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BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com Local community health centers are joining a national campaign to encourage their congressional delegations to enact legislation before a funding deadline leaves them underfunded.

Sandhills Medical Foundation Inc. in Sumter, along with Sumter

Family Health Center, HopeHealth in Clarendon County and CareSouth in Lee County, are answering the call of National Association of Community Health Centers to flood congressional inboxes with requests to extend funding to their programs.

When the Affordable Care Act passed, a five-year trust fund was created to allow such medical homes to serve nearly 20 million new patients across the country. But a cut to the discretionary funding of the communi-

ty health centers left them drawing from the trust fund to maintain — not expand — services, according to the national association’s campaign. At the end of fiscal year 2015, the trust fund will be gone, and the providers of primary care may face as much as a 70 percent cut in their federal funding.

The email campaign urges Congress to act before the deadline,

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Library’s annual book sale begins

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Cathy Price, above, lies on the floor of Sumter County Library to get a better look at the sci-fi books at the annual Friends of the Sumter County Library Annual Book Sale, which started on Thursday night.

Margaret Ann Rivers, left, carries a stack of books out of the sale Thursday.

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Art Rainor, below, looks at books at the sale on Thursday night.

The sale continues today from 4 to 8 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Nov. 13 and 14 from 4 to 8 p.m.; and Nov. 15 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The final day of the sale, Sunday, Nov. 16, is Bag O’Books Day, when shoppers can fill bags provided by the Friends for $5 per bag. There is no charge for admission to the sale at any time. The library is at 111 N. Harvin St., next to Sumter County Administration Building.

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Murder conviction in 2008 case reversed

BY MATT BRUCE matthew@theitem.com State justices on Wednesday reversed the conviction of a Sumter County man found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2011.

The South Carolina Court of Appeals issued the ruling, granting Daniel Jackson a new trial.

Appellate judges remanded Jackson’s case back down to the circuit-court level to be retried.

A jury found the

26-year-old Sumter man guilty of murder and armed robbery in August 2011, CANTY and Circuit Court Judge W. Jeffrey Young issued him a life sentence.

Jackson’s attorneys successfully argued that the original trial violated his 6th Amendment right of confrontation because Young allowed jurors to hear redacted statements

from his codefendant Reginald Canty, who never testified during the trial. ApJACKSON pellate justices ruled that the statements unjustly incriminated Jackson while not giving him the opportunity to cross examine his accuser.

The state appeals court heard the case June 10 and filed its 23page opinion Wednes-

day. The ruling stemmed from the killing of William Flexon, a 46-yearold Sumter man who was shot twice Jan. 12, 2008, as he delivered pizzas to OC Mobile Home Park in Cherryvale.

Deputies apprehended Canty, then 16, near the shooting scene shortly afterward, and he subsequently gave officers six statements during the span of the next 13 days.

In those statements, he

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Lee DSS client drives to new success Man is 1st to complete program for adults with no children, takes driver training

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com

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With a little help from DSS, Xtra Mile Driver Training graduate Johnny Wilson is ready to begin his career as a commercial truck driver.

BISHOPVILLE — That semitrailer rolling down the highway may be more than just a truck. It could also be a symbol of success for the Lee County office of South Carolina Department of Social Services.

On Wednesday morning at Xtra Mile Driver Training in Bishopville, Johnny Wilson became the first client in Lee County to successfully complete DSS’ program for able-bodied adults without dependent children, which is designed to make clients self sufficient and move them away from dependency on welfare and food stamps.

‘When they come in, many of them are hunched over ... when they leave here, they stand up straight; they know they have accomplished something they earned.’

JIM SEGAL Owner, Xtra Mile Driver Training To make it through the program, clients must sign up with SC Works and complete at least 10 job searches a week.

“There is a lot of jumping through hoops,” said Debbie Tindal, Wilson’s DSS caseworker.

“There are many hurdles for those in Lee County who are struggling to find employment.”

There are only a limited num-

ber of jobs in Bishopville, she said, and it is more than 20 miles to Sumter, where many state programs and jobs are located.

By collaborating with different agencies, she said, they were able to help Wilson reach his goal.

“We worked closely with the Lee County Library, where our clients

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TSA hosts SCISA conference for 1st time

BY RAYTEVIA EVANS ray@theitem.com The halls of Thomas Sumter Academy buzzed with excitement and anticipation as faculty, staff and students prepared to welcome guests from independent schools in South Carolina on Thursday afternoon.

For the first time in 50 years, TSA is hosting the South Carolina Independent Schools Association’s annual conference. Headmistress Debbie Nix said SCISA executive director Larry Watt asked them in March to host this year’s event, and she and the Generals began planning and preparing after graduation in May. As it has in the past, Nix said the TSA family came together in the past few weeks to properly pull off hosting duties for the conference.

Watt explained that SCISA asking TSA to host the conference for the 201415 school year was a natural choice because the school met the space requirements and TSA had supported the organization through Nix serving on the state athletic committee and assisting with student activities.

On Thursday, TSA and SCISA welcomed about 90 headmasters for the Fall Headmasters’ Meeting, kicking off the conference SCISA has organized for the past 45 years. Watt said SCISA has 114 independent schools across the state as a part of the organization, and the conference brings faculty and staff together for workshops where they have the opportunity to speak to their colleagues about their schools’ programs and share ideas.

“The purpose is to continue professional development for heads of schools and their faculty and staff,” Watt explained.

Nix, who has been with TSA for close to 40 years, said the conferences have been helpful in her leadership of TSA. She emphasized that she has experi-

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South Carolina Independent Schools Association Executive Director Larry Watt, Thomas Sumter Academy senior Chris Beaudet and TSA Headmistress Debbie Nix meet in the school’s auditorium before welcoming about 90 headmasters to the annual meeting Thursday afternoon. enced how the conference allows her to get ideas from her colleagues and see her position as headmistress and TSA as a part of a whole that can work together.

“Two things I think are awesome about this is: One, I have the opportunity to sit in the company of some of the greatest educators in the state. These are people I respect so much,” Nix said.

“And two, it reminds us all that we’re

Foundation offers diabetes education, more in annual fair

BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com

part of a bigger whole. Every headmaster focuses on their schools, which they should. But the conference shows we’re a part of this supportive organization, and we have each other, and we can’t forget that.”

Throughout Thursday’s event for headmasters, the visitors enjoyed a performance by the all-state chorus before presentations and a brief awards ceremony. Today, Watt said between

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South Carolina, Stoudemire For more information or said. to sign up to participate, “Diabetes is increasing, call Stoudemire at (803) 469especially in the South,” she 7500.

500 and 600 teachers from independent schools across the state — including schools such as Wilson Hall and Laurence Manning Academy — would visit TSA for multiple workshops on different topics including understanding teaching adolescents and using new technology in education. The conference started at 2 p.m. Thursday and reconvenes today for workshops from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Joanne Overstreet at (803) 720-7721.

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Joining forces to combat highway fatalities Officers from the Sumter County S.C. Highway Patrol office, City of Sumter Police Department and Sumter County Sheriff’s Office stand together in front of Patriot Hall earlier this week. Law enforcement officials from the three agencies will join together starting Monday in an effort to combat highway fatalities. More officers are expected on the roads to crack down on seatbelt, DUI and speeding violations. Sumter County has 19 road fatalities to date this year, including two pedestrian deaths and one motorcycle related. There were 17 road fatalities in 2013 and only 11 at this point in 2012.

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POLICE BLOTTER STOLEN PROPERTY A 32-inch Vizio LCD flatscreen TV, a queen-size bed, an HP 15.6-inch laptop and a green couch valued at $1,850 were reported stolen about 4:46 p.m. Tuesday from the 100 block of Ideal Circle, Shaw Air Force Base.

Two sets of rims and tires valued at $2,500, a TV valued at $300 and tools valued at $250 were reported stolen from a business in the 900 block of Manning Avenue about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday.

A washer and dryer valued at $800 and furniture valued at $1,200 were reportedly stolen from a home in the 1000 block of Old Pocalla Road after 4:30 p.m.

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A .380-caliber Hi-Point handgun was reportedly stolen from a home in the first block of Wayne Street after 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

PROPERTY DAMAGE A 2014 Toyota Rav4 reportedly sustained $3,000 in damage Sept. 9 while parked at a Pinewood home in the 1700 block of West Avenue Drive.

Toys For Tots campaigns accepting applications, seeking volunteers

CHARGES Barbara Jean Finkbeiner, 71, of Sumter, was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with kidnapping and pointing and presenting a firearm at a person. She reportedly held a man at gunpoint in the 300 block of Brunswick Road with a gun that proved to be a plastic toy.

Theodore Walker, 69, of 185 Sherry Lane, was arrested Monday and charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct. The Sumter man reportedly trapped the victim inside a vehicle on Sept. 5 and fondled her after she’d rejected several of his sexual advances.

Richard Gamble, 52, of 46 Thelma Road, was arrested about 1:45 a.m. Thursday and charged with second offense of driving under suspension following a traffic stop in the 500 block of South Main Street near East Williams Street.

Benjamin Williams, 28, of 1101 Pocalla Road, was arrested just after midnight Thursday and charged with his third driving under suspension offense following a traffic stop near the intersection of Broad Street and Miller Road.

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BY RAYTEVIA EVANS ray@theitem.com Applications are being accepted for the Sumter-Clarendon-Lee County Toys For Tots campaign to help make the holidays special for every child in the area.

Last year more than 2,600 children were provided close to 9,000 toys through the program.

With Thanksgiving and Christmas comes the emphasis on the giving spirit, and Sumter-Clarendon-Lee County Toys For Tots is once again looking to make the holidays special for every child.

Jackson-Hewitt Tax Service, 61 W. Wesmark Blvd., will accept applications from families in need of assistance this year from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 10, 12, 17 and 19.

To apply for toys, SumterClarendon-Lee County Toys For Tots is asking applicants

to bring proof of income — including Social Security, disability and food stamps — Social Security card or a printout from the Social Security Administration for each child and a photo ID for the parent or guardian.

In 1995, the Secretary of Defense officially approved Toys For Tots as an activity of the U. S. Marine Corps and an official mission of the Marine Corps Reserve. In 1996, the commander for the Marine Forces Reserve expanded Toys For Tots to all 50 states, according to the organization’s website.

Over the years, the Marine

Corps has distributed more than 416 million toys and brought smiles to more than 195 million children during the Christmas holiday.

Today, the Toys For Tots program collects and distributes an average of 16 million toys to an average of 7 million children each holiday season.

For more information about the Sumter-ClarendonLee County Toys For Tots program and how you can help, call (803) 774-4747. Local coordinator Harvey Senter said the local group also seeks volunteers to help out during the holiday season.

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GPS helps police find abducted woman

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Little green army men, the Rubik’s Cube and bubbles are the newest additions to the National Toy Hall of Fame.

Army men, Rubik’s Cube, bubbles take their place

BY CAROLYN THOMPSON The Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It’s mission accomplished for little green army men.

The molded plastic musthaves for generations of pretend soldiers were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday, along with the 1980s stumper Rubik’s Cube, and bubbles.

The trio of toys takes its place alongside other classics including Barbie, G.I. Joe, Scrabble and the hula hoop after beating out nine other finalists including Fisher-Price Little People, American Girl dolls and My Little Pony.

The tiny monochromatic heroes have been around since 1938, with ups and downs along the way. Their popularity waned during the Vietnam War but they became bigscreen stars with the 1995 Pixar movie “Toy Story� and several manufacturers continue to produce millions of them every year. “Over the years, these toys have remained popular because they are lightweight, simple to transport in buckets or pails, fun to blow up, easy to replace,� said curator Patricia Hogan, who noted how some were inevitably melted under a magnifying glass in the sun. “But most of all because they inspire open-ended play.�

The army men were finalists two other years before making the cut this time around, offering hope to this year’s alsorans, which also included Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Slip ’N Slide, the skill game Operation, paper airplanes, pots and pans and the toy trucks sold annually since 1964 by the Hess gas station chain.

The brain-teasing Rubik’s Cube was invented by Hungarian architect Erno Rubik in the 1970s but took off in the United States in 1980 after being imported by Ideal Toy Corp. More than 100 million of the six-color cubes were sold between 1980 and 1982, dividing an obsessively twisting populace between those who could solve it and those who could not.

The cubes, with nine colored squares on each side, can be arranged 43 quintillion ways, according to the Toy Hall of Fame, and have inspired organized competitions in more than 50 countries.

Children have played with soap bubbles since at least the 17th century, according to the toy hall, when paintings depicting the play appeared in what is now modern-day Belgium.

More than 200 million bottles of bubble liquid are sold annually.

Bubbles got the nod as a toy of the imagination, spokesman Shane Rhinewald said, listing it alongside similar previous inductees including the stick and blanket.

Hogan, who curates the toy hall inside The Strong museum in Rochester, noted the staying power of the decidedly lowtech toys in this year’s class, saying the simpler the toy, the more ways children find to use them.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman snatched off the streets of Philadelphia was rescued with the help of a GPS device that had been installed on the suspect’s car by the dealer in case the vehicle needed to be repossessed, authorities said Thursday.

It was just the latest arrest made possible by the surveillance technology that is seemingly everywhere nowadays.

And it involved not just GPS but surveillance video and traffic-camera imagery.

Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, was resting at her mother’s home in Philadelphia after a three-day ordeal that ended in Jessup, Maryland, on Wednesday when federal agents surrounded the car and seized her alleged kidnapper.

Delvin Barnes, 37, was jailed on unrelated charges he abducted and attempted to kill a 16-year-old Virginia girl. “Carlesha is a very resilient and tough young woman,� Philadelphia police Inspector James Kelly said. “She resisted to the best of her abilities.� He said her family told police she is doing well but “needs some time and space to heal.�

Law enforcement officials got their big break when they saw the used-car dealer’s name on a traffic-camera image of Barnes’ vehicle and asked the dealership to turn on the GPS unit, said sheriff’s Capt. Jayson Crawley of Charles City County, Virginia. “We called the dealership, and within five minutes they had the location,� he said.

He said the dealership sells to customers with poor credit and routinely puts GPS devices on its vehicles so they can be easily located and repossessed if the owners fall behind on the payments.

GPS devices are commonly used by law enforcement authorities around the U.S. to track suspects and make arrests.

But often those cases involve devices secretly planted by police, not installed by used-car dealers.

Freeland-Gaither had been seen on surveillance video being grabbed by a man and pulled toward a car Sunday night as she struggled to get away in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood.

In the days afterward, police and fed-

eral authorities released a stream of images from surveillance cameras showing a man using Freeland-Gaither’s bank card and walking through a gas station minimart in Maryland.

Police did not disclose a motive for the kidnapping. Authorities said there was no indication Freeland-Gaither and Barnes knew each other.

Barnes has a long and violent criminal history, serving eight years in prison for a 2005 assault on his estranged wife and her family in Philadelphia. Barnes beat and choked his wife, punched her mother in the face and hit her father in the head with a glass bowl, court records show.

He is also charged with abducting a teenage girl in Richmond, Virginia, last month. The girl told police she was hit in the head with a shovel, put in the trunk of a car and taken to Barnes’ home.

Barnes later brought the girl outside, doused her with gasoline, asked her how she wanted to die and began digging a hole, according to Crawley. She managed to escape.

Feeding the homeless: Act of charity or crime?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Despite being charged with violating a new law by feeding the homeless in South Florida, 90-year-old Arnold Abbott said he’s not deterred and even went back out to serve more food at a public park.

The faceoff in Fort Lauderdale over the ordinance restricting public feeding of the homeless has pitted those with compassionate aims against residents and businesses trying to protect their neighborhoods.

Abbott, affectionately known as “Chef Arnold,� and two South Florida ministers were charged last weekend as they handed out food. They were accused of breaking the ordinance and each faces up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. “One of the police officers said, ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I were carrying a weapon,� Abbott said.

But on Wednesday night,

Abbott and others served a four-course meal by the beach as police filmed from a distance and a crowd of nearly 100 mostly homeless and volunteers cheered their arrival. “God bless you, Arnold!� some shouted. Others from the church carried signs in support of Abbott, saying the ordinance was violating their right to love thy neighbor.

