Former Clarendon 1 employee faces embezzlement charges More than $22,000 allegedly taken from school district BY MATT BRUCE matthew@theitem.com
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A former Clarendon County School District 1 employee faces criminal charges after reports she allegedly stole more than $22,000 from the district. Dana Hawkins, 52, of 316 Sunset Drive, was charged with embezzlement of public funds (valued at more than $10,000) in connection
with the incident. According to Clarendon County court records, the Manning woman turned herself in to deputies Oct. 31, and she was released from HAWKINS Clarendon County Detention Center on a $20,000 surety bond later that day. Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office released a report on the case
Friday afternoon. According to the sheriff’s office report, School District 1 finance administrators contacted authorities Oct. 21 to report the embezzlement of district insurance funds. The complainant told officers she discovered the alleged embezzlement while conducting a yearly grant report, finding several discrepancies
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BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com Today marks the end of Perioperative Nurse Week. Perioperative registered nurses provide specialized care to surgical patients before, during and after the procedure, said Ivonne Moore, registered nurse and certified nurse in an operating room at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. “I’m the patient’s advocate,” Moore said. “My best interest is the patient’s best interest.” She is one of three certified for the position at the Sumter hospital and one of 12 nurses that serve in the operating rooms of the hospital and free-standing surgical center.
WHY DID YOU BECOME A PERIOPERATIVE NURSE? I got my surge tech training during my 15 years in the Air Force serving in Desert Storm and Desert Shield. When I got out, I became a cop, but my husband wasn’t too thrilled with that. So I went back to nursing school and worked as a surge tech here (at Tuomey) while I went to school. I was recruited as an OR (operating room) nurse before I graduated.
It’s my first love. I’m not a floor nurse. I like the action, the ability for things to change, and you have to think in the spur of the moment.
WHAT DO YOU TYPICALLY DO BEFORE AN OPERATION? With day surgery, once we get the patient in the room, we do a time out. We check the patient’s name, date of birth, the procedure being done and then allergies and antibiotics. We check to make sure the patient is in MOORE a safe position, and we work to make you as comfortable as you can be on that little bed. We really interact with them up until the last minute they fall asleep, holding their hands and talking to them. I work here, and I’ve had numerous surgeries here, and I still get jacked up before surgery. I try to imagine it’s me or a family member on the table. Then we get them over to the table where the magic happens, and they go off to sleep. We call another time out. The surgeon checks
one more time that this is the correct patient and procedure. The surgeon checks that they have the right site, such as the right knee or left knee. The appendage is usually marked with the surgeon’s initials. Once everyone agrees it’s all right, they go ahead and start the surgery.
WHAT DO YOU DO DURING THE PROCEDURE? I contact the family to let them know it’s actually starting. So if the physician told you it would take two hours, start counting time now. Then we’re on the other side of the sterile field charting. Charting is the legal form for what’s being done. We serve as liaisons between those in the operating room and other medical professionals and surgeon and the family. If it’s a laparoscopy procedure, we’re moving around monitors and IV bags.
WHAT ABOUT AFTERWARD? When they wake up, we slide them over to the bed or stretcher and accompany them to recovery.
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Police jail man wanted in July shooting incident BY MATT BRUCE matthew@theitem.com Police arrested a Sumter man wanted in connection with a July shooting early Friday morning. Kelvin Owens, 34, of 835 Webb St., was charged with attempted murder, discharging a firearm into a dwelling, possession of a weapon during a violent crime and unlawful possession of a weapon in connection with the shooting inci-
dent. He faces additional charges stemming from his arrest Friday. Sumter police encountered the suspect and another man about 1:40 a.m. walking in the road along Silver Street carrying alcoholic OWENS drinks. According to reports from Sumter Police Department, officers approached the two men and
asked for identification. Both said they had no ID, and Owens told police his name was Corey Dwyar. At some point during the questioning, Owens took off running, and officers apprehended him after a short foot chase. Police arrested both men and transported them to Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center, where authorities learned their true identities. Owens had open Sumter County warrants, many of
which stemmed from the July 12 shooting along West Patricia Drive, where shots rang out just after 3 a.m. According to a Sumter County Sheriff’s Office report, witnesses identified Owens as one of the shooters who began firing upon a home and vehicle parked in the first block of the street, striking the residence at least once and the car twice. The report indicated Owens was embroiled in a fight with several of the home’s residents
hours before the shooting. Victims said he fired shots from a handgun while advancing upon the house from U.S. 521. Witnesses told police a white four-door car pulled in front of the home moments later and began firing more shots at the building. Investigators found 10 .223-caliber shell casings and five 9 mm shells in the roadway near the scene. Two flower pots in front of the residence were also shot during the melee.
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Meal tickets will benefit Bordeaux scholarship BY RAYTEVIA EVANS ray@theitem.com Sumter School District Teacher Forum is well on its way to raising money for scholarships for high school seniors interested in attending South Carolina colleges and universities to study education. This year will be the first that the organization for educators offers the Hailey Bordeaux Memorial Scholarship for Future Educators, and the deadline to purchase dinners to support this scholarship is drawing near. According to Teacher Forum liaison Shelly Galloway, the organization has received more than $2,000 in donations for the scholarship — not including dinner sales — in honor of the Sumter School District graduate who died in a boating collision last summer. Tickets for dinners to benefit the scholarship will be available at the district office at 1345 Wilson Hall Road until Nov. 21. Dinners will include turkey tetrazzini, green beans, apple crisps and rolls and can be picked up at Kingsbury Elementary School, 825 Kingsbury Road, from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 8. Dinners sold for the scholarship fund will be $6 per plate, and the district and Teacher Forum will also provide delivery to cars on the day of pickup if needed. Kingsbury’s Laura Davis said Thursday that they have sold more than 800 tickets for dinners so far and hope to continue selling tickets in support of the scholarship until the deadline Friday. The day of pickup, Davis said they will have a drive-thru service so people won’t have to get out of their cars, and teacher cadets and varsity cheerleaders from Sumter High School, Bordeaux’s alma mater, will also lend a hand along with other community members. Davis said she became acquainted with Bordeaux, who was 21 years old at the time of her death, when Bordeaux visited her class. Students were drawn to her and looked forward to her visits and sharing lunch with her while she served as a teacher cadet during high school. “I teach students with autism, and Hailey took an interest in my class. The students loved her, and she would stop by to have lunch with one of my students who always looked to see if she had on these boots she would always wear,” Davis said. “I already have my boots, so I’ll wear those in honor of her when we pass out the dinners.” Bordeaux graduated from Sumter High School in 2011 and was a S.C. Teaching Fellow at University of South Carolina. According to teachers and Superintendent Frank Baker, Hailey inspired a lot of students around her.
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A representative from U.S. Army Central talks to students at Lakewood High School on Friday morning during Military Day. Some of the students received exceptional scores on the ASVAB and plan to enter a branch of the military after high school. Career specialists Gayle Jennings and Alicia Hammett said they planned Military Day to give the students an opportunity to get more information about opportunities with the military.
Students learn more about military jobs Branch representatives share work opportunities with teens at Lakewood BY RAYTEVIA EVANS ray@theitem.com Juniors and seniors at Lakewood High School received the opportunity to inquire about different branches of the military Friday morning as they engaged representatives from different branches during Military Day. Many of the students who participated on Friday recently received exceptional Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery scores, according to career specialists Gayle Jennings and Alicia Hammett. Jennings said this year is their second year organizing Military Day for students. Hammett and Jennings plan different events each year to help students decide on career and college options after graduating. During the event, eight representatives from five branches of
the military spoke to students in separate roundtable sessions, answering their questions and providing more information about the opportunities in the military. Earlier this semester, the school also hosted a career fair, and Hammett stressed that these types of events are important so students have the opportunity to gather information, especially students who are not sure what they want to do after graduating high school. Jennings said because Sumter is a military town, many students have experienced military life in some way and show some interest in joining the military. Marcus Payams and Jamie Tyler Atkinson, Lakewood seniors who scored high on ASVAB, said they were interested in participating and have gotten a lot of information to help them in making a decision. Payams comes from a U.S. Army family with his mom, dad and brother all joining right after high school. He said he is looking at also joining the Army or the U.S. Navy for the experience and for educational
opportunities in the future. “I’m not only interested because my family is in the Army, but I’m interested in the lifestyle, the opportunities and for educational reasons,” Payams said. Atkinson said he’s looking into joining the Marines and getting into engineering. Because of their high scores, Jennings said Atkinson and Payams have the opportunity to pick from a number of jobs within their decided military branch once they join after high school. Sumter School District’s high schools provide multiple opportunities for students to interact with military, college and business representatives as they get closer to their high school graduation. This week, Sumter High School also hosted military occupational day where school officials brought in Military United with Stakeholders to Inform the Community, or MUSIC, and more than 30 military personnel showcased about 17 occupations and provided information to students about the military.
awarded to Family Health Centers in Orangeburg. The centers have locations in six South Carolina communities. Clyburn said the money will be used to improve access to health care. So far this year, the state has received $9 million in such funds for primary health centers.
tricts as it looks to revitalize its downtown. Local media outlets report the proposal was developed by the Urban Land Institute of Charleston, which was hired by the Myrtle Beach Downtown Redevelopment Corp. to take a look at the center of the city. The report suggests that a nightlife and entertainment district for young adults could be developed during the next decade. The report also suggests a mixed-use development where the old oceanfront Pavilion amusement park used to be.
SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS Teacher Forum is also selling cookbooks with a collection of district faculty and staff members’ recipes for $10 to benefit the scholarships they plan to award to students at the end of the school year. The application and due date for Teacher Forum scholarships are now on the district’s website under the Teacher Forum tab. The district and Teacher Forum are accepting donations directly to the Hailey Bordeaux Scholarship or to the Teacher Forum’s general fund for scholarships. Make all checks payable to Sumter School District Teacher Forum and send to Sumter School District, Attention: Teacher Forum, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter, SC 29150. The organization is asking that you specify on the subject line of your check how you wish your donation to be directed. The district also plans to notify her father and mother, Shawn and Pam Bordeaux, of donations to the Hailey Bordeaux Scholarship for Future Educators.
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Hagel orders changes in nuke force WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered top-to-bottom changes in the management of the nation’s nuclear arsenal Friday, saying a lack of sustained attention and investment in the force caused it to “slowly back downhill.” Speaking to Pentagon reporters, he said the Defense Department will boost spending on nuclear forces by about 10 percent a year for the next five years — an increase of nearly $10 billion — adding there is no problem on this issue the Pentagon can’t fix. “The internal and external reviews I ordered show that a consistent lack of investment and support for our nuclear forces over far too many years has left us with too little margin to cope with mounting stresses,” said Hagel, who was flanked by senior Air Force and Navy officers. “The root cause has been a lack of sustained focus, attention and resources, resulting in a pervasive sense that a career in the nuclear enterprise offers too few opportunities for growth and advancement.” Hagel ordered two reviews in February — one by Pentagon officials and a second by outside experts — as a result of a series of Associated Press stories that revealed lapses in leadership, morale, safety and security at the nation’s three nuclear Air Force bases. The good news, Hagel said, “is there has been no nuclear exchange in the world.” Acknowledging the years of neglect, which included glaring problems that prompted then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates to fire his top military and civilian Air Force leaders in 2008, Hagel vowed renewed accountability. “Previous reviews of our nuclear enterprise lacked clear follow-up mechanisms,” he said. “Recommendations were implemented without the necessary follow-through to assess that they were implemented effectively.” Hagel added that this time, people will be held accountable to en-
Ex-S.C. Sen. Ford indicted COLUMBIA (AP) — Former Sen. Robert Ford has been indicted on eight charges that include misconduct in office, forgery and ethics violations, state prosecutors said Friday. In a news release, Attorney General Alan Wilson said that the Charleston Democrat had been indicted by the Richland County grand jury on misconduct in office and forgery less than $10,000. Ford also faces six Ethics Act violations: two counts each of personal use of campaign funds, depositing campaign contributions into personal accounts and false reporting. Wilson said that Ford improperly benefited from public office by using campaign money for personal use and then filing false campaign reports and submitting forgeries to the Senate Ethics Committee. Ford resigned about a year and a half ago during hearings on similar allegations that he used campaign donations for personal expenses, misrepresented his spending, failed to report numerous expenses and personal loans and then tried to cover it up. His resignation, citing health reasons, ensured his colleagues could not expel him.
sure the improvements are done. Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, the head of U.S. Strategic Command, said the nuclear force has been operating securely. “You don’t see the mushroom cloud or that sort of thing. We must continue that,” he told reporters. Hagel’s moves, while not dramatic, are designed to get at the core of the problem. The reviews concluded that the structure of U.S. nuclear forces is so incoherent that it cannot be properly managed in its current form, and that this problem explains why toplevel officials often are unaware of trouble below them. The reviews found a “disconnect” between what nuclear force leaders say and what they deliver to lower-level troops who execute the missions in the field. To illustrate the degree of decay in the intercontinental ballistic missile force, the reviews found that maintenance crews had access to only one tool set required to tighten bolts on the warhead end of the Minuteman 3 missile, and that this single tool set was being used by crews at all three ICBM bases in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. When one crew needed it, they had ask the crew holding it to send it by Federal Express. Hagel said Friday the crews now have one at each of the three bases and will soon get two each. Among his more significant moves, Hagel authorized the Air Force to put a four-star general in charge of its nuclear forces, according to officials. The top Air Force nuclear commander is a three-star. Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson is responsible not only for the 450 Minuteman ICBMs, but also the nuclear bomber force. Hagel has concluded that a four-star would be able to exert more influence within the Air Force and send a signal to the entire force that the mission is taken seriously, the defense officials said.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel listens to a question during a briefing at the Pentagon on Oct. 30. Hagel has concluded that problems in the nation’s nuclear forces are rooted in a lack of investment, inattention by high-level leaders and sagging morale, and he is ordering top-to-bottom changes, vowing to invest billions of dollars to fix the management of the world’s most deadly weapons, two senior defense officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. Hagel also OK’d a proposal to upgrade the top nuclear force official at Air Force headquarters in the Pentagon from a two-star general to a three-star. The review’s authors, retired Air Force Gen. Larry D. Welch and retired Navy Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., found fault with one of the unique features of life in the nuclear forces. It is called the Personnel Reliability Program, designed to monitor the mental fitness of people to be entrusted with the world’s deadliest weapons. Through time, that program has devolved into a burdensome administrative exercise that detracts from the mission, the authors found. Hagel ordered an overhaul. Hagel concluded that despite tight Pentagon budgets, billions of dollars more will be needed over the next five years to upgrade equipment. That will include a proposal to replace the Vietnam-era UH-1
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Huey helicopter fleet that is part of the security forces at ICBM bases. The Air Force declared them out of date years ago but put available resources into other priorities. The Navy, which operates nuclear-armed submarines, has had its own problems, including an exam-cheating scandal this year among nuclear reactor training instructors and has suffered from a shortage of personnel. When he ordered the reviews, shortly after the Air Force announced it was investigating an exam-cheating ring at one ICBM base and a related drug investigation implicating missile crew members, Hagel was said to be flabbergasted that such misbehavior could be infecting the force. “He said, ‘What is going on here?’” said one senior defense official, who spoke about the review on condition of anonymity. Hans Kristensen, a nuclear expert with the Federation of
American Scientists, said Thursday that while he had not seen the Hagel reviews or heard what actions Hagel was ordering, he was skeptical that it would make much difference. “Throwing money after problems may fix some technical issues, but it is unlikely to resolve the dissolution that must come from sitting in a silo hole in the Midwest with missiles on high alert to respond to a nuclear attack that is unlikely to ever come,” Kristensen said. A cascade of embarrassments befell the Air Force during the past two years, beginning with an AP story in May 2013 revealing one missile officer’s lament of “rot” inside the force. Another AP story in November disclosed that an independent assessment for the Air Force found signs of “burnout” and elevated levels of personal misconduct among missile launch crews and missile security forces.
