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Economists cheer job growth in S.C. But officials say Sumter, other small metropolitan areas continue to struggle

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com While the unemployment rate in South Carolina remained unchanged at 5.5 percent during November and

December 2015, it still represents a 1.1 percent improvement from December 2014, and economists are pointing to the state’s creation of more than 78,000 jobs during 2015 as a sign of a strong economy in the Palmetto State.

“I think this was a positive report that really showed the momentum South Carolina has shown in 2015 and capped off a good year of economic growth,” said Joey Van Nessen, a research associate at University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business. “Specifically, in the overall state employment growth rate was close to 3.3 percent year over year, and that is by far the best we’ve seen in

this current expansion period over the last six years.”

Cheryl Stanton, executive director of S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce, commenting on the employment figures (not seasonally adjusted), said the state needs to continue to invest in its workforce.

“It is exciting to see that more than

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Amish use their gifts to aid recovery 2nd air support possible New organization makes county offer

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caster, Pennsylvania, area. Amish are known for “barn raising,” or building barns within a few days.

“They’ve grown up in a culture where they learn general carpentry,” Bouder said. “We are great benefactors of those skills.”

During its regular meeting Tuesday, Sumter County Council received a second offer from an air medical transport organization intending to bring a base to the area.

Representatives from the first organization, Air Methods, headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, spoke before council during a previous meeting. Med-Trans Air Medical Transport Regional Operations Director Henry Ward said he and other representatives met with County Administrator Gary Mixon and Sumter County Emergency Management Director Bobby Hingst in December to discuss bringing services to the area. He also said the organization has a great working relationship with Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Med-Trans is the largest independent provider of air medical services in the country and has five helicopters and one plane in South Carolina, Ward said. He said Med-Trans’ aircrafts are night vision goggle capable and the organization is looking to invest in auto-pilot

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Steven Lantz and Michael Zook lay new flooring in Joe Rodenberg’s home, which was damaged in the October floods. Lantz and Zook are part of an Amish group in Sumter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com A group of Amish volunteers has been working in the Sumter area for more than three weeks applying their carpentry skills to help rebuild flooded homes in the community.

Project Director Earl Bouder said the

Amish volunteers work under the auspices of the Mennonite Disaster Service, an organization which responds to areas designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency as disaster areas.

Bouder said Amish males often spend their summers working farms and constructing houses in the Lan-

Thomas Sumter to open satellite campus in East Columbia

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Thomas Sumter Academy will open a satellite campus in East Columbia for students in kindergarten through fifth grade in August.

A signing of the lease for the new campus was held Monday in Columbia. The building is owned by Temple Baptist Church, 806 Universal Drive, Columbia, and located next to the church.

The two-story facility will include six classrooms, with access to the church’s gym, kitchen and playground areas, said Debbie Nix, head of school.

“The church has been very willing to share their facilities,” Nix said.

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Nix said the idea for a satellite campus was born after several alumni in the Columbia area expressed interest in enrolling their children at Thomas Sumter Academy. Distance, however, was an issue.

Nix said the process with the lease agreement took about a year to achieve.

“The response has been wonderful,” she said. “It has been an exciting adventure and a blessing to be able to offer the same quality education in another city.”

Nix said teachers for the satellite campus will be hired from the Columbia area. A head of school for the Columbia campus will be named in the near future, she said.

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Thomas Sumter Academy Head of School Debbie Nix, center left, signs a lease agreement Monday with the Rev. David Sturgeon, center right, pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Columbia. School board members and church representatives were also present. The school will be leasing one of the church’s buildings for its satellite campus, which opens August 2016 in East Columbia.

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Last day to Lake City hosts Cotton Trail art exhibit register for Democratic primary

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BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com The 2016 Presidential Preference primaries are Tuesday, Feb. 20, for the Republican contest and Tuesday, Feb. 27, for the Democratic race. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The last day to register for the Republican Primary Election was Jan. 20. Registration will be accepted for the Democratic Primary Election through today. Any registered voter regardless of party may vote in either of the “open primaries” but not both.

Sumter County residents who want to register to vote can visit the Sumter County Board of Voter Registration, 141 N. Main St., room 114, and fill out an application from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Sumter County Voter Registration Director Patricia Jefferson said anyone wanting to register must use one of the five accepted IDs to register: A valid U.S. military ID, a U.S. passport, a South Carolina voter identification card with photo, S.C. ID card or an S.C. driver’s license.

Jefferson said absentee voting begins today and can be done at the voter registration office. She said the office will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 13, for registered voters who want to walk in and cast an in-person ballot.

For more information, call (803) 436-2310.

Members of The Artisans of the S.C. Cotton Trail will exhibit more than 40 works from Friday through March 5 at the Jones-Carter Gallery in Lake City. The exhibition will open with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday.

Among the artists who have works juried into the ADAMS show is Bobbi Adams, a member of the Sumter Artists’ Guild who lives in Bishopville, home of the South Carolina Cotton Museum. The cotton trail also begins there.

Juror for the exhibition titled “Masterworks: The Artists of the S.C. Cotton Trail” is curator and gallery Manager

Hannah L. Davis. She selected works from a collective of Pee Dee regional artists, who through their work, promote the tradition of fine visual arts and fine crafts of the Cotton Trail region.

The trail, which can be driven in an afternoon and features many historic sites along the way, takes one from I-20 at Bishopville through Hartsville, Darlington, Society Hill, Chesterfield, Cheraw, Bennettsville, Clio and on to I-95 near Dillon.

Adams’ work is mixed media; other artists featured in the exhibition include Frankie Bush and Cornelia Webster, watermedia; Anne Baldwin, Linda Baldwin, Lee Benoy, Linda Humphries, Suzanne Muldrow and Aubree Ross, photography; Timi Bronson, fiber art; Janis Hobbs, drawing and sculpture; Mike Gann, glass; Jim

Gleason, sculpture; Vickie McLain and Pamela Rhoads, painting; Adrian Rhodes, mixed media; Cornelia Webster-Joyner, watermedia; and Beth Wicker, metal.

While these artists work in diverse media, their inspiration is the landscape, rural scenes and iconic imagery of the South.

To get to the Jones-Carter Gallery, 105 Henry St., Lake City, from Sumter, take U.S. 378 E. (Myrtle Beach Highway), turn right onto West Main Street/S.C. 341 toward Lake City, cross over U.S. 52, turn right onto South Acline Street and then turn left onto Henry Street. The gallery will be immediately on the right. Parking is available on the street.

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Students make world a better place

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A group of fifth-grade students at Pocalla Springs Elementary School, dubbed “The Anti-Starvation Administration,” has made bracelets which they are selling as a fundraiser to donate money to an organization that helps hungry children. From left, front row: Quinn Welsh, Lillian Ard, Desaray Casper Gotay. Back row: Alyssa McCoy, Warner Newman, Hannah Dorr, Emma Ohrt and Chase Denton.

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Sumter Historic Preservation Design Review Committee will meet at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the conference room of Sumter City and County Planning Department, 12 W. Liberty St., to consider a request for design approval for the construction of a downtown parking garage and modified parking areas on adjacent properties at West Hampton Avenue and North Sumter Street.

Also, the committee will consider a request for design review approval to construct an approximately 26-by-14 irregular-shaped deck on the rear of a house in the 100 block of West Calhoun Street.

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BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Fifth-grade students at Pocalla Springs Elementary School wanted to do something to help starving children in developing nations. A group of students came up with a project in which they are making bracelets and are selling them and other items before the start of school each morning.

The group, dubbed “The Anti-Starvation Administration,” met together at the beginning of the school year and came up with different ideas of how they could raise money for the project.

“We talked about how children were starving worldwide and decided to make our own school charity to help in any way we could,” said Quinn Welsh, founder of the group.

The students made friendship bracelets, paper bracelets and received donations of rubber bracelets.

The students also received new pen-

cils, crayons and other items, including plastic water bottles to sell. “The Anti-Starvation Administration” has raised about $300 since starting the project in August.

They have not chosen a specific charity to donate to yet, Welsh said. A portion of the money from the water bottles will also go to the local Relay For Life event in May. Relay For Life is a community-based fundraising event of the American Cancer Society.

“I’m really proud of these students for coming up with this idea, wanting to do it and going through with it,” said Laura Brown, the school’s principal.

The project is one of many activities of the school’s theme this year, called “Making the World a Better Place,” Brown said.

This week the entire school is participating in a national initiative called The Great Kindness Challenge.

The event is one week devoted to performing as many acts of kindness as

possible, choosing from a checklist of 50 items. These include things such as smiling at 25 people, picking up 10 pieces of trash on campus or making a new friend.

“The best way for children to learn kindness is by knowing what it feels like to do it,” Brown said. “Kindness is a strength, and we want our students to experience it.”

Brown said the goal is for each of the students to do as many acts of kindness as he or she can.

As a whole, the school does various projects throughout the year to promote kindness. Halls are filled with inspirational quotes on the subject of helping others.

In February, the school will be doing a clothing and shoe drive, Brown said. In March and April, the school will be fundraising for Relay For Life. The school has also created a fund in which they collect money for different philanthropic organizations.

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Scientists: “Doomsday Clock” S.C. Senate takes up road reflects grave threat to world money proposals again STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Rising tension between Russia and the U.S., North Korea’s recent nuclear test and a lack of aggressive steps to address climate change are putting the world under grave threat, scientists behind a “Doomsday Clock” that measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm said Tuesday.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the minute hand on the metaphorical clock remained at three minutes-to-midnight. The clock reflects how vulnerable the world is to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change and new technologies with midnight symbolizing apocalypse.

“Unless we change the way we think, humanity remains in serious danger,” said Lawrence Krauss, chair of the bulletin’s Board of Sponsors.

Krauss said the Iran nuclear agreement and Paris climate accord were good news. But the good news was offset by nuclear threats, including tension between nuclear-armed states India and Pakistan

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists member Lynn Eden, right, and editor-in-chief John Mecklin, second from right, unveil the “Doomsday Clock,” which measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm, at Stanford University in Stanford, California, on Tuesday. and uncertainty that the Paris accord will lead to concrete action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The scientists behind the bulletin adjusted the clock from five minutes-tomidnight to three minutes-to-midnight last year.

They cited climate change, modernization of nuclear weapons and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals as “extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity.” The clock was

previously at three minutes-to-midnight in 1984, when the bulletin said talks between the U.S. and Russia virtually stopped.

From a climate change perspective, if midnight on the clock represents the disappearance of humanity, three minutes-tomidnight is overly dire, said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University who is not affiliated with the bulletin.

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Cephus Gregg Jr., 44, of 206 Lawrence St., was arrested Saturday for allegedly receiving stolen property.

According to a news release from Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Gregg had a 2014 Down to Earth Heavy Duty brand flatbed utility trailer, which was reported stolen from the Main Street area of Mayesville, while at a business in Sumter. Gregg is charged with receiving stolen

goods valued at more than $2,000 but less than $10,000.

Shannon Batchelor, 20, of 1615 Norwood Road, Olanta, was arrested Monday and is charged with safecracking and larceny. According to a news release from Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Batchelor allegedly broke open a safe belonging to the 65-year-old male victim and took various firearms and tools while in the 1600 block of Norwood Road in Sumter

County between Sept. 15 and 16, 2015. The items reportedly stolen have a combined value of approximately $5,100.

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COLUMBIA — South Carolina senators planned to show this week they are serious about passing a bill to get more money to the state’s roads and bridges.

A flurry of committee meetings and floor work began Tuesday with a subcommittee trying to approve a bill to change the board that runs the South Carolina Department of Transportation. The meeting ended with senators asking for more time to discuss the proposal.

There are three ideas to changing the board’s composition: pick them by the DOT’s engineering districts which are geographically compact and respect county lines but have large swings in population; pick them by the state’s 10 council of governments, which would increase the size of the board; or maintain the current structure of congressional districts, which are equal in population but have meandering borders.

After that is determined, senators have to decide if legislators should keep appointing the DOT board or the governor should pick her own nominees.

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cause so much of DOT is already organized that way. But Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Hartsville, asked for more time to talk to other senators before passing a plan.

Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler begrudgingly agreed, but pointed out the Senate Finance Committee is meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday and fellow Republicans likely want to know who will be running DOT before promising to give them any more money by raising the gas tax.

Peeler, Gov. Nikki Haley and other Republicans said a road bill must change the DOT’s board and have a comparable tax cut if gas taxes are raised.

The DOT said an extra $1.2 billion a year is needed to get all of South Carolina’s roads to good condition, but less money could still be quite helpful to a road network struggling to keep its pavement and bridges from falling into poor condition.

