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Naomi and Warner brings back lunch Historic downtown shop offers Wen Lily’s products

BY SUSAN DOHERTY OSTEEN Lunchtime. The word itself seems contrary. Few have the luxury of time to enjoy their lunch. Most people simply grab what they can and get on with their day.

Downtowners now have another option: Wen Lily’s boxed lunches and entrees available at Naomi and Warner.

Not only are the homemade salads, sandwiches, desserts and sides a refreshing break from fast food, but the

addition of edible merchandise also brings back a piece of Sumter history.

“One goal I’ve always had for Naomi and Warner is to bring the Warner’s coffee shop back,” said owner Julie Herlong. “I remember visiting it once in high school and thought it was very unique. People have such great memories of the days when the coffee shop was thriving and a big part of downtown life.”

Herlong said she decided to incorporate Wen Lily’s products because she

always enjoyed visiting their location in Summerton. The name comes from the original owners, Wendy Cogdill and Lil Sconyers. Bryan Hacker and his wife, Shannon, bought the restaurant in 2014 and continue using the original recipes given to them by Cogdill.

“Their orange cranberHERLONG ry turkey salad is one of my favorites,” Herlong said. “I also like their sharp pimento cheese. Our bestseller is the Wen

Education extravaganza Rotary clubs start delivering free dictionaries to third-grade students

BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Rotary Clubs of Sumter started delivering free dictionaries to third-grade students last week as part of the organization’s international focus on basic education and literacy.

On Wednesday, the Rotary Club of Sumter Palmetto delivered hundreds of books to elementary schools, including 132 books at Pocalla Springs Elementary School.

Rotary Club members went into each of the school’s third-grade classrooms to personally hand dictionaries to the students.

For many students, the gifts represent a resource they can carry with them for many years, says Pocalla Springs Assistant Principal Candy Richburg.

“I see fourth- and fifth-grade students still carrying them around in the school from previous years,” she said.

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Samuel Smith, 9, left, and other students react Wednesday to receiving free dictionaries in Daphne Hicks’ third-grade class at Pocalla Springs Elementary School. The Rotary clubs in Sumter provide a free dictionary to every thirdgrade student in public and private schools as part of one of its areas of focus, basic education and literacy.

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Police: 2 Iowa officers killed in 2 attacks DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have apprehended a man suspected in the killings of two Des Moines-area police officers who were shot to death early Wednesday in what authorities described as separate ambush-style attacks.

Officers from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and Iowa State Patrol took 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene into custody and were taking him to Des Moines, police said.

His arrest came about eight hours after the killings of the two officers.

Police responded to a report of shots fired at 1:06 a.m. and GREENE found an Urbandale Police Department officer who had been shot. Authorities from several agencies saturated the area after that shooting, and about 20 minutes later discovered that a Des Moines officer who had responded to the initial killing had been shot in a patrol car at an intersection, Des Moines Sgt. Paul Parizek said.

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Morris College President Luns C. Richardson hands Adonis Valdez his diploma during the college’s 104th commencement convocation at Sumter County Civic Center in May 2015. On Tuesday, Morris College announced that Richardson has decided to retire, effective June 30, 2017, after 43 continuous years of service. A news release from the college stated Richardson’s official announcement was made during the board of trustees meeting in October. Richardson was not available for comment on Tuesday.

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Lily’s original chicken salad. It’s a basic Southern style recipe that our customers love.”

For $8.75, customers build box lunches that include a sandwich, a side, a dessert and a beverage. One note of caution: Ordering a sandwich can be daunting with as many as six different chicken salads and several pimento cheeses to choose from. Side items include fresh fruit or chips, or pasta, kale, broccoli or apple salads. A

If you live in Sumter and your storm debris placed in piles by the curbside from Hurricane Matthew has still not been picked up, there’s no need to worry because the subcontractor is still busy at work with cleanup.

In Sumter, subcontractor State Tree has largely picked up storm debris — to include downed trees, limbs or other vegetative debris — from state roads, but is still working on curbside pickup on city and county roads.

“It’s taking longer than we originally expected,” said Karen Hyatt of Sumter County Public Works. “We advise residents to please be patient. State Tree only has five trucks, and they are working seven days a week.

They will continue until everything is picked up.”

For Sumter residents who haven’t put their storm debris into piles by the curb yet, officials are urging residents to do so as soon as possible to help the process.

When putting storm debris in piles near the curb, residents are also advised to not

put it near mailboxes, water meters, fire hydrants or any above-ground utilities because of the risk of damage to these items from the pickup equipment.

Hyatt said State Tree will make at least two passes through every street in Sumter. If residents live on a state road or believe that State Tree may have already made two passes through their street or road without picking up their storm debris, they can call Sumter County Public Works at (803) 436-2241 and give staff their home address. Public Works will then pass the information on to State Tree for pick up soon.

The City of Sumter is following the same protocol since State Tree is also picking up on city roads.

Assistant City Manager Al Harris advises residents — if they believe State Tree has already conducted two passes on their street and missed pick up at their residence — to call the City Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558.

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have multiple drop-off options. Residents can take their debris to the city/county designated drop-off site on U.S. 521 South near the Pocotaligo Industrial Park and Pocotaligo Wastewater Treatment Plant and south of Continental Tire. The site is open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. Also, the nine county recycling convenience centers are an option.

Each recycling center is open during its normal hours. Residents can take their storm debris to the Sumter County Landfill at 2185 E. Brewington Road.

The landfill is open 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week.

LEE COUNTY Some residents outside the City of Bishopville may be experiencing similar challenges as Sumter residents with slow storm debris pickup. Lee County Administrator Alan Watkins advises residents that the contractor picking up on county roads — which are mainly rock or dirt roads — will conduct at least two passes through every road. He also urges residents, if they haven’t put their storm debris into piles

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S.C. Disaster Recovery Office to assist homeowners affected by 2015 flood

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com South Carolina Disaster Recovery Office has opened an intake center in Sumter County to process applications for aid for homeowners who sustained loss or damage to their homes in the October 2015 flood. The office will also serve residents from Clarendon, Lee and other surrounding counties.

The intake center will help cover costs for qualified homeowners, even if they’ve already received alternative assistance, such as homeowner’s insurance, assistance through Federal Emergency Management Agency or local charities. Any previous funds for home repair already received will be subtracted from the total, said Beth Parks, spokeswoman for the South Carolina Disaster Recovery Office.

To be eligible for benefits, a resident must own the home, have occupied the home at the time of the storm and have damage that has not been repaired as a result of the October 2015 flood, according to information sent from recovery office.

Residents may be eligible for housing repair and reconstruction assis-

tance. The organization will provide housing repairs to meet construction standards, but upgrades will not be possible, Parks said. In some cases, the organization will also provide residents with safe, sanitary and secure homes, she said.

Homeowners served by the program are required to accept a three-year forgivable lien. The liens help ensure people stay in their homes for three years. They are not required to pay the organization any money.

South Carolina received funding for the intake centers and housing recovery from a grant administered through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The $96 million Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery was directed to 22 of 24 presidential disaster declared counties as a result of the October 2015 storm.

The organization intends to repair or replace about 1,500 homes in 22 counties affected by the October 2015 flood, Parks said.

The program focuses on the repair or replacement of homes for the most “at risk citizens” who do not have the resources to repair or rebuild their

homes, she said.

The program will assist low- to moderate-income homeowners, meaning residents who fall within less than 30 percent of the average median income for those counties.

Parks said the highest priority will be given to households with documented damage and homeowners who are 65 years old or older, individuals with documented disabilities, or households with children 5 years old or younger.

Residents applying for assistance should prepare by collecting the necessary documents before visiting the intake center. These documents include a state issued identification, proof of income, proof of disability and proof of insurance. A list of accepted documents is listed on the organization’s website, www.scstormrecovery.com.

The organization also has $1 million set aside to help rental property landlords repair their properties, according to the organization’s news release.

However, the program is limited to a maximum of two properties per landlord and as much as $25,000 per property. After the repairs, the properties will have a five-year lien. The landlord

must rent the properties to persons with low to moderate income in a HUD program, the news release states.

Applications for the programs will be accepted from Nov. 1 through April 30, 2017, at the intake center in Sumter at 725 Broad Street or in Kingstree at 318 E. Main Street. The offices will be open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The organization will also run mobile intake centers throughout the region. The mobile offices will change locations each day of the week.

Each mobile office will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For the full mobile intake center schedule, residents may visit www.scstormrecovery.com or call 1-844-330-1199.

The local mobile centers for November are as follows: • Monday, Nov. 7: Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, 105 Dinkins Street, Manning; • Thursday, Nov. 10: Lynchburg Town Hall, 81 Magnolia Street, Lynchburg; and • Saturday, Nov. 12: Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, 105 Dinkins Street, Manning.

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Pine needles make striking natural baskets when woven together, as these examples show.

Pine needle basket making workshop at Lee State Park BISHOPVILLE — Join a park ranger at Lee State Park to learn how to make a basket out of longleaf pine needles from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Participants will first learn how to collect and clean pine needles and then begin the process of basket making. Participants will be able to take supplies home to continue working on their baskets if they don’t finish during the workshop.

The program fee of $30 includes project materials. This program is suitable for adults and children 13 and older. The class size is small to ensure individual attention for each participant. Registration is required. To register for the program, contact the park’s Education Center at (803) 4284988 or leesp@scprt.com.

Lee State Park covers 2,839 acres of wetlands, sandhills and mixed pinehardwood forests along the Lynches River in Lee County, four miles east of Bishopville. The park also features camping, hiking, picnicking, equestrian facilities and a boardwalk into the wetlands. For more information, go to www.SouthCarolinaParks.com.

The Sumter County Museum will host four novelists at A Southern Authors Luncheon at 11:30 a.m.

Monday. Joy Callaway, Erika Marks, Marybeth Mayhew Whalen and Kim Wright, all of whom have recently released books, will talk about their books and their writing process with guests.

While she is a Southerner, Callaway’s novel is set in the Bronx, New York, in 1891. The author’s debut book, “The Fifth Avenue Artists Society” focuses CALLAWAY on one of four sisters, Virginia Loftin; all are artists, and Virginia is the most ambitious. The novel is centered on her starcrossed romance with the boy next door, but also on her poor family and her attempt at fame through writing their story.

Erika Marks is a native New Englander now living in North Carolina. Her previous books, as well as the current release, titled “The Last Treasure,” are MARKS based on the coast, though not just that in the Carolinas. “The Last Treasure,”

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Kim Wright, author of “Last Ride to Graceland,” is one of four Southern writers who will appear at the Sumter County Museum’s A Southern Authors Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on Monday. a story of three young people searching for a lost ship that Aaron Burr’s daughter Theodosia Burr was sailing on, is also a story of romantic entanglements in which the heroine must choose between two men.

“The WHALEN Things We Wish Were True” is Whalen’s sixth novel. It is set in a small North Carolina town, where the neighbors’ lives are intertwined. When a tragedy occurs, a woman who has left the town decides to come back and complica-

tions arise.

Whalen lives in Charlotte, where she is working on her seventh novel.

A road trip through the Southeast provides the setting for Kim Wright’s “Last Ride to Graceland.”

Her heroine, 37-year-old Cory Beth Ainsworth, supports herself by singing in dive bars and juke joints.

When she discovers an old Stutz Blackheart in her father’s shed, she believes it belonged to Elvis Presley, whom she also suspects could be her father, since her mother once sang back-up for him. So, she’s off to Graceland to try to find the truth. And there are adventures along the way.

Wright is a Charlotte resident whose previous books include “Love in Mid Air,” “The Unexpected Waltz” and “The Canterbury Sisters.”

She has five books in her City of Mystery Series, comprising “City of Darkness,” “City of Light,” “City of Silence,” “City of Bells” and “City of Stone.”

The authors will have copies of their books available for purchase and autographing.

Tickets are $10 for museum members and $15 for the public. They can be purchased on the museum’s website, www.sumtercountymuseum.org, or by calling (803) 775-0908.

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“During the month of November, we honor our veterans here in Sumter,” said Veterans Service Officer Valerie Brunson, as she outlined events during Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

The Veterans Day Parade will start at 10 a.m. at the corner of Main and BRUNSON Bartlette streets and will proceed on Main Street to Calhoun Street, turn right to Harvin Street and end at the Judicial Center parking lot.

“It will be way bigger than it was last year,” Brunson said.

Parade marshal will be Col. Daniel Lasica, commander of Shaw Air Force Base, she said.

Brunson said the parade will include 80 airmen from Shaw AFB; several military vehicles including some from Army Central Command and the Lee County Veterans Museum; cadets from The Cita-

del; several ROTC groups, including from Morris College and five area high schools; marching bands and representatives from every veterans group in the area.

Also in the parade will be Crestwood and Lakewood high school bands, she said.

After the parade, a ceremony at 11 a.m. will commence on the front lawn of the old Sumter County courthouse, 141 N. Main St. The time of the ceremony marks the end of World War I, “the war to end all wars,” which, according to tradition, was concluded at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month. The national holiday was celebrated as Armistice Day until Congress changed the name to Veterans Day in 1954, after World War II. Following opening ceremonies, Lasica will give the keynote speech. Thirty-five area Korean and Vietnam veterans will be honored, a tradition that will continue each year, Brunson said. The Shaw Honor Guard will play taps and a wreath-laying ceremony and a tribute to MIA and POWs will follow.

STOLEN PROPERTY Approximately $700 in various medications were reportedly stolen from the front porch of a residence on Pine Street between noon on Thursday and 10:30 a.m. on Monday. According to an incident report from Sumter Police Department, the medications were delivered on Thursday.

A portable Milwaukee band saw and auger drill set valued at $700; a Craftsman socket set valued at $75; and five spools of copper cable valued at $800 were reportedly stolen from the back of a pickup truck

while it was parked at a residence in the 600 block of Pringle Drive between 2 p.m on Friday and 6 a.m. on Monday.

