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Police will collect unused drugs Take Back Day on Saturday will help keep dangerous medications off street FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter Police Department will partner with the Drug Enforcement Administration to help keep unwanted, un-

used drugs from possibly ending up in the wrong hands.

For the past five years, with the help of local agencies throughout the country, federal authorities have sponsored

two Drug Take Back Days annually to give the public an opportunity to help prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs.

From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Saturday, pills or patches can be brought for disposal to the

wanted pills and patches at the Law Enforcement Center year round during normal business hours.

The department has participated in Drug Take Back Day since its inception, collecting more than 100 pounds of pills

Law Enforcement Center, 107 E. Hampton Ave. The service is free and anonymous; no questions will be asked, according to a new release from the department.

Liquids, creams, needles or other sharp medical devices will not be accepted, it said.

The department accepts un-

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BEER, BRATS AND A BAND

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Members of The Little German Band sing and line dance with Sumter residents during the sixth-annual Oktoberfest on Main Street on Saturday night.

Crowd gathers as Oktoberfest returns to Sumter Main Street.

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hen “oom-pahs” echo off the Sumter Opera House and grown men

walk around in funny shorts, it can only mean one thing: Oktoberfest has returned to Sumter’s

man and domestic beer, barbecue and all manner of delectable German foods.

Many attendees said it was one of Sumter’s best events.

“Sumter is really emerging,” Dennis Kern said. “This is real cool; the food is excellent.”

“We tried all the food,” Pat Kern said, laughing.

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Columbia Rotary president runs for coins

David Boucher, president of Columbia Capital Rotary Club, has raised more than $4,000 for Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust by asking people to donate money as he reaches a goal of running the circumference of the Earth, or 24,901.55 miles, over 25 years.

Man’s goal is to complete 24,901 miles, raise money for Alzheimer’s research

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com David Boucher, president of Columbia Capital Rotary Club, has run 24,000 miles in 24 years in 25 states and more than 30 countries. In early May, he decided to make a goal of running a total of 24,901.55 miles, or the length of the circumfer-

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The music and dancing of a German folk band and dance troupe added to the lure of plenty of brats and beer as a large crowd attended the annual event on Main Street as the sun set Saturday evening.

“This gets bigger and better every year,” said sponsor Greg Thompson of Hamptons Restaurant. “My wife and the staff dedicate their time to making

this an incredible event.”

Thompson was serving samples of delicious Texas-style brisket out of his enormous smoker.

“We call it ‘Big Daddy,’” he said.

“Every smoker has to have a name.”

But some festival goers said the smoker should be called “The Hunley” because of its uncanny resemblance to the Civil War submarine which sank in Charleston Harbor.

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ence of the earth, and to make his last 902 miles a fundraiser for Rotary’s Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust fund.

Boucher spoke on his fundraising efforts at Sumter Rotary Club’s meeting on Monday at The O’Donnell House, 120 E. Liberty St. His efforts raised more than $4,000 with about 428

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miles of the 902 completed.

The ultimate goal, he said, is to raise at least $10,000.

Boucher does not have a set deadline of when he will complete his mileage total but said it will be sometime between February and May. Boucher said he is looking for sponsors who are willing to contribute a penny per mile or a total of

$9.02 for Alzheimer’s research.

All of the money collected will be delivered to the CART Fund.

The purpose of the CART fund is to collect and provide dollars for leadingedge research for the cure and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, according to

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Assault suspect arrested 3rd man wanted in beating turns himself in on Sunday FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a third suspect for his alleged involvement in a group attack on another man at a Pinewood residence nearly a week ago and continues to search for an additional suspect.

Joshua Henderson, 19, of Sumter, surrendered to deputies at the agency’s headquarters Sunday afternoon without incident and was charged with first-degree assault and battery. He was transported to Sumter-Lee ReJOSHUA gional Detention Center HENDERSON where he awaits a bond hearing.

Two other suspects — William David Ard, 24, of Sumter and Mark James Floyd, 32, of Pinewood — were charged earlier in the JOSEPH week with first-degree HENDERSON assault and battery for their alleged involveJR. ment in the assault of the 20-year-old man Sept. 15. Both men have since been released from custody after a judge set bond for each suspect at $25,000.

Investigators continue to search for another suspect, Joseph Henderson Jr., 21, and are following multiple leads into his whereabouts. Investigators are confident he is aware there is a warrant for his arrest and could be receiving assistance from others in avoiding law enforcement.

Before last week’s incident, Joseph Henderson Jr. had been released from custody on bail for his alleged involvement in another altercation and, as a condition of his release, was ordered by the courts to wear a GPS monitoring ankle bracelet. However, reports indicate Joseph Henderson removed the monitoring device shortly after the latest incident.

Anyone with any information concerning the whereabouts of Joe Henderson Jr., or information regarding those who might be hiding the suspect, should contact the sheriff’s office at (803) 436-2000 or Crime Stoppers at (803) 436-2718.

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Planning commission won’t meet Wednesday Sumter City and County Planning Commission will not meet Wednesday because there are no requests that require review. The commission’s next regular meeting is Oct. 28 at 3:30 p.m. in Sumter City Council Chambers, Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St.

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U.S. Air Force airmen assigned to the 20th Force Support Squadron Honor Guard train for funeral ceremonies by removing a training casket from a hearse at Shaw Air Force Base recently. The airmen were recently assigned to the Honor Guard and will have approximately two weeks of training before they can perform a ceremony.

Honor Guard trains daily to honor fallen service members

BY SENIOR AIRMAN DIANA M. COSSABOOM 20th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Special to The Sumter Item “On behalf of the president of the United States, the Department of the Air Force and a grateful nation, we offer our nation’s flag for the faithful and honorable service of your loved one,” recited Airman 1st Class Rori Sorensen, 20th Force Support Squadron Honor Guard acting flight sergeant, as she recounted her first time handing the flag to a loved one during a funeral detail.

Those words are recited by all Air Force Honor Guardsmen with respect and precision when they hand the U.S. flag to a loved one during a funeral of a service member.

To have the honor of presenting the flag is considered a privilege by many and is a stout reminder of why their duties are so important.

When Honor Guardsmen step out for a detail, they have to be sharp, crisp and stoic. Precision is imbedded into their brain. When they perform their duty, they only have one shot to get it right. There is no redo when providing honors for a funeral or any other detail, said Master Sgt. Christopher Cohen, 20th FSS Honor Guard superintendent.

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Honor Guardsmen assigned to the 20th Force Support Squadron practice funeral ceremonies at Shaw Air Force Base on Wednesday.

One duty the Honor Guard has is to give the family something that shows the Air Force appreciates their kin’s service. It is an Honor Guardsman’s duty to show how much the Air Force cares about the service members and their families and that they are remembered for the sacrifices that were made while serving their country, Sorensen said. “(My favorite part of Honor Guard is) going to the funerals,” Sorensen said. “I had a lot of pride in what I did after I handed my first flag to a next of kin. I have had some that would just clench the flag like it’s the last meaningful thing they have from their loved one’s service. Just to see how grateful they were

changed my outlook on being (in Honor Guard).”

Funeral details are just a portion of the Honor Guard duties. Honor Guardsmen also provide firing parties, presentation of the colors, dignified arrivals and sabers.

“A typical day for an Honor Guardsman depends on if they are training or if they are in the field,” Cohen said. “If they are not on a detail, they train, but nine times out of 10 they are out in the field. They arrive in the morning for show time, uniform inspections, to grab their equipment, check out a vehicle and head out to whatever location they need to go.”

It is a myth that if Honor Guardsmen are not on details, they sit around. Their

first two weeks they train on the fundamentals of their duties so they can go into the field, but they still have to continue training daily because there is a lot of fine tuning to incorporate, Cohen said. “(Being an Honor Guardsman) is not about yourself,” Sorensen said. “It’s about the families you are going to do military honors for. It’s a very selfless job.”

The 20th FSS Honor Guard supports details throughout the east including South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

“The military has Honor Guard to render the flag and final salute to the 1 percent of Americans who well and faithfully serve their country,” Cohen said.

“Whether they served four years or 28 years, it’s an honor to their memory and a service of gratitude to their loved ones.”

In the last six months, the Honor Guard has provided services for approximately 500 details for men and women who have served or are serving in the armed forces.

“Honor Guard has given me a lot more pride in my work,” Sorensen said. “I have a whole different perspective of why we do what we do and the real meaning of being in the Air Force and the ultimate sacrifice.”

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Firefighter training makes a splash A 20th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter falls into water during firefighter water survival training at Shaw Air Force Base on Sept. 10. Airmen learned water entry, rescue survival and exiting procedures to ensure their safety in the event of water immersion.

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Legal issues in Episcopal split going to S.C. Supreme Court THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON — South Carolina’s highest court this week hears arguments in the legal fight stemming from the acrimonious split in the Episcopal Church in eastern South Carolina.

The conservative Diocese of South Carolina, dating to 1785 and one of the original dioceses that joined to form the Episcopal Church, left the national church in 2012 amid differences about theological issues, including the authority of Scripture and the ordination of gays.

The diocese then sued to protect its identity, the symbols it uses such as the diocesan seal and $500 million in church property.

Parishes in the region that didn’t leave the national church are in a diocese now known as The Episcopal Church in South Carolina.

Circuit Judge Diane Goodstein, who presided at a threeweek trial in Dorchester County in 2014, ruled earlier this year in favor of the diocese that left in a decision that said the diocese owns its name, symbols and property.

The judge ruled that while freedom of association is a fundamental right, “with the freedom to associate goes its corollary, the freedom to disassociate.”

The national Episcopal Church and the almost 40 congregations now comprising The Episcopal Church in South Carolina are appealing Goodstein’s decision to the Supreme Court. The justices have scheduled arguments in Columbia for Wednesday.

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Pastor, church members hailed as heroes Woman, baby shot in Sunday shooting

BY PHILLIP LUCAS The Associated Press SELMA, Ala. — The pastor and members of the congregation that wrestled a gun away from a man police say opened fire in an Alabama church are being praised as heroes.

James Junior Minter, 26, is being held without bond in the shooting of his infant son, the child’s mother

and the church pastor, Earl Carswell, who tried to intervene Sunday morning, according to District Attorney Michael Jackson.

Selma police Lt. Curtis Muhannad said officials think Minter was upset about a recent breakup with the 24-year-old woman and visitation issues with MINTER their son. His former girlfriend’s name hasn’t been released. Police have said the couple’s domestic dispute was the likely motivation.

Minter was arrested shortly after

police say he opened fire during a church service at Oasis Tabernacle Church in east Selma, Alabama.

Witnesses told police Minter entered the white, single-story church that sits on a tree-lined, two-lane road and sat in the front row between the woman and the baby, according to a statement released by the Selma Police Department. Minter then pulled out a handgun and started shooting, the statement said. The girlfriend, 24, fell to the ground, and Minter fired at her, striking her in the jaw and shoulder. The baby, a 1-month-old boy, was shot in the hand.

Carswell, 61, then grabbed Minter

and was shot in the leg. Members of the congregation helped subdue Minter and managed to wrest away his gun, according to police. Minter then ran out of the church.

“A whole lot more people could have been shot,” Jackson said. “They all played a heroic role.”

The pastor, woman and baby are in stable condition.

After he fled the scene, Minter was captured by police less than a mile away. His vehicle was left at the scene, and a gun was recovered at the church, the statement said.

Minter was being held at the Dallas County jail.

