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Voters will decide on Sunday alcohol sales City council votes 5-1 to move forward on referendum WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014

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BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com (803) 774-1272 Now it’s up to the people to decide. As expected, Sumter City Council voted Tuesday to move forward

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with a referendum allowing city residents to decide whether to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday. But the vote didn’t advance without more discussion and a last-minute attempt to limit its scope.

Voters will now decide in November whether to allow Sunday alcohol sales in bars and restaurants inside the city limits. Before second and final reading on the contentious alcohol motion,

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Ashley Hustad, who is 24 weeks pregnant, does squats at the Sumter Family YMCA on Monday. She admits some adjustments have to be made to accommodate her growing abdomen. Physicians recommend that pregnant women keep up their exercise routines.

Being active is important for everyone, including expectant women. “It’s most important for moms to be as healthy as possible before getting pregnant,” said Dr. Carol Alan with Carolina Women’s Specialists. “Being active or in sports, as long as there are no issues, can continue. It can help prevent hypertension and gestational diabetes. It helps the baby tolerate labor and prevents the baby from getting so big.” There are some limits on higher-risk activities such as horseback riding or scuba diving, she said, and she recommended checking with your health care provider about options that are right for you. Lisa Pinto and Ashley Hustad both approached their physicians with Sumter OB/GYN about continuing exercise routines they were doing when they became pregnant. “My blood pressure is good, and my blood sugar is great,” said Pinto, who is 31 weeks along. “Anything I did before I was pregnant, I can do now. I asked at what point I needed to stop before I would go into labor, and they said keep going. You do have to make some adjustments because your center of gravity is different.” She meets with Michelle Barnes, a personal trainer at the Sumter Family YMCA, three times a week because the first-time mom said she needs the accountability. Hustad, who is 24 weeks along with her second

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Tuomey spends $18M in legal fees on its case BY BRADEN BUNCH bbunch@theitem.com (803) 774-1201 Tuomey Healthcare System has spent $18 million in legal fees in defending itself in its federal lawsuit battle, prosecutors pointed out in a brief filed late Monday night with the appellate court overseeing the nine-year-old case. Responding to Tuomey’s request that the local hospital only have to place $30 million in escrow to continue its appeal of the $239 million judgment against it — instead of the $70 million ordered by a lower court — federal prosecutors highlighted the legal expenditures, as well as recent spending practices by the local hospital, as evidence

that Tuomey could afford the larger amount. “There is no evidence that Tuomey’s commercial bondholders would be harmed by an order requiring the deposit of the Escrow Funds into the district court. The bonds are secured not only by revenues, but also by the hospital itself,” prosecutors argue. “Tuomey valued its capital assets alone at over $90 million.” Tuomey is facing the $237.5 million judgment after a federal jury last year found the hospital in violation of Stark Law. In its verdict, the jury determined Tuomey had signed illegal contracts with several of its doctors and as a result had submitted more than 21,000 false Medicare

claims between 2005 and 2009. As the local hospital continues the process of appealing the verdict, it has also said it could be forced to file for bankruptcy should it be required to set aside the full

$70 million. Still, in their latest filing with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal prosecutors have suggested to the courts another way of allowing Tuomey to continue its appeal without meeting the $70 million requirement ordered by the federal district court. In the new scenario, federal attorneys recommend the appellate court order Tuomey to take the $50 million it currently has in escrow and transfer it to the district court, then have the court place a lein for the remaining judgment against the hospital’s properties. According to federal prosecutors, this move would, in essence, make the federal

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Lynchburg gas station struck with 2nd fire BY ROB COTTINGHAM rcottingham@theitem.com (803) 774-1225 Try, try again. Investigators are looking into a second possible case of arson involving a Puddin Swamp Road gas station in Lynchburg after it was reported as being on fire by a passerby Monday. According to reports, a driver traveling on Interstate 95 called in the fire early Monday as he or she was passing Lucky Dog Exxon at 155 Puddin Swamp Road in Lynchburg. When firefighters from Station 18 arrived, the blaze had anchored in, according to Battalion Chief David White. “There were flames coming through the back of the roof of the

scorched cinder blocks remaining. The central store wasn’t unaffected, however. “In the store, there was a fire in the attic and roof areas,” said Battalion Chief Brian Christmas of the Thursday-morning fire. A report issued by Sumter County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday said the vents on either side of the building had been removed and that it appeared the suspect had made two holes in the roof of the store, where it was suspected that the culprit might have poured a flammable liquid into the attic. “This time, the fire seems to have been started on the outside of the building,” White said. “The electricity had been turned off after the first

building when they got there,” White said. “It was pretty involved at that point.” Once the flames were put out, investigators began looking into the cause of the fire. “The scent of a flammable liquid was detected on the scene,” White said. “It was much like the first fire from last week.” About 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning, Sumter County Fire Department received reports of a fire in progress at the same location. The first time, however, most of the damage was inflicted to an outlying restroom building, which was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. It eventually burned to the ground, with only part of the roof and

fire, so it wasn’t an electrical fire. I’d say it was a total loss on the contents. This second fire was much more devastating for the main building.” Investigators are awaiting lab results on the suspected flammable liquid, but evidence indicates both fires were cases of arson. “We’re definitely considering this a suspicious fire,” White said. “Based on the circumstances of the first fire, including the evidence that someone had cut holes into the roof of the main building and the scent of the suspected flammable liquid at both instances, it appears to be arson.” “We’re definitely suspecting arson at this point,” Christmas said of the Thursday fire. “The investigation is ongoing, however.”

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Wilson Hall’s Bailey Stokes discusses her art pieces at the school’s annual art showcase Monday evening. Stokes, who enjoys fashion, used a lot of everyday objects to design sculptures to put on display.

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Clarendon County man dies of gunshot wound An 86-year-old Clarendon County man died Monday after authorities said he apparently shot himself while cleaning a .22-caliber rifle. Raymond Harrington died shortly after responders found him Monday afternoon. Clarendon County Coroner Hayes Samuels said Tuesday an autopsy would be performed in Charleston. Maj. Kip Coker of the Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office said he is unaware of any witnesses to the incident and that while a preliminary theory to the cause of Harrington’s death has been established, investigators have not yet ruled anything out in the incident.

Lee State Park ranger offers fishing clinic BISHOPVILLE — Lee State Park is offering a park rangerled fishing clinic from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Ranger Lester Shelley, who has years of fishing experience, will teach how to tie fishing knots, bait a hook, cast and, hopefully, land a fish. This is a free introductory class for children. Space is limited. To register, call the park’s office at (803) 428-5307 or email leesp@scprt.com by 4 p.m. Friday.

Charges upgraded in baby’s death COLUMBIA — Charges have been upgraded against a Columbia mother whose 5-monthold son died last month from an unmonitored heart condition. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said 28-year-old Jennifer Coles was charged Monday with homicide by child abuse. It carries a sentence of 20 years to life in prison. She had been charged with illegal neglect of a child, which carries up to 10 years behind bars. Authorities said Coles’ son was premature and she failed to give him medicine he needed for heart and breathing problems.

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Wilson Hall students display artwork in annual showcase BY RAYTEVIA EVANS revans@theitem.com (803) 774-1214 The hallways of Wilson Hall were packed with proud parents and excited students as the art department displayed the students’ work throughout the school Monday afternoon. After a full year of learning different creative mediums, Tara Schumacher, art show event coordinator and educator, said the students decided on the artwork they would display for the event. For the show, the instructors arranged for artwork from preschool and upper-level students to be displayed on the walls. Organizers created a gallery in the halls of the school, providing refreshments for the hundreds of exhibit patrons discussing the paintings, sketches, self portraits, photography and sculptures the students worked on all year. Some of the upper-level students don’t just view these art projects as school assignments, but instead as an opportunity to hone their skills for future careers. Senior Ivan Rivera-Nesrala first started taking photos while hanging out with a friend but didn’t think he would really like it. However, Rivera-Nesrala quickly became a shutterbug and eventually realized how art could be helpful in his desires to study architecture. Rivera-Nesrala said art instructor

Mary Ann Reames challenged them with many of the assignments throughout the school year. “I didn’t think of it before, but it will help me with my career in architecture,” Rivera-Nesrala said. “I love to take pictures of contrasting color, and I really like taking sports shots. The opportunity to be in this class allowed me to see how things are composed and to travel to photograph different things such as different architecture.” Besides preparing for school at Texas Tech, Rivera-Nesrala simply had a lot of fun with a lot of his work — often engaging in friendly competition with his classmates, he said. “Ivan’s work was fun and interesting. It’s amazing because there it’s engaging and entertaining,” Reames said. Bailey Stokes used her art projects to channel her interest in fashion. Many of her pieces on display Monday evening were made out of everyday materials and designed into accessories, floral designs and an intricate dress made of plastic spoons. Her friend Maggie Goodson also used material found around her home and that people use every day for her artwork. Stokes and Goodson both plan to attend College of Charleston and want to pursue careers in art; Stokes wants to teach art while Goodson wants to commission for art pieces. “We took everyday objects and turned them into art,” Stokes said. “I used old magazines and newspaper

and even chicken wire. These projects have given me independence and teaches me to use different things and come up with different ideas for artwork.” Goodson said she used plaster, old windows and window shutters and pantyhose for some of the work in her art show display. Stokes and Goodson agreed it takes a number of attempts before you finally create something you’re satisfied with showing to the public. “I definitely see things differently, and it just broadens your view and makes you even more creative in using different things to create art,” Goodson said. Schumacher said the community, families and school have been supportive in the five years they have been organizing the art showcase. They take all school year to plan and organize the event that she said can bring in 300 to 500 parents, community members and supporters to view the students’ work. “People bring neighbors, family members and friends to see the students’ work,” Schumacher said. “It’s a privilege to work here with these students, and the community is a huge support, even Pizza Hut when they give donated pizza boxes for the projects.” Parents are also a big help in planning and decorating for the event, creating the ultimate art gallery experience for the popular art showcase.

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Blood drive honors Nesbitt Lyle Wescott, Sumter Fire Department assistant public safety officer, donates blood during a National Police Week blood drive at the Sumter County Library on Friday. Wescott and other law-enforcement officers donated blood in memory of Cpl. Chuck Nesbitt Jr., a 10-year veteran of the Sumter Police Department who died in the line of duty in January 2011. Each year since his death, local law enforcement agencies have held a blood drive in Nesbittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honor during National Police Week, which honors all law-enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty. AIRMAN FIRST CLASS DIANA M. COSSABOOM / SPECIAL TO THE SUMTER ITEM

POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Shaylan Charvoris Isaac, 19, of 1415 Poole Road, was arrested and charged with criminal domestic violence about May 12 in the 1000 block of North Lafayette Drive after a 28-year-old woman reportedly told police that the suspect had punched her and pulled her hair. Isaac was arrested and charged Saturday with possession with the intent to distribute suspected marijuana, third offense, after a traffic stop in the 300 block of North Pike near Clara Louise Kellogg Drive about 7:17 p.m. ASSAULT A 20-year-old man reportedly told police that three or four men jumped him and beat him outside a club in the 300 block of Rast Street between 4:30 and 4:45 a.m. Sunday. The suspects stole $2,000 in cash, and his girlfriend took him

to Tuomey Regional Medical Center, according to the report. STOLEN PROPERTY A green 1995 Buick Century valued at $1,000 was reportedly stolen from the 300 block of Bowman Drive between 6 p.m. May 11 and 6:30 p.m. May 12. Four tires and four 22-inch chrome rims with pink inserts valued at $1,500 was reportedly stolen from the 1000 block of Coral Way between 5 p.m. Thursday and 1 p.m. Saturday. A 2012 white Dodge Challenger with black stripes and a hood scoop valued at $21,500 was reportedly stolen from the 400 block of South Lafayette Drive between 6 and 7 p.m. Friday. A silver 2010 Nissan Altima valued at $19,000 was reportedly stolen from the 500 block of East Calhoun Street between 11 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday. A 2004 Chevrolet Impala valued at $7,000 was re-

portedly stolen from the 200 block of Palmetto Street between 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday. Two air-conditioning units, valued at $4,000 each, were reportedly stolen from a

home in the ninth block of Ashleigh Collins Trail between 1 and 5:50 p.m. Sunday. Three window air-conditioning units, two TVs, a white GE stove, a yellow double-

door GE refrigerator and a GE stand-up deep freezer were reported stolen from a home in the 4000 block of Broad Street at 1:25 p.m. on Monday. The items are valued at $1,150.

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China warns U.S. cyber charges could damage ties BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday warned the United States was jeopardizing military ties by charging five Chinese officers with cyberspying and tried to turn the tables on Washington by calling it “the biggest attacker of China’s cyberspace.” China announced it was suspending cooperation with the United States in a joint cybersecurity task force because of Monday’s charges that officers stole trade secrets from major American companies. The Foreign Ministry demanded Washington withdraw the indictment. The testy exchange marked an escalation in tensions about U.S. complaints that China’s military uses its cyber warfare skills to steal foreign trade secrets to help the country’s vast, state-owned industrial sector. A U.S. security firm, Mandiant, said last year it traced attacks on American and other companies to a military unit in Shanghai. The charges are the biggest challenge to relations since a meeting last summer between President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Sunnylands, California. Ties already were under strain because of conflicts about what Washington says

are provocative Chinese moves to assert claims over disputed areas of the East and South China Seas. Beijing complains the Obama administration’s effort to shift foreign policy emphasis toward Asia and expand its military presence in the region is emboldening Japan and other neighbors and fueling tension. Beijing has denied conducting commercial spying and said it is a victim of computer hacking but has given little indication it investigates foreign complaints. “The Chinese government and Chinese military as well as relevant personnel have never engaged and never participated in so-called cyber theft of trade secrets,” said a foreign ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, at a news briefing. “What the United States should do now is withdraw its indictment.” The Ministry of Defense warned that the U.S. accusations would chill gradually warming relations between the two militaries. “The United States, by this action, betrays its commitment to building healthy, stable, reliable military-to-military relations and causes serious damage to mutual trust,” it said.

ALLEGATIONS OF CYBERSPYING WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has brought unprecedented criminal charges against five officials in the Chinese military for hacking into private U.S. companies’ systems and stealing trade secrets. Q. What happened? A. A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh charged five Chinese military officials with hacking into six U.S. companies’ systems, conducting economic espionage and stealing trade secrets. The targeted companies are leaders in the nation’s nuclear power, metals and solar products industries: Alcoa World Alumina, the nation’s largest producer of aluminum; Westinghouse Electric Co., one of the world’s leaders in the development of nuclear power technology; Allegheny Technologies, a large metals company; U.S. Steel Corp., the largest steel company in the U.S.; United Steelworkers Union, the biggest industrial labor union in the U.S.; and SolarWorld, which makes solar products. Q. Why is it significant? A. The indictment is the first of its kind. It

fulfills a longtime Obama administration promise to bring charges against nationstate hackers. The U.S. has brought economic espionage charges against individuals before, but this is thought to be the first time the U.S. has accused members of a foreign government’s military with hacking into U.S. companies without ever stepping foot in the country. Q. How did they pull it off? A. At least in some instances, the alleged hackers were accused of “spear-phishing,” or tricking employees into opening an infected email. Q. Who were these guys? A. The U.S. says they operated under hacker aliases such as “KandyGoo” and “Jack Sun.” At least one of them, identified as Wang Dong, known as “Ugly Gorilla,” was described more than a year ago in a landmark report by U.S. security vendor Mandiant as being one of dozens, if not hundreds, of Chinese hackers who were “likely government-sponsored and one of the most persistent of China’s cyber threat actors.”

Report says 21 million in forced labor worldwide

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who as a prosecutor once specialized in child sexual assault cases, addresses the Domestic Human Trafficking symposium in Los Angeles on April 25. Trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery are big business, generating profits estimated at $150 billion a year, the U.N. labor agency said Tuesday.

GENEVA (AP) — Forced labor produces illegal profits of $150 billion a year, the United Nations’ labor agency said Tuesday as it appealed for global eradication of the abuse. The report by the International Labor Organization offered the agency’s fullest picture yet of an underground economy built on the involuntary toil of an estimated 21 million workers. It found that nearly two-thirds of the estimated profits, $99 billion, come from sexual exploitation, including prostitution and pornography. Women were most commonly the victims of forced employment in sex-related trades and domestic chores, while men and boys were more commonly exploited in agricultural, mining and construction work, it found. The director-general, Guy Ryder, said the report highlights the need “to eradicate this fundamentally evil but hugely profitable practice as soon as possible.” He said many governments, employers and labor unions all needed to do more to stamp out abusive employment practices, including outright slavery. The report said the world’s most developed countries, including the entire European Union, accounted for nearly a third of the illegal profits, $46.9 billion, while the rest of the Asia Pacific region generat-

ed $51.8 billion. Other regions had much lower totals. It found that exploited workers generated much more money per head for their employers in the richest countries. Estimated profits in developed countries reached $34,800 per worker, while Africa registered the lowest per-capita profit rate of $3,900. Worldwide, it found sexually exploited workers produced by far the highest profits for their employers: $21,800 per worker, versus just $2,500 on average for each farm laborer and $2,200 for each domestic worker. Ryder said governments needed to improve welfare support “to prevent households from sliding into the poverty that pushes people into forced labor,” he said. “We need to improve levels of education and literacy so that household decision-makers can understand their own vulnerability to forced labor and know their rights as workers.” The agency’s previous report on the topic of forced labor, in 2005, estimated worldwide profits at $44 billion. But that report focused chiefly on sex-related work and agriculture, whereas Tuesday’s report expanded its analysis greatly to include miners, construction workers, maids and au pairs and other jobs involving employer coercion and little pay.

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Yooper blooper Dictionary pronunciation omits letter P

NEW YORK (AP) — There’s good news and bad news for Yoopers in the new MerriamWebster Collegiate Dictionary. The nickname for natives or longtime residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was among about 150 words added in an update to the 11th edition. But the suggested pronunciation in the popular dictionary lacks the “p,” though the entry itself is spelled correctly. Asked about the Yooper blooper, Meghan Lunghi, a spokeswoman for the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company, said Sunday in an email : “Yes, unfortunately a ‘p’ is missing from the pronunciation. The rest of the entry is fine.”

