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Those long lines of cars wrapping around your neighborhood pool on Thursday nights mean two things: school’s out and SAIL – the Swim Association Invitational League – is in session.

SAIL has been introducing Greenville County kids to competitive swimming since 1964, and has become a rite of passage for many area children – and now, their children. Bob Knight, president of the SAIL executive board, says he expects the league to feature more than 4,200 swimmers on 38 neighborhood teams this year.

Knight says he’s seen steady 4 to 5 percent annual growth since he joined the board three years ago. “There’s just something so American about it. Your neighborhood coming together, joining in an event everyone can share.”

SAIL was the brainchild of Willard Metcalf, who was recreation chairman of the Greenville Parent-Youth Association in 1964. A former collegiate swimmer, he organized a youth swim meet that included almost 300 swimmers. By 1976, 10 neighborhoods participated in PYA-sponsored summer swim meets, and SAIL was organized to accommodate growing demand. By 1984, 26 neighborhoods participated.

One of the kids swimming in 1984 was Amy LaRosa, who swam for Poinsettia, a Simpsonville neighborhood, from ages 6 to 16. Now her children, Lauren, 10, and Connor, 5, have joined SAIL – at the very same pool where their mom once swam.

LaRosa says participating in the league provided far-reaching benefits. “I made lifelong friends, and it was such a huge part of my summer, through practices, meets and social outings,” she said.

“I think I am more athletic to this day because of it.”

Now she is watching her children learn strokes and make friends, just like Tracy Kramer has done for 14 years. Her daughter Natalie, now 18, started swimming as a Pebble Creek “Guppy” at age 5. Son Brad, now at Clemson, also swam and coached. Through the years, Kramer has volunteered in many capacities, including serving as team SAIL representative for 11 years.

“I think what has kept me committed to building and growing the team is that swimming is a sport for everyone,” she said. “All ages, all sizes, all ethnicities, no matter your skill level; everyone needs to know how to do it.”

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The Pebble Creek motto is “fun, fair and fast,” and she says the team focuses on fun first. “It’s our swim family,” she said. “Even if we don’t socialize the rest of the year, for those two and a half months, we see each other every day.”

It keeps her family busy, but the fitness, team spirit and camaraderie more than make up for the effort.

Knight said the only negative he hears about SAIL are from some neighborhood residents who don’t like the crowds and parking issues on meet nights. “We try to remind everyone that we are guests at the pool – the homeowners’ association owns the pool,” he said. Strict parking rules, reliable clean-up after meets and staying off neighborhood lawns goes a long way to engendering goodwill.

But most neighbors appreciate the positive aspects of swim teams, even if they don’t have kids who swim.

“Neighborhoods are struggling to keep pools operational,” Knight said.

Hosting a swim team is a good way to boost membership, since team members join the pool and pay dues – and many swimmers come from outside the neighborhood.

“I would guess that 30 percent of swimmers or more come from out of their team neighborhood,” Knight said.

At some older neighborhoods, the outof-neighborhood percentage is much higher. The SAIL website, www.swimsail. org, posts a list of swim teams with open memberships that anyone can join.

Knight says swim teams attract young families, and young families can drive up pool memberships, interest in a community and even property values.

But for parents like LaRosa, it’s all about giving her kids the kind of experience she had as a swimmer. “When I look back on my childhood, growing up in Poinsettia, I only have fond memories, and SAIL is a huge part of that,” she said.

“It’s one of the best things I did, and I am so glad my kids get to experience it.”

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County Council chooses ‘A-list’ for DSN

By CHarles Sowell | staff

Greenville County Council approved an “A-list” of interim board members to take over at the Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs board Tuesday as part of the process of curing the troubled agency’s problems.

The nominees’ names will be sent to Gov. Nikki Haley for approval. Once the governor signs off, the five interim board members will go to work at GCDSN. The council’s move is the next step after voting to dissolve the old GCDSN board on May 22. State personnel from the S.C. Department of Disabilities and Special Needs were brought in May 23 to run the agency on an interim basis. The state-funded Greenville agency cares for 2,200 disabled clients.

Citing the old GCDSN board’s dysfunctional nature and the county’s responsibility to care for the most vulnerable citizens, council voted unanimously two weeks ago to disband the old 12-member board and set up a new seven-member ruling body.

The vote approving the interim board nominees was 9 to 3 with Joe Dill, Willis Meadows and Dan Rawls dissenting.

County Administrator Joe Kernell, who was charged with coming up with the five interim board members who will work with state disability officials until a permanent seven-member board can be selected, called the group an “A-list.”

The interim board members are Judy Gilstrap, a former county councilwoman, who has a long-standing interest in helping the county’s most needy residents; Pearlie Harris, chair of the board of directors of the St. Francis Hospital System; Bob Ariail, former 13th Cir-

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cuit Solicitor; Alex McNair, parent of a special-needs child and vice president at March USA Inc., where he leads business development and marketing efforts; and Jay Rogers, a Greenville attorney who has also served as a board member and former chairman of the Greenville Area Development Corporation.

The three dissenting council members told the Journal they voted against the measure due to a perceived lack of transparency in the selection process.

“I voted against the process, not the nominees,” Dill said. He said the council should have had direct involvement in selecting the interim board rather than leave it to Kernell. “We will never know how many people wanted to be on the board but were not included.”

Lois Park Mole, spokeswoman for DDSN, said staff from her agency is ready to begin work with the interim board to lay the groundwork for the permanent board still to be appointed.

She said state personnel will conduct training and orientation sessions for the interim board members. Following those sessions, state staffers will present the interim board with a list of action items. Mole said it will be up to the interim board to decide whether to deal with those items or wait for the permanent board to address them.

Council Chairman H.G. “Butch” Kirven said the mission of the interim board will be to get the governance, transparency, financial reporting and related issues running smoothly at the GCDSN and then hand off a well-functioning agency to the permanent board.

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Gowdy calls out VAWA deserters

Of the typically mixed messages left behind at the end of a legislative session, state lawmakers were remarkably clear this year about one: South Carolina’s experiment with public school choice has turned serious.

The reforms visited upon the state’s charter school law this spring are plainly intended to accelerate the growth of public charter schools in South Carolina, and force their traditional counterparts to give up scattering speed bumps. Traditional schools have resisted the charter school movement for understandable reasons: Charters operate with fewer rules and more autonomy, yet they still get the public school label – and the public funds.

But that doesn’t mean they will reap all the benefits of the changes ahead.

With a little imagination, the potential to create “new, innovative and more flexible ways of educating children” is available to every public school in South Carolina, traditional or charter. In fact, traditional schools – and school districts – might be surprised at the help the new law offers.

The changes that have drawn the most attention flow in the charter school direction – most notably the directive that charter students may now participate in extracurricular activities at their assigned traditional school if the activity is unavailable at their charter school.

The new law also clears the way for single-gender charter schools, allows colleges and universities to create charters and requires local school districts to release charter school funds in a timely way or face fines (a problem that has cropped up on occasion in Greenville County).

Of those, the sports eligibility has drawn the most angst from traditional schools fearful that charter walk-ons could displace enrolled students and drain their budgets.

Obviously, both are unknowns at this point. If funding should prove a problem, the affected schools have every right to ask the Legislature for a fix next year. But it’s also worth remembering that any charter walk-on must compete alongside his traditional school peers for play time – and should he prove superior and help win championships, will any school honestly object to that?

Traditional school coaches might also remember that any charter athletes willing to brave that gauntlet are likely to have parents as fiercely committed to the sport as they are. Such parents usually prove to be avid boosters and fundraisers. Does any athletic department have an excess of those?

The challenge, to continue the sports analogy, has always been for the two – traditional and charter – to see themselves as teammates rather than competitors: public schools seeking to educate Palmetto State students effectively and well. What traditionals have most resented is the freedom to innovate that charters enjoy – and it’s true neither legislators nor state educrats have been willing to loosen the bureaucratic strings on a broad basis.

However, the new law does offer traditionals a slim pair of scissors: Local school boards may now create their own “school(s) of choice,” freed of state statutes and regulations “promulgated by the state Board of Education.” Which ones are up to the local trustees to select by two-thirds vote, and subject to state approval and review every three years.

Legislators are giving their biggest skeptics – traditional school districts – the chance to try the charter method, with the state education board serving as sponsor.

To test the waters and see what they can do freed of the restraints they so despise.

It’s a challenge the traditionals should not hesitate to take on. Who knows, enough success stories across the state may persuade lawmakers to take shears to those strings.

The statistics are grim and the numbers are way too high. About one in four women have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in her lifetime. Close to 10 million children are exposed to domestic violence a year. South Carolina ranks seventh in the nation for women murdered by men.

These numbers come to life every day at Safe Harbor, where we provide shelter, counseling, advocacy and support to victims of domestic violence and their children in Greenville, Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties. We know all too well the fear, frustration and damage that domestic violence creates for families.

“Catherine,” a Safe Harbor client and survivor of domestic violence, says her experiences could be shared by your neighbor, sister, mother, daughter or best friend.

“I have had bruises that I show no one. I have run as fast as I could get away only to come back out of fear, guilt, shame or hunger. My children have learned to disrespect me. I have learned to disrespect myself.”

In 2011, Safe Harbor sheltered almost 450 families, a 14.6 percent increase from 2010 and a 25.7 percent increase over 2009.

Our community counselors and advocates helped 183 women and children. We answered 1,266 crisis calls. Although these numbers are staggering, they are just the tip of the iceberg. Our shelters had to turn away 197 families due to lack of space. In these difficult economic times, the need increases while the resources decrease.

Nobody is “for” domestic violence. Of course we are all against it. However, with the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), we face an unprecedented split amongst our national legislators.

The Violence Against Women Act, enacted for the first time in 1994, was a landmark comprehensive strategy that combined tough new provisions to hold offenders accountable with programs to provide services for victims. VAWA has been a critical funding and training resource for Safe Harbor and other local agencies that work with victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The enactment of VAWA assured that states finally began taking the issue of violence

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against women seriously, enacting and reforming laws specifically addressing domestic violence and sexual assault.

VAWA not only provided stronger laws and resources, it sent a message to victims: “We hear you. We take this seriously. We will help you get safe.” It is because of legislation like VAWA, “Catherine” says, that she had the strength to leave. “I carried my broken self and my broken babies to a place of hope. I was given love and shelter. I began to trust.

