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Panel says church racial divide rooted in culture BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com JIM HILLEY / THE SUMTER ITEM

Capt. Robert Pitts makes a point at a panel discussion on the problem of racial segregation in Christian congregations Saturday at Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church as the Rev. Angela Marshall looks on.

The Christian community, particularly in the South, has long been vexed by the problem of segregated congregations. A diverse group of ministers at a panel discussion at Je-

hovah Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday said finding a solution will have to include attracting more young people to a life of faith based on the Christian concept of unconditional love. The Rev. Nathaniel Brock of Mulberry Baptist Church and the Rev.

Todd Solberg of Christ Community Church led the discussion, which was moderated by the Rev. Napoleon Bradford, education minister at Jehovah Missionary. Additional panelists were Capt.

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2nd-year SHS teacher wins free tuition for master’s program

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Adrian Wilkins reacts as South Carolina Teacher of the Year Suzanne Koty of Sumter High School surprises him Monday by telling him he will receive a Teaching It Forward scholarship for a tuition-free master’s degree program. As the teacher of the year, Koty could select one teacher in the state for the scholarship, and she picked Wilkins.

Teacher of the Year awards 23-year-old with scholarship for degree program BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Suzanne Koty, 2016 South Carolina Teacher of the Year, surprised Sumter High School teacher Adrian Wilkins on Monday with an opportunity to pursue a tuition-free master’s degree. Wilkins, 23, a second-year teacher, said he was honored to receive the scholarship. He teaches English III to

‘It’s definitely a surprise to say the least. Grad school has always been a major goal for me since I started teaching. In fact, I was just thinking about it this morning.’ ADRIAN WILKINS Winner of free tuition for master’s degree program 11th-grade students at the school. “I am speechless,” Wilkins said. “It’s definitely a surprise to say the least. Grad school has always been a major goal for me since I started teaching. In fact, I was just thinking about it

this morning.” University of Phoenix presents every state teacher of the year across the nation with a Teaching It Forward scholarship to award to a teacher of his or her choice in his or her state. These scholarships give the teach-

ers of the year the opportunity to “teach forward” their award by providing individuals from their communities with full-tuition scholarships toward a degree. The scholarship recipient can choose either the school’s on-campus program or online program and select a major of his or her choice. Wilkins will be eligible to start working on his degree in August, Koty said. “I selected Adrian Wilkins for the scholarship because he has shown remarkable growth in his first two years of teaching,” Koty said. “He builds meaningful relationships with students, which is the foundation of good teaching.”

Koty, who is also an English teacher at Sumter High School, said she wanted to help Wilkins continue to develop his practice of teaching so that he can have a lasting impact on today’s youth. “Adrian is a positive role model to his students,” she said. “With there being a national shortage of AfricanAmerican males in the classroom, this scholarship may be a catalyst to further his career in education.” Wilkins is a native of Moncks Corner and a graduate of Berkeley High School. He received a degree in English education from Francis

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hood watch group should have a good relationship with law enforcement agencies. Sinkler said 95 percent of vehicle break-ins happen because the doors are left unlocked. Sometimes people forget to lock their doors or think they live in a neighborhood where those crimes don’t happen, but there’s no difference from one side of town to the other, Sinkler said. He told the crowd that neighborhood watch groups are important to neighborhood safety and should continue to be active even if crime in the area decreases. “One or two people can’t do it all by themselves,” he said. Sinkler also said turning on porch lights at night or installing motion-sen-

Officers with Sumter Police Department and Sumter County Sheriff’s Office provided tips about crime prevention during One Sumter Community’s meeting Sunday evening at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Sgt. James Sinkler with the department said any suspicious person or activity should be reported to law enforcement. Do not confront the individual; just call, he said. He also encourages Sumter residents to keep reporting suspicious activities, no matter how many times they need to call. Patty Wilson, One Sumter Community organizer, said every neighbor-

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Morris holds Religious Emphasis Week Morris College Religious Emphasis Week will be held today through Friday with worship services in NealJones Auditorium at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. The final message will be delivered at 10 a.m. on Friday. The Rev. Dr. Charles B. Jackson Sr., senior pastor of West Columbia’s Brookland Baptist Church and chairman of the college’s board of trustees, will deliver the messages. Music for the morning services will be provided by the chorale and gospel choir. Local church choirs will provide music during the evening services. These services are free and open to the public.

Pat Conroy promises to fight his cancer BEAUFORT — Author Pat Conroy said he has pancreatic cancer, but promises he will fight the disease hard and finish a novel he owes his fans. The 70-yearold South Carolina novelist made the announcement Monday on his Facebook page. CONROY Conroy didn’t give many details about his diagnosis or a prognosis. But he promised to “fight it hard” and told his fans, “I owe you a novel and I intend to deliver it.” Conroy has written a dozen books including “The Prince of Tides” and “The Great Santini.” On Facebook, Conroy said he has spent his entire life trying to figure out who he is and he doesn’t think he has come close. He quit drinking in his mid60s after being hospitalized with a failing liver and high blood pressure. He has struggled with diabetes and other ailments in recent years.

sor lights are great deterrents for burglars. Chief Deputy Hampton Gardner with Sumter County Sheriff’s Office told the group to be aware of their online presence. He said people put every move on social media, but they need to be mindful because so many people can have access to that information. “It’s a different time,” he said. Gardner said to avoid putting information detailing daily plans on social media, especially times when a person will be out of the house. Parents should also be aware of what their children are doing online because of the amount of Internet crimes that are taking place today, he said. There are two types of bullying — physical and social, he said.

Gardner said although there are a lot of new advances with technology, parents and guardians should try to know as much as they can in order to better protect children. He also said to be wary of phone scams. “It’s tax time,” he said. Anyone who receives suspicious phone calls or witnesses suspicious behavior should call Sumter Police Department at (803) 436-2700 and Sumter County Sheriff’s Office at (803) 436-2774. One Sumter Community meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Sunday of every month at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 315 W. Fulton St. For more information about the group, call the Rev. Joshua Dupree at (803) 795-3600.

Area bodybuilders find fitness and confidence in competition BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Sumter Family YMCA hosted a bodybuilder practice session Saturday for the 2016 World Natural Bodybuilding Federation Amateur South Carolina Bodybuilding Championship scheduled in Sumter for Saturday, April 30. Missy Corrigan, executive director of community health for the Y, said about 35 bodybuilders took part in the session. “It went great,” Corrigan said. “We had two pros who showed up, and they were able to help people pose. That was good because about half of the group were beginners.” She said the bodybuilders compete in five divisions: Men’s and Women’s Bodybuilding, Men’s Physique, Women’s Ms. Fit Body, Women’s Figure and Women’s Bikini. “Each division has their own required poses, so depending on which division you are competing in, you work on that pose and concentrate on how it feels,” she said. “Since there are no mirrors on stage, you have to know how the pose feels so you can hit it every time.” She said some poses are harder than others because they don’t feel “natural.” “The poses require you to have to activate certain muscles, so the mind-muscle connection is really important,” Corrigan said. “But generally, once you get it right the first time, you know how it feels and looks, and it becomes easier to hit.” Bettina Johnson said she found bodybuilding to be a great way to stay fit after trying other forms of exercise. “I attended a bodybuilding

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Rodney Helaire teaches Janesh Edwards, Susan Duran and Anna Felz about proper posture for competing in a bodybuilding competition. The class was offered to men and women at Sumter YMCA on Saturday. show, and everyone looked amazing,” she said. “It really motivated me to get a better understanding of health and fitness. I decided to give it a shot, and it has been one of the best decisions I ever made.” In her second year of bodybuilding, Nikki Edwards said the South Carolina championship in April will be her second competition. “My first competition was a motivation to dig deeper, properly prepare and commit early on,” she said. “As an aspiring personal trainer, I was ready to push myself to the next level.” As a nursing student, Tay-

lor Watts said she was eating a lot of junk food and telling her patients to eat healthily before she began bodybuilding. “Now I feel I can speak to my patients about nutrition and exercise and not feel hypocritical,” she said. Taylor said she was attracted to the sport by the way it transforms people’s bodies and the way it gives them confidence from pushing their bodies to the limit. “The sisterhood this competition promotes makes me feel so welcome and motivated,” she said. Johnson said she is excited about competing in April. “I really look forward to

spending the day with a group of people who share the same passion as I do,” she said. “Training for a competition requires a lot of time and dedication. Sometimes friends, family and co-workers don’t understand, so it feels good to be around people who understand this process.” More free posing sessions are scheduled at the Y, 510 Miller Road, from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 27, March 5, April 9 and April 23 in the Group Exercise Room. For more information, visit www.YMCASumter.org, call the Y at (803) 773-1404 or email Missy Corrigan at mcorrigan@ymcasumter.org.

