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for Miler would not be counted. Miler’s opponents, state Rep. Tom Corbin and Amanda Somers, remained certified. On Tuesday, Corbin won the District 5 primary. Miler was unavailable for comment. However, on Friday he posted a message on his campaign’s Facebook page blaming his disqualification on confusing instructions from election authorities. “Indeed it’s true, I have been thrown off the ballot because I followed the rules the S.C. Election Commission provided to the candidates for filing,” he said. Miler said he is still exploring his options. Many disqualified candidates in Spartanburg and Greenville counties are attempting to appear on the ballot in the November general election as petition candidates. Earlier this week, a three-judge panel denied an emergency request from five decertified candidates, including state Senate candidate Reece, for a temporary restraining order to delay the elections until these issues could be cleared up. The ruling was “not surprising, but it was indeed disappointing,” Reece told the Journal. Conflicting sets of state laws regarding the filing of financial forms are at the root of the problem, she said. In 2010, the Legislature mandated that candidates must file a statement of economic interest online, without addressing a previous rule that directed candidates to file a paper statement “at the same time and with the same official” with whom they filed candidate paperwork. “There’s a lot of blame to go around,” she said. “There’s plenty of fault in different areas. But it starts at the Legislature, because you have different laws from different times that conflict. It’s another example of the Legislature not thinking things through, not being thorough, and not making sure that the laws are compatible when they amend or rewrite.” Reece is now working on collecting the signatures necessary to appear on the ballot as a petition candidate, she said. Last week, a spokesman for Gov. Nikki Haley called the primaries “an absolute sham, and incumbent protectionism at its worst.” The governor wants a legislative fix to the problem, said spokesman Rob Godfrey. The state Senate has already passed a bill designed to eliminate future confusion – but it’s too late to be of any help this year, experts say. The confusion and political and legal wrangling will not be over anytime soon. “I really don’t think we’ve seen the end of this,” said Reece, “because there’s just so many questions out there still.” Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.
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South Carolina voters might be forgiven for wondering how Tuesday’s primary qualifies as an election with close to 240 candidates crossed off the ballot statewide – in many cases, literally: Thirty-five were decertified last week after ballots were already printed. And Tuesday’s victors will be watching their backs more closely than normally required of Palmetto State primary winners: Dozens of petition candidates are stumping the state, determined to make the November ballot and finish the challenge they were denied this week. As the messiest primary in South Carolina history, the blame for this train wreck will be parsed for years to come. There is plenty to go around. But voters would be wise to remember the bigger lesson of this statewide character test: the situational ethics pervading the reactions by elected leaders and candidates alike – toward both the rule of law and the five-member court widely depicted as the villain of the hour. For its straightforward reading of state law, the S.C. Supreme Court has been accused of everything from denying “hundreds of thousands the right to participate in a free and fair election” (per U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan), to “injecting itself into the political parties’ once exclusive right to choose their candidates,” as claims GOP executive director Matt Moore. The train wreck that inspired the hyperbole began May 2, when the court ruled that state law requires candidates to file a paper statement of economic interest when they first file for public office, “at the same time and with the same official.” All who failed to do so by the March 30 deadline could not run – even if they filed an electronic copy of the financial statement, as state law also requires. But the rails were laid in 2010, when the Legislature passed the electronic filing rule without revising the paper copy requirement. Consequently, neither law nullifies the other – making this a matter of “both-and,” not “either-or.” The fact that 180 of the then-1,000 primary candidates failed to follow both rules was not the fault of the Supreme Court – even if candidates were misled by party officials who misunderstood the law. Nor can the court be blamed for reaffirming the ruling last week, after Florence County Republicans tried to pretend that candidates who filed disclosure statements electronically before they filed their candidacy papers were thereby transformed into “public officials,” exempt from the earlier ruling. The charitable view is Florence acted out of frustration, not mutiny, as one hopes Gov. Haley did as well when she persuaded the Lexington GOP to restore a favored candidate derailed by the court ruling (which the election commission promptly nixed). Haley argued, “We can change the law, we do it every day.” But the Legislature couldn’t manage it for six weeks – not in time to save the decertified 240 or even to smooth out the confusion for future elections. Candidates are justifiably frustrated: Many were disqualified for doing as they were told by party leaders. More lawsuits are sure to come. But the fact remains; “let’s pretend” subverts the rule of law, whatever the motivation. So does expecting the Supreme Court to ignore the law’s clear language in favor of its “spirit” – an act the GOP would once have decried as legislating from the bench. It’s worth remembering that somehow, close to 800 candidates managed to get this right, all confusion aside. The candidates in Tuesday’s primary read the law and followed it. That’s why they were on the ballot – an instructive lesson in itself.
Once again, it’s time to honor our fathers both past and present as well as our spouses worthy of fatherly praise. However, I wonder how many mothers like me truly appreciate the fathers our adult sons have become. This really hit home with me during a recent visit by my twin sons and their families. Both live outside of South Carolina in different states, causing visits never to be taken for granted. It seems just yesterday I received the surprise of my life when I was told I had delivered not one, but two healthy baby boys (no ultrasounds back then!) Thus began my roller-coaster ride that was to be over much too soon. Looking back, I recall many multiplebirth adventures, some of which were very humorous – such as the time my panic-stricken mother called me while she was babysitting the boys as infants. It seemed she could not calm one while the other was sleeping unusually well. On further discussion, we discovered she had mistakenly fed one of them twice. Thus the advent of I.D. ankle bracelets. Then there was the time the boys switched classes in the third grade. Several days passed before their teachers shared their discovery while suppressing a smile. The growing years brought the awesome wonder that all mothers share as these marvelous beings became less of an extension of me and more of an evolution of themselves – testing their values and not only seeking my counsel, but offering some pretty good advice themselves, much to my surprise. Ensuing years brought college, careers and marriages that blessed our family with five grandsons (and all of that testosterone). Now I observe each of my sons display total devotion to their sons by setting examples of nurturing love. I watch as they experience the unbridled joy of father and son as they go camping and fishing, play ball and build Pinewood Derby cars
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IN MY OWN WORDS by JANE ROSS CARTEE
– all the things that fathers and sons do. However, it’s the less obvious gestures that make them special fathers in my view – like spending time before bed encouraging each child to share his favorite (or least favorite) part of the day, or listening to a teenager’s experience with genuine concern. Glancing back to a more recent time, I see my grandsons filling in the empty spaces one by one. They reflect their fathers in myriad ways, from the quiet studious one to the gregarious one who calls me “Grandma Bubbles.” While digging my heels in the sands of time, I try to hold on to my grandsons’ coattails in order to warm my winter years with their youthful glow. However, I reluctantly accept – with pride – that those cloaks of youthful integrity are carrying them into the same manhood I see and admire in their fathers. So you see, we mothers like to think we have played a large part in our sons’ success when, in fact, their accomplishments are due to whom they have become: good citizens, good husbands, and ultimately, good fathers. To top it off, we mothers love to be loved by our sons, but even more fulfilling is observing our sons caring for each other. It’s been said that a parent’s love is not to be paid back, but carried forward. This is, indeed, my mother’s gift on Father’s Day – one that I hope many mothers out there share with me. Jane Ross Cartee, 71, is a lifelong Greenville native. She is a retired nurse practitioner and former director of nursing for Student Health Services at Furman University.
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Collaboration seeks to link those on public assistance with jobs By april a. morris | staff
A recent collaboration between South Carolina’s Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) and Department of Social Services (DSS) is already benefiting some unemployed workers, organizers say. Announced in April, the program targets recipients of the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. Of specific interest are those classified as able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) in 12 counties, including Greenville and nearby Anderson and Greenwood. The new partnership will place DSS workers in SC Works Centers to refer SNAP recipients for job services. Marilyn Matheus, DSS public information officer, reports there are 96,198 ABAWD clients statewide and more than 7,000 in Greenville County. Greenwood County has about 1,800 ABAWD clients and Anderson has approximately 4,000. Through the partnership, new clients who apply for SNAP benefits or for recertification are referred to the SC Works Centers. State workforce statistics show 189,865 unemployed statewide as of April. Matheus says this particular SNAP population was chosen not because its members are more easily employable, but because federal regulations
allow the state to require them to participate in an employment and training program. Clients receive intensive job coaching, resume writing help, interview skills coaching, workshops and help with matching their skills to available work, DEW spokesperson Mary-Kathryn Craft said. The initial participating counties were chosen to mix rural and urban areas, Craft said. The 12 counties include: Anderson, Beaufort, Cherokee, Darlington, Dorchester, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Lancaster, Orangeburg, Richland and Sumter. SNAP recipients who live in adjacent counties and who want to receive the DEW job coaching services can visit the centers in the participating counties, she said. As of late May, coordinators have been placed at six sites: Greenville, Anderson, Sumter, Orangeburg, Hartsville and Georgetown. Six more will be placed by the first week of July. According to Craft, Greenville County has received more than 450 referrals and neighboring Anderson County has received more than 200. The state saves approximately $200 per month for every ABAWD individual who is removed from the SNAP program, Matheus said. The pilot program is scheduled to run through December and will be expanded to additional counties if officials deem it successful. The two agencies expect the program to serve about 1,000 recipients each month and estimate up to 25 percent will obtain jobs each year. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.
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Encouraging urban pioneers Federal cutbacks force city to get creative at leveraging downtown development By CHARLES SOWELL | staff
Greenville’s strong redevelopment programs are drawing urban pioneer businesses to the West End that don’t fit the traditional mold. Take Nachman Norwood & Parrott, longtime North Main Street wealth management consultants, for example. Cutbacks in federal funding for Community Development Block Grants and HOME funding worry the consulting firm’s management – but they see their move from one end of Main to the other as an overall plus for the firm. The firm is now located in a renovated electrical supply house at 116 South Main, at the end of the city’s West End streetscape project. “We bought the property right before the downturn in 2007,” said Ben Norwood, one of the firm’s managing directors. “For a long time we’d wanted to expand and the price of property on the West End was irresistible.” “We’ve all lived in Greenville for long enough to know the reputation this side of town had at one time,” said Bob Nachman, another of the firm’s managing directors. “But the addition of Fluor Field and the improvements the city has done along South Main, along with the work done on the surrounding neighborhoods, eased our fears.” That and consulting with their
client base, which is 95 percent we’ve had to slow down on many local to the Upstate. projects, or put them on hold.” “Our clients were all for it,” In Greenville, HOME funding Norwood said. is to be used for the following There were more problems housing and relocation projects: with street people at their old loConstruct one affordable rentcation, near the Daniel Building, al on Baxter Street and three afthan at the new, the men said. fordable rentals in the Greenline“That’s pretty amazing, when Spartanburg neighborhood; you consider what this end of Main Complete the third year of used to be like (tough bars, shoot- relocation commitment to famiings and rampant drug usage),” lies who were moved from the Nachman said. “Fact is, we have former Queens Court complex yet to have the first person walking to new homes; through our door panhandling.” Finish rehabilitation of home A big reason for that is the work ownership units in the commuthe city has done in surrounding nity development-served neighneighborhoods, the partners said. borhoods (23 units through However, work on those sur- local faith-based organizations rounding neighborhoods is and nonprofits). slowing down as the city deals with an 18 From left to right, Al Cannon, John Parrott, Bob Nachman percent cut in Com- and Ben Norwood of Nachman Norwood & Parrott munity DevelopWealth Management Consultancy. The company relocated to Greenville’s West End Historic ment Block Grants District from downtown. and a 34 percent cutback in HOME funding, said Greenville Community Development Administrator Ginny Stroud. “We’ve been able to spread the cuts around so no one program is hit harder than another,” she said. “Still, it’s been tough to deal with and
No one is sure how long the federal cuts will go on, Stroud said. “The best we can hope for in the coming year is to get about the same amount of money we did this
won’t have much of an impact on the rate of renovation in neighborhoods, he said. “We’ve got lots of experience in leveraging our funding with nonprofits and there are grants and other sources of funding that we can use,” he said. The city has been willing to take risks on the West End, he said, citing the city’s purchase of
“We were the first non-restaurant or bistro to locate out here. I think we bring a sort of legitimacy to this end of Main.” Bob Nachman, of Nachman Norwood & Parrott Wealth Management Consultancy, on the company’s decision to move from downtown to the West End.
