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District announces its 3 finalists Teacher of the Year will be honored at August meeting

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com The three finalists for Sumter School District Teacher of the Year were announced during a program Monday at

the district’s Teacher Forum Celebration of Excellence at Lakewood High School Fine Arts Center.

They are Kathleen DuRant of Crestwood High School, Krista Jennings of Pocalla Springs Elementary School and Helen N. Hutto-Palka of Ebenezer Middle School.

The 2015-16 District Teacher of the Year will be announced at the Back to

School meeting on Aug. 14.

Speakers at the forum included 2015 South Carolina Teacher of the Year Jennifer Ainsworth, 2014-15 Sumter School District Teacher of the Year Tina Sorrells, state finalist for 2016 Teacher of the Year Suzanne Koty, former state finalist for Teacher of the Year Trevor Ivey, Susan Hilton, Katherine Peyton, Jenny Knopf and District Superinten-

dent Frank Baker.

Koty is one of the five state finalists who will represent the district at the 50th anniversary of the South Carolina Teacher of the Year Celebration on Wednesday at Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

The Teacher Forum is comprised of

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SUMTER HOSTS ANNUAL EARTH DAY CELEBRATION

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Tyrece Gillins, 5, creates a flower using a soda bottle as Sarah Greene, a Sumter High student, helps him during the Earth Day Celebration on Saturday at Swan Lake-Iris Gardens.

There was live entertainment, document shredding, green activities, food, plants to buy and more.

Visitors celebrate our Earth with unique projects, recycling, plants

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Six-year-old Benjamin Byrd was emphatic.

“I don’t like snakes,” he said while visiting Joshua Castleberry’s live snake display at Sumter Earth Day held Saturday morning at Swan LakeIris Gardens.

“They might bite you, and you might die,” he declared.

Benjamin’s sister, Hailey, 3, was not so sure, but she wasn’t going to get too

close to the king snake Castleberry was holding, even though her mom, Jennifer Byrd, urged her to touch it.

Arion Ricketts, 8, didn’t mind touching the snake. He was visiting Sumter with his mother, Cynthia, and his 9-year-old brother, Phoenix.

“It was smooth,” he said.

Castleberry’s slithery exhibit, which also included a large rattlesnake kept safely in a cage, was among dozens of displays at the annual event. Though it was a misty morning, the weather didn’t damper the festivities.

Susan Hontz was selling epiphytes incorporated into a variety of stands and knick-knacks at her Susan’s Living Plants booth.

“I like my plants,” she beamed. “I raise them from babies.”

Epiphytes are a plant family which get their nourishment and moisture out of the air; Spanish moss is an epiphyte found locally.

Hontz said they are easy to take care of.

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Shatavia Weldon, 15, builds a tent at the State Parks Department booth during the event. Weldon had the fastest time building it and could win two nights in a state park.

6 men charged with trying to join Islamic State group

BY AMY FORLITI The Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Six Minnesota men have been charged with terrorism in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday, the latest Westerners accused of traveling or attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group.

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The six, whom authorities described as friends who met secretly to plan their travels, are accused of conspiracy to provide material support and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The complaint says the men planned to reach Syria by flying to nearby countries from Minneapolis, San

Diego or New York City and lied to federal investigators when they were stopped.

Charged are brothers Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21, and Adnan Abdihamid Farah, 19; Abdurahman Yasin Daud, 21; Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 19; Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19; and Guled Ali Omar, 20. All are Somali-

DEATHS, B4 and B5 Charles R. Hester Alvis Jesse Bynum Edward B. Roberts Jr. Gunter Sweat Blondell Bannister Joseph L. Carter Samuel Lee Benjamin Jr.

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Americans, authorities said.

“These were focused men who were intent on joining a terrorist organization,” Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said at a news conference Monday.

The six were arrested Sunday in Minneapolis and San Diego and were scheduled to make initial appearances in

federal court on Monday.

They are the latest people from Minnesota to be charged in an investigation stretching back months into the recruitment of Westerners by IS. Authorities said earlier that a handful of Minnesota residents have traveled to Syria to fight with militants in the past year, and at least one has died.

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Habitat dedicates house in memory of founding member

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com MANNING — Clarendon Habitat for Humanity dedicated the 22nd house built by the organization in memory of the late William Monroe “Bill” Smith, on April 11. Smith died at the age of 85 on May 15 of last SMITH year.

Smith was one of the three founding members of Habitat. He served as the treasurer of the organization and led fundraising efforts, said Marie Land, who along with Smith and the Rev. Steve Shugart founded the local chapter in the early 1990s.

“When we first started, we had to go through a lot of financial hoops to get the organization up and running,” Land said. “It took about a year to become an official Habitat chapter, and Bill was an integral part of that. He completed all of the paperwork and was very thorough in his work.”

Smith kept Habitat’s files and kept up with the organiza-

tion’s financial paperwork. He also led fundraising efforts.

“Bill had a great way of talking with people,” she said. “He was always on the phone looking for donations.”

Land said that Smith and some of the other members of the Clarendon chapter had the opportunity to sit down with President Bill Clinton and the late Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity International, when the two visited the county in 1996.

The organization had just finished building its first home at that time.

“President Clinton thanked us for all of our efforts at Habitat,” Land said. “Bill was very impressed in the interest that the president showed in a local Habitat chapter.”

Smith was named the first “King of Hearts” at Habitat’s Valentine Ball fundraiser in the mid-1990s.

Habitat has to raise more than $45,000 before it could build a house, and Smith was very active in those efforts. He approached all problems with a smile on his face, Land said.

“Any time we had a situation that we did not know how to handle, we knew that we could always rely on him to

LOCAL BRIEFS FROM STAFF REPORTS

SCE&G Sumter office closed because of vehicle crash If you’re used to doing business with South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. in Sumter, you will have to travel to Camden because the Sumter office is closed indefinitely.

A vehicle crashed into the SCE&G Sumter office, 545 Bultman St., on Saturday morning and caused extensive damage.

The nearest alternate location for inperson business transactions is SCE&G’s business office at 205 Sumter Highway in Camden. That office, however, is slated to close May 29.

SCE&G-authorized payment agencies in the area are Walmart at 1283 Broad St., Sumter, and Piggly Wiggly at 110 S. Main St., Bishopville.

SCE&G customers also can make payments by mail, online at www.sceg.com, or through the company’s 24-hour customer service phone line (1-800-2517234).

Planning commission to meet Wednesday The Sumter City and County Planning Commission will meet at 3 p.m.

Wednesday in City Council Chambers, Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St., to consider the approval of the major site plan for the construction of a sixth city water treatment plant on Justin Lane off U.S. 521 South.

The commission will also consider approval for: • A request to approve a highway corridor protection district review for the

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Clarendon Habitat for Humanity dedicated the 22nd house built by the organization in memory of Bill Smith, one of Habitat’s founders, on April 11. The house is located at 910 Branchview Drive in Manning. handle it,” she said.

Smith was a selfless person.

“If you did something for Bill, he would do twice as much for you,” Land said. “He was a great team player and an integral part of Habitat.”

Smith was also active in many other community organizations. He joined Manning United Methodist Church in 1954, serving in the chancel choir for 60 years and as church treasurer for 25 years.

He served on the Harvin Clarendon County Library board.

He was a Paul Harris Fellow of Manning Rotary Club and a past member of the Manning Jaycees. Smith was a volunteer for the Meals on Wheels program and a committee member for the establishment of the Clarendon County Archives. He was named citizen of the year in 1977 by the Clar-

relocation of a real estate office building and brick sign to 4272 Broad St.; • Three separate requests for variance from the county development standard regarding the depth of residential lots.

The requests come from three property owners who plan to subdivide parcels of land located on North Main Street, Dinkins Mill Road and Truluck Road; • A request to revise the planned development ordinance for the Beach Forest project, located north of Thomas Sumter Highway and west of Beckwood Road, to increase the number of singlefamily lots, remove a section of townhouses from the development plans and include general townhouse development standards for designated areas of the development site; and • A request to revise the Hunter’s Crossing planned development ordinance to permit the development of townhouses on the western side of the subdivision adjacent to Stamey Livestock Road.

Preservation design review meeting canceled The regular Sumter City and County Historic Preservation Design Review Committee meeting scheduled for Thursday has been canceled because there are no requests that require review from the commission.

The commission’s next scheduled meeting is May 28.

Lions Club Candy Day set for Saturday at Walmart The Sumter Lions Club will hold its annual Candy Day fundraiser Saturday at the Sumter Walmart, 1283 Broad St. In exchange for donations, club members will give away candy mints. One-

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He retired from Freeman Millwork Co. in Manning, where he served as the executive vice president.

The house that Habitat donated on April 11 is located at 910 Branchview Drive in Manning.

Since 1994, Habitat has built houses throughout Clarendon County, including Manning, Summerton, Turbeville, New Zion, Paxville and the Cypress Forks community. The organization has helped numerous families receive housing if they meet certain criteria.

Most of the homes that Habitat has built during a 20-year period have the original homeowners residing in them today.

Houses that Habitat constructs require the owner to be an active participant in the building

hundred percent of the proceeds will support Lions’ services for the uninsured and underinsured in the community, as well as others in the state.

Sumter Lion Carolyn Klaege noted that “For every one dollar you contribute, Lions Clubs are able to leverage, through sound fiscal management, an additional $4 of services, a 4-to-1 return on your contribution.”

Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest volunteer service organization. The 4,000 South Carolina Lions Club volunteers provide humanitarian services such as eyeglasses, eye surgeries and hearing aids for those who cannot afford them.

Sumter Lions Club has been a part of the Sumter community for 75 years.

Sight and hearing conservation have been the major projects for Lions Clubs International since Helen Keller challenged the Lions to be her “knights of the blind.” Together with S.C. Lions Charitable Services organization, the Lions Clubs of S.C. have developed programs to educate the public about health issues, and to improve sight and hearing among those most in need.

Contact Sumter Lions Club members Bob Young, president, at (803) 406-7669, or Billy Edgeworth at (803) 840-1707 for information on how to become a Lion.

Woman arrested for standing in front of school bus Micala Mack, 28, of 3730 Barkley Road, was arrested on Friday and charged with interfering with the operation of a school bus.

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for her arrest on March 30 following an incident that happened on March 23. On that day, the warrant alleges that Mack committed the crime of

process, said Connie Robinson, Clarendon Habitat’s executive director. About 200 hours of sweat equity are required to be put in, with 150 hours by the residents themselves in either building the house or volunteer work associated with Habitat, and the other by family or friends. Residents also have to pay utility bills and a zero-interest mortgage.

“They have to meet a certain income level, depending on the number of family members,” said Robinson. “They also have to have a credit score of 575 or above.”

The lots that Habitat houses are built on are either owned by the recipient families or are donated by others.

For more information about the Clarendon Habitat for Humanity, contact Robinson at (803) 378-6021.

interfering with a school bus by restricting the movement of the bus by standing in front of the bus, yelling at the driver and refusing to allow the driver to continue his or her route.

If convicted of the misdemeanor charges, Mack faces a maximum fine of $100 and/or 30 days in jail.

Sumter Police Department gives tips on ATM safety Sumter Police Department has released information on safety issues surrounding the use of ATMs following robberies at two ATM locations, one in Sumter and one in Sumter County.

Police advise the following: • Don’t assume that because you’re in your vehicle at a local ATM that no one will approach you; and • Always keep your personal safety in mind whenever and wherever you may be.

The release advises consumers to remember that outside ATMs can be an ideal location for someone looking to get some quick cash from an unsuspecting customer and that they should keep the following safety tips in mind: • When possible, avoid making trips to the ATM at night. If you do, opt for an indoor machine at a grocer, convenience store or other business that is well populated during your visit; • Stay alert and be aware of your surroundings; • Choose locations that are well lighted and visible to passers by; and • Keep your doors locked.

For more information and other crime prevention tips, call the department at (803) 436-2700.

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Quartet immerses audience in ‘rhythms, emotions’

BY JANE G. COLLINS Special to The Sumter Item The Sumter Item had announced “Get the blues at Opera House,” but those who attended the Heritage Blues Orchestra program Saturday, were treated to a spectrum of musical black colors and genres — gospel, jazz, soul, blues, field hollers and whatever else motivates the group’s love of “the song.”

The quartet, part of the nine-member orchestra that also includes four horn players, shared a musical feast that was both sincere and sophisticated. Fresh from an appearance in Jacksonville, the four musicians invited the audience to journey with HBO through the marvelous variety of styles, melodies and words. The group did not seem to be performing but opening its musical treasure house to those who would listen.

Several general observations about the group help to understand its success. Their bios are a who’s who of impressive names, places and opportunities, everything from playing with The Allman Brothers, performing at Lincoln Center and film credits. The result is an ensemble that allows for individual highlighting, vocals that glide smoothly through vast range changes without seeming forced or strained — and incredible musicality.

The a cappella opening featured Bill Sims Jr., his daughter Chaney Sims and Junior Mack in a form of field calling. The notes were blended, and whenever the three sang, their voices seemed to surround the notes, incorporating the emotional as well as musical tone.

“Go Down Hannah” featured the sultry, plaintive earthiness of Chaney Sims’ voice and her lack of pretentiousness in presenting her vocals. Dressed in a long, simply designed dress and devoid of flashy jewelry,

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The Heritage Blues Orchestra quartet demonstrated its versatility and musicality in the finale of the Sumter Opera House’s 2014-15 concert series. Their blues style was all-encompassing, ranging from the seminal field holler to the gospel blues; they also performed several songs from other genres.

A REVIEW Chaney’s presence focused on providing an understanding of “C-Line Woman.” Inspired by her fascination with Nina Simone, Chaney revealed her smooth tones, impressive range and vocal control and her ability to sell a heartfelt emotion. She positively took “St. James’ Infirmary” to a new level.

The opening phrases of “Fur Elise,” played on the piano by Bill Sims Jr., led into her slow, mournful lament: “stretched out on that long, white table … so cold and bare.” Her voice was husky but clear, haunting yet in control. She did not “play

Let Nobody Carry You Down,” spirited, syncopated and even “swingy” at times, to the audience” but led the showcased the group’s vocal audience into her despairing range and musical styling. world.