Abbott, a World War II veteran and civil rights activist, told The Associated Press that he has been serving the homeless for more than two decades in honor of his late wife. He has several programs, including a culinary school to train the homeless he serves and help find them jobs in local kitchens.

With tears in her eyes, Rosemarie Servoky broke through the crowd Wednesday night to hug Abbott. Servoky, 68 and a graduate of Arnold’s culinary program from several years ago, said he saved her life.

“I was a crack addict. I was in a homeless shelter,� said Servoky, who contacted the mayor to complain about the new law.

Fort Lauderdale is the latest U.S. city to pass restrictions on feeding homeless people in public places. Advocates for the homeless say the cities are fighting to control increasing homeless populations but that simply passing ordinances doesn’t work because they don’t address the root causes.

In the past two years, more than 30 cities have tried to introduce laws similar to Fort Lauderdale’s, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. The efforts come as more veterans face homelessness and after two harsh winters drove homeless people south.

Mayor Jack Seiler said he thinks Abbott and pastors Dwayne Black and Mark Sims have good intentions, but the city can’t discriminate

in enforcing the law. He said it was passed to ensure that public places are open to everyone. He also stressed that the city was working with local charities to help serve the homeless through indoor feedings and programs that get them medical care and long-term help. “The parks have just been overrun and were inaccessible to locals and businesses,�

Seiler said.

Black criticized the city for pushing the proposed ordinance to the back of the agenda last week. Many supporters left by the time it came up for discussion, long after midnight. Black said he knew there was a good chance he would be arrested Wednesday night, but he wanted to be there to “reopen the discussion on this ordinance.�

Police said the men were not taken into custody and were given notices to appear in court, where the matter will be decided by a judge.

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Report: Africa ivory smuggled on China visit

BY DIDI TANG The Associated Press BEIJING — Chinese officials and businesspeople used a state trip by President Xi Jinping and other high-level visits to smuggle ivory out of Tanzania, an environmental watchdog said Thursday, casting doubt about Beijing’s efforts to end the illegal trade that has led to rampant elephant poaching throughout Africa.

China is the world’s largest importer of smuggled tusks, and Tanzania is the largest source of poached ivory, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency said. Poaching in Tanzania alone has killed half of the country’s elephants in the past five years, the group said in the report.

It said Chinese-led criminal gangs conspired with corrupt Tanzanian officials to traffic huge amounts of ivory, some of which was loaded in diplomatic bags on Xi’s plane during a presidential visit in March 2013.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the report. Spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily briefing that China has “consistently” opposed poaching and has sought to crack down on ivory smuggling.

“The report is groundless, and we express our strong dissatisfaction,” Hong said.

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Species Import and Export Management Office of China, said he has never heard of involvement of Chinese delegations in ivory trade.

“I don’t think there’s hard evidence, and I have not seen such cases,” Meng said. “Allegations without evidence are not believable, and I don’t think it is appropriate for (EIA) to come up with this mess.”

He said that the EIA has been “unfriendly to China for quite some time,” calling the allegations irresponsible.

The illicit trade began to explode in China in 2008, when Beijing was permitted to purchase 62 tons of ivory under the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species. The purchase was presented as a way to keep alive China’s traditional artisan ivory-carving industry. A state-owned enterprise was authorized to sell the legal ivory to about 200 licensed factories and vendors.

But, after legal pieces started showing up in shops, ivory soon became a status symbol in China. Carved ivory has historically been highly prized in China, and its scarcity has turned it into an investment choice akin to gold and silver.

Critics say the legal stockpile of ivory has provided a convenient cover for a thriving black market in recent years.

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Workers prepare seized elephant tusks to be crushed by a backhoe during a destruction ceremony at the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines, on June 21, 2013. The Environmental Investigation Agency said Thursday that Chinese officials used a state trip by Chinese President Xi Jinping and other high-level visits to smuggle ivory out of Tanzania.

Jinping, below, waves next to his Tanzanian counterpart Jakaya Kikwete, right, upon his arrival March 24, 2013, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Cute chick rover: A new way to spy on shy penguins Researchers collect data using robotic device and even sang to it with “a very special song like a trumpet,” Le Maho said.

Le Maho suggested that the adult penguins were trying to find a mate for their chicks and they were listening for a response, but researchers didn’t program the rover to make a sound.

“They were very disappointed when there was no answer,” Le Maho said.

“Next time we will have a rover playing songs.”

At other times, the rover crowded in with a group of chicks, acting as “a spy in the huddle,” Le Maho said.

There’s a reason scientists want to use rovers. Some, but not all, researchers worry that just by coming close to some shy animals, they change their behavior and can taint the results of their studies, Le Maho said.

Le Maho also used a rover without any animal disguise to spy on king penguins and elephant seals because those animals don’t flee from strangers. The king penguins attacked the small rover with their beaks unless it stayed still, but that still allowed the device to get close enough to get readings. The large lumbering elephant seals didn’t budge when the rover zipped by and around them.

In the future, the researchers plan to use a more autonomous robot to spy on the emperor penguins. The idea is to use devices on the rover to read signals from radio tags on the birds.

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A remote-controlled roving camera camouflaged as a penguin chick is seen in Adelie Land, Antarctica. The device is so convincing that penguins don’t scamper away and sometimes even sing to it with trumpet-like sounds.

WASHINGTON — The newest tool for biologists is the baby penguin robotic spy.

It’s pretty darn cute and so convincing that penguins essentially talk to it, as if it is a potential mate for their chicks.

Emperor penguins are notoriously shy. When researchers approach, these penguins normally back away, and their heart rate goes up. That’s not what the scientists need when they want to check heart rate, health and other penguin parameters.

So international scientists and even filmmakers, led by Yvon Le Maho of the University of Strasbourg in France, created a remote control rover disguised as a chick to snuggle up to shy penguins in Adelie Land, Antarctica — the same place where the 2005 documentary “March of the Penguins” was filmed.

Researchers watched from more than 650 feet away.

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Bodies shed light on El Salvador’s sexual violence

BY ALBERTO ARCE The Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — In a country terrorized by gangsters, it is left to the dead to break the silence on sexual violence.

Rather, to the bodies of dead women and girls pulled from clandestine graves.

Raped, battered and sometimes cut to pieces, they attest to the sadistic abuse committed by members of street gangs.

Even those who gather statistics say there are no reliable numbers on sexual violence in El Salvador. Threats prevent many from reporting attacks. Others who have grown up amid rampant abuse may not even recognize rape as a crime. Still others flee the country for safety rather than seek justice from a system that more often delivers impunity.

U.S. immigration attorneys say there has been a dramatic increase in the last year in the number of women and girls from Central America seeking asylum in the United States after having been kidnapped and raped, much like the women who are fleeing war in Africa.

“We are seeing an exponential increase,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, a lawyer with Catholic Charities in Los Angeles. “It’s the evolution of gang warfare, what’s going on in Honduras and El Salvador. It’s what we see in other war situations around the world where rape is used as a weapon to terrorize the community.”

El Salvador’s 6 million people also suffer the second highest per capita homicide rate in the world after neighboring Honduras. In a land of lakes and volcanos, clandestine graves appear like wild mushrooms after a rainstorm. In the evening, the cacophony of San Salvador traffic gives way to the squeals of wild parrots and, sometimes, to wails of grief for the dead.

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Criminologist Israel Ticas removes soil from a clandestine gravesite in San Salvador, El Salvador. Ticas is a self-taught forensic scientist who says he has opened about 90 common graves with more than 700 bodies during the past 12 years, and that is just a fraction of what is in his country.

Most of the violence is the handiwork of the Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street gangs, which were formed by migrants in the United States, who then returned home and grew into warring forces of tens of thousands of gangsters.

Official numbers show just 239 women and girls among the murdered so far this year, about one-tenth the number of men, with an additional 201 reported missing. Through August, 361 rapes were reported, twothirds of them against minors. But the statistics don’t begin to tell the story. Worldwide, women generally report only 20 percent of rapes, according to the World Health Organization, and that percentage is likely lower in El Salvador. The missing and dead also may be underreported.

“We have cases in which the mother knows how her daughter died, but she cannot talk because the gangsters who raped and killed her have come to the wake to offer condolences for their girlfriend,” said Silvia Juarez, a lawyer with the Gender Violence Observatory. “In this context, the state is incapable of offering protection.”

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Criminologist Israel Ticas, who digs up clandestine graves for the Attorney General’s Office, says more than half of the 90 sites he has excavated in the last 12 years have contained the remains of murdered women and girls. “For sure there are hundreds of these cases and maybe thousands out there,” Ticas said.

His field notes, augmented by interviews with protected witnesses, provide a window into the underworld of abuse. He randomly selects a case from one of his journals: “7 June 2013 in Santa Tecla, the girlfriend of a gang member recruited two friends to go to a party. The gangsters suspected that one of the girls betrayed them, talking to a rival gang. Eight men raped the girls. First

two were killed with multiple knife wounds. The third was held for 24 hours while they asked for ransom, but when they couldn’t get the money they killed her, too.

The three were dismembered. They were 12, 13 and 14 years old.”

Ticas closes the worn book and opens another: “27 October 2011, Colonia Montes, San Salvador. A 16-year-old girl approached a gang member out of curiosity. She wanted to be his girlfriend and they had sex.

After, he turned her over to his clique as a prize. After they raped her, they cut her in pieces.

“April 21, 2014 in Ahuachapan, I worked on the body of a young woman who was about 18 years old, killed 43 months before. She was mummified, her painted red fingernails had been perfectly conserved. She was halfway buried in the middle of a sugar cane plantation.

She had been killed by asphyxiation, with multiple nooses pulled in different directions by various men. She had been gang raped, with serious damage to her sexual organ, and we never could identify her. She went from a clandestine cemetery only to end up in a common grave.”

“How many more do you want?” Ticas asks, pointing to a dozen journals filled with photographs, drawings and hand-written notes on the exhumations. “Any girl or woman who gets near this world sooner or later will be collectively abused by the gang.”

The Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street gangs are the most powerful of six major gangs in El Salvador, and those who study them say it is not uncommon for gang members themselves to be the offspring of rape. Many targets of their sexual violence do not willingly approach the gangs, but rather are stalked by them.

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Girls who grow up around such sexual violence often don’t realize it is abnormal, says Jeanne Rikers, a gang expert from the nonprofit human rights organization FESPAD. It is not uncommon for girls as young as 8 or 9 to begin having sexual relations with “a boyfriend,” she said, and they may take up with a gang member in the belief it will protect them from other men.

“All of the gang members victimize women. All of the cliques behave this way,” said Juarez, the lawyer with the Gender Violence Observatory. “If there are 60,000 or 70,000 gangsters, imagine how many women they have abused.”

At the Joaquin Rodenzo public school in downtown San Salvador, with an armed guard at the door, six teenagers spoke on condition of anonymity about gang control of their neighborhoods. Asked whether they knew anyone who had been raped by a gangster, three raised their hands.

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Fox has finally canceled the reality series “Utopia.” File under: “What took you so long?” Repeats of “MasterChef Junior” (8 p.m., TV-PG) will air in its place.

For those who missed the pilot, a special guest arrives to determine ingredients and get the precocious toque-wearers scurrying with their spatulas.

In this case, the previous “Junior” winner, Alexander Weiss (all of 13 years old), has stocked the larder with pork chops, pork tenderloin, green apples, hazelnuts, Brussels sprouts, phyllo dough, fingerling potatoes, wild rice, whole grain mustard and artichokes.

The “Junior” theme of smart young achievers meshes well with ABC’s “Shark Tank” and its showcase for enterprising inventors. Friday nights may remain slow ones for network television, but at least two series put the emphasis on intelligence and ability.

• Acclaimed at the Tribeca Film Festival, and recently in theaters, the 2014 documentary

“Virunga” is now streaming exclusively on Netflix. The film documents efforts to protect the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the home to the world’s last mountain gorillas, from the environmental degradation associated with oil exploration.

With films like “Virunga,” new series including “Orange is the New Black” and thousands of films and TV series, Netflix has emerged as an alternative “network,” or as the sole source of entertainment for those who choose to forgo cable entirely.

And it’s hardly alone. Last month, HBO announced that it would start a paid streaming service in 2015. And CBS announced the same thing a day later. The emergence of such choices promises to have a revolutionary impact on the “delivery” of what we used to call “television.”

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Characters look back, and Five for Fighting perform, on

(10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• John and Zed try to save a family from their deal with the devil on “Constantine” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• Events repeat themselves for Mack on “Z Nation” (10 p.m., Syfy, TV-14).

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The investigation of a brutal murder leads Nick (David Giuntoli), left, and Hank (Russell Hornsby) to a local boxing gym on tonight’s episode of “Grimm” airing at 9 p.m. on NBC. the 100th episode of “Hawaii Five-O” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• Boxing can be murder on “Grimm” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• A killer takes inspiration from the Bible on “Gotham” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

• Military veterans pitch their ideas on “Shark Tank” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

• “In Performance at the White House” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-G, check local listings) offers “A Salute to the Troops,” including performances by Mary J. Blige, Common, John Fogerty, Willie Nelson and Ramon Santos.

• A radio interview unravels on Frank on “Blue Bloods”

• Smart dames, firearms and deep shadows: TCM unspools three low-budget classics from the postwar film noir period. Catch “Detour” (8 p.m.), “The Hitch-hiker” (9:15 p.m.) and “Gun Crazy” (10:45 p.m.).

SERIES NOTES Food science on “The Amazing Race” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) * Ryan doesn’t exactly call the shots on “Last Man Standing” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * A gender income gap emerges between Felix and Daniela on “Cristela” (8:30 p.m., ABC, TVPG) * A trip to Seoul on “America’s Next Top Model” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14).

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CAMPAIGN FROM PAGE A1 said Christopher W. Dixon, CEO of Sandhills.

“The question is how does this affect our communities and patients, not how it will impact the community health centers,” he said.

Last year, the federal government awarded about $1.5 million in assistance for indigent care to Sandhills, which contributed to offering about $3 million in discounts to patients based on their documented ability to pay. So a cut in those grants may mean increased co-pays

for patients and reduced access to care.

“Given our common belief that we should create access for all, these options are never good options,” Dixon said.

In turn, this may lead to more uninsured and underinsured patients seeking primary care from hospital emergency rooms.

“Because health center patients have a regular source of primary care and stay healthy, they visit the hospital less, including crowded emergency rooms,” said Holly Chase, director of community development with Sumter Family Health Center.

Staff at these centers are

CASE FROM PAGE A1 described both his and Jackson’s respective roles in the events leading up to the shooting. According to Canty’s statements, Jackson asked him to participate in an armed robbery.

He told investigators Jackson used a pay phone outside of Cherryvale Grocery store, ordered three large pizzas from Sambino’s Pizza Restaurant and had them delivered to a vacant residence in the Cherryvale trailer park.

When Flexon arrived to deliver

SUCCESS FROM PAGE A1 could use the computers and printers as they searched for work and with SC Works,” Tindal said.

Getting Wilson accepted to the Xtra Mile Driver Training involved more hurdles.

Applicants must be high school graduates and have a clean 10-year driving record, said owner Jim Segal.

They must also be at least 21 years old and speak English, he said.

“And they have to get along with others,” he said.

Segal said most of his stu-

Haley hopeful S.C. Legislature will pass ethics reform in 2015 COLUMBIA (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday she’s optimistic about getting ethics reform through the South Carolina Legislature next year.

The newly re-elected Republican governor said the Legislature feels pressure following former House Speaker Bobby Harrell’s guilty plea to HALEY campaign spending violations.

As part of his plea deal, the Charleston Republican agreed to help in any other investigations into legislative wrongdoing.

Since 2012, lawmakers of both parties have called strengthening the state’s weak ethics laws a top priority. But, while they created lots of study committees, nothing’s cleared both chambers. A bill died in the Senate earlier this year after being stripped of any changes to the current system of legislative committees overseeing legislators’ campaign filings and handling ethics complaints against their own members.

Haley, whose 2012 clearing by the House Ethics Committee renewed public calls for ethics reform, has since insisted that efforts include independent investigations of legislators.

