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BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Now that the legal and ceremonial aspects of the change from Tuomey Healthcare System to Palmetto Health Tuomey are complete, the hospital’s leadership team is turning its attention to the future.

Palmetto Health CEO Charles “Chuck” Beaman Jr. said Palmetto Health has made a number of major commitments to Tuomey and the people who work there.

“We wanted to BEAMAN make sure our employees are comfortable and that we would honor everyone’s employment. I think we specified a six-month period of time,” he said. “We wanted to give employees assurances that the new organization wasn’t going to upset the apple cart.”

Palmetto Health also agreed to invest between $80-million and $100-million in the first 10 years of the relationship.

“We have been talking about the next steps from the time we formed this partnership,” said Palmetto Health Tuomey Chief Operating Officer Michelle Logan-Owens.

One of first of those steps will be improving the emergency room.

“We already have assessments that have been made, and there is active work already about reconfiguring and revisioning the emergency department and what that would look like,” Beaman said.

Logan-Owens said there have been several meetings to talk about what the vision is for the emergency room project.

“We don’t want to just expand the current space, we want to be proactive in thinking about how we manage population health as we move forward and how we can meet the diverse needs in our community,” she said.

“The emergency department is the first part of our master facilities plan,” Palmetto Health Chief Marketing Officer Todd Miller said. “The situation is the volume exceeds

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Need for heating aid rises as temperatures fall

BY JACK OSTEEN jack@theitem.com With this past week’s cooler temperatures, heating assistance is in high demand, according to Salvation Army social worker Christy Lamb.

Lamb assisted more than 50 families last week with the biggest need being for kerosene.

In the Sumter community, a lot of elderly still use kerosene and firewood to

heat their homes, Lamb said. She said she has seen people who close off rooms in their homes to try to conserve heat for single rooms. Others collect twigs and scrap wood to try to

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build a fire because they are unable to afford a load of firewood.

Lamb wants residents to know that The Salvation Army will continue to make every effort to make appointments for all people who need assistance and to continue to call until The Salvation Army staff can get to them for assistance.

This year’s Fireside Fund is dedicated to Dr. Charles R. Propst, who died on May 20, 2015, at the age of 90. He

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Groups encourage you to register to vote

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com As the 2016 presidential election approaches, local groups are encouraging Sumter’s residents to register and make their vote count.

The Rev. Joshua Dupree, a member of OneSumter, said encouraging Sumter residents to register to vote was the focus of the group’s first meet-

ing of 2016.

James L. Felder, director of South Carolina Voter Education Project, and members of League of Women Voters of Sumter County and Sumter Branch of NAACP also attended the meeting and provided information to attendees.

Several people registered during the meeting, Dupree said.

OneSumter members also

educated the audience on the voting procedure.

Dupree said he cannot tell people who to vote for, but he does encourage voters to study the candidates before voting.

Voters should understand a candidate’s policies and not wait until the last minute to choose who to vote for, he said.

He said it is important for

people to vote because too many people have fought and died for everyone’s right to vote. Too many people have suffered from not voting, he said.

“Cast that one vote, and make a difference,” Dupree said.

The public can register for a voter registration card online at www.scvotes.org or visit Sumter County Board of Elec-

Manning resident named Artist of the Month Work will be on exhibit at gallery through January

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Fire hydrant tests will be midweek The City of Sumter will perform fire hydrant flow tests on Bultman Drive, North Guignard Drive, Walton Street, Gayle Street, Dorcel Street, Jefferson Road, Diebold Drive, Electric Drive and Loring Mill Road. Water customers in the surrounding area may experience temporary discolored water.

Work will be performed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. For more information, contact the City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558.

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com Sumter Artists’ Guild’s Artist of the Month is Carole Swartz, a Columbus, Ohio, native who now lives in Manning. Her work is on exhibit at Sumter County Gallery of Art, where it can be seen through the end of January, including during the opening reception Thursday evening for the Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show, when the guild will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Swartz said her work is affected by “places I go, things I read (and) people I meet.

Sometimes for years.”

Many of the paintings in the exhibition reflect the influence of Neil Shuman’s book, “Your Inner Fish,” she said. “It portrays a chronological development of all animals with four limbs from fins to feet. The idea that my DNA may be linked to some salamander-like creature fascinates me. I can picture my early ancestor crawling out on a rock for the first time and feeling the warmth of the sun. That book alone has produced several sketch books filled with hundreds of images with splashes of color, which I constantly browse through — making comments and notes until one of them pops out and demands to be ‘graduated’ to canvas or clay.”

Swartz said her work “for the most part seems to evoke a journey of some sort,” and gave three examples. The painting “A Good Day to Float,” she said, “ ... depicts an ethereal image with bones, being happy and careless, floating above a juvenile-type landscape. The painting ‘The Importance of the Tail’ is a very joyous canvas. The feeling of being so happy and delighted that more movement is on the way — freedom to move about the planet. They both make me feel happy to look at them. My canvas ‘Coming Undone’ has a somewhat different emotion. It projects an uncomfortable, out-of-control feeling, a darker event

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The Final Swim is among the paintings by Carole Swartz now in Sumter County Gallery of Art. She is Sumter Artists’ Guild’s Artist of the Month for January. with the element of black, maybe headed for a death.

They all three have a story to tell.”

Swartz received her master of fine arts degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and her bachelor of fine arts from the College of Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute. She has also studied at Columbus (Ohio) College of Art and Design; The Alexandria (Virginia) Art League; City Lit University, London, England; The Charlotte Press, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England; and Instituto Nacionál de Bellas Artes, San Miguel

de Allenda, Mexico.

In addition, Swartz received fellowships from several prestigious residencies, including The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire; The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia; and The Montalvo Center for the Creative Arts, Saratoga, California. Her work is in several public and private collections, among them Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Dayton Art Institute, The MacDowell Colony and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.

Since 2007, Swartz has resided with her husband, Marty, in Manning, where she maintains a home studio. She exhibits in solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S., and her work can be seen at the South Carolina Artisans Center in Walterboro, where she has been a member since 2008.

Swartz’s exhibition can be seen at Sumter County Gallery of Art, 200 Hasell St. in Sumter County Cultural Center, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. For more information, call (803) 775-0543.

COLUMBIA — A South Carolina lawmaker who doubles as an attorney for the family of a police shooting victim is offering solutions to what advocates call “predatory policing” policies, which pressure officers to generate revenue by ticketing citizens for minor offenses.

Rep. Justin Bamberg wants to prohibit law enforcement agencies in the state from setting traffic ticket quotas, or evaluating officers by the number of citations they write. A companion bill would prohibit cities and counties from approving budgets that depend on future revenue from traffic fines.

Bamberg filed the bills for the session starting today. Bamberg, a Democrat, also represents the family of Walter Scott, the black man who was shot repeatedly in the back last year as he ran from North Charleston officer Michael Slager.

Police: Woman bites off part of worker’s finger MYRTLE BEACH — Myrtle Beach police have arrested a woman who they said bit off part of a finger of a Wal-Mart worker during an altercation.

Local media outlets cite a police report which said store security tried to stop a woman they said was concealing merchandise on Sunday, but an altercation ensued.

According to police, the woman punched one worker, then bit another worker’s finger. A customer tried to call 911 on her cellphone, but the woman took it and grabbed the customer by the hair.

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Historian to speak on S.C.’s fallen Confederate soldiers The speaker for Monday’s meeting of the Sumter County Genealogical Society will be Herbert “Bing� O. Chambers III, author of two books on South Carolina men who died fighting during the Civil War. Chambers, who is now working on a CHAMBERS third book, has been researching the subject since 1995. His first volume, “And Were the Glory of Their Times — Men Who Died for South Carolina in the War for Southern Independence,� examined those who died while in the artillery. The second dealt with those in the cavalry, and the third will list those who died while in the infantry.

Chambers said his research began in order to identify those S.C. Confederate soldiers who had previously been unidentified. “The names were to be compared against the work ‘Broken Fortunes’ by Ran-

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A truck carrying a load of logs was involved in a wreck with a minivan about 10:57 a.m. Monday at the intersection of U.S. 15 North and South Pike West. The truck was on its side, and its cargo was spread across Main Street. Sumter Police Department continues to investigate the wreck. According to Tonyia McGirt, the department’s public information officer, no serious injuries were reported. However, both drivers were transported to Palmetto Health Tuomey for evaluation. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control responded to the scene to clean up spilled diesel fuel from the log truck, and police officers directed traffic around the intersection which was closed until about 3 p.m.

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dolph W. Kirkland Jr., which was at that time recognized as the most complete listing of known South Carolina casualties,� he said.

After 18 years of research in libraries, archives and county courthouses throughout the state, Chambers found more than 500 names in the cavalry service, almost 600 in the artillery and more than 3,000 in the infantry, none of which had been noted before. His books include all of S.C.’s casualties, not just the newly discovered ones, as well as a genealogical and/ or biographical sketch of most. Indexed, and with a comprehensive bibliography, the books recognize “Families which suffered multiple and catastrophic losses (and) battle and campaign descriptions. ... (and) personal asides ... such as pertinent portions of letters to and from home, diary/ journal entries, etc.�

Chambers is a native of S.C. and a graduate of the University of South Carolina, retired from the corporate world. He is a member of several history-related

organizations, including the Society of Independent Southern Historians, Robert E. Lee Fellowship, Sons of Confederate Veterans, the S.C. Historical Society and the Edisto Island Historical Society. In addition, his membership in the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is pending.