A black 2014 7-by-15-foot carry-on trailer with four white rim tires and a broken right tail light, valued at $2,714, was reportedly stolen while it was parked in the 1300 block of Companion Court between 6 p.m. on Sunday and 3 p.m. on Monday.

A 73-inch TV, unknown brand, valued at $1,400; a black, pink and white girl’s bicycle, unknown brand, valued at $79; two window air conditioners, unknown brands, valued at $460; two push lawn mowers, unknown brands, valued at $120; and three plastic vanity sets valued at $30 were reportedly stolen from a residence in the one block of Wen-Le Court between 6 p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m. on Saturday.

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ued at $500; a ladder valued at $50; a black charcoal grill valued at $230; a green and yellow push lawn mower valued at $150; and various tools, unknown brands and value, were reportedly stolen from a residence in the 500 block of Adams Avenue between 5:30 p.m. on Sunday and 1:30 p.m. on Monday.

According to an incident report from Sumter Police Department, the victim told officers an unidentified neighbor observed a

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A tan cash register, valued at $400, containing $5 in cash was stolen from a business in the 400 block of North Guignard Drive between 5:50 p.m. on Monday and 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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“We need to put focus on veterans and our active-duty military,” Brunson said.

“Even though there is a war going on, we don’t realize it because we feel protected.”

Brunson said she was grateful to Sumter City Council and Sumter County Council for their support.

“We wouldn’t be able to do this without them,” she said.

Following the ceremony, there will be a meet-and-greet on the back lawn of the courthouse, with the Combat Veterans Group cooking barbecue and more than 45 vendors on hand to display their services to veterans and other attendees.

At 7:30 p.m., a free Langley Winds Concert by the USA Air Force Heritage of America Band will be presented at the Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St., to conclude the day’s events. Attendees may preregister at www.sumteroperahouse.com.

Anyone interested in entering the parade or vendors interested in setting up a display for the meet-and-greet can call Brunson at (803) 436-2202 or (803) 436-2203.

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In the Slager trial, the defense struck nine potential jurors, including seven minorities.

The prosecution challenged whether the defense was using only race as a basis for disqualifying them. The challenge was dropped after the defense provided detailed reasons for its strikes.

Some of those reasons were: not having a good understanding of English, expressing anti-gun sentiments, and in one case, a potential juror is a friend of the medical examiner, who is expected to testify.

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A jury of six white men, five white women and one black man will hear the case of Michael Slager, charged with murder in the April 2015 shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott as he fled a traffic stop in North Charleston.

The images of Slager repeatedly shooting Scott in the back as he tried to run away inspired many others to record encounters with police since then, and both officer-involved shootings and slayings of police have only drawn more attention.

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Pastor Joshua Nink, right, prays for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as his wife, Melania, left, watches after a Sunday service at First Christian Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in January 2016. Trump’s candidacy has put a harsh spotlight on the fractures among Christian conservatives, most prominently the rift between old guard religious right leaders who backed the GOP nominee as an ally on abortion, and a comparatively younger generation who considered his personal conduct and rhetoric morally abhorrent.

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BY RACHEL ZOLL AP Religion Writer Evangelicals, deeply divided over Donald Trump, are wrestling with what the tumultuous 2016 election will mean for their future.

His candidacy has put a harsh spotlight on the fractures among Christian conservatives, most prominently the rift between old guard religious right leaders who backed the GOP nominee as an ally on abortion, and a comparatively younger generation who considered his personal conduct and rhetoric morally abhorrent.

“This has been a kind of smack in the face, forcing us to ask ourselves, ‘What have we become?’” said Carolyn Custis James, an evangelical activist and author who writes about gender roles in the church.

The outcome of this self-examination is as important for evangelicals as it is for the Republican Party. Christian conservatives have been among the most reliable members of the GOP coalition. Recent PRRI polls found nearly seven in 10 evangelicals backed Trump. Yet, those numbers are lower than the 79 percent who voted for 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, a Mormon who had struggled to win over conservative Protestants for theological and other reasons.

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will, of course, be shaped by who wins the White House.

A Hillary Clinton victory could draw energy away from any re-evaluation of the religious right, given her support for abortion rights and gay rights, and the opportunity she will have to shape the U.S. Supreme Court. While many younger evangelicals have fought for a broad range of concerns, including fighting climate change and poverty, they are staunchly opposed to abortion, often more so than their parents.

“I think there could be a resurgence in some way of some kind of Christian right approach to politics,” said John Fea, a historian at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, and author of “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction.” “Many evangelicals, whether ‘Never Trump’ or willing to support Trump, are ultimately shaped by a core set of convictions.

They are still going to be — for good or for bad — one-, two- or three-issue voters primarily. I think that persists.”

And if Trump wins? Evangelicals who advocated for him, such as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and author and broadcaster James Dobson, would feel vindicated before their critics if Trump fulfills his promise to appoint conservative high court justices.

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CHURCH NEWS Agape Outreach Ministries, 328 W. Liberty St., announces: * Sunday — Sixth pastoral anniversary celebration / luau celebration at 4 p.m.

Pastor LaShonda McElveen will speak. Calvary Outreach Christian Ministry will provide music.

Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 1275 Oswego Highway, announces: * Sunday — Homecoming at 11 a.m. * Sunday, Nov. 20 — The 11th pastoral anniversary celebration of Pastor Daniel Bennett Jr. at 11 a.m. The Rev. Leroy Blanding will speak.

Dalzell Baptist Church, 3645 Camden Highway, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday — Homecoming during 11 a.m. worship service. Bobby Richardson, former second baseman for the New York Yankees from 1955 to 1966, will speak. Richardson was the 1960 World Series MVP and he also set Series records for RBI. Elizabeth Baptist Church, 4829 Alex Harvin Highway, U.S. 301 South, Manning, announces: * Sunday, Nov. 13 — Family and friends day at 3 p.m.

Pastor Gary Miller, of Spring Field Baptist Church of Eutawville, will speak.

Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 421 S. Main St., announces: * Sunday, Nov. 13 — The 152nd anniversary of the church will be celebrated.

Sunday school will begin at 9

a.m. followed by 10 a.m. anniversary worship.

Faith Deliverance Temple Church, 130 Corbett St., Mayesville, announces: * Sunday — The 33rd pastoral anniversary will be celebrated at 4 p.m. Pastor Alfreda Johnson will speak.

Full Gospel Church, 9223 Paxville Highway, Manning, announces: * Friday-Saturday, Nov. 11-12 — South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia fellowship services at 7 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday. Bishop Anthony Gibson will speak Friday and Bishop Allen Conyer will speak Saturday.

Grace Christian Fellowship Church, 2938 Fellowship Drive / 2938 Raccoon Road, Manning, announces: * Saturday — Yard sale / bake sale and soup and cornbread luncheon 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

Grace Full Gospel Church, 1540 Bradham Blvd., announces: * Today-Friday — Revival services at 7:30 nightly. The Rev. Israel Ochae, of Columbus, Ohio, will speak. * Saturday — Spaghetti dinner fundraiser at 4 p.m. and benefit singing at 5 p.m. Spaghetti dinners will be sold after the singing also.

High Hills Missionary Baptist Church, 6750 Meeting House Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday — Holy communion will follow morning worship.

cerned about the marginalization of Christianity,” said the Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the megachurch First Baptist Dallas, who advocated for Trump. Jeffress said the candidate reached out to him on the issue a year and a half ago. “He believes that Christians are continuing to lose their religious freedom in America,” Jeffress said.

Yet, even if Trump proves loyal to Christian conservatives, questions would remain about whether his evangelical supporters traded their integrity for influence. The thrice-married Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by several women, bragged about grabbing women’s genitals, mocked a disabled reporter, maligned Mexican immigrants and insulted the parents of a fallen American Muslim soldier.

“If they can support even Donald Trump, and even after we learn more and more about him, then this has actually been a charade all along designed to raise money or to grasp for power or to build institutions or personal platforms,” said Collin Hansen, a longtime Republican and editorial director of the Gospel Coalition, an interdenominational evangelical ministry. He said he hoped leaders who opposed Trump had retained enough credibility to provide “something to build on.”

* Sunday, Nov. 13 — The second pastoral anniversary celebration of Pastor Donald and Frances Amis during the 10:15 a.m. worship. The Rev. Bennie Bradley, pastor of Northwestern Church of Sumter, will speak. * Wednesday-Friday, Nov. 16-18 — Women’s revival at 7 nightly. Various speakers. * Sunday, Nov. 20 — Deacon and deaconess anniversary program during morning worship. The Rev. Dr. Katie Roach will speak.

Joshua Baptist Church, 5200 Live Oak Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday, Nov. 13 — Morris College day will be celebrated at 10 a.m. The Rev. Eugene G. Dennis will speak. * Sunday, Nov. 20 — Adult choir anniversary celebration at 4 p.m. The Rev. Eugene G. Dennis will speak.

Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets at Bethesda Church of God, 2730 Broad St., announces: * Saturday, Nov. 12 — Knitting Hearts will meet from 10 a.m. until noon. Geanie and Charlie Paschal will speak on inner healing. Light breakfast is included. A love offering will be received. Visit knittingheartsministry.wordpress.com.

Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, 7355 Camden Highway, Rembert, announces: * Sunday — Holy communion will follow morning worship. * Sunday, Nov. 13 — Veterans Day program during regular service. The Rev. O.J. Hannah will speak following the morning worship.

uesday is Election Day, and it stands to reason that the topic of today’s column would contain a last-ditch plea for you to bathe your impending choice for the next U.S. president in prayer. It will, eventually, but for the next few hundred words, I’d like to take a hard turn away from the hot mess of the 2016 presidential race.

Instead, I’d like to talk about something infinitely more sound: the hand of God, or more specifically, Almighty providence. This idea of God’s constant and abiding care is the cornerstone of our faith because, regardless of spiritual conviction, we all cling to the tenet that our Heavenly Father is ultimately in control. It is he who numbers our steps, and nothing happens to us that isn’t allowed by Him. This isn’t to say that everything we do is ordained by God, but that Faith Matters He allows us to step outside of His JAMIE H. plan for our lives with just one caWILSON veat: We can never venture so far outside of that will to where we aren’t offered forgiveness. As deep as our transgressions may run, God’s grace is always deeper (Rom. 8:38).

This is providence. That God knows our darkest intentions and still provides for us and loves us beyond measure.

Church lifers — a name I affectionately call those of us who have been church attendees since birth — have been in the weekly audience where God’s providence is espoused. He sustained the early Jews throughout dozens of military defeats. He upheld hundreds of Biblical characters throughout tragedy and chronic issues with sin. Over and over, God gave grace to His people even when they refused to acknowledge His providence. He allowed consequences, yes, but never to the point where his people were destroyed.

For the longest time, I absentmindedly labored under the delusion that this was because God had some sort of cosmic obligation to humans. In truth, there is no symbiosis between us and God; He doesn’t need us. So then, what connects us to the hand of God; what keeps him from simply dropping us? Limitless love.

In 1741, a sickly waif of a minister named John Edwards delivered his “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” sermon, a speech that is a key document for religious academic circles when examining the Great Awakening of the 1700s. In the crux of the sermon, Edwards uses the metaphor of a spider held over a fire, saved only by the providence of the hand that holds it. This is providence: A God saving us from what we truly deserve.

Interpreted by our modern society, this imagery of God makes us squirm. We prefer the image of a loving, nonjudgmental God, who leaps at the opportunity to spare us any detrimental consequence, but the love of God involves consequence. Our current consequences are designed to highlight our need for God and the perfect path God has outlined for us (Prov. 3:5-6). Cling to him, dear believer, even when the world presents you with seemingly impossible situations.

As you step into the voting booth, I implore you to put your trust in God and His providence. Rely not on the promises or policies of one individual but on the loving hand of our Heavenly Father.

Email Jamie H. Wilson at faithmatterssumter@gmail. com.

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 325 Fulton St., announces: * Sunday — The Rev. Johnnie M. Gist will speak at 6 p.m. * Monday — Baptist Women World Day of Prayer, sponsored by Sumter and Wateree Baptist Associations, at 7 p.m. * Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 12-13 — Youth choir anniversary program at 3 p.m. on Saturday and 10:45 a.m. on Sunday. * Wednesday, Nov. 16 — Golden Age fellowship ministry pre-Thanksgiving program at 10:30 a.m. Minister Darryl Cunningham will speak. * Sunday, Nov. 20 — Widows / widowers ministry anniversary worship at 10:45 a.m.

The Rev. Angela Edwards will speak.

Mulberry Missionary Baptist Church, 1400 Mulberry Church Road, announces: * Sunday — Gospel singing at 4 p.m. featuring Singing Cousins, Freedom Five, Majestic Gospel Singers and more.

New Birth Holiness Church, 42 Larkin St., announces: * Sunday — The 20th anniversary of the church will be celebrated at 3 p.m. Pastor Black will speak.

New Fellowship Covenant Ministries, 316 W. Liberty St., announces: * Saturday, Nov. 12 — Clothes giveaway 9 a.m.-noon. Free snacks will also be given out.

New Salem Baptist Church, 2500 W. Oakland Ave., announces: * Sunday — Homecoming at

10:45 a.m. Lynn Gardner will speak and Donnie Baker will provide music. Dinner on the grounds will follow the service.

New Testament Lighthouse Church, 1114 Boulevard Road, announces: * Sunday-Wednesday, Nov. 9 — Revival at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday and 7:30 nightly Monday-Wednesday.

One Step Christian Ministries, 125 S. Nettles St., Bishopville, announces: * Sunday-Wednesday, Nov. 13-16 — Seed building fund worship service at 3:30 p.m. daily. Pastor Linda Speed, of Kingdom Impact Ministries, will speak.

St. James Lutheran Church, 1137 Alice Drive, announces: * Monday — Election prayer vigil from 6 to 6:30 p.m. on the front lawn of the church.