Peeler isn’t ready to commit to how much money he wants to raise for roads but said it is directly tied to how much taxes are cut.

“As much as we can possibly squeeze,” Peeler, R-Gaffney, said when asked for an amount.

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Survivor sheds light on WWII-era Jewish Councils JERUSALEM (AP) — Throughout the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, and while incarcerated in two prison camps, Mirjam Bolle wrote letters to her fiance that she never sent but hoped to share with him after the war. Yet when the two ultimately reunited she decided to leave the past behind and stashed them away. Now, decades later, she has published them as a memoir.

The result is “Letters Never Sent,” 18 months of diary entries and observations that experts say shed new light on one of the Holocaust’s most controversial legacies — the Judenrat, or Jewish Councils — the dark bureaucracy of intermediaries responsible for implementing Nazi orders.

They were often despised by fellow Jews as traitors, but Bolle, still lively at 98 years old, defends their actions. She says the Judenrat had little choice and yet managed to lessen the blow to the community. As a secretary for the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, she was privy to their inner workings and says they managed to save lives by staving off Nazi deportation orders.

“The Germans decided that there would be a Judenrat; we had nothing to do with that,” Bolle said in the living room of her meticulously kept old stone home in Jerusalem, where she has lived alone since her husband’s death in 1992. “The Germans did what they wanted to do. I always say that if the war had ended after two years, no one would

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Dutch Israeli holocaust survivor Mirjam Bolle looks out of the window in her house in Jerusalem earlier in January. have had a problem with the Judenrat.”

With time, however, Bolle thinks they outlived their usefulness. The nearly 1,200 Jewish councils continued to enjoy preferential treatment, even as they devolved into an administrative body for the Nazis’ so-called “Final Solution,” the planned extermination of the Jewish people. For some, the burden was too great to bear. Adam Czerniakow, head of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, killed himself after he was forced to deport Jews to their deaths.

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Bolle’s role was more limited. She took dictations, dispatched letters and was sitting in on discussions when the first mention was made of the Nazi concentration camps.

“It was a different world …

You cannot judge what people did,” she said. “People who are living a relatively normal life just cannot imagine.”

Six million Jews were killed

by German Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust, wiping out a third of world Jewry. Today, fewer than 190,000 elderly survivors remain in Israel. Bolle is

among the oldest.

Israel’s main Holocaust memorial day is in the spring, marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising — when Jews in the Polish capital launched a brave, but ultimately doomed, attempt to resist the Nazis.

The United Nations has designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945.

Bolle’s entries began on this date in 1943. Her fiance, Leo

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Bolle, had gone in 1938 to what was then the Britishruled Mandate for Palestine, and she had stayed behind a bit longer to work.

Her letters describe German raids and deportations, the struggles of the Judenrat to postpone them and her own escape from one roundup when a German officer saved her by chaperoning her down the street. She described other soldiers as “wild beasts” and detailed how Jews were shot by German firing squads.

Eventually, she was sent to Westerbork, a transit camp, before moving on to BergenBelsen, the infamous German camp where fellow Dutch Jew and diarist Anne Frank died.

Bolle managed to smuggle her collected letters out by wrapping them in a shirt, tossing them over the barbedwire fence out of sight of a Nazi guard and collecting them on the other side. “I did something very foolish,” she said. “If he had seen that, I wouldn’t be here today.”

In one segment, she writes to her fiance that “we’ll need years to talk about everything we’ve been through.”

They were reunited in July 1944, four years before Israel gained independence, when she arrived in the Holy Land through a prisoner exchange of Dutch Jews for German prisoners of war. “I had a lot of luck,” she said. Hoping to put the war years behind her, she stored the letters in a drawer and forgot about them for decades.

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JOBS FROM PAGE A1 10,000 people found work in the month of December and are now providing for themselves,” Stanton said. “There are nearly 67,000 current job openings in the state. We must continue to build a trained workforce to fill these openings and to meet our employers’ future needs.”

Richard Kaglic, a regional research economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, tossed out a football metaphor to describe the state’s job growth.

“The job growth engine in South Carolina is almost as impressive as the play of the Carolina Panthers — it’s not quite super, but it’s very, very strong,” he said.

“Job growth in South Carolina is remarkable, 15,100 net new jobs this month (seasonally adjusted numbers); that’s up 3.3 percent year over year.”

The national average is 1.9 percent, he said. Much of the job growth is in large metropolitan areas, Kaglic said.

“Charleston is driving it, but it is more than just Charleston,” he said. “In all the big metropolitan areas you are seeing job growth. Where we continue to see struggle is in smaller metropolitan areas, including Sumter, and also in rural areas.”

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AMISH FROM PAGE A1 On Tuesday, four Amish carpenters were carefully measuring, marking, sawing, cutting and placing wooden pieces to replace the floor in Joe Rodenberg’s home on Millwood Road.

That kind of precise woodwork comes naturally for David Fisher, the chief of a crew that included his son, a nephew and a family friend. In Lancaster, Fisher builds bedroom furniture and sells his work at wholesale to the public.

He said he wanted to use his skills to help other people.

“Since we’ve been richly blessed ourselves, we thought we should give to people who are less fortunate,” Fisher said.

Rodenberg and his wife watched floodwaters creeping toward their house near the runoff of Second Mill Pond.

Within 45 minutes of starting to see the first sign of flooding, there was 4 feet of water in their home and in their yard on Oct. 4, 2015. They acted quickly enough to move their vehicles above what would become the height of the flood, and they moved as many possessions as they could, but the damage to their home was extensive.

“Water was flowing so rapidly between my house and the one next to us that I could have surfed on it,” Rodenberg said.

He applied for FEMA funds, but the $15,000 received doesn’t cover the $40,000 estimate that contractors gave him for the repairs.

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unemployment rate was 6.4 percent, up slightly from 6.3 percent in November but down significantly from 7 percent in December 2014.

Clarendon County, which was at 8.3 percent unemployment a year ago, is now at 7 percent, up from 6.8 percent in November 2015.

Lee County’s unemployment rate increased to 7.5 percent from 7.3 percent in November 2015, but that is still an improvement from 8.6 percent in December 2014.

Economists caution, however, that employment numbers on a county level can be very volatile because of the small sample size used in the survey.

Van Nessen said a lot of the state’s employment growth is coming from the professional and business services sector.

“That sector has really blossomed this year, and December over December it grew at 7.5 percent,” he said. “Contained in that sector are high-wage jobs like architects and engineers and computer designers, a large portion of the high-wage jobs that are in the economy are housed in this sector.”

He said that shows more high-wage jobs are being created.

“We are seeing broad-based wage growth across most industries in 2015,” he said.

By working with Sumter United Ministries, the Rodenbergs have been able to cover their living expenses while volunteers repair their home.

When their FEMA money run out, the Christian charity picks up the remaining construction costs, most of which involve manual labor. That’s where the Amish labor expertise pays off.

But getting them here posed a problem because the Amish don’t own or drive automobiles, relying on horse-drawn transportation and farming methods. An employee of Fisher’s furniture business agreed to drive the crew here. Mennonite Disaster Services Storm Aid

Van Nessen said that while manufacturing numbers seem to be stagnant, that is partly because of the decline of the textile industry.

“When you break those numbers down, durable good growth is doing very well, growing around 6 percent last year,” he said.

Durable goods include automobiles, airplanes and other similar items, he said.

“The areas that have been sustaining our growth over the past six years are doing very well,” he said.

Kaglic said that while the manufacturing numbers are flat, several recent announcements of large operations coming to South Carolina should indicate manufacturing numbers will pick up.

“Even though we haven’t had a lot of manufacturing jobs over the past year, those announcements will soon be creating jobs instead of just getting press,” he said.

Kaglic acknowledged it has been a tough year for agriculture in the state, but he said he doesn’t think the farmer’s struggles will bring down the overall numbers.

“Some of the close ancillary industries such as storage and transportation will be affected by that, but the overall strength of the economy should be able to overcome that,” he said.

provides their living expenses while they are here.

Mark Champagne, director of Sumter United Ministries, said Mennonite Disaster Services has been sending crews of 15 to 30 workers a week.

They’re working on eight homes, and while they apply their skills to woodworking, hanging drywall, painting and other labor-intensive construction, homeowners or Sumter United Ministries has to pay for licensed electricians, plumbers and HVAC installers to meet building permit standards.

Through donations from Central Carolina Community Foundation, United Ministries

and local residents, the charity has collected about $150,000 it reserves for finishing the construction of homes.

Champagne said that might sound like a lot of money, but it doesn’t go far. He estimates each house, after applying a homeowner’s FEMA money, will cost about $15,000 to repair.

Meanwhile, Amish volunteers and other organizations are continuing to travel to the state to provide free labor to help repair homes, but United Ministries will need more donations from the community to continue providing construction supplies for their work, Champagne said.

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Founded in 1964, Thomas Sumter Academy is an independent, co-educational college preparatory school for students in prekindergarten through grade 12. The school is part of the South Carolina Independent School Association and enrolls 423 students at the Rembert campus.

For information on how to apply, call the school’s admissions office at (803) 499-3378. Thomas Sumter Academy is at 5265 Camden Highway, Rembert.

NEED HELP OR WANT TO HELP? FEMA estimates there are more than 600 homes needing repairs in the Sumter area. If you have a home that needs repairs, you may be eligible for assistance from Sumter United Ministries.

The charity does not repair rental property.

In addition, Sumter United Ministries is seeking financial donations and volunteers to help repair homes.

To donate, volunteer or seek assistance, contact Sumter United Ministries at (803) 775-0757.

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Ward said the air medical transport organization is looking to invest about $6 million to set up a base in the county.

At the start of the meeting, a public hearing was held regarding the Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnerships programs offered by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Kyle Kelly, economic and community sustainability director at Santee-Lynches Regional Council of Governments, said the agency serves as the county’s agent in carrying out the program.

Money provided through the HOME program can be used to build, buy or improve affordable housing for rent or home ownership and the CDBG funds can be used for infrastructure improvements, economic development opportunities and community services to low-income areas.

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391K Ranger pickups recalled for air bag deaths DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling about 391,000 Ranger pickups because the driver’s air bag inflators can explode with too much force and cause injuries.

The recall covers trucks from the 2004 through 2006 model years in the U.S. and Canada.

It comes just days after the government announced that a South Carolina man was killed when an inflator exploded in December. Joel Knight, 52, of Kershaw died when he was struck in the neck by metal shrapnel after his 2006 Ranger hit a cow in the road and struck a fence.

The government says automakers will recall another 5 million vehicles equipped with faulty inflators made by Takata Corp. of Japan. Some of the recalls are because of the crash that killed Knight with the rest because of air bags failing in lab tests.

Other automakers are expected to

A blue oval Ford sign is seen above the entrance to Butler County Ford in Butler, Pennsylvania. Ford announced Tuesday that the company is recalling about 391,000 Ranger pickups because the driver’s air bag inflators can explode with too much force and cause injuries.

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announce more recalls soon as the Takata inflator mess continues to grow. It now covers 14 auto and truck makers and totals about 24 million vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the number of recalls is likely to expand further.

Takata uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to cause a small explosion

that creates gas and inflates air bags in a crash.

But the chemical can deteriorate when exposed to high heat and humidity and burn too fast, blowing apart a metal canister designed to contain the explosion.

Knight is the 10th known death worldwide because of the inflators, and more than 100 people have been hurt.

Ford says it will send letters to owners about the recall starting the week of Feb. 22. Although it has some replacement parts available, the company is working with air bag makers to make additional inflators as soon as possible, spokesman John Cangany said.

The Rangers also were recalled last year to replace the passenger air bag inflators. Ford says customers can find out if their trucks are included by going to Ford.com and clicking on “safety recalls.” Then they can enter their vehicle identification number to check.

Knight hit the cow at about 6:20 p.m. on South Carolina Route 522, not far from Columbia.

If not for the inflator rupture, the crash would have been moderate and wouldn’t have killed him, said Amanda Dotter, spokeswoman for the Elrod Pope Law Firm, which is representing his family.

Federal report shows nearly 3 percent rise in child abuse NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. children victimized by abuse and neglect increased by nearly 3 percent in the latest annual reporting period, according to new federal data.

According to the report released Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services, the estimated number of victimized children in the 2014 fiscal year was 702,208 — up from 682,307 in 2013. The report estimated fatalities attributable to child abuse and neglect at 1,580 — up from 1,530 in 2013.

