet Park 248 E Saint John St., Spartanburg, SC 29603 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | FREE The Chapman Cultural Center is organizing the fourth annual Spartanburg Soaring! This free, family-friendly festival has quickly become a much-anticipated event. Hundreds of kites fill the sky above Barnet Park in downtown Spartanburg complemented by live music, food, and children’s activities. 864-542-1787 | bit.ly/2mJTii7

MUSIC

Together S.O.U.L. at Joe’s Place

Joe’s Place | 640 South Main St. Suite 101-B 7 p.m. | FREE Together S.O.U.L. is a folk duet from the heart of the Blue Ridge composed of Ryan Garst and Emily Kresky. Dreamy harmonies meet sweet guitar lines. Freespirited musicians with great ambition for the art of songwriting and connection with those who enjoy music and lyrics. 864-558-0828 | bit.ly/2oGurvR

CHILDREN

Kids’ Festival at Heritage Green

Heritage Green | 420 College St. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | FREE Kid’s Fest is an annual celebration to kick off the Week of the Young Child. This festival is geared toward our youngest learners and is filled with age-appropriate activities for kids 1-5 years old. Each Heritage Green organization will have a booth on the lawn with opportunities for families to experience what their museum or entity provides our community every day. bit.ly/2oyJGe3

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EDUCATION

Story Time & More

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. | 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free with admission Join us at Story Time & More as we kick off our month of Laura Numeroff’s stories. 864-233-7755 | info@tcmupstate.org

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CONCERT

Gov’t Mule

Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. 7 p.m. | $35-45

COMMUNITY

Diaper Bank Fundraiser Luncheon

Diaper Bank of the Carolinas Thornblade Country Club 1275 Thornblade Blvd., Greer 1 p.m. | $40 The major fundraising event for the Diaper Bank of the Carolinas is a buffet luncheon with a silent auction. Tickets for the event are $40 each. Attendees will enjoy live music and also hear stories from recipient agencies and families. The Diaper Bank assists about 500 families each year in accessing disposable diapers, which cannot be purchased with food stamps or through WIC. Keeping babies clean and dry can have profound health implications. The Diaper Bank of the Carolinas is the only such charity in the Upstate, although diapers are shipped throughout South Carolina to families in need. To purchase tickets for the luncheon, please call 864335-5277 before April 15.

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GOVERNMENT

Upstate Republican Women April Luncheon

Upstate Republican Women Poinsett Club |8-7 East Washington St. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $18-$20 This month’s forum will include discussion on the issue of roads. Join the Upstate Republican Women at the Poinsett Club on April 24. A meet-and-greet will take place from 11:30-noon followed by lunch. Cost for members and their guests who reserve in advance is $18. Cost for nonmembers and those without a reservation is $20. Please be sure to make your reservation by 6 p.m. on April 19. bit.ly/2naZzD1

THU

AUTHOR TALK

David Sedaris

Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. 7:30 p.m. | $40 With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Sedaris has become one of America’s preeminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. Stick around before and after the show as Sedaris will be signing books in the lobby. 864-467-3000 peacecenter.org

COMMUNITY

BYOB to Joe’s Place

640 South Main St. Suite 101-B 6:30-8:30 p.m. | $10 Do you have a favorite bottle of wine that you’ve been wanting to share? Bring it to our first BYOB event. This is a great opportunity to expand your palate and see what others are recommending. We will provide a couple bottles of wine as well as corkscrews and glassware. There will also be door prizes. Space is limited to 15 people. Call or stop by the store today to reserve your spot. Payment is required at the time of reservation. 864-558-0828 bit.ly/2oGurvR

THRU FRI Gov’t Mule has showcased its virtuosity, intelligence, and breadth for more than two decades, which have encompassed 15 studio and live albums, millions of album and track sales, and thousands of performances. Guitarist-singer Warren Haynes, drummer Matt Abts, bassist Jorgen Carlsson, and multi-instrumentalist Danny Louis take the stage. 864-467-3000 | 800-888-7768 peacecenter.org

