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Girl in abuse case may lose foot 7-year-old’s grandmother arrested Friday, charged

BY JIM HILLEY The Sumter Item A 7-year-old girl taken to a Camden hospital Thursday may lose her foot, Sumter

County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Ken Bell said Sunday.

The woman who took her to the hospital and said she was the girl’s grandmother was

Pentagon, Congress at odds about closing bases WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon thinks it has a winning argument for why Congress should allow a new round of military base closings. The case goes like this: The Army and Air Force have vastly more space for training and basing troops than they need, and trimming the surplus would save money better used to strengthen the military.

Congress, however, has its own logic: Closing bases can hurt local economies, which can cost votes in the next election.

Besides, some lawmakers say, the Pentagon has cooked the books to justify its conclusions or at least has not finished doing the math.

Lawmakers are fiercely protective of bases in their district or state and generally prefer to ignore or dismiss any Pentagon push to close them. Nearly every year the Pentagon asks Congress for authority to convene a base-closing commission. The answer is always the same: Not this year.

And probably not any time soon, either.

In a little-noticed report to congressional leaders this month, the Pentagon offered a detailed analysis — the first of its kind in 12 years — that concludes the military will have an overall 22 percent excess of base capacity in 2019. The Army will have 33 percent surplus, the Air Force 32 percent and the Navy and Marine Corps a combined 7 percent, the report says.

Base capacity is the total amount of acreage or work space available to support military forces at places such as a training range, an air base, a weapons storage site or an office building.

“Spending resources on excess infrastructure does not make sense,” Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work wrote to leaders of the relevant congressional

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arrested Friday by sheriff’s office deputies and charged with unlawful conduct toward a child.

Medical personRAYSOR nel told investigators the girl’s burn injury happened before Tuesday, when the woman, the girl and a 9-year-old boy

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Tori Beth Weeks, left, and another jumper flip over a trampoline at the amusement park area of the Striped Bass Festival on Saturday. While it may appear they would collide, they were each jumping within separate areas of the ride which had a trampoline on the ground and suspended bungee cords and straps to keep them within their areas. See more photos of the festival on page A3 and online at www.theitem.com.

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clude an “immerse burn” to the girl’s foot, such as would be suffered from having it immersed in scalding water, the sheriff’s office reported.

The child also reportedly showed signs of having been beaten, with various bruises and other marks on her body.

She was listed in “guarded”

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Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work speaks at the Pentagon in 2014. “Spending resources on excess infrastructure does not make sense,” Work wrote to leaders of the relevant congressional committees on April 12.

arrived in the Sumter area.

Investigators have since learned that Jaqueline Raysor, 55, who moved here with the children from Louisiana, has previously faced child abuse charges in both Louisiana and Mississippi.

The injured girl is being treated at Palmetto Children’s Hospital in Columbia for her injuries, which are said to in-

An opening ceremony was held Friday night. Saturday morning began with a parade featuring local school bands, beauty queens, government officials, political candidates and many floats.

The event included a truck and car show, a boat show, music and dancing groups, a children’s art show, food and craft vendors as well as amusement rides.

The festival is the largest fundraiser for Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce, said Pro Prothro, 2016 Chamber president.

Numerous food and information

vendors came out Saturday for the festivities. Vendors included local businesses, churches, schools, organizations and political candidates.

Sumter residents Carnell and Betty Dukes, of Dukes Peanuts and Variety, were selling boiled peanuts, pork rinds and pork skins and other homemade foods.

This was their fourth year at the festival.

“It’s a great event; I love it and look forward to it every year,” Betty Dukes said. “I enjoy meeting new people from all over this area and the country.”

Jeff Martin, of Orangeburg, owner of Chandler’s Novelties, was selling everything from bubble blowers to lasers, necklaces, watches, sunglasses and more.

Martin has been coming to the festival for a dozen years.

“It’s an excellent event for the community,” he said.

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You’re invited Commission will consider plan to hear jubilant, for senior apartment building sacred music West Liberty Street

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First Presbyterian Church will offer a diverse program Sunday as it presents its third-annual spring concert. The 6:30 p.m. concert, titled “A Jubilant Song: An Evening of Sacred Music,” features instrumental and vocal selections with church members and guests performing.

Joni Brown, director of music ministries, said most of the pieces, modern and traditional, reflect great joy, beginning with “O Worship the King,” which she described as “an extended fanfare for brass ensemble and organ ... a joyous setting of the familiar hymn tune ‘Lyons’ (that) sets the tone of the program.”

Organist Hamilton Stoddard and the brass ensemble comprising Jon Hopkins and Evan Thompson on trumpet, trombonists Jessica Bettinger, Joseph Bettinger and Ray Graham, John Wates on tuba and Kenny Jordan on timpani, will play this fanfare. The prelude continues with an arrangement of EVENING OF “Gabriel’s SACRED MUSIC Oboe,” the theme for the Admission is free for 1986 film, “The the 6:30 p.m. Sunday Mission,” for concert titled “A which composer Jubilant Song: An Ennio MorriEvening of Sacred Music,” presented by cone won a the First Presbyterian Golden Globe Church Music Ministry. for best Child care will be soundtrack. Emprovided. The mett Anglin will program will take play recorder, place in the sanctuary and Stoddard of the church at 9 W. will play organ.

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Brown said, “This sparkling anthem quotes Psalm 98, inviting the listeners to ‘Sing to the Lord all the earth!’”

Among the well-known traditional hymns with non-traditional settings are “Shall We Gather at the River” and “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” Stoddard and pianist Kay Rasmussen will play the latter, while “Shall We Gather at the River” will be sung by the choir, accompanied by Stoddard on piano, Barbara Rearden on flute and Michael Baier on cello.

The Joy Ringers, First Presbyterian’s adult hand bell choir, will play the Jason Krug arrangement of “Sweet Hour of Prayer.”

Noting that “Spirituals always express the promise of comfort, joy and better things to come,” Brown said the genre will be represented by the chancel choir singing Moses Hogan’s “God’s Gonna Set This World on Fire,” and Michelle Blassengale, soprano, will sing the triumphant “Ride on, King Jesus.”

The chancel choir men will sing “Bound for Jubilee” by Joyce Eilers.

Also on the program are “Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise!,” a rousing setting of the hymn “Llanfair” for choir, trumpets and timpani, and John Rutter’s “Go Forth into the World in Peace,” which Brown described as “a quiet benediction before a rousing finale.”

The concert will end with the congregational hymn “Immortal Invisible,” accompanied by The Joy Ringers, organ and brass ensemble.

FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter City and County Planning Commission will meet at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Sumter City Council Chambers, Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St., to consider approval for a:

• Major site plan and highway corridor protection district design review for a senior-living apartment building at 405 W. Liberty St. The building is planned to have two stories and 30 units; • Request to rezone 2.23 acres at 2540 Thomas Sumter Highway from limited commercial to agricultural conservation; • Request to rezone 4.65

acres at 2120 Thomas Sumter Highway from general commercial and agricultural conservation to general commercial; • Request to rezone 31.3 acres on the east side of Keels Road and south of Loring Mill Road from residential-15 to residential-9; • Request for preliminary plat to develop a 21-

lot subdivision on property on the south side of Queen Chapel Road, behind 3830-3930 Queen Chapel Road, and west of the intersection of Queen Chapel Road and Westbury Mill Road; and • Lifetime family conveyance to subdivide two 1.08acre tracts from a larger 3.5-acre parcel on property located off Hiram Jenkins Road.

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Shenandoah is known for its music that celebrates faith, family and the joys of small-town life. The band will play at Sumter Opera House on Friday to close out the venue’s 2015-16 season.

Shenandoah closes out Opera House season FROM STAFF REPORTS Multiple award-winning country music band Shenandoah is coming to Sumter Opera House. Known for the hit songs “Two Dozen Roses,” “Church on Cumberland Road,” “Next to You, Next to Me” and many others, Shenandoah’s performance will be the final concert in Sumter Opera House’s 2015-16 season.

The band will have one performance only, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, and a full house is expected, according to City Cultural Manager Seth Reimer.

Shenandoah had its beginnings in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in 1984, with Mike McGuire and Marty Raybon, also known for his Grammywinning collaboration with Alison Krauss, “Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart.” He recently sang with Miranda Lambert on her “Another Sunday in the South,” a nod to Shenandoah’s own “Sunday in the South.”

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Annual Shrimp Feast is at museum tonight A few tickets remain for the

The late bass player Ralph Ezell, keyboardist Stan Thorne and guitarist Jim Seales completed the band. The combination clicked, and record producer Robert Byrne recorded a demo and recommended the group to Columbia Records, which signed them.

After its eponymous debut album in 1987, the band took off nationally, with McGuire crediting Raybon’s vocals for much of Shenandoah’s success.

“When you hear Marty Raybon sing, there’s nobody that sounds like him,” McGuire said. “There’s nobody that’s got the same chops

that he’s got, and he’s singing from his heart. That’s one of the reasons that everybody wants to hear him sing.”

Shenandoah has been nominated for and has won numerous music awards, including a Grammy and several Country Music Association awards.

The band’s make-up has changed through the years — Raybon left in 1997 but returned almost two decades later for a benefit concert for a friend battling cancer and later for Shenandoah’s new recording, “Good News Travels Fast,” its first gospel CD, and the supporting tour, which brings the band to Sumter.

Opening for Shenandoah will be Triple Run, a Nashville-based trio that includes Sumter’s Matt Singleton singing and playing several instruments; Alaskan Eric Knuston on guitar; and singer/songwriter Brittany Taylor, originally from Kentucky. Their music ranges from Fleetwood Mac style to bluegrass.

16th-Annual Shrimp Feast tonight at Sumter County Museum, 122 N. Washington St. On the menu for the 6 to 9 p.m. feast are all-you-can-eat shrimp cooked five ways: fried, boiled, grilled, with grits and in Lowcountry boil; and Brown’s barbe-

cue, beer, wine and soft drinks.

Tickets are $30 for members, $40 for non-members and $45 at the door, if any remain.

All proceeds benefit the museum.

Call (803) 775-0908 or visit www. sumtercountymuseum.org.

SEE SHENANDOAH Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St., presents Shenandoah in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $35, $32 and $28 and are now on sale. To purchase tickets or for more information, call (803) 4362616 or visit www.sumteroperahouse.com.

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Feds want to make it easier for ex-prisoners to obtain IDs WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch is urging the nation’s governors to make it easier for convicted felons to obtain state-issued identification after they get out of prison, part of a broader plan announced Monday to help smooth the path for state and federal inmates who are preparing to re-enter society.

The announcement, on the first day of National Reentry Week, is aimed at helping the roughly 600,000 state and federal prisoners who return each year to American neighborhoods to better acclimate to society and remove some of the hurdles ex-convicts face in getting jobs, education and housing.

“The long-term impact of a criminal record prevents many people from obtaining employment, housing, higher education and credit — and these barriers affect returning individuals even if they have turned their lives around and are unlikely to reoffend,” Lynch said in a seven-page policy titled “Roadmap to Reentry.”

She announced the policy change at an appearance in Philadelphia on Monday afternoon.

The Justice Department initiative directs the federal Bureau of Prisons to prepare an individualized re-entry plan for each inmate that will take into account substance abuse, criminal history and education level. In addition, the agency will be reviewing its network of halfway houses and assessing its life skills, education and job training programs to ensure that they’re best serving the needs of inmates. A pilot program is also being launched at four BOP facilities for children of incarcerated parents.

Lynch is separately calling on governors to allow federal inmates who are returning to their communities to exchange their prisoner identification card for state-issued identification or to simply accept their BOP card as an identity document.

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Obama says new U.S. troops in Syria essential

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE AND KATHLEEN HENNESSEY The Associated Press HANNOVER, Germany — President Obama on Monday announced the deployment of up to 250 U.S. military personnel to Syria, mostly special operations forces, to assist local troops trying to dislodge Islamic State extremists. He called the move essential to keeping up momentum against the group.

The deployment will bring the number of personnel to roughly 300, up from about 50 special operations forces currently in Syria.

Obama revealed his decision a week after Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that more than 200 U.S. troops soon will be headed to Iraq, where local forces are also battling Islamic State militants who control areas of that country. He said none of the new forces heading to Syria would participate in direct combat.

“They’re not going to be leading the fight on the ground, but they will be essential in providing the training and assisting local forces,” Obama said during a speech in Germany that capped a weeklong trip that also took him to Saudi Arabia and Great Britain.

IS was a focus of private talks with his counterparts in all three stops.

Senior U.S. officials have been touting the success of the existing U.S. forces OBAMA in Syria, including their effectiveness in assisting local forces and generating critical intelligence that helps the U.S.-led coalition against IS target insurgents.

“We want to accelerate that progress,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser.

Obama said U.S.-European collaboration must extend to the threat posed by IS. As he announced deeper U.S. involvement, he urged Europe to step up, too.

Before returning to Washington, Obama huddled with the leaders of Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy. He said ahead of the meeting that he planned to ask those nations to step up their training and airstrike contributions to the campaign against IS and to provide more economic aid to rebuild parts of Iraq recaptured from IS. “Europe and NATO can still do more,” he said. “We need to do everything in our power to stop them.”

Obama discussed his troop decision briefly during a broader speech on U.S.European relations and the importance to the world of continued European unity. Obama urged Europe’s leaders to pay attention to income inequality, which he said creates wedges among populations, and other issues including education for young people and equal pay for equal work for women.

“If we do not solve these problems, we start seeing those who would try to exploit these fears and frustrations and channel them in a destructive way,” Obama said. He decried an “us-versusthem” mentality that breeds animosity toward immigrants, Muslims and others.

“This is a defining moment, and what happens on this continent has consequences for people around the globe,” Obama said. “If a unified, peaceful, liberal, pluralistic, free-market Europe begins to doubt itself, begins to question the progress that’s been made over the last several decades, then we can’t expect the progress that is just now taking hold in many places around the world will continue.”

The president’s appeal for Europe to stick together came days after he made a forceful argument while in London

against Great Britain exiting the European Union. The possibility of Britain leaving the EU in a June referendum, along with the regional terrorist threat and the Syria refugee crisis, has raised questions about the strength of European unity.

Libya was also expected to be a topic of discussion at Obama’s high-level meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo.

