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State facing largest evacuation in 17 years I-26 eastbound was reversed for first time

BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com The projected path of Hurricane Matthew changed Wednesday, shifting farther off the coast of South Carolina; but Gov. Nikki Haley and leaders are still taking every precautionary measure — starting the state’s largest evacuation in at least 17 years.

Haley initiated the evacuation plan on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of people began making their way inland from Hilton Head Island, Beaufort and Charleston to avoid the hurricane. The governor’s order covers all of Beaufort County and most of Charleston and Jasper counties. Low-lying parts of Berke-

ley, Dorchester and Colleton counties were also included in the evacuation.

The change in the projected forecast also showed the hurricane moving at a slower pace, not affecting the coastal areas until Saturday morning.

With the change, Haley did delay evacuations for Georgetown and Horry counties until today at noon.

“Because the storm changed, we are changing with the storm,” Haley said.

State Highway Patrol troopers turned the eastbound lanes of Interstate 26 from Charleston to Columbia, a 100-mile stretch, into inland evacuation lanes for the first time. The plan was put into place after evacuations during Hurricane

Floyd in 1999 turned a typical trip of less than two hours from Charleston to Columbia into an up-to-24-hour ordeal.

In a Wednesday night news conference, Haley complimented the state Department of Public Safety, Department of Transportation, local law enforcement and others on the lane-reversal process.

“Traffic is moving beautifully and looking good,” Haley said.

S.C. DOT Secretary Christy Hall said the lane reversals will remain in effect until Friday morning, and then state officials will revisit the issue as the storm progresses.

The latest storm track puts the storm farther off the South Carolina coast but not

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South Carolina National Guard vehicles head east on U.S. Highway 378 Wednesday after leaving their headquarters near Columbia, South Carolina. Guard units are helping with traffic and other preparations for Hurricane Matthew. far enough out to ease concerns of hurricane-force winds on shore and storm surges from 5 to 8 feet.

“While the strength of Mat-

thew will fluctuate as it approaches the U.S. coast late this week, it will remain a

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CLOSURES AND POSTPONEMENTS GOVERNMENT Sumter City of Sumter will close all non-essential offices today through Friday. This closure will also affect access to area parks and gardens over the next few days.

Police, fire and public services offices will not be affected by the closure.

The city also plans to continue trash and recycling services throughout the week.

At this time, no local shelters are open in Sumter, but according to Mayor Joseph McElveen, the emergency management office does have plans ready to open shelters as needed. “We want to urge all residents to take precautions to protect life and property and to monitor local media outlets throughout the week as numerous watches and warnings will likely be issued,” said McElveen.

For more information on the City of Sumter, ‘Like’ their Facebook page @SumterSC, follow them on Twitter @CityofSumter or visit their website at www.sumtersc.gov.

Non-essential offices in Sumter County will be closed today through Friday. Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Sumter County Emergency Medical Services, Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center and Sumter County Public Works will remain open.

Clarendon The Harvin County Library is closed until weather permits.

SCHOOLS • Public schools in Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties are all closed through Friday.

• St. Mathias Montessori Preschool in Clarendon will be closed through Friday.

• Central Carolina Technical College campuses in Clarendon, Lee and Sumter counties will be closed again today. All Kershaw County campuses will remain open today.

EVENTS • The Sounds of Grace benefit concert originally scheduled for tonight has been postponed until 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at the Sumter Opera House. The program and participants will be the same, and tickets will be valid for the concert.

• Sumter Shepherd Center classes are canceled for today, and the office will be closed Friday. The center will follow the Sumter School District policy for closing.

• Youth Academy Parochial School is closed through Friday.

• Coffee House Productions’ 10th anniversary celebration has been rescheduled to 5 p.m. Sunday at Salem Avenue Missionary Baptist Church.

• Sumter High School IB Program Domestic Violence Awareness Walk has been postponed from Saturday to 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12.

• The reception and talk by Jeremy Butler scheduled for Friday at the University Gallery has been postponed until 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19. The exhibition closes Oct. 20.

• The Lee County Cotton Festival has been postponed to Dec. 10, when it will be merged with the Christmas Festival.

• The Midlands Fall Plant and Flower Festival and Certified S.C. Grown Tailgate scheduled for Friday through Sunday at Gamecock Village, Columbia, has been canceled.

• Hurricane Matthew has forced some venue changes for Camden’s Downhome Blues Festival, but the Thursday through Saturday festival will take place as planned. Check www.cityofcamden. org for updates and venue changes.

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The high winds of Hurricane Matthew roar over Baracoa, Cuba, late Tuesday. The dangerous Category 3 storm blew ashore in Haiti, unloading heavy rain as it swirled on toward a lightly populated part of Cuba and the Bahamas.

Sumter County Emergency Operations Center starts preparing for hurricane

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com As always, Sumter County Emergency Operations Center is working directly with local law enforcement, other first responder agencies, American Red Cross, city and county public services and Palmetto Health Tuomey to prepare for Hurricane Matthew, said Sumter County EOC Director Erik Hayes.

He said the EOC had its normal staff as of Wednesday morning, but other agencies will come in when necessary.

The hurricane is not expected to reach the state until late Friday or early Saturday, he said.

Hayes said the EOC is also working with local law enforcement to prepare for the possible influx of coastal evacuees traveling through the area. Interstate 26 is the main evacuation corridor, but U.S. Highway 378 and S.C. Highway 261 in Sumter County are also evacuation routes, he said.

The predicted number of evacuees from the greater Charleston area has decreased from 1 million people to a quarter of a million people, so that will be a relief for traffic, he said.

Even though the hurricane track is predicted to shift farther off the coast, Hayes urges residents to be mindful and plan for the strong winds that could affect the area.

When tropical storm Hermine came to the area on Sept. 2, there were fallen trees and power outages, so residents should keep supplies such as nonperishable food, water and battery-operated flashlights on hand just in case, he said.

And keep in mind, Hurricane Matthew still has to cross the Bahamas

SEE PREPARING, PAGE A9

After battering Haiti, storm hits the Bahamas PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the storm began battering the Bahamas on Wednesday and triggered large-scale evacuations along the U.S.

East Coast.

At least 11 deaths were blamed on the powerful storm during its weeklong march across the Caribbean, five of them in Haiti.

But with a key bridge washed out, roads impassable and phone communications down, the western tip of Haiti was isolated

and there was no full accounting of the dead and injured in Matthew’s wake.

After moving past Haiti, Matthew rolled across a corner of Cuba and then began pounding the southern Bahamas with winds of 120 mph and heavy rain on a course expected to take it

near the capital city of Nassau.

Forecasters said the storm could hit Florida — or come dangerously close — late Thursday or early Friday and then scrape the East Coast all the way up to the Carolinas over the

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City to perform hydrant flow tests around town City of Sumter will be performing fire hydrant flow tests today on East Liberty Street, Main Street, Alice Drive, Patriot Parkway, Constitution Drive, Loring Mill Road, Curlew Circle, Deschamps Road, Cormier Drive, S. Pike West and Wall St. Water customers in the surrounding areas may experience temporary discolored water. Tests will be performed between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. today. Please direct any questions or concerns to the City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558.

One Sumter will host election demonstration One Sumter Community Group invites the public to its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 9, at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 345 W. Fulton St. Local pastors, social action leaders, neighborhood associations, all candidates who will be on the Nov. 8 ballot and anyone interested in the General Election are invited to participate.

Goliath Brunson, chairman of Sumter County Election Commission, will be present to talk about the voting process.

He will have sample ballots and a voting machine to demonstrate the procedure for using it.

For more information, contact the Rev. Joshua Dupree at (803) 795-3600.

Election commission holds to voter registration deadline FROM STAFF REPORTS VOTER REGISTRATION OFFICES COLUMBIA — To help ensure voters are prepared for the Nov. 8 General Election, the State Election Commission reminds everyone of the upcoming voter registration deadline, which is Saturday, Oct. 8. Also, citizens along South Carolina’s coast need to make sure they are registered now in advance of the approaching storm and impending deadline.

To vote in the 2016 General Election, you must be registered by Oct. 8.

Anyone in the following categories must register in their county of residence by the deadline: • Anyone who is not currently registered to vote in their county of residence;

Sumter County 141 N. Main St. (in the Sumter County Courthouse — use Harvin Street groundlevel entrance) Lee County 101 Gregg St., Bishopville Clarendon County 3 Keitt St. No. 101, Manning

• Any voter who has moved from one county to another and has not yet registered in their new county; or • Any voter who has moved to South Carolina from another state and has not yet registered in South Carolina.

While Hurricane Matthew will likely

force some county offices to close, voters still have various options to register before the deadline: • Register online at scVOTES.org (requires SC Driver’s License or DMV ID Card) before midnight on Saturday; • Register using the My scVOTES mobile application, available now in the Apple and Google Play stores (requires SC Driver’s License or DMV ID Card); or • Download a voter registration form from scVOTES.org. Complete and return the form to your county voter registration and elections office by mail, postmarked by Oct. 8; by fax, received by Oct. 8; or by email attachment, received by Oct. 8; or in person at your county voter registration and elections office.

Attorney General warns against gouging Bobby Maple gasses up one of his family’s cars with mid-grade gas 30 minutes after filling up another car with regular because the regular gas was sold out at the Anytime Energy station on Pinewood Road on Wednesday afternoon.

In an effort to head off any untoward business activities, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has announced the state’s price gouging statute is in effect upon notice that Gov. Nikki Haley issued an executive order declaring state of emergency.

Ballot tabulation test rescheduled for Monday Because of Hurricane Matthew, Sumter County Registration and Election Commissioners has rescheduled its Tabulation Test to 9:30 a.m. Monday at Sumter County Registration/Election Office, 141 N. Main St., in the Sumter County Courthouse.

Wilson urged citizens to remain vigilant and notify the Attorney General’s Office immediately if they believe they have witnessed or are aware of price gouging by emailing any examples or documentation to pricegouging@scag.gov; tweeting photos or examples tagging @SCPriceGouging; or by calling 803-737-3953 if they have witnessed a likely violation.

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

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Power companies closely monitoring storm situation

BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Representatives of local electric companies said they are monitoring Hurricane Matthew’s progress and making plans to deploy employee resources to where they are needed.

Black River Electric Cooperative implemented its emergency preparedness plan Wednesday and will monitor Hurricane Matthew’s development to determine whether to bring in additional resources, its di-

rector of marketing said.

Brenda Chase said the co-op’s emergency preparedness plan focuses on an overall game plan that will trigger more detailed information as it becomes needed.

She said the co-op’s plan includes notifying crews of their need to be on standby, scheduling employees, communicating with other electric co-ops in the state and the Southeast region of the country and checking supplies.

The co-op has even reserved eight hotel rooms each in Sumter and Ker-

shaw counties in case it needs to bring in support crews.

Black River Co-op. members who experience power outages should call 1-866-431-2732.

Catherine Butler, a spokeswoman for Duke Energy, said the company even has its own meteorologists who are providing up-to-date information about the path of Matthew and where it will affect customers. She said as the storm makes shifts, so does Duke Energy.

Butler said Duke has employees embedded in service territories it

will deploy as needed. As the storm approaches, she said it may be necessary to shift Duke resources from the Midwest to the Southeast.

Butler said she encourages customers to be prepared with emergency supplies and to monitor the storm. She also urged customers to contact the company to report an outage as soon as it happens so Duke can dispatch crews to the area as quickly as possible. Duke’s emergency power outage phone number in South Carolina is 1-800769-3766.

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Pence receives wide praise; Kaine lands jabs on Trump WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Pence won bipartisan plaudits for a calm and collected performance in the vice presidential debate.

But Democrat Tim Kaine was claiming mission accomplished for forcing his opponent to confront —or not — Donald Trump’s long list of provocative remarks.

Pressed by Kaine to defend his running mate throughout the 90-minute debate Tuesday, Pence mostly dodged, sidestepped or let the moment pass by. He vouched for the billionaire’s tax history, but was less vocal when challenged about Trump’s temperament or his inflammatory words about women and President Obama.

“I can’t imagine how Gov. Pence can defend the insultdriven, me-first style of Donald Trump,” said Kaine, the Virginia senator and Hillary Clinton’s No. 2.

Still, even Clinton’s team wasn’t claiming that Kaine had come out on top, despite the chest-puffing that usually follows a political debate. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said only that Kaine had succeeded in his “strategic mission” to challenge Pence to defend his controversial running mate.

“Gov, Pence was smooth, he seemed sort of likable, but he didn’t get the job done,” Podesta said Wednesday on MSNBC. Both sides appeared willing to concede that the only debate between the vice presidential candidates was unlikely to alter the trajectory of the race.

After all, this year’s rollicking presidential campaign has been all about the passionate emotions — positive and negative — that both candidates of the top of the ticket stir up for many American voters.

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Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence, right, shakes hands Tuesday with Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine during the vice-presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. the polls, Pence’s steady performance could help assuage concerns that this year’s Republican ticket has veered away from the party’s core beliefs.

Pence, a former congressman and Indiana’s governor, is widely trusted by the Republican establishment and the party’s socially conservative base.

Like Pence, Kaine also found himself in the role of defender.

He rebutted Pence’s attacks on Clinton’s family foundation, her emails and her struggles persuading voters that she’s trustworthy.

Kaine said he and his wife trust Clinton “with the most important thing in our life” — their son, a Marine who would serve under Clinton if she wins.

Yet for the most part, Kaine was determined to make the showdown a referendum on Trump’s character. Typically relaxed and easygoing, Kaine adopted a pugilistic approach as he slammed Trump for having called women pigs and slobs, and condemned his

praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Pence frequently avoided taking the bait — a shrewd move for a conservative darling who could have eyes on the Oval Office himself if Trump loses in November. Instead, he sought to defuse the line of attack by arguing preemptively that it was the Democrats — not Trump — waging an insult-filled campaign.

He didn’t dispute reports that the businessman might not have paid any federal taxes for years as a result of suffering more than $900 million in losses in 1995. But he likened Trump’s situation to those of other Americans who have gone “through a very difficult time.”

“He used the tax code just the way it’s supposed to be used,” Pence said. “And he did it brilliantly.”

Kellyann Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, faulted Kaine for repeatedly interrupting Pence, and of “ignoring the female moderator,” Elaine Quijano of CBS News.

ATLANTA (AP) — The cost of expanding Medicaid under President Obama’s health care overhaul is rising faster than expected in many states, causing budget anxieties and political misgivings.

Far more people than projected are signing up under the new, more relaxed eligibility requirements, and their health care costs are running higher than anticipated, in part because the new enrollees are apparently sicker than expected. Rising drug prices may also be a factor.

As a result, at least three expansion states, Arkansas, Kentucky and Ohio, have been pushing to require Medicaid recipients to pay more toward their health insurance — a step that some experts say could lead tens of thousands of poor people who can’t afford the extra cost to drop off the Medicaid rolls and go without coverage. Contrary to common perceptions, Medicaid coverage isn’t always free — many states require modest copayments.

The soaring tab for the state-federal program could also harden opposition to expansion in the 19 states that have yet to sign up.

The situation will be one of the thorny issues the next president will have to address, with the health care of millions of Americans hanging in the balance.

Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have opted to expand the program for poor and lower-income Americans as part of the Affordable Care Act, helping to greatly reduce the number of people without coverage. The federal government has been picking up the entire tab for the new enrollees, but states will begin paying a 5 percent share in January, and that will rise to 10 percent by 2020.

While that may not sound like a lot, it can add up to tens of millions of dollars per state.

Health care is already the second-biggest state expense, behind public schools, and a number of states have yet to see their tax revenue fully rebound from the Great Recession.

Arkansas — where more than 307,000 people have signed up for the expansion, exceeding the projected 250,000 — is asking the federal government for permission to charge some new Medicaid recipients premiums to help cover the costs.

“The facts are, it is what every other (Medicaid) program has been — a fiscal failure,” said state Sen. Bart Hester, a Republican.

In Kentucky, a state struggling to manage its pension debt, Republican Gov. Matt Bevin is asking for federal authorization to charge Medicaid enrollees up to $15 a month. He also wants to require some of them to perform “community engagement,” which would include working or volunteering.

Some 400,000 Kentuckians have enrolled in Medicaid under the expansion, more than double the initial projections, prompting officials to allocate over $257 million for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. That’s well beyond the initial estimate of $107 million.

“At the end of the day, there needs to be the ability to pay for this,” Bevin, who like the state of Arkansas is waiting for an answer from Washington, said last month. “Why trick people, why lie to people, which is what we would be doing if we were to promise something that there was not the ability to pay for?”

