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IT’S NOT DEJA VU The ballot for governor looks a lot like four years ago.

The race is largely a rematch between Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who lost in 2010 by 4.5 percentage points.

The two new names for

2014 are Tom Ervin, who calls himself an “independent Republican,” and Libertarian Steve French. In 2010, half of voters cast a straightparty ticket, so any thirdparty candidate is a very long shot. But Ervin is spending millions of his own money on ads running statewide. State election officials have certified that Haley’s former primary foe collected more than enough signatures to be on the ballot as a petition candidate.

Also on the ballot again is third-party candidate Morgan Reeves.

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TWO SENATE RACES, DIFFERENT TERMS Both U.S. Senate seats are on the ballot in South Carolina, though for different term lengths.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is seeking a third, six-year term, after handily defeating six tea party challengers in the GOP primary.

Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Tim

Scott is seeking to add two years to his tenure, as the election fulfills what’s left of Jim DeMint’s term. DeMint left the Senate in January 2013 to take the helm of the Heritage Foundation. Scott had just won a second U.S. House term when Gov. Nikki Haley appointed him to DeMint’s seat.

If Scott is elected in November, as expected, he could seek his first full Senate term in 2016. The election marks South Carolina’s first-ever U.S. Senate contest between two black major-party candidates.

NO COMPETITION Two incumbent statewide officers and one congressman essentially have already won.

That’s because Treasurer Curtis Loftis, Adjutant Gen. Robert Livingston and U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford — all Republicans — have no competition on the November ballot.

Loftis and Livingston each defeated one primary challenger. No one challenged former Gov. Sanford one year after he won a special election to fulfill Scott’s term.

No Democrat is challenging

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Z’ycoria Patrick, front, 4, and Domonique Patrick, 7, cool off with snow cones at Monday’s Gospel in the Park.

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Niecey Hodge, below, leads the Singing Angels on Monday during the Labor Day event. The group is from Sumter and was one of many that performed at the annual event.

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BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com (803) 774-1250 About 200 people turned out during the first hour of Monday’s Gospel in the Park.

“It’s going really good,” said Shonda English, a Sumter gospel singer and minister of music at Greater Saint Paul Church. “We do not usually have this many cars this early. It’s usually 3 or 4 p.m. before it picks up.”

She predicted even more would

come out for Dorothy Norwood and the Canton Spirituals later in the day.

In the mid-80s, her father, Bishop W.T. English, bought the land for the park that now bears his name. In 1996, he started Gospel in the Park.

“On Sundays, we all go to our own churches,” English said. “On a holiday when many are off, we can come fellowship and celebrate together.”

He died last year, and it was then that Shonda English realized he’d been training her the last three years by delegating more and more

of the event preparation to her.

“It’s part of his legacy,” she said.

“It’s not going to stop just because he’s not here physically.”

She serves as the concert’s coordinator and her church sponsors the program. Money raised through ticket and refreshment sales go back into the ministry.

“It’s beautiful to see the church work together,” English said.

Cheryl Mack agreed.

“We have a great time in fellowship and working together as a team,” she said.

For some, such as Gloria Williams, it is a tradition.

“I’ve come since 1996 (and) have a great time every year,” she said.

Toni Williams agreed.

“We come every year and have a great time listening to gospel music,” she said.

Others performing at Gospel in the Park included the Greater Saint Paul Church Gospel Choir and Sumter group Singing Angels. The Salem Missionary Baptist Church puppet ministry also put on a skit.

“I like the idea of people getting together enjoying good gospel music,” Andrea Washington said. “You get a chance to eat, too, and just enjoy each other.”

Summer of Caring’s 1st year deemed a success

BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com (803) 774-1250 Sumter has again showed its generous heart.

“We knew it would be challenging to raise money during the summer months, so we really had no monetary expectations for Summer Of Caring’s first year,” said Jack Osteen, editor and publisher of The Sumter Item. “However, we

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Just this past week, the Crisis Relief Ministry was able to help two families who lost their homes in fires.

“We were able to assist with rent, food and furniture to help them get back on their feet,” Champagne said.

With the Emergency Shelter, a woman was given a referral for an extension on her stay.

did raise more than $5,000 this summer, which is brand new money for United Ministries.

Knowing that this money did make a difference in many families’ lives is very gratifying for a first-year program.

For next year, we hope more people will be familiar with the program, and we would at least like to double what we raised this summer.”

The initiative was a partnership between Sumter Unit-

ed Ministries and the publication in which the newspaper collected money and gave it to the charity for use in three areas — Crisis Relief Ministry, Emergency Shelter and Construction Ministry.

Started the week after Memorial Day, the program

wrapped up the week before Labor Day and raised $5,542.

“Sumter United Ministries reaches people one at a time, face to face,” said Mark Champagne, executive director of the nonprofit. “It takes time, but it makes a difference to each person we talk to. I am encouraged by the generosity of the citizens of Sumter County. When a need is exposed, the citizens of Sumter meet the challenge.”

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Massage parlors, spas could get final reading Sumter City Council will hold a regularly scheduled meeting at 5:30 p.m. today at City Council Chambers in Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St. A public hearing will start at 6 p.m. to receive comments on the first reading of a proposal to update the Sumter 2030 Comprehensive Plan.

Council will consider final reading of a rezoning matter that would allow massage parlors and spas on Alice Drive as well as one that would change 7 ½ acres of Sumter School District Administration property from residential to light industrial.

Members will also consider a proposed list of streets to be resurfaced as part of both the city street resurfacing project for 2015 and the state street resurfacing project for 2015.

Reports on the Sumter Development Board, Santee-Lynches COG Board and Santee-Wateree RTA are scheduled to be shared.

An executive session will be held to discuss a contractual matter regarding the potential award of an Energy Savings Conservation Agreement and to discuss appointments to boards and commissions.

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Beatá Viszmegh-Hance with Tuomey Healthcare System’s public relations department scans her digital card collection. She is the primary designer for the free service.

Tuomey offers free cards for patients through online form

BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com If your loved one is staying at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, you can send him or her a card free of charge.

For the last 10 years or so, the Sumter hospital has offered this service for get well wishes, birthday greetings, seasonal salutations and baby congratulations. The last seven years, the primary designer has been Beatá Viszmegh-Hance.

It starts when you visit Tuomey.com/getwell and fill out the online form.

“Some want Bible verses,” Viszmegh-Hance said. “I had one want a RC Coke, and another said ‘My dad likes fishing so could you do something with a boat?’ For children, I have something cartoony.”

She’s used scenic images, animals, plants and military symbols. The person submitting the card usually uses a key word that gives ViszmeghHance a clue to the design.

“One lady kept getting these

1 dead, 1 arrested in Clarendon collision

‘I really wish people utilized this service more. It makes a big difference.’

BEATÁ VISMEGH-HANCE Primary card designer at Tuomey Regional Medical Center long letters from her cousin, so it left little room for graphics, but she was so happy,” Viszmegh-Hance said.

She also corrects for grammar and typos, and she doesn’t include off-color language or angry comments.

Though they are called “cards,” they are really more like mini-posters with larger type and colored paper.

Once Viszmegh-Hance has designed them, she sends them to Tuomey’s print shop.

Beth Fordham, manager of Tuomey Healthcare System’s Customer Volunteer and Customer Services, gets an email.

“I’ll deliver them or a volunteer might deliver them,” she said.

They check to make sure the patient is still in the same room as indicated on the card.

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Thirty-four-year old Maurelio DeLeon, of 1258 Audrey Lane, Manning, is dead after the 1994 Dodge Dakota pickup he was driving east on S.C. 261 near Boyd Road was reportedly struck from behind by a 1999 Hyundai driven by Tammy Brown, also of Manning. Both vehicles were traveling east on the highway

If the patient has gone home, they mail it to the client. If the patient has died, the card is typically sent to the family, Fordham said.

Sometimes the patients like the cards to be read when they’re delivered.

“I get sort of animated and act them out,” Fordham said.

“I was acting one out and the woman asked whom it was from. When I told her, she said ‘I raised that girl like a daughter. This is going in a frame.”’

“If it’s the first time, they’re just delighted. Even if it’s the 50th, it really shows they care.

They plaster them all over the room.”

They may get 10 cards to deliver in one day or none, Fordham said, and ViszmeghHance said she always makes

shortly before midnight Saturday when the wreck occured, the South Carolina Highway Patrol reported. The BROWN pickup truck was pushed off the right side of the road where it struck a tree, the highway patrol said.

A passenger in the pickup was reportedly airlifted to

them as priority.

“I do them first thing in the morning,” she said. “I’m constantly checking my email. I just care. I don’t talk about my faith a lot, but I believe you should try to live out your faith. Treat others like you want to be treated, and love your neighbor as yourself.

They are all my neighbors.”

And if a patient is getting a lot of cards, Viszmegh-Hance does her best to make sure he or she does not receive the same design twice.

“I know of five cases where patients received more than 50 cards,” she said. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s really worth it.”

Several doctors and physicians offices send their patients greetings, and Fordham said it’s good for people out of town. When her own mother was in the hospital, her brothers who live in other states were able to send personal messages that their mother loved.

“I really wish people utilized this service more,” Viszmegh-Hance said. “It makes a big difference.”

McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence.

According to Clarendon County Coroner Hayes F. Samuels, DeLeon died from a neck injury and blunt force trauma.

According to highway patrol, none of the people involved were wearing seatbelts.

Brown, 45, of 2929 Winters Hill Road, Manning, was transported to Clarendon Memorial Hospital. She has been charged with felony driving

Hydrant flow tests Wednesday, Thursday The City of Sumter will perform fire hydrant flow tests on East Newberry Avenue, South Lafayette Drive, East Red Bay Road, Murphy Street and Brent Street between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.

Water customers in the surrounding area may experience temporary discolored water.

Direct any questions or concerns to the City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 4362558.

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under the influence resulting in death and felony DUI resulting in serious bodily harm, ABC violation, as well as failure to wear a seat belt, according to highway patrol.

As of Monday morning, the suspect remained in Clarendon County Detention Center.

The collision remains under investigation by the highway patrol and Multiple Disciplinary Accident Investigation Team.

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BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com Sumter’s fourth-graders get a rare opportunity each fall to learn about their community from those involved in its many facets, from education, business and law enforcement to industry, government, religion and volunteerism. During September and October, representatives of those and other areas important to the community will visit local elementary schools to talk about what they do.

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by Sumter Volunteers Inc., which recruits volunteers to take part in the annual My Community and Me Community Circles.

Sumter Volunteers Director Jo Anne Morris, who coordinates the program, described it as a “successful endeavor (that) has provided students in public and private schools a unique hands-on learning experience about their community, its history, services and the role of citizen volunteers. The benefits and responsibilities of citizenship in Sumter County have been taught through tours, lessons and demonstrations. They have also encountered outstanding community role models who have provided a broad range of future career choices.”

More than 17,300 students have participated in the program since its inception in 1996; however, the original program was designed in the summer of 1994 “to provide 30 at-risk students from Lemira School Day Camp an enriching experience learning about the community, seeing how they relate and providing role models ... to accompany them on seven weekly excursions ... . It was repeated in 1995 with two schools and adapted for the

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Sumter Volunteers Director Jo Anne Morris and the Rev. James Blassingame talk with Kingsbury Elementary School fourth-graders about the role of volunteers and the church in the Sumter community during a past My Community and Me Community Circle program. Volunteers from many different facets of community life visit schools in September of each year to explain to fourth-graders exactly what role their business or organization plays in Sumter life.

COMMUNITY CIRCLE SCHEDULE • Sept. 16 — 9:30 a.m., Willow Drive cafeteria • Sept. 18 — 1 p.m., Alice Drive cafeteria • Sept. 24 — 9:30 a.m., Millwood cafeteria • Sept. 30 — 9:30 a.m., Pocalla multi-purpose room • Oct. 2 — 9:30 a.m., Kingsbury cafeteria • Oct. 7 — 9:30 a.m., Thomas Sumter Academy auditorium • Oct. 8 — 1 p.m., Delaine library • Oct. 14 — 9:30 a.m., Cherryvale gym • Oct. 16 — 9:30 a.m., Manchester cafeteria • Oct. 21 — 9:30 a.m., R.E. Davis gym • Oct. 24 — 9:30 a.m., Wilson Hall multipurpose room

city’s youth corps and a young women’s class of adult education.”

The following year a school pilot program was developed and refined for the curriculum at Willow Drive Elementary School, and it was implemented in two classes. A grant from the Central Carolina Community Foundation led to the program’s expansion.

Now in its 19th year, My Community and Me will take its Community Circles to fourth-graders at a dozen schools beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 16. Because Willow Drive began the school program, it traditionally starts there each year.

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On that morning, volunteers will visit with the Willow Drive fourth-grade classes, and then will take part in Community Circles at 11 more of Sumter’s public and private schools to explain how their roles and their organizations affect the greater community, including the fourth-graders themselves.

