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First Baptist Church’s steeple lies over a sidewalk after Category 4 Hurricane Hugo struck the tri-county area the morning of Sept. 22, 1989.

Memories remain vivid for Sumterites BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com

It’s hard to believe 25 years have passed since the local landscape was devastated by Hurricane Hugo. Yet, talk to anyone who was here at this time in 1989, and you’ll hear stories recalled as if the storm happened a few weeks or months ago. On the morning of Sept. 21, 1989, Sumterites were preparing for Hurricane Hugo to hit

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the S.C. coast. A sampling of stories on the front of The Item had the same theme: Preparation. Emergency responders, Shaw Air Force Base and Tuomey Hospital were on alert, state employees were prepared to be called into duty, school districts were expecting to close, grocery stores were emptied of nonperishables. But even with all the preparation,

hardly anyone really expected Hugo to hit us with such force; after all, we are 100 miles inland. As it turned out, Hugo was the 11th most powerful hurricane ever to hit the United States and the most severe to hit S.C. in the 20th century. It’s said we remember most vividly our really good or really bad experiences. Standing out in the memories of many SEE MEMORIES, PAGE A3

DEATHS, B6 Kate E. Ermis Mary B. Woudwyk Erma V. Dwyer Peter R. Jacob Alvin O. Hancock Carl E. Brooks Nora Cook

Mary L. Jenkins Margaret P. Holmes Sammie Jiles Roy Welsh Stephen S. Davis Carolyn Y. Thomas

INSIDE Leading through the storm: Former mayor tested A3 Red Cross hopes you prepare for the next big one A4 Former civil defense director tracked storm by hand A5 Black River Electric labored long hours to restore power A6 Former law enforcement recall ‘war zone’ A7 Hugo’s wrath felt across area’s sports landscape B1 Throwback to the first day The Item published again D1

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A fitting tribute

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Monsieur Bernard Marie, a French dignitary, pins the French Legion of Honor on World War II veteran James Prosser at a ceremony at the Sumter County Courthouse on Saturday. Prosser is the last known surviving member of the 16th Regiment of the 29th U.S. Army Division.

World War II veteran honored by France BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Sometimes it’s not the speeches of dignitaries or the splendor and flourish of brass bands and color guards that are the most memorable moments in an event such as Saturday’s ceremony for the bestowal of the French Legion of Honor on World War II veteran James Prosser. Sometimes it is the action of ordinary people that bestows a greater meaning. After the speeches were given, the colors were retired and the ceremony concluded, a long line of well-wishers formed to greet and say “thank you” to the man who

was being honored. It was a fitting end to a heart-felt display of gratitude to one of the Greatest Generation. It was a picture-perfect day as the French and American flags were presented by the Sumter High School Color Guard, the Fort Jackson Military Band played “La Marseillaise” and “The Star Spangled Banner” as the people of Sumter gathered to honor one of their own in front of the Sumter County Courthouse on Saturday morning. A little more than 70 years ago, Prosser was just an ordinary man doing extraordinary things during the liberation of France from Nazi occupation.

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S.C. trooper fired after shooting unarmed man COLUMBIA — A trooper who shot an unarmed man after a traffic stop in Columbia earlier this month has been fired. Department of Public Safety Director Leroy Smith said in a statement that Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Sean Groubert was not threatened when he fired his gun Sept. 4 after pulling over a man for a seatbelt violation. Smith said the driver got out of his car and was reaching back inside after Groubert asked for his license when

“It is because of people like James Prosser we are able to meet here today,” said Sumter Military History Museum curator Sammy Way, a thought echoed by many of the speakers. MARIE On hand to bestow the award was Monsieur Bernard Marie, who sponsored Prosser for the award. Marie was a 5-year-old boy in Normandy when Americans liberated his hometown. His family had spent 15 hours sheltering in a basement, he said, as the world-

the trooper started firing. The driver survived. The shooting happened at a convenience store off Interstate 20. Prosecutors have the State Law Enforcement Division’s report on the shooting and are considering whether Groubert should face criminal charges. They also promise to release dashboard camera video of the shooting after the case is reviewed.

Trooper fired after domestic violence arrest GREENVILLE — The Highway Patrol said a Greenville trooper charged with domestic violence has been fired. The Department of Public Safety said in a news release that 70-year-old Charles Homer Rose III has worked on and off as a trooper since 1969 before

The Sumter High School Color Guard retires the American and French flags after the ceremony. changing events occurred outside. “My mother came in screaming,” he recalled. “She had met her first American.” He said it was confusing to him, because all the people he had ever known in uniform were “bad guys.” “I learned the Americans were different and for one reason,” he quipped. “My first piece of chocolate.” He said the first word of English he learned was “urchin,” and the second word was “freedom.” He joined the throng of youngsters greeting the Americans shouting “Urchin, freedom,” he said. Marie said he had to pull

he was terminated Friday. Greenville County deputies say Rose’s wife called 911 Thursday and said she was hit in the head. An officer noted swelling and a mark and arrested Rose. It wasn’t known if he had a lawyer. Authorities said Rose’s wife, Paula, was convicted in May of arson and filing a false report after setting her own home on fire and blaming burglars who did not exist. She was sentenced to five years of home arrest, so her husband can’t return home because of his arrest.

Police cruiser didn’t have sensors to help dog GREER — Authorities said a cruiser where a police dog died after its air conditioning malfunctioned was not

strings to get the award for Prosser “ASAP.” “I will tell you why,” he said. “There were 50 million soldiers in World War II; today there are less than 1 million. We are losing 555 a day.” Marie noted that as he watched the news this morning, he learned that French jets had bombed Islamic militants in the Middle East. “Once again our nations are joined together,” he said. Marie pinned the Legion of Honor on Prosser’s chest, giving the citation in French. “Vive la France, Vive la Etats Uni de America,” he proclaimed when he was done.

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Sumter School District board to meet Monday The Sumter School District board of trustees will have a work session at 6 p.m. Monday at the district office, 1345 Wilson Hall Road. According to the agenda, Superintendent Frank Baker will provide the superintendent’s report and the board will discuss and make a decision regarding the use of electronic communication devices in school.

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25 YEARS LATER

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Leading through the storm Former mayor’s experience was put to the test BY JOE KEPLER joe@theitem.com

t was supposed to hit Charleston and travel up the coast. That was the prevailing thought when forecasts projected Hurricane Hugo’s path. The “sup-

posed” never came to pass, as Hugo’s inland detour forever changed Sumter County and the city itself, including its leader at the time. “I found out when a Category 4 storm hits your community at 110 miles per hour, you don’t want to be the mayor and in the insurance business,” said Steve Creech. “We touched every file in the office. There wasn’t a house that didn’t have a claim.” Creech came on as the city’s mayor in 1988, after working as an insurance agent since 1972 and just under a decade on city council. His experience in both fields would serve him well as the night of Sept. 21, 1989, would put him under pressure rarely felt by a part-time mayor. The hurricane hit the coast and kept moving inland, fueled by plenty of water supplies that it used to hop its way 80 miles into the state from the Atlantic Ocean to Sumter’s front door. “The storm comes right in, a little bit south of McClellanville, and hits that Santee Cooper Water System and rides up Lake Wateree and Wateree River,” Creech said. “No damage in Columbia but kills us over here.” Creech and his family went to bed that night, and he remembers a sense of dread as they settled in. First it was the power that went out, then a more vital source was lost that caused him even more concern. “I got up out of bed and went to the bathroom, and when I turned the water on, it didn’t come out,” Creech said. “I thought, ‘Uh oh.’” The roar of the winds raged through the night, and little sleep was to be had across the city. “The noise was unbelievable,” Creech said. “My business partner had an oak tree come through the front of his house, and another come through the back. He was grabbing his children and bringing them under the dining room table thinking this was it. We had a lot of close calls.” When morning came, those who were still able to open their front doors did so to a post-apocalyptic scene, with housing wreckage, trees and power lines littering the streets. “The debris on the side of the street was as high as 6 to 8 feet, going all the way down the road,” Creech remembered. “All you could do right away was push it out of the way so you could get through.” Creech immediately thought of his parents, who lived close by. He arrived at the house relieved to see them out cooking on the grill with the neighbors. The neighbors had come into town from their house on Edisto Beach and had brought their minister up with them, highlighting a real-life application of the term “out of the frying pan and into the fire.” In a city of thousands, the isolation felt after the storm was unexpected. Phone lines were down across the county, and with no TV station and just one radio outlet, there was a struggle to call out for help. “We had to get in touch with the government, but no one had a phone,” Creech said. “My neighbor two doors down, for some strange reason, her phone worked. I went in and called the governor.” A curfew was declared, and in short order the

MEMORIES FROM PAGE A1 are the severity of the hurricane’s assault and the personal toll it took on families and businesses. Hugo lived only 12 days, but it made the most of its onslaught as it traveled across South Carolina, almost directly over Sumter, effectively bisecting the state, after it had already demolished several Caribbean islands. Hugo made landfall just outside of Charleston about midnight. Two hours later, the eye was over Sumter, but not before it had already created fear and caused mayhem across the area. It was all the more terrifying because of the dark. Once the lights went out, it seemed there was a Stephen King monster outside, pounding, whistling, snorting, crashing and chewing up homes, businesses, vehicles and trees, injuring at least 320 people and killing a 1-year-old boy in Mayesville. The dark, however, held some protection. Had Hugo passed through during the day, it was said, there would have been more than the one local fatality: People might have ventured outside to check on their families and property only to be hit by debris borne through the air with incredible force by the wind. That force was almost unprecedented this far inland. Hugo’s wind speed was 120 miles per hour when it made landfall outside of Charleston about midnight on Thursday, Sept. 21, 1989. A few hours later on Friday, Sept. 22, Shaw

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Then-Sumter Mayor Steve Creech talks with councilmen before voting on a state of emergency. National Guard’s arrival would ensure peace as the recovery got underway. Even before the Guard’s arrival, though, Creech was pleased with the peace that carried on throughout the city. “We fared because of the people we had, the community,” Creech said. “It really bonded people together … we called a time out on illegal activities. I think everyone was too afraid,” he added, laughing. “They were just thankful to be alive.” While civil discontent wouldn’t present an issue, very real health issues took its place on Creech’s mind. Water was the primary concern, as residents used swimming pool water to bathe but lacked water that would be safe for consumption. Creech also filled 5-gallon drums with water from pools to flush toiFORMER MAYOR lets, but knew a STEVE CREECH better solution had to come quickly. Water would not be restored for 10 days; emergency supplies would be sent in the days after the storm. “Water was a big deal — you can’t imagine not having water,” Creech said. “We had big water wagons that we would park in grocery store parking lots so people could fill their containers up. It looked like we were in a Third World country.” After a few days, he would send his family away so they would be safe and he could focus his attention on leading the city out of the disaster both as the mayor and as an insurance agent. Insurance companies soon rushed with “catastrophic teams” into the area to sort out the thousands of cases. Money would soon start to flow, as the insurance agents overcompensated in order to settle claims as fast as they could. “That wave of insurance money comes back into the community,” Creech said, “and even though it’s a false sense of security, there’s a little economic uptick.” Insurance was not to be found in the timber industry. Francis Marion National Forest suffered

‘The debris on the side of the street was as high as 6 to 8 feet, going all the way down the road.’

Air Force Base recorded its highest wind speed ever, 109 mph. While the hurricane was passing through and for days afterward, Sumter’s leaders, first responders, volunteer medical personnel and others were hard at work helping residents in need of food, water and medical care. Neighbors helped others less fortunate than themselves. Many volunteers occupied the Sumter County Courthouse, working under the direction of Sumter County Civil Defense Director Vic Jones. Traci Quinn, then city editor of The Item, had a front-row seat in the courthouse, not as a newsperson, but as a volunteer. She had high praise for Jones, who had asked residents to “be patient ... look around them, find someone who’s worse off and help that person” as he dealt with unexpected situations. “He was totally prepared,” Quinn said. “It was actually pretty cool to watch him take control of what was fast becoming a scary situation. We had calls from all over the county — power out, lines down, trees down, holes in roofs. People were cowering under kitchen tables and in bathtubs. And of course, no one knew that what was happening outside their window was happening all over Sumter. The devastation was so widespread. But Vic stayed cool the whole time. ... I was proud to work with him and grateful our leader in a time of environmental destruction was so level-headed and prepared.” With no electricity and the roads

Awnings of store fronts hang precariously over the sidewalk as residents walk among the rubble of downtown Main Street. estimated losses of $1 billion, with about 8,800 square miles of trees destroyed, according to a 1991 report published by the U.S. Forest Service. Those losses would have been enough to build 660,000 new homes. “I flew in an F-16 airplane in November of 1989, six weeks after the storm,” Creech said. “We were coming down the coastline toward Myrtle before coming back to Shaw, and it looked like match

nearly impassable, Quinn said, it was impossible to put out a newspaper, so she continued to work with Jones as “the Sumter County Public Information representative ... and helped hand out water and organize aid and slept in the courthouse.” Sumter wasn’t used to being on the receiving end of emergency aid. An independent populace, many had to swallow their pride and accept food and water for their families during the more than two weeks without power and many days without water service. People whose homes were destroyed or damaged moved in with friends and family; many shared what food and water they had. Quinn found a different kind of pride in Sumter, she said. Perhaps we all did for a time. “I have terrific memories of the teamwork that existed in the recovery effort,” Quinn said. “The National Guardsmen, the volunteers, the city and county officials, residents and store owners and students and everyone else just came together in a spirit of community. It was a powerful time for me. Crisis can do that — burning away the differences (and) the political and religious posturing can bring everyone to a common ground. It’s really kind of beautiful. Too bad it doesn’t last. ... “Habitat for Humanity fared pretty well that year. Once everyone was homeless, they gained a greater understanding of and compassion for people without adequate housing.”

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Also standing out in Quinn’s memory were the Tree City flag at Swan LakeIris Gardens in tatters, the First Baptist Church steeple lying shattered in the road, piles and piles of downed trees and debris in roads. Following Hugo’s passing, The Item was unable to publish for two days. Quinn and others drove to Orangeburg “to use their computers and press.” The Sunday, Sept. 24, Item is filled with Hugo news under the banner headline “We’re down, but not out.” A curfew was imposed, and National Guardsmen carried rifles because of looting, residents were urged to be patient, Sumter damage was estimated at $95 million and officials couldn’t even estimate when water and power would be restored. A list of places where bottled water and/or ice were available and where pharmacies were operating and information on how to get help and photos of the devastation filled the inside pages. Today’s issue of The Sumter Item features stories that look back 25 years to Hurricane Hugo and its aftermath. Reporters have talked to many who were involved in preparation, rescue, repairs and the recovery and continued growth of the area. The stories and Sumter itself are a testimony to the resilience of the citizens and the Earth and the efficiency and diligence of the many people who worked so hard to bring back our way of life and who continue to ensure progress and increasing prosperity.

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Red Cross hopes memories will spur preparation welfare inquiry. He used jumper cables attached to his truck’s alternator to keep the camper battery charged. As South Carolina marks “We were working 10 to 12 the 25th anniversary of Hurrihours,” Granke said. “It’s difcane Hugo, one national orgaferent now. Then we didn’t nization wants the memory of have all these computers. Peoit to spur disaster preparedple wanted to know if their ness. family was safe and well or Starting today, the Amerinot. We chased people all over can Red Cross is launching the county and called people Prepare SC, a statewide camback.” paign to better equip commuAs he drove around doing nities to handle disasters. damage assessment, he noDuring Hugo, the American ticed someRed Cross one moving opened 238 inside Sumshelters and ter Cut Rate. housed more He thought it than 46,000 was a looter, people, acbut when he cording to a got out and Sept. 15 news got close release from enough, the organizaGranke tion. JENNIE GEDDINGS, Red Cross learned it “Forty-two volunteer and previously with S.C. was the of the 46 Emergency Management Division pharmacist. counties “He told were federalme, ‘If you come upon people ly declared disaster areas,” Jennie Geddings said. She was that have lost their medicawith the S.C. Emergency Man- tions, send them to me, and I’ll give them an emergency agement Division then and supply. We’ll iron it out after has now volunteered with the it’s all over.’ And he didn’t Red Cross for 19 years. “Hurcharge a soul. I was astonricanes spawn tornados. They ished.” couldn’t even count the numDespite some trees down ber of tornados. Shaw Air and minor house damage, Force Base recorded winds of Geddings and her husband 110 miles per hour. The buildmanaged to make it out of ings and infrastructures were Sumter and to Columbia. devastated. There were no They spent the next 11 days in lights and no water in Suma hotel as she worked. ter.” “We did not have all the Now, systems such as these computers,” she said. “We had are on back-up generators, phone books from all the said Nancy Cataldo, executive counties. You had to look evdirector of the Red Cross Palerything up.” metto SC Region Sandhills She is even the person who Chapter. Based in Sumter, it typed up the form letter reserves this county as well as questing federal aid. Clarendon, Lee and Kershaw “Gov. Carroll Campbell was counties. so great,” Geddings said. “He “You want to return to norsigned it, and I faxed it.” malcy, (but) we were expectIt only took a few hours for ing Hugo for another 20 years after that,” said Arnie Granke, the disaster designation to be declared. disaster services consultant with the Red Cross. He has RECOVERY AND CLEAN UP served the organization as paid staff in the past and curThe Red Cross opened a rently volunteers with the shelter at Sumter High School nonprofit. where hundreds stayed for days. The Southern Baptist WEATHERING THE STORM Convention rolled in a mobile kitchen to help feed everyone, Though she worked in CoGeddings said. lumbia at the time, Geddings Meanwhile, The Salvation still lived in Sumter. When the Army was keeping the first restorm started, she grabbed her husband, cat and dog and huddled in the hallway. “I woke Tommy up,” she said. “Otherwise, he would have slept through the whole thing. I told him, ‘It’s bad. It’s really bad.’” When the eye hit, he wanted to go look. “I told him to sit back down,” Geddings said. “‘No, you can’t go yet.’ I believe the wind was worse the second part.” Granke had a similar experience with one of the seven people staying in his house at the time. “We were in the center of the hallway when the eye came right over Sumter,” he said. “My son-in-law was from Ohio, and he thought we could go outside, that it was all over.” Fire, EMS and law enforcement all lost communications. “The hero was J.R. Berry,” Geddings said. “He was on the radio station all night. He would tell people to call the station, WSSC, and the police and fire were listening.”

BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com

‘Forty-two of the 46 counties were federally declared disaster areas.’

ASSESSING THE DAMAGE The next morning, Granke found trees, most of them pine, toppled in his yard. One looked like the top had just been spun off, he said. The driveway was completely blocked, and he had a hole in his roof from one of the trees. Two landed crisscrossed on the pop-up camper in his yard. “It had not even been out on its maiden voyage yet,” Granke said. The camper proved useful, though, as 10 gallons of water were stored in it, and he ran an extension cord to it from the window to run disaster

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Relief workers prepare meals for anyone who needed a meal after the hurricane. no water and no lights.” sponders fed, Granke said. Granke agreed. “I had a freezer full of deer “Everybody was the same meat,” he said. “It had been a race, the same religion and very good season. I knew why had the same politics,” he afterward. I’d kept it closed. A said. “We were all from Sumweek into it, I checked, and ter.” there were still ice crystals in “You had the same misthe meat. I took it to The Salsion,” Cataldo said. vation Army, so they got to feast on soy-fed whitetail.” He even took advantage of a HUGO’S LEGACY downpour to get everybody Hurricane Hugo was a washed wake-up call to up. a number of di“You’ve saster preparedgot to reness agencies member, I that had behad eight come complapeople in cent, Geddings the said. ARNIE GRANKE, Disaster services house,” “We thought consultant with the Red Cross Granke it could not said. “I happen to us,” said, ‘Girls she said. in the back. Boys in the front. Now they know better and And don’t forget the soap.” regularly work with other orMany industries from outganizations to teach disaster side the state helped, Gedpreparedness. dings said, sending in items “When disaster hits, you such as beer cans filled with don’t know what to do, where water. For two weeks, power to go; you panic,” Granke said. companies from other states “People who are prepared came through South Carolina, panic less because they have a Cataldo said. plan.” “It was like watching synThey talk about how to prechronized swimming or somepare disaster kits, Geddings thing,” Granke said. “They’d said, such as having one galall go in and drop a new pole. lon of water per person for up Then they’d pull out the old. to three days and filling a They were in and out in an bathtub with water to flush hour. It was fascinating.” the toilet. Nowadays, Granke “Then a second team would added making sure you have come in and hook up all the car chargers for your cellwires,” Geddings said. “It was phones. a trying time, but we lived The Red Cross responds to a through it. A lot of good came disaster every 84 minutes in out of it. People came togethSouth Carolina, states the er. Disaster causes unity in a news release, and touches community. It didn’t matter if more than 200,000 lives every you had a $300,000 house or year. To strengthen the orgalived in a trailer. You still had nization’s capacity to respond

‘Girls in the back. Boys in the front. And don’t forget the soap.’

to major disasters, the Prepare SC goals include: • Increase the number of people trained in preparedness from 19,000 to 38,000; • Train 100,000 people in lifesaving first aid, CPR and AED skills; • Increase the number of volunteers recruited and trained for disaster response from 3,000 to 7,000; and • Increase community capacity to distribute and serve meals from 150,000 to 300,000 per day. To achieve these goals, the nonprofit is seeking financial support. You can help today and tomorrow by texting REDCROSS at 90999 to donate $10 or going online to RedCross.org/preparesc to donate an amount of your choice.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Twenty-five years ago, this paper map was the only way Sumter County then-Civil Defense Director Vic Jones, seen below at his desk, had of tracking the storm’s progress.

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‘Hugo changed a lot of things’ Former civil defense director tracked storm by hand, recalls lessons BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com As hurricane Hugo swept into South Carolina 25 years ago, then-Civil Defense Director Vic Jones tracked its progress with a pencil and paper. “It is just a rumpled-up piece of paper, and it got that way from being carried in my pocket,” Jones said. “Everybody wanted to know where the storm was, so I would pull it out and show ’em.” Jones said he recently found the chart while looking through his storage. “It was tracked by pencil,” he said. “You would get the coordinates and plot it. I had little notes written on the side of the possibilities after reading the forecasts.” A lot has changed in 25 years. “Today, we track through a computer program, and it does it all for you,” he said. “It will tell you the wind speeds and the tides and the rainfall amounts.” Jones said though he is now retired, he still tracks hurricanes. Jones said that Hugo provided a lot of lessons in emergency preparedness. “It was a surprise,” he said. “We knew it was coming, but we just didn’t expect to have that much effect here.” He said many people were evacuated from the coast and moved inland. “One of the things that stuck out in my mind was we had people in shelters who had so many needs, who didn’t have their medications and other issues,” Jones

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Jones still tracks hurricanes even though he is retired. said. “People didn’t realize what happened inland in South Carolina. The media was all looking at Charleston because we had in our minds that hurricanes are coastal storms.” He said a lot of injuries from the storm were actually away from the coast. “One of the statistics shows we had a higher percentage of injuries in Sumter County, where people were evacuated to,” he said. Jones said one problem was a lot of resources were rushed to the coast, while the people had been brought inland. “It was a learning time for all of us,” he said. “We had to change our thinking. We

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had to support the people inland where the people were evacuated to.” Jones said that as the storm approached, they had people in shelters and felt the situation was under control. “We were comfortable with what we were providing,” he said. Jones soon realized Hugo had other plans. “There was a point, I can’t remember the time, because it all ran together,” he said. “I stayed in my office in the courthouse for three weeks. I lived there, sleeping on a cot in my office. “Somebody called me and told me about a motel out on (U.S.) 76,” he recalled. “They

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said a covered driveway had just blown off. That is when we started getting the heavier winds, and things just started to mount up.” Jones said more than 2,700 homes in the county were destroyed. “The majority of them were mobile homes that were considered by the Red Cross and the damage assessment teams to be destroyed, but people were still living in them,” he said. “People were living in buildings covered in blue tarps because they were partially destroyed.” Meeting the needs of people in makeshift shelters proved to be difficult, he said. “A lot of people would go to these places with some food but we didn’t know it. We didn’t know where people were, Jones said. “At some point in time we would get wind of people who had needs, whether medical or other things, that were at a community building, but we didn’t know it existed as a shelter. It was a problem for us to try to meet the needs because right after the storm 80 percent of our roads were blocked with trees down and debris and power lines so we really couldn’t get to people.” Amazingly, phone service was still available, he said. “The lines were down, but until people drove over them and cut them, people could still call,” he said. “We were still getting messages about people who were trapped but we couldn’t get to them. “It was probably the most helpless feeling that I have ever had,” Jones said. “There was little we could do until we could get crews in there.” Another problem Jones recalls is distributing donated goods. “A few days after the

storm, we had truckloads of stuff from people in other states, but we didn’t know they were coming. People would come in and say, ‘Well, you have trucks lined up in the civic center parking lot; where do you want to unload them?’” He said that is another lesson learned. Today, people who want to send aid to hurricane victims are asked to coordinate with an agency so that somebody is prepared to receive it. “You (have to) have a place to put it and a place to store it so you can distribute it to the people who need it,” Jones said. “Hugo changed a lot of things,” Jones said. “Until Hugo, hurricanes just weren’t associated with inland damage. Inland counties suffered from Hugo because all the emphasis was put on the coast. People realize now that they are not just coastal events. “We learned an awful lot from Hugo,” he said.

