SOUTH CAROLINA’S PREMIER WEEKLY INDEX | LIVING HERE | DEATHS | TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE GREER CITIZEN, CALL US TODAY AT 877-2076 WHO WILL BE CROWNED Miss Greer Pageant set for Saturday night B6 Royce Perry Cox, 83 Mayse Donald Crain, Sr. Elizabeth Edwards Dempsey, 93 Helen Doris Babb Frady, 89 Mary Lunsford Hannah, 83 NOTABLE | RIVALRY SHOWDOWN Greer, Blue Ridge brace for another rivalry installment B1 SPORTS | CLASSIFIEDS B4-5 COMMUNITY CALENDAR/NEWS A2 CRIME A9 ENTERTAINMENT B8 OBITUARIES A6 OPINION A4 OUR SCHOOLS B7 SPORTS B1-4 WEATHER A6 GBC registration open through Friday Those wishing to register for the Greer Baseball Classic’s spring season should do so before Friday. Games will be played on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at Country Club Park, Century Park, Victor Park and Little Turner Field. For more information, call the Greer Parks and Recreation department at 848-2190. END OF AN ERA: North Greenville president to retire B6 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015 GREER, SOUTH CAROLINA VOL. 102 NO. 2 75 CENTS Cite lack of smoke detectors BY AMANDA IRWIN STAFF WRITER Fire fatalities in South Carolina increased for the second year, reaching a three-year high of 95, up from 73 in 2013 and 2012. Of those fatalities, Spar- tanburg County reported the largest number of fire- related deaths. Accord- ing the preliminary Fire Fatality Statistics Report published by the State Fire Marshal’s Office, in 2014, 14 fire fatalities occurred in the county. “[The fatalities have] raised up a good bit, es- pecially compared to last year. It seems to relate back to most of the prob- lems of not having work- ing smoking detectors. Of course, those no loss of SEE FATALITIES | A9 Lyman tackles squirrels BY AMANDA IRWIN STAFF WRITER State roads and funding were among several issues raised by Spartanburg County Councilman Rob- ert Walker at the Lyman Town Council meeting on Monday night. “Most of you probably have heard that the pre- vious council approved a new strategic plan for planning in Spartanburg County…That’s going to deal with our mission, our vision and our values,” he said. “It’s business related and dealing with retention and expansion and land use processing is going to take place in this… The southwest portion of Spar- tanburg County is going to be the first portion that we’re going to undertake, more so from 29 down through 85 down into the 290 area of the county because that’s where the growth is taking place right now.” Walker said the number one problem in the county is roads and infrastruc- ture, and he will be work- ing with Rep. Rita Allison and the South Carolina Department of Transpor- tation to address road is- sues as it relates to growth occurring in the county. “Our county roads and your city roads are going to empty into that traffic, so we’ve got to make sure we plan ahead,” Walker said. “Everybody doesn’t like the $25 road fee tax, but that’s $6 million we’ve got every year,” he said. “My position is, I’m open SEE SQUIRRELS | A6 BY BILLY CANNADA EDITOR The holiday season often brings a string of charitable giving for local non-profit organizations. While agencies in Greer have reaped the benefits, the need will only grow in 2015. At Greer Community Ministries (GCM), steady support throughout the year has been vital for the health of its programs, such as Meals on Wheels. “Our overall financial health is the strongest it has been, at least in the two years I have been here,” Cindy Simpler, GCM Executive Director, said. “I think it’s because of that steady support that comes in from the community that provides what we need when we need it. For the most part, we haven’t been lacking in anything.” Simpler said GCM has put out a call for help sev- eral times this year and the community has re- sponded. “With food donations, we’ll post something and sometimes we’ll have a re- sponse the very same day,” she said. “The commu- nity has been huge for us. We’ve had fewer shortages in the food pantry. When we put the word out that we needed coats for the clothing closet, within two weeks time we started see- ing a stream of coats come in. The tangible items have come in much better than they have in the past.” “We see time and again that people respond,” Sim- pler said. “The reality is there are people in need SEE GIVING | A3 BY BILLY CANNADA EDITOR Hollywild Animal Park officials say an electrical fire took the lives of 27 animals at around 8 a.m. last Friday. According to statements from Hollywild, the blaze was discovered by Jay Gossett during a morning feeding. Smoke was seen coming from a primate barn where animals were being held due to cold weather. “(Gossett) immediately called for help and opened doors to improve ventilla- tion,” a press release from Hollywild stated. “Immedi- ate calls were made to fire officials and veterinarians to seek care for the ani- mals in the building.” Only 13 animals escaped the fire. Animals lost included: capuchins, chimpanzees, baboons, lemurs, mang- abeys, a bear cub, an African crowned crane, tortoises, wolf hybrid pup- pies and a barn cat. As of Tuesday, the fu- ture of Hollywild remained uncertain. “That’s what we’ll be dis- cussing…how do we move forward from here?” said Kim Atchley, director of marketing at Hollywild. “We’re gathering infor- mation, finding out what additional information we need and going from there. We have planning SEE HOLLYWILD | A6 Blaze claims 27 animals at Hollywild Park PHOTO | SUBMITTED Hollywild officials say these two wolf hybrid pups are recovering from smoke inhalation after a fire at Hollywide took the lives of more than 20 animals last week. Spartanburg County fire fatalities up County faces road, funding issues Local non-profits benefit from end-of-year giving FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN MLK event set for Monday The events center at Greer City Hall will host the 13th annual Martain Luther King celebration luncheon on Monday, Jan. 19, from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the Recreation Operations Center at 446 Pennsylvania Ave. For more information, call 416-6606. ‘We are all heartsick about the loss of our family members.’ David Meeks Hollywild executive director SC FIRE FATALITIES January to January 5-year Comparison Year Fatalities 63 Source: SC Division of Fire and Life Safety 57 73 73 95
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SOUTH CAROLINA’S PREMIER WEEKLY
INDEX | LIVING HERE | DEATHS | TO SUBSCRIBE
TO THE
GREER CITIZEN,
CALL US
TODAY AT
877-2076
WHO WILL BE CROWNEDMiss Greer Pageant
set for Saturday night
B6
Royce Perry Cox, 83Mayse Donald Crain, Sr.Elizabeth Edwards
Dempsey, 93Helen Doris Babb Frady,
89Mary Lunsford Hannah,
83
NOTABLE |
RIVALRY SHOWDOWNGreer, Blue Ridge brace for another rivalry installment
Those wishing to register for the Greer Baseball Classic’s spring season should do so before Friday.
Games will be played on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at Country Club Park, Century Park, Victor Park and Little Turner Field.
For more information, call the Greer Parks and Recreation department at 848-2190.
END OF AN ERA: North Greenville president to retire B6
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015 GREER, SOUTH CAROLINA VOL. 102 NO. 2 75 CENTS
Cite lack of smoke detectorsBY AMANDA IRWINSTAFF WRITER
Fire fatalities in South Carolina increased for the second year, reaching a three-year high of 95, up from 73 in 2013 and 2012.
Of those fatalities, Spar-
tanburg County reported the largest number of fire-related deaths. Accord-ing the preliminary Fire Fatality Statistics Report published by the State Fire Marshal’s Office, in 2014, 14 fire fatalities occurred in the county.
“[The fatalities have] raised up a good bit, es-pecially compared to last year. It seems to relate back to most of the prob-lems of not having work-ing smoking detectors. Of course, those no loss of
State roads and funding were among several issues raised by Spartanburg County Councilman Rob-
ert Walker at the Lyman Town Council meeting on Monday night.
“Most of you probably have heard that the pre-vious council approved a new strategic plan for planning in Spartanburg County…That’s going to deal with our mission, our vision and our values,” he said. “It’s business related and dealing with retention and expansion and land use processing is going to take place in this… The
southwest portion of Spar-tanburg County is going to be the first portion that we’re going to undertake, more so from 29 down through 85 down into the 290 area of the county because that’s where the growth is taking place right now.”
Walker said the number one problem in the county is roads and infrastruc-ture, and he will be work-ing with Rep. Rita Allison and the South Carolina
Department of Transpor-tation to address road is-sues as it relates to growth occurring in the county.
“Our county roads and your city roads are going to empty into that traffic, so we’ve got to make sure we plan ahead,” Walker said.
“Everybody doesn’t like the $25 road fee tax, but that’s $6 million we’ve got every year,” he said. “My position is, I’m open
SEE SQUIRRELS | A6
BY BILLY CANNADAEDITOR
The holiday season often brings a string of charitable giving for local non-profit organizations. While agencies in Greer have reaped the benefits, the need will only grow in 2015.
At Greer Community Ministries (GCM), steady
support throughout the year has been vital for the health of its programs, such as Meals on Wheels.
“Our overall financial
health is the strongest it has been, at least in the two years I have been here,” Cindy Simpler, GCM Executive Director, said. “I think it’s because of that
steady support that comes in from the community that provides what we need when we need it. For the most part, we haven’t been lacking in anything.”
Simpler said GCM has put out a call for help sev-eral times this year and the community has re-sponded.
“With food donations, we’ll post something and sometimes we’ll have a re-sponse the very same day,” she said. “The commu-nity has been huge for us. We’ve had fewer shortages in the food pantry. When
we put the word out that we needed coats for the clothing closet, within two weeks time we started see-ing a stream of coats come in. The tangible items have come in much better than they have in the past.”
“We see time and again that people respond,” Sim-pler said. “The reality is there are people in need
SEE GIVING | A3
BY BILLY CANNADA EDITOR
Hollywild Animal Park officials say an electrical fire took the lives of 27 animals at around 8 a.m. last Friday.
According to statements from Hollywild, the blaze was discovered by Jay Gossett during a morning feeding. Smoke was seen coming from a primate barn where animals were being held due to cold weather.
“(Gossett) immediately called for help and opened doors to improve ventilla-tion,” a press release from Hollywild stated. “Immedi-ate calls were made to fire
officials and veterinarians to seek care for the ani-mals in the building.”
Only 13 animals escaped the fire.
Animals lost included: capuchins, chimpanzees, baboons, lemurs, mang-abeys, a bear cub, an African crowned crane, tortoises, wolf hybrid pup-pies and a barn cat.
As of Tuesday, the fu-
ture of Hollywild remained uncertain.
“That’s what we’ll be dis-cussing…how do we move forward from here?” said Kim Atchley, director of marketing at Hollywild. “We’re gathering infor-mation, finding out what additional information we need and going from there. We have planning
SEE HOLLYWILD | A6
Blaze claims 27 animals at Hollywild Park
PHOTO | SUBMITTED
Hollywild o� cials say these two wolf hybrid pups are recovering from smoke inhalation after a � re at Hollywide took the lives of more than 20 animals last week.
Spartanburg County firefatalities up
County faces road, funding issues
Local non-profits benefit from end-of-year giving
FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN
MLK event set for MondayThe events center at Greer City Hall will host the 13th annual Martain Luther King celebration luncheon on Monday, Jan. 19, from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the Recreation Operations Center at 446 Pennsylvania Ave. For more information, call 416-6606.
‘We are all heartsick about the loss of our
family members.’
David MeeksHollywild executive director
SC FIRE FATALITIESJanuary to January 5-year Comparison
Year
Fata
litie
s 63
Source: SC Division of Fire and Life Safety
57
73 73
95
URBAN LAND INSTITUTEWORKSHOP TODAY
Upstate Forever is hold-ing an Urban Land Insti-tute workshop, Linking Our Futures: Shaping a Transit-Ready Corridor, on Jan. 14-15 at Greer City Hall from 5:30–6:30 p.m.
A team of experts from the Urban Land Institute will be in attendance to discuss transportation choices, active living op-portunities and future land development along the 33-miles of Highway 29 between Greenville and Spartanburg. The study and resulting recommen-dations will complement transportation improve-ments already planned along Highway 29 by the SCDOT and local transpor-tation agencies.
January is Sanctity of Human Life Month with Sunday January 18, 2015 being Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.
Piedmont Women’s Cen-ter has flyers available for organizations who would like to distribute them to their groups or congrega-tions. PWC can also pro-vide a speaker for your group or event.
Contact Tami Howell at 864-848-1381 for details.
SOUPER BOWL OF CARING BEGINS MONDAY
The Souper Bowl of Car-ing is day-long event on Jan. 19 designed to mo-bilize youth in a national effort to care for people in their communities who are hungry and in need. Greer Relief and Greer Community Ministries are promoting the event.
Greer Community Min-istries is a local reciepient for funds, and groups can sign up ot participate at souperbowl.org.
Greer Relief is accept-ing non-perishable food items to meet the needs
of the constantly growing number of residents going hungry.
Greer Relief is request-ing donations of Canned chicken and tuna, pota-toes and rice, dried beans, corn, juice, canned fruit, pasta sauce, breakfast items, soups, peanut but-ter and jelly.