Hear Chambers speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Swan Lake Presbyterian Church, 912 Haynsworth St., where the Sumter County Genealogical Society meets monthly from September through May. Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend. Admission is free to the public, and refreshments will be served after the presentation. Interested persons can join the society.

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Annual dues are $30 for an individual membership and $35 for family. Call the Society’s Research Center for more information at (803) 774-3901.

ATLANTA (AP) —The FBI zeroed in on a woman suspected in jewelry store robberies across the South after analyzing records from cellphone towers near the robberies, then checking social media and hearing from suspicious friends, newly filed court records reveal.

Abigail Lee Kemp, 24, is due in court at noon Monday for a first appearance before a judge, FBI Special Agent Stephen Emmett said in an email. She was apprehended in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna, Georgia, along with a person who was with her at the time, the FBI said. Authorities haven’t identified an alleged accomplice in the robbery spree, but court records say he acted as a lookout in some of the robberies.

A key break in the case came from one phone number with a north Georgia area code, court records show. An analysis of cell tower data found that the number showed up at or near jewelry stores in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina while the businesses were being robbed, authorities said.

Court records detail how authorities then used the phone number to identify Kemp as a suspect and found a photo of a maroon Honda Civic on her social media accounts that matched the description of one seen in surveillance video.

The FBI also released images from surveillance video from the robberies, which led Kemp’s friends to contact authorities, court records show. The images showed a female dressed in a jogging suit in one robbery and wearing a black cowboy hat in another. “Within hours of issuing a press release this week requesting assistance in

identifying the suspects, the FBI Jacksonville Division began to receive numerous credible leads from the public,� the FBI said in a news release. “Some citizens further advised that during recent contacts with Kemp, she was wearing expensive jewelry that some of the callers believe she cannot afford,� the court affidavit said. “Some citizens also advised that Kemp possesses a black handgun and recently had her car painted black.�

Federal court records do not list an attorney for Kemp. Her arrest comes amid an investigation of jewelry store robberies last year in Sevierville, Tennessee; Bluffton, South Carolina; Panama City Beach, Florida; and Dawsonville and Woodstock in Georgia, FBI spokeswoman Amanda Warford Videll confirmed to The Associated Press via email.

The latest robbery occurred recently in Mebane, North Carolina, Videll said.

The jewelry store holdups in Tennessee and North Carolina each netted more than $900,000, and a total of at least $2.2 million was taken in the string of crimes, court records show.

The female suspect seen in surveillance video from several of the robberies was armed with a handgun, ordered store employees into a back room, made them lay face down and zip tied their hands, court records state.

In at least one of the robberies, in Panama City Beach, a male accomplice is seen on video removing the front door stop and letting the front door close while he remained outside of the store. The female suspect then removed about $400,000 in jewelry from the display cases, the affidavit states.

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Tight border checks leave migrants trapped in Greece

BY NICHOLAS PAPHITIS The Associated Press ATHENS, Greece — Dreams rarely come true, at least not for long.

For a few incredible months, the prospect of a better life in Europe seemed within grasp, attracting a wave of more than 1 million migrants from the war-torn, poverty-stricken Middle East and Africa. To get there, they risked their lives at sea and parted with fortunes.

But a tightening of border controls closer to the promised lands of Germany and Sweden has left thousands trapped and destitute in the last place most want to be — financially wrecked Greece.

Ayman Daher, 29, from Lebanon, paid smugglers $1,500 to squeeze onto a rubber boat with 80 people for the short and often deadly crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Chios. His destination was Germany, where his father and three brothers live.

“Life is good and safe there,” Daher said. “In my country it is not.”

To reach Germany, he would have to traverse the western Balkans, starting with Macedonia on Greece’s northern border — as hundreds of thousands did with relative ease for about five months last year.

That happened because Balkan countries opened their borders in June to all transient asylum seekers, in one of several policy lurches as a fragmented Europe vacillated between pity for refugees and concern about security and integrating huge numbers of immigrants.

But in late November the Balkan gateways started to close, and Greek officials fear they could be completely shut in coming months. Now, only Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis are deemed refugees and let through, with all others — about 12,000 of the 103,000 who entered Greece in December — rejected as economic migrants.

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Iranians play volleyball at the Hellenikon shelter, a former Olympic field hockey venue, on Sunday in southern Athens. A tightening of border controls closer to the promised lands of Germany and Sweden has left thousands trapped in financially wrecked Greece, Europe’s main immigration gateway. bleak future.

“I can’t go back to Somalia,” said English teacher Ali Heydar Aki, who hoped to settle in Europe and then bring his family. “I have sold half my house” to fund the trip.

While it’s unclear exactly how many are stuck in Greece, a comparison of arrivals there and in Macedonia since late November leaves

Al Riyashy, 45, a former policeman from Yemen — whose civil war has been compounded by 10 months of airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition.

“Why does Macedonia only allow people from three countries through?” he said.

“Other countries are at war too. My home was badly damaged in the fighting.”

Al Riyashy and his family have spent the past week at Athens’ Elaionas migrant camp, where about 560 people from 14 countries live in prefabricated homes. He wants to reach Sweden.

As twilight falls outside the Hellenikon shelter — a former Olympic field hockey venue now housing about 280 people — Iranian men play volleyball, a red line on the ground serving as a notional net. Inside, migrants are coming to terms with their

about 38,000 people unaccounted for.

Greek immigration minister Ioannis Mouzalas’ best guess is “a few thousand.”

“But (that’s) a calculation based on experience, not something else,” he said.

Syed Mohammad Jamil, head of the Pakistani-Hellenic Cultural Society, says about 4,000 Pakistanis could be

stuck in Greece, mostly still on the islands, and about as many Bangladeshis.

“Every day we get ... phone calls from people in tears asking for help,” he said. “We can’t help — send them where? Germany, Spain, Italy, England? We can’t.”

All now face two legal options: To seek asylum in Greece — which has 25 percent unemployment and a crumbling welfare system — or volunteer for repatriation.

Greek authorities have recorded an increase in both since Macedonia tightened controls.

Karim Benazza, a Moroccan hotel worker in his 20s, has signed up to go home on Jan. 18.

“This is all I do now, smoke and smoke, but no money, no food,” he said, lighting a cigarette outside the International Organization for Migration building. “There is nothing for us in Greece, and the Macedonian border is closed.”

Daniel Esdras, IOM office head in Greece, sees a steep increase in voluntary repatriations, which the IOM organizes. About 800 people registered in December, and 260 have been sent home.

“It’s one thing to return in handcuffs ... and quite another to go as a normal passenger with some money in your pocket, because we give them each 400 euros ($435),” Esdras said.

Although able to continue north, Afghan Masoud Aziz, 23, will seek asylum in Greece.

“I do not want to go to another country because it is difficult now, too (many) refugees go there,” he said.

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Alcohol’s link to cancer fuels new U.K. drinking guidelines

BY MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON — British health officials say drinking alcohol regularly increases the risk of cancer.

And they’ve issued tough new guidelines that could prove hard to swallow in a nation where having a pint is a hallowed tradition.

Britain’s chief medical officer says in recommendations published Friday that men and women should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol — about six pints of beer or four large glasses of wine — per week, and consuming below that amount still carries a low risk of liver disease or cancer.

Alcohol is a known carcinogen. In the United States, experts estimate about 3.5 percent of all cancer deaths are alcohol-related. People who have more than about four drinks daily run up to triple the risk of contracting cancers of the head and neck than non-drinkers.

Here are questions and answers about the British guidelines and their likely effect:

WHAT’S NEW? For women, the guidelines remain unchanged recommending no more than 14 units a week.

Men, however, had previously been told they could drink up to 21 units a week. That now drops to the same limit as for women.

The original guidance was published in 1995, before many links between alcohol and cancer were detected.

Friday’s updated guidance clarifies advice to pregnant women, recommending they avoid alcohol “as a precaution.”

The recommendations say “the risk of harm to the baby is likely to be low if a woman has drunk only small amounts of alcohol before she knew she

‘This is not a crackdown on alcohol.

It is about supporting people to make up their own minds.’

HOW DOES THIS COMPARE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES? Each country measures alcohol consumption differently.

Brtiain’s guidelines are stricter than those of other European countries in Europe, notably Ireland and Spain, but similar to U.S. expert recommendations.

According to American dietary guidelines, women should drink no more than one drink a day and men should have no more than two.

DR. NIAMH FITZGERALD Lecturer in alcohol studies at University of Stirling

WHAT ABOUT REPORTED BENEFITS OF ALCOHOL? was pregnant or during pregnancy.”

In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there is no known safe level of alcohol consumption for women who are trying to get pregnant or already in pregnancy.

WILL BRITONS GO TEETOTAL? Almost certainly not in a nation known for its ales and its pubs.

Lax control of retail sales and cheap alcohol has fueled a rise in binge drinking, which Prime Minister David Cameron once declared a national scandal.

Even the new guidance acknowledges that people are unlikely to give up drinking and does not call for abstinence.

To help Britons avoid binge drinking, the government recommends that people spread their drinking over at least three days a week. It warns that the risk of cancers of the mouth, throat and breast increases with any amount drunk on a more regular basis.

“This is not a crackdown on alcohol,” said Dr. Niamh Fitzgerald, a lecturer in alcohol studies at University of Stirling, who was not involved in drafting the government guidelines. “It is about supporting people to make up their own minds.”

While some studies suggest that drinking moderate levels of red wine is good for the heart, British officials say that applies only to women over the age of 55, particularly those who drink no more than about two glasses a week.