I began to trust myself. I began to stand up straight. I came alive.”

I applaud and thank U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy for his impassioned plea to the House of Representatives to reauthorize VAWA. In this moving speech, he recounts his experience prosecuting domestic violence crimes and displays his understanding of the need for VAWA. I commend Rep. Gowdy for fulfilling his promise to advocate for victims as he publicly calls out his colleagues for playing “election year politics”.

Watch the video. A former prosecutor, he knows firsthand what it is like to work with victims. He gets it. And he is willing to speak out, crossing that elusive party line.

Giving voice to and standing up for those who have no power is difficult. It’s not always popular. Rep. Gowdy got it right. It’s not about politics. It’s about creating a community that is safe for all of us – in our workplaces, in our schools, and yes, in our own homes.

Becky Callaham, M.Ed., LPC, is the executive director of Safe Harbor Inc., which provides safe shelter, counseling and advocacy for victims of domestic violence and their children, and leadership for education and prevention efforts in Greenville, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee counties. For more information about Safe Harbor, call 864467-1177 or visit www. safeharborsc.org.

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SAFE now has multiple chapters in South Carolina When Mike Hovious moved to the Upstate 25 years ago, he says there were no organized support groups for him as a sufferer of petit mal seizures. But last year, a new group gave him the opportunity to meet other epilepsy patients who are dealing with the condition on a daily basis, exchanging information and offering mutual support.

Formed in 2011, South Carolina Advocates for Epilepsy (SAFE) was organized in Charleston to raise epilepsy awareness. The Epilepsy Foundation reports nearly 3 million Americans are affected by epilepsy. According to SAFE, approximately 90,000 people in South Carolina have been diagnosed with the condition and 44,000 require treatment.

Charleston resident Karen St. Marie says she started SAFE several years after her son was diagnosed with epilepsy.

She discovered that the closest support organization, an affiliate of the Epilepsy Foundation, was in Columbia, but it closed in 2009. There were no support groups in the Charleston area.

Initially, she was simply a parent who put together an event to raise awareness, St. Marie says. When she discovered the number of patients who are affected by the disorder, and that more than 2,000 new patients are diagnosed in the state every year, she felt she had to act.

“It’s such a difficult disorder to deal with. The entire family is diagnosed,” St. Marie said. Because the severity of her son’s grand mal seizures required his constant monitoring, she quit her job in the dental field and soon began working full-time on SAFE. “We want the different families to bond and form relationships and support each

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other through the tough times,” St. Marie said.

SAFE is open to patients, family members, caregivers and friends.

Because many patients cannot drive due to seizures, SAFE offers transportation to and from meetings and events. In addition to Charleston and Greenville, there are now chapters in Columbia, Myrtle Beach and Florence.

Though Mike Hovious had temporal lobe surgery four years ago that successfully alleviated his seizures, he remains a keen advocate for epilepsy education.

He said he heard about a SAFE chapter forming in the Upstate and became an active member and supporter.

The Upstate group meets monthly at the Mauldin Cultural Center in Mauldin. People have traveled from Greenville, Spartanburg, Pickens and Anderson counties to attend meetings, Hovious said.

St. Marie said she hopes satellite chapters will form in the Clemson, Spartanburg and Anderson areas so members can meet closer to home. Regional events can help to connect members throughout the Upstate, she said. As more families participate, she hopes to have member-run support group meetings in addition to chapter meetings for planning fundraisers and social events.

Later this month, the Upstate SAFE chapter is hosting a potluck family picnic in Greer, allowing members and their loved ones to gather in a social setting. Anyone interested in learning more is also welcome at the June 23 event, said Hovious. “This organization is for people with epilepsy and those touched by it.”

An epilepsy diagnosis and the uncertain nature of seizures change your life in the blink of an eye, said St. Marie.

Support and information from other families who can share their experiences is invaluable, she said. “It may initially be very dark, but there is hope.”

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Alchemy Improv hosts ‘Local Legends’ Weekly performance series turns everyday stories into comedy gold

By JERRY SALLEY | staff

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well as a beat poet, a dentist, a psychologist and a high school student body president.

“What makes Local Legends so unique is the diversity of the guests,” said Pierson, who by day works as the program specialist at the Upcountry History Museum. “We’ve had people from all over – some people who are really comfortable speaking in front of people, who are professional actors, and some people who just do not do that for a living, and suddenly they’re coming out of their shell.”

The key to being a successful Local Legend is the ability to tell a good story, said Underwood, an associate architect at the Fluor Corporation, who looks for “an interesting story with a lot of details, a lot of characters.”

Everybody has stories, said Pierson. “Whether you think someone is dull as a doorpost or not, something interesting has happened to them, because they are alive.”

Before the Local Legends show at 9:30 p.m., each Friday Alchemy also stages an early show at 8 p.m., featuring Alchemy members and a series of guest acts. The programs, like the performances themselves, are always different.

The troupe traces its origins back to Clemson University, where all four were at one time members of the school’s Mock Turtle Soup improv troupe.

From Clemson, they all separately found their way to Green-

ville, where the plans to begin Alchemy were hatched.

“I had heard whispers that Harrison was going to put together an improv troupe, and really hoped that he was going to ask me,” remembered Pierson. “But my pride was such that I couldn’t just ask outright if I could be in it. So I just kept asking him about it, in the hopes that he would say, ‘Yeah, we’d love to have you play with us.’

And he did, thank God.” “I had the opposite issue,” said Burris, a recent Clemson graduate who now works as an electrical engineer at AE Solutions.

“They were down for a show, and I just said, ‘I’m just going to ask, see if I can pry myself in there.’”

“I’m still not sure if I’m in the group,” joked Underwood.

The troupe’s name pays tribute to the method behind the comedic madness, explained Brookie.

“The idea is that there’s a science, a method behind doing improvisation. People ask ‘How do you practice making stuff up?’ And it’s kind of like basketball – there’s a skill set, there’s a method to doing it really well.”

To teach that method, Alchemy also offers improv classes. Their students have been as young as 17 and as old as 60 – people who want to improve their public speaking, or are stand-up comedians or sketch comedy players looking to expand their skills. Some are

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On a Friday night in June, Erickson Bynum told a story from his childhood on the stage at Coffee Underground, and then joined the rest of the audience packed onto old church pews to watch the Alchemy Improv Comedy troupe interpret it.

Sort of.

What Bynum saw was Ben Burris playing the part of an 18-year-old boy competing for the affections of a girl played

by Harrison Brookie, against a romantic rival played by Meg Pierson. Burris’ character, incidentally, was sealed in a giant hamster ball, and Pierson’s character was a deer, who had recently charged across the stage in a “stampede of one.”

You had to be there.

And being there is the whole point of an Alchemy Improv show, said Burris. “Without heckling, the audience can directly affect the show,” he said. “In a positive way, their energy – what they laugh at, what they take a deep breath at – all of that affects our mindset while we’re doing it. The energy of the audience affects the show, which is why it works so much better live.”

“Even though we do this every week, it’s always drastically different because of the storyteller,” said troupe member Jason Underwood.

For the Local Legends shows, which happen every Friday at 9:30 at Coffee Underground, Alchemy invites a local person – such as Bynum, a speech and debate teacher at Southside High School – to come onstage and tell five stories of about two minutes each. After each story, the troupe will improvise scenes based, albeit loosely, on elements in the story.

The troupe hears the story for the first time along with the audience, said Brookie, executive producer and artistic director of Alchemy and emcee of the shows. “Every show has its own personality,” generated by that week’s guest, he said.

Most major improv theaters have their own version of the Local Legends concept, said Brookie, whose day job is teaching U.S. history at Southside. Alchemy has been staging their Local Legends shows at Coffee Underground since September 2011.

Past guests have included standup comedians and musicians, as

Alchemy Improv Comedy cast members, clockwise from top: Jason Underwood, Harrison Brookie, Meg Pierson, Ben Burris.

people who see the show and say, “I can’t believe that you did that,” said Brookie, who also taught improv at the DSI Comedy Theater in Carrboro, N.C. “Like it’s a magic class, and we’re teaching them magic tricks. And on some level, that’s partially true.”

In June, Alchemy’s Local Legends will include musician Alexa Woodward; Warehouse Theatre production manager and designer Shannon Robert; and Coffee Underground owner Dana Lowie.

Finding storytellers has been “a lot easier than we thought,” said Brookie. “We’re booked up until July.”

One guest proves elusive, however. “Print this in the Journal,” laughed Brookie. “Mayor Knox White is the only person who’s said ‘no’ so far.”

Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.

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South Carolina is slowly clawing its way into the world of high-tech manufacturing, but has a long way to go, said Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson University, in reference to a Brookings Institute study that finds some surprising strength in moderately high-tech jobs in the Greenville-Spartanburg area.

The Brookings report found the Greenville metropolitan statistical area (MSA) ranked eighth in the nation for the percentage of jobs – nearly 30 percent – that are ranked as “moderately high-tech.” The nationwide average is 18.6 percent.

Spartanburg weighs in with 19.3 percent moderately high-tech and 1.8 percent very high-tech out of a workforce of 23,201. In Greenville’s total 2010 workforce of 38,046, the very high-tech number was nearly 10 percent.

“It’s those very high-tech jobs that everyone wants, and there are bright spots in the Upstate area in that regard,” Yandle said. “The problem we have in the state as a whole is in our educational attainment levels.”

South Carolina as a whole ranks in the bottom half among the states in educational attainment, Yandle said.

“That doesn’t mean we can’t get better, but we’ve got a long way to go.

“Urban pockets, like Greenville and Spartanburg, attract more well-educated residents and they help drive the move toward more sophisticated manufacturing,” he said.

Other parts of the state, notably Columbia with the University of South Carolina as an anchor, had numbers similar to Spartanburg’s based on 2010 data. The capitol city showed 20.4 percent moderately high-tech jobs and 8.5 percent very high-tech out of a total workforce of 26,780.

The Brookings Institute defined moderately high-tech industries as those that employ more than twice as many but less than five times more scientists and engineers than the economy-wide percentage. Moderately high-tech industries include petroleum, coal, chemical, machinery, electrical equipment and transportation equipment manufacturers.