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“It took about three weeks before everybody received power, which was a remarkable feat at the time,” Leaird said. “We literally worked 20 hours a There aren’t very many people who day, finding places to eat because resdon’t remember what they were taurants were out of power, too.” doing, where they were and the damWoodward said they often had to age caused by Hurricane Hugo when send someone to Columbia for food it hit the Sumter area in 1989. Black supplies as they worked for hours to River Electric Cooperative CEO Herb restore power to their customers. Leaird said he mainly recalls that Despite the turmoil all of Sumter many Sumter residents didn’t think was in, Leaird and Woodward said Hugo was coming their way. “What I remember most about Hugo they remember that the community supported each other and lent a hand is we thought it was going inland and in the disaster. While they were putup the Savannah River,” Leaird said. ting all of their energy into restoring “I believe Jim Gandy was the only power for customers, some of those weatherman to get it right, but we all customers visited their offices and ofwent home that night. No one was fered help. planning to stay at the office over“Some customers would come and night, and we woke up the next mornsay they would have this or that, or ing to find the damage.” they’d say we don’t have power but I Leaird said they didn’t have any can put some people up,” Leaird said. electricity, and he even recalled that Some of their customers offered a one of the employees walked seven place for out-of-staters to sleep. “The miles from his home to the Black community River Electric came together, offices after and I think the storm so there was virthey could get tually no started in recrime at that storing the time.” power to their During that own building, time, it also then addresswasn’t often ing the power they received a outages for hot meal, and their customRAYTEVIA EVANS / THE SUMTER ITEM Woodward said ers. Black River Electric Cooperative CEO Herb Leaird many custom“It was like ers came to a feeling of de- and public relations representative Sherri Woodward recently recalled spending 20-hour days at their office spair,” rethe company’s office to deal with the damage after with cookers called Sherri to provide for Woodward, Hurricane Hugo hit the Sumter area 25 years ago. them what member, govthey could. ernment and Woodward said right after that public relations representative. “We storm, Black River Electric Cooperarealized no one had power — about tive built a new warehouse as a com21,000 customers.” mand center to keep what was needed When they arrived at their offices, in place and ready to go for possible Leaird and Woodward said they didn’t future natural disasters that may afhave power and only had one phone fect the area. Through the years, line that was operating. Their first Leaird said communication has defitask was to get the portable generator nitely changed, but if it were to hapup and running, and they even suppen again, they could be in the same plied fuel to their competitor, CPL. situation — but they’re better preThe company also wasn’t receiving any power to provide to its customers, pared. “Now we have cellphones, radios, so they assembled themselves in the and communication has changed. It’s office and went through the procea human effort to mobilize and work dure of preparing to receive the long hours,” Leaird said. “We’re betpower once it was generated by Santer prepared and have better equiptee Electric. ment, and we’re more organized.” The employees of Black River ElecThe aftermath of Hugo also includtric Cooperative were without power ed dealing with the Federal Emergenfor about three days — a time in cy Management Agency, which Leaird which they worked diligently and and bookkeeper Betty Welsh recall as eventually brought in 500 people from a lot of tedious paperwork. Welsh also outside of Sumter and the state to remembers a lot of effort they put in help get things back in order. when they were audited in the early “The majority of our help was com’90s right after Hurricane Hugo. ing from out of state — from Missis“Cooperatives, nonprofits can all resippi, Maryland, Alabama, Pennsylvaceive FEMA assistance in that kind of nia and Tennessee,” Woodward said.

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About 21,000 Black River Electric Cooperative customers lost power during the storm. situation. People were without power, so we saw a loss in electric sales. We lost a half a month’s revenue,” Leaird said. “It was a task for us and took quite some time to get the paperwork together to apply for reimbursement. We were able to receive about 85 percent back.” The damage was severe, and Leaird said they were still working on cleanup on many of their customers’

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Former law enforcement recall ‘war zone’ BY MATT BRUCE matthew@theitem.com A low, ringing whir. The fury of gusts rumbling forth with the inevitability of a freight train. Winds snapping violently against window panes. Tree trunks splintering under the strain of Mother Nature’s grip. It’s a night that lives on in infamy for many in the state’s Midlands. And 25 years later, the hum of a strong wind still conjures up flashbacks for those who lived through it. Hurricane Hugo, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit U.S. soil, rolled into South Carolina off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean late during the night of Sept. 21, 1989. The Category 4 hurricane MATT BRUCE / THE SUMTER ITEM whisked through SumFormer Sumter County Sheriff Tommy Mims reflects on the night of Hurricane ter County durHugo recently while sitting in his office ing the course of the ensuing at the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, where he returned as a deputy in 2011. morning, leaving a widespread trail of devastation in its wake. “It was tough,” said Tommy Mims, recalling peak winds hovering above his house at one point during the storm. “It was just a loud, intense sound that lasted for several minutes, and then it was gone. Now whenever we have a windstorm, that’s what triggers the memories and the thoughts of what Hugo did.” Mims was eight months into his first term as Sumter County’s sheriff when Hugo swept through the area, on its way up to Charlotte. He said the sense in the Midlands in the late 1980s was that hurricanes hit the coastal region of South Carolina but did not travel as far inland as Sumter. Hugo literally blew that notion out of the water. “We learned that the weather is very unpredictable, and we’d never experienced a storm of that magnitude,” Mims said. “We found out that we were susceptible, and it caused us, from a public safety perspective, to be better prepared.” Hugo remains the worst natural disaster in South Carolina history. Sumter County was among the state’s most heavily hit portions. According to reports, the county endured more than $650 million in damage with nearly 5,500 homes torn apart. The storm injured 323 people here and rendered hundreds more homeless. Luckily, Sumter County was scene to just one of the state’s deaths during Hugo — a 13-month-old boy died when his family’s Mayesville mobile home flipped several times. Former city officials said they remember weather readings that tracked nearly 100 tornadoes on the ground in Sumter County at the height of the storm’s wrath. Hugo ravaged the area for several hours under the guise of dark-

ness, leveling thousands of trees, decimating roads and blasting through standing structures. Camden Police Chief Joe Floyd was a high-ranking officer in the Sumter Police Department then. He and then-Sumter Police Chief Joe Brunson were scheduled to be in Washington, D.C., the day of the storm. They canceled the trip to help get the city’s disaster response plan up and running on the slim chance that Hugo actually made its way all the way up to Sumter. The plan called for officials to gear up for the worst possible scenario by setting up a command post on the second floor of the Law Enforcement Center along Hampton Avenue and readying all emergency equipment for use. When the worst-case scenario became a reality, Floyd said emergency officials in Sumter were in position. Still, no one could be prepared for the devastation Hugo would bring. He was standing in the command center at the LEC when a large window at the front of the building shattered under the heavy winds, spraying shards of glass into the room. No one was seriously hurt in that incident. Floyd recalled being stunned at some of the radio dispatchings he heard coming into the command center from patrolling officers the night of the storm. Some reported winds ripping roofs off or obliterating homes right before their eyes. One deputy indicated the storm had lifted a house up and was carrying it across the roadway as he was driving. By the time the sun came up, much of the county was in ruins, and Floyd remembered nearly all of the windows in the downtown storefronts had been shattered. “It literally looked like a war zone,” he said. “Every direction you looked, you saw nothing but destruction. And it mentally affected people. …This probably was the greatest tragedy I’ve ever seen because it impacted so many people — and not just people that were physically injured. There are some people that are still, even today, emotionally injured by what they endured that night.” Thousands of residents lost power and water supply. Local government officials declared Sumter was in a state of emergency, handing the city’s reins over to rifle-toting National Guardsmen. And it took several weeks for residents to return to even the most basic levels of normalcy. Days after the storm passed, dozens of residents began bathing at a clear-water pond behind a shopping center in the Cane Savannah area. Local farmers opened up fields across the county allowing people to dump burnable debris from the storm. Young police officers even rode through decimated areas of the city playing music to help ease some of the heightened fears. “People just didn’t know what was going to happen next, and tensions ran high for a week or two,” said Harold Johnson, who served 11 years as Sumter police chief beginning in 1990. “Anybody who was here for the duration of all of it will never forget.

It was like having been in a war. Everything you had was torn up, and everybody that you knew had things that were torn up. We had military all over Sumter, and that’s not something you see a lot.” Johnson, then a captain on the police force, was in D.C. graduating from an 11week FBI training program the night Hugo touched down in South Carolina. He returned home the following day to help restore order in the city. Several disaster policies emerged from Hugo and its devastation. Residents endured small MATT BRUCE / THE SUMTER ITEM clusters of lootFormer Sumter Police Chief Harold Johnson ing, a dusk-tildawn curfew and was a captain on the force before Hugo hit. long lines for such necessities as water. In the end, many agree it helped bring a level of unison to the community. “We just realized we were in a desperate situation,” said Mims, who pinned on his first badge in 1965. “I’ve found in my experience in life and in law enforcement that when those conditions exist, people seem to come together. I think as a result of it, we came out stronger as a community and as a county because of that. Even though a lot of us would rather not have gone through it, but as a result of doing that, it made us a better people — a stronger people.”

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HURRICANE HUGO BY THE NUMBERS 7 Number of days it took Hugo to become a Category 5 hurricane

4 Category Hurricane Hugo was classified as when it struck the South Carolina coast

140 mph Wind speed reached during the storm

30 miles Diameter of Hurricane Hugo’s eye

18 to 20 feet Estimated storm surge

1 Death in the tri-county area

50 Total deaths across U.S. (21), Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (5) and Caribbean (24)

60,000 People in the state left homeless

270,000 People temporarily unemployed

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MAYOR FROM PAGE A3 cane Hugo, Shaw survived the cut. Creech called the damage suffered by the base a hidden “blessing” in retrospect, and Eberhart agreed, to a point. “In some ways you can say that,” he said, reservedly. “A lot of people lost cars and had financial hardship, so we aren’t making light of it at all. But if you look at the structures on the base, it allowed us to modernize Shaw in ways we had otherwise not been able to.” Eberhart also referenced the plight of Homestead Air Force Base in Homestead, Florida. After it was hit by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the damage it suffered ultimately closed it under BRAC. Now after 25 years, few physical scars remain in Sumter. Trees once blown clean of pine needles or leaves, if not altogether blown over, have grown back. Roofs and homes have been rebuilt or torn down to make room for new ones. The one impossibility is the idea of tearing out the memory of the sounds of that night, the sights seen the next morning or the stories heard from word of mouth that feel so personal the memories become your own. Creech, who heard stories from every corner of the city and county, remembers one distinctly. “The storm hit McClellanville, a shrimping town north of Charleston. This guy — it chokes me up just talking about it — is in his house, and the water is rising. He takes his two children upstairs and puts them up on a dresser. The water keeps coming. He takes his fist and breaks through the sheetrock to the ceiling and puts his two children in the attic and gets up there with them,” Creech, a father himself, said. “He takes a phone cord and ties it around them so they would find them all together. The water got up to the ceiling in the bedroom before it receded.”

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sticks from Myrtle Beach to Sumter. All you saw were broken-off pine trees.” Out at Shaw Air Force Base, damage was as severe as that of Sumter, with added challenges that a normal town would not face in similar circumstances. At the time, Shaw comprised the 363rd Fighter Wing and the 507th Tactical Air Control Wing. The wing commander of the 363rd during the storm was thenCol. Ed Eberhart, who now is a reEBERHART tired four-star general. As the storm came upstate, Eberhart’s concerns were threefold: securing the safety of the base’s inhabitants, its buildings and its multi-million-dollar aircraft. “As the storm was approaching, our biggest concern was to evacuate the aircraft, based on their value,” Eberhart said. “What we thought was first to be overcautious turned out to be the right thing.” The fighter jets stationed at the base were flown to bases out in the Midwest, which ensured their safety but left families stationed at the base without mothers and fathers. Eberhart stayed up through the night, receiving updates by phone from the command post while announcements were sent out by loudspeakers across the base. In the morning, much like his contemporaries a few miles away in Sumter, Eberhart was stunned by the destruction left behind, saying that “it was unbelievable; it was worse than I could have ever imagined. My first thought was where do you start?” He remembers a story of his counterpart at the 507th, Col. Tom Owens, whose wife woke up in the middle of the night of the storm and said she smelled pine. It would be ignored, but the massive pine tree sitting in the couple’s house the next morning could not be. Shaw lost power for about seven days, Eberhart remembers, and the base welcomed in the citizens of Sumter and held a massive barbecue to use up food that was spoiling fast. It was one of many bonding moments between the base and the city that came out of the storm. “We sent people downtown to help clean up, and downtown sent people to the base to help,” Eberhart said. “It showcased the special relationship that exists between Sumter and Shaw.” Organizers at Shaw soon started up generators in the gym of the base and welcomed in the community to come take a shower — albeit a cold one. The base didn’t rely on power to supply its water and consequently did not lose its lifeline in the way Sumter did. Just months after the hurricane, the entire base was deployed to spearhead the first Gulf War. After the war, the 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission was issued. In it, 28 military bases across the country were recommended for closure or relocation. Thanks in large part to the repairs and upgrades made to the base after Hurri-

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talkative four-year-old daughter out into the dark, swirling wilderness on the other side. Kind of like in The Wizard of Oz. By first light, it had settled down enough for me to go outside, where power lines and freshly cracked open trees littered the streets. There were wounded birds flailing around amid the debris, and the dominant sounds were chirping, wood cracking and live power lines humming. It smelled of sap and smoke. I made my way through the mess from Hampton Avenue back across the neighborhood, crossing Calhoun, Haynsworth and through the Patriot Hall complex over to Hasell Street, where my 81-year-old grandmother Toody lived alone. She had been a widow for two years. A back door into her kitchen was open, and a large tree branch was sticking through the ceiling, hanging a few feet above the stove. Water was still pouring through the hole, and

COMMENTARY she was wearing a pink bathrobe, a baseball cap and her late husband Hubert’s L.L. Bean Duck boots. She was mopping the floor at a furious pace, saying something about how she was fine and wasn’t going anywhere. I walked to The Sumter Item offices downtown, where the yellow McDonald’s sign from the Lafayette Boulevard eatery had blown through the front windows of our building. I was the managing editor at the time, and we began a news team logistical process that would repeat itself daily for the next several days. We’d gather news and photos throughout the day, then carpool over to The Times and Democrat newspaper offices in Orangeburg. There we typed in stories, processed film, put the paper together, printed it and hauled it back to Sumter for free distribution all over the region. It was a

great team effort on everyone’s part, from the reporters to the carriers. The first week or 10 days were such a blur that it’s impossible to remember the gory details of daily life. Some of our family members evacuated inland from the coast, so the day after Hugo on Hampton Avenue we added another 12-weekold baby boy, another 4-year-old girl, a 6-year-old girl, my sister-in-law and her mother, who was visiting from Boston. The women and children had taken over the house/ asylum at that point, leaving me free to work and gather supplies throughout the day and night, like a cave man. I got word that a fellow was coming to Lee County late one night with a trailer full of generators and somehow found him in a dark field near Wisacky. I bought three at highly inflated prices — one for my parents who were stranded in the country, one for my grandmother

and one for us. We fired up lamps and a refrigerator and even had enough juice left to hook up some lights for our neighbors, the late, great Paul and Mildred DuCom. A lot of outdoor neighborhood cooking went on, and we got to know people we had barely laid eyes on within a three-block radius. Natural tragedies define communities, and Sumter rallied in the wake of the Hurricane Hugo experience. Looking back this week at our coverage of the people, hard work and broad community efforts that went into dealing with such a disaster, many people can and should be proud of their efforts 25 years ago. Sumter rose to the occasion, and we can all still be thankful it wasn’t even worse. Graham Osteen is Editor-AtLarge of The Item. He can be reached at graham@theitem. com. Follow him on Twitter @GrahamOsteen, or visit www.grahamosteen.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OUR PRESIDENT IS GUILTY OF POLARIZING CONGRESS Where the heck are you getting your facts from, Mr. Lloyd Young (Friday’s Item)? During the eight years of the Bush administration, budget deficits totaled slightly less than $2.04 trillion. In just six years of the Obama administration, budget deficits have totaled more than $6.2 trillion through 2013, more than 3 times as much as Bush, with two more years to go. Bush never had a single year budget deficit as high as Obama’s best year. As for why Republicans won’t work with President Obama like they did with President Clinton, when Clinton came into office, Republicans controlled the House and Senate, so Clinton had to work with Republicans. On the other hand when President Obama

came into office, Democrats controlled the House and Senate, so President Obama did not see the need to work with Republicans and tried to shut them out. Remember the $800 billion stimulus bill that Republicans did not even get to see until the night before the vote, much less have any input into it? How about Obamacare, where Republicans were allowed no input, and it was passed without a single Republican vote? Now we have a House controlled by Republicans and President Obama tries to bypass them any way he can, including ruling by decree. There are many who are responsible for the polarizing of Congress, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, but President Obama is as guilty as anyone. ROBERT W. WILDER Sumter

Memories of USC students’ escapades bring some smiles

he University of South Carolina continues to build on its successes on the football field with the Gamecocks surviving a hard-fought game last Saturday against the University of Georgia Bulldogs in a narrow 38-35 win. While the gridsters continue to shed the “Chicken Curse” on the football and baseball fields, there are even more successes, not the least of which is the Darla Moore School of Business, which has been acclaimed as having the top international business program in the world, according to several publications. Moore, who made her fortune in the financial world and is a graduate of USC as well as a native of Lake City, has pumped some $70 million of her own money into making the school a world-class institution. Carolina indeed has come a long way through the years, but I can remember when it wasn’t regarded quite as seriously as an institution of higher learning as it is today. There were always more stories making the rounds about the escapades of USC football players in some of Columbia’s gin mills and night spots than there were about significant academic achievements. Growing up, I had several friends who attended USC, and

when I got together with them from time to time, they would talk more about the debauchery and revelry than their scholastic achievements. These old chums roomed together. One was a former star football player at Edmunds High (I’m not giving out any names here) who was quite large and nicknamed “Gorilla.” He was not the kind of person one should trifle with. His tolerance for pranks or jokes at his expense was quite low, and his propensity for violence was quite high. Hubert D. Knowing this, his Osteen Jr. roommates, during their idle moments, which were considerable, would invent schemes to irritate, bedevil or even enrage Gorilla. One such stunt was designed to make a particularly unpopular student the innocent victim of Gorilla’s wrath. They concocted a series of raids on Gorilla’s effects when he was out of the room they shared with him. The jokesters would tear up his bed, rip out his clothes from his dresser and closet and scatter his books around the room, mak-

COMMENTARY ing a big mess. Then they would attach a note to the disarray that read, “The Phantom was here.” This went on for several weeks. Gorilla would return to the room and find his clothes, books and bedsheets scattered everywhere. And there would always be the note from “The Phantom.” Gorilla’s rage mounted with each incident until he was literally foaming at the mouth in anticipation of the pain he was prepared to inflict on the culprit if he ever found out who he was. Finally one day the conspirators revealed to Gorilla they had discovered who “The Phantom” was and fingered the unpopular student who roomed up the hall of the dormitory. Gorilla took immediate action when the unfortunate student returned to the dormitory and ran toward his room after Gorilla spotted him and gave chase. The terrified student made it to his room and locked the door behind him. That didn’t work. Gorilla tore down the door on the hapless student and proceeded to administer a severe beating on the fall guy’s writhing, defenseless body in spite of his pleas of innocence. “It was terrible what went on in that

room,” one of the co-conspirators revealed to me. “There were awful noises, like a wild animal had been released from his cage.” Fortunately, after a few days in the infirmary the luckless student was as good as new, although he did transfer to another dormitory. Carolina survived such escapades, and presumably, more serious students showed up in the dorms as well as the fraternity houses. My youngest son attended USC and joined a fraternity. According to reliable sources, the fraternity was not a paragon of academic excellence. There were rumors that its members were throwbacks to my yesteryear chums, many of whom resided in an animal house and engaged in a substantial number of trivial pursuits, among which was the consumption of adult beverages. I do know for a fact the younger son graduated from USC, so his extracurricular activities couldn’t have been too harmful, right? One of the charms of the old USC is the previously mentioned folklore. Such memories will continue to bring smiles to lots of faces. Reach Hubert D. Osteen Jr. at hubert@ theitem.com.

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IN THE MOUNTAINS

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Tidy up loose EUGENIA LAST ends and prepare for the upcoming week. It’s important to put the emphasis on your work and getting ahead. Whether checking out new job prospects or updating your resume, raising your standard of living should be your intent. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t start something you can’t finish or promise what you can’t deliver. Focus on self-improvement, changing your routine and being more health-conscious. Romance will improve your state of mind and give your personal life a boost. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do your best to please. Go above and beyond the call of duty to make your surroundings comfortable and those you encounter feel at ease. Avoid confrontations and emotional blackmail by sticking to the truth. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The more you do for yourself and the less you rely on others, the easier it will be to avoid opposition and interference. Accept the inevitable changes that come your way and focus on getting the most out of each moment. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Embrace change, adventure and whatever will bring you closer to your goals. Don’t let someone else’s uncertainty daunt you. Use what you know to your advantage and you’ll enjoy the comfort of gaining ground and securing your position. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Withhold personal information until you feel you can share without being subject to ridicule. Not everyone will understand or approve of your tactics. Avoid an argument by refusing to disagree. Focus on you, not on what others are doing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Venture into unknown territory. Try your hand at something new. Get to know individuals who have something unique to offer. Showing support or giving handson assistance will help you gain allies. Share your personal opinion with someone who needs encouragement.

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Aiken 89/64

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Make personal changes to the way you live. Explore new ways to give support to someone going through a difficult time. Put love first, but don’t feel you have to spend money to win favors. Moderation and discipline will bring good results. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Tread carefully when dealing with partners, family or anyone who can turn your life upside-down emotionally. You can accomplish a lot and stay out of trouble if you make home improvements that will add to your comfort and convenience. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Say little, do a lot. Criticizing won’t get you far, but encouragement will help you round up the support and help you need to accomplish your goals. Think twice before spending. Invest in you, not someone else. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Curb spending habits. Set a budget, look over personal papers and make sure you’re on track. An opportunity to take part in an activity that will bring you clout looks promising. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Emotional troubles will disrupt your plans and stifle your creative imagination. Don’t get angry when you should be focusing on getting things done. Getting along with others will make it much easier to be productive. Be honest with yourself and others.

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79 Electric-power systems 81 Ale barrel 82 Strong drain cleaner 85 Spooky 87 __ culpa 88 Mai __ cocktail 90 Proof-of-purchase for ointments? 95 Italian turnover 97 Sang with a partner 98 __ matter of fact 99 2013 milestone for Twitter 100 Old Testament shepherd 102 Out of whack 105 Lanes between mountains? 111 High-rises 115 Like __ from the blue 116 Word on Irish euros 117 Concocted 120 Boneless cut 121 Actress

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CLEMSON FOOTBALL

Tigers up 10-3 at half on Winston-less FSU FROM STAFF REPORTS TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Clemson’s football team didn’t have to worry about Florida State quarterback and Heisman Tropyy winner Jameis Winston rallying for a comeback win on Saturday. Instead, the Tigers and the world got the news late Friday night that the sophomore highlight reel

would sit out the entire game after he was initially suspended for a half. No. 22 Clemson led top-ranked and defending national champion Florida State 10-3 at halftime. Sean Maguire, a redshirt sophomore, made his first career start under center and had a slow start as Winston served a 1-game sus-

pension for shouting obscene phrases about women while standing on a table in the school’s student union last week. Maguire was 6 of 17 passing for 106 yards in the first half. Clemson had a chance to take an early lead on its second possession, which started

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Clemson quarterback Cole Stoudt throws a pass in the first half of Saturday’s game SEE TIGERS, PAGE B3 against Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla. Clemson led 10-3 at halftime.

USC FOOTBALL

Another Vandy survival?

