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Grandfather about 3 times above legal alcohol limit 7-year-old also killed in crash that injured 6 others

BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bristow@theitem.com (803) 774-1272 The driver of a car that collided head-on with oncoming traffic Sunday had a blood-alcohol content nearly three times over the legal limit at

the time of the fatal crash.

Ronald Winston Holmes, 75, of Highland Avenue, died in the collision along with his 7-year-old grandson, and six other people were injured.

Sumter County Coroner Harvin Bullock said tests performed on Holmes after the wreck showed he had an ap-

An autopsy performed Monday showed both grandfather and grandson were likely killed on impact in the crash.

Holmes died of multiple instances of blunt-force trauma, while his grandson, Nahgee Holmes, suffered an apparent fatal head injury.

Six other people riding in

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proximate blood-alcohol content greater than 0.2. The legal limit for driving is 0.08.

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an Expedition were also injured in the collision, four of them reportedly in “serious condition” at the time of the wreck.

At 5:37 p.m., Holmes was traveling south on U.S. 15 near James Street in a 1997 Lincoln

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OPC News purchases publishing company Alabama-based firm has many publications

Burnt Gin is one of the bestkept secrets in South Carolina,” she said. “It’s more than just fun. It’s a lifechanging experience. The benefits of this camp are things that are going to help

OPC News LLC, the family owned company that operates The Sumter Item, has purchased Gulf Coast Newspapers LLC, an Alabama-based publishing firm with several coastal-area titles.

OPC News, owned by three members of the Osteen family — Graham, Kyle and Jack Osteen — finalized the purchase today. OPC News also has holdings in Osteen Publishing Co. Inc., which has operated The Sumter Item for more than a century.

In a statement, the company said its comfort with small newspapers and the location of these particular properties made the purchase attractive.

“Baldwin County is a great area with an audience that traditionally loves to read newspapers,” the statement read.

“Along with the staff, we will continue to build on the impressive efforts at Gulf Coast Newspapers. We believe in the future of smaller community news organizations.”

Bern Mebane, president of Crescent Publishing, who has owned Gulf Coast Newspapers for the past 14 years, said, “We are delighted that our friends

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Caroline Thomas, left, adds some red to her tie-dye shirt as counselor Emily Swanson assists Monday at Camp Burnt Gin. The fourthtime camper said she loves the pool, while first-timer Swanson, who is studying special education at College of Charleston, said she loves “the experience, the campers, just the whole environment.”

Children with disabilities learn life skills at Burnt Gin

BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com (803) 774-1250 Camp Burnt Gin offers summer programs for children, teens and young adults with physical disabilities, chronic illnesses and

special health care needs.

From kitchen staff to nurses to camp counselors, it also provides jobs for about 65 people a summer and an educational experience for all involved, said Marie Aimone, camp director.

“I truly think that Camp

Families get much-needed help as donations spike

BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com (803) 774-1250 Your donations to Summer of Caring continue to help your neighbors in need.

This past week, United Ministries of Sumter County’s

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Crisis Relief Ministry helped 22 clients financially for a total of $3,035.57, six families with in-kind donations totaling $790 and 22 families with food worth an estimated $920, said Mark Champagne, executive director.

One family was a 38-yearold divorcee with four chil-

dren who lost her job a year and a half ago.

“After the interview, we were able to satisfy her eviction notice and also help her with household items she

DEATHS, B4 and B6 Clarence R. DuBose Charlene L. Dangerfield Joy E. Cole Maxine B. Whitfield Mallory J. Richardson Margaret T. Mooneyhan Henry L. Holloman Harold P. Pritchard Martha Grinnell Myrtle G. Copeland Raymond Hodge Franklin Hampton

John Drayton Jr. Marian McManus Shirley E. Kolb Rosa L. McDaniel Nahgee Holmes Ronald Holmes

needed,” he said.

The Crisis Relief Ministry is just one of three areas the Summer of Caring benefits.

Modeled after The Sumter Item’s Fireside Fund, the initiative is a partnership between the publication and United Ministries in which the newspaper collects money

for the nonprofit.

Readers gave $625 this week.

Another area the program benefits is the Homeless Shelter.

Recently, a 20-year-old man arrived at the shelter saying

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Stabbing victim drives himself to hospital

BY BRADEN BUNCH braden@theitem.com (803) 774-1201 A 57-year-old man remained hospitalized Monday afternoon while three suspects face various charges, including two facing attempted murder charges, after an apparent ambush assault during the weekend.

According to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, the

victim received a call Friday afternoon from 44-year-old Janet Marie BaxleyHumphries asking him to come to her home in the 2600 block of Tindal Road so she could borrow some money.

According to reports, upon his arrival, however, the victim was allegedly assaulted by two men — 23-year-old Brandon Eugene Conyers and 20-year-old Micheal Warren Henderson, both of

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Sumter — who beat and stabbed the victim before stealing $90 from him and forcing him back into his vehicle.

The victim, suffering “extreme damage” to his right eye and multiple stab wounds, then drove himself to Tuomey Regional Medical Center for treatment.

Officers learned of the alleged attack from the victim at the hospital and dis-

patched officers to the incident location, where they found the three suspects. All three were taken into custody and taken to Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center.

Both Conyers and Henderson face charges of attempted murder and robbery, while Baxley-Humphries faces two counts of accessory before the fact to a felony.

Bond was set at $175,000 for Conyers, $90,000 for Hen-

derson and $30,000 for Baxley-Humphries on Monday afternoon.

In 2008, Baxley-Humphries was accused, along with her then-husband Michael Baxley, of stealing copper wiring from more than 140 homes during a three-year period. As part of a plea agreement, she was sentenced to five years in jail, suspended to one year in jail and five years’ probation.

A little rust never hurt anyone

BY BRADEN BUNCH braden@theitem.com (803) 774-1201 A two-car collision on Interstate 95 in Clarendon County on Monday afternoon has left two people dead and another person airlifted to a Columbiaarea hospital.

According to Lance Cpl. David Jones of South Carolina Highway Patrol, about 1:35 p.m. a 1996 Chevrolet Blazer driven by a 28-year-old resident of Monroe, North Carolina, was traveling northbound near the 117 mile marker — between the exits for Manning and Summerton — when it blew a tire and crashed into a 2004 Ford Explorer, also traveling north on I-95.

Both vehicles veered off the interstate and into the median, where they struck several trees.

Both the 28-year-old driver of the Blazer and an 11-year-old passenger were killed on impact, according to highway patrol. When they arrived on the scene, emergency workers also found the driver of the Explorer — 22-year-old Tara Naylor of Atkinson, North Carolina — trapped in her vehicle. After being removed from the wreckage, Naylor was airlifted to Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia for treatment.

Jones said all three people involved in the collision were wearing their seatbelts at the time of the wreck.

The names of the deceased have been withheld pending notification of their family.

Monday’s collision marked the seventh and eighth people killed on Clarendon County roads this year, according to highway patrol. A total of 26 people have been killed on tri-county area roads so far in 2014, including 14 in Sumter County. At this same time last year, 15 people had died on tri-county roads.

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Folks gather for the inaugural Rust & Dust rat rod show and swap meet on Saturday at Cut Rate Pharmacy and Soda Fountain. About 15 cars and owners came to the show, which Cut Rate’s Todd Touchberry said he hopes will grow in coming years. Touchberry and organizers awarded the best patina, best car and best truck awards at the end of the family friendly event.

2 file for city council seats so far No candidates yet for 2 wards halfway through filing period

BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bristow@theitem.com (803) 774-1272 Halfway through the filing period for this fall’s city elections, two seats on city council are still up for grabs.

In the two weeks since filing opened for municipal offices, no candidates have yet filed in Wards 3 and 5 to serve a fresh four-year term on Sumter City Council. Meanwhile, one candidate each is running in two other wards, including one facing a special election.

Councilman Thomas “Bubba” Lowery is seeking a fourth term representing Ward 1. He filed Friday for the seat, which covers the northern part of town along the upper portion of Broad Street and the U.S. 378 bypass.

In Ward 4, former councilwoman Colleen Yates hopes to return to council in a special election for the final two years of the term. Ward 4

is centered on the downtown business and historic districts.

One of the longest-serving members of council, Lowery was first elected in 2002. He said his main concern is improving residential neighborhoods in the ward.

“We want to get sidewalks on some of these streets, so the kids are not walking in the street,” Lowery said.

Lowery also wants to see through the construction of a new intersection on North Main Street connecting Lafayette Drive with the U.S. 378 bypass, a major transportation project in the heart of Lowery’s ward.

One of the “Penny for Progress” projects, work on that section is expected to begin by 2016.

A retired employee of the state parole board and owner of a bail-bonding company, Lowery touts improvements made in the first ward since he was elected to council.

“Crime is down tremendously in this area, and the area is looking a lot better,” he said. “We’ve renovated several houses for low-income families, resurfaced streets, and the

city had some abandoned houses demolished.”

Two seats have yet to see any candidates appear since the filing period opened July 15. Ward 3, represented by Calvin Hastie, is centered on the southern and eastern portions of the city below Liberty Street and east of Lafayette Drive. Ward 5, held by Robert Galiano, covers homes on the western fringe of Sumter along Patriot Parkway and Broad Street Extension heading toward Shaw Air Force Base.

The incumbents in both races are expected to file for re-election before the Aug. 15 deadline.

In the only open seat this year, Yates is so far the only candidate running in Ward 4. Councilman Charlie Burns is stepping down midway through his four-year term, necessitating a fourth city council seat appearing on the ballot this year.

All candidates for city council must file with the clerk to council at the Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St. City offices are nonpartisan, so all candidates will automatically appear on the Nov. 4 ballot.

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POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Lee C. Knuckles Sr., 73, of 950 S. Main St., was charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature after a 74-year-old woman told police a 73-year-old man threatened to kill her with a handgun at a residence in the 900 block of South Main Street about 8:50 p.m. Saturday. According to reports, when police arrived on the scene, they found the suspect in possession of a .22-caliber Derringer handgun. When asked if he had threatened the alleged victim, the suspect allegedly told police, “You damn right, and I’ll kick her ass.” Knuckles was transported to Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center.

ASSAULT A 38-year-old man told police a 35-year-old man hit him repeatedly in the head, causing him to bleed heavily, while he was on the ground outside a business in the 1000 block of Broad Street at about 3 a.m.

Saturday. According to reports, witnesses told investigators that the 38-year-old man had challenged the 35-year-old man, a known mixed martial arts fighter, to a fight that the 35-year-old man had declined and that the 38-year-old man had been asked to leave the business.

Reports also indicate witnesses stated when the 35-year-old man was attempting to leave the location, the 38-year-old man assaulted him, prompting the 35-yearold man to retaliate.

A 32-year-old woman told police a 22-year-old man entered her room, hit her multiple times and tried to strangle her by covering her mouth while grabbing her throat at a hospital in the 100 block of North Washington Street at 8 p.m. Sunday.

FIRE Sumter Fire Department responded to reports of a fire at a residence in the 5000 block of Trinity Road in Lynchburg at 10:55 p.m. Friday. Upon arrival, reports indicate firefighters found the 1,200-square-foot home engulfed in flames. The fire ultimately destroyed the home, causing an estimated $50,000 in damage to the building and an additional $25,000 in damage to the home’s contents.

EMS CALLS On Thursday, Sumter EMS responded to 37 calls, including 32 medical calls, two motorvehicle wrecks and three other traumas.

On Friday, Sumter EMS responded to 53 calls, including 45 medical calls, three motorvehicle wrecks and five other traumas.

On Saturday, Sumter EMS responded to 50 calls, including 43 medical calls, six motorvehicle wrecks and one other trauma.

On Sunday, Sumter EMS responded to 38 calls, including 28 medical calls, eight motorvehicle wrecks, one fire standby and one other trauma.

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Mom’s arrest sparks care debate Employee reportedly left her child at park while working NORTH AUGUSTA (AP) — Plenty of working parents can relate to the dilemma Debra Harrell faced when her 9-year-old daughter asked to play unsupervised in a park this summer.

How do you find the time and money for child care when school is out?

Harrell’s answer to that question got her arrested. She spent the night in jail, temporarily lost custody of her girl for 17 days, thought she lost her job and still faces 10 years in prison if convicted of felony child neglect.

The decision of this 46-year-old single mother HARRELL and McDonald’s shift manager has been picked apart since police were called when Regina was spotted alone in the park.

But some of their neighbors told The Associated Press that Harrell shouldn’t be vilified because many nearby families also leave their kids at Summerfield Park. In the South Carolina summer, the park has obvious appeal to kids: There’s cool water on a splash pad, a playground and basketball courts, and a volunteer comes by with a free breakfast and lunch. Plenty of friends and some parents and caretakers also are around to keep an eye on things, they say.

“Her child is not the only one at that park without a parent. There are children all over this neighborhood. They hold the feed-a-child program. There’s that splash pad too,” said Angelina Scott, who lives one street over from Harrell and has a daughter in the same grade as Regina.

South Carolina criminalizes leaving a child at “unreasonable risk of harm affecting the child’s life, physical or mental health, or safety.” But the law offers no specifics on when a child can

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Regina Harrell, 9, holds her dog Roscoe outside her home in North Augusta on July 21. Debra Harrell left her alone to play at a nearby park while she worked at McDonald’s. Regina was taken from her home, and her mother charged with a felony. be left alone without supervision, giving police and prosecutors wide discretion to decide whether a parent’s actions have been criminal, or just unwise, said Harrell’s lawyer, Robert Phillips.

Nationwide, about 5 percent of elementary school-aged children living just with their mothers are left alone at some point during a typical week, according to a 2011 report from the U.S. Census Bureau, which notes that the percentage likely increases in the summer.

For the libertarian Reason Foundation, Harrell’s arrest is an example of how the government thinks it knows better how to raise a child than her mother. An opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times suggested it shows how society is predisposed, without evidence, to think black women are worse mothers. Bloggers cite her case in online duels, with some railing against “helicopter parenting” and others saying it’s just too dangerous for a 9-yearold girl to venture out into today’s world alone.

In Harrell’s North Augusta neighborhood, people are talking more about the struggles of low-income parents to find safe places for their children when school’s not in session.

Despite the sweltering heat, Trina Thomas brings her children to the park for the free lunch and the playground. Her kids are 3, 5, and 11, and she can’t imagine leaving her oldest alone.

But she is fully aware of the pressure of summer care: Because she watches her kids herself, she has fewer hours at her cosmetology job.

Her clients also must spend more for child care, so their every-two-week trip to the beauty shop becomes once a month.

“Summer costs me money,” she said.

Regina stayed at the McDonald’s each day at first, passing the summer hours with her mother’s laptop on the restaurant’s wireless connection. But it was stolen from their home in June, the second burglary in less than a year, according to Aiken County Sheriff’s Office reports.

Without the computer, she “sat there and was bored to death. She simply asked her mother if she could drop her off at the park rather than drop her off in a McDonald’s area all day,” Phillips said.

“What are the options that are the best for the child? And are certain options criminal?” he asked.

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Medicare hospital fund will last 4 years longer Disability program money projected to run out in 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare’s finances are looking brighter, the government said Monday.

The program’s giant hospital trust fund won’t be exhausted until 2030 — four years later than last year’s estimate.

Meanwhile, Social Security’s massive retirement program will remain solvent until 2034, officials said, although disability benefits are in more immediate danger.

The disability trust fund now is projected to run dry in 2016, unless Congress acts. At that point, the program will collect enough payroll taxes to pay only 81 percent of benefits.

The trustees who oversee Social

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As 40 brush fires fought, possible arsonist sought IRMO — Authorities in a Columbia suburb said they are looking for an arsonist after firefighters fought more than 40 brush fires in one afternoon.

Irmo Chief Fire Marshal Jeff Allen said all the fires were set in less than five hours Sunday afternoon and evening, leading fire officials to think the blazes were intentionally set.

No one was injured in the fires. Allen said the high humidity Sunday kept the fires from spreading.

Investigators said they are

Security and Medicare issued their annual report Monday on the financial health of the government’s two largest benefit programs.

The trustees project a 1.5 percent increase in monthly Social Security payments to beneficiaries for next year. That would be among the lowest since automatic adjustments were adopted in the 1970s. The increase is based on a government measure of inflation.