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Iraq’s forces drive IS militants from key town BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces drove Islamic State militants out of a strategic oil refinery town north of Baghdad on Friday, scoring their biggest battlefield victory since they melted away in the face of the terror group’s stunning summer offensive that captured much of northern and western Iraq. The recapture of Beiji is the latest in a series of setbacks for the jihadi group, which has lost hundreds of fighters to airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition in a stalled advance on the Syrian town of Kobani. On Friday, activists there reported significant progress by Kurdish fighters defending the town.
Iraqi security officials said government forces backed by allied militiamen took control of Beiji and also lifted a monthslong Islamic State siege on its refinery — Iraq’s largest. However, two military officials reached by telephone in Beiji late Friday said there was still some fighting going on at the refinery, but reinforcements had been sent in, and Iraqi forces were poised to retake it. The security officials said the army used loudspeakers to warn the small number of residents still holed up inside the town to stay indoors while bomb squads cleared booby-trapped houses and detonated roadside bombs. Also Friday, a suicide bomber tried
to drive an explosive-laden bulldozer into a Beiji college used by government forces, the military officials said. The bomber was shot dead as he approached the gate but still managed to detonate his explosives, killing three soldiers and wounding seven, they said. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Beiji will now likely be a base for staging a push to take back Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit to the south after government forces tried to retake it earlier this year. That campaign stalled, and the city remains in Islamic State hands. In Syria, meanwhile, activists re-
Surgeon with Ebola virus coming to U.S. for care FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown today to the United States for treatment, officials from Sierra Leone and the United States said. Dr. Martin Salia was to be taken to Omaha to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center, Sierra Leone’s chief medical officer, Dr. Brima Kargbo, told The SALIA Associated Press on Friday. Salia reportedly lives in Maryland. Salia is a general surgeon who had been working at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. Patients, including mothers who hours earlier had given birth, fled from the 60-bed hospital after news of the Ebola case emerged, United Methodist News reported. The hospital was closed on Tuesday after Salia tested positive, and he was taken to the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center near Freetown, the church news service said. Kissy hospital staffers will be quarantined for 21 days. A Sierra Leone citizen, the 44-year-old lives in Maryland and is a permanent U.S. resident, according to a person in the United States with direct knowledge of the situation. The person was not authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity. His wife, Isatu Salia, said in a brief telephone interview Friday afternoon that she had spoken with her husband by phone earlier in the day and that he sounded weak but lucid and understood what was going on. She said she understood that arrangements were now in place to bring him to the U.S. and that she needed to get to where he will be treated. Salia received his surgical training from a group called the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons, which seeks to train African doctors on a level comparable to training they would receive in the U.S., said Richard Toupin, of Auburn, Indiana, a fellow medical missionary. “He is one of the besttrained surgeons in his country,” Toupin said. “He is a very competent surgeon.” Bruce Steffes, executive director of PAACS, said Salia graduated from the surgical training program in 2008. The training includes a requirement to practice in Africa for four years after completion. As a result, Steffes said, Salia was free to practice anywhere he wanted but elected to stay in Sierra Leone, where the need for surgeons is immense. “People like Martin are just absolutely dedicated, highly trained ... and doing their best in absolutely horrifying conditions,” Steffes said.
ported advances by Kurdish fighters against Islamic State militants in the strategic town of Kobani. Reached by telephone, activist Barzan Isso said the situation has improved for the town’s defenders following the recent airdrop of weapons by the United States and the arrival of heavily armed Kurdish fighters from Iraq to join the town’s defense. “The YPG made major progress in the Mashta Nour hill that overlooks parts of the city, and they were also able to cut the main road leading to Aleppo,” he told The Associated Press, using an acronym for a main Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units.
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Prem Bajgai, considered the kingpin of kidney organ trafficking, sits inside a jail Nov. 2 in Dhulikhel, Nepal. Police arrested 10 traffickers last year.
Health woes show up in Nepal village known for organ sales BY BINAJ GURUBACHARYA The Associated Press HOKSHE, Nepal — Under crushing financial strain, Kumar Budathoki sold one of his kidneys to organ traffickers for $5,000, a sum he hoped would help set him up for a lifetime free of money problems. Instead, he got a lifetime of health problems — and only a fraction of the money promised to him by a shady broker in Hokshe, a village of tiny farms and mud huts that has been the center of the illegal organ trade in Nepal for more than a decade. Only about 4,000 people live here, yet at least 121 of them have sold their kidneys, said Krishna Pyari Nakarmi, who has been leading the campaign against the kidney trade in Hokshe. Those are only the cases she has been able to document, and she thinks the number could be much higher. Despite a recent clampdown on the trade, authorities warn that the promise of easy money could easily erase any gains made against the organ traffickers. And villagers who already sold their kidneys continue to suffer the health consequences. “I sold my kidney because I wanted to buy some land to give my family a good life,” said Budathoki, 37, outside the twostory mud home where he lives with his mother, his wife and two teenage children. “But now I have no job, deteriorating health and no future for my family,” he said. The black market for human organs is
thought to be flourishing around the world, with kidneys the most commonly trafficked organs because they can be harvested from live donors. In Hokshe, traffickers have operated with surprising impunity. Nearly every resident seems to know someone who sold a kidney on the black market. Dr. Rishi Kumar Kafle of the National Kidney Center in Katmandu said while there is illegal organ trafficking elsewhere in Nepal, he knows of no place where it has been as pervasive as it is in Hokshe. The reasons are unclear: It’s not the poorest area of Nepal, nor is it particularly convenient to medical facilities able to conduct transplants. For more than a decade, traffickers openly stalked the village, high in the mountains outside Kathmandu, scouting for farmers and poor laborers to lure or dupe into giving up kidneys. Many residents are illiterate and were all too willing to go under the knife. Over the years, the village earned the nickname “the kidney bank.” The donors, promised hundreds or even thousands of dollars in a country where per-capita income is only $700, would then cross the border into India for the surgery, with their organs destined for wealthy patients there. Health complications seen in the village include leg pain, fatigue, high blood pressure and urinary problems. Even though a person can live normally with only one kidney, doctors say patients must look after their health carefully, follow a nutritious diet and drink alcohol only in moderation.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Islamic extremists in Nigeria have seized Chibok, forcing thousands of people to flee the town where insurgents kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April, a local official said Friday. The Boko Haram insurgents entered the town Thursday, shooting from pickup trucks and motorcycles, Bana Lawan, chairman of the Chibok local government, told The Associated Press. “Nobody can tell you what is happening there today because everybody is just trying to escape with their lives,” he said. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. is closely monitoring the situation in Chibok. “We condemn these attacks in Chibok, a community that has already suffered too much. ... We remain committed to helping the government of Nigeria address the threat posed by extremist organizations,” Psaki told reporters. In a separate development, a bomb exploded Friday night in northern Kano city, the secondlargest population center in Nigeria, killing six people, including three police officers, according to the police. Resident Aliyu Yusuf Hotoro said many buildings shook from the force of the explosion from a car bomb in a gas station on a main road leading to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state. Soldiers, police and emergency rescue operations workers cordoned off the area. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bomb, but Boko Haram extremists have detonated them in Kano in the past. Meanwhile, attempts to call the cellphones of some of the kidnapped girls’ parents living in Chibok failed. Boko Haram extremists often destroy cellphone towers, and the military often cuts communications to areas under attack. Dozens of the kidnapped girls escaped in the first couple of days after their capture from a boarding school just outside the town, but 219 are still missing.
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Verdi concert was indeed SAX-sational BY JANE G. COLLINS Special to The Sumter Item There are some things that are priceless — such as inspiration, laughter and education — yet Sumter Shaw Community Concert Association managed to include all of those opportunities in one concert Thursday evening. Rob Verdi’s “SAX-sational!” at Sumter Opera House, with its updated sound system, afforded great music, serendipitous fun and a second half that ended joyously. The first half of the evening, the talented and friendly Verdi introduced the audience to a variety of jazz styling and saxophones. Using eight saxophones, Verdi incorporated the mellow, syncopated rhythms of Stan Getz’s version of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “The Girl from Ipanema” on the bass sax with its highest and lowest notes; “Dixie,” a song from 1927 on a 1920 sax pitched in the key of F and sounding like the English horn (Verdi thinks there may be only 12 left in the world); and “My One and Only Love” with the dreamy, mellifluous saxophone tones. He used the haunting melody of Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo” to introduce the slide saxophone with no keys but leather straps and a zipper-like strap that helped function something like the slide trombone. Verdi brought back the feel of the 1920s with its flappers and
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Rob Verdi provided an exciting and memorable experience for his audience on Thursday with his SAX-sational concert. He also gave workshops to local high school band members, who then joined him on stage for several numbers. The concert was presented by Sumter-Shaw Community Concert Association, which has two performances remaining in its 2014-15 season.
POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Debra Pringle, 46, of 4815 Old Stone Road, was arrested Thursday and charged with forgery after reportedly cashing a counterfeit check in someone else’s name for $641 at a local bank on Aug. 1. Spencer Osteen, 26, of 3665 Barkley Road, was arrested
Thursday and charged with receiving stolen goods after deputies reportedly caught him with concrete forms valued at more than $10,000 in his possession on Oct. 27. Rico Hickman, 29, of 3240 Homestead Road, was arrested Friday and charged with unlawful neglect of a child or helpless person after he reportedly assaulted his 4-year-son, causing
show their skills on trombone, trumpet, piano, drum, flute and, of course, saxophone. Needless to say, the experience was riveting, filled with excitement, amazement and strong musicality. The home teams did their schools and themselves proud. Verdi, who had given workshops at the schools, was noticeably pleased as well, rewarded by the students’ understanding of jazz, ability to improvise at a moment’s notice and willingness to take a musical chance. Verdi ended the concert with a medley including “Tequila,” “Pink Panther” and “Yakety Sax” and a timely thank you to the committee for promoting music in the community and “thinking out of the box” to coordinate the concert and learning/performing experiences. If you missed it, you missed a truly enriching evening and a chance to see what students in our community can do when given the chance to take advantage of cultural opportunities. There are two more scheduled performances in the Sumter Shaw Community Concert Association season — Alex Depue with Miguel De Hoyos, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, and Galleria Seasons on Friday, March 20, 2015. Both concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Sumter Opera House. For more information, call Sandi Edens at (803) 464-6589 or visit the website www.sscca. info.
A REVIEW fringe with “Saxaphobia” and perhaps the smallest of his collection of more than 100 saxophones, the sopranino sax. Of course, he used the Desmond/ Brubeck “Take Five” to solidify the saxophone’s versatility. He wowed the audience with the 6½-foot contra bass from the late 1800s to 1930s, joking that they did not catch on too much because people had to be taller than 5-foot-6 to play them. “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” highlighted its sound quality, almost like a “musical raspberry” with its raspy, flat sound that would make any bass singer proud. After intermission, Verdi treated the audience to a lighthearted arrangement of “Favorite Things” on the Buescher sax. Then he asked the audience to picture a high school band backing up a John Coltrane arrangement of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” while he played one of his favorite saxes, the Conn O sax. The curtains opened, and band members from Lakewood, Crestwood and Sumter high schools (and their directors) treated the audience to a concert featuring students and Verdi with numbers such as Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” and “Let’s Fall in Love.” Using “Ben’s Blues,” the group explored the dynamics of improvisation, calling on members to
injuries, on Aug. 14. STOLEN PROPERTY Sumter County deputies are investigating after 16 units were reportedly broken into at Sumter Mini Storage, 561 N. Pike West, overnight Wednesday. The suspect(s) reportedly cut the locks off each of the units. Officers have not yet determined the amount of stolen merchan-
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King returns to true horror in ‘Revival’ BY ROB MERRILL The Associated Press
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Jim Carrey, left, and Jeff Daniels ride a statue in a scene from “Dumb and Dumber To,” 20 years after the first movie was released.
Remember when Stephen King announced that he was retiring? That was more than a decade and at least six books ago, and he’s done nothing but crank out best-sellers ever since. The latest novel — likely to be No. 1 next week — is appropriately titled “Revival,” for it marks a return to true horror for the modern master of the genre. There
are no soul-sucking vampires as in “Doctor Sleep” or speculative historical fiction about the assassination of John F. Kennedy as in “11/22/63.” “Revival” spans half a century, but at its heart are a young boy — Jamie Morton — and a New England pastor named the Rev. Charles Jacobs who captivates him from the moment they meet in 1962. The plot is set in motion when the good reverend starts to heal the sick using
something he calls an “Electrical Nerve Stimulator.” Through the years, as he ducks in and out of narrator Jamie’s life, he learns how to harness electricity to a greater and greater degree until he’s literally ready to revive the dead. It’s no fun spoiling all the scares, but here’s a phrase — spoken by Jacobs to Jamie early in the novel — that neatly sums it up: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And lit with electric lights.”