The British report said it “concluded that there is no justification for drinking for health reasons.”

WHAT’S THE VIEW DOWN AT THE PUB? “This won’t change a thing,” said David Evans, an engineer enjoying a pint at a north London pub.

He said he regularly exceeds the new limit of about six pints of beer a week in a single day and has no intention of changing his drinking habits.

“A lot of people will let their own body tell them what’s right and what’s wrong,” he said.

U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said the advice was “over the top” and called for a mass protest against such “nannying.”

“We all know there is a big problem with excessive alcohol consumption in this country,” he told LBC radio. “But frankly, if we choose to enjoy a few drinks four or five nights a week after a hard day at work, whether it slightly shortens our lives or not, so what?”

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New needles, which clients can get as part of the needle exchange program at the Austin Community Outreach Center, are displayed in Austin, Indiana, in April 2015.

Needle exchange leaders cheer relaxed funding ban INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Advocates are praising Congress’ recent softening of a longtime ban on federal dollars going to needle exchanges amid growing intravenous drug abuse that’s spreading hepatitis and HIV in many states.

The new rules, which were in the spending bill signed last month by President Obama, say that federal money still can’t go to buying clean needles but can be used for other program costs in communities deemed “at risk” for significant increases in hepatitis C or an HIV outbreak.

Advocates say exchanges, which provide IV drug users with clean needles and collect used ones to reduce needle-sharing that spreads diseases among users, also help get some users into drug-treatment programs.

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Legendary musician Bowie, 69, dies of cancer

BY MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer NEW YORK — David Bowie, the chameleon-like star who transformed the sound — and the look — of rock with his audacious creativity and his sexually ambiguous makeup and costumes, died of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and had just released a new album.

Bowie, whose hits included “Space Oddity,” “Fame,” “Heroes” and “Let’s Dance,” died surrounded by family, representative Steve Martin said early Monday. The singer had fought cancer for 18 months.

Long before alter egos and wild outfits became commonplace in pop, Bowie turned the music world upside down with the release of the 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” which introduced one of mu-

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Bowie turned 69 on Friday, the same day as he released a new album called “Blackstar.”

“While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the AP FILE PHOTO family’s privacy during their time of David Bowie is seen performing on June grief,” said a statement issued via 19, 1987. The other-worldly musician who his social media accounts. No more broke pop and rock boundaries with his details were provided. creative musicianship, nonconformity, Born David Jones in London, the striking visuals and a genre-bending persinger came of age in the glam rock sona he christened Ziggy Stardust died of era of the early 1970s. He had a cancer Sunday. striking androgynous look in his early days and was known for changing his appearance and sounds. sic’s most famous personas. “Ziggy After “Ziggy Stardust,” the stutterStardust” was a concept album that ing rock sound of “Changes” gave imagined a rock star from outer

way to the disco soul of “Fame,” cowritten with John Lennon, to a droning collaboration with Brian Eno in Berlin that produced “Heroes.”

He had some of his biggest successes in the early 1980s with the bombastic “Let’s Dance,” and a massive American tour. Another one of his definitive songs was “Under Pressure,” which he recorded with Queen; Vanilla Ice would years later infamously use the song’s hook for his smash hit “Ice Ice Baby.”

“My entire career, I’ve only really worked with the same subject matter,” Bowie told The Associated Press in a 2002 interview. “The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I’ve always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety — all of the high points of one’s life.”

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TUOMEY FROM PAGE A1 what the facility can address.”

The process must begin with determining how care can be better delivered in the current emergency room space.

“We are not in a place today to say if the square footage needs to be expanded or not, but there are limitations to what can be done in the current footprint,” he said.

Beaman said they were also working to determine what equipment needs and building needs are most pressing.

“Whether it be heating, air conditioning or roofs, we want to make sure this remains a top-class, first-class institution physically and that we have the technological capabilities to support the care here,” he said.

A staff development plan for Tuomey is also being prepared.

He said a medical staff development plan involves looking at the age and specialties of the current medical staff as well as what the population will need and support.

“We’ve made a commitment to assist the hospital leadership in recruiting additional physicians here,” Beaman said.

Palmetto Health has also committed to making all of its resources available to support the work at Palmetto Health Tuomey, he said.

“We are talking about public relations, marketing, communications, the financial areas, doing analytics and cost reports and things like that,” he said. “We are bringing the whole mechanism of our internal auditing capabilities to Tuomey as well as corporate compliance and those mechanisms.”

Beaman said a corporate compliance officer is being recruited who will be on site at Palmetto Health to ensure the

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“We committed to have three Tuomey board members become board members of Palmetto Health, and they are already elected and will have their first board meeting (today),” he said. Those named to the Palmetto Health board are John Brabham, Leroy Creech and Dr. Edward Duffy Jr. Another project already underway is updating the hospital’s equipment, Beaman said.

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COMMENTARY

Knight vision goggles: I’m resolving to ascend to Pip

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t the start of a new year, we all have a tendency to want to create resolutions, to find ways to have a fresh start or make a needed change.

Somehow, it’s become human nature to see the arbitrary change in calendar as an excuse for making all sorts of grandiose life decisions — and yours truly isn’t immune to doing it.

I fall victim to the standard “Eat healthier” and “Exercise more often” that almost everyone has this time of year (and I fully intend to fulfill those resolutions, lest my girlfriend murder me for non-compliance).

However, in 2016, I would like to see a longtime dream of mine finally come to fruition, despite how Cliff impossible it might McCollum seem.

I, Cliff McCollum, hereby resolve to find some way to become a Pip. (Yes, as in Gladys Knight and the Pips.)

For years, I have been a fan of their impeccable footwork, their amazing backup vocals and the Technicolored marvel that is their wardrobes.

They have the honor and privilege of getting to sing with one of the greatest living vocalists of this or any time period, and I’m willing to bet they also have the perk of being able to enjoy fried chicken and waffles from Ms. Knight’s Atlanta-based restaurant chain whenever they please.

(Which, admittedly, would not help in my “Be healthier” resolutions.)

Is it so much to ask that an almost 30-year-old pasty white guy with limited vocal skills and even worse dancing skills be able to live his dream of being a member of the greatest backup group of all time?

Is it wrong to continue to nurse the fantasy of being at a Gladys Knight concert and have her see me and pull me up on stage (ala a young Courtney Cox in the Bruce Springsteen “Dancing in the Dark” video) and ask me to become a part of her entourage?

I know all of the major songs.

I’ve memorized the proper call and response techniques she and the Pips have employed for years.

This is America, the land of dreams — so is it so farfetched to think I could maybe make this happen?

In all honesty, it probably is.

But, maybe — just maybe — Gladys or one of her people might see this column and take pity on a soul music-loving guy from rural central Alabama to make one of his biggest dreams finally come true.

I’m ready to ride that Midnight Train to Georgia, Ms. Knight.

I’m just waiting for my ticket.

Cliff McCollum is managing editor of Gulf Coast Media. He can be reached at cliff@gulfcoastmedia.com.

COMMENTARY

Storm clouds form: Bob Woodward compares Hillary scandal to Watergate

BY JOHN FUND

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illary Clinton’s e-mail scandal has been a difficult one for the public to understand and for journalists to explain. But Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who helped uncover Watergate 40 years ago, clarified things a lot on Fox News Sunday when he said that an e-mail in the most recently released batch shows Hillary trying to “subvert the rules” that she expected others to follow.

A few days earlier, Joe DiGenova, a well-respected former district attorney for the District of Columbia, told The Laura Ingraham Show that “there is vitriol of an intense amount developing” in the intelligence community and that FBI agents “are already in the process of gearing themselves to basically revolt if [the Justice Department] refuses to bring charges” against either Hillary Clinton or her former State Department staffers.

It was the State Department’s data dump in the wee hours of Jan. 1 that revealed a particularly eyebrow-raising e-mail from Hillary Clinton: In one note in February 2011, she expressed surprise that a State Department employee was using a private email to conduct State business. She wrote this e-mail, seeming to express dissatisfaction at the employee’s use of private e-mail, on her own private e-mail server — through which she sent all her e-mails while secretary of state.

Four months later, she wrote another e-mail, also released last week, that is now the subject of some controversy. In this note, she expressed impatience that a set of talking points being sent to her was delayed due to trouble with a secure fax. She ordered staffer Jake Sullivan to circumvent the rules: “Turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.” The subject of the talking points has been redacted from the email, almost certainly because it involved classified or confidential material.

‘If the FBI recommends action against Hillary Clinton or her staffers, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch decides to reject the recommendation and bury the case, the intelligence community “will never be able to charge another federal employee with the negligent handling of classified information,” [Joe DiGenova] told Laura Ingraham last week.’

The State Department has weakly responded that it has no knowledge “at this time” that the talking points were in the end sent to her. On Face the Nation, Clinton insisted she never received them and that “there’s no there there.”

Not only is that implausible, but a report from the State Department’s inspector general released Thursday rebuked State for repeatedly providing inadequate and inaccurate responses to Freedom of Information Act requests about Clinton’s e-mails.

That gives us little reason to believe that State’s response to the current controversy includes all the facts.

In fact, State’s record on transparency is so bad that a federal judge had to order officials there to collect Clinton’s e-mails, vet them for classified material and release them on a monthly basis. The latest batch con-

tains 66 additional examples of classified material that ended up on Hillary’s server, bringing the total to more than 1,200. This demolishes Hillary’s claim that she didn’t send or receive classified material on her personal account. Among the security breaches: Clinton forwarded the name of a confidential CIA source to staff at State through her insecure server. Michael Isikoff, a noted investigative reporter, told MSNBC’s Morning Joe last August that the naming of a CIA source was “evidence of a crime by somebody.”