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Results in cases could change with Scalia’s death question of whether states must count all residents, including noncitizens and children, or only eligible voters in drawing district lines.

BY MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court abhors even numbers. But that’s just what the court will have to deal with, perhaps for many months, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Eight justices will decide what to do, creating the prospect of 4-4 ties. Here are some questions and answers about the effect on the court of the death of its conservative icon and longest-serving justice: Q. What happens to cases in which Scalia cast a vote or drafted an opinion but no decision has been publicly announced? A. It may sound harsh, but Scalia’s votes and draft opinions in pending cases no longer matter. Veteran Supreme Court lawyer Roy Englert said “the vote of a deceased justice does not count.” Nothing is final at the court until it is released publicly and, while it is rare, justices have flipped their votes and the outcomes in some cases. Q. What happens if there is a tie? A. The justices have two options. They can vote to hear the case a second time when a new colleague joins them, or they can hand down a one-sentence opinion that upholds the result reached in the lower court without setting a nationwide rule. When confirmation of a new justice is expected to happen quickly, re-argument is more likely. In this political environment, the vacancy could last into 2017. Q. Why doesn’t the court like tie votes? A. A major function of the Supreme Court is to resolve disputes among lower courts

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An American flag flies at half-staff in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in honor of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as the sun rises in Washington on Sunday. Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, died at 79. and establish legal precedents for the entire country. Tie votes frustrate those goals, and they essentially waste the court’s time. Q. How does Scalia’s death affect specific cases? A. It deprives conservatives of a key vote and probably will derail some anticipated conservative victories in major Supreme Court cases, including one in which labor unions appeared headed for a big defeat. Next month’s Supreme Court clash about contraceptives, religious liberty and President Obama’s health care law also now seems more likely to favor the Obama administration. Q. Unions have suffered a

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string of defeats at the Supreme Court. Is that likely to change? A. Yes, at least in the short term. Many of the cases involving organized labor were decided on 5-4 votes, with the conservative justices lining up against the unions and the liberal justices in support. The pending case seemed like more of the same. Public sector labor unions had been bracing for a stinging defeat in a lawsuit about whether they can collect fees from government workers who choose not to join the union. The case affects more than 5 million workers in 23 states and Washington, D.C., and seeks to overturn a nearly 40-yearold Supreme Court decision. Now, what seemed like a

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certain 5-4 split, with the conservatives in the majority and the liberals in dissent, instead looks like a tie that would be resolved in favor of the unions because they won in the lower courts. Q. What other pending cases could be affected? A. A challenge to the way governments have drawn electoral districts for 50 years now appears to have little chance of finding a court majority. The court heard arguments in December in a case from Texas on the meaning of the principle of “one person, one vote,” which the court has said requires that political districts be roughly equal in population. But it has left open the

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Q. What will happen in the upcoming case about the Obama health care overhaul? A. The Supreme Court will be looking at the health care law for the fourth time since its 2010 enactment. This time, the focus is on the arrangement the Obama administration worked out to spare faith-based hospitals, colleges and charities from paying for contraceptives for women covered under their health plans while still ensuring that those women can obtain birth control at no extra cost as the law requires. The faith-based groups argue that the accommodation still makes them complicit in providing contraception to which they have religious objections. A tie vote here would sow rather than alleviate confusion because the appellate courts that have looked at the issue have not all come out the same way. That prospect suggests that Justice Anthony Kennedy will join the court’s four liberal justices to uphold the arrangement, Supreme Court lawyer Thomas Goldstein said. Q. Are there cases in which a tie would be a loss for the Obama administration? A. The administration’s plan to shield up to 5 million people from deportation was struck down by lower courts, and a Supreme Court tie would leave that ruling in place. On abortion, the administration is backing a challenge to Texas’ strict new regulations for abortion clinics. A federal appeals court upheld the regulations.

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Jeb Bush shadowed by brother’s controversies BY BILL BARROW AND SERGIO BUSTOS The Associated Press GREENVILLE — George W. Bush won a bruising South Carolina presidential primary on his way to the Oval Office, as his father did before him. Now it’s his brother’s turn, and for Jeb Bush, the most consequential foreign policy decisions of his brother’s tenure GEORGE BUSH are suddenly front and center in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination — thanks to Donald Trump. The 43rd president already had announced plans to campaign for his younger brother Monday in South Carolina, marking his most direct entry into the 2016 race to date, when Trump, the GOP front-runner, used the final debate before the state’s Feb. 20 primary as an opportunity to excoriate George W. Bush’s performance as commander in chief. The former president, Trump said,

ignored “the advice of his CIA” and “destabilized the Middle East” by invading Iraq on dubious claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. “I want to tell you: They lied,” Trump said. “They said there were weapons of mass destruction .... And they knew there were none.” Trump dismissed Jeb Bush’s suggestion that JEB BUSH George W. Bush built a “security apparatus to keep us safe” after the 9/11 attacks. “The World Trade Center came down during your brother’s reign,” Trump said, adding: “that’s not keeping us safe.” The onslaught — “blood sport” for Trump, Jeb said — was the latest example of the billionaire businessman’s penchant for mocking his rival as a weak, privileged instrument of the Republican Party establishment. But the exchange also highlighted the former Florida governor’s em-

brace of his family name as he jockeys with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to emerge from South Carolina as the clear challenger to Trump, who won the New Hampshire primary, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the victor in Iowa’s caucuses. The approach takes away from Bush’s months-long insistence that he’s running as “my own man” but could be a perfect fit for South Carolina. “The Bush name is golden in my state,” said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who ended his White House run in December and endorsed Jeb Bush in January. George W. Bush retains wide appeal among Republicans, from evangelicals and business leaders to military veterans. All are prominent in South Carolina, with Bush campaign aide Brett Doster going so far as to say that George W. Bush is “the most popular Republican alive.” After the debate, some Republicans again suggested Trump had gone too far. Bush wasn’t alone on stage leap-

ing to his brother’s defense, with Rubio coming back to the moment to say, “I thank God all the time it was George W. Bush in the White House on 9/11 and not Al Gore.” The attack on George W. Bush carries risk for Trump, given the Bush family’s long social and political ties in South Carolina and the state’s hawkish national security bent, bolstered by more than a half-dozen military installations and a sizable population of veterans who choose to retire in the state. Bush and his backers certainly hope it’s the case. Right to Rise USA, a super political action committee backing Bush, is airing two TV ads blasting Trump and touting Bush for taking him on, and on Friday, a committee spokesman said, a radio ad will launch that compiles multiple audio clips of Trump using profanity in public settings, most recently when he used an uncouth epithet about Cruz. “The time is now for South Carolina to end the Trump charade,” an announcer says.

