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The new pros and the owner of the Green Valley Country Club, from left: Brandi Jackson, golf instructor; David Lee, gravity golf instructor; Mike Kaplan, owner; and Preston Harris, head golf professional.

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Green Valley’s ‘first class’ revival

By DICK HUGHES | contributor

“I want do things first-class,” said Michael Kaplan as he showed off the patio bar he crafted of mahogany for the new swimming pool at the Green Valley Country Club. “I want to do it one time and do it top-shelf.”

Which is why he is replacing garbage cans with receptacles of mahogany and the new driving range is not open: He hasn’t finished making the bag holders.

“You can buy these aluminum bag stands for $100 apiece, but I am building 20 custom-built mahogany stands with Green Valley stainless steel logos and aluminum plating on the bottom.

It’s going to look like furniture.”

Kaplan is not the resident woodworker. He’s the owner – and he is rebuilding what he says was once the pride of the Upstate’s elite.

Founded in 1958 on 170 acres in the Blue Ridge foothills along the Reedy

River near Furman University, Green Valley County Club had aspirations of becoming a smaller Augusta National. But the exclusive social and golf club fell on hard times and lost its cache, Kaplan said.

“This was a great club back in the ‘60s and ‘70s; but over the course of some 30 years, it hit some rough patches with new competition from Greenville Country Club and Thornblade,” said Kaplan.

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Darla Booher, owner of Deal Depot in Greer, on her early days in the car sales business.

“It’s scary, but fun.”

Anderson artist Nikki Caldwell, on the process of handcrafting metal jewelry.

“It’s not a matter of whether we are going to be successful.

It is how quickly we are going to get there.”

Green Valley Country Club owner Michael Kaplan, on his comeback plans for the 54-year-old golf and social club.

“For some of them, college is not a part of the conversation in their family.

For some, graduating high school isn’t even part of the conversation.”

Genia Webb, a math teacher for the new Early College Program for disadvantaged students Greenville County Schools will launch this fall.

“When I first got there, some fans would say, ‘Coach, if you beat Clemson, I don’t care if you lose the rest of them.’ What sort of attitude is that?

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To get underachieving students from low-income families to graduate from high school, Greenville County Schools must first get them thinking about college.

Such is the thinking behind the new Early College Program the district will launch this fall, with a first class of 40 rising sixth graders zoned for Tanglewood and Lakeview Middle schools.

The middle school program will be housed at the University Center, a consortium of seven of the state’s colleges and universities.

“For some of them, college is not a part of the conversation in their family. For some, graduating high school isn’t even part of the conversation,” said Genia Webb, a math teacher for the Early College. “We want these students to be the first generation removed from poverty.”

Students in the program scored between the 20th and 40th percentile on standardized tests in at least one subject and come from families whose income makes them eligible for free or reducedprice school lunches.

The Early College Program will expand by a grade a year until it goes through 12th grade. High school students enrolled in the program will have the opportunity to enroll in dual-credit classes so they receive college credit while earning the units necessary to receive their high school diplomas.

Middle school students will visit the campuses of the school district’s three university partners – Clemson University, Furman University and the University of South Carolina Upstate – at least once a semester to participate in enrichment and academic activities, said Principal Mark Joseph.

Joseph, a Greenville native, said no one in his family had gone to college when he was growing up. College to him meant school colors and football. That’s until his cousin went to South Carolina State University.

“It gave me a picture of what college was,” Joseph said. When his cousin’s name was called out during the commencement ceremony, Joseph told his mother he wanted his name called out like that.

“It changes your life,” said Joseph.

“That’s what we want to do here.”

The Early College Program is receiving support from Michelin North America, the Community Foundation of Greenville, the Hollingsworth Foundation, the Jolley Foundation and the Symmes Foundation.

Students in the program will have access to an after-school tutoring program led by university instructors in reading and math. The program will also feature enrichment activities.

The middle school program will feature an integrated curriculum and a system of delivery unlike any other middle school.

John Esposito, a science and social studies teacher, said the program looks exactly like what he and some teacher friends dreamed up when they asked each other what the ideal school would look like: small classes, teachers of different subjects working together and a curriculum infused with technology.

Webb said many students who drop out are smart – and bored.

“Education is marketing,” she said.

“Like a business, we’ve got to give it in a way (students) are ready to receive it and in an environment that is tweaked to their situations.”

Esposito likens it to learning the words to a song. As somebody hears it more often, the words become a part of them.

The 40 students just completed a summer camp designed to give students and teachers a chance to get to know each other and get a jump-start on the school year.

The program focuses on literacy, math, science and critical thinking skills in middle school. Students will take all honors classes as freshmen in high school. They’ll get a chance to earn college credit as upperclassmen.

Each classroom will have school district teachers as well as students from Clemson’s master’s education students and undergraduates from USC Upstate.

The program is being patterned after one in Massachusetts. In that program, all members of its first three high school graduating classes went to college. Nearly all were the first members of their families to go to college.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@greenvillejournal.com.

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Death by phone call South Carolina’s persistent bike/car divide has gone on testy display once again thanks to a quartet of Upstate politicians who staged a last-minute intervention to kill a road restriping plan sought by residents and business owners who hoped to reduce accidents by slowing traffic.

Bias clearly trumped policy in the Greenville case: Three of the four made it plain they deep-sixed the “road diet” proposed for Old Buncombe Road because they resent cyclists sharing streets with cars.

Most telling from a public policy viewpoint was the explanation given the Journal last week by DOT Commissioner John P. Edwards, who represents Greenville, Spartanburg, Laurens and Union counties on the state Transportation Commission.

A single phone call can’t change a DOT project, Edwards told Journal writer April Morris, but when “two politicians call, you listen to them, because we are elected by the delegation.”

So against written state and local transportation policy, a 400-signature neighborhood petition, federally vetted safety benefits and road traffic counts that meet state criteria for the redesign, two legislators can kill the restriping project without a single vote.

Or public meeting, or opportunity for any kind of public input from the neighborhood. Edwards could not be clearer about whom he represents: not the people of Greenville, Spartanburg, Laurens and Union counties, but the legislative delegations that give him his power.

Secure in their own power, Sen. Mike Fair and Rep. Dwight Loftis brushed off safety research, state policy and community support for the project, which would restripe the stretch between West Blue Ridge and Cedar Lane roads from four lanes to two, with a center turn lane and bike lanes on both sides.

“It makes no sense to reduce the number of cars because of a few bicycles,” Fair told the Journal.

Decreasing driving lanes for “essentially recreational usage” gives cyclists “a free ride at the inconvenience and expense of the public,” chimed in Loftis.

Most cyclists also drive cars and pay gas taxes, but the legislative prejudice above ignores the reality that some taxpayers walk and bike by necessity, especially in these economic times. Those who do so from the San Souci, Poe Mill and Monaghan Mill areas face obvious hazards on Old Buncombe Road.

Neighborhood petitioners say the targeted one-mile stretch is too narrow to safely accommodate four traffic lanes. Its configuration – no buffer between opposing travel lanes; power poles flanking the outer lanes – is “unsafe for users and unsuitable for neighborhoodoriented businesses,” the petition states.

Residents and business owners say motorists routinely exceed the 35-mph speed limit and near-misses are frequent as patrons try to back out of parking lots. Federal research shows road diets reduce accidents by 29 percent, according to the Federal Highway Administration, and roads with fewer than 20,000 daily car trips are good candidates. The state DOT puts Old Buncombe’s daily traffic count at 6,500 to 8,000 cars.

It has been state DOT policy since 2003 to include provisions for bicycling and walking in all its “planning design, construction and operating activities.” State law classifies bicycles as vehicles and prohibits their use on sidewalks. Cyclists use Old Buncombe Road out of necessity.

Minds need to change here, starting with Greenville County Councilman Willis Meadows, who is busy keeping his head down after triggering the road diet’s demise – again, not by public forum or council vote; just a phone call to Loftis and Fair.

No 10-month neighborhood crusade should die by phone call. Revive the project, gentlemen. You owe your constituents better than this – motorists, walkers and cyclists.

Start tech learning early Greenville has made great strides in the past decade when it comes to embracing a culture of technology.

Our businesses and schools are realizing that for Greenville and the rest of the Upstate to compete in a growing and rapidly changing economy, technology firms need to be starting, growing and locating here. It is no small task, but one that is imperative.

The recently released 2012 Regional Economic Scorecard shows that Greenville and the rest of the Upstate continue to lag behind the nation and our peer regions when it comes to per capita personal income. That means that while people are bringing home better incomes, our area is not growing at the same rate as the rest of the nation.

This survey also showed that the number of people employed in computer and mathematical jobs has decreased slightly in recent years. More technology jobs will help raise per capita personal income.

As my company and others seek to hire software developers and designers in the Greenville business community, there are already limitations due to this decrease. We need to grow that number if we are to succeed.

That is why we need to start tech training early. How early? Children need to be seeing the technology sector as a career option and choice by third grade.

While serving as a Junior Achievement ambassador this past school year, I explained that to the students this way: First, I asked them how many of them played video games. The answer, as one can guess, was almost 100 percent. I then asked if they ever heard of something called Atari. The heads shook “no,” so I drew a diagram on the black board of the original video game, Pong.

Not surprisingly, they failed to

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be impressed by the concept, but I explained to them that without always looking at ways to expand and develop technologies, Pong would still be the only game on the market.

This is not a call for parents and educators to play video games with children, but to expose them to the ideas of how these technologies are created. We need young children understanding where the technology they use every day comes from.

But starting technology training early is only one part of the solution if the Upstate is going to become a tech hub in the future. We are doing a lot of things right in the Greenville area, but we can do more to emulate cities that are the major clusters of tech talent, such as Austin, Seattle and San Jose.

We need to have an environment that attracts new talent. We need to bring our best and brightest in the community together to discuss and look for ways to make that happen.

We need to see what other communities are doing to make sure we don’t get left behind in the technology field.

Greenville has always been an innovative business market, and we can do the same thing in the technology field. It is imperative that we do so if our economy is to keep moving forward.

Chris Manley is the managing partner of Engenius, a Greenville-based firm that specializes in serving businesses, nonprofits and entrepreneurs through Web design, mobile apps and online marketing. Learn more at www.engeniusweb.com.

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A student tour of the State House Guide: Welcome, boys and girls, to the South Carolina State House. I will be your guide and will answer your questions as we tour our state capitol. First, we will see the legislative branch from the Senate visitors’ gallery...

What do these guys do?

Guide: They make the laws. But first, they have to get elected.

My daddy said a dumb law kept some people from getting elected this spring. Is that the kind of laws they make?

Guide: He was talking about the primary election. Some people were decertified because they didn’t follow the rules.

What’s “decertified,” and what rules?

Guide: Decertified means they weren’t allowed to run. South Carolina law 8-131356 says you have to give a Statement of Economic Interest to the official along with your application to run. Some emailed, it since that’s what another law said.

Two laws saying different things? No wonder daddy said it was dumb. Why didn’t the official ask for both?

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Guide: The law says he was supposed to, but some forgot.

Did those guys down there give him that “comic interest” thing?

Guide: No, they didn’t have to file the Statement of Economic Interest, because they were already in office. The law says “in office,” but a judge said “in the office.”

It’s complicated – we’ll talk about it when we see the Supreme Court.

You mean everybody didn’t have the same rules?

Guide: Yes, they were all treated equally, but equal for some was different than for others. It’s hard to explain.

Me and Tommy and Jimmy have a club.

We have a secret handshake and password, and girls aren’t allowed – that’s the reason you have a club. But we want a clubhouse.

Daddy says there is a good ol’ boys’ club in

Columbia – can we see their clubhouse?

Guide: They don’t have a clubhouse. I mean, they aren’t a real club like you and your pals. Well, it’s too complicated for you to understand. Any other questions?

If there isn’t a club to keep girls out, where do the women senators meet?

Guide: The men and women senators meet together. There just don’t happen to be any women senators.

Why? Aren’t they allowed?

Guide: They’re allowed, but people think they aren’t experienced enough. Time to move along. We’ll go to the executive branch next. Here is the governor’s office.

Who is that lady sitting in there?

Guide: She is the governor.

She must not be important, not like being a senator.

Guide: Oh yes, she is very important. She tells the legislators what laws she wants. She enforces the laws. She is more important than a senator, but don’t tell anyone I said that. Now we’ll go to the Supreme Court...

You said you would explain the “comic interest” law when we came over here.

Guide: Some people who were decertified asked the Supreme Court to say they should be allowed to run. The Court said the law was clear and meant what it said.

It did not say it was constitutional, since that was not the issue.

What guy runs the Supreme Court?

Guide: It’s not a guy. It’s another woman. Yes, just between us, she also is more important than a senator.

What about adding the word “the” to “office”? Do judges have psychic powers, to read lawyers’ minds?

Guide: Well, I see our time is up. I want you to know that you can sleep peacefully tonight – your government is here to watch out for you.

Robert E. Boone is a retired engineer and observer of the political scene living in Greenville.

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Green Valley’s owners kept up with golf course improvements, but fell short with social activities and amenities, he said.

“What people fail to realize is the majority of people join country clubs for the social aspect of the clubs, not for the golf. Once you have the social side of the club, that’s how you build membership.”

After expensive renovations in 2001, the club found itself unable to keep up with the debt. The Bank of Travelers Rest took over in foreclosure on a $2.25 million mortgage.

“It went broke,” said Harry W. Holland, a 25-year member and club historian.

In early 2011, the bank hired Pinnacle Golf Properties of Charlotte, N.C., to manage the club. Unable to attract new members or hold existing ones, Pinnacle opened the course to the public. Membership fell from 300 to around 100.

By that point, Holland said, the club “was well on the way (down). When you opened it up to public play, it was sort of a sign of desperation.”

When the bank asked for bids on the club last summer, Kaplan said he “gave the bank what the note was. There were people who bid much lower than us, but we wanted to do the right thing if we were going to take it over.”