‘Dumb and Dumber To’ movie lives up to its title BY LINDSEY BAHR The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Comedy is all about timing. The dimwitted Lloyd (Jim Carrey) reminds the audience of that simple fact minutes into “Dumb and Dumber To,” and the sentiment echoes throughout the disappointing return. Twenty years have passed since audiences first met and improbably fell for Lloyd and Harry (Jeff Daniels), and the boys are up to their same old stunts, which is the fundamental problem: They’ve stayed the same. We’ve changed. “Dumb and Dumber” was received favorably enough by critics when it was released in late 1994 — back when Jim Carrey seemed like he had the potential to be the next Jerry Lewis. But no one could have foreseen the effect this ridiculous tale of a couple of idiots traveling cross country to return a briefcase would have on the culture in the coming decades. Lloyd and Harry’s antics and one-off lines penetrated our collective imaginations and managed to do that thing that all comedies dream of — get better, or at least more beloved, with time. The ill-conceived sequel, however, is so uninspired that it could retroactively tarnish our affection for the original. This next chapter technically picks up where we left off, at least in terms of Lloyd and Harry’s relationship. Lloyd has been pretending to be comatose for 20 years, all for the sake of a gotcha moment, which Harry fully enjoys. Anyway, Harry soon reveals that he’s in dire need of a new kidney. The story is set in motion when he discovers he might be the fa-
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EMBEZZLEMENT FROM PAGE A1 within financial reports. More district officials inspected the financial records and determined that Hawkins had been embezzling insurance money from the school district since July 2001, the report stated. District accountants made a detailed report, which they turned over to deputies, indicating the suspect stole $22,007 during that span. Clarendon County School District 1 is based in Summerton and encompasses three schools — Summerton Early Childhood Center, St. Paul Elementary School and Scott’s Branch High School/Middle School. According to its website, Hawkins last served as a payroll and employee benefits clerk for the district. Superintendent Rose Wilder confirmed Friday that Hawkins worked at least 10 years for School District 1 before her recent dismissal. “The matter has been turned over to law enforcement and is now a legal issue,” she said.
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We let the nurse in recovery know what was done. We log time on the computer and do paperwork. Then we visit the next patient. Because of the anesthesia, they don’t remember us in recovery. We’re the friendliest faces you’ll ever forget.
WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT PLANNED PROCEDURES. WHAT ABOUT EMERGENCIES? Every day we have a set call crew with a 30-minute response time. We verify their armband with the chart. At that point they may or may not be able to talk. We take care of any family that came in, especially if they don’t know what’s going on. The key at that time is establishing a rapport with the family, especially if it’s not looking too good. If they didn’t make it, I cry when they cry. At that point in time, you do what your job is. Then the human side kicks in. If they’re kids, I think of my three kids.
HOW HAVE YOU ALL BEEN CELEBRATING THIS WEEK? We have awesome vendors. We’ve been getting lunches and breakfasts from one vendor or another. I used anonymous donations to buy canvas bags and put nursing logos on them. Then I filled them with candy, pins, calendars. I gave goody bags to everybody. We’ve also drawn for $25 gift cards to local restaurants each day this week.
U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in November 1960. On Friday, 54 years later to the day when she first walked up the steps to the school, Bridges commemorated the event with the unveiling of a statue in her likeness on the campus.
Civil rights figure: U.S. divided by race, again NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges says America today looks a lot like the world she helped break apart 54 years ago: a nation with segregated schools and racial tension. “You almost feel like you’re back in the ’60s,” said Bridges, who is now 60 years old. “The conversation across the country, and it doesn’t leave out New Orleans, is that schools are reverting back” to being segregated along racial lines, she said. “We all know that there are schools being segregated again.” On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges — then 6 years old — became the first black student to attend a previously allwhite elementary school in New Orleans. Friday marked the 54th anniversary of the day she first walked up the steps to William Frantz Elementary School. She was in New Orleans for the unveiling of a statue in her likeness at her old school and reunions with the white teacher who taught her and with the sole-surviving U.S. marshal who walked her to school. In an interview leading up to Friday’s events, Bridges said racism remains painfully real today. She pointed to the tense events in Ferguson, Missouri, after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man, revelations about racist comments made by owners in the National Basketball Association and how so many American schools have failed to become racially mixed. Back in 1960, Bridges, flanked by U.S. marshals, had to walk past a mob of jeering segregationist protesters
and Confederate flags to enter her school. One woman shouted threats to poison her. Another woman showed up at protests with a coffin with a black baby doll in it. All the white students at the school were pulled from classes, and teachers quit — leaving Bridges as the school’s only student. Bridges said racism was a problem before President Obama’s election but that his presidency has fueled racism. “Race is a very hot topic right now,” she said. She looks at her own experiences as evidence of a new segregation. For example, white students returned to William Frantz and the school became integrated, she said. She added that she went to integrated middle and high schools in New Orleans. Fast forward to today: The school now occupying the William Frantz building is 97 percent black, according to school data. In New Orleans, after integration, whites generally sent their children to private or parochial schools — and that preference continues today. Blacks today make up 86 percent of the public school enrollment, according to 2013 data from the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University. She called demographic shifts since Hurricane Katrina — whites now make up a higher percentage of the city than before the 2005 flooding of the city — as evidence of gentrification rather than integration of schools and neighborhoods.
OBITUARIES JEANNETTE FINK ORANGEBURG — Jeannette Flemming Lee Fink, age 85, of Orangeburg, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, at The Regional Medical Center. She will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, friend, and for the kindness that she showed to all people. A funeral serFINK vice will be held at 10 a.m. today at First Baptist Church of Orangeburg with the Rev. Ryan Tucker and the Rev. Phillip Lee officiating. Final interment will be at 2 p.m. at Sumter Cemetery. Jeannette was born in Darlington, a daughter of the late Thomas Willard and Alice Rice Flemming of Sumter. Mrs. Fink was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Ervin Carlisle Lee; her husband of 10 years, Charles Anderson Fink; her son, David Michael Lee; and her brother, William Rice Flemming and his wife, Mary. Survivors include her daughter, Linda Lee Stanley and her husband, Brian Randolph Stanley; her sister, Elizabeth Flemming Watson; and numerous nieces and nephews. Mrs. Fink was raised in Sumter and graduated from Edmunds High School. She attended Winthrop College in Rock Hill. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate memorials to First Baptist Church Organ Fund or Hand Bell Fund, Orangeburg, South Carolina; House of Hope or Alternative Pregnancy Center, Merritt Island, Florida. Online condolences may be expressed at www.dukesharleyfuneralhome.com.
LOUISE S. BLANDING MANNING — Louise Servance Blanding, 58, wife of Willie Blanding, died on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, at Tuomey
Regional Medical Center. She was born on Oct. 30, 1956, in Manning, a daughter of James and Mary BLANDING Ruth Anderson Servance. She received her formal education in the public schools of Clarendon County and was a member of the Manning High School Class of 1977. She was employed at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Manning. She was affiliated with the Fourth Crossroads and Zion Hill Baptist churches. Survivors are her husband, Willie R. Blanding Sr.; one daughter, DaMeka S. Blanding; two sons, Willie R. Blanding Jr. and Christian D. Blanding; her parents, James and Mary Lou Servance; two brothers, James Servance Jr. and Willie L. Servance; five sisters, Felisha Blanding, Lynn Samuel, Bonnie Rawlinson, Josephine Hilton and Annie Mae Hill; brothers-inlaw, Christopher Blanding, Levaughn Blanding, Josiah Blanding and Harry (Michelle) Blanding; and sistersin-law, Cynthia (Greg) Jackson and Diane (Kevin) Gist. Celebratory services for Mrs. Blanding will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Hayes F. & LaNelle J. Samuels Sr. Memorial Chapel, 114 N. Church St., Manning, with the Rev. Major Lloyd officiating, Elder Nicole Blanding presiding and the Rev. Michael Abraham and Elder Robert Simmons assisting. Burial will follow in Manning Cemetery. The family is receiving friends at the home of her daughter, DaMeka S. Blanding (Terrance Georgia), 425 Rodgers Ave., Sumter. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.
DORA LOUISE BROWN Dora Louise “Weezie” Brown, widow of Eddie
Brown, died on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, at her residence, Wedgefield. Born in Sumter County, she was BROWN the youngest daughter born to the late Charles and Dora Bracey. Mrs. Brown was educated in the public schools of Sumter County. She began her Christian journey as a member of Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church. Later in life, she became a faithful member of Wayman Chapel AME Church, serving in many capacities of ministries. Mrs. Brown was employed as a caregiver for both the Wilson and Simpson families of Sumter for more than 50 years. She enjoyed traveling, with Las Vegas being her favorite place to visit, and also enjoyed spending time at the Delaine Community Center. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her late husbands, Luther Howard Sr. and Eddie Brown; one son, Luther Solomon Howard Jr.; one daughter, Rebie Howard; and two brothers, Matthew Bracey and Ezekiel Bracey. Surviving are seven daughters, Flossie Howard of Sumter, Maxine Hill, Jacqueline Howard, Mary (John) Mayrant and Geneva Green, all of Wedgefield, Dorothy Howard of Boston, Massachusetts, and Glenda (Allen) Miller of Rembert; two sons, Charles Howard and Glenn Howard, both of Wedgefield; 24 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; 20 great-great-grandchildren; one sister, Mary B. Wright of Boston; two sisters-in-law, Sarah Bracey and Mary Brown; and many other relatives. Funeral services will be held at noon today at Wayman Chapel AME Church with the Rev. Dr. Laddie N. Howard officiating / eulogist. Interment
will be in the churchyard cemetery. Mrs. Brown will be placed in the church at 11 a.m. for viewing until the hour of service. The family is receiving friends at 545 Eagle Road, Wedgefield. Palmer Memorial Chapel of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.
HELEN H. MCLEOD Helen Hanna McLeod, 73, died on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born in Florence County, she was a daughter of the late Eddie Hanna and Bernice Gaskins Timmons. She retired from Campbell Soup Co. Survivors include a daughter, Gayle Blanchette of Sumter; a son, Eddie Stone of Sumter; a granddaughter, Hanna Nichols; three sisters, Lula Belle Lane of Hartsville, Gladys Coker of Johnsonville and Trellia Driggers of El Paso, Texas; and a brother, Joseph Timmons of Leo. She was preceded in death by two sons, Robert McLeod and Donnie Stone; two brothers, Mark Hanna and Henry Timmons; a sister, Alberta “Bert” Nettles; and her stepfather, Leon Timmons. A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery with the Rev. Mary Watford officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.
LARRY WILSON Larry Wilson, 64, departed this life on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, at Providence Hospital, Columbia. He was born on Jan. 6, 1950, in Sumter County, a son of Ruby Wilson Gary and the
late Moses Gary. The family is receiving friends at the home, 876 S. Harvin St., Sumter, SC 29150. Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.
MAURICE MIDDLETON Maurice Middleton, 52, peacefully departed this life on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. He was born on Aug. 7, 1962, in Harlem, New York, a son of Maggie Bradley Middleton and the late John R. Middleton. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 1031 Old Pocalla Road. Funeral services will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.
EVERLENA G. EADDY NEW ZION — Everlena Gamble Eaddy, 74, wife of John Eaddy, died on Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, at her residence. She was born in the Cypress Fork section of Clarendon County, a daughter of the late James Walker Gamble and Etta Durant Gamble. The family is receiving friends at the residence, 9991 Black River Road, New Zion. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.
JOHNNIE WILLIAMS JR. Johnnie Williams Jr., 79, died on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, in Matthews, North Carolina. Born on Dec. 2, 1934, in Sumter County, he was a son of Johnnie Sr. and Sammy Williams. The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home of his sister, Deloris Turner, 70 Albert Spears Drive, Sumter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.