Almost 30 percent of manufacturing jobs in the Greenville area meet the designation, compared to 18.6 percent nationally. The average wage in the sector is $69,749, ranking Greenville 33rd nationally.

Nearly 10 percent were classified as “very high-tech,” which ranks Greenville 59th out of the top 100 metropolitan areas in that category. That national average is 16.1 percent. Within that sector, the average wage in Greenville was low at $59,919, which ranks 72nd.

The Brookings Institution defined “very high-tech” as industries that employ five times more scientists and engineers than their economy-wide percentage. Very high-tech industries include aerospace, pharmaceutical and electronic manufacturers.

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Nine days after fatally shooting a suspect who was allegedly threatening to stab a woman, Master Deputy Steven Epps was returned to full duty

by Greenville County Sheriff Steve Loftis on May 30, after an investigation showed that the deputy had “followed policy 100 percent.”

Epps shot David Scott Hampton, 56, five times after Hampton made “stabbing motions” toward the victim while holding her captive in a red Toyota Prius, Loftis said Monday.

The sheriff ’s office placed Epps on administrative duty while it investigated the shooting, which occurred on May 21 after Epps and other officers responded to a call that the victim, Sandra Duncan, 63, had been kidnapped at knifepoint from her residence on Brockman Avenue in Greenville.

Within minutes, officers had identified the vehicle, Loftis told the Journal, and stopped it when enough backup deputies had arrived. Duncan was driving the car, with Hampton in the passenger seat.

Epps approached the passenger’s side of the Prius with his gun drawn.

“He could see the suspect, Mr. Hampton, holding on to the driver of the car with his left hand, and he had a large butcher knife in his right hand,” Loftis said.

After Hampton ignored several demands from deputies to put the knife down, he made stabbing motions toward Duncan, the sheriff said. Epps “was in a position to take a safe shot at the suspect without any chance of endangering the driver of the car,” Loftis said.

Epps shot Hampton four times, after which Hampton made yet another attempt to stab the victim, Loftis said – “and that’s when Deputy Epps shot him for a fifth time, thus eliminating the threat.”

Meanwhile, other deputies extricated Duncan from the driver’s side of the vehicle.

Loftis’ investigation found that

Epps had followed all of the department’s policies and procedures regarding the use of deadly force, the sheriff said, and Epps returned to work on May 30.

“I’m extremely proud of my deputies,” Loftis said. “In this case they followed policy, they followed training, and it turned out to be very successful. My thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Hampton’s family in this tragic incident, but Mr. Hampton put Deputy Epps into a situation where he had no other choice except to eliminate the threat.”

“We don’t determine guilt or innocence; we just determine if policy was followed.

SLED will have to complete their investigation to make sure everything was appropriate there.”

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The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is currently investigating the shooting, a process that could take as long as 60 days, Loftis estimated.

“We don’t determine guilt or innocence; we just determine if policy was followed,” Loftis said. “SLED will have to complete their investigation to make sure everything was appropriate there.”

The victim, Duncan, told reporters earlier that she had known Hampton for a few months, describing him as a church-going parolee down on his luck.

“He was one of the nicest fellows you’d meet,” Duncan told television station WHNS. Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.

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The last time he participated in the aquatic race from the famed California prison through the bracing, 50-degree waters to dry land was three years and 165 pounds ago.

In 2009, Eskenasy was well into his doctor-ordered fitness journey when he plunged into the San Francisco Bay. He began working to get healthier when his doctor told him that he had to drop weight from his 420-pound frame.

“The doctor said if I kept going the Kim and Robb Eskenasy will be heading west way I was going I’d be dead in a year,” he in July to take part in the Alcatraz Challenge to said. So Eskenasy began to swim every help raise money for cancer research. day. “I did one lap the first day, I went home, I came back and did two laps and you through the swim,” he said.

And though swimming in the Alcatraz eventually built up my endurance.”

Challenge Aqualon and Swim is one of his He lost 130 pounds in 18 months. Soon “bucket list” goals, Eskenasy said the reason after, he met his wife-to-be and moved both he and wife Kim are participating in to South Carolina the same year he first the event is to draw attention to their effort braved the cold waters of the bay. to raise funds for children with cancer.

As he prepares to brave them again, “We thought that Alcatraz and the Robb Eskenasy trains three days a week Golden Gate Bridge would spark people’s at Coop’s Health and Fitness (where he interest, ” he said.

At the last race, he supbecame a trainer in April of this year) and ported Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer three days in the Kroc Center’s pool. He Support Services in California, of perswims an average of 150 laps each day, an sonal signifi cance because his brotherequivalent of nearly two miles. He hopes to in-law died of cancer. get up to three miles before he competes.

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Eskenasy’s goal becomes more surreal when he mentions the barracuda that

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bloodied his hypothermic legs on the last swim across San Francisco Bay. This time, he has outfitted himself with a full-length wetsuit he hopes will prevent a repeat snack attack. Luckily, sharks are not a concern, he says – the number of swimmers in the water keeps them away, though he can’t say the same for the jellyfish.

To help the Eskenasys raise funds, local restaurateurs at Luna Rosa Gelato Café are collecting donations and matching them dollar for dollar. In addition, there are collection spots at The Beaded Frog and Ayers Leather in downtown Greenville along with an online donation option.

Eskenasy says two things will keep him going through the swim: the thought of the kids he’s raising money for and the things he gave up to train.

“I haven’t had a drop of liquor in three years and I haven’t had an In-N-Out Burger in over two,” he said.

“And those two things are going to be waiting for him at the finish line,” Kim Eskenasy promised.

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Eskenasy typically has a shaved head and said this helps him relate to the young cancer patients he visits regularly.

Because he promised Jacob’s Heart that he would raise funds again, the proceeds will be split between the two charities.

On July 22, the couple will travel to San Francisco. Eskenasy will don his wetsuit, ride a tour ferry out to the prison, and jump from the boat into the water – where nearly 700 other competitors will also be swimming.

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Councilman Jim Burns said he sees a flood of applications coming at the start of the fiscal year. “If we do it like this and it’s on a first-come, first-served basis, that means July 1 everyone is going to apply.

This fund will be gone by August 1.” He suggested additional guidelines for discretionary spending so there are funds left for projects later in the year.

Councilman Fred Payne agreed that there should not be a funding rush at the start of a new year. He suggested projects be given council sponsors and project amounts be limited in a given year.

Kernell said he could provide information on the applications that arrived before the end of the fiscal year.

The Council approved a motion to refer the two requests back to the Finance Committee.

Following the meeting, Burns said that he would suggest adding quarterly deadlines for awarding grants. The timing of the grants would have to be addressed before the new budget year begins, he said.

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Two items on the consent agenda at the regular June 5 County Council meeting sparked a spirited debate over the council’s discretionary spending fund.

Councilwoman Liz Seman asked to remove two items from the consent agenda for discussion, saying they were considerable sums for community projects: a request from the City of Greenville for $34,357 to fund landscaped medians on Wade Hampton Boulevard and a City of Simpsonville request of $15,000 for a Fourth of July event at Heritage Park. The council approved a $3,000 request from the City of Travelers Rest for the Elements Festival.

The requests were to be taken from the taxpayer-funded discretionary funds allotted each district, formally known as “slush funds” governed by individual council members. After a lawsuit and ruling by Circuit Court Judge John Few in 2010, the council enacted a new procedure for discretionary funding in 2011. Rather than designated by district, the funds are now held in a pool. Applicants put in funding requests, which the Finance Committee reviews and then refers to the full council for a vote.

County Manager Joe Kernell said each district contributes about $17,500 to the pot. About $194,000 had been requested to date, which, if granted, would nearly exhaust the $209,000 fund. He said other pending applications for funding have not been sent to the Finance Committee because the money is nearly gone.

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The latest portion of the Swamp Rabbit Trail is now officially open.

Greenville Mayor Knox White, Greenville Technical College President Dr. Keith Miller and Greenville Area Development Corporation President Jerry Howard opened the new section of the trail between Faris Road and Pleasantburg Drive along the Cleveland Street side of Greenville Tech’s Barton Campus on Tuesday.

The new section is just under one mile long. It includes a 170-foot bridge that crosses the Reedy River at the entrance to Greenville Tech.

The project cost was $1.7 million. The city contributed $1.41 million. The rest of the project was paid for through a $240,000 in local public agency grant funding from the South Carolina Department of Transportation and $100,000 in a recreational trails program grant from the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. Greenville Tech provided the city an easement.

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Summer will be special for the Greenville Zoo’s 6-year-old Masai giraffe, Autumn, and the zoo’s visitors.

Autumn is due to give birth to her first calf, which will also be the zoo’s first giraffe birth.

The birth is possible because of the zoo’s Association of Zoos and Aquariums accreditation and its participation in the association’s breeding program, said Zoo Director Jeff Bullock.

The zoos’ giraffes are on breeding loan. Autumn came from the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston in 2007 to be paired with the zoo’s male giraffe, Walter, a 7-year-old from the San Diego Zoo. Bullock said zoo officials hope this summer’s birth will be the first of many at the zoo.

The zoo’s veterinarian, Dr. Heather Miller, confirmed the pregnancy earlier this year through hormone analysis.

Autumn will be monitored during her 15-month gestation period.

Giraffes give birth while standing and the baby is born hooves first. A newborn calf can weight between 120 pounds and 150 pounds and stand 6 feet tall. A calf usually takes its first steps within an hour of birth.

Giraffes can grow to stand 19 feet tall and weigh more than 3,000 pounds.

The Masai giraffe is the largest of the

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animal’s nine subspecies. Giraffes are known for their long necks and chestnut or dark brown blotches, which help to camouflage them in their surroundings. The markings are unique; no two animals have the same.

Giraffes have an unusually long lifespan compared to other ruminants, up to 25 years in the wild and often longer in zoos.

Bullock said the mother would raise the calf for one year to 18 months before it is shipped to another zoo.

The baby is expected to go on exhibit the day after it is born, Bullock said.

Giraffes are part of the AZA’s population management plan designed to maintain a captive giraffe population with a high enough genetic variability so animals don’t have to be taken out of the wild.

Bullock said the zoo’s spider monkeys are supposed to breed this year. The zoo will remove the female’s birth control this summer.

He said he would attend a meeting in July where he’ll find out if the zoo will get a female lion or keep its two males.