When Haley was cleared of allegations she lobbied for former employers while in the House, she agreed with the committee’s findings that gray areas of the law should be cleaned up and began pushing for changes.

also asking patients, family and friends to become their own health care advocates and email their representatives, said Deena Hilton, chief operations officer of HopeHealth in Manning.

“A 70 percent cut to our health grant would essentially stop any possible growth to continue to help more and more people and lead to a loss of existent capacity,” she said. “It absolutely could lead to reducing hours or services.”

While it’s too early to predict exactly what might happen should funding be cut, Bishopville’s CareSouth would most likely see a reduction in providers and

the pizzas, Canty said he watched from his house as Jackson and three other masked men ambushed and robbed the victim. He said Jackson then shot Flexon and ran away.

State attorneys tried Jackson and Canty together, despite pre-trial motions from Jackson to sever the trials.

Court records show he argued that if prosecutors used Canty’s statements during the trial and Canty did not testify, it would violate his constitutional right to confront and cross examine. Trial court judges denied the motion.

During the trial, the state agreed

dents are using some kind of taxpayer money to pay the nearly $4,000 fee to enroll.

“Most important,” Segal said, “we want to make sure this is what they want to do.

If they are using taxpayers’ money to play games, I don’t want them.”

Segal said the school gives it straight to prospective students.

“We tell them the good, the bad and the ugly,” he said.

“Driving a truck is not a piece of cake.”

Xtra Mile has a short and intensive program, with students expected to be able to apply for a Commercial Driver’s License in about a week.

Segal said he can see that

THE SUMTER ITEM possibly a reduction in hours, said Todd Shifflet, director of community development.

“Hopefully, there would be no closings,” he said. “We (provide) primary health care for those who don’t have anywhere else to go.”

Congress returns to session Nov. 12.

“As the Senate debates pending appropriations bills, please be assured that I will remember the vital role that CHCs and other rural health care programs play in improving the health of our state and nation,” said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. “I believe in their mission to serve all who come through

to use redactions in four of Canty’s statements, replacing Jackson’s name with the term “another person” whenever prosecutors presented the documents to jurors.

Jackson’s attorneys remained opposed to the statements’ admission in the case, continuing to argue that they did not allow for cross examination.

A Sumter County deputy read redacted versions of the four statements to the jury during trial. Neither Canty nor Jackson testified during the trial. The jury subsequently found both men guilty.

Young sentenced Canty to 30 years behind bars.

many of the students who come to his school have been through some hard times, and helping them turn their lives around is something he is very proud of.

“When they come in, many of them are hunched over; they won’t look you in the eyes,” he said. “When they leave here, they stand up straight; they know they have accomplished something they earned.”

Wilson said Wednesday his initial referral to the program began in April, as he has begun his journey to clear the next hurdle — to land a job driving a truck.

“I am feeling great,” he said.

the doors based on a pay-asyou-can philosophy.”

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott also recognizes the importance of community health centers, he said, but thinks the focus should be elsewhere.

“I believe in fighting to make sure everyone has access to quality care, but, as health care costs continue to rise, such access has become increasingly out of reach for many families,” Scott said.

“That is why the debate over solutions should focus on actually reducing costs, instead of simply shifting the burden to a different party.”

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According to Wednesday’s opinion, the state appellate court agreed the statements were unconstitutional in that they were admitted in the case, yet Jackson had no opportunity to cross examine the witness.

The appeals court also ruled that jurors could easily deduce that Jackson was the suspect characterized as “another person” in the statements.

“We find the admission of the statements prejudiced Jackson and contributed to his guilty verdict, and the remaining evidence against Jackson was not overwhelming,” the ruling stated.

Wilson’s success represents success for a lot of people: for Tindal, his caseworker; for Xtra Mile; and even for state Rep. Grady Brown, who was on hand to congratulate Wilson for his achievement.

“We are very happy, very

proud,” said Bishopville City Administrator Gregg McCutchen. “You have something no one can take away from you because you achieved it yourself.”

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ll is right with the world as the American electorate came to its senses and kicked the Harry Reid Democrats out of power in the U.S. Senate.

Of course the GOP has to wait until January before Mitch McConnell is handed the gavel by the charming soon-to-be former Senate Majority Leader Reid. Harry’s super PAC raised some $40 million for the party’s candidates, but this time the election couldn’t be bought, as the voters decided to see if the Republicans can do a better job with control of both houses of Congress.

It’ll be a challenging job because the current occupant of the White House has shown no inclination to cooperate with or find common ground with the Republicans. It’s still “my way or the highway” for the president, who prefers to govern by fiat with executive orders that circumvent Congress (and the Constitution). His lackluster press

EDITORIAL conference yesterday showed that the normal give-and-take that has always been a staple of good-faith, compromise politics until the Obama administration came to town with a far-left agenda has done little to improve the U.S. economy in the past six years.

Obama’s style of governance and politics is to crank up the old teleprompter, line up a hand-picked audience of cheerleaders to use as background for his speeches and launch into a tirade about Republicans gumming up his definition of progress: more tax and spend, more regulations, more big government (that doesn’t work) and more of his dazzling smile as he delivers applause lines.

Basically, Obama is a lazy president who doesn’t want to do any heavy lifting like his predecessors did: Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill, Bill Clinton

and Newt Gingrich for example. Little work and lots of play (golf) makes the prez a very dull boy. What we are seeing is a fully disengaged president bored by his job. The inconvenient truth is that job growth is stagnant, and too many middle-class families are trying to fight through a weak growth economy as their salaries and wages fail to improve.

Hope and change are surely missing from the White House these days. The best hope is that a new Congress will pick up the slack.

If not, Republicans will be in for a rude shock during the next election cycle.

The good news nationwide has spilled over into our little corner of the world. Sumter is on the move again with the renewal of the Penny Sales tax, thanks to the voters in Tues-

day’s referendum. It wasn’t even close: 60 percent of the voters said “Yes,” resoundingly. As usual, the anti-progress mossbacks made a lot of noise in their opposition, trotting out another round of childish signs that bombed with the voters. The projects voters gave a thumbs up to were absolutely needed investments and will make Sumter an even better and more progressive community. Local leaders and elected officials worked together energetically throughout the campaign, and the hard work paid off. Although there was much opposition to allowing city restaurants to sell alcohol on Sundays, the big picture shows that new businesses and industries are supportive of communities that welcome well-regulated restaurants that won’t allow excessive intoxication from patrons.

More and better days are ahead for not only our country but also for the Gamecock City.

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers:

The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg Oct. 27

IMPACT OF BULLYING MUST BE RECOGNIZED Despite a dramatic increase in public awareness and antibullying legislation nationwide, the prevalence of bullying is still one of the most pressing issues facing our nation’s youth.

According to a report by researchers from Clemson University and Professional Data Analysts Inc. and published by the Hazelden Foundation, bullying affects individuals across ethnicity, gender, grade and socioeconomic status, whether they live in urban, suburban or rural communities.

“Bullying continues to affect a great number of children in all age groups, with the highest prevalence observed in third and fourth grades, where roughly 22 percent of schoolchildren report that they are bullied two or three times or more per month,” said Sue Limber, co-author of the report and professor in the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life at Clemson.

Using data collected from the Olweus Bullying Questionnaire, the report authors analyzed a representative sample of more than 200,000 questionnaires administered to students at schools that intended to, but had not yet implemented, the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, an internationally respected anti-bullying program.

The researchers say one of the best tools that schools have for decreasing the problems associated with bullying behavior is to implement evidence-based prevention programs.

“We hope that this report helps teachers, administrators, parents, policymakers and concerned citizens raise national awareness about bullying and improve school environments so every child can feel safe at school,” Limber said.

That is our hope, too, as we emphasize that while many people may see bullying in the traditional sense, the impact of cyberbullying among today’s youth must not be underestimated and must be recognized for the prevalent danger it represents.

The Post and Courier of Charleston Nov. 3

COMMITTEE STUDYING CDV HAS TOUGH JOB AHEAD When a poll shows that 81

percent of voters in South Carolina, a state where citizens love their guns, agree that domestic abusers have no business possessing guns, it’s worth noting.

And it’s worth doing something about.

After all, South Carolina ranks second among states for the number of women who are killed by men they know. And 60 percent of those deaths are by firearms.

A 10-member House committee, established by acting House Speaker Jay Lucas, is charged with examining the state’s role in preventing and responding to criminal domestic violence. One of the big issues it plans to tackle is abusers’ access to firearms.

The committee’s chairwoman, Rep. Shannon Erickson, R-Beaufort, said that question is “one of the biggest, most difficult pieces of this issue.”

She cited the Second Amendment and said enforcement must be considered.

Of course it must. A law is no good if it can’t be enforced.

But it would be a grave mistake for the committee to become mired in a debate over the right to bear arms for violent people who have demonstrated that they are not able or willing to act responsibly.

Someone who is convicted of criminal domestic violence is banned from having guns.

Federal law already mandates that.

Apparently, however, that federal law is not enforced evenly throughout South Carolina. Clearly the courts and law enforcement need to be better educated about the law.

And Rep. Erickson makes a good point by saying she will see how other states handle enforcement.

When he was attorney general (2003-2011), Henry McMaster asked judges to set aside a day to handle only CDV cases. He mustered lawyers to act as pro bono prosecutors in those cases, and he lobbied the Legislature for a one-time monetary allotment to help each county provide a specific contact for victims of CDV cases.

The more knowledgeable they are about related laws — including laws restricting gun access — and how they can be enforced, the more effective judges, lawyers, law enforcement and social workers can be.

Rep. Erickson’s committee faces a tough job. Domestic abuse is an emotional, legal and law enforcement knot to untangle.

But members should make swift work of addressing one obvious issue: Take guns away from abusers.

Seize the day, control the agenda

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ASHINGTON — Memo to the GOP. You had a great night on Tuesday. But remember: You didn’t win it. The Democrats lost it.

This is not to say that you didn’t show discipline in making the election a referendum on six years of Barack Obama. You exercised adult supervision over the choice of candidates. You didn’t allow yourself to go down the byways of gender and other identity politics.

It showed: A gain of probably nine Senate seats, the Charles largest Republican Krauthammer House majority in more than 80 years, and astonishing gubernatorial victories, including Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois, the bluest of the blue, giving lie to the Democrats’ excuse that they lost because the game was played on Republican turf.

Notwithstanding Obama’s awkward denials at his nextday news conference, he himself defined the election when he insisted just last month that “these policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.”

They were, and America spoke. But it was a negative judgment, not an endorsement of the GOP. The prize for winning is nothing but the opportunity for Republicans to show that they can govern — the opportunity to seize the national agenda.

Five weeks ago, I suggested a series of initiatives that would be like the 1994 “Contract with America,” but this time post facto. It’s not rocket science. Mitch McConnell, the incoming Senate majori-

COMMENTARY ty leader, and Speaker John Boehner are already at work producing such an agenda.

It needs to be urgent, determined and relentless. Say, a bill a week for the first 10 weeks. Start with obvious measures with significant Democratic support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline.

Like fast-track trade negotiation authority that Harry Reid killed and that Obama, like all presidents, wants. Republicans should propose and pass it, thereby giving Obama a victory and demonstrating both bipartisanship and magnanimity (as well as economic good sense).

Then a simple, targeted bill to repatriate the $2 trillion of assets being held by U.S. corporations overseas, a bill to authorize and expedite the export of liquid natural gas and crude oil (the latter banned by an obsolete 1975 law) and a strong border security bill.

As for Obamacare, a symbolic abolition that Obama will immediately veto is less important than multiple rapid-fire measures to kill it with a thousand cuts. Repeal of the medical device tax.

Repeal of the individual mandate. Repeal of the employer mandate. Repeal of the coverage mandate thereby reinstating Obama’s broken promise that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” And repeal the federal bailout for insurers on the Obamacare exchanges.

If Obama issues vetoes, fine. Let the Democrats defend them for the next two years.

Then go big and go positive: A sweeping reform of the tax system, both corporate and individual, abolishing loopholes and lowering rates, like the historic Reagan-O’Neill 1986 reform or Obama’s own abandoned

Simpson-Bowles commission. And go large: Invite the other side into immediate negotiations with the aim of producing a tax bill by spring.

How will Obama react?

My guess — with the petulance and denial he displayed in his postelection news conference. Moreover, he will try to regain control of the national agenda with executive amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Final memo to the GOP: That would be naked impeachment bait. Don’t take it. Use the power of the purse to defund it. Pledge immediate repeal if Republicans take the White House in 2017. Denounce it as both unconstitutional and bad policy. But don’t let it overwhelm and overtake the GOP agenda. That’s exactly what Obama wants. It is his only way to regain the initiative.

The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated

by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that with Harry Reid no longer able to consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.

Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you’ve shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you’ve clarified the differences between party philosophies and prepared the ground for 2016.

Tuesday’s victory was big.

But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@ charleskrauthammer.com. © 2014, The Washington Post Writers Group

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Asthma Support Group — Every 1st Thursday, 6 p.m., Clarendon County School District 3 Parenting Center, 2358 Walker Gamble Road, New Zion.

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Alzheimer’s Support Group through S.C. Alzheimer’s Association — Every 1st Thursday, 6-8 p.m., McElveen Manor, 2065 McCrays Mill Road. Call Cheryl Fluharty at (803) 9057720 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 636-3346.

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

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

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

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

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make plans for two if you are in a relationship, or join a group that is conducive to meeting someone special. Love is on the rise, and fun should be your main objective. A short trip will be exhilarating, so start planning now.

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The Sumter SPCA Mutt Strut “Paws With A Cause!” will be held at noon on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Elaine D. Korn Memorial Center, 1100 S. Guignard Drive (next to the SPCA). Registration fee is $10 per person and includes event T-shirt.

Participants will receive a donation packet with pledge forms at the time of registration. The strutter who raises the most money will win an Apple MacBook Air. Second place prize is $400 and third place prize is $200. All proceeds benefit the Sumter SPCA. Pre-register at 1140 S. Guignard Drive. Call (803) 773-9292.

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Gold loses its gleam as prices drop to new low

BY MATTHEW CRAFT AP Business Writer NEW YORK — Nothing is going gold’s way.

Inflation remains tame, the dollar looks strong, and Americans are increasingly confident. Even fears that the Federal Reserve would set off another financial crisis have faded as the central bank ends its effort to pump money into the economy.

In short, all of the reasons for buying gold over recent years have disappeared, helping to drive prices for the metal to a four-year low.

“I think the big reason gold has lost so much ground is because confidence is coming back,” says Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management in Minneapolis.

Last week, a measure of U.S. consumer confidence reached its highest level in seven years.

“If you’re not as scared anymore, you might be fine putting some money in the stock market,” Paulsen says.

“It’s all about fear turning to greed.”

Gold dropped $22 to settle at $1,145.70 an ounce on Wednesday, the lowest finish for the precious metal since April 2010. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, hover near all-time highs.

The metal’s popularity peaked in the aftermath of the financial crisis. After seeing their savings wiped out, people

‘If you’re not as scared anymore, you might be fine putting some money in the stock market. It’s all about fear turning to greed.’

JIM PAULSEN Chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management rushed to investments considered safe, places where they could stash their money and count on getting it back.

Gold, along with U.S. government bonds, carried a bullet-proof reputation.

A lack of trust in Wall Street and government added to gold’s appeal, amid loud warnings that the Fed’s efforts to jump-start the economic recovery would backfire. Pundits and many investors said the Fed risked creating financial market bubbles, a steep drop in the dollar and runaway inflation.

Television advertisements portrayed gold as both reliably stable and likely to gain in popularity when the next disaster hit. Gold is supposed to go up when other assets fall.

Except the next disaster never arrived. Nerve-wracking moments occasionally drove traders out of stocks and into gold. The metal peaked at $1,923 an ounce in August 2011, right after Standard & Poor’s stripped the U.S. of its top credit rating.

But thanks to a stable dollar and weak inflation, gold has been on a long and steady decline ever since.

Over the past year, for instance, the dollar index, which measures the greenback against other major currencies, picked up 9 percent. Inflation crept up 1.7 percent. Meanwhile, gold lost 13 percent.

At the height of the gold rush, financial advisers told clients they could put between 5 and 10 percent of their savings in the metal, says John Gabriel, a strategist at Morningstar in Chicago. Gabriel, who sees no good reason to own gold on its own, thinks this advice was partly a response to the crisis.

