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Stirring up fun at Fall for Greenville.

PROJECT POINSETT

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City and county officials join with residents and students to revitalize one of Greenville’s gateways. Furman student Ben Riddle works on the mural being painted on the cargo trailer Furman University will use while working on the Poinsett project. Ultimately, the trailer will serve as a pop-up studio and home base for community events, conversation circles, art demonstrations, service projects and design thinking workshops on the Poinsett corridor.

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$3,421,340

“I won by a significant margin, and then one judge decided that these people’s votes didn’t count.”

Cost of the project to improve the Poinsett Highway streetscape, as estimated by the county administrator’s office.

Write-in Greenville County Council candidate Mike Barnes, who defeated District 18 incumbent Joe Baldwin in the June Republican primary but was disqualified for failing to file paperwork according to state law.

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Grand Master karate instructor Sam Chapman, on why he still teaches karate (and writes poetry) at age 69.

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“I don’t believe in retirement, and I am able to work. I still have a brain.”

“It’s not her, it can’t be.”

The amount that the Greenville Zoo will donate to Orangutan Outreach, part of the proceeds from the Quarters for Conservation surcharge. The remainder of the $25,869 raised will be divided among the Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance, the Red Panda Network and Amphibian Ark.

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Comedienne Wanda Sykes, on the reaction she says she gets from her three-year-old twins when they hear her voice coming out of the mouths of animated characters in such movies as “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” “Rio” and “Barnyard.”

“I’ve learned that when I’m playing, I can’t just ramble.” Seventeen-year-old Fine Arts Center student Marcus King, whose namesake band has an Oct. 19 gig at the Handlebar, on the invaluable experience he has gained studying guitar at the FAC.

“BrendaandJudy. We’re one long word.” Author Judy Goldman, on her relationship with the sister she lost to breast cancer and memorialized in her memoir “Losing My Sister.”

South Carolina’s place (tied with Alabama) in the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy’s ranking of state energy initiatives. The state placed third on the ACEE’s list of most improved states, having leapt six places from last year’s rank of 46.

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SC green energy efforts show improvement and Minnesota. The 10 states most in need of improvement are Mississippi, North DaSouth Carolina moved up six places kota, West Virginia, Wyoming, South in the American Council for an Ener- Dakota, Alaska, Kansas, Missouri, gy-Efficient Economy’s ranking of state Louisiana, and Nebraska. The three most improved states are energy initiatives, mostly due to progress in energy efficiency efforts from Oklahoma, Montana and South Caroits utilities over the past few years, the lina. All three states significantly increased their budgets for electric effiACEEE announced last week. The advance was good enough to put ciency programs in 2011. “These findings show that energy efthe state third on the most-improved list, the ACEEE said, crediting the en- ficiency is being embraced by Repubergy-efficiency programs of South Car- licans and Democrats alike at the state level,” ACEEE Execuolina’s three investortive Director Steven owned utilities: Duke “These findings Nadel said in a stateEnergy, Progress Enment. “That nonparergy Carolinas and show that energy tisan status is crucial South Carolina Gas efficiency is being because too many and Electric. conversations about The state’s cooperembraced by U.S. energy policy ative utilities also run Republicans and begin with the false an on-bill financing program that counted Democrats alike at premise that the only way to safeguard our highly in the ranking the state level.” reliable energy future change. is to expand our supAs good as the ACEEE Executive Director ply. While some supstate’s dramatic rise in Steven Nadel ply investments will the rankings turned be needed, the truth out to be, South Carolina could have done better, said Shel- is that step one should always be enley Robins, a sustainable communities ergy efficiency, our cheapest, cleanest and clean air associate with Upstate and fastest energy resource. Energy efficiency improvements help businessForever’s Spartanburg Office. Robins, who holds a degree in eco- es, governments and consumers meet nomics from Duke University and an their needs by using less energy, savMBA from Southwestern Oklahoma ing them money, driving investment State University, said the state jumped across all sectors of the economy, crefrom 46 to 40 and is tied in the rank- ating much-needed jobs, and reducing environmental impacts.” ings with Alabama. Other findings include: “The state could have done much Massachusetts retained the top spot better by implementing more programs to help homeowners retrofit in the State Scorecard rankings for the their houses to higher energy stan- second year in a row, having overtaken California last year, based largely on its dards,” she said. ACEEE said state electric utilities continued commitment to energy efsaved approximately 45,642 megawatt- ficiency under its Green Communities hours through their efficiency pro- Act of 2008. Annual savings from all customergrams in 2009. The Consortium for Energy Efficiency reports that the Pal- funded energy efficiency programs metto State’s budgets for electric util- topped 18 million megawatt-hours in ity energy efficiency programs in 2010 2010, a 40 percent increase over a year earlier. This is roughly equivalent to totaled $12.3 million. The ACEEE State Scorecard shows the amount of electricity the state of that the top 10 energy efficiency states Wyoming uses each year. are Massachusetts, California, New Contact Charles Sowell at York, Oregon, Vermont, Connecticut, csowell@greenvillejournal.com. Rhode Island, Washington, Maryland, By CHarles Sowell | staff

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A trajectory to celebrate Dave Edwards, CEO and president of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, did a very smart thing three years ago: He persuaded the airport board to order an economic impact study. GSP had the fourth most expensive average fares in the country, was bleeding passengers to Charlotte and Atlanta, and had just wooed Edwards away from the Asheville Regional Airport Authority. Most important of all, GSP was courting Southwest Airlines, the game-changer Edwards knew would turn all that bad news around. If the courtship should deepen to marriage, a 2009 study would set a baseline against which to measure the fabled “Southwest Effect,” Edwards told the board. And was he ever right. That 2009 report by Syneva Economics found a $377 million annual economic impact with 3,692 associated jobs and a $112 million payroll – impressive enough in itself. The new report Syneva has rolled out just in time for GSP’s 50th anniversary is sensational. GSP’s annual economic impact is now $817 million, with 9,528 associated jobs and a $170 million payroll – one year after Southwest Airlines arrived. GSP’s passenger traffic increased by 550,000 in the last 12 months, Edwards told the Journal. Of those, 440,000 passengers flew on Southwest and the rest on other airlines operating out of GSP that suddenly saw the value of lower fares. “I think this shows how important it was to bring competitive airfares into the market,” Edwards said, in one of those proverbial understatements of the year. “We were pushing hard for Southwest and we had some credibility on the line. This study validates what we said.” It also validates several truths worth remembering as GSP celebrates 50 years on Oct. 15. GSP is savoring a well-deserved trajectory – but it’s a momentum launched by the dogged work of a far-sighted airport commission and staff that kept plugging through the long years of bad news after Independence Air folded in 2007 and GSP became one of the most expensive airports in the nation. This is an airport commission that started courting Southwest in 1999. That, back when GPS was bleeding 55 percent of its passengers to other airports, purchased two new boarding bridges to “be prepared” if a new airline should choose to set up service. That built five new rental car service facilities in 2003 and began purchasing land south of Interstate 85 in 2007 should highway officials ever decide to replace the airport’s safetychallenged circular onramp for northbound I-85 passengers with a new overpass. That last year launched a $115 million terminal improvement project expected – on its own – to support 1,397 local jobs, increase local income by $59.6 million, raise total economic impact by $164.1 million and boost tax revenues by $16 million. A commission so far-sighted that GSP was the first non-military airport to boast a center-line runway lighting system when Upstate dignitaries cut the ribbon back in 1962. Total capital improvements planned at GSP through 2025 will support 3,085 jobs, increase local income by $130.9 million, raise local output by $363.1 million and boost tax revenues by $35.3 million, according to Syneva’s shiny new study. Edwards is not exaggerating when he says “the future looks bright for GSP and the Upstate.” But the Upstate’s deepest gratitude must still go to the airport commission’s sole chairman until his death two years ago: the late Roger Milliken, who had Southwest “in his sight for years,” to quote current chairwoman Minor Shaw. Milliken chose one word for his epitaph: “Builder.” And so he did, and so has GSP. Thank you, one and all. And happy anniversary.

Conflict can be resolved peacefully

IN MY OWN WORDS by HILDA BARTON

International Conflict Resolution Day has been commemorated on the third Thursday of October since 2005. Its purpose is to promote awareness of peaceful dispute resolution efforts and the positive, but often unobserved, impact these efforts have in our community. In an effort to shed light on conflict resolution in the Upstate, I am proud to highlight the Upstate Mediation Center, a Greenville nonprofit organization which is the only resource in the Upstate that offers low-cost mediation services to lowincome litigants. My own interest in conflict resolution goes back a very long time. My greatgrandparents lived in a German Mennonite community in Russia by invitation of Catherine the Great. When the rumblings that preceded the Bolshevik Revolution began, outsiders were an immediate target because language and cultural barriers kept them marginalized. As a result, my pacifist ancestors fled to North America with little more than the clothes on their backs. With the beginning of World War II, my father, a Canadian, was sent to a Conscientious Objector (CO) camp to do his duty toward the effort to defeat Hitler. The establishment of CO camps was a concession of the Canadian government towards its pacifist residents, who felt it morally objectionable to take up arms, so were given the opportunity to participate in Allied efforts through peaceful participation in the war cause. As a child, I grew up with these stories at the dinner table and heard the topic of conflict hotly debated. This cultivated in me a deep desire to find resolution peaceably. Through the Upstate Mediation Center, I have been able to tangibly promote these values and their benefits. Mediation is the process by which a neutral party, the mediator, meets with those in dispute to help them peacefully negotiate their differences. The mediator acts only as a facilitator and does not have the power to make decisions or issue orders; the process is completely confidential. Most importantly, the adversarial par-

ties are free to craft their own solutions without a judge or jury. One judge is heard to remind litigants that there are no perfect cases, and mediation provides the opportunity to come up with solutions that both parties can live with. Besides the benefit of mediation for the parties, added benefits are substantial savings to the taxpayers and a reduction of the backlog on the courts. The Upstate Mediation Center provides mediation services based on each party’s income and does not refuse services because of inability to pay. The UMC is able to do this thanks to a cadre of trained volunteer mediators of diverse community and professional backgrounds, who spend approximately 800 hours per year mediating the disputes of Upstate residents. The types of mediations offered at the UMC range from the allocation of property when a church membership divides to repairing family relationships that have been ruptured for generations. Typically, the word “conflict” stirs up thoughts of anger, friction, distrust, frustration, hostility and even violence. Rarely do we think of conflict as a tool for deeper thinking, better results, and communication that is more dynamic. Through the Upstate Mediation Center and the efforts of its volunteers, literally thousands of people have been able to peacefully resolve their differences. UMC welcomes inquiries as we continue to have a need for volunteers and donations. Please visit our website at www. upstatemediation.com or email our office at info@upstatemediation.com. Hilda Barton has lived in Greenville since 1990 and works at the Dennison Law Firm. Currently, she serves on the board of directors and as the Marketing Committee chairwoman for the Upstate Mediation Center.