Obama discussed Libya during separate talks with Cameron and Merkel. He recently said failure to plan for the fallout after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was toppled in 2011 was his biggest mistake.

Libya since has descended into chaos and become a base for IS. But Obama has said he has no plans to send in ground troops and prefers to support a newly installed unity government in the North African country.

Obama has said he remains opposed to large-scale U.S. military intervention in either Iraq or Syria. But he has incrementally deepened U.S. involvement in both countries, opening him up to charges of mission creep.

Cruz, Kasich strategies align with goal of beating Trump PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — In an extraordinary move, Donald Trump’s Republican rivals late Sunday announced plans to coordinate primary strategies in upcoming states to deprive the GOP front-runner of the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich issued near-simultaneous

statements outlining an agreement that may be unprecedented in modern American politics. The Kasich campaign will give Cruz “a clear path in Indiana.” In return, the Cruz campaign will “clear the path” for Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico.

The arrangement does not address the five Northeastern states set to vote today, where

Trump is expected to add to his already overwhelming delegate lead. Kasich and Cruz had already retreated to Indiana, which holds its primary on May 3. Yet the shift offers increasingly desperate Trump foes a glimmer of hope in their long and frustrating fight to halt the former reality TV star’s unlikely rise.

“Having Donald Trump at

the top of the ticket in November would be a sure disaster for Republicans,” Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, said in a statement explaining the new plans. “Not only would Trump get blown out by Clinton or Sanders, but having him as our nominee would set the party back a generation.”

Added Kasich’s chief strategist, John Weaver, “Our goal is

to have an open convention in Cleveland, where we are confident a candidate capable of uniting the party and winning in November will emerge as the nominee.”

The announcement marks a sharp reversal for Cruz’s team, which aggressively opposed coordinating anti-Trump efforts with Kasich as recently as late last week.

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Authorities: Pot operations found in 3 homes where 8 died COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Marijuana growing operations were discovered at some of the crime scenes where officials said eight family members were killed in a “pre-planned execution,” raising more questions as authorities scrambled to find a suspect or suspects in the slayings in a rural southern Ohio community.

The killings at four homes near the small community of Piketon on Friday was “a sophisticated operation,” Attorney General Mike DeWine said at a news conference Sunday.

Seven adults and one teenage boy were found shot in the head; three young children were not harmed.

“This was a pre-planned execution of eight individuals,” DeWine said.

Authorities remained tightlipped Sunday about details of the investigation, any suspects or motives for the crime. They said they found marijuana operations at three of the crime scenes, but didn’t say if the deaths were linked to pot.

Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader said it was clear the family was targeted, and he’s told the victims’ relatives to arm themselves.

Reader said he didn’t think safety was an issue for others, but he said “If you are fearful, arm yourself.”

Investigators have interviewed between 50 and 60 people in hopes of finding leads, and a team of 38 people is combing wooded areas around the shooting scenes to ensure no evidence was missed, authorities said.

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Authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene Friday in Pike County, Ohio. Eight family members were killed in a “pre-planned execution.” was not something that just happened,” said Reader, noting most victims were targeted while they were sleeping.

The victims were identified Saturday as 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his 16-yearold son, Christopher Rhoden Jr.; 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; 38-year-old Gary Rhoden; 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; 20-year-old Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden; 20-year-old Hannah Gilley; and 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden.

Hanna Rhoden was in bed with her newborn baby nearby, authorities said. The infant was 4 or 5 days old. The newborn, Hannah Gilley’s 6-month-old

baby and one other small child were not hurt.

DeWine said the state’s crime lab was looking at 18 pieces of evidence from a DNA and ballistic standpoint, and five search warrants have been executed.

Since the slayings, authorities have refused to discuss many details of the crime, a potential motive, weapons or the search for the assailant or assailants.

“We don’t know whether it was one or more people involved in this,” DeWine said.

More than 100 tips have been given to investigators, who’ve set up a number for people to

call as police seek information about the crimes. A Cincinnatiarea businessman also put up a $25,000 reward for details leading to the capture and conviction of the killer or killers.

Robin Waddell, who owns the Big Bear Lake Family Resort just south of Piketon, said Christopher Rhoden often did work for him as a carpenter and helped out with his excavation business. He said Rhoden was a nice guy whose kids sometimes visited him while he was working.

“It’s a large family,” Waddell said. “There’s a lot of them, and they’ve been in this community for generations. So this

is affecting a lot of people.”

Maggie Owens, a cook at the town’s Riverside Restaurant, said she counts herself among those who feel they’re on eggshells.

“I know a lot of people are just scared,” Owens, 39, said in a phone interview on Sunday.

“You don’t hear about stuff like that around here.”

She said her son was friends with the younger Christopher Rhoden. She described Dana Rhoden as a woman with “a heart of gold” who gave her clothes and money when her home burned down last year.

The exact timing of the shootings remains unclear. Authorities got the first 911 call shortly before 8 a.m. Friday; the second came several hours later from another location.

Two of the crime scenes are within walking distance of each other along a sparsely populated, winding road that leads into wooded hills from a rural highway. The third residence is more than a mile away, and the fourth home is on a different road, at least a 10-minute drive away.

Todd Beekman, who owns an outdoors shop a few miles from the crime scenes, said at least one customer came in to stock up on ammunition after hearing about the shootings. But Beekman and others hanging out there midday Saturday said they weren’t concerned for their own safety because it’s an area where residents know and look out for each other.

“The word spread pretty fast, as it does in any rural area,” Beekman said. “Everybody’s kind of their own brother’s keeper down here.”

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Serious ‘art, creativity and fun’ at Sumter Gallery

BY JANE G. COLLINS Special to The Sumter Item

A REVIEW

About two months after signing in as curator and assistant director for the Sumter Gallery of Art, Zach Eichelberger had an idea inspired by his trips as a boy to a hamburger restaurant in his hometown Dallas, Texas, where there was art for fun. Later making contact in New York with Ben Hagari, he continued his interest in art as fun.

To Eichelberger, after the Renaissance, art began to make dramatic changes in reaction to the times, especially the wars. Soldiers had wrestled with serious concepts — valor, spirit and survival. Industrial technology added even more pressure. A new narrative seemed to develop after the Vietnam War, an attitude reflected in abstract painting and other genres. If this introduction sounds rather serious, the outcome is the current Sumter County Gallery of Art’s exhibit “Serious Fun,” seeking to consider the concept of art as being fun and meaningful.

A Family Circus cartoon published several weeks ago reflects the nature of this current exhibit. A young boy, book in hand, asks his mother, “Is this just a book, or is it literature?” Point of view and perspective are essential to everyday existence — from clothing to TV programming to political preference. This exhibit offers the viewer the voice of 12 different artists and their somewhat irreverent or unconventional approach to art. Eichelberger began searching the Internet for artists whose work seemed compatible with his concept. His friend Hagari joined in, and eventually, Eichelberger contacted the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts, considering Rockwell the quintessential example of art reflecting fun. Although the original four series was not available, the museum offered another set done in 1951–Basketball, Football, Golf (missed) and Baseball (choosing up). They offered to send a later 1966 painting “Recruit,” which contrasts the romanticized skinny-legged boys with the very precisely drawn three football figures. (Incidentally, only Sumter and Munich will be loaned Rockwell paintings this year.)

Who are these 12 artistic voices? They are as varied as Baskin-Robbins flavors and toppings. Two videos establish the vast spectrum of content.

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Becky Joye’s “Jumping Jack” is an example of her “delicately whimsical attitude.” It can be seen alongside the works of 11 other artists in Sumter County Gallery of Art’s current exhibition titled “Serious Fun.” spinning “Everything Can’t Happen at Once,” done between 2008 and 2010, is a whirlwind of activity — flags, scenery, snakes, eyes, images spin through the screen accompanied by rapid-fire music. (Personally I think sometimes everything can and does happen at once, but that is just my opinion.)

In contrast, Mae Rowland’s “Exhale” creates restful circular shades of blue and green moving across a stable background. The swirling shapes appear to breathe and move on peacefully. Alex Blau’s acrylics “Moon flower” and “No Passing” seem like slick ceramic designs, their vibrant colors, as Sumter Gallery of Art Director Karen Watson observed, like “cotton candy” exactingly executed. For all the severity of the lines, the pieces exude a sense of gaiety.

Sculptor Matthew Yeager began thinking of painting as sculpture, examining how we communicate with one another. At first his pieces were displayed on shelves, but as he thought about response, he began creating free-standing works adding a sense of volume and inviting the observer to question what was happen-

ing. His large sculpture “No Such Right Way” emphasizes the 3-D nature of his works which combine interesting geometric shapes with perspective that encourages the eye to move into the work itself.

There is almost no way to avoid wanting to explore the interior of his pieces.

The wood sculpture of Nico-

las Holiber often begins with trial and error as he selects pieces of board that catch his fancy, assembling them into physical 3-D shapes. Trained in traditional art styles, his shapes are creative forms like Picasso, Braque and even Beckman rolled into a cleverly creative “portrait.” It is no wonder that “Lonely Boy” is lonely: His features are a curious jumble, purposely malformed. There is, however, a wonderful depth and sense of physical relationships, especially in “Nude with a Vase” and “Portrait of a Girl.”

Tad Lauritzen Wright offers a variety of work, from mushrooms labeled “Medical Daydream” to the melting snowman in “Without Recourse” and the curious “Early Retirement” with its brown and white color palette and the interestingly placed slats and spaces. “Repurposed” with its upside down pot and the vibrant “Volcano Insurance” contribute to his experimentation with humor and culture.

Fascinated with plants and movement, Rob Deatherage creates intricately colored compositions that reflect their complex and animated nature.

In “This Again,” he creates repeated shapes in the building and plants. To him, the “human” figures are really “not important.” In fact, he removed them from his other plant studies, “focusing on the animated nature of the plants’ design and even having them throw flowers from one to another.

Noah Reyes, currently pursuing an art degree, works through sketches, reveals his desire to explore and question, taking himself “in a non-serious way,” even though he does find himself questioning certain aspects of life. He is intrigued with “how to share experiences and how to convey thoughts.”

In many ways he sees his work as “emotion and crude.”

“What You Tell Yourself” is deceptively simple in form, until the viewer compares the title with the print toward the bottom: “You’re Good,” the word NOT diminutively inserted between the two.

“Bounce house jesus,” with its beautiful airbrushed sunset, serves as a foil for the three sketched human figures. He sees his “Three Skulls” as “perversely controversial.”

Hagari’s film “Invert” was a two-year project. Done in negative print, the content and filming reflect a fascinating look at perspective, expectations and perception. Although it takes several minutes to watch, the film is clever and thought provoking. Unfortunately, there were technical difficulties with Jonathan Blow’s video game project, and it was not available opening night.

“Serious Fun” offers a complex and creative dialog between art, creativity and fun.

It is “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and much more.

See “Serious Fun” at the Sumter County Gallery of Art, 200 Hasell St., through June 17.

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Investigators are also working with Louisiana authorities to confirm Raysor’s relationship to the children and whether she actually has legal custody as she said.

Because the burn incident did not happen in South Carolina, Raysor could face charges from out of state.

The incident began when Raysor took the 7-year-old female to Ker-

ABUSE FROM PAGE A1 condition and being treated with heavy antibiotics in hopes of saving her foot, Bell said Saturday. He added Sunday there was still a chance the foot may require amputation, and local authorities were following the situation closely.

Both children have been taken into

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The hospital notified Kershaw authorities when they suspected child abuse, who then notified the sheriff’s office.

The woman said she is the children’s grandmother and said her own daughter, the children’s mother, is deceased. She reportedly came to Sumter to reunite with the chil-

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Sumter authorities had grounds to charge the woman because she admitted moving to Sumter on Tuesday although she did not seek medical treatment for the child until Thursday night.

Charges could be upgraded if the child’s injuries prove to be more severe than first indicated. Other charges could also be forthcoming.

FESTIVAL FROM PAGE A1 Manning resident and Clarendon School District 2 board member Arthur Moyd and his wife, Patricia Moyd, have been attending the festival since it started 37 years ago.

On Saturday, they were selling fragrances, body oils, soap and jewelry with their parttime business A&P Fragrances.

“It’s a great event,” Moyd said. “You get to see a lot of people you haven’t seen in a long time as well as meeting new ones.”

A new attraction this year included “Flex Flying,” which consisted of four trampolines and harnesses and hoists. Participants, while harnessed, could soar more than 30 feet in the air, doing somersaults and flips.

216 FISHERMEN TREK TO TOURNAMENT The Santee Cooper Open Team Fishing Tournament was held on Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie on Saturday, with 108 teams and 216 fishermen participating. Cash prizes went to the top 20 teams, biggest fish caught and prize for youth. The total payout was more than $20,000, said Jake Buddin, who

BASES FROM PAGE A1 committees on April 12. The letter was meant to support the Obama administration’s case for a bipartisan baseclosing authority, known as a Base Closure and Realignment Commission. This mechanism, meant to take politics out of the process, was used during the 1990s and again in 2005 but not since.

The Pentagon has not said a lot publicly about its latest pitch to Congress for another commission, perhaps because it sees little chance of success.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said last week that the House version of the bill that authorizes military spending for the coming budget year will stop the Pentagon’s base-

served as co-chairman of the event with Nelson Walker.

The top prize went to Danny Lowery and Emmett McCauley of Sumter. The men caught five fish weighing a total of 28.77 pounds.

The team has been participating in the tournament for three years, and the two have been fishing for most of their life, Lowery said.

“I knew we’d be close today, but we weren’t expecting to win,” he said.

Bunn Tyson and Thad Driggers took second place, with a total weight of 27.69 pounds.

Chuck Howard and Ken Ellis won third place, with a total weight of 27.5 pounds.

Alex Dempsey and Judd Bolen took first in the Big Fish category, catching a 9.14-pound largemouth bass.

Kinsley Waynick, 15, of Sumter, won the youth division, catching 22.48 pounds of fish, with her father, Brent Waynick.

Kinsley also caught the largest of the five fish.

She said she’s been fishing since she was 7 years old and that she wins the youth division in many of the tournaments she and her father par-

closing campaign in its tracks.

The bill — the initial draft was being unveiled Monday — will allow studies to answer the committee’s questions about excess base capacity but nothing more.