Advisors wanted to reassure their clients that they had adapted to the changing financial landscape. In 2009, people were in no mood to jump back into the stock market. Gold looked like the better bet.

“It was supposed to be a safe haven when markets collapsed,” Gabriel says, “but that really hasn’t happened.”

In certain political circles, people were advised to stock up on gold, guns and ammunition, Gabriel notes. “From

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BY MARCY GORDON The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Government-controlled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac posted profits for the July-September period as the U.S. housing market continued to recover. Gains in recent years have enabled them to fully repay their government aid after being rescued during the financial crisis in 2008.

Fannie Mae reported Thursday that it earned $3.9 billion in the third quarter. Washington-based Fannie will pay a dividend of $4 billion to the U.S. Treasury next month.

With its previous payments totaling $134.5 billion, Fannie has more than fully repaid the $116 billion it received from taxpayers.

Freddie Mac posted net income of $2.1 billion for the latest quarter. Freddie, based in McLean, Virginia, will pay a $2.8 billion dividend to the government. Freddie will have paid $91 billion in dividends, exceeding its government bailout of $71.3 billion.

Freddie had fully repaid as of last year’s third quarter, and Fannie as of the fourth quarter of 2013.

The government bailed out Fannie and Freddie at the height of the crisis in September 2008 when both veered toward collapse after piling up losses on risky mortgages in the housing market bust. Together the companies received taxpayer aid totaling $187.3 billion.

The gradual recovery of the housing market has made Fannie and Freddie profitable again. Their repayments of the government loans helped make last year’s federal budget deficit the smallest in five years.

The market’s revival beginning in 2012 has been fitful, and housing has lagged behind the rest of the economy. The market remains hampered by tight mortgage credit, rising home prices and stagnating incomes.

Together Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee about half of all U.S. mortgages, worth about $5 trillion. Along with other federal agencies, they back roughly 90 percent of new

an investment perspective, they would have been better off just buying the guns and ammo.”

Among investment strategists, there’s a growing belief that the worst for gold has yet to come. A surprise announcement by the Bank of Japan last Friday that it will expand its efforts to revive that country’s growth sent traders out of Japanese yen and into U.S. dollars. Gold plunged in response. In the U.S., the Fed’s next big step is an interest-rate increase, expected sometime next year. That should make savings accounts, money-market funds and other short-term investments more appealing. A higher benchmark rate would also sap inflation pressures and give the dollar another lift.

Current trends, in other words, are all blowing against the yellow metal.

In a recent report, Michael Haigh, global head of commodities research at Societe Generale in New York, looked at how commodity prices responded in periods of gradually higher interest rates. Some commodities, such as copper and heating oil, tend to climb, because a steady increase in rates reflects an improving economy.

But buying gold is betting on bad news. Haigh’s team expects gold to drop all the way to $900 an ounce by 2017. It’s an example of what the report calls “a speculative bubble in the process of deflating.”

home loans.

The two companies don’t directly make loans to borrowers. They buy mortgages from lenders, package them as bonds, guarantee them against default and sell them to investors. That helps make loans available.

The latest reports of profitable quarters for Fannie and Freddie came two days after midterm elections that throw control of the Senate to Republicans. The transfer of majority power in the Senate could affect work on legislation to phase out the two companies, and instead use mainly private insurers to backstop home loans.

Two key senators reached agreement in March on a bipartisan proposal that was endorsed by the Obama White House, but it has stalled in Congress.

The senators’ plan would create a new government insurance fund. Investors would pay fees in exchange for insurance on mortgage securities they buy. The government would become a last-resort loan guarantor.

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Clemson’s Adam Humphries (13) runs past Wake Forest’s Merrill Noel (7) during the first half of Thursday’s game in Winston-Salem, N.C.

With game tied, Tigers use late surge to put away pesky Wake Forest 34-20 FROM STAFF REPORTS WINSTON SALEM, N.C. — On paper, 21st-ranked Clemson traveling to face Wake Forest on Thursday appeared to be a heavy mismatch, even though the Tigers were still without freshman phenom quarterback Deshaun Watson.

The Demon Deacons though made it very hard on Clemson. WF, 2-6 coming

into the game and winless in the Atlantic Coast Conference, battled the Tigers tooth and nail before Clemson prevailed 34-20.

The Tigers found themselves tied at 20-20 after WF placekicker Mike Weaver hit a 30-yard field goal with 11 minutes remaining in the game.

However, Clemson responded quickly. Quarter-

back Cole Stoudt threw a shuttle pass that actually looked more like a handoff to wide receiver Artavis Scott to put the Tigers up 27-20 with 10:53 left.

After stopping Wake on its ensuing possession, the Tigers scored again. Running back Wayne Gallman went in from 30 yards out with 6:36 left to make it 3420.

Clemson, which came in at 6-2 overall and 5-1 in ACC play, had other issues to worry about as Robert Smith was ejected with 14:37 left to play after a targeting call on WF receiver Cam Serigne was upheld.

He will miss the first half of the Tigers’ next game against Georgia Tech.

It was just four short years ago that Frank Ladson started the cross country program at Manning High School.

“It was about seven to 10 of us that ran the first year,” senior Jose Zuniga said. “Now we’ve got over 20, so we’ve come a long way.”

A very long way. The Monarchs captured their second straight Region VI-3A title this year – besting perennial 3A power Darlington in the F. LADSON process.

And by finishing fourth overall in the lower state qualifier, MHS has a legitimate chance to make some noise in Saturday’s state meet at Sandhills Research Center in Columbia at 10 a.m.

“Good cross country runners are made in the summer,” Ladson said. “Most of them will run about 300 miles to build up that endurance, and I think we’re starting to get to that point with some of the runners we have now.

“I think this group really upped its commitment level right before the region meet.

The opportunity to host and the opportunity to win backto-back championships really motivated them, and that’s carried over into this week’s preparation for the state meet.”

Zuniga won the region meet in a time of 16 minutes, 39 seconds, and was named the region runner of the year. Manning’s Josh Ladson and Seth Harvin were also named to the all-region team.

The Monarchs’ top trio followed with impressive times at the lower state qualifier. Zuniga was fifth overall with a time of 17:24 and Ladson followed

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Lakewood eyes 1st postseason victory

SHS, Socastee face off for possible home playoff game

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com The Sumter High School football team knows it has a spot locked up in the 4A Division I state playoffs, which begin next week. Where will the Gamecocks be seeded and will they open at home or on the road?

Only a night of games today will tell that tale.

Sumter will certainly have a say in it in its regular-season finale against Socastee today at 7:30 p.m. at Sumter Memorial Stadium. The Gamecocks and the Braves will be playing for the No. 2 seed from Region VI with the winner being in line for a possible home playoff game.

“If we win, we’re probably going to be either an 8 or 9

(seed),” said Sumter head coach John Jones. “Six of the eight (4A) region champs are going to be in Division I, and they’ll be seeded 1-6 based on the 4A points system. Then they’ll seed the second-place teams, After that, they seed the third-place teams and the at-large teams.”

Thirty-two teams qualify for the two 16team 4A playoffs, DI and DII. The 16 largest schools based on enrollment make up Division I and the other 16 make up DII with no respect toward upper state or lower state. The teams are seeded at that point with the top eight teams hosting a first-round

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER michaelc@theitem.com

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Sumter’s James Barnes (10) and Ky’Jon Tyler (23) look to lead a rejuvenated Gamecocks offense against Socastee today at Sumter Memorial Stadium with the No. 2 seed in Region VI-4A SEE SUMTER, PAGE B3 up for grabs.

Since taking over the Lakewood High School football program three years ago, head coach Perry Parks has been aiming to build a contender that everyone respects.

The Gators went 6-4 this year and finished third in Region VI-3A, earning a spot in the state playoffs for the first time under Parks. Lakewood will try to take the next step and record the school’s first postseason victory as it goes on the road to face 6-4 Hanahan beginning at 7:30 p.m.

“It’s a 1-game season from here on out; you win, you keep going; you lose, that’s it for you,” Parks said.

“Our kids know that and we’ve talked to them all season long about getting to a playoff game and actually winning a playoff game — something that’s never been done here at Lakewood High

School.

They’ve just got to go out there and play football and PARKS know each snap can determine the game.”

Lakewood is 0-8 in the playoffs in school history. It last made the playoffs in 2011 under Parks’ predecessor, Chris Collins, and lost to Airport 2421.

It won’t be an easy task as the Hawks are a team that is 4-1 at home and is averaging 26.6 points offensively while allowing just 15.9 defensively.

Parks said the Hawks run a spread offense with a 60-40 pass-torun ratio.

“They’re definitely a team that wants to spread you out, get you running sideways then run the ball against you,” Parks said. “If they can throw it, they’ll throw the ball. We’ve got to go down there and play our best game

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Pittsburgh outfielder Andrew McCutchen (22) won his third straight Sliver Slugger Award on Thursday along with Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout and Washington infielder Ian Desmond.

Trout, McCutchen win Silver Slugger Awards NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout, Pittsburgh’s Andrew McCutchen and Washington’s Ian Desmond have won their third straight Silver Slugger Awards.

Chicago White Sox rookie first baseman Jose Abreu and Houston second baseman Jose Altuve were among eight first-time winners announced Thursday by Louisville Slugger, which presents the annual honors following voting by major league managers and coaches for the top hitter in each league at every position.

Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre won for the fourth time and was joined on the AL team by White Sox shortstop Alexei Ramirez, Cleveland catcher Yan Gomes and Detroit designated hitter Victor Martinez. Trout joined Mike Piazza (1993-95) as the only players to win in each of their first three full big league seasons and was joined in the outfield by Toronto’s Jose Bautista and Cleveland’s Michael Brantley.

The NL team included Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, Pittsburgh second baseman Neil Walker and Washington’s left side of the infield, with Desmond at shortstop and Anthony Rendon at third. McCutchen was picked in the outfield along with Miami’s Giancarlo Stanton and Atlanta’s Justin Upton. World Series champion San Francisco earned battery honors, with Madison Bumgarner winning at pitcher and Buster Posey at catcher.

Brantley, Bumgarner, Gomes, Rendon, Stanton and Walker also were first-time winners.

Beltre, Gonzalez and Martinez each earned $100,000 bonuses; Trout $75,000; Brantley, Bumgarner and Posey $50,000 apiece; Altuve $25,000; and Abreu and Ramirez $15,000 each.

CAPPELEN TAKES LEAD AT SANDERSON FARMS

JACKSON, Miss. — Sebastian Cappelen shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday in his first PGA Tour round to take the lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship.

The 24-year-old Cappelen, from Denmark, opened with a bogey at the Country Club of Jackson and

TIGERS FROM PAGE B1 Standout defensive lineman Vic Beasley was shaken up as well.

The Tigers converted on fourth down and two yards to go on their first drive of the second half to set a 39-yard field goal at the 10:11 mark of the third quarter for a 20-17 lead.

A Clemson pass interference penalty kept a WF drive alive, but Weaver came up short on a 54-yard field goal attempt. On the ensuing Tigers possession, they drove deep in WF territory and gambled on fourth down and a yard to go, but couldn’t convert.

Two Clemson turnovers set up two Wake Forest scores and a late 50-yard field goal by Weaver made it 17-17 at halftime.

A sack, a turnover and a touchdown helped give the Demon Deacons an early 7-0 lead after a quarter of play.

WF’s Kevin Johnson picked off Stoudt for his fifth interception, setting up the Demon Deacons at the Clemson 43. A 24-yard pass on

made eight birdies to take a twoshot lead over Robert Streb, Scott Pinckney and Canada’s Nick Taylor.

Cappelen, playing on a sponsor exemption, was an All-American in college at Arkansas. He won the Air Capital Classic in June on the Web.com Tour.

Streb is back in contention two weeks after winning the McGladrey Classic for his first PGA Tour title.

Defending champion Woody Austin had a 70.

Bishopville native Tommy Gainey was eight shots off the lead a 1 over.

Play was suspended because of darkness with 15 players unable to finish.

MCDOWELL’S HOT START GIVES HIM LEAD IN SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI — Graeme McDowell opened with seven birdies in 12 holes and hung on for a 5-under 67 on Thursday for a two-shot lead in the HSBC Champions.

Rickie Fowler also got off to a fast start before he settled down.

Fowler had a 69, along with Brandt Snedeker, Chris Kirk, Tim Clark and Tommy Fleetwood.

RICE’S NFL SUSPENSION HEARING CONCLUDES

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Noon -- NASCAR Racing: Nationwide Series DAV 200 Practice from Avondale, Ariz. (FOX SPORTS 1).

1:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Race For Heroes 500 Practice from Avondale, Ariz. (FOX SPORTS 1).

2 p.m. -- PGA Golf: Sanderson Farms Championship Second Round from Jackson, Miss. (GOLF).

2 p.m. -- High School Football: Sumter Touchdown Club Meeting (FTC NOW 26).

3 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Nationwide Series DAV 200 Practice from Avondale, Ariz. (FOX SPORTS 1).

4:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 Pole Qualifying from Avondale, Ariz. (FOX SPORTS 1).

4:30 p.m. -- Women’s College Soccer: Southeastern Conference Tournament Semifinal Match from Orange Beach, Ala. -- South Carolina vs.

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6:30 p.m. -- College Football: Fordham at Bucknell (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

6:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Race For Heroes 500 Pole Qualifying from Avondale, Ariz. (ESPN2).

7 p.m. -- NHL Hockey: Columbus at Carolina (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. -- Women’s College Soccer: Southeastern Conference Tournament Semifinal Match from Orange Beach, Ala. -- Tennessee vs. Kentucky (SEC NETWORK).

7 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: Atlanta at Charlotte (SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: SCISA 3A State Playoffs Quarterfinal Game -- Cardinal Newman at Laurence Manning (WWHM-FM 92.3, WWHMFM 93.3, WWHM-AM 1290).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: Socastee at Sumter (WIBZ-FM 95.5).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: 3A State Playoffs First-Round Game -- Camden at Belton-Honea Path (WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: SCISA 3A State Playoffs Quarterfinal Game -- Heathwood Hall at Wilson Hall (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: White Knoll at Lexington (WNKT-FM 107.5).

7:30 p.m. -- College Football: Memphis at Temple (ESPNU).

8 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: Memphis at Oklahoma City (ESPN).

8 p.m. -- College Football: Utah State at Wyoming (ESPN2).

8 p.m. -- College Hockey: Boston University at Boston College (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 from Avondale, Ariz.

(FOX SPORTS 1, WEGX-FM 92.9).

10 p.m. -- PGA Golf: WGC-HSBC Champions Third Round from Shanghai (GOLF).

10 p.m. -- High School Football: Prep Zone Scoreboard Show (WIBZ-FM 95.5).

10:30 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: Cleveland at Denver (ESPN).

10:30 p.m. -- Women’s College Volleyball: Oregon at Washington (ESPNU).

4:30 a.m. -- International Soccer: Australian League Match from Brisbane, Australia -- Melbourne City vs. Brisbane (FOX SPORTS 2).

PREP SCHEDULE TODAY

Varsity Football Playoffs SCHSL 3A Lakewood at Hanahan, 7:30 p.m.

1A Division I East Clarendon at Allendale-Fairfax, 7:30 p.m.

SCISA 3A Heathwood Hall at Wilson Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Cardinal Newman at Laurence Manning, 7:30 p.m.

2A Thomas Sumter at Northwood, 7:30 p.m.

8-Man Cathedral Academy at Clarendon Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Regular Season Socastee at Sumter, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

Varsity Boys Cross Country Manning in 3A State Meet (at Sandhills Research Center in Columbia), 10 a.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE STATE THURSDAY

(19) Clemson at Wake Forest (late)

NEW YORK — Ray Rice and wife Janay testified Thursday on the final day of a hearing in the former Baltimore Ravens running back’s appeal of his indefinite NFL suspension.

The arbitration hearing before a former federal judge will determine whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying Rice’s twogame suspension, making it indefinite after video of the running back hitting his wife —then his fiancee — was released by TMZ. Rice and Janay Rice left the hearing separately about three hours apart after each testified at former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones’ office.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell testified for more than two hours to start the appeal hearing Wednesday, according to one of the sources. Ray and Janay Rice attended the full hearing Wednesday.

