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Tri-county voters head to polls

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Primary Election Day has arrived, and Democratic and Republican voters can take the opportunity to decide which candidates will represent their party in the Nov. 8 General Election.

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Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

As has been the case for the past two years, voters casting ballots in person will need a photo ID to cast their ballot.

Approved IDs include a South Carolina driver’s license, a Department of Motor Vehicles ID card or a voter registration card with photo. Voters may also present a U.S. military ID

or passport.

Registered voters who do not have a photo ID may cast a provisional ballot, which will count only if they are able to provide an approved photo ID to the county Voter Registration Office before certification of the election.

Those who are unable to ob-

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tain a photo ID may bring their non-photo voter registration card to the polling place and cast a provisional ballot after signing an affidavit stating why they have a reasonable impediment to obtaining a photo ID.

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Gunman at Orlando club appears to be an extremist

BY JASON DEAREN The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando mourned the 49 people slaughtered in the attack on a gay nightclub, as the White House and the FBI portrayed the killer Monday as an apparent “homegrown extremist” who espoused support for a jumble of often-conflicting Islamic organizations.

The last of the bodies were removed from the nightclub late Sunday, and vigils and makeshift memorials to the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history began to take shape as counterterrorism authorities delved into gunman Omar Mateen’s background and defended their handling of their previous contacts with him.

Wielding an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, Mateen, a 29-year-old American-born Muslim, opened fire at the crowded Pulse Orlando club early Sunday. He was killed in a gun battle with a SWAT team after police used explosives and a small armored vehicle to punch a hole in a wall and allow dozens of club-goers to escape, police said.

The tragedy shocked the nation and cast a pall over Orlando, known all around the globe as the home of Walt Disney World and other theme parks.

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Summer Restore volunteer says life is about serving others

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Betsy Noyes, a volunteer for United Ministries’ Summer Restore from Church of the Holy Comforter, said she believes serving other people is what life is all about.

Summer Restore is a ministry in the summer where teens from youth groups throughout Sumter come together and are assigned a house to work on for a week.

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Volunteers such as Noyes tear off all the previous shingles and tar paper and then roof the house, making repairs and replacing wood along the way.

While Summer Restore is mainly about construction work, it is also so much more than that, Noyes said.

“Volunteers have the opportunity to bring the image of Christ to the homeowners, and we learn what it is truly like to serve as He did,” she said.

Workers are called to give everything they have for a week, Noyes said — getting blisters, sunburn, dirt everywhere and

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ending up exhausted.

“Then we get to see the finished product of our hard work: a new roof that leaves its owner leak and worry free,” Noyes said. “My five summers of participating in Summer Restore have blessed me beyond measure.”

Noyes is not completely positive what it is, she said.

“There is something that is attractive to me about sweating for 10 hours on a roof in 100-degree weather and get-

ting so dirty that it takes multiple showers to be actually clean again,” she said.

“Maybe it’s the community.

I’ve met some of my closest friends from working on roofs with them,” she said. “But I think it’s the principle of it all. I never feel more alive than when I’m serving other people.

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Union Baptist Church fire ruled not suspicious South Carolina Law Enforcement Division spokesman Thom Berry said the agency and local authorities are still investigating the June 4 fire at Union Baptist Church in Rembert that caused approximately $1 million in losses.

The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, but it does not appear the blaze was suspicious at this point in the investigation, he said.

The fire started sometime after the sanctuary was locked for the night. No one was injured, but most of the sanctuary was destroyed in the blaze.

Berry said SLED will continue to work with local fire investigators to find the cause.

CORRECTION A paragraph in the text of an article in the Sunday, June 12 edition contained an error in which a line of text was omitted.

The paragraph on two Democratic primary races in Sumter County should have read: Incumbent Jamie Campbell is facing a challenge from Kevin Johnson (not the same person as state Sen. Kevin Johnson, D-Manning) for the clerk of court nomination, and incumbent Harvin Bullock is facing challenges from Robbie Baker and Isaac Johnson for the Democratic nomination for Sumter County coroner.

Also, Chris Sumpter’s name was left off the list of candidates for Sumter County Council District 1 and Sumter County Council District 5 candidate Geraldine Gamble’s name was misspelled.

If you see a statement in error, contact the City Desk at 774-1226 or pressrelease@theitem.com.

U.S. honors Star-Spangled Banner IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com For 67 years, the United States has honored its flag with a special day, during which U.S. presidents encourage citizens to fly the flag and think about what it means to us as individuals and as a nation. Today, flags are at half-staff across the country, in compliance with President Obama’s proclamation that begins, “As a mark of respect for the victims of the act of hatred and terror perpetrated on Sunday, June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida ... .”

That is perhaps the highest honor a U.S. citizen can receive, and the flag should never be flown at half-staff unless so ordered by the president. The Flag Code of the country specifies flag etiquette.

The U.S. flag is the most recognized symbol of the United States. President Harry S. Truman officially made June 14 National Flag Day in 1949. Truman was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and because of that, it is mandatory that all Elk lodges have a Flag Day ceremony, said Sumter Elks Exalted Ruler Jeanette Roveri Smith.

“We have a brief ceremony during which we talk about the significance of the flag,” she said. “We take all 13 different U.S. flags out and tell the story of how and why they changed over the years.”

Today’s ceremony at the Elks Lodge will begin at 6 p.m., and the public is invited to attend, Smith said.

“Following the ceremony, our Boy Scouts will conduct a flag disposal ceremony,” she said.

The lodge will also serve a light supper of hot dogs,

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This 1950 painting by Walter Haskell Hinton depicts Betsy Ross showing the flag she allegedly made at the behest of Gen. George Washington and the Continental Congress. No one knows if she did actually make the flag, but it is generally accepted that she did, based on stories she told her descendants in the years before her death. Today is Flag Day, an annual observance honoring the flag of the United States. chips and beverages.

Before the Elks’ event, American Legion Post 15 will have its annual flag disposal ceremony, Legion member Nick Nero said.

The post collects damaged and faded flags in a drop box outside its headquarters throughout the year for proper disposal, which is by burning. During the 15-minute ceremony held at 5 p.m. outside the headquarters at the Fair Memorial Building on Artillery Drive, the flags will receive a “pure burn,” Nero said. That is, Post 15 verifies that the flags were held in an honorable posi-

tion, then any packaging and attached sticks are removed so that all that burns are the flags themselves.

After “Retreat” is played, the flags are set on fire, and anyone present stands until they are burned completely and the music has stopped.

Retreat is the music that honors the flag when it is lowered each evening.

The ashes of the flags are then buried.

The protocols of both the Elks’ and American Legion Post 15’s flag disposal ceremonies are in compliance with the official Flag Code, which specifies that “If the

flag is worn beyond repair, it should be disposed of in a respectful manner.”

For the complete list of guidelines in the code, visit the website www.usflag.org/ uscode36.html.

Today’s Flag Day events open to the public: • 5 p.m. — Flag disposal ceremony, American Legion Post 15, 28 S. Artillery Drive at the Sumter fairgrounds, (803) 773-9644; and • 6 p.m. — U.S. flag program, followed by disposal ceremony and supper, Elks Lodge 855, 1100 W. Liberty St.; RSVP for supper. (803) 773-6324.

Gov. Haley vetoes moped safety bill over helmets, vests

BY SEANNA ADCOX The Associated Press COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley has vetoed a moped safety bill, saying it is government overreach to require reflective vests for nighttime driving and helmets for drivers under 21.

People over 18 “should decide for themselves what they should wear for their personal safety,” the Republican governor wrote in her veto message, signed Friday.

Sen. Greg Hembree, R-North Myrtle Beach, said he thinks mopeds are the most dangerous vehicles for people to drive, partly because there are no regulations. He’s been pushing for safety legislation since his 2012 election.

“They’re slower, and you can’t see them as well,” Hembree said Monday about the need for vests. “That’s how they get hit. They get run over at night.”

According to the Department of Public Safety, 50 people died in moped crashes last year — 18 of those in

Horry County, which topped the fatality list. The statewide toll was up from 32 moped deaths in 2014 and 24 in 2013.

At least 16 moped drivers and/or passengers have died so far this year.

In her veto letter, Haley said the proposed restrictions for mopeds exceed those for motorcycle drivers.

But state law does require anyone under 21 who’s driving or riding on a motorcycle to wear a helmet. The motorcycle advocacy group ABATE — which stands for A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments — has long squashed any effort to require helmets for older riders.

But ABATE spokesman Chad Fuller said the group wanted legislators to add the helmet provision for mopeds.

“We supported them having the same regulations that we as motorcyclists have,” he said. The group, of which Haley has been a member, took no position on the vest issue.

Legislators will decide later this week whether to overturn Haley’s veto.

Rep. Bill Crosby, the main House sponsor, said the bill is not about helmets or vests but saving people’s lives.

“I wish she would reconsider,” said Crosby, R-North Charleston. “I would think it would sit on her conscience if this doesn’t pass. ... We’ll continue having people killed.”

He likened the moped restrictions to requiring people in vehicles to wear seat belts.

While a House member, Haley voted against the 2005 law that allowed officers to stop drivers for not wearing a seat belt.

The moped bill would allow officers to charge intoxicated moped drivers with drunken driving.

“Literally, you can be stinking drunk on a moped and can’t be arrested,” said Hembree, formerly the chief prosecutor for Horry and Georgetown counties.

That’s because state law specifically excludes mopeds from the definition of a motor vehicle. Proposals to close that loophole have died repeatedly

since 2010. People who lose their license because of a DUI conviction often use a moped to get around. In a state where public transportation is lacking, legislators didn’t want to prevent people from getting to work.

To solve that sticking point, the bill creates a special moped license. People who lose their regular license, for whatever reason, can get the separate license, starting the point system over.

But a moped license could be suspended too.

“If that happens, we’re starting to lose sympathy for you. You’re going to have to be walking,” Hembree said.

The bill would require people to register their mopeds and attach a license plate, which the bill creates as a way to cut down on theft and identify mopeds in crashes. Mopeds would still be exempt from property taxes and insurance.

The bill makes it illegal for mopeds to be driven on highways where the posted speed limit is 55 mph or greater.

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TRI-COUNTY VOTER PRECINCTS All polls will be open Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for the Democratic and Republican primary election.

SUMTER COUNTY Voters can find a link to identify their specific voting precinct on Sumter County’s website, sumtercountysc.org, on the Voter Registration/Elections page.