Under the Affordable Care Act, states have the option of expanding Medicaid by loosening the eligibility requirements to include all adults with incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or roughly $16,390 per individual.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has promised that if elected she would work to expand Medicaid in the remaining 19 states. She is proposing an incentive for states that are holding back: three years of full federal financing. Republican Donald Trump has said he would repeal the federal health care law and supports turning Medicaid over to the states and limiting federal financing.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016

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Be prepared for the storms of life with God

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hurricane is a rotating system of storms held centered on a low-pressure system that forms in tropic or subtropic waters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These systems have the power to uproot trees, level buildings and wash away all evidence of civilization.

Hurricanes help rebalance certain asFaith Matters pects of our weather systems. They truly JAMIE H. are a marvel of our WILSON natural world.

Most of us, however, don’t focus on the awesome power of these monstrous storms. We are worried about that much force slamming into our sense of normal. Most of our time is spent preparing for it or

cleaning up afterward.

You, like me, have probably had a proverbial storm slam into your normal, leaving an indelible mark on your memory.

My earliest memory was of Hurricane Hugo, the eponymous storm that serves as a standard for hurricane devastation among South Carolinians. The huge storm system left devastation so substantial that it always earns an annual spot in the conversation every hurricane season. As a child, I distinctly remember hunkering down under an angled mattress in our hallway with my very pregnant mother beside me.

In the end, our house lost one shingle. The entire roof had been torn off of my neighbor’s house.

Sometimes God saves us from the storm. Other times he allows us to endure it but not without the promise of a purpose of doing so.

The waters raged around the small

CHURCH NEWS Antioch United Methodist Church, 4040 Dubose Siding Road, announces: * Saturday, Oct. 15 — Day of festivities and fish fry from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in celebration of friends and family weekend. Free health information, health screenings, blood pressure monitoring, games and more. Refreshments will be served.

Church of Christ, 313 Mooneyham Road, announces: * Saturday — Gospel Fest at 6 p.m.

Church of God by Faith Inc., 609 Atlantic Ave., announces: * Today-Sunday — October Assembly as follows: 7:30 p.m. today and Friday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday; and 11 a.m. on Sunday.

Speakers: Elder Ronnie Roberts, the Rev. Ralph Canty, Elder Andre McBride and Willie Mae Jackson.

Dalzell United Methodist Church, 3330 Black River Road, Dalzell, announces: * Saturday, Oct. 15 — Bazaar and luncheon 9 a.m.-2 p.m. featuring vendors, crafters, lunch, silent auction and more. * Oct. 15-31 — Pumpkin patch from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. each day at Treehouse Nursery, U.S. 521 bypass and Frierson Road, Dalzell. * Saturday, Oct. 29 — Trunk or treat from 6 to 8 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Food, games, candy and hayrides.

Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets at Bethesda Church of God, 2730 Broad St., announces: * Saturday — The Regal Women’s Conference will be held 10 a.m.noon. Elizabeth Wyns Enns, of Fort Mill, will speak. All ladies are welcome and continental breakfast is included. A love offering

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will be received. Knitting Hearts is a community-wide, multicultural women’s ministry. Visit knittingheartsministry.wordpress.com.

Liberty Free Will Baptist Church, 2761 Liberty Church Road, Manning, announces: * Sunday — The 135th homecoming service will be held as follows: 10 am., old fashioned favorites singing; 11 a.m., worship service; and noon, dinner and fellowship. The Rev. Larry Hughes will speak.

Manning United Methodist Church, 17 E. Rigby St., Manning, announces: * Through Oct. 31 — Pumpkin patch will be open 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Monday through Friday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturdays.

Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, 7355 Camden Highway, Rembert, announces: * Sunday — The 19th pastoral anniversary of Anthony L. Taylor will be celebrated. Eugene Dennis will speak. Church school begins at 9:30 a.m. with worship service to follow. * Saturday, Oct. 15 — Breast cancer awareness breakfast will be held at 11 a.m. * Saturday, Oct. 29 — Blood drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. * Sunday, Oct. 30 — Youth Sunday with services beginning at 9:30 a.m. Regular service to follow.

Mount Sinai AME Church, 5895 Mt. Sinai Church Road, Lynchburg, announces: * Sunday — Books of the Bible trivia with adults versus youth at 10 a.m. * Saturday, Oct. 22 — Hallelujah festival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church Will Host their 19th Pastoral Appreciation Worship Service

Join Us Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 9:30 am To honor and praise Rev. Anthony L. Taylor Sr. and First Sheletha Taylor for accepting the challenge in October 1997 to become the Pastor of Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church.

Rev. Taylor is a man of God with a vision for the future of mankind. The Mt. Pisgah Community thanks God for such a pastor.

Rev. Eugene Dennis of Charlotte, NC., grandson of the late Rev. A.D. Dennis and pastor of the Joshua Baptist Church in Dalzell will deliver the Anniversary Message with the music being provided by Joshua and Mt. Pisgah Male Chorus.

The public is invited to attend!

PASTOR ANTHONY LL. TAYLOR, SR. 521 Camden Highway • Rembert, SC

boat in Mark 4, threatening to capsize the vessel that carried Jesus and a group of his followers. It was Jesus who spoke to the storm, commanding it to stop.

While sometimes he quells the storm as he did then, sometimes he doesn’t.

There are times where he only offers refuge during the storm. He beckons his children to draw near to him as the tempest threatens. “… [C]ome to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28, NLT) In both cases, we have the ability to prepare. As believers, we can study God’s Word, we can spend time every day offering our praises and requests to God. We are commanded to worship God in both word and deed. We can do these things and be best prepared for the storms of life. However, there will be some storms both in the natural

with food, fun and games. * Sunday, Oct. 23 — Sons of Allen day observed during 10 a.m. worship.

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 325 Fulton St., announces: * Sunday — Morris College Day will be recognized at 10:45 a.m.

Dr. Luns C. Richardson will speak.

Morris College Chorale will provide music. * Sunday, Oct. 16 — Deacons and deaconess ministry anniversary worship celebration at 10:45 a.m. * Sunday, Oct. 23 — Morning worship will be held at 8 a.m. No 10:45 a.m. service this day. * Sunday, Oct. 30 — Youth worship celebration at 10:45 a.m.

Minister Daryl Cunningham will speak.

Mount Zion United Methodist Church, 130 Loring Mill Road, announces: * Friday-Sunday — The 154th anniversary of the church will be celebrated as follows: 7 p.m. Friday, revival, the Rev. Clifton Witherspoon will speak; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, fun day featuring games, food, prizes and singing; and 4 p.m. Sunday, closing celebration, the Rev. Charlie Thomas will speak, dinner will be served.

New Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, 105 S. Purdy St., announces: * Sunday, Oct. 30 — Senior honorees day at 10 a.m. Dr. O.J. Hannah will speak.

New Hope AME Church, 18808 Panola Road, Pinewood, announces: * Sunday — The third pastoral anniversary of the Rev. Jacquelyn B. Hurston, MACE, will be held at 4 p.m. The Rev. Rufus Gaymon will speak.

One Step Christian Ministries, 125 S. Nettles St., Bishopville, announces:

world and the spiritual world that will leave us devastated on some level. It’s during these times that we draw close to God, relying on the limitless grace he has for us.

As of this writing, we don’t know the effects Hurricane Matthew will have.

We don’t know whether God will avert the storm or allow us to endure it. We do have the certainty of God’s presence regardless of the storm’s path.

As you prepare, I ask you to add one thing to your to-do list: Pray. Pray for those affected by the devastation of Hurricane Matthew. There are already those suffering. Next, pray God uses you by whatever means to minister to those around you as you prepare. We’ve already seen how important it is that believers become the hands and feet of God during times of trouble. Prepare yourself, dear believer, for God to use you during the storm.

* Saturday, Oct. 22 — Health and Healing Women’s Conference 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Dennis Community Center, 410 Cedar Lane, Bishopville. Conference will feature continental breakfast, praise dancers, drama, art show, vendors, lunch and more. A love offering will be received. Prophetess Stephanie Mathis will speak.

Reid Chapel AME Church, 1008 Dibert St., announces: * Sunday, Oct. 16 — Pack the pew program at 3 p.m. Presiding elder Dr. James Cooper will speak.

Second Presbyterian Church, 1125 Old Pocalla Road, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 23 — Homecoming celebration at 2 p.m. Minister Napoleon Bradford will speak.

St. John Baptist Church, 3944 Brewer Road, Manning, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 23 — Ninth appreciation program for the Rev. Ruth Pugh at 4 p.m. Evangelist Johanna Bethune-Wilson will speak.

St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church, 7650 Summerton Highway, Silver community, Pinewood, announces: * Sunday — Pews and windows dedication during 10 a.m. worship. * Sunday, Oct. 16 — The 138th anniversary of the church will be celebrated during morning services. * Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 19-21 — Three night revival. * Sunday, Oct. 30 — Pastor’s aide program at 3 p.m.

Taw Caw Missionary Baptist Church, 1130 Granby Lane, Summerton, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 16 — Deacon’s ministry will celebrate their anniversary during the 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. worship services.

Triumph Ministries, 3632 Broad St.

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Saturday, Overseer Stephanie Genwright will speak; and 11 a.m. Sunday, closing out with Prophetess Stephanie Mathis. * Friday, Oct. 21 — Pastor LaShonda McElveen will speak at 7 p.m.

Unity Baptist Church, 4000 U.S. 15 South, announces: * Saturday — “Building a Bridge Through Song” gospel singing at 6 p.m. featuring the Webb Quartet and Next Chapter.

Walker Avenue Church of God, 100 Walker Ave., announces: * Monday-Wednesday, Oct. 17-19 — Revival services at 7 nightly.

Speakers as follows: Monday, the Rev. Dr. Gloria Robinson; Tuesday, Elder Isaac V. Cropp Jr.; and Wednesday, the Rev. Dale Edwards.

Walker’s Chapel Freewill Baptist Church, 99 Walter Ave., announces: * Saturday —Gospel singing at 6 p.m. featuring the Tyners, Stephanie Thompson and Burning Bridges. A love offering will be received.

Wise Drive Church of the Nazarene, 302 N. Wise Drive, announces: * Saturday — Yard sale 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Barbecue sandwiches for sale beginning at 9 a.m.

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EVACUATION FROM PAGE A1 powerful and dangerous hurricane with threats from storm surge, flooding and high winds,” according to AccuWeather hurricane expert Dan Kottlowski.

South Carolina no longer has voluntary or mandatory evacuations, and officials can’t order anyone to leave.

Haley, however, thanked residents for starting to evacuate and reiterated her plea for residents of coastal communities to abide by the state’s evacuation plans.

“If you do not leave, you are putting a law enforcement officer or National Guardsman’s life on the line when they have to go back and get you,” she said.

The governor said most hotels in the state are booked, but rooms are still available in the Greenville area. She suggested people use online booking sites to find rooms if they have not made other preparations.

For shelter and evacuation information, people are advised to go to the state Emergency Management Division website at www.scemd.org.

LOCAL FORECAST Meteorologist Hunter Coleman of the National Weather Service in Columbia said Wednesday afternoon that the latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center has the storm within 50 to 100 miles of the state’s coast on Saturday morning. On Tuesday, forecasts had the storm reaching within 20 to 30 miles of the coast by Friday afternoon.

With the change in the forecast mod-

els, Coleman said the tri-county area can expect 2 to 4 inches of rain between Friday night and Saturday evening, and the peak of the strongest sustained winds will be in the 20 to 35 mph range with some wind gusts as high as 45 mph. Tropical storm-level winds are defined as between 39 mph and 73 mph.

“The further east in the area, such as Clarendon County, we forecast rain in the 3 to 4 inch range,” Hunter said Wednesday. “The further west, to include Sumter and western Lee counties, the forecast is for 2 to 2½ inches of rain.”

Coleman said the likelihood of flooding in the three counties is now low because the rainfall will be over a length of time.

“Clarendon has some possibility for flooding,” Coleman said. “And the closer to the coast you get, flooding becomes much more of a possibility. Similar to the rainfall levels, the strongest winds will be further east in eastern Clarendon County as opposed to Bishopville and Sumter County.”

Coleman said with the forecasts, there is still uncertainty.

“Everything depends really on the track of Matthew and where it ends up going,” Coleman said. “There is still some physical uncertainty there.”

Similar to state leaders, Coleman emphasized preparations still need to be made, especially for the coastline.

For up-to-date information, visit www.theitem.com.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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Church Directory Adventist Sumter Seventh-Day Adventist 103 N Pike West 775-4455 Pastor Harry Robinson Sat. Sch: 9:15 am, Worship: 11:00 am Tues Bible Study 7 pm www.sumter22.adventistchurchconnect.org

African Methodist Episcopal Wayman Chapel AME Church 160 N Kings Hwy • 803-494-3686 www.waymanchapelame.com Reverend Dr. Dennis W. Broughton, Jr. Church School 9:00 am Worship 10:15 am Wed. Bible Study 12:00 pm & 6:30 pm

Anglican Church of the Holy Cross 335 North Kings Hwy (Hwy 261 N) 803-494-8101 Father Michael E. Ridgill, C.F.S.B. Sunday School 9:00 am Mass 10:00 am Mon. - Thurs. Chapel 9 am Morning Prayer Wed. Chapel 11:00 qm - Bible Study 12 pm Mass

Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pm Salem Missionary Baptist Church 320 West Fulton Street 803-775-8054 Sun. School 9:00 am Praise Worship 9:55 am Worship 10:00 am

Saturday: 6:00 pm Sun. 9:15 - 12:00 Noon, 5:00 pm (in Spanish) Confession: Sat. 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Church of Christ Plaza Church of Christ 1402 Camden Hwy. • 905-3163 Stewart Schnur cell 361-8449 Sunday School: 10 am Sunday Worship: 11 am & 6 pm Wed. Bible Class: 7 pm

Baptist - Southern Grace Baptist Church 219 W Calhoun St * 778-6417 Dr. Stephen Williams S.S. 9:45 am; Worship 11:00 am Evening Worship/Bible Study 6:30 pm Wed. Prayer Meeting 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study: 6:30 pm Hickory Road Baptist Church 1245 Cherryvale Dr 803-494-8281 Dr. Ron Taylor Pastor Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 10:55 am Evening Worship 6:00 pm Shaw Heights Baptist Church 2030 Peach Orchard Rd. • 499-4997 Rev. Robert White, Pastor Sunday School: 9:45 am Sunday Worship:11 am & 6 pm Bible School June 20th - 25th 6:00 - 8:30 PM 4 year old & up

Interdenominational City of Refuge Church 16 Carolina Ave 938-9066 Barbara & Johnny Davis Sun School 10:00 am Worship 11:15 am Bible Study (Wed.) 7:00 pm www.cityofrefugeministry.com Spiritual Life Christian Center 4672 Broad St. Ext • 968-5771 Pastors Randolph & Minerva Paige Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pm Victory Full Gospel Interdenominational Church 601 Pitts Rd • 481-7003 Joann P. Murrill, Pastor Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm

Assembly of God Catholic - Roman First Assembly of God 1151 Alice Drive * 773-3817 www.sumterfirstag.org Jason Banar, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship: 10:30 am

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The Catholic Community of Sumter, St. Anne Site 216 E Liberty St • 803-773-3524 Parochial Pastor Rev. Frank Palmieri, CRM Vicar Rev. Noly Berjuega, CRM Weekend Masses: Sat. 4:30 pm Sun. 8:00 and 12:00 Noon Confession: Sat. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The Catholic Community of Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church Sumter, St. Jude Site 803 S Harvin St. * 775-4032 611 W. Oakland Ave • 773-9244 Marion H Newton, Pastor www.stjudesumtersc.org Sunday Worship: 7:45 & 10:45 am Pastor Rev. Frank Palmieri, CRM Sunday Youth Service: 10:45 am Parochial Vicar Rev. Noly Berjuega, CRM

Lutheran - ELCA St James Lutheran Church 1137 Alice Dr, Sumter 773-2260 / www.stjamessumter.org Pastor Keith Getz Sunday School: 9:00 am Sunday Worship: 10:00 am Wed. Bible Study 10:30 am Holy Communion: 12:00 pm

Lutheran - NALC Immanuel Lutheran Church 140 Poinsett Drive 803-883-1049 • 803-774-2380 Pastor Gary Blobaum Worship Service 9:00 am Sunday School 10:30 am Wed Bible Class: 7:00 pm

Methodist - United

Christ Community Church(CCC) 320 Loring Mill Rd., Sumter www.cccsumter.com 803-905-7850 Sun. Worship 10:00 am (Patriot Hall) 135 Haynsworth Street First Church of God 1835 Camden Rd • 905-5234 www.sumterfcg.org Ron Bower, Pastor Sunday School: 9:30 am Sunday Worship: 10:30 am

Aldersgate United Methodist 211 Alice Dr • 775-1602 David W. Day, Pastor Traditional Service 9:00 am Sunday School 10:15 am Contemporary Service 11:15 am

Greater St. Paul Church 200 Watkins Street • 803-778-1355 Founder Bishop W.T. English Sunday School - 10:30 am Worship - 11:30 am Evangelistic Service 6:30 pm Wed. Mid Week Service - 7:30 pm

Bethel United Methodist Church 5575 Lodebar Rd • 469-2452 Rev. Jeremy Howell Sunday Worship: 8:30 & 11 am Sunday School: 10 am www.yourbethel.org BMethodist@ftc-i.net

Sumter Bible Church 420 South Pike West, Sumter 803-773-8339 • Pastor Ron Davis Sunday School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 pm

St John United Methodist Church 136 Poinsett Dr * 803-773-8185 www.stjohnumcsumter.com Rev. Larry Brown Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 11:00 am Wed. Bible Study 11:00 am Trinity United Methodist Church 226 W Liberty St • 773-9393 Rev. Steve Holler Sunday School 9:30 am Worship Service 10:30 am trinityumcsumter.org

Non-Denominational Abundant Life Kingdom Ministries 301 Crosswell Drive, Sumter Pastor Dion E. Price 803-468-1567 Sunday Morning 10:00 am 1st & 3rd Wed. Bible Study 7:00 pm Sat. 9:00 am Intercessory Prayer

Presbyterian - ARP Presbyterian USA Lemira Presbyterian Church 514 Boulevard Rd • 473-5024 Pastor Dan Rowton Sunday School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am

Presbyterian PCA Westminster Presbyterian Church 230 Alice Dr., Sumter 803-773-7235 Pastor Stuart Mizelle Sunday School 9:15 am Worship Service 10:30 am

Pentecostal

First Presbyterian Church of Sumter 9 W Calhoun St (at Main St.) (803) 773-3814 • info@fpcsumter.org Rev. Nick Cheek Sunday School (classes for all ages) 9:30 a.m.