The service of prayer will be for unity of the nation; the well-being of the Sumter community, state and country; and guidance in our choice for president. This is an opportunity for people in the community to pray in solidarity with others and rest in the peace of God’s presence.

Willow Grove AME Church, 8105 A/B Sumter Landing Road, Horatio, announces: * Sunday — Communion and fellowship. Church school will begin at 8:45 a.m. followed by 10 a.m. worship. * Sunday, Nov. 13 — YPD annual day. God’s Angel Choir will sing. Church school will begin at 8:45 a.m. followed by 10 a.m. worship.

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Election anxiety: How consumers are reacting NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have been anxious about the contentious presidential election, and when they get fretful, they tend to stop shopping.

While government reports show overall spending has held up, some analysts say they’re seeing signs that shoppers are being cautious. A dip is normal before an election, but the question this year is whether the uncertainty could drag on after Election Day and cut into holiday buying.

Retailers are hoping an improving job market and wage gains will get Americans in the mood to spend.

Here’s a look at where things stand and what could be ahead after Nov. 8: Q. What usually happens before a presidential election?

A. Shoppers traditionally pull back ahead of the election as they become distracted.

“Everywhere you turn — whether you’re picking up a newspaper or watching television — political advertisements are taking up ad space that retailers typically use to get holiday shopping on the minds of consumers across the country,” said Matthew

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A sign advertising a sale is seen posted on a storefront. It’s no secret that Americans have been a bit anxious about the contentious president election. A cloud of uncertainty could carry over after Election Day that could hurt spending.

Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group.

But buying usually bounces back afterward. In the 2012 and 2004 presidential elections, year-over-year sales growth slowed an average of 22 percent in September and October, from the January through August period, but rebounded an average of 16 percent in November and December, according to AlixPartners.

Q. What’s been the trend this year?

A. Consumer confidence has slipped a bit, but spending generally held up through September as income gains and an improving job market offset some of the uncertainty, according to the most current government reports.

Year-over-year growth in retail sales slowed 19.8 percent in September compared with the year so far, according to an analysis by AlixPartners. The government

hasn’t released sales yet for October. But a report from the Conference Board said consumer confidence pulled back in October, after reaching a 20-month high in September.

A survey by the National Retail Federation points to cautious consumers because of the election uncertainty.

Some shoppers surveyed by the research group The Retail Economist and Goldman Sachs showed the election was a factor.

And shoppers remain selective, shifting their spending more toward items like cars and appliances, says Ken Perkins, president of research firm Retail Metrics LLC. A clearer picture will emerge when retailers report

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Q. Will there be a postelection bounce this year?

A. With the rare exception of the Bush-Gore 2000 contest, most elections bring certainty and the country moved forward. This year may be different. Republican Donald Trump, who has railed about a “rigged” political system, said in the final presidential debate that he won’t decide until the election ends whether he will accept its results. If Democrat Hillary Clinton wins, she may take office amid questions now that the FBI is looking further at her emails.

“The potential concerns of legitimacy of either candidate can carry over and dampen spending,” said Perkins.

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Epidemic’s effects on kids Forum focuses on drug abuse CINCINNATI (AP) — The country’s addictions epidemic has created a generation of children affected by their parents’ problems, a doctor who works with infants born addicted to heroin told a gathering of experts struggling with the issue Tuesday.

The effect includes the physical problems of the addicted newborns and the chaos older children experience as a result of their parents’ addictions, said Dr. Kathy Wedig, a neonatologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Such children “cannot have what we would consider is a normal childhood,” Wedig said.

Wedig says the epidemic is affecting society overall because of the cost of treating and helping such children.

Tuesday’s conference at Xavier University drew hundreds of doctors, nurses, social workers and addiction specialists.

Cases of children suffering from “toxic stress,” a condition caused by exposure to trauma or neglect, are both increasing and more severe because of the addictions epidemic, said Dr. Jennifer Bowden, a child psychiatrist in Cincinnati.

Toxic stress can inhibit physical, emotional, social and language development and put children at risk for health is-

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Dr. Kathy Wedig, a neonatologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, discusses the effects of the country’s painkiller and heroin epidemic on children on Tuesday in Cincinnati. sues such as emphysema, diabetes and cardiac problems, she said.

The Public Children Services Association of Ohio says the number of children taken into custody has risen 19 percent during the past seven years.

The increase is largely due to parents’ painkiller and heroin addictions, according to the association.

The group says placing the children of addicts in protective custody is costing taxpayers $45 million a year.

Last year, the state saw a record 3,050 overdose deaths, a 20 percent increase, with many of those attributed to painkillers and heroin abuse.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says opioid overdose deaths, including addictive painkillers and heroin, hit record levels in

2014, with a 14 percent increase in just one year.

In eastern Ohio, Cindy KingAnderson and her husband are raising their 5-year-old grandson following his father’s death from a heroin overdose last year.

The boy was born addicted and needed six weeks of detox in the hospital.

The boy is autistic with anger issues and requires work with a speech therapist and other specialists. King-Anderson says people need to understand that the problems faced by children like her grandson are ongoing long after their birth addiction is addressed.

“Our biggest challenge? It’s basically being grandparents and trying to be a parent at the same time,” said King-Anderson, 53, of Columbiana.

After explosion, company aims to restart line HELENA, Ala. (AP) — Executives at a pipeline company say their goal is to restart the line as early as this weekend after an explosion and fire shut down gasoline shipments to millions across the South.

The deadly explosion sparked a geyser of fire Monday and closed off the vital pipeline, raising fears of another round of gas shortages and price increases. It’s Colonial Pipeline’s second accident and shutdown in two months.

Continuing fires in the drought-stricken area of central Alabama hampered officials’ efforts to fully assess the damage Tuesday afternoon, and firefighters built an earthen berm to contain the burning fuel.

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By mid-day Tuesday, Colonial Pipeline said it was able to restart the second of its two main lines, which carries diesel and jet fuel.

The severity of the gasoline shortage will depend on how long the gasoline pipeline remains closed, AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins said.

“We would encourage drivers not to panic, so don’t run to the gas station and start filling up every gas can you can,” said AAA spokeswoman Tamra Johnson.

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Obama: Army Corps looking at route of Dakota oil pipeline BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — President Obama says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is examining whether the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline can be rerouted in southern North Dakota to alleviate the concerns of American Indians.

Obama told the online news outlet NowThis that his administration is monitoring the situation closely but will “let it play out for several more weeks.”

“As a general rule, my view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans, and I think that right now the Army Corps is examining whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline,” Obama said an interview Tuesday.

The White House said the corps was exploring a range of options that would address concerns raised by tribal officials and others.

Separately, the Army, the Justice Department and the Interior Department are discussing with tribal governments how to prevent future disputes with the federal government over public

works projects, according to the White House.

The 1,200 mile, $3.8 billion pipeline will carry oil from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point at Patoka, Illinois. It will skirt the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.

The tribe objects to the project, saying it could threaten drinking water and destroy sacred sites. The tribe has sued federal regulators for approving permits at more than 200 water crossings.

Protests that have included clashes with police and pipeline security also have gone on for several months in North Dakota.

Obama called it “a challenging situation.”

“There’s an obligation for protesters to be peaceful, and there’s an obligation for authorities to show restraint,” he said. “I want to make sure that as everybody is exercising their constitutional rights to be heard, that both sides are refraining from situations that might result in people being hurt.”

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BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com MANNING — The first indoor shooting range has opened in Clarendon County, providing an opportunity for experienced and beginner shooters to hone their skills for competition, self-defense or leisure.

The range, with the catchy name of Fully Loaded LLC, allows individuals to shoot all types of handguns ranging in size from a .22 caliber to a .44 Magnum. They have the option of either bringing their own pistol or renting one on site.

Ammunition has to be purchased on site, and safety equipment, including eye wear and ear protectors, are provided for rent.

A ribbon cutting for the business will be held tomorrow at 11:30 a.m.

The range is co-owned by Eugene Finkbeiner and his wife, Tami Finkbeiner. Eugene Finkbeiner has been a gun enthusiast all of his life. Originally from Michigan, Finkbeiner grew up in a family that hunted and was passionate about guns.

His uncle was a gunsmith.

Finkbeiner shot his first gun at age 5, and has had a passion for guns ever since.

“It’s one of the most useful pioneer tools dating back to the founding of our country,” he said. “Guns are what helped United States gain its independence.”

After moving to Sumter in the 1970s and graduating from the former Furman High School, Finkbeiner joined the

Army and served for six years.

For 27 years, he worked for Monti Incorporated in Sumter, serving as plant manager for 16 years and retiring earlier this year. He said he’s always had the desire to open a shooting range and the opportunity presented itself in Manning in the past year.

Residents in the city and county and government officials were receptive to the idea, Finkbeiner said.

“I’ve met so many people who’ve been receptive and supportive of the idea, which has made it more exciting for me,” he said.

The range includes six shooting lanes. The silhouette targets can be moved, allowing people to shoot from 3 to 25 yards.

A simulator area is also located at the range. The area includes a play gun with a laser attached to it, in which individuals can shoot moving targets on a projection screen.

Special events will be offered periodically, he said. The next one will be a turkey shoot, in which individuals can shoot a turkey silhouette, with points awarded based on where the bullet lands. There will be prizes awarded at each event. The turkey shoot will be held on Friday, starting at 6 p.m.

Additionally, the range offers law enforcement officers a place to hone their shooting skills, Finkbeiner said.

During the summer, Finkbeiner said he would like to offer youth safety classes to teach young people firearms safety.

The classes will be offered to

children and their parents, he said.

Finkbeiner said one of the things he enjoys about the job is meeting people who come to the range.

“Each shooter is on a different level, and brings a new challenge,” he said.

Finkbeiner said a stigma exists on gun owners, and he would like to break that stigma.

“Most gun owners are concerned citizens,” he said. “They are compassionate people, who are not only looking out for the safety of themselves but people around them.”

The gun range’s hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The range is located at 1510 Greelyville Highway and the phone number is (803) 720-4062.

Rates are $15 per individual per day. An individual membership can be purchased for $250 per year or a family membership for $300 per year. Family memberships include a spouse and any children younger than 18. Memberships include complimentary range sessions, complimentary gun rental, eye wear and ear protectors, eight guest passes and two complimentary T-shirts.

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May 8-12, 2017

HOLLAND, MICHIGAN TULIP FESTIVAL $562 pp Deposit: $75 pp. 6 meals, Tulip Gardens, Dutch Village, Delft Factory, Volksparade, Musical Review Show, Windmill Island Gardens

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July 6-14, 2017

ALASKA CRUISE –Inside Passage & Glaciers $3530 pp Deposit: $250 pp. Pre-night Hotel in Vancouver. Airfare to/from Charleston.

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ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, FRANCE CRUISE 15 days-London, Cork, Dublin, Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh $3970 pp (balcony) $3775 pp (Oceanview) plus airfare. First night hotel in London, transfer fees to/frm airport, hotel, pier, port charges, cruise fees, taxes, Bus to/from Manning-Charlotte Airport. Excursion Tickets to Int’l Military Tattoo @Edinburgh Castle. PASSPORT NEEDED. Ship: Princess $375 pp to book

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YELLOWSTONE, BADLANDS, MT RUSHMORE $2075 pp $100 pp Deposit. Driver/Guides gratuities included. 23 meals. SOLD OUT

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CARNIVAL CRUISE- out of Charleston, SC to Bahamas Ship: Sunshine $657 pp double balcony; $505 pp double Oceanview. $75 deposit to book on. $25 shipboard credit once onboard. PASSPORT NEEDED

Nov. 7-10, 2017

PENNSYLVANIA AMISH HOLIDAY TOUR $523 pp Deposit: $75 pp. Buffet Breakfasts, Amish Farmhouse Dinner, Holiday Matinee Show, Amish Homestead, Kreider Farm Tour & more.

Nov. 16-17, 2017

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THE SUMTER ITEM Missy is a 4-year-old gray-and-white Yorkie mix. She is current on her shots and has been spayed. Missy gets along well with cats, and she is possessive of her toys. She is a very sweet baby. Her adoption fee is $125. Visit Missy and Peaches from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at A Second Chance Animal Shelter, 5079 Alex Harvin Highway (U.S. 301). To drop off an animal, call (803) 473-7075 for an appointment. If you’ve lost a pet, check www.ccanimalcontrol.webs.com and www.ASecondChanceAnimalShelter.com.

Peaches is a 12-week-old cream-colored domestic short-haired kitten. She is current on her shots, has been spayed and tested negative for feline leukemia and aids. She is a sweet and playful kitten. The shelter is running a special for all cats and kittens for $50.

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Notice of Sale NOTICE OF SALE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2015-CP-14-00556 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CLARENDON Wells Fargo Bank N.A., as trustee for Green Tree 2008-MH1 Plaintiff, -vsThe Estate of Carrie Wells a/k/a Carrie L. Wells, by and through its Personal Representative, whose name is unknown, and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a case designated as John Doe; and any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe; The Estate of Richard Canty Sr., by and through its Personal Representative, whose name is unknown, and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a case designated as John Doe; and any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe; Regina Wells-Colclough,Heir-at-Law Defendant(s) BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of Wells Fargo Bank N.A., as trustee for Green Tree 2008-MH1 vs. The Estate of Carrie Wells a/k/a Carrie L. Wells, by and through its Personal Representative, whose name is unknown, and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a case designated as John Doe; and any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe; The Estate of Richard Canty Sr., by and through its Personal Representative, whose name is unknown, and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a case designated as John Doe; and any Unknown minors, persons under a

Notice of Sale

Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe; Regina Wells-Colclough,Heir-a t-Law., I, Frances Ricci Land Welch, as Special Referee for Clarendon County, will sell on November 7, 2016, at 11:00 am, at the Clarendon County Courthouse, 3 West Keitt St, Manning, SC 29102, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, lying, being and situate in the County of Clarendon, State of South Carolina, of St. Marks Road Subdivision, Section II, and bounding, now or formerly as follows: On the North by Lot No. 5 on that plat referred to; on the East by property of Thomas Boyd Rhame; on the South by Lot No. 3 on that Plat hereinafter referred to; and on the West by St. Marks Road.