Bates — Bates Middle School, 715 Estate St., Sumter Birnie — Birnie HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy St., Sumter Burns-Downs — Alice Drive Middle School, 40 Miller Road, Sumter Causeway Branch 1 — Millwood Elementary School, 24 Pinewood Road, Sumter Causeway Branch 2 — Millwood Elementary School, 24 Pinewood Road, Sumter Cherryvale — Cherryvale Community Center, 4340 Confederate Road, Sumter Crosswell — Crosswell Elementary School, 301 Crosswell Drive, Sumter Dalzell 1 — Hillcrest Middle School, 4355 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell Dalzell 2 — Hillcrest Middle School, 4355 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell Delaine — Delaine Elementary School, 5355 Cane Savannah Road, Wedgefield Ebenezer 1 — Ebenezer Middle School, 3440 Ebenezer Road, Sumter Ebenezer 2 — Ebenezer Middle School, 3440 Ebenezer Road, Sumter Folsom Park — Willow Drive Elementary School, 26 Willow Drive, Sumter Furman — Furman Middle School, 3400 Bethel Church Road, Sumter Green Swamp 1 — Sumter School District Office, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter Green Swamp 2 — Sumter School

Statewide primary is today Polls open at 7 a.m.

CHARLESTON (AP) — A look at Tuesday’s primary, in which polls are open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.:

CONGRESSIONAL RACES Incumbent Republican U.S. Reps. Mark Sanford and Mick Mulvaney face primary challengers today.

Sanford, a former governor, faces state Rep. Jenny Horne of Summerville in the Lowcountry’s 1st District in the congressional race that has attracted the most attention.

In the 5th District along the North Carolina border, Mulvaney, first elected six years ago, faces Ray Craig of Lake Wylie. In the other race in the 2nd District in the Midlands, Phil Black of Lexington meets Arik Bjorn of Columbia in the Democratic primary. The winner faces longtime incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson in the fall.

LEGISLATIVE RACES The legislative races to watch are in the Senate, where Republican Gov. Nikki Haley is trying to oust several of its GOP leaders, while Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster and other Haley allies are working to re-elect them. Those targeted by Haley include Senate President Pro Tem Hugh Leatherman of Florence, Luke Rankin of Conway and Wes Hayes of Rock Hill.

Others facing tough challenges include Senate Judiciary Chairman Larry Martin, R-Pickens, whose opponents include a former member of the state House.

District Office, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter Hampton Park — Santee Senior Resource Center, 110 N. Salem Ave., Sumter Hillcrest — Hillcrest Middle School, 4355 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell Horatio — Horatio Fire Station, 7720 Sumter Landing Road, Horatio Lemira — Lemira Elementary School, 952 Fulton St., Sumter Loring — Grace Cathedral Ministries, 60 Oswego Road, Sumter Magnolia-Harmony — South Sumter Resource Center, 337 Manning Ave., Sumter Manchester Forest — Wedgefield Fire Station, 2035 Highway 261 S., Wedgefield Mayesville — Mayesville Fire Station, 20 S. Main St., Mayesville Mayewood — Mayewood Middle School, 4300 E. Brewington Road, Sumter McCrays Mill 1 — Sumter County Career Center, 2612 McCrays Mill Road, Sumter McCrays Mill 2 — Sumter County Career Center, 2612 McCrays Mill Road, Sumter Millwood — Millwood Elementary School, 24 Pinewood Road, Sumter Morris College — North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St., Sumter Mulberry — County Training Center, 1273 N. Main St., Sumter Oakland Plant 1 — Oakland Primary School, 5415 Oakland Drive, Sumter Oakland Plant 2 — Oakland Primary School, 5415 Oakland Drive, Sumter Oswego — Crestwood High School, 2000 Oswego Road, Sumter Palmetto Park — Central Carolina Technical College, 506 N. Guignard Drive, Building 700, Sumter Pinewood — Manchester

Elementary School, 200 Clark St., Pinewood Pocotaligo 1 — Lakewood High School, 350 Old Manning Road, Sumter Pocotaligo 2 — Lakewood High School, 350 Old Manning Road, Sumter Privateer — Pocalla Springs Elementary School, 2060 Bethel Church Road, Sumter Rembert — Rembert Fire Station, 7045 Post Office St., Rembert Salem — Rural Fire Station, 6090 Myrtle Beach Highway, Gable Salterstown — Chestnut Oaks Middle School, 1200 Oswego Road, Sumter Savage-Glover — South Sumter Park Gym, 630 S. Sumter St., Sumter Second Mill — Elks Lodge, 1100 W. Liberty St., Sumter Shaw — Shaw Heights Elementary School, 5121 Frierson Road, Sumter South Red Bay — South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive, Sumter South Liberty — American Legion Home Building, 28 Artillery Drive, Sumter Spectrum — Stadium Road Fire Station, 2041 Stadium Road, Sumter St. John — St. John Elementary School, 4515 Narrow Paved Road, Lynchburg St. Paul — Cherryvale Elementary School, 1420 Furman Drive, Sumter Stone Hill — Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, 803 S. Harvin St., Sumter Sumter High 1 — Sumter High School, 2580 McCrays Mill Road, Sumter Sumter High 2 — Sumter High School, 2580 McCrays Mill Road, Sumter Sunset — Kingsbury Elementary School, 825 Kingsbury Road, Sumter Swan Lake — Willow Drive Elementary School, 26 Willow Drive,

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School, 4355 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell Turkey Creek — Lemira Elementary School, 952 Fulton St., Sumter Wilder — Wilder Elementary School, 900 Floral Ave., Sumter Wilson Hall — Wilson Hall School, 520 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter

LEE COUNTY Some precincts are consolidated. For more information, call the Lee County Voter Registration Office at (803) 484-1832.

Ashwood, Manville — Fire Station No. 3 (Ashwood), 4396 Sumter Highway, Bishopville Bishopville 1, Mt. Clio — Fire Station No. 1 (Main), 122 E. Church St., Bishopville Bishopville 2 — Old Fire Department, 113 E. Council St., Bishopville Bishopville 3 — The Pilot House, 120 Barnett Drive, Bishopville Bishopville 4 — Lee County School District Office Annex, 310 Roland Ave., Bishopville Cedar Creek, Hickory Hill, Ionia

— Cedar Creek Baptist Church, 3002 Camden Highway, Bishopville Cypress, Ashland/Stokes Bridge

— Fire Station No. 8 (Cypress), 2346 N. U.S. 15, Bishopville Lynchburg, South Lynchburg — Ryanne’s Catering Hall, 154 Main St., Lynchburg Rattlesnake Springs, Spring Hill, Woodrow — St. Andrew Church of

God, 4238 Red Hill Road, Camden Schrocks Mill/Lucknow, St. Matthews, Turkey Creek —

Concord United Methodist Church, 354 Old Camden Road, Bishopville St. Charles, Elliot — Lower Lee Elementary School, 26 Lower Lee School Road, Mayesville

CLARENDON COUNTY Some precincts are consolidated.

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Alcolu — Alcolu Elementary School, 1423 Hotel St., Alcolu Barrineau — Barrineau Fire Station, 3802 St. James Road, Lake City Barrows Mill, Oakdale — Friendship Presbyterian Church, 10123 Black River Road, New Zion Bloomville — Liberty Fire Station, 5119 Brewer Road, Manning Calvary, Panola — Panola Fire Station, 1984 Elliott Road, Pinewood Davis Station — Davis Station Fire Station, 2694 M.W. Rickenbaker Road, Manning Harmony — Harmony Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 8629 U.S. 301, Alcolu Hicks, Turbeville — Turbeville Town Hall, 1292 Green St., Turbeville Home Branch, Paxville — Town Hall, 10279 Lewis Road, Manning Jordan — Wyboo Fire Station, 1101 Herring Drive, Manning Manning 1, Manning 5 — Manning United Methodist Church, 17 Rigby St., Manning Manning 2 — Cypress Center Hospital Complex, 50 E. Hospital St., Manning Manning 3, Manning 4 — Clarendon County Administration Building Council Chambers, 411 Sunset Drive, Manning New Zion — Clarendon County EMS Building, 15677 U.S. 301, New Zion Sardinia-Gable — Sardinia-Gable Fire Station, 12878 U.S. 301, Gable Summerton I, Summerton II, Summerton III — St. Matthias

Episcopal Church, 9 N. Dukes St., Summerton Wilson-Foreston — WilsonForeston Fire Station, 1015 N. Brewington Road, Manning

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Middle school hosting STEM camp

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Alice Drive Middle School is hosting a camp this week that aims to continue the school’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math curriculum into the summer months.

In 2015, Alice Drive became one of only two schools in the state — and one of 12 in the nation — to receive an AdvancED certification for being a STEM school. STEM courses are incorporated into the curriculum at the school.

About 30 students from the middle school and three elementary schools that feed into the middle school are participating in a biomechanical engineering program called “Engineering Everywhere: Put a Lid On It,” through Thursday.

The program was developed by the Engineering is Elementary project at National Center for Technological Literacy at the Museum of Science in Boston, said Georganne Kirven, State 4-H specialist at Clemson University’s 4-H Youth Development State 4-H Office, which runs the program.

On Monday, students were conducting activities that introduced them to the engineering design process, Kir-

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Trace Bailey, left, a fifth-grade student at Willow Drive Elementary School, and Riley Parish, a sixth-grade student at Alice Drive Middle School, test the effectiveness of their index card wall to support an egg. ven said.

In one of the activities, students were tasked with building a 10-inch wall out of index cards and masking tape. The sturdiness of the wall was tested by placing an egg on top of it and having the egg not fall for at least 10 seconds.

In another activity, students designed and made a helmet out of different materials. The durability of the helmet was tested by placing it on a styrofoam mannequin head. A paintball was placed in between the mannequin head and helmet, and the head was then dropped from a specific height. The goal was to have

the helmet protect the head when it hit the ground without the paintball busting, Kirven said.

On Wednesday and Thursday, students will learn about prostheses. A guest speaker with a prosthetic limb will share her story.

Students will also build a model prosthetic leg for an elephant and a model prosthetic beak for a bird using craft materials.

“The goal of the program is to expose students to real-life challenges and techniques that they could potentially use later in their careers,” said Cheryl Dillon, program assistant for Clemson University’s 4-H Youth Development

State 4-H Office.

Bryson Fink, who will start as a sixth-grade student at Alice Drive Middle School in the fall, said he decided to attend the camp to get more exposure to project-based learning and to have the opportunity to meet other students.

Winter Dorsey, an eighthgrade student at the school, has already been taking STEM courses. Dorsey said she enjoyed working in teams to achieve a certain goal.

Sean Rinkleff, also an eighth-grade student at the school, said he hoped to learn to be a better engineer through the camp.

On Thursday, students will present the projects they made throughout the week.