Cemeteries get creative to steady finances, stay independent posts to read about the people buried there, the geology of the rock used for markers, the artistic style of the monuments and the trees that shade them. The 20 stations, created in collaboration with the State University of New York at Cortland, include QR codes for smartphone scanning.

“We decided to try to reposition the cemetery as a cultural and historical and natural place, as opposed to just a place to memorialize people,” said John Hoeschele, president of the Cortland site’s board of directors. He coined the term “cemetrail,” which is funded by a $30,000 “Operation Greenspace” grant from the J.M. McDonald Foundation.

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CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) — Forget the old joke about people dying to get in. Cemeteries are getting more interested in attracting the living.

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The Cortland Rural Cemetery this spring cut the ribbon on a new “cemetrail” and arboretum, which encourage visitors to wander the 44-acre site and linger at new sign-

years. Cremations are projected to account for 48.5 percent of services this year, surpassing for the first time the burial rate, which is expected to be 45.6 percent, the report said.

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False armed robbery suspect wanted by law FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter Police Department is searching for a Florence-area man suspected of being involved in at least two armed robbery reports that were found to be false, according to a news release from the department.

Brandon Ahart Hampton, 30, whose last known adHAMPTON dress is 1627 Pine St. in Florence, faces two counts of grand larceny and two counts of conspiracy for his alleged involvement.

Detectives think Hampton and another suspect, Jessica Renee China, an employee of Murphy’s Gas Station, collaborated on the armed robbery reports.

China told police on Aug. 9 that a man approached her payment window at the convenience store, presented a silver handgun and demanded money before fleeing in a vehicle with an undetermined amount of cash.

On Sept. 6, China reported she was a victim of another armed robbery that occurred when she left the store to make a bank deposit, according to the release.

China told police that while at the bank, a man entered her vehicle, presented a handgun and demanded she drive to a remote location in Sumter County where she was forced into another vehicle.

China stated she escaped from the vehicle and hid in the woods until she was able to summon help.

Through further investigation, detectives determined both reports were false and that Hampton was also involved.

China, 28, of 1115 Kshawn Road in Sumter, was arrested Sept. 10 and charged with two counts of filing a false police report, two counts of breach of trust with fraudulent intent and two counts of conspiracy.

She was booked at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center and later released on bond.

The release stated that Hampton is known to frequent the Red Bay Road-area of Sumter.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Sumter Police Department at (803) 4362700.

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Local students learn reading in Letterland Schools adopt international phonics program

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Every morning, students at Oakland Primary School travel to a new land of letters in which each letter has a character name and a story behind it.

Letterland is a synthetic phonics approach used for teaching reading, writing and spelling to children ages 3 to 8. It is a fictional land of letters in which children are taught shapes and sounds of letters by assigning them imaginary names and shapes as inhabitants of that land, said Cat Rutledge, national sales director.

Four elementary schools in Sumter School District, including Oakland, Pocalla Springs, Crosswell Drive and Millwood elementary schools, are teaching children reading, writing and spelling skills in a more hands-on way through an international phonics program, offered in 111 countries.

“The overall goal is to have all children in the program reading at their grade level by the end of second grade,” Rutledge said.

Letterland is a type of phonics, a method of teaching reading and writing by developing learners’ ability to hear, identify and teach correspondence between the sounds and spelling patterns.

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Phonics enables beginning readers to decode new written words by sounding them out or “blending the soundspelling patterns.”

“At this age, it’s very important for the students to be engaged to learn effectively,” said Jennifer Howard, Oakland’s assistant principal. “It helps the students learn what the letters look like and how they’re formed.”

By translating dry phonic facts into stories, children are motivated to listen, to think and to learn, said Rutledge.

The program includes letter sounds, letter shapes, action tricks, word building, advanced spelling and multisensory learning, Rutledge said.

Letterland characters transform plain black letter shapes into pictogram characters.

Character stories explain letter shapes and sounds, allowing children to progress quickly to word building, reading and writing, Rutledge said Latoya Burns, K-5 teacher, said she enjoys teaching the children in a new way.

“I love the interactive approach of the program and how it engages and encourages them to discuss with each other,” Burns said. “Doing kinesthetic activities, in addition to recognizing and pronouncing sounds that each letter makes, really helps the students learn.”

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Oakland Primary School students in Latoya Burns’ K-5 class do a Letterland activity Friday, in which they match up pictograms. Letterland is a synthetic phonics approach used for teaching children ages 3 to 8 reading, writing, and spelling.

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Last September, Americans turned in 309 tons, or more than 617,000 pounds, of prescription drugs at nearly 5,500 sites operated by the DEA and more than 4,000 of its state

and local law enforcement partners.

When those results are combined with what was collected in its eight previous take back events, DEA and its partners have taken in more than 4.8 million pounds of pills.

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in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse, it said.

Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses because of these drugs.

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In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines — flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash — both pose potential safety and health hazards, the release said.

Brett Shilling receives a pair of beers from volunteer Lauren Barkley during Oktoberfest. Proceeds from the annual event will go to Sumter United Ministries.

OKTOBERFEST FROM PAGE A1 “It’s wonderful,” added Linda Kern. “Everybody has to be foolish sometime.”

Print shop owner Mike Hill said he was having a really good time.

“This is the best event downtown,” he said.

“We have great weather and a great crowd,” sponsor Danielle Thompson said.

Each year, the event sponsored by Hamptons raises money for United Ministries.

“The most exciting thing about this is we raise more money for our charity every year,” she said.

This is the sixth year for the event, she said.

“We want to continue to grow Sumter and help fund the free health care clinic,” she said. “We have over 50 volunteers from United Ministries working this event.”

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about Oktoberfest, you don’t have a heartbeat,” Danielle Thompson said.

Among the volunteers from United Ministries were Jana and Bob Holder, a United Ministries board member, proudly wearing bright red University of Georgia T-shirts.

“This is a nice event,” Jana Holder said. “I had no idea there would be this many people.”

Bernie and Stephanie McCall, two members of the entertainment troupe at the festival, brought their own steins to fill with the German brews.

“It’s a disgrace,” Bernie McCall deadpanned when asked about people drinking German beer from plastic cups.

The distinctly un-Octoberish weather did prompt at least one complaint.

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RESEARCH FROM PAGE A1 its website, www.cartfund.org. The fund was started in 1996 by Sumter Rotarian Roger Ackerman and Sumter Rotary Club.

Today, Rotarians in clubs in the southeastern U.S. are asked to contribute change at meetings in blue buckets with the label “CART.” Ackerman said that as of May, the CART Fund has awarded 29 grants totaling about $5.2 million to recognized research institutions specializing in Alzheimer’s disease.

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Katharina Megger and Ed Cox from The Little German Band show off their traditional German dance moves during Oktoberfest on Main Street on Saturday night. member told the crowd soon after sunset.

“Now we only have to deal with the gnats,” he said. “If you play a wood instrument, you suck in the air, and it’s not pleasant when one goes down your throat.”

Not a problem — he probably brought his own stein, too.

Ackerman said he was thankful to Boucher’s dedication for fundraising and raising awareness for the cause.

“David Boucher has been an ambassador for CART; many people have heard about the fund for the first time thanks to his efforts,” he said.

“The more research we can support, the more of a difference we can make in battling this disease.”

Checks can be made payable to The CART Fund and sent to c/o Columbia Capital Rotary Club, PO Box 11946, Columbia, SC 29211 or locally to the Sumter Rotary Club, P.O. Box 1916, Sumter, SC 29151.

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Francis’ fact-free flamboyance

W

ASHINGTON — Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony.

With a convert’s indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false and deeply reactionary. They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.

Supporters of Francis have bought newspaper and broadcast advertisements to disseminate some of his woolly sentiments that have the intellectual tone of fortune cookies.

One example: “People George occasionally Will forgive, but nature never does.” The Vatican’s majesty does not disguise the vacuity of this. Is Francis intimating that environmental damage is irreversible? He neglects what technology has accomplished regarding London’s air (see Page 1 of Dickens’ “Bleak House”) and other matters.

And the Earth is becoming “an immense pile of filth”?

Hyperbole is a predictable precursor of yet another U.N. Climate Change Conference — the 21st since 1995. Fortunately, rhetorical exhibitionism increases as its effectiveness diminishes. In his June encyclical and elsewhere, Francis lectures about our responsibilities, but neglects the duty to be as intelligent as one can be. This man who says “the Church does not presume to settle scientific questions” proceeds as though everything about which he declaims is settled, from imperiled plankton to air conditioning being among humanity’s “harmful habits.” The church that thought it was settled science that Galileo was heretical should be attentive to all evidence.

Francis deplores “compulsive consumption,” a sin to which the 1.3 billion persons without even electricity can only aspire. He leaves the Vatican to jet around praising subsistence farming, a romance best enjoyed from 30,000 feet above the realities that such farmers yearn to escape.

The saint who is Francis’ namesake supposedly lived in sweet harmony with nature. For most of mankind, however, nature has been, and remains, scarcity, disease and natural — note the adjective — disasters. Our flourishing requires affordable, abundant energy for the production of everything from food to pharmaceuticals. Poverty has probably decreased more in the last two centuries than it has in the preceding three millennia because of industrialization powered by fossil fuels.

Only economic growth has ever produced broad amelioration of poverty, and since growth began in the late 18th century, it has depended on

such fuels.

Matt Ridley, author of “The Rational Optimist,” notes that coal supplanting wood fuel reversed deforestation, and “fertilizer manufactured with gas halved the amount of land needed to produce a given amount of food.” The capitalist commerce that Francis disdains is the reason the portion of the planet’s population living in “absolute poverty” ($1.25 a day) declined from 53 percent to 17 percent in three decades after 1981. Even in lowincome countries, writes economist Indur Goklany, life expectancy increased from between 25 to 30 years in 1900 to 62 years today. Sixty-three percent of fibers are synthetic and derived from fossil fuels; of the rest, 79 percent come from cotton, which requires synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. “Synthetic fertilizers and pesticides derived from fossil fuels,” he says, “are responsible for at least 60 percent of today’s global food supply.”

Without fossil fuels, he says, global cropland would have to increase at least 150 percent — equal to the combined land areas of South America and the European Union — to meet current food demands.

Francis grew up around the rancid political culture of Peronist populism, the sterile redistributionism that has reduced his Argentina from the world’s 14th highest per-capita GDP in 1900 to 63rd today. Francis’ agenda for the planet — “global regulatory norms” — would globalize Argentina’s downward mobility.

As the world spurns his church’s teachings about abortion, contraception, divorce, same-sex marriage and other matters, Francis jauntily makes his church congruent with the secular religion of “sustainability.”

Because this is hostile to growth, it fits Francis’ seeming sympathy for medieval stasis, when his church ruled the roost, economic growth was essentially nonexistent and life expectancy was around 30.

Francis’ fact-free flamboyance reduces him to a shepherd whose selectively reverent flock, genuflecting only at green altars, is tiny relative to the publicity it receives from media otherwise disdainful of his church. Secular people with anti-Catholic agendas drain his prestige, a dwindling asset, into promotion of policies inimical to the most vulnerable people and unrelated to what once was the papacy’s very different salvific mission.

He stands against modernity, rationality, science and, ultimately, the spontaneous creativity of open societies in which people and their desires are not problems but precious resources. Americans cannot simultaneously honor him and celebrate their nation’s premises.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2015, Washington Post Writers Group

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WORKING-CLASS AMERICA ALWAYS GETS STUCK WITH THE BILL

ENFORCING THE LAW WON’T SOLVE HIGHWAY PROBLEM

Not only am I responsible to provide “free” food, shelter and health care to needy citizens of the United States, we have added millions of illegal immigrants and fleeing refugees to the list of “deserving” recipients. However, the workingclass American can only get one thing in return — the bill. Added to this fiasco is the new burden of being responsible for what others may say. Donald Trump is being excoriated over a question he was asked by someone in the audience. Political correctness now includes not only restricting what the individual may say in public, but making one accountable for what others may state. This political conundrum could only occur in our time of totalitarianism.