year,” Stroud said. “That’s a bestcase scenario. The truth is, no one will know until Congress acts.” Greenville Mayor Knox White sees business moves like Nachman Norwood & Parrott’s in the overall light of the decades-long series of investments the city has made on the West End. “The first was Fluor Field,” White said. “Then there were projects like converting the old Greenville General Hospital campus into housing. Those sold like hotcakes.” The fact that the city is facing cutbacks in federal funding
a longtime crime hotspot located in a Pendleton Street motel. “That was a bold move at the time we took it,” he said. “I think the results are evident.” Nachman and Norwood agreed with that assessment. “We were the first non-restaurant or bistro to locate out here,” Nachman said. “I think we bring a sort of legitimacy to this end of Main.” And a cutting-edge kind of funkiness; one of the firm’s partners had the first electric car in the city and is planning to build a solar-powered aircraft. Nachman’s great hobby is visiting different places around the country for swims. His next project is to swim around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@greenvillejournal.com
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New fishing limits for Upstate anglers in July By CHARLES SOWELL | staff
With an eye toward preserving South Carolina’s dwindling freshwater fishery, state Department of Natural Resources officers will start enforcing more restrictive rules and regulations on anglers from the mountains to the saltwater line starting July 1, said Dan Rankin, fisheries biologist for the Upstate region. The change that will likely affect the most fishermen deals with crappie. The popular and tasty fish’s catch limit will be cut from 10 to five fish, Rankin said, and the size of fish kept must be larger than eight inches. “This change is the result of an overall decline in the fishery statewide,” he said. “Our surveys have found that the numbers of fish caught has been exceeding the (natural) mortality rate for some time now. “It is a much-needed change, especially in our lakes.” The hope is the new regulations will not adversely affect the quality of the fishing experience, he said. But state officials saw this as a much-needed change
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in the state’s hodgepodge of fishing rules and regulations. There will also be changes on certain rigging that is used, particularly on Lake Greenwood, to catch large numbers of crappie, Rankin said. “There is something called spider rigging, which sort of looks like a porcupine, where fishermen put multiple rods out and just drift along. It is a particularly effective method for crappie.” Most anglers report few of the fish they take are smaller than the soon-to-be-implemented eight-inch limit, Rankin said. “The eight-inch limit on Lake Greenwood, for instance, means you’re dealing with a two-year-old fish. Eight-inch fish will get to spawn once before they’re caught.” Changes are coming for bass fishermen too, Rankin said. “A lot of these changes are lake-specific, except for creel limits.” The black bass creel limit is being cut from 10 to five fish daily, as is the limit for red-eye bass, a native specie, Rankin said. Limits for spotted bass, an invasive species, will be 15 fish. “In lakes like Keowee, the spotted bass has cross-bred with red-eye bass to the point that the native species has almost
A young sportsman learns the fundamentals of fishing. Palmetto State fishermen will soon have a host of new regulations to contend with.
vanished,” he said. The size limit on black bass will be set at 12 inches, he said, except on Jocassee, Greenwood and Blalock, where the limit will be 14 inches. “Those lakes are what we call low-den-
sity, high-forage lakes that support larger bass,” Rankin said. “A lake like Jocassee, where the main forage fish is the blueback herring, tends to have larger bass than other lakes.” Perhaps the biggest howl in the Upstate is likely to come from trout fishermen, who will see the creel limit cut from 10 to five fish. “This is purely a matter of fishing pressure versus the amount of fish we can manage to stock in any given year,” Rankin said. “Our surveys have found that the numbers of fishermen trout fishing has grown from about 10,000 per year to more than 100,000,” Rankin said. “Our ability to produce catchable stocking fish has remained steady at around 300,000 trout per year.” On the plus side, the state is adding delayed harvest water on the Chauga River and Howard Creek this year, Rankin said. “The delayed harvest program on Chattooga has been one of our most popular,” Rankin said. “It brings a different kind of fisherman, one who’s not just interested in catching fish for the frying pan.” Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@greenvillejournal.com.
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Professional cyclist and Greenville resident George Hincapie announced on June 11 that he will pass up the pro peloton and retire from professional cycling – after he competes in this summer’s Tour de France and USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Hincapie, who has competed professionally for 19 years, said he wants to spend more time with his family: wife Melanie, who he met on the Tour de France, and daughter and son. In addition, he said Tuesday that he wants to become even more involved in his company, Hincapie Sportswear. Over the course of his career, George Hincapie has started a record 16 Tour de France races (a record he shares with Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk) and finished 15 races. He is a Tour stage winner and is poised to participate in his 17th race. Hincapie has also assisted teammates in winning the ultimate cycling race – nine times. A five-time Olympian, Hincapie said in a statement, “This is definitely not a decision that has been easy. I came to the conclusion that I want to go out while I can still contribute and make a difference. To be able to compete for 19 years as a professional cyclist has been something I would have never dreamed of doing. But at the same time, it’s also going to be good to spend more time with my kids, who are getting to be the age where they miss me when I’m gone.” Hincapie added Tuesday that once he retires (shortly after his 39th birthday), he looks forward to focusing on Hincapie Sportswear, a company founded by brother Rich Hincapie that sells custom cycling clothing, gear and denim. “I want to be a major part of my company, which I have been over the past seven years, but in a really different sense. Now I want to be a part of the day-to-day operations,” he said. Hincapie says he will still focus on cycling, particularly on the BMC-Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team that nurtures cyclists under the age of 23 for the BMC Racing Team. He has been a member of the BMC Racing Team since 2009. “I want to see my U23 (under 23) team grow and become more of an in-
Five-time Olympian and Tour de France veteran George Hincapie announced he will retire at the end of the 2012 season.
ternational player,” he said. According to Hincapie Sportswear, George and Rich Hincapie formed the team because they were both products of junior cycling programs and know how important support is for young athletes.
“I want to go out while I can still contribute and make a difference.” George Hincapie on his decision to retire at the end of this season.
Though he won’t be training for the Tour de France in 2013, Hincapie says he’ll continue to push the pedals and add a few more activities. “I’ll definitely try to stay fit and keep riding my bike. I’ll mountain bike, I’ll play tennis, work out with my wife, but do more family workout things. I’ll keep riding my bike for sure.” George Hincapie is scheduled to participate in the Tour de France June 30 through July 22, and in the 683-mile USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado August 20-26. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.
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Learning to share By Nichole LIvengood | contributor
As the livability educator for the City of Greenville, Jaclin DuRant is teaching kids that you do not have to head for the hills to enjoy nature. Her program is part of a larger city grant project called Connections for Sustainability: Linking Greenville’s Neighborhoods to Jobs and Open Space that began in the spring of 2011. Greenville received $1.8 million from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Transportation for the three-year planning project. The city’s proposal was one of 42 chosen throughout the country to receive funds, and only one of 14 to receive joint funding from HUD and DOT. DuRant is tasked with educating people around Greenville about sustainability, their connections to the built and natural environment and to each other within society. “Living sustainably is nothing new,” DuRant said. “We have new jargon for it, but it’s not a new idea. We may have stepped away from it for a little while, but it is time to go back to living closer to the
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City livability educator seeks to teach students about ‘living sustainably’ land and closer to the community.” DuRant created the Urban Naturalist Program to connect urban youth with nature in their own environment. “I’m really trying to dispel the notion that you have to get in your car and travel to nature. I want to make sure kids have this connection to nature here in the city.” This program is a part of an ongoing Curriculum for Sustainability project that includes a series of lesson plans that will be available to educators in the coming months to integrate sustainability into different classroom topics. DuRant piloted her program at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary and has worked with the eighth-grade Explorer Group at Hughes Academy. She will also be teaching at several camps around the city this summer. On walks around the school grounds, students learned to identify trees and plants and about the importance of in-
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sects to their environment. “The kids are able to see, even in their schoolyard, how much diversity there is here around them,” DuRant said. “I don’t think it is natural for people to really want to take care of something unless they understand it.” DuRant said she hopes that by teaching people to pay attention to their surroundings, they will learn to make better decisions about taking care of the environment and themselves. Students are also learning about the value of recycling and up-cycling everyday objects. They built bird feeders out of plastic bottles and brainstormed ways to live sustainably at home. Durant said students came up with ideas such as riding their bikes more, going outside to play to save electricity, turning off the water while they
brush their teeth, and putting a bucket in the sink while waiting for water to heat up and giving that water to pets or using it to water plants. They are learning about gardening and sharing resources. “I don’t know why ‘used’ became a stigma, but we need to get past that,” DuRant said. “Having used things is wonderfully sustainable. It is something kids can do so easily and it teaches really strong social values. Hand-me-downs are great. They increase a feeling of community. They are also reducing the amount of things going into the landfill and the amount of energy used on the production side.” DuRant said jargon “can get in the way, but really sustainability is about using resources in a way that won’t entirely deplete them. It’s not about altering your lifestyle completely, but making choices so that we can live happy and healthy lives and so can future generations.” As a kid growing up in South Carolina, DuRant spent most of her time playing outside. “My parents taught me to respect the natural environment and it’s something I want to help impart to the next generation. Hopefully, they will continue to carry these values all through their lives.” Contact Nichole Livengood at nlivengood@greenvillejournal.com.
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A chance encounter in Rome Two Spartanburg artillerymen wandered into the Vatican in 1944 and became the first allied troops to meet Pope Pius XII after Rome fell By CHarles Sowell | staff
World War II veteran J.D. Edwards has this framed photo of Winston Churchill visiting Edwards’ 240-mm howitzer battery in Italy on the wall of his Spartanburg home. Churchill stands facing the camera right of center smoking a cigar; Edwards is the first soldier on the left with his back to the camera. Edwards said Churchill wanted to fire the big gun and the American troops obliged him. Churchill’s shot was a direct hit on a cave where German soldiers were hiding.
hands. Cantrell, my driver, slapped it out of his hands, laid it on the ground, and kicked him in the pants. They run off and we left the rifle lying in the courtyard of the World War II veteran church.” J.D. Edwards was one As they passed of the first soldiers to through the masmeet with Pope Pius sive doors of St. XII after the Germans Peter’s Basilica, it abandoned Rome. struck Edwards they just might be paying a visit to the Vatican and he stopped Cantrell from washing up in a basin of holy water. They had free run of the largest church in the world for about a half hour, wandering through some of the most venerated rooms in the Catholic world all by themselves. As they entered the courtyard the pair noticed a group of men approaching. “One of them was dressed in white and about six of the other ones were in black. I guess they were the cardinals or something like that,” Edwards said. The group approached and the man in white – “It was Pope Pius,” Edwards said – held out his hands and the procession stopped. “Gus asked him, ‘Are you the preacher at this church?’” Edwards said. “He didn’t even answer him. He (the pope) pulled out a card and handed it to us, but that didn’t impress Gus.” The pope told Edwards and Cantrell they weren’t supposed to have firearms at the Vatican. “We were the first persons to walk through that church with firearms, Greg Beckner / Staff
Two World War II artillerymen from Spartanburg were the first allied troops to meet with Pope Pius XII after German and Italian troops abandoned the city in the face of Gen. Mark Clark’s powerful assault on June 4, 1944. The encounter came quite by accident 68 years ago, when retired Spartanburg businessman J.D. Edwards and his driver, Gus Cantrell, were scouting for a place to site their massive 240-millimeter howitzers. Just two months shy of his 95th birthday, Edwards, who was a master sergeant on one of the gun crews, remembers the war years well. Cantrell, his driver through much of the Italian campaign, was from Fairforest,
while Edwards has always lived within 1.5 miles of his current home, off Warren H. Abernathy Highway on Woodridge Drive. “The Germans and the Italians had abandoned Rome and my driver, Gus, and I were scouting around on the north side of the city,” Edwards said. “I saw this big church and I told the driver I wanted to ride up there and see it. “We rode up there and parked the jeep, and then we walked down some steps. We had our guns – a pistol and a little old (Thompson) machine gun. A couple of guys come running out of a little house. I didn’t know who they were at the time, but they were Swiss guards – they had these funny looking hats on and they were about a head taller than my driver and I. “One came running up with a rifle in his
the pope told us,” Edwards said. Gus, supremely unimpressed with the pope, said, “We’re looking for Germans. You got any Germans hiding around here?” Again the pontiff refused to answer. The pair returned to their bivouac and told their tale. An Italian soldier from the New York area was supremely impressed that Edwards and Cantrell had met the pontiff. He asked to borrow Edwards’ jeep. Edwards said OK and the Italian-American tore out to visit the Vatican. He returned shortly, wide-eyed. “There’s a world of MPs guarding that place. I didn’t want any part of that.” Later in the Italian campaign, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited the unit to get a firsthand look at the 240 mm guns. At 9.4 inches in muzzle diameter and firing a 360-pound projectile as far as 14 miles, they were the largest caliber guns in the American arsenal. The guns were noted for their accuracy and the devastating effect they had on fixed and hardened positions. “While the prime minister was there, a fire mission was called in and the gun sergeant asked Churchill if he’d like to pull the lanyard,” Edwards said. Churchill was delighted, being an old artilleryman, Edwards said, and walked toward the gun – which was being loaded with bag gunpowder. “The sergeant said, ‘Put that cigar (Churchill’s trademark) down – see all this powder; do you want to blow us to kingdom come?’ ” The minister sheepishly complied. Churchill fired the cannon, which had already been sighted in, Edwards said. “He scored a direct hit. We found out later about 75 Germans had been killed with that one round,” Edwards said. The concussion of the massive gun blew the prime minister’s hat about 200 feet and his aides had to scramble to fetch it back, Edwards said. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@greenvillejournal.com.