In Thornberry’s view, the Pentagon is selling a halfbaked argument.

“I’m not interested in sales brochures,” he said. “I’m interested in objective data that leads them to think there is too much infrastructure.”

The data is fairly clear, even if Thornberry doesn’t think it is objective. It is derived from a type of study, called a parametric analysis, which the Pentagon had not done since 2004. The new analysis compares base capacity to the expected shape of the military in 2019, when the next BRAC would be held.

It found a big mismatch: 22

Above, Joey Smith of Summerville enjoys a fully loaded hot dog during the festival.

At left, Jayden Miller, left, and Nahadey Wells watch the Striped Bass Festival Parade on Saturday as Evander Lawson casts leery eyes on a photographer. Evander said the glasses make things look bigger.

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Dennis Craven, owner of Santee Automotive, sponsor of the event, said he was pleased with the turnout.

“I think it’s good for the county to have a fishing tournament of this size,” Craven said. “It’s a great way to promote our lakes and a boost to our economy as well.”

percent more base capacity than will be needed for the military that is envisioned for 2019. By that time, the Army is scheduled to be even smaller than today, shrinking from about 475,000 active-duty soldiers to 450,000.

The study calculated the amount of surplus base capacity in the aggregate, not by individual bases.

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The ‘settled’ climate change consensus du jour

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ASHINGTON — Authoritarianism, always latent in progressivism, is becoming explicit. Progressivism’s determination to regulate thought by regulating speech is apparent in the campaign by 16 states’ attorneys general and those of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, none Republican, to criminalize skepticism about the supposedly “settled” conclusions of climate science.

Four core tenets of progressivism are: First, hisGeorge tory has a Will destination.

Second, progressives uniquely discern it.

(Barack Obama frequently declares things to be on or opposed to “the right side of history.”) Third, politics should be democratic but peripheral to governance, which is the responsibility of experts scientifically administering the regulatory state. Fourth, enlightened progressives should enforce limits on speech (witness IRS suppression of conservative advocacy groups) in order

COMMENTARY to prevent thinking unhelpful to history’s progressive unfolding.

Progressivism is already enforced on campuses by restrictions on speech that might produce what progressives consider retrograde intellectual diversity. Now, from the socalled party of science, aka Democrats, comes a campaign to criminalize debate about science.

“The debate is settled,” says Obama. “Climate change is a fact.” Indeed. The epithet “climate change deniers,” obviously coined to stigmatize skeptics as akin to Holocaust deniers, is designed to obscure something obvious: Of course the climate is changing; it never is not changing — neither before nor after the Medieval Warm Period (end of the 9th century to the 13th) and the Little Ice Age (1640s to 1690s), neither of which was caused by fossil fuels.

Today, debatable questions include: To what extent is human activity contributing to climate change? Are climate change models, many of which have generated projections refuted by events, suddenly reliable enough to predict the trajectory of change? Is change

necessarily ominous because today’s climate is necessarily optimum? Are the costs, in money expended and freedom curtailed, of combating climate change less than the cost of adapting to it?

But these questions may not forever be debatable. The initial target of Democratic “scientific” silencers is ExxonMobil, which they hope to demonstrate misled investors and the public about climate change.

There is, however, no limiting principle to restrain unprincipled people from punishing research entities, advocacy groups and individuals.

But it is difficult to establish what constitutes culpable “misleading” about climate science, of which a 2001 National Academy of Sciences report says: “Because there is considerable uncertainty in current understanding of how the climate system varies naturally and reacts to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, current estimates of the magnitude of future warming should be regarded as tentative and subject to future adjustments (either upward or downward).” Did Al Gore “mislead” when he said seven years ago that computer modeling projected the Arctic to be ice free during the summer in

as few as five years?

The attorney general of the Virgin Islands accuses ExxonMobil with criminal misrepresentation regarding climate change. This, even though before the U.S. government in 2009 first issued an endangerment finding regarding greenhouse gases, ExxonMobil favored a carbon tax to mitigate climate consequences of those gases. This grandstanding attorney general’s contribution to today’s gangster government is the use of law enforcement tools to pursue political goals — wielding prosecutorial weapons to chill debate, including subpoenaing private donor information from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank.

The party of science, busy protecting science from scrutiny, has forgotten Karl Popper (1902-1994), the philosopher whose “The Open Society and Its Enemies” warned against people incapable of distinguishing between certainty and certitude. In his essay “Science as Falsification,” Popper explains why “the criterion of a scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.”

America’s party of science seems eager to insulate its sci-

entific theories from the possibility of refutation.

The leader of the attorneys general, New York’s Eric Schneiderman, dismisses those who disagree with him as “morally vacant.” His moral content is apparent in his campaign to ban fantasy sports gambling because it competes with the gambling (state lottery, casinos, off-track betting) that enriches his government.

Then there is Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who suggests using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, written to fight organized crime, to criminalize what he calls the fossil fuel industry’s “climate denial apparatus.” The Justice Department, which has abetted the IRS cover-up of its criminal activity, has referred this idea to the FBI. These garden-variety authoritarians are eager to regulate us into conformity with the “settled” consensus du jour, whatever it is. But they are progressives, so it is for our own good.

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

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NOTABLE & QUOTABLE In “Friendship in the Age of Trump,” Peter Wehner writes, “The candidacy of Donald J. Trump is not only fracturing the Republican Party, it is breaking up friendships as well.”

Read it online at www.nytimes.com: One close longtime friend told me that my criticism of Mr. Trump stemmed from my desire for attention and notoriety and a longing for the favor of liberals. He was questioning not my reasoning but my motivations.

His concern wasn’t about policy; it was about the state of my soul.

A woman I attended church with for several years expressed her unhappiness with my anti-Trump “screeds.”

These people aren’t stupid or malicious; they are upset because I see things in a profoundly different way from them.

Mr. Trump’s candidacy is putting more stress on more friendships than any other political development in my experience. Precisely because of the antipathy I have for Mr. Trump, I need to try doubly hard to resist the temptation to assume the worst of his supporters even as my worries about him mount. Absent compelling evidence to the contrary, I need to grant to them the same good faith I hope others would grant to me.

••• In “It’s Eisenhower Time for the Republicans,” Thomas Reed writes in

The Wall Street Journal: “A military hero could bring the party together and avoid a rout in fall.”

Esquire’s outgoing editor, David Granger, talking with George Clooney in the May edition.

Who gets the parachute? Republicans, contemplating an avalanche of Donald-detonated losses in the fall, dream of a savior emerging from the Cleveland convention. Some see John Kasich as a possible redeemer. But the nomination of a man, however good, who won only his home state would be anathema to the Trumpistas and Cruziacs.

How about handing the parachute to a military hero? A political outsider, but a proven leader; a man or woman who can reach out to all Americans, who can stiffen the collective spines of our allies in this time of troubles.

Isn’t it time for another Eisenhower?

My candidate would be retired U.S. Navy Adm. William McRaven, former commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, the folks who got Osama bin Laden.

Two years ago, Mr. McRaven retired from the Special Forces Command (70,000 troops, airmen and sailors), and in January 2015 he assumed new duties as chancellor of the University of Texas — a remarkable parallel to the Eisenhower trajectory.

A deadlocked convention turning to a military hero would allow the Trumpistas to proclaim victory: “We won. We beat the establishment.”

DG: Are you hopeful about the future?

GC: I actually think it looked a lot bleaker in 2008, when the economy tanked. I really thought we were in real trouble.

DG: We were.

GC: This country is a big carrier ship that has to slowly turn all the time to right itself, and it takes longer than we want it to.

But if you look at us over the history of time, we really (messed) up. We (messed) up with the Indians; we (messed) up with slavery. We were terrible to women. We mess up and we mess up and we mess up, and we get better.

We’re not great yet; we haven’t fixed it all yet. We didn’t figure it out in 1776. We didn’t have a Constitution until 1787. It takes a while to figure things out.

But what happened in 2008 was: Just when you thought you couldn’t figure it out, that the world was gonna go straight to hell, we elected the first African-American ever, who, when he speaks, he makes us feel proud and makes the rest of the world calm down about the United States.

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AMC’s can’t-miss ‘Night Manager’ continues

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Is Jonathan Pine the new James Bond? Tom Hiddleston stars as the impossibly goodlooking and seductively charming former soldier in the miniseries “The Night Manager” (10 p.m., AMC, TV-14), returning for its second of six episodes.

James Bond is a pop culture addiction we just can’t quit.

Impossibly retro, mid-century, Cold War and sexist, the 007 character just won’t go away.

At the same time, every new reincarnation of the spy with a license to kill seems somehow unsatisfactory, a reminder of how far the franchise has strayed from the archetype. It’s a paradox. Every new “Bond” is a disappointment. That’s why we can’t wait for the next one.

Even as Bond has survived, he has spawned countless imitations. In our own century, we’ve seen Jack Bauer on “24,” any number of “Bourne” identities and even Quinn (Rupert Friend), Carrie Mathison’s frequent savior and protector on “Homeland.”

“Manager” may remind Bond fans of that franchise before it became too besotted with constant motion and endless explosions. There’s a calm at the center of Pine’s mysterious character that makes him intriguing to both viewers and to his love interests. The fact that he attracts women who “belong” to other men says a lot. Pine doesn’t have to break the rules. His lovers put themselves in jeopardy just to be with him. How “Bond” is that?

Just as Bond had his M, Pine has Angela Burr (Olivia Colman), a renegade spymaster out to get the villainous Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) no matter the cost to her reputation in British spydom, the fate of her marriage or even the health of her unborn child.

“Manager” deviates from “Bond” in casting Hugh Laurie as the arms-dealing heavy.

He’s an amoral monster, described by one victim as “the worst person in the world.”

But just as he did on “House,” Laurie has a way of infusing a thoroughly unlikable man with surprising charm.

“Manager” is not without action, violence, explosions and shocks. And we’ll even see a game of baccarat at a posh ca-

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Tom Hiddleston stars as the mysterious Jonathan Pine in the spy thriller “The Night Manager,” airing at 10 p.m. today on AMC. sino before its six episodes conclude. But much as with its central character, there’s a stillness at the center of the story that gives viewers a chance to think. Or at least gawk at the gorgeous scenery and people.

TV ON DVD TV-themed DVDs available today include season one of the Canadian series “19-2.”

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Viewers send two singers home on “The Voice” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).

• A strike against the Hive on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-14).

• Claustrophobia and resentment fester on “Containment” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14).

• Timothy Olyphant gueststars on “The Grinder” (9:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

• Enhanced by NZT, Sands is capable of anything on the sea-

son finale of “Limitless” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14). This series has not yet been renewed.

CULT CHOICE A teen’s (Tuesday Weld) desire to wear a strapless gown to the prom causes a major scandal in the 1956 teen exploitation film “Rock Rock Rock!” (8 p.m., TCM), featuring performances

by Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Weld returns in the 1960 melodrama “Because They’re Young” (9:45 p.m., TCM), starring Dick Clark.

SERIES NOTES Human trafficking on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * On two episodes of “New Girl” (Fox, TV14), macho behavior (8 p.m.), a wedding party trashed (9 p.m.) * Taking names on “Fresh Off the Boat” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * Griffin Grey strikes on “The Flash” (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG) * A milestone revisited on “Grandfathered” (8:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14)

* Too much drama on “The Real O’Neals” (8:30 p.m., ABC, r, TVPG) * Death of a petty officer on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * An unusual tolerance for pain on “Chicago Med” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14) * Holloway testifies on “Chicago Fire” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14) * Location looms large on “Beyond the Tank” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14).

LATE NIGHT Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are booked on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (11 p.m., Comedy Cen-

tral) * Ellie Kemper, Chris Gethard and Meg Myers appear on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Chelsea Handler, Eric Bana and Graham Nash on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Ricky Gervais, Tituss Burgess, Tony Tulathimutte and Will Calhoun visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Ice Cube, Tony Hale and Maisie Williams appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

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SUPPORT GROUPS Fourth Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., AA, AL-ANON, ALATEEN: Carolinas Rehabilitation HosAA — Monday-Friday, noonApril 26, 2016 Support Groups: pital, 121 E. Cedar St., Florand 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 ence. Call (843) 661-3746. p.m.; Sundays, 10:30 a.m. and EFMP Parent Exchange Group — 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 775Last Tuesday each month, 11 1852. a.m.-noon, Airman and FamiAA Women’s Meeting — ly Readiness Center. Support Wednesday, 7 p.m., 1 Warren to service members who St. (803) 775-1852. have a dependent with a disAA Spanish Speaking — Sunability or illness. Call Dorcus day, 4:30 p.m., 1 Warren St. at (803) 895-1252/1253 or Sue (803) 775-1852. at (803) 847-2377.

AA “How it Works” Group — Monday and Friday, 8 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call (803) 494WEDNESDAY MEETINGS: 5180.

Sickle Cell Support Group — 441 AA Support Group — MonLast Wednesday each month, day, Tuesday and Friday, 8:30 11 a.m.-1 p.m., South Sumter p.m., Hair Force, 2090-D S.C. Resource Center, 337 Man441. ning Ave. Call Bertha at (803) 774-6181.

AA Summerton Group — Wednesday, 8 p.m., town hall.

Divorce Care — Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m., Bethel Baptist Manning Al-Anon Family Group — Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Behav- Church, 2401 Bethel Church Road. Call (803) 481-2160. ioral Health Building, 14 Church St., Manning. Call Grief Share — Wednesday, Angie at (803) 435-8085.

6:30 p.m., Bethel Baptist Church, 2401 Bethel Church C/A “Drop the Rock” Group — Road. Call (803) 481-2160.

Thursday, 9:30 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call Elizabeth at (803) 607-4543.

THURSDAY MEETINGS:

MONDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Vitiligo Support Group — Second Monday, 5:45-6:45 p.m., North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Call Tiffany at (803) 316-6763. The group is also on Facebook.

TUESDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Connective Tissue Support Group — 1st Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September and November, 7 p.m., 180 Tiller Circle. Call (803) 773-0869.

Sumter Combat Veterans Group Peer to Peer — Tuesdays, 11 a.m., South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive. Veterans helping veterans with PTSD, coping skills, claims and benefits.

Parkinson’s Support Group — Second Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 661-3746.