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FYI are encouraged to attend. The Rembert Area Community Call Mary Sutton at (803) 938Coalition (RACC) is accepting Reunions, and 3760. applications for thevolunteer 2014-15 opportunities aftermore school program. ApplicaNavy and Marine Corps shiptions can be obtained at the mates who served on the USS main office, 8455 Camden Columbus CA-74/CG-12 from Highway, Rembert, SC 29128. 1944 through 1976 and the USS Call (803) 432-2001. Columbus (SSN-762) past and present, to share memories Having cancer is hard. Finding help shouldn’t be. Free help for and camaraderie with old friends and make new ones, cancer patients from the contact Allen R. Hope, presiAmerican Cancer Society. dent, 3828 Hobson Road, Fort Transportation to treatment, Wayne, IN 46815-4505; (260) help for appearance related side effects of treatment, nu- 486-2221 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; fax (260) 492-9771; or email at trition help, one-on-one hope4391@verizon.net. breast cancer support, free housing away from home Hospice Care of Sumter LLC is during treatment, help findin need of volunteers in Sumter ing clinical trials, someone and surrounding counties. to talk to — all free from Opportunities available for your American Cancer Sociyou to use your time and talety. Call (800) 227-2345. ents to be of assistance include reading, musical talThe Rembert Area Community Coalition (RACC) offers a senior ents, companionship, light housekeeping, etc. Contact citizens program 10 a.m.-noon Joyce Blanding at (803) 883each Monday and Wednes5606 or hospicecareofsumday at 6785 Bradley St. (beter@yahoo.com. hind community car wash), Rembert, SC 29128. Transpor- Agape Hospice is in need of voltation is available. For deunteers. Whether your pastails, call (803) 432-2001. sion is baking, knitting, reading, singing, etc., Agape HosSumter High School Class of pice can find a place for you. 1975 will hold a 40-year class Contact Thandi Blanding at reunion celebration May 29(803) 774-1075, (803) 260-3876 31, 2015. Send all addresses or tblanding@agapsenior. to cindyd27@juno.com. com. Are you a breast cancer surviHospice Care of South Carolina vor? Maggie L. Richardson is is in need of volunteers in Sumseeking other survivors to form a music group and give ter County. Do you have one extra hour a week? Opportuback to the community. If nities are available for payou are interested in joining, tient/family companionship, contact her at mlrminstry2012@gmail.com or (803) administrative support, meal preparation, light household 236-9086. projects, student education Belly dancing classes are held and various other tasks. Conat 6 p.m. every Monday at the Parks and Recreation De- tact Whitney Rogers, regional volunteer coordinator, at partment, 155 Haynsworth (843) 409-7991 or whitney. St. Only $20 per month. rogers@hospicecare.net. The Second (Indianhead) DiviAmedisys Hospice is in need of sion Association is searching volunteers. Volunteer opporfor anyone/everyone who served in the 2nd Infantry Di- tunities include 1) special projects of baking, sewing, vision. Visit www.2ida.org or contact Mike Davino at MDa- knitting, crafts, carpentry and yard work; 2) adminisvino@yahoo.com or (919) trative/office duties of copy498-1910. ing, light filing and answerZumba classes will be held at ing phones; and 3) patient 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and companionship — develop Wednesdays at the Parks one-on-one relationships and Recreation building, with hospice patients (trainHaynsworth Street. Classes ing provided free of charge). are $5 each. No registration Contact Rhoda Keefe, volunrequired. Contact Deanne teer coordinator, at (803) Lewis at zumbadeanne@ 469-3047 or rhonda.keefe@ gmail.com. amedisys.com. The Palmetto Singles Club holds Hospice Care of Tri-County is in a dance from 7 to 10 p.m. on need of volunteers. Volunteers the first and third Fridays of offer support, companioneach month at the VFW on ship and care to the caregivGion Street. Call Sarah Short- er by running errands, reader at (803) 847-3288. ing to patients, listening and just being there for patients Sumter Area Toastmasters who need companionship. All meets at 7 p.m. each Tuesyou need is a willing heart day at the Sumter Mall comand some time to give to munity room, 1057 Broad St. others. No medical backThe group helps in developground required. Hospice ing speaking and leadership Care of Tri-County will proskills. Call Douglas Wilson at vide you with the tools you (803) 778-0197 or Rebecca need to become a hospice Gonzalez at (803) 565-9271. volunteer. Call Carol Tindal The Sumter Chapter of the Inat (803) 905-7720. ternational Association of AdROAD to RECOVERY is in need of ministrative Professionals volunteers in the Sumter area. (IAAP) meets at 5:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of each The program provides cancer patients with transportation month in the Bultman Conference Room at USC Sumter. to and from treatments. Call Administrative professionals, the American Cancer Society at (803) 750-1693. assistants and secretaries
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Look at the EUGENIA LAST big picture, not at the trivial daily matters. Broaden your outlook and explore the outcomes and consequences resulting from any changes you make before you engage in any serious undertakings. Make every move count.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stick to your game plan, and strategize with the people whom you feel contribute the most, not the ones making your job more difficult. Learn as you go, and gain experience by watching how experts respond. Romance will bring you joy. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Confusion regarding your direction can be expected. Look for the best ways to utilize your knowledge and skills in your future endeavors, and you will find a path that leads to greater satisfaction personally and professionally. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Let your imagination wander and your ideas flow. Share your thoughts and gather the information you need to follow your dreams. Believe in your abilities, and base the decisions and changes you make on your needs. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You need a change that will inspire you to explore your interests and desires. Don’t let others disrupt your plans or pressure you into doing things that you don’t want to do. Don’t argue, just do what fits your schedule best. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Talks will help you get to the bottom of a situation that concerns you. Offering to help others is fine, but don’t promise too much or you will be taken advantage of. Lead the
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t let anyone else know what projects you are working on behind the scenes. Enjoy experimenting with the ideas that inspire and excite you, and then you can focus on putting your plans into motion. Plan a romantic evening. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will learn a valuable lesson if you let your emotions speak for you. Re-evaluate what’s going on before you share your take on a situation that you might not be seeing clearly. Make changes based on facts, not fiction. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You can alter a situation if you share your thoughts and back them up with facts. Take control and you will avoid being taken advantage of by others. By keeping things in perspective, your practical side will win out. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll face opposition if you engage in a battle of wills. Problems with authority figures, friends, relatives or children will develop if you are dramatic or emotional. Step back and observe for the time being. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take a moment to gather your thoughts and put a personal plan together geared toward mental, physical or financial improvements. Don’t let an emotional situation lead you astray. Follow your heart. Love and romance are in the stars.
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SPCA CAT OF THE WEEK Meadow, a 1-year-old gray tabby spayed female American shorthair, is available for adoption at the Sumter SPCA. She is housebroken, playful, gentle, affectionate and active. Meadow loves attention and is great with other cats. The Sumter SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit the website at www.sumterscspca. com.
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Green Wave grounds Sumter 30-14 BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com SUMMERVILLE – It was a second-half surge that led Sumter past Summerville in last year’s 4A Divison I semifinal at John McKissick Field. History did not repeat itself, however. The Gamecock offense was shut out over the final 24 minutes and Green Wave running back Chris Felder rushed for 217 yards and three scores in
a 30-14 victory. Summerville, now 8-4 on the season, will travel to county rival Fort Dorchester JONES next week. Sumter finishes the season at 7-5. “There’s no excuses; they were the better team tonight,” Sumter head coach John Jones said. “We had a couple of drives early in the game and in the second half that we
weren’t able to capitalize on. We missed some opportunities and we weren’t able to keep them off the field enough.” Summerville threw just 12 passes and rushed for 331 yards. By comparison, Sumter had 364 total yards. Felder and quarterback David Coccoli did most of the damage. Felder was the workhorse, carrying the rock 34 times. Coccoli did his best work on late downs, moving the chains six different times
– often in long-yardage situations. “They have some toughnosed players and runners on their team,” Jones said. “They do what they do very well with the two big backs and (Coccoli). He hurt us a little bit.” Felder put the Green Wave on top early and sealed the victory late. He had a 9-yard TD run three plays following a botched 8-yard Gamecock punt. His 3-yard run just be-
fore the end of the first quarter made it 13-0 Summerville. His final TD – a 1-yard run with 5:12 remaining – ended up putting the game out of reach. Coccoli added a touchdown of his own in the second quarter. Summerville chewed up the clock in the first half as well, with two of its scoring drives lasting 15 and 16 plays, respectively. Meanwhile Sumter’s offense
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’Cats strut to state Turnovers doom Barons as LMA routs rival 44-7 BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com MANNING – With starting quarterback McLendon Sears sidelined for a second straight game with an injury, Wilson Hall could ill afford mistakes in their rematch against Laurence Manning Academy in the SCISA 3A football state playoffs semifinal game on Friday. The Barons didn’t make a single mistake in the first half. Instead, they had four turnovers and a critical penalty that flipped field position. And the Swampcats were very opportunistic, taking advantage of most of them. LMA led 35-0 at halftime and rolled to a 44-7 victory at Billy Chitwood Field, advancing to the state championship game next week. Laurence Manning, which improved to 11-2 on the season, will take on Hammond in
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Laurence Manning’s Tyshawn Epps (4) shrugs off a tackle by Wilson Hall’s Robert Young (30) during the Swampcats’ 44-7 victory on Friday in the SCISA 3A state playoff semifinals at Billy Chitwood Field. LMA advances to next Saturday’s state championship game against Hammond, SEE CATS, PAGE B3 which will be making its ninth straight appearance after a 28-14 win over Ben Lippen on Friday.
Saints’ hope of reaching 8-man title game falls short BY EDDIE LITAKER Special to The Sumter Item SUMMERTON - Seven yards. That’s what stood between Clarendon Hall’s varsity football team and a trip to the SCISA 8-man state championship game after a goal-line stand by Carolina Academy in KEITH GEDAMKE /SPECIAL TO THE SUMTER ITEM Friday’s second-round playoff Carolina Academy’s Luke Fennell attempts to secure the ball as Clarmatchup at L.A. Robinson Jr. endon Hall’s Mac Davis (1) and Dustin Way, left, try to slow him down Field. during the Bobcats’ 28-22 victory on Friday. With the stand, which came
with just 1:24 left in the game, the Bobcats held on for a 28-22 victory, defeating the Saints for the second time in three weeks. Quarterback Dustin Way drove the Saints from their 10 to the Carolina 5 before getting bottled up on a fourthand-1, losing two yards on the play and setting off a celebration for the Carolina defense and Bobcat faithful who had made the journey from Lake City.
Miscues on both sides led to scores in the first half. The Saints fumbled the ball away at the Carolina 40 on their first possession, only to get it back five yards the better after Trey Thomas blocked a Jay McElveen punt attempt. Four plays later, Clarendon Hall was up 8-0 after a 28-yard touchdown pass from Way to Matthew Corbett and a Way conversion run.
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CLEMSON 5 KEYS TO VICTORY
USC 5 KEYS TO VICTORY
Time for Carolina to focus on Tigers’ potential ACC title hopes still winning season instead of past rest with tough win against Jackets BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com
BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com OK, Gamecock football fans. You’ve had basically two weeks to allow the numbness set in over the 45-42 overtime loss the University of South Carolina suffered to Tennessee. Now it’s time to pick at it a bit and bring all of the hurt of three doubledigit-lead, fourth-quarter losses back up to the surface.
USC (4-5, 2-5 SEC) AT UF (5-3, 4-3 SEC) WHERE: Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. WHEN: Today, Noon TV: SEC NETWORK RADIO: WIBZ-FM 95.5, WNKT-FM 107.5
If USC had somehow found a way
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Clemson’s chances of winning the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Atlantic Division title is still out there, but the Tigers need Florida State to lose to Miami today and next week to Boston College. Oh yeah, and Clemson needs to beat Georgia Tech today.
CLEMSON (7-2, 6-1 ACC) AT GEORGIA TECH (8-2, 5-2 ACC)
WHERE: Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, GA WHEN: Today, Noon TV: ESPN RADIO: WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7
The odds of the Tigers getting two FSU losses are slim, but they still have a chance to get a second straight
bid to the Orange Bowl. Of course, a win over the Yellow Jackets is
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SPORTS ITEMS
Martinez, Burnett get new, big deals DETROIT — When Mike Ilitch was asked about the ramifications of another huge financial commitment by his Detroit Tigers, the octogenarian owner looked down for a couple seconds as if checking his wallet. The Tigers finalized a $68 million, four-year deal with Victor MARTINEZ Martinez on Friday, keeping the slugging designated hitter in the middle of their lineup after he finished second in the AL MVP race this year. Martinez hit .335 with 32 home runs and 103 RBIs, helping Detroit to its fourth straight AL Central title. Detroit agreed to the lucrative deal less than six weeks before Martinez’s 36th birthday, showing the Tigers still are willing to spend big in pursuit of their first World Series championship since 1984. BURNETT BACK WITH PIRATES FOR $8.5M, 1-YEAR DEAL
PITTSBURGH — A.J. Burnett believes his right arm has one — and only one — season left in it. The pitcher has no intentions of letting it go to waste. Spurning a chance to remain with floundering Philadelphia, Burnett agree to an $8.5 million, one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday. Burnett went 26-21 for the Pirates in 2012-13, helping the franchise return to the postseason in 2013 following a 21year drought. He’ll receive $4.25 million less from the Pirates than he would have gotten from the Phillies under the player option he declined. NCAA SELECTS MEN’S FINAL FOUR SITES FOR 2017-21
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA men’s basketball championship is going West in 2017. Phoenix is one of five future Final Four sties chosen Friday by the men’s basketball com-
mittee. The others are San Antonio in 2018, Minneapolis in 2019 and Atlanta in 2020. Indianapolis, where the NCAA is based, will host the 2021 Final Four even though the committee was only expected to award games through 2020. PUTNAM LEADS PGA TOUR’S OHL CLASSIC
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Michael Putnam birdied five of the first eight holes Friday and finished with a 7-under 64 to take the lead in the PGA Tour’s OHL Classic. KIM LEADS LORENA OCHOA INVITATIONAL
MEXICO CITY — Christina Kim shot a 3-under 69 on Friday to maintain a one-stroke lead in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. Kim birdied the par-3 16th to take the outright lead and parred the final two holes at tree-lined Club de Golf Mexico. She had a 10-under 134 total. TAYLOR OUT FOR SEASON WITH KNEE INJURY
BEREA, Ohio — Defensive end Phil Taylor will not be part of the Cleveland Browns’ push for the playoffs. Taylor was placed on injured reserve Friday with a right knee injury that will require surgery, ending his season after just five games. RYAN FINED $100,000 FOR PROFANITIES
NEW YORK — New York Jets coach Rex Ryan has been fined $100,000 for his postgame use of profanity that was picked up on video last Sunday. After the Jets beat the Steelers 20-13, Ryan could be seen yelling agitatedly while walking onto the field to meet Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. Ryan has been fined twice in the past for public obscenities and was considered a repeat offender by the league. From wire reports
COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
Gamecocks, Tigers pick up first victories COLUMBIA— Demetrius Henry and Ty Johnson scored 12 points apiece to lead South Carolina past North Florida 81-56 on Friday night in the season-opener for both teams. Coach Frank Martin began his third season saw his team allow a scant six offensive boards on 53 UNF shots. Mindaugas Kacinas added nine points and 11 rebounds. CLEMSON 86 FLORIDA A&M 41
CLEMSON — Landry Nnoko had a career high 15 points to lead five Clemson players in double figures in the Tigers 86-41 victory over Florida A&M on Friday night, the 30th straight year they’ve opened with a win. TOP 25 (4) DUKE 113 PRESBYTERIAN 44 DURHAM, N.C. — Preseason All-American Jahlil Okafor scored 19 points in his college debut and No. 4 Duke routed Presbyterian 113-44 on Friday night in the opening round of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. (7) FLORIDA 68 WILLIAM & MARY 45
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dorian Finney-Smith scored 15 points, Michael Frazier II added 12 and No. 7 Florida opened the season with a 68-45 victory over William & Mary on Friday night. (9) VIRGINIA 79 JAMES MADISON 51
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Justin Anderson scored 18 points and No. 9 Virginia got
an impressive debut from freshman Isaiah Wilkins in a 79-51 victory at James Madison on Friday night. (20) OHIO STATE 92 LOWELL 55
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sam Thompson scored 14 points and No. 20 Ohio State’s newcomers led the Buckeyes to a 92-55 victory against overmatched UMass-Lowell in their season opener Friday night. (23) SYRACUSE 89 KSU 42
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Rakeem Christmas had a careerhigh 21 points, freshman forward Chris McCullough added 16 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 23 Syracuse beat Kennesaw State 89-42 in the Orange’s season opener on Friday night in the 2K Classic.