Into the mosh pit: Republican campaign talk gets nastier BY NANCY BENAC The Associated Press WASHINGTON — In 2011, eyebrows shot up when former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used a salty acronym — WTF — to mock the policies of President Obama. How quaint. Five years later, Donald Trump has blown right past acronyms. He’s in a profanitylaced campaign for the Republican nomination that has seen multiple candidates hurl insults and disparaging remarks at one another and their critics. In recent days, Trump has publicly lip-synced the F-bomb, blurted out the S-word more than once, hurled an offensive term for coward at rival Ted Cruz and fired a steady string of put-downs at other candidates whom he labels pathetic, liars, losers, nasty, evil and more. While Trump started it, other GOP candidates have jumped right into the rhetorical mosh pit, readily trading versions of “liar, liar” in Saturday night’s venomous debate. Cruz has said Trump is “losing it,” called out his “Trumpertantrums” and dismissed the billionaire’s insults as “hysterical.” Before exiting the race, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie predicted that he could beat Hillary Clinton in a debate, promis-

ing, “I’ll beat her rear end on that stage,” and tormented fellow Republican Marco Rubio as a fragile “boy in the bubble.” Even Jeb Bush, whose 90-year-old mother recently complained that he was too polite, belatedly joined in. Bush, a favorite target of Trump’s taunts, tweeted back: “You aren’t just a loser, you are a liar and a whiner.” This, after weeks of calling him a “jerk.” It’s not that politicians are typically paragons of proper speech and etiquette. They’ve just tended to keep their namecalling and coarseness off-mic. Now, it’s on the podium — and by design. “There’s a general taboobreaking that allows more and more of it to happen faster and faster,” said Robert Lane Greene, author of “You Are What You Speak,” a book about the politics of language. “The first time somebody does it, eyebrows go up and people get

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concerned, but then the next person doing it is less eye-opening.” The Democratic nomination contest has been tame in comparison with the Republicans: Hillary Clinton complained of a “low blow” when Bernie Sanders said she was a progressive only on “some days.” Sanders, in turn, rejected Clinton’s accusation that his campaign had engaged in an “artful smear” by insinuating that she was beholden to Wall Street. As for the GOP campaign, Trump is playing to voters who have a disdain for anything associated with the establishment, including the whole idea of appearing “presidential,” says Norman Ornstein, an American Enterprise Institute scholar who’s been watching presidential politics for decades. That makes it hard for Trump’s rivals to fight back using traditional tactics. “If you are trying to be a

two-thirds of those voters went for the potty-mouth guy who tells it like no one else. “He’s real, right?” said Joanne Galvin, an independent voter from Pelham, New Hampshire, explaining her vote for Trump. She dismissed his use of a vulgarity about Cruz at a big rally by saying Trump was simply repeating what someone in the audience had shouted out. Trump has offered a similar defense and promised he’ll tone things down if he gets closer to the presidency, saying, “when you’re president, or if you’re about to be president, you would act differently.” Asked during Saturday’s debate about his penchant for profanity, Trump pledged to knock it off, saying, “I will not do it again ... Not using profanity is very easy.” But also made clear he has no intention to rein in his personal attacks and insults.

boxer playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules and you’re coming up against a mixed martial arts guy who doesn’t even abide by the rules of mixed martial arts, do you sink to that level?” Ornstein asks. “There’s no easy way to respond, because if you’re trying to show you’re different from this vulgar guy, then he’s going to beat you up.” Greene sees the coarseness of the GOP campaign as evidence that “the contest to become the alpha male in the room has become more obvious this time than in previous elections.” That seems to be just fine with the voters who have put Trump at the top of the polls and handed him a victory in New Hampshire’s first-in-thenation primary. About a quarter of Republican voters in New Hampshire said “telling it like it is” was the most important quality to them in selecting a candidate, and

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Senators get plenty of choices on spending road money BY JEFFREY COLLINS The Associated Press COLUMBIA — As South Carolina senators prepare to debate how much extra money to give to the state’s highways and bridges, the leader of the roads agencies has been careful to give lawmakers plenty of options while not pushing them too hard in any direction. Department of Transportation Secretary Christy Hall has given senators a host of options, from spending just $65 million extra a year to get the pavement on the interstates up to good condition while doing no bridge work or expansion to $800 million in new money that would attack congestion, widen more than 150 miles of major highways and get rid of old bridges. One PowerPoint slide she

likes to show lawmakers has nearly a dozen options on how she could spend whatever extra money lawmakers can find. The Senate started debate on a roads bill Thursday before adjourning for the weekend. Senate President LEATHERMAN Pro Tem Hugh Leatherman told his colleagues they could spend most of next week on it too. The proposal getting the most attention on the Senate floor would raise the gas tax by 12 cents a gallon over three years and increase or add a number of other fees. In five years, an estimated $723 million extra would be put into roads, nearly reaching Hall’s

most expensive option. But the idea only cuts income and other taxes by $400 million over that period, and Gov. Nikki Haley and other conservative lawmakers want an even swap. Supporters of the amendment say they factored in that a third of the gas tax is paid by out-of-state drivers who need no tax break, but some lawmakers don’t think the basis behind that estimate has been proven. Reforming the DOT’s board and the State Infrastructure Bank, which helps borrow money for expensive projects, will also be discussed, with conservatives again fearing the proposal doesn’t go far enough to give the governor more control of the agency. If lawmakers give the DOT more money without reform “we’re going to see hundreds

of millions of dollars going to rural areas where it is not needed,” said Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort. For her part, Hall promises to use whatever money she gets wisely. But she also is carefully pointing out that the state’s roads are reaching a crisis. “The fear I have is that we have waited too long,” Hall told lawmakers last week during hours of testimony. She used what was supposed to be a repaving project on Interstate 85 to make her point. Tests showed the foundation of the road had crumbled from years of neglect, adding about $10 million to what was supposed to be a $48 million project. Hall said she fears a similar problem on an upcoming resurfacing of Interstate 26 between Newberry and Columbia.

Sen. Ray Cleary, a Republican and Murrells Inlet dentist who has been pushing for more money for roads for years, likened it to a patient who can floss or brush, wait and have a cavity filled, or wait even longer and need a crown or more extensive dental work. “I can fix it for $100, $300 or $3,000, depending on when you see me,” Cleary said. The one thing all lawmakers agree on is something must be done. With all the attention on interstates, Hall worried the primary roads that carry nearly half the state’s traffic are falling apart quickly and about to reach a crisis. Only 20 percent of pavement on them is in good condition. “It’s been neglected, and it’s at a point where it’s going to take complete reconstruction,” Hall said.

Bills would raise minimum wage, repeal right to work law Have virtually no chance of passing COLUMBIA (AP) — Proposals to raise the minimum wage in South Carolina and repeal an anti-union law have virtually no chance of passing in the Republican-dominated Legislature, but Democrats hope to spark a debate as the nation’s attention turns to the first-in-the-South primary state. Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, who sponsored both bills, said it’s time to discuss living wages in a state that ranks 46th in child poverty, 48th in per capita income and last in union membership. “We keep hearing all these glowing numbers about how great things are,” she said of jobs touted by GOP Gov. Nikki Haley. “Yet we get reports that show we’re ranking in the bottom .... I don’t see why we can’t at least start talking about the reality of

what it means to work in South Carolina on one hand and still be eligible for assistance on the other.” Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, held a news conference on the bills last week after a House panel officially adjourned debate on both. A second hearing is not expected. One bill would set the state’s minimum wage at $10.10 an hour. South Carolina is among 21 states where employers can pay as low as $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum since 2009. Proponents call $10.10 a start. That’s the minimal pay for federal contractors, as per President Obama’s 2014 executive order. “We’ll continue to fight for $15” an hour, said Rachel Nelson of Charleston, who makes $9 an hour at Hardee’s after 10 years as a fast food worker. The mother of three children, ages 8 to 12, told the House panel she’d like to get

off public assistance, but her paychecks make it impossible. “With my last check, I was only able to pay my light bill,” Nelson said. “Trying to keep a roof over our heads is a constant stresser in my life.” More than 2,600 state employees make less than $10.10 an hour, or about 4 percent of the state-paid workforce. Just more than half of those employees are considered temporary, according to the Department of Administration. It noted the numbers could be higher because public colleges aren’t required to send the agency data on temporary workers. Rep. Todd Atwater, who sits on the subcommittee, contends raising the minimum wage is bad for the economy because it increases products’ cost and eliminates entry-level jobs often filled by high school and college students. “It hurts the workers they’re trying to help,” said Atwater, R-Lexington.

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The answer, he said, is better training, so students graduate from school with skills that enable them to get a higher-paying job. Cobb-Hunter’s other bill would repeal the state’s rightto-work law. About half of states have such laws, which means unions can’t force employees across an entire worksite to pay membership dues as a condition of employment. Haley, who frequently lambasts unions, considers the state’s low union membership an economic development tool.