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South Carolina safety Brison Williams (12) runs back an interception against Vanderbilt 53 yards for a touchdown during the second quarter of Saturday’s game in Nashville, Tenn.

Gamecocks rally from 14 down, lead Commodores late in key SEC matchup FROM STAFF REPORTS NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt may have been blasted by Temple and Mississippi and needed a late rally to beat Massachusetts, but none of that mattered to the University of South Carolina on Saturday. Fourteenth-ranked USC had

a very difficult time with the Commodores. The Gamecocks fell into a 14-0 hole before scoring 24 straight points and was leading Vandy 41-27 with less than five minutes left in the game. Carolina was trying to improve to 3-1 on the season with a third straight victory. More importantly, a win

would up its Southeastern Conference record to 2-1, good for first place in the early going of the Eastern Division race. South Carolina couldn’t have got off to a worse start. Vanderbilt’s Darrius Sims gathered in the opening kickoff at the Commodores’ 9-yard line and went up the middle

of the USC kickoff team for a 91-yard touchdown. Tommy Openshaw added the extra point to make it 7-0 11 seconds into the contest. Vandy pushed the lead to 14-0 on its second offensive possession. Quarterback Patton Robinette connected with wide receiver C.J. Duncan for an 8-yard TD pass with 54 sec-

onds left in the first quarter. Robinette had to leave the game though after suffering a head injury on the play before the TD pass. USC finally got on the board early in the second quarter when placekicker Elliott Fry booted a 45-yard field goal to

SEE USC, PAGE B3

KEEPING UP

COMMENTARY

Cockerill sees first action with Clemson

Hugo’s wrath felt across area’s sports landscape

illiam Cockerill recently played in his first game for the Clemson University football team. The redshirt sophomore walkon was in for 12 plays during the team’s 73-7 rout of South Carolina State University on COCKERILL Sept. 6. Originally a tight end out of Sumter High School, Cockerill is playing left tackle for the offense. He played during the fourth quarter of the blowout. The Tigers called mostly inside running plays, he said. “I did fairly decent,” Cockerill said, adding that the Bulldogs did not get past him to hit the

quarterback from the blind side. “I didn’t really think about it (the new position). I thought about doing my job.” During winBarbara ter drills, CockBoxleitner erill said, head coach Dabo Swinney suggested the position switch. “He said that would benefit the team,” said Cockerill, who did not appear in a game last year. Cockerill is listed on the roster as 6-foot-6-inches and 250 pounds, but said he is 260, 20 more than when he was asked to change his position. The coaches want him to play at 275

pounds. During the past bye week he practiced on the scout team. He and others were running the Florida State University offense to help prepare the Clemson defense for Saturday’s Atlantic Coast Conference showdown against FSU. The Seminoles are the defending national champions and ranked No. 1 in the country. Clemson went into the game at No. 22. Cockerill said he wasn’t traveling to the away game.

MORE FOOTBALL In the loss to Clemson, defensive back Mariel Cooper led S.C. State with nine tackles. The redshirt junior is a former

SEE COCKERILL, PAGE B5

hen Sumter High School moved its football game against Fairfield Central scheduled for Friday, Sept. 22, 1989, to Thursday, Sept. 21, it did so with the idea it would beat the heavy, drenching rain that was to come to shore out of the Atlantic Ocean with Hurricane Hugo. What it did was beat devastation that no one in Sumter, Clarendon and Lee counties had ever seen before and haven’t seen since. And while the local sports

scene was secondary to the problems residents were Dennis facing, Brunson it was certainly affected by Hugo’s powerful punch. Hugo was supposed to blast the coast as it came to shore close to Charleston but, as hurricanes

SEE BRUNSON, PAGE B4

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

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SEC ROUNDUP

TOP 25 / STATE ROUNDUP

Cook, Spartans roll past Eastern Michigan 73-14

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Alabama quarterback Blake Sims, left, scrambles for yardage around Florida defensive lineman Joey Ivie (91) during the Crimson Tide’s 42-21 victory on Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Sims, Tide tame Gators Hoosiers upset No. 18 Missouri 31-27 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Blake Sims recorded Alabama’s second-best passing day with 445 yards and the third-ranked Crimson Tide overcame a sloppy performance to beat Florida 42-21 on Saturday. The Tide (4-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) committed four turnovers that turned into 21 points for the Gators (2-1, 1-1), who still couldn’t handle the Sims-to-Amari Cooper connection. Sims threw touchdown passes of 87 yards to Kenyan Drake on the opening play and 79 to Cooper later in the first quarter. Cooper, who came in leading the nation in recep-

tions, caught 10 passes for 201 yards and three touchdowns. Florida’s Jeff Driskel was harassed and ineffective passing. He was 9-of28 passing for 93 yards and was intercepted twice while the offense produced just 200 yards.

INDIANA 31 (18) MISSOURI 27 COLUMBIA, Mo. — D’Angelo Roberts scored on a 3-yard touchdown run with 22 seconds remaining and Nate Sudfeld passed for 252 yards and a touchdown to help Indiana upset No. 18 Missouri 31-27. After giving up 10 consecutive points to Missouri in the fourth quarter, the Hoosiers (2-1) trav-

eled 75 yards on six plays to reclaim the lead. Tevin Coleman ran 44 yards to the Missouri 15-yard line to setup the game-winning score. Coleman finished with 132 yards on 19 carries. Maty Mauk completed 28 of 47 passes for 326 yards and two touchdowns and Russell Hansbrough gained 119 yards on the ground for Missouri (3-1).

(6) TEXAS A&M 58 SMU 6 DALLAS — Kenny Hill had 322 yards of total offense playing only the first half, Jeremy Tabuyo turned two short passes into touchdowns and sixth-ranked Texas A&M rolled to a 58-6 victory at

SMU. Hill completed 16 of 22 passes for 265 yards with two touchdowns and his first interception at Texas A&M. His 58-yard run set up another touchdown as the Aggies built a 38-3 halftime lead in SMU’s home opener.

(13) GEORGIA 66 TROY 0 ATHENS, Ga. — Sony Michel ran for 155 yards and three touchdowns to highlight a big day for freshmen in No. 13 Georgia’s 66-0 win over Troy on Saturday. Michel, playing behind Todd Gurley, had a 75yard gain to set up his second touchdown. From wire reports

ACC ROUNDUP

Late FG keeps Yellow Jackets unbeaten BLACKSBURG, Va. — Harrison Butker kicked a 24-yard field goal with no time remaining and Georgia Tech rallied from an early deficit and remained unbeaten with a 27-24 victory against Virginia Tech. The Yellow Jackets (4-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) trailed 16-10 at halftime and 24-17 entering the fourth quarter, but returned one of Hokies’ quarterback Michael Brewer’s three interceptions for a touchdown and turned his last one into the drive to Butker’s decisive second field goal of the game. They also got a huge day from their own quarterback, Justin Thomas. He ran 22 times for 165 yards, and completed just 7 of 18 passes, but for 125 yards and the tying touchdown with 2:03 left.

NORTH CAROLINA 41 GREENVILLE, N.C. — Shane Carden threw for 438 yards and four touchdowns to help East Carolina beat North Carolina 70-41 on Saturday, turning in another dominating performance against its instate rival. Trevon Brown had two touchdown catches for the Pirates (3-1). East Carolina took control with three second-quarter touchdowns, then got Zeek Bigger’s 46-yard interception return immediately after the break.

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Georgia Tech cornerback D.J. White (28) intercepts a pass intended for Virginia Tech tight end Bucky Hodges (7) during the Yellow Jackets’ 27-24 victory on Saturday in Blacksburg, Va. ran for 88 yards and two touchdowns, including a 1-yard plunge with 6:56 remaining as Iowa rallied for a 24-20 win over Pittsburgh. C.J. Beathard hit Damond Powell for a 62-yard gain to jumpstart the comeback and Weisman followed with a 10-yard sprint into the end zone for his first score. His second score gave the Hawkeyes (3-1) their first lead.

DUKE 47 TULANE 13 DURHAM, N.C. — Bryon Fields and fourth-string running back Joseph Ajeigbe each returned interceptions for touchdowns in Duke’s 47-13 rout of Tulane. Anthony Boone, Josh Snead, Thomas Sirk and Shaun Wilson each had short scoring runs .

IOWA 24

MARYLAND 34

PITTSBURGH 20

SYRACUSE 20

PITTSBURGH — Mark Weisman

BOWLING GREEN 17 MADISON, Wis. — Melvin Gordon rushed for career highs of 253 yards and five touchdowns, and No. 19 Wisconsin ran for a Big Ten-record 644 yards to trample Bowling Green for a 68-17 victory. Gordon had 179 yards and four scores by halftime alone before dashing for a 69-yard touchdown on his first carry of the second half. He silenced any doubters worried about his 38-yard outing the previous game. The Badgers (2-1) forced two turnovers on back-to-back possessions by the Falcons (2-2) in the first half to break open a close game.

FLORIDA A&M 3

VIRGINIA 33

EAST CAROLINA 70

(19) WISCONSIN 68

COASTAL CAROLINA 48

(21) BYU 41

PROVO, Utah — Taysom Hill threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another to lead No. 21 Brigham Young to a 41-33 comeback win over Virginia. The Cougars (4-0) trailed 16-13 at the half and lagged behind the Cavaliers in almost every statistical category but turned the game around with two third-quarter touchdowns. Adam Hine sealed the victory for BYU with a 99-yard kickoff return midway through the final quarter.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Connor Cook threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score as No. 11 Michigan State scored the third-most points in program history, smashing Eastern Michigan 73-14 on Saturday. The Spartans (2-1) came up three points short of matching the school record set in 1989 against Northwestern and found the end zone on their first five possessions. Michigan State scored 75 points against Arizona in 1949. Eastern Michigan (1-3) was outgained 320-1 in the first half and surrendered the game’s first 20 first downs. The Eagles have been outscored 155-17 by Florida, Old Dominion and the Spartans. Michigan State finished with 336 yards rushing, 496 in total offense and held the Eagles to five first downs. Cook wound up 5 for 6 for 83 yards, accounting for all his touchdowns in the first quarter. Delton Williams led 10 Spartan ball carriers with 103 yards and three TDs on 10 carries. Cook opened the scoring with a 4-yard run on a read option, following a 43yard punt return by Macgarrett Kings. Jeremy Langford made it 14-0 less than four minutes later with a 21-yard sweep of left end, juking the only Eagles tackler in sight. The defense joined the fun on the following snap, as Kurtis Drummond recovered a botched handoff at the EMU 23. Cook immediately found a wide-open Tony Lippett in the back of the end zone to go up by 21. Cook hit Lippett again for an 8-yard score, rolling right and throwing back toward the middle of the end zone. It was the Spartans’ fourth TD in 20 snaps, and they finished the quarter with a 213-7 edge in total offense.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — C.J. Brown

threw for 280 yards and two touchdowns, cornerback William Lively returned an interception 88 yards for another score, and Maryland beat mistake-prone Syracuse 34-20.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Alex Ross threw one touchdown pass and ran for another and Coastal Carolina routed Florida A&M 48-3. Ross threw a 25-yard touchdown strike to John Israel, and ran 13-yards for a score. De’Angelo Henderson had touchdown runs of 13 and 2 yards, and Alex Catron added field goals of 39 and 51 yards for Coastal Carolina (4-0), which has scored 30 or more points in each game. Two Florida A&M turnovers led to Coastal Carolina scores. Calvin Hollenhorst returned a fumble 4 yards for a touchdown. The Chanticleers recovered a blocked punt, and Osharmar Abercrombie ran for a 14-yard touchdown on the ensuing play, stretching the lead to 28-3. Chase Varnadore kicked a 42-yard field goal for Florida A&M (0-3) early in the first quarter. It was the first meeting between the schools. From wire reports

BOSTON COLLEGE 40 MAINE 10 BOSTON — Boston College quarterback Tyler Murphy ran for a pair of touchdowns and threw for another, Jon Hilliman had two touchdown runs and the Eagles beat Maine 4010.

WAKE FOREST 24 ARMY 21 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — John Wolford threw for 238 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score midway through the fourth quarter, and Wake Forest rallied to beat Army 24-21. From wire reports

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Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook (18) and receiver Tony Lippett (14) celebrate Lippett’s touchdown reception against Eastern Michigan during Saturday’s 73-14 victory in East Lansing, Mich.

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TIGERS FROM PAGE B1 at its 41-yard line. Starting quarterback Cole Stoudt drove the Tigers down the field, however, Ammon Lakip missed a 23-yard field goal attempt. The Tigers didn’t get on the board until freshman quarterback Deshaun Waton got on the field. Watson made his appearance with less than four minutes to go in the first quarter and showed some early poise. After two Clemson penalties, he converted a third down and 14 yards to go with a long pass set Clemson up in FSU territory. Four plays later, Lakip tied the game with a 30-yard field goal at the 14:52 of the second quarter. The Tigers defense took advantage of the Winston-less Seminoles, limiting them to minus 22 rushing yards on 11 carries. Meanwhile, Clemson managed 77 yards rushing on 21 attempts. On the Seminoles’ third offensive possession Maguire led FSU inside the Tigers’ 40-yard line and Roberto Aguayo connected on a 50-yard field goal attempt at 7:40 of the first quarter to give FSU a 3-0 lead. Aguayo set an FBS record for points by a kicker last year with 157. Clemson took a 10-3 lead a thanks to a 6-play, 47-yard drive capped by a D.J. Howard 1-yard touchdown run at the 5:56 mark of the second quarter. A 12-yard Watson pass to tight end Jordan Leggett set up a first and goal for the Tigers. For the past five seasons the winner of the Clemson-FSU game went on to win the Atlantic Coast Conference.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCORES STATE Saturday (1) Florida State vs. (22) Clemson (late) (14) South Carolina at Vanderbilt (late) North Carolina State 42, Presbyterian 0 South Carolina State 17, Furman 7 Charleston Southern 20, Citadel 18 Gardner-Webb 43, Wofford 36 Coastal Carolina 48, Florida A&M 3 Catawba 37, Newberry 34 North Greenville at Tusculum (late) Benedict 20, Elizabeth City State 19 Limestone 45, College of Faith 0 ACC Saturday (21) BYU 41, Virginia 33 (24) Nebraska vs. Miami (late) Georgia Tech 27, Virginia Tech 24 Iowa 24, Pittsburgh 20 Maryland 34, Syracuse 20 Duke 47, Tulane 13 Boston College 40, Maine 10 Wake Forest 24, Army 21 East Carolina 70, North Carolina 41 Louisville 34, Florida International 3 SEC Thursday (5) Auburn 20, (20) Kansas State 14 Saturday (3) Alabama 42, Florida 21 (6) Texas A&M 58, SMU 6 (8) LSU vs. Mississippi State (late) (13) Georgia 66, Troy 0 Indiana 31, (18) Missouri 27 Northern Illinois at Arkansas (late) TOP 25 Saturday (2) Oregon at Washington State (late) (4) Oklahoma at West Virginia (late) (11) Michigan State 73, E. Michigan 14 (19) Wisconsin 68, Bowling Green 17

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

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Kevin Harvick would love to get his third victory of the season today in Loudon, N.H., but it’s not as critical as finishing near the top in every race, he said.

Harvick dismisses wins as key LOUDON, N.H. — Yes, even Dick Vitale has endorsed NASCAR’s new tournament-style bracket to crown a champion. Just win and advance, baby! Time for a T.O. Sure, winning races earn a driver an automatic berth into the next round, decided after every three races, before the final four drivers are left to duke it out for the Sprint Cup championship in the finale at Homestead. But piling up points can get a driver to Homestead even without a win. Kevin Harvick would love to add at least a third win to a solid season for him at Stewart-Haas Racing. Harvick, though, would trade wins for his first career Cup championship as long as he’s consistent enough over the first nine Chase for the Sprint Cup championship races to be in the mix at the end. “All you’ve got to do is be the first car out of the four cars to finish the race at Homestead,” Harvick said. “You don’t necessarily even have to win a race to win the championship.” Harvick has been in the hunt to win plenty of races this season. His six poles this year matched his total for his entire career entering this season and he’s second behind only Brad Keselowski with 1,265 laps led. He was wins at Darlington and Phoenix and was fifth in the Chase opener last week at Chicagoland. In a championship showdown that many believe will boil down to Team Penske vs. Hendrick Motorsports, Harvick could be a spoiler to watch. He doesn’t plan to gamble down the stretch to win a championship. “I think the whole winning thing is really overrated,” he said. “Obviously you want to win. You want to win every week and you show up to try to win, but you can’t take any unnecessary chances and that is kind of the box that the point system puts you in.” Like his July race at New Hampshire, for example. With two early wins, Harvick was already locked into the Chase, and could afford to take a win-or-bust mentality the rest of the season. When the race needed a green-white-checkered finish, Harvick lined up second on the final restart. He ran out of fuel as the field took the green flag and coasted to finish 30th.

SYLVANIA 300 LINEUP The Associated Press After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At New Hampshire Motor Speedway Loudon, N.H. Lap length: 1.058 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 140.598 mph. 2. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 140.437. 3. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 140.065. 4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 139.757. 5. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 139.721. 6. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 139.419. 7. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 139.241. 8. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 139.017. 9. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 138.946. 10. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 138.881. 11. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevy, 138.865. 12. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 138.759. 13. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 138.946. 14. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 138.946. 15. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 138.941. 16. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 138.855. 17. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 138.825. 18. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 138.779. 19. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 138.577. 20. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 138.527. 21. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 138.512. 22. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 138.492. 23. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 138.472. 24. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 138.291. 25. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 138.21. 26. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 138.185. 27. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 138.09. 28. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 137.621. 29. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 137.581. 30. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 136.992. 31. (26) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 136.722. 32. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 136.697. 33. (93) Clay Rogers, Toyota, 136.56. 34. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 136.184. 35. (23) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 136.077. 36. (33) David Stremme, Chevrolet, 136.038. 37. (36) Reed Sorenson, Chevy, owner points. 38. (7) Michael Annett, Chevy, owner points. 39. (98) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, owner points. 40. (83) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, owner points. 41. (77) Corey LaJoie, Ford, owner points. 42. (66) Mike Wallace, Toyota, owner points. 43. (32) Timmy Hill, Ford, owner points.

Not this time around. “The short-term risk versus reward is not there this time of year,” Harvick said. “No matter what they tell you about the new system, it’s not all about winning.” Stewart-Haas Racing gave Harvick the crew from Tony Stewart’s 2011 championship in a move to strengthen Harvick’s title chances in his first year with the team. Harvick had been critical of the No. 4 team’s pit stops this season and said it had to be addressed for him to have a shot in the Chase. He was pleased with the crew at Chicagoland. “We had a lot of situations where we came in leading and went out leading,” he said. “That’s really what you’re looking for.”

ON TO THE NEXT ROUND Brad Keselowski has a spot in the

USC FROM PAGE B1

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South Carolina running back Mike Davis (28) carries the ball against Vanderbilt during the second quarter of Saturday’s game in Nashville, Tenn.

make it 14-3 with 12:17 left in the first half. Carolina missed on a chance for a possible touchdown when tight end Rory Anderson couldn’t get his feet down after catching a pass near the Vandy 1-yard line. The Gamecocks reached the end zone on their next possession, driving 79 yards on seven plays in 3:08. The drive ended with quarterback Dylan Thompson tossing a 29-yard TD pass to wide receiver Damiere Byrd with 5:58 left in the first half. It looked as though USC would go into the locker room trailing when it had a drive stall with less than two minutes remaining. However, safety Brison Williams changed that when he stepped in front of a Commodores receiver to intercept a Wade Freebeck pass and return it 53 yards for a touchdown with 23 seconds left to

next round of the Chase. So will Sunday’s winner (provided there’s a driver out there who can dethrone NASCAR’s hottest driver). But not all is lost for some of the other Chase drivers. If a Chase driver other than Keselowski wins, any driver with at least a 45-point lead on the 10th-highest winless Chase driver would advance to the next round. If a non-Chase driver or Keselowski wins, a driver can clinch with a 45-point lead over the 11thhighest winless driver. Got it?

REMEMBER ME? Every now and then, Jimmie Johnson goes through his version of a slump, which would usually be considered a hot streak for mere mortal drivers. The six-time champion hasn’t won since June 15 at Michigan and was 12th in the Chase opener at Chicagoland. Johnson even admits the No. 48 Chevrolet has been “lukewarm” in the later part of the season and his Hendrick Motorsports team has been “working our guts out” to find more speed and become a dominant car. “It’s not the best mood,” Johnson said. “We hold ourselves to a higher standard and expect to operate at a higher level.” While he’s sixth in the points race, and Keselowski has cemented himself as the driver to beat, Johnson is headed into comfortable territory before the Chase cutoff. He finished 42nd at New Hampshire in the first race because of tire woes, but does have three wins at the track. He starts sixth. Up next, a stop at Dover, his favorite track. Johnson led 272 of 400 laps in June and won his track-record ninth Dover race.

GO-GO GORDON Jeff Gordon is driving like a championship contender, and talking like one, too. Gordon, a three-time winner this season, is coming off consecutive runner-up finishes. Of course, both times he placed second to Keselowski. But Gordon hasn’t been shy in expressing his belief the No. 24 Chevrolet has what it takes to win a fifth championship — and first in the Chase era. While some drivers complained about bad cars, big slumps, or chasing Bad Brad, Gordon basically said, just bring it.

make it 17-14 at halftime. The Gamecocks received the second-half kickoff and continued the momentum. It drove 75 yards in 11 plays for a touchdown, taking 5:01 off the clock in the process. After Thompson completed a pass to Pharoh Cooper for 16 yards and a first down at the Vanderbilt 29 on third down and 15. Cooper fumbled on the play, but after a long review, it was ruled the football still belonged to USC. On the next play, Thompson hooked up with wide receiver Shaq Roland for the

touchdown. Fry’s extra point made it 24-14 with 9:59 left. The momentum was immediately lost as Darrius Sims took the ensuing kickoff back 100 yards for a touchdown to make it 24-21. USC got a 43-yard field goal from Fry to make it 27-21 with 6:42 to go in the third quarter. The Commodores drove to the USC 2 on its ensuing drive and having to settle for a field goal to make it 27-24. The Gamecocks responded with a 61-yard scoring, Thompson throwing his third TD pass, a 7-yarder to wide receiver Nick Jones.

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5:30 a.m. – Professional Golf: Asian Tour Selangor Masters Final Round from Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (GOLF). 7:30 a.m. – Formula One Racing: Singapore Grand Prix from Singapore (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 8 a.m. -- Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Wales Open Final Round from Newport, Wales (GOLF). 8:30 a.m. -- International Soccer: Barclays Premier League Match -- Leicester City vs. Manchester United (CNBC). 10:55 a.m. -- International Soccer: Barclays Premier League Match -- Manchester City vs. Chelsea (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). Noon -- College Soccer: Notre Dame at Virginia (ESPNU). 1 p.m. -- NFL Football: Oakland at New England (WLTX 19). 1 p.m. -- NFL Football: Washington at Philadelphia (WACH 57). 1 p.m. -- CFL Football: Calgary at Montreal (ESPN2). 1 p.m. -- Women’s College Soccer: South Carolina at Auburn (SEC NETWORK). 1:30 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: New York Mets at Atlanta (FOX SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7). 1:30 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay (WGN). 2 p.m. -- International Track and Field: IAAF Diamond League from Brussels (WIS 10). 2 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series SYLVANIA 300 from Loudon, N.H. (ESPN, WEGX-FM 92.9). 2 p.m. -- Professional Golf: Web.com Tour Championship Final Round from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (GOLF). 2 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Detroit at Kansas City (TBS). 3 p.m. -- Women’s College Soccer: Vanderbilt at Georgia (SEC NETWORK). 4:25 p.m. -- NFL Football: Denver at Seattle (WLTX 19). 5 p.m. -- LPGA Golf: LPGA Classic Final Round from Prattville, Ala. (GOLF). 8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Cincinnati at St. Louis (ESPN). 8 p.m. – Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour Pacific Links Hawaii Championship Final Round from Oahu, Hawaii (GOLF). 8:20 p.m. -- NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Carolina (WIS 10, WWFN-FM 100.1, WPUB-FM 102.7).

MONDAY

6:05 p.m. -- Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXYFM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240. 7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Kansas City at Cleveland or Pittsburgh at Atlanta (MLB NETWORK). 7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Pittsburgh at Atlanta (SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7). 8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: St. Louis at Chicago Cubs (WGN). 8:15 p.m. -- NFL Football: Chicago at New York Jets (ESPN, WNKT-FM 107.5). 10 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: San Francisco at Los Angeles Dodgers or Colorado at San Diego (MLB NETWORK).