Morris is still seeking volunteers to fill the community circles. Potential Community Circlers are asked to choose a date and time from the list and to call Sumter Volunteers at (803) 775-7423. Call the same number to find out about other volunteer opportunities.

CHARLESTON — In some ways, political campaigning has gone to the dogs in South Carolina.

Boots McMaster, a bulldog with no chance of being elected, is a well-known political face this campaign season. Then there are the miniature schnauzers Ace and Angel Ervin and a yellow lab with the iconic South Carolina political name of Strom.

With almost half of American households owning dogs, a number of South Carolina politicians are featuring their dogs — but nary a cat — in ads, on websites and on Facebook pages.

The best-known seems to be Boots, the bulldog who appears with Republican Henry McMaster in his television ads as he runs for lieutenant governor. McMaster introduces Boots as the family watchdog while adding, “I’m proud of my record as South Carolina’s watchdog.”

On his campaign website, there’s a link directly to the Boots ad in the shape of a dog tag. And for a $100 contribution one can get a picture of the candidate and Boots “signed” by both.

When independent gubernatorial candidate Tom Ervin ran his first newspaper ads last month, they featured a picture of Ervin and his wife, Kathryn, holding their schnauzers Ace and Angel.

Republican Hugh Weathers, seeking another term as agriculture commissioner, is on his website in a photo with his wife, Blanche, holding their springer spaniels, Hub and Baby Girl.

And a cursory check shows a number candidates for the state House of Representatives have pictures of their pet dogs on web or Facebook sites. They include Charleston state Rep. Chip Limehouse with a family picture

with their pet dog, Strom.

Americans have long been fascinated by the dogs of political leaders. It was news last year when President Obama’s family adopted their second Portuguese water dog, Sunny. In George W. Bush’s administration, First Dog Barney bit a reporter.

There was Richard Nixon’s cocker spaniel Checkers and, of course, Fala, the black Scottish terrier who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s companion in the final years life and who is immortalized in sculpture at the FDR Memorial in Washington.

The Humane Society of the United States reports that pet ownership has tripled in the past four decades and now 47 percent of American households have at least one dog.

“Dogs are more a part of our culture than in the past and using a dog in an ad kind of humanizes and lets the voter into the family a little bit more,” said Gibbs Knotts, a political scientist at College of Charleston.

Don’t tell this to Boots, but ads with dogs, while useful in introducing a candidate to the voters, may not be that effective in getting votes.

“The types of ads that tend to be more effective are the ads where they really contrast a candidate’s positions with the opposition,” Kotts said. “Negative ads, although we talk about not liking them, tend to work.”

Why no cats in the ads?

“I would think cats have more negatives,” Knotts said. “There are a lot of cat lovers out there, but some people really don’t like cats.”

Cats come across as too independent. Many dogs, he said, have a reputation as working dogs and, by extension, may indicate the candidate will work whether as a watchdog or in some other role for the voters.

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ELECTION FROM PAGE A1 Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers or U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy. Both, however, have third-party opponents.

Like Sanford, Gowdy had no primary contest, either.

South Carolina’s five other congressmen are expected to easily win re-election against major-party opponents with little to no cash.

state where voters elect the adjutant general, and nothing requires candidates to have military experience. The office oversees the state’s Army National Guard, Air National Guard, State Guard and the state’s Emergency Management Division.

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This will be the first general election for South Carolina’s voter ID law.

For the quickest path to the ballot on Election Day, present either a driver’s license, Department of Motor Vehicles ID card, federal military ID, U.S. passport, or voter registration card with a photo — a new ID created by the 2012 law that’s available for free at county election offices.

While voters will be asked to show photo identification at the polls, they can still vote without one by signing an affidavit stating why they could not get a photo ID and showing their non-photo voter registration card.

Voters who forget to bring their photo ID can also vote on paper. It won’t count, however, unless they show the ID at their county election office before officials certify results.

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impaired by marijuana.

Colorado, Washington and Montana have set an intoxication threshold of 5 parts per billion of THC, the psychoacWASHINGTON — As states liberalize tive ingredient in pot, in the blood. A few their marijuana laws, public officials and other states have set intoxication threshsafety advocates worry that more drivers olds, but most have not set a specific high on pot will lead to a big increase in traffic deaths. Researchers, though, are di- level. In Washington, there was a jump of nearly 25 percent in drivers testing vided on the question.

Studies of marijuana’s effects show that positive for marijuana in 2013 — the first full year after legalization — but no corthe drug can slow decision-making, deresponding increase in car wrecks or facrease peripheral vision and impede multalities. titasking, all of which are critical driving What worries highway safety experts skills. But unlike with alcohol, drivers high on pot tend to be aware that they are are cases such as that of New York teenagimpaired and try to compensate by driving er Joseph Beer, who in October 2012 smoked marijuana, climbed into a Subaru slowly, avoiding risky actions such as Impreza with four friends and drove more passing other car, and allowing extra than 100 mph before losing control. The room between vehicles. car crashed into trees with such force that On the other hand, combining marijuathe vehicle split in half, killing his friends. na with alcohol appears to eliminate the Beer pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicpot smoker’s exaggerated caution and ular homicide and was sentenced last seems to increase driving impairment beyond the effects of either substance alone. week to 5 years to 15 years in prison.

A prosecutor blamed the crash on “We see the legalization of marijuana in “speed and weed,” but a Yale University Colorado and Washington as a wake-up Medical School expert on drug abuse who call for all of us in highway safety,” said testified at the trial said studies of mariJonathan Adkins, executive director of juana and crash risk are “highly inconcluGovernors Highway Safety Association, sive.” Some studies show a two- or threewhich represents state highway safety offold increase, while others show none, said fices.

“We don’t know enough about the scope Dr. Mehmet Sofuoglu. Some studies even showed less risk if someone was marijuaof marijuana-impaired driving to call it a na positive, he testified. big or small problem. But anytime a drivTeenage boys and young men are the er has their ability impaired, it is a probmost likely drivers to smoke pot and the lem.” most likely drivers to have an wreck, reColorado and Washington are the only states that allow retail sales of marijuana gardless of whether they’re high, he said.

“Being a teenager, a male teenager, and for recreational use. Efforts to legalize being involved in reckless behavior could recreational marijuana are underway in Alaska, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon explain both at the same time — not necessarily marijuana causing getting into and the District of Columbia. Twentyaccidents, but a general reckless behavior three states and the nation’s capital perleading to both conditions at the same mit marijuana use for medical purposes. time,” he told jurors.

It is illegal in all states to drive while

WHAT DO VOTERS NEED TO BRING?

The ballot includes two constitutional questions.

The first asks voters whether charity raffles should be legal. While raffles are commonplace, the only legal raffle is the state lottery. Enforcement depends largely on whether someone complains to police.

If voters say “yes,” a law passed last year lays out how schools, churches and other nonprofits can legally hold raffles. Rules include limits on their frequency and ticket costs.

The other ballot question asks whether South Carolina’s top military officer should be appointed by the governor.

If voters approve, 2014 will be the last time voters choose who leads the state’s military.

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CARING FROM PAGE A1 “During the interview, with God’s guidance, the director of Crisis Relief was able to take the time to listen,” he said. “Through her tears, she shared that she felt she had nowhere else to go. When she was asked about her family, her tears flowed even more. It was determined she was scared to call them for help and share with them that she was homeless. With encouragement, she was planning on reconnecting with them on leaving the ministry.”

The Construction Ministry continues to do smaller weekend projects and is already planning for Winter Restore, which will take place the second week of January. It’s

geared toward college students.

“This will offer more opportunities for Christians to demonstrate God’s love by making homes dry, safe, secure and accessible,” Champagne said.

“Only God’s movement in our lives can make this happen.”

It also won’t be long before The Sumter Item kicks off it’s own winter program on which Summer of Caring was modeled.

“Even though Summer of Caring is over, our annual Salvation Army Fireside Fund will begin before we know it this fall,” Osteen said. “The needs of the Sumter community never take a break for seasons or holidays.”

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BY SHAMIRA MCCRAY The (Florence) Morning News FLORENCE — Descendants of Ervin James, a former slave, and community members, recently gathered on the original Jamestown settlement in Florence County for the first event of the James’ annual family reunion.

Crowds of people mingled on the Jamestown lawns and enjoyed food, historical re-enactments, presentations and the company of each other.

Carolyn Evans, a professional storyteller, stepped into character as Harriet Tubman and performed an engaging reenactment for the attendees, along with Civil War re-enactors.

Other activities included historical furniture making, indigo dying, iron works and net casting.

“A family reunion is about history, heritage and culture,” Terry James, a descendant of Ervin James said. “You have to give a family something of substance and that’s what we’re doing. That’s why we open it up to the community.”

Jamestown was a Reconstruction-era African-American settlement that Ervin James founded in the Mars Bluff area in 1870 when he bought more than 200 acres of land near the Pee Dee River for

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Civil War re-enactors and a Harriet Tubman re-enactor perform demonstrations at the Jamestown Reunion held recently in Florence. Yaw Shangofemi of Charleston, left, has been doing iron works since the ‘70s. He demonstrated his techniques at the reunion. his descendants.

Terry James said the event is about talking with ancestors to get a better idea of how they lived and dealt with adversities of their time.

“We want people to know what contributions AfricanAmericans contributed to this nation, to this state and to this area,” Terry James said. “If it wasn’t for the African-Americans, South Carolina and this nation wouldn’t be like it is.

And that’s a fact.”

Jennifer Davis, of Oregon, was visiting family in Florence

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Williams, the daughter of Annie B. James, said the reunion is something she always looks forward to.

“I think it’s a nice thing to have to get the family together,” Williams said. “It really means a lot to me.”

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Out of all aspects of the gathering, Davis said she enjoyed the Harriet Tubman reenactment and seeing artifacts from the Walterboro Slave Relic Museum the most.

“I love the artifacts,” Davis said. “You hear things, and you read things, but to see it with your own eyes is very different.”

Dorothy Williams, a descendant of Ervin James, was born and raised in the original Jamestown community. She said years ago, the family did

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Manning seeks grant to improve Fleming neighborhood

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Houses on Collins Street in the Fleming neighborhood are unoccupied and have boarded up windows and doors.

Election appeal will be heard Sept. 10

The City of Manning has received word that the U.S. Department of Commerce has approved the city’s request for a Community Development Block Grant for streetscaping along Mill Street between Boyce and Rigby streets. The project will include the upgrading of sidewalks to meet ADA standards, minor landscaping and decorative lighting.

“It will be very similar to the other street work that has been done downtown,” said Manning City Administrator Scott Tanner.

The grant requires the city to spend an additional $100,000

from other sources. The grant application lists that money as coming from the city’s general fund and Clarendon County “C” funds.

“We are probably looking at 18 to 24 months before the project is actually complete,” Tanner said. “That’s just the wheels of government at work.”

Manning has also applied for a grant to improve safety in the Fleming neighborhood by demolishing dilapidated structures, installing security cameras and increasing community policing and neighborhood involvement in the area. According to the application, the grant is targeted to the area bounded

by Huggins, Boyce, Richburg, Commerce and Boundary

streets.

Manning Police Chief Blair Shaffer said the area has seen an unusual amount of criminal activity, much of it associated with a club located in the neighborhood.

“I did a three-year study of all the calls in the city,” he said.” In three years, we had 29 shotsfired calls, reports of people firing guns in the city, and 15 of those were from that club — over 50 percent.”

Shaffer said there has also been a problem associated some of the abandoned buildings.

“We have had rapes at two of these properties that the city is trying to tear down, two rapes

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Davis Plantation scene of Business After Hours

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com (803) 774-1211 An appeal of the results of the Manning City Council District 5 runoff election has been included in a one-day appeals roster that will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 10, in the Breedin Garden Room behind Weldon Auditorium, 7 Maple St., Manning.

Gloria Frierson, a candidate for the district 5 seat, appealed the election results after the City of Manning Election Commission ruled she lost the runoff by a single vote to Julius “Jay” Dukes.

Frierson’s attorney, David Weeks, said he will attempt to show that at least two votes were counted in the election that were cast by ineligible voters, and will ask that the election results be thrown out and a new election held.

The District 5 council seat has been empty since the death of Gregory Witherspoon March 20. In a special election held July 8, no candidate garnered more than 50 percent of the vote, necessitating the runoff election July 22. The election commission ruled Dukes the winner of that election by a 48-47 vote.

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The venue for the Clarendon Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours was the Davis Plantation, built in 1843.

Farley, transplant patient, doing well

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com (803) 774-1211 Robert A. Farley, a former Manning resident, is doing well after having kidney transplant surgery Wednesday at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston Carl Farley said Thursday.

“He had his transplant and everything is going well,” Carl Farley said. “He was up and about walking.”

He said the kidney seems to be functioning well.

“Doctors said everything is going to be OK,” Carl Farley said.

Ella Farley, Robert Farley’s mother, said her son had been on a waiting list for about two years, and the family recently received a call telling them a matching kidney from a living 50-year-old donor had become available.