For more information, visit greerrelief.org or contact Hannah Rainwater with GCM at 877-1937 or [email protected].
HANDSHAKES EVENT AT BUILD MORTGAGE JAN. 21
The Greater Greer Cham-ber of Commerce’s next monthly Handshakes and Hashbrowns, a networking event, is from 8–9 a.m. on Jan 21 at Guild Mortgage, 104 Trade St.
The event is free for chamber members.
Visit greerchamber.com for more information.
CHAMBER 77TH ANNUAL CELEBRATAION ON JAN. 22
The Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce’s 77th Annual Celebration, presented by Greer Me-morial Hospital, is Jan. 22 from 5:30 – 9 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Greenville Golf Resort & Conference Center, 670 Verdae Blvd, Greenville.
The cocktail reception begins at 5:30 p.m. and a dinner and program will follow at 7 p.m. The cost is $65 for members and $75 for non-members.
Registration can be completed online at greer-chamber.com. Contact the Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce for more infor-mation.
TAILORED FOR TAYLORSAT EASTSIDE YMCA
The Greater Greer Cham-ber of Commerce’s next monthly Tailored for Tay-lors, a networking event, is from 8–9 a.m. on Jan. 28 at Eastside Family YMCA, 1250 Taylors Road.
The event is free for chamber members. Visit greerchamber.com for more information.
FEAST WITH FRIENDSBENEFITING GLOBALBIKE
Feast with Friends is a crock pot event benefiting globalbike is at 6 p.m. on Feb. 5 at the Culinary Hub
Loft, 147 E. Main St., Spar-tanburg.
At the crock pot event guest will have the op-portunity to choose from several meal options, with both vegetarian and meat dishes, desserts and drinks being provided, as well as entertainment by Donovan Brooks.
Guests will have the opportunity to win gift baskets and learn about globalbike, a non-profit organization that provides bikes to communities in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania to allow commu-nities to become self sus-tainable.
Donation opportunities will be available and there is a $7 entry fee, with all proceeds benefiting glo-balbike. For more informa-tion, visit the Feast with Friends Facebook page.
INTERIM HEALTHCARE HOSPICE GRIEF SUPPORT
Beginning March 3 through May 5, a 10-week grief support class will be held on Tuesdays from 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at Interim Healthcare Hospice, 155 Deacon Tiller Court, Dun-can.
The classes aim to help adults cope with death-re-lated loss by focusing on Alan Wolfelt’s book, “Un-derstanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Heal-ing Your Heart.”
For more information or directions, contact Tonya Taylor at 721-4131
The Greer Learning Cen-ter needs tutors, particu-larly for English as a Sec-ond Language. The hours for Greenville Literary As-sociation’s Greer Learning Center are Monday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and Tues-day 12:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Call 848-5370 or visit greenvilleliteracy.org.
CREATIVE ADVANCEMENTSEEKS VOLUNTEERS
The Creative Advance-ment Centers, at Victor Park Gym, needs volun-teers and teachers in prep-aration for the additional 20 students the program will take in. The program provides after school help for at-risk children in grades K-12.
GCM is seeking drivers for Meals on Wheels for routes in Taylors and Lo-cust Hill Road on Fridays, routes on Highway 14 to Skyland Elementary on Mondays and Wednesdays and troues every other Monday in the Lake Robin-son area.
To volunteer as a Meals on Wheels driver Contact Wendy Campbell at 879-2254.
A2 THE GREER CITIZEN COMMUNITY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015
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TODAY, JAN. 14GRACE PLACE in Greer will
have its clothing closet open from 6-8 p.m. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.
THE AWANAS CLUB at El Bethel Baptist Church, 313 Jones Ave., Greer, from 6:30 - 8:15 p.m. Kids ages 3-12 are invited. Call 877-4021.
MTCC TOUR MEETS at the MTCC, at 84 Groce Road in Lyman at 10 a.m. Potential volunteers and interested parties can tour the facility and learn about programs o� ered.
CANCER SURVIVOR EXER-CISE class 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Cancer Institute of Greenville Health System, 900 W. Faris Road, Greenville. The classes are free. Call 455-5809 for more information.
CANCER SURVIVOR YOGA class 4-5 p.m. at the Cancer Institute of Greenville Health System, 900 W. Faris Road, Greenville. The classes are free and registration isn’t required. Call 455-5809.
LEAGUE OF WOMEN Voters of Greenville County meet at 1 p.m. at University Center, McAlister Square, 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive, Green-ville. Ages 18 and older, men and women, are invited to join. Visit the information monitor at University Center for the room number.
THURSDAY, JAN. 15THE TAYLORS LIONS Club
at 6 p.m. at the “Clubhouse”, 500 East Main St., Taylors. Call Allen Culver at 350-6939.
THE TAYLORS LIONS Club at noon at the Taylors First Baptist Church Ministry Cen-ter (old Post O� ce) on Main Street, Taylors. Approximate-ly one hour. Call Jerry Hatley at 268-0567.
CANCER PATIENTS AND survivors walking club at 12:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Cancer Institute of GHS. Call 455-5809.
SURVIVE AND THRIVE support group for cancer sur-vivors meets 2-3 p.m. in the lobby of the Cancer Institute of GHS. Call 455-5809.
HEALTHY WEIGHT SUP-PORT program for cacner
survivors meets 3:30-4:30 p.m. at the Cancer Institute of GHS. To register call 455-2862.
SATURDAY, JAN. 17COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
10 -11:30 a.m. at Calvary Christian Fellowship, 2455 Locust Hill Road, Taylors. Limited supplies available on a � rst come, � rst serve basis.
UPSTATE FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT Group at the Hampton Inn on Fishermans Drive (behind Earthfare) by Pelham & 85 at 11 a.m. Call Rita Forbes at 968-0430 or Lisa Gambrell-Burns at 268-5907.
KINGDOM ASSEMBLY OUTREACH Center will be handing out free groceries to quali� ed applicants from 10 a.m. - noon at 3315 Brushy Creek Road, Greer. Call 848-2728 or visit www.kingdo-maoc.com.
MONDAY, JAN. 19THE NEVER ALONE GROUP
OF NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS at 7 p.m. at the Greer Recre-ational Center.
GRACE PLACE IN Greer will have its mini-mall open from 10 a.m. - noon. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.
TUESDAY, JAN. 20GRACE PLACE in Greer will
have its clothing closet open from 6-8 p.m. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.
GAP CREEK SINGERS will rehearse from 7:30-9 p.m. at The Church of the Good Shepherd, 200 Jason St., Greer. Contact Wesley Welsh, President, at 877-5955.
BARBERSHOP HARMONY CHAPTER at 7 p.m. at Memo-rial United Methodist Church, 201 N. Main St., Greer. Call 877-1352.
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS and Auxiliary at 7 p.m., 721 E. Poinsett St., Woodmen of the World. Call Preston Johnson at 979-7758.
THE NEVER ALONE GROUP OF NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS at 7 p.m. at the Greer Recre-ational Center.
THE LIONS CLUB at Lake View Steak House, Higway 14 at 5:30 p.m.
THE SOAR LUNCHEON from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Victor Gym. Bring a covered dish and/or dessert.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
COMMUNITY
NEWS
By AmAndA IrwInStaff Writer
In December, the month that pushed Greer past the $50 million mark for commercial construction permits, far above the pre-vious year’s $34 million, the city saw a total of 190 permits issued generating $48,988.25 in permit fees for more than $10 million in construction cost.
“We’ve issued close to a 100 more (housing per-mits) than we had this time last year,” said Greer Build-ing Official Ruthie Helms. “Then our commercial work, we just turned the $50 million mark for com-mercial permits which is
incredible compared with last year at $34 million.
“Our numbers are pretty astounding,” she added.
According to Helms, by the end of 2014, more than 100 housing permits were issued than the previous year. Thirty-four of those were issued in December, along with five commer-cial permits.
The cost of commercial construction in December equaled more than $5.5 million, while the cost of residential construction that same month equaled approximately $2.6 mil-lion. Of the permits issued in December, most were for issued for new residen-tial construction, which
generated 14,432.50. Of the commercial permits, “upfits” accounted for the majority of permits issued, which generated $4,413.25.
The remained of the remainder of the 190 permits issued were gen-erated through mechani-cal-related, excavating and grading, fire department, signage and zoning per-mits, equaling 134, 102 of which were mechani-cal and included electrical and plumbing. The cost of construction or mechani-cal permits equaled $1.3 million.
Wellford residents took the podium recently to ad-dress town council regard-ing neighborhood nui-sances, taxes, fees and the mayor-council dynamic.
“This year, 2015, I would like the council to work together,” said council-member Patricia Watson. “Anything that goes about, I would like the council to know, not one or two peo-ple.
“We don’t have police protection because I don’t see police riding around in the neighborhood or anything,” she said. “I see them on (Highway) 29, but they’re not riding the neighborhoods. Are they checking on the elderly people? You very seldom see police unless you get on 29 and speed. We need to get ourselves together with that.”
Watson’s concerns were repeated by community members as well.
“Are you aware of what the mayor doing or is the mayor aware of what all you is doing?” resident Mary Sherry questioned. “Everybody needs to work together so we can accom-plish these things because we’ve got a problem when we don’t work together and we need that desper-ately when we’ve got peo-ple involved…”
Neither the councilmem-ber nor resident elaborat-ed on what specific issues council and the mayor were not communicating about. One resident, who did not state her name, called for a council-form of government from her seat in the crowd.
“As far as anything that I haven’t shared with the council, if you’ll tell me what that is I’ll share it with you,” said Mayor Tommy Watson.
Resident Barry Hill ex-pressed nuisance com-plaints regarding a neigh-
bor on Moore Circle.“Some of us live on
Moore Circle and we’ve al-ways tried to think about beautification for Moore Street,” she said. “Recent-ly, last year, we have a house on the very end by the VFW and you can’t get in the yard, nor the porch, nor anywhere near the house. There’s two cars – it seems like they’re bro-ken down cars – and it’s just an eyesore to anybody coming to Moore Street, so if something could be done about that.”
She added that trash from the home is finding its way onto the street. Watson said he would send an officer out to ad-dress the situation and that if the cars on the property aren’t registered and up-to-date, they will have to be moved from the property.
A few residents also complained about prob-lems resulting from the addition of the $60 fee that provides garbage services to town mem-bers. A mobile unit and the property it is placed on are incorrectly viewed as two properties causing residents to be charged the fee twice. Residents who own more than one property but only reside on a single property have been charged for each in-dividual property owned, despite garbage services only being supplied at one residence.
“I own three properties – I’ve got one trash can.
I would’ve felt a little bit better if you’d given me three trash cans, but I pay $180 a year instead of $60 and I live in one spot,” res-ident Susan Salters said. “They don’t pick my trash up every three weeks. It’s not that they don’t, I just don’t have that kind of trash.”
Watson said Salters, and residents who have similar problems with the fee, need to bring their tax forms to city hall so they can address the problems.
Although several resi-dents attended the public forum, most of the con-cerns spoken about were individual to each resi-dent, and few repetitive concerns were evident. However, those who spoke did encourage council to hold more public forums to address citizens’ con-cerns.
The next Wellford Town Council meeting will be the second Monday, rather than the first, in February due to a scheduling con-flict.
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Construction is underway on South Buncombe Road as Village at Greer continues to take shape. When completed, it will be an assisted living and memory care facility.
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and there’s been a growth in the homeless popula-tion, and that’s beginning to be more evident to the people at large. I think they support agencies like Greer Community Minis-tries, Greer Relief and the Greer Soup Kitchen be-cause they know we can provide aid to those folks that is meaningful and helpful.”
Greer Community Min-istries uses events such as 5K races, golf fundraisers and Big Thursday to make it through the year.
“We were up slightly from last year with end-of-year support, but noth-ing that knocked it out of the park,” Simpler said. “It was up a little bit from the prior year.”
Simpler said monthly and quarterly giving is up at GCM.
“I sign every donation letter that goes out of here and I see a recur-rence of people that give each month or each quar-ter,” Simpler said. “That is probably the thing that is growing the most. It’s not the big splash like a big gift would be, but the real heartbeat of keeping us going are the people that give to us each month.”
Simpler said Greer Com-munity Ministries is always in need of extra funding support in January, as well as food donations.
“What we have in com-mon with the other non-profits is that January, February and March are usually pretty lean,” she said. “While you do have an up tick in funds in No-vember and December, you really have to squirrel it away to get you through that January, February and March time.”
greer relIef cAncels BArBecue BenefIt
According to Greer Relief Executive Director Caro-line Robertson, the organi-zation “did a little better,” but still didn’t meet bud-get goals in 2014.
“We didn’t make our budget from last year,” she said. “We were still be-hind the line on that.