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Neurological disorders have become a serious reality for a growing number of families in the Upstate. Medical conditions such as stroke, Lou Gehrig’s disease, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury account for a growing segment of fatalities in the United States, placing strain on current programs while demanding new, innovative healthcare solutions. In South Carolina, 30 percent of counties lack a practicing neurologist, raising significant barriers to treatment for neurological conditions. In response, the Greenville Hospital System founded the region’s first Neurological Institute to expand healthcare options through a “one-stop” interdisciplinary clinic that will bundle multiple doctor and therapist visits while maximizing the quality of patient care. In recognition of the program, a group

in my own words by PHYLLIS HENDERSON

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Greenville’s ‘learning laboratory’ Poinsett corridor revitalization a lesson in city-county cooperation By Jennifer Oladipo | contributor

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Along the Poinsett Highway corridor, Greenville County is trying its hand at the kind of development for which the city of Greenville has become nationally renowned – and the city is one partner helping to make that happen. The project includes a half-mile stretch between Hammett and Gantt streets just north of the WYFF Channel 4 studios, and a circle that would encompass that stretch as its diameter. Affected neighborhoods include Washington Heights, Brutontown and Sans Souci. In a request Monday to the county finance committee to allocate some road enhancement funds to improve the Poinsett streetscape, the county administrator’s office estimated the project cost at $3,421,340. The streetscape plan was developed by Arbor Engineering, which donated its services. Other partners include Chick-fil-A at Cherrydale and Duke Energy. “We’re using this Poinsett District, as it’s called, as a learning laboratory for how a county can adapt to the needs of citizens in compact urban areas that spring up on the peripheries of municipalities,” said Butch Kirven, County Council chairman. The project “provides an opportunity for the county to show what it can do, if you will, so close in to the city.” Mayor Knox White said he and Kirven “went to lunch one day about a year ago and drove Poinsett Highway, and from that came a discussion. Dr. (Rod) Smolla has been concerned – as all Furman presidents have – about the condition of Poinsett. And so from our lunch meeting came an idea of launching a corridor study.” The city offered the county its expertise in priming corridors and neighborhoods for economic development. Although the goal will begin with streetscape improvements on Poinsett Highway, stakeholders who make up the Poinsett Corridor Revitalization Coalition stress their aim is about more than beautifying a road: hence, the focus on a circular area. At this early stage, there is talk of a possible Greenville Tech enterprise campus, and land from a former junkyard has been donated for a park. Residents have been invited to give their input at community meetings.

The Poinsett Highway corridor as seen from the summit of Paris Mountain.

Neill Collins, head gardener at the Sans Souci community garden, attended a recent meeting at Sans Souci Baptist Church. He said he has not yet scrutinized all of the details, but he feels positive about the project and efforts at community engagement seem sincere. “They were definitely trying to engage us. I don’t know if you’d call it a charrette process, but they were definitely trying to get as much feedback as they could in the process,” Collins said. Collins was particularly pleased with plans for a park, and to hear that his concerns about storm water maintenance beyond retention ponds were already being addressed. Bike routes were also brought up, given a failed attempt in recent months to create a “road diet” on Old Buncombe Road that would have created bicycle lanes in the area. People without homes also make up a significant portion of the population in the Poinsett District, which lies at the edge of the “homeless triangle” where the Salvation Army, Greenville Rescue Mission and Triune Mercy Center minister to the homeless. Concerns about transients have been raised in community meetings and property owners’ meetings, and homeless advocates say the homeless are sometimes treated as a nuisance to revitalization projects. Triune Pastor Deb Richardson-Moore said she welcomes the Poinsett project’s

potential to provide opportunities for her parishioners. “What we need in this community is jobs and housing. So I see almost anything along that corridor as an improvement,” Richardson-Moore said. She said the homeless will be affected no matter what, and she hopes that impact will be positive, such as stable employment replacing the area’s day-labor businesses. Richardson-Moore said some Furman University students participating in the project share her concerns. Furman University, located at one end of the Poinsett Corridor, volunteered its resources and time towards renewal after president Smolla talked with county officials, said Boyd Yarbrough, special assistant to the president for strategic planning. The university was looking at areas that the county and school shared and how the two could partner in some way, considering that the corridor “literally connects Furman to downtown” and needs enriching both economically and aesthetically, Yarbrough said. Furman is providing some human capital and knowledge base. This year, 750 students, staff and faculty participated in two work days in the area. Over the next year, the students will drive the projects, with the intent that “it will look less like one specific day and more like year-round service,” Yarbrough said. Potential student-led projects include helping to implement after-school programs or community gardens. The focus is also on making each project sustainable for the community, he said. Although leaders emphasize that the Poinsett District is more than a beautification project, Richardson-Moore said the improved aesthetics will have a positive effect on area residents. “I’m just a real big believer that surrounding people with beauty raises self-esteem, levels of behavior and all kinds of things.” A Poinsett District website has been created as a clearinghouse for information regarding news, job searches and volunteer opportunities in the area. Learn more at www.thepoinsettdistrict.org. The portions of this story relating to Furman University were reported and written by April Morris. Contact Jennifer Oladipo at joladipo@greenvillejournal.com.

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Some teachers don’t like idea of getting letter grades Grades would be based in part on student performance By CINDY LANDRUM | staff

South Carolina teachers would get the same letter grades as students – A through F – under a controversial new teacher evaluation method proposed by South Carolina Superintendent of Education Mick Zais. Zais included the proposal in his waiver request to the U.S. Department of Education, asking the executive branch to release the state from some of the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Zais’ grades-based educator evaluation system will be tested at 22 schools this year and in some districts next year. The plan

would have to be approved by the state Board of Education before it is implemented statewide. Education department officials said the letter grades, which would not be released to the public, would replace the current teacher evaluation system that gives educators a “met” or “not met” rating based on performance standards. The current ADEPT model does not include a student performance component. Educators across the state are upset, saying that Zais did not seek input from the experts in improving student achievement – the teachers – before rolling out the plan. The South Carolina Education Association is mounting an online campaign to stop implementation of the new system. Teachers say they are not afraid of being held accountable and just want input into the sys-

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tem that will be used to evaluate their performances. The SCEA says this approach to teacher evaluation is punitive to teachers and does not provide reliable data to assess student learning. The online petition letter says that a teacher’s evaluation is “only one small snapshot of teacher effectiveness that can be easily manipulated and prejudiced by the observer. Moreover, the evaluation may or may not reflect the teacher’s impact on student growth.” A letter composed by the Greenville County Schools’ board advocacy committee to the State Board said the current proposal “lacks the educator input, understanding and support necessary for successful implementation.” The state Department of Education will hold a “community stakeholder” meeting on the No Child Left Behind waiver on Oct.

24 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Brashier Middle College Charter High in Simpsonville. The new teacher evaluation process will be one of the items discussed. The letter said Greenville County uses a standards-based evaluation produced in consultation with external experts, principals, teachers, district office staff and other stakeholders. Professional portfolios, interviews and observations, student performance data and other criteria are used to determine an individual’s performance rating and plan for continuous professional improvement. According to the letter, student achievement growth has been a part of Greenville County Schools’ teacher and principal evaluations since 2004. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@ greenvillejournal.com.

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Greenville County voters can get a look at the candidates for the contested seats on the Greenville County School Board at two candidate forums sponsored by Public Education Partners of Greenville County. On Oct. 16, a forum for the candidates in Area 19 and Area 23 seats will be held at Lakeview Middle School at 7 p.m. Running for the Area 19 seat is incumbent Debi Bush and challengers Ryan Rafalski and Charles Winfield. Area 23 candidates are incumbent Glenda MorrisonFair and Seth Powell. The candidates for the Area 17 seat being vacated by Tommie Reece will be featured in a forum on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. at Blue Ridge High. The candidates are Paul Fallavollita, Joy Grayson and Sunny Weigand.

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Twenty-eight middle and high school students recently went “Homeless for the Weekend” on the lawn of St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church to experience the realities of homeless life. Bringing only the clothes on their backs, the members of the youth ministry relied on the community to provide for every want or need, church leaders said. “We did it for three reasons. One, to raise awareness for the homeless in the community. Two, to collect supplies for the homeless. And three, to show the youth what it’d be like to be homeless,” said Joe Maggio, St. Mary’s youth pastor. “There’s nothing grand about it by any means, and it’s not something (the students) would ever want to get themselves into.” The participants spent Friday,

Sept. 21, through Sunday, Sept. 23, living outside, only retreating indoors to use the restroom. They quickly found out it wasn’t much fun, Maggio said. “They found it got to be very boring. They didn’t have a place to go when it got very cold both nights.” A few comforts remained for the students. “They ate really well, because the community brought so many donations,” Maggio said. “But they all realized that wouldn’t happen in the real situation.” Donated food, blankets, clothing, sleeping bags, hygiene products and more were distributed to United Ministries, Safe Harbor and Triune Mercy Center as a result of the students’ efforts. Maggio said he was overwhelmed by the community support. “They donated so much stuff, we couldn’t count it.” Contact Shelby Livengood at slivengood@greenvillejournal.com.

No harm, no foul during Explosives Amnesty Week By Jerry Salley | staff

Greenville County residents who have explosive materials in their homes will have a chance to have them safely removed – no questions asked. During Explosives Amnesty Week, Monday, Oct. 22 through Friday, Oct. 26, residents of Greenville County can call the Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office non-emergency number, 864-271-5210, to have any explosives, ammunition, weapons, bomb materials or military ordnance removed from their property. Certified bomb technicians from the GCSO or SLED will respond to remove and destroy the

hazardous materials. Collections will take place daily between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Greenville County dispatchers will request information about the materials to be collected, including the address where the materials are stored. Residents will not be required to provide their names, said the GCSO. No criminal charges related to any hazardous materials reported or collected will be filed against residents who participate in the Explosives Amnesty Week program. Sheriff ’s offices in Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties are also participating. Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.

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Although authorities have released very few details about the killing last week of a couple in their home on Terramont Drive in the Eastside, investigators with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office have said that they believe it is not a random act of violence. The GCSO believes that the killer was an acquaintance of the couple, Gary Wells, 78, and his wife, Helen Wells, 77, Master Deputy Laura Campbell told reporters this week. Their bodies were discovered Wednesday morning, Oct. 3, inside their home in the Terra Pines subdivision off Hudson Road, investigators said. The sheriff ’s office is continuing its investigation, processing forensics evidence and pursuing leads, Campbell said. Investigators have also released a sketch of a man they say may have been in the area when the double homicide occurred in the overnight hours of Tuesday, Oct. 2, and Wednesday, Oct. 3. Although the man being sought is not necessarily a suspect, investigators believe he may have information regarding the murders. Gary Wells, a retired textile equipment salesman, and Helen Wells, a homemaker, were killed by “multiple sharp-force injuries to the body,” according to Greenville County Chief Deputy Coroner Mike Ellis, although the exact type of weapon used has not been specified. Investigators are also looking into a complaint made earlier by Helen Wells that her bank account had been compromised and fraudulent charges made. Funeral services for the couple, who were married for 49 years, were held Monday, Oct. 8, at Taylors First Baptist Church, where they were longtime active members. Homicide investigators have asked anyone who was in the area of Terramont Drive during the morning hours on Tuesday, Oct. 2, or Wednesday, Oct. 3, and might have

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It looks like a giant, pink RV on the outside, but inside St. Francis Hospital’s new Mobile Mammography Coach is a fully functioning screening suite. The coach will travel to locations in Greenville, Pickens, Oconee and Anderson counties, stopping in underserved communities, at churches, businesses and primary care practices, said St. Francis CEO Mark Nantz. Women who don’t have time for an additional appointment at the breast health center can combine a visit to the coach with a primary care appointment, Nantz said. Pearlie Harris, namesake of the system’s breast health center, called the coach “hope for the community. For the women who can’t get the service that they need, St. Francis will be there for them.” Camilla Hertwig, chair of the hospital’s board of directors, added, “This coach will meet a clear need for at-risk

populations in Greenville.” With a digital mammography machine and two changing rooms, the coach will serve an estimated 2,000 women in the first year, hospital officials said. Insurance is not required to receive screening. The vehicle was funded through the St. Francis Foundation and more than half the funds were donated by staff, said Nantz. Hertwig said the mobile unit is focused on changing the trend of late diagnosis of breast cancer in South Carolina. If screening detects breast cancer early, women have a 98 percent five-year survival rate, according to the National Cancer Institute. Expected to begin site visits later this year, the vehicle is capable of offering up to 20 mammograms each day, said Nantz. Lacey Williams, a St. Francis mammographer, said she hopes to go out on the coach. “We can provide access to ladies who wouldn’t normally have it,” she said. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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Mill Village Farms wants to grow food and jobs Nonprofit transforms vacant property into small sustainable farm worked by teens By Cindy Landrum | staff