ARTS EVENT

A bold new season at the Brooks Center in 2016-2017

Brooks Center 141 Jersey Lane, Clemson Admission varies by production Musicians from the Nile region of Africa, dancers from the heart of New York, and theater from the streets of Ireland are among the season’s entertainment at Clemson University’s Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. bit.ly/BrooksCenterSchedule

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COMMUNITY

“Mutually Exclusive: A One-Act Musical”

The Spinning Jenny | 107 Cannon St., Greer 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. | $7 Come enjoy a staged reading of the premiere of “Mutually Exclusive: A One-Act Musical” by Colton Beach with an optional Q&A with the creative team and talent following each performance. bit.ly/2oyxqtM

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THEATER

“Seussical”

South Carolina Children’s Theatre Peace Center 300 S. Main St. various times $27 (adults), $18 (children) Rhyme, dance, and sing with this fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza. The mischievous Cat in the Hat is the master of ceremonies as Dr. Seuss’ beloved tales are brought to life. This fast-paced musical features Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and all of the Whos in Whoville. So let your toes tap, your fingers snap, and your imagination run wild. See website for performance times. 864-467-3000 scchildrenstheatre.org

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ART

Classes at The Art Cellar

223 N. Main St., Suite 12B Check out their website or Facebook for full class descriptions and registration links. 864-520-1653 | bit.ly/2lL1LVL

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MUSIC

FRI

COMMUNITY

La Fiesta

Hispanic Alliance The Old Cigar Warehouse | 912 S. Main St. 6:30 p.m. $90 (early bird ticket, available through March 15); $100 (single ticket) The Hispanic Alliance will host La Fiesta, an evening celebrating Latin cultures in the Upstate. This year’s theme focuses on the blend of Hispanic-American cultures, food, music, and dance. bit.ly/2m1WQzt

SAT

SPORTS

Insane Inflatable 5k

Insane Inflatable 5k Heritage Park | 861 SE Main St., Simpsonville $49, $75, $100 Be part of the fun fitness experience. The Insane Inflatable 5K, a run series made up of inflatable objects, will be taking place in more than 120 cities across the U.S. and Canada. The event is coming to Greenville on May 6. The event is a new take on fitness that will challenge everyone from seasoned marathon runners to weekend warriors. The course features a dozen extreme inflatable obstacles and is over 3 miles long. Participants and spectators have access to games, food, beverages, merchandise, and swag from local vendors and sponsors. No matter where you are in your fitness journey, you’ll be sure to have a blast at this event. bit.ly/2lfRaR9

CONCERT

Eric Church

Bon Secours Wellness Arena 650 N. Academy St.

Swannanoa Festival Trio

Temple of Israel 400 Spring Forest Road 3 p.m. | adults $20, students $5 This distinguished trio featuring pianist Inessa Zaretsky, violinist J Frievogel, and cellist Rachel Frievogel will perform a program which will include the Rachmaninoff Elegiac Trio and other ensemble works. This is the final concert in the Music on Sunday Series and is a prelude to the Swannanoa Festival five-concert series coming this July to the Fine Arts Center. 864-292-1782

ART

Sundays at 2: Artist Demonstration

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. | 2 p.m. Join South Carolina artist Russel Jewel for a demonstration of watercolor painting techniques inspired by the various methods of Andrew Wyeth. 864-271-7570 | gcma.org

MAY TUE

THEATER

Cesar Chavez, Chautauqua Talk led by Vera Gomez

Greenville Chautauqua Hughes Main Library 25 Heritage Green Place 7-8:30 p.m. | FREE Discuss Cesar Chavez’s message of non-violence, protest, and hope with Vera Gomez, workshop facilitator, performance poet, SmartArts’ teaching poet, founding member of Greenville Poetry Slam, president of Emrys, and author of “Barrio Voices.” For Vera Gomez, the story of Cesar Chavez is not just history. It’s personal. Vera was born to immigrant parents and raised in Lubbock, Texas. Cesar Chavez was the voice that spoke for her family. Vera is a bilingual poet and a firm believer in the power of words. 864-244-1499 greenvilleCHAUTAUQUA.org