Bullock said the zoo wants to have breeding pairs for all of its cats, including the amur leopards and ocelots.

In recent years, three Colobus monkeys and an orangutan have been born at the zoo.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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Daylily and Hosta Gardens at 2396 Roper Mountain Road will be working to help homeless animals at Greenville County Animal Care during Daylily Peak Bloom the weekend of June 8-10. They will donate 10 percent of all sales that weekend to sponsor animals for adoption and rescue. Garden visitors are welcome to bring donations of pet food and needed supplies for the animals. The garden is open Fridays noon to 6 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays noon to 6 p.m., and offers over 1,100 different varieties of daylilies and hostas. The gardens are petfriendly – dogs on leashes are welcome. For more info, contact Cynthia Gibson at daylilygarden@charter.net or visit www.DaylilyAndHostaGardenS.com. To see many wonderful adoptable animals, visit Greenville County Animal Care at www.GreenvillePets.org.

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The Appalachian Council of Governments’ LongTerm Care Ombudsman Program is seeking volunteers for the Friendly Visitor Program. Volunteers serve as visitors in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The next training session will be on Tuesday, June 19, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Appalachian Council of Governments, 30 Century Circle, Greenville. For more information or to sign up, please contact Ericca Livingston, volunteer coordinator, at 864-242-9733 or by email at elivingston@scacog.org.

This year’s Fifth Annual Laughing Matters Comedy Luncheon to benefit Diligent Hands…Gracious Hearts will feature award-winning stand-up comedian, speaker and writer Rog Bates. He has opened for Jeff Foxworthy, Ritch Shydner and many others. The event will be on June 25, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2310 Augusta Road, Greenville. Tickets are $15 and include lunch, but seats are limited. All proceeds from this event will benefit Diligent Hands…Gracious Hearts, a local nonprofit that provides free lawn care and home repairs for the elderly and homebound. For more information, call 864-608-1958 or visit www.dhgh.org.

Due to inclement weather, the Coaches 4 Character Tee It Up golf tournament has been rescheduled for June 18, 10 a.m., at Cherokee Valley.

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As of this week, families of premature babies in the Bryan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Greenville Hospital have a welcoming place where they can gather as a family and play during a stressful and difficult time.

This new space features photography and inspiring words on the walls along with toys and other materials for siblings that encourage pretend play focusing on dolls, home living and medical play. The Bright Space is the result of a partnership between the March of Dimes and the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children. And though Bright Horizons has created playrooms in community spaces for years, this is the first ever located in a NICU. Greenville Hospital is one of five pilot NICUs hosting a Bright Space.

Others are located in Kansas City, Mo.; Indianapolis; Memphis, Tenn.; and Savannah, Ga. March of Dimes president Dr. Jennifer Howse said a major reason GHS was chosen for this pilot was its willingness to pilot the first March of Dimes NICU Family Support project in 2001.

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Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes, left, and David Lissy, CEO of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, right, and a few helpers cut the ribbon of the March of Dimes NICU Family Support Bright Space for Siblings in the Bryan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at GHS Children’s Hospital.

volunteer families with those who have just experienced a premature birth of a child. The program is now in 112 sites throughout the country, Howse said. Establishing a space for the entire family – especially the siblings of premature infants – was a logical next step, she said.

Sibling anxiety is natural when a healthy baby comes home, she said.

When the new brother or sister is premature, “you have the situation that the siblings are at home, there’s the new baby in the NICU and mom and dad are very upset, very emotional, very distraught. There’s much, much

raised $5.1 million for non-profit organizations in the states where BI-LO has stores, BI-LO Charities announced. More than 1,200 golfers and their guests participated in the charity event that was held simultaneously at 11 top golf courses in the Upstate and Western North Carolina. It ended Monday. Since inaugurated

more for siblings to cope with.”

Bright Space “creates a physical environment for siblings that belongs just to them and gives them an opportunity to relate to other kids going through a similar situation. It’s really a physical reassurance for those siblings,” she said.

“This Bright Space will offer the 700 families who enter our NICU every year a comfortable place to play and simply experience the joy of being a child or parent during a difficult time in their lives,” said Dr. William Schmidt, medical director of GHS Children’s Hospital.

NICU medical director Dr. Bryan Ohning said, “We’re very technical here and we’re interested in helping babies survive. However, we need to not only look at the ventilator requirements and the outcomes, the number of feedings they have each day, but is the family intact and going home to live happily ever after.”

Former NICU parent Michelle Hart dubbed the space “fantastic.

It’s a complete change since we were here three years ago. It’s really just a nice, inviting space.”

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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Career Advancement

Jobs to Careers scholarships support women seeking additional education

By APRIL A. MORRIS | staff

There are many barriers that stand in the way of women pursuing additional training or returning to school for a better career, but one of the main obstacles is money. Since 2010, a group of local women, the Greenville County United Way’s Women’s Leadership group, has been helping others reach their educational goals.

The Women’s Leadership group, a subset of the Palmetto Society, has existed since 1998. To generate more local impact beyond just giving dollars, the group formed the Jobs to Careers – Women Helping Women scholarship program in 2010.

The program is designed to support women who are looking to change careers, return to work or improve their income through a career path. It focuses on supporting financial stability for this group of non-traditional students, says Holly Manuel, United Way campaign manager.

In May, the Jobs to Careers program celebrated the graduation of eight participants since the program’s inception.

These graduates have received training at local colleges and universities in medical assisting, paralegal services, physical therapy and science, says Manuel.

One of the facets of the program that sets it apart from other scholarships is that in addition to providing tuition assistance, Jobs to Careers helps fund childcare expenses – often a significant financial burden – for these full-time students, says Manuel.

With more than 31,000 women in Greenville County living below the poverty line, the program can make a real difference for those looking to change their career path, Manuel said. In addition, Women’s Leadership members offer guidance and mentoring to participants. A member is assigned to each scholarship recipient to offer support, networking and connections to resources.

Debbie Jones, a scholarship recipient

to qualified candidates who want to pursue the education necessary to provide them with the tools to advance from a job to a career as they strive for a better future for themselves and their families,” said Paula King, past chairwoman and current committee member of the Jobs to Careers committee.

Jobs to Careers hopes to establish an alumni group that can offer support for new recipients, Manuel said.

Eligible women apply for the program and, to date, 16 scholarships have been awarded, totaling $108,244. And in difficult times for nonprofits, the Jobs to Careers program is actually looking for more applicants, says Manuel.

For more information on the Jobs to Careers – Women Helping Women scholarship program, call 211 or visit www.unitedwaygc.org.

who is studying nursing at Greenville Technical College, said the scholarship program has allowed her to transition from an accounting position, followed by a stint as a stay-at-home mom to training as a certified nursing assistant.

“The biggest barrier for me was finances. If I went back to school fulltime, that would mean day-care expenses, books and tuition. The Jobs to Careers program has taken care of all those expenses for me,” says Jones.

“We are thrilled to have the opportunity and funding available to offer this United Way scholarship program

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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A $469.6 million budget approved by the Greenville County School Board Tuesday night means more teachers, employee pay hikes and a smaller fund balance.

It also means higher taxes for business owners, landlords and anybody who owns a car, truck or boat.

The budget calls for a 6.1 mill tax increase, a little more than half of what would have been allowed under state law.

The owner of a $15,000 car will pay $5.49 more in property taxes. The owner of a business property worth $200,00 will see his taxes increase by $73.20. The owner of a $500,000 business will pay $183 more.

Owner-occupied homes are not affected.

The increase is less than the district first considered, thanks to increased funding for schools in the Senate ver-

WHAT IT MEANS Greenville County Schools’ $469.6 million general fund budget that won final approval Tuesday night means tax increases for some county taxpayers.

• The owner of a $15,000 car will pay $5.49 more.

• The owner of a $200,000 business property will pay an additional $73.20.

• The owner of a $500,000 business property’s tax bill will increase $183.

sion of the state budget. The Legislature is expected to finalize the state budget later this month.

State law limits the size of millage increases each year based on inflation and population growth, but it also allows school boards to levy millage that was not levied in the preceding three years.

The Greenville County School Board could have increased taxes by 7.2 mills in 2010, but did not due to the shaky economy. The board levied 1.1 of those mills in last year’s budget and will lose the ability to levy the other 6.1 mills after 2013.

The additional money included in the Senate version of the state budget will also allow the school district to take less money out of its fund balance to fund the budget.

This budget decreases the district’s dependence on non-recurring revenue for recurring expenses by $3 million, an 18 percent reduction compared to 201112, spokesman Oby Lyles said.

The budget includes a 2 percent raise for employees.

It adds 71 new teachers and 14.5 new support staff positions to handle the 800 additional students expected to attend Greenville County Schools next year.

The budget also includes $656,000 for teachers and staff for the district’s new Monarch Elementary, scheduled to open in August.

The budget calls for a $50,000 increase for fuel for district vehicles due to increasing gas and diesel prices.

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On Monday, June 18th, The Synergy Garden along with The International Center and the Greenville County Farm Bureau will present the first annual AgriCultural Festival: Around the World on a Plate, to share agriculture’s vital role in the economy, environment and lifestyle of people from around the world. The agriculture of Central America, South America, and Africa will be featured during this inaugural event. First, subject-matter experts will give short talks about the landscapes, farming techniques, and crops of the featured regions. Next, participants will enjoy an international lunch prepared by local chef Michael Granata, who will use all locally grown produce in his dishes. Tours of the Synergy Garden will be given from 1 to 2 pm. Adult admission is $10 for members of The International Center and Synergy Garden and $12 for non-members. Children’s tickets are $5. Tickets are available online at www.internationalupstate.org, or can be purchased on the day of the event. For more information, contact The International Center at 864-631-2188.

Upstate residents will get the chance to talk to a doctor about colon cancer, discuss the importance of screening, and more during the Greenville Drive’s annual Drive Out Colon Cancer baseball game on June 24. The event is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and other health organizations.

Physicians from Gastroenterology Associates P.A of Greenville will be available to talk with fans during the game at the Ask a Doctor station. The Drive will play in special blue jerseys (blue is the “color” for colon cancer), and blue bases will be used. The game is part of the ongoing Love Your Colon awareness campaign: www.loveyourcolon.org.