Sumter Amputee Support Group — Second Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Sumter Prosthetics & Orthotics, 259 Broad St. Call (803) 883-4356.

Sumter Chapter Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) — Third Tuesday, 5:30-7 p.m., Birnie HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy St. For anyone who has lost a loved one to murder in a violent way.

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group — Third Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 661-3746.

Amputee Support Group —

TOPS S.C. No. 236 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) — Thursdays, 9 a.m., Spectrum Senior Center,1989 Durant Lane. Call Diane at (803) 775-3926 or Nancy at (803) 469-4789.

Alzheimer’s Support Group through S.C. Alzheimer’s Association — Every 1st Thursday, 6-8 p.m., National Health Care, 1018 N. Guignard Drive.

Call Cheryl Fluharty at (803) 905-7720 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 636-3346.

Journey of Hope (for family members of the mentally ill), Journey to Recovery (for the mentally ill) and Survivors of Suicide Support Group — Each group meets every 1st Thursday, 7 p.m., St. John United Methodist Church, 136 Poinsett Drive. Call Fred at (803) 905-5620.

FRIDAY MEETINGS: Celebrate Recovery — Fridays, 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program, Salt & Light Church, Miller Road (across from Food Lion). For help with struggles of alcohol, drugs, family problems, etc.

Wateree AIDS Task Force Support Group — Every third Friday, 11:30 a.m., 508 W. Liberty St. Call Kevin at (803) 7780303.

SATURDAY MEETINGS: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/ Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Support Group — 1:30 p.m. every third Saturday, 3785 Blackberry Lane, Lot 7.

Call Donna at (803) 481-7521.

PUBLIC AGENDA MID-CAROLINA COMMISSION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION QUARTERLY MEETING Today, 6 p.m., Bultman Conference Room, Room 201, USC Sumter, 200 Miller Road CLARENDON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES Today, 6 p.m., hospital board room

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Travel will EUGENIA LAST entice you.

Whether you visit an unfamiliar destination in your vicinity or travel a great distance, the experience and the encounters you have will affect you positively.

Romance is encouraged.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Look for alternative career options. If you feel you need a change, explore a past interest to see if you can turn it into a side business. Self-awareness and personal improvement will bring good results.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t let anyone make you feel guilty or put demands on you. Getting involved in dubious schemes or picking up a bad habit will slow you down and play havoc with your emotional wellbeing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll come up with an interesting idea or concept that will get a good response from a friend or relative who wants to be a part of your plan. Conversations and collaboration will get you one step closer to your objective.

SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL Today, 6 p.m., Sumter County Council Chambers

DAILY PLANNER

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WEATHER

Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016

AccuWeather® five-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

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Clear and mild

A thunderstorm in spots

Mostly cloudy, a t-storm; warm

Some sun returning; very warm

Partly sunny

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88° / 67°

90° / 64°

88° / 65°

Chance of rain: 25%

Chance of rain: 10%

Chance of rain: 40%

Chance of rain: 60%

Chance of rain: 5%

Chance of rain: 25%

SW 6-12 mph

SSW 6-12 mph

SW 7-14 mph

SW 8-16 mph

N 4-8 mph

E 7-14 mph

TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

Gaffney 83/60 Spartanburg 83/60

Greenville 83/62

Columbia 87/64

Temperatures shown on map are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 84/63

Aiken 83/60

ON THE COAST

Charleston 84/64

Today: Mostly sunny; pleasant. High 76 to 83.

Wednesday: Partly sunny; humid in southern parts. High 78 to 85.

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

80° 54° 77° 51° 92° in 1960 36° in 1986 0.00" 2.58" 2.56" 14.91" 17.28" 13.98"

NATIONAL CITIES City Atlanta Chicago Dallas Detroit Houston Los Angeles New Orleans New York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix San Francisco Wash., DC

Today Hi/Lo/W 83/64/s 58/43/c 82/64/t 62/40/c 84/71/pc 73/55/s 83/72/pc 69/45/t 86/66/pc 81/51/t 79/58/s 63/54/s 86/58/t

LAKE LEVELS Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest.

357.63 75.57 75.43 97.23

24-hr chg +0.01 +0.01 +0.01 none

RIVER STAGES

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest.

Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 85/69/pc 54/42/r 85/61/s 61/41/pc 82/67/t 73/57/pc 86/73/t 67/46/s 86/66/pc 66/49/pc 84/61/s 64/53/t 66/54/c

Myrtle Beach 79/65

Manning 84/63

Today: Partly sunny. Winds southwest 6-12 mph. Mainly clear.

Wednesday: Warm with a thunderstorm in spots. Winds southwest 4-8 mph.

LOCAL ALMANAC

Florence 85/62

Bishopville 85/61

River Black River Congaree River Lynches River Saluda River Up. Santee River Wateree River

Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr stage yest. chg 12 8.99 +1.10 19 3.95 -1.19 14 9.55 +0.25 14 3.61 none 80 77.48 -0.05 24 6.59 -0.04

Sunrise 6:38 a.m.

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High 12:09 a.m.

12:23 p.m.

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1:04 p.m.

Ht. 3.1 2.6 3.1 2.6

Low 7:16 a.m.

7:04 p.m.

7:58 a.m.

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REGIONAL CITIES City Asheville Athens Augusta Beaufort Cape Hatteras Charleston Charlotte Clemson Columbia Darlington Elizabeth City Elizabethtown Fayetteville

Today Hi/Lo/W 78/56/pc 85/61/pc 86/62/s 83/64/pc 74/65/s 84/64/s 85/64/pc 84/62/pc 87/64/s 85/63/pc 83/61/s 85/62/s 86/63/s

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 81/59/pc 88/64/pc 88/64/pc 85/66/pc 74/64/t 86/66/pc 88/66/pc 87/65/pc 90/67/pc 87/66/c 76/58/t 87/63/pc 86/66/pc

Today City Hi/Lo/W Florence 85/62/s Gainesville 84/62/s Gastonia 84/61/pc Goldsboro 85/64/s Goose Creek 84/62/s Greensboro 84/63/pc Greenville 83/62/pc Hickory 82/60/pc Hilton Head 78/65/s Jacksonville, FL 84/63/s La Grange 86/60/s Macon 85/61/s Marietta 83/61/s

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 86/65/pc 86/62/s 87/64/pc 86/66/t 85/65/pc 85/64/t 86/65/pc 85/62/pc 79/67/pc 86/63/s 85/67/pc 87/65/s 85/67/pc

Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 83/57/pc Mt. Pleasant 80/65/s Myrtle Beach 79/65/s Orangeburg 84/63/s Port Royal 79/65/pc Raleigh 86/64/s Rock Hill 85/62/s Rockingham 86/62/s Savannah 84/63/s Spartanburg 83/60/pc Summerville 84/62/s Wilmington 83/64/s Winston-Salem 83/63/pc

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 84/60/pc 81/67/pc 81/67/pc 86/67/pc 81/66/pc 85/65/t 87/65/pc 87/64/pc 86/65/pc 86/63/pc 85/64/pc 84/66/pc 84/64/t

Weather(W): s–sunny, pc–partly cloudy, c–cloudy, sh–showers, t–thunderstorms, r–rain, sf–snow flurries, sn–snow, i–ice

SCREEN ROOMS • SUN ROOMS • AWNINGS Visit our Show Room 805 N. Wise Drive 803-773-9545 www.ventulite.com established in 1935

SUMTER CITY-COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION Wednesday, 3 p.m., fourth floor, council chambers, 21 N. Main St.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep your money in a safe place and think twice before you spend. Put more time and effort into your relationships with children, friends or loved ones. You don’t need to spend money in order to prove how much you care.

PICTURES FROM THE PUBLIC

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Make a change at home that will be conducive to starting a new enterprise in a field you enjoy to help bring in extra cash. Use your imagination and market what you have to offer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t give in or give up. You can make a difference if you stand up for your rights. Instead of getting angry, focus on the positive changes that you can make. Say little, do a lot. Be an instigator, not an observer.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t worry about what everyone else is doing. Take care of your responsibilities. Strive to take the steps to make your personal life more comfortable. Use your imagination and you’ll find a way to keep your costs low.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll be eager to bring about changes and to engage in pastimes that are challenging and exciting. Romance is in the stars, and taking affirmative steps will lead to a promise that you’ll be happy to uphold. Enjoy the ride.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s up to you to bring about changes. Don’t wait for someone else to make a move or tell you what to do.

Discipline, innovation and imagination will help you make a difference. Romance is encouraged.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Make changes at home that will free up your time. Keep a safe distance from anyone who is asking for too much from you. Learning and expanding your awareness will give you the strength to say “no.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep track of your expenditures and what you owe to others. It’s important to know where you stand financially when dealing with joint ventures and partnerships. Don’t overpay or try to buy love or popularity.

Dennis Selvig comments on his photo submission of Steamboat Natchez docked in New Orleans, “Taking a ride on this piece of history is like going back in time. Caution! Don’t stand near the the whistle when the captain blows it!”

HAVE YOU TAKEN PICTURES OF INTERESTING, EXCITING, BEAUTIFUL OR HISTORICAL PLACES? Would you like to share those images with your fellow Sumter Item readers? E-mail your hi-resolution jpegs to sandrah@theitem.com, or mail to Sandra Holbert c/o The Sumter Item, P.O. Box 1677, Sumter, SC 29150. Include clearly printed or typed name of photographer and photo details. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your photo. Amateur photographers only please.

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pro basketball

All squared up Walker drops 34, Hornets top Heat 89-85 to even series

Pro Football

Brady must serve penalty U.S. appeals court sides with league over ‘Deflategate’

By LARRY NEUMEISTER The Associated Press

The Associated Press

Charlotte’s Jeremy Lin, center, passes the ball as Miami’s Hassan Whiteside, right, and Josh Richardson defend during the Hornets’ 89-85 victory on Monday in Charlotte. With the Game 4 victory, the best-of-seven series is all tied up at 2-2.

By Steve Reed The Associated Press

Joe Johnson led Miami with 16 points, while Luol Deng had 15.

Charlotte dominated in the paint for CHARLOTTE — Kemba Walker the second straight game, outscoring scored a playoff career-high 34 points, Miami 44-30.

Jeremy Lin added 21 and the Charlotte Miami pulled to 76-75 when Gerald Hornets beat the Miami Heat 89-85 on Green knocked down a 3-pointer from Monday night to even their first-round the left wing midway through the final series at 2-2. quarter.

Walker scored 11 straight Charlotte Walker took over from there. points in the fourth quarter after The runner-up for the league’s Most Miami had cut the lead to two with 6:07 Improved Player buried a pull-up jumpleft. Courtney Lee sank two free throws er from 18 feet and sank both foul shots with 4.6 seconds left after being fouled after drawing a fourth foul on Wade on on an offensive rebound to seal the win. a drive. Walker made a 3-pointer from Lee finished with 11 points and the left wing, added a floater in the lane helped hold Dwyane Wade to 12 points and another pull-up jumper to push the on 4-of-11 shooting. lead to 87-80.

“We fought so hard tonight,” Lin The Heat kept battling back, though, said. “Up 18 and then all of sudden up with Wade’s jumper and a free throw one. We put everything out there and

by Hassan Whiteside cutting it to two.

I’m glad we got the win.”

The Hornets nearly squandered their Game 5 is Wednesday night in Miami. last possession, but Walker threw up a

deep 3-pointer to beat the shot clock that hit the front rim. Lee was fouled on the rebound and swished both shots with 4.6 seconds left to make it a twopossession game.

Charlotte started the game slow, but battled back from an 11-point, first-half deficit to take a 48-39 lead at the break behind 15 points from Walker, who reached the basket twice for layups by slicing his way through the defense.

Lin again provided a big spark with 11 points in the half by getting to the line and helping ignite a 23-6 run. He was 8 of 9 from the foul line.

The Hornets continued to pour it on in the second half, opening with a 9-0 run to extend the lead to 18 when Al Jefferson scored on a spin move over Whiteside, who played despite missing the last two practices with a bruised

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NASCAR commentary

Not even bump-and-run generates good vibes

By JENNA FRYER The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Racing doesn’t get much better than a bump-and-run on the final lap for the victory. It’s what Carl Edwards did to teammate Kyle Busch at Richmond International Raceway in what NASCAR says was the first last-lap pass for a win in track history.

It was dramatic, controversial and likely set the stage for tense team meetings this week at Joe Gibbs Racing.

Was it enough, though, to build any positive goodwill for NASCAR? “I think (Sunday) was a great day for the sport,” said

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Carl Edwards does a back flip off his car after winning the Toyota Owners 400 on Sunday at RichSee Bump, Page B4 mond International Raceway in Richmond, Va.

NEW YORK — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady must serve a fourgame “Deflategate” suspension imposed by the NFL, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, overturning a lower judge and siding Brady with the league in a battle with the players union.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled 2-to1 that Commissioner Roger Goodell did not deprive Brady of “fundamental fairness” with his procedural rulings.

The split decision may end the legal debate over the scandal that led to months of football fans arguing over air pressure and the reputation of one of the league’s top teams.

It also fuels a fresh round of debate over what role, if any, the quarterback and top NFL star played in using underinflated footballs at the AFC championship game in January 2015. The Patriots won the contest over the Indianapolis Colts, 45-7, and then won the Super Bowl.

Soon after the ruling, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump opened a

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Prep basketball

Sumter’s Abram signs with Allen

By DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com When Shawn Jones came to Sumter High School this year, it was as the boys basketball head coach.

However, he has had an affect on the girls basketball program as well.

Lady Gamecock Tiarra Abram has ABRAM signed to play college basketball at Allen University in Columbia.

So where does the Jones connection come in? He happened to be the men’s head coach at Allen before coming to SHS. “Coach Jones told me about Allen and talked to them about me,” Abram said. “I’m excited about this opportunity.”

“I know what they were looking for, and I think Tiarra will be a great fit at Allen,” Jones said.

Sumter girls coach Jason Loudenslager thinks Allen is getting a steal in Abram.

“She’s one of the best defensive players I’ve ever coached,” Loudenslager said. “I think she’s going to carry that on

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TODAY 2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Champions League Semifinal First Leg Match – Real Madrid vs. Manchester City (FOX SPORTS 1).

6 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Eastern Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Five – Indiana at Toronto (TNT).