See two Eric Church sets in one night on his upcoming Holdin’ My Own Tour. 241-3800 | 800-745-3000 | ticketmaster.com

CHARITY, RECREATION, COMMUNITY

Tails & Trails 5k

Greenville County Animal Care Conestee Park | 601 Fork Shoals Rd. 8:30 a.m. $25/entry+$15 per person for teams of six or more/$30 entry after April 24 This is your chance to help save lives. By starting a team or individual fundraiser for Tails & Trails, you can ask your friends and family to help you reach your goal of raising funds to help build a no-kill community in Greenville County. pchurch@greenvillecounty.org

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CULTURE «America’s Boating Course EDUCATION

Lake Hartwell Sail & Power Squadron Cabela’s | 1025 Woodruff Road, #H101 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. | $50 America’s Boating Course, developed by the United States Power Squadron, will be presented by Lake Hartwell Sail & Power Squadron on Saturday, May 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The course will be at Cabela’s on Woodruff Road. The eight-hour course covers boat handling, anchoring, finding directions, adverse condition, and using the marine radio. This course has been approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and reecognized by SCDNR and many major insurance carriers and the U.S. Coast Guard. The cost of the course is $50 and $10 for each additional family member. 864-567-1394 | bit.ly/2n1vXZD

affiliated with Rotary Club of Greenville. This captain’s choice tournament will be held at Pebble Creek, Links Golf Course. Breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. with a “shotgun” start at 9 a.m. An awards luncheon will follow the tournament. greenvillerotary.org

TUE

CONCERT

Steve Winwood

Peace Concert Hall at the Peace Center 7:30 p.m. | $45-$75

COMMUNITY

Responsible Dog Owner Day

Greenville Kennel Club Astro Kennels | 418 Scuffletown Road, Simpsonville 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | FREE Join the Greenville Kennel Club at Astro Kennels for a Responsible Dog Owner Day celebration. Events include “My Dog Can Do That,” a training and companion sports demonstration; dog dock diving; “Meet the Breeds” learning session; a fun dog show; and more. There will also be Upstate vendors and food trucks. The event is free and open to the public. All leashed and well-behaved dogs are welcome. (Proof of rabies, DHPP, and bordetella vaccination is required for dog entry.) bit.ly/2mfGUGS

SAT-SUN

CONCERT

Symphony 06-07 Greenville Orchestra presents “Cirque de la Symphonie”

Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. | $20-80 Our final Masterworks of the 69th concert season comes to a breathtaking conclusion in this spectacular and unique program marrying classical symphonic hits with live, heart-pounding acrobatics. Each performance is perfectly choreographed to popular masterpieces and is sure to astonish and mesmerize in this incredible, once-in-a-lifetime event. 864-467-3000 | peacecenter.org

SUN

ART

Sundays at 2: Artist Talk with Susan Vescey

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. | 2 p.m. Join us as Susan Vescey shares the inspiration and techniques behind her unconventional landscapes. 864-271-7570 | gcma.org

SUN-SAT

07-13

the Fair”

CONCERT

Greenville Concert Band presents “The Fairest of

May 7 at 3 p.m. at the Cascades at Verdae May 13 at 3:30 p.m. at Rolling Green Village FREE You are invited to take a musical journey with the band as it performs outstanding selections from an eclectic assortment of genres. greenvilleconcertband.org

MON

CHARITY

Second Annual Rotary Charities Cup

Pebble Creek, Links Golf Course 101 Pebble Creek Drive, Taylors 8 a.m. | $95 for single player The proceeds from the Second Annual Rotary Charities Cup Golf Tournament, presented by Rush Wilson, will benefit Rotary Charities, a not-for-profit entity

THRU SUN

THU-SUN

11-21

THEATER

“DelikateSSen”

Centre Stage | 501 River St. Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. | $15-30 When a landmark New York City delicatessen falls on hard times in 1972, the Jewish owners, both concentration camp survivors, are stunned to discover a new German delicatessen preparing to open its doors across the street 233-6733 | centrestage.org