Bob Woodward said the latest revelation about Hillary’s e-mails reminded him of Watergate. He recalled that Hillary served on the staff of the House impeachment committee investigating President Nixon. “And what was the lesson, one of the lessons from that?” he asked. “Never write anything down. ... Here, many years later, she’s saying, ‘Oh, let’s subvert the rules,’ and writing it out herself ?”

He concluded: It shows that she kind of feels immune, that she lives in a bubble and no one’s ever going to find this out. Well, now we have.

DiGenova, who led the prosecution of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and conducted investigations of the Teamsters Union and former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, says that Hillary’s reckless and cavalier misuse of her e-mail system has infuriated the intelligence community.

Last November, he told me that “people who are the least politicized professionals you’ll find in government are appalled at the idea there might be no consequences for leaving classified and secret material vulnerable to foreign hackers.” If the FBI recommends action against Hillary Clinton or her staffers, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch decides to reject the recommendation and bury the case, the intelligence community “will never be able to charge another federal employee with the negligent handling of classified information,” he told Laura Ingraham last week.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR BUCK TAG SYSTEM WILL DEVASTATE COMMUNITY Today I take pen in hand to address a grievance I have with bill S. 454 which is the proposed buck tag system that will limit the number of bucks a hunter can take in a season.

As a poor black hunter, I feel this bill is a threat to my very livelihood because I hunt to help supplement my family’s food supply, and four does and four buck tags, as the bill proposes, will not be enough to sustain my family from season to season. I hunt small 20-50

acre tracts of land that are not eligible for a tag quota under the new bill so it will leave me stranded and my family undernourished while rich white men such as Sen. George E. “Chip” Campsen III (who authored the bill), R-Beaufort, Charleston and Colleton counties, will be unaffected because they will get hundreds of tags because they own thousands of acres. I believe this bill will devastate the black community because there are thousands of black people across the state that supplement their

families’ food supply with deer meat. This bill will effectively keep the black man down because he will no longer be able to save money by feeding his family deer meat. This bill is a step backward toward racism and white power. It will further hinder the black man’s climb up out of poverty. I would say that Sen. Campsen has racist intentions with this bill and his political maneuvering is veiled in secrecy like the Ku Klux Klan.

I am tired of the rich politicians like Sen. Campsen look-

ing out for only themselves and leaving the rest of us to starve. Sen. Campsen’s goal is to keep the small hunter and landowner from killing deer so he and the big land owners can kill more on their thousands of acres. Why? The reason is simple: deer travel around from block to block.

Say Sen. Campsen has a 900acre block and next to it is a poor man with a 20-acre block and then Sen. Campsen owns another 1,000-acre block on the other side of the poor man’s block. The deer will walk

through the 20-acre block to travel between the two big blocks and the poor man can kill four does and four bucks on that 20 acres but Sen. Campsen can kill a few hundred between his two blocks.

CHARLES DENNIS Sumter Editor’s note: Because this letter exceeded the 350-word length as stated in our Editorial Page Policies which appears regularly on this page, it can be read in its entirety under Opinion on The Sumter Item’s website, www.theitem.com.

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Special teams, big plays lift ‘Bama past Clemson to title

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) runs for yardage during the first half of the College Football Playoff national championship game against Alabama during the first half of the NCAA college football playoff championship game against Alabama in Glendale, Ariz. Second-ranked Alabama edged No. 1 Clemson 45-40.

From staff reports GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Special teams brought a sad end to a special season for the Clemson Tigers.

No. 2 Alabama used an onside kick to grab the lead for good and a 95-yard kickoff return by Kenyan Drake to maintain control and beat topranked Clemson 45-40 in the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday.

The Crimson Tide won their fourth national title in seven seasons to finish the year 14-1.

Clemson, trying to become the first team ever to go 15-0, also finished 14-1.

The Tigers took a 24-21 lead into the fourth quarter when Alabama used a trick play at an opportune time to put Clemson behind on the scoreboard in the fourth quarter for the first time all season.

After Tide placekicker Adam Griffith booted a 33yard field goal to tie the game at 24-24 with 10:34 remaining, Griffith had a pooch onside kick that Marlon Humphrey caught in the air at the 50-yard line. After running back Derrick Henry was dropped for a 1-yard loss, ‘Bama tight end O.J. Howard found himself wide open in a blown coverage by the Tiger secondary and quarterback Jake Coker connected with hm for a 51-yard touchdown pass with 9:45 left.

Clemson got a 31-yard field goal from placekicker Greg Huegel with 7:47 left, but Drake took the ensuing kickoff 95 yards for the score and a

38-27 lead with 7:31 to go.

Clemson answered quickly, with quarterback Deshaun Watson throwing a 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Artavis Scott with 4:40 remaining. The Tigers went for the 2-point conversion, but failed, leaving the score at 3833.

The Tide scored again though with a 63-yad pass from Coker to Howard setting up a 1-yard touchdown run by Heisman Trophy-winning running back Derrick Henry.

Howard had five catches for 208 yards and two TDs. Watson, who finished third in the Heisman voting, had a huge game for Clemson. He completed 30 of 47 passes for 407 yards and two TDs and rushed for 73 yards on 20 carries.

Henry ran for 158 yards and three scores on 36 carries.

The game was tied 14-14 at halftime as Clemson received the second-half kickoff. The Tigers had to punt after three plays and the Tide needed just three plays to get in the end zone. A blown coverage left Howard wide open and Coker connected with him for a 53yard TD pass with 12:53 left in the third quarter to make it 2114.

Clemson got three points back with a 37-yard field goal

by Huegel to make it 21-17.

The Tide had to punt on the ensuing possession and the Tigers marched 60 yards for the go-ahead score. Watson had runs of 20 and 16 yards and completed three passes to set up a 1-yard TD run by Gall-

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Clemson defensive end Shaq Lawson, right, sacks Alabama quarterback Jake Coker during the first half of the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday in Glendale, Ariz. man with 4:48 to go in the third quarter for a 24-21 lead.

Alabama broke out in front first on the legs of Henry.

After the teams traded punts on their first possessions of the game, Alabama started at its 41 the second time it got the ball. On third and one at midfield, Henry hit a hole and went 50 yards for a touchdown. Griffith’s extra point made it 7-0 with 7:55 left.

Clemson responded immediately, putting together a 6-play,

54-yard scoring drive. It ended with Watson tossing a 31-yard TD pass to wide receiver Hunter Renfrow with 5:18 left. Huegel’s PAT tied the game at 7-7.

The Tide drove to the Tiger 27 on the ensuing possession, but Griffith missed on a 44yard field goal attempt. Clemson took the lead with a 73yard scoring drive that ended with Watson tossing an 11yard scoring pass to Renfrow on the last play of the first quarter to make it 14-7.

The Tiger defense forced the Tide to punt and Clemson looked to have the momentum.

However, Watson was intercepted by cornerback Eddie Jackson at the Tiger 42. Alabama needed seven plays to get in the end zone with Henry going in from one yard out with 9:35 left in the first half.

Clemson missed a chance to take the lead at halftime when Huegel had a 44-yard field goal attempt blocked by D.J. Pettway.

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By DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com

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Jason Loudenslager saw something in his Sumter High School varsity girls basketball team on Friday that he hopes is a sign of things to come.

“Our effort team-wise was the best we’ve had all year,” the Lady Gamecocks head coach said of his team’s 61-54 victory over OrangeburgWilkinson. “It was the first time where we had so many people playing with a sense of urgency.”

And this is the right time for that attitude begin to settle in for both SHS teams. The Sumter teams will travel to Florence today to begin defense of their respective Region VI-4A titles against South Florence.

“We could be 14-0 or we could be 0-14,” said Loudenslager, whose team owns an 11-3 record. “We’re really 0-0 now, and the next 10 games will define who we are.”

Loudenslager said his team

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has a different feel to it than his first squad last year.

“The majority of the team last year were girls for who ‘basketball is life,’ “ he said.

“This year, we’ve got a lot of girls who enjoy basketball, but it is just one part of their day. We’re having to adjust to that.”

The Lady Gameoccks will be going against a South Florence squad that is 6-5.

The South Florence boys team is also 6-5. Not only is Sumter the defending region champion, it is the defending 4A state champion. The Gamecocks will bring a 7-3 mark into the contest under first-year head coach Sean Jones.

Jones, who didn’t become the SHS head coach until October, said his team is still a work in progress.

“We’re getting there,” Jones said. “We’re on a 2-game winning streak and that’s a nice thing to take into region play. We’re getting in the lane, attacking the rim, getting inside. Our problem is we’re not shooting well. We’re getting good shots, but we’re not knocking them down. We’ve got to improve in that.

“We’re getting there defensively,” he added. We’re playing together more as a team.

We’re starting to grow as a team.”

Sumter will open its home region schedule on Friday against Conway.

Scoreboard TV, Radio

Tuesday’s Games

TODAY 11 a.m. – MLL Lacrosse: Toronto at Georgia (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

2:40 p.m. – International Soccer: English Premier League Match – Manchester United vs. Newcastle United (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

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

6:30 p.m. – College Basketball: DePaul at Xavier (FOX SPORTS 1).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Mississippi State at Kentucky (ESPN).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Tulane at South Florida (ESPNEWS).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Kansas at West Virginia (ESPN2).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Miami at Virginia (ESPNU).