Hospitality & Fellowship (Fellowship Hall) 10:10 a.m.

Worship (Sanctuary) 10:30 a.m.

ENDURING LOVE

First United Penecostal Church 14 Plowden Mill Rd • 775-9493 Pastor Theron Smith Sunday Service: 10:00 am & 6:30 pm Wednesday Bible Study: 7:30 pm Sumter First Pentecostal Holiness Church 2609 McCrays Mill Rd • 481-8887 S. Paul Howell, Pastor Sunday School: 10:00 am Sunday Worship: 10:45 am & 6:00 pm Wed. Bible Study/Youth Group: 7:00 pm

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couple no longer young in years, enjoying the celebration of new beginnings, has something that time cannot touch – enduring love. What sustains their love after all these years? Perhaps they still see each other the way they were all those years ago. God’s love for us is also timeless and steadfast. In His eyes we are forever young. Worship with your loved one this week and thank God for lasting love.

1 Cor. 11:17-34

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Taste of Clarendon draws more than 300

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ore than 300 people came out to the 28th-annual Taste of Clarendon featuring everything from duck to pork loin, wild game, quail, barbecue and catfish stew.

About 20 vendors, consisting of local businesses, organizations and residents, cooked at this year’s event at McLeod Health Clarendon Cypress Center in Manning.

The event netted about $7,000 and 60 percent of those funds will go toward the Clarendon County Junior Chamber organization’s projects, said Jamie Mathis, one of the organizers. The rest of the funds will go to the Clarendon County Junior Ambassadors and Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce.

The Junior Chamber’s project this year is refurbishing the dugouts at three baseball fields at J.C. Britton Park in Manning. The project costs about $14,000 to complete, he said.

Bank of Clarendon was the main sponsor of the event.

Jake Buddin, who’s cooked at the event since it began 28 years ago, was grilling mustard fried venison cube steak and frog legs.

Pro Prothro, Lannes Prothro and John Lesemann cooked shrimped from McClellanville.

Pro has been participating in the event for more than 10 years.

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SEE TASTE, PAGE A8 Pro Prothro dishes up a cup of shrimp for Peggy Lane Bloomville during the Taste of Clarendon on Thursday.

School board candidates answer questions at forum

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Six candidates took questions at the Clarendon School District 1 Forum held on Tuesday at the Cultural Arts Center in Summerton.

Seven candidates are running for two seats on the board. The six candidates at the forum were: John D. Bonaparte, Erica AdamsCaldwell, Lindsey Coulliette, Joseph Dingle, Leah Gardenhire and Kevin James Gist.

Board chairman Bernard Richburg, who is running for re-election, was not present at the event.

Questions asked included what the candidates’ opinions were on hypothetical consolidation of all three districts in Clarendon County, what they felt was the number one challenge of the school district, what their priorities for the district would be in the coming year and did they believe the school board is the education watchdog for the community. Not all candidates answered every question.

DO YOU SUPPORT SCHOOL BOARD CONSOLIDATION FOR ALL THREE DISTRICTS IN CLARENDON COUNTY? Coulliette: I do support it. I believe right now we have too many administrators across all three schools districts.

There are 14 administrators in our district, 18 in Clarendon 2 (Manning) and eight in Clarendon 3 (Turbeville). If we combine those, there will be a lot less spending. Tax dollars could be spread further.

Bonaparte: From an economical standpoint, we need to look at what’s best for operations, similar to running a business, and also what’s best for the community. Personally, I would say consolidate because we have three of everything among the three districts and less than 6,000 students total in the county. It makes economical sense. When we say consolidation, though, people all of a sudden run scared. Consolidation may be the avenue to ensure that we provide the services for our children. Consolidating is not necessarily every-

thing coming together. It’s consolidating funds and resources.

Dingle: Bigger is not always better. It’s something we can look at, but we need to think carefully about it. After all, when we look at District 3 (Turbeville), for example, there’s a big difference in what takes place there compared to District 2 (Manning) and District 1 (Summerton). I would need to study it to see whether it is in our children’s best interest.

WHAT DO YOU FEEL IS THE NO. 1 CHALLENGE OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT? Gardenhire: The one challenge is having certified teachers. The learning process in the classroom in our district falls below the national average. To me that means teachers are not teaching in a way that students are able to understand and excel. To me that means teachers are not getting the support they need to get certified and qualified to teach our students.

Gist: I think one thing we could do is make everyone accountable. If everyone, from the parent to the faculty, staff and board is accountable, then the community and everyone is involved, we can make it work.

Dingle: Our number one challenge is human resources across the board. From our bus drivers to our custodial staff and so forth. They need to feel important and properly paid and respected.

Caldwell: We don’t have enough teachers in the schools to adequately train our children. Because there are not enough teachers in the schools, the children are not getting the education they should get.

Coulliette: I believe we need to recruit and maintain quality educators. I’ve been into the schools, and I’ve seen there are some educators who are not qualified. If we get quality educators, we need to figure out how to maintain them.

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Clarendon School District 1 candidates took questions at the candidate forum held at the Summerton Cultural Arts Center on Tuesday. Left to right: Kevin James Gist, Leah Gardenhire, Joseph Dingle, Lindsey Coulliette, Erica Adams-Caldwell and John D. Bonaparte. to be accountable for everyone.

If you make each person accountable and put down each task that they do, it will work out. We have to make sure everyone has the same thing, same understanding. We have to make the community aware of what the board is doing.

Caldwell: My main focus is children’s education. Some of the students are not receiving the appropriate education. The school only offers one subject per semester for courses such as honors.

Gardenhire: Graduation rates are steadily declining. There are more children enrolled at Summerton Early Childhood Center than there are graduating. That’s definitely a problem. We need to look at why we don’t have the same number of students that enter kindergarten and graduating.

Coulliette: I want to make sure all of the students in the school district are allowed the same opportunities in the

DO YOU BELIEVE THE SCHOOL BOARD IS THE EDUCATION WATCHDOG FOR THE COMMUNITY? Gist: The school board is the “big dog” of the community, not only the watchdog. We are elected by the people, therefore, there are a lot of people looking up to you to do a lot of things, not just sit around the table and have meetings.

They want you out and visible in the community. I feel they are the watchdogs. This is what we and the people need.

Dingle: The school board is supposed to be the watchdog for the school system. Also the school board should be accessible to the community and the parents.

Coulliette: I believe all school board members should be elected so we could be held accountable to the district and the students and voters. I don’t believe we should have any members that are appointed.

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school districts. I believe we need to get rid of wasteful spending. I don’t believe money solves all of our solutions. I believe we need more community involvement.

Dingle: There is wasteful spending on board members.

Board members are receiving more in this school district than the other two districts in the county. District 3 board members don’t receive anything, District 2 receive $100 per meeting. In our district, the chairman receives $500 plus a $50 stipend. We cannot afford to pay the chairman and vice chairman $500 to serve for a few hours. It’s ridiculous.

Bonaparte: For the first 12 months, if I’m elected, I would look at what goals the board has already established and see where they’re at and make sure they’re focused on the children first and have my influence on making sure we are educating our children.

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Eat peanuts in moderation

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n the United States, peanuts are mostly eaten dried or roasted, as a snack, in candies or in the form of peanut butter. It is important to keep in mind that although peanuts and peanut butter have a favorable fats profile, they are still high in calories and should be eaten in moderation.

Nutritionally speaking, it could be said that peanuts have as many good attributes as bad. They are high in protein but are also high in fat. They have no cholesterol, yet they are high in calories. The old adage of “all things in moderation� aptly applies to peanuts. They’re a great snack choice, but snack on them sensibly because one ounce of raw nuts has Nancy Harrison about 160 calories, 7 grams of protein and 13 grams of RETIRED fat.

CLEMSON Peanuts have long been EXTENSION grown in the Southern AGENT states with origins beginning in South America.

There are numerous types of peanuts available, but three main ones are grown in our state: Valencia types (most often used for boiling), Virginia types (good for boiling and roasting) and runner types (most often used for making peanut butter). There are different varieties available within each of these categories, and each variety has its own special characteristics.

Once harvested, peanuts should be dried on the vine for about a week. After that, remove them from the vine, and spread the nuts out in a cool, dry area for continued curing for two to three weeks.

Thereafter, the nuts can be kept for longer storage by simply bagging them in loosely woven containers and hanging in a cool, dry area free of pests. Stored in this manner, peanuts can be kept for several months without a significant loss in quality. Just remove the amount you need

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when you’re ready to roast or boil them.

There are two camps when it comes to boiled peanuts: Love them or hate them.

Rarely do you find someone who wavers between the two. For those of you who love them, here are the easy instructions on how to boil your own peanuts at home.

BOILED PEANUTS Fill a 6-quart pot ž full with peanuts, cover with water and add Ÿ cup salt. Boil 1½ to 2 hours. Taste test for tenderness.

Continue to cook and taste in 30-minute intervals until you are satisfied with the texture. Cool and drain. The longer the peanuts sit in the water, the saltier they taste.

This is the simplest version of boiled peanuts. The recipe can be jazzed up by adding seasonings such as bay leaves, seafood boil seasoning or cayenne pepper.

Any of these extra seasonings should be put in the pot at the same time the salt is added. And the same rule applies to the seasonings as for the salt: The longer the nuts stay in the water, the more pronounced the flavor of the seasonings will be.

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Farmers wary of Matthew

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Now is the time when a year’s worth of work is going to pay off, said Clemson Associate Extension Agent David DeWitt Wednesday.

So with Hurricane Matthew playing cat and mouse with the South Carolina coast, there is not much a row-crop farmer can do, he said.

“It’s actually at the worst time, just as the floods were,” he added.

A lot of farmers are doing whatever they can to get their harvest in, DeWitt said.

“That’s what they would be doing anyway,” he said. “A farmer works wide open when it’s harvest season. You’re getting as much out as you can anyway and that’s standard practice.”

Cotton farmers would be the worst hit if Matthew has a big impact on the Midlands.

“The cotton farmers, they can’t move their fields to high-

er ground so they are kind of stuck with what they got,” he said.

Last year, James Johnson watched helplessly as his Mayesville Cotton Gin sat idle after the 1,000-year flood in early October devastated the cotton crop.

He said there is not as much cotton planted this year but it is in better shape.

“The storm is lurking off the coast, so we could be in the same situation (as last year),” Johnson said.

Johnson said cotton farmers have to defoliate and take the leaves off and spray bowl opener before harvesting, a process that takes 15 days.

“Some people have just started to harvest but there’s a lot who haven’t,” he said.

DeWitt said he saw a lot of farmers working the fields Monday when he was driving through the Sumter area.

“The cotton pickers were running and the peanut combines were running and everybody was going at 7 p.m.,

getting everything they could get,” he said.

Peanuts and cotton are the two biggest crops being harvested right now, DeWitt said.

“Some early soybeans are being cut, most of the corn is already out and the grain sorghum is being cut,” he said.”

DeWitt said some cattlemen near the coast may be moving their herds inland.

“The Sumter Fairgrounds has been opened up as a spot to hold some livestock for emergency purposes,” he said.

“A place to hide them out of the storm.”

Poultry farms usually have their own emergency plans using generators for power back-up, DeWitt said.

He said most crops will be OK barring major winds or rains from Matthew.

“A half an inch, or an inch won’t matter much,” he said.

Johnson said the areas doesn’t need any rain.

“We just need sunny days to dry the cotton out,” the gin owner said.

Summerton Literacy Council donates books to childcare center

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Summerton Literacy Council recently donated about 200 books to Emmanuel Child Care Center in Summerton.

The council presented the books to the children, providing each child an age-appropriate book to take home, as well as information on literacy and ways parents can incorporate literacy into their daily activities, said Shemika Williams, community literacy manager for Save the Children, a nonprofit organization that runs local early literacy programs.

Williams helped organize the Summerton Literacy Council, comprised of local parents, businesses, education leaders, social services leaders and faith-based leaders, with a goal of increasing children’s early learning and literacy opportunities in Clarendon County.

The donation was part of the council’s mission to help local children read and succeed, Williams said.

Vivian Morrow, Emmanuel Child Care Center’s director, said she was grateful for the book donations.

“This will help our children increase their love for learning and reading,” Morrow said. “We are excited to incorporate the books into our learning activities and make them available to our children in the classroom.”

The Summerton Literacy Council is part of a literacy initiative funded by a federal Innovative Approaches to Literacy grant. Save the Children and Reach Out and Read, another nonprofit organization, are working together in Summerton and other communities to improve children’s literacy and preparedness for school. In Clarendon County, the partnership has distributed more than 1,000 books to children

at community events.

The council has also installed five reading corners around the community that give children the opportunity to read a variety of books.

They are located at Pearson’s Barbershop, Clarendon County Department of Social Services, Clarendon School District One Resource Center, Clarendon County Family Court Building, and Clarendon Behavioral Health Services.

For more information about early literacy resources for a group or family contact Shemika Williams at (803) 847-9169 or by e-mail, shwilliams@ savechildren.org.

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Jamie Hood and Steven Guzman grilled teriyaki duck.

“This is my hobby,” he said. “Everyone here is really supportive of each other here.”

Kitchen of Manning restaurant, which serves soul food, was serving collared greens, mac and cheese and other traditional Southern food.

Owner Rosetta Nelson said she enjoyed sharing her cooking with residents while raising money for a community project.

University of South Carolina Sumter President Michael Sonntag and his wife Jennifer Sonntag, who were attending the event

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Manning native Patrick Ross, who now lives in Spartanburg, said the event brings together people from the community who only get the chance to see each other a few times a year.

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STORM FROM PAGE A1 weekend. Matthew could become the first major hurricane to blow ashore in the U.S. since Wilma slashed across Florida in 2005.

Hundreds of thousands of people along the lower East Coast were urged to evacuate their homes.

“If you’re able to go early, leave now,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott warned.

On Tuesday, Matthew swept across a remote area of Haiti with 145 mph winds, wrecking homes and swamping roads.

But government leaders in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere said they weren’t close to fully gauging the effect in the flood-prone nation where less powerful storms have killed thousands.

“What we know is that many, many houses have been damaged. Some lost rooftops and they’ll have to be replaced, while others were totally destroyed,” Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph said.