In the 13 months he has owned the club, Kaplan has spent well over $2 million on renovations, reshaping two holes and building a driving range, short-game practice area, new swimming pool, fit-

The Green Valley Country Club has redesigned and renovated several areas. The formerly enclosed patio area is now an outdoor patio featuring new landscaping and a fire pit.

ness center and outdoor patio dining area overlooking Paris Mountain.

“The reason I like Green Valley is that it a great layout. It has incredible potential. My goal here is to have this as one of the top five golf courses in the state, and I have a three- to five-year plan to get to that point.”

Kaplan said full golf membership is growing at about 20 a week and he expects it to top out by next spring at around 300 – a good number “because a lot of the clubs in the area have a lot more members than that, and it is very difficult to actually get out there and play golf.”

A pleasant surprise has been the number of inquiries from the Cliffs Communities, where the clubs and golf courses are working their way through bankruptcy. “I never thought we would market towards the Cliffs Communities, but there are some frustrated people up there who are moving to Greenville for a club.”

In addition to full golf membership, Green Valley has tiered-priced junior, corporate, sports, social and nonresident memberships, the latter tying in with Kaplan’s long-term vision to offer “townhouses on the golf course you can rent and stay for a long week-

end. That’s down the road, but it is in the master plan.”

His primary target would be parents of Furman students who visit the campus three times a year and could “stay here rather than the Hampton Inn and play golf and tennis for a couple of days.”

Running a golf club is a first for the 50-year-old Kaplan, but he said “this is small” compared to challenges he’s faced running enterprises held by his family business, Kaplan Enterprises of Liberty.

Among the holdings is Cornell Dubilier Electronics.

“Golf courses are a big investment, but there are certain golf courses that can do very well with the right footprint, the right location and the right demographics,” he said. “Honestly, of the 100 golf courses on the market today, there might be three or four you might actually make a go at. This happens to be one of them.”

With membership categories catering to interests from golf to yoga to dining – plus a liberal policy of making the club available for fundraising by local charities – Kaplan believes Green Valley will attract broader segments of the community and revenue will increase. “Then we can spend more on improvements to the golf course.”

While Kaplan has a sentimental desire to see Green Valley restored to its elite status, he is under no illusions about the competitive market he faces with the area’s other private clubs and the Cliffs.

The goal, he said, “is to have a

JOURNAL COMMUNITY country club every bit as good as those, have every amenity they have, but be more competitive.”

Green Valley is “our investment,” he said. “If I mismanage the country club and can’t make money, we are not going to you and say, ‘Geez, we had a couple of tough years and need an assessment.’”

With most business acquisitions, “you are looking for a quick return of 5 to 10 percent,” he said. “A golf course is a longer return on your investment, but it is going to be around for a long, long time. It’s not a matter of whether we are going to be successful. It is how quickly we are going to get there.”

Holland, who has followed all the ups and downs of Green Valley, thinks Kaplan “is doing an excellent job. He’s doing a much better job than we ever could.”

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

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Green Valley builds professional staff

By DICK HUGHES | contributor

In addition to concentrating on improvements to Green Valley’s golf course, clubhouse, swimming pool and fitness center, Michael Kaplan spent his first year of ownership building the professional staff.

Most of the employees from the prior regime are gone.

“I wanted people who want to contribute to this club, people who want to build this together and make it special,” Kaplan said. “We’ve got a great group around us now.”

He commissioned Jan Bel Jan, one of three female members of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, to tweak the George Cobb-designed course to make it more appealing to women, seniors and junior golfers “while retaining strong appeal for low-handicap and longhitting players.”

Kaplan brought in Brandi Jackson, an LPGA tour professional and 2012

Furman University Hall of Famer, to base Brandi Jackson Golf at Green Valley, recruit members, coach golfers of all levels, run the pro shop and direct tournaments.

Jackson’s program is particularly focused on junior golf and “social events and stuff

“I wanted people who want to contribute to this club, people who want to build this together and make it special.”

Mike Kaplan, owner of the Green Valley Country Club

like that with women.” She played eight years on the LPGA circuit.

David Lee, who takes a scientific approach to swing techniques and is recognized by Golf Magazine as one of the top 100 teachers in the game, was bought in

to operate a golf academy and, like Jackson, to work closely with Furman’s golf program.

“We can teach everybody – from total beginners to the highest level of progression players,” said Lee, who has “worked with 30 major champions in my career.”

Jackson and Lee operate their businesses semi-autonomously, but Kaplan said the more people they bring to their teaching schools the more the club will benefit from potential members.

Preston Harris, who was membership director, was promoted to head golf pro.

Harris is a PGA member and completed the PGA’s professional golf management program.

Kaplan brought in Hank Samra as clubhouse manager, Oliver Elston as tennis pro, Julie Goldberg as water fitness instructor and Lisa Pridemore as yoga instructor.

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

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The Great Epidemics

Considering Hip Replacement?

Thurs., Aug. 16 • 6:30-8 p.m. • Hendricks Library Branch (Simpsonville) Local historian Dave Partridge will discuss the great epidemics, such as yellow fever, cholera, polio and Spanish influenza. Free; registration required. To register, call 963-9031.

GHS Drs. Brandon Broome, Brayton Shirley, Brian Burnikel and Philip Wessinger are the region’s first surgeons to perform the anterior approach to hip replacement, which means less pain and faster recovery.

Find out more at steadmanhawkinscc.com/joint.

Prostate Screenings Thurs., Sept. 13 • 6:30-8:30 p.m. • North Greenville Hospital Tues., Sept. 18 • 5:30-7:30 p.m. • Hillcrest Memorial Hospital Tues., Sept. 25 • 5:30-8:30 p.m. • Greer Memorial Hospital Men age 50+ or those with a family history of prostate disease are urged to schedule an exam. Free; registration required.

Be the Match! Save a Life!

Thurs., Sept. 20 • 3-7 p.m. • Greenville Memorial Hospital Help a patient needing a bone marrow donor by joining the BE THE MATCH® registry! Just complete a registration form and give a cheek swab of cells. Must be 18-60 years old. Learn more at BeTheMatch.org.

InQuickER Holds Your Spot for ER & Urgent Care Save a place in line at any GHS MD360® or ER. Just register online at ghs.org/inquicker, wait in the comfort of your home (or wherever), arrive at your projected time and see a nurse within 15 minutes! This optional service is for non-life threatening and minor emergencies.

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Cancer Centers of the Carolinas (CCC) Joins GHS CCC and GHS officially joined forces July 1. This acquisition combines the largest cancer care provider in the Upstate with the Upstate’s premier academic medical center. Learn more at ghs.org/cancer.

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Eating at ‘the healing table’ Author to highlight history of African cuisine at Slow Food Upstate fundraiser

By APRIL A. MORRIS | staff

Some of our treasured Southern foods, like succulent okra and a summer favorite, watermelon, were not born in the region, but came over with Africans who were forced into slavery.

For decades, author and food historian Jessica B. Harris has studied how Africans, stripped of their family, freedom and homeland, still preserved some of their culinary heritage and contributed to how Americans eat.

On Aug. 18 and 19, Harris is coming to the Upstate for Slow Soul, an event sponsored by Slow Food Upstate. On Aug. 18, she will present a free lecture, “The Healing Table: Using the Meal as a Way to Heal the Family,” at the Sterling Community Center.

“I’ve been interested in food and eaten well all my life,” Harris said. Her enthusiasm was heightened during her experiences as travel editor for Essence magazine in the 1970s. As she traveled, Harris began to notice similarities among food traditions worldwide and penned her

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The most recent book by Jessica Harris is “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America,” published by Bloomsbury USA.

JOURNAL COMMUNITY first book, “Hot Stuff,” about how food was made with chilies around the world.

After the first book, “I realized I was more interested in history and background than recipes,” Harris said. Several books followed, including “Iron Pots & Wooden Spoons” and her latest, “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America.”

“I don’t think, living in the South, people realize how special having a cultural food tradition is, because most of the time

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those are disappearing. When a food culture disappears, we feel that you lose a lot of your identity,” said Janette Wesley of Slow Food Upstate.

“We typically don’t have a special speaker, but I felt like this event really called for it because bringing in an expert in this area would really boost the community’s interest in this genre of food that we have that gets kind of skipped over.”

For “The Healing Table” program, Harris said she wants to encourage families to move away from the computer, television or other distracting devices and gather again at the table.

“I almost want them to sign a pledge,” she said. “We as a nation have gotten away from family dinners around the table, and that is a very important locus for conversation and for rearing … It’s where kids learn manners, where people learn how to be sociable with others and how to ‘play nice.’”

If families could eat around the table once a week, once every two weeks or even once a month, Harris said there would

be “invaluable benefits.”

Harris will also be guest presenter at a garden party and dinner, “Same Boat, Different Stops,” as part of a fundraising effort for Slow Food Upstate’s grant program. The evening will be an African-Atlantic culinary journey examining how African food plants have influenced the foodways of the American South.

Harris said she will likely focus on foods related to South Carolina and the South in general, as featured in her book, “High on the Hog,” a narrative history of African-Americans and food.

Dinner proceeds will benefit the Thousand Gardens in Africa program, which uses small donations to establish a Slow Food regional director, who in turn teaches people in the region how to raise small gardens.

Wesley said bringing Harris to the area was a plan two years in the making. While at the biannual Slow Food gathering, Wesley learned about the Thousand Gardens in Africa program. She had also read Harris’ books that focused on African food influences.

SO YOU KNOW WHAT: Slow Soul, an event sponsored by Slow Food Upstate

Saturday, Aug. 18, 5 p.m.

“The Healing Table: Using the Meal as a Way to Heal the Family,” lecture by Jessica B. Harris. Sterling Community Center, 113 Minus St., Greenville. Free Sunday, Aug. 19, 6-9 p.m.

“Same Boat, Different Stops,” garden party and dinner with Jessica B. Harris Cost: $50, $40 for Slow Food Upstate members. For information and tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/255014 or www.slowfoodupstate.com

“I just thought she would be the perfect person to bring to the area,” she said.

Wesley says both events fit with Slow Food’s mission of “good, clean and fair.” The dinner, open to 75 diners, will also feature organic food and as many locally sourced ingredients as possible.

The Sterling Center event also fits with the organization’s mission of making the events as accessible as possible to as many people as possible, Wesley said.

The location, the former site of Greenville’s only all-AfricanAmerican high school, Ster-

ling High, was chosen because “it has such a tie to the local community and local AfricanAmerican culture.”

Harris says the location will bring added resonance to her lecture. “The thing that’s so wonderful about food is that it’s a lingua franca, a language we all speak. It’s a language in which we all have opinions and are entitled to our opinions. I think that food allows discussion of so many other things with a little less contention.”

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

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Understanding Pancreatic Cancer

Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day

Tues., Aug. 21 • 12:15-1:15 p.m. • Greenville Memorial Hospital Bring lunch and join GHS surgical oncologist Brian McKinley, M.D., for a discussion on pancreatic cancer. Free; registration required.

Sat., Sept. 15 • 10 a.m.-2 p.m. • West End Community Development Center Obtain health information and get free prostate screenings. Free clinical breast exams (this is not a mammogram) also are available. For information, visit 1073jamz.com.

Stroke Forum Sat., Aug. 25 • Noon-2 p.m. • Hilton Greenville Clinicians will discuss signs and risk factors for stroke, as well as getting treated quickly to reduce disability. Lunch provided. Free; registration required.

Reclaim Your Life With Bariatric Surgery

Arthritis Awareness

Thurs., Sept. 20 • 6:30 p.m. • Anderson Road Library Branch John Scott, M.D., a GHS bariatric surgeon, will discuss surgical options for weight loss. Free; registration required.

Thurs., Aug. 30 • Noon-1 p.m. • Hilton Greenville Join GHS orthopaedic surgeon Brandon Broome, M.D., to learn what causes arthritis and the latest treatment options. Free; registration required.

To register, for more information or to see a full schedule of events, visit ghs.org/360healthed or call 1-877-GHS-INFO (447-4636).

Girlology & Guyology Sun., Sept. 9, 16, 23 & 30 • Times vary • Patewood and Simpsonville Medical Campuses These sessions help ease the transition into puberty through open discussion. Session fee: $50 for mom/daughter or father/son. For topics or to register, visit the events page at girlology.com.

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Rabid bat found in GHS revises sterilization protocol takes extra precautions Simpsonville home Hospital after 11 patients potentially exposed to deadly brain disease

By JERRY SALLEY | staff

The second confirmed rabid animal of the year has turned up in Greenville County.

A bat found in a Simpsonville home has tested positive for rabies, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control announced Monday.

DHEC officials did not release the address of the house, nor did they report whether the rabid bat had bitten anyone.

“Bats have small teeth that might leave marks not easily seen,” said Sue Ferguson of DHEC’s Bureau of Environmental Health. “Some situations require medical advice even in the absence of an obvious bite wound.”

Ferguson urged anybody who wakes up to find a bat in the room, or who sees a bat in the room of an unattended child, to “seek medical advice and have the bat tested.”

Rabies is rare in humans, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with only one or two cases typically reported each year. However, most of the recent human rabies cases in the U.S. have been caused by exposure to rabid bats, the CDC said.

“About 275 South Carolinians are advised to undergo preventive treatment for rabies every year, with most exposures from being bitten or scratched by a rabid or suspected rabid animal,” Ferguson said.

The first line of defense against a suspected infection is to “immediately wash the affected area with plenty of soap and water,” advised Ferguson. “Then be sure to get medical attention and report the incident to DHEC.” Medical treatment for rabies usually involves a series of injections over a two-week period, the CDC said. Treatment is only effective during the disease’s two- to 12-week incubation period. Once symptoms – which can start early on as “flu-like symptoms” including fever and headache, and can progress within days to cerebral dysfunction, hallucinations and insomnia – have appeared, death usually occurs within days.

The best prevention advice may be the simplest, said the CDC: “Never handle a bat.”

For more information, visit www.scdhec.gov/rabies or www. cdc.gov/rabies.

Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@greenvillejournal.com.

By APRIL A. MORRIS | staff

The Greenville Hospital System announced last week that it will be changing the sterilization protocol for instruments used in all brain surgeries, following the discovery that 11 neurosurgery patients could potentially have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in February and a subsequent investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and National Prion Center.

The hospital said in a statement that the process for instrument sterilization was followed after discovering a patient had CJD, as was the policy regarding how to handle CJD cases.

“No patient safety error occurred and no mistakes were made,” the statement said. However, the hospital announced GHS staff will increase the sterilization temperature of all instruments used in brain surgeries, going beyond the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations.

The hospital notified all patients who could have been exposed after instruments used on an infected patient were later used in other surgeries, according to a previous statement from the hospital. Although the surgical instruments were already sterilized under “rigorous U.S. protocols,” the hospital said the CDC recommends additional sterilization for instruments exposed to patients with CJD. Dr. Thomas Diller, GHS’ vice president of quality and patient safety, said the hospital has “gone above and beyond what the CDC is recommending and changed our process to tag those instruments used in brain procedures and run those through at the higher temperature.” Scalpels will be thrown away, said Diller, but equipment such as drill bits and surgery drills will be sterilized at the higher temperature.

According to Greenville Hospital System’s director of infection prevention, Connie Steed, the

hospital uses steam sterilization for most instruments that can tolerate it, hydrogen peroxide for heat- and moisture-sensitive items, and sometimes ethylene oxide for those same items.

Diller says the hospital follows the CDC guidelines for sterilization. The maximum sterilization is not used on all instruments in all surgeries because CJD is so rare and the procedure damages the instruments, he said.

Diller said the increase in sterilization temperature “probably isn’t necessary, but we think it’s probably worth doing. There are patient safety issues and there’s a lot of patient concern about this and we’ll evaluate it as it goes on. We’re incredibly focused on patient safety in the organization and we’ll do whatever it takes to keep our patients safe and part of that is making sure they have confidence in us.”

Transmission of CJD through equipment is rare, with six cases reported worldwide and four of those cases associated with surgical instruments. The CDC said all of the cases were reported before 1976 and before routine implementation of sterilization procedures now used in health care settings.

Regardless, the CDC recommends the additional sterilization methods for instruments used on patients with a known CJD diagnosis.

Most contagions are killed with the use of heat and steam. However, due to the virulence of CJD and other transmissible spongiform encepalopathies such as mad cow disease, the World Health Organization recommends sterilization with either sodium hydroxide (soda lye) or sodium hypochlorite (bleach) in addition to steam sterilization.

“Normal sterilization process may be effective to prevent this disease,” Diller said. “The problem is, there are so few cases no one can do a study to prove that.”

Using steam under pressure for sterilization is the most widely used and dependable means of sterilization, according to the CDC. It is nontoxic, inexpensive and quickly kills microbes and spores.

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

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DSN board braces for audit By april a. morris | staff

The new interim board of directors for the Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs Board met for the first time last week with a full agenda covering bylaws, officers, finances and the budget. Near the end of the agenda, the interim board learned that the county agency is going to be audited by the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Interim executive director David Goodell said the audit will focus on compliance with Medicaid requirements, quality of care and past oversight of the local board by the state Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (DDSN).

The audit will cover July 1, 2009, through Dec. 31, 2011, and is “based upon adverse events that have been publicized in the last six months or so,” Goodell said.

Greenville County Council dissolved

the previous DDSN board in May after months of financial problems and ethical and transparency questions that sparked deep public distrust in its leadership.

State DDSN Executive Director Beverly Buscemi said an audit by the mother agency is “not unheard of, but it’s not an everyday occurrence … It’s because of the spotlight that’s been on the Greenville board as of late.”

A July 25 letter from DHHS to Buscemi said the audit will determine if there has been “adequate oversight at the Greenville DDSN Board and that services were provided.” The letter also said the audit will review client records for adequate documentation for services billed to Medicaid, facility oversight, financial management and the agency’s quality assessment process. It will also review the past death of a client living at one of the agency’s residential facilities.

DHHS spokesperson Jeff Stensland

said the audit began shortly after the letter was sent and he does not know when it will conclude. He said he could not comment on specific penalties that the agency may face if problems are discovered, only that there are a “range of actions” available based on audit findings.

In other business, the five-member board elected Alex McNair as president, Jay Rogers as vice president and Pearlie Harris as treasurer. The group also opted to keep the previous board’s meeting schedule of the fourth Thursday of each month at 6 p.m.

The board discussed amending the bylaws to reflect the structure of the new board, but opted to keep them as written and revisit if needed.

Contract DSN financial officer Robert Decker reported that the agency has turned its $1.5 million loss in 2011 into a $65,000 surplus in 2012. The improvement was achieved through reducing overtime, eliminating administrative positions and ad-

justing staffing patterns, he said.

The agency’s cash reserve, used to address capital needs, is virtually nonexistent at this point, he said.

“In terms of planning for capital needs, that is an issue that this organization has not done well in for many years … because the focus was on paying the staff,” said Goodell.

Asked by Ariail why the local agency did not avail itself of resources on the state level, Buscemi said, “There was a pretty significant amount of resistance to seeking help from the outside.”

The board voted to approve the $11.6 million 2012-2013 budget as drafted and revisit in October if needed.

The Greenville Disabilities and Special Needs Board is scheduled to meet again at the Patrick Center, 1700 Ridge Road, on Aug. 23 at 6 p.m. with a meet-andgreet with families at 5 p.m.

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

The news in brief BBB warns of campaign scams

The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to beware of scammers using the upcoming presidential election to separate them from their money.

“Scammers use incentives based on what they think voters want to hear,” said Vee Daniel, BBB president.

“Hot topics like health care, economic recovery and unemployment are sure to be the alluring topics this election season, but it can be anything in the news that makes the pitch sound more realistic.”

Here are just a few of the election-related scams the BBB says to be wary of: A public opinion poll with a recorded announcement may offer a “free cruise” in exchange for participating in a telephone survey. At the end of the call, consumers are asked for a debit or credit card number to cover “port fees” and taxes.

Consumers have also been contacted through fliers, social media, text messages and even door-todoor with claims that President Obama is providing credits or applying payments to utility bills. Scammers claim they need the consumers’ Social Security and bank routing numbers to arrange the payments.

In return, customers are given a phony bank routing number that will supposedly pay their utility bills.

Some fundraising calls for political donations may not be real. Consumers have reported calls from organizations that sound legitimate, but may not really be

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related to either the Obama or Romney campaigns. If you aren’t sure, don’t donate over the phone.

For more tips you can trust, visit www.bbb.org.

GSP lot closes for construction

Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport’s short-term parking lot will close Friday morning for construction of a new car entryway.

Cars currently parked in the short-term parking lot will have until Aug. 20 to exit.

As part of WINGSPAN, the GSP terminal improvement program, the short-term parking lot will permanently close as construction begins on the North Wing of the terminal. Once completed, the North Wing will sit in what is now the shortterm lot and will eventually house the airport’s administration offices.

Duke Energy probe reveals power struggle

Some internal discussions at Duke Energy have come to light as North Carolina utilities regulators disclose internal materials collected in an ongoing investigation into Duke Energy’s takeover of Progress Energy.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission posted more than 600 pages of emails and other information that Charlotte-based Duke Energy delivered to the regulators.

North Carolina officials are investigating Duke Energy’s surprise decision to dump Progress Energy CEO Bill Johnson as the chief of the merged companies just hours after the merger closed last month.

Many details of the merger’s internal power struggle were aired last month during hearings before the Utilities Commission. But the newly released emails underscore some of the anxiety that swept Duke’s boardroom as the $32 billion deal, creating the nation’s largest electric utility, became increasingly complicated and expensive.

In one January email, Duke CEO Jim Rogers disclosed that the mounting merger complications would prevent him from attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

In a May email, sent to Duke board director Ann Maynard Gray, Rogers expressed regrets that the pending merger had prompted two senior women executives to leave Duke for jobs in other states.

Both women “expressed deep concern about whether they would be valued at the new organization,” Rogers wrote to Gray. “Each had shared their concerns and disheartening conversations with their new bosses from Progress with me many months before receiving their offers.

“I am disappointed,” Rogers wrote. “I have worked diligently to create a pipeline of strong women leaders.”

The Utilities Commission approved the merger in June on the expectation that Progress CEO Johnson would head the combined company.

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Federal officials said the former Anderson County councilman and head of Atlantic Bullion & Coin is cooperating after pleading guilty to mail fraud charges.

“As we stand here today, I would paint a very dim picture,” attorney Beattie Ashmore, who was appointed as receiver by U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs, said during the plea hearing.

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“We returned $19 million about two months ago to over 4,000 victims,” Ashmore said. “We started with $17 million in the bank. We’re starting in this case with zero in the bank.”

That will change, he said. Assets such as Live Oak Farm, located near Woodruff, should net considerable funds.

The federal government has seized some funds, as has the state attorney general’s office.

How much victims will get back and when they will be paid is still undetermined, officials said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Watkins said Wilson’s plea is a standard plea agreement, not a plea bargain.

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There is no timetable for sentencing.

Judge Childs will sentence Wilson after receiving and reviewing a pre-sentence investigation report from the U.S. Probation Office.

The maximum penalty Wilson faces is 20 years’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for each count. Since he is charged with two counts of mail fraud, Wilson could be facing up to 40 years in prison.

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Tails will be wagging and feet will be flying this month during the Greenville Humane Society’s first annual Mutt Strut. The Aug. 25 fundraiser is a 5K run and walk, with or without four-legged companions, beginning at First Baptist Greenville and ending in Cleveland Park.

“This is the only local 5K run and walk in the area with dogs,” said Humane Society executive director Kim Pitman.

Runners raise money for the event and donors may also sponsor a runner.

Participants may also form teams to compete, Pitman said.

And whether they are pushing a stroller or vying for a top time, teams like “Pawtourage” and the “Ruff and Rowdy Rescuers” will be raising funds to support the Greenville Humane Society, a no-kill shelter that offers pet placement,

spay and neuter clinics, vaccinations and education.

Jill Bass and Lynn Nielsen, employees of ScanSource, have been volunteering weekly to walk dogs at the humane society for several months and plan to walk adoptable dogs in the Mutt Strut.

“We’re really excited about it, and we’re doing everything we can to get the word out,” said Bass, who added that they are encouraging other businesses to form teams.

Upstate mom Tara MaGill said that her children worked at the humane society as part of a service camp this summer and her 11-year-old son wants to raise money with a snow-cone stand. In addition, the family of five will be walking with its dog, she said.

At the event, awards will be given for the top three overall finishers with and without dogs, the top three finishers in each age group, and the top three overall fundraisers.

“You don’t have to be a professional athlete to raise money for the humane society,” said Pitman. “We are hoping that young professionals and families will participate. This is the most family-friendly event that we’re holding this year.”

After all the walking and running is done, participants can cool off in the Mutt Strut Village at the finish, featur-

ing live music, refreshments and treats for both two- and four-legged competitors, including pizza from sponsor Papa John’s.

With initial word-of-mouth publicity, the Mutt Strut has already raised several thousand dollars, said Pitman, and several teams have employed creative fundraising, including a family lemonade stand.

The donations for the humane society can go a long way: $10 provides housing and food for one day, $30 provides formula to feed a newborn puppy or kitten for six weeks, $60 provides medical care for a homeless puppy or kitten and $100 allows a sick shelter pet to also receive foster care.

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

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Local company makes bibs for Olympic hopefuls Emediagroup also printed competition bibs for 2008 trials By april a. morris | staff

Elite athletes dream of being selected to compete in the Olympics. For local printer and media company Emediagroup, being selected to identify future track and field Olympians with personalized bibs was excitement enough.

Emediagroup co-owner Bill Bishop said that the chance to work on producing thousands of customized bibs for the competitors was an honor. “In terms of numbers it’s not the biggest event, but it’s possibly the biggest recognition of what we do,” he said.

Bishop’s company serves a niche market in producing the bibs that identify runners in various racing events, including those worn by competitors in the Olym-

pic track and field trials back in 2008.

This year for the Olympic trials, the company turned out more than 14,000 bibs, each with a competitor’s name and number. Bishop said most athletes received three additional bibs for keepsakes, including some with special graphics and metallic gold ink.

With a typical turnaround time of several weeks for this type of project, Bishop said his company had to create the Olympic bibs in less than a week – four days from phone order to delivery. In addition, the spelling of each athlete’s name had to be checked and rechecked for the event that would be viewed the world over.

“It adds a little bit of extra pressure,” he said.

The bibs were finished on time and Bishop says they were happy to print the Olympic versions – along with the millions of other bibs they have created to date.

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Helen Jones will be celebrating her 100th birthday at Rolling Green this coming Sunday.

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Helen Jones, the oldest living member of Spartanburg First Baptist Church, turns 100 on Sunday.

This Saturday, dozens of friends and family will turn out for a rousing good time at Rolling Green Village off Pelham Road in Greenville to help celebrate her centennial moment.

“The folks here love to eat,” said Jones’ daughter Annette Boehm, a retired Greenville schoolteacher. “They stay and stay, talk and talk.”

Jones is a sprightly lady who looks a good 20 years younger than her true age. For a woman who’s lived through some of the toughest times of the 20th century, she’s doing very well, indeed.

But it wasn’t always that way. Jones was born to William and Cora Turner in Spartanburg, the next to the youngest in a family with six children – three boys and three girls, she said.

When Jones was nearing school age, her dad, a part-time city constable and traveling salesman in the Lowcountry, was shot dead by a group of bootleggers he was questioning on a city street corner.

“We were heading for home and Daddy told Momma to go on into the house because he’d seen a group of men he needed to talk to,” she said.

“Momma herded us into the house while Daddy went back. He didn’t come home.

“It was front-page news for days,” Jones said. “Of course, they never caught the man who shot him.”