The report, formally known as the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, is based on input from child protection agencies in every state.

According to Rafael Lopez, commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, the officials cited substance abuse, mental health issues and domestic violence as factors contributing to the increased maltreatment.

“We need to shift our focus to the front-end prevention of child abuse and neglect and make sure that families get the help they need when they need it,” Lopez said.

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see, according to the report.

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Overall, white children accounted for about 44 percent of the victims of maltreatment, black children about 21 percent and Hispanic children about 23 percent. Smaller percentages were Asian, Native American and mixed race.

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Education insanity

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ome credit Albert Einstein, others credit Benjamin Franklin, with the observation that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results.” Whomever we credit, he was absolutely right. A perfect example of that insanity is education in general and particularly black education.

Education Next has recently published a series commemorating the 50th anWalter niversary of Williams James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking 1965 report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity,” popularly referred to as the “Coleman Report.” In 1965, the average black 12th grader placed at the 13th percentile of the score distribution for whites in math and reading. That means 87 percent of white 12th graders scored higher than the average black 12th graders. Fifty years later there has been a slight narrowing of the math gap leaving the average black 12thgrade student at the 19th percentile of the white distribution; 81 percent of white 12th-grade students score higher. The black-white reading gap has narrowed such that the average black 12thgrader scores at the 22nd percentile of the white distribution, meaning 78 percent of white 12th-graders score higher.

Eric A. Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His Education Next contribution is “What Matters for Student Achievement: Updating Coleman on the Influence of Families and Schools.” Hanushek concludes, “After nearly a half century of supposed progress in race relations within the United States, the modest improvements in achievement gaps since 1965 can only be called a national embarrassment. Put differently, if we continue to close gaps at the same rate in the future, it will be roughly two and a half centuries before the black-white math gap closes and over one and a half centuries until the reading gap closes.” I would like to know what American, particularly a black American, can be pleased with that kind of progress and the future it

holds for black people.

Many see smaller class sizes and more money as part of the general solution to our nation’s educational problems. It turns out that since 1955 the average number of students per teacher has fallen from 27 to 16. During the same period real per-pupil expenditures have increased more than fourfold. Today, expenditures per pupil in the United States exceed those of nearly every other country in the world. The Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, ranks 15-yearold student academic performance in 34 OECD countries.

In 2012, the U.S. students performed below average in mathematics and ranked 27th. In reading, U.S. students ranked 17th; and in science, they ranked 20th. Such a performance gap suggests that smaller class sizes and bigger budgets, in and of themselves, are not a cure to our nation’s educational malaise, particularly that of black students.

The most crucial input for a child’s education cannot be provided by schools, politicians and government. As such, continued calls for more school resources will produce disappointing results as they have in the past.

There are certain minimum requirements that must be met for any child to do well in school. Someone must make the youngster do his homework, ensure that he gets eight to nine hours of sleep, feed him breakfast and make sure that he behaves in school and respects the teachers. If these minimum requirements are not met, and by the way they can be met even if a family is poor, all else is for naught.

What the education establishment can do is to prevent youngsters who are alien and hostile to the educational process from making education impossible for those who are equipped to learn. That is accomplished by removing students who pose disciplinary problems, but the Barack Obama administration is even restricting a school’s power to do that. You might ask, “Williams, what are we going to do with those expelled students?” I do not know, but I do know one thing: Black people cannot afford to allow them to sabotage the education chances of everyone else.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. © 2016 creators.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR DEMOCRATS CALLING REPUBLICANS DUMB SHOULD EXAMINE THEIR OWN CHOICE IN CANDIDATES I have voted for Republicans and Democrats throughout my life...(my first presidential vote was for Jimmy Carter!!

HAHA...Ugh)....and it is hilarious to hear Democrats constantly talking about how stupid and dumb Republican voters and their candidates are.

These same people(millions of

them) are going to line up to vote for a person that could not figure out that TOP SECRET e-mails maybe should not be included with her recipe for Grandma’s fried chicken. And they call other people dumb?

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his just in: According to the latest survey from the American customer satisfaction index, the federal government has joined the ranks of the bottom-of-the-barrel industries in customer satisfaction.

Who knew? We’re shocked. The survey tells us Americans’satisfaction level in dealing with federal agencies has fallen for the third consecutive year, thus reaching an eight-year low.

As for the lowest ranked department among the feds, it’s that old standby, the U.S. Treasury department.

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who oversee the IRS, the beady-eyed tax collectors who shake us down every April while uttering their slogan, “I’m from the federal government and here to help you.”

Within a federal government teeming with inefficiency thanks to the tender mercies of the Obama administration, Treasury is the gold standard, so to speak, and it creates an abundance of heartburn in the spring of the year for taxpayers. Any time a government agency takes money from citizens, it’s

bound to generate low satisfaction among taxpayers.

Even Founding Father Thomas Jefferson had little use for big government. He wrote this to a friend: “I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”

And from one Elbert Hubbard comes his words of wisdom of how government could be regarded: “A kind of legalized pillage.” Thus we are forewarned that soon the taxman will cometh and a substantial part of our income will goeth.

It’s the American way.

Will Obama’s overreach be policed?

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ASHINGTON — During Watergate, Henry Kissinger’s mordant wit leavened the unpleasantness: “The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” President Obama often does both simultaneously, using executive authoritarianism to evade the Constitution’s separation of powers and rewrite existing laws.

Last week, however, the Supreme Court took a perhaps momentous step toward correcting some of the constitutional vandalism that will be Obama’s most significant legacy. The court agreed to rule on Obama’s unilateral revision of immigration law.

Seeking re-election in 2012, Obama stretched the idea of “prosecutorial discretion” — supposedly “on an individual basis” — to cover a delay in efforts to deport approximately 770,000 persons who were brought to America illegally as children. But he said that with this he had reached the limit of his powers: “If we start broadening , then essentially I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally.”

In 2014, however, he expanded the sweep and protections of that program. His executive fiat would have shielded perhaps 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with children who are U.S. citizens or lawful residents.

His expansion made them eligible to work and receive Social Security retirement and disability benefits, Medicare, the earned income tax credit, unemployment insurance, driver’s licenses, etc.

Led by Texas, a majority of states (26) asserted standing to sue because of the costs of complying with the new policy. When they won an injunction, the Obama administration appealed to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. It lost there, too, and then asked the Supreme Court to rule on the

COMMENTARY legality of Obama’s action. The court should not, and probably will not, rule for the president.

George The court Will has asked to be briefed on a matter the administration must be reluctant to address; the Justice Department requested that the court not insert a “constitutional question” into the case. The question the court will consider is: Did Obama’s action violate the Take Care Clause?

Obama has sworn to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution,” which says the president shall “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law in Houston and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington says that only three times has the court relied on the Take Care Clause to limit executive actions, and the justices have never asked for a briefing on this clause.

In their brief, the states argue that “Congress has created a detailed, complex statutory scheme for determining” who qualifies for “lawful presence” in this country. No statute empowers the executive to grant this status to any illegal immigrant it chooses not to deport, let alone to confer “lawful presence” status on a class of many millions.

The states say presidents cannot “change an alien’s statutory immigration classification.” So, Obama is not merely exercising discretion in enforcing the Immigration and Nationality Act. He is altering this act so that previously prohibited conduct no longer violates the act.

Executive overreach has

been increasing for decades.

For example, although the Troubled Asset Relief Program was for financial institutions, the George W. Bush administration diverted more than $17 billion for auto companies. Obama’s usual justification for his unusually numerous unilateral legislating is that Congress refuses to act on this or that subject.

But regarding who qualifies for legal status and for the right to work, Congress has acted with notable specificity.

Obama simply wants to grant to millions of people various benefits in violation of Congress’ will as written into law.

For seven years, Obama has treated the Take Care Clause as a mild suggestion.

He considers it insignificant compared to his virtuous determination to “work around” Congress in order to impose his policies regarding immigration, health care, education, contraception, welfare, gun control, environmentalism, gay rights, unauthorized wars and other matters.

Both leading Democratic presidential candidates praise Obama’s radical understanding of the Constitution’s Article II presidential powers. The leading Republican candidate would replace the Constitution’s 7,591 words with the first-person singular pronoun: He promises many unilateral presidential wonders, including a global trade war and a more holy national vocabulary: “If I’m president, you’re going to see ‘Merry Christmas’ in department stores.”

But no Obama executive order has yet repealed Article III’s judicial powers. So, come June we will learn whether the judicial branch will do its duty by policing the borders of the separation of powers.

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

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

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t give up EUGENIA LAST on the changes you want to make. A disciplined attitude will help you finish what you started, as well as ease your stress and take your mind off any negative situations you are facing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t let anyone put you down or control your life. Make decisions based on what works for you, and if change is required to find the peace you need in your life, take the initiative and make it happen.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Believe in your abilities. Step up to the podium and voice your opinions.

Standing up for your beliefs and sharing practical solutions will put you in a good position. Romance is on the rise, and celebrating your success is encouraged.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Good intentions will not cut it if you don’t follow through. Don’t let anyone lead you astray with gossip or rumors that aren’t based on facts. Emotional concerns about a partner or older person in your life will cause uncertainty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll have plenty of opportunities to mix business with pleasure if you host an event or attend a networking function. Your charming demeanor will attract attention as well as make those you love proud of your accomplishments.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t waste time. Keep the momentum going and head in a direction that promises to bring about positive change. Don’t let jealousy turn into a costly loss. Think outside the box and you’ll find a workable solution.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Enjoy the youngsters in your life or plan a romantic adventure with someone you are deeply in love with. The attention you pay to others will result in an unexpected, unique response. Plan a vacation around something you find entertaining.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Make your home a place for interesting people to gather. Surrounding yourself with eclectic decorations and talented people will allow you to hold court and become a leader.

Romance will help stabilize an important relationship.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll face plenty of interference if you are too vocal about what you are up to. Make changes while no one is watching. It’s best to avoid people who confuse you or are known to be a poor influence.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t wait to see what everyone else is doing. If you want something, go after it. Don’t let a last-minute change of plans alter your course. Follow your heart and your dreams, and head in whatever direction makes you happy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Helping others will exhaust you.

Taking on more than you can handle will result in ill feelings between you and the person counting on you. Make your position clear and don’t let yourself be overwhelmed by your problems.

Quarreling will not resolve the problem.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Get involved in something that concerns you, or offer support to someone you love. Your gesture will raise your awareness of important issues. Love is highlighted, and a romantic encounter will lead to a brighter future. Make a commitment.

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AccuWeather® five-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Cooler with rain and drizzle

Cloudy with a shower or two

A little morning rain; cloudy

Plenty of sun

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Sunny and pleasant Mild with more sun than clouds

56°

39°

48° / 34°

56° / 33°

62° / 39°

66° / 47°

Chance of rain: 55%

Chance of rain: 55%

Chance of rain: 55%

Chance of rain: 5%

Chance of rain: 5%

Chance of rain: 10%

NNE 7-14 mph

NE 6-12 mph

N 4-8 mph

WNW 6-12 mph

SW 7-14 mph

WSW 7-14 mph

TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

Gaffney 49/32 Spartanburg 51/34

Greenville 53/34

Columbia 55/40

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

Sumter 56/39

IN THE MOUNTAINS Aiken 53/39

ON THE COAST

Charleston 63/43

Today: Occasional rain and drizzle. High 57 to 65.

Thursday: Cooler with rain. High 45 to 52.

LOCAL ALMANAC

LAKE LEVELS

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Today Hi/Lo/W 50/39/r 31/27/pc 56/36/s 36/27/pc 57/34/c 75/50/pc 54/41/r 41/29/pc 73/62/t 40/21/pc 68/44/s 61/48/pc 40/21/pc

SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest.

355.39 76.40 75.20 96.29

24-hr chg -0.10 -0.01 none -0.07

Sunrise 7:23 a.m.

Moonrise 9:26 p.m.

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

0.00" 2.09" 3.33" 2.09" 4.80" 3.33"

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

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

65° 32° 55° 33° 78° in 1952 17° in 1963

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest.

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

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 56/37/pc 37/22/c 65/39/s 38/24/sf 63/39/s 76/51/s 59/43/s 40/31/pc 69/47/t 39/26/pc 72/46/s 60/54/pc 40/29/pc

Myrtle Beach 58/40

Manning 57/41

Today: A touch of rain this morning. Winds northeast 4-8 mph.

Thursday: Times of sun and clouds. Winds southwest 3-6 mph.

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

Florence 54/39

Bishopville 53/39

Sunset Moonset

5:47 p.m.

9:22 a.m.