FRI-SUN

12-14

FESTIVAL

Artisphere

Downtown Greenville | FREE Artisphere will present some of the country’s most promising performers and veteran entertainers. After GE Artist Row closes on Main Street, the GSP Airport After Hours Concert Series begins Friday night at 8 p.m. when Southern rock-soul artist Marc Broussard (Carencro, La.) takes the WYFF-4 Main Stage. Opening for Broussard at 6:30 p.m. is rhythm & blues duo Smooth Hound Smith (Nashville, Tenn.). Saturday’s 8 p.m. concert on the Main Stage will feature Gulf Coast soul band The Suffers (Houston, Texas). The Suffers are currently touring Europe leading up to their Artisphere performance. The Suffers’ 6:30 p.m. opening act is neo-folk trio The Ballroom Thieves (Boston). Artisphere will also feature a variety of local culinary delights and rising musicians. bit.ly/2mkeom2

SAT

THEATER PRODUCTION

Centre Stage Series

The Academy of Arts Ministries The LOGOS Theatre | 80 Schools St., Taylors 2-5 p.m. | FREE This exciting recital given by the Academy of Arts Christian Conservatory students will include several cuttings from some of your favorite books and stories of all time. Don’t miss this opportunity to get a glimpse into our unique, hands-on conservatory program and show your support to each student for their hard work. 268-9342 | theAcademyOfArts.org information@theAcademyOfArts.org

The Art of Dr. Seuss: A Retrospective and International Touring Exhibition

Upcountry History Museum 540 Buncombe St. $4–$6; 3 and under, free Visitors will walk through Dr. Seuss’s life as they weave through a mind-altering collection of estate authorized artworks adapted and reproduced from Dr. Seuss’s original paintings, drawings and sculpture. This incredible exhibition explores known and unknown facets of Ted Geisel’s life, including careers as an editorial cartoonist, advertiser, military propagandist, children’s book author, poet, sculptor, and influential artist. 864-467-3100 upcountryhistory.org

THRU THU

FAMILY

THRU SUN

SPORTS

For more than five decades, Steve Winwood has remained a primary figure in rock ’n’ roll. Bursting into prominence in 1963 with the Spencer Davis Group, Winwood also co-founded Traffic and Blind Faith. His solo career has yielded a rich catalog of popular songs, including “When You See a Chance,” “Valerie,” and “Higher Love.” Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and listed among Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, Winwood remains one of the most influential artists in popular music. 864-467-3000 | 800-888-7768 | peacecenter.org

VISUAL ARTS

Biltmore Blooms

Biltmore 1 North Pack Square, Asheville Biltmore’s gardens - designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted - come to life with immense floral displays featuring nearly 100,000 tulips across the estate. Biltmore’s restaurants will include special menu items, with the winery offering specialty tours. 800-411-3812 | biltmore.com

College Baseball Series

Fluor Field | 945 S. Main St. $9 (games not featuring Clemson or South Carolina); $8-$12 (games featuring Clemson or South Carolina) Tickets are now on sale for the College Baseball Series at Fluor Field, featuring games involving Clemson, South Carolina, Furman, Presbyterian College, and Wofford, among others. 864-240-4528 bit.ly/fluorfield-collegebaseball

THRU WED

EXHIBITION

World War I Exhibition

Furman University James B. Duke Library 2nd Floor Gallery 3300 Poinsett Highway Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE A new exhibition marking the United States World War I Centennial is now on display at Furman’s James B. Duke Library. The exhibition, “Over Here, Over There: Greenville in the Great War,” surveys World War I’s impact on the local community – it examines the contributions of this area to the war effort, domestically and overseas, and it assesses the mixed legacy of progress emanating from the war years. bit.ly/2lkSEpW

JULY THRU TUE

FAMILY

Designed for Drama: Fashion from the Classics

Biltmore 1 North Pack Square, Asheville The artistry of great literary works, costume design, and moviemaking comes together in “Designed for Drama: Fashion from the Classics,” Biltmore’s new exhibition in Biltmore House. Inspired by George Vanderbilt’s love of literature, “Designed for Drama” showcases more than 40 award-winning movie costumes from films based on favorite books in his collection. 800-411-3812 | biltmore.com