Mill Village Farms doesn’t just want to grow food – it wants to grow jobs for youth in some of Greenville’s struggling neighborhoods, too. Mill Village Farms, a new nonprofit organization in Greenville, wants to transform some abandoned vacant properties in some of the city’s lowincome neighborhoods into small, sustainable farms that give youth in those communities their first taste of private enterprise. “It will impact the community positively in two ways,” said Dan Weidenbrenner, director of Mill Village Farms. “It gives youths in the community their first jobs where they’ll learn business and entrepreneurial skills and it increases access to fresh, local produce in low-income food-desert communities.” The group’s first farm is in the Sullivan community. Volunteers recently built raised beds on property owned by Long Branch Baptist Church on the corner of Sullivan and Bolt streets in the Greater Sullivan neighborhood. Youth interns ages 13 to 21 will market and sell the products they grow to help sustain Mill Village Farms. They could

market a value-added product such as sauce or salsa made from produce they raise, Weidenbrenner said. The youth are paid wages. Mill Village Farms is also partnering with Grace Church in the project. “When you’re trying to develop a community, you’ve got to have a grass-roots effort,” said Weidenbrenner, who lives in the Greater Sullivan community. Long Branch Baptist Church has a neighborhood farmer’s market and a food pantry in the area. Weidenbrenner said Mill Village Farms is modeled after the Village Gardens Food Works Program in Portland. He said late fall and spring plantings will be done, but the heaviest planting will take place in the summer when the youth are out of school. Mill Village Farms started this past summer when four interns aged 12 to 15 worked at a farm in the Mills Mill area and at Furman University. During the summer, the youth learned job skills as well as the basics of organic farming. Weidenbrenner said Mill Village Farms could be duplicated in other Greenville neighborhoods with the right partnerships. However, “it’s got to be grassroots,” he said. “It has to have a partnership with someone in the community who is already working in that community.” For information on Mill Village Farms, go to MillVillageFarms.org or contact Weidenbrenner at dan.weidenbrenner@gmail.com. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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The number of children who have been referred to protective services in child abuse or neglect cases in Greenville County has spiked recently and they need advocates in their corner, said Patty Dellinger, circuit coordinator for the county’s guardian ad litem program. Children involved in abuse or neglect cases in South Carolina don’t speak on their own behalf – in fact, they aren’t in the courtroom when the family court judge makes the decision regarding their future, whether it’s a special treatment plan, return to their families or adoption. Guardian ad litem volunteers bridge the gap between the children and the courts, learning all about the child’s situation, listening to what the child wants and reporting it to the court. A guardian ad litem is literally the “guardian under the law” for children, Dellinger said. Volunteers do not need a special background in social service or a specific degree to serve as one of these child advocates – only a passion for helping these kids, she said. “You need to care about children and their welfare, and have common sense.” Volunteers are asked to make a minimum commitment of two years, to visit with the child at least once a month and to attend court appearances, usually several within a year. A typical case is supposed to last no more than 18 months, but some can go on longer, said Dellinger, and the program wants to offer one volunteer throughout the entire case. In addition to being a stable presence in a child’s life, the advocates interview everyone involved in the child’s life – family, teachers, doctors, social workers and others – to get the complete background of the child’s situation before reporting their conclusions to the court. The guardian ad litem volunteers are literally the eyes and ears for family court judges, Dellinger said. The number of cases assigned to the program rises and falls with the num-

ber referred to the Department of Social Services, she said. In the past, children had guardian ad litem advocates who were attorneys, but that changed in 2010, when each child in South Carolina Family Court was required to have a volunteer guardian ad litem. In late September, the Greenville County program had 256 guardians serving 447 cases that involved 874 children, Dellinger said. The volunteers typically take one case at a time, but some take more than one depending on their availability. Though the Greenville County program is one of the largest in the state, Dellinger said she would like to have 50 additional volunteers to serve the increasing number of children. Her wish list includes more men and African-American volunteers, along with Spanish speakers. Training to be a volunteer takes a little over a month, Dellinger said. Potential guardians talk with the program staff, complete paperwork and have a pre-interview, which allows staff to learn about the volunteer and choose the best match for guardian and child. Volunteers then attend a 30-hour training session over the course of about a month. There is no “typical” volunteer, Dellinger said; they must be at least 21 years old, but come in all age ranges. The majority is older or retired, but Dellinger has volunteers with full-time jobs and some in their 20s. “We also have several teams, a husband and wife and two sisters, who take cases. And those sisters do a great job.” Even though the guardian ad litem volunteers are not meant to be mentors, many children look up to them because they are a consistent adult presence the child’s life, she said. The volunteer advocates serve an essential purpose for children who have been victims of abuse or neglect. “Even if you’re not sure about it, just investigate the possibility and talk with us,” she said. Potential volunteers now have the perfect New Year’s resolution: The next training session begins in January. To apply or find additional information, visit www.scgal.org/greenville or call 864-467-5860. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@greenvillejournal.com.

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Festival time By CINDY LANDRUM | staff

This weekend’s Fall for Greenville is all about food and fun. The festival will feature 39 restaurants with more than 200 different menu items, and six different musical entertainment stages with more than 50 musical acts. There will be culinary demonstrations and competitions. “The festival serves as the perfect opportunity for Upstate residents and visitors to discover Greenville’s incredible dining options,” said Scott Karr, Fall for Greenville board president. For those who want to avoid the traffic headaches that come with a festival expected to attract 150,000 over three days, there’s free “park and ride” service from the parking garage at CU-ICAR to the Greenville downtown transit center on McBee Avenue in the heart of the festival event site. The shuttle will operate at halfhour intervals on Friday from 5 to 11 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. Title sponsor Bon Secours St. Francis Health System will have its “Feelin’ Good in Greenville” venue in the grassy area in front of the Courtyard Marriott on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from noon until 4 p.m. New to the festival is the Ford Experience Tour on West Washington Street. The tour will showcase the latest Ford vehicles and technology, and offer skill competitions and interactive vehicles. Charleston Cooks will offer live culinary demonstrations throughout the weekend. A St. Francis Fall for Greenville mobile app is available for iPhone and Android users and includes vendor information, a festival map and a schedule of events. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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It’s fundraising time for PTAs at schools around Greenville County, but expect fewer kids knocking at the door selling cookie dough and gift wrap. A growing trend in the area is earning kudos from schools and parents by raising more money, helping kids learn about fitness and character and eradicating the dreaded school sale. It’s called “Boosterthons,” and PTA parents “can’t say enough good things about it,” said Stephanie Yearwood, PTA co-president at Bethel Elementary in Simpsonville. “I’ve never seen kids more excited about a fundraiser, and the teachers love it. The school comes together, and the kids learn about fitness and leadership, and in the process they earn money for the school.” Boosterthon Fun Run, based in Atlanta, was founded 11 years ago and quickly found its niche, experiencing 40 percent to 50 percent annual growth in the early years, according to Brett Trapp, lead innovator. The company began servicing the Carolinas when they opened a Charlotte office in 2010. Augusta Circle Elementary was the first school in the area to jump on board, hosting a Boosterthon Fun Run in 2010. Two years later, the program has expanded to serve 16 Greenville and Spartanburg elementary schools, including Shannon Forest Christian School, Stone Academy, Gateway, Monarch, Mountain View and Sterling. The Boosterthon is a nine-day program that kicks off with a school-wide pep rally. Students learn about asking friends and family members for donations; either a specific amount or a pledge based on how many laps they run at the Boosterthon Fun Run. Kids typically run about 25 to 35 laps of a small track, logging between one and two miles total. Peg Witbeck, PTA president at Bell’s Crossing Elementary, said she was impressed to hear that schools were raising more money without selling. “Other PTAs have had nothing but good things to say,” she said, prompting her school to drop the wrapping paper sales and

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make plans to host its first Boosterthon in March. PTA volunteers appreciate that the local Boosterthon team takes a lot of the work off their shoulders by handling everything from setup to cleanup. “There’s no placing orders and dispersing prizes,” said Cheves Steck, who is PTA co-president at Blythe Academy and chaired Blythe’s Boosterthon. “They handle it all.” At the end, 52 percent of funds raised goes to the school while 48 percent goes to the Boosterthon company. Steck said that percentage is comparable to the percentage paid to the wrapping paper and cookie companies, but the prizes students receive are of better quality and every student gets a T-shirt, whether they raise any money or not. Boosterthon was the brainchild of Chris and Lyndie Carneal when they were students at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. This year, they will serve 500,000 students at 700 schools in 16 states. Supporters had special praise for the service component Boosterthon adds to its events. This year, if children are able to round up a total of $7 per lap in donation pledges, they win an over-thedoor basketball hoop for themselves as well as another that will be donated to a child in a local hospital. Another benefit, according to Steck, is the focus on health and fitness. Blythe is a part of the CATCH program, which is designed to offer more nutritious menu choices and encourage healthier lifestyles. “We were selling cookie dough, which is not the direction we wanted to go,” she said. “When we learned about this, it was a natural fit.” Contact Leigh Savage at lsavage@greenvillejournal.com.

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Greenville County schools could not accept advertising, marketing material or sponsorships that promote the use of alcohol, tobacco or other products that would be illegal to possess by any student, according to a policy change discussed at Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting. The change would have to be approved by the board at a regular meeting to become policy. The board first discussed changing the district’s advertising in the schools policy last month but the matter was sent back to the administration for rewording. The original proposed change would have prevented schools from accepting advertising, sponsorship and promotional materials from “entities whose primary business is the distribution of alcohol, tobacco or other products that are illegal for students under the age of 18 to possess.” The policy also prohibits use of school facilities, staff or students to be used in advertising or promoting commercial or non-school interests with some exceptions. The exceptions include schools cooperating to further the work of any nonprofit social service agency as long as that cooperation does not impair educational programs, selection of a school photographer for class and yearbook pictures and gifts of school supplies, equipment or furniture which bear the name or trademark of the donor. The board is also considering a policy change that would allow third-graders to go on overnight field trips of no more than four consecutive school days. The policy would allow no overnight field trips for students in kindergarten through second grade. The current policy allows overnight field trips for students in fourth through 12th grades. The board waived the policy so third-graders at Mountain View Elementary could go on an overnight trip connected to South Carolina history. Board member Tommie Reece requested a review of the policy because South Carolina history is taught in the third grade and many of the places of interest are located in Columbia and Charleston. In addition, the board is considering revising a policy that requires a principal’s prior written consent for students to have personal electronic devices turned on while on school grounds. The district has several iPad initiatives, a new e-library at Monarch Elementary and is transitioning to e-libraries at three of its middle schools. Superintendent Burke Royster said while the administration is seeking avenues to incorporate personal electronic devices into the curriculum, the policy is cumbersome because it requires each student to obtain an administrator’s signature. District officials said they fear the policy may discourage schools from trying, continuing or expanding the pilot programs. The next regular meeting of the Greenville County School Board is Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. at the school district offices on Camperdown Way. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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Habitat for Humanity volunteers raised the walls on the Women Build home, for the Seymour family (center, in pink hard hats) on October 5 in Travelers Rest. Women Build, a nationwide collaboration between Habitat and Lowe’s, encourages women of all ages and walks of life to pick up their hammers to help build affordable homes for low-income families. The home will be completed in mid- January. Work continues on the home and volunteers are needed. To register, go to www.habitatgreenville.org/register .