Mourad Wahba, the U.N. secretary-general’s deputy special representative for Haiti, said at least 10,000 people were in shelters and hospitals were overflowing. He called the hurricane the biggest humanitarian crisis in Haiti since the devastating earthquake of 2010.

The Haitian government postponed Sunday’s presidential election, in part because many of the schools and churches that are used as polling stations are serving as shelters.

A new date for the vote was not announced.

Aid groups with representatives in the area said it was clear that many homes and crops were destroyed but that the extent was impossible to gauge, especially in the Grand Anse area on the southern tip, which took a direct hit.

“We have people in Grand Anse that we cannot reach,” Hervil Cherubin, country director for Heifer International, a nonprofit that works with local farmers.

While the capital, Port-auPrince, was essentially back to normal, there was still

widespread flooding across southern Haiti.

“There’s absolutely nothing we can do to protect ourselves here,” said motorcycle taxi driver Joseph Paul as he watched torrents of brown water wash over a road and deluge his low-lying neighborhood in Leogane. “This storm was too much for us, and we are at its mercy.”

The U.S. government said it sent experts to Haiti to assess the damage and is providing $1.5 million in food and other disaster assistance.

The hurricane also blew across the sparsely populated tip of Cuba overnight, destroying dozens of homes in Cuba’s easternmost city, Baracoa, and damaging hundreds of others.

People stood amid the rubble of their homes, weeping, hugging or staring stunned into the distance.

Others scoured piles of concrete and rebar for any possessions they could recover.

Some carried cooking pots and rolled-up mattresses through the streets on their way to a shelter.

“I’ve never seen something like this in my life,” said Elva Perez, a 55-year-old homemaker, as she stood by what remained of her home. “For more than 200 years, here in this house, nothing like this has ever happened.”

At the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the storm knocked down trees and caused road flooding but no injuries or major damage, said Julie Ripley, a spokeswoman.

At 2 p.m. Matthew was centered about 70 miles south of Long Island in the eastern Bahamas. It was heading northwest at 12 mph.

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American Red Cross Service to Armed Forces Director Nancy Cataldo said Crestwood and Sumter high schools are on standby to serve as emergency shelters.

Local volunteers are ready to staff the shelters and transport supplies if Gov. Nikki Haley orders that they be opened.

The Red Cross recommends taking the following steps to prepare for the inclement weather: build a disaster kit; develop an emergency plan; and be informed about how local authorities will notify you during a disaster, whether through local media or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather radio stations or channels.

Residents can stay informed about the Red Cross’ plans by downloading the free Red Cross Emergency App from app stores, texting GETEMERGENCY to 90999 or going to redcross.org/apps.

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There will probably be more downed trees than anything else if there are heavy winds as predicted, she said.

Assistant City Manager of Public Services Al Harris said clearing storm drains and trimming dead wood from trees is an everyday operation.

He said personnel have been working on problem areas that are susceptible to heavy rain and strong winds.

Harris said the department also has crews ready to respond to the storm depending on what it may bring.

City residents can report concerns about trees in public right of ways or storm drains on city streets to City of Sumter Public Works at (803) 436-2558.

Hyatt said county residents can report potentially dangerous trees and any flooding to county public works at (803) 436-2241.

Personnel will be ready with equipment before and after the storm comes, she said.

Also, South Carolina Forestry Commission issued a State Forester’s Burning Ban for all counties, effective at 7 a.m. on Wednesday until further notice, after consulting with Haley and other emergency response organizations on Tuesday in preparation for the hurricane.

Drug Companies Fear Release of the New AloeCure Big Pharma stands to lose billions as doctors’ recommend drug-free “health cocktail” that adjusts and corrects your body’s health conditions.

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Company spokesperson, Dr. Liza Leal; a leading integrative health specialist out of Texas recommends Aloecure before she decides to prescribe any digestion drug. Especially after the FDA’s stern warning about long-term use of drugs classified as proton pump inhibitors like Prilosec®, Nexium®, and Prevacid®. In a nutshell, the FDA statement warned people should avoid taking these digestion drugs for longer than three 14-day treatment periods because there is an increased risk of bone fractures. Many people take them daily and for decades.

Analysts expect the AloeCure to put a huge crimp in “Big Pharma” profits.

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HELPS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO CALM INFLAMMATION According to a leading aloe research, when correctly processed for digesting, the Aloe plant has a powerful component for regulating your immune system called Acemannan. So whether it’s damage that is physical, bacterial, chemical or autoimmune; the natural plant helps the body stay healthy.

RAPID ACID AND HEARTBURN NEUTRALIZER Aloe has proved to have an astonishing effect on users who suffer with digestion problems like bouts of acid reflux, heartburn, cramping, gas and constipation because it acts as a natural acid buffer and soothes the digestive system. But new studies prove it does a whole lot more.

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UNLEASH YOUR MEMORY Think about it. If you kept dumping fat and grease down your drain; how long do you think it would take to clog it up?

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SLEEP LIKE A BABY A night without sleep really damages your body. And continued lost sleep can lead to all sorts of health problems. But what you may not realize is the reason why you’re not sleeping. Some call it “Ghost Reflux”. A low-intensity form of acid reflux discomfort that quietly keeps you awake in the background. AloeCure helps digestion so you may find yourself sleeping through the night.

CELEBRITY HAIR, SKIN & NAILS One of the Best-Kept Secrets in Hollywood. Certain antacids may greatly reduce your body’s ability to break down and absorb calcium. Aloe delivers calcium as it aids in balancing your stomach acidity. The result? Thicker, healthier looking hair…more youthful looking skin… And nails so strong they may never break again.

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Would ‘Pitch’ be better served as a cable series?

It’s no surprise that the baseball fantasy series “Pitch” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) has failed to find a big audience. It’s a nice little series, and has improved as Ginny (Kylie Bunbury), the first female Major League Baseball player, has developed into a three-dimensional character. Tonight, the sight of an ex-boyfriend catching for the opposing team sparks a flood of flashbacks, revealing how Ginny’s struggle as a symbol, a “project” and a woman hardly began on the major league level.

While “Pitch” is not as good as “Friday Night Lights,” (and few shows are), it suffers from the same inherent problems.

Baseball fans simply prefer watching baseball to shows about baseball. And fans of melodramas about a woman’s plight might be put off by the locker room aspects.

Tonight, look for San Diego Padres manager Al Luongo (Dan Lauria) to make a nifty strategic play and for the always-welcome Wendie Malick to arrive as a high-powered investor and team co-owner. At the same time, the fact that Malick has migrated from being a network series regular to a star on TV Land’s “Hot in Cleveland” suggests that perhaps “Pitch” is playing in the wrong league.

It’s easy to think of “Pitch” as a cable series hampered by the inability to attract a network-size audience. But where on cable? Despite the “Angels in the Outfield” hook of the pilot, it’s probably too “edgy” for Hallmark. And it’s probably too uplifting for Lifetime.

OWN perhaps?

Right now, as real postseason baseball begins in earnest, “Pitch” remains pretty far down in the ratings standings.

Not quite a cellar-dweller, but nowhere near the Fall Classic.

• Super-high-strung agents peddle priceless properties as “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” (9 p.m., Bravo, TV-14) returns for a ninth season.

• On a similar six-digit theme, “Make Me a Millionaire Inventor” (10 p.m., CNBC, TV-PG) launches its second season.

Another “Shark Tank” imitator, it stars Deanne Bell and George Zaidan, who search the country for potential inventors looking to introduce their dream devices to investors, and

perhaps the marketplace.

• The comedy “Those Who Can’t” (10:30 p.m., truTV, TV-14) returns for a second season.

Much like HBO’s “Vice Principals,” this series satirizes the petty feuds between barely qualified teachers and public school administrators.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • The American League Wild Card winner and the Texas Rangers meet up in Game 1 of the American League Division Series (4:38 p.m., TBS), followed

by Game 1 of the American League Division Series between the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians (8:08 p.m., TBS).

• The San Francisco 49ers host the Arizona Cardinals on “Thursday Night Football” (8 p.m., CBS, NFL Network).

• Jonah implements his own gun control policy on “Superstore” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).

• Villa returns to New York, the site of her husband’s murder, on “Rosewood” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

• Ryan Seacrest hosts the iHeartradio Music Festival (8 p.m., CW, TV-14).

• On two episodes of “Project Runway” (Lifetime, TV-PG): day for night (8 p.m.), swimwear (9 p.m.).

• A foreign visitor hosts a mysterious infection on “Chicago Med” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• Red targets a venture capitalist who “invests” in criminal acts on “The Blacklist” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• A prominent murder case echoes past events on “How to Get Away With Murder” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14).

• Icky parasites loom large as “Monsters Inside Me” (10 p.m., Animal Planet, TV-14) enters its seventh season.

• Max thinks it over on “Better Things” (10 p.m., FX, TVMA).

CULT CHOICE Emily and Charlotte Bronte (Ida Lupino and Olivia de Havilland) set their sights on the same man (Paul Henreid) in the 1946 period drama “Devotion” (8 p.m., TCM).

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COMMENTARY

Aborting the Trump Revolution

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n taking that $915 million loss in 1995, and carrying it forward to shelter future income, Donald Trump did nothing wrong. By both his family and his business, he did everything right.

In a famous 1947 dissent, Judge Learned Hand wrote: ‘’[T]here is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible … Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.’’

This writer’s father spent his career as a tax accountant who studied tax codes and utilized every permissible deduction to keep his clients’ tax bills as low as legally possible.

That was his business, as it is the business of every accountant, including those who prepare the returns of the politicians and journalists piling on Trump as some sort of scofflaw tax cheat who has evaded his moral obligations to the state.

One needs a machete to cut through this hypocrisy.

Hillary Clinton benefited from a $700,000 loss on her 2015 income taxes. In the days of poverty in Arkansas, she took a $2 deduction for a contribution to charity of Bill’s old underpants.

Five weeks before Election Day, Trump’s taxes have displaced the former Miss Universe as the critical issue, as determined by the anti-Trump media.

Their motivation is not difficult to discern. Their goals are two. First, make Trump unacceptable as an agent of change. Second, keep the people distracted from their determination to rid America of the incompetent and corrupt ruling class that controls this capital city.

Consider but a few of the disasters that establishment does not want discussed or debated, or the American people thinking about, when they head for the polls in November.

There is the great betrayal of the American working class, the deindustrialization of the country, and the loss of economic independence it took America a century to achieve.

This disaster was produced by the trade deals enacted by Beltway politicians for the corporate contributors of their campaigns whose highest loyalty is to the bottom line of a balance sheet.

On behalf of these specials interests, U.S. politicians made the People’s Republic of China the greatest manufacturing power on earth and halted the traditional annual rise in wages of our working men and women.

Beijing is now using the wealth compiled to build up their air, naval and missile forces to push us out of Asia and back across the Pacific.

Then there is the illegal invasion of America and Europe by the impoverished masses of the south, who have never bePat fore been fully Buchanan assimilated into any Western nation.

Unrivaled since the last days of the Roman Empire, this invasion has Americans pleading for a security wall on their border, propelled Britain’s exit from the EU, and could yet cause a breakup of Europe.

What is at stake here? Ultimately, Western civilization.

We have wars going with no end in sight in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen. We have Beltway hawks howling for a ‘’no-fly zone’’ and the shooting down of Syrian planes, through the chairman of the Joint Chiefs warns this could mean war with Russia.

The War Party does not want Americans heading to the polls thinking of the thousands of dead and wounded and trillions of dollars lost in their misbegotten adventures in the Middle and Near East.

Trump is new to national politics. Yet, with all the mistakes he has made, and all the savagery of the media attacks upon him, he is still, remarkably, very much in the race for president of the United States.

That his crowds remain huge and his following loyal, and that he remains competitive, testifies to the depth of the detestation of our cultural, political and media elites out there in Middle America.

But what happens if Hillary Clinton’s media acolytes keep the country’s focus on trivial pursuits, and she prevails?

What happens to America, if the uprisings and rebellions in the two parties - Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in the GOP, the Bernie Sanders revolt in the Democratic Party -are turned back, and we get in 2017 the same old people and same old policies we repudiated in 2015 and 2016?

What happens if the election, in which America demanded change in both parties, results in change in neither party?

One wonders: Do America’s reigning elites believe the Trump movement is but a passing phase? Do they believe that the rise of populist and nationalist parties across Europe is but a seasonal epidemic of the flu that will die out, after which we can all get back to building the New World Order of Bush I and Barack Obama?

Will history look back upon 2016 as a system failure?

To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com. © 2016 creators.com.

COMMENTARY

Pence does what Trump couldn’t Indiana governor turns in solid debate

BY ALEXIS LEVINSON AND TIM ALBERTA The National Review

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armville, Va. — On Tuesday night, Mike Pence managed to do what Donald Trump could not.

In his first and only debate against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, the Indiana governor delivered a calm and on-message performance.

Where Trump, in his first debate last week, came off as maniacal, Pence was cool and collected. Where Trump found himself insulting a former beauty queen and Rosie O’Donnell, Pence stuck to the script. Where Trump veered onto tangents, missing easy opportunities to attack Clinton, Pence did the opposite, turning most questions into opportunities to hit the Democratic ticket.

The result was a performance that left Republican surrogates praising Pence as a better justification for Trump’s candidacy than Trump himself — proof that the nominee makes good decisions and surrounds himself with qualified people.

“It showed why Donald Trump should be our next president: He surrounds himself with really smart people, and on the very first big decision he had to make in picking a running mate, he couldn’t have done a better job in picking Mike Pence,” said Sara Huckabee Sanders, a spokeswoman for Trump, after the debate.

Clinton surrogates were quick to point out that Tuesday’s showdown may have done little to help either side. Many Republicans have been vocal about the fact that they feel far more comfortable with Pence than with Trump, and tonight only reinforced that feeling. But both Pence and Kaine found

LETTER TO THE EDITOR WHAT IS ‘BLACK’ OR ‘AFRICANAMERICAN’ CULTURE? I had the privilege to begin a conversation with an intelligent black woman at the Sumter County Fair.

The conversation turned to her being an African-American and me asking her why does she have to say African-American? I don’t refer to myself as German-English-French. Why can’t she just be an American?

That turned to her saying she was proud of her American-American culture. I asked her what that means. Do

black Americans have a different culture then white Americans? I don’t remember her giving me an answer.

The conversation went South after that. I finally figured out that she was setting me up and that I couldn’t answer any of her questions correctly.

So, can anyone tell me about black American culture? I like to watch “The First 48” on A&E TV. Almost every story involves black Americans killing other black Americans or black Americans killing some other race. Is that black culture? I hear the victims’ families saying “these killings have to

themselves submerged in a sloppy and unsavory affair, from Kaine’s constant interjections to Pence’s untruthful defenses of Trump to moderator Elaine Quijano’s shaky refereeing.

The tone was set with the second question of the night, when Quijano asked Kaine why the majority of Americans believe Clinton is untrustworthy. After briefly discussing Clinton’s “passion” for working with children, Kaine pivoted to highlight Trump’s infamous comment about illegal Mexican immigrants being “rapists” and “murderers,” before concluding that he “can’t imagine” how Pence would defend such remarks. Pence responded first by saying that Clinton had overseen a failed foreign policy that had emboldened adversaries such as Russia. He was then interrupted by Kaine, who took the opportunity to argue that the GOP ticket “loves” Vladimir Putin.

When Pence continued on to tout his running mate’s “business acumen,” Kaine interrupted to point out that Trump paid few taxes and lost nearly $1 billion in 1995. When Pence turned to the Clinton Foundation, Kaine began talking over him.

This back-and-forth continued for several minutes until Quijano finally moved the two men to the next subject, establishing a pattern for the evening: Kaine using nearly every question to launch attacks on Trump for his past statements; Pence accusing the Democratic ticket of running an insult-driven campaign; Kaine interrupting to clarify that he was merely quoting Trump and daring Pence to defend his running mate; Pence arguing that Trump had either been taken out of context or had not said a specific thing at all; Kaine interrupting again to ask Americans to “go to the tape” and see the remarks for themselves; Pence asserting that this was his time and attempting to finish

stop.” So all blacks must not know that part of their culture.

Can it be that black Americans see top officials breaking laws so why can’t they do the same thing? Since the government (little “g” god) takes from half the people to support the other half, could stealing be OK? If so, that is new as it wasn’t like that 50 years ago.

Could it be that good jobs are expected even when the person is not the most qualified? That sounds racist to me.

Could it be that black children aren’t suppose to study hard and make something of themselves instead of

his thought; and finally, Quijano jumping in and lurching the stilted discussion slowly and painfully forward.

Rinse and repeat.