Members of the Friends of the Greenville County Library System gathered at their annual meeting to elect officers and to celebrate the Friends’ many contributions to the library system over the last year. Hamp Sherard, president; Maurice Cherry, vice-president; Ruth Richburg, secretary; and Vicki Davis, treasurer; were elected to remain in their positions for another year. The Friends of the Greenville County Library System is a volunteer non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide financial support to the library system.

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To mark the fifth anniversary of its annual free prostate cancer screening, Bon Secours St. Francis Health System is giving men age 50 and older the “royal blue” treatment. All men age 50 or older are invited, especially those who are uninsured/ underinsured and do not have a primary care physician, along with those age 40 and older with a family history of prostate cancer. The free screening is on Saturday, June 9, 8 a.m.-11 a.m. at the Outpatient Center, St. Francis downtown. Registration is not required; attendees are seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Nursing staff and interpreters will be present to help address any questions or concerns. For more information, please call 864-255-1212.

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Diversity in leadership

One of the movies created by Greenville-based Dark Corner Films will get a national audience in July. This is the second time the production company has gotten a film on a national television channel…

Greenville Hospital System ranks among the nation’s top 50 companies for promoting diversity at the top The Greenville Hospital System has been recognized as one of the nation’s top 50 companies for programs promoting diversity in leadership positions.

The ranking by Diversity MBA Magazine puts GHS at 49th in its annual list of “50 Out Front for Diversity Leadership: Best Places for Diverse Managers to Work.”

The hospital system is in the company of corporations such as Accenture, which is rated No. 1, and Bank of America, No. 2. Also in the top 50 are the likes of Verizon, Wal-Mart, GE, Google, IBM, Intel, General Mills, Hyatt, the University of Florida and Yale University.

The competitive ranking “benchmarks us against other health care organizations but also other industries across the board,” said Kinneil Coltman, GHS diversity director.

While GHS is pleased with the recognition, she said, the hospital has a “long way to go. The ultimate goal is to have more mirroring between our frontline staff and patient population and our leadership. We still have plenty of work to do, but we are on the path.”

According to GHS’ account of diversity in leadership – directors and above – 50 positions (7.6 percent) are held by African-Americans,

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Greenville Hospital System employees, from left to right: Christie Childers, who helped start the Emerging Leadership Program; Melinda Scott, who works on the new diversity leadership recruitment process; Renee Bacon, senior employment specialist and a recent graduate of the Emerging Leadership Program; and Roberto Martinez, manager of language services. The hospital’s recruitment practices and the Emerging Leadership Program helped GHS earn a place among the nation’s top 50 companies in diversity leadership.

seven (1 percent) by Hispanics and five by Asians (0.8 percent). Whites hold 598 of the jobs, or 90 percent. Seventy-one percent of GHS’ 660 leadership positions are held by women.

The share of leadership positions held by minorities is pretty much is what it was in 2003, when whites held almost 91 percent of those positions.

“We realize that’s not where we want to be,” said Coltman. One factor slowing more rapid diversification, she said, is the hospital’s low turnover in management.

While that’s a reality, she Kinneil Coltman, GHS diversity said, “we don’t want to use director that as a cop-out, either.”

Top management is committed to aggressively growing personnel internally for leadership and ensuring the pool of outside applicants for every leadership position includes qualified minority candidates, she said.

Some of the programs have been in place less than two years and are just beginning to show results, Coltman said. Recently, a minority who went through a leadership program was named a department director.

“We are trying to create a culture where a diverse group of individuals can see themselves in leadership roles because there are people who look like them in leadership, and there are programs that encourage their advancement.

“We also want to send a message that this is true

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equal opportunity. Whether you are white or a person of color, the message is clear: You’ve got opportunity for growth at GHS.” Coltman said GHS puts a lot of impetus on its Emerging Leadership Program, now in its second year. “It is a competitive process whereby we select high potential employees who want to be groomed for the next level of leadership. It is nearly a yearlong program of education and development. They get projects to work on, access to senior leaders – exposure beyond their work unit.”

Realizing GHS cannot achieve diversity goals through internal development alone, she said the hospital created search and selection committees “charged with working their own professional contacts to identify candidates”

to create a larger pool of applicants.

Michael Reardon, GHS chief executive officer, “has a goal to have at least one racial ethnic minority in the final round of interviews,” she said.

“I emphasize the final round of interviews as opposed to the final appointment because we do not want to put pressure on a hiring authority to hire a person because they are a minority. That’s not what we wanted to do.

We wanted to focus on developing the pool.”

Coltman stresses that GHS’s diversity effort “is not an affirmative-action program.

There are no quotas. It is just focusing our attention on developing a high-caliber diverse pool. When you get everyone organized around doing everything they can to get a high-caliber diverse pool, it not only makes you more diverse but also makes

the quality of the candidates higher.”

On the medical side, in 2008, GHS created a Physicians Diversity Council to promote, recruit, retain and mentor underrepresented minority physicians and medical residents.

One of the “really simple” but effective things the hospital does is invite every physician applicant to meet with the council, Coltman said. “All kinds of people have taken us up on that offer. It sets the tone with the medical staff that there is a council that is working on diversity of the medical staff.”

“As a result, the number of AfricanAmerican physicians, in particular, has more than doubled, going from seven in 2008 to 19 in 2012,” the hospital said in a summation of diversity programs.

Nearly 12 percent of the nursing staff is comprised of minorities, 8 percent of whom are African-Americans, and 9 percent of nurse managers are minorities – 6.7 percent African-American. “These are numbers in keeping with the demographics of licensed RNs in the Upstate,” GHS noted.

Reardon also “has made supplier diversity one of his five personal goals,” the hospital said. “As a result, GHS has increased its overall purchase activity with minority-, women- and veteran-owned vendors by more than 200 percent” to $4.7 million in 2007 to $10.3 million in 2011.

With 10,800 employees, GHS is the largest employer in Greenville County.

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

South Carolina’s economy gains traction

By Dick Hughes | contributor

The economy is stabilizing in South Carolina, but weak points remain, according to recent independent economic reports and evidence on the ground of activity in the critical job-creating construction industry.

In a “special commentary” published May 22, Wells Fargo economists said South Carolina’s real gross domestic product (GDP) “has likely neared its prerecession peak” and conditions are in place for growth going forward.

They cited a “timely assessment” by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia that “showed economic activity climbing at its fastest pace during March than any other time since the end of 2006.”

Looking ahead, the Wells Fargo economic group expects “the pace of economic activity to accelerate and population in-flows to increase.”

That the manufacturing sector, which is heavily concentrated in the Upstate, is growing rapidly is one reason “why the Philadelphia Fed’s leading economic indicator index points to stronger growth over the next six months,” the group’s economists said.

The state had a difficult climb having lost “nearly 5 percent during 2008 and 2009 as the state’s heavy reliance on cyclically sensitive consumer products manufacturing, tourism and in-migration all slowed markedly,” the economists said.

Growth did not return until 2010, and then tepidly.

Industrial and commercial construction are picking up, however, reports Brian Gallagher, director of mar-

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keting for O’Neil Inc. of Greenville, a full-service engineering, design and construction company.

He said “several large industrial projects currently are under construction or in the design phase in the Upstate,” while commercial construction has been stable with two large anchor projects underway in downtown Greenville.

“We are seeing owners investing in

BF Goodrich, Continental, Bridgestone and Boeing, have helped “drive manufacturing employment up 8.4 percent,” the economists said. Industry accounts for 27.5 percent of all jobs added in the state since employment bottomed out 27 months ago, they said.

With the unemployment rate having dropped below 9 percent, the state is heading in the right direction but “still

According to TD Bank economists, South Carolina’s employment rate of 8.8 percent is the continuation of a recent trend of showing faster improvement than North Carolina and Georgia. plant expansions and renovations,” Gallagher said. “There are also green-field opportunities.”

However, he noted Upstate business owners may still be holding back, sharing the national caution “due to the uncertainty related to the economy, taxes and the election.”

Wells Fargo pointed out that while Greenville has the largest amount of industrial space at 49 million square feet, Charleston and Columbia have outpaced Greenville in absorption of more than one million square feet in the past year.

The Greenville market “has moved sideways” as Charleston, benefiting from the port, reduced its vacancy rate to 9.6 percent from 14 percent at the end of the recession.

Columbia and Spartanburg have improved modestly, the bank’s economists said.

New industrial projects, including new and expanded plants by BMW, Michelin/

has a long road ahead to a full recovery,” the Wells Fargo report said. Improved job growth has helped bolster income growth, but South Carolina “continues to underperform relative to the nation.”

Even with a 3.7 percent increase in the state’s per capita income in 2011, the state “remains nearly 20 percent below the national figure and the per capita income gap between the state and nation has widened since the end of the past recession,” the report said.

Partial responsibility for this lies with the fact “that a large proportion of South Carolina’s economy and population are still centered in rural areas, where earnings and living expenses tend to be significantly lower,” the bank said. Another factor is the first decline since the 1950s in payments for Social Security, unemployment insurance “and other income support from other government pro-

grams on which South Carolina residents are heavily reliant.”

According to TD Bank economists, South Carolina’s unemployment rate of 8.8 percent is the continuation of a recent trend of showing faster improvement than North Carolina and Georgia.

The Palmetto State is now on par with Florida, TD Bank says.

The Wells Fargo economists note that just the three regions of Greenville, Charleston and Columbia account for 60 percent of the state’s employment – and the same share of office employment growth over the past decade.

In residential housing, the Wells Fargo and TD Bank economic reports see slight improvements in single-family construction and price, but both said the apartment market is where real growth is taking place.

Wells Fargo said the vacancy rate for apartments in Greenville, Charleston and Columbia is the lowest in a decade.

TD’s economists project an average annual 20 percent increase statewide in multifamily housing starts through 2016. TD expects homeownership will decline from a 2001-08 average of 75.3 percent to 74.7 percent by 2016.

Wells Fargo said an increase in apartment construction, although still low by historic standards, is “being fueled by improving job growth, steady population gains and a growing preference for rental housing. These trends will likely remain in place for the next few years, creating more opportunities for new development.”

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@ greenvillejournal.com.

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There’s More at Play Than Soccer

When thousands of players, parents, friends, coaches and tournament officials are in Greer for a major youth soccer tournament starting next week, they will bring more than excitement on the field. They will bring “more than $10 million” to the regional economy.