Unless we fight this disease of the mind, we will lose everything, including our sanity. Evil is good, crime is OK if justified by a “cause,” total dependence and control is regarded as liberating. Do we even know who we really are and what we are doing?

This may the last free election for the country unless we remember we are independent human beings created by the Divine. We must free our minds and souls from the behemoth of a federal government that has created this matrix of control and madness.

JOSEPH C. VALCOURT Sumter

My heart and prayers are with the family, relatives and friends of the late Ms. Terrica Butler. In this time of sadness, may you see God in the faces of friends. May their help, caring and sympathy reflect His love and kindness at this time when you need Him most.

Ms. Butler was not the first person who lost their life crossing the highway from the north side of U.S. 378. The fact that this type of tragedy has happened before, and is highly possible to happen again, warrants immediate action.

I am happy to know that members of our delegation have contacted the S.C. Department of Transportation to assess this problem. The outrage of local residents is justified, and I hope it will continue. I welcome them to come before Sumter County Council and share their feelings and possible solutions to prevent another tragedy.

The idea of building a walking bridge over U.S. 378 is an excellent idea and worthy of further consideration. What we know is that people of all ages will continue to risk their lives walking across this highway. Knowing that this is illegal has not been an effective deterrent.

We must come together as a community and use all of our resources to find a satisfactory solution. We must not be distracted by clueless people who think the solution to this problem is to enforce the law. We know that it’s against the law to purchase illegal drugs.

However, this does not stop white youth from risking their safety by continuously going into black communities to buy drugs. Buyers have no fear of being arrested. Factually, arresting drug buyers will not solve the drug problem. Conversely, arresting people walking across U.S. 378 is not a viable nor sustainable solution.

The county council allows citizens to address their issues and concerns during all council meetings. I encourage citizens to take advantage of this opportunity to respectfully share their concerns regarding this current issue.

Let’s come together and do what is best for Sumter County.

EUGENE R. BATEN Sumter County Council District 7

LAW REQUIRING PEDESTRIANS TO BE RESPONSIBLE WON’T WORK I went to South Pike Road today at about 12:45 p.m. (Sept. 17) to take pictures of the paths with the signs telling people “Don’t walk.” The signs were right at the entrance to the paths. You can clearly see two paths that converge very close to each other on the South Pike side but are much further apart across the bypass.

As I was going back to my car, low and behold there was a young man, who looked high-school age but obviously wasn’t because it wasn’t even 1 p.m. yet, and he would have been in school if school age.

Just as the young man was crossing South Pike at the Miller Road intersection a policeman showed up from out of the blue. He asked the young man to come and talk to him. The young man did everything that the officer asked him to do without giving the officer a hard time. Thank you young man.

I didn’t hear the entire conversation, but I know that the young man received a ticket for crossing the bypass. I don’t know how much that ticket is, but I hope that it is enough to make an impression.

I talked to the officer after the young man left and thanked him for what he did.

The officer said that he wasn’t giving any more “warnings.” That’s good because “warnings” don’t help.

There was mention of lowering the speed limit to 35 mph-45 mph instead of 60 mph. Why not just close the bypass and detour the traffic along North Pike and South Pike or maybe all the way to Broad Street. But then again why is the bypass a bypass?

Any solution that doesn’t include pedestrians being responsible, for their actions and breaking the law, won’t work.

In closing, I hope that the person who hit the young lady won’t feel guilty. I would imagine that you did everything you could to avoid hitting her. That must have been an awful experience.

JACQUELINE K. HUGHES Sumter

TAX DOLLARS SHOULD BE USED TO CARE FOR PATIENTS, NOT SALARIES Dr. Phil Brandt’s point of our tax dollars being used to pay the multimillion-dollar CEO salaries of private companies managing our Medicaid dollars is well taken. Those dollars should be used for patient care and wellbeing, not feeding the already inflated bureaucracy.

Our concerns at Sumter Hearing Associates are that delays in testing and management of infants and children with permanent hearing loss can having lasting detrimental affects on their communication skills and educational achievement.

Medicaid does theoretically cover hearing aids for eligible children, but we do not work with Medicaid companies that deny payment or reduce payment below our invoice cost.

Parents do not always find it easy to switch to a different Medicaid company or find an alternate provider within driving distance.

The subsequent delays can have permanent damaging effects on their child’s speech and language development. I seriously doubt that we are the only profession with these or similar concerns. Dr. Brandt, thank you for your informed and considered input.

VIRGINIA CORLEY, Ph.D. Board Certification in Audiology Sumter

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‘Muppets’ delightful, ‘Scream Queens’ disappointing

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Delightful. Now, that’s a word I don’t use often enough. But it applies to the new reboot of “The Muppets” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG), premiering tonight. Deceptively sophisticated, the new “Muppets” employs the documentary style of “The Office” and the backstage anarchy of “30 Rock” to offer a behind-thescenes look at Kermit and the gang as they try to produce Miss Piggy’s talk/variety TV show.

Not to give too much away, but Kermit and Piggy have broken up, adding additional minefields to the green frog’s already difficult job. A subplot includes attempts by Fozzie Bear to win over his new girlfriend’s decidedly prejudiced parents. Anti-bear bigotry can be ugly!

“The Muppets” is so charming that I can even overlook its obvious plugs for other ABC shows. Tom Bergeron guest-stars as a substituted guest, reluctantly recruited after Piggy blacklists Elizabeth Banks for reasons nobody can explain.

Like its original incarnation, “Muppets” is a rare treat for the entire family.

There are some references to more adult subject matter, but the zingers are cleverly constructed to sail well over the heads of the kids in the audience. That’s a form of wit sadly lacking in some other

prime-time comedies. At the same time, the writing is smart enough to remind us that “The Muppets” began as grown-up entertainment.

People tend to forget that they appeared on the very first episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Like the original, “The Muppets” will welcome musical guests. Tonight, Imagine Dragons perform “Roots.”

• Having dispensed with words like “charming,” “delightful” and “effervescent,” we turn to “Scream Queens” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14). Produced

by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, figures behind series including “Glee” and “American Horror Story,” this series also stars “Horror Story” veteran Emma Roberts. She’s Chanel Oberlin, the cruel and bitter head of the elitist Kappa House sorority. Her minions include Chanel No. 2 (Ariana Grande), No. 3 (Billie Lourd) and No. 5 (Abigail Breslin).

Jamie Lee Curtis stars as the new dean of students, an enemy of Greek life and of Kappa in particular.

Not unlike some of the more extreme aspects of “Horror Story,” “Scream Queens” is completely over the top. Nearly everything Chanel says is gruesome and brittle, nasty and desperate.

Neither she, nor the show, ever seems to shift tone. Its brutal energy is ultimately

charmless and exhausting.

Curtis offers some respite, but not nearly enough. The show’s dialogue is relentlessly arch and nasty, delivered with machine-gun finesse. It’s knowing and quotable, yet forgettable, as if every line were meant to be tweeted rather than spoken.

Given the show’s cast and producers, “Scream Queens” is the biggest disappointment of the season.

• Based on the 2011 film with the same name, “Limitless” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14) stars Jake McDorman as Brian Finch, a man given a super-secret drug that turns him into the smartest man on Earth for short bursts of time. You’d think that would offer him some time to do some serious thinking. But his status makes him a coveted asset to guys good and bad, so he ends up running and jumping from one explosion to the next. Look for Bradley Cooper, star of the film, in a recurring role.

• Speaking of the supersmart, “Bazillion Dollar Club” (10 p.m., Syfy) explores innovative business start-ups and the investors searching for the next great idea. First up: the online art dealer Vango.

TONIGHT’S SEASON PREMIERES • Gibbs fights for his life on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

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cast in the 1995 real life thriller “Apollo 13” (6 p.m., Sundance).

SERIES NOTES On two helpings of “The Flash” (CW, r, TV-PG), a trap (8 p.m.), Reverse Flash (9 p.m.).

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Blind auditions continue on “The Voice” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).

• Live shenanigans of a rather frantic sort unfold on “Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• Bullman’s good deed goes punished on “Public Morals” (10 p.m., TNT, TV-MA).

• Treason charges against an unlikely suspect on “The Bastard Executioner” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA).

• “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” (10 p.m., HBO, TVPG) profiles Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

CULT CHOICE Tom Hanks leads an all-star

LATE NIGHT Donald Glover appears on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS) * Donald Trump, Dr. Ernest Moniz and Raury are booked on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m. CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Anne Hathaway, Anthony Anderson and A Great Big World on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Michael Irvin, Gov. John Kasich, George Ezra and Stephen Perkins visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Royal Blood appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

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AROUND TOWN Oct. 5, at the Council of The Sumter County Educator’s Association — Retired will meet Aging, 201 S. Church St., ManAre you a retired Sumter at noon on Wednesday, Sept. ning.County educator?

23, at the North HOPE Center, The Lincoln High School Preser904 N. main St. All members vation Alumni Association will are encouraged to attend. hold an indoor sale from 7 a.m.

Call Brenda Bethune at (803) to noon on Saturday, Oct. 10, 469-6588. at 24 Council St. Vendors, yard sale items, craft booths, Clarendon School District One will conduct free vision, hearing, food and drinks will be available. Cost to reserve a space speech and developmental is $20. Contact Vernessa screenings as part of a child Baker at (803) 883-9251 or find effort to identify stuBlessvee@yahoo.com or dents with special needs.

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9 a.m. to noon at the Summerton Early Childhood Cen- The 2015 2nd Annual Sumpter ter, 8 South St., Summerton, High Steppers Trail Ride and on the following Thursdays: Festival will be held on SaturOct. 8; Nov. 12; Dec. 10; Jan. day, Oct. 10, at 6705 Horseh14, 2016; Feb. 11, 2016; March eaven Lane, Wedgefield. The 10, 2016; April 14, 2016; and trail ride will begin at 10:30 May 12, 2016. Call Sadie Wila.m. and the horse competiliams at (803) 485-2325, extion will be held at 1:30 p.m. tension 116.

Overnight riders are welcome (Friday and Saturday).

A Day of Remembrance for vicBring chairs and tents. Food tims of homicide and murder vendors will be available. Adwill be held on Thursday, Sept. 24. The event will begin mission: $2; free for children at 5:30 p.m. at Central Caroli- under age 5. Event will feature: youth and other compena Technical College with a march from the school to the titions; walking horse competition; pettit horse compeSumter County Courthouse lawn, where the program will tition; trophy awards; mechanical bull; bouncy house; be held from 6 to 7 p.m. barrel racing; and pole bendEmail sumterpomc2014@ ing. Call Ronnie Scott at (803) gmail.com.

468-3550 or Robert Scott at Literacy Saturday with the Har(803) 464-5861. vin Clarendon County Library Old McCaskill’s Farm will hold Bookmobile will be held 9 its annual fall family farm day a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, from 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 26, at the Clarendon Oct. 11, at 377 Cantey Lane, One Community Resource Rembert. Activities will inCenter, 1154 Fourth St., Sumclude games, firing up the merton. Guest speaker will forge, grinding grits, pumpbe Dr. Haidary, Reach Out kin patch, wagon ride, panand Read Medical Director ning for gold, horse rides and for McLeod Family Medicine more. Admission: $5 per perResidency Program. Contact son; free for children under Kathleen L. Gibson at (803) 2. Visit www.oldmc485-2043 or kgibson@clar1. caskillfarm.com. k12.sc.us.