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

7 p.m. – College Baseball: Louisiana State at Tulane (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Boston at Atlanta (FOX SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Cincinnati at New York Mets or Chicago White Sox at Toronto (MLB NETWORK).

7 p.m. – College Baseball: Mississippi at Mississippi State (SEC NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. – College Softball: Arkansas at Oklahoma State (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

8 p.m. – Professional Basketball: NBA Development League Finals Championship Series Game Two – Los Angeles at Sioux Falls (ESPNU).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Eastern Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Five – Boston at Atlanta (TNT).

9:30 p.m. – Major League Baseball: St. Louis at Arizona (FOX SPORTS 1).

10:30 p.m. – College Baseball: UCLA at Cal State Fullerton (ESPNU).

Prep schedule TODAY Varsity Baseball Lakewood at Camden Military, 6 p.m.

East Clarendon at Lamar, 6 p.m.

Calhoun at Wilson Hall, 6 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Robert E. Lee, 6:30 p.m.

Jefferson Davis at Clarendon Hall, 6:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Baseball Wilson Hall at Florence Christian, 4 p.m.

Jefferson Davis at Clarendon Hall, 4 p.m.

B Team Baseball Thomas Sumter at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m.

Varsity Boys Golf Manning at Hartsville, 4:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall, Laurence Manning, Thomas Sumter in SCISA 3A State Tournament (in Myrtle Beach), TBA Varsity Boys Soccer South Florence at Sumter, 7:30 p.m.

Darlington at Crestwood, 7:30 p.m.

Manning at Lakewood, 6:30 p.m.

Trinity-Byrnes at Wilson Hall, 6 p.m.

Florence Christian at Thomas Sumter, 6 p.m.

Junior Varsity Boys Soccer South Florence at Sumter, 6 p.m.

Manning at Lakewood, 5:30 p.m.

Varsity Girls Soccer Darlington at Crestwood, 6 p.m.

Varsity Softball Manning at Sumter, 7:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall at Laurence Manning, 4 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Orangeburg Prep, 5:30 p.m.

Hammond at Robert E. Lee, 7 p.m.

Jefferson Davis at Clarendon Hall, 6 p.m.

Junior Varsity Softball Manning at Sumter, 5:30 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m.

Hammond at Robert E. Lee, 5 p.m.

Jefferson Davis at Clarendon Hall, 4 p.m.

Varsity Boys Tennis Hartsville at Manning, 5 p.m.

Wilson at Heathwood Hall, 4 p.m.

MLB Standings

By The Associated Press

National League East Division

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta Central Division

Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee West Division

Los Angeles Arizona Colorado San Francisco San Diego

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Sunday’s Games

Chicago Cubs 9, Cincinnati 0 Washington 6, Minnesota 5, 16 inn.

N.Y. Mets 3, Atlanta 2 Milwaukee 8, Philadelphia 5 Miami 5, San Francisco 4 L.A. Dodgers 12, Colorado 10 Pittsburgh 12, Arizona 10, 13 inn.

St. Louis 8, San Diego 5

Monday’s Games

Boston at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games

Philadelphia at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

San Diego at San Franciso, 10:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

San Diego at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

American League East Division

Baltimore Toronto Boston Tampa Bay New York Central Division

Chicago Kansas City Cleveland Detroit Minnesota West Division

Oakland Texas Seattle Los Angeles Houston

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N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games

Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Nba Playoff Schedule

By The Associated Press FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Cleveland 4, Detroit 0 April 17: Cleveland 106, Detroit 101 April 20: Cleveland 107, Detroit 90 April 22: Cleveland 101, Detroit 91 April 24: Cleveland 100, Detroit 98 Toronto 2 , Indiana 2 April 16: Indiana 100, Toronto 90 April 18: Toronto 98, Indiana 87 April 21: Toronto 101, Pacers 85 April 23: Pacers 100, Raptors 83 April 26: at Toronto, TBA April 29: at Indiana, TBA x-May 1: at Toronto, TBA Miami 2, Charlotte 2 April 17: Miami 123, Charlotte 91 April 20: Miami 115, Charlotte 103 April 23: Charlotte 96, Miami 80 April 25: Charlotte 89, Miami 85 April 27: at Miami, TBA x-April 29: at Charlotte, TBA x-May 1: at Miami, TBA Atlanta 2, Boston 2 April 16: Atlanta 102, Boston 101 April 19: Atlanta 89, Boston 72 April 22: Boston 111. Atlanta 103 April 24: Boston 104, Atlanta 95, OT April 26: at Atlanta, TBA April 28: at Boston, TBA x-April 30: at Atlanta, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Golden State 3, Houston 1 April 16: Golden State 104, Houston 78 April 18: Golden State 115, Houston 106 April 21: Houston 97, Golden State 96 April 24: Golden State 121, Houston 94 April 27: at Golden State, 9 or 10:30 April 29: at Houston, TBA x-May 1: at Golden State, TBA San Antonio 4, Memphis 0 April 17: San Antonio 106, Memphis 74 April 19: San Antonio 94, Memphis 68 April 22: San Antonio 96, Memphis 87 April 24: San Antonio 116, Memphis 95 Oklahoma City 3, Dallas 1 April 16: Oklahoma City 108, Dallas 70 April 18: Dallas 85, Oklahoma City 84 April 21: Oklahoma City 131, Dallas 102 April 23: Oklahoma City 119, Dallas 108 April 25: at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. x-April 28: at Dallas, TBA x-April 30: at Oklahoma City, TBA L.A. Clippers 2, Portland 1 April 17: L.A. Clippers 115, Portland 95 April 20: L.A. Clippers 102, Portland 81 April 23: Portland 96, L.A. Clippers 88 April 25: at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

April 27: at L.A. Clippers, TBA x-April 29: at Portland, TBA x-May 1: at L.A. Clippers, TBA

NHL Playoff Schedule

By The Associated Press FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

N.Y. Islanders 4, Florida 2 April 14: N.Y. Islanders 5, Florida 4 April 15: Florida 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 April 17: N.Y. Islanders 4, Florida 3, OT April 20: Florida 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 April 22: N.Y. Islanders 2, Florida 1, 2 OT April 24: N.Y. Islanders 2, Florida 1, 2 OT Tampa Bay 4, Detroit 1 April 13: Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2 April 15: Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2 April 17: Detroit 2, Tampa Bay 0 April 19: Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2 April 21: Tampa Bay 1, Detriot 0 Washington 4, Philadelphia 2 April 14: Washington 2, Philadelphia 0 April 16: Washington 4, Philadelphia 1 April 18: Washington 6, Philadelphia 1 April 20: Philadelphia 2, Washington 1 April 22: Philadelphia 2, Washington 0 April 24: Washington 1, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 1 April 13: Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 April 16: N.Y. Rangers 4, Pittsburgh 2 April 19: Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Rangers 1 April 21: Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 0 April 23:Pittsburgh 6, N.Y. Rangers 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Dallas 4, Minnesota 2 April 14: Dallas 4, Minnesota 0 April 16: Dallas 2, Minnesota 1 April 18: Minnesota 5, Dallas 3 April 20: Dallas 3, Minnesota 2 April 22: Minnesota 5, Dallas 4, OT April 24: Dallas 5, Minnesota 4 St. Louis 3, Chicago 3 April 13: St. Louis 1, Chicago 0, OT April 15: Chicago 3, St. Louis 2 April 17: St. Louis 3, Chicago 2 April 19: St. Louis 4, Chicago 3 April 21: Chicago 4, St. Louis 3, 2 OT April 23: Chicago 6, St. Louis 3 April 25: at St. Louis, TBA Anaheim 3, Nashille 2 April 15: Nashville 3, Anaheim 2 April 17: Nashville 3, Anaheim 2 April 19: Anaheim 3, Nashville 0 April 21: Anaheim 4, Nashville 1 April 23: Anaheim 5, Nashiville 2 April 25: at Nashville, TBA x-April 27: at Anaheim, TBA San Jose 4, Los Angeles 1 April 14: San Jose 4, Los Angeles 3 April 16: San Jose 2, Los Angeles 1 April 18: Los Angeles 2, San Jose 1, OT April 20: San Jose 3, Los Angeles 2 April 22: San Jose 6, Los Angeles 3

Dalzell-Shaw Legion baseball meeting set for Wednesday The Dalzell-Shaw American Legion Post 175 baseball team will hold its interest and parents meeting on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Post located at 3625 Camden Highway in Dalzell.

All boys ages 13-19 at Ebenezer Middle School, Hillcrest Middle School, Crestwood High School and Thomas Sumter Academy might be eligible to participate and are encouraged to attend the meeting.

For additional details, contact athletic director J. Wrenn at baseball@p175.org or jwrenn1@sc.rr.com.

P-15 senior, junior teams pre-tryout meeting May 5 A pre-tryout meeting for the Sumter American Legion Post 15 senior and junior teams will be held on Thursday, May 5, at 7 p.m.

The meeting will be held at the American Legion Hut at

34 South Artillery Drive.

Players between the ages of 14 and 18 who plan to try out should attend the meeting with a parent or guardian and bring their original birth certificate.

For more information, contact Bill Lyons at (803) 9685115.

Manziel faces indictment for hitting ex-girlfriend DALLAS — Johnny Manziel’s attorney says prosecutors have told him the troubled former NFL quarterback will be indicted Tuesday on allegations that he attacked his ex-girlfriend in January.

Robert Hinton told The Associated Press on Monday that he expects an assault charge for family violence to be filed. The Class A misdemeanor carries up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

Brittany Dunn, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County

district attorney’s office, declined to confirm media reports Monday that Manziel had been indicted.

An indictment would further imperil Manziel’s chances of playing pro football. He was cut by the Cleveland Browns, dropped by two agents and no longer has endorsements.

Hoffman birdies final hole to win Texas Open SAN ANTONIO — Charley Hoffman made a 9-foot birdie putt on the final to win the Valero Texas Open on Sunday.

The 39-year-old Hoffman closed with a 3-under 69 at TPC San Antonio for a onestroke victory over Patrick Reed. Hoffman finished at 12under 276 and earned $1,116,000 for his fourth PGA Tour victory.

From staff and wire reports

Area roundup

Barons lead SCISA 3A state golf tournament MYRTLE BEACH — The defending SCISA 3A champion Wilson Hall golf team is in first place after the opening day of the state tournament at Coastal Carolina’s Hackler Course in Myrtle Beach.

The Barons shot a 304 on Monday and lead secondplace Hammond (309) by five strokes. Porter-Gaud is third after shooting a 313. The tournament concludes today.

WH’s Christian Salzer is tied for the medalist lead with Thomas Sumter Academy’s Tyler Gray after each finished with a 70.

Easton Ward shot a 76 for the Barons followed by Walker Jones (78), Grier Schwartz (80) and Coker Lowder (94).

Laurence Manning Academy shot a 327 team-score and was led by Burke Mishoe’s 78.

Will Williamson finished with an 80 followed by Rutledge Durant (82), Van Gardner (87) and Grant Kinlaw (97).

TSA’s Walker Brooks also competed as an individual alongside Gray and wound up with an 85.

13-11 and will travel to Summerville on Thursday in the first round of the 4A state playoffs.

JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL

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Wilson Hall 10 PAC Panthers 6

JUNIOR VARSITY SOCCER

Harrison Hudson and Hunter Watt each had three hits as Wilson Hall triumphed over Providence Athletic Club 10-6 on Monday.

Chandler Scott and John Thomas Parker had two hits apiece for the JV Barons, who improved to 3-8. Scott scored two runs as did Jackson

Sumter 4 Lugoff-Elgin

Sara Missildine scored three goals as Sumter earned a 4-0 victory over Lugoff-Elgin on Monday.

Adrianna Martin score the other goal for the JV Lady Gamecocks.

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VARSITY BASEBALL Sumter 5 Dutch Fork 1 IRMO — Dawson Price drove in two runs and three Sumter pitchers combined to allow one run on four hits in a 5-1 victory over Dutch Fork on Monday at the DFHS field.

Jordan Holladay was 3-for-3 with a double and a run scored. Brandon Spittle had a hit and an RBI. Lathan Todd got the win on the mound. He allowed no runs on one hit with one strikeouts in three innings.

Chad Jones started the game and allowed one run on one hit with two walks and two punchouts in two innings.

Rylan Williamson earned the save after tossing two scoreless innings and giving up two hits with four strikeouts.

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Sunday’s Games

Tampa Bay 8, N.Y. Yankees 1 Toronto 6, Oakland 3 Cleveland 6, Detroit 3 Washington 6, Minnesota 5, 16 inn.

Chicago White Sox 4, Texas 1 Kansas City 6, Baltimore 1 Seattle 9, L.A. Angels 4 Boston 7, Houston 5, 12 inn.

Monday’s Games

Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

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By PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press

the associated press

Golden State guard Stephen Curry limps out of the Toyota Center after Sunday’s Game 4 against Houston.

An MRI on Monday revealed a sprained ligament in Curry’s right knee, an injury that will sideline the reigning MVP for at least two weeks.

Sprained knee sidelines Curry at least two weeks

By JOSH DUBOW The Associated Press

es, he returned to the locker room with his second injury of the series. Curry had missed OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen the previous two games with a Curry will miss at least two sprained right ankle. weeks for Golden State with a The Warriors thrived withsprained ligament in his right out Curry on Sunday, hitting knee, dealing a blow to the eight 3-pointers in the third Warriors’ hopes of following a quarter alone to turn a tie record-breaking season with a game into a 21-point lead on second straight championship. the way to the easy win.

The Warriors said an MRI But doing that without the on Curry’s knee Monday dereigning MVP for a longer petermined he had a Grade 1 riod of time figures to be more sprain of the MCL and will be problematic. The Warriors re-evaluated in two weeks. have gone 3-2 this season withThat timetable would lead to out Curry playing, including Curry missing the rest of the wins against the Rockets on first round of the playoffs and New Year’s Eve and at home likely at least the first four in Game 2. Golden State also games in round two if the lost Game 3 in Houston by one Warriors are able to advance. point while Curry sat with the Golden State leads Houston ankle injury.

3-1 in its first-round series.