The Greenville Elks Lodge recently donated $1,000 each to three Greenville County Schools through the Music Club of Greenville. The donations went to Crestview Elementary School, Hollis Academy and League Academy for the purchase of new and improved musical instruments for the students. The sixth annual Dine Out for Mom fundraiser will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, at 66 restaurant locations across the Upstate. Participating restaurants will be donating a portion of their sales from the entire day to Let There Be Mom, a nonprofit organization that serves the families of parents diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. Dine Out for Mom 2012 requires no registration or tickets. For a list of participating restaurants, visit www.lettherebemom.org. DNA Creative Communications will host a seminar, “Power Surge: Maximizing the Board Chair/ED Relationship,” on Oct. 24, 8-11:30 a.m. The workshop, held at the Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, is designed for board chairs and executive directors and will focus on key functions of board leadership that fuel nonprofit success. To register for the workshop, visit www.dnacc.com or call 864235-0959, ext. 6. Session registration is $40 and includes breakfast and materials. The 2012 Battle of the Bells will be held Saturday, Dec. 1, to raise money for the homeless, hungry, hurting and helpless. Designed for businesses, churches, schools and other community organizations, teams will compete to raise the highest total donations while ringing the bell at Salvation Army Red Kettle locations across Greenville County. The top three teams will receive trophies at the annual Christmas Luncheon on Dec. 6. Register at the Salvation Army of Greenville County’s Facebook page. Junior Achievement of Upstate SC has announced the new 2012-2013 officers of the board of directors and board members. Officers are as follows: chair, Robyn D. Yarborough; vice chairs, Tammy Ann Harrison, Brian Hungerford, and Frank Starosto; secretary, Jay Blankenship and David Watson; Spartanburg area representative, Jennifer Cash; Audit Committee Chair, Andrea Wilcox. New board members include: Sherrie Beamon, Regina Boston, Sharon Day, Matt Dunbar, Henry Dupree, Perry Farr, Jessica Hatchell, Erin Maughon, Donald Oates, Wendy Walden and Doris Wofford. To get involved, visit www.jaupstatesc.org. The Salvation Army will accept Christmas applications Oct. 15-19 at the TD Convention Center, from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. with extended hours to 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 16th. To make application, individuals must provide required documentation. For more information, call 235-4803 or visit salvationarmygreenville.org. The inaugural Polo Classic, benefitting the newly formed Greenville Hospital System Neurological Institute, is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 21, at Historic Hopkins Farm in Simpsonville. The event will begin at 2 p.m. and will feature polo players from

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Pamela King Cable will be discussing and signing her debut novel, “Televenge,” at Fiction Addiction on Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5. Visit www.fiction-addiction.com or call for additional information. On Nov. 3, Greenville First Steps will present the Zombie “Out” Run 5K Chase at Heritage Park in Simpsonville. The race will start at 5 p.m., and all proceeds will benefit the children and families served by Greenville County First Steps. Registrations for runners and zombies are being accepted at GreenvilleZombieOutRun.com. The 5K course will feature natural and man-made obstacles, complete with lurking zombies. Distinguished philosopher and theologian Philip Clayton will speak at Furman University on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Younts Conference Center. His talk, “From Quantum to Consciousness: What (If Anything) Does Emergent Complexity Tell Us about God?” is part of Furman’s Charles H. Townes Lecture Series, “Faith and Reason.” The program is free and open to the public, but reservations are suggested. For reservations, call 864-294-3777. For more information about the event, contact Susan D’Amato in the physics department at 864-294-2207 or susan.damato@furman.edu. The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour will hold a major championship at Pebble Creek Golf Club on Oct. 13-14. Players ages 11-18 will compete for a chance to participate in the tour championship and be ranked in the National Junior Golf Scoreboard (NJGS), the Tarheel Youth Golf Association (TYGA) and the South Carolina Junior Golf Association (SCJGA). For more information, visit www.hjgt. org or call 904-379-2697. The Friends of the Greenville County Library System Book Sale will take place Friday, Oct. 26, through Sunday, Oct. 28. Gently used, affordable books will be sold to benefit the Friends of the Library, a volunteer nonprofit organization that provides financial support to the library system. The book sale will be held at the Merovan Center, Suite E-2, 1200 Woodruff Road. Friday’s book sale is available to members only from 3-8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday are open to the public; Saturday hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday hours are 1-5 p.m. For more information visit www.greenvillelibrary.org or call 864-527-9291. Bob Jones University Seminary and Graduate School of Religion is hosting a conference on Sexual Abuse and the Church on Nov. 6-8 on the BJU campus. The conference is designed to help pastors and church leaders recognize, prevent and respond to sexual abuse and minister to its victims. Qualified pastors, counselors and legal authorities will speak on the topic. The conference is open to pastors and church leaders. Registration is required; the cost is $100 before Oct. 29 and $150 afterward. For more information and to register online, visit www.bju.edu/seminaryconference.

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The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center will celebrate Kroctoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 13, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 14, 11 a.m. The free family activities on Saturday include arts and crafts, face painting, inflatables, Zumba, tennis and soccer activities. Special events include a children’s storybook reading at 10:30 a.m. with Linda Kelly, Pure ‘n’ Heart Youth Choir at 11 a.m. and Our World Festival at 1 p.m. The 11 a.m. worship service on Sunday will include guest speaker Major Willis Howell, the Salvation Army Divisional Commander for North and South Carolina, and is open to the public. For additional information, call 527-5948.

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Sam Chapman’s 50 years as an Upstate martial arts pioneer By DICK HUGHES | senior business writer

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Fifty years ago this month, Sam Chapman, a young Marine fresh out of Liberty High School, was on a landing ship off the coast of North Carolina waiting to invade Cuba if the missile crisis with the Soviet Union turned into armed conflict. While they waited for an invasion that never took place, a squad leader took Chapman under his wing and introduced him to karate.

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A lot of martial arts studios have come and gone since Spartanburg Martial Arts opened its doors 20 years ago. “If you don’t have the business part of it, you don’t last very long. I’ve seen many come and go,” said Rick Lee, who with his wife, Christin Nicole Lee, owns and operates SMA on the city’s west side. The Lees, both of whom are black belts, competitive champions in their sparring prime

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Sam Chapman works out in the new home of Sam Chapman’s American Karate on New Easley Highway in Greenville. Chapman has had karate as part of his life since 1962.

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and well-regarded instructors, have stayed profitable since opening in 1992 while many karate schools have “closed about as fast as they opened.” “We’ve never had a down year,” said Lee. “In the minidepression, we felt it a little bit, but we’ve survived two economic downturns quite well. We’ve never been in jeopardy of closing up shop.” Lee also said the business benefited because it got established before the explosion of interest in youth programs in martial arts attracted a lot of startups with instructors ill-trained in instruction and business practices. “There are no real regulations on karate teachers as far as qualifications, such as there are for teachers,” Lee said. “If you want to, you can go on the Internet and open up a school. As long as you pay for your retail license, you can start teaching the next day.” Fortunately, he said, “most of that type take care of itself a lot of times. It is a harder business than everybody thinks. It’s not

like an indoor lifeguard. It’s like any other business.” The biggest change in the business in the last 10 years has been in the after-school martial arts programs and the summer camps built around martial arts training. “When schools started accepting 6, 7, 8-year-old children, that’s when the business grew,” Lee explained. “Children became the main clientele.” For Spartanburg Martial Arts, he said, that has “taken over as a big part of our business as far as revenue.” The school runs four buses for its after-school program, picking kids up at school, taking them to the studio on the west side of Spartanburg, providing a snack, helping with homework and teaching them karate. Not too long ago, the Lees had 13 buses, bringing kids to three commercial studios and a satellite program at the Cherokee County YMCA in Gaffney. The Lees

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That October 1962 experience was the beginning of Chapman’s 50-year career in martial arts as a disciplined lifestyle and commercial business Along the way, he became an eighthdegree black belt, honored as a Grand Master and respected as mentor to 100 black belt disciples. On October 20, the karate community will pay tribute to Chapman and to the martial arts in a day of seminars and entertainment at the Crown Plaza in Greenville. “He has been around longer and knows more than any of us put together,” said Rick Lee, owner with his wife of Spartanburg Martial Arts for 20 years. Greg Suther, 59, who has trained with Chapman for 35 years and is a seventhdegree black belt, is helping organize the tribute. “Sam is a humble person, and asked that we not make it 50 years of Sam Chapman. Let’s make it 50 years of progress in the karate community,” Suther said. “We want to draw attention to how far martial arts has progressed.” Chapman, lean and taunt two months

shy of 70, still instructs black belt at Sam Chapman American Karate and serves as the school’s spiritual leader while holding down a full-time job at a psychiatric residential treatment program for girls in Simpsonville. In 1995, he turned ownership of the school over to Carlos Howard, 44, a seventh-degree black belt who started training with Chapman at age 6. After four years, three months and six days in the Marine Corps, Chapman returned to Liberty, earned a black belt within 18 months, became a top-ranked middleweight competitor in the 1970s and a pioneer in marital arts schools with a reputation as a strict guardian of the integrity of the art. Chapman opened his first karate school in Easley in 1970 and later moved it to Greenville. That was just ahead of the explosive interest in martial arts generated in pop culture by Hollywood’s Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and others that results today, as Chapman put it, “in a studio virtually on every corner.” Fueled by the action movies of the 1970s, karate studios cropped up everywhere. Because “no one else was doing it,” Chapman went out on his own to check out qualifica-

Sam Chapman has had karate as part of his life since 1962.

tions of instructors and practices. “That was my personal responsibility because I wanted good martial arts taught and practiced here,” he said. “There were some that didn’t meet expectations. I would say to them, ‘You need to close this place down.’” He reminds parents that with all the choices kids have in sports, it is impor-

sold two of the studios and the satellite at the Y because “it got to be so overwhelming.” Also, with two young boys getting involved in sports and other activities, they “didn’t want to miss” being with them. Lee regularly gets requests to bring karate programs to other locations and “probably could have 10 schools if I had the motivation to do it, because it seems everybody wants a karate program in their place.” The lack of qualified teachers is a major reason he resists the lure. “It takes me about 10 years to train a teacher to a

Rick Lee and his wife, Christin Nicole Lee, practice at their Spartanburg Martial Arts facility on East Blackstock Road.

tant to recognize that martial arts takes a disciplined commitment and may not be for everyone. “Karate is not seasonable,” he said. “Karate is a way of life.” With no governing boards or oversight, said Chapman, all it takes to open a martial arts studio is a business license. Students are awarded black belts by instructors who “may be good or bad” teachers and judges of talent and discipline, he said. Unlike in the early days after World War II when most instructors were trained while serving in the military in Korea and Japan, “you have some studios now where their instructors have never been in the military and don’t have the discipline that comes along with that.” Chapman has not competed for years but has no intention of giving up instructing and pursuing other interests. “I don’t believe in retirement, and I am able to work. I still have a brain. I am doing things today I newer thought I could do. I am writing poetry. I’ve got a couple of books written that I have got to get published.”

point where I feel good about letting them run a class. You can’t put an ad in the paper for a karate teacher.” All the instructors at Spartanburg Martial Arts “grew up here. I raise all of mine,” Lee said. In the best tradition of karate, instructors are judged by the quality of their teachers and that teacher’s teacher – traveling back through a long family tree. Lee, who is a sixth-degree black belt, was taught by Marty Knight of Anderson and became a member of his nationally competitive team, which also competed internationally in China and the former Soviet Union. Lee won a national title in 1991. Christin Nicole Lee, his wife and co-owner of the Spartanburg studio, is also a sixthdegree black belt. A native of Anderson, she, too, trained under Knight and began competing as an adult in black belt comp etition when she was 13. Rick and

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com. Christin were both members of the Anderson team. She dominated women’s sparring divisions from 1991 until 2001 and was recognized as the best overall women’s sport karate fighter of the decade. “My wife is the famous one around here,” said her husband. “She had a great career. I wish I could say I had her accolades, but I don’t. I had a decent career, but they don’t compare.” Christin is director of the school’s Kickin’ Kids afterschool program. The Lees, like traditional karate advocates, see martial arts as a life discipline – “the best way to gain self-self discipline, self-confidence and to learn to live a healthy goal-oriented lifestyle.” Children, especially, tend to take to the belt program that represents skill achievement, Lee said. “They need the goalsetting. They can get bored really quick and need milestones along the way.” Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

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Ernest Health Inc. (EHI), a New Mexico company, is investing $14 million in a medical rehabilitation center at North Grove Medical Park on Boiling Springs Highway. The company said it would employ more than 100 in full-time healthcare-related jobs with salaries and benefits of more than $50,000 annually. Building got under way with a groundbreaking on Tuesday, Oct. 9. “The present medical services provided by Spartanburg Regional Health System and Mary Black Health System will allow us to add additional support to the wonderful medical treatment already provided,” said Darby Brockette, president and CEO. The Spartanburg Rehabilitation Institute, as the new facility is called, will treat patients recovering from strokes, brain and spinal cord injuries and other injuries and illnesses resulting in functional deficits. The 50,100-square-foot facility will be the only freestanding medical rehabilitation hospital in Spartanburg County, which was identified by the state’s hospital plan as needing more medical rehab treatment. Spartanburg’s Economic Futures Group worked with EHI for more than a year to bring the company to Spartanburg, said Russ Weber, chairman of EFG. EHI’s facility will be its second in South Carolina. It owns and operates Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital in Greenwood and has facilities in eight other states.