MLB STANDINGS By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION x-Baltimore New York Toronto Tampa Bay Boston CENTRAL DIVISION Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota WEST DIVISION

W 92 79 77 74 67 W 86 83 79 70 66

L 61 74 76 80 87 L 68 70 74 83 87

Pct .601 .516 .503 .481 .435 Pct .558 .542 .516 .458 .431

GB – 13 15 18 1/2 25 1/2 GB – 2 1/2 6 1/2 15 1/2 19 1/2

L 59 69 70 87 92

Pct .617 .549 .542 .435 .399

GB – 10 1/2 11 1/2 28 33 1/2

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Boston 5, Baltimore 3, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Tampa Bay 3 Minnesota 5, Cleveland 4, 10 innings Detroit 10, Kansas City 1 Seattle 10, Houston 5 Oakland 3, Philadelphia 1 Texas 12, L.A. Angels 3

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Detroit 3, Kansas City 2 Philadelphia at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Cleveland at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m. Seattle at Houston, 7:10 p.m. Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Toronto (Hutchison 10-12) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 12-4), 1:05 p.m. Boston (J.Kelly 2-2) at Baltimore (M.Gonzalez 9-8), 1:35 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 9-11) at Tampa Bay (Karns 1-0), 1:40 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 16-9) at Minnesota (Swarzak 3-1), 2:10 p.m. Detroit (Porcello 15-11) at Kansas City (Guthrie 11-11), 2:10 p.m. Seattle (Iwakuma 14-8) at Houston (McHugh 10-9), 2:10 p.m. Texas (Tepesch 5-10) at L.A. Angels (Cor. Rasmus 3-1), 3:35 p.m. Philadelphia (A.Burnett 8-17) at Oakland (Kazmir 14-9), 4:05 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Cleveland 4, Kansas City 2, 10 innings, comp. of susp. game, 6:05 p.m. Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Seattle at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 7:08 p.m. Houston at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Arizona at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION x-Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia CENTRAL DIVISION

83 79 71 69

70 75 83 86

.542 .513 .461 .445

2 1/2 7 15 17 1/2

W L z-Los Angeles 88 67 San Francisco 84 69 San Diego 72 81 Colorado 63 91 Arizona 62 92 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division

Pct .568 .549 .471 .409 .403

GB – 3 15 24 1/2 25 1/2

FRIDAY’S GAMES

L.A. Dodgers 14, Chicago Cubs 5 Pittsburgh 4, Milwaukee 2 Washington 3, Miami 2 N.Y. Mets 5, Atlanta 0 Colorado 15, Arizona 3 St. Louis 2, Cincinnati 1 Oakland 3, Philadelphia 1 San Diego 5, San Francisco 0

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Chicago Cubs 8, L.A. Dodgers 7 Philadelphia at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Arizona at Colorado, 4:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Washington at Miami, 7:10 p.m. Cincinnati at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Washington (Strasburg 12-11) at Miami (Eovaldi 6-12), 1:10 p.m. Milwaukee (W.Peralta 16-10) at Pittsburgh (Worley 7-4), 1:35 p.m. N.Y. Mets (deGrom 8-6) at Atlanta (E.Santana 14-9), 1:35 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Haren 13-11) at Chicago Cubs (Ja.Turner 5-10), 2:20 p.m. Philadelphia (A.Burnett 8-17) at Oakland (Kazmir 14-9), 4:05 p.m. Arizona (Miley 8-11) at Colorado (Bergman 2-4), 4:10 p.m. San Francisco (Vogelsong 8-11) at San Diego (Kennedy 11-13), 4:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Simon 14-10) at St. Louis (Lynn 15-9), 8:05 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m. Arizona at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 10:10 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

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

Pct

2 1 1 1

0 1 1 1

0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .500

52 43 43 50

2 1 0 0

0 1 2 2

0 1.000 0 .500 0 .000 0 .000

47 36 27 51

2 1 1 1

0 1 1 1

0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .500

47 42 36 53

2 1 0 0

0 1 2 2

0 1.000 0 .500 0 .000 0 .000

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55 47 28 27

30 49 45 40

20 36 75 61

26 29 53 54

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

W 89 76 74 74 70

L 64 77 79 80 84

Pct .582 .497 .484 .481 .455

GB – 13 15 15 1/2 19 1/2

W 86

L 68

Pct .558

GB –

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

2 1 1 0

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0 1.000 0 .667 0 .000 0 .000

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0 0 0 0

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48 41 42 47

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2 1 1 1

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0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .500

43 57 48 25

THE SUMTER ITEM

BRUNSON FROM PAGE B1 most often do, it was supposed to lose steam quickly once it got over land. Not Hugo. It plowed into Sumter County about 2 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 22 and pounded the area for several hours. When daylight came, the sight was quite unbelievable. It was like being part of a television disaster movie: trees down, buildings, cars and homes either damaged or destroyed. I drove to our office on North Magnolia Street like most of my coworkers did to see what I could see. What I saw was part of the golden arches from the McDonald’s across the street on Lafayette Drive sitting in the front of our building. Sports editor Robbie Evans decided he, Kevin McLendon, Chip Chase and myself would try to navigate our way around the tri-county area to document all of the damage. As you might guess, it was quite a sight to see. Each of the 15 high school football teams at the time had some level of damage done to their fields. Several had their scoreboards destroyed while Mayewood, Bishopville and Scott’s Branch had at least half of the light poles on their fields knocked down. While no one played games on that Friday,

two local schools did play on Sunday. Also, even though the University of South Carolina is just 40 miles away, Columbia was barely touched by Hugo. The Gamecocks played a home game against Georgia Tech on Saturday; that didn’t set too well with some people who thought the game shouldn’t have been played when so many people a short drive away were needing food, water, etc. As a side note, I will say that I ate quite well. With no electricity, everybody was worried about their meats spoiling. My cousin, Johnny Brunson, had a huge gas grill and our extended family gathered together for several days with Johnny cooking all sorts of meats. Of course, we had to do this before it became dark and the dawnto-dusk curfew kicked in. Now, back to the sports world. As you might expect, local golf courses were wrecked. John Cain, the owner of the old Pocalla Springs course at the time, estimated that between 300 and 500 trees were lost due to the hurricane in a story in The Sumter Item. John Winterhalter, the golf professional at Sunset Country Club, estimated there were close to 1,000 downed trees at his facility. Riley Park, which had just concluded its sixth

AREA SCOREBOARD BASKETBALL

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21 72 63 95

43 36 38 60

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The Wateree Basketball Officials will begin training classes for prospective high school officials on Monday at the Sumter County Recreation Department located at 155 Haynsworth Street. Meetings will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will be held on Monday of each week. The classes are held to prepare officials to call games for the South Carolina High School League Basketball Officials Association. Each training class will cover National Federation rules for high school basketball, South Carolina Basketball Official Association mechanics and SCBOA exam preparation. The statewide clinic and exam will be held on Saturday, Nov. 15, at River Buff High School in Lexington. For more information, call Granderson James, at (803) 968-2391 or e-mail him at grandersj@aol.com.

THURSDAY’S GAME

GOLF

Atlanta 56, Tampa Bay 14

TODAY’S GAMES

Dallas at St. Louis, 1 p.m. Minnesota at New Orleans, 1 p.m. San Diego at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Houston at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Baltimore at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Oakland at New England, 1 p.m. San Francisco at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. Denver at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. Kansas City at Miami, 4:25 p.m. Pittsburgh at Carolina, 8:30 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAME

Chicago at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, SEP. 25

N.Y. Giants at Washington, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEP. 28

Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Houston, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Carolina at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Detroit at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Miami vs. Oakland at London, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. Atlanta at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m. New Orleans at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, St. Louis

LAKEWOOD TEE IT UP CLASSIC

Lakewood Baseball’s First Tee It Up Classic will be held on Dec. 6 at The Links at Lakewood. The format for the tournament will be 4-man Captain’s Choice and will begin at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start. The cost is $200 per team or $50 per player. Lunch will be provided.

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and final season as the home of the Sumter Braves, had its entire outfield wall knocked down. Also, the scoreboard was destroyed and the press box was destroyed, not nearly as devastating a loss as it would be now with its beautiful press box. Also, the facilities at Dillon Park took a severe beating as well. That was very important to me at the time because I was a 28-year-old slow-pitch softball fanatic playing in a fall league. Meetings were held to discuss if the season would even be completed. It was, but not at Dillon. Instead, the rest of the season was played at the Artillery Drive fields by the fairgrounds. My Ladies Choice team won the regular season, but lost in the championship game of the tournament. That final game was played in upper 40-degrees weather with a strong wind the day before Thanksgiving. And that’s the way it was with local sports after Hugo. As soon as conditions could resemble normal, people were back at it, going to high school football games, playing golf, softball or whatever. As sports is supposed to be, whether watching or playing, it offered a diversion from our everyday lives at a time when our everyday lives were far from ordinary.

The registration and payment deadline is Nov. 21. For more information, call Lakewood baseball head coach Mike Chapman at (843) 685-0568 or (803) 506-2700 (Ext. 1001) or email him at Chapmonis@ gmail.com. 4-PERSON SCRAMBLE

The Links at Lakewood Golf Course will host a 4-person scramble every Thursday. The cost is $25 per person and includes golf, prizes and food following the scramble. Call the pro shop at (803) 481-5700 before 4 p.m. on Thursday to sign up.

FOOTBALL SUMTER TOUCHDOWN CLUB

The Sumter Touchdown Club will meet each Friday at the Quality Inn located at 2390 Broad Street Extension from 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. The 13-week program features a guest speaker, a devotional, a high school coaches corner, the recognition of The Item Players of the Week, a catered breakfast and a pick’em contest. The speakers will include people involved in different aspects of football on the high school, college and professional levels. The club is accepting members at a price of $100 per membership. It is also looking for sponsorships at a cost of $200. Sponsorship and membership forms are on the club’s website, www.sumtertdclub.com.

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safety for S.C. State against Clemson, but did not record any defensive stats.

Gamecock. Manning High School’s Phillip Henry started at free

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CHARLOTTE — Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has spent so much time in the training room he’s started handing out nicknames to the staff. If it’s not his surgically repaired ankle or fractured ribs, it’s some other nagging issue. “It’s been the story of my life all year,’’ Newton said. “I had (ankle) surgery in March and it’s been treatment, treatment, treatment and more treatment.’’ Still, the Panthers have persevered and are on the verge of their first 3-0 start since 2003 — the season they made it to the Super Bowl — entering tonight’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coach Ron Rivera said Newton probably won’t be healthy until after the season. “It’s frustrating to have this nicked up, have that nicked up and trying to do things that you are not able to do,’’ Newton said. Still, Newton played well in his return to action last Sunday, throwing for 281 yards and a touchdown in a 24-7 win over the Detroit Lions. He didn’t run much — four times for 19 yards — but was effective when he did. The Panthers haven’t changed their game plan, still running some zone reads that give Newton the option to hand the ball off or run with it. Rivera said he always hopes Newton hands it off. “Anytime he runs I’m glad to get (the play) over with,’’ Rivera said. Newton ran for 2,032 yards and 28 touchdowns in his first three seasons. He’s most dangerous when he’s a threat to run.

STAYING STRONG The Steelers anticipated

Varsity Girls Golf Sumter in Lady Patriot (at Wescott Plantation in Summerville), TBA Varsity Girls Tennis Berkeley at Manning, 4:30 p.m. Orangeburg Prep at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m. Williamsburg at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m. Junior Varsity Girls Tennis Wilson Hall at Thomas Sumter, 4 p.m. Robert E. Lee at Williamsburg, 4 p.m. Varsity Volleyball Kingstree at Lee Central, 6:30 p.m. Varsity and JV Volleyball Robert E. Lee at Pee Dee, 4p.m.

TUESDAY

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Carolina quarterback Cam Newton will start again tonight against Pittsburgh in Charlotte despite a nagging rib injury that head coach Ron Rivera says probably won’t be fully healed until after the season. the offensive line being a strength. It didn’t look like it during last week’s loss to Baltimore. Right tackle Marcus Gilbert surrendered a pair of sacks and Ben Roethlisberger took a series of shots, including an illegal hit to the chest in the first quarter that affected him the rest of the game. Keeping Roethlisberger upright may be even more difficult in Carolina, which got to Detroit’s Matthew Stafford four times last Sunday even

with Greg Hardy out.

NEXT MAN UP The Panthers will be without Hardy for the foreseeable future after he took a paid leave of absence to deal with his domestic abuse conviction. With Hardy out until at least late November the team will rely on Wes Horton, Mario Addison and Kony Ealy to help pressure the quarterback. Carolina led the league with 60 sacks last season, 15 from Hardy.

Varsity Cross Country Sumter at South Florence, 5:30 p.m. Crestwood at Darlington, 5 p.m. Middle School Football Alice Drive at Furman, 5 p.m. Mayewood at Bates, 5 p.m. Chestnut Oaks at Ebenezer, 5 p.m. Elloree at Manning, 6 p.m. Varsity Girls Golf Sumter in Lady Patriot (at Wescott Plantation in Summerville), TBA Varsity Girls Tennis Sumter at Carolina Forest, TBA Hartsville at Manning, 5:30 p.m. Wilson Hall at Laurence Manning, 3:30 p.m. Orangeburg Prep at Thomas Sumter, 4 p.m. Junior Varsity Girls Tennis Robert E. Lee at Trinity-Byrnes, 4 p.m. Varsity Volleyball Marlboro County at Crestwood, 6 p.m. East Clarendon at Scott’s Branch, 6 p.m. St. Francis Xavier at Colleton Prep, 5 p.m. Varsity and JV Volleyball West Florence at Sumter, 6 p.m. Lakewood at Darlington, 5:30 p.m. Wilson Hall at Orangeburg Prep, 5 p.m. Laurence Manning at Florence Christian, 4 p.m. Thomas Sumter at Calhoun Academy, 4 p.m. The King’s Academy at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m. Clarendon Hall at Andrew Jackson Academy, 5 p.m. Sumter Christian at Northside Christian, 4 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

Varsity Cross Country Manning, Wilson Hall, Laurence Manning, Thomas Sumter in Wilson Hall Invitational (at Patriot Park SportsPlex), 5 p.m. Varsity Girls Tennis Trinity-Byrnes at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m. Varsity Volleyball Crestwood at Scott’s Branch, 5 p.m. Lee Central at Johnsonville, 6:30 p.m. Varsity and JV Volleyball Ben Lippen at Wilson Hall, 5 p.m. Williamsburg at Robert E. Lee, 4

THURSDAY

Junior Varsity Football Dutch Fork at Sumter, 7:30 p.m. Crestwood at Lake City, 6 p.m. Lakewood at Camden, 6 p.m. Manning at Beaufort, 6:30 p.m. Lee Central at Timmonsville, 6 p.m. Wilson Hall at Heathwood Hall, 7 p.m. Cardinal Newman at Laurence Manning, 7 p.m. Clarendon Hall at Patrick Henry, 6:30 p.m. B Team Football Dutch Fork at Sumter, 6 p.m. Wilson Hall at Heathwood Hall, 5 p.m. Cardinal Newman at Laurence Manning, 5 p.m. Middle School Football Thomas Sumter at Trinity-Byrnes, 6 p.m. Robert E. Lee at Dillon Christian, 6:30 p.m. Varsity Girls Tennis West Florence at Sumter, TBA Laurence Manning at Holly Hill, 4 p.m. Thomas Sumter at Carolina Academy, 4 p.m. Junior Varsity Girls Tennis Carolina Academy at Thomas Sumter, 4 p.m. Varsity Volleyball Crestwood at Hartsville, 6 p.m. St. Francis Xavier at Dorchester, 5 p.m. Varsity and JV Volleyball Conway at Sumter, 6 p.m. Marlboro County at Lakewood, 5:30 p.m. East Clarendon at Carvers Bay, 5 p.m. Wilson Hall at Gray Collegiate, 4:30 p.m. Laurence Manning at Thomas Sumter, 4 p.m. Clarendon Hall at Patrick Henry, 4:30 p.m. B Team Volleyball Robert E. Lee, Timmerman at Hammond, 4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY

Varsity Football Sumter at Dutch Fork, 7:30 p.m. Lake City at Crestwood, 7:30 p.m. Camden at Lakewood, 7:30 p.m. Beaufort at Manning, 7:30 p.m. Timmonsville at Lee Central, 7:30 p.m. Latta at East Clarendon, 7:30 p.m. Military Magnet at Scott’s Branch, 7:30 p.m. Augusta Christian at Wilson Hall, 7:30 p.m. Laurence Manning at Cardinal Newman, 7:30 p.m. Trinity-Byrnes at Thomas Sumter, 7:30 p.m. Dillon Christian at Robert E. Lee, 7:30 p.m. Clarendon Hall at Wardlaw, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

Varsity Cross Country Sumter in Pee Dee Invite (at Freedom Florence), TBA JV and B Team Swimming Thomas Sumter at Wilson Hall (at Sumter Aquatics Center), 9 a.m.

SPORTS ITEMS

Bennett, King combine for 5 TDs as Manning tops C.E. Murray 34-12 MANNING — Ra’Quan Bennett ran for 141 yards and two touchdowns and Tommy King ran for two scores and threw for another to lead Manning High School to a 34-12 varsity football victory over C.E. Murray on Friday at Ramsey Stadium. The Monarchs, who improved to 3-1 on the season, led 14-0 at halftime and increased the lead to 21-0 in the third quarter. The Eagles cut the lead to 21-12 before Manning put the game away. Bennett scored on runs of 1 and 58 yards. King had TD runs of 5 and 2 yards and tossed a 2-yard TD pass Raquon Dupree. Twon Collymore had three interceptions for Manning, returning them for 100 yards. SOUTH FLORENCE 28 CRESTWOOD 7

DALZELL — Crestwood High School fell to 0-4 on the season with a 28-7 loss to South Florence on Friday at Donald L. Crolley Memorial

Stadium. Donald Rutledge scored the Knights’ lone touchdown when he returned a fumble 45 yards. Ty’Son Williams rushed for 94 yards on 18 carries. Crestwood hurt itself with three turnovers, one while driving in the South Florence red zone and twice in its red zone. SF improved to 3-1. RICHARD WINN 57 CLARENDON HALL 14

SUMMERTON — Clarendon Hall suffered its first loss of the season on Friday, falling to Richard Winn 57-14 at Lonnie Robinson Field. The Saints, who fell to 3-1 overall and 2-1 in SCISA 8-man Region II, turned the ball over on three of its first four possessions. They trailed 37-14 at halftime. Daniel Pappas led CH by rushing for 92 yards on 12 carries. Gavin Allen scored a touchdown as did Cody Armstrong.

JV FOOTBALL CLARENDON HALL 54 HOLLY HILL 6

SUMMERTON — Clarendon Hall improved to 3-1 on the season with a 54-6 victory over Holly Hill on Thursday. Dylan Way threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to Ben Corbertt and a 45-yarder to Bobby Ashba for the 3-1 Saints. Ashba also had a 20yard TD run and grabbed an interception and returned it 38 yards for score. Kade Elliott returned a punt blocked by Way 38 yards for a score, Josh Black scored on an 11-yard run, and Stephen Henning scored on a 45-yard screen pass from Black.

CH gymnasium. Holly Hill won by the scores of 25-15, 25-15, 25-15. Shannon Corbett had 10 service points for the Lady Saints, while Emily Brunson and Delaney Peeler each had eight points.

JV VOLLEYBALL CLARENDON HALL 2 HOLLY HILL 1 SUMMERTON – Clarendon Hall improved to 6-0 on the season with a 2-1 victory over Holly Hill on Tuesday at the CH gymnasium. The Lady Saints won by the

scores of 14-25, 25-17, 25-24. CH was led by Mackenzie Norman with 16 service points and three aces. Madison Kidd and Sydney Wells had 12 points each with Kidd having three aces. CUSTER YOUNGEST WINNER AT 16 IN NASCAR TRUCK SERIES

LOUDON, N.H. — Cole Custer became the youngest winner in a NASCAR national series race at 16, taking the checkered flag at New Hampshire on Saturday in just his seventh Truck Series start. From staff, wire reports

VARSITY VOLLEYBALL HOLLY HILL 3 CLARENDON HALL 0 SUMMERTON — Clarendon Hall fell to 4-4 on the season and in SCISA Region III1A with a 3-0 loss to Holly Hill Academy on Tuesday at the

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Tigers win appeal, increase division lead over Royals KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Max Scherzer and the Detroit Tigers won their appeal on a wild play, and Joe Nathan escaped a ninth-inning jam to hold off the Kansas City Royals 3-2 on Saturday and boost their AL Central lead. The Tigers increased their edge to 2 1/2 games over the Royals. Kansas City fell into a tie for the second wild-card spot with Seattle. Detroit has won 13 of 18

against the Royals this year, including eight of nine at Kauffman Stadium. Scherzer (17-5) outpitched SCHERZER James Shields (14-8). The Royals put two runners on against Nathan, but he rebounded for his 33th save in 40 tries. It was 1-all in the sixth when a line drive and a wild throw

led to an appeal toss and a pair of umpire discussions that wound up ruling a Royals runner had left third base too soon. CUBS 8 DODGERS 7

CHICAGO — Chris Coghlan hit two homers, including the go-ahead two-run drive off Brian Wilson in the eighth inning, and the Chicago Cubs rallied to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7.