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The unlikely team of a pink club-wielding pro golfer and a 169-year-old Upstate textile firm are collaborating to benefit an Upstate charity. As part of Bubba Watson’s Bubba & Friends Drive to a Million fundraising effort, Watson is asking corporate partners to help reach the $1 million goal. Local textile manufacturer Kentwool produces Watson’s beloved merino wool blended socks that boast a blister-free guarantee. The company has created a limited edition red, white and blue USA sock that Watson will wear during the U.S. Open. The socks will also be on sale through July 15, with a portion going to charity as part of the Bubba and Kentwool Team Up Fore Kids initiative. Kentwool has committed to donating $5 from the sale of the $20 socks to
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Pendleton Place Children’s Shelter. Laurie Rovin, Pendleton Place’s executive director, said she never would have imagined that a pro golfer would be lending his name to help their organization. “It’s also very generous of Kentwool because they are giving $5 of their profit (from each sale) to our children’s shelter. It just speaks volumes to this community,” she said. The fundraising windfall for Pendleton Place was a surprise, but comes at the perfect moment, Rovin said. “It’s like God is watching over us. This comes at a time in our organization’s history as we are in the process of a program redesign.” Pendleton Place will continue to maintain its shelter, but also add a family services program for supervised visitation and custody exchange, along with a new family and child assessment center.
The funds raised will also help bridge the yawning gap created by reduced state and federal funding. “As recently as a year ago, we received 90 percent of our funding from state and federal sources. Now it’s less than 50 percent,” Rovin said. “We are working to meet the needs of children and families in Greenville County and Bubba is helping us get there.” Avid golfer and Kentwool CEO Mark Kent said, “Bubba is one of the most committed guys on Tour when it comes to raising money in support of worthy causes. He’s such a great ambassador, and joining forces to raise money for a tremendous charity is something that means a lot to me and the Kentwool family.” Rovin said she was impressed that Watson has been personally promoting the special socks and local charity on social media. In addition, after trying a pair of the Kentwool golf socks, she said the fundraising effort is not the only thing that is rave-worthy. “I have a new outlook on socks,” she said. The limited edition socks are available through July 15. Visit www.kentwoolsocks.com or call 877-577-6769 for more information and to order.
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Meredith King doesn’t believe she’ll have any trouble adjusting to the increased responsibility, schedule flexibility and schoolwork completed outside of the classroom when she attends Duke University next fall. That’s because the Landrum teenager attended South Carolina Connections Academy, one of the virtual schools in the state. King was already accustomed to not having classmates in the same room and doing classwork outside of normal school hours because she was home-schooled through eighth grade. In high school, however, King decided she wanted to have more than one teacher, receive grades and take classes
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It was a problem Greg Pickett, Clemson University’s associate dean of Clemson at the Falls, didn’t think he’d have so soon. Not even two years after Clemson opened its hub for business education in the Bowater building in downtown Greenville, it was clear the school would soon be outgrowing its space. At the same time, Greenville developer Bob Hughes was working to sign tenants for One, the $100 million development at Main and Washington streets, a site city officials had long wanted to see turned into retail and office space to help revitalize North Main. “The timing was perfect,” Pickett said. As the first tower of One is close to being topped out and construction continues on the second tower, Pickett says Clemson will turn its sights to deciding what technology the building will need for the MBA program, the Small Business Development Center and the Spiro Institute. All of Clemson at the Falls’ business school components will move to One and Pickett expects the programs to open there in spring 2014. He said Clemson will continue to “have a presence” at Bowater after the move. The technology will be determined after a final architect is chosen for the project, something Pickett said would happen
within the next few months. He did say the school wants to be able to stream content to the main campus and elsewhere. Classrooms at the One facility will be constructed so they can be reconfigured to meet the needs of individual classes. There’s an outdoor space on the fifth floor that can be used by up to 200 people at a time, Pickett said. All of Clemson at the Falls’ programs are growing, especially a program that provides professional development and continued education for local companies. That program has grown by about 40 percent since Clemson at the Falls opened in January 2010, Pickett said. The first class of students for the school’s MBA program in entrepreneurship and innovation started last week, he said. The master’s accounting program will have one of its largest classes ever. Pickett expects to have up to 400 students at Clemson at the Falls when classes start in August. “We want to continue to grow the program in total numbers and maintain that kind of trajectory,” he said. “We’re always evaluating new opportunities and partnerships.” Pickett said the school doesn’t have a maximum number of students it could serve in its new space, which is double what it has now at Clemson at the Falls. “I hope we have a problem in five or 10 years where we need more space,” Pickett said. “But two years ago, I never thought we’d be having a conversation about new space and new facilities.”
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Bad bugs Treatment offers freedom, less risk for those with systemic allergic reactions By april a. morris | staff
Summertime brings out eager hikers, bikers, campers, barbecue masters … and bugs. For most people, the sting of a flying insect or fire ant is a painful, but minor inconvenience that results in a bit of swelling or itching. For the nearly three percent of the population who suffers from a systemic – or system-wide – allergy, a sting can result in a severe, even life-threatening reaction. This system-wide physical reaction is called anaphylaxis, said Dr. John Pulcini, an allergy immunologist with Acadia Allergy. Symptoms include hives, welts and swelling of the face, tongue, and limbs, along with wheezing, uterine cramps in women, loss of consciousness, stomach cramps and vomiting, Pulcini said. Contact with certain foods, medications or latex can spark the reaction as well as stings, he said. For persons without an insect venom allergy, an insect sting can be treated with antihistamines, topical treatments and steroids, he said. However, someone with a systemic allergy must have treatment with epinephrine or adrenaline, often from an automatic injector. Reactions can be caused by both apids – honeybees, bumblebees and sweat bees – or vespids, which are yellow jackets, hornets and wasps, Pulcini said. Patients who suffer from an anaphylactic reaction may have to reduce their outdoor activity and experience a diminished quality of life, he said. Roy Wolfe, 57, a retired accountant who loves to work outside, says he became fearful of being outdoors last spring when he was doing home renovations and was stung on the wrist by a paper wasp. “I’ve had a bee venom allergy since I was a child and was stung several times each year. The reactions got progressively worse and worse. Sometimes I had hives on 50 percent of my body,” Wolfe said. Last year, however, he suffered a severe systemic reaction just minutes after he was stung by the wasp. First his lips went numb, he said, then he suffered abdominal cramps and lost consciousness. Emergency medical personnel
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worked on him for half an hour before he was taken to the hospital. After that, Wolfe said, he was ready to stay indoors. However, Wolfe learned about an allergy shot that could help reduce the severity of his reactions. Last year, he began what is called venom immunotherapy, initially receiving two injections, followed by a shot two times per week for 12 weeks. The therapy uses diluted venom in increasing quantities to build up immunity, Pulcini said. Once patients reach a certain level after about three months, they go on a maintenance dose once a week and then once a month. The therapy is a commitment, the doctor said, lasting a minimum of five years and potentially the patient’s entire life. The treatment is only recommended for patients with a systemic reaction. Wolfe, who is an avid road biker and loves the outdoors, said the needle jabs are worth it to him. “I’m still jumpy about bugs. But if the shots weren’t available, I’d really be petrified of them now.” And his therapy seems to be working as intended: Wolfe has been stung twice since he began venom immunotherapy, but has had only pain and a quartersized welt –no anaphylaxis, he said. Wolfe said the small doses of venom in the allergy shots caused him a little discomfort initially; his arms ached the day of the shot. Now that he is on a maintenance dose, he only has to endure the pain of the needle, he said. Though Wolfe had never heard of the venom immunotherapy, the treatment has been fairly common for at least 20 years, Pulcini said. Advances in dosing, the timing of the treatment and isolating the cause of a patient’s reaction have come more recently. The next step in treating this potentially deadly reaction is to reduce the risk of an anaphylactic reaction to the therapy shots themselves, and to isolate the part of the venom that causes the immunity rather than the reaction, he said. Many parents worry about their children who have a systemic allergy because they are less likely to be able to brush off a cloud of yellow jackets or a swarm of fire ants, Pulcini said. This therapy could help to improve a child’s quality of life and reduce parents’ anxiety. “My goal is for them to live their life beyond their sensitivities,” he said. Until science can take the sting out of the needle, Roy Wolfe laughed and said he’ll stick with his course of therapy. “Having the bee shots is way better than the ambulance.” Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.
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molished those, we rebuilt them at a lower density.” Pool said the city held four public meetings, one in each district, and received suggested changes. “We went back and tried to accommodate as many suggestions as possible,” she said. Now that the map has been approved by council, Pool said the city is preparing to submit the redistricting plan to the Department of Justice, where it will be reviewed. The city should receive a response in several months. To see the new district map and determine what precinct your address is in, visit www.greenvillesc.gov.
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Following nearly six months of planning and number crunching, the City of Greenville has a new voting district map. The updated map, drafted using population information from the 2010 census, maintains the minority districts that are mandated by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Voting Rights Act. The redistricting mainly affects councilwoman Jil Littlejohn’s district that encompasses much of downtown Greenville. Where the former district was centralized within the borders of Pleasantburg Drive, East North Street, Markley Street and Faris Road, the new district removes some areas along East North Street and downtown along with encompassing the area around the downtown airport. Jean Pool, the city’s planning and development manager in economic and community development, said that the shift in the district’s boundaries maintains the two minority districts required by the Department of Justice. The city also has to abide by the department’s one person, one vote rule that requires there not be a drastic population difference between the districts, she said. Some of the changes can be attributed to minorities moving out of the city center and also to aggressive code enforcement over the last 10 years that led to the removal of many substandard dwellings, she said. “We’ve had new construction in some of the public housing projects, like Arcadia Hills and Jesse Jackson Townhomes. When we de-
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Marsha Wallace had no intention of starting an international nonprofit organization when she invited about 20 of her friends over for dinner to celebrate her 43rd birthday. But that’s what happened. About the same time Wallace decided nursing wasn’t her calling and started to look for what was, she read an article about a group of social workers who held a potluck dinner and contributed the money they would have spent in a restaurant to a needy family in their community. Months later, Wallace had what she calls a “lightning-bolt experience.” She decided she could do the same – but instead of contributing money that might have been spent eating out locally, she decided to raise money to help women in developing countries. Wallace and her friends raised $750 for Women for Women International, an organization featured on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” The women had such a great time, they decided to do it every month. One of the women offered to research organizations providing help to women in developing nations. Meanwhile, Wallace decided to form a nonprofit, mostly so the women wouldn’t have to send individual checks to each group and have their names on all those mailing lists. Interest in the organization has skyrocketed, especially after Dining for Women was featured in a “Making a Difference” segment on the “NBC Nightly News” in February. Dining for Women now has 330 active chapters (each chapter is required to hold at least four dinners per year) and 100 more have signed up but have yet to hold their first dinner. “We essentially doubled in size,” Wallace said. “People hear about it and say, ‘Oh, I could do that.’ It makes so much sense. We all spend a ton of money eating out.” But the increased interest has challenged the small nonprofit. Wallace has suspended acceptance of applications for new chapters until probably August.