7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Pittsburgh at Carolina (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Florida at Texas A&M (SEC NETWORK).

8 p.m. – College Basketball: Davidson at Dayton (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: West Virginia at Baylor (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Chicago at New York (NBA TV).

8:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Providence at Creighton (FOX SPORTS 1).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Maryland at Michigan (ESPN).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Iowa State at Texas (ESPN2).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Auburn at Vanderbilt (ESPNU).

9 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Tampa Bay at Colorado (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Arkansas at Missouri (SEC NETWORK).

10 p.m. – College Basketball: New Mexico at Nevada-Las Vegas (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: New Orleans at Los Angeles Lakers (NBA TV).

11 p.m. – Boxing: Mario Briones vs.

Miguel Flores in a Featherweight Bout from San Antonio (FOX SPORTS 1).

NFL Playoffs

By The Associated Press

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9

Kansas City 30, Houston 0 Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16

boys area roundup

Hillcrest beats Ebenezer 61-60 in OT DALZELL — Hillcrest Middle School’s boys basketball team defeated Ebenezer 61-60 in overtime on Monday at the Ebenezer gymnasium.

Tyler Abney led the Wildcats in scoring with 20 points and had eight assists. Tavion Jeffcoat had a double-double with 16 points and 14 rebounds and Noah Wiley had nine points.

Manning 57 Chestnut Oaks 42

Manning Junior High School improved to 8-3 on the season with a 57-42 victory over Chestnut Oaks on Monday at the CO gymnasium.

Corey Graham had 15 points to lead the Monarchs and Xavier Hicks had 10 points.

Mayewood 45 Bates 37 Mayewood Middle School defeated Bates 45-37 on Monday at the Mayewood gymnasium.

Mitchell Pollard led the Vikings with 16 points. Dorien Glover had 14 points and four steals.

Lee Central 64 Stover 29

BISHOPVILLE – Lee Central Middle Schoo remained undefeated with a 64-29 victory over Stover on Monday at the Lee Central gymnasium.

Naquan Peeples had 17 points and seven steals to lead the Stallions, who improved to 7-0. K.J. Holloman had 12 points and Daveon Thomas had 10 points and eight steals.

Nykelius Johnson had 10 rebounds and six steals.

B TEAM BASKETBALL

Bates 32

JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL

Seattle at Carolina, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Denver, 4:30 p.m. (CBS)

A.C. Flora 32

Sumter High School improved to 6-1 with a 46-32 victory over A.C. Flora on Monday at the SHS gymnasium.

Marquis Hicks led the Gamecocks with 15 points, while Keron Benbow and Eric Watts both had eight.

First Baptist 73

Marlboro County 22

Bates Middle School defeated Mayewood 32-16 on Monday at the Mayewood gymnasium.

Nina Edlow led the Lady Bantams with 10 points and Laykin Cox had six.

Trelaija Dennis led the Lady Vikings with 10 points.

Crestwood High School improved to 6-2 with a 24-22 victory over Marlboro County on Monday at The Castle.

Sedajah Rembert led the Lady Knights with 15 points.

Ebenezer 31 Hillcrest 16

B TEAM BASKETBALL Wilson Hall 29 Orangeburg Prep 9 ORANGEBURG – Wilson

At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 7 p.m. (ESPN)

Super Bowl

Wilson Hall 41 CHARLESTON – Wilson Hall fell to 8-5 with a 47-41 loss to First Baptist on Saturday at the FB gymnasium.

Lauren Goodson led the Lady Barons with 12 points, while Nicolette Fisher had 10. Courtney Clark grabbed nine rebounds and had six points.

Jonai Grant and Ashley Planter both had 18 to lead First Baptist.

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Sunday’s Games

L.A. Clippers 114, New Orleans 111, OT Dallas 93, Minnesota 87 Memphis 101, Boston 98 Cleveland 95, Philadelphia 85 Houston 107, Indiana 103, OT New York 100, Milwaukee 88 Denver 95, Charlotte 92 Portland 115, Oklahoma City 110 Utah 86, L.A. Lakers 74 San Antonio at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Miami at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

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Sunday’s Games

Buffalo 4, Winnipeg 2 Washington 7, Ottawa 1 Chicago 6, Colorado 3 New Jersey 2, Minnesota 1 Detroit 2, Anaheim 1 Florida 2, Edmonton 1 Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Florida at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

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

Columbus at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Florida at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

golf

By The Associated Press

PGA Tour-Tournament of Champions Par Scores

Sunday At Kapalua Resort, The Plantation Course Kapalua, Hawaii Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,452; Par 73

Final Round Jordan Spieth (500), $1,180,000 66-64-65-67—262 -30 Patrick Reed (300), $688,000 65-69-67-69—270 -22 Brandt Snedeker (163), $381,000 67-72-65-67—271 -21 Brooks Koepka (163), $381,000 69-68-63-71—271 -21 Rickie Fowler (110), $274,000 69-67-69-67—272 -20 Padraig Harrington (92), $202,333 70-68-70-67—275 -17 Peter Malnati (92), $202,333 71-66-69-69—275 -17 Fabian Gomez (92), $202,333 68-66-70-71—275 -17 Kevin Kisner (80), $178,000 69-65-71-71—276 -16 Jason Day (65), $148,000 70-73-69-65—277 -15 Bubba Watson (65), $148,000 69-68-73-67—277 -15 Dustin Johnson (65), $148,000 73-67-68-69—277 -15 Steven Bowditch (65), $148,000 69-67-69-72—277 -15 Jimmy Walker (65), $148,000 70-71-64-72—277 -15 Smylie Kaufman (55), $108,667 70-69-71-68—278 -14 Danny Lee (55), $108,667 67-68-71-72—278 -14 David Lingmerth (55), $108,667 71-71-66-70—278 -14 Troy Merritt (52), $90,000 75-68-70-67—280 -12 Emiliano Grillo (52), $90,000 71-73-70-66—280 -12 Bill Haas (52), $90,000 71-69-70-70—280 -12 Zach Johnson (49), $78,333 75-69-70-67—281 -11 Alex Cejka (49), $78,333 72-72-69-68—281 -11

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GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 41 26 12 3 55 108 90 Arizona 41 21 16 4 46 116 125 Vancouver 42 16 16 10 42 102 118 Anaheim 41 17 17 7 41 78 99 San Jose 39 19 18 2 40 109 108 Calgary 40 19 19 2 40 105 124 Edmonton 43 17 23 3 37 105 127

Wednesday’s Games

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Monday’s Games

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 42 26 12 4 56 116 89 Detroit 42 22 13 7 51 105 108 Montreal 43 23 17 3 49 122 107 Boston 40 21 14 5 47 123 108 Tampa Bay 42 21 17 4 46 107 102 Ottawa 43 20 17 6 46 119 131 Toronto 40 16 17 7 39 104 112 Buffalo 42 16 22 4 36 97 115 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 42 32 7 3 67 139 90 N.Y. Rangers 41 22 14 5 49 121 109 N.Y. Islanders 42 22 15 5 49 114 107 New Jersey 43 21 17 5 47 97 102 Pittsburgh 41 20 16 5 45 97 100 Philadelphia 40 18 15 7 43 91 108 Carolina 43 18 18 7 43 102 118 Columbus 43 15 24 4 34 109 139

Tuesday’s Games

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division

San Antonio Dallas Memphis Houston New Orleans Northwest Division

Oklahoma City Utah Portland Denver Minnesota Pacific Division

Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

NHL Standings

By The Associated Press

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

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Buffalo at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

San Jose at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Edmonton at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 7

Atlantic Division

Toronto Boston New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Southeast Division

Atlanta Miami Orlando Charlotte Washington Central Division

Cleveland Chicago Detroit Indiana Milwaukee

Wednesday’s Games

Milwaukee at Washington, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Houston, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Indiana at Boston, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games

By The Associated Press

Hall improved to 6-1 with a 29-9 victory over Orangeburg Prep on Monday at the OP gymnasium.

Gracyn Coker led the Lady Barons with nine points and Lucy Matthews had six.

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NBA Standings

Wilson Hall 57 CHARLESTON – Wilson Hall fell to 5-6 with a 73-57 loss to First Baptist on Saturday at the FB gymnasium.

Drew Talley led the Barons with 21 points. Sam Watford added nine.

Brandon Kinloch passed First Baptist with 24.

First Baptist 47

Mayewood 16

Sunday, Jan. 24

AFC, 3:05 p.m. (CBS) NFC, 6:40 p.m. (FOX)

At Santa Clara, Calif.

TBD, 6:30 p.m. (CBS)

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VARSITY BASKETBALL

Crestwood 24

Saturday, Jan. 16

Sunday, Jan. 17

Sumter 46

Lady Stallions edge Stover to stay unbeaten DALZELL – Hillcrest Middle School lost to Ebenezer 31-16 on Monday at the Ebenezer gymnasium.

Brianna Nollete led the Lady Wildcats with 11 points.

Divisional Playoffs Kansas City at New England, 4:35 (CBS) Green Bay at Arizona, 8:15 p.m. (NBC)

girls area roundup

BISHOPVILLE – Lee Central Middle School’s girls basketball team remained undefeated on the season with a 32-29 victory over Stover on Monday at the Lee Central gymnasium.

Tashanna Harris led the 5-0 Lady Stallions with 14 points.

Kendra Lesane had seven.

Sunday, Jan. 10

Seattle 10, Minnesota 9 Green Bay 35, Washington 18

Phoenix at Indiana, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

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

Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

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Minnesota placekicker Blair Walsh (3) hangs his head while Seattle players celebrate after he missed a 27-yard field goal in the Vikings’ 10-9 wild-card playoff game lost on Sunday.