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The Poole Co., which makes a staple fiber from 100 percent recycled post-consumer plastic, has launched a program to reclaim products made from those recycled bottles to make other fibers. “The remarkable part about Poole’s EcoSure Full-Circle program is that we are able to take a recycled fiber product, such as apparel, linens or household wipes, and recycle it again,” said David Poole, CEO. “This means we have not only diverted material from a landfill once but twice.” The company puts “new life – twice or more – into something already classified as ‘dead,’” he said. Poole uses 100 percent recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) content commonly used for plastic bottles to produce fiber as an environmentally friendly alternative to virgin fiber. The company also produces virgin polyester fibers. The company cited studies by the National Association for PET Container Resources that “determined that the use of PCR polyester fiber versus virgin polyester fiber reduces energy consumption by 84 percent and greenhouse gas emissions by 71 percent.” Poole, a 35-year-old company, has headquarters in Greenville and manufacturing and distribution in Johnsville.

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Your Navy Wants Biomass

The U.S. Navy has a message for South Carolina farmers and scientists: Get on board with development of biofuels to power ships and jets. “You can grow biomass and biofuels feed stocks here in South Carolina that can help,” Chris Tindal, the Navy’s deputy assistant secretary for energy, told a conference at Clemson last week. Tindal said the Navy is going to need a vast amount of biofuel – 336 million gallons by 2020 – after it launches its Great Green Fleet of ships and jets in 2016. The goal, he said, is to make biomass fuels competitive with nonrenewable fossil fuel as an energy source to improve the environment and achieve energy independence. “There’s only so much oil in the ground, so we’re trying to build a sustainable industry,” Tindal said. He asked the assembled group, including representatives from Clemson, the University of South Carolina, the S.C. Clean Energy Business Alliance and the S.C. Biomass Council, to get to work to help the Navy make biofuels viable. “Whatever you can do in research and development, testing and evaluating biofuels will be important,” he said. “We want to commercialize these processes, but you have to start with research before you can get to the commercial scale.” Funding for research and farming is available through a partnership of the Navy, the Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he said.

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VA Links Up With Upstate Firm

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Greenville-based SpanAmerica Medical Systems a five-year contract to supply special support surfaces for mattresses and other foundations. The contract, which can be extended for another five years through 2022, is worth approximately $4 million annually in sales, but Jim Ferguson, president and CEO, said he expects sales to grow as more facilities embrace Span-Source’s new technologies. Ferguson said Span-America has been a “valued supplier to Veterans Affairs facilities across the nation for more than two decades” and the most recent contract creates “the potential to expand sales to them in the future.” While Span-Source products “are always at the top of the list” for veterans being treated in home settings, the safety and flexibility of its products have opened doors for Span-Source products “on the inpatient side of the VA as well.”

Finalists Named for Innovation Prize

Milliken & Co., Proterra and Sealed Air Corp. are finalists for the 2012 InnoVision Awards. The McNair Law Firm and the InnoVision advisory board announced the finalists ahead of an awards dinner Nov. 7 at the TD Convention Center. Milliken, which is based in Spartanburg, is recognized for the development of a durable flame-resistant fabric “specifically designed for the rigors and hazards of military applications.” Called ResQ, the material “provides a thermal barrier that can reduce the likelihood and severity of burns caused by explosions and fuel fires by up to 50 percent, thereby helping to improve the predicted survivability rates in these situations by up to 65 percent.” Proterra, which is based in Greenville, was cited for development of “the world’s first full-size battery electric-drive transit bus capable of fully charging in under 10 minutes.” Proterra’s EcoRide buses use advanced lithium-titanate battery technology, powering buses that are “up to 600 percent more efficient” than typical diesel or compressed natural gas buses and produce zero emissions. Sealed Air’s Duncan facility is credited with the development of an inkless film, called Inkless Medical Device Lidding Film, for thermoformed medical device packaging, “allowing customers to increase packaging efficiencies, reduce raw material costs and change information ‘on-the-fly’ while maintaining high-quality imaging.” Common sterilization methods will not compromise image quality, the company said.

MAPAL, an international maker of precision tools for metal cutting, plans to establish a plant in Fountain Inn. The company said it would spend $3 million and hire 30 workers for its plant at 110 Valley View Road. The company said work has already begun on retrofitting the 27,000-square-foot building, hiring is under way and operations are expected to begin in December. It is MAPAL’s first U.S. plant outside of Port Huron, Mich., where its North American headquarters is based. MAPAL is a division of MAPAL Dr. Kress of Germany, which has 2,700 employees worldwide, according to the company Web site. Donald Lynch, vice president of finance, said the Fountain Inn expansion is in response to rapid growth in serving manufacturers in aerospace, automotive, medical equipment, consumer goods and energy industries. “We see tremendous opportunity to grow our business in the Southeast and to create quality jobs here in response to growing demand for advanced tooling and grinding applications,” he said. Lynch said the Greenville Development Corp., the South Carolina Department of Commerce and ReadySC, the workforce-training arm of technical colleges, asSeveral Upstate-based companies have been recogsisted in bringing MAPAL to Greenville County. nized in the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce’s

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journal business annual ranking of the best places to work. “South Carolina is home to some of the best places to work in the nation,” said Otis Rawl, president of the Chamber, at an awards dinner in Columbia Oct. 4. The honored companies “are setting the example as superb organizations of our state’s workforce to prosper,” he said. Elliott Davis of Greenville was listed in first place in the large category of 250 or more employees in South Carolina. SYNNEX of Greenville is eighth, and Sage Automotive Interiors of Greenville is 12th. Human Technologies of Greenville was judged sixth best in the small to mid-sized category of 15-249 employees. O’Neal Inc. of Greenville was ranked 10th, Rosenfeld Einstein of Greenville was 16th and Scott and Company of Greenville and Columbia was 15th. Large companies in rank order: Life Cycle Engineering, Edward Jones, Elliott Davis, Continental Tire, McAngus Goudelock & Courie, Safelite Auto Glass, Total Quality Logistics, SYNNEX, MARS Petcare, Colonial Life, Palmetto Health, Sage Automotive, Blackbaud, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Select Health of South Carolina, InterContinental Hotels Group, NBSC, First Citizens Bank, Charleston Water Systems and Benefitfocus. Small to mid-sized companies: Gencent, SPARC, VC3 Inc., Clarke & Co. Benefits/ McLaughlin Smoak & Clarke, Benefit Controls, Human Technologies, Palmetto Citizens Federal Credit Union, EDENS, SCRA, O’Neal, Rhythmlink International, Comatrol, Environmental Express, C.F. Evans, Scott and Co., Rosenfeld Einstein, First Reliance Bank, CMT, Barling Bay and Levelwing.

Award-Achieving Manufacturers Wanted

Nominations for the 2012 Silver Crescent Award for South Carolina manufacturers are being solicited. In its 11th year, the program honors manufacturers for citizenship, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, environmental stewardship, innovation, financial performance and commitment to South Carolina. Top companies in three categories by size will be presented awards at a Salute to Manufacturing luncheon at the TD Convention Center in Greenville on March 21. For more information on the nomination process and other information, go to www. SaluteToManufacturing.org or contact Sharon Halsey at 803-657-6183. An intent-toapply deadline is Nov. 15. Complete nominations must be submitted by Dec. 31.

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NAI Earle Furman announced:   • Peter Couchell represented the landlord of 620 Howell Rd., Greenville, in renewing a lease of 2,100 square feet of retail space to Curves for Women. • David Feild and Tyson Smoak represented Oak Tree Medical in leasing 5,131 square feet of office space at 501 Epting Ave., Greenville. • David Feild and Tyson Smoak represented Goldsmith Development in the long-term lease of 2,400 square feet of retail space at 1781 Woodruff Road, Greenville. • John Baldwin represented the seller of 500 UCCI Way, Spartanburg, in the sale of a 76,100-square-foot industrial property on 19 acres to Banker Exchange. • Jake Van Gieson, Bill Sims, and Robert Schmidt represented the seller in the sale of a 4,420-square-foot warehouse at 119 Lyman Ave., Duncan. Coldwell Banker Commercial Caine announced: • Larry Crain represented the landlord of 110-A Hospital Drive, Simpsonville, in leasing 2,000 square feet of medical office space to Carolina UpperCervical. • Brian Scurlock represented the landlord of 1011 Tiger Blvd., Suite 400, Clemson, in leasing 2,432 square feet of medical office space to Foothills Community Healthcare (Heritage FQHC). • Tim Satterfield represented the buyer in purchasing a vacant lot at 289 Manning St., Spartanburg. • Larry Crain represented the seller of 701 Mills Ave., Greenville, in the sale of 1,000 square feet of office property. • Pete Brett and Brian Scurlock represented the seller in the sale of 70 acres on Woodville Road, Pelzer.

MVPs for Microsoft Write Guide

Joel Lindstrom and Scott Sewell of Customer Effective contributed content to Microsoft’s CRM Field Guide to instruct users on Microsoft’s latest release of customer management software, Dynamics CRM. Microsoft recognizes Lindstrom and Sewell as among its legion of “most valuable professionals” chosen to share technical knowledge on best uses of the company’s software. They contributed five of the 25 chapters of the CRM Field Guide.

Feds Give Abbeville Incubator Grant

Reed Selected as Chamber Chairman

Tim Reed, a Greenville businessman with deep entrepreneurial experience, has been chosen to be chairman of the Greenville Chamber’s board of directors in 2014. Reed is on the ladder to succeed Luanne Runge, an attorney with Gallivan White & Boyd, who becomes board chair in 2013 to succeed 2012 chairman Mike Riordan, president and CEO of the Greenville Hospital System. “As the chamber expands its entrepreneurial and small-business community, Tim brings direct entrepreneurial experience and perspective to this position,” said Riordan. Reed is chairman of the Upstate Carolina Angel Investors Network. “With a goal of increasing the per-capita income of our region, it will be my pleasure to serve this incredible community as we strive to build one of the premier business communities in the world,” Reed said.

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Handlebar Listening Room Oct. 19 alongside Dank Sinatra, an Athens, Ga.-based band that features another musical Greenville native, keyboardist Matt Henderson. To hear King tell it, playing the guitar wasn’t just a calling; it was a birthright. “I’ve been playing all my life,” he says. “My dad, my granddad, my great-granddad and both my uncles played.” In fact, King’s father, Marvin, is quite popular on the Greenville music scene in his own right. “I started off with the Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, stuff like that,” King says, “but here lately, I’ve been getting into jazz artists like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, all those guys.” King says his experience studying guitar at the Fine Arts Center has been invaluable to his playing style, allowing him to incorporate the jazz influences he mentioned. “I’ve learned that when I’m playing, I can’t just ramble,” he says. “(FAC instructor) Steve Watson has taught me that playing and improvising are like speaking. You can’t forget to stop and breathe between words. You can’t just talk and talk and not breathe, because people get bored with that. I’m trying to do more chromatic kind of stuff, trying to voice cleanly through chords. Instead of generalizing over one chord progression, I’m trying to work through the chord progressions improvisationally. I feel like I’m a lot more tasteful now.” King says he’s also drawn inspiration from other Upstate musicians. “All the guys around here have taken me under their wing and really helped me. They’ve all given me advice. Guys like Craig Sorrells from The Work, Frank Wilkie from the Marshall Tucker Band, my instructor Steve Watson and, of course, my dad, Marvin King.” King said he’s looking forward to his band’s upcoming show. “This is our first opportunity to work with Dank Sinatra, and they’re doing some cool stuff.” The band plays a hard-edged combo of rock and funk, while incorporating jam-band style improvisation

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by stretching out classics like “Superstition” and “Take Me to the River,” along with their own compositions. Greenville native Matt Henderson, the band’s keyboardist, started his training early like Marcus King did, albeit less willingly. His mother, state Rep. Phyllis Henderson, “sang in Greenville Chorale. She was always very musical,” he said. “In elementary school she made me start taking lessons, and I hated it. But she kept on me to do it for a while, and then I branched out and played guitar and drums and bass in middle school and high school.” In fact, Henderson didn’t come back to playing keyboards until 2 1/2 years ago, when Dank Sinatra formed while the band members were all students at the University of Georgia. “I’ve kind of come full circle,” he says. “When we started, we were kind of just goofing around, but as we started playing more and more, I started recalling a lot of things I’d done. I actually started taking lessons again recently, just to hone my skills and get where I’d like to be.” Henderson says he always enjoys coming home and playing at the Handlebar. “We played there last December, and with me being from here, I try to make sure we always have at least one Greenville show on our tour schedule. We’re pretty excited to be playing at the Handlebar again.” Contact Vincent Harris at vharris@communityjournals.com.