There were no blockbuster, made-for-TV moments to remember. But perhaps the most lasting impression from the night will be of a contrast in style.

Kaine, as Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney said after the debate, did what vice-presidential nominees are expected to do: “I don’t like the phrase ‘attack dog,’ but your job is to stand up for your running mate.” It was a role in which the Virginian, known for his suburbandad-like affability, appeared to be uncomfortable and rather ineffective.

Pence’s strategy of moving the conversation to safer ground earned him style points and credit for staying on message, but it also opened him up to easy attacks from Clinton’s camp. “Why is it that Mike Pence can’t defend his own running mate? Maybe he doesn’t know who his own running mate is,” suggested Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney following the debate.

It was evident in the spin room that Pence had reassured Republicans who remain ill-at-ease with the party’s nominee. But for the Indiana governor, who harbors presidential ambitions of his own, Trump could prove somewhat problematic down the road. At one point, he declared that he “could not be more proud to stand with Donald Trump.”

Should Hillary Clinton win in November, Pence will undoubtedly find himself in the top tier of prospective Republican candidates to challenge her four years from now, and that is a comment that may well come back to haunt him.

Alexis Levinson is National Review’s senior political reporter. Tim Alberta is National Review’s chief political correspondent.

becoming jailbirds? No, because most blacks don’t end up in jail. Low expectations produces low grades.

I’m sure someone wants to say something about the Confederate Flag being part of the white culture. It’s about our heritage and we can’t change that. My question, if you can have your heritage then why can’t we have our heritage?

I could go on but I’ve run out of words. Would someone please tell me what “black or African-American culture” is?

JACQUELINE K. HUGHES Sumter

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The League of Women Voters — roll and a drink. Dine in or take out. Call James L. Green Sumter Chapter will hold a at (803) 968-4173. membership meeting at 6 The Sumter Branch NAACP will p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10, at meet at 5 p.m. on Sunday, the Central Carolina TechniOct. 23, at St. Paul AME cal College Health Sciences Church, 1495 N. St. Paul Building, 133 S. Main St. The Church Road. topic for the meeting is politics and the legal system.

The Manning High School ChapBronwyn McElveen, assistant ter of FBLA will hold a chicken solicitor for the Third Judidinner fundraiser on Monday, cial Circuit, will speak. Call Oct. 24. Dinners are $7 each Dee Woodward, president of and will include baked or the League of Women Voters, fried chicken, macaroni and at (803) 469-3485. cheese, green beans and seasoned rice. Dinners can The Sumter Stroke Support be ordered through the main Group (Overcomers) will meet office of the school or email at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, in the activities room S. Bell at sbell@csd2.org.

Dinners will need to be of National HealthCare of picked up from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Sumter, North Guignard on Oct. 24 in the school cafeDrive. teria.

The Sumter Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of The Sumter Branch NAACP will South Carolina will meet at 7 sponsor a candidates forum for mayoral candidates and Sumter p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at City Council Ward 4 from 6 to 8 Shiloh-Randolph Manor, 125 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, at W. Bartlette St., Sumter, SC 29150. Minister Malinda Ham, Central Carolina Technical College, Health Sciences member of the Clarendon Center, 133 S. Main St. County Chapter of the NFB, will speak. October is obThe Shepherd’s Center’s annual served as “Blind Awareness” flea market will be held from month. Transportation pro7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, vided within the coverage Nov. 5, at Trinity-Lincoln Cenarea. If you know a blind per- ter, 24 Council St. son, contact President Debra Sumter’s Marine Corps League Canty at (803) 775-5792 or Detachment 1202 will celebrate debra.canty@frontier.com. the 241st USMC Birthday with a Donations are welcome and dinner and cake cutting cercan be mailed to: NFB Sumemony on Thursday, Nov. 10, ter Chapter, P.O. Box 641, at the Carolina Skies Club, Sumter, SC 29151.

Shaw Air Force Base, 487 The Shepherd’s Center will hold Myers St. Gathering time is 6 a spaghetti dinner from 11 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct. The cost is $25 per person 14, at Swan Lake Presbyterifor prime rib and the fixings. an Church, 912 Haynsworth Call Ted Jones at (803) 968St. Cost is $6 per adult. Call 2196 or Fay Cook at (803) (803) 773-1944. Take outs 775-5768 before Nov. 1 for reswelcome. ervations and questions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Make your EUGENIA LAST dreams come true. Don’t let anyone stand in your way or take credit for something you do. It’s up to you to claim your position and to collect the rewards. A meeting or encounter will be enlightening.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Making a change will excite you, but before you begin, check your finances to ensure you can afford to finish what you start. A promise someone makes isn’t likely to be fulfilled, leaving you with an unfinished task.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Look for ways to improve your life and you will be able to make worthwhile changes that encourage growth and stability. Share your feelings if it will help you find common ground with someone who can affect your future prospects.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mixing business with pleasure or leaving jobs undone at home due to responsibilities at work will lead to trouble with a partner or loved one. Try to keep the peace by offering an incentive that is hard to refuse.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take control and proceed with your plans.

Investigate the possibilities, but don’t make a commitment based on big talk or empty promises.

Consider what’s doable and what isn’t before you take on something new.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t be confused by the uncertainty someone shows when discussing personal or emotional matters.

Problems at home will mount if you let someone dump responsibilities on you or make demands that are unreasonable.

Make physical changes to boost

your confidence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll make a difference to someone who has legitimate concerns about what’s happening in your community or family. Suggest alternatives based on past experiences. Make your position and your decisions clear. Try to avoid arguments.

DAILY PLANNER

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WEATHER

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AccuWeather® five-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

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Gaffney 75/63 Spartanburg 76/64

Greenville 78/64

Columbia 79/69

Temperatures shown on map are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 76/68

Aiken 77/67

ON THE COAST

Charleston 77/72

Today: A couple of showers. High 74 to 78.

Friday: Some wind and rain. High 76 to 80.

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LAKE LEVELS

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

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Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

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24-hr chg -0.07 none -0.01 -0.12

RIVER STAGES 0.00" 0.00" 0.64" 39.12" 49.98" 38.01"

River Black River Congaree River Lynches River Saluda River Up. Santee River Wateree River

NATIONAL CITIES

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

Fri. Hi/Lo/W 79/69/pc 66/45/c 79/60/pc 79/51/pc 92/68/pc 93/65/s 90/75/s 74/60/s 81/75/r 74/60/pc 96/75/s 77/56/s 73/62/s

Myrtle Beach 77/71

Manning 76/69

Today: Partly sunny. Winds northeast 7-14 mph. Partly cloudy.

Friday: Spotty showers. Winds northnortheast 7-14 mph.

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Florence 75/68

Bishopville 75/67

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Make personal changes that will raise your confidence and add to your comfort and convenience at home.

Designating a space that you can work in comfortably will boost your morale and enthusiasm. Personal gains are featured.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotions will surface, giving you reason to wonder if everyone around you is being honest. Trust in what you do and refuse to give control to someone who may not do things your way. Take on a challenge and play to win.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t trust anyone who uses emotional tactics to get you to change your mind. Stick to proven facts and you will achieve what you set out to do. Demonstrate how passionate you are regarding your actions and beliefs.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t give in to someone who is setting you up or trying to take over. Make your move and do things your own way. No one knows better than you what you need in your life to make you feel happy and satisfied.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Trouble will surface if you haven’t done everything according to the rules.

Be prepared to make the necessary changes without a fuss and you will get back on track quickly. There is no point in fighting a losing battle.

Will Jenkins, grandson of Eddie and Linda Mungia of Sumter, gives the thumbs up as he admires the vintage cockpit of the C-46 Commando nicknamed “Tinkerbell.” Tinkerbell, based in Monroe, North Carolina, recently attended a large fly-in at Triple Tree Aerodrome in Woodruff. The annual fly-in hosts more than 500 aircraft of all types during its five-day event. Photo submitted by Michelle Jenkins.

HAVE YOU TAKEN PICTURES OF INTERESTING, EXCITING, BEAUTIFUL OR HISTORICAL PLACES? Would you like to share those images with your fellow Sumter Item readers? E-mail your hi-resolution jpegs to sandra@theitem.com, or mail to Sandra Holbert c/o The Sumter Item, P.O. Box 1677, Sumter, SC 29150. Include clearly printed or typed name of photographer and photo details. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your photo. Amateur photographers only please. Photos of poor reproduction quality may not publish. With the exception of pictures that are of a timely nature, submitted photos will publish in the order in which they are received.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016 Call: (803) 774-1241 | E-mail: sports@theitem.com

SCHSL extends football season

PREP FOOTBALL

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com All of the high school football games involving local schools that had been rescheduled for Monday have now been moved to Nov. 4 since the South Carolina High School League extended the season by one week on Wednesday.

With the threat of inclement weather from Hurricane Matthew expected to affect the coast to the Midlands on Friday, schools in those areas started moving games on Tuesday. Most were moved to today until Gov. Nikki Haley announced schools would be closed. The local schools moved the games to Monday until the SCHSL decided to extend the season one week.

“The immediate concern is the safety of our coaches, student athletes and their families,” said SCHSL Commissioner Jerome Singleton. “Our primary sense of urgency is for them to be able to focus on their personal well-being and decision making for the next few days while bracing for the predicted weather conditions.”

The games that will now be played on Nov. 4 are West Florence at Sumter, Lugoff-Elgin at Crestwood, Lakewood at

SEE SCHSL, PAGE B5

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Robert E. Lee quarterback Bryce Barrett (13) goes airborn for extra yardage over Augusta Christian’s Jackson Wingard, (7) and Nolan Greenwood, (83) in the Cavaliers’ 56-35 victory on Wednesday at McCutchen Field in Bishopville..

Grin and Barrett

Despite minimal prep time, Cavs roll up 519 yards of offense and ride junior QB’s 5 touchdowns to 56-35 win over Augusta Christian

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com

notice.

“I was kind of nervous,” Barrett said. “I’m always a BISHOPVILLE — Like the little nervous, but I kind of rest of his teammates, Robert had it in the back of my E. Lee Academy quarterback mind how we didn’t get Bryce Barrett found out he enough time to prepare.” would be playing on WednesHard to imagine what day with just about 24 hours more Barrett and the Cava-

liers’ offense could have done with a full week.

The REL junior accounted for five touchdowns -- four passing and one rushing -- as the Cavs put up 519 yards of offense in a 56-35 victory over Augusta Christian at Richard P. McCutchen Field

in a game moved up due to the impending threat of Hurricane Matthew.

Robert E. Lee improved to 6-2 overall and more importantly 3-0 in SCISA Region II2A. The Lions, who fell to 3-4

SEE BARRETT, PAGE B5

CLEMSON FOOTBALL

Tigers preparing for top-ranked BC defense

BY DAN HOPE daniel.hope@independentmail.com

100 in total offense, Virginia Tech scored 49 points on a season-high 476 yards.

CLEMSON — For a second The Eagles will likely face consecutive year, Boston Coltheir toughest test yet against lege has the No. 1 defense in Clemson on Friday. the nation entering its matchA more battle-tested Boston up with Clemson.

College defense last year, This year’s top ranking, which finished the season however, might be deceiving. ranked No. 1 in yards allowed, Boston College currently still gave up 532 yards and 34 leads the Football Bowl Subdi- points to the Tigers. vision with only 202 yards alNonetheless, Clemson exlowed per game. The Eagles pects its offense to be chalrank 16th nationally in scoring lenged in Chestnut Hill. defense, having allowed 14 “It’s the same old Boston points or less in four of their College,” said Clemson coach five games.

Dabo Swinney. “This is a realThat said, the Eagles haven’t ly stout defense; big, strong, faced much competition. Their physical defensive linemen season-opening opponent, that gobble people up.”

Georgia Tech, has one of the Clemson co-offensive coordiACC’s worst offenses this year. nator Tony Elliott describes Boston College has played two the Boston College defense as of the FBS’ three lowesthard-nosed, tough and fundaranked offenses (Massachumentally sound. setts, Buffalo) and a team that’s “They’re very, very stout innot even in the FBS (Wagner). side,” Elliott said. “Their lineIn Boston College’s only backers are instinctual, (and) game against a team that SEE CLEMSON, PAGE B4 ranks inside the nation’s top

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Louisville cornerback Jaire Alexander (10) and Clemson wide receiver Mike Williams fight for the ball in the end zone during the Tigers’ 42-36 win on Saturday in Clemson. Williams and the Tigers play at Boston College on Friday.

USC FOOTBALL

Hurricane leaves USC in limbo

BY WILLIE T. SMITH III wtsmith@greenvillenews.com COLUMBIA — There have been no decisions made as far as when, where or if South Carolina’s football game against Georgia will be played.

For the time being the game remains scheduled MUSCHAMP for Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium with a start time of 7:30 p.m.

The South Carolina athletic department released a statement Wednesday evening saying a decision would be made on Thursday, but whatever day and time, the game will be played in Columbia.

All USC classes have been canceled for the remainder of the week, in addition to several non-football related athletic events.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said at her Wednesday evening press conference the state would not be able to provide troopers to work the game if it takes place on Saturday.

“What we have informed USC is we will not be able to give any state support for that game,” Haley said. “I can’t take troopers off the road to go put them at a football game.

If they do that, they would be working with the Richland County sheriff’s office to get that done.”

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said his agency, the Columbia Police Department along with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016

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SCOREBOARD

AUTO RACING

TV, RADIO

Washington Central Division

TODAY

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Kevin Harvick (4) passes David Ragan during the Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Harvick will try to continue his success in night races on Saturday in Concord, N.C.

Harvick heads to Charlotte trying to extend night success

BY JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE — Kevin Harvick has found himself against the ropes in NASCAR’s playoffs in each of the last two years. Tired of having to fight his way into the championship race, he is determined to leave nothing to chance.

A win two weeks ago at New Hampshire earned him an automatic berth in the second round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. He’d like a win Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway to push him right into the third round.

For this three-race segment, the 2014 NASCAR champion has eyed Charlotte as a track that gives him a good shot at a victory.

The round also goes to Kansas next week before concluding at Talladega Superspeedway.

“Charlotte is probably the one I’m looking forward to the most,” Harvick said.

“We’ve had so much success there. We’ve run well there, really, every time we’ve been there with our Stewart-Haas Racing cars.”

Harvick has three career points victories at Charlotte, including the October race during his championship season. That victory pushed Harvick into the round of eight of the Chase.

He’s also has had success racing at night, something Charlotte Motor Speedway President Marcus Smith noted this week. He dubbed Harvick “Nighthawk” because Harvick has not finished outside the top 10 at night in the last seven races.

He’s only been outside the top-five twice in that span.

Harvick has also won six times in night races on the NASCAR schedule since 2012.

But with practice time during the daylight this weekend, he’s not sure what to expect.

“Charlotte is a really finicky racetrack and, with the way we practice, most of the practice will be done during the day with the race being at night,” he said. “Temperature has a huge factor in how the racetrack changes, how the pace changes, so you have to try to guess a little bit on that.

You have to try to plan and balance all those things to have a good plan, but you have to be ready to abort that plan and come up with a new one on the fly at any given point.”

CLAUSON MOST POPULAR The late Bryan Clauson was honored as the fan’s favorite driver in the IndyCar Series during a remembrance for the three-time Indianapolis 500 starter.

Clauson died from injuries suffered in a sprint car crash in Kansas in August.

He was leading when he was involved in the accident, which came in his 116th race of the year. Popular throughout the paddock, Clauson was attempting to race in 200 events this year and was one of the most well-liked drivers in every series.

He was remembered during IndyCar’s season-ending awards ceremony Tuesday night by Conor Daly, who was teammates with Clauson during this year’s India-

napolis 500 and, like Clauson, grew up in Noblesville, Indiana.

“You could always tell Bryan had such a strong positive impact on the racing world because everyone across the sport was happy to see him get a shot in the Indy 500,” Daly said. “It was a true pleasure getting to work with Bryan this year at Indy and to see the whole crowd and everyone around us support him and love seeing him there. He was and forever will be a driver to look up to, a person to strive to be like, and a hero.”

RACE OF CHAMPIONS Juan Pablo Montoya and Tony Kanaan will both compete in this year’s Race Of Champions all-star event, which will be held in their adopted hometown of Miami.

Kanaan competed in the event in 2004, the year of his IndyCar championship, when it was held in France.

The Brazilian partnered with Felipe Massa and the duo advanced to the semifinals.

“Having the race here in my backyard is the perfect opportunity to be part of it and to race against the biggest names from motorsport around the world,” Kanaan said.