Last

New

First

Full

Jan. 31

Feb. 8

Feb. 15

Feb. 22

TIDES

Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr stage yest. chg 12 10.04 +0.11 19 6.90 -1.10 14 9.93 -0.34 14 6.10 -0.21 80 80.53 +0.11 24 16.57 +0.09

AT MYRTLE BEACH

High 11:06 a.m.

11:35 p.m.

11:44 a.m.

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Today Thu.

Ht. 3.0 2.7 2.8 ---

Low Ht. 5:37 a.m. -0.2 6:04 p.m. 0.0 6:18 a.m. 0.0 6:40 p.m. 0.1

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

Today Hi/Lo/W 45/27/pc 55/37/r 56/42/r 65/45/r 51/40/r 63/43/r 51/33/r 55/36/r 55/40/r 52/39/r 48/33/r 54/38/r 51/37/r

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 50/30/pc 57/34/pc 52/35/r 49/38/r 49/36/r 48/36/r 52/31/c 58/39/pc 51/35/r 47/33/r 45/32/r 44/33/r 45/33/r

City Florence Gainesville Gastonia Goldsboro Goose Creek Greensboro Greenville Hickory Hilton Head Jacksonville, FL La Grange Macon Marietta

Today Hi/Lo/W 54/39/r 69/53/r 50/33/r 51/37/r 62/44/r 50/28/r 53/34/r 50/28/r 62/45/r 65/54/r 52/40/r 54/43/r 52/36/r

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 46/33/r 61/39/r 52/31/c 44/35/r 48/37/r 49/30/pc 54/32/pc 52/32/pc 49/40/r 57/37/r 57/35/pc 57/35/r 55/35/pc

Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 51/27/pc Mt. Pleasant 61/45/r Myrtle Beach 58/40/r Orangeburg 58/42/r Port Royal 63/46/r Raleigh 49/33/r Rock Hill 49/35/r Rockingham 49/36/r Savannah 67/46/r Spartanburg 51/34/r Summerville 62/43/r Wilmington 57/39/r Winston-Salem 48/29/r

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 53/32/pc 49/39/r 46/36/r 49/37/r 50/40/r 49/33/c 52/32/c 49/31/r 52/37/r 54/32/pc 48/36/r 45/34/r 49/30/pc

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

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POWERBALL SATURDAY

14-17-23-28-36 PowerUp: 2

22-32-34-40-69 Powerball: 19; Powerplay: 4

PICK 3 TUESDAY

PICK 4 TUESDAY

7-8-5 and 6-9-6

6-0-0-7 and 2-3-3-2

LUCKY FOR LIFE MONDAY 17-39-41-42-47; Lucky Ball: 1

MEGAMILLIONS TUESDAY Numbers unavailable at press time

SUMTER ANIMAL CONTROL PET OF THE WEEK Meet Andy, a small young male who has a playful demeanor. Weighing in at 30 pounds, he is a smart boy who needs an owner who will spend time with him so that he can reach his full potential.

Andy would do best as an only dog. However, he is very people friendly and eager to please. Thank you for considering adopting a homeless animal. You can see more adoptable / found pets at Sumter Animal Control on Facebook.

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PREP BASKETBALL

Close call

Barons watch big lead disappear, convert free throws to hold off LMA

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Peoples lifts Sumter past WF 68-62

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com The Sumter High School varsity boys basketball team looked dead in the water midway through the third quarter of its game against West Florence on Tuesday.

A 3-point basket by Sharone Wright Jr. gave the Knights a 42-29 advantage over an SHS team that had struggled offensively from the opening tip. When all was said and done though, the Gamecocks scored 39 points over the final 11 minutes, 20 seconds, of the game for a 68-62 victory at the Sumter gymnasium.

The reason for the turnaround?

Two words and one name,” according to SHS head coach Shawn Jones.

“Ahmad Peoples,” Jones said.

“Without his performance, we don’t win the game.”

Peoples came off the bench and scored all 13 of his points in the second half, including hitting three treys, to spark the Gamecock offense. However, his presence was just as important on defense, according to Jones.

“We brought him because we wanted to go small defensively,” Jones said. “Their guards were beating us and we wanted to keep their guards in front of us. Ahmad made a couple of stops on defense then hit a couple of big 3-pointers.”

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CAROLINA BASKETBALL

Carrera’s career high leads USC to victory

By PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press

KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Wilson Hall’s Drew Talley (10) gets a shot off as Laurence Manning Academy’s Shakeel Robinson defends during the Barons’ 74-65 victory on Tuesday at Nash Student Center.

By JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com

It almost wasn’t enough – almost.

Leading by as many as 19 at one point, the Barons watched a doubleEddie Talley saw three quarters of digit fourth-quarter lead dwindle very good-to-great basketball from his down to just four as Laurence ManWilson Hall varsity boys squad on ning Academy mounted a dramatic Tuesday at Nash Student Center. comeback.

Free throw shooting proved the difference as the Barons hit 11 of their last 12 shots to hold off the Swampcats for a 74-65 victory to take control of SCISA Region II-3A.

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COLUMBIA — Michael Carrera had a career high 34 points and 15 rebounds and South Carolina outlasted Mississippi State 84-74 on Tuesday night.

The Gamecocks (18-2, 5-2 Southeastern Conference) bounced back from a weekend loss at Tennessee and used Carrera’s stellar showing to avoid their first back-to-back losses this season.

Not that it was easy. The Bulldogs (8-11, 1-6) whittled a 14-point second-half deficit to 55-53 on I.J. Ready’s 3-pointer with 9:13 to play.

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SUPER BOWL

Panthers not content on just being participant in Super Bowl

By STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Carolina coach Ron Rivera remembers turning to Dave Gettleman following a training camp practice this summer, and asking the Panthers general manager, “Am I seeing what I think I’m seeing?”

Rivera wanted verification that this Panthers team was clearly the most talented he’s coached in five seasons — one he thought had Super Bowl potential.

Well, turns out Rivera was right. And now that the Panthers have realized those expectations, the fifth-year coach believes they’re capable of bring-

ing home the organization’s first Vince Lombardi trophy.

“The thing we’ve got to remember is what we’re playing for, and that’s to win it,” Rivera said Monday. “It’s not about getting there. It’s not about being a part of it. It’s about winning it. And that will be our main focus.”

Said quarterback Cam Newton: “We’re not finished.”

Rivera, who won a Super Bowl ring with the 1985 Chicago Bears as a linebacker, said he’ll rely on his former coach Mike Ditka, among others, for advice leading up the Feb. 7 Super Bowl against the AFC champion Denver Broncos.

“One of the things coach Ditka emphasized to us was to

enjoy the moment,” Rivera said. “The moment doesn’t come very often. It’s hard. It’s hard to get to where we are right now.”

The Panthers have remained a loose, confident team throughout the season.

They’re also a tightknit group, regularly hanging out off the field together, and seem to thrive playing the underdog role — even though they opened as a 4-point favorite against Peyton Manning and the Broncos.

That harkens back to when some believed Carolina was the worst of the 5-0 teams in October.

The Associated Press

Carolina running back Jonathan Stewart (28) has been one of the key performers in helping the Panthers reach the Super Bowl after going Please see PANTHERS, Page B2 15-1 during the regular season.

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Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning told New England coach Bill Belichick that ‘this might be my last rodeo,” after the Broncos’ win over the Patriots on Sunday.

Manning tells Belichick that ‘this might be my last rodeo’

By ARNIE STAPLETON The Associated Press

over the Patriots in the AFC championship DENVER — Peyton Mangame on Sunning isn’t saying that Super day.

Bowl 50 is his grand finale.

When they He’s just saying it could Belichick embraced, be.

Manning NFL Network cameras leaned in and told Belichcaught the exchange beick, “Hey listen, this might tween Manning and New be my last rodeo. So, it sure England coach Bill Belichhas been a pleasure.” ick after Denver’s 20-18 win Belichick responded,

“You’re a great competitor ...”

Neither spoke of their exchange afterward.

Earlier this month, Manning said, “I’d be lying if I said I’m not thinking about that,” when asked if this could be it for him.

The five-time MVP’s season ends Feb. 7 in the Super Bowl against Carolina.

Hiel leads Oklahoma past Texas Tech

(11) Virginia 72

18 of his 22 points in the second half and Devin Thomas added 19 for the Demon Deacons (10-10, 1-7), who blew a 10-point lead with 90 seconds left. Crawford missed one of two free throws with 4.0 seconds left to set up Virginia’s last chance.

(9) West Virginia 70 Kansas State 55 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jonathan Holton had 14 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 9 West Virginia to a 70-55 victory over Kansas State on Tuesday night, giving the Mountaineers a sweep of the season series.

It was Holton’s second double-double in three games for the Mountaineers (17-3, 6-2 Big 12).

Wake Forest 71

Wisconsin 82

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Darius Thompson hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give No. 11 Virginia a 72-71 victory over Wake Forest on Tuesday night.

Malcolm Brogdon scored 28 points and Anthony Gill added 17 for the Cavaliers (16-4, 5-3 Atlantic Coast Conference). The league’s top 3-point shooting team shook off a miserable night on the perimeter, hitting four 3s in the final minute to pull out a most unlikely victory.

Bryant Crawford scored

(19) Indiana 79 MADISON, Wis. — Nigel Hayes scored 31 points, Ethan Happ added 25 and Wisconsin snapped No. 19 Indiana’s 12-game winning streak with an 82-79 victory in overtime on Tuesday night.

The Badgers (12-9, 4-4 Big Ten) missed several chances in the closing minutes of overtime to put the game out of reach after Bronson Koenig and Jordan Hill each went 1 of 2 at the free throw

TODAY 6 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Qatar Masters First Round from Doha, Qatar (GOLF).

10:30 a.m. – College Football: Senior Bowl Practice from Mobile, Ala. (ESPNU).

2:30 p.m. – College Football: Senior Bowl Practice from Mobile, Ala. (ESPNU).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: Dutch League Match – PSV Eindhoven vs. Excelsior (UNIVISION).

3 p.m. – Professional Tennis: Australian Open Men’s and Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from Melbourne (ESPN2).

6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WPUB-FM 102.7, WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: DePaul at Butler (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Texas A&M at Arkansas (ESPNU).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: St. John’s at Seton Hall (FOX SPORTS 1).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Pittsburgh at Clemson (FOX SPORTSOUTH, WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Auburn at Mississippi (SEC NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. – NFL Football: Pro Bowl Draft from Honolulu (ESPN2).

7:55 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – FC Juarez vs.

Guadalajara (UNIVISION).

8 p.m. – College Basketball: Georgia Tech at North Carolina State (WKTC 63).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Houston at San Antonio (ESPN).

8 p.m. – College Basketball: Tulsa at Houston (ESPNEWS).

8 p.m. – Professional Golf: Asian Tour Singapore Open First Round from Singapore (GOLF).

8 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Philadelphia at Washington (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. – College Football: Senior Bowl Practice from Mobile, Ala. (NFL NETWORK).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Loyola (Chicago) at Wichita State (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Baylor at Oklahoma State (ESPNU).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Stetson at Marquette (FOX SPORTS 1).

9 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Charlotte at Utah (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

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

9:30 p.m. – Professional Tennis: Australian Open Women’s Semifinal Matches from Melbourne, Australia (ESPN2).

10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Dallas at Golden State (ESPN).

10:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Colorado at Los Angeles (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

11 p.m. – College Basketball: Boise State at Nevada-Las Vegas (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

11 p.m. – College Basketball: California at Utah (ESPNU).

11:30 p.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Qatar Masters Second Round from Doha, Qatar (GOLF).

3:30 a.m. – Professional Tennis: Australian Open Men’s Semifinal Match from Melbourne, Australia (ESPN2).

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BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

NORMAN, Okla. — Buddy Hield scored 30 points to help No. 1 Oklahoma defeat Texas Tech 91-67 on Tuesday night.

Hield, the nation’s No. 2 scorer, made 9 of 12 shots, including 5 of 8 3-point attempts, and 7 of 8 free throws. It was his seventh game with 30 or more points this season.

Isaiah Cousins scored 19 points, Jordan Woodard added 15 and Khadeem Lattin had a career-high eight blocks for the Sooners (17-2, 6-2 Big 12), who remained in first place in the conference.

Oklahoma, which leads the nation in 3-point percentage, made 12 of 23 from beyond the arc and shot 53 percent overall.

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line. Ferrell finished with 30 points on 12-of-20 shooting.