Replacing everything Curry Game 5 is Wednesday night in does is almost impossible beOakland. cause no one has ever had the Curry was injured on the collection of skills he has with final play of the first half of the ability to spread the deSunday’s 121-94 win in Housfense with long-range shootton when he slid awkwardly ing, the ballhandling to create on a wet spot on the court and his own shot and the playmakfell. He immediately grabbed ing that leads to easy baskets his knee and jogged with a for his teammates. limp to the locker room.

Curry led the NBA this seaHe came out with the team son by averaging 30.1 points after halftime, but sat on the per game, while averaging 6.7 bench for most of the warmup assists, 5.4 rebounds and a time. After talking with coach- league-leading 2.1 steals as

well. Curry made a record 402 3-pointers, eclipsing his own previous mark by 116.

While backup point guard Shaun Livingston and do-everything power forward Draymond Green can shoulder much of the playmaking load and Klay Thompson is the second-best 3-point shooter in the league, the Warriors go from a historically great team that won a record 73 games in the regular season with Curry in the lineup to a vulnerable one if he misses significant time.

With a 3-1 series lead and two potential games at home against the eighth-seeded Rockets, Golden State is still primed to advance to the second round without Curry. But a second-round series against either the Los Angeles Clippers or Portland would be much more problematic.

The second round of the playoffs start this weekend at the earliest. Game 4 would likely be either May 8 or 9, which will be in two weeks.

Golden State could be forced to go the entire round without Curry, which could open a path for teams like San Antonio, Oklahoma City, the Clippers or Cleveland to win the title.

to make just 8 of 27 in Game 4 as Indiana evened the series with a 100-83 romp.

ATLANTA — At this stage “They’re like your kids,” of an NBA playoff series, Toronto coach Dwane Casey there’s not much need for said. “You get upset with extra film work, no point in your kids sometimes, you making any big adjustments. argue with your kids, you go When two teams are tied back and forth. But at the heading into their fifth meet- end of the day, they’re our ing in less than two weeks, fa- guys. We’re going to ride and miliarity is not an issue. die with DeMar and Kyle.”

“We know what they’re tryIndiana already knocked ing to do and they know what off the Raptors in Game 1 in we’re trying to do,” said AtToronto, and Pacers star Paul lanta’s Kyle Korver, looking George hopes the Pacers can ahead to Tuesday night’s cru- steal one more road victory cial Game 5 against Boston. to set up a potential series“There’s nothing the other clinching win in Indianapolis. team has not seen before.”

“We have to realize that if While Cleveland and San we lock this one up, we can Antonio breezed through the close it out here without woropening round with fourrying about Game 7,” he said. game sweeps, the Hawks“That’s the motivation.”

Celtics series is right back where it started, essentially a Celtics at Hawks Boston must avoid the poor best-of-three heading into a starts that plagued the team potentially pivotal contest at in each of its first two games Philips Arena. in Atlanta, including a Game It’s the same scenario for the night’s other game, which 2 debacle that left the Celtics has the Toronto Raptors look- trailing by 21 points midway through the first quarter. ing to regain the upper hand “I wouldn’t recommend when they host the pesky In24-3 again. Just generally diana Pacers. speaking, that would be a bad After getting blown out in thing,” coach Brad Steven Game 2 in Atlanta, the Celtsaid sarcastically. “I didn’t ics bounced back with two think we lacked for effort in nail-biting victories in BeanGame 2. We just didn’t play town, including an overtime well in the first 5 minutes. triumph Sunday night that Then you’re swimming uphill evened things up. the rest of the game, and The Hawks were kicking that’s bad. They played at a themselves for squandering Paul Millsap’s 45-point effort different pace than we did in and a 16-point lead in the sec- Game 2 at the start. That can’t happen again.” ond half, pointing to a shaky While the Celtics are fotransition defense that alcused on improving in the lowed Boston to rip off a quick run near the end of the opening minutes, the Hawks must do a better job at finishthird quarter.

Now, it’s all about the little ing. They had a chance to win both games in Boston but things.

“It’s going to come down to couldn’t pull out either one. the 50-50 balls, come down to More troubling, they are 0-6 in overtime games this seathe hustle plays, come down son and have dropped nine to that one or two runs that really separates you from the straight going back to last season. other team,” Korver said.

“We need to be better in Here’s a look at the games those situations,” coach Mike Tuesday: Budenholzer said.

Pacers at Raptors With Avery Bradley still The second-seeded Raptors sidelined by a hamstring inreally need their dynamic jury, the Celtics will again go backcourt of Kyle Lowry and with a bigger lineup that DeMar DeRozan to get going. worked well in Boston. Jonas DeRozan is hitting just 29.6 Jerebko, a 6-foot-10 Swede percent (21 of 71) in the seused sparingly during the ries, while Lowry isn’t much regular season, is coming off better at 32 percent on 19-ofa 16-point, 10-rebound perfor59 shooting. They combined mance in Game 4.

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thigh.

Still, the Heat wouldn’t go away, responding with a 17-1 run, including a long 25-footer

by Johnson with a hand in his face.

But Walker helped restore order, scoring on a pair of nifty drives, including a hesitation move that left Deng’s feet glued to the floor and the Hornets led 69-61 after three quarters.

TIP-INS Heat: Won the previous two games in this series at home by an average margin of 22 points.

Hornets: The Hornets held Miami to 13 second-quarter points ... Were 25 of 30 from

the foul line.

BATUM NOT READY Nicolas Batum missed his second straight game with a strained foot and his status for Game 5 remains in question.

Coach Steve Clifford said before the game Batum’s foot is “very, very weak.”

SEEN AT THE GAME Several of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers were at the game showing their support to city’s crosstown NBA team, including linebackers Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis, running back Jonathan Stewart, wide receiver Devin Funchess and coach Ron Rivera.

North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams was also at the game, along with former NBA star Dikembe Mutombo.

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Offense a priority this spring for ACC’s Atlantic Division

Olsen: Panthers’ focus is not on return to Super Bowl right now

By JOEDY McCREARY The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Some teams in the ACC’s Atlantic Division kept their offenses humming this spring.

Others simply tried to get them started.

There was little middle ground last season in the Atlantic Division, which had three of the league’s best offenses last season along with three of its worst.

No surprise, then, that in the teams’ end-of-spring scrimmages, there were a wide range of offensive showings — from Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson’s 519-yard, eight-touchdown bonanza, to Boston College’s spring game ending with a 6-2 score.

For North Carolina State and Florida State — which ended last season ranked third and fourth in the league in scoring — the goal was to maintain that offensive production with some new faces.

And then there’s Clemson.

The Tigers’ offense looked like it hadn’t missed a beat — despite not having injured receivers Mike Williams or Deon Cain — with 2015 Heisman Trophy finalist Deshaun Watson taking snaps in the spring for the first, and maybe only, time in his college career.

“I don’t really have ... a major concern,” coach Dabo Swinney said. “I just think that we’ve got a lot of work to do, and we need that commitment this summer. I mean, I think championships are won when people aren’t looking.

Championships are won when the stands are empty.”

At the other end of the spectrum, BC, Wake Forest and Syracuse had plenty of room for growth.

The Eagles ranked 126th in the nation last year in total offense and 121st in scoring.

Wake Forest wasn’t much bet-

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campaign rally in Rhode Island by sticking up for Brady, a longtime friend and golfing buddy.

“First of all let’s start by saying leave Tom Brady alone.

Leave him alone. Leave him alone he’s a great guy,” Trump said. “It’s enough. It’s enough.”

The ruling can be appealed to the full 2nd Circuit or to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it would likely be a steep and time-consuming climb even if the courts took the unusual step to consider it.

In a majority opinion written by Judge Barrington D.

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From Page B1 winning crew chief Dave Rogers of Edwards’ decision to nudge his teammate out of the way to win the race. “It would be very disappointing to our fans if Joe imposed a team order and told us, ‘Hey, have a parade instead of a race.”’

It’s hard to say with NASCAR’s bipolar fan base. Most weeks, the majority of the fans can’t stand Busch and use social media to vow they’ll never watch another race until Busch is banned from competing in the second-tier Xfinity Series. On Monday, though, it was Dale Earnhardt Jr. on social media smacking back at fans complaining that Edwards’ move was dirty.

“In my book it’s ok to lean on a guy for a W. Not ok to put them in the fence. Lean on ‘em, but don’t ruin their day,” Earnhardt replied on Twitter to a fan who asked him what he would have done in Edwards’ situation.

The only people who should be upset are Busch and his race team. This is the kind of racing fans are supposed to embrace, a driver putting it all out there and fearlessly moving the reigning Sprint Cup champion out of his way for a

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Clemson hopes its offense remains solid behind Heisman Trophy finalist Deshaun Watson (4) as other ACC Atlantic Division teams look to improve. ter at 114th in total yardage and 120th in scoring in Dave Clawson’s second season.

BOSTON COLLEGE The Eagles brought in Scot Loeffler, who coordinated offenses at Virginia Tech, Auburn and Temple, to run an offense that averaged just 275 yards and 17 points last season.

CLEMSON Swinney said Mike Williams — who suffered a season-ending neck injury while scoring a touchdown on the first series last year — went through skeleton drills this spring while working on his timing with Watson.

FLORIDA STATE The Seminoles groomed their eventual replacements for Maguire, with redshirt freshman Deondre Francois and freshman Malik Henry showing promise.

in each of the last two games last season, showed improvement in his decision-making and in his throwing accuracy.

NORTH CAROLINA STATE The Wolfpack wanted to grasp the fundamentals of Drinkwitz’s offense. Drinkwitz came from Boise State to replace the fired Matt Canada.

Jalan McClendon and Jakobi Meyers are competing to replace Jacoby Brissett at QB.

SYRACUSE The Orange’s top priority was figuring out how Babers wants to play on both sides of the ball. He says he’s learned not to set unrealistic goals for new teams.

WAKE FOREST

Coach Bobby Petrino said Jackson, a dual-threat QB who rushed for 186 or more yards

After winning six total games in two years with minimally experienced players, the Demon Deacons are starting to grow up. They’ve got plenty to sort out between now and the opener at virtually every key position, including quarterback — where John Wolford and Kendall Hinton return.

Parker, the 2nd Circuit said its review of labor arbitration awards “is narrowly circumscribed and highly deferential — indeed, among the most deferential in the law.”

“Our role is not to determine for ourselves whether Brady participated in a scheme to deflate footballs or whether the suspension imposed by the Commissioner should have been for three games or five games or none at all. Nor is it our role to second-guess the arbitrator’s procedural rulings,” the opinion said. “Our obligation is limited to determining whether the arbitration proceedings and award met the minimum legal standards established by the Labor Management Relations Act.”

The 2nd Circuit said the contract between players and the NFL gave the commissioner authority that was “especially broad.”

“Even if an arbitrator makes mistakes of fact or law, we may not disturb an award so long as he acted within the bounds of his bargained-for authority,” the court said.

In a dissent, Chief Judge Robert Katzmann said Goodell failed to consider a “highly relevant” alternative penalty.

“I am troubled by the Commissioner’s decision to uphold the unprecedented four-game suspension,” Katzmann said.

“It is ironic that a process designed to ensure fairness to all players has been used unfairly against one player.”

LOUISVILLE

Toyota Owners 400 results Sunday At Richmond International Raceway Richmond, Va. Lap length: .75 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 400 laps, 45 points.

2. (9) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 400, 40.

3. (3) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 400, 39.

4. (8) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 400, 37.

5. (1) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 400, 37.

6. (5) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400, 36.

7. (13) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 400, 35.

8. (2) Joey Logano, Ford, 400, 33.

9. (22) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 400, 32.

10. (7) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 400, 32.

11. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 400, 31.

12. (23) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400, 29.

13. (16) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 400, 28.

14. (19) Greg Biffle, Ford, 400, 27.

15. (15) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 400, 26.

16. (27) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 400, 25.

17. (17) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 400, 24.

18. (14) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 400, 23.

19. (18) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 400, 22.

20. (11) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 400, 21.

21. (24) Aric Almirola, Ford, 400, 20.

22. (26) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 400, 19.

23. (30) David Ragan, Toyota, 400, 18.

24. (21) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 400, 17.

25. (10) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 400, 16.

26. (12) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 400, 15.

27. (28) Landon Cassill, Ford, 399, 14.

28. (29) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 399, 13.

29. (25) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 399, 12.

30. (36) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 399, 11.

31. (32) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 399, 10.

32. (34) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 399, 9.

33. (39) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 398, 8.

34. (33) Chris Buescher, Ford, 396, 7.

35. (20) Brian Scott, Ford, 395, 6.

36. (40) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 394, 5.

37. (37) Ryan Ellis, Toyota, 393, 0.

38. (38) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, 392, 3.

39. (31) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 390, 2.

40. (35) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 390, 1.

trip to victory lane.

If there’s an issue, it should only exist inside the walls at JGR, where the team owner can navigate any potential hard feelings.

But this is the new norm in NASCAR, where no race is good enough, no finish exciting enough, to satisfy this fan base.

That’s a serious problem for NASCAR.

By STEVE REED The Associated Press

to miss all the steps that it took last year to make CHARLOTTE — Pro Bowl that possible,” tight end Greg Olsen knows Olsen said. “The the NFC champion Carolina biggest thing Panthers are making a huge guys have to unOlsen mistake if they assume derstand in this they’re getting back to the league is you Super Bowl next season. don’t just pick up where you History hasn’t been kind to left off. We don’t just assume Super Bowl losers. we are going to play Week 1 It has been 23 years since like we did Week 16 last year the team that fell short in the - it’s just not how it works.

Super Bowl has returned to There was a lot of work that play for the championship went in before we even hit the following season — the the field in Spartanburg (for Buffalo Bills in 1993. training camp) last year.”

The Panthers lost 24-10 to Panthers linebacker Thomthe Denver Broncos in Super as Davis, who said he’s never Bowl 50 in February. gone back and watched the “The second you think team’s Super Bowl loss, beyou’ve arrived, the second lieves the Panthers are in you think you’ve got it — great shape moving forward. you’re done,” Olsen said But also offered caution.