From wire reports

a double reverse put the ball at the 19, and two plays later quarterback John Wolford threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Serigne at the 1:09 of first quarter giving the Demon Deacons an early 7-0 lead.

Clemson was able to cut the lead to 7-3 with a Lakip 28-yard field goal in the second quarter.

Stoudt hit Tavaris Barnes on an 18-yard screen pass for a score, giving the Tigers a 10-7 lead.

Clemson’s Adam Humphries touched the ball on a punt that was blown by and over his head was recovered by Wake at the Tiger 13.

On the next play, Wolford hit Serigne with a 14-yard TD pass to make it 14-10 with 4:31 left before halftime.

The Tigers answered with Stoudt hitting Scott for a 4-yard TD pass with 27 seconds left in the first half.

A personal foul by Clemson gave WF an untimed down with no time on the clock setting the ball at the Clemson 32, and Weaver hit a wind-aided 50-yard field goal to tie the game.

SATURDAY

(12) Mississippi vs. Presbyterian, noon (SEC NETWORK) Wofford at Chattanooga, 1 p.m.

Furman at Citadel, 2 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at Charleston Southern, 11 a.m.

Coastal Carolina at Charlotte, 2 p.m.

South Carolina State at Florida A&M, 3 p.m.

Carson-Newman at Newberry, 2 p.m.

North Greenville at Catawba, 1:30 p.m.

Benedict at Paine, 2 p.m.

Limestone at Southeastern, 7 p.m.

ACC SATURDAY

(2) Florida State vs. Virginia, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) (22) Duke at Syracuse, 12:30 p.m.

Georgia Tech at North Carolina State, 12:30 p.m.

(WACH 57) Louisville at Boston College, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN2)

SEC SATURDAY

(1) Mississippi State vs. UT-Martin, 4 p.m. (SEC NETWORK) (3) Auburn vs. Texas A&M, 3:30 p.m. (WLTX 19) (4) Alabama at (14) LSU, 8 p.m. (WLTX 19) (17) Georgia at Kentucky, noon (ESPN) Florida at Vanderbilt, 7:30 p.m. (SEC NETWORK)

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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Orlando 91, Philadelphia 89 Charlotte 96, Miami 89 Detroit 98, New York 95 Toronto 110, Boston 107 Minnesota 98, Brooklyn 91 Chicago 95, Milwaukee 86 Washington 96, Indiana 94, OT San Antonio 94, Atlanta 92 Memphis 102, Phoenix 91 Utah 102, Cleveland 100 Sacramento 131, Denver 109 Golden State 121, L.A. Clippers 104

THURSDAY’S GAMES

San Antonio at Houston, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

New York at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Dallas at Utah, 9 p.m.

Cleveland at Denver, 10:30 p.m.

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST New England Buffalo Miami N.Y. Jets SOUTH Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville NORTH Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore WEST Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

W 7 5 5 1

L 2 3 3 8

T 0 0 0 0

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PF 281 178 211 154

PA 198 165 151 252

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PF 290 206 137 141

PA 211 197 202 251

W 5 6 5 5

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PA 187 219 169 174

W 6 5 5 0

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PF 245 200 205 129

PA 185 138 186 211

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST Philadelphia Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington SOUTH New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay NORTH Detroit Green Bay Minnesota Chicago WEST Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

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PA 177 195 209 229

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PA 198 236 221 245

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PA 126 191 199 222

W 7 5 4 3

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PF 192 202 168 149

PA 156 174 178 220

THURSDAY’S GAME

Cleveland at Cincinnati (late)

SUNDAY’S GAMES

San Francisco at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Miami at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Dallas vs. Jacksonville at London, 1 p.m.

Denver at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

Chicago at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New England, San Diego, Washington

MONDAY’S GAME

Carolina at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m.

NHL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP W Montreal 14 9 Tampa Bay 12 8 Detroit 13 6 Boston 14 8 Ottawa 11 6 Toronto 12 6 Florida 10 4 Buffalo 14 3 METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W Pittsburgh 11 8 N.Y. Islanders 12 7 New Jersey 12 6 N.Y. Rangers 12 6 Philadelphia 12 5 Washington 12 4 Carolina 11 3 Columbus 12 4

L 4 3 3 6 3 5 2 9

OT 1 1 4 0 2 1 4 2

Pts 19 17 16 16 14 13 12 8

GF 33 42 33 38 31 34 15 17

GA 41 32 31 33 27 31 20 45

L 2 5 4 4 5 5 6 8

OT 1 0 2 2 2 3 2 0

Pts 17 14 14 14 12 11 8 8

GF 45 39 33 34 37 38 25 30

GA 23 41 37 38 39 37 37 41

OT 1 2 1 1 0 4 5

Pts 17 16 15 15 14 12 11

GF 30 30 25 34 36 35 33

GA 23 25 27 23 22 42 43

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

SATURDAY

CENTRAL DIVISION

(5) Oregon at (20) Utah, 10 p.m. (ESPN) (6) TCU vs. (9) Kansas State, 7:30 p.m. (WACH 57) (7) Michigan State vs. (13) Ohio State, 8 p.m.

(WOLO 25) (8) Notre Dame at (11) Arizona State, 3:30 p.m.

(WOLO 25) (10) Baylor at (16) Oklahoma, noon (FOX SPORTS 1) (18) UCLA at Washington, 7 p.m. (FOX SPORTS 1) (21) Arizona vs. Colorado, 8 p.m.

(23) Marshall at Southern Mississippi, 7 p.m.

(24) West Virginia at Texas, 3:30 p.m.(FOX SPORTS 1) (25) Wisconsin at Purdue, noon (ESPNU)

NBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION Toronto Brooklyn New York Boston Philadelphia SOUTHEAST DIVISION Washington Miami Charlotte Atlanta Orlando CENTRAL DIVISION Chicago Milwaukee Cleveland Detroit Indiana

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L 1 2 3 3 5

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GB – 1 2 2 3

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

Minnesota Portland Utah

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W 8 7 7 7 7 4 3

GP W Anaheim 14 10 Vancouver 13 9 Calgary 14 8 Los Angeles 13 7 San Jose 13 7 Arizona 12 5 Edmonton 12 4 NOTE: Two points for a time loss.

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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Montreal 2, Buffalo 1, SO N.Y. Rangers 4, Detroit 3, OT N.Y. Islanders 3, Anaheim 2, OT

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Edmonton at Boston, 7 p.m.

Florida at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Calgary at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

New Jersey at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Toronto at Colorado, 9 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Edmonton at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Carolina, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

SOUTHWEST DIVISION Houston Memphis Dallas San Antonio New Orleans NORTHWEST DIVISION

St. Louis Nashville Winnipeg Chicago Minnesota Dallas Colorado PACIFIC DIVISION

Calgary at Florida, 3 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 8 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

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Terry Singleton and the rest of the Lakewood Gators look to earn a road playoff victory today when they travel to Hanahan to face the Hawks.

GATORS FROM PAGE B1 and let things fall where they may.”

Sophomore Victor Colbert and senior Walter Fagan share time at quarterback, Colbert more of a runner and Fagan Offensively for the Gators, senior quarterback Roderick Charles has completed 77 of 149 passes for

1,297 yards and 12 touchdowns against four interceptions. He’s also the team’s second-leading rusher with 845 yards on 92 carries with 10 scores.

Sophomore tailback Latheron Rodgers-Anderson leads the team in rushing with 1,050 yards and eight TDs on 141 totes.

Terry Singleton has rushed for 224 yards and leads the team in receiving with 29 catches for 499 yards and three scores. Se-

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Needless to say, the Gamecocks would like to fall somewhere in the first eight. So what needs to happen besides a Sumter win?

“We need a couple of the (second-place) teams to lose,” said Jones, who said there was an outside shot the Gamecocks could earn the No. 7 seed.

Should Sumter lose, Jones thinks it would be seeded any where from 12 to 14 and would obviously open on the road.

The Gamecocks come into the game on a 3-game winning streak, standing at 6-4 overall and 3-1 in region play.

Socastee is 7-3, but 2-2 in the region.

This will be third straight Horry County foe for Sumter, but the first at home. The Gamecocks went to the Grand Strand the past two weeks, beating Carolina Forest 63-41 and Conway 40-21.

Shrine Bowl selection Ky’Jon Tyler had two unbelievable performances in those games, scoring nine touchdowns (six against Carolina Forest) and piling up 776

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nior Khafari Buffalo is next with 344 yards and two scores on 17 catches.

D’Onte Washington leads the Gators defense with 99 tackles, including 74 solo, and 12 tackles for a loss, three quarterback sacks, an interception, four pass deflections and a fumble recovery. Juniors Daquan Tindal (66 tackles, 11 TFLs, seven sacks and a caused fumble) and Terrence Nolan (76 tackles 10 TFLs, one sack, two caused fum-

all-purpose yards (473 against CF).

“We’re going to try to keep him hidden,” Jones said with a laugh when asked about his plans for Tyler and freeing him up. “That’s all I’m going to say about that.”

Tyler has 54 catches for 1,117 yards and nine touchdowns and has rushed for 198 yards and four TDs on 12 carries. He’s taken three of nine kickoff returns back for scores and owns a 51.8 yardsper-return average.

Jones said the Braves play defense out of a 3-4 formation and like to keep seven or eight defenders around the line of scrimmage.

“They try to force you to do things you don’t want to do,” he said. “They’re a bend-but-don’tbreak defense; they want to make you drive it, keep everything in front of them, and hope you’ll make a mistake.”

Quarterback James Barnes had another strong week, completing 16 of 22 passes for 265 yards and two touchdowns against Conway. Rodney Pitts rushed for 133 yards on 16 carries.

“We’ve gone with a running back by committee, and we go with the hot hand,” said Jones, who has lost top run-

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bles and one fumble recovery) are also players causing havoc in the backfield.

Parks just picked up the Region VI Coach of the Year honor and called it a ‘team award’.

“I can’t sit here and call offense, defense and special teams and coach every single player,” Parks said.

“That’s why when they started football they had coaching staffs. We as a coaching staff are nothing without our kids.”

ning backs Russell Jenkins and Quentin Anderson for the season due to injuries. Rodney, Deonte Lowery and Destin Wise have all done a good job.”

Socastee is averaging 24.4 points while allowing 19.1 The Braves mix it up on offense, operating out of the Wing-T, a double tight ends-1 back for-

in eighth at 17:32. Harvin finished in the top 30 as well as MHS took fourth place to claim one of the seven spots available for the state meet.

“That meet was really challenging,” Zuniga said. “It was cold and wet and we were slipping and falling a lot out there. We’ve never been involved in anything like that, but we came together as a team and everyone stepped up and we did pretty well for still being a young (program).”

The program might be young, but the team is very experienced. All of the top three runners have been with the program a number of years, as have the Monarchs’ 5-7 runners – Caleb Elms, Burns Bailey and Tyrek Weeks. The only newcomer has been No. 4 runner and eighth-grader Traevion York.

“You can have a great top three and still lose the race,” Coach Ladson said. “So you have to be very balanced throughout and I think we have that this year. These seven have been the ones that have helped us win the region and qualify for state.”

Personal records are always the goal, and the Monarchs have raced at Sandhills a few times before, so they know what to expect.

“I’m obviously hoping they all run their best races here,” Coach Ladson said. “I would be very happy finishing in the top 10 or the top half of the 24 or so teams that will be there.”

Zuniga is aiming for a top 15 finish as well, and a time of sub-17 minutes would qualify him for what Coach Ladson described as a “state Shrine Bowl run” for seniors who qualify in Saturday’s state meet.

“That would be great, but I’m just going to go out there and run the best race I can,” Zuniga said. “We’re all going to try to run our best races and see what happens from there.”

mation, the shotgun and the wishbone.

The focus is running the ball. Running back Angelo Sauter leads Socastee with 889 yards and 14 scores on 200 carries, while quarterback Jordan Hodge has 657 yards and six scores on 159 attempts.

Hodge has completed 57 of

115 passes for 965 yards and five touchdowns, but has also thrown 13 interceptions.

“We can’t prepare for everything they do out of the formations,” Jones said. “We’ve been working on the things they do best out of each of them. They want to run the football, but they throw it just enough to keep you honest.”

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PREP FOOTBALL

SCHSL STATE PLAYOFF BRACKETS TODAY

Saints want more than just playoff berth

First Round

3A

(4) (3) (4) (3) (4) (3) (4) (3) (4) (3) (4) (3) (4) (3) (4) (3)

Upper State Daniel at (1) A.C. Flora Chapman at (2) Lancaster Pickens at (1) Wren Broome at (2) Emerald Blue Ridge at (1) South Pointe Seneca at (2) Chapin Clinton at (1) Greer Richland Northeast at (2) Belton-Honea Path Lower State Orangeburg-Wilkinson at (1) Hartsville Georgetown at (2) Airport Berea at (1) Berkeley Midland Valley at (2) North Myrtle Beach Wilson at (1) Swansea Beaufort at (2) Marlboro County Gilbert at (1) Myrtle Beach Lakewood at (2) Hanahan

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER michaelc@theitem.com Clarendon Hall finished with an 8-2 regular season record, good for second in SCISA 8-man football Region I under first-year head coach Michael Tindall, but the Saints aren’t satisfied.

Tindall said the team had a meeting on Monday with the players, coaching staff and athletic director Ritchie Way to discuss their feelings.

“A lot of it was (the players) were frustrated with me, I believe, and nobody would come out and say it, so we had a meeting and told them whatever you say there is no consequence on anything you say,” Tindall said. “We switched up a couple of things; we still practiced regularly, but didn’t hit as much, and we cut out some things that they normally do where they said,

2A DIVISION I

(8) (5) (6) (7) (8) (5) (6) (7)

Upper State Mid-Carolina at (1) Fairfield Central Pendleton at (4) Strom Thurmond Indian Land at (3) Newberry Powdersville at (2) Woodruff Lower State Aynor at (1) Dillon Waccamaw at (4) Lake Marion Wade Hampton at (3) Loris Garrett at (2) Ridgeland-Hardeeville

2A DIVISION II

(8) (5) (6) (7) (8) (5) (6) (7)

Upper State Chesterfield at (1) Chesnee Keenan at (4) Central Ninety Six at (3) Cheraw Abbeville at (2) Batesburg-Leesville Lower State Johnsonville at (1) Woodland Bishop England at (4) Andrews Barnwell at (3) Whale Branch Academic Magnet at (2) Timberland

1A DIVISION I

(8) (5) (6) (7) (8) (5) (6) (7)

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Upper State Dixie at (1) Christ Church St. Joseph at (4) Fox Creek Southside Christian at (3) Williston-Elko Lewisville at (2) McBee Lower State Latta at (1) St. John’s Hannah-Pamplico at (4) Bamberg-Ehrhardt Calhoun County at (3) Hemingway Allendale-Fairfax at (2) East Clarendon

‘If we don’t have it down by now, we’re not going to have it. ‘” CH will play TINDALL host to 6-4 Cathedral Academy on Friday in the quarterfinal round of the state playoffs. The Generals finished third in Region II and are led by senior quarterback Christian Rogers. They average 45 points a game and allow 33.8.

“They have a really good quarterback; he’s a do-it all guy,” Tindall said. “He can throw it 40 to 50 yards in the air on the run actually, or he can tuck it and get big chunks of yards.

He’s maybe about 6-foot-4(inches), 210 (pounds) and is a big kid.”

Rogers has thrown for 2,018 yards with 22 touchdowns to seven interceptions. He is also the team’s leading rusher with 1,872

yards and 25 TDs on 123 carries.

“The key to the game is stopping their quarterback,” Tindall said. “If we stop him, we’ve got a pretty good shot, but we’ve got to contain him.”

Drew Murray is Rogers’ favorite target with 41 catches for 1,273 yards and 14 scores.

Defensively, CA runs a tight 3-4-1 formation with Niko Brace and Rogers leading the way. Brace has 132 total tackles, including 13 for a loss, 6.5 quarterback sacks and a fumble recovery. Rogers has 114 tackles, including 13 for loss, 11 sacks and a fumble recovery.