Dining for Women has a critical need for computers, software, a telephone system, educational literature and staff to handle the increasing demand, said Interim Executive Director Elizabeth Howard. The organization’s data entry and bank deposit fees are escalating, she said. “The volume has stressed us financially,” Wallace said. “We had to buy a color toner for the printer and it put us over budget.” With its 10th anniversary coming up next year, the organization has started a capital campaign, “Empower Dining for Women – Empower Women and Girls.” “If every one of our members contributed $20, we would raise more than $100,000,” Howard said. Wallace said the organization needs in-kind donations such as office equipment, office supplies and computers. “We need Greenville to step up,” Howard said. Each month, Dining for Women supports a different organization that addresses the needs of women and girls in developing countries. The money raised by Dining for Women chapters – in nearly every state and several foreign countries – is donated to the chosen organization through a grant. In March, Dining for Women raised $65,000. Organizations are carefully vetted. In January, the charity contributed money to the Nepal Youth Foundation, an organization that gives parents a piglet if they agree to bring home their daughters who had been sold into indentured servanthood. February’s organization was Starfish One by One, a program that provides mentoring and education to indigenous adolescent girls in Guatemala. The Women’s Earth Alliance received money in March to train women in Sierra Leone to design water purification systems. During the rest of the year, Dining for Women will support organizations working in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Kenya, Cambodia, Rwanda, Indonesia, Ecuador and Burma. Since its inception, Dining for Women has raised more than $1.5 million. The average donation is $30. For more information, go to www. diningforwomen.org. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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Over the last month, multiple cases of flesh-eating infections have been reported in the Southeast. The first was 24-year-old Georgia resident Aimee Copeland, who developed an infection after being injured during a zip line accident and has lost both hands, her left leg and right foot during treatment in Augusta, Ga. She continues to improve, but is battling phantom limb pain. In Greenville, 36-year-old EMT Lana Kuykendall was recently upgraded to fair condition at Greenville Memorial Hospital after developing necrotizing fasciitis just days after giving birth to twins on May 7. Despite the media attention given to Copeland, Kuykendall and two more cases in recent weeks, this infection that destroys tissue and spreads rapidly through the body remains rare, says Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. “It’s not a catching infection; it can’t spread (from person to person).” A necrotizing fasciitis infection can attack the smooth sheath that covers muscle and the muscle itself, Schaffner said. In order to infect, the bacteria has to be in-
troduced into the body in some way, either by the skin being pierced or at a site of blunt trauma like a bruise, he said. The bacteria that cause some necrotizing fasciitis infections are common, like group A streptococcus, the cause of strep throat infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control. If not introduced through an opening in the skin, the bacteria sometimes set up an infection in a damaged area like a bruise, Schaffner said. Usually, bacteria that enter the bloodstream are filtered out by the immune system – but sometimes they encounter the damaged spot and stay, he said. Schaffner said this could be the way Kuykendall contracted the infection after the birth of her twins, though the exact cause is not known. Fortunately, her case was diagnosed early because it produced visible symptoms near the skin’s surface, he said. However, because of the depth a necrotizing fasciitis infection can reach, the attack can be missed and allowed to spread before caught. Aimee Copeland was infected through a gash in her leg after falling from a zip line into the Little Tallapoosa River. She was treated, but after complaining of persistent pain, doctors discovered she had a necrotizing fasciitis infection caused by Aeromonas hydrophila, a bacteria that can be found in lake and river water. Pain is one of the signs of this type of infection, Schaffner said. Some patients report a fever and some do not, he added. “Patients can misapprehend it as
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waste products were used, while a lockmaster along the Cape Fear River offered a history lesson on flooding and fishing. The group also learned about poaching, pollution and more in the environmental crime component. They also encountered countless snakes, numerous bald eagles, osprey and a heron that they believe followed them along the entire way, Blake said. One day that stands out, he said, was when the group set out to travel 20 miles and ended up covering 32 miles. “It was an awesome day; everyone was in great spirits and it was a good breakthrough.” Blake bought his first kayak last summer, but has loved the outdoors his entire life, he says. He believes the river adventure has changed him: “I was already easygoing,” he said, “and it slowed me down even more.” The trip will also help in preparing for a career teaching music in elementary schools, he said. “I became more open to people and it became easier to talk in front of people.” The time spent on the river has offered him a chance to meet students outside his current circle, which up to that point has been “either with the football team or in the music building.” Now back in the Upstate, Blake says he will spend time working on a final research paper for the class, helping his father build homes and picking up odd jobs like delivering cars and hauling hay before the next semester begins. Blake said he will always remember the more than 300-mile journey, especially the night paddle that began at 3:30 a.m. one day. “That was one of the most peaceful things that I’ve ever been involved in. We were all silent and cutting through the dark water. We were truly one with nature.” To see photos and video of the Voice of the Rivers trip, visit www.brevard.edu/VOR.
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For a music major and football player at Brevard College, spending more than two weeks paddling the length of a river and camping along the way may not seem like the way to get closer to a college degree. But for Fountain Inn native Jeremy Blake, that’s exactly what happened this May. Blake, a rising junior, joined nine other students on a canoe and kayak journey along the Cape Fear Watershed in North Carolina, down the Haw and Cape Fear rivers to Bald Head Island, where the Cape Fear River meets the Atlantic Ocean. The annual trip is part of the 15-year-old Voice of the Rivers (VOR) program that combines academics and outdoor exploration. As the students followed the waterways, they took part in courses on river expeditions and environmental crime. In addition to managing the logistics of moving the group down the river, they also had to keep a daily journal and participate in evening discussions, Blake said. And in true high-tech style, much of the journey was documented on video, with content uploaded often to YouTube along the way. Paddling up to 10 hours a day, the students took turns at being leader of the day, cooking, cleanup, writing in the group log and navigating. Blake says his favorite job was navigator and least faContact April A. Morris at vorite was cleanup, often because dinner amorris@greenvillejournal.com. cleanup was in the dark. “You were sort of guessing whether you got it clean or not,” he said. Students also had to take turns at teaching a lesson to the group: Blake’s was on the mill towns of the Haw River. Despite challenges like sleeping in a puddle one of the first nights, battling ticks and a straight up-and-down portage at Jordan Lake, Blake says the journey offered a welcome chance to unplug and learn in a different way. “It was a lot of reflecting,” he said. “Really, it was awesome.” Part of the group’s education was connecting with the people who rely directly on the river. “We talked to everyone we saw,” Fountain Inn native Jeremy Blake joined nine other he said. Mike in Saxapahaw Brevard College students on a journey along the Cape Fear shared information about how Watershed as part of the Voice of the Rivers program.
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Anderson University joins University Center By Dick Hughes | contributor
Anderson University is bringing its MBA program to Greenville’s University Center, adding a third option for students seeking a master’s in business. It is the first new university to come to the center in 20 years, joining six other universities with academic programs at McAlister Square. AU’s graduate program joins Clemson University and the University of South Caro-
lina with off-campus MBA programs located in Greenville, but with distinct differences. It will be cheaper and have less stringent entry requirements. Also, unlike Clemson and USC, which have specialized focuses, the Anderson MBA is a traditional generalized program, university officials say. Clemson’s MBA program specializes in entrepreneurship and USC’s on international business. “Anderson’s program really speaks to a different market,” said David Taylor, president
and chief executive officer of the University Center. “You open MBA possibilities from an accredited local university to people who either by cost can’t afford it or by certain academic requirements might not qualify for a Clemson or a USC program.” AU also will fill a gap in University Center’s academic offerings created when USC moved its Moore School of Business program to RiverPlace. “We know there is a need for an MBA program there, and we are happy to be the bones
who are supplying that,” said Barry Ray, AU’s director of marketing and communications. He said AU would view 15 students in its first enrollment in January “as a nice place to start. If there is a tremendous amount of demand, we certainly would try to meet that.” Taylor said AU fits nicely with University Center’s mission because it provides flexibility for part-time students offering one course at a time over a six-week period “not necessarily tied to a start of a semester. It is essentially 12 courses over a 20-month period of time, and it is fully accredited and taught by Ph.Ds.” Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.
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Low- and moderate-income residents in the Upstate may get another option to meet their banking needs. Community Works Carolina, the new name for the Greenville Housing Fund, may start a community development credit union, according to Deborah McKetty, executive director. It would be only the second community development credit union in South Carolina. West Columbia’s Brookland Baptist Church started the first. Community development credit unions have the specific mission of serving lowand moderate-income residents and communities that commercial banks and mainstream credit unions often don’t serve. Most customers of community development credit unions make 80 percent or below of the area’s average income. Establishing a credit union would further Community Works Carolina’s mission to increase affordable housing options and improve the financial stability of workers in the Upstate. A 2005 assessment by the United Way showed that Greenville’s housing prices were outpacing wages for many workers, including teachers, police officers and hospital workers. The Greenville Housing Fund was established in 2007 to address the need for affordable housing. It has assisted more than 400 families and had a hand in about $46 million in investment in the community since its inception, said board member Minor Shaw. The Fund has become the Upstate’s
certified Community Development Financial Institution and has more than $1.1 million in lending capacity. CDFIs are alternative financial institutions that invest in low- to moderate-income communities that are underserved by traditional financial institutions. CDFIs help lower-income individuals, small businesses, affordable housing projects and community facilities through low-interest loans, financial education and other financial services. Community Works Carolina has helped more than 220 homebuyers through its forgivable down payment program that provides up to $4,000 to assist qualified first-time Greenville County homebuyers with a down payment and closing costs. The organization also became a mortgage broker to help people who need more help than a traditional bank or mortgage company can provide to homebuyers who are getting a mortgage for the first time. Ten homebuyers have been pre-approved for mortgages, while four applicants are under contract, McKetty said. Through its Individual Development Account program, Community Works Carolina has helped 98 people save a joint $40,000. The program matches savings up to $1,000 on a 3-to-1 basis. Enrollees must save a minimum of $25 per month. The agency also has a business microloan program that will loan 15 entrepreneurs in the city’s special emphasis neighborhoods up to $15,000 each to expand or sustain their business. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.
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Haley and Harry were high school sweethearts, where Friday nights were spent with Haley on the sidelines cheering for Harry on the football field. Haley continued to cheer for Harry from the stands while he played football for Newberry College.
Bridget and Luke first started dating seven years ago while both were attending Clemson University. Their relationship endured many years of schooling including two years of long distance. Luke proposed to Bridget in Central Park while visiting her at graduate school.
Haley and Harry were married Saturday, June 9, 2012 at St. Luke’s Chapel in Charleston, SC. A reception followed at the Harbour Club in downtown Charleston. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mark Trexler of Greenville, SC. She graduated from Newberry College with a B.S. Degree in Elementary Education and is a teacher at Beech Hill Elementary School in Summerville, SC. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Leon Oliver of Greenville, SC and Mr. Jeffrey Michael Cabaniss of Travelers Rest, SC. He graduated from Newberry College with a B.A. Degree in History and is a teacher at Woodland High School in St. George. Harry is an assistant football coach and head track coach for the high school. After a honeymoon in St. Lucia, the couple will reside in Summerville, SC.
Jessica Lynn Rochester and Bobby Kent Wagner April 14, 2012 Who knew that taking a part-time job at a local pub in Clemson would spark a romance that would eventually lead to beginning a life together? That’s how Jessica, a student at Clemson University, and Bobby, a graduate of Western Carolina (and manager of the popular hangout) met and ultimately fell in love. The proposal took some time…7 years! But the couple was inseparable during that time, even when he took a restaurant management position in GA. Bobby popped the question while the couple was on a hike in the mountains of NC celebrating their first date anniversary. Jessica didn’t have to think twice about her answer! One year later, and following a family tradition, their outdoor wedding and reception took place at the home of Jessica’s parents, Steve and Shannon Rochester of Greenville, SC. It was attended by loving friends and family including the groom’s mother, Mrs. Christine Wagner of Charlotte, NC. Jessica is employed as Lead Gallery Host at Hyatt Place Hotel in Greenville and Bobby is a Manager at Fatz Café in Anderson. The couple currently resides in Easley.
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The couple was married in the gardens of the Kilgore-Lewis House. A reception immediately followed at the Brick Street Cafe. The bride is daughter to Edward and Margaret O’Donoghue of Simpsonville, SC. She graduated from Clemson University with a degree in physics in 2009 before pursuing a masters in environmental engineering at Princeton University. She is currently working as an environmental engineer in Charlotte, NC. The groom is son to Dr. Larry and Wenda Berglind of Simpsonville, SC. He has a bachelors and masters degree from Clemson University in mechanical engineering. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The couple honeymooned in Cancun, Mexico. They currently reside in Charlotte, NC.