“If I Could Only Hear My The quartet’s variety kept Mother” featured Bill Sims the evening, performed with- Jr. at the piano. Slowly, memout an intermission, moving. bers of the quartet left the “Get Right Church” featured stage, leaving Junior Mack to the great guitar skills of Sims discuss the importance of and Junior Mack, a master of 1928-29 and his papa’s leaving the fast-paced fingering and home. His arrangement of volume control. Even though “Sliding Delta” spotlighted his proficiency with the harthe words and notes lent themselves to a twangy inter- monica and guitar, as he hauntingly confessed, “When pretation, the guys managed I leave I ain’t looking back no to avoid a nasal sound, instead working the scale into a more … .”

Gradually members of the harmonious extension of the quartet returned with nummelody. Underscored by bers like “I Feel So Glad,” endrummer Barry Harrison, couraging the audience to “Catfish Blues” and “Don’t

sing along. “Joliet Bound” and “Big Legged Woman” attested to the great variety of genres and vocal messages.

“It’s Been a Change,” “Hard Times” and “In the Morning” drew the audience back to the quartet’s versatility and excellent arrangements, allowing the final effect to envelop the audience into feeling the rhythms and becoming part of the emotional atmosphere of the evening.

Sadly, this was the last event in the series. I can tell you that you will definitely recognize the names of several of next year’s potential artists. Keep in touch with sumteroperahouse.com or call the box office at (803) 436-2616 for more information.

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Spartanburg cops see who can go farthest on office treadmill SPARTANBURG (AP) — An impromptu competition is brewing in the Spartanburg Police Department’s records division over who can walk the farthest during a typical 10-hour shift.

It’s all a part of the department’s healthy living imitative that began last week using an indoor treadmill designed for office use. The treadmill, police officials said, is a tool that the records division staff can use while working to improve their overall wellbeing and promote active lifestyles.

The TrekDesk, which has a setting for walking speeds from 2 to 4 mph, is great for exercise in the office because working at a desk answering phone calls and checking records can be taxing on the body, said Kristina Forrester, a police aide for the records division.

Forrester clocked more than 10 minutes of walking while reading and responding to emails using the treadmill on a Friday afternoon. Another col-

‘Having something in the workplace seems to be a trend now. This has been a hit with them.’

DEPUTY CHIEF JENNIFER KINDALL Spartanburg Police Department league holds the current record of 48 minutes so far, she said.

“It gives us another option other than sitting down for 10 hours. You can get up and do something else,” Forrester said.

The treadmill desk sits in an open space behind the office’s traditional desks and walk-up windows.

The product cost about $1,000, said Maj. Steve Lamb, who heads the department’s investigation and special services bureau.

A laptop that sits on the desk that

hovers over the treadmill can remotely access the files and programs on the other desktop computers, allowing those on the treadmill to still carry out their work. A counter also found on the desk keeps track of the person’s time walking.

Deputy Chief Jennifer Kindall said she started considering such an effort after Spartanburg was selected as one of five cities in the country to participate in Way to Wellville, a national competition involving communities focusing on ways to improve

the health of their residents.

She read a news article from Dallas about a treadmill being used in a city call center office to help employees get into shape.

“As a whole, a lot of us in the city, not only in city government, are looking for ways we can be healthier,” she said. “Having something in the workplace seems to be a trend now. This has been a hit with them.”

Dan Lemley, the department’s police support services manager, leads the records division of seven nonsworn police aides and said he was skeptical of the idea at first. He didn’t think anyone would want to use the TrekDesk, he said, but added that the staff quickly proved him wrong.

“They sit at a desk for 10 hours a day.

This helps with health issues and increases productivity,” he said. “It’s recommended that we walk 10,000 steps a day, and this certainly helps with that.”

As student tests move online, keyboarding enters curriculum SAN PABLO, Calif. (AP) — Seven-year-old Ja’Niyah Smith’s first-grade class filed into a computer lab at a suburban San Pablo school recently and, as they do every week, practiced using mouses to pop bubbles with a cartoon pickle, catch flies with a frog’s tongue and arrange virtual blocks into words.

The students, their legs dangling off their chairs, fell quiet, the silence broken by an occasional, “I did it!”

“Computers give us a break, so when we are in class, our minds can be fresh for learning,” Ja’Niyah explained as she deftly maneuvered a turtle across a 14-inch desktop screen.

For teachers, administrators and parents in San Pablo — and across the country — the games are a way to help students, sometimes as young as 5, acquire the technology skills they will need to excel on standardized tests that now are being offered online for the first time by a majority of states.

New exams linked to the Common Core state standards are replacing the multiple-choice tests taken with paper and pencils in 29 states THE ASSOCIATED PRESS this spring. Among the funcFirst-graders learn keyboarding skills at Bayview Elementary School tions even the youngest testin San Pablo, California, on March 12. Schools across the country are takers must be able to exeteaching students as young as 6 years old basic typing and other key- cute are switching between boarding skills. Standardized tests that are taken on computers inscreens, opening drop-down stead of with paper and pencils were introduced this month. menus and rearranging

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While adults raised in the pre-Internet era might assume today’s youngsters are born computer-conversant, educators say hands-on instruction is necessary because the tests require different dexterities than the ones many youngsters pick up playing with smartphones.

“Children can be quick learners when technology is in front of them at school, but knowing very intuitively how to drag and drop or highlight words or

even indent a paragraph on a Google doc is not going to come naturally,” said Susan Gonzalez, the computer lab teacher at Ja’Niyah’s school, Bayview Elementary School.

The Common Core tests are given in grades 3-8 and again in high school. The ambitious benchmarks outline what students are expected to learn in math, reading and writing.

There are no specific standards for technology, but tech knowhow infuses the goals.

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Unprecedented germ diversity found in tribe villagers with samples from U.S. populations and found the Americans’ microbiomes are about 40 percent less diverse. The Yanomami’s microbiomes also were somewhat more diverse than samples from two other indigenous populations with more exposure to Western culture — the Guahibo community of Venezuela and rural Malawi communities in southeast Africa.

Intriguingly, the Yanomami harbored some unique bacteria with beneficial health effects, such as helping to prevent the formation of kidney stones, the researchers reported.

Bacteria on remote Amazonian Indians resists antibiotics

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON — In a remote part of the Venezuelan Amazon, scientists have discovered that members of a village isolated from the modern world have the most diverse colonies of bacteria ever reported living in and on the human body.

The microbiome — the trillions of mostly beneficial bacteria that share our bodies — plays a critical role in maintaining health. Friday’s study raises tantalizing questions about the microbial diversity of our ancestors and whether today’s Western diets and lifestyles strip us of some bugs we might want back.

Most surprising, this group of Yanomami Indians harbored bacteria containing genes with the ability to resist antibiotic treatment, even though the villagers presumably were never exposed to commercial medications.

TRIBE’S GENETIC TESTING Then genetic testing uncovered silent antibiotic-resistant genes lurking in some bacterial strains. Antibiotics still could kill the bugs.

But when the genes were switched on, by antibiotic exposure, they could block activity of some common modern antibiotics, said study co-author Guatam Dantas of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Today, exposure to antibiotics in medicine or agriculture spurs germs to become harder to treat. But bacteria in soil were a natural source of early antibiotics, Dantas explained, and probably these villagers at some point picked up those bugs which had evolved resistance genes as a defense from competitors. He said it suggests people have a natural reservoir of genes that may have other duties but that can activate to trigger drug resistance in the right environment.

“It emphasizes the need to ramp up our research for new antibiotics because otherwise, we’re going to lose this battle against infectious diseases,” Dantas said.

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Yanomami Indians dance in their village called Irotatheri in Venezuela’s Amazon region in September 2012. Scientists discovered that members of the village have the most diverse colonies of bacteria ever reported living in and on the human body.

A KEY TO THE PAST? This isolated population offers “a unique opportunity to put our microbial past under the microscope,” said lead researcher Jose Clemente, an assistant genetics professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

The results bolster a theory that diminished microbial diversity in Western populations is linked to immune and metabolic diseases — allergies, asthma, diabetes — that are on the rise, said senior author M. Gloria Dominguez-Bello of NYU Langone Medical Center.

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water. He watched helplessly as the flames shooting from the stricken rig lit up the horizon.

At the church, Robertson listened as family and friends eulogized the man who read the Bible to his girls and would sing Dolly Parton’s “Nine to Five” as he laced up his work boots. Sitting there, Robertson knew that it could easily be his wife and daughters crying in that front pew.

As the investigations and lawsuits dragged on, Wyatt’s insistence that she remarry kept echoing in Courtney’s mind. She asked God to “send me the right guy.”

Following the disaster, Robertson had decided to start a Bible study on his rig.

He asked Kemp’s widow if she would share his testimony.

In March 2011, Robertson invited her to lunch so he could show her how he’d worked Wyatt’s story into his lesson plan.

When they parted, Robertson — who was separated from his wife — asked if he could call Courtney from time to time; she said yes. He called later that afternoon and asked if he could take her out on a date that Saturday.

They drove all over Jonesville and down the road to Jena, Robertson’s hometown, forgetting even to stop to eat.

“We talked for hours,” she says. “And it was easy.”

Three months later, Courtney told her father she thought “Dusti” was “the one.”

There was just one thing: If they were going to be together, Robertson would have to leave the oilfield.

BY ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer JONESVILLE, La. — Courtney Kemp was getting dressed for work when husband, Wyatt, walked in and sat down.

He didn’t speak, but she could tell something was weighing on him.

She knew that things hadn’t been going well on the job, but Wyatt never wanted to trouble her with details.

They’d talked often about the risks of working on an oil rig 41 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico; Wyatt had always insisted that the most dangerous part was the helicopter ride to the Deepwater Horizon. In just a few days, the 27-year-old derrickhand would be leaving for his next three-week hitch.

Courtney asked what was wrong.

“I just want you to know that if something happened to me ... I don’t want you to be by yourself,” he told her. “And I don’t want the girls to grow up without somebody to be their father.”

“If something did, I wouldn’t be able to get over it,” she insisted. “I don’t know how I would go on.”

Courtney began to cry, and Wyatt pulled her into a tight embrace.

“It’s all going to be OK,” he assured her.

In the five years since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank off the coast of Louisiana, the Gulf has shown remarkable resilience. So, too, have the families of the 11 men who lost their lives in the disaster.

But the shockwaves of April 20, 2010, continue to send out ripples across the gulf of time.

These survivors are doing their best to balance the memory of the men they loved and the reality that each of their own lives is an ongoing journey.

Consider the road traveled by a young widow named Courtney.

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Kaylee Kemp climbs on her father’s gravestone April 6 as her mother, Courtney, sits on a nearby bench in Jonesville, Louisiana. Shortly before his unexpected death on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Wyatt had asked Courtney to bury him with photos of Kaylee and her little sister, Maddison.

About noon on April 20, Wyatt called from the Deepwater’s tower. It had been a rough hitch, and he was ready to come home.

“I’ll see y’all tomorrow,” he said.

At 4:30 the next morning, Courtney was jolted awake by the telephone. A woman from Transocean said there had been an accident.

The couple’s pastor was there when Courtney learned that Wyatt was dead. He asked if she remembered the altar call.

“Wyatt told me that he wanted to be so close to God that he couldn’t get any closer,” he said.

By the spring of 2010, Courtney and Wyatt had been together nearly half their lives.

Shortly after high school graduation, they married and moved away. But after just a couple of years, they were drawn back to Jonesville and to their comfortable “home” church.

Wyatt found a job as a roustabout on a land-based oil rig, then made the jump to the Deepwater Horizon, the “pride of the Transocean fleet.” They built a home amid the ironing board-flat pastures and croplands outside town and had two daughters — Kaylee and Maddison.

Church remained a constant in their lives.

The Sunday before he left for his last hitch on the rig, Wyatt answered the pastor’s invitation to approach the altar.

When Courtney asked if everything was OK, he replied simply, “Everyone needs prayer at some time or another.”

He’d had just a few weeks with newborn Maddison before it was time to return to the Deepwater Horizon.

•••

••• The couple were married on April 14, 2012. Robertson is now youth minister at the church where he first saw Courtney.

They live in the spacious home Courtney and Wyatt built. In November, Corbin Grace Robertson joined her older sisters, Kaylee, 8, and Maddison, 5.

Wyatt is still very present. Photos of him with the girls sit on shelves and in bookcases. A miniature of a memorial statue erected at Transocean’s Houston headquarters stands on the family room mantel. A bronzed hard hat with Wyatt’s name on the brim sits in a glass box beside the dining room table.

Kaylee and Maddison call Robertson “Daddy.” Wyatt is simply “daddy in heaven.”

••• Ten days after the explosion, Wyatt’s memorial was held at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. Roughneck Dustin Robertson was among those who came to pay their respects.

The day of the accident, Robertson was working on BP’s Thunder Horse platform, about 30 miles from the Deep-

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FINALISTS FROM PAGE A1 the current teachers of the year and the immediate past teachers of the year.

Twenty-eight teachers throughout the district were recognized as teachers of the year for their schools.

Teacher Forum also presented the Hailey Bordeaux Scholarship for Future Educators for $3,000 at the event.

Hailey Bordeaux loved children and had a passion for teaching. Her goal was to make children’s lives better, said her parents Shawn and Pam Bordeaux.

Bordeaux, a former Sumter High School teacher cadet, was killed in a boating incident last year. She was an S.C. Teaching Fellow at University of South Carolina.

“She would have been happy to see another student who wanted to be a teacher to receive this scholarship,” said Shawn Bordeaux.

Her father described Bordeaux as an optimist who knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life. She was a junior and an early childhood education major who excelled in her studies, achieving a 4.0 GPA, and was on the President’s List at USC. She was 21.

Her mother said Hailey loved the outdoors and in high school wanted to be either a marine biologist or a teacher.

“When she enrolled in the teacher cadet program at Sumter High School, that’s when she knew that she wanted to teach as a career,” Bordeaux said.

“We’re very honored and grateful to the Teacher Forum for this scholarship which will keep her legacy alive.”

Hailey’s sisters, Hannah Bordeaux and Hillary Wilt, were also in attendance.

Rebecca Twitty, a senior at SHS, received the Hailey Bordeaux Scholarship. Twitty plans to attend USC and to work as a special-needs teacher.

“I’m very blessed to have received this scholarship in Hailey’s memory,” she said.