ROCKIES 5 DIAMONDBACKS 1 DENVER — Eddie Butler pitched six solid innings for his first major league win and Colorado beat Arizona 5-1. PHILLIES 3 ATHLETICS 0

OAKLAND, Calif. — Jerome Williams beat the Athletics for the third time this season with three different teams, and Oakland missed

an opportunity to extend its lead in the AL wild-card race with a 3-0 loss to Philadelphia. BLUE JAYS 6 YANKEES 3

NEW YORK — Jose Bautista homered again, Marcus Stroman pitched six gritty innings and Toronto beat the New York Yankees 6-3. From wire reports

OBITUARIES KATE E. ERMIS SUMMERTON — Kate Elliott “Kitty” Ermis, 75, widow of Vernon Vaclav Ermis, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, at her residence. Born Sept. 29, 1938, in Summerton, she was a daughter of the late Robert Venning Elliott and ERMIS Julia Cantey Elliott. She was a member of the Summerton Breakfast Club, Summerton Presbyterian Church and the Women’s Evening Circle. She is survived by three daughters: Eugenie Ermis of Summerton, Cyndi Ermis of Lugoff and Patti Bonham (Jeff) of Franklin, Tennessee; three grandchildren, Morgan Hodge (Graham) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Teague Bonham and Emma Bonham, both of Franklin; two brothers; Joe Elliott of Aiken and Roddy Elliott (Linda) of Silver; a sister, Jenny Bonnett of Bamberg; and a number of nieces and nephews. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Summerton Evergreen Cemetery with the Rev. Garland Hart officiating. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday in the Rankin Chapel of Summerton Presbyterian Church and other times at the residence, 42 S. Duke St., Summerton. Memorials can be made to Summerton Presbyterian Church, 16 S. Cantey St., Summerton, SC 29148 or to Summerton Evergreen Cemetery Fund, c/o Ellen Ardis, P.O. Box 366, Summerton, SC 29148. Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org

MARY B. WOUDWYK Mary Bell Woudwyk, age 87, beloved wife of the late Otto Harry Woudwyk, died on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, at NHC Healthcare of Sumter. Born on Aug. 4, 1927, in Manning, she was the daughter of the WOUDWYK late Joe and Cora Barrineau Nichols. She was a seamstress who retired from Pioneer Dress after 30 years of service. She loved cooking and spending time with her family. She will be remembered as a loving mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother, great-greatgrandmother, sister and friend. She was a member of Freewill Baptist Church of the Pentecostal Faith of Sumter. Surviving are four sons, Roger Dale Woudwyk of Easley, Marvin Dean Woudwyk Sr. and his wife, Annie, of Charleston, Ronnie Gene Woudwyk and his wife, Jean, of Sumter, and Otto Harry Woudwyk Jr. of Sumter; two daughters, Bobbie Jean Geddings and her husband, Moody Winter, of Sumter and Linda Diane Geddings and her husband, Spencer, of Sumter; three sisters, Cora Luticia Hatfield of Sumter, Jo Ann Morgan of Reading, Ohio, and Ella Mae Hendrix and her husband, Claude, of Sumter; 11 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two sons, Larry Goines and Barry Woudwyk; seven brothers; and two sisters. A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at Grace Full Gospel, 1540 Bradham

Blvd., Sumter. Interment will follow in the Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Bullock Funeral Home. Memorials can be made to the Freewill Baptist Church of the Pentecostal Faith, 971 Boulevard Road, Sumter, SC 29153. You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

ERMA V. DWYER Erma Viola Dwyer was born June 8, 1937, in Sumter, the daughter of the late James MC Dwyer Sr. and Julia Givens Dwyer. She departed this life on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Miss Dwyer, a 1955 graduate of Lincoln High School, went on to receive her bachelor of science degree in education from Morris College in 1958. Miss Dwyer received her master’s degree in education from South Carolina State University in 1966. Always striving toward scholastic excellence, Miss Dwyer continued her education at the University of South Carolina where she earned 30 hours above her master’s, and during the summer of 1988, she did further studies in reading at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. Miss Dwyer spent more than 33 years as an educator and private tutor and she was committed to instilling passion in the hearts of children. Most of her years as an educator were spent in Sumter School District 2, Darlington School District 1 and Dorchester School District 4. She retired from St. George Elementary in Dorchester County in 1992, where she was honored for her outstanding contributions to education. A faithful and active member of Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, Miss Dwyer served as Sunday school and Vacation Bible School teacher. She also served as secretary of the Education Ministry at Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church and a member of the Fellowship Choir. Miss Dwyer received a State Baptist Young Women’s Auxiliary Award for Christian Education in 1978. The South Carolina Baptist Association awarded her with a Gold Award for 25 years of dedicated service to Christian Education. Prior to her illness, Miss Dwyer was also committed to her family’s floral business. Miss Dwyer, who received a certificate in floral arrangement from Sumter Technical College in 1969, was the manager of Dwyer’s Florist, one of the first black-owned florists in Sumter. In 2001, the South Carolina House of Representatives (District 51) recognized Miss Dwyer and her sister, Mary Dwyer, for distinguished contributions to the economic development of the South Sum-

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ter community. Miss Dwyer leaves to cherish her memories her sister, Mary L. Dwyer, of the home; three brothers, James M. Dwyer Jr. (Ione) of Sumter, Cornelius A. Dwyer of the home and Henry L. Dwyer of Sumter; four nieces, Lisa Dwyer-Dantzler (Clifford) of Rock Hill, Natasha Dwyer of Charlotte, Anita Dwyer Nelson (Fremont) of Columbia and Cheryl Butler Chaplin (Ernie) of Summerville; three nephews, Rickey L. Johnson of San Antonio, Andre L. Dwyer of Sumter and James M. Dwyer III of Maryland; five great-nieces, Julisa Dantzler White (Harold III) of Rock Hill, Deja B. Dwyer of Charlotte, Jordan E. Dantzler of Rock Hill and Olivia and Kendall Nelson of Columbia; five great-nephews, Myc’kell G. Toney of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Armani P. O’Banner of Summerville, Joshua O. Dantzler of Rock Hill, Rickey Ragin of Columbia and Andre Murray-Johnson on Colorado; one great-great niece, Juleia M. White of Rock Hill; and one great-great nephew, Harold White IV of Rock Hill; and a host of relatives and friends. Public viewing will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. Monday at Job’s Mortuary. The body will be placed in the church at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday for viewing until the hour of service. Funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, 803 S. Harvin St., with Pastor Marion H. Newton, officiating. Interment will be in the Hillside Memorial Park. Family is receiving friends at 526 S. Main St., Sumter. Job’s Mortuary Inc, 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements.

PETER R. JACOB Peter R. Jacob, age 68, beloved husband of Pamela Jacob, died Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. He was the son of the late retired U.S. Army Col. Hermann Jacob and Rose Marie Jacob. Peter worked for Engineer Topographic Laboratories for the Corps of Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as a computer specialist and NCR Corp. in Columbia and Atlanta before his retirement. Peter was an avid Washington Redskins fan and had excellent culinary skills, providing many exceptional meals for his family and friends. In addition to his wife, Peter is survived by his son, Joshua Jacob of Sumter. A private memorial service will be held at a later date. You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com. The family has chosen Bull-

ock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

Cook died Friday afternoon, Sept. 19, 2014, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center in Hartsville after a brief illness. The family is receiving friends at 155 Toney Court. Final arrangements will be announced by Boatwright Funeral Home of Bishopville.

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BISHOPVILLE — Alvin Odell Hancock, 83, husband of Helen Starnes Hancock, died Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, at Kershaw Health in Camden. Born in Columbia, he was a son of the late Wheeler Harrison Hancock and the late Bertie Lou Lee Hancock. He was a retired maintenance worker from the state of New Jersey and was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He was a member of Red Hill Baptist Church and was a big NASCAR fan. He was a loving and caring husband for more than 58 years and was a good friend to everyone he met. Survivors include his wife; nieces, Pat Nunnery (Larry), Teressa Hawk (Don), Melissa Beard (D.B.) and Courtney Nunnery; and nephews, Larry Hancock (Jan), Ricky Hancock, Chuck Nunnery (Susan), Alvin Nunnery (Barbara), Marty Starnes, Randy Starnes and Billy Starnes (June). He was preceded in death by two brothers, Harry Hancock and Joseph Hancock. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Red Hill Baptist Church with the Revs. Homer Hinson, Larry Hancock, Wayne Flowers, William Lewis and B.P. Boyle officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home and other times at the home, 4485 Red Hill Road. Memorials may be made to Red Hill Baptist Church, 4485 Red Hill Rd., Camden, SC 29020. Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home of Bishopville is in charge of the arrangements.

CARL E. BROOKS Carl Edward Brooks, 70, widower of Martha Williams Brooks, died Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, at his home in Bishopville. Born June 9, 1944, he was the son of Willie Webster Brooks and McPhine Jenkins Brooks. The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 122 Broad Acres Road, Bishopville. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

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Mary Louise Jenkins, 75, wife of William Jenkins, died Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter. Born Nov. 4, 1938, in Lee County, she was the daughter of Henry Mickens and Dora Shaw Mickens. The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 102 Brown St., Sumter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Williams Funeral Home, Inc.

MARGARET P. HOLMES Margaret Pressley Holmes, 102, widow of McNeil Holmes, died on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, at Wallingford Nursing Facility, Wallingford, Pennsylvania. She was born on Sept. 26, 1911, in the Manning Pieland area of Summerton. She was the daughter of the late Prince and Mary Watson Pressley. The family is receiving friends and relatives at 1401 Tribbitt Ave., Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. Edney Funeral Home, 634 S. Sharon Ave., Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania 19079 is in charge of arrangements. Announcement courtesy of Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter.

SAMMIE JILES CAMDEN — Sammie Jiles, 73, of 2242 Carter St., Camden, died Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. Plans will be announced by Collins Funeral Home of Camden.

ROY WELSH TURBEVILLE — Roy Welsh, age 50, passed away Sept. 20, 2014, at McLeod Hospice House with his family by his side. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Floyd Funeral Home of Olanta.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS Stephen Sirkawan Davis, 19, of Bronx, New York, died Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Plans will be announced by Collins Funeral Home of Camden and Gilmore Funeral Home of Queens, New York.

CAROLYN Y. THOMAS Carolyn Yvonne “Debra” Thomas, 59, of 2232 Baron DeKalb Road in Camden, died Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Plans will be announced by Collins Funeral Home of Camden.

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on Opera House stage Show traces history of country music BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com

he Sumter-Shaw Community Concert Association opens its 2014-15 season with a musical stage show that is a comprehensive look at country music from its humble beginnings to the flashy, rock ‘n’ roll-like style of today. The fivemember cast and the band of Live from Nashville will present the song-and-dance show at the Sumter Opera House on Thursday, starting at 7:30 p.m. Live from Nashville is produced by Matt Davenport Productions, which also toured the successful productions ARTHUR American Rhapsody, American Big Band and Back on Broadway. Matt Davenport’s career began at Opryland USA, and Live from Nashville brings similar entertainment to communities on its tour schedule. Among the performers on the Opera House stage will be American Idol top 5 finalist Janelle Arthur, whose career began with her playing the young Dolly Parton in a production at Dollywood, and four

The South Carolina Center for Oral Narration at the USC Sumter, home to the annual Jack Doyle Storytelling Festival held each spring, will host the S.C. Storytelling Conference on Saturday, Sept. 27, in the Arts and Letters Building. Dr. Michele Reese, director of the Center, said the conference will feature workshops on various asFOWLER pects during the day and culminate with a free, public performance by noted Appalachian storyteller John Fowler. A 2013 recipient of the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award for his lifetime achievement as a storyteller and traditional musician, Fowler is also a mountain musician, song collector, writer and radio host. He will also present a workshop titled “From Fragmentation to Presentation” at 1:30 p.m. For the past quarter century, Fowler has been performing at festivals,

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Live from Nashville 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25 Sumter Opera House 21 N. Main St. Tickets: Season memberships, $60 and $75; individual tickets, $25/students $10 (803) 436-2616/www. sumteroperahouse.com/www.sscca.info

other singing dancers, many of whom have appeared at venues around the country. Matt George’s credits include performing with the Louise Mandrell Show and on cruise lines Holland America and Princess. Sarah Margaret Huff writes songs as well as singing them and has released a CD titled “A Million Little Flames.” Brittney Jones has lived in Nashville for six years and played 14 different theatrical roles in 2013. Charlie Rogers performs around Nashville with The Charlie Rogers Band, which plays contemporary country music. Live from Nashville traces the evolution of country music. Act One presents a selection of contemporary country music, including medleys of songs by Jason Aldean and

S.C. Storytelling Conference Workshops Saturday, Sept. 17 USC Sumter Arts and Letters Building, 200 Miller Road • (803) 938-3755 Fee: $25, SCSN members/$30 non-members

Carrie Underwood, as well as an early classics medley, featuring Arthur. She’ll sing some Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Hank Williams Sr., among other well known artists. She and the cast will sing Dolly Parton’s song, “I Will Always Love You,” to end the act. Act Two starts with country songs from the ‘90s, including “Why Haven’t I Heard from You?,” “Born to Fly,” “Ain’t Going Down Til the Sun Comes Up” and others. Watch for the Great Country Duets like “Islands in the Stream” and “Love Can Build a Bridge”; and New Country Classics such as “Somebody Like You” and “I Need You Now.” American Country features patriotic tunes, among them “God Bless

SCHEDULE: 8-9 a.m., registration Session 1 — 9-10:30 a.m. • New Voices, Johnson • ETV Does That?, Jarrett Session 2 — 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. • Becoming a Self-Employed Storyteller, van Bulck • The Power of Storytelling in the Classroom, Izzard 12:15-1:30 p.m. • Storytelling Lunch, O’Neal Session 3 — 1:30-3 p.m. • Fowler Session 4 — 3:15-4:45 p.m. • Take It Social, Nelson • Capture the Power of a Story, Newcomb • Performance 5-6 p.m., Fowler

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Miss America a Mister?; area awaits Hurricane Hugo 75 YEARS AGO – 1940

1940 — Gordon, flashy Sumter high school guard, is pictured above partly concealed by a Charleston player, a fraction of a second after he batted the ball through the hoop for a Sumter field goal in last night’s tight game, finally won by the Bantams 41-38.Foots James, at right, watches the action.

Feb. 12–18 The Iris Chapter of Eastern Star is sponsoring a “Miss America” Beauty Contest Monday, February 19th, at 8:00 p. m. at the Senior High School auditorium. This is quite a large show with four major attractions in it. They are a baby contest, talent contest, junior beauty contest, and senior beauty contest. Yesteryear There is in Sumter a womSAMMY WAY anless beauty contest thrown in for good measure. • A United States Junior basketball tournament is a prospect for Sumter. There are two “ifs” in the way, the first, will the Sumter fans turn out for such a series so that the necessary expenses can be provided and the second is, can the Sumter Juniors come through the Carolina Y Tournament to be held here on the 22nd, 23rd

1964 — Anne Green and Chris Edens, two of Alice Drive’s three tri-captains (the other is Rita Edwards) go through practice paces as they await tonight’s game with Mayewood’s junior varsity. Coach Maizie Jennings watches. and 24th of this month with the championship? • An invitation was extended to the public to inspect the new home of the Shelley-Brunson Funeral Home at 224 East Liberty St. The new quarters are said to comprise one of the most modern homes in the state. The business was founded in 1925 and occupied quarters at 27 West Calhoun St. until recently. The home of the late C.P. Osteen was pur-

chased late last year and work of remodeling was commenced almost immediately. The entire interior of the large house was completely remodeled and the exterior also received a complete going-over including repainting in white. • The Sumter Generals were red hot last night and buried the highly touted Pacific Terrifics under a 54-39 score in a rough and tumble contest that was played on the

YMCA court. Harder, Propst and James sank field goals to give the Sumter team a 6-0 lead and they were out in front the rest of the way with the scores gradually mounting higher and higher. • A full two hours of entertainment is in store for all those who attend tonight’s singing and swinging of the famous “Songbirds of the South,” the Wofford Glee Club, who are this week making a tour of South Carolina. The festivities will begin at 8 in the Edmunds High auditorium and will be sponsored by the Sumter High News. • E.L. Klutz, manager of Efird’s Department Store, announced today that the local store will undergo a complete remodeling within the near future. • The Dance Club of Edmunds High School, 230 members strong, will hold their first public dance tomorrow night in the high school gym. The music will be given by the old maestro Charlie Phifer and his famous swing orchestra.

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FORT BELVOIR, VIRGINIA — Margaret E. Bushko of Bedford, New York, and William B. Timmons of Sumter were united in marriage at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 14, 2014, at the Fairfax Chapel. Keith Morgan officiated at the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David A. Bushko of Bedford, and the granddaughter of Mrs. Naomi Leatherman of Des Moines, Iowa, and the late Rev. J.A. Leatherman, and the late Nicholas and Mabel Bushko. She grew up with an instrumental background in harp, violin and piano. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2008 with a bachelor of arts in music. She worked at Columbia Artists Management, Inc., in New York, and the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. She is employed by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., as a program coordinator. The bridegroom is the son of Cindy Hodge Timmons and Ricky Timmons, both of Sumter, the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Benny Hodge Jr. of Sumter and Mr. and Mrs. William E. Timmons of Hartsville, and the great-grandson of Rachel Hodge Boseman of Sumter. He graduated with honors in 2007 with a bachelor of music degree from the University of South Carolina and in 2009 with a master of music degree from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. After performing two seasons as a trombone Fellow with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, he was selected by audition to be a member of The United States Air Force Band serving as a technical sergeant with the Ceremonial Brass. He is stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.

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Music was provided by pianist Jessica McKee, and trumpeters Jerry Davis, Kevin Businsky and Kris Westrich. Joel Baroody composed an original processional titled “A Walk for Margaret.” Escorted by her father and given in marriage by her parents, the bride wore a satin Aline gown with cap sleeves, a chiffon split front overlay, and metallic embroidery with a chapel-length train. She carried a bouquet of white roses, gardenias and purple orchids. The gardenia is a tradition in the Leatherman family that has been honored for three generations. The bride was presented a monogrammed handkerchief which belonged to the bridegroom as a baby bonnet. The reception was given by the bride’s parents at The Fort Belvoir Officers’ Club on the Potomac. The rehearsal dinner was given by the bridegroom’s parents at Clyde’s at Mark Center. Following a wedding trip to the Turks and Caicos, the couple resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

Partner’s sloppy appearance reflects poorly on business DEAR ABBY — I co-own a professional service business with a woman whose appearance has deteriorated Dear Abby significantly ABIGAIL over the last VAN BUREN three or four years. “Mary” was never a fashion plate, but she used to be presentable for business. Four years ago, she put on quite a bit of weight. She refuses to buy new clothes until she loses it, but she makes no real attempt to do so. Mary wears the same three pair of baggy pants to the office day after day. She does have two “good” outfits she will wear to see clients, but even those are threadbare. I dread the idea of a client dropping in and seeing Mary in her normal state, especially since she takes her shoes off at the office because her feet swell. She has become an embarrassment. How do you think I should handle this? Image in everything in California DEAR IMAGE IS EVERYTHING — If clients haven’t dropped in during the last four years, they are not likely to start coming in droves. However, your partner should look her best when she calls on clients, and she should not represent the business looking “threadbare.” You should handle this by addressing this part of the problem only. Unless you dress for the office looking like a page out of Vogue, let the woman be comfortable. P.S. I take MY shoes off at the office because I see no reason to wear 6-inch stilettos

while my feet are under my desk. If someone comes in, I put them back on. That’s what your partner should do if the need arises. DEAR ABBY — I have been estranged from my family for many years. It was a decision I thought long and hard about, and I have no regrets. It was one of the wisest decisions I have ever made, and it helped me to maintain my mental and physical health. I recently had a baby, and my family has been sending me gifts. In the past, I have returned them all, but I feel torn under these circumstances because the gifts are not for me, but for my child. Normally, I would write thank-you cards for such things, but in this case I don’t want to mislead anyone or set a precedent that such things are welcome. Please tell me how I should delicately handle this. There is no hope for reconciliation, and my child will not be having a relationship with any of these people. I don’t want to hurt anyone; I just want to be left alone. Etiquette-challenged DEAR CHALLENGED — You have already cut your ties with these people. You do not plan to have a relationship with them, nor will your child. You are under no obligation to thank them for unwanted gifts, and your child will not be deprived if you send the gifts back. It appears this is an attempt by them to buy their way back into your life. The gifts should be returned unopened, with no comment. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Mr. and Mrs. Todd Newman of Sumter announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Fay Newman of Fort Meyers, Florida, to Justin Adam Yates of Fort Meyers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Yates of Sumter. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. Bobby Pierce and the late Jewel Pierce of Summerville and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Newman of Sumter. She graduated from Sumter High School and attended the University of South Carolina. She is employed as a property manager for Barnacles Island Resort. The bridegroom-elect is

the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Till of Sumter. He graduated from Sumter High School and is pursuing at degree in fire science at Florida Southwestern College. He is a petty officer with the Coast Guard Reserves and is employed as a firefighter and EMT with San Carlos Fire District. The wedding is planned for Oct. 12, 2014, on Captiva Island, Florida. •••

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CLUB DIGEST NU MASTER CHAPTER OF BETA SIGMA PHI An end-of-year steak cookout was held at the home of Margie Zelano on May 30. On July 12 members met at the home of Betty Vannoy for a hot dog and homemade ice cream social to celebrate the chapter’s birthday. Margaret Dougherty and her husband were guests. Beginning day, hosted by Xi Eta Chapter, was held on Aug. 23 at the Carolina Skies Club on Shaw Air Force Base. First chapter meeting of the sorority 2014-15 year was held on Sept. 4 at the home of Barbara Smith.

SUMTER DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB Bridge winners for July were: July 2: 1st - Larry Baum and Richard Hinkle 2nd – Stan Kohli and Marvin Chin 3rd – Pat Lauterbach and Hugh Cook 4th – Jimmie Ann Anderson and John Mills July 9: 1st – Gary Harbath and Barbara James 2nd – Lila Cobb and Marie Hill July 16: 1st – Stan Kohli and Marvin Chin 2nd – TIE – Kenneth Hamilton and Jimmie Ann Anderson Richard Hinkle and Larry Baum Winnie Field and John Mills July 23: 1st – Lila Cobb

and Marie Hill 2nd – Jimmie Ann Anderson and Larry Baum July 30: 1st – Stan Kohli and Marvin Chin 2nd – Jimmie Ann Anderson and Gary Harbath August winners were: Aug. 6: 1st – Jimmie Ann Anderson and Larry Baum 2nd - Stan Kohli and Gary Harbath Aug. 13: 1st – Lila Cobb and Larry Baum 2nd – Kenneth Hamilton and Richard Hinkle Aug. 20: 1st – Lila Cobb and Marie Hill 2nd - TIE – Kenneth Hamilton and Richard Hinkle Gary Harbath and Larry Baum Aug. 27: 1st - Hugh Cook and Pat Lauterbach 2nd – Lila Cobb and Marie Hill

SUMTER ELKS LODGE The lodge will sponsor several events in September and October, including an indoor Oktoberfest on Oct. 4, the annual “Trunk or Treat” from 5 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25. In addition, the Shaw AFB Boy Scouts will have a “Spooky Haunted Trail” in the woods behind the shooting range. It will be open for several days. Details will be announced soon. The Elks Turkey Shoot continues from 1 p.m. until dusk on Sundays through Dec. 21. All events are fundraisers for charity; the Turkey Shoot supports disabled veterans.

SUMTER ART ASSOCIATION The initial meeting of the Sumter Art Association for 2014-2015 was held September 16 at the Parish Life Building of the Church of the Holy Comforter. President Frances Betchman welcomed the 56 members in attendance and recognized new members Ginger Barwick, Jeanne Anne Baldwin, Vicki Goodwin and Marie Hill. She then asked for a moment of silence in memory of recently deceased members Alice Canty, Dorothy Lewin, Ann Shuler and Vicky Shaw. The Rev. Charles Walton gave a special welcome to the group on behalf of the Church of the Holy Comforter, and Ginger Jones gave a devotional meditation and offered a prayer. Martha Greenway announced a number of current cultural activities in the Sumter area. After a brief business meeting Dotty Kolb introduced Seth Reimer, cultural manager at the Sumter Opera House. He presented a program outlining his plans for making the Opera House “the crown jewel of the City of Sumter.” His vision is that the Opera House will be the premier venue for the performing arts in Sumter. Refreshments were served by the hostess committee cochaired by Lynn MacEwen and Jackie Gamble. A beautiful floral centerpiece was provided by Jackie Gamble.

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SHOW, FROM PAGE C1 America,” “America the Beautiful” and “Independence Day.” It’s been 67 years since the Sumter-Shaw Community Concert Association began providing an annual series of outstanding and enriching live performances to the community with ticket prices unheard of anywhere else. Performances are family friendly, as well. Four regular concerts and a concert by an acclaimed military group, the U.S. Navy’s Sea Chanters, are on this year’s schedule. Single tickets for Live from Nashville are $25, $10 for stu-

50 YEARS AGO – 1964 Dec. 13-19 Tommy Edens, Sumter High’s gifted three-sport athlete, signed a grant-in-aid with Duke University last night and will pursue his college education and athletics with the Blue Devils. Edens was signed by Duke assistant coach Marty Pierson, who commented “We are delighted to get him. He is a fine boy. We’ve been watching him since his junior year.” •Starting her third year at the helm of the Alice Drive Junior High girls’ basketball team is Mrs. Maizie Jennings, who was pleased to see her troupe score a victory over Lamar in its opener. She is hoping to equal last year’s successful record in the Big Eight Conference which found AD placing third in the loop and also in the Big Eight tourney. The team won the sportsmanship trophy and Cheryl Dew earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team. • A 13-year-old Sumter singer, Sharon Monroe, took first place in the Slim Mims “Hymns from the Hills” program and TV Talent Hunt, at the Camden City arena Sunday. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Monroe, Sharon

began singing at an early age and over the past four years has sung before numerous public gatherings; several TV programs and has a program of Christmas carols currently being broadcast by a local radio station. • The Lincoln High School Bulldogs kept up their winning ways last night at the school gymnasium as they turned back the Jackson High Tigers 96-54 in their second highest scoring game of the year. The Bulldogs jumped ahead in the first few seconds of play and never gave up the lead. • But for a slip-up in the closing seconds of last night’s basketball game at Orangeburg, Sumter might have carried off a victory over the talented Indians instead of losing 71-69. The Gamecocks’ Coach Charlie Hodgin, who says “I’m never pleased when we lose,” noted that it was a game effort by his boys who were at a height disadvantage of two or three inches a man. • Members of Sumter County Barracks No. 981, Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A. met in the YWCA Tuesday evening with the auxiliary for their annual Christmas dinner and party. The department commander, W.M. Crawford, installed new officers for the ensuing year as follows: David G. Lenoir, commander; H.C. Carlisle, senior vice commander; Vernie P. Watts, junior vice commander; A.M. Currie, quartermaster; B.V. Inkeep, judge advocate; Louis C. Bryan, Chaplain; B.A. Weinberg, H.M. Wilson and H. Gibbs, trustees; Louis C. Bryan, adjutant, and H.C. Edens, legislative officer. • Two of Bishopville High School’s outstanding football linemen signed full aid grants with the USC Gamecocks this afternoon. End David Lucas and tackle Bob Teal, who was a member of the South Carolina Shrine Bowl 11, inked the grants in the presence of Coach Clyde Biggers of the USC coaching staff. Both boys are 17 years old.

schools and colleges around the country. Among his regular appearances are Stone Soup, Starburst and Augusta Bakers Dozen festivals and many more. Also an author, Fowler wrote “Trotting Sally: The Roots and Legacy of a Folk Hero,” which tells the story of the late George Martin, a formerly well-known S.C. and N.C. street musician and former slave. During the day, there will be seven storytelling workshops presented in addition to Fowler’s. These are geared primarily toward schoolteachers, who receive CEU’s for their participation. Reese said the public is also welcome to attend these sessions; the fee is

25 YEARS AGO – 1989 Sept. 14-21 State and local officials say it’s too early to guess just how Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties will be affected by Hurricane Hugo. At its worst, the hurricane could stir 40-50 mph sustained winds and bring as much as 10-15 inches of rainfall in the next 24 hours, causing flash floods in low-lying areas. “At the very least, there would not be 40 or 50 mph winds, but it still will be a nasty day,” said State Climatologist John Purvis. Purvis said

1989 — Dick Metz and Dawn Moretz act out a scene in “Twinkle, Twinkle,” which reopened at the Sumter Little Theatre Workshop on Friday. Other performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. tonight and 3 p.m. Sunday. the biggest threats to the threecounty area are blown-down power lines and tree limbs, which could present traffic hazards. The forecast for this area calls for heavy rains late tonight, with possibly severe thunderstorms through Friday. Winds are expected to be strongest around midday Friday. • The Sumter High volleyball team took its first loss of the season Thursday by losing in three games to Spring Valley at the SHS gym. The Lady Gamecocks won the first game 15-11 before falling 7-15, 10-15. Sumter bounced back against Spring Valley, upping their record to 9-1 with a 15-9, 12-15, 15-10 victory over Eau Claire. Becky Humphries keyed the Lady Gamecocks in the first game and Chris Mitchum and Cindy Batchever served Sumter to victory in the final game. • The Sumter Domino’s Tennis League got its third season underway this past week and Wayne Brown, tennis director for the Sumter County Recreation Department, feels the league could be in for a longrunning stay. • Wilson Hall held off a furious late rally by Robert E. Lee to edge the Cavaliers 24-19 and pick up its fourth straight victory Friday at the REL field. The Barons appeared to have a firm grasp on the game with a little over five minutes left, holding a 24-13 advantage and in possession of the football deep in the Cavaliers’ territory. An interception of a Milt Lowder pass in the end zone by linebacker Randy Kelley turned the tables quickly on Wilson Hall. • At an age when most young women worry about fitness, families and a fulfilling career, Anne Ayers was worrying about deforestation, erosion and cheaper food for rabbits in a small Central American country. When Ayers was a little girl, her father told her

Sumter-Shaw Community Concert Season Sumter Opera House All performances 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 – LIVE from Nashville Nov. 13 – SAXsational Feb. 5, 2015 – Alex DePue with Miguel De Hoyos March 20 – Galleria Season * Feb. 21, 2015 – U.S. Navy Sea Chanters (at Patriot Hall, free)

dents. Season tickets are still on sale: $75 for orchestra seating, $60 for balcony seats. All seats are reserved.