That’s the estimated economic impact of the 2012 US Youth Soccer Region III Championships that will be held at the MeSA Soccer Complex starting June 14 with an opening ceremony followed by six days of tournament play on MeSA’s 16 soccer fields. The tournament concludes with finals June 21.

More than 200 teams of players ranging in age from 13 to 19 years old will compete to advance to the national championship tournament to be held July 24-29 at Manchester Meadows in Rock Hill. Boys and girls teams from South Carolina and 11 other Southern states will participate.

“Local restaurants, hotels, retail stores and others will benefit from the more than 4,200 players, coaches, team and tournament officials, who also bring along families to the six-day tournament,” said the United States Youth Soccer Association. The association estimates that visitors will book 12,000 hotel room nights.

Pearse Tormey, chairman of the local organizing committee, said it is an honor to host the regional tournament. “Soccer means a great deal to this community. We

are delighted to host the best players and teams from across the region in this elite competition and utilize our top-tier facilities and volunteers.”

The South Carolina Youth Soccer Association is host, and the National Guard is sponsor. Other regional tournaments are being held in Lancaster, Penn.; Saginaw, Mich.; and Phoenix, Ariz. The 60-acre MeSA Soccer Complex is located at 1020 Anderson Ridge Road, Greer.

Housing Fund Gets Boost

With recent investments of $500,000, the nonprofit Greenville Housing Fund (GHF) has exceeded $1.1 million in a fund to provide below-market loans to help lowincome individuals purchase homes and start businesses.

Program Related Investments, as the loans are called, were made by two banks, South Carolina Bank and Trust and BB&T, and by Lowcountry Housing Trust Fund, which, like GHF, is a certified Community Development Financial Institution.

The funds will be used in Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson counties.

Mike Coggin, regional president of SCBT, the first bank to make such an investment in GHF, said its gift of $150,000 “will be loaned to those who need it most in our community.

“Not only is this a great opportunity to invest in Upstate South Carolina, but it also has helped us as a bank

receive significant Community Reinvestment Act credits, which are required by the federal government.”

In March, BB&T contributed $75,000 to help GHF start a pilot program to help low-income individuals start and sustain small businesses with low-interest loans, business preparation and ongoing mentoring.

As the loans are paid back, GHI said, the money is “recycled back into other community development activities.”

In addition to the latest contributions, the housing fund said it receives “generous support from the City of Greenville, Greenville Redevelopment Authority, Hollingsworth Fund and United Way of Greenville County.”

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The QuikTrip will have a footprint of approximately 5,700 square feet and 9,000 square feet for its gas station canopy.

“The company has targeted Upstate South Carolina as an area for expansion,” DP3 said. DP3 has been chosen to provide design services for its locations in the Southeast, the Greenville firm said.

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SEW-Eurodrive, the familyowned global gear manufacturer and pioneer in drive-based automation, is expanding its Spartanburg County operation to customize and assemble gear boxes for the most muscular industrial purposes.

The company said it will invest $20 million in the coming expansion, which will add 40 to 50 jobs over the next three to five years to a workforce in Lyman that is now around 300.

The company bought land adjacent to its existing plant and U.S. corporate headquarters off Old Spartanburg Highway to erect a high-arched building of 150,000 square feet to accommodate cranes and storage space required for the 25-ton industrial gearboxes. The company is also building 40,000 square feet of corporate office space on the site.

A company spokesman said construction should begin this

month, with the goal of having the new plant fully operational by “this time next year.”

The company received job credits and a $150,000 “set-aside grant” from the state as incentives to expand in Spartanburg, but the family spokesman said the incentives “were not important” in the decision to build the new facility in Lyman.

Assistance “for training purposes was the only thing we were interested in because it takes about six months to a year to get a person up to speed,” he said.

Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt said SEW-Eurodrive’s decision to expand in Spartanburg “serves as another indication of the company’s commitment to the state.” David Britt, who heads the County Council economic development committee, said it is further verification that “Spartanburg County is an excellent location to do business.”

Using existing workers and space, SEW already is doing lim-

SEW-Eurodrive vice president of operations Christopher Blickle, left, and plant manager Carl Hinze. Behind the two are gear blanks, which will be cut into gears at the Spartanburg County plant. The company is investing $20 million in plant expansion to assembly large gearboxes for heavy equipment such as cranes.

ited production of the industrial gears, but cannot become fully operational until the building is completed and equipped.

The company spokesman said the gear parts are manufactured in a plant built in Germany in 2009 for heavy industrial purposes. From there, the parts are shipped to Lyman, modified as

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The end product is a gearbox built for use where heavy equipment is needed, such as in mining, cement aggregation, pulp and paper, rock crushing, and container loading and unloading.

“The new gearbox is up to a

25-ton package … and while there is modularity, these are special gearboxes that have to be designed from the ground up. You can’t just pull parts off the shelf. There will be some parts made here,” the spokesman said.

SEW-Eurodrive has been in the Upstate for nearly 30 years. Founded in Germany in 1931 as Sueddeutsche Elektromotoren Werke (Southern Germany Electric Motor Works, or SEW), it opened its first plant and sales office in the United States in Ohio in 1975.

The company opened the Lyman facility as a manufacturing plant and North American corporate office in 1983. As the business grew, the Lyman plant was expanded several times and, excluding the upcoming addition, comprises more than 500,000 square feet in two buildings, one for manufacturing and one for assembly.

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400,000 gears and motors from sizes small enough to hold in your hand to industrial gearboxes weighing many tons.

“You wouldn’t know it, but our stuff affects you in multiple ways every day – from your clothing made on a machine to your automobile made on a machine to whatever you drink out of a bottle,” the family spokesman said.

SEW has four other assembly plants in the United States, as well as sales and technical offices in 60 locations. Sales are worldwide, and up 80 percent of its manufactured products are shipped overseas.

The company is owned by brothers Juergen Blickle, who is based in Lyman, and Rainer Blickle, who is based in Germany.

Between them, they direct manufacturing, assembly and/or sales in 48 countries, including Germany, the United States, France, China, Finland, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore.

From a handful of workers in Germany at its start, SEW-Eurodrive has more than 14,000 employees worldwide. It is credited with several technological advances in motor drive systems and, according to the company, ranks No. 1 or No. 2 in markets where it competes. According to Wikipedia, it has annual sales in excess of 2 billion Euros ($2.4 billion).

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

Company dreams better batteries DreamWeaver International, a startup Greenville company developing more efficient and more powerful batteries, is one of 67 small companies nationwide to receive a grant in the latest round of the Department of Energy’s innovative research and technology program.

Dreamweaver received the money to continue its study of “the use of nanofiber-nonwovens to lower the cost of batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles by replacing expensive membranes with nanofiber-based papers,” the DOE said.

Another South Carolina company, Tetramertechnologies of Pendleton, received a grant for its work in using new materials for coatings in seals used to detect potential tampering of nuclear materials.

The grants range up to $150,000, but specific amounts were not announced.

According to its website, DreamWeaver, using nanofibers and microfibers in a non- woven structure, is developing “a perfect barrier” between electrodes in batteries that at the same time acts “as a perfect window to the electrolyte.”

The company said its technology in-

creases battery power by 300 percent in electric vehicles, power tools and other devices; provides more efficiency by reducing internal resistance; increases energy density and allows for “thinner, lighter and smaller batteries.”

The company “is in the final stages of developing its initial products and currently sending samples to select customers.” Initial product lines are focused on electronic devices such as smartphones.

DreamWeaver is based at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research. It was founded last year by Jim Schaefer, formerly chief executive officer of Polymer Group, who is CEO, and Brian Morin, who developed the high-performance Innegra fiber and founded Innegrity. Morin is president and chief operating officer.

DreamWeaver partnered with Herty Advanced Materials Development Center, a nonprofit Georgia state authority that provided laboratory and engineering assistance and will produce its initial supply of materials.

— Dick Hughes / Contributor

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New West End apartments planned

The quarterly report The state of the upstate’s bottom line

Bank Sees Improving Economy

A Charlotte developer plans construction of a 150-unit apartment building on Greenville’s West End. The application by Lat Purser & Associates to the city calls for demolition of two warehouses at Rhett, Wardlaw and Ferguson streets to clear land for the apartments.

One warehouse is on the protected list and needs city approval to be demolished. The other does not require demolition approval. The planning and development staff recommends approval of the demolition and construction subject to “the Ferguson Street façade being appropriately articulated.”

The planning staff said the façade of the street-level parking wall is not appropriate for a street-fronting façade. Otherwise, the staff said, “the proposal appears to generally comply with applicable design guidelines.”

According to Lat Purser’s application, the building will have four stories of apartments above two levels of parking. A leasing office on ground level on Rhett Street will “obscure the parking structure.”

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Carolina Alliance Bank of Spartanburg reports net income for the first quarter of 2012 of $378,000, 141 percent better than for the same period last year.

Total assets grew to $246 million, an increase of 6.3 percent since March 31, 2011; gross loans were up 4.1 percent to $169.2 million, and deposits increased 3.6 percent to $203.5 million.

The bank reported improvement in the level of nonperforming loans from $2.9 million, or 1.24 percent of total assets, to $2.3 million, or 0.92 percent of total assets. It said capital held for potential losses exceeds regulatory standards for being well capitalized.

“Momentum continues to slowly build in restoring and improving the economy in the Spartanburg area, as evidenced by recently announced business expansions and the continued decline in the unemployment rate from 10.1 percent in March 2011 to 8.7 percent in March 2012,” said John Pool, president and chief executive officer.

Carolina Alliance’s is “well-positioned to benefit from an improving economy,” he said.

Greer Bank’s Profit Improves

Greer State Bancshares, the parent of Greer State Bank, reported a net profit of $1.7 million for the first quarter. It

is the second consecutive quarterly profit after a long period of deficits.

In the first quarter of 2011, Greer State had a net loss of $203,000. It returned to profitability in the fourth quarter of last year.

R. Dennis Hennett, president and chief executive officer, said net income for the first quarter was boosted by a $1.3-million net gain in an investment transaction and “the related prepayment of $141,000 on a Federal Home Loan Bank advance.” Without those gains, net operating income would have been $507,000, he said.

Net income to shareholders was diluted by a dividend payment of $188,000 to the U.S. Treasury for TARP preferred shares.