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The TD Charitable Foundation donated $42,500 to nonprofit organizations in South Carolina from February through April 2012. The foundation awarded grants to nonprofit organizations that provide affordable housing, financial literacy and education and environmental programs in South Carolina. The Boy Scouts of America recognized 11 top volunteers with the organization’s highest commendation, the Silver Buffalo Award, during the BSA’s recent National Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla. The recipients included Russell Smart of Greenville. The Silver Buffalo is awarded to civic-minded leaders who give noteworthy and extraordinary service to youth; the service must be national in scope and can be independent of, or directly through, the Boy Scouts of America. As the chief financial officer, principal and founding partner of the real estate development company Windsor/Aughtry, Smart has used his engineering and business background to mentor young people during their entry into the workforce. In addition, for the past 16 years, Smart has been one of the most active leaders of the Boy Scouts of America with respect to the World Jamboree movement. The South Carolina Medical Association recently named Cancer Centers of the Carolinas physician Dr. Mark O’Rourke as co-winner of the Physician of the Year Award for Community Service. This award is presented annually to a physician who has gone above and beyond to provide service to his or her community. Project Host, Inc. will provide free meals to children 18 years old or younger as part of the Summer Food Service Program. Children participating in residential or non-residential camps who meet the National School Lunch Program income guidelines are eligible for free meals. Children of households that receive food stamps or benefits under the Food Distribution on Indian Reservation (FDPIR) or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) programs automatically qualify for free meals. Meals will be provided to LiteHouse Partners of Greenville, Café Cultura of Simpsonville, Latino Ministry, Commons Way Afterschool, Rising Starz Child Center and Neighborhood Focus. The program will run through August 17, 2012. For more information, contact Project Host at 864-2821994 or by email at projecthost@gmail.com. O’Rourke
The Greenville Zoo invites zoo-goers to the third annual Brew in the Zoo presented by RJ Rockers. The event is scheduled for June 15 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tickets are available for $40 the day of the event at the Greenville Zoo. Designated driver tickets are also available for $15. Brew in the Zoo is open to adults 21 years old and older, and a photo ID will be required to enter. Construction has begun on a “home away from home” for patients and families undergoing intensive rehabilitation therapy at Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital. Local businesses are banding together to create the Peace House at 1425 Augusta St.
Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling of the Upstate, in cooperation with Greenville Hospital System, are working with a variety of tradesmen, vendors, suppliers and volunteers, including Lowe’s employees from 14 area stores, to modify the existing structure. More than 500 people attended Party Down For the Playground to raise money to build a community park at the Greenville Downtown Airport in South Carolina. More than $30,000 was raised. A silent auction raised over $12,000. The money raised will provide for the completion of the first phase of the park project, including grading, irrigation, grass seeding and fencing. For more information about the GMU park project, visit http://www.greenvilledowntownairport.com/Park.html General managers from JHM Hotels all over the U.S. gathered in Greenville for three days of training, inspiration and service at the 2012 GM Conference. This year, in lieu of a social outing, more than 60 general managers spent an afternoon participating in three community service projects. JHM Hotels recently began a new initiative called ONE: Outreach, Nurture, Encourage, to focus its giving and volunteerism in the community. The company’s philosophy of giving is 1-1-1, where it strives to give back one percent of their profit, one percent of their product and one percent of their manpower annually to impact education and poverty. Twenty-one local nonprofit groups will share $125,846 in grants from the Community Foundation of Greenville. Recipients include South Carolina Foothills Search and Rescue, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate, Junior Achievement of Greenville, A Child’s Haven, Cancer Society of Greenville County, Compass of Carolina, Diligent Hands Gracious Hearts, Golden Strip Emergency Relief & Resources Agency, Project Hope Foundation, Taylors Free Medical Clinic, YWCA Greenville, Clarity, Foothills Family Resources, Greenville Forward, Greenville Free Medical Clinic, Homes of Hope, Livewell Greenville, Project Host, Trees Greenville, United Ministries and Upstate Homeless Coalition of South Carolina. Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fair trade retailer located at Lewis Plaza in Greenville, is holding its second annual tent sale until June 17. Handmade products will be available at discounts of up to 50 to 75 percent off of selected merchandise. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 15 and 16 and from 1 to 5 p.m. on June 17. Send us your announcement. E-mail: greenvillecommunity@greenvillejournal.com
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On Saturday, June 23, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Park Seed will hold its annual Flower Day featuring guided tours of the nine-acre Trial Gardens by professional horticulturists, a seed sale, workshop, photography opportunities and plant sale. Several special-focus trial gardens are presented in lovely settings, including roses, container displays, a variety of themes, and the prestigious All-America Selections trials. Park Seed is located at 3507 Cokesbury Road, Hodges, S.C. For more information, visit www.parkseed.com/flowerday. The first annual Coffee Talk, a mentoring experience for women, will be held at the TD Convention Center on Aug. 24 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Coffee Talk, presented by General Electric, is a half-day workshop designed to connect with mentors in an intimate café atmosphere. The program will feature expert speakers, round-table discussions and networking opportunities. Seating is limited. Tickets are $55. To learn more about this event or to register for tickets, please visit www.UpstateWomensShow.com/CoffeeTalk. Television station WYFF was recently honored with four Emmys at the Southeast Regional Emmy Awards held in Atlanta. The awards bring the station’s total to 87 Emmys over the past 19 years. WYFF News 4 received an Emmy for the locally produced HD special “Chronicle: The State of Education” in the Topical Documentary category. WYFF News 4 anchor Michael Cogdill, producer Jennifer Mihalic and assistant chief photographer John Hendon won awards for Specialty Assignment Reporting. Cogdill also won an Emmy in the New Writer category. Grayson Dove was awarded an Emmy for Technical Director. Anchor Carol Goldsmith was named to the prestigious Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Southeast Chapter. The Silver Circle recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the television industry in the Southeast Region. An honoree must have worked for at least 25 years in the region that is comprised of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
The Friends of Paris Mountain State Park will host “The Artist as Naturalist,” led by local wildlife artist Bruce Bunch, on June 23 at 10 a.m. Participants will learn and practice techniques that an artist uses when observing the natural world. No registration is required and there is no fee for the program beyond park admission. Participants should meet at the Park Center. Interpretive Ranger Cathy Taylor will present “Ribbit! Amphibians of Paris Mountain” at 1 p.m. The program will begin at the Park Center and costs $5 per person, payable at the fee booth instead of admission. Registration is required and there is a 25-person limit. To register, call 864-244-5565 or email ctaylor@scprt.com. Regular admission is $2 for ages 16–64, $1.25 for S.C. seniors and disabled persons. Children under 16 are free. For more information, visit www. southcarolinaparks.com or www.pmspf.org. AARP Driver Safety is celebrating and recognizing teachers this summer through an Educator Appreciation Promotion. From July 1 through Aug. 31, all current and retired educators and school personnel are invited to take a driver safety classroom course for $5. Discounted course coupons are available for download at www.aarp. org/educators. Participants in South Carolina will qualify for an automobile insurance discount by completing the classroom course. Classes are limited in size. Visit AARP Driver Safety’s Classroom Course Locator at www.aarp.org/findacourse or by call 1-888-AARP-NOW. For more information, visit www.aarp.org/educators or email drive@aarp.org. On Tuesday, June 26, Rebecca Lang, a contributing editor for Southern Living magazine, will be at Soby’s in downtown Greenville as part of Fiction Addiction’s Book Your Lunch series. In her cookbook, “Quick-Fix Southern,” Lang illustrates how to prepare Southern food fast. The goal of the book is to present novice and experienced cooks with authentic homemade dishes reflective of New South cuisine that are delicious, fast and easy to prepare. Cost for the event is $25 and includes lunch. For more information, call 864-675-0540 or visit www.bookyourlunch.com. If you are sponsoring a community event, we want to share your news. Submit entries to e-mail: greenvillecommunity@greenvillejoural.com
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JOURNAL BUSINESS South Carolina banks still holding TARP capital from preferred shares sold to the U.S. Treasury during the credit crisis are watching closely as the Obama administration has begun selling the shares to private investors through auctions. The Treasury holds shares in 14 state-based community banks for cash they received under the Troubled Asset Recovery Program set up by the Bush administration in 2008 to bolster capital at healthy banks after private-sector credit dried up. One of those, Southern First Bancshares, which operates as Greenville First in the Upstate, last Friday registered its $17.3 million in TARP preferred shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission “so the Treasury can sell them back to the private market,” said Art Seaver, Southern First’s chief executive officer. Even if the 17,300 Southern First shares sell for less than their $1,000 per share par value, Seaver said, “in terms of capital to the bank, nothing changes. You still have the capital. The government is just selling it to somebody else.” The Treasury has said it expects the shares it still holds in 343 banks nationwide will fetch less than what it paid, but said TARP overall will end up making money for taxpayers. Seaver sees it as an opportunity “to remove the government from that critical investment facility to get it into private hands” as a good investment and at the same time keep the capital in banks. “I’m paying 5 percent on the $17.3 million. I have 17,300 shares owned by the government. If the government ends up selling that for $16 million, it doesn’t change
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T.B.A. Expect an announcement later this summer about a major sporting event that could come to Greenville in March 2013. Not the NCAA basketball tournament, but it will involve college athletes… Downtown yoga lovers can look forward to a new Hot Yoga studio expected to open in the West End in the next couple of months... Reedy River Dental, a new dental practice, is opening soon in Capers Place on Augusta Road. Word is clients will enjoy “a spa-like, natureinspired” environment … And gourmet popcorn lovers are in for a treat: Amanda Henry’s Popcorn Parlor is expected to open downtown in mid-July, with entrances on Augusta and Main. Look for 30 flavors, including cherry, cheddar, sour cream and chive …
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my position at all. I am still paying 5 percent on $17.3 million, so the yield to the investor would be that they can buy that investment at less than par value,” he said. If and when the Southern First shares are put up for auction, the bank said it intends to bid to buy back up to $1 million in shares, if regulators approve. On the other hand, the board of Greer State Bank, which sold $10 million in shares to the Treasury, has “not discussed registering our preferred shares for sale yet, preferring to see how the Treasury intends to proceed before we incur the legal expenses of registering,” said Dennis Hennett, president and CEO. It is not cheap. Southern First estimated its registration cost at $129,000. Like many community banks struggling in the continuing real estate devaluation, Greer State was directed to suspend paying dividends on its TARP shares after its November 2010 payment to
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conserve capital. On June 15, the bank will be six quarterly payments in arrears. While it has not paid the Treasury, Hennett said, “We are accruing the dividends for future payment when permissible.” He believes the bank needs four consecutive quarters of operating profits before it can resume payments. Greer State has had two consecutive profitable quarters. “Our board of directors is eager to develop a plan for repayment of TARP as soon as our financial performance would permit such a plan,” he said. Provident Community Bank of Rock Hill’s last dividend payment on its $9.3 million in TARP shares was in February of 2010, deferring dividends of $807,000 to date, the bank said in an SEC filing. It, too, is under regulatory restrictions on paying dividends. BankGreenville, another Upstate bank still in TARP, is current on dividends on $1 million in TARP shares. It has paid more than $150,000 in interest since June 2009. The Treasury invested $654 million in 20 South Carolina-
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Atlantic Bank Shares, Bluffton Bank Greenville, Greenville Clover Community Bankshares, Clover CoastalSouth, Myrtle Beach Congaree Bancshares, Cayce First Community Corp., Lexington First Federal Bank, Charleston First Reliance Bancshares, Florence GrandSouth Bancorp, Greenville Greer State Bank, Greer Horry County State Bank, Loris Peoples Bancorp., Easley Provident Community Bank, Rock Hill Regional Bankshares, Hartsville SCBT Financial, Columbia Security Federal, Aiken South Financial Group, Greenville Southern (Greenville) First, Greenville TCB Corp. (CountyBank), Greenwood Tidelands Bancshares, Mt. Pleasant
$2 million $1 million $3 million $16 million $3.3 million $11.4 million $65 million $15.3 million $15.3 million $10 million $12.9 million $12.7 million $9.3 million $1.5 million $64.8 million $22 million $347 million $17.3 million $9.7 million $14.4 million
S.C. TOTAL
$653.9 MILLION
REPAID
$55.9 million $15.3 million
$12.7 million
$64.8 million $130.2 million $9.7 million
DIVIDENDS PAID
$122,724 $150,178 $267,050 $1.2 million $519,223 $1.7 million $9.6 million $2 million $2.3 million $975,831 $1 million $2.4 million $543,091 $225,269 $2.5 million $2 million $16.8 million $2.3 million $1.9 million $1.2 million
PROFIT/LOSS TO TREASURY
$495,922 $2.3 million
$2.4 million
$2.5 million -$200 million $1.9 million
Sources: U.S. Treasury, Pro Publica
based Synovus holds the biggest investment, $968 million. It owns, among many banks across the Southeast, National Bank of South Carolina. What attracted so many investors to the first TARP auction, where First Federal Bank’s shares were sold, were the attractive interest rates, Seaver said. “It’s now at 5 percent, which is a better return than other places, and at 9 percent would be a great investment.” A second auction of the shares of seven banks was scheduled for this week. Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.