She said that her son, a father of two, needed to have a live donor due to the underlying condition that caused his kidneys to fail.

The family has set up a fund at the Bank of Clarendon called the Robert A. Farley Kidney Fund to help with expenses. Anyone wishing to make a donation can take a check payable to the fund to any Bank of Clarendon branch.

Mary Prince and Sharon Ridgeway were among those touring the Davis Plantation on Aug. 26.

Agents from Agent Owned Realty, which hosted the evening, pose on the front stairway. Glynn Evans, Sandra Brewer, Lee Beldiing and Donna Thames below.

Diane Georgia, Cathy Ridgeway and Patricia Pringle enjoy a chat during last Tuesday’s Clarendon Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours.

Poker run, barbecue benefits Alzheimer’s support group

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com (803) 774-1211 Registration for the Alzheimer’s Poker Run to benefit the Alzheimer’s Family Support Group (AFSG) will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Manning Restaurant, 476 N. Brooks St. The entry fee is $20.

“The entry fee is for a motorcycle or a car is $20, but if

you go double it is $30,” said AFSG program director Betty Welloch. “Our cash prizes are $100 for the first prize and $75 for the second prize. We will give a $50 IGA coupon for the third prize.” Cash prizes are only available to entrants who complete the run.

She said the entry fee qualifies participants for a 3 p.m. barbecue cookout at Lakevue Landing, 1343 Camp Shelter Road, and a chance to win

door prizes. The group also has T-shirts for sale starting at $12.

“We do not have the real large ones,” she said, “but we can order them.”

In addition to the Manning Restaurant, anyone interested can also register at the Lakevue Landing, Welloch said.

Riders must get their forms stamped at the following locations to be eligible for cash

prizes: the Manning Restaurant; Georgio’s Restaurant, 5978 Alex Harvin Highway; Taw Caw Marina, 1328 Joyner Drive; The New Scarborough’s, 1326 Fowler Road, Summerton; Ricky D’s, 10482 Highway 260 and Lakevue Landing.

“We are ending up at Lakevue for the barbecue cookout and prizes,” Welloch said. “If you have the form you can start anyplace.”

She said the menu at the cookout, which starts at 3 p.m., usually includes barbecue pork and chicken with several different side dishes.

“My favorite is the small potatoes cooked with green pepper,” she said. “The cook out there makes the barbecue sauce himself.

“Come early and meet everybody.”

For more information, call Welloch at (803) 478-4820.

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BRIEF ENCOUNTERS JORDAN CROSSROADS MINISTRY CENTER JCMC will hold its public monthly meeting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at New Covenant Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall.

Parking is available in the parking area nearest the entrance to the Fellowship Hall.

For more information call Ann Driggers at (803)460-5572.

ALZHEIMER’S POKER RUN In support of World Alzheimer’s Brain Health Month, the Lake Marion Alzheimer’s Family Support Group will hold its 10th Annual Alzheimer’s Poker Run on Saturday, Sept. 6. Register from 10 a.m. to noon at the Manning Restaurant, 476 N. Brooks St. The run will end at Lake Vue Landing, 1543 Camp Shelor Road, by 3 p.m.

There will be a barbecue cookout and prizes will be awarded to the winners and all participants. Obtain reservation forms at Lake Vue landing at 9 a.m. before the run, or call (803) 478-4820 or (803) 473-4472. Proceeds benefit 2014 Alzheimer’s Brain Health.

REPUBLICAN PARTY MEETING The Clarendon County Republican Party will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11 at the Cornerstone Free Will Baptist Church, 2116 Greeleyville Highway, Manning. Supper will be served at 6:30 p.m., and at 7 p.m. the speakers will be Leon Winn, South Carolina House District 64 candidate Robert McFadden and Secretary of State Mark Hammond. Anyone interested is invited to attend.

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Course materials are on a sixth-grade reading level.

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ANGELO PETEY Angelo is our sweet angel. She is a 2-month-old Lab mix who loves to play. She is due to be spayed on Sept. 22, then she will be ready for adoption. This picture doesn’t do her justice, come by the shelter and see her in person.

Petey is a 1 ½-year-old male domestic shorthaired gray tabby. He is an inside/outside cat who loves to go for rides in the golf cart. He is up to date on his shots and has been neutered. Stop by and see this cuddle bug.

Meet Angelo, Petey and many other cats and dogs at A Second Chance Animal Shelter, 5079 Alex Harvin Highway (U.S. 301), which has numerous pets available for adoption. Adoption hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. To drop off an animal, call (803) 473-7075 for an appointment. If you’ve lost a pet, check www.ccanimalcontrol.webs.com and www.ASecondChanceAnimalShelter.com.

WALKER-GAMBLE REUNION The Walker Gamble High School Alumni Association Inc. reunion committee will hold a reunion weekend Sept.

26-28 at Walker Gamble Elementary School, New Zion.

For further details, write to WGHS Alumni Assoc. Inc., P.O. Box 335, New Zion, SC 29111.

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Pre-registration will be held at Walmart from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 6. Fee is $20, which includes a T-shirt.

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POLICE BLOTTER MANNING POLICE DEPT POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE 10:13 p.m. Aug. 12: An officer reported observing a vehicle disregard a stop sign and pull into a driveway on Toccoa Drive. The officer initiated a traffic stop and reported noticing a strong smell of marijuana. The driver allegedly dropped a plastic bag of marijuana on his leg while retrieving his documentation. Further investigation revealed several plastic bags with a total of more than 5 ounces of what appeared to be marijuana, two loaded handguns, a scale and additional plastic bags. Jamaad Alexander Dingle, 26, 24 Depot St., was cited for disregarding a stop sign and then arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and unlawful carry of a handgun. Seized firearms were valued at $750.

HIT AND RUN WITH PROPERTY DAMAGE 9:16 p.m. Aug. 16: An officer responded to the area of Logan and Calhoun streets in reference to a hit and run. Complainant said that while his vehicle was parked on Logan Street a man hit his vehicle in an older white pickup and left the scene.

Officers were unable to locate the alleged driver. Damage was estimated at $3,500.

SHOPLIFTING 11:51 a.m. Aug. 19: Officers responded to a report of shoplifting in progress at 2010 Paxville Highway. Arkell Shaneen Eaglin, 37, 4745 S. Highway 15; Adrian Jimell Eaglin, 19,2925 Lens Heavins Road; and Adrianna Jidaja Eaglin ,19, 42 Edwards St., Sumter were arrested and transported to Clarendon County Detention Center.

All three suspects were placed on trespass notice for the business. Value of the recovered items was $471.

SHERIFF’S OFFICE BURGLARY/BREAKING AND ENTERING 7:44 a.m. Aug. 12: An officer responded to a report of attempted breaking and entering in the 1200 block of Hammond Road, Summerton. Complainant said someone took a welder and chain saw from his storage

GRANT, FROM PAGE C1 that actually occurred inside of these abandoned houses,� he said.

The grant would also fund security cameras. “I’d be looking at putting about four cameras up in the Fleming neighborhood,� Shaffer said.

The police chief said the city already has nine security cameras in operation, several at the city’s water towers. “I wrote a grant in 2005 for Homeland Security, basically to protect our water system from any kind of attacks,� he said. “We were also able to get money to get some cameras for high traffic areas; a lot of these

building overnight. Missing items were valued at $725.

12:15 p.m. Aug. 16: A deputy responded to a report of a breaking and entering in the 1900 block of Gaymon Road.

Complainant said someone entered the property and took three bicycles, an air conditioner and two propane heaters. The deputy noted the rear door of the property had been forced open. Missing items were valued at $1,700.

2:53 p.m. Aug. 18: A deputy responded to a complaint of a burglary in the 2800 block of Allen Road, Manning. Complainant said while she was away between 1:45 and 2:45 p.m., someone entered her home through a window and took a laptop computer. The missing item was valued at $800.

4:15 a.m. Aug. 23: An officer met with a complainant in the 1100 block of Peacock St., Manning. Complainant said when she returned home around 4:05 a.m. she noticed her house had been broken into. Missing items included a 52-inch television, a desktop computer and printer, a microwave, three flat screens, a stereo and speakers, a DVD player, assorted jewelry, a laptop computer, a PS3 game system and a Wii game system.

Entry was made through the rear door, which was damaged. Value of the missing items was $5,700.

THEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE/ VANDALISM 10:04 a.m. Aug. 15: A deputy responded to a report of vandalism in the 8200 block of Kingstree Highway. Complainant said his Jeep had been vandalized and rummaged through. He said he found the Jeep hood open, the wires on the alternator cut and the radiator appeared to be cut with a sharp object. Complainant said there were several scratches on the rear hatch door, the gas door was open and the cap removed. Complainant said there appeared to be a gritty substance in the oil reservoir. A GPS unit was also missing.

Damage and missing items were valued at $798.

LARCENY 7:01 a.m. Aug. 12: An officer responded to a report of larceny in the 1300 block of Ham-

cameras are aimed at intersections.�

He said the city’s patrol cars have access to the Internet and they can pull up the camera feeds at any time. “They have been helpful,� he said. “Sometimes we have relied on our cameras to find a vehicle that maybe somebody was in that committed a crime, or if we are having problems with break-ins at certain areas.�

Shaffer said the cameras can pan and tilt and zoom. “There are a lot that we can do with these cameras,� he said. “For the most part we have them at intersections, but we can aim them at a business if we need to. It’s another tool that we have.�

mond Road, Summerton. Complainant said he found the lid of his truck’s tool box open and a 16-inch chain saw, a twoton bottle jack, bolt cutters, a tool set, an 18-volt drill with extra battery and jumper cables were missing. Missing items were valued at $950.

10:45 a.m. Aug. 14: A deputy responded to a report of larceny in the 3100 block of Puddin’ Swamp Road, Turbeville. Complainant said someone took a black trailer from her yard.

The missing trailer was valued at $1,200.

9:45 a.m. Aug. 15: A deputy responded to a complaint of larceny in the 4300 block of Padgett Highway, Lake City.

Complainant said her golf cart was chained and locked at her mother’s residence and her mother noticed it missing at around 9 a.m. The golf cart was described as Hunter green with stickers of crosses all over it and a Jesus Saves sticker. The missing cart was valued at $2,100.

6:50 p.m. Aug. 15: A deputy responded to a report of a stolen generator in the 1200 block of Floyd Road, Lake City. Complainant said she noticed the door of her storage building open around noon on Aug. 13.

On Aug. 15, she looked inside and noticed a generator miss-

ing. The generator was valued at $500.

7:49 p.m. Aug. 18: A deputy responded to a report of a stolen riding mower in the 1300 block of Maegan Lane, Manning.

Complainant said her mower was covered up in her back yard at around 9:30 p.m. Aug. 16. When she returned on Aug. 18 the mower was missing. The mower was valued at $1,200.

9:08 a.m. Aug. 22: A deputy was dispatched to the 1000 block of Davis Street, Manning, in reference to larceny of a boat. Complainant said he last saw his 16-foot aluminum bass boat at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 21.

He said when he woke up at 6:30 a.m. the boat was gone.

Complainant said the boat was in the water and tied down.

The estimated value of the boat was $3,500.

8:55 a.m. Aug. 26: A deputy was dispatched to the 2000 block of St. Paul Road, Summerton, in reference to a report of larceny of medication.

Complainant said some painkiller medication and a wedding ring were missing. Missing items were valued at $435.

GRAND LARCENY 7:14 p.m. Aug. 15: An officer met with complainant in the 1100 block of Cassie Lynn Drive, Manning. Complainant said a 22-horsepower engine

from one of his tractors was missing as well as a battery from one of his tractors. Value of the missing items was $1,410.

9:09 p.m. Aug. 24: An officer met with a complainant at his residence in the 1300 block of Hammond Road, Summerton.

Complainant said he parked his truck with a boat on a trailer in his yard at approximately 11:30 a.m. Aug. 22.

Complainant said that at 10 a.m. he noticed a battery, a fishfinder and a trolling motor were missing. Missing items were valued at $2,900.

MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT 5:45 p.m. Aug. 17: A deputy responded to a complaint of automobile theft in the 1300 block of Renegade Trail, New Zion. Complainant said her 2006 Chevrolet Impala was missing when she returned from church. The vehicle was valued at $8,000.

VANDALISM 8:19 a.m. Aug. 15: Complainant said his 2006 Pontiac broke down the prior evening on Hardwood Road, Summerton.

When he returned the following morning, he said he discovered all the windows broken out, the rear view mirrors broken off, the tail lights broken and dents in all of the doors.

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Troy Thibodeau from Saco River Auction Co. examines a collection of more than 1,400 baseball cards from 1909, 1910 and 1911 in Biddeford, Maine. The collection will be auctioned off starting in January. The 1909 baseball card, at right, depicting Kid Elberfeld is part of the collection.