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Top 15 words added to Merriam-Webster NEW YORK (AP) — Top 15 words and definitions added to the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Auto-Tune or auto-tune vt (verb transitive) (2003): a proprietary signal processor, to adjust or alter (a recording of a voice) with AutoTune software or other audio-editing software, especially to correct sung notes that are out of tune cap-and-trade adj (1995): relating to or being a system that caps the amount of carbon emissions a given company may produce but allows it to buy rights to produce additional emissions from a company that does not use the equivalent amount of its own allowance catfish n (1612): (second definition) a person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes crowdfunding n (2006): the practice of soliciting financial contributions from a large number of people, especially from the online community dubstep n (2002): a type of electronic dance music having prominent bass lines and syncopated drum patterns fangirl n (1934): a girl or woman who is an extremely or overly enthusiastic fan of someone or something freegan n (2006): an activist who scavenges for free food (as in waste receptacles at stores and restaurants) as a means of reducing consumption of resources gamification n (2010): the process of adding games or gameline elements to something (as a task) so as to encourage participation hashtag n (2008): a word or phrase preceded by the symbol # that classifies or categorizes the accompanying text, such as a tweet selfie n (2002): an image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera, especially for posting on social networks social networking n (1998): the creation and maintenance of personal and business relationships, especially online steampunk n (1987) science fiction dealing with 19th-century societies dominated by historical or imagined steam-powered technology turducken n (1982): a boneless chicken stuffed into a boneless duck stuffed into a boneless turkey tweep n (2008): a person who uses the Twitter online message service to send and receive tweets Yooper n (1977): a native or resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan — used as a nickname

GM recalls 2.4 million more vehicles BY DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Auto Writer

lion charge the automaker took for recalls in the first quarter. GM said no fatalities have DETROIT — General Mobeen reported related to the tors said Tuesday it’s recallrecalls announced Tuesday. ing 2.4 million vehicles in the U.S. as part of a broader effort The recalls are: • 1.3 million Buick Enclave, to resolve outstanding safety Chevrolet Traverse and GMC issues more quickly. Acadia crossovers from the The latest action brings to 2009-14 model years and Sat13.6 million the number of vehicles GM has recalled this urn Outlook crossovers from year, a new record for the au- 2009-10. GM says the front safety lap belt cables can wear tomaker. GM’s previous record of 10.75 million cars and down and separate over time. GM has told dealers they cantrucks was set in 2004, according to the National High- not sell new or used models of the vehicles until repairs are way Traffic Safety Adminismade. tration. • 1.1 million Chevrolet MaliGM agreed last week to pay bu sedans from the 2004-08 a $35 million federal fine for model years and Pontiac G6 concealing deadly defects in small-car ignition switches for sedans from 2005-08 because a more than a decade. The com- shift cable could wear out over time. If the fracture ocpany says at least 13 people have died in crashes linked to curs, the driver may not be the problem, but trial lawyers able to select a different gear, remove the key from the ignisuing the company say the tion or place the transmission death toll is at least 53. in park. GM knows of 18 GM said no fatalities were crashes and one injury from linked to the recalls anthe defect. nounced Tuesday. • 1,402 Cadillac Escalade As part of the fallout from that recall of 2.6 million Chev- and Escalade ESVs from the 2015 model year because a rolet Cobalts and other small faulty weld could result in cars, GM hired more safety investigators and vowed to re- partial deployment of the view the safety of its vehicles. front passenger air bag in a crash. GM has stopped the In May alone, GM has resale of the models and alerted called nearly 5.3 million cars 224 current owners not to let and trucks. The Detroit automaker said occupants sit in the front passenger seat until the vehicle it will take a $400 million charge for repairs on all vehi- has been repaired. GM knows of no injuries related to the cles recalled so far this quarter. That’s on top of a $1.3 bil- defect.

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S.C. attorney general: Let Harrell case proceed COLUMBIA — Attorney General Alan Wilson this week has asked South Carolina’s highest court to let him continue a case against House Speaker Bobby Harrell while Wilson appeals a judge’s ruling disbanding the investigation, arguing that the decision has undercut his authority as the state’s top prosecutor. In court papers released Tuesday, Wilson said that he has asked the state Supreme Court to allow him to keep presenting corruption allegations to the State Grand Jury.

• 58 Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickups from the 2015 model year because retention clips attaching the generator fuse block

to the vehicle body can become loose and lead to a potential fire. No crashes or injuries are related to the defect.

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TUOMEY FROM PAGE A1 government a mortgage holder on the local hospital. In response, Tuomey officials say the federal government’s brief indicates prosecutors are starting to recognize the dire financial position the government is placing the hospital in. “The Department of Justice for the first time has acknowledged that the amount

FITNESS FROM PAGE A1 child, got a similar response when she spoke to her physician. “As long as it’s not new to me,” she said. “You do have to do some adjusting, change your position a little or replace certain exercises with others. If anything, I’m a little more short of breath on cardio, but when you’re pregnant, you’re short of breath anyway.” She works out at the Y five days a week. Both women agree the exercise is a good stress reliever and has helped them maintain healthy weights during the pregnancy. Pinto has gained 22 pounds, and Hustad has gained between 12 and 15 pounds. During her first pregnancy, Hustad did not exercise regularly and gained more than 60 pounds, she said. “Physical activity provides many psychological benefits, can help reduce unnecessary fat gain without compromising fetal growth and speed up postpartum recovery,” said Missy Corrigan, Y associate executive director. “Exercise guidelines regarding heart rate, intensity level and internal body temperature are provided by American College of Sports Medicine to keep both the mom and fetus safe,” she said. If you are at a healthy weight when you become pregnant, March of Dimes recommends you gain between 25 and 35 pounds during the 40 weeks of gestation. All this is great for the baby as well. A study by Boston Children’s Hospital published

of security that it has requested could ‘cause a disruption in medical services,’ and we are pleased with that concession,” said interim president and CEO Michael Schwartz. “The Department of Justice also criticizes Tuomey for its legal expenses over the course of this protracted dispute; it is unfortunate that Tuomey has had to go to such great lengths to defend the continuation of charitable health care for Sumter and the surrounding areas.”

PREGNANCY EXERCISE TIPS While you should always check with your health-care provider before beginning an exercise regimen, here are some general tips for exercising when pregnant: • Heart rate and intensity level should not exceed prepregnancy levels; • Weight bearing and non-weight bearing exercises are safe and beneficial; • Any heavy lifting or activity that causes straining should be avoided; • For internal body temperature regulation, avoid exercising in high heat and humidity; • Wear loose fitting clothing; • Drink plenty of water before, during and after exercise; and • Prenatal yoga can combat aches, pains and discomforts.

last year found women who gained excessive weight — 40 pounds or more — during pregnancy were more likely to have obese children. Another study by the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine published earlier this year suggests that exercise during pregnancy can help prevent the development of health problems such as diabetes later in life. “It is important for the mom-to-be to stay active during pregnancy for both her and the baby,” Corrigan said. “It’s not a time to try anything new, but healthy women with a normal pregnancy can and should continue to exercise throughout their pregnancy. Those who are at-risk or who have never exercised before being pregnant should check with their physician for clearance prior to beginning an exercise program.”

ALCOHOL FROM PAGE A1 Councilwoman Ione Dwyer motioned to amend the ballot question to limit sales to Sunday afternoons. Dwyer’s change would specify alcohol could only be served after 1 p.m. But her motion was deemed inapplicable because of how state law requires the question be worded. “You’re only permitted to ask whether on-premises sales are allowed, or whether it should allow on and off-premises sales,” said city attorney Eric Shytle. Shytle also said it’s unclear if city council would be able to pass a separate ordinance regulating serving times in case the referendum is approved. “It’s theoretically possible,” he said, “but I doubt it, because that would require state action ... only the state can license alcohol sales.” Sunday sales are traditionally regulated by South Carolina’s “blue laws,” but state law permits local governments to waive the prohibition by public vote. Of the state’s 19 largest cities, 18 already allow Sunday alcohol sales, Sumter being the one exception. Council voted to approve the unamended ordinance by a 5-1 vote. Calvin Hastie cast the lone vote against, as he did during first reading, and Thomas “Bubba” Lowery was absent. Even after council’s final vote, and two weeks after council dedicated a public hearing to the issue, the debate continued during the public comment period. Ferdinand Burns asked that council also call for a referendum on opening the

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city’s three HOPE centers on Saturdays. “You could take the extra revenue from selling alcohol on Sundays and use that to pay the (HOPE center) personnel if you’re concerned about funding,” Burns said. Rubye J. Johnson said if the referendum passes, “more people are not going to come to work on Monday, because they’ve got to get over their hangover.” On the other side, Lewis Watkins told council the measure didn’t go far enough and should permit grocery stores to sell beer and wine on Sundays too (although he agreed liquor stores should stay closed on Sundays). “This is limited to helping restaurants and a certain group who will go out to eat,” Watkins said. “Others may not go out to eat. They might go to somebody’s house on Sunday to eat and drink, and if they didn’t get any beer on Saturday, they’ll go to the bootlegger.” Council members were circumspect about the issue even as they cast their votes. “I’ve given it a lot of consideration and prayer. I’ve talked to different citizens about it, including clergy members, and I feel it’s a decision that needs to be made by the citizens on their own,” said Bob Galiano. “Let’s vote it up or down.” Dwyer said she had to consider her conscience as well as the wishes of the wider community when deciding how to vote. “I’m a Baptist, but I can’t live my religion for anybody else,” she said. “We live in a pluralistic society, a diverse society, and you can’t force your values on everybody else.”

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COMMENTARY

America’s budding tyrants F

rom the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Basic to their agenda are the tools of indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once they gain power, as leftists have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses. Back in 1964, it was Mario Savio, a campus leftist, who led the free speech movement at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, a movement that played a vital role in placing American universities center stage in the flow of political ideas, no matter how controversial, unpatriotic and vulgar. The free speech movement gave birth to the hippie movement of the ’60s and ’70s. The longhair, unkempt hippies of that era have grown up and now often find themselves being college professors, deans, provosts and presidents. Their intolerance of free speech and other ideas has become policy and practice on many college campuses. Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, updates us on the campus attack on free speech and different ideas in his article titled “Obama Unleashes the Left: How the government created a federal hunting license for the far left” (http://tinyurl.com/mp5x428). Walter Former Secretary of State Williams Condoleezza Rice, one of the nation’s most accomplished women, graciously withdrew as Rutgers University’s commencement speaker after two months of campus protests about her role in the Iraq War. Some students and professors said, “War criminals shouldn’t be honored.” One wonders whether these students would similarly protest Hillary Clinton, who, as senator, voted for the invasion of Iraq. Brandeis University officials were intimidated into rescinding their invitation to Somali writer and American Enterprise Institute scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose criticisms of radical Islam were said to have violated the school’s “core values.” Brandeis decided that allowing her to speak would be hurtful to Muslim students. I take it that Brandeis students and officials would see criticism of deadly Islamist terrorist gang Boko Haram’s kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian girls, some of whom have been sold off as brides, as unacceptable and violative of the university’s core values. Azusa Pacific University, a private Christian university, canceled a planned address by distinguished libertarian scholar Charles Murray out of fear that his lecture might upset “faculty and students of color.” In response to the cancellation, Murray wrote an open letter to the students, which in part read: “The task of the scholar is to present a case for his or her position based on evidence and logic. Another task of the scholar is to do so in a way that invites everybody into the discussion rather than demonize those who disagree. Try to find anything under my name that is not written in that spirit. Try to find even a paragraph that is written in anger, takes a cheap shot, or attacks women, African Americans, Latinos, Asians, or anyone else.” Unfortunately, such a scholarly vision is greeted with hostility at some universities. Earlier this year, faculty and students held a meeting at Vassar College to discuss a particularly bitter internal battle over the school’s movement to boycott Israel. Before the meeting, an English professor announced the dialogue would “not be guided by cardboard notions of civility.” That professor might share the vision of Adolf Hitler’s brownshirted thugs of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party in their effort to crush dissent. Western values of liberty are under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America. These people want to replace personal liberty with government control; they want to replace equality with entitlement. As such, they pose a far greater threat to our way of life than any terrorist organization or rogue nation. Multiculturalism and diversity are a cancer on our society. Ironically, we not only are timid in response but feed those ideas with our tax dollars and charitable donations. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. © 2014 creators.com

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Coach West deserves shot at top SHS football spot

tent to us and set it up. But, the biggest gratitude goes to my team members that made BrewUnfortunately, we find Sumter ington’s event even more special. Without these people we would High School looking for another not have had a successful field football coach after one year. A presence: Charlotte Peterson; candidate that I hope we will consider is Keith West. Keith was Dale Richardson; Shamekia Adams, tent commander; and a three-sports star at Sumter Ms. Delphine Bradley, who High School from 1985 to 1988. His specialty was football, where showed Brewington’s presence throughout the event night (she he led Sumter High to a state stayed over). This was a great championship game as a sophoevent for and even greater cause. more in 1985 and to the state (How can you not love the best championship as a senior in people in the world?) Thanks to 1987, was MVP of the Shrine Bowl and starting quarterback at everyone again, and see you next year. Wake Forest for two years. In 2007, he was inducted into the ANGELA BOYKIN Sumter High School Sports Hall Sumter of Fame. He has been the offensive coordinator at several South Sheriff’s office doesn’t Carolina high schools, always putting up outstanding offensive need war vehicle numbers. Keith is a hometown Does anyone in Sumter, other boy. He is a clean-cut family than myself, think that the sherman. Keith has shown class and iff’s department really needs a integrity as a player and a coach. vehicle such as the one pictured Keith, unlike many applicants, in Saturday’s paper — the Mine doesn’t want the job, he wants Resistant Ambush Protected vethis job because it is Sumter — a hicle or MRAP? big difference. The picture accompanying the It is never a sure thing when story gives me the willies and you hire a head coach, especially quickly brings to mind the enwhen he is currently an assistrance of similar vehicles just retant coach. Mark Richt, success- cently into the Ukraine. Is this ful University of Georgia head what our local police and sheriff coach, was a top assistant under departments are becoming — inBobby Bowden. Brad Scott was vading forces? To quote Sheriff unsuccessful as a head coach Dennis, “With something like after being a top assistant for this, we could practically drive Bowden. through the building if we needCoach West has paid his dues. I ed to.” hope we will seriously consider These are war vehicles, and I Coach West. will never be convinced that a ciWALLIE B. JONES vilian police force needs this Sumter type of weapon. Even in Detroit or Chicago. F.D. SCHMIDT Brewington Academy Sumter

surpasses Relay goal

I would like to thank all my colleagues at Brewington Academy for their financial contributions and emotional and physical support. With their dedication, we met our Relay for Life goal — plus some — and we had a wonderful turnout at the Relay for Life event Friday, May 16, at Donald L. Crolley Memorial Stadium. A special thank you goes out to Community Funeral Home who generously donated a

Saint Francis Xavier High a good school for bullied girl The letter from Pearl Watson indicates the stress on new members of our community who come from elsewhere. I first encountered this problem when I taught in East North Carolina, which the educated locals referred to as “a third world country.” Thanks to the Air Force, and the educated locals, you will

find enough friends who understand you here. An “A” student must be careful here in the public schools, until he or she knows who his or her friends are. I made the mistake of congratulating a student in East Carolina and the guys took him outside and beat him to a pulp. The objective is to make a “D.” stupid. That way you can make minimum wage all your life and bitch about how badly the whites treat you. That was the last time he made an “A.” Mumble mush is the local language of the black community and selected whites. Our schools obviously encourage it, because no teacher I know corrects it. One day at the KFC takeout, I was asked something in mumble mush. Four times I asked the person, in well-enunciated English, to repeat the question. Finally she came back with the distinct sound of exasperation in standard English. Yes, there is a private school in Sumter for your daughter. After retiring I was called to duty to teach chemistry for a year and a half. It was sweet cream on my career. Saint Francis Xavier High School: It is 48 percent Catholic; 52 percent Protestant (except for 4 or 5 non-believers.); 42 percent black; 54 percent Caucasian. It is the most affordable school in the county and the smallest high school in the nation. (40 to 50 students) and averages one instructor per 10 students. Some faculty are graduates of Jesuit high schools and colleges, many are Air Force officer wives or retired pilots, and some are from the local university, doing extra duty. Over the past three years, scholarship offers totaled $3 million for 53 students. As a Protestant, I felt very comfortable there as the atmosphere was very Christian. If you are not RC, come visit us at Church of the Holy Comforter, Anglican. Fine, meaningful sermons, fine music and fine children’s programs. VAN H. BALDWIN, Ph.D. Mayesville

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014

MEMORIAL DAY SCHEDULE BANKS — All area banks and credit unions will be closed on Monday. GOVERNMENT — The following will be closed on Monday: federal government offices; U.S. Postal Service; state government offices; City of Sumter offices; County of Sumter offices; Clarendon County offices; and Lee County offices. SCHOOLS — The following will be closed on Monday: Sumter School District; Lee County Public Schools; Thomas Sumter Academy; St. Anne Catholic School; St. Francis Xavier High School; Laurence Manning Academy; Clarendon Hall; Sumter Christian School; and Robert E. Lee Academy. Clarendon School Districts 1, 2 and 3 will be open and schools will run as regularly scheduled on Monday. Morris College administrative offices will be open on Monday but classes will not be held. Central Carolina Technical College will observe a faculty workday on Monday but classes will not be held. OTHER — The following will be closed on Monday: Clemson Extension Service; Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce; Harvin Clarendon County Library; the Sumter County Library; Black River Electric Coop.; and Farmers Telephone Coop. All offices of The Sumter Item will be closed on Monday.