Montoya will be making his Race of Champions debut. He and Kanaan bring the field to eight confirmed drivers for the event. Also committed to date for the January 21-22 race at Marlins Park Stadium are Ryan Hunter-Reay, Sebastian Vettel, nine-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Tom Kristensen and Kurt Busch.

GATOR INSTRUCTIONAL CLINIC AT LAKEWOOD The Gator Baseball Instructional Clinic sponsored by the Lakewood High School baseball program will be held on Saturday, Oct. 15, and Sunday, Oct. 16 at the Lakewood baseball field.

The clinic is open to children ages 7-13. The first day will run from 9 a.m. to noon and will focus on hitting, defense and base running. The Sunday clinic will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and focus on pitching and catching.

The cost is $25 for one day and $45 for both days. There will be registration held prior to the Saturday clinic beginning at 8:15 a.m.

For more information, call Lakewood head coach Bill DeLavan at (803) 968-3866.

U.S BASEBALL ACADEMY SPRING TRAINING U.S. Baseball Academy’s Spring Training 2017 will be held at the University of South Carolina Sumter’s Nettles Gymnasium beginning in January.

The camps, which are open to children in grades 1-12, will be held on Jan. 7, Jan. 14, Jan. 21 and Jan. 28.

USC Sumter head coach Tim Medlin will be the program director.

With the player-to-coach ratio at 7 to 1, space is limit-

ed. Students can register at www.USBaseballAcademy. com or by calling (866) 6224487.

For more information, contact Medlin at (803) 9383904 or (803) 944-0612.

TRIATHLON TRISUMTER TRIATHLON The TriSumter Triathlon will be held on Saturday, Oct. 15, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the City of Sumter Aquatics Center at 1115 South Lafayette Drive.

The swim will be a 300yard swim in the aquatics center’s outdoor heated pool. There will be a 16-mile bicycle course and a 5-kilometer running course throughout Sumter. The event will end at the aquatics center.

There will be age groups starting at 12-15. The cost of registration prior to race day is $60 for an individual and $90 for a team. The cost is $90 for an individual and $120 for a team on race day.

For more information, call (803) 774-3998 or go to aquatics@sumter-sc.com.

FOOTBALL SEMIPRO TEAM TRYOUTS The Sumter Spartans, a new non-profit semipro football team, will hold tryouts beginning in late October.

The team is open to play-

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

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

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5 a.m. – Professional Tennis: ATP Tokyo Matches, ATP Beijing Matches or WTBA Beijing Matches (TENNIS).

8 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Alfred Dunhill Links Championship First Round from St. Andrews, Scotland (GOLF).

1:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500 Practice from Concord, N.C. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match from Dublin, Ireland – Ireland vs.

Georgia (ESPN2).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match from Turin, Italy – Spain vs. Italy (FOX SPORTS 1).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match from Vienna – Wales vs. Austria (FOX SPORTS 1).

3 p.m. – Professional Golf: Web.com Tour Web.com Tour Championship First Round from Atlantic Beach, Fla. (GOLF).

3 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Drive for the Cure 300 Practice from Concord, N.C. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

4 p.m. NASCAR Racing: K&N Pro Series East Dover 125 from Dover, Del. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

4:30 p.m. – Major League Baseball: American League Division Series Game One – Toronto at Texas (TBS).

5:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Drive for the Cure 300 Practice from Concord, N.C. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

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

7 p.m. – Women’s College Soccer: Miami at North Carolina (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. – NBA Preseason Basketball: Washington at Philadelphia (NBA TV).

7 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500 Pole Qualifying from Concord, N.C. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Women’s College Soccer: Vanderbilt at Arkansas (SEC NETWORK).

7 p.m. -- College Football: The Citadel at North Greenville (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7:30 p.m. – College Football: Norfolk State at North Carolina A&T (ESPNU).

8 p.m. – College Football: Western Kentucky at Louisiana Tech (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. – College Football: Temple at Memphis (ESPN).

8 p.m. – Major League Baseball: American League Division Series Game One – Boston at Cleveland (TBS).

8:25 p.m. – NFL Football: Arizona at San Francisco (WLTX 19, NFL NETWORK, WWFN-FM 100.1, WNKT-FM 107.5).

9 p.m. – Women’s College Volleyball: St. Mary’s (Calif.) at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

9:30 p.m. – Professional Golf: Fiji International Second Round from Natadola, Fiji (GOLF).

10 p.m. – Professional Tennis: ATP Tokyo Matches, ATP Beijing Matches or WTBA Beijing Matches (TENNIS).

11 p.m. – Women’s College Soccer: Brigham Young at Loyola Marymount (ESPNU).

1 a.m. – Amateur Golf: Asia -Pacific Amateur Championship Second Round from Incheon, South Korea (ESPN2).

1 a.m. – LPGA Golf: Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship Second Round from Taipei, Taiwan (GOLF).

1 a.m. – Formula One Racing: Japanese Grand Prix Practice from Suzuka, Japan (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

5 a.m. – Professional Tennis: ATP Tokyo Matches, ATP Beijing Matches or WTBA Beijing Matches (TENNIS).

ers age 18 and up, and a player can be in high school.

Players won’t be paid, but will be required to pay team fees to cover the cost of home and away jerseys, helmets and shoulder pads.

For more information, contact Rashad McBride at rashadmcbride11@yahoo. com or go to SumterCountySpartans@gmail.com or Facebook.com/The Sumter Spartans.

GOLF SUMTER CGA OUTING The Sumter chapter of the Christian Golfers’ Association will hold a devotion and golf outing on Monday, Oct. 17, at Cheraw State Park in Cheraw.

The devotion will begin at 9:17 a.m. with tee time set for 10. The cost is $28 per player.

For more information, go to www.christiangolfer.org or call (803) 773-2171.

BOWLING GAMECOCK LANES SCORES Rhino Ball League: David Outlaw 242-624; Paul McClam 190-478; Michael Floyd 378; Loretta Friday 488.

Afternoon Delight: Leo Mickens 265607; Chuck Scott 256-604; Calvin McMillan 256-614; Geroldine Singeton 471; Alma Jackson 423.

Tuesday Night Mixed: Daniel Girdvainis 278-635; Nick Pipkin 245662; Joshua Sweeney 588; Joann Goins 263; Loisann Horne 616; Tuesday Pipkin 432.

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THURSDAY’S GAMES

Arizona at San Francisco, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

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

New England at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Miami, 1 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Denver, 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.

San Diego at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.

Buffalo at Los Angeles, 4:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.

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TUESDAY’S GAMES

Philadelphia 92, Boston 89 Miami 106, Washington 95 Indiana 113, New Orleans 96 Houston 130, New York 103 L.A. Lakers 103, Sacramento 84 Golden State 120, L.A. Clippers 75

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Oklahoma City 92, FC Barcelona 89 Orlando at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Utah at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Boston vs. Charlotte at Greensboro, N.C., 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Sacramento vs. Golden State at San Jose, Calif., 10:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Phoenix at Portland, 10 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

By The Associated Press

TOP 25 SCHEDULE

Friday No. 3 Clemson at Boston College, 7:30 p.m.

No. 19 Boise State at New Mexico, 9 p.m.

Saturday No. 1 Alabama at No. 16 Arkansas, 7 p.m.

No. 2 Ohio State vs. Indiana, 3:30 p.m.

No. 4 Michigan at Rutgers, 7 p.m.

No. 5 Washington at Oregon, 7:30 p.m.

No. 6 Houston at Navy, 3 p.m.

No. 8 Texas A&M vs. No. 9 Tennessee, 3:30 p.m.

No. 10 Miami vs. No. 23 Florida State, 8 p.m.

No. 15 Stanford vs. Washington State, 10:30 p.m.

No. 17 North Carolina vs. No. 25 Virginia Tech, 3:30 p.m.

No. 18 Florida vs. LSU, Noon No. 20 Oklahoma vs. Texas at Dallas, Noon No. 21 Colorado at Southern Cal, 4 p.m.

No. 24 Utah vs. Arizona, 10 p.m.

WNBA PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press

THIRD ROUND

(Best-of-5) (x-if necessary) Minnesota 3, Phoenix 0 Sept. 28 Minnesota 113, Phoenix 95 Sept. 30 Minnesota 96, Phoenix 86 Sunday Minnesota 82, Phoenix 67 Los Angeles 2, Chicago 1 Sept. 28 Los Angeles 95, Chicago 75 Sept. 30 Los Angeles 99, Chicago 84 Oct. 2 Chicago 70, Los Angeles 66 Tuesday Los Angeles 95, Chicago 75

FINALS

(Best-of-5) Minnesota vs. Los Angeles Sunday Los Angeles-Chicago winner at Minnesota, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 11 Los Angeles-Chicago winner at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 14 Minnesota at Los Angeles-Chicago winner, TBD x-Sunday, Oct. 16 Minnesota at Los Angeles-Chicago winner, 8:30 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 20 Los Angeles-Chicago winner at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL

American League DETROIT TIGERS — Exercised its 2017 option on the contract of manager Brad Ausmus.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Designated RHP A.J. Achter and OF Nick Buss for assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Announced RHP Anthony Swarzak elected free agency instead of accepting an outright assignment. Announced the Los Angeles Angels claimed RHPs Blake Parker and Kirby Yates off waivers.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Assigned RHP Chris Smith and C Matt McBride outright to Nashville (PCL).

National League MIAMI MARLINS — Fired hitting coach Barry Bonds, third base coach Lenny Harris and bullpen coach Reid Cornelius. Exercised its 2017 option on the contract of OF/DH Ichiro Suzuki. Resigned 3B Martin Prado to a threeyear contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated LHP Phil Coke for assignment. Acquired RHP Brady Dragmire from Toronto for cash considerations.

BASKETBALL

FOOTBALL

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 8:30 p.m.

NBA PRESEASON

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE W Philadelphia 1 Toronto 1 Brooklyn 0 Boston 0 New York 0 Southeast Division W Miami 1 Atlanta 0 Charlotte 0 Orlando 0

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National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Named Jennifer Swanson physical therapist, Stacey Robinson massage therapist and Sean Light assistant strength and conditioning coach.

MONDAY, OCT. 10

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National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed TE Manasseh Garner to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed WR Kevin White on injured reserve. Signed FB Paul Lasike from the practice roster.

Signed TE Busta Anderson to the practice roster.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed G La’el Collins on injured reserve.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed LB Luke Rhodes to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released CB Tre Roberson from the practice squad. Signed TE Brian Leonhardt to the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Waived NT Ryan Carrethers. Re-signed CB Steve Williams.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed RB Russell Hansbrough and LB Josh Keyes to the practice squad. Released WR Jonathan Krause from the practice squad.

SPORTS

THE SUMTER ITEM

Tuesday: Toronto 5, Baltimore 2, 11 innings Wednesday: San Francisco at New York (n) (ESPN)

DIVISION SERIES

(Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Texas vs. Toronto Today: Toronto at Texas (Hamels 15-5), 4:38 p.m. (TBS) Friday: Toronto at Texas (Darvish 7-5), 1:08 p.m. (TBS) Sunday: Texas (Lewis 6-5) at Toronto, 7:38 p.m. (TBS) x-Monday, Oct. 10: Texas (Perez 1011) at Toronto, TBA (TBS) x-Wednesday, Oct. 12: Toronto at Texas, TBA (TBS) Cleveland vs. Boston Today: Boston (Porcello 22-4) at Cleveland (Bauer 12-8), 8:08 p.m.

(TBS) Friday: Boston (Price 17-9) at Cleveland (Kluber 18-9), 4:38 p.m. (TBS) Sunday: Cleveland (Tomlin 13-9) at Boston, 4:08 p.m. (TBS) x-Monday, Oct. 10: Cleveland at Boston, TBA (TBS) x-Wednesday, Oct. 12: Boston at Cleveland, TBA (TBS)

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MLB POSTSEASON SCHEDULE WILD CARD

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016

National League Chicago vs. San Francisco-New York winner Friday: San Francisco-New York winner at Chicago (Lester 19-5), 9:15 p.m. (FS1) Saturday: San Francisco-New York winner at Chicago (Hendricks 16-8) 8:08 p.m. (MLB) Monday, Oct. 10: Chicago (Arrieta 18-8) at San Francisco-New York winner, TBA (FS1 or MLB) x-Tuesday, Oct. 11: Chicago (Lackey 11-8) at San Francisco-New York winner, TBA (FS1) x-Thursday, Oct. 13: San FranciscoNew York winner at Chicago, TBA (FS1) Washington vs. Los Angeles Friday: Los Angeles (Kershaw 12-4) at Washington (Scherzer 20-7), 5:38 p.m. (FS1) Saturday: Los Angeles (Hill 12-5) at Washington, 4:08 p.m. (FS1) Monday, Oct. 10: Washington at Los Angeles (Maeda 16-10), TBA (FS1 or MLB) x-Tuesday, Oct. 11: Washington at Los Angeles, TBA (FS1) x-Thursday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles at Washington, TBA (FS1)

MLB PLAYOFF GAME CAPSULES AMERICAN LEAGUE BLUE JAYS VS. RANGERS

Schedule: (All times EDT) Game 1, Thursday, at Texas (4:38 p.m.); Game 2, Friday, at Texas (1:08 p.m.); Game 3, Sunday, at Toronto (7:38 p.m.); x-Game 4, Monday, Oct. 10, at Toronto (TBA); x-Game 5, Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Texas (TBA). (All games on TBS). x-if necessary.

Season Series: Blue Jays won 4-3.

Projected Lineups: Blue Jays: 2B Devon Travis (.300, 11 HRs, 50 RBIs), 3B Josh Donaldson (.284, 37, 99), 1B Edwin Encarnacion (.263, 42, 127), DH Jose Bautista (.234, 22, 69), C Russell Martin (.231, 20, 74), SS Troy Tulowitzki (.254, 24, 79), RF Michael Saunders (.253, 24, 57), CF Kevin Pillar (.266, 7, 53), LF Ezequiel Carrera (.248, 6, 23) or Melvin Upton Jr. (.238, 20, 61 with San Diego and Toronto).

Rangers: LF Carlos Gomez (.284, 8, 24 in 33 games with Rangers; .210, 5, 29 in 85 games with Astros), CF Ian Desmond (.285, 22, 86, 107 runs, 160 Ks), DH Carlos Beltran (280, 7, 29 in 52 games with Rangers; .304, 22, 64 in 99 games with Yankees), 3B Adrian Beltre (.300, 32, 104, 31 2Bs), 2B Rougned Odor (.271, 33, 88), C Jonathan Lucroy (.276, 11, 31 in 47 games with Rangers; .299, 13, 50 in 95 games with Brewers), RF Shin-Soo Choo (.242, 7, 17 in 48 games, 4 DL stints), 1B Mitch Moreland (.233, 22, 60), SS Elvis Andrus (.302, 8, 69, 7 3Bs, 24 SBs).

Starting Pitchers: Blue Jays: LH J.A. Happ (20-4, 3.18 ERA), RH Aaron Sanchez (15-2, AL-leading 3.00 ERA), RH Marco Estrada (9-9, 3.48), RH Marcus Stroman (9-10, 4.37, career-high 204 IP).

Rangers: LH Cole Hamels (15-5, 3.32, 200 2/3 IP, 200 Ks), RH Yu Darvish (7-5, 3.41), RH Colby Lewis (6-5, 3.71), LHP Martin Perez (10-11, 4.39, 198 2/3 IP).

Relievers: Blue Jays: RH Roberto Osuna (1-6, 2.68, 36/39 saves), RH Jason Grilli (7-6, 1.29, 81Ks in 59 innings with Atlanta and Toronto), LH Brett Cecil (1-7, 3.96), RH Joe Biagini (4-3, 3.06 in 60 games as a rookie), LH Francisco Liriano (8-13, 4.69 with Pittsburgh and Toronto; 2-2, 2.92 in 10 games, 8 starts, for Blue Jays).

Rangers: RH Sam Dyson (3-2, 2.43, 38/43 saves), RH Tony Barnette (7-3, 2.09), RH Matt Bush (7-2, 2.48, 61 Ks in 61 2/3 IP), LH Alex Claudio (4-1, 2.79), LH Jake Diekman (4-2, 3.40, 4 saves), RH Jeremy Jeffress (1-0, 2.70 in 12 games with Rangers; 2-2, 2.22, 27/28 saves in 47 games with Brewers), RH Keone Kela (5-1, 6.09).

Nats’ Scherzer wants to do ‘exact same thing’ vs. Dodgers

BY HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Wrtier

jors-leading 284 strikeouts, including a record-tying 20 in one game.