“It was a fairly success-ful year when it comes to client services,” Robertson said. “We met our bud-get and our needs there. We had some challenges when it came to operating funds, but we’re trying to change up 2015 to kind of respond to that.”
Greer Relief holds three
major fundraisers each year, including a gala in March, a golf fundraiser in June and the Christmas parade in December.
Greer Relief will no lon-ger host its annual Sooie’t Relief BBQ Benefit.
“We had some finan-cial challenges (with that event),” Robertson said. “It’s a very expensive thing--closing streets, hiring and bringing in everything. It cost a lot of money and we didn’t have the kind of return we needed to con-tinue to make it worth it.”
Robertson said Greer Re-lief is in need of more vol-unteers during the winter months. The organization offers tax help to its cli-ents and Robertson said, last year, the program helped bring $300,000 back to the community.
“We need volunteers and people who are computer savvy or numbers savvy enough to sit down with somebody and help them with their taxes,” she said. “We have a system that we train (volunteers) on, so it’s not like somebody has to be a tax preparer to do that.”
Greer Relief also needs food.
“We gave away a lot of food at the end of the year,” Robertson said. “The temperatures to con-tinue to drop and we’re trying to make sure our folks have enough. Soups and fruit, right now, are at the top of our needs list for the food pantry.”
step progrAm BrIngs In $300,000
Daily Bread Ministries was busy working on a new project in 2014, rais-ing $300,000 to build a homeless shelter in Greer.
“Overall, this was prob-ably one of the busiest years for our entire or-ganization,” said Adam Wickliffe, chairman of Daily Bread’s board of di-rectors. “Instead of having one facility to fund, we’re in the process of getting the Greer STEP (Shelter to Empower People) program put together.”
The idea gained traction as the vision for a shelter came together.
“A lot of folks in Greer believe that somebody should do something about homelessness, but nobody really knows who should be taking that lead,” Wickliffe said. “It’s really been gratifying to see the community sup-port this project. The folks
that have been giving to the STEP program are con-fident that we can be suc-cessful.”
The project still needs to bring in additional funds to begin construction.
“Our biggest focus right now is getting the shelter constructed,” Wickliffe said. “We’re not looking at beginning construction until we’ve raised $50,000-$60,000 more. It could be the beginning of April be-fore we actually do begin construction based on the pace that we’re raising money, but we don’t want to start construction and then have to stop.”
Wickliffe hopes to have the shelter open by Sep-tember.
Although Greer STEP has got off to a running start in 2014, giving for the Greer Soup Kitchen was slightly down.
“Our giving for Decem-ber was a little low,” Wick-liffe said. “Giving to the soup kitchen was a little bit lower than usual De-cembers that we see. We can personally probably attribute some of that to people giving to STEP in-stead, but people also may have chosen to give else-where or not to give at all.
“Our goal when we started the project was not to divert money away from the soup kitchen,” he said. “A lot of times folks are going to make a deci-sion to give to one or the other.”
Although many commu-nity members devote time and resources around the holidays, Wickliffe said the need at Greer Soup Kitchen is great all year.
“A lot of people re-ally want to help around Thanksgiving and Christ-mas time, but hunger happens year ‘round,” he said. “At the soup kitchen we’re still going to serve a hot meal every day. The soup kitchen served about 56,000 meals in 2014. That’s a lot. What we want people to know is that the need to help with hunger still exists in Greer.
“Our goal is to eventu-ally not have to serve any meals at the soup kitchen because we have solved the hunger problem in Greer and in the sur-rounding communities,” Wickliffe added. “Until that happens, we’re going to continue to serve every day.”
A friend of mine, the lucky so-and-so, just left town for a six-week tropi-cal vacation. As I break the ice in
the horses’ water trough in the morning, I imagine her, lying on a Costa Rican beach with sun, sand, and a frou-frou drink, a paper umbrella stuck in it.
It’s funny, those frou-frou drinks... You wouldn’t catch me dead with such a silly concoction- unless, of course, I was, like her, on a tropical vacation. Some-how, it just fits. Otherwise, I’d be utterly mortified.
I’m more of a beer/wine gal with an occasional mixed drink, and even then it needs to be straight forward with-out any goofy props: vodka and tonic, scotch and water, no tiny, plastic sword spearing a maraschino cherry, or wedge of orange--I can’t even tolerate having a cocktail straw placed in my drink.
It just looks ridiculous, especial-ly when a man uses it.
“Yeah,” I remember some gruff, longshoreman-type announcing to his friends at a bar, “I told her if she doesn’t like it, she can move out. I don’t want some woman trying make my place look
all flowery and girly. I’m a man’s man!” and then pursed his lips arounds the tiny straw in his Jack and Coke.
There are meals, as well, that only go with certain places and climates. In the brutal heat of a southern summer, hon-estly, I could eat a caprese salad (slices of gorgeous, ripe, tomatoes over slices of buffalo mozzarella, with bits of basil and drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar...) or a bowl of chilled gazpacho for every meal.
And when it’s mind-numbingly cold, as it has been this week, there is but one thing in order and I worship at its altar each lunch: beans on toast.
Don’t get me wrong, ‘mater soup and grilled cheese is right up there, too, and that’s what I had for lunch all last week.
However, after seven days of grilled
cheese, by Friday, my arteries needed a quart of Slick 50, so decided to change up the menu and in order to thaw out after coming in from noontime barn chores, I pulled out the hard stuff: the comfort food of the British working class that requires neither a hefty bank account or a full set of teeth and hits the spot each time: A nice, thick, slice of bread toasted quite well-done, a pat of butter on it, then pour the heated beans right over it and attack with knife and fork.
When the beans melt the butter and the toast softens with all that junk on it,
child, you think Hoppin’ John is good? (John was Hoppin,’ I suspect, owing to a seized colon) This modest fare is table bangin’ good!
I’m someone who doesn’t quite get the concept of moderation, so as long as it remains cold and blustery, I shall eat my beans on toast until I either scare the dogs out from under the kitchen table or get so sick of it I can’t stand its sight.
But that’s alright. By then it’ll be spring and time for quiches and white wine and Greek salads.
And a defibrillator.
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Epting leaves a strong, lasting legacy at NGU
Let the little children come
Read Mark 10:13-16
Jesus said to [the chief priests and the scribes], “Yes; have you never read,
“Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself?” - Matthew 21:16 (NRSV)
One night as we were going to sleep, I heard my young grandson singing in his two-year-old way one of the most difficult church hymns. Just by being present in worship, he had learned this hymn and made it part of his life.
Young children often get restless during worship. When this happens with my grand-children, I usually take them out of the service. I worry about their disturbing others. But Jesus said to let the little children come to him and not to stop them. These words convince me that welcoming children to worship and into the family of the church is more important than hurrying them out when they squirm or make a little noise.
I know that in the world outside the church, my grand-children will encounter many distractions that will draw their attention from God. That’s why I feel that bringing them to God through the worship and fellowship of the church is an essential responsibility.
Prayer: Dear God, help us to remember and take seriously our responsibility to help the children in our lives grow up knowing you and your son, Jesus. Amen.
Thought for the day: How does my church welcome and nurture its children?
We won’t know if Dr. James B. “Jimmy” Epting would have been a successful university presi-dent anywhere else, but we do know he was the perfect fit at the right time for North Greenville University. The announcement of his decision to take a sabbatical this semester and retire in May leaves big shoes to fill and we do not envy the board of trustees as they seek a replacement.
Epting had worked in a variety of capacities at North Greenville from 1979-1990 including vice president for student affairs and athletic direc-tor when he left to become executive director of the Paladin Club at Furman. North Greenville at the time was a two-year program that most peo-ple believed was in its last days. Enrollment was down into the 300s and the school was strug-gling to survive. Most observers and school of-ficials believed it would soon close.
But he was only gone from the school for about a year. In 1991, Epting was asked to re-turn as president and accepted. While many may have thought he came to close the doors of the school he loved, Epting had different plans. He made many changes, the biggest of which was a decision to let the university’s future be determined by a stronger emphasis on its his-torical Christian heritage. “Where Christ Makes the Difference” became the motto of the school and NGU became more faith based.
Epting’s vision proved to be the right one. The school is now strong with more than 2,400 students and 20 consecutive years of record enrollment. North Greenville moved from a two-year college to a four-year program in 1994 and eventually added graduate programs and earned university status. Many people have called it a “miracle.”
Major building campaigns have been required over Epting’s tenure in order to keep up with the increase in enrollment. Giving to the univer-sity has increased many times what it was when Epting became president 23 years ago.
But, there is much more to Dr. Epting’s contri-bution to the success of North Greenville than
his vision. First and foremost, he loves North Greenville. That is obvious in a five-minute con-versation. He has truly been a president who loved his job. He may have been offered other opportunities over the years. That would make sense given his success. But, we really can’t imagine him anywhere else. He loves his univer-sity so much.
Epting also loves students. He was known during final exams to serve his “cheese grits” in the cafeteria, his way of taking a potentially stressful time and having some fun. He knew students by name and joked with them often. He was regularly seen at events talking and laughing with students. At graduation ceremo-nies, he took all the time needed to have his picture made with any students who asked. And many asked. To the students, Epting was more than their president. He was their supporter, cheerleader and friend. He was approachable.
It is sad to hear that Epting is stepping down, but there is no doubt that he leaves the univer-sity in a much better situation than the one he inherited. He has been a great leader for the school and for the community. Because of the commitment and vision of James B. “Jimmy” Epting, the job of president at North Greenville University -- once an undesirable job -- will now likely be a position that will attract quality can-didates from across the country.
Beans on toast
Feastwith friends
Lately life has been a whirl-wind of plan-filled calen-dars, important, smudged
pen markings, imperative scribbles on sticky notes and a sea of vital contacts. To say I’ve been busy is an understate-ment.
After rushing back and fourth between my two jobs, along with friends and fellow-fundraiser Nichole, I’ve been diligently planning for the quickly approaching Feast with Friends fundraiser benefiting globalbike. While the process is tiring, knowing the global impact these efforts have gives the process meaning, ensur-ing that I’m both humbled and reminded that it is certainly worthwhile.
By 2020, globalbikes’ goal is to enable more than 28,000 Tanzanian women to be self-sufficient. But globalbikes’ mission is transformative beyond simply providing trans-portation. Providing women with bikes also provides them independence through the elimination of limitations and access to income, healthcare, education and other needed re-sources, which in turn benefits entire societies.
What sets globalbike apart though, is its mission isn’t to change Tanzanians’ perspec-tives or beliefs, but rather empower them by removing barriers and enabling sustain-ability. The bikes the organiza-tion provides allow people to make their own way and live their lives more easily and effi-ciently. Already, globalbike has made it possible for women to become entrepreneurs, one exampling being the establish-ment of a recycling program in Moshi, Tanzania. The organiza-tion also provides support to likeminded organizations with a presence in Tanzania through partnerships, such as the TATU Project in the Manyara region of Tanzania, which connects communities and resources through environment, educa-tion and empowerment.
Come see how two wheels re-ally do make a world of differ-ence at the Feast with Friends benefit Thursday, Feb. 5 at 6 p.m. at the Culinary Hub Loft, 147 E. Main Street, Spartan-burg. The cost is $7 and, in ad-dition to being provided food, drinks and entertainment, attendees will have an op-portunity to learn more about globalbikes’ impact, as well as the upcoming globablbike con-nect trip in July.
Just by being present in
worship, he had learned
this hymn and made it
part of his life.
I pulled out the hard stuff: the comfort food of the British working
class that requires neither a hefty bank account or a full set of
teeth and hits the spot each time: A nice, thick, slice of bread
toasted quite well-done, a pat of butter on it, then pour the heated
beans right over it and attack with knife and fork.
He was known during final exams
to serve his “cheese grits” in the
cafeteria, his way of taking a
potentially stressful time and
having some fun.
What will it take for you to be happy?
Benjamin Franklin pointed out, “The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guar-antee happiness, only the pursuit of it.
The following is a short story from “The Road to Happiness” by Mac An-derson and BJ Gallagher: “On one trip about ten years ago, I was making conversation with the taxi driver, asking him my usual questions about how he came to live where he lived. Then I asked him a hypothetical question: ‘If you could live any-where in the world—and if money was no object—where would you live?’
Without hesitating even for a second, he replied, ‘I live in my heart. So it re-ally doesn’t matter where my body lives. If I am happy inside, then I live in Paradise, no matter where my residence is.’
I felt humbled and a little foolish for my question. Of course he was right—happiness is an inside job. He had reminded me of some-thing I already knew, but had forgotten. If you can’t find happiness inside
yourself, you’ll never find it in the outside world, no matter where you move. Wherever you go, there you are. You take yourself with you. I am grateful for the wisdom of that taxi driver.”