DAILY PLANNER

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WEATHER

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Gaﬀney 89/64 Spartanburg 91/63

Greenville 90/63

Columbia 92/64

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IN THE MOUNTAINS

The Shepherd’s Center will offer free public information sessions 11-11:50 a.m. each Thursday through May 29 at 24 Council St. Scheduled topics / speakers are as follows: May 22, Cpl. Eddie Hobbs of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office will discuss home security; and May 29, Carol Boyd will discuss gardening with herbs. The Sumter Branch NAACP will sponsor a candidates forum for S.C. House of Representatives District 50 and Sumter County Council District 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, at North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Hillcrest High School Class of 1975 will hold a reunion breakfast meeting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 24, at Golden Corral. Call Ioma Prioleau at (803) 494-3454. The Sumter Branch NAACP will meet at 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 25, at Mt. Glory Baptist Church, 841 N. Main St. The Sumter County Veterans Association will hold its annual Memorial Day program at 11 a.m. Monday, May 26, at Mabry Memorial Park, located on U.S. 378 / U.S. 76 just east of Shaw Air Force Base. Retired Maj. Gen. William “Dutch” Holland will speak. The Sumter County Education

Sumter 91/66

Aiken 91/60

ON THE COAST Association-Retired will meet at noon on Wednesday, May 28, at the North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Members are encouraged to invite newly retired educators to join the association. Call Brenda Bethune at (803) 469-6588. A “Rembert Friends & Family Day” will be held 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 31, at 6785 Bradley St. (behind Rembert Car Wash). Sponsored by the Rembert Area Community Coalition (RACC), this family-oriented event will feature a variety of foods, beverages, entertainment and conversation. Call Dr. Juanita Britton at (803) 432-2001 or (803) 420-1255. The Sumter Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10, at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, 125 W. Bartlette St. Mary Ingram, ADA coordinator of Santee Wateree RTA, will speak. The spotlight will shine on Belle Mosley and the associate member is Cynthia Faulkner. Transportation provided within the coverage area. Contact Debra Canty, chapter president, at DebraCanC2@frontier.com or (803) 775-5792. For more pertinent information or for chapter updates, call the 24/7 recorded message line at (206) 376-5992.

Charleston 88/67

Today: Partly sunny; sunny and pleasant in southern parts. High 83 to 89. Thursday: Mostly sunny; very warm in southern parts. High 86 to 93.

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0.00" 1.59" 1.96" 14.16" 18.43" 16.31"

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Manning 89/65

Today: Partly sunny and warmer. Winds west-southwest 8-16 mph. Thursday: Mostly sunny and very warm. Winds west 6-12 mph.

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

Today Hi/Lo/W 85/57/pc 90/63/s 91/61/s 89/68/s 79/69/pc 88/67/s 89/62/pc 91/64/pc 92/64/pc 90/66/pc 84/68/pc 89/68/pc 89/67/pc

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Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 88/62/pc Mt. Pleasant 86/67/s Myrtle Beach 84/69/pc Orangeburg 90/64/pc Port Royal 88/68/s Raleigh 90/65/pc Rock Hill 89/62/pc Rockingham 91/66/pc Savannah 90/66/s Spartanburg 91/63/pc Summerville 86/70/s Wilmington 87/69/pc Winston-Salem 88/66/pc

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

The last word in astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll be EUGENIA LAST eager to make changes but are best to take a closer look at all the variables involved before you commit to anything that may limit you in the future. A heart-to-heart talk with someone you respect will ease your mind. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Share your thoughts and discuss your plans, and you will receive an interesting tip that will help you make an important decision. An emotional situation must not be allowed to trigger a poor choice. Listen to reason. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Stick to facts and offer information readily. Controlling a situation before it spins out of control will alleviate complaints and false accusations that can be damaging to your position and reputation. A secret dealing will be questioned. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Problems will arise if you are too involved or meddle in other people’s problems. Getting along and keeping the peace will be required if you don’t want to face personal loss. A creative project is the best place to channel your energy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Embrace everything new and exciting. A change may be in order, but you must be the one to instigate it if you want it to work to your benefit. Don’t let others make decisions for you. Stay in control and be ready to make your move. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Make positive changes and you will ease your stress and open up new opportunities to learn and forge ahead with optimism. A little mystery and imagination will lead to victory. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Look forward and make your choices based on what you see unfolding in the future. Living in the past or holding on to something that is destined to become obsolete will be your downfall. Romance will give you a boost. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Problems while traveling or while dealing with authority figures, friends or relatives will surface. Be careful not to meddle or to let anyone infringe on your privacy. Take care of any disruption or uncertainty before it’s too late to do anything about it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ve got everything going for LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Put play first. you, so don’t feel the need to Make time for activities that get depend upon others. Someone you moving, or emotionally and may try to lean on you or make you physically stimulate you. Plan your feel like you don’t have what it next vacation or sign up for a takes to go it alone. Believe in your course that will add to your skills or abilities. help you make new friends. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take a let a charmer convince you to do step back and listen and learn. something that isn’t going to Observation will be your most benefit you. Step back and look at valuable quality. Emotional deception is apparent and must be all the choices you have. Choose the direction that will allow you to continually monitored to help you avoid making a poor choice. Strive remain in control of your destiny. for stability, not popularity. Follow your intuition.

LOTTERY NUMBERS Midday: 4-0-0

PICK 3 TUESDAY

POWERBALL SATURDAY

PICK 4 TUESDAY

23-32-39-47-49 Powerball: 22 Powerplay: 3

Midday: 4-9-7-0

MEGAMILLIONS Numbers were not available at press time. Palmetto Cash 5, Pick 3 evening and Pick 4 evening numbers were not available at press time.

PICTURES FROM THE PUBLIC Pauline Lane comments on her photo submission, “We have a partial albino cardinal in our backyard this summer. He/she really stands out in the flock!”

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PREP FOOTBALL

PREP BASEBALL&SOFTBALL

Coaching quandary

Gamecocks, Wolverines to continue battles for state title

Kennedy couldn’t pass up Irmo job

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennisb@theitem.com

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennisb@theitem.com Reggie Kennedy has been a high school football coach for 24 years, 19 of them as a head coach and the last one at Sumter High. Of course, it will be his only one at SHS since he took the head football coach and athletic director positions at Irmo on Monday. Having coached for basically a quarter of a century and knowing that Bob Hanna, the man is he replacing at Irmo, had been at the school for 20 years left Kennedy thinking the job likely wouldn’t come open again while he was a relatively young man. That, he said on Tuesday, is why he applied for the job and accepted it when he was offered. “The biggest thing for me is this is a job that I had had my eye on,” Kennedy said. “Just looking at the history of the coaches there, Hanna was there for 20 years and (Bill) Kimrey was at Dutch Fork (another Lexington/ Richland School District 5 high school) for a long time (18 years). These jobs don’t open up often, and the opportunity may not come along again in my coaching career. That’s why I felt like I needed to look at it.” Kennedy also said the fact he and his family still live in Northeast Columbia played a part in his decision. And while he is getting a huge pay raise, Kennedy said that wasn’t the overriding factor in his decision. “Sumter (School District) was willing to do some things to give me more money,” Kennedy said. “I just felt like this was the right thing for me. While it

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Former Sumter High head football coach Reggie Kennedy, shown talking with Vincent Watkins during last year’s spring game, said the opportunity to coach at Irmo was too good for him to pass up. Kennedy spent one season with SHS, leading it to the 4A Division I state championship contest. had something to do with it, the money is not the biggest reason I took the job.” Kennedy told the Sumter football team on Tuesday morning that he had decid-

ed to take the Irmo job. He said it didn’t come as a complete shock to the players since he told the team last week that he had applied for the job and thought he was

being considered for it. “A few of them dropped their heads when I told them,” Kennedy said. “I told

SEE QUANDRY, PAGE B5

The Sumter High School baseball team will go after its third 4A baseball state title in the past nine years today when it plays host to Northwestern at Gamecock Baseball Stadium beginning at 7 p.m. The Gamecocks lead the best-of-3 championship series 1-0 after beating Northwestern 6-1 on Monday in Rock Hill. SHS, which has been ranked No. 1 in the state all season, brings a 28-2-1 record into the contest. Right-handed pitcher Phillip Watcher will be on SHUMAKE the mound for Sumter. Northwestern, in its first championship series in school history, is 24-4. The Trojans will send their ace, Will ChitARD wood, to the mound. If a third game is needed, it will be played at a neutral site on Friday. Sumter won the state title in 2006 and again in ‘11. Brooks Shumake led SHS to those titles before leaving for White Knoll in Lexington after the second crown. After two years at White Knoll though, Shumake returned to Sumter. The East Clarendon softball team will try to keep alive its hopes of defending its 1A crown today. The Lady Wolverines will play host to Dixie beginning at 6 p.m. in Turbeville. The Lady Hornets won the series opener 5-1 on Monday in Due West. EC is 20-5 while Dixie, the team East Clarendon beat for the title last year, is 25-3. If a third game is needed, it will be played on Friday at a neutral site.

PALMETTO PRO OPEN

Court-esy abundant PPO tourney unites players despite world issues BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennisb@theitem.com Liudmila Vasilyeva and Elizaveta Ianchuk battled through five deuces in the eighth game of the second set of their first-round tennis match in the main singles draw of the Palmetto Pro Open on Tuesday. Vasilyeva, the No. 6 seed, was playing to close out the match and advance in the 32-player USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 tournament. Ianchuk was fighting for all she was worth to extend her time in the tournament at least one more game. In the end, Vasilyeva won out, winning the match in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2. And, as is the custom in the sport of tennis, the competitors met at the net

to shake hands. Nothing unusual in any of that with this not-so-minor exception; Vasilyeva is from Russia while Ianchuk is from Ukraine. For anyone who has been paying attention on current events the past couple of months, Russia has taken over the eastern part of

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Ukrainian Elizaveta Ianchuk, left, clasp hands with Russian Liudmila Vasilyeva after Vasilyeva’s 6-2, 6-2 victory in the first round of the singles main draw of the Palmetto Pro SEE PPO, PAGE B5 Open on Tuesday at Palmetto Tennis Center.

USC BASEBALL

Schrock’s health status key to Carolina’s tournament success BY WILLIE T. SMITH III Greenville News COLUMBIA-- When the South Carolina baseball team traveled to Athens, Georgia, three weeks ago for a Southeastern Conference series against Georgia, sophomore second baseman Max Schrock was left behind in Columbia. “I think that was the first road trip I hadn’t been on,” Schrock said this week. “I didn’t know what to do. I was back here. All my friends were gone. I

was watching the games on TV and wishing I could be there.” Without Schrock, who is dealing with a back problem that is the latest in a series of nagging injuries this season, the Gamecocks struggled. They dropped two of three games against the Bulldogs and SCHROCK appeared in desperate shape with regular-season series against Missouri and highly ranked Vanderbilt remaining.

Schrock then returned to the lineup as a designated hitter and played a key role in USC’s winning five of its last six regular-season games, including two of three against the No. 9-ranked Commodores in Nashville, Tennessee. That allowed the No. 6-ranked Gamecocks (42-14) to travel to Hoover, Alabama, for the Southeastern Conference Tournament as the No. 4 seed and with a strong chance of earning a top eight national seed. They are scheduled to play the late game tonight, tentatively scheduled to begin

between 8 and 8:30, against the winner of Tuesday’s late game between Georgia and Mississippi State. Whether South Carolina coach Chad Holbrook will let Schrock in the lineup during the tournament remains uncertain. Schrock was held out of practice Monday and did “some work” Tuesday, Holbrook said. “I won’t know until (tonight),” Holbrook said Tuesday in regard to Schrock’s status. “We were a little

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014

SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY

10:30 a.m. – College Baseball: Southeastern Conference Tournament Game Five from Hoover, Ala. – Vanderbilt or Tennessee vs. Louisiana State (SPORTSOUTH). 11 a.m. – College Baseball: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Game Four from Greensboro, N.C. – Clemson vs. Duke (FOX SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7). 2 p.m. – Major League Baseball: New York Yankees at Chicago Cubs or Seattle at Texas (MLB NETWORK). 2 p.m. – College Baseball: Southeastern Conference Tournament Game Six from Hoover, Ala. – Texas A&M or Arkansas vs. Mississippi (SPORTSOUTH). 3 p.m. – College Baseball: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Game Five from Greensboro, N.C. – Miami vs. Wake Forest or Georgia Tech (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 7 p.m. – Major League Baseball” Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Mets (ESPN). 7 p.m. – College Baseball: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Game Six from Greensboro, N.C. – Florida State vs. North Carolina or North Carolina State (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Milwaukee at Atlanta (SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7). 8 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Western Conference Playoffs Final Series Game Two – Los Angeles at Chicago (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 8:30 p.m. – College Baseball: Southeastern Conference Tournament Game Eight from Hoover, Ala. – Mississippi State or Georgia vs. South Carolina (WNKT-FM 107.5). 9 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Western Conference Playoffs Final Series Game Two – Oklahoma City at San Antonio (TNT).

MLB STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE By The Associated Press EAST DIVISION W L New York 23 20 Baltimore 22 20 Toronto 23 22 Boston 20 23 Tampa Bay 19 26 CENTRAL DIVISION W L Detroit 27 13 Kansas City 22 22 Minnesota 21 21 Chicago 22 24 Cleveland 20 25 WEST DIVISION W L Oakland 28 16 Los Angeles 24 20 Seattle 21 22 Texas 21 23 Houston 17 28

Pct .535 .524 .511 .465 .422

GB – 1/2 1 3 5

Pct .675 .500 .500 .478 .444

GB – 7 7 8 91/2

Pct .636 .545 .488 .477 .378

GB – 4 61/2 7 111/2

MONDAY’S GAMES

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Oakland at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m. Seattle at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. Houston at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. Minnesota at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Detroit (Scherzer 6-1) at Cleveland (McAllister 3-4), 12:05 p.m. Seattle (C.Young 3-1) at Texas (Tepesch 0-0), 2:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 0-4), 2:20 p.m. Baltimore (Tillman 4-2) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 0-2), 7:05 p.m. Oakland (Milone 1-3) at Tampa Bay (Bedard 2-1), 7:10 p.m. Toronto (Hutchison 2-3) at Boston (Buchholz 2-3), 7:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-3) at Kansas City (Guthrie 2-3), 8:10 p.m. Houston (McHugh 2-2) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 4-3), 10:05 p.m. Minnesota (P.Hughes 4-1) at San Diego (T.Ross 5-3), 10:10 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Texas at Detroit, 1:08 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 4:05 p.m. Oakland at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Milwaukee St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago WEST DIVISION San Francisco Colorado Los Angeles San Diego Arizona

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TODAY’S GAMES

Cavs get No. 1 pick again

N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 0-4), 2:20 p.m. Cincinnati (Simon 5-2) at Washington (Roark 3-1), 4:05 p.m. Baltimore (Tillman 4-2) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 0-2), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 3-2) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 0-1), 7:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Lohse 5-1) at Atlanta (E. Santana 4-1), 7:10 p.m. Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 0-4) at Miami (Eovaldi 2-2), 7:10 p.m. Arizona (McCarthy 1-6) at St. Louis (Wacha 3-3), 8:15 p.m. San Francisco (M.Cain 1-3) at Colorado (Chacin 0-2), 8:40 p.m. Minnesota (P.Hughes 4-1) at San Diego (T.Ross 5-3), 10:10 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Philadelphia at Miami, 12:40 p.m. San Francisco at Colorado, 4:10 p.m. Washington at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Arizona at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. Chicago Cubs at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

NBA PLAYOFFS By The Associated Press

CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Indiana 1, Miami 0 Sunday, May 18: Indiana 107, Miami 96 Tuesday, May 20: Miami at Indiana, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, May 24: Indiana at Miami, 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 26: Indiana at Miami, 8:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 28: Miami at Indiana, 8:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 30: Indiana at Miami, 8:30 p.m. x-Sunday, June 1: Miami at Indiana, 8:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

San Antonio 1, Oklahoma City 0 Monday, May 19: San Antonio 122, Oklahoma City 105 Wednesday, May 21: Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 9 p.m. Sunday, May 25: San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27: San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 9 p.m. x-Thursday, May 29: Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 9 p.m. x-Saturday, May 31: San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m. x-Monday, June 2: Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 9 p.m.

NHL PLAYOFFS By The Associated Press

CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) N.Y. Rangers 2, Montreal 0 Saturday, May 17: N.Y. Rangers 7, Montreal 2 Monday, May 19: NY Rangers 3, Montreal 1 Thursday, May 22: Montreal at NY Rangers, 8 p.m. Sunday, May 25: Montreal at NY Rangers, 8 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 27: NY Rangers at Montreal, 8 p.m. x-Thursday, May 29: Montreal at NY Rangers, 8 p.m. x-Saturday, May 31: NY Rangers at Montreal, 8 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Chicago 1, Los Angeles 0 Sunday, May 18: Chicago 3, Los Angeles 1 Wednesday, May 21: Los Angeles at Chicago, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 24: Chicago at Los Angeles, 8 p.m. Monday, May 26: Chicago at Los Angeles, 9 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 28: Los Angeles at Chicago, 8 p.m. x-Friday, May 30: Chicago at Los Angeles, 9 p.m. x-Sunday, June 1: Los Angeles at Chicago, 8 p.m.

WNBA STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta Chicago New York Washington Connecticut Indiana

W 2 2 1 0 0 0

L 0 0 1 1 2 2

Pct GB 1.000 – 1.000 – .500 1 .000 11/2 .000 2 .000 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Minnesota Phoenix Los Angeles San Antonio Tulsa Seattle

W 2 2 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1 1 2

Pct GB 1.000 – 1.000 – .500 1 .500 1 .000 11/2 .000 2

SUNDAY’S GAMES

EAST DIVISION Atlanta Washington Miami New York Philadelphia CENTRAL DIVISION

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

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Cleveland 5, Detroit 4, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 7, Kansas City 6 Houston 5, L.A. Angels 2

W 24 23 23 20 19

L 19 21 22 23 22

Pct .558 .523 .511 .465 .463

GB – 11/2 2 4 4

W 27 23 20 18 15

L 18 21 23 25 27

Pct .600 .523 .465 .419 .357

GB – 31/2 6 8 101/2

W 28 25 23 21 18

L 17 20 22 24 28

Pct .622 .556 .511 .467 .391

GB – 3 5 7 101/2

Minnesota 90, Connecticut 87, OT Phoenix 74, Los Angeles 69

MONDAY’S GAMES

No games scheduled

TUESDAY’S GAMES

No games scheduled

MONDAY’S GAMES

Cincinnati 4, Washington 3, 15 innings Atlanta 9, Milwaukee 3

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Washington, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m. Arizona at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. San Francisco at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

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TODAY’S GAMES

Connecticut at Chicago, 12:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS The Associated Press BASEBALL

American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned INFs Jesus Aguilar and Jose Ramirez and LHP T.J. House to Columbus (IL). Reinstated DH Jason Giambi from the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Trevor Bauer and INF Justin Sellers from Columbus. HOUSTON ASTROS — Traded LHP Raul Valdes to Toronto for a player to be named. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned INF Johnny Giavotella to Omaha (PCL). Recalled C Francisco Pena from Omaha. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned INF Luis Jimenez to Salt Lake (PCL). Reinstated David Freese from the 15day DL.