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She was playing at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas and attended a rally at a gay and lesbian center there protesting California’s Proposition 8 that eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry in that state. Somebody asked her to say a few words, so she told the crowd she was proud she had gotten married. It was on CNN before she was able to get back to her hotel room. “Coming out made me funnier,” she said. “I can say exactly what I want without tiptoeing around anything. It was so liberating.” Sykes, who Entertainment Weekly calls one of the 25 funniest people in America, will bring her comedy to the Peace Center on Sunday. She said her show will be in large part about her life and family. “My comedy is grounded in reality. It’s pretty much based on whatever is going on in my life,” she said. “We’ve got everything going on, and it’s funny. I mean, I’m black, married to a woman and have two white kids.” She even finds humor in a not-so funny subject: breast cancer.

“We’ve got everything going on, and it’s funny. I mean, I’m black, married to a woman and have two white kids.” Comedian Wanda Sykes

Sykes had gone in for breast reduction surgery when it was discovered she had ductal carcinoma in situ, abnormal cells inside the milk duct in the breast and considered the earliest form of breast cancer. DCIS is not life-threatening itself but can increase a person’s chance of developing an invasive breast cancer later on. Because there was a history of breast cancer on her mother’s side of the family, she decided to have a double mastectomy. “I went through it less than a year ago and now I have brand-new perky boobs,” she said. “Hey, I’m fine. I’m healthy. I’m happy. I just want to encourage women to get checked. Some don’t because they’re afraid they might have something.” The show will also talk about poli-

tics, a favorite subject of comedians and a never-ending source of material for them. “Don’t expect an Obama rally, but there will be a little politics up front,” she said. “But it is just ridiculous, especially when you call people on figures and what they’re saying. They do not let the truth get in the way of their sweet lies.” Sykes said when politicians “sling a load of bull crap,” they should get slimed like the show on Nickelodeon. “We deserve better than that. We as Americans deserve better than that,” she said. “It’s not just Republicans. It’s both parties.” Sykes said in addition to touring, she is working on a special with other comedians to encourage people to go out and vote. In addition to her stand-up career, Sykes has had roles in television – “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” – and movies: “Evan Almighty” and “Monster-in-Law.” She had her own late-night talk show on the Fox network. She’s also done voices for animated films such as “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” “Rio” and “Barnyard.”

Her children, now three years old, are starting to recognize her voice in animated films. “When we’re watching, they’re starting to turn around and look at me, and you can tell they’re thinking, ‘It’s not her, it can’t be,’” Sykes said. Sykes is continuing her tour and is hosting “NewNowNext Vote With Wanda Sykes,” two one-hour specials on the Logo network featuring a roundtable format with panelists from both sides of the political aisle. The first show was aired four days after the Democratic National Convention. The second will air on the night before the election, Nov. 5. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@ greenvillejournal.com.

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As Jack Cohan and Miles Hoffman judged the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Senior Showcase in 2009, two students – Audrey Cook and Ben Chen – commanded their attention. The pair – now seniors in college – will command the attention of Greenville again as the featured performers in this year’s Music on Sundays concert series opener, “Jack Cohan and Friends,” on Oct. 14. “From the first time I heard them, I knew I had to bring them back to Greenville,” said Cohan, a pianist and former Peace Center executive director who serves on the concert series committee. Cohan also knew the concert would have to feature Beethoven’s Trio, Opus 11, for piano, clarinet and cello. Cook is a senior at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she is pursuing bachelor’s degrees in music and mathematical decision sciences. She was in the Carolina Youth Symphony for five years and won the Concerto Competition in 2007. She was first stand cellist with the UNC Symphony Orchestra during her junior year. Chen is a senior at the Cleveland Institute of Music and performs as principal clarinetist of the Ohio Philharmonic Orchestra. He was the principal clarinetist of the Carolina Youth Symphony and a senior honors soloist in 2009. In 2010, he was concerto soloist at the Kennedy

SO YOU KNOW WHAT: Music on Sunday concert series WHERE: Temple of Israel, 400 Spring Forest Road, Greenville WHEN: Oct. 14 – Jack Cohan and Friends

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Audrey Cook (top) and Ben Chen will be the featured performers in the Music on Sundays concert series opener on Oct. 14.

Center after winning the Summer Music Institute concerto competition. “They are both wonderfully talented,” Cohan said. November’s Music on Sunday concert, set for Nov. 18, will feature Pan Harmonia. On Jan. 13, the Greenville Brass Quintet with Sherwood Mobley will perform. The Greenville Brass Quintet features Joe Hughes, the principal trombone with the Greenville Symphony; Phil Elkins, GSO’s co-principal trumpet; Jens Larsen, a trumpet player with the GSO and the Augusta Symphony; Don Strand, GSO’s principal tubist; and Anneka Zuehlke, who plays the French horn. Mobley is the principal timpanist from the GSO and is on the Governor’s School faculty. The American Chamber Players will play a concert on Feb. 24. The final concert is March 17 and will feature Veronika Jackson. All of the concerts begin at 3 p.m. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already, but it’s time for St. Francis Fall for Greenville again. This three-day festival, held in the heart of downtown Greenville, will feature nearly 40 of the Upstate’s best restaurants serving up samples of their menus, and 56 different musical acts on five different stages. Fall for Greenville kicks off at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12 and ends at 7 p.m. on Sunday. The schedules for the various stages are below, along with our picks for the best shows. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12: Michelin on Main Stage (corner of Main Street and Camperdown Way) 5:30 p.m. The Buchanan Boys 7 p.m. Outshyne 9 p.m. The Piedmont Boys Main Stage (Washington Street) 6 p.m. The Kelly Jo Connect 7:30 p.m. Ponderosa 9 p.m. Orgone Steve White Audio Stage (Peace Center Amphitheatre) 8 p.m. Jim Quick & Coastline Carolina Ale House Stage (E. McBee Avenue) 5 p.m. Cecil Thompkins 6:30 p.m. James Justin & Co. 8 p.m. The Black Lillies 9:30 p.m. Chatham County Line

Main Stage (Washington Street) 1:30 p.m. Old You 3 p.m. The Soulfeathers 4:30 p.m. Kingston Springs 6 p.m. Truth & Salvage Co. 7:30 p.m. Lucero Steve White Audio Stage (Peace Center Amphitheatre) 3 p.m. City Street Band 5 p.m. Encore 7 p.m. The Flashbacks Carolina Ale House Stage (E. McBee Avenue) 1 p.m. The Ragged Orchids 2:30 p.m. The Tarlatans 4 p.m. Brave Baby 5:30 p.m. Elonzo 7 p.m. The Apache Relay Furman University Jazz & Blues Stage (corner of Main and Broad streets)

5 p.m. Secondhand Jazz Band 6:30 p.m. The Jamie Wright Experience 8:30 p.m. 5th & York

12 p.m. B Natural Jazz Quartet 1:30 p.m. Leisha J 3 p.m. Soul Stew 4:30 p.m. Greenville Jazz Collective 6 p.m. Wanda Johnson 7:30 p.m. The Splitz Band

BEST BETS: You can’t go wrong with the Kelly Jo Connect. Kelly Jo is one of the most dynamic, multifaceted singers in the Upstate, and her band can handle any genre. The Piedmont Boys’ frenzied bluegrass attack is always fun, too.

BEST BETS: Catch the heartfelt rock of The Ragged Orchids at 1 p.m. spend your afternoon with the roaring electric blues of Mac Arnold and Wanda Johnson, then check out the Springsteen-style rock ‘n’ roll testifying of Will Hoge in the evening.

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12 p.m. Stereo Reform 1:30 p.m. Lionz of Zion 3 p.m. TJ Lazer & The New Detroits 5 p.m. Cravin Melon

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3 p.m. Jumpstreet Band 5 p.m. The Dynamic Breakers Carolina Ale House Stage (E. McBee Avenue) 12 p.m. WPOS 1:30 p.m. Four 14 3 p.m. Lyric 4:30 p.m. The Broadcast 6 p.m. The Work Furman University Jazz & Blues Stage (corner of Main and Broad streets) 12:30 p.m. Furman University Jazz Band 2 p.m. Shannon Hoover Trio 3:30 p.m. Wade Baker Jazz Collaboration 5 p.m. Calvin Edwards Trio

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BEST BETS: The Work is one of Greenville’s best bands, fusing muscular funk, jamband exploration and jazz chops, but Justin Townes Earle (Steve Earle’s son) has a keen songwriter’s eye that’s worth checking out, as well.

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The Furman Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos will present a concert on Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. at Furman University. Highlighting the concert are big band selections by the Count Basie Orchestra, Neal Hefti, Oliver Nelson, Cole Porter and Charles Mingus. The concert is open to the public. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students. For more information, contact the Furman University Music Department at 864-2942086 or furmanmusic@furman.edu. Triune Mercy Center will host an art show on Oct. 13, 2-4 p.m. The show will feature work created by Triune artists and refreshments. In addition, the center’s pastor, Deb Richardson-Moore, will be signing copies of her new book, “The Weight of Mercy” during the show. Triune Mercy Center is located at 222 Rutherford Street, Greenville. For more information, visit www.triunemercy.org. A second project created by South Carolina-based Dark Corner Films will premiere on Oct. 18 at 9 p.m. on SCETV. “Landlocked” tells the incredible story of how freshwater striped bass were spawned due to the formation of South Carolina lakes. The film’s story and inspiration came from executive producer Rich King, a passionate striper fisherman. The striped bass is now stocked in lakes in nearly 40 states and is one of America’s greatest game fish. Learn more at www.landlockedfilm.com. Authors of “Kimberly’s Flight,” Anna Simon and Ann Hampton, will discuss and sign their book on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 1 p.m. at the Pickens County Museum. The book focuses on the story of Easley native Captain Kimberly Hampton, America’s first woman combat pilot killed in battle, told through nearly 50 interviews, her emails and Ann Hampton’s narrative. Books will be available for purchase at the event. In conjunction, an exhibit of photographs of Iraq by Cindy Hosea will be on display in the museum throughout October. The museum is located at 307 Johnson St., Pickens. For more information, call 864-898-5963 or visit www.co.pickens.sc.us/culturalcommission. The Bohemian Cafe will host The Marshall Hood Band on Oct. 20, 8:30 p.m. Marshall Hood is a founding member of The DesChamps Band and former member of The Belleville Outfit, which performed at Bonnaroo, Merlefest and Austin City Limits. For more information, call 864-2330006 or visit thebohemiancafe.jaconsulting.com.

information, contact the Furman University Music Department at 864-2942086, or furmanmusic@furman.edu. The Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts will present the Fountain Inn Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Fifth on Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. Cost is $5-$10. For more information, visit www.ftinnarts.org or call 864-4091050. Abstract art by Furman University alumna Katie Walker, ’92, will be on display Oct. 8-Oct. 26 on the Furman campus. A reception and gallery talk by Walker is scheduled for Oct. 18, 6:30– 8:30 p.m. Walker’s work is described as “occupying a space somewhere between abstract expressionism and color field painting.” For more information, contact Frances Ashley in Furman’s Department of Art at 864-294-2074 or frances.ashley@furman.edu.