This week in Columbia will be a long, cold week with lots of meetings and the swearing in of our elected constitutional of-ficers, beginning with our governor, Nikki Haley. We pray for the year ahead--for wisdom and direction to move our state in the right direction and to al-low our citizens to work, play, educate, stay safe and bring about their own quality of life.
Certainly, the number one issue South Caro-linians and legislators are talking about is the condition of our roads and bridges--the funding and reform that will bring about changes in this
area.In the South Carolina
House, ethics, rules, crimi-nal domestic violence, education and education/workforce will be high on the agenda in these early days.
The S.C. House Over-sight Committee (newly organized and chaired by
Rep. Weston Newton) will begin their work oversee-ing agencies to make sure they are following the intent of the laws and regulations that should guide them. Five members from my Education and Public Works Committee are serving on this new committee.
Mopeds and trailers have gotten a lot atten-tion in filed legislation in the Education and Public Works Committee. So many accidents and deaths have occurred this year involving these.
Safety is very impor-tant as we all share the roadway.
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DR: If you’ve started to win with money and build some wealth, an umbrella policy is some of the cheapest insurance you can buy. It’s just about the biggest bang for your buck.
Here’s an example. In most states, you can
get an extra $1 million in liability coverage added to your car insurance and homeowners insurance as an umbrella policy for as little as $200 a year.
There’s no problem if you don’t have any money.
But if you’ve got some cash, and you bump into somebody, it’s a really good thing to have that extra umbrella insurance policy in liability situa-tions!
Dropthe arrogance!Q: My son is in his thir-
ties and has been married for seven years to a girl from a wealthy family.
Her parents provided them with a lot of finan-cial support over the years, but now they’re get-ting divorced and he has come to us for the money to make this happen.
On top of all this, when we ask him why he doesn’t have the money he tells us it’s none of our business.
We don’t like his at-titude, but we’re not sure what to do.
DR: This is a grown man we’re talking about, and if he’s going to take on the lifestyle and actions of a grown-up he needs to act like one and take care of his responsibilities.
I understand he’s your son, and he’s hurting right now.
Still, it takes a ton of arrogance to beg money from someone and tell them the reason they don’t have it is not their business.
If he seriously wants to get into some finan-cial counseling and start becoming accountable for his money — to himself and to you — then you might consider helping him out financially.
But at this point, you’re giving a drunk a drink if you just hand him money because he wants it.
Anyone can make a mistake.
But it’s not your job to fund his irresponsible behavior or his arrogance!
It takes a ton
of arrogance to
beg money from
someone and tell
them the reason
they don’t have it is
not their business.
DAVESAYS
DAVERAMSEY
We join the rest of the world in mourning the brave staff of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, gunned down by religious fanatics for defending freedom of the press.
Meat industry fanatics in the U.S. have devised a more subtle means of sti-fling freedom of the press. The states of Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mon-tana, North Dakota, and Utah have enacted “ag-gag” laws that impose criminal penalties on investigators seeking to expose animal abuses and safety viola-tions in factory farms.
According to an As-sociated Press report in yesterday’s papers, four
members of an animal protection organization were charged with violat-ing Utah’s ag-gag law. They sought to document the daily transport of thou-sands of pigs from the in-famous Circle Four factory farm in Cedar City (UT) to the Farmer John slaugh-terhouse in Los Angeles.
Ag-gag laws are clearly unconstitutional and are being challenged in fed-eral courts. Assaults on press freedom need to be confronted wherever they rear their ugly heads, even when they assume the le-gitimacy of a state law.
Scott TurkGreenville
Greer State Bank has launched a new founda-tion that will soon begin serving the Greer area.
Bank official say the new campaign stemmed from a desire to keep contribu-tions in the community.
“This is a first for our bank and I am extremely excited for the opportu-nity to serve as chairman in our inaugural year,” said Christy Blackwell, president/chairman of the Foundation. “With the con-tributions and efforts from our entire Greer State Bank
team, we are off to a great start and look forward to positively impacting our community in 2015 and beyond.”
April Staggs, vice presi-dent/co-chair of the Foun-dation board introduced the new initiative to a room of 160 guests at the Greater Greer Chamber First Friday Luncheon.
“We are excited to an-nounce that, not only have we received 100 percent participation from our first campaign, but have exceeded our pledge goal,”
said Staggs. “Within a 30 day period, we received over $40,000 in contribu-tions and commitments from our Greer State Bank employees and board of directors.”
The Greer State Bank Foundation Board will con-sider requests from local charitable organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applications will be available on March 2 and can be found on the bank’s website GreerState-Bank.com.
GSB launches foundation
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Freedom of the press in France and the U.S.
Legislature to discuss roads, bridgesYOUR VOICEIN COLUMBIA
REPRESENTATIVERITA ALLISON
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to any ideas that we can figure out to replace that $6 million, but until we do we can’t do away with it. We’ve got to have that $6 million for those county roads.”
The $6 million received from taxpayers contrib-utes to a total $10 each year used for maintain-ing 1,700 miles of county roads.
Another issue Spartan-burg County has been fac-ing is a lack of funds from the state. According to Walker, 3.5 percent of last year’s revenues were sup-posed to be returned to each county in the state, but funds the county re-ceived were about $4 mil-lion short of what should have been returned.
“We haven’t been getting that 3 percent,” Walker said. “The numbers last year, we were probably close to $4 million short of what we should’ve got-ten from the state to run state agencies and state offices… The courthouse, the clerk of court, the pro-bate court, the veterans affairs – those are offices that the state mandates that we take care of so if we don’t get that money that we should be get-ting we’ve got two choices – raise taxes and the other is to take local funds you pay for the operation of our county and devote them toward those agen-cies that the state has not sent us the funds (for).
Currently now, that’s what we’re doing.
“Since 2009, I believe, is when they started cutting us. We’ve lost, I believe it’s close to $14 million in Spartanburg County,” he added.
Council authorized the police department to spend $550 for an mobile app that, once download-ed, can provide residents with department contacts, emergency push notifica-tions, access to sex offend-ers lists and most wanted lists and access to a forum to provide anonymous tips to the department.
The first reading or an ordinance to amend the fiscal year budget to post-pone hiring a police offi-cer failed to pass, allowing the department to go for-ward with filling the new position as previously ap-proved in the budget.
A motion to allow mea-sures to be taken to con-trol the squirrel popula-tion was unanimously passed. The overpopula-tion of squirrels has re-sulted in several problems for residents, according
to complaints received by council.
The next regularly sched-uled Lyman Town Council meeting is Monday, Feb. 9 at 6 p.m. at Lyman Town Hall, 81 Groce Road.
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Perry CoxVeteran
Royce Perry Cox, 83, died Jan. 7, 2015, at his home.
A native of Greenville County, son of
the late George and Minnie Frances Powers Cox, he was a U.S. Navy Veteran of the Korean War, a retired employee of Columbia Farms and a member of Apalache Baptist Church.
Surviving is his wife, Freddie McCoy Cox of the home.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday at The Wood Mortuary, con-ducted by Rev. Eddie Coo-per, Rev. Butch Howard and Rev. Jim Carpenter. Burial was be private.
Honorary escort was the Co Ed 5 Sunday School Class.
Visitation was held from 9:30-10:45 a.m. Saturday at The Wood Mortuary.
The family is at the home.
In lieu of flowers, me-morials may be made to Heartland Hospice, 421 S.E. Main St., Suite 100, Simpsonville, S.C. 29681 or Apalache Baptist Church, 1915 Gap Creek Road, Greer, S.C. 29651.
Online condolences may be made at thewoodmor-tuary.com.
M. Donald Crain
Mayse Donald Crain, Sr. of Greer passed away Jan. 11, 2015. He was son of the late Manley L. and Eva Farmer Crain and husband of Betsy Jones Crain.
He was retired from Homelite in Greer and served in the Army Air Corps during WWII from 1943-1946.
He is survived by his wife, Betsy Jones Crain; a daughter, Jean Moore (Gene) of Landrum; two sons, Don Crain, Jr. (Opehlia Jane) of Boiling Springs and Tim Crain (Sherri) of Landrum; four grandchildren, Kim Moore of Raleigh, Brian Jones of Nashville, Elizabeth Slat-ten (Josh) of Landrum and John Crain of Greenville; and two great grandchil-dren, Jake and Allie Slat-ten.
He was predeceased by two brothers and three sisters.
Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015, at Wood Me-morial Park.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Caro-lina Foothills, 130 Forest Glen Drive, Columbus, N.C. 28722.
Condolences may be left at pettyfuneralhome.com.
Elizabeth (Libby) DempseyElizabeth (Libby) Ed-
wards Dempsey, 93, widow of Donivan Paul Dempsey Sr., completed her life on earth to join her Lord and Savior on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015.
Mrs. Dempsey was born on April 9, 1921, to Wil-liam Shockley Edwards and Mamie Taylor Ed-wards. She lived on a road named after her father’s family in a town named after her mother’s fam-ily. Mrs. Dempsey gradu-ated from Taylors High School in 1938 and also that year married Donivan Paul Dempsey, formerly of Greer, and they both joined Fairview Baptist Church where they re-mained members.
Surviving are two sons and daughters-in-law, Don and Mary Dempsey of Travelers Rest, and Roger Dempsey and Linda Chase of Arlington, Massachu-setts; one daughter and son-in-law, Deb and Bruce Longshore of Dawsonville, Georgia; one brother-in-law, Daniel Cunningham of Taylors; one sister-in-law, Margaret Edwards of Taylors; six grandchil-dren, Demps Dempsey (Kristy), Amy McCauley (Will), Brandon Longshore (Sydney), Kelli Longshore (Greg Dunham), Autumn Chase-Dempsey and Luke Chase-Dempsey and eight great-grandchildren, Me-gan, Duncan and Kate Dempsey, Mac, Mills and Libby McCauley, Reece and Riley Longshore.
Mrs. Dempsey was pre-deceased by five brothers, William Mauldin Edwards, Robert Watson Edwards, Joseph Vardry Edwards, Waites T. Edwards, and Roger Kenelm Edwards and one sister, Dorothy Letitia Edwards Cunning-ham.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at Fairview Bap-tist Church conducted by Dr. Tom Burns and Rev. Billy Vaughn. Buri-al will follow in Wood-lawn Memorial Park.Honorary escort will be The Amazing Grace Sun-day School class.
Visitation will be held at 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Thursday at Fairview Bap-tist Church prior to the service.
The family is at the home of a son, Don Dempsey, 21 Glen Springs Road, Travel-ers Rest, S.C. 29690.
Memorials may be made to Fairview Baptist Church, 1300 Locust Hill Road, Greer, S.C. 29651.
Online condolences may be made at thewoodmor-tuary.com.
Helen B. Frady Helen Doris Babb Frady,
89, of #11, 23rd St, widow of Thomas R. Frady, died Jan. 11, 2015, at Alpha Health & Rehab.
A native of Spartanburg County, she was a daugh-ter of the late Andy and Edna Strickland Babb, a retired employee of J.P. Stevens Victor Plant and a member of Holly Springs Baptist Church.
Surviving are a daugh-ter, Ann Frady Camp-bell of Forest City, North Carolina; four sons and daughters-in-law, Danny and Joan Frady of Inman, Wayne Frady of Greer, Roger and Linda Frady of Campobello and Mike and LaDale Frady of Fork Shoals; thirteen grand-children and thirty great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at The Wood Mor-tuary, conducted by Dr. Tim Clark and Rev. Nolan Gowan. Burial will follow in Hillcrest Memory Gar-dens.
Visitation will be held 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Thurs-day at the mortuary prior to the service.
Pallbearers will be Scott Painter, James Wolfe, Dan-iel Frady, Roger Lee Frady, Stephen Frady, Jacob Painter, Todd Frady, and John Frady.
The family is at the home.
Memorials may be made to Holly Springs Baptist Church Food Pantry, 251 Hannon Road, Inman, S.C. 29349.
Online condolences may be made at thewoodmor-tuary.com.
Mary L. HannahMary Lunsford Han-
nah, 83, of 127 Cathe-dral View, died Jan. 7, 2015, at her home.A native of Greenville County, daughter of the late Rickmon A. and Eva Murray Lunsford, she was a retired employee of Hightower Oil Company and a member of Praise Cathedral.
Surviving are her hus-band, William “Bill” A. Hannah, Jr., of the home; two sons, Rev. Rickmon “Ricky” Pridmore, and his wife Tammy of Greer and Daniel “Danny” Pridmore of Michigan; three daugh-ters, Melanie McGregor and her husband Benny, Kimberly L. Coxe and Susie Brewster and her husband Jerry; nine grandchildren, Amy Pridmore and fiancé Josh Samples, Rickmon Pridmore, Jr., Luke Prid-more, Erin Peters, Maggie Law, Meredith Taylor, Alex Coxe, Trish Coxe and Mat-thew McGregor and two great-grandchildren, Hai-ley Taylor and Parker Law.