‘The Portland Trove’ is quality, not just quantity

BY DAVID SHARP Associated Press Writer BIDDEFORD, Maine — A baseball fan took up smoking a century ago and with it acquired another habit: holding onto little cards that bore the faces of baseball’s earliest greats.

Now, the trove of more than 1,400 tobacco cards featuring a slew of Hall of Famers such as Cy Young and Ty Cobb — the legacy of a teenage smoker whose family hung onto a collection that dates to 1909 — is going up for auction.

The cards will be sold by a Maine auction house that is becoming known for selling rare memorabilia, Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford.

Troy Thibodeau, the company’s manager and auctioneer, said the collection of cards dating from 1909 to 1911 — an era when the Yankees were the Highlanders, the Dodgers were the Superbas and the Braves were the Doves — belongs to the grandchildren of a Brooklyn, New York-born man who began smoking when he was 19.

‘If you love baseball, this is the beginning of it. This is where stars were made and heroes were born. It’s history.’

TROY THIBODEAU Saco River Auction Co. manager and auctioneer “Every time he got a card, he threw it in a box,” Thibodeau said.

The collection has been dubbed the “Portland trove” because some of the collector’s descendants ended up in Maine’s largest city. The family doesn’t want to be identified, Thibodeau said.

Set to be auctioned individually and in small lots starting in January, the collection includes about 10 cards depicting Young and a dozen depicting Cobb, along with other

Hall of Famers such as Chief Bender, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.

Smaller than modern baseball cards, these cards known as “T206” cards to collectors feature color lithographs on the front and a tobacco advertisement on the back.

“They’re not like your normal baseball card where there’s a stock piece of photography that’s printed on millions and millions of cards. These are truly pieces of art. They’re colorful, they’re bright, they’re folky, they’re Americana,” Thibodeau said.

The collector preferred a cigarette brand from Havana called El Principe De Gales.

But there are cards featuring logos from other cigarette brands of the era such as American Beauty, Sweet Caporal, Sovereign and Piedmont.

Such a large collection is unusual but not unprecedented. Large collections come up for sale every year or two, collectors say. Part of what makes this one special is that the cards are in great shape.

Scott Hileman from New Jersey-based SportsCard

Guaranty, who graded the cards, said they’re all among the type of cards used to market brands that were part of American Tobacco Co. for three years, from 1909 to 1911.

He described the trove as “incredible.”

Missing are two of the rarest cards: Those depicting pitcher Eddie Plank and shortstop Honus Wagner. The priciest baseball card ever sold was a 1909 Honus Wagner, which went for $2.8 million.

Nonetheless, the collection is valuable with the potential for some of the single cards to

reach into five figures, Thibodeau said.

Saco River is making a name for itself despite being a small auction house.

Last year, a collector from Massachusetts paid $92,000 for an 1865 baseball card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club. In 2012, the auction house sold a rare 1888 card of Hall of Famer Michael “King” Kelly for $72,000.

“If you love baseball, this is the beginning of it. This is where stars were made and heroes were born. It’s history,” Thibodeau said.

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The ugly side of beauty I

’ve previously shared the story about my grandmother’s brown pocketbook, but I didn’t mention there was something inside the stylish bag that always repulsed me — the universally hideous rain bonnet.

For those of you who never had a proper grandmother, or lived somewhere in the desert, the rain bonnet was a small, plastic scarf which folded accordion-style into a tiny packet. Some people referred to the pliable cap as a rain “hood,” but we thought that sounded a bit too urban and stuck with the more genteel “bonnet.”

Ladies of that time had an assortment of the plastic head covers hidden in every drawer, pocketbook and the car’s glove box.

The rain bonnets looked Leslie Anne hilarious, but now that I think about it, were a Harrison practical accessory — especially on the days when you had your hair “done” at Bee Bee’s Beauty Parlor. Cousin Rosie Belle from Robertsdale’s mother Aunt Flora Gayle would say, “I didn’t pay Doris Rae $7.35 to have her work destroyed by rain!”

Her round mound of hair had to last from Eastern Star on Saturday night through Sunday morning services and then again to the Thursday Garden Club luncheon. And I double-dog swear on a stack of Southern Living magazines that I knew of at least two ladies who would wrap their “do” in toilet paper at night and sleep on silk pillows in order to keep their stiff stack of curls perfectly in place all week. Let’s see Charmin start advertising that.

As Suzanne Sugarbaker of Designing Women fame once said to her charming and frisky beau, “Keep your hands to yourself, I don’t want to mess up my hair.”

Don’t be so shocked. Who amongst us hasn’t at least a few times thought of our hair first?

Years ago, on a sweltering summer morning, my grandmother and I were caught beneath a roadside fruit stand during a sudden downpour. She offered me a rain bonnet of my own (how clever to have a spare), but I almost fainted with teen-

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aged embarrassment at the thought of putting one of those things on my head! It didn’t matter that I didn’t even know anyone in Hartselle other than relatives, and they didn’t care what I had on my head.

But what if another unknown teenager happened to drive by and catch a glimpse of me with plastic stuck to my head? The universe would surely have ended.

Moments later, grandmother looked beautifully coiffed behind the giant Buick’s steering wheel, while I sat next to her on the sprawling bench seat looking like a drowned rat.

Although I adore and regularly use some vintage items such as real cotton monogrammed handkerchiefs and sweater clips, I have to draw the line at the rain bonnet. Thank goodness I was born in a time where I have access to modern gadgets so I can “do” my hair on a moments notice. But even though hot rollers are the best invention since sliced bread, there still isn’t anything quite as compact and efficient to shield our hair from inclement weather as the rain bonnet.

Once again proving they truly were the greatest generation.

‘Although I adore and regularly use some vintage items such as real cotton monogrammed handkerchiefs and sweater clips, I have to draw the line at the rain bonnet.’

Leslie Anne Harrison is a contributing writer for The Sumter Item and Gulf Coast Newspapers — www.gulfcoastnewstoday. com. She also has a popular website — Fairhope Supply Co. — which can be found at www.fairhopesupply.com. She can be reached at la@fairhopesupply.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR RULES FOR PAYING CAR TAXES IN S.C. ARE TIME CONSUMING, ANTIQUATED I’m a New York City transplant who just moved to Sumter several months ago, and a couple of weeks ago I purchased a used car in a private sale. I can now see why the Department of Motor Vehicles issues 45-day temporary plates. The rules and regulations in this state — and how they are handled — are time consuming, antiquated and an inefficient use of personnel.

First, you have to guess where in your city’s network of buildings you have to go to in order to pay property taxes on your vehicle. That’s not an easy feat in Sumter.

Then when you do find the right building, you have to stand in one line and someone looks up your car’s value and decides how much tax you have to pay and gives you an “invoice.” Then you have to get into anoth-

er line to pay that tax, but they won’t take credit cards if the “invoice” is issued on the same day.

If you must search for an ATM (because who carries a checkbook on them these days?), one has to wander in the heat to find a bank, but the closest one doesn’t have an ATM inside, so be prepared to stand in the drive-through lane among cars to use it.

Then you go back to the line to pay your taxes and get a receipt, which you then have to take to the DMV (which is about 20 minutes away) before you can even think about getting plates and registration.

I may be sunburned, but I have paid my taxes. You’re welcome, South Carolina. You have outdated, inconvenient rules. And that’s coming from a New Yorker who is used to standing in lines.

HANNAH MARIA HAYES Sumter

ASHINGTON — To take the measure of this uncommonly interesting public man, begin with two related facts about him.

Paul Ryan has at least 67 cousins in his Wisconsin hometown of Janesville, where there are six Ryan households within eight blocks of his home. And in his new book, “The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea,” he says something few politicians say, which is why so many are neither trusted nor respected. Ryan says he was wrong.

At a Wisconsin 4-H fair in 2012, Ryan encountered a Democrat who objected to what then was one of Ryan’s signature rhetorical tropes — his distinction between “makers” and “takers,” the latter being persons who reGeorge ceive more in Will government spending than they pay in taxes. He had been struck by a report that 60 percent of Americans were already — this was before Obamacare — “net receivers.” But his encounter at the fair reminded him that, for a while, he and many people he cared about had been takers, too.

The morning after a night “working the Quarter Pounder grill at McDonald’s,” Ryan, 16, found his father, who had been troubled by alcohol, dead in bed. Janesville’s strong sinews of community sustained Ryan and his mother; so did Social Security survivor benefits. When GM’s Janesville assembly plant closed, draining about $220 million of annual payroll from a town of 60,000, many relatives, friends and constituents needed the social safety net — unemployment compensation, job training, etc.

“At the fair that day, I realized I’d been careless with my language,” he writes. “The phrase gave insult where none was intended.” He has changed his language and his mind somewhat but thinks the fundamental things still apply.

“Society,” Ryan writes, “functions through institutions that operate in the space between the individual and the state,” and “government exists to protect the space where all of these great things occur.” Hence government has a “supporting role” as “the enabler of other institutions.” Progressive government, however, works, sometimes inadvertently but often deliberately, to subordinate or supplant those institutions. This depletion of social capital is comprehensively injurious to the culture. And “all the tax cuts in the world don’t matter much if you don’t get the culture right.”

Progressivism aims to place individuals in unmediated dependency on a government

that can proclaim, as Barack Obama does: “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Meaning, people depend on government for what they are and have.

Few of today’s progressives are acquainted with their doctrine’s intellectual pedigree or its consistent agenda.

Progressivism’s founders, however, considered it essential that the nation make progress, as they understood this, beyond the Founders’ natural rights philosophy, which limits government by saying (in the Declaration of Independence) that it is “instituted” to “secure” these rights.

Hence Woodrow Wilson, a progressive who understood his doctrine’s premises, urged Americans to “not repeat the preface.” Progressivism preaches that rights do not pre-exist government, that they are dispensed and respected by government as it sees fit and to fit its purposes.

Those purposes grow unconstrained by the Constitution that progressives construe as a “living” — meaning infinitely elastic — document.

Since 1999, when he became its second-youngest member, Ryan has been an intellectual ornament to the House of Representatives — and a headache for risk-averse Republican Party operatives.

They pay lip service to electing conservatives who will make the choices necessary to stabilize the architecture of the entitlement system and unleash the economic growth that must finance the system’s promises. But they want to let voters remain oblivious about the choices required by that architecture’s rickety condition.

Such Republicans are complicit with Obama, who demonstrated the self-destructive nature of his now-evaporating presidency by his contemptuous, and contemptible, treatment of Ryan on April 13, 2011. After he loftily aspired to teach Washington civility, the White House invited Ryan to sit in the front row at a speech in which Obama gave an implacably hostile and mendacious depiction of Ryan’s suggestions for entitlement reforms. Obama thereby repeated his tawdry performance in his 2010 State of the Union address, when, with Supreme Court justices in the front row of the House chamber, he castigated them for the Citizens United decision, which he misrepresented.

Both times, Obama’s behavior bespoke the insecurity of someone who, surrounded by sycophants, shuns disputations with people who can reply. Ryan, however, has replied with a book that demonstrates Obama’s wisdom in not arguing with a man who has a better mind and better manners.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2014, Washington Post Writers Group

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH “The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-G) offers viewers an inside peek at the popular cartoon musical as well as a glance at its sequel.

It’s also a good example of a bad trend, the use of network time to cross-promote shows and “properties” for its corporate parents.

This is hardly new. When Walt Disney (1901-66) was still alive, the old “Wonderful World of Disney” TV show was filled with promotions for his Southern California theme park. That show became “The Wonderful World of Color” when it moved to NBC in the early 1960s, just in time to promote the need for color TVs, particularly those manufactured by RCA, owner of NBC at the time.

“Simpsons” fans are very familiar with Krusty the Clown using his dubious fame to promote his many showbiz offshoots and personally endorsed products.

It’s just never good when network cross-promotion begins to seem like a “Simpsons” parody, as when stars of new Fox shows just “happen” to be in the stands during the World Series, or when NBC uses the Olympics and other sporting events for a nonstop onslaught of brand synergy. Can’t get enough of Julie Chen on “Big Brother”?

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mesh with his other reports on wars and natural disasters. And would it have been less “newsworthy” if “Peter Pan” weren’t airing on NBC? • Speaking of cross-promotion, the girls spend the season opener of “19 Kids and Counting” (9 p.m., TLC, TVPG) promoting their new book, “Growing Up Duggar.”

• A tradition since 1977, “Inside the NFL” (11 p.m., Showtime) returns to anticipate the new season. “60 Minutes Sports” (10 p.m.) precedes it, airing on the first Tuesday of the month.

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Derick and Jill hold hands during a wedding planning meeting on “19 Kids and Counting.” The reality series begins an all-new season at 9 p.m. today on TLC.

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wife of the CBS chief, Les Moonves, is also on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 p.m.) tonight.

Sometimes corporate crosspollination works spectacularly well. Disney churned out an entire film franchise named after its “Pirates of the Caribbean” theme park ride.