Also something most people only know by history books is that these were the days before Social Security.

“Momma was lucky,” Jones said. “Daddy had a pension since he was a Spanish-American War veteran. It was $60 a month, but we lived on that, and did well. I never went hungry.”

She and her siblings were in the family carriage with their mother some time later when the horse stumbled and flipped the buggy over on top of the children. “It was quite startling,” she said.

“Momma was driving the buggy with a babe in arms” – her youngest sister.

No one was seriously injured.

There was enough money in the household to send Jones to Asheville Teacher’s College in the late 1920s, where she completed a four-year degree.

The tuition was $120 a year, she said.

“That was a scandalous amount of money back then,” she said.

She met her husband, Clarence, while teaching in North Carolina. They eloped, and she quit teaching with the birth of her first child about four years later.

The couple stayed together for nearly 50 years and raised two daughters and a son.

He worked for Southern Railway until his retirement, and the couple went into retirement together. Clarence Jones died in 2002 at age 91.

Jones values the closeness her family has experienced over her 100 years. Her children come to see her regularly and she still attends a few services a year at Spartanburg First Baptist.

“Mostly she gets her services on TV now,” her daughter said.

“There are about 700 people here at Rolling Green,” Boehm said. “Mom and Dad lived in one of the townhomes until he died. Them Momma moved to one of the apartments here in the main building. She’s been blessed to have her health. Momma only recently had to start using a walker to get around.”

Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@greenvillejournal.com.

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Funeral traditions evolve, but Jerry Sizemore believes some things never change.

“Grieving families deserve genuine compassion,” he says. “They need professional services with a personal touch.”

community news, events and happenings

On Saturday, Aug. 18, AAAneurysm Outreach will offer free ultrasound screenings for abdominal aortic aneurysms to at-risk individuals who are 60 years or older. Pre-registration is required by Aug. 11. Call 866-371-3592 to register. Screenings take 10 minutes and will be available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Holiday Retirement at Westminster, 11 E. Augusta Place, Greenville. The risk for AAA increases for individuals who are age 60 and older, have a history of smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or a family history of the disease. For more information, visit www.

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During his 32 years as a funeral director, Jerry has seen memorial services—once mostly somber affairs— transform into creative expressions of lives well-lived.

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Upstate students ages 5 to 14 can participate in Subway’s Fresh Start Challenge. Kids can pick up an entry form at participating restaurants to begin tracking their good food and activity choices. The Fresh Start Challenge ends Sept. 30.

Each student who mails in the completed entry form will receive a coupon for a free Subway Fresh Fit kid’s meal or 6-inch sub sandwich. In the Upstate, two student winners will be selected by random drawing to receive a sub party for their classes and a $1,000 fitness grant for their schools. For more information, visit subwayfreshstart.com.

North Carolina author Marybeth Whalen will be discussing and signing her new Christian fiction novel, “The Guest Book” (Zondervan, paperback, $14.99), on Monday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. at St. Giles Presbyterian Church, 1021 Hudson Road.

The event is free and open to the public, but admission tickets are required. Tickets may be reserved by calling the event sponsor, Fiction Addiction, at 864-675-0540 or stopping by the store at 1175 Woods Crossing Road.

The 5th annual Upstate Women’s Show will be held Aug. 24-26, at the TD Convention Center. The show features food, fashion, fun and entertainment, all targeted to women’s lifestyles. The Upstate Women’s Show offers educational, inspiring and entertaining events such as the Bi-Lo cooking stage, fashion shows and Coffee Talk, A Mentoring Experience for Women (pre-registration for Coffee Talk is required and can be done at www.OurCoffeeTalk.com).

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“Today when someone dies, rather than mourn, people want to celebrate his or her life,” he says, explaining that Mackey Mortuary specializes in personalized funerals as unique as the loved ones they honor. “Society is moving away from the more traditional service.”

A native Greenvillian and an avid Clemson fan too, Jerry consistently gives back to the community he loves. After 20 years volunteering on behalf of local schools, for example, he was named Honorary Life Member of the South Carolina and National PTAs. Mackey Mortuary. We are here for you…since 1872.

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Thus Jerry dedicates his career to guiding people through life’s most difficult moment. His gentle confidence puts others instantly at ease, while his mild humor minimizes tension during a not-so-normal time.

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The Greenville Technical Charter High School Board of Directors recently announced the appointment of Robert “Bob” Bayne as interim principal. Bayne held the associate principal’s position at the school before retiring in 2010. Prior to working at GTCHS, he served as the principal for Riverside High School. Principal Fred Crawford recently announced that he will leave to serve as executive director for Legacy Charter Schools. Greenville Technical Charter High is a public chartered high school located on the Thomas Barton Campus of Greenville Technical College.

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The Guild of the Greenville Symphony will sponsor its 34th annual tour of homes in the Cleveland Park area of Greenville from Oct. 5 to 7. Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. To launch the tour, a Patron Party to honor the homeowners and the tour sponsors will be held at a Charleston-inspired home on Southland Drive on Oct. 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. Advance ticket purchase is required for the Patron Party. Driving directions and maps, along with ticket locations and additional information will be available at www. guildGSO.org. Tickets prices are $20 in advance and $25 on tour days. All proceeds will benefit the Greenville Symphony. For further information please call the Guild Office at 864-370-0965.

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The Commerce Club, a member of the ClubCorp family of clubs, announced that it will participate in the 2012 ClubCorp Charity Classic, ClubCorp’s major annual philanthropic open-house event, on September 28. In 2011, the popular ClubCorp Charity Classic raised more than $1.7 million nationwide for the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Augie’s Quest and other deserving charities. The Commerce Club cordially invites the public to attend the Charity Classic “Endless Summer Party” on Friday, Sept. 28, 7-11 p.m. Cost is $40 per person, and the event is open to members and the public. The event will feature luau-style foods and Hawaiian decorations, and summer chic dress is encouraged. The ClubCorp Charity Classic will benefit MDA’s Augie’s Quest, ClubCorp’s Employee Partners Care Foundation (E.P.C.F.), a fund created to help ClubCorp’s employees and their families by providing financial assistance in times of crisis, and United Way of Greenville County. To participate or to sign up for this event, visit www.clubcorpcharityclassic.com or call 864-232-5600.

The Homes of Hope 8th annual golf classic is scheduled for Oct. 23 at the Cliffs at Keowee Falls. Register by Aug. 30 for a discounted rate. For more information, visit www.homesofhope.org/events_golfclassic.aspx.

The Reserve at Lake Keowee Community Foundation was recently named Volunteer of the Year in the Civic Organization category by the S.C. Department of Education. The organization was nominated by Dr. Tom Polidor, principal of A.R. Lewis Elementary School. As part of a mentoring program, resident volunteers from The Reserve at Lake Keowee were paired with at-risk students at the school to assist them in reaching academic and social goals. After one year, 82 percent of mentored students reached their reading or math goals. The volunteers were honored at a luncheon hosted by Dr. Polidor, Pickens County School District superintendent Dr. Kelly Pew, and S.C. Representative Davey Hiott.

On Friday, Aug. 17, Let There Be Mom supporters are being encouraged to wear purple in honor of the organization’s fifth anniversary of service to the Upstate. Over the past five years, with help from hundreds of volunteers and many generous sponsors, Let There Be Mom has been able to serve approximately 50 families. Volunteers help with scrapbooking, scanning photographs, sewing, errand running, special events,

Carolina Nephrology presented the National Kidney Foundation with a check for $5,100, which was raised during the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk. Funds generated from the walk will be used to provide resources to administer free health screenings, host educational sessions, improve treatment and support kidney research. general office work and more. Let There Be Mom is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the legacies of moms and dads with life-threatening illnesses.

Each March Bojangles’ raises funds through its in-store Shamrocks Against Dystrophy campaign to send children to MDA Summer Camp, providing campers with the opportunity to develop life-long friendships, try new activities, share interests and build self-confidence. More than $420,000 was raised this year to send hundreds of children to MDA Summer Camp. BOJ of Western NC, one of Bojangles’ largest franchise entities, provided lunch during the Pleasant Ridge Camp and Retreat Center’s MDA Summer Camp’s VIP Day Whole Foods is donating 5 percent of their sales to Loaves & Fishes on Tuesday, Aug. 21. Whole Foods donates over 1,300 pounds of food weekly to Loaves & Fishes. Whole Foods is open from 8 am-9 pm. Volunteers are also needed for in-store help on Aug. 18 to pre-promote this event and on Aug. 21 to help bag groceries and work the in-store display table to answer questions regarding the Loaves & Fishes’ mission. Volunteers can contact Bill Shell at 864-232-3595 or bill@loavesandfishesgreenville.org.

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Darla Booher, owner and operator of Deal Depot Inc., at the company’s Greer office.

The dealership also has offices in Inman and Spartanburg.

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A rarity in the car business Greer woman thrives in an occupation dominated by men

By JENNIFER OLADIPO | contributor

It might have been the ceiling fans that looked as if they could be in anyone’s den, or the pink flowers of the large, freshly watered plants, but something about the Deal Depot conference room felt comfortable. These were the personal touches of owner Darla Booher, whose Greer car dealership recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Booher has seen many

changes through her 25 years in car sales, but one thing remains the same: It is a business dominated by men.

Fewer than 10 percent of dealerships nationwide are owned by women. A study released last month showed that the number of women owning new-car dealerships dropped from about 7 percent in 2007 to just 2.8 percent last year. Booher is a

rarity in her field.

Before entering the automotive industry, Booher worked in leasing, repossession collections and skip tracing, or locating people.

After a start in New Orleans, she joined Bradshaw Automotive in 1999 and opened her own company in 2002.

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ship, which serves a particular niche in the industry. These dealerships tend to serve customers whose credit precludes them from getting financing at conventional dealerships.

Booher said surveys show that only Congress has a lower approval rating than car dealers, and BHPH dealers are sometimes accused of being predatory.

To the contrary, she said she enjoys making regular positive reports to credit agencies as people pay on time, helping them build or improve their credit and open doors to other opportunities. She said Deal Depot looks beyond credit scores, income and bank accounts to get a more complete understanding of why a person has poor credit.

“We try to look at what’s caused this,” Booher said. “Is this somebody who’s habitually not paid anybody, or did something happen?”

The tightening of lending drove customers to BHPH during the recession, when hundreds of dealerships were shuttering their doors. Booher said her customer base changed as people who would normally have been able to get financing at conventional dealerships found themselves unable to do so. At the same time, customers of all stripes were having difficulty making their payments, which meant Deal Depot needed to be more attuned to making sure purchases fit their budgets.

Booher said perhaps the greatest difference between BHPH and conventional car sales is the longer-term relationship between seller and buyer, whereas elsewhere the relationship ends when the car moves off the lot. She also emphasizes financial education, making sure that people understand all of the costs involved in buying and owning a car.

“It’s almost like we have to be a tutor,” she said.

In the beginning, Booher was the one on the receiving end of good advice and assistance. She found it crucial, not only as a person advancing her career, but as a single mother who had a child depending on her alone. She said she has received a great deal of support from male mentors and bosses. The problems were mostly in the early days, when male colleagues poured soda on her computer keyboard, or spit onto the earpiece of her desk phone. Customers were generally more accepting, but one man told her he would never buy a truck from a woman, no matter how much she knew.

So Booher made sure to know a lot.

She took every opportunity to receive extra training and information when available.

“I guess what I lacked in experience I made up for in enthusiasm, because I was out to show that a woman can sell cars,” she said.

Booher remains an active participant in industry training, winning awards for her contributions. Her continuing education paid off when she eventually set out to start a company with her own money, a small unsecured loan, and computers that were practically rent-to-own. She lived frugally and put everything back into the business.

Today Booher serves as secretary of the Carolinas Independent Automobile Dealers Association (CIAD), where the board officers are all male, except for Booher. Despite the difficulty of breaking in, her gender has turned out to be

an advantage. In an industry where people often expect to be ripped off, she said, women tend to be considered more trustworthy. What’s more, women make just over half of the car purchases in the United States, and influence the majority of the rest, so being able to understand, listen and relate to women is a major advantage, she said.

Booher prides herself on the diversity of her own 15-member staff, which has men and women in management and support positions. She said she has seen the car business become more technical and increasingly regulated over the years. She said the regulations have led to better treatment for customers. The technological onus is upon dealers to keep up with credit websites, social media, and business development software in order to remain competitive.

Booher said people also are no longer satisfied with getting just a paycheck from their jobs, requiring her to be flexible with her staff. She has worked around schedules for employees going through college, and once allowed an accountant to turn her office into a partial nursery while the employee’s child was an infant.

Such accommodations are rare in the car business, which is why dealers have trouble recruiting women, said Jody DeVere, who serves on the board of Women’s Automotive Association International. Even so, women dealers tend to perform better than their male counterparts, and they are in demand, she said.

DeVere also suggested that women who feel more comfortable while shopping for cars might be more comfortable selling them. In that light, the pink flowers at Deal Depot seemed less like a personal decorating choice, and more like a subtle buying cue from a master saleswoman.

Contact Jennifer Oladipo at joladipo@greenvillejournal.com.

Celebrating a company and its city

By Dick Hughes | contributor

ScanSource is planning a conference that will bring nearly 1,000 technology specialists and employers from the United States, Europe and Latin America into Greenville for three days, Sept. 10-12.

The “Next Is Now” conference will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Greenville company that has become No. 760 on the Fortune 1,000.

The company said the conference will bring ScanSource’s North America business units together in one place for the first time.

CEO Mike Baur said the conference agenda would focus “on the continued success of our key customers and suppliers. And, yes, it will be a celebration” of ScanSource’s 20 years of history.

Beyond three days of networking and business-build- Mike Baur, ing, ScanSource said, it will ScanSource CEO “showcase Upstate South Carolina as a business and tourism destination.”

Conference events will be held at hotels, venues in downtown Greenville and at the TD Convention Center.

Keynote speakers include John Jacobs, who founded “Life is good” and turned it into an $80-million business, and Joseph Jaffe, founder of Evol8tion and author of “Flip the Funnel,” a book about turning the marketing models upside down.

ScanSource is a global provider for bar-coding technology for point-of-sale devices. It also offers voice, video and converged communications equipment as well as physical security products.

It has more than 1,600 employees worldwide.

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

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Health care deductibles rising for employees statewide Costs offset by HSAs, HRAs and lower out-of-pocket maximums, new survey finds

By Dick Hughes | contributor

South Carolina employees are paying less for company health benefits than the national average but paying higher deductibles, according to a survey of 138 organizations across the state by Rosenfeld Einstein.

Offsetting higher deductibles are lower out-of-pocket maximums and programs putting employees in health savings accounts (HSAs) and using employerfunded health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) to assist employees with health care costs.

Rosenfeld Einstein said businesses are addressing health care costs by expanding programs such as HSAs and HRAs, instituting wellness programs, doing risk assessments and putting a price on, if not forbidding on premises, risky habits like smoking.

The survey indicates that the average premium for a preferred provider organization (PPO) in South Carolina is $406 for a single person, compared to the national average of $465.

However, “South Carolina businesses tend to require higher levels of employee contributions than do most national organizations,” Rosenfeld Einstein said. For PPO single coverage, South Carolina employees pay, on average, $92 of premium costs, versus $84 nationally.

The average PPO deductible in South Carolina is $1,339 for single coverage and $3,693 for a family, compared to $928 and $1,521 nationally.

For high-deductible group plans, the single coverage averages $2,255 in South Carolina, compared to $1,908 nationally.

That higher cost, Rosenfeld Einstein said, is partially offset by a lower out-of-pocket maximum – $1,331 in South Carolina and $2,935 nationwide. The typical state PPO maximum is $2,830.

David Slade, Rosenfeld Einstein’s vice president for employee benefits, said businesses in the state are at the forefront nationally in developing HRA plans to go along with high deductibles.

Under HRAs, companies contribute tax-deductible dollars to help reimburse

the employee’s out-of-pocket health care costs. Two years ago, he said, only 46 percent of surveyed plans across the state had HRAs and/or HSAs, and today 60 percent do.

“It is kind of viewed as a win-win” for employers and employees, Slade said.

Slade said rising higher deductibles and copays are part of a trend of controlling costs by making the cost felt by everyone who uses the system.

Companies are also instituting wellness programs that involve voluntary employee participation. The best of these programs ingrain wellness and healthy lifestyles as part of company culture, Slade said.

Other findings of the bi-annual survey include: Fifty-six percent of South Carolina employers offer employees the choice of more than one health care plan, and 9 percent offer three or more.

Copays average $27 per primary-care visit for PPOs, up from $23 a year ago, and $43 for visits to specialists, up from $32.

Seeing a specialist is becoming more costly, with 87 percent of company plans having higher copay than for primary care physicians, up from 78 percent in 2010.

Prescription drug copays are comparable to national averages.

Companies offering 401(k) savings plans or 403(b) profit-sharing plans declined to 75 percent from 91 percent in 2010. Of those that offer 401(k) plans, 73 percent provide a company match.

To compensate for high deductibles and maximum limits, long-term care insurance is offered by 19 percent of companies, cancer insurance by 35 percent and critical illness coverage by 29.

Howard Einstein, principal of the Greenville insurance agency, said 139 businesses from 30 cities participated in the survey, providing data representing more than 30,000 employees and dozens of industries. The survey was conducted online and company information is held in confidence.

“A key value of this initiative is in helping companies understand where they are competitively, both locally and nationally, in recruiting and retaining their best associates,” Slade said.

Nationwide, 53 percent of employees rank benefits as an important aspect of job satisfaction.

Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@greenvillejournal.com.

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4G Network Expands

Verizon Wireless soon will expand its 4G network in the 10-county Upstate region beyond the extension of services that began a year ago, the company said.

A spokesperson for Verizon said the faster service would be made available in most areas throughout the Upstate. She said more specific areas of coverage would be announced later this month.

The company initially launched 4G services in Greenville and surrounding areas “like Greer, Mauldin and Simpsonville” in June 2011. In July, Verizon said, 4G coverage was extended to downtown Spartanburg and surrounding areas.

“In August, our expansion will include additional sites in the core of Greenville as well as Greer and as far south as Simpsonville,” a spokesperson said.

“Currently, more than 73 percent of South Carolina’s population is able to experience the speed and benefits 4G LTE affords,” said Jerry Fountain, Verizon president for the Carolinas and Tennessee. 4G is 10 times faster than 3G, the company said.

Bearing Maker to Cut Workers

Timken Co. said it plans to eliminate 183 jobs at its Union County plant when it moves production of small bearings to other Timken plants in the Carolinas and overseas.

The company said production at the Tyger River plant would be concentrated on large-bore bearings that are greater than 24 inches. Small bearings make up about a third of Tyger River production, the company said.

Timken said it would eliminate 60 temporary jobs this year and 123 full-time jobs will be lost next year.

Aircraft Supplier Lands in Oconee

A.I.D. Co. has announced plans to expand manufacturing in Oconee County to make control rods used in fixed-wing and rotary aircraft in Oconee County.

The company said it would invest $7 million and provide 75 jobs over the next five years.

A.I.D., a division of RBC Bearings, said it would move from an existing building of 35,000 square feet at 123 Commerce Way in Westminster to a plant with 63,000 square feet.

The company said it intends to be in operation at the new facility in early 2013 and said it would begin hiring for new positions in October.

A.I.D. will receive job development credits, which typically provide reduced state income taxes for the company when promised job-creation goals are met.

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South Carolina enterprises involved in clean energy employed 17,292 full-time equivalent employees and generated $726 million in gross revenue in 2011, according to a survey conducted by NC State University and commissioned by the SC Clean Energy Business Alliance (SCCEBA).

According to the report, Charleston County has the highest number of clean-energy jobs, followed by Richland and Greenville.

The jobs primarily are in small companies that specialize in education, services and consulting. Many were created “in the wake of the recession that began in December of 2007,” the SCCEBA said.

The survey found 269 total clean-energy firms operating in South Carolina. The primary focus is on “energy-efficient design and construction, energy-efficient retrofitting, solar energy and biomass energy.” The firms focusing on clean energy generally are small, the report indicates.

Parrot Speaks in Many Voices

The Local Parrot, a new Greenville marketing company, has launched its first campaign to promote local businesses through a grouping of complementary themes and wide use of diverse media.

Its first themed campaign, “Around the World,” promotes Rosalinda’s Mexican Restaurant, Ten Thousand Villages, Addy’s Dutch Cafe & Restaurant, The Bakery off Augusta, Pita House and Jaramillos Latin Dance.

“The Local Parrot becomes the marketing company for each of the businesses utilizing the Web, social media, grass roots and traditional advertising outlets,” the company said.

Clair Ray, whose background is in marketing, and Rhem Galloway, a graphic designer, developed the concept of The Local Parrot into a working model during a six-month incubator period.

They said each monthly campaign would be “unique in that each business involved has a complementary theme in common. Many of these businesses would not necessarily market themselves together, but what we have created gives exposure to each individual business.”

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“Approximately 56 percent of all clean-energy firms in 2011 reported gross revenue of less than $1 million. In addition, firms generating less than $1 million in total annual gross revenue were more than three times as likely to have reported that all of their revenue was generated from clean energy activities.”

The majority of products and services end up in South Carolina markets, but approximately 70 percent of solar products and services and 80 percent of vehicle technology products and services “are ultimately exported outside of the state.”

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Myers Park Mortgage closed on $28 million in governmentinsured mortgages last year, the Charlotte Business Journal said.

Certus has added about 40 people to an administrative and commercial lending office in Charlotte’s SouthPark in the past year, the newspaper said.

Certus has said it wants to open a retail branch in Charlotte. The bank announced last month that it is opening a Charleston retail branch as it expands organically beyond South Carolina’s Upstate.

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COMING AUGUST 17-26 Local restaurateurs have teamed up to bring you the 4th Annual Foodie Fest! Reservations suggested.

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STARTER • Corn Chowder • Caprese Salad • Farmers Market Cobb Salad • Pimento Cheese Plate

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271.0046 • 802 S. Main Street

GROUP 1 ~ CHOOSE 1 2 FOR STARTER • 6 Jazzy Hot Wings • New Orleans Style BBQ Shrimp • Crawfish Etoufee GROUP 2 ~ CHOOSE 1 • Seafood Gumbo ENTRÉE • Shrimp and Grits SALADS • Grilled Blackened Salmon • Iceberg Wedge Salad • Grilled 14oz pork chop • Caesar Salad • Roasted 16oz Stuffed Chicken • French Quarter Salad • Rockefeller Salad

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DESSERT • Key Lime Pie • Double Chocolate Bread Pudding • White Chocolate Ganache Pecan Pie • Bananas Foster’s Cheesecake

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STARTER • Harissa Spiced Hummus • Goat Cheese & Grilled Beet Salad • Bisteeya: “Moroccan Pot Pie” • Crispy Brussels Sprouts • Grilled Red Onion & Heirloom Cherry Tomato Salad • Porchetta • Toasted Garlic Shrimp • Roasted Mussels and Chorizo • Moroccan Lamb • Fried Goat Cheese • Grilled Calamari

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STARTER • French Onion Soup • Green Salad • Shrimp Bruschetta • Seared Blackened Tuna • Fried Calamari

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DESSERT • Cherry Clafoutis • Flourless Chocolate Cake • Pot de Crème

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ENTRÉE • Bacon Stuffed Rabbit Loin • Local Crispy Snapper • Carolina Shrimp and Grits

DESSERT • Flourless Chocolate Hazelnut Cake • Toasted Pistachio Crème Brulee • Tangerine Panna Catta

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232.8999 • 648 S. Main Street

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DESSERT • Bourbon Crème Brulee • Key Lime Pie • Baileys Toffee Silk Pie

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$30 STARTER • Baby Spinach and Brie Salad • New England Clam Chowder

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COMING AUGUST 17-26 Local restaurateurs have teamed up to bring you the 4th Annual Foodie Fest! Reservations suggested.

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$30

FEST

Menu will be based on the availability of freshest season products.

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STARTER • Corn Chowder • Caprese Salad • Farmers Market Cobb Salad • Pimento Cheese Plate

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ENTRÉE • Bacon Stuffed Rabbit Loin • Local Crispy Snapper • Carolina Shrimp and Grits

DESSERT • Flourless Chocolate Hazelnut Cake • Toasted Pistachio Crème Brulee • Tangerine Panna Catta

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ENTRÉE • Grilled Hanger Steak • Blackened Salmon • Lemon Chicken • Herb Crusted Haddock

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STARTER • Gourmet Greens • Seafood Bisque

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$30 STARTER • Baby Spinach and Brie Salad • New England Clam Chowder

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DESSERT • Banana Cream Pie • Chocolate Layered Cake • Vanilla Bean Pannacotta with Fresh Fruit

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Gold on the horizon With millions on the table, college football begins for Clemson, USC

By ED MCGRANAHAN contributor

Football practice began last week to a backdrop of chestthumping hubris, with South Carolina ranked No. 9 and Clemson No. 14 nationally in the coaches’ preseason poll.

Both are projected again to be contenders in their leagues.

South Carolina opens the season Aug. 30 in Nashville, Tenn., with conference foe Vanderbilt.

Two nights later, defending ACC champion Clemson plays Auburn at the Georgia Dome.

Yet after more than a century, fans view the first 11 games as a preliminary to the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Clemson hosts USC this season in the second longest uninterrupted series in college football.

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has become big business. Conferences are expanding and reshuffling, coaches are cashing multimillion-dollar paychecks and recruiting has grown from cult status to rival the NFL draft for feeding the beast.

Forbes magazine in December ranked Carolina the 16th most valuable football team in America. Steve Spurrier’s team generates the bulk of the athletic department’s $80 million operating budget, due in large part to its affiliation with the SEC. Clemson’s budget last year exceeded $60 million after the ACC announced it would add Pittsburgh and Syracuse as the 13th and 14th members in 2013, then renegotiated its TV contract with ESPN and ABC to the tune of $3.6 billion – from which Clemson should realize an additional $3 mil-

lion annually. In addition, a study by a Clemson professor determined that each home game was worth $2 million to the community, $4.2 million to the region.

With billions of dollars on the table, college presidents approved a four-team playoff structure to replace the current BCS championship. The Sporting News estimated TV rights could be worth $500 million annually, three times the payout for the current championship game.

Coaches like the concept.

“I would have eight teams go play,” Spurrier said. “We got six BCS conferences right now. If you can win your conference championship, one of these BCS conferences, you ought to have a chance to go play for it all. Then you take two at-large teams.”

Spur-

rier pointed out how the NCAA Division I basketball and baseball tournaments reward conference champions with an opportunity to compete for a national crown.

“But in college football, there’s about 10, 12 teams realistically that have a shot at winning it,” he said. “You could almost open it up if you had eight teams, take all of the conference champs.

At least you could say we had a shot, it didn’t work out.”

Four teams work for Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, though he anticipates an eventually larger evolution.

“To me, what’s more realistic is some type of super division coming about, just because of the differences in budgets,” Swinney said.

“You can’t run a $100 million company the same way you run a $10 million com-

pany. Sooner or later there’s going to be a break. I could see another division and that group having their own rules to guide them.”

For the time being, discussions of national championships are premature. Swinney and Spurrier return their quarterbacks and several other highly skilled players that could make either a prickly opponent this season.

“I know it’s only happened once, but this is a school that’s done it,” Swinney said. “That’s our expectation at Clemson, and that’s what we want to do.”

Spurrier feels he has changed the culture around the USC program and beaten Clemson each of the last three years.

“When I first got there, some fans would say, ‘Coach, if you beat Clemson, I don’t care if you lose the rest of them,’” he said.

“What sort of attitude is that? So now our expectations are high.”

Contact Ed McGranahan at emcgranahan@ greenvillejournal.com.

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THE STATE OF THE UPSTATE’S BOTTOM LINE

Pinnacle Reports Earnings Gain

PBSC Financial, the holding company for Greenville’s Pinnacle Bank, said earnings increased to $551,000 in the second quarter from $110,000 in the same quarter a year ago.

“Our earnings increase compared to 2011 is attributable to lower net interest expense and improved credit quality, as well as increases in mortgage production,” said David Barnett, president.

Pinnacle said it increased checking accounts by 21 percent in the first six months of the year and its total assets grew to $138 million.

Pinnacle is a privately held bank with branches in Greenville and Powdersville.

A 3rd Positive Quarter

Greer State Bank reported net earnings of $1.1 million in the second quarter compared to a net loss of $1.9 million in the same period a year ago.

It was the bank’s third consecutive quarter of profitability.

Dennis Hennett, president and CEO, said earnings were “aided significantly” by a net gain of $611,000 on an investment transaction and by improvement in loan quality.

Because of a reduction in total loans outstanding, he said, the bank did not need to set aside money for potential loan losses. Hennett said legal and other real estate expenses were also down.

Without booking an expense for TARP dividends of $176,000, Greer State’s net profit would have been nearly $1.3 million.

For the first six months, Greer State has had a net profit of $3.2 million before TARP expenses of $364,000. The company had a net loss of $2.1 million in the first six months of 2011.

“We are pleased with the overall performance of the Bank and remain optimistic that these positive trends will continue,” Hennett said.

Bank Finally Gets into Black

Provident Community Bank of Rock Hill reported its first profit in three years in the second quarter primarily as a result of reduction in the cost of foreclosed properties held by the bank.

The bank had net income of $24,000 in the quarter, compared to a loss of $6,000 in the same quarter a year ago. Provident still is in the red for the year, losing $178,000.

“During the second quarter, our financial performance improved but was still affected by the continued decline in real estate values in the markets we serve,” said Dwight V. Neese, president and CEO. However, he said steps taken to tighten credit management, deal with real estate loans gone bad and technology improvements “have prepared us to deal with whatever issues are yet to come.”

Provident still carries a heavy burden of nonperforming loans, most of which are collateralized by declining values of commercial real estate. At the end of June, the bank held $17.2 million in these bad loans – 12.3 percent of all loans and an increase of $417,000 since the beginning of the year.

Provident has assets of $370 million. It has branches in Rock Hill, Union, Jonesville, Winnsboro, Laurens and Simpsonville.

Lender Profits and Grows

Regional Management, the Greenville-based provider of installment loans in the subprime market, reported second quarter net income of $6.6 million, more than 40 percent better than a year ago. Revenue increased 31.4 percent to $32 million.

For the January through June period, RM had revenue of $63.6 million and profit of $11.7 million.

“We performed solidly in the second quarter, led by double-digit growth in net finance receivables, revenue, same-store sales and net income,” said CEO Thomas Fortin.

Fortin said RM opened 12 new branches in the quarter, including its first in New Mexico as part of its “westward expansion.” It has opened 43 branches in the past 12 months and now has 206.

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Handling of on-site and after hours support is driven by the needs of each customer, with many preferring an all-you-can-eat model with all support visits included in a service agreement. Other customers prefer to pay a discounted rate on service calls on an a la carte basis. Leading IT organizations will provide both options.

Unfortunately, not all managed services providers are equal, despite claims. In fact, we’ve seen quite a few who might be better off billing themselves as mis-managed services!

Here are some things to ask yourself to determine if managed services are a good fit for your organization: Why Consider Managed Services?

Choosing a managed services partner has many benefits: • Enjoy peace of mind – focus on your core business while professionals keep your network running optimally • Be more productive – proactively detect and avoid IT issues, and conduct preventative maintenance, to maximize productivity • Safeguard your organization – ongoing monitoring and updates reduce vulnerability to viruses, worms, hackers, theft or malicious attacks • Stabilize your IT spend – budget easier with predictable investment • Access top talent – leverage top talent for far less than hiring your own engineers What Can I Expect?

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• Vulnerability assessments IT engineers typically work remotely to prevent or correct any alerts that arise – server issues, email stoppage, failed backups – and your users have no-charge access to their support engineers for assistance… sort of a virtual help desk.

If issues can’t be corrected remotely, and assuming you are not on an “all-inclusive” program, the provider should contact you to seek authorization to dispatch an engineer.

Leading Managed Services providers will charge such visits at a reduced rate to help you keep costs down and minimize downtime.

Other services that may be appropriate for your organization and which a quality managed services provider should offer include: • Router, firewall and VPN management • Wireless access monitoring and management • Antivirus and anti-spyware management • Temp file removal to increase speed, security and hard drive space • Applications management • Workstation and server optimization • CIO consulting services Bottom Line: Today, Managed IT Services represent a better way of doing business for many organizations — efficient, proactive, and accessible 24/7. If optimizing your IT spend, ensuring security of data and performance of your network is important to you, talk with a reputable Managed Services provider. You may find that their comprehensive services, reliability, and affordability are a good fit.

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In July, hospitals across the state of Massachusetts joined those in Rhode Island in banning infant formula in gift bags for new mothers. Some hospitals in the Upstate have had similar policies for years, while others are working toward elimination of the practice.

Health care providers celebrated World Breastfeeding Week in early August, and breast-feeding advocates say including formula in the gift bags implies endorsement of the product and may hinder a mother’s efforts to breast-feed.

Earlier this year, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that babies be exclusively breast-fed for the first six months before adding solid foods. The academy also advocates nursing for at least 12 months.

Spartanburg Regional Healthcare is working to curtail the number of formula samples it distributes, said Debbie Costello, a lactation consultant.

“When you send home formula in gift bags, you’re sending double messages,” she said.

Colleen Gilmore, women’s services program coordinator at Spartanburg Regional, said the bags also include educational material about the benefits of breast-feeding.

“We want to provide education and information for our moms to make the best decision for their babies,” she said. “If a mom chooses to breast-feed, we will help her throughout her stay.”

Beyond encouraging new mothers to breast-feed, the families must be in the know, too. Costello said. “Families want to help out with the new baby and they think that includes feeding the baby.”

There are other ways that family can help a new mom and spend time with the baby, she said. A weekly support group helps mothers postpartum and helps to educate the family, she said.

It’s been nearly four years since the Greenville Hospital System offered gift bags that included formula and coupons, says manager of women’s education Katie Howle. The hospital now gives out canvas bags with gift items like a nail file for baby, a newspaper from the day the baby was born and educational information, she said.

GHS lactation consultant Lauren Van

Pelt agrees that the take-home samples could affect long- term breast-feeding.

“There are many studies that show if they go home with that formula sample, if they run into a tough spot, it’s easier for them to switch to formula feeding or use the formula,” she said.

Van Pelt said formula companies didn’t provide much feedback on the decision to remove the sample bags and surprisingly, very few parents said anything about the samples’ disappearance.

Removing the formula samples brings the hospital one step closer to a Baby Friendly Hospital designation, part of a World Health Organization and UNICEF initiative to support breast-feeding, Van Pelt said.

Howle says this step, along with the hospital recently opting to no longer provide pacifiers for newborns except for those in neonatal intensive care, is part of the progression of supporting new mothers. She said the hospital believes pacifier use may interfere with a newborn’s ability to nurse, though parents are welcome to bring pacifiers with them for their newborns.

Van Pelt has worked with the hospital system for more than 20 years and has witnessed the trends.

“It’s been an amazing change from the time I started here until today. Having lactation services at the hospital where you deliver is huge,” she said.

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System also offers breast-feeding support for new mothers, and only moms who plan to formula-feed their newborns are offered formula samples, said Kelly Lambert, program manager for women’s services.

The gift bags for moms were changed at the beginning of the year after about a year in the works, she said.

“We support all of our moms in whatever they choose, and we are lucky; many of our moms want to breast-feed,” she said. Focusing on providing continued support is what will help mothers continue breast-feeding, said Lambert.

According to a statement, the International Formula Council agrees with the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations, but in regards to hospital gift bags with formula, “mothers should be trusted to make the best choices for their babies according to their life circumstances and the needs of their families.”

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

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Company sees employment from many angles contributor

It’s one thing to find the right person for a job, but another to try and shape the pool from which that person is recruited.

Having handled various aspects of the human resources business since 1968, Phillips Staffing believes today it is crucial that employers and communities figure out how to do both.

Last week, Phillips Staffing employees were unpacking boxes at the Clemson at the Falls building that overlooks Falls Park.

The team was excited about what was for them a sort of homecoming: Phillips Staffing has moved to downtown Greenville after 19 years at a Pelham Road location. But the agency’s main concern is the future of employment in this region.

Ed Parris, president, said the field has changed significantly since he began working in economic development decades ago.

“Thirty years ago (South Carolina) was selling cheap labor,” Parris said. “You can’t sell that anymore. You don’t want to sell that.” Instead, he said maintaining a skilled workforce has become a highly critical issue when courting business to the area.

“It’s becoming a big part of economic development. How many certified people do you have in this part of South Carolina? What’s your labor market?

Those are the first questions

you’re going to get.”

In response, Phillips Staffing takes a multifaceted approach to the work of connecting people with jobs. Its first focus: ensuring that local workers can do the technical jobs that are in increasing demand.

Blanton Phillips, chairman and son of founder Sam Phillips, said one of the most valuable tools they use to address the skills gap plaguing South Carolina is the ACT WorkKeys skills assessment tool – a national career readiness certificate from the same company that does the ACT college readiness assessments.

South Carolina was one of five pilot states in which the assessment tool was tested on two-year college students. Blanton Phillips said the certificate is becoming

preferred to a high school diploma, making it easier for companies anywhere to know that the local workforce has exactly the skills they need. It also provides more detailed and standardized

“Thirty years ago (South Carolina) was selling cheap labor. You can’t sell that anymore. You don’t want to sell that.”

Ed Parris, president of Phillips Staffing

information about a potential employee’s skills.

He said this has been especially helpful for military veterans, who can find it difficult to communicate how their experience fits into a corporate setting.

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President Ed Parris, left, and CEO Blanton Phillips at Phillips Staffing’s new downtown location in the former Bowater building next to Falls Park. The building is also home to Clemson at the Falls.

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a component of WorkKeys that allows for training and certification. With it, workers can access computer-based training if they do not yet have the skills for the jobs they want.

At Phillips Staffing, a detailed assessment of workers goes hand-in-hand with an assessment of the work. That is where Beverly Deal stands out as the team’s workforce readiness director. She is one of just 18 of South Carolina’s certified “profilers,” people who use WorkKeys to assess a job down to its last detail. That means, for instance, spending an entire shift standing next to the lead operator at a chemical plant, watching and noting every detail of the job.

Afterward, she spent a couple of days writing a 100-page report on what it takes to do that job.

A second important part of Phillips’ work is a regional approach to recruiting that matches the nowstandard regional approach to economic development, said Parris. The company has 12 offices in cities including Spartanburg, Aiken, Lancaster,

Gaffney, Charlotte and Lavonia, Ga. The challenge is no longer about getting a company to come to a certain town, but about also making sure the region as a whole is attractive to competitive business. Looking at a larger picture also helps prospects stay aware of changes in the market, said Parris.

Agency officials agree the new downtown office is one way to keep a finger on the pulse of change in the Upstate.

The company had connections with Clemson College of Business through job fairs, and its board already held meetings at the location.

The surrounding landscape has changed dramatically since Sam Phillips moved the company from a spare bedroom at his home to the former Woodside Building on Main Street, but Blanton Phillips still considers this a small community.

He said he takes personal pride and responsibility in seeing companies take root and create jobs for the locals he promised were ready for them.

“I tell people all the time, I’m going to run into you on the street. I don’t ever want to hear you say, ‘You misled me,’” he said. He and Parris maintain that South Carolina has a great story to tell: their focus on workforce development is an effort to make sure that story stays true.

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Chuck Langston of Langston-Black Real Estate represented the buyer of an 1.8-acre lot on Highway 153 in Easley for a new home of Family Dental Health. Tommy Molin of CBRE represented the seller.

NAI Earle Furman announced the following transactions: • Dan Dunn represented the landlord of 233 S. Pine St., Spartanburg, in leasing 6,878 square feet of office space to The Ward Law Firm.

• Towers Rice represented the landlord of 155 P and N Drive, Greenville, in leasing 30,000 square feet of industrial space to Corporate Tire.

• Ted Lyerly and Jimmy Wright represented Consumer’s Choice Health Insurance in the lease of 3,819 square feet of office space at 101 W. Court St., Greenville, for its first location in Greenville.

• Stuart Wyeth represented the landlord of 10 Enterprise Blvd., Greenville, in leasing 1,634 square feet of office space to Upstate Surgery Center.

• Stuart Wyeth represented the landlord of 750 Executive Center Drive, Greenville, in leasing 2,247 square feet of office space to Caliber Engineering.

• Stuart Wyeth represented the landlord of 300 Executive Center Drive, Greenville, in leasing 7,919 square feet of office space to Global Automation Partners.

• Hunter Garrett and John Staunton represented the landlord of 14 Pelham Ridge Drive, Greenville, in leasing 3,000 square feet of industrial space to Advantage Line, which was represented by Jake Van Gieson.

• Scott Jones and Keith Jones represented the landlord of 44 Parkway Commons Way, Greer, in leasing 1,920 square feet of office space to The Mark Turley Agency.

• David Feild and Tyson Smoak represented the landlord of 105 N. Spring St. in downtown Greenville in leasing 2,473 square feet of office space to Crossroads Treatment Centers.

• Ted Lyerly and Jimmy Wright represented landlord of 8 McPherson Lane, Greenville, in leasing 2,376 square feet of retail space to Pro Martial Arts.

• Stuart Wyeth represented the landlord of 528 Howell Road, Greenville, in leasing 2,428 square feet of office space.

Benji Smith of Flagship Properties represented: • the owners, J.R. McClure and Intertelcom Investments, in the sale of 7993 Pelham Road, Greenville, consisting of 9,900 square feet of office/warehouse space, to HFC Enterprises.

• the owner, Mountain 1st Bank, in the sale of 2400 New Cut Road, Spartanburg, consisting of 16 acres and a 21,530-square-foot storage facility to Carolina Storage Management.

• the tenant, Network Controls & Electric, in the lease of an office/ warehouse at 621 McGee Road, Anderson.

• the tenant, Linic Mixed Martial Arts, in the lease of a 4,800-squarefoot facility at 1310 Garlington Road, Greenville.

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Nikki Caldwell produces unique jewelry from found objects and photographs By april a. morris | staff

Nikki Caldwell has always worked with metal, helping out in her family’s metal manufacturing business and now handcrafting metal jewelry bearing photographic designs of everything from loved ones to elements of the natural world.

When her family sold the business in 2005, Caldwell sought a more creative way to work with stainless steel.

“I wanted to find a way to make a lot of fun pieces out of metal,” she said. She soon created a brooch printed with a photograph of her mother,

Joan Bryant Reid, using a process that prints on sheets of aluminum.

She continued creating, and in 2010 formed Mirror Mirror Image. Her business was named in honor of her relationship with her best friend, who also works in metal, Caldwell said.

“We are like twins,” she said, with ideas that often mirror each other.

Caldwell considers aluminum the perfect material for jewelry because it is lightweight and doesn’t tarnish.

Creating a piece of jewelry can take many hours, she said. Each piece is unique; she never uses the same design twice. She begins by printing im-

ages onto the metal’s white coating, then hand-cuts the aluminum sheets into brooches, earrings, bracelets and charms. She then sends the piece through a roll press, followed by handsanding for a finishing touch. Finally, she adds embellishments, sourced from everywhere from hobby shops to customers’ antique collections, she said.

“I’ve always worked in an industrial setting,” she said. “We’ve discovered a fun way to take something that’s metal and turn it into something fun for women.”

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One of artist Nikki Caldwell’s creations.

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In 1990, there weren’t many choices for men in the community who wanted to sing in a choir.

Basically, they could sing in a barbershop quartet, a church choir or the co-ed Greenville Chorale.

“There was not a community men’s chorus in Greenville,” said John Gentry, director of music and the arts for Greenville’s First Presbyterian Church.

So Gentry, then just months into his first full-time music director job, started the Piedmont Men’s Chorale, a summer community men’s chorus open to all men in the Upstate.

On Sunday, Aug. 19, at 3 p.m., the Piedmont Men’s Chorale will hold its 21st summer concert in the St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Tickets are $10 and can be reserved by calling 864-672-1845 or by emailing piedmontmenschorale@gmail.com. Tickets will also be sold on the St. George campus before the concert.

Guest singer will be Sarah Reese, a soprano who has sung with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and the New York Metropolitan Opera.

The concert bill will feature sacred music, mostly sung a cappella. The numbers with instruments will be limited to the organ in accordance with a St. George church rule, Gentry said.

One-third of the program will be African-American spirituals. The program will also include a RenaisChorale continued on page 35

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has yet to use her degree in a work setting, but said her background helps her with spatial challenges and combining embellishment colors. She also confessed to being a fashion lover, incorporating fashion trends and colors into her designs.

Since deciding to concentrate on making bracelet cuffs in late 2011, Caldwell said her business “exploded” in March.

In between her full-time job in sales, the mother of three now spends each evening and weekend in her studio in the family dining room, crafting up to 20 cuffs in an evening and completing about 60 a week.

In addition to clients in Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson, where she lives with her family, Caldwell has made pieces for clients in Columbia, Myrtle Beach, Switzerland and Belgium.

The images pressed into the jewelry can come from anywhere, she said, pointing out one piece that featured a print from scrapbooking paper edged with a closeup photo of a wall covered in graffiti.

Earlier this year, Caldwell’s daughter gave a bracelet to her teacher as a birthday gift. This gift led to a connection to Orian Rugs’ chief operating officer, who

Artist Nikki Caldwell makes jewelry from aluminum printed with photographic images. She often wears the first piece she made, a pendant with her mother’s childhood photograph.

happened to be the teacher’s husband.

Caldwell was soon commissioned to create pieces to distribute to clients and customers at the Orian Rugs markets in Atlanta, Ga., and High Point, N.C. She used photos of the company’s carpet patterns on the bands.

Many of Caldwell’s works are commissioned as memory pieces created from family photos that she prints onto charms, dog tags or necklaces.

“I love to have people brainstorm with me. If there’s something they like colorwise or if there’s something significant, I can use it,” she said. She told the story of a client in Greenville whose father died when

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she was a girl, but who still had some of his fireman’s gear. Caldwell photographed the fireman’s hat and created a keepsake bracelet for the woman and her sister.

At this point, Caldwell doesn’t have a storefront, but sells directly to clients online and to a few wholesale accounts in the state and beyond. Some are devoted clients, too, she said, like the group of women who she met at a Charleston craft show who now place large orders every two weeks. Caldwell just returned from a 10-day craft show in Beaufort and is gearing up to showcase her work at the upcoming Upstate Women’s Show and Holiday Fair.

Someday in the future, she said, she would like to establish a studio space and work at her art full-time. “Right now I’m a one-woman manufacturer,” she said, “but would love to have a studio space outside my home.”

And though Caldwell’s hands bear the scars of working so many hours so closely with metal, she smiled as she showed off her creations, saying, “It’s scary, but fun.”

See Nikki Caldwell’s work at Mirror Mirror Image, www.mirrormirrorimage.com.

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sance number in Latin, “Ave Maria” in Latin and some hymn arrangements, Gentry said.

The Piedmont Men’s Chorale has 29 members, but has had as many as 50 men over the years, Gentry said. Members span all different age groups, from high school students to men in their 90s, he said.

This year’s oldest member is 91 years old.

The group does not require auditions and has members from northeast Georgia, Spartanburg, Anderson, Clemson and, of course, Greenville County.

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Traditionally, the Piedmont Men’s Chorale starts rehearsing in late June and holds its concert in August.

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$139,921 SIMPSONVILLE

5BR/5.5 BA Estate w/ guest house. On the Eastside on 5.3+/-ac.

Pool w/attached bar & tennis crts. Mstr BR on main, BA w/garden tub, shower & his/her closets. Formal DR, Kitchen w/granite c’tops & bkft nook. Den’s French drs open to scr pch. Main lvl has guest BR w/pvt full BA & bonus rm. 3-car gar w/1100sf finished space above garage. TOM MARCHANT 864.449.1658 MLS#1237773

Contemporary 6BR /5.5 BA home on 1.8 ac in Green Valley. 2 residences joined by vestibule. Pool, open flr plan, hdwds & Tenn flagstone flrs. 4BRs on main, 4 full BA & 2 kitchens. Mstr suite has sep dressing/sit rm & Art studio. Lower lvl has rec rm w/fpl, 2BR, 1.5BA + bonus. Library/den w/attached greenhouse & 3 wd burning fpl. VALERIE MILLER 864.430.6602 MLS# 1245214

RENOVATED $34k (2011). Tuscan style, 1 lvl, 3BR/2BA villa. Arch openings in GR, closet sys, mstr BA w/TV. GR has exposed beam ceiling & stone fpl. DR w/French drs opens to courtyard. Kitchen has granite c’tops, ss app’l, cust cab’t & pantry.

Split BR plan w/pvt mstr BA & BR, hdwds thru-out. NANCY MCCRORY 864.505.8367 or KAREN TURPIN 864.230.5176 MLS# 1237148

3 BR/2BA One story living, well maintained home in a super location. Close to schools, Fine Arts Center, BJU, downtown and shopping. Lrg corner cul-desac lot. Hdwds, tile BA, lrg kitchen, spacious den w/fpl, has built ins, interior wooden shutters on all windows. Extra storage in attached carport. Home features a front porch and patio w/fp. MARY PRAYTOR 864.593.0366 MLS#1236459

House has been renovated into an office w/vaulted, trey, and coffered ceilings, receptionist area, 2 offices, and spacious conference room, storage inside and outside, inviting front porch, two additional outbuildings, tons of parking, and a huge lot for expansion. Excellent opportunity to open your own business in the growing Simpsonville area. JOAN RAPP 864.901.3839 MLS# 1234850

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$87,900 JAMESTOWNE II

Spacious 3BR/2.5 BA town home. Quiet nhood on Eastside w/beautiful trees & landcaping. Features wd-brning fpl in GR, scr porch off DR. Recent updates incl HVAC (2012), new frig & mwave (2011). Grt town home for investors! Recently rented till end of Oct. Mo rental income $850. ANNE MARCHANT 864.420.0009 or BRIAN MARCHANT 864.631.5858 MLS# 1244961

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$499,970 GREENVILLE

SPACE INSIDE & OUTlots of closets & storage in this 4BR/3.5BA house. Property has a Morton steel building w/two 10x10 electric doors, 16 foot ceilings both w/ HVAC, washer & dryer hook-up and half BA in Morton building, lots of paved parking space. House has oversized attached garage, 3 smaller dogs in house and 1 large dog in garage. GORDON SEAY 864.444.4359 MLS# 1243209

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$394,900 RIVER WALK

4 BR/2.5 BA w/bonus, zoned for new Monarch school. Lrg foyer opens to DR. Designer kitchen(2011) w/granite c’tops & fresh paint.

Hwds, landscaped yard, Lrg screened porch, newer roof, new HVAC downstairs(2012) & water heater(2012). Amenities include: club house, pool, workout area, play ground, tennis courts & 4mi walking trail. JOYE LANAHAN 864.404.5372 MLS#1236057

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$229,450 NEELY FARM

Newly painted custom built 4 BR/2.5BR, open floor plan. New 30 year arch roof (2010), Trane HVAC systems, Frigidaire app’l, Rheem glass lined water heater, hdwds downstairs & upstairs hallway, wd burning fpl, oversized gar, Lrg MBR w/dbl tray ceiling, Lrg master BA w/shower & whirlpool tub, screen porch & deck overlooking pvt landscaped yard. BARBARA RIGGS 864.423.2783 MLS# 1235680

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$144,900 SCOTTSWOOD T/HS

IMMACULATE 2BR, 2BA+ flex rm, 1-sty end unit. Crown molding, gas log fpl, hdwd flrs & attic space. Kitch has cust cabs, smooth tp range, bkft bar & patio access. Pvt fenced area w/sod. Mstr BR has hdwds, tray clng, 2 lrg walk-ins & BA w/shower. Frig & W/D to stay. Ext & lndscp maint incl’d in mo. regime. NANCY MCCRORY 864.505.8367 or KAREN TURPIN 864.230.5176 MSL# 1244626

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$128,300 EAGLE WATCH

Here’s to warm summer evenings on the front porch

METICULOUS & TASTEFULLY DECORATED home! Neutral decorator colors and ready to move right in! 3 BR/2BR, large kitchen, laundry room is even nice! Screened porch is adorable overlooking fenced yard (level) and also custom built outbuilding with electric for storage! You will love showing this home and have to go no further in your search! BARBARA RIGGS 864.423.2783 MLS#1244588

FANNIE MAE INVESTOR SPECIALS MLS# 1244426 MLS# 1244308 MLS# 1245132 MLS# 1244997 MLS# 1244620 MLS# 1244316

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CHANTICLEER KINGSBRIDGE HAMMETT CREEK GLASSY MOUNTAIN MAHAFFEY PLANTATION CHEROKEE PARK SUNSET HILLS CRAFTSMAN COURT IVY GROVE CARISBROOKE BRIGHTON IVY GROVE CREEKWOOD CARISBROOKE KANATENAH CARISBROOKE SYCAMORE RIDGE CARILION VALLEY OAKS BOXWOOD SILVER RIDGE MAGNOLIA PARK FOREST HEIGHTS LANFORD’S POINTE POINSETT CORNERS NORTHWOOD SUGAR CREEK COUNTRY VIEW THE GARDENS AT ROSE RESERVE CAROLINA SPRINGS HIGHLAND TERRACE THORNHILL PLANTATION

PRICE $2,475,000 $1,100,000 $1,000,000 $998,000 $785,000 $772,788 $739,000 $650,000 $634,000 $615,000 $600,000 $540,000 $477,000 $475,000 $431,000 $425,500 $395,000 $390,600 $390,000 $380,000 $378,000 $351,510 $345,000 $335,000 $317,500 $308,500 $305,000 $300,000 $295,000 $292,500 $290,000 $286,000 $285,000 $280,000 $280,000 $280,000 $277,500 $269,900 $267,900 $266,000 $255,500 $254,000

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ADDRESS 2756 LAURENS RD 411 BELMONT AVE PO BOX 170248 800 N MAIN ST 1004 GEER HWY PO BOX 21446 18 W TALLULAH DR 401 HIDDEN HILLS DR 4 BAILEY KNOLL CT 105 BRETON DR 19 W STONE AVE 30 BOULDER LOOKOUT DR 1 RIVERSTONE WAY 304 TRAILS END 6 MEYERS DR 115 E PARKINS MILL RD 509 B TOWNES ST 15 GROVE VALLEY WAY 12 LAURISTON PL 204 STEADMAN WAY 11 GROVE VALLEY WAY 124 CREEK SHOALS DR 706 LADYKIRK LN 22 OREGON ST 5 KINROSS ROW 100 S 7TH ST 200 CARILLION LN 1700 WADE HAMPTON BLVD 5 VALLEY OAK DR 204 MOSS WOOD CIR 111 N SILVER BEECH LN 5 SPANISH MOSS LN 456 LONGVIEW TER 40 BROOKE ANN CT 224 S LAURENS ST UNIT #311 10 PARKWOOD DR 226 SILVER CREEK RD 22 RIVER PARK LN 1 CRIMSON GLORY WAY 1626 JONES MILL RD 120 W MONTCLAIR AVE 106 W SPRINDLETREE WAY

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Coldwell Banker Caine Names Upstate’s Top Producers from June July 31, 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 June.

· Spartanburg: Francie Little, Beth Beach, Towles Darby

The top producing agents from each office are ranked by the total volume of business closed last month and include:

· Easley: Kathy Gallamore, Jim DeLoache, Susan McCoy

· Easley: Heather Parlier, Linda Cook, Kathy Gallamore · Greenville: Carolyn Dowling, Susan Reid, Helen Hagood · Greer: Alicia Waynick, Shelbie Dunn, Hilary Hurst · Seneca: Pat Loftis, Jere duBois, Dottie Shuman

Top listing agents in each office are recognized for listing the highest total volume of residential properties last month and include:

· Greenville: Sharon Wilson, Helen Hagood, Jennifer Wilson · Greer: Alicia Waynick, Shelbie Dunn, Linda Wood · Seneca: Jere duBois, Pat Loftis, Dottie Shuman · Spartanburg: Judy McCravy, Holly West, Annette Starnes

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PRICE $250,775 $250,000 $245,000 PELHAM ESTATES $244,000 THORNHILL PLANTATION $243,000 PELHAM FALLS $239,500 CASTLE ROCK $235,000 SOUTHCHASE $225,500 COPPER CREEK $225,000 RIDGECREEK ESTATES $223,500 $222,500 OAK VALLEY $215,000 LANSFAIR @ ASHBY PARK $214,900 CAMDEN COURT $213,800 BEAUMONT $211,013 $210,000 1200 PELHAM $204,000 ORCHARD FARMS BAKER’S GARDEN $203,000 $202,771 AVALON ESTATES $202,000 BROWNSTONE CROSSING $201,000 $200,000 LAKEWOOD $200,000 $200,000 NORTHWOOD HILLS $199,900 HERITAGE HILL $198,000 OAKLAND TERRACE $190,000 $185,000 SUGAR CREEK $185,000 RAVENWOOD $182,000 HALF MILE LAKE $179,900 WATERTON $178,000 NORTHGATE TRACE $176,500 BOTANY WOODS $175,000 $175,000 ASHLEY OAKS $175,000 HAMPTON FARMS $173,000 WATERS EDGE $172,500 DEVENGER PLACE $172,000 HERITAGE LAKES $170,000 $169,900 COPPER CREEK $169,668 HERITAGE COVE $168,000 FOX TRACE $163,100 CASTLETON $162,500 MORNINGSIDE $160,000 VERDMONT $160,000 PEBBLECREEK $158,665 COUNTRY MEADOWS $158,500 NORTH MEADOW HEIGHTS $157,500 BRADFORD NORTH $157,000 FAIRVIEW LAKE $156,000

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Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® Announces Arnold Joins Simpsonville Office Greenville, SC – Prudential C Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® is pleased to announce that Kimberly Arnold has joined the company Kim Arnold and serves as a sales associate at the Simpsonville office.

Arnold, a Mauldin High School and Greenville Tech graduate has lived in the Upstate her entire life. She is highly motivated and her priority is to make sure her clients feel represented in the most professional and courteous

way. She has been in the real estate industry for over 12 years and received numerous awards and recognitions for her work.

“We are really excited to have Kim join our company”, said Donna Smith, Broker-in-Charge. “and we look forward to working with her”.

Arnold currently resides in Mauldin with her three children Jon Lyle, Summer and Savannah. She enjoys outdoor activities, competitive sports and anything that generates exercise and positive well being.

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PRICE $156,000 $156,000 $156,000 $155,000 $154,000 $152,000 $150,000 $149,900 $149,477 $147,000 $146,000 MARTINS GROVE $145,500 SWANSGATE $145,000 MAPLE CREEK $144,900 THE VILLAGE AT WINDSOR CREEK $142,000 MOSS CREEK $140,000 CARILION $140,000 THORNBLADE CROSSING $139,900 DUNWOODY OAKS $139,000 PHEASANT RIDGE $137,900 ENOREE HILLS $135,300 STARSDALE MANOR $133,000 GLENDALE $132,300 POWDERHORN $132,000 COUNTRY CLUB CROSSING $132,000 COOPERS LAKE $131,500 DEL NORTE $128,500 HUNTERS VALLEY $127,371 EAGLEWATCH $125,000 DUNWOODY OAKS $125,000 PARKER RIDGE $125,000 SUMMERSIDE AT ROLLING GREEN $124,500 PARTRIDGE RIDGE $124,000 UNIVERSITY CIRCLE $123,000 $123,000 EAST LYNNE $121,500 LISMORE VILLAGE $119,000 ALTAMONT VILLAGE $116,000 $112,000 HADLEY PARK $112,000 HOWARD SUBDIVISION $111,000 THE TERRACES AT GRANITE WOODS SOUTH $107,500 FAIRVIEW LAKE $107,100 ASHMORE SPRINGS $105,000 SUMMERSIDE AT ROLLING GREEN $105,000 HILLSBOROUGH $104,149 PEACHTREE TERRACE $102,500 $100,000 CREEKSIDE VILLAS $99,000 $98,500 OAKWOOD ACRES $98,000 PARKDALE $97,500

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Warehouse Theater, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 37 Augusta Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29601. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than August 12, 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

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE There will be a public hearing before the Greenville County Planning Commission on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 4:00 PM in Conference Room D, County Square, for the purpose of hearing comments from those persons interested in the following road name change: APPLICANT: VFW Post PROPERTY LOCATION: From Hwy 20 S/Grove Rd, turn left onto White Horse Road, turn right onto Old Grove Rd; take the second right onto Davis Road; turn right onto Jeff Street.

EXISTING NAME: Jeff Street (D-231) REQUESTED NAME: Charles Gandy Way

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: Provide equipment, materials, labor, tools, supplies, transportation and fuel required to relocate Stenhouse Road across from East Standing Springs Road, AUGUST 27, 2012, 3:00 P.M., E.D.T. A mandatory pre-proposal meeting and site visit will be held at 9:00 A.M., E.D.T., August 14, 2012, Suite 100, Procurement Services Division, 301 University Ridge, Greenville, SC 29601.

Complete package of plans (CD) and specifications (Hard Copy) available for a non-refundable fee of $100.00. These are available at the Procurement Services Division, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, County Square, Greenville, SC, 29601.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Napoleon Curtain/ DBA Rhythm & Bluezz Old School, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 730 S Pleasantburg Drive, Suite 114, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than August 26, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Southern Culture Kitchen & Bar, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 2537 N. Pleasantburg Drive, Suite G, Greenville, SC 29609. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than August 26, 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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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on 08/18/2012, at 9:00 a.m. at East North Storage, 4329 East North Street, Greenville, SC, the undersigned, East North Storage will sell at Public Sale by competitive bidding, the personal property heretofore store with the undersigned by: 1. Unit: A020, Sean Silvestri, 2123 Old Spartanburg rd, #282, Greer SC 29650 Furniture, boxes, clothes, misc.

2.Unit: A036, Sylvia Gallman, 105 Trent Dr. Taylors, SC. 29687 Furniture, boxes, misc.

3.Unit: A054, Nathan M. Dery, 494 Feemster Ln. Rock Hill SC 29730 Tv, microwave,misc 4.Unit: A157, Heather Mclean, 428 Wheeler Ln. LaFollette, TN 37766 furniture, misc.

5.Unit: B261, Oscar Lopez, 260 Pelham Rd. Apt C4, Greenville, SC 29615 Furniture, pictures, misc.

6.Unit: B264, David Francis, 85 Century Cir. Apt 1600A, Greenville, SC 29607 Type 547 Oscelloscope, misc 7.Unit: C0214, Richard Washburn, 2504 Wade Hampton Blvd. Greenville, SC 29615 w/d,furniture, misc.

8. Unit: C032, Demeris J. Dirton, 215 Brantford Ln. Greenville, SC 29605 Tires and wheels, boxes, misc

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Furman free safety Matthew Gordon (21) tries to break up a pass during practice at Furman.

Preparations for the 2012 football season are in full swing at area colleges. The Furman Paladins travel to Birmingham, Ala., for their season opener against Samford on Sept. 1. The team’s home opener is Sept. 8 against Coastal Carolina.

On Sept. 15, Furman heads to Clemson to face the Tigers.

Furman wide receiver Will King (81) watches the ball into his hands during practice.

At the national SkillsUSA competition held recently in Kansas City, Mo., winners from Greenville Technical College included Justin Ballenger, who captured third place in the HVAC category. Ballenger was sponsored by his employer, RSI, which paid his expenses and his salary during the week he was gone. Ballenger received over $2,000 worth of books, tools and equipment as part of his bronze medal winnings.

The SkillsUSA Championship is the showcase for the best career and technical students in the nation. Contests begin locally and continue through the state and national levels.

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This week, more than 30 local students in need had the opportunity to visit the Target store on Woodruff Road to purchase school supplies, clothing and other necessities just in time for back-toschool. The Salvation Army and Target are helping 30 K-12 students across Greenville County prepare for the upcoming academic year and get ready to succeed in school with the Target School Spree.

Each child, selected by The Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club, was awarded an $80 Target GiftCard to purchase much-needed back-to-school supplies. Each child was given a reusable Target shopping bag and paired with a volunteer chaperone for their fun day of back-to-school shopping.

As part of the Target School Spree, Target awarded all 40 of The Salvation Army Divisions nationwide a total of $1 million in Target GiftCards and in-kind contributions for the shopping sprees. Nearly 500 Target stores will participate in Target School Spree events in select regions across the country.

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John and Elizabeth Lyons with Margaret Sowden at the Cascades BBQ Bash.

The Cascades threw a BBQ Bash for the members of their Independent Living Community to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Entertainment was provided by Dale Burke’s eight-piece swing band. The band provided lots of fun, patriotic music, as well as popular songs from the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s. Pictured here are Beckie Van Valin with her daughter and grandson.

Will and Shirley Hannifin at the Cascades BBQ Bash.

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19 Classic mouthwash 20 Sell short 22 L.A. Times section?

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65 Albatross’s milieu 66 Prefix with gram 67 Composer Rachmaninoff 69 First name in Prohibition history 71 Sciences’ partner 73 Ball girls 75 Agreements 76 Bubbly drinks 78 Tavern in the same city as Krusty Burger 80 Capital of India 82 Slowing, in scores 83 111 digits 84 Army cook’s apology ... or is it?

88 Cartoon canine 89 Half a cocktail 90 City near Provo 91 Ditty syllable 92 “Remote Control” host Ken 93 Muscular jerks 96 Shorten, as nails 98 Auto designer Ferrari 100 Zen Buddhist’s apology ... or is it?

104 Newton with laws 108 Writer Ephron 109 Orbiter until 2001 110 67.5 deg.

111 Inedible buffet jelly 112 Shell shooter 115 Frat frock 118 Set down 120 Gear components 121 Lyric poem

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126 Boom lead-in 127 Saying “You can say that again!” again, say 128 Victim of river diversion in Asia 129 Lunar New Year 130 Mounted on 131 Prevent littering?

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24 Annie, vis-à-vis Daddy Warbucks 30 “__Cop” 32 Country retreat 34 Cry over 36 Hidden supply 39 Summer cooler 40 Overly fussy types

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107 Sportscaster Bob 111 Start to foam?

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119 Apple on a desk 123 Agreement to enter an institution?

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On the meaning of backpacks in August I just noted a credit card charge for yet another backpack/book bag – which means that yet another school year is not far in the distance. The manufacturers of these items really have it worked out – like gestation itself, a bag lasts precisely nine months. If somehow I forgot what grade my child is in, I simply have to look in the attic and count up the old bags.

Which brings me to a nice, guilttrip lecture about how tough things were in the good old days. My book bag, I tell my child, was an army surplus knapsack. You could get all of them you wanted there in Columbia, around Fort Jackson, for about 35 cents each. And a bag built for World War II could certainly last for a dozen school years.

And, yes, I walked to the grammar school, six or eight blocks down through the neighborhood. I have not been able to make myself lie about snow yet. We didn’t get any pizza or have a salad bar for lunch, as I recall. There was a lot of surplus cheese and peanut butter with raisins in it.

We didn’t take field trips to Disney World or Dollywood the way the kids do these days. In fact, I don’t think we took field trips at all.

The highlight of our education was the holidays, when we did not have to walk to school. And we made an extra holiday, a pagan one, out of May 1. We loved that day, not because of the Maypole dance but because it was barefoot day, after which we did not have to wear shoes to school. I think parents allowed such because it saved wear on shoes – although, at the same time, they complained that going barefoot would make our feet spread out and we might not be able to wear the same shoes for another year.

Things got a little more interesting in junior high, where we moved from classroom to classroom in-

stead of spending an entire day incarcerated in one spot. Felt very mature to be allowed to roam the halls between classes. And we had lockers with combination locks that, at the first of the year, we took home so we could practice the combinations with our parents.

We actually had an art class where we learned that, originally, the Venus de Milo had arms – a milestone in my education.

My high school was a central city school. Just a building downtown; no playground, no practice fields.

The nice thing about that was that we were free to wander off into the city during recess or maybe even between classes. The cafeteria lunch was 30 cents, but we were not forced to buy it. We could bring a sandwich or scoot off to the little cafes nearby. My parents let me handle my 30 cents as I wanted, and I usually took myself out for a hotdog and a Coke – or a half-dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts, which came in at a nickel each.

For one of our lessons in civics, we students were assigned positions in the local government and spent the day in the offices of our leaders. The top student in the class got to be mayor – and so on down through the various positions and class rankings.

I got to be coroner, and spent the day with an old guy who was not much interested in me or his job. To get me off his back, he simply turned me loose in his files of photos of dead folks, some of them bloated from drowning, others shot or cut or mangled in auto accidents.

I think I learned to be a careful driver and to keep my distance from deep water. Not bad lessons, actually.

Bill Koon lives in Greenville. He can be contacted at badk@ clemson.edu.

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