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BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com (803) 774-1250 A 29-year-old Summerton man is dead, and a 35-year-old man is in police custody after a shooting at the victim’s home late Sunday night.

Dominee L. Lawson was pronounced dead at about 12:55 a.m. Monday at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, said Clarendon County Coroner Hayes Samuels, having suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

His death, about an hour after deputies responded to reports of a shooting, ultimately led to the arrest of Raheme Kendo Jamison, 35, of 1000 Lincoln St., Summerton, in connection with the case, according to a report from Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies from the sheriff’s office, along with officers from Summerton Police Department, responded to a single-wide mobile home in the 1000 block of Louis Street at about 11:49 p.m. Sunday, where they found Lawson unresponsive, laying on the

floor of his kitchen.

According to Maj. Kipp Coker of the sheriff’s office, the two acquaintances apparently began arguing, which escalated into a fight before, authorities think, Jamison pulled out a gun and shot Lawson.

Emergency medical services responded and transported Lawson to the hospital.

This is not the first time authorities have arrested Jamison.

In 2009, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, suspended to six years in prison and two years’ probation for various illegal drug manufacturing and distribution charges. That sentence came after a Summerton-area drug raid in the previous year entitled “Operation Rehab,” in which more than a dozen people were arrested during the Memorial Day weekend.

At that time, law enforcement officials said the people arrested were “major players” in the area drug scene.

Lawson’s body was sent to Medical University of South Carolina on Monday for an autopsy, Samuels said.

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Brianna Burgess, a summer volunteer at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, pushes a patient out of the endoscopy department Thursday. Though not specifically interested in the medical field, she said she does like helping people. “I think it’s real swell,” Burgess said. “I haven’t met one person I’ve not joked with.”

High schoolers gain job skills volunteering at hospital

BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com (803) 774-1250

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ome high school students are getting a closer look at the medical profession this summer.

But these 30 teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 are doing more than the candy stripers of old, said Beth Fordham, manager of Tuomey Healthcare System’s Customer Volunteer Services and Customer Services.

“It’s more of a learning experience,” she said. “In the candy striper day, they did grunt work like emptying bed pans and cleaning bathrooms. Now it’s more hands-on learning or observing.”

There is no danger to the patients or students, Fordham stressed. As part of orientation, the students were trained in infection control and patient privacy laws.

Students were selected based on their GPA, references and an essay about why they wanted to volunteer.

“We made it a competitive process,” Fordham said. “Applications were sent to all high

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schools in the area as well as home school and Tuomey’s 2,000 employees. We had to turn a few down.”

The teen volunteers started last week and will serve through the end of July.

Brianna Burgess, a student at West Florence High School in Darlington whose mother works at the Sumter hospital, said she isn’t interested in medicine, but she is interested in helping others.

“I’m a very social person,” she said. “I like to get out and do stuff. I want to be a positive role model.”

She transported patients from the waiting area to the exam area in endoscopy Thursday morning and was set to go to the women’s center that afternoon.

“I think it’s real swell,” Burgess said. “I haven’t met one person I’ve not joked with.”

Ashley Hayes, a Crestwood High School student who wants to be a nurse, was working in oncology and had previously served in the emergency department.

“I love the ER,” she said. “It’s exciting. The ER is fast paced, and something is always

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BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com (803) 774-1250 Last week, United Ministries of Sumter County wrapped up its second week of Summer Restore.

One of the people helped by the program formerly known as SAM, or Sumter Area Missions, was an 83-year-old Korean War veteran named Willie “Tommy” Wilson.

The Catholic community helped replace his kitchen and den floors as well as making other kitchen improvements.

“I am very pleased with the work that has been done, and I thank United Ministries,” he said. “The volunteers were very pleasant and caring.”

Wilson worked for Santee Print for 40 years before retiring 20 years ago and has played the piano for Mulberry Baptist Church for 47 years.

Readers like you help make jobs like this one possible through financial contribu-

tions. This week’s total was $550.

The Sumter Item has partnered with United Ministries to bring you Summer of Caring, an initiative where your local newspaper collects money and then gives it to the nonprofit for three areas of use — Home Repair and Wheelchair Ministry, Crisis Relief Ministry and the Homeless Shelter, formerly known as Samaritan House.

“The Crisis Relief was recently able to help a married couple in their 30s with four teenagers,” said Mark Champagne, United Ministries’ executive director. “The wife’s employer reduced her hours, and she is attending college. The husband’s work is sporadic, and (he is) seeking skill training.

We were able to assist them with their water bill and counseling.”

This past week, the Crisis Relief Ministry helped 27 clients for a total of $3,961.45, assisted seven families with inkind donations that equaled about $600 and gave 18 families food totaling $948.

Meanwhile, 34 men and 26

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Wear pink, fight cancer tonight at P-15’s game Tuomey Healthcare System’s public relations team reminds the public of tonight’s filming at Riley Park for its video entry in the Pink Glove competition, which benefits cancer research and treatment. The team asks that community members willing to participate dress in pink and arrive in time to be seated by 6:30 p.m. for the American Legion P-15’s baseball game. Jennifer Reimer of Miss Libby’s School of Dance will teach the crowd a group wave, and a cancer survivor will be asked to throw out the first pitch.

Admission to the game is $5 for adults and $3 for children.

Another opportunity to help the PR team win up to $15,000 for a cancer charity also comes today and July 8.

Tuomey Public Relations Specialist Traci Quinn explained, “If you have been impacted by cancer in any way, email a photograph of the person in your life who had cancer — including yourself — to chris.reardon@tuomey.com (by 5 p.m. today). Then come to the new green space on Main Street before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 8, for a group shot of a ‘human breast cancer ribbon.’ ... It’s all part of the video to support cancer prevention and education.”

For more information, visit the website www.tuomey.com/ pink.

Moped collides with 18-wheeler, woman dies A Mayesville woman was killed Friday when the moped she was riding collided with an 18-wheeler.

Wendy Melissa Watts, 36, of 1423 Raccoon Road, Mayesville, was heading northbound on S.C. 341, approximately six miles outside of Bishopville, about 12:41 p.m. when she reportedly attempted to merge into the left lane of the highway ahead of an 18-wheeler and collided with the vehicle.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. It was unclear if Watts was wearing a helmet at the time of the wreck.

Audit suggests creating adult abuse registry COLUMBIA — An audit of the agency that serves South Carolinians with disabilities finds the Legislature can curb abuse and neglect by requiring a central registry and allowing electronic monitoring of facilities’ common areas.

The Legislative Audit Council report released Monday said employers need a database to search for any past abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.

The audit also recommends national background checks for employees. It estimates one in four people who work directly with vulnerable adults are hired without knowledge of their potential criminal histories.

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The Chicken Shack, a popular Chinese food restaurant in Dalzell, reopened Monday after a fire closed the restaurant for six months.

The Chicken Shack is back Popular Dalzell restaurant reopens after December fire

BY JIM HILLEY (803) 774-1211 jim@theitem.com Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, the Chicken Shack is once again perched on the side of Old Camden Highway, a welcome sight to Chinese food lovers from Dalzell, Shaw Air Force Base and Sumter.

The popular eatery owned by Sei Suh and his wife, Ki Suh, had been grounded since a fire gutted the structure late one Sunday afternoon in December. Because the restaurant was closed Sundays, nobody was hurt. According to reports at the time, the fire, possibly caused by a faulty refrigerator, began in a storeroom.

After having been in business since 2007, Sei Suh said they pretty much had to begin the business all over.

“They said about $100,000 in building damages and $75,000 for item damages, that’s what the estimate came to.”

The Suhs were determined not to let the damage from the fire foul up their business.

Ki Suh and Sei Suh express gratitude to all of the loyal customers who came in to their restaurant, the Chicken Shack, on Monday when it reopened.

“We hired a contractor, Hawkins & Kolb, and it is like a new building,” Sei Suh said.

The Chicken Shack, 3775 Old Camden Highway, had its grand opening Monday, and even well after the lunch hour, business was brisk with a flock

of returning customers eager to get a taste of the restaurant’s cuisine.

“I am so glad. I am so glad the customers are so outpouring,” he said.

“They called me all the time telling me they are so sorry the store was burned and wanting to know when we would be open.”

“People love to eat here,” said Shelwood China, a local residential builder. “Even now the place is full.”

The Chicken Shack is not just famous for chicken wings, Sei Suh said.

“For the fried rice, too,” he said. “Everything we do, we try to do our best.”

And what did Sei and Ki Suh do during the six months the Chicken Shack was being rebuilt?

“Surviving,” Sei Suh said. “My wife did a lot of going to church and praying.”

“I am so grateful for all the customers who stuck with us,” Sei Suh said.

The Chicken Shack is open from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.

For more information, call (803) 4698615.

Man faces DUI charges after flagging down officer

BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com (803) 774-1272 An Elgin man is facing felony charges after a DUI crash sent another driver to the hospital Sunday night.

Walter Sanchez, 25, faces charges of DUI with great bodily injury, leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a license.

He was arrested shortly after the Lee County incident when his reported at-

tempt to flee the scene came to a quick end.

At 10 p.m., Sanchez was reportedly driving a 2006 Toyota pickup truck on Camden Highway when he collided with SANCHEZ the rear of a 1999 Chevrolet pickup that was slowing to make a left turn. The driver of that vehicle, a 61-year-old Bishopville woman, had to be airlifted from the scene to Palmetto Health Richland with “serious injuries,” said Cpl. David Jones with

South Carolina Highway Patrol, which responded to the wreck.

After the wreck, Sanchez reportedly jumped from the cab of the truck and fled the scene on foot, but he didn’t make it far before he was apprehended.

“Nearby, he tried to wave down a car for a ride, and it turned out to be a Lee County officer,” Jones said. “So the deputy apprehended him.”

As of Monday evening, Sanchez was being held at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center pending bond.

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E-cigarettes can make expensive addiction cheaper RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — It’s difficult to say yet if electronic cigarettes are less harmful than regular fireand-tobacco smokes, but they can save smokers hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year.

Some in the growing industry are touting the batterypowered nicotine sticks as a way for smokers to save money in the face of rising taxes and prices for tobacco cigarettes. But it may not stay that way for long as states are increasingly looking to tax ecigarettes as they tax other tobacco products.

A look at the costs of smokes and e-cigarettes shows the savings can vary a lot, depending on state cigarette taxes and the brand and style of e-cigarette used. But the bottom line is that e-cigarettes can generally make an expensive addiction cheaper.

A note on health: None of this takes into consideration the potential costs of any health effects from nicotine addiction, which can be huge.

Clearly, the way to save the most money is to kick nicotine entirely. And taking up either habit for the first time isn’t going to be good for your wallet.

THE BASICS OF E-CIGARETTES The devices heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that users inhale. Smokers like them because the vapor looks like smoke but doesn’t contain the thousands of chemicals, tar or odor of regular cigarettes.

Scientists haven’t finished much research on e-cigarettes, and the studies that have been done on their safety or ability to help smokers quit have been inconclusive.

Some e-cigarette users, known as “vapers,” use e-cigarettes as a way to quit tobacco, or to cut down. Others want to be able to get their nicotine fix in places where regular cigarettes aren’t allowed.

But cost is increasingly becoming part of the equation as the average pack of cigarettes across the country tops $6.15, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators.

DOING THE MATH Smoking is expensive. A pack-a-day smoker can spend anywhere from $1,500 a year in a low-tax state, all the way to about $5,000 in New York City, where a pack can run $13. On average across the country, the tab comes to about $2,250 a year.

The first consideration for someone looking to switch is whether to use disposable models or a refillable. The refillable models promise more

savings in exchange for a bigger up-front investment.

Most disposable e-cigarettes say they’re equivalent to about 2 packs of cigarettes and cost $6 to $10 apiece, meaning they’d cost about $1,100 to $1,800 a year, for savings of several hundred dollars a year.

The savings are bigger for rechargeable e-cigarettes with disposable cartridges. For an initial investment between $10 and $35 and cartridges that cost $2.50 apiece, smokers in an average state would save almost $1,800 a year.

There’s also a more advanced option for the dedicated vaper: a tank system that is filled with vials of flavored nicotine mixture. They cost more up-front, from $35 up to about $200, but $8 worth of liquid can last about 10 days.

That promises savings of up to $1,900 a year for the average smoker.

WHAT VAPERS SAY “Cigarettes were getting horribly expensive. ... I’ve thrown endless thousands of dollars away,” said 52-year-old Jim Craig, of Salt Lake City, who switched to an e-cigarette last year after smoking since he was 18.

Craig, who was spending upward of $200 per month on cigarettes, said he now spends about $45 a month with his ecigarette after an initial investment of $200 for a rechargeable battery and refillable tank. He’s been able to stash $100 per month in a savings account.

THE FUTURE The savings may not last.

While many vapers just pay sales taxes, states such as Minnesota and North Carolina place additional taxes on ecigarettes and liquid nicotine.

Other states have considered such taxes. Restrictions proposed by the Food and Drug Administration in April also may push costs higher as companies comply with new rules.

On the other hand, competition among e-cigarette sellers could push prices lower as well, especially as tobacco makers try to get into the business.

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Nine-year-old Joe Wilson, nine-year-old Harper Epperson and seven-year-old Grayson Thornton play in the corn spilled after a tractor trailer carrying the seeds overturned while attempting to turn off Brooks Street onto Old Georgetown Road in Manning about noon Monday. No one was hurt in the crash other than the driver, who suffered non life-threatening injuries. The overturned truck near Weldon Auditorium, however, did block off the road and force officers to reroute traffic until about 3:30 p.m., when the truck was towed away.

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Justices strike down contraception mandate

BY MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

The justices’ 5-4 decision is the first time that the high court has ruled that profitseeking businesses can hold religious views under federal law.

And it means the Obama administration must search for a different way of providing free contraception to women who are covered under objecting companies’ health insurance plans.

Contraception is among a range of preventive services that must be provided at no extra charge under the health care law that President Obama signed in 2010 and the Supreme Court upheld two years later.

Two years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts cast the pivotal vote that saved the health care law in the midst of Obama’s campaign for re-election. On Monday, dealing with a small sliver of the law, Roberts sided with the four justices who would have struck down the law in its entirety.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. The court’s four liberal justices dissented.

The court stressed that its ruling applies only to corporations, such as the Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-craft stores, that are under the control of just a few people in which

Psychiatric evaluation for suspect in ’90 killing GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man accused of killing a North Carolina girl nearly 15 years ago is being sent for a mental evaluation.

The Greensboro News-Record reported that 53-year-old Donald Preston Ferguson of Spartanburg is being sent to Butner, North Carolina, for a psychiatric evaluation.

Ferguson is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 7-year-old Shalonda Poole in 1990.

Guilford County Assistant District Attorney Howard Neumann said a judge approved the request from Ferguson’s lawyers for the evaluation.

Searchers found Shalonda’s body in 1990 behind an elementary school. Police said she had been stabbed, strangled and sexually assaulted.

Family members have said Ferguson played cards at their house a few days before Shalonda was killed. He also helped search for the girl after her parents reported that she was missing.

The city created a park in her memory, and last year, a group that included family members, friends and city council members dedicated a new memorial plaque at the park.

Demonstrators embrace after hearing the Supreme Court’s decision on the Hobby Lobby case outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday. The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

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there is no essential difference between the business and its owners.

Alito also said the decision is limited to contraceptives under the health care law. “Our decision should not be understood to hold that an insurance-coverage mandate must necessarily fall if it conflicts with an employer’s religious beliefs,” Alito said.

He suggested two ways the administration could ensure women get the contraception they want. It could simply pay for pregnancy prevention, he said.

Or it could provide the same

kind of accommodation it has made available to religious-oriented, not-for-profit corporations. Those groups can tell the government that providing the coverage violates their religious beliefs. At that point, the groups’ insurers or a third-party administrator takes on the responsibility of paying for the birth control.

The accommodation is the subject of separate legal challenges, but the court said Monday that the profit-seeking companies could not assert religious claims in such a situation.

In a dissent she read aloud

from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the decision “potentially sweeping” because it minimizes the government’s interest in uniform compliance with laws affecting

the workplace. “And it discounts the disadvantages religion-based opt outs impose on others, in particular, employees who do not share their employer’s religious beliefs,” Ginsburg said.

The administration said a victory for the companies would prevent women who work for them from making decisions about birth control based on what’s best for their health, not whether they can afford it. The government’s supporters pointed to research showing that nearly one-third of women would change their contraceptive if cost were not an issue; a very effective means of birth control, the intrauterine device, can cost up to $1,000.

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A little goes a long way as ‘Nathan for You’ returns

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH “History Detectives” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) returns with a new emphasis. When it began, “Detectives” worked like an offshoot of “Antiques Roadshow,” with experts examining artifacts to determine their story and provenance. Tonight, “History Detectives Special Investigation” will focus on a single “cold case” in every installment. Kaiama Glover hosts, joining investigators Wes Cowan and Tukufu Zuberi.

“Investigations” begins with the case of the S.S. Sultana, a side-wheeled steamboat packed with Union soldiers on their way home from the justconcluded Civil War. It exploded on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing at least 1,500 men. This grim tragedy occurred just weeks after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Was it a boiler explosion, as first presumed? Or sabotage at the hands of terrorists faithful to the Confederate cause?

Over the course of the summer, “Detectives” will rake over mysteries involving the plane-crash death of Glenn Miller during World War II; the 1885 scandal known as the “Texas Servant Girl Murders”; and the unsolved 1975 disappearance of defiant and notorious Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa.

• It’s a good thing PBS has the “Detectives” out to scour history, because the History Channel maintains its philosophy of cliche macho programming and history avoidance.

Tonight’s new offering, “Biker Battleground Phoenix” (10 p.m., TV-14) profiles proprietors of rival motorcycle customizing shops.

• The very low-key comedy / reality series “Nathan for You” (10:30 p.m., Comedy Central) returns for a second season.

“Nathan” sends up the restaurant-rescue / can-this-business-be-saved genre. Canadian actor Nathan Fielder shares offbeat ideas for “improvement” with various smallbusiness owners.

Faced with the assumption that many potential customers fear that car repairmen are lying about underlying defects or padding their repair bills, Fielder convinces one understated mechanic to deliver esti-

mates while strapped to a police polygraph. This results in greater trust from bemused clients and several embarrassing admissions from Fielder himself.

An amusing concept, delivered with droll self-effacement, Fielder’s advice ranges from the slightly ridiculous (lie detectors) to the obvious and puerile (last season’s “poo”-flavored frozen yogurt).

Let’s just say a little goes a long way.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • A killer trolls the Internet in search of victims on “Rizzoli & Isles” (9 p.m., TNT, TV-14).

• Randy shows determination on “Royal Pains” (9 p.m., USA, TV-PG).

• A crash fills the wards on “The Night Shift” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• Jamal’s accident puts Barry’s life on hold on “Tyrant” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA) • Actors and comics pretend

Angeles” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Castiel gets comfy on “Supernatural” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * A trip west on “The Mindy Project” (9:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

LATE NIGHT

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Nathan Fielder, right, is back with all-new offbeat marketing ideas for a variety of small businesses as “Nathan for You” begins its second season at 10:30 p.m. today on Comedy Central. to drink while reenacting past events on “Drunk History” (10 p.m., Comedy Central, TV-14).

SERIES NOTES Impersonation leads to murder on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Lauren Bacall guest-

voices on “Family Guy” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * A family chases an empty dream on “Famous in 12” (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG) * On two previously aired helpings of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” a casual nightmare (8:30 p.m.), a friendly wager (9:30 p.m.) * Purloined nukes on “NCIS: Los

Betty White, Jason Momoa and American Authors are on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS, r) * Paul Rudd, Jeff Altman and John Doe appear on “Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 p.m., CBS, r) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Hugh Jackman, Jimmy Page, Barry Gibb and Josh Kaufman on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Dane Cook, Mark Duplass and Trey Songz appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC) * John Oliver, Natasha Lyonne and Paolo Nutini visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, r) * Craig Ferguson hosts Kristen Bell and Michael McMillan on “The Late Late Show” (12:35 a.m., CBS, r).

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VOLUNTEERS FROM PAGE A1 going on.”

In the ER, she transported patients to X-ray and observed doctors. In oncology, she was waiting to respond to patients and answering questions on the phone.

McLean Achziger hopes to become a doctor one day.

“I thought it would be a good opportunity,” the Sumter High School student said about volunteering at Tuomey. “I thought it would be boring, but it’s been really fun. I get involved with the patients.”

She was in radiology Thursday morning.

Each student has at least one shift one day a week, Fordham said, and some have up to five days and shifts in three or four departments. “Our goal is to have all 30 students engaged and active,” she said.

Even if they are not going into the health care field, they learn responsibilities such as dressing appropriately in their purple polo with “Student Volunteer” and khakis. They have to clock in and out of a time system and report vacations to their supervisors.

“We treat them like employees,” Fordham said. “If they have several absences — three with no calls — then we drop them. They had to buy their uniforms.

They have to be in code — no perfume or painted nails. They have to have badges. If they act up, they get written up. It’s a real good program that teaches responsibility.”

CARING FROM PAGE A1 women stayed at the Homeless Shelter from June 14 through 21.

While the shelter will remain open as always, United Ministries is closed this week and next. It is set to reopen July 14.

Financial contributions may still be made, though, by mailing checks to: The Sumter Item Summer of Caring P.O. Box 1677 Sumter, SC 29151 Donations may also be dropped off at The Sumter Item office, 20 N. Magnolia St. If donating in someone’s name, identify the individual clearly and with the correct spelling of his or her name. Spell out groups and acronyms.

Donations received as of June 30 included: Ray and Betty Blanchette in honor of Chuck and Jeanne Berard for Homeless Shelter, $50; and Sue & Chuck Fienning in memory of Henry Fienning for Homeless Shelter, $500.

Combined anonymous donations totaled: $0 Total this week: $550 Total this year: $2,517

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COMMENTARY

So what’s in a name?

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ASHINGTON — Amanda Blackhorse, a Navajo who successfully moved a federal agency to withdraw trademark protections from the Washington Redskins because it considers the team’s name derogatory, lives on a reservation where Navajos root for the Red Mesa High School Redskins. She opposes this name; the Native Americans who picked and retain it evidently do not.

The Patent and Trademark Office acted on a 1946 law banning trademarks that “may disparage” persons. “May” gives the agency latitude to disregard evidence regarding how many people actually feel disparaged, or feel that others should feel disparaged. Blackhorse speaks of “the majority of Native American people who have spoken out on this.” This would seem implausible even if a 2004 poll had not found that 90 percent of Native Americans were not offended by the Redskins’ name. A 2013 AP-GfK poll showed that 79 percent of Americans of all ethnicities opposed changing it, and just 18 percent of “nonwhite football fans” favored changing it.

The federal agency acted in the absence of general or Native American revulsion about “Redskins,” and probably because of this absence.

Are the Americans who are paying attention to this controversy comfortable with government saying, in effect, that if people are not offended, they should be, so government must decide what uses of language George should be punished?

Will In today’s regulatory state, agencies often do pretty much as they please, exercising discretion unconstrained by law.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley notes that in 2004 the Federal Election Commission held that the anti-George W. Bush movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” did not need to be regulated as an “electioneering communication” but in 2008 held that the hostile “Hillary: The Movie” was such a communication. In the regulatory state, the rule of law is the rule that law barely limits regulators’ discretion.

Although the death penalty clearly was not considered a “cruel and unusual” punishment when the Eighth Amendment proscription of such punishments was adopted, perhaps society’s “evolving standards of decency” have brought this punishment under the proscription. Standards of decency do evolve: No sports team launched today would select the name “Redskins.” Although Thomas Sowell is correct that “some people are in the business of being offended, just as Campbell is in the business of making soup,” the fact that some people are professionally indignant does not mean offense may be given promiscuously to others.

The name “Redskins” is more problematic than, say, that of the Chicago Blackhawks or Cleveland Indians presumably because “Redskins” refers to skin pigmentation. People offended by this might be similarly distressed if they knew that “Oklahoma” is a compound of two Choctaw words meaning “red” and “people.” Blackhorse, however, has two larger objections.

She says “someone” once told her that teams’ mascots “are meant to be ridiculed,” “to be toyed with,” “to be pushed around and disrespected” and “have stuff thrown at them.” She should supplement the opinion of that someone with information from persons more knowledgeable. But she considers “any team name that references Native Americans” an injurious “appropriation of our culture.” Has an “appropriation” been committed by the University of Utah and Florida State University even though they have the approval of the respective tribes for their teams’ nicknames, the Utes and Seminoles?

William Voegeli, a senior editor of the Claremont Review of Books, writes that the kerfuffle over an NFL team’s name involves serious matters. They include comity in a diverse nation, civil discourse, and “not only how we make decisions, but how we decide what needs to be decided, and who will do the deciding.”

Time was, Voegeli writes, a tolerant society was one with “a mutual nonaggression pact”: If your beliefs and practices offend but do not otherwise affect me, I will not interfere with them if you will reciprocate regarding my beliefs and practices. Now, however, tolerance supposedly requires compulsory acknowledgment that certain people’s beliefs and practices deserve, Voegeli says, “to be honored, respected, affirmed and validated” lest they suffer irreparable injury to their sense of worth. And it requires compelling conformity for the good of the compelled.

When two Oregon bakers chose, for religious reasons, not to provide a cake for a same-sex wedding, an Oregon government official explained why tolerance meant coercing the bakers: “The goal is to rehabilitate.” Tolerance required declaring the bakers’ beliefs and practices intolerable. We are going to discover whether a society can be congenial while its government is being coercive regarding wedding cakes and teams’ names.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost. com. © 2014, Washington Post Writers Group

COMMENTARY

Why government isn’t working

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overnment just doesn’t work very well. That’s the persuasive thesis of three important books published this year.

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge’s “The Fourth Revolution” takes a historical and international (and British) perspective.

They argue that the welfare state, a creation of early 20thcentury Brits, has become clunky in comparison to recent reforms in Scandinavia and the Asian model most highly developed in Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore.

Peter Schuck’s “Why Government Fails So Often” looks at a multitude of federal programs and concludes that most, though not all, have “deep structures” which make “policy failure and mismanagement” inevitable.

Philip K. Howard’s “The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government” takes a different approach.

Howard, a New York lawyer and founder of a group called Common Good, starts off with anecdotes showing how law prevents problems from being sensibly solved.

A bridge blocking New York’s harbor from the newest supertankers can’t be elevated without 47 permits from 19 government agencies, and environmental groups will bring lawsuits at multiple stages.

A lifeguard is fired for saving a man outside his zone of the beach. A community soup kitchen was shut down because it served potluck meals and had no kitchen to be inspected.

Day care centers have to offer two sets of blocks with at least 10 blocks a set (who counts them each day?).

You get the idea. You’ve almost certainly encountered this sort of thing in your daily life. “Legal rigidity trumps everything,” Howard writes.

“Law has crowded out the ability to be practical or fair.”

American laws and regula-

tions tend to be over-detailed and to rob government officials of all initiative and, therefore, responsibility. Case in point: The 2,700-page Obamacare, with a 28-word definition of “high school” and a (so far) 7-foot high pile of regulations.

How did this democratic nation come to be saddled with, as Howard puts it, “a government run by clerks and jerks”?

Howard traces it back to Progressive and New Deal legislation, which gave regulators wide latitude to enforce vague laws. In response, Congress in 1946 passed the Administrative Procedures Michael Act, which Barone tended to produce bureaucratic bloat and paralyze government action.

The biggest changes came in the 1960s. Southern segregationist officials purported to follow the law, but in fact blocked equal rights for blacks.

The response — effective in breaking segregation, but a disaster otherwise — was a distrust of all officials and detailed rules that robbed them of discretion.

At the same time, the justborn environmental movement used new statutes and court decisions to bring lawsuits to achieve the goal of BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything).

These were liberal initiatives, but conservatives also got into the business of tying officials’ hands. Corporations came to seek detailed regulations that would provide them “safe harbor” protection against prosecutions and lawsuits. K Street lobbyists with ties to both political parties developed a lucrative vested interest in complex laws and regulations.

Howard wants to undermine this “rule of nobody.” Get rid of all the detailed instructions

and trust the common sense of responsible individuals to make decisions promptly in line with social norms.

He notes that in 1988, Australia got rid of detailed nursing home regulations (so many square feet per resident) and substituted general standards, including “homelike environment,” ‘’privacy and dignity.”

Academics who decried this reform were surprised to find that nursing homes improved under the new standards. Regulating by principles rather than rules replaced arguments and nitpicking with cooperative conversations and consensus.

Howard would like to reconstruct the federal government along similar lines. Laws with budgetary impact should sunset periodically, to prune the legal code of the underbrush planted by now-defunct legislators.

Presidents should be freed from the entanglement of detailed restrictions and 1970s legislation barring them from not spending funds and hamstringing advisory committees.

Judges should be empowered to dismiss invalid claims quickly. Someone should be given the authority to conclusively and speedily decide environmental issues. Congress should set up commissions to propose simplified legal codes on everything from education to entitlements to the environment.

Pretty radical stuff, and both liberals and conservatives will fear potential changes. The current president has low credibility and a demonstrated incapacity to compromise.

I’m not sure I’d trust Howard’s inevitably elite-dominated commissions. But his central insight — that ordinary Americans can be trusted to behave responsibly — is a good starting place in reforming government.

Michael Barone is the senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner © 2014 creators.com

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TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014

JULY FOURTH SCHEDULE BANKS — All area banks and credit unions will be closed on Friday.

GOVERNMENT — The following will be closed on Friday: federal government offices; U.S. Postal Service; state government offices; City of Sumter offices; County of Sumter offices; Clarendon County offices; and Lee County offices.

OTHER — The following will be closed on Friday: Clemson Extension Service; Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce; and Farmers Telephone Coop.

Black River Electric Coop. will be closed on Friday with crews available in the event of power outages.

The Harvin Clarendon County Library will be closed Friday and Saturday.

The Sumter County Library will be closed Friday-Sunday.

All offices of The Sumter Item will be closed on Friday and there will not be a Friday, July 4, edition of the newspaper.

AROUND TOWN The Lincoln Alumni and Friends Reunion, sponsored by the Lincoln High School Preservation Alumni Association and the Sumterites Association, will be held Friday-Saturday, July 4-5, at Lincoln High School, Council Street. An indoor picnic will be held noon4 p.m. Friday and a dinner dance will be held 8 p.m.midnight on Saturday. Cost: $75 per adult for the picnic and dinner dance; $10 per child for the picnic for ages 13 and under. A single event may be chosen at a cost of $25 per adult for the picnic or $50 per adult for the dinner dance. Call William at (803) 773-6700, James at (803) 9684173 or Frances at (803) 4698917.

Graduates and former students of Ebenezer High School will hold a 4th of July holiday bash 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday, July 4, at Catchall Masonic Lodge, Peach Orchard Road. Music will be provided by DJ Parker and refreshments will be served. Admission is $13 at the door. Call Leavy Dow Allen at (803) 494-5942.

The Campbell Soup friends lunch group will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 5, at Golden Corral.

The Sumter Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 8, at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, 125 W. Bartlette St. Suzie Kearney, management development officer, SAFE, Identity Theft, will speak. Transportation provided within the coverage area.

Contact Debra Canty at DebraCanC2@frontier.com or at (803) 775-5792. For information regarding the upcoming gala, call the recorded mes-

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TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

Gaffney 93/71 Spartanburg 94/72

Greenville 94/71

Columbia 95/74

Temperatures shown on map are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. sage line at (206) 376-5992.

The Annual Dr. Mary McLeodBethune Celebration will be held Friday-Sunday, July 1113, in Mayesville as follows: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, presentation of the flags, Unsung Heroes, activities for all ages, vendors and food; 6-10:30 p.m. Friday, downtown block party with live music by the Touch Band; 10 a.m. Saturday, dedication of the learning center, gospel singing, praise dancing, hat show, vendors, basketball, bounce house, food and games; and 3 p.m.

Sunday, antique cars and bikes show. Call Jeannie Jefferson at (803) 453-5482.

The Sumter Combat Veterans Group will meet at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 18, at South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive. All area veterans are invited.

The Red Hill Lodge No. 144 Annual Lodge Banquet will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, at St. Paul AME Church, Plowden Mill Road, in the multi-purpose room. Lewis H. Nelson, most worshipful grand master for the state of South Carolina, will speak.

Cost is $25 per ticket. Call Lester Williams at (803) 9833568 or Jarvais Wilson at (704) 608-3945.

S.C. Works and Clarendon School District One will sponsor a job fair 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23, at the Clarendon One Community Resource Center, 1154 Fourth St., Summerton. Job seekers should dress for success in work-appropriate attire with conservative closed-toe shoes. Job seekers should also bring copies of their resume.

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 93/73

Aiken 94/71

ON THE COAST

Charleston 91/75

Today: A thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon. High 87 to 91.

Wednesday: A thunderstorm; watch for rough surf and rip currents. High 89 to 93.

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Wednesday: Hot with thunderstorms.

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

PUBLIC AGENDA LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES CALLED MEETING Today, 10:30 a.m., quadplex, District Administration Complex, 310 Roland St., Bishopville

BISHOPVILLE CITY COUNCIL Today, 6:30 p.m., Colclough Building TOWN OF LYNCHBURG PLANNING COMMISSION Wednesday, 4 p.m., town hall

SUMTER CITY COUNCIL Today, 5:30 p.m., Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Get out and EUGENIA LAST make new contacts.

Socializing will help you gain confidence and lead to someone who shares your concerns, interests and future aspirations. Love is on the rise. Don’t overreact, overindulge or overspend.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may have plenty of good ideas, but if you don’t get the OK from someone in charge first, you may be wasting your time. Go over every detail, leaving no room for error, before you present what you have to offer.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t sit when you should be sprinting. Get involved in things that will lead to exciting encounters with people who have something to offer.

Change is on the horizon, but make sure your motives are pure before taking a leap of faith.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Expand your interests and satisfy your thirst for knowledge. Interacting with people from all walks of life will give you insight into future trends. Be careful where you leave your money and belongings. Loss is apparent.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your charm will attract attention, but if you mislead someone you will GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Fix up end up in a situation that you’ll your surroundings to suit your regret. Flirting is fun, but emotional needs. Put love at the top of your deception will hurt your reputation. list whether you’re in love or looking Stick to the facts and avoid discord. for that special someone. Don’t rush CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): a job you’ve been asked to do or Avoid discussions that will lead to you may overlook something disagreements. A situation will important. easily get blown out of proportion.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Get involved in a cause and discuss your thoughts, feelings and ideas.

Sharing with others may be met with some opposition, but in the end, it will help you come up with a plan that will help you reach your goal.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Be careful when it comes to investments or donations. You may feel like making changes, but stick to a set budget or you may end up having regrets.

Romance is in the stars.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep an open mind. Listen to what’s being said and observe how others react.

Someone is likely to misinform you or use emotional tactics to get you to do something that isn’t in your best interest. Protect your assets.

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MEGAMILLIONS FRIDAY

11-22-24-28-36 PowerUp: 2

8-12-34-43-56 Powerball: 9 Powerplay: 2

15-29-31-46-64 Megaball: 10 Megaplier: 3

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Stick to important issues that can provide you with information that will help you make good financial decisions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Personal problems will escalate if you don’t stick to the truth. Evading an issue that affects a relationship you have with someone at work or at home will lead to bigger problems. Honesty is the best policy. Speak up and put it behind you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Share your ideas with colleagues and consider forming a partnership with someone you enjoy collaborating with and you’ll come up with a good plan of attack. Share past accomplishments and let your enthusiasm lead the way.

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Visitors take pictures of sand sculptures on the beach at the Northsea town of Ostend, Belgium. Artists from around the world created a fantasy world based on Disneyland characters.

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BILL SIMPSON AWARD

Wannamaker earns top SCISA honor

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER mchristopher@theitem.com The term student-athlete can mean something different to each different person, but Laurence Manning Academy’s Will Wannamaker fits the definition perfectly for the South Carolina Independent School Association.

Wannamaker, the LMA

valedictorian and a 2-sport athlete in varsity soccer and football, is just about as good a well-rounded person and young man as you’ll find, according to LMA athletic coordinator and head football coach Robbie Briggs said.

“In all of my 20 years of being involved with young people he’s one of the finest people I’ve ever come in

contact with,” Briggs said.

“Tremendous leadership ability, great presence and he just has what some people call ‘it’ – in terms of work ethic, his overall how he presents himself and the respect he commands.”

SCISA thought so too, as Wannamaker was awarded the 2014 Bill Simpson Award and a $500 scholarship for male athletes. Wannamaker

is the first person from LMA to earn the honor.

The award is presented to the top graduating individual male and female studentathletes in SCISA that meet several criteria. The criteria includes lettering in two varsity sports as well as having athletic awards and honors. Those eligible must

SEE WANNAMAKER, PAGE B3

PHOTO PROVIDED

Laurence Manning Academy valedictorian Will Wannamaker, left, poses with headmaster Spencer Jordan after receiving the Bill Simpson Award.

WORLD CUP

COLLEGE BASEBALL

All on eyes on U.S. soccer

Former Fire Ant Davis dies in recent car crash

Win vs. Belgium would put American’s in quarterfinals for 1st time since ’02

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennisb@theitem.com

BY RONALD BLUM The Associated Press SALVADOR, Brazil— They know the eyes of the United States will be on them from thousands of miles away, and they say they are ready.

The Americans try to reach the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time since 2002 when they play Belgium on Tuesday.

“For some of the guys, it’s the last opportunity, so we have to make the most of it,” U.S. captain Clint Dempsey said. “And I’m sure if we play to the best of our ability, we’ll get a positive result.”

There were two bits of news on the eve of the match. Jozy Altidore has recovered sufficiently from his left hamstring strain to be available, although it appears he is unlikely to start.

The forward has not played since the Americans’ June 16 opener, when he was taken off on a stretcher during the first half.

“Just having him with us tomorrow is huge,” U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said Monday, adding Altidore’s time on the field depends on “how much work is in his legs.”

Klinsmann created a stir by saying he isn’t happy with FIFA’s choice of referee, Algeria’s Djamel Haimoudi. His nation was eliminated by the U.S. in 2010, and Algeria played in the same first-round group as Belgium.

“Is it a good feeling? No,” Klinsmann said at a news conference.

Belgium coach Marc Wilmots dismissed Klinsmann’s comments, saying:

aged more than 18 million viewers on ESPN and Spanish-language Univision for its three first-round games, and viewing parties are scheduled for Tuesday ranging from Solider Field in Chicago to Veteran’s Park in Redondo Beach, California.

“The country is paying attention in a way that it’s never done before, and we have a chance to make some history,” U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati said.

President Barack Obama even watched last week from Air Force One. A victory against Belgium would put the U.S. in a Saturday quarterfinal against

“Sunshine” is a nickname that Ian Davis went by when he played baseball with the University of South Carolina Sumter.

“He joined us in January (just prior to the start of the 2011 season) and he had that long, blonde hair,” said former Fire Ants head coach Tom Fleenor. “It was like Sunshine (who was former UniDAVIS versity of South Carolina quarterback Ron Bass) in (the movie) ‘Remember The Titans.’ “ Davis, who played for USC Sumter for two seasons before moving along and trying his luck at the University of Georgia, died in an automobile accident early on Sunday morning in LaGrange, Ga..

The 22-year-old Davis was the driver in a car in which former 23-year-old Auburn tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen was also killed.

Two female passengers, 22-year-old Elizabeth Craig of Eatonton, Ga., and 20-year-old Christian Case of Dadeville, Ala., were injured.

Fleenor said “Sunshine” was just one of the nicknames that Davis went by in his two years as a catcher in Sumter.

He said that showed how popular Davis was with his teammates.

“I always believed the more nicknames you have, that shows how well liked you are,” said Fleenor, who is now the head coach at LeniorRhyne University. “Ian had a lot of nicknames.”

Davis split time with Heath Smith and Zach Hawley behind the plate during the ’11 season. He had six hits in 41 at-bats with a double and a triple for a .148 batting average. He only had 17 at-bats in

SEE U.S. SOCCER, PAGE B3

SEE DAVIS, PAGE B2

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jozy Altidore, right, of the United States shouts out as he pulls up injured in the American’s victory over Ghana. Altidore missed the next two games, but will be available to play today against Belgium, but to what extent is not known. Tim Howard, below, has been a consistent performer in goal for the Americans.

“If we start going into this, it is looking for excuses ahead of the match.”

The United States and Belgium haven’t played in the

World Cup since the first tournament in 1930, a 3-0 win by the Americans.

A lot more people are following now. The U.S. aver-

WIMBLEDON

Wimbledon takes wet, wild turn Murray, Djokovic win, nearing another men’s final rematch

BY HOWARD FENDRICH The Associated Press LONDON — As the rain wreaks havoc on the Wimbledon schedule and players start to complain, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic have found little reason to worry about the weather.

It helped that both got to play Monday on Centre Court, the only spot at the DJOKOVIC All England Club with a retractable roof.

And with back-to-back, straight-set victories, they

moved closer to a semifinal showdown that would be a rematch of the final last year, when Murray beat Djokovic to become the first British man since 1936 to win Wimbledon.

“Sometimes the scheduling works in your favor. Sometimes the weather works in your favor,” Murray said.

“You just have to deal with it.”

He reached the quarterfinals for the seventh consecutive year by dulling the dangerous serve of 20th-seeded Kevin Anderson and saving a set point in the tiebreaker of a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (6) win. They played under a drizzle for about 15 minutes before the roof was closed early in the second set.

It stayed that way for the top-seeded Djokovic, and the 2011 champion beat No. 14 JoWilfried Tsonga for the 11th consecutive time, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Djokovic grimaced once in the final set while clutching the upper left arm he landed on in his prior match, but finished strongly and said afterward he felt fine.

“A lot of matches were canceled, but that’s London, that’s Wimbledon, with its very unpredictable weather,” Djokovic said.

Murray, who hasn’t dropped a set, said: “They should always try to play with the roof THE ASSOCIATED PRESS open, because it’s an outdoor Defending Wimbledon champion Andy Murray returns a shot to Kevin

Anderson in his 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(6) round-of-16 victory in London on SEE WIMBLEDON, PAGE B4 Monday.

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SPORTS

TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014

SCOREBOARD

By The Associated Press

TV, RADIO

Sunday At Congressional Country Club Bethesda, Md. Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,569; Par 71 Final x-won on first playoff hole x-Justin Rose (500), $1,170,000 74-65-71-70–280 Shawn Stefani (300), $702,000 74-68-68-70–280 Charley Hoffman (163), $377,000 72-72-68-69–281 Ben Martin (163), $377,000 72-68-70-71–281 Andres Romero (100), $237,250 70-72-72-68–282 Brendan Steele (100), $237,250 74-66-71-71–282 Brendon Todd (100), $237,250 72-70-69-71–282 Brendon de Jonge (80), $188,500 71-68-71-73–283 Billy Hurley III (80), $188,500 69-73-70-71–283 Marc Leishman (80), $188,500 70-66-73-74–283

TODAY

8 a.m. -- Professional Tennis: Wimbledon Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from London (ESPN2).

11:30 a.m. -- International Soccer: FIFA World Cup Round-of-Sixteen Match from Sao Paulo – Argentina vs. Brazil (ESPN).

11:30 a.m. -- Professional Tennis: Wimbledon Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from London (ESPNEWS).

1 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Milwaukee at Toronto (MLB NETWORK).

3:30 p.m. -- International Soccer: FIFA World Cup Round-of-Sixteen Match from Salvador, Brazil – United States vs. Belgium (ESPN).

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

6:30 p.m. – American Legion Baseball: Camden at Sumter (WWHM-FM 92.3, WWHM-FM 93.3, WWHM-AM 1290).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Oakland at Detroit or Colorado at Washington (MLB NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: New York Mets at Atlanta (SPORTSOUTH).

8 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Indiana at Atlanta (ESPN2).

10 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Chicago at Los Angeles (ESPN2).

MLB STANDINGS

By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION W Toronto 45 Baltimore 42 New York 41 Boston 38 Tampa Bay 35 CENTRAL DIVISION W Detroit 44 Kansas City 42 Cleveland 39 Chicago 39 Minnesota 37 WEST DIVISION W Oakland 51 Los Angeles 45 Seattle 44 Texas 37 Houston 36

L 39 39 39 44 49

Pct .536 .519 .513 .463 .417

GB – 11/2 2 6 10

L 34 39 42 44 43

Pct .564 .519 .481 .470 .463

GB – 31/2 61/2 71/2 8

L 30 35 38 44 47

Pct .630 .563 .537 .457 .434

GB – 51/2 71/2 14 16

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 0 Oakland 4, Miami 3 Tampa Bay 12, Baltimore 7 Houston 6, Detroit 4 Kansas City 5, L.A. Angels 4 Minnesota 3, Texas 2 Seattle 3, Cleveland 0 Boston 8, N.Y. Yankees 5

MONDAY’S GAMES

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Texas at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

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

TODAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee (Estrada 7-4) at Toronto (Hutchison 5-6), 1:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 6-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 5-5), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 1-5) at Baltimore (Undecided), 7:05 p.m.

Oakland (Mills 1-0) at Detroit (Porcello 10-4), 7:08 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 5-8) at Boston (Buchholz 3-4), 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Shields 8-3) at Minnesota (Nolasco 4-6), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 8-6) at Chicago White Sox (Carroll 2-4), 8:10 p.m.Seattle (Iwakuma 5-4) at Houston (Cosart 8-5), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Masterson 4-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 5-4), 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION W 44 43 39 37 36

L 38 38 43 45 46

Pct .537 .531 .476 .451 .439

GB – 1/2 5 7 8

W 51 43 44 42 34

L 33 38 39 40 46

Pct .607 .531 .530 .512 .425

GB – 61/2 61/2 8 15

W San Francisco 46 Los Angeles 47 Colorado 36 San Diego 35 Arizona 35

L 36 37 46 47 49

Pct .561 .560 .439 .427 .417

GB – – 10 11 12

Atlanta Washington Miami New York Philadelphia CENTRAL DIVISION Milwaukee Cincinnati St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago WEST DIVISION

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Oakland 4, Miami 3 Atlanta 3, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Colorado 10, Milwaukee 4 Cincinnati 4, San Francisco 0 San Diego 2, Arizona 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, St. Louis 0

MONDAY’S GAMES

Colorado at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

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

TODAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee (Estrada 7-4) at Toronto (Hutchison 5-6), 1:07 p.m.

Arizona (Miley 3-6) at Pittsburgh (Locke 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Friedrich 0-2) at Washington (Strasburg 6-6), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 5-8) at Boston (Buchholz 3-4), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Matsuzaka 3-2) at Atlanta (Minor 2-5), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (A.Burnett 5-7) at Miami (H.Alvarez 5-3), 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 6-6) at San Diego (Kennedy 5-9), 10:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Masterson 4-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 5-4), 10:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Gonzales 0-0) at San Francisco (Lincecum 6-5), 10:15 p.m.

NASCAR The Associated Press

Sprint Cup Leaders Through June 29 Points 1, Jeff Gordon, 618. 2, Jimmie Johnson, 594. 3, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 594. 4, Brad Keselowski, 560. 5, Matt Kenseth, 555. 6, Carl Edwards, 536. 7, Joey Logano, 519. 8, Ryan Newman, 514. 9, Kevin Harvick, 509. 10, Kyle Busch, 508. 11, Paul Menard, 488. 12, Kyle Larson, 474. 13, Greg Biffle, 474. 14, Clint Bowyer, 473. 15, Kasey Kahne, 465. 16, Tony Stewart, 460. 17, Denny Hamlin, 455. 18, Austin Dillon, 455. 19, Brian Vickers, 442. 20, Marcos Ambrose, 438.

Money 1, Brad Keselowski, $3,979,045. 2, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $3,854,629. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $3,807,051. 4, Jeff Gordon, $3,670,496. 5, Jamie McMurray, $3,595,012.

6, Kevin Harvick, $3,402,635. 7, Joey Logano, $3,315,886.

8, Matt Kenseth, $3,312,180. 9, Denny Hamlin, $3,236,121. 10, Kyle Busch, $3,178,403. 11, Greg Biffle, $2,823,094.

12, Carl Edwards, $2,746,164. 13, Paul Menard, $2,730,708. 14, Austin Dillon, $2,702,112.

15, Clint Bowyer, $2,671,713.

16, Tony Stewart, $2,617,515.

17, Brian Vickers, $2,582,529. 18, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., $2,524,340. 19, Kyle Larson, $2,495,375.

20, Aric Almirola, $2,449,982.

GOLF

SPORTS ITEMS

QUICKEN LOANS NATIONAL PAR SCORES

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NW ARKANSAS CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES

Sunday At Pinnacle Country Club Rogers, Ark. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,375; Par 71 (a-amateur) Final Stacy Lewis, $300,000 70-66-65–201 Lydia Ko, $141,128 69-68-65–202 Cristie Kerr, $141,128 69-66-67–202 Angela Stanford, $141,128 68-67-67–202 So Yeon Ryu, $83,633 67-67-69–203

The Sumer American 9-10 year-old allstar baseball team defeated Sumter National 9-3 on Monday in the district tournament at Patriot Park SportsPlex.

Sumter American plays Clarendon County today at 6 p.m., while Sumter American will take on Lake Marion at 8.

Gabriel Harris had two hits, including a home run, and three runs batted in to lead Sumter American. Nolan Osteen had two hits and was the winning pitcher with eight strikeouts.

Landon DeLavan and Hayden Lyons also had two hits.

Tate Sistare was 2-for-3 to lead Sumter National. Tyler Jones had a triple.

On Sunday, Sumter American defeated Clarendon County 9-6. Hayden Lyons was the winning pitcher and had two hits and three RBI. Davis Campbell had three hits and a run batted in, while Gabriel Harris, and Nolan Osteen had two hits. Osteen had a double.

Also on Sunday, Sumter National beat St. George 18-2. Wyatt Meldrim was the winning pitcher with two hits. Sistare had three hits and two RBI while Travis Pillsbury, Clayton Goff and TJ Curlee had two hits. Curlee also had three RBI while Denzell Sigler had a triple and two RBI.

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The Associated Press Monday At The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club London Purse: $42.5 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Grass-Outdoor Singles Men Third Round Stan Wawrinka (5), Switzerland, def.

Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4.

Kei Nishikori (10), Japan, def. Simone Bolelli, Italy, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Feliciano Lopez (19), Spain, def. John Isner (9), United States, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3), 7-5.

Fourth Round Marin Cilic (26), Croatia, def. Jeremy Chardy, France, 7-6 (8), 6-4, 6-4.

Andy Murray (3), Britain, def. (20) Kevin Anderson, South Africa, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (6).

Grigor Dimitrov (11), Bulgaria, vs.

Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. JoWilfried Tsonga (14), France, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Women Third Round Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, def. Madison Keys, United States, 7-6 (7), 6-6, retired.

Sabine Lisicki (19), Germany, def. Ana Ivanovic (11), Serbia, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.

Fourth Round Lucie Safarova (23), Czech Republic, def. Tereza Smitkova, Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-2.

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Caroline Wozniacki (16), Denmark, 6-2, 7-5.

Eugenie Bouchard (13), Canada, def.

Alize Cornet (25), France, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

Petra Kvitova (6), Czech Republic, def. Peng Shuai, China, 6-3, 6-2.

Ekaterina Makarova (22), Russia, def.

Agnieszka Radwanska (4), Poland, 6-3, 6-0.

WNBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W Phoenix 11 Minnesota 12 San Antonio 8 Los Angeles 6 Tulsa 6 Seattle 7

L Pct 3 .786 5 .706 8 .500 8 .429 9 .400 11 .389

GB – 31/2 4 5 5 61/2

CLARENDON COUNTY 16 ST. GEORGE 0

The Clarendon County 9-10 year-old allstar baseball team defeated St. George 16-0 on Monday in the district tournament at Patriot Park SportsPlex.

Josh Kennard got the win on the mound by pitching two innings of 1-hit baseball.

Mickey Jordan finished the remaining inning of the game by striking out all three batters he faced.

Offensively, Clarendon County was led

by Jon McIntosh, Jordan, Clayton Lee, Dalton Brown, Austin Geddings and Henry DuRant each had two hits. Lowder Olsen, Josh Kennard, Blaine Kennard, Cantey Gardner, Joe Wilson and Noah Tanner all had RBI singles.

Clarendon lost to Sumter American 9-6 on Sunday. Josh Kennard and Jordan both had two hits.

SUMTER 7-8 TEAMS OUSTED

FLORENCE – The two Sumter baseball teams in the 7-8 year-old coaches pitch state tournament at Greenwood Park were eliminated on Sunday.

Sumter National opened the tournament with a 25-0 win over Westminster on Saturday before falling to Pineview 19-3. On Sunday, Sumter National was eliminated with an 8-3 loss to Hartsville Northern.

Sumter American lost to Clinton 15-2 on Saturday and was eliminated by Batesburg-Leesville 8-7 on Sunday.

KIDD TO COACH BUCKS AFTER TRADE

GB – 1/2 4 5 51/2 6

SUNDAY’S GAMES

New York 67, Connecticut 65 San Antonio 73, Washington 65 Phoenix 80, Tulsa 77 Atlanta 76, Indiana 68 Minnesota 74, Seattle 69

TODAY’S GAMES

CHERAW – Manning-Santee Post 68 clinched fourth place in League III with a 17-8 victory over Cheraw on Monday at Tom Brewer Park.

Russell Thompson pitched six innings to get the victory. William Ard threw the final three innings to earn the save.

SUMTER NATIONAL 5

WIMBLEDON RESULTS

L Pct 4 .733 8 .500 8 .467 10 .412 9 .400 11 .313

CHERAW 8

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TENNIS

W 11 8 7 7 6 5

MANNING-SANTEE 17

SUMTER AMERICAN 9

Sunday At Fox Chapel Golf Club Pittsburgh Purse: $2.7 million Yardage: 6,696; Par: 70 Final x-won on second playoff hole x-Bernhard Langer (810), $405,000 65-64-66-70–265 -15 Jeff Sluman (476), $237,600 69-67-64-65–265 -15 Russ Cochran (388), $194,400 70-66-63-67–266 -14 Kenny Perry (322), $160,650 70-63-65-69–267 -13 Mark McNulty (256), $128,250 66-66-71-66–269 -11 Mark Brooks (168), $83,700 66-67-71-66–270 -10 Joe Durant (168), $83,700 64-68-67-71–270 -10

EASTERN CONFERENCE

CAMDEN -- The Sumter P-15’s were leading Camden Post 17 2-0 in the top of the sixth inning of their American Legion League III baseball game on Monday at Legion Park at press time.

The start of the game was held up for 1 hour, 30 minutes, due to weather delays. A Sumter victory gives it the league title.

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SENIOR PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES

Atlanta Connecticut Chicago Washington Indiana New York

THE SUMTER ITEM

San Antonio at Connecticut, 7 p.m.

Tulsa at New York, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd will now coach the Milwaukee Bucks after being involved in a trade on Monday.

NEW YORK — The Milwaukee Bucks have fired coach Larry Drew, paving the way for them to hire Jason Kidd.

The Bucks and Brooklyn Nets agreed to a deal earlier Monday allowing Kidd to become Milwaukee’s coach, a person with knowledge of the details said.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced.

Drew went 15-67 in his only season in Milwaukee, but there had been no indication he wouldn’t be back before the Kidd situation emerged.

WORLD CUP GERMANY 2 ALGERIA 1

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Substitute Andre Schuerrle and Mesut Ozil scored in extra time and Germany survived Algeria’s aggressive play with a 2-1 win Monday to reach the World Cup quarterfinals for the ninth consecutive time.

FRANCE 2 NIGERIA 0

BRASILIA, Brazil — Paul Pogba scored with a late header to finally break Nigeria’s stubborn resistance and Joseph Yobo added an own-goal as France won 2-0 to reach the World Cup quarterfinals on Monday.

SUNDAY ROSE WINS PLAYOFF AT CONGRESSIONAL

BETHESDA, Md.— Justin Rose has won enough times on the strongest golf courses to appreciate how one mistake can make a difference.

He got away with one Sunday at Congressional to win the Quicken Loans National.

Shawn Stefani did not.

With the poise and the putting touch of a U.S. Open champion, Rose atoned for a 4-iron he hit into the water on the 18th hole to make a 15-foot bogey putt that got him into a playoff and gave him new life.

LEWIS WINS NW ARKANSAS CHAMPIONSHIP

ROGERS, Ark. — Stacy Lewis has worked tirelessly over her career to embrace the overwhelming support in her adopted state of Arkansas.

The recovering introvert finally found a way to do so while overcoming her self-imposed pressure Sunday — shooting a 6-under 65 and rallying for a much-sought after official win in the NW Arkansas Championship.

LANGER WINS SENIOR PLAYERS IN PLAYOFF

PITTSBURGH — Bernhard Langer gave away a four-shot lead in the final round of Senior Players Championship and wondered where his game had gone.

Langer made a 35-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th to tie Sluman at 15 under, then birdied the par-5 18th on the second hole of sudden death after a brilliant pitch from the rough to 5 feet.

From wire reports

DAVIS FROM PAGE B1 ’12, getting three hits, including two doubles, before suffering a severe groin injury that ended his season.

Davis, who was from Dunwoody, Ga., went to

Georgia and tried to walk on to the baseball team, but didn’t make it.

“Ian enjoyed himself and had fun, but when it came to baseball he took it seri-

ously,” Fleenor said. “He worked as hard as he could to perfect his craft.”

Authorities said Davis was partially ejected from a 2006 Chervolet Tahoe when it overturned several times.

Lutzenkirchen was ejected from the vehicle.

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Braves take advantage of Mets’ miscues list on Tuesday. The Braves provided no additional information on the severity of the injury Monday night.

NATIONALS 7 ROCKIES 3

WASHINGTON — Adam LaRoche homered, Ryan Zimmerman had three hits and Ian Desmond added two doubles and three RBIs as the Washington Nationals welcomed back Bryce Harper with a 7-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday.

Harper, who missed 57 games because of a torn ligament in his left thumb, went 1 for 3 with an RBI single — on Bryce Harper bobblehead night.

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BRAVES TO PLACE GATTIS ON DL

CUBS 2 RED SOX 0

ATLANTA — The Braves will lose power-hitting catcher Evan Gattis for at least two weeks after an MRI revealed a bulging thoracic disk.

Gattis is scheduled to receive an epidural and will be placed on the 15-day disabled

BOSTON — Jake Arrieta held the Red Sox hitless until Stephen Drew singled with two outs in the eighth inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat Boston 2-0 on Monday night in the opener of only the second series between the teams at Fenway Park

U.S. SOCCER FROM PAGE B1 Argentina or Switzerland.

With kickoff at 4 p.m. , people are expected to leave work early, take extended lunch breaks and sneak looks at online streams from their mobile phones and office desktops.

“It means a lot to us, the energy that comes from the United States,” said Klinsmann, the former German star striker who moved to California in 1998. “You see where the game is going in the United States. You can’t stop it anymore. It’s breaking through.”

The 13th-ranked Americans are in the knockout rounds of consecutive World Cups for the first time. Belgium, ranked 11th after missing the last two World Cups, has won three straight games at soccer’s showcase for the first time.

But the Red Devils are banged up. Central defender Vincent Kompany (strained left groin) is questionable and left back Thomas Vermaelen (right hamstring) is out. Midfielders Moussa Dembele and Marouane Fellaini — known for his mop of bushy dark hair — have been slowed by calf injuries.

Fellaini is a former Everton teammate of American goalkeeper Tim Howard, who played with Belgian forwards Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas last season. Howard is also familiar with Eden Hazard, who was criticized for his play during the first round despite setting up go-ahead goals against Russia and Algeria.

“Probably one of the best players in the Premier League,” Howard said. “He’s shifty. He’s crafty. He’s everything you want in a winner.”

Dempsey, 31, and 32-yearold defender DaMarcus Beas-

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Atlanta’ Christian Bethancourt (25) beats New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy (28) to the bag as he advances on a B.J. Upton single in the seventh inning of the Braves’ 5-3 comeback victory in Atlanta on Monday. Trailing 3-1 in the eighth, Atlanta took advantage of several late New York miscues.

ATLANTA — Three errors

by New York fueled Atlanta’s comeback as the Braves scored four runs in the eighth inning and beat the Mets 5-3 for their fifth straight win.

Errors by reliever Jeurys Familia (1-3), center fielder Juan Lagares and third baseman Eric Campbell in the eighth helped the Braves rally from a 3-1 deficit.

Anthony Varvaro (3-1) pitched one scoreless inning to earn the victory. Craig Kimbrel recorded the final three outs for his 25th save.

The Braves announced late in the game that catcher Evan Gattis will be placed on the 15-day disabled list after an MRI revealed a bulging thoracic disk in his back.

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ley are unlikely to be on the 2018 roster. Howard, 35, hasn’t committed to another fouryear cycle.

“I’m not at all sure it’s his last World Cup,” Gulati said.

Belgium is quite familiar with Klinsmann: He scored in Germany’s 3-2 win over Belgium at Chicago’s Soldier Field in the second round of the 1994 World Cup. Klinsmann and Wilmots are friends, too. They had scheduled a training session

since 1918.

Six days after taking a perfect game into the seventh inning of his previous start at Wrigley Field against Cincinnati, Arrieta took his nohit bid a little deeper at fabled Fenway. He allowed only Mike Napoli’s fifth-inning walk before Drew line a clean single to right.

get recommendations from their respective headmasters, teachers and coaches.

And they must also have a record of academic achievement that includes high SAT & ACT scores, and participation in clubs and civic and community service groups.

“It’s a great honor to have won the award,” Wannamaker said. “I give a lot of credit to the school’s administration, my coaches and teachers who helped me along the way. Without them I could not have won the award, and I need to thank them for preparing me through athletics, academics and such.”

Wannamaker, who plans to study biology at Clemson University then pursue a career in the field of medicine, said finding a balance between academics and athletics was one thing that helped him to become a better individual both on and off the field.

“Academics and sports I guess have kind of shaped me to find myself as an individual,” he explained.

“It’s given me a sense of drive and determination and challenged me to be the best person I can be.”

Wannamaker said he has earned a number of scholarships to help with college, including the Palmetto Fellows Scholarship, the Daughters of the Confederacy, the South Carolina State Fair, the Elks Club, the Sumter Touchdown

AMERICAN LEAGUE ORIOLES 7 RANGERS 1

BALTIMORE — Steve Pearce hit two of Baltimore’s four home runs off Joe Saunders and Ubaldo Jimenez ended a run of nine winless starts as the Orioles defeated the Texas Rangers 7-1 Monday night.

O’S MACHADO SUSPENDED

BALTIMORE — Orioles third baseman Manny Machado began serving a five-game suspension Monday, nearly three weeks after Major League Baseball initially levied the sentence and five days after his appeal hearing.

From wire reports

between the teams June 12, but Wilmots called it off because he didn’t want to get caught in Sao Paulo’s traffic jams.

Last year, Belgium overwhelmed the U.S. 4-2 in an exhibition at Cleveland. But friendlies are different.

The Americans know they have to boost their offense, which was next to last in attacks during the first round.

“It’s all about who wants it more,” Beasley said. “You can’t leave anything on the field for these type of games.”

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Club and others.

Athletics has been just as important as academics, Wannamaker said. Where academics is an individual accomplishment, athletics is derived through several character-building skills. “(I learned about) the drive to win and when everything seems down you have to have perseverance and push and work hard to get better,” Wannamaker said. “Also, companionship and what it means to be on a team, along with camaraderie and just working together.”

Briggs said Wannamaker has a special combination of competitive spirit and gamesmanship all while being able to take care of the things he needed to in the classroom.

“We try to build a whole man concept here at Laurence Manning, and he was as good as an example of what we want to produce here in all of our young men,” Briggs said. “Not only was he a great student-athlete, but he was a great student-athlete with tremendous competitive spirit. A lot of times your great student-athletes don’t have a competitive spirit, and I think that’s what separates him from everybody else in that he does great in the classroom, he understands proper etiquette and at the same time when he steps across the white line he was a competitive individual.”

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TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014

DOROTHY WILLIAMS

SNOWDEN T. RUSSELL Jr.

JAMES BRUNSON

Dorothy Hope Allison Williams, age 86, widow of John Ansel Williams, died on Sunday, June 29, 2014, at NHC of Sumter.

Born in New Canaan, Connecticut, she was a daughter of the late Charles Wesley and Elisa May Moore AlliWILLIAMS son. She worked for many years at the Shaw Air Force Base commissary and later worked as a cashier at Walmart.

Surviving are two daughters, Loreen Tremblay of Deltona, Florida, and Cherilyn Burrows of Bishopville; and seven grandchildren, Roger Tremblay III, Vanessa Tremblay, Theresa Tremblay, John Tremblay, Roger Tremblay IV, Allison Burrows and Shannon Burrows.

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday in the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel.

You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com.

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

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH — Snowden T. “S.T.” Russell Jr., 72, died on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center.

Born on Dec. 26, 1941, in Moncks Corner, he was a son of the late Snowden T. Sr. and Marie Rogerson Russell.

Mr. Russell is survived by his wife, Dianne Beal Russell; children, Tyler Russell (Kate) and Traci R. Green (Thomas); stepsons, Kendall Buckner (Patricia) and Matthew Buckner (Denise); brother, Scott Russell; grandchildren, Kate, Parker, Maris, Teagan and Camden; step-grandchildren, Jordan, Paxton, Courtney and Angel; and the mother of his children, Jennie P. Russell.

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

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Wampee Baptist Church.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Wampee Baptist Church, 9530 Highway 90, Longs, SC 29568.

You may share your memories and condolences with the Russell family by visiting www.leefhandcrematory.com.

Lee Funeral Home & Crematory of Little River/North Myrtle Beach is serving the family.

BISHOPVILLE — James “Little Bob” Brunson, 61, passed on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville.

Born on June 29, 1952, in Bishopville, he was a son of the late Henry Brunson and Lillie Mae Williams King. Mr. Brunson attended Mount Pleasant High School and worked for Atkinson’s Farm for more than 50 years.

He leaves to mourn his passing: one brother, Richard Williams; one aunt, Lucille Washington; a special cousin, Spencer “Joe” Brunson; a special friend, Wade Atkinson, all of Bishopville; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Square Deal Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Boone Memorial Garden, Bishopville. The family will receive relatives and friends at 121 Lee St., Bishopville.

Square Deal Funeral Home of Bishopville has been entrusted with these services.

WIMBLEDON FROM PAGE B1 event.”

Easy for him to say.

Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka was less than pleased that his third-round match was put off from Saturday to Monday (Wimbledon tries to avoid playing on its middle Sunday). He got through it quickly, defeating 45th-ranked Denis Istomin 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in less than 1 1/2 hours.

Afterward, the fifth-seeded Wawrinka noted it won’t be easy to win five best-of-five-set matches in a week if he’s going to claim the title.

“For sure, I was disappointed,” Wawrinka said about not getting on court Saturday, when showers disrupted play for several hours. “You cannot do anything. You have to accept (it). They do what they want, and you just follow.”

Asked whether he spoke with officials, Wawrinka said: “They just say what’s going to be the schedule and that’s it.

Even if you want to talk to them, they’re not going to change anything. They don’t listen (to) the player. They just do what they think is good for them.”

All England Club spokesman Johnny Perkins said the process was explained to Wawrinka’s coach, including that having past major champions on larger courts is more of a priority than getting all matches completed on a given day.

The start of Week 2 at Wimbledon is called “Manic Monday,” because it usually has all 16 fourth-round matches after taking Sunday off.

“I understand why Wawrinka was complaining, because we have this tradition here of the middle Sunday. ... We have to rethink (that),” Djokovic said. “We all know that tradition is something that is nurtured here ... and we respect that. But there are some rules that I believe should be updated.”

Wawrinka will be on No. 2 Court on Tuesday — when, by the way, the forecast calls for a slight chance of rain — against No. 19 Feliciano Lopez, who eliminated the last American singles player, No. 9 John Isner, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3), 7-5. It’s the first time in 103 years that no U.S. men or women reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon.

Like Wawrinka, Isner didn’t take well to having his match postponed. He tried protesting, to no avail.

“They had their reasons,” Isner said.

JERRY WILSON COLUMBIA — Jerry Wilson, 44, died on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at Palmetto Health, Columbia.

He was born on July 25, 1969, in Alcolu, a son of Julia Wilson Epps and the late Albert Tomlin and stepson of the late James Epps.

Maria Sharapova never got a chance to play at all Monday, because her fourth-rounder against No. 9 Angelique Kerber was postponed. That was rescheduled for Tuesday, and the winner must play Wednesday against No. 13 Eugenie Bouchard, the first Canadian in the Wimbledon quarterfinals in the 46-year Open era.

These quarterfinals are set: Murray vs. No. 11 Grigor Dimitrov, and Djokovic vs. No. 26 Marin Cilic in the men’s bracket; 2011 champion Petra Kvitova vs. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, and No. 22 Ekaterina Makarova vs. No. 23 Lucie Safarova in the women’s.

THE SUMTER ITEM The family is receiving friends at the home of his mother, 22093 Robert-Rees Road, Alcolu.

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

LARRY RAY ANDERSON WEST COLUMBIA — Larry Ray Anderson, 57, husband of Susan Roach Anderson, died on Friday, June 27, 2014, at Palmetto Health Baptist in Columbia.

Born in Hartsville, he was a son of Betty Jean Gainey Anderson and the late P.C. Anderson.

Surviving are his wife and his mother of West Columbia; a sister, Linda Bochette of Sumter; a niece, Betty Bochette Ardis of Dalzell; a nephew, Laverne “Mitchell” Bochette Jr. of West Columbia; great-niece and nephews, Ryan Mitchell Ardis of Dalzell, and Benjamin Mitchell Bochette and Destaney Kayden Bochette, both of West Columbia; and stepchildren, David Eric Jones and Ashley Nicole Jones of Columbia.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Billy Lynch officiating. Burial will follow in Anderson Cemetery in Timmonsville.

Mr. Anderson’s cousins will serve as pallbearers.

The family will receive

friends at 1 Glenwood Drive in Sumter.

A visitation was held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home.

Memorials can be made to The American Heart Association, 190 Knox Abbott Drive, Suite 301, Cayce, SC 29033.

Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com.

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 7759386.

CAROLYN B. PEOPLES Carolyn Elizabeth Boyd Peoples, 74, wife of Robert Peoples Sr., died on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on Aug. 27, 1939, in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late James Sr. and Ella Bell Singleton Boyd.

The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 502 Dicks St., Sumter.

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

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J. RAY WATTS MAYESVILLE — Johnny Ray Watts, 59, husband of Billie Jean Riley Watts, died on Sunday, June 29, 2014, at his home.

Born in Sumter, he was a son of Ruby Hopkins Watts and the late Edward B. “Junior” Watts Jr. Mr. Watts was a farmer for 41 years and was the owner and operator of J. Ray Farms. He was a volunteer firefighter for 40 years and was captain of Dabbs Station 19. He was an avid outdoorsman and member of the Sportsman Hunting Club. He was a member of Lewis Chapel United Methodist Church and the Lewis Chapel Men’s Club. Ray was a Christian, a good family man and loved his community.

Survivors include his wife; mother of Mayesville; a son, Johnny Ray Watts Jr. (Beth) of Mayesville; an eagerly anticipated grandson, John Riley Watts; a brother, Donnie Watts (Traci) of Lynchburg; a sister, Gayle Charles (Edward) of Sumter; nieces and nephews, Richie Brogdon, Ashley Welch, Gracen Watts and Dalton Watts; and great-nieces and great-nephews, Hunter Brogdon, Ansley Welch, Cayden Brogdon and Caroline Welch.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Danny Watts.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at Salem Black River Presbyterian Church with Pastor Karen Starr and the Rev. Ernest Frierson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Robert Watts, Tommy Watts, Richie Brogdon, Edward Charles, Joey Robinson and Marshall Boyce.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Sportsman Hunting Club, Sumter Fire Department, and the Lewis Chapel Men’s Club.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to the Salem Black River Cemetery Fund, c/o Mrs. John Wilson, 81 Nash St., Sumter, SC 29150.

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

LUCILLE D. COTTON Lucille Driggers Cotton, age 90, beloved wife of the late Richard C. Cotton, died on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

She was born on May 14, 1924, in Alcolu, a daughter of the late John William and Sara Headley Elizabeth Baker Driggers. She was a devout Christian and dedicated member of Northside Memorial Baptist Church. She retired from Bendix/Bosch after 25 years of service as a cafeteria attendant. She loved being with her family and friends and will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and friend.

Surviving are two sons, John Cotton Sr. and his wife, Kim, of Sumter and Michael Cotton and his wife, Patti, of Sumter; four daughters, Pat Gulledge and her husband, Mike, of Summerville, Gloria Moore of West Union, Joanne Ray of Sumter and Deborah Turner and her husband, James, of Sumter; 15 grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren.

A funeral service will be

held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at Northside Memorial Baptist Church with the Rev. Jimmy Holley and Tommy Rogers officiating. Interment will follow in Sumter Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Luke Gulledge, Jonathan Ray, Jared Lowery, Michael Cotton Jr., B.J. Ray II, Thomas Ray and John Richard “Richie” Cotton Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be Joe Murphy and Bryan Long.

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

Memorials maybe made to Northside Memorial Baptist Church, 1004 N. Main St., Sumter, SC 29153 or the American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210.

You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com.

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

TEMEKA J. PIERSON Temeka Renita Jefferson Pierson, 32, wife of Marcus Lamore Pierson, departed this life on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia.

Born on Oct. 10, 1981, in Sumter, she was a daughter of Shirley Hunter Jefferson and the late Leroy Jefferson.

The family will be receiving friends at the home of Mark and Viola Pierson, 350 Sky Lane, Sumter, SC 29154.

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

DOMINEE LAWSON SUMMERTON — Dominee Lawson, 29, entered into eternal rest on Sunday, June 29, 2014, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

Born in Clarendon County, he was a son of Willie Way and Lou Ellen Lawson and stepson of David Felder.

The family will receive friends at the home of his sister, Faye Lawson, 1096 Oliver James Road, Summerton.

Professional services are entrusted to Dyson’s Home for Funerals of Summerton.

ROLAND GOINES Roland Goines, 74, husband of Ulease Spann Goines, departed this life on Sunday, June 29, 2014, at his residence.

He was born on May 14, 1940, in Sumter, a son of the late Blanding and Lorce Smiling Goines.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 360 Dusty Lane, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

SHELLIE BRADFORD Shellie Louise Simpson Bradford, 69, wife of Dr. Linwood G. Bradford, died on Monday, June 30, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, she was a daughter of the late Elmer E. “Gene” and Myra Fary Simpson. Mrs. Bradford was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church and past president and member of the Bland Garden Club. She was also a member of the Sumter County Council of Gardeners, the Christian Women’s Club, the National Rose Society and the Greater Columbia Rose Society. Mrs. Bradford was a counseling volunteer at United Ministries; a volunteer staff member at Ambassador Camp; and volunteered for more than 30 years with AWANA’s and other children’s ministries. She was also a first lieutenant as a U.S. Army nurse.

Surviving are her husband of Sumter; three sons, Linwood G. “Gray” Bradford Jr. and wife, Kyrie, of Cary, North Carolina, Davy Bradford and wife, Gabriela, of Atlanta and Nat Bradford and wife, Bette, of Seneca; one daughter, Joy Bradford of Greenville; and 13 grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Danny Bradford.

TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014 Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at Westminster Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Stuart Mizelle and the Rev. Gordon Reed officiating. Burial will follow in Sumter Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 230 Alice Drive, Sumter, SC 29150; United Ministries of Sumter County, P.O. Box 1017, Sumter, SC 29151; or to the Council of Garden Clubs of Sumter, c/o Kathryn Brown, 1265 Boardwalk, Sumter, SC 29150.

Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com.

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 7759386.

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wife of Willie M. Mobley, died on Sunday, June 29, 2014, at her residence in Dalzell.

Born in Neuss, Germany, she was a daughter of the late Ludwig Ingensandt and Martha Van der Bend.

The family will receive friends at the Mobley residence, 5561 Coldstream Drive, Dalzell, SC 29040.

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

DAVID A. BRYANT David A. Bryant, 63, died Monday, June 30, 2014 at a local nursing center.

Services will be announced

by Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, (803) 7759386.

ROLAND CONYERS FRANK R. MILLS Frank R. Mills, 76, husband of Wilhemena Taylor Mills, departed this life on Sunday, June 29, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

He was born on Aug. 18, 1937, in Kershaw County, a son of the late Sarah Cooper Mills.

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

ELISABETH M. MOBLEY Elisabeth M. Mobley, 70,

Roland Conyers departed this life on Thursday, June 26, 2014, in Sumter.

Born on Nov. 13, 1962, in Manning, he was a son of the late Dell Sr. and Dora Hilton Conyers. He was reared by the late Archie and Ada Starks Hilton.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the residence of his sister, Diane Conyers Epps, 7209 Tobias Road, Wilson community of Manning.

Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced

by Fleming & Delaine Funeral Home & Chapel.

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12 Text message status 14 Eyes, in many emoticons 18 First name of three presidents 20 Clearing in the woods 24 Bite-sized Japanese fare 26 “Avatar” actress Saldana 27 Strait-laced 28 Relaxation 29 Sister of Eva and Zsa Zsa 33 Coral phenomena 34 *Kitchen safety item 35 Have a yen for 36 Wraps up 38 “Certainly, monsieur!”

39 Literary technique involving incongruity 41 Freeway sign word 42 Three-toned chords 43 Capt. Hook’s henchman 45 __ Brush Company 46 Looks inferior, comparatively 47 Luxor’s country 48 Salsa holder 50 Musical symbol 52 “My goodness!”

54 Basic track shape 55 Base on balls 57 Capital of Portugal?

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A group of volunteers raise the first wall of Angela Nelson’s future home in Manning.

New home in Manning

Clarendon Habitat volunteers raise walls

BY RAYTEVIA EVANS revans@theitem.com (803) 774-1214 Clarendon County volunteers for Habitat for Humanity raised the walls for a home the team is constructing for resident Angela Nelson and her 5-year-old son. Executive Director

Connie Robinson said the team works on Saturdays depending on the weather, and the home is expected to be completed in about four months.

Saturday was the local Habitat for Humanity volunteers’ third Saturday working on its 22nd home, which is located in the Bellwood subdivision in Manning. A number of volunteers

from the community and from Bank of Clarendon came out to lend a hand in building the new home. The local Habitat for Humanity affiliate accepts donations and welcomes volunteers to help give back to the people in need in their community.

Nelson said she learned about the Habitat program from a friend who

pushed her to apply. Four months after applying and being placed on a waiting list, Nelson was told she was up next on the list of people to receive a Habitat home.

As part of the process of completing the home, the future residents

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Pearl Harbor survivor:

I wasn’t brave

BY JIM HILLEY (803) 774-1211 jim@theitem.com

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n 1940, 18-year-old Don Ralph wasn’t content to stay down on the family farm. Eager to escape the stern guidance of his father, the restless young man decided joining the Army could be his ticket out of the Kentucky hills.

“My dad was a strict father and a good father, taught me a lot of things, but he ruled with an iron fist,” Don Ralph said. “I was afraid to talk to him about it, so I talked to my friend, who was also his friend, Ford Martin, and told Ford I was thinking about joining the Army.

“He said ‘I think it’s a good idea.’”

Martin asked if he had talked to his dad.

“I said, ‘Oh noooo. No no no,” Ralph recalled. “He’ll flail the daylights out of me.”

“So Martin talked to him with me,” he said. “My dad was very congenial and very agreeable.”

The three visited a recruiter and, when Ralph was offered the choice of assignment

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to the Philippines or Hawaii, Martin told him, “If I was you I would go to Hawaii; them gals over there wear grass skirts.’”

“So I went to Hawaii,” Ralph said.

He arrived at Hickam Field in Hawaii in October 1940.

Ralph said at the time they did not have training schools for different assignments.

“When you enlisted they just put you in the unit you were going to be in, and the unit trained you,” he said. “You went through medical training in the emergency room all the time, because you pulled your duty in there, shift time, ... training in there

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Pearl Harbor survivor Don Ralph points out an item on what he calls his “love me wall” in his Manning home.

Manning District 5 voters head to polls

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Bank of Clarendon Vice President Louis Griffith cited his experience and financial expertise as assets in his campaign to represent Manning City Council District 5.

Manning voters were presented a clear contrast between youth and exuberance and age and experience Sunday evening in the conference room at Manning High School, when the Manning Branch NAACP held a forum for candidates in the Manning City Council District 5 election.

Louis Griffith, executive vice president and chief financial officer at the Bank of Clarendon, squared off against write-in candidate Sharmane Anderson, currently a United States Food &

An enthusiastic Sharmane Anderson said she would focus on improving recreation opportunities and public involvement in the community if elected as the District 5 representative on Manning City Council.

Drug Administration inspector for South Carolina.

Candidates Gloria Frierson and Julius “Jay” Dukes were not present at the event. Frierson reportedly declined the invitation to the event, and Dukes told organizers he had a prior commitment with his catering service.

The forum was moderated

by Allen Bailey, Democratic Party chairman for Sumter County. Organizers prepared 13 questions for the candidates, and Bailey pulled the questions out of a bucket, with each candidate alternating in answering first.

Asked about their experience managing a budget, Anderson said during her six years as alcohol enforcement team coordinator for the

Third Judicial District she handled the team’s budget of about $125,000 per year, including overseeing the participation of 10 police departments and several offices.

“We were rated No. 1 in the state for traffic safety checkpoints and noted nationally for handling our grants in the top capacity,” she said.

Griffith cited his experience as chief financial officer at the Bank of Clarendon and being in charge of budgeting and regulatory reporting for the bank.

“We are an approximately $220 million organization and our annual income is around

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New Zion man new chair of bankers’ group COLUMBIA – H. Blake Gibbons Jr., president and chief operating officer of The Citizens Bank, will begin a one-year term as chairman of the South Carolina Bankers Association on July 1. Gibbons was elected to the position at the association’s annual meeting, held this past week.

GIBBONS Gibbons has been with the Olanta-based institution since 1979 and was named president and chief operating officer of the bank in 1991. The Citizens Bank has grown from a two-branch, $15 million operation to a 15-branch, $390 million entity during his tenure.

Gibbons succeeds Art Seaver, chief executive officer of Southern First Bank.

“I’m honored to be chosen for this position,” Gibbons said. “I believe it’s a credit to our association that the SCBA is willing to select chairmen from small banks as well as big banks.

Choosing a chairman from towns such as Olanta speaks highly of the SCBA and its desire to serve all the banks of our state.”

Gibbons is a 1968 graduate of East Clarendon High School, a 1972 graduate of the University of South Carolina and a 1991 graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. Prior to join-

ing The Citizens Bank, he spent seven years working for the State Board of Financial Institutions as a bank examiner.

Over the years, Gibbons has been active in the SCBA, serving as chairman of the South Carolina Bankers School and the South Carolina Insurance Trust, and on the board of the Community Bankers Council.

“Blake is a quiet but very effective banker,” said SCBA President and CEO Fred Green.

“He knows everything that’s going on in his bank and the different communities it serves.

He has a quiet but effective way of getting things done, and I know the other bankers in the state recognize his aptitude.”

Gibbons and his wife Sherrilyn have two children, three grandchildren and live in New Zion, in Clarendon County.

The South Carolina Bankers Association is the trade and professional association representing more than 80 financial institutions across the state.

The SCBA is organized to effectively represent the common interest and welfare of South Carolina’s banking industry and to promote the professional development of its members and individual practitioners. Begun in 1901, the SCBA’s mission is to provide legislative, regulatory, educational and product leadership on behalf of its members.

For more information about the SCBA visit scbankers.org.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS JORDAN CROSSROADS MINISTRY CENTER — HAVEN OF REST MEETING The center will hold its public monthly meeting at 10 a.m.

Wednesday at New Covenant Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall. Parking is available in the parking area nearest the entrance to the Fellowship Hall.

For more information call Ann Driggers at (803) 460-5572.

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION IN MANNING The City of Manning is celebrating Independence Day with the Red, White and Blue Celebration on Saturday July 5, from 7 to 11 p.m. The celebration will take place at the Red Barn on Church Street, near the Farmers Market. There will be a DJ, live music, food vendors and fireworks! The fireworks will begin at 9:30 p.m.

Bring your lawn chairs and enjoy the sights and sounds of the Red, White and Blue Celebration. Free admission was made possible with the support of many local sponsors. For more information call City Hall at (803) 435-8477.

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For more information, call (803) 435-8477.

JOB FAIR Clarendon School District 1 will host a job fair co-sponsored

by S.C. Works from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23 at the district’s community resource center, 1154 Fourth St., Summerton.

CLARENDON GOLF PROGRAM 2014 SUMMER SCHEDULE • Little Tees (4 to 6 years old) – Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 to 10 a.m. $25 for 1 day, $50 for 2 days • Junior Golf (7 to 14) Tuesday through Thursday, 3 to 5 p.m. $50 for 2 days, $75 for 3 days • New Beginners ( 7 to 14) Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 to 11 a.m. $25 for 1 day, $50 for 2 days • Adults – Mondays 1:30 to 3 p.m., $25 Registrations and payments are being accepted at the recreation office at J.C. Britton Park in Manning. For more information call (803) 473-3543.

All classes will be held at Shannon Greens Golf Club.

WALKER-GAMBLE REUNION

A free workshop, presented by Carrie Sinkler-Parker, will be held at The Harvin Clarendon County Library at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 7. This program is open to the public. No registration is required. For more information, call (803) 435-8633.

The Walker Gamble High School Alumni Association Inc. reunion committee will hold a reunion weekend Sept. 26-28 at Walker Gamble Elementary School, New Zion. For further details, write to WGHS Alumni Assoc. Inc., P.O. Box 335, New Zion, SC 29111.

LIBRARY CLOSURE

MENTORING PROGRAM

The Harvin Clarendon County Library will close for Independence Day on Friday, July 4, and Saturday, July 5. The library will reopen on Monday, July 7 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The book drop will be available for return of unrestricted materials. For more information, call (803) 435-8633.

Rural Leadership InstituteClarendon is beginning a mentoring program, called Operation Generation, for at-risk youths in Clarendon County School District 1. Initially, the program will focus on students at Summerton Early Childhood Center and St. Paul Elementary.

The board members of Rural Leadership Institute Clarendon are asking adult members of the Clarendon community to volunteer to become mentors.

Often, children simply need to know that someone cares about them and to have a positive role model in their lives.

Mentoring time will take place on school property and only during school hours, possibly during the child’s activity time or lunch. The goal is to have mentors meet with children on a regular basis, for instance, once a week. Mentors will become volunteers of Clarendon School District 1 and will go through background checks as well as be given an orientation on being a mentor.

For more information, call Bea Rivers at (803) 485-8164, Lesley Dykes at (803) 707-4901 or email rliclarendoncounty@ gmail.com.

SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM Clarendon School District 2 will offer free lunches for children ages 2 to 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Manning Elementary School, 311 W. Boyce St., and Manning High School, 2155 Paxville Highway, Mondays through Thursdays, July 7 through 31. A morning snack will be offered at Manning Elementary from 8 to 9 a.m. each day that lunches are offered.

For more information, contact the district food service office at (803) 435-4082.

FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION The City of Manning’s Red, White and Blue Celebration of Independence Day will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, July 5, at the Red Barn on Church Street. The event will include food, live music, activities for children and a fireworks show

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Penny is a Shih-tzu mix, approximately 2 and half years old. Her owner could no longer continue to care for her and surrendered her to the shelter. She’s a little timid when meeting someone for the first time but is a very sweet girl. Penny gets along with other dogs, cats and even children. She’s vaccinated up to date, de-wormed and already spayed.

Meet Sam and Penny and many other cats and dogs at A Second Chance Animal Shelter, 5079 Alex Harvin Highway (U.S. 301), which has numerous pets available for adoption. Adoption hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. To drop off an animal, call (803) 4737075 for an appointment. If you’ve lost a pet, check www.ccanimalcontrol.webs.com and www.

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hat used to be called artificial sweeteners are now usually called sugar substitutes or low calorie or non-calorie sweeteners, largely because the word “artificial” makes many people nervous.

Only a few sugar substitutes are used in the U.S., still others without approval from FDA. Nancy You have Harrison seen stevia, CLEMSON an herbal exEXTENSION tract, plus a group of reduced-calorie sugar alcohols such as sorbitol.

Here is what we know about these sugar substitutes: Aspartame (brand name Nu-

traSweet or Equal): Approved by the FDA in the early 1980s, aspartame is made from two amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — and has almost no calories. It’s used on countless foods and beverages, but can’t be used in most baked goods. Rumors have been spread that aspartame causes everything from multiple sclerosis, lupus, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease to diabetes, Gulf War syndrome and brain tumors.

But, reputable health organizations have denounced the rumors.

Acesulfame-k passes through the body unchanged and is thus non-caloric. It contains only a small amount of potassium per serving. It doesn’t break down when heated and can be used in baked goods and other cooked foods.

Many recipes need some

ELECTION, FROM PAGE C1 $2 million,” he said.

The candidates were asked how they would provide additional recreation for Manning’s children and how they would fund it.

Griffith said he would look for low interest loans and grants and possibly divert funds from other sources provided it would not negatively impact those programs.

Hiring a grant writer was at the top of Anderson’s list of how to provide additional recreation activities.

“Grant writers pay for themselves,” she said. She also mentioned the possibility of asking the voters to support park and recreation development through bond referendums.

“I would love to see us partner with the county to have summer rec programs,” she said.

When asked what departments in the city government the candidates would like to see changed, Anderson and Griffith both credited the city with having strong and capable leadership in place. Anderson said the police department could use more manpower and could improve its outreach to neighborhoods and businesses.

Griffith lauded the current administration and said he found the police department to be very responsive to his concerns at the bank and that they are there to meet him each morning.

“We have good people and infrastructure in place and our challenge is to continue to support them,” he said.

“I think that council is working quite well, now. I would like to be a part of that team and continue to pursue the things that have already in play, such as sewer and water infrastructure. Manning enjoys a phenomenal substantial stability; I would like to maintain that,” he said.

Anderson said she would like to focus on youth development, community health and community investment.

“I want to encourage a community of self empowerment,” she said. She cited the high

obesity rate in Manning as an example of how the local government needs to reach out and provide opportunities for more recreation and more services to residents.

Both candidates said the biggest challenges facing Manning are dealing with dilapidated housing, keeping access to whatever sources of funding are available and providing more recreation opportunities for young people.

Griffith said it was important to keep providing improved infrastructure, and Anderson said she would like to see more community service centers.

In closing, Anderson said that as a native of the community, she is proud of the accomplishments her fellow Manning residents have achieved.

“I would like to work with the community and bridge the gap between the community and those organizations and business that we have here. I want to continue to work with the current council to make Manning ‘matchless for beauty and hospitality.’”

Griffith said he was happy to have made Manning his home and to raise a family in the community.

He said his 40 years of banking could be an asset to the council..

“I’ve seen lots and lots of situations and I can lend my credibility and expertise to the council,” he said.

Both candidates were warmly received by the audience.

Voters in Manning City Council District 5 will choose a new council member Tuesday, July 8. The election will fill the unfinished term of Gregory Witherspoon, who died March 20.

Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at: The Cypress Center, 50 Hospital St.; K-P Lounge/Woodmen of the World, 419 Rudy Road; and Billie S. Fleming Protective Services Building, 42 West Boyce St. If necessary, runoff election will be held July 22.

For more information, call the City of Manning at (803) 435-8477.

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Canning Workshop 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., July 12 Wingards Nursery and Garden Center 1403 N. Lake Drive, Lexington.

Cost: $30 Bring your own lunch (803) 874-2354, ext. 113 If interested in the canning workshop, contact Nancy Harrison, nhrrsn@clemson.edu, (803) 874-2354 ext. 113. Make check payable to Clemson Extension Service, mail to P.O. Box 161, St. Matthews, S.C. 29135. Registration deadline is July 3.

sugar for proper volume, texture, and browning, however, so when cooking with acesufame-k you should replace

only half the sugar, or less, with it.

Sucralose: Related to sugar (sucrose), but about 600 times sweeter, sucralose has no calories since it isn’t digested. It tastes like sugar and can be used in just about anything, though so far it has been approved for some foods and beverages.

Stevia: This herbal extract is widely used as a caloriefree sweetener in South America and Japan. Until 1995, the FDA banned its import on the basis of its unproven safety as a food additive and can be sold as a “dietary supplement” in healthfood stores. It is as sweet as sugar or sweeter than sugar.

Sugar alcohols: (xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol) — These have about half the

calories of sugar and are absorbed more slowly, which is a plus for diabetics. They promote little or no tooth decay and are used mostly in “sugar-free” or “dietetic” candies, chewing gums, and cookies.

But they can cause gas, bloating and diarrhea in some people.

Nancy S. Harrison is a retired Food Safety and Nutrition Educator with Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs to people of all ages, regardless of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status, and is an equal opportunity employer.

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NYC museum explores all things morbid NEW YORK (AP) — A new museum opening in New York City promises a fascinating journey into the dark side.

The Morbid Anatomy Museum opens Saturday in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

The ribbon-cutting will include a “spirit photo booth” and traditional mourning food from a cookbook titled “Death Warmed Over.”

But creative director Joanna Ebenstein tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/

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Pearl Harbor survivor Don Ralph credits L.C. Prothro for getting him started in auto sales.

RALPH, FROM PAGE C1 under experienced people.”

From his shared dorm room Ralph could see the Hawaii Air Depot (HAD) hangar.

“The HAD hanger was a humongous hangar,” he said.

“It was where they did all the instrumentation, repairs and stuff big.”

Hearing shots and bombs on Dec. 7, 1941, Ralph and his fellow soldiers weren’t concerned because the navy practiced all the time.

“Nobody ever dreamed it was a real thing,” he said.

“I saw this airplane come over, maybe as high this ceiling (about 8 feet) above the HAD hangar, and a little bomb tumbled out. It no more than hit when that thing went afire.

It was a big blaze.

“That’s the first bomb that hit Hickam Field,” he said. “I knew then something was wrong.”

Soon, the first sergeant was blowing a whistle in the hall outside.

“He said ‘Get your full field packs on. Get your canteen full of water and fall out down front. If I am not mistaken we got a war going on.’”

The sergeant warned them they were going to find people with their “arms off, heads off and legs off. Don’t bother them with their heads off.”

Ralph was assigned to drive an ambulance.