The Sumter Chapter of the NaLincoln High School Class of tional Federation of the Blind 1966 will meet at 4 p.m. on will meet at 7 p.m. on TuesSaturday, Sept. 26, at the day, Oct. 13, at Shiloh-RanSouth Sumter Resource Center. Plans are being made for dolph Manor. Joyce Blanding will speak. October is “Blind the class reunion scheduled Awareness” month. Transfor June 3-5, 2016. portation is provided within The Sumter Branch NAACP will the allotted mileage area. If meet at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27, at Ebenezer Presby- you know a blind or sight impaired person, contact Debra terian Church, 4620 Queen Canty, chapter president, at Chapel Road.

DebraCanC2@frontier.com or VFW Post 10813 will hold a shoe at (803) 775-5792. Add us to rally with wine, cheese, music your contacts for updated inand more from 5 to 9 p.m. on formation on the recorded Sunday, Sept. 27, at 610 Man- message line at (206) 376ning Ave. Donations are wel5992. come to support the veterThe Post 10813 25th anniversary ans and families program. banquet will be held at 6 p.m.

Call (803) 773-6700. on Oct. 24 at Veterans Hall, The Clarendon Section National 610 Manning Ave. Call (803) Council of Negro Women will 773-5604, (803) 968-5219 or meet at 5 p.m. on Monday, (803) 406-0748.

SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL Today, 6 p.m., Sumter County Council Chambers

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t let EUGENIA LAST emotions block your ability to get things done. Share little, but listen to what’s being said. The information you acquire will be valuable at a later date. Put more into upgrading, updating and improving your appeal and social life.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Protect against injury and the challenges you aren’t yet ready to deal with.

Put more time into preparation and expanding your knowledge and experience. Try to be clear about what you are and what you are not capable of doing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Make alterations to the way you live. It’s important to put your personal affairs first and to nurture the relationships that are important to you. Don’t deny yourself a treat that will boost your confidence or your appearance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Choose your words carefully. Emotions must not be allowed to take over, causing a rift between yourself and someone you love. Look for practical solutions and you will find a way to move forward. Don’t be afraid to do things differently.

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WEATHER

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AccuWeather® five-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

WEDNESDAY

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Rain; breezy, not as warm

A shower and t-storm around

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74° / 66°

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Chance of rain: 15%

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Chance of rain: 60%

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TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

Gaffney 76/62 Spartanburg 77/64

Greenville 78/63

Columbia 82/67

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

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 82/66

Aiken 80/64

ON THE COAST

Charleston 85/68

Today: Mostly cloudy; a thunderstorm in southern parts. High 81 to 85.

Wednesday: A shower; however, a thunderstorm in southern parts. High 77 to 81.

LOCAL ALMANAC

LAKE LEVELS

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Today Hi/Lo/W 77/64/t 77/56/s 94/72/pc 75/51/s 92/67/s 86/68/pc 86/72/s 74/60/c 88/72/s 74/60/c 89/75/t 71/56/pc 75/61/c

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24-hr chg -0.04 -0.06 -0.04 +0.06

Sunrise 7:10 a.m.

Moonrise 3:16 p.m.

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

0.00" 1.33" 2.74" 28.40" 30.09" 36.13"

NATIONAL CITIES City Atlanta Chicago Dallas Detroit Houston Los Angeles New Orleans New York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix San Francisco Wash., DC

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

87° 69° 82° 61° 98° in 1975 43° in 1981

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest.

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Myrtle Beach 83/68

Manning 86/70

Today: A shower or thunderstorm around.

Winds northeast 4-8 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny and nice. Winds northeast 6-12 mph.

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Today Hi/Lo/W 74/57/c 77/63/c 82/66/c 85/69/c 79/70/sh 85/68/c 76/62/c 79/65/c 82/67/c 81/66/c 80/70/c 80/67/c 81/65/c

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Today City Hi/Lo/W Florence 83/67/c Gainesville 87/70/t Gastonia 76/63/c Goldsboro 81/67/c Goose Creek 84/68/c Greensboro 73/60/sh Greenville 78/63/c Hickory 73/61/c Hilton Head 80/71/c Jacksonville, FL 85/70/t La Grange 79/64/pc Macon 79/63/c Marietta 78/63/c

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Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 75/59/c Mt. Pleasant 83/69/pc Myrtle Beach 83/68/c Orangeburg 82/66/c Port Royal 82/69/c Raleigh 77/63/c Rock Hill 78/62/c Rockingham 79/64/c Savannah 85/68/c Spartanburg 77/64/c Summerville 84/68/c Wilmington 83/67/c Winston-Salem 72/60/c

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Weather(W): s–sunny, pc–partly cloudy, c–cloudy, sh–showers, t–thunderstorms, r–rain, sf–snow flurries, sn–snow, i–ice

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onlookers and competitors.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep the peace. If someone tries to goad you into an argument or is being pushy, remove yourself from the situation.

Getting out and doing something you enjoy will be satisfying and help you avoid discord.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A unique opportunity will spark your imagination. Make arrangements to discuss your options with someone you have worked with in the past. A chance to start a new venture is apparent. A day trip will help you make a decision.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t be lured in to something that appears too good to be true. Do your homework and background checks to ensure that you aren’t being fed false information. A change in your attitude or appearance will result in compliments and added attention.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Look at the practical side of any situation before you make a commitment. A hasty decision will leave you at a loss. Look for the less obvious mistakes or details involved in any agreement, settlement or personal documentation before signing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hold a discussion with someone who can offer you insight into a vocation or destination that you might like to experience. Do your best to bring about a change to your current position or location. Romance is encouraged.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Make minor changes to contracts, health issues or concerns you may have regarding your finances and budgeting. Working toward a stable and secure lifestyle will bring about positive changes that will ease stress and improve your important personal relationships.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t get caught up in who does what or why. Look at what you are doing and make sure to give it your all.

It’s how you play the game that will lead to victory. Fairness and honesty will be what impresses

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Make an effort to meet others halfway, but make sure you are doing so for the right reasons and that your plan is realistic. A partner will challenge you if you overspend, overreact or are overly indulgent.

LOTTERY NUMBERS PALMETTO CASH 5 TUESDAY

MEGAMILLIONS FRIDAY

POWERBALL SATURDAY

7-14-16-20-22 PowerUp: 5

17-34-35-51-65 Megaball: 7; Megaplier: 3

12-17-26-43-48 1-9-30-33-43 Powerball: 24; PowerPlay 2 Lucky Ball: 9

PICK 3 TUESDAY

PICK 4 TUESDAY

7-9-4 and 3-6-6

7-6-4-0 and 5-6-6-3

LUCKY FOR LIFE THURSDAY

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CLEMSON FOOTBALL

NASCAR

Hamlin survives spin, steals win in first Chase race

BY REID SPENCER NASCAR Wire Service

wins.”

So far, so good — even if it’s not always so pretty.

Clemson will look to clean things up during its bye week before facing No. 6 Notre Dame on Oct. 3. Right behind is No. 20 Georgia Tech on Oct. 10, a onetwo punch that should go a long way toward determining Clemson’s championship hopes and Watson’s opportunity

JOLIET, Ill. – In the theater, using the expression “Break a leg” is a way to wish an actor good luck on opening night.

Twelve days before Sunday’s opening Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway, Denny Hamlin tore the ACL in his right leg playing basketball.

Late in the myAFibRisk.com 400 HAMLIN at the 1.5-mile track, Hamlin found his good fortune in the form of a serendipitous pit call on the part of crew chief Dave Rogers.

Staying out on old tires, Hamlin grabbed the lead moments after a restart with five laps left and streaked away to a .963-second victory over Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Carl Edwards, who surged from sixth to second during that restart on Lap 263 of 267.

Hamlin saw an opening as the cars roared toward Turn 1 on the restart.

“It was ballsy, but I’d been stuck so many times threewide in the middle,” Hamlin said of the winning move.

“The front cars almost have a disadvantage to the back cars the way it all plays out.

“We got a great restart, and I just held it wide open through (Turns) 1 and 2, and it stuck.

We were able to get in that clean air and take off.”

Remarkably, Hamlin won from the 29th starting position, rallying from a spin on Lap 2 that left him a lap down.

Hamlin didn’t get back on the lead lap until he took advantage of a wave-around before a restart on Lap 129.

“Luckily, that one caution (for debris on the backstretch

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, left, hands the ball off to running back Wayne Gallman during the Tigers’ 20-17 victory against Louisville on Thursday. Watson is happy with the progression of the offense despite a lack of flashy numbers.

Steady but still perfect Tigers QB Watson not concerned about stats, just victories

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press CLEMSON— Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson isn’t worried about his Heisman Trophy status or looking for the longball, not with the 11thranked Tigers off to a perfect start.

Many were expecting Watson to put on a show for a national audience last Thursday night in Clemson’s 20-17 victory over Louisville. Instead, he was steady and unspectacular — and prob-

ably didn’t wow many Heisman voters still figuring out contenders from pretenders.

Watson is content with the only role considers important — the starting quarterback of an undefeated team seeking bigger mountains to climb as the season unfolds.

“My mind is not on the Heisman right now. That’s going to take care of itself,” Watson said Monday. “I’m just here to do my part, do my job and get

FURMAN FOOTBALL

Furman quarterback Reese Hannon, left, throws a pass as he is pressured

by Central Florida linebacker Chequan Burkett (40) during the Paladins’ 16-15 victory on Saturday in Orlando, Fla. The winless Knights face South Carolina this Saturday in Columbia.

Furman stuns Central Florida

BY BILL FAY The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — It has been 16 years since Furman defeated an FBS level team so when the Paladins had a shot — albeit a long-shot — they didn’t hesitate.

Sophomore kicker Jon Croft Hollingsworth nailed a school record 55-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter to give Furman a lead, and the Paladins defense made it stand up in a stunning 16-15 victory over the University of Central Florida.

The winless Knights will be

playing another Palmetto State team on Saturday. They will be Columbia to face the struggling South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday at noon.

Hollingsworth’s kick gave the Paladins (1-2) their first victory of the season and first win over an FBS team since beating North Carolina 28-3 in 1999. The Paladins had dropped 15 straight games to FBS teams in the last 16 seasons.

“I’ve coached for a long time and this is the best win,”

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RAY PEEBLES MEMORIAL

Peebles a Hall of Famer in service to community

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com Ray Peebles was inducted into the Sumter Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. He is a member along with the likes of Major League Baseball standout Bobby Richardson, National Football League standout Freddie Solomon, college football coach Art Baker, Olympic swimmer Helen Carroll and college basketball standout

Will Bynum just to name a very few.

What were the talents or abilities that landed PEEBLES Peebles in the hall of fame?

There were two of them actually – service and availability.

Peebles, who passed away last week at the age of 82, coached in Sumter Kids in Baseball for over 30 years and

spent several years serving on the baseball committee with American Legion Post 15 in support of the Sumter P-15’s.

Peebles loved the game of baseball, and he loved doing things for people, but children in particular. It was a good combination for him.

I can speak to this with authority because Peebles was a part of my life as long as I can remember that I had a life.

Ray’s family and my family

went to Lemira Presbyterian Church and Ray and my father were good friends. Ray became a good friend of mine as well.

At one time, Ray was coaching three T-Ball teams on Saturday mornings. He had the schedule set up where the teams would play one after the other, all this after he had worked the night shift at Crescent Tools.