Medicare’s Part B monthly premium for outpatient care is expected to remain unchanged for next year, at $104.90. Average premiums for prescription coverage are expected to increase by less than $2 a month.

Social Security’s finances are relatively unchanged from a year ago.

Medicare’s improved finances are largely because of a continuing

talking to residents to see if they saw someone out of place.

The State Law Enforcement Division also flew its helicopter over the area to look for someone walking through the woods.

Firefighters from Lexington County and Columbia helped Irmo firefighters put out the blazes.

slowdown in health care spending, the report said.

Experts debate whether the health-spending slowdown is the result of a sluggish economy or represents a dividend from President Obama’s health care law and more recent Medicare cuts by Congress.

Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries a day as baby boomers reach age 65. But the report said that costs per beneficiary were essentially unchanged in 2013, for the second year in a row. That particular statistic is critical because per-person costs had surged for many years.

In the long run, both Social Security and Medicare are still in financial danger, the trustees said. Benefit cuts, tax increases or a combination of both will be needed to keep

paying benefits at current levels.

In 2030, when the hospital trust fund is expected to be depleted, Medicare will collect enough payroll taxes to pay 85 percent of benefits.

“Notwithstanding recent favorable developments, (Medicare) still faces a substantial financial shortfall that will need to be addressed with further legislation,” the report said. “Such legislation should be enacted sooner rather than later to minimize the impact on beneficiaries, providers and taxpayers.”

Social Security’s disability program could be shored up in the short run by shifting tax revenue from the much larger retirement program, as Congress has done in the past. However, that would slightly worsen the retirement program’s long-term finances.

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Should vicious killers suffer?

For some families of victims, ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ is just give him a bullet? Why didn’t we give him Drano?”

Wood died by lethal injection Wednesday for the AuRandy Browning watched from behind the glass as Kim- gust 1989 slayings of his esberly McCarthy slipped quiet- tranged girlfriend and her father. But he did not go quietly. ly into unconsciousness, About 10 minutes after the snored briefly, then finally drugs began flowing, Wood stopped breathing. It didn’t matter to him that this woman started gasping. When it had — who’d brutally stabbed and continued for more than an hour, the condemned man’s mutilated his beloved godmother and mentor — was al- lawyers made a desperate appeal to state and federal lowed a peaceful, painless courts to halt the execution. death.

After nearly two hours and For Browning, it was what witnesses say were hunenough to know that Dorothy dreds of gasps, Wood was proBooth’s murderer was no nounced dead. more.

As the accounts played on “I’m happy not to share the television, cries of “cruel and planet with Kimberly McCarthy,” he said from his home in unusual punishment” resounded, and calls came down Austin, Texas. “But would I for a nationwide stop to the want her to be strung up and death penalty. The Dietzes’ tortured? No.” family lashed out.

The prolonged — some say “You don’t know what ex“botched” — execution of double murderer Joseph Rudolph cruciating is,” said Brown’s wife, Jeanne. “What’s excruciWood last week in Arizona ating is seeing your dad lying fanned the flames of the unthere in a pool of blood, seeing ending debate over whether your sister lying there in a vicious killers should suffer pool of blood.” as they die for their crimes.

••• The controversy follows two Randy Browning was not other recent executions that seeking retribution as he sat went awry: In January, an in the viewing room on June Ohio inmate snorted and 26, 2013. He was looking for gasped for nearly a half hour closure. before dying; in Oklahoma, a McCarthy was convicted of man died of a heart attack killing her 71-year-old neighminutes after prison officials bor in 1997 during a robbery halted his execution because of the retired psychology prothe drugs weren’t being adfessor’s home in Lancaster, ministered properly.

Texas. Police say the former Talk with loved ones of nursing home therapist beat their victims, and you’ll find some on all sides of the issue. Booth with a candelabra, stabbed her with a butcher In Wood’s case, Richard knife, then cut off the elderly Brown questions whether he woman’s finger to steal her suffered enough.

“This man conducted a hor- wedding ring.

McCarthy, who was linked rifying murder, and you guys to two other slayings, became are going, ‘Let’s worry about Texas’ 500th execution since the drugs,’” said Brown, capital punishment resumed brother- and son-in-law of Woods’ victims, Debra and Eu- there in 1982.

“She was a vicious, psychogene Dietz. “Why didn’t they

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pathic serial murderer,” says Browning, who credits Booth with setting him on the path to becoming a psychologist.

But as he sat watching her die, he could not help thinking of her own family, viewing the execution from another room.

“I did have feelings of compassion,” he said. “Not to the point where I wanted them to stop doing what they were doing. But, I mean, it’s just so much suffering.”

••• To Randy Ertman, suffering is beside the point. In June 1993, his 14-year-old daughter Jennifer and Elizabeth Pena, 16, were rushing to make curfew on their way home from a party when they took a shortcut through a Houston neighborhood and stumbled into a gang initiation. What followed was what one prosecutor called a “feeding frenzy” of rape, torture and murder.

Six men were convicted in the killings. Three avoided the death chamber because of their ages at the time of the crimes, but the others were sentenced to die.

Randy Ertman attended all three executions. When told of Woods’ slow death in Arizona, Ertman let out a wheezing chuckle.

“Good for him,” said the grieving father. “It didn’t take him long enough.”

••• Brad Bowser understands Ertman’s rage. Glenn L. Benner II was convicted of the 1986 kidnapping, rape and murder of Bowser’s 21-yearold sister, Trina, a childhood neighbor in an Akron, Ohio, suburb. Benner left her body in the trunk of her car along a highway. A year earlier, he had strangled Cynthia Sedgwick, 26, in Cuyahoga Falls after a concert.

When Benner died by lethal

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Joan Bundy, a death penalty opponent, protests the execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood in Florence, Arizona, on July 23. In debate over slow executions, many families of victims wrestle with whether those condemned should suffer. injection in February 2006, Brad Bowser was there.

“I thought he got off easy,” Bowser said. “The way that he killed my sister, and I think for someone just to get a needle put in their arm and be able to go to sleep and go to the next world, or whatever, is about as easy as it gets, you know? I mean, I’m dying of cancer right now, and it’s going to be a lot slower, rougher death than what he had.”

Still, Bowser was sorry to hear how long it took Wood to die and wonders why the government can’t execute people “more efficiently.” But he’s also angry that it took 20 years for Benner — and even longer for Wood — to be put down.

“The way they’re doing it is about as humane as you can get right now,” he said.

••• Clara Byrd Taylor has read her Old Testament and its many references to the ultimate penalty. But her support for capital punishment has always been tempered by doubt.

“Government today being so imperfect, man being so imperfect, there are so many injustices,” she said, “it’s hard for me to say that in every case I think the death penalty

should be carried out.”

For the murderers of her brother, she has no such qualms. The evidence was overwhelming.

On June 7, 1998, white supremacists chained James Byrd Jr. by his ankles to the bumper of a pickup truck and dragged him three miles down a rough asphalt road in Jasper, Texas. Lawrence Russell Brewer and John William King dumped what was left of Byrd’s mangled body outside a black church and cemetery.

Brewer and King were convicted of capital murder. A third man received a life sentence.

Before she died in 2010, Taylor’s mother made her promise to see Byrd’s killers punished. So when an unrepentant Brewer was executed in September 2011, Taylor stood witness.

“It didn’t bring me any sense of peace or relief,” she said. “It’s just a matter of saying that this one chapter in the book was now closed, and we can move on to the next part of it.”

A date has not yet been set for King’s execution. When it is, Taylor plans to be there.

“And I hope it goes as peacefully as Brewer’s,” she said.

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CARING FROM PAGE A1 he was giving up because nothing seemed to be working out for him, Champagne said. He said he’d grown up being passed around the foster system and then put out on the street at 18. He said no one cared, not even God. “As he talked about his life, I began to share with him where I thought God was intervening on his behalf,” Champagne said. “This young man became a ‘New Life candidate,’ took the G.E.D. test, passed on the first attempt and is now working.”

On a recent visit back to Sumter, he said he was enrolled at Benedict College and will be majoring in criminal justice.

“He credits the emergency shelter,

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A total of 68 men and 22 women were served at the shelter between July 13 and 19.

The third area is the Home Repair and Wheelchair Ramp Ministry. While the big push was successful and took place during 2014 Summer Restore, handicap ramps and small home repairs will continue during the weekends, Champagne said.

“Please continue to support our ministry through your donations, volunteer hours and, most importantly, your prayers,” he said.

Financial donations may be mailed to: The Sumter Item Summer of Caring P.O. Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151 Contributions may also be dropped off at the 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 any acronyms.

Donations received as of Monday included: Central Carolina Homes Inc., $500; Rachel Chandler for Crisis Relief, $25; Love in Action Sunday School Class, $25; and Rose N. Price in memory of her two sons, Billy and Tony Barrineau, $25.

Combined anonymous donations totaled: $25 for the Homeless Shelter Total this week: $625 Total this year: $4,342

Closed hazardous waste landfill to get new manager COLUMBIA (AP) — A closed hazardous waste landfill located near Lake Marion will soon have a new manager.

The state Department of Health and Environmental Control and Kestrel Horizons issued a joint statement Monday about the company resigning as trustee of the 279-acre site in Pinewood.

The two signed a transition agreement Friday, the day the agency asked the Greenville firm to resign. DHEC Director Catherine Templeton has said a resignation would ensure there’s no inter-

ruption in services that protect the public and Lake Marion — a popular recreational area — from the waste that was dumped in Pinewood for decades by both state and federal agencies.

Under the agreement, the agency transferred $450,000 to Kestrel on Monday as the final payment for its administrative services. The trust fund that is supposed to maintain the site for the next 90 years will also reimburse Kestrel up to $25,000 for insurance premiums.

The resignation is effective Oct. 31.

If Kestrel hadn’t resigned, the agency was prepared to ask a court to replace the firm, which was appointed trustee after industrial waste hauler SafetyKleen filed for bankruptcy in 2000.

Templeton said Friday that while Kestrel has done a good job overseeing the site, its administrative fees are too high, further depleting the dwindling trust fund. Kestrel has taken more than $10 million from the fund in management fees since 2003, she said.

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The collision caused extensive damage to the Lincoln, and rescue workers had to cut into the body of the vehicle to remove the deceased. Holmes’ grandson was sitting in the back seat at the time of the crash. It is unknown if they were wearing seatbelts.

Bullock makes a point of testing drivers in wrecks like this to determine if alcohol or drugs played a role in the crash.

“This is just one I have done on all traffic fatalities,” he said.

The driver and front-seat passenger of the Ford were both so severely injured that a helicopter was called to transport them from the scene to Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia. Two other passengers with serious injuries were taken by ambulance to Columbia, and two others were treated at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

No updates were available on their conditions as of press time.

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The compromise measure would require the Department WASHINGTON — A biparti- of Veterans Affairs to pay private doctors to treat qualifying san deal to improve veterans’ health care would authorize at veterans who can’t get prompt appointments at the VA’s nearleast $17 billion to fix the ly 1,000 hospitals and outpahealth program scandalized tient clinics, or those who live by long patient wait times and at least 40 miles from one of falsified records covering up delays, the bill’s chief support- them. The bill would limit the number of veterans who can ers said Monday. get outside care by restricting The agreement includes $10 it to those who are enrolled as billion in emergency spending of Aug. 1. to make it easier for veterans The proposed restrictions who can’t get prompt appointare important in controlling ments with Veterans Affairs costs for the program. Condoctors to obtain outside care; $5 billion to hire doctors, nurs- gressional budget analysts es and other medical staff; and had projected that tens of thousands of about $1.5 bilveterans who lion to lease 27 currently are new clinics not treated by across the counthe VA would try, the chairlikely seek VA men of the care if they House and Sencould see a priate Veterans Afvate doctor fairs commitpaid for by the tees said. government.

The bill also The deal rewould expand a quires a vote scholarship proby a conference gram for veterLOUIS CELLI committee of ans to include House and Sensurviving Legislative director ate negotiators spouses of miliand votes in tary members for American Legion the full House who died in the and Senate. line of duty, The legislation is intended allow all veterans to qualify to reform the Veterans Affairs for in-state college tuition and Department, which has been grant the VA secretary aurocked by reports of patients thority to immediately fire sedying while awaiting VA treatnior executives, while providment and mounting evidence ing employees with streamthat workers falsified or omitlined appeal rights. ted appointment schedules to The bill “makes certain that mask frequent, long delays. we address the immediate criThe resulting election-year sis of veterans being forced firestorm forced VA Secretary onto long waiting lists for Eric Shinseki to resign in late health care,” said Sen. Bernie May. Sanders, I-Vt., chairman of Louis Celli, legislative directhe Senate Veterans Affairs panel. The bill also “strengthens the VA so that it will be able to hire the doctors, nurses and medical personnel it needs so we can permanently put an end to the long waiting lists,” Sanders said at a news conference with Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., his House counterpart.

Sanders and Miller reached agreement on the plan during the weekend after more than six weeks of

BY MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press

‘There is an emergency need to get veterans off the waiting lists.

That’s what this is all about.’

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks Thursday during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. A compromise reached during the weekend would improve veterans’ health care by spending $17 billion to fix the scandalized Veterans Affairs program. tor for the American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans group, said the deal would provide crucial help to veterans who have been waiting months or even years for VA health care.

“There is an emergency need to get veterans off the waiting lists. That’s what this is all about,” Celli said Sunday.

Tom Tarantino, chief policy officer of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said the agreement was good news — although several months late.

“It’s about time they’re doing their jobs,” he said of Sanders, Miller and other members of Congress. “You don’t get a medal for doing your job.”

Veterans waiting two months for medical appointments “don’t care about all this back and forth” in Congress, Tarantino said. “That’s what should be driving decisions.”

An updated audit by the VA this month showed that about 10 percent of veterans seeking medical care at VA hospitals and clinics still have to wait at least 30 days for an appointment. About 46,000 veterans have had to wait at least three months for initial appointments, the report said, and an additional 7,000 veterans who asked for appointments during the past decade never got them.

Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson has said the VA is making improvements but said veterans in many com-

munities still are waiting too long to receive needed care.

The VA provides health care to nearly 9 million enrolled veterans.

The House and Senate are set to adjourn at the end of the week until early September, and lawmakers from both parties have said completing a bill on veterans’ health care is a top priority.

The Senate is expected to vote this week to confirm former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald as the new VA secretary, replacing Gibson.

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Has the Science Channel forgotten what real science is?

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Can’t we leave the Science Channel to science? Must every non-fiction series on TV be devoted to superstition, gullibility and fear? Can’t believers in rational thought have one measly channel to call their own? There are dozens of shows searching for ghosts (that no one has found) and a Bigfoot (that doesn’t exist). How many UFO hunting shows do we need?

Why can’t the Science Channel stick to principles of rational thought, inquiry, and theories tested by experiment? Alas, reality TV’s Age of Unreason has infected this bastion of critical thinking with “The Unexplained Files” (10 p.m.), a series that supposedly takes a “scientific” look at phenomena that “reason cannot explain.”

That sounds mind-boggling, but it basically boils down to the well-covered territory: exorcisms, mythical beasts, mermaid sightings, “the hidden mysteries of the pyramids,” and — drumroll please — flying saucer sightings that defy easy explanation. In short, the umpteenth iteration of “Unsolved Mysteries,” the old Robert Stack show from 1987, whose appearance predated even “COPS” as a reality TV fixture.

• “Frontline” (10 p.m., PBS, check local listings) returns to familiar ground with “Losing Iraq” a 90-minute report on growing violence and chaos in that country. Tracing upticks of violence from the fall of Saddam to the rise of ISIL in Iraq and Syria, “Losing” was produced by longtime “Frontline” contributor Michael Kirk (“United States of Secrets”).

• The new series “Raising Asia” (10 p.m., Lifetime, TVPG) only sounds like a CNBC report on economic trends.

It’s actually a new showcase for an unhinged stage mother

p.m., CW, r, TV-PG) * Marilu Henner guest- stars on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (8:30 p.m. Fox, r, TV-14) * A war crimes suspect remains elusive on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (9 p.m., r, CBS, TV-14) * Adam Brody guest-stars on “New Girl” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV14). A haunted bunker on “Supernatural” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV14) * Mindy is uploaded on “The Mindy Project” (9:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Plaxico Burress and DJ Paul endure a “Celebrity Wife Swap” (10 p.m., ABC, TV14).