About 41,000 people — or just 2.1 percent of South Carolina’s workers — belong to unions, leapfrogging North Carolina in 2015 to rank last nationwide, according to a January report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Seth Holzopfel, with the International Association of Firefighters in Myrtle Beach, said the law should be renamed the “right to work for less” — contending it’s made South Carolina a virtual sweatshop — or “right to freeload,” as it allows people in a union-covered job to receive benefits without paying dues.

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U.S. OKs 1st factory in Cuba since revolution BY MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN The Associated Press HAVANA — The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a two-man company from Alabama to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small tractors a year for sale to private farmers in Cuba. The Treasury Department last week notified partners Horace Clemmons and Saul Berenthal that they can legally build tractors and other heavy equipment in a special economic zone started by the Cuban government to attract foreign investment. Cuban officials already have publicly and enthusiastically endorsed the project. The partners said they expect to be building tractors in Cuba by the first quarter of 2017. “Everybody wants to go to Cuba to sell something, and that’s not what we’re trying to do. We’re looking at the problem and how do we help Cuba solve the problems that they consider are the most important problems for them to solve,” Clemmons said. “It’s our belief that in the long run we both win if we do things that are beneficial to both countries.” The $5 million to $10 million plant would be the first significant U.S. business investment on Cuban soil since Fidel Castro took power in 1959 and nationalized billions of dollars of U.S. corporate and private property. That confiscation provoked a U.S. embargo on Cuba that prohibited virtually all forms of commerce and fined non-U.S. companies millions of dollars for doing business with the island. Letting an American tractor company operate inside a Cuban government facility would have been unimaginable before Presidents Obama and Raul Castro declared on Dec. 17, 2014, that they would restore diplomatic relations and move to normalize trade, travel and other aspects of the long-broken bilateral re-

Cuba lets them proceed. they can sell hundreds of the “Everything’s locked in,” tractors a year to Cuban farmClemmons said. ers with financing from relaBerenthal said they are optives outside the country and timistic that they will also be to non-government organizaable to export Oggun tractors tions seeking to help improve to other Latin American Cuban agriculture, which suffers from low productivity due countries, which have low or no tariffs on Cuba products, mostly to excessive control of making them competitive on both basic supplies and prices price. The men expect a 10-20 by an inefficient, centrally percent profit on each tracplanned state bureaucracy. “I have two countries that for tor. For the project’s first three 60 years have been in the worst years, Clemmons and Berenof terms; anything I can do to thal say they will export comTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS bring to the two countries and ponents from the United A farmer drives his tractor in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. The Obama adminis- the two people together is treStates for assembly in Cuba. tration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a mendously satisfying,” said century, allowing a pair of former software engineers to build a plant Berenthal, a Cuban-born semi- They hope to eventually begin manufacturing many retired software engineer who assembling as many as 1,000 small tractors a year. of the parts themselves on left the country at age 16. the island. They said they exHe met Clemmons, who is the U.S. Secretary of Transporlationship. pect to start with 30 Cuban Since then, Obama has been tation will sign a deal authoriz- from Paint Rock, Alabama, when they worked at IBM in employees and, if things go carving exceptions into the em- ing the first regularly schedthe 1970s. They left to form a as planned, grow within five bargo through a series of exec- uled commercial flights besuccessful cash-register softyears to as many as 300. utive actions, and his adminis- tween the U.S. and Cuba since ware company that grew to Clemmons and Berenthal shortly after the 1959 revolutration now says they allow earn $30 million a year before will publish all the schemattion. U.S. manufacturing at the they sold it in 1995 for a sum ics of their tractors online in The Oggun tractor plant, Mariel port and special ecothat Clemmons says was order to allow Cubans and nomic zone about 30 miles west named after a god in Cuba’s other clients to more easily syncretic Santeria religion, will “enough that I don’t have to of Havana. One exception alwork.” repair their equipment and assemble commercially availlows U.S. companies to export Between their own capital come up with designs for able components into a durable products that benefit private and easy-to-maintain 25-horse- and commitments from private other heavy equipment based and cooperative farmers in investors they say they have on the same frame and motor power tractor selling for less Cuba. Berenthal and Clemthat Cleber can then produce enough cash in hand to build than $10,000, Clemmons and mons say they will sell only to at their Mariel factory. Berenthal said. The men think the Oggun factory as soon as the private sector. The Obama administration says it is eager to make the opening with Cuba irreversible by any future administration. Since the start of the year, U.S. and Cuba have made a series of announcements that appear designed partly to create a sense of unstoppable momentum in their new relationship. Cuba announced late last month that it would more than double the number of public Wi-Fi access spots to more than 100 across the country this year and bring broadband credit on a new or Internet to a small number of Cuban homes, where it is curexisting PG account with purchase & installation. rently illegal. Obama said in 2014 that Castro had promised to increase Cubans’ access to the Internet as part of detente. On Saturday, Cuba an170 S. Lafayette Blvd. Sumter, SC nounced that it had returned a U.S. Hellfire missile that it said was mistakenly shipped to HaPropane & Accessories vana from Paris in 2014. Today, Cuba’s Transport Minister and

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Local ministers discuss the problem of segregated congregations at a panel discussion Saturday at Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church.

CHURCHES FROM PAGE A1 Robert Pitts, a chaplain at Shaw Air Force Base, the Rev. Angela Marshall of Trinity United Methodist Church, the Rev. Stewart Schnur of Plaza Church of Christ, Erwin Viscarra of New Beginnings Assembly of God and Ernest Session, a deacon at Jehovah Missionary. Bradford said the panel discussion is part of a continuing series of discussions prompted by the Charleston shootings in June that killed nine worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He said both open and panel discussions intended to examine and find solutions to problems related to racial divisions in the community will continue. Panelists agreed the problem of segregated church communities is deeply

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AMDEN — Out on the hustings, people often ask me: “Can you explain South Carolina?” I just shake my head. It’s complicated, I say. The simple answer, eternal and everlasting, is anti-secessionist James Petigru’s remark: “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.” For those keeping an eye on the upcoming South Carolina primary contests, including the droves of journalists now combing the state for fresh fodder, a bit of background is in order. Essentially, the state is three within one, each with its own personality and voting history — Upcountry (conservative), Midlands (mixed) and Lowcountry (liberal) — plus the separate nation of Charleston, which is its own, singular place. The city is a Democrat’s town, owing not least to its large African-American community. But also, port towns tend to play a little looser than the land-locked. Most of Kathleen South Carolina otherwise conParker sists of small rural towns that honor tradition in all its forms. Most important, however, South Carolina is the joker in the nation’s deck. Although increasingly difficult to put the state in a box politically — so many non-natives have discovered its charm and beauty — certain relevant characteristics of its indigenous peoples bear mention. First, South Carolinians aren’t just anti-establishment. They’re anti-everything if it means they’re expected to perform or respond in certain predicted ways. This tendency is especially acute when elites (aka not from around here) are involved. Thus, a local might do the opposite of what is anticipated based on history or demographics, even if against his own interests. Companion to this quirk is a strong current of what-the-hell-ism that courses through the veins of generations of good ol’ boys and girls, i.e. descendants of the Scots-Irish with all their stubborn pride. If they don’t much cotton to foreigners (see above), they also don’t care much for authority. But you gotta vote for somebody. May as well be Donald Trump. Is he everything a true southerner dislikes in another human being? Absolutely. “But if the elites don’t like him,” goes the thinking, “then maybe I do.” See how this thing rolls? Same thing on the Democratic side. At any other time, Bernie Sanders would be an impossible candidate — unfamiliar and beyond the norms of southern rectitude. He’s loud, angry and graceless with an accent you don’t hear much in these parts. But Sanders has something the others don’t. He’s real as dirt. If there’s one thing a native son or daughter can’t stand, it’s fakery. Whether from the ladies who smile and say “How nice” when they mean something extremely different — or the politician who suddenly can’t take his hands off a gun or Bible — southerners have a knack for spotting a fraud. Hillary Clinton enters troubled waters here, particularly among African-Americans. Despite a likely endorsement from the ever-influential Rep. James Clyburn, it may not matter enough. As just one signal, Clinton’s recent visit to the state for Martin Luther King Day celebrations left many feeling colder than the weather dictated. She was nowhere in sight for the march in Columbia, where Sanders joined the front line. At a ceremony on the State House steps, she breezed out of the warmth of the building, took her seat and read her prepared remarks. People notice these things. At another service later in the day, half of the black audience held Sanders signs, according to Bud Ferillo, a longtime South Carolina political operative and now head of the nascent South Carolina Collaborative on Race and Reconciliation. The message? The Clinton machine is showing its age and is out of touch with Democratic voters in 2016, says Ferillo. An African-American friend in Camden responded to my plea for comment with only a photo showing Clinton dancing on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” with the host’s black DJ. The caption, playing off the rap hit “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)”: “Now watch me beg, for all the black votes.” Ouch. So there you have it, much condensed but representative based on my own several conversations and interviews. Then again, what the hell, it’s South Carolina. All you know for sure is that whatever happens, there will be blood. Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group