These teams weren’t filled

with children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, etc. Sure, there were some on those teams, but most of them didn’t have relatives on them.

He just enjoyed doing it.

With the P-15’s, Ray did whatever was needed of him.

Now he was far from alone in this; the men who are with Post 15 truly are dedicated to the baseball program and the

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

SCOREBOARD

WEST DIVISION

TV, RADIO TODAY

2 p.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Wolfsburg vs.

Bayern Munich (FOX SPORTS 1).

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

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: New York Yankees at Toronto (ESPN).

7 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Eastern Conference Playoffs Semifinal Series Game Three – Washington at New York (ESPN2).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Atlanta at New York Mets (SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. – High School Football: Wilson Hall at Thomas Sumter (FTC NOW).

8 p.m. – Minor League Baseball: TripleA National Championship Game from El Paso, Texas – Fresno vs. Columbus (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. – International Soccer: CONCACAF Champions League Match – Santos Laguna vs. W Connection (UNIVISION).

9 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Western Conference Playoffs Semifinal Series Game Three – Los Angeles at Minnesota (ESPN2).

9 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Julian Williams vs. Luciano Cuello in a Junior Middleweight Bout from Bethlehem, Pa. (FOX SPORTS 1).

9:55 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Leon vs. Monterrey (UNIVISION).

10 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Texas at Oakland or Arizona at Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB NETWORK).

W L Los Angeles 85 63 San Francisco 78 71 Arizona 71 78 San Diego 70 80 Colorado 63 86 z-clinched playoff berth

Pct .574 .523 .477 .467 .423

SPORTS ITEMS

GB – 71/2 141/2 16 221/2

Cowboys QB Romo could miss 2 months

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Washington 13, Miami 3 Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1 Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 4 St. Louis 4, Chicago Cubs 3 San Francisco 5, Arizona 1 Pittsburgh 4, L.A. Dodgers 3 San Diego 10, Colorado 4 N.Y. Yankees 11, N.Y. Mets 2

MONDAY’S GAMES

Baltimore at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Baltimore (Tillman 9-11) at Washington (Roark 4-6), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Wisler 5-8) at N.Y. Mets (Verrett 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Harang 5-15) at Miami (Koehler 10-13), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Undecided) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 19-6), 8:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Sampson 2-5) at St. Louis (Lackey 12-9), 8:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Happ 5-2) at Colorado (Rusin 5-8), 8:40 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 4-12) at L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 11-10), 10:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Heston 11-10) at San Diego (T.Ross 10-10), 10:10 p.m.

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

GOLF

By The Associated Press BMW CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES

Sunday At Conway Farms Golf Club Lake Forest, Ill. Purse: $8.25 million Yardage: 7,198; Par: 71 Final Jason Day (2,000), $1,485,000 61-63-69-69–262 -22 Daniel Berger (1,200), $891,000 65-64-70-69–268 -16 Scott Piercy (760), $561,000 67-65-67-70–269 -15 Rickie Fowler (460), $341,000 69-66-66-69–270 -14 J.B. Holmes (460), $341,000 70-65-67-68–270 -14 Rory McIlroy (460), $341,000 68-65-67-70–270 -14 Dustin Johnson (340), $257,125 71-62-68-70–271 -13 Hideki Matsuyama (340), $257,125 72-63-70-66–271 -13 Cameron Tringale (340), $257,125 72-64-69-66–271 -13 Kevin Na (280), $206,250 65-66-70-71–272 -12 Henrik Stenson (280), $206,250 71-63-71-67–272 -12 Bubba Watson (280), $206,250 65-70-72-65–272 -12 Zach Johnson (223), $145,750 68-69-72-64–273 -11 George McNeill (223), $145,750 67-65-72-69–273 -11 Justin Rose (223), $145,750 70-64-70-69–273 -11 Jordan Spieth (223), $145,750 65-66-72-70–273 -11 Brendan Steele (223), $145,750 68-67-68-70–273 -11 Justin Thomas (223), $145,750 65-67-70-71–273 -11 Harris English (202), $103,538 65-68-69-72–274 -10 Bill Haas (202), $103,538 68-67-73-66–274 -10 Louis Oosthuizen (202), $103,538 71-66-68-69–274 -10 Nick Watney (202), $103,538 68-66-71-69–274 -10 Paul Casey (184), $73,425 67-69-71-68–275 -9 Kevin Chappell (184), $73,425 66-69-68-72–275 -9 Ryan Palmer (184), $73,425 67-67-73-68–275 -9 Robert Streb (184), $73,425 71-67-70-67–275 -9 Brendon Todd (184), $73,425 66-63-76-70–275 -9 Keegan Bradley (166), $57,338 68-66-72-70–276 -8 David Hearn (166), $57,338 74-69-69-64–276 -8 Ryan Moore (166), $57,338 68-67-73-68–276 -8 Patrick Reed (166), $57,338 68-69-69-70–276 -8 James Hahn (144), $44,668 74-65-70-68–277 -7 Billy Horschel (144), $44,668 71-69-70-67–277 -7 Matt Jones (144), $44,668 72-66-72-67–277 -7

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

W 2 1 1 1

L 0 0 1 1

T 0 0 0 0

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PA 53 10 33 54

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L 1 1 1 2

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PF 32 56 14 37

PA 40 42 27 51

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L 0 1 1 2

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PF 57 38 64 46

PA 32 45 46 56

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L 0 1 1 1

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PA 37 66 52 51

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

W 2 1 0 0

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THURSDAY’S GAME

W Toronto 85 New York 82 Baltimore 73 Tampa Bay 72 Boston 71 CENTRAL DIVISION W Kansas City 87 Minnesota 76 Cleveland 74 Chicago 70 Detroit 69 WEST DIVISION W Texas 80 Houston 79 Los Angeles 76 Seattle 73 Oakland 64

L 64 66 76 77 77

Pct .570 .554 .490 .483 .480

GB – 21/2 12 13 131/2

L 62 73 74 78 79

Pct .584 .510 .500 .473 .466

GB – 11 121/2 161/2 171/2

L 69 71 73 77 86

Pct .537 .527 .510 .487 .427

GB – 11/2 4 71/2 161/2

MONDAY’S GAMES

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 1:08 p.m., 1st game Baltimore at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 7:08 p.m., 2nd game Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

HURST WINS SECOND SYMETRA TOUR TITLE OF YEAR

GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Vicky Hurst locked up an LPGA Tour card for next season, winning the Garden City Charity Classic on Sunday for her second Symetra Tour title of the year.

The 25-year-old Hurst, from Melbourne, Florida, closed with an even-par 72 for a two-stroke victory. She finished at 8-under 208 at Buffalo Dunes and earned $15,000 to jump from 14th to fourth on the money list with $57,058, more than enough to wrap a spot in the final top 10 for an LPGA Tour card.

MLB WHITE SOX 2 TIGERS 0 DETROIT — Jeff Samardzija pitched a one-hitter, allowing a leadoff single to Victor Martinez in the fifth inning, and led the Chi-

CLEMSON REINSTATES SUSPENDED KICKER LAKIP

CLEMSON — Clemson kicker Ammon Lakip has been reinstated by the coaches after serving a three-game suspension for an offseason drug arrest, but will not get back his starting job.

USC RESERVE GUARD DAVIS TEARS HER ACL

COLUMBIA — South Carolina reserve guard Tiffany Davis has torn a ligament in her left knee and will miss the upcoming season.

The school said in a release Monday that the 5-foot-7 junior had a torn ACL and was consulting with South Carolina athletics medical director, Dr. Jeffrey Guy, about scheduling a date for surgery. Davis tore the ACL in her right knee during her freshman season of 2012-13 and missed all but three games.

USC-MISSOURI GAME SET FOR NOON KICKOFF

COLUMBIA – The South Carolina Gamecocks and Missouri Tigers will kick at noon ET (11 a.m. local) on Saturday, October 3, it was announced today. The game will be televised on the SEC Network.

Mizzou leads the all-time series by a slim 3-2 margin.

The first two contests were held at bowl sites, with Missouri posting a 24-14 win in the 1979 Hall of Fame Bowl in Birmingham, and a 38-31 come-from-behind win in the 2005 Independence Bowl in Shreveport.

From wire reports

SHS tennis edges East Clarendon TURBEVILLE – The Sumter High School varsity girls tennis team defeated East Clarendon 4-3 on Monday at the EC courts.

MONDAY’S GAME

WNBA PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press (x-if necessary)

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

(Best-of-3)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Washington 1, New York 1 Friday, Sept. 18: Washington 86, New York 83, 2OT Sunday, Sept. 20: New York 86, Washington 68 Tuesday, Sept. 22: Washington at New York, 7 p.m.

Chicago 1, Indiana 1 Thursday, Sept. 17: Chicago 77, Indiana 72 Saturday, Sept. 19: Indiana 89, Chicago 82 Monday, Sept. 21: Indiana at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Minnesota 1, Los Angeles 1 Friday, Sept. 18: Minnesota 67, Los Angeles 65 Sunday, Sept. 20: Los Angeles 81, Minnesota 71 Tuesday, Sept. 22: Los Angeles at Minnesota, 9 p.m.

Phoenix 2, Tulsa 0 Thursday, Sept. 17: Phoenix 88, Tulsa 55 Saturday, Sept. 19: Phoenix 91, Tulsa 67

SINGLES 1 -- Whitney Crawford(S) defeated Heather Knowlton 6-1, 6-2.

2 -- Ashlee Lineburger(EC) defeated Avery Jones 6-1, 6-1.

3 -- Lauren Bingham (EC) defeated Emily Mulholland 6-4, 6-4.

4 -- Taylor Kirby (EC) defeated Lindsey Smutz 2-6, 7-6(7-2), 10-5.

5 -- Shonteria Brown (S) defeated Bailey Evans 6-2, 3-6, 10-8.

DOUBLES 1 -- Crawford/Jones (S) defeated Knowlton/Lineburger 6-3, 6-2.

2 -- Woodley Kate James/Ashlyn O’Connor (S) defeated Liz Faye/Emilee Welch 6-3, 6-1

VARSITY SWIMMING LADY BARONS SEVENTH

MT. PLEASANT – Wilson Hall’s girls team finished seventh out of 13 teams in the Pinewood Invitational on Saturday at

Park West Pool.

Olivia Hilferty led the Lady Barons with a pair of fourth-place finishes. She was fourth in the 500-yard freestyle and the 100 breaststroke.

The 200 medley relay team of Anna Katherine Graves, Anna Lyles, Olivia Hilferty and Ali Hilferty was fifth. Ali Hilferty was eighth in the 50 free.

The 400 free relay team of Lyles, Stewart Holler, Holly Poag and Owings Holler was seventh.

Thomas Sumter Academy was 12th with three points. Ana Hartman was sixth in the 200 individual medley.

In the boys meet, TSA finished ninth with 17 points. Ed Lee was second in the 100 breast and seventh in the 100 free. The 200 medley relay team of Lee, Tyler Singletary, Daniel Gibson and Mason Studer was fifth.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION W 84 78 64 60 56

L 65 71 86 90 94

Pct .564 .523 .427 .400 .373

GB – 6 201/2 241/2 281/2

W 93 89 87 63 63

L 56 60 62 85 86

Pct .624 .597 .584 .426 .423

GB – 4 6 291/2 30

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Baltimore (Tillman 9-11) at Washington (Roark 4-6), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (L.Severino 4-3) at Toronto (Estrada 13-8), 7:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 9-10) at Detroit (Da.Norris 2-2), 7:08 p.m.