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Seattle strong safety Kam Chancellor (31) returns an interception for a touchdown in the Seahawks’ win over the Carolina Panthers in an NFC divisional playoff game last season in Seattle. Seattle will come to Charlotte this year, facing the Panthers on Sunday in a divisional playoff game.

Harper on Seahawks: ‘We are the better team’ Panthers prepare for divisional playoff rematch

By STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — The Carolina Panthers no longer appear apprehensive about playing the two-time defending NFC champion Seattle Seahawks.

In fact, they’re pretty confident.

“We are the better team,” Panthers safety Roman Harper said matter-of-factly Monday.

Now Harper wants his teammates to prove it again Sunday when the two teams meet in Charlotte in the NFC divisional playoffs. The winner advances to play the Green BayArizona winner for the NFC championship.

“We have to go out and show confidence in who we are and the things that we have done all year — and don’t shy away from the pressure,” Harper said.

The Panthers (15-1) took a big step forward when they went to Seattle and defeated the Seahawks 27-23 in Week 6, a victory that served as a springboard to their 14-0 start.

But it was more than just that.

That victory was about clearing a major obstacle for the Panthers. Before that they had lost four times in three seasons to the Seahawks, including 31-17 in the divisional playoffs last January in Seat-

tle.

“It tells you it can be done,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said of his team’s confidentbuilding win in October.

The Panthers and Seahawks appeared to be on a collision course for the playoffs the final two months of the season. Several players said after that win they expected to see the Seahawks again in the postseason.

Harper even called it “fate.”

Many Panthers fans groaned on social media Sunday when Minnesota’s Blair Walsh missed a chip shot field goal that would have eliminated the Seahawks from the playoffs — and possibly given the Panthers a potentially easier road to the NFC title game by playing Green Bay rather than Seattle.

But Carolina All-Pro cornerback Josh Norman, who is no stranger to overcoming adversity big obstacles in his career, said that’s not the approach the Panthers are taking this week.

“Why would you want anything in life that is easier?”

Norman said. “Shoot man, if you don’t go for it head-on, then how can you say you’re the best at anything? That’s the way we are in our society — we want things the easy way and we want stuff to be given to us. We don’t want to work for it. We want it handed

to us. I don’t think that is the way it should be done. ... Challenge yourself to be the best.

And if you want to be the best, then go beat the best.”

Harper said the Panthers are better prepared for the Seahawks this year’s playoffs than they were last January when they reached the postseason with a 7-8-1 record.

Carolina finished first in points scored on offense this season and led the league in takeaways.

“To be honest with you I don’t think we were ready for it,” Harper said of last year’s playoff defeat. “We were excited to be there and have a ticket to the dance. (This year) we have a better looking date because we’re 15-1 and at home.

This year we are looking forward to them having to come here.”

The Panthers have not lost at home since Nov. 16, 2014 — a string of 11 straight games.

That’s the longest home winning streak in the NFL. They will have to win two more games to get to where they ultimately want to go — the Super Bowl.

“This team is built for this,” Harper said of a Panthers team that has eight All-Pros, including six on the first team.

“This team is built for this playoff run and I’m looking forward to seeing who we are going to rise up to be.”

Vikings’ Walsh confident in spite of missed kick

By DAVE CAMPBELL The Associated Press

26-yard field goal for Jacksonville on Nov. 15, but that was blocked. So were three other EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — tries that missed from closer For the second time in a than 30 yards in the league span of about 18 hours, this this season. The only other time at team headquarters non-blocked failed kicks from instead of the home stadium, inside 30 yards were 29-yard Blair Walsh stood in front of attempts, by Adam Vinatieri his cubicle and spoke to refor Indianapolis on Sept. 21 porters about his now-infaand Kyle Brindza for Tampa mous 27-yard field goal try Bay on Oct. 4. that went wide left into the That’s just seven misses in wind.

250 tries, per STATS. The kick that Minnesota “It’s unfortunate. Personalcoach Mike Zimmer dely, I feel really bad for Blair,” scribed as “a chip shot” and New England kicker Stephen one Walsh ought to make.

Gostkowski said. “ProfessionThe kick that could have ally, it’s just part of the game. given the Vikings a win over We’ve all been there. I’ve Seattle in the wild-card play- seen the best of the best miss off game on Sunday. kicks.”

The kick that will forever Gostkowski was far from overshadow the three others alone in extending sympathy he converted earlier in the and support in various ways subzero cold, the only points to Walsh, who expressed apWalsh’s team scored against preciation for the kind words the Seahawks. from family members, close “I think it’s important that friends, teammates and Vipeople understand that, as kings fans. As for the prehard as this is, I’m not a dictable vitriol targeted tocharity case. I’m somebody ward him through social who’s really confident in my media, well, Walsh was unabilities,” Walsh said. “I fazed. know that sounds strange, “The people who are going but I’ll be back next year and to say mean stuff ? That says I’ll be just as good. I know I a lot about them. And I think will.” the people who say kind stuff Yes, he still managed a and go out of their way to be smile. Several of them, actukind toward me, that says a ally. The bitter disappointlot about them as well,” said ment wasn’t as painfully obWalsh, whose 34 field goals vious on Walsh’s face as it made during the regular seawas the day before, when he son were the most in the sobbed heavily in the locker NFL. room after the game. His So he’ll take a belief in the comments, still, were heavily goodness of people into the laced with culpability. Laces offseason, along with confiin, left hash, cold ball, stiff dence, determination and wind. None of that ultimately that stinging failure. mattered.

“It’s important to realize at He had to make it. the end of the day that it’s “I’ve got to do better than football,” Walsh said. that,” Walsh said.

“There’s plenty of things that His miss was the shortest people are going through, in the NFL this season, acbattling cancer and sickness cording to STATS research. and other things, that are Jason Myers failed to make a real adversity.”

Cards prepare for tougher Packers in rematch Got b? a Jo GET A CAR!

By BOB BAUM The Associated Press

TEMPE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals will meet a familiar foe in the NFC divisional playoffs on Saturday night.

But they won’t expect a onesided affair over the Green Bay Packers like the previous time they met.

Green Bay won at Washington 35-18 on Sunday to earn a rematch with the Cardinals after losing 38-8 at Arizona on Dec. 27.

The Cardinals sacked Aaron Rodgers eight times, clinching a first-round playoff bye with the win. The Green Bay quarterback fumbled twice and both were returned for Arizona touchdowns.

But the Packers’ recent offensive woes vanished and Rodgers looked like his old MVP self in the win over the Redskins. Green Bay outscored Washington 35-7 after falling behind 11-0.

“It’s huge for us,” Rodgers said. “I talked a lot the last couple of weeks about turning it on, and a lot of you probably thought that was lip service.

But we needed a game like this

to get our mojo back and get our confidence going.”

The Cardinals (13-3) were routed at home by Seattle 36-6 in their regular-season finale, a performance the team and coach Bruce Arians wrote off as an aberration in a game that meant nothing in terms of playoff positioning.

The Cardinals enter this week’s practices with a game plan virtually completed.

Arians said last week that the staff had a plan ready for any of the three potential opponents. The Cardinals devoted each of last week’s practice sessions to each of those possible foes — Green Bay on Tuesday, Minnesota on Wednesday and Washington on Thursday.

The Arizona players had the next four days off and won’t resume practice until Tuesday.

The Cardinals opened as seven-point favorites over the Packers (11-6).

Arizona would have faced Minnesota had the Vikings made that last short field goal and beat Seattle in Sunday’s wild-card game.

This is the Cardinals’ first playoff bye in their history, which doesn’t include many

postseason appearances.

But Arizona did meet Green Bay in the playoffs once, and that 2010 matchup at University of Phoenix Stadium was a memorable one.

The Cardinals won 51-45 in overtime, the highest-scoring playoff game in NFL history.

Kurt Warner had more touchdown passes (five) than incompletions (four), completing 29 of 33 for 379 yards with no interceptions.

Rodgers, in his first playoff game, was almost as good, completing 28 of 42 for 422 yards and four scores with one interception.

The game didn’t have much defense, but the winning score was a defensive play.

Defensive back Michael Adams sacked Rodgers and jarred the ball loose. Karlos Dansby grabbed it in mid-air and ran 17 yards for the win.

That game seems like ancient history for Rodgers, who has had so much postseason success since then.

But he and his teammates probably most remember that drubbing three weeks ago, and they are intent on a better rematch.\

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Clemson stays hot, tops No. 16 Louisville 66-62

By JEFFREY COLLINS The Associated Press

men’s AP Top 25 The Associated Press

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South Carolina center Alaina Coates, right, drives to the hoop against Missouri guard Sierra Michaelis during Sunday’s game in Columbia. South Carolina defeated Missouri 83-58.

No. 2 Gamecocks rout No. 20 Missouri 83-58 The Associated Press

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COLUMBIA — Tiffany Mitchell handled secondranked South Carolina’s offense as the Gamecocks routed No. 20 Missouri.

Mitchell scored 19 points and keyed a run in the third quarter when Missouri tried to rally in the Gamecocks 83-58 win on Sunday.

The two-time SEC Player of the Year scored seven straight points in the third period after Missouri cut the Gamecocks’ lead to 10. The Tigers (14-2, 1-2 SEC) barely got a clean look at the basket in the first half as USC (15-0, 3-0) played its best defense of the season, but USC began to crack in the third as Missouri’s offense slipped into rhythm.