THU-SUN

20-23

EDUCATION

Peace Chamber Summer Workshop

Campbell Young Leaders Peace Center, Huguenot Mill | 101 W. Broad St. | $325 Catering to talented amateurs, accomplished musicians, and everyone in between, the Peace Chamber summer workshop provides invaluable experience to chamber musicians looking to hone their craft. Participants will be divided into small groups based on experience level, where they will work closely with professional visiting artists in an authentic chamber setting. And at the end of the workshop, students will have the opportunity to utilize what they have learned during a chamber showcase open to friends and family. 864-467-3000 | peacecenter.org

THRU THU

VISUAL ARTS

“Masterworks of Color: African-American Art from the Greenville Collection”

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. Wednesdays-Saturdays 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays 1-5 p.m. | FREE Consider American and world history from the viewpoint of such accomplished African-American artists as William H. Johnson, Merton Simpson and Kara Walker, among others. 271-7570 | gcma.org

AUG TUE

COMMUNITY

Sooie BBQ Cook-off Registration

Carolina BBQ Association Mauldin Cultural Center | 101 E Butler Road 5 p.m. | $100 Sooie! It’s time to start cooking. Sooie Mauldin’s Seventh Annual BBQ Cook-off will take place on Friday, Sept. 22, from 6-9 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 23, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Only 20 team slots are open this year, though more may be added if space allows. The event is sanctioned and judged by the SC BBQ Association and will award cash prizes to first through fifth places. Teams are also encouraged to participate in Friday’s “Anything Butt” competition as a way to showcase their nonbarbecue skills. Registration is first come, first served. All participants must register by Aug.1 at 5 p.m. Be a part of one of the best, and most cooker-friendly barbecue cook-offs, in the state. A $100 registration fee (nonrefundable) is due for each team. mauldinbbq.com | mparks@mauldinrecreation.com

FRI

MUSIC

Chris Botti Returns to the Peace Center

Peace Center Concert Hall | 300 S Main St. 8 p.m. | $45-65 A master trumpeter who first picked up the instrument at just 12 years old, Chris Botti has been surrounded by music for the majority of his life. Over his prolific career, he has worked with a wide variety of major artists, ranging from Lady Gaga to Paul Simon. His unique style, sound, and stage presence have earned him a loyal international audience. 864-467-3000 | bit.ly/2mtoW34

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ABC Notices $165 | Summons, Notices , Foreclosures , etc. $1.20 per line 864.679.1205 | email: aharley@communityjournals.com SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following:

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

Carpet Cleaning Services for County Facilities, RFP #7205/04/17, until Thursday, May 4, 2017, 3:30 PM, EDT.

Quality Assurance for the Construction of the Twin Chimneys Landfill Unit 4 Cell 1, RFP #73-05/16/17, 3:30 P.M.

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

A pre-proposal meeting will be held at 10:00 A.M., E.D.T., April 18, 2017 at the Greenville County Twin Chimneys Landfill, 11075 Augusta Road, Honea Path, SC 29654.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF GREENVILLE 2016-DR-23-1065 Annette Marie Arias, Plaintiff -vs.- Delman Mauricio Arias Cordero, Defendant. Date filed: March 14, 2016 Time filed: 4:25 PM TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is attached and herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to this Complaint upon the subscriber, at 304 Pettigru Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29601, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer the Complaint within the thirty- day period, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein and judgment by default will be rendered against you. David J. Rutledge, Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 10664 Greenville, SC 29603 (864) 467-0999

Solicitations can be found at http://www.greenvillecounty. org/apps/procurementpdf/ projects.aspx?type=RFP or by calling (864) 467-7200.