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GOLF The Associated Press OHL CLASSIC AT MAYAKOBA PAR SCORES
65-69—134 70-65—135 71-66—137 69-68—137 68-69—137 66-71—137 72-67—139 70-69—139
NBA STANDINGS By The Associated Press
From wire reports
L 2 4 4 7 8
Pct GB .778 – .500 21/2 .429 3 .222 5 .000 61/2
L 2 3 3 5 6
Pct GB .750 – .625 1 .571 11/2 .375 3 .333 31/2
L 2 4 3 6 6
Pct .778 .500 .500 .333 .250
GB – 21/2 21/2 4 41/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION W Memphis 8 Houston 7 Dallas 6 New Orleans 4 San Antonio 4 NORTHWEST DIVISION
W 6 5 4 5 1
L 2 3 3 4 7
Pct GB .750 – .625 1 .571 11/2 .556 11/2 .125 5
THURSDAY’S GAMES
Memphis 111, Sacramento 110 Chicago 100, Toronto 93 Dallas 123, Philadelphia 70 Golden State 107, Brooklyn 99
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Milwaukee at Orlando, 7 p.m. Denver at Indiana, 7 p.m. Miami at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Utah at New York, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Detroit at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Houston, 8 p.m. Charlotte at Phoenix, 9 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.
TODAY’S GAMES
Orlando at Washington, 7 p.m. Utah at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Indiana at Chicago, 8 p.m. Detroit at Memphis, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Portland, 10 p.m. San Antonio at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Charlotte at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
NFL STANDINGS By The Associated Press AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets SOUTH Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville NORTH Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore WEST Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland
W 7 6 5 2
L 2 4 5 8
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .778 .600 .500 .200
PF 281 249 200 174
PA 198 180 204 265
W 6 4 2 1
L 3 5 7 9
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .667 .444 .222 .100
PF 290 206 144 158
PA 211 197 223 282
W 6 5 6 6
L 3 3 4 4
T 0 1 0 0
Pct .667 .611 .600 .600
PF 209 197 261 261
PA 172 211 239 181
W 7 6 5 0
L 2 3 4 9
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .778 .667 .556 .000
PF 286 217 205 146
PA 202 151 186 252
NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST W 7 7 3 3
L 2 3 6 6
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .778 .700 .333 .333
PF 279 261 195 197
PA 198 212 247 229
W 4 3 3 1
L 5 6 6 8
T 0 1 0 0
Pct .444 .350 .333 .111
PF 251 198 219 167
PA 225 281 238 272
W 7 6 4 3
L 2 3 5 6
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .778 .667 .444 .333
PF 182 277 168 194
PA 142 205 199 277
W 8 6 5 3
L 1 3 4 6
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .889 .667 .556 .333
PF 223 240 195 163
PA 170 191 202 251
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
THURSDAY’S GAME
Miami 22, Buffalo 9
SUNDAY’S GAMES
Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m. Seattle at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at New Orleans, 1 p.m. Denver at St. Louis, 1 p.m. Houston at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Washington, 1 p.m. San Francisco at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Oakland at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. Detroit at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. Philadelphia at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. New England at Indianapolis, 8:30 p.m. Open: Baltimore, Dallas, Jacksonville, N.Y. Jets
MONDAY’S GAME
Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 8:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, NOV. 20
Kansas City at Oakland, 8:25 p.m.
NHL STANDINGS By The Associated Press
L 1 1 3 3 3
GP W L OT Montreal 17 12 4 1 Tampa Bay 17 11 4 2 Toronto 16 9 5 2 Ottawa 16 8 4 4 Boston 18 10 8 0 Detroit 15 7 3 5 Florida 13 5 4 4 Buffalo 18 3 13 2 METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W L OT Pittsburgh 14 10 3 1 N.Y. Islanders 15 10 5 0 Washington 15 7 5 3 N.Y. Rangers 16 7 6 3 Philadelphia 14 7 5 2 New Jersey 16 7 7 2 Carolina 15 5 7 3 Columbus 15 4 10 1
Pts 25 24 20 20 20 19 14 8
GF 45 61 53 45 49 40 24 24
GA 43 46 43 41 48 37 31 66
Pts 21 20 17 17 16 16 13 9
GF 55 48 49 47 45 43 36 38
GA 32 42 44 50 43 50 47 55
Pts 23 22 20 19 16 16 15
GF 45 41 33 44 44 46 44
GA 32 34 36 30 35 53 59
WESTERN CONFERENCE
MIT 52
WESTERN CAROLINA 56 STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State’s Roquez Johnson had 16 points to lead three Bulldogs in double digits and Mississippi State defeated Western Carolina 66-56 on Friday.
Pct GB .667 – .333 3 .333 3 .286 3 .143 4
CENTRAL DIVISION
EASTERN CONFERENCE
MISSISSIPPI STATE 66
-12 -11 -11 -10 -9 -9 -9 -9 -8
LORENA OCHOA INVITATIONAL PAR SCORES
Friday Club de Golf Mexico Mexico City Purse: $1 million Yardage:—6,804; Par—72 Second Round a-denotes amateur Christina Kim Paula Creamer Suzann Pettersen Pornanong Phatlum Lydia Ko Azahara Munoz Shanshan Feng So Yeon Ryu
ATLANTIC DIVISION
SEC
L 3 6 6 5 6
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Friday At Mayakoba Resort (El Camaleon) Playa del Carmen, Mexico Purse: $6.1 million Yardage: 6,987; Par: 71 Second Round a-amateur Michael Putnam 66-64—130 Shawn Stefani 66-65—131 Jason Bohn 66-65—131 Ken Duke 69-63—132 Alex Cejka 66-67—133 David Hearn 68-65—133 Nicholas Thompson68-65—133 Will MacKenzie 65-68—133 Jason Gore 68-66—134
W Toronto 7 Brooklyn 4 Boston 3 New York 2 Philadelphia 0 SOUTHEAST DIVISION W Washington 6 Miami 5 Atlanta 4 Charlotte 3 Orlando 3 CENTRAL DIVISION W Chicago 7 Milwaukee 4 Cleveland 3 Indiana 3 Detroit 2
Golden State Phoenix L.A. Clippers Sacramento L.A. Lakers
W 6 3 3 2 1
ATLANTIC DIVISION
(25) HARVARD 73
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Wesley Saunders had 15 points, 9 rebounds and six assists on Friday night as No. 25 Harvard opened the season with a 73-52 victory over down-river rival MIT.
Portland Oklahoma City Utah Minnesota Denver PACIFIC DIVISION
Pct GB .889 – .875 1/2 .667 2 .571 3 .571 3
-10 -9 -7 -7 -7 -7 -5 -5
St. Louis Nashville Winnipeg Chicago Minnesota Dallas Colorado PACIFIC DIVISION
GP W 16 11 16 10 17 9 16 9 15 8 16 6 18 5
L OT 4 1 4 2 6 2 6 1 7 0 6 4 8 5
GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 17 11 3 3 25 47 37 Vancouver 17 12 5 0 24 53 47 Calgary 18 10 6 2 22 55 48 Los Angeles 17 8 5 4 20 42 38 San Jose 18 9 7 2 20 53 51 Edmonton 17 6 9 2 14 43 58 Arizona 16 6 9 1 13 40 56 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
THURSDAY’S GAMES
Colorado 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, SO Winnipeg 3, Carolina 1 Montreal 5, Boston 1 San Jose 2, Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 4, Nashville 3 Minnesota 6, Buffalo 3 Calgary 5, Arizona 3 Ottawa 4, Edmonton 3, OT Dallas 2, Los Angeles 0
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Columbus at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Washington, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Arizona at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
TODAY’S GAMES
Carolina at Boston, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 2 p.m. Anaheim at Los Angeles, 4 p.m. Toronto at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Montreal, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Colorado at New Jersey, 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. San Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Nashville, 7 p.m. Washington at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Ottawa at Calgary, 10 p.m.
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Gordon wins pole for season finale at Homestead BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jeff Gordon bounced back from last week’s heartbreaking elimination from the championship race by winning the pole for Sunday’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Gordon turned GORDON a lap at 180.747 mph in Friday qualifying to earn the top starting spot for a race that became meaningless to his season after he crossed the finish line last week at Phoenix. Gordon finished second and was in the field of four drivers for the championship race, but he was knocked out seconds later by Ryan Newman. Using an aggressive pass of Kyle Larson coming out of the final turn, Newman picked up the one position he needed to knock Gordon from the championship race by one point. Now Gordon will race only for the trophy on Sunday, while Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano and Ryan Newman will compete for the title. “If we win this race on Sunday, it’s only going to make it hurt a little more,” Gordon said of his disappointment of
being eliminated. “I think the way we’re looking at this weekend is we want to finish this season on the best note possible. It’s been a tremendous season for us. I’m disappointed we’re not in this thing for the championship, but that’s not going to stop us from trying to win the pole and win the race.” Harvick will lead the title contenders Sunday by starting fifth. Hamlin will start eighth and Logano is in the 12th slot. Newman was the worst qualifier at 21st. Harvick continued his needling of Logano, the youngest driver in the championship field. It began at Wednesday night’s contenders event when he deliberately tried to rattle Logano, and carried over into Friday when he was told to wait off to the side while Logano and Hamlin were participating in a news conference. “I’m going up here anyway,” he said as strolled onto the stage. “Going to sit right here next to my buddy.” Logano grinned, patted Harvick on the back, and said: “What’s up, buddy?” Hamlin then stood as if he was going to leave, “Alright, I’ll let you two have at it,” he joked. The champion will be the highest-finishing driver among the four on Sunday, and it will be the first Cup title for the winner.
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Clarendon Hall running back Gavin Allan (5) tries to break free from the tackle of Carolina Academy’s Mac McLendon during the Bobcats’ 28-22 victory over the Saints on Friday.
SAINTS FROM PAGE B1 Carolina answered with a 10-play, 65-yard drive that culminated with a 4-yard Jacob Hill run. After a failed conversion run attempt, the Saints clinged to an 8-6 lead. The Bobcats came away with a strip on the ensuing kickoff, setting up another score. The drive went 35 yards in six plays, with the big play coming on Macky McClendon’s 19-yard run. Luke Fennell ran the final yard for the score and McClendon added the conversion run for a 14-8 Carolina lead with 1:08 left in the opening quarter. A defensive stop led to another quick
Bobcat score as quarterback Zac Coward broke free on a 29-yard run. McClendon ran for two and a 22-8 Carolina lead. The Saints would pull within eight at 22-14 after Way broke free down the visitors’ sidelines for a 43-yard run with 5:32 left in the half. Carolina’s final score of the half came on an 11-play, 64-yard drive that took five minutes off the clock. The score came on a 4-yard pass from Coward to Hill. The only score of the second half came with 8:02 left in the game as Way and Corbett connected on a 25-yard pass and Daniel Pappas tossed a 2-point conversion pass to Corbett.
Laurence Manning Academy quarterback J.T. Eppley (11) looks downfield for a receiver as Wilson Hall’s Walker Ard (54) brings pressure during the Swampcats’ 44-7 rout on Friday at Billy Chitwood Field.
FORD ECOBOOST 400 LINEUP The Associated Press After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Fla. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 180.747 mph. 2. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 180.632. 3. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 180.294. 4. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 179.994. 5. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 179.946. 6. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 179.593. 7. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 179.48. 8. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 179.348. 9. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 179.259. 10. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 179.069. 11. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 178.336. 12. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 176.684. 13. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 179.004. 14. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 178.938. 15. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 178.802. 16. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 178.796. 17. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 178.778. 18. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 178.601. 19. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 178.601. 20. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 178.477. 21. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 178.241.
22. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 177.959. 23. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 177.778. 24. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 177.678. 25. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 178.23. 26. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 178.136. 27. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 178.13. 28. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 178.024. 29. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 177.69. 30. (33) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 177.189. 31. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 177.113. 32. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 177.072. 33. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 176.344. 34. (83) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 176.304. 35. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 176.056. 36. (36) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 175.638. 37. (98) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 38. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford, Owner Points. 39. (7) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 40. (32) Blake Koch, Ford, Owner Points. 41. (23) Alex Bowman, Toyota, Owner Points. 42. (26) Cole Whitt, Toyota, Owner Points. 43. (66) Brett Moffitt, Toyota, Owner Points.
SUMTER FROM PAGE B1 was having trouble reaching the end zone or getting any good bounces. A halfback pass from Ky’Jon Tyler to Marquise Moore on the second play from scrimmage set Sumter up at the Green Wave 18. But Sumter was unable to get any closer than the 11, and Vince Watkins’ 27-yard field goal try went wide left as SHS squandered a golden scoring opportunity. Felder’s first TD run also came after he initially fumbled the ball earlier in the drive. Sumter got a hand on it but could not recover. “Those are probably some of the things that are going to haunt us on the way home,” Jones said. “At the end of the day we have to make plays and we didn’t do that.” The Gamecocks finally got on the board early in the second quarter, thanks to James Barnes and Ky’Jon Tyler. Driving in Green Wave territory, Barnes found Tyler on the right sideline and the Shrine Bowl receiver broke free for a 35-yard scamper to cut the Sumter deficit to 13-7 at the time. Tyler and Barnes weren’t done, however. Starting with just 1:35 to go in the half, Barnes found his favorite target streaking up the middle and Tyler broke containment for a 64-yard catch-and-run to
paydirt as the Gamecocks pulled within 20-14 at the break. Barnes finished 10 for 18 for 221 yards and the two touchdowns. Tyler had 6 catches for 136 yards and the two scores. Sumter missed a couple more scoring opportunities in the third quarter, though. The Gamecocks started two drives inside the Summerville 50 – including one after a Tyrell Ceasar interception – but failed to come away with any points. Edward Delonae’s 34-yard field goal and Felder’s final TD made it 30-14 before a controversial play all-but ended the Gamecocks’ last chance. Knowing what he did to them last year, the Green Wave spent most of the night squib kicking away from Tyler. But on his only real return of the night, Tyler made it count but reversing upfield to score from 71 yards out. The play was negated, however, by the officials, who said that Tyler had called for a fair catch. “They said he called fair catch,” Jones said. “It would have made things interesting there at the end, but we didn’t finish it out. We’re not going to put the blame on anyone but ourselves,” Rodney Pitts led the Sumter rushing attack with 57 yards on 11 carries.