“Over the Rainbow” by Pat Cato . Mixed media on canvas, 24 x 24. This piece is dedicated to Cato’s 15 year old dog, Petee, who passed away last month. Cato’s works can be viewed at Bin 112 Restaurant in downtown Greer and Ellie’s Uptown Cafe in downtown Greenville. www.patcatoart.com

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The Pickens County Museum of Art & History will host the Eleventh Annual Hagood Mill Storytelling Festival on Saturday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Hagood Mill in Pickens. The hills around the old mill will echo with the whispers, howls and hollers of some of the Southeast’s best storytellers sharing bits about all sorts of folks, funnies, cultures and places. Featured storytellers include John T. Fowler, Doug Elliott, Connie Regan-Blake, Sheila Kay Adams and Judy Seeley. For additional information, call 864-898-2936 or 864-898-5963 or visit www. co.pickens.sc.us/culturalcommission. The Furman Symphony Orchestra will perform its opening concert for the Sound Quality Concert Series on Friday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. at Furman University. The concert, “The Apotheosis of the Dance,” is open to the public and features works by Beethoven and Bernstein. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. For more

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The 9th Annual Cyder Cup, benefiting The First Tee programs of Greenville and Spartanburg, will be held Oct. 13-14 at River Falls Plantation in Duncan to raise money for both programs. The event has raised over $160,000 in its eight-year history, more than 80 percent by participating Cyder Cup players and alumni, to support life skills and golf education for area youth. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.thefirstteegreenville.org. The Greenville regional office of South Carolina Personal Pathways for Success and Clemson University are hosting a PSAT/SAT workshop from 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the University Center in Greenville. Cost for each participant is $20, with lunch provided for all participants who register in advance. The workshop is open to all high school students, but is designed for high school sophomores and juniors who will take the PSAT/NMSQT as part of National Merit Scholarship qualifying. There also will be a December workshop in Clemson. To register, contact Elaine Gray at 864-467-3620 or Teresa Kelley at 864-656-0676.

Shannon Forest students in seventh through 12th grades recently enjoyed the Windy Gap Spiritual Retreat in the mountains of North Carolina, which included a color run. Students ran in cabin groups from station to station and completed activities at each stop. Each stop also included getting splashed with color powder dye, which ended up with students sporting a tie-dyed look. Above: Senior Christa Bolton from Simpsonville smiles through her painted look after the retreat’s Color Run.

Carolina Youth Symphony is now accepting applications for their 26th annual Concerto Competition. There will be a $500 winner from both the piano and orchestral divisions who will be featured with the orchestra on their March 4 concert. Deadline for applications is Oct. 14 and the competition will take place on Nov. 22 at Furman University. Applications are available by downloading from www. carolinayouthsymphony.org or by emailing elmogvl@aol.com On Oct. 18 at 6 p.m., Dr. Steven Hughes, a leading pediatric neuropsychologist, will give a lecture at the Fountain Inn Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. This event is sponsored by Five Oaks Academy, the S.C. Department of Education, the S.C. Montessori Alliance, the Charleston County School District, East Cooper Montessori Charter School, Abner Montessori and Richland One South Carolina’s Capital Schools. “School 2.0: Is It Time to Re-Think Education?” will feature discussion on the challenges faced by educators in the 21st century and will consider some approaches that should be taken to create School 2.0. The lecture will provide insight into what neuroscience reveals about the direction of education. This event is open to the public and complimentary tickets are available at www.fiveoaksacademy.com. Washington Center students, families and staff celebrated the annual Challenge Day on Sept. 28, on the Bob Jones University campus. Challenge Day is the Special Olympics Developmental Games designed specifically for Washington Center’s students. The rousing “Parade of Athletes” opened the event, followed by developmental athletic events and the carnival town game fun. Washington Center students participated in the opening ceremonies: Jacob Ashmore led the Pledge of Allegiance, Ahnalliyah Wright repeated the Special Olympic Oath followed by the Passing of the Flame of Hope by torchbearers Sara Allen, Taylor Smittle and Charles Merritt. Submit entries to: Greenville Journal, Our Schools, 148 River Street, Ste. 120, Greenville, SC 29601 or e-mail: greenvillecommunity@greenvillejournal.com

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Charming completely remodeled home in sought-after Augusta Road area is move-in ready! Great open floorplan just under 1,800 sq. ft. features beautiful, refinished hardwood floors, a new granite kitchen with stainless steel appliances (all remain!), separate dining area with built-ins, and large great room with wood-burning fireplace and french door opening to large backyard. The home also features a new master suite addition and separate mud-room/laundry area, 3 additional bedrooms and a 2nd full bath. An expansive, rocking-chair front porch and brick patio with wrought iron fence are perfect for enjoying the outdoors. Recent updates include: complete home renovation, new master suite with walk-in closet and bath, all new duct work, new HVAC unit, new electrical service, new laundry room, new granite kitchen with stainless steel appliances, refinished all original hardwood floors, new brick patio and more! HOME INFO Just minutes from Augusta Circle school and Augusta Price: $329,900 | MLS#1245531 Road’s shopping, dining and 4 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 1600-1799SF fitness facilities, the Swamp Augusta Circle Elementary Rabbit Trail, area parks and Hughes Middle Greenville’s downtown. Don’t Greenville High miss this fabulous house!

Contact: Virginia Hayes 864.313.2986 Prudential C. Dan Joyner, Co.

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109 ROLLESTON DR - $775,000 5BR/5.5BA. Energy Star home constructed by Goodwin-Foust. Must see! From GVL 385 S to Roper Mtn Exit & turn L, Go about 5 miles to R into SD on Chamblee, 3rd L on Sable Glenn, R on Rolleston Margaret Marcum/Leigh Irwin,, 420-3125/3807755 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1245950

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300 GLADSTONE WAY - $375,000 4BR/2.5BA. Fabulous open floorplan with 4BR down & bonus rm up. Wood floors greet you at the front door. Designer paint colors. Batesville Rd to Dillard, Turn Right at 2nd entrance, Right on Gladstone. Norm MacDonald, 313-7353 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1246137

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39 DOUGLAS DR - $245,000 422 SLATE DRIVE - $169,900 319 HUNTSLET WAY - $167,900 3BR/2BA. Many upgrades aldready done. 3BR/2BA. Immaculate all brick ranch home, 625. Better than new! This lovely, well mainOpen floor plan w/updated kitchen. Blythe 3 car garage, great SD, hdwds & fnc yd. Hwy tained single story plan has it all. All of the Elementary. Sidewalks, near GCC. Augusta 9 off I-85 towards Boiling Springs, go into rooms are spacious. The vaulted ceiling in Road to Douglas, Home on left near the Boiling Springs until you see the Walgreens, the great room, kitchen and dining area make Greenville Country Club Phyllis MacDonald, turn Left at Walgreens, SD on Left Brenda it feel even larger. Barb Ryan, 864-630-1987 313-7353 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. Ledford, 414-9332 Prudential C. Dan Carol Pyfrom Realty MLS#1248178 MLS#1246298 Joyner Co. MLS#1246501

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11 QUEENSBURY ROAD - $162,500 3BR/2BA. Classic brick ranch on big lot, private deck and backyard. Close to Furman. Hwy 25 towards Furman, Talke Old Buncombe Rd, exit Left on Old Buncober Rd, Right on Duncan Chapel, Left on Queensburg. Robyn Gillis, 9155723 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. MLS#1246564

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Coldwell Banker Caine Names Upstate’s Top Producers from August September 27, 2012 – Coldwell Banker Caine recently recognized its top producing agents in property sales and listings from each of its five offices – Easley, Greenville, Greer, Seneca and Spartanburg – for the month of August. The top producing agents from each office are ranked by the total volume of business closed last month and include:

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· Easley: Susan McCoy, Carol Walsh, Heather Parlier · Greenville: Sharon Wilson, Phyllis Rawlinson, Jacob Mann · Greer: Faith Ross, David Glenn, Alicia Waynick · Seneca: Jere duBois, Pat Loftis, Connie Williams · Spartanburg: Francie Little, Kaye McIntyre, Trish Hollon As a premier provider of full-service real estate in the Upstate, Coldwell Banker Caine is a nationally competitive firm that has the highest per person productivity in the Upstate. The company offers quality residential and commercial real estate services across Greenville, Spartanburg, Oconee and Pickens counties. Family owned and operated, Coldwell Banker Caine has been providing service beyond the contract to the Upstate community since 1933.

Ruskin Square at Hollingsworth Park It’s happening at Verdae. Ruskin Square at Hollingsworth Park features a new style in city living with maintenance-free lawns and homes interset amid shared pocket parks, plazas and pedestrian-friendly streetscapes. It’s an easy stroll to the 20-acre central park and residents enjoy being close to everything. Classic homes are under construction now. Buyers may build the custom home of their dreams or select from a

collection of the pre-approved land/ home packages that are priced from the mid $200s. Premium lot selections are going fast, so plan a visit soon. The community’s Sales Office, located at 18 Shadwell Street, is open daily. For more information, call (864) 3298383 or visit www.verdae.com.

Land/Home packages from the mid $200s Lot Sizes: 40’x100’ and larger Pelham Road Elementary Beck Academy JL Mann High School

2 Azure Lane | $246,000

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Milestone selects another top provider for 2012 Inspiration Home It goes without saying that it takes a lot of materials to build an 11,000 sq. ft. home. Thanks to GBS Building Supply, the 2012 Inspiration Home will be constructed of the highest quality products as well. A long-time supplier for Milestone Custom Homes, GBS has made numerous deliveries since the home broke ground in February. In fact, GBS trucks won’t stop until the final day of construction–now fewer than 45 days away. Bob Barreto, Chief Executive Officer for GBS, wouldn’t have it any other way. “The Inspiration Home is exactly that–an inspired project that demands our very best,” he said. “We’re pleased to provide a long list of featured products for the showcase home.” Founded in 1972 by ten Upstate homebuilders, GBS has constructed a lasting reputation for selling only the 48 G R E E N V I L L E J O U R N A L | OCTOBER 12, 2012

highest quality products made by the country’s leading manufacturers. GBS is employee-owned and has grown from humble roots into an ever-expanding company in four strategic locations–Anderson, Six Mile, and Greenville, SC and Hendersonville, NC. In 2011, the former GBS Lumber rebranded itself as GBS Building Supply to reflect the company’s growing expertise in installed sales, green products, remodeling and renovation design services, and commercial applications. In addition to lumber and plywood, GBS sources millwork, windows, doors, decking, cabinets, countertops, roofing, siding, insulation, trusses, hardware, sheetrock, brick, stone, and much more. From start to finish, as it is proving with the 2012 Inspiration Home, GBS Building Supply has solutions for any construction or remodeling endeavor. To learn more about GBS Building Supply, visit www.gbsbuilding.com.

The 2012 Inspiration Home is a grand 11,220 square feet residence constructed by Milestone Custom Homes of Greenville in an architectural style reminiscent of the late 1800s– but with the latest in modern conveniences and technology.

Tour the Home: November 29 - December 2 December 6 - December 9 To see this spectacular home within Verdae in Greenville, purchase tickets now. Visit www.ihomesc.com for details. 100% of ticket proceeds go to two deserving charities – the Greenville Humane Society Ǥ Ǥ ƥ of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

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September 24, 2012 – Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® is pleased to announce that Lisa Cornwell Rourk has joined the company and serves as a sales associate at the Pelham Road office. An Upstate native, Rourk graduated from J.L. Mann High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Clemson University with a major in Spanish and International Trade and a minor in International Tourism Marketing. Rourk has an extensive career spanning 11 years in the real estate industry. She served as a Broker with ERA Tides Realty in Charleston, SC and most recently served as Broker In Charge and co-owner at Tide Marsh Real Estate, also in Charleston.