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ASHINGTON — Antonin Scalia, who combined a zest for intellectual combat with a vast talent for friendship, was a Roman candle of sparkling jurisprudential theories leavened by acerbic witticisms. The serrated edges of his most passionate dissents sometimes strained the court’s comity and occasionally limited his ability to proclaim what the late Justice William Brennan called the most important word in the George court’s lexicon: “Five.” Scalia Will was, however, one of the most formidable thinkers among the 112 justices who have served on the court, and he often dissented in the hope of shaping a future replete with majorities steeped in principles he honed while in the minority. Those principles include textualism and originalism: A justice’s job is to construe the text of the Constitution or of statutes by discerning and accepting the original meaning the words had to those who ratified or wrote them. These principles of judicial modesty were embraced by a generation of conservatives who recoiled from what they considered the unprincipled creation of rights by results-oriented Supreme Court justices and other jurists pursuing their preferred policy outcomes. Today, however, America’s most interesting and potentially consequential argument about governance is not between conservatives and progressives but among conservatives. It concerns the proper scope of the judicial supervision of democracy. Scalia worried more than some other conservatives do about the “counter-majoritarian dilemma” supposedly posed by judicial re-

view — the power of appointed justices to overturn the work of elected legislators. Many Scaliastyle conservatives distill their admiration into a familiar phrase of praise: “judicial restraint.” Increasing numbers of conservatives, however, reason as follows: Democracy’s drama derives from the tension between the natural rights of individuals and the constructed right of the majority to have its way. Natural rights are affirmed by the Declaration of Independence; majority rule, circumscribed and modulated, is constructed by the Constitution. But as the Goldwater Institute’s Timothy Sandefur argues, the Declaration is logically as well as chronologically prior to the Constitution. The latter enables majority rule. It is, however, the judiciary’s duty to prevent majorities from abridging natural rights. After all, it is for the securing of such rights, the Declaration declares, that “governments are instituted among men.” Scalia’s death will enkindle a debate missing from this year’s presidential campaign, a debate discomfiting for some conservatives: Do they want a passive court that is deferential to legislative majorities and to presidents who claim untrammeled powers deriving from national majorities? Or do they want a court actively engaged in defending liberty’s borders against unjustified encroachments by majorities? This is an overdue argument that conservatism is now prepared for because of Scalia’s elegant mind. He was crucial to the creation of an alternative intellectual infrastructure for conservative law students. The Federalist Society, founded in 1982, has leavened the often monochrome liberalism of law schools, and Scalia has been the jurisprudential lodestar for tens of thousands of students in society chapters coast to coast. Students of the court understand that, given Harry Reid’s

demonstrated disdain for Senate rules, if Republicans had not won Senate control in the 2014 elections, he as majority leader would very likely now extend the institutional vandalism he committed in 2013. Then he changed Senate rules, by a simple majority vote and in the middle of a session, to prevent filibusters of judicial nominees other than Supreme Court nominees. This enabled Obama to pack the nation’s second-most important court, that of the U.S. Circuit for the District of Columbia. Were Reid still majority leader, the Senate’s only rule would be the whim of the majority of the moment, and his caucus would promptly proscribe filibusters of Supreme Court nominees. One consequence would be this: America today is one Supreme Court vote away from a radical truncation of the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of speech. A Democratic president in 2017 will nominate to replace Scalia with someone pledged to construe the amendment as permitting Congress to regulate political campaign speech, which would put First Amendment jurisprudence on a slippery slope to regarding all speech as eligible for regulation by the administrative state. Scalia lived 27 years after the person who nominated him left office, thereby extending the reach of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and reminding voters of the longlasting ripples that radiate from their presidential choices. A teacher, wrote Henry Adams, attains a kind of immortality because one never knows where a teacher’s influence ends. Scalia, always a teacher, will live on in the law and in the lives of unnumbered generations who will write, teach and construe it.

are soliciting Haley’s endorsement to thwart the “ogre” Donald Trump. Last week, Ted Cruz issued a press report appealing for her support. Cruz is a savvy, Harvard-educated lawyer. Pandering to Nikki Haley, he has obviously decided to throw S.C.’s heritage voters under the bus, hoping they will be too dull to see through his ploy. We are not a confederacy of dunces. We recognize a vote for Cruz is a vote for Haley. A vote for Trump is a vote against Haley, Graham and the Republican establishment. Haley and the RNC, aliens to

our history and traditions, have dishonored, desecrated and discarded the memories of our noble ancestors as rubbish by the roadside. The faint of heart, Eliot’s “hollow men,” who have only a weakkneed nostalgic attachment to our heritage, can vote for Cruz, Bush or Rubio and make excuses for Haley et al. But this is the time for intelligent Southerners to stand up and shout “enough!” to the Republicans. In no uncertain terms, this means a vote for Trump. RICHARD T. HINES Mayesville

LETTER TO THE EDITOR STATE NEEDS TO STAND UP TO REPUBLICANS, VOTE FOR TRUMP The proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” still applies. Nikki Haley, S.C.’s Sikh-Hindu governor, opened a Pandora’s Box of cultural genocide last June against all things Southern. Since her Columbia appearance with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, building, street and highway names have changed, accompanied by flag bans, monument removals and efforts to remove Southern names from military bases and high schools. Now most of the remaining Republican presidential candidates

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‘Independent Lens’ recalls militant Black Panthers BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH History arrives, jangling with reverberations, in the form of the 2015 documentary “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” an “Independent Lens” (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings) presentation. Seven years in the making, “Vanguard” recalls the audacious organization that emerged on the streets of Oakland, California, in the mid1960s and quickly spread to urban centers around America. It does not strive for lofty objectivity. “Vanguard” includes first-person accounts from dozens of former Panthers, some true believers, others who grew disenfranchised, and a number who were turned into FBI informants. We also hear from retired policemen and federal agents who had been targets of the Panthers’ rhetoric and more. It’s an illuminating chorus of conflicting voices. Fifty years on, the Panthers’ origins still seem startling. To confront perceived police brutality, the organization’s founders used a loophole in the city’s “open carry” gun laws. Brandishing weapons, they would descend on reports of authorities arresting black citizens. Alarmed at the prospect of militants wielding rifles, the California legislature pushed through gun-control laws. Viewers accustomed to con-

temporary cable-news conversation may do a double take when they see left-wing militants extolling their second amendment rights and thenGov. Ronald Reagan explaining the common sense of gun control. First-person accounts recall the establishment of soup kitchens and other social programs, as well as the fact that the majority of Panthers were women. Some recall being attracted to the organization when they were only 12 or 13, drawn to its pride, defiance and solidarity. “Vanguard” is rich with period footage, and clips of Panther leaders being interviewed on “Face the Nation” and other TV talk and news shows. Much is also made of Panther style, and how the defiant look of black beret-wearing men and women clad in leather and sporting exotic Afros became catnip to news photographers, film producers, musicians and other image-makers. It’s a style that was re-invoked at Beyonce’s performance during the recent Super Bowl halftime show. A mere glimpse of this Panther style set off gales of outrage by some, who claimed the pop singer was “attacking” police. These critics should watch this documentary to see how William F. Buckley, founder of the modern conservative movement, often engaged with Panthers on his “Firing Line”

program. If he could debate Eldridge Cleaver, today’s talking heads might learn to deal with Beyonce’s beret.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • A vet falls into enemy hands on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14). • “Rizzoli & Isles” (9 p.m., TNT, TV-14) resumes its sixth season with two new episodes. • The coal company spies on the mountain with drone technology on “Outsiders” (9 p.m., WGN, TV-14). • Maya Rudolph guest-stars as Dean’s therapist on “The Grinder” (9:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14). • Brian helps a fetching Feeb on “Limitless” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14). • Robert Shapiro (John Travolta) joins forces with F. Lee Bailey (Nathan Lane) and Johnnie Cochran (Courtney B. Vance) on “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA).

