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BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Sumter County Administrator Gary Mixon said all but two of the 16 2008 Capital Penny Sales Tax projects, with a budget of $70 million, are at least 90 percent complete. The two projects requiring extensive work are Southern Gateway, at $1.6 million, and Lafayette Diamond, at $6 million. According to Sumter County’s MIXON website, the Southern Gateway project will consist of improvements to the intersection of South Lafayette Drive and Manning Avenue. Mixon said the county has already issued a notice to proceed to the contractor, and the public can expect to see work in that area before the end of the month. Improvements will include traffic signal upgrades, new crosswalks and a new median

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FLOOD The Sumter Item news team easily declared the early October flood that the National Weather Service declared as a 1,000-year flood event as the top news story of 2015. Forecasters began predicting a major flood event for the area a few days before the rain started to fall. Light rain began falling on Friday, Oct. 2. By Monday, more than 21 inches of rain had fallen on Sumter and Clarendon counties, bursting dams and washing away homes, roads and bridges. Some cellphone services alerted residents to a flash-flood warning, but many awoke in the early hours of Sunday, Oct. 4, to rising water in their homes. There were more heroic rescues during the flood than we could possibly write about. First responders from every jurisdiction spent most of Sunday and Monday rescuing people from their homes and automobiles. The flood affected every resident in one way or another. Workers couldn’t get to work. Students couldn’t get to school. Power was out at many locations. Hospitals had to use back-up power systems, and most Sumter residents were under an order to boil tap water. Emergency shelters were opened by the American Red Cross and local gov-

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Damage is seen on Golfair Road after historic flooding in October. ernment agencies. Flood damage relief resources, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Small Business Administration as well as state services, brought makeshift offices to local communities to make it easier for residents to receive services in a one-stop location. If disasters reveal the true character of a community, local communities illustrated they are in good health. Residents in Clarendon and Sumter counties rallied to help neighbors, friends and people they didn’t know. Church groups, graduates of area high schools and college students who had no connection to the area made a pilgrimage

here to volunteer to help people rebuild their homes, bring food and water supplies to local agencies and provide manpower to help people who didn’t have the means to help themselves. With Clarendon and Sumter counties at the epicenter of the flood disaster, the state asked for more than $300 million in federal assistance in addition to FEMA disaster funds and SBA loans. Farmers were particularly hit hard. S.C. Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers told a Special Senate Committee Regarding Flood Relief Efforts in December that crop insurance only

Monday is the final day for October flood victims to register for individual assistance with Federal Emergency Management Agency. City of Sumter and Sumter County officials encourage residents to register for assistance whether property has suffered major or minor damage. Kurt Pickering, FEMA media relations specialist, said 9,727 Sumter County residents had registered for individual assistance, and nearly $11.5

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Final reading for Hyatt project set for Tuesday Sumter City Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in City Council Chambers, Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St., to consider: • Final reading of an ordinance authorizing the transfer of .75 acres of property extending from 10 N. Main St. to 22 N. Main St. to Sumter Hotel Venture LLC for the Hyatt hotel project; • Final reading of an ordinance adopting the 2016-17 Community Development Block Grant Entitlement budget of more than $285,000; • Final reading of an ordinance annexing one parcel of land at 1745 U.S. 15 South for future development of a Dollar General; • Final reading of an ordinance regarding the authorization of a lease-purchase agreement relating to the lease purchase of a fire rescue truck with equipment, a front loader garbage truck, a clam truck used to pick up yard debris, a recycling truck and a can hauler used to transport commercial garbage containers for approximately $1.26 million; • A resolution authorizing the purchase of a container handler truck; and • The adoption of the 2016 municipal court jury list from State Election Commission.

Monkey breeding facility under investigation YEMASSEE — The federal government is investigating a South Carolina facility that breeds monkeys for research. U.S. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Tonya Espinoza told The Beaufort Gazette the investigation at Alpha Genesis began in May. She says there’s no timetable. Possible outcomes range from warnings to license revocation. She did not give a reason for the investigation. But the newspaper reports Saturday it began a month after a USDA inspection. Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard says he’s unaware of an open investigation, and his company complies with federal law. Records show the company that’s home to roughly 5,000 monkeys reported the deaths and injuries of 12 monkeys between January and October of 2014. Stop Animal Exploitation Now, a nonprofit that doesn’t want animals used in research, wants the company shut down.

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The South Carolina Bar pro bono program is sponsoring “Law School for Non-Lawyers,” a seven-week program designed to give the public an overview of the South Carolina legal system and insight into common legal problems people face. The series will be held on Tuesday evenings, Feb. 2 continuing through March 15, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Central Carolina Technical College’s Legal Studies Center, 111 S. Main St. The deadline to enroll is Wednesday, Jan. 27. The seven-week course costs $45 and includes all course materials. The course will cover the following topics:

• Feb. 2 — Overview of state courts and alternative dispute resolution; • Feb. 9 — Juvenile justice and overview of child protection hearings; • Feb. 16 — Family law, real estate and landlord-tenant law; • Feb. 23 — Wills, estates and probate, health care and elder law; • March 1 — S.C. workers’ compensation and employment law; • March 8 — Bankruptcy law, consumer law and debt collection; and • March 15 — Criminal law and torts law. “Law School for Non-Lawyers” is a great opportunity for the public to learn about different areas of the law and how the legal system affects their daily lives,” said Cindy Coker, S.C. Bar public services director. “Wheth-

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Palmetto Health Tuomey awarded ‘Baby-Friendly’ title for birth facility BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Baby-Friendly USA recently announced that Tuomey Regional Medical Center, now Palmetto Health Tuomey, has received recognition as a Baby-Friendly designated birth facility. According to the announcement, Baby-Friendly USA Inc. is the U.S. authority for the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, a global program sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund. The certification is an outgrowth of the global Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative launched in the 1990s by the WHO and UNICEF in response to overwhelming evidence of the health benefits of breastfeeding, the announcement said. The initiative encourages and recognizes hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for breastfeeding mothers and their babies, and the designation is based on the “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.” The announcement said the award recognizes birth facilities that offer breastfeeding mothers the information, confidence and skills needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies. “The evidence is clear and abundant: Breast-fed babies have lower rates of diabetes, obesity, SIDS, childhood leukemia and other illnesses,” said Tuomey Health Systems Public Affairs Manager Traci Quinn. “They are less likely to have asthma or allergies, diarrhea or ear infections. “They have stronger teeth and bones and a

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Christian Sam was the first child ever born at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Christian is the second child of Antinashia Burch. Christian was born at 5:45 a.m. Friday. He weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces. His big sister, Aniyah Adams, helped Noel Ard, Tuomey registered nurse, distribute some of the goodies in the Welcome Basket provided by Palmetto Health for this inaugural birth. greater rate of brain development.” Breastfeeding has benefits for mothers as well, she said. “Moms who breast feed have a reduced risk of ovarian, breast and cervical cancer,” Quinn said. “They bond quickly with their babies and lose their pregnancy weight more quickly.” She said the medical center staff wants to make sure that all babies have the best possible beginnings. “We want moms and babies to be prepared for a happy, healthy transition home,” Quinn said. “We believe the best way to do that is to keep mothers and

their newborns together as much as possible in a nurturing environment.” Better to the Palmetto Health merger, Tuomey Healthcare System CEO and President Michelle Logan-Owens said she is excited about the hospital receiving the designation and praised Susan Gaymon, administrative director of Birthplace/Women and Infants Services. “Susan (Gaymon) and her team have poured countless hours into making this program a success for our moms and babies,” LoganOwens said. “She and her team have always put babies first; it is nice to now have the designation that

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against Tuomey for more than $237 million. In July 2015, the judgment was affirmed by a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Justice Department agreed to the $72.4 million payment that would allow Tuomey to merge with Palmetto Health and keep the community hospital alive.

covers about $125 million of the estimated $376 million in direct damage to farm operations. Many farmers were hoping either the federal or state governments could provide some relief to make up the remaining $251 million.

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Tuomey Healthcare System announced its partnership with Palmetto Health in October. As of Friday, the Sumter hospital officially became part of Palmetto Health.

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Jimmy Lowery, left, and his attorney Chip McMillan are seen during Lowery’s hearing in Clarendon County. Lowery was questioned in connection to the vandalism of chicken houses, but charges against him were dropped.

TUOMEY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM JOINS PALMETTO HEALTH It took a decade and cost more than $72 million — not including legal costs — to resolve, but Tuomey Healthcare System officially became part of Palmetto Health. On Oct. 16, 2015, the nonprofit hospital announced a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department in Drakeford v. Tuomey and that it had executed a binding agreement to become part of Palmetto Health, effective Jan. 1, 2016. “We are elated to share this news,” Tuomey CEO and President Michelle Logan-Owens said in October. “And while this partnership is incredible news for our community, I am moved beyond words with joy as I report that today we also signed a settlement with the Department of Justice.” Tuomey paid the U.S. Department of Justice a total of $72.4 million, which included $40 million previously placed in escrow with the court by the hospital. “We are now able to close this chapter and look to the future,” Logan-Owens said. The case was rooted in contracts Tuomey signed with physicians in 2005 requiring the doctors to perform inpatient procedures only at Tuomey’s facilities. Dr. Michael K. Drakeford, an orthopedic surgeon who was offered but did not sign one of the contracts, filed a complaint alleging the contracts violated Stark Law, which governs payments for Medicare services. Tuomey decided to fight the allegations in court, but a jury determined in May 2013 the contracts Tuomey signed with physicians violated Stark Law, and because of that, Tuomey had filed more than 21,000 false claims with Medicare. In October 2013, the court entered a judgment

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THE GREAT CHICKEN HOUSE CAPER In mid-February, 16 chicken houses in Clarendon County and one in Sumter County were vandalized, killing more than 300,000 chickens and causing $1.7 million in losses of chickens and in damage to the chicken houses. All of the farms vandalized provide chickens for Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. in Sumter. Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett said whoever was responsible for the crime was familiar with alarm systems for the chicken houses. The alarm systems provide climate control inside the houses and notifies farmers via cellphone when buildings get too hot or cold. All of the chicken house vandalism occurred in the middle of the night. Each house holds as many as 20,000 chickens. It takes about an hour for the chickens to die once heating, air conditioning and ventilating systems are turned off. “Whoever is doing this knows exactly how these alarms operate,” Garrett said. “And it’s not an easy combination but a system of switches that you have to turn on and off.” James Laverne Lowery of Sumter County was questioned in connection to the vandalism. Lowery was a chicken farmer in Sumter County, and his contract was terminated with Pilgrim’s Pride about the time of the vandalism. The arrest was based on information from cellphone data that used GPS data to track him to within 600 meters of all eight farms on the nights they were vandalized in Clarendon County. Separate judges in Clarendon and Sumter counties cleared Lowery of all charges citing

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FAMILY FEUD A feud between two families reignited on Jan. 4, 2015, when Joseph Lloyd Henderson Jr. and his brother Joshua left a grocery store in the 1700 block of U.S. 15 South. They spotted two women and a man sitting in a vehicle near their pickup truck. Joshua Henderson told Sumter County sheriff’s deputies that one woman approached them and attempted to pepper spray them. The Hendersons fled south on U.S. 15, and the other parties chased after them. By the time they stopped again near a convenience store in the 3100 block of U.S. 15 South, Joseph Lloyd Henderson Sr. arrived and reportedly said, “It’s been over a year and a half ago; let it go.” At that point, one of the women, later identified as Crystal M. Gainey, reportedly pepper sprayed Henderson Sr., and he hit her in the face. That prompted the woman’s husband to begin swinging a PVC SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO pipe at Henderson Crystal M. Gainey is escorted to Sr., and a fight ena vehicle after she turned herself sued between the in at Sumter County Sheriff’s Of- two men. fice. Gainey was involved in a Henderson Jr. said Gainey apfamily feud on Jan. 4. proached him with the pepper spray as he was sitting in his truck and fired a small handgun in his direction. The other two Hendersons pushed Gainey’s husband to the ground when they heard the shots, jumped into the pickup and started to speed away. The woman reportedly continued to fire shots as they tried to drive away. Henderson Jr. reportedly hit and dragged Gainey’s husband with the pickup when he tried to flee the gunshots. The husband was airlifted in critical condition to Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia. Henderson Jr. was charged with attempted murder stemming from the vehicle incident, and his father was charged with third-degree assault and battery. Gainey was charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of assault and battery and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. The stories about the feud each registered the third- and fourth-highest viewership on The Sumter Item’s website, www.theitem.com.

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Erick White’s teammates march into the Sumter High School gym carrying a signed team ball at the start of White’s memorial.

SUMTER BASKETBALL STAR DROWNS AT MYRTLE BEACH Erick White, a 20-year-old former basketball star from Sumter High School, drowned at Myrtle Beach on May 23, 2015. White was an all-state basketball player who was the Region VI-4A Player of the Year in 2014. For the funeral service held at the Sumter High School gymnasium where he starred as a player, former teammates wore Tshirts that said “RIP Erick” and had his photo on the shirt. At the time of his death, White had been making plans to play college basketball. He was also an aspiring rapper and an expecting father.

On Sept. 9, Continental Tire the Americas announced and broke ground on an expansion of its Sumter plant. Sumter County and Continental amended their original fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement, approved by Sumter County Council in March 2012, to expand the fee agreement from 30 years to 35 years. Continental committed to investing an additional $275 million, bringing the total capital investment to $675 million, into the county with the construction of an approximately 720,000-square-foot production hall and expansion of existing warehouses at the Sumter plant, according to a news release from the German tire maker. The new building and additional jobs will raise tire production capacity from 4 million units to 8 million units per year by 2021. The company also plans to create 1,274 jobs, 100 more than projected in the original agreement. Sumter Economic Development Board President Jay Schwedler said Continental has been hiring at a much faster rate than originally anticipated and is nearing the 750 mark with an expected 800 total employees by the end of 2015.

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CONFEDERATE FLAG REMOVED On June 17, 2015, Dylan Roof, a white 21-yearold, allegedly joined a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Later claiming he wanted to start a war between blacks and whites in the U.S., he allegedly gunned down nine black members of the congregation including the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a pastor at the church and a state senator from Charleston. Sumter Item co-president and editor at large Graham Osteen became one of the first, if not the first, column writer in the state to call for taking down the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds. In his column, he wrote, “If the South Carolina General Assembly doesn’t get the Confederate battle flag off the Statehouse grounds after what happened in Charleston this week, then we may as well replace the Palmetto Tree on the proper state flag — the beautiful blue one — with a swastika.” Osteen’s column went viral and was the topread story on the newspaper’s website for 2015. Gov. Nikki Haley and other state leaders took up the challenge. Within weeks, the General Assembly met and voted to take down the flag.

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CENTRAL CAROLINA OPENS TRAINING FACILITY A little more than a week after the historic flood hit Sumter on Oct. 4, Central Carolina Technical College had some positive news with the grand opening of Central Carolina Technical College’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Training Center on Broad Street. The new 100,000-square-foot facility is being used for industrial training programs, including a mechatronics lab, a robotics lab, computer science programs and a suite for training prospective employees in automotive tire manufacturing to complement the city’s Continental Tire the Americas plant. Tim Hardee, the college’s president, welcomed a crowd of about 150 to the grand opening. “This is an exciting time for CCTC and the Sumter community,” he said. “It’s a great day in Sumter when our people can get the training and resources they need.” Continental Tire the Americas Plant Manager Craig Baartman said the new training center is a

DOC HOLLIDAY’S FAMILY DENTISTRY’S office will close permanently as of December 31, 2015. We want to thank each of you who have supported us during our tenure here in Sumter, SC. You may call the office whenever you are ready to pick up your records.

After months of speculation, the downtown Sumter area received a major boost when it was announced on Dec. 17 that a new four-story hotel will be built at 14-22 N. Main St. The Hyatt Place will have 93 rooms, five of which will be handicap-accessible double rooms on the first floor. Hotel amenities will include a meeting room for about 40 people, a bar, an outdoor pool and a green space with an outdoor fireplace and space to hold three tents for special events. The hotel will provide access to a newly planned parking garage. Construction should begin by spring 2016.

MAJOR COCAINE BUST After investigating nine shootings in several blocks in May 2014, Sumter Police Department joined with the FBI, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Sumter County Sheriff’s Office and other state agencies to break a major cocaine distribution ring in Sumter, Lee, Aiken, Lexington, Richland and Saluda counties. Nine of the 19 suspects that were arrested were in Sumter County. While serving warrants for the arrests, law enforcement seized approximately 10 kilograms of cocaine, more than $750,000 in cash and more than 40 firearms.

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or stop at a fast food restaurant. That was a special treat for us, but that was also more than 30 years ago. All of our other meals were home cooked, and we ate together as a family. Now, eating out is the norm and home-cooked, family-style meals are rare and special. Food consumption has gotten out of control leading to food addictions and driving up obesity rates and health care costs. We eat more and move less, are overfed but undernourished. We are a society that lives off of processed foods because everything that is easily accessible is processed for us. It’s high fat, high salt, high sugar, high-calorie foods with very little nutrients. And choosing these foods has become automatic, grabbing a prepackaged food and consuming it without giving any real thought to the consequences and negative impact. Every year billions of dollars are spent on food advertisements promoting and persuading con-

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sumers to buy and eat processed foods. These processed foods are loaded with additives Missy and chemiCorrigan cals that affect our health and behaviors creating a need for billions of dollars to be spent on medical research. In today’s society everything is a medical solution. Rather than educating ourselves on the positive effect of healthy behaviors, we take pills to manage symptoms. Our health care system is more of a disease care system where research and money is spent on medications for treatments and cures rather than prevention because most who are using the health care system are already sick. But have you ever really challenged yourself to think about what you eat and the effect it may be having on your health? Every cell in your body re-

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HELP FROM PAGE A1 million had been appropriated for flood survivors as of Thursday morning. In Clarendon County, 3,850 residents had registered for assistance, and about $2.5 million had been appropriated, he said. Flood survivors can register online at DisasterAssistance. gov, by phone at (800) 621FEMA (3362) or visit Central Carolina Technical College Advanced Manufacturing Technology Training Center, 853 Broad St. Those who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability and use a text-telephone device can call (800) 462-7585, and applicants who use 711 or video relay services can call (800) 621-FEMA (3362). Flood survivors could also qualify to receive assistance from the Small Business Administration. Adrianne Laneave, SBA public affairs specialist, said

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History repeats itself in Times Square W atching the revelers in New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve when the ball began to drop, signaling the countdown to midnight when the year 2016 became official, I could see those folks really seemed to be having a grand old time as they screamed and hollered, hugged and kissed as they were showered with confetti while the clock ticked off the final minutes before the new year came in. Then it struck me: Many if not most of those revelers were drunk. That brought to mind a story I was told many years ago by a grizzled reporter who worked for a New York City tabloid. He shared with my Graduate School of Journalism class at Columbia University his experiences while working for the tabloid. New York tabloids push the enve-

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lope when it comes to presenting the news to their loyal readers, especially those who ride the subways to work. They want their news quick and compelling. After all, New Yorkers are constantly in a hurry. To accommodate their readers, the tabs’ editors work hard at headline writing and are very Hubert creative. One of the Osteen best headlines I recall was about a tavern owner being decapitated in the joint’s topless bar. The headline read: “Headless body in a topless bar.” Reading a tab is fun. They focus very heavily on crime and sex. Going back to the grizzled reporter,

he told our class a story about a New Year’s Eve in New York he was assigned to cover. The grizzled reporter’s job was to contact the police commissioner or the fire chief and get an estimate of the revelers shoe-horned into Times Square. The commissioner and the chief were attending a party, an aide told the reporter, but he gave him a number to call. Someone at the party answered the call, and the reporter could hear a lot of screaming and laughter going on plus the sound of bottles and glasses breaking in the background. The police commissioner got on the line, and the reporter asked for a count of the estimated number of celebrants in Times Square. The commissioner, clearly drunk, slurred out, “I’d say about a million.” The reporter thanked him and went about his business.

The reporter, after completing his story, told our class: “This happened every year that I covered Times Square on New Year’s Eve, and it was always the same from the commissioner or whoever did the estimating: One million lushes whooping it up when the ball came down and Auld Lang Syne was played. It never changed.” It never has changed. Guess how many were stumbling around Times Square early Friday morning this year when the ball came down, according to the TV announcers after they were fed the numbers by the authorities? You guessed it. History continued to repeat in Times Square as we said goodbye to 2015. Happy New Year. Reach Hubert D. Osteen Jr. at hubert@ theitem.com.

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elcome to 2016. I’m glad it’s finally (mercifully) here, because 2015 was completely exhausting on many levels too depressing to recap. Time to move past the mayhem, murder, terrorism and flooding of 2015, and no one wants to talk about that negative stuff anyway. The best news I have to report is that 2015 ended on a beautiful personal note, which I’ll get to shortly. My only New Year’s Resolution at this moment is to get over the stinking, coughing, hacking upper respiratory condition I acquired during the annual Christmas Eve candlelight service at our church. You’ve heard women say they “knew” when they got pregnant, which is another of those mystical concepts they use on men to keep us off balance. But I’m certain that I “knew” when I was infected with this nasty, lingering cold, and there was nothing mystical about it. The Typhoid Mary of my special Christmas story was the mother of my wife, who started coughing like an oldschool tuberculosis patient before the first scriptures were even read. She made the move down the aisle, and I followed her out to make sure she didn’t drop dead in the “narthex,” which is a word you don’t hear anywhere except in a church. We stood outside for awhile, and I got her a bottle of water from my car. We decided to just sit in the car and wait it out watching an old episode of Johnny Carson on my iPhone rather than going back inside to disrupt the service and infect the parishioners. In fact, the service already had a certain amount of chaos involved because the regular organist took ill and departed the premises during the processional, and the choir was left to sing acapella with only a teenage flute player and the music director strumming a guitar. I really don’t like guitars in church, so sitting it out was a relatively easy decision given the mounting negative karmic circumstances and what turned out to be a really funny Johnny Carson episod, where he and Sally Field put shaving

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The author with his future daughter-in-law, Kathleen. cream on each other. So we’re sitting in the car when the coughing finally stopped, which is when she told me that my sister-in-law (her daughter-in-law) must have given her “the cold” on their recent trip to New York. She had only been back a day. It was unusually foggy and hot with the El Nino that night, but suddenly there appeared a beautiful full moon rising above the church. This random spiritual moment was cut short when I felt the unholy spirit come over me in the form of an itchy throat. It had begun, and there were no angels telling me not to be afraid. The disease continues to this day more than a week later, and I’m sure you’ve got friends and family members with the same awful hacking condition. All I can say is that I hope you don’t get it, but when you do, drink lots of water and try not to be unpleasant to others. It’s not easy. ••• The aforementioned good news on a personal level is that my son, Hugh, became engaged to his beautiful, smart and funny girlfriend, Kathleen, on New Year’s Eve. They are two of the happiest young people I’ve ever seen, and we’re thrilled and excited to be beginning a new family episode in our lives. Happy New Year. Graham Osteen is Editor-AtLarge of The Sumter Item. He can be reached at graham@ theitem.com. Follow him on Twitter @GrahamOsteen or visit www.grahamosteen.com.

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ractured and divided as we are, on one thing we can agree: 2015 was a miserable year. The only cheer was provided by Lincoln Chafee and the Pluto flyby (two separate phenomena), as well as one seminal aeronautical breakthrough. On Dec. 21, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, after launching 11 satellites into orbit, returned its 15-story booster rocket, upright and intact, to a landing pad at Cape Canaveral. That’s a $60 million mountain of machinery — recovered. (The traditional booster rocket either burns up or disappears into some ocean.) The reusable rocket has arrived. Arguably, it arrived a month earlier when Blue Origin, a privately owned outfit created by Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO and owner of The Washington Post) launched and landed its own booster rocket, albeit for a suborbital flight. But whether you attribute priority to Musk or Bezos, the two events together mark the inauguration of a new era in spaceflight. Musk predicts that the reusable rocket will reduce the cost of accessing space a hundredfold. This depends, of course, on whether the wear and tear and stresses of the launch make the refurbishing prohibitively expensive. Assuming it’s not, and assuming Musk is even 10 percent right, reusability revolutionizes the economics of spaceflight. Which both democratizes and commercializes it. Which means space travel has now slipped the surly bonds of government — presidents, Congress, NASA bureaucracies. Its future will now be driven far more by a competitive marketplace with its multiplicity of independent actors, including deeply motivated, financially savvy and visionary entrepreneurs. To be sure, the enterprise is not entirely free of gov-

COMMENTARY ernment. After all, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket landed on a Cape Canaveral pad formerly used to launch Air Force Atlas rockets. Moreover, initial financing for these ventures already deCharles Krauthammer pends in part on NASA contracts, such as resupplying the space station. That, however, is not much different from the growth of aviation a century ago. It hardly lived off airshow tickets or Channelcrossing prize money. What really propelled the infant industry was government contracts. For useful things like mail — and bomb — delivery. The first and most visible consequence of the new entrepreneurial era will be restoring America as a spacefaring nation. Yes, I know we do spectacular robotic explorations. But our ability to toss humans into space disappeared when NASA retired the space shuttle — without a replacement. To get an astronaut into just low Earth orbit, therefore, we have to hitch a ride on Russia’s Soyuz with its 1960s technology. At $82 million a pop. Yet, today, two private companies already have contracts with NASA to send astronauts to the space station as soon as 2017. The real prize, however, lies beyond Earth orbit. By now, everyone realizes that the space station was a colossal mistake, a white elephant in search of a mission. Its main contribution is to study the biological effects of long-term weightlessness. But we could have done that in Skylab, a modest space station that our po-

litical betters decided four decades ago to abandon. With increasing privatization, such decisions will no longer be exclusively Washington’s. When President Obama came into office, the plan was to return to the moon by 2020. A year later, he decided we should go to an asteroid instead. Why? Who knows. Today future directions are being set by private companies with growing technical experience and competing visions. Musk is fixated on colonizing Mars, Bezos on seeing “millions of people living and working in space,” and Richard Branson on space tourism by way of Virgin Galactic (he has already sold 700 tickets to ride at $250,000 each). And Moon Express, another private enterprise, is not even interested in hurling about clumsy, air-breathing humans. It is bent on robotic mining expeditions to the moon. My personal preference is a permanent manned moon base, which would likely already exist had our politicians not decided to abandon the moon in the early 1970s. We have no idea which plan is more likely to succeed and flourish. But the beauty of privatization is that we don’t get just one shot at it. Our trajectory in space will now be the work of a functioning market of both ideas and commerce. It no longer will hinge on the whims of only tangentially interested politicians. Space has now entered the era of the Teslas, the Edisons and the Wright brothers. From now on, they will be doing more and more of the driving. Which means we are actually — finally — going somewhere again. Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@ charleskrauthammer.com. © 2015, The Washington Post Writers Group

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Complete neighborhoods, including this one off Alice Drive and Oriole Court in Sumter, were flooded Oct. 4 as more than 20 inches of rain fell in a three-day period. Charities across the state that focus on building or renovating homes for the needy could get a boost thanks to a new law that will allow them to buy construction materials free of sales tax.

Law might enable charities to help more flood victims Construction materials will be free of sales tax for groups helping needy with homes BY SEANNA ADCOX The Associated Press COLUMBIA — A new law written to assist Habitat for Humanity’s homebuilding mission may be a boon in South Carolina’s post-flood rebuilding efforts. The law that took effect New Year’s Day allows charities that build or renovate homes for needy families to buy construction materials free of sales tax. When they passed the exemption overwhelmingly in June, legislators could not have foreseen the benefit to a state ravaged by historic flooding months later. The measure’s main sponsor, Rep. Garry Smith, said he introduced it because it didn’t make sense to tax the work of a charity that seeks to build homes and hope in communities. “Obviously, we had no idea anything like that would happen,” Smith, RSimpsonville, said of the October

storm. “If it does provide some benefit to people who have lost their homes, that’s great. Every little bit does help.” Greg Thomas, director of the state’s association for 36 Habitat affiliates, called the law’s timing “an absolute blessing.” While the state sales tax is 6 percent, local taxes push it to at least 7 percent in most counties. Eliminating that cost on construction materials will save Habitat between $2,500 and $4,000 for each home built. Ordinarily, Habitat affiliates build roughly 100 homes and repair another 100 annually statewide, Thomas said. “That’s extra that could be used for additional repairs on other homes, particularly in this flood period and disaster-response time,” he said. It’s unclear how much the law could help flood victims. Other charities didn’t know about the exemption when contacted by The Associated Press, though they were eager to learn more. “No one is talking it up yet,” Thomas said. How the exemption applies may help explain that. The law defines

needy as individuals or families making up to 80 percent of their county’s median income. In hard-hit Richland County, for example, household income needs to be less than $39,000; in Charleston County, less than $41,000; in Clarendon County, less than $21,200, according to Census data. “It’s almost poverty-level folks, so if you’re a middle-income family with damage, those homes aren’t eligible,” Thomas said. For Habitat-built homes, determining eligibility isn’t an issue. Because the charity acts as the mortgage company, the family’s financials are reviewed before approval. But it’s an uncomfortable question for post-flood work, which often involves mold remediation and new flooring, insulation and drywall, Thomas said. “Without having a charitable organization ask, ‘How much money do you make?’ you have to go on the value of the home and make assumptions,” he said. Flood victims in the 24 counties covered by October’s emergency declaration have until Monday to register with Federal Emergency Management Agency for federal assistance. But that

aid is limited. As of Dec. 27, FEMA had inspected nearly 81,300 structures for damage, resulting in $78 million in approved aid for 26,108 applicants. That’s an average of less than $3,000 per family. The maximum grant a family can receive is $33,000, according to the agency. The One SC relief fund, which Gov. Nikki Haley launched in November, awarded $500,000 to 13 charities in its initial round of grants announced Dec. 21, with each receiving between $25,000 and $150,000. Those charities, including two Habitat affiliates, are providing an additional $2.5 million total from other sources to rebuild or remove mold from about 350 homes, said JoAnn Turnquist, president of Central Carolina Community Foundation, which is housing the fund. The nonprofit is not releasing how much more money has been raised, though Turnquist says people continue to donate. Charities have until Friday to apply for a second-round grant. “We’re hopeful the fund will continue as long as it’s needed,” she said. “We’ve been told to prepare for a twoto-three-year recovery period.”

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Sumter High School in 1985. He leaves to cherish his memory his mother, Lula Mae Johnson; brother, Pastor Reginald C. Johnson Sr. (Leslie); nephew and niece, Reginald and Taylor Johnson, respectively; two aunts, Verlena Jackson and Mary Dinkins (Cornell); two uncles, Lee Taylor Sr. (Ida) and Clarence Taylor (Rosa Lee); and a host of other relatives and friends. Messages of hope can be left at www.whitesmortuary. net. The family is receiving friends at 8 Buttercup St., Sumter. Services are entrusted to Whites Mortuary LLC.

OBITUARIES ANTAWNE D. DARGAN Antawne Dominic Dargan, 23, died Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in Sumter. Born Sept. 12, 1992, in Sumter County, he was the son of Bobby Dargan and Rayna Hilton. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of his mother, 861 Carolina Ave., Apartment 48, Sumter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

JOHNNIE M. HARRIS Johnnie Mae Harris entered eternal rest on Dec. 29, 2015, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville. The family is receiving friends at 640 Bethune Highway, Bishopville. Visitation will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home. Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church with Pastor Willie Floyd officiating. Interment will follow in Mt.

Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery. Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville, is in charge of arrangements.

MARY B. BOATWRIGHT BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Mary Bannister Boatwright, 69, widow of James Boatwright, died Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, at Kingsbrook Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. She was born March 29, 1946, in Sumter, to the late Willie Dow and Lila Mae Bannister and was also the stepdaughter of Mary Jane Glover Dow. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Taw Caw Missionary Baptist Church, Summerton, with the Rev. W.T., pastor, the Rev. Willie Starks, presiding, and Bishop Daryl McFadden, eulogist. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery. The family is receiving friends at the home of her cousin, Janet Junius, 2046 Governor Richardson Road, Summerton. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral

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DELORIS J. PARKER MANNING — Evangelist Deloris J. Parker, 59, wife of Frank Parker, died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, at Providence Hospital, Columbia. She was born Jan. 16, 1956, in Summerton, a daughter of Claudia Dingle Jones Gaither and the late Samuel Jones and stepdaughter of Roosevelt Gaither. The family is receiving friends beginning Monday at 2339 Ram Bay Road, Manning. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

Funeral service for Darryl L. Johnson will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, 7355 Camden Highway, Rembert, with Pastor Anthony Taylor, officiating. Interment will be held at a later date. A public viewing will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday at the mortuary. Darryl was born Feb. 20, 1967, in Washington, D.C., to Lula M. Taylor Johnson. He was reared in Sumter with his brother, Reginald, and cousin, Frederick B. Love Sr. He was educated in the public schools of Sumter County and graduated from

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SUMTER CITY COUNCIL SANTEE-LYNCHES REGIONAL Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Sumter Opera COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS BOARD House, 21 N. Main St. OF DIRECTORS PUBLIC AGENDA: Jan. 3, 2016 Monday, 7 p.m., Santee-Lynches Board Room, 36 W. Liberty St. BISHOPVILLE CITY COUNCIL Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Colclough LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS BOARD Building, Council Street, MEETING Bishopville Monday, 5:30 p.m., Sumter Sheriff’s Office conference room TOWN OF LYNCHBURG PLANNING COMMISSION Wednesday, 4 p.m., town hall

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t let the EUGENIA LAST little things get to you. Settle into the new year with an open attitude and a willingness to work with what you have. Diplomacy and compromise will help you persuade others to eventually see things your way.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Plan to jump in to your professional goals immediately. Set up meetings or business trips or discuss your plans with someone who can contribute to your advancement. Trust that you will learn as you go and don’t doubt your ability. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t withhold information or get involved with people who are a poor influence. Rethink your plans for the year and avoid lofty, unrealistic ideas that are costly or indulgent. Partnership problems will develop if you aren’t honest about the way you feel. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Taking one more day to enjoy children, friends or family will do you good. You’ll be inspired by what others have to offer and should make plans to get together more often throughout the year. A unique, creative hobby will grab your interest.

for something that is risky. Focus on gathering information. When it comes to love, less talk and more action is encouraged. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You can finally address issues that have been bothering you. Open up and share your feelings. Based on the feedback you receive, you should consider making a few changes that will help you face the new year with greater optimism. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Focus on what you can do, not on what you can’t. Don’t be afraid to do things differently. Your uniqueness is your strength. Make lifestyle changes that will allow you to do the things you enjoy more often. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Stick close to home and make the changes to your surroundings that will help you be more productive. Taking time to assess your current situation and go over your options will help you immensely as the year unfolds. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Avoid messy encounters with people you don’t see eye-to-eye with. Look out for your interests and choose to work alone. Joint ventures will leave you in an awkward or vulnerable position.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t let your emotions spin out of control. Protect against minor illness by LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Listen carefully taking precautions. Take time to relax and enjoy doing something you love. to the people you live with or peers who do things differently than you. It A little pampering is well-deserved. won’t help to argue, but if you PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t consider making a compromise, you waste time overreacting or looking will find common ground and avoid for what’s wrong in every situation. a sensitive situation. Health problems will develop if you aren’t realistic when it comes to VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mingle physical activities. A connection you with people who have something have with someone appears to be interesting to offer. Network and discuss your plans, but don’t sign up based on ulterior motives.

THE NEWSDAY CROSSWORD ONE CENTURY AGO: What happened in 1916 By S.N. ACROSS 1 Shrewd 6 Where most people live 10 Survivor side 15 Valhalla VIP 19 President with two Grammys 20 Actor Rhames 21 Golf great Ben 22 Tool with teeth 23 Brit who led an Arab revolt against the Turks in 1916 25 Workday length in a 1916 federal law 27 Hamlet castle 28 Rival of Serta 30 Vituperate 31 “Sure we should” 32 Formal accords 33 Conceal 34 Bill settlers 37 Vitality 38 Bach choral works 42 Telltale signs 43 DW Griffith

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masterpiece that premiered in 1916 45 Pugilists’ org. 46 Name of twelve 34 Down 47 Board member, for short 48 Egg on 49 Conceal 50 Comics cry of fright 51 Mexican who invaded New Mexico in 1916 55 Press session, briefly 56 “Green” energy source 57 Author Dinesen 58 ‘50s war zone 59 Sewed loosely 60 Musically accurate 62 New Zealanders, informally 63 Happy tune 64 Large-sheath knives 66 Tablecloth material 67 Slightest amount 68 Pine product 71 Headlights 72 See 36 Down 74 Game of

Thrones airer 75 Hula instruments 76 Related 77 Evidence of debts 78 As of 79 __ culpa 80 Composer whose The Planets was completed in 1916 84 Begin a round 85 Magnifies 87 Correo __ (Spanish airmail) 88 Starts over 89 Board members: Abbr. 90 Tall flowers, for short 91 Exhausted 92 Halloween charity 95 Tanzania neighbor, formerly 96 Lookout 100 Marat/Sade playwright born in 1916 102 “General” topic of a 1916 Einstein book 104 Mined material

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THE SUMTER ITEM

Gaﬀney 28/54 Spartanburg 30/54

Greenville 32/54

Columbia 35/58

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

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 35/57

Aiken 31/54

ON THE COAST

Charleston 39/59

Today: Clouds breaking, but partly sunny in northern parts. High 56 to 60. Monday: Mostly sunny; cooler in northern parts. High 50 to 57.

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SUMTER YESTERDAY

Sun. Hi/Lo/W 52/32/pc 29/18/pc 56/30/s 34/17/c 58/38/pc 65/51/pc 58/44/c 44/26/s 59/45/r 46/27/s 73/54/s 55/46/c 49/29/s

SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest. 359.15 75.72 74.21 104.40

24-hr chg +0.94 -0.41 none +2.83

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

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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

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High 3:35 a.m. 3:36 p.m. 4:28 a.m. 4:29 p.m.

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

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Sun. City Hi/Lo/W Florence 56/35/pc Gainesville 52/38/r Gastonia 55/30/pc Goldsboro 56/34/pc Goose Creek 57/40/pc Greensboro 52/27/s Greenville 54/32/pc Hickory 54/27/s Hilton Head 58/43/pc Jacksonville, FL 55/39/r La Grange 53/33/pc Macon 54/33/pc Marietta 52/30/pc

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 49/26/s 60/37/c 45/22/s 46/26/s 52/29/s 41/21/s 46/23/s 41/20/s 53/32/s 60/36/c 48/25/s 54/26/s 46/23/s

Sun. City Hi/Lo/W Marion 53/25/s Mt. Pleasant 57/41/pc Myrtle Beach 58/40/pc Orangeburg 58/38/pc Port Royal 58/41/pc Raleigh 54/31/pc Rock Hill 54/31/pc Rockingham 56/31/pc Savannah 59/39/pc Spartanburg 54/31/pc Summerville 57/39/pc Wilmington 58/37/pc Winston-Salem 51/28/s

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 39/15/s 53/30/s 53/30/s 51/29/s 54/32/s 43/24/s 45/23/s 45/23/s 58/31/s 44/22/s 52/29/s 51/28/s 40/20/s

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SATURDAY’S ANSWERS CROSSWORD

SUDOKU

41 Course of greens 43 Informal denial 44 Game-box sheet 47 Abates 49 Very spacious 51 Toll roads 52 Vouching for 53 Wheel buy 54 One of Chekhov’s Three Sisters 55 Persian Gulf land 59 Tastes spicy 61 Tastes of liquor 62 Not exactly, casually 63 Cruller kin 64 Judy of kid lit 65 Descriptor for some casks 66 Happy tunes 67 Emphatic assertion 69 More or less 70 Easy wins 72 Derby winner’s prize

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105 Have it out verbally 106 Interpol’s French headquarters 107 Estate home 108 Names, in 106 Across 109 Speaks hoarsely 110 Some evergreens 111 Justice Kagan DOWN 1 Place for pigeons 2 Fourth person 3 Women in westerns 4 Spam sources 5 Tiresome stuff 6 States firmly 7 __ qua non 8 Entrepreneur’s mag 9 Way in the past 10 West End playhouse 11 Churns up 12 Rapper __ Azalea 13 Dismissive outburst 14 Spellbind 15 Three-horse carriage 16 Ill-gotten gains 17 Creole staple 18 Take a breather 24 Goes bad 26 Impetuosity 29 EPA concern 32 Take the mound 33 Japanese comics 34 Bishops of Rome 35 Word of farewell 36 Baseball novel by 72 Across published in 1916 37 Feature of some sweaters 38 Server on Cheers 39 Electoral vote margin for President Wilson in the election of 1916 40 Put up with

Myrtle Beach 38/58

Manning 33/57

Today: Partly sunny. Winds light and variable. Clear. Monday: Plenty of sunshine. Winds northnortheast 6-12 mph.

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

Florence 34/56

Bishopville 34/57

73 Infuriates 76 Beach contest 78 Cultural event 80 Actress Garson 81 Hand luggage 82 Get wind of 83 Well-organized 84 British ritual 86 All-__ pass 88 Office expense 90 Fill the tank 91 Slightest amount 92 Conversant with 93 Infamous Roman 94 News article 95 Turns sharply 96 Off-ramp sign 97 Top baccarat score 98 School that expelled James Bond 99 Vega’s constellation 101 Historical interval 103 Watch closely

Golf great Ben HOGAN (21 Across) won three of the four major championships in 1953. The reference at 25 Across is the Adamson Act of 1916, which mandated an EIGHT-

HOUR workday for interstate railroad workers. Shakespeare’s ELSINORE (27 Across) is based an actual Danish castle in the city of Helsingør.

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year in review

Lots of success Local teams, individuals brought home titles and achievements in 2015

clemson basketball

Tigers top Seminoles on Roper’s hot streak By JEFFREY COLLINS The Associated Press GREENVILLE — Clemson’s Jordan Roper was just the latest guard to take advantage of Florida State’s sketchy perimeter defense. Roper made 7 of 10 3-pointers and scored 23 points to lead the Tigers (8-6, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) to an 84-75 win over the Seminoles on Saturday. Florida State (10-3, 0-1) has been scorched from outside before. Brian Bernardi went 6 of 8 roper on 3s for Hofstra in an 82-77 loss for the Seminoles, and Virginia Commonwealth’s Melvin Johnson was 8 of 14 from behind the arc in Florida State’s 76-71 win. “It was a good day, just making shots,” said Roper, whose seven 3s were a career high. Clemson jumped to a 12-2 lead and was ahead for nearly the entire game. But Florida State tied it at 54 after Devon Bookert was fouled on a 3, making the shot and the free throw. The Tigers then went on a 14-5 run that included Roper’s final 3 of the game. They also hit their free throws, missing just five of their 27 second-half foul shots. The win was especially important for Clemson, who plays all five of the ACC’s Top

See clemson, Page B4

clemson football

Swinney, Tide connected BY Scott Keepfer The Greenville News

Oh yeah, and on the state and national level, the Clemson Tigers earned a berth in the College Football Playoff national championship game on Jan. 11. Here’s a review of the championships and achievements that took place in the just completed year.

Clemson versus Alabama, for the national championship. Are you kidding me? This year’s title game is a dream matchup, to be sure, with more storylines than an Agatha Christie novel. The only drawback is that the title will be decided in the desert, 1,981 (ironic, huh?) miles from Clemson and 1,661 miles swinney from Tuscaloosa, Ala. We could make it easier for everyone involved and just have the teams meet and play halfway – Atlanta would be an appropriate choice – to decide this thing, but Glendale, Ariz., is nice, too, and the Jan. 11 game shapes up as a sportswriter’s and sportscaster’s dream on many levels. There are connections galore between Clemson and Alabama, not the least of

See success, Page B6

See connection, Page B3

The Sumter Item file photo

Sumter High School seniors Micah McBride, left, and Brandon Parker hold up the state championship trophy after the Gamecocks defeated Hillcrest 61-55 at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia to win their first 4A crown in 30 years. The title was one of many won by local teams and individuals in 2015.

By DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com The year that was 2015 was a busy one on the sports scene in Sumter, Clarendon and Lee counties. There were several championships - both team and individual won over the 12-month period. That includes Sumter High School

winning its first 4A state title in boys basketball in 30 years. Also, Wilson Hall won its second straight SCISA 3A state title in baseball and Thomas Sumter Academy won its second straight softball title, this time in 3A. And the University of South Carolina Sumter baseball team reached the Junior College World Series for the first time ever.

usc basketball

Thornwell keeps No. 24 Gamecocks perfect with 86-76 win By PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — Sindarius Thornwell has seen too many tight, physical games go against South Carolina the past two seasons. He’s glad the 24th-ranked Gamecocks are now on the winning side. “It’s nice to see,” Thornwell said Saturday night after the Gamecocks continued their best start in 82 years with an 86-76 victory over Memphis. Thorwell scored 18 points, and Michael Carrera had 16 points and 11 rebounds. The Gamecocks are off to their most wins to start a sea-

son since the 1933-34 team opened 17-0. South Carolina is one of three remaining undefeateds — No. 3 Oklahoma (120) and No. 17 SMU (13-0) are the others — in Division I. “We don’t think much about it,” Thornwell said. “We play every game like we’re 0-13.” In this one, the Gamecocks had out outlast a strong, tough Memphis club, which committed a season-high 41 fouls and saw five players foul out. The Tigers (9-4) eventually wore out down the stretch as South Carolina shot a record 63 foul shots and made a programbest 46. Memphis coach Josh Past-

ner deferred questions about the fouls. “I want to keep my mouth shut so I don’t get in trouble,” he said. The Gamecocks took the lead for good 63-61 with 8:51 left on Mindaugas Kacinas’ two foul shots and steadily pulled away from the Tigers. Things figure to get tougher for the Gamecocks — one of three remaining undefeated teams in Division I — once Southeastern Conference play begins Tuesday night at Auburn. Still, the large crowd at Colonial Life Arena yelled and screamed as the perfect run

Sean Rayford/The Associated Press

South Carolina forward Chris Silva (30) grabs a rebound against MemSee perfect, Page B4 phis on Saturday in Columbia. The Gamecocks won 86-76.

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USC women’s basketball

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South Carolina guard Tiffany Mitchell, right, and the rest of the No. 2 Gamecocks open Southeastern Conference play today with a home game against Arkansas.

Gamecocks open SEC play against Arkansas By David Cloninger dcloninger@thestate.com It’s the motto of South Carolina’s departing seniors. You’re forever part of the program, no matter if you’re still wearing the uniform or not. It’s why so many return to Colonial Life Arena to watch what they helped build. Senior Khadijah Sessions still has many games to play, but she already knows what waits next year and beyond. And she’s one who’s in position to control what she sees in the future. “We don’t want to drop the legacy, we want to keep it going,” Sessions said. “We want to come back next year and come to games and hopefully see a third banner hanging up there.” The Gamecocks have been the class of the SEC the past two seasons, winning each regular-season championship and going a combined 29-3 in conference play. They have turned CLA into an impenetrable fortress for the opponent, running off a 40game home winning streak. A third title would put the Gamecocks in elite company. Only two schools (Au-

burn 1987-89, Tennessee 1993-95, 1998-04) have won three straight championships. It starts today. Title defense? Quest for a threepeat? The No. 2 Gamecocks (120) just want to win the next game. “That was teams of the past. This is a new team,” coach Dawn Staley said. “We’ll see if they’re ready for the challenges of our league.” Arkansas (5-8) begins the 16-game crucible and visits CLA after a rough nonconference schedule. A surprising tournament team last season, the Razorbacks are one of the youngest squads in the country after returning a mere four players. One of those is all-conference forward Jessica Jackson, who’s neck-and-neck with USC’s A’ja Wilson as one of the league’s top five scorers. “She’s been one that’s given us fits,” Staley said. “We have her under control for 35 minutes, then she breaks out and can score 10 or 15 points very quickly.” Of course, Staley is designing its defense to limit

Jackson and force Arkansas’ other players to produce, but USC’s defense hasn’t been what it once was. The Gamecocks are 44th in the country in scoring defense, whereas they have previously been in the top 10 of that category, if not top three. “It’s good and bad,” Staley said. “Good in that potentially we can get better. It’s bad in that I just think we’re not where I projected us to be on both sides of the ball. Again, it’s a different team.” Defense has been the focus throughout the nonconference season, and a lengthy holiday break emphasized it even more. The Gamecocks have not been as dominant as they were last year, nor as strong fundamentally as they have in the previous four years, all which ended in the NCAA Tournament. But they also haven’t lost, and they’ve beaten some great teams. Many more await in the SEC. “This is a new team. We’re a different team than we were last year,” Sessions said. “We got to come in and make a statement on Sunday.”

PRO baseball

Seattle’s favorite son Griffey awaits Hall By TIM BOOTH The Associated Press

with him. Griffey wasn’t from our reSEATTLE — The perfect gion, but we adswing that we could never opted him as emulate. The diving, leaping ours. He grew catches we only dared to into an adult Griffey copy with the protection of before our eyes pillows and couch cushions and he taught on the floor. The smile that us we could play the game told us baseball could be fun with joy. Wear your hat for even the best player of backward. Smile. Laugh. our generation. Play with the same delight For those of us who grew as if you were playing wiffle up in the Pacific Northwest, ball in the driveway with Ken Griffey Jr. was the first your buddies, arguing transcendent star of our whether the fly ball cleared youth we could claim as our the power lines and landed own. He was the guy that for a home run. kids in Chicago, New York Naughty By Nature’s “Hip and Los Angeles were emuHop Hooray,” will always lating. Yet we had the chance lead to flashbacks of watch81 times a season to go inside ing Griffey stroll to the plate. the dreary concrete confines Ken Griffey Jr. candy of the Kingdome and watch bars? We bought them. Griffey perform. “Ken Griffey Jr. Presents He was ours. Major League Baseball” for Griffey will almost assurthe Super Nintendo? We edly be voted into the Hall played it as much as the first of Fame next week, potenversions of Madden. tially with the highest perThat No. 1 Upper Deck centage ever. It will be a rebaseball card with Griffey’s inforcement of what we smile? It’s never left the prowere able to watch up close. tective plastic case from the The ultimate accomplishday it was purchased. ment to go with all the numBefore every game was bers, awards and the fact available on TV, summer that if not for Griffey’s nights were spent sitting outgreatness — and the success side listening to Dave Nieof the franchise in 1995 — haus on the radio provide a Safeco Field never gets built living narrative to Griffey’s and baseball may have left career, then staying up late Seattle. to watch the local news hopWhen Griffey takes his ing for a 20-second clip of the place in Cooperstown, he’ll latest feat of No. 24. take the entire Northwest The homers and the catch-

es are too numerous to list, all looking effortless. The Spider-Man into the wall at the Kingdome. The back-toback homers with his dad and the shot off the warehouse in Baltimore. Bookend moments like homering in his first at-bat in the Kingdome and the final game there. The 56 homers and MVP in 1997, and a Gold Glove for each finger on both hands. The criticisms of Griffey are valid. He never embraced the Northwest the way it engulfed him. Part of that was youth, part was demeanor. His departures from Seattle on both occasions were messy; the first time strong-arming a trade from the Mariners to Cincinnati before the 2000 season and then literally driving away in the middle of the 2010 season and calling it a career. Even with those blemishes he is still beloved. Consider that when Griffey was inducted into Seattle’s Hall of Fame in 2013 it was the only sellout of that season and even Griffey was left wiping away tears by the end. “Sometimes I may have been standoffish. I didn’t mean to,” he said that night. “I just wanted to play baseball. And that was really the only thing that mattered was me going out there and playing and trying to win ballgames for this team.”

TODAY 8:25 a.m. – Soccer: English Premier League Match – Chelsea vs. Crystal Palace (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 10:55 a.m. – Soccer: English Premier League Match – Tottenham vs. Everton (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 1 p.m. – NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Cleveland (WLTX 19). 1 p.m. – NFL Football: New Orleans at Atlanta (WACH 57). 1 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Dayton at Duquesne (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 1 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Duke at Syracuse (ESPNU). 1 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Old Dominion at Charlotte (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST). 1 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Miami at Virginia (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 1 p.m. – Professional Basketball: NBA Developmental League Game (NBA TV). 1 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Mississippi State at Florida (SEC NETWORK). 2 p.m. – College Basketball: Arizona at Arizona State (FOX SPORTS 1). 3 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: George Washington at St. Joseph’s (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 3 p.m. -- Women’s College Basketball: Arkansas at South Carolina (ESPNU, WNKT-FM 107.5). 3 p.m. – College Basketball: Florida Atlantic at Florida International (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST). 3 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Notre Dame at Pittsburgh (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 3 p.m. – Professional Basketball: Euroleague Game – Barcelona vs. Olympiacos (NBA TV). 3 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Louisiana State at Alabama (SEC NETWORK). 4 p.m. – NFL Football: Tampa Bay at Carolina (WACH 57, WWFN-FM 100.1, WPUB-FM 102.7). 4:25 p.m. – NFL Football: San Diego at Denver (WLTX 19). 4:30 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Oklahoma at Baylor (FOX SPORTS 1). 5 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: DePaul at St. John’s (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 5 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Tulane at Memphis (ESPNU). 5 p.m. – College Basketball: Massachusetts at La Salle (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 5 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Georgia at Texas A&M (SEC NETWORK). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Oregon at Oregon State (FOX SPORTS 1). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Fordham at George Washington (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 8 p.m. – Collee Basketball: Wake Forest at Louisville (ESPNU). 8:20 p.m. – NFL Football: Minnesota at Green Bay (WIS 10, WWFN-FM 100.1, WNKT-FM 107.5). 9 p.m. – High School Football: Semper Fidelis All American Bowl from Carson, Calif. (FOX SPORTS 1). 10 p.m. – College Basketball: Colorado at Stanford (ESPNU). MODAY 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: North Carolina at Florida State (ESPN). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: West Virginia at Texas Christian (ESPN2). 7 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Tennessee at Missouri (SEC NETWORK). 7:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Indiana at Miami (NBA TV). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Oklahoma at Kansas (ESPN). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Virginia at Virginia Tech (ESPN2). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Alcorn State at Texas Southern (ESPNU). 9 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Carolina at Edmonton (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 9 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Los Angeles at Colorado (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 10 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Memphis at Portland (NBA TV). 10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Charlotte at Golden State (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 12 3 0 .800 455 295 N.Y. Jets 10 5 0 .667 370 292 Buffalo 7 8 0 .467 357 342 Miami 5 10 0 .333 290 379 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 8 7 0 .533 309 307 Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 303 384 Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 370 418 Tennessee 3 12 0 .200 275 393 North W L T Pct PF PA y-Cincinnati 11 4 0 .733 395 263 Pittsburgh 9 6 0 .600 395 307 Baltimore 5 10 0 .333 312 377 Cleveland 3 12 0 .200 266 404 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Denver 11 4 0 .733 328 276 x-Kansas City 10 5 0 .667 382 270 Oakland 7 8 0 .467 342 376 San Diego 4 11 0 .267 300 371

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-Washington 8 7 0 .533 354 356 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 342 400 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 390 407 Dallas 4 11 0 .267 252 340 South W L T Pct PF PA y-Carolina 14 1 0 .933 462 298 Atlanta 8 7 0 .533 322 325 Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 332 379 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 388 459 North W L T Pct PF PA x-Green Bay 10 5 0 .667 355 303 x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 345 289 Detroit 6 9 0 .400 334 380 Chicago 6 9 0 .400 315 373 West W L T Pct PF PA y-Arizona 13 2 0 .867 483 277 x-Seattle 9 6 0 .600 387 271 St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 264 311 San Francisco 4 11 0 .267 219 371 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

Sunday

Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m. Washington at Dallas, 1 p.m. Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1 p.m. New England at Miami, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. St. Louis at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. San Diego at Denver, 4:25 p.m. Seattle at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. Oakland at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. Tampa Bay at Carolina, 4:25 p.m. Minnesota at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.

NBA Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Toronto Boston New York Brooklyn

W L Pct GB 21 13 .618 — 18 14 .563 2 15 19 .441 6 9 23 .281 11

Philadelphia Southeast Division Atlanta Miami Orlando Charlotte Washington Central Division Cleveland Chicago Indiana Detroit Milwaukee

3 32 .086 18½ W L Pct GB 21 13 .618 — 19 13 .594 1 19 14 .576 1½ 17 15 .531 3 15 16 .484 4½ W L Pct GB 21 9 .700 — 19 12 .613 2½ 18 14 .563 4 18 15 .545 4½ 13 21 .382 10

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio Dallas Memphis Houston New Orleans Northwest Division Oklahoma City Utah Portland Denver Minnesota Pacific Division Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

W L Pct GB 28 6 .824 — 19 14 .576 8½ 18 16 .529 10 16 18 .471 12 10 22 .313 17 W L Pct GB 23 10 .697 — 14 17 .452 8 14 21 .400 10 12 21 .364 11 12 21 .364 11 W L Pct GB 30 2 .938 — 21 13 .618 10 12 20 .375 18 12 23 .343 19½ 7 27 .206 24

Friday’s Games

Washington 103, Orlando 91 Toronto 104, Charlotte 94 Miami 106, Dallas 82 Chicago 108, New York 81 L.A. Lakers 93, Philadelphia 84

Saturday’s Games

Brooklyn at Boston, 3 p.m. Phoenix at Sacramento, 5 p.m. Detroit at Indiana, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Orlando at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Houston at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. New Orleans at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Memphis at Utah, 9 p.m. Denver at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Chicago at Toronto, 3:30 p.m. Atlanta at New York, 3:30 p.m. Miami at Washington, 6 p.m. Portland at Denver, 9 p.m. Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Toronto at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Indiana at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Boston at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Orlando at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. San Antonio at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Houston at Utah, 9 p.m. Memphis at Portland, 10 p.m. Charlotte at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

NHL Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 40 22 15 3 47 116 99 Florida 37 21 12 4 46 101 84 Detroit 39 19 13 7 45 100 106 Boston 37 20 13 4 44 116 102 Ottawa 38 18 14 6 42 111 115 Tampa Bay 38 18 16 4 40 97 93 Toronto 36 14 15 7 35 95 102 Buffalo 39 15 20 4 34 91 105 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 37 28 7 2 58 117 78 N.Y. Islanders 38 21 12 5 47 105 89 N.Y. Rangers 38 21 13 4 46 112 100 New Jersey 38 19 14 5 43 90 92 Pittsburgh 37 18 15 4 40 86 91 Philadelphia 36 15 14 7 37 78 100 Carolina 38 16 17 5 37 91 108 Columbus 39 14 22 3 31 98 123

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 39 28 8 3 59 137 98 St. Louis 40 23 13 4 50 100 96 Chicago 39 22 13 4 48 108 97 Minnesota 36 20 10 6 46 98 85 Nashville 38 18 13 7 43 101 101 Colorado 38 18 17 3 39 109 106 Winnipeg 37 17 18 2 36 99 109 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 37 24 11 2 50 102 82 Arizona 37 18 16 3 39 104 118 Vancouver 39 15 15 9 39 95 110 San Jose 36 18 16 2 38 100 102 Anaheim 37 15 15 7 37 69 89 Calgary 37 17 18 2 36 97 121 Edmonton 39 15 21 3 33 97 119 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games

Vancouver 2, Anaheim 1, SO Montreal 5, Boston 1

Saturday’s Games

Detroit 4, Buffalo 3 Arizona at Edmonton, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 4 p.m. St. Louis at Toronto, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Florida, 7 p.m. Dallas at New Jersey, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Nashville at Carolina, 7 p.m. Washington at Columbus, 7 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 10 p.m. Winnipeg at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Dallas at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Florida, 6 p.m. Ottawa at Chicago, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Detroit at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Ottawa at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at Colorado, 9 p.m. Carolina at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Arizona at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

transactions

By The Associated Press

BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with OF Eury Perez and RHP Cesar Valdez on minor league contracts.

FOOTBALL National Football League INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived WR Griff Whalen. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed DT Abry Jones on injured reserve. Signed NT Richard Ash from the practice squad. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed RB Kendall Hunter on injured reserve. ST. LOUIS RAMS — Placed DTs Nick Fairly and Doug Worthington and CB Eric Patterson on injured reserve. Signed WR Nick Toon and RB Malcolm Brown from the practice squad. Claimed CB Troy Hill off waivers from New England. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Waived WR Torrence Allen and G Ben Beckwith.

HOCKEY National Hockey League FLORIDA PANTHERS — Signed coach Gerard Gallant to a contract extension through the 2018-19 season. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned F Jonathan Drouin to Syracuse (AHL). COLLEGE EAST CAROLINA — Named Shannon Moore special teams coordinator.

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Arkansas overwhelms Kansas State 45-23 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Alex Collins ran for 185 yards and three touchdowns and Arkansas capped its late-season surge with a 45-23 victory over Kansas State on Saturday in the Liberty Bowl. Ranked 18th to open the season, Arkansas stumbled through a 1-3 start that knocked the Razorbacks out of the Top 25. The Razorbacks (8-5) turned things around won six of their last seven games. Collins overwhelmed Kansas State’s defense in front of a sellout crowd of 61,136, the fourth-largest crowd in the game’s 57-year history. Kansas State (6-7) finished a season below .500 for the first time since Bill Snyder began his second stint as coach in 2009. Collins had touchdown runs of 22 yards and 13 yards in the first 17 minutes. He also had a 68-yard burst on his first kickoff return of the season, which set up Jared Cornelius’ 13-yard touchdown on an end around. Arkansas’ Brandon Allen was 20 of 26 for 315 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Kansas State’s Kody Cook, starting at quarterback for the first time after playing receiver, went 12 of 24 for 163 yards with a touchdown. The Southeastern Conference is 8-2 in bowl games this season.

McClendon and with incoming coach Kirby Smart watching from the stands. Penn State (7-6) played more than half the game without star quarterback Christian Hackenberg. Hackenberg landed awkwardly on his throwing shoulder early in the second quarter when linebacker Roquan Smith tackled him on a 5-yard scramble. Hackenberg threw four more passes, but grabbed his shoulder between plays. He headed to the locker room after an incompletion and returned after halftime wearing street clothes. After the game, he declared for the NFL draft. Sugar Bowl

(16) Mississippi 48 (13) Oklahoma State 20

NEW ORLEANS — Chad Kelly threw for 302 yards and four touchdowns three to Laquon Treadwell and No. 16 Mississippi beat No. 13 Oklahoma State 48-20 in the Sugar Bowl on Friday night. Ole Miss (10-3) jumped out to a 34-6 lead by halftime, cruising up and down the field against an overwhelmed Oklahoma State defense. The onslaught was punctuated late in the second quarter when left tackle Laremy Tunsil had a 2-yard touchdown run on a trick play after a lateral from Kelly. Oklahoma State (10-3) lost TAXSLAYER BOWL its final three games after 10 straight wins. The Cowboys GEORGIA 24 fell into a 41-6 hole midway PENN STATE 17 through the third quarter JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — and never mounted a legitiTerry Godwin threw a touch- mate challenge. down pass on a trick play and Mason Rudolph was 18 of caught one later, helping 31 for 179 yards for Oklahoma Georgia beat Penn State in State. Ole Miss outgained the TaxSlayer Bowl. Oklahoma State 554-366 in The Bulldogs (10-3) won total yards. in the third quartheir fifth consecutive game ter. to close the season, this one under interim coach Bryan The Associated Press

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Georgia wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell (26) catches a pass for a touchdown against Penn State during Saturday’s TaxSlayer Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla. Georgia won 24-17.

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Saban tends to be serious, stoic and straight-laced; SwinFrom Page B1 ney is everything but. Swinney is gregarious, funwhich is that Clemson coach loving and even a dancer at Dabo Swinney is not only natimes; Saban probably hasn’t tive to the Heart of Dixie, but danced since his high school also an alumnus of its largest prom. university. Swinney is fond of repeating And, oh yeah, he also played that “the fun is in the winfootball for the Crimson Tide ning” at every opportunity; to and was a member of the Saban, the fun is in the winschool’s 1992 national champi- ning, too – he just doesn’t exonship team. press it. Should Swinney guide the Swinney is perpetually fired Tigers to their first national up. He’s much like a kid on title since 1981, he would beChristmas morning who come the second former Alaknows that he’s been good all bama player and assistant year and is expecting to be coach to lead Clemson to the amply rewarded. national title, joining Danny Saban appears to be perpetFord. ually droll. He’s more like the There are many other ties uncle who shows up at the between the two programs, family Christmas party, stands which undoubtedly will be re- in the corner all night and counted numerous times over then leaves without saying a the next nine days, but one of word to anyone. the primary differences will be Saban doesn’t seem to smile contrasting styles and person- a whole lot. There’s nothing in alities of the head coaches. the world wrong with that, Swinney and Alabama coach and nothing that requires him Nick Saban both have been re- to do so, but one would think markably successful, with 56 that he’d offer a delighted and 61 wins, respectively, over cackle or hearty guffaw at the last five years, but are least every once in a while. polar opposites in nearly every Perhaps he does at home, other regard. safely away from the lights and

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, head coach Dabo Swinney and linebacker Ben Boulware, left to right, are all smiles after beating Oklahoma 37-17 on Thursday in the Orange Bowl.

Moving semifinals to New Year’s Eve a flop By PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press

to New Year’s Day. The other major bowls should serve as worthy prelims, not meaningMIAMI — The College Foot- less consolations. ball Playoff is a marvelous Of course, the powers-thatthing. be are refusing to acknowledge The timing of the national the obvious. semifinal games? This is, after all, the sport Boy, did they get that one that nonsensically resisted a wrong. playoff until last season. The Orange Bowl, a matchBill Hancock, executive diup between top-ranked Clemrector of the College Football son and No. 4 Oklahoma that Playoff, said he would await kicked off in the late afternoon the ratings for the New Year’s on New Year’s Eve, could’ve Day games before making any passed for an Alamo or Holideclarations on whether this day Bowl. worked. There simply wasn’t the sort “It’s just not appropriate to of buzz one would expect from talk until all the results are a game of that stature, which in,” he said Friday. “I guess surely had a lot to do with a 4 it’s like asking a coach to talk p.m. EST starting time, when about a whole game at halfmany people were just wraptime.” ping up their final work day of Well, let’s throw out the talk2015. ing points we know so far. Ditto for the Cotton Bowl, Start with ESPN’s perforwhich began shortly after mance on New Year’s Eve. Clemson finished off its 37-17 It was downright abysmal. victory over the Sooners. The Orange Bowl got a 9.1 While held in prime time, the rating, a plunge of 38.5 percent game between No. 2 Alabama from last year’s Rose Bowl and No. 3 Michigan State was (14.8) held in the same afterovershadowed by New Year’s noon time slot but on Jan. 1. celebrations around the coun- The number of viewers fell try; in fact, the Tide’s 38-0 rout even more — dropping 44.5 ended just minutes before the percent from 28,164,000 for the crystal ball dropped in Times Rose to just 15,640,000 for the Square. Orange, a staggering decline If that wasn’t enough of a for such a high-profile event. downer, playing the semifinal The Cotton Bowl endured a games on Dec. 31 left what is similar nosedive. The 9.6 rattraditionally the biggest day of ing was down a whopping 36.8 the season — New Year’s Day percent from last year’s 15.2 — feeling like a bit of an after- for the Sugar Bowl in the same thought, not all that different time slot, while the total viewthan staging the championship ership crashed 34.4 percent, game in women’s basketball 24 going from 28,271,000 to hours after the men play for 18,552,000. the title at the Final Four. Of course, neither game was The whole fabric of the colcompetitive, and that didn’t lege bowl season is out of help. whack. How are we supposed But there’s no way to sugarto get fired up for Rose, Sugar coat this debacle. and Fiesta bowls when two ESPN tried to make the best more important games have al- of the situation, pointing out ready been held and most folks that streaming views for the are now focused on the Jan. 11 Orange and Cotton were up national championship? over last year’s games. But that This much is clear: the semi- was like Custer trying to put a final games should move back

recorders and TV cameras. Just a wild guess here, but I would contend that Alabama fans couldn’t care less if Saban never cracks so much as a grin again as long as he continues to stockpile national titles like cordwood. He’s at four and counting, and a fifth title would elevate him into that rarefied air occupied by a single person – the late and legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant, who essentially created the Alabama football tradition as we know it. Swinney, of course, has a ways to go to match Saban’s ring collection, but at least he’s in the game, and he foresaw as much long before most of us did. “We’re closer than we’ve ever been to a special magic year,” Swinney said the week before the Tigers’ seasonopening game against Wofford last September. “There were a lot of walls around this program, and we’ve been knocking them down one at a time.” Only one wall remains, and whether it tumbles or not, one thing is certain – Swinney will be smiling all the while, and that puts him into some rarefied air, too.

positive spin on Little Bighorn. In all likelihood, that increase could be attributed largely to those who might’ve been fullyengaged viewers if not for the ill-advised schedule. What makes all of this more infuriating is that ESPN recognized the ratings Armageddon it was facing. At least a year ago, the network suggested holding the semifinal games on Jan. 2, which falls on a Saturday. The College Football Playoff balked at that idea, not wanting to disrupt its plans to carve out a niche on New Year’s Eve. In retrospect, that decision is roughly akin to casting Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. We all got punked. The semifinals games weren’t even a hit on social media. According to Nielsen, the Orange Bowl generated 487,000 tweets seen by 6.5 million people, a huge drop from what the Rose Bowl did a year ago: 2.6 million tweets viewed by 10.1 million people. The Orange Bowl took a similar hit compared to last season’s Sugar Bowl. But there was at least one positive to come out of this ratings fiasco. ABC — part of the Disney empire along with ESPN — made a desperate bid to get people to tune in, which might go down as the most hilarious attempt at product placement in broadcasting history. According to Deadspin, Wednesday’s episode of soap opera “General Hospital” made no less than seven references to the playoff, displayed the CFP logo prominently in the background of a scene, and even had some of the actors wearing T-shirts bearing the playoff motto “Who’s In?” Well, it didn’t work. Do us all a favor: Move these games back to New Year’s Day.

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North Carolina’s Joel Berry II (2) knocks the ball away from Georgia Tech’s Adam Smith on Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C. North Carolina won 86-78.

25 teams in its first seven league games. “We just wanted to come out tonight and show we could play with those teams,” Roper said. Malik Beasley, one of the two freshman starts for the Seminoles, led Florida State with 23 points. Bookert added 21 points, shooting 6 of 9 on 3-pointers. Florida State was trying for its first seven-game winning streak since its ACC championship season four years ago and its best start in six seasons. But the Seminoles led for just over a minute late in the first half, and only tied the game once in the final 20 minutes. Freshman Dwayne Bacon, who has scored 20 or more in four straight games including the game-winner Tuesday night against Florida, had 10 points. He missed his first seven shots and ended the game shooting 5 of 16.

“Clemson did all the little things,” Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said. “The dirty work — all the loose balls, knocking down shots when they were available.” Sidy Djitte added 14 points for Clemson, including making 8 of his 10 free throws, as Florida State started fouling early. The junior also had nine rebounds. FLORIDA ST. (10-3) Bacon 5-16 0-1 10, Beasley 8-13 5-5 23, Bojanovsky 3-4 0-2 6, RathanMayes 2-9 1-1 6, Brandon 1-3 2-4 4, Bookert 7-11 1-1 21, Bell 0-0 0-0 0, Mann 1-1 0-0 2, Koumadje 0-1 1-2 1, Smith 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 27-59 12-18 75. CLEMSON (8-6) Blossomgame 2-7 6-8 10, Holmes 4-11 5-9 15, Grantham 4-13 2-2 11, Roper 7-11 2-2 23, Nnoko 4-7 1-2 9, DeVoe 0-2 0-0 0, Smith 1-2 0-0 2, Djitte 3-3 8-10 14. Totals 25-56 24-33 84. Halftime—Clemson 35-33. 3-Point Goals—Florida St. 9-24 (Bookert 6-9, Beasley 2-5, Rathan-Mayes 1-6, Bacon 0-4), Clemson 10-26 (Roper 7-10, Holmes 2-8, Grantham 1-5, DeVoe 0-1, Blossomgame 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Florida St. 31 (Beasley 6), Clemson 42 (Blossomgame, Djitte 9). Assists—Florida St. 13 (RathanMayes 5), Clemson 15 (Grantham 7). Total Fouls—Florida St. 24, Clemson 15. A—9,945.

No. 1 Michigan holds off Minnesota 69-61 MINNEAPOLIS — Bryn Forbes scored 20 points, making three 3-pointers in the second half to help topranked Michigan State stave off Minnesota for a 69-61 victory on Saturday in response to a loss at Iowa earlier in the week. Matt Costello contributed 17 points and 15 rebounds, both career highs, for the Spartans (14-1, 1-1) four days after they fell 78-63 to the Hawkeyes in their Big Ten opener to make this No. 1 billing in The Associated Press’ poll short-lived. (2) KANSAS 102 (23) BAYLOR 74

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Wayne Selden scored 24 points, Perry Ellis added 17 and No. 2 Kansas used a big run over the first 10 minutes to win their Big 12 opener. Devonte Graham added 15 points and Frank Mason III had 11 for the Jayhawks (121, 1-0), who charged out to a 22-4 lead, then turned back every attempt by the Bears (10-3, 0-1) to make it a game. (5) VIRGINIA 77 NOTRE DAME 66

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Anthony Gill scored seven of his 14 first-half points during a 21-4 run and Virginia cruised to its 11th consecutive victory. Malcolm Brogdon led the Cavaliers (12-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) with 24 points, Gill had 21 and Mike Tobey had his second straight big game off the bench with 15 points and six rebounds. (6) XAVIER 88 (9) BUTLER 69

CINCINNATI — Remy Abell scored a career-high 21 points, and No. 6 Xavier recovered from its first loss of the season. The Musketeers (13-1, 1-1 Big East) were coming off a 95-64 defeat at No. 16 Villanova on Thursday that ended the best start in school history. Xavier led most of the way Saturday, taking control with a 13-1

run in the second half. (7) NORTH CAROLINA 86 GEORGIA TECH 78

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Joel Berry II scored a career-high 19 points and hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 5:07 left for North Carolina. Brice Johnson added 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Tar Heels (13-2, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who had fits with the Yellow Jackets (10-4, 0-1) all game. Georgia Tech led by nine points in the first half, by three at halftime and by one with 6 minutes left before the Tar Heels finally pushed ahead for good. (12) PROVIDENCE 83

15 teams this week. They beat No. 1 Michigan State on Tuesday night. (15) DUKE 81 BOSTON COLLEGE 64

BOSTON — Brandon Ingram had 25 points and nine rebounds to lead Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams. Grayson Allen had 17 points, nine rebounds and five assists for the Blue Devils (12-2, 1-0), who beat the Eagles for the 10th consecutive time. Luke Kennard added 17 points and Matt Jones had 16. (19) WEST VIRGINIA 87 KANSAS ST. 83

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Jaysean Paige scored 18 of PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Kris his 25 points after halftime Dunn had 26 points, nine re- and Tarik Phillip connected bounds and six assists to on a floater with 4.5 seconds lead Providence to its eighth left in the second overtime straight win. for West Virginia in the Big Dunn scored 12 straight 12 opener for both teams. points for the Friars in the Phillip finished with 14 second half after the Red points and five assists for Storm closed within 56-50 the Mountaineers (12-1, 1-0) with 9:30 remaining. Proviand Daxter Miles Jr. had 10. dence led 43-31 at halftime (20) TEXAS A&M 92 and went up by as many as 17 points early in the second ARKANSAS 69 COLLEGE STATION, half before St. John’s went Texas — Senior guard Jalen on its run. Jones scored a career-high (13) MIAMI 64 28 points for Texas A&M in SYRACUSE 51 the Southeastern ConferCORAL GABLES, Fla. — ence opener for both teams. Sheldon McClellan scored 22 The Aggies (11-2, 1-0) capipoints and Ja’Quan Newton talized on 15 Arkansas turnmade two big 3-pointers in overs and turned them into the second half for Miami. 22 points. Senior guard Alex Newton finished with 14 Caruso set the school career points for Miami (12-1, 1-0 record for steals with 230, Atlantic Coast Conference), including two on Saturday. which blew it open with a He entered the game tied 12-0 run in the final minutes with guard David Edwards to win its seventh straight. (1991-94) with 228 steals. IOWA 70 (22) CINCINNATI 76 ST. JOHN’S 65

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TULSA 57

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Jarrod Uthoff scored 25 points, Peter Jok had 11 points and nine rebounds and Iowa erased a 17-point halftime deficit to beat Purdue. The Hawkeyes (11-3, 2-0 Big Ten) have won four straight and eight of nine, including two upsets of Top

CINCINNATI — Farad Cobb had five 3-pointers and finished with 21 points as Cincinnati snapped a twogame losing streak. The Bearcats (11-4, 1-1 American Athletic Conference) led by 24 points in first half lead. The Associated Press

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South Carolina forward Mindaugas Kacinas (25) fouls Memphis forward K.J. Lawson in the Gamecocks’ 84-74 victory on Saturday.

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continued. Ricky Tarrant Jr. had 20 points for Memphis. The teams hadn’t met since the 2004 NCAA Tournament when a John Calipari-coached Memphis team topped the Gamecocks 59-43 in the opening round. South Carolina hasn’t been back to the Big Dance since then and hopes to change that this season. “I can’t get wrapped up in that, I have to stay in the moment, which is to work hard every day,” South Carolina coach Frank Martin said. Memphis had the bulk and height to match up with the Gamecocks and showed that in first half that was bogged down by 32 combined fouls. Memphis’s Shaq Goodwin and South Carolina’s Chris Silva had words beneath the basket before their teammates stepped in to keep the peace. The Gamecocks used a 9-0 run late in the period to go up 39-33. But Tarrant Jr. hit two

3-pointers — the Tigers had six in the first 20 minutes — in the final 45 seconds to tie things at 42-all going into the break. Duane Notice had 15 points for South Carolina, going 12 of 12 from the foul line. The Gamecocks went to the freethrow line 63 times in a regulation game that took 21/2 hours to play. MEMPHIS (9-4) Burrell 1-7 0-0 2, Goodwin 3-10 7-7 13, Martin 2-5 4-7 10, K. Lawson 0-3 1-2 1, Tarrant Jr. 3-11 12-12 20, D. Lawson 2-7 1-2 6, Woodson 4-10 3-3 14, Crawford 3-7 2-3 8, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Marshall 1-1 0-0 2, McDowell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 19-61 30-36 76. SOUTH CAROLINA (13-0) Thornwell 4-8 9-14 18, Chatkevicius 2-6 5-6 9, Dozier 3-7 1-3 7, Carrera 4-11 6-9 16, Kacinas 2-7 4-4 8, Stroman 0-1 5-8 5, Gregory 1-1 0-0 2, Notice 1-8 12-12 15, McKie 0-0 0-0 0, Cobb 0-0 0-0 0, Silva 1-8 4-7 6. Totals 18-57 46-63 86. Halftime—Tied 42-42. 3-Point Goals—Memphis 8-22 (Woodson 3-9, Martin 2-2, Tarrant Jr. 2-5, D. Lawson 1-3, K. Lawson 0-1, Burrell 0-2), South Carolina 4-17 (Carrera 2-3, Thornwell 1-3, Notice 1-6, Chatkevicius 0-1, Dozier 0-1, Kacinas 0-3). Fouled Out—Burrell, Crawford, Goodwin, K. Lawson, D. Lawson. Rebounds—Memphis 38 (Goodwin 9), South Carolina 53 (Carrera 11). Assists—Memphis 8 (Burrell 2), South Carolina 9 (Notice 3). Total Fouls—Memphis 41, South Carolina 27. A—13,035.

pro basketball roundup

Thunder pull away in second half to beat Hornets 109-90 CHARLOTTE — Kevin Durant had 29 points and 11 rebounds, and the Oklahoma City Thunder pulled away in the second half to beat the Charlotte Hornets 109-90 on Saturday night. Russell Westbrook added 16 points for the Thunder, who put four other players in double figures in winning their fourth straight game. Kemba Walker scored 32 points, Jeremy Lin added 15

and P.J. Hairston had 10 for the Hornets. Leading 66-54 at the break, Charlotte scored nine unanswered points to pull to 66-64 with 9:45 left in the third. But the Thunder responded with a 12-2 spurt to push their lead back to double digits. Nets 100 Celtics 97

BOSTON — Brook Lopez scored a season-high 30 points

and grabbed 13 rebounds, leading the Brooklyn Nets to a 10097 victory over the Boston Celtics on Saturday. Joe Johnson added 20 points, Thaddeus Young scored 16 with 10 rebounds, and Bojan Bogdanovic had 13 points for the Nets, who won for the third time in 11 games. Isaiah Thomas had 24 points and Jae Crowder scored 16 for Boston. The Celtics dropped their second straight after a

season-high four-game winning streak. KINGS 142 SUNS 119

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kings coach George Karl moved into a tie for fifth on the NBA wins list with 1,155 when DeMarcus Cousins had 32 points and nine rebounds to lead Sacramento over Phoenix, which lost its eighth in a row.

Karl matched Phil Jackson with the milestone victory. The 63-year-old Karl is 1,155795 in 27 seasons. Brandon Knight had 23 points and Devin Booker scored 21 for the Suns, who have lost 10 of 11. Darren Collison had 21 points and six assists, and Marco Belinelli scored 19 points for the Kings. The Associated Press

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Playoff matchups are still unsettled By TIM BOOTH The Associated Press

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Carolina cornerback Josh Norman and the rest of the Panthers will try to secure home-field advantage for the NFC playoffs with a victory over Tampa Bay today in Charlotte.

Home-field advantage at stake for Panthers By STEVE REED The Associated Press

offense. “We have to get back to what we did the week beCHARLOTTE — The Caro- fore,” coach Ron Rivera lina Panthers may need an said. MVP-type performance from The Panthers don’t seem Cam Newton today against overly concerned they’ll be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers able to do that against a to secure home-field advanTampa Bay team they beat tage in the NFC playoffs. 37-23 on the road in October. He and the Panthers are Carolina tight end Greg looking to bound back from Olsen said the concern on their first loss of the season. the outside surrounding this The Panthers had the No. 1 team is grossly overblown scoring offense in the league after just one loss. entering last weekend after “We won 14 games in a row putting up at least 27 points for a reason,” said Olsen, the in 12 straight games. But team’s leader in receptions. they were held to 13 points in “Everybody just needs to a loss to the Atlanta Falcons relax. It’s not the end of the — one that cost them a shot world. We’re disappointed at an unbeaten season. that we lost. ... I don’t think Newton said Thursday he’s there’s any added pressure. anxious to get back on the We have one last box to field against the Buccaneers, check, and that’s what this who have been eliminated week is about.” from playoff contention. Rivera said Thursday his “Of course you wish you team appears focused followcould push the reset button ing what he called a “weird” and go out there and play week full of distractions them again, but it is what it leading up the Falcons game is,” Newton said Thursday. “I that included the fallout from guarantee you will see a lot the Odell Beckman Jr. inciof guys geared up and ready dent. to go and trying to eliminate “Once the game was over that from happening again.” we should have been able to Carolina can wrap up the move on but we weren’t,” RiNo. 1 seed with a win Sunday vera said. “Because I was or an Arizona loss. constantly asked the quesThe Panthers seem to go as tion, players were constantly Newton goes, particularly asked the question and we with Pro Bowl running back were trying to focus on (the Jonathan Stewart still nursFalcons). It was like people ing a foot injury. didn’t want to let it go. I tried Newton led the Panthers to end, They tried to end it. on a touchdown drive to open But it didn’t (end). That conagainst Atlanta, but the Pan- tributed to the weirdness of thers struggled to move the last week.” chains after that in the quarNewton, who announced terback’s home town where the birth of his son on Twithis girlfriend had just given ter Wednesday night, left birth to the couple’s first son practice early last week to a few days earlier on Christtravel to Atlanta to be there mas eve — a 9-pound, when his son was born. Rive6-ounce son that Newton ra said that didn’t contribute joked “is already getting to Sunday’s poor perforscholarship offers.” Carolina mance against the Falcons, managed just two field goals and the coach isn’t confor the remainder of the cerned it will impact Newton game and 268 total yards on this week.

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TAMPA BAY (6-9) at CAROLINA (14-1) Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET, Fox OPENING LINE — Panthers by 10 1/2 RECORD VS. SPREAD — Tampa Bay 7-8, Carolina 10-5 SERIES RECORD — Panthers lead series 19-11 LAST MEETING — Panthers beat Buccaneers 37-23, Oct. 4, 2015 LAST WEEK — Buccaneers lost to Bears 26-21; Panthers lost to Falcons 20-13 AP PRO32 RANKING — Buccaneers No. 24, Panthers No. 2 BUCCANEERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (7), RUSH (4), PASS (20). BUCCANEERS DEFENSE — OVERALL (9), RUSH (10), PASS (t-17). PANTHERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (10), RUSH (2), PASS (25). PANTHERS DEFENSE — OVERALL (4), RUSH (5), PASS (6). STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Tampa Bay has lost five straight games to Carolina. ... Buccaneers have not been to playoffs since 2007 and not won playoff game since Super Bowl victory in 2002. ... QB Jameis Winston is one of three rookies in NFL history with 3,500 yards passing, 20 or more TDs passing and five or more TDs rushing. ... Winston needs 283 yards passing to become third rookie with 4,000 yards passing. ... RB Doug Martin ranks second to Adrian Peterson in NFL with 1,354 yards rushing. He has seven TDs rushing in past 12 games. ... WR Mike Evans has career-high 70 catches and 1,107 yards receiving. ... WR Vincent Jackson had 10 catches for 147 yards and touchdown in last meeting vs. Carolina, but was placed on injured reserve on Wednesday. ... LB Lavonte David has three interceptions in last six games, including one for TD. ... Panthers had 18-game regular-season win streak snapped with loss to Falcons. ... QB Cam Newton has passed and rushed for touchdown 30 times in same game, one shy of NFL record held by Steve Young. ... Panthers have rushed for at least 100 yards in 26 straight games, longest streak in NFL. Next longest is Tampa Bay with six. ... Kawann Short has 11 sacks, most ever by Carolina defensive tackle. ... Coach Ron Rivera is 18-4 in December since 2011, tied for best mark in NFL with Seattle’s Pete Carroll. ... Panthers have thirdhighest red zone touchdown percentage at 66.1. ... Panthers had scored 27 or more points in 12 straight games before being held to 13 by Atlanta last week. ... RB Jonathan Stewart needs 11 yards to pass 1,000 for the season, but playing status is uncertain due to foot injury. ... RB Cameron Artis-Payne will make first career start if Stewart can’t play. ... Fantasy Tip: Panthers WR Ted Ginn Jr. has been points machine down stretch of season, but is battling knee and hamstring injuries that may hamper production.

Even though they’ve had a playoff berth clinched for two weeks, no team goes into the final week of the regular season with more uncertainty than the Seattle Seahawks with three potential opponents. That’s fine by them. They already know what lies ahead in the postseason. “I don’t really care. Regardless it’s going to be somewhere cold and it’s going to be on the road,” Seattle defensive end Cliff Avril said. Seattle’s status is one of the few unknowns going into the final day. Home-field advantage has yet to be clinched in both conferences. The NFC North is up for grabs with Green Bay hosting Minnesota. Rex Ryan and Buffalo could knock the New York Jets out of the playoffs, a result the Steelers are hoping for to sneak in.

AFC BREAK TIME: New England is already assured of having the first weekend off. The Patriots can wrap up home field advantage with a win over Miami or a Denver loss to San Diego. Denver needs just a win over the Chargers to get a bye, while Cincinnati needs a win over the Ravens and a Broncos loss to earn a No. 2 seed. WILD WILD CARD: Pittsburgh’s flop in Week 16 losing to Baltimore left the Steelers needing some help. The Jets are in with a win in Buffalo, but a loss and the Steelers can swoop in and claim the No. 6 seed with a victory over the Browns. DON’T FORGET US: Anyone talking at all about Kansas City? The Chiefs have won nine straight and still have an outside shot of winning the AFC West. Kansas City must beat Oakland and have the Broncos lose to the Chargers. While that would get Kansas City the division title, it won’t get them a firstround bye.

SOUTH BY DEFAULT: OK. Can the Texans simply just win? That is the cleanest, easiest route to figuring out the AFC South champion. Houston wins and it hosts the No. 5 seed in the wild card round. But if the Texans lose and Indianapolis can beat Tennessee then it gets really messy. The Colts would then need Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Denver and Miami to win, and Oakland and Pittsburgh to win or tie — but both not tie — to edge out the Texans on strength of schedule tiebreaker.

NFC REST TIME: Carolina and Arizona have already earned byes. But the Panthers loss last week against Atlanta left open the chance of Arizona earning home-field advantage. The Cardinals need to beat Seattle and have the Panthers lose to Tampa Bay and the path to the Super Bowl would go through Glendale. NFC FROZEN: The NFC North will be decided late on Sunday night when the temperatures in Green Bay are expected to dip into the teens for the Packers and Vikings. The winner gets the No. 3 seed in the conference. The loser will be a wild card and face a road-heavy slate to get through the postseason. After starting 6-0 the Packers are 4-5 down the stretch, including last week’s 38-8 drubbing by Arizona. But Green Bay was on a threegame losing streak when it routed the Vikings 30-13 in Minnesota in Week 11. FILING A FLIGHT PLAN: Seattle has the most uncertainty of where it’s headed going into the final day with the chance of ending up in Minnesota, Green Bay or Washington. The Seahawks were in line for the No. 5 seed before stumbling last week at home against St. Louis. Beating Arizona won’t guarantee Seattle the No. 5 seed because if Minnesota beats Green Bay, the Packers have the tiebreaker over the Seahawks.

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Seattle head coach Pete Carroll has the most uncertainty of where his team is headed in the NFC playoffs going into the final day of the NFL season. The Seahawks could end up in Minnesota, Green Bay or Washington in a wild-card ame. The Seahawks were in line for the No. 5 seed before losing to St. Louis last week.

Titans, Browns lead reluctant race for top ‘16 draft pick By TERESA M. WALKER The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With the teams trying to clamp down the final playoff spots Sunday, the Tennessee Titans and Cleveland Browns find themselves at the other end of the NFL spectrum. They lead the procession tumbling toward next year’s No. 1 draft pick. The Titans and Browns are 3-12, and chances are one of them will wind up with the No. 1 pick overall. In the reluctant race to the bottom, they have a slight edge over San Diego, Dallas and San Francisco — all tied at 4-11. That leaves some Titans and Browns fans in the peculiar position of rooting for a loss Sunday that would put their team in line for the top pick. Players and coaches have

been saying it’s about now, not next year. “Obviously, you’d like to walk away a winner and feel good about yourself for all the hard work,” Titans interim coach Mike Mularkey said. The Browns beat Tennessee 28-14 in Week 2, but head-tohead isn’t the tiebreaker used to determine draft order. Instead, opponents’ strength of schedule is key with the edge given to the team playing weaker competition. Playing in the AFC South where only Houston has as many as eight wins would give the Titans that tiebreaker if both teams lose Sunday. Victories by Cleveland and Tennessee will certainly make things more complicated as the strength of schedule tiebreaker will be affected by nearly every game Sunday. Both teams will be without

their Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks because of injuries. Marcus Mariota will miss his second straight game with a sprained right knee, giving Zach Mettenberger the start Sunday in Indianapolis (7-8). Mettenberger is winless in nine career starts, while the Titans haven’t won in Indianapolis since 2007. Johnny Manziel is out with a concussion, so Austin Davis will start for the Browns against Pittsburgh (9-6). Cleveland has beaten the Steelers only six times since 1999. When a team is 3-12, there are a lot of holes to fill.

BROWNS With coach Mike Pettine’s future in doubt, the Browns go in a number of directions with the No. 1 or No. 2 overall pick. Ohio State defensive end Joey Bosa, with his comparisons to

J.J. Watt, would seem to fit into any defensive system. Bosa offers the added bonus of a built-in fan base with his Buckeye backers. Manziel improved enough on the field to provide some hope, but he remains a headache off the field. If the Browns decide to add Manziel to list of former first-round QBs who didn’t work out — see Brady Quinn and Brandon Weeden — they could be interested in making either Paxton Lynch of Memphis or Cal’s Jared Goff their fourth quarterback drafted in the first round since 2007. If the Browns keep Manziel, they have enough needs that trading for extra picks could help. Then they could only hope Dallas wants insurance for Tony Romo or another team refuses to wait for a quarterback.

TITANS Mariota has filled Tennessee’s need at quarterback. Now the Titans still need to fix an offensive line that couldn’t keep him healthy despite drafting linemen with their first-round pick two of the past three years. That makes Laremy Tunsil of Mississippi their best option if they wind up at No. 1. Tennessee also has enough holes that a trade would be an appealing option, and any deal netting two first-round picks would be ideal. The Titans would love to add a player like Nashville native and Florida State cornerback Jalen Ramsey to bolster their secondary. Any deal that also netted Treadwell as the second part of that combo, giving Mariota another target, would be an attractive scenario.

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Observe Twelfth Night at local church Epiphany service celebrates final day of Christmas BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com

he kids are back in school, and the Christmas decora-

tions are stowed away for the year — or maybe just looking a little sad after the holiday. But the Church of the Holy Comforter reminds us that Christmas isn’t really over. In fact, according to the Christian tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas, the final day of Christmas isn’t until Jan. 6, known as Epiphany, or simply Twelfth Night. Some even call it Three Kings Day.

Epiphany is recognized as the night the wise men reached the manger where the Christ child lay. In bringing gifts to Jesus and acknowledging him as King, the wise men became the first gentiles to do so; this meant that Christ came as the savior of all people everywhere, not just the Jews. One meaning of the word “epiphany” is a sudden, powerful insight into the true nature of a situation, an illuminating discovery or manifestation. The focus of the Epiphany service, then, is on celebrating the church’s mission

Eating a Kings’ Cake is an essential part of observing Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, for many people. In the U.S. it’s an especially important part of the celebration in New Orleans.

of revealing the unity and kinship of all races and nations. On Wednesday at 6 p.m., Holy Comforter will open its Epiphany worship service to the public; it will be followed by a “family fellowship” event in its parish hall. The event will include a chili cook off, with guests voting on their favorite concoction, and a Kings’ Cake will be served. The Rev. Marcus Kaiser, rector of Holy Comforter, will officiate the service, and the clergy will sing the liturgy for the eucharist. Many people think the 12 days of Christmas begin before Dec. 25, but in actuality they start on that date. Or do they? Not only is the method of counting down to Epiphany confusing, but so are many of the explanations. Accepted as a reasonable explanation is that the first day of Christmas is actually Dec. 26 — the day after Christmas. Counting this way, the 12th day does indeed fall on Jan. 6. This method considers that the 12 days after the nativity are the days the wise men spent traveling to Bethlehem to find Jesus. The tradition of the Kings’ Cake mirrors the search for the Christ child by the three wise men, or magi. A small plastic doll is baked into the cake, which is usually decorated with green, yellow and purple frosting. Cutting it and serving the slices to guests is similar to the magi’s search for the baby. The lucky person who gets the baby in his or her piece wins the honor of hosting the next Kings’ Day party. Another element in a traditional Twelfth Night celebration is the abundant use of candles. These symbolize Christ’s bringing light to the world. Meg Shinall, Holy Comforter spokeswoman, said the chili cook off will have several men of the parish competing — they “take it pretty seriously” — and the public is invited to compete as well. While Twelfth Night marks

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The Adoration of the Magi by the 17-century painter Bartolome Murillo depicts the first Epiphany, the date the wise men arrived at the manger. Church of the Holy Comforter invites the public to its Epiphany service on Jan. 6. the end of the Christmas season, it also begins the carnival season, the days leading up to Ash Wednesday. Jan. 6 celebrations in the U.S. are simpler than those in New Orleans and Mexico, where parties often require costumes in addition to the Kings’ Cake. Traditionally, a beverage called Lamb’s Wool is drunk with the cake. It’s a concoction of hot cider to which is added sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Some people pour a little on their apple trees to ensure abundant apples in the new year.

Carnival season lasts until the beginning of Lent (Ash Wednesday), which this year falls on Feb. 10. Twelfth Night was so popular in Elizabethan England that William Shakespeare wrote a comedy about it. Among the plot elements are unrequited love, cross-dressing, overindulgence in food and drink, dancing, mistaken identities and revelry. Whether you’re missing the Christmas season already or just want to celebrate the wise men’s successful search for the Christ

child, the Church of the Holy Comforter invites you to its Epiphany service at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the sanctuary, followed by fellowship in the Parish Hall. As Shinall noted, the church’s observance of Epiphany will complete the Christmas season “by inviting us to discover the identity of the Christ Child.” The public is invited to attend all events at the church. Church of the Holy Comforter is on the southeast corner of Calhoun and Main streets.

2nd Iris Festival coming up; $3M school will be built in Sumter 75 YEARS AGO — 1941 May 26-June 1 • All of the committees are hard at work and the final touches are being made to a few details, and it looks as though the second-annual Iris Festival which will be held here on Friday is going to be a gala event with a record crowd attending. K.E. Ward, chairman of the festival, was very optimistic this morning when he said that the affair would gain comment from many sections of the country. He stated that the news camera man would arrive Friday morning and start setting up his equipment to take moving pictures of the parade and other parts of the celebration. These shots will be shown in the leading theaters throughout the United States and Yesteryear will be complete with in Sumter all of the sound efSAMMY WAY fects. • Mayesville High School’s baseball team took one step nearer the state Class C championship yesterday afternoon when they trounced Connie Maxwell Orphanage, 8 to 3, in the first game of a three-game series for the title. The game was played in Greenwood, and the second contest will be played in Mayesville on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. • A new type of bread recommended by government agencies and nutritionists that is “enriched” with vitamins and iron is available today to the

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1941 — A dance group to be presented at “In Step with the USA,” a recital by students of Elsye McKeown School of Dancing at Edmunds High School, is seen. From left are Betty Moseley, Stella Hurst, Sidney Martin, Linda Brunson, Ann Smith, Helen McLaurin, Mary Baynard Kirkland and Harriet Cuttino. people of Sumter, it was announced by R.H. Jennings Jr., general manager of the People’s Baking Co. All bakers in South Carolina and in other parts of the nation were asked this year by the committee on food and nutrition of the National Research Council, the U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and other government and nutrition agencies to provide bread “enriched,” with thiamine (vitamin B1), nicotinic acid (an-

other of the “B complex” vitamins) and iron. • From all indications there will be plenty of lovely Japanese iris in bloom at Swan Lake for the annual Iris Festival which will be held here Friday. This morning a number of the iris were in bloom in the back part of the garden, and others were beginning to blossom. Word was received today by K.E. Ward, chairman of the festival, that Miss Mary Moffett will represent

Bishopville at the event. Another announcement made this morning stated that tickets for the coronation ball at the armory were now on sale for $1.50 per couple. The tickets have been advertised previously as being on sale for $1.65. • Dexter C. Martin, director of the South Carolina Aeronautics Commission, announced the largest airport in the Southeast would be built at Sumter at a cost in excess of $3,000,000. The airport which will cover 2,830 acres will serve as a basic flying school for the United States Army Air Corps. The War Department announced selection of the site last night. Martin said a field would be located eight miles from the city and would be built along the same lines as Maxwell Field, Ala., now one of the army’s largest training centers. However, the Sumter airport will cover a larger area than Maxwell field. • President Roosevelt’s proclamation of an unlimited national emergency may speed up the establishment of additional army training camps in the Carolinas. The proclamation empowers the president to increase the size of the army beyond the present authorized strength of about 1,400,000 men. For some months the army has been surveying sites in various sections of the nation in anticipation of a probable increase in its strength. These surveys, however, were made in anticipation of action by congress, which — until the president’s proclamation — had the exclusive power to enlarge the army.

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YESTERYEAR FROM PAGE C1 • City Manager J.A. Raffield announced this afternoon that the municipal airport would probably be formally opened on Saturday, June 21, with appropriate ceremonies. W.N. Offley, who has leased the airport for three years, has been in the city since Sunday but left this morning. Mr. Offley had a number of conferences with Mr. Raffield regarding the opening of the airport. Offley leased the airport, which is built on 157 acres of land, for three years with the agreement to operate a civilian flying school. He has been operating the Asheboro Flying School successfully in Alexandria, Va., for some time and is also operating a number of other schools at the present time. The administration building is almost completed, and everything will be in readiness for the opening. • Mayesville High School won the State Class C Baseball Championship yesterday afternoon by beating Connie Maxwell Orphanage of Greenwood 3 to 2, for the second straight victory. Mayesville won the first game which was played in Greenwood. Ellis Cook pitched the first eight innings for Mayesville, and Gene Bradley hurled the last inning striking out three. Gammon, Player, Josey and Cook secured Mayesville’s hits. Cook got a triple and Gammon two singles. • Capt. H.G. Gerdes — under whose direction the Charlotte air base mushroomed into being — will be transferred around June 15 to Sumter, to take charge of building the $3,300,000 army flying school planned there, it was learned here last night. Head of the Corps of Engineers stationed at the local base, Capt. Gerdes completed the military cantonment in what is officially regarded as regarded as “record-breaking time,” and it is believed that his new assignment reflects credit on the efficiency on his command. • The program of the two-day reunion of the Veterans of the 81st or Wildcat Division has been completed, and the committee composed of Ray L. McCoy, E. Turner White, H. Curtis Edens and the national Adjutant, James E. Cahall of Washington, D.C., are now awaiting the arrival of the host of Wildcats from over the two Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.

50 YEARS AGO — 1966 March 28-April 3 • Delegates from over the state attended the annual South Carolina area meeting of the Southeast Federation of National Temple Sisterhoods held at Temple Sinai last Wednesday. The morning session consisted of a panel discussion on “Stumbling Blocks to Faith.” The panelists were Rabbi Edward Cohn, Greenville; Chaplain Bertram Newman of the S.C. State Mental Hospital, and Dr. Glen Ayers, psychologist on the staff of the Mental Health Center in Sumter. • Capt. Norman P. Huggins and Capt. Harold C. Polson received the Silver Star in ceremonies here. Also receiving decorations were Capt. William R.Puckett, who received the Bronze Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross; Capt. James H. Woolpert; Capt. Stewart B. Matthews; Capt. Richard J. Corbett; and 1st Lt. Richard A Utzke, all of whom received the Distinguished Flying Cross. Maj. Gen. Milton B. Adams, commander of the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Center, presented the medals at the parade. The medals were earned while the officers were serving in Vietnam flying reconnaissance missions in unarmed aircraft. • Grand Opening of the new B.F. Goodrich Co. store, located at 330 N. Main at Warren, will be held this week. The company store has been open for business since the first of February but delayed its official opening until everything was in “ship-shape.” Albert Link, manager, today issued an invitation to all residents of Sumter and area to visit the store during the Grand Opening. There will be door prizes, including four Goodrich Silvertown tires, a Kelvinator Automatic Washing Machine, Garden Club Lawn Mower and many other awards. • Morris College of Sumter has been granted $150,000 from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the purpose of financing construction of a new 100-student capacity men’s dormitory. The federal government loan will be supplemented by $75,000 of the college’s own funds. This information was contained in a telegram received today from Senator Donald Russell. • School District 17 (city schools) will mail out to parents before the end of the week choice of school forms and information on the schools’ desegregation plan. As required under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, each student or parent must choose the school the student will attend in the coming year. Under the new desegregation plan of the schools it does not matter which school the student is attending this year or whether the school was formerly an all white or all-Negro school. No student can be enrolled at any school next school year unless a choice of school is made, according to

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1966 — B.F. Goodrich Co. was open at the first of February but delayed its official opening. information being mailed out. • Red Cross accomplishes most of its work through volunteers — people who donate their time, talent and energy to help others. Working in the hospital, clinics, school and bloodmobile and youth program, 150 volunteers at Shaw have assumed needed and vital jobs in the community and found it a pleasant and rewarding experience. Red Cross has many jobs in which volunteers are needed. All volunteers at Shaw work under the direction of Mrs. Harry W. Trimble, chairman of volunteers. • Boyle Construction Co. of Sumter submitted a low bid of $122,746 yesterday for a 10,000-square-foot addition to the Sumter Area Technical Education Center. Three other contractors submitted bids for the new addition to the 40,000-square-foot building. A decision will be made within 30 days by the TEC Commission on whether or not to accept the bid. Harry E. Wilkinson Jr. is chairman of the Commission. • Carrying responsibility for the diets of 180 patients, Marcia Jones Hutchinson, a 1964 graduate of Winthrop College and Sumter native, competently handles her task as therapeutic dietician at York General Hospital. York General is a modern 300-bed hospital serving the York County area. “In one of my courses at Winthrop, I worked three hours a week at York General as laboratory experience. During this time I became acquainted with the routine here. Upon securing my American Dietetic Assn. (ADA) membership, Mrs. Ruth R. Tice, head dietitian, offered me a position,” Marcia explained. • The Board of Trustees of Thomas Sumter Academy has elected W.W. Wannamaker 3rd as headmaster of the academy for the coming year. Wannamaker replaces Mrs. Frances M. Dinkins who is retiring as headmistress, the position she has held since the establishment of the school two years ago. Wannamaker, a native of Orangeburg and a graduate of both the Beaufort and Orangeburg High schools, holds a B.S. from The Citadel and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Cornell University and has further studied at University of South Carolina. • Hugh Betchman, baseball and basketball coach at Furman school during the past nine years, announced yesterday that he was resigning his position at the Sumter County School to go with the Vocational Rehabilitation program. Betchman said he had been thinking about it since January and decided about a month ago to make the move. Wyman Taylor, head football coach, has taken over the Furman baseball team for the remainder of the spring. • Edmunds High School’s James Lyles and East Clarendon’s Mickey Mixon were named to the South Carolina football All-Star 11 last week at the Annual Coastal Plains Sports Awards Banquet held in Florence. Lyles, a 200pound tackle for Sumter last fall, captained the Gamecocks to an 8-2-1 record during the ’65 campaign. Mixon was a big factor in East Clarendon’s drive to the 1965 Class B state football championship with his power running at fullback. Like Lyles, Mixon is a senior. • Capt. Ruth M. Lemire, Army Nurse Corp counselor, will visit Sumer and Tuomey Hospital on April 8, according

to an announcement by SFC Keith Courson, local Army recruiter. Capt. Lemire is a 1957 graduate of the University of Rhode Island School of Nursing and is currently serving as Army Nurse Corps counselor for North Carolina and South Carolina. • Full forest fighting forces in Sumter County are putting out woods fires as fast as they can, Ranger Ladson Cubbage reported today, but members of the Sumter unit of the National Guard have had to be called on to help. There were numerous fires in the county yesterday with the eight largest fires resulting in 661 acres burned. Winds were as high as 21 miles per hour, churning up big clouds of dust that halted traffic and farm work in some parts of the county. Several frame houses have been lost to the flames. Fires were in all sections of the county with one of the worst across the road from the H.Q. Jones farm on Wedgefield Road.

25 YEARS AGO — 1990 Dec. 28-Jan. 3 • Local officials can expect a letter next week responding to their challenge of 1990 census figures, a U.S. Census Bureau official said this morning. Brian Monaghan, an assistant regional census manager in Charlotte, said the letters include revised figures for blocks challenged by local governments but give no amended population or housing totals. “On each of the challenges, we have gone back out in the field and rechecked the specific blocks in question. We’re getting the last of the letters out by the end of today.” • Hillcrest and Furman each relied on harassing, pressure defenses to record first-round wins in the third-annual Lee County Holiday Invitational Tournament at the Bishopville High gym. Coach James Smith’s Wildcats ran out to a big lead and then held it against a McBee rally en route to a 71-68 win. Furman’s Indians took command early and never looked back in an 89-67 win over Scott’s Branch. • Senior Airman Michael Cotton had just one Christmas wish before being deployed from McIntire Air National Guard Base to the Middle East. The wish came true when his wife, Patricia, gave birth to their first child. Lauren Nicole Cotton was born at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, one day before the 160th Tactical Fighter Group was officially activated and began preparing for deployment. Cotton, 22, is a maintenance technician in the group’s Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. • Some members of the 169th Tactical Fighter Group from McIntire Air National Guard Base will leave for Saudi Arabia tonight, to be followed Saturday by 24 F-16 fighter planes. The 169th, which distinguished itself last year as one of the best F-16 units in the world, will be the first Air Guard or Reserve tactical fighter unit deployed to take part in Operation Desert Shield. The group was officially activated Thursday and began preparing for immediate deployment. • The Hillcrest Wildcats got off to a slow start against Hannah-Pamplico before gaining control and cruising to a 76-55 win Friday to advance to the finals of the Lee County Invitational Tournament at the Bishopville High School gymnasium. Hillcrest will play Bishop-

ville for the tournament title. • St. John United Methodist Church at Spring Hill is a bit older than McLeod and Beulah. It had its beginning in 1799, when Kipsey and Billy Belvin were attending a camp meeting at Rembert Chapel, located about seven miles away from Spring Hill. Kipsey dreamed of having a church closer to their home, which was right on top of Spring Hill. This is a beautiful, hilly area to the east of the village of Rembert, where, millions of years ago, the ocean covered all of this part of the state. • Phil Ballinger has seen a lot of businesses and industries come and go since he began working with the Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce in 1970. But the chamber’s president and CEO says 1990 beat everything. “It was unusual,” said Ballinger, Sumter County’s head industrial recruiter. “The Campbell Soup event was the big news (Gold Kist purchased the Campbell plant), but we also scored some big hits that are going to be tremendously good for our area.”… Other economic development includes Union Camp Corp., Diebold Inc. and Metal Leve Corp. • Hillcrest scored the last seven points of the contest en route to a 72-66 overtime victory over Bishopville in the finals of the Lee County Holiday Invitational Tournament at Bishopville High School. The count was deadlocked at 63 apiece at the end of regulation before Hillcrest got the first bucket of the extra period on a shot by John Ball. Bishopville countered with a threepoint shot by Derrick Hickman. The Wildcats finished up with a basket by Ray Allen, a free throw by Maurice Pressley, a put back by Mecko Mayes and a pair of free throws by Ball. • Sumter High School was at a definite height disadvantage against Mount St. Michel in the championship game of the Rotary-Ram Classic Saturday at Ridgewood High School. The Mountaineers from Bronx, N.Y., started a front line of 6-5 and 6-4 while SHS had no starter taller than 6-3. That was no problem for the Gamecocks though. They had a quickness advantage and used it to shut down a high-scoring center for the second-straight night to win 69-62 and claim the tournament title. • Now that Santa Claus has completed his annual journey to the South and the Christmas tree decorations are back in the attic (or soon will be), the only thing left to do is to find a home for that tree. If you bought a balled and burlapped tree, its home will most likely be your yard. But, if you’re like 35 million other Americans who either cut their own or purchase a cut tree, you’ll have to discard it one way or another. Discarded Christmas trees have been used for many years as fish attractants when submerged in lakes and ponds. They have also been used to help stabilize and build sand dunes on the coast. Another approach which seems to be gaining momentum is tree recycling. Christmas trees are chipped or ground into mulch for use in private gardens or public parks. • John Paul Reid was born at 5:05 a.m. today at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, making himself Tuomey’s first new arrival of the decade. Reid was “doing terrific” today according to Mrs. Reid. The baby, also the son of John T. Reid, was due on New Year’s Eve, but Mrs. Reid said she was glad her son was born on the first day of the year. “It’s pretty special,” she said. • When Amy Howell was a high school freshman, Sumter had a few places where she could hang out with her friends without the risk of running into trouble. “While I was in high school there was nothing to do,” the USC Sumter freshman said. “I was bored stiff. We needed a safe place where we could just come and hang out and dance.” Howell found what she was looking for when a group of her Sumter High School friends helped establish New Horizons, a teen center where anyone is welcome but drugs or alcohol are not. • Mayewood Coach Debbie Smith played her entire bench Wednesday night as she watched her undefeated Lady Vikings down Chesterfield 75-32. Keshena Dickey scored 27 with seven steals, and Ruby Fullard added 12 points and eight steals to give Mayewood its seventh win of the season and its first region win.

1966 — Marcia Jones Hutchinson, a Sumter native, serves as dietician at York General Hospital.

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This drawing done in 1903 illustrates the growth of early department stores across the country.

A celebration of Sumter’s early business community “It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.” — Gibran

his issue of Reflections returns to yesteryear and visits several of Sumter’s early businesses that enjoyed increased visitation during the Christmas season. During this and other periods of heavy shopping, the business community of Sumter, regardless of its size, proved expansive and offered customers a wide variety of products at reasonable prices. The information for this article was obtained from The Sumter Item archives and from the writings of Sumter historian Cassie Nicholes. Ms. Nicholes notes in “Historical Sketches of Sumter County” that “bartering, trading, buying and selling” have allowed man to find those things he needs to enSammy Way sure his happiness and meet REFLECTIONS his needs. She notes, “The first large merchants in South Carolina were in Charleston, and for many years the inland settlers, including those in the Sumter District, sent their produce there and bought back large quantities of foods, not grown in the area, clothing, furniture and other commodities. ... When the

wares were brought from Charleston, they were often stored in commissaries and melted out to slaves by the plantation owners and after the Civil War sold to sharecroppers and others who had no means of obtaining the “goods” from the seaport city. Thus, country (general) stores came into being and answered the needs of those living in a country community or neighborhood. As towns developed, merchants set up small stores from which they drew a livelihood; as the population increased, larger mercantile businesses were established.” The community of Sumter grew slowly at first, but with the coming of the Twentieth Century, the community experienced a period of rapid population and mercantile expansion. Businesses including dry goods, groceries, hardware, shoes, jewelry, furniture, drug stores, banks, barber shops, livery stables and many others, became a part of the community landscape. Reflections will feature photos and advertisements of several early enterprises that helped shaped our fledgling business community. Reach Item Archivist Sammy Way at waysammy@yahoo.com or (803) 774-1294.

This is a 1973 photo of a country store located in the Jordan community.

ABOVE: This photo shows the interior of the Sumter Dry Goods store. The store was once located on the corner of Main and Liberty streets. LEFT: The Witherspoon Brothers Firm was organized in 1894. The brothers made coffins and caskets of every kind.

This ad for Sumter Iron Works appeared in a 1905 edition of the Watchman and Southron.

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Vermont community rallies to hang on to 130-year-old store BY LISA RATHKE The Associated Press UNDERHILL CENTER, Vt. — In this rural town tucked into a valley at the base of Vermont’s tallest mountain, the 130-year-old Underhill Country store is more than a place to pick up staples. It’s the community’s social hub, where residents can order a turkey, avocado and bacon sandwich from the deli, get a cup of coffee, sit down and chat with their neighbors. When word spread that the store would be closing, members in the community of about 3,000 knew they had something to lose. So they banded together and came up with a plan to buy it, creating Vermont’s newest co-op. “It’s not the store that makes this special. It’s the fact that people come here and you trust that you’re going to find some good company and you’re going to find some really friendly faces when you walk in,” said Kyle Clark, whose children ride their bikes to the store for a sandwich or ice cream. “And when you drive by here every night on the way home from work, you’re not going to see you know a rundown tenement or a 7-Eleven.” On the outside, it’s nothing special. It looks like an older home or small apartment building. Inside, warm yellow walls and a blue-and-cream checkered floor greet customers, with two tables and an assortment of mismatched wooden chairs at the two front windows. Essentials line the shelves. Toward the back is a deli counter and kitchen, with sandwiches and soup to eat

in or take out. The store also sells locally produced maple syrup and honey and carries a vast wine selection. “You tend to linger, you know, with the deli and fresh coffee and tables, people tend to stay, and it’s a real connection,” said resident John Koier. “I think it’s vital.” But after four-and-a-half years as owners, Peter and Nancy Davis decided a year ago that they’d retire. They put the store on the market but got no takers, even after dropping the asking price from $450,000 to $325,000. This past autumn, they decided they didn’t want to put off retirement any longer and said they would close Dec. 6 if it wasn’t sold. Concerned townspeople raised the rallying cry. About 25 people attended a meeting in early November to discuss what could be done. A second meeting in late November came just days before the store was to close. Ultimately, residents decided to form a cooperative, buying shares in the store. After some negotiations, the Davises said they would rent the building to the cooperative with an option to buy it for $300,000 for the first year. They also said that they were willing to stay in the store for another two weeks to keep it open but that the group would have to generate enough momentum in a four-day span to show they could pull it off, said Clark, who led the effort. The store had been winding down its inventory in preparation for closing. Then came signs of life. Peter Davis hung a sign outside saying the store was potentially stay-

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The community of Underhill Center, Vermont, plans to turn the Underhill Country Store into a cooperatively owned business after the owners, who are retiring, were unable to sell it. Residents said the store is vital to the community. Becca Turner, right, serves Shanely and Catherine Tarrant at the deli counter. ing open and encouraging residents to join the co-op. By Sunday night, residents had pledged just over $39,000, and Davis hung a new sign: The store was staying open. The newly formed board of trustees that will pick a new general manager knows replicating the homey, welcoming culture the Davises had nurtured will be a challenge. Before the couple retires, they’ll train the new manager before the store changes hands on Jan. 15.

“It’s just a wonderful, wonderful spot for the community,” said resident Cindy Hamlet “and I’m so happy that it’s going to be a co-op.”

Mystery Plant prickly, smelly and pervasive but colorful BY JOHN NELSON Curator, USC Herbarium

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This prickly plant can take over your yard, forming thickets wherever its roots send out shoots. And those roots can grow to huge proportions, making them difficult to get rid of.

“Wait a minute, I’m caught.” You hear this expression frequently when threading through a stickery thicket of this stuff on a winter hike in the woods. That gives us a logical common name for this group of plants: the “wait-aminute vines.” “Blasphemevine” is another name, usually saved for the species forming the baddest, meanest, most prickly patches. This plant comes from a very familiar group of species that are related to the lily family and the asparagus family. Counted together as a genus, there are nearly 400 species worldwide, mostly in the tropics, but about 20 get well into temperate North America. These species may be evergreen or deciduous, woody or herbaceous, and most of them are vines. Some species are densely armed with prickles, while others are smooth and sticker-free. A number of these have medicinal value, and one from Central America is the original source of the herbal remedy “sarsaparilla.” Our Mystery Plant is widespread in eastern North America, from New England into the Great Plains, and down

through all the southern states. It is no shrinking violet. It is tough as nails, usually wellarmed with stout prickles. Now these prickles are interesting. As on a rose bush or a blackberry, the prickles arise from the outer skin on the stem, and they do not contain any vascular tissue (that is, water-conducting) as do thorns. It’s a small matter of note when you are tangled up in one of the vines! The woody vines arise from hard, knotty rhizomes, and often climb high into trees, or over shrubbery. Thin tendrils at the leaf bases make this possible. Its tender foliage appears in the spring, becoming tough and leathery as the leaves age and expand. The mature leaves are variable in shape, tending to be roundish, or somewhat eggshaped, with a prominent leaf stalk at the base. Being deciduous, the leaves fall away, although sometimes very slowly, so it tends to provide flashy red foliage all winter long. The flowers are small and greenyellow, individually starshaped, and somewhat smelly. They appear in the early summer. Berries are formed, first green, then attractively shiny and purplish-black, prized as food for a number of wildlife

species. A couple of related species here in the Southeast have bright red berries. Each berry will contain two or more hard seeds. I’ve chewed up some berries to see what they taste like. Not so good! Because of its thorny nature and tendency to climb and form thickets, our prickly Mystery Plant, and most of its near relatives, are usually unwelcome in gardens and around houses. Gardeners who try digging this plant up by the roots soon realize that they are in for a great struggle: The rhizomes can be massive and quite difficult to extract. On the other hand, in places where it can grow freely and isn’t a bother, it provides plenty of fall color (foliage and fruits) and is a good source of food and cover for the birds and critters in the winter. Answer: “Round-leaf catbrier,” Smilax rotundifolia John Nelson is the curator of the A.C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina, in the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia SC 29208. As a public service, the Herbarium offers free plant identifications. For more information, visit www.herbarium. org, call (803) 777-8196, or email nelson@sc.edu.

Man becomes villain teaching daughter to do the right thing

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DEAR ABBY — My 15year old daughter, “Jenny,” has a best friend, “Carly,” she stays with when we’re out of town. My husband and I are planning a three-day trip at the end of the month. Jenny has already asked Carly if she can stay, and of course, the answer

was yes. This morning Jenny got an invitation to another friend’s birthday party the Saturday of the weekend we’ll be away. Although the birthday girl knows Carly, Carly was not invited. I told Jenny it would be very rude for her to leave Carly’s house to attend a sleepover party that her friend wasn’t invited to. My husband agrees, but won’t verbally back me up. He says, “I don’t want to get in the middle.” I’m trying to teach my daughter to do the right thing, even if it’s hard.

She’s angry with me now. Any advice? Perplexed in Phoenix DEAR PERPLEXED — Ask Jenny how she would feel if she had agreed to let Carly stay with her while her parents were out of town, and Carly left to attend a sleepover birthday party from which Jenny had been excluded. I’ll bet she’d feel as left out and hurt as Carly would. The plans have been made and they shouldn’t be changed. However, depending upon how important it is to the birthday girl to have your daughter there, she might be willing to extend an invitation to Carly if the situation was explained to her. Suggest Jenny give it a try. P.S. The lesson you are trying to teach your daughter is important, so stick to your guns. I’m sorry your husband doesn’t step up to the plate, instead of making you the bad guy. He seems to have forgotten that parenting is supposed to be a team sport.

DEAR ABBY — I have struggled with severe acne since high school, and my hometown dermatologist was not much help. After moving to graduate school, I found a new doctor and have seen more improvement in two months under her direction than I ever did with my previous doctor. She had blood work done, which revealed that I had a hormone imbalance that was causing the acne. There’s another young woman I see often on the bus going to work. She has a bad case of acne, too, and I’d like to sing the praises of my dermatologist because I know how painful and frustrating it can be to battle it alone with an unsympathetic doctor. But I don’t want to come off as a Nosy Nancy or make her feel like I’m intruding. Should I say something and, if so, how can I broach the subject gently? Pimple patrol in Oregon DEAR P.P. — Your impulse is kind, but don’t do it all in one conversation. It

would be more effective to do it in stages. The next time you see her, give her a smile and see how she reacts and if she’ll return it. When you see her, say hello and get to know her a little. After that, during the course of one of your conversations, share that you had an acne problem a while ago and found a wonderful dermatologist who helped you. Then ask if she’d like your doctor’s name and phone number. If you do it in stages, I don’t think it would be offensive, and she might be grateful to know that there is help for her problem. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. For an excellent guide to becoming a better conversationalist and a more sociable person, order “How to Be Popular.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to Dear Abby, Popularity Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

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How to spend $5 trillion A look back at a year in record-breaking deals BY MARLEY JAY AP Markets Writer NEW YORK — Companies around the world spent a record $5.04 trillion on acquisitions in 2015, according to Dealogic, as slow worldwide economic growth and low interest rates pushed companies to combine forces. Dealogic, a financial data provider, says the value of global deals soared 37 percent in 2015. The highest price tag came in November, when Pfizer and Allergan announced the biggest pharmaceutical deal in history. Low interest rates since the Great Recession have made it cheaper for companies to borrow money to pay for acquisitions, and because the global economy only grew slowly this year, companies decided it made more sense to buy their competitors instead of trying to boost their sales on their own. Here are the 10 largest acquisitions announced during the year:

PFIZER AND ALLERGAN Pfizer, the maker of cholesterol fighter Lipitor, impotence treatment Viagra and fibromyalgia drug Lyrica, agreed to buy Allergan in November. The $148.57 billion deal would be the second-largest corporate merger ever. It would give Pfizer control of Botox and move the company’s headquarters to Ireland, cutting its taxes. Pfizer would also become the world’s largest drugmaker in terms of sales.

AB INBEV AND SABMILLER The biggest beer maker in the world wants to get even larger. The company behind Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois agreed to buy the

maker of Miller Genuine Draft and Peroni for $105.56 billion in October. The move would expand AB InBev’s business in Africa, Asia and other key developing markets. As part of the deal, SABMiller agreed to sell the Miller brand to Molson Coors.

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL AND BG GROUP When Royal Dutch Shell agreed to buy BG Group in April, oil prices had taken a steep fall from their 2014 highs. But they were going to get a lot worse. Oil and gas company Shell agreed to buy BG Group for $69.83 billion to expand its liquid natural gas business. Natural gas prices have tumbled since then, and in December they reached their lowest levels in 16 years.

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Drinks sit on the bar in a pub in London in October. In 2015, the world’s top two beer makers agreed to join forces to create a company that would control nearly a third of the global market. AB InBev’s brands include Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona, while SABMiller produces Peroni and Grolsch. The company name of Dow appears above its trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in December 2015. Dow Chemical and the DuPont announced they will attempt to merge in an all-stock deal that would create a colossal chemical producer worth $130 billion before splitting into three separate companies.

DELL AND EMC In October PC maker Dell agreed to pay $65.97 billion for EMC, which makes data storage hardware and sells cloud storage and security products. Dell’s personal computer sales have been weak for years, but the company has been expanding its software and service businesses. Dell was taken private in 2013 by founder and CEO Michael Dell.

DOW CHEMICAL AND DUPONT Dow Chemical agreed to buy competitor DuPont in a deal that will combine two chemicals companies that were founded in the 19th century. Both Dow and DuPont were pushed by activist investors to break up or find other ways to revitalize their businesses. When the $62.38 billion deal closes, Dow DuPont will make products including Styrofoam insulation, Teflon coatings and Nylon and Kevlar fibers.

Dow DuPont will then break into three separate companies with more specific focuses.

CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS AND TIME WARNER CABLE Charter Communications agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $56.80 billion in May, and it will also spend about $10 billion to buy Bright House Networks. That will make Charter one of the largest providers of TV and internet services in the U.S. Cable provider Comcast tried to buy Time Warner in 2014, but the U.S. government opposed that deal.

HEINZ AND KRAFT FOODS One of the largest food companies in the world was formed when H.J. Heinz bought Kraft Foods for $53.83 billion. The purchase, which was announced in March and closed in July, brought together brands including Oscar Meyer, Capri Sun, Ore-Ida,

Maxwell House, Kool-Aid and Heinz ketchup. The tie-up was engineered by Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital.

ANTHEM BUYS CIGNA A wave of health insurance combinations swept the market in July as Anthem announced it would buy Cigna for $51.93 billion just after Aetna said it would buy Humana for $35.04 billion. Anthem is the second-largest U.S. insurance company in terms of enrollment, and Cigna is fourth. The combined company would cover almost 50 million people. Anthem sells health coverage to individuals and employees of small businesses and serves Medicare, Medicaid and federal employees. Cigna sells group disability and life insurance in the U.S. and has an international business.

EBAY SPINS OFF PAYPAL Online commerce giant EBay spun off its payments system unit PayPal for $49.16 billion in July. That was almost a year after eBay announced PayPal would become a separate company. Investors value PayPal more highly than its former parent, as PayPal has a market capitalization of about $45 billion compared to eBay’s $33 billion.

TEVA BUYING ALLERGAN GENERICS Teva, an Israeli company that is already the world’s largest manufacturer of generic drugs, will get even bigger by buying the generic drugs business of Botox maker Allergan. Teva had been looking to expand, as earlier in the year it pushed to buy generic drugmaker Mylan. It dropped that bid after agreeing to its $40.5 billion deal with Allergan.

Why should you consider freezing your credit reports? BY JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writer NEW YORK — Freeze your credit reports before you get burned. That’s the message from security experts, consumer advocates and some state attorneys general. They say more people should consider a credit freeze as a way to block identity thieves from opening new credit cards and other accounts in your name. They recommend a freeze even if your identity hasn’t been stolen. “It’s much better to shut the door before it even takes place,” says Mike Litt, a consumer program advocate at the nonprofit U.S. Public Interest Research Group. “You can save yourself so much time and headache.” I didn’t listen, and now I regret it. Someone recently applied for 10 credit cards in my name and opened two wireless phone accounts. Removing the fraudulent activity off of my

credit reports took hours: I had to make several phone calls, send paperwork and fill out a police report. And my credit score will probably be hurt temporarily until everything is removed. I could have avoided all that if I had frozen my credit reports earlier. But there are some downsides to a credit freeze to consider. It also blocks you from opening new lines of credit, so if you plan to take out a mortgage or apply for a new credit card you’ll need to remember to unfreeze it each time. And residents of some states have to pay a fee for a freeze. Here’s more on how credit freezes work:

in your name or if you’ve been notified that your Social Security number was taken in a data breach. Even if identity theft hasn’t struck, you still should seriously consider it, since data breaches have become so common. In 2015, there were 766 data breaches reported at banks, government agencies and big companies, exposing more than 178 million records, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. A breach of government records, for example, exposed Social Security numbers of about 26 million federal employees and their spouses.

WHAT HAPPENS DURING A CREDIT FREEZE?

Contact each of the three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. You’ll need to freeze your credit report at all three because some creditors only use one. Contact Equifax at www.freeze.equifax.com or 800-349-9960, Experian at experian.com/freeze/center.html or 888-397-3742 and TransUnion at transunion.com/securityfreeze or 888-9098872. They’ll ask you for your Social Security number, name, address and other details.

New creditors won’t be able to view your credit reports. That prevents new credit cards or loans from being opened since lenders look at credit reports to decide whether to offer you credit. Instead they’ll see that the report is frozen. The freeze won’t affect any credit cards or loans you had before the freeze was placed; those creditors will still be able to see your reports.

WHEN SHOULD I FREEZE MY CREDIT REPORT? It’s a must if an account has been opened AP FILE PHOTO

HOW DO I FREEZE IT?

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? It depends on the state laws where you live. Fees are typically between $3 and $10 to freeze each credit report, and you may pay another fee to unfreeze. Freezes are free at a few states, including Indiana and Maine. Fees may also be slightly different at each credit agency. Equifax has a list of fees and rules for each state at http://bit. ly/1LUIF0P

WILL THE FREEZE HURT MY CREDIT SCORE? No.

IS THIS DIFFERENT THAN CREDIT MONITORING? Yes. Credit monitoring services, which you have to pay a monthly fee for, alerts you if a new account is opened or other suspicious activity takes place. A credit freeze is the only way to stop criminals from opening new accounts in your name. Some experts don’t recommend credit monitoring because it’s expensive, as much as $20 a month. Instead, you can monitor your credit report on your own. You’re entitled to get a free copy of your credit report from each of the three agencies once a year at www.annualcreditreport.com.

WHEN DO I NEED TO UNFREEZE MY CREDIT REPORTS? If you’re applying for a mortgage or auto loan or credit card. That’s because lenders check your report to see if they should lend to you. You can ask the lender what credit reporting agency they use and unfreeze that one, Litt says. You can unfreeze a credit report temporarily or permanently at any time.

HOW DO I UNFREEZE THEM? By contacting the credit agencies again. When you ask to freeze your credit reports you’ll get a number that you will need to save. That number will be your key to unfreezing your account, so keep it in a safe place. Losing the number will delay removing the freeze.

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How To Read The Market in Review The list includes the most active stocks in each exchange, as well as stocks of local interest. Stocks in bold change 5% or more in price on Friday. Mutual funds are largest by total assets, plus reader requested funds. Stock Footnotes: cld - Issue has been called for redemption by company. g - Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h - temporary exmpt from Nasdaq capital and surplus listing qualification. n - Stock was a new issue in the last year. pf - Preferred stock issue. pr - Preferences. rs - Stock has undergone a reverse split of at least 50% within the last year. rt - Right to buy security at a specified price. s - Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. wi - Trades will be settled when the stock is issued. wd - When distributed. wt - Warrant, allowing a purchase of a stock. un - Unit,, including more than one security. vj - Company in bankruptcy or receivership, or being reorganized under the bankruptcy law. Appears in front of the name. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b - Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d - Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f - front load (sales charges). m - Multiple fees are charged, usually a marketing fee and either a sales or redemption fee. NA - not available. p - previous day´s net asset value. s - fund split shares during the week. x - fund paid a distribution during the week. Source: The Associated Press and Morningstar. Sales figures are unofficial. ITW 92.68 Infosys 16.75 IngerRd 55.29 IngrmM 30.38 IntcntlExch 256.26 IBM 137.62 IntlGmeT n 16.18 IntPap 37.70 Interpublic 23.28 IntPotash 2.95 Intrexon 30.15 InvenSense 10.23 Invesco 33.48 InvMtgCap 12.39 InvSrInco 4.04 IronMtn 27.01 iSh UK 16.14 iShCorEM 39.39 iShCHEmu 25.82 iShCHGer 24.37 iSCHeafe 25.40 ItauUnibH 6.51

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THE SUMTER ITEM

MARRIAGE LICENSES • Alexander Daniel Butler and Baseemah Malikah Clark • Christopher Allen Meyer and Nikole Ann Varhall of Winchester, California • Joseph Edward McIntyre of Mayesville and Ashley Nicole Hayes of Manning • Alphonza Canty of Manning and Audrey Michelle Furman • James A. Frye and Brittney Rae Kimbro • Eli Jeriong and Patricia Lirok Jeriong • Daniel Jared Rivas and Ramona Studente Daugherty of Yorktown, Virginia • Anthony Michael Paul Thomas and Victoria Michaela Wilkes, both of Bishopville • David Bryan Stowe II of Columbia and Elaine Marie Sneider • Colin Vincent Abear of Dalzell and Caitlyn Eileen Simkin of Pembroke, North Carolina • Israel Alberto Marrufo and Michelle Danae Gutierrez Arroyo, both of Shaw Air Force Base • Calvin Stephawn Kennedy and Aminell McLaughlin, both of Mayesville • Robert Bruce Barwick and Lauren Page Hersey • Terry D’arcy Segars Jr. and Joli Allissa Gulledge • Reon Lee Nesmith Sr. of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and Catherine Henry Stuckey of Wedgefield • Kirk Allen Ransom and Ruthie Belton McCray, both of Rembert • Tyler James Wilkins and Brittany Rae Lynch of Snowcap, North Carolina • David Hightower Yon of Bishopville and Jamie Marie Jones • Andrew Joseph Smith of Hartsville and Diane Margaret Larrimore

BUILDING PERMITS • First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., owner, The Fitts Co., contractor, 201 N. Washington St., $5,619.57 (wall sign — First Citizens, commercial); First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., owner, The Fitts Co., contractor, 201 N. Washington St., $11,648.73 (freestanding sign — First Citizens, commercial); First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., owner, The Fitts Co., contractor, 201 N. Washington St., $759.75 (wall sign — First Citizens, commercial). • Leo Morse, owner, David Windham dba Windham Roofing, contractor, 119 Woodside Road, $4,000 (reroof, residential). • Danny W. Williams, owner, Larry E. Timmons, contractor, 3540 Nazarene Church Road, $5,540 (install metal roof, residential). • Adele B. Brunson, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 100 Paisley Park, $9,960 (reroof home, residential). • Terri L. Lindley, owner, PB&J Residential Services, contractor, 1052 Kentwood Drive, $5,299 (siding and soffit, residential). • William L. Wright, owner, Ralph Brown, contractor, 5675 Pear Tree Road, Wedgefield (mobile home, residential). • Ruby M. Scott, owner, Watson Construction Co. Inc., contractor, 1016 Dover Circle, $51,800 (flood damage — sheetrock / floor / outlets, residential). • Tracey S. Pierce and Linda R. John, owners, Julius David Gainey dba Dream Builder, contractor, 5730 Lost Creek Drive, $3,600 (replace shingles, residential). • C. Leslie and Margaret Carpenter, owners, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 970 Oak Brook Blvd., $10,720 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Mary S. Deaver, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 39 Barnette Drive, $4,628 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Solomon Nelson III, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 4279 Farmers Road, $4,280 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Moses Deese, owner, Shelwood China, contractor, 5405 Camden Highway, $4,000 (reroof, residential). • Vestco Properties, owner, J. Henry McLeod Jr. dba McLeod Landscaping, contractor, 3425 Tram Road, $1,950 (replace shingles, residential). • Jason W. and Laurie L. Bauer, owners, Jason Josey, contractor, 36 Calhoun Drive, $52,900 (remodel two bathrooms / kitchen / reframe back wall / new roof, residential). • Island Investments of Sumter, owner, Buildrite Construction Group, contractor, 2625 Hardee Court (B), $31,540 (interior tenant upfit, commercial). • Apex Tool Group LLC, owner, Thompson Construction Group Inc., contractor, 1150 Clipper Road, $65,000 (pour concrete pad for storage / install lean-to for protection from rain, commercial). • Arthuree McLaughlin Wright Liv, owner, Dee & Gee Builders LLC, contractor, 612 W. Oakland Ave., $3,200 (remove / replace shingles on house only, residential). • Frances Ann Britton, owner, John Bailey, contractor, 1038 N. Guignard Drive (4), $7,000 (flood damage — insulation / sheetrock / trim / paint, residential). • Janis S. Ryles and Jennifer Walters, owners, Hatfield Heating & Air Conditioning Inc., contractor, 302 Haynsworth St., $11,000 (new package unit and ductwork, residential). • Guy L. and Karen P. Chapura, owners, Hatfield Heating & Air Conditioning Inc., contractor, 70 Erskine Court, $6,214 (new heat pump, residential). • Leo J. Jr. and Lilian A. Sheedy, owners, Hatfield Heating & Air Conditioning Inc., contractor, 871 Gordonia Drive, $11,557 (new package unit and ductwork, residential). • Jacqueline F. Ardis, owner, James O. Davis III dba Air Solutions, contractor, 503 Robney Drive, $1,500 (new ductwork, residential). • Joey J. Kieff, owner, Dee & Gee Builders LLC, contractor, 280 Cromer Drive, $2,800 (install floor and replace sheetrock, residential). • Clarence B. and Alethia Ma McCall, own-

PUBLIC RECORD ers, Dee & Gee Builders LLC, contractor, 6550 Dinkins Mill Road, Rembert, $3,300 (remove / replace shingles on house only, residential). • Josephine McQuillen (lifetime estate), owner, Dee & Gee Builders LLC, contractor, 1040 E. Sherwood Drive, $3,400 (remove / replace shingles on house only, residential); Josephine McQuillen, owner, Dee & Gee Builders LLC, contractor, 210 Wilson St., $4,100 (remove / replace shingles on house only, residential). • Tyshica L. Gayle, owner, Donnie Ryan Beard, contractor, 1107 Russell Ave., $43,187 (flood repairs / sheetrock / paint / cabinets / reroof, residential). • David Lee Weidner, owner, David O. Mabey Jr., contractor, 2133 Balmoral Court, $10,800 (drywall / finishing / paint / trim, residential). • Elizabeth Suber Hughey Moore, owner, Maxwell J. Terry, contractor, 1824 Pinewood Road (1830), $3,500 (reroof, residential). • Mary Alice Simpson, owner, Simpson Construction, contractor, 580 Covington St., $10,000 (repair flood damages / sheetrock / trim / paint, residential). • Carol L. Berry, owner, Simpson Construction, contractor, 108 Emily Drive, $35,000 (repair flood damages / sheetrock / trim / paint, residential). • Irene O. Boney, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 722 Haynsworth St., $5,600 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Glenn J. Evans et al, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 2315 Treetop Lane, $4,690 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Palmetto Properties of Sumter, owner, J. Henry McLeod Jr. dba McLeod Landscaping, contractor, 2595 U.S. 15 South, $350 (replace front steps, residential). • Ira Belle Choice, owner, Shelwood China, contractor, 994 Huddersfield Drive, $3,200 (reroof only, residential). • Ronald T. and Diane G. Fernandez, owners, Shelwood China, contractor, 2801 Sequoia Drive, $5,000 (reroof only, residential). • Jimmie Moles, owner, Timothy Kelley dba Kelley Construction, contractor, 5175 Longbranch Drive, Dalzell, $7,000 (install new roof, residential). • Milorad R. and Barbara Knezevich, owners, Pack Construction LLC, contractor, 1964 Forest Drive, $35,287.50 (new insulation, sheetrock and cabinets, residential); Milorad R. and Barbara Knezevich, owners, McBride Electrical Construction Co., contractor, 1964 Forest Drive (residential). • Ellis Kelly and Mary L. Cameron, owners, Cameron Kelly, contractor, 2159 Tanglewood Road, $6,000 (sheetrock, insulation, flooring, residential). • Lloyd W. and Susan L. Nethercutt, owners, Susan Nethercutt, contractor, 2282 Primrose Court, $2,750 (repair drywall / baseboards / interior doors, residential). • Karl D. and Hazel F. McLeod, owners, Cherokee Builders LLC, contractor, 1835 Caution Lane, Lynchburg, 572 unheated square feet, $5,235 (replace damaged building, residential). • Reeser Family LP, owner, Sumter Home Insulators Inc., contractor, 4255 U.S. 15 South, $10,000 (new roof / new HVAC / painting, residential). • Prince and Viola D. Carter, owners, Wells Builders, contractor, 2245 Honeysuckle Lane, $24,483 (sheetrock / insulation / electric / carpet / paint / trim / flood damage, residential). • Gainey Construction Co. LLC, owner and contractor, 3155 Foxcroft Circle, 1,575 heated square feet and 521 unheated square feet, $102,291 (new dwelling, residential). • Wholesale Mower Parts Inc., owner, Sign Tek, contractor, 8 E. Bartlette St., $800 (wall sign — Wholesale Mower Parts, commercial). • Michael E. and Pamela L. Craven, owners, The Home Depot at Home Services, contractor, 2995 Crest Haven Drive, Dalzell, $12,100 (replace 17 windows — size for size, residential). • Angela M. Shaw, owner, Shelwood China, contractor, 813 N. Guignard Drive, $6,800 (reroof only, residential). • Vernell W. Israel III, owner, William Hansen dba Hansen’s Construction, contractor, 927 Kolb Road, $4,600 (new roof, residential). • Stephen M. Creech LLC, owner, Ronnie V. Gainey, contractor, 19 Anne Park, $4,500 (roofing, residential). • Michael H. Stowe, owner, Howard Wayne Rogers, contractor, 1841 Pheasant Drive, $3,000 (install metal roof panels over shingles, residential). • Frankie Randolph Ragin, owner, Avant Construction LLC, contractor, 1057 Spaulding Ave., $3,800 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • Jessie Myers and Abriell Gooden, owners, Avant Construction LLC, contractor, 34 Baker St., $4,000 (replace existing EPM on flat roof with new EPM / repair chimney area, residential). • F. Lyde and Bertha D. McCaskill, owners, Sign Tek, contractor, 433 N. Guignard Drive, $700 (change face of freestanding sign — Bradleys Market, commercial). • Gayle S. Rubin (trustee) et al, owner, G&S Sign Co., contractor, 577 Bultman Drive, $650 (change face of freestanding sign — All Dressed Up, commercial). • James White Jr., owner and contractor, 130 W. Patricia Drive, 240 unheated square feet, $1,300 (porch addition, residential). • MAM Broadstreet Properties LLC, owner, South Carolina Safety Co. Inc., contractor, 2540 Broad St. (2542), $2,600 (install fire suppression system, commercial). • Johnny G. and Jaqueline Henry, owners, John Henry, contractor, 1380 Pepperidge Drive (residential demolition, residential). • Johnny M. James, owner and contractor, 1145 Dewees St., 2,200 heated square feet and 680 unheated square feet, $165,000 (new dwelling, residential). • Jimmy Cole, owner, J. Henry McLeod Jr.

dba McLeod Landscaping, contractor, 611 E. Liberty St. (17), $350 (replace front steps, residential). • Gloria J. Prescott, owner, Shelwood China, contractor, 1043 Wellington Road, $4,000 (reroof only, residential). • Vann and Kathryn Coker, owners, Gregory W. Glenn, contractor, 6955 TB Wright Road, Rembert, 2,717 heated square feet and 729 unheated square feet, $155,877 (new dwelling, residential). • Everett and Seasons Fields, owners, Carolina Construction of Sumter LLC, contractor, 2156 Tanglewood Road, $40,000 (flood damage repairs / insulation / sheetrock / trim / HVAC / plumbing / electric, residential). • James D. and Jewel S. Thompson, owners, Steven Hudson Construction LLC, contractor, 913 Sassafras Drive, $30,000 (flood damage repairs / drywall / flooring / electrical, residential). • Patricia A. Bradford, owner, Jefferson Barns and Salvage Inc., contractor, 45 James St. (51), 192 unheated square feet, $2,374.92 (detached storage shed, residential). • Kathryn Ahtonen, owner, Harvey McDonald, contractor, 611 E. Liberty St., Lot 16 (mobile home, residential). • Jaymaur LLC, owner, Joshua Neal dba Neal Brothers Builders, contractor, 1725 W. Oakland Ave., $12,300 (replace sheetrock / kitchen and bathroom cabinets, residential). • Larry C. Weston, owner, Sharon D. Tindal, contractor, 107 Palmetto St., $3,500 (roof / wood repair / pantry / tub, residential). • OMK LLC, owner, Hawkins and Kolb Construction Co., contractor, 20 Warren Court, $9,350 (reroof, residential). • Jose V. and Gregory T. Coakley, owners, Shaun Johnson, contractor, 14 Burkett Drive, $7,500 (flood damage repairs / kitchen / hall / bedroom walls / bath floors, residential). • Robert W. Burkett Estate (Heidi), owner, John Bailey, contractor, 122 Woodlawn Ave., $3,200 (remove / replace shingles, residential); Robert W. Burkett Estate (Heidi), owner, John Bailey, contractor, 114 Woodlawn Ave., $3,500 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • Jo Anne M. Morris, owner, John Bailey, contractor, 1038 N. Guignard Drive (21), $3,000 (storm damage sheetrock — paint, residential). • John W. Gregory, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 2531 Drexel Drive, Dalzell, $6,045 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Harry L. McKee, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 6455 Montpelier Lane, $9,980 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Shane M. and Sara J. Thielmann, owners, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 2640 Pintail Drive, $11,386 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Patrick and Susan D. Kerins, owners, Larry E. Timmons, contractor, 520 Sierra St., $6,000 (new shingle roof, residential). • United Cerebral Palsy of South Carolina, owner, Commercial Building Services Inc., contractor, 330 Kendal Ave., 221 heated square feet, $65,242 (bedroom addition, residential); United Cerebral Palsy of South Carolina, owner, Roof and Son Inc., contractor, 330 Kendal Ave. (bedroom addition, residential); United Cerebral Palsy of South Carolina, owner, Airport Heating & Cooling Inc., contractor, 330 Kendal Ave. (bedroom addition, residential). • Jerri A. Russell, owner, Alexander Graham Perez, contractor, 8 Burkett Drive, $24,650 (replace sheetrock / trim / cabinets / paint, residential). • Walter E. Hatcher, owner, Gregory Willis Baker dba Baker Roofing, contractor, 4 Warren Court, $4,400 (reroof house only, residential). • Scott N. Simpson, owner, Timothy Kelley dba Kelley Construction, contractor, 1040 Dover Circle, $5,250 (install new roof, residential). • Monte D. and Myo H. Duncan, owners, David Windham dba Windham Roofing, contractor, 685 Mallard Drive, $8,000 (remove roof, residential). • Friday Duangami Carraway, owner, Bruce W. Wood, contractor, 845 Andiron Drive, $104,859.67 (11.7 KW grid tied solar panel PV roof mount system, residential); Friday Duangami Carraway, owner, Bruce W. Wood, contractor, 711 Bultman Drive, $104,859.67 (add solar panels to roof / tie in electric, commercial). • G&M Properties (a South Carolina partnership), owner, Hacquard & Compton Inc., contractor, 3325 Carter Road, $3,500 (reroof shingles, commercial). • Fannie W. English, owner, Dee & Gee Builders LLC, contractor, 601 Caroland Drive (611), $3,800 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • Leroy and Carrie J. Blackwell, owners, Shelwood China, contractor, 10 Abbey Hall Court, $5,000 (reroof only, residential). • Ryan A. and Jennifer M. Fowler, owners, Jonathan Brent Waynick dba JBW Properties, contractor, 3810 Oleander Drive, $5,850 (reroof only, residential). • Willie R. Barker, owner, Hawkins and Kolb Construction Co., contractor, 2010 Tudor St., $25,500 (repair flood damage / sheetrock / floor cover / cabinets, residential). • James n. Jr. and Deanna W. Hinkle, owners, Mark A. Yarborough, contractor, 2273 Garrison St., $4,500 (reroof, residential). • Ray Brunson et al, owner, Shelwood China, contractor, 80 E. Brewington Road (82-88), $2,500 (flood damage / remove / replace sheetrock, residential); Ray Brunson et al, owner, Shelwood China, contractor, 82 E. Brewington Road (80-88), $2,300 (flood damage / remove / replace sheetrock, residential). • Geneva McCoy, owner and contractor, 2290 Clematis Trail, $2,200 (replace sheetrock / replace receptacles, residential). • Shirley Sandoval, owner, James E. Standley, contractor, 4405 Reona Ave.,

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$4,600 (tear off / replace roof covering, residential). • Ernest and Wanda Welch et al, owner, James E. Standley, contractor, 5475 Camden Highway, Rembert, $5,800 (build roof over existing porch / tear off roof and replace, residential). • Francis W. and Karen G. Russell, owners, Richard H. Nelson, contractor, 2280 Cains Mill Road, $4,001.30 (remove / replace shingles and drip edge, residential). • Napoleon F. and Ella A. Bradford, owners, Napoleon Bradford, contractor, 1720 Gafton Circle, $6,000 (roof and foundation repairs, residential). • Wendall A. and Sandra T. Drown, owners, Richard H. Nelson, contractor, 5410 Ainsworth Drive, $3,309.40 (remove / replace shingles from mobile home, residential). • Todd M. Romero, owner, Danny Marshall, contractor, 2412 Hunt Club Road, $1,800 (vinyl soffit and fascia, residential). • Elizabeth D. Moses, owner and contractor, 400 Deschamps Road, $2,500 (repair existing porch / floor repairs, residential0. • Sadie E. Bledsoe, owner, James E. Standley, contractor, 2775 Antelope Drive, Dalzell, $5,200 (tear off / replace roof covering, residential). • Jack William McCall and Rosemari McCall, owners, Pack Construction LLC, contractor, 16 Wen-Le Court East, $24,550 (new wiring / insulation / sheetrock / cabinets, residential). • Glenn E. and Christina Iski, owners, Cary Reconstruction Co. LLC, contractor, 1795 Lirope Way, $5,300 (tear off and reroof, residential). • Almeise D. Gamble, owner and contractor, 38 Morgan Ave., 192 unheated square feet, $2,250 (detached storage building, residential). • Daniel J. and Marcy J. Mickelson, owners, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 3580 Susan St., $6,880 (reroof dwelling only, residential). • Rosalind T. McFaddin, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 50 Harrell Road, $7,820 (EPDM roof over existing roof, residential). • Calvin Fulmore, owner, America’s Home Place Inc., contractor, 3575 Congruity Road, 1,815 heated square feet and 724 unheated square feet, $179,421 (new dwelling, residential). • James H. and Tammy S. Mattmiller, owners, Culler Enterprises dba Culler Roofing, contractor, 5010 Queen Chapel Road, Dalzell, $5,339.25 (reroof, residential). • Justin A. Carraway, owner, Harvey McDonald, contractor, 2540 Burnt Gin Road (mobile home, residential). • Carolinas Homebuilder LLC, owner, Total Interiors & More, contractor, 1361 Blankenship Place, $3,000 (six feet brick fence, residential). • William E. and Wanda J. Barkley, owners, Dee & Gee Builders LLC, contractor, 1230 N. Lafayette Drive, $3,200 (remove / replace shingles, commercial). • Leroy and Jeanette M. Blanding, owners, Leroy Blanding, contractor, 875 Bay Blossom Ave., $20,000 (rehab from flood / replace walls / carpet / cabinets, residential). • Ronald G. and Freda M. Renfroe, owners, BDS Construction, contractor, 910 Flagg St., $38,000 (flood repair / replace sheetrock / cabinets / carpet, residential). • Hugh L. Jr. and Jennifer B. Jones, owners, Maxwell J. Terry, contractor, 3685 Gatorbay Lane, 2,400 unheated square feet, $25,000 (erection of an AG building, commercial). • Meriam Gadson, owner, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 645 Bronco Road, Wedgefield, $6,420 (reroof dwelling, residential). • Hugh B. and Kathy M. China, owners, Brown Electric LLC, contractor, 3935 Cottage Path, $12,000 (install solar panels on roof of existing home, residential). • Brian S. and Cylest M. Gourley, owners, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 2697 McCrays Mill Road, $6,965 (reroof dwelling, residential); Brian S. and Cylest M. Gourley, owners, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 2692 McCrays Mill Road, $1,000 (reroof shed, residential). • James F. Shuler Jr., owner, James D. Boykin, contractor, 2015 Jamestown Court, $54,000 (flood damage / remove / replace sheetrock, commercial); James F. Shuler Jr., owner, James D. Boykin, contractor, 2020 Jamestown Court (A-J), $80,000 (flood damage / remove / replace sheetrock, commercial); James F. Shuler Jr., owner, James D. Boykin, contractor, 2015 Jamestown Court (10-15), $54,000 (flood damage / remove / replace sheetrock, commercial). • Mary Alice Harvin, owner, Timothy Kelley dba Kelley Construction, contractor, 805 N. Brick Church Road (809), $7,600 (install new roof, residential). • Stephen L. and Glenda F. Johnson, owners, Frank’s Roofing, contractor, 2010 Tantay Trail (2000), $5,000 (reroof, residential). • Charles and Mildred C. Avin, owners, Ram Jack of South Carolina Inc., contractor, 4930 Pinewood Road, Pinewood, $5,810 (foundation repair, residential). • Mungo Homes Inc., owner, Ryan Brewer Enterprises LLC, contractor, 1782 Glenmorangie Drive, $2,470.50 (six feet wood fence, residential). • Franklin Clark, owner, Ryan Brewer Enterprises LLC, contractor, 256 Masters Drive, $1,275 (six feet wood fence, residential). • Douglas S. and Heather Beauchamp, owners, Terminix Service Inc., contractor, 1610 Carissa Drive, $1,335 (remove moisture damage in walls and paneling, residential). • Stephanie L. Williams, owner, Edward Campbell, contractor, 265 Sawgrass Court (mobile home, residential). • Joann J. McIntosh (as trustee), owner, John Brockington dba Brock Construction, contractor, 60 Par Court, $657 (replace two windows, residential).

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Don’t overlook state park as day trip destination two about fishing technique.” Farther down the causeway, my father captured a short video of an egret chowing down on an unfortuor anyone who’s an outnate fish, complete with all the tail doors enthusiast — a phoflapping inside the bird’s throat after being swallowed — “not for the squeatographer maybe, or a birdmish,” he later told Facebook friends. er, hiker or explorer — HuntingIf you’re not a bird enthusiast, the park offers plenty more for its visitors. ton Beach State Park should be You’re welcome to camp at one of atop your destination list. more than 100 camping sites and see Recently my parents and I made the the park’s three miles of beach, hike through the nearby forest or do some two-hour trip from Sumter to the biking with your family. park near Murrells Surf fishing also draws Inlet on the Sunday many to the area. Bring after Christmas and exHUNTINGTON BEACH along Rover for some plored the area, includSTATE PARK fun, too. The park also ing the many boardWHERE: The park is at 16148 offers a salt marsh kaywalks over the marsh. Ocean Highway, Murrells Inlet. aking program. Despite the heat at HOURS: Jan. 1 to March 1, 6 Don’t forget to pop in first and then the showa.m. to 6 p.m.; March 2 to April to see the critters at ers in the afternoon, we 5, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.; April 6 to the nature center. Kids saw birds I’d never seen Nov. 1, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Nov. 2 can even pet a horsebefore right next to the to Dec. 6, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Dec. shoe crab and stingray causeway, including 7 to 31, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. or meet the snakes and wood storks. These FOR MORE: Call (843) 237turtles living at the unique birds seem to 4440 or email center. ply the brackish water huntingtonbeach@scprt.com to According to www. in the marsh with open learn more. southcarolinaparks. beaks, hoping someFEES: $5 for adults, $3 for com, there are 2,500 thing will swim by to be children, free for children less acres for you to enjoy snapped up. They have than 5 years old and more than 300 bird no feathers on their species seen within the heads and slightly repark. Alligators are semble vultures. also in the marsh and can often be One heron was the master fisherseen sunbathing on the banks near man of the spot where several egrets the causeway. On our trip, my family and wood storks had also gathered. saw dolphins swimming by the area. He pulled fish after fish out of the It’s the perfect time to go, with the marsh at low tide with a small crowd recent warm temperatures and fewer watching his prowess. crowds. I thought more than once, “He Don’t forget to bring your camera. ought to teach his peers a thing or

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A Great egret makes a catch in the salt marsh at Huntington Beach State Park on Dec. 27 near Murrells Inlet. An ibis catches something a little different for lunch than his peers caught — a snake. The bird was fishing Dec. 27 at the state park.

FISHING REPORTS Lake Keowee Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Good. Bass fishing is strong on Lake Keowee with good numbers and sizes of fish being caught. Fish can be found in 30-60 feet of water around depth changes such as creek channels, deep points and ledges. These fish will be around bait schools, and for these deeper fish both drop shotting and fishing spoons has been working well. Shallower fish can still be found towards the backs of creeks where bait is found and where there is even some schooling activity. Jerkbaits, Blade Runners, and scrounger heads will all catch fish. Lake Russell Perch: Very good. Perch fishing remains very strong, with white and yellow perch mixed in with other predatory species around the big schools of bait. Minnows fished just off the bottom are working best. Striped bass: Good. December is typically a peak month for striper fishing on Lake Russell, and this year appears to be no exception. The best fishing has been on the lower end of the lake where more birds have been found. Pull large live shiners and

herring on free-lines and planer boards, aiming to keep the baits no more than 10-12 feet deep above the trees. The water could be 40 or 70 feet deep. Lake Wylie Catfish: Very good. Over the last couple of years the Lake Wylie blue catfish population has exploded, and instead of blue catfish being a primarily a winter bite out in the river channel blues can now be caught all over the lake, including way up the creeks. While Wylie used to be primarily a channel catfish lake the catch ratio is now tilted about 60/40 in favor of blues most of the year. Blue catfish on Wylie move around a lot and so the best method to locate them is drift fishing with a number of rods. At this time of year the best bet is to drift very slowly (.4 miles per hour or less) around the mouths of major creeks using either wind or a trolling motor. Concentrate on 35-55 feet of water, being sure to cover all parts of the channel as well as the flats nearby to isolate the structure and depth to which fish are relating. After catching fish you can refine your drift to focus on the key areas. Rodger notes that some fishermen are more likely to try to locate individual fish on their electronics before fishing, but he prefers to focus on the structure to pattern them. Fresh cut gizzard shad is a very good bait this time of year.

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From top, a Great egret, a wood stork and a heron search for food in the salt marsh at Huntington Beach State Park on Dec. 27. The park is open year round to visitors, and more than 300 bird species have been seen there, making it a popular spot for birders.

Lake Wateree Crappie: Good. Crappie fishing continues to improve. Fish have moved up the lake and they can be found from the State Park up to the foot of the upper dam along the ledges of the river channel. Look just off the bottom in 18-22 feet of water; fish will generally be within 6-12 inches of the bottom. The crappie are following shad schools, which have moved up the lake because of slightly warmer water coming in. The best pattern is tightlining with Fish Stalker jigs with minnows on them, and plain minnows will also work. This is not a time of year when anglers are advised to fish plain jigs – you need to “hang some meat on them.” Fish are active but lethargic and so it is important to be slow and very patient with them. Lake Greenwood White bass and perch: Very good. It appears that the white bass population is making a strong come-back on Lake Greenwood with some very successful spawns over the last three years. Jigging a half-ounce spoon for perch, some days anglers will catch just as many white bass as perch. The best pattern for targeting white bass is to locate schools of bait, either using electronics or by following the birds. Birds could be diving on baitfish that loons are running up and not striper or white bass near the

surface, but birds do indicate the presence of baitfish. Jigging a spoon off the bottom around baitfish schools will catch a wide variety of predatory fish including white bass, perch, striper and others – making it a really fun way to fish. For now the best depth for jigging is 30-36 feet. As always, be sure to have a topwater lure tied on in case fish are busting on the surface. Lake Murray Catfish: Good. Captain Chris Simpson reports that the bite is pretty good right now and fishing has been relatively consistent. The most reliable way to locate aggressive fish has been drifting with cut herring and shad and the most productive depth range has been 25-55 feet of water. Creek and river channel ledges are holding fish but do not overlook flats that have roaming catfish scattered across them. Anglers need to be prepared to adjust to different depth ranges almost daily as the baitfish and catfish are constantly changing areas and depths. Chris’s boat has been catching decent numbers of big channel catfish as well as a bonus big blue or three on most days. Striped bass: Fair to good. Lake World reports that striper are scattered all over the lake, but the best action has come from the mid-lake up. That is not to say that fish cannot be caught as far down the lake as Jake’s and the dam, but the best numbers of

fish are further up. As always in the cooler months look for birds to help locate fish, and particularly seagulls. The presence of loons is a less reliable indicator that striper may be feeding in the area, although loons are a good indicator that bait is present. On days when fish are schooling a variety of lures will catch them, but if schooling activity is not apparent then dragging free-lined live herring or dropping down-lined herring down to 20 or 30 feet can be effective. Cut bait has also been very effective on the bottom in 4-20 feet of water, particularly up the rivers. Santee Cooper System Largemouth Bass: Slow to fair. Guide Linwood Thornhill reports that a pretty good bass bite survived the first flood, but the second round of flooding seems to have really slowed the action down. It also doesn’t help the fishing that the weather can’t make up its mind whether it wants to be summer or winter. Linwood does not remember another time when it has been this warm on the Santee Cooper lakes this late in the year. Some fish are still being caught around isolated trees in 3-8 feet of water, and a few have also been caught around grass in the same depths. Zoom Trick Worms and Zoom Dead Ringers in green pumpkin have been working as well as anything, and Rattle Traps and crankbaits should also catch fish.

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EMPLOYMENT Help Wanted Full-Time Local Tree Service Co. looking for CDL driver, bucket operator & climber. Call 803-478-8299 Hampton Inn Hotel Front Desk Clerk Mature, sincere, dep. Must be able to work day or night and weekends. Must have common sense. Apply in person across from the Walmart and Golden Corral on Broad Street. SEASONAL TAX PREP Est. office in Sumter. Exp. with Drake, personal and business tax prep required. Flex hrs. M-S Resume & 3 ref. to bjavin@sc.rr.com Seasonal Fr. Desk/Bookkeeping Asst. for busy tax off. Skills: tele, comp, scheduling. Prefer Bookkeeping exp. Resume & 3 ref. to bjavin@sc.rr.com F/T Optical Retail Sales. Experience preferred but not required. Must work Saturdays. Will accept resumes on Thurs. Jan 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th from 1 - 4 pm at H. Rubin Vision Center, Sumter Mall. Dress to Impress! No phone calls, please. FT/PT Front Desk Clerk. Some experience & computer knowledge helpful. Apply in person 9 - 3pm. Mon -Fri. at Mt. Vernon Inn, 2 Broad St. Sumter.

Trucking Opportunities ATTN: Drivers $2K Sign-On Bonus Make $55k a Year Great Benefits + 401k $500 Holiday Bonus CDL-A Req - (877) 258-8782 www.drive4m elton.com

Drivers: Regional & OTR. New Pay Package for Company & O/OP’s. Excellent Home Time & Beneﬁts. Newer Trucks. Lease Purchase, Sign and Drive. CDL-A. Deborah: 855-204-6535 HIGH-TECH CAREER with U.S. Navy. Elite tech training w/great pay, benefits, vacation, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-662-7419 Local / Regional Drivers Immediate openings for experienced Van, Tanker & Rolloff drivers. Class A CDL with Hazmat & Tank endorsements required with 2 years verifiable experience. Mileage starts as high as .41 per mile and top rate .45 per mile along with stop pay, hourly pay and per diem on overnight trips. $1,000.00 sign on bonus and assigned equipment. Medical, Dental, Prescription & Life Insurance plans along with 401K and profit sharing. Paid Holidays, Earned PTO time and .03 per mile yearly Safety/Performance Bonus plan. Applicants can apply in person at FCI 132 Myrtle Beach Hwy Sumter, SC 29153 or call 1-888-249-2651 ext-24

Schools / Instructional MEDICAL BILLING SKILLS IN DEMAND! Become a Medical Office Assistant! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Online training can get you job ready! HS Diploma/GED & PC/Internet needed! 1-888-512-7118

Statewide Employment AIRLINES CAREERS for NEW YEAR - Get FAA certified Maintenance training. Financial aid if qualified - Nationwide job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 866-367-2513

LOCAL LOG TRUCK DRIVERS Needed in Sumter, Eastover, Lugoff, Winnsboro and surrounding areas. Must have clean 10-year CDL driving record. Call 843-621-1123 for more information. Join our Team! Guaranteed pay for Class A CDL Flatbed Drivers. Regional and OTR. Great pay /benefits /401k match. CALL TODAY 864.299.9645 www.jgr-inc.com

Land & Lots for Sale Town of New Zion, Clarendon Co. 206+ /- Acres for sale $850 per ac. Salem Rd. Great Hunting Tract. Shown by appt only. Owner /Agent Call 803-404-8351 SHAW/DALZELL Acre, Paved Rd. Utilities. $3500. 713-870-0216 Minutes Walmart/Shaw, acre, cleared, septic, water. $13,900. 888-774-5720

RENTALS Rooms for Rent Large room for rent (female) No deposit, No lease. Call 803-565-7924.

Furnished Apartments Furnished 1 br apt. incl. elec, water, cable, internet, plus trash P/U, flat screen TV. Nice private cabin apt. on 20 ac. No pets, no smoking. $650 mo. $500 dep. 803-464-5439.

Unfurnished Apartments Nice 1 Br, 1 Ba apt. in downtown area. Hardwood floors, refrigerator & stove, C/H/A, no pets. $450 mo. Call 803-491-5375.

Unfurnished Homes Home for sale 47 Alice Dr 2 BR 1BA Call 803-469-6318

Mobile Home Rentals 3 & 4 Br, 2 ba, all appliances, Sumter & Dalzell area. Section 8 accepted. 469-6978. Avail. Jan. 1st- SW off 15 S Ramsey Rd 3BR 2BA 1 Ac. Lot , fresh paint, new carpet $400 Mo + $300 Dep Call 803-795-9970 2, 3 & 4 Bedroom for rent, Cherryvale & Dogwood Area $250 & up. (803) 651-9926

STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015 Clean 3BR 1BA 50 Spider Ct. near Red Bay Rd. $375 mo + $600 dep. No pets. 803-638-9066 lv msg.

Vacation Rentals ADVERTISE YOUR VACATION PROPERTY FOR RENT OR SALE to more than 2.3 million S.C. newspaper readers. Your 25-word classified ad will appear in 107 S.C. newspapers for only $375. Call Alanna Ritchie at the South Carolina Newspaper Network, 1-888-727-7377.

REAL ESTATE Homes for Sale For Rent or Sale 202 Kirven St. Pinewood 3BR 1BA home. stove, refrig, C/H/A carport, fncd yard, Call after 4 pm 983-6193 or 481-5843. For Sale 821 Holiday Drive 2BR, 1BA, Den, LR. $61,900. Call 803-983-7064. Condo- 874 Grimble Ct Tudor Pl 2BR 2BA 1475 sq ft. new stove & mw, w&d, fridge, 3yr old architect shingle roof. $109,500 Call 803-934-9663

Commercial Industrial For Sale- Lake Side Restaurant, Bar, Convenience Store, gas pumps & docks. Property is leased. Lake Marion. All equipment & furniture are included. Call 904-554-7663

LEGAL NOTICES Legal Notice PUBLIC NOTICE The State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee is beginning its screening process for Seats 1, 3, 5, and 7 of the South Carolina Public Service Commission. The State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee will be accepting applications for Seats 1, 3, 5, and 7 beginning Monday, February 1st, until 12:00 p.m., Monday, February 22nd. The Public Service Commission has jurisdiction over matters pertaining to investor-owned electric and gas utilities, water and wastewater companies, telecommunications companies, carriers of household goods and hazardous waste for disposal, taxicabs, and other motor vehicle passenger carriers. A commissioner must have at least a baccalaureate degree. It is preferred that a commissioner have a background of substantial duration in one of the following areas: (a) energy; (b) telecommunications; (c) consumer protection and advocacy; (d) water and wastewater; (e) finance, economics, and statistics; (f) accounting; (g) engineering; or (h) law. The commission is composed of seven commissioners, one from each of the seven Congressional districts. The Commissioner for the First Public Service Commission District represents Charleston, Berkley, Beaufort, Dorchester, and Colleton counties. The Commissioner for the Third Public Service Commission District represents Oconee, Pickens, Anderson, Abbeville, Laurens, Greenwood, McCormick, Edgefield, and Saluda counties, as well as parts of Newberry, and Greenville counties. The Commissioner for the Fifth Public Service Commission District represents Cherokee, York, Union, Chester, Lancaster, Fairfield, Kershaw, and Lee counties, and parts of Spartanburg, Newberry, and Sumter counties. The Commissioner for the Seventh Public Service Commission District represents Chesterfield, Marlboro, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Horry, and Georgetown counties. Salary for these positions is $104,429 annually.

Each candidate is required to submit a completed application form no later than the February 22nd deadline. Applications will not be accepted after noon on Monday, February 22nd. Following the February 22nd filing deadline, the Review Committee will begin its background investigation of

Application forms may be obtained from the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee, 102 Gressette Building, Post Office Box 142, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, by contacting Heather Anderson, ( 8 0 3 ) 2 1 2 - 6 2 0 8 o r heatheranderson@scsenate.gov, or by contacting Sharon Scholl, (803) 2 1 2 - 6 6 2 7 o r sharonscholl@scsenate.gov. For further information, contact Ms. Anderson or Ms. Scholl, or the Public Utilities Review Committee's w e b s i t e a t : www.scstatehouse.gov/Committee Info/PublicUtilitiesReviewComm/ 2016PublicServiceCommissionScr eeningInfo.php.

Bid Notices INVITATION FOR BIDS SECTION 01105 PROJECT: Sumter - East Liberty Street OWNER: City of Sumter / Sumter County 13 E. Canal Street Sumter, SC 29150 RECEIPT OF BIDS: Separate sealed bids for the construction of the above referenced project will be received by the Owner at their office, by Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. local time, at place of bidding, City of Sumter Public Services Complex, located at 303 E Liberty St., Sumter, SC 21950, and at said location will be publicly opened and read aloud. No bid may be withdrawn within a period of ninety (90) days to allow time for Bid review, qualification of Bidder, and approval of award from funding agencies PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project consists of the installation of new curb, brick paving, concrete sidewalks and signal modification along with associated drainage within the SCDOT Right of Way, from Harvin Street to Main Street. Prior experience, qualifications and product certification will be required. This project will be funded by the Penny for Progress sales tax. The project will follow the Sumter County Procurement Code. PRE-BID MEETING: A Mandatory Pre-bid meeting will be held at the City of Sumter Public Services Complex, located at 303 E Liberty St., Sumter, SC 21950on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 2:00 pm. The purpose of such meeting will be to review this project and to answer any questions regarding the project. Any Contractor that does not attend the pre-bid will be disqualified. QUESTIONS: All questions regarding this Project should be submitted to: Charles Howell, The LandPlan Group South, chowell@landplansouth.com Bid related questions will be accepted through Friday, January 22, 2016, 5:00 pm. The answers to all questions asked will be shared with all participants in the Bid process. DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE: A non-refundable deposit of $50.00 will be required to obtain a copy of Contract Documents, which can be requested from The LandPlan Group South, 1621 Pickens Street, Columbia, SC 29201. Phone (803) 256-0562; Fax (803) 256-0572. Documents may be obtained in pdf format without cost. For a link to download, please email a request to: sstewart@landplansouth.com

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www.theitem.com The dashing knight Galavant (Joshua Sasse) is on a mission on “Galavant,” returning for its second season on ABC, Sunday at 8 p.m.

By Candace Havens FYI Television After their disappointment with the evil Madalena (Mallory Jansen), Galavant (Joshua Sasse) and King Richard (Timothy Omundson) have formed an unlikely bromance on the fairytale-themed ABC series “Galavant,” returning Sunday at 8 p.m. for a five-week run. The two are on a road trip to get Richard back to his castle, but with this twisted musical comedy, nothing is as it seems. “Richard and Galavant have a very complicated but beautiful bromance this season,” says Omundson. “Galavant is, very much against his wishes, stuck with Richard. But they end up going on a completely amazing journey together and, along the way, end up being very important figures in each other’s lives. It was a joy to play. Season 2 is massive for Richard. His world is completely turned upside-down, and he loses all sense of self. His theme is love and redemption. Over the course of this season, we get to see him find the love of his life and rebuild himself into the man he always hoped he would be. He even has a duet with his 12-year-old self where he has to tell him about the wreckage his life will become. It’s actually pretty heart-breaking.” There are loads of guest-stars on the show, including Sasse’s girlfriend, Australian actress and singer Kylie Minogue, as well as “Downton Abbey” lead Hugh Bonneville, who returns as pirate king Peter the Pillager. Karen David (Isabella), Vinnie Jones (Gareth), Darren Evans (Chef) and Luke Youngblood (Sid) are also back. The actors must sing and dance on the comedy, which means more time rehearsing than they would for most other television series. “I have never worked harder in my life,” Omundson says. “I don’t think there is a person on this set – actor, producer or director – who would say

differently. It is like nothing I’ve ever experienced. In all honestly, I hadn’t done a proper musical since high school, and even then I was awful at learning choreography, so there was a massive learning curve for me. I had to sing for the first audition, but it was a song that I chose and had worked on for weeks. For the second audition, I was told I would have to sing again, but this time, I would have to sing Richard’s big solo from the pilot, ‘She’ll Be Mine.” I had two days to learn it. I was not a trained singer before I started this show, and I still have miles and miles to crawl before I could say I am trained, so this was way out of my comfort zone. After freaking out for a few hours, I said to myself, ‘You want to do a big-boy musical? Then shut up and learn the song because this is how it’s going to be if you get the job.’ “Sometimes we have weeks to learn the songs, sometimes days. We are, however, in incredibly skilled and gentle hands when it comes to the music. Our music director, Michael Kosarin, takes amazingly good care of us and always gets the best out of us. The choreography, however, still terrifies me. I’ve never been good at learning dance steps. I’m a bit dyslexic, and I’m sure that doesn’t help. It also doesn’t help that sometimes we only get a few hours and sometimes only a few minutes to learn a number. I am truly in awe of performers who can watch a dance once and have it in the heads. It boggles my mind.” Creating the character of Richard was a combination of executive producer Dan Fogelman’s vision and Omundson’s interpretation. “From the moment I first read the audition pages, I knew what I wanted to do with Richard,” the actor says. “If I was going to play him, I had to make big and bold choices and swing for the fences. I think it all started with his voice – high and nasally and melodic

and then dropping down to a growl. He was everything I love to play. Big comedic dichotomies: He can be harsh and vengeful and then in a flash be full of childlike joy and then switch again and be a hurt, petulant child. All in the space of a few lines and it’s lightning fast. It’s so very exciting and fun to play. He is such a full, complex character to me. “I couldn’t really say how much is on the page and how much is me,” Omundson continues. “You’ll have to ask our producers. The writers give me these incredibly funny things to say and situations to play and then it’s my job to flesh it all out. Our producers have been very gracious and collaborative. It’s the sort of thing where, once we get what’s on the page, if we have something else I’d like to try, I can go for it. It’s one of the freest, happiest environments I’ve worked in.” The job may be tough, but Omundson believes it is some of his best work. “This has been a job full of favorite moments and career highs, both on and off set,” the actor says. “If I had to pick one moment from last season, it would be from the pilot. The scene toward the beginning where Richard comes to Madalena on their wedding day and reminds her that they are in fact going to consummate the marriage that evening. It was already a ridiculously funny scene. Dan Fogelman, the genius behind the whole show, was on set and started throwing out alternate lines, and I would rapid fire them back and throw in some of my own. It’s one of my favorite ways to work. It’s without a net; it’s like jazz – it’s exhilarating, and it’s very rare in television. The next morning, Dan, myself and our executive producer/director Chris Koch were talking about that scene from the day before. Chris said it was like we had all been working together for years – that was a very good day.

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