But other times such efforts are just a tad too blatant. Who decided to give “Parks and Recreation” star Amy Poehler’s brother, Greg, a show, “Welcome to Sweden” (based on his “real” life) and fill it with cameos from “Parks and Recreation” stars

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(Poehler, Aubrey Plaza) even though “P&R” isn’t even a modest hit? That’s not synergy, that’s just nepotism, and a sign that a corporation can’t think outside of its own sandbox.

Nepotism gets even more glaring when the “news” division gets involved. A month back, “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams used his august perch to announce that his daughter, “Girls” star Allison Williams, had been cast to star as Peter Pan in a live network musical production. Many gushed that he was just being an adorable dad. Others felt it didn’t quite

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• Emma vanishes on “Royal Pains” (9 p.m., USA, TV-PG).

• A prosecutor stands accused on “Rizzoli & Isles” (9 p.m., TNT, TV-14).

• The judges compete on a “Face Off” (9 p.m., Syfy, TV-14) charity special.

LATE NIGHT Allison Janney, Brett Gelman and Brooks Wheelan are on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Adam Levine, Meredith Vieira and Maroon 5 on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Eva Longoria and Wiz Khalifa appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC) * Craig Ferguson hosts Carrot Top and Gwendoline Christie on “The Late Late Show” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Check out what everyone is doing or saying. Stick to the truth and focus on getting ahead GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Focus professionally, financially and on personal gains and personally. Positive changes at improvements, not on those home will raise your standard of putting demands on you. You aren’t likely to get valid information living and lead to a better relationship with someone special. and should make a point of doing your own research. Make changes CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): at home or to your current living Ulterior motives are apparent and arrangement. taking precautions to keep your CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t be alarmed by the changes taking place. A strong, stable, responsible approach to work and personal duties will put you in a good position that will bring promising results. Your personal secrets will be revealed if you are too trusting.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Strut your stuff and put on a show. Not everyone will be entertained by your bravado, but it will grab the attention of someone who likes your style and knows how to put your talents to good use.

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Aiken 72/94

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Wednesday: A stray thunderstorm. High 88 to 92.

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intentions a secret will be in your best interest. Be ready to counter an unexpected change someone makes at the last minute. Don’t let it disrupt your plans.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Say what’s on your mind and get what you want in writing. A professional change looks inviting. Your negotiating skills will help you win a position that can lead to greater income. Romance will help bring you closer to someone you love.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Avoid emotional confrontations.

Concentrate on contracts, settlements and other legal or financial matters that can influence your standard of living, your reputation or your position.

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South Carolina running back Mike Davis is listed as “doubtful” for Saturday’s matchup against East Carolina, according to head coach Steve Spurrier.

Spurrier: Davis ‘doubtful’ for Saturday

BY DAVID CARAVIELLO Post and Courier COLUMBIA — South Carolina may have to regroup from an opening-night blowout without star running back Mike Davis, whom Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier termed “doubtful” for Saturday’s contest against East Carolina.

Davis, a junior whose 1,183 yards last season ranked fourth-best in school history, continues to be plagued with a rib bruise that has hampered him since preseason

camp. The Atlanta native didn’t start the opener this past Thursday against Texas A&M, and carried just six times for 15 yards before leaving in the third quarter of the 52-28 loss. Spurrier said on his Sunday teleconference that Brandon Wilds would start against the Pirates.

“He right now is sort of doubtful,” Spurrier said of Davis. “He’s not practicing the next few days.

Later in the week we’ll see how his condition is. It’s a bad bruise, bruised rib. It’s panful for him right

now.”

Wilds led the Gamecocks with 45 yards on the ground against the Aggies. Spurrier said he’d also like to get redshirt freshman David Williams some carries Saturday night against the Pirates, who opened their season Saturday with a 52-7 victory over Football Championship Subdivision opponent North Carolina Central.

“David needs to play a little bit,” Spurrier said. “He’s going on his

SEE DAVIS, PAGE B3

Interesting to see where both teams go from here I

Morris and the Tigers had few complaints in the first half when his high-tempo attack ran 54 plays, put up 276 yards and was tied with the Bulldogs 21-all heading to the locker room.

From then on few things went right for the Tigers.

Morris counted 31 missed assignments from all areas

t will be interesting to see if South Carolina and Clemson are still part of the major college football polls when they are released today. Not that whether they are ranked or not should be a major concern for either program after their season openers last week.

Despite getting dominated by Texas A&M in a 52-28 loss, the Gamecocks may have been ranked high enough in the preseason — coming in at No. 9 in The Associated Press poll — to hold on to a spot. Clemson was No. 16 and despite a 24point loss to Georgia, that game was tied going into the fourth quarter.

Dennis That should be Brunson enough to keep them in the poll.

One of the favorite phrases used in coachspeak goes like this: a team shows its greatest improvement from its first game to its second game. Well, there’s a lot of room for improvement for both USC and the Tigers, and both need to see drastic improvement this week, especially the Gamecocks.

One has to think the defense is going to be challenged by the coaching staff in a drastic way this week — and it should. The defensive front was pushed around the entire game by the Aggies’ offensive line. There was little pressure on quarterback Kenny Hill and when A&M did run the football it did so with little problem.

The defensive backs played too far off the receivers throughout the game.

The defensive coaching staff needs to make adjustments against East Carolina, another high-powered passing team.

The most obvious adjustment

SEE SPARK, PAGE B3

SEE BRUNSON, PAGE B3

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris challenged wide receiver Mike Williams, right, and the rest of the offense on Monday after the Tigers were held scoreless in the second half of a 45-21 loss to Georgia on Saturday in Athens, Ga.

Reignite the spark Morris wants to see more from offense after dismal 2nd half against Georgia

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press CLEMSON — Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris laid things out as clearly as he could for the Tigers after their dismal, scoreless second half in a 45-21 loss at No. 12 Georgia this weekend: They are either part of the Tigers’ problem, or they’ll be out.

Morris said Monday he challenged the offense to execute and work like the Clemson (0-1) attack has for much of his four seasons.

Morris does not want to endure another second half like he did against the Bulldogs when Clemson’s usually potent offense was held scoreless — a first for Morris in 41 games with Clemson — and managed just 15

yards and one first down.

“If you’re part of the problem, you’re going to get gone. If you’re part of the solution, let’s go to work,’’ Morris said. “We don’t need you belly-aching. We don’t need your pouting. Everybody’s hurting this morning. Nobody wants to lose.

But you’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. Figure it out.’’

NASCAR

Kahne holds off Kenseth to win Atlanta shootout

BY CHARLES ODUM The Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — There is pressure that comes with being part of the powerful Hendrick Motorsports team with NASCAR superstars Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. For Kasey Kahne, the pressure grew as he feared he would be the only driver on the team left out of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

That changed when Kahne earned his spot in the Chase by KAHNE charging past Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin in a two-lap shootout to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday night.

“That was just an unbelievable way to make the Chase,’’ Kahne said.

Meanwhile, Tony Stewart’s much-anticipated return to racing ended a little more than halfway through the race.

Stewart hit the wall for the second time after his right front tire blew out on Lap 172, ending his night with a 41st-place finish.

After Atlanta, next week’s race at Richmond would have been Kahne’s final chance to earn his

SEE KAHNE, PAGE B5

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kasey Kahne does a burnout after winning the Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday in Hampton, Ga. The logo on the grass refers to the late “Capt Herb” Emory who was a long-time radio traffic reporter and NASCAR fan in Atlanta.

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SCOREBOARD

MLB ROUNDUP

Arizona (1-0) at UTSA (1-0), 8 p.m.

Texas College (0-0) at Texas Southern (1-0), 8:30 p.m.

FRIDAY

TV, RADIO TODAY

11 a.m. – Professional Tennis: U.S. Open Men’s Round-of-16 and Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from Flushing, N.Y. (ESPN).

11:30 a.m. – International Basketball: FIBA World Cup Group Play Game from Bilbao, Spain – United States vs. New Zealand (ESPN2).

2 p.m. – International Basketball: FIBA World Cup Group Play Game from Gran Canaria, Spain – Slovenia vs. South Korea (NBA TV).

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

7 p.m. – Professional Tennis: U.S. Open Men’s Round-of-16 and Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from Flushing, N.Y. (ESPN).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Boston at New York Yankees or Detroit at Cleveland (MLB NETWORK).

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

7 p.m. – High School Football: Manning at Scott’s Branch (FTC NOW 26).

10 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Western Conference Playoffs Championship Series Game Three – Minnesota at Phoenix (If Necessary) (NBA TV).

PREP SCHEDULE TODAY

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Philadelphia starting pitcher Cole Hamels combined with Jake Kiekman, Ken Giles and Jonathan Papelbon to no-hit Atlanta on Monday during a 7-0 victory in Atlanta.

Hamels, trio of relievers combine to no-hit Braves ATLANTA — On Labor Day, Cole Hamels and the Philadelphia bullpen spread the workload on a no-hitter.

Hamels and three Phillies relievers combined on the season’s fourth no-hitter, blanking the Atlanta Braves 7-0 Monday and giving a lastplace team a rare reason to celebrate.

It was all the more unusual in that Hamels left the game with his bid intact after six innings. He was fine with the decision, too, having already thrown 108 pitches at a hot afternoon at Turner Field.

“Just understanding the situation, every time I went out there I was battling control issues,’’ Hamels said. “I wasn’t getting ahead of guys.’’

Hamels (8-6) struck out seven, matched a season high with five walks and hit a batter.

Relievers Jake Diekman, Ken Giles and Jonathan Papelbon each pitched a perfect inning to close out the 11th combined no-hitter in big league history. A smiling Hamels watched from the bench as they finished off what he started.

Right fielder Marlon Byrd foiled the Braves’ best bid for a hit. With runners on second and third in the third inning, Byrd raced in and toward the line to make a diving catch on Chris Johnson’s slicing liner to end the inning.

ASTROS FIRE MANAGER PORTER

HOUSTON — The Houston Astros fired manager Bo Porter on Monday, saying the dismissal had less to do with the team’s 59-79 record than the need for “new direction’’ and a “united message throughout the entire organization.’’

Porter was in his second season with the Astros and was succeeded by interim manager Tom Lawless.

Bench coach Dave Trembley also was let go.

Porter joined the Astros after working as a third-base coach for the Washington Nationals.

GIANTS 4 ROCKIES 2

DENVER — Hunter Pence hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth and, more than three months after he homered in the early innings, led San Francisco over Colorado 4-2 in a game resumed after being suspended on May 22 because of rain.

Varsity Swimming Wilson Hall Home Match (at Sumter Family YMCA), TBA Varsity Girls Tennis Manning at Spring Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall at A.C. Flora, 4:30 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Heathwood Hall, 4 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Florence Christian, 3:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Tennis Heathwood Hall at Thomas Sumter, 4 p.m.

Carolina Academy at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m.

Varsity Volleyball Crestwood at South Florence, 5:30 p.m.

St. Francis Xavier at Clarendon Hall, 5 p.m.

Varsity and JV Volleyball Wilson at Lakewood, 5:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Andrews, 5:30 p.m.

Williamsburg at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Ashley Hall, 5 p.m.

Florence Christian at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m.

South Pointe Christian at Sumter Christian, 4 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

Middle School Football East Clarendon at Manning, 6 p.m.

Varsity Swimming Brookland-Cayce at Sumter (at Sumter Aquatics Center), 6:30 p.m.

Varsity Girls Tennis Pee Dee at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Williamsburg, 4 p.m.

Junior Varsity Girls Tennis Robert E. Lee at Pee Dee, 4 p.m.

Varsity and JV Volleyball Lakewood at Lake City, 5:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m.

Williamsburg at Laurence Manning, 4 p.m.

THURSDAY

CARDINALS 5 PIRATES 4 ST. LOUIS — Matt Holliday had the go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning after Kolten Wong’s pinch-hit homer tied the score, leading St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-4 win over Pittsburgh.

MARLINS 9 METS 6

MIAMI — Giancarlo Stanton hit his 34th home run and Miami scored three runs in the eighth inning to beat the New York Mets 9-6.

CUBS 4 BREWERS 2

CHICAGO — Welington Castillo homered and drove in three runs, Luis Valbuena also hit a home run and the Chicago Cubs beat Milwaukee 4-2.

TWINS 6

Junior Varsity Football Stratford at Sumter, 6:30 p.m.

Fairfield Central at Crestwood, 6 p.m.

Johnsonville at Lakewood, 6 p.m.

Manning at Marion, 6:30 p.m.

Hammond at Wilson Hall, 7 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Orangeburg Prep, 7 p.m.

B Team Football Camden at Sumter, 5 p.m.

Hammond at Wilson Hall, 5 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Orangeburg Prep, 5 p.m.

Middle School Football Dillon Christian at Thomas Sumter, 6 p.m.

Carolina Academy at Robert E. Lee, 6:30 p.m.

Varsity Girls Golf Spring Valley, Camden at Sumter (at Beech Creek Golf Club), TBA Varsity Girls Tennis Manning at Berkeley, 4:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall at Cardinal Newman, 4 p.m.