CH senior quarterback Dustin Way is 44 of 80 for 816 yards with 13 touchdowns against four interceptions. He’s also the team’s second-leading rusher with 795 yards on 128 carries with nine scores.

Junior Gavin Allen is the Saints’ leading rusher with 821 yards and 13 touchdowns on 89 carries.

Senior Daniel Pappas has 598 yards rushing and five scores.

Matthew Corbett leads the Saints with 14 catches for 288 yards and five touchdowns followed by Pappas with 228 yards on 11 receptions.

Senior Mac Davis is the team’s leading tackler with 105 followed by classmate Trey Thomas with 103.

Starting center Raj Patel is questionable due to nagging injuries that have kept him out the last couple of weeks.

“It’s been a great experience,” Tindall said. “Not every team you have is experienced with football knowledge and as dedicated as these fellows.

“I guess it was kind of a fun week for them,” he said. “I think they’ll be ready.”

1A DIVISION II

(8) (5) (6) (7) (8) (5) (6) (7)

Upper State North at (1) Lamar Ridge-Spring Monetta at (4) Great Falls Whitmire at (3) McCormick Blackville-Hilda at (2) Hunter-Kinard-Tyler Lower State C.E. Murray at (1) Lake View Timmonsville at (4) Military Magnet Branchville at (3) Cross Lincoln at (2) Estill

Generals face tall task in undefeated Chargers

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com

SCISA STATE PLAYOFF BRACKETS TODAY

First Round

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(8) (5) (6) (7)

Pinewood Prep at (1) Hammond Porter-Gaud at (4) Ben Lippen Heathwood Hall at (3) Wilson Hall Cardinal Newman at (2) Laurence Manning

(4) (3) (4) (3)

Thomas Sumter at (1) Northwood Bethesda at (2) Calhoun Academy St. Andrew’s at (1) Florence Christian Orangeburg Prep at (2) Hilton Head Christian

(4) (3) (4) (3)

Trinity-Byrnes at (1) Curtis Baptist Colleton Prep at (2) Dillon Christian Dorchester at (1) Williamsburg Holly Hill at (2) Hilton Head Prep

2A

1A

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(4) St. John’s Christian at (1) Richard Winn (3) Andrew Jackson Academy at (2) Faith Christian (4) Carolina Academy at (1) Patrick Henry (3) Cathedral at (2) Clarendon Hall

LOCAL RACING

Sumter Speedway season ends with Turkey Day race

BY CODY TRUETT Special to The Sumter Item The 2014 racing season at Sumter Speedway will come to a close on Saturday with the annual Turkey Day race.

Gates open at 3 p.m. with racing starting at 5. Grandstand tickets are $15 for adults and pit passes are $25. Active duty military will be admitted to the grandstands free of charge.

There will be racing in all regular divisions with increased purses. There will also be racing action in the Hobby Outlaw division. This division has just a few rules, with only a items regulated.

C&J Auto Sales of Sumter is sponsoring the Mid Atlantic Street Stock division. This is an asphalt racing series that will make a run on the dirt oval. The feature will pay $1,000 to the winner.

The Extreme-4 division will have points Champion Bucky DeBerry looking to close out the season with another trip to Victory Lane. Runner-up John Ledwell and 3-time winner Landon Jefferys will provide a challenge.

A big field is expected for the Crate Late Model feature, led by points champion Gene Kinard.

The Super Street division will have points champion Joey Ayers, multiple winner Robbie Disher and Wade Skipper, who has won all three times he has been on hand this season, battling for the checkered flag.

The Stock V8 division, the newest division to Sumter Speedway, will look to close out on a high note.

The Stock-4 division will have points champion Bubba Kolb trying to break the 3-race winning streak of Banjo Duke. The Street Stock division has been dominated by Robbie Disher most of he season, but Matthew Hodge ended up as points champion. Jason Potts picked up his first win last week.

Thomas Sumter Academy did what it needed to do to earn a spot in the SCISA 2A football state playoffs. And what do the Generals get for their troubles?

A trip to North Charleston today to take on undefeated Northwood Academy in a quarterfinal game.

“We want to shock the SCISA world,” TSA head coach Troy Kessinger said with a laugh. “Seriously, we’ve been playing better, and we want to go down there and play our best. One of these days we might put it all together, even though we wouldn’t have picked the best team to do it against.

“They are a very good team.”

The Chargers are 10-0 on the season and have outscored their oppo-

nents by a total of 462 points to 81. The closest game Northwood has had was its 27-7 seasonopening win over Pinewood Prep, a 3A school.

The Chargers have a KESSINGER balanced offense, passing for 212.8 yards a game and rushing for 157.9. The quarterback is senior Will Lloyd, who has completed 121 of 189 passes for 1,968 yards and 29 touchdowns against just six INTs. Lloyd’s favorite target is senior Douglas Dwight, who has caught 38 passes for 838 yards and 15 touchdowns. Sophomore Dante Jackson has 21 catches for 260 yards and three touchdowns, freshman D’Angelo Knight has 19 catches for 219 yards and one score and senior Micah Deveaux has 13 receptions for

192 yards and four scores.

Junior Trevor McNeil has rushed for 643 yards and 13 touchdowns on just 61 carries, while senior Trey Stuckey has rushed for 571 yards and 10 scores on 66 attempts.

Thomas Sumter brings a 3-7 record into the contest and finished fourth in Region I with a 2-3 record.

The Generals will have its top running back, Jordan Adams, for the game. He broke his collarbone in the first quarter of the season-opening 28-14 win over Robert E. Lee Academy, and this will be his first action.

However, TSA will be without top wide receiver Cody Segura, who suffered an injury in last week’s 35-8 loss to 3A Cardinal Newman.

Kevin Lewis will start at quarterback, the only position he can play due to some injury issues.

PRO FOOTBALL

Panthers need Newton to bounce back against Eagles

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Panthers coach Ron Rivera hopes the return of two starting offensive linemen will give Cam Newton more time to make plays in the passing game.

Carolina is mired in a three-game losing streak entering Monday night’s game at Philadelphia and is 1-5-1 in its last seven games.

Newton has struggled during the last three weeks, held to 527 yards passing and one touchdown with three interceptions during that span. Many of his throws are sailing high or wide or his intended target.

Part of the issue is Newton has been under siege in the pocket, sacked 10 times in the NEWTON last three games.

The return of left tackle Byron Bell and left guard Amini Silatolu — who both practiced full on Thursday and aren’t listed on the team’s injury report — should help an offense that ranks 26th in the league. Starting right guard Trai Turner is also improving, but may still be another week away.

“A lot of it is not just about him,’’ Panthers coach Ron Rivera said of Newton’s

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recent struggles. “We can put it all on the quarterback and say it’s all about the quarterback, but this is a team game.’’

Rookie Kelvin Benjamin has dropped a pass in the end zone in each of the last two games for Carolina (3-51). And Newton has gotten little help from his running backs, which have been hobbled by injuries all year.

Playing behind an offensive line last Thursday night that included four undrafted players hasn’t helped either.

Rivera said earlier in the week if the Panthers are going to reach the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, they’ll need to stay healthy on the

offensive line the rest of the way.

“In order for us to make a run. ... we’ve got to have some groups have some continuity, the (offensive line) being one of them,’’ Rivera said. “It’s a group that’s been up and down because of the injuries.’’

Newton did some selfscouting during in five days off players had since last Thursday night’s loss to New Orleans and said he needs to get better, too.

“I think we’re at that point right now that everybody understands what’s at stake,’’ Newton said Wednesday. “Every week is a mustwin for us.’’

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Control what you can, learn to deal with what you can’t A s I have mentioned before, I was fortunate to play doubles with and have as a practice partner a gentleman by the name of Bill Davidson. Bill is a PHD in psychology, has been the head of psychology departments at major universities across the country and has spoken often on the subject of sports psychology.

We traveled together quite a bit for about two or years, and I was truly lucky to be along side as I heard him speak to groups and to people about his field of endeavor. It was obvious he loved what he did.

You could see it all over him when he shared his knowledge with others.

Before we go any further, let me state the man is a fine tennis player. One of the curious things about him was the joy he seemed to have in proclaiming how much he liked playing in the wind. By that I mean he liked playing tennis when it was windy outside.

We would be at a tournament and hanging around the tournament desk waiting for our match to be called and he would say, “Mark, this is great. It is really windy out there. I love playing in the wind. I always feel I have an extra advantage in the wind”. He did this so often that before long everyone knew his story about the wind.

I am not even sure he really liked playing in the wind.

He never even gave that up to me. But guess what? Everyone else believed it and that gave an edge to him on windy days. So where am I going with this? Control what you can and deal with the rest of it. There are so many things going on out there during a tennis match, and you only get to control a select few of them. The important thing is how we are going to respond to those things we cannot control, not whether they are going to

occur. The juniors under my charge at Palmetto Tennis Center are likely sick of hearing me say, Mark “It’s not a Rearden question of whether it is going to be stressful out there. It’s how you are going to deal with the stress when it arrives.” I believe this often times separates players of similar ability.

There is a player I teach weekly. I enjoy his wit, his skill on the court and his ability to make others conform to his style of play rather than their own.

For the last couple of weeks, he has been complaining of his vision, in particular his contacts and how he is struggling focusing on the ball. At times he’s upset to the point of having his anger neg-

atively impact his play.

I have asked him several times if he has done anything about setting up an appointment to get his eyes checked and get new contacts. Each time the response is no. Here is a perfect example of a situation where he has control over an area and does not exercise it.

Now on those occasions when his vision causes a bad outcome on the court, he begins drawing other uncontrollable things into the picture -- bad luck, guessed wrong or it is so windy out.

You see how this goes. When you don’t control the things you can, the stuff you cannot control gets magnified and becomes something that upsets you.

A ball rolling into your court during an important point, someone on an adjacent court being too loud or a bad call by an opponent.

There are countless examples of things that can go

wrong on the tennis court or on any field of play. And it is not a question of whether things will go wrong out there; they will, and they will line up one after another to thwart your efforts to perform at your best. And you will have no control over them, only how you respond to them.

One of the great tennis coaches of our time, Robert Lansdorp, once stated something similar that ties in nicely to this. He said, “It is not critical to have all the shots, it is critical to be able to respond to all the shots.”

And do you know what is infuriating? Those people on the other side who seemingly have all the luck and practically nothing goes wrong.

Why doesn’t bad stuff happen to them? It is no wonder they can stay so calm when all of the bad stuff seems to be happening to me. I’ll bet they even like playing in the wind.

Think about it.

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Mrs. Muldrow will lie in repose one hour prior to funeral time.

The family is receiving friends at the home of her brother and sister-in-law, John (Eva) Stark, 3257 Raccoon Road, Manning.

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Margaret received her formal education in the schools of Clarendon County. In her youth, she acDUKES cepted Christ as her personal Savior and joined Union Cypress AME Church.

Margaret leaves to cherish her memories: one daughter, Kelly Dukes Ballard; two sisters, Mamie (Horton Jr.) Dukes Davis and Elizabeth Dukes, both of Manning; and two brothers, Johnny Edward Dukes and Sam Dukes Jr., both of Manning. She is also survived by one aunt, Martha Gethers of Washington, D.C.; one uncle, John Wesley McKinney of Manning; a host of nieces, nephews, other special

relatives and friends.

The celebratory services for Ms. Dukes will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Union Cypress AME Church, Manning, with the Rev. Mary E. Hamilton, pastor, officiating, the Rev. Loretta Conyers, presiding, and the Rev. O’Donald Dingle and the Rev. James Robinson assisting. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery.

Ms. Dukes will lie in repose one hour prior to service time.

The family is receiving friends at the home of her sister, Elizabeth “Liz” Dukes, 6284 Moses Dingle Road, Manning.

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

OBITUARIES FRANK R. PHILLIPS AUGUSTA, Georgia — Entered into rest on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, Frank “Ronnie” Ronald Phillips, 80, loving husband of 62 years to Barbara Becknell Phillips.

Mr. Phillips was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Augusta. He was a graduate of the PHILLIPS Academy of Richmond County. He retired after 21 years from the United States Air Force as chief senior master sergeant and retired after 22 years with Civil Service at Shaw Air Force Base. He enjoyed designing and building his own homes.

He also enjoyed judo and was an avid and talented photographer.

Family members in addition to his wife include his daughter, Cheryl Phillips; sons, Alan Phillips, Barry Phillips and David Phillips; 12 grandchildren; and 12 greatgrandchildren.

Frank was a very principled man and set a great example for his children and generations to come.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday in the chapel of Thomas Poteet & Son with the Rev. Barry Phillips officiating. Burial will follow in Bellevue Memorial Gardens.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 106 SRP Drive, Suite A, Evans, GA 30809.

The family will receive friends beginning at 1 p.m. on Sunday until the time of the service at Thomas Poteet &

ETHEL MULDROW MIAMI, Florida — Ethel Lee Starks Muldrow, 82, died on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at North Shore Medical Center, Miami.

She was born on Sept. 29, 1932, in Summerton, a daughter of the late Charlie Edward and Rosanna Mellerson MULDROW Starks. She received her formal education in the public schools of Clarendon and Sumter counties and furthered her education at Morris College. At an early age, she accepted Christ and joined Briggs Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. After moving to Miami, she joined Mt. Moriah Baptist Church.

She was a self-taught licensed clothes maker.

Survivors are three daughters, Lorrine Woods, Rosa Williams and Hattie GreenTymes, all Miami; one brother, John (Yvette) Starks of Manning; one sister, Willie Mae Ragin of Miami; six grandchildren; 14 greatgrandchildren; and two greatgreat-grandchildren.

The celebratory services for Mrs. Muldrow will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday at St. John Baptist Church, Pinewood, with the Rev. Joe Gamble, pastor, the Rev. C.L. Cooper Sr., officiating, Elder Willie Starks, presiding, and the Rev. Bobby McDonald, Pastor George Erwin and the Rev.

MARGURITTE DUKES Marguritte “Margaret” Dukes, 73, died on Nov. 1, 2014, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

She was born on Nov. 4, 1940, in the Jordan community of Clarendon County, a daughter of the late Sam Peter Dukes and Azalea McK-

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Dispute develops after daughter goes to college DEAR ABBY — My husband and I have been married for eight years. We have no children of our own, but he Dear Abby has an 18-year-old ABIGAIL daughter VAN BUREN from a previous relationship who has been coming over every other weekend and holidays since she was 10. Even though she lives with her mother, she has a dedicated room that’s packed to the gills with her clothes, games, toys, etc.

I would like to repurpose her room now that she is off to college. My husband says

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no. We don’t have a guest bedroom, so I feel strongly that it makes no sense to keep her room intact when we could use the extra space. I have made many sacrifices as a stepmother over the years, and feel I deserve to finally stretch out a bit and enjoy the extra space. By the way, all the furniture in her room happens to be mine, and her room used to be my guest room before we got married.

My friends agree with me, but my husband says he needs “time to adjust.” I’m really upset and would like an objective opinion. AM I being unreasonable or asking too much too soon?

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under your roof, my advice is to slow down and don’t jump the gun. Your husband appears to be suffering from a form of empty nest anxiety right now. Let this play out for another year or two, so he can see how little his daughter will be using that room. It would also be better for her not to feel that the minute she left town you dismantled “her” room. If you’ll be patient, and trust me on this, you’ll look like a saint. If you don’t, you may come across as heavy-handed and be labeled a wicked stepmother.

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OBITUARIES

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MILDRED J. SUMTER

GENEVA W. OVERSTREET

CAMDEN — Funeral services for Mildred James Sumter, 92, will be held at noon on Saturday at Gaines Baptist Church, Camden.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. She died on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014.

She was born in Camden to the late Shedrick and Carrie Salmond James. In New Jersey, she was a member of St. Luke Baptist Church, Paterson. She was married to the late Rev. Jesse Sumter.