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YESTERYEAR, FROM PAGE C1 • Patrons of the Sumter County schools will participate in a panel discussion to be conducted by Superintendent William Henry Shaw in the fourth meeting of the teachers association in the Little Theater at Edmunds High next Saturday. Such topics as the social life of students, the evaluation by reports of their work done, guidance in vocations and other fields, home and school relationships, and school lunches and the health program, will come in for consideration, Shaw stated. Those who have accepted the invitation to appear on the panel discussion are R.T. Brown, Herbert Moses, Mrs. David Britton and Mrs. W.D. Boykin. • Bill Clark’s undefeated ring team salted away another win last night in Chester by hammering out a clear cut 5 ½ to 2 ½ decision over the Red Cyclones of Chester High. • The scrappy Sumter High “Bees” racked up their second win of the season over the Hillcrest High cagers last night by a 31 to 29 count. The game was played in the high school gymnasium as a preliminary to the Sumter-Charleston game. The “Bees” opened the ball game fast and at the end of the first quarter they led 12-8. With Chandler and Hawkins sinking baskets for Hillcrest the count was 13-10 in favor of Sumter at half-time.

about the Peace Corps. Now she’s 26, a graduate zoologist who speaks fluent Spanish – and a veteran of two years with the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. The daughter of Sumter psychologist Dr. E. Glenn Ayers and educator Dr. Laura Ayers, a teacher and Sumter School District 17’s board chairwoman. Ayers is a Sumter native and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, where she majored in Spanish and zoology. • The 1988 football season was not long on fond memories for Adrian DesChamps, the fullback for Furman High School. Even though he started each of the Indians’ 11 games, he barely rushed for 300 yards. Unhappy with his play, DesChamps decided he would do something to improve himself over the summer for his senior year. “I spent a lot of time lifting in the weight room and working on my speed,” he said. “I would run 10 laps around the football field and run sprints. I also worked on my technique. If the first three games are any indication, DesChamps’ work over the summer has more than paid its dividends. He has rushed for 189 yards, tops on the team, in only 34 attempts, an average of 8.3 yards per carry. • The Mary McLeod Bethune portrait committee celebrates the first anniversary of the unveiling of the Bethune portrait this week, honoring the woman who was born to sharecroppers and later kept company with kings, queens and presidents. There were no schools for blacks when Bethune was a young girl in Mayesville in the late 1800s, but she later began her own school in Florida on what was an old dumping ground, now known as Bethune-Cookman College. Bethune became director of the National Youth Administration at the prompting of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and

$25 for members of the S.C. Storytelling Network, $30 for others. The workshops begin at 9 a.m. and run through 4:45 p.m. and are followed by the 5 to 6 p.m. performance by Fowler. His performance is free to the public. Other sessions will be led by Marilyn Izzard, Debbie Jarrett, Martha Reed Johnson, Cathy Jo Nelson, Cora Newcomb, Frances Lee O’Neal, and Hendrikus van Bulck. For more information about the South Carolina Storytelling Conference, visit www. uscsumter.edu. Questions about the conference should be directed to mnreese@uscsumter.edu or 938-3755.

under President Harry Truman was an observer of the organizational meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco. She died in 1955, one year after the segregation of schools was ordered ended by the Supreme Court. The portrait committee read a poem by Nikky Finney that was dedicated to the life of Bethune. • Nelson Walker’s dream was crushed when he was diagnosed with cancer. A week after Walker’s diagnosis his right leg was amputated. The procedure preserved his life, but left the self-proclaimed natural competitor without a game to play. But not for long. The Summerton native has turned to another sport that keeps him out on the lake he has known since infancy. At least three times a week he hurries to his parents’ house in Summerton and hitches up his boat so he can reach his favorite fishing spots on Lake Marion by early evening. Then the battle begins – and it’s not just between him and the fish, or him and himself. He’s practicing for bass tournaments. • Sammy Way, an 18-year veteran of the teaching profession and teacher at Sumter High School, has been selected as the 1990 Sumter District 17 Teacher of the Year. Sumter native Way was named as this year’s Sumter High School Teacher of the Year where he has taught Social Studies for the past eight years after transferring from Bates Middle School. Way will compete for the title South Carolina Teacher of the Year sometime next month. • Mayor Steve Creech purchased the first Buddy Poppy from Mavis Aull, auxiliary junior vice commander of Sumter VFW Post 3034, officially kicking off this year’s Buddy Poppy program. Post Commander Billy Hite and Nick Boerma, post junior vice commander and Buddy Poppy program chairman, were on hand for the sale. The Veterans of Foreign Wars will sell the handmade flowers around the city Nov. 3 and 4. Money from the sales will be kept in the community and used for needy and disabled veterans. • The opportunity South Carolina’s Stacy Robinson had been looking for came his way Saturday against West Virginia. He is now ready to reap some benefits. Robinson saw his first significant amount of playing time at his new position, cornerback, in the Gamecocks’ 45-21 loss to West Virginia. Even though the USC defense as a whole did not play well, Robinson was happy with his performance. Reach Item Archivist Sammy Way at waysammy@yahoo.com or (803) 1294.

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1989. With winds clocked at 138 mph, this 30-nauticalmile-wide storm creating a 15 to 20 foot storm surge wrought havoc deep into

Individuals line up to receive food, water and gasoline.

Hundreds of homes were destroyed by falling trees. Numerous athletic facilities were damaged during the storm. Numerous automobiles like the one below were damaged during the storm.

A business owner cleans up after the storm.

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Sumter School District JENKINS RECOGNIZED Frank Jenkins, the grounds supervisor in the Sumter School District Maintenance Division, was the recipient of the Superintendent’s Award of Excellence, announced at the district’s opening meeting last month. Dr. J. Frank Baker created the award and will determine annually who receives it. It may be a certified or classified employee of the school district and is someone the superintendent determined went above and beyond in their willingness to get the job done during the past school year. Jenkins began his career in the former School District 2 in 1984. He has worked in many areas of the maintenance department and most recently was instrumental in implementing a new program to recognize schools quarterly for their grounds. When Baker became the superintendent of the district, he quickly noticed a need for designated grounds people in every school, and Jenkins supervises this aspect of the maintenance department. “The outside of our schools is the first impression people get. Even those who never have a reason to enter our facilities pass by our schools, and the outside appearance may be our only chance to show them that our schools are warm and welcoming places. Frank Jenkins understands this. He knows how important it is, and he goes the extra mile to keep the outside of our facilities in top shape.” Baker said Jenkins works long hours. “Just this week, when everyone else was leaving the district office, Frank Jenkins was on the lawnmower making sure our ground looked nice. He works on Saturday and evenings, whatever it takes, to ensure our facilities are presentable.”

CHILD FIND SCREENINGS Sumter School District will conduct Child Find Screenings on a regular basis throughout the 2014-15 school year. Parents with concerns about their children’s vision, hearing, speech and language, or developmental issues may bring them to one of the free screenings. Screenings are for children ages 2½ years and older who reside in Sumter County and are not enrolled in public school. Two clinics have already been held in September. Others scheduled for this year are Oct. 1 and 17; Nov. 5 and 14; Dec. 3 and 12; Jan. 14 and 30, 2015; Feb. 11 and 27; March 11 and 27; April 15; and May 1. All screenings will be held at Sumter School District Annex, 220 Hasel St. For further information or to schedule an appointment, call Phaedra Queen, Child Find Facilitator at (803) 7745500, extension 204.

LAKEWOOD FFA HONORED The Lakewood High School Chapter of FFA (formerly Future Farmers of America) has been recognized in the 2014 National Chapter Award program from the national FFA organization. The program recognizes outstanding FFA chapters from across the United States that successfully complete an annual set of required activities that encourage members to grow as individuals, work as a team and serve others in their communities. Lakewood was named a Two Star Chapter and will be recognized at the 2014 National FFA Convention and Expo Oct. 29-Nov. 1 in Louisville, Kentucky. John Deere, the corporate sponsor of the program, funds this special recognition of the National FFA Foundation. There are 7,570 local FFA chapters throughout the United States. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Jillian Lash is the FFA advisor at Lakewood High School.

GRANT RECEIVED Lakewood High School visual arts teachers Dr. Roseetta Davis and Michele Collins were recently awarded a $1,000 grant titled Digital Printmaking through Collaborative Teaching. The arts grant is partially funded by the Sumter County Cultural Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ad-

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ditional funding was provided by a generous grant from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC. This grant will provide digital cameras, materials, supplies, and instruction for the visual art students at Lakewood High School. — Mary B. Sheridan

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Seniors Kendall Brogdon, Simmons deHoll and Raines Waggett have been selected as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. They are the only students in Clarendon, Lee and Sumter counties to receive this recognition, according to the National Merit Scholarship Program publication. Semifinalists show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. More than 1.4 million students in nearly 22,000 high schools entered the 2015 National Merit Program by taking the 2013 Preliminary SAT which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The 16,000 Semifinalists are the highest-scoring entrants in each state and represent less than one percent of each state’s high school seniors. Brogdon, deHoll and Waggett have the opportunity to continue in the competition for one of 8,000 Merit Scholarships that will be offered in the spring.

SIXTH-GRADE TRIP Through activities such as white water rafting to an overnight camp out in the mountains, the 63 students in the sixth grade experienced an educational and enjoyable trip to Camp Kanuga in Hendersonville, North Carolina, Sept. 9-12. The annual trip, organized by middle school principal Stacy Ard, gives the students the opportunity to participate in four classes taught by the Mountain Trail Outdoor School: a cooperation and low ropes course, a hands-on course in rappelling, an orienteering and wilderness survival course, and a course in forest ecology. — Sean Hoskins

From left, representatives from St. Anne Catholic School, Daniel Morrow, Rob Carneal, Michael Smith, Megan Bishoff, Reed Brittingham, Lauren Carneal, Ian Carneal and Dan Spivey attended the SCISA Juniuor High Summer Leadership Conference.

St. Anne Catholic School STUDENTS ATTEND LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Students from St. Anne Catholic School recently attended the South Carolina Independent School Association Junior High Summer Leadership Conference held in Orangeburg. St. Anne Catholic School students Daniel Morrow, Michael Smith, Megan Bishoff, Reed Brittingham, Lauren Carneal and Ian Carneal participated in the event for junior high school leaders, Junior Honor Society members and Junior Beta Club members in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Advisors from the schools also participated in the program. Rob Carneal and Dan Spivey attended as representatives of the school. Participants learned how to conduct an effective meeting, learned correct parliamentary procedures, honed leadership skills and took part in leadership and team building exercises. Additionally, David Coker, president of the SCISA Student Association and a student at Florence Christian School, addressed the group. “Effective student leaders grow up to become effective leaders in our communities, state and nation,” Watt said. “One of SCISA’s aims is to help educate our students in all facets of life.”

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Sumter Christian School

SUMMERTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

BOOSTER CLUB CREATED

Sept. 12 was set aside to honor grandparents of students at Summerton Early Childhood Center. The cafeteria and multi-purpose room overflowed with grandparents who altered their morning schedules to start the day right with a well-balanced, delicious breakfast while spending precious moments with their “grandbabies.” Following breakfast, grandparents visited the photo booth to pose for snapshots with their grandchildren. Before departing the school, grandparents joined students during Take Time to Read.

This year the parents of Sumter Christian School have joined together creating the AAA Booster Club. They are working together to help promote community visibility and student recognition, to foster school unity and to increase school pride in the areas of academics, athletics and arts. After one month of work, the club members have already raised more than $1,000 from events such as a Saturday carwash at Sonic, selling pizza to students every Tuesday, and the Bear Café, which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Through the Booster Club, SCS is partnering with local businesses such as Sweet Frog, Chick-fil-A, Bi-Lo and Skate Station. Each of these businesses offers a percentage of all sales designated for our school.

STUDENTS / TEACHERS SETTLING IN Students and teachers are now well-established in their school routines but are also looking forward to their upcoming break for SCACS Teachers Convention this week. Amanda Kish’s secondgraders are enjoying learning their continents and oceans using songs. Fourth-grade students are enjoying their classroom that has a world travel theme centering on the Bible verse Psalm 37:23a “For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth.” This year, students in eighth grade are making a transition into high school by changing classes more and having a wider variety of teachers. SCS is blessed to have new teacher, Laura Padgett, to lead elementary and junior high physical education classes. Several wearied freshmen have reported that she makes them run, but they’re grateful for the change of pace. — Miriam Marritt

ST. PAUL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPES students, faculty and staff are fired up and ready to go for the 2014-15 school year. Activities range from fall photos to Benchmark Testing. Mothers and mother figures are encouraged to visit the school on Thursday to enjoy a variety of muffins and learn about their student’s education.

SCOTT’S BRANCH MIDDLE/ HIGH SCHOOL Sixteen students at Scott’s Branch Middle School were recently recognized as candidates for the South Carolina Junior Scholars Program. Students must score Exemplary on both the Math and English

Language Arts sections of the Palmetto Assessment of State Standard to achieve this honor. These students represent some of the tops students in the state according to their performance on the PASS test. They will take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test on Oct. 15 and must score 50 or higher. Middle School Junior Scholars candidates are: Damontae Furman, Anaiya Jackson, Faith Lawson, Jordan Caldwell, Dynasti Brunson, David Allen, Deondre Brunson, Sarah Middleton, Letia Davis, Xavier Bennett, JuJuan Lyons, Domonique Bell, Kendrick Lesesne, Gabriel Oliver, Adriannah Johnson and Leslie Stevens — Beverly Spry

Thomas Sumter Academy SPEAKING PROGRAM KICKS OFF Thomas Sumter Academy recently kicked off the first session of its Generals Speak public speaking program. Throughout the school year students in fifth, eighth and 12th grades get the opportunity to practice public speaking in front of their peers by delivering brief speeches. Four seniors will be the next to share their Generals Speak speeches during a high school assembly on Wednesday. School officials said the school year-long program is an important part of the curriculum that is intended to build confidence and ease common fears associated with public speaking. Generals Speak topics range from personal memories and aspirations to the influence of faith on daily life and how education at Thomas Sumter Academy is preparing students for college. All students in fifth, eighth and 12th grades participate in Generals Speak during designated times between the months of September and April. — Kim Roedl

Morris College DEDICATION CEREMONY: NEW RESIDENCE HALL The Morris College campus community and special guests will convene on Wednesday at 10 a.m. to formally dedicate the new women’s and men’s residence hall. This is the college’s newest residence hall and is a part of the capital development campaign made possible through the 10 million dollar gift given by the Rev. Dr. Solomon Jackson Jr. in 2010. During the ceremony, the building will be named in honor of four phenomenal supporters and Baptist leaders. The women’s side will be named in honor of the late Annie Mae Bowman and the late Audree A. Clark. The men’s side will be named in honor of the late Daisy B. Alexander and the late Lewis P. Graham Sr. The event is free and open to

the public.

MEANS TO DELIVER SENIOR CLASS ADDRESS This week’s assembly program hosted by the Class of 2015 will held on Thursday. The theme focus for this year is “Maximizing Your True Potential.” Senior class president, Kevin D. Means will deliver the senior class address. Means, a business administration major, is from Jonesville. — NiCole Williams Lynch

USC Sumter STORYTELLING CONFERENCE SET FOR SATURDAY The South Carolina Center for Oral Narration at USC Sumter will host the South Carolina Storytelling Conference on Saturday in the Arts and Letters Building. Workshops and storytelling opportunities are available for new and experienced storytellers at this all-day event. Special sessions have been designed for educators and CEU credit is available. This year’s featured storyteller is John Fowler, who will present a workshop and give a performance. Other sessions will be led by Marilyn Izzard, Debbie Jarrett, Martha Reed Johnson, Cathy Jo Nelson, Cora Newcomb, Frances Lee O’Neal and Hendrikus van Bulck. Fowler’s session will begin at 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Fowler is an Appalachian storyteller and mountain musician, song collector, writer and radio host. His grandparents were from the hills and hollers of the southern Appalachian Mountains. His roots and programs represent these ties. John has been performing for more than 25 years at festivals, schools, colleges and camps. He is a regional favorite at the Stories for Life Festival, Stone Soup Storytelling Festival, Starburst Storytelling Festival, Hagood Mill Storytelling Festival and Augusta Bakers Dozens Festival, as well as many others. In 2013, Fowler received the prestigious Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award presented by the South Carolina General Assembly. This award given acknowledges his lifetime achievement as a storyteller and traditional musician. Fowler is also the author of “Trotting Sally: The Roots and Legacy of a Folk Hero.” The book tells two tales: the story of Trotting Sally, a once familiar street musician to residents of the upcountry of South Carolina and western North Carolina; and the real man few knew. George Mullins, who lifted himself out of slavery and built a new life. For more information about the South Carolina Storytelling Conference, visit www.uscsumter.edu. Questions about the conference should be directed to mnreese@uscsumter. edu or 938-3755. — Misty Hatfield

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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Personal” by Lee Child 2. “Festive in Death” by J.D. Robb 3. “Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good” by Jan Karon 4. “The Eye of Heaven” by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake 5. “The Witch With No Name” by Kim Harrison 6. “Mean Streak” by Sandra Brown 7. “The Children Act” by Iam McEwan 8. “The King’s Curse” by Philippa Gregory 9. “Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot” by Reed Farrel Coleman

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Adventure is at hand Shepherd’s Center starts fall programs BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com Learning is an adventure at the Shepherd’s Center of Sumter, and after a summer hiatus, classes will get underway on Thursday. It’s not too late to sign up, said Jeanette Roveri, executive director of the center that serves members 50 years of age and older. She noted that while Adventures in Learning classes were Registration: In person at not held durShepherd’s Center of Sumter ing the sumThe Trinity Lincoln Center mer, the cen24 Council St. ter was not By mail: PO Box 282 inactive. “The trip Sumter, SC 29151 to New Or(803) 773-1944 leans was a huge success ... and the New Orleans nights were exciting ... ,” Roveri said. A variety of trips have been offered through the Shepherd’s Center over the past several years, and there will be one in November to Myrtle Beach to attend Christmas shows and visit the sculpture garden, Brookgreen Gardens; members can also sign up for a weeklong trip to Dutch Country in Lan-

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Brenda Keyson works on a Halloween design in the advanced card-making class taught by Mary Ronnerman at the Shepherd’s Center of Sumter. Fall classes begin on Thursday, but it’s not too late to register. caster, Pennsylvania, in June 2015. Costs are very affordable, Roveri noted. Adventures in Learning — classes on a wide variety of subjects — is the

mainstay of the center; however. They vary in length, and some are offered on alternate weekdays, as well. Roveri noted that the classes offer stimulation for the body as well as the brain, with aerobics, tai chi, line dancing, bowling, yoga and “Sit to Be Fit.” Other classes offered include perennial favorites Bridge for Beginners, crochet, knitting, Bible study, canasta, beginning sign language, advanced quilting, Swedish weaving, computers, card making, china painting, floral arrangement, short stories, watercolor, decoupage and collage and more. Nick Zlotnicki’s topic for his geography class this year is very timely: Regional Makeup of Europe will concentrate on the current Russia-Ukraine conflict. A buffet luncheon is offered at 12:15 p.m. between Thursday’s morning and afternoon classes, accompanied by entertainment from local musicians and speakers. The cost is $6. Membership in the Shepherd’s Center is $20 per year; current memberships expire Dec. 31. A one-time class fee of $20 covers as many classes as an individual can take. Some classes require a small additional fee for materials. Brochures with complete information and schedules are available at the center, 24 Council St.

PUBLIC INFORMATION CLASSES 11 a.m. Thursdays Free to public • Sept. 25 — Health Care Power of Attorney, Living Wills, DNR orders Presented by J. Cabot Seth, Esq., of Jones, Seth, Shuler and Jones LLP • Oct. 2 — Fall lawn care & pest prevention Clemson Extension Services • Oct. 9 — Self defense for Women Cpl. Eddie Hobbes, Sheriff’s Office • Oct. 16 — Genealogy: Research, record family history on computer Ford Simmons, Sumter County Library • Oct. 23 — Veterans talk about war experiences Retired Chaplain, Col. Charles T. Clanton • Oct. 30 — Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Sgt. Michael Bean, Sumter Sheriff’s Office • Nov. 6 — Health Aging Jeanne Price Pack, Tuomey Community Health & Wellness coordinator • Nov. 13 — Peace of Mind through Meditation Dr. Gus Becker

Dawn Wells looks back at ‘Gilligan’s Island’ BY NICK THOMAS Tinseltown Talks What should have been “a three-hour tour” turned into a 50-year journey for Dawn Wells, who played castaway Mary Ann Summers in the zany sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” that debuted on CBS in September, 1964. “I’m still talking and writing about the show, and it continues to gain new fans,” said Wells, from her Los Angeles home. “If you’re a 10-year-old kid watching the show today, there’s not much to date it – a desert island is a desert island!” To celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary, Wells recently released her new book “What Would Mary Ann Do? — A Guide to Life,” co-written with Steve Stinson (see www. dawnwells.com). “I wrote the book partly in response to fans over the years,” she said. “It’s amazing that so many people still appreciate Mary Ann’s sense of values.” While there are a few “Gilligan’s Island” stories in the book, the focus is on down-toearth advice from Mary Ann’s – and Dawn’s – perspective. “It was a fun, silly show that made you laugh and didn’t preach to the audi-

ence,” she says. “But there was an awful lot in the character of Mary Ann that kids could learn from today: she was fair, she pitched in to help, she had standards, she wasn’t worried about a $500 purse, and she would be your best friend you could trust.” Beyond “Gilligan’s Island,” Wells says she performed in more than 150 television and film roles, and appeared in more than 50 theatrical productions in which she continues to work today. But acting, she says, was never her original career plan. “I wanted to be a pediatric surgeon!” said Wells, who turns 76 in October. “I took a theater course, and my professor said I was so good that I

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The cast of the 1960s hit comedy, “Gilligan’s Island,” is, seated from left, Russell Johnson, Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr. and Dawn Wells. Standing, from left, are Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer and Tina Louise. Only Wells and Louise are living.