SUMMONS NOTICE 2016-CP-23-06846 STATE OF SC GREENVILLE COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DENIS ALBERT and MARLYSE ALBERT v. WILLIAM WIGGINS TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: You are hereby summoned and notified that an action has been filed against you in the Greenville County, SC court in action number 2016CP-23-06846. You have thirty (30) days from the last date of publication of this notice to answer the complaint. You must also serve a copy of your answer upon the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s attorney at the address shown below. If you fail to answer the Complaint, judgment by default could be rendered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint. S. Lindsay Carrington Bell Carrington & Price, LLC 408 East North Street Greenville, SC 29601 864-272-0556

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE GREENVILLE COUNTY ROAD NAME CHANGE APPLICANT: James Van Steenburgh PROPERTY LOCATION: From Poinsett Hwy (US Hwy 276) take N. Parker Road (State Road 321 ); follow approximately 1. 78 miles turn left onto Lehman Moseley Ridge (L-PD-61) EXISTING NAME: Lehman Moseley Ridge (L-PD-61) REQUESTED NAME: Mountain Edge Court

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE GREENVILLE COUNTY PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE, HEARING OFFICER ON THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 AT 10:00AM, IN CONFERENCE ROOM A, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE CASES PERTAINING TO THE HABITABILITY OF STRUCTURE(S) ON THE PROPERTY. A. CASE NO: 15-1482 PROPERTY OWNER: WILLIAM R SMITH PROPERTY LOCATION: 202 SUNSHINE AVENUE TAX MAP NUMBER: 0171.00-02-004.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 19 COMPLAINT NOTICE A complaint has been brought before the Code Enforcement Division of a dangerous, insanitary and unsafe structure located at the following locations: 202 Sunshine Avenue, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0171.00-02-004.00, Greenville County, SC. Any persons having interest in these properties, or knowledge of the property owner should contact the Codes Enforcement Office at 864-467-7090 on or before April 27, 2017.

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Demolition of Structures, May 4, 2017, 3:00 P.M., EDT. A pre-bid meeting and site visit will be held at 9:00 A.M., EDT, April 27, 2017 at Greenville County Procurement Services Office, County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601. A copy of the solicitation can be obtained from Greenville County’s website at http:// www.greenvillecounty.org/ Procurement/ or by calling the Procurement Services Division at 864-467-7200.

NOTICE To ADONNICA LEE, her personal representative, heirs, or devisees: You will please take notice that on MAY 3, 2017 at 11:00 A.M. in the Probate Court for Greenville County, South Carolina, you shall appear to show cause, if any you can, why the Personal Representative of the Estate of Eric Fitzgerald Lee, Deceased, File No. 2012ES2300747 should not be ordered to distribute the estate as if ADONNICA LEE had died before the decedent; all persons entitled to the above-mentioned estate as heir or devisee of ADONNICA LEE shall appear to intervene for their interest in the estate or be forever barred. Debora A. Faulkner March 22, 2017 Probate Judge for Greenville County

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that SAI Krupa 2017, LLC / DBA Energy Mart, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/ permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 3226 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors, SC 29687-2804. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 16, 2017. 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 Harris & Harris Enterprises LLC /DBA The Corner Wine & Spirits, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of LIQUOR at 400A Laurens Rd., Greenville SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 16, 2017. 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 Basil Greenville LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1 North Laurens Street Suite A, Greenville, SC 29602. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 16, 2017. 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 AG Holdings, LLC /DBA Golden Brown and Delicious 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 1269 Pendleton Street, Greenville SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 23, 2017. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Greenville Pool Club intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 600 S. Main Street Suite 700, Greenville SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 23, 2017. 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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF AMENDED COMPLAINT AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) C/A NO: 2016-CP-23-02959 DEFICIENCY WAIVED The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificate holders of Equity One ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-3, PLAINTIFF, vs. Christopher Harrell; Greenville County DEFENDANT(S) TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master in Equity for Greenville County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCAR, effective June 1, 1999. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the

Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master in Equity in/for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCAR, effective June 1, 1999. NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND AMENDED COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed with the Clerk of Court for Greenville County, South Carolina, on May 12, 2016; and the Amended Complaint was filed with the Clerk of Court for Greenville County, South Carolina on January 14, 2017. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, (hereinafter “Order”), you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention. To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Hutchens Law Firm, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202 or call 803726-2700. Hutchens Law Firm, represents the Plaintiff in this action and does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice. You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date of this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY/ AGENT MAY PROCEED WITH A FORECLOSURE ACTION. If you have already pursued loss mitigation with the Plaintiff, this Notice does not guarantee the availability of loss mitigation options or further review of your qualifications. THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