Mitchell, as she did against Vanderbilt in south Carolina’s last game, took over. Two fast-break layups around the Gamecocks’ first 3-pointer of the game restored the lead and she finished with a gamehigh 19 points.

“Coach (Dawn) Staley gives me a look to kind of take over sometimes,” Mitchell said. “I just try to read and get in the flow of the game.”

Missouri star freshman Sophie Cunningham entered the game ninth in the SEC in scoring but South Carolina’s aggressive defense and two early fouls held her to nine points on 4-of-13 shooting.

“We felt like after playing Tennessee and seeing that kind of pressure, we felt like we could really learn and grown from it,” Missouri coach Robin Pingeton said.

“We dug ourselves a pretty big hole in that first half.”

The Gamecocks placed sophomore A’ja Wilson in the paint and told her to concentrate on defense rather than scoring, and Wilson responded with six blocks, tying a career-high. She and Alaina Coates had double-doubles,

South Carolina: The Gamecocks lost their second guard in a week before the game when sophomore Kaydra Duckett left the team for the spring semester to focus on academics. Freshman Shay Colley left last week due to homesickness. The Gamecocks are down to 11 players.

Missouri: The Tigers notched their best start in program history by going 13-0 in the non-conference season, but the SEC schedule has brought them back to Earth.

Missouri lost to Tennessee to start, won at Georgia and then lost at USC. The Tigers’ next three games are hosting No. 7 Mississippi State, at Arkansas and at No. 13 Texas A&M.

The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 10, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and previous ranking:

Rec Pts Prv 1. UConn (32) 14-0 800 1 2. South Carolina 15-0 765 2 3. Notre Dame 15-1 735 3 4. Texas 15-0 706 4 5. Ohio St. 12-3 640 5 6. Baylor 16-1 632 6 7. Mississippi St. 16-1 621 7 8. Maryland 14-2 592 8 9. Kentucky 13-1 543 10 10. Arizona St. 13-3 502 14 11. Stanford 13-3 447 9 12. Oregon St. 12-3 406 11 13. Tennessee 11-4 371 12 14. Oklahoma 12-3 358 17 15. Texas A&M 12-4 301 13 16. Florida St. 11-4 293 19 17. UCLA 11-4 287 15 18. Michigan St. 12-3 265 23 19. South Florida 10-4 234 22 20. Florida 14-2 134 — 21. Miami 15-2 121 — 22. Duke 12-5 116 18 23. Louisville 12-5 111 — 24. Missouri 14-2 99 20 25. Southern Cal 14-2 69 —

PIVOTAL MOMENT Tina Roy passed to Mitchell in the corner and Mitchell converted the 3. The pointed finger from Mitchell to Roy to thank her for the assist also seemed to tell the Tigers that they were down to stay.

Others receiving votes: Northwestern 58, DePaul 50, Purdue 47, West Virginia 18, Duquesne 17, Syracuse 13, California 12, Oklahoma St. 9, St. John’s 7, Iowa 6, UTEP 6, Green Bay 3, S. Dakota St. 2, Seton Hall 2, Utah 2.

Wilson scoring 11 with 11 rebounds while Coates had 13 and 12.

Wilson joked in the preseason about wanting to win SEC Defensive Player of the Year, but her performance is suggesting it’s much more than a good quote. “I hope the evolution of A’ja’s defense is much like Alaina (Coates)’ offense,” Staley said. “It’s a goal of hers. The goal will be dangled out there and it could be hers for the taking.”

USC shot 42 percent but missed several point-blank looks at the basket. Once Mitchell began scoring in the third, the Gamecocks got back on track.

Each team did well denying the other team second-chance points. The Gamecocks and Tigers each had over 25 defensive rebounds while allowing limited offensive rebounds.

ELITE COMPANY The win made USC’s men’s and women’s teams a combined 30-0 to start the season.

It’s the fifth time in Division I history that a school’s two teams won at least 30 games between them to start the year.

GREENVILLE — While most Clemson fans are paying attention to the football team playing for the national championship, the Tigers basketball team is suddenly the surprise of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Jaron Blossomgame scored 17 points and Avry Holmes added 16 points to lead Clemson (10-6, 3-1 ACC) to a 66-62 win over No. 16 Louisville on Sunday. The Tigers — picked to finish 12th in the league — had lost 10 in a row to ranked ACC opponents.

But Clemson used its defense and got a little help from foul trouble to beat the Cardinals (13-3, 2-1).

Louisville’s leading scorer, Damion Lee, had six points on 2-of-12 shooting, well below his average of 17 points, which ranks fourth in the ACC. Trey Lewis scored 10 points but missed 16 of his 19 shots. Chinanu Onuaku, the Cardinals’ best inside player, led his team with 14 points but was out much of the second half with foul trouble.

The Cardinals tried to make up for it with outside shooting. But they missed their first 15 3-point attempts and finished the game shooting 3 of 23 behind the arc, their worst performance by far this season.

“I knew this type of game was going to happen sooner or

Others receiving votes: Southern Cal 79, Indiana 59, UCLA 21, Texas Tech 10, Utah 10, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 8, Wichita St. 7, Oregon 6, Valparaiso 6, Hawaii 4, Akron 1, Dayton 1, Oregon St. 1, St. Bonaventure 1.

later. I’ve been trying to warn our guys about it,” Louisville coach Rick Pitino said. “You’ve got to have your defense every night and we haven’t. We got burned because of it.”

It doesn’t get any easier for Clemson. No. 14 Duke comes to Greenville on Wednesday, the second of five straight games against ranked ACC teams.

By Breann Liebermann, Clemson Extension - Water Resources Agent Grinding of the Greens I grew up in rural New Jersey, and every year after we took the decorations off our Christmas tree, we threw it in the woods behind our house. As the trees slowly broke down and decomposed they provided an excellent wildlife habitat and released nutrients into the forest.

We called it the Graveyard, and we liked to guess which tree was from which year based on how brown they’d become.

This year, I got my own real Christmas tree- my first! As a city resident, I don’t have access to any wooded areas on my property. I pondered what to do with my tree until I found out about Grinding of the Greens.

The Gamecocks recorded 14 steals and seven blocked shots while forcing 20 turnovers. While the production slowed in the second half (four steals and one block), the Tigers were hit so hard by the physical play that once their offense began flowing, players began fouling out.

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Grinding of the Greens is an annual event that accepts real Christmas tree donations, grinds them all up, and provides free mulch to City and County residents. It offers a great alternative to putting your tree in a landfill. This event is sponsored by Sumter County Keep America Beautiful, Clemson Extension Service, Sumter County Public Works, and the City of Sumter Public Services. If you live in the City, you simply have to leave your undecorated tree on the curb and it will be picked up by January 14.

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I can’t say I don’t miss my family’s Christmas tree Graveyard tradition, but I’m excited to start a new tradition of my own this year by supporting Grinding of the Greens.

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JOHN D. HUDGINS Chief Master Sgt. John David Hudgins, who retired in 1988, died peacefully at home in Sumter on Jan. 9, 2016. He was 80 years old and dearly loved.

Hudgins is survived by his wife of 47 years, Oraporn (Saikaw) Hudgins; children, David HUDGINS Hudgins and his wife, Lisa Hudgins, of Atlanta and Diana Hudgins of Columbia; and grandchildren, Aminah, Amir, Asad and Ayanna of Columbia.

He was born in 1936 in Kanawha, West Virginia. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1958. His service career entailed considerable travel and moving, and Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, was his last assignment. He brought his family from Okinawa, Japan, where he was stationed at Kadena Airbase to Camp Springs, Maryland, in 1984 and settled in Sumter in 1992. During his long and distinguished career, he achieved the highest non-commissioned officer rank of chief master sergeant.

He served as first sergeant of Malcolm Grove Medical Center, and was responsible for the day-to-day operations and evaluation of non-commissioned personnel under his command.

His most notable achievement was the establishment of the USAF oversees family support center program, used by family members around the world, to assist and comfort the families of deployed servicemen and women.

After his retirement from the Air Force in 1986, Hudgins took a second career as a successful automotive sales person for several years, eventually relocating to South Carolina to be closer to other family members. Keeping to his family support background and favorite pastime of golf, Hudgins gave his time and energy establishing and teaching the First Tee program for Sumter, which focused on teaching young golfers under 13 the game of golf. Hudgins established himself as a top senior golfer by winning numerous golf tournaments and scoring multiple aces.

He will be greatly missed by many.

A graveside service will be held at noon on Thursday at Ft. Jackson National Cemetery, 4170 Percival Road, Columbia.

The family will receive friends following the service from 2 to 4 p.m. on Thursday at Bullock Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association South Carolina Chapter, 4124 Clemson Blvd., Suite L, Anderson, SC 29621.

You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book.

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

DR. WILLIAM C. NEECE Dr. William Curtis Neece, 90, widower of Leta June Henrichs Neece, died on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at his home.

Born in Riverside, California, he was a son of the late Walter and Mabel Hodges Neece. Dr. Neece was a member of First Church of God and was a retired Church of God

minister. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Surviving are three daughters, Debra Eiswald (Don) of Constantine, Michigan, Rene Neece of Sumter and Joletta Mullins (the Rev. Harry) of Laurelville, Ohio; 11 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday at the First Church of God with the Rev. Ron Bower, the Rev. Gerald Rudd and the Rev. Harry Mullins officiating. The family will receive friends at the First Church of God following the memorial service.

Burial will be in Florence National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Pastor’s Fellowship, 2500 Colby Road, Winchester, KY 40931.

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) 7759386.