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Dr. Harry Kloor and paranormal researchers J.J. Sicotte, Michael Rudie, Brandon Alvis and Matt Goldman investigate phenomena that cannot be reasonably explained on “The Unexplained Files,” which begins its second season at 10 p.m. today on the Science Channel. behind the talented daughter she describes as a “triple threat.” Does that mean she’s a “total package” as well? Or does that go without saying?

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • A jobless home cook takes on five celebrity chefs for prestige and prize money on “Food Fighters” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).

• Hanna hits the bottle on “Pretty Little Liars” (8 p.m., ABC Family, TV-14).

• Divya (Reshma Shetty) bonds with a patient with fertility issues on “Royal Pains” (9 p.m., USA, TV-PG).

• A lucky dozen perform at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on “America’s Got Talent” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).

• April skips school to offer support for Beth on “Chasing Life” (9 p.m., ABC Family, TV14).

• Undercover in the world of rare books on “Rizzoli & Isles” (9

p.m., TNT, TV-14).

• Fleet week opens in New York on “Person of Interest” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• Barry convinces Jamal to bend on “Tyrant” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA).

• Annie enlists at the Russian embassy on “Covert Affairs” (10 p.m., USA, TV-14).

CULT CHOICE Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara star in the unabashed-

ly corny 1963 melodrama “Spencer’s Mountain” (10 p.m., TCM), an inspiration for “The Waltons.”

SERIES NOTES An admiral’s daughter needs help on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Christmas woes on “Family Guy” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * A reunion inspires a mother on “Extreme Weight Loss” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * Sara joins up on “Arrow” (8

Sara Firth is scheduled on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Steven Ho, Molly Shannon and Mike Recine appear on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS, r) * John C. Reilly, John Caparulo, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Ross Mathews are booked on “Chelsea Lately” (11 p.m., E!) * Jon Batiste & Stay Human sit down on “The Colbert Report” (11:30 p.m., Comedy Central) * Chris Pratt, Judy Greer and Rodrigo Y Gabriela appear on “Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Vin Diesel, Aubrey Plaza and will.i.am with The Roots on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Maggie Gyllenhaal and Scott Aukerman visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Craig Ferguson hosts Jamie Chung on “The Late Late Show” (12:35 a.m., CBS). © 2014,United Feature Syndicate

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CAMP FROM PAGE A1 these kids and these counselors be better people. They’re learning life skills to be successful adults, to go into the workforce and be better teachers and doctors. What the campers learn may allow them to live independently, have a job and have a full, enriching and satisfying life.”

She has served in this position since 1989. Aimone worked as a counselor at the Wedgefield camp when she was in college, and her father also once worked at Camp Burnt Gin. Run by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, the camp provides fun activities and crafts commonly associated with the summer camp experience but adjusted for youth with special needs.

For example, a child with developmental delays may be a teenager but could be interested in more elementary pursuits, such as making necklaces out of cereal, Aimone said.

“We focus on what they can do, not what they can’t,” Aimone said.

Through this camp, they learn social skills, gain confidence and increase self-esteem, she said. Parents have even told her they’ve taken write-ups of what their child has done to his or her school individual education plan meetings.

“We support what they are learning in school,” Aimone said. “When they talk about goals for the child for the school year, the parents can show the camp letter and say, ‘my child did this at camp. My child can do this.’ ... When they are away from home, they may be more willing to try

OPC FROM PAGE A1 in the Osteen family will continue to build on the work of serving the communities of Baldwin County and the people from around the country who depend on our website for news and events related to the vibrant coastal tourist market.

They have been in the business for generations and have adapted to the changing needs of communities in several states.”

Gulf Coast Newspapers consists of newspapers in several Baldwin County, Alabama, communities, as well as tourism-related publications, a website dedicated to the Alabama Gulf Coast and a strong Facebook and Twitter presence. The newspapers are published

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Campers Jennifer Corley, left, and Shaniqua Rice, right, hold hands with Camp Burnt Gin counselors Rachel Hoverstad, back, and Samantha Brophy during water Zumba on Monday. something new with somebody else. It’s just huge.”

For the parents, this program offers a little bit of respite.

“Some of these kids don’t go anywhere but Camp Burnt Gin,” Aimone said. “Because of their health care needs, they don’t spend the night at a friend’s. Maybe with a grandparent — if the grandparent is comfortable taking care of them. These families need a break. Some need to be able to give attention to

under five different names: “The Courier,” “The Independent,” “The Baldwin Times,” “The Foley Onlooker” and “The Islander.” Also included is a website, GulfCoastNewsToday.com, and several specialty publications and magazines.

Sudie Gambrell, the publisher of Gulf Coast Newspapers, will continue in that role.

Gambrell will report to Larry Miller, chief executive officer of OPC News and Osteen Publishing Co. Miller, based in South Carolina, oversees all Osteen properties, which include newspapers in Florida, New Mexico and South Carolina.

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their other children.”

Medical staff is always on hand to help with medication and any needs that may arise.

Kathy Joye, or “Nurse Kathy” as the campers call her, is a registered nurse who has worked at the camp for more than 20 years.

“I’ve watched these children grow up over many summers,” she said. “It’s amazing to see how tall they’ve gotten and how much they remember. My husband jokes with me that this is my

summer home. They hold a special place in my heart. It’s a special bond with them. It doesn’t matter what you look like or what you have or don’t have; we’re all on the same level when we come in that gate.”

Because of the time commitment, only about half of the staff return each summer, Aimone said. For those who do, there is one main reason.

“It’s definitely the campers,” said Katherine Lynch, a rising

Sumter High School senior. “I want to be an autism teacher and maybe go into med school for therapy.”

First-time Camp Burnt Gin counselors have similar reactions.

“I love it,” said Darvaris Gregg, a College of Charleston student studying exercise science and pre-med. “Being with the kids is great. It’s just awesome.”

For more information, contact Aimone at Aimonemi@ dhec.sc.gov.

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COMMENTARY

Candy sales not working for schools

BY TRIP DuBARD A federal nutrition program that places new restrictions on snacks and beverages sold in schools also provides an opportunity for some fresh thinking about school fundraisers.

As reported by The State newspaper recently, The Smart Snacks in Schools program creates a dilemma: How will schools raise private dollars if they can no longer sell snack foods?

“If we can’t sell a candy bar anymore, what can we sell?” asked one school official. “We are going to have to get creative.”

How creative would it be simply to stop selling?

When was the last time your college asked you to buy a candy bar? Nonprofits, colleges and universities don’t sell stuff to raise money; they simply appeal for support based on the organization’s mission.

Why don’t our public schools?

As a parent, former local PTA officer and public-school supporter, I believe such creative thinking could benefit schools in three big areas: dollars kept by the school, financial accountability and community involvement.

DOLLARS Most parents know school fundraisers are big business, raising thousands of dollars for an individual school. This additional cash is used by the principal and/or the school PTA to buy copy machines, computers, library books and almost anything else within a school.

What most people don’t know, though, is how few dollars the schools actually keep.

Would you believe only half ?

In fact, that may be too generous. “World’s Finest Chocolate” advertises “up to 50 percent” profit. And Sally Foster says schools can expect 40 percent profit on sales of its cookie dough.

Think about it: People are trying to give twice as much money as the schools actually receive. The other half goes to a for-profit company.

Could there be a better way?

Sure. Simply donate directly to the school. Unfortunately, most public schools (The Governor’s School for Science and Math in Hartsville being a notable exception) don’t have development offices like universities and can’t or don’t want to handle direct donations. To get around that, they could ally themselves with a willing nonprofit, such as a community foundation or local education foundation.

The answer for more than 160 public schools in counties such as Georgetown, Lee, Horry, York, Dorchester, Spartanburg, Berkeley and Greenwood has been a “Donate Now” button offered by SC Future Minds. The nonprofit works like a privately funded development office for public schools, organizing corporate and individual support through programs such as the SC Teacher of the Year Celebration, Spaghetti Night Sponsored by Mueller’s and the Conference of SC Public Education Partners. Instead of keeping “up to 50 percent”, schools using the “Donate Now” button keep 94 percent

‘Peddling snacks, wrapping paper or cookie dough to improve programs devalues the great work teachers across South Carolina perform every day and underestimates how much a grateful public values that work.’

TRIP DuBARD Executive director of SC Future Minds of donations, with the rest going to offset SC Future Minds’ transaction costs.

ACCOUNTABILITY Parents join a PTA to support their children. But wellmeaning volunteers can soon be over their heads with accounting issues they’re not trained to handle, resulting in embarrassing news stories about missing PTA funds.

Why not separate those duties and allow PTAs to do what they’re good at — connecting parents to school needs — and outsourcing the difficult accounting issues?

Contributions to the “Donate Now” button go to SC Future Minds, a legal 501(c)(3) charity whose finances are audited annually by the Elliot Davis accounting firm. A check is issued from SC Future Minds, along with a spreadsheet showing contributions and fees, directly to the principal of a school, who is easily held accountable through the district’s board and superintendent.

INVOLVEMENT If you got a note that your first-grade teacher was retiring and asking your help to honor her, wouldn’t you consider a financial contribution to the school? Colleges and universities have vast systems to keep in touch with their graduates but not K-12 public schools. Online donations help create the databases public schools need to keep graduates in far-away locales connected.

Peddling snacks, wrapping paper or cookie dough to improve programs devalues the great work teachers across South Carolina perform every day and underestimates how much a grateful public values that work. Let’s cut out the expensive middleman and make it easy to support our public schools with easy and accountable online donations.

Trip DuBard, a former reporter for The Sumter Item now residing in Florence, is executive director of SC Future Minds, which connects private support to public schools across South Carolina. He can be reached at trip@scfutureminds.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OWNERS WHO TURN DOGS LOOSE SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE This letter is in response to the frontpage article from The Sumter Item published on Friday, July 25, titled “Dog shot to death triggers questions on guns in parks.”

Here we go again over a dog shot in the park. Dog owners who turn their dogs loose in city parks are the ones who should be held responsible. What if the Rottweiler mix threatened a young child who had no means to protect himself or herself ? The child could have been mauled or even killed. If that had happened, would the mayor be so quick to suggest banding all dogs from city parks?

I don’t think so. Individuals who are authorized to carry a concealed weapon do so for one reason and that is for self protection. Not all city parks are the safest place to be in our society today, and as for myself, I feel much safer when I walk in the park with my concealed weapon.

DONNIE HALLAM Sumter

CWP LAW WORKED PROPERLY IN CASE OF OFF-LEASH DOG Last week, a local concealed weapons permit holder utilized his sidearm to stop an attack by a Rottweiler mix in Memorial Park. This has raised questions about the reasonableness of his action.

As is nearly all states, South Carolina uses a “reasonable person” standard for judging self defense. You cannot use force whenever you “feel scared.” A reasonable person would have to agree that the defender faced an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.

In this incident, an off-leash Rottweiler mix aggressively approached a resident.

One media report describes the off-leash dog as “growling” and “charging.” A typical Rottweiler weighs around a hundred pounds. Researchers working for the Centers for Disease Control have determined that “Rottweilers were the most commonly reported breed involved in fatal attacks” (Sacks et al, 2000). In particular, there are concerns about Rottweilers having aggressive tendencies toward strangers due to their protective instincts.

I greatly admire Rottweilers and would like to own one someday, but owning a dog of this particular breed comes with a special responsibility to keep the animal under control in public. The CDC study highlights that fewer than 0.5 percent of fatal dog attacks involved dogs in public that were on a leash, which is what the local ordinance requires. It seems plausible that a reasonable person might fear death or serious bodily injury if being approached by an uncontrolled, aggressive Rottweiler.

At the end of the day, local police determined that there wasn’t even probable cause that the CWP holder acted carelessly or violated the city ordinance against negligent discharge of firearms. The incident shows that local law enforcement cannot protect us all the time — if they could, then the off-leash Rottweiler mix would have been under proper control and the ir-

responsible owner cited. Calling 911 and waiting ten minutes for the police to arrive while enduring an attack from a large dog is not realistic and would likely result in serious harm. While the outcome in this case was tragic due to the negligence of the dog’s owners, in this case, the CWP law worked properly, allowing a resident to protect himself from a threat that a reasonable person would perceive as being likely to inflict serious bodily injury.

Would it be a preferable outcome to disarm law-abiding residents and leave them defenseless against predatory attacks?

HEATHER SEIDLER Sumter

CHILDREN ENTERING U.S. ILLEGALLY ARE A BURDEN TO TAXPAYERS After reading the letter Beverly Frierson wrote on July 24 I felt like I had been had. She made 3 points of argument that were carefully designed to make the reader feel guilty for not supporting illegal immigrants.

1. She tried to make the reader feel shame for associating with the beliefs of anyone who could mistake American children going to a youth camp for illegal children being transported to a holding facility.

2. She asked the question how the child of an immigrant can be against immigration to create false equivalency.

3. She brought up dead children killed in an airplane crash to beg sympathy.

She would like to use race (can you imagine someone playing that card) as the reason that Americans are against illegal immigrants by saying “Why are some adults nurturing and compassionate to children except for children with golden brown skin and dark, shiny hair?” My answer is there is no racial, sexual or any other trait difference between those children and the children on the bus except who is legal and who is not. Race is not why I have a problem with them being here, the problem I have is they are here illegally and that is a burden on the American taxpayer.

As to children of immigrants not wanting children of illegal immigrants here, well that is even easier. I have not read where Nikki Haley’s parents came here illegally. That would be news to me. My own grandfather came here on a boat as an immigrant and he did so legally. So I pose the question back, why can’t these people immigrate here legally. Why must they cross the border illegally? Neither Nikki Haley nor I have a problem with legal immigration.

She then asks how we can have respect for dead children’s bodies but not living children, the sympathy card, well played.

This was done to make you feel guilty about wanting others to follow the laws as you are expected to do.

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

JOHN GAYDOS Wedgefield

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SUPPORT GROUPS AA, AL-ANON, ALATEEN: AA — Monday-Friday, noon and 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 7751852.

AA Women’s Meeting — Wednesday, 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 775-1852.

AA Spanish Speaking — Sunday, 4:30 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 775-1852.

AA “How it Works” Group — Monday and Friday, 8 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call (803) 4945180.

Al-Anon “Courage to Change” Support Group — Tuesday, 7 p.m., Alice Drive Baptist Church, Room 204, 1305 Loring Mill Road. Call Dian at (803) 316-0775 or Crystal at (803) 775-3587.

441 AA Support Group — Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 8:30 p.m., Hair Force, 2090-D S.C. 441.

AA Summerton Group — Wednesday, 8 p.m., town hall.

Manning Al-Anon Family Group — Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Behavioral Health Building, 14 Church St., Manning. Call Angie Johnson at (803) 4358085.

C/A “Drop the Rock” Group — Thursday, 9:30 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call Elizabeth Owens at (803) 607-4543.

HIV/AIDS: Positive Outlook, through Wa-

teree AIDS Task Force, meets at 11:30 a.m. third Friday of each month. Support group for those with HIV / AIDS, their friends and family. For meeting location, contact Kevin, peer educator and advocate, at (803) 778-0303 or at watereeaids@sc.rr.com.

(803) 469-2616 or Carol at (803) 469-9426.

EFMP Parent Exchange Group — Last Tuesday each month, 11 a.m.-noon, Airman and Family Readiness Center. Support to service members who have a dependent with a disability or illness. Call Dorcus Haney at (803) 895-1252/1253 or Sue Zimmerman at (803) 847-2377.

WEDNESDAY MEETINGS: Sickle Cell Support Group — last Wednesday each month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., South Sumter Resource Center, 337 Manning Ave. Call Bertha Willis at (803) 774-6181.

THURSDAY MEETINGS: TOPS S.C. No. 236 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) — Thursdays, 9 a.m., Spectrum Senior Center,1989 Durant Lane. Call Diane at (803) 775-3926 or Nancy at (803) 469-4789.

Asthma Support Group — Every 1st Thursday, 6 p.m., Clarendon County School District 3 Parenting Center, 2358 Walker Gamble Road, New Zion. Call Mary Howard at (843) 6592102.