NBA 76ers 113 Suns 103 PHILADELPHIA — Ish Smith had 20 points and nine assists and Robert Covington scored 19 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 113103 win over the Phoenix Suns on Monday night.

Once 1-30 on Dec. 23 and challenging for the worst record in NBA history, the Sixers have since gone 6-9 and might not even end up with the worst record.

Clippers 91 PACERS 90 INDIANAPOLIS — Chris Paul scored 26 points and J.J. Redick added 19 as the Los Angeles Clippers held off a late Indiana comeback for a 91-89 victory Tuesday night.

The Clippers (29-16) played without All-Star forward Blake Griffin, who was sent home after breaking his shooting hand in a scuffle with equipment manager Matias Testi.

Indiana (23-22) lost its third straight despite having Paul George finish with 31 points and 11 rebounds.

Myles Turner had 16 points.

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TODAY Varsity and JV Basketball Johnsonville at Lee Central (No JV Girls), 5 p.m.

Junior Varsity and B Team Basketball Wilson Hall at Camden Military (Boys Only), 4:30 p.m.

B Team Basketball Thomas Sumter at Orangeburg Prep, 5 p.m.

Varsity Wrestling Sumter in Region VI-4A Team Tournament (at Carolina Forest High in Myrtle Beach), 6 p.m.

THURSDAY Varsity and JV Basketball Thomas Sumter at Laurence Manning, 4 p.m.

Junior Varsity Basketball Conway at Sumter, 6 p.m.

Manning at Crestwood, 6 p.m.

Darlington at Lakewood, 6 p.m.

Andrews at Lee Central, 6:30 p.m.

B Team Basketball Cardinal Newman at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Thomas Sumter, 5 p.m.

Middle School Basketball Chestnut Oaks at Alice Drive, 5 p.m.

Manning at Ebenezer, 5 p.m.

Furman at Mayewood, 5 p.m.

Hillcrest at Bates, 5 p.m.

Hannah-Pamplico at Lee Central, 5:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Scott’s Branch, 5:30 p.m.

Varsity Bowling Wilson Hall, Thomas Sumter, Thomas Sumter in Individual State Championship, TBA

NFL Playoffs

By The Associated Press

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9

Kansas City 30, Houston 0 Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16

Sunday, Jan. 10

Seattle 10, Minnesota 9 Green Bay 35, Washington 18

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16

New England 27, Kansas City 20 Arizona 26, Green Bay 20, OT

Sunday, Jan. 17

Carolina 31, Seattle 24 Denver 23, Pittsburgh 16

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC

Denver 20, New England 18

NFC

Carolina 49, Arizona 15

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu

PANTHERS

it makes it all worthwhile,” Newton said after the win From Page B1 against the Cardinals.

Added wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery: “Everyone The Panthers would prove can try to find something doubters wrong, winning 14 when they doubt us, but we straight games to open the just try to go out there and season before suffering their put our ball on display.” only loss at Atlanta. They Rivera has said he loves finished the season as the his team’s personality — No. 1 scoring offense in the and doesn’t want players to league and led the NFL on change. defense in takeaways.

He doesn’t mind NewThey’re rebounded from ton’s touchdown celebrathat Atlanta loss to win tions, his players posing for three straight, including pictures on the sideline home playoff games against when the game is in hand the Seattle Seahawks and or even lip-syncing to Arizona Cardinals.

Drake’s lyrics, “We got a “We’ve been doubted. really big team; we need We’ve been slated; all of the some really big rings” in a above, but yet when you video they’ve posted on sohave turnouts like (Sunday) cial media.

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

“We are who we are,” Rivera said.

Right now, what the Panthers are is a championship team looking for the franchise’s first Super Bowl.

Rivera doesn’t plan to change a thing.

“Do what you’ve done,” Rivera said. “Some of my experiences in coaching, you get to certain experiences like the playoffs, and sometimes you get a little bit of panic. Am I doing enough? Should I do more?

Should I change this?

“I told our coordinators, ‘We’re going to stick to what got us to where we are.’ We’ll emphasize that to the players and make sure we keep our personality.”

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7

At Santa Clara, Calif.

Denver vs. Carolina, 6:30 p.m. (CBS)

NBA Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

Toronto Boston New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Southeast Division

Atlanta Miami Charlotte Washington Orlando Central Division

Cleveland Chicago Detroit Indiana Milwaukee

W L Pct GB 29 15 .659 — 25 21 .543 5 22 24 .478 8 12 33 .267 17½ 6 39 .133 23½ W L Pct GB 27 19 .587 — 24 21 .533 2½ 22 23 .489 4½ 20 22 .476 5 20 23 .465 5½ W L Pct GB 31 12 .721 — 25 19 .568 6½ 24 21 .533 8 23 21 .523 8½ 19 27 .413 13½

Southwest Division

San Antonio Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans Northwest Division

Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver Minnesota Pacific Division

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

W L Pct GB 38 7 .844 — 26 20 .565 12½ 25 21 .543 13½ 25 22 .532 14 16 28 .364 21½ W L Pct GB 33 13 .717 — 20 26 .435 13 19 25 .432 13 17 28 .378 15½ 14 32 .304 19 W L Pct GB 41 4 .911 — 28 16 .636 12½ 20 24 .455 20½ 14 31 .311 27 9 37 .196 32½

Monday’s Games

Cleveland 114, Minnesota 107 Boston 116, Washington 91 Miami 89, Chicago 84 Houston 112, New Orleans 111 Memphis 108, Orlando 102, OT Detroit 95, Utah 92 Atlanta 119, Denver 105 Charlotte 129, Sacramento 128,2OT Golden State 120, San Antonio 90

Tuesday’s Games

L.A. Clippers at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Portland, 10 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Phoenix at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Denver at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

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

Charlotte at Utah, 9 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games

Atlanta at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Denver at Washington, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Memphis, 8 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 8 p.m.

Chicago at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

NHL Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 48 28 15 5 61 130 107 Detroit 49 25 16 8 58 122 124 Boston 48 26 17 5 57 145 125 Tampa Bay 48 26 18 4 56 129 117 Montreal 49 24 21 4 52 134 129 Ottawa 49 23 20 6 52 137 152 Toronto 46 17 20 9 43 113 128 Buffalo 49 19 26 4 42 111 134 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 46 35 8 3 73 155 100 N.Y. Rangers 49 27 17 5 59 142 129 N.Y. Islanders 47 25 16 6 56 130 118 New Jersey 49 25 19 5 55 114 116 Pittsburgh 47 23 17 7 53 119 120 Carolina 50 22 20 8 52 118 135 Philadelphia 46 20 18 8 48 105 124 Columbus 50 18 27 5 41 128 161

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 52 33 15 4 70 147 117 Dallas 50 31 14 5 67 162 133 St. Louis 52 28 16 8 64 129 128 Minnesota 49 23 17 9 55 121 115 Colorado 50 26 21 3 55 138 133 Nashville 48 22 18 8 52 125 129 Winnipeg 48 21 24 3 45 121 138 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 48 30 15 3 63 126 109 San Jose 47 25 18 4 54 136 128 Arizona 48 24 19 5 53 129 141 Vancouver 49 20 18 11 51 121 137 Anaheim 46 21 18 7 49 95 109 Calgary 47 21 23 3 45 125 144 Edmonton 50 19 26 5 43 122 149 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games

Arizona 2, Minnesota 1, SO Detroit 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Boston 3, Philadelphia 2 Columbus 5, Montreal 2 N.Y. Rangers 6, Buffalo 3 Dallas 2, Calgary 1

Tuesday’s Games

Anaheim at Boston, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

Columbus at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Arizona at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Colorado at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games

No games scheduled

Monday’s College Basketball Scores

By The Associated Press EAST Bucknell 79, Lafayette 67 Lehman 87, Rutgers-Camden 69 Manhattan at St. Peter’s, ppd.

Springfield 77, W. New England 61 Stony Brook 81, Maine 54 SOUTH Alcorn St. 77, Alabama St. 72 Davidson 78, Richmond 70 Delaware St. 57, NC A&T 55 Emory & Henry 64, Randolph 60 Florida A&M at Md.-Eastern Shore, ppd.

Furman 68, VMI 56 Georgetown (Ky.) 83, Pikeville 78 Georgia Southern 101, Appalachian St. 100 Hampden-Sydney 74, E. Mennonite 73 Haverford 66, Washington (Md.) 61 Johnson C. Smith 89, Livingstone 81 Kentucky St. 90, St. Catharine 84 McNeese St. 79, Incarnate Word 76, OT Miami 80, Duke 69 Milligan at Alice Lloyd, ccd.

Mobile 55, Spring Hill 47 New Orleans 94, Cent. Arkansas 83 Norfolk St. 92, Savannah St. 73 Northwestern St. 88, Nicholls St. 80 SC State 67, Hampton 62 Southern U. 73, Alabama A&M 52 Tenn. Wesleyan 90, Fisk 71 Virginia Union 87, Lincoln (Pa.) 73 Winston-Salem 66, Fayetteville St. 64 MIDWEST Carleton 75, St. John’s (Minn.) 72, OT Green Bay 115, Detroit 108, OT Gustavus 71, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 62 Hamline 71, Macalester 49 Iowa St. 85, Kansas 72 Oakland 82, Milwaukee 79 Ohio St. 66, Penn St. 46 St. Olaf 62, Augsburg 56 St. Thomas (Minn.) 79, Concordia (Moor.) 70 SOUTHWEST Houston Baptist 109, Hillsdale Baptist 84 MVSU 76, Prairie View 73 Sam Houston St. 72, Abilene Christian 51 Stephen F. Austin 86, Lamar 52 Texas Southern 78, Ark.-Pine Bluff 49 FAR WEST No scores reported

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Randolph helps Lakewood top Hartsville

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HARTSVILLE – Taja Randolph had a double-double to lead Lakewood High School’s varsity girls basketball team to a 50-47 victory over Hartsville on Tuesday at the Hartsville gymnasium.

Randolph finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds for the Lady Gators, who improved to 3-3 in Region VI-3A. Tatyana Weldon added 12 points to go along with seven rebounds and five steals. Shanekia Jackson had six points, six rebounds and five steals.

B TEAM BASKETBALL Laurence Manning 36 Heathwood Hall 16

BOYS JV BASKETBALL Hartsville 53 Lakewood 42 Lakewood High School lost to Hartsville 53-42 on Monday at The Swamp.

Travius Epps led the Gators with 13 points. Juwun Purdue added eight.

B TEAM BASKETBALL Laurence Manning 28 Heathwood Hall 14 MANNING – Laurence Manning Academy picked up its first victory with a 28-14 win over Heathwood Hall on Monday at Bubba Davis Gymnasium. Aaron Carlton and AJ Nelson both had six points to lead LMA, which is 1-7. Gabe Harris and Kyle Horton both had five.

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That’s when Carrera fueled a 10-4 run with a 3-pointer, another basket and a three-point play to rebuild South Carolina’s lead. Carrera, a senior, made 10 of 16 field goals and 12 of 15 foul shots. He also had three of South Carolina’s seven blocks.

Sindarius Thornwell added 15 points for South Carolina.

Ready had 20 points to lead the Bulldogs, who have lost six of their past seven.

Carrera surpassed his previous best of 23 points, set in 2013 against LSU. He also matched his top rebounding total of 15, accomplished during his freshman season against Milwaukee. He was the first Gamecock player to scored 30 or more points since Brenton Williams got 32 against Missouri in January 2014.

South Carolina was looking to bounce back from a disappointing loss at Tennessee this past Saturday and avoid its first two-game losing streak of the season. The Bulldogs hoped to build on a strong showing to beat state rival Ole Miss last weekend.

The Gamecocks, though, shook off a sluggish first few minutes to open a 20-9 lead halfway through the opening period. They got a boost from revived scorer Thornwell, who had been 2-of-23 shooting his past two contests. In this one, he hit three shots in the opening half and his nine points at the break were more than the seven combined points he had at Ole Miss and Tennessee last week.

Mississippi State cut the double-digit lead to 37-32 in the last two minutes. But Thornwell hit a basket and Carrera had two jumpers to extend the Gamecocks’ lead to 43-34 at the half.

South Carolina continued growing the lead, eventually moving in front 50-36 on Carrera’s basket before Mississippi State’s run.

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MANNING – Laurence Manning Academy remained undefeated with a 36-16 win over Heathwood Hall on Monday at Bubba Davis Gymnasium.

Lexi Bennett led LMA with 11 points and Breanna Boykin had eight.

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Wilson Hall’s Mary Daniel Stokes, left, and Laurence Manning Academy’s Courtney Beatson fight for the ball during the Lady Barons’ 56-42 victory on Tuesday at Nash Student Center.

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WH improved to 10-7 overall and 4-0 in the region while LMA fell to 9-7 and 2-1.

“I thought we were very patient offensively for the first three quarters,” Talley said. “They switched to a man (defense) in the second half and picked up the tempo a little bit.

“I thought we handled it well offensively, but they just caught fire from 3-point range.”

LMA hit six shots from downtown in the final frame – three from Rashaad Robinson and one each from Taylor Lee, Grayson Dennis and Nazir Andino – to chip away at the deficit. The Swampcats trailed by nine with 5:33 remaining and by just four with less than two minutes to play.

“Even when we were down big, our kids played hard,” ‘Cats head coach Will Epps said. “They were able to withstand the pressure at the end and made a lot of free throws.

You can’t get down to a good team like that the way we did.

“We played hard; we just didn’t play well, especially early on. They got off to a hot start and that put us in a hole. We didn’t shoot very well and just didn’t play well offensively in the first half.”

The Barons’ hot start was due in large part to hot 3-point shooting of their own. Sam Watford, Drew Talley and Brent Carraway all sank shots from beyond the arch as WH built a 10-point lead at one point before taking an 18-10 lead after one quarter.

It was a different story for most of the second quarter. The Barons offense didn’t get on track for a while – not scoring until under three minutes remaining before the break.

LMA took advantage, scoring six points to pull within 18-16. However, the Barons came back with a vengeance, rattling off the final 10 points to take a 28-16 lead into the break.

WH increased its lead to 16 in the third quarter. Carraway scored 11 points, including a trio of 3s, and Grier Schwartz added seven.

Carraway finished with 25 points while Schwartz added 13.

It was just enough to counteract LMA’s Rashaad Robinson, who scored 12 in the frame and was just getting started. He scored 26 of his game-high 27 points in the second half as the Swampcats chipped away. Robinson fouled out with just over a minute left, however, and Wilson Hall’s hot free throw shooting paved the way for the Barons’

victory.

Drew Talley added 16 for WH and Sam Watford finished with 10 to give Wilson Hall four players in double figures.

“We’re not a team that relies on one scorer and the kids do a good job of getting the ball to the guy with the hot hand,” Coach Talley said.

Grayson Dennis had eight points for LMA. Aaron Kruger and Lee followed with seven each.

On the girls side, Wilson Hall used a balanced scoring attack – and big quarters from a couple of different players – to pull away from LMA 56-42.

The Lady Barons improved to 11-8 and 2-2 in SCISA Region II-3A while the Lady Swampcats fell to 8-9 and 0-3 in the region.

“We had so many girls play extremely well tonight,” Wilson Hall head coach Glen Rector said.

“We had a lot of girls come off the bench and contribute both offensively and defensively.

“It was a great team effort and we played with intensity.”

Leading scorer Betsy Cunningham got things going in the first half for WH with four 3-pointers – including three in the second quarter as the Lady Barons took a 27-18 lead into halftime. Cunningham finished with 16

points.

In the third quarter, Courtney Clark came off to bench to score all six of her points as the WH lead ballooned to 16 points. Finally, in the fourth, Nicolette Fisher had eight of her 12 points to cap off a well-balanced night for the Lady Barons. Fisher also had six rebounds.

Mary Daniel Stokes also had six points off the bench for Wilson Hall.

“Courtney hit some big shots for us,” Rector said.

“I thought with some of the matchups it might open some things up for her and it did and she was able to play really well for us tonight. I can’t say enough about the total team effort.”

The Lady Swampcats finished with three players in double figures – Brooke Bennett had 14 while Courtney Beatson and Cora Lee Downer finished with 11 each.

The problem for LMA is most of those points came from the charity stripe.

Laurence Manning was 18for-26 from the foul line but couldn’t muster much in the post.

“We just couldn’t get anything going tonight offensively,” LMA head coach Kendra Hoover said.

“Wilson Hall defended well and we weren’t able to do some of the things we normally do.”

After Wrignt’s 3 gave the Knights, who fell to 15-3 overall and 2-2 in Region VI4A, their biggest lead of the game, Peoples hit a short jumper that sparked a 12-3 run to end the third quarter.

Peoples hit his first trey, Cedric Rembert had another and Jaylenn Corbett scored two baskets as Sumter pulled within 45-41.

Rembert hit a basket to start the fourth quarter and bring SHS within two. After WF scored three points, Peoples drained another three to make it 48-46. He followed with another about a minute later, giving the Gamecocks a 49-48 lead with 5:58 remaining in the game. Sumter, which improved to 12-4 overall and 4-1 in the region, never trailed after that.

Corbett had a huge game with a double-double of 18 points and 16 rebounds.

Rembert finished with 16 and Peoples had 13.

Wright Jr., the son of former Clemson standout and NBA player Sharone Wright, led the Knights with 23 points.

Cartier Diarra added 20.

In the girls game, Sumter continued to roll through its region schedule, blasting West Florence 78-34.

The Lady Gamecocks, now 16-4 overall and 5-0 in region play, led 18-6 after one quarter. They pushed the lead to 40-25 at halftime and 62-24 after three quarters.

Anna McBride had a double-double for SHS, scoring 12 points and pulling down 12 rebounds to go with four steals.

Jessica Harris led Sumter in scoring with 19 points and eight assists and she was one of three with six steals. Cy Cooper had 18 points and six steals and Kyra Wilson had six steals. The Lady Gamecocks finished with 27 steals.

Jazmyn Jackson led WF, 7-11 and 1-3, with 14 points.

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Sumter Junior Varsity/B Team Invitational set for Saturday

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Novak Djokovic plays a backhand return to Kei Nishikori during Djokovic’s 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 win on Tuesday during the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia.

Djokovic, Federer to meet in the semis; Williams beats Sharapova

By JOHN PYE The Associated Press

The tiebreaker will be tricky. Djokovic lost only one of his 28 Grand Slam matches in 2015 — to Stan Wawrinka in the French MELBOURNE, Australia — Serena WilOpen final — and has won 37 of his last 38 liams has never lost in the semifinals of the matches at Melbourne Park, a Australian Open. Neither has Novak run that includes four titles.

Djokovic.

He beat Federer in the WimA key difference between the defending bledon and U.S. Open finals last champions is that Williams beat the mostyear, but Federer was back conexperienced and highest-ranked challenger tending for titles. in her half of the draw when she extended “Any round feels like finals her streak to 18 consecutive wins against because of the fact that we are, Federer Maria Sharapova with a 6-4, 6-1 quarterfiyou know, big rivals, we played nal victory on Tuesday. so many times against each Williams said she wasn’t aware that she other,” Djokovic said. “There’s a lot of tenhad won the Australian Open all six prevision. There’s a lot at stake. I’m expecting a ous times she won her quarterfinal match, great fight in two days.” “but that’s good.”

In the women’s semifinals, Williams will “It’s not a stat that’s set in stone,” Wilbe facing fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanliams said. “I still have to win two matches.” ska, who beat No. 10 Carla Suarez Navarro Five-time champion Djokovic, after beat6-1, 6-3. Radwanska has won one of her preing No. 7 Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, still has vious four semifinals at a major, but never a daunting semifinal match against Roger won a Grand Slam title.

Federer, who has won four of his 17 Grand Williams is 8-0 against Radwanska, inSlam titles in Australia. cluding their meeting in the 2012 WimbleFederer reached his 12th Australian Open don final. semifinal, and 39th in a Grand Slam event, Williams said she couldn’t explain her with a 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-4 win over No. 6 Tomas 11-year domination of Sharapova — she Berdych. He hasn’t gone past the semifinals has won 19 of their 21 meetings overall — at Melbourne Park since winning the title except to say she rises to the big challengin 2010, but he’s a serious obstacle for es.

Djokovic.

“When I play her, I know automatically I They’re 22-all in career head-to-heads, have to step up my game,” said Williams, a with Djokovic catching up since usurping 21-time major winner. “I think that makes Federer in the rankings. me play better.

The Sumter JV/B Team Invitational boys basketball tournament will begin on Saturday at the Sumter High School gymnasiums.

There will be six games played in each of the two gymnasiums based on the pool-play format. The first games are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. with the final contests set for a 4:15 p.m. start.

Those games will set the seeding for a single-elimination tournament on Saturday, Feb. 6, again at SHS. Local teams that will compete in the tournament are the junior varsity squads from Sumter, Crestwood, Lakewood, Manning and Lee Central and the Sumter B team.

Tickets are $7 per person.

Schedule Saturday SHS Main Gym 10 a.m. -- Lakewood vs. Lower Richland 11:15 a.m. -- Lancaster vs. Lee Central 12:30 p.m. -- Sumter B vs. Ridge View B 1:45 p.m. -- Sumter vs. Manning 3 p.m. -- Sumter B vs. Westwood B 4:15 p.m. -- Sumter vs. Westwood SHS Auxilliary Gym 10 a.m. -- Crestwood vs. Manning 11:15 a.m. -- Lower Richland B vs.

Westwood B 12:30 p.m. -- Lee Central vs. Crestwood 1:45 p.m. -- Lower Richland vs. Westwood 3 p.m. -- Lancaster vs. Lakewood 4:15 p.m. -- Ridge View B vs. Lower Richland B

Lee Central-Johnsonville games to be held today Lee Central will play host to Johnsonville today in basketball games that were postponed on Friday due to inclement weather.

The junior varsity boys contest will start at 5 p.m. followed by the varsity girls and varsity boys games.

USC adds Peterson to football staff COLUMBIA — Former Florida and NFL linebacker Mike Peterson was named South Carolina’s outside linebackers coach, finishing off the on-field staff of new Gamecocks head coach Will Muschamp.

Peterson served on Florida’s strength and condition-

ing staff since retiring from a 14-sesason NFL career in 2012. Peterson will work with linebackers coach Coleman Hutzler.

Peterson played linebacker at Florida under head coach Steve Spurrier from 1995-98 and was part of the Gators’ national championship team in 1996. He was a secondround pick of the Indianapolis Colts in 1999. Peterson also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons.

Clippers’ Blake Griffin out after HAND INJURY INDIANAPOLIS — Blake Griffin will be out for as long as six weeks with a broken shooting hand after punching a Los Angeles Clippers staff member during a road trip.

The star forGriffin ward underwent a procedure and was treated by an orthopedic surgeon after returning early to Los Angeles from a fivegame road trip, the team said Tuesday. He has a spiral fracture of the fourth metacarpal in his right hand.

The Clippers play at Indiana on Tuesday night.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and coach Doc Rivers, who is also president of basketball operations, said Griffin threw the punch last Saturday in Toronto.

“This conduct has no place in our organization and this incident does not represent who we are as a team,” Ballmer and Rivers said in a joint statement. “We are conducting a full investigation with assistance from the NBA. At the conclusion of the investigation, appropriate action will be taken.”

Griffin had X-rays Monday and his recovery is expected to last four to six weeks, meaning he will miss the AllStar game Feb. 14 in Toronto, where he could have been picked as a reserve.

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OBITUARIES CAROL ANN BRUCE Carol Ann Brookshire Bruce, 71, died on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on July 31, 1944, in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Lorine Branson Broadway.

She was a real esBRUCE tate broker with Bruce and Associates for many years and she was a retired special investigator for the South Carolina Real Estate Commission. She was a member of Lake Marion Baptist Church.

She is survived by two sons, Mark Bruce and Michael Bruce, both of Sumter; two sisters, Linda Chazen (Jack) of Sumter and Roberta Lesh (Gary) of Bolivia, North Carolina; and two grandsons, Branson Bruce and Corbin Bruce.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday in the chapel of Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home, 515 Miller Road, Sumter, with the Rev. S. Paul Howell officiating.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service from noon to 1 p.m. at Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home.

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

DONALD J. ROGERS DALZELL — Donald J. Rogers, 79, widower of Miyoshi Kurashima Rogers, died on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born in New York City, he was a son of the late Lewis and Edith Ledingham Rogers.

Mr. Rogers retired from the United States Air Force and later retired from Central

Carolina Technical College.

Surviving are a sister, Ginger Poutous of Elcajon, California.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Richard Rogers.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday in the chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with Dr. David Richardson officiating.

The family will receive friends immediately following the service.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210.

Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

CORINNE L. PHILIPS Corinne Levy Philips, widow of retired Lt Col. John J. Philips, died on Jan. 26, 2016, at Covenant Place in Sumter.

She was 93 years old. Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late George Davis and Pauline Gardner Levy. She attended school in Sumter and was in the first class to graduate from the co-educational system. She earned her degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina and was on the staff of the school paper and annual. She worked in public relations at Shaw Air Force Base and was later society editor of The Sumter Daily Item. While her

husband was in the service, she was active in the Officer’s Wives Clubs and was publicity chairman at several bases.

She also did publicity work in Parent Teacher Associations.

She was a member of Temple Sinai, where she served on the board of various committees. After returning to Sumter when her husband retired from the Air Force, she was a member of the Sumter Garden Club; a former member of the advisory board of Shepherd’s Center; and a member of Friends of the Museum, Friends of the Library, Friends of Swan Lake and the Historical Society. She was also a member of the Sunset Country Club and the Sumter Assembly.

She is survived by her son, George Davis Philips and his wife, Carolyn, of Chapin; grandson, Sean Philips and his wife, Rianne; and greatgrandchildren, Sylas West and Calianna Louise. She is also survived by her deceased son’s children, Trey and Katie Philips of Houston, Texas.

Services will be private.

She was predeceased by her son, John J. Philips Jr.; and her sister, Polly Ann Levy.

Memorials may be made to the Remembrance Fund of the Temple Sinai, 13 Church St., Sumter, SC 29150; Sloan Kettering Hospital Memorials, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10065; or to the charity of one’s choice.

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

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

NADREANA R. TONEY LYNCHBURG — Nadreana Renell Toney was born on Aug. 19, 1998, in Florence, a daughter of Cassandra Toney and Edward (Darlene) Brown and stepdaughter of Kevin McFadden Sr. She was a junior at Lee Central High School and a member of St. Mark Baptist Church.

Nadreana was a beautiful, sweet young lady. She always had a big, beautiful smile whenever you saw her. She touched the lives of so many with her warm heart and loving personality. She shall always be held in sacred memory in our hearts.

On Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, at the Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Hospital, God called his sweet angel home.

In addition to her parents, her precious memories will forever be cherished by her two brothers, Kevin McFadden Jr. and Calvin Keyon McFadden; two sisters, Quadriyyah and Gensis Brown; three stepsisters, Shameeka, Dewanna and Patrice Currie; one stepbrother, Lewilliam Currie; maternal grandparents, Grandson and Marie Toney; great-grandmother, Ozzie Bell Dickey; paternal grandmother, Carrie Brown; step-grandmother, Lillie Dickey Brown; her special cousin whom she called sister, Courtney Toney; her aunt she called Mom, Katrina Toney; her uncle, Kenneth Toney; two very special best friends, Jakeja Burris and China Lathan; one godsister, Mylasia Dennis; one godson, Ian Commander; and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who loved her dearly.

She was predeceased by two uncles, Melvin Lee and Levern Toney.

A Celebration of Life ser-

vice will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Thursday at St. Mark Baptist Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery, directed by Jefferson Funeral Home Service Inc.

LORETTA ROBIRDS-PARKER Loretta Marie Robirds-Parker, 42, of Gaston, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.

The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursday at Thompson Funeral Home at Greenlawn Memorial Park, 845 Leesburg Road, Columbia.

JOHNNY LEE MCKENZIE Johnny Lee McKenzie, of Sumter, entered into eternal rest on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia.

He was born on March 21, 1964, to the late Carolyn Mckenzie Rose and Jessie Montgomery. His stepfather was the late Jack Rose Sr. The family will be receiving friends on Thursday at the home of his cousin, Eddie Manuel, 1527 Marley Drive, Columbia, SC 29210.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time but will be announced later by Ephriam D. Stephens Funeral Home of Sumter.

WILLIAM D. REED William David Reed, 79, husband of Jeanette Smith Reed, died on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Services will be announced

by Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter.

ALBERT MCENTIRE SR. Albert McEntire Sr., 85, died on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Bullock Funeral Home.

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Gen. Sherman’s ‘psychological war’ examined Noted author, historian to discuss book at museum

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en. William Tecumseh Sherman’s infamous march through the South, especially Columbia, will be the topic at the next meeting of The

Sumter County Historical Society. Speaking at the 3 p.m.

Feb. 7 meeting at the Sumter County Museum’s Heritage Education Center will be University of South Carolina Professor Emerita Patricia G. “Pat” McNeely. Her talk will address the issues and history in her recent book, “Sherman’s Flame & Blame Campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas ... and the burning of Columbia.”

McNeely will specifically speak on Sherman’s “psychological war on civilians” and his troops’ burning of Columbia.

“In addition to physical and economic assaults, Sherman designed a massive psychological strategy designed to cripple the Confederacy, to destroy the faith of civilians in their leaders and their government, and to kill the will of the people to fight,” McNEELY McNeely said.

She explained, “Sherman issued orders when he left Atlanta that provided leeway for destruction of private property. As long as he didn’t physically witness his soldiers committing atrocities, he allowed his foragers to pillage, rob and burn private property while he released propaganda and disinformation to simultaneously blame the atrocities on the nearest Confederates.”

It is this strategy, she said, that is responsible for the continuing belief by many that the burning of Columbia was ignited by cotton left burning in the streets by Gen. Wade Hampton’s men, a

rumor started deliberately by Sherman.

In her introduction to “Flame and Blame ... ,” McNeely said she was puzzled that so many people accepted Sherman’s account, as she had “read an avalanche of eye-witness accounts that leave no doubt that General William T. Sherman’s drunken troops burned Columbia. I decided to search for answers.”

She traced Sherman’s path across Georgia and the Carolinas, relying “almost entirely on primary sources ...” rather than referencing other historians. These primary sources included Sherman’s “memoirs, official reports and the accounts of others who were with him or who were unfortunate enough to be in his path at the end of the war.”

McNeely’s well-documented book details Sherman’s campaign, especially in Columbia. It is also filled with illustrations of the destruction of the city and of several Columbia residents who lived through its burning.

McNeely is a graduate of Furman University and holds a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina.

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Author Pat McNeely will address members of the Sumter County Historical Society and guests on Sunday, Feb. 7, about her research and information uncovered on the burning of Columbia during the Civil War. The meeting at the Sumter County Museum is open to the public.

Before joining the USC faculty to teach writing and journalism for more than 30 years, she worked as a reporter and editor for The Greenville News, The State and The Columbia Record.

Her latest book, published in October 2015, is titled “Lincoln, Sherman, Davis and the Lost Confederate Gold.”

Copies of both books are available at The Sumter Item, 20 N. Magnolia St. and will be

available for purchase at the meeting.

Meet author Pat McNeely at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, in the Ross McKenzie Hall at the Heritage Education Center, Sumter County Museum, 122 N. Washington St. Admission is free, and the public is invited to the meeting sponsored by The Sumter County Historical Society and the South Carolina Humanities Council. Light refreshments

will be served following McNeely’s presentation.

The Sumter County Historical Society meets monthly, September through May. The public is invited to attend most meetings, which comprise special presentations by guests and members that add to the history of Sumter County. New members are welcome at any time. For more information call Pat DuBose at (803) 775-1091.

From Hollywood to Russia, actress Lee has fruitful career

BY NICK THOMAS Tinseltown Talks

prise movie endings in the final scene of “Witness for the Prosecution,” Billy Wilder’s 1957 British Acting nonstop in film, TV and thecourtroom drama starring Tyrone ater since the early 1950s, Ruta Lee Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles tackles all projects — on screen and Laughton. off — with zeal.

“We had to sign secrecy agreements In 1964, she even called the office of not to give away the surprise ending, former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushwhich involved me,” she said. “I also chev to demand the release of her appear in the balcony with Elsa Lithuanian grandmother, held since Lanchester watching the trial. She World War II in a Siberian internment was Laughton’s real-life wife and camp. helped me with my Middle English diA decade earlier, Lee had apalect. Elsa and Charles had a dressing proached her first film role as one of room on the set with a little kitchen the brides in “Seven Brides for Seven and would invite me for lunch. I beBrothers” with equal tenacity. come a favorite of his, and he would “During the dance audition, the propout if I didn’t visit and play Perducers and director asked me to show quackey or Jotto with him.” them something folksy,” recalled Lee Lee has also been a tireless voice to from Los Angeles. “Because of my help others, raising millions of dollars Lithuanian descent, I danced up a for the Thalians to support people storm with a polka and got the role.” with mental health problems, includShe was paired with gifted dance ing returning veterans (see www. partner Matt Mattox in the MGM muthalians.org). sical.

And then there was her effort to “One time while rehearsing, he liftrescue her grandmother from Siberia. ed me high off a bench, and I sprained “When I called Khrushchev’s office, my ankle when I landed,” she said.

PHOTO COURTESY RUTA LEE I spoke with his translator,” she re“So I learned most of the choreograActress Ruta Lee gets her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The actress has also called. “Within 48 hours we were flyphy from a sitting position but still raised millions of dollars for charity. ing over to bring her back to America. managed to do most of the dancing in So I’ve had an interesting life, and I’m Fleming from ‘Rawhide.’ What a darcan’t do that; you don’t belong to the the big barn-raising number.” always involved with something. It’s ling man. But the most he got was a electrician’s union.’”

A year earlier, in 1953, Lee also been a long, wonderful and fruitful cagoodnight kiss.”

Lee went on to make numerous apwildly boogied her way into one of reer.”

Her serious relationships were alher first TV roles in “The Adventures pearances on TV shows (see www.ruways with businessmen, she says, not of Superman” and learned a valuable talee.com), with westerns being a faNick Thomas teaches at Auburn Unishow-business men. In the midst of vorite. And while many cowboys lesson in on-set protocol. versity at Montgomery, Alabama, and her rising career 40 years ago, Lee chased her, only one came close to “It was a short dance scene in a has written features, columns and inmet Texas restaurant executive Webcafé, and I decided to rehearse during catching her off screen. terviews for more than 600 magazines ster B. Lowe Jr., and the couple soon “Most of the dating I did was for lunch hour,” she explained. “But and newspapers. Follow him on Twitpublicity purposes and never had any married. when I plugged in the record player, ter @TinseltownTalks.

Lee delivered one of the great surreal romances with actors except Eric someone grabbed me and said, ‘You

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Mug muffins are a perfect warming treat for a family breakfast.

Muffin in a mug — an individual treat mixing everything up in the actual mug before it heads off to cook. But those videos are really sped up, and ac’m not sure how it happened, tually there are a lot of ingredients but the microwave mug muffin that have to get poured into a cup to make just one muffin (and what about is suddenly an Internet sensa- making more than one?). So, a bowl it tion. I’m a believer in making muf- is.

My recipe is for two muffins (perfect fins in large batches and freezing, romantic retreat food!), but it will scale so I admit I’ve only taken interest up no problem (for when romance leads to a gaggle of kiddos!). And in the individually made microhere’s a bonus: You can save time by making the batter in advance and leavwave version recently. ing it overnight in the refrigerator.

Just add a couple tablespoons of extra My kids love to eat anything from a milk and about 15 seconds extra cookcup (ever since my mother-in-law gifting time. ed our entire family personalized I like to use a mix of almond flour or photo mugs), so I decided to give it a coconut flour to add filling fiber, progo. Turns out, mug muffins are a pertein and satisfying fat, plus just a little fect warming treat for our family’s regular flour (either all-purpose flour “fun Friday” breakfast! Try my cocoor any gluten-free 1-for-1 substitute) nut-cinnamon roll muffin this week. for a fluffy texture. Note that coconut And by the way, if you mix 1/4 cup of flour absorbs a lot of liquid, so you unsweetened dark cocoa powder into the batter and leave out the cinnamon, may have to add extra liquid depending on how much coconut flour you the results will be dessert-worthy. use. But somehow eating a muffin with I make the batter in a small bowl, then pour into a mug coated with cook- a spoon makes the recipe more forgiving, so feel free to branch out and ing spray, which means you miss out make this your own. on that cool viral-video moment of

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COCONUT-CINNAMON ROLL MICROWAVE MUG MUFFIN Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 2 2 tablespoons almond flour (meal) 1 tablespoon coconut flour 2 tablespoons quinoa flour (or other gluten-free substitute or all-purpose flour) 2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar, plus 1 teaspoon 3/4 teaspoon baking powder Pinch kosher salt 1 egg 1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted (or neutral oil) 1/4 cup plain low-fat Greek yogurt 1/4 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 teaspoons low-fat cream cheese Cinnamon, to garnish In a medium bowl, whisk together the almond flour, coconut flour, quinoa flour, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the egg, oil, yogurt, milk and vanilla, then whisk until well mixed.