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Encore Locates Headquarters in Greenville
Encore Container, a newly created company for manufacturing and re-conditioning plastic industrial containers, has located corporate headquarters and manufacturing in Greenville. The company is investing $3.9 million and expects to create 89 new jobs over the next three years, according to the Greenville Area Development Corp. Encore already has begun hiring, installing equipment and ramping up the business at an 80,000-square-foot facility at 7201 Augusta Road. “We feel the (Greenville) community is open-armed, the quality of life outstanding and the economic environment very appealing,” said Chad Odom, chief executive officer. Odom was founder and CEO of Greenville-based Innovative Container, a similar business, for five years until it was sold. Two partners and officers of Encore – Blayne Henderson and Chas Key – also were part of the management team at Innovative. The company said it recycles “plastic fallout from its reconditioning process to make new drums, and recycles steel fallout through arrangements with steel recycling companies” and uses water system that discharges no wastewater. The state awarded the company a grant of $100,000 and job-training credits.
Local Firm Wins California Contract
Utility Partners of America of Greenville is providing installation support for a meter conversion project by Southern California Gas Co. When completed, it will be North America’s “largest fully integrated meterto-consumer” system, the company said. UPA is responsible for resource planning and development and delivery of systems to manage work orders, fleets, inventory and facilities. “This contract represents a tremendous accomplishment for UPA and our business partners,” said Todd Stone, UPA’s president and founder. UPA underwent an 18-month due diligence review “to meet the rigorous security, safety and operational standards required for an initiative of this scope and scale,” the company said.
Chemical Provider Adds a Plant
CEL Chemical & Supplies of Easley will invest $900,000 in a new facility in Anderson County that is expected to generate 15 jobs over five years, the company said. CEL is a family-owned business that makes adhesives, waterproofing resins and performance additives. “This investment marks an important milestone for our company, and we look forward to continuing to grow our customer base,” said Sharlacan Messenger, chief financial officer.
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By Anna T. Locke
Coldwell Banker Commercial represented landlords Toya Hegwer and Fred Abbatiello in leasing 8,000 square feet of retail space at 105 E. Rutherford St., Landrum, to Ed Lettelier.
If you think that your CPA is digging deep into your financials, looking for issues that you should be concerned about, think again. Most CPAs focus on compliance obligations – taxes, financial statement compilation, perhaps an audit – and not on coaching you on how to improve your business.
Spectrum Commercial Properties represented: • DC Realty in the purchase of 16,000 square feet of 609 S. Washington Ave. to be used for corporate offices and warehousing. • COL Properties in leasing of 1,080 retail space to Whimsy Scrapbooking in the Classic Corner shopping center at 1622 Woodruff Road, Greenville.
In fairness, your CPA probably can't serve you as a CFO might. Because you don’t immerse him in your business, include him in strategy sessions, or debate staff changes, he’s not equipped to monitor your performance – much less plan and forecast the future accurately. His perspective is limited largely to past performance, not future opportunity.
NAI Earle Furman represented landlords in leasing: • 4,998 square feet of office space at 800 Regent Park Court, Greenville; • 2,992 square feet of office space to Corporate Benefit Advisors at 300 Executive Center Drive, Greenville; • 1,900 square feet of office space to Staffmasters Inc. at 415 North Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville; • 1,823 square feet of retail space to H&R Block at 1407 W. Wade Hampton Blvd., Greenville; • 10,125 square feet of office space to Advanced Therapy Solutions at 28 Jimmy Doolittle Drive, Greenville; • 8,000 square feet of industrial space to Upstate Armory
CPAs differ greatly from CFOs. CPAs use historical data that you provide to compile financial statements based on generally accepted principles after your accounting period ends. These are acceptable to third parties like banks, and it is assumed that you read and understand them.
Group Inc. at 3131 North Industrial Drive, Greenville; • 2,087 square feet of office space to an unidentified tenant at 712 S. Main St., Greenville; • 3,311 square feet and renewal of 3,000 square feet of office space at the Eastside Medical Clinic, 10 Enterprise Blvd., Greenville • 3,461 square feet of industrial space to First South Bank Corp. at 7 Arley Way, Bluffton; • 10,000 square feet of industrial space to King Automation at 133 Runion Road, Greer; • 6,000 square feet of office space to 4 Points church at 2355 Highway 101 S., Greer; • 9,240 square feet of retail space to Cornerstone Assembly of God at 140 Commons Parkway, Anderson; • 3,675 square feet of retail space at 100 Electric City Blvd., Anderson; • 60,000 square feet of industrial space to Grace Plastics at 3054 Fork Shoals Road, Building A., Simpsonville; and • 80,000 square feet of industrial space to The Master Gardner Co. at 961 Berry Shoals Road, Duncan. In sales, NAI Earle Furman represented JPCR in purchasing an 85,000-square-foot industrial property at 1515 Old Grove Road, Greenville, and both JPCR, as the buyer, and the seller in acquisition of 9.49 acres of land on Bracken Road, Greenville.
A CFO focuses on the goals and strategies of your business, establishes and monitors key performance indicators that signal opportunities – or warnings – to management, works to maximize the value of your business, and coaches you on your financials, including the issues they unveil and trends they indicate. Some CPA firms can perform both functions. Many cannot. If you seek a partner to improve the performance of your business going forward, consider adding a CFO, even in an outsourced capacity. Your organizational performance, your bottom line, and your peace of mind will be better for it.
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AgriCultural festival goes ‘Around the World on a Plate’
New creative writing program aims to erase students’ fear of the written word By Givens Parr | contributor
national Center. After lunch, attendees will be able to experience the sights and sounds of the Synergy Community Garden that will have supplied much of the produce used during lunch. Tours of the garden will be given from 1 to 2 p.m. Tam founded the Synergy Garden in April 2009. At the time, it was one of the few community gardens in Greenville County. “The idea behind the garden is a wide array of people from diverse ethnic and
Ugly Words, a new program to inspire students aged 6 to 18 to write, is the brain-child-in-bloom of Adrienne Burris, a graduate of Clemson University’s Creative Writing program. Though the project is freshly hatched, Burris already has a successful event behind her, a live website and a handful of donors to back her vision: to help “kids build confidence in themselves and in their writing and (to) know that they have a valid point of view.” Burris said Ugly Words events and age-specific workshops are free and intended for students aged 6 to 18 from all backgrounds. The organization is seeking nonprofit status, which she said will help it to grow and become part of a solution she sees as a need in the community that can no longer be ignored. “Greenville does not have a free, accessible writing program right now,” Burris said, a deficiency she considers especially regrettable in view of the widespread apathy and even fear she said many schoolchildren associate with putting pen to paper. “Kids today in a lot of educational
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Synergy Garden hopes to connect people and cultures through food By jerry salley | staff Photo by Anita Tam
“Agriculture is what connects people to food,” said Anita Tam, founder of the Synergy Community Garden in Simpsonville, “and then people to people.” On Monday, June 18, the Synergy Garden will celebrate that connection with the first annual AgriCultural Festival: Around the World on a Plate. The goal: to share agriculture’s vital role in the economy, environment and lifestyle of people from around the world. “We’re trying to bring together a diverse group of people to showcase and honor agriculture from a diverse group of places,” said Tam. 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 re-
The Synergy Community Garden in Simpsonville had its fourth annual spring planting in April.
gions. Next, participants will enjoy an international lunch prepared by local chef Michael Granata, who will use all locally grown produce in his dishes. The AgriCultural festival brings together three groups that don’t normally collaborate, noted Tam: the Synergy Garden, the Greenville County Farm Bureau, and The International Center of the Upstate. “This year’s festival is certain to not only satisfy your curiosity about agriculture from around the world, but it will also satisfy your appetite,” said Whitney Walters, executive director of The Inter-
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settings see writing as something that’s very difficult, that’s ugly, that’s unnecessary,” she said. “It’s something that they want to do the minimum required on just to get a grade. It’s not something they do because… they have something to say.” Her goal, Burris said, is to help students “reclaim writing and reclaim words from something that’s ugly to something that’s a tool to express themselves.” Positive feedback is the key to the Ugly Words method, she said. “Praise the good things. Confidence in what you have to say has to come first, and then once you have that down you’ll be willing to accept criticism.” Whether a student’s starting point is a paragraph or a single word, Burris wants “to meet them where they are, find that starting point and build up.” The inspiration for Ugly Words came in 2008, when Burris heard author Dave Eggers speak at Clemson University about Project 826, a national charity Eggers founded to improve the writing abilities of schoolchildren in his San Francisco neighborhood. Burris
Adrienne Burris, 24, founder of Ugly Words, works the table at their first event, “Hungry Words,” a drop-in workshop at the Swamp Rabbit Cafe & Grocery.
tucked the idea away in the back of her mind as “what I would like to do one day.” She used Project 826 and a similar Texas-based program, Austin Bat Cave, as models as Ugly Words took shape. Burris is soliciting like-minded and passionate teachers from elementary, middle and high school backgrounds to advise and collaborate with her. With the support and experience of an advisory board, she hopes to infiltrate local classrooms with enriching workshops and support for overburdened teachers. Teachers often don’t have the luxury
Painting in public By jerry salley | staff
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When she did her first public art project in 2010, Molly Rose Freeman had a revelation. “At the time, I was feeling really unsatisfied with the paintings and drawings I’d been doing in the studio and wanted a change of pace, and a change of scale,” remembered Freeman, who graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville that same year. So when a friend from Asheville recruited her to join a group of artists from the Carolinas to paint a mural during the international Art Basel art fair in Miami, she was ready. “From the first day, I knew I’d hit gold,” she said. “Painting, collaborating, spending all day and night outside. For me, there was no going back. It was the best thing I could have done at
Artist Molly Rose Freeman brings her unpredictable art to downtown Spartanburg that time, to jump blindly into something big and new.” Starting Friday, June 15, and every day (weather permitting) until Wednesday, June 20, Freeman will be creating something big and new in downtown Spartanburg: a mural on the wall of RJ Rockers Brewing Company facing Daniel Morgan Avenue. HUB-BUB is hosting the artist, and is also launching an exhibit of her work, “Phenomenon,” with a reception at The Showroom on June 21. The exhibit will run through July. “I first heard of HUB-BUB when I was living in Asheville,” she said, “and I was really
of working on writing with a child oneon-one, Burris said. She hopes to combat this problem by providing the materials, energy and vision to facilitate teachers’ “dream projects” like a class literary magazine. Burris is also excited to present Ugly Words Staycations, which will customize the Ugly Words workshop experience to the needs of partnering classrooms and youth organizations. Events and Staycations in the works include a code-cracking spy school at Frazee Dream Center, blanket fort building in the Greenville County Library, a “Hunger Games”-themed workshop in Falls Park and more. Burris hopes Ugly Words will also include free drop-in tutoring when she finds an accessible location for the project. She envisions a space with readily available tutors, “not a sign-up thing,” where “diverse groups of students can share their experiences with each other and just enjoy themselves while they’re writing.” To learn more about Ugly Words, go to www. uglywordsgreenville.bellstrike.com, where you can donate, volunteer or register your child for a free workshop. Contact Adrienne Burris at uglywordsgreenville@gmail.com.
drawn to how passionate they were about community art.” She will start from a general sketch, but the final wall will be “a bit of a surprise,” said the artist. “I did draw from some things specific to Spartanburg, the Grain District and the brewery. That’s all I’m saying.” The colors will be another surprise – maybe even to the artist herself. “The specific colors are still up in the air,” she said. “I like for the physical space I’m painting to inform the colors I choose. Colors are based on light, and the light in every place is distinct.” Each community she works in is also distinct, she said. “I always talk with people in the community during the project itself. I paint outside, in a public space, so I can talk to anyone and anyone can talk to me. I’ve painted walls before where I never even met the property owner, but I always meet people around the neighborhood. That’s a big part of the painting itself, because whatever is going on in
the painting process is manifested in the final piece.” In Miami this past December, while Freeman was working on her second Art Basel project, one influence was very direct. “A 10-yearold girl named Anna came up to me and asked if she could use my paint pens to draw something on my wall,” she remembered. “In the final mural now there’s a part that’s covered in little black polka dots. It’s nice to have room for that kind of spontaneity.” Freeman’s work has appeared throughout the Southeast; besides Miami, the artist, who is now based in Memphis, Tenn., has worked on murals in Asheville and Charleston. She bases her work on shapes, patterns and networks that she sees in the world around her. “But often times, what people see is more reflective of what’s going in their heads than what was going on in mine,” she said. “I like it when people disagree about what they see – it means they’re imagining something.”