Said property being Lot No. 4 on that Plat by R.G. Mathis Land Surveying dated October 28, 1991 and recorded in Clarendon County Plat Book S-48, at Page 309.

TMS: 053-00-01-110 ALSO: All that certain piece, parcel of Lot of land lying, being and situate in the County of Clarendon, State of South Carolina and bounding now or formerly as follows: On the North by property of Thomas Boyd Rhame; On the East by property of Thomas Boyd Rhame; on the South by Lot No. 4 above described; and on the West by St. Marks Road.

Said Lot being Lot No. 5 on that Plat

by R.G. Mathis Land Surveying dated October 28, 1991 and recorded in Clarendon County Plat Book S-48 at Page 307.

TMS: 053-00-01-109 Being the same property conveyed to Richard Canty herein by deed of Emma Lee S. Rhames, dated May 13, 1996, and recorded May 14, 1996, in Book A292, Page 214, in the RMC Office for Clarendon County, SC. Also, being the same property conveyed to Richard Canty, Sr. and Carrie Wells by deed of Richard Canty, dated August 4, 1998, and recorded on 8-11-1998 in Book A353, at Page 171, in the RMC Office for Clarendon County.

Note: The lien of this mortgage shall attach to a 1986 Guerdon Mobile Home currently located on the property. Borrower and Lender intend that the mobile home lose its nature as personal property and become real property. Borrower declares that the above described mobile home will remain permanently affixed to the property and will be treated as a fixture.

Borrower also declares that the wheels, axles, and hitches have been

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A public hearing will be held by Clarendon County Council at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, December 12, 2016 in the Council Chambers of the Clarendon County Administration Building located at 411 Sunset Drive in Manning, SC regarding the following proposed amendment to the Zoning Map: Map amendment #Z-16-02/Ordinance #2016-09 changing the zoning district classification for property owned by S & T Land Developers located at 3196 Highway 260, Manning, SC, also identified as Clarendon County Tax Parcel #167-00-02-080-00; from Residential Conservation (RC) to Neighborhood Commercial (NC). Documents related to Ordinance #2016-09 are available for public inspection in the Clarendon County Planning Commission office located at 411 Sunset Drive in Manning, SC, or you may direct inquiries by telephone to 803-435-8672.

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Notice of Sale

removed and that the mobile home is connected to utilities. It is expressly agreed that the Lender reserves an interest in the mobile home both under the real property laws and the laws relating to motor vehicles and personal property.

GDWVGA118642385A&B Guerdon Mobile Home

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TMS #: 053-00-01-110 and 053-00-01-109 Physical Address: 1066 St. Marks Rd., Pinewood, SC 29125, , M o b i l e H o m e : GDWVGA118642385A&B 1986 Guerdon Mobile Home SUBJECT TO COUNTY TAXES

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TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Special Referee at conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms or the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Special Referee may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the former highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 12.24% per annum.

Frances Ricci Land Welch Special Referee for Clarendon County Theodore von Keller, Esquire B. Lindsay Crawford, III, Esquire Sara Hutchins Columbia, South Carolina Attorney for Plaintiff

Estate Notice Clarendon County

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371ES with the Probate Court of Clarendon County, the address of which is 411 Sunset Dr. Manning, SC 29102, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements on the prescribed form (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: Patricia Marie Truluck Flowers #2016ES1400238 Personal Representative: Steven Darrell Flowers 1319 Peggy Lane Manning, SC 29102 11/03/16-11/17/16

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them to remove the clinging fibrous pumpkin tissue. Then put them in a dehydrator at 115120 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour or two or in an oven on warm for 3 to 4 hours. Stir them frequently to prevent scorching. Once they are dried, pumpkin seeds can be roasted.

Toss them in oil — 1 teaspoon per cut seeds. Salt or season to taste and then roast in a preheated oven at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 to 15 minutes.

For pie filling and other cooking needs, select sugar pumpkins — a smaller, sweeter variety with close-grained flesh. Once you wash, clean out and peel the pumpkin, cut the flesh into 2-inch chunks and cook it in boiling water until tender. You can also bake it at 350 degrees F in a baking pan with a bit of water for an hour and a half or until the flesh is tender.

According to medical studies, food rich in beta-carotene as part of a healthful eating plan may help lower the incidence of some cancers. Medical experts also say that this nutrient plays a role in good vision, healthy skin, a strong immune system and development of bones and teeth. Who would ever thought that the scary jack-o’-lantern on your front porch had so many good qualities, too?

and macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness or near-blindness in Americans over age 60. Also in pumpkin are healthy amounts of fibers, potassium, riboflavin, vitamin C and iron.

Pumpkin is also a good low-fat source of vitamin E. Remember, pumpkins that are used as Halloween decorations can be eaten and prepared with other cooking options.

One cup of pumpkin puree contains three times the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A and about 20 percent of the RDA for vitamin C. It also includes 2.4 grams of protein, about 588 milligrams of potassium, less than a gram of fat, 19 grams of carbohydrates and just 80 calories. Pumpkin seeds are high in protein and fat.

Plain pumpkin is good, too.

Cut the top off a pre-washed sugar pumpkin, about 3 pounds worth, saving the lid and stem for a handle. Scrape out the seeds and pulp, wipe out the inside, then brush with melted butter and sugar or salt. Replace the lid and bake in a 350 degrees Fahrenheit oven for 35 minutes. Coat the inside again with butter, sugar or salt and bake another 10-15 minutes or until fork tender.

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Pumpkins make more than jack-o’-lanterns here’s more to the pumpkin than Halloween jack-o’-lanterns. The deep orange color of pumpkin flesh is a sure sign of good nutrition and loaded with vitamin A. Also, the pumpkin seeds can be roasted. Roasted pumpkin seeds have a rich, almost peanut-like flavor and can be eaten as snacks or added to salads, soups and casseroles. PumpNancy kin seeds are Harrison rich in vitamin E, iron, RETIRED magnesium CLEMSON and zinc.

EXTENSION The pumpAGENT kin, a type pf winter squash, is a hard-shelled gourd that grows on a vine. The wealth of carotenoid pigments that make pumpkins orange may protect against chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer and age-related vision loss. People who eat lots of carotenoid-rich foods seem to have the healthiest eyes.

Pumpkin is a top source of lutein, a carotenoid linked to a reduced risk of cataracts

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One also has to wonder why Ginny’s flashbacks had to include scenes of her bingewatching “In Living Color.”

Was that all merely a plug for Fox’s other new series, “Lethal Weapon,” starring Damon Wayans from “In Living Color”?

Despite these quibbles, “Pitch” has emerged as one of the few grown-up shows of the new network season, a drama without a whiff of comic book superheroes and devoid of gruesome violence. It’s also notable that for a show set largely in a locker room, it’s pretty free of vulgar language and attitudes. For all of those reasons, this critic hopes that the end of the real baseball season does not spell an early exit for this major league entertainment. It towers above other Thursday night freshmen efforts, including “The Great Indoors,” “The Good Place,” “Notorious” and “Pure Genius.”

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• Kirk’s prognosis worsens on “The Blacklist” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• Youthful defendants are accused of attempted matricide on “How to Get Away With Murder” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14).

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This melodrama clearly aspires to become the “West Wing” of baseball. As on that White House drama, half of the scenes seem to be of the “walking and talking” variety, with characters exchanging arch, occasionally cute, and mostly high-minded dialogue as they walk to and from their cars or their lockers.

Last week’s episode, concerning the pressure cooker atmosphere of the mid-summer trade deadline, took place almost entirely off the field.

The “ticking clock” convention of the trade deadline added a dash of tension as most of the action concerned the furtive affair between Mike Lawson (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), the team’s veteran star and alpha male, and Ginny’s fierce, postfeminist agent, Amelia (Ali Larter). And, as on “The West Wing,” general manager Oscar (Mark Consuelos) got to share scenes with brash, fresh-faced intern-types who proved more valuable as the hour progressed.

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A fitting final chapter to the sleaze sweepstakes

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ASHINGTON — As the presidential campaigns sink to the challenge of demonstrating that there is no such thing as rock bottom, remember this: When the Clintons decamped from Washington in January 2001, they took some White House furnishings that were public property. They also finished accepting more than $190,000 in gifts, including two coffee tables and two chairs, a $7,375 gratuity from Denise Rich, whose fugitive former husband had been pardoned in President Clinton’s final hours. A Washington Post editorial (“Count the Spoons”) identified “the Clintons’ defining characteristic: They have no capacity for embarrassment. Words like shabby and tawdry come to mind. They don’t begin to do it justice.”

Today, Hillary Clinton strives to live again among some White House furnishings that she and her helpmeet were compelled to disgorge.

Her campaign flounders because as secretary of state some of the nation’s business might have been melded with the contents of a computer that is pertinent to an FBI in-

COMMENTARY vestigation of a former Democratic congressman’s alleged sexual texting with a female minor. Ransack the EngGeorge lish language Will for words to do this justice.

During the recent welter of reports about the Clintons’ self-dealing through their charity that has been very charitable to them, The New Yorker, reporting her plans to uplift the downtrodden, quoted her aspiration: “I want to really marry the public and the private sector.” This would solve the Clintons’ problem of discerning the line between public business and private aggrandizement: Erase the line.

So, herewith America’s choice. Restore the House of Clinton. Or confer executive powers -- powers that President Obama by his audacity, and Congress by its lethargy, have proven to be essentially unlimited — on another competitor in the sleaze sweepstakes, Donald Trump, who

shares his opponent’s disinclination to disentangle the personal and the political.

Into this political maelstrom, FBI Director James Comey injected an announcement that intensified the chaos without providing a scintilla of news that voters can use: An unknown number of emails of unknown provenance and unknown content might be “pertinent” to an investigation that already has established, beyond peradventure, that Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” with sensitive material.

Add the FBI, and the Justice Department to which it belongs, to the carnage of institutions that is a byproduct of bad judgments by the political class that have voters asking Casey Stengel’s question. In 1962, Stengel, manager of the New York Mets, an expansion team en route to a record of 120 losses, looked down his dugout at his woebegone players and wondered aloud, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”

It is grimly hilarious to hear it said that the Justice Department, by not holding Comey to established protocols concerning discussions of ongoing investigations, and concerning

pronouncements close to elections, has tainted itself. Obamacare would not have passed if Justice Department lawyers had not conducted what a federal judge declared a corrupt prosecution of Alaska’s Republican senator Ted Stevens, costing him re-election. The department has enabled, by not seriously investigating, the IRS’ suppression of political advocacy by conservative groups. Or of the IRS’ subsequent destruction of subpoenaed emails pertinent to this. So, unsurprisingly, the most intrusive and potentially punitive federal agency continues to punish conservative groups for being conservative, according to Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer for political groups who confirms there are indeed conservative organizations who were targeted by the IRS and have still not received their tax-exempt status.

In 2013, Barack Obama professed himself “angry” about “inexcusable” IRS behavior, before he decided there was not a “smidgen” of IRS corruption. He claimed to have learned about the IRS behavior from the media. Now he claims that he learned from the media about Clinton’s email abuses, although they

had exchanged emails using her private server. Perhaps.

The defining scandal of the Obama era has been the media’s lackadaisical consensus that Obama’s administration has had no serious scandal.

This, although with the Justice Department protecting the IRS, the administration has (in the words of Richard Nixon’s White House counsel John Dean) used “the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.”

Clinton, the ultimate author of her current agony, resembles no one so much as Nixon in her paranoia and joyless pursuit of joy. Her government career began with the House committee preparing Nixon’s impeachment. Twenty-two years earlier, he had saved his career by addressing a supposed scandal with his nationally broadcast “Checkers speech,” which was mawkish, abasing and effective. How fitting it would be for a Clinton “Checkers speech” to end our long national nightmare that this campaign has been.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group.

No reason to assume Hillary’s troubles are behind her

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illary Clinton was resting, running out the clock, sitting on a supposed large lead and hoping that the election was sooner than later. Now after the latest Weiner disclosures, she is crisscrossing the country, terrified of collapsing polls, and wishing that she had three more weeks rather than just one. With the Clintons, farce is the desert to scandal: the profiteering Clinton Foundation as a humanitarian treasure; Hillary the former corporate attorney as child and little-guy crusader; Bill Clinton, both sexual predator and feminist hero.

Hillary didn’t just delete e-mails under congressional subpoena; she insisted that some 33,000 e-mails were mostly about yoga and Chelsea’s wedding — sort of like saying that one can beat 31 trillion-to-one odds of turning $1,000 into a $100,000 cattle-futures profit in no time by merely reading the Wall Street Journal. Until Friday, FBI director James Comey, in Hillary’s eyes, was a sober and judicious public servant who had rightly seen insufficient cause for her indictment.

Now she believes that he is a rank Republican politico seeking to rob her of her presidency.

Clinton thought that she had survived Wikileaks, the Project Veritas ambush tapes, the hacked Colin Powell e-mails, the DNC disclosures, and so on — mostly because of Donald Trump’s self-inflicted wounds, some vicious-if-clever Democratic Party operatives, and a series of Democratic-planted IEDs about Trump’s foul mouth that exploded at preplanned and opportune mo-

COMMENTARY ments.

Yet no one thought discredited deviant Anthony Weiner could much harm Hillary — except of course “conspiratorial” Donald Trump.