Monday. “... We’re not going “I really think the sky’s the to just show up on the field limit, but none of that matWeek 1 and just say, ‘Hey, ters if we don’t go out and we’re the defending NFC put the work in like we did champs. We have the best re- last year,” said Davis, who cord in the league. Let’s go.’ has yet to watch a replay of That’s not how it goes. Overthe Super Bowl. “So we’ve confidence and thinking got to start from ground zero you’ve arrived has ruined a and just understand that it’s lot of careers in the NFL.” not going to just happen for Olsen said that is why the us. We have to go out and team’s focus isn’t remotely on make it happen.” the Super Bowl — or even the Carolina will return the team’s rematch against the vast majority of its core playBroncos in the regular seaers, with the exception of Allson opener — as workouts of- Pro cornerback Josh Norficially commenced at the man. He recently signed a team’s downtown Charlotte free agent contract with the stadium.

Washington Redskins after “If that’s our focus all offPanthers general manager season and that’s the only Dave Gettleman rescinded thing we look at, we’re going the team’s franchise tag offer.

Keeping Sumter Beautiful

By Amanda McNulty, County Extension Agent Favorite Tool When our new class of students for the Master Gardener training have their first day, we ask them to fill out some forms. One telling question is, “What is your favorite tool?”

Surprisingly, many people answer, “my hands.” When I first came across this, I was stunned.

But after thinking about it for a while, I realized, of course, our hands are our favorite tool in the garden. We fluff mulch, we break a stem to pick a flower, we separate bulbs, or we loosen circling roots before placing a new plant in the soil.

All this is possible because we stand upright – which makes garden a chore in some ways as it’s hard on our backs which were originally designed for quadruped motion. As we transitioned to our biped form of movement, we also were able to perfect our opposable thumb. This remarkable part of our skeletal system is why our hands can function so marvelously and with such versatility as our favorite gardening tool.

Getting the neglected garden ready for spring was a major chore this year, and I used my hands extensively to weed the nearly wall-to-wall crop of winter annuals that had taken over the beds that once supported okra,

peppers, and then collards and turnips. After two weekends of crawling around on my hands and knees (that quadruped motion is better for my back then hours of bending over), I developed a terrible case of arthritis in my left – non-dominant – hand.

And me only a year into being eligible for Medicare!

A few years ago, I started using drywall saws as part of my crape myrtle pruning arsenal. They have a slender profile and allow me to remove a branch without the back of the saw rubbing a wound into the bark of another limb in close proximity.

So now I don’t use my opposable thumbs to tightly grasp offending weeds and tug them from the soil. Instead I cut that offender out of the soil with the saw blade. If I have to stop to move a hose or such, I simply stick the blade directly in the soil and the bright blue handle lets me easily retrieve it and resume the task at hand. My husband says it is a travesty to use saws in the soil, but it’s a whole lot easier to get a new saw than a new knuckle.

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Fire Ants fall short of Region X title The University of South Carolina Sumter baseball team split its final two Region X games against Guilford Tech on Sunday at Riley Park, rallying for a 10-9 victory in 10 innings in the opener before falling 6-3 in the second contest.

Spartanburg Methodist College meanwhile swept Louisburg College to claim the regular-season championship.

USC Sumter scored twice in the bottom of the seventh of the opening game to force extras, then won on a wild pitch in the 10th. The Titans scored three times in the top of the sixth inning of Game 2 and held on for the victory.

USCS is now 37-17 overall and finished Region X play 19-9. The Fire Ants return to action on Saturday at Riley Park against USC Salkehatchie at 1 p.m. The two teams will then play in Allendale on Sunday beginning at 1 p.m.

The Region X Tournament starts May 7 in Kinston, N.C., where USCS will be the No. 2 overall seed.

South Carolina 9 Missouri 2

COLUMBIA — Junior outfielder Gene Cone set a school

record with a 27-game hitting streak and went 5-for-5 — just a homer shy of the cycle — and drove in three runs as fourth-ranked South Carolina defeated Missouri 9-2 to sweep a 3-game SEC series.

The Gamecocks are now 33-8 and 14-4 in the SEC Carolina is in first place in the conference, one game ahead of Florida, who comes to Columbia on Friday for a 3-game set. Missouri falls to 20-21 and 4-14 in league play.

Cone’s 27-game hitting streak is the longest active streak in Division I baseball and is two shy of the longest this season by a Division I player. He scored three runs and drove in three as well to lead Carolina at the plate.

Cone finished the weekend 10for-12 at the plate with six RBI and seven runs scored vs. the Tigers.

TJ Hopkins was 3-for-5 with two runs and three RBI with John Jones 2-for-5 with a RBI and Alex Destino 3-for-5 with two RBI also.

Freshman right-hander Adam Hill earned the win and is now 6-0 on the year. He pitched 61/3 scoreless innings with just four hits allowed and one walk while striking

out eight batters.

Georgia Tech 7 Clemson 6

CLEMSON — Georgia Tech jumped out to a 5-0 lead and held on for a 7-5 victory over No. 23 Clemson at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Sunday to win the series 2-1.

Georgia Tech (27-13, 10-10 ACC) scored four runs in the first inning thanks to four run-scoring singles. After the Yellow Jackets scored a run in the top of the fourth inning, Clemson (26-14, 9-12 ACC) scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on runscoring singles by Eli White and Andrew Cox. Seth Beer added a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning to cut Georgia Tech’s lead to 5-3, but the Tigers could get no closer.

Yellow Jacket reliever Burton Dulaney (2-3) earned the win by tossing 32/3 effective innings, allowing just one hit, one run and five walks with two strikeouts. Matthew Gorst pitched the ninth inning to record his 10th save of the season. Tiger starter Ryley Gilliam (2-1) suffered the loss.

The Tigers will take five days off for final exams before hosting Florida State in a

3-game series at Doug Kingsmore Stadium beginning on Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

Citadel 6 Western Carolina 4

CHARLESTON — Former Sumter High and Sumter P-15’s standout Jacob Watcher picked up the win on the mound and former Wilson Hall standout William Kinney had a double and drove in two runs as the Citadel baseball team took its series over Southern Conference-leading Western Carolina on Sunday with a 6-4 win inside Joe Riley Park.

Watcher (5-3) went five-plus innings and allowed two earned runs on five hits with four walks and two strikeouts.

Kinney went 1-for-3 with a 2-run double in the bottom of the fourth that stretched the Bulldogs’ lead to 5-0.

Offensively, The Citadel 1526, 5-7 SoCon) finished 3-for-6 with a runner on third base and outhit the Catamounts for the second time in the series, 10-9. Jason Smith and Bret Hines both finished with two hits in the contest and Shy Phillips tallied two RBI.

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and do the same thing at Allen. I think Allen is getting a steal in Tiarra.”

Abram was one of the key performers for the Lady Gamecocks, who reached the 4A state championship game this past season. The 5-foot-5inch Abram averaged 6.2 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.8 steals a contest for 25-5 SHS. Allen has been an independent school in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). However, the school recently joined the Appalachian Athletic Conference, an NAIA conference.

Allen will be the 13th full-time member in the conference, which has schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky.

“It feels great to be getting this chance,” Abram said.

“This is something I’ve always wanted to do.”

From staff, local reports

OBITUARIES ISABELLE R. GRAHAM COLUMBIA — Isabelle Rodgers Graham, widow of Robert E. Graham Sr., died on April 21, 2016. Burial will be private.

Born on Sept. 28, 1921, in Kingstree, Isabelle was a daughter of the late Mary Baggett and Elmer E. Rodgers. She moved to Sumter as a teenager. She graduated from Sumter High School in 1939 and attended Queens College.

She spent most of her adult life in Sumter, moving to Columbia in 2002. Isabelle was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church.

She is survived by her three children, Georgianna Graham (Ken Parnell) of Columbia, Robert E. “Bob” Graham Jr. (Susan) of Columbia and Mary Graham of Mt. Pleasant; and her three grandchildren whom she adored, Grace Graham, Lucy Graham and Russell Graham Jenkins.

Isabelle’s life was characterized by her kindness and compassion to all, unsurpassed only by her love of God’s beauty.

Contributions in Isabelle Graham’s memory may be made to St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2827 Wheat St., Columbia, SC 29205; Friends of Swan Lake Gardens, P.O. Box 1754, Sumter, SC 29151; or a charity of one’s choice.

The family would like to extend special thanks to the staff at Still Hopes for their love, care and compassion.

Please sign the online guestbook at www.dunbarfunerals. com.

BROADUS FULKS SR. Broadus Fulks Sr., 82, entered eternal rest on Thursday, April 21, 2016, at his home in Eastover.

Born on May 24, 1933, in Columbia, he was a son of the late Hickman and Thomasena Fulks Burke. He attended the public schools of Richland County and was a graduate of Columbia High School Class of 1951. After graduation, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served his country for four years. He was a Korean War veteran.

He leaves to cherish his memories: three sons, Broadus Fulks Jr. (Diana), Edgar L. Smith (Eloise) and Brudus M. Fulks; three daughters, Sharon A. Bailey (Melvin), Patty Ford and Claudette Lexee (Richard); 10 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one brother, Vandell McCurry; one sister, Regina Burke; two special friends and caregivers, Thomas and Catherine Council of the home; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Graveside services will be held at noon Wednesday at Fort Jackson National Cemetery, 4170 Percival Road, Co-

lumbia, with the Rev. Michael Sinclair officiating.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 1152 Hezekiah Road, Eastover.

The procession will leave at 11:10 a.m. from the home.

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

Visit us on the web at www. williamsfuneralhomeinc.com.

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

JOLINE H. WARR Joline Huggins Warr, 87, beloved wife of John H. Warr, died on Sunday, April 24, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on Jan. 5, 1929, in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Luther Clyde and Josie Eugenia Hinson Huggins. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church and the Faith Sunday School Class.

She was employed by BelkStroman Department Store for 25 years; Sumter School District 2; and retired from Sumter Dental Prosthetics, which she and her husband owned. She was an avid traveler and loved to spend time at the lake.

Survivors include her husband of 49 years; a brother, Clyde Raymond “Ray” Huggins Sr. (Oveita) of Sumter; sisters-in-law, Christine W. Barnhart of Sumter, Lois Coster (Mick) of Travelers Rest and Mayes P. Warr of Sumter; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Margaret Huggins Nichols and Doris Huggins Morris.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with Dr. Steve Williams officiating. Burial will be in Sumter Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Ray Huggins Jr., Wade Warr, Kent Oliver, Barry Nichols, Jason Coster and Mark Huggins.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to Grace Baptist Church, 219 W. Calhoun St., Sumter, SC 29150 or a charity of one’s choice.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

Church. She was a graduate of Edmunds High School and was retired from Sumter Builders with 30 years of service.

Surviving are three sons, Archie C. Browder III, Christopher G. Browder and Jason G. Browder (Teresa); one brother, Roy H. “Bucky” Tallman Jr. (Teresa); one sister, Janet T. Ackerman, all of Sumter; five grandchildren, Kayla Browder, Melissa Browder, Sarah Browder, Peyton Browder and Lane Browder; and numerous special nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at noon on Wednesday in the Chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with Pastor Dearld Sterling officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, one hour prior to the service, at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home, 100 Heather Court.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to Amedisys Hospice and Wendy Felder’s staff at Carolina Caregivers. We are eternally grateful for the care and support given to our family during this time.

Memorials may be made to Sounds of Grace Music Ministry, 3 Crowson St., Sumter, SC 29150.

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.

GERALDINE HICKMAN Geraldine Hickman entered eternal rest on April 13, 2016, at her residence, 12 Copper Lane, Bishopville.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. today at St. Mark Baptist Church, Bishopville, with the interim pastor, the Rev. Willie Dennis Sr., officiating. Interment will follow in St. Mark Memorial Garden.

Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville, is in charge of arrangements.

GAIL T. BROWDER

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Gail Tallman Browder, 73, wife of Archie Calvin Browder Jr., died on Monday, April 25, 2016, at her home.

Born in Charleston, she was a daughter of the late Roy Hill and Pauline Peyre Gaillard Tallman. Mrs. Browder was a member of Wise Drive Baptist

Calvin Oaks, 66, husband of Mable Oaks, departed this life on Saturday, April 23, 2016, at his residence.

He was born on Sept. 1, 1946, in Sumter.

The family will be receiving friends at the home of his daughter, the Rev. Kimberly

Ferguson, 18 Beard Drive, Dalzell.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter.

JEREMY G. JOHNSON LYNCHBURG — Jeremy Gerald Johnson, age 36, passed away on Saturday, April 16, 2016, at his home in Deltona, Florida.

A memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday at Shiloh United Methodist Church with a graveside service following in the church cemetery, directed by Floyd Funeral Home of Olanta.

The family will greet friends from 3 to 5 p.m. prior to the memorial service at the church.

Born in Sumter County, he was a son of Lisa Hurst Johnson and the late Gerald “Jerry” Johnson. Jeremy was a 1998 high school graduate of Hudgens Academy and a graduate of Central Carolina Technical College, where he received his associate degree in computer science. He was employed with the Florida Department of Transporation, District Five Traffic Operation, where he served the department both as an employee and as a consultant since 2004, making many friends and significant contributions along the way, especially in Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Over the years, Jeremy was instrumental in developing software, implementing robust levels of network security and designing the modern version of the ITS network.

He was preceded in death by his father, Gerald “Jerry” Johnson; a brother, Bradley Johnson; and grandparents.

Surviving are his mother, Lisa Marie Hurst Johnson of Lynchburg; a sister, Angela J. Welch (Scott) of Turbeville; a special niece, Madelynn Welch of Lynchburg; and a step-niece, Ashley W. Hudson of Effingham.

The family requests memorials be made to Shiloh United Methodist Church, 895 Pleasant Grove Road, Lynchburg, SC 29080.

BARBARA INGRAM Barbara Ingram, 57, entered eternal rest on Friday, April 22, 2016.

She was born on Feb. 24, 1959, in Sumter, a daughter of Dorothy Lee Vaughn. She was educated in the Sumter County public schools and was a 1978 graduate of Sumter High School. She attended Central Carolina Technical College. She was employed for 20 years at Bosch Braking Systems in Sumter. She retired in 2005.

She is survived by her mother; three sisters, Pamela Vaughn, Valerie Vaughn and

Melison Burgess, all of Sumter; three nieces, Destyni, Diamond and Crystal Burgess; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Celebration of life will be held at 1 p.m. today at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness, 90 Oswego Road. Burial will follow in Hillside Memorial Park.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home Inc. is in charge of arrangements.