Mrs. Hannah was prede-ceased by two brothers, Herman Lunsford and Don Lunsford and one sister, Verna Rushing.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9, at Praise Cathedral, Student Center, conducted by Rev. Tommy Harvey and Rev. Frank Jones. Burial followed in Fairview Baptist Church Cemetery.
Honorary escort was the Praise Cathedral Village Residence.
Visitation was held from 1-2 p.m. Friday at Praise Cathedral, Student Center.
The family is at the home.
Online condolences may be made at thewoodmor-tuary.com.
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meetings ongoing for the development and future of Hollywild and we’ll con-tinue to do that.”
Hollywild officials said the animals died from smoke inhalation.
“This is very devastating to me and the entire Holly-wild family. At this point, we do not feel any animals are suffering. None were burned. The survivors are recovering from smoke in-halation. It appears it was a quick and painless death for the animals that died,” said Dr. Beverly Hargus, Hollywild’s veterinarian, said in a release. “It is ter-ribly tragic, but sadly, it is the kind of thing that can happen anywhere.”
The barn was rewired in 2014 with new fixtures and was up to code, Hol-lywild officials said.
“We have completed an
investigation and deter-mined that the cause was was an electrical short in one of the light fixures,” said Holly Springs Fire Chief Brent Blackwell. “The fire traveled up into the ceiling and spread, caus-ing the building to fill will smoke. The fire died out on its own, but there were still hot spots when we ar-rived. Personally speaking, it is a tragedy to lose lives. We are very fortunate that more weren’t lost and the fire was contained. This is definitely the kind of fire that can just happen any-where.”
People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released a state-ment of their own, calling for action against Holly-wild.
“PETA is calling on the authorities to take action, strip Hollywild of its li-cense, and ensure that no
more animals die,” a state-ment from the organiza-tion read.
Hollywild held a private memorial service for staff only on Sunday.
“We are all heartsick about the loss of our fam-ily members,” said Holly-wild’s executive director David Meeks in a state-ment. “We are all grieving. We appreciate the care and concern being offered to our community and the larger Hollywild fam-ily that includes the thou-sands of people who have made personal connec-tions to the park and the hundreds of animals who live here.”
The park is hoping to or-ganize a public remember-ance for the animals killed in the fire.
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Furman University will host its 2015 Church Mu-sic Conference on campus Thursday and Friday, Jan. 22 and 23.
The conference is open to the public. Registra-tion for the two-day event is $70 prior to Jan. 16, and $90 after that date as space remains.
Founded in 1971, the Furman University Church Music Conference is made possible through a grant from the Thomson Foun-dation. Drawing church musicians from all over the Southeast, the con-ference features nation-ally known clinicians who present lectures and con-duct workshops relating to the practice of church music.
Guest clinicians for this year’s conference are Dan Bara, Professor of Choral Music at the University of Georgia; Mary Louise “Mel” Bringle, Professor of Humanities at Brevard College; and David Higgs, Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
Dan Bara oversees seven university choral ensembles and the gradu-ate choral conducting program at the University of Georgia. In addition to the many regional and na-tional awards and honors earned by his choirs, UGA Hodgson Singers last year won the Grand Prix at the International Choral Com-petition Ave Verum in
Baden, Austria. Dr. Bara is a highly sought after guest conductor and clinician, having conducted all-state and honor choirs in 15 states and Carnegie Hall. He has served as clinician for conferences sponsored by national church music associations ACDA and AGO and other school and church music organiza-tions.
Mary Louise (Mel) Brin-gle is Professor of Philoso-phy and Religious Studies and coordinator of the Integrated Studies major at Brevard College. The re-cipient of a generous grant from the Louisville Insti-tute, Dr. Bringle is writing a book about one of the seven deadly sins. She is recognized as one of the finest hymn text writers of our time and her works
are included in two single-author collections and in hymnals and supplements of numerous denomina-tions in North America and Scotland. She recently served as President of The Hymn Society in the Unit-ed States and Canada and as chair of the commit-tee charged with creating a new hymnal “Glory to God” for the Presbyterian Church USA.
On Thursday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Chapel, the conference will feature a recital by acclaimed organ-ist David Higgs, Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music. One of the nation’s leading con-cert organists, Higgs is an active performer national-ly and internationally. His recital is part of a special series of organ concerts in
2014-15, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of the installation of Furman’s Hartness Organ, Opus 121 built by C.B. Fisk (Glouces-ter, Mass.). A renowned or-gan teacher as well as per-former, Higgs will present a Friday morning master class in Daniel Chapel with Furman University organ students.
The Minnesota-based men’s vocal ensemble “Cantus” will be in concert at Bob Jones University’s Founder’s Memorial Am-phitorium Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m.
Cantus will be perform-ing their new program “Anthem,” which explores the traditions and customs of singing throughout the world with specific em-phasis on when and why people sing together.
“Anthems are an expres-sion of identity and create a way for communities to show support for a cause, belief, a heritage, or even a sports team,” said Cantus tenor Aaron Humble. “If you have once sung a song in a group, that music for-ever after will conjure the emotions of that moment for you: pride, identity,
unity.”The program includes
songs from various cul-tures and traditions ask-
ing the question: When we gather together, how does singing help us celebrate, help us inspire, or help
us heal? Anthem features works ranging from the Hebrew Burial Kaddish to the African American work song, “Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder,” to works by Kodály, Holst, Verdi, Janáek and Tallis. Two new pieces commissioned for the program include “When We Sing” by Rosep-hanye Powell, inspired by the recent findings that people’s heartbeats start to synch when they sing together; and an arrange-ment of “How Can I Keep From Singing” from Ste-phen Caracciolo, who pre-viously arranged “Simple Gifts” for the group.
Tickets for the Jan. 27 concert are available by visiting bju.universitytick-ets.com or by calling 770-1372.
MAPLE CREEK HOSTS CLOTHING GIVEAWAY
Maple Creek Missionary Baptist Church will host a clothing giveaway on Saturday, Jan. 31 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. For more infor-mation, contact the church at 877-1791.
MAPLE CREEK OFFERING OLD TESTAMENT COURSE
The Maple Creek Mis-sionary Baptist Church school of Christian Lead-ership and Development is offering an Old Testament Survey Course (10 hours) Jan. 21-22 from 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. and Jan. 23 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Light refreshments will be provided. The course is open to the public and is certified by the National Sunday School Publishing Board.
The church is located at Call 877-1791 or visit ma-plecreekmbcgreer.com,
LYMAN FIRST HOSTS WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
First Baptist Church of Lyman will host a wom-en’s conference, “Common Grounds” on Saturday, Jan. 24 starting around 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.
There will be breakout sessions of interest to all ages 13 and up featuring Dawn Smith Jordan and Sherry Thrift Bradshaw for special inspiration and motivation. Come wor-
ship, learn and share with women from all over the upstate. Lunch is includ-ed.
For further information and to register, call First Baptist Church Lyman at 439-8721 or visit firstly-man.org.
GOD’S KIDZAT UNITED CHRISTIAN
United Christian Church, located at 105 Daniel Ave-nue in Greer will host a big screen movie with pop-corn for children ages 5-10 on Saturday, Jan. 24 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. It will be a “pajama day” with crafts, snacks and games.
For more information, call 895-3966 or 561-8195.
‘GOLDEN HEARTS’JANUARY CALENDAR
It was a busy and blessed year for the Gold-en Hearts of Apalache Baptist Church. Several other churches in the as-sociation joined the ABC senior group for some of their activities/trips, and Ashlan Village was added as honorary members of the Golden Hearts. Many activities are planned for the 2015 year. The Golden Hearts began 2015 senior activities with a covered dish supper in the Chris-tian Life Center at on Jan. 13. Special guest was Crystal Capps. A “Super Bowl” supper is on the calendar for the seniors in the CLC at 6 p.m. on Jan. 29. Soup/Stews and corn-bread are on the menu for this meal.
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The Greer Commission of Public Works (CPW) is urging customers to be-ware of a potential phone scam in the area.
CPW received reports of unidentified persons call-ing customers and claim-ing to be affiliated with the utility. The callers warn customers that they are behind in payments, and demand payment “within the hour” to avoid having service cut off that day. These callers are not af-filiated with CPW and cus-tomers who receive these calls are urged to call police and report them. The Greer Commission of Public Works only notifies customers of missed pay-ments through automated phone calls and a mailed letter.
According to CPW, call-
ers instruct customers to send them payments through “Green Dot Cards” or sometimes simply “green cards.” Green Dot Cards are reloadable debit cards and, once criminals have private card informa-tion, they can access the funds in the card. Green Dot Cards are not a meth-od of payment accepted by CPW, and utility staff will never call demanding payment.
CPW officials say they have reported the activity to local law enforcement and neighboring utilities. Customers are always urged to use caution. If any customer receives a suspicious phone call or questions a caller’s claims, they should hang up and contact CPW at 848.5500.
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Community serviceThe RIverside HIgh School boys basketball team, represented by Caleb Carithers, Michael Shipman and Myles Smith, received the Mike Gar� eld Community Service Award from Sgt. Chad Richardson of the Greer Police Department on Friday night during a matchup with Mauldin.
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The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office said a 33-year-old man confessed to killing his godmother after an argument.
Lt. Kevin Bobo said EMS responded to 199 Bonner Road, Spartanburg for a woman not breathing on Thursday.
Bobo said the woman was dead and a stab wound was discovered in her back. The coroner identified her as 68-year-old Annie Bass Copeland.
The woman’s roommate, Semaj Abdul Fowler, 33, was at the scene and was detained, according to Bobo.
Bobo said Fowler was transported to the deten-tion center where he con-fessed to killing his god-mother after an argument.
Warrants stated that Fowler is charged with murder.
AUTO BREAK-INS REPORTED AT LOCAL HEALTH CLUBS
Several cars were broken into at area health clubs last week.
According to incident reports provided by Greer Police, the subjects stole earrings, clothes, purs-es, prescription drugs, checks and credit cards from cars at Greer Ath-letic Club, Anytime Fitness
and Planet Fitness. One witness said he saw two black males appearing to be in their early 20s in the Greer Athletic Club park-ing lot around the time of the incident, one of whom was walking away from a burglarized car. The men left the area in a late-mod-el red or burgundy sedan with a partial Florida li-cense plate. If you have any information on these crimes, please contact the Greer Police Department.
(Note: All information contained in the following blotter was taken directly from the official incident reports filed by the Greer Police Department or The Spartanburg County Sher-iff’s Office or The Green-ville County Sheriff’s Of-
fice or The Duncan Police Department. All suspects are to be considered inno-cent until proven guilty in the court of law.)
CDVRalph Derrick Neisler of
340 Mariah Drive, Greer, was charged with crimi-nal domestic violence. Ac-cording to a report filed by the Spartanburg Coun-ty Sheriff’s Office, police were called to the above address in reference to an altercation.
Upon arrival, the com-plainant stated her live-in boyfriend threw objects at her and hit her on the top of the head before threat-ening to do her further physical harm. After find-ing swelling on the top of the complainant’s head, officers arrested Neisler for CDV and transported him to the Spartanburg County Detention Center.
The report also states that the subject has two prior CDV convictions.
DUIMark Anthony Ander-
son, 47, of 204 Southwind Way, Greer, was charged with driving under the in-fluence and failure to stop for blue lights.
According to an incident report supplied by Greer Police, an officer on rou-tine patrol saw a red Geo Tracker drive over a curb on Ridge Crossing Drive.
When the officer engaged in pursuit, the driver turned off his headlights and fled the area. Soon, the Geo drove off the roadway again, struck a mailbox and collided with a tree. Upon exiting the vehicle, Anderson stated that he’d been taking Oxycodone for pain and had also had a shot of liquor and three beers.
The subject’s daughter told police he had taken her car without permis-sion. EMS arrived and transported him to Greer Memorial.
MULTIPLE POSSESSIONCharles Mitchell Wright,
34, of 112 Spring St., Greer, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of narcotics with intent to distribute.
According to a Greer Police incident report, an officer was on routine pa-trol when an officer issued a traffic stop on a vehicle with a brake light out. Upon smelling marijuana emanating from the car, the officer ordered all oc-cupants out of the vehicle and called for backup. Upon searching Wright, police found a loaded 22-calliber revolver, three ounces of marijuana, 57 Hydrocodone pills and 100 tablets of Alprazolam
(Xanax). Two others in the car
were arrested for Pos-session of Marijuana and transported to the Greer City Jail.