Junior Varsity Girls Tennis Cardinal Newman at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m.

Varsity Volleyball East Clarendon, Crestwood, Lakewood at Sumter, 5 p.m.

Varsity and JV Volleyball Thomas Sumter at Carolina Academy, 4 p.m.

Dorchester at Clarendon Hall, 4:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Volleyball East Clarendon, Lakewood at Sumter, 5 p.m.

EAST Pittsburgh (1-0) at Boston College (1-0), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST Washington St. (0-1) at Nevada (10), 10:30 p.m.

GOLF The Associated Press DEUTSCHE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES MONDAY

At TPC Boston Norton, Mass.

Purse: $8 million Yardage: 7,216; Par 71 Final Chris Kirk (2,500), $1,440,000 73-66-64-66—269 -15 Geoff Ogilvy (1,083), $597,333 70-71-65-65—271 -13 Russell Henley (1,083), $597,333 70-66-65-70—271 -13 Billy Horschel (1,083), $597,333 69-66-67-69—271 -13 Rory McIlroy (525), $304,000 70-69-64-70—273 -11 John Senden (525), $304,000 69-71-67-66—273 -11 Jason Day (438), $258,000 66-68-69-71—274 -10 Martin Kaymer (438), $258,000 71-66-70-67—274 -10 Bill Haas (331), $185,143 67-69-70-69—275 -9 Chesson Hadley (331), $185,143 66-73-67-69—275 -9 Carl Pettersson (331), $185,143 67-73-69-66—275 -9 Robert Streb (331), $185,143 73-67-67-68—275 -9 Jimmy Walker (331), $185,143 70-70-68-67—275 -9 Seung-Yul Noh (331), $185,143 69-68-68-70—275 -9 Webb Simpson (331), $185,143 66-70-68-71—275 -9 Jason Kokrak (260), $112,229 68-72-70-66—276 -8 Keegan Bradley (260), $112,229 65-71-69-71—276 -8 Zach Johnson (260), $112,229 71-68-70-67—276 -8 Ryan Palmer (260), $112,229 63-71-71-71—276 -8 Adam Scott (260), $112,229 73-68-68-67—276 -8 Kevin Stadler (260), $112,229 71-70-67-68—276 -8 Brian Stuard (260), $112,229 72-71-65-68—276 -8

PORTLAND CLASSIC PAR SCORES SUNDAY

At Columbia Edgewater Country Club Portland, Ore. Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,476; Par 72 Final x-won on first hole of playoff x-Austin Ernst, $195,000 69-69-69-67—274 -14 I.K. Kim, $118,921 65-67-74-68—274 -14 Chella Choi, $76,502 68-70-70-68—276 -12 So Yeon Ryu, $76,502 70-66-70-70—276 -12 Karine Icher, $41,670 68-71-72-66—277 -11 Na Yeon Choi, $41,670 70-69-70-68—277 -11 Eun-Hee Ji, $41,670 71-69-67-70—277 -11 Line Vedel, $41,670 69-69-69-70—277 -11 Ilhee Lee, $23,262 71-72-67-68—278 -10 Paula Reto, $23,262 67-69-74-68—278 -10 Lizette Salas, $23,262 69-72-68-69—278 -10 Laura Diaz, $23,262 67-68-72-71—278 -10 Mariajo Uribe, $23,262 69-72-66-71—278 -10 Xi Yu Lin, $23,262 68-68-70-72—278 -10 Mi Jung Hur, $23,262 70-65-70-73—278 -10

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BALTIMORE — Joe Mauer drove in four runs, Phil Hughes held Baltimore without an earned run over eight innings and Minnesota beat the Orioles 6-4 to avoid a fourgame sweep.

RAYS 4 RED SOX 3

ST. PETERBURG, Fla. — Matt Joyce had a RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning to help Tampa Bay salvage a split of a four-game series by beating Boston 4-3.

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Varsity Football Sumter at Stratford, 7:30 p.m.

Crestwood at Fairfield Central, 7:30 p.m.

Lakewood at Johnsonville, 7:30 p.m.

Marion at Manning, 7:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at North Central, 7:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall at Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Pinewood Prep, 7:30 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Dillon Christian, 7:30 p.m.

Calhoun at Robert E. Lee, 7:30 p.m.

Andrew Jackson Academy at Clarendon Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Varsity and JV Volleyball Sumter Christian at Conway Christian, 4 p.m.

SUNDAY

At Canyon Meadows Golf & Country Club Calgary, Alberta Purse: $2.25 million Yardage: 7,086; Par 70 Final x-won on first hole of playoff x-Fred Couples (338), $337,500 68-66-61—195 -15 Billy Andrade (198), $198,000 67-66-62—195 -15 Joe Daley (148), $147,938 64-66-67—197 -13 Steve Lowery (148), $147,938 66-67-64—197 -13 Wes Short, Jr. (107), $106,875 69-65-64—198 -12 Woody Austin (90), $90,000 65-67-67—199 -11 Bart Bryant (77), $76,500 62-71-67—200 -10 Paul Goydos (77), $76,500 67-66-67—200 -10

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TODAY’S GAMES

Boston (J.Kelly 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Greene 4-1), 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Latos 5-3) at Baltimore (B.Norris 11-8), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Lobstein 0-0) at Cleveland (Carrasco 6-4), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 10-12) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 1-2), 7:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Noesi 8-9) at Minnesota (Milone 6-4), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 10-8) at Houston (Peacock 3-8), 8:10 p.m.

Texas (D.Holland 0-0) at Kansas City (Guthrie 10-10), 8:10 p.m.

Seattle (Paxton 4-1) at Oakland (Gray 13-7), 10:05 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Seattle at Oakland, 3:35 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

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

Texas at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION W Washington 77 Atlanta 72 Miami 67 New York 64 Philadelphia 63 CENTRAL DIVISION W St. Louis 74 Milwaukee 73 Pittsburgh 71 Cincinnati 66 Chicago 62 WEST DIVISION W Los Angeles 77 San Francisco 75 San Diego 64 Arizona 57 Colorado 54

L 58 66 69 74 74

Pct GB .570 – .522 6 1/2 .493 10 1/2 .464 14 1/2 .460 15

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Pct GB .540 – .533 1 .518 3 .482 8 .449 12 1/2

L 60 62 71 79 83

Pct GB .562 – .547 2 .474 12 .419 19 1/2 .394 23

SUNDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Mets 6, Philadelphia 5 Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 9, Chicago Cubs 6 San Francisco 15, Milwaukee 5 Arizona 6, Colorado 2 L.A. Dodgers 7, San Diego 1 Seattle 5, Washington 3 Atlanta 1, Miami 0

MONDAY’S GAMES

Miami 9, N.Y. Mets 6 Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 0 St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4 Chicago Cubs 4, Milwaukee 2 San Francisco 4, Colorado 2, comp. of susp. game Arizona at San Diego, 4:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

Washington at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Cincinnati (Latos 5-3) at Baltimore (B.Norris 11-8), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 7-10) at Miami (Penny 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 7-11) at Atlanta (Minor 6-8), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 8-7) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 7-5), 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 6-3) at St. Louis (Wainwright 15-9), 8:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Y.Petit 4-3) at Colorado (Lyles 6-2), 8:40 p.m.

Arizona (Miley 7-10) at San Diego (Despaigne 3-5), 10:10 p.m.

Washington (Fister 12-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 16-3), 10:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 12:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 1:45 p.m.

San Francisco at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Washington at L.A. Dodgers, 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

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

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

Arizona at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

NFL SCHEDULE

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THURSDAY

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

SUNDAY

New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Washington at Houston, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

New England at Miami, 1 p.m.

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

Jacksonville at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.

Carolina at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

MONDAY

N.Y. Giants at Detroit, 7:10 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 10:20 p.m.

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Grant, Lutz finalists for Cougars’ coaching job

BY ANDREW MILLER Post and Courier CHARLESTON — And then there were two. Again.

Clemson assistant coach Earl Grant and former Charlotte head coach Bobby Lutz are the two finalists for the head coaching job at the College of Charleston, The Post and Courier has learned.

Grant, 37, was in the Lowcountry over the weekend for a second interview with school officials, a source inside the College’s athletic department confirmed.

Lutz was interviewed on Saturday.

A final decision is expected to be made as soon as Sunday night by College of Charleston athletic director Joe Hull, the search committee’s chairman, and school president Glenn McConnell, with a formal job offer and an official announcement coming either Monday or today, the source said.

Grant, a former Stall High School star, is considered the top candidate, the source said.

“I think Earl’s their guy,” the source said.

On Sunday, Virginia assistant coach Ritchie McKay pulled his name out of consideration.

“I’m going to stay at Virginia,” McKay said in a text message to The Post and Courier.

“The College of Charleston will get a really good coach.

They have a talented team and there are some really good people there. The timing just wasn’t right for me.”

McKay became the third coach this week to withdraw from the search to replace Doug Wojcik, who was fired on Aug. 5 for allegations of physical and verbal abuse of players and athletic department staff.

USC FROM PAGE B1 second year here, he’s a goodsized back, and he needs to carry the ball some. Hopefully we can block and make some holes for our running backs.

But David Williams will probably get some carries in this coming game.”

For the Gamecocks (0-1) there’s plenty to work on before Saturday’s 7 p.m. contest at Williams-Brice Stadium.

The lack of an effective pass rush combined with a chronic inability to finish tackles helped Texas A&M quarterback Kenny Hill throw for a school-record 511 passing yards in his first collegiate start. East Carolina (1-0) will bring in a similar spread offense, this one helmed by a se-

Former Cougars star Anthony Johnson and Wofford head coach Mike Young withdrew their names within hours of each other this past Wednesday.

Grant and Lutz were part of the original six candidates that the eight-person search committee interviewed for the position earlier this month.

The other candidate is former George Washington head coach Karl Hobbs.

Hobbs did not return repeated phone calls on Sunday.

Grant has built a national reputation as a top-notch recruiter. He played a pivotal role in signing All-ACC small forward K.J. McDaniels.

Grant, who has been at Clemson for the past five seasons, has helped sign 10 of Clemson’s 15 players who were on the floor this past season.

Before going to Clemson, Grant spent six seasons under Gregg Marshall, the former College of Charleston assistant coach. Grant was with Marshall from 2004-07 at Winthrop and then followed him for three more years at Wichita State from 2007-10.

Grant began his coaching career as an assistant at The Citadel from 2002-04.

As a player, Grant played two years at Division II Georgia College. He led the school to two appearances in the NCAA tournament.

Lutz, 56, compiled a 218-157 mark at Charlotte from 19982010. Lutz led the 49ers to five NCAA tournament appearances and three NIT berths.

Lutz had five 20-win seasons during his 12 years with the 49ers. Lutz was fired in March 2010 after the 49ers went 19-12.

Lutz, who was 180-89 at NIAI Pfeiffer from 1986-95, is currently an assistant coach at North Carolina State.

nior quarterback, Shane Carden, who threw for a school-record 4,139 yards last season.

“We’ve certainly got to play fundamentally better, got to tackle a lot better, get some pass rush, all that kind of stuff,” Spurrier said. “We’ve got a lot of improving to do.

But we believe we’ve got the players to do it, so we’re going to find out.”

Spurrier left open the possibility that there could be “one or two” lineup moves on defense, but didn’t expect a wholesale change. The Gamecocks — who will certainly tumble from their No. 9 ranking when the new AP Top 25 is released Tuesday — returned to practice Saturday for the first time since the opening-night loss, and the

BRUNSON FROM PAGE B1 is closing the middle of the field down. Texas A&M receivers ran over the middle with no fear of being hit.

South Carolina got such a hit just one time in a game in which the Aggies threw the ball 60 times.

As for Clemson, it plays South Carolina State on Saturday, which will be a victory.

Still, the Tigers need to be crisp on offense, something they weren’t in the second half against Georgia.

The calls for freshman Deshaun Watson starting over senior Cole Stoudt have already begun. While that may happen down the road, one man doesn’t make the offense and the Tigers are having to

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Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris is expecting more out of C.J. Davidson (32) and the rest of the Tigers offense after they were shut out in the second half of their 45-21 loss to Georgia on Saturday in Athens, Ga.

SPARK FROM PAGE B1 on offense. “And it’s hard to win like that,’’ he said.

Clemson likely won’t have much trouble winning this week, facing Football Championship Subdivision opponent South Carolina State (1-0) on Saturday at home.

The Tigers have won two career meetings against the Bulldogs, including a 52-13 victory last week when quarterback Cole Stoudt completed a school record of 19 of 20 passes for 143 yards and three TDs in relief of Tajh Boyd.

Stoudt, making his first career start as Boyd’s replacement, took responsibility for the offensive troubles and vowed he and his teammates would solve their issues.

Like most of his teammates, Stoudt struggled the final two quarters. He directed a pair of touchdown drives as Clemson went up 21-14 in the second quarter.

mood was “about what you’d expect,” Spurrier said.