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CATS FROM PAGE B1 the title game on Saturday, Nov. 22, at Benedict College’s Charlie W. Johnson Field in Columbia beginning at 7:30 p.m. Hammond topped Ben Lippen 28-14 in Friday’s other semifinal game. Wilson Hall saw its reign as state champion come to an end, finishing the season with an 8-4 record. “I’m happy for my kids, especially the seniors,” said LMA head coach Robbie Briggs. “They’ve put in a lot of hard work to get to this point, believed what we told them and did what we asked them to do.” The Barons, who lost to the Swampcats 28-7 in the regular-season finale, forced LMA to punt on its first two possessions of the game. However, the first mistake of the game came at the end of Josh Martin’s punt. The football bounced off the hands of deep man Robert James and Laurence Manning recovered at the WH 11-yard line. Two plays later, running back Tyshawn Epps scored from seven yards out to make it 7-0 with 4:17 left in the first quarter. On Wilson Hall’s ensuing possession, quarterback
Dawson Price was intercepted by Brandon Hutson at the Baron 32. An 18-yard run by quarterback J.T. Eppley on third down and one yard to go got the Swampcats to the 3. Eppley scored on a keeper from a yard out with 10 seconds left in the first. Josh Martin’s extra point made it 14-0. “Turnovers were a big difference in this game,” Briggs said. “We came up with the turnovers and then we were able to take advantage of them.” The Barons failed to move the ball on their next possession, and Walker Ard dropped to punt from his 20. He got off a kick that went over the head of the deep man and rolled dead at the LMA 28, a 52-yard punt. However, WH was called for holding and Ard had to punt from the 7. This time, Hutson fielded the punt at the Wilson Hall 39 and returned it to the 10. Epps scored the second of his five touchdowns on the next play, making it 21-0 with 11:09 to go in the first half. On the ensuing kickoff, James had the ball stripped from his grasp by Burke Mishoe, who also recovered the fumble at the Baron 17. Epps scored on a 12-yard run to make it 28-0 with 9:45 left in the second quarter.
For good measure, the Swampcats actually drove the ball one time, but did so in quick fashion. After starting at its 31, LMA used a 26-yard completion from Eppley to Brandon Fenters and a 21-yard run by Epps with a penalty for a late hit to get to Baron 9. Epps scored from there with 3:06 remaining in the half, making the halftime score 35-0. The Swampcats got a safety in the third quarter after a 38-yard punt by Martin had Wilson Hall starting at its 1. Epps scored from 20 yards on the first play of the fourth quarter to make it 44-0. The Barons managed to get on the scoreboard with 50 seconds when running back John Ballard threw a 4-yard TD pass to Price on fourth and goal. It closed out a 21-play, 77-yard drive. Wilson Hall could get nothing going offensively until the final drive. The Barons had just two first downs entering that drive and finished the game with just 121 yards of total offense. “Our defense played a great game,” Briggs said. “We never really let them get going.” Epps rushed for 107 yards on 17 carries while Eppley finished with 95 yards.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE STATE Today (18) Clemson at (24) Georgia Tech, noon (ESPN, WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUBFM 102.7) South Carolina at Florida, noon (SEC NETWORK, WIBZ-FM 95.5, WNKT-FM 107.5) Wofford at Furman, noon Samford at Citadel, 1 p.m. (WDXYFM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240) Presbyterian at Gardner-Webb, noon Monmouth at Coastal Carolina, 3 p.m. Charleston Southern at Liberty, 3:30 p.m. South Carolina State at Morgan State, 1 p.m. Newberry at North Greenville, 1 p.m. UNC Pembroke at Limestone, 1 p.m. ACC Today (1) Florida State at Miami, 8 p.m. (WOLO 25) (19) Duke vs. Virginia Tech, noon (ESPNU) Pittsburgh at North Carolina, 12:30 p.m. (WACH 57) Wake Forest at North Carolina State, 3 p.m. (FOX SPORTSOUTH)
SEC TODAY (2) Mississippi State at (4) Alabama, 3:30 p.m. (WLTX 19) (9) Auburn at (16) Georgia, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) (20) LSU at Arkansas, 8 p.m. (ESPN2) Kentucky at Tennessee, 4 p.m. (SEC NETWORK) Missouri at Texas A&M, 7:30 p.m. (SEC NETWORK) TOP 25 TODAY (5) TCU at Kansas, 3 p.m. (FOX SPORTS 1) (7) Arizona State at Oregon State, 10:45 p.m. (ESPN) (8) Ohio State at Minnesota, noon (WOLO 25) (11) Nebraska at (22) Wisconsin, 3:30 p.m. (WOLO 25) (12) Michigan State at Maryland, 8 p.m. (15) Notre Dame vs. Northwestern, 3:30 p.m. (WIS 10) (17) Arizona vs. Washington, 3:30 p.m. (WACH 57) (21) Marshall vs. Rice, 2:30 p.m. (SPORTSOUTH) (25) Utah at Stanford, 6 p.m.
Coastal, S.C. State aiming for playoffs BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — In the NCAA playoff race, there’s a clear No. 1 among the Palmetto State’s Football Championship Subdivision teams. Coastal Carolina (10-0) rose to the top spot in this week’s latest coaches’ national rankings, a first for the MOGLIA Chanticleers and third-year coach Joe Moglia. Coastal Carolina tries to keep its perfect season going against Monmouth (5-4) on Saturday. South Carolina State (7-3) kept pace with the pack in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and faces another elimination game with Morgan State (5-5). For the state’s other schools, it’s either wait-andsee or wait ‘til next year. Charleston Southern (7-3) has an outside chance at the FCS postseason, a case it can bolster with a win at Liberty
(7-3) this week. Wofford’s chances in the Southern Conference fell apart with its loss last week to league-leading Chattanooga. The Terriers (5-4) hope to bounce back against Furman (2-8), which is struggling through an eight-game losing streak. Presbyterian (5-5) plays at Gardner-Webb (4-6) while Citadel (4-6) takes on Samford (6-3). All eyes at the top, though, are on Coastal, which can move to 11-0 with a win in Conway over Monmouth, which is 0-3 in Big South Conference play. Moglia, seeking his third consecutive league title and NCAA playoff appearance, sent texts of congratulations to all his players and letters of appreciation to their families for the accomplishment. Moglia is looking at the bigger picture and the Chants’ bringing a national title home as long as they take the same, steady approach as they have all season.
CAROLINA FROM PAGE B1 to win those games against Missouri, Kentucky and the Volunteers, it would be 5-2 in the Southeastern Conference and playing Florida today with a chance to win the Eastern Division with a victory, no questions asked. And even if it had won just two of those three with one coming against Missouri, Carolina could put itself in pretty good position to win the East. It would have needed a Georgia loss to Auburn today and a Mizzou loss to either Texas A&M, Tennessee or Arkansas over the final three weeks. Both are very doable. Instead, South Carolina finds itself playing for a chance at a winning season and ending the Gators’ chances of winning the East. This is far from the expectations of Gamecock Nation prior to the start of the season, and even after the beating A&M laid on USC to start the season. The only way Carolina can have a winning season is to win its final three games, today in The Swamp, at home next week against South Alabama and on Nov. 29 in Clemson. Here are five keys to victory for Carolina today. 1. STACK THE BOX
One would like to be able to say the defense needs a fresh start or it needs to forget about the first nine games. You can’t do that though because you have the same players and the way the defense has self-destructed down the stretch can’t be forgotten. Defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward just has to find a way to make the unit somewhat effective from week to week. If the defense had been pedestrian at best, South Carolina would own a 7-2 record right now. Instead, they have to find a way to stop Florida’s running game, which has been domi-
nant in wins over Georgia and Vanderbilt the past two weeks. Freshman quarterback Treon Harris threw for 215 yards against the Commodores last week, but the Gamecocks need to take their chances with his passing ability and try to find a way to shut down the run. Stacking the box and perhaps some stunting will help in that regard. The other things USC has been doing hasn’t really helped. 2. KEEP MIXING IT UP ....
USC has been able to run the ball and pass the football effectively and efficiently most of the season. Head coach Steve Spurrier has probably had some of his best play-calling games since he’s been at Carolina this season. It needs to continue to follow that model today and the offense will be alright. 3. BUT TRUST THE RUN LATE
Spurrier’s play calling and daring is why South Carolina had a chance to beat Auburn on the road and why it has had those big fourth-quarter leads. However, he needs to tone it down a bit if the Gamecocks obtain such a lead today and put the burden on the running game. Against Tennessee, USC faced third down and four yards to go at the Vol 37yard line with less than two minutes remaining. I’m thinking we’re running twice to get four yards and win the game. Instead, quarterback Dylan Thompson rolls out and is dropped for an 8-yard loss, setting the stage for the heartbreaking loss. In the 45-38 loss to Kentucky, USC was facing third and 3 at its 39, holding a 38-31 lead with just over six minutes left. Instead of giving the ball to Mike Davis or Brandon Wilds, Thompson
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Top-ranked Bulldogs, Tide fight in Tuscaloosa BY JOHN ZENOR The Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — This Alabama-Mississippi State game is about current stars like Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper, not the number of stars once bestowed as recruits. If history and pedigree are on the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide’s side entering Saturday’s mega-SEC West showdown, the Bulldogs are the ones sporting the No. 1 rankMULLEN ing and perfect record. It’s new territory for a one-sided rivalry between programs stationed some 85 miles apart geographically and worlds apart historically. Mississippi State (9-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) and Alabama (8-1, 5-1) stand on much more even ground this season. Both are shooins for the first College Football Playoffs if they win out. The Bulldogs hold the top spot in the CFP rankings, the Tide is fifth with a virtually guaranteed move up with a win. Alabama, which has been dominant at Bryant-Denny Stadium, is an 8-1/2-point favorite whatever the rankings. Mississippi State’s already played in one game of similar magnitude, beating then-No. 2 Auburn at home. Coach Dan Mullen is hoping his players have a chance to get used to them. “They love it,” Mullen said. “This is what they came to school here for. They wanted to put us in a position where we’re on a national stage here at Mississippi State.” They’ve certainly arrived. Mississippi State has held
throws an incompletion, setting the stage for another breakdown. 4. A HEAPING HELPING OF PHAROH
Pharoh Cooper has developed into Thompson’s go-to receiver and with good reason. He has great hands, is strong and has a chance to go a long way every time he gets the ball. Keep getting the ball to Cooper through the air and take full advantage of him in the Wildcat. In fact, he might be the perfect remedy should USC be facing some third and shorts down the stretch. 5. HAVE A STRATEGY COACH
Yes, this is somewhat out of the ordinary, but there have been numerous times that have left you wondering why Carolina didn’t do something that seemed obvious. And, it is far more than just Spurrier’s laments about what he should have done. Again, go back to the Kentucky game. After the Wildcats had taken a 45-38 lead and Thompson had thrown his straight interception to give Kentucky the football again at its 38, there was still 1:31 left in the game and South Carolina had all three of its timeouts. The Gamecocks are penalized before a play is ran for breaking the huddle with 12 players, making it first and 5. Now, I’m not someone who knows the ins and outs of football, but the first thing that popped in my mind is I’m jumping offside before the ball is snapped or getting some sort of penalty where it is again first and 10 and not first and five. That didn’t happen though and sure enough, the Wildcats got the needed first down on third and 1. Would have USC been able to rally to tie the game? No one knows, but it least it would have had an opportunity. And the way their games have gone, they need every opportunity possible.
the top spot in the AP rankings for five weeks and is seeking to match its program-best 13-game winning streak set from 1942-44. The Tide, which routinely lands top-ranked recruiting classes and contends for titles, has won the past six meetings and 79 percent overall. Alabama coach Nick Saban is sold on Mullen’s team, saying the Bulldogs have already “proven they have one of the best teams overall in the country.” The Tide is more accustomed to games like this, having won three national titles in the last five seasons. The Bulldogs, however, are the SEC’s only remaining unbeaten. Alabama’s the only other team in the league with fewer than two losses, having just survived an overtime game at LSU. Quarterback Blake Sims said Alabama had to put that one in the rear view mirror quickly and “realize that this is the next step to get to the promised land.” Some things to watch in the Mississippi State-Alabama game: DAK VS. DEFENSE
This is the field where Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel had his Heisman moment in 2012. The Bulldogs’ Heisman candidate is averaging 334 yards in total offense, which is 59 yards more than Alabama’s league-leading defense is surrendering. Prescott has been intercepted five times in the last three SEC games but has four 200-yard passing/100yard running efforts already. HOME DOMINATION
Alabama has had a couple of shaky road performances, but it’s been a different
story at home. The Tide has won 13 straight at BryantDenny and outscored its four opponents in the mammoth stadium this season by a collective 194-33. Alabama is outgaining opponents by an average of 415 yards in those games, which include SEC contests with Florida and Texas A&M. ROBINSON & YELDON
Mississippi State’s compact, powerful running back Josh Robinson is having the kind of season many expected from Alabama’s T.J. Yeldon. The league’s No. 2 rusher, Robinson stands just 16 yards shy of 1,000 for the season. He’ll face the nation’s No. 3 rushing defense, which has allowed only two touchdowns on the ground. Yeldon isn’t ranked among the SEC’s Top 10 rushers. He has sustained foot and ankle injuries in the past two games but has practiced this week and, Saban said, is “doing well.” MISMATCH?