“We went out near the flight line in the hangar area (at Hickam Field) to pick up people who were wounded and that kind of thing,” Ralph said. “Stop and pick up four or five guys, give them first aid on the spot, load them up, take them in to the hospital and leave them, then go back again.”

The grim work was not over in one day, however.

“They had two bomb groups in the barracks with two wings on each side and a mess hall in the middle. They bombed the living daylights out of that mess hall,” he said.

“A couple of days afterwards, I drove a 6-by-6 truck over (to the mess hall), and we took dead people out of there and put them in the truck and them it down to Fort Ruger, and they put them in wooden boxes.”

Ralph earned a citation and a Purple Heart — “Just a little shrapnel wound,” he said.

He was also awarded a Bronze Star.

“For bravery,” he said. “I told them I wasn’t brave, I was 18 and didn’t know any better.”

“People tell you they weren’t scared — I was scared to death,” Ralph said. “I couldn’t talk my throat was so dry. I did what I was told.

Of course our training told

you what to do and you just did it. Pretty soon, you forgot about being scared. ... you just do what comes naturally, you forget that you might get killed.”

Stationed at Shaw Field (Now Shaw Air Force Base) from 1948-50, Ralph was attracted to the car business.

“I’ve always had a hankering for cars,” he said. “My mother said when I was a little boy I would take an old cane-bottom chair and get out in front of it and crank it and hop up in it and make a noise with my lips.

“One of the guys came to me and said ‘I am going to buy a new car, you want to go with me?’ ... He was wanting me to drive him.”

After the war, cars were still difficult to get. Dealers in Sumter and Kingstree wouldn’t even talk to Ralph’s friend.

“Then we come to Manning, and Mr. L.C. Prothro Sr. was in the shop,” Ralph said. “This lad told him he was looking for a Chevrolet convertible.

“He (Prothro) said ‘Yes, sir, I’ll have to order it but I’ll get it for you.’ They agreed and they bought it.”

“If I can sell cars on Shaw Field part time for you would you be interested?,” Ralph asked Prothro.

“He said ‘Yes, sir.’”

Prothro told Ralph he’d give him three cars a month, two Oldsmobiles and one Chevrolet.

“I had to sell the Oldsmobiles before he’d give me the Chevrolet,” Ralph said.

He said the cars sold quickly.

“When I brought the chap down here to deliver the convertible, Mr. Prothro handed me a check,” Ralph said. “I looked at it and said Mr. Prothro, this isn’t right.”

“He said, ‘What do you mean?’”

“I said, ‘Well, there is too much money here.’”

“He said ‘I don’t think so.’

That’s the way he would talk.

He said, ‘I got the convertible on there.’

“So he paid me for that convertible, too. That is the kind of man he was.

“Since then I’ve sold cars and radio advertising, different things and went into business for myself in 1985, and I am a distributor of Specialty Advertising and Promotional Products. I still do it and still operate it some, I am not beating the bushes or anything, I have old customers who call me up and say it’s time to reorder. I still have a few of them left.

“The good lord has been good to me,” Ralph said. “I’ve had a wonderful life.”

TpwvYZ ) the museum’s mission is serious.

It grew out of Ebenstein’s private collection of more than 2,000 books on death rituals, the human body and esoterica.

The three-story museum is in a former nightclub. Highlights at the opening exhibition, “The Art of Mourning,” include a brooch made from human teeth. There’s also a 1850s shadowbox containing a Madonna surrounded by a memorial wreath made of locks of hair from a deceased loved one.

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Mark Tyoe and his wife Linda pose in the gallery of their Wintergreen Knoll business.

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Mark Tyoe uses a chainsaw as he carves a bear sculpture from white pine on Thursday, May 29, 2014, in Salisbury, N.Y. The upstate New York artist’s detailed renderings of curious bears, soaring eagles and other wildlife scenes have won him acclaim and earned him a living for many years.

Bear with him — wildlife chainsaw artist

BY MICHAEL HILL Associated Press SALISBURY, N.Y. — Rembrandt worked in oils. Michelangelo carved marble. Mark Tyoe chainsaws big tree trunks.

At his home just south of New York’s Adirondack Mountains, Tyoe carves soaring eagles, grizzled mountain men and wolves from white pine. But he mostly carves bears, his specialty. Tyoe earns a living as a chainsaw artist, turning big logs into improbably fluid sculptures with nothing more than a tool that some use to cut firewood.

On a recent day, Tyoe worked on his rural property transforming a phone boothsized piece of white pine into a woodland scene of a mama bear reaching for a honeycomb in a tree trunk with her cub at her feet. Over the whine of a two-stroke engine, Tyoe carefully zigzagged his saw tip to create the texture of the mama bear’s fur.

“I try to be realistic, a lot of details, correct proportion, anatomy, bone structure, posture,” he said during a break.

Bears are to chainsaw art what bowls of fruit are to amateur still-life painters: A lot of people try their hand at it with varying degrees of success. Many of the bears found at state fairs and roadside stands are rough-cut creatures with overalls or fishing poles that look like they could be plotting to steal picnic baskets at Jellystone Park.

Tyoe is more of a naturalist.

He aims to capture a detailed essence of Northeast wildlife, especially bears.

“Bears always fascinate people. I mean, if I could have a real bear for a pet, even, for a model, for inspiration, I would,” he said. “But it wouldn’t be the right thing to do — for the bear.”

At age 54, Tyoe has Popeye forearms from two decades of chainsaw sculpting. He works outside across the road from the log home where he and his wife Linda raised their family.

He prefers to work with white pine, a medium soft wood that resists cracking and rotting.

The raw material for this his current sculpture was a 19thcentury white pine that towered in the Adirondacks until it was cut earlier this year.

Though always good at art, Tyoe only started chainsaw art in his 30s. Intrigued by a chainsaw carver he’d watch on family vacations at Lake George in the Adirondacks, he finally tried it himself after a seasonal layoff from welding.

Tyoe made more than $1,000 at his first show and soon started racking up awards in regional carving competitions.

He never looked back.

Tyoe can turn out hundreds of thigh-high bear statues a year that sell for $225 and up.

He doesn’t even need to plan them out.

“I just use my imagination,” he said. “No sketching. Stand up a piece of wood and visualize what I want and start on the tip of the nose.”

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Robert Brown, James Chandler, Henry Wells and Clarendon County Fire Chief Frances Richburg stand next to a new emergency water source that will be available to firefighters battling blazes in the Plowden Mill Road area.

Emergency water source dedicated near Alcolu

BY JIM HILLEY (803) 774-1211 jim@theitem.com Residents near Plowden Mill and Durant roads in Clarendon County may be eligible for lower home insurance rates after an emergency water supply pond was dedicated Saturday. Funded by members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church and several other congregations in the area, the pond will give firefighters a place to refill tankers when responding to fires in the area.

“We have lost three houses in the last 14 years because of a simple thing called a lack of water,” said Robert Brown.

“This will be a help to all in this part of Clarendon County.”

Brown, who along with James Chandler and Henry Wells, spearheaded the efforts to secure the water supply, thanked Clarendon County for its support on the project.

“They agreed if we supplied the system they would provide

the road,” he said.

Franklin Cokely said the pond was originally dug by farmers for irrigation and said many local residents have fished in it.

“Now it is available to us,” he said.

Brown said the emergency water supply may lead to lower insurance bills for some homeowners.

“Fire chiefs abide by a code, if you are not within five miles round trip of a water source, you a subject to a failure. I hope we never have to use the service but if we do it will be there for us.”

Cokely recalled when his father lost his house in a fire.

“The fire department came out from Manning but could not save the house due to lack of water,” he said.

Clarendon County Fire Chief Frances Richburg welcomed the new water source.

“We now have a water source that will service their community and I am delighted to have that,” she said.

Fireworks display Saturday at Red Barn

BY JIM HILLEY (803) 774-1211 There will be bombs bursting in air and rockets red glare during the City of Manning’s first annual Red, White and Blue Celebration of Independence Day from 7 to 11 p.m.

Saturday, July 5, at the Red Barn on Church Street.

Mayor Julia Nelson said the event will include food, vendors, live music, balloon artists and face painting for children.

The fireworks show will start at 9:30 p.m., she said.

“We wanted to provide more

recreation, that is our overall goal,” she said. “This is something we thought the whole community could enjoy.”

Attendees should bring their own chairs to sit on she said. In addition, she said animals may be disturbed by the fireworks and pet owners in the area of the fireworks display should put their pets indoors or in a secure place during the show.

“We are very appreciative of all of our generous local sponsors, who have made this possible,” she said.

For more information, call (803) 435-8477.

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ASSAULT- SIMPLE 10 a.m. June: 16: Police were called to Clarendon Memorial Hospital when a 44-year old psychiatric patient allegedly struck another patient. The allegedly abusive patient was moved to another room, and while being restrained allegedly kicked a medical attendant in the face. The patient was arrested and transported to the Clarendon County Detention Center, charged with simple assault.

FRAUDULENT CHECK/ SHOPLIFTING 7 p.m. June 16: Police were called to Walmart, 2010 Paxville Highway, in reference to a shoplifting complaint.

Complainant told police a person leaving the parking lot in a white truck had attempted to cash what appeared to be a fraudulent check and exited the store with deli items that were not paid for. Police initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle and located the food. The suspect was discovered to be in possession of what appeared to be fraudulent checks. George Edward Nelson, 58, 1080 Moorer St., Manning, was arrested and

transported to Clarendon County Detention Center.

ASSAULT/AGGRAVATED 9:50 p.m. June 16: Police responded to a report of a large fight at Walmart. Two individuals told police they were jumped by a group of black males and ran into the store. The individuals said they would not provide more information or seek charges and left the scene.

VANDALISM 7:23 a.m. June 18: An officer responded to a report of a civil disturbance in the 200 block of East Hospital Street.

Complainant said her boyfriend punched a window in her apartment when she would not give him a ride to work or let him inside. Damage was estimated at $200.

DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION 3:50 p.m. June 18: An officer initiated a traffic stop of a vehicle on Church Street on prior knowledge the license of the driver was under suspension. Dispatch reportedly confirmed the suspension.

Teon Ferro Wilson, 24, 850 W. Huggins St., was arrested and cited for driving under suspension and the vehicle was impounded.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This July 9, 2013, file photo shows Paul McCartney performing at Fenway Park in Boston. McCartney is rescheduling U.S. tour dates as he continues to recover from a virus he received treatment for last month.

McCartney better, resumes tour LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney says he’s feeling fab and ready to rock ‘n’ roll.

The 72-year-old former Beatle posted a brief YouTube video last Tuesday saying he’s recovered from a virus that forced him to cancel shows in Japan and South Korea and delay the opening of a U.S.

tour.

He said the first U.S. show is set for July 5 in Albany, New York. The canceled U.S. dates have been rescheduled for September and October.

The singer seemed fit and in good spirits as he thanked fans for their concern about his health.

CLARENDON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

BURGLARY/BREAKING AND ENTERING 10:34 a.m. June 11: A deputy responded to a report of breaking and entering in the 6400 block of Rickenbaker Road.

Complainant said someone pried open the front door of his shed and took a Kubota ZD25 diesel mower and a Craftsman edger. Missing items were valued at $10,150.

8:23 a.m. June 18: An officer responded to a complaint of breaking and entering in the 1100 block of Jessica Street.

Complainant said she left home at 10:45 p.m. June 17 and when she returned at 7:30 a.m. she found a back door open. The officer cleared the scene and found marks on the back door. The complainant didn’t find any missing items.

12:45 p.m. June 19: An officer responded to a report of breaking and entering in the 1100 block of McNair Drive.

Complainant said she left at 7 a.m. and when she returned at 9:40 p.m. she discovered her front door kicked in and $800 cash, a watch and a diamond bracelet missing. Damage was estimated at $400 and the missing items were valued at $2,800.

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A group of volunteers raises the first wall of Angela Nelson’s future home in Manning. Habitat for Humanity is always looking for volunteers to help with home construction.

HABITAT, FROM PAGE C1 normally lend a hand in building the home, an experience Nelson said makes her feel great, knowing she is a part of putting something together that she can call her own. “This feels awesome. I’m only 26, and I get to be a part of building a house that I can say is mine,� Nelson said.

The materials and the man hours for building homes and other service projects throughout the year are donated by volunteers, community members and local businesses in the Manning area.

Also usually on hand are residents who have received Habitat homes in the past or will receive them in the future. When completed, Nelson’s new residence will have three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Frances Ramirez and her son Juan Castro were also out early Saturday morning to help with raising the walls.

Ramirez and Castro will receive one of Clarendon County’s Habitat for Humanity rehab homes, a house that

needs renovations and updates. “I love this kind of thing and helping build, so it feels great to be here and help out,� Ramirez said.

Robinson said they have a number of fundraisers each year to help with giving back to the community, building homes in the area and other service projects.

One of the more popular fundraisers arranged by the Clarendon County Habitat for Humanity group is the Dancing with the Clarendon Stars event. The next show is scheduled for Aug. 9 at The Matrix Center at 4648 Kingstree Highway in Manning.

In preparation for the show, the group is accepting donations of food and beverages as well as monetary donations to support future projects in the community.

Robinson said they are always looking for volunteers in the community. They even accept donations of food and/ or lunch during construction days because they try to provide lunch for the volunteers.

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Angela Nelson, center, helps volunteers raise the first wall of her future home in Manning. Nelson applied for a Habitat for Humanity home about five months ago, before she received a phone call about construction starting on her 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home. This will be Clarendon County Habitat for Humanity’s 22nd home.

They also welcome help with purchasing bottled water and Gatorade for the volunteers working during warmer

weather.

To find out more about Clarendon County Habitat for Humanity or to get more

information about how to donate or become a volunteer, email habitat@clarendoncounty.com.

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