MARY HARVIN-WHITE Mary Harvin-White, 70, passed away peacefully into her eternal rest on Friday, April 22, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on Sept. 22, 1945, in Clarendon County, she was a daughter of the late Ranson and Lizzie Billie Harvin. She received her education in the public school system and graduated from Manchester High School, Pinewood. She was a member of New Hope UME Church.

She leaves to cherish her memories: her husband, Clarence White; one daughter, Tanya White (John R. Lawson); five grandchildren; four sisters, Estelle (Robert) Brown and Martha Green, both of Pinewood, and Eloise Harvin and Ruther (Dennis) Marshall, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a host of nieces, nephews, in-laws, other relatives and friends.

Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday at the John Wesley Williams Sr. Memorial Chapel, Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter, with the Rev. Lawrence Myers officiating.

The family is receiving family and friends at the home, 1180 St. Marks Road, Pinewood.

The procession will leave at 3:20 p.m. from the home.

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

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

Visit us on the web at www. williamsfuneralhomeinc.com.

WILLIE PEARSON JR. TURBEVILLE — Willie Pearson Jr., 59, died on Monday, April 25, 2016, at his residence, 2943 Horsebrand Road, Turbeville.

He was born on Dec. 26, 1956, in Clarendon County, a son of Virginia Witherspoon Pearson and the late William Pearson Sr. The family is receiving friends at his residence.

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

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larly.

He suggested that I visit him. I don’t get any red flags from him, and I’m sure I’d be 100 percent safe while I’m there. However, I’m anxious about taking a trip by myself to visit a guy I’ve developed a massive crush on.

I have thought about offering to pay his way here in-

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stead, or simply not going at all. I need advice from an outsider’s perspective.

Confused and crushing DEAR C&C — I vote for having your friend come and visit you the first time you meet. That way your family and friends can meet him, and if your massive crush doesn’t live up to your expectations, you won’t be alone in a strange city.

DEAR ABBY — My husband and I have been happily married for 38 years. Almost everything is great, except that the wife of his best friend, “Ted,” has the hots for my husband.

Ted has no idea his wife feels this way, but several people have pointed it out, and I have observed the way she acts. I have talked to my husband

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about it. He in no way is interested in her.

I would never want to jeopardize my husband’s friendship with Ted, and I enjoy being friends with them both, but I’m uncomfortable about her feelings for my husband.

Can I say something to her and let her know how I feel without ruining the friendship with her or the one my husband has with Ted? Situation in Austin, Texas DEAR SITUATION — Probably not.

While it wouldn’t change the relationship your husband has with Ted, if you address this with his wife and tell her you know she has been lusting after your husband, it’s sure to cause embarrassment. And that’s not conducive to a close friendship.

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

By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke

ACROSS 1 Doorbell sound 5 Radio switch 9 Pop out of the CD player 14 “Young Frankenstein” helper 15 “Deck the Halls” syllables 16 Use crayons 17 “The West Wing” actor Alan 18 Fed. agent 19 Best way to sing 20 Keep in suspense 23 Maker of Fiesta Flats taco shells 24 Gorilla who learned sign language 25 “__ you for real?”

28 Half a Mork-toOrson farewell 30 Symbol 32 Suffers from 35 Department store fixture 38 Tunnel effect 40 Actor’s prompt 41 “We gotta move!”

42 Shingle securer 47 Roulette bet 48 Like a spoiled child 49 Didn’t need to guess

51 Weekly NBC offering since 1975, briefly 52 Takes notice of 55 Like some country songs 59 It may be affixed to an email ... and, literally, what the last word of 20-, 35- and 42-Across can have 61 Drummer Ringo 64 Sheepish smile 65 First name in bike stunts 66 Japanese verse 67 Tupperware tops 68 Harvest 69 Kentucky Derby racer 70 Sporting weapon 71 Lacking, in Lorraine DOWN 1 Old way to place a collect call 2 Creepy admirer 3 Signal silently to 4 Sculptured, as an image 5 Kabul native 6 Wee one’s word 7 __ steak 8 Tropical fruit

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9 Political debate topic 10 “Fear of Flying” author Erica 11 Antlered animal 12 Two-time 1500-meter gold medalist Sebastian 13 Give it a whirl 21 “My stars!”

22 Maker of NORDLI furniture 25 Texas tourist spot 26 Fix a green 27 Revise 29 Shoreline protection gp.

31 Discreetly send a dupe email to 32 Chef’s flavorings 33 Oak-to-be 34 Sandbar 36 Lewis Carroll specialty

37 Security issue 39 Time and again, to a bard 43 “Honest!”

44 Kremlin rejection 45 Passionate 46 R-rated, perhaps 50 Thin cookies 53 Sharp-eyed flier 54 Rx, for short 56 Skin lotion brand 57 Collect incrementally 58 Sounds from a kennel 59 Sacred chests 60 Hole up 61 Librarian’s warning 62 Confucian “path” 63 Go public with

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Lawn Service Kaz's Lawn Care & Landscaping Free Estimates 803-316-1621 Four Seasons Lawn Care Serving Sumter for 20 yrs! Free estimates. 494-9169 or 468-4008 GrassBusters, Lawn Maintenance, Pest & Termite Control. Insured and Licensed. 803-983-4539

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Will buy furniture by piece or bulk, tools, trailers, lawn mowers, 4 wheelers, or almost anything of value. Call 803-983-5364

LARGE GARAGE SALE Every Weekend Tables $2 & $3 FLEA MARKET BY SHAW AFB

Septic Tank Cleaning Call the pros for all of your septic pumping needs. 803-316-0429 Proline Utilities, LLC

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Open every weekend. Call 803-494-5500 Yard sale 445 Derek Dr. April 28th-30th 10am-4pm. Will cancel if it rains.

For Sale or Trade Martin's Used Appliance Washers, Dryers, Refrig., Stoves.

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EMPLOYMENT Help Wanted Full-Time TRUCK MECHANIC / WELDER NEEDED Experienced Truck Mechanic & Welder needed for local trucking company. Work includes general maintenance on trucks and trailers, along with welding repairs on rolloff equipment. Benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, and prescription plans. Company paid uniforms, paid holidays, PTO time, life insurance, 401K and profit sharing. Must have own hand tools and valid driver's license. Hourly pay commensurate with experience. Apply in person at FCI 132 Myrtle Beach Hwy Sumter, SC 19153 803-773-2611 Ext - 25 for Todd.

Resumes can be e-mailed to tkrigbaum@freeholdcartage.com RETIREES/HOUSEWIFES SUBSIDIZE YOUR INCOME Must be able to work EARLY morning hours. Must have dependable transportation. Must be able to work alone. Must not be afraid of work. Must be dependable. Must be bondable. If you are all the above, come in and complete an application. 20 N. Magnolia, St. Sumter, SC

Automotive mechanic, tools and exp. required. Can apply in person at Barnette's Auto Parts.

Local Company Requirements: •Out of state work (3-4 weeks) •Valid Driver's License •Confined Space entry •Haz Wop, OSHA Training •Drug free environment

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Send resume to: STC PO Box 1060 Sumter Sc 29151 Phone number: 803-775-1002 Ex. 107 Clinical Counselor for outpatient treatment facility. Required Master's Degree in one of the behavioral/social sciences and preferred certification through SCAADAC and or licensed LPC or LMSW. Salary commensurate with experience.

Send resume to PO Box 430, Manning, SC 29102 by 05/10/2016.

RENTALS

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ROOMS FOR RENT, $100- $125 /wkly. All utilities & cable included.

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Private 3 BR Apt on a horse farm.

Non Smoker, No inside pets, water icld., $750 Mo. Leave Msg..

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FIELD SERVICE TECHS NEEDED

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LEGAL NOTICES 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 12, 2016 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 1143 N. Guignard Drive, Sumter, SC 29153.

The personal goods stored therein by below named occupant(s); 1143 N.Guignard Dr, Sumter, SC 29150 104 - Appleby, Shanna 520 - Miller, Jr., Thomas 1277 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC 29153 B087 - Green, James F044 - Bradley, Evelyn 3785 Broad St, Sumter, SC 29154 0111 - Washington, Crystal 0422 - Hilton, Omar 0701 - Jennings, Stephine 0854 - Marbury, Simone 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

SUMMONS AND NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO. 16-CP-43-00515 Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc., Plaintiff vs.

Theodore Sanders, Jr. and Levi Sanders, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANT(S) Theodore Sanders, Jr.; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office, 2838 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on March 18, 2016, and thereafter amended on March 29, 2016. NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above Defendant(s) for the purpose of claiming and repossessing collateral, which secures the repayment of a certain Contract bearing date of February 1, 2013 and given and delivered by Defendant(s) Theodore Sanders, Jr. to Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. in the original principal sum of Seventy One Thousand Fifty Four and 12/100 Dollars ($71,054.12). Said collateral is described as a 2012 CMH VIN# ROC725970NCAB mobile home and is located in the County of Sumter, South Carolina. RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC 2838 Devine Street Post Office Box 11412 (29211) Columbia, South Carolina 29205 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff

Notice is hereby given that Dolgencorp, LLC 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 at Dollar General Store # 16677 located at 2310 Peach Orchard Road, Sumter, SC 29154. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than April 28, 2016. 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.

Estate Notice Sumter County

Estate Notice Sumter County

Residential-9(R-9) and represented

by Tax Map #228-06-01-002.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

Documents pertaining to the proposed request(s) are on file in the Office of the Sumter City-County Planning Department and are available to be inspected and studied by interested citizens.

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.

Joseph T. McElveen, Jr. Mayor

Estate Notice Sumter County

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.

Estate:

James Elvin Trapp #2016ES4300199

Personal Representative Stephen F. Stafford 225 Adams Avenue Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

John Wesley Mack #2016ES4300194

Personal Representative Sylvia Jean Mack 32 Brent Street Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Public Hearing

Notice Of Application

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Joan G. Tipton #2016ES4300228

Personal Representative Donna T. Stock 13148 Clear Ridge Road Knoxville, TN 37922

NOTICE OF SUMTER BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS PUBLIC HEARING

Estate:

The Sumter City-County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers located on the Fourth Floor of the Opera House (21 North Main Street, Sumter, South Carolina). The following requests are scheduled for public hearing: BOA-16-08, 5 Gerald St. (City) The applicant is requesting several variances in order to place a detached aluminum carport over existing driveway. Applicant is requesting variances from Article 4, Section G, 4.g.2.b.2, to reduce the building separation criteria from 10 feet to 3 inches between the principal structure and the detached accessory structure; 4.g.2.b.4 variance from the required location (side or rear) of the detached structure to allow it to sit partly in front yard and 4.g.2.b.5 in order to reduce the 5 foot side yard setback to 1 foot. Property is located at 5 Gerald St., zoned Residential-9 (R-9) and represented by Tax Map #248-09-04-030.

BOA-16-09, 16 Frank Clark St. (City) The applicant is requesting a variance of 10 feet from the required side yard setback of 10 feet per Article 3, Section 3.b.5.b of the City of Sumter Zoning Ordinance in order to allow a zero side setback.

Applicant wishes to construct an attached carport. Property is located at 16 Frank Clark St., zoned

Ladson B. Chandler #2016ES4300196

Personal Representative Richard L. Booth 224 Haynsworth Street Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Dorothy E. Jordan #2016ES4300212

Personal Representative Anne J. Evans C/O J. Cabot Seth Attorney at Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151

Estate:/William McFadden, Jr. #2016ES4300236 Personal Representative William W. McFadden, III 135 H. Street Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Gozell Scarborough #2016ES4300208

Personal Representative Patricia A. China 800 Radical Road Sumter, SC 29153

Estate:

James Arthur Peagler #2016ES4300234

Personal Representative Cheryl R. Peagler C/O J. Cabot Seth Attorney at Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151

Estate:

Carrie Bell Brown #2016ES4300195

Personal Representative Debra Brown 900 Wolfpack Court Apt 1 Sumter, SC 29150

Estate: Frankie Lee Washington #2016ES4300219

Estate:

Personal Representative Levi Washington 7730 Berry Circle Anchorage, AD 99502

Personal Representative Janet Gail Parham 9 Thomas Drive Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Estate:

Joyce Howell McCall #2016ES4300225

Personal Representative Joyce Ann McCall DuBose and Monica L. M. Casteel C/O Hasley O. Schreier Attorney at Law 25 Calhous St. Suite 250 Charleston, SC 29401

Estate:/Roberta Wells Johnson #2016ES4300235 Personal Representative Brenda Johnson 3214 Duncan Street Columbia, SC 29205

Estate:

Dolores Troop #2016ES4300227

Personal Representative Debra Susan Mills 5833 Canvasback Road Burke, VA 22015

Estate:

Kathryn A. Foisey #2016ES4300207

Personal Representative Kathryn F. Lee 3427 Sweetgrass Drive Florence, SC 29501

Estate:

Jonell P. Weatherly #2016ES4300233

Personal Representative Beverly J. Degen C/O J. Cabot Seth Attorney at Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151

Estate:

Lula Harris Cline #2016ES4300214

Personal Representative William E. Cline, Jr. C/O J. Cabot Seth Attorney at Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151

Estate:

Patsy W. Blanding #2016ES4300216

Personal Representative Wesley M. Blanding 2889 Porcher Drive Sumter, SC 29150

Estate: Alice Moore Harrelson #2016ES4300232 Personal Representative Aline Harrelson Levy C/O Jack W. Erter Attorney at Law 126 North Main Street Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

In Memory

Marietta Parham #2016ES4300200

Roger Wheat #2016ES4300205

Personal Representative Linda Hannibal Wheat 717 White Pine Way Sumter, SC 29154

Estate:

ANNOUNCEMENTS

In Memory of Betty M Yarborogh Beloved Mama & Grandmother.

Forever in our hearts, always on our minds. Love, your Daughters, Son, Grandchildren & Greatgrands.

Dora M. Raynor #2016ES4300231

Personal Representative Allita J. Ferguson 4091 Lakeland Hills Dr. Douglasville, GA 30134

Estate:

Nacole McCray #2016ES4300213

Personal Representative Kendra K. McCray-White C/O Sharon Clark Attorney at Law 22 East Liberty St. Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Mary Ann Gaymon #2016ES4300222

Personal Representative Jerome Gaymon 304 Nance Road Charlotte, NC 28214

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