Mississippi State is ranked last in the SEC in pass defense and faces one of the nation’s top receivers in Cooper. He already has a pair of 200-yard games this season. The Bulldogs are allowing 301 yards per the air. FRONT SEVEN
Both defenses have big, physical front sevens. The Bulldogs, who are tied with Texas A&M for the league lead in sacks, are led by middle linebacker Benardrick McKinney and defensive end Preston Smith. Tide lineman A’Shawn Robinson is a force inside and out while at linebacker Xzavier Dickson is the pass rushing specialist and Reggie Ragland is having a big year.
TIGERS FROM PAGE B1 needed for that to happen. So no matter how you look at it, a win today in Atlanta will play a major role in the ultimate success Clemson enjoys. This is such an intriguing game because some of the things the Jackets are so good at doing offensively are things the Clemson defense are so good at stopping. Following are five keys to victory for the Tigers. 1. BE STOUT UP THE MIDDLE
Tech’s option offense is known for its misdirection and getting backs on the edge for big plays. However, it is also able to run effectively on the interior as well. The Tigers have to find a way to take that away and take some of the sting out of the offense. A big game from defensive tackle Grady Jarrett is needed. 2. 3-AND-OUTS ARE NEEDED
The Georgia Tech offense is the best in the ACC when it comes down to third-down efficiency, converting on 71 of 119 third downs, a percentage of 59.7. Clemson’s defense is the best in the conference on third down, allowing just 32 on 138 attempts, a 23.2 percentage. That is one of those interesting statistics of which I was speaking. The Tigers need to find a way to make a few 3-andouts happen to cut into Tech’s time of possession. 3. DON’T FORGET THE PASS
When the Jackets are able to throw the football effectively, it makes what they’re able to do with the running game so much more effective. This is one of those years.
Georgia Tech has thrown only 150 passes and completed just 77 of them, both lows in the ACC. However, the Jackets lead the conference in passing efficiency mainly because they’ve thrown 15 TD passes and are averaging 19 yards a completion. In other words, when GT throws the ball, it can lead to some big plays. Clemson needs to limit such plays to a bare minimum. 4. ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON
Freshman quarterback sensation Deshaun Watson will be back behind center for the Tigers today after missing a couple of games with an injury. While his playing time has been limited, there is no doubt he is well-versed in what offensive coordinator Chad Morris wants from his quarterback. Clemson doesn’t need to let Watson slowly get his feet under him. They need to throw him back into the fire and let him go. Every possession could be critical, depending upon how the Tigers handle the Tech offense. Tech is near the bottom in total defense, pass defense and rushing defense. Let him use those legs and that arm from the getgo. 5. LIMIT THE TURNOVERS
While the Jacket defense can be porous at times, it is a very opportunistic unit. Georgia Tech has forced 21 turnovers, 13 interceptions and eight fumble recoveries. Clemson can’t afford giving away possessions and possibly setting Tech up with some short fields.
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Dolphins break through, top Bills 22-9 BY TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Put simply, the Miami Dolphins were due. They had been on a disastrous stretch against the Buffalo Bills, with one touchdown in a span of 33 possessions overlapping four games — three of which they lost, the fourth one looking like it would have the same outcome. “I wasn’t aware of that statistic,” Miami coach Joe Philbin said. “Certainly didn’t pass it along to the team.” Then came a breakthrough, and just like that the Dolphins’ playoff chances look a whole lot more realistic. Ryan Tannehill threw touchdown passes on back-toback drives in a five minute span in the second half, Miami’s defense held Buffalo without a touchdown and the Dolphins beat the Bills 22-9 on Thursday night. “The team felt, the offense especially, felt confident in what we were doing,” Tannehill said. “We were able to move the ball, do exactly what we wanted to do. ... I think we did that in the second half, played more clean.” The Dolphins (6-4) moved into sole possession of second place in the AFC East, 1 1/2 games behind New England — a team Miami beat in Week 1. Tannehill completed 26 of 34 passes for 240 yards and the two scores to Brandon Gibson and Jarvis Landry. Lamar Miller rushed for 86 yards on 15 carries for Miami and the Dolphins’ defense held Buffalo to 86 yards on 30 plays after halftime. Dan Carpenter kicked three field goals against his former team, accounting for all of Buffalo’s scoring. The Bills (5-5) had beaten the Dolphins in each of the teams’ last three meetings, but left the game looking up at 10 other teams in the AFC standings.
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Miami wide receiver Jarvis Landry (14) stretches out for a touchdown as he is tackled by Buffalo inside linebacker Preston Brown (52) during the Dolphins’ 22-9 victory on Thursday in Miami Gardens, Fla. “We’ve got to score,” Bills coach Doug Marrone said. “This was a team loss. There’s no doubt about that when you look at all the things that happened out there tonight. ... We lost this game as a team.” Here’s what to know after Miami’s win over Buffalo: TANNEHILL’S NUMBERS
Sure, the NFL quarterback rating formula is complex and isn’t the sort of thing most people can figure out in their head. But when it comes to Tannehill, figuring out what that rating means is simple. When his rating is 91.0 or better in a single game, the Dolphins are now 16-0. When it’s less than 91.0, the Dolphins are 5-21. His rating Thursday night: A tidy
114.8, the fifth-best showing of his 42-game career. RELIABLE CARPENTER
Carpenter has 15 field goals against the Dolphins in the past two seasons, the most anyone has ever made against Miami in that span. He was 7 for 7 last year against his former club, and was 8 for 10 in the two Miami-Buffalo games this season. The only other kicker with so many field goals against the Dolphins in a single season was Roy Gerela, who went 8 for 8 in two Miami meetings for the Houston Oilers in 1969. GIBSON, AGAIN
Gibson has four touchdown receptions in his two seasons
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Trying to find ways to make sport of tennis fun for all
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recently attended an organizational meeting of the newly formed South Carolina Pros and Coaches Association. The thrust of what we are trying to accomplish is to ban together for the good of tennis throughout our state. One of our concerns is that walk-in or casual play is down at every facility. The good news is that it is not a problem special to the Sumter area. Mark Knowing Rearden that this is an industry-wide phenomenon does not make it any easier to take though. Our newly formed organization is currently working on some ideas to create a little more activity across the state and to provide information on how to get involved. The United States Tennis Association is already hard at work creating programs that will get those numbers back up to previous levels. However, the USTA, just like our government or our church diocese, cannot do it. It is up to people, not organizations. I am actually meeting with someone to help him find more players so their Monday night games can continue without interruption. Naturally, my most important concern is Palmetto Tennis Center. Even though many of our ongoing programs are still going strong, some will wane, so
we need to keep inventing and changing and continue coming up with new ideas that will make playing tennis fun. We certainly have a pretty good nucleus from which to draw; we just need to get them out a little more often. That group just needs to be finessed into remembering how much fun it is to get out and smack the ball. The next group that needs to be tapped into is the group that hasn’t played yet. Our tennis pool can only be kept full if we continue to add water. That is one of the primary jobs of the tennis staff, but you can also help by encouraging your friends and neighbors to start playing, letting them know that league tennis is also a very good way to have weekly match times that are set up for you. What a deal that is. And you don’t have to “be good” to play on a league team. We are very fortunate here in Sumter because of Shaw Air Force, which is now the home of the Third Army as well. We have a constant rotation of players and potential new players coming into our community, and, unfortunately, leaving as well. But that is OK. If we are big-picture people, we need to continue to help create the next generation of players, knowing they may leave us, but also knowing we did our part in terms of giving back. Another opportunity is in the kids arena. We are very close to creating some real momentum here. Each of
our program levels has begun to feed the next level and that is great, but there is more to do. The teaching, guidance and inspiration is our job (tennis professionals). Your job is to let other parents know how much fun your kids are having out here. Our vision for Sumter and PTC is for it to be like baseball already is. Once tennis starts to self-perpetuate, it can take on a life of its own. Like I said though, we have more to do. We need to snag a few more of the good athletes and let them see what a great thing we have going out here. There is a definite responsibility for those of us who have reaped rewards from the benefits tennis offers. It may be getting out and playing in a tennis function that you haven’t played in lately; it may mean taking the time to hit some balls with a family member who needs your help in order to get better; it may mean playing with someone who is your tennis inferior. The bottom line is that we all need to give back to the game that has been good to us. We all need help in the process of getting more players on the courts. If we don’t there may come a time in the not-so-distant future when it won’t be easy to find someone with which to play. That is a responsibility we all must bear. If we can all give back a little piece of what we have taken from the game I promise you the future of tennis will stay just as bright as it ever was. Mark my words.
with the Dolphins — and three of those scores have come against the Bills, including the one that helped put Miami ahead for good on Thursday night. He had two touchdown grabs in Miami’s 23-21 home loss to the Bills last season. His only other scoring catch with Miami came against New England on Oct. 27, 2013. COMING UP
The Bills have six games left, four of them against playoff hopefuls (Cleveland, Denver, Green Bay and New England, currently a combined 26-10), and two against struggling clubs (the New York Jets and Oakland, currently a combined 2-17). Miami’s next two games are at Denver and
AREA SCOREBOARD BASKETBALL YOUTH LEAGUE SIGNUP
The Sumter County Recreation Department will be taking registration for its youth basketball leagues through Thursday. Registration is open to children ages 5 through 17. There will be co-ed leagues for 6-andunder, 8-U, 10-U, 12-U, 14-U and 17-U. Players will be placed in leagues based on their age as of Sept. 1, 2014. The registration fee is $40 for ages 5-6 and $45 for the other ages. Registration is being taken at the recreation department located at 155 Haynsworth Street. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For anyone interested in coaching, there will be meeting on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the recreation department. For more information, visit www.sumtercountysc.org or call (803) 436-2248.
ROAD RACING TURKEY TROT
The 32nd Annual Turkey Trot 5K and Gobbler Dash will be held on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27. Early registration for the event will run through Nov. 24. The entry fee is $20 per individual, while the cost for a family is $20 for the first member and $10 for each additional family member from the same househould age 10 or older. The fees increase by $5 for those who register Nov. 25-27. People can register online at www.ymcasumter.org. For more information, call the Sumter Family YMCA at (803) 774-1404.
BASEBALL U.S. BASEBALL ACADEMY CAMP
The University of South Carolina Sumter will host a 4-week baseball camp beginning on Jan. 3, 2015.
the Jets. Then the Dolphins finish with Baltimore, New England, Minnesota and the Jets again. “We just have to keep this momentum going,” Dolphins defensive end Jared Odrick said. WEATHER WOES
Thursday night was not good for the Bills, and what awaits them back in Buffalo probably won’t make them happy, either. The first measurable snow of the season fell over much of Western New York on Thursday, leaving roads slippery and causing plenty of accidents in the Buffalo area. At kickoff Thursday night, it was 30 degrees in Buffalo — 44 degrees colder than the air in South Florida.
Fire Ants head coach Tim Medlin will direct the program in conjunction with the U.S. Baseball Academy. Classes are available for players in grades 1-12 and are limited to six players per coach. Sessions are offered in advanced hitting, pitching, catching, fielding and base running. Registration is now being taken. For more information, visit www.USBaseballAcademy.com or call 866-622-4487. SCISA UMPIRES NEEDED
The South Carolina Independent School Association is looking for anyone who might interested in becoming a baseball umpire. Experienced umpires are preferred. For those who are interested, contact SCISA District Director of Umpiring, Teddy Weeks at TWeeks51@aol.com.
SOFTBALL SCISA UMPIRES NEEDED
The South Carolina Independent School Association is looking for anyone who might interested in becoming a softball umpire. Experienced umpires are preferred. For those who are interested, contact SCISA District Director of Umpiring, Teddy Weeks at TWeeks51@aol.com.
GOLF LAKEWOOD TEE IT UP CLASSIC
Lakewood Baseball’s First Tee It Up Classic will be held on Dec. 6 at The Links at Lakewood. The format for the tournament will be 4-man Captain’s Choice and will begin at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start. The cost is $200 per team or $50 per player. Lunch will be provided. The registration and payment deadline is Nov. 21. For more information, call Lakewood baseball head coach Mike Chapman at (843) 685-0568 or (803) 506-2700 (Ext. 1001) or email him at Chapmonis@gmail.com.
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‘Missing’ is hard to watch, irresistible at the same time BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH It’s been a good couple of years for the “limited series,” featuring self-contained, novel-length stories. “True Detective,” “Broadchurch,” “Fargo” and, to some extent, “The Returned,” come to mind. Now Starz imports the eightpart psychological thriller “The Missing” (9 p.m. Saturday). Like HBO’s “True Detective” and Showtime’s “The Affair,” this mystery jumps back and forth between narratives. “The Missing” begins in the present, as a desperate and slightly threatening Tony Hughes (James Nesbitt, “The Hobbit”) returns to the run-down French city where his 5-year-old son Oliver vanished without a trace. It then slips back six years to revisit the circumstances of his disappearance and then bounces back and forth rather seamlessly between the two periods and between France and London, Tony’s home. Tony is clearly a man possessed — outraged that everyone from the French authorities to his now-former wife Emily (Frances O’Connor) has urged him to “move on.” Grabbing onto the slenderest piece of evidence, Tony cajoles everyone he encounters with his harrowing tale, trying to find new clues and reasons for hope. “The Missing” may be a tad too slow for some, padding out its running time with reaction shots and extensive silent moments of bleak scenery, as if to minimize the number of mangled bilingual conversations. At the same time, it does not shy away from Tony’s living nightmare. And that’s what makes “The Missing” so hard to watch, and irresistible at the same time. • Like (too) many Christmas fantasies, “Northpole” (8 p.m. Saturday, Hallmark, TV-G) blends the sad spirits of mere mortals (suburban Americans, mostly) with a crisis at the North Pole and an overarching fear that Christmas itself may be imperiled. Tiffani Thiessen stars as Chelsea, an unhappily divorced single mother and intrepid reporter raising a daydreaming young son, Kevin (Max Charles), who makes it his mission to revive his once-festive town’s flagging Christmas spirit. His efforts dovetail with the harebrained scheme of a rogue elf, Clementine (Bailee Madison), who is convinced that the North Pole’s impending doom (something to do with the Northern Lights) is caused by the lack of cheerful sparkle emanating from the more southern latitudes. In short, a lack of holiday spirit creates harmful atmospheric conditions, threatening Santa’s very domain and reason for existence. Do I detect a global warming metaphor here? This being a Hallmark movie, ro-
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James Nesbitt stars as Tony Hughes in “The Missing,” premiering at 9 p.m. today on STARZ. mance blooms for Chelsea in the form of her son’s handsome teacher, who takes an interest in the boy’s campaign to bring the jingle bells back to Christmas. Look for Robert Wagner as the worried Santa Claus and Jill St. John as the missus. It looks like she’s put the jolly guy on a serious diet! • At first glance, the cuter-than-cute holiday movie “Northpole” and the music biopic “Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B” (8 p.m. Saturday, Lifetime) have nothing in common. But this tale of Brooklyn-born, Detroit-raised Aaliyah Dana Haughton’s (Alexandra Shipp) rise from “Star Search” contestant to queen of R&B, actress and tragic plane crash victim at the tender age of 22, plays it decidedly safe. The predictable dialogue hearkens back to showbiz fantasies of the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney variety. Accompanied to a teen talent showcase by her famous aunt, Gladys Knight (Elise Neal), Aaliyah is told that she must fill every performance with love and that the pressure she feels is like the force that creates “flawless” diamonds. Despite the presence of a character as notorious as R. Kelly (Cle Bennett), “Aaliyah” often seems more generic than Hallmark’s “Northpole” fairy tale. Call it “Queen of the Bland.” • The often-hungover Don Draper may be a stranger to the crack of dawn, but your DVR might find him there anyway. AMC heralds the spring 2015 final half-season of “Mad Men” by repeating every single episode of the acclaimed series on Sunday mornings (6 a.m., AMC). That’s what you call an eye-opener. • Comedy Central may pride itself on edgy comedy like “Key & Peele” and “The Daily Show,” but it often gets
very good ratings for specials featuring an old-school prop comic who works with puppets. “Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map” (9 p.m. Sunday) follows Dunham and his ensemble of characters -Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Peanut, Jose Jalapeno, Bubba J and Walter -- as they embark on a five-continent tour. • The second season of “The Paradise” on “Masterpiece Classic” (8 p.m. Sunday, PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) concludes with the plucky Denise expanding her dreams beyond the confines of the department store. The BBC declined to produce a third season of this pleasant melodrama, so consider this closing time for “The Paradise.”
SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • The queen needs Jason’s help on the second season premiere of “Atlantis” (9 p.m., BBC America, TV-PG). • Ruth blindsides Cullen on “Hell on Wheels” (9 p.m., AMC, TV-14). • Shirley Bassey, David Walliams, Catherine Tate, Richard Ayoade and Annie Lennox appear on “The Graham Norton Show” (10 p.m., BBC America, TV-PG). • Woody Harrelson hosts “Saturday Night Live” (11:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14), featuring Kendrick Lamar.
SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7 p.m., CBS): Boston’s Archbishop Sean O’Malley discusses the impact of Pope Francis; the global groundwater crisis; a profile of Mandy Patinkin. • The Salvation Army comes to the rescue of a harried single mother in the 2014 holiday drama “Paper Angels” (7 p.m., UP). • The mystery behind the plane
crash death of Elizabeth’s predecessor deepens on “Madam Secretary” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG). • The Indianapolis Colts host the New England Patriots on “Sunday Night Football” (8:20 p.m., NBC). • Alicia balks at campaign advice on “The Good Wife” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14). • Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis and Ralph Fiennes star in the sequel “Worricker: Salting the Battlefield” on “Masterpiece Contemporary” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings). Written and directed by David Hare. • A rescue mission returns the group to familiar terrain on “The Walking Dead” (9 p.m., AMC, TV-MA). • Family squabbles imperil the network’s parent company on “The Newsroom” (9 p.m., HBO, TV-MA). • Carrie improvises under pressure on “Homeland” (9 p.m., Showtime, TVMA). • A woman overdoses in a rehab center on “CSI” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14). • The FBI closes in on Victoria on “Revenge” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-PG). • Valerie primps for the Golden Globes on “The Comeback” (10 p.m., HBO, TV-MA). • Noah discovers new sides to Alison’s character on “The Affair” (10 p.m., Showtime, TV-MA). • A new program pushes Didi to the brink on “Getting On” (10:30 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).
CULT CHOICE Adolescent boys (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell and Kiefer Sutherland) take an eventful walk into the woods in “Stand by Me” (8 p.m. Sunday, VH1 Classic), the 1986 adaptation of the Stephen King novella “The Body.” The movie’s popularity returned the 1961 title song by Ben E. King to the pop charts 25 years after its release.
SATURDAY SERIES Garcia turns to an old flame for help on “Criminal Minds” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV14) * Drew Barrymore and Lily Allen appear on a 2007 helping of “Saturday Night Live” (10 p.m., NBC, r, TV-14).
SUNDAY SERIES Bart takes on a tough new teacher (Willem Dafoe) on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-PG) * Emma seeks Mr. Gold’s advice on a two-hour helping of “Once Upon a Time” (8 p.m., ABC, TVPG) * A Thanksgiving crisis on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (8:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * Brian and Peter gobble up Thanksgiving dinner on “Family Guy” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14). Copyright 2014, United Feature Syndicate
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Skipping out on an education may be costly DEAR ABBY — I am a junior in high school and will graduate in the first semester of my senior year. SomeDear Abby day I would like to be a ABIGAIL stay-at-home VAN BUREN mom. I have no interest in going to college. I feel it would be a waste of money for me to go when I don’t intend to use my degree. To say my parents are disappointed in me over this is putting it mildly. They have a life planned for me that includes college. I would also like to move away to somewhere where it’s warm year-round,
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and they don’t like that idea either. How do I make them understand that this is MY life and everything will be OK? Uninterested in Idaho DEAR UNINTERESTED — I’ll paraphrase an old proverb: “When man makes plans, God laughs.” What it means in your case is that a smart cookie stays FLEXIBLE. Let’s say, for instance, that you get the life you fantasize about: You marry a man who adores you, doesn’t mind that you have only a high school degree and is wealthy enough to support you. You have two or three beautiful children together and things are going great. But what if, heaven forbid, he becomes seriously ill and
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can’t work — or worse, drops dead, leaving you the sole support of those kids? It has been known to happen. (And then, of course, there’s also the possibility of divorce, which has been known to happen, too.) Be SMART. Listen to your parents, and arm yourself with the best education you can possibly attain because the reality is, one day you may need to use it. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. What teens need to know about sex, drugs, AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in “What Every Teen Should Know.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
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Multiple Family Yard Sale, Sat. Nov. 15th. 7 am - noon. 24 Reynolds Rd. Furniture, household goods, toys, clothes & much more!
489 Wilson Hall Rd. Multi-family. Sat. 7am. Furn., toys, Christmas, household & lots of misc. 212 Curtiswood Dr. Sat. 7-1 Child clothes & toys, kitchen sm. appliances, much more. Large Multi-Family 735 Orlando Circle Sat. 8-11 Everything must go. Rain or Shine. Moving Sale! 2303 Toxoway Dr. Sat. 9-? Antique furn., toys, figurines, dryer, tools, much more. 21 Calhoun Dr. (between Liberty & Guignard) Just Married Yard Sale Sat. 6-11.
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MAYO’S SUIT CITY If your suits aren’t becoming to you, It’s a good time to be coming to Mayo’s! Wesmark Plaza • 773-2262 • Mon-Sat 10-7
Local Construction Company in search of concrete former and field supervisor. Must be able to read blueprints and set grade. Also have a valid SC drivers license. Send resumes to: Box 374 c//o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151 Hill Plumbing Co. 438 N. Main St. Sumter SC, is submitting a proposal on the USC School of Law on 11/18/14. We are searching for certified DBE subcontractors interested in providing a proposal to us for the following trades: Core cutting, pipe insulation, & fire caulking. Subcontractor must provide DBE certificate. Call Renee 1-800-849-8884 for more info. Tow driver needed. Pay is commission based. Must be able to pass DOT physical & have a clean driving record. Call Cary Cook at 803-499-9086 to set up interview. 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.
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Open every weekend. 905-4242 2221 Gingko Dr. Sat. Christmas tree & decor., toys, books, clothes, hshld items, jewelry, lots more. Barnwell Dr, 8-3, tools, furn, books, electronics, cd's, and much more.
In Loving Memory of James T Morris Sr Nov.15, 1923-Nov.11,2012 Happy Birthday Daddy. One day we will be together again. We look forward to that every day. You were a wonderful father. You always taught us, loved us and protected us with all your strength. You were always a Godly example for us. And we thank you. We love you & miss you. Happy Birthday and as you always said , we will keep on keeping on for Jesus until we meet in Glory Land. Love for Eternity, Your Children & Family
2671 Ford St. Sat. Daylight - 1. Refrigerator, washer / dryer, and much more.
Please visit our website at www.brist ol-companies.com to view the full job description and to apply. Resumes will not be accepted. Hiring residential / commercial janitors. $10/hr. No theft record. Exp. preferred. Apply on line @ www.ang elmaid.com or call 803-607-8098.
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Martin's Used Appliance Washers, Dryers, Refrig., Stoves. Guarantee 464-5439 or 469-7311
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Firewood for Sale Will Deliver. Call 803 651-8672
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Home Improvements Winter is hear time to insulate your attic. Call Nunnery Roofing & Remolding 803-968-2459
Lawn Service Four Seasons Lawn Care Serving Sumter for almost 20 yrs! Free est. 494-9169/468-4008
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
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MERCHANDISE Want to Buy Golden Kernel Pecan Co. 1214 S. Guignard Dr. Sumter 803-968-9432 We buy pecans, We sell Pecan halves & Pieces, Chocolate, Sugarfree Chocolate, Butter Roasted, Sugar & Spiced, Prailine, Honey Glazed, English Toffee Gift Packages available . M-F 9-5 Sat 9-1
New 7x10 Storage building with insulated top, shelves, electricity inside, $800 or Equal Trade Call 803-481-8197
For Sale: Baby Grand Piano with bench. Black satin finish. Case and keyboard in good condition. Sound board needs repairs. $1800 cash. 803-481-8253 Wire dog crate xlg $60 , Ladies black leather coat xlg $70 Call 803-294-0980 Annual Coin Show Sat. Nov. 15 9am-5pm. Will appraise up to 10 coins free. Drawing for gold coin. Bethesda Church of God, Fellowship Hall. 2730 Broad St., Sumter (next to Honda dealership) For more info call 803-775-8840 Expert Tech, New & used heat pumps & A/C. Will install/repair, warranty; Compressor & labor $600. Call 803-968-9549 or 843-992-2364 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
EMPLOYMENT Full time maintenance position available full benefits, vacation, sick leave, insurance, paid holidays. Call 803-435-4492 LPN, MA, Front Office / Clerical & PRN X-Ray Tech. needed for busy internal medical practice. Competitive salary and benefits. Fax resume to office manager @ 803-905-6810 Veterinary Technician/Assistant. FT/PT, Good people skills a must. Exp preferred. Will assist in training if hired. Box 375 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151.
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DALZELL/WALMART 1 AC. PAVED, SEPTIC OPTIONAL! $5990! 888-774-5720 2 Wooded lots on Furman Dr $20,000 Call 803-464-0971
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Sumter School District invites qualified contractors to offer Sealed Bids for Renovations of the Ceramics Room at Sumter High School, 2580 McCrays Mill Road, Sumter, South Carolina. The scope of work consists of the classroom that was originally for shop classes will be up-fitted for use as a ceramics studio. The room will be augmented in the following ways: New HVAC, Add shelving/cabinets, Add Electrical and Hoods for Kilns (Kilns by Owner), Remove existing hand wash and add sinks, Remove existing roll-up door and replace with Storefront, Remove existing compressed air system and exhaust system, Remove existing roof fans, vents and close openings and Paint all previously painted surfaces. 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). Electronic documents are available by request at jsarch@ftc-i.net.
Bid Notices will be held on Monday, November 24, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at the site. The Owner will receive bids on Monday, December 8, 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.
Abandon Vehicle / Boat Abandoned Vehicle Notice: The following vehicle was abandoned at Barnette's Auto Parts, 1370 N. St. Paul Church Road, Sumter, SC 29154. Described as a 2005 Ford F150, VIN # 1FTPW145X6KB44449. Total Due is $5,909.14 as of October 13, 2014, plus $25.00 per day thereafter. Owner is asked to call 803-494-2800. If not claimed in 30 days. it will be turned over to the Magistrate's Office for public sale.
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Autos For Sale R & R Motors 3277 Broad St. 803-494-2886 07 'Chevy Impala $7495, 02' Jeep Liberty $5295, 08' Hyundai Santa Fe $8759, 08' Ford Escape $8559, 05' Pontiac G6 $5549, 06' Ford Taurus $4250
Control Equipment Technicians: •Work Schedule: Day based, 8-hour day, Monday through Friday OR rotating 12-hour shifts •Competitive pay and benefits, commensurate with experience (start rate ~$21.50/hr)
1999 Ford Taurus 3.0 AT, AC, 144K Salvage title, Runs good, $2100 OBO Cash 803-972-0900
General Mechanics: •Work Schedule: Day based, 8-hour day, Monday through Friday OR rotating 12-hour shifts •Competitive pay and benefits, commensurate with experience (start rate ~$18.50/hr)
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Nice 1BR Apartment $475/mo & $325/dep. No pets. 803-775-5638
Unfurnished Homes Rent: 2 BR house suitable for mature couple. $400 mo+$400 Dep Call 803-494-3095 2 & 3BR Apt & houses available in Sumter. No Sec. Dep. required. Call 773-8402 for more info.
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The Clarendon County Board Of Education advises the citizens of school district # 1 that Two (2) seats in district # 1 will be appointed. The appointee's term will run for two (2) years beginning December 2014. Any persons interested in being considered by the County Board of Education should pick up an application from the Clerk of Court's Office at 111 South Brooks Street, Manning, South Carolina beginning November 7, 2014. Applications should be returned to the Clerk of Court Office No Later than 12:00 noon on November 17, 2014.
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REAL ESTATE 821 Holiday Drive, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, possible owner financing. 803-983-7064. 3BR 1BA on 1 acre of land $49,000 Call 803-775-5638 Triple Wide MH for sale on private lake in Sumter. 3BR 2BA lrg den w /fireplace owner financing with small down payment. Call 803-795-6572 For Sale 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 803-983-0408
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