WASHINGTON — Max “Obviously, he’s a really Scherzer remembers being good pitcher. Lively fastball. urged to try to slow everyStrikes out a lot of guys, and thing down for his postseahas won a lot of games for son debut five years ago. them this year,” said Turner, Take an extra breath, they who has never batted said. Be calm as can be, they against Scherzer. “We’re said. Dial down the intensigoing to go study up on him ty, they said. and watch the films and put Not exactly what he needtogether a game plan.”

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ed to hear, Scherzer quickly That’s the same sort of Washington’s Max Scherzer will thing the Nationals might be discovered.

Scherzer, who starts Game start Game 1 against the Los expected to say about KerAngeles Dodgers in the NLDS 1 of the NL Division Series shaw, a three-time NL Cy in Washington on Friday. for the Washington NationYoung Award winner who als against Clayton Kershaw went 12-4 with a 1.69 ERA in and the Los Angeles Dodgets. The outside things are a only 21 starts this season, ers on Friday, was fed those little bit different, but menmissing more than two frequently heard words of tally, you have to still be the months with a back injury. wisdom way back when. same,” Scherzer explained.

Since returning in SeptemPitching for the Detroit Ti“I know there’s this notion ber, he was 1-2 with a 0.96 gers at Yankee Stadium, he of, ‘Hey, just go out there ERA in five starts. walked two batters in the and relax. Try to slow the Scherzer became a leading first inning. That’s when he game down.’ That can be the candidate for this year’s NL cursed at himself and realworst advice anybody’s ever Cy Young Award — he won ized he never should have given,” he continued. “No, the AL honor for Detroit in listened to others — and you hit the ground running 2013 — by becoming, to use wound up taking a no-hitter and do exactly what you do. his words, “better as a pitchinto the sixth that day.

If you go out there with ager.”

Scherzer is as intense as gression in the regular sea“I continued to evolve,” he they come when he’s pitchson, you do the same thing.” said, pointing specifically to ing, and he needed to mainSo expect to see Scherzer a cut slider that he throws to tain that in the postseason. stomping and stalking left-handed batters.

“Whatever you do to have around the Nationals Park “The hitters I face are success in the regular seamound on Friday, while fac- great. There’s a reason son, do the exact same thing. ing the likes of Corey Seathey’re driving nice cars on Yes, the lights are brighter. ger, Adrian Gonzalez, Justin the other side,” Scherzer Yes, the seats are all full.

Turner and Chase Utley. said. “So I had to find more Yes, the start times are And they know what swing-and-miss pitches for weird. There’s tons of they’re in for, even if the lefties, and still find ways to media. You have a lot of dis- Dodgers didn’t face Scherzer pitch effectively against tractions; you’ve got family in 2016, when he went 20-7 right-handed hitters.” and friends all wanting tick- with a 2.96 ERA and a maIt took Scherzer a while to

Memory Lane

BY TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer

Francona faces past as Indians meet Red Sox

There are deep connections between the two franchises meeting for the fifth CLEVELAND — When time in the playoffs since Terry Francona looks across 1995. None, though, are the diamond at Boston’s stronger than those for dugout, the Indians manager Francona, who is doing all will have emotions to suphe can to keep the attention press. It won’t be easy. directed at the field and the He’s got friends over there AL East and AL Central — one of his closest in man- champions. ager John Farrell — and “I don’t think I’d want to strong personal attachments ignore it,” he said Wedneswith players like David Ortiz day of his ties to the Red and Dustin Pedroia. Under Sox. “There’s a lot of history normal circumstances, there, a lot of people I really Francona would be wishing care about. But I’ve been them the best. here four years. It’s not a Not now. This October, the bad thing when you move Red Sox are in his way. on. Sometimes it’s just time Francona, who guided to move on.”

Boston to a pair of World SeCleveland is back in the ries titles and exorcised the postseason for the second Curse of The Bambino betime in four years and had fore leaving in turmoil in one more victory than Bos2011, will face his former ton this season while runteam in the postseason for ning away with its division. the first time when the Indi- Still, Francona understands ans meet the Red Sox in the the Indians are heavy underAmerican League Division dogs in the best-of-five seSeries starting Thursday ries. night.

“I think the way we’ve

played this year, we’re a worthy opponent and we’ll hold our own,” he said. “We just need to win one more game than our opponent.

We’ll see if we’re good enough.”

Befitting a season in which they’ve withstood adversity and key injuries, the Indians will start Trevor Bauer in Game 1 against Rick Porcello, Boston’s 22game winner.

Bauer began the season in Cleveland’s bullpen, but because of injuries to Carlos Carrasco, Danny Salazar and Game 2 starter Corey Kluber, the enigmatic righthander — who acknowledged he “can be difficult to deal with sometimes” — has jumped to the front of the rotation.

Francona said Bauer’s relationship with the Indians is still “evolving” but he has complete confidence in handing the 25-year-old the ball in the season’s biggest game.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Boston designated hitter David Ortiz laughs during practice in Cleveland on Wednesday. Boston meets the Indians in Game 1 of an American League Division Series today.

Bat flip, punch and now an ALDS rematch

RED SOX VS. INDIANS

BY STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer

Schedule: (All times EDT) Game 1, Thursday, at Cleveland (8:08 p.m.); Game 2, Friday, at Cleveland (4:38 p.m.); Game 3, Sunday, at Boston (4:08 p.m.); x-Game 4, Monday, Oct. 10, at Boston (TBA); x-Game 5, Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Cleveland (TBA). (All games on TBS). x-if necessary.

Season Series: Red Sox won 4-2.

Projected Lineups: Red Sox: 2B Dustin Pedroia (.318, 15 HRs, 74 RBIs), SS Xander Bogaerts (.294, 21, 89), RF Mookie Betts (.318, 31, 113), DH David Ortiz (.315, 38, 127), 1B Hanley Ramirez (.286, 30, 111), CF Jackie Bradley Jr. (.267, 26, 87), 3B Brock Holt (.255, 7, 34), C Sandy Leon (.310, 7, 35 in 78 games), LF Andrew Benintendi (.295, 2, 14 in 34 games).

Indians: DH Carlos Santana (.259, 34, 87, 99 walks), 2B Jason Kipnis (.275, 23, 82, 41 doubles), SS Francisco Lindor (.301, 15, 78, 19 steals), 1B Mike Napoli (.239, career highs with 34 HRs, 101 RBIs), 3B Jose Ramirez (.312, 11, 76, 46 doubles, .357 with runners in scoring position), RF Lonnie Chisenhall (.286, 8, 57), LF Rajai Davis (.249, 12, 48, team-high 43 steals), CF Tyler Naquin (.296, 14, 43, among top 5 rookies in several offensive categories), C Yan Gomes (.167, 9, 34, only 74 games because of injuries).

Starting Pitchers: Red Sox: RH Rick Porcello (22-4, 3.15 ERA), LH David Price (17-9, 3.99), RH Clay Buchholz (8-10, 4.78), LH Eduardo Rodriguez (3-7, 4.71).

Indians: RH Trevor Bauer (12-8, 4.26, career-high 190 innings), RH Corey Kluber (18-9, 3.14, 227 Ks in 215 innings), RH Josh Tomlin (13-9, 4.40, 36 HRs in 174 innings).

Relievers: Red Sox: RH Craig Kimbrel (2-6, 3.40, 31/33 saves), RH Koji Uehara (2-3, 3.45, 7 saves), RH Brad Ziegler (2-4, 1.52), LH Drew Pomeranz (3-5, 4.59), RH Matt Barnes (4-3, 4.05), RH Robbie Ross (3-2, 3.25), RH Joe Kelly (4-0, 5.18).

Indians: RH Cody Allen (3-5, 2.51, 32/35 saves), RH Bryan Shaw (2-5, 3.24, 75 games), LH Andrew Miller (10-1, 1.45 ERA, 12 saves, 14.9 Ks per 9 innings with Yankees and Indians), RH Dan Otero (5-1, 1.53, 39 of last 46 appearances scoreless), RH Jeff Manship (2-1, 3.12, 53 games), RH Zach McAllister (3-2, 4.44, 53 games).

slide trying to break up a double play at the end of a contentious series.

ARLINGTON, Texas — “It’s unfortunate that it There was Jose Bautista’s got out of hand last time, but emphatic bat flip after his tie- it did, so it’s in the past and breaking homer in the ALDS- hopefully stays there,” Bauclinching game last October, tista said. “I’m not looking and then Rougned Odor’s for revenge, I’m looking to punch in May that ignited a win ball games. That’s enbench-clearing brawl the last tirely what my focus is on, time the Texas Rangers and and hopefully I get to keep it Toronto Blue Jays played. there.”

Now comes the rematch in With all that recent histoanother AL Division Series ry, close attention will be between teams clearly with paid to every inside fastball, some bad blood between hard slide or any emotional them. outburst.

“I don’t think it’s fabricatBut these are also two ed,” Blue Jays outfielder teams with much more on Kevin Pillar said Wednesday. the line than retribution “We knew it was going to after falling short of their happen,” Rangers shortstop World Series goal last year, Elvis Andrus said of facing and now with another Toronto again. “That’s base- chance. ball.”

“Games are too important.

The year’s best-of-five I wouldn’t expect anything,” ALDS starts Thursday in Blue Jays manager John Texas, where on May 15 sec- Gibbons said. “But nobody ond baseman Odor punched seems to want to let it go. ...

Bautista. The scuffle began Every time you turn on the after Bautista, on base after TV, it’s a replay after replay getting hit in the ribs by a after replay. But too much at pitch, made a late and hard stake. Two great ball clubs,

two very competitive ball clubs, two emotional ball clubs. But in no way I would expect anything like that.”

After their 5-2 wild-card game victory over Baltimore on Tuesday night when Edwin Encarnacion hit a game-ending three-run homer, the Blue Jays had a brief workout Wednesday at the Rangers’ ballpark. It was their first time there since that Sunday afternoon fight more than 4 1/2 months ago.

There could be some edgy moments with the postseason adrenaline flowing.

“I think it’s going to bring a lot more excitement to the games,” Andrus said. “It’s easy right now to say nothing’s going to happen or might happen. But when you’re out there and playing, and all the emotion any inning can bring, anything can happen.”

Major League Baseball disciplined 14 players and staff over the melee in May, with Odor (seven games), Bautista (one game) and Andrus (one game) the only players suspended.

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CLEMSON

Matt Milano and Connor Strachan will be two of the FROM PAGE B1 best linebackers Clemson has played this year, Swinney they can run. They play you said. bump-and-run on the perimBC’s leading tackler this eter, so they’re making you season, free safety John throw and catch with preciJohnson, is one of three resion. They’re going to chalturning starters in the seclenge us.” ondary.

Boston College’s defense While the Eagles didn’t has a new coordinator this have much defensive success year, Jim Reid, after Don against Clemson last year, Brown left to take the same they have in the past. The Tiposition at Michigan. That gers scored just 17 points in said, the Eagles still have their last trip to Alumni Stamany of the same players dium in 2014. who made up their No. 1 deCenter Jay Guillermo is fense last year. confident the Clemson ofFour of Boston College’s fense “can go up there and do top six tacklers from 2015 are some good things,” but he back with the team this year says BC will force the Tigers and continuing to play key to play well. roles.

“They’re very disciplined The defensive line is led by in what they do and they do defensive end Harold Landry, what they do very, very who has been one of the well,” Guillermo said. most productive pass-rushers “They want to punch you in in the country this year. He the mouth and they’re has 5.5 sacks in BC’s first five going to keep coming all games. game.”

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE STATE

Today Citadel at North Greenville, 7 p.m. (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

Friday (3) Clemson at Boston College, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN,WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUBFM 102.7) Saturday Georgia at South Carolina, 7:30 p.m. (SEC NETWORK, WIBZ-FM 95., WNKTFM 107.5) Samford at Furman, 1 p.m.

Wofford at Western Carolina, 7 p.m.

Presbyterian at Gardner-Webb, 6 p.m.

Newberry at Mars Hill, 4 p.m.

Benedict at Lane College, 2 p.m.

Limestone at Catawba, 1:30 p.m.

ACC

Saturday (23) Florida State at (10) Miami, 8 p.m.

(25) Virginia Tech at (17) North Carolina, 3:30 p.m.

Notre Dame at North Carolina State, noon Georgiat Tech at Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m.

Army at Duke, 3:30 p.m.

Syracuse at Wake Forest, 7 p.m.

SEC

Saturday (1) Alabama at (16) Arkansas, 7 p.m.

(9) Tennessee at (8) Texas A&M, 3:30 p.m.

LSU at (18) Florida vs. LSU, noon Auburn at Mississippi State, noon Vanderbilt at Kentucky, 4 p.m.

TOP 25

Friday (19) Boise State at New Mexico, 9 p.m.

Saturday Indiana at (2) Ohio State, 3:30 p.m.

(4) Michigan at Rutgers, 7 p.m.

(5) Washington at Oregon, 7:30 p.m.

(6) Houston at Navy, 3 p.m.

USC

Other than that, it has been no different that a normal week situation.”

FROM PAGE B1 South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said in a Tueshave plans to include using day briefing she could see the school resource officers as football game taking place at well as officers who are in Williams-Brice Stadium. training at the state police She did not mention the academy to handle game game during a Wednesday traffic and stadium security. morning briefing, however.

Both Gamecock football USC Senior Associate Athcoach Will Muschamp and letic Director Charles Bloom counterpart Kirby Smart at told Columbia radio station Georgia said during a 107.5 FM that, if the game Wednesday afternoon confer- can not be played on Saturence call they are continuing day, it could take place on to practice as if the game will Sunday or Monday. take place as scheduled.

“If you can’t play it on Sat“The athletic director has urday night, I think that defibeen in touch with the SEC nitely has the potential of and those things,” said happening,” said Bloom. “I Smart. “Me, I get daily upwould say, right now, the dates, really hourly updates chances of this game being on the weather and what’s moved out of Columbia are going on with it. very, very minimal.”

The only change for the USC has been talking with USC football team, according state and local officials who to Muschamp, has been a are tracking the path of Hurslight change in practice ricane Matthew. times.

As of Wednesday at 1 p.m.

That has more to do time the National Hurricane Cenflexibility since classes have ter said it has shifted eastbeen canceled. ward. It projects the storm “It hasn’t affected our should hit the coast near preparation at all, other Beaufort Saturday morning. than practicing some wet Muschamp, who says he ball situations which we do has not been given a timetaanyway,” said Muschamp. ble on when a decision will “Obviously, we do have some be made on the game’s staplayers from down on the tus, appeared somewhat concoast with families who are fident it would be played as evacuating. scheduled.

“We practice in the mornHe quickly admitted he has ings, so we have moved our nothing to do with the final scheduled back a little bit. decision, however.

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The availibility of Carolina quarterback Cam Newton’ (right) for this weekend is in question after getting a concussion on this hit in Sunday’s loss to the Atlanta Falcons.

Panthers’ Newton sits out practice with concussion

BY STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE — Panthers quarterback Cam Newton missed practice on Wednesday with a concussion, raising concerns about his availability for Monday night’s division game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The league’s reigning MVP remains in the concussion protocol, three days after taking a helmet-to-helmet hit from linebacker Deion Jones in the fourth quarter of a 48-33 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.

Panthers coach Ron Rivera did not address reporters and the team was not required to release an injury report, so there was no official update on Newton’s status. Newton did not make an appearance in the locker room on Wednesday and did not speak to reporters.

Derek Anderson would start for Carolina if Newton can’t play.

Anderson is 2-0 as a starter since joining the Panthers in 2011. Both victories came against the Buccaneers in 2014. Anderson declined comment, saying he was scheduled to address reporters on Thursday.

Third-string quarterback Joe Webb said he spoke to Newton on Wednesday.

“He was in good spirits,” Webb said. “He wasn’t down

or nothing like that.”

The struggling Panthers (1-3) are suddenly dealing with several injuries.

Left tackle Michael Oher did not practice after missing the Atlanta game with a concussion. Running back Jonathan Stewart, who has missed the past two games with a hamstring injury, continued to work on the side with trainers. And offensive tackle Mike Remmers was given a day to rest. Remmers said he expects to play against Tampa Bay. The good news for Carolina is the Buccaneers always seem to serve as the perfect elixir.

The Panthers have defeated their division rivals six straight times going back to 2013.

Panthers wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin said the team has confidence in Anderson’s ability to step in and win some games.

“We already know D.A. can come in and play,” Benjamin said. “We have to keep the same mentality and the same confidence.”