TV-PG) * Musical chairs on “Hollywood Game Night” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG) * Nick is smitten on “New Girl” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * A bad restaurant review on “Fresh Off the Boat” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * Back to Earth 1 on “The Flash” (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG) * Jimmy wants to protect Gerald from a bully on “Grandfathered” (8:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * A social outing for Miss Piggy on “The Muppets” (8:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * A hero needs a lung transplant on “Chicago Med” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14) * Rising to the occasion on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * Strange bedfellows on “Marvel’s Agent Carter” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-14) * Pants on fire on “iZombie” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14) * Fellow firemen need help on “Chicago Fire” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

LATE NIGHT Hannibal Burress visits “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (11 p.m., Comedy Central, r) * John Cleese, Michaela Wat-

kins and Trey Anastasio are on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS, r) * Keke Palmer is a guest on “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore” (11:30 p.m., Comedy Central, r) * Eva Longoria, Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer and Lucinda Williams are booked on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Zach Galifianakis, Ronda Rousey and Pitbull on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Anthony Anderson, Famke Janssen and Eleanor Friedberger visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Selma Blair, Juno Temple and Ben Feldman appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

CULT CHOICE Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay star in the 1985 American thriller “Runaway Train” (8:05 Cinemax), directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.

SERIES NOTES A big shot’s daughter needs help on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS,

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AROUND TOWN and active military are invitThe Carolina Coin Club will ed. meet at 7 p.m. today at the Parks and Recreation BuildThe Lincoln High School PreserAre you interested in coin collecting, 155 Haynsworth St. The vation Alumni Association will ing? club meets on the third Tues- hold a dinner fundraiser from 11 day of each month. Visitors a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. are always welcome. Call 19, at the Lincoln High School (803) 775-8840 for more infor- gymnasium, 26 Council St. mation. Cost is $8 per plate and dinThe Shepherd’s Center, 24 Coun- ner will consist of grilled barbecue chicken or fried fish, cil St., will offer public informaseasoned rice, sweet pea, tion sessions from 11 to 11:50 a.m. on Thursdays as follows: roll, dessert and a drink. Dine Feb. 18, creating a living will / in or take out. Call James L. Green at (803) 968-4173. hospice; and March 3, COPD. Christina Blakley, registered “Piano Music with a Feminine nurse with Palmetto Health Touch: Celebrating Women Tuomey, will speak. Composers in History” will be held at noon on Friday, Feb. Clarendon School District One will conduct free vision, hearing, 19, at the USC Sumter Nettles Auditorium. Jane Luther speech and developmental Smith will lecture on and perscreenings as part of a child form pieces by eight 19th and find effort to identify stu20th century female composdents with special needs. ers. Event is free and open to Screenings will be held from the public. Refreshments will 9 a.m. to noon at the Sumbe served. merton Early Childhood Center, 8 South St., Summerton, The Lee County Branch NAACP on the following Thursdays: will hold its annual Freedom March 10; April 14; and May Fund Banquet Dinner at 6 p.m. 12. Call Sadie Williams at on Friday, Feb. 19, at the Lee (803) 485-2325, extension 116. Central High School cafeteria. AARP will offer free tax prepara- Tickets are $25 at the door. tion from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 The Lincoln High School Preserp.m. on Mondays and vation Alumni Association will Wednesdays through April 13 meet at 4 p.m. on Sunday, at the Shepherd’s Center of Feb. 21, at the Lincoln High Sumter, 24 Council St. AppliSchool cafeteria, 22 Council cants are advised to bring St. Lincolnites, friends and with them government-iscommunity members are insued photo IDs, Social Securi- vited. Call James L. Green at ty cards and / or Medicare (803) 968-4173. cards for anyone in the The Sumter County Education household, last year’s tax Association-Retired will meet forms, W-2 and / or 1099 forms, and power of attorney at noon on Feb. 24, 2016, at certification forms if they are the North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Tickets for the assofiling for someone else. For ciation’s first banquet schedmore information, call Henry uled for on April 29 will be Dinkins at (803) 499-4990 or disbursed. Call Brenda BetLula King at (803) 316-0772. hune at (803) 469-6588. The General George L. Mabry Jr. The Sumter Branch NAACP’s AnChapter 817, Military Order of nual Black History Program will the Purple Heart will meet at 6 be held at 5 p.m. on Sunday, p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18, at Feb. 28, at St. Paul AME BapAmerican Legion Post 15, 34 tist Church, 835 Plowden Mill S. Artillery Drive. This is a Road. The Rev. Dr. James B. permanent change in the Blassingame will speak. meeting place but the group Broken Wings, an eight-week will continue to meet on the grief support group hosted by third Thursday of each month. All Purple Heart recip- Amedisys Hospice Care, will be held from 10 a.m. to noon ients and those interested in each Saturday from March 5 associate membership are through April 23. Meetings invited. Call (803) 506-3120. will be held at the Amedisys The Sumter Combat Veterans Hospice office, 198 E. WesGroup will meet at 10 a.m. on mark Blvd., Suite 2, (803) 774Friday, Feb. 19, at the South 4036. There is no charge and HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafaythe public is invited. ette Drive. All area veterans

PUBLIC AGENDA TAX ACCOMMODATIONS ADVISORY BOARD Today, 3 p.m., Swan Lake Visitors Center SUMTER CITY COUNCIL Today, 5:30 p.m., Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St.

CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT 2 Today, 6:30 p.m., district office CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT 3 Thursday, 7:30 p.m., district office, Turbeville

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Get involved EUGENIA LAST in something that matters. Surprise someone with an unexpected gesture. A chance to change your vocational path to a more academic position will lead to a higher income and greater satisfaction. Don’t let anyone bully you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t hold a grudge or argue about the way things get done. Do your part and you will have no regrets. A partnership will go through changes, but in the end, it will bring you closer together and help you make personal gains. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t sit back. Speak up and share your ideas. If someone tries to intervene or suggests unrealistic plans, take action that will allow you to stick to your plan without complications or taking on more than you can handle. Emotional manipulation is apparent. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep an open mind when dealing with authority figures or institutions. Reserve judgment and get all the facts without sharing too much about your personal life. Look for alternatives and don’t be afraid to do things differently.

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Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

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RIVER STAGES 0.01" 3.07" 1.78" 5.37" 7.04" 5.72"

Myrtle Beach 65/44

Manning 64/42

Today: Milder with variable clouds. Winds southwest 6-12 mph. Wednesday: Sunny. Winds southwest becoming south-southwest 3-6 mph.

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Bishopville 64/41

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

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

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotional tension will mount if you haven’t been honest. Make changes at home that will help you gain confidence and allow you the freedom you need to excel. Think matters through and do what’s best for you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t worry about what others do. Focus on your goals and follow through with your plans. It’s up to you to protect your position, assets and possessions from anyone who is manipulative or has ulterior motives.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The changes you make at home will be beneficial but challenging. The LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Refuse to chance to begin a new routine is argue. Remain calm and reticent within your reach. Don’t get upset about how you want to go about your business. Try to get everything when you should take charge and in place before you make your next set the stage for the way you want move. An interesting turn of events things to be. will develop while networking. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your unpredictable nature will wreak VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep havoc when dealing with your feelings to yourself. Don’t let colleagues, friends and family. anyone put demands on you. Take Don’t let your emotions take over, care of your responsibilities and causing you to overreact or make move on to more enjoyable assumptions that will put you in a pastimes. Love and romance will vulnerable or awkward position. help you resolve a