The bank reported improvement in troublesome loans. It said non-accrual loans decreased from $10.4 million the end of December to $8.9 million, and other loans over 30 days overdue decreased from $5.3 million to $3.3 million.

The company did not incur an expense for a loan-loss provision in the recent quarter “because of improving trends in loan quality and a reduction in total loans outstanding.” Legal and other real estate expenses also were down.

At the end of March, total assets were $388 million, up 1.1 percent from Dec. 31; loans outstanding were $212 million, down 3.6 percent, and total deposits were $294 million, up 4.3 percent.

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‘Kimberly’s Flight’ looks at pilot’s life, not death Kimberly Hampton was the nation’s first woman military pilot killed in battle

By Cindy Landrum | staff

Kimberly Hampton will forever be known as the first female American military pilot to be killed in combat.

But her mother, Ann Hampton, wanted people to remember not only her death, but her life as well.

To write “Kimberly’s Flight,” Hampton teamed up with former Greenville News reporter Anna Simon, whom she first met when Simon covered her daughter’s death for the newspaper.

Kimberly Hampton’s story – from being Easley High School’s first Naval Junior ROTC battalion commander to a highly ranked college tennis player to commanding a combat aviation kimberly continued on page 33

Syndee Winters as Nala and The Lionesses in “Shadowland.” Photo: Joan Marcus; ©Disney

Despite the success of the 1994 animated Disney film “The Lion King,” its director Roger Allers never thought it would be turned into a Broadway production. “‘Beauty and the Beast’ was made into a theater production while we were working on the movie. We used to kid each other while we were working on ‘The Lion King’ that this one would never make it to Broad-

way,’” Allers, who co-directed the movie, said. “We pictured people running around the stage in fuzzy animal costumes.”

They even told then-Disney head Michael Eisner it was a bad idea at a luncheon shortly after the movie’s release.

Fortunately, he didn’t listen.

“The Lion King” is the highest-grossing Broadway show in history and the sixth longest-running musical in Broadway history.

Since it made its Broadway premiere on

Nov. 13, 1997, 19 productions around the globe have been seen by more than 64 million people, grossed over $4.8 billion and, cumulatively, run a staggering 91 years.

The show begins its four-week run at the Peace Center in Greenville on Tuesday. It is expected to be the facility’s biggest Broadway show ever.

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this,” said Allers, who also co-wrote the Broadway adaptation of “The Lion King.”

“There was no way of knowing what it would become.”

Julie Taymor, a theater and opera director known for creating eccentric, visually stunning productions of hard-to-stage material, was pegged as director.

She knew “The Lion King” would have to be expanded – probably doubled – from the 75-minute cartoon to make it as a Broadway production. She knew she wanted to expand the second act and even thought about where new songs could be placed.

But when she pitched her ideas to Disney, there were concerns, Allers said.

Allers and co-writer Irene Mecchi were called in to try to flesh out the story. The pair began making up scenes “on the hoof,” Allers said. Seeing that the writers still had the characters in their heads, Taymor asked them to write the adaptation.

“In the moment of saying ‘yes,’ neither one of us thought about what it meant,” Allers said.

Allers, a big theater fan, had never written anything for theater.

Allers and Mecchi, who preserved more than half of the film’s dialogue, ex-

panded the musical’s female presence.

“We recognized that ‘The Lion King’ was male-centric. The male characters really dominated the story,” Allers said.

“Julie really wanted to change that.”

Rafiki, the shaman baboon-narrator, is played by a woman.

And the stage version has a new plotline involving Nala, Simba’s childhood playmate, who as a young woman is unwillingly wooed by Scar.

“Scenes we had written for the movie got cut out and one of them was the seduction of Nala by Scar,” Allers said. “We decided to put that back in.”

Allers said the expanded Nala storyline shows her leadership qualities and makes stronger the relationship between the musical’s two main characters.

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“Getting to know Nala more makes the love story stronger,” he said. “All Disney films have a love story. But all we had in the movie were scenes from their childhood friendship to ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight’ and nothing in between.”

Part of the challenge of adapting the animation into a Broadway play was trying to capture the vastness of the African wilderness, Allers said.

He points to the movie’s wildebeest stampede.

“People envision a vast canyon with hundreds of thousands of wildebeests running about,” he said. “But obviously, you’ve got a limited depth of a stage.”

Taymor uses dancers, drummers and masks to express the depth, drama and emotion of that scene in a limited space, Allers said.

“That’s one of the things she did of which we stand in awe,” he said. “The exciting thing about theater is that with limited space or materials you can express something so much greater. It takes you out of the element.”

In the end, Allers and Mecchi were able to use more than half of the film’s dialogue and all of its messages in the musical.

“The themes are universal,” he said. “Dealing with life and death and with guilt, what happens when you lose the guiding light in

The Tree of Life from “The Lion King” National Tour. ©Disney. Photo Credit: Joan Marcus.

your world, the estrangement of someone from society – they are heavy topics, but we relieved them with comedy.”

The musical gave the writers one last chance to revisit the story, he said.

“The movie represented a three-year process of refinement,” he said. “We were working on it until the very last scene. It was worth not tossing out.”

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

troop – is told through emails and interviews with friends and colleagues.

Ann Hampton’s story is told through her narratives of loving and losing a child and visiting the country in which her daughter died.

“We wanted Kimberly’s story to be told accurately. We wanted people to know about her life, not just her death,” Ann Hampton said. “Kimberly is our only child, and we didn’t want her story to be forgotten. I tell people that I wanted something for the nurses to read to me in the nursing home.”

Kimberly Hampton was flying an OH58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter above Fallujah, Iraq, on Jan. 2, 2004, in search of a sniper on the rooftops of the city. The mission – one that she was not originally scheduled to fly – was to support a raid on an illicit weapons market.

An explosion rocked her helicopter a little past noon when a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile got into its exhaust and knocked off its tail boom.

The helicopter crashed into a brick wall surrounding a date and apple orchard.

Hampton died instantly of head and chest injuries.

Ann Hampton got up early that morning and went to her computer to check if she had received an email from Kimberly when she saw a news item on AOL that a helicopter had crashed in Iraq.

As the day dragged on, Ann Hampton knew the news she’d receive wouldn’t be good.

The Hamptons heard the official report at 4:20 p.m. – exactly 12 hours after their only child had been killed. The news buckled Hampton’s father, Dale, to his knees.

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“I grieve. I miss her. Nothing can change that,” said Ann Hampton, who has made two trips to Iraq since her daughter’s death. The first trip allowed her to understand why the United States was in Iraq, something that made it easier for her to accept her daughter’s death. “I have peace and comfort knowing she was doing what she loved.”

Her daughter told her as much in an email.

“I’m living my dreams for sure – living on the edge sometimes and pushing the envelope,” Kimberly Hampton wrote. “But I’m doing things others only dream about from the safety and comfort of home. I wouldn’t trade this life for anything – I truly love it. So worry if you must, but you can be sure that your only child is living a full, exciting life and is HAPPY.” Simon said it was important to tell Kimberly Hampton’s story and recognize the sacrifices made by those who serve in the military and their families.

“It may be the girl next door or the boy next door,” she said. “Each one has a story. Each is unique. And each deserves our respect.”

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June 8-14, 2012 SC Children’s Theatre The True Stories of the 3 Little Pigs and the Frog Prince Jun. 8-17 ~ 235-2885 The Warehouse Theatre Lost in Yonkers Jun. 8-23 ~ 235-6948 Greenville Chamber of Commerce Photography by Blaine Owens & Patricia M. Crandall Through Jun. 8 ~ 242-1050 Centre Stage Whose Wives Are They Anyway?

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The Greenville Little Theatre will hold auditions for “Smokey Joe’s Café” on Monday, June 18, and for “Dracula Bites” on Tuesday, June 19. Both will take place at 7 p.m. at the Little Theatre’s Magill Hall, located at the rear of the theatre. For “Smokey Joes’ Café,” roles are available for five to eight men and four to six women. For “Dracula Bites,” roles are available for five women and three men. For requirements and more detailed information, visit www.greenvillelittletheatre.org or call 864-233-6238, Monday-Friday.

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The South Carolina Children’s Theatre will hold auditions for “The Sound of Music” on Sunday, July 15, and Monday, July 16. The production has roles available for first grade up to adults, with some non-singing adult roles. The production is scheduled to run September 7-23. For more information, call 864-235-2885 or visit www.scchildrenstheatre.org.

The Greenville County Museum of Art recently announced changes in exhibition schedules. Those remaining through July 8 include: “Andrew Wyeth: The Greenville Collection,” “Historic Highlights: Selected Antiques Show Acquisitions,” “Portrait of Greenville” and “Helen DuPre Moseley.” “The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston” will remain through July 15 and “Julyan Davis: Dark Corners/The Appalachian Ballad” through July 1. On June 19, “Winfred Rembert: Amazing Grace” will open, featuring remembrances and images of the segregated South. For more information, call 864-271-7570 or visit www.greenvillemuseum.org.

The Scribblers Writing Group of the Greenville County Library System invites all adults at any writing level to join their creative writing sessions. The next meetings are on Monday, July 2, 7-8 p.m. at the Berea Branch Library, 864-246-1695 or email adykes@greenvillelibrary.org; Tuesday, July 10, 7-8 p.m. at the Simpsonville Branch Library, 864-963-9031 or email jjenkins@greenvillelibrary.org; and Tuesday, July 17, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Augusta Road Branch Library, 864- 277-0161 or email ssawtelle@greenvillelibrary.org.

Upstate Visual Arts is hosting an exhibit featuring Victoria Blaker’s paintings and drawings. The exhibit will be on display throughout the month of June at 300 River Street, Suite 201, Greenville. For more information, call 864-271-0777 or visit www.upstatevisualarts.org.

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Greenville High School will be hosting a Red Raider Cheerleading Camp for K5 through 8th grades on June 18-20. Campers will perform at the first home JV football game. For more information, email amylizettebrooks@gmail or theduncans@charter.net.

St. Joseph’s Catholic School does not name a valedictorian or salutatorian, but recently gave out top student awards. The Outstanding Christian Athlete Award was presented to Madeleine McMillan.