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cultural backgrounds all come together as volunteers and all get a share of the produce,” said Tam. “The rest of it we donate to the food bank that’s right on site. It’s been a very empowering way for community members to develop a new skill, and help themselves as well as help others in need.” The garden had its fourth annual spring planting in April. Last year alone, the volunteers worked 1,032 hours in the garden. The volunteers then donated nearly 2,000 pounds of produce to the food bank at the Center for Community Services in Simpsonville, where the garden is located. The food bank was in turn able to offer fresh produce to about
SO YOU KNOW WHAT: AgriCultural Festival: Around the World on a Plate WHEN: Monday, June 18, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Center for Community Services, 1102 Howard Drive, Simpsonville TICKETS: $12; $10 for members of the International Center or Synergy Garden; $5 for children MORE INFORMATION: 864-631-2188 or www.internationalupstate.org
Public art draws power from unpredictability, she said. “There is something exhilarating about confronting art when you’re not expecting it. I think you start to see the spaces around you in new Molly Rose Freeman ways. Most of the time, we are surrounded by buildings and walls, and it’s easy to feel like you were born into a maze of big, impenetrable boxes. I think public art helps to ease out of that notion. It shows that we can still use the space around us creatively – that we are not hemmed in by the things built by people before us. That’s important, to encourage people to think about their environment as a malleable thing, rich with possibility.” The process can also be unpredictable for the artist. “Something unexpected always happens – you might meet someone that sparks a new idea, or you might fall into a fence and have to work through an injury, or you might not have the supplies you need and have to improvise. But for me, the challenge is the best part – the feeling that I’m never totally in control. It encourages me to be more open, more adaptable, and to absorb everything that happens as part of the process.”
Anita Tam, founder of the Synergy Community Garden in Simpsonville, left, with two Farm Bureau farmers.
1,400 families in 2011, Tam said. “Prior to the garden starting, the food bank would be stocked with cans or packaged and processed foods,” said Tam. “But for the first time, now they’re able to receive fresh produce.” Anyone in the community can participate, Tam said. “We encourage everyone to come out. It’s not just about giving to charity. It’s about helping all of us develop a skill and offering the opportunity to give back.” Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.
And at the end of the process, there’s a sense of accomplishment. “I get an adrenaline rush from standing in front of a blank wall and knowing that I’m going to transform it, and that feeling usually stays with me until it’s finished,” she said. “More than any kind of conceptual or intellectual reason I could give, I like public art because I feel great when I’m doing it.” Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.
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SO YOU KNOW: Who: Molly Rose Freeman What: Public art painting Where: The wall of RJ Rockers Brewing Company, 226 W. Main St., Spartanburg When: June 15-20 Artist’s exhibit: “Phenomenon” Where: The Showroom, HUB-BUB, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave., Spartanburg When: Opening reception June 21 from 7-9 p.m., with an artist’s talk at 8 p.m. Exhibit runs through July.
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As a part of the 2012 Artist in Residence program, The Reserve at Lake Keowee Community Foundation will host Dr. Russell Jewell and Matt Hanewald this summer. Jewell, a watercolor artist, will join The Reserve from July 6-13 and Hanewald, a woodworker, will be in residence August 11-18. Jewell is an artist/educator from Easley, S.C., and has spent more than 27 years combining art and education. Jewell’s work will be on display July 2-26 and a reception in his honor will be hosted July 12, 5-7 p.m. Both will be at the Hill House Gallery, located at 534 Pine Grove Church Rd., Art: “Go With The Flow” by Pat Cato. Sunset, S.C. Matt Hanewald is a wood36 x 36, Acrylic and Mixed Media on worker specializing in handmade furniCanvas. On display at Artisan Traders in ture. Hanewald’s work will be on display the Pendleton Art District for the ongoing August 11-18 throughout The Reserve LOMA Show for the months of June and property, and a reception in his honor July. www.patcatoart.com will be hosted August 12, 5-7 p.m. at The Market at The Reserve at Lake Keowee. Visitors for either exhibit are asked to contact Kathryn Gravely at 864-481-4010 prior to their arrival. RSVPs for the artists’ receptions should be sent to KGravely@ reservekeowee.com. For more information, visit www.reserveatlakekeowee.com.
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The Upcountry History Museum will host a Walking Tour: Greenville’s Main Street Statues on Saturday, June 16, at 8:30 a.m. and Sunday, June 17, at 6:30 p.m. Greenville History Tours and UHM are teaming up to give a walking tour of Main Street, including a breakfast or dessert reception at the Hyatt Regency. In addition, on Saturday, June 23 at 10:30 a.m., the museum will host an Adult Workshop with Carl Dixon, a folk artist. Participants can create their own wire sculptures and jewelry. All materials are provided, but participants should bring their own needle-nose pliers. Call 467-3100 to purchase tickets and visit www.upcountryhistory.org for more information. A second project created by South Carolina-based Dark Corner Films will gain a national audience of more than 27 million in July. “Landlocked” tells the story of how freshwater striped bass were spawned due to the formation of South Carolina lakes during the Great Depression. It will air July 22 on the Documentary Channel, which is channel 197 on Dish Network and channel 267 on Direct TV. Commissioned by executive producer Rich King, an avid fisherman, “Landlocked” premiered at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in February. Learn more at www. landlockedfilm.com.
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1 Belvior Court, Kellett Park, Greenville Absolutely beautiful home in the popular Kellett Park subdivision in Parkins Mill Area. This custom home has all the features and extras you can imagine. A two story foyer with circular stairwell opens to a gorgeous formal living room with heavy mouldings and lounge area. The dining room sits off from the large eat-in kitchen which features custom cabinets, granite counter tops, a breakfast bar, gas range, and lots of storage. The huge family room overlooks a large, manicured backyard with patios.
Master suite on the main level boasts a trey ceiling and large master bath with double vanities, large jetted tub, separate shower, and his and her closets. Storage is no issue! All bathrooms have been completely updated. Enjoy the large laundry room with extra storage conveniently located beside the breezeway from the oversized two car garage. Culde-sac location provides an added bonus!
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HOME INFO Price: $539,900 | MLS#1231708 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths, 3600-3799SF Nick Carlson 864.386.7704 ncarlson@cbcaine.com Coldwell Banker Caine www.cbcaine.com Send us your Featured Home for consideration: homes@greenvillejournal.com
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125 Linkside Drive, Taylors, SC 3 bed / 2.5 bath, Beautiful home, large lot! MLS 1238022
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$749,000 MONTEBELLO
1 story home with walk out lower lvl has serene lake and mtn views. Over 5000 SF, natural light, lakefront views and privacy, perfect open floor plan. Lrg gourmet kitchen with beautiful custom cabinetry, granite c’tops, tile backsplash, Dacor dual fuel range/oven, Subzero refrigerator, and so much more. Don’t miss! Nancy McCrory 864.505.8367 or Karen Turpin 864.230.5176 MLS#1240775
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REDUCED and PRICED TO SELL! Updated 4BR, 3.5BA in Club Forest section of Chanticleer. Upgraded kitchen with granite, stainless steel appliances, new powder room and walk-in laundry room in 2011. Master on Main or upstairs. New architectural shingle roof in 2010. Zoned Augusta Circle, Hughes, and Greenville High. Owner/Agent Heidi Putnam 864.380.6747 MLS#1240240
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3BR, 2.5BA Home. Upgrades and items replaced include: 3 ceiling fans, silestone countertops, tile backsplash in kitchen, new hot water heater, new kitchen sink, beautriful tile floor on screened porch, new carpet upstairs, new HVAC units, new stove and microwave. New architectural shingled roof to be installed soon! Don’t miss this GEM of a Home! Barb Riggs 864.423.2783 MLS#1241342
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This is a fantastic 3 BR + house full of charm! Cottage like feeling, wood burning fpl, GR/ sunrm, deck, screened porch, pvt fenced backyard, with herb garden, flowering shrubs, trees and tree house! Home is in the Stone Lake area, 1 block from League Academy, and 2 blocks from Stone Lake Pool. New roof 2011, hdwds, smooth ceiling. Mary Praytor 864.593.0366 MLS#1241215
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Beautiful 6 yr old 3 BR/2.5 BA townhome with approx. 1400 SF .Move-in condition. MBR on main. Features a gas fpl with turn on switch. Fully fenced backyard with patio. Appliances included, plus refrigerator with acceptable offer. Sprinkler system and alarm system. Great schools too! Anne Marchant 864.420.0009 or Brian Marchant 864.631.5858 MLS#1239243
$235,000 NEELY FARM
Meticulously maintained and ready to move right in! Entire interior freshly painted including trim and doors, front door stained, porch painted, garage even painted... including garage floor! Beautiful open floor plan...gorgeous breakfast nook with paladin window and cathederal ceiling overlooks private wooded landscaped backyard screened porch and deck. Barb Riggs 864.423.2783 MLS#1235680
$218,921 ALLISONS MEADOW
Brick Ranch, many updates, 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA. Large den/LR with built-ins. Large DR, nice kitchen with solid c’tops, pass through into living area and breakfast area. Large patio, fenced yard, 2 car gar attached with extra storage, single detached gar with 220 power. Attached lawn mower shed in back yard. New heating and AC in Feb. 2012. Nellie Wagoner 864.423.3939 MLS#1238744
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$209,500 BROOKFIELD WEST
$10K price reduction PLUS brand new carpet and new DR floors! Extremely clean 4BR/2.5BA home has been lovingly cared for and recently updated with new paint throughout. Kitchen opens to bkfst area and large den with separate dining room and living room nearby. 4 BR including Lrg master with huge walk-in closet and master BA upstairs. Tom Marchant 864.449.1658 MLS#1237079
$142,500 LAKE LENNOX
Immaculate home has 10 ft. ceiling with builtin shelves, gleaming hdwds, sunrm. Large MBR has trey ceiling, MBA with his & her closets, double sinks, separate garden tub and shower, Extra lrg 2 car gar w/attic storage. HVAC-2010, ROOF2011, and WATER HEATER 2009. Amenities: pool, tennis courts, excerise facilities and clubhouse! Joye Lanahan 864.404.5372 MLS#1242281
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Stunning 3 BR, 2.5 BA townhome in Mauldin located just off of I-385 on Butler Rd. 1 owner unit, this townhome has been well cared for and it shows! Lower BR and BA could be used as office/study. Middle level has half BA, lrg LR and kitchen, DR, fpl and opens up to private deck. Upstairs 2 BR and 2 full BA. 1 car gar and parking across from the unit! James Akers, Jr. 864.325.8413 MLS#1236623
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also enjoy our resort style amenities including a large clubhouse with a relaxing wrap around porch, a junior Olympic pool, lighted tennis courts, a paved walking path, athletic fields and 1.3 acre scenic pond. Pricing at Five Forks Plantation starts in the low $300’s with square footage ranging from 2,549 to 6,000+ sq. ft. For more information, call (864) 234-1497 or visit www.ryanhomes.com.