Tampa Bay (M.Moore 1-4) at Boston (Owens 3-2), 7:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 13-8) at Minnesota (E.Santana 5-4), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Santiago 8-9) at Houston (McCullers 5-6), 8:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 8-4) at Kansas City (Guthrie 8-7), 8:10 p.m.

Texas (M.Perez 3-5) at Oakland (Nolin 1-1), 10:05 p.m.

z-St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Jason Day has plenty of rivals at the moment, but very few peers.

Day’s runaway victory Sunday in the BMW Championship vaulted him to No. 1 in the world ranking, backing up a boast the then little-known Australian made during a conference call with reporters in 2007 — and for which he was roasted on more than one occasion since.

His 2-under, final-round 69 and 22-under total at Conway Farms was good for a six-shot victory over rookie Daniel Berger. Scott Piercy finished third, seven strokes back.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Boston 4, Toronto 3 Kansas City 10, Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 7, Baltimore 6 Cleveland 6, Chicago White Sox 3 Minnesota 8, L.A. Angels 1 Houston 5, Oakland 1 Seattle 9, Texas 2 N.Y. Yankees 11, N.Y. Mets 2

New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia CENTRAL DIVISION

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears coach John Fox says quarterback Jay Cutler has a strained hamstring.

Fox says tests showed no major structural damage.

He also says “anytime it’s not really severe, it’s good news.”

Fox spoke Monday, a day after Cutler was injured trying to make a tackle after getting intercepted in Sunday’s 48-23 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

His status for this week’s game against defending NFC champion Seattle is in question. Fox would not say if Cutler had an MRI or if he expected him to practice Wednesday.

He also would not say if

DAY WINS BMW CHAMPIONSHIP

cago White Sox over the Detroit Tigers 2-0 Monday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.

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THURSDAY

AMERICAN LEAGUE

BEARS QB CUTLER HAS STRAINED HAMSTRING

Jimmy Clausen would start for the Bears (0-2) against the Seahawks (0-2).

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Tampa Bay 26, New Orleans 19 Minnesota 26, Detroit 16 Arizona 48, Chicago 23 Carolina 24, Houston 17 Pittsburgh 43, San Francisco 18 New England 40, Buffalo 32 Cincinnati 24, San Diego 19 Cleveland 28, Tennessee 14 Atlanta 24, N.Y. Giants 20 Washington 24, St. Louis 10 Oakland 37, Baltimore 33 Jacksonville 23, Miami 20 Dallas 20, Philadelphia 10 Green Bay 27, Seattle 17

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

EAST DIVISION

IRVING, Texas — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is expected to miss about two months with a broken left collarbone, though he won’t need surgery.

The loss of Romo in SunROMO day’s 20-10 victory at Philadelphia means the defending NFC East champion Cowboys (2-0) will be without their starting quarterback and All-Pro receiver Dez Bryant possibly through October.

Coach Jason Garrett said Monday that tests revealed no ligament damage for Romo after the second broken collarbone of his career.

The other was in 2010, and he missed the final 10 games of the season. However, Dallas was out of playoff contention before he could have returned.

Denver 31, Kansas City 24

N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis (late)

MLB STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

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Packers hold off Seahawks with 27-17 win SO CLOSE

BY GENARO C. ARMAS The Associated Press GREEN BAY, Wis. — All week long, the Green Bay Packers did their best to disregard the noise about their recent, disheartening history with the Seattle Seahawks.

A 27-17 win over Seattle on Sunday night in a rematch of last January’s NFC championship game left the Packers with a reason to smile.

This time, the Packers finished strong in a bruising, physical contest with the Seahawks.

“It doesn’t count for anything more than a win, but it is probably one of the more satisfying regular-season wins that we’ve had, just to get that monkey off our back of not being able to beat these guys,” guard T.J. Lang said.

The victory snapped a three-game losing streak to Seattle, all on the road. None of those games were more painful than the 28-22 loss in overtime in the playoffs in January after the Packers blew a 16-0 halftime lead.

On Sunday night, the Packers had a raucous crowd on their side and they held on after giving up a 13-3 halftime lead.

The Seahawks, who fell to the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl last year, dropped to 0-2 for the first time since 2011.

“But you have to move forward and realize there’s a lot of season left,” said Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson, who threw an interception in the fourth quarter.

For a team that just fell to 0-2 to start the season, the Seahawks sounded relatively upbeat. Carroll thinks his team will rebound, pointing to the success of reaching the Super Bowl last year despite starting 3-3 and 6-4.

“I think that’s a really good point, and we don’t talk really in that manner. But we were not right last year for some time, too,” Carroll said.

“We just need to clean up our game and get right, and hopefully we can do that and get started.”

WILSON’S PICK

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Green Bay wide receiver Randall Cobb tries to get past Seattle safety Earl Thomas (29) during the Packers’ 27-17 win on Sunday.

Seattle lost its opener at St. Louis, 34-31 in overtime.

After two weeks away, the Seahawks finally get to play at home next week against the Chicago Bears.

The Packers (2-0) get an extra day off before taking on the Chiefs in a Monday night game on Sept. 28.

“It is what it is. We’re going to enjoy it for a couple days and get ready to move on to Kansas City,” Lang said.

Some other notes and takeaways from Sunday night’s game:

CLUTCH RODGERS

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers finished 25 of 33 for 249 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score on a 5-yard pass to Richard Rodgers in the fourth quarter. A 2-point conversion pass, also to Richard Rodgers, made it 24-17 with 9:28 left.

The quarterback was a master at moving around to buy time. He took advantage of Seattle penalties with long throws for big gains.

MIDDLE MAN

Given time in the fourth

quarter, Aaron Rodgers found the weakness in the Seattle defense.

It was the middle of the field, an area where safety Kam Chancellor might normally help. But Chancellor is holding out for a new contract.

In that fourth quarter drive that ended with the touchdown throw, short passes turned into big gains.

“In the middle of their defense is where you can find some soft spots, that’s kind of what we targeted there,” Rodgers said.

Wilson was 19 of 30 for 206 yards with two touchdowns, while running for 78 yards on 10 carries. But he lamented the disappointing fourth quarter.

Jayrone Elliott made a lunging, one-handed interception of a short pass from Wilson with 6:50 left, one of the rare mistakes in the second half for Seattle’s dualthreat quarterback.

The Packers cashed in with one of Mason Crosby’s four field goals on the night for a 10-point lead with 2 minutes remaining.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Green Bay running back Eddie Lacy left the game in the first quarter with a right ankle injury. Backup James Starks kept Packers running game going with 95 yards on 20 carries. ... Safety Steven Terrell had the only Seattle injury of note, with a hip flexor. Carroll said he did not know the severity of the injury.

Panthers 2-0 despite missing Benjamin

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton said he’s never lost faith in his wide receivers despite the drops that have plagued the unit since the middle of the preseason.

There were a few more on Sunday, but Newton keeps on firing their way.

That trust has paid off.

Newton connecting on TD passes of 25 yards to Ted Ginn Jr. and 36 yards to Philly Brown to lift the Panthers to a 24-17 victory over the Houston Texans. Newton also ran for one score, somersaulting into the end zone on a 2-yard run — one that will surely be replayed on highlight reels all week.

That leaves the Panthers 2-0 without star wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin, who is out for the season with a torn ACL. “The truth of the matter is that we have to do our job,” Newton said. “My confidence wasn’t shattered in giving opportunities to guys that are doing what they’re supposed to be doing. I am supposed to throw them the football and they are supposed to catch it.

They are professional athletes and that is what we get paid to do.”

Brown struggled the most in the preseason, but hasn’t dropped a pass in the regular season.

He seemed to regain his swagger when he leaped and grabbed a pass with a defender draped over him in the end zone to put Carolina up 24-10 midway through the fourth quarter.

Ginn dropped a pass early in the game — his third already this season — before making up for it with a TD catch.

“After I make a bad play I just want to do everything to try and make a play,” Ginn said. “Being on this team and having the type of brothers that you have here, we never give up on each other and as

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Carolina quarterback Cam Newton (1) dives over the goal line for a touchdown during the Panthers’ 24-17 victory over Houston on Sunday in Charlotte. Newton threw for two scores as the Panthers are off to a 2-0 start despite missing star wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin. long as we go out and continue to play and show that we’re open, Cam is going to try to get us the ball.”

Some things to know from the Panthers’ win over the Texans: MALLETT GETS START

Ryan Mallett started for Brian Hoyer and threw 58 times, completing 27 for 244 yards with one touchdown. He also ran for a score. But the troubling aspect of Mallett’s day was a slow start and a fourth quarter interception that led to Brown’s touchdown and a 14-point deficit.

“I thought he played a tough game,” Texans coach Bill O’Brien said. “It’s a good defense that he went against.

There were times where he really did a good job, and there was some things, like all of us, that he can improve on but I think he hung in there. He was resilient. He tried to bring us back there at the end we just were a play short there.”

ADAMS GOES DOWN

Texans right tackle Jeff Adams was carted off the field with his right leg in an air brace. Texans coach Bill O’Brien wouldn’t disclose the nature of the injury, but said he expects Adams to be out

quite a while. He could be replaced by rookie Kendall Lamm, who saw action at right tackle on Sunday.

KUECHLY MISSES FIRST GAME

Panthers middle linebacker Luke Kuechly was inactive with a concussion, missing the first game of his career.

The missed start broke a string of 49 consecutive regular season starts by Kuechly, dating to the start of his rookie season in 2012. Coach Ron Rivera said he will be reevaluated this week.

NEWTON RUNS

The rushing touchdown was the 34th of Newton’s career, tying him with Daunte Culpepper (1999-2009) for the ninth most all-time by a quarterback, according to STATS. HOPKINS HELD IN CHECK

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TIGERS FROM PAGE B1 to win college football’s biggest individual prize.

If Watson is concerned about the accolades, he has not shown it, said offensive lineman Eric Mac Lain.

“I think he’s had (pressure) throughout his career,” Mac Lain said. “This is a kid who’s been successful at the college and high school rank. I’ve never seen Deshaun have a weak moment to where he’s too big or full of himself.”

Watson completed 21 of 30 passes for 199 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions in the Louisville win.

The lanky 6-foot-3 sophomore also ran for 54 yards as Clemson kept things churning with 202 yards rushing, its first time over the 200-yard mark in six Atlantic Coast Conference games since posting 226 in defeating North Carolina State 41-0 last October.

Watson did have a couple of stellar moments with a 32yard touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow to start the scoring and a 25-yard TD pass to Jordan Leggett in the third quarter that put the Tigers up for good. He also had a few

HAMLIN FROM PAGE B1 on Lap 122) came out that allowed us to get the wavearound and get back on the lead lap,” Hamlin said. “We had a fast car, and that was the most important thing. We stretched out there at the end even with no tires.

“I’m proud of this effort.

The pit crew did a phenomenal job again and now we’re looking forward to the next round.”

Hamlin’s first victory at Chicagoland, his second of the season and the 16th of his career ensured the driver of the No. 11 JGR Toyota will advance from the Challenger Round to the Contender Round of the Chase, as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to New Hampshire and the second race of the postseason.

Reigning champion Kevin Harvick wasn’t as fortunate.

The driver who vowed to pound the JGR drivers into the ground three days before the Chase began instead pounded the Turn 3 wall with the rear of his No. 4 StewartHaas Chevrolet after contact with Jimmie Johnson’s No. 48 Chevy during a Lap 135 restart flattened Harvick’s left rear tire.

“I got a pretty good restart, and obviously, the 22 (Joey Logano) and 48 got a good run, and I just held my line and the 48 just slammed into the side of my door,” Harvick said. “That was pretty much it.”

Johnson had a simple explanation for the contact.

“He was pinning me down, and I’ve got to get back up on the track,” Johnson said. “I wouldn’t say that what he did is any different than other situations I’ve been in like that. When you’re in Kevin’s situation, you want to give that inside car a bad angle, so they’ve got to lift.

“I was fine with lifting, but I had to get back on the race track. So I worked my way back onto the track… I pulled down inside of him, and then we were door-to-door, and then, as I moved back into the racing groove, that’s when we touched door-todoor, tire-to-tire.”

Now last in the Chase standings, Harvick feels he must win one of the next two races to advance to the Contender Round. That’s not a new position for the driver of the No. 4 Chevy. Last year he triumphed in a must-win situation at Phoenix before taking the checkered flag at Homestead to secure his first premier series title.

“We can win anywhere,” Harvick said after the race.

“We could have won today.

It’s just a matter of putting a couple of days together and being able to come back to Victory Lane. Same thing as last year.”

After the race, Harvick,

was just a bad throw, Swinney acknowledged.

“That’s one he’d like to have back,” the coach said.

Watson also wanted back a couple of runs where he came close to breaking free before getting tripped up by Louisville.

“I was a little disappointed in myself,” he said. “I probably should’ve kept standing and running and could’ve scored.”

Clemson is far from a finished product. Swinney told the story of his senior year at Alabama in 1992 when the Tide won the national championship and needed several early escapes — Alabama led Louisiana Tech 6-0 in the fourth quarter before David Palmer’s 63-yard punt return TD added a cushion — to remain on track.

“We got better as the year went on,” Swinney said. “And that’s what I want to see our team do.”

Watson leads the ACC with seven touchdown passes, but is just sixth in passing yards per game. He’s gone the past two games without the Tigers’ top deep threat in Mike Williams, a 1,000-yard receiver a year ago who broke a bone in his neck in the team’s opening win over Wofford.

AMWAY TOP 25 POLL The Amway Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept.

19, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Ohio State (61) 3-0 1594 1 2. TCU 3-0 1482 3 3. Michigan St. (3) 3-0 1477 4 4. Baylor 2-0 1364 5 5. Mississippi 3-0 1292 11 6. Georgia 3-0 1262 8 7. Florida State 3-0 1119 6 8. Notre Dame 3-0 1109 10 9. LSU 2-0 1085 14 10. Clemson 3-0 1022 9 11. UCLA 3-0 968 12 12. Alabama 2-1 883 2 13. Oregon 2-1 855 13 14. Oklahoma 3-0 790 17 15. Texas A&M 3-0 745 18 16. Arizona 3-0 605 19 17. Utah 3-0 501 21 18. So. California 2-1 461 7 19. Northwestern 3-0 347 24 20. Georgia Tech 2-1 338 16 21. Wisconsin 2-1 274 23 22. Oklahoma State3-0 242 25 23. Missouri 3-0 234 20 24. Stanford 2-1 133 NR 25. Auburn 2-1 79 15 Others receiving votes: West Virginia 75; Brigham Young 74; Miami (Fla.) 58; Tennessee 49; Kansas State 47; Mississippi State 46; Texas Tech 36; Arizona State 31; Florida 24; California 20; North Carolina State 15; Temple 15; Iowa 13; Boise State 8; Memphis 8; Minnesota 6; Houston 4; Virginia Tech 4; Northern Illinois 3; Toledo 2; Boston College 1.

throws that made you wince, particularly a pair of interceptions that blunted Clemson’s momentum at the start of each half.

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney thought Watson was not helped by receiver Leggett on the first pick. The second one

MYAFIBRISK.COM 400 RESULTS The Associated Press Sunday At Chicagoland Speedway Joliet, Ill. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (29) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 267 laps, 111.8 rating, 47 points, $306,315.

2. (14) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 267, 99.9, 43, $213,655.

3. (9) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 267, 125.6, 42, $195,005.

4. (6) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 267, 98.8, 40, $180,280.

5. (12) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 267, 89.4, 40, $170,641.

6. (2) Joey Logano, Ford, 267, 110.9, 39, $162,903.

7. (18) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 267, 90.8, 38, $144,478.

8. (3) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 267, 89.6, 36, $158,111.

9. (7) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 267, 130.6, 37, $163,361.

10. (20) Aric Almirola, Ford, 267, 89.7, 34, $146,381.

11. (11) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 267, 99.7, 33, $152,321.

12. (19) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 267, 92.7, 32, $122,025.

13. (4) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 267, 110.9, 32, $131,670.

14. (10) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 267, 109.9, 31, $148,986.

15. (28) David Ragan, Toyota, 267, 76.3, 29, $131,664.

16. (13) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 266, 75.1, 28, $138,141.

17. (16) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 266, 72.2, 27, $110,350.

18. (27) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 265, 69.3, 26, $110,250.

19. (26) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 265, 63.2, 25, $135,108.

20. (24) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 265, 58.8, 24, $126,903.

21. (17) Greg Biffle, Ford, 265, 63.2, 23, $131,078.

22. (21) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 265, 66.4, 0, $115,003.

23. (31) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 265, 57, 21, $120,278.

24. (8) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 264, 67.8, 20, $112,320.

25. (23) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 264, 67, 19, $124,034.

26. (25) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 264, 62.8, 18, $104,095.

27. (36) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 263, 51.3, 0, $95,495.

28. (30) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 263, 52.5, 16, $136,470.

29. (33) Cole Whitt, Ford, 263, 46.7, 15, $105,853.

30. (22) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 262, 44, 14, $119,290.

31. (38) Brett Moffitt, Ford, 262, 39.2, 13, $92,745.

32. (35) David Gilliland, Ford, 262, 39, 12, $108,592.

33. (40) Josh Wise, Ford, 261, 38.2, 11, $90,845.

34. (37) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 261, 38.5, 10, $90,645.

35. (34) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 261, 32.8, 0, $90,410.

36. (15) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 260, 43.6, 8, $108,220.

37. (32) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 259, 44.4, 7, $89,953.

38. (41) Jeb Burton, Toyota, 259, 28.3, 6, $84,528.

39. (39) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 258, 30.3, 5, $80,465.

40. (42) Reed Sorenson, Ford, 258, 27.3, 4, $76,465.

41. (43) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 255, 24.2, 0, $72,465.

42. (1) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 209, 90.1, 3, $126,690.

43. (5) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 198, 78, 1, $101,901.

who finished 42nd, confronted Johnson and pounded the six-time Sprint Cup champion with a blow to the chest.

Kept apart by one of Harvick’s lieutenants, the drivers then went their separate ways without further incident.

Kurt Busch, who like Hamlin stayed out on old tires, led the field to green on Lap 263 after the sixth caution for debris in Turn 1 slowed the race. Busch fell to third at the finish, followed by 2014 Chase runner-up Ryan Newman, who posted his first top-five finish since April at Bristol.

Matt Kenseth ran fifth and assumed the series lead, bolstered by 12 bonus points earned for four victories in the 26-race regular season.

Notes: In a manner of speaking, history repeated itself where Hamlin is concerned. In 2010, he won at Texas, just 10 days after surgery to repair the torn ACL in his left leg… With 12 of 16 drivers slated to advance to the Contender Round, Jamie McMurray (16th on Sunday), Paul Menard (17th), Clint Bowyer (19th) and Harvick are currently below the cut line.

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FROM PAGE B1 coach Bruce Fowler said. “It was a tight game and had some odd bounces here and there, but we went out in the second half and made an impact.”

Hollingsworth easily cleared the bar with the longest field goal of his career.

“We were talking about a couple of options there and I said ‘Jon, what do you think,’ and he wanted to kick it,” Fowler said. “We had a good opportunity to get a leg up so we took a chance and he did a great job.”

UCF (0-3) lost to an FCS team for the first time since the Knights moved up to FBS in 1996. UCF had beaten FCS teams 20 straight times before losing to Furman.

The Knights floundered offensively the entire game, unsuccessfully attempting to mix three quarterbacks as replacements for injured starter Justin Holman. UCF had four possessions after Hollingsworth’s blast, but totaled just 37 yards. The Knights lost a fumble and threw an interception on their last two possessions.

The three UCF quarterbacks — Tyler Harris, Bo Schneider and Nick Patti — were a combined 14 of 30 for 98 yards in the game and threw three interceptions.

Furman’s Reese Hannon completed 15 of 29 passes for 188 yards and one touchdown, a 61-yard bomb to Andrej Suttles that gave Furman its first lead, 13-12, early in the third quarter.

Suttles ran a stop-and-go

The Associated Press The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 19, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Ohio St. (42) 3-0 1,490 1 2. Michigan St. (7) 3-0 1,415 4 3. Mississippi (11) 3-0 1,345 15 3. TCU 3-0 1,345 3 5. Baylor 2-0 1,213 5 6. Notre Dame 3-0 1,183 8 7. Georgia 3-0 1,162 7 8. LSU (1) 2-0 1,088 13 9. UCLA 3-0 981 10 10. Florida St. 3-0 953 9 11. Clemson 3-0 903 11 12. Alabama 2-1 882 2 13. Oregon 2-1 855 12 14. Texas A&M 3-0 798 17 15. Oklahoma 3-0 782 16 16. Arizona 3-0 488 20 17. Northwestern 3-0 469 23 18. Utah 3-0 439 21 19. Southern Cal 2-1 367 6 20. Georgia Tech 2-1 352 14 21. Stanford 2-1 288 NR 22. BYU 2-1 174 19 22. Wisconsin 2-1 174 24 24. Oklahoma St. 3-0 149 25 25. Missouri 3-0 135 22 Others receiving votes: Mississippi St. 52, West Virginia 48, Tennessee 45, California 38, Toledo 36, Arizona St. 25, Houston 22, Auburn 20, Temple 20, Texas Tech 20, Boise St. 17, Miami 13, Iowa 10, Kansas St. 8, Florida 7, NC State 5, Minnesota 4, Virginia Tech 4, Memphis 1.

route that placed him 15 yards behind the Knights secondary, making an easy target for Hannon, who spent most of the day ducking a strong UCF pass rush.

Trey Robinson iced the win with an interception with 49 seconds remaining.

UCF’s Matthew Wright kicked a 29-yard field goal just before the end of the third quarter for a 15-13 lead, but Hollingsworth came on and nailed the 55-yarder — he’s made three of four from beyond 50 yards — to put the Paladins back in front with 12 minutes left.

UCF led 12-7 at halftime after replays overturned two huge defensive plays by Furman.

Keeping Sumter Beautiful

By Amanda McNulty, County Extension Agent In the Right Place I’ve been blessed to have been a county agent in Sumter for thirteen years now and really feel like I landed in the right place.

Surrounded by friends, a supportive staff, and a vibrant community, I’ve grown personally, spiritually, and professionally.

The same thing happens with plants when they are sited in a spot with the right amount of sun, the proper soil, and some tender, loving care.

The Sumter County Master Gardeners are going to have a timely display at the Sumter County Fair which begins on September 29th. The theme focuses on using native plants instead of imported ones. Native plants, when put in the right spot, can survive with a minimum of care and use far less water, fertilizer, and labor than a plant that arrived from another country or region.

An additional plus is that native plants don’t run rampant!

Privet, eleagnus, and ligustrum have become terrific problems in natural areas and yet they are still sold in garden centers.

These plants, along with many others, evolved in an environment that had parameters to keep them from getting out of

hand. Here in the United States those restraints aren’t present, and imported plants have taken over spaces where native species once flourished.

Still need a reason to plant natives -- how about that certain native species support butterfly and moth larvae which are a critical food source for birds feeding their young? Your decision to plant an oak tree instead of a Chinese elm may make the difference between a successful or failed hatching of robins nesting in your yard.

Sumter County Water Resources Agent Breann Liebermann has two manuals for sale (The Carolina Yardstick Workbook and Rain Gardens) that help you understand choosing the right plants for your particular landscape and include a good list of mostly natives to consider. Call her at 773-5561 if you are interested in getting a copy of these Clemson publications, or come to our office and read them for free.

Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs to people of all ages, regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital or family status and is an equal opportunity employer.

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Gordon ties Iron Man mark, but frustrated with finish

BY REID SPENCER NASCAR Wire Service JOLIET, Ill.—After tying the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series record for consecutive starts, Jeff Gordon would have preferred a more appropriate venue to celebrate the accomplishment.

“Gosh it would have been so much sweeter if I’d been in Victory Lane right now,” Gordon said.

For the record, when the driver of the No. 24 HenGORDON drick Motorsports Chevrolet took the green flag in Sunday’s myAFibRisk.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, he matched the 788 consecutive starts recorded by Ricky Rudd.

Gordon’s streak is unbroken from his debut in the Sprint Cup Series, dating to the final race of the 1992 season. Assuming he starts next Sunday’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Gordon will take sole possession of the mark.

In Sunday’s opening Chase race at Chicagoland, Gordon led 41 laps and had a car capable of winning. He was running second when the sixth caution slowed the event on Lap 257 of 267.

Gordon stayed out on old tires and got buried on the subsequent restart on Lap 263. Denny Hamlin, also on old rubber, found an opening on that same restart and won the race.

“Got a pretty decent start, and I was blocking him (Hamlin), and he was pushing me down on the apron. I just came up a little too early off the apron to get to the turn, and he was able to squeeze in there.

“Great job to him. I’m pretty frustrated that that caution came out, and that we didn’t capitalize on that last restart, but I’m highly encouraged by how great

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our car was today.”

Though he dropped to 14th at the finish, Gordon can look ahead with anticipation to the rest of the Chase.

“It’s the best I’ve run all year long— I’ll be honest,” he said.

MATT KENSETH OVERACHIEVES

It was a different sort of day for Matt Kenseth, who entered the Chase on the strength of a victory in the last regularseason NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Richmond.

On Sunday at Chicagoland, Kenseth wasn’t a contender for the win. In fact, he spent much of the afternoon trying to stay ahead of the race leader to avoid going a lap down.

But Kenseth took advantage of the final restart with five laps left and grabbed a fifth-place finish. In the driver’s view, it was more than he deserved.

“We didn’t run well today, really all weekend,” Kenseth said. “We never were able to make it drive like we wanted it to and never found the speed that we wanted to. We were very, very fortunate to come home fifth. We had about a 15th-place car all day.”

GREAT START FOR RYAN NEWMAN

Ryan Newman must relish his role as the Chase’s stealth bomber.

The championship runner-up by a mere half-second to Kevin Harvick in last year’s season finale, Newman charged to a fourth-place finish in Sunday’s Chase opener at Chicagoland Speedway, and did it all in the final five laps.

Newman restarted 14th on Lap 263 of 267 but passed 10 cars to finish fourth.

“Coming from 14th to fourth in five laps was a handful,” said Newman, who advanced to last year’s Championship Round without winning a race.

“That last caution played into our favor, for sure. We had a good car all day.

Registration is being taken for the 33rd Annual Turkey Trot to be held on Thursday, Nov. 26.

Early registration will run through Nov. 23. The fee is $20 per person age 18 or older and $15 for those 17 or younger.

Late registration will run through the morning of the race at the cost of $30 for those 18 or older and $25 for those 17 or younger.

There will be a Gobbler Dash that is free to children ages 4-9 as well as the Turkey Trot. Checkin will begin at 8 a.m. with the race starting at 9 a.m.

For more information, contact the YMCA of Sumter at (803) 7731404.

ETC. TRISUMTER TRIATHLON

The TriSumter Triathlon will be held on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the City of Sumter Aquatics Center located at 1115 South Lafayette Drive beginning at 8:30 a.m.

The event will include a 300yard pool swim, a 16-mile bicycle ride and a 5K run. It will begin and end at the aquatics center.

There will be several age groups beginning with 12-15.

There is a special military rate, $30 for individuals and $60 for a team.

For all others, it is $45 for individuals and $75 for teams. Early registration runs through Oct. 1 and those who do so will receive a long sleeve dryfit shirt.

The cost is $60 for an individual and $90 for a team that registers between Oct. 2-16. The cost is $90 for an individual and $120 for a team that registers on race day.

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The YMCA of Sumter is taking registration for its Biddy Basketball League for children ages 3-4.

The cost is $25 for members and $40 for non-members. Registration will run through Sept. 27.

Late registrants will be put on a waiting list. If space is available, a $10 late fee will be charged.

For more information, call the YMCA at (803) 773-1404.

FOOTBALL SUMTER TOUCHDOWN CLUB

The Sumter Touchdown club presented by FTC is still accepting members for its weekly breakfast meetings on Friday.

The club will meet for 12 weeks through Friday, Nov. 29. Meetings will be held each Friday from 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at The Quality Inn on Broad Street.

Each meeting will feature a buffet breakfast, the recognition of The Sumter Item Players of the Week, a weekly devotional, a Pick ‘Em Contest, the Coaches Corner and a guest speaker.

Membership is $100 and sponsorship levels start at $200.

For more information, go to www.sumtertdclub.com or call Lee Glaze at (803) 968-0773 or Talmadge Tobias at (803) 491-4573 for more

GOLF 9-HOLE SCRAMBLE

The 9-hole Scramble event hosted by The Links at Lakewood will be held every Thursday beginning at 5:30 p.m.

The cost is $25 per player and includes prizes and dinner. The cost is $12 for those attending just the dinner.

To sign up, call the pro shop at (803) 481-5700 up to 5 p.m. the day of the event.

OBITUARIES ANNE R. GAMBRELL Anne Rogers Gambrell, age 80, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, wife of Samuel C. Gambrell Jr., died on Sept.

18, 2015, at Hospice of West Alabama.

A memorial service will be held at 11:15 a.m.

GAMBRELL on Wednesday at Covenant Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Dr. Neil McCarter officiating.

A reception will follow the service. Private family graveside services will be at Tuscaloosa Memorial Park with Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel directing.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by brothers-in-law, Hood and Hugh Gambrell and Dusty Oates; and sisters-in law, Betty Lee Rogers, Jean Gambrell, Annie Walker Gambrell and Sara Gambrell.

She is survived by her beloved, cherished family members: husband of 57 years, Sam Jr.; daughters, Leslie McConatha of Opelika, Alabama, and Anne Kennedy Spruill (Mike) of Northport, Alabama; son, Sam Gambrell III (Meredith) of Spring Hill, Tennessee; granddaughters, Caroline and Leslie Spruill and Hannah Gambrell; grandsons, Lucas, Joshua and Wyatt Gambrell; brothers, Ernest B. Rogers Jr. of Orangeburg and Thomas Luther Rogers Sr. (Mary Helen) of Sumter; sister-in-law, Zelda Oates of Due West; aunts, Margorie Luther Harley of Clemson and Mary Luther Hudson of Salisbury, North Carolina; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Gambrell was born in Sumter, a daughter of the late Ernest Brasington Rogers Sr. and Bessie Luther Rogers. She was a graduate of Edmunds High School and earned a bachelor of science degree from Furman University, Greenville. She was certified in family and consumer sciences and was a member of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. Mrs. Gambrell was a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church and, over the years, had served as church school teacher, co-director of Vacation Church School, circle leader, and was currently a member of the membership

care committee and the worship committee as an usher.

She was a member and past president of the University of Alabama’s University Women’s Club; a member and past regent of the Chief Tuscaloosa Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution; a member and past president of the Tuscaloosa Music Club; and a member and participant in the OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) at the University of Alabama. She held season tickets and contributed to the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. She was a volunteer with the Tuscaloosa MealsOn-Wheels program for many years; a volunteer with other DAR members at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuscaloosa; and an adopt-aschool volunteer with other Tuscaloosa Music Club members at Buhl Elementary School.

Always gracious, kind and giving, Anne truly lived her life as a blessing to others.

The many lives she touched

will be left with countless precious memories to cherish.

Honorary pallbearers will be nurses and staff of Hospice of West Alabama, Dr. Summerford, Dr. Hemstreet, Dr. Simpson, Dr. Salinas, physicians and staff of Manderson Cancer Center, members of the Tuscaloosa Music Club, and members of the Chief Tuscaloosa Chapter, DAR. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the Covenant Presbyterian Church Meals on Wheels Program, 113 Hargrove Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, or to Hospice of West Alabama, 3851 Loop Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 30504.

MINNIE B. HOUSE Minnie Briggs House, 88, died on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, at National Health Care, Sumter.

Born on Jan. 20, 1927, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Damon and Julia Briggs.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at 13 Cecil

St., Sumter, and 402 Albert Drive, Sumter.

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

ROSA LEE WITHERSPOON Rosa Lee Cooper Witherspoon, 93, widow of John Davis Witherspoon, departed this life on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at her residence.

She was born on Feb. 26, 1922, in Sumter County, a daughter of the late Willie and Cora Johnson Cooper.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 1007 Truitt St., Sumter, SC 29150.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

NORMA E. BROOKS PAXVILLE — Norma Elizabeth Brooks, 73, wife of Michael Glenn “Mike” Brooks, died on Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital.

Services will be announced

by Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, (803) 435-2179. www. stephensfuneralhome.org

KATE A. TURNER FLORENCE — Kate Audrey Turner, 94, of Florence, died on Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, after an illness.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Waters-Powell Funeral Home of Florence.

The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursday at the funeral home.

LEROY WASHINGTON FLORENCE — Leroy Washington passed away on Sept.

16, 2015.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. today (viewing at 11 a.m.) at Orangehill Independent Methodist Church, 3005 S. Kings Highway, Wedgefield, with burial in the church cemetery.

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Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that Speedway LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of Beer & Wine at Speedway #2845, 101 Broad Street, Sumter, SC 29150-4225. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2015. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214-0907; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.

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Cinda Ann Kammermann #2015ES4300505

Personal Representative Charles V. Kammermann

C/O A. Paul Weissenstein, Jr. Attorney at Law PO Box 2446 Sumter, SC 29151 Estate:

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Personal Representative William F. McIntosh, Jr.

340 Hwy 261 South Wedgefield, SC 29168 Estate:

Estate Notice Sumter County

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.

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SusieMae Scurry #2015ES4300507

Personal Representative Mary Sue Hyatt

and Leonard A. Scurry, Jr. 946 Westfield Court Sumter, SC 29154 Sarah H. Strange #2015ES4300499

C/O A. Paul Weissenstein, Jr. Attorney at Law PO Box 2446 Sumter, SC 29151 Estate:

Lucious Jennings #2015ES4300487

Personal Representative Lillie D. Washington

and Shirley Davis 217 Iris Street Ladson, SC 29456 Estate:

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Anne Elizabeth Kouk #2015ES4300486

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10 Marigold Court Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

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807 Miller Road Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

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281 Lois Lane Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

Cary Lynn Nauenburg #2015ES4300483

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50 Shem Cove South Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

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90 Quarter Mile Road Sumter, SC 29153

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