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urricane Hugo hit Sumter in the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 22, 1989. The Item, like so many businesses, lost power and with it the ability to print the Friday afternoon or Saturday morning edition. A small Item crew traveled to Orangeburg that weekend, and with the help of The Times and Democrat, The Item’s “We’re down, but not out” edition was printed on Sunday, Sept. 24. This edition’s front is reprinted below. Jumps from each story can be read on D7 exactly as they were printed that day.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements

Dogs

Tuesday, September 23, 2014, is the last day to redeem winning tickets in the following South Carolina Education Lottery Instant Games: (630) Payoff; (650) High 5's; (651) Monopoly

Labradoodle Golden, 7wks $500 Call 316-0489 www.jmelberg.wix.co m/marthas-puppies

Card of Thanks

MERCHANDISE In Loving Memory Of Herman "Yogi" Bowers 01/14/1944 - 09/21/2011 We love and miss you. Children, Grands & Great Grands

BUSINESS SERVICES Demolition, Hauling, Dumping We haul small or large loads. All kinds of dirt & rock. All types of mulch, firewood or loads of uncut wood. Great prices! Call 803-983-2459

Auctions ADVERTISE YOUR AUCTION in 107 S.C. newspapers for only $375. Your 25-word classified ad will reach more than 2.6 million readers. Call Donna Yount at the S.C. Newspaper Network, 1-888-727-7377. Absolute Auction - 14 Properties Houses - Acreage Tracts - Mobile Homes - Lots - Marlboro County Salesite: The Skye, 210 E. Main St., Bennettsville, SC - Saturday, September 27, 11AM Damon Shortt Real Estate & Auction Group 877-669-4005 SCAL2346 www.dam onshorttproperties.com

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Help Wanted Full-Time

Statewide Employment

DISH TV Retailer - Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 mos.) & High Speed Internet starting at $14.95/month (where available.) SAVE! Ask About SAME DAY Installation! CALL Now! 1-800-635-0278

Landscape Laborer 16 Temporary openings, 1/5/2015 -10/31/2015. Tidewater Government Contracts, Inc., Sumter, SC. Transportation provided from main office to the work location in Sumter County. Landscape or maintain property using tools or equipment. Tasks may include haul topsoil and raking dirt for final sod preparation; installing and watering of sod, dig holes for installation of small foundation plants around new constructed housing. $10.36/hr, O/T varies at $15.54/hr 40 hr/wk. 5 days/wk, 7:30am - 4:30 pm, hrs. may fluctuate due to weather. No exp. or educ. nec. Must be able to lift 50 lbs, work in adverse weather conditions, pass a government background check and a drug test paid by the employer. Apply directly with the employer. Fax resume to Tia Crandell at (912) 966-7395.

Under Employed... Want A New Career? Become A Truck Driver! Must Have Good Driving Record No Drug or Criminal Past 5 years Earn $45,000+ In 4 Short Weeks. Carrier Sponsored Training. Call 888-714-3759

Cemetery Plots- Two plots with vaults, opening/closing fees and granite marker with vase in Evergreen Memorial Park , Sumter, SC. Save thousands. Call 803-469-9763 DirectTV. 2 Year Savings Event! Over 140 channels only $29.99 a month. Only DirecTV gives you 2 YEARS of savings and a FREE Genie upgrade! Call 1-800-908-5974 Cemetery lot with 4 spaces at Sumter Cemetery. Call 469-8056. Firewood for Sale Will Deliver. Call 803 651-8672 REDUCE YOUR CABLE BILL!* Get a whole-home Satellite system installed at NO COST and programming starting at $19.99/mo. FREE HD/DVR Upgrade to new callers, SO CALL NOW 1-866-981-7319 Expert Tech, New & used heat pumps & A/C. Will install/repair, warranty; Compressor & labor $600. Call 803-968-9549 or 843-992-2364

Lawn Service The hearts of caring friends are often manifested in ways that can only be acknowledged with a heartfelt "Thanks to All". The family of Mary E Hunter is using this written form of communication to send our thanks to each of you. Please keep us in prayer as we are comforted by the hands of the Master. May His blessings be a part of your lives for the way you showed us your love and compassion. Ophelia, Josephine, Janie & John

Lost & Found

Four Seasons Lawn Care Serving Sumter for almost 20 yrs! Free est. 494-9169/468-4008 General Yard Maintenance Text or Call 803-847-3324

Legal Service DIVORCE is tough enough already! Don't let it hurt your wallet too! DIVORCE with or without children $150.00 Guaranteed. Includes name change and property settlement agreement. Call 1.888.247.5150 24/7. DIVORCE WITH OR WITHOUT children $125.00. Includes name change and property settlement agreement. SAVE hundreds. Fast and easy. Call 1-888-733-7165, 24/7

Septic Tank Cleaning Lost male Collie & Shiba Inu in the area of 261 before Beech Creek golf course. Has black harness w/ rabies tag & microchip. Answers to Crash. If found please call 484-793-1193.

METHODS OF PAYMENT: CASH, CASHIERS CHECK, CERTIFIED CHECK OR MONEY ORDER; OR A CHECK WITH LETTER OF CREDIT FROM YOUR BANK (UNLESS KNOWN BY THE AUCTION FIRM OR SWRTA). For more information you can contact us at 843-774-8742, ask for Betty or Mike Williams. If we are unavailable, please leave a message and we will get back in touch with you. WEB SITES ARE: bwauctions@aol.com or auctionzip.com Auctioneer: Mike Williams: S.C.A.L. # 682 N.C.A.L. # 2451 AUCTION FIRM # S.C. # 1295-F N.C. # 6907

In Memory

Ray Tobias & Company Septic tank pumping & services. (803) 340-1155. Ask about other discounts. $10 off for new customers when you mention this ad! www.raytobiasseptic.com

Tree Service STATE TREE SERVICE Worker's Comp & General liability insurance. Top quality service, lowest prices. 803-494-5175 or 803-491-5154 www.statetree.net Maggie Shelton Edwards 08/17/18 - 09/19/07 Gone yet not forgotten, Although we are apart, your spirit lives within us, Forever in our hearts. Love, Carrie, Allean, Willie, Jimmy, and your sister, Rosa Lee

The Santee Wateree RTA Will be holding an Auction On Saturday September 27, 2014 10:00 AM Viewing time - 9:00 AM At 129 S. Harvin St., Sumter, S.C. 29150 The Auction will be Hosted by B & W AUCTION INC. Up for Auction will be the following: VANS, CUTAWAYS AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT.

Ricky's Tree Service Tree removal, stump grinding, Lic & ins, free quote, 803-435-2223 or cell 803-460-8747. Mention this ad & get 10% off. A Notch Above Tree Care Full quality service low rates, lic./ins., free est BBB accredited 983-9721

ONLINE ONLY AUCTIONS! Antiques, Estate Furniture, Real Estate, Artworks, MORE! Visit www.rhlee.co m for scheduled events & details. R.H. Lee & Co. Auctioneers, Inc. Ridgeway, SC 803-337-2300 SCAL192

Farm Products

EMPLOYMENT Help Wanted Full-Time Full time Administrative Assistant needed with Quickbooks experience required. Apply in person @ 1282 N. Lafayette. No Phone Calls Please. Booth Rentals available for hair stylist and nail tech. Great location and working conditions. Call Trish 803-469-7755 F/T Optometric Assistant. Experience preferred but will train. Must work Saturdays. Will accept resumes on Wed. Sept. 24th from 1-4 pm at H. Rubin Vision Center, 1057 Broad St., Sumter Mall. No phone calls please. The #1 Furniture Retail Company in the U.S. is seeking highly motivated individuals with outgoing personalities to join our Sales Team. Candidates must have a working knowledge of computers. They will be required to build sales volume by providing superior customer service and knowledge of product and finance options. This full time position is based on a flexible work schedule that includes evenings, Saturdays and some holidays. Offering unlimited income potential based on commission and bonuses. Guaranteed salary during training process. Send resume to 2850 Broad St., Sumter, SC 29150.

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales

Seeking an Exp HVAC installer. Needs to be experienced with duct fabrication and installation of duct work with residential and some light commercial equipment. Salary based upon experience. Paid vacation and benefits. Call Lowery Heating and Air 803-778-2942 MonFri 8am-5pm.

LARGE GARAGE SALE 1st & 3rd Weekend Tables $2

MIG WELDERS INDUSTRIAL CSR WAREHOUSE MANAGER INSURANCE CSR

For sale Sweet Potatoes Call 803-473-3355.

FLEA MARKET BY SHAW AFB

Open every weekend. 905-4242

Apply at 344 W. Liberty St. Norman Williams & Associates www.williamstemporary.com

STC Now Hiring Diesel Mechanic Qualified candidates must have: •Valid driver license •High School Diploma or GED •Three years or more of diesel mechanical experience •Must provide tools / picture at interview

STC offers competitive salary and benefits EOE and Drug Free Workplace Contact - Pat Joyner 803-775-1002 x107 Media Specialist-Clarendon School District One is currently accepting resumes for an Elementary Media Specialist. Please send resumes’ to: Clarendon School District One, PO Box 38, Summerton, SC, 29148.

Help Wanted Part-Time $$$ AVON $$$ FREE TRAINING! 803-422-5555

Schools / Instructional

ADVERTISE YOUR DRIVER JOBS in 107 S.C. newspapers for only $375. Your 25-word classified ad will reach more than 2.6 million readers. Call Donna Yount at the S.C. Newspaper Network, 1-888-727-7377. ATTN: Drivers $$ RECENT PAY INCREASE $$ 4 CPM Raise for Every Driver + Bonuses 401k + Insurance Paid Training/Orientation CDL-A Req - (877) 258-8782 www.ad-drivers.co m AVERITT EXPRESS New Pay Increase For Regional Drivers! 40 to 46 CPM + Fuel Bonus! Also, Post-Training Pay Increase for Students! (Depending on Domicile) Get Home EVERY Week + Excellent Benefits. CDL-A req. 888-602-7440 Apply @ AverittCareers.com Equal Opportunity Employer - Females, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. GUARANTEED PAY! CLASS-A CDL FLATBED DRIVERS NEEDED! Local, regional, OTR. Great pay package/benefits/401k match. 1yr exp. required. Call JGR 864-488-9030 Ext. 319, Greenville and Gaffney SC locations. www.jgr-i nc.com OTR DRIVERS- Local carrier needs company drivers. Southeast & Midwest lanes, home most weekends. Vacation, Holidays, Ins., Ard Trucking, 1702 N. Gov. Williams Hwy, Darlington SC., 843-393-5101 Bulldog Hiway Express seeking Experienced CDL-A, Flatbed drivers for Regional service. Earn $900/week. Home every weekend & some wk days. $1000 sign on to Qualified drivers. Must have: GOOD MVR/Work record. 843-266-3731 w ww.bulldoghiway.com EOE

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Statewide Employment Experienced OTR Flatbed Drivers earn 50 up to 55 cpm loaded. $1000 sign on to Qualified drivers. Home most weekends. Call: 843-266-3731 / www.bulldoghiway.com EOE

RENTALS Rooms for Rent Female roommate wanted to share large home. Call 803-565-7924. ROOM For Rent Bi-weekly or monthly. Near Morris College. Kit. privileges, all utilities incl 469-4668

Unfurnished Apartments

$1000 sign-on bonus! Dedicated positions available close to home. Great percentage pay, miles, benefits, paid orientation & training. Home Time Guarantee at Hornady! Call Now: 800-441-4271, www.drivehorn ady.com

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

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2014 BUICK ENCLAVE 436 $

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2013 KIA OPTIMA 240 $

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2014 FORD F-150 CREW CAB $ 391 $

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2013 FORD FUSION SE 225 $

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2013 KIA RIO 165 $

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2013 KIA SOUL 210 $

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2013 FORD FIESTA 180 $

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2013 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 195 $

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2013 CHRYSLER 200 195 $

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2013 DODGE AVENGER 180 $

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12,995

2013 FORD FOCUS SE 180 $

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2014 GMC ACADIA 421 $

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28,995

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2013 HYUNDAI SONATA 210 $

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19,995 P7726

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2013 HONDA CIVIC SI 286 $

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2014 FORD EXPEDITION LIMITED $ 511 $

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2014 FORD EDGE 376 $

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25,995

P7711

2013 FORD F-150 XL 271 $

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18,995

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2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU 225 $

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2013 CHEVROLET CAPTIVA 225 $

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2013 TOYOTA COROLLA 210 $

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2013 NISSAN ALTIMA 225 $

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2013 VOLKSWAGON BEETLE $ 210 $

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2013 MAZDA 3 180 $

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2013 CHEVROLET CRUZ 195 $

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2013 GMC TERRAIN 286 $

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19,995

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2012 HONDA CIVIC 195 $

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2013 CHEVROLET EQUINOX $ 286 $

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2012 MINI COOPER 225 $

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2011 HONDA ODYSSEY 361 $

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2014 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE $ 421 $

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28,995

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CLASSIFIEDS

THE ITEM Unfurnished Homes

Homes for Sale

Between Sumter & Bishopville 3BR 1BA C/H/A Appl. $575 Mo. + Dep Call 803-469-8328 or 983-9711

Mobile Home Rentals

REAL ESTATE AUCTION

2 br, 1 ba S/W in Windsor City for rent. $450 mo. + dep. Will accept Section 8. 464-5559 Oaklawn MHP: 2 BR M.H.'s, water /sewer/garbage pk-up incl'd. RV parking avail. Call 494-8350 2/3BR MH. All appliances, C/H/A, Section 8 OK 803-469-6978 or 803-499-1500

1800 VINTAGE COURT SUMTER, SC

5 Br, 3 Ba, mostly furnished, fenced in backyard, Lee State Park Rd. Bishopville. Call 803-229-2474. 760 Goodson 2BR 2BA Mo.+Dep. Call 803-236-3230 Four Seasons Realty

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STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015 GOING FAST 2 & 3BR 2BA Homes available immediately! Site rent as low as $175. Refer a friend & get $150. For more info please call 803-469-8515 or visit us at www.mh comm.com. 16X80 on .075 acre lot in Wedgefield; very clean and roomy, 2BR 2BA, refridge, dw, & stove. fenced in backyard, front & back porches, $500 Dep $500 Mo. No sec 8 Call Brad 983-9065

BEAUTIFUL 4/5 BR HOME IN GATED COMMUNITY! GRANITE, HARDWOODS, LANDSCAPING, APPLIANCES AND PRIVACY... READY TO MOVE IN! PREVIEWS ON 9/21 & 9/28 • 2-5PM 9/23 & 9/25 • 4-7PM OR BY APPOINTMENT

Vacation Rentals

BID ONLINE ANYTIME, OR ONSITE ON SEPTEMBER 30, 4-6PM

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AUCTION CLOSES SEPTEMBER 30! DETAILS AT WWW.JRDIXONAUCTIONS.COM RAFE DIXON, SCAL 4059 (803) 774-6967

Commercial Rentals 34 Bridge Court, Unit 4 & 5. This is a 3,500 sq. ft. warehouse w/ 2 office spaces. Rent is $850 per Mo. Call C-21 Hawkins & Kolb 803-773-1477

REAL ESTATE Land & Lots for Sale

Homes for Sale

DALZELL 16.57 ACRES WATER, PAVED ROAD $2250/ACRE 888-774-5720

House for Sale Silent Auction 20 Calhoun Dr. Sumter, SC 29150 3/4 Bedroom, 3.5 baths, 1 Yr Home Warranty, Renovated 2009 30 Year Roof Landscaped Irrigation System. Owners Retiring To Lake Marion. All Reasonable Offers Accepted. Open House Sundays 2-4 pm or by Appointment 803-236-3970

2 ac, Manning, Lake Marion. Will perk, 5 mins. to water. M.H. welcome. Paved road, lightly wooded. $19,900. Owner will finance. Down payment. $2,000. Payment, $202. Call anytime. 473-7125

Commercial Industrial Church Facility located at 16 Kendrick St. Move in ready. 10,195 sq ft on 2.35 acres with 1,040 sq ft picnic shelter. Chapel, Fellowship Hall, Sunday School Rooms, Office Complex and Full Working Kitchen. Contact Talmadge Tobias at ReMax Summit 803-491-4573.

RECREATION

Boats / Motors

Land & Lots for Sale

Land for sale in Sumter, Manning. Hunting land available. Owner fin. Call 452-6260

PUBLIC AUCTION Auction Notice is hereby given that the contents of the rental cube list herein will be offered for sale at the public auction per the S.C. Storage Act. The property list contained herein will be sold to satisfy liens imposed by American Storage on 10-7-14 at 1:00 PM, or thereafter. The sale will occur on the premises at American Storage, located at 4194 Broad Street, Sumter, SC 29154 in the county of Sumter SC. #93 Debra Schull - Ladder to a bed, bags. #214 Harold Gibson - Antique Stereo, household items. American Storage reserves the right to reject all bids. All contents are sold "as is". Contents of the Cube must be removed immediately or the storage Cube containing the items must be rented by the purchaser. Sale is subject to cancellation at any time.

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER SUMTER TRANSPORT, Plaintiff, vs. GLENN FISHER, Defendant. An Execution of Judgment issued by the Court of Common Pleas for the County and State aforesaid for satisfaction of judgment docketed in said County on the November 3, 2004 in favor of the Plaintiff(s) and against the Defendant(s) in the above entitled case for the sum of $1,008.07, plus costs. The said judgment was assigned to B & S Rentals on July 11, 2014. The Execution of Judgment has directed and caused the Sheriff of Sumter County to levy upon the following described real property: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, lying, situate and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown on that certain plat of R.F. McLellan, C.E., Dated December 1, 1942, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat book S-5, at page 182. Pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws Of South Carolina (1976, as amended), reference to said plat is hereby craved for the Metes, bounds, courses and/or distance of the property delineated thereon. This property is shown in the records of the Sumter County Treasurer's Office as tax map parcel number

-Also any other applicable statutory and/or recorded liens affecting said property. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid price must be posted at the time of sale. Sale will be subject to upset bidding which may be submitted to the undersigned for a period of thirty days following the sale. During said period any person other than the highest bidder at the sale or any representative thereof may enter a higher bid upon complying with the terms of sale by making the necessary five percent (5%) deposit as a guaranty of his good faith, and thereafter within such period any person, other than such highest bidder at the sale or any representative thereof, may in like manner raise the last highest bid, and the successful purchaser shall be deemed to be the person who submitted the last highest bid within such period and made the necessary deposit or guaranty. Provided, however, the bidding shall be reopened on November 6, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. in Courtroom 1-A of the Sumter County Judicial Center, 215 N. Harvin Street, Sumter, SC and the bidding shall continue until the sales officer announces the bidding closed. The successful high bidder must immediately then fully comply with the sales price by remitting same in cash. Failure to immediately comply will result in the resale of the property at the risk of the defaulting purchaser. Sale is made AS-IS without any warranty, guaranty or any other representations by the undersigned or any other party as to the status and/or marketability of the title to said property or as to any other conditions of the property. Anthony Dennis Sumter County Sheriff

BID SOLICITATION A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held at Oakland Primary School, 5415 Oakland Drive, Sumter, SC 29154, in the Lobby area, on Monday, September 29, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. The scope of work is to seam metal panels on roof. You will receive bid packets at the Pre-Bid Conference. Sealed bids will be opened on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 2:00 p.m., in the Maintenance Department, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter, SC 29150.

Summons & Notice

Abandoned Boat Notice To all persons claiming an interest in: 1970 14 foot Jon Boat. Ryan Anderson will apply to SCDNR for title on watercraft/outboard motor. If you have any claims to the watercraft/outboard motor, contact SCDNR at (803) 734-3858. Upon thirty days after the date of the last advertisement if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft/outboard motor has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title. Case No: 20140328950182. Abandoned Vehicle Notice: The following vehicle was abandoned at Cotton's Garage, 242 E. Calhoun Street, Sumter, SC 29150. Described as a 2001 Ford F150, VIN # 1FTZX17241NB61889. Total Due for storage is $2,700.00 as of January 20, 2014, plus $30.00 per day thereafter. Owner is asked to call 803-773-0341. If not claimed in 30 days. it will be turned over to the Magistrate's Office for public sale.

Summons & Notice SUMMONS IN THE FAMILY COURT THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2012-DR-43-1319 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Marcella Ann Smalls Swain PLAINTIFF vs. Kevin Dewayne Smith DEFENDANT TO THE NAMED:

Bid Notices

DEFENDANT

ABOVE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is hereswith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office at 126 Main Street, Sumter, South Carolina, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING

INVITATION TO BID The County of Sumter is soliciting separate sealed bids from qualified vendors to furnish One (1) 2015 SuperCrew 4x4 Pick-up Truck for Sumter County, 13 East Canal Street, Sumter, South Carolina 29150. Specifications may be obtained from the County of Sumter, Office of the Purchasing Agent, 13 East Canal Street, Sumter, South Carolina 29150.The County of Sumter reserves the right to reject any or all bids. The County of Sumter reserves the right to waive any or all technicalities.

TMS#251-01-02-039 W RED BAY RD. SUMTER, SC 29150

TAKE NOTICE that the Ex Parte Order, Summons and Complaint in the above captioned matter, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on the 13th day of September, 2012. Lee, Erter, Wilson, Holler & Smith, L.L.C. 126 North Main Street Post Office Box 580 Sumter, South Carolina 29151 803-778-2471 ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF

SUMMONS AND NOTICES

Defendant(s) TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their office, 1300 Pickens Street, Columbia, SC 29201 within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, 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 the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on July 21, 2014

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, (hereinafter "Order"), you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention. To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Korn Law Firm, P.A., Post Office Box 12369, Columbia, SC 29211, or call (803) 252-5817. Korn Law Firm, P.A., represents the Plaintiff in this action and does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice. You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date of this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY/AGENT MAY PROCEED WITH A FORECLOSURE ACTION. If you have already pursued loss mitigation with the Plaintiff, this Notice does not guarantee the availability of loss mitigation options or further review of your qualifications. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. Korn Law Firm, P.A. 1300 Pickens Street Columbia, SC 29201 BY: KRISTEN E. WASHBURN Attorney for Plaintiff

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) Deficiency Waived C/A NO: 2014-CP-43-01481

This property was conveyed to Glenn Fisher by William W. Fraser, Jr., as Custodian for Savannah D. Fraser, under the South Carolina Uniform Gifts to Minors Act and by Savannah D. Fraser, Age 18, DOB 11/7/1988, by deed dated May 10, 2007 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in book 1077, at page 703 on May 11, 2007. Said Property will be sold at Public Auction to the highest bidder in Courtroom 1-A, Sumter County Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, South Carolina on October 6, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Minimum bid for the property must be in the amount of the Homestead Exemption, if applicable, plus the amount of the judgment plus costs and interest through the date of sale, and no bid less than that amount will be accepted. The property will be sold for cash, AS-IS, subject to all applicable liens and/or encumbrances, which may include but is not necessarily limited to the following:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER

-West Sumter, LLC by virtue of money of judgment filed 6/26/006 in judgment roll 2006CP4300220.

TRANSPORTATION

-Horace Richburg by virtue of money judgment filed 3/28/07 in judgment roll 2007CP4300656. -McElveen Manor, Inc., by virtue of money judgment filed 11/5/008 in judgment roll 2007CP4301052.

Mopeds / ATVs / Motorcycles 1997 Honda 750 Chromed out, night strobe lights. Good condition 1,850.00 Call 481-4862

Vans / Trucks / Buses 1995 Astro Van, Pwr everything. Front & rear AC, dependable trans. $1800 OBO. 803-972-0771

Autos For Sale 1996 Nissan Maxima Exc. cdtnclean inside and out. 150K mi. $3500 Call 803-447-5453 American Auto Sales 803-775-2344 We have church buses and Crown Victorias

Plaintiff, vs. Teresa L. Feagin a/k/a Teresa L. Simmons, Teresa C. Osborne, and Discover Bank,

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014 • 2:00 - 4:00 PM 20 DELORME CT. SUMTER, SC For Sale by Owner

-South Carolina Department of Revenue by virtue of numerous tax liens of record in the relevant indices of said Register of Deeds Office.