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October 1, 2012 – Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® is pleased to announce that Angela Sue Burnett has joined the company and serves as a sales associate with the Yukich Team at the Pelham Road office. Originally from Newark, Delaware, Burnett graduated from South Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Carolina with a major in Humanities. Following graduation, she remained in the Carolinas as a freelance photographer. “We are really pleased to have Angie join our company”, said John Moore,

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“We are really pleased to have Lisa join our company”, said John Moore, Broker-in-Charge. “She is a wonderful addition to our Family.” Rourk is married Lisa Rourk with three children, and she returned to the Upstate 2 years ago. She is actively involved as Ways & Means Cochairman at Greenville Sister Cities International. She serves on the PTA at Northwood Middle, volunteers at Riverside High and Buena Vista High Schools and attends Grace Church.

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Broker-in-Charge. “She is a wonderful addition to the Yukich Team.” Burnett currently resides in Greer with her husband, Kent and children Abby 16, and Kent Jr. 13. Angela Burnett She homeschooled her children for 12 years and is actively involved as treasurer of Family Touch, a local home school support group. She spends her free time traveling, reading, doing cross stitch and continues to enjoy photography.

Joye Lanahan receives Certified Distressed Property Expert Designation October 8, 2012 – The Marchant Company is proud to announce that Joye Lanahan, has completed invaluable training and has received the Designation of “Certified Distressed Property Expert” (CDPE) with an emphasis on Short Sales.

her the ability to share with her clients short sale solution opportunities, and avoid the emotional complications of foreclosing. She now joins the ranks of other CDPE agents helping to provide more stabilization to our community.

This prestigious certification provides Joye the opportunity to better serve and help her clients and the community in need of foreclosure and short sale expertise. CDPE training has equipped her with the right tools, processes, and education to help her clients avoid unmanageable circumstances that can lead to foreclosures. Joye’s specific understanding of the complex issues facing the real estate market, affords

The Marchant Company was founded in 1993 as a family business, and has continuously grown to meet the needs of the broad real estate market in Greenville and Upstate South Carolina. The company has recently expanded its offerings with full-service auction services, residential leasing and management services, and a relocation services department. After 15 successful years, the company is known as the Upstate’s “Signature Agency”.

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING Hearing of the Commission to enlarge the boundaries of the Greater Greenville Sanitation District to include certain properties located on Edwards Road off E. Lee Road, Hartsville Road off Watson Road, Altamont Road off Lake Circle Drive, Bald Rock Drive off Club View Drive and to provide public notice thereof. PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that on October 23, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. in the Education room of the Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission Headquarters located at 1600 West Washington Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29601, a public hearing will be held for the consideration of enlarging the boundaries of the Greater Greenville Sanitation District to include certain properties located on Edwards Road off E. Lee Road, Hartsville Road off Watson Road, Altamont Road off Lake Circle Drive, Bald Rock Drive off Club View Drive and to provide public notice thereof. Anyone wishing to be placed on the Agenda for Public Comment is asked to call Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission at 2326721 extension 215 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday thru Thursday. Public comments will be limited based on the number of persons addressing the Commission. Public comment can also be posted on the website. www.GGSC.gov Chuck LaGrange Public Affairs Department Greater Greenville Sanitation 1600 West Washington Street Greenville, SC 29601 P. 864-232-6721 F. 864-232-7967 W. www.ggsc.gov

SOLICITATION NOTCE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Southside Estates Subdivision in Greenville County, Improvements, on November 6, 2012, 3:00 P.M. A mandatory pre-bid meeting and site tour will be held at 9:00 A.M., EDT, October 22, 2012 at Greenville County Procurement Services Office, County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillevillecounty.org or by calling 864-467-7200. PUBLIC NOTICE City of Greenville, South Carolina Department of Public Works PO Box 2207 Greenville, SC 29602 Phone: (864) 467-4345 Fax: (864) 467-4303 Full Cost Disclosure-Fiscal Year 2012 The City of Greenville, SC in compliance with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control’s Regulations R.61-107.2, “Full Cost Disclosure” of the 1991 South Carolina Waste Management Act hereby publishes the following report of cost of providing solid waste management services to the citizens of Greenville (based on population, 58,409) for the fiscal period ending June 30, 2012. Program: Solid Waste Collection Net Annual Cost: $4,140,798 Program: Solid Waste Disposal Net Annual Cost: $488,037 Program: Recycling/Composting Net Annual Cost: $446,937

SUMMONS AND NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SPARTANBURG IN THE FAMILY COURT SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Case No.: 2012-DR-42-1254 South Carolina Department of Social Services, Plaintiff, vs. Dorothy Lopez, Abel Lopez. And the minor children under the age of eighteen (18) years: Tristan Loborio Lopez (DOB: 09/03/2003) Yolanda Cheyenne Lopez (DOB: 09/26/1999) Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANTS: DOROTHY LOPEZ AND ABEL LOPEZ YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights in this action, the original of which was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Spartanburg County, South Carolina on May 7, 2012, a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request and to serve a copy of your answer to the Complaint upon the undersigned attorney at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days of the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time stated, the Plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to respond or appear at the final termination of parental rights hearing in this matter you may lose your parental rights to the above named child. DEBORAH MURDOCK (SC Bar No. 7640) Attorney for Plaintiff 116 Renaissance Circle Mauldin, South Carolina 29662 (864) 213-1097 (864) 213-1098 (fax) Mauldin, South Carolina October 10, 2012

Total: $5,075,772 Cost Per Capita: $87.00

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Kugel Korp LLC/ DBA Tilties, 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 1004 West Georgia Road Suite D, Simpsonville, SC 29680. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than October 14, 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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Clemson gets the ball back on downs as the Clemson defense stops Georgia Tech’s Tevin Washington on a key fourth-down play in the Tigers’ 47-31 win at Death Valley.

The Greenville Free Medical Clinic is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The clinic first opened its doors on Nov. 11, 1987.

Greenville Free Medical Clinic Executive Director Suzie Foley holds up a photograph from the early days of the clinic’s dental care during the clinic’s kickoff of its 25th anniversary. A donated dental light was held in place by some creative engineering by the dentists, who tied surgical gloves onto the light to keep it from moving.

Greenville Vice Mayor Pro Tem and District 2 Representative Lillian Brock Flemming presents Greenville Free Medical Clinic Executive Director Suzie Foley a proclamation by the city proclaiming Sunday, Nov. 11, as Greenville Free Clinic Day during the kickoff of the clinic’s 25th anniversary.

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Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. Realtors recently kicked off their 2012 United Way Campaign with an event at Fluor Field. This year, Prudential C. Dan Joyner’s goal is to raise 10 percent more than last year. All money donated this year will be given in memory of C. Dan Joyner, the company’s founder.

Recently, approximately 100 students of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School in Greenville put their permanent mark on their new school that is under construction. One of the main beams used to support the roof of the new gymnasium was signed with permanent markers by each student along with faculty, staff and administrators. Later the beam was lifted by crane and placed into its permanent position. The new school is scheduled for completion next spring.

Children attending the 48th Annual Freaky Friday carnival at Sara Collins Elementary School have fun at the carnival’s photo booth. All proceeds raised at the carnival were for reading enrichment programs at the school. The event covered three acres of Greenville Tech, and featured seven large fair rides and 20 booths.

Generations Group Homes recently hosted a private performance at Centre Stage for its Volunteer Appreciation Night. The event drew more than 200 of Generations’ supporters for a night of music and gratitude. The event featured country music duo Jameson Clark and Eric Huffman of Palmetto, along with newcomer Hannah Peeples. For more information on Generations Group Homes, visit www. generationsgroup.com. Above: Brian Clark, Generations’ facility director, expresses his gratitude to the nonprofit’s supporters.

Right: Greenville Tech Gives Back, an initiative that brings students, faculty and staff together to perform community service, sent a group to Gideon’s House. There, volunteers painted, prepared a garage area for pouring concrete, and cleaned up the yard. Gideon’s House is provided by Homes of Hope as a residence for men overcoming addictions.

Jameson Clark of Palmetto sings a self-penned original song at Generations Group Homes’ Volunteer Appreciation Night. Generations works with at-risk boys ages 10-19.

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The Symptoms By ashley holt

Halloweak After several decades of consistent failure, I have to conclude that I’m no good at Halloween. It’s embarrassing. I mean, I pride myself on being a creative type, moderately well versed in geek culture, and I’m certainly a fan of the holiday and all its paraphernalia. But I’ve never been able to make a worthwhile contribution to the festivities. Even as a kid I usually made a lastminute scramble to throw some reasonable facsimile of a costume together, just enough to qualify for candy collection. Maybe that was the problem – I got the candy anyway. I was rewarded for minimal effort, even though I felt instinctively that I should be trying harder. The Halloween marketplace certainly made minimal effort easy. In the early years, I’d just snatch one of the Ben Cooper boxed costumes off the shelf at Edward’s department store and that was it. Slip into the plastic poncho (usually sporting the name of the character you’ve selected in neon, traffic-resistant colors), strap on the irritating face mask and you’re ready to roll. But even then I noticed a disparity between the majority of these costume options and the theme of the holiday itself. What did Minnie Mouse and Spider-Man have to do with Halloween? Shouldn’t your Fonzie mask at least include a hatchet in the head to fit the general ambience of the Witching Hour? It never made sense to me. But my attempts to go gruesome were pretty lackluster, too. I discovered I could add green food coloring to my mother’s foundation makeup and get a decent

Frankenstein shade. I’d slap that on my face, sometimes with some black around the eyes, and then … well, that’s about as far as it went. “Green-Faced Dude.” It resulted in candy, so I kept that up for a couple of years. But eventually, I began getting interested in movie monsters and the makeup techniques of guys like Jack Pierce and Rick Baker and wanted to try something more elaborate (in keeping with my advancing maturity). I bought a fancy kit to make a werewolf face. It turned out to be fairly impressive. The mask was a thin, white, rubber face piece that was pasted over the nose and forehead, with a snarling werewolf snout built into the mold. Your real chin

was exposed, so you could talk and growl realistically. The whole face-and-mask combo would be covered in several shades of brown makeup. A little brown on the hands, add a flannel shirt, and viola – man-wolf on the prowl. It looked great. The trouble was that my neighborhood pals felt they had outgrown Halloween by then, or at least became more interested in the hedonistic vandalism of the holiday than the dress-up part. So I was on my own. And whether or not your costume rocks, it’s no fun to trick-or-treat by yourself. I had a repeat of that scenario the following year in my even more elaborate Phantom of the Opera getup, feeling the same loneliness that drove the original Phantom into the sewers of Paris. I was getting to the age where Halloween parties should have been preferable to door-to-door begging. Unfortunately, in my neighborhood, a “party” usually meant getting drunk behind a dumpster, not apple-bobbing among orange streamers and crepe paper bats. My final Halloween costume consisted of a Superman shirt and full-head Yoda mask, both of which just happened to be lying around in my room. I was just happy no one could tell it was me. There were a few Halloween party invites in later years. I either resurrected the Green-Faced Dude or ignored it altogether in favor of my preferred Halloween activity: staying home with the lights off (to deter trick-or-treaters) and watching Karloff and Lugosi movies. Meanwhile, many of my contemporaries continued to get into costume

each year – not only at Halloween, but at comic book conventions and “Star Wars” premieres and the like. Through my past failures, I eventually realized I had no taste for getting dolled up in character. After all, those makeup men I admired applied their designs to OTHER people, leaving the potential embarrassment all over the actor’s well-compensated head, while they remained human. Over the years I’ve known a few people who’ve been employed at theme parks, dressing up like Scooby and Goofy to entertain kids. My first thought on hearing about these gigs was always “hot and sweaty and humiliating.” What could be the appeal? Invariably, they’d tell me they enjoyed getting “lost in a character,” forgetting themselves and letting the ego dissolve into cartoon stupidity. This must be the core difference between them and me. Being myself has always been too much of an eternal chore without the added pressure of temporarily becoming SpongeBob. Halloween is not a holiday for the self-absorbed. Unless, of course, Ben Cooper comes out with an “Ashley Holt” costume just for me. Ashley Holt is a writer and illustrator living in Spartanburg. His neurotic quirks and extreme sensitivity to broad social trends are chronicled in The Symptoms, an illustrated blog. Check out his website at www. ashleyholt.com.

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