DUIShing Tak Chung, 38, of
11821 North Highway 101, Greer, was charged with driving under the influ-ence and interfering with a police officer.
According to a report supplied by Greer police, officers arrived at an ac-cident on West Poinsett St., where a car had col-lided with a telephone poll. The driver, Chung, appeared unresponsive at first, but then awakened when EMS arrived at the scene. Chung asked the officer why he had pulled him over and was told that he had driven into a utility pole. At this point, the subject began argu-ing with the officer and grabbed him several times on the wrist. Because of a strong alcoholic odor coming from his person, Chung was asked to per-form a field sobriety test but declined.
Once at the Greer Po-lice department, he also declined to submit to a Breathalyzer test.
CDVAndre Levelle Smith Jr.,
25, of 1201 Cedar Lane Road, Greenville, was
charged with criminal do-mestic violence.
According to the Greer Police incident report, an officer arrived at Beverly Apts. In reference to a do-mestic disturbance. Upon arrival, the complainant said that Smith had arrived at her home and forced his way inside, pushing her out of the way in order to go inside and get an Xbox. After he took off, a wit-ness verified her story.
Police found Smith near-by and transported him to Greer City Jail.
POSSESSIONDavid W. Calhoun, 33, of
103 New Woodruff Road, Greer, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
According to an inci-dent report filed by Greer police, an officer pulled Calhoun over on Victoria St, knowing there was a warrant on him in Spar-tanburg County. When taking an inventory of the vehicle, officers dis-covered approximately 12 grams of what appeared to be marijuana packaged in individual baggies.
Calhoun was arrested and transported to the Greer Police Department, where a detainer from the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office came to get him.
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Governor Nikki Haley re-cently named Jerry Adger the next director of the South Carolina Depart-ment of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.
Adger has served in South Carolina state gov-ernment for over 30 years – most recently as the in-spector general for the De-partment of Corrections.
“As we were moving for-ward in finding the next director at PPP, we want-ed to find a leader that was going to focus on the customer service at the agency,” said Gov. Nikki Haley. “What we found is that Jerry Adger is exactly the person we need. What is interesting about Jerry’s career is that wherever he has gone, he has created a culture change. He goes in and finds out why things have happened in order to find out how to improve, and that’s exactly what we need at PPP.”
Prior to joining the Department of Correc-tions in 2011, Adger served as the deputy director for rehabi l i ta -
tive services at the Depart-ment of Juvenile Justice and in numerous roles at the South Carolina Law En-forcement Division over a 23-year period of time.
“I have been in state gov-ernment for over 30 years, and in those 30 years, I have worked with SLED, DJJ and the Department of Corrections. In every one of those agencies, we improved on our law en-forcement needs,” said Jerry Adger. “What I would like to do as I move for-ward as the director of the Department of Probation, Pardon and Parole Services is use that experience and
sit down with probation officers and police officers to hear their needs and, as their director, make sure that they are being sup-ported and getting the re-sources they need to get the job done.”
Sen. Mike Fair, chair-man of the S.C. Senate Corrections and Penology Committee, said he looks forward to working with Adger.
“His career in justice and law enforcement spans de-cades and I look forward to working with him on the day to day challenges of PPP while continuing to look for more efficiencies and opportunities to part-ner with the Department of Corrections,” said Fair.
SLED Chief Mark Keel said Adger is the right per-son for the job.
Adger, 60, is a resident of Richland County and is married with two chil-dren.
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FIRE: Fatalities have been on the rise, � re� ghters point to lack of smoke detectorsFROM PAGE ONE
life in a sprinkler-facility as of last year in the state... but most of them have been that or (indirectly) like a nonworking smoke detector,” Greer Fire Chief Chris Harvey said.
In most cases, fires re-sulting in fatalities last year were in structures without smoke alarms present. According to Har-vey, smoke inhalation is the cause of most fire fa-talities. Many fire depart-ments have smoke detec-tor programs in which they will issue smoke de-tectors to residents and even install them without cost to the resident.
“Even when they do get out, even one or several, smoke detectors are not working properly,” Harvey said. “Most of our depart-ments do have a program
where they offer smoke detectors, especially if you cannot afford one. Howev-er, if you are a renter then it’s your landlords respon-sibility to provide smoke detectors and it’s your re-sponsibility to make sure that it’s maintain.”
Harvey recommends changing smoke detector batteries twice a year, sug-gesting making it synony-mous with daylight sav-ings time.
According to the report, March, November and De-cember are the months with the highest number of fire fatalities, with the majority occurring in resi-dences. The report also states that the most prob-able cause of fires, ex-cluding fires that are still under investigation, are smoking, electrical and heating related.
“I’m not exactly sure on the Greenville and Spar-
tanburg side if they’ve got all those into the sys-tem for the past year, but if I had to guess, most of them are a lot of cook-ing-related fires,” he said. “You still see improper uses of heating sources, especially during the cold weather. People will some-times do anything to keep warm whether it’s safe or not.
“Again, that’s where they’re happening, in peo-ple’s residences,” Harvey said. “It’s not happening at work, it’s happening at home and the critical thing is that you have sort of means of a working smoke detector, if not more than one, and then have an es-cape plan to where every-body in the house knows where to meet once you get outside and how to get outside. Because when you go home in the evening, you probably go in the
same door every night and that might not be avail-able, so you have to look at alternatives.”
According to the report, last year 57 percent of fire fatalities were ages 50 and older.
“There’s several factors that are involved in that too – the physical condi-tion of the person. There have been fatalities where alcohol is involved too. That’s usually the very young and the elderly are the ranges we usually see fatalities in,” he said.
Harvey said maintaining clear hallways, pathways and having an escape plan go a long way in helping someone escape a fire.
“If you keep your exit routes clear and unob-structed, that can give quicker access (to out-side),” Harvey said. “And also, a lot of it is common sense… A lot of times
people have furniture and other obstacles that are combustible that are too close to fires and over a period of time it will heat up until it ignites.”
The county is taking steps to prevent last year’s high fire fatality rates from being repeated next year by making a bigger push to provide smoke detec-tors to people and install them.
“I know that the Spar-tanburg County Fire Chief last week spoke about ty-ing to really get a whole lot more fire detectors and being able to get those distributed,” he said. “And the thing of it is too, not just distributing them but go out and install them be-cause it’s always an issue. Are you sure the people that are getting them are putting them up? The thing is too - especially involving the elderly - we
would rather go out and install a smoke detector for the elder person then them try and get up on a ladder or a chair and them falling and getting hurt.”
The department also checks and changes bat-teries for residents as well if needed.
“It’s better to call early, if you ever have a con-cern that something is not right. Whether you smell something or hear something either burning or popping, it’s better to go ahead and call then to wait, go to sleep and then it’s too late,” Harvey en-couraged.
For more information about the smoke detec-tor program, contact the Greer Fire Department at 848-2165.
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The world of sports lost a titan last week.
Like many of you, I’ve watched/listened to Stuart for the better part of my life. I recently heard somebody say he was a link back to SportsCen-ter’s glory days and I couldn’t agree more.
His style and enthusi-asm brought life to any show he did.
He made sports fun and his energy was conta-gious.
Last week when he passed away, that cha-risma was lost.
I had more reason than most to love Stuart. He was a great broadcaster, a national personality, but more importantly, he was a Tar Heel. He loved his Alma Mater and it was evident.
During college, Shannon and I would drive up to Chapel Hill once a year to catch “Late Night With Roy” – the school’s annual basketball kickoff celebra-tion. For a long time, that event was hosted by Stu-art Scott. His job was to entertain a room occupied by 22,000 screaming fans, but if you were one of the few that stayed around after the event was over, he was happy to meet you on the court and shake your hand.
The most inspiring thing about Scott was his very public battle with cancer. It was known that he had contracted and beaten the disease a number of times, but you wouldn’t be able to tell by the way he lived his life. He was still the same lively personality on SportsCenter. He still managed to work his way around the country to cover various sporting events like the NBA Finals.
But more than that, he became a modern day Jim Valvano. For those of you that don’t know, Valvano (aka Jimmy V) was a former NC State basketball coach who lost his battle with cancer in 1993. Now known for a famous speech he gave at the ESPYs, Valvano coined the phrase “don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”
Stuart didn’t give up. He fought cancer and beat it more than once.
In the days after his passing, it was nice to see the sports world pause for a moment. Sure we’ve got the NFL playoffs, the NCAA National Champi-onship and college hoops, but it’s more important to remember the life of someone who spent theirs trying to spread hope in the midst of a dark situ-ation.
This past summer, Scott gave an ESPYs speech of his own. His health was in obvious decline, but he still managed to deliver a poignant message.
“When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer,” Scott said. “You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.”
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Square off ThursdayBY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR
Bragging rights are on the line once again this week as Blue Ridge and Greer get set to battle in a Thursday night show-down.
Each year, the rivalry brings something new and this season’s matchup should be no different.
“It’s a good rivalry,” Greer boys coach Jeff Neely said. “The kids know each other and the fans get into it. Blue Ridge has really super fans that come and support them regardless of their record.
You know they’re going to support their team really well, so when they come to your gym and bring a lot of people, it makes for a good environment. Most of the time, it’s been a good, healthy rivalry. We’ve nev-er had many problems, it’s just been a lot of fun.”
Greer girls coach Carlton Greene said neither team’s record is important during this game.
“You can throw the re-cords out,” he said. “Last year, we went to Blue Ridge and it was a three-point ball game at halftime. No-body expected that of us, but it’s a rivalry game and the records don’t make any difference. What mat-ters is how you come to play that night.”
“We’ve had some good teams, but this year is
going to be a really good game because I don’t know of any superstars on either team that can’t be coun-tered,” Blue Ridge girls coach Byron Hardy said. “This year, (our teams) our more balanced across the board and I think it will come down to, I hope, the last couple of minutes. Whoever controls what they do best is going to win the game. It’s going to be a close scoring game.”
Although the two schools have produced some heat-ed matchups, the rivalry hasn’t always existed.
“You have to remember, the Greer game hasn’t al-ways been as big because we really didn’t start play-ing them until 2001,” Blue Ridge boys coach Ray Ri-ley said. “From 1994-2001, Greer wasn’t in the equa-tion. Travelers Rest and Chapman—those teams
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Local golfers compete at Pebble Beach
Sixteen Upstate golfers will compete at Pebble Beach Resorts this week-end during the national finals of the National Kid-ney Foundation (NKF) Golf Classic.
Four local teams quali-fied to represent South Carolina. Area golfers in-clude Dr. Doug Wyland, Dr. Paul Siffri, Dr. Keith Longergan, John Barber, Tom Keim, Jeffrey Leh-rer, Todd Whitehead, Ken Leopard, Wes Lehrer, Ja-son Gosnell, Stan Parker, Ken Couch, Jonathan Hen-derson, Christopher Ow-ens and Rick Simerly.
All four teams qualified as top finishers at the NKF Golf Classic held at Thorn-blade Club in Greer last September.
They will challenge more than 50 other teams from across the country in the 54-hole tournament, which runs Jan. 16-18.
The foursomes will play competitive rounds at the Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and The Links at Spanish Bay, with eyes set on se-curing the national title.
The National Kidney Foundation Golf Classic, a nationwide series of more than 30 golf tournaments held in major cities across the country, has raised more than $3.5 million annually for the National Kidney Foundation.
Qualifying rounds for the national finals at Peb-ble Beach will be Tuesday, June 2, at Cassique Golf Club or Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 at Thornblade Club. For more information, vis-it NKFGolfClassic.org.
1000BY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR
Two local athletes had their names written in the history books last week, joining an elite club that few can say they are a part of.
Riverside’s Myles Smith and Byrnes’ Brianna James each registered their 1,000th career point last Friday, sealing four-year careers that have seen plenty of success.
“I’m a proud coach to-day,” Byrnes coach Stacey Parris said. “Bri is the first player that I have coached
in college or high school to reach that mark. She is a good player and a very important part of our pro-gram. It’s an incredible moment when a player scores over 1,000 points in their career and we are all proud of her.”
James had 990 points heading into the game against Boiling Springs, where she became only the sixth female basketball player to reach the mile-stone in Byrnes history.
“I think it’s something very special that not a lot of players do,” Parris said. “It’s awesome to see the
players that have done it in the past, but to realize that she’s only the sixth player to do it is special. It’s a big deal.”
Smith was only eight points away before Fri-day’s game.
“You’ve got to play for many years to get it and, really, it speaks of how talented he was at an early age,” Riverside coach Greg Miller said. “To stick with that through his whole ca-reer speaks about how he got better and better. It’s a huge accomplishment.”
Miller said Smith has always put the team first
despite his individual ac-complishments.
“My favorite thing about him is…we were talking about this and he said, ‘I would’ve rather scored seven points last night and us win than me get-
ting to 1,000 points and lose,’” Miller said. “That’s what I love about him. He needed eight points, but he would give up eight in a heartbeat for a win.”
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Rivalry hits the hardwoodGREER VS. BLUE RIDGE
MANDY FERGUSON | THE GREER CITIZEN
Greer handled Chapman at home last week, but things are sure to heat up on Thursday against Blue Ridge.