She is survived by a daughter, Ilene Wright of Camden; sons, Tyrone Mance of Paterson, New Jersey, Leon Sumter of Roselle, New Jersey, Ministers Larry and Renee Presley of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, and Pastor Jerome (Evangelist Patricia) Sumter of Sumter. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren, Denise Wright, Charles (Tara) Wright, Thomas A. Sumter, LaShandra Johnson-Baldwin, Ashley Mance, Fabiana (Ono) Peters, Ashia Presley, Tyree Sumter, Miranda White, Na’Imaha Jones and Bilal Woodson; 14 great-grandchildren; and six greatgreat-grandchildren.

Nelson-Haile Funeral Home of Camden is in charge of the arrangements.

BISHOPVILLE — Geneva Wilson Overstreet died on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, in a Camden Nursing Facility.

The family is receiving friends at 317 Cedar Lane.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Boatwright Funeral Home of Bishopville.

TOMMY GOODMAN BISHOPVILLE — Tommy Goodman entered eternal rest on Nov. 5, 2014, at his residence.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 12890 Lynches River Road, Olanta.

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

JOHNNY WILLIAMS BISHOPVILLE — Johnny Williams, husband of Bonnie Williams, entered eternal rest on Oct. 31, 2014, at McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence.

Visitations will be held from 1 to 7 p.m. today at the mortuary.

Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at St. Paul United Methodist Church, Elliott, with the pastor, the Rev. Blondell S. Miller, officiating.

RENEA HOOD Renea Hood, 53, died on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on Oct. 19, 1961, in Anderson, Indiana, she was a daughter of Henry Earl Prince and Dorothy Mae Dickson.

The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 1908 Roche Road, Sumter.

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

ROSA ANTHONY Rose Lee Burns Anthony, 87, died on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, at Sumter Health East and Rehabilitation Center.

She was born on Aug. 29, 1927, in Sumter County.

The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 163 Rast St., Sumter.

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

LOTTIE W. WILLIAMS Lottie W. Williams, 88, of Camden, died on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

Plans are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by Collins Funeral Home.

HOLMES N. SMITH JR. Holmes Nathaniel Smith Jr., 45, husband of Tonia Mallett Smith, died on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

He was an investigator for the Clarendon County Sheriff ’s Department.

He was born on June 15, 1969, in Columbia, a son of Frances Smith Smith and the late Holmes N. Smith Sr. The family is receiving friends at the home of his father-in-law and motherin-law, William “Bill” and Ruth Mallett, 408 W. Boyce St., Manning.

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

HENRY MARSCHALL BISHOPVILLE — Henry Marschall, 59, passed on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, at Kershaw Health Medical Center at Camden.

The family will receive relatives and friends at 156 Prescott Road, Bishopville.

Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by Square Deal Funeral Home of Bishopville.

MALACHI O. WILSON BISHOPVILLE — Malachi Owens Wilson, 61, passed on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, at The Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg.

He was a son of Mozell Hickman Isaac and the late Malachi B. Wilson.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Mt. Lisbon Presbyterian Church with Pastor Othan Franklin, eulogist, and Pastor Ella Busby officiating.

Interment will follow at St. John Cemetery, Pinchum Sly Road, Bishopville.

Square Deal Funeral Home, 106 McIntosh St., Bishopville, is in charge of these arrangements.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at esquaredealfun@sc.rr.com.

HERBERT A. MICKENS Herbert Alexander Mickens, 40, departed this life on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, as a result of an automobile accident in Dalzell.

Born on March 10, 1974, in Lee County, he was a son of Herbert Lee Cabbagestalk and Victoria (Henry) Jenkins. “Herb,” as he was affectionately known, attended the public schools of Sumter County and was a graduate of Hillcrest High School Class of 1992. He was currently attending Central Carolina Technical College, pursuing a career in business management.

He leaves to cherish his precious memories: a loving mother, Victoria (Henry)

Jenkins; a caring father, Herbert Lee Cabbagestalk; a devoted fiancee, Matilda Brown of the home; two sons, Brandon Mickens of Dalzell and Airmen 1st Class Rashaad Mickens of Omaha, Nebraska; two daughters, Kaisha Mickens of Sumter and Ma’niya Dawson of the home; two brothers, Antoni and Maurice Jenkins of Dalzell; one granddaughter, Ryleigh Mickens; three uncles, Richard Lee Cabbagestalk, Thomas (Bertha) Lewis and James (Kami) Simon; 12 aunts, Johnnie Mae (Freddie) Ray, Mary Gass, Annie Louise McMillian, Emmaline Mickens, Rebecca Simon, Corine Prescott, Ruby (Vincent) Philips, Louise (Tony) McCall, Lucille (Merk) Cabbagestalk, Sue Emma Jenkins, Easter Bolden and Susie (Frank) Ritter; adopted family, Johnathan (Betty Jean) Champion and children; a host of special cousins, other relatives and friends.

Homegoing services will be held at noon on Saturday in the Hillcrest Middle School gymnasium, 4365 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell, with the Rev. Barbara W. Davis, eulogist, the Rev. Frank Williams Jr., presiding, assisted by Pastor Dorothy Maple.

The family is receiving family and friends at the home of his mother, Victoria Mickens Jenkins, 3050 Table Top Lane, Dalzell.

The remains will be placed in the Hillcrest Middle School gymnasium at 11 a.m.

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

Floral bearers and pallbearers will be family and friends.

Burial will be in Mt. Olive Memorial Garden, Pear Street, Woodrow.

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

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

Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.

CAROLYN JONES WEDGEFIELD — Carolyn Jones, 62, wife of David Jones, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, at her home.

Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Curtis S. Sr. and the late Laney Brown Smith.

Survivors include her husband, David Jones; a daughter, Tammy Lynn Rogers (Mike); four sons, David Leo Hearrell (Rhonda), Christopher Lee Hearrell, Samuel Leon Hearrell (Tampla) and Shawn Lavern Hearrell; two sisters, Jeaniette Reed (Dave) and Ella Mae Tae; a brother, Curtis S. Smith Jr. (Linda); 14 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and special friends, Sammy and Peggy Harvin, both of Sumter.

Carolyn loved her husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren dearly.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Joyce Parrish.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Elmore-Cannon-Ste-

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2014 phens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Bobby Driggers officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Michael Friel, Timmy Jones, Allen Jones, Russel Jones, Donnie Hearrell and Ray Jones.

Honorary pallbearers will be Casey Jones and Alex Jones.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. on Sunday at Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home and other times at the home, 30 James Haskell Road, Wedgefield.

Memorials may be made to the family c/o ElmoreCannon-Stephens Funeral Home, 515 Miller Road, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

MARY LOUISE BRABHAM BISHOPVILLE — Mary Louise Brabham, 56, wife of Richard Beard Brabham, died on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, at Agape Hospice House in Columbia.

Born in Charleston, she was a daughter of Ara Belle Hudson McCaskill and the late Robert Edward McCaskill. She was a member of Mizpah Baptist Church.

Survivors include her mother; her husband; two daughters, Stephanie Christina Brabham Sydnor (Deveaux) of Camden and Jennifer Marie Brabham of Columbia; and two sons, Richard Brabham Jr. of Columbia and Johnathan Christopher Brabham of Bishopville.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday at Mizpah Baptist Church, 3659 Jamestown Road, Camden, with the Rev. Will Cline officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be John Joyner, Frankie Caughman, Terry Davis, John DuBose, Ray DeBruhl and Shannon Sims.

Honorary pallbearer will be Skeeter Hawkins.

The family will receive friends following the service in the church fellowship hall.

Memorials may be made to Agape Hospice of Camden, 700 W. DeKalb St., Camden, SC 29020.

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

RUTH WASHINGTON Ruth Ann Charles Washington, 80, entered eternal rest on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Rimini, she was a daughter of the late Jackson and Mattie McKnight Charles. She attended the public schools of Sumter and Clarendon counties and was a graduate of Scott’s Branch High School. She

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received a bachelor of science degree from Allen University and completed 30 hours of studies at the University of South Carolina.

She was a lifelong educator, certified in the areas of both elementary education and secondary library science. She retired after 31 years of devoted service in public education, all of which were spent in Clarendon School District One at Scott’s Branch High School.

She was a member of Antioch AME Church in Rimini, where she served as president of the church lay organization, program chairman, member of the senior choir, women’s missionary society, steward and stewardess board, and past adult Sunday school teacher.

She was an active member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serving in various capacities on the local, district, and conference levels. She faithfully served as women’s missionary society first vice chairperson for the Wateree District; NGO Standing Committee chairperson for the Central Conference; and the Central Conference Lay Organization as the corresponding secretary. She served as an alternate delegate to several general conferences and quadrennials of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Because of these many years of steadfast service, the honor of WMS Torch lighter was bestowed upon her.

Survivors are two children, Rodrigo (Beverly) Washington of Manning and the Rev. Melissa (Sam) Green of Rimini; four grandchildren, Quenola (Joaquin) Brown of Columbia, Roderica Washington of Sumter, Trenton Green of Rimini and Morgan Green of Columbia; four great-grandchildren, Madison, Michaela, Mackenzie and Valencia; three sisters, Susan E. Martin of Rimini, and Mattie Lawson and Viola Charles, both of Manhattan, New York; and a host of other relatives and friends.

She can be viewed from 2:30 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Funeral services will be held at noon on Saturday at Antioch AME Church with the Rev. Earl Clark, eulogist, the Rev. Leroy Green, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Serena Freeman, the Rev. Dr. Gerogeann Pringle, the Rev. Talley Gadsen, Elder Alonzo Middleton and the Rev. Leonard Simmons.

Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of her daughter, the Rev. Melissa (Sam) Green, 9365 Missy Lane, Pinewood.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church 325 Fulton Street • Sumter

773-3658 • www.mtzionmissionarybc.com “The Little Church with the Big and Friendly Heart”

Join Us This Sunday 10:45 AM Youth Choir Anniversary Message by: Rev. Samuel McMahand II, Student Representative to the Morris College Board of Trustees

Opportunities for Life Enrichment 9:45 AM Church School (Sundays) 10:45 AM Morning Worship (Sundays) 6:00 PM Evening Worship (1st Sundays) 10:00 AM Golden Age Fellowship (3rd Wed.) 5:30 PM Prayer Service (Wed.) 6:00 PM Bible Study (Wed.) 6:00 PM Youth Ministry (Wed.) After School Care - Mon. - Fri. 2:30 - 5:30 PM (K-5th Grade)

Rev. James Blassingame, Pastor

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Flowers Farm Produce 2037 Summerton Hwy 1 mi. N of Summerton, Hwy 15 M-F 9-5 Sat 9-3.

Homegrown fresh vegetables. U pick tomatoes.

Thank You

Firewood

The family of Linda Darnell Canty Nelson would like to thank everyone for your calls, cards, visits, and most of all your prayers during this difficult time in our lives.

The Canty Family Lost & Found

REWARD Lost: Female blk/white cat area of Cox & Pinewood Rd. If found call 803-506-4315 lv msg

BUSINESS SERVICES Business Services Are you to busy to clean your house during the holidays? 9 Yrs Exp., reliable & dependable. Call Brenda 495-2278 or 468-2225

Bonner's Bush-hog Service Cut shooting lanes, food plots, winter cuts, commercial, residential. 40 years experience. 481-4225

For Sale, Tons of fire wood premium seasoned oak. You pick up $40 per pick up load, delivered 1/2 cord $70. Call Collins Tree Service 803-499-2136

Mobile Home Rentals

Support Sumter United Ministries

Bristol General Contractors, LLC has openings for both Carpenters and Laborers located at Shaw Air Force Base, SC. This is a regular, full-time, benefit-eligible position and is expected to last approximately 18 months.

Scenic Lake West- 2BR 2BA No pets Call 499-1500 9am-5pm Only

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.

Mention this ad & get 10% off.

A Notch Above Tree Care Full quality service low rates, lic./ins., free est BBB accredited 983-9721

STATE TREE SERVICE Worker's Comp & General liability insurance. Top quality service, lowest prices. 803-494-5175 or 803-491-5154 www.statetree.net

PETS & ANIMALS

2174 Tanglewood Rd. Saturday, 7:30 am - 11 am. Lots of misc. items & some furniture.

3290 Green View Pkwy Sat. 7-12.

Furn., electric scooter, & lots of misc. items.

Family yard sale, anything you might want! Sat. 8 am - 12:30 pm. No early sales. 1931 Golfair Rd. 202 Nash St. Sat. 7 am - 11 am.

Toys, home decor, CDs, DVDs, other misc. items.

ESTATE SALE, 3155 Nazarene Ch. Rd. off Hwy 15 South. Look for balloons. Sat. 8 am - ? Fabric, notions, chairs, old trunk, lift recliner, tools, radio & record player console, large safe, Bric-a-Brac, glassware.

28 Tanager Trl. Sat. 7-12 Huge multi-family, furniture, big TV, sporting goods, new items, ect.

Large Church Yard Sale! Sun., Nov. 9th, 8:30am - 2pm. Sumter SDA Church, 103 N. Pike West across the bypass from McLaughlin Ford.

Yard Sale Sat. Nov 8 at 5 Wactor St. 8 am to noon. Household items, furniture, misc. stuff. No early sales.

LARGE GARAGE SALE 1st & 3rd Weekend Tables $2 FLEA MARKET BY SHAW AFB

Dogs 4 Males 3 Females, Half Rotts 8 weeks , 1st shots tails docked, $75 Each Call 803-468-0994

Open every weekend.

905-4242

2910 September Dr. Sat. 7-11 Furn., Mini fridge, under cnter ice maker, tools, clothes.

Annual Yard Sale 842 W liberty St "Alice Boyle Garden Center" Sat 8-11:30

MERCHANDISE

Indoor Yard/Bake Sale Fri & Sat Nov. 7th & 8th, 7am - 3 pm. Green Acres Assembly of God. 537 Lewis Rd.

Auctions Raymond Hamilton Estate Auction 1780 Mellette St. Sumter, SC

Youth Opportunities Unlimited going out of Business Sale 16 Byrd St Sat 7am-? Alot of office equip., books, sofas, desks & etc..

Entire contents of home ONLINE AUCTION Preview: 11/9, 3-5 PM 11/11, 4-6 PM Details and Bidding at www.jrdixonauctions.com Rafe Dixon, SCAL 4059 (803) 774-6967

Farm Products Fall Sale Palmetto Cornish Chickens (2nds) $12.00/box (12 birds a box) Palmetto Farm Supply 335 Broad St. Sumter, SC 29150 Oct. 27 - Nov 8, 2014 While supplies last.

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

Guarantee 464-5439 or 469-7311

$$$ AVON $$$ FREE TRAINING! 803-422-5555

Firewood for Sale Will Deliver. Call 803 651-8672

Trucking Opportunities

Expert Tech, New & used heat pumps & A/C. Will install/repair, warranty; Compressor & labor $600.

Call 803-968-9549 or 843-992-2364

872 Twin Lake Dr. Sat. 7-12. Baby items, winter clothing, furniture, Rain Shine

Help Wanted Part-Time

For Sale or Trade

102 Westwood Dr. Sat. 8-12 Tools, men & women cloths, collectable barbies, hshld items, books, to much to mention.

Lawn Service

RN's/LPN's Needed Immediately Tender Care Home Health Care of SC. Pediatric exp. Highly Desired.

Apply with resume at tchhemployment@att.net (888) 669-0104

Accepting applications for all positions. Apply in person on Wednesday between 4p-5p at Sonic on McCrays Mill Rd. Sumter.

Nice Side by side Refrigerator/freezer with crushed, cubed, water in door. $300 Call 803-406-3694

3075 Kari Dr. Sat. 7:30-? Toys, bikes, holiday items, antique furn., drum set, cloths, bedding, & dishes.

Ding Dong Avon Calling Avon by Vi, ISR. $15 to start. Let's talk 803-934-6292 or join online today! www.startavon.com Ref: Viola

124 Laverne St. Fri. 9-5 Sat. 7-2 furniture, bicycles, toys, tools. Priced to sell.

Multi-Family 1025 Cutleaf Dr. (across from Covenant Place) Sat. 7-? Furniture, clothes, flooring remnants) toys, video games, holiday deco, a little of everything.

Winter is hear time to insulate your attic. Call Nunnery Roofing & Remolding 803-968-2459

Please visit our website at www.brist ol-companies.com to view the full job description and to apply.

Resumes will not be accepted.