“We realize that if we’re going to win a lot of games, we better play the game the way it’s supposed to be played,” he added. “We can’t just show up and hope it happens, a lot like it did last year.

We won some games last year where the other team actually outplayed us, but the ball would bounce our way. But we’ve got to win the battle up front. Don’t think we did that last week. We’ll try to do that this week.”

In the wake of Thursday’s loss, Spurrier said the USC coaching staff will make some changes in practice to foster more competition and speed up the pace. “We’re going to try to change practice around a little bit, try to be a little

replace major players all over the offense. And while offensive coordinator Chad Morris’ offense is explosive, Tajh Boyd, Sammy Watkins and Martavis Bryant weren’t your run-of-the-mill performers.

While the losses were tough to take, each team still has a chance for an outstanding season. They just have to take it one game at a time.

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Stoudt passed for only 29 yards and was sacked twice after halftime.

Stoudt listened to Morris’ strong words and didn’t have any doubt what side of things he and his teammates fell on.

“I think everyone in that room believed we were all going to get better. We were all going to improve from our mistakes during the game,’’ he said. “We’re going to build and we’re going to get better for it.’’

Morris acknowledged he called a conservative game plan in the third period with Clemson trailing 24-21 and not wanting to make any mistakes that would put the Tigers defense at a disadvantage on a short field.

Georgia took care of that in the final quarter with star tailback Todd Gurley getting his third and fourth touchdowns to put the game away.

Morris kept thinking that Clemson’s would get that critical first down or sizeable gain to re-ignite their offense down the stretch. It

more competitive maybe in practice, see if we can get our guys playing at a faster pace, offensively and defensively and on special teams,” he said. “I think Texas A&M played a lot faster and a lot smarter than we did.”

And East Carolina — which went 10-3 last season, recording road victories against North Carolina and North Carolina State along the way — will want to play fast, too.

The Pirates run an up-tempo

just didn’t happen. “Did it surprise me? Yeah, it surprised me,’’ he said.

The Tigers get some help along the offensive line this week with the return of left guard David Beasley, a 6-foot-4, 330-pound senior who missed the Georgia loss because of a suspension handed down by head coach Dabo Swinney in March.

Morris said Beasley gives the line the depth that might’ve helped late against the Bulldogs.

Stoudt was disappointed in losing his first career start and has stayed away from those on the Internet or radio calling for five-star freshman Deshaun Watson to play now.

“That’s just something that will get in your head,’’ the senior said. “And that’s something that I don’t need.’’

Morris was proud of Stoudt’s play and believes the Tigers will quickly start rolling again if they learn from their errors at Georgia.

attack that aims for 100 plays per game. Texas A&M managed 99 against the Gamecocks last week.

“East Carolina is a team that has some big, big expectations or big goals this year. I read that,” Spurrier said.

“They’ve got an excellent team. Their players really play hard, and smart. So it’s going to be a tough one for us, and we know that. If we’re going to beat them, we’ve got to play the game. If we show

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Kirk rallies, wins Deutsche Bank Championship

Panthers QB Newton returns to practice

NORTON, Mass. — Chris Kirk picked up the biggest victory of his career Monday in the Deutsche Bank Championship.

Still to be determined is just how big.

Kirk closed with a 5-under 66 in another wild Labor Day finish at the TPC Boston, coming up KIRK with three big putts on the back nine to pull away for a twoshot victory. Along the way, he made a strong case to be one of the three Ryder Cup picks that will be announced Tuesday.

Kirk played the final 36 holes with Rory McIlroy and outplayed the world’s best golfer. Of far greater importance was winning this FedEx Cup playoff event for his second victory this season. And he got it done with a bogey-free round.

“It’s my biggest win ever,” Kirk said.

Billy Horschel had a chance to at least force a playoff — and possibly win — when he stood in the fairway on the par-5 18th hole with a 6-iron in his hand. Horschel chunked the shot so bad that it barely reached the hazard, and he made bogey for a 69.

Horschel tied for second with 54-hole leader Russell Henley (70) and Geoff Ogilvy, who extended his unlikely run through these FedEx Cup playoffs. Ogilvy was the last of the 100 qualifiers for the Deutsche Bank Championship. He went 65-65 on the weekend without a bogey.

ERNST WINS PORTLAND CLASSIC

PORTLAND, Ore. — Austin Ernst won the LPGA Tour’s Portland Classic with a par on the first hole of a playoff against South Korea’s I.K. Kim. It was the first professional victory for the 22-year-old Ernst, who shot a 5-under 67 in the final round to get to 14 under at Columbia Edgewater.

Kim, the first- and secondround leader, carded a 68.

Kim missed an eight-foot par putt in the playoff that handed the win to the American.

South Korean’s So Yeon Ryu and Chella Choi tied for third at 12 under. Ryu, last week’s Canadian Women’s Open winner, shot 70, while Choi had a 68.

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Cam Newton is back in pads — dramatically oversized pads.

The Panthers two-time Pro Bowl quarterback returned to practice Monday wearing a long, bulky flak jacket designed to provide added protection for his healing fractured ribs.

Newton smiled and even stopped to pose for a picture before practice with his newly enhanced armor. He went through drills as normal with the first team offense and didn’t appear to have any problems throwing the ball during the 20 minutes practice was open to the media.

Coach Ron Rivera reiterated that he expects Newton to play in the season opener Sunday at Tampa Bay. It was the Newton’s first practice since Aug. 22 when Patriots linebacker Jamie Collins stepped on his ribs during a preseason game.

Rivera said Newton worked out Saturday and the medical staff cleared him to practice Monday.

“He came out and pushed himself through another workout and did some good things and threw the ball well,’’ Rivera said. “I’m very pleased with that.’’

The 6-foot-5, 245-pound Newton took some good-natured ribbing from teammates as he walked out to the practice field with his oversized pads hanging below his red No. 1 practice jersey.

“I told him in the event of a water landing he could be used as a flotation device,’’ center Ryan Kalil said with a grin. “He didn’t think that was very funny.’’

Rivera said the equipment staff and trainers are still working on the best — and most comfortable — form of protection for Newton’s ribs.

That is still a work in

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Carolina quarterback Cam Newton (1) returned to practice on Monday and head coach Ron Rivera expects him to play on Sunday in the Panthers’ season opener against Tampa Bay. progress.

“He’s wearing it to get used to it,’’ Rivera said.

“They’re trying to find one that works best. He’s tried several on and we’ll see.’’

Newton didn’t speak to reporters after practice.

Along with suffering a hairline fracture in his ribs, Newton is also dealing with pain in his ankle from offseason surgery.

“He’s sore, but he’s not like he was when it first happened,’’ Rivera said.

Rivera said he’s anxious to see how much soreness Newton has when he wakes up on Tuesday. The Panthers don’t practice again until Wednesday.

Tight end Greg Olsen said it was good to have Newton back at practice heading into what will be

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CALGARY, Alberta — Fred Couples won the Champions Tour’s Shaw Charity Classic, chipping in for eagle for a course-record 9-under 61 and beating Billy Andrade with a tap-in birdie on the first hole of a playoff.

The 54-year-old Couples also eagled the par-5 11th and had five birdies in his third straight bogey-free round at Canyon Meadows. Andrade closed with a 62, making a short eagle putt on the par-5 18th to match Couples at 15under 195.

In the playoff on No. 18, Andrade went for the green in two and pulled his approach right of the green and into the grandstand. Couples laid up and hit his third within a foot.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Veteran kicker Ryan Succop has agreed to a one-year deal with the Tennessee Titans who chose to go with experience rather than an undrafted rookie.

The Chiefs released Succop on Saturday, going with an undrafted option at kicker. Succop, 27, hit 81 percent of his field goals over his past five seasons and his career-long is 54 yards. He has spent the past five seasons with the Chiefs who drafted him with the final pick of the 2009 draft out of South Carolina.

The 6-foot-2 Succop is 119 of 147 on field goals in his career, including 9 of 17 from 50 yards or longer.

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a busy week of preparation for the Buccaneers. The Panthers have lost their last three season openers under Rivera.

“He looked good throwing and I thought he moved around pretty well,’’ Olsen said. “He had his pads on they have him outfitted pretty good. Cam is a tough guy and he’s a big strong dude.

The team knows if there is any way for him to get out

there and play at a high level, he will.’’

Newton has never missed a start in his three seasons with the Panthers.

However, the rib injury could limit Newton’s effectiveness as a runner — which is one of the things that makes Newton so valuable. He’s rushed for 2,032 yards and 28 touchdowns since coming into the league as the No. 1 overall pick in 2011.

“Cam is a fighter and a leader and there ain’t nothing that is going to hold that guy back,’’ said Panthers left tackle Byron Bell.

“He looked good out there throwing the ball and calling plays and it looked like he hasn’t lost a step. So we as an offensive line have to keep him upright against Tampa Bay and we should be fine.’’

In the event Newton suffers a setback or has to leave Sunday’s game, the Panthers should have backup quarterback Derek Anderson at their disposal.

Anderson practiced Monday, three days after injuring his right hand during Carolina’s preseason finale against Pittsburgh.

The Panthers also kept Joe Webb as a third quarterback.

Newton was named a team captain on Monday for the second straight year. Also voted captains were Olsen, Kalil, defensive end Charles Johnson and linebackers Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis.

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Stewart’s Chase status doesn’t matter

BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Tony Stewart has one final shot to make the Chase, and it’s not a very good one: He must win Saturday night at Richmond, where he last visited Victory Lane in 2002.

He sat out three races after his sprint car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. at a New York dirt track on Aug. 9, and his return to competition Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway ended with a blown tire and a 41st-place finish.

Now the three-time NASCAR champion has to win at Richmond or he won’t be eligible to race this season for a fourth title.

But does it really matter if Stewart makes the 16-driver field?

Not in the least.

Stewart’s team and his employees and his sponsors would be thrilled if Stewart pulled it off, and it sure felt as if the crowd was pulling for him given his reception as he walked across the stage during driver introductions.

Stewart received a rousing ovation that was far louder than for any other driver, even the wildly popular Dale Earnhardt Jr. So when his tire blew and he hit the wall, ending his night just past the halfway point, there was heavy sadness in his voice as he radioed his crew.

“Sorry, guys,’’ he said. “You deserve better than this.’’

Only the finish wasn’t that important in the grand scheme of life, which Stewart is beginning to understand in the aftermath of Ward’s death.

Returning to the track was imperative for Stewart, who had spent nearly three weeks in seclusion. Many of his peers tried and failed to comfort him; Stewart simply wasn’t ready to talk or text or let anyone into his world of

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Tony Stewart climbs into his car to start the Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday in Hampton, Ga. In his first event since his sprint car struck and killed a fellow driver, Stewart slammed the wall twice and settled for a dismal 41st-place finish, leaving him in a must-win situation next weekend at Richmond to make NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. constant sorrow.

“I’ve wanted to talk to him for weeks,’’ Atlanta winner Kasey Kahne said. “I think a lot of people have, and haven’t been able to.’’

Kahne finally got his chance Friday after Stewart returned to the track, made his first public statement since Ward’s death and then finally headed to his home-away-from-home in the NASCAR motorhome lot. Kahne was waiting.

“I was able to go in there and see him for the first time and give him a hug,’’ Kahne said. “And it just felt re-

KAHNE FROM PAGE B1 spot in the Chase.

“It was all I could think about,’’ Kahne said. “I knew Atlanta was a better opportunity for myself than going out to Richmond. I just knew that tonight we needed it.’’

Rick Hendrick beamed after the race as he talked about his team’s chances in the Chase.

Gordon, who finished 17th, still leads the points race.

Earnhardt, who was 11th, is second. Johnson, who finished fourth in Atlanta, is sixth.

“I think we’ve got better balance this year than we’ve had in the past,’’ Hendrick said.

Johnson, Earnhardt and Gordon celebrated with Kahne on the victory stand.

“I looked up and saw them all standing there and I was really proud of the organization when I saw that happen,’’ Hendrick said.

It was Kahne’s first win of the season and his third career victory in Atlanta.

Kenseth, who finished second, also qualified for the

ally good to talk to him for 10 minutes.’’

Those friendships and support are what Stewart needs most right now.

He needs normalcy and routine and the distraction of pulling on his helmet and climbing in a car. The investigation into Ward’s death will last at least another two weeks, and criminal charges are still possible. So it’s foolish to think one weekend at the track did anything to make his problems go away.

Many will always scrutinize the timing of Stewart’s return. He came back

with two races remaining in the “regular season’’ and after Stewart-Haas Racing had successfully petitioned NASCAR for a waiver that would allow him into the Chase should he qualify.

But many outside the celebrity world are touched by tragedy daily, and few get to simply shut down and grieve indefinitely. There are jobs, children, responsibilities and lives that go on. When something terrible happens, eventually it’s time to return to work.

That’s all Stewart did last weekend.