Alzheimer’s Support Group through S.C. Alzheimer’s Association — Every 1st Thursday, 6-8 p.m., McElveen Manor, 2065 McCrays Mill Road. Call Cheryl Fluharty at (803) 905-7720 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 6363346.

Journey of Hope (for families members of the mentally ill), Journey to Recovery (for the mentally ill) and Survivors of Suicide Support Group — Each group meets every 1st Thursday, 7 p.m., St. John United Methodist Church, 136 Poinsett Drive. Call Fred Harmon at (803) 905-5620.

MONDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Vitiligo Support Group — second Monday of each month, 5:45-6:45 p.m., North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Call Tiffany at (803) 316-6763.

Find us on Facebook at Sumter Vitiligo Support.

TUESDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Connective Tissue Support Group — 1st Tuesday of Jan.,

March, May, July, Sept. and Nov., 7 p.m., 180 Tiller Circle.

Call (803) 773-0869.

Mothers of Angels (for mothers who have lost a child) — Every Tuesday, 6 p.m., Wise Drive Baptist Church. Call Betty at

FRIDAY MEETINGS: Celebrate Recovery — Every Friday, 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program, Salt & Light Church, Miller Road (across from Food Lion). For help with struggles of alcohol, drugs, family problems, smoking, etc.

SATURDAY MEETINGS: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/ Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Support Group — 1:30 p.m. every third Saturday, 3785 Blackberry Lane, Lot 7.

Call Donna Parker at (803) 481-7521.

AROUND TOWN Call (803) 775-2363 for information or to register for either class.

The Transatlantic Brides and Parents Association (A British Heritage Society) will meet at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 1, at the Spectrum Senior Center, Pinewood Road. All British ex pats are welcome. Call Josie at (803) 775-8052.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Detail coupled EUGENIA LAST with hard work will bring you the rewards you’re looking for, as well as keep you out of trouble. The more you do and the less you say, the further ahead you’ll be. Focus on positive change.

your options and your financial situation and consider what will make you happy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Turn something you do well and enjoy into a moneymaking endeavor, but stay within budget and build a strong, solid base for your business venture. A little sweet talk will enable you to get some free assistance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Let passion lead the way. Whether you show a strong appetite for a project, person or a cause, you’ll draw attention. You can make a difference that will bring about change. Love is in the stars.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotional deception is apparent.

Don’t offer cash, assistance or anything else without getting the lowdown as to where and how your contribution will be used. Someone will take advantage of your kindness if you aren’t careful.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A conversation will lead to a new approach to the way you do things.

Hook up with someone you feel is talented and work as a team. Your confidence will ensure others that you are capable of handling whatever comes your way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Make positive choices. You may feel impulsive, but consider the best way to proceed. Too much of anything will lead to regret. Focus more on learning and adding to your qualifications rather than trying to make a physical change.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t let emotions take over. Uncertainty regarding a business or personal partnership is a clear indication that you need to make changes. Look at

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Gaffney 82/61 Spartanburg 83/63

Greenville 82/64

Columbia 89/69

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IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 88/67

Aiken 88/64

ON THE COAST

Charleston 89/71

Today: Partly sunny; a thunderstorm in spots. High 86 to 91.

Wednesday: Partly sunny; a thunderstorm in spots. High 83 to 89.

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Manning 88/65

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Wednesday: A thunderstorm in spots.

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The American Red Cross will offer the following classes: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 31, New Volunteer Orientation / Disaster Services Overview at the Red Cross office, 1155 N. Guignard Drive; and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, Shelter Fundamentals / Simulation class at Taw Caw Community Outreach, 1126 Granby Lane, Summerton.

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DAILY PLANNER

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Follow through with plans but don’t share your opinions. You’ll get more accomplished and avoid interference if you stay away from emotional situations that can give any competition you face an edge.

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MEGAMILLIONS FRIDAY

7-15-21-27-32 PowerUp: 3

24-28-30-38-39 Powerball: 16 Powerplay: 2

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Keep money matters and home investments in check. Now is not the time to take a chance or make an emotional expenditure. Stick to a strict budget and course of action.

Emotional deception is apparent.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Look for answers and you will recover information that can help you diminish any uncertainty you have regarding a partnership. Invest in yourself and your attributes. An old flame can create trouble if you aren’t open regarding intentions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your interests will vary and your ability to recognize a moneymaking trend will grab attention. Consider starting a small home-based business or developing a skill that can raise your earning potential, but keep your plans affordable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t hold back. Keep everything out in the open to avoid being accused of something you didn’t do. Focus on home, family and improving your financial situation. Love is on the rise.

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A Filipino boy plays inside a large metal tube that will be used to repair an old bridge in suburban Malabon, north of Manila, Philippines.

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AMERICAN LEGION STATE TOURNAMENT

Returning to form Watcher’s gem paces Sumter past Hartsville

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com The Sumter P-15’s were not only looking for a win against Hartsville on Monday to stay alive in the American Legion baseball state tournament, but likely a solid game all around just for confidence’s sake.

A 7-1, error-free victory and complete-game 4-hitter from Jacob Watcher?

“What we needed,” Sumter head coach Curtis Johnson said succinctly.

After faltering in all three phases of the game against Florence on Sunday, the P-15’s bounced back against Post 53 – pounding out 13 hits and using a 4-run third inning to pull away from Hartsville at Riley Park.

Sumter, now 27-9 on the season, will face Inman today regardless of the outcome of Monday’s late game between Post 45 and Florence. If Inman wins, Sumter will play at the newly rescheduled time of 5:30 p.m. If Inman loses, the two teams will meet at 1 p.m.

Wednesday’s opening game has also been rescheduled for 10 a.m.

Hartsville finished the season at 15-11. It was the sixth

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Sumter’s Jacob Watcher helped the P-15’s get back on track after their 14-0, 7-inning loss to Florence on Sunday with a 7-1 victory on MondaySEE FORM, PAGE B3 over Hartsville at Riley Park. Sumter will face Inman at 1 p.m. today.

Newton lifts Florence to title game

BY EDDIE LITAKER Special to The Sumter Item Florence Post 1 continued its dominant run through the American Legion baseball state tournament on Monday with a 13-1 victory over Inman Post 45 at Riley Park.

Florence is the last undefeated team in the tournament. Post 1, now 35-3 on the season, will play

NASCAR

Gordon eyeing 5th title after Brickyard win

BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

Camden Post 17 today at 5:30 p.m. Win or lose today, Florence has earned a spot in Wednesday’s championship round. Inman, which fell to 24-7, will play Sumter today at 1 p.m. in an elimination game.

Post 1 scored three runs in the first inning, one in the second, four in the fifth, two in the sixth

ally, and they came ready to play.”

Camden put up five runs in the second inning and starting pitcher Grayson King tossed six innings of 1-run ball as it defeated Chapin-Newberry in an elimination game.

Post 17 improved to 24-7 and will play Florence today at either 1 or 5:30 p.m.

The starting time will be determined by the outcome of Monday night’s game between Inman and Florence.

If Florence wins the two teams will meet at 5:30 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS — Long before Jimmie Johnson arrived on the NASCAR scene, Jeff Gordon was the fastest thing on wheels.

He was the “Wonder Boy” who racked up wins at a record place. He brought the southern sport to Madison Ave. and became such a household name that even rapper Nelly name-dropped Gordon in a song.

Gordon won all the big races, collected four chamGORDON pionships in seven years and had 58 victories before his 30th birthday.

Then his pace began to slow, the rest of the field caught up to him and Johnson moved into the Hendrick Motorsports shop as the new kid on the block.

Gordon hasn’t won a title since, while Johnson has won five.

Now, 13 years after Gordon launched “The Drive for 5,” Gordon is on track to collect that elusive fifth title.

The Sprint Cup points leader won Sunday’s Brickyard 400, a race that often gives a preview of the championship.

Nine times in 21 years, the winner at Indianapolis Motor Speedway went on to hoist the Cup at the end of the year.

“If you can do it here, you can do it anywhere,” Gordon said after his NASCAR-record fifth win at Indy.

Gordon, a week shy of his 43rd birthday and often fighting an aching back, won on

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SEE GORDON, PAGE B2

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Florence’s Zack Newton threw 7 2/3 innings and struck out nine batters in Post 1’s 13-1 victory over Inman in the American Legion baseball state tournament on Monday at Riley Park. The win earns Florence a spot in the championship game on Wednesday regardless of the outcome of toSEE FLORENCE, PAGE B3 day’s 5:30 p.m. game against Camden.

Camden eliminates Chapin-Newberry

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com After suffering a gutwrenching 10-9, 10-inning loss to Inman Post 45 on Sunday in the American Legion baseball state tournament, Camden Post 17 head coach Craig Smith was interested to see what kind of team he would greet for the 30-mile trip to Riley Park on Monday.

“I could tell when we met to ride the bus this morning DENNIS BRUNSON / THE SUMTER ITEM they were ready to play,” Camden shortstop Tyler Bowers awaits a throw as Chapin- Newber- said Smith, whose team let a ry’s Kendall Pitts slides into second base during Post 17’s 7-3 victory late 6-2 lead slip away.

“They took that loss personon Monday at Riley Park in the American Legion state tournament

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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014

SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO

MONDAY’S GAMES

TODAY

11 a.m. -- Women’s Professional Golf: Ladies European Tour Sberbank Golf Masters Second Round from Prague (GOLF).

Noon -- WNBA Basketball: Connecticut at Atlanta (NBA TV, SPORTSOUTH).

12:30 p.m. -- American Legion Baseball: State Tournament Game Twelve from Sumter -- Inman vs. Sumter (WWHM-FM 92.3, WWHM-FM 93.3, WWHM-AM 1290).

1 p.m. -- College Football: Media Days (ESPNU).

5 p.m. -- International Athletics: Commonwealth Games Highlights from Glasgow, Scotland (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

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

6:30 p.m. -- American Legion Baseball: State Tournament Game Thirteen from Sumter -- Camden vs. Florence (WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. -- NPF Softball: Chicago at Pennsylvania (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. -- International Soccer: International Champions Cup Match from Landover, Md. -- Inter vs. Manchester United (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. -- WNBA Basketball: Chicago at San Antonio (ESPN2).

8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: New York Yankees at Texas (FOX SPORTS 1).

8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Colorado at Chicago Cubs (WGN).

10 p.m. -- WNBA Basketball: Los Angeles at Phoenix (ESPN2).

10 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Pittsburgh at San Francisco or Atlanta at Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB NETWORK).

10 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Atlanta at Los Angeles Dodgers (SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7).

GOLF The Associated Press RBC CANADIAN OPEN PAR SCORES

Sunday At Royal Montreal Golf Club Montreal Purse: $5.7 million Yardage: 7,153; Par: 70 Final a-amateur Tim Clark (500), $1,026,000 67-67-64-65—263 -17 Jim Furyk (300), $615,600 67-63-65-69—264 -16 Justin Hicks (190), $387,600 66-67-70-64—267 -13 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (115), $235,600 67-67-69-66—269 -11 Matt Kuchar (115), $235,600 69-65-70-65—269 -11 Michael Putnam (115), $235,600 64-70-69-66—269 -11 Graham DeLaet (88), $183,825 69-63-70-68—270 -10 Dicky Pride (88), $183,825 66-71-70-63—270 -10 Brad Fritsch (75), $153,900 72-68-67-64—271 -9 Kevin Kisner (75), $153,900 70-69-68-64—271 -9

THE SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES

Sunday At Royal Porthcawl Golf Club Bridgend, Wales Purse: $2 million Yardage: 7,021; Par: 71 Final a-amateur Bernhard Langer (846), $423,355 65-66-68-67—266 -18 Colin Montgomerie (564), $282,344 72-66-72-69—279 -5 Rick Gibson (262), $131,192 70-71-66-75—282 -2 Barry Lane (262), $131,192 72-69-69-72—282 -2 Tom Pernice Jr. (262), $131,192 78-64-70-70—282 -2 Scott Dunlap (166), $82,551 71-73-65-75—284 E Bob Tway (166), $82,551 67-73-68-76—284 E Miguel A. Jimenez (120), $60,176 74-69-74-68—285 +1 Kirk Triplett (120), $60,176 72-72-71-70—285 +1 Russ Cochran (98), $48,721 74-73-67-72—286 +2

MLB STANDINGS

By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION W Baltimore 58 Toronto 56 New York 54 Tampa Bay 51 Boston 48 CENTRAL DIVISION W Detroit 57 Kansas City 53 Cleveland 52 Chicago 51 Minnesota 47 WEST DIVISION W Oakland 65 Los Angeles 63 Seattle 54 Houston 42 Texas 41

L 46 50 50 54 57

Pct .558 .528 .519 .486 .457

GB – 3 4 71/2 101/2

L 45 51 53 55 57

Pct .559 .510 .495 .481 .452

GB – 5 61/2 8 11

L 39 41 51 63 64

Pct .625 .606 .514 .400 .390

GB – 2 111/2 231/2 241/2

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Toronto 5, N.Y. Yankees 4 Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2 Minnesota 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Cleveland 10, Kansas City 3 Miami 4, Houston 2 L.A. Angels 2, Detroit 1 Baltimore 3, Seattle 2, 10 innings Oakland 9, Texas 3

MONDAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Texas, late Oakland at Houston, late

TODAY’S GAMES

L.A. Angels (Weaver 11-6) at Baltimore (Tillman 7-5), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 8-5) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-5), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-7) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 7-4), 7:08 p.m.

Milwaukee (Garza 7-7) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 6-6), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 6-2) at Boston (R. De La Rosa 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (McCarthy 2-0) at Texas (N.Martinez 1-6), 8:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Swarzak 2-0) at Kansas City (Shields 9-5), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Samardzija 2-1) at Houston (Feldman 4-8), 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia CENTRAL DIVISION Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago WEST DIVISION Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

N.Y. Mets 2, Milwaukee 0 St. Louis 1, Chicago Cubs 0 Pittsburgh 7, Colorado 5 Atlanta 8, San Diego 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, San Francisco 3

W 57 58 51 50 46

L 45 48 53 55 59

Pct .559 .547 .490 .476 .438

GB – 1 7 81/2 121/2

W 59 56 55 52 42

L 47 48 49 52 61

Pct .557 .538 .529 .500 .408

GB – 2 3 6 151/2

W 59 57 46 45 43

L 47 48 59 60 61

Pct .557 .543 .438 .429 .413

GB – 11/2 121/2 131/2 15

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Washington 4, Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 4, Arizona 2 Miami 4, Houston 2

Atlanta 2, San Diego 0 Arizona at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

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

Washington at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Arizona (Cahill 1-7) at Cincinnati (Leake 7-9), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Garza 7-7) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 6-6), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 5-5) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 4-3), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 7-8) at Miami (H.Alvarez 7-5), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 11-6) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 5-11), 8:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Harang 9-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 6-5), 10:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 11-7) at San Diego (T.Ross 9-10), 10:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 2-7) at San Francisco (Hudson 8-7), 10:15 p.m.

NASCAR The Associated Press

Sprint Cup Leaders Through July 27 Points 1, Jeff Gordon, 717. 2, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 693. 3, Brad Keselowski, 666. 4, Matt Kenseth, 661. 5, Jimmie Johnson, 628. 6, Kyle Busch, 609. 7, Ryan Newman, 606. 8, Carl Edwards, 603. 9, Joey Logano, 591. 10, Clint Bowyer, 577. 11, Denny Hamlin, 572. 12, Kevin Harvick, 565. 13, Kyle Larson, 562. 14, Austin Dillon, 559. 15, Kasey Kahne, 555. 16, Paul Menard, 551. 17, Greg Biffle, 550.

18, Brian Vickers, 532. 19, Tony Stewart, 529. 20, Marcos Ambrose, 511.

Money 1, Brad Keselowski, $4,653,424. 2, Jeff Gordon, $4,387,719. 3, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $4,270,384. 4, Jimmie Johnson, $4,266,009. 5, Jamie McMurray, $4,046,534. 6, Kyle Busch, $3,940,926.

7, Matt Kenseth, $3,939,438. 8, Kevin Harvick, $3,881,994. 9, Joey Logano, $3,832,839. 10, Denny Hamlin, $3,788,946. 11, Greg Biffle, $3,303,324.

12, Austin Dillon, $3,244,395. 13, Clint Bowyer, $3,162,726. 14, Paul Menard, $3,154,930.

15, Carl Edwards, $3,149,132.

16, Brian Vickers, $3,145,004.

17, Aric Almirola, $3,140,825.

18, Tony Stewart, $3,071,224. 19, Kyle Larson, $3,009,800.

20, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., $2,959,725.

JOHN WAYNE WALDING 400 RESULTS The Associated Press Sunday At Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis, Ind. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 160 laps, 138.4 rating, 47 points, $434,376.

2. (12) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 160, 116.8, 42, $373,781.

3. (27) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 160, 109.4, 42, $307,890.

4. (13) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 160, 104.1, 40, $303,751.

5. (9) Joey Logano, Ford, 160, 109, 40, $266,806.

6. (10) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 160, 132.7, 40, $231,130.

7. (15) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 160, 104.4, 38, $226,675.

8. (1) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 160, 114.6, 37, $230,288.

9. (23) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 160, 83.2, 35, $196,255.

10. (17) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 160, 89.7, 35, $228,891.

11. (4) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 160, 88.9, 33, $188,455.

12. (3) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 160, 85.3, 32, $218,288.

13. (19) Greg Biffle, Ford, 160, 71.9, 31, $209,330.

14. (11) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 160, 91.9, 30, $217,691.

15. (18) Carl Edwards, Ford, 160, 79, 29, $183,555.

16. (16) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 160, 87.9, 29, $201,046.

17. (6) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 160, 81.7, 27, $199,838.

18. (36) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 160, 62.7, 26, $181,713.

19. (5) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 160, 90.3, 25, $201,355.

20. (24) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 160, 73.5, 24, $196,144.

21. (41) Aric Almirola, Ford, 160, 64.2, 23, $197,416.

22. (22) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 160, 67.9, 22, $185,725.

23. (8) Juan Pablo Montoya, Ford, 160, 58.5, 21, $154,330.

24. (21) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 160, 54.4, 20, $193,030.

25. (25) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 160, 66.7, 19, $184,013.

26. (28) Michael McDowell, Ford, 160, 51.8, 18, $151,855.

27. (31) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 159, 58.2, 17, $178,088.

28. (7) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 159, 69.7, 16, $152,555.

29. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 159, 44.2, 15, $151,955.

30. (37) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 158, 41.1, 0, $152,805.

31. (33) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 158, 48.5, 14, $164,813.

32. (39) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 158, 35.5, 12, $150,155.

33. (26) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 158, 34.8, 11, $169,338.

34. (29) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 158, 47, 10, $174,094.

35. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 158, 36.6, 9, $164,177.

36. (34) David Gilliland, Ford, 157, 40.9, 8, $154,530.

37. (43) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 157, 34.5, 7, $146,113.

38. (42) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 156, 29.9, 6, $139,450.

39. (40) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 156, 26.9, 5, $135,450.

40. (35) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 156, 24.8, 4, $131,450.

41. (32) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 149, 34.2, 3, $127,450.

42. (14) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, rear gear, 114, 67, 2, $131,725.

43. (20) Trevor Bayne, Ford, accident, 96, 50, 0, $119,950.

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Judge OKs record-setting $2B sale of L.A. Clippers LOS ANGELES — A judge ruled against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Monday in his attempt to block the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas sided with Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly Sterling, who burst into tears when the ruling was announced.

The judge said Shelly Sterling had negotiated a good deal for the Clippers and had the authority to remove her husband as a trustee of the trust that owns the team after two doctors determined he had signs of Alzheimer’s disease and was incapable of making business decisions.

Also under the ruling, Donald Sterling can’t delay the sale from going forward as he appeals the case.

Donald Sterling was not in court to hear the ruling.

Bobby Samini, one of his lawyers, said Sterling reacted calmly to the ruling and told his lawyers they had to keep fighting on other

fronts, an apparent reference to pending lawsuits Sterling has filed.

KESELOWSKI TO RUN NASCAR NATIONWIDE RACE IN IOWA

NEWTON, Iowa — Brad Keselowski will run the NASCAR Nationwide race in Iowa on Saturday, just a day before the Sprint Cup event at Pocono.

Keselowski will make his seventh start in NASCAR’s second-tier series this season. Keselowski, who has already won a pair of Nationwide races in 2014, will replace Ryan Blaney in the No. 22 car so Blaney can run a trucks race in Pocono on Saturday.

Keselowski has won twice in four Nationwide races at Iowa Speedway, including the inaugural event in 2009.

Keselowski will fly back to Pennsylvania following Saturday night’s race to run the No. 2 car at Pocono on Sunday.

CLARK WINS CANADIAN OPEN

MONTREAL — Tim Clark rallied to win the Canadian Open on Sunday, birdieing five of the last

eight holes for a one-stroke victory over Jim Furyk.

Clark closed with a 5-under 65 at rainy Royal Montreal for his second PGA Tour victory. The 38-year-old South African player also won the 2010 Players Championship.

Furyk, the two-time Canadian Open champion who took a three-stroke lead into the final round, finished with a 69. The 44-year-old American matched Clark with a birdie on the par-3 17th and a par on the par-4 18th.

LANGER WINS SENIOR BRITISH OPEN BY RECORD 13 SHOTS

BRIDGEND, Wales — Bernhard Langer won his second Senior British Open championship on Sunday, finishing a record 13 strokes clear of Colin Montgomerie of Scotland for his third senior major title.

The German added a closing 4-under 67 Sunday at sunny Royal Porthcawl to his earlier rounds of 6566-68 for an 18-under 266.

From wire reports

MLB ROUNDUP

Santana, Gattis lead Braves to 2-0 victory ATLANTA — Ervin Santana threw eight scoreless innings, Evan Gattis homered for the first time in more than a month and the Atlanta Braves beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 on Monday.

Santana (10-6) allowed just five hits and matched his career high with 11 strikeouts.

Craig Kimbrel struck out the side in the ninth for his 32nd save.

GATTIS Gattis led off the seventh with a drive into the left-field seats off Jason Lane (0-1), a 37-year-old former outfielder making his first big league start as a pitcher.

Gattis drove in Atlanta’s other run, as well, with a two-out single off Dale Thayer in the eighth.

METS 7 PHILLIES 1

NEW YORK — Travis d’Arnaud went 3 for 4 with a three-run homer, Bartolo Colon made his second straight strong start, and the New York Mets crushed the Philadelphia Phillies 7-1 on Monday night.

CARDINALS 6 CUBS 3

CHICAGO — Matt Adams drove in four runs, A.J. Pierzynski had three hits in his St. Louis debut and the Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 on Saturday to stop a four-

game skid.

INTERLEAGUE RAYS 2 BREWERS 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jake Odorizzi won his third consecutive start, James Loney had two RBIs and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 on Monday night.

AMERICAN LEAGUE MARINERS 4 ORIOLES 3 SEATTLE— Chris Young allowed two hits in seven shutout innings and the Seattle Mariners snapped a four-game losing streak by holding off the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 on Saturday.

DODGERS ACQUIRE BARNEY IN TRADE WITH CUBS

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers have acquired second baseman Darwin Barney in a trade with the Chicago Cubs.

Barney won a Gold Glove in 2012 after tying the major league single-season record with 141 consecutive errorless games. But he was designated for assignment last Tuesday after hitting .230 with 16 RBIs in 72 games this season.

From wire reports

GORDON FROM PAGE B1 the 20th anniversary celebration of his first Brickyard victory. It came on the day the Mayor of Indianapolis proclaimed “Jeff Gordon Day” and showed Gordon is trying to make 2014 his year.

Although he talked in January of retirement considerations, Gordon is reinvigorated and deeply committed to winning a title with his No. 24 team.

“You feel like you’ve kind

of won all that you could win, you’ve won four championships, then a guy like Jimmie Johnson comes along and starts dominating, you kind of lose the motivation,” Gordon said.

But he is inspired by the work ethic and dedication of crew chief Alan Gustafson, and fears being “the weak link” of the race team.

He also is motivated to share his success with wife,

Ingrid, and their two young children. Gordon married Ingrid in 2006 and the couple quickly added a boy and a girl to the family.

“It’s pushed me to give more, do more, work harder,” he said. “Ingrid has never experienced a championship. I told her ‘Hey, I know you want to know what it’s like to win a championship. Well, there’s a big commitment that it takes.’

She’s like ‘Whatever it takes.’

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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014

end the inning.

Post 1 added a run in the second as Clay Martin led off with a single to right, took second as Weston Bailey was hit by a pitch, advanced to third as Hartz walked and came home on a Hopkins single to left.

Florence loaded the bases in the third, but Inman reliever Nic Stewart managed to pitch out of trouble as Hartz hit into a fielder’s choice, with Martin being put out at third after singling to get on base.

Post 1 made it 7-1 in the top of the fifth, with two runs scoring thanks to two Inman errors on one play.

Weston Bailey hit an infield single to drive in the third run of the inning.

Inman got on the board in the fifth as Landon Collins ripped a double down the first-base line and came home on Betsill’s single to right.

ZOEY MILLER / THE SUMTER ITEM

Florence’s Weston Bailey prepares to swing at a pitch in Post 1’s 13-1 victory over Inman Post 45 on Monday in the American Legion baseball state tournament at Riley Park. Florence will face Camden at 5:30 p.m. today and will advance to Wednesday’s championship game regardless of whether it wins or loses today.

FORM FROM PAGE B1 loss in seven games against the P-15’s this year for Post 53.

“We’re set up pretty well,” Johnson said of his pitching staff. “Britton (Beatson) will be on the mound (today) and we’ve also got (Chris) Crawford and a bunch of other guys who are ready to go.”

The P-15’s bullpen was saved thanks to Watcher’s gem. He struck out four, walked one and hit two. His only blemish came in the seventh on a 2-out RBI single by Alex Miller.

“I didn’t have my changeup today, so it was fastball-curveball,” said Watcher, who had faced Hartsville twice before this season. “I knew I could beat them, it was just a matter of whether I could throw strikes or not.

“I just tried to stay ahead of batters and not get behind in the count.”

Seven of Watcher’s nine innings went 1-2-3 – although a pair of double plays and a caught stealing helped pad the final number. He pitched around a leadoff single in the first, and after the first two batters in the seventh reached with none out, he limited the damage to one run.

Meanwhile the offense got on the board early against Hartsville starter Andrew Coker. Coker was pitching on short rest after leading Post 53 to a victory against Georgetown in the play-in game on Thursday.

“It was only one day short of normal rest, but we made sure he felt healthy,” Hartsville head coach Brad Boob said. “I thought he pitched a great game. He pitched his game, but the bounces didn’t go our way. I think they had five or six infield hits off infield choppers.”

Both teams benefited from the “Riley Chop” but the P-15’s used it to perfection in the first three innings. Watcher reached on an infield single in the first and came home on a 2-out double by Kemper Patton to put Sumter up 1-0.

In the third, three chop singles, a balk and two more 2-out RBI base hits from Crawford and Todd Larrimer broke the game open as the P-15’s took a 5-0 lead.

“Anytime we can score early it’s good for us,” Johnson said. “We were able to put a couple of big hits together and put a big inning up that helped us gain some momentum. It was key that we were able to add on after that, though.”

An error, an RBI double by Phillip Watcher and a sacrifice fly from River Soles in the sixth pushed the Sumter advantage to 7-0 and ended Coker’s night. He went 5 1/3 innings and allowed seven runs, five earned, on 10 hits with two strikeouts, one walk and a

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and four in the ninth, with Inman’s lone run coming in the fifth.

Florence broke out on top early with a 3-run first inning, with Inman starting pitcher Adam Parr hitting McLean Hartz with a pitch to start the 1-out rally. CJ Hopkins singled to left and Logan McRae walked to load the bases, then Garrett Bevill grounded into a fielder’s choice, scoring Hartz.

Zach Herndon then laced a triple down the first-base line to plate Hopkins and Bevill.

Inman loaded the bases in the bottom of the first, but could not get on the board. Dallas Betsill singled to lead off the frame, then Brooks Richardson reached on an infield error. Chris Stewart drew a 1-out walk off Florence starter Zack Newton, but was out on a 4-6 Caleb Bruce fielder’s choice to

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MONDAY

Game 1 — Inman 3, Hartsville 2 Game 2 —Sumter 6, Chapin-Newberry 0 Game 3 — Camden 7, Rock Hill 3 Game 4 — Florence 12, Spartanburg 5

Game 9 – Camden 7, Chapin-Newberry 3, Chapin-Newberry eliminated Game 10 – Sumter 7, Hartsville 1, Hartsville eliminated Game 11 – Florence 9, Inman 1

SUNDAY

TODAY

Game 5 — Hartsville 15, Rock Hill 5, Rock Hill eliminated Game 6 — Chapin-Newberry 17, Spartanburg 0, Spartanburg eliminated Game 7 — Inman 10, Camden 9, 10 innings Game 8 — Florence 14, Sumter 0, 7 innings

Game 12 – Sumter vs. Inman, 1 p.m.

Game 13 – Camden vs. Florence, 5:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

Game 14 – Winner Game 13 vs. Winner Game 12, 10 a.m.

Game 15 – If Necessary

Note 1: Pairing for games 12 and 13 will not match previous opponents against each other unless necessary. Game times will be determined by outcome of Game 11.

Note 2: If three teams remain after Game 13, the winner of Game 11 automatically draws the bye for Game 14.

Tickets: 15-game tournament passes $30 for both adults and students.

Individual game tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students.

No session tickets will be sold.

CAMDEN FROM PAGE B1 If Inman wins they play at 1 p.m.

Chapin-Newberry, the defending state champion last year as Chapin-Irmo, finished with a 20-6 record.

C-N starting pitcher Pat Yoder retired the first four batters he faced, but the wheels quickly fell off after that. Bradwin Salmond drew a walk and Lawson Stokes followed with a single. Ethan Beasley followed with a double down the rightfield line to make it 1-0.

Christian Flick drew a walk to load the bases before Austin Hayes singled to left-center to drive in two more runs and make for a quick night for Yoder. Zack Ziesing relieved Yoder and got an RBI groundout from Russ Radcliff to make it 4-0. Blake Serpas came through with an RBI single to push the advantage to 5-0.

“Different game, different names; that’s kind of been our theme all year,” Smith said.

“We’ve got 17 players on our roster and to win something like this you have to use them all. We had a lot of people do things for us today.”

Eight of the nine batters in the lineup had at least one hit as Camden finished with 12.

Hayes had two hits, including a triple, two runs scored and two RBI, Radcliff had two hits and two RBI and Tyler Bower and Salmond both had two hits.

The right-handed King, along with a 3-inning save from reliever Elliott Campbell, made the big inning

hit batsman.

Jacob Watcher and Todd Larrimer led the P-15’s offensively with three hits apiece.

Phillip Watcher and Soles each had two knocks and Taylor McFaddin drove in a run.

Miller led Post 53 with two hits and was on base three times.

“I’m proud of the way our guys competed and fought to get here,” Boob said. “I don’t think anybody expected us to be here, but we played hard each game and did the little things to be successful.

“This is the most successful season we’ve had at Hartsville since we started the program back up a few years ago and hopefully it’s opened some eyes there and around the state.”

DENNIS BRUNSON / THE SUMTER ITEM

Camden starting pitcher Grayson King delivers a pitch in Post 17’s 7-3 victory over Chapin-Newberry on Monday in the American Legion baseball state tournament at Riley Park. King tossed six innings of 1-run ball to help lead Camden to the victory. stand up. King wasn’t dominant as he allowed seven hits, walked five and hit another.

However, he struck out nine and got big outs at important times.

“When the time comes where you have to make big pitches, my pitching coach (Will Dorton) has told me to throw the pitches with confidence,” said King, who was a redshirt freshman at Francis Marion University this past season. “I just try to hit my spots.”

Chapin-Newberry left 15 runners on base. It left the bases loaded twice, once against King and once against Campbell, with the top half of

its order up and just one out.

“We just didn’t get the big hits when we needed them,” said Chapin head coach DJ Roberts, whose squad was never retired in order and finished with 10 hits. “When you leave that many people on you’re not going to win too many games.”

C-N did get a couple of solo home runs. One came from Justin Hawkins, who had three hits, in the seventh that cut the lead to 6-2, and the other came from Landon Allison to lead off the ninth and make it 7-3.

“It would have been nice to have them with some runners on,” Roberts said.

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CLARENCE R. DUBOSE Clarence Ray DuBose, 88, husband of Priscilla Cato DuBose, died Sunday, July 27, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Sumter, he was the son of the late David DuBose and Donna DuBose.

Mr. DuBose DUBOSE was a member of Northside Memorial Baptist Church and Fellowship Sunday School Class. He retired from Williams Furniture after 48 years of service. He was also a U.S. Army veteran serving in World War II. Surviving are his wife of Sumter; three children, Patsy DuBose Garrison of Myrtle Beach, Kathy Warren and husband, Toby, of Olanta, and Pam Sharp and husband, Harley, of Lynchburg; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two step-children; five step-grandchildren; and five step-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two sons, Ricky DuBose and Wayne DuBose; and a daughter, Beverly Kay DuBose.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Northside Memorial Baptist Church with the Rev. Jimmy Holley and Tommy Rogers officiating.

Burial will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery with military honors.

Pallbearers will be Gary DuBose, Tyler DuBose, Justin Lewis, Pete Wolf, Eric DuBose, Toby Jr. Warren and Tim Gentry.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of Fellowship Sunday School Class.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m.

Wednesday preceding the service at the church and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to Northside Memorial Baptist Church, 1004 N. Main St., Sumter, SC 29153.

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

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements. (803) 775-9386

JOY E. COLE Joy E. Cole, age 90, died on Saturday, July 26, 2014, at Covenant Place in Sumter.

Born Feb. 16, 1924, in Joyce, Louisiana, she was the daughter of the late Franklin Oliver and Zudie Simmons Everitt.

Ms. Cole was a plane spotter during World War II. She was active with the Shepherd’s

Benjamin has bone bruise in left knee

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press SPARTANBURG — The Panthers are breathing a sigh of relief over rookie wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin.

Panthers coach Ron Rivera said an MRI revealed the team’s first-round draft pick has a bone bruise in his left knee and will miss at least a few days of training camp.

“We got a bit of good news,” Rivera said Monday. “It’s stable and everything is fine.

There’s nothing structurally wrong. It is bruised. There is a swelling and what we refer to as a hot spot.”

Rivera wouldn’t give a specific timetable on Benjamin’s return.

He said it should take a “few days” for the swelling to subside, but the Panthers will play it by ear and lean largely on how Benjamin feels before putting him back on the field.

That’s good news for the Panthers, who view Benjamin as a key component in this year’s offense.

Center of Sumter and was a member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church.

Surviving are a son, Jeffrey Lee Cole of Sumter; one daughter, Sherrie Lynn Simmons and her husband, Steven, of Myrtle Beach; a sister, Jewel Day and her husband, Joe Tom, of Livingston, COLE Texas; and two grandchildren, Daniel Keith Cole and Ashley Brian Lenhart.

She was preceded in death by a son, Keith Cole.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Aldersgate United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. Webb Belangia officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery.

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

Memorials may be made to Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 211 Alice Drive, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

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

friends at the home, 2725 Gallishaw Drive, Dalzell, SC 29040.

Funeral services are incomplete at this time and will be announced at a later date.

Services have been entrusted to Whites Mortuary LLC. (803) 774-8200

HENRY L. HOLLOMAN It is with sorrow we announce the passing of Mr. Henry Leroy Holloman, who passed away on July 25, 2014, at his home. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today at Cypress United Apostolic Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

The family is receiving friends at the home of his mother, Ertha Holloman. Services are entrusted to New Life Funeral Services LLC of Bishopville.

MARTHA GRINNELL Martha Jane Harvin Grinnell, 100, daughter of the late Mackie and Mary Singleton Harvin, was born Aug. 18, 1913, in Sumter. She departed this life on Friday, July 25, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter.

Family will receive friends at the home, 922 Jensen Road, Sumter, S.C. 29154.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter.

RAYMOND HODGE MALLORY J. RICHARDSON DALZELL — Mallory Jerell Richardson, 22, was born July 10, 1992, to Denise Boyd (Jonathan) Singleton and Mallory Richardson. He departed this life on Saturday, July 26, 2014.

The family will receive

Raymond Hodge, 90, husband of the late Mary Theresa Ann Hodge, died Sunday, July 27, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Clarendon County, he was a son of the late Wade Hampton Hodge and Annie Dell Bryant Hodge. He was a

THE SUMTER ITEM member of Providence Baptist Church. Mr. Hodge was a World War II veteran and a member of the 83rd Army Infantry Division that invaded Normandy. He retired from Sumter Laundry and Cleaners after 63 years of service.

Survivors include four children, LaNell Roberts, Jo Ann Logan (Jack), Ray Hodge (Gail) and Cheryl Weatherly (Les), all of Sumter; a sister, Rosa Miles (D.D.) of Manning; grandchildren, LaVon McComic, Jackie Evans (Tommy), Michael Hodge and Harley Weatherly; greatgrandchildren, Jessica McComic and Logan Evans; a great-great-grandchild, Kalyn McComic; and a number of very special nieces and nephews that were reared in the home.

In addition to his wife of 61 years, he was preceded in death by siblings Viola Brewer, Edmund Hodge, Matthew Hodge, Hampton Hodge and Gerald Hodge.

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. today at Providence Baptist Church with the Rev. Graham Bochman and the Rev. Dr. Harold Greene officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Doug Miles, Ronald Miles, Lawrence Brewer, Leon Brewer, Jay Hodge and John Ray Hicks.

Honorary pallbearers will be nephews Tommy Morris, Dr. Charles White and Dr. Strat Stavrou.

The family will receive friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Logan.

Memorials may be made to Providence Baptist Church, 2445 Old Manning Road, Sumter, SC 29150.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematori-

um of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements. www.ecsfuneralhome.com

CHARLENE L. DANGERFIELD Charlene Laura Dangerfield, 67, of Summerville, wife of David Lawton Dangerfield, died Friday, July 25, 2014, at a Charleston hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. today at Parks Funeral Home. Burial will be in Summerville Cemetery.

Friends called at Parks Funeral from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday. Flowers are being accepted.

Mrs. Dangerfield was born Aug. 26, 1946, in Malden, Massachusetts, a daughter of Warner Joseph Carter and Eleanor Dalton Carter. She was a seamstress specializing in custom window treatments.

She was also a member of Summerville Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, David Lawton Dangerfield of Summerville; two sons, Christopher David Dangerfield and Scott Warner Dangerfield (Becky), all of Summerville; one twin sister, Cynthia Dangerfield (Bill) of Sumter; two brothers, Harry Carter (Sandy) of New Hampshire and Paul Carter (Karen) of Malden; two brothers-inlaw, Lawton Dangerfield (Katie) of Summerville and George Dangerfield (Kathy) of Norfolk, Virginia; and three grandchildren, Christopher Dangerfield II, Brandy Dangerfield and Natalie Dangerfield, all of Summerville.

Arrangements are being made by Parks Funeral Home, 130 W. 1st North St., Summerville, SC 29483. www.parksfuneralhome.com

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MAXINE B. WHITFIELD Maxine Belser Whitfield, 47, wife of Harold Maurice Whitfield, died Monday, July 28, 2014, at High Point Regional Hospital in High Point, North Carolina.

Born April 11, 1967, in Clarendon County, she was a daughter of Rosa Belser and the late Henry Belser Sr. The family will receive friends at the home of her mother, 1095 Phistle Place, Summerton.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Summerton Funeral Home LLC, 23 S. Duke St., Summerton.

(803) 485-3755

MARGARET MOONEYHAN PINEWOOD — Margaret Theresa Epperson Mooneyhan, 82, wife of Vernard Ashton Mooneyhan, died Saturday, July 26, 2014, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital.

Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Robert F. Epperson and Theresa Weeks Epperson.

Surviving are her husband of Pinewood; three sons, Michael Bryant Mooneyhan and Robert David Mooneyhan, both of Atlanta, Georgia, and Vernard Ashton (Buck) Mooneyhan Jr. of Lexington; and two grandchildren, Emily Madigan Mooneyhan and Savannah Marie Mooneyhan.

Graveside services will be held at noon today at Sumter Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. George Gain officiating.

The family will receive friends following the services at Pinewood Methodist Church.

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

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and Crematory, 221 Broad St., is in charge of arrangements. (803) 775-8396

HAROLD P. PRITCHARD TAMPA, Fla. — Harold Parks Pritchard, 64, died Sunday, July 27, 2014, in Florida.

Born, Feb. 14, 1950, in Mobile, Alabama, he was a son of the late Harry McLemore Pritchard Jr. and Louise Neal Pritchard.

He is survived by three brothers, Carlos Pritchard and Buck Pritchard, both of Manning, and Gary Pritchard (Tissa) of Rutherfordton, North Carolina; three sisters, Debbie Shantie of Seattle, Dorothy Pritchard of Melbourne, Florida, and Tina Hansen (Joey) of Sumter; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Harry M. “Mack” Pritchard III. Services will be announced

by Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, (803) 435-2179. www. stephensfuneralhome.org

MYRTLE G. COPELAND Myrtle Gertrude Copeland went to be with her Lord and savior on Sunday, July 27, 2014, at National Healthcare System.

She was born May 12, 1921, in Lee County, a daughter of the late Jiles Phillip Copeland and Eva Connor Copeland.

She retired from Allied Signal

Corp. in Santa Monica, California, where she lived the majority of her life.

Surviving are one halfbrother, Leon Copeland and his wife, Ginny; three half sisters, Myrna Taraskewich and her husband, Eddie, Sara Key and her husband, Roy, and Gwendolyn Copeland; and a number of nieces and nephews and great nieces and great nephews.

She was preceded in death by four brothers, Lonnie M. Copeland, Samuel L. Copeland, J.P. Copeland Jr. and Arthur T. Copeland; and one sister, Mary Darr.

The family will hold a private burial at a later date in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Oswego.

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

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

in Lancaster.

Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m.

Wednesday preceding the service at the Spring Hill Baptist Church.

Memorials may be made to Community Homecare and Hospice of Siler City, 1414 E. 11th St., Siler City, NC 27344.

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

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements. (803) 775-9386

THE SUMTER ITEM Park Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Bryan Doby, James Doby, Philip Ferguson, Mark Heitkemper, Rae McDaniel, Rod McDaniel, Hunter McMillian and Scott McMillian.

Honorary pallbearers will be the members of FAHOLO Class of Trinity United Methodist Church.

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

Memorials may be made to The Tuomey Foundation, 115 N. Sumter St., Suite 120, Sumter, SC 29150, or to Trinity United Methodist Church, 226 W. Liberty St., Sumter, SC 29150.

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

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

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FRANKLIN HAMPTON Mr. Franklin Hampton, 89, husband of Ruth Drayton Hampton, entered eternal rest on Sunday, July 27, 2014, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

Born Oct. 30, 1924, in Clarendon County, he was a son of the late Johnny and Emma McConico Hampton.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 2611 Drayton McKnight Road, Pinewood.

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

JOHN DRAYTON JR. Mr. John Drayton Jr., 88, husband of Mary Ellen Ragin Drayton, entered eternal rest on Monday, July 28, 2014, at Sumter Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center, Sumter.

Born May 7, 1926, in Clarendon County, he was the son of the late John Drayton Sr. and Delia Mitchell Drayton.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 1547 Drayton McKnight Road, Pinewood.

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

MARIAN MCMANUS Marian Elizabeth Jenkins McManus, 81, widow of Keith Sims McManus, died Monday, July 28, 2014 in Siler City, North Carolina.

Born in Heath Springs, she was the daughter of the late William Perry Jenkins and Mary Elizabeth Mobley Jenkins.

Mrs. McManus was a stateapproved preschool Sunday school worker and was involved in discipleship training for 30 years. She loved working with preschoolers and leading preschool workers at church.

She was a devoted wife, mother and church member who always placed others first.

Surviving are her son, Dr. Keith Eric McManus and wife, Deborah, of Siler City; and two granddaughters and a grandson-in-law, Ashley McManus, Chelsea McManus Harley and Andy Harley.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Spring Hill Baptist Church

Shirley Elizabeth McDaniel Kolb, age 77, beloved wife of the late Sidney Burgess Kolb, died Sunday, July 27, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

She was born in Florence County, a daughter of the late Oliver Wendell McDaniel and Elizabeth Huggins McDaniel.

She worked as a radiologist technologist at Tuomey Regional Medical Center for 52 years. She was a member and past president of the Pilot Club and a member and past president of the Sumter Women’s Bowling Association. She was an active member of Trinity United Methodist Church, where she served as the treasurer of the FAHOLO Sunday School Class and was a member of United Methodist Women and felt her friends there were her special and second family. She had many special friends throughout the community, and she served many happy hours as a volunteer in the church office.

Surviving are two brothers, Wyman O. McDaniel and special friend Annie Dell Green of Bishopville and Don Raemon McDaniel and his wife, Fena, of Bishopville; a sister, Marcelene Heitkemper and her husband, Louie, of Tell City, Indiana; four nephews, Mark L. Heitkemper and his wife, Judy, Rodney O. McDaniel, Don Raemon McDaniel Jr. and his wife, Greta, and the Rev. Fred S. McDaniel and his wife, Linda; and five nieces, Deborah M. Ferguson and her husband, Philip, Elizabeth M. McMillian and her husband, Scott, Marcie Liz H. Tabor, Anna Margaret M. Doby and her husband, Bryan, and Michelle H. Gentry and her husband, Chad; seven great nieces; five great nephews; two great-great nieces; and one great-great nephew.

A funeral service will be held on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. Steve Holler and the Rev. Fred S. McDaniel officiating. Burial will be private at the Evergreen Memorial

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ROSA L. MCDANIEL Rosa Lee McDaniel, 95, departed this life on Thursday, July 24, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter. Born April 28, 1919, in Lee County, she was the second of nine children born to the late David Williams and Rachal Moses Williams. She was raised in Lee County, where she spent her early childhood and young adult life as a sharecropper, which prevented her from attending school as a full-time student.

She was united in marriage to George McDaniel, whom God called home in 1972. Ten children were born to this union, four of which preceded her in death, George Jr., Annie Mae, Mary Sue and Eloise.

She was employed at Sumter Laundry and Cleaners for years before becoming a stay-at-home mom with her children.

Mrs. McDaniel accepted Jesus Christ at a very young age. After relocating to Sumter, she worshipped at Bethlehem Baptist Church for many years before uniting with Bible Way Church of Sumter, where she was a faithful member until her physical abilities began to decline. She enjoyed cooking and spending time with her family, whom she loved dearly.

Cherishing her life until they are united in heaven are her children, Mathew, Elijah (Peggy), David, Roos-

evelt (Margaret), Henry (Cynthia) and Dorothy (Barry); two sisters, Janey McLeod and Alean Parlor (Garland); six sisters-in-law; seven step-children, Joseph Nelson, Willie Nelson Sr., Minnie Lesane, Alberta Capers, Betsy Rufus, Reita McGill and Leroy Hodge; a host of grandchildren; greatgrandchildren, great-greatgrandchildren and greatgreat-great grandchildren that are still being counted; and nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Funeral services will be held at noon Wednesday at Bible Way Church of Sumter, 1675 Camden Highway ( U.S. 521 North), Sumter, with Bishop John D. Belton, pastor, eulogist.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 110 E. Fulton St., Sumter.

The remains will be placed in the church at 11 a.m.

The procession will leave from the home at 11:30 a.m.

Floral bearers and pallbearers will be family and friends.

Burial will be in the Jerusalem Stuckey Cemetery, 1407 Jamestown Road, Lee County, Bishopville.

Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com.

Visit us on the web, www. williamsfuneralhomeinc.com.

Services directed by the Management and Staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc.

NAHGEE HOLMES Nahgee Holmes, 7, died Sunday, July 27, 2014, in Sumter.

Born Dec. 7, 2006, in Sumter County, he was the son of Cedrick Stevens and Nigeeah Holmes.

The family will receive friends and relatives at the home, 3 Highland Ave., Sumter.

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

RONALD HOLMES Ronald Holmes, 75, died Sunday, July 27, 2014, in Sumter. Born Nov. 11, 1938, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he was the son of Aruthor Holmes and Lillie Mae McLaughlin Holmes.

The family will receive friends and relatives at the home, 3 Highland Ave., Sumter.

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

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SUMMONS AND NOTICES IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO: 14-CP-43-1152 (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER CitiMortgage, Inc., PLAINTIFF, vs.

Tenea S. Hinson; and Janea L. Green, DEFENDANT(S).

TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANTS

ABOVE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or to otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscribers at their office, 4000 Faber Place, Suite 450, P.O. Box 71727, North Charleston, South Carolina, 29415, or to otherwise appear and defend the action pursuant to applicable court rules, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S) AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) SCRCP, as amended effective September 1, 2002, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Sumter County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action. If there are counterclaims requiring a jury trial, any party may file a demand under rule 38, SCRCP and the case will be returned to the Circuit Court.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action, together with the Summons, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on June 5, 2014 at 12:30 P.M. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the Supreme Court of South Carolina Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may be eligible for foreclosure intervention programs for the purpose of resolving the above-referenced foreclosure action.

If you wish to be considered for a foreclosure intervention program, you must contact Finkel Law Firm LLC, 4000 Faber Place Drive, Suite 450 (29405), P.O. Box 71727 (29415), North Charleston, SC 29405, or call (843) 577-5460 within thirty (30) days from the date of this notice. Finkel Law Firm LLC represents the Plaintiff in this action. Our law firm does not represent you and is not authorized to provide you any legal advice.

IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PROCESS, THE FORECLOSURE MAY PROCEED. NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT (15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq.): This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information you provide will be used for that purpose. However, if you have previously received a discharge from bankruptcy, this message is not and should be construed as an attempt to collect a debt, but only as

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FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC THOMAS A. SHOOK Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, South Carolina 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorney for Plaintiff

SUMMONS IN THE FAMILY COURT THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Docket No.: 2011-DR-43-1576 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER James Lyles and Tina Lyles, Plaintiffs, vs.

Katisha Dixon, and Katressa Anderson as Natural GAL for Katisha Dixon, a minor under the Age of Eighteen (18) years, and John Doe. Defendants TO: KATISHA DIXON AND KATRESSA ANDERSON, NATURAL GAL FOR KATISHA DIXON, AND JOHN DOE, THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to served a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff or Charles T. Brooks, III, Esquire, at this office located at 309 Broad Street, Sumter, South Carolina, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Dated at Sumter, South Carolina, on the 24th day of October, 2011.

HEARING NOTICE

their offices at 17 East Calhoun Street, Sumter, South Carolina, within thirty (30) days of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

BRYAN LAW FIRM OF SC, L.L.P. J.Thomas McElveen, III Attorney for the Plaintiff 17 East Calhoun Street P. O. Box 2038 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 775-1263

Estate Notice Sumter County

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

Estate: Claude J. Singleton, Jr. #2014ES4300416 Personal Representative Shirley Singleton 460 Loring Mill Road Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Julia R. Grant Pearson #2014ES4300405

Personal Representative Julia E. Reed 7537 Newberry Lane Lanham, Maryland 20706

Estate:

Roland Goines #2014ES4300435

To: Charles T. Brooks, III Esq. A hearing has been set in the above matter for the 2nd day of September, 2014 at 10:30 o'clock A.M.

Personal Representative

You are hereby notified to be present in the chambers of the Family Court of the THIRD Judicial Circuit, located at 215 North Harvin Street at the aforesaid time.

Estate:

TYPE: FINAL ADOPTION TIME ALLOTTED: 15 MINUTES *This case will be heard by: Judge Michelle Hurley IT IS ORDERED that the attorney requesting the hearing shall notify the opposing counsel or party of the date of the hearing as the Clerk's office will send notices of hearing only to the requesting attorney. *Be advised that while a case is set before a certain judge, such designation is subject to change without notice.

Sumter County Family Court 215 North Harvin Street Sumter, SC 29150-4900 Charles T. Broooks, III Attorney for the Plaintiffs 309 Broad Street PO Box 3512 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 418-5708

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO: 2014-CP-43-624 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Charles W. Brown, PLAINTIFF, vs.

Lorene Renee Amos and John Doe, a fictitious name representing an unidentified driver, DEFENDANTS.

Ulease Spann Goines 360 Dusty Circle Sumter, SC 29150 James Lee Rogers #2014ES4300408

Personal Representative James Lee Rogers, Jr. 1430 Wilma Court Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

John F. Barto #2014ES4300425

Personal Representative Chester J. Tomson, Jr. 2218 Pineridge Street Orangeburg, SC 29118

Estate:

Kathleen B. Wise #2014ES4300418

Personal Representative Kathy W. Mathis 7647 Raccoon Road Manning, SC 29102

Estate:

Johnny Ray Watts, Sr. #2014ES4300414

Personal Representative Billie Jean Watts C/O Thomas E. Player Attorney at Law PO Drawer 3690 Sumter, SC 29151

Estate:

Ray Belton Simmons #2014ES4300404

Personal Representative Ingrid Simmons 70 Chatwick Ct. Sumter, SC 29150

Estate: Mary Peggy Montalbano #2014ES4300433 Personal Representative

James Montalbano 50 Mere Court Sumter, SC 29150 Estate: Shellie Louise Bradford #2014ES4300428 Personal Representative Linwood G. Bradford C/O Jack W. Erter, Jr. Attorney at Law 126 North Main Street Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Wallace H. Richardson Sr. #2014ES4300407

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Complaint was filed in the above entitled action in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on March 31, 2014, for the purpose of instituting an action against the Defendants as a result of a motor vehicle collision which occurred on April 1, 2011.

Personal Representative Irene E. Richardson C/O Calvin Hastie Attorney At Law 7 East Hampton St Sumter, SC 29150

SUMMONS Jury Trial Requested

Personal Representative Letisha C. Davis 12 Brown Street Sumter, SC 29150

TO THE DEFENDANTS HEREIN NAMED: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at

Estate:

Estate:

TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014

Estate Notice Sumter County

Estate Notice Sumter County

Estate Notice Sumter County

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

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

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

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

Estate: James Milton Alsbrook #2014ES4300411 Personal Representative Rupert Kimbrell 2380 Clematis Trail Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Personal Representative Sylvia C. James 3235 Arborwood Drive Sumter, SC 29154

Estate: Estate:

Sylvester Dawson #2014ES4300402

Sidney L. Christian #2014ES4300421

Carl Andrew Jensen #2014ES4300304

Personal Representative Lou Ella Dawson 2535 hwy 261 North Dalzell, SC 29040

Personal Representative Kristin Geddings C/O J. Cabot Seth Attorney At Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151

Estate:

Estate:

Terry Lee Hodge #2014ES4300427

Personal Representative Donna Diane Hodge 3521 Cains Mill Road Sumter, SC 29154

Estate:

Donald Hodge #2014ES4300406

Personal Representative Angela Hodge 550 Old Manning Road Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Carolyn B. Peoples #2014ES4300441

Personal Representative Kevin Peoples 5433 Pinefield Road Sumter, SC 29154

Estate: Larry Samuel Florence #2014ES4300440 Personal Representative

Larry E. Florence 4321 Nazarene Church Road Sumter, SC 29154 Estate:

Cantfield Davis, Jr. #2014ES4300420

Personal Representative Deloris H. Davis 765 Radical Road Sumter, SC 29153

Clara Ellen S. Fowler #2014ES4300401

Personal Representative Synovus Trust Company C/O Jack W, Erter, Jr. Attorney At Law 126 North Main Street Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Manley C. Dubose, Sr. #2014ES4300426

Personal Representative Ruby B. Dubose 360 Reynolds Road Pinewood, SC 29125

Estate:

Naomi Maldonado #2014ES4300417

Personal Representative Marisol Thomason 3 Briar Bend Court Sumter, SC 29154

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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014 Online: www.theitem.com/clarendon_sun | Call: (803) 435-4716 | E-mail: jim@theitem.com

Clarendon celebrates National Nite Out

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

THE SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO

Law enforcement officers will be assisting with crime-prevention activities and encouraging neighborhood camaraderie and policecommunity partnerships during National Night Out at East Clarendon Middle School gym on Tuesday, Aug. 5. They will also distribute free school supplies on a first-come, first-served basis.

A National Night Out event will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 5, at the East Clarendon Middle School Gymnasium, 1101 Pope St. Attendees at the free event can enjoy prizes, food, soft drinks and music and get school supplies.

“The National Night Out (NNO) event has proven to be an effective and enjoyable program to promote neighborhood spirit and police-commu-

nity partnership,” said Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett Jr. The benefits derived from NNO are extended well beyond one night.”

Deputy Annett Smith, NNO coordinator, said The Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office, the Turbeville, Manning and Summerton police departments as well as local fire departments, the state Highway Patrol, National Guard and departments of Natural Resources and Juvenile Justice would be represented at the event.

“This is a program where everybody is working togeth-

er,” she said.

She said this is the first time the event has been in Turbeville.

“We like to spread it around and reach all parts of the county,” she said.

“There will be music for the kids, we’ll be giving out school supplies on a first-served basis, teaching the kids how to be safe, and we are going to feed them. We want them to see the positive side of law enforcement.”

Smith said Harvest Hope

SEE NATIONAL NITE OUT, PAGE C2

Get rowdy at Manning’s Nic@Nite event

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com (803) 774-1211 Kids can get rowdy, get religion and get soaked at Nic @ Nite from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 4-6, at Manning High School, 2155 Paxville Highway, Manning.

“It’s our ninth year of having a community outreach event to give the kids some fun before going back to school,” said Jim Fleming, campus pastor of the Manning Seacoast Church.

Fleming said the event is free and open to kids from pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade.

Kids are signed up for one of several teams that each has a coach or leader. They put on T-shirts with their team’s color and have fun.

Fleming said the kids are separated into two age groups.

“Nic Junior is the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, he said, adding “the kids who are a little smaller, we keep them apart from the firstthrough fifth-graders.”

The evening begins with the kids taking part in activities in the gym.

“They may get decorated,” Fleming said. “We score for spirit and game accomplishments. We have dances, a lot of high energy stuff.”

“Then we sit them down and explain the rules, what is allowed and what is not allowed. We’ll also have a talk about Jesus, how he loves each kid and made all of them.”

Fleming said there will be a speaker who will talk to them for about 15 minutes on Jesus’ love.

The kids will then go out to the practice field where there will be a stage set up.

“We’ll play games such as ‘What would you do?,’ where they have a card on their forehead and can’t read what is on it,” he said. “They are going to get wet, we will bust a couple of watermelons Gallagher-style, and we’ll have the Manning Fire Department shooting water over the kids to keep them cool.”

About 8:30 the kids give back the Tshirts for use the next night.

“We love doing this and it’s a fun time for everybody,” Fleming said.

“We appreciate the support we get from the school district, the police and fire department and multiple churches.”

For more information, call Fleming at (803) 505-3208.

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A number of people spoke at the welcome ceremony for the Boys to Men Conference Explosion Friday evening and returned Saturday for basketball games with the community youth and motivational sessions for all ages.

Church wants to ‘start kids dreaming again’

BY RAYTEVIA EVANS ray@theitem.com (803) 774-1214

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The Rev. Willie J. Chandler of Pinewood’s St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church greets community members, youth and guest speakers during the welcome night Friday for the Boys to Men Conference Explosion at Manning Junior High School. Chandler and his church members organized the event to bring in positivity and give the area youth some motivation and spiritual sessions.

nce he had gotten a number of local ministers and community leaders together to mentor students after school in Clarendon School District 1 and Clarendon School District 2, St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church’s Rev. Willie J. Chandler decided to expand on his efforts to reach youth in Clarendon and surrounding counties. This past weekend, the church organized its first Boys to Men Conference Explosion, featuring Minister Leonard Williams from the group The Williams Brothers.

“I started mentoring in District 1 and brought pastors together of all

denominations to visit the schools and see the children,” Chandler said. “We don’t talk religion when we go there but we spend time with them and help with leadership and just talk to them and listen.”

Chandler said Superintendent Dr. Rose Wilder is supportive of the mentoring program, and he has expanded it to District 2, where Superintendent Dr. John Tindal is also supporting its continuation in the district’s schools.

With Boys to Men, Chandler and his church leaders organized to bring in the youth for food, fun, music and enlightenment over the course of three days. Chandler said he wanted to specifically target black males but didn’t exclude other

SEE BOYS TO MEN, PAGE C4

Let’s Move Manning promotes healthy lifestyles

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com (803) 774-1211 Zumba, jump rope, health screenings and yoga are just some of the activities area residents will be able to take part in and learn more about during Let’s Move Manning from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 9, at Gibbons Street Park in Manning. The event is part of an initiative to reduce the inci-

dence of obesity and poor health across the nation by encouraging people of all ages to get involved in physical activities and eat more nutritious meals.

Manning Mayor Julia Nelson said attendees can learn about nutrition from Clemson University Extension, get health screenings for blood pressure, blood sugar and stroke risk, and get tips from several fitness instructors on

how to shape up different parts of the body.

Nelson said she would like to see the Aug. 9 event be the start of an ongoing effort to get more people involved in physical activities in Manning and around Clarendon County.

“We want to encourage people to take up walking and running,” she said. “We will have people giving lessons in intramural sports such as

basketball, every Saturday morning we are going to have things like jump rope, yoga, Zumba – anything to get people more active.

“This is a national initiative that different communities are trying to implement to promote healthy living, decrease obesity and to encourage people to become more active and have better fitness.”

Nelson said she would like

to develop a walking path in Manning to create more activity downtown and suggested any kitchen facility built in the Red Barn could host nutrition classes.

“A lot of statistics show that Manning is a good place for an initiative like this,” Nelson said. “The need is here in the community.”

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

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Commission hears challenge to District 5 runoff election

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com (803) 774-1211 The Manning Election Commission will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Manning City Hall Council Chambers to consider a challenge to the July 22 runoff election for Manning City Council District 5 from candidate Gloria Frierson.

Frierson gave the commission a letter July 24 alleging ineligible votes were counted in the election, and other voters were unable to obtain absentee ballots.

“Some voters in District 4

did absentee ballots for my district, which is District 5,” Frierson said in the letter.

Though the issue does not appear in the July 24 letter, Frierson said she will bring the daughter and granddaughter of a woman whose name appeared on an absentee ballot disallowed by the commission at a meeting July 24. The commission decided the signature on the ballot did not match the signature on the woman’s registration card.

With that vote thrown out, Julius “Jay” Dukes was certified the winner of the election by a single vote with 48

votes to Frierson’s 47.

Frierson said the signatures did not appear to match because the voter is elderly, has Alzheimer’s and shakes as she writes her name.

Shaun Kent, an attorney representing Dukes, said he thinks his client’s election will be upheld.

“We’ll see what evidence they bring,” he said. “I expect the certification will be upheld and he (Dukes) will be declared the winner one more time.”

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

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS CLARENDON 3 REGISTRATION Clarendon County School District 3 will hold registration from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 6 and 1-6 p.m. on Aug. 7. The first day for student attendance is Aug. 18.

For additional information, visit the website www.clarendon3.org.

HEALTH FAIR IN SANTEE The James E. Clyburn Research and Scholarship Foundation Ollie Johnson Memorial Health Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 1, at the Santee Conference Center, 1738 Bass Drive in Santee. This year’s event will continue to offer testing provided by the Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg & Calhoun Counties and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Free testing will include cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, stroke risk screenings and prostate screenings.

Congressman Jim Clyburn will be in attendance.

For more information, contact Janice Marshall at clyburnfoundation@yahoo.com or (803) 255-0003.

LET’S MOVE MANNING KICKOFF The Let’s Move Manning Kickoff Event will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 9, at Gibbons Street Park, 240 Gibbons St. in Manning. Intended to promote healthy eating, fitness and obesity awareness, the event includes workshops, free health screenings and sessions on healthy cooking, how to work out at home, juicing and Zumba. All are invited. For more information, call the City of Manning at (803) 435-8477.