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Finalists for Sumter School District’s Teacher of the Year were announced on Monday at the Teacher Forum’s Celebration of Excellence. They are, front row left to right, Kathleen DuRant of Crestwood High School, Krista Jennings of Pocalla Springs Elementary School and Helen N. Hutto-Palka of Ebenezer Middle School. The teachers are seen with, back row from left, Superintendent Frank Baker, 2014-15 Sumter School District Teacher of the Year Tina Sorrells, State Finalist for 2016 Teacher of the Year Suzanne Koty, and former state finalist for Teacher of the Year Trevor Ivey.

Forum also gave out three $1,000 General Forum Scholarships to seniors planning to major in education and attend a South Carolina college or university.

Madison Hodge and Allison Matthews, both seniors at SHS, and Winter Grant, a senior at Crestwood High School, were the three scholarship recipients.

TEACHER FORUM HONORS TEACHERS OF THE YEAR During the Celebration of Excellence ceremony on Monday evening, the 2015-16 teachers of the year were pinned, and last year’s teachers of the year, formerly known as Junior Teachers of the Year, were elevated to Senior Teachers of the Year. The current outgoing Senior Teachers of the Year were recognized for their two years of service to the forum.

Elementary Teachers of the Year for the 2015-16 school year are: Alice Drive Elementary – Amber Frye; Cherryvale Elementary – David W. Fair II; Crosswell Drive Elementary – Diandra Frierson-Polk; F.J. DeLaine Elementary – Taheshi Fortune; High Hills Elementary – Rolanda Madojemu; Kingsbury Elementary – Rokeshia Raby; Lemira Elementary – Tonya L. Durant; Manchester Elementary – Julie Strange; Millwood Elementary – JoLawrence Corbin; Oakland Primary – Shannon Knudson; Pocalla Springs Elementary – Krista Jennings;

R.E. Davis Elementary – Kaneshia N. Allen; Rafting Creek Elementary – E. Karen Davis; Shaw Heights Elementary – Cynthia Smiley; Wilder Elementary – Lacey Berry; and Willow Drive Elementary – Denise Robinson.

Middle School Teachers of the Year are: Alice Drive Middle – Katherine Davis; Bates Middle – Stacie Flippin; Chestnut Oaks Middle – Joanna Myles; Ebenezer Middle – Helen N. Hutto-Palka; Furman Middle – Melissa Pollard; Hillcrest Middle – Robert Easley; and Mayewood Middle – Elaina Lemon.

High School and additional programs’ Teachers of the Year are: Crestwood High – Kathleen DuRant; Lakewood High – Shannon Collins; Sumter High – Chad Hoshour; Brewington Academy – Dale Richardson; and Sumter Career and Technology Center – Desirea’ Johnson.

Joshua Castleberry, program manager of Environmental Engineering Technology at Central Carolina Technical College, shows a king snake to Dylan Alson, 3, as he rides on his cousin Jaylon Gadson’s shoulders at the Earth Day Celebration on Saturday at Swan Lake-Iris Gardens.

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FROM PAGE A1 “Just spritz them with water once or twice a week,” she said.

No doubt the epiphytes were enjoying the morning mist.

The neighboring display was “Three Broke Girls,” who were peddling a variety of things recycled into useful articles.

Debbie Brace, Doris Winstead and Judie Ingle had pet food bags recycled into tote bags, beer cans made into “redneck” wind chimes — “Perfect for the man cave,” quilts, pet toys and a tasty zucchini jam.

“Most people throw zucchini away,” explained Ingle.

Girls Scout Troop 2292 was making flowers out of a stack of Sumter Items. Yes, they read the articles first, they said.

Judy Cales said she was just coming out with her line of glass bottles melted into things such as wind chimes, dip trays, spoon rests and such.

Cales, who is a potter, said she had been experimenting with the idea in her kilns.

“If you get them too hot, they will run,” she said.

Kisha and Ezekial Simmons said they were enjoying the event. They had come along with son Ethan, 6, to see son Ezekial Jr. play snare drum in the Hillcrest Middle School Band.

When asked about his favorite part of Earth Day, Ethan pointed to his recycled newspaper flower.

Entering and leaving the event, most visitors browsed the Sumter Green’s truckload plant sale.

Sumter Green is an organization that promotes beautification projects in Sumter, said Jesse Voison.

Lucius Byrd, grandfather of Hailey and Benjamin, said he is a big fan of events such as

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On Southern Baptists and their buffets

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or decades, the Southern Baptist Convention has been able to gain millions of dollars to support its ministries and works in the world not through traditional church revenue streams like tithes and offerings, but through moneys collected in other ways, less reputable forms of revenue.

I hesitate to share this secret with you, as I will no doubt be bounced from membership for its telling.

Nevertheless, you, the public, have a right to know that whether you are a Southern Baptist or not, you may have inadvertently supported them and their ministries.

Dear readers, for years, it’s often been joked Southern Baptists seem to have a certain natural, inborn ability to navigate and manage a buffet line.

Cliff This stereotype rings McCollum eerily true: Southern Baptists are uncommonly good at buffets because ... well, we helped invent and modernize them.

It was Jesus’ cousin John the Baptist who first pioneered the double-line buffet, as evidenced from these verses found in the Book of John the Baptist, a littleknown lost gospel found printed in code in the first printing of the Baptist Bounty: “And lo, John the Baptist said unto his followers, ‘My children, take the largest of our tables and join them together as they were one. Let us pile them with food, as much as will fit. And then, let the people of the village make two lines, one on each side, so that all may eat and enjoy in the bounty we provide.’”

From John’s brilliant line-splitting idea to the modern day, great Baptist thinkers have continued to make improvements to one of the denomination’s greatest contributions.

In the late 1950s, food scientists employed by the SBC for its hush-hush research laboratory division made one of the biggest breakthroughs.

While buffets were beginning to make their mark in the newly burgeoning casual dining restaurant boom, no protections were offered to protect the giant pans of food from fellow diners and their spawn.

Each time the snot-nosed, death-hacking kid from the next table got up to get another plate, every eye in the place would follow Junior, waiting to see what dish he was near so it could be avoided like the plague.

Enter the Sneeze Guard, the patent that single handedly funded SBC missions throughout deepest, darkest Africa and parts of Ohio (staple of the “Gravy Belt”) throughout most of the 1970s and 1980s.

Cutting Jell-O into cubes and serving them in a chafing dish — not an SBC-approved idea. Must have been those godless heathens who founded Morrison’s.

Even today, Southern Baptist investments into buffet technology and advancements continue to bring joy to the world.

Heavy-handed lobbying and threats of boycotts gave way to the Las Vegas Buffet Bonanza that still exists today.

Endless Shrimp Cocktails for $5?

Thanks, Southern Baptists.

Don’t be surprised if Baptists are in line in front of you at Mandarin House or Golden Corral.

Buffets are in our blood and have been for centuries.

We’ll leave you an egg roll, Methodists.

We’ll even sprinkle some soy sauce on it for you. We hear you aren’t so much a fan of dunking.

Cliff McCollum is an 80-year-old soul trapped in a 20-something body. He is an ordained minister and former community college professor who enjoys British literature and field herpetology. He spends his spare time trying to show vegans and vegetarians the error of their ways. As managing editor of the Gulf Coast Newspapers in Baldwin County, Alabama — now part of Osteen Publishing Co. — he can be reached at cmccollum@gulfcoastnewspapers.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR MANY HAVE SOWED SEEDS OF HATRED IN OUR COUNTRY Why should anyone be shocked by the senseless killing of an unarmed black by a white police officer in North Charleston? Our country has never fully practiced God’s second Commandment, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” Instead, we are reaping what we sow, and many people have sowed the seeds of hatred.

After more than 400 years of slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow, one of the greatest moments in American history occurred when we elected the first black president of the United States. We had taken a giant step toward accomplishing a part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of “judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.” Regrettably, instead of celebrating this historical occasion, we attacked Barack Obama, his wife and children, like no other president in the history of our country.

Political opposition and racism have amplified into hate. Everything President Obama wanted to accomplish, even programs that were once promoted by his political adversaries, were met with an aggressive campaign of obstruction by high-ranking politicians and other hateful people. They said he was not an American or a Christian. He was called Hitler, The Joker and a jungle bunny.

This degradation was so outrageous that former President Jimmy Carter felt compelled to speak out against it. Even President Obama stated on national TV, “They talk about me like I’m a dog.”

The constant hatred directed toward President Obama made it easy for Officer Michael Slager to calmly shoot Walter Scott like standing on a firing

range and shooting at a black silhouette. Officer Slager harvested the seeds of hatred, and every American who sowed those seeds contributed to this horrendous act.

America is standing at the crossroads of justice.

What Dr. King said in 1968 is still relevant today, “We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools ... Racial injustice is still the black man’s burden and the white man’s shame.”

God bless America.

EUGENE R. BATEN Sumter

NEW HOSPITAL RATING SYSTEM COULD BE OPEN TO FRAUD Saturday’s Sumter Item carried a rating report of local hospitals by Medicare. Patients are mailed a form to send back with questions concerning hospital care. Both Tuomey Regional Medical Center and Clarendon Health System received 3 stars. The article totally omits that if a hospital is in the top 10 percent, you get a bonus. A hospital in the bottom 20 percent gets a penalty.

I believe this rating system has potential for fraud.

Three years ago while working at Tuomey I went to a meeting concerning patient evaluation. Only five were in attendance.

Data was presented that showed Tuomey was consistently scoring 70. A hospital within 50 miles of Sumter was scoring 88-92. Two of us were skeptical and felt the other hospital was cheating.

PHILIP BRANDT Sumter

COMMENTARY

Did everything start going downhill after 2007?

“I

would bet on globalization slowly being in abeyance,” tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel said in a video interview with George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen. “I think with the benefit of hindsight, we will realize that 2007 was not just the peak year of the finance boom, but also the peak year of globalization, like maybe 1913.”

It’s a tantalizing thought, and Thiel is well worth a listen. He is the co-founder of PayPal and the Michael first outside inBarone vestor in Facebook, selling his initial $500,000 investment eight years later for $1 billion. His record for spotting future trends and flexion points is impressive.

His reference to 1913 was surely meant to be — and should be — chilling. That was the last full year before the outbreak of World War I, a conflict in which about 16 million people died.

Thiel adds that “happily,” the decline in globalization “hasn’t resulted in a world war, at least not yet.” But that’s not the only possible damage. The globalization re-

sulting largely from British policies — free trade, the gold standard — was not re-established after World War I. Instead, trade protectionism and unstable currencies led to the Great Depression.

As commemorations of the centenary of World War I last year reminded us, 1914 was a flexion point in history. Is Thiel right in supposing, or fearing, that 2007 was a flexion point too? There are unsettling indications that the answer is yes.

One is that world trade has been declining. As Cowen notes in response to Thiel, and as economists in the World Trade Organization recently reported, world trade, which increased at two to three times the rate of world gross domestic product in the years before 2007, has slowed since, to about the same rate as or slightly lower than the disappointing growth in world GDP. International trade makes goods and services cheaper for consumers and creates new markets for producers.

Another negative trend since 2007 is growing violence. Recently, Australia’s Institute for Economics and Peace has reported that war deaths and global violence have been rising since 2007, to 163,000 in 2014. That’s well below World War I levels but still disturbing.

Political freedom, too, seems to be on the decline, and from about the same flexion point. In its 2015 annual report, Freedom House reported the number of countries with declines in freedom has exceeded those with improvements in freedom in every year from 2006-14.

And it’s well known that economic growth in the years after 2007 has lagged behind pre-2007 levels. Immigration to the United States is sharply down — there was no net immigration from Mexico in 2007-12 — and so is internal migration within the country.

If Thiel is right, why was 2007 a flexion point? Bad U.S. policy surely played a major role. A losing strategy in Iraq (reversed by the Bush surge, with gains squandered by the Obama withdrawal) weakened America’s reputation for maintaining order in the world.

Misguided Clinton and Bush housing policy plus stupid regulation led to the financial crisis.

Let’s hope the post-2007 negative trends are temporary and limited.

But let’s start thinking hard about how to reverse them.

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner. © 2015 creators.com

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: (:01) Forever: The Night in Question ABC Columbia Frenemy of My Enemy War rages on. Search for answers to Abigail’s mys- News at 11 (HD) (N) (HD) tery. (N) (HD) American Experience: My Lai 1968 Frontline: American Terrorist (N) (HD) My Lai Massacre is explored. (HD)

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ABC’s ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ could be up a river

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH ABC is wrapping up series’ seasons on the early side. Last week saw the end of “Last Man Standing” and “Cristela.”

“How to Get Away With Murder” concluded its freshman year weeks ago. Tonight marks the final episode of “Fresh Off the Boat” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-14), the sitcom based on the memoirs by celebrity chef Eddie Huang.

In tonight’s episode, Jessica (Constance Wu) worries that she and her family have lost their Chinese identity since moving to the suburbs. With “Cristela” and “Black-ish,” “Boat” became the third ABC series in this season to contemplate the life of a minority family navigating their place in the American melting pot.

Not unlike ABC’s “The Goldbergs” or the old UPN/ CW series “Everybody Hates Chris” it takes place in the recent past, adding pop culture nostalgia to its look at ethnic identity.

“Boat” started off with a fairly large audience. It initially aired in the wake of the popular “Modern Family.”

Since moving to its current prime-time lead-off slot, it has seen its viewership dwindle.

Episode 1 was watched by nearly 8 million viewers; episode 12 attracted fewer than five. Its 18-49 audience has fallen a full 40 percent.

The show’s theme of AsianAmerican assimilation and

the place of hip-hop music and culture as a means of Americanization are fascinating concepts for a documentary. The show’s combination of a strident adolescent son, clueless dad and assertive if insecure mother seemed better suited to a loose improvisational approach a la “The Office” than ABC’s rather bright and shiny scripted comedy style. The show’s suburban setting and the plastic jogging moms seemed reminiscent of ABC’s canceled series “The Neighbors,” a comedy about space aliens that exulted in its sense of the fake and contrived.

Sitcoms based on personal memoirs have a spotty record.

It’s yet to be determined if “Boat” runs beyond one 13-episode season. Even if that is the case, Eddie Huang still has bragging rights over fellow chef Anthony Bourdain. The 2005 sitcom adaptation of his memoirs, “Kitchen Confidential,” only ran for four episodes before cancellation.