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SHIRLEY L. RATCLIFF WEDGEFIELD — Shirley Lowry Ratcliff, 79, wife of Russell L. Ratcliff, entered eternal rest on Feb. 14, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born in Robeson County, North Carolina, she was a daughter of the late Alamander Lowry RATCLIFF Sr. and Addie Nora Wilkins Lowry. Survivors besides her husband include four children, Rose Rodriguez (companion, Matilde Sauceda) of Sumter, Ronnie Locklear (Christine) of Lake Wylie, Elvia Sue Hodges (Si) of Beaufort and Terry Locklear (Linda) of Sumter; one stepdaughter, Jennifer Ratcliff-Johnson of San Antonio, Texas; nine grandchildren, Ronnie Locklear Jr. (Michelle), Amanda Holland (Bill), Melissa BrownPiper, Angela Queen (Rob), Jennifer Baker (Trey), Jesse Rodriguez, John Michael Locklear, Christopher Locklear (Lauren) and Kenneth Ray Locklear (Jessica); 13 great-grandchildren; four brothers, Ted Lowry, Bobby Lowry, Evander Lowry and Alamander Lowry Jr; and one sister, Nora Faye Clawson. She was preceded on death by her parents; one son, Willis Locklear; two sisters, Winnie Griffin and Linda Haith; and two brothers, Wallace Lowry and Ronald Lowry. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 950 48th Ave. N., Suite 101, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

PAUL M. MCDOWELL Paul Malcolm McDowell, 86, died on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, at NHC Healthcare in Sumter. Born on April 3, 1929, in Conway, he was a son of the late Malcolm and Sarah Todd McDowell. He was a member of First Assembly of God Church and retired from Harvin Choice Meats. Survivors include two brothers, David McDowell (Lyn) of Crowley, Texas, and Don McDowell of Summerville; and several nieces and nephews, including his caregivers, Cathy Robinson (Jimmie) of Sumter and Malinda Russell (Stephen) of Holden Beach, North Carolina. He was preceded in death by four sisters, Thelma Herndon, Anne Gambrell, Vivian Thornhill Kirven and Nancy Lee Davis. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. today in the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Jason Banar and the Rev. Phil Simun officiating. The family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 a.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to First Assembly of God Church, 1151 Alice Drive, Sumter, SC 29150. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

ZENIA A. JOHNSON Zenia Alston Johnson, 90, departed this life on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. She was born on Jan. 10, 1926, in Alcolu, a daughter of the late Wash and Ellen Nel-

son Alston. The family will be receiving friends at the home, 20 S. Milton Road, Sumter, SC 29150. Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

ELOUISE F. GOODEN Elouise Felder Gooden, 91, departed this life on Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. She was born on March 24, 1924, in Pinewood, a daughter of the late Bennie and Harriette Felder. The family will be receiving friends at the home, 304 S. Harvin St., Pinewood, SC 29125. Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

MARJORIE MARTINEZ Marjorie Dale Mercer Martinez, age 65, beloved wife of the late Christopher Martinez, died on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, at her residence. You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

ELOISE GAMBLE Eloise Gamble, 89, entered into eternal rest on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia. She was born on Aug. 15, 1926, in Clarendon County, to the late Albert and Marie Preston Gamble. The family will receive relatives and friends at the home, 17 S. Columbia St., Pinewood. Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

ROMIE G. EADDY Deacon Romie Govan Eaddy, 74, widower of Johnnie Mae McKnight Govan, entered into eternal rest on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. He was born on May 10, 1941, in St. George, to the late Ronnie Eaddy and Clara Stephens. The family will receive relatives and friends at the home, 214 King St., Sumter. Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

SAMMIE LEE ROSS Sammie Lee “Boot” Ross, 88, husband of Molly James Ross, departed this life peacefully on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, at Providence Hospital, Columbia. He was born on Oct. 8, 1927, in Sumter, to the late Robert and Rachel Nathaniel Ross. The family will receive relatives and friends at the homes of his daughters and sons-inlaw, Eartha and James Riley, 3210 Lauderdale Court, Sumter, and Sandra and the Rev. Dr. D.L. Grant, 6215 Catchall Road, Dalzell. Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

JOYCE K. ALLEN Joyce Kennedy Allen, 69, widow of Richard Allen Sr., entered into eternal rest on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, at her home.

She was born on June 5, 1946, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The family will receive relatives and friend at the home, 3220 Deer Track Circle, Dalzell, until 7 p.m. nightly. Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

LARRY BLANDING Larry Blanding, 60, died on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, at Magnolia Manor, Inman. Born on March 1, 1953, in Sumter County, he was a son of Frank and Euline Abrams Blanding. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of his brother, Rocky Blanding, 6600 Keystone Road, Dalzell. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

JAMES D. COWART James Davis Cowart, age 87, beloved husband of 10 years to Dorothy Garrett Cowart, died on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, at his residence. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he was a son of the late Davis Ben Hill Cowart and Ada Ramey Cowart. He will be remembered as a very kind gentlemen with high religious morals. He loved the outdoors; going to the Solena Auctions on Mondays; and doing many projects with his only granddaughter. He dearly loved the love of his life, Dorothy “Dot” Cowart. Surviving are one son, Jim Cowart and his close friend, Lisa Velez, of Illinois; one granddaughter, Cindy Morris; and special family friend, Ann Dennis. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his previous wife, Cornellia Cowart; and two brothers, Ben Cowart and Fred Cowart. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday in the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be held at 3 p.m. at Savannah Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Thompson, Georgia. The family will receive friends on Wednesday one hour prior to the service from 10 to 11 a.m. at Bullock Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 230 Alice Drive, Sumter, SC 29150 or to Amedisys Hospice and Home Health, 2555 Lin-Do Court, Sumter, SC 29150. You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

LOUISE MOSES Louise Moses, 93, widow of Eddie Moses, died on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born on Aug. 28, 1922, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Sippio English and Laura Taylor. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 60 Hilliard Drive, Apartment 51 South View, Sumter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funer-

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RONALD S. ROBERSON SUMMERTON — Ronald Seabrook Roberson, 75, died on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, at his residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Stephens Funeral Home. Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, (803) 435-2179. www. stephensfuneralhome.org

JACK K. NOYES Jack Kenaston Noyes, 82, widower of Donalda Eaves Noyes, died on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, at a local nursing center. Born in Geneva, Ohio, he was a son of the late Richard M. and Louise Egger Noyes. Mr. Noyes was a member of Central Presbyterian Church in Anderson. He retired from R.M. Noyes Co. after more than 50 years of service. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran. Surviving are two sons, Charles Vernon Noyes II of Sumter and Michael Milne Noyes of Anderson; six grandchildren, Kenaston Noyes and wife, Erica, Charles Noyes III, Neyle Noyes, Myers Noyes, Becka Noyes and Betsy Noyes; and two great-grandchildren, Ashlyn Noyes and Anastasia Noyes. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Jay Franklin Noyes and James R. Noyes. Memorial services will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday at Central Presbyterian Church, 1404 N. Boulevard Drive, Anderson, with the Rev. David Bailey officiating. The family will receive friends following the memorial service. Private burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Anderson. There will also be a memorial service at 2 p.m. on Friday at the Church of the Holy Comforter, 213 N. Main St., Sumter. The family will receive friends in the Parish Hall following the service. Memorials may be made to Wilson Hall School, 520 Wilson Hall Road, 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.

LITTLE EMMA JACKSON Little Emma Jackson, 77, widow of Francis Jackson, died on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta. Born on March 29, 1938, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Fred Dow and Susan Yates. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of Orlando Jackson, 2420 Sto-

ver Lane, Dalzell. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

EASTA MAE G. DOLFORD Easta Mae Gallishaw Dolford entered eternal rest on Feb. 15, 2016, at her residence, 49 Fleetwood Circle, Lamar. The family is receiving friends at the residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

MOZELLE HAMILTON Mozelle Lenora Gadsden Hamilton, 76, widow of Eugene Walter Hamilton, died on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, at her home. Born on Oct. 20, 1939, in New York City, New York, she was a daughter of Ivery Green and Elvira Brown. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 26 S. Washington St., Sumter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

CHARLIE LEE WELLS Charlie Lee Wells, 62, was called to rest on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born on May 2, 1953, in Lee County, he was a son of the late George Sr. and Dorothy Mae Gamble Wells. He attended the public schools of Lee County and was a 1974 graduate of Mount Pleasant High School, Elliott. He was affectionately called “Lee.” Lee’s memories will be cherished by six sisters, Ora B. (Mack) Wilson of Elliott, Georgia Reames, Annie L. (Robert) Moses, Josephine Washington and Evaline (Harold) Harriott, all of Sumter, and Doreatha Wells of the home; two brothers, James (Claudia) Wells and Nathaniel Wells, both of Elliott; three aunts; four uncles; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 16 Clarence McFadden Road, Elliott, with the Rev. Lee Johnson, pastor, eulogist. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 246 Casual Branch Road, Elliott. The remains will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. The funeral procession will leave at 1:20 p.m. from the home. Floral bearers and pallbearers will be family and friends. Burial will be in St. Paul Cemetery, Wisacky. These services have been entrusted to 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.