3 Family 16 Robbins Ave Sat 8-1 Too Many items to list!

No early birds.

Community & Christmas Fundraiser Yard Sale (Pinewood) 12 W. Clark St. Sat. 7-? Furn., pool table, utility trailers, tools, collectibles, bicycles and more!

The Shepherd's Center Annual Flea Mkt. Extended Hours 9am-1pm Daily 24 Council St

Four Seasons Lawn Care Serving Sumter for almost 20 yrs!

Free est. 494-9169/468-4008

19 Avalon Ct. Sat. 7-? Toys, cloths, entertainment center, and misc.

SUMTER'S OWN STORAGE WAR!!!

On Saturday, November 8th, Storage Plus located at 830 South Pike West, will auction off the contents of approximately 20 storage units. Each unit to be sold separately, NO RESERVE. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m., bidding to begin at 10:00 a.m. A 10% buyers fee will be added to winning bid. Winner MUST pay in cash at the close of the auction. A "clean out" fee will be collected with payment, when unit is completely cleaned, deposit will be refunded.

More details will be provided upon registration. IN THE EVENT OF HEAVY RAIN, the auction will be rescheduled.

Home Improvements

GrassBusters Lawn Maintenance, leaves & pine straw. Pest Control.

Insured and Lic. 803-983-4539,

Please help us by donating New or Used items from your yard sale or business for our future yard sales. Call for Pick-up Ed: 803-464-7643.

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales

Multi Family 226 Hagan St. Fri & Sat 7-4 Christmas decor and lots of other items!

We will be happy to change your ad if an error is made; however we are not responsible for errors after the first run day. We shall not be liable for any loss or expense that results from the printing or omission of an advertisement.

We reserve the right to edit, refuse or cancel any ad at any time.

Help Wanted Full-Time

753 Fawn Circle Sat. 7 am - 1 pm kids car bed & dresser, Hshld, computers, kids toys

810 S Wise Dr Sat 7-11 sofa sleeper, clothing, shoes, toys, crib set, & misc items.

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11:30 a.m. the day before for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday edition.

9:30 a.m. Friday for Saturday’s edition 11:30 a.m. Friday for Sunday’s edition.

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales

Farm Products

ANNOUNCEMENTS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 07, 2014

P/T Class-A CDL drivers needed to haul poultry. Night Shift. Must have 2yrs verifiable exp & good MVR. Call 804-784-6166

Medical Help Wanted Physician's Office needs Med Admin staff & Certified Medical Assistant.

Fax resume to 803-774-7004

Cemetery Plots- Two plots with vaults, opening/closing fees and granite marker with vase in Evergreen Memorial Park, Sumter, SC. Save thousands. Call 803-469-9763

RENTALS EMPLOYMENT

Rooms for Rent

Help Wanted Full-Time

Cable, kitchen & washer access.

Private bath. Prefer neat female. $100/wk. with 1 wk dep. Call 803-305-7776.

Cali Joe's now hiring for all positions. Credible experience required. Bring resume in person to 105 E Wesmark Blvd. 9am -2pm Mon-Thurs Only

Unfurnished Apartments 1 Br, 3 Room Apartment 7B Maney St, No appliances $350 mo. & dep Call 775-0776

Appointment Coordinator with outstanding verbal skills for positive and professional, fast-paced pediatric dental office. Excellent pay and benefits for dental experience. Fax resume to 803-934-9943.

Great Location in town: 2 Br, 1.5 Ba, washer, dryer, water, ideal for senior. 803-505-3100 Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette.

775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO

Salesman for busy car lot. Sales experience required. Salary negotiable. Apply in person at 1282 N Lafayette Dr Sumter. No phone calls.

Local Insurance Agency representing major auto insurer seeks P & C agent. Experience in auto and home preferred. Excellent oral, written and organizational skills required. Reply with resume to: rarmfield@geico.com

Hampton Pk Hist. Dist Clean,attractive 1BD (3 rm apt.)

Range, Refrig.,Washer & Dryer Ceiling fans, No pets.

Off Street parking $410 Mo. +Sec Dep w/Yr Lease Credit report & Refs Req. Call 773-2451

Full time maintenance position available full benefits, vacation, sick leave, insurance, paid holidays. Call 803-435-4492 Assistant Body Shop Manager Wanted: Purpose: To oversee Body shop crew in a family owned business. To oversee the quality control and scheduling of customer auto claims.

Working directly with Insurance companies to ensure our customers' needs are getting met. Responsible for writing estimates, scheduling appointments, and ordering parts.

Requirements: Must have a great personality for customer interaction.

College Degree appreciated but not necessary.

Time management skills are crucial.

Wage: Depends on experience.

Health Benefits, 401k.

2 weeks paid vacation (after 2 yrs employment 1 week first two years).

Multi-Family Sale 910 S Wise Dr Sat 7:30AM. Lots of stuff.

Multi-Family Sale Sat. 7-11 Kids stuff, furniture, household items, & more. 2540 Tahoe Dr. (off Wilson Hall Rd.) Huge! Carolina Anglers Annual Yard Sale. 378 E. Flea Market (Back row tables). Sat Nov 8 7AM-?

SUPER YARD SALE

Sumter United Ministries,

at Farmers Market Thurs.-Sat. Nov. 6,7,8th 7-3. Jewelry, Christmas Decor., Lots of Furniture

Near Shaw: 2br/1ba w/ large porch $400/mo Lot # 28 fenced yard 840-3371, 494-8603, 494-3573

STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015 Nice 4 Br 2 Ba D/W MH w/ dinning rm, den w fire place, bonus rm. c//h//a, new carpet & paint, brick underpinning, lg fenced lot 803-972-0900 or 803-983-0408 3BR MH, No pets. C/H/A. $425/mo + dep. Call 803-469-2011

Office Rentals Office rentals: 712 Bultman Dr. Upstairs Space, 450 sq ft - 2 units $325 mo 170 sq ft 1-office $165 mo, 550 sq ft can divide $395 mo.

275 sq ft 2 units $250 mo.

250 sq ft 1 office $225 mo.

Call 469-9294 or 491-6905

Vans / Trucks / Buses Huge Yard Sale 3555 Camden Hwy. Dalzell Sat. 8a-5p Sun. 2p-5p Everything must go! Antiques, collectibles, furn., much more. Make an offer.

Dalzell Water District has the following vehicles/tractor for sale: 2000 Chevrolet C2500 Pick-Up truck, 49,000 miles. Will have reserve.

1986 Toyota Pick-Up truck, 192,000 miles. No reserve.

L35 Kubota Tractor/Backhoe, 800 hrs. Will have reserve.

All vehicles/tractor can be inspected at Cook's Auto Parts, 3170 Frierson Road, Dalzell, S.C., Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Please remit bids no later than November 24, 2014 to: Young, Keffer & Associates, P.A. 23 W. Calhoun St. Sumter, SC 29150 803-773-4371

Autos For Sale

Business Rentals Christmas, Birthday, Parties, etc.

Large room available. Call Bobby Sisson at 464-2730

2012 Impala Extra clean, fully equipped, 42K mi., GM warranty $10,900 Call 840-7633

Commercial Rentals 4,000 sq ft retail space available.

Call Bobby Sisson, 464-2730.

REAL ESTATE Homes for Sale Open House 3440 Sportsman Dr. Dazell. $40 drawing for general public. Sat. 2pm-4pm for more info call 803-983-7385

Land & Lots for Sale 2 ac, Manning, Lake Marion. Will perk, 5 mins. to water. M.H. welcome. Paved road, lightly wooded. $19,900. Owner will finance.

Down payment. $2,000. Payment, $202. Call anytime. 473-7125

SUPER SALE Chevy Z71 4x4 Dodge Ram 4x4 Ford F-150 Starting at $3,900 Price is Right Auto Sales 3210 Broad St 803-494-4275 1999 Chrysler Concorde 264000 miles, 2 new tires, radiator, & brakes.

No AC. 25-30mpg runs good. $1300 Call 803-472-0901

Sumter Cemetery Lot for sale 10 spaces, marble coping included. $5000 Evergreen Cemetery Lot for sale 4 spaces near walkway up to cross $5000 Call 803-968-1084

Miscellaneous

DALZELL/WALMART 1 AC. PAVED, SEPTIC OPTIONAL! $5990! 888-774-5720

RECREATION Camper Spots Available at Randolph's Landing on Beautiful Lake Marion. Boat Ramp, Boat Docking, Fishing pier, Restaurant and Tackle Shop. All season weekly rates for motel. Call for rates: 803-478-2152.

Reconditioned batteries $35. New batteries, UBX 75-7850. Golf cart batteries, 6V. exchange $300 per set, while they last. Auto Electric Co. 803-773-4381

Unfurnished Homes 2 & 3BR Apt & houses available in Sumter. No Sec. Dep. required. Call 773-8402 for more info.

109 Wright St. 2 Br, 1 ba, $395 mo. + $395 sec. dep. Call Marshall 803-651-8831.

Large 4BR home Woodlawn Ave $550 deposit/rent.

Call 803-468-1900.

Mobile Home Rentals 760 Goodson Rd Practically new MH 2 Br 2 Ba, W/D C/H/A, $450 mo + Dep. Call 469-3079

Apply in Person at Prothro Chevrolet, Buick, GMC. 452 N. Brooks St, Manning, SC 29102

185 Lakewood Dr. Sat. 7 am - 12 noon. Multi-family, great selection of clothes, kitchenware, decor, lamps, other misc.

TRANSPORTATION

14x70 2BR 1.5 BA Fncd Lot, clean, Part. furn. Shaw Area . $450 Mo + Dep Call 840-3371 or 494-3573

Full Time Party Director Needed Must work flexible hours and weekends. Experience required in party planning, booking and making arrangements for parties of 25 to 2,500.

Must present resume with references.

Serious inquiries only contact

Manufacturing Facility Camden, South Carolina

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is accepting applications for Manufacturing Technicians. We are seeking dependable individuals with solid problemsolving, thinking, and communication skills who are able to work safely in an industrial environment.

12-hour shift schedule (~14 days/mo) HS diploma or GED is required.

Industrial experience is preferred.

Manufacturing Technicians: Start rate ~ $18.00/HR Successful candidates will have basic mechanical skills and the desire to grow and progress in the job.

In order to be considered for employment, please visit us online at www.kochcareers.com and submit your resume to the job in which you are interested. A valid email account is required to apply. It is important to check email frequently as communication regarding your application process will be via email.

803-983-7448 or email to: yarber.t.admin@ubimf.com

Equal Opportunity Employer Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran

It’s the After Thanksgiving Sale NOW - Before Thanksgiving at Mayo’s!

Sale

You Heard It Right!

Why Wait till the Day after Mayo’s is starting “NOW!” SHIRTS, TIES, PANTS & SHOES

Buy 1, Get a 2nd “like” item at HALF PRICE!

Entire stock of Suits - Buy 1 Regular Priced Suit, Receive 2nd Suit of Equal Value FREE!

MAYO’S SUIT CITY If your suits aren’t becoming to you, It’s a good time to be coming to Mayo’s!

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Sumter School District Invitation For Bids

Beer & Wine License Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that McCarty's Emporium, LLC 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 3909 Camden Hwy. Dalzell, SC 29040. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than November 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) 896-0110.

Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that Dos Jalapenos, LLC 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 or Liquor at 1339 Peach Orchard Rd., Sumter, SC 29154. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than November 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) 896-0110.

Sumter School District invites qualified contractors to offer Sealed Bids for a New Ramp at Shaw Heights Elementary School, 5121 Frierson Road, Sumter, South Carolina, 29152 The scope of work for this project involves the construction of masonry and concrete ADA complaint entrance/exit ramps at two corridor doorways. The project will include some minor masonry and concrete demolition as well as new concrete sidewalks and associated site grading.

Contractors may obtain bid documents by contacting the Architect: Jackson & Sims Architects, 7-1/2 South Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, 803-773-4329.

Deposit for bid documents (hard copies and/or electronic documents) will be $50.00 (non-refundable). Bid documents (hard copies and/or electronic) are available by request at jsarch@ftc-i.net.

The Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at the site.

The Owner will receive bids on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at the Sumter School District Office, Conference Room, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter, SC, 803-469-6900.

Sumter County School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive minor formalities in the bidding, and to award the contract to other than the lowest bidder if deemed to be in the best interest of the District.

Summons & Notice ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO: 2014-CP-43-1494 Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee, for New Century Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-1, Plaintiff, vs. Demetria V. Brooks aka Demetra V. Brooks, Johnny O. Brooks, and the Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of B.G. Berry a/k/a Bernard Gene Berry; Lisa Rachels, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of B.G. Berry a/k/a Bernard Gene Berry, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard

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against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on July 23, 2014.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending or is about to be commenced in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendant for the purpose of foreclosing a certain mortgage of real estate heretofore given by Johnny O. Brooks and Demetria V. Brooks to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee, for New Century Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-1 bearing date of November 30, 2004, and recorded December 8, 2004 in Mortgage Book 962 at Page 388 in the R e g i s t e r o f M e s n e Conveyances/Register of Deeds/Clerk of Court for Sumter County, in the original principal sum of Forty Six Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty and 00/100 Dollars ($46,750.00). That thereafter, the Mortgage was assigned unto the Plaintiff, by assignment recorded on April 25, 2014 in Book 1200 at Page 5346., and that the premises effected by said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof are situated in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and is described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with any and all improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Privateer Township, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot No. 30 on a plat of Pocalla Subdivision-First Addition made by J.P. Edwards, R.L.S., dated June 18, 1971 and recorded in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-30 at Page 59; pursuant to section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), reference to said plat is hereby craved for the particulars of the boundaries, metes, courses, and/or distances of the property delineated thereon. This property is known as 366 Seminole Road, Sumter, South Carolina. TMS No. 224-12-01-024 Property Address: 366 Seminole Road, Sumter, SC 29150 RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC, Post Office Box 11412, Columbia, South Carolina 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff, 1118942 11/7, 11/14, 11/21/2014

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IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 2014-DR-43-1013 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER JERI L. VARNER, Plaintiff, vs.

ELIZABETH A. YON, ANDREW J. YON, IV, AND

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Roe, Defendants. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the Appointment of Kelley Y. Woody, Esq. as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (which are constituted as a class designated as "John Doe") and any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability (which are constituted as a class designated as "Richard Roe"), it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Kelley Y. Woody, Esq. is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (constituted as a class and designated as "John Doe"), all unknown minors or persons under a disability (constituted as a class and designated as "Richard Roe"), all of which have or may claim to have some interest in the property that is the subject of this action, commonly known as 366 Seminole Road, Sumter, SC 29150, that Kelley Y. Woody, Esq. is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, constituted as a class and designated as "John Doe", all unknown minors and persons under a disability, constituted as a class and designated as "Richard Roe", unless the Defendants, or someone acting on their behalf, shall, within thirty (30) days after service of a copy of this Order as directed below, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for the Defendants constituted as a class designated as "John Doe" or "Richard Roe". IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be served upon the unknown Defendants by publication in the Item, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of SUMTER, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WITH ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED HEREIN; ALSO ANY PERSONS WHO MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE; AND ANY UNKNOWN MINORS OR PERSONS UNDER A DISABILITY BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2838 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered

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TO: ELIZABETH A. YON, ANDREW J. YON, IV, AND JOHN DOE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the pleadings in this matter for termination of parental rights and adoption filed with the Clerk of Court for Sumter County, which is the Complaint, which the original has been filed on the 15th day of August, 2014, copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at 5 Law Range, Post Office Box 1268, Sumter, South Carolina 29151-1268, within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; if you fail to answer said Complaint within the time stated, Plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

JONES, SETH, SHULER & JONES, LLP Richard T. Jones Attorney for Plaintiff 5 Law Range Post Office Box 1268 Sumter, South Carolina 29151 (803) 773-8676

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YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

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

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff,

TO THE NAMED:

vs.

Samuel R. Lewis,

DEFENDANTS

ABOVE

Defendant(s).

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

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YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on September 16, 2014.

J. Martin Page, SC Bar No. 100200 Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone 888-726-9953 Fax 866-676-7658 Attorneys for Plaintiff Columbia, South Carolina

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