Honda Four Stroke, 9.9, 14 ft alum. camo boat & trailer, exc. boat. $1800 OBO. 803-972-0771

5775 Cane Savannah Rd. 1 ac. on main hwy. City water. Close to Shaw AFB. $8,900 803-983-2261 MINS WALMART/SHAW AC +/- SEPTIC, WATER $12,900. 888-774-5720

Legal Notice

Bank of America, N.A.,

Manufactured Housing Looking for your DREAM HOME? LOW CREDIT SCORE? Been turned down for bad credit? Come try us, we do our own financing. We have 2-3-4 bedroom homes. For more information, call 843-389-4215.

LEGAL NOTICES

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 Abandon Vehicle / Boat

1866 SF, 3BR, 2.5BA, Condo. Heart of Historic District.

The Housing Authority of the City of Sumter has developed its Agency Plan in compliance with the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998. It is available for review at the Authority’s office located at 15 Caldwell Street, Sumter, S.C. Our office hours are Monday - Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Friday 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. A public hearing will be held on September 22, 2014 at the Authority’s office at 4:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

2003 Crown Victoria 89K actual mi. Excellent cdtn. $2995 Call 803-983-1394

CASH FOR CARS Get rid of your car, fast! We want to buy your vehicle, whether you’re trading or not.

CALL NOW for a free quote: 803-433-5400 Ask for David Hill

2601 Paxville Hwy. Manning, SC 803-433-5400 www.santeeautomotive.com

DRIVERS WANTED “SIGN ON BONUS - $2,000”

.45/mi on all miles • Layover Pay • Loading/unloading $15 from 1st hr Guaranteed Minimum Pay • Achievable Goals for Lucrative Incentives - CDL (Class A) w/ hazmat & tanker - At least 2 yrs. exp. - Clean MVR - Excellent pay ($.45 per running mile - includes $.06 per diem non-taxable expense) - Paid Vacation - Paid Holidays - Paid Sick Days - BC/BS Health Ins. - Dental Insurance - Life Insurance - Short Term Disability - 401(k) w/co. Match

CONTACT Pat Joyner at 803-775-1002 Ext. 107 OR visit our website to download a job application and fax to (954) 653-1195 www.sumtertransport.com 170 S. Lafayette Drive Sumter, SC 29150 EOE

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25 YEARS LATER

THE SUMTER ITEM

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

SUMTER FROM PAGE D1 houses, 553 mobile homes, 56 multiple dwellings and 60 businesses suffered minor damage. According to Sumter County Civil Defense Director Vic Jones, no portion of the county was hit hardest. “It’s all over,” he said of the destruction. Hugo’s random vengeance indeed was both widespread and extensive, spreading from downtown to the far reaches of the county and crippling businesses from golf courses to convenience stores. Humberto-Hemana Patel, owner of The Downtown Motel on North Main Street, said he was hiding in his bathroom when Hugo stormed his place. “The walls started roaring and the doors started pulling,” he said Friday morning. When Patel came out, his plate glass windows were gone and most of his lobby furniture was in the street. “I said, ‘God, I’m just glad to be alive.’ I just went back into the restroom and closed the door.” Main Street, now overlooked by a faceless Opera House clock, has been generally described as “a mess” by store owners who are still clearing their merchandise and debris from the sidewalks and streets. “It looks like a war zone down here,” Pharmacist Betty Stover said Friday as she swept glass out of an open wall at Alderman’s Drugs. “I just feel lucky we are all still alive. That’s the important thing. This can all be replaced. It will take some hard work, but we can replace it.” Stover said that on her way to the drug store Friday morning, she was “wondering what would be left after what all I saw on the way here.” “It’s just devastating. Where

do you start?” Bennie and Jennifer Wilson, both in their mid-20s, will be starting over. They and their two small children had just moved into their new mobile home in the Kingsman Heights subdivision on Fagen Street just off South Lafayette Drive. They stayed at Jennifer’s mother’s Thursday night. When they returned home Friday morning, their home was flipped, sitting upside down, about 20 feet from its steps. Their brand new furniture and appliances were scattered throughout their yard. “Everything is gone,” Jennifer said through her tears. “We lost everything. We’ve got to start from scratch.” “I was just devastated and upset” she said of her first look at her demolished trailer. “I felt inside that it had gotten blown away, but I just couldn’t accept that. When I saw it, it just took all the life out of me. “When I was coming home this morning, I was planning on cleaning up, not cleaning out. Hopefully, I will never have to buy another mobile home.” Countless others were just as unfortunate. “We didn’t get hit, we got ripped,” said Elizabeth Doidge, who saw her mobile home in Wedgefield smashed to pieces as she fled her mother’s trailer just as it fell off its blocks. Doidge spent the rest of the night with her husband Jeff, her two small children, her mother-in-law Dorothy and two bassett hounds in a 23-foot-long Shasta motor home. They were the only people left in the 30-lot subdivision. The mother home, amazingly, weathered the storm. Elizabeth and Jeff’s mobile home didn’t fare so well. “We lost everything,” she said. She was wearing her

LOOTERS FROM PAGE D1 power, leaving the city pitch black when daylight fell. National Guard troops armed with M-16s have stood on the street corners in the downtown area for the past two nights. They stand guard at stores that have been ravaged by the worst storm in Sumter County history. Glass blown out of storefront windows by Hugo’s furious gusts cracks under their heavy boots as they walk their sidewalk beats. Twisted metal siding and bricks are scattered on the eavement. It is the job of the Guard to turn away anyone without official business, and as a result, what used to be the city’s downtown has been transformed into a ghost town. A group of several Guardsmen dressed in combat fatigues had stopped two young black men just hours after the curfew had taken effect on Friday. One yelled for them to stop when they came from between two downtown build-

ings. But the men started to run and were chased to the corner of Liberty and Main. They were stopped there and surrounded. As Guardsmen trained their rifles on the pair, a city police officer searched them and found what turned out to be a plastic replica of a pistol. The men were although it is unknown if they were charged with any criminal act. Shortly thereafter, a shot rang out somewhere on South Main Street, and several Guardsmen rushed toward the sound of the blast. However, a uniformed troop later said that a Guardsman appaently had accidently fired the shot while loading a clip into his rifle. The trooops operate against a backdrop of the sirens and flashing emergency lights of ambulances, fire trucks and police cars. Maj. Frank Holloway of the National Guard said 40 men from the Sumter 151st Field

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A resident goes through what is left of her mobile home after the storm left the area. mother’s clothes. Her children, ages 1 and 2, wore clothes donated by Wedgefield residents. “Most people have been coming back, crying, seeing what they can salvage and leaving,” said Jeff’s mother, Dorothy. “I’m just thanking God we are alive. Between the tears, I’m praising the Lord.” Tree damage caused most of the destruction throughout the county, with pines and oaks tearing through the sky like rain, landing on homes, cars and power lines from Rimini to Shiloh. “Some of the neighborhoods look like timber tracts that have been cut over,” Creech said. Nowhere is the tree damage more evident or as extensive than at local golf courses or in the Manchester State Forest. Greenskeeper Todd Kirsley was anxiously awaiting the first spurts from a new irrigation system just installed at the golf course at Pocalla Springs Country Club. The high-tech sprinkler system

was to be operational Monday. Now, after the uprooting of more than half the courses trees, he may wait several more months. “We’re just going to have to start all over,” Kirkley said Friday as he surveyed the damage. “It may be two weeks or months before we can reopen. We will try to get nine holes ready as quick as we can.” The damage at Sunset Country Club, Pineland Plantation and other area courses is reportedly just as extensive. The damage to the 28,000acre Manchester State Forest is “pretty extensive,” according to forester Dale Stoudemire. He said Poinsett State Park is also in “rough shape.” “The old, valuable timber caught it the worst,” he said. “We lost some complete stands.” Though actual damage won’t be known until much later, Stoudemire said the dollar loss could reach the millions. Civil defense officials will be out in the county Mon-

day surveying the damage again and trying to get an estimate for federal teams of the actual debris tonnage. In some communities, the only thing not crippled is the community spirit. “There’s a lot of neighborhood spirit out there,” said Maj. Frank Holloway of the Sumter National Guard. “We’ve got a lot of damage, but we’ve got a lot to be proud of. The place is getting cleaned up because of the citizens coming together.” “As the day pushed onward, I saw strength from the neighbors,” Creech said. “We have to draw strength from each other, help each other and clean this place up. “In the long-run, we will be stronger. The community will be stronger having lived through this.” “There is no question we have our work cut out for us getting Sumter back together,” City Councilman Bill Painter said. “But we will get it back together because of the spirit of this community.”

Artillery Brigade are patroling the city. Some are working local business districts on foot and others are roving the county in military vehicles or are teamed with local police. In addition, a total of 14 Guardsmen from a unit in Bishopville arrived in Sumter Saturday to help assist in the relief effort. City and county officials declared the dusk-to-dawn curfew during a meeting Friday at the Sumter County Courthouse. The 6 p.m. meeting was conducted in a stairwell near an exit where sun was shining through a window. It was not light enough in the room where they had planned to meet. The courthouse has been without power, except for the basement civil defense office, since Thursday. County Councilman Ruben Gray, the Rev. Otis Scott, Louis Fleming, Chuck Fienning and Joe Davis approved the imposition of the curfew in the unincorporated areas of the county. Mayor Creech, using special emergency powers, declared the city in a state

of emergency and ordered the curfew within city limits. The curfew, which applies to everyone except emergency officials and the news media, will last until the state of emergency is declared ended. Violation of the ordinance can lead to a $200 fine or 30 days in jail. In supporting the ordinance, Sumter County Sheriff Tommy Mims said that the city and county had both had problems with looters after the storm. He called the measure “drastic” but said it was necessitated by “drastic occurrences. Mims said most of the looting Friday night occurred in the areas around U.S. 521, U.S. 15 and Broad Street. Officials feeared the situation could get worse as people become frustrated without power and water. It is hoped that water may be flowing to some county homes as soon as tomorrow. But it could be weeks before power is restored to all areas of the county. Mims said looting started after the hurricane Thursday with people grabbing mer-

chandise from broken store windows. But, he said, “Last night we had some people kicking down doors.” To keep order, Civil Defense Director Vic Jones called in the National Guard and city and county police have increased their patrols. The South Carolina State Highway Patrol and State Law Enforcement Division are also helping police in the city and the outlying areas of Sumter County. As sheriff, Mims is the county’s chief law enforcement officer and is charged with coordinating police activity in times of emergency. He said the situation left by Hugo is a nightmare for police. “It’s a different world out there at night with no lights.” The sheriff said that the loss of street lights and traffic signals has caused some car crashes, “but not as many as I expected.” Drivers are asked to treat all intersections as four-way stops and should yield the right of way to all National Guard and other service vehicles.

PATIENCE FROM PAGE D1 Regional Medical Center and the city’s Plant No. 1. Jones said he hopes to have power to the hospital by late tonight, and water to city customers sometime Monday, but he noted that when the water is first turned on it will spurt from broken mains and sprinkler systems, limiting water pressure until leaks are stopped. When water is restored, “we’re talking about water for drinking and cooking, not running pool filters,” Jones said. Water for bathing and flashing toilets can be gathered from streams, ponds and backyard swimming pools; some Artesian wells in the county may provide drinking water. Security became an added concern Friday night. With no street lighting and front windows broken in many businesses, prevention of looting was added to the priority list. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was in effect from Friday night on. “It’s a different town when there aren’t any lights,” Jones said. “But when I see police

cars and National Guard vehicles out there with armed troops, it makes me feel better.” Daytime joyriders and sightseers were to be ticketed along with curfew violators starting Saturday. With many county roads cleared for barely one lane of traffic, Sheriff Tommy Mims warned residents, “Unless it’s absolutely essential, stay home.” Looting wasn’t the only problem facing law enforcement officials. Tension developed at distribution points for water, ice and gasoline. When promised ice didn’t arrive on time at the Kroger store on Broad Street Saturday night, National Guardsmen had to be dispatched to manage a crowd that eventually swelled to “easily thousands.” The problem was compounded when a Highway Patrol trooper stopped the driver hours later and held him, apparently thinking he wasn’t to be allowed to sell ice after curfew. The ice was eventually de-

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People gathered at several sites trying to obtain drinking water and gasoline. livered, apparently without further incident. A myriad of other problems began getting attention by Saturday. • Portable toilets were being installed at public buildings and nursing homes. • Announcements related to Hugo’s aftermath were scheduled for 30-minute intervals, on the half-hour, on local radio stations, to conserve radio batteries. • A public shower facility is planned for Second Mill Pond. Officials warned that setup

takes 18 to 24 hours, and residents are asked not to line up with their towels as soon as they see the tents arrive. • Work has started on setting up a disaster assistance center where residents can find many types of help under one roof. • Gas was available at many area stations, though lines were long and demand usually outlasted supply. “We’re trying to anticipate problems before they occur,” Jones said. “Lots of things are happening that we hadn’t

thought about.” At Civil Defense headquarters, where volunteers have manned phones around the clock since Thursday answering calls for help and information, he added, “The hardest thing is when someone calls and asks for help and you have to refuse, because it isn’t a priority.” While some people may feel officials aren’t responding to their needs, Jones asked everyone to look at the big picture. “People are calling us about the tree on the corner or the side of beef in the freezer. I would ask them to look around them, find someone who’s worse off and help that person,” he said. “Maybe we can help more with individual problems later or when we have more people.” “We have a big problem and it won’t go away in a few days. I would ask the people to be patient; we have tough decisions to make and we’re going to make a lot of mistakes,” Jones said. “We need help from the people to put Sumter County back together.”

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Despite opportunity, having patience a sign of growing up A lmost like clockwork the four come down the same trail every day around 7:30 p.m., two big does and two fawns. At 7:30 it is still light enough to see that one fawn still had the last vestiges of spots and the other had already outgrown his. Last Monday, Individual Antlerless Deer Tags became legal to use in South Carolina. Since two of the does are a pretty good size, and Earle since I had watched the Woodward little ones AFIELD & eating everyAFLOAT thing in sight instead of depending on momma, I made plans to take one of the big does home for dinner. Everyone remembers how much it rained the week before Sept. 15. There was a chance of rain every afternoon and, for the most part, it did indeed rain. Bowhunting and rain just do not mix well. Rain has a

tendency to flatten the fletchings that stabilize the arrow in flight, and if you do shoot something, the rain washes away the blood trail, making it almost impossible to track the animal. I never, ever like to lose anything I’ve shot. It’s not fair to the animals I pursued, so I don’t hunt in the rain or if there’s a high percentage chance of it. I’m thinking that in the deer hunting I’ve done over the years, the day the weather clears is usually a pretty good day to be in the woods. However, last Monday afternoon the wind direction would have blown my scent right into the area from which the deer had been coming. I elected to stay home and wait for a better wind, instead of having the deer get a whiff of my scent and change their pattern. On Tuesday afternoon, the wind was much better so I packed everything up and headed for the woods. The tree stand is in a big, sweet gum that has three trunks coming out of the stump and another tree growing right beside it, giving the effect of four trunks. I hooked

up to the Life Line and climbed to the stand and took a seat about 6:20. The wind was coming out of the north and blowing parallel to the trail the deer use and away from the direction from which they had been coming. Everything looked great. As so often happens to me, the wind shifted to the East around 7, and by 7:15 it was blowing out of the Southeast, exactly the wrong direction for my purposes. A few minutes later, it shifted back to the North, and then to the Northwest and back then back to the East; it was all over the place. I just had to hope that the four would show up at a time that the wind had swapped ends and was coming from the right place. So, the 7:30 time frame was approaching and I was staring straight up the path that the foursome had been using. I really expected to see movement among a group of small pines right where the forest floor falls off into a swampy area. The arrival time of 7:30 came and went and I was beginning to think that the wind had betrayed me when out of

the corner of my eye movement got my attention. From the exact opposite direction from which the deer had been coming, a deer headed up the trail. It was a nice doe, but appeared to be by itself. Nope, back down the trail another one was coming, but it was getting hard to see back up into the trees, so I couldn’t tell what it was or how big. By 7:45, the light in the woods was fading fast, and while I could make out all four deer of the herd, I couldn’t tell which ones were the big ones and which were the fawns as they moved among the short pines and sweet gums. It was just too dark and it was driving me crazy. It was kind of like trying to keep up with a flock of chickens: one minute they’re here and then they’re over there. At one point I was sure I was looking at one of the bigger ones, but she was quartering toward me, which is not an acceptable bow shot, and I could just make out the light circles around her eyes and the white hair on the insides of her ears. She was looking in my direction, but I couldn’t

tell if she was looking at me or past me, then she turned away and disappeared into the darkness. The rest followed her on up the trail. I had several shot opportunities, but I’ve learned a few things over the years. One is always judge the size of a doe by other does. A mom will be much larger than a fawn of the year, but you do need to have a couple of deer in front of you at a time. Of course, really big ones are no problem; it’s those 100-pounders that eat so good that I have a hard time judging. Second, once the light fades and you can no longer tell which way a deer is facing, don’t shoot. I’ve had several bad experiences because I was young and impulsive, and I just knew I could make that shot, but couldn’t. There was a time when I would have given it a try. On Tuesday, I thought better of it and I’m kind of proud of the fact that I did. I guess I’m growing up. Because I passed on them, I expect them to be back and another day may bring different results.

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Donn Hewes steers his work horses while harrowing a field at the Northland Sheep Dairy Farm in Marathon, N.Y. More small-scale farmers are turning to the use of horses.

Horse power gains favor among small-scale farmers MARATHON, N.Y. (AP) — While most modern farmers work their fields accompanied by the rumble of a trusty tractor, sheep farmer Donn Hewes labors to the faint jingling of harnesses in rhythm with the hoofbeats of horses and mules. He readily admits that horsepowered farming takes more time and effort than tractor farming. But as one of a growing number of small-scale farmers dedicated to keeping alive the art of the teamster, he’s fine with that. “People always want to know how many dollars an hour can I make, and can I really profit from farming with horses,” says Hewes. “We can, but to me, that’s the wrong question. I benefit in so many ways. I benefit from working with young stock, building fertility for the farm, and all the time I get to spend enjoying doing what I’m doing.” Hewes and his wife, Maryrose Livingston, own Northland Sheep Dairy on a hilltop in central New York, 40 miles south of Syracuse. Livingston milks grass-fed sheep and sells handmade cheese. Hewes, who has a night job as a firefighter, works about 100 acres of land with Percheron and Suffolk draft horses and mules pulling implements for haymaking, compost spreading, snow-plowing and log-hauling. Horse-powered farmers cite a number of reasons for eschewing engines. For example, hors-

es don’t use fossil fuels, their manure contributes to the farm’s fertility, and they cost less than tractors. As president of Draft Animal Power Network, Hewes is dedicated to mentoring and sharing experiences with other farmers who want to work with horses. “Young people are starting organic vegetable farms, realizing there’s an opportunity to make healthy food for local markets,” Hewes says. “A segment of that movement is finding out about draft animal power. That’s creating new demand for horse-powered equipment, and Amish businesses are responding to making equipment that’s smaller and more accessible to beginning farmers.” Dalton, Ohio-based Pioneer Equipment, an Amish manufacturer of horse-drawn farm implements, recently came out with the Homesteader for small farms. It has interchangeable parts for plowing, harrowing, discing, planting, cultivating and harvesting row crops such as carrots, onions and potatoes. It’s hard to quantify how many horse-powered farmers there are. Stephen Leslie, who runs a horse-powered dairy and vegetable farm in Hartland, Vermont, says he has seen a big increase since he and his wife started Cedar Mountain Farm 20 years ago. “When we started it was hard to find anyone with knowledge or equipment,” says Leslie,

whose book, “The New HorsePowered Farm,” was published in 2013. “Now, the networking is incredible.” Leslie says horse-powered farm equipment manufacturers, most of which are Amish, all report increasing sales and a growing number of non-Amish customers. “That’s one way to gauge the health of horse farming,” he says. The Draft Animal Power Network has grown to 400 members since it was formed in 2010, Hewes says. “We’ve had draft animal field days in the Northeast five out of the last seven years, and attendance keeps growing. There were over 1,000 last year at the event in Barton, Vermont.” On a recent afternoon, Hewes put a collar and harness on a young mule he bred from his Mammoth jack donkey and a Percheron mare. Hitching the mule to a chain attached to a heavy log, Hewes began a training session, communicating with whistles, low voice commands, and long leather lines attached to a bit. “When people want to get into this, I really encourage them to look for some mentorship so they can have safe beginnings,” Hewes says. “That can be a challenge, because most of the old-timers who were born to farming with horses are gone. Today, it’s up to people like me to fill the gap and provide mentorship. That’s something I really enjoy.”

Santee Cooper System Largemouth bass: Very slow. Bass fishing activity is light to non-existent on the Santee Cooper lakes right now. If anglers are willing to put in a lot of time fish may be catchable around cypress trees, but there is no easy pattern right now. Many fish are probably out deeper following bait schools where they are more difficult to target. In the Santee and Cooper Rivers there is better bass fishing right now. Lake Murray Striped bass: Good. Fish are starting to school around Bomb Island to the dam. Try herring at 30-60 feet. Striper can also be caught all over the lower lake, on both the Ballentine side and in the big water near the dam. The bite around the towers has been good off and on. The best depth range has been 35-80 feet and most of the action is coming down-line fishing with live herring right now, although anglers are also catching fish trolling. If anglers are not using lead core line or downriggers they need to use lures that weigh at least an ounce to get it down to the fish. There are a few scattered reports of schooling and so anglers should have their eyes open for surface action and always have a lure to throw to schooling fish tied on. Lake Wateree Crappie: Fair to good. Go to deep brush piles around 18-25 feet. Also try jigging flat on the bottom near brush, but not necessarily in. It’s reported that creels are small, but the fish are of quality. The fish are all over the lake, but as temps change you can expect them to move to shallower brush on the main lake. There is still some good fishing in deep areas. Lake Greenwood Largemouth bass: Hit and miss. Fishing around the lake can be tough one moment and productive the next. Check early in the day around docks and sea walls. As temperatures begin to drop over the next few weeks the fish should start moving into creeks. It’s worth a look halfway up creeks right now. Use a floating worm and buzzbaits. Lake Monticello Catfish: Good. Right now, catch fish in the range of 5-40 feet right now, but in the next couple of weeks deep humps with current flowing over them should be ideal spots to locate big, aggressive fish. There have been fish deep for some time, but they have not been feeding as well as the shallower fish. For now the backs of coves and humps and points have been most productive, and drifting or anchoring have both been working. Big cut gizzard shad and white perch are working for big fish, and if you want to put any size fish in the boat small cut herring is tough to beat.

Lake Russell Bass: Fair to good. Two patterns are emerging. Start with a drop shot rig in about 20 feet, especially around bumps and all over the lake. Also try topwater with tiny torpedoes or Pop-R with a crappie jig trailer. There are also reports of some bass chasing shad in random, larger coves. Striper: Fair to good. Some fish can be had in the upper end of the Hartwell Tailrace. Check around 20-30 feet with free lines, herring and gizzard shad. Lake Thurmond Striped and Hybrid Bass: Very good. Fish around 40-45 feet on bottom at daylight on points and humps with down lines right on the bottom. As morning moves on then go another 10 feet or so deeper. Fish are starting to school a bit around Shriver and Parksville. Crappie: Good. Best results are catching pretty shallow around 15-18 around trees. Use minnows. Try to stay on the main lake and not in the back of coves or creeks. Lake Wylie Largemouth bass: Slow. The fish will be starting their fall transition very soon. Right now try topwater, big spook, buzzbait and Pop-r. There are reports of bait on the main lake slowly moving to the lake flats. The key is to keep deep water close by like a ditch or channel. Lake Jocassee Trout: Fair. Captain Steve Pietrykowski reports that trout fishing is still decent on Lake Jocassee with fish in a true summer pattern. They are concentrated in deep water in the main lake. The best depth range is now 60-80 feet of water, and both spoons and live bait will still catch fish. However, live bait has been more productive. In order to beat the daytime heat it is still worth a try to night fishing around the intakes. Suspending medium shiners and nightcrawlers 30-40 feet down is catching some fish. To read more about trout fishing on Lake Lake Keowee Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Slow to fair. The last few weeks have been tough on the lake for bass. As the temps cool down the fish should start moving shallower. Right now they are suspended around the main lake. As activity picks up you can expect some schooling. Go with top water or drop shots. Lake Hartwell Striped bass: Slow. The fishing has really deteriorated over the last few weeks. Your best bet is in the creek mouths and along the old river run around 35-50 feet. Little schooling is reported. Crappie: Improving. Best results at night around bridges in 17-25 feet of water and over timber from 17 to 30 feet. Use minnows, but some jigs have produced.

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The transformation of young Selina Kyle (Camren Bicondova) into Catwoman is one of the origin stories unfolding on “Gotham,” premiering Monday at 8 p.m. on FOX.

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