He warned months Victor Davis ago that Clinton aide Hanson Huma Abedin might have been passing on classified materials to her dissolute husband. Because Weiner couldn’t repress his electronic libido with young girls, he ended up on the FBI’s radar — and by extension his smartphones, tablets, computers, and by further extension supposedly his estranged wife’s confidential communications. It was thought that Weiner might have stopped his sexting addiction when he lost his House seat, when he lost his mayor’s race, when he lost his wife, when he lost his jobs — or, at the very least, before he might lose Hillary (who supposedly fixed Abedin up with Weiner) her election.

Hillary’s team dared Comey to put up incriminating e-mails or shut up about investigating Hillary, hoping that the Obama Justice Department might quash any request for courtordered warrants. But that demand assumed that Weiner is a loyal Clintonista and will put his fealty to Hillary and the Democrats above his own fear of federal prison and its supposed cultural intolerance for supposed predators. For now, the Clinton attack on the FBI might be not only futile but stupid — antago-

LETTER TO THE EDITOR spond to written requests for REP. MULVANEY’S WORDS DO NOT MATCH HIS ACTIONS proof of his visits with farmI have a real problem with re-electing Mick Mulvaney.

His words do not match up with his actions. He said he toured farms with our mayor and city manager after the flood; yet neither of these men have any recollection of a tour with Mick Mulvaney.

Someone is not telling the truth. When he claims, in a letter, that I did not show for a meeting that I called for but I never spoke to him about, someone is not telling the truth. When he does not re-

ers and never returns phone calls to those who have supported his campaign in the past, something is wrong.

When he can ignore documentation that shows possible corruption and fraud and chooses to stonewall instead, something is wrong.

I furnished substantial documented information reflecting corruption in Sumter County Council, primarily Republicans, to Mulvaney. It was understood that this information was to be given to the FBI in Washington. It never hap-

nizing her inquisitor, without the ability to apply pressure to silence him — if Weiner voluntarily surrenders his warrant-less communications to obtain some sort of deal.

Should we laugh or cry when Barack Obama’s Department of Justice warns about mixing politics with the Weiner investigation, after Attorney General Loretta Lynch had stealthily met on the tarmac with Bill Clinton while her office was supposedly investigating his spouse? Normally the nation’s lesser federal prosecutors don’t have chats about grandchildren on airport runways with the husbands of suspects under investigation.

Should we weep or smile when Hillary and John Podesta decry a federal official’s 11th-hour disclosure of possible criminality — this from a party that rejoiced over Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh’s indictment (later dismissed) of Reagan

pened. I filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service but did not hear back from them. SLED agents and the assistant South Carolina attorney general advised me to handle these problems at the polls. I did receive a written letter one day from Mulvaney.

It was obnoxious, full of lies, and tried to paint a picture of me with vendettas against local politicians. His letter was a total distortion of the facts at hand.

I have helped to put this man in office and he treats me and others with total disdain. I don’t believe he can point to one thing he has accomplished that has been helpful for this

cabinet official Caspar Weinberger a week before the 1992 election, won

by Bill Clinton. As far as last-minute election surprises go, Democrats themselves have turned it into an art form. In 2000, it was the leaked George W. Bush DUI arrest; in 2004, it was the “fake but accurate” forged National Guard Memos.

Experts and Clinton officials dismiss the Weiner disclosures as either insignificant or not significant enough to affect the election. But that assumes that Weiner was loyal, sane, and ever committed to his marriage with Huma Abedin. There is no evidence that any of those three assumptions is true.

Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

state. Mick, you are a RINO so please just switch sides because you are just like the worst in Washington, D.C. You will not get my vote and you need to go! I will vote for Fran Person to replace you!

GARDNER GORE Sumter

MELISSA EVANS BEST FOR CITY COUNCIL IN WARD 4 I am writing this letter of support for the candidacy of Melissa Evans, Ward 4, Sumter City Council.

As a resident of Ward 4 and, in particular, the historic Anne Park area, I am interested in a candidate who will

represent us effectively. Melissa Evans is a Sumter native and is a homeowner in Ward 4.

She attended Sumter schools, attained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and has a work history that will benefit her service as a member of Sumter City Council. Melissa is an active volunteer and knows how to communicate.

Her awareness and interest will combine to make her a dedicated and productive representative.

Sumter is growing and changing. We need to elect Melissa Evans in order to continue our progress.

ANNE GALLOWAY Sumter

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AROUND TOWN The Sumter Branch NAACP will come and can be mailed to: NFB Sumter Chapter, P.O. host its 33rd Annual Freedom Box 641, Sumter, SC 29151.

Fund Banquet at 7 p.m. on Shepherd’s Center to hold annual Friday, Nov. 4, at the Sumter The Sumter County Veterans County flea Civicmarket Center, 700 W. Association will hold its annual Liberty St. Hilary O. Shelton, Veterans Day parade and proof the NAACP National Ofgram on Friday, Nov. 11. Befice, will speak. ginning at 10 a.m., the parade will start at the corner The Shepherd’s Center’s annuof Main and Bartlette al flea market will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sat- streets heading north on Main, turning right onto Calurday, Nov. 5, at Trinity-Linhoun Street and then right coln Center, 24 Council St. onto Harvin, ending at the A fall festival featuring the Judicial Center parking lot.

Amazing Scavenger Hunt Race The ceremony will begin at will be held on Saturday, Nov. 5, in the town of Lynch- 11 a.m. on the front lawn of the courthouse. There will burg. Teams should consist be numerous vendors set of two people and cost is up behind the courthouse $20 per team. All particidisplaying various benefits pants and vendors are and information for the vetasked to register by Nov. 2. erans. The grand marshal of Cost on the day of the race the parade will be 20th will be $25. Fall festival will Fighter Wing Commander begin at 9:30 a.m. with the Col. Daniel Lasica, who will race beginning promptly at also serve as the keynote 10:30 a.m. For information, speaker for the program. call Kim Fortunate at (843) In honor of Veterans Day, the 206-2390, Greta Gibson at Langley Winds Chamber En(803) 236-0187, Kelvin Solosemble will provide a free conmon at (803) 565-4173 or cert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sharon Lowery-Brown at Nov. 11, at the Sumter Opera (843) 813-4859.

House. Visit www.SumThe Eastern High School Class of 1966 will celebrate its 50th terOperaHouse.com to reserve your seating. golden anniversary from 11 The Sumter Branch NAACP will a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, hold its biennial election from Nov. 5, at Golden Corral in 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on SaturSumter. Call Hattie Hampday, Nov. 12, at 741 Bultman tion McLeod at (803) 495Drive.

3083 or Pontheola Edwards Wilson at (843) 260-2978.

A Southern Belle Tea and Tasting Gala featuring the 2nd AnThe Little Miss and Teen Miss nual Parade of Hats will be Sumter and Sumter County held on Nov. 12 at Ryanne’s preliminary pageant will be Catering Hall, 154 Main St., held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, at Kingsbury Elemen- Lynchburg. Tickets are $20 per person. For details, call tary School. Girls who will Kim Fortunate at (843) 206be 3 to 19 years of age by 2390, Greta Gibson at (803) July 2017 are eligible to 236-0187, Kelvin Solomon at compete. The pageant is (803) 565-4173, Sharon Lowopen to all counties in ery-Brown at (843) 813-4859 South Carolina. Winners of the 14 age divisions will ride or Donna Scott at (803) 459in the Sumter Christmas Pa- 3301. rade and will be eligible to The Lincoln High School Prescompete at state in July ervation Alumni Association 2017. For information or will sponsor a wine and cheese entry forms, call (803) 468sip from 5 to 9 p.m. on Sun0251 or email janepday, Nov. 13, at the Lincoln privette@gmail.com.

High School cafeteria, Council Street. Music will be proThe Lincoln High School Class vided. Cost is $6 per person. of 1964 will hold a class reunion meeting at 11 a.m. on Call James L. Green at (803) Monday, Nov. 7, at the South 968-4173.

Sumter Resource Center, The Sumter Branch NAACP’s 337 Manning Ave. Call FranVeterans Day program will be ces Woods at (803) 773-3804, held at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Lillie Wilson at (803) 775Nov. 13, at Mt. Pisgah AME 9088 or Bertha Willis at (803) Church, 217 W. Bartlette St. 775-9660.

A Green Elementary School reThe Sumter Branch NAACP will union will be held from noon provide rides to the polls from to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Election 26, at the Sumter Recreation Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8. Call & Parks Department build(803) 775-9215. Drivers are ing, 155 Haynsworth St. Call also needed.

Linwood at (803) 883-5349 or The Sumter Chapter of the Na- Shirley at (803) 481-0587. tional Federation of the Blind The 7th Annual Town of Pineof South Carolina will meet wood Christmas Parade will at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, be held on Saturday, Dec. 3. at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, The parade will begin at 10 125 W. Bartlette St. Transa.m. at Manchester Elemenportation provided within tary School and proceed the coverage area. If you down Main Street, Pineknow a blind person, conwood. Participants and ventact Debra Canty, chapter dors are welcome and president, at (803) 775-5792 should contact Pinewood or debra.canty@frontier.

Town Hall at (803) 452-5878. com. Donations are wel-

ARIES (March 21-April 19): CommuniEUGENIA LAST cation will be heightened, and creative input will help you bring about positive changes.

Personal gains can be made and self-improvement projects will lead to compliments and romance. Try to be patient with yourself and others.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Be secretive regarding legal, contractual or financial matters.

You will have less interference if you get things done first and reveal what you are up to after the fact. A unique relationship will develop with someone you least expect.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A change will do you good, but don’t act in haste. Take your time and mull over your options. A good choice will lead to new beginnings and greater stability, but a poor choice will cost you emotionally, financially and physically.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may be enticed to follow someone who makes an unexpected move.

Assess what’s going on and weigh the pros and cons before you make a commitment. Trying to do too much too quickly will lead to regret. Sit tight and see what unfolds.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Start something new. Make personal alterations that will improve your appearance, health and emotional well-being. Cultivate a skill that can help you make business or personal gains. Donations or joint ventures should be avoided.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep an open mind, but don’t let anyone take advantage of you. Listen carefully and offer sound advice, but don’t dirty your hands with someone else’s mistakes.

Networking should be where you

put your time and energy if you want to get results.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep things in perspective when dealing with domestic and family matters.

Anger will not solve problems, but patience and understanding will help you keep the peace.

Structured activities will lead to finding new solutions.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What you want to do for a living or pursue at this point in your life is doable if you are willing to make a couple of changes. Discuss your plans with the people your decisions will affect, and move forward confidently.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Use your persuasive skills to bring about the changes you want to see happen at home. Staying within your budget will be necessary if you don’t want to face repercussions. Make detailed plans and stick to them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Taking part in group travel or organizational events will be costly.

Be careful not to offer something that will turn into a major task with extra costs attached. Stick to basics and avoid unpredictable people and situations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Share memories with someone you haven’t seen in a while. Catching up will lead to plans that will motivate you to make positive personal changes. A professional move will lead to a higher income.

Love and romance are highlighted.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Direct your energy into working hard and getting ahead. Don’t leave anything to chance. You will be judged by what you do, not the promises you make. A good job will result in greater financial opportunities.

Dennis Selvig shares a photo he took while stationed in Australia with the U.S. Air Force several years ago.

Selvig comments on his photo submission, “This is the Taronga Park Zoo in Melbourne, Australia. They don’t keep all their animals in cages, so you can get up close and personal with many of them.”

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PREP FOOTBALL

Homeward bound?

Crestwood eyes victory over Lugoff-Elgin to secure second place in Region VI-4A, first-round playoff game in Dalzell

CAROLINA FOOTBALL

Muschamp looking for ball hawks on defense

BY JOSH KENDALL jkendall@thestate.com Earl Thomas played high school and college football in Texas. He’s currently playing professional football in Seattle, and still Thomas has a huge impact on every South Carolina football game and practice.

“He was around the ball every snap.

MUSCHAMP He was a ball hawk,” said Gamecocks coach Will Muschamp, who was Texas’ defensive coordinator when Thomas played for the Longhorns. “That’s where we came up with the term ball hawkin’.”

It’s a mentality that Muschamp has preached to his defensive players since he has been coaching, but Thomas’ instincts crystallized his favorite term for it.

“There is some coaching to it, I can tell you that, but that being said, there are certain guys that have a knack for getting the ball off people, have a knack for stripping, have a knack of when it’s a good time to tackle someone and when it’s a good time to make a strip and that’s a judgment,” Muschamp said. “It goes back into making good choices and decisions on the field.”

The Gamecocks reward their defensive players who cause a turnover – make an interception or force or recover a fumble – with “Ball Hawk” T-shirts.

SEE MUSCHAMP, PAGE B3

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Crestwood running back Maleeke Bradley, center, and the rest of the Knights will try to secure second place in Region VI-4A and a first-round playoff game on Friday with a victory over Lugoff-Elgin at 7:30 p.m. at Donald L. Crolley Memorial Stadium.

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@teitem.com The goal is pretty straightforward for Crestwood High School’s football team on Friday in Dalzell.

A win over Lugoff-Elgin puts the Knights in second place in Region VI-4A and guarantees a home playoff game in two weeks.

A loss drops them into third place where they’ll have to leave the friendly confines of Donald L. Crolley Memorial Stadium.

“That was definitely a goal that was talked about before the season,” Crestwood head coach Roosevelt Nelson said. “You want to make the playoffs and have a chance to win your region. Now the opportunity to

have a home playoff game is on the table.

“But we’re not going to approach it any differently or add any undue pressure on the kids. We’re just going to prepare for it like we always do – like this Friday’s game is the biggest of the season.”

SEE CRESTWOOD, PAGE B3

WORLD SERIES

Maz, Morris and other World Series Game 7s to remember JAKE SEINER The Associated Press The Chicago Cubs have played 178 games this season, the Cleveland Indians 175.

On Wednesday night, they get one chance to make them all worth it.

The Cubs and Indians will play the 38th decisive World Series Game 7, and the previous 37 have included some remarkable moments.