Coat two 8-ounce mugs with cooking spray. Spoon a heaping tablespoon of batter into each mug. Top each with 1 teaspoon of the cream cheese and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Divide the remaining batter among the 2 mugs. Sprinkle with cinnamon and the remaining teaspoon of brown sugar. One at a time, microwave on high for about 1 minute 15 seconds, or until the muffin is dry on top (timing will vary by microwave). Let cool a few minutes before eating.

Nutrition information per serving: 290 calories; 150 calories from fat (52 percent of total calories); 17 g fat (9 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 120 mg cholesterol; 410 mg sodium; 27 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 19 g sugar; 9 g protein.

Don’t make another boring dip

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H

osting a horde of fans for the Super Bowl? Or

are you crashing somebody’s party and tasked with bringing something delicious? Either way, you could spend a lot of time thinking about what to prepare. Or you could just make this and know beyond any doubt that you had picked a crowdpleaser.

What is it about hot dips? I can show some restraint around a room-temperature dip. Because sour cream is fine and all but offer me something hot and cheesy and golden on top, and you’d better watch your fingers.

This dip makes no pretense at healthfulness. Because it’s the Super Bowl! Not the day to start your diet. I don’t know about you, but I like my healthy foods healthy and my decadent foods decadent.

Still, if you insist, you certainly can pick and choose among the ingredients and decide where you want to slim down the dish. You could, for example, use reduced-fat shredded cheese or Neufchatel (low-fat cream

cheese) instead of regular.

And while we’re talking substitutes, you could use fresh spinach in this recipe, but frozen is just fine (and so convenient).

If you are bringing this to someone’s house, you’ll need to heat it there, which means you’ll absolutely need to clear this with the host ahead of time. There are few things more exasperating than a guest rushing into your kitchen and surprising you with the information that they need a space in your oven and they need it now. But unless there is not an inch of oven left, your hosts probably will be fairly delighted by the prospect of a hot dip in their home. I know I would be.

HOT-AND-CREAMY PESTO SPINACH DIP Start to finish: 30 minutes (10 minutes active) Servings: 8 2 teaspoons olive or vegetable oil 1 teaspoon finely minced garlic 9-ounce package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed to remove excess liquid 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened 3/4 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1/4 cup milk or cream 1/4 cup minced fresh basil Kosher salt and ground black pepper Heat the oven to 350 F. Coat a shallow, 4-cup baking dish or 9-inch pie pan with cooking spray.

In a medium skillet over medium, heat the oil.

Add the garlic, stir for 30 seconds, then add the

spinach and cook, stirring frequently, until the spinach is cooked and no liquid remains in the pan, about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool.

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine the cream cheese, Monterey Jack, Parmesan, milk, basil and a hefty pinch each of salt and pepper.

Use an electric mixer to beat until well combined, then add the spinach mixture and mix again until fully incorporated. Transfer the mixture to the prepared pan, smoothing the top, then bake for 20 minutes, or until hot and bubbling. Serve hot with bread or crackers.

Nutrition information per serving: 170 calories; 130 calories from fat (76 percent of total calories); 15 g fat (8 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 45 mg cholesterol; 340 mg sodium; 3 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 2 g sugar; 6 g protein.

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hicken wings, guacamole and cheesy dips are America’s

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a little more taste and pizazz this year.

Transform typical dishes by swapping sausage into recipes, such as chili and nachos, which typically incorporate ground beef. The built-in flavor lends great taste and convenience to these dishes. Instead of chips and queso, add brat sausage to your nachos to make bratchos. Or give this MVP Chili MVP Chili uses sausage instead of ground beef for a bold taste. recipe a try!

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MVP CHILI 2 packages of Johnsonville Hot Italian Sausage Links (use mild links for less spicy chili) 1 large onion 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons chili powder (use mild chili powder for less spicy chili) 1/4 teaspoon cumin 1 bottle (12 ounces) dark beer (OK to substitute light beer or 1 cup beef stock) 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes 2 tablespoons tomato paste 1 can (15.5 ounces) red kidney beans 1 can (15.5 ounces) black beans 1-1.5 cups corn (frozen or fresh off the cob) salt and pepper De-case sausage and sauté in large pot; use wooden spoon to crumble sausage as it cooks.

Once sausage is nicely browned, stir in onion, garlic, chili powder and cumin and continue cooking until onion softens, about 5 minutes.

Add beer and allow it to simmer for an additional 5 minutes scraping up any brown bits from the bottom of the pan.

Stir in tomatoes and tomato paste and allow it to simmer, uncovered for an additional 10-15 minutes on mediumlow, stirring occasionally.

Taste and adjust seasonings with salt and pepper.

Finally, stir in beans and corn.

Let this come to a simmer and it’s ready to serve! (Can be prepared a day ahead.)

MIX IT UP Smoky flavors and bourbon are trending upward in kitchens, backyards, bars and restaurants across the country.

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Steep Johnsonville Fully Cooked Smoked Brats in bourbon for about a day to extract smoky and savory flavors, and mix the bourbon for a modern twist on the Manhattan cocktail.

Find more creative recipes to spice up your game-day spread at Johnsonville.com.

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My online dating efforts were met with peculiar results. All of the six women I connected with either stood me up or made excuses why they couldn’t or wouldn’t meet me in person. Out of

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About a year after we got back together, my wife confessed that the women I had reached out to online were all fictitious personae that she had constructed with the intent of exhausting my search efforts. It worked.

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Can’t wait until summer for “Shark Week”? “Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan” (10 p.m., Travel, TV-PG) returns for a third season. The first two aired on BBC America.

Monaghan, familiar to fans of “Lost” and “The Lord of the Rings” franchise, travels to Mozambique in this season opener. He’s in search of the world’s biggest fish, the whale shark, known to weigh up to 42 tons. Along the way to the country’s 1,600-mile coastline, Monaghan is given a tour by children who show him some of Mozambique’s more peculiar creatures, including a rock python. He visits the coastal village of Vilanculos and witnesses its annual rowboat race and encounters a moray eel, a whip ray and a giant manta, all before his date with the whale shark.

Over the course of the third season, Monaghan visits Bolivia, Japan, the Philippines, Venezuela and Vietnam.

• A far more somber travelogue, “This Is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees” (7 p.m., Pivot, TV-14) offers an intimate look at the plight of children forced to leave the violence in their native Syria. More than half of the refugees generated by that prolonged civil war are children. “This Is Exile” is narrated entirely by its juvenile subjects.

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Beer-steamed cheese and mushroom beef sliders are seen in Concord, New Hampshire. This dish is from a recipe by Sara Moulton.

A little beer is a lot of flavor in these Super Bowl sliders

BY SARA MOULTON The Associated Press Big provisions are required to watch the big game, and nothing’s more substantial than a burger, even in its mini form — the slider.

Indeed, if you plan to serve a variety of dishes for the Super Bowl, sliders are more sensible than the full-sized guys. But they happen to be a little trickier to cook than a standard-issue burger. The slider’s size makes it tough to put a nice crust on the outside while ensuring that it doesn’t overcook on the inside.

These sliders are adapted from a burger I used to make a million years ago at a bar in Ann Arbor called the Del Rio — my first job as a cook.

Dubbed the Det Burger, this marvel was dreamed up before I landed at the Del Rio by a cook named Bob Detweiler, who baptized the creation after himself. The heart of the original version was a quarter-pounder topped by “the Det mix” — canned mushrooms, canned olives, grilled onions, freeze-dried green peppers and Kraft Singles.

But there also was a secret ingredient: beer. The Det Burger was steamed in beer.

If it wasn’t quite “the burger that made Ann Arbor famous,” it was undeniably a city-wide favorite.

A generation later, I assembled the same winning combo of ingredients — though in a fresher form — and then focused on the cooking process to make sure that these miniburgers ended up both juicy and crusty. There are a few key points.

First, the sliders need to be about 3/4-inch thick, not only so they don’t overcook, but also so you can fit all of them at one time into the skillet.

Second, the skillet needs to be large, a 12-incher. If you don’t have a skillet that big, use two smaller ones, and cook six sliders in each. And third, whichever skillet you use, the

Make your party one to remember with 2 dips

BY FAMILY FEATURES Find these and more recipes for your game day celebration at hiddenvalley.com or dipgenius.com.

BEER-STEAMED CHEESE AND MUSHROOM BEEF SLIDERS Start to finish: 50 minutes Makes 12 sliders 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided 1/2 cup finely chopped yellow onion 3 ounces mushrooms (white, cremini or shiitake), finely chopped Kosher salt 2 tablespoons finely chopped pitted green olives 2 tablespoons finely chopped, drained, canned green chilies 3 ounces sliced sharp cheddar cheese, broken into 12 equal pieces 1 1/2 pounds ground beef, shaped into 12 sliders, each about 3/4inch thick Ground black pepper 1/3 cup beer 12 slider buns In a large (at least 12-inch) skillet over medium, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil. Add the onion, and cook until golden, about 8 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the onion to a bowl. Add another tablespoon of the oil to the pan, the mushrooms and a hefty pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the liquid the mushrooms give off has evaporated, about 5 minutes. Transfer the mushrooms to the bowl with the onion. Reserve the skillet.

Add the olives and chilies to the mushroom mixture, and stir well. Set aside.

Return the skillet to high heat. Add the remaining tablespoon of oil, and wait until it is almost smoking. Meanwhile, season the sliders on one side with salt and pepper. When the oil is hot, add the sliders, seasoned side down (it will be a little crowded in the pan), and cook them until they are just browned on the first side, about 2 minutes. Sprinkle the top side of each with salt and pepper, turn the sliders over, and cook for another 2 minutes.

While the sliders are browning, top each slider with a heaping teaspoon of the mushroom mixture, dividing all of the mixture among the sliders, then place a piece of cheese on top of each.

Quickly pour the beer into the pan, all around the sliders, cover the pan, and steam for 2 minutes.

Turn off the heat, and let the sliders sit in the pan for another minute to let the cheese melt completely. Spoon some of the liquid in the skillet onto the tops and bottoms of the buns, transfer the sliders to the buns, and serve right away.

Nutrition information per slider: 280 calories; 120 calories from fat (43 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (4 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 45 mg cholesterol; 370 mg sodium; 23 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 16 g protein.

oil must be heated until it’s almost smoking. At the start, you want the burgers to sear, not steam, which is what will happen if the pan isn’t hot enough.

At first, the sliders will be crowded together in the skillet, but they’ll shrink down as they cook, giving off fat and juices in the process.

You deglaze the pan with beer, of course, which min-

gles intimately with the fat and juices released by the burgers to create a delectable pan sauce.

I recommend spooning some of this liquid onto the buns before sliding in the burgers, but my son proposes a more extravagant way to roll: pour the sauce into ramekins, and invite your guests to dunk their sliders into it between bites.

BAKED SPINACH AND CHICKEN DIP Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Serves: 12 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed 1 cup Hidden Valley Original Ranch Dressing 1 package (10 ounces) frozen, chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, grated 1/2 cup cooked chicken, chopped Heat oven to 375 F. In microwave-safe medium bowl, add cream cheese and dressing.

Microwave on high 30 seconds, or until cream cheese is soft. Stir to combine. Add spinach and Parmesan cheese. Mix well. Add chicken, and stir to combine.

Transfer mixture to baking dish that holds at least 6 cups. Bake 20 minutes, or until bubbly and golden brown. The internal temperature should be 165 F. Serve with crackers, bread or veggie sticks.

Tips: If you like it spicy, substitute Hidden Valley Farmhouse Originals Southwest Chipotle Dressing, and add diced pickled jalapeños.

For fewer calories, try Hidden Valley The Original Ranch Light Dressing. To make ahead, prepare unbaked dip up to 3 days ahead; store covered and refrigerated. Bake before serving.

RANCH BUFFALO WINGS Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 40 minutes Serves: 7 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted 1/4 cup cayenne pepper sauce 3 tablespoons vinegar 24 chicken wings or drumettes 1 packet (1 ounce) Hidden Valley Original Ranch Salad Dressing & Seasoning Mix 1/2 teaspoon paprika 1 cup prepared Hidden Valley Original Ranch Salad Dressing & Seasoning Mix Heat oven to 350 F. In small bowl, whisk together butter, pepper sauce and vinegar.

Dip wings or drumettes in butter mixture; arrange in single layer in large baking pan. Sprinkle with dressing and seasoning mix. Bake until chicken is browned and an internal temperature of 165 F has been reached, about 30-40 minutes. Sprinkle with paprika.

Serve with dressing and celery sticks.

Source: Hidden Valley Ranch