The 33-year-old Anderson relieved Newton in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s loss and led two touchdown drives to get the Panthers back in the game, throwing TD passes to Greg Olsen and Philly Brown.

However, the Panthers’ defense was unable to keep the

game tight, allowing a long TD pass to Julio Jones.

Anderson was forced to throw the ball on every play in the closing minutes and was picked off twice, one of which was returned for a touchdown.

“He did some pretty good things with the exception of the one he thought he was throwing away,” Rivera said after the game.

“He made some good decisions, some really good reads.

He handled himself well under the circumstances and got us down there in a position to score. Again, can’t make mistakes — we made some mistakes and they capitalized on them.”

Benjamin said playing with Anderson is a little different than Newton.

“D.A. is going to get it out quicker than Cam,” Benjamin said. “We just have to be fast on our routes. We have to run our routes and beat them to the spot.”

Benjamin said he doesn’t think the Panthers are lacking confidence, but realizes the team is in need of a win if it hopes to catch the Falcons (3-1) and win a fourth straight NFC South title.

“When you are losing, your head starts sagging and you start getting down on yourself,” Benjamin said.

“So it would be a real good team win if we can beat them.”

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — With his team coming off its first loss of the season, New England coach Bill Belichick has been in no mood to dwell on the return of a certain quarterback this week.

“Right now our focus is on Cleveland, trying to get ready to go in Cleveland. We can’t do anything about what it was or wasn’t the last four weeks,” Belichick said.

“That’s it, period. This week, Cleveland.”

Tight end Rob Gronkowski agreed with his coach’s assessment, with one caveat.

“It’s just like any other week, except Tom’s back at quarterback, baby,” he said.

After a quiet first two days since the expiration of his “Deflategate” suspension, Brady and the Patriots returned to the practice field Wednesday for the first time to begin preparations for the Browns.

Though banned from the Patriots’ facilities during his suspension, Brady was allowed to workout with personal trainer Alex Guerrero and kept busy throwing passes with former Patriots receiver Wes Welker.

But it remains unclear just how game ready he is, and how much rust he needs to peel away prior to Sunday’s trip to Cleveland.

After missing the preseason opener to attend a memorial service, and then accidentally cutting his thumb prior to the second preseason game, Brady had limited reps with new additions like Martellus Bennett and Chris Hogan.

The same was true with Gronkowski, who didn’t dress for any preseason games and was limited by an ongoing hamstring injury.

“We’ve been practicing with Tom for a while now. So we’ve got to go out and do what we’ve done since the first day I’ve been here,” Gronkowski said. “We just gotta go out there and work hard. I don’t see why things are gonna change just like that. We had all camp. We just gotta focus on the Browns, prepare for the Browns and do what we gotta do as an offense.”

Danny Amendola said the first successful completion Brady made with him since his return came in the form of a big hug.

As for what happens between now and Sunday, he expects that will take care of itself.

“I know he’s been working hard wherever he’s been.

That’s no secret to me, and it’s every day for him,” Amdendola said. “I’m sure it will all come natural for him.”

Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels thinks that simply being around teammates and

following their normal routine would go a long way in getting the 39-year-old quarterback back up to speed.

“I think experience helps any player. If they’re injured or what have you, they come back, or if they miss some time for whatever reason,” McDaniels said. “But I also think there’s an acclimation period in the game of football that’s hard to simulate unless you’re playing football.”

Brady may not have to be at peak shape against a Browns defense that is yielding 28.8 points per game — ranking 27th in the NFL. Brady has also had lots of success against Cleveland, having won five of his six career starts against the Browns, while racking up seven career 400-yard passing efforts.

That includes the last meeting between the teams in 2013 in which Brady passed for 418 yards and two touchdowns, including a 1-yard strike to Amendola with 31 seconds remaining that proved to be the game winner.

This game is on the road, but Amendola anticipates seeing a giddier quarterback than usual.

“He’s gonna be juiced up.

We’re all gonna be ready, we’re all gonna be juiced up,” he said. “We’re gonna have a lot of good energy out there.

We’re excited to get one good day of practice under our belt today and go from there.”

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Robert E. Lee running back Hunter McGee (10) fights off the last defender, Nyle Grove of Auguast Christian, on the way to a touchdown run in the second quarter of the Cavaliers’ 56-35 victory on Wednesday at McCutchen Field in Bishopville.

And so did Barrett. He was 8 for 11 through the air for 118 yards and four touchdowns and also rushed 15 times for 123 yards and another score.

He got the Cavs on the board first with a 15-yard strike to William Corbett early in the first quarter. His 6-yard run later helped give REL a 21-14 lead after the first 12 minutes.

It was all Barrett and the Cavs in the second quarter, though. He found Matthew Tidwell for a 29-yard TD pass and Mark Dinkins for a 35-yard score as REL put up 21 straight points. He completed his night with an 18yard pass to Dinkins in the third.

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safety, and we spread them out two to one side and one on the other,” Barrett said.

“It’s easy then to just look off the safety and throw it up the middle. “...We kind of did a crashcourse practice this week and did all we could to get ready. We were as focused as we possibly could be and just came out and played our hearts out.”

Laney wound up rushing 15 times for 119 yards and finished with two touchdowns for the Cavaliers. His other came in the first on a 75-yard punt return for a score.

Hunter McGee also had an 11-yard TD run in the second quarter that was part of a 28-0 overall run for REL.

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Manning had a bye this week.

With the extra week of the regular season added, the start of the state playoffs for all five classifications will be

MARLINS FIRE BONDS MIAMI — Marlins hitting coach Barry Bonds was fired Wednesday along with third base coach Lenny Harris and bullpen coach Reid Cornelius.

Miami also announced a $40 million, three-year contract with third baseman Martin Prado, who would have been eligible for free agency, and exercised a $2 million club option on outfielder Ichiro Suzuki.

BLATT ACCEPTS CHAMPIONSHIP RING CLEVELAND — David Blatt’s second season with

moved back a week to Nov. 11.

Three South Carolina Independent School Association games are still scheduled for Monday after being rescheduled. Wilson Hall will play host to Pinewood Prep at 7 p.m., Thomas Sumter Academy will be at home against Oakbrook Prep at 5 p.m. and Clarendon Hall will be at home against Providence Athletic Club at 7:30 p.m.

the Cavaliers ended long before they won an NBA title.

However, he’s been rewarded for his stay.

The former Cleveland coach accepted a championship ring from the team despite being fired midway through last season.

Blatt was dismissed when the Cavs were 30-11 and replaced by assistant Tyronn Lue, who guided the Cavs to an historic comeback in the finals to capture the first major sports championship by a Cleveland team since 1964.

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The SCHSL also extended the regular seasons for volleyball and girls tennis in order to reschedule postponed matches. The regular season for volleyball in all five classifications will run through Oct. 18 with the playoffs starting on Oct. 20.

The regular season for tennis will also run through Oct. 18 with the 5A, 4A and 3A playoffs beginning on Oct. 20 and the 2A playoffs starting on Oct. 24.

OBITUARIES DARLENE R. BYRD Darlene R. Byrd, 48, departed this life on Oct. 3, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

She was born on Oct. 25, 1967, in Baltimore, Maryland, a daughter of the late Isaac Sr. and Olene Hannibal Byrd.

The family will receive friends at 306A Picardy Drive, Sumter, SC 29153.

Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements.

ROBERT L. DAVIS Robert Lewis “Bob” Davis, age 80, beloved husband of Nancy Martin Davis, died on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016.

A graveside service has been rescheduled to 2 p.m. today at Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery.

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The Sumter Touchdown Club’s weekly breakfast meeting scheduled for Friday has been canceled due to the impending threat of Hurricane Matthew.

The club’s next meeting will be on Oct. 14. The four players who received Player of the Week honors this week will be recognized at the meeting.

Charleston Southern football head coach Jamey Chadwell will be the guest speaker. Wofford College head coach Mike Ayers was originally scheduled, but he had to cancel.

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overall, were 2-0 entering Wednesday’s contest.

“Found out (Tuesday) at 4:45 p.m. that we were playing today, so it was a weird week,” Cavs head coach David Rankin said. “But I thought we handled it pretty well. The effort was there. “...It’s a huge win. Real proud of our guys on offense. Only negative thing I can say is on defense. We had some guys out, but that’s no excuse. You still have to play defense.”

Augusta Christian wound up with 325 yards rushing and most of it came from one player -- E’Mon Reeves.

He was a one-man wrecking crew for the Lions with 20 carries for 228 yards and five touchdowns of his own. It was almost six, but the last one was called off for a block in the back.

It was Reeves who scored 21 straight points for AC and turned what had been a 49-14 laugher at one point into a suddenly close 49-35 ballgame with seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

That forced the Cavs to put some of their offensive starters back in, including Barrett. REL marched right down the field, scoring on Nick Laney’s 12-yard TD run to all but seal the win for good this time.

“The flow of the game kind of changed and I put the (substitutions) in,” Rankin said. “They cut it to 14 and we had to go. We took it straight down the field.

They couldn’t stop the wishbone. Our running backs ran hard and blocked for each other and our offensive line did an outstanding job.”

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The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

LEROY GOODEN Leroy “Pinewood” Gooden was born on Dec. 30, 1953, in Sumter County, to the late Lee “Daddy” Gooden Sr. and Elouise Felder Gooden. He departed this earthly life on Sept. 30, 2016, at his residence.

Mr. Gooden attended the public schools of Sumter County. At an early age, he joined New Hope UME Church. Leroy was previously

employed at Palmer Memorial Chapel for several years and was with Job’s Mortuary for more than 25 years, until his passing. Leroy was married to the late Mary Smith Gooden and to this union they were blessed with three children and a stepson.

Leroy leaves to cherish his memories: children, Jennifer (Julius) Carmichael, Jason (Katrina) Gooden and Roger (Brezetta) Gooden; a stepson, Timothy Smith; four sisters, Essie (Freddie) Brunson, Eleanor Amos, Camilla (Isiah) Conyers of Pinewood and Anita Duren of Sumter; two brothers, Lee Gooden Jr. of Pinewood and James (Carolyn) Gooden of Denver, Colorado; 12 grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Public viewing will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Hurricane Matthew’s slow march toward Florida kept plenty of major college football teams guessing about their weekend plans on Wednesday, with schools still waiting to determine if moving or rescheduling games will be necessary because of the massive storm.

All games involving teams from the AP Top 25 this weekend were on as scheduled, including three being held in areas that forecasters believe could deal with Matthew’s wrath in the coming days — No. 23 Florida State at No. 10 Miami, LSU visiting No. 18 Florida and No. 25 Virginia Tech at No. 17 North Carolina.

Florida said a decision on its game would be made by 1 p.m.

Thursday. Miami and Florida State were continuing to monitor developments and discussing contingencies, just in case.

“We are hopeful that the impact of Hurricane Matthew will be minimal and the game between the Hurricanes and Seminoles will be played as planned,” Miami athletic director Blake James said.

Also still on: the Georgia at South Carolina football game on Saturday night, even though forecasters think Matthew could be directly affecting that area of the country this weekend.

“Whatever decision is made, we’ll be ready to go,” South Carolina coach Will Muschamp said.

The Web.com Tour Championship, a golf tournament scheduled to be played near Jacksonville, Florida, was canceled . Thursday’s Tampa Bay at Florida preseason NHL game was postponed, with no reschedule date announced, and with some uncertainty if there would even be a chance to get that game in before the regular season starts next week.

The Web.com tournament was the last chance for some golfers to secure their PGA Tour cards for the coming season. It had to be called off after a mandatory evacuation order was posted for Jacksonville beach areas, and there’s no opportunity for it to be made up.

“I know the players who came here needing a good finish to get their cards are very disappointed,” Web.com Tour president Bill Calfee said.

Even an eSports event scheduled for this weekend — the UMG Orlando Call of Duty tournament with a $100,000 prize pool — was called off out of concern for the storm.

“Regardless of the financial losses, which not hosting the event exposes us to, we felt the safety of our community was obviously far more important,” UMG said in the news release announcing the cancellation.

In South Florida, everything from high school to pro events are being affected — even before the storm arrives.

Mr. Gooden will be placed in the church at 11 a.m. on Friday for viewing until the hour of service.

Funeral services will be held at noon on Friday at New Hope UME Church, 19022 Panola Road, Pinewood, SC 29125 with Pastor James O. Robinson officiating and the Rev. Lawrence E. Myers, eulogist.

Interment will follow in New Hope UME Church cemetery.

The family will be receiving friends at 2865 Sequoia Drive, Sumter.

Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements.

LAVONNE W. PITTMAN Lavonne W. Pittman, 80, died on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, at NHC Healthcare in Sumter.

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The Miami Heat, who were scheduled to leave Friday for a Saturday game in Kansas City, decided to instead depart Wednesday — for Houston, where they’ll set up a temporary camp before moving on to the exhibition matchup this weekend.

In Davie, Florida — where a hurricane warning was posted — the Miami Dolphins decided to close their offices on Thursday, which was already an off day for players. The Dolphins are scheduled to host to Tennessee on Sunday afternoon, conditions permitting, and Titans coach Mike Mularkey is keeping a close eye on Matthew for multiple reasons.

“I’m more worried about a lot of family I’ve still got in the Fort Lauderdale area,” Mularkey said. “That’s No. 1 for me.”

Florida State planned to fly to Miami on Thursday evening for this weekend’s nationally televised football showdown against the Hurricanes. Those plans are now iffy at best, Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher said.

“It looks like the worst of it may hit Thursday night in Miami. So we may have to wait until Friday morning before we go down and see what goes on,” Fisher said. “That’s our thoughts right now, but we don’t know. We’re still getting updates as it goes.”

Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, is directly in Matthew’s forecasted path and made wholesale changes to its schedules.

FAU’s football team, scheduled to play host to Charlotte on Saturday, left for Tampa and will practice at South Florida for the remainder of the week. FAU’s volleyball team also headed out of town to practice, a women’s golf tournament FAU was to host in Boca Raton was canceled and events this weekend for volleyball, men’s soccer, softball, women’s tennis and swimming were also either postponed or called off.

Other cancelations and schedule changes announced Wednesday related to Matthew include: — Friday night’s Tulane at Central Florida football game in Orlando has been pushed back to Nov. 5.

— The Washington Nationals said the rest of their instructional league games on Florida’s coast this week would be canceled.

— A number of college volleyball and soccer matches from Florida to North Carolina were rescheduled or moved.

— Friday’s Indy Eleven at Jacksonville North American Soccer League game was postponed.

— The University of North Florida, located in Jacksonville, said its cross-country teams would not travel to Tallahassee for a meet at Florida State on Friday. A Friday softball exhibition and a Saturday home swim meet were canceled, and a men’s soccer game Saturday night against NJIT was postponed.

um of Sumter.

GLORIA L. WILLIAMS Gloria Langston Williams, widow of Thomas Lee Williams, died on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she was a daughter of Louise Conyers.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 8 p.m. at the residence, 1002 Spaulding Ave. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc.

CLARENCE B. DAVIS JR. WEDGEFIELD — Clarence B. Davis Jr., 81, husband of Madeline Hodge Davis, died on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, at his home.

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

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

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

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Sumter, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action, together with the Summons, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on August 19, 2016 at 2:08 P.M. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the Supreme Court of South Carolina Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may be eligible for foreclosure intervention programs for the purpose of resolving the above-referenced foreclosure action.

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

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

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading and filing of the Petition of the Plaintiff for the appointment of Kelley Woody, attorney in Columbia, South Carolina, as Guardian ad Litem Nisi for all unknown minors, and for all

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persons who may be under a legal disability, it is ORDERED that Kelley Woody, Attorney at Law, be and she is hereby appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi on behalf of unknown minors or persons under a legal disability, all of whom may have an interest in or claim to have some interest in the real property known as 59 Wilder Street, Sumter, SC 29150; that she is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless the said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem for the said Defendants;

In Memory In loving Memory Of Sandra W. Robinson 1954-2001

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendants by publication thereof in the The Item, a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, once a week for three consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

James C. Campbell Clerk of Court for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Thomas A. Shook P.O. Box 71727 North Charleston, SC 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorney for Plaintiff

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Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, PLAINTIFF, vs.

Mae Catherine Jones Samuel; and any other Heirs or Devisees of Azalee Richardson, deceased; including all other Heirs, Personal Representatives, Successors, Assigns, Spouses, Creditors, and all others claiming any right, title or interest in the real estate known as 59 Wilder Street, Sumter, SC 29150, any adults or persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and any minors or persons

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