Can Corey Kluber or Kyle Hendricks make like Jack Morris with wire-towire domination? Will Andrew Miller or Aroldis Chapman channel Madison Bumgarner with a 15-out save? Can the Indians give

Cleveland a long-awaited party at home? Will the Cubs get a GOAT or just another goat?

Nothing left to do but find out. In the meantime, here’s a little history to fill the hours until first pitch.

The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Detroit Tigers 8-0 in the first conclusive Game 7 in 1909, with rookie Babe Adams getting a shutout and this third victory in that Series.

The next 36 included momentous homers, significant saves and a whole lot of champagne. Plus, a couple of clunkers — Dizzy Dean and Bret Saberhagen both won 11-0 romps.

SEE CRESTWOOD, PAGE B3

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chicago Cub David Ross rounds the bases after hitting a home run against the Cleveland Indians during the sixth inning of Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday in Cleveland. The Cubs were leading 6-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning at press time. Go to www.theitem.com for complete results on the game.

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PALMETTO CHAMPIONS

Sumter’s Harvin, Lee Central’s Danner named All-Star selections

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com Sumter High School punter Pressley Harvin III and Lee Central football head coach Justin Danner have been selected as members of the 2016 Palmetto Champions All-Star Football Team.

The team, which is selected by the South Carolina Football Coaches Association, has chosen Harvin as the 5A Specialty DANNER Team Player and Danner is the pick for the 2A Lower State Coach of the Year.

Harvin is one of 24 players and Danner is one of 10 coaches being honHARVIN ored. From those honored, an overall Lineman, Back, Specialty Team Player and Coach of the Year will be selected. That will come at the end of November, but not with the normal banquet ...

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Carolina quarterback Cam Newton (1) objects to a late hit by Arizona’s Markus Golden (44) in the Panthers’ 30-20 victory on Sunday in Charlotte. Newton spoke with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about some of the hits he has taken this season.

Newton addresses concerns with Goodell; Campbell fined $18K

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Panthers quarterback Cam Newton’s concerns about “illegal hits” have been heard by the NFL — and action has been taken.

A person familiar with the situation says Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Calais Campbell has been fined $18,000 for his hit on Newton in Sunday’s game.

The person spoke to The Associated Press Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the league does not publicly announce fines.

Newton had a phone conversation with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday about his perspective on the hits he takes from defensive players while in the pocket.

“I got my point across. He got his point across. That’s it,” Newton said earlier Wednesday at his weekly news conference.

Newton said after Sunday’s game he didn’t feel protected in the pocket after no flag was thrown when Campbell crashed into his legs as he was releasing the football.

Dean Blandino, the NFL’s senior vice president of officiating, said on NFL Network that Campbell should

have been penalized for roughing the passer.

“You can see Campbell coming up the middle and he’s going to hit Cam in the knee area or below; forcible contact, driving through with the shoulder — that’s a foul for roughing the passer,” Blandino said on the show. “We want our referees to call that. We’ll address that with the crews going forward.”

Before the AP learned of Campbell’s fine, Newton was asked if he thinks his concerns will be enforced on the field in the future and the quarterback replied, “We’ll wait to see Sunday and moving forward.”

The Panthers visit the Rams on Sunday.

Newton didn’t provide details of his talk with Goodell, saying it was a “confidential conversation.”

Newton did say he raised many of the same issues he had on Sunday when he blasted officials in his postgame news conference following Carolina’s 30-20 win over Arizona. Newton said at the time he didn’t feel safe in the pocket because officials were allowing defenders to take illegal shots at him.

Newton said he just wants to be treated like other NFL quarterbacks re-

gardless of his size.

“Illegal hits for me start in the pocket,” Newton said Wednesday. “It is funny how a lot of people have a lot to say. I know when I am running the football I am on my own. I understand that. I’m not a dummy or oblivious to the fact that I run the football more than any quarterback who has ever played this game. I mean, duh. I’m fine with that.

“In the pocket, that’s all I’m asking for, just to get ... the same calls, that’s all.”

Newton said after his call with the commissioner he had a positive vibe.

“Anytime you’re being heard, obviously, with a person of his magnitude, I respect that,” Newton said.

“I just wanted to be efficient of his time and make sure I got my point across. I believe I did. ... We ended on good terms. We started on good terms as well.

Nothing changes.”

Panthers coach Ron Rivera has supported Newton, comparing him to Shaquille O’Neal in that he doesn’t get the calls because he’s bigger than other players at his position.

“At the end of the day, it’s not about special treatment,” Rivera said. “It’s about being treated the same.”

AUTO RACING

CHARLOTTE — Carl Edwards heads to Texas Motor Speedway last in the playoff standings, which does not show how well he has run in this year’s Chase.

Edwards was with the leaders last weekend at Martinsville Speedway when a tire problem caused him to crash into the wall during the opening race of the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs.

Now he’s 32 points below the cutline to advance to the final four championship race Nov. 20 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

He can salvage his chances with a victory in either of the next two races, starting Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.

“We know what we have to do and we feel like we can do it,” he said.

Edwards is part of the four-car Joe Gibbs Racing contingent that made it into the round of eight of the playoffs. But when Jimmie Johnson won last weekend

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at Martinsville, it meant JGR can’t get all four of its drivers into the championship race.

In some regards, it took the prospect of points racing off the agenda for Edwards at Texas.

“We had a great run going there at Martinsville and obviously that was a huge disappointment, but it really makes things pretty simple this EDWARDS weekend,” Edwards said.

In 23 Sprint Cup Series starts at Texas, Edwards has led 655 laps and has three victories. He also has seven top-five and 12 top-10 finishes. Edwards also won a pair of Xfinity races at Texas in 2010 and 2011.

Crew chief Dave Rogers believes Edwards can pull off another win at Texas, or win next week at Phoenix.

“It’s tough to name two better racetracks for us to be in (this) situation,” Rogers said. “Texas offers a lot of

character with bumps and an abrasive surface and Goodyear will be bringing a tire that wears out and falls off. That combination always yields an exciting race for our fans and plays into the strengths of Carl and this race team.”

BORLAND-RCR Richard Childress Racing will make a crew chief change for Paul Menard at the end of the season. Matt Borland will take over the pit box of Menard’s No. 27 team. He’ll replace interim crew chief Danny Stockman, who will return to the Xfinity Series program at RCR. Borland is an engineer and former crew chief with more than 20 years of experience. He was vice president of technology for Stewart-Haas Racing and oversaw the NASCAR and Formula 1 operations. Borland had been with SHR in various roles since 2009.

As a crew chief, he won 13 races with Ryan Newman, who now drives for RCR.

W 6 4 4 4

L T Pct PF PA 1 0 .857 188 130 3 0 .571 133 141 3 0 .571 179 117 3 1 .563 186 189

W 5 3 3 2

L T Pct PF PA 3 0 .625 262 231 4 0 .429 152 189 4 0 .429 201 215 5 0 .286 191 196

W 5 4 4 2

L T Pct PF PA 2 0 .714 139 104 3 0 .571 172 156 4 0 .500 183 190 6 0 .250 131 179

W 4 3 3 1

L T Pct PF PA 2 1 .643 131 109 4 1 .438 179 140 4 0 .429 120 154 6 0 .143 144 219

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Dallas at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Carolina at Los Angeles, 4:05 p.m.

Tennessee at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at Oakland, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Washington, Arizona, Chicago, New England, Houston, Cincinnati

MONDAY’S GAMES

Buffalo at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 10

Cleveland at Baltimore, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY, NOV. 13

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Los Angeles at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Miami at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

Dallas at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m.

Seattle at New England, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Detroit, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Oakland

MONDAY, NOV. 14

Cincinnati at N.Y. Giants, 8:30 p.m.

NBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

Boston Toronto New York Brooklyn Philadelphia SOUTHEAST DIVISION

Atlanta Charlotte Miami Orlando Washington Central Division

W 4 3 3 2 2

L Pct GB 0 1.000 — 0 1.000 ½ 1 .750 1 2 .500 2 2 .500 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION

W L Pct GB San Antonio 4 1 .800 — Houston 2 2 .500 1½ Memphis 2 2 .500 1½ Dallas 0 3 .000 3 New Orleans 0 4 .000 3½ NORTHWEST DIVISION

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 3 0 1.000 — Portland 2 2 .500 1½ Utah 2 2 .500 1½ Denver 1 2 .333 2 Minnesota 1 2 .333 2 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 3 0 1.000 — Golden State 3 1 .750 ½ Sacramento 2 3 .400 2 L.A. Lakers 1 3 .250 2½ Phoenix 0 4 .000 3½

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Cleveland 128, Houston 120 Indiana 115, L.A. Lakers 108 Orlando 103, Philadelphia 101 Detroit 102, New York 89 Miami 108, Sacramento 96, OT Milwaukee 117, New Orleans 113 Minnesota 116, Memphis 80 Utah 106, San Antonio 91 Golden State 127, Portland 104

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Houston at New York, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Boston, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Utah, 9 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Sacramento at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Indiana at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 8 p.m.

New York at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 9 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

NFL STANDINGS

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Edwards likely needs a win to avoid elimination in playoffs

BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

5 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Turkish Airlines Open First Round from Antalya, Turkey (GOLF).

6 a.m. – Professional Tennis: BNP Parisbas Masters Round-of-16 Matches from Paris (TENNIS).

11 a.m. – College Field Hockey: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Quarterfinal Match from WinstonSalem, N.C. (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

Noon – Professional Tennis: BNP Parisbas Masters Round-of-16 Matches from Paris (TENNIS).

1:30 p.m. – College Field Hockey: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Quarterfinal Match from WinstonSalem, N.C. (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

2 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Europa League Match – Manchester United vs. Fenerbahce (FOX SPORTS 1).

2 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Europa League Match – Roma vs.

Austria Vienna (FOX SPORTS 2).

4 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Europa League Match – Inter vs.

Southampton (FOX SPORTS 1).

4 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Europa League Match – Krasnodar vs.

Schalke 04 (FOX SPORTS 2).

4 p.m. – College Field Hockey: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Quarterfinal Match from WinstonSalem, N.C. (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

4:30 p.m. – PGA Golf: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open First Round from Las Vegas (GOLF).

6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7 p.m. – College Field Hockey: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Quarterfinal Match from WinstonSalem, N.C. (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. – Women’s College Volleyball: Alabama at Texas A&M (SEC NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. – College Football: Oklahoma at Iowa State (ESPN).

7:30 p.m. – College Football: Arkansas State at Georgia State (ESPNU).

8 p.m. – High School Football: DeSoto (Texas) vs. South Grand Prairie (Texas) (ESPN2).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Boston at Cleveland (TNT).

8:25 p.m. – NFL Football: Atlanta at Tampa Bay (NFL NETWORK, WWFNFM 100.1, WNKT-FM 107.5).

9 p.m. – College Football: UCLA at Colorado (FOX SPORTS 1).

10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Oklahoma City at Golden State (TNT).

2 a.m. – Women’s Professional Golf: Ladies European Tour Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open Second Round from Abu Dhabie, United Arab Emirates (GOLF).

5 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Turkish Airlines Open Second Round from Antalya, Turkey (GOLF).

Cleveland Chicago Detroit Milwaukee Indiana

W 2 2 1 1 0

L Pct GB 1 .667 — 1 .667 — 2 .333 1 3 .250 1½ 3 .000 2

W 3 2 2 1 0

L Pct GB 0 1.000 — 1 .667 1 2 .500 1½ 3 .250 2½ 2 .000 2½

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Washington at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Houston at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

NHL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 9 8 0 1 17 31 14 Ottawa 9 6 3 0 12 27 26 Detroit 10 6 4 0 12 28 24 Tampa Bay 10 6 4 0 12 33 30 Boston 9 5 4 0 10 20 24 Buffalo 9 4 3 2 10 22 22 Florida 10 4 5 1 9 26 25 Toronto 10 3 4 3 9 29 37 METROPOLITAN DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 10 7 3 0 14 40 22 Washington 9 6 2 1 13 25 19 Pittsburgh 9 6 2 1 13 25 27 New Jersey 8 4 2 2 10 18 16 Columbus 8 4 3 1 9 21 19 Philadelphia 10 4 5 1 9 36 38 N.Y. Islanders 10 4 6 0 8 28 31 Carolina 9 2 4 3 7 25 32

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 10 6 3 1 13 33 21 Chicago 10 6 3 1 13 36 28 St. Louis 10 5 3 2 12 22 26 Colorado 8 4 4 0 8 20 24 Dallas 9 3 4 2 8 20 29 Winnipeg 10 4 6 0 8 24 29 Nashville 9 3 5 1 7 24 29 PACIFIC DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 10 7 2 1 15 31 22 San Jose 10 6 4 0 12 25 24 Anaheim 10 4 4 2 10 25 23 Vancouver 9 4 4 1 9 17 24 Calgary 11 4 6 1 9 32 40 Los Angeles 10 4 6 0 8 20 30 Arizona 9 3 6 0 6 27 35 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Columbus 3, Dallas 2, OT N.Y. Rangers 5, St. Louis 0 Toronto 3, Edmonton 2, OT Ottawa 2, Carolina 1, OT Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Islanders 1 Boston 2, Florida 1 Washington 3, Winnipeg 2 Buffalo 2, Minnesota 1 Chicago 5, Calgary 1 Nashville 5, Colorado 1 Arizona 3, San Jose 2 Anaheim 4, Los Angeles 0

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Vancouver at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Toronto at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Washington, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Nashville at Arizona, 10 p.m.

Calgary at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Montreal at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Minnesota at Colorado, 3 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Carolina at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS

By The Associated Press

BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent C Steve Clevenger, LHP Charlie Furbush and RHP Ryan Cook outright to Tacoma (PCL).

Claimed RHP Ryan Weber off waivers from Atlanta. Designated C Steven Baron for assignment.