$649,000 CHANTICLEER
Elegant home in desirable locations in Chanticleer with very little traffic. Manicured lawns with brick walls, iron gates. 4 BR, 4 1/2 BA, 3 fpls, screened in porch and the lower lvl den with bar and fpl. Gourmet kichen, brick walled garden with fountain. Energy efficient improvements: icynene insulation and Tankless hot water. Award winning schools. Valerie Miller 864.430.6602 MLS#1239161
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Wow, lots of natural light and arched doorways plus a very open floorplan-- home features an office with french doors, endless ceilings in great room with fireplace, spacious kitchen with island, black appliances, beautifully stained cabinets, oversized breakfast area, formal dining room, huge master on main and more. Joan Rapp 864.901.3839 MLS#1237450
Five Forks Plantation, Simpsonville It’s rare to have the chance to build a brand new, ALL-BRICK home in such a prestigious area for such an outstanding price. Five Forks Plantation is that rare opportunity! You’ll love the ideal location on Woodruff Road just minutes from shopping and restaurants, and convenient to I-85, I-385, downtown Greenville and Award winning schools. You’ll
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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE GREENVILLE COUNTY PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE, HEARING OFFICER ON THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012, AT 10:00AM, IN ROOM 5150 OF SUITE 5100, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE CASES PERTAINING TO THE HABITABILITY OF STRUCTURE(S) ON THE PROPERTY.
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A. CASE NO: 11-4997 PROPERTY OWNER: JAMES M. PERRY PROPERTY LOCATION: 105 CONYERS STREET A.K.A. LOT 229, SECTION 1, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT ENTITLED "SUBDIVISION OF VILLAGE HOUSES, F. W. POE MFG. CO. TAX MAP NUMBER: 151-11-15 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 23 B. CASE NO: 11-5408 PROPERTY OWNER: PENELOPE D. DIAZ PROPERTY LOCATION: 1509 BRAMLET ROAD A.K.A. 1509 BRAMLETT ROAD A.K.A. 1509 W. BRAMLETT ROAD A.K.A. LOT 16 OF EAST SUMMIT VIEW SUBDIVISION A.K.A. ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND, WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THERON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF BRAMLETT ROAD, IN EAST SUMMIT VIEW SUBDIVISION, IN GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, WHICH ARE KNOWN, SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOTS 16 OF THAT SUBDIVISION TAX MAP NUMBER: 130-3-41 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 23
GREENVILLE COUNTY ROAD NAME CHANGE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE There will be a public hearing before the Greenville County Planning Commission on Wednesday, July 27, 2012 at 4:00 PM in Conference Room D, County Square, for the purpose of hearing comments from those persons interested in the following road name change: APPLICANT: JMR Partnerships, LLC PROPERTY LOCATION: From N. Church St, head northeast towards Wade Hampton Blvd; turn right onto E. Lee Rd; take the 1st left to stay on E. Lee Rd, and continue onto Brushy Creek Rd; turn left to stay on Brushy Creek Rd; turn right onto Hammett Rd; turn right onto Talus Dr. EXISTING NAME: Talus Drive (J-PD-85) REQUESTED NAME: Morgan Pond Drive APPLICANT: JMR Partnerships, LLC PROPERTY LOCATION: From N. Church St, head northeast towards Wade Hampton Blvd; turn right onto E. Lee Rd; take the 1st left to stay on E. Lee Rd, and continue onto Brushy Creek Rd; turn left to stay on Brushy Creek Rd; turn right onto Hammett Rd; turn right onto Talus Dr; turn right onto Hawksbeak Ridge. EXISTING NAME: Hawksbeak Ridge REQUESTED NAME: Riley Hill Court
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
COMPLAINT NOTICE A complaint has been brought before the Code Enforcement Division of a dangerous, insanitary and unsafe structure located at the following locations: 105 Conyers Street a.k.a. Lot 229, Section 1, as shown on a plat entitled "Subdivision of Village Houses, F. W. Poe MFG. Co., Greenville County Tax Map Number 15111-15, Greenville County, SC. 1509 Bramlet Road a.k.a. 1509 Bramlett Road a.k.a. 1509 W. Bramlett Road a.k.a. Lot 16 of East Summit View Subdivision a.k.a. all those certain pieces, parcels, or lots of land, with the improvements theron, situate, lying and being on the southern side of Bramlett Road, in East Summit View Subdivision, in Greenville County, South Carolina, which are known, shown and designated as Lots 16 of that subdivision, Greenville County Tax Map Number 130-341, Greenville County, SC.
Any persons having interest in these properties, or knowledge of the property owner should contact the Codes Enforcement Office at 864-467-7459 on or before June 28, 2012.
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. Contact: The Carruthers Law Firm 111 Toy Street Greenville, SC 29601
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
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THE WEEK IN PHOTOS
LOOK WHO’S IN THE JOURNAL THIS WEEK Lance Corporal Bill Rhymes with the South Carolina Highway Patrol fills a children’s swimming pool with water under the watchful eye of his son, Will Rhymes, 7, on the roof of the Krispy Kreme on Pleasantburg Drive during the “Cops on Top of a Doughnut Shop” fundraiser. For a large enough donation to Special Olympics, officers would get into the pool. Officers man the table with Special Olympics T-shirts and hats for sale near the Krispy Kreme entrance while other officers sit on top of the roof during the “Cops on Top of a Doughnut Shop” fundraiser.
Major Mike Gambrell with the Greenville Police Department pulls up a bucket containing a donation to Special Olympics of South Carolina from the roof of the Krispy Kreme on Pleasantburg Drive. The “Cops on Top of a Doughnut Shop” fundraiser included law enforcement officers from local, state and federal agencies who stayed on the roof of the Krispy Kreme from 6:00 a.m. Friday to 9:00 p.m. Saturday to raise money for Special Olympics.
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City councilwoman Gaye Sprague and county councilwoman Liz Seman deliver proclamations for Vision 2025 Day during Greenville Forward’s REFRESH event, celebrating an update on Vision 2025.
Above: Twenty high school seniors were honored recently at the Ronald McDonald House in Greenville as the 2012 Ronald McDonald House Charities Scholarship Recipients. Now in its tenth year, high school seniors from the upstate and western North Carolina were able to apply for the $1,000 award to be utilized during their college career. Attending the event were: front row, left to right, Brian Byrd, Jaclyn DeVincent, Abigail Chavez, McDonald’s GSA Co-op President Ken Whittington, Ronald McDonald House Executive Director Marti Spencer, Kara Franseen and Amber Burditt; back row, left to right, Elizabeth Orozco-Sanchez, Rebecca Buchanan and Denny Huynh.
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Walt Disney Company head carpenter Michael Carey, center, demonstrates the workings of Pride Rock, the signature set design of “The Lion King,” to the media backstage at the Peace Center during set construction for the popular musical.
The benefit for Greenville County Animal Care at the Daylily and Hosta Gardens on Roper Mountain Road raised $718 for homeless animals. Visitors enjoy a stroll through the Daylily and Hosta Gardens on Roper Mountain Road at the benefit for Greenville County Animal Care, part of the group’s “Who Let The Dogs Out” adopt-a-thon.
Walt Disney Company head carpenter Michael Carey uses a remote control to move Pride Rock onto the stage at the Peace Center. The large set piece is motorized and moves along on a track into and out of position during set changes.
Jennifer Henderson, a volunteer with Greenville County Animal Care, gets a lick from Lelly, one of the dogs available for adoption. Volunteers dressed up in costumes for the event.
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Right: Betty Starr, a volunteer with Greenville County Animal Care, plays with Buckshot during Greenville County Animal Care’s “Who Let The Dogs Out” adopt-a-thon.
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Ebonee Myers pets one of the dogs available for adoption at Greenville County Animal Care while her nephew Benjermin Myers holds the leash during Greenville County Animal Care’s “Who Let The Dogs Out” adopt-a-thon at the Furman Road facility.
Attendees at Leadership Synergy: Fundraising Fundamentals for Success, presented by DNA Creative Communications, gather in the conference room of the Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center for the funders’ panel discussion. Leadership Synergy was a half-day interactive workshop designed exclusively for nonprofit board chairs and executive directors. It focused on key functions of board leadership that fuel nonprofit success.
Pieces of the set and costumes for “The Lion King” wait in the theater of the Peace Center for their installation and use. “The Lion King” runs until July 8. Photos by Greg Beckner / Staff
Above: Members of the funders’ panel talk with one another prior to the start of their session. Leadership Synergy is part of Shine the Light on Your Nonprofit, a series of educational seminars launched by DNA to help nonprofits develop skills and strategies for sustainable communications efforts.
Above: Carol Browning, BI-LO Charities, speaks during the funders’ panel discussion. Photos by Greg Beckner / Staff
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IN MY OWN WORDS WITH COURTNEY TOLLISON, PH.D.
Harvey Gantt’s groundbreaking courage Fifty years ago, a young man from Charleston named Harvey Gantt boldly arrived on the campus of Clemson College. Gantt had applied for enrollment into the college for the fall of 1961, and after his application was returned, Gantt reiterated his desire to enroll in either the spring or fall 1962 semesters. When that request did not progress, Gantt travelled to the campus to meet with Clemson registrar Kenneth Vickery, because no one with his skin color had ever been admitted. Like many pathbreakers, such as Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Ala., Gantt was a trained activist who had organized a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Charleston as a member of the NAACP Youth. He and many of his classmates worked under the direction of the “grandmother of the American civil rights movement,” Septima Clarke, who also helped train Rosa Parks and for whom the Crosstown in Charleston is named. Gantt was familiar with the leaders of the civil rights movement, and knew what it would take to challenge the institution’s racial barriers. In 1963, every state in the country except South Carolina had desegregated at least one of its institutions of higher education. Gantt’s actions represent an important milestone in our state’s history of race relations and evolution towards equal accessibility to higher education. After that conversation on campus in June 1962, Gantt and his supporters
took legal action in early July. Gantt’s attorney was Matthew Perry, for whom a federal courthouse in Columbia is named. Perry received support from NAACP attorneys in Greenville and New York, including Constance Baker Motley, who was simultaneously serving as James Meredith’s attorney in his lawsuit to gain court-ordered admittance into Ole Miss. The case travelled through the judicial process. In the meantime, civic and political leaders throughout the state began to prepare the public for changes in the state’s racial climate. That fall, James Meredith matriculated by court order into the University of Mississippi. Knowing the time when we would desegregate was likely nearing, South Carolinians watched in horror as National Guardsmen, students and protestors collided in what historian C. Vann Woodward later referred to as “an insurrectionary assault on officers and soldiers of the United States government and the most serious challenge to the Union since the Civil War.” South Carolinians – white and black – hoped to avoid that type of drama and violence. Gov. Hollings was adamant that he would not obstruct any court order, and encouraged the state to behave as a “government of laws, and not a government of men.” That fall, the head of South Carolina’s Law Enforcement Division (SLED) traveled to Ole Miss to research the security measures that failed when Meredith enrolled. Upon his return, he crafted what
was considered the most extensive security plan our state had ever organized. In January 1963, Gantt won a court order admitting him into Clemson. He matriculated later that month and began classes. The national news media flocked to the campus for the day of his arrival, fully expecting another Ole Miss. Nothing of the sort happened. It was, in the end, described as a “nonevent.” One news reporter from New Jersey said, “I expected blood, and all I got was cream puff.” As anticipated as it was, however, and contrary to popular belief, the desegregation of Clemson College was not the first time the color line had been broken in the state’s institutions of higher education. During the Reconstruction era that began after the Civil War, the University of South Carolina was fully integrated, with African-American professors and students. That came to an end in 1877, when the experiment of Reconstruction ended and white South Carolinians threw themselves wholeheartedly into a period known in history as Redemption. Throughout World War II, the Methodist-affiliated Columbia College allowed African-American servicemen from Fort Jackson to take classes in the evening alongside the white women enrolled. In the summer of 1962, the now-defunct Our Lady of Mercy Junior College in Charleston, which had a relationship with the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., accepted
10 African-American students into its summer program. After desegregation at Clemson, three African American students similarly engaged in a lawsuit to gain admittance into the University of South Carolina. They also won their case, and USC was court-ordered to desegregate in the fall of 1963. Wofford College (1964) and Furman University (1965) followed without court order, but not without controversy within their affiliated denominational institutions. And what happened to Harvey Gantt? During his second year, he developed a romantic interest in Clemson’s second African American student, Lucinda Brawley, whom he married in 1964. He graduated with honors, earned a master’s degree from MIT, and established a successful architectural firm in Charlotte. Gantt was elected and served as mayor of Charlotte in the 1980s, and in the 1990s, was appointed by President Clinton to serve as chair of the national Capital Planning Commission. He has remained loyal to Clemson, teaching classes and visiting the university for milestones related to his groundbreaking efforts. The university’s intercultural center is named for Harvey and Lucinda Gantt, and the legacy of his actions extends far beyond. Dr. Courtney Tollison is Assistant Professor of History at Furman and Museum Historian at the Upcountry History Museum.
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