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This is to notify you that McLeod Regional Medical Center of the Pee Dee, Inc., doing business as McLeod Home Health, is applying for a Certificate of Need from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (the "CON"). The CON would allow McLeod Home Health to operate a home health agency and provide home health services in Kershaw County, South Carolina. The capital cost of the project is estimated to be zero.

Beer & Wine License Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that Cali Joe's LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of Beer, Wine and Liquor at 226 N. Washington Street, Sumter, SC 29150. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 16, 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, ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214-0907; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

Summons & Notice SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2015-CP-43-00719 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Green Tree Servicing LLC, PLAINTIFF, VS. Harrison J. Cyrus and Antoinette Dean, DEFENDANT(S). (151093.00055) TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ANTOINETTE DEAN ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on March 18, 2015. SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A. Ronald C. Scott, SC Bar #4996 Reginald P. Corley, SC Bar #69453 Angelia J. Grant, SC Bar #78334 J. Harrison Rushton, SC Bar #100406 Vance L. Brabham, III, SC Bar #71250 Andrew M. Sullivan, SC Bar #100464 Jessica S. Corley, SC Bar #80470 James L. Williams, SC Bar #102408 ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-927 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Grow Financial Union,

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Plaintiff, vs. Shiolah Kennethia Shanea Mathis, Defendant. TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their office, Post Office Box 2599, Lexington, South Carolina 29071, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on April 13, 2015. SHERPY & JONES, P.A. Sabrina E. Burgess Sabrina E. Burgess Attorneys for Plaintiff

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-01526 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Grow Financial Union,

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YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Sumter County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within

Latoya M. Davis, Defendant. TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their office, Post Office Box 2599, Lexington, South Carolina 29071, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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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.

Summons & Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on October 20, 2015. SHERPY & JONES, P.A. Sabrina E. Burgess Attorneys for Plaintiff

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:

Estate:

Ruby A. Thomas #2016ES4300070

Personal Representative Gwen McElveen

Personal Representative David Grantt

C/O Kenneth R. Young, Jr. Attorney at Law 23 West Calhoun Street Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

Gary Lee Warren, Sr. #2015ES4300670-2

Personal Representative Treva Warren

C/O KelseyWilley Attorney at Law PO Box 714 Charleston, SC 29402

Sarah B. Seavert #2016ES4300073

Personal Representative Thomas M. Seavert

565 Mikom Road Sumter, SC 29153

1200 Kolb Road Sumter, SC 29154

Jane Brown Gardner #2016ES4300074

Estate:

Diane Lee Hodgson #2016ES4300086

Personal Representative Yolanda C. Adams

Personal Representative Anthony Marra

1773 Jameson Circle Lawrencevill, GA 30043

2736-2 Jobee Drive Charleston, SC 29414

Estate:

Corrine Levy Philips #2016ES4300077

Estate:

Janie Lee Welch #2016ES4300066

Personal Representative George Davis Philips

Personal Representative Robbie L. Welch

C/O Jack W. Erter, Jr. Attorney at Law 126 North Main Street Sumter, SC 29150

1770 Bar Zee Drive Sumter, SC 29154

2800 Lillington Drive Sumter, SC 29150 Estate: Louise Singleton Grant #2015ES4300500

Estate:

Personal Representative Lisa K. Barwick

Estate:

Thurman Randolph McElveen #2016ES4300063

Estate:

Carolyn Jones Butler #2016ES4300064

Personal Representative William H. Butler

C/O Sam Bass Attorney at Law PO Box 670 Rock Hill, SC 29731-6670 Estate:

Julia Hinson Pate #2016ES4300090

Estate:

Matthew Douglas Golden #2016ES4300084

Personal Representative Alphonso Golden

650 North St. Paul Church Rd. Sumter, SC 29154 Estate:

Joye T. Segars #2016ES4300080

Personal Representative Margaret S. Bond

and Raymie V. Segars, III C/O Richard L. Booth Attorney at Law PO Box 2756 Sumter, SC 29151

Personal Representative Joan Pate-Lyons

2286 Winters Hill Road Manning, SC 29102

Estate:

Monica P. George #2016ES4300094

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and Sheila B. Parnell 1245 Pawn Shop Circle #40 Sumter, SC 29154 Estate:

Found: puppy near Catchall Road in Dalzell. Call 236-9007 to identify.

Ella B. Howard #2016ES4300091

Personal Representative Carolyn D. Howard

301 N. Progress Avenue Apt G-7 Harrisburg, PA 17109 Estate:

Kenneth F. Duffy #2016ES4300088

Personal Representative Sara L. Reames

C/O Kenneth Hamilton Attorney at Law PO Box 52359 Sumter, SC 29152

S.P.C.A. • 1140 S. Guignard Dr., Sumter 11AM - 5PM Daily, Closed Wed & Sun Animal Receiving: 11AM - 4PM M, T, Th, F & 11AM - 2PM Sat

VISIT US ONLINE AT: Denver

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803-905-5280 My name is My name is DENVER My name is ELLIS BEE CHOWBOY and I’m and I’m a 3 month old and I’m a 2 year old PLEASE ADOPT A FRIEND! a 2 year old red male tricolored male Beagle black and tan female 2565 Lindo Ct. • Sumter, SC 29150 Chow mix. mix. Hound mix. Willow

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Ally

My name is WILLOW and I’m a 1 year old tricolored female Hound mix.

My name is XENA and I’m a 1 year old gray and tan female Doberman/ Lab mix.

My name is ALLY and I’m a 5 month old female tortoiseshell/ tabby American Shorthair.

Pandy

My name is KOA and I’m a 1 year old tricolord Catahoula Leopard Dog.

James F. Hampton #2016ES4300071

Personal Representative Odessa Hampton

746 Tallwood Road Charleston, SC 29412 Estate:

In Memory

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, aka SPCA SPCA,, has an abundance of friendly pets looking for nice, warm homes with lots of love to share. Shown are just a few of the adoptable pets now available at the shelter.

Chowboy

Koa

My name is DIAMOND and I’m a 5 month old black and brown female Shepherd mix.

Estate:

Personal Representative Patricia G. Walters

Adopt Me

My name is KC and I’m a 5 month old male orange tabby ans white American Shorthair.

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My name is PANDY and I’m a 7 month old black and white male Lab/Chow mix.

Godiva

Gandy

Fritz

Cleo

My name is GODIVA My name is GANDY My name is CLEO and I’m a 3 month and I’m a 5 month and I’m a 1 year old black and white old black female old gray tabby male American American Shorthair. and white female Shorthair. American Shorthair.

Tabitha My name is TABITHA and I’m a 3 year old tortoiseshell/tabby and white female American Shorthair.

My name is FRITZ and I’m a 3 year old gray tabby male American Shorthair.

Bubbie

My name is BUBBIE and I’m an 11 month old creme tabby female American Shorthair.

Other things you can do to help! Though not everyone can take a pet home, the SPCA is always accepting donations. Monetary Donations • Collars • Animal Food • Leashes Cat Litter • Treats • Beds • Clean Newspapers Blankets • Trash Bags • Towels • Paper Towels Adoption Fee: Dogs - $125.00 • Cats - $100.00 This includes the ﬁrst vaccinations, ﬁrst deworming and a voucher towards the spaying or neutering of the animal. Hours of Operation: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Closed Wednesday and Sunday BE A SPONSOR ON THIS PAGE AND HELP THE SPCA TODAY!

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