MANDY FERGUSON | THE GREER CITIZEN
Blue Ridge is going to need a bounce-back week after dropping back-to-back region games.
‘(Smith)’s an extension of me. We have a
lot of great players and he just exemplifies
what we’re about.’
Greg MillerRiverside boys basketball coach
‘For some reason, the teams just kick it
into a higher gear and just play better
and harder than any other game.’
Byron HardyBlue Ridge girls basketball coach
B2 the greer citizen sports wednesday, january 14, 2015
By Billy CannadaSportS Editor
A Byrnes team that be-gan the season on a hot streak isn’t slowing down.
The Rebels knocked off J.L. Mann (57-51) and Boil-ing Springs (72-31) this week, moving to 13-1 on the year. Despite the pair of wins, Byrnes coach Layne Fowler said he needed better effort from his players.
“We beat three of the best teams we’ve ever beat in the Christmas Classic, and going back into region play, I just felt like we did not play well against J.L. Mann.” Fowler said. “It was a close game and J.L. Mann was able to slow us down. We just looked very lethar-gic, but we found a way to win. It was probably one of our poorer performances of the season.”
After the narrow victory, the Rebels came back on Friday and dominated.
“I think it helped refocus us,” he said. “We weren’t where we needed to be and I think the guys knew that. We got better in prac-tice and had a solid game against Boiling Springs. Defensively, I think we just harassed them and took them out of what they wanted to do. We got some easy buckets and just put a pretty complete game together.”
Fowler said his team is working to improve funda-mental areas heading into another big week.
“We’ve been preach-ing process over results,” Fowler said. “We try to get better at everything everyday. We’ve been working on getting better defensively—sliding our feet and boxing people out—and fundamentally. We need to keep finding
ways to create shots for our teammates and for ourselves. You have to fo-cus on the next play and not dwell on the past.”
Byrnes took on Riverside on Tuesday (results were not available at press time) and will face rival Dorman on Friday night.
“Dorman is the cream of the crop in our region,” Fowler said. “They’ve won the region four years in a row and they’re a top five team this year. They’re probably one of the big-gest high school teams I’ve seen in the last couple of years.”
Blue Ridge It’s a big week for the
Blue Ridge boys basketball team.
Coming off a 70-34 loss to Southside last Friday, the Tigers are licking their wounds heading into a Thursday night matchup with rival Greer.
“Right now we’ll just have to see how we can re-spond,” Blue Ridge coach Ray Riley said. “South-
side handed it to us pret-ty good, so we’ve got to bounce back. We’re going to really work on funda-mentals and our offensive and defensive positioning. We have to execute.”
Blue Ridge also dropped a 65-50 contest to Travel-ers Rest last week, moving to 0-5 in region play.
Greer has also struggled so far this season, only winning one region game against Chapman.
“Greer, Travelers Rest and Chapman—as far as Blue Ridge is concerned—are games that you can consider rivals,” Riley said. “I expect our guys to be ready. Really any game in the region should be a rival game. We won’t do anything different as far as preparation, but we know we have to get bet-ter ourselves and that’s what we’re going to work on more so than anything else. We’ve got to do what we can do to get bet-ter during the next three weeks.”
Tip-off at Greer is set for 7:30 p.m.
gReeRAn early deficit against
Berea put Greer too far behind for any chance of a comeback last week, as the Yellow Jackets split a pair of region games.
The Bulldogs had their way with Greer in the first half, securing a 66-52 vic-tory on Tuesday.
“Berea jumped out to a big lead on us in the first quarter,” Greer coach Jeff Neely said. “We just couldn’t really get back into it, but I thought we played them pretty even in the second half. I don’t know what happened, but we didn’t show up in the beginning of the game. It’s hard to recover from that.”
Neely’s team bounced
back from the loss, pick-ing up its first region win of the season against Chapman on Friday.
“It was a close first half,” Neely, whose team went into halftime ahead by seven, said. “The third quarter was the best quar-ter we’ve played all year. We scored 28 points and jumped out to a 26-point lead.”
That lead nearly slipped away, as Chapman mount-ed a huge run to cut Greer’s 56-30 lead to just four. The Jackets held on, however, earning a 63-58 win.
“We just kind of fell apart again,” Neely said. “We only scored five points in the fourth quar-ter. Our guys revert back every now and then. We had a big lead and we didn’t know how to hang onto it, but we were lucky to pull out the win.”
Despite the fourth quar-ter woes, Neely said some positives can be found his team’s third quarter ex-plosion.
“They played the way we asked them to play,” he said. “We got the ball inside and we were able to take advantage of our height. We knew we could score on them inside and our guys did what we told them to do.”
Thomas Center led the way for Greer, scoring 20 points.
“They’re slowly getting it, I think,” Neely said. “We just have to take advan-tage of the things we do well and stay away from the things we don’t do well.”
Neely said he does not know if the Chapman win will provide some momen-tum for his team.
“We’ll find out,” Neely said. “We’ve got a big one with Blue Ridge this week and us, Blue Ridge and Chapman are at the bot-tom of the region right now. Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the re-gion, so every win is big for us. We’ve got to beat the people that are down there with us and we’ve got to beat some other people too.”
eastsideThe Eagles led Southside
for three of four quarters last Tuesday night, but were unable to come out on top, falling 48-40 in the final eight minutes.
“We dug ourselves into a hole in the third quarter and we couldn’t get out of it,” Eastside coach Tom Chamness said.
Eastside was up by five
at the half on Southside, a team that was picked to win the region during the preseason.
“We just couldn’t get out of the hole. We got down by 10 and had to exert a lot of energy to get back into the game,” Chamness said. “We didn’t play well in the third quarter and you can’t do that…You have to win your home games and steal a couple on the road, but we know it’s not a sprint, it’s a mar-athon.”
Despite the third quar-ter woes, Chamness said he was able to refocus his team on the bigger goal.
“You’re not going to win the region or lose the re-gion on one game,” he said. “It’s how you play over the duration and we know we have to go through the process. We knew we couldn’t sit there are dwell on that loss, we had to get ready for Berea.”
Eastside bounced back with a 60-44 victory over Berea.
“I thought we played a whole lot better,” Cham-ness said. “We haven’t played that 32 minute game yet. We’ve played well in spurts, but we haven’t played a complete game, but we came closer to that on Friday against Berea.”
Chamness wants his players to have a short memory this season, put-ting wins and losses be-hind them quickly.
“Our region is such that there’s always going to be a lot of battling to try and get those four playoff spots,” he said. “Because of that, you can’t afford to stay too happy about a win or too sad about a loss. You’ve always got to shake it off and get ready for the next one.
Up next for Eastside is Emerald, which is entering its first year in Peach Blos-som competition.
“They’re athletic,” Ch-amness said. “They’ve got a big kid on the inside who they say is pretty good. I know their guards are pretty athletic, but Berea is the same way and so is Southside. They’re all like that. Most everybody has athletic guards and at least one decent-sized kid in the middle.”
RiveRside Riverside is in need of a
win heading into this week after dropping close bat-tles to Spartanburg (72-67) and Mauldin (68-61).
Warrior coach Greg Mill-er said last Tuesday’s loss was deflating.
“It was a rough loss to Spartanburg,” said Miller, whose team was down 10 points with two minutes to go, but cut the lead to three with just seconds remaining. “We had some chances, but just couldn’t get the job done.
“I thought it was one of the better performances of the year,” he said. “It really felt like things were about ready to turn the corner for us.”
The Warriors were still unable to get over the hump Friday night against Mauldin, letting some late game chance slip away.
“It really wasn’t a huge let down,” Miller said. “We had some defensive issues in the second quarter and in the third quarter and Mauldin shot it very, very well. They made us pay for our mistakes to where we couldn’t get that last run.”
Although his team has been suffering through a dry spell in region compe-tition, Miller is confident things will turn around.
“Even though it’s disap-pointing to lose and it’s not good, I still feel like things aren’t bad,” he said. “We’ve had some great practices and we’re ready to attack this week.”
The head coach wants his team to stick to as-signments defensively and find ways to get to the bas-ket on offense.
“Lately, we’ve been do-ing fairly well in applying ball pressure, but we’ve missed some responsi-bilities on defense,” Miller said. “We have to do a bet-ter job of realizing that everyone is needed to do a job on the defensive end. On offense, we’re starting to have an issue playing against zones. We’re set-tling for too many threes and forgetting how pow-erful it is to penetrate the lane. We’ve just got to get more consistent.”
Riverside faces match-ups with Byrnes and J.L. Mann this week.
“Last week, you had Dorman at No. 2, Wade Hampton at No. 4 and, I believe Byrnes at No. 5 (in the state rankings),” Miller said. “You’re talking about three teams from this re-gion in the top five in the state. No one else can say that. If you start looking at the depth of this region, it’s a lot of good basket-ball from top to bottom. It’s big time basketball ev-ery night.”
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By Billy CannadaSportS Editor
The Lady Yellow Jack-ets were able to shake off the holiday rust last week, earning region wins over Berea (64-49) and Chap-man (86-38).
With the pair of victo-ries, Greer improves to 3-4 in conference action this season.
“I thought we got two quality wins,” Greer coach Carlton Greene said. “Against Berea, I thought we were a little rusty. We’ve had a layoff since Christmas, so by the time we played on Tuesday night, it might have been seven or eight days. When you go that long, at this time of the year, without playing a game, you’re go-ing to have a little rust.”
Greene said his team gave a strong outing at home against Berea.
“It was a good game,” he said. “We had nine or 10 people score and three or four in double figures. We were pretty balanced on offense, so I was pleased with our game.”
Rust was no longer an issue during the team’s Friday night game with Chapman, as the Yellow Jackets used a 31-point third quarter to down the Lady Panthers.
“We played much better against Chapman,” Greene said. “We had 22 as-sists and 27 steals, so we thought we were strong on the defensive end and we were sharing the bas-ketball well. Everybody got some quality time in the game and some good looks.”
Despite losing in the Lady Sandlapper holiday tournament champion-ship game, Greene said his team has shown the ability to bounce back.
“Most of our kids have gotten pretty good at mov-ing on, and that’s some-thing we stress to them,” he said. “Once a play is over, you’ve got to get back and play defense or transition to offense. Our kids have adopted that mentality. Once a game is over, they are getting ready for the next one.”
Greer will take on rival Blue Ridge this Thursday at 6 p.m. at home.
“Region wins are very important right now be-cause we’re trying to earn a playoff spot and finish in the upper half of our con-ference,” Greene said. “We know we’ve got a big week coming up with our cross-town rival Blue Ridge on Thursday night.”
EastsidEA late second half come-
back allowed the Eastside girls basketball team to re-main undefeated in region play, as the Lady Eagles moved to 5-0 on the sea-son last week.
Eastside topped South-side 50-45, after falling behind in the first two quarters.
“We got down in double digits real quick,” Eastside coach Cindy DeHart said. “They got out in transition and scored and we didn’t start out playing well at all.”
The Eagles dug them-selves into a 20-point hole before cutting the deficit to 10 at the half.
“That was a confidence builder for them,” DeHart said.
“We settled down (in the second half),” she said. “Once we did that, I was pleased with the effort on offense. We started being a little more patient as far as shooting the ball.”
DeHart said a few key changes helped Eastside hold Southside to nine second half points and pull out the victory.
“We made some changes in our defense, but we got the score to where it was manageable and they set-tled down,” she said. “We wanted them to play with confidence and they did.”
Taylor Thompson led the effort for Eastside, scoring 19 points.
“She played, offensively, tremendous in the second half,” DeHart said. “Thir-teen of her points came in the second half and that’s kind of what lit the fire for us.”
Jessica Garlington had eight points against South-side, while Teliyah Jeter
added nine.Eastside ended the week
with a 58-28 blowout win over Berea.
“We did a good job and really played well,” DeHart said. “A lot of our kids got some great opportunities and it was just a positive night for us.”
Kennedy Taylor led the attack against the Lady Bulldogs with 10 points.
“We don’t let them take anything for granted, and they don’t,” DeHart said. “Right now, we’re prepar-ing for Emerald and they know every game they go into they’re going to have to battle.”
Eastside heads to Em-erald on Thursday for its only game of the week.
“We’re growing and we’re young,” she said. “If we can keep our compo-sure and play as a team, we think we can be effec-tive.”
“Emerald is very tal-ented and they’re new to our conference,” DeHart added. “We know we’ve got a big challenge ahead of us.”
BluE RidgEDespite a 61-point week
from senior guard Court-ney Robinson, Blue Ridge recorded back-to-back re-gion losses.
Robinson scored 40 of Blue Ridge’s 44 points against Travelers Rest, but it wasn’t enough for the Lady Tigers to claim vic-tory, as they fell 61-44.