NEW YORK — The Cleveland Cavaliers continued their remarkable lottery luck Tuesday, winning the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft for the second straight year. It’s the third time in four years the Cavs will be atop the draft after moving up from the ninth spot. They had just a 1.7 percent chance of winning the top selection. They drafted Kyrie Irving first in 2011 and will hope to do better with this win than last year, when they took Anthony Bennett, who had a forgettable rookie season. Even changing up their lottery representative couldn’t change the Cavs’ luck. Nick GRIFFIN Gilbert, the son of Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert, was on the podium for the previous two wins, but general manager David Griffin was there this time. Griffin was carrying one of Nick Gilbert’s bowties, and it was as lucky in his breast pocket as it was with Nick wearing it. The Cavs can now choose among the likes of Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid of Kansas, Duke’s Jabari Parker, or another player from what’s considered a deep draft. The Milwaukee Bucks fell one spot to second and the Philadelphia 76ers will draft third. The Bucks had a 25 percent chance of winning after a league-worst 15-67 record, but the team with the best odds hasn’t won since 2004. SHERRILL, CITADEL WIN

CHARLESTON – Former Wilson Hall and Sumter P-15’s standout Zach Sherrill picked up the victory in The Citadel’s 10-7 win over Elon in the Southern Conference Tournament on Tuesday at Riley Park. Sherrill worked 3 2/3 innings in relief of starting pitcher Logan Cribb, allowing just one run, two hits and one walk while striking out four. The Bulldogs, who improved to 24-32 on the season, will take on Davidson today at 5

EX-PLAYERS SUE NFL OVER USE OF PAINKILLERS

WASHINGTON — Opening another legal attack on the NFL over the long-term health of its athletes, a group of retired players accused the league in a lawsuit Tuesday of cynically supplying them with powerful painkillers and other drugs that kept them in the game but led to serious complications later in life. The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages on behalf of more than 500 ex-athletes, charges the NFL with putting profits ahead of players’ health. To speed injured athletes’ return to the field, team doctors and trainers dispensed drugs illegally, without obtaining prescriptions or warning of the possible side effects, the plaintiffs contend. Some football players said they were never told they had broken bones and were instead fed pills to mask the pain. One said that instead of surgery, he was given antiinflammatory drugs and excused from practices so he could play in games. Others said that after years of free pills from the NFL, they retired addicted to painkillers. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, in Atlanta for the league’s spring meetings, said: “We have not seen the lawsuit, and our attorneys have not had an opportunity to review it.” MINNEAPOLIS AWARDED 2018 SUPER BOWL

ATLANTA — Minneapolis will host the 2018 Super Bowl after a vote by owners Tuesday rewarded the city for its new stadium deal. The owners chose Minneapolis and the $1 billion stadium planned for the site of the old Metrodome to host the championship over New Orleans and Indianapolis. New Orleans bid committee members believed the new Minneapolis stadium, set to open in 2012, swung the vote. The stadium will hold up to 72,000 for the Super Bowl. The big game will be staged in the Twin Cities for the second time. It was there in 1992, when Washington beat Buffalo. From staff, wire reports

MLB ROUNDUP

Teheran, Upton lead Braves past Brewers 5-0 ATLANTA — Julio Teheran pitched a six-hitter for his second shutout of the season, Justin Upton had three RBIs and the Atlanta Braves won their third in a row, beating the slumping Milwaukee Brewers 5-0 Tuesday night. It was another laugher in the matchup between firstTEHERAN place teams, the Braves jumping ahead with three runs in the third and cruising to victory after opening the series with a 9-3 rout. The Brewers have lost four in a row overall, their longest skid of 2014. Teheran (3-3) bounced back from the shortest start of his career at San Francisco, where he lasted just 3 1-3 innings in a 10-4 loss. The right-hander pitched his first career shutout last month, beating Philadelphia 1-0 with a three-hitter. Upton had a two-run single in the third and his 12th homer in the fifth, a solo shot. Yovani Gallardo (2-3) took a painful loss. He left the game in the fourth after twisting his left ankle jumping for a high chopper up the middle, extending his winless streak to more than six weeks. Gallardo hasn’t been credited with a win since

CAROLINA FROM PAGE B1 more careful with Schrock because he has seen some live at-bats and has been involved recently. He is not too much out of the rhythm of the game.” Schrock’s back pain flared up during the series opener Thursday a Vanderbilt, yet he lined a tying single in the ninth inning. The Gamecocks won the game in the 10th inning on a Joey Pankake homer. “Right now I feel pretty good,” Schrock said. “I’m just taking it dayto-day at this point. Sometimes I wake up and it feels good. Sometimes I wake up and it doesn’t. I just try to manage it, get my treatments and see what I can do.”

p.m. in the double-elimination part of the tournament.

April 6 at Boston, his second start of the season. Since then, he is 0-3 with five no-decisions, despite allowing no more than four earned runs in any of those appearances. Andrelton Simmons put the Braves ahead in the third with his fourth homer, a drive into the leftfield seats. Simmons was in the middle of things again in the fourth, pulling off a heads-up play on the basepaths. NATIONALS 9 REDS 4

WASHINGTON — Denard Span was at his disruptive best, getting three hits off the major’s top pitcher and forcing a pair of throwing errors Tuesday night to lead the Washington Nationals to a 9-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Span finished 5 for 5 with two runs, two doubles, two RBIs and a stolen base as the Nationals accomplished a first for 2014: They made Johnny Cueto (4-3) look mortal.

INTERLEAGUE ORIOLES 9 PIRATES 2 PITTSBURGH — Chris Davis hit three home runs, doubling his season total, and drove in five runs to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 9-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tues-

day night. Davis hit a two-run blast during a four-run fifth inning that put the Orioles ahead 6-1 then hit a solo shot in the seventh and two-run homer in the ninth. It was Davis’ second career three-homer game the other came on Aug. 24, 2012 against Toronto - and seventh multi-homer game. After leading the major leagues and setting a franchise record with 53 homers last season, Davis hit three in his first 30 games. Nelson Cruz also homered, following Davis’ shot in the fifth, to give the Orioles their second set of back-to-back homers of the season. Adam Jones had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 14 games. Miguel Gonzalez (2-3) pitched sixth innings for Baltimore. Francisco Liriano (0-4) allowed six runs and nine hits in five innings for Pittsburgh.

AMERICAN LEAGUE TIGERS 6 INDIANS 2 CLEVELAND — Trevor Bauer outpitched former Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander and tamed Detroit’s menacing lineup, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 6-2 win over the Tigers on Tuesday night.

From wire reports

2014 SEC BASEBALL TOURNAMENT The Gamecocks have not had a strong record in Hoover, winning more than one game only once in the past nine tournaments. USC probably will have to win at least two games this week -- and hope some other highly ranked teams falter -- to lock down one of the coveted eight seeds. “We’ve got something to play for this year,” Schrock said. “Hopefully we can go down there and play some good baseball, win some games and we’ll see what happens. “Hopefully we can ride on that momentum we had. We played some really good baseball at Vanderbilt. Hopefully we can take that into Hoover.”

Tournament runs Tuesday through Sunday at the Metropolitan Stadium, Hoover, Ala.

Game 12 – Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 25 minutes after Game 11 (CSS)

All times are Eastern; first and fifth rounds are single-elimination, second through fourth rounds are double-elimination.

FOURTH ROUND

Friday Game 13 – Game 9 winner vs. Game 11 loser, 4 p.m. (CSS) Game 14 – Game 10 winner vs. Game 12 loser, 25 minutes after Game 13 (CSS)

FIRST ROUND

Tuesday Game 1 – (6) Vanderbilt 3, (11) Tennessee 2 Game 2 – (7) Arkansas 4, (10) Texas A&M 0 Game 3 – (9) Kentucky 7, (8) Alabama 1 Game 4 – (5) Mississippi State vs. (12) Georgia, (late)

SECOND ROUND

Today Game 5 – (3) LSU vs. (6) Vanderbilt, 10:30 a.m. (SPSO) Game 6 – (2) Ole Miss vs. (7) Arkansas, 25 minutes after Game 5 (SPSO)

Game 7 – (1) Florida vs. (9) Kentucky, 5:30 p.m. (CSS) Game 8 – (4) South Carolina vs. Game 4 winner, 25 minutes after Game 7 (CSS)

THIRD ROUND

Thursday Game 9 – Game 5 loser vs. Game 6 loser, 10:30 a.m. (SPSO) Game 10 – Game 7 loser vs. Game 8 loser, 25 minutes after Game 9 (SPSO) Game 11 – Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 7 p.m. (CSS)

FIFTH ROUND

Saturday Game 15 – Game 13 winner vs. Game 11 winner, noon (ESPNews) Game 16 – Game 14 winner vs. Game 12 winner, 25 minutes after Game 15 (ESPNews)

CHAMPIONSHIP

Sunday Game 17 – Game 15 winner vs. Game 16 winner, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2)

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014

AUTO RACING

Busch learning his way in IndyCar after accident BY DAN GELSTON The Associated Press With one sudden spin and slam into the wall, Kurt Busch’s IndyCar burst into flames. His shot at The Double, almost up in smoke. Busch walked away unscathed, his car totaled for this weekend’s Indy 500. He’ll have an Andretti Autosport KURT BUSCH backup ready to go for race day, when he tries to make history by becoming only the second driver to complete 1,100 total miles by racing in the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca Cola 600 in the same day. “You’re here this morning, you’re upright, you’re OK, but you crashed yesterday,” host Matt Lauer said on NBC’s “Today” show over a photo of Busch’s No. 26 Honda on fire. He sure did, and it was a doozy. Busch spun coming out of the second turn on the 2.5mile oval and smacked into the outside wall. It was the biggest crash of the month. Busch was lucky his accident didn’t cost him more than a car. And his Tony Stewart-owned NASCAR team surely said a big thanks that one of their key cogs won’t miss any time in his day job. “I’ll get over it quick. I’ve wrecked cars before,” Busch said. “I got sideways, I tried to correct it. I had it for a moment, but then I tried to overcorrect it.” Busch is attempting to become the fourth driver to complete the back-to-back race feat known as “The Double.” He’s making his debut in IndyCar, and the 2004 Cup

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A car driven by Kurt Busch catches fire after hitting the wall in the second turn during practice for the Indianapolis 500 on Monday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Busch will attempt to race in the Indy 500 then the Coca Cola 600 in Concord, N.C., on Sunday. champion acknowledged that he made a rookie mistake on the track. “We made a couple of changes, it was back to my most confident feel in the car,” he said. “I just got too aggressive with sway bar changes, weight jacker changes, and didn’t stay up on top of my adjustments.” At 1,500 pounds, IndyCars are lighter and have less horsepower than the 3,500pound cars in NASCAR Busch usually drives. That leaves IndyCars more susceptible to flips and even fatalities. Busch’s crash sent tires and other debris strewn across the track. The compact stock cars are designed for bangin’ and crashin’ and side-by-side racing. Unlike the sleek IndyCars, stock cars are modeled to look like ones sold on showroom floors. It’s NASCAR’s way of putting the “stock”

back in stock-car racing. Grills and body lines are similar. Silhouettes are within millimeters of their showroom counterparts. NASCAR drivers are protected by a roof. IndyCars have no doors, an open cockpit and about a dozen control buttons at the driver’s disposal. Busch started racing karts as a kid, and won races early in his career in just about every type of series, one reason he has the confidence he can pull of the dual feat. But for all his racing guile, he’s still just a first-timer in openwheel with only weeks of experience, a fact he made easy to forget with the blistering speeds posted during Indy practice. He’ll start 12th in the 500 — four spots higher than last year’s champ, Tony Kanaan. Busch’s “NASCAR instincts” got him in trouble

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during the wreck, 2000 Indy 500 winner and former NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya said. Montoya mimicked the motion of turning a wheel all the way as a source of the problem. He explained: “Too much wheel. ... A NASCAR wheel goes and it stays there for a long time. It doesn’t kick back. The IndyCar, an open wheel, kicks back.” “In NASCAR, you can fight with it all the way to the wall to try to save it. They slide and you can help it,” Montoya said. “In IndyCar, when it goes, ask Kurt what happened. And NASCAR is a lot more forgiving because the car is bigger, heavier, there’s so much mass that it just takes a lot to get it moving.” Busch knows there’s more to learn in his new ride, and he won’t truly grasp the nuances of racing in corners or handling traffic until Sunday.

Charlotte officially has Hornets back in town BY STEVE REED The Associated Press

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Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook (0) is defended by San Antonio’s Tim Duncan (21) as he drives to the basket during the Spurs’ 122-105 victory on Monday in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals in San Antonio.

Duncan, Spurs rout Thunder 122-105 BY RAUL DOMINGUEZ The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs were not going to believe Serge Ibaka was really injured until the Oklahoma City Thunder took the court in the opener of the Western Conference finals without their athletic big man. Their skepticism was unwarranted. Ibaka is indeed injured and Oklahoma City needs to find a way to replace his defensive presence against San Antonio. Tim Duncan had 27 points and the Spurs took advantage of Ibaka’s absence to score more than half their points in the paint, beating the Thunder 122-105 Monday night in the opener of the best-of-seven series. Tony Parker did not appear limited by a hamstring injury, adding 14 points and 12 assists in 36 minutes in San Antonio’s first victory over Oklahoma City this season. Parker and coach Gregg Popovich both said earlier

“I have to use my experience from the NASCAR world to feel the car, know what to do in traffic, predict restarts,” he said. “It will be a full set of lessons learned in the first half of the race. If I’m there halfway, I’ll start to apply it.” Stewart, a champion driver in both series, has offered Busch tips on the differences between each car. “With those cars, it’s all about momentum and being able to carry corner speeds,” Stewart said. “It’s a little more crucial in those cars than it is in ours because we have horsepower to fall back on.” Hours after the wreck, Busch said he felt fine, up for the grind of his media obligations. He went out for dinner in New York with rapper Ice-T and his wife, Coco. He’ll return to racing Friday when the final 1-hour Indy 500 practice sessions will be held.

they weren’t sure if the Thunder would actually be without Ibaka, who injured his left calf in Oklahoma City’s series clincher against the Los Angeles Clippers. “Contrary to what San Antonio was thinking, he’s not coming back,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. That’s bad news for Oklahoma City entering Game 2 on Wednesday. San Antonio had 66 points in the paint and shot 58 percent from the field. It was the highest shooting percentage allowed by the Thunder in the postseason since relocating from Seattle. The Thunder got their usual offensive output from All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, who scored 28 and 25 points, respectively. But Oklahoma City’s remaining starters, Nick Collison, Thabo Sefolosha and Kendrick Perkins, combined to score five points with 13 rebounds and one assist. Collison started in place of Ibaka and was 0 for 3 from the field with three rebounds

and one blocked shot. Ibaka was averaging 12.2 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.23 blocks in 33.9 minutes in the postseason. “We play team defense, we don’t just rely on Serge,” Durant said. “He does a great job of blocking shots, but it’s all because of our team defense. He’s a big part of what we do. He’s a starter, had his best season this year, so of course we’re going to miss his presence, but we have guys that are going to step up and do it collectively.” San Antonio planned to attack Oklahoma City’s interior whether Ibaka was playing or not, and found it much easier to do without the athletic 6-foot-10 forward. “We always want to try to penetrate,” Parker said. “We always want our ball movement, that’s how we play — kick and pitch and stuff like that. You know, obviously it’s a little bit better with (Ibaka) not being in the paint, but we’re still going to try to penetrate and make stuff happen.”

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Hornets are back. The NBA franchise announced Tuesday at a press conference it has officially changed its name back to the Hornets after 10 years of being known as the Bobcats. The change comes nearly one year after owner Michael Jordan indicated he wanted to change the name back to the Hornets. The league approved the change last July. Jordan didn’t attend the press conference, but issued a statement saying it’s a “historic day for our franchise, our city and our fans.” The Hornets resided in Charlotte from 1988-2002 before George Shinn moved the team — and name — to New Orleans after a messy divorce from the city. The name became available again when New Orleans owner Tom Benson changed his team’s name from the Hornets to the Pelicans. Several hundred fans showed up at the downtown arena for the formal announcement. Hornets president and CEO Fred Whitfield said the goal is restore the energy the Hornets brought to the city when they were in Charlotte 12 years ago playing at the Charlotte Colise-

um, which was known by fans simply as “The Hive.” It was there the Hornets were consistently among the league leaders in attendance. “For me this day is almost surreal because I was a Hornets season ticket holder,” Whitfield said. “I know what it felt like in the old Hive and the energy and excitement that happened to be there. Michael talks fondly about the days he came in and played against the Hornets and what a challenge it was not only to battle a good team, but also the fans.” Whitfield also announced that in collaboration with the NBA and the Pelicans, all of the statistical information, records and history of the Charlotte NBA basketball will be restored to the franchise. That means the Hornets will now own and have access to all of the historical elements from the recent Bobcats’ era (2004-14) as well as the original Hornets teams that played in Charlotte — including stats from stars such as Larry Johnson, Alonzo Mourning and Muggsy Bogues. All of the Hornets records from their years in New Orleans will revert to the Pelicans’ history, Whitfield said. “That was a piece that was really important to us because we knew how important that was to our fans,” Whitfield said. “Being able to have the old Hornets alumni back and be a part of family was important.

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Williams commits to Clemson instead of FSU

lemson pulled a Florida State legacy prospect away from the Seminoles on Monday when tight end Garrett Williams of Orlando, Fla., announced a commitment to the Tigers. He also had FSU, Stanford and Auburn on his final short list. Williams is the son of former FSU fullback Dayne Williams. Clemson was an early offer for him, January of 2013, and he made a half-dozen visits to the campus over the last year and a half including the Tigers’ junior day in February. “I love the atmosphere and the coaches are incredible,” Williams said. “I love what Clemson stands for. My dad was always telling me it’s my decision, and it’s wherever I feel like God is leading me. If that’s not Florida State, then that’s OK with him and my family because I know they are going to support me wherever I go. So I had to make sure I didn’t get wrapped up in the whole tradition thing because ultimately I’m going to have to live it every day and love it. I feel like Clemson is that place for me.” Williams also is a high level defensive end in high school. He totaled 146 tackles and 23 quarterback sacks the last two seasons. He originally wanted to play that position in college, but later determined the TE/H-back position was his best shot, so he asked his Clemson recruiter, Jeff Scott, if he would recruit him for that. “Clemson runs an incredible offense for their tight end/H-back guy, they call it their three man, so I feel like it’s a great offense for me,” Williams said. “I feel like I can fit in well with it and make a lot of plays and just be a good player for them.” Williams is Clemson’s 15th commitment for the ‘15 class. Clemson had a bountiful week last week, culminating on Saturday with the Tigers’ third commitment of the week. On Saturday the Tigers landed speedy cornerback Juwuan Briscoe of Waldorf, Md., who committed while on campus for an unofficial visit. “I was already set on Clemson, but the visit was the icing on the cake and the coaches were hyped, especially Coach (Mike) Reed,” Briscoe said. “Coach Dabo (Swinney) was telling me Coach Reed has been bragging on me to him ever since he watched my film. We’re very excited and I loved it from seeing the stadium on TV to physically being there in person. It was nothing but love.” Briscoe played primarily running back as a junior, and he rushed for 1,023 yards and 14 touchdowns. As a CB, he was in on 38 tackles and had two interceptions. Briscoe also has offers from Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina State, Old Dominion, Charlotte, Rutgers and Toledo. North Carolina, Ohio State, Penn State and Indiana have also been showing strong interest. The Tigers also landed commitments during the week from offensive lineman Zach Giella (6-feet-4-inches, 285 pounds) of Augusta, Ga., and defensive lineman Sterling Johnson (6-5, 290) of Clayton, N.C. “They have been recruiting me nonstop every day,” Giella said of Clemson. “(Offensive coordinator) Coach (Chad) Morris came by twice and I’ve built quite a relationship with him. And talking with Coach Swinney, I’ve never felt that kind of love from a coach before.” Some of his other offers were South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana State, Kentucky, Mississippi State, California, Duke, Missouri, Miami, Georgia Tech, Michigan and Vanderbilt. Johnson had decided to commit to Tennessee over Clemson, Alabama and Ohio State. However, when he called Tennessee to offer up his pledge he was told the

Volunteers weren’t ready to take his commitment until seeing him in camp this summer. Two of the Vols’ DEs had grown into tackles and their need at that position had diminished, but Tennessee had never made that clear to Johnson, leading him to believe he was a take. Of course, after Tennessee rebuffed Johnson’s commitment attempt, he dropped the Vols from consideration. And he quickly turned to Clemson. “I felt like it was God’s plan. I really enjoyed our conversation (with Swinney), and I like the coaching staff because they are real people and work like everyone else.” Wide receiver Juval Mollette of Randleman, N.C., has gone back and forth between Clemson and UNC as his favorite. He visited Chapel Hill a couple of weekends ago with his mother and that has elevated the Tar Heels back to the point where the Tigers had resided for weeks after he visited there. “My mom liked it, that was the main reason for us going,” Mollette said. “I took her to Clemson also and she liked it. She said she likes (North) Carolina more. She said she liked their spirit and she felt like they would take good care of me if I went there.” Mollette plans to return to Clemson for a camp this summer, and he is also going to take visits to Tennessee and Virginia Tech and will try to get to Michigan. Those three make up the final part of his top five. “Everybody in my top five has a chance,” Mollette said. “I just favored out Clemson and Carolina because they were recruiting me the hardest at the time.” Mollette said he won’t have a decision until the end of June or early July. DE Darian Roseboro of Lincolnton, N.C., has a top 10 of Clemson, NCSU, Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio State, LSU, Florida, UNC, Alabama and Duke in no order. Linebacker Tyler Cooksey of Norcross, Ga., has several offers, but is waiting on one from Clemson, his mother’s alma mater. “They don’t have any spots at linebacker available right now so they haven’t offered, but they said to be patient and see if they can work things out,” Cooksey said. The Tigers will not have much time to do so as Cooksey plans to commit in July. He has 16 offers and will narrow that list soon. His offers include Tennessee, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, UNC, NCSU, GT, Northwestern, Wake Forest, Central Florida, Alabama-Birmingham and Iowa. DE Tevon Coney of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said a future visit to Clemson is definite. Coney also named Tennessee, Ohio State, Florida and NCSU as schools he would like to visit. All have offered except for the Buckeyes. UK, Miami, South Alabama, Appalachian State, Mississippi State, WVU, Florida International and Western Michigan have also offered. OL Drew Richmond (6-6, 315) of Memphis, Tenn., cut his list from 32 to 11 in March and continues to work with that group. Clemson, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Memphis, Ohio State, LSU, FSU, UCLA, Ole Miss and Mississippi State are on his short list. Richmond plans to announce his decision on Sept. 9, giving him plenty of time to see several of these schools in person. Thus far, Alabama, Tennessee and Auburn have been his only visits. He also plans to visit Clemson though he does not have a date in mind. He recently received a visit from the Tigers during spring ball. USC

USC picked up a trio of commitments last week. It is highlighted by the top-ranked player in Maryland in WR Jalen Christian of Damascus.

He picked the Gamecocks over Maryland after considering more than 20 other offers. “The Gamecocks just felt like home,” Christian said. “The atmosphere at South Carolina reminds me of my hometown. I have a great relationship with (assistant) Coach (G.A.) Mangus and (assistant) Coach (Steve) Spurrier Jr. and I can see myself succeeding there.” Last season, he rushed for 800 yards and had 500 yards receiving despite missing three games due to an injury. Christian said the Gamecocks have a solid game plan for him once he gets to school. “I’d be like a Bruce Ellington, a Damiere Byrd type of guy,” he said. “Positions where I can get the ball.” OL Jozie Milton (6-3, 290) of Clinton, La., committed to USC from over 20 offers, including ones from Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Arizona State, Oklahoma State, South Florida and Southern Mississippi. Milton said USC plans to play him at the center spot. “They said they are only taking one center, and I’m the top guy for that position,” Milton said earlier this month. TE Kyle Markway (6-4, 219) of St. Louis also committed to USC last week. He visited for the spring game weekend and saw enough to know he wanted to be a Gamecock. Markway also had offers from Iowa, Indiana, Western Kentucky, Illinois and Memphis and said the decision Phil Kornblut came down to the GameRECRUITING cocks and CORNER the Hawkeyes. Last season, Markway had 28 catches for 254 yards and 1 TD. He also plays DE and had 64 tackles with 16 for loss and seven sacks. USC has 11 commitments for the ‘15 class. DE Marquavius Lewis of Hutchinson Junior College in Kansas who is from Greenwood visited USC on Saturday with members of his family and the Gamecocks have now moved to the top of his list, though he doesn’t plan to make a decision until some point during his season. “It was everything I wanted to see,” Lewis said. “They answered all of my questions. My family was excited about it and I’m looking hard at USC.” Lewis said almost all of his time on the visit was spent with DL coach Deke Adams, who broke down for him what he was looking for from him as a DE in his scheme. “We sat down and talked from a football standpoint and he told me his wants and needs and challenged me a little bit,” Lewis said. “He was asking me what I would do in certain situations. He said I can take my time (on a decision), but he told me I was his guy.” And USC, Lewis said, feels good to him right now. “Right now they probably would be at the top,” he said. “My family seemed to like it.” Lewis has no other visits planned right now and will return to Hutchinson on June 1. He does plan to visit Alabama during the season and wants to return to USC for an official visit. He’s hearing the most right now from USC, Alabama, Auburn, Arizona State, Tennessee and Southern California and has offers from each. USC commitment WR DJ Neal of Atlanta plans to visit LSU on May 31. USC AND CLEMSON

DL DJ Jones of East Mississippi JC and Wren High School in Piedmont spent much of Saturday at Clemson for his latest unofficial visit. His mother and cousin joined him on the visit. Jones has also been to Tennessee and USC while home on break

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and visited Auburn on Sunday. That was his final unofficial visit before returning to school. Jones said he spent most of his time at Clemson with the defensive coaches talking defensive football. “I had a chance to sit down with them and talk about the scheme and watch some film,” Jones said. “I’m doing a lot more of that with the coaches. They showed me film of a lot of stunts, and I watched a lot of film on Grady Jarrett. Clemson is known as an offensive school, but the defensive staff is great and they are capable of being in the SEC (Southeastern Conference).” Jones put out his top 10 list on Friday and Clemson was one of the 10. He said the visit just reinforced his earlier opinion about the Tigers. The rest of his top 10 is USC, Alabama, FSU, Georgia, Southern Cal, Tennessee, LSU, Florida and Auburn. Jones visited with USC last Monday. “I really enjoyed it,” Jones said. “Saw a lot of new things. They showed me some new renovations and they are putting up some new buildings. I got to know Coach Deke Adams a lot more. We sat down and talked some ball. We went to the academic building and talked to them a pretty good bit. They picked my brain and I picked theirs.” Jones said he and Adams looked at defensive game film and the defensive depth charts. “I just like the way they play ball,” Jones said. “He was telling me how I would fit in. It puts them up there. It opened my eyes. I never thought the South Carolina defensive tackles were produced, but I got to critique (former USC DT) Kelcy Quarles’ film a lot and he was coached, he was coached well. He’s coaching them. He’s coaching them the right way.” Jones doesn’t have favorites and will take his official visits in the fall. He said Tennessee is the only definite official visit he has right now. OL Austin Clark of Lexington, Va., has set June 12 for his commitment announcement, which he will carry out on a local television station. He is down to USC, Clemson, Virginia, VT, Tennessee, PSU and Ohio State. He plans to visit USC on May 31. LB Ricky DeBerry Jr. of Richmond, Va., had planned to visit USC Saturday, but was not able to make it and will wait to visit the Gamecocks this summer. USC is one of 20 schools DeBerry is still considering. Clemson also is on his short list. He will cut his list to eight this summer after he visits more schools. He has said. UVa, VT and UNC are the only ones he’s certain about for his final eight. USC and Alabama have been the two favorites of OL Brandon Sandifer (6-3, 326) of Warner Robins, Ga., and that remains the case as the spring evaluation period heads towards the finish line. Both have been through this spring as have recruiters from Clemson, GT, Nebraska and FSU. “Me and (USC recruiter) Coach (Kirk) Botkin are pretty close,” Sandifer said. “They are pushing pretty hard for me.” Sandifer has visited USC, Clemson, GT, Alabama, Louisville and FSU. WR Jayson Stanley (6-3, 205) of Fairburn, Ga., has emerged as a major prospect this spring with over 20 offers. Clemson and USC are on that list along with Alabama, Auburn, UK, Tennessee, Cal, Purdue, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Ole Miss, Louisville, Kansas State and others. He has not yet narrowed his list. Stanley has visited Clemson, UGA, Auburn and Alabama, and he plans to visit Ohio State by the end of the month. He’s also going back to Alabama and he plans to visit USC as well. Clemson, UGA and Auburn are the three Stanley said

he’s thinking about the most, but he doesn’t want to call them favorites. He wants to make his decision over the summer or by the time school starts back. Last season, Stanley caught 41 passes for 817 yards and 16 TDs. OTHERS

WR Freddie Phillips of Pelion High School will announce his college choice today at 7 p.m. He will choose between WF, UNC and NCSU. “I like Wake Forest because it is a small community like Pelion where everyone knows each other and I like that a lot. North Carolina was the first to offer me so that means a lot to me and N.C. State is a great program.” Several schools have joined the fray for WR JJ ArcegaWhiteside of Dorman High in Roebuck. WF has been his leader, but with offers coming from GT, Maryland, Pittsburgh, UV, Harvard and Miami (Ohio) among others, Arcega-Whiteside will slow things down a bit. He still hears from Clemson and USC, but said that it goes from hot to cold and back to hot. He will attend camps at the two instate schools this summer and is still looking into other visits and camps. His other offers are from WF, Furman, Elon, Old Dominion, James Madison, App State and Charlotte. Tennessee State is the latest to offer DB Dominique Lemon of Blythewood High, becoming the seventh school vying for his services. Tennessee State joins Furman, Coastal Carolina, Charleston Southern, James Madison, Towson and Mercer as his offers. Lemon does not have any favorites. Clemson has not made an offer to OL Brian Chaffin of Charlotte, but continues to show interest. His other offers include Charlotte, Cal, Duke, UNC, NCSU, Mississippi State, VT, WF and Northwestern. BASKETBALL

Ty Hudson, a 6-1 player from Mableton, Ga., was scheduled to make an unofficial visit to Clemson on Monday with his mother. Hudson has an offer from Clemson along with KSU, UAB, Mercer, Kennesaw State, Houston, Western Kentucky and VT. He has not yet narrowed his list. Hudson’s only visit thus far was to UAB. Hudson is excited about the offer from Clemson and sees a lot of reasons why he could choose the Tigers. “I’d love to go there,” Hudson said. “It’s ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) basketball. It’s close to home. Academics are good up there. So for me, I’d love to be there. For them, they say they need a point guard in my class. They are recruiting me hard. I talk to (assistant) Coach (Earl) Grant a lot. They like my toughness a lot. They say I can play on and off the ball. They just like my aggressiveness.” Hudson said Clemson is in his top four along with VT, Houston and KSU. He has no timetable for a decision. Hudson also plans to visit Tennessee, KSU and VT. Last season, Hudson averaged 19 points, six assists and five rebounds per game. PG Jawun Evans (6-0, 180), a Greenville native who now lives in Dallas, released a short list of Clemson, Illinois, Southern Cal, VT, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma State and Cincinnati on Thursday. Evans previously played at Southside High and at Legacy Charter School in Greenville before moving to Texas as a sophomore. He has emerged as one of the top PG prospects in the ‘15 class. Clemson offered 6-1 PG Jarvis Johnson of Minneapolis last week. Some of his other offers are Michigan State, Marquette, Wisconsin and UCLA. USC target 6-7 Houston transfer Danuel House Jr. visited UCLA last week. He also plans to visit Iowa and Nevada-Las Vegas.

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JOHN F. CUSUMANO Sr. John Frank Cusumano Sr., age 89, beloved husband of Mary Jon Greeson Cusumano, died on Friday, May 16, 2014, at Covenant Place. Born on Aug. 18, 1924, in Bronx, New York, Mr. Cusumano was a son of the late Louis Bartolomeo and Helen Mary Ingoglia Cusumano. During his youth, CUSUMANO John met and befriended President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, where he delivered lobster to the president and their private cook served him ice cream. He grew up in Hyde Park, New York, attending Franklin D. Roosevelt High School. Upon graduating high school, John enlisted in the Army, and he served in Italy. After his service in the Army, Mr. Cusumano attended Syracuse University and received a bachelor’s degree in history and international

studies. After completion of his undergraduate, he received his commission in the U.S. Air Force. During this time, he taught ROTC at Colgate University and he obtained his master’s degree while there. Mr. Cusumano retired as a major after serving his country for more than 24 years in the Air Force. He was in service during World War II, Korea and Vietnam. After his retirement from the service, he became passionate about education, serving as a teacher at Bates Middle School, USC Sumter-Shaw Campus and St. Leo University. He taught adult education classes for Campbell Soup. He was a member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church. Mr. Cusumano will be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him. In addition to his wife, Mr. Cusumano is survived by

PPO FROM PAGE B1 Ukraine, which used to be part of the old Soviet Union, and is trying to gain even more of a foothold in the country. Yet none of that mattered to either Vasilyeva or Ianchuk on Tuesday at Palmetto Tennis Center. While aware of each other’s nationality, they were more worried about the other’s tennis game. “My concern is how they perform on the court,” said the 22-year-old Vasilyeva, who has been in the United States for around five years, having played college tennis at Washington State University. “I don’t really look to see where someone is from, only how they play.” Vasilyeva is from Moscow, while Ianchuk is from Kiev, both the capitals of their respective countries. “I really know nothing about her,” Ianchuk, 21, said when asked how well acquainted she was with Vasilyeva. Ianchuk has been in America for almost seven years, but said she has close family members in Ukraine who are being affected by the oftentimes violent unrest. There was an upset in the feature match on Tuesday evening. Sophie Chang, who earned a spot in the main draw by winning the Iris Jr. Tournament a couple of weeks ago at PTC, beat No. 7 Lauren Albanese 6-2, 7-6(9). In other main draw singles matches, No. 2 Sonja Molnar survived Piia Suomalainen 7-6(3), 7-6(5) and No. 4 Caitlin Whoriskey won 6-3, 6-3 over Andie K. Daniell. Petra Januskova rallied into the second round over Karina Kristina Vyrlan 5-7, 6-0, 6-3. Eight players earned their way into the singles main draw on Tuesday by winning their final qualifying match. The players are Anastasia Evgenyevna Nefedova, Usue Maitane Arconada, Kristina N. Smith, Ni-

three sons, Thomas Cusumano and his wife, Robin, of Little Rock, Arkansas, John “Jack” Cusumano Jr. of Sumter and David Cusumano and his wife, Tara, of Sumter; three daughters, Jill Parker and her husband, Mike, of Mary Esther, Florida, Marla Krueger and her husband, Tom, of Sumter, and Treva Olinick and her husband, Larry, of Charlotte; grandchildren, Tommy Cusumano and his wife, Megan, Michael Cusumano, Amanda Skaggs and her husband, Phillip, Tracy Spigner and her husband, Jeffrey, Katie Buddin and her husband, Timmie, Richard Sweeney, Jared Olinick, Rachel Olinick, Mary Grace Olinick, Moriah Olinick, Seth Olinick, Levi Olinick, Christopher Cusumano, Gary Cusumano, Zeke Hill, Alexis Hill, Kerri Hilbert and her husband, Levi, Cola Krueger and Hilary Krueger; six great-grandchildren, Emily Buddin, Anna Louise Spigner, Laney Spigner, Jeffery Spigner, Harper Cu-

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014 sumano and Harper Krueger; and cousins, Ginny Ingalls and Kelly Robertson. In addition to his parents, Mr. Cusumano was preceded in death by one son, Gary Cusumano; one brother, Frank Cusumano; and his first wife, June Cusumano. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday at Aldersgate United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. Webb Belangia officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery with full military honors. Honorary pallbearers will be Bill and Melba Hentges, Dean and Lois Heal, Betty Shofner, Patricia and Robert Harden, and Eva Moody. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at Bullock Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Wounded Warriors Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675, or Aldersgate United Methodist Church, General Fund, 211 Alice Drive, Sumter,

SC 29150. You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

DORIS BLYTHER BISHOPVILLE — It is with sorrow that we announce the passing of Doris Blyther, who passed away on May 18, 2014. Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Jerusalem Baptist Church. Internment will follow in the church cemetery. The family is receiving friends at the home, 128 Peachtree Lane, Bishopville. Services are entrusted to New Life Funeral Services LLC of Bishopville.

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HORSE RACING

Match Schedule Today Featured Match Court 1 6:30 p.m. (1) Elise Mertens vs. Emma Christine Higuchi (Singles) Other Matches Starting at 10 a.m. Court 1 Usue Maitane Arconada vs. (3) Brooke Austin (Singles) (5) Angelina Gabueva vs. Anastasia Evgenyevna Nefedova (Singles) (1) Sonja Molnar/Caitlin Whoriskey vs. Nicole Mitchell/Rhiann Newborn (Doubles) Steffi Carruthers/Sianna Simmons vs. Sophie Chang/Andie K. Daniell (Doubles) Court 2 Macall Harkins vs. (8) Anamika Bhargava (Singles) Caroline Dolehide vs. Josie Kuhlman (Singles) Kristina N. Smith vs. Samantha Powers (Singles) Kelsy Anonsen/Khristina Blajkevitch vs. Lauren Albanes/Angelia Gabueva (Doubles) Court 12 Kateryna Yergina vs. Megen Cochran (Singles) Nadja Gilchrist vs. Khristina Blakevitch (Singles) Yolimar Ogando vs. Jessica Lawrence (Singles) Court 13 Nicole Mitchell vs. Anne-Liz Jeukeng (Singles) Nicole Frenkel vs. Steffi Carruthers (Singles)

cole Frenkel, Nadja Gilchrist, University of South Carolina signee Megen Cochran, Caroline Dolehide and Yolimar Ogando. In the doubles main draw, five teams advanced into the quarterfinals. Second-seeded Anamika Bhargava and Elise Mertens defeated Ayan Broomfield and Maria Patrascu 6-2, 6-4, Brooke Austin and Josie Kuhlman teamed up to down Dolehide and Emma Christine Higuchi 6-3, 6-4, Stephanie Kent and Lynn Kiro beat No. 4 team Hadley Berg and Macall Harkins 7-6(5), 6-4, third-seeded Januskova and Vasilyeva earned a 6-1, 2-6, 10-7 victory over Leila Hodzic and Alexandra Walters and Ianchuk and Anita Safronenka made quick work of Jacqueline Pelletier and Katherine White 6-1, 6-1. Play resumes today at 10 a.m. The feature match will have Mertens, the No. 1 singles seed, taking on Higuchi beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Elizaveta Ianchuk, above, focuses on her backhand return during her singles match with Liudmila Vasilyeva, right, on Tuesday in the Palmetto Pro Open at Palmetto Tennis Center. Vasilyeva, the No. 6 seed who is from Russia, won the match over Ianchuk, who is from Ukraine, 6-2, 6-2. PHOTOS BY DENNIS BRUNSON / THE SUMTER ITEM

QUANDRY FROM PAGE B1 them though this wasn’t a 1-year relationship, this was a lifetime relationship. If they need me for something, I’ll be here for them. It’s not going to end.” Kennedy also told his SHS coaching staff of the situation around a week ago as well. He told the coaches if he were to get the job, any that were interested in going with him should let him know. As of Tuesday afternoon, Kennedy said none of the coaches had approached him about Irmo. With the Gamecocks in the middle of spring practice, longtime SHS assistant coach Gerald Tomlin

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California Chrome arrived in New York on Tuesday to begin preparations for the Belmont Stakes on June 7. The winner of both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, California Chrome will be trying to become the first horse in 36 years to win the Triple Crown.

California Chrome arrives in NY for Triple Crown try NEW YORK (AP) — California Chrome arrived in New York on Tuesday to begin preparations for his bid to become horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 36 years. The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner arrived at Belmont Park after an uneventful four-hour journey by van from Baltimore. He was backed off the van — he doesn’t like walking straight off like most horses — and then led into the barn by assistant trainer Alan Sherman. California Chrome walked several laps around the barn before being taken outside to pose on the grass for a media horde. He later settled into his stall. “He likes to stand out here and pose,” Sherman said. “He loves to get his picture taken. He’s a very inquisitive horse. He’s always checking out what’s going on around him. He’s actually been so straightforward to train; he’s made our jobs easy.” California Chrome will start training on the track daily beginning Wednesday. The 3-year-old colt is set to run in the Belmont Stakes on June 7. He owns a six-race winning streak, including the Derby by 1 ¾ lengths and the Preakness by 1 ½ lengths. No horse has swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont since Affirmed in 1978. “I think the industry could really use a Triple Crown winner right now, especially

and offensive coordinator John Jones, who came to Sumter with Kennedy, will run the remainder of the practices. Kennedy was hired by Sumter in January of 2013 as the head football coach and athletic coordinator after Paul Sorrells resigned following the ‘12 season. The men who played a major role in his hiring, district superintendent Dr. Randolph Bynum and SHS principal Sterling Harris, were no longer in those positions by the time the ‘13-14 school year began. Kennedy said that had nothing at all to do with his decision to leave. “(Superintendent) Dr. (Frank) Baker and (SHS principal) Mr. (Dana) Fall have been very supportive,” Kennedy said. “I’ve enjoyed working with

with a story like this,” Sherman said. “This horse didn’t cost a ton of money to buy him or breed him. This goes to show you never know what can happen in this game.” Sherman assists his 77-year-old father, Art, who returned to Southern California after the Preakness. The elder Sherman plans to reunite with his horse and son the week before the Belmont. “I’m so proud of my dad for him to be able to do this towards the end of his career,” Alan Sherman said. “He’s very deserving.” Preakness runner-up Ride On Curlin accompanied California Chrome on the trip from Baltimore. Another Preakness starter under consideration for the Belmont is third-place finisher Social Inclusion, who is scheduled to arrive in New York on Friday. General A Rod (fourth), Ring Weekend (fifth) and Kid Cruz (eighth) are questionable to run in the 1 ½-mile race. Other probables are Commanding Curve, Danza, Wicked Strong, and Samraat, the second, third, fourth and fifth-place finishers from the Derby; along with Tonalist and Commissioner, who were first and second in the Peter Pan at Belmont; and Intense Holiday, 12th in the Derby. “It looks like it could be a tough one,” said Todd Pletcher, who trains Danza, Commissioner and Intense Holiday.

them.” Kennedy said that while he was at Sumter for just the one year, he has enjoyed his role as AC and the success of the athletics program. The football team went 9-6 and played for the 4A Division I state title, the boys basketball team reached the lower state championship game and the baseball team is one win away from capturing the state title. “I really enjoyed watching our kids compete on the fields and courts,” Kennedy said. “Watching the community really get behind our kids was great. To come out of the tunnel at Williams-Brice (Stadium in Columbia, the site of the state championship game) and see all those people there was something. It’s something I’ll always remember.”

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MARION WILLIAMS LANCASTER, Pa. — Marion Williams, 56, died on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster. He was born on Sept. 4, 1957, in Alcolu, a son of Mable Williams Taylor and the late Prince Eaddy. He received his education in the public WILLIAMS schools of Clarendon County. After moving to Miami, Florida, he worked as a member on the local 1175 Union for several years. He later relocated to Pennsylvania. In his youth, he attended Cypress Fork AME Church in Alcolu. Survivors are his mother, Mable Willliams Taylor of Baldwin, New York; his companion, Joanie McManus of Lancaster; a daughter, Alonda of Reynoldsburg, Ohio; a son, Anthony of Manchester, New York; three aunts, Valeree Daney, Eva Yvette (John W.) Starks and Annie Mae Williams, all of Manning; one uncle, Mac Eaddy of Baltimore, Maryland; and one granddaughter. Celebratory services for Mr. Williams will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Cypress Fork AME Church, 5594 Brewington Road, Alcolu, with the Rev. Oddie D. Smalls, pastor, officiating, the Rev. Leroy Green, the Rev. Benny McCants and the Rev. Jimmy McFadden assisting. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery. Mr. Williams will lie in repose one hour prior to funeral time. The family is receiving friends at the home of his aunt and uncle, Yvette and John Starks, 3256 Raccoon Road, Manning. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

HERBERT LEE NELSON Herbert Lee “Blue” Nelson was born on Dec. 17, 1957, in Clarendon County, a son of Irene Junious Nelson Johnson and the late Richard Nelson Sr. He was the husband of Andrea Anita Canty Nelson. He departed this life on May 15, 2014 at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Herbert reNELSON ceived his formal education in the Clarendon County schools of Summerton. He was employed with Durant Construction Co. and later at Santee Print Works for many years. Herbert eventually became self-employed, fulfilling his lifelong dream of operating and owning Nelson Construction. He leaves to cherish his memory: his loving and caring wife of 27 years, Andrea Anita Canty Nelson; his mother, Irene Nelson Johnson of Sumter; three sisters, Frances (Carl) Pringle and Barbara (John) Adams, both of Sumter, and Daisy Mae (Ivory) Witherspoon of Manning; one brother, Randy (Antoinette) Nelson of Manning; and brothers-in-law, James Holliday of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Birchel Canty of Columbia, Joseph Canty of Charleston and William (Yvonne) Canty of Lightpoint, Florida. He was also blessed with seven stepsisters and brothers, Albert

Johnson of Greensboro, North Carolina, Marvin (Brenda) Johnson of Thomasville, North Carolina, and Richard (Laura) Johnson Jr., Bernard Johnson and Alethia (Ernest) Brown, all of Sumter, Carol (Richard) Clark of Columbia and Elaine (James) Snead of Brandywine, Maryland; a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Public viewing will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary. The body will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. on Thursday for viewing until the hour of service. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, 14 Brand St., Sumter, with Co-Pastor Evangeline Barnes officiating and Pastor Larry W. Barnes, eulogist. Interment will follow in Fort Jackson National Cemetery in Columbia. The family is receiving friends at 1020 S. Main St., Sumter. Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements. Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit us on the web at www.jobsmortuary.net.

JOHN K. WINDER John Kramer Winder, 83, husband of Elfriede Krauthauser Winder, passed from this life on Monday, May 19, 2014, at his home, after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Born on Nov. 10, 1930, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, he was a son of the late Earl and Marie Erickson Winder. After joining the U.S. Air Force in 1948, WINDER he toured Europe and the southwest United States, until retiring at Shaw Air Force Base after 20 years of service to his country. For a short time, he owned and operated Carolina Audio & TV Repair Shop, then went to work at Crescent Tool (now Apex Tools), until retiring in 1991. He was an avid licensed ham radio operator throughout his military career in Europe and later as a civilian in Sumter. An active member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, he served as a deacon for 10 years. John also enjoyed taking his family camping and fishing, traveling all throughout France, Luxembourg, Germany, and the eastern part of the United States. He will be sorely missed and fondly remembered for his spontaneous humor, his generosity and devotion to family, and a lifetime of “never a dull moment.” Surviving are his wife of almost 60 years of Sumter; his children, Debora E. Russell, Eric L. Winder, Henry P. Winder (Uncha) and Katheryn W. Pack, all of Sumter, and Gretta A. Baker (Miles) of Fort Worth, Texas; seven grandchildren, Isreal C. Russell (Marie), Adam N. Russell, Kara M. Youngblood, Sonya L. Winder, James L. Pack III and Rebekah K. Pack, all of Sumter, and Joshua Kramer Baker (Alysia) of Fort Bragg, North Carolina; four greatgrandchildren; a brother, Jesse Winder (Naomi) of New Hope, Pennsylvania; and a

OBITUARIES sister, E. Ruthie Sanders of Jacksonville, Florida. He was preceded in death by a brother, Ronald Winder; two sisters, Rose W. Errickson and Dorothy W. Case; and a son-in-law, Donnie B. Pack. Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday in the chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home, followed by military honors. Memorials may be made to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, 1359 Broadway, Suite 1509, New York, New York 10018. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com. Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

THE SUMTER ITEM and Hattie Capers Steward. The family will receive friends at the home of her son, Elijah Steward, 1279 Lang Road, Pinewood, and her brother, Earl Steward, 1197 Lang Road, Pinewood. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Summerton Funeral Home LLC.

ELIZABETH P. ROBINSON Elizabeth Porter Robinson, 105, died on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at her home. Born on Dec. 17, 1908, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Lafayette and Tama Holmes Porter. The family is receiving friends and relatives at her home, 965 Oswego Road, Sumter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.

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RAYMOND B. HARRINGTON NEW ZION — Raymond Brunson Harrington, 86, husband of Jeanette Coker Harrington, died on Monday, May 19, 2014. Born on Aug. 19, 1927, in New Zion, he was a son of the late Samuel Buren and Lizzie Idell Harrington. He was a retired farmer of more than 50 years. He also worked at SavHARRINGTON Way in Kingstree for several years. He last worked at IGA of Manning for seven years when, at age 86, he decided to hang up his hat. He was a member and former deacon at Midway Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Janene Surette (Pete) of Manning; two sons, Michael Harrington (Linda) and Jerry Harrington (Nan) of the Oakdale community of New Zion; seven grandchildren, Michael Harrington (Lauren), Tiffany Boggs (Carlos), Daniel Harrington (Becky), Chase Harrington (Krystal), Grace Surette, Jesse Surette and Kris Lewis (Lindsey); and two greatgrandchildren, Olivia Boggs and Audrey Lewis. A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday at Midway Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Mike Lowder officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home of his son, Jerry Harrington, 1591 Marcus Lane, New Zion. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Midway Presbyterian Church, c/o Wendell Robinson, 1215 Evans Road, New Zion, SC 29111. Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org

SHIRLEY S. GEORGIA Shirley Steward Georgia, 46, wife of Clarence Georgia, died on Monday, May 19, 2014, at her residence in Pinewood. Born on Jan. 18, 1968, in Clarendon County, she was a daughter of the late Edward

CAMDEN — Funeral services for Paula Alexander Abdullah, 55, of Jacksonville, Florida, formerly of Camden, were held at noon on Saturday, May 17, 2014, at St. Paul United Methodist Church. Burial was in the church cemetery. She died on May 7, 2014. Collins Funeral Home of Camden was in charge of the arrangements.

GERALDINE DRAYTON CAMDEN — Geraldine Drayton, 80, of Camden, died on Sunday, May 11, 2014. Plans will be announced by Collins Funeral Home of Camden.

QUEEN S. ADAMS PINEWOOD — Queen Esther Stewart Adams departed this life on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at her residence. She was born on June 10, 1960, in Sumter, to the late Edward and Hattie Capers Stewart. Services will be held at noon on Thursday at Allen Chapel AME Church, 471 Lynam Road, Sumter, with the Rev. James Sutton officiating and the Rev. Kenneth Charles presiding. The funeral procession will depart at 11:15 a.m. from the home of her sister, Linda and Albertus Hampton, 7730 Shine Lane, Pinewood. Services have been entrusted to Whites Mortuary, LLC, 517 N. Guignard Drive, Sumter, (803) 774-8200, fax: (803) 774-8202.

LILA H. ELMORE DARLINGTON — Lila Hudson Elmore, 101, widow of Luther M. Elmore, died on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at Bethea Baptist Retirement Community in Darlington. Born in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Edward and Hattie Shorter Hudson. Mrs. Elmore attended Bethea Baptist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Thelma H. Tedder of Columbia and Gail Elmore of Florence; one grandson, Charles Glenn Tedder Sr. of Camden; three great-grandchildren; five great-greatgrandchildren; three sisters, Trudie McLeod of Sumter, Docia Keech of Webster, Texas, and Mildred Lumpkins of Estill Spring, Tennessee; one brother, J.T. Hudson of Pinewood; and a number of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two children, Aaron Hyatt and Tressie Hyatt; four sisters, Mae Rodgers, Ruth Rodgers, Ruby White and Ida Geddings; and one brother, Marvin Hudson. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday in Sumter Cemetery with the Rev. Jeff Cockrell officiating. The family will receive friends from 10 to 10:45 a.m. on Friday at Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Bethea Baptist Retirement Community, 157 Home Ave., Darlington, SC 29532, or to McLeod Hospice, 1203 E. Cheves St., Florence, SC 29501. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

JAMES D. GREEN James David “Jim” Green, 67, husband of Joyce Ann Thompkins Green, died on Monday, May 19, 2014, at Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia. Born in Carlisle, Iowa, he was a son of the late Merl Green and Naomi Musser Green Aber. Mr. Green retired from the U.S. Air Force and was a veteran of the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm. Following his retirement from the Air Force, he worked with Bosch and Maytag Corp. He was a member of the Southern Cruisers Motorcycle Club. Survivors include his wife of 39 years; three children, Lora Green of Arizona, David Green of Kansas and Jimmy Green (Heather) of Sumter; seven grandchildren, Christopher, Heather, Rachel, Alicia, Autumn, McKenzie and Brooklyn; two great-grandchildren, Paige and Luna; five brothers, Lyle Green of Arkansas, and Larry Green, Gary Green, Jack Green and Bob Green, all of Missouri; and one sister, Debbie Green of Missouri. He was preceded in death by a grandson, Jason; and a sister, Norma Downy. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, Memorial and Tribute Processing Center, 4217 Park Place Court, Glen Allen, VA 23060. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

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Roofing All Types of Roofing & Repairs All work guaranteed. 30 yrs exp. SC lic. Virgil Bickley 803-316-4734.

Tree Service Ricky's Tree Service Tree removal, stump grinding, Lic & ins, free quote, 803-435-2223 or cell 803-460-8747.

Driver Needed Palmetto Gas Co. Good pay and benefits. CDL Class A. Haz and tanker preferred. Good Driving record, home every night. Contact Pat Joyner 803-775-1002 or 803-840-5337 Shirt/laundry presser needed. Apply in person Polar Bear Cleaners 1087 B Alice Dr Sumter

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Lost & Found FOUND Pug on Lafayette Dr. Call to identify. 803-468-5499 Sumter County/City Animal Control 1240 Winkles Rd. 803-436-2066 or 436-2755. Mon - Fri, 8:30am - 4:30pm Found on Lafayette Drive, male white pug. Found Lab -Pinewood Rd Area. Call to describe 803-340-1092

BUSINESS SERVICES Business Services NEED AN ERRAND RUN??? Call Gail at 803-464-8825. Very reasonable rates. Gail's Go For Service

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MERCHANDISE Want to Buy Looking for a Great Pryneese, St. Bernard or guard dog. Call Ruth 803-494-5744 or 236-4649

Construction Equipment Hooper Trailer, 3 axle flat bed, need some minor repairs. $3,000 OBRO. Call 803-983-5315

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales Sumter County Civic Center Indoor Garage Sale 700 W. Liberty St. Sat., May 24, 2014, 8 AM to 1 PM Free Admission For booth space, Call 436-2271 After 9:00am

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I buy used Utility and Car trailers. Call 803-972-0900

JT's Lawn Care: All your lawn needs, Tree cutting & pressure washing, Senior disc. 840-0322

Two Cremation Niches at Evergreen Cemetery.(1/2 Price.) $2000 for both. Call 843-393-2824

Oxendine & Son Lawn Care All your lawn care needs & pressure washing. Call Jonathan 803-565-2160 or Kerry 316-8726.

Martin's Used Appliance Washers, Dryers, Refrig., Stoves.

Cooper's Lawn Care General lawn maintenance! Lic. & ins. Price starts at $30. 803-565-1894 Rawls Lawncare: Clean up, Trim Shubery, Cut Grass, Pressure Wash & more. Free Estimates. Lic/Insured. 803-425-4845

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Used Hotel furniture for sale. Days Inn, 2430 Broad St. Sumter. Expert Tech, New & used heat pumps & A/C. Will install/repair, warranty; Compressor & labor $600. Call 803-968-9549 or 843-992-2364

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Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette. 775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO

GOING FAST 3BR 2BA Homes available for immediate occupancy. Country living with city convenience. For more info please call 803-469-8515 or visit us at www.mhcomm.com.

Montreat St. (off Miller Rd.) 2BR 1BA, appliances, no pets $350 /375 mo + dep. 803-316-8105.

Unfurnished Homes 709 Haile, 3BR/2BA, 2,200 sq ft. Alice Drives Schools. Carport, fireplace, stove, dishwasher, hardwood, and carpet. $1,200/mo + sec. Call 803-983-1811.

Wanted experienced tree climber. Must have own transportation & valid Driver license Call 499-2136 STATE TREE SERVICE Worker's Comp & General liability insurance. Top quality service, lowest prices. 803-494-5175 or 803-491-5154 www.statetree.net

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3Br home Burgess Ct. $495/mo & 2Br Apt Miller Rd. $395/mo. 774-8512 / 983-5691 NEEDED Electricians & Helpers Residential - Production Great Company Benefits Call 877-797-7603 Immediate opening for 3 Residential Cable Techs. Will train the right candidates, Full time work, Company truck. Call 803 612-1150 to set up interview. Assistant Community Manager needed for elderly communities in the Sumter area. This is an exciting yet challenging 30 hrs. per week. If you are a team player who possesses marketing, written and verbal communication plus computer skills, then we need you on our team. Previous Property Management experience is helpful but not required. Must pass criminal check and drug screening. Our company offers competitive salary and benefits. Please fax cover letter and resume to: Ad # 26, 888-940-7773 or email jobs@cfhs1973.com

Work Wanted I will sit with elderly or sick. Will provide ref/exp. Call 803-236-3603 for more info. I am a reliable CNA looking to sit with your elderly loved ones day or night. Ref. provided. Call 803-225-0924 or 803-225-0543 Will sit with sick & elderly along with cleaning, cooking and errands. Ref. avail. upon request. Call 840-5776

Nice 3 Br, 3 Ba, downtown historical district, refrig, stove, dishwasher, C/H/A, hardwood floors, FP, fenced in yard, lg. workshop with C/H/A, alarm system. No Pets. $1200 mo. Call 803-491-5375. 3 Br, 1.5 Ba. in country but close to town. Fully carpeted, W/D hookup. Screen back porch. $700 mo. 803-491-5375 Close to Shaw. Dalzell 3br 2ba brick, fenced yd, screen porch, all appl. C/H/A No Pets. $800 /mo+dep 803-316-8105

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WE'VE MOVED Vestco Southland, Palmetto Properties & Lafayette Gold and Silver 480 E. Liberty Street (Inside the Coca-Cola bldg). We buy Gold, Silver, Jewelry, Silver Coins/Collections, Sterling, Diamonds, Pocket & Wrist Watches. Business Hours Mon-Fri 8:30AM-5:30PM, Sat 8AM-2PM. 803-773-8022

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STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015 (Scenic Lake) 3BR 2BA 16x80. No pets Call 803-499-1500. From 9am- 5pm Oaklawn MHP: 2 BR M.H.'s, water/sewer/garbage pk-up incl'd. RV parking avail. Call 494-8350 WE'VE MOVED. Vestco, Palmetto & Southland Properties & Lafayette Gold and Silver. 480 E Liberty Street (inside Coca-Cola building), 773-8022

REDUCED for quick sale 411 N. Magnolia, Hrwd floors, C/H/A. Garage, workshop & shed. Comm. lot on Lafayette also available. Fin Avail. 775-4391/ 464-5960

WHY RENT WHEN YOU CAN OWN!! 2 & 3 Bedroom homes available, with low monthly payments financing options available! For more info call 803 469-8515 or visit us at www.mhcomm.com

Mobile Home Lot Rentals 130 Hoyt St. Sumter County close to downtown. Call 864-349-1400.

Resort Rentals Ocean Lakes 2BR/2BA C/H/A Sleeps 8, near ocean, Call 803-773-2438

REDUCED for quick sale: 6 Middle St. 3BR & 4th optional/2BA. C/H/A. New construction. Financing Available. 775-4391, 464-5960

Open House Sun, May 18th, 2 pm - 5 pm 1024 Pebble Lane, Manning

Vacation Rentals Santee/Lake Marion: Sandy 200 ft beach, 3BR, dock, sleeps 6-7. Disc. for military. 803-492-3077

Office Rentals 1000 sqft office space for lease. 2 offices, conference room and reception area. 730-C Broad St., $650/mo. Call (803) 494-6204

FSBO, 3 Br, 2 Ba, 1750 sqft, 2 story, 0.75 ac. On pond in Buckhorn. Hardwd flrs. Updated kit. new stainless appl., granite countertops. Huge front porch, large back deck $184,900 803-381-6473 or 803-629-1958

Commercial Rentals 35,000 Sq Ft. Warehouse for rent. 803-773-8022

RENTALS Unfurnished Apartments SOUTH FORGE APTS. 1 & 2 BR Water, stove & frig furnished. Linda at 803-494-8443 Large 3BR 2BA Town Home in Historic Neighborhood $950 Dep/Rent Call 468-1900

REDUCED for quick sale: 3600 Dallas: Dalzell, 3BR, 2BA. Big Lot. Big storage & workshop. 1/2 ac lot. Fin Available. 775-4391, 464-5960

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1037 Acres, near Continental Tires. Newly renovated DW. 3BR/2BA with garden tub. Fin. available. Call 803-775-4391 464-5960

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Farms & Acreage For Sale By Owner, 10 Acres, 8 miles to Sumter. $55,000. Owner Financing 803-427-3888. Looking for 75-105 Acres of farm land with partial woods. Call 494-3515

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2000 Chevy Silverado, excellent condition. Runs great. Clean inside/out. $2,700. 803-447-5453 COUNTRY SPRING SALE "Remember Cars are like eggs" Cheaper in the country! Financing Available 99 Ford Ranger 4D $4,995 07 Ford F150 Supercab $8,995 04 Chevy Z71 4x4 Xt cab $11,995 08 Chevy Trailblazer $10,995 07 Chevy Malibu $6,995 '08 Ford Focus $8,995 '07 Dodge Magnum SXT $8,995 '09 Honda Accord (Lded) $13,995 '010 Dodge Charger SXT $13,995 '013 Dodge Charger SE $20,500 Ernest Baker Auto Sales & Equip.

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Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that Saanvi LLC D/B/A The Station intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale Off premises consumption of Beer & Wine at 4580 Florence Hwy., Mayesville, SC 29104. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than May 23, 2014. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214; or Faxed to: (803) 898-5899.

Notice Of Application Boats / Motors 2012 Bennington 20ft pontoon boat. 70 hp 4stroke Yahama motor. 8 ft Bimini top, full cover, privacy room, trailer. Garage kept, fresh water only used few times. Must see $18,500. 803-460-3898 or 910-612-5743 Reconditioned batteries $35. Also have lawn mower, truck, 4 wheeler, & marine batteries, starters & alternators. Car dealers/garages ask about special prices. Auto Electric Co. 803-773-4381

Notice is hereby given that Kelvin Perry D/B/A Wings and Ribs intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale ON premises consumption of Beer,Wine and Liquor at 432 Broad Street, Sumter, SC 29150. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than May 30, 2014. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

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Notice is hereby given that Hare Pritam, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale OFF premises consumption of Liquor at 5236-B Dingle Pond Rd, Summerton, SC 29148. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than June 6, 2014. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

The following vehicle was abandoned at Sumter Wrecker, 324 Green Swamp Rd. Sumter, SC. Described as a 2013 Kia Soul, VIN #KNDJT2A57D7627440. Total due for storage and repairs is $915.00 as of May 15, 2014. Owner is asked to call 803-773-4955. If not claimed in 30 days, it will be turned over to the Magistrate's office for public sale.

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Monsoons and marbles

Mission trip helps farmers, children BY IVY MOORE ivym@theitem.com (803) 774-1221

hen Dr. Earle Goodman read a Sumter Item story about early Sumter marbles champion Johnnie Griffin, it broke back memories of experiences he’d had in Central America as a humanitarian veterinary missionary in the late 1970s, memories, he said, that “are over 30 years and 4,000 years apart.” “It was in the late 1970s when I was in a homestead area in (Central America),” Goodman said. “Peasants who had been living in the high mountains were relocated to an area near the Amazon. Their lands had been depleted and become infertile over many hundreds of years. Now here they were on the edge of the rain forest.” Goodman, with several other large animal veterinarians, had gotten together specifically to help these people make the transition to their new environment, as well as “permanently unemployed tin miners, (who had) zero farming experience.” The vets, he said, “were the only practical ones left that could help the farmers fine tune what they were already doing. We had done the oldtime, basic farming.” Over the course of about 45 years, Goodman made many mission trips, including “four to Central America, one to Haiti and one to Kazakhstan.” The retired Clemson Extension agent said the Central American peasants’ relocation was “a noble project, but done without accounting for the possibility of serious tropical diseases and parasite problems in humans and animals that they had never been exposed to.” The veterinary missionary workers “were asked to come into the area and use our veterinary and much earlier farming experience to help them with their problems,” he said. “I used to go about once every six or eight years, when I could save time and money. Several of us who had some experience in farming and with farm animals, like mules and milk cows.” A charter organizing director of Christian Veterinary Missions, Goodman, now 79, said the group has been working internationally on both long- and short-term missions of two to six weeks since 1975. “It’s easily the only strictly veterinary mission organization there is,” he said. In addition to the mission trips, Goodman still does animal health consulting via the Internet; several of his articles for the International Animal Health Newsletter can be found in its archives. Once the veterinarians got to Central America, they were soon beset with problems of their own, as their trip was scheduled for the transitional period “between the end of the long winter and summer drought period and the beginning of the mon-

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Dr. Earle Goodman, far right, teaches three Central American boys how he played marbles in the 1950s at Sherwood School near Shiloh. Goodman was a volunteer humanitarian veterinary missionary in the 1970s. Goodman taught dozens of Central American children the popular method of shooting marbles used by boys at Sherwood Consolidated School in the 1950s. He made several trips to the area with Christian Veterinary Missions, of which he was an organizing director in the 1970s. soon season (when) more than 100 inches of rain fell in just a few months.” While the vets planned to get their work done, “get out and be home for Christmas, the fickle Central American weather had other ideas,” Goodman said. The rains came, the missionaries endured the heat and confinement and waited for a break in the rains so they could depart, knowing all the time that “neither the weather nor the forecasting was reliable and that departure could be delayed for quite a long time,” Goodman said. As the rains continued, the “days got longer and more boring,” he said. “One afternoon I was really wanting a cold Pepsi Cola, so I borrowed the biggest raincoat I could find and went out looking for a very rare Pepsi.” It was during this “mission” that Goodman came across a group of “children intently playing marbles, which seemed to be their only recreation.” He observed them, noticing “they were playing a very primitive version, and on impulse I asked in my terrible Spanish if I could play, too. They were too surprised to object, and I got down on my hands and knees, and they said, ‘You play.’” Goodman said that while the boys had drawn a ring and were “knock-

ing marbles out of the ring,” they were using a much different style of shooting. “I had noticed that they only had about a dozen marbles and did not have a ‘shooter’ marble, the larger one that is universally used, nor did they shoot with fingers to catapult a shooter marble; they just rolled a (regular) marble real hard into the circle with marbles, hoping to knock one out of the ring without their own going out, so they could shoot again,” he said. All it took to bring back his “old instincts” was one of the children handing him a marble. “I put it on top of my middle finger and held it down by my thumb and catapulted it into the ring,” Goodman said. “On the first try (I) knocked one out — and mine stayed in.” With that boost to his confidence, Goodman said he decided to try “the other and better way of shooting we had played back home in the old schoolyard of the Sherwood Consolidated School in the eastern end of Sumter County.” Since he had never really mastered that style — “shooting the marble from the thumb behind the index finger like most of the boys” — he felt at a disadvantage, but determined to “really show them how we did it,” Goodman said. “On my first try, the marble shot

up and completely over the circle. The next one rolled a few inches and stopped short of the outside of the ring, which greatly delighted the children.” After a short time, however, Goodman’s skill and luck came back. The boys cheered and asked him to show them the method. “Suddenly a long line was forming and (they were) saying ‘me next’ until it got too dark,” he said. Goodman returned the next day and for several days thereafter, until he felt like he’d taught every child in the village. “My knees and fingers were sore, and (the veterinarians) were getting more and more worried about the weather,” he said. During a two-day break in the rains, the veterinarians were able to get out of the country and head home for the holidays, Goodman said, leaving behind both better farmers and more skilled marble players. Currently, Goodman, who lives near Shiloh, is working on a history of his area of Sumter County and going through his records to write his memoirs for his children. For more information on Christian Veterinary Missions, visit the website www.cvmusa.org. Find the International Animal Newsletter archive at www.cvmusa.org/resources/.../international-animal-health-newsletter.

So much to do this week! Don’t miss out

ay is drawing to a close and with it the seasons of many of our cultural organizations. For instance, this week’s run of Sumter Little Theatre’s comic homage to master of suspense Alfred HitchOut & About cock will end SLT’s regular A guide to arts & leisure season. “The 39 Steps” is IVY MOORE one show you won’t want to miss. Audiences are raving about the performers, the music, the lighting — all aspects of the play. I’m a big fan of this show myself, and Sumter Item reviewer Jane Collins called it “a veritable buffet ... of visual and verbal comedy.” The show starts at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday

and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for children, seniors and military personnel. Call (803) 775-2150 to make reservations for the play at SLT, 14 Mood Avenue, in the Sumter County Cultural Center. Opening on Thursday in the Mezzanine Gallery at Covenant Place with a 5 to 7 p.m. reception is an exhibition by two artists whose work is very different. Sylvia Pickell creates amazing art quilts with a variety of subjects, while Constance Brennan paints on wood and canvas often combining the mediums of acrylic, watercolor, pastels, textiles, metal and bead work. The exhibition, titled “The Enchanted Garden,” is presented by partners Covenant Place

and the Sumter County Gallery of Art. The residents of Covenant Place invite the public to join them for the opening, “an evening of fine art, fine wine, live music and gourmet food” from their chef. The exhibition will remain there through Aug. 28. For more information, call the gallery at (803) 775-0543. The Sumter Iris Festival begins officially on Thursday, also, with the always highly anticipated Taste of the Gardens. Find local cooks and restaurateurs offering some of their specialties on the Garden Street side of the Heath Gardens from 6 to 9 p.m. Admission is just $5, and the vendors will offer special prices for their dishes. During the remainder of the festival, enjoy the freshly made

and delicious food at the Iris Market, just past the Visitors Center. Ann Coley and Rose Strickland offer all sorts of food; I especially recommend Coley’s chicken salad, made from scratch every day. As the ladies say, the only canned foods they offer are the Cokes. Proceeds from the more than reasonably priced dishes benefit the local Evening Pilot Club. Featured band for The Taste is 4-Way Stop, who will play a variety of music, much of it from the 1960s and ‘70s. There’s bound to be plenty of music you can shag to. If you didn’t get a copy of the official Sumter Iris Festival guide in Sunday’s paper, be sure to pick one up at several locations in the Swan Lake-Iris Gardens. You won’t want to

miss any of the entertainment, arts and crafts, food, gardening items and children’s pet show and other activities, all listed in the guide. And don’t forget the big parade at 9 a.m. Saturday. Presented by the Jamil Shriners, the procession will be led by Dr. Phil Latham in his custom Batmobile, and there will be beauty queens, bands, politicians, floats, clowns and more, including the zany Shriners in their tiny cars and trucks. The parade will start from the American Legion Fairgrounds, proceed west past Swan Lake and turn north on Alice Drive to Miller Road. Admission to the Sumter Iris Festival is free, as are most of its events. It continues through Sunday afternoon.

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Oysters on the grill are fine start to summer BY J.M. HIRSCH AP Food Editor Of the many — Many! — delicious things I’ve tossed on the grill over the years, I’ll confess that oysters never made it onto my menu. It simply never occurred to me that my experience of this simple raw bar treat could be elevated by the application of a few flames. That is, until I recently attended an oyster event at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival in Miami Beach. At this rooftop oyster outing, numerous chefs were offering up grilled oysters fresh off the flames. One variation topped the oyster with a thick slab of chorizo and manchego cheese. Amazing. But my favorite was from Hung Huynh, the chef at Catch Miami and winner of the third season of Bravo’s “Top Chef.” He topped the oysters with a sauce that was deeply savory and had just a bit of heat from jalapenos. I decided I had to make them for myself, and that these oysters would make a fantastic starter for a cookout kicking off summer.