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CLEMSON FOOTBALL

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Cornerback Chris Lammons, with three interceptions, one forced fumble and one recovered fumble, leads the team with five shirts.

“Good-looking shirts,” Muschamp said. “We’ve got a black one, we’ve got a garnet one, and we’ve got a white one.”

South Carolina’s emphasis on turnovers is paying dividends in Muschamp’s first year. The Gamecocks are tied for first in the SEC, and 20th in the nation, in turnover margin at plus-6.

South Carolina has

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“The football season was delayed two weeks due to weather conditions surrounding Hurricane Matthew, therefore there will not be a Palmetto Champions banquet

CHARLOTTE — Kemba Walker had 22 points, Nicolas Batum scored 17 of 20 points in a pivotal third quarter and the Charlotte Hornets handed the Philadelphia 76ers their fourth straight loss to open the season, 109-93 on Wednesday night.

Led by Batum, the Hornets opened the second half on a 16-2 run to erase a sevenpoint halftime deficit and gain control.

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game ranks 21st nationally, and at 41.4 rushing yards per game, he’s far from repeating last year’s 1,000yard rushing season.

“At the end of the day, when we look back at his complete body of work, it’s going to be very impressive,” co-offensive coordinator Jeff Scott said. “I think the biggest thing: Don’t get caught up in all that.”

Watson’s 22 passing touchdowns puts him in the top 10. Of quarterbacks with double-digit TD passes, only eight nationally have more interceptions than Watson, who threw 13 picks in 15 games in 2015.

“I think he’s the best player in the country. I’m not really worried about the Heisman stuff,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said.

“Can’t be better than 8-0.

He’s pretty special. He answers the bell. He’s not perfect. He’s not a robot, but I

don’t know any other player out there that is.

“I know if I’m starting a team I’m picking Deshaun Watson right now. No question about it. I know I’m biased, but I’m into winning and that’s what he’s into.”

Just like the rash of bad decisions haven’t kept Clemson from reaching 8-0 overall and 5-0 in ACC play, they also haven’t hurt his Heisman Trophy chances. His big statistical performance against FSU didn’t change much either.

According to this week’s odds to win the prestigious award, Watson, who’s 7-to-1 and looks to improve that against Syracuse at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, is still second behind Louisville’s Lamar Jackson, who’s the overwhelming favorite at 1-to-3.

Michigan’s Jabrill Peppers, who plays both ways, is right behind the Clemson QB at 8-1.

forced seven fumbles and 10 interceptions this season and is on pace to force its highest number (26 at the current pace) of turnovers since the 2013 season.

The Gamecocks’ 17 forced turnovers are second only to Texas A&M’s 19 in the SEC. “I think our defensive staff and (defensive coordinator) Travaris Robinson do a fantastic job of coaching awareness of the ball and when the ball is in jeopardy let’s get the ball off of people,” Muschamp said.

Cornerback Jamarcus King has three interceptions and a forced fumble, and linebacker T.J. Holloman has two

interceptions and a forced fumble.

“Some guys have a knack for it,” Muschamp said.

“T.J. Holloman is a guy that jumps out. He’s got a knack for it.”

South Carolina is second in the SEC in interceptions with 10. Only this week’s opponent Missouri has more, with 11.

The Gamecocks practices become a sort of battle of wills, tight end Hayden Hurst said, with offensive coordinator Kurt Roper urging his players to keep the ball “high and tight” and Muschamp and Robinson screaming for their players to “get the ball out, get the ball out.”

“It’s definitely a focal point,” Hurst said.

this year,” said banquet director Greg Crolley, the former Lakewood head coach, in a press release. “However, we wanted to recognize this year’s players and coaches for their excellence in football.”

Harvin, who was also selected to the Shrine Bowl, is averaging 42.6 yard per punt on 23 attempts. He has had 12

of his punts downed inside the opposition’s 20-yard line and seven of them have ended in fair catches. Harvin’s net punting averaging is 41.6.

Danner has led the Stallions to a 7-1 start this season.

LC has made a dramatic improvement in Danner’s second season; it was 1-9 last year.

Mauldin Lower State: Shaun Moore, Spring Valley 4A Upper State: Noah Hannon, Greer Lower State: Will Register, Chapin 3A Upper State: Brad Johnson, Pendleton Lower State: Jermaine McDaniel, Dillon 2A Upper State: Ryan Putnam, Christ Church Lower State: Byron Young, Carvers Bay 1A Upper State: Jene Thompson, Lewisville Lower State: Jacob Springs, Green Sea-Floyds Specialists 5A: Pressley Harvin, Sumter 4A: Brandon Peppers, Daniel 3A: Austin Snow, Powdersville 2A: DeQuan Carr, Carvers Bay 1A: Not announced

Coaches 5A Upper State: David Pierce, Northwestern Lower State: Marc Morris, Carolina Forest 4A Upper State: Perry Parks, Ridge View Lower State: Russell Zehr, Cane Bay 3A Upper State: Doug Shaw, Palmetto Lower State: Chad Leaphart, Gilbert 2A Upper State: Doug Chisolm, Blacksburg Lower State: Justin Danner, Lee Central 1A Upper State: Vic Lollis, Dixie Lower State: Jamie Johnson, Hannah-Pamplico

TURNER RESIGNS AS VIKINGS’ OC

WASHINGTON — DeMar DeRozan continued his hot start by scoring 40 points and outdueling John Wall in a showcase of All-Star guards as the Toronto Raptors beat the winless Washington Wizards 113-103 on Wednesday night.

DeRozan was 14 of 23 from the floor despite leaving the game briefly to get his ankles taped. Raptors backcourt made Kyle Lowry needed three stitches to close a cut below his right

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) has been dealing with a high bar set by himself and others.

eye but still scored 18 points.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — After spending the night at the office, Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer had a surprise early-morning visitor. Offensive coordinator Norv Turner, following the offseason hire of a potential replacement and feeble performances by the Vikings in losing the last two games, came to tell the boss he was quitting for the “best interest” of both Turner and the team.

After taking the league’s only remaining undefeated record into their bye week, the Vikings have stumbled badly. Turner’s abrupt resignation Wednesday was the latest stunner, with players returning from a day off to learn of the change in leadership on offense. Pat Shurmur, who has five years of experience as an NFL offensive coordinator plus two as a head coach, was picked to replace Turner.

Wire reports

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PALMETTO CHAMPIONS ALL-STAR FOOTBALL TEAM Backs 5A Upper State: Lummie Young, Westside Lower State: Or’Tre Smith, Wando 4A Upper State: Shi Smith, Union County Lower State: Darius Douglas, Berkeley 3A Upper State: D’Marco Jackson, Broome Lower State: Cameron Bent, Bluffton 2A Upper State: Malik Brooks, Saluda Lower State: Tyreike Steele, Andrews 1A Upper State: Ricardo Wright, McBee Lower State: Duane Nichols, Lake View Lineman 5A Upper State: Patrick Wofford,

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The two teams will meet at 7:30 p.m. to decide their final playoff standings. Lugoff is 4-5 overall and 2-1 in the region while CHS is 5-4 and 2-1 as well.

Both teams are coming off big victories as the Demons defeated Darlington 56-14 two weeks ago while the Knights earned a 40-0 win over rival Lakewood last week.

LEHS is actually allowing an average of more points (24.5) than it is scoring (24.2), but the Demons present a tough challenge regardless, Nelson said.

“They’re definitely a team that has our attention,” he said. “They have a big offensive line and good backs that run off-tackle well. They’re big across the defensive front and their linebackers get after it. They’re solid in the secondary and on special teams, so it’s going to be a challenge for us.”

Lugoff is more of a downhill running team, Nelson said, but they do like to spread things out occasionally.

“They’ll get wide and run some screens and throw out to the perimeter, so that’s something we have to be aware of,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Knights are averaging 35.9 points per game and have scored at least 27 points in each of their last three contests.

Crestwood is allowing just over 24 points a game this season.

Tylas Green has been strong at quarterback, throwing for more than 1,400 yards and 20 scores. Julius

FRIDAY Varsity Football West Florence at Sumter, 7:30 p.m.

Lugoff-Elgin at Crestwood, 7:30 p.m.

Lakewood at Hartsville, 7:30 p.m.

Pageland Central Lee Central, 7:30 p.m.

Scott’s Branch at BethuneBowman, 7:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Lake View, 7:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall at Ben Lippen, 7:30 p.m.

Pinewood Prep at Laurence Manning, 7:30 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at St. Andrew’s, 7:30 p.m.

Northwood at Robert E. Lee, 7:30 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Richard Winn, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY Middle School Football Mayewood at Alice Drive, noon Bates at Manning, noon

Pearson and Josh Simon have been the two big targets with more than 400 yards receiving apiece.

Crestwood also has a long list of running backs that have combined for more than 900 yards on the ground this year to provide a balanced attack.

While the offense as a whole has seemingly hit its stride the last few games, Nelson was quick to point out that the entire team has progressed in the last few weeks as well.

“I think all three phases are really playing well at the right time of the year,” he said. “Offensively we’ve been able to put up points. Defensively, we’ve been able to create turnovers and we’ve been on special teams with some big returns and some big kicks that have led to good field position.

“So I think we’ve done a good job overall and we’ve done a much better job playing situational football.”

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“Personally, I feel like all the wins are big,” Watson said. “But it’s always good to especially go down there, primetime game at night, the whole world was watching, we haven’t won down there in 10 years. It was one of the best overall team wins.”

As for his overall play in that game, Watson wasn’t quite as positive. He posted a season-high 430 total yards, threw two touchdowns and led a late goahead drive for the rallying, 37-34 victory on the road.

But Watson did toss two interceptions.

“I did some good things, but at the same time, I made some poor decisions,” Watson said. “It’s a learning lesson. I’m still growing as a player and as a person. The stats can seem like it’s one of the best games, but personally, watching film of myself, it wasn’t.”

It’s been that kind of season for Watson, who is putting up solid numbers but is simply held to a higher standard than most quarterbacks nationally.

No. 3 Clemson co-offensive coordinator Tony Elliott says nobody is a harsher critic of Watson than Watson himself, but those two turnovers gave him 10 interceptions on the season, the most by a QB in the ACC. His 291 passing yards per

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BY JIM O’CONNELL The Associated Press Josh Hart is off to a stellar start as a member of the defending national champions. The 6-foot-5 swingman from Villanova will begin his senior season on The Associated Press’ preseason All-America team.

Hart, the Big East’s preseason player of the year, received 53 votes from the same 65-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25.

Grayson Allen of Duke ALLEN was the top vote-getter with 61, four more than Ivan Rabb of California.

Dillon Brooks of Oregon had 30 votes and Monte Morris of Iowa State had 24.

Sophomore Thomas Bryant of Indiana and freshmen Markelle Fultz of Washington and Josh Jackson of Kansas all received 18 votes.

Hart averaged 15.5 points and 6.8 rebounds last season for the Wildcats, who beat North Carolina in the title game on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Kris Jenkins.

The last Wildcat to be a preseason All-America was Kerry Kittles in 1995-96, the first season the AP had a preseason team.

The 6-5 Allen, a junior and one of four veterans on the Blue Devils’ roster which is loaded with fresh-

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The Associated Press’ 201617 preseason All-America team, with school, height, year and votes from a 65-member national media panel (key 2015-16 statistics in parentheses): Grayson Allen, Duke, 6-5, junior, 61 votes (21.6 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 3.5 apg, 41.7 3-pt fg pct, 36.6 minutes) Ivan Rabb, California, 6-11, sophomore, 55 (12.5 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 61.5 fg pct, 1.2 blocks) Josh Hart, Villanova, 6-5½, senior, 53 (15.5 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 51.3 fg pct) Dillon Brooks, Oregon, 6-7, junior, 30 (16.7 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 3.1 apg) Monte Morris, Iowa State, 6-3, senior, 24 (13.8 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 6.9 apg, 48.7 fg pct, 1.8 steals, 38.0 minutes) Others receiving votes: Thomas Bryant, Indiana, 18; Markelle Fultz, Washington, 18; Josh Jackson, Kansas, 18; Melo Trimble, Maryland, 13; Nigel Hayes, Wisconsin, 12; Jaron Blossomgame, Clemson, 4; Tyler Lydon, Syracuse, 3; Harry Giles, Duke, 2; Kris Jenkins, Villanova, 2; Austin Nichols, Virginia, 2; Alec Peters, Valparaiso, 2; Nigel Williams-Goss, Gonzaga, 2; Lonzo Ball, UCLA, 1; Devonte Graham, Kansas, 1; Justin Jackson, North Carolina, 1; Moses Kingsley, Arkansas, 1; Bronson Koenig, Wisconsin, 1; London Perrantes, Virginia, 1.

men stars, averaged 21.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists last season, shooting 41.7 percent from 3-point range and 88.7 from the free throw line.

It hasn’t been long since a Blue Devil made the team as freshman Jahlil Okafor was on it in 2015-16.

OBITUARIES LAVERNE JENKINS Laverne Jenkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie W. Jenkins, entered eternal rest on Oct. 31, 2016, at his residence, 552 Calvary Church Road, Bishopville.

The family is receiving friends at the residence.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

LOUISE S. ALSTON REMBERT — Louise S. Alston, 90, widow of Josh Alston, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, at Sumter Health and Rehab.

She was born on Dec. 12, 1925, in Sumter County, to the late Joseph and Lottie Bennett Stavis.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 7985 Camden Highway, Rembert.

Funeral services will be announced later by Whites Mortuary LLC.

WILBUR WITHERSPOON SR. The Rev. Wilbur Witherspoon Sr. was born on Feb. 4, 1936, in Clarendon County, a son of the late Ferdinand and Camilla Johnson Witherspoon. He was called from labor to reward on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, at his home.

He was educated in the Clarendon County public school system. Wilbur attended the Morris College School of Religion. He was employed at Korn Industries for 28 years, until his health began to fail. The Rev. Wilbur Witherspoon gave his life to Christ at an early age at St. John Baptist Church, Silver, after relocating to South Carolina after six years in Baltimore, Maryland.

He became a member of St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church, where he served in numerous capacities. He was a member of the gospel choir, serving as president for 27 years; a member of the trustee board, until he became a deacon; and he organized the male chorus and brotherhood.

After being called by God into the ministry, he attended the Morris College School of Religion. He was ordained as a minister.

He is survived by his loving wife of 59 years, Mattie M. Witherspoon; his children,

Birtie (Peggie) Witherspoon, Wilbur Witherspoon Jr. of Sumter, Rodney Witherspoon of Baltimore, Bernardo (Diane) Witherspoon of Greenville and Gwenevere (Anthony) Smalls of Sumter; three special grandchildren reared in the home, Vonetta T. Witherspoon, Erika V. Miller and Stepharonn T. Miller; two great-grandchildren, Jamiyah Witherspoon and Imani V. Rogers; his chosen children, Rhunnette (Howard) Tompkins of Stone Mountain, Georgia, Rosetta Woodson of Baltimore, Frances L. Washington of Sumter, Wilhelmina Washington, Gail (Jesse) Hannibal, Brenda Swinton of Houston, Texas, Linda (Raymon) Spann of Alaska, Theresa Washington and Jacqueline Wright of Sumter; three sisters, Willie Ruth Pringle, Sarah Grant and Mary (Calvin) McConico, all of Sumter; two brothers, Cleveland (Dorothy) Witherspoon and Robbie (Anna) Witherspoon of Sumter; 36 grandchildren; 57 greatgrandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one son, Gregory Marcenette Witherspoon; and three brothers, Leroy Witherspoon, John Witherspoon and Harrison Witherspoon.

Public viewing will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary.

The Rev. Witherspoon will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. on Friday for viewing until the hour of service.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday at Westend Community Church, 101 S. Salem Ave., Sumter, with Minister Lester Ragins officiating and the Rev. Michael Walters, eulogist. Interment will follow in Hillside Memorial Park.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 110 Brent St., Sumter.

Job’s Mortuary is in charge of arrangements, 312 S. Main St., Sumter.

CECIL E. CROFT SR. Cecil Edwin “Ed” Croft Sr., 71, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016.

He was born on Nov. 23, 1944, and raised in Sumter, a son of the late Thomas Clifford and Mary Sue Coleman Croft. Ed was a graduate of

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Here’s a look at several notable World Series Game 7s:

MAZ SINKS THE YANKS 1960: Pittsburgh Pirates 10, New York Yankees 9 Between 1947 and 1962, the Yankees won 10 championships, but Bill Mazeroski and the Pirates stole one away with a wild Game 7 at Forbes Field that included the first ever Seriesending homer. Pittsburgh led 4-0 after two innings, but Mickey Mantle and the Yanks roared back for a 5-4 lead after six. New York added two more runs before the Bucs rallied in the eighth, with Hal Smith’s homer putting Pittsburgh ahead 9-7. Mantle and Yogi Berra had RBIs in the ninth to tie it 9-9, setting the stage for Mazeroski’s celebrated blast. The undersized future Hall of Famer led off the ninth with a shot to left against Ralph Terry, putting his helmet in hand and waving his arms as he rounded the bases.

MORRIS’ MOMENT 1991: Minnesota Twins 1, Atlanta Braves 0, 10 innings Jack Morris made one of the most memorable starts in baseball history by dominating for 10 innings against the upstart Braves at the Metrodome. The 37-year-old retired the final seven batters he faced, including a double play to escape a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning — Lonnie Smith got lost while running the bases earlier in the inning, costing Atlanta a sure run. Pinchhitter Gene Larkin won it in the 10th, singling to deep left-center to score Dan

the business school of the University of South Carolina.

He was the owner of Florence Mobile Home Service his entire professional career. He loved to talk about sports and pulled for the Gamecocks, but always made it clear that he was for all schools in South Carolina. Ed loved to hunt deer in his younger days and was the commander-in-chief of American Legion Post 1 in Florence for several years. He was very skillful and numerous people depended on him because he could repair just about anything. Most of his good friends referred to him as “Duck.”

Ed is survived by his wife, Ila Maria McLaughlin Croft; his two children, Edwin Croft Jr. (Erin) and Carla Croft Hamilton (Freddy Hamilton); stepson, Wayne Lewis; goddaughter, Bridget Best; five loving grandchildren, Elliott Hamilton-Croft, Austin Hamilton-Croft, Lilla HamiltonCroft, Grant Croft and Jack Croft; and brothers, Thomas C. Croft Jr. “T.C” (Carole) and Carl J. Croft (Patti); sisters, Iris Croft Wood and Marilyn Croft Inabinet (Richard). He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews who he loved dearly.

A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday at the Cain Calcutt-Stephens Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at 11 a.m. at Florence National Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Puppet Love Ministries, P.O. Box 847, Florence, SC 29503-0847.

Please sign the online guest registry at www.cainfuneralhome.com.

JASPER CRIM Jasper “Joe” Crim, 80, died on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, at his home in Rembert.

Born on March 1, 1936, in Sumter County, he was a son of the late Jasper and Lettie Crim. He was a member of Rafting Creek Baptist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Minnie Mayrant Crim; seven children, Leroy, Gloria, Stella (Roosevelt), Barbara, Allen, Gloria and Shirley (Darryl); three sisters, Florine Attaud, Christine Brown and Elizabeth Jurden; one sister-in-law, Carrie M. Crim; six grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews,

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Fans rush on to the field toward Pittsburgh’s Bill Mazeroski after he hit a solo home run to lead off the bottom of the ninth inning and lift the Pirates to a 10-9 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.

Gladden and give Minnesota its second title in five years.

John Smoltz countered Morris with a solid outing, pitching 7 1/3 fine innings, but Alejandro Pena and the bullpen couldn’t outlast Minnesota’s durable righty.

BUMGARNER’S BIG SAVE 2014: San Francisco Giants 3, Kansas City Royals 2 Madison Bumgarner cemented himself as one of the World Series’ best-ever pitchers with a remarkable five-inning save just three days after throwing a shutout in Game 5. Michael Morse broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI single in the fourth inning, and after getting one more inning out of lefthander Jeremy Affeldt, manager Bruce Bochy gave the ball to Bumgarner in the fifth and never came back for it. Bumgarner struck out four and allowed just two hits, getting Salvador Perez

other relatives and friends.

Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday at Rafting Creek Baptist Church, 3860 S.C. 261 North, Rembert, with the Rev. Melvin Mack, pastor, eulogist.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of his daughter, 6110 Catawba Lane, Rembert.

The procession will leave at 9:20 a.m. from the home of his daughter.

Floral bearers will be family and friends.

Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com.

Visit us on the web at www.

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JOHN H. TURBEVILLE John Harold Turbeville, age 90, was born on March 16, 1926, at home in Turbeville, a son of the late Bernice Turbeville Lyons and John J. Turbeville. He died on Oct. 31, 2016, in Sumter.

Until he was 12 years old, he lived in Turbeville, where he was known as Harold to family and friends. In 1938, he moved to Lakeland, Florida, with his mother and sister, Bernice (deceased). When he turned 17 years old, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served from October 1943 to May 1946. He received training as a quartermaster, which in the U.S., is a bridge rating having to do with navigation and signaling. Eventually, he was posted to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and joined the USS Buckthorn on patrol in the Pacific. He ended his Navy service as a seaman first class. After graduating with a bachelor of arts degree from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., he had a 37-year career in ocean shipping in New York City, first working as the marine division manager for Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp. (1949 to 1968), then as assistant treasurer / secretary for Skaarup Chartering Co. (1969-1986). While working and living in the greater New York City area, Harold enjoyed going to Broadway musicals and plays, opera and ballet as well as visiting the many fine arts museums.

From 1972 until his move to

to pop up in foul territory with a runner on third in the bottom of the ninth for the final out. The big lefty won the opener, too, and easily took Series MVP honors.

D’BACKS GET TO MO 2001: Arizona Diamondbacks 3, New York Yankees 2 Mariano Rivera, baseball’s most feared closer of all time, also suffered through one of the Series’ most crushing blown saves. Yankees manager Joe Torre asked Rivera to get the final six outs in a one-run game at Arizona, but Rivera couldn’t come through. Tony Womack’s double tied it with one out in the ninth inning, and two batters later, Luis Gonzalez blooped a single into center and jumped his way to first base before being mobbed by teammates.

It was the fifth and most recent game-ending hit in a Game 7.

Sumter in April 2015, he lived in New Rochelle, New York, as he said, “only 45 minutes from Broadway.” He loved good conversation, the art of letter writing, fine clothes, and Southern home cooking.

Most of all, he was a loving son, good brother and a longtime friend to many.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Pine Grove United Methodist Church in Turbeville with burial in the church cemetery, directed by Floyd Funeral Home.

There will be a reception of friends immediately following the graveside service at the church.

In lieu of flowers, a contribution to the Pine Grove United Methodist Church in Turbeville is suggested.

Please visit www.floydfuneral.com for online condolences.

ALFREDA GIBBS Alfreda Gibbs, 54, died on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia.

Born on May 22, 1962, in Charleston County, she was a daughter of Martha Johnson Gibbs and the late Leon George Gibbs Sr. She leaves to cherish her memories: one son, Reggie Gibbs Sr. (Yarmartis) of Pompano, Florida; one grandson, Reggie Gibbs Jr. of Pompano; her mother, Martha J. Gibbs of Rembert; stepmother, Maxine Gibbs; four brothers, Leon George Gibbs Jr. of Dillon, Franklin (Patricia) Gibbs of Manning, John Benjamin Gibbs of Rembert and Michael (Leslie) Gibbs of Dover, Delaware; one sister, Michelle Gibbs of Bryans Road, Maryland; one aunt, Sarah Gibbs of New Jersey; three uncles, Simeon Johnson, Booker T. Johnson and Frank Johnson Jr., all of New York; a host of special relatives and friends.

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday at John Wesley Williams Sr. Memorial Chapel, Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. Ernest Jackson officiating.

Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com.

Visit us on the web at www.

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Change in weather signals time to change batteries DEAR ABBY — Fall is here and as we prepare for a change in the weather, it's also the time we turn our clocks back Dear Abby an hour from ABIGAIL daylight saving time.

VAN BUREN Something that everyone also needs to change could save their lives. That "something" is the battery inside household devices that many take for granted -- smoke alarms, smoke detectors or carbon monoxide detectors.

In the U.S., three out of five home fire deaths are caused by fires in homes with no smoke alarms or WORKING smoke alarms. As a firefighter, I have

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seen these tragedies firsthand and believe it is my duty to make sure we lower this number. My mission is for no battery to go unchecked.

For the 29th consecutive year, Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) are partnering to educate the public about fire safety by reminding consumers of the importance of checking and changing the batteries not only in smoke alarms, but also every device that helps keep us safe and relaxed in our homes.

Think about your smart thermostats, flashlights, home security systems and other critical devices. Many of them have a battery component that must be checked and changed in order to ensure home safety.

I cannot stress enough the importance of setting aside the few minutes it takes to en-

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sure these devices are working. The IAFC also recommends REPLACING smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors every 10 years. Use the end of daylight saving time as a reminder to prioritize the safety of your home. This simple task protects your home and the people you cherish the most.

Fire Chief John D. Sinclair, IAFC President and Chairman of the Board DEAR CHIEF SINCLAIR — Thank you for the "timely" reminder to my readers. I urge all of them to learn more about the Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries program by visiting energizer.com/homesafety.

And buy your replacement batteries now, so you can install them on Nov. 6 when you turn your clocks back.

SUDOKU HOW TO PLAY: Each row, column and set of 3-by-3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 through 9 without repetition.

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ACROSS 1 Workbench gadget 6 Antlered beast 10 Glasses, in ads 14 Popular depilatory 15 Campaign staffer 16 Rochester’s bride 17 Part of the soft palate 18 Lady of the knight 19 Concussions generally aren’t visible on them 20 Goal for some college-bound students 23 “What was __ was saying?”

24 Tie __ 25 Rat Pack member 29 Growing concerns?

33 Like a used hibachi 34 Record-setting slugger in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame 38 General on a menu 39 Gadgets 40 One of 34-Across’ 2,170 41 Ocular organs of cephalopods, say

43 Aspirin target 44 Nocturnal carnivore 45 Perambulates 47 Piece of cake 51 Poet’s contraction 52 Period needed to fulfill a request ... and a hint to words hidden in three long puzzle answers 58 Homey 59 Pack firmly 60 “__ making this up” 61 Spigot issue 62 Site with tech reviews 63 Trilateral trade agreement, briefly 64 Tag line?

65 Grinder 66 Speed units DOWN 1 Mötley __ 2 Fiery flow 3 Bleu hue 4 Placate 5 Beseech, as a deity 6 Anti-DWI gp.

7 Venetian valentine message 8 Ones in charge, for short

11/3/16 9 Sixth-day Christmas gift 10 Workshop 11 One who likes to light up?

12 “__ go bragh!”

13 Chooses, with “in” 21 Two-front, as a Coast Guard rescue 22 Divans 25 Trunk piece 26 Put a value on 27 Words before “Yeah, you!”

28 Brubeck of jazz 30 Like much of New York 31 Company with a longtime travel guide 32 They often have guards

35 Self-help letters 36 Super-duper 37 1959 Ben-Hur portrayer 39 Let out gradually 42 Use an Enigma machine, say 43 “Black Swan” Best Actress Oscar winner 46 Bad bottom line 48 “No prob!”

49 Origami staple 50 Reason to trot 52 Corrida beast 53 Israeli weapons 54 Until 55 Scoop 56 Suffragist Lucretia 57 RR station predictions 58 Govt. health org.

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