• TCM salutes Sophia Loren with the debut of the short 2014 film “Human Voice” (8 p.m.), directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. Loren portrays an elderly woman fighting for the affection of her younger lover, who is in the process of leaving her for a younger woman.

• “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” (10 p.m., HBO, TV-PG) returns to discuss a baseball tradition some think is too

ly on “Weird Loners” (9:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * Mills faces a lifeor-death situation on “Chicago Fire” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

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TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • A bullied victim plans a massive retaliation on “CSI: Cyber” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• Henry searches for answers about Abigail on “Forever” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14).

about Winston on “New Girl” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Grant offers hope on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (9 p.m., ABC, TVPG) * Eating a hacker’s brain leaves Liv with some odd side effects on “iZombie” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14) * A legal technicality on “One Big Happy” (9:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14) * Caryn dates reluctant-

Jeff Garlin is booked on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Orlando Bloom, John C. McGinley and Sebastian Maniscalco are on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS, r) * Piedmont Bird Callers and Paul Rudd appear on “Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Blake Lively, Brian Grazer, Nate Bargatze and “Weird Al” Yankovic on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Kumail Nanjiani, Dwight Yoakam and Jeremy Gara visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Betty White, Kristen Stewart and Mark Ronson appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

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SERIES NOTES Barry confronts a chameleon on “The Flash” (8 p.m., CW, TVPG) * A bombing may have been intended for Pride on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Danny wants to make a point on “Undateable” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14) * Worries

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AROUND TOWN fair from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 The Carolina Coin Club will p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, at meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, the Sumter Civic Center, 700 April 21, at the Parks and Are you interested in coin collecting?

W. Liberty St. Event is free Recreation Department and open to the public. building, 155 Haynsworth Doors will open to veterans St. The club meets on the 30 minutes earlier than the third Tuesday of each general public. Many area month and visitors are alemployers including Becton ways welcome. Call (803) Dickinson, SAFE Federal 775-8840 for more informaCredit Union, Thompson Intion.

The VFW Post 11078, Summer- dustrial and approximately 60 additional employers are ton, will meet at 6 p.m. on expected to participate.

Tuesday, April 21, at its The Shepherd’s Center will headquarters on Canty Street. All members and po- offer a public information session on lawn care for spring tential new members are and summer from 11 to 11:50 invited to attend.

The Sumter County Educator’s a.m. on Thursday, April 30, Association-Retired will meet at 24 Council St. A representative with Clemson Extenat noon on Wednesday, sion will speak.

April 22, at the North HOPE The Sumter County Veterans Center, 904 N. Main St. New Association will meet at 6 members are encouraged p.m. on Thursday, April 30, to attend and join. Call at VFW Post 1034. The MeBrenda Bethune at (803) morial Day program will be 469-6588. discussed as well as the The Single Parent Institute placing of flags on veterwill meet 5:30-6:30 p.m. on ans’ graves the Saturday Wednesday, April 22, at the before Memorial Day. Birnie HOPE Center. For inSt. Anne Catholic School’s formation, call Dr. Quaneck sixth annual benefit auction Walkes at (803) 223-9408 or will be held from 6 to 10 singleparentinstitute@quap.m. on Friday, May 1, at the neck.com. Find the group O’Donnell House. This event on Facebook. will include heavy hors The National Council of Negro d’oeuvres, music, a cash Women (NCNW) will hold its annual Harambee breakfast at bar and silent auction. Rafe, 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 25, master of ceremonies from J.R. Dixon Auctions, will at the Taw Caw Community also conduct a live auction.

Outreach Center. Pastor Tickets are $25 per person.

William T. Johnson will All proceeds will benefit St. speak.

Anne Catholic School and The Sumter Branch NAACP assist in continuing its variwill meet at 5 p.m. on Sunous programs and funding day, April 26, a St. James scholarships. Call (803) 775UM Church, 700 Broad St. 3632 for tickets or more inVFW Post 10813 will hold its formation. monthly “Wine, Cheese, Music The Lincoln High School Pres& more ...” event from 5 to 9 ervation Alumni Association p.m. on Sunday, April 26, at will sponsor a community day 610 Manning Ave. Donations / membership day / indoor are welcome to help supsale from 7 a.m. to noon on port veterans and families Saturday, May 2, on Council programs. Call (803) 773Street. Vendors are invited 6700 for details. and may set up a table in Santee-Lynches Council of the gymnasium at $20 per Governments in coordination table. Refreshments will be with SC Works and its busiserved. Call Vernessa Harness partners will host a job vin Baker at (803) 883-9251.

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Today, 6 p.m., planning commission office, Manning CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT 2 Today, 6:30 p.m., district office GREATER SUMTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Wednesday, noon, chamber office SUMTER CITY-COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION Wednesday, 3 p.m., fourth floor, Sumter Opera House, Council Chambers

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Consider an investment opportunity, but do your own research instead of buying in to the hype. Disagreements will be a waste of time. Discuss plans and be willing to compromise or go it alone. Make love, not war, and you’ll get your way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Experience will be your ticket to success. Listen, learn and implement what you pick up into your everyday routine, and you will up your chance to get ahead. Limit your expenses at home. Cut corners SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your emotions will lead to all sorts and avoid unnecessary purchases. of interesting encounters. A lastGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Be minute change will spin into an secretive about the changes you adventure you don’t want to miss. want to make. Don’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt. Revealing An investment will lead to an the way you feel about someone or opportunity that can help you stabilize your current standard of something will leave you in a precarious position. Protect against living. being taken advantage of.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will face restrictions if you neglect to take care of your responsibilities.

Don’t give in to demands that will keep you from completing your tasks. Ask for help rather than offering to do things for others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Trying to make a difference will bring you great satisfaction along with interesting new connections.

Getting involved and using your skills to set new standards will lead to an opportunity to step into the spotlight and present what you have to offer.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep business and pleasure separate.

Emotional matters will lead to setbacks, depression or a misunderstanding that will be difficult to rectify. Focus on what you can do and put your best foot forward. Don’t dwell on regrets or the past.

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SUMTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT BOARD Thursday, 7:30 a.m., Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce boardroom, 32 E. Calhoun St.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Put travel, pleasure and romance at the top of your list. Changing the way you approach projects, your philosophy and your relationships with others will put an interesting slant on the responses you get. Express your desires.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fix up your home or make plans that will help you form closer relationships.

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PREP BASEBALL

Idle Fire Ants still win third Region X title

Familiar feeling

Belk tosses 1-hitter as Barons top LMA 7-0

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com The University of South Carolina Sumter baseball team didn’t have to win a game after all to win the NJCAA Region X regular-season title.

The Fire Ants had both of their games against Guilford Technical Community College on Sunday cancelled because of rain. And even though Pitt Community College MEDLIN was able to play and swept its doubleheader against USC Salkehatchie on Sunday, it could only pick up one game on Sumter, which entered the day with a 2-game lead.

“That’s what they’re telling me,” said USC Sumter head coach Tim Medlin when asked if his team had indeed won the third region regular-season title in the program’s history.

The teams actually played the top half of the first inning on Sunday with Sumter jumping out to a 2-0 lead. Fire Ant starting pitcher Will Smith threw one pitch in the bottom of the inning when the bottom fell out, eventually causing the cancellation.

The Fire Ants have earned a spot in the Eastern District tournament, which will be played in New York next month. Sumter played host to the district tournament last season after winning the Region X tournament and came within a game of winning it and advancing to the Junior College World Series.

“I can’t say enough about our kids,” said Medlin, whose team is 33-16 overall and 17-7 in region play after its sweep of Guilford on Saturday.

“There’s nothing that we seem to do better than anyone else.

We don’t blow you away with anything that we do. We’ve just got a bunch of grinders.

“There are teams that have better athleticism, better speed, better arms,” he added.

“However, I didn’t see anyone that scraps and fights like this one does.”

Of the Fire Ants’ 49 games, 24 have been 1-run contests.

They own a 14-10 record in those games, and both of their wins over Guilford were 1-run affairs. Sumter won the first game 1-0 and the second one 4-3.

In the opener, pitcher Michael Carpin tossed a 4-hit shutout. He struck out eight while walking just one.

SEE FIRE ANTS, PAGE B3

BY EDDIE LITAKER Special To The Sumter Item

Furyk won for the second time at RBC Heritage, the other coming in 2010 in what turned out to be the best year of his career.

He won two other events, including the Tour Championship, and captured the $10 million FedEx Cup. Furyk won the 2003 U.S.

MANNING — Chase Belk hurled a 1-hit shutout to help Wilson Hall remain unbeaten in SCISA Region II-3A with a 7-0 varsity baseball victory over Laurence Manning Academy on Monday at Tucker Belangia Diamond.

“Tip your hat to Chase Belk,” BELK said LMA head coach Barry Hatfield, whose team dropped to 11-2 overall and 4-2 in region play, with both losses coming against Belk and the Barons.

“That’s 14 innings pitched against us and he hasn’t given up a run yet. I think he threw a 1-hitter last time, and a 1-hitter this time. “(LMA starter) J.T. (Eppley) just was not as sharp tonight. He kind of fell behind some batters, he never could get his breaking ball, his off-speed, over, and that put us in a bind.”

The game was scoreless through two before Wilson Hall lit up the scoreboard with a run in the top of the third.

Leadoff batter Robert James reached with one out after being hit by a pitch. A McLendon Sears flyball to deep left advanced James to second and Dawson Price followed with an RBI single up the middle. Price stole second, but was left stranded as Sam Watford struck out to end the inning.

The Barons looked to add to their lead in the fourth, but Eppley proved to be up to the task. After walking Edward McMillan to open the frame and retiring John Ballard on a sacrifice bunt, Eppley rallied from a 3-0 hole to strike out Walker Patrick swinging, then retired Charlton Commander in the same fashion on three pitches.

Eppley made it through four complete before running into trouble to start the fifth. Brent Carraway drew a walk, James reached on a bunt single and McLendon Sears singled to score Carraway. After an intentional walk to Price, reliever Buddy Bleasedale surrendered a 2-run double to Watford and a double to McMillan.

A Ballard fly to right plated Watford, pushing the Baron lead to 5-0.

SEE FURYK, PAGE B3

SEE BELK, PAGE B2

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jim Furyk hits his ball on the fairway on the ninth hole during the final round of the RBC Heritage on Sunday at Hilton Head Island. Furyk won his second RBC title in a playoff with Kevin Kisner.

Furyk rallies to take 2nd RBC Heritage crown in playoff for 1st PGA Tour title in 5 years

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press HILTON HEAD ISLAND — Jim Furyk had gone 100 starts without winning, a stretch that gnawed at his psyche and challenged his confidence.

That all disappeared in uncharacteristic fashion Sunday when he won his first PGA Tour title in five

years with birdies on both playoff holes to outlast Kevin Kisner at the RBC Heritage. When the winning putt fell on the par-3 17th, the typically reserved Furyk dropped his putter and punched the air.

“I think getting excited on 17 there was a lot of pent-up frustrations,’’ he said.

AUTO RACING

Kenseth ends drought with rainy Bristol victory

BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — After four rain delays and 11 extra laps, Matt Kenseth finally drove to victory lane.

It took him nine hours to get there Sunday at a waterlogged Bristol Motor Speedway.

Kenseth snapped a 51-race losing streak by holding off Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson on one final restart in NASCAR’s determined effort to stage a complete race.

Kenseth, a seven-race winner in his 2013 debut season with Joe Gibbs Racing, was winless all last year.

“It feels good to be back here. Not winning for as long as we did ... it wears on you a little bit,’’ Kenseth said. “We had such a good 2013, and last year there were some races we had some chances to win and just things wouldn’t line

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Driver Matt Kenseth (20) leads Brad Keselowski during the Food City 500 on Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. After four rain delays and 11 extra laps, Kenseth finally ended a 51-race winless drought by taking the checkered flag. up for us.

“We just couldn’t get it to happen. (Bristol) was kind of the opposite. Everything worked out.’’

The start was delayed nearly 90 minutes because of rain and the race was stopped three more times, including one delay that lasted almost

four hours.

The final stoppage came when the race had already surpassed the scheduled 500 laps, but a quick rain shower

had stalled NASCAR’s attempt to race to the checkered flag following an accident with eight laps remaining. So, NASCAR parked the cars on pit road and sent out its dryers to quickly try to give it one more shot.

Kenseth, the leader, was fine with NASCAR’s decision because he was so confident in his Toyota.

“I’ve got to be honest with you, at least 90 percent of the time or more, I’d be all about, `Man, call that thing,’ because anything can go wrong,’’ he said. “I felt pretty good about where we were. I felt like unless I really, really messed it up, I was going to be clear getting into (Turn) 1. I felt like our car was good enough to hold on for two laps.’’

He did have a two-lap overtime sprint to the finish and Kenseth, the pole-sitter, got a

SEE KENSETH, PAGE B5

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TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

GIRLS AREA ROUNDUP

TSA softball edges EC 1-0 DALZELL — Thomas Sumter Academy’s softball team avenged its only loss of the season with a 1-0 victory over East Clarendon High School on Monday at the TSA field.

Emily DeMonte tossed a 2-hit shutout with five strikeouts.

Haley Hawkins had two hits, including a triple, for the Lady Generals. Taylor Knudson had a hit and drove in the game’s only run.

WILSON HALL 11 HAMMOND 1

Wilson Hall improved to 15-4 on the season with an 11-1, 5-inning victory over Hammond on Monday.

Holly Scott picked up the win, striking out 11.

Becka Noyes led the Lady Barons offense with three hits and two runs batted in. Danielle deHoll had three hits, three runs and an RBI. Drake Ives had two doubles, two runs and an RBI. CLARENDON HALL 20 ANDREW JACKSON 7

EHRHARDT — Clarendon Hall improved to 9-1 in SCISA Region III-1A with a 20-7 victory over Andrew Jackson Academy on Friday at the AJA field.

Aubrey Johnson had three hits, including a grand slam home run, and five RBI. Gracyn Royce had four hits, including a double, and Holly Carlisle, Shannon Corbett and Brittany Pack each had two hits.

JUNIOR VARSITY SOFTBALL THOMAS SUMTER 7 EAST CLARENDON 5 DALZELL — Diamond Gibson hit a walk-off, 2-run home run to lift Thomas Sumter Academy to a 7-5 victory over East Clarendon High School on Monday at the TSA field.