Clemson University’s 4-H Youth Development State 4-H Office will host additional STEM camps throughout the summer in Sumter County. On June 20-24, a STEM workshop will be held at M.H. Newton Family Life Center, 415 Manning Ave. Another STEM camp will be held July 25-28 at Alice Drive Middle School. Both camps are full and have waiting lists.

For more information, contact Kirven, at (803) 4914869, gkirven@clemson.edu, or visit the website www. clemson.edu/extension/4h.

POLICE BLOTTER STOLEN PROPERTY A 1995 White Nissan Maxima, SC tag JMI287, valued at $2,500, and $6,000 in cash were reportedly stolen between Sunday and Monday of last week from a South Lafayette Drive residence.

Power tools and other hardware items valued at $2,000 were reportedly stolen June 6 from a pickup truck in the parking lot of a Broad Street business. The crime occurred between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.

A blue 2013 TaoTao model motorized scooter worth $900 was reportedly stolen Saturday.

DAMAGED PROPERTY A car parked at a West Fulton Street residence was scratched with a key between Thursday and Friday, resulting in $1,000 in damage to the vehicle.

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday that an unknown suspect broke into two businesses in the 4300 block of Broad Street on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. The suspect smashed the glass of the entrance doorway to each business and took an undisclosed amount of rolled coins from the first business and a gumball machine valued at $100 from the second business. Damage to the doors was estimated at $275.

As mass shootings plague U.S., survivors mourn lack of change THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Saint Anselm College on Monday in Manchester, New Hampshire. Trump and Clinton offered prayers and support to victims of the Florida nightclub mass shooting before resuming business as usual on the campaign trail.

Clinton, Trump adjust politicking after tragedy WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton adjusted their presidential politicking Sunday, first offering prayers and support to the victims of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. But then they both infused their sympathy with sharply different statements that favor their White House aspirations, and the presidential race rolled on.

The presumptive candidates made statements hours after a gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 49 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. An additional 53 were hospitalized, most in critical condition. Officials identified the shooter as Omar Mateen of Fort Pierce, Florida, a U.S. citi-

zen born in New York.

Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, pushed for gun control and reached out to a key constituency — gays and lesbians.

“The gunman attacked an LGBT nightclub during Pride Month. To the LGBT community: Please know that you have millions of allies across our country. I am one of them,” she said in a statement, adding a call to keep assault weapons out of the hands of “terrorists or other violent criminals.”

Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, also offered words of support.

But then he spent the day congratulating himself apparently for predicting more attacks inside the U.S. On Twitter, he renewed talk of his plan to ban Muslims from the U.S. for an indeterminate time.

DENVER (AP) — The deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history has people around the world wondering why mass violence keeps happening in America.

For those who have lived through mass shootings, and for the law enforcement officers trying to prevent them, the answer is self-evident.

“Because we allow it,” said Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was among 12 killed at a Colorado movie theater in 2012.

The nation began the week mourning the 49 people killed early Sunday when a gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Authorities are investigating whether the assault was an act of terrorism, a hate crime or both.

Politicians lamented the violence as tragically familiar despite its staggering scale.

The causes of mass shootings are as disparate as the cases themselves, but those involved in other tragedies couldn’t help but feel the similarities.

President Obama called the latest massacre “a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub.

“And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be.”

The Orlando massacre sparks echoes of last year’s attack on a social services cen-

and the fact that we refuse to accept the fact that we are to blame just makes it worse. It’s what we do to each other that causes these people to get to the point where they feel this is the only option.”

Phillips said even the most horrifying massacres have provoked little change.

The best chance might have come after a gunman in NewAP FILE PHOTO town, Connecticut, killed 20 White roses with the faces of vic- first-graders and six adults at tims of the Sandy Hook Elemena school in Sandy Hook, just tary School shooting are seen months after the theater near the school on Jan. 14, 2013, shooting. Obama dedicated in Newtown, Connecticut. Even much of the start of his secthe most horrifying massacres, ond term to pushing legislasuch as the Sandy Hook shooting tion to expand background in which 20 first-graders and six checks, ban certain assaultstyle weapons and cap the size adults were killed, have not prompted a hard push for tighter of ammunition clips.

That measure collapsed in gun measures. the Senate, and since then, the ter in San Bernardino, Califor- political makeup of Congress has made new gun laws apnia. pear out of reach.

For Ryan Reyes, whose boy“We could have done somefriend was killed in San Berthing about this in the years nardino, the shootings have less to do with gun control and since Columbine, since Sandy Hook,” said Marcus Weaver, more to do with highly who was wounded in the thecharged political rhetoric and ater shooting and whose friend how people treat each other.

“The issue is American soci- was killed. “When is enough ety,” he said. “We are to blame, enough?”

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U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel also ordered that jurors will hear arguments on a possible death sentence for Dylann Roof if he’s convicted of capital crimes in his federal trial.

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uel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. His federal trial is scheduled to begin on Nov. 7, and Roof’s defense attorneys have said he is willing to plead guilty if the government drops its pursuit of a possible death sentence.

Roof also faces nine counts of murder in state court. That trial is set for January.

The church shootings, which occurred a year ago this Friday, reignited discussions about race relations and led to the removal of a

Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina Statehouse. Roof had previously posed for photos with a rebel flag.

Due in part to problems in obtaining lethal injection drugs, no one has been executed in South Carolina since 2011.

The federal government hasn’t put anyone to death since 2003.

Roof was originally to go on trial in state court this July. But the case was delayed after defense attorneys said doctors needed more time to complete psychiatric testing of Roof.

1 year after shootings of parishioners, much is the same in Charleston

BY JEFFREY COLLINS and JONATHAN DREW The Associated Press CHARLESTON — The names of Confederate generals still adorn street signs in Charleston’s public housing projects, and a heroic waterfront statue dedicated to the Confederate Defenders of Charleston still faces Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.

Just down from the Emanuel AME church — where nine black parishioners studying their Bibles were gunned down one year ago — a statue of Vice President John C. Calhoun, a staunch defender of slavery, towers above a park.

After the June 17, 2015, massacre, South Carolina lawmakers did what many people thought was impossible to achieve and removed the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds in Columbia.

Across the country, as far away as Alaska, officials moved to strip streets, college dormitories and even lakes of the names of Confederates, secessionists and public figures who championed segregation.

But a year later, little has changed in Charleston, the city where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans first set foot in North America. It was here that the work of plantation slaves made the city one of the wealthiest in the nation before the Civil War. It was here where the bombardment of Fort Sumter threw the nation into that war in 1861.

A section of a street in front of the white stucco Emanuel AME church may have been

renamed “Mother Emanuel Way Memorial District,” but all of Charleston’s Confederate commemorations remain intact — and longstanding racial issues endure.

“I think a lot of things happened out of the immediate emotions of how horrific the killings were. That’s the human side of folks and the politeness, particularly of Charleston, that we just had to do something. But then when reality checks us — the question is what is that going to cost us in terms of changing the way we think and do things?” said Dot Scott, president of the Charleston branch of the NAACP. A white man who police said hated blacks and posted photos of himself with the Confederate flag has been charged with killing the nine parishioners.

“It was truly an attack on a race of people,” Malcolm Graham, the brother of victim Cynthia Hurd, said of the shootings. “After 400 years, the African-American community still is suffering and dealing with these types of issues relating to race.”

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People join hands against the backdrop of an American flag as thousands of marchers meet June 21, 2015, in the middle of Charleston’s main bridge in a show of unity after nine black church parishioners were gunned down during a Bible study in Charleston. bols in Charleston after the church attack?

Bernard Powers, a black College of Charleston history professor, noted it took a 15-year struggle to get the flag removed from the Statehouse grounds and that it happened only after the slayings.

“People see what it took, and ultimately that flag was removed because nine people were murdered,” said Powers, who co-authored a book about the massacre called “We are Charleston.” “I think people

appreciate how deeply entrenched the reverence is for the Confederacy. For a lot of

folks, it is a civil religion.”

As soon as South Carolina lawmakers voted to pull down the flag, they shut the door on any other changes.

Gov. Nikki Haley had pushed for the flag to come down but feared that going further would incite fights across the state, so she asked lawmakers to protect all the other flags and monuments while removing the Statehouse flag.

“Our goal was to hold everything together. Let’s do what we can, let’s be kind and accepting and understand history is just that — it’s history,” she said.

So a statue of former Gov. and U.S. Sen. “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman still stands on the Statehouse grounds. Tillman once famously praised a lynch mob that killed seven black Republicans in 1876 to intimidate others from voting. The statue calls him a “friend and leader of the common people” but makes no mention of the violence he bragged about for decades, something black lawmakers would like to see added.

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BY MICHAEL HILL The Associated Press AUBURN, N.Y. — Harriet Tubman’s upcoming debut on the $20 bill is just half the good news in the upstate New York town where the Underground Railroad conductor settled down and grew old.

A long-sought national historical park here honoring Tubman could be officially established as early as this summer. The move would give a boost to preservation efforts at her old home and church just as the former slave is poised to replace President Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 bill.

“It’s about time,” Judith Bryant, Tubman’s 80-year-old great-great-grandniece, said of the recognition as the first black on U.S. paper currency.

“People who don’t know about her will now.”

Bryant stood beside a simple headstone describing Tubman as a “Heroine of the Underground Railroad,” a phrase that resonates personally with the Auburn resident.

Bryant’s great-great grandfather was Tubman’s brother and was among the dozens of slaves she guided north to freedom.

Tubman had been free for a decade in 1859, when she bought a parcel of land on the outskirts of Auburn, about 25 miles west of Syracuse. She was given a good deal by fellow abolitionist Sen. William Seward, who would later become President Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state. She settled long term in the area after the Civil War, during which she served as a spy, a scout, a cook, a nurse and, famously, as a leader in a military raid.

She married for a second time, spoke out for women’s suffrage, grew potatoes and apples, took in boarders and continued to spend her time and scarce money helping others. She was able to establish a home for the aged next door to her house before she died in 1913. Accounts of her age at death vary, though most put it between 91 and 93.

Tubman had family in the area, and some latter-day relatives still live in the small city in the Finger Lakes region, like Bryant and 88-year-old great-great grandniece Pauline Copes Johnson.

Johnson had spent decades traveling across the country “keeping Aunt Harriet’s name alive.” Now she can take pleasure in the new $20 bill, the national park and a planned TV biography under development starring Viola Davis.

“I’m so glad that at last she’s being recognized,” she said.

Tours of Tubman’s property are now run by the not-forprofit Harriet Tubman Home.

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The Rev. Paul Gordon Carter, manager of the Harriet Tubman Home, leads a tour at the historic site in Auburn, New York, on May 19. A national historical park honoring Tubman could be established as early as this summer in Auburn.

A compass and other mementos are left on the gravestone of Harriet Tubman at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn.

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for remodeling, but visitors can see an interpretive center and walk through the home for the aged, where she died.

“This is the only place for nearly five decades where we can document Tubman’s comings and goings,” said the

group’s president, Karen Hill.

“That’s huge, to know that we can actually stand on the soil that she tilled.”

The Harriet Tubman National Historical Park would encompass that 31-acre site plus the AME Zion Church about a mile away where Tubman worshipped. The weathered clapboard church is boarded up now and offers sanctuary only for neighborhood birds.

The transition to a national park is complicated, involving two parcels of land and the purchase of a historic easement on the larger property.

The park could be formally established this summer once the church land is sold. Parks officials said they will then work with the Harriet Tubman Home and the church to improve the site. Hill looks forward to having the house reopened and bringing back Tubman’s apple orchard and more.

The design of the new $20 bill with Tubman on the front is expected to be completed by 2020.

Bryant said the idea of pulling a bill from her pocket with her ancestor’s image on it is still unimaginable. But she already appreciates the effect the ancestor who died before she was born had on her life.

Not only did Tubman lead her family here, but Bryant’s home on a quiet Auburn street was also built by Tubman’s nephew, her greatgrandfather and his son.

“Sure I’m proud to have a famous ancestor, but not because she’s famous, because of what she did and what she meant to my family. ... I wouldn’t be in Auburn, New York. I would not be in this house,” she said. “I wouldn’t be who I am.”

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Democratic voters in South Carolina state House District 50 in Kershaw, Sumter and Lee counties will choose from six candidates vying to replace Rep. Grady Brown, who is retiring. Listed on the Democratic ballot in that race are Brian Alston, Crystal K. Cunningham, Tom Drayton, Keith Johnson, Demoine Kinney and Will Wheeler.

In Sumter and Clarendon counties, registered Democrats in S.C. House District 64 will choose between three candidates: Alexander Conyers, Mitch Ellerby and incumbent Robert Ridgeway III. No other General Assembly races in the tri-county area are contested in the primary election.

Several races are contested on the Democratic primary ballot in Sumter County.

Incumbent Jamie Campbell is facing a challenge from Kevin Johnson (not the same person as state Sen. Kevin Johnson, D-Manning) for the clerk of court nomination, and incumbent Harvin Bullock is facing challenges from Robbie Baker and Isaac Johnson for the Democratic nomination for Sumter County coroner.

Three Sumter County Council seats are contested in the Democratic primary. Barbara Bowman, Alphonso Johnson, Caleb Kershaw Jr., Roland Robinson and Chris Sumpter are competing in the District 1 race, while James Self and Patty Wilson are seeking the nomination in District 3.

Three candidates are seeking the Sumter County Council District 5 seat. Incumbent Vivian Fleming-McGhaney is facing challengers Geraldine Gamble and Frank Williams Jr. for the nomination.

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Crisis Relief Ministry financially assisted 14 families, for total of $2,055, and assisted 13 families with $670 of food from May 31 through June 2.

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cowardly hater,” Mayor Buddy Dyer vowed.

FBI Director James Comey said the bureau is trying to determine whether Mateen had recently scouted Disney World as a potential targets, as reported by People.com, which cited an unidentified federal law enforcement source.

“We’re still working through that,” Comey said.

Comey said Mateen had “strong indications of radicalization” and was probably inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.

He said Mateen had three 911 conversations during the attack and not only pledged loyalty to the Islamic State, but also expressed solidarity with the Tsarnaev brothers, who carried out the Boston Marathon bombing, and a suiTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS cide bomber who died on behalf of the al-NusDon Haller, left, and Frank Thompson of Laguna Niguel pray at Main ra front, a group at odds with the Islamic State.

Street Bar in Laguna Beach, California, for the victims of the Orlando A few years ago, Mateen also expressed supnightclub shooting on Sunday. port for both al-Qaida and Hezbollah, which is a

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bitter enemy of the Islamic State, Comey noted.

The FBI investigated Mateen for 10 months beginning in May 2013 regarding those remarks.

Comey said investigators introduced him to confidential sources, followed him and reviewed some of his communications, but Mateen claimed he made the remarks in anger because co-workers were teasing and discriminating against him because he was Muslim.

The investigation was brought to a close.

The FBI also investigated him about his connection to the al-Nusra suicide bomber but found no ties of any consequence, the FBI chief said.

As for whether the FBI should have done anything differently, “so far the honest answer is, ‘I don’t think so,’” Comey said.

At the White House, President Obama said there is no clear evidence so far that Mateen was directed by the Islamic State. He said Mateen was inspired by radical information over the internet, calling it another apparent example of “homegrown extremism.”

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It’s time for long-term strategy to crush terrorism

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unday morning’s horrifying attack on an Orlando gay club is not only the worst mass shooting in America’s history, but it is also the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. It should be treated as such.

According to officials in Orlando, Omar Mir Seddique Mateen — a 29-year-old U.S. citizen born to Afghan parents — opened fire on more than 200 people at a nightclub called Pulse about 2 a.m. on Sunday morning. A hostage situation ensued.

When Orlando SWAT entered the club, nearly three hours later, more than 50 people were dead and another 50 injured. Mateen was killed by police.

Mateen, a security guard with the international-security firm G4S, was known to the FBI as one of a number of Americans potentially sympathetic to Islamic State, but it’s not clear if the attack was coordinated by the terrorist organization.

In either case, two things are clear: Islamic terror’s war on the West has returned to American shores, and

the United States must respond accordingly.

November’s attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, in which ISISaffiliated terrorists killed 130 people, demonstrated the capacity of Islamic terrorists to strike the heart of the West. At that time, Islamic State promised that it would soon export its violence to the United States.

Three weeks later, Islamic terrorists — who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State during their attack — killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.

The U.S. can no longer treat the Islamic State, a resurgent al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations as distant enemies. Islamic terrorists’ war on us has returned to American shores, and it will continue here as long as we refuse to exercise the tactics necessary to stamp it out.

The Obama administration, despite engaging in a drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan that has helped make those countries safe havens for terrorists, is now quietly returning American troops to those countries. Those efforts must be

more robust and deliberate, rather than a shame-faced attempt to do a little bit more as quietly as possible.

Meanwhile, although Syria remains a tangled mess, we at the very least can do more to aid our Kurdish allies there. This administration has refused to craft a coherent plan for defeating our enemies abroad, preferring to engage in small, disconnected missions on an as-needed basis. It is time for a long-term strategy. As long as terrorists have sanctuaries in which they can train, and from which they can recruit, Americans will continue to live under threat.

But the power of the Islamic State is not just in its materiel. Its success in evangelizing its murderous ideology is a problem the United States national-security apparatus has failed to address.

Convincing young, disaffected Muslim men and women that terrorism is not a bright future will require more than “positive messaging” from government Twitter accounts. It will require discrediting the ideology that has appealed to so many in the West and the Middle East. And it will require demonstrating that we will deal

swiftly and pitilessly with those who engage in, or support, terrorism.

This is, after all, a war, and that is how wars are won. And the stakes of this fight could not be higher. This is a contest between those who champion freedom and pluralism and those who would impose tyrannical theocracy. It is worth remembering that not just the Islamic State and similar outfits but the largest state backers of international terrorism — Iran and Saudi Arabia — regularly torture and execute gay men and lesbians. Terrorists do not care about diversity and inclusiveness. They are not interested in “dialogues.” They hate the most progressive Democrat as much as they hate the most conservative Republican. The ideology responsible for this barbarism cannot be negotiated with; it must be defeated.

Orlando, like Paris and San Bernardino and London and Madrid and countless other attacks, is an attack on a way of life, painstakingly built up over centuries, that cares first and foremost for freedom. Now more than ever, the West must uphold that way of life — and take the fight to those who seek to destroy it.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR REMEMBER S.C. IS AN OPEN PRIMARY STATE I just voted in the primary election that will be held [today] because I am a poll manager and needed to vote absentee.

I was surprised to find that there is only the Democratic primary. The only Republican race is for 5th Congressional District. Congressman Mulvaney is being challenged by a gal from the Rock Hill area.

But there are important local offices being contested in the Democratic party primary.

There are no Republicans running for county offices such as county coroner or clerk of court, and it is too late for anyone to sign up to run for these positions in November. Therefore, the winners of the Democratic primary will run unopposed in November for their positions.

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You can vote in their party primary, and that action does not commit you to any form of allegiance.

For your information, filing for city council, mayor and school board trustee, which are “non-partisan political offices,” starts on July 15 and ends on Aug. 15. If you have any friends that are considering running for either of these offices, ask them to call me. I am setting up a meeting at which we will provide information needed to run for these offices in November.

Please pass this information on to your friends.

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Freedom to kill, permission to die in California

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ASHINGTON — It was inevitable that we would one day seek ways to kill ourselves with society’s bless-

ing.

California recently joined four other states — Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana — that allow terminally ill patients to commit suicide using doctor-prescribed drugs.

Criteria under the California law include that the patient has a terminal disease, would likely die within six months and is of sound mind and can self-administer the “medicine.”

Thanks to medical advances that can extend life beyond what some find acceptable, resulting in Kathleen unnecessary sufferParker ing, many think it’s their right to die with dignity using medications legally prescribed.

It’s an easy-enough argument to understand. There’s a certain logic and humanity to the option of leaving life gracefully by one’s own volition, as long as it really is.

Here, I should confess my own ambivalence. Basically, I’d like to have the means to end my own life on my own terms when my body has clearly

called it quits. I’m just not sure I like the idea of the state and doctors lending a hand.

At least two problems seem obvious: Death dates can’t be predicted with precision and are, therefore, speculative. How often have you heard that someone has three months to live and he or she is still around two years later? And “medicine” by definition means: (1) a substance to ease pain or other symptoms, and (2) a science to prevent, treat or cure diseases.

One could argue that suicide medicine would relieve the pain of living through the final stages of cancer, as an example. But this clearly isn’t what Merriam-Webster — or the Hippocratic oath — intended. The purpose of medicine is to prevent illness and to heal, not to end life when healing isn’t possible.

Still, what are we to do when medicine can do no more? Or when treatment means prolonging suffering toward inevitable death? We are kinder to our pets, many would argue.

Perhaps I read too many dystopian science-fiction novels during my formative years, but there’s something disturbing about asking doctors to help their patients die. Then again, we’ve already asked them to destroy unborn human life, codifying the legal right to terminate a pregnancy.

When the continuum of life — from conception to natural death — is interrupted as a convenience to one’s individual concept of time (I’m not ready to be a parent; I’m ready to die), what else do we also terminate?

Gradually inured to the metaphysical considerations of such actions, might we also be denying ourselves access to charity, compassion, empathy and love?

Unknowable in our calculations is what happens in the final moments of life. If Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, wasted away with terminal cancer, had decided to leave the party early, we might not have learned from his sister, Mona Simpson, that his final words were, after staring for a long time at each of his family members: “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”

I don’t know what Jobs saw, but I think I’d like to see it, too.

Troubling, too, is the possibility that some patients might feel obligated to commit suicide once the option is available, even though prescribing doctors are encouraged to tell patients they don’t have to take the medicine. Many reportedly don’t take the pills.

But a sick person might want to protect family members and think, oh, well, what’s another six months?

A lifetime, I should think. Can’t life

be made tolerable enough during this time to avoid making doctors and family members complicit in suicide?

Other questions seize the mind: Will the right to die ultimately be considered as just another facet of “health care,” as abortion has come to be? And when do six months become a year? A novelist would propose that it’s just a matter of time before a glut of elderly people in poor health, who are by definition “terminal,” so overwhelm the health care system that “opting out” becomes an expectation rather than a choice. This would be satire, right?

And satire does not a slippery slope make, but laws do condition values.

Oregon, which passed its right-to-die law in 1997, has the highest suicide rate in the country — 35 percent higher than the national average, according to an Oregon Public Health report.

As more than a dozen other states consider similar legislation, it isn’t irrational to wonder whether, in tampering with our medical culture of healing, we aren’t inviting unintended consequences that we’ll live — or die — to regret.

Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group

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Latest recycling of ‘Uncle Buck’ is cringe-worthy

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Will the third time be the charm for “Uncle Buck” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG)? The 1989 John Hughes comedy was adapted for a 1990 CBS sitcom starring Kevin Meaney. It resurfaces tonight, starring Mike Epps in the title role.

In addition to needlessly recycling an old vehicle, “Buck” hitches it to the annoying cartoonlike sitcom style of Disney Channel efforts.

John Candy may have been a lovable goofball in John Hughes’ stylized white suburban tableaux, but as a black male character, Epps’ Buck hearkens back to some more ancient stereotypes.

He is basically cast as a lazy and irresponsible mooch, naughty but basically harmless and ineffectual, good for little more than entertaining children — when he’s not being outsmarted by them.

This “Uncle Buck” made me cringe.

• Ellen Barkin (“Sea of Love”) stars as crime family matriarch Janine “Smurf” Cody in “Animal Kingdom” (9 p.m., TNT, TV-14). Her grandson Joshua “J” Cody (Finn Cole) comes to live with her after the overdose death of his mother. This doesn’t sit entirely well with her sons, J’s not-so-close uncles. Perhaps because they’re just

era, it seems best enjoyed in two-minute dollops. The shocking but inconsequential “story” is merely a backdrop for the “bits.”

about to pull another major heist.

Despite his mother’s addiction, J appears to be well adjusted and studious. He’s immediately dubious of his grandmother and the violent frat house he now calls home.

It doesn’t help that the pilot jams so much story in with so little character development. OK, these folks are called “animals,” but their reaction to a death in the family and a funeral is to throw a pool party. And wouldn’t you know, the very day J arrives, the eldest son, Pope (Shawn Hatosy), gets released from prison.

Barkin, an actress of considerable talent, has little to do here but react to her rowdy crew and beg them to behave and clean up after themselves.

With the exception of Pope, who brings a weird menace and vulnerability, Smurf’s sons are nearly indistinguishable surfer thugs. Once you get beyond their well-exposed beach bodies, they’re as interesting as the background goons in “Point Break.” You can watch the whole pilot and not be able to tell them apart.

That’s not a very good sign.

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Legion baseball

One more step P-15’s clinch share of League III title with a 10-0, 8-inning win over Post 17

USC baseball

Season ends on sweep Gamecocks go home on Cowboys’ 3-1 win

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Sumter first baseman Jordan Holladay awaits the pickoff throw as Camden’s Nick Butler dives back into the bag in Sumter’s 10-0, 8-inning win on Monday at Riley Park. The P-15’s clinched at least a share of the League III title with the win.

By DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com It may seem like the American Legion baseball season just began, but the Sumter P-15’s wrapped up at least a share of the League III title on Monday at Riley Park with a 10-0, 8-inning victory over Camden Post 17.

Sumter improved to 12-1 overall, but more importantly, 10-0 in league play. Camden has played just five league games and is 3-2, the second fewest losses among League III teams. If the P-15’s win either one of the final two games against Camden this week -- today in Camden at 7 p.m. and on

Thursday back at Riley at 7 p.m. -- they will win the league title.

“It has really flown by quickly,” said second-year P-15’s head coach Steve Campbell. “We’re just happy to be in the position we’re in right now where we’re close to winning this.”

The game looked as though it was shaping up as a pitchers duel through the first three innings. While Sumter starting pitcher Rylan Williamson allowed a base runner in each of the first three innings, Post 17 couldn’t scratch. Camden right-hander Will Abbott, who has signed to play with The Citadel, looked strong in each of the first two in-

nings and started the third inning recording an out as well. Things fell apart quickly though as Abbott began to have control problems.

He walked No.9 hitter Ryan Moore and leadoff man Caleb Larrimore before getting Brandon Spittle to fly out for the second out.

However, Abbott walked Jordan Holladay and Todd Larrimer to force in a run.

Dawson Price dropped a fly ball into short right-center field that Post 17 centerfielder Bradwin Salmond almost ran down for what would have been a spectacular grab. Instead the P-15’s scored two runs to go up 3-0.

Williamson then helped his own cause by sending a single back up the middle to drive in two more runs and push the advantage to 5-0.

“Their centerfielder almost made a great catch,” Campbell said. “I was happy to see it in fall in. That seemed to really get the momentum going in our direction.”

Williamson had a lot to do with that. While neither he nor Ryan Touchberry, who tossed the final two innings, had a 1-2-3 inning, they kept Post 17 off the scoreboard.

Williamson worked six innings, allowing just four hits and two walks while striking

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CCU baseball

Chanticleers making first trip to CWS

By BRETT MARTEL The Associated Press

Tennis

Main draw for Palmetto Pro Open set to begin

By DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com The field for the singles main draw in the Palmetto Pro Open will be filled today while play in the 32-player field will begin as well at Palmetto Tennis Center.

The final eight qualifying matches will be the first ones played today beginning at 9 a.m. Three of the matches will feature two qualifying seeds, while four others will have one seeded player. Only one match will have players who weren’t seeded with Nicole Mossmer facing Cameron Morra.

Mossmer defeated Shamika Dhar 6-0, 6-0 on Monday after beating No. 13 seed Frances Altick on Sunday. Morra beat No. 8 Ilze Hattingh 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 on Monday.

Qualifying top seed Valeria

COLUMBIA – There was no losers bracket magic for South Carolina this weekend.

Oklahoma State completed a 2-game sweep of the NCAA Baseball super regional with a 3-1 victory on another hot day in front of a crowd of 7,677 at Founders Park.

The result sent the Cowboys to Holbrook the College World Series and the Gamecocks home short of their goal.

The loss weighed heavily on Gamecocks head coach Chad Holbrook, who appeared to be fighting back tears during the postgame press conference.

“I couldn’t be more proud of my team,” said Holbrook, whose squad finished with a 46-18 record after missing out on the NCAA tournament last season. “I sense (lengthy pause) some responsibility, not being able to win two more games.

“D.C. (Arendas), (Marcus) Mooney), our seniors -- all our players -- have invested a lot,” Holbrook said. “It’s difficult right now, but we’ll look back and … I’ve been coaching for 20-something years and I don’t know if I’ve enjoyed a team any more than this one.

“We kind of set the goal in September to put this program back on the map after what happened last year (not making the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1999) and they certainly accomplished that. It hurt like crazy that I wasn’t able to help them make that one last step.

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Giuliana Olmos hits a backhand return during her singles qualifying match against Kennedy ShafSee Palmetto, Page B2 fer on Monday in the Palmetto Pro Open at Palmetto Tennis Center. Olmos won 6-2, 6-4.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Coastal Carolina pitcher Alex Cunningham’s long road back from elbow surgery now includes a memorable performance in a landmark victory for the feisty Chanticleers.

Cunningham limited LSU to two runs over 71/3 innings, Michael Gilmore Paez drove home the deciding run with a walkoff single in the bottom of the ninth, and Coastal Carolina advanced to the College World Series for the first time with a 4-3 victory over NCAA super regional host LSU on Sunday night.

“This is one of the few times in my life that I’m at a loss for words,” Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore said. “I just felt like it was destiny for us.”

Reliever Bobby Holmes worked out of a bases-loaded

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Rookie Gant fares better than bullpen in 13-2 loss

By CHARLES ODUM The Associated Press ATLANTA — Rookie John Gant only has to look at what happened to the Braves’ bullpen after he left the game to feel better about his first start in the majors.

He kept the game close before the Chicago Cubs bullied the Braves’ bullpen for 10 runs in their 13-2 win over Atlanta on Sunday.

Gant (0-1), making his first start after seven relief appearances, allowed three runs, two earned, in 41/3 innings. He gave up four hits with four walks and left the game trailing 3-1.

“He battled through a lot and did a good job of keeping the game there against, obviously, one of the best teams in baseball,” said Braves interim manager Brian Snitker.

Gant, 23, was traded to the Braves from the Mets last season as part of the return for Kelly Johnson and Juan Uribe.

Facing the powerful Cubs in his debut as a starter was a big challenge for the native of Savannah, Georgia.

“Obviously you can’t be too pleased with the loss but I had a good time,” Gant said. “I had fun out there and I’ll get ready for next time.”

Javier Baez hit a three-run homer off Chris Withrow to cap the Cubs’ six-run eighth inning.

Withrow gave up six runs while recording only one out.

Chase Kelly allowed four runs in 1 1/3 innings.

Chicago outscored Atlanta 21-4 in winning the final two games of the three-game series.

The Cubs (43-18) have won 14 of 18 and improved to 39-2 when scoring at least four runs. They moved 25 games over .500 with their best record through 61 games since 1907, when they won the World Series.

Jon Lester (8-3) allowed no earned runs on five hits in seven innings. He has allowed only one earned run with no walks in three wins this month, lowering his ERA to 1.89.

“That’s three in a row he’s been outstanding,” said Cubs manager Joe Maddon. “Never tired. His stuff was still good at the end. He’s pitching with a lot of confidence right now.”

Anthony Rizzo drove in three runs with three hits.

David Ross had two hits and also drove in two runs, one on a base-loaded walk from Alexi Ogando in Chicago’s three-run seventh.

Jason Heyward, who began

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Sumter’s Rylan Williamson delivers a pitch during the P-15’s 10-0, 8-inning victory over Camden on Monday at Riley Park. Williamson tossed six shutout innings as Sumter clinched at least a share of the League III title.

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Sumter made it 6-0 in the seventh on an RBI double by From Page B1 Larrimer and finished the game with four in the eighth out three. He only allowed off of Stokes and reliever one runner in scoring posiParker Gogan. Larrimer, who tion. was 3-for-4 with a walk and “Ryan’s just been steady four runs batted in, had a for us all season,” Campbell 2-run single before Gogan said. “It wasn’t his best game, walked both Touchberry and but he goes out there and sets Tradd James with the bases the tone for us. He’s started loaded to force in the final the first of each of our league two runs. games and has done a great Price finished with two hits job. and two RBI for Sumter, Abbott ended up working which had 11 hits. Ryan five innings, allowing five Moore had two hits, includhits and four walks while ing a double, and Holladay striking out seven. All five of scored three runs. the runs he allowed were No Camden player had earned. more than one hit.

American Legion Standings Team Sumter Camden Orangeburg Manning Dalzell

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Atlanta rookie pitcher John Gant mde his first career start against the Chicago Cubs on Sunday in Atlanta. He allowed three runs before the Braves bullpen gave up 10 in the 13-2 loss. his career with the Braves, had three hits, two walks and scored three runs.

The Cubs matched their season high with four errors. The first of two throwing errors by Ross, on a double-steal by Freddie Freeman and Chase d’Arnaud, allowed d’Arnaud to score Atlanta’s only run in the first inning.

100 TO GO The Braves (18-44) have the majors’ worst record. It is the franchise’s worst 62-game start since the 1911 Boston Rustlers were 14-48.

UNUSUAL SLIDE RULE CALL A review determined Ross violated the slide rule even when he didn’t slide into second base. Ross hit a grounder to first baseman Freddie Freeman, who threw to shortstop Erick Aybar in the sixth inning. Ross ran past the bag as Aybar was forced to alter his throw back to first. The throw was late and Lester initially was safe at first until the review resulted in a double play.

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Monday’s Games Camden at Sumter Orangeburg at Manning-Santee Dalzell-Shaw at Lexington Today’s Games Sumter at Sumter, 7 p.m.

Manning-Santee at Orangeburg, 7 p.m.

Dalzell-Shaw at Hartsville, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Hartsville at Dalzell-Shaw, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Camden at Sumter, 7 p.m.

Orangeburg at Manning-Santee, 7 p.m.

Lexington at Dalzell-Shaw, 7 p.m.

Cubs: RHP Kyle Hendricks (4-5, 2.90), who has allowed no more than two runs in four straight starts, will try to even his record when Chicago opens a three-game series at Washington on Monday night.

Braves: RHP Aaron Blair (0-4, 7.13), originally scheduled to start Sunday before given an extra day to rest, will look for his first win in Monday night’s opening game of a four-game series against the Reds.

Junior Schedule

Today’s Games South Florence at Sumter, 7 p.m.

West Florence at Manning-Santee, 6:30 p.m.

Bishopville at Camden Wednesday’s Games Marlboro at Sumter, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Sumter at South Florence, 7 p.m.

Manning-Santee at West Florence, 7 p.m.

Camden at Bishopville Friday’s Games Sumter at Hartsville, 6:30 p.m.

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NBA suspends Warriors star Green for Game 5 OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State’s Draymond Green has been suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals after the league assessed a Flagrant 1 foul from his scuffle with Cleveland’s LeBron James.

The NBA announced the retroactive decision Sunday, issuing James a technical on the fourth-quarter play Friday in which the two tussled and exchanged words.

shooting a 3-under 67 to hold off Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker and Brooks Koepka.

The 23-year-old Floridian had never been in a final pairing until Sunday. When Mickelson, with his 42 career PGA Tour titles, closed within a stroke, Berger birdied three of his next four holes, pushing his lead to 13 under.

Henderson beats Lydia Ko in Women’s PGA playoff

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Chiara Scholl returns a shot to Spencer Lang during their singles qualifying match in the Palmetto Pro Open on Monday at Palmetto Tennis Center. Scholl won 6-1, 6-4.

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Solovyeva will meet No. 14 Keri Wong, No. 5 Usue Maitane Arconada will take on No. 12 Amy Zhu and No. 6 Lauren Herring will face No. 9 Caitlin Whoriskey.

Solovyeva defeated Ann Li 7-6(0), 6-1, Wong topped Chloe Gullickson 6-1, 6-2, Arconada defeated Sanyukta Gawande 6-4, 6-3, Zhu defeated Maria Smith 6-3, 6-1, Herring defeated Abigail Destatnikov 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 and Whoriskey defeated Kayla Gammie 6-0, 6-2.

The other three matches will have No. 2 Chiara Scholl facing Johnnise Renaud, No. 3 Giuliana Olmos meeting Ronit Yurovsky and 11 seed Yuliana LIzarazo taking on Luisa Stefani.

Scholl defeated Spencer Lang 6-1, 6-4, Renaud topped Brienne Minor 6-4, 6-3, Olmos topped Kennedy Shaffer 6-2, 6-4, Yurovsky defeated Alexa Bortles 7-5, 6-1, Lizarazo defeated Melbie Chi 6-0, 6-3 and Stefani topped No. 4 seed Sophie Chang, who retired in the second set after falling 2-6 in the opener.

There will be five main draw singles matches today and two

Palmetto Pro OPEN results Qualifying Singles Second Round Monday (1) Valeria Solovyeva defeated Ann Li 7-6(0), 6-1.

(2) Chiara Scholl defeated Spencer Liang 6-1, 6-4.

(3) Giuliana Olmos defeated Kennedy Shaffer 6-2, 6-4.

Luisa Stefani defeated (4) Sophie Chang 6-2, retired.

(5) Usae Maltane Arconda defeated Sanyukta Gawande 6-4, 6-3.

(6) Lauren Herring defeated Abigail Desiatnikov 7-5, 2-6, 6-1.

(7) Jaeda Daniel defeated Alexis Thoma 6-2, 6-0 Cameron Morra defeated (8) Ilze Hattinggh 6-4, 1-6, 7-5.

(9) Caitlyn Whoriskey defeated Kayla Gammie 6-0, 6-2.

(11) Yuliana Lizarazo defeated Meible Chi 6-0, 6-3.

(12) Amy Zhu defeated Marla Smith 6-3, 6-1.

(14) Keri Wong defeated Chloe Gullickson 6-1, 6-2.

Abigail Forbes defeated (15) Petra Rampe 6-1, 6-2.

Nicole Mossmer defeated Shamika Dhar 6-0, 6-0.

Ronit Yurovsky defeated Alexa Bortles 7-5, 6-1.

Brienne Minor defeated Johnnise Renaud 6-4, 6-3.

of them will feature No. 1 seed Arina Rodionova and second seed Riko Sawayanagi.

Rodionova will play the feature match at 7 p.m. on Court 1 against Jennifer Elie. Sawayanagi will take on Ashley Weinhold.

Other matches of note will have Hayley Carter, the NCAA singles runner-up out of North

Today’s Schedule Qualifying Singles Final Round First Matches 9 a.m. (Courts 1, 2, 4, 5) (2) Chiara Scholl vs. Johnnise Renaud (6) Lauren Herring vs. (9) Caitlin Whoriskey (7) Jaeda Daniel vs. Abigail Forbes Cameron Morra vs. Nicole Mossmer Second Matches (Courts 1, 2, 4, 5) (1) Valeria Solovyeva vs. (14) Keri Wong (5) Usue Maitane Arconada vs. (12) Amy Zhu (3) Giuliana Olmos vs. Ronit Yurovsky Luisa Stefani vs. (11) Yuliana Lizarazo Main Draw Singles Third Matches (Courts 1, 2, 4, 5) Ashley Weinhold vs. (2) Riko Sawayanagi Ayan Broomfield vs. Chieh-Yu Hsu Renata Zarazua vs. Hayley Carter Olivia Rogowska vs. Gabriela Ce Feature Match Court 1 7 p.m.

(1) Arina Rodionova vs. Jennifer Elie Main Draw Doubles Fourth Matches (Courts 1, 2, 4, 5) Hadley Berg/Paige Cline vs. Alexa Bortles/Ilze Hattingh Kaitlin McCarthy/Maria Smith vs.

(4) Jamie Loeb/Carol Zhao Jacqueline Cako/Danielle Lao vs.

Meible Chi/Sofia Sewing Lauren Herring/Ellen Perez vs.

Spencer Liang/Giuliana Olmos

Carolina, meeting Renata Zarazua and Clemson player Ayan Broomfield meeting Chieh-Yu Hsu. The University of South Carolina doubles team of Hadley Berg and Paige Cline will meet Bortles and Hattingh in a first-round match today.

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By LARRY LAGE The Associated Press BROOKLYN, Mich. — Joey Logano plopped into a seat, getting a much-needed break, when the 26-year-old driver found out he was just a part of history.

Logano pulled away from the pack to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 and was followed by 20-year-old Chase Elliott and 23-year-old Kyle Larson, the youngest top three in NASCAR Sprint Cup history.

“That’s pretty cool,” he said when informed of the feat Sunday.

The trio’s average age of 23 was younger than the 24.7 of the top Logano three finishers at a race in 1951 and two races the previous year.

“The future of NASCAR is present,” Logano said. “It’s going to be big. It’s amazing to see.”

Logano, the pole-setter, moved past Elliott on lap 153 and stayed ahead for the 15th Sprint Cup series victory of his career in the 15th race of a year that has included 10 different winners.

Elliott finished a career-best second, but wasn’t in the mood to celebrate because he blamed himself for poor restarts.

“I definitely messed up,” he said. “Putting it in the correct gear would be a good start.”

Larson fell one place short of matching his best performance.

Brad Keselowski was fourth and points leader Kevin Harvick finished fifth at Michigan International Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who finished 39th out of 40, is the only winner from 2015 that is winless this year.

NASCAR’s latest aerodynamic package made its debut, part of the sport’s plan to create more competitive racing.

“We hope it works,” team owner Joe Gibbs said, leaving a venue that used to be packed and now has pockets of empty seats in the 72,000-seat racetrack. “We need more people in the stands.”

The new aero setup included, for the first time in more than a decade, a reduction in the downforce to 1,500 pounds and shortening of the spoiler to 2.5 inches.

“It’s not a whole lot different than the other package,” Earnhardt bristled from the garage after a crash knocked him out of the race. “I think we talk about packages too much.”

Drivers weren’t sure how their cars would handle due to the changes, which will also be implemented next month at Kentucky. That ap-

FireKeepers Casino 400 results NASCAR-Sprint Cup FireKeepers Casino 400 Results Sunday At Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Mich.

Lap length: 2 miles (Starting position in parentheses) 1. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 200.

2. (10) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 200.

3. (7) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 200.

4. (15) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 200.

5. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200.

6. (11) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 200.

7. (3) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 200.

8. (8) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 200.

9. (14) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 200.

10. (17) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 200.

11. (6) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 200.

12. (2) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 200.

13. (23) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 200.

14. (19) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 200.

15. (13) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 200.

16. (16) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 200.

17. (5) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 200.

18. (32) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 200.

19. (18) Greg Biffle, Ford, 200.

20. (22) Chris Buescher, Ford, 200.

21. (25) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 200.

22. (35) David Ragan, Toyota, 200.

23. (34) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 200.

24. (21) Ty Dillon(i), Chevrolet, 200.

25. (28) Landon Cassill, Ford, 200.

26. (30) Aric Almirola, Ford, 200.

27. (36) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 200.

28. (39) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 200.

29. (12) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford, 199.

30. (37) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 197.

31. (40) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 194.

32. (24) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 189.

33. (4) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, Accident, 188.

34. (31) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, Accident, 185.

35. (33) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 179.

36. (26) Brian Scott , Ford, Accident, 154.

37. (38) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, Accident, 101.

38. (20) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, Accident, 62.

39. (27) Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet, Accident, 61.

40. (9) Kyle Busch, Toyota, Engine, 52.

SAMMAMISH, Wash. — Brooke Henderson beat topranked Lydia Ko with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff Sunday in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after overcoming a three-shot deficit on the back nine.

The 18-year-old Canadian, ranked No. 4 in the world, closed with a bogey-free 6-under 65 the best round of the week at Sahalee to match Ko at 6-under 278.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley, one of the most successful college sports leaders in the country, is retiring.

The 63-year-old Foley called it quits Monday after 40 years at Florida. He started in the ticket office and took over as AD in 1992.

Furman coach Ron Smith resigns after 23 seasons

Langer wins windy Senior Players Championship

GREENVILLE — Ron Smith has resigned after 23 seasons as Furman’s baseball coach.

At 580-693-3, Smith coached the Paladins to the 2005 Southern Conference Tournament championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance.

FLOURTOWN, Pa. — Bernhard Langer won the Constellation Senior Players Championship for the third straight year, holing a 12-foot par putt on the final hole Sunday at windy Philadelphia Cricket Club.

The 58-year-old German won his seventh senior major title to tie Hale Irwin for second on the career list, a victory behind Jack Nicklaus.

Berger wins in Memphis for first PGA title MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Daniel Berger won the FedEx St. Jude Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title,

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Keeping Sumter Beautiful

By Breann Liebermann, Clemson Extension - Water Resources Agent Celebrate Stormwater

favorites nearby include Poinsett State Park (hike, bike, and paddle through this diverse park), Congaree National Park (the largest intact expanse of old growth bottomland forest in the southeastern US and home to champion trees), and Woods Bay State Park (encompasses one of the last remaining Carolina Bays on the Atlantic coast). I could go on for ages about how amazing these places are, but you really need to see them yourself.

We are lucky in the southeast to have plentiful water, at least for most of the year. I’ve been thinking about that recently since I’ll be leaving South Carolina later this month to join my partner in California! It’s certainly bittersweet, but I trust that you will be in good hands when my successor is found. As a Jersey girl, there was a lot for me to learn about living in the South, but I can truly say that I felt embraced by the Sumter community and I will sure miss this place.

• Protect our water resources.

One person truly can make a difference by making simple changes in his or her day-to-day life.

Want to beautify your yard?

Build a rain garden. Want to save money on your water bill?

Harvest rainwater and tune-up your sprinkler system. Want to keep your shoes (and your yard) cleaner? Pick up after your dog.

Want to keep your pipes clogfree? Don’t put fats, oils, or grease down the drain. Want to score free mulch? Use your own grass clippings and yard debris.

Learn about even more ways to protect our water resources at www.clemson.edu/carolinaclear.

Enough with the sappy stuff. I came here for a reason, and that was to educate our community about stormwater and how we can protect our valuable water resources. For my farewell, I’d like to recognize and celebrate our amazing water resources here in Sumter and in South Carolina. So, how exactly does one go about celebrating clean water? A few ideas: • Learn more about water!

Check out the resources at SC DHEC’s water webpage, www. scdhec.gov/ HomeAndEnvironment/Water, including the stormwater page and the Watershed Atlas on the watershed page. The Watershed Atlas is a mine of information.

Learn the name of the watershed you live in, the nearest water bodies, and more.

• Visit a new park, wildlife refuge, or natural area. Some of my

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The first caution didn’t slow down the race until lap 47, the cleanest start at MIS since 2009.

“At the start of the race, everyone was trying to take it easy,” Larson explained.

Free-flowing racing didn’t last long. Yellow flags became frequent before a restart with 30plus laps left.

Logano had a huge lead with 12 laps to go when Denny Hamlin, the Daytona 500 winner, blew out his front right tire to force another restart. Logano sped away when the racing went green again and coasted to the win, seemingly taking advantage of the new aero package.

“The cars are out of control, no doubt,” he said. “Crazy. It makes it a lot of fun. You’re going faster in the straightaway and you have no downforce. Especially three-wide, it’s a recipe for disaster.”

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By WILL GRAVES The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — When the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009, a dynasty appeared to be in the offing. It didn’t work out that way. Injuries and inconsistent postseason play sent the franchise into an identity crisis.

The long, seemingly interminable wait for Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to bookend the championship they helped capture seven years ago came to a blissful, euphoric end on Sunday night in San Jose.

Their six-game triumph over the Sharks in the final capped a meteoric six-month sprint under Mike Sullivan, whose arrival in mid-December provided the wake-up call the talented but erratic roster needed.

“It’s not an easy win in this league,” Malkin said. “Every team in the league deserves to win. We play against San Jose and they haven’t won in 25 years. It’s not easy.”

Maybe, but for the Penguins the path might be smoother than most. The group that poured over the boards and onto the ice when the horn sounded at the end of a 100game plus marathon that spanned from September to June appears to be well-appointed for the future thanks to a series of moves by general manager Jim Rutherford to build around his two stars.

Oddsmakers made Pittsburgh an early favorite to win it all again next year, heady territory considering there hasn’t been a repeat champion in nearly two decades. Then

forward Phil Kessel and defensemen Kris Letang and Olli Maatta are all 30 or under and all signed through at least 2022. Goaltender Matt Murray — whose 15 wins in the playoffs tied an NHL rookie record — turned 22 last month. Young forwards Bryan Rust, Conor Sheary and Tom Kuhnhackl are in their mid-20s. Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Patric Hornqvist will be back.

So will Sullivan, who began the season molding prospects for Pittsburgh’s American Hockey League affiliate in WilThe Associated Press kes-Barre/Scranton. He ended Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, right, gets off the plane with the Stanley it posing at center ice with his Cup as the Penguins arrive at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport sport’s biggest trophy as the after beating San Jose on Sunday to win the Stanley Cup finals. centerpiece after taking the pieces given to him by Rutheragain, there’s reason to be op- 2009 could still come to fruiford and creating a relentless, timistic the run at the top that tion, if later than expected. swarming team that often tiltseemed a near certainty in The core of Crosby, Malkin, ed the ice for long stretches.

Smith, Catherine Hutchinson, Michael Smith, Scott Hutchinson, Angel Mickens, Jennifer Clark, Dawn Smith and Megan Selby; 15 great-grandchildren; one great-greatgrandchild; along with numerous other family members.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by one son, William Michael Hutchinson; one grandson, Thomas “Tommy” Hutchinson; one brother, Ellis Goodman; and three sisters, Vivian Peeples, Mable Jernigan and Regina Baker.

A celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be private.

The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service from 1 to 2 p.m. at Bullock Funeral Home.

The family would like to express their gratitude to NHC and Maria Brown for the love and compassion Zelma received during her illness.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in memory of her loving husband to the American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210 or to the research of Dementia, Alzheimer’s Association, 4124 Clemson Blvd., Suite L, Anderson, SC 29621.

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

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

well as many loving nieces and nephews.

Sylvia was preceded in death by her siblings, James Watt, Claude Watt Jr., Georgia Weaver, Sara Bowie and Margaret Jenkins.

The family expresses their gratitude to McLeod Hospice Services for their care in her final days.

Memorials may be made to McLeod Hospice, P.O. Box 100551, Florence, SC 295020551.

Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home of Bishopville is in charge of the arrangements.

OBITUARIES JAMES C. CONSENTINO James Charles “Jim” Consentino, 57, husband of Shannon Allen Consentino, died on Saturday, June 11, 2016, at his home.

Born on Sept.

24, 1958, in North Tonawanda, New York, he was a CONSENTINO son of the late Lucius Consentino and Eleanor Guzenski Verner. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. He was employed as a truck driver for 25 years and worked road construction for six years. He was a member of Sumter First Church of God. Survivors include his wife of Sumter; an aunt, Liboria Fisher of Williamsport, Pennsylvania; two special nieces, Emily Strickland (Andrew) of Timmonsville and Hillary Paulus (Brooks) of Florence; and a nephew, Thomas Consentino (Marina) of Page, Texas.

He was preceded in death by two daughters, Angel Michelle Consentino and Jesse Louise Consentino; and a brother, Thomas Consentino.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday at the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Ron Bower officiating.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. on Wednesday at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to the Dollar Club at Sumter First Church of God, 1835 U.S. 521 North, Sumter, SC 29153.

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

ZELMA G. HUTCHINSON Zelma Goodman Hutchinson, age 96, beloved wife of 52 years to the late Shiver Hutchinson, died on Saturday, June 11, 2016, at National HealthCare.

Born in Sumter, she was a HUTCHINSON daughter of the late Samuel Herbert and Annie Goodman.

Zelma graduated from Camden High School in 1936. She was a career florist, working for Walters and later opening her own shop, “Zelma’s Florist.” She taught flower arranging classes for many years at Central Carolina and appeared on ETV. She was a lifelong member of the Eastern Star Iris Chapter, where she held many positions, along with being former worthy grand matron. She was a member of St. John United Methodist Church. She will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Surviving are three children, Connie Davis of North Carolina, Butch Hutchinson and his wife, Cynthia, of Elloree and Cyndi McLeod Green and her husband, Al, of Sumter; nine grandchildren, Angela Robinson, Terry

SYLVIA W. RAY BISHOPVILLE — Sylvia Marie Watt Ray, age 82, of Bishopville, wife of Joseph Whitney Ray, died on June 11, 2016, after a hard fought battle with cancer.

A celebration of her life will be RAY held at 1 p.m. on Friday at the Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home chapel, 200 W. Church St., Bishopville, conducted by the Rev. Glenn Carter. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. prior to the service.

Burial will be in Piedmont Cemetery.

Born on Aug. 5, 1933, in Laurens, she was a daughter of the late Claude Lee and Sallie Robertson Watt. Prior to her retirement, Sylvia was a dedicated employee of BD Sumter for 13 years. While at BD Sumter, she enjoyed working with Richard Smith and Glenn Posey. She also worked for Joe Brown and Associates in quality control, and as a hairdresser for 60 years.

In addition to her devoted husband of 39 years, she is survived by two stepchildren, Georgia Bailey of Sumter and Whitney Ray (Deidra) of Summerville; and two grandchildren, Bonnie Miles (Summer) of Florence and Shawn Ray of Summerville. She is survived by her two sisters, Kay Yonce (Monroe) of Lexington and Joan Privette of Columbia; as

CHARLES S. NASWORTHY JR. Charles Stith Nasworthy Jr., age 85, beloved husband of 56 years to Annette Lucille Nolan Nasworthy, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, June 11, 2016, at his residence.

Born in PierNASWORTHY son, Florida, he was a son of the late Charles Stith Nasworthy Sr. and Helen Martha Blanchard Nasworthy. Mr. Nasworthy was an Army veteran and served in Company D of the 5th Combat Engineer 36th Amphibious Group, Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington. He retired from the City of Jacksonville and went on to be a truck driver.

He loved being around people, fishing, target practicing and working in his yard. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend.

Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Randall Wayne Nasworthy Sr. and his wife, Gina Lola, and Charles Alan Nasworthy and his wife, Sandralee, all of Sumter; five grandchildren, Randall Wayne Nasworthy Jr., Allie Maelin Nasworthy, Austin Alexander Nasworthy, Ariel Christine Nasworthy and Lillie Belle Nasworthy; one brother, Ronald Clark Nasworthy; and one sister, Carolyn June Kongeal, both of Jacksonville, Florida.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Ralph Arthur Nasworthy and Kenneth Nasworthy; and one sister, Delores Faye O’Neal.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel.

The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service from 1 to 2 p.m. today at Bullock Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1770 U.S. 15 South, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

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

BETTY JEAN SIMON Betty Jean Foster McClelland Simon, 83, died on Sunday, June 12, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on June 3, 1933, in Pacolet, she was a daughter of the late Eugene and Daisy Wall Foster. She was a 1954 graduate of Spartanburg General Hospital. She retired as a charge nurse from Oconee Memorial Hospital.

Survivors include a daughter, Susan M. Stancil and husband, Richard Brian Stancil, of Sumter; a son, Richard Mark McClelland and wife, Debra McClelland, of Fair Play; grandchildren, Deidre Hancox and husband, Josh Hancox, Brittany McClelland, Richard Blake Stancil and wife, Melissa Stancil, and Ashley Stancil; and greatgrandchildren, Camden Hancox, Jackson Hancox and Bella Hancox.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Richard Allen McClelland.

A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Oconee Memorial Park in Seneca.

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

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

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

CHARLIE GRANT JR. Charlie Grant Jr., 103, widower of Matilda Jefferson Grant, departed this life on Saturday, June 11, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

He was born on Dec. 12, 1912, in Sumter, a son of the late Charlie Sr. and Carrie

Harriet Grant.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 518 Benton Court, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

REV. MATTHEW ISAAC BISHOPVILLE — The Rev. Matthew Isaac, husband of Ethel Isaac, entered eternal rest on June 12, 2016, at Doctors Hospital of Augusta, Georgia.

The family is receiving friends at the residence,142 Jefferson St., Lynchburg.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

JAMES E. WASHINGTON MANHATTAN, New York — James Edward “Bubba” Washington, 74, died on Friday, June 10 2016, in Manhattan.

He was born on April 2, 1942, in Sumter, a son of the late McKinley Sr. and Mattie Bell Peterson Washington.

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

MARY ANN GREGOIRE Mary Ann Gregoire, 80, died on Saturday, June 11, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland hospital.

Services will be announced by Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, (803) 775-9386.

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Confiscating phones may teach teens to show respect DEAR ABBY — I’m the mother of two teenagers, ages 13 and 15. I am trying to teach them to do chores Dear Abby and help ABIGAIL around the house, but VAN BUREN all I get is attitude from them.

I try to explain that I didn’t grow up with a dishwasher and I washed all the dishes by hand. Well, now that we have a dishwasher, they don’t want to load or unload it either! I try not to spoil my kids, but I guess it’s too late. Sometimes I get so frustrated that I just do the chores myself.

What am I doing wrong as a parent? My kids are either

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on their iPhone or iPad or Xbox. They have a better childhood than I ever had, but they don’t understand. It’s hurtful when their response is “Let me live,” or “You don’t understand anything,” or “I can’t wait to get out of the house and get away from you!” This is very hurtful, and I guess I just needed to vent to someone other than my husband. Thanks for letting me.

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they’re supposed to be. And if they talk disrespectfully to you -- ditto!

DEAR MOM — You’re welcome.

Now, may I offer a suggestion? You should not be doing your teenagers’ chores for them. Instead, start instituting consequences if they shirk their responsibilities.

An effective consequence would be to confiscate their iPhone, iPad or Xbox if the chores aren’t done when

DEAR NO BUTTS — Lines for sales can be long, and people sometimes wait many hours to get into the stores. According to Emily Post, “Courteous people never break into line.”

It might be diplomatic to ask the person standing in back of you if he or she minds if your friend joins you. Some might object; others not.

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DEAR ABBY — If I am standing in line waiting for a friend to arrive at a store that’s about to open for a sale, when my friend arrives, is it OK for her to join me where I’ve been holding the spot, or should we move to the back of the line so customers behind us don’t feel like she is butting in?

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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) RESIDES, 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 Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on February 16, 2016.

Kristen E. Washburn S.C. Bar No. 101415 Attorney for the Plaintiff 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 803-454-3540

Summons & Notice SUMMONS AND NOTICE (Quiet Title) IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No. 2016-CP-31-00095 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF LEE Robbie L. Jenkins, PLAINTIFF -vsFlora Jane Porter, Jessie Bell Rembert, Susie Ann Marche, Mae Thelma Joe, Sarah Wilson, Phesure Benjamin, Lennox Lloyd, O'Donnell Lee Lloyd, and Blakey Lloyd, John Doe, a fictitious name representing all Heirs and devisees of Janie Jenkins, deceased, James A. Jenkins, deceased, Queen E. Lloyd, deceased and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; Richard Roe, a fictitious name representing all other persons or corporations unknown claiming any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described herein, any unknown adults as a class; and Mary Roe, a fictitious name representing any unknown infants or persons under disability or persons in the military designated as a class.

DEFENDANTS TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANTS

ABOVE

You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon subscriber at 115 E. Church Street, P.O. Box 568, Bishopville, S.C. 29010, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

If you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, not less than ten (10) days after the time for answering has elapsed, Plaintiff will apply for an order referring all issues in this action, whether matters of fact or law, or both, to a Special Referee for Lee County and for a hearing before him, who shall enter final judgment.

TO ALL OF THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, inclusive of all persons unknown claiming any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint, inclusive of such persons whether infants or under other legal disability, and in the case of infants under the age of fourteen (14) years or persons mentally incompetent, to their parents or the persons with whom they reside or their conservator if they have one.

TAKE NOTICE, that James P. Saverance, Jr., P.O. Box 610, Kristen.Washburn@brockandscott.com Bishopville, SC 29010, has, by Order filed in the office of the Clerk of

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Wesmark Plaza • 773-2262 • Mon-Sat 10-7 • www.MayosDiscountSuits.com Summons & Notice Court for Lee County on June 3 , 2016, along with the Order of Publication, been appointed as Guardian ad Litem Nisi for all Defendants impleaded herein who may be infants or under legal disability; that unless you apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem to represent your interest in said action within thirty (30) days after the service of this notice upon you, exclusive of the date of service, the Order appointing James P. Saverance, Jr., as Guardian ad Litem Nisi will become absolute.

THE ORIGINAL SUMMONS, COMPLAINT, AND NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION, were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Lee County on June 3 , 2016. This is an action to quiet title of the property described in the Complaint.

The Complaint is available for inspection in the Clerk of Court's office.

PAUL M. FATA S.C. Bar # 001966 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF 115 E. CHURCH STREET POST OFFICE DRAWER 568 BISHOPVILLE, S.C. 29010 (803) 484-5409 FAX: (803) 484-9239 Email: paulmfata@sfslawfirm.com

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2016-CP-43-00291 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the CSFB Home Equity Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-AGE1, Plaintiff, vs.

Evelyn S. White; Comprehensive Legal Solutions, Inc.; Discover Bank, Defendant(s).

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the 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 the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Summons & Notice

Summons & Notice

attached hereto.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on February 16, 2016.

t h a t t h e s a i d Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case, which judgment shall be appealable to the South Carolina Supreme Court or the South Carolina Court of Appeals as provided by the South Carolina Appellate Court Rules.

NOTICE OF FILING

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: Please take notice that the Civil Action Cover Sheet, Summons, Kristen E. Washburn Notice and Complaint in this case S.C. Bar No. 101415 were filed on September 4, 2015, in Attorney for the Plaintiff the Office of the Clerk of Court of 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Common Pleas, Sumter County, Columbia, SC 29210 South Carolina and that the Plaintiff 803-454-3540 Kristen.Washburn@brockandscott.com will appear before the Court to apply for judgment on or after the 30th day after completion of publication, or as SUMMONS soon thereafter the Plaintiff may be Claim & Delivery heard.

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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2015-CP-43-2108 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER South State Bank f/k/a First Federal, a Division of SCBT, Plaintiff, vs.

John Johnson a/k/a John Everett Johnson and Beverly Johnson a/k/a Beverly Lenoir Johnson, Defendants.

TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANTS

ABOVE

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 Complaint on the subscriber at his office at 126 Seven Farms Drive, Suite 200, Charleston, South Carolina 29492, within thirty (30) days after the service thereof, except as to the United States of America who shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service.

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 the relief demanded in said Complaint.

NOTICE YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE, that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a General Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for Sumter County, which Order shall, pursuant to SCRCP Rule 53, of the South Carolina Code of Law (1976), as amended, specifically provide

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

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Estate Notice Sumter County

Estate Notice Sumter County

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.

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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) RESIDES, 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 Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

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YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint

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