MARY LEE P. MOORE Mary Lee Pringle Moore, 81, departed this life on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

She was born on Aug. 7, 1934, in Sumter, a daughter of the late Daniel Pringle and Gracie Lee Gardner.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 102 E. Patricia Drive.

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

BEN EARLE SHARPE On Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, in St. Albans, New York, God, in his infinite wisdom, removed from our midst the soul of Ben Earl Sharpe, a son of the late Thomas Sharpe and Eloise McFadden Sharpe Haywood.

Ben was born on Oct. 15, 1938, in Sumter, and raised by his grandparents, the late Felix and Annie Davis McFadden.

He received his education in the public schools of Sumter.

He joined Congruity Presbyterian Church at an early age before moving to St. Albans, where he joined the United States Army. In 1968, he married Annie Mouzon and to this union one child was born, Ben Earl Sharpe Jr. He is survived by two aunts, Lucinda McFadden Colclough and Julia Sharpe of Sumter; two uncles, Albert Sharpe of Sumter and Lester Sharpe of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and a host of relatives and friends.

Funeral service was held on Sunday at Presbyterian Church of St. Albans.

Burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at Congruity Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

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

Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit us on the web at www.jobsmortuary.net.

JOHN LEE SAMUEL BRONX, New York — John “Bubba” Lee Samuel died on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, Bronx.

He was born on March 30, 1957, in Manning, a son of the

late Charlie Sr. and Easter Kennedy Samuel.

The family will begin receiving friends on Thursday at the home of his sister and brotherin-law, Mary and the Rev. Bennie McCants, 1516 Loblolly Drive, Manning.

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

LARRY D. MELTON MAYESVILLE — The Rev. Larry Dennis Melton, 55, husband of Terry Tanner Melton, died on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, at his home.

Born on Aug. 8, 1960, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he was a son of Howard N. Melton and the late Shirley Ann Peters. He was the pastor of a special church family at Frierson’s Tabernacle Church of Lake City. He was also employed by Bradham Heating and Air. Survivors include his wife of Mayesville; father of Raeford, North Carolina; three children, Ashley Melton Brock (Andrew) of Sumter and Chelsea Brean Melton and Kendal Dennis Melton, both of the home; three brothers, Bradley Melton (Melissa) of St. Paul, North Carolina, and Wally Melton and Jamie Melton (Chasity), both of Raeford, North Carolina; and a special adopted sister, Raye Bryant.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today at Freewill Baptist of the Pentecostal Faith Headquarters near Turbeville with the Rev. Stacey Floyd, the Rev. Tyrone Mitchum and the Rev. Arthur McElveen officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Dan Bryant, Jeff Wilkes, Jimmy Coker, Myers “Peanut” Wilkes, Dwayne Geddings, Glenn McCloud and Clifford Miles.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. today at Freewill Baptist of the Pentecostal Faith Headquarters and other times at the home.

In order to achieve his dream of building a new church, memorials may be made to Frierson’s Tabernacle Building Fund, 2817 W. Turbeville Highway, Lake City, SC 29560.

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

ALICE THOMPSON Alice Thompson, 84, died on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at Family Residential Care Home.

Born in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Mattie O. Thompson.

The family will receive friends at the home of her sister, Ruth Brock, 998 S. Main St., Sumter.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc.

SHIRLEY ANN WINFREE Shirley Ann Winfree, 73, died on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at Family Residential Care Home in Sumter.

Born in Farmville, Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Charles Winfree and Frances Winfree.

The family will receive friends at her home, 929 Fulton St., Sumter.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc.

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THE SUMTER ITEM 51, beloved husband of Laura Caroline Crump Hodge, died on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at his residence.

A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday in the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel.

Interment will follow in Sumter Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at Bullock Funeral Home.

You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

ELLA BROWN PINEWOOD — Ella Brown, 94, entered eternal rest on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at her home.

Born on March 2, 1921, in Clarendon County, she was a daughter of the late Richard and Rosa Lee Brown.

The family is receiving visitors at the home, 9690 Stukes Road, Pinewood.

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

FANNIE M. CHAMPION Fannie M. Champion, 77, died on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at her home.

Born on Jan. 25, 1938, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Samuel and Mary Gooden Mahoney.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at her home, 2645 Shingle Mill Road, Dalzell.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

LARRY MCKNIGHT Larry McKnight, 56, husband of Shirley McKnight, entered eternal rest on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on March 10, 1959, in Sumter County, he was a son of Leroy MnKnight and Ethel Brand.

The family is receiving visitors at the home, 1120 David Austin Road, Wedgefield, and the home of his daughter, Laree McKnight, 130 Apollo Road, Wedgefield.

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

DONALD A. EDWARDS BISHOPVILLE — Donald Ashford Edwards, age 75, passed away on Jan. 10, 2016.

Funeral plans will be announced by Norton Funeral Home.

PETER J. EMANUEL BISHOPVILLE — Peter J. Emanuel, husband of Mildred B. Emanuel, entered eternal rest on Jan. 8, 2016, at McCall Hospice House, Simpsonville.

Born in Bennettsville, he was a son of the late Gracie Napoleon and William Emanuel.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 1217

Pelham Road, Greenville.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Watkins, Garrett, & Woods Mortuary, 1011 Augusta St., Greenville, with the Rev. Willie Wilson officiating. Interment will be in Resthaven Memorial Garden, Piedmont.

Visitation will be held from noon to 4 p.m. today at Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

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

FLOSSIE ANN BENENHALEY DALZELL — Flossie Ann Benenhaley, 79, beloved wife of Marion B. “Jim” Benenhaley, died on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, at her home.

Flossie was a loving Christian wife, mother, and grandmother.

Born on Sept. 7, 1936, in Kansas City, Missouri, she was a daughter of the late Charles Galbraith and Grace Irene Wheeler Galbraith Sturm.

Flossie married the love of her life in Chester, Pennsylvania, on March 20, 1971. She was employed as a lead supervisor for The Franklin Mint in Media, Pennsylvania, and retired shortly before she and Jim moved to Sumter County in 1987, following their retirement. She was an active member of Long Branch Baptist Church, where she was baptized in 1989.

Survivors include her husband of 45 years; children, Raymond Bauer of Oxford, Pennsylvania, Rosemary Marie Bauer of Ashton, Pennsylvania, Barbara Dreger (J. Brian) of Lawrence, Kansas, and Anna Louise Burns (Morrie) of Loudon, Tennessee; a daughter-in-law, Julie Bauer of Apopka, Florida; 17 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Violet Artinger (Gene) of Kansas City, Kansas, and Wanda Tucker Schranz (Jim) of Lawson, Missouri; three brothers, Claude Sturm (Elaine) of Freeman, Missouri, Marvin Sturm (Marge) of Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and Jerry Sturm (Kim) of Independence, Missouri; numerous nieces and nephews; and a host of loving and devoted friends.

She was preceded in death by three children, Joyce Ann Burns, Charles Leonard Bauer and Gary Bruce Bauer.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Long Branch Baptist Church with the Rev. Jonathan Bradshaw officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Steve Hawkins, Mike Hawkins, Joe Hardee, Al Benenhaley, John Benenhaley and Barry Brown.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to Long Branch Baptist Church, 2535 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell, SC 29040.

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

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Father ignoring gum disease takes toll on family DEAR ABBY — My husband has developed a bad case of periodontal disease. I’m afraid to kiss him because I Dear Abby don’t want ABIGAIL the bacteria causing the VAN BUREN disease to spread and his bad breath is unbearable.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

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

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

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REAL ESTATE

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:

Personal Representative Alton L. Springs

C/O E. Leroy Nettles, Sr. Attorney at Law PO Box 699 Lake City, SC 29560 Estate:

William H. Davis, Jr. #2016ES4300003 710 Dove Street Sumter, SC 29150

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Personal Representative Emily A. Lipscombe

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

Marie Ervin Jenkins #2015ES4300658

Personal Representative Delores J. Spann

260 Rolling Creek Drive Sumter, SC 29153 Estate:

Helen Carter Hodge #2016ES4300008

Phillip Nixon #2015ES4300655

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2030 Claremont Road Sumter, SC 29154 Estate:

Elbert B. Hubbard, Jr. #2015ES4300662

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1435 Heritage Drive Manning, SC 29102 Estate:

Marie Montalbano #2016ES4300005

Personal Representative Ransom Cooper, Jr.

116 Putter Trail Lexington, SC 29072 Estate:

Harris S. Rich #2015ES4300600

Personal Representative David Anthony Rich

1026 Marion Lane Sumter, SC 29150

Personal Representative Joyce H. Chinery

204 Benton Drive Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

James H. Dubose #2016ES4300013

Personal Representative

Estate:

Evangeline Davis Johnson #2015ES4300659

Ted Dubose

14100 Whistling Duck Ct. Charlotte, NC 28293

Personal Representative Tisha S. Johnson

C/O Willie H. Brunson Attorney at Law PO Box 370 Sumter, SC 29151 Estate: Alexander P. Oldhouser #2015ES4300657 Personal Representative Susan Oldhouser

2155 Tanglewood Road Sumter, SC 29154 Estate: Charles Thomas Moore #2015ES4300666 Personal Representative Gary T. Moore

6837 Riesman Lane Charlotte, NC 28210 Estate:

Personal Representative Frances K. Walker

Personal Representative Joyce J. Ham

1219 Bradd Street Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

961 Cambridge Drive Sumter, SC 29150

Estate: Robert Lowery Walker, Sr. #2016ES4300012

Jewel Johnson #2015ES4300665

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