SOIL HEALTH WORKSHOP The Clarendon Soil & Water Conservation District in cooperation with Clemson Extension and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service will be hosting a Soil Health Workshop on Aug. 13.

The topics for the workshop will include: the basics of soil health, where South Carolina currently is, South Carolina’s future outlook, and the use of cover crops as a tool for soil health. The conclusion of the meeting will feature a farmer panel that will include producers from across the state who have been utilizing cover crops on their farms. Attendees will have the opportunity to have a “back and forth” discussion with our panel about their personal experiences with the implementation of cover crops into their crop rotation.

The workshop will take place at 10 a.m. at the F.E. Dubose Center Auditorium.

There is no charge for the event, but guests will need to

RSVP to Casey Blackmon at the Clarendon Soil & Water Conservation District, (803) 435-2612 ext101 or casey.blackmon@sc.nacdnet.net, by 3:30 p.m. Aug. 6. Lunch will be provided. Certified Crop Advisor and Pesticide Renewal Credits will be available.

HIT THE PAVEMENT WALK End the Silence on Domestic Violence with a 3-mile walk, “Somebody’s Listening,” hosted by Jordan Crossroads Ministry Center Haven of Rest Domestic Violence Crisis Women Center.

The event on Saturday, Oct. 4, begins and ends at the gazebo across from John Land Courtyard on Keitt Street in Manning.

Pre-registration will be held at Walmart from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Aug. 2 and Sept.

6. Fee is $20, which includes a T-shirt. For more information call: Deborah Delong, (803) 410-7724, or Ann Driggers (803) 460-5572.

YOU SCREAM, I SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM! Cool off this summer at your local city park. The City of Manning is hosting a free ice cream social at 6:30 p.m. today at Rex Josey Park. Ice cream will be available while supplies last.

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

RECREATION DEPARTMENT REGISTRATION SOCCER: The Clarendon County Recreation Department is holding registration for its youth soccer program until Aug. 8. Ages being offered are 5 to 18 years. The playing age is the child’s age as of Nov. 30, 2014.The cost to register is $45.

CHEERLEADING: The Clarendon County Recreation Department is holding registration for its cheerleading program until Aug. 8. Ages being offered are 8 to 12 years. The playing age is the child’s age as of Sept. 1, 2014. The cost to register is $30.

FOOTBALL CAMP: The Clarendon County Recreation Department will be hosting its 2nd annual “BIG COUNTRY” youth football camp today through Aug. 1 from 9 a.m. to noon at J. C. Britton Park in Manning. The camp will be for youth ages 7 - 12. The head instructor is Bryan Thames (Big Country). Bryan is a former Manning High School standout and now plays at Lane College in Tennessee. The cost to register is $25 and the deadline to register is July 24.

BRITISH SOCCER CAMP: The Clarendon County Recreation Department will be hosting its annual Challenger Sports British Soccer camp today through Aug. 1. There are five different sessions being

offered at different cost per session. Ages offered are 3 to 16 years. To register, persons can go to challengersports. com.

Registrations for all these programs are being accepted at the Recreation office at J. C. Britton Park in Manning.

For more information, contact the Recreation Department at (803) 473-3543.

THE SUMTER ITEM

PETS OF THE WEEK

BULLET

BANDIT

Bullet is a male shepherd/lab mix who is 1 year old. He is very outgoing and friendly. He will require a fenced yard because he loves to run and play. He is up to date on his shots and has been neutered. Stop by and take a look. You will fall in love.

Bandit is a 5-month-old female border collie-mix puppy.

She has been spayed and is up to date on her shots. She is waiting for that someone special to love her and take her home.

Meet Bullet, Bandit 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) 473-7075 for an appointment. If you’ve lost a pet, check www.ccanimalcontrol.webs.com and www.ASecondChanceAnimalShelter.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, through Thursday, July 31. A morning snack will also be offered at Manning Elementary from 8 to 9 a.m.

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

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) 4733543.

All classes will be held at Shannon Greens Golf Club.

NATIONAL NITE OUT, FROM PAGE C1 (United Ministries) would be handing out food to 125 families.

“This has always been a successful event,” she said, “We expect to have a big turnout.”

According to the National Association of Town Watch (NATW) website (www.natw.org), NNO began in 1984 as an “effort to promote involvement in crime prevention activities, police-community partnerships, neighborhood camaraderie and send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.”

The site says in most places, NNO events are held the first Tuesday in August. In 1984, 2.5 million Americans took part across 400 communities in 23 states, the website says, and today the numbers have grown to nearly 40 million people in more than 16,000 communities worldwide.

“The traditional ‘lights on’ campaign and symbolic front porch vigils turned into a celebration across America,” NATW said.

For more information, visit www.natw.org or call 1-(800)-NITE-OUT (6483688).

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WALKER-GAMBLE REUNION 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.

MENTORING PROGRAM Rural Leadership InstituteClarendon is beginning a mentoring program, called Operation Generation, for atrisk 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.

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

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Judge dismisses Amelia Earhart lawsuit CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Wyoming man’s claims that an aircraft recovery group secretly found wreckage of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane in the South Pacific but kept it quiet so it could continue raising funds for the search.

District Judge Scott Skavdahl dismissed the lawsuit that Timothy Mellon filed last year against the Pennsylvaniabased International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and its executive director, Richard E. Gillespie.

Mellon claimed the group found Earhart’s Lockheed Electra in 2010 but kept it secret to collect $1 million from him for the search. He is the son of the late philanthropist Paul Mellon.

Earhart was trying to become the first female aviator to circle the globe when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery has staged repeated expeditions to look for her plane, narrowing its search most recently to the waters around the Kiribati atoll of Nikumaroro, about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii.

Lawyers for the group and Gillespie have maintained Timothy Mellon’s lawsuit was absurd. They said discovering

there is no evidence in the record that, in fact, the Earhart wreckage lies on the ocean floor off of Nikumaroro and defendants knew, or should

have known, that fact upon review of footage from (the expedition.)”

Gillespie said Friday the group hopes to move on and

continue its search. He said Mellon’s lawsuit has cast a shadow over its fundraising efforts for another planned expedition to search waters around Nikumaroro this fall.

“We have no desire to fight with Mr. Mellon any further on this,” Gillespie said. “We’re willing to bury the hatchet and move forward to really find out what happened to Amelia Earhart.”

Gillespie said he’s frequently asked why it’s important to find conclusive proof of what happened to Earhart, now close to 80 years after her disappearance.

“People still make decisions in their lives because of the example that Amelia Earhart set. And so, in that sense, she’s still very much alive in the American consciousness,” Gillespie said. “Because she matters to people, her fate matters to people. We don’t want to leave that door dark.”

Tim Stubson, a Casper lawyer representing Mellon, said it’s too soon to tell how his client will respond to Skavdahl’s ruling.

“Obviously we’re disappointed with the judge’s decision,” Stubson said. “But as far as appeal and those sorts of things, we need to study the order more closely, and Mr. Mellon needs to give some thought on what next steps are.”

stop in reference to a larceny.

Complainant said fuel was stolen from his tractor trailer.

Complainant said he went to bed at about 11 p.m. and when he woke up at 9 a.m. he noticed his fuel gauge was incorrect. He said he found the gas cap removed on the driver’s side fuel tank and a substantial amount of fuel was missing. Stolen fuel was valued at $400.

2:40 p.m. July 21: A deputy responded to a complaint of larceny in the 300 block of Arlen Road, Manning. Complainant said when he returned from work a TV and an X-Box were missing from his room. Missing items were

valued at $340.

1:17 p.m. July 21: A woman called to complain that a vehicle had been taken from her residence in the 1200 block of Leo Road, Manning. She had returned from a weekend in Myrtle Beach and was told by relatives her vehicle had been totaled in a hit and run on Arlen Road. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at more than $1,800.

9:02 p.m. July 15: A deputy responded to a complaint of larceny in the 5500 block of Raccoon Road, Manning.

Complainant said she returned home after being away for several days and discovered her Hewlett Packard

computer and 19-inch flat screen monitor, wireless key board and scanner were missing. Missing items were valued at $2,800.

6:30 p.m. July 23: A deputy responded to a complaint of burglary on Ford Road North.

Complainant said he and his wife left the property at around 9:30 a.m. and when they returned at 4:30 p.m. an air conditioning unit was out of place, a laptop computer, several boxes of .38-special ammo, a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver with Ohio State Police emblems and a cell phone stun gun were missing. Missing items were valued at $1,050.

This undated file photo shows Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. conclusive proof of Earhart’s plane would be far more lucrative through film and other publicity than continuing to raise money to search for it.

Expert witnesses for Mellon filed statements in court earlier this year saying they saw similarities between parts of Earhart’s plane and objects shown on video of the ocean floor from the aircraft recovery group’s 2010 search.

However, in his ruling Friday, Skavdahl said underwater video showing objects that may appear similar to airplane parts wasn’t good enough to keep Mellon’s lawsuit alive.

“To be sure, there is dispute about what can be seen in the 2010 expedition footage and the source of any man-made objects identified. And whether Defendants found the wreckage in 2010 is disputed,” Skavdahl wrote. “However,

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In this undated file photo, Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane, sits on top of a plane. A Wyoming man paid $1 million to sponsor a search for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane and asked a federal judge not to dismiss his fraud lawsuit against expedition organizers. Tim Mellon says the Pennsylvaniabased International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and its executive director actually found Earhart’s plane in 2010. Mellon, son of the late philanthropist Paul Mellon, claims the group kept the discovery secret so it could keep seeking funds.

POLICE BLOTTER CLARENDON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE BURGLARY/BREAKING AND ENTERING 12:15 a.m. July 19: A deputy responded to a complaint of a burglary in the 1200 block of Meagan Lane, Manning. Complainant said his gate and garage that had been padlocked were open. Complainant said a white 25-foot enclosed trailer was missing, as well as three four-wheels ATVs and two motorcycles. Also missing were a Hustler motorcycle helmet and several motorcycle jackets. Missing items were valued at $34,100.

10:20 a.m. July 21: A deputy

responded to a complaint of burglary in the 1100 block of R. Johnson Road, Summerton.

Complainant said someone entered her residence and removed a refrigerator and two window air conditioning units. Missing items were valued at $225.

6:23 p.m. July 21: A deputy responded to a complaint of a break in at the 5100 block of Dingle Road, Summerton.

Complainant said someone had broken a window in his RV, entered several inside cabinets and ate $100 worth of food.

LARCENY 3:15 p.m. July 20: A deputy was dispatched to TA Truck-

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LEGAL NOTICES Estate Notice Clarendon County

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371ES with the Probate Court of Clarendon County, the address of which is 411 Sunset Dr. Manning, SC 29102, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements on the prescribed form (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: Eugene Conyers #2014ES1400110-2 Personal Representative: Marcellus D. Conyers 1365 Geirge Conyers Road Manning, SC 29102 07/29/14 - 08/12/14

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Molds on foods — dangerous?

IS MUSHROOM POISONING CAUSED BY MOLDS?

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ome molds cause allergic reactions and respiratory problems.

And a few molds, in the right conditions, produce “mycotoxins,” poisonous substances that can make people sick. When you see mold on food, is it safe to cut off the moldy part and use the rest? To find the answer to that question, delve beneath the surface of food to where molds take root.

WHAT ARE MOLDS? Molds are microscopic fungi that live on plant or animal matter. No one knows how many species of fungi exist, but estimates range from tens of thousands to perhaps 300,000 or more. Most are filamentous (threadlike) organisms, and the production of spores is characteristic of fungi in general.

Nancy These spores can be Harrison transported by air, CLEMSON water, or insects.

EXTENSION Unlike bacteria that are one-celled, molds are made of many cells and can sometimes be seen with the naked eye. Under a microscope, they look like skinny mushrooms. In many molds, the body consists of: • Root threads that invade the food it lives on, • A stalk rising above the food, and • Spores that form at the ends of the stalks.

The spores give mold the color you see. When airborne, the spores spread the mold from place to place.

Molds have branches and roots that are like very thin threads. The roots may be difficult to see when the mold is growing on food and may be very deep in the food. Foods that are moldy may also have invisible bacteria growing along with the mold.

ARE MOLDS ONLY ON THE SURFACE OF FOOD? No, you only see part of the mold on the surface of food – gray fur on forgotten bologna, fuzzy green dots on bread, white dust on Cheddar, coinsize velvety circles on fruits, and furry growth on the surface of jellies. When a food shows heavy mold growth, “root” threads have invaded it deeply.

In dangerous molds, poisonous substances are often contained in and around these threads. In some cases, toxins may have spread throughout the food.

WHERE ARE MOLDS FOUND? Molds are found in virtually every environment and can be detected, both indoors and outdoors, year round. Mold growth is encouraged by warm and humid conditions. Outdoors, they can be found in shady, damp areas or places where leaves or other vegetation are decomposing. Indoors, they can be found where humidity levels are high.

Molds form spores which, when dry, float through the air and find suitable

conditions where they can start the growth cycle again.

No, it is due to the toxin produced by the fungi, which are in the same family as molds. Mushroom poisoning is caused by the consumption of raw or cooked mushrooms, which are a higher-species of fungi. The term “toadstool” (from the German “Todesstuhl” – death’s stool) is commonly given to poisonous mushrooms, but there is no general rule of thumb for distinguishing edible mushrooms from poisonous toadstools. The toxins that cause mushroom poisoning are produced naturally by the fungi. Most mushrooms that cause human poisoning cannot be made safe by cooking, canning, freezing, or any other processing. The only way to avoid poisoning is not to eat poisonous mushrooms.

WHAT ARE SOME COMMON FOODBORNE MOLDS?

ARE ANY FOOD MOLDS BENEFICIAL?

Molds most often found on meat and poultry are Alternaria, Asperigillus, Botrytis, Cladosporium, Fusarium, Geotrichum, Monilia, Manoscus, Mortierella, Mucor, Neurospora, Oidium, Oosproa, Pennicillium, Rhizopus and Thamnidium. These molds can also be found on many other foods.

Mycotoxins are poisonous substances produced by certain fungi in or on foods and feeds, especially in field corn and peanuts. They are probably the best known and most intensively researched mycotoxins in the world. Aflatoxins have been associated with various diseases, such as aflatoxicosis in livestock, domestic animals and humans throughout the world. Many countries try to limit exposure to aflatoxin by regulating and monitoring its presence on commodities intended for use as food and feed. The prevention of aflatoxin is one of the most challenging toxicology issues of present time.

Yes, molds are used to make certain kinds of cheeses and can be on the surface of cheese or be developed internally. Blue-veined cheese such as Roquefort, bleu, Gorgonzola, and Stilton are created by the introduction of P. roqueforti or Penicillium roqueforti spores. Cheeses such as Brie and Camembert have white surface molds. Other cheeses have both an internal and a surface mold. The molds used to manufacture these cheeses are safe to eat.

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, marital or family status and is an equal opportunity employer.

BOYS TO MEN, FROM PAGE C1 community members who need a positive word and a little encouragement.

“This is his (Chandler’s) vision. The Bible says go into the highways and the hedges, so we’re trying to reach the community, including those who may not go to church often,” said Azalee Williams-Kinard, the church’s administrative assistant.

On Friday, the church had a welcome ceremony at Manning Junior High School, where they introduced the speakers and guest preachers to the group of community members.

Motivational speakers included Clarence James, Deacon Franklin Thomas, Leonard Williams of Mississippi and the Rev. Norman Gamble, along with other local leaders.

Saturday, the doors of the school were again opened to the community who were welcomed to play basketball and remain for more gospel music and motivational speaking sessions which Chandler organized into five groups to target different age groups.

Sunday, the community was invited to join the church as well as the weekend’s group of motivational speakers and preachers for service at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church.

“We really just wanted to continue to contribute to the

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Singer Minister Leonard Williams and a group of community leaders and motivational speakers perform gospel music during the welcome ceremony for the first Boys to Men Conference Explosion. The Rev. Willie J. Chandler of Pinewood’s St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church organized the event along with his congregation. community, and I feel like the theme Boys to Men gives information that all boys need to know to go from boys to good men,” Chandler said. “We’re trying to present role models, because good kids sometimes

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make bad decisions. We’re letting them know they can still accomplish their dreams and get some of them to start dreaming again, because some of our kids have stopped dreaming.”

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