ORAL-B USA 500 RESULTS

By The Associated Press Sunday At Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Ga. Lap length: 1.54 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (10) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 335 laps, 105.2 rating, 47 points, $310,965.

2. (5) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 335, 118.6, 43, $264,741.

3. (17) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 335, 114.9, 42, $182,705.

4. (16) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 335, 105.7, 40, $198,516.

5. (11) Carl Edwards, Ford, 335, 101.3, 39, $147,505.

6. (27) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 335, 81.3, 38, $133,095.

7. (4) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 335, 94.2, 37, $127,545.

8. (3) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 335, 91.1, 36, $150,840.

9. (7) Aric Almirola, Ford, 335, 83.8, 35, $151,506.

10. (18) Greg Biffle, Ford, 335, 83.7, 34, $154,470.

11. (20) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevy, 335, 83.8, 33, $119,860.

12. (15) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 335, 76.2, 32, $144,049.

13. (22) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 335, 91.9, 32, $110,135.

14. (14) Joey Logano, Ford, 335, 105.2, 30, $145,126.

15. (19) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 335, 92.3, 29, $141,710.

16. (8) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 335, 68.7, 28, $151,751.

17. (9) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 335, 111.4, 27, $149,546.

18. (33) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 335, 79.6, 26, $132,824.

Chase on points. He began the second restart in first place, but couldn’t stop the charge from Kahne.

Hamlin was third, followed

by Johnson, Carl Edwards and Danica Patrick.

Patrick’s sixth-place finish was the best of her career, the highest for a woman at Atlanta Motor Speedway and the second-highest for a female in NASCAR history. Sarah Christian finished fifth in a Sprint Cup race in 1949 at Heidelberg (Pa.) Raceway.

It was Stewart’s first race

19. (1) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 335, 132.4, 27, $158,218.

20. (26) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 334, 62.9, 24, $141,010.

21. (25) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 334, 59.2, 23, $121,343.

22. (24) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 334, 51, 22, $126,418.

23. (6) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 334, 71.2, 21, $129,393.

24. (13) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 334, 62.9, 20, $146,096.

25. (29) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 332, 55.6, 0, $111,418.

26. (31) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 332, 53.4, 18, $119,018.

27. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 331, 49.6, 17, $116,207.

28. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, 330, 48.5, 16, $105,935.

29. (43) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 330, 41, 15, $97,660.

30. (40) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 329, 41.7, 14, $99,010.

31. (42) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 329, 36.2, 0, $96,860.

32. (41) J.J. Yeley, Ford, 328, 32.9, 0, $94,185.

33. (36) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 328, 37.6, 11, $94,010.

34. (35) Brett Moffitt, Toyota, 327, 33.7, 10, $101,860.

35. (30) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 326, 38.6, 9, $93,685.

36. (39) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 326, 32.5, 8, $93,560.

37. (34) Joe Nemechek, Ford, 324, 27.3, 0, $93,391.

38. (21) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 314, 60.2, 6, $122,756.

39. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, accident, 296, 91.4, 6, $130,173.

40. (23) AJ Allmendinger, Chevy, vibration, 258, 51.4, 4, $79,765.

41. (12) Tony Stewart, Chevy, accident, 170, 68, 3, $109,923.

42. (32) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, engine, 122, 46.9, 2, $98,110.

43. (28) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, vibration, 23, 27.6, 0, $68,265.

since the car he was driving struck and killed 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. in an Aug. 9 race at a dirt track in upstate New York. The fatal wreck is still under investigation.

With only two laps remaining and Kahne holding a solid lead over Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch collided, forcing a caution flag and the first shootout. Harvick, who led 195 laps, had contact with Joey Logano in heavy traffic and hit the wall on the restart, bringing another caution flag and a sec-

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Kahne, who had four fresh tires, started behind Kenseth

and Hamlin on the final restart.

Harvick, who also won the Nationwide Series race on Saturday night, started from the pole and led the first 80 laps, but was denied his attempt for a weekend sweep.

Brad Keselowski was fourth when a collision with Josh Wise ended his night with 28 laps remaining.

Ty Dillon, making his Sprint Cup debut, finished 25th.

Harvick had a scare early in the race when a small animal ran across the track in front of his car. He told his crew a cat ran across the track, but later it was discovered to be a squirrel, which was found hiding near turn 3.

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Serena rolls to U.S. Open quarters

BY JAMES MARTINEZ The Associated Press NEW YORK — Serena Williams reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal of the year with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Kaia Kenepi at the U.S. Open on Monday, keeping her hopes alive for a third straight Flushing Meadows crown.

Williams, who lost in the fourth round of the Australian Open, the second round of the French Open and third round of Wimbledon, said she felt the pressure of getting to the quarters in New York.

“I finally made a quarterfinal this year!’’ Williams said in her on-court interview, raising her hands to the cheers of the crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium. “I think I felt it in my service game. I’m like, `Can I please make it to a Grand Slam quarters this year?’’’

The top-seeded man, Novak Djokovic also rolled into the quarters on another hot, muggy day at Flushing Meadows, playing mostly mistake-free tennis in a 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 dismantling of 22-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany.

For Djokovic, the 2011 U.S. Open champion, it marked his eighth straight quarterfinals at the tournament — 22nd consecutive Grand Slam tournament overall. The last time Djokovic was eliminated before the quarterfinals at a major was a third-round loss to Kohlschreiber at the 2009 French Open.

Asked to explain that consistency, Djokovic said, “I love the sport and I play it with a lot of passion.’’ He then did a dance for the crowd at Louis Armstrong Stadium.

Next up for the Serb, who reached the U.S. Open final each of the past four years, will be a match against 2012 U.S. Open champion Andy

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Serena Williams serves against Kaia Kanep during her 6-3, 6-3 victory on Monday in the fourth round of the U.S. Open in New York.

Murray or ninth-seeded JoWilfried Tsonga.

Williams next plays 11thseeded Flavia Pennetta, a 7-5, 6-2 winner over 29th-seeded Casey Dellacqua.

Pennetta, who reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open last year, said she needed to do her best with the tools she has to have a chance against the No. 1-ranked Williams, who already holds 17 Grand Slam titles.

“You cannot invent something. I mean, you just have to play your tennis,’’ Pennetta said. “Of course, she’s better

than me, but if I still believe I can beat her, maybe if she doesn’t have a good day, I can do that.’’

Unlike the men’s side, which entered Monday with only one major upset, No. 4 David Ferrer, the women’s draw has been decimated.

Only Williams, No. 7 Eugenie Bouchard and No. 10 Caroline Wozniacki have survived among the top 10 seeds going into the tournament’s second week.

Victoria Azarenka, the No. 16 seed and U.S. Open finalist loser to Williams the last two

years, sought a place in the quarterfinals with a night match against 145th-ranked qualifier Aleksandra Krunic.

Bouchard was seeking her spot with a matchup against No. 17-seeded Ekatarina Makarova.

In other early action Monday, the No. 1 doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan rolled on in their quest for a 100th career title with a 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over U.S. countrymen Bradley Klahn and Tim Smyzek. The Bryans, who hold a record 15 Grand Slam tournament titles, have yet to

drop a set on their road to the quarterfinals.

And the darling of the U.S. Open, 15-year-old CiCi Bellis, opened her pursuit of the junior girls’ crown with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Mexico’s Renata Zarazua.

Bellis, the top-seeded junior, played in the grandstand, the third-largest venue, to accommodate fans eager to watch the 15-yearold prodigy. Bellis upset of 12th-seeded Dominika Cibulkova, the Australian Open runner-up, in the first round of the main draw.

U.S. OPEN RESULTS

By The Associated Press Monday At The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center New York Purse: $38.3 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men Fourth Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber (22), Germany, 6-1, 7-5, 6-4.

Women Fourth Round Flavia Pennetta (11), Italy, def. Casey Dellacqua (29), Australia, 7-5, 6-2.

Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, 6-3, 6-3.

Doubles Men Third Round Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Bradley Klahn and Tim Smyczek, United States, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Carlos Berlocq and Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, def. Vasek

Pospisil, Canada, and Jack Sock (8), United States, 6-2, 6-2.

Alexander Peya, Austria, and Bruno Soares (2), Brazil, def.

Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, and Michael Venus, New Zealand, 6-3, 6-4.

Women Third Round Andrea Hlavackova, Czech Republic, and Jie Zheng (8), China, def. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, 6-4, 6-3.

Mixed Quarterfinals Taylor Townsend and Donald Young, United States, def.

Ashleigh Barty and John Peers, Australia, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 10-5.

Junior Singles Boys First Round Jared Donaldson (3), United States, def. Pedro Iamachkine, Peru, 6-1, 6-0.

Andre Biro, Hungary, def. Akira Santillan, Australia, 6-4, 6-3.

Sumit Nagal, India, def. Viktor Durasovic, Norway, 6-3, 6-4.

Duckhee Lee (7), South Korea, def. Sameer Kumar, United States, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Taylor Harry Fritz (14), United States, def. Tim van Rijthoven,

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She is survived by her two boys, Ian Gabriel and Hayde Laurie Pous of Myrtle Beach; parents, Laurie and Donna Hopkins of Winston-Salem; sister, Tabitha Hopkins, and two nephews, Ethan and McKinley Morris, of Sumter; and sister, Amy Hopkins, and nephew, Alex Ramey, of Mocksville, North Carolina.

Services will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday at Salt and Light Church of Sumter.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Salt and Light for “Celebrate Recovery” in memory of Carrie Hopkins.

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Affordable Cremations of Winston-Salem is assisting the family with the arrangements.

PAUL A. WATSON BISHOPVILLE — Funeral services for Paul A. Watson, 49, were held at 3 p.m. Monday at the Chapel Norton Funeral Home, Bishopville. He died Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Burial was in the Gum Branch Baptist Church Cemetery, Hartsville.

JANINE M. FERRARO Janine M. Ferraro, 89, beloved wife of the late Guy James Ferraro died on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014, at Covenant Place.

Netherlands, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-5.

Simone Roncalli, Italy, def. Boris Pokotilov, Russia, 6-1, 7-5.

Filippo Baldi, Italy, def. Yusuke Takahashi, Japan, 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-2.

Girls First Round CiCi Bellis (1), United States, def. Renata Zarazua, Mexico, 6-1, 6-3.

Anastasiya Komardina (12), Russia, def. Elena Ruse, Romania, 6-0, 3-1, retired.

Jelena Ostapenko (2), Latvia, def. Ye Qiu Yu, China, 6-1, 6-2.

Katerina Stewart, United States, def. Katie Boulter, Britain, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2).

Natalia Vikhlyantseva, Russia, def. Sandra Samir, Egypt, 6-4, 6-3.

Anna Blinkova, Russia, def. Dasha Ivanova, United States, 6-4, 6-4.

Marie Bouzkova, Czech Republic, def. Ena Shibahara, United States, 6-0, 6-2.

Evgeniya Levashova, Russia, def. Brooke Austin, United States, 6-0, 2-6, 6-0.

Tami Grende, Indonesia, def. Sofia Kenin, United States, 6-3, 6-2.

Naiktha Bains (13), Australia, def. Ingrid Neel, United States, 6-7 (10), 7-6 (1), 6-1.

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Scott, Willie Mae Toney (Jobe) and Bessie Joye; sister-in-law, Lillian R. Stephens; daughters-in-law, Teresa and Betty Stephens; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.

MARIO L. BUMPERS MARION STEPHENS SR. BISHOPVILLE — Funeral services for Marion Stephens Sr., 87, will be conducted at 1 p.m. today at St. John AME Church, with the Rev. Don Robinson Sr., pastor. Burial will follow in St. John Cemetery, directed by Boatwright Funeral Home of Bishopville.

Mr. Stephens, a son of the late Arthur and Louvina Stephens, was born in Lee County and received his education in the public schools of Bishopville. At the time of his death, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, he was a resident of McCoy Memorial Nursing Home.

Marion was a master brick mason and a licensed barber.

He was also a senior trustee and a member of the senior choir of St. John AME Church.

He was predeceased by his wife, Lillian, and their sons, Marion Jr., Robert, Willie and Leon.

Survivors include his children, Deborah S. Haggins (Dave), Lynn Stephens and William Stephens (Ernestine); sisters, Louise Adams, Bertha

Mario Lamar Bumpers, 42, husband of Tonia Holmes Bumpers, departed this earthly life on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014 at the home. He was born Aug. 13, 1972, in Grove Hill, Alabama, to Furman and Sharon Vaughn.

The family will receive friends at 33 Lemmon St. Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by White Mortuary LLC of Sumter.

HENRY LAWSON Henry Lawson, devoted husband of 63 years to Faye Smith Lawson and a noted civil rights pioneer, exchanged time for eternity on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014 at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on Aug. 31, 1929 in Summerton, he was a son of the late Edisto and Eliza Walters Lawson.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the residence of his daughter, Kathleen Lawson Gibson, 4 Mayland Drive, Summerton.

Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by the Fleming & DeLaine Funeral Home & Chapel.