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Having a fling ACROSS

1 Not rough 7 Small digital images expressing ideas 13 Bus schedule abbr. 16 Bouquet-bringing co. 19 Oahu greetings 20 Extreme eccentricity 21 Ivy — (Yalie, e.g.) 23 Diamond events 25 Any of 13 Catholic leaders 26 Experts at CPR 27 Prefix with gauge 28 On — streak (winning big) 30 Was in need of restocking 31 Strong Italian cheese 34 They’re over gables 36 Lakota’s language family 38 Lilting syllable 40 Parris Island mil. branch 41 Sticky, chewy candy 42 Shelters for backpackers 45 Sash for Cio-Cio-San 47 Texter’s “As I see it ...” 48 Election day, often: Abbr. 49 Hold fast (to) 52 “Pieces of Me” singer Simpson 57 They often include spiels 60 LuPone who played Evita 63 Bygone autocrat 64 Grimm bully 65 “Dash it all!”

66 The “A” of ACLU: Abbr. 67 Mu — beef 69 Some NFL linemen 71 With 83-Down, like Rudolph 72 “Behold!,” in Latin 73 Dirt-dishing Barrett 74 Dear old dad 76 “— dog’s life” 78 Super-angry 79 Orchestral array 84 Reply to “Am so!” 85 More chancy 86 Mauna — 87 Prefix with angle or fold 90 “Not impressed” 92 Thrown-away items 95 Tricky pool shot 99 Kosovo native 102 Norse god of battle 103 PC-sent holiday greetings 104 Some paved arteries 107 “Phooey!” 109 Capital of Albania 110 New attempt 111 Palmtop device, for short 112 “— yellow ribbon ...” 115 Salon colorant 117 Theme of this puzzle 121 Whole number, e.g. 122 Writer Waugh 123 Tackled energetically

By Frank Longo 124 Niger-to-Zambia dir. 125 Tram rock 126 Beat back 127 Luanda’s country DOWN

1 Mr. Kotter 2 Jack of old Westerns 3 Spaceship in “Alien” 4 2004-15 sarcastic recap series on E! 5 R&D room 6 Sofía’s “that” 7 “E.T.” boy 8 Steins, e.g. 9 Bump — log 10 Actor Malcolm- — Warner 11 Places to store frozen blocks 12 B-board runners 13 Skiing peak 14 Co. shuffling 15 Hip-hop performer 16 Rife with 17 Drive, in golf 18 Half-asleep 22 Largest port in Italy 24 K-O middle 29 Cook with Apple 32 Luau cocktail 33 Make invalid 34 Desert rodent 108 “I’ve — it!” with “up” 35 Cpl. or sgt. 111 — ed (gym) 95 Singer Johnny 36 Ecol., e.g. 113 The same, in France 96 Mongolians, e.g. 37 Sam- — 114 “The Thin Man” dog 97 Elfish one 39 Gets, as profits 116 Afore 98 Allotment 43 “No kiddin’!” 118 151, to Nero 44 Declaration while pointing 100 Require a 110-Across, 119 Old rival of Pan Am maybe 46 Bleated 120 She cackles 101 Movie critic Richard 50 Car of the early 1900s 105 Onion part 51 Memory trace Crossword answers: page 38 106 Is a little too fond 53 People in concealment 54 Poet Federico García — 55 Sign into law by Myles Mellor and Susan Flannigan 56 Lauder of perfume 57 Virus variety 58 Half-witted 59 Half of sei 60 City ENE of 22-Down 61 Love, to Luc 62 Wrought up 67 Sudden rush 68 Actor Sparks 70 Curb locales 75 “Shy” singer DiFranco 77 Ill-tempered 78 Lake — (Mississippi River source) 80 Be sporadic 81 Explore a reef, maybe 82 High RRs 83 See 71-Across 87 Become 88 Rustic mail abbr. 89 What- — (conjectures) 91 ’48 electee 93 Tending to wear down Hard Sudoku answers: page 38 94 Adorning tawdrily,