GRILLED OYSTERS WITH MISO BLACK BEANS AND CHILI GARLIC Start to finish: 15 minutes, plus shucking time Makes 3 dozen oysters 3 tablespoons sesame oil 2 teaspoons minced garlic 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger 2 tablespoons chopped canned black beans 2 teaspoons dark miso 2 tablespoons minced red onion 1 tablespoon minced Peppadew peppers 1 tablespoon minced jalapeno peppers 1 tablespoon sliced scallions 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro 3 tablespoons oyster sauce 2 tablespoons soy sauce 2 teaspoons sugar 1/4 cup sake 1/4 cup water, plus 1 tablespoon, divided 2 tablespoons orange juice

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1 tablespoon cornstarch 3 dozen oysters In a small skillet over medium-high, heat the oil until lightly smoking. Add the garlic and saute for 1 minute. Add the ginger, then saute for another minute. Add the black beans, miso, red onion, Peppadews, jalapenos, scallions and cilantro. Saute for 1 minute, then stir in the oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, sake, 1/4 cup of water and orange juice. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 2 minutes. In a small glass, stir together the cornstarch and remaining 1 tablespoon of water. Stir into the sauce and cook, stirring, for another minute. The sauce will be very thick and chunky. Set aside. Heat the grill to high. Shuck the oysters, pouring off any extra juice and leaving the oyster in the bottom half of the shell. Top each oyster with 1 teaspoon of the sauce. Set the oysters directly on the grill grates and cook for about 30 seconds, or until just barely heated. Use tongs to carefully transfer the oysters (the shells will be hot) to a platter. Serve immediately. Nutrition information per oyster: 25 calories; 10 calories from fat (40 percent of total calories); 1.5 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 5 mg cholesterol; 2 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 0 g sugar; 1 g protein; 160 mg sodium. (Recipe adapted from chef Hung Huynh at Catch Miami in Miami Beach, Florida)

BY ALISON LADMAN Associated Press If the warmer weather has you wishing for a cool mojito or frosty margarita, you might also start wishing for some extra cash. The cost of limes this spring has skyrocketed, pushing the price of some of our favorite summer sips to levels that could break the bank. But a cocktail should be a fun indulgence, not an investment decision. The good news is limes aren’t the only citrus in the game. So we decided to keep our cool and create fresh — and refreshing — lime-free versions of some of our favorite cocktails.

We started with the gimlet, traditionally made from lime juice, gin and sugar. Our version — the green granny slush — mimics the sweet and sour of the traditional drink with a puree of kiwis and Granny Smith apples. Next, our version of the mojito gets it’s vibrancy from rhubarb paired with cooling cucumber. And since it just isn’t summer without a margarita, we created a ruby red grapefruit-based “rubyrita” to help take the edge off. Finally, our daiquiri... Out with the pricy limes and in with a seasonal and deliciously tart raspberry puree. So maybe a lime-free summer won’t be quite so disappointing!

RUBY RITA Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 1 Kosher salt Ice 2 ounces ruby red grapefruit juice 2 ounce reposado tequila Spread a thin layer of salt in a small plate. Moisten the rim of a cocktail glass with a touch of the grapefruit juice. Overturn the glass into the salt to coat. Set aside. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the grapefruit juice and tequila. Shake vigorously, then strain into the prepared cocktail glass.

GREEN GRANNY SLUSH Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 2 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored and cut into chunks 1 kiwi, peeled and cut into chunks 3 ounces gin 1 cup ice In a blender, combine the apple, kiwi and gin. Blend until smooth. Add the ice and blend until slushy. Divide between 2 tall glasses.

CUCUMBER RHUBARB MOJITO Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 1 1/2 cup chopped fresh rhubarb (not peeled) 1 teaspoon sugar 3 slices cucumber 1 sprig fresh mint 2 ounces white rum 1 ounce rhubarb liqueur Seltzer water In a large cocktail shaker, muddle the rhubarb with the sugar until well smashed. Add the cucumber and mint, then bruise with the muddler. Add the rum and rhubarb liqueur and shake until well combined. Strain the mixture into a cocktail glass filled with ice, then top with seltzer water. Stir gently to combine.

RASPBERRY DAIQUIRI Start to finish: 10 minutes Servings: 1 1/2 cup fresh raspberries 2 teaspoons sugar Ice 2 ounces white rum In a blender, puree the raspberries with the sugar. Strain through a fine mesh strainer (or squeeze through several layers of cheesecloth) to remove the seeds. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the raspberry puree with the rum. Shake vigorously, then strain into a cocktail glass.

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Shrimp tacos in less time than takeout pizza BY J.M. HIRSCH AP Food Editor What I really wanted was pizza. But I was too lazy to drive down to the pizza shop to get it, and they only deliver if you order $40 or more. And as much as I like pizza, that’s a lot of pizza. So I needed a dinner that was equally comforting, equally flavorful, but required even less effort and time than heading into town. My inspiration? Well, aside from the pizza I wasn’t having, that is... A 1-pound bag of frozen raw shrimp. I firmly believe that if you like shrimp, you should always have a few bags of them in the freezer. They thaw quickly, and cook even more quickly. As in minutes. I decided to convert my bag into sweet-and-tangy shrimp tacos, a good eat-with-yourhands sort of comfort food that would come together with minimal fuss. Aside from the cooking of the shrimp, use this recipe just as a guide. I like to top my tacos with soft goat cheese and avocado, but use whatever you like. Ditto for the flour tortillas; corn would be fine, too. Or if you really want, take all the same ingredients and dump them over a plate of tortilla chips for easy nachos. Whatever you do, don’t skip the tiny amount of sugar added when cooking the shrimp. It’s a trick I learned from Alex Guarnaschelli. It acts like salt to help highlight the natural briny-sweet flavor of the shrimp.

SWEET-AND-TANGY SHRIMP TACOS Start to finish: 20 minutes Servings: 4 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 medium red onion, diced 1 pound shelled, raw large shrimp 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1/2 cup thinly sliced Peppadew peppers Ground black pepper Four 8-inch flour tortillas 1 heart romaine lettuce, finely chopped 2 ounces crumbled fresh goat cheese 1 avocado, peeled, pitted and sliced In a large saute pan over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Add the onion and saute until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the shrimp and sugar and saute until just barely pink and firm, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in the red pep-

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per flakes and Peppadews, then heat for another minute. Season with black pepper. Arrange a quarter of the romaine down the center of each tortilla, then top with a quarter of the shrimp and Peppadew mixture. Top each serving with a quarter of the cheese and avocado slices. Serve immediately. Nutrition information per serving: 460 calories; 190 calories from fat (41 percent of total calories); 22 g fat (8 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 195 mg cholesterol; 34 g carbohydrate; 6 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 31 g protein; 750 mg sodium.

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Childhood sexual abuse haunts adult survivor DEAR ABBY — After years of carrying this guilt, I want to tell my story. It may help others. When my Dear Abby grandfather tried to rape ABIGAIL me, it was at VAN BUREN night when everyone was asleep. I stopped him as much as a 10-year-old could. The next day he wrote me a letter saying he was sorry for what he did. It read, “If your dad finds out, it will KILL HIM.” Strong words for a 10-year-old, so I buried the letter in the back yard. He never touched me again. Five years after that, Grandpa was arrested for molesting

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my younger brothers. As a young girl, I didn’t know men molested boys. I found out after my grandfather went to prison that he had also molested my dad and his sister when they were children. Please warn parents to educate their children. Tell them that even someone they love does not have the right to touch them in a way that makes them uncomfortable. My dad felt guilty for the rest of his life for what happened to us because he had let this monster back into his life. Wish I had told in Florida DEAR WISH YOU HAD TOLD — I agree with you about the importance of parents teaching children the difference between an appropriate touch and one that isn’t, and how to set boundaries. If those bound-

aries are violated, children should be instructed to immediately tell an adult. If it’s not a parent, then tell a teacher, counselor or school nurse, all of whom are mandated reporters. Children should also tell if a friend confides it has happened to him or her, because secrets like this are harmful not only to the victim, but also to any children in the vicinity who might also be at risk. It may assuage your guilt to know that molesters often blackmail their victim into silence. I heard recently from a woman who said her father told her when she was a child that if she revealed what he was doing, he would kill himself. (It wasn’t until many years later that she finally realized if he had, he would have been doing everyone, including her sister, a favor.)

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HOW TO PLAY: Each row, column and set of 3-by-3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 through 9 without repetition.

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Season 13 winner revealed tonight on ‘American Idol’ BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH “American Idol” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-PG) crowns a new winner tonight. For those setting their DVR timers, the episode will run 2 hours and 6 minutes. You don’t want to be cut short. You know they’ll milk the suspense until the last possible second. Much has been made of the flagging fortunes of “American Idol,” its plummeting ratings and aging audience. Apparently most talent contests are seeing a ratings drop. Television success always breeds imitation and imitation begets overexposure and viewer fatigue. This has been the case ever since Westerns overran the schedule during Dwight Eisenhower’s second term. But TV competition may not explain the problems with “Idol.” It may not even be a television problem at all. Some contend that the last really big star to emerge from “Idol” was Carrie Underwood, crowned a winner in 2005. Nine years is an eternity in popular culture. That was also the year that YouTube arrived, and it, more than other TV broadcasts, may explain the dwindling buzz for “Idol.” After all, why do we watch “Idol” and its competitors? We want to be given goose bumps by an unknown young talent. Or laugh at a wretched audition. You can watch amateurs perform on YouTube all day, every day and barely scratch the surface. Over the last nine years, YouTube has delivered the most chattered-about talent. Susan Boyle may have been a television sensation on “Britain’s Got Talent,” but she was discovered in America (and around the world) on the Internet. Justin Bieber was also discovered by his future manager on the Internet. So we have YouTube to blame.

• Last call on the canceled “Mixology” (9:30 p.m., ABC, TV-14). • Atwater rises to the occasion on “Chicago P.D.” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14). • Philip and Elizabeth strive to complete their mission and find safe harbor for their kids on “The Americans” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA).

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • “Nature” (8 p.m., PBS, TVPG, check local listings) examines how and why both bugs and beasts swarm. • Humans feel threatened by “Man-Eating Super Wolves” (8 p.m., Animal Planet, TV14). • Murphy returns on “The 100” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14). • “One Man’s Trash” (10 p.m., Ovation) celebrates environmentally conscious art.

LATE NIGHT FOX BROADCASTING

Will Caleb Johnson or Jena Irene be named the next “American Idol?” Find out during the season finale airing at 8 p.m. today on Fox. And this year’s most talked about talent sensation isn’t on American television. Wearing her order’s habit, Sister Cristina Scuccia has wowed audiences on Italy’s version of “The Voice,” and viewers around the planet have followed along via Internet clips. For all of its problems and competition, “Idol” will return next season. The fate of its judges has yet to be announced. • From north of the border, “Motive” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14) debuts its sophomore season tonight. This competently made whodunit has a narrative hook. We see the killer in the opening moments and learn his or her motivation

(and other plot wrinkles) as the drama transpires.

TONIGHT’S OTHER SEASON FINALES • A winner is crowned on “Survivor” (8 p.m., CBS, TVPG). • Peace is at hand on the canceled “Revolution” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-14). • A shameless plug for a corporate theme park on “The Middle” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG). • An online escort service leads to assaults on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14). • Few things go smoothly as the two-part wedding story concludes on “Modern Family” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

Timothy Geithner is booked on “The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Norm Macdonald, Lupita Nyong’o and Veruca Salt appear on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS) * Charlize Theron, Chris Franjola, Heather McDonald and Josh Wolf are booked on “Chelsea Lately” (11 p.m., E!) * Patrick Stewart is on “The Colbert Report” (11:30 p.m., Comedy Central) * Sgt. Kyle J. White and Dierks Bentley appear on “Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Hugh Jackman, Jimmy Page and Barry Gibb on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Adam Sandler, Elle Fanning and Lykke Li appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC) * Jennifer Lawrence, Alan Cumming and Little Daylight visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Craig Ferguson hosts Jeff Foxworthy and The Colourist on “The Late Late Show” (12:35 a.m., CBS). Copyright 2014, United Feature Syndicate

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Alaska Salmon Cakes with Yogurt Dill Sauce

Versatile

Salmon FAMILY FEATURES

THE MANY BENEFITS OF SALMON

ou’ve probably heard that eating seafood rich in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids can help protect against heart disease while delivering other impor-

tant nutrients. In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends eating seafood twice a week for such benefits. Salmon is one fish long-heralded for its nutritional value, and Alaska canned salmon offers a convenient way to add more deliciously nourishing seafood to your diet. Whether your tastes lean toward a traditional croquette drizzled with a light dill sauce, or a refreshing take on a pesto pasta salad, canned salmon is easy to prepare and surprisingly versatile. Because canned and pouched salmon is shelf-stable, you can always have some on hand for a quick, tasty meal or flavorful snack. At the grocery store, simply

look for “Alaska” on the lid or label to ensure a top-quality, wholly natural product with nothing added but a pinch of salt for flavor. These recipes showcase how Alaska canned salmon can be adapted to a wide range of meals and lifestyles, from the indulgent to the über-healthy. For additional preparation tips and recipes, visit www.wildalaskaseafood.com.

• Alaska canned pink salmon has four times the omega-3s EPA and DHA, and 12 times the vitamin D as many popular canned meats and fish. It also has 25 percent of adults’ Recommended Daily Allowance for calcium and nearly meets the daily reference amount for selenium. • Traditional pack canned salmon contains skin and delicate, edible bones that are rich in calcium and magnesium. Pressure-cooked in the can, they are so soft they can be easily blended into the salmon, adding extra nutrients and flavor. Skinless, boneless Alaska salmon is also available in cans and pouches. • Pink salmon — the variety commonly found in cans — has a light color and mild flavor, while red salmon (or sockeye) has a richer, more intense flavor and color.

ALASKA SALMON AND CHIPOTLE WRAP Prep time: 15 minutes Servings: 4 2 to 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon chopped chipotle peppers in adobo sauce 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro 2 tablespoons chopped red bell pepper 1 to 2 tablespoons chopped red onion 1 teaspoon chopped garlic 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 can (14.75 ounces) traditional pack

Alaska salmon or 2 cans or pouches (6 to 7.1 ounces each) skinless, boneless salmon, drained and chunked 3 tablespoons light cream cheese or light sour cream 1 teaspoon adobo sauce 4 whole wheat tortillas (8-inch) 4 large lettuce or cabbage leaves, shredded

In bowl, mix lime juice, chiles, cilantro, bell pepper, red onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Gently stir in salmon until blended. In small bowl, blend cream cheese and adobo sauce. Spread 1/4 mixture over each tortilla to within 1 inch of edge. Spread 2/3 cup salmon mixture over cream cheese. Top with 1/4 of lettuce and roll up burrito-style. Repeat for remaining tortillas. * For appetizers, cut each wrap into thirds (makes 12 appetizer servings). * As a meal, cut each wrap in half (makes 4 entree servings). Serve immediately. Nutrients per serving (4 entrees): 305 calories, 8.5 g total fat, 2 g saturated fat, 25% calories from fat, 88 mg cholesterol, 32.5 g protein, 26.5 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, 1228 mg sodium, 130.5 mg calcium and 1290 mg omega-3 fatty acids

ALASKA SALMON PESTO PASTA SALAD Prep time: 25 minutes Servings: 8 to 10 8 ounces dry, small shell pasta 2 to 3 teaspoons garlic, finely minced 1/2 cup prepared basil pesto 1/2 cup light Italian salad dressing 1 zucchini, cut in 1/2-inch half-moon slices

1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved 1 small red onion, thinly sliced 3/4 cup frozen peas, defrosted 1 can (14.75 ounces) traditional pack Alaska salmon or 2 cans or pouches (6 to 7.1 ounces each) skinless, boneless salmon, drained and chunked Salt and pepper, to taste

Cook pasta according to package directions; drain well. Let cool slightly then toss with garlic, pesto and dressing. Set aside. Cook zucchini in covered microwavable container on high 2 minutes or until just tender and bright green. Toss blanched zucchini, tomatoes, onion and peas into pasta and stir to combine. Gently fold in drained salmon; season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve immediately or chill before serving. Nutrients per serving: 310 calories (46% from fat), 16 g total fat, 3 g saturated fat, 30 mg cholesterol, 17 g protein, 26 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 485 mg sodium, 214 mg calcium and 1300 mg omega-3 fatty acids

ALASKA SALMON SALAD SANDWICHES Prep time: 15 minutes Servings: 4 1 can (14.75 ounces) traditional pack Alaska salmon or 2 cans or pouches (6 to 7.1 ounces each) skinless, boneless salmon, drained and chunked 1/3 cup light mayonnaise 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon capers, drained, chopped if large (optional) 1/3 cup finely diced celery 1/3 cup finely diced onion 1/4 cup dill or sweet pickle relish, drained Dash Tabasco sauce or pinch of black pepper 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill or 1/2 to 1 teaspoon dried dill weed 8 slices whole-grain bread 24 thin slices cucumber 4 leaves green or red leaf lettuce In medium bowl, combine salad ingredients. Add salmon and stir to combine well. Divide salad among 4 slices of bread. Top each with 6 slices of cucumber and a leaf of lettuce. Top with remaining slices of bread and cut in half, crosswise. Nutrients per serving: 381 calories (36% from fat), 15 g total fat, 3 g saturated fat, 65 mg cholesterol, 27 g protein, 34 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 1236 mg sodium, 291 mg calcium and 1900 mg omega-3 fatty acids

ALASKA SALMON CAKES WITH YOGURT DILL SAUCE Prep time: 21 minutes Servings: 4 1 egg 1/4 cup small-curd nonfat cottage cheese 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill or 1 teaspoon dried dill weed 1 teaspoon lemon pepper seasoning 1/4 cup sliced green onions 1 can (14.75 ounces) traditional pack Alaska salmon or 2 cans or pouches (6 to 7.1 ounces each) skinless, boneless salmon, drained and chunked 3 tablespoons garlic-and-herb bread crumbs Vegetable oil Yogurt Dill Sauce In medium bowl, whisk egg lightly. Add cottage cheese, dill, lemon pepper and green onions; mix well. Mix in drained salmon, then sprinkle in bread crumbs and mix well. Shape mixture into 4 patties, 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick and 3 inches in diameter. Heat nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and brush skillet with oil. Fry salmon cakes for about 2 1/2 to 3 minutes per side. Cakes should be crisp and golden on the outside and still moist on the inside. Serve with Yogurt Dill Sauce.

YOGURT DILL SAUCE 1/2 cup nonfat yogurt 1 1/2 teaspoons finely minced fresh garlic Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill or 1 teaspoon dried dill weed 1/4 cup grated cucumber (squeeze dry) Mix yogurt and garlic, and add salt and pepper to taste. Stir in dill and cucumber. Refrigerate, covered, until ready to serve. Nutrients per serving: 217 calories (34% from fat), 8 g total fat, 2 g saturated fat, 112 mg cholesterol, 27 g protein, 8 g carbohydrate, 0.5 g fiber, 897 mg sodium, 320 mg calcium and 1800 mg omega-3 fatty acids