Emily Jackson added a 2-run homer for the Lady Generals and Ellie Hunter was 2-for-2 with two runs scored.

On Saturday in Lugoff, TSA finished 3-1 in a tournament at Lugoff-Elgin High School.

The Lady Generals beat Lexington 5-2, Camden 11-1 and River Bluff 7-5 and lost to Darlington 7-6.

Gibson was 7-for-9 with two home runs and two RBI for TSA. Sydney Daniel was 6-for-10 with an RBI and five runs, Jackson was 4-for-8 with and an RBI and Caitleigh Bryant was 3-for8- with three RBI.

BOYS AREA ROUNDUP

West Florence hands WH tennis 1st loss FLORENCE — Wilson Hall’s varsity boys tennis team suffered its first loss of the season on Monday, falling to West Florence 4-3 at the WFHS courts.

The Barons are now 10-1 on the season.

SINGLES 1 – Brown (WH) defeated Halus 6-1, 6-1.

2 – Davis (WH) defeated Grich 6-3, 6-3.

3 – Hiller (WF) defeated Hendrix 6-3, 6-1.

4 – King (WF) defeated Stover 6-3, 6-4.

5 – McLamb (WF) defeated Thompson 6-1, 6-0.

DOUBLES 1 – Brown/Stone (WH) defeated Halus/ Hiller 8-5.

2 – Lu/Tyler (WF) defeated Hendrix/Coulter 8-6.

VARSITY SOCCER LAKEWOOD 2 DARLINGTON 0

DARLINGTON — Lakewood

High School improved to 4-1 in Region VI-3A with a 2-0 victory over Darlington on Saturday at the Darlington field.

Filip Cadena and Greg McLeod both scored a goal for the Gators, who are 11-3 overall.

Jonathan Roberts had three saves in goal.

JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL LAKEWOOD 11 MANNING 5 Lakewood High School defeated Manning 11-5 on Monday at the LHS field.

Cody Windham pitched four innings and allowed just three hits to get the victory. Dalton Browder led the Gators offense with three hits and three runs batted in.

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SCOREBOARD

Oakland (Pomeranz 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 1-1), 10:05 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 2-0) at Seattle (T.Walker 0-2), 10:10 p.m.

TV, RADIO

NATIONAL LEAGUE

TODAY

EAST DIVISION

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Champions League Match Quarterfinal Second Leg Match – Paris Saint-Germain vs. Barcelona (FOX SPORTS 1).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Champions League Match Quarterfinal Second Leg Match – Porto vs. Bayern Munich (FOX SPORTS 2).

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

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: St. Louis at Washington (MLB NETWORK).

7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Eastern Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Three – Tampa Bay at Detroit (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – College Baseball: Clemson at Georgia (SEC NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Atlanta at New York Mets (SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Eastern Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Two – Boston at Cleveland (TNT).

7 p.m. – College Baseball: South Carolina at Furman (WNKT-FM 107.5).

7:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Eastern Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Four – Washington at New York Islanders (USA).

8 p.m. – College Baseball: Utah at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Eastern Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Two – Washington at Toronto (NBA TV).

9:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Western Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Four – Nashville at Chicago (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

9:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Western Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Two – Dallas at Houston (TNT).

10 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Western Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Four – Vancouver at Calgary (USA).

PREP SCHEDULE TODAY

Varsity Baseball Socastee at Sumter, 6:30 p.m.

Darlington at Crestwood, 6:30 p.m.

Lakewood at Manning, 6:30 p.m.

Lee Central at C.A. Johnson, 6 p.m.

East Clarendon at Hannah-Pamplico, 5:30 p.m.

Orangeburg Prep at Wilson Hall, 7 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Thomas Sumter, 6:30 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Carolina Academy, 6:30 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Colleton Prep, 6:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Baseball Sumter at Camden, 6 p.m.

Orangeburg Prep at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Carolina Academy, 4 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Colleton Prep, 4 p.m.

Varsity Boys Golf Johnsonville, C.E. Murray at Lee Central (at Bishopville Country Club), 4:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall, Thomas Sumter, Laurence Manning in SCISA Region II-3A Match (at Orangeburg Country Club), 3:30 p.m.

Varsity Boys Soccer Sumter at Socastee, 7:30 p.m.

Manning at Crestwood, 6 p.m.

Hartsville at Lakewood, 7:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Boys Soccer Sumter at Hartsville, 6 p.m.

Varsity Girls Soccer Sumter at Socastee, 6 p.m.

Hartsville at Lakewood, 6 p.m.

Varsity Softball Socastee at Sumter, 6:30 p.m.

Darlington at Crestwood, 7 p.m.

Lakewood at Manning, 7:30 p.m.

Lee Central at C.A. Johnson, 6 p.m.

East Clarendon at Hannah-Pamplico (DH), 5:30 p.m.

Orangeburg Prep at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Thomas Sumter, 5 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Carolina Academy, 6 p.m.

Clarendon hall at Colleton Prep, 5:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Softball Darlington at Crestwood, 5:30 p.m.

Lakewood at Manning, 5:30 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Carolina Academy, 4 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Colleton Prep, 4 p.m.

Varsity Boys Tennis Sumter at Socastee, 4:30 p.m.

Hartsville at Manning, 5 p.m.

Varsity Track and Field Sumter, Crestwood, Lakewood in Sumter School District Classic (at Crestwood), 5 p.m.

Lee Central at Lamar, 5 p.m.

MLB STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

BELK FROM PAGE B1 Wilson Hall added single runs in the sixth and seventh innings.

Drew Talley led off the Baron sixth with a double, took third on a Carraway sac bunt and scored on a James single to right. The seventh began with a Watford single off new Swampcat pitcher Taylor Finley, a Ballard sac bunt and a Patrick single that brought Watford home.

Belk gave up a Josh Martin single with one out in the first for LMA’s lone hit. A Tripp Mason walk and Cagney Brunson being hit by pitch in the second represented the Swampcats’ best scoring opportunity, but Ryan Touchberry grounded to short to end the threat, stranding both runners.

“You need to have your big guy, and your gun, and you’ve got to let him have the ball,” Wilson Hall head coach Tommy Jones said of Belk, who closed with four strike-

St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee WEST DIVISION Los Angeles San Diego Colorado Arizona San Francisco

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L 3 4 7 9 10

Pct .769 .667 .462 .308 .231

GB – 1 1/2 4 6 7

W 8 6 6 5 2

L 3 5 6 7 10

Pct .727 .545 .500 .417 .167

GB – 2 2 1/2 3 1/2 6 1/2

W 9 8 7 7 4

L 3 5 5 6 10

Pct .750 .615 .583 .538 .286

GB – 1 1/2 2 2 1/2 6

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta 5, Toronto 2 N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 6 Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 2 Washington 4, Philadelphia 1 San Diego 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Arizona 5, San Francisco 1 L.A. Dodgers 7, Colorado 0 St. Louis 2, Cincinnati 1

MONDAY’S GAMES

Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 7:20 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-1), 7:05 p.m.

Miami (Haren 1-0) at Philadelphia (Williams 0-1), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 1-1) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Cahill 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Marquis 0-1) at Milwaukee (Fiers 0-2), 8:10 p.m.

San Diego (Morrow 0-0) at Colorado (Matzek 1-0), 8:40 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 2-0) at Arizona (C.Anderson 0-0), 9:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 1-0) at San Francisco (Lincecum 0-1), 10:15 p.m.

NBA PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press

FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlanta 1, Brooklyn 0 Sunday: Atlanta 99, Brooklyn 92 Wednesday: Brooklyn at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Saturday: Atlanta at Brooklyn, 3 p.m.

April 27: Atlanta at Brooklyn, TBA Cleveland 1, Boston 0 Sunday: Cleveland 113, Boston 100 Today: Boston at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Thursday: Cleveland at Boston, 7 p.m.

April 26 Cleveland at Boston, 1 p.m.

Chicago 1, Milwaukee 0 Saturday: Chicago 103, Milwaukee 91 Monday: Milwaukee at Chicago (late) Thursday: Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

April 25: Chicago at Milwaukee, 5:30 p.m.

Washington 1, Toronto 0 Saturday: Washington 93, Toronto 86, OT Today: Washington at Toronto, 8 p.m.

Friday: Toronto at Washington, 8 p.m.

April 26: Toronto at Washington, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Golden State 1, New Orleans 0 Saturday: Golden State 106, New Orleans 99 Monday: New Orleans at Golden State (late) Thursday: Golden State at New Orleans, 9:30 p.m.

April 25: Golden State at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Houston 1, Dallas 0 Saturday: Houston 118, Dallas 108 Today: Dallas at Houston, 9:30 p.m.

Friday: Houston at Dallas, 7 p.m.

April 26: Houston at Dallas, 9:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers 1, San Antonio 0 Sunday: L.A. Clippers 107, San Antonio 92 Wednesday: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Friday: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m.

April 26: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 3:30 p.m.

Memphis 1, Portland 0 Sunday: Memphis 100, Portland 86 Wednesday: Portland at Memphis, 8 p.m.

April 25: Memphis at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

April 27: Memphis at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

outs and two walks while inducing 13 ground-ball outs. “Chase Belk pitches with polish, he pitches when there is a lot of drama with base runners on, he pitches early in the count, late in the count. He’s everything a coach could ask for in a No. 1.”

Jones said timely hitting was also a big factor in the Barons’ win.

“They hit when RBIs were in position,” said Jones, whose team moved to 18-6 and 6-0. “That’s the kind of nights that you pray for.

We got a walk or two, an error or so and then we had the guys pop the ball.

“I think the story of the game, beyond Chase Belk, is the infield play. We were flawless, I think, in the infield and we made some tough plays. We made some plays with two outs, we had infielders going for the ball (and) the outfielders played well. We depend on having good defense, and we did have good defense tonight. On the road, that’s big.”

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New York Atlanta Washington Philadelphia Miami CENTRAL DIVISION

EAST DIVISION Boston Baltimore New York Tampa Bay Toronto CENTRAL DIVISION Detroit Kansas City Minnesota Chicago Cleveland WEST DIVISION Houston Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas

W 8 7 6 6 6

L 5 6 6 7 7

Pct .615 .538 .500 .462 .462

GB – 1 1 1/2 2 2

W 10 9 5 4 4

L 2 3 7 7 7

Pct .833 .750 .417 .364 .364

GB – 1 5 5 1/2 5 1/2

W 6 6 5 5 5

L 6 7 7 7 8

Pct .500 .462 .417 .417 .385

GB – 1/2 1 1 1 1/2

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta 5, Toronto 2 Detroit 9, Chicago White Sox 1 N.Y. Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 8, Boston 3 Minnesota 7, Cleveland 2 Houston 4, L.A. Angels 3 Kansas City 4, Oakland 2 Seattle 11, Texas 10

MONDAY’S GAMES

Boston 7, Baltimore 1, 7 innings N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Baltimore (B.Norris 0-1) at Toronto (Buehrle 2-0), 7:07 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 0-0) at Detroit (Lobstein 1-0), 7:08 p.m.

Boston (Miley 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Archer 2-1), 7:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 1-1) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Milone 2-0) at Kansas City (J.Vargas 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 2-0) at Arizona (C.Anderson 0-0), 9:40 p.m.

NHL PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press

FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Montreal 3, Ottawa 0 April 15: Montreal 4, Ottawa 3 April 17: Montreal 3, Ottawa 2, OT Sunday: Montreal 2, Ottawa 1, OT Wednesday: Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Detroit 1, Tampa Bay 1 April 16: Detroit 3, Tampa Bay 2 April 18: Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 1 Today: Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Thursday: Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Saturday: Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBA N.Y. Rangers 1, Pittsburgh 1 April 16: N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1 April 18: Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Monday: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh (late) Wednesday: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Friday: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, TBA N.Y. Islanders 2, Washington 1 April 15: N.Y. Islanders 4, Washington 1 April 17: Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Sunday: N.Y. Islanders 2, Washington 1, OT Today: Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday: N.Y. Islanders at Washington, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Minnesota 1, St. Louis 1 April 16: Minnesota 4, St. Louis 2 April 18: St. Louis 4, Minnesota 1 Monday: St. Louis at Minnesota (late) Wednesday: St. Louis at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.

Friday: Minnesota at St. Louis, TBA Chicago 2, Nashville 1 April 15: Chicago 4, Nashville 3, 2OT April 17: Nashville 6, Chicago 2 Sunday: Chicago 4, Nashville 2 Today: Nashville at Chicago, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday: Chicago at Nashville, TBA Anaheim 2, Winnipeg 0 April 16: Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 2 April 18: Anaheim 2, Winnipeg 1 Monday: Anaheim at Winnipeg (late) Wednesday: Anaheim at Winnipeg, 9:30 p.m.

Calgary 2, Vancouver 1 April 15: Calgary 2, Vancouver 1 April 17: Vancouver 4, Calgary 1 Sunday: Calgary 4, Vancouver 2 Today: Vancouver at Calgary, 10 p.m.

Thursday: Calgary at Vancouver, TBA

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Irving, James lead Cavs past Celtics 113-100

FROM PAGE B1

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At Harbour Town Golf Links Hilton Head Island Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,101; Par: 71 Final a-amateur FedEx Cup points in parentheses x-won on second playoff hole x-Jim Furyk (500), $1,062,000 71-64-68-63—266 -18 Kevin Kisner (300), $637,200 68-67-67-64—266 -18 Troy Merritt (190), $401,200 69-61-69-69—268 -16 Brendon Todd (135), $283,200 73-66-63-67—269 -15 Matt Kuchar (110), $236,000 68-66-68-68—270 -14 Sean O’Hair (100), $212,400 70-67-70-64—271 -13 Branden Grace, $190,275 70-67-66-69—272 -12 Louis Oosthuizen (88), $190,275 69-67-69-67—272 -12 Morgan Hoffmann (78), $165,200 68-68-69-68—273 -11 Bo Van Pelt (78), $165,200 69-68-67-69—273 -11 Blake Adams (63), $129,800 72-65-71-66—274 -10 Brice Garnett (63), $129,800 72-66-65-71—274 -10 Jordan Spieth (63), $129,800 74-62-68-70—274 -10 Justin Thomas (63), $129,800 70-67-68-69—274 -10 Luke Donald (55), $100,300 73-66-66-70—275 -9 Bryce Molder (55), $100,300 74-64-70-67—275 -9 Cameron Smith, $100,300 68-73-67-67—275 -9 Brendon de Jonge (50), $69,325 70-68-67-71—276 -8 Matt Every (50), $69,325 66-70-70-70—276 -8 Lucas Glover (50), $69,325 70-67-70-69—276 -8 Jerry Kelly (50), $69,325 71-66-70-69—276 -8 Russell Knox (50), $69,325 75-64-67-70—276 -8 Jason Kokrak (50), $69,325 72-70-65-69—276 -8 John Peterson (50), $69,325 72-65-71-68—276 -8 Ian Poulter (50), $69,325 69-70-67-70—276 -8 Graeme McDowell (43), $43,660 66-69-70-72—277 -7 John Merrick (43), $43,660 69-65-71-72—277 -7 Pat Perez (43), $43,660 69-71-67-70—277 -7 Carl Pettersson (43), $43,660 72-69-69-67—277 -7 Brandt Snedeker (43), $43,660 77-64-67-69—277 -7 Alex Cejka (38), $34,220 70-71-69-68—278 -6 Stewart Cink (38), $34,220 70-67-71-70—278 -6 Martin Flores (38), $34,220 73-67-69-69—278 -6 Bill Haas (38), $34,220 71-70-68-69—278 -6 Joost Luiten, $34,220 69-71-70-68—278 -6 William McGirt (38), $34,220 71-70-68-69—278 -6 Sangmoon Bae (31), $25,370 67-73-70-69—279 -5 Ricky Barnes (31), $25,370 69-72-70-68—279 -5 Scott Brown (31), $25,370 74-67-71-67—279 -5 Ben Crane (31), $25,370 72-67-72-68—279 -5 Jason Dufner (31), $25,370 74-67-66-72—279 -5 Freddie Jacobson (31), $25,370 71-68-70-70—279 -5 Ben Martin (31), $25,370 69-69-70-71—279 -5 Zac Blair (24), $17,413 70-69-71-70—280 -4 Steven Bowditch (24), $17,413 74-68-68-70—280 -4 Brian Harman (24), $17,413 75-65-69-71—280 -4 Anirban Lahiri, $17,413 73-69-66-72—280 -4 Robert Streb (24), $17,413 74-68-68-70—280 -4 Hudson Swafford (24), $17,413 70-69-71-70—280 -4 George McNeill (24), $17,413 72-67-72-69—280 -4 Billy Horschel (19), $14,072 72-69-69-71—281 -3 Martin Laird (19), $14,072 72-70-70-69—281 -3 Webb Simpson (19), $14,072 71-70-69-71—281 -3 Vijay Singh (19), $14,072 71-67-70-73—281 -3 Robert Allenby (14), $13,334 71-71-67-73—282 -2 Jason Bohn (14), $13,334 73-68-74-67—282 -2 Charl Schwartzel (14), $13,334 72-70-71-69—282 -2 Kevin Streelman (14), $13,334 71-65-71-75—282 -2 Brian Stuard (14), $13,334 73-68-69-72—282 -2 Andres Gonzales (10), $12,803 70-72-70-71—283 -1 James Hahn (10), $12,803 70-69-72-72—283 -1 Danny Lee (10), $12,803 71-71-69-72—283 -1 Daniel Summerhays (10), $12,803 70-70-73-70—283 -1 Charley Hoffman (7), $12,508 71-70-71-72—284 E a-Scott Vincent 70-70-71-73—284 E Aaron Baddeley (4), $12,272 70-67-76-72—285 +1 Scott Langley (4), $12,272 68-70-76-71—285 +1 Jim Renner (4), $12,272 69-69-74-73—285 +1 Charlie Beljan (1), $11,918 69-72-74-71—286 +2 Chris Kirk (1), $11,918 71-70-73-72—286 +2 Chris Stroud (1), $11,918 72-67-69-78—286 +2 Daniel Berger (1), $11,623 72-68-75-72—287 +3 Tom Watson (1), $11,623 72-70-69-76—287 +3 Nick Taylor (1), $11,446 72-69-77-70—288 +4 Ryo Ishikawa (1), $11,269 71-70-75-75—291 +7 Boo Weekley (1), $11,269 74-67-77-73—291 +7

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Jim Furyk poses with the trophy after winning a playoff against Kevin Kisner during the RBC Heritage on Sunday at Hilton Head Island. an easy ride.

When his long putt on No. 8 rolled in, Furyk said he began to think “this may be the day.’’

Kisner, though, chased him down on the back nine. He birdied the 14th and 15th to pull within a stroke and stuck his approach on the signature lighthouse hole at No. 18 within 7 feet for a tying birdie.

Kisner kissed his wife, Brittany, and 10-month old daughter Kathleen on the way to the scoring trailer to prepare for more golf.

Furyk is used to such grinding at Harbour Town. When he won in 2010, Brian Davis tied him on the final hole to force a playoff — won by Furyk when Davis struck a loose impediment on his swing and called a penalty on himself.

Kisner expected Furyk, who made 11 birdies in 20 holes, to tie him after his putt on the first playoff hole.

“You don’t expect a guy of Jim’s caliber to miss a

FIRE ANTS FROM PAGE B1 USC Sumter scored the game’s only run in the top of the sixth. Justin Hawkins drew a walk and eventually scored on a Fred Wadsworth base hit.

In the nightcap, the Fire Ants took a 4-0 lead in the third on a grand slam by Tee Dubose.

Guilford intentionally walked Brett Auckland to

load the bases and face Dubose, the former Sumter High School and Sumter P-15’s standout. He hit the first pitch, a hanging curveball from Kanoa Hironaka, for the slam, driving in Kolby Croxton, William Thomas and Auckland.

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tance, allowing two runs in the sixth and one in the seventh. He had seven strikeouts while allowing six hits.

“I don’t think anybody gave us a chance to do this,” said Medlin, whose squad was chosen to finish fifth in the Region X preseason coaches poll.

“I think the one thing in our favor was our players didn’t know they weren’t supposed to do this.”

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LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul scored 32 points, Blake Griffin added 26 points and 12 rebounds, and Los Angeles surged in the second half to beat San Antonio in their first-round playoff series opener.

Jamal Crawford added 17 points for the Clippers, who had an 18-point lead in the third quarter.

Kawhi Leonard scored 18 points for the Spurs. Tim Duncan had 11 points and 11 rebounds.

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ATLANTA — Kyle Korver scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, and the top-seeded Atlanta Hawks held off the Brooklyn Nets 99-92 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference playoff series .

Jeff Teague and DeMarre Carroll scored 17 points apiece to lead the Hawks.

Johnson and Brook Lopez each posted 17 points for the Nets.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Reserve Beno Udrih scored 20 points and Memphis never trailed in routing Portland in Game 1 of the Western Conference first-round series.

Zach Randolph had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Marc Gasol added 15 points and 11 rebounds.

Mike Conley finished with 16 points. Jeff Green had 11.

LaMarcus Aldridge led Portland with 32 points while going 13 of 34. Damian Lillard added 14 points and Nicolas Batum had 15.

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6-footer straight up the hill,’’ Kisner said.

Merritt fell to third after a third 69. His other score was a course-record tying 61 in the second round Friday. Merritt couldn’t keep up with Furyk’s charge and lost his chance after hitting out of bounds on No. 12 and taking double bogey.

Merritt made up for it a few holes later with an eagle-2 on No. 16.

Spieth closed an amazing five-tournament stretch. He won the Valspar Championship a month ago and followed that with seconds at the Texas and Houston opens before matching Tigers Woods’ record of 18 under at Augusta National. For Spieth, 19 of his past 20 rounds have been under par.

Spieth had a whirlwind media tour in New York on Monday and Tuesday before arriving at Hilton Head. Now the 21-yearold Texan wants to get back to Dallas in time to attend the Academy of Country Music Awards.

CLEVELAND — Kyrie Irving scored 30 points in his playoff debut, LeBron James added 20 in his first postseason game with Cleveland in five years and the Cavaliers opened a run toward an NBA title with a 113-100 victory over the Boston Celtics on IRVING Sunday.

Irving made five 3-pointers and Kevin Love, another postseason rookie, had 19 points and 12 rebounds.

It was Cleveland’s first home playoff game since May 11, 2010, when the Celtics won Game 5 and James left the floor to some boos from Cavaliers fans. He departed for Miami two months later.

Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points to lead the seventh-seeded Celtics.

The Cavs built a 20-point lead in the third quarter, let the Celtics get as close as six and then finished the quarter with a 9-0 run — capped by a 3-pointer by James Jones — to take a 15-point lead.

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FURYK Open and entered this tournament ranked 10th in the world, but he has struggled to close out events. He was 0-of-9 when leading tournaments after three rounds since that Tour Championship victory. He is 44 and always believed he’d win again.

“But I was starting to feel like this game is beating me up, and the losing hurts a lot more than winning feels good,’’ he said. “I think I just forget how good’’ it feels to win.

With that came a $1.062 million payday. For Kisner, it was his best finish on the PGA Tour.

Furyk led by a stroke when Kisner birdied the 72nd hole to force the playoff, the fourth in the last six tournaments at Harbour Town Golf Links. On the first extra hole, Kisner rolled in a second straight birdie putt on the 18th. But Furyk answered with a birdie to keep the playoff going. After Kisner missed his birdie try on No. 17, Furyk sank a 12foot putt for his 17th career PGA Tour victory.

Furyk shot a 63 and Kisner a 64, leaving them both at 18-under 266.

Third-round leader Troy Merritt was at 16 under after a 69. Defending champion Matt Kuchar (68) was at 14 under and Masters winner Jordan Spieth (70) was eight shots back.

It was an odd tournament for Furyk.

He looked as if he’d get left behind early, making 18 pars in the first round to fall five shots back.

Furyk found his game Friday with eight birdies on the way to a 64. He had a 68 Saturday, yet knew he needed to fire himself as he did Friday to have a chance.

Boy, did he ever.

Furyk had six birdies on his first nine holes, including a 48-footer on the par-4 eighth that moved him in front. A bogey on the 11th dropped Furyk into a fourway tie for first, but he responded with birdies on three of the next four holes and seemed set for

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TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

CHARLES R. HESTER MANNING — Charles Robert Hester, 83, died quietly at his home on Saturday, April 18, 2015.

Born on Aug. 8, 1931, near Clarksville, Tennessee, he was a son of the late James Bert and Tyson Lowder Hester. After HESTER graduating from Manning High School, Charles worked at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, retiring in 1996 after 39 years.

After his retirement, he returned to Clarendon Memorial part-time, where he served as the administrative representative on the weekends. He was an active lifelong member of Union United Methodist Church at Wilson, where he contributed his time and talents as the treasurer, church musician, and in other ways too many to enumerate.

He is survived by his nephews, Mitch Hester of Georgetown, John Hester of Summerville and Jim Van Laan (Nan) of Landrum; his niece, Virginia Sue Sinclair (Mark) of Virginia Beach, Virginia; great- nieces and great-nephews, John David Hester, Martha Sinclair, Hester Rebecca Sinclair, Andrew Sinclair, Rob Sinclair, Peyton Hester and Wyatt Hester; great-greatniece and great-great-nephews, Josh, Trip, Noah and Audrey; his brother-in-law, Roger Van Laan of New Market, Maryland; and his sisterin-law, Marijon Hester of Summerville. Charles is also survived by his Union Church family, hospital family, many close friends and extended family members too numerous to mention.

He was preceded in death by his brother, James Bert Hester Jr.; and his sister, Martha Ida “Sue” Hester Van Laan.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at Union United Methodist Church with the Rev. Wright Turbeville officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday at Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the residence, 42 W. Rigby St., Manning.

Memorials may be made to Union United Methodist Church, c/o Dora Holladay, 1980 Lazy Daisy Road, Manning, SC 29102 or to Clarendon Habitat for Humanity, 8 N. Brooks St., Manning, SC 29102.

Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org

ALVIS JESSE BYNUM Alvis Jesse Bynum, 77, husband of Marjorie Fleming Bynum of 53 years, passed away on April 19, 2015, at his home surrounded by his family after a brief illness.

Born on Sept.

BYNUM 9, 1937, in Sumter, he was the youngest son of the late Williams Edwards Bynum and Esther Clarke Bynum. He graduated from Edmunds High School in1955 and Wofford College in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree in business and economics. At Wofford, he was a member of tennis team and Kappa Alpha fraternity. He worked at The National Bank of South Carolina before going to work at Cities Supply Co. He became president of the company and spent 27 years there.

Alvis was an avid tennis player and could be found on the courts several times a week. He served as president of the Sumter Rotary Club and the Sumter YMCA. He was a board member of the Salvation Army, United Way, Sumter Historical Society, Sumter National Bank, Community Bankshares, and The Oaks Retirement Community.

The Sumter Rotary Club recognized Alvis as the 2005 Rotarian of the year. He was also a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow. In 1994, he was named the Sumter Family YMCA Humanitarian of the year. He was a lifelong member of Trinity UMC, where he served as chairman of the administrative board, lay leader, as

well as many other leadership roles in the church.

He is survived by his wife of Sumter; son, Al Bynum and wife, Susan, of Columbia; daughter, Grace Kelley and husband, Roby, of Sumter; son, Chris Bynum and wife, Tina, of Greenville; and his brother, Henry Clarke Bynum and his wife, Pat, of Sumter.

“Daddy B,” as his grandchildren knew him, is also survived by seven grandchildren, Jesse and Brittany Bynum, Wilson, Catherine and Bynum Kelley, Taylor and Alison Bynum, and his sister-in-law, Anna Bynum of Sumter.

He was preceded in death by his sister, May Bynum Sharp; and his brother, William Edwards Bynum.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday at Trinity United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. Steve Holler and the Rev. Dr. Reginald Thackston officiating.

Honorary pallbearers will be Phil Edwards, Julian Frazier, Davis Green, Dan Lyles, Gene Patterson, Bill Price, members of the Boyle Bible Class, members of the Mount Vernon Coffee Club, and members of the Sumter Rotary Club.

The family will receive friends following the service in the church fellowship hall.

Private burial will be held at Sumter Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church, 226 W. Liberty St., Sumter, SC 29150 or a charity of one’s choice.

Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com.

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, (803) 775-9386, is in charge of arrangements.

EDWARD B. ROBERTS JR. Edward Burley Roberts Jr., 71, widower of Leslie Port Roberts, died on Sunday, April 19, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Miami, Florida, ROBERTS he was a son of the late Edward Burley Sr. and Ann Louise Leonard Roberts.

Mr. Roberts was a member of Swan Lake Presbyterian Church. He was a charter member of the Sumter Community Concert Band and the Camden Community Concert Band. He served as a middle school teacher at both Bates and Laurence Manning Academy and retired with 23 years of service. He was also formerly employed with S.C. State Parks. He enjoyed performing arts, especially opera and theater. He was also a published amateur photographer.

Surviving are a son, Edwards B. Roberts III and his wife, Theresa, of Sumter; a daughter, Cynthia Chapman and her husband, Hubey, of Elizabethton, Tennessee; a sister, Myrna Clark of Xenia, Ohio; a brother, John Wesley Roberts of Naples, Florida; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one stepgrandchild; two step-greatgrandchildren; and a special friend, Letitia Pate.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Swan Lake Presbyterian Church with Pastor Chuck Staggs officiating. Burial will be in Sumter Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home of his son, 3365 U.S. 15 South.

Memorials may be made to the Sumter Community Concert Band.

Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com.

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

GUNTER SWEAT MANNING — Retired Clarendon County legendary basketball coach of Manning Training, Manning High and Scott’s Branch High SWEAT School dies.

Coach Gunter Sweat, 73, husband of the Rev. Ethel Whack Sweat, died on Monday, April 20, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

He was born on May 25, 1941, in the Live Oak section of Manning, a son of the late Tommie “Big Tee” and Almetta Brown Sweat.

The family is receiving friends at his residence, 2392 Mallette Road, Sugar Hill section of Manning.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

BLONDELL BANNISTER Blondell Louise Bennett Bannister, 66, widow of Willie Cleveland Bannister, died on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

Born on Feb. 7, 1949, in Summerton, she was a daughter of the late Josephus and Queen Esther Tindal Bennett.

The family is receiving friends at her residence, 1117 Goslin Road, North Santee section of Summerton.

These services are entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

JOSEPH L. CARTER Joseph Lesile Carter, 43, died Saturday, April 18, 2015, at the Medical University of

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Born on Jan. 3, 1972, he was a son of King Nelson and Amanda Carter Conyers and stepson of Jonathan Conyers.

He was reared by his maternal grandparents, Deacon John and Deaconess Esther Mae Riley Carter.

The family is receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m. at the home of his mother, 3 J St., Summerton.

These services are entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

stepson, Michael Richardson and his wife, Brook; one stepdaughter, Shirley Rouse and her husband, Roosevelt; 11 grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren.

You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

SAMUEL LEE BENJAMIN JR. The Rev. Samuel Lee Benjamin Jr., husband of Ella Nora Johnson Benjamin, entered eternal rest on April 15, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

He was born on Oct. 13, 1957, in Sumter County, a son of the late Samuel Lee Sr. and Daisy Green Benjamin.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 2770 Sparkleberry Landing Road, Pinewood.

Funeral plans will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

LARRY R. DANNELLY Larry Richard Dannelly, age 69, beloved husband of Rose Mary Owen Dannelly, died on Sunday, April 19, 2015, in Ocala, Florida.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced

by Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter.

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ROBERT LEE RUBIN MAYESVILLE — Robert Lee Rubin, age 72, died on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Lee County, he was a son of the late Mack Hooks and Rosa Lee Rubin. He was a hard worker who was known for saying “Right On” all the time. Robert was a family man and had two best friends, Mookie Fortune and Robert Hannibal. He will be remembered as a loving father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend.

Surviving are one son, Eddie Rubin; one daughter, Rosemary Rubin Benbow; one

Rugena Vaughn Thomas, 63, widow of Henry A. Thomas, departed this life on Sunday, April 19, 2015, at Flagstaff Medical Center, Flagstaff, Arizona.

She was born on May 15, 1951, in Sumter, a daughter of the late Frank Sr. and Willie Beck Lemmon Vaughn.

The family will be receiving friends at 4960 Mt. Sinai Church Road, Lynchburg, SC 29080.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

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Keeping Sumter Beautiful

By Amanda McNulty, County Extension Agent squirt of liquid soap or put the bar in your hands. Rub, rub, rub while you As part of the response when Lou sing “Happy Birthday” twice, getting Holtz voiced his thoughts on the the palms and tops of your hands cleanliness of South Carolina autoand yours wrists. Then rinse well, mobiles (all the trash was on the use your forearm if possible to turn highways), Palmetto Pride, our state’s off the water if there’s that sort of anti-litter organization, was formed. device, and then dry your hands The Palmetto Pride/Keep South with a clean paper towel rather than Carolina Beautiful meetings always the dish cloth that hangs off the back began with a pledge. Part of it is to of a chair. pick up at least one piece of litter Maybe it’s karma for doing my part every day. to keep Sumter beautiful, but I didn’t It has become a way of life for me. get a cold this year!! (Probably the Sadly, there are always opportunities day this runs my luck will turn.) But to fulfill my requirement as I walk all that hand washing may have kept towards the Clemson Extension that ubiquitous virus from getting a office in the Sumter Hi-Rise – and hold of me, and I also get the advansometimes I have surprises – a brastage of a stretch when I lean over. siere, a cold bottle of beer in a brown Maybe you can take the pledge, too. bag, and a flier on fooling drug tests Our litter problem won’t go away – but mostly diapers, drink bottles, until we decide that everyone needs papers and empty cigarette packs to pitch in. Be the “suit” who isn’t too which I put in the trash can as I wait highfalutin to leave trash for somefor the elevator. one “whose job it is to take care of Now, it does take nerve to pick those things.” some of this up but it has a good trade off to it – the minute I get up Clemson University Cooperative Extension to the office I wash my hands! Last Service offers its programs to people of all ages, week on Making It Grow, some gals regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national from Clemson’s Food, Nutrition origin, disability, political beliefs, sexual orienand Safety program gave us a quick tation, marital or family status and is an equal tutorial on how to properly wash up. opportunity employer.

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By The Associated Press Sunday At Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, Tenn.

Lap length: .533 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 511 laps, 129.8 rating, 47 points, $212,961.

2. (28) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 511, 100.2, 42, $170,011.

3. (23) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 511, 107.6, 41, $160,861.

4. (25) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 511, 89.8, 40, $125,475.

5. (18) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 511, 92.5, 39, $135,275.

6. (21) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 511, 80.7, 38, $131,129.

7. (14) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 511, 113.9, 38, $133,423.

8. (15) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 511, 82.3, 36, $126,723.

9. (26) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 511, 72.6, 35, $107,365.

10. (12) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 511, 97.8, 34, $136,351.

11. (9) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 511, 90.9, 33, $106,340.

12. (37) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 511, 87.9, 32, $131,773.

13. (30) Aric Almirola, Ford, 511, 84.7, 31, $134,176.

14. (10) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 510, 102.9, 30, $126,831.

15. (7) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 510, 113.1, 30, $112,175.

16. (13) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 509, 80.1, 28, $112,300.

17. (24) Brett Moffitt, Toyota, 509, 56, 27, $124,864.

18. (32) David Gilliland, Ford, 508, 62.7, 26, $120,533.

19. (39) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 508, 57.2, 25, $121,995.

20. (40) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 508, 54.1, 24, $110,033.

21. (22) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 508, 57.4, 23, $103,708.

22. (19) Michael McDowell, Ford, 507, 46.1, 22, $91,875.

23. (36) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 507, 56.5, 21, $91,700.

24. (3) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 507, 105, 21, $91,825.

25. (38) Chris Buescher, Ford, 505, 39.2, 0, $91,325.

26. (5) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 505, 48.5, 18, $109,200.

27. (42) Cole Whitt, Ford, 504, 42.9, 17, $103,572.

28. (31) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 504, 47.2, 16, $135,450.

29. (16) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 504, 71.1, 15, $120,120.

30. (33) Greg Biffle, Ford, 504, 68.7, 15, $124,458.

31. (41) Mike Bliss, Ford, 502, 31.9, 0, $90,625.

32. (29) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 496, 31.9, 0, $89,550.

33. (43) Alex Kennedy, Chevrolet, 490, 28.3, 11, $89,500.

34. (20) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, accident, 489, 65.9, 10, $107,450.

35. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 489, 40, 9, $138,341.

36. (27) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, accident, 487, 58.2, 8, $97,350.

37. (8) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, accident, 482, 81.7, 7, $107,289.

38. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 468, 111.9, 8, $143,112.

39. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, accident, 466, 38.5, 5, $80,415.

40. (6) Joey Logano, Ford, 452, 41.6, 4, $123,623.

41. (11) David Ragan, Toyota, 435, 49.2, 3, $117,406.

42. (34) Jeb Burton, Toyota, accident, 416, 33.7, 2, $68,415.

43. (17) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, accident, 288, 45.3, 0, $64,915.

KENSETH FROM PAGE B1 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Boston Marathon winner Lelisa Desisa, left, and women’s division winner Caroline Rotich, pose with the trophy on Monday in Boston.

Desisa wins 119th Boston Marathon BOSTON — Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won his second Boston Marathon on Monday, two years after he donated the medal from his first victory to the city in memory of the bombing victims.

Kenya’s Carolina Rotich was the women’s champion, outsprinting Mare Dibaba down Boylston Street to win by 4 seconds.

Desisa didn’t have much time to celebrate when he won in 2013.

Hours after he crossed the finish line, two bombs exploded on Boylston Street and turned his victory into an afterthought. As the city mourned the three killed and 260 wounded in the explosions, he returned to Boston to donate the medal.

The 25-year-old Ethiopian

won the 119th edition of the world’s most prestigious marathon in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 17 seconds to beat Yemane Adhane Tsegay by 31 seconds. Kenya’s Wilson Chebet was third, another 34 seconds back.

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BOSTON — Justin Masterson benefited from five unearned runs, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-1 Monday in a soggy Patriots’ Day game shortened by rain to 6 1/2 innings.

With the score tied at 1, Boston scored four runs in the third when Wei-Yin Chen (0-1) walked four and made an error, and third baseman Manny Machado committed another error.

EAGLES SIGN TEBOW TO 1-YEAR CONTRACT

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles have signed quarterback Tim Tebow to a one-year contract, giving the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner his first shot in the NFL since the Patriots cut him before the 2013 season.

Tebow hasn’t played in the NFL since 2012 with the New York Jets.

BROWNE WINS RAIN-SHORTENED GWINNETT CHAMPIONSHIP

DULUTH, Ga. — Olin Browne won the Champions Tour’s Greater Gwinnett Championship after constant rain forced the cancellation of the final round.

From wire reports

terrific jump on the restart.

He wasn’t challenged in part because Gordon had a poor restart.

Johnson slid past Gordon to take second place, and Gordon finished third.

The race had a series of hiccups unrelated to the rain stoppages: Austin Dillon ran out of gas while running third because of the lengthy final caution, Denny Hamlin didn’t get back in his car after the first rain break because of a kink in his neck, and the two Team Penske drivers wrecked each other just 20 laps after the start.

Carl Edwards and Kurt Busch were in contention until they wrecked following a restart eight laps from the scheduled finish, and Busch put together his strong run with an interim crew chief because Tony Gibson couldn’t leave his motorhome due to pain from a kidney stone.

Kyle Larson, while leading, had a miscue with a pair of cars a lap down and the chaos it created sent

Landon Cassill hard into the wall.

“Heck, that’s Bristol, isn’t it?’’ said Gordon. “I’m sure I’ve had wackier nights and days at Bristol than this.’’

Hamlin, meanwhile, said he felt something strain in his neck 12 laps into the race.

The race was stopped for rain on Lap 22, and Hamlin went to his motorhome to see if he could get his neck to feel better. Instead, it stiffened and he was hardly able to turn his head when NASCAR summoned drivers back to their cars.

“I can’t move my head or neck like I need to, and I’m not doing this team any justice if I go out there like this,’’ Hamlin told The Associated Press from the garage. “I have no idea what happened. I think it’s just a pull, something where you jerk your head around and you feel a pain. Almost like you slept on it wrong.’’

Prior to the rain delay, Brad Keselowski wrecked teammate Joey Logano and both Team Penske cars suffered significant damage.

OBITUARIES FAYE E. BLACKSTONE Faye Evans Blackstone, age 70, beloved wife of 55 years to Charles R. Blackstone, died on Monday, April 20, 2015, at her residence.

Services will be private.

You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

JEANETTE G. FLOYD TURBEVILLE — Jeanette Graham Floyd, 71, passed away on Saturday evening, April 18, 2015, at her resi-

dence, after an illness.

Mrs. Floyd was born in Olanta, a daughter of the late Oscar and Salema Sauls Graham. She was owner and operator of Town and Country Hair Salon in Lake City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; son and his wife, Stewart (Donna) Floyd; sister, Judy Stegall; and a brother, Edward Bowers.

Surviving are her husband of 51 years, Lilton Floyd of Turbeville; daughter, Teresa (Kenn) Croft of Florida; brother, Ray (Maranda) Thornhill of Johnsonville; sisters, Diane

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DEAN R. STUBBS SR. BISHOPVILLE — Dean Richard Stubbs Sr., age 57, died on Friday, April 17, 2015, at his residence.

Services will be held at a later date in Florida.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the local arrangements.

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RICHARD A. VOGEL JR. Richard Arnold Vogel Jr., age 58, beloved husband of 28 years of Cheryl Breland Vogel, died on Sunday, April 19, 2015, at his residence.

Born in Yonkers, New York, he was a son of Flo Blasco Vogel and the late Richard Arnold Vogel Sr. He grew up as a commercial fisherman with his dad in New York. He enjoyed working on automobiles and worked with Builders First Source here in Sumter for more than 20 years. He and his wife enjoyed fishing almost every weekend. He will be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend.

Surviving in addition to his wife and mother are one son, Richard A. Vogel III and his wife, Larissa, of Sumter; two daughters, Angela Garner McCabe and her husband, Bob Hamilton, of Sumter and Patty Carrion and her husband, Patrick, of Sumter; one son and one daughter of New York; one stepbrother, John Caruso of Florida; two brothers; four sisters; and 11 grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Bullock Funeral Home.

Graham of Lake City, Ella Mae (Allen) Brownlee of St. George and Joanne (Joseph) Bolchoz of Charleston; four grandchildren, Nikki (Ashley) Kinney, Candice (Shaun) Baker, Jay Floyd and Ian (Devon) Kinney; and six great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. today at Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home immediately following the service.

Please sign the tribute wall for Mrs. Floyd at the obit section of www.stoudenmire-

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Strong views expressed on claiming seats in church DEAR ABBY — May I comment on your response to “Got Here First in Pennsylvania” (Jan. Dear Abby 7), who asked ABIGAIL whether VAN BUREN someone sitting at the end of a church pew should move if someone comes and says it’s his or her “favorite seat”?

There are many reasons why people remain sitting at the end of a pew: an allergy to perfumes can be overwhelming if you’re sitting in the middle of a row; claustrophobia; weak bladder;

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physical limitations; the need for more leg room; and the need to use the armrest to stand up and sit down.

The early bird DOES get the worm and shouldn’t be expected to give it to latecomers. Likewise, possession is nine-tenths of the law.

If people have a favorite seat, they should arrive early to ensure they’ll get it.

That’s what we do. And when someone wants to sit in the same pew, we smile, step aside and let the person in while retaining our end seats.

Overland Park, Kansas, attendee DEAR ATTENDEE — Thank you for making your strongly stated case. When I told

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“Got Here” to be an angel and shove over, readers were quick to offer me “chapter and verse”: DEAR ABBY — As a pastor, I believe good behavior should come first and foremost from church members who respect others and don’t insist on their own way. Nobody “owns” a seat in the sanctuary. As creatures of habit, we tend to sit where we usually sit. If someone else happens to be there, we simply find somewhere else.

If “Got Here” was just starting to visit that church, I’d suggest he/she find a more charitable and hospitable congregation and leave those territorial folks behind.

Jeanne in Austin

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By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

ACROSS 1 Stick (out) 4 Chocolate syrup choice 9 Call to mind 14 Self-image 15 Chipmunk’s morsel 16 “America by Heart” author Sarah 17 Good name for a treelined street 18 Controversial coal-extraction process 20 Long gun 22 Really mad 23 __-Loompa: fictional chocolate factory worker 26 Bagpiper, often 27 Buy lots of presents for 33 “2001” computer 34 Cinematic shootout time 35 Monica of tennis 36 Allowed to ripen, as cheddar 38 Kind of card or drive 41 Senate slot 42 Rose (up) on hind legs, to a cowhand 44 Beat to a froth 46 Doctor’s org.

47 Wry wit

51 “ÀQuŽ __?”

52 Jazz singer Krall 53 Curse-inflicting stare 56 Some Balkanites 59 Opera house section 62 Kit __: candy bar 63 Everglades wader 64 Pro basketball player, briefly 65 H-like letter 66 “Think again!”

67 Decent chaps 68 “Give __ thoughts no tongue”: “Hamlet” DOWN 1 Bit of heckling 2 Aptly named fruit 3 Horseplay 4 Infielders 5 Autumn mo.

6 Fraternity counterpart: Abbr.

7 Nursery bed 8 Like some military housing 9 Literary postscripts 10 Makeup tables 11 “Chocolat” actress Lena 12 Royal flush card

13 Second lang., for some 19 Wisc. neighbor 21 Stuck-in-themud gear 24 University VIP 25 AFB truant 27 Broken pottery piece 28 Helga’s Viking husband, in comics 29 Extremely impressed 30 Bargain hunter’s mecca 31 Spanish “I love you” 32 Astronomical red giant 37 More than dislikes 39 Not barefoot 40 Old audio system

43 Includes in the poker game 45 Sci-fi weapons 48 Tiny fraction of a min.

49 Adage 50 One in Paris 53 Therefore 54 Opposite of hor.

55 Kathryn of “Law & Order: C.I.” 57 Appropriate room for the sequence comprised of the starts of 18-, 27-, 47- and 59-Across 58 Legal suspension 59 Family room 60 Soda container 61 Do-over on the court

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Home Improvements H.L. Boone, Contractor: Remodel paint roofs gutters drywall blown ceilings ect. 773-9904 Professional Remodelers Home maintenance, ceramic tile, roofing, siding & windows doors, etc. Lic. & Ins. (Cell) 803-459-4773 Land Clearing avail. includes: Digging ponds, excavation, and bulldozer work. Call T & N Septic Tank Co. at 803-481-2428 or 803-481-2421

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EOE Maintenance Supervisor Maintenance Supervisor needed for community in Sumter. Candidates must possess at least 5 years previous apartment maintenance & supervisory experience. Ability to troubleshoot & repair electrical & mechanical systems, appliances, structural, plumbing systems and HVAC certification req. Must respond to rotating after hours emergency calls. Submit resumes to: humanresources@fryproperties.com Spring Hill Suites by Marriott on Broad St. is seeking a sales manager. Previous hotel exp. required. Please apply in person at 2645 Broad St, Sumter, South Carolina 29150.

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LEGAL NOTICES Legal Notice PUBLIC AUCTION Auction notice is hereby given that the contents of the rental cube list herein will be offered for sale online website per SC Storage Act. The property list contained herein will be sold to satisfy liens imposed by CubeSmart on 5/6/2015 at 2:00PM. The sale will occur on the website http://www.storagetreasures.com. #130 Samantha Gamble - Household items.

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Legal Notice Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell to satisfy the lien of owner at public sale by competitive bidding on May 7, 2015 personal and/or business property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools and other household/business items located at the properties listed.

The sale will begin at 2:00 pm at 1277 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC 29153.

The personal goods stored therein by below named occupant(s);

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service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer to the said Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for a default judgment granting the relief demanded in the said Complaint TO THE DEFENDANT, VARSHABEN PATEL: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above captioned matter were filed in the Court Of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, the object and prayer of which is an action to cancel the mortgage and other related relief as set forth in the Complaint.

1143 N.Guignard Dr, Sumter, SC 29150 101 - Carter, Joeann 125 - Green, Brenda 201 - Rush, Eric 206 - Jones, Tabbith 215 - Gadson, James 342 - Reynolds, Jaret 404 - Gripper, Adrian 417 - Rush, Eric 441 - Fulwood, Malcolm 560 - Calvetti, Aaron 713 - Ford, Desean 716 - Lemon, Brad 718 - Smith-OWENS, Tracy 729 - McCray, Ada

Kenneth R. Young, Jr. Attorney for Plaintiff 23 West Calhoun Street Sumter, SC 29150 803-773-4371

1277 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC 29153 A036 - Medina, Laracha B033 - Smith, Judie B046 - Burns, Latoya B052 - Pringle, Brenda B095 - Tingle, Leslie C050 - Bradley, Stacey C059 - Starnes, Lateka C065 - Parker, Andrew D024 - Ragin, Shawn F019 - Williams, Sandra F023 - Lockes, Carlton F040 - Holmes, Johnny Mae G005 - Austin, Latonya G024 - Kennedy, Dwight G028 - Joyner, Serita G031 - Rubin, Gary H005 - Stewart, Sandra

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3785 Broad St, Sumter, SC 29154 0152 - Kershaw, Lillie 0229 - White, Brenda 0232 - Johnson, Christopher 0253 - Hawkins-Sweetenburg, Jennifer 0318 - Holliday, Eddie 0321 - Burns, Monteak 0326 - Gregory, Theresa 0430 - Singleton, Aundria 0516 - Miles, April 0543 - Stuckey, Sheila B 0834 - McCombs, Clayton Purchase must be made with cash only and paid for at the time of sale.

All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to adjournment.

Beer & Wine License Notice Of Application

Notice is hereby given that Corner Pantry, Inc. intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale OFF premises consumption of Beer,Wine and/or Liquor at 660 W. Liberty Street, Sumter, SC 29150. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 23, 2015. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

Summons & Notice IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 2014-CP-43-1312 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Sarla Harshad Desai, Varshaben Patel,

vs.

Plaintiff Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANT, VARSHABEN PATEL: You are hereby summoned and required to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff, or her attorney, Kenneth R. Young, Jr., within thirty (30) days after the

SUMMONS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Docket Number 2014-CP-43-2355

Lucinda McFadden Colclough Petitioner, vs Ervin Dantzler, Respondent YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Petition in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Petition on the Petitioner or her attorney, Larry C. Weston, Esquire, at his office, 109 North Main Street,Sumter, South Carolina, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to Answer the Petition within the time aforesaid, the Petitioner in this action wil apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Petition.

NOTICE OF FILING TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANT

ABOVE

Jonathan M. Robinson John K. DuBose, III H. Thomas Morgan, Jr. L. Shawn Sullivan ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF P. O. Drawer 39 Camden, South Carolina 29021 (803) 432-1992 (telephone) (803) 432-0784 (facsimile) johnd@duboselaw.com

Public Hearing NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS A meeting for private schools is scheduled for Wednesday, April 22, 2015, for eligible private schools located within a 25-mile radius of Sumter School District's Title I schools. Private schools may be located in or outside of the district.

The purpose of the meeting is to make recommendations regarding participation and the design and plan for the 2015-2016 Title I, Title II, and Title III projects.

The meeting will be held at the Sumter School District Administrative Building, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter, SC, Room 118, at 4:00 p.m.

Estate Notice Sumter County

Estate Notice Sumter County

Estate Notice Sumter County

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the 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 amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the 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 amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate:

Estate:

Estate:

Personal Representative

Larry C. Weston, Esquire 109 N. Main Street Sumter, South Carolina 29151 (803) 778-2421 Attorney for the Plaintiff

Estate:

and

Personal Representative

Walter G. Newman Sumter, SC 29150

Vela Burgess 4805 Narrow Paved Road Lynchburg, SC 29080

Robert Edward Baird #2015ES4300227

Estate: Harmon Patrick Hodge Sr #2015ES4300197

Personal Representative

27 West Calhoun Street

Estate:

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Troy Baird 5 Marshcreek Lane Savannah, GA 31411 Estate: Narvice Bowers Painter #2015ES4300190

Personal Representative

Jason L. Capell C/O J Cabot Seth Attorney at Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151 Estate:

John Marion Olden #2015ES4300235

Personal Representative

Jonathan Odell Olden C/O Sharon Clark 22 E. Liberty Street Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

Roger Dean Blakley #2015ES4300210

Emily Burgess C/O Ruben Gray Attorney at Law PO Box 2636 Sumter, SC 29151 Estate:

Personal Representative

Casualty

Plaintiff, v.

Joan Felder, Lisa Boggs, Diesha Jefferson, Ruth Green, Briana Burns, Samuel Dinkins, and Sarah Harvin, Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANTS HEEIN: JOAN FELDER, LISA BOGGS, DIESHA JEFFERSON, RUTH GREEN, BRIANA BURNS, SAMUEAL DINKINS AND SARAH HARVIN: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the undersigned attorneys at their offices, 2725 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Eugene L. Geddings #2015ES4300212

Cynthia Hacquard 510 Canvasback Cove Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

Rebecca M Duncan #2015ES4300193

Edna Blakley 603 Colonial Drive Sumter, SC 29150

Joyce Hodge 4855 Huckabee Road

Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

DuBOSE-ROBINSON, PC J. Kennedy DuBose, Jr.

Kanicqwa R. Muldrow #2015ES4300230

Personal Representative

Raynald Muldrow C/O Garryl Deas Attorney at Law PO Box 1211 Sumter, SC 29151 Estate:

Barbara Ann Taylor #2015ES4300219

Personal Representative

Marian Virginia Brame C/O Catherine H. Kennedy PO Box 1473 Columbia, SC 29202 Estate:

In Memory of our Mother Josie Richburg 08/09/33 - 04/17/1995 I'm Free. Don't grieve for me now. I'm Free. I'm following the path God laid for me, I took his hand when I heard him call. I turned my back & left it all.

Your Loving Husband, Children, Grands & Foster Daughter

Michael Lee Edwards, Jr. #2015ES4300216

Personal Representative

Angela C. Edwards 715 Orlando Circle Sumter, SC 29154

Estate: Phillip Lee Martindale #2015ES4300191 Personal Representative

Janice E Lasley Payne 4006 Warm Winds San Antonio, TX 78253 Estate:

Elizabeth N. Hilton #2015ES4300208

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Larry Green 27 Malibu Street Sumter, SC 29150

John B. Hilton Jr. 2691 Wedgefield Rd. Sumter, SC 29154

World

Veterinary

Day

NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT DECLARATORY JUDGMENT (NON-JURY) NOTICE that the Complaint, Declaratory Judgment, Non-Jury in the above captioned matter was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on the 4th day of February, 2015.

In Memory of: Lillie Mae Rogers 2/9/33-4/21/14 If roses grow in heaven, Lord please pick a bunch for us, place them in my mother's arm and tell her they are from us, tell her we love her and miss her.

From: Children, Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER

Earlene McLeod #2015ES4300232

Estate: James Thomas Burgess #2015ES4300206

Laurel Claire Spivey Powers 725 Wren Street Sumter, SC 29150

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-0327

Fire

Estate:

Estate: James Wynne Simmons #2015ES4300200

Personal Representative

Estate: Muldrow James Burgess #2015ES4300218

Robert Lawrence Roy C/O J Cabot Seth Attorney at Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151

Fred G. McLeod C/O Dwight C. Moore Attorney at Law 26 N. Main Street Sumter, SC 29150

Personal Representative

SUMMONS

State Farm Company,

Jean B Spivey #2015ES4300188

Chester L. Douglas, IV #2015ES4300189

Christine Singleton C/O Ruben Gray Attorney at Law PO Box 2636 Sumter, SC 29151

Laura Lee Jackson #2015ES4300194

Willie Mae Singleton 356 Curtis Drive Sumter, SC 29150

Jerry Singleton #2015ES4300217

In Memory

Personal Representative

Carols Henry Skelton, Jr. 2640 Indigo Drive Sumter, SC 29154

Personal Representative

TAKE NOTICE that the Summons in the above mentioned action, together with the Complaint, was filed with the Sumter County Summary Court on the 6th day of November, 2014.

Estate:

Personal Representative

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the 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 amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Carlos Henry Skelton, Sr. #2015ES4300209

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