This award is presented annually to the graduating student athlete who best embraces the mission and philosophy of St. Joseph’s, both on and off the playing field. The Father Fox Award was presented to Bernadette Wersinger. This award, named in honor of Father Fox, the first priest to celebrate Mass regularly at St. Joseph’s, is given annually to the senior who epitomizes the qualities of Christian charity and compassion. The Redemptoris Custos Award was presented to Elizabeth Moore. This award, St. Joseph’s highest honor, is given annually to the senior who excels in scholarship, Christian leadership and service and who best exemplifies the virtues of St. Joseph and the principles upon which the school was founded.

Chandler Creek Elementary recently received a $300 grant from the Greenville Elks Lodge to help fund a new club, the Lego Robotics Club. The new organization will make its debut in the fall of 2012 and be open to rising 5th graders.

The Garden Club from the self-contained classrooms at Sara Collins Elementary School recently visited the Kilgore-Lewis House Gardens. The club took a tour and closely examined seeds, pinecones, insects and native plants. This is the 10th year the class has visited the gardens and previous activities have included planting conifers, making compost, preparing the soil for a Three Sisters Garden and digging for worms.

Eight Washington Center students were recently honored as graduates during the school’s annual Graduation/Awards Day Ceremony. Families, friends and staff recognized graduates Jamario Adams, Joshua Brownlee, Brittany Downer, Heather Eaton, Steven Fender, Jonathan Howell, Ernest Joyner and Cynthia McCurdy. Rising seniors Michael Zudonyi and Charles Merritt served as greeters during the observance and Gregory Morgan and Paul Barnette opened the program with an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Classroom teachers compiled scrapbooks of the students’ years at Washington Center as departing gifts.

This year, Greenville Family Partnership/Red Ribbon Works (GFP/Red Ribbon Works) awarded three Jeanette C. Cannada/Red Ribbon Memorial Scholarships. The scholarships are in memory of Jeanette Cannada, a founding member of GFP/RRW, who gave 30 years of service to education and the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use among youth. The three recipients are Sara Soular of Carolina High School, Jorge Luis Jaramillo of Mauldin High School and Chase Tyler Nicholson of Eastside High School.

Soular plans to enroll in the Greenville Technical College Transfer Track to study education and become a high school English teacher, Jaramillo plans to plans to attend the College of Charleston to study pre-med and Nicholson plans to attend the Georgia Institute of Technology to study chemical or biomedical engineering.

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Photos available from Greenville County Historical Society - 233-4103 Pendleton Street Baptist Church was organized in 1890 by a group of 82 members from the First Baptist Church. Known at first as the West End Baptist Church, the congregation’s original building faced Pendleton Street at the corner of Perry Avenue. Bill Coxe took this photograph of the Young Adults Sunday School Department in the 1930s. The structure in the background is possibly the old Oakland School building. Before the Hahn Educational Building was completed in 1938, Sunday school classes met in the former school, located across the street from the church.

From “Remembering Greenville: Photographs from the Coxe Collection,” by Jeffrey R. Willis

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The church has expanded its facilities over the years. The street name has changed to South Main Street, while the church continues to use its original name, Pendleton Street Baptist Church.

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Gliatta will serve as a sales associate with The Spaulding Group at the Pelham Road office. Previously, she worked as office manager at Wintex, Inc and marketing coordinator at Flagship Properties. She has 7 years experience as a Realtor specializing in the Buckhead Area of Atlanta.

Gliatta is a native of Dacula, Georgia, and is a Dacula High School graduate.

She attended Gainesville State College and Greenville Tech where she earned an associate degree in science. She currently lives in Simpsonville with her husband, Dan and six children. Michelle is a member of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority – Greenville Chapter. She enjoys photography, tennis and creating handmade jewelry.

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“We are pleased to have Michelle join our family of Realtors at the Pelham Road office”, said John Moore, Broker-InCharge, “and we look forward to working with her as a member of The Spaulding Group.”

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Brick rear patio and pool area flows to private acre plus lake complete with a water feature. Pool house with mini kitchen and flex space plus a full bath. MLS 1241750

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May 29, 2012 – Prudential C Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® is pleased to announce that Michelle Gliatta has joined the company.

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SUMMONS FOR RELIEF State of South Carolina County of Greenville in the Family Court 13th Judicial Circuit. Case No: 2012-DR-23-0093. Sumanda K. Jordan, Plaintiff Vs. Wayne Nolley, Defendant. WAYNE NOLLEY: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONSED and required to answer the Complaint in the above-captioned action, a copy of which was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Greenville County, South Carolina on JANUARY 9, 2012; and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on this subscriber at his office, 294 S. Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, South Carolina, 29607 within thirty (30) days of such service. If you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief as demanded in the Complaint.

Maurice McNab, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 5631 Greenville, SC 29603 Ph: (864) 232-1132 Fax: (864) 232-1107

NOTICE OF ACTION Valarie Fox-Robinson and Tyler Lee Robinson, Plaintiff, vs. Billy Stevens, Defendant.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Summons and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court in the Family Court of Greenville County, South Carolina, the object of the prayer is to obtain a termination of parental rights of Billy Stevens and to seek an adoption by Tyler Lee Robinson of the child born to Valarie Fox-Robinson and Billy Stevens.

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NOTICE On January 17, 2012, Ivan James Toney. was definitely suspended from the practice of law for nine (9) months. He has now filed a petition to be reinstated.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 1127 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than June 17, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that S & R Liquors, LLC, 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 785 East Butler Rd., Suite A, Mauldin, SC 29662. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than June 17, 2012.

For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Tulfi, LLC/DBA One Stop, 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 825 SE Main Street, Simpsonville, SC 29681. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than June 10, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

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Back row, from left to right, Carolyn Gosnell of Greenville, Nancy Vonmeyer of Pendleton and Danielle Cobb of Boiling Springs react to a putt by Ellie Cecil of Spartanburg. Ellie’s putt missed by less than an inch during the 6th Annual First Tee Invitational presented by the BI-LO Charity Classic at Thornblade Club in Greer. photos by Greg Beckner / Staff

Barb Hockina of Greenville reads the green while Spartanburg golfer Anna Morgan looks on during The First Tee Invitational. The event pairs two participants from The First Tee of Greenville and The First Tee of Spartanburg with two adult players.

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101 R&B’s __ Brothers 103 Sherlock’s adversary Adler 104 Feeds, as pigs 105 Cool, old-style 107 Tennis legend 110 Rub out 112 Quite impressed 113 Moonshine mouthful 114 Like some providers 115 Feathered headturners 117 Animation collectible 118 Quilting units: Abbr.

119 Arg. neighbor

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That Myrtle Beach daze For as long as I can remember, Myrtle Beach has always been my favorite vacation spot to complain about. We hate the cheap motels, we hate the murky green water, it’s too hot, it’s overpriced, too many people, and tacky, yes, tacky like stepping barefoot on a wad of pale pink bubble gum on the hot asphalt of Ocean Boulevard while scouting out tattoo parlors.

As a child, my mother’s motel gold standard was that it had to be within walking distance of the Pavilion, preferably on the north side and certainly oceanfront. If she couldn’t have an oceanfront room, well, just forget it, and we’ll go to Tweetsie Railroad. Yeah, we went to Tweetsie Railroad, but that was only a distraction until she could find an oceanfront motel room at Myrtle Beach for our real vacation.

I always thought it was odd that my mother loved Myrtle Beach so much and said she went there in her youth, but she never really said why. Normally, she had plenty of stories to tell, but she was always oddly mum about her salad days on the Strand. Momma knows best.

It doesn’t really matter how young or how old, how poor or how rich you are, how fat or grossly fat you are, there is a place for everyone at Myrtle Beach.

Once you strip down to board shorts and bikinis, the unique blend of Budweiser and Hawaiian Tropic suntan oil smells the same on everyone.

Bike Week and Black Bike Week are always dangerously fun for those of the Harley-Davidson persuasion. For shaggers (the dancers, not to be confused with those amorous Brits), there are spring,

fall and mid-winter SOS (Shagging On the Strand) weeks where the state dance is kept alive by anyone who can shuffle two feet and hold hands and a beer at the same time. (You can confuse Shagging On the Strand with anything you like.)

In my day, the ultimate Myrtle Beach experience was to leave the high school graduation ceremony (cut-off shorts and tank top under the robe) and head straight to Mother Fletchers, a night spot that was often still getting down when the morning sun came up over the Atlantic.

It was there I saw the nice girls from my graduating class taking their turn standing in a plastic kiddy pool while the DJ poured cold water over their chests. Win or lose, they got to keep the T-shirts.

My wild days on the Strand are all but over, and I find the air-conditioned comfort of a condo in Cherry Grove now more to my liking. I still make my way up to Calabash for fresh shrimp and my way down to Murrell’s Inlet for even more fresh shrimp, and I would no more stop along the way for a wet boxer shorts contest than I would jump off a motel balcony into a parking lot swimming pool. But I can remember those Myrtle Beach days.

Steve Wong and his wife and their dogs and cats live in a peach orchard in Gramling, which is a quiet little rural community in northern Spartanburg County. He loves to get feedback on the stuff he writes: Just4Wong@gmail.com.

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It’s summertime in South Carolina, which reminds me that I’ve not had a Miller beer for breakfast in a long time.

I’m about due one. It’s time to go to Myrtle Beach.

Long before the city of Las Vegas coined and marketed the catchphrase “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” we Carolinians always knew that “What happens in Myrtle Beach, stays in Myrtle Beach.”

Our parents knew it; our grandparents knew it; and we hope our children and grandchildren have the good sense to know it, too. You always have a great time in Myrtle Beach and we want to hear all about it – at least we want to hear about the things you did that can be said while standing in the front yard of the Baptist church.

If the details aren’t fit for telling there, well, then, just keep them to yourself until we loosen these ties and stand cheek-to-jowl in the all-you-can-eat Sunday buffet line. Spill it, and I don’t mean the sweet tea.

It’s a given: All good South Carolinians vacation on the Grand Strand of Myrtle Beach. It doesn’t matter that you’ve vacationed abroad and seen the streets of Paris or the Coliseum in Rome or the Great Wall of China, you still must make your annual pilgrimage to Horry County to eat fried seafood, blister your alabaster skin, and wear something so totally tacky and revealing that you won’t even bring it home with you. Don’t forget to check your digital camera during that long ride home… delete… delete… oh my God, delete.

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