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Dad M.D. with Joe Maurer

Food Is a Battleﬁeld

Sometimes, the only way to win the game is not to play Years ago, in an attempt to incorporate one of my childhood favorites into our family dinner rotation, Kristen cooked up some hearty goulash. In response to this new and unfamiliar taste, our then 5-year-old Anna Jane offered her opinion by simply stating, “Hmm… interesting.” Now, at the Maurer house, we use “interesting” as a generous description for dishes we don’t quite know what to make of, or that taste like baby food or Spam. We have a rule that no matter how interesting a food is, everyone must try at least one bite. (We believe this is a healthier rule than the clean-your-plate rule from previous generations.) Despite our clear parameters with this rule, Jack continues to challenge it. Just last week, for example, the battle continued so long into the evening that he fell asleep on his chair, fork in hand. In my office, food battles are one of the most common parental concerns. As Jack continues to prove, they’re often very difficult to address. Despite being a pediatrician and incessant consumer of every advice/parenting book dating back to Dr. Spock, I still don’t have all the answers (I’m skeptical of anyone who says they do). However, I’ve learned that what really helps parents to work through food struggles is to create an appropriate framework in which to understand what drives the issue. Simply put, the vast majority of the time, food battles are not about the food itself, they’re about control. Consider Jack, currently 5 years old and a third child, with two older sisters who feed off of doing his hair, painting his nails, or forcing him to be the pony when they play “Farm and Animals.” He is at a point in his life where he has very little control over his environment but is cognitively ready to learn independence. Frankly, one of the only things he truly has control over is what goes into his body. So, when I’m sitting at the table arguing with him about taking a bite of pizza, it’s not about the pizza, it’s about him asserting his independence. He’s letting me know that he’s in charge. (It’s certainly not about a dislike of pizza.) So, in this example with Jack, I have two choices: I can pick this fight with him, or I can quickly disengage. When I choose to test him, I risk a battle that escalates to the point that he stubbornly falls asleep on his chair. The challenge in situations like this is that I need to affirm that I’m still the authority, while also offering opportunities for him to learn independence. These moments are chances to help him (and

me) mature. If I become too focused on the food, I lose sight of the bigger picture. This idea is not unique to a 5-year-old. Infants refuse textures; 7-year-olds boycott vegetables; teenagers reject entire food groups (my wife subsisted off nothing but muffins and Mountain Dew for an entire month in high school). Anorexia and bulimia are more about control than about food (these kids need additional professional help). Even for adults, food is often used as an emotional tool. We’ve all had a Friday where we’ve turned on Netflix and eaten an entire pint of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food, a bag of Doritos, and the leftover pizza our 5-year-old didn’t eat. While working through food challenges, five practical recommendations to help encourage success include: • Involve children in the food choice and preparation process. More engagement on the front end creates better success once sitting down to eat. • Only pick the important battles. If I sense that it’s been such a difficult day that things won’t go well, I quickly move past our one-bite rule. If I furtively move on, I haven’t sacrificed my authority and I avoid a battle that I might not win. Sometimes the appropriate response to a situation is to quickly deescalate it. •Don’t become a short-order cook. While a natural response to persistent struggles is to cook a separate meal to appease children, this sends the wrong message. It won’t fix the underlying problem (it may actually worsen it), and it is exhausting. • Eat your own vegetables. Parents model food behaviors. Don’t expect children to eat peas or resist Cool Ranch Doritos if you don’t. • Smile. Even if it’s a concerted effort to resist a negative attitude, keeping the atmosphere as positive and non-confrontational as possible provides a better chance for success. There will be wins and losses, but my hope for parents is that along the way there is mostly joy around the dinner table — even if the food is “interesting.” Dr. Joe Maurer is a pediatrician with The Children’s Clinic, a nine-doctor practice that is part of the Children’s Hospital of the Greenville Health System. He and his wife, Kristen, are blessed with three rowdy kids.

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