“We only had two other girls score (besides Court-ney),” Blue Ridge coach By-ron Hardy said. “We were offensively challenged. We just didn’t play well at all by any means and it wasn’t a good turnout for us. Courtney was battling, but nobody else could score. Obviously, that was
a little disheartening.”Blue Ridge dropped its
second game of the week to Southside (63-53), but Hardy said it was a much better effort from his group.
“I don’t know what hap-pened between Wednesday and Friday, but attitudes changed,” Hardy said. “We lost by 10, but we played well. We had a much more balanced attack.”
An early deficit plagued the Lady Tigers.
“We got behind early in the first quarter and we couldn’t figure out how to overcome that, but we played well down the stretch,” Hardy said. “I thought that was the best game we played so far this year.”
Robinson had 21 points against Southside.
Hardy said his team re-cently lost some depth and is only able to play nine girls.
“When you’ve only got nine players, their job is to go in there and be produc-tive on both ends of the court. Whether its deflect-ing a pass, getting an of-fensive rebound or shoot-ing when you’re open, all of those things are so im-portant now,” Hardy said.
“As we’re more spe-cific and give them more personal goals, our team comes together better as a group,” he said. “We know who our scorers are, but we also have to un-derstand that everybody has a job while they’re in the game. A lot of times,
they’re stepping up and responding.”
Blue Ridge will face Greer on Thursday.
“They’ve got a lot of equally skilled players so they can go fairly deep,” Hardy said. “We’re going to have to manage the pace of the game and be strategic with the clock. We need to play to our strengths and just be confident.”
ByRnEsThe Lady Rebels coast-
ed to two easy wins last week, dominating Boiling Springs (60-31) and J.L. Mann (65-29).
Byrnes coach Stacey Par-ris said it was nice for her squad to be able to ease back into region play with a couple of victories.
“Coming out of the Christmas tournament and going back into re-gion play, we were really pleased to have two more region wins,” Parris said. “I thought we played pret-ty well against J.L. Mann, and going on the road and getting that win against Boiling Springs was really important.”
The Rebels have been dealing with more injuries than normal this season and have had to play a number of games without leading scorer Brianna James. This week, howev-er, Byrnes is looking to get back to full strength.
“No team is 100 per-cent right now,” she said. “We’re closer than we’re ever going to be this week. We’re going to start our
four seniors at home for the first time since before December. It’s been a long time since everybody has been healthy.”
The Rebels hosted Riv-erside on Tuesday (results were not available at press time) and will take on Dor-man on Friday. Byrnes lost its first matchup to Dor-man 75-55.
“We played them in the Christmas tournament and lost, but we’re look-ing at that as a practice round,” Parris said. “It was nice to see some of the things they like to do and some of their key players, but it will be nice to have this region game when it really counts.”
“I’m hoping that we can learn from the Christmas tournament and play bet-ter,” she said.
While some big games remain on the schedule for Byrnes, Parris said her team can’t afford to look past any opponent.
“Of course, as a coach, you say you want to beat the teams that have been at the top, but we have to focus on the next game,” Parris said. “We’ve got to take care of business. This is our week to get every-body back in the lineup and playing well.”
RivERsidERiverside dropped games
to Spartanburg (73-26) and Mauldin (56-33) last week,
remaining winless in re-gion competition.
“Both of those teams are very good offensively,” Riv-erside coach Jenny Taylor said. “I thought Mauldin had some tall guards that gave us problems. We just didn’t handle their pres-sure very well. We couldn’t get into an offense either night, so that was pretty much the story.”
Although her team only put up a combined 59 points in two games last week, Taylor said she is confident the Lady War-riors will bounce back.
“We’re going to keep working on the same stuff,” Taylor said. “We’ve got to get better against full court pressure, but we’ve been working on that. It’s just hard to simulate what we see from some of these (Class) AAAA teams in practice.”
Riverside faced Byrnes on Tuesday (results were not available at press time) and will take on J.L. Mann on Friday.
“J.L. Mann is struggling a little bit this year, but we need to concentrate on what we need to do on our end,” Taylor said. “We have to try to find a way to pick up a couple of wins and gain some momentum.”
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The Riverside point guard has provided plen-ty of leadership over the years and Miller hopes that will continue during the second half of region play.
“He’s our leader,” Miller said. “The ball is in his hands 85-90 percent of the time. He’s got to make
tough decisions for the team on the court. He’s an extension of me. We have a lot of great players and he just exemplifies what we’re about.”
Although he was excited about the milestone, Smith said he doesn’t want to dwell on it.
“It was a short term goal, but I want more,” he said.
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were. From 1953 to 2001, I really don’t know how many times Greer and Blue Ridge played basketball.”
Riley said this game is always emotional for his players.
“It’s always good to play a team like Greer because they’ve got a lot of ath-letes,” he said. “That’s the big things. They’re going to be ready to play and ready to scrap. They’re always well coached. You try to take the emotion away, but for these kids, it’s emotional.”
Neely and Riley have been going against each other for years, so scout-ing hasn’t really changed.
“We know each other pretty well,” Neely said. “He knows what we like to do and I know what he
likes to do. It’s always a good matchup.”
As the two teams get set to tip, a lot is on the line.
“It’s a big game for us,” Greene said. “(Courtney Robinson) is a good player. She’s going to get a certain number of points. You’re not going to shut her out, so we’ve got to respect that. We’ve got to focus on everybody and make sure they don’t get a bunch of good looks.”
Hardy said his team can expect another tight game.
“No matter what the talent level is, Greer and Blue Ridge is always com-petitive,” Hardy said. “For some reason, the teams just kick it into a higher gear and just play better and harder than any other game.”
CLUB: Athletes honored
RIVALRY: Matchup set
BY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR
Taylor Thompson has been stepping up for East-side, helping her team re-main undefeated in region competition.
Thompson has scored 48 points in the last three games, and for her efforts, The Greer Citizen and Ow-ens Insurance named her female Player of the Week.
“I help lead, but I’m not a captain,” the sophomore guard said. “I help keep the team positive. We know our freshmen are go-ing to hold their own while they’re in there, but when they make a mistake, I like to encourage them to keep their head up.”
Eastside has jumped out to a 5-0 record in confer-ence play, and Thompson said it is because of team
chemistry. “We’re a really good
team and we have good chemistry together,” she said. “If Jessica (Garling-
ton) isn’t having a high scoring game, then I can step in and have a high scoring game. And if I’m not doing well, I know she
will step up.”Thompson is no stranger
to the varsity hardwood.“I started varsity my
eighth grade year, so I kind of knew what I was getting into,” she said. “We know what competition we’re going to face so we’ve just got to play our hardest.”
To remain on top, Thompson said her team will need to keep battling.
“We’re just going to have to work our way up,” Thompson said. “Ev-erybody in our region is coming for us. We know we’re going to face teams like Southside, so for us to stay at the top, we’re go-ing to have to keep work-ing hard. We can’t become cocky because we’ll get beat.”
Jaylan Foster and Byrnes boys basketball team have already won 13 games this season, but they’re hoping for much more.
Foster was recently named MVP of the Dorman Christmas Classic, scoring 44 points in three games. For his performance, he has been selected as this weeks Greer Citizen/Ow-ens Insurance male Player of the Week.
Foster said he has been pleased with the team’s ef-fort so far this season.
“It’s great,” Foster said of the team’s strong start. “We’ve worked so hard and each year we take an-
other step forward. This year we just want to go all the way.”
On the court, Foster is the distributer.
“I’m just the point guard that gets everybody in-volved,” he said. “When it comes time, if we need somebody to score, that’s what I’ll do.”
With an athletic roster and a lineup filled with height, Foster said the most impressive thing about his team is their in-tensity.
“We’re athletic, but we play good defense,” he said. “We play hard and we like to get after it on the
defensive side of the ball.”Foster has also made a
name for himself on the gridiron, along with many of his teammates. Facing adversity in football has helped prepare the Rebels for what they’ll face in re-gion play, he said.
“It gives you the experi-ence against great players and great teams,” Foster said. “We know we have to come to work each game.
“Every game, you’ve got to go hard,” he said. “Ev-erybody is going to give you their best shot. You never know when some-body is going to play bet-ter than you so sometimes you’re going to have to fight from behind.”
Foster said while he hopes to be named to the all-region or all-state team, he is more focused on team goals.
“We have to keep work-ing to get better in prac-tice and in each game,” he said.
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Position: GuardAge: 15Class: Sophomore
Parents: Daisy and BrianAway from the game: Enjoys readingFavorite athlete: Maya MooreFavorite movie: Love and BasketballFavorite hobby: Enjoys watching basketballPre-game ritual: Listens to musicActress who would play you: Sanaa LathanFavorite song: Treat Me Like Somebody by Tink
The Greer Citizen
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
JAYL
AN FO
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#11
Position: GuardAge: 16Class: Junior
Parents: Tesha and WillieAway from the game: Enjoys hanging out with friendsFavorite athlete: Dez BryantFavorite movie: FridayFavorite video game: NBA 2K15Pre-game ritual: Listens to music, praysActor who would play you: Denzel WashingtonFavorite artist: Gucci Mane
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PLAYER OF THE WEEK
The Boston Red Sox have announced their mi-nor league coaching staffs for 2015, and some fa-miliar faces will be part of the Greenville Drive’s 10th season in Downtown Greenville.
Darren Fenster will re-turn to Greenville for his second season as man-ager, and he is joined by hitting coach Nelson Pau-lino, pitching coach Walter Miranda and head athletic trainer Satoshi “Toshi” Ka-jiyama.
Paulino and Kajiyama re-turn for their second con-secutive seasons in Green-ville, and Miranda returns to Greenville for the first time since 2007.
With the 2015 Drive coaching staff set, the Red Sox have insured that their highly acclaimed player development system is set to continue its winning ways as many of the orga-nization’s top prospects have the opportunity to play at Fluor Field at the West End.
With the Gulf Coast League Red Sox winning the league championship in 2014, and the Lowell Spinners posting a com-petitive season as well, the 2015 Drive should put an extremely competitive team on the field.
“The Red Sox are among the best in the game at scouting, drafting and de-veloping emerging major league talent,” said Drive General Manager Eric Ja-rinko. “Boston’s major league roster features a number of prominent players who have worn the Drive uniform over the
past nine seasons, rang-ing from a major league veteran like Clay Buchholz to exciting young players like Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts and Christian Vazquez. They serve as great examples of the ef-fectiveness of the Red Sox development system.”
The 36-year-old Fenster begins his second season at the helm of the Drive in 2015. This year will mark his fourth in the Red Sox organization, and his third in Greenville.
“I am thrilled to be headed back to Greenville and Fluor Field for the 2015 season to manage the Drive,” said Fenster. “There’s not a better city nor ballpark to call home in all of Minor League Baseball and I’m excited to get started.”
Fenster began his Red Sox coaching career as the Drive’s hitting coach in 2012, and under his watch, the Drive hit .263 as a team that season and finished among the league leaders in doubles (270, second), walks (519, thirrd), stolen bases (188, fourth) and on-base per-centage (.343, fifth).
Fenster received his first managerial nod in 2013 with the Gulf Coast League Red Sox, and he led the club to the league champi-onship series.
Before joining the Red Sox, Fenster spent six sea-sons on the staff of his alma mater, Rutgers Uni-versity, as the director of baseball operations and assistant coach.
Foster ignites Rebel win streak
BILLY CANNADA | THE GREER CITIZEN
Jaylan Foster, left, is named The Greer Citizen/Owens Insurance male Player of the Week. He is pictured with coach Adam McClain.
BILLY CANNADA | THE GREER CITIZEN
Taylor Thompson, left, is named The Greer Citizen/Owens Insurance female Player of the Week. She is pictured with coach Cindy DeHart.
Thompson leads the way for EHS
‘We’ve worked so
hard and each year
we take another
step forward. This
year we just want to
go all the way.’
Jaylan Foster
Drive announces changes for 2015
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The application for the J.E. Sirrine Scholarship, administered through Greenville County Schools, is now open at Greer High School.
Scholarships are award-ed based on merit and financial need. Students are encouraged to apply online. Individuals who would like a paper copy may see their counselor for an application.
The student’s applica-tion must be postmarked or submitted online by April 15. For more infor-mation, visit greenville.k12.sc.us/greerhs.
GREER HIGH BANDFUNDRAISER JAN. 24
The Greer High March-ing Band is having a fund-raiser on Saturday, Jan. 24 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the high school. All proceed go directly to the band.
It will be a mattress sale with all sizes. Styles in-clude pillow-top, orthope-dic, latex, memory foam and gel beds. All items are brand new with factory warranties.
EIGHTH GRADE IGP CONFERENCE SESSION
Eighth grade IGP con-ferences begin at Greer Middle School on January 27. Each eighth grader will receive an appointment letter for the student and parent/guