Feb. 25, 2011 Spartanburg Journal by Community Journals

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Trevor Bayne's win at Daytona puts him in some fine company, including Spartanburg's own David Pearson. P A G E 8 Matthew Stockman/Getty Images for NASCAR

Trevor Bayne climbs out of the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford in victory lane after winning the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.

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A weighty subject With childhood obesity on the rise, this community organization wants to erase the startling statistics BY NICHOLE LIVENGOOD | CONTRIBUTING

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tanburg County are obese or overweight. Startling statistics, says Laura Ringo, executive director of Partners for Active Living, whose organization was recently chosen by The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors as one of 40 community organizations in 26 states to take part in Action Communities for Health, Innovation and Environmental Change (ACHIEVE). ACHIEVE is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Communities Program and is a partnership between local communities and national and state organizations joined in a movement to create healthier places to live, work and play. Funding from the grant will be used to assess the health of the Spartanburg

community as well as to create a marketing campaign for the Childhood Obesity Taskforce to bring awareness and urge the community to respond to the public health challenge of obesity, physical inactivity and poor nutrition. The Childhood Obesity Taskforce was formed in November 2008 by representatives from the city, county, educational system, local nonprofits and philanthropic foundations. The taskforce has also recently received a grant from Eat Smart Move More South Carolina which will be used to implement a program encouraging restaurants and food service establishments to put healthy choices on their menus, use local food and put the nutritional information on their menus. “What’s amazing is that Spartanburg continues to get these big grants,” says Ana Parra, the executive director of Hub

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Live Music Friday, February 25th 9pm The Toughcats $10 advance/ $12 door

With their unusual sound, a blend of old timey bluegrass, thoughtful indie rock, and classic pop twitches a la early Beatles, they bring their audience a best of both worlds scenario: timeless music that is at once unquestionably danceable and haltingly listenable.

Art/Theater Saturday, February 26th Workshop

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The Institute for Subversive Papier Maché allows for participants to get involved in several activities with the Bread & Puppet group such as cantastoria, Kasper masks & making music from garbage. Email events@hub-bub.com or call 864-582-0056 for more info or to sign up for the workshop by February 24th.

Performance

The Decapitalization Cabaret 7pm (doors open at 6:30) $10 / $5 student (with ID)

The cabaret includes a handful of short plays that address such social and political issues as mountaintop removal mining and the hollowness of political rhetoric. Interspersed throughout the performance are a number of vaudeville-like skits and slapstick comedy routines. The Decap Accordion and String ensemble will provide soothing sounds for winter weary nerves. The Green Screen Film Series returns. HUB-BUB, Hub City Farmerʼs Market, Upstate Forever, Partners for Active Living, Hub-City Co-Op, & YMCA present this documentary film series with a focus on environmental issues and healthy lifestyles. A discussion follows each film. FREE Admission

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Really Gov. Haley? For someone who says she “won’t put up with the drama” from critics, Gov. Nikki Haley isn’t above resorting to melodrama of her own about the $225 million budget deficit now jeopardizing health care services for the state’s disabled and poor. Haley chose the word “immoral” to describe an offer by South Carolina hospitals to increase the taxes they pay – now $264 million a year – to prevent deep cuts to the state’s Medicaid program. The hospitals would only pass the tax to consumers, Haley said, which is “wrong, it’s immoral and I won’t support it and no one in the Legislature should support it.” Immoral? Really? Then how about this for immoral: slandering hospital executives who would rather pass along a dollar increase in taxes than $4 in cuts that would hurt consumers and taxpayers even more. Or this: joining legislators in defaming former Health and Human Services director Emma Forkner over a deficit she warned them was coming, and which is a direct consequence of the Legislature’s past actions and policies. Or this: playing pass-the-blame rather than working honestly with DHHS and health care providers to forestall draconian cuts that will have a devastating multiplier effect on South Carolina’s economy. Because South Carolina is so poor, every dollar the state spends on Medicaid is matched by $3 from the federal government. So a $100 million cut to the state’s Medicaid contribution – the dollar figure cited most often – would actually slice $400 million from the program. Cuts of that size would have a dramatic ripple effect. Rural doctors’ offices and small hospitals with disproportionate numbers of Medicaid patients may not survive, meaning lost services and jobs. Emergency room traffic (and wait times) will surely increase – as will insurance premiums, as private insurance costs grow to make up for the money lost. Medicaid insures almost half of all South Carolina children and pays for more than half of all births. The program’s overall caseload has grown by 100,000 people since 2007. Their needs won’t vanish along with that $400 million. But the most inexcusable of all their hypocrisies is the way lawmakers hogtied Ms. Forkner and pillaged her agency before they started blaming her for the results. Federal law already bars DHHS from changing Medicaid eligibility requirements or reducing most services. But state legislators lashed the agency to the wall. Lawmakers have cut $228 million from DHHS’ budget since the economy crashed and taken $500 million of its reserves to spend elsewhere. According to newspaper reports, Forkner warned them twice between January and April last year that she lacked the cash to cover the growing enrollment. She wrote more warning letters in August and filed a formal report on the deficit in November. Attached were five pages of state laws prohibiting cuts and dictating spending. Legislators had banned such money-saving options as cutting chiropractic services or requiring preauthorization for mental health care or whittling provider rates. And when former Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed those restrictions, they overrode him. So now Senate Pro Tem Glenn McConnell is questioning Forkner’s integrity and demanding an audit to find out where to lay the blame. Hold up a mirror, senator. Then hand it to the governor. Then, for the sake of us all, work honorably with the new DHHS director and the health care industry to find a path out of the disaster you created. 6 s p a r t a n b u r g J o u r n a l | FEBRUARY 25, 2011

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indicate there are roughly 57,000 people over age 65 in Greenville and Spartanburg counties. This group accounts for almost 13 percent of the population in the Upstate’s two largest counties. They face many health challenges, but there are steps seniors can take to help themselves in the long run. Remaining as active as possible goes a long way toward preventing many health concerns facing the senior population. Evidence shows that moderate physical activity can help people live longer and reduce health hazards including high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, the risk of heart attacks, hardening of the arteries and the possibility of strokes. Physical exercise also helps fight osteoporosis, keeps joints stabilized and the body limber. Additionally, seniors need to use all elements that contribute to good health and to remain fit, such as eating a well-balanced diet, not smoking and seeing their doctor regularly. There are many opportunities for seniors to gain and maintain fitness in 2011. Now there is a new incentive for this group to reach for that fitness. The Woodlands at Furman and the Greenville Track Club are joining together to host the inaugural Woodlands Challenge. This effort will get more seniors to take part in the many road races that happen in the Upstate each month. The goal is to get more people over age 65 active. Being a fast runner is not required, just participation. These individuals don’t even need to run – walkers are welcome and encouraged. They just need to want to

in my own words by dr. john r. sanders be active. A healthy lifestyle contributes so much to the goal of a healthy retirement. That should be the goal of all seniors and is one of the core tenants of what the Woodlands and Upstate Senior Living is all about. What do you need to do in order to be a participant? The Woodlands Challenge will only be for the Greenville Track Club sponsored events among the many road races offered during the course of the year. All a senior needs to do is sign up for one of the Track Club events and they are entered into the Woodlands Challenge. The more events entered and participated in, the more points accrued. At the end of the year, the man and woman with the most points will be the inaugural winner. We want to add a motivation for seniors to become involved in an activity integral to the Upstate community. Incenting a population who normally don’t partake in the region’s racing culture to take advantage of this fitness activity is the purpose. The idea of being active is the main agenda. The best reason for incorporating regular exercise into your life is to feel better and enjoy life more. Imagine if you will the thrill of sleeping better, managing stress better, and gaining more endurance for the enjoyment of work and/or play. Dr. John R. Sanders is the out-going board president of The Woodlands at Furman, which is a non-profit Life Care living community in Greenville.

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He's a winner, yes he is Frank Collins: Artist & Architect

Feb. 1-28, Tuesday-Saturday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Frank Collins was a well-known Spartanburg architect who designed many homes and business buildings during the mid-1900s. He was also an accomplished artist. See his work in the Regional History Museum at the Chapman Cultural Center.

Art & Antique Show

Thursday-Sunday, Feb. 24-27 This is Spartanburg’s big and annual art and antique show. It starts Thursday with a Benefactors’ Gala and continues through the weekend with plenty of opportunities to buy fine art and antiques not from this area. Other activities include guest lectures and a Science Center Camp for the kids. For details, call 582-7616.

Willy Wonka!

Fridays, March 4 & 11 at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 5 at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 12 at 3 & 7 p.m. Sundays, March 6 & 13 at 3 p.m. Roald Dahl’s timeless story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir comes to life in this musical adaptation of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which features the songs from the classic family film, including “Pure Imagination,” “The Candy Man,” and “I’ve Got a Golden Ticket,” plus spectacular flying effects by Las Vegas company “Flying by Foy.” Presented by Spartanburg Little Theatre in the David Reid Theatre.

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by charles sowell | Staff

In Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne’s family, racing is in the blood. The 20-year-old Bayne’s grandfather, William Bayne, raced in the Upstate circuit for years both against Eddie Hawkins and as a member of Hawkins’ racing team, the now retired veteran racer said. “Trevor’s daddy, Rocky, and his brother both played with my boy around the shop when there were kids,” Hawkins said. Both Baynes graduated from Hillcrest High School and lived in Simpsonville. William worked for J.D. Hollingsworth when he wasn’t racing. Back in those days racing was a family affair, Hawkins said. And it remains true today with Trevor who won the nation’s oldest, biggest stock car race just one day after his 20th birthday. Bayne is a young 20, scarcely needing to shave once a week. He celebrated his birthday the night before the big race with the combined Roush Fenway Racing and Wood Brothers teams that were behind his winning car. Fame struck home quickly for the young racer. When he went to bed on Sunday he had 6,000 followers on Twitter. When he woke up Monday there were 21,000. According to reports from Knoxville, where most of the Bayne family lives today, Trevor started his love affair with speed at an early age. He had a dirt bike with training wheels at the ripe old age of three. The training wheels came off at age four and the youngest of the racing Baynes soon graduated to go-cart racing. One of Trevor’s treasured possessions is a photo of his grandfather helping him work on his racing go-cart. William Bayne died in the late 1990s, Hawkins said. “I was a pallbearer at the funeral and I met Trevor then, of course he was little,” he said. Trevor’s dad, Rocky, at one time owned the Bayne’s Hooters Pro Cup racing team and was crew chief for his son. “He’s never missed a lap on the track,” Trevor said of his father. Hawkins, who retired from racing in 1983 after hitting the circuit since the late 1960s, said Trevor’s granddad was a fierce competitor. “I raced against him

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Trevor Bayne lifts the Harley J. Earl trophy with the No. 21 crew in victory lane after winning the 53rd Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.

many times through the years before he retired and started helping me.” The youngest Daytona winner seems to have inherited that competitive streak. “We have always had speed in our family,” Trevor told a Knoxville television station. Trevor worked his way through the various lower-level racing circuits until at age 15 he moved out of his family’s Knoxville home and moved to Mooresville, N.C., to pursue a career with Dale Earnhardt Inc. as a driver in the big time. “Whey I first moved (to North Carolina), I had an apartment and then my crew chief would actually have to come pick me up because I didn’t have a driver’s license,” Trevor said. In 2009 DEI had to let Bayne go because there was no sponsor to fund his ride. It was the first time in the young man’s career that he was out of racing. It proved to be short-lived, however. A trip to Florida connected the young diver with Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) and that led to a commitment to a multi-race deal with the company and then on to Daytona where he raced as part of the Nationwide Series. Bayne said he’s not moving up to the Winston Cup series, yet. The premier racing circuit is where the cream of the stock car community pits their skills against one another. He’d like to drive the rest of the year with Nationwide and see where that takes

him, Daytona win notwithstanding. Speaking on CNN on Monday, Bayne said, “I never thought in a million years we were gonna win our first (big) race. It’s incredible.” The young driver took home a purse valued at $1.4 million and said he wasn’t sure what he would do with the money. “I don’t know if I’ll splurge. I am definitely not putting it up for retirement yet. I am going to stay around for a while.” Bayne’s parents Rocky and Stephanie were in the stands cheering their son on to victory. The Wood Racing team last won at Daytona in 1976 when Spartanburg’s David Pearson took the checkered flag. Bayne’s car carried decals honoring the racing veteran for his induction into the racing Hall of Fame. Pearson said, “Yeah, I was listening to it on the radio in the car. That’s good. I’m proud of them. I figured they had a chance after seeing that boy race in the 150s (Gatorade Duel). I talked to him (Bayne) this morning. I told him to keep his head straight and not to do anything crazy. I told him to stay relaxed. That’s the thing; stay relaxed. I knew he would because he was relaxed in the qualifier. I’m proud of him. I don’t understand what has taken them so long to return to Victory Lane. The car has always been capable.” Contact Charles Sowell at 679-1208 or cso we l l @ th e spartan bu rgj o u rn al .co m.

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“Thoughts, Words, and Deeds” will be the theme for the third annual Engaging Faith Conference presented by Greenville’s Nexus Center and Furman University’s Office Chaplain. The faith conference will be held on the campus of Furman University Friday and Saturday and is once again bring nationally respected speakers from diverse perspectives to the Upstate to challenge people to think about their faith and encourage them to address faith’s deep issues. More than 150 people attended last year’s event, including pastors, lay people, students, therapists and community members of all ages and a wide range of religious affiliations. “Given that diversity studies in SpartanburgJrn_Feb_Elise_2.25:Layout Greenville have shown that we are

the founder of the Center for Christian Spirituality at General. Now a U.S. citizen, he was born in England and received his PhD from the University of Nottingham. Lillian Daniel is the senior minister of First Congregational Church, UCC, in Glen Ellyn, Ill. She co-hosts 30 Good Minutes on Chicago’s WTTW/ Ch.11 and she is the author of the book “Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony,” which is the story about how God moves in the local church when people speak about God’s presence to one another. Daniel has taught at Yale Divinity School and Chicago Theological Seminary where she serves on the Board of Trustees. Jones will be speaking about thinking symbolically instead of literally and Daniel will address the way in which people talk to one another about God and share their experiences during the event. “There are a lot of people in our community who are on an intentional

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more divided along the lines of religion than race, opportunities such as the Engaging Faith conference provide places for people to come together and explore the deep issues of faith with mutual respect. This sort of exploration can actually help create understanding and connection throughout our community,” says Susan Stall, Executive Director of Greenville’s Nexus Center. NEXUS is a spiritual connecting center dedicated to cultivating spiritual awareness by presenting and promoting conferences, workshops, and retreats that will appeal to people seeking a deeper connection to the sacred. Alan W. Jones and Lillian Daniel will be this year’s guest speakers. Jones is a Christian theologian, author, and lecturer. He was the dean of the Episcopal Grace Cathedral in San Francisco from 1985 until January 2009 and served as the Stephen F. Bayne Professor of Ascetical Theology at the General Theological Seminary in New 2York 1/31/11 10:48 AM Page He 1 is also City from 1972–1985.

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For more information on the Engaging Faith Conference: engagingfaith. eventbrite.com or call Susan Bennett at 294-2133. spiritual journey and who seek a venue like this where they can explore ideas and connect with other people on a similar journey. It is important for people to have avenues through which they can ponder deep questions and hear inspirational speakers share their experiences and perspectives,” says Stall. “Our aim is to bring in a variety of new perspectives to get people to think deeply about how thing about God, talk about God and how they live their lives. A number of people will have a-ha moments during this conference.”

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healthmatters colorectal cancer is preventable

Colorectal cancer refers to cancer that starts in either the colon or the rectum. Most of these cancers begin as a polyp—a growth of tissue in the colon. This tissue may or may not be cancer. It is quite reassuring to know that removing a polyp early may prevent it from becoming cancer. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer found in men and women in this country and also the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. So, what are the risk factors? Several lifestyle-related factors increase the risk of colorectal cancer: • A diet that is high in red meats (beef, lamb or liver) and processed meats, such as hot dogs, bologna and lunch meat • Lack of exercise and being overweight • Smoking, heavy use of alcohol and having type two diabetes However, there are risk factors one cannot change. • With age, the chances of having colorectal cancer go up after 50 • Having polyps or colorectal cancer previously • Having a history of bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease • Having close relatives who have had this cancer • Some racial and ethnic groups, such as African Americans and Jews of Eastern European descent (Ashkenazi Jews), have a higher colorectal cancer risk. Even though we don’t know exactly what causes colorectal cancer, proper diet, exercise and screening can reduce your risk. Screening tests Regular colorectal cancer screening or testing is one of the best ways to help prevent colorectal cancer. And, screening can also help find colorectal cancer early, when it is more likely to be cured. The recommended screening test for colorectal cancer is colonoscopy, which allows the doctor to see the entire colon. If a polyp is found, the doctor can remove it then. For more information, please call the Cancer Learning Center at 864-560-6747.

prepare now for warm weather and the dreaded bathing suit If you’re interested in losing weight and getting healthier, we can help. Spartanburg Regional Weight Loss Services has a medical weight loss program that includes the following options: Healthy Lifestyles Group: This 12-course series focuses on recognizing and improving behavior patterns in the areas of eating and physical activity. Risk Reduction Program: This program is designed for those with, or at high risk for, obesity-related medical conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea. OPTIFAST® Program: This program includes a full-meal replacement diet that provides complete, balanced nutrition, precise calorie control, quick and simple preparation, pre-portioned servings, behavior modification classes and reduced handling of food.

expert care Gordon France, M.D., of Gastroenterology Associates, is welcoming new patients. A physician referral is not required. For an appointment, call 864-573-7511.

For more information, please contact Spartanburg Regional Weight Loss Services at 864-560-7070.

donor recognition wall honors dr. fleming A new donor recognition wall was unveiled in the Spartanburg Hospital for Restorative Care on February 3 to honor the memory of Harold E. Fleming, Sr., M.D. A visionary and leader, Dr. Fleming saw the need for a long-term, acute-care hospital to serve the citizens of Spartanburg County and surrounding communities. To make a donation, please call the Spartanburg Regional Foundation at 864-560-6727. PRMK31A

Tune in To HealTH MaTTers on WSPA’s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts to learn more about the latest advances in medical care at Spartanburg Regional. 10 s p a r t a n b u r g J o u r n a l | FEBRUARY 25, 2011

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Spartanburg County Council voted to move ahead with

plans to bring the county attorney’s office in-house to realize a potential savings of $200,000 a year. Smith and Haskell represents the county along with Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, Spartanburg Community College, Spartanburg School District One, the University of South Carolina Spartanburg and the Spartanburg County Public Library System. Councilwoman Jane Hall questioned the move but in the end was persuaded by Councilman David Britt and Chairman Jeff Horton that it would bring the county in line with the structure of other large cities and counties in the state and save money. The yet to be named county attorney would be an employee of county council and would be allowed to hire a full-time paralegal to handle both secretarial duties and research. Council gave third reading approval to amend the land use ordinance to regulate pop up flea markets. The rules provide for regulations concerning things like parking and the number of days a flea market can be open before coming under the law. As amended the ordinance would allow a flea market to operate loudspeakers but would prohibit overnight storage of goods under a tarp. Council also instructed Joan Holliday to direct the planning department to address issues with empty big box stores and road widths in subdivisions. Items that piqued Horton, Britt and Councilman O’Neal Mintz. Horton said the county should require businesses that operate big box stores to file a plan on how they plan to dispose of a property when they move. As things stand, the big stores move periodically and leave behind a large shopping center that deteriorates and causes law enforcement problems. Updated financial data for the county shows expenditures hit 56.7 percent of budget as of Jan. 31 with the fiscal year 50 percent complete. Council approved a resolution to allow the county library board to spend $200,000 to purchase the Poppy’s Corner building on Pine Street to be used as overflow storage for historical documents and to serve as a headquarters for the Friends of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries and as a book store that would generate $25,000 a year from sales of old library books. The county library has launched an ambitious program to preserve the county’s historic documents and photographs, Todd Stephens, county librarian, told the panel and overflow storage is becoming an issue as the collection grows. The library makes historical documents and photos available online after the items have been scanned into a computer. Conta c t Cha rl es Sowel l a t 679 -1 2 0 8 o r c s ow el l @thes pa rta nburgj our n a l . c o m . Spartanburg County Council next meets on March 21 at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers at 366 N. Church St.

colon cancer information sessions

Gibbs Cancer Center experts will visit area churches to explain colon cancer, colonoscopies and risk factors for the disease at area churches. For more information, please call 560-1983. Sites are listed below:

March 2 • 7:30 p.m.: Bethel International, 1281 West St., Spartanburg. This presentation will be in Spanish. March 19 • 10 a.m.: Woodson Baptist Church, 1447 Meansville Road, Union March 26 • 10 a.m.: New Trinity Baptist Church, 1330 Old Spartanburg Highway, Lyman March 26 • 10 a.m.: Pleasant View United Methodist Church, 5054 S. Main St., Cowpens

mobile mammography

To schedule a mammogram on the mobile unit call 560-7999. The mobile mammography unit will be at the following sites on the dates listed below: March 3: Family Physicians at 290, 1575 East Main Street, Duncan March 4: Walmart, 141 Dorman Centre Drive, Spartanburg March 11: Walmart, 165 Walton Drive, Gaffney March 25: Walmart, 2151 East Main Street, Spartanburg

mardi gras carnival

Fat Tuesday, March 8 • 6:30 p.m. Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Arena This unique event supports the Community Healing Arts Program, featuring New Orleans inspired cuisine and entertainment by New Orleans’ own DUKES of Dixieland. Tickets are $75. For more information, call 384-0165.

maternity fair

Saturday, March 12 • 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Montgomery Tower Meet our physicians and staff, talk to other expectant parents and take a tour of our Center for Women. To register, visit regionalwomenshealth.com.

mind-body skills group

Thursdays, March 24–May 12 • 12-2 p.m. Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health - Education Room The Mind-Body Skills Group is an eight-week program where participants learn to use a range of the most effective tools for self-care and stress management. To register, call 560-1981.

service of remembrance

Monday, March 28 • 6 p.m. Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home The ceremony centers on the gift of memory and encourages families to remember their loved ones who have died. For more information, please call 560-3900.

doctor’s day

Wednesday, March 30 The Spartanburg Regional Foundation celebrates Doctor’s Day by accepting donations in honor of local physicians. All donations to the foundation support health care in our community, so a gift in honor of a physician can be especially meaningful. Donors should visit regionalfoundation.com or call 864-560-6727. The physicians will receive a card notifying them of a gift in their honor.

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B M W To p s i n E x p o rts The value of BMW cars exported last

year through the Port of Charleston totaled $4.2 billion, making the Spartanburg plant the largest vehicle exporter from the Unites States to non-NAFTA countries,

the company announced. More than 110,000 BMWs were exported last year to more than 130 global markets. The non-NAFTA market is everywhere but Canada and Mexico. The company said the Spartanburg plant is producing 1,000 vehicles each day and is on track to produce about 240,000 vehicles this year, about 50 percent more than last year, as this is the first full year of production of the new X3. “BMW vehicles manufactured in South Carolina were a major contributor to the company’s success in 2010,” said Josef Kerscher, president of BMW Manufacturing. “Consistently strong, global demand for the X5 and X6 and now the all-new X3 to global markets has led to a net increase in our export volume through the port.”

ketball player and Daniel High School boy’s basketball coach Tony Christie pleaded no contest to misdemeanor third-degree assault and battery in connection with an assault of a 16-year-old female student in his office last October. As part of the plea agreement, Christie agreed to permanently surrender his South Carolina teacher’s certificate. Christie was originally charged with second-degree assault and battery, also a misdemeanor. The girl was working under Christie’s supervision as the teacher’s assistant for the class period during which the incident occurred. Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins said that while Christie did not admit guilt with the no contest plea, it has the same legal effect as a guilty plea. Christie was sentenced to 30 days in jail or a $500 fine. The plea also prohibits Christie from volunteering at any state public school. His name will be reported to a national registry for people who are no longer allowed to teach.

A Clemson University plant disease

scientist who helped find a way for peach farmers to detect brown rot disease is turning his attention to strawberries. Guido Schnabel is participating in a regional project based at the University of Florida. A four-year, $2.9 million USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant supports efforts to forecast outbreaks of two fungal diseases – Anthracnose fruit rot and Botrytis fruit rot – which threaten the nation’s $2.1 billion strawberry crop. Schnabel received $850,000 for his part in the project. In South Carolina, strawberries are a small specialty crop totaling about 700 acres. Growers in Florida, second in the country to California in strawberry production, often spray fungicides on their plants weekly as a preventative measure. A disease forecast system to predict high risk of infection by analyzing air temperature and plant leaf wetness could drastically reduce the number of total applications, researchers said.

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Evins assumes interim presidency money to build the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, has been hired as interim president for the facility and the Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg. Evins, who has worked at the center since August as senior director of development, replaces Perry Mixter. “Most importantly, Mixter because of her extensive background with the arts

by spearheading the fundraising effort that actually built the Chapman Cultural Center, I can think of no one more qualified to lead us during this Evins period of transition and growth,” said Tommy Young, chairman of the Partnership board. Evins headed the $46 million capital campaign for Chapman, which opened in October 2007. Evins said fundraising will be her top priority. She said more

than 70 percent of the $845,000 goal of the United Arts Annual Fund campaign has been raised. “We appreciate each and every donation, and each and every ticket purchased,” she said. Evins said her ultimate goal is to establish a solid and sustainable base of charitable giving through the fund that will support Chapman and its nine arts partners. The nine partners are the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg, Ballet Spartanburg,

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Spartanburg County Historical Association, Music Foundation of Spartanburg, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg Science Center, Spartanburg Little Theatre, Spartanburg Repertory Company and the Carolina Foothills Artisan Center in Chesnee.

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ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

INTERNAL MEDICINE

PEDIATRICS

Joseph Manfredi, M.D. Donald Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D. Lawrence Weston, M.D. Arrhythmia Consultants 712 Grove Rd. 271-1444

Shereef El-Ibiary, M.D. Cross Creek Internal Medicine 109 Doctors Dr. 797-7035

Emily Kevan, M.D. Pediatric Gastroenterology 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. A140 454-5125

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L. Ashley Mullinax, M.D. Southeastern Neurosurgical & Spine Institute/Upstate Medical Rehabilitation 111 Doctors Dr. 797-7100

PEDIATRICS AND INTERNAL MEDICINE

Long Hoang, D.O. Thomas Moore, M.D. Keystone Family Medicine 1409 W. Georgia Rd. Simpsonville 454-5000 James Franklin III, M.D. Mountain View Family Practice 406 Memorial Dr. Ext. Greer 877-9066

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Heather Moreira, M.D. Stefanie Putnam, M.D. Heritage Pediatrics & Internal Medicine 727 S.E. Main St., Ste. 320 Simpsonville 454-6440

Andrea Wininger, M.D. Premier Women’s Care 209 Three Bridges Rd. 220-4209

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Spartanburg native Marianna Black Habisreutinger was recognized as South Carolina’s Mother of the Year in a ceremony on Thursday at the Mary Black Foundation office. She was selected from among statewide nominees by the South Carolina Mother of the Year selection committee of the S.C. Association of American Mothers Inc. Habisreutinger holds leadership roles with numerous non-profits including the University of South Carolina Upstate, Storm Eye Institute of the Medical University of South

GHS’ AFIB Clinic provides the most current, comprehensive treatment for heart rhythm disorders. Learn about arrhythmia, its threat to your health and treatment options. To find out more, call 672-2342 or visit ghs.org/afib.

DA VINCI® HYSTERECTOMY If your doctor recommends a hysterectomy, you may be a candidate for an innovative, less invasive surgical procedure called da Vinci Hysterectomy. To learn more, visit ghs.org/roboticsurgery.

Doctors and staﬀ of GHS Women’s Hospital have introduced the evidence-based Family-centered Maternity Care philosophy that oﬀers women and families more choices in delivery and newborn care. Learn more at ghs.org/stork.

NEW IMPACT: A HEALTHY LIFESTYLES PROGRAM New Impact is a comprehensive weight management and nutrition education program for ages 6 to 21. Find out more about this PATH initiative at 675-FITT (3488) or visit ghschildrens.org/newimpact.

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Carolina, Ellen Hines Smith Girls Home, Charles Lea Center Foundation, Cancer Association of Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties, Inc., Spartanburg Methodist College and the Wellvista Advisory Board. For more than 20 years, she was a trustee of both the Mary Black Foundation Board and Mary Black Memorial Hospital. The American Society for Industrial Security International – Chapter 97 presented a $500 scholarship to University of South Carolina Upstate criminal justice major, Renee Peltoniemi. Peltoniemi, from Taylors, will graduate in May 2011.

SALT SENSE Wed., March 2 • 8:30 or 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. • Greenville Life Center® Learn guidelines for eating less sodium, which can help manage congestive heart failure and hypertension. Free; registration required. Call 455-4010.

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IN OUR COMMUNITY ITOR DESIGNER SHOWCASE HOME Fri./Sat./Sun., March 4-20 • Southampton Community (Five Forks) Tour this 7,000-square-foot, custom-designed estate home. Proceeds benefit GHS’ Institute for Translational Oncology Research (ITOR). For details, visit designershowcasehome.com.

Mon., March 7 • 8:30 or 9:30 a.m. • Greenville Life Center

RUN FOR THOUGHT

Find out how to choose low-fat and low-cholesterol foods. Free; registration required. Call 455-4010.

Sat., March 19 • 9 a.m. • CU-ICAR

STRESS MANAGEMENT Mon., March 7 • 6:30-8:30 p.m. • Greenville Life Center Control stress so it doesn’t control you. Fee: $20. Registration required. Call 455-4001.

SPRING INTO ACTION TO PREVENT COLORECTAL CANCER Tues., March 15 • 12:15-1:15 p.m. • Greenville Memorial Hospital

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– Cindy Landrum

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AFIB) CLINIC

Three primary care practices are now open in Simpsonville at 1409 W. Georgia Road:

news,

Jesse Boyd Elementary’s School Improvement Council (SIC) in Spartanburg School District 7 has been named one of five statewide award finalists for the annual state School Improvement Council award. The winner of the 2011 SC-SIC Riley Award will be selected from five finalists and announced at the SC-SIC Annual Conference, Saturday, March 19 in Columbia.

PROGRAMS TO KNOW ABOUT NEW PHYSICIANS

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Bring lunch and hear GHS surgical oncologist Brian McKinley, M.D., discuss colorectal cancer. Free; registration required. Call 1-877-GHS-INFO (447-4636) or visit ghs.org/360healthed.

ENDOMETRIOSIS & INFERTILITY

This 5K run and one-mile walk/roll benefits the Brain Injury Association of S.C. Fee: $25 before March 4. To register, visit biausa.org/SC/.

HEART WALK® Sat., April 2 • 8 a.m. • Greer City Park Join the GHS team for the 2011 Heart Walk to benefit the American Heart Association®. To sign up, visit ghs.org/heartwalk.

SPICE OF LIFE Fri.-Sat., April 29 & 30 • Carolina First Center This interactive health and wellness event includes cooking and exercise demos, home entertaining and green living workshops, and a tasting garden! For details, visit upstatespiceoflifeshow.com.

Thurs., March 24 • 6:30-8:30 p.m. • Patewood Memorial Hospital Join the doctors of GHS’ Fertility Centers of the Carolinas to learn about endometriosis and its impact on fertility. Free; registration required. Call 1-877-GHS-INFO (447-4636) or visit ghs.org/360healthed.

GOTTA GO? Thurs., March 24 • Noon-1 p.m. • Spartanburg Marriott Wed., March 30 • Noon-1 p.m. • Hilton Garden Inn in Anderson Learn the latest treatment options for urinary incontinence. Free; registration required. Call 1-877-GHS-INFO (447-4636) or visit ghs.org/360healthed. 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).

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ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

INTERNAL MEDICINE

PEDIATRICS

Joseph Manfredi, M.D. Donald Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D. Lawrence Weston, M.D. Arrhythmia Consultants 712 Grove Rd. 271-1444

Shereef El-Ibiary, M.D. Cross Creek Internal Medicine 109 Doctors Dr. 797-7035

Emily Kevan, M.D. Pediatric Gastroenterology 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. A140 454-5125

NEUROSURGERY

FAMILY MEDICINE

L. Ashley Mullinax, M.D. Southeastern Neurosurgical & Spine Institute/Upstate Medical Rehabilitation 111 Doctors Dr. 797-7100

PEDIATRICS AND INTERNAL MEDICINE

Long Hoang, D.O. Thomas Moore, M.D. Keystone Family Medicine 1409 W. Georgia Rd. Simpsonville 454-5000 James Franklin III, M.D. Mountain View Family Practice 406 Memorial Dr. Ext. Greer 877-9066

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Heather Moreira, M.D. Stefanie Putnam, M.D. Heritage Pediatrics & Internal Medicine 727 S.E. Main St., Ste. 320 Simpsonville 454-6440

Andrea Wininger, M.D. Premier Women’s Care 209 Three Bridges Rd. 220-4209

events

Habisreutinger

happenings

FAT COUNTS

Mon., March 7 • 8:30 or 9:30 a.m. • Greenville Life Center

RUN FOR THOUGHT

Find out how to choose low-fat and low-cholesterol foods. Free; registration required. Call 455-4010.

Sat., March 19 • 9 a.m. • CU-ICAR

STRESS MANAGEMENT Mon., March 7 • 6:30-8:30 p.m. • Greenville Life Center Control stress so it doesn’t control you. Fee: $20. Registration required. Call 455-4001.

SPRING INTO ACTION TO PREVENT COLORECTAL CANCER Tues., March 15 • 12:15-1:15 p.m. • Greenville Memorial Hospital

FAMILY-CENTERED MATERNITY CARE

and

– Cindy Landrum

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AFIB) CLINIC

Three primary care practices are now open in Simpsonville at 1409 W. Georgia Road:

news,

PROGRAMS TO KNOW ABOUT NEW PHYSICIANS

c o m m u n i t y

Bring lunch and hear GHS surgical oncologist Brian McKinley, M.D., discuss colorectal cancer. Free; registration required. Call 1-877-GHS-INFO (447-4636) or visit ghs.org/360healthed.

ENDOMETRIOSIS & INFERTILITY

This 5K run and one-mile walk/roll benefits the Brain Injury Association of S.C. Fee: $25 before March 4. To register, visit biausa.org/SC/.

HEART WALK® Sat., April 2 • 8 a.m. • Greer City Park Join the GHS team for the 2011 Heart Walk to benefit the American Heart Association®. To sign up, visit ghs.org/heartwalk.

LET’S CONNECT! Facebook.com/greenville hospitalsystem Twitter.com/ghs_org youtube.com/ghsbroadcast CEO Blog: totransformhealthcare.com

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Jennifer Evins, who helped raise

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GEN WHY New online network aims to capture the 21-35-year-old audience, from the Upstate and beyond BY DICK HUGHES CONTRIBUTING

One Minute News anchors from left to right, Mackinley Greenlaw, Charlie Berens and Vanessa Rae in one of the One Minute News studios.

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B U S I N E S S A NATIONAL WEBSITE with live

anchors giving newscasts 24 hours a day in the style of Jon Stewart launches Tuesday from the Upstate. OneMinuteNews.com targets 2134 year olds by linking news with social networking. Its founders hope by making news a touch away it will challenge the myth that Generation Y is not interested in news. Young adults are potential consumers of news when it is presented the way they want it: in short bursts by contemporaries with an attitude and available whenever they want it on their smart phones, digital readers or computers, said Douglas J. Greenlaw, who originated OneMinuteNews.com and raised millions in start-up money. The newscasts are refreshed every 15 minutes. A click away is the social networking application where users can build a profile page, drag theirs from Facebook and do pretty much everything they do on that popular site. The site is interactive to allow users an opportunity to participate in polls, discuss stories and contribute to news gathering. Regular bloggers write about matters of interest from the Gen Y perspective. “The social networking side is key. These young people like to talk to each other,” Greenlaw said. “When you come to OneMinuteNews.com, you’ll reach a newscast, and you touch on breaking news, sports, entertainment. There are about six buttons you can go to. Each button represents 60 seconds worth of content.” But Greenlaw said it differs from social networking because the site has content. “Our content is news 24/7, news for young people, constructed by, programmed by, live-anchored by Generation Y for Generation Y between the ages of 21 and 34.” There is nothing like it, and Greenlaw is convinced OneMinuteNews.com will be a household name and profitable within a year. “It could be the next MTV,” said Greenlaw, who helped transform MTV Networks from “an entrepreneurial grab bag kind of place and institutionalized it into a mainstream of Madison Avenue.”

Greenlaw’s experience includes executive positions at other online and TV enterprises. He was chief operating officer of Greenville’s Multimedia Inc., and Greenlaw he is one of the founders of Community Journals, which publishes the Greenville Journal and Spartanburg Journal. To get an idea of what a newscast will be like, said Greenlaw, think of Jon Stewart at 28 having gone into journalism instead of comedy. “That’s the sort of attitude our anchors will have. It will be spicy. It will be fast, furious and it will not be political. No right wing, no left wing.” The Generation Y preference for news in “short pieces” applies as well to advertising, Greenlaw believes. “When you go to CNN, AOL, Yahoo, all the big boys, you get their 30-second TV commercial. It is 30 seconds before you get what you want. With us, it is three seconds to 15 seconds in length at the longest, and it is all video. No banner advertising.” Greenlaw is going to “pick and choose the coolest advertising. My research has shown that they (Gen Y) would prefer to have no advertising. But they say we’ll accept advertising, just don’t smash us in the face with it. These 15-second ads, they are fine with. Just don’t run AARP ads.” Gen Yers may want attitude, but they don’t want blah, blah, blah, said Greenlaw. “They say tell me like it is. Don’t B.S. me. Give it to me fast and furious and just the highlights. I will figure out the rest on my own.” Greenlaw assembled a staff of 25 journalists from around the country, all in the Gen Y age bracket, to produce OneMinuteNews from a 5,000-squarefoot newsroom and studio at the Innovate Building on River Street. “We have all the news sources that any of the heavyweights have. It will just be edited differently, and it will be presented a lot differently than, say, Brian Williams on the evening news. News director George Alexander, a

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veteran of Fox and CNN news in Atlanta, said the newscasts are “anchor driven. Personality is encouraged. Attitude is encouraged.” The staff will feature angles in news events that relate to their audience, he said. For example, reporting on the upheaval in the Middle East could be on the high percentage of young people in the population and how the Internet has weakened dictatorships. “As a backpack journalist, I want to bring people into the story rather than just tell them the story. I want my generation to understand why the news is important and why it matters to us,” said anchor Yasmin Vossoughian. The presentation, Alexander said, is more free-flowing than network and cable news. The sets are unpretentious, and the anchors dress casually. No ties, no hairspray, no heavy makeup. “All natural,” said Greenlaw. “These are bright young journalists. It is not the Fox model of show me the beautiful blond. They are nice looking people, don’t get me wrong, but we are not going for cleavage and short skirts.”

Greenlaw said OneMinuteNews has a technological advantage because it is tailored for small screens. “The difference between us and others is that normally a Web site is for the computer. They take it and squeeze onto the mobile. We are treating ours to be mobile ready and adapting it to the computer. Mobile is our focus.” Greenlaw is confident OneMinuteNews will fill an advertising void through disciplined focus on adults between 21 and 34, who are not reading newspapers and are abandoning TV and thus putting themselves out of sight of advertisers who need that age market. And he is betting he is right that young people are interested in news and have been getting it from several sources, just not from the traditional ones. “They get it everywhere. They get it on their home page, like Yahoo, AOL or Google. They get it from Jon Stewart, from Jay Leno, David Letterman.” C o n tact Di ck Hu gh e s at dh u gh e s@ th e spartan bu rgj o u rn al .co m.

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CORRECTION: In the Feb. 11 edition of the Journal, a company testing product at the ICAR lab was misidentified. The company’s name is Sealevel Systems Inc.

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Good news, then the bad Economy will grow, but unemployment still lingers by Dick Hughes | Contributing

South Carolina’s economy

is expected to grow faster this year than last, but unemployment, although declining some, will stay high as companies put their money into equipment and services that

increase efficiency but produce few jobs. The consensus of economists is that South Carolina’s unemployment rate will stay in the 10 percent range through the year and not fall below that double-digit until 2012. The outlook for the Upstate, however, generally is rosier than for the rest of the state and overall South Carolina is expected to fare as well, if not be better, than other states in the

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southeast. “We are growing,” said Mark Vitner, managing director and senior economist of Wells Fargo/Wachovia, in an interview. “We are adding jobs, not all that many, but we are adding jobs.” The Darla Moore School of Business has projected job growth, the economic indicator closely watched coming out of a recession, percent in 2010, but that will only to increase to 1.2 percent from 0.1 make a dent in unemployment, which was 10.7 percent at the end of the year. The economic forecast of TD Bank, which purchased Carolina First Bank last year, projects higher job growth of 2.3 percent yet sees the state ending the year just fractionally lower at 10.4 percent. In a special report of TD Economics, the company does not expect to see an employment rate below 10 percent until the end of 2012 and then only at 9.9, still far higher than the pre-recession rate of 6 percent in 2007. Vintner said South Carolina, like the rest of the nation, is going through a difficult economic evolution as companies coming out of the recession are making major capital investments that do not create a lot of jobs and the jobs that are created require a higher skill set than in the past. In fact, he said, the nation is producing the same amount of goods and services as it did prior to the recession but only one million of the eight million jobs lost have been regained. “The way the economy has evolved more recently is that a lot of our growth has happened in a very capital intensive part of the economy, so we produce a lot of goods and provide a lot more services with relatively few people.” In 2010, he said, companies made record capital investments in South Carolina but the number of jobs created or will be created is “a drop in the bucket compared to employment for the state.” Vitner cited BMW ’s nearly $1 billion expansion of its Spartanburg assembly plant, GE’s growth in its

turbine business at Greenville and Boeing’s upcoming factory to build jetliners at North Charleston. Boeing, he said, is building “a whole new factory for aircraft, a huge capital investment but still a relatively small number of jobs. It takes a whole lot more capital to produce jobs.” “Our economy is evolving in a way that is very capital intensive, and for workers that means that they need a higher skill set for the jobs that are available today. They need broader based knowledge and to be able to quickly adapt to technology.” The intractability of high unemployment aside, Vitner and other economists said South Carolina and particularly the Upstate are positioned to do better than other regions. “South Carolina is a very interactive place to do business. Businesses are still seeking us out …. Tourism is picking up, and that is good news for the Upstate and the Coast. “ Beata Caranci, deputy chief economist of TD Financial, believes “South Carolina will be a slight

outperformer this year relative to the rest of the South Atlantic. This will buck the historical trend as it tends to lag the region about one percentage point, but there are a number of unique factors working in the state’s favor.” Two of those positive factors are “strong auto manufacturing and tourism” with both benefiting from pent up demand in both from the spending slowdown during the recession. Caranci expects an economic boost in manufacturing in general as companies take advantage of the 100 percent depreciation permitted in 2011 for equipment. Another factor in South Carolina’s favor, Caranci said, is that while Georgia and Florida are seeing a “dramatic fall-off in population growth,” South Carolina’s population growth “looks to have returned to the norm that existed prior to the housing boom years.” “Since population is the foundation for demand and labor, South Carolina is well positioned here,” Caranci said.

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“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Mary Whyte 20 S P A R T A N B U R G J O U R N A L | FEBRUARY 25, 2011

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Jane Bechdolt is honored to be a

part of Charleston artist Mary Whyte’s latest body of work, “Working South.” But it saddens her as well. Bechdolt is one of 30 workers included in Whyte’s series of watercolor portraits highlighting Southern workers, but they are Southerners working in jobs that are fading away. They are the faces of workers left behind when jobs are outsourced or shipped offshore. They work in fields that are more old economy than new. They are textile mill workers like Elaine Rogers of Pickens, who worked in a textile plant for 32 years. The last plant she worked in closed in 2008 because of Chinese imports. They are crabbers like Algie Varn from Pinpoint, Ga. They are beekeepers like Bechdolt and her father, Doug Hogg, a Simpsonville man who worked as a textile supervisor and turned to gardening and beekeeping to keep food on the table and make ends meet. Bechdolt started helping keep bees in 2000. “It’s a dying art,” she said. The idea for the series came while Whyte was in Greenville in 2005 to paint a commission portrait Whyte of a local banker. A newspaper headline told the story of one of the big textile mills closing, the story illustrated by a photograph of an unidentified woman wearing a smock standing in front of a loom with hundreds of strands of white thread. She was unidentified in the picture, as if it were a picture of nobody, Whyte wrote in a book about the series, and about to lose her job. Whyte commented about the story to the banker, who she would not identify. “In five or 10 years, all of those jobs may be gone,” the banker told her. It was then that Whyte decided to do a series of portraits of people who were working in vanishing industries, those people who were working under the radar. She began compiling a list: shoeshine

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men, cotton pickers, tobacco farmers, and funeral bands. “I could have done it in South Carolina,” she said. “But I just wanted it to be broader than one state.” She spent the next three and a half years finding her subjects. “It was a story that needed to be told before it’s gone,” she said. She found her subjects one by one, taking suggestions from family, friends and people she met along the way. “I had a pretty good idea of where I was going with my list and what kind of person I would meet,” she wrote in the book she published to accompany the exhibition, which will be in Greenville until September and then will travel to museums in other Southern states. She found a milliner, a lumberyard worker, and a fish shack operator, a ferryboat captain. “For so many people, this is their life’s work and they were jobs that largely went unnoticed,” she said. She found a teenage newspaper delivery boy in western Tennessee, an elevator attendant in Mississippi’s capitol. “Back in the 50s, everybody had a teenage newspaper delivery person it seemed. I wanted to find somebody who did at least part of their deliveries on foot,” she said. “Elevator operators used to be everywhere.” Some professions made it into the series even though Whyte didn’t start out with them on her list. She was in central South Carolina painting the portrait of a cotton picker when she stopped in Bishopville to eat lunch in a local diner. The woman who ran the diner, which sat maybe 10 people, caught her eye. So did a group of men who looked like chimney sweeps. They were covered in black except for the area of their faces covered by their goggles. Turns out they were industrial equipment cleaners who would slither into small spaces of industrial machinery and remove the creosote. “It was too good to pass up,” she said. Whyte got to some professions just a little too late. She looked for a tobacco auctioneer, but couldn’t find one.

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She had trouble finding a milliner, too Whyte found several of her subjects in the Upstate while she spent portions of two summers painting in a cottage in rural Simpsonville owned by Hogg and his wife, Billie. In addition to Rogers and Bechdolt, Upstate residents were the models for “Spinner,” a portrait of a textile mill worker in Gaffney; “Shroud,” a textile mill worker from Gaffney; “Boneyard,” a textile mill worker from Greenville; and “Sentinel,” a hog framer from Gray Court. “Boneyard” was painted in a field somewhere in Greenville County where discarded textile looms where tossed out when they were no longer needed, said Whyte. “They looked like dinosaur skeletons,” said Whyte, who found a man who had worked in textile mills all of his life. She said that while there were differences among the workers featured in the series, there were similarities as well. “What surprised me the most is how much pride people take in their work, even work the rest of us would think was not grand work,” she said. Contact Cindy Landrum at 679-1237 or clandrum@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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S c e n e . H e r e . The ON T H E S T A G E Scratch that itch The Shoestring Players at the University of South Carolina Upstate will perform George Feydeau’s A Flea In Her Ear on Feb. 24-26 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 27 at 3 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. To purchase tickets, call the box office, Monday-Friday from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. at 503-5695. Ticket

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W R I T T E N WO R D You can write, right here The Hub City Writers Project will

host a monthly event for writers, Writers’ Night Out. For the writers who want time to talk with other writers and, find quiet time devoted to writing. On the first Tuesday of each month, starting March 1, writers are invited to come to the Hub City Bookshop, 186 W. Main St., at 6:30 p.m. Around 7:00, participants will gather at tables in the bookshop to write. Writers’ Night Out is free and open to anyone. For more information, contact Kari Jackson at kari@hubcity.org. V i s ua l art s See them here, first In celebration of National Youth Art Month, the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg’s annual Focus on Youth Juried Art Exhibition opens March 8 at the Guild Gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center. Scott Cunningham, Assistant Director of the Spartanburg Art Museum, is the juror for the exhibit that includes works of students in grades nine through 12 in Spartanburg County schools. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The exhibit runs through March 25. C A LL B O A R D Young and learning Imagine That, Spartanburg’s teen improv group, is holding auditions for the 2011-2012 cast. Applicants must be in the 9th- 12th grade and enrolled in a Spartanburg County high school. Selected cast members must commit to be alcohol and drug free, be mature enough to deal with serious social issues and will spend the next academic year touring the southeast performing for various youth and adult groups. To reserve an audition time call 278-9665. www.imaginethatimprov.com. Send us your arts announcement. Fax 679-1238 or e-mail: spartanburgarts@thespartanburgjournal.com

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Wofford’s Lacrosse Club honored the late Karl Alexander, a member of the club who died unexpectedly last July. Karl’s family was at the recent match against Davidson. Alexander was a rising sophomore and a brother of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

The City of Spartanburg raised $46,670 for the United Way of Piedmont. To celebrate they held a luncheon for contributing employees. Pictured are: Ingrid Crawford, Tony McAbee, Brian Wofford and Mitch Kennedy.

Wofford students take advantage of the recent warm weather to study on the lawn of Main Building. Spartanburg Methodist College crowned sophomore Kayla Jackson as its 2011 Miss SMC. Jackson, from Lugoff, and a graduate of Lugoff-Elgin High School, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everet Jackson, Sr. Kayla Susie, a freshman from Greer, and a graduate of Blue Ridge High School, was named first runner up. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Susie. Pictured from left to right are SMC president Dr. Colleen Keith; Miss SMC 2011 Kayla Jackson and Miss SMC 2010 Jerica Lemon of Spartanburg. 24 S P A R T A N B U R G J O U R N A L | FEBRUARY 25, 2011

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To John B. White, everyone was a friend worth having A BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED PRINT that shows the first Beacon Drive In on West Main Street hangs on the wall in my office behind me as I write this. It was a gift from John B. White, the founder of the famed Spartanburg restaurant, located on the street named in his honor. “Wait Gary, I have something for you,” John said one day about 12 years ago as I came through the Beacon food line. I stood with my sliced barbeque sandwich, extra red sauce, and waited while John walked to his office and returned with the print in its grey-colored frame. “Here, I want you to have this.” I sat down my tray and took the print. “How much do I owe you for this, John”? I asked, knowing the prized prints were being sold to the public. “Nothing, hope you enjoy it,” he replied as he turned his attention toward the noon lunch line and the business at hand. “Next,” he called out. Many people who’ve lived around Spartanburg for a while probably have a personal John White story they could relate. For some, it would be as simple as finding a frozen pie in a to-go order that John slipped in for no reason, other than that he wanted to do it. Paying for the pie was not an option after it was noticed. For others, the stories would be about money for college tuition, help with the power bill that couldn’t be paid, a tray of food brought to the house when a family member had died, money to pay the rent or being a recipient of the respect he showed to everyone he met. Still others would recall Beacon trucks loaded with food for firefighters, rescuers and police officers at scenes where tragic events happened. But the story you’ll never hear told is one that speaks ill of John Belton White. John left indelible footprints in Spartanburg soil. The restaurant he created became a city landmark that gave

John and Mary White

Spartanburg recognition far and wide. In November 1996, my editor at the HeraldJournal assigned me to write the Beacon’s 50th anniversary story for a page one of the Thanksgiving Day edition. John was pleased we were doing a story, but typically, he claimed no credit for the Beacon’s success, deferring instead to the workers who cooked, took orders curbside or in the dining room, and the customers who’d supported him for half-a-century. He tried every way possible to weasel his way out of answering questions. It took perseverance, but through it all, John gave everybody but himself the accolades. On Wednesday before Thanksgiving, John called the office, told me he needed to see me and asked that I drop by the Beacon on the way home from work. I found John where I expected I would, behind the cash register.

“That’s yours,” he said, nodding toward two large cardboard boxes sitting on the counter a few feet away. “It’s your Thanksgiving dinner. It’s got turkey, dressing and everything. I just appreciate the story.” I protested, telling John it was an honor to write the story. I figured it would end the argument when I told him rules stated that could not accept gifts in exchange for stories I wrote. “It’s not for the story,” John said, without looking at me, as he continued to cash out people coming down the line. “Well, John,” I said. “Even when it’s not for a story, I can’t accept a gift with a value of more than $25.” “This is your lucky day,” John said. “That’s exactly what it costs.” I picked up the boxes and took them to my car. Today, I recall the nights out when I was a student at Spartan High that always included at stop at the Beacon, and the times I returned home from Kansas City and other places where I lived and took my children to meet John White and hear J. C. call out food orders. After John retired and sold the Beacon, I would occasionally see him and his wife, Mary, at the grocery store, or at dinner somewhere other than the Beacon. Often, they mentioned one of my stories they’d read in the paper, and John never stopped thanking me for the one about the Beacon’s anniversary. Though thanking John for anything seemed to make him uncomfortable, I’m going to do anyway. Thanks, John, for the example you set. You gave us a-plenty. Contact Gary Henderson at 5 4 2 -5 4 4 3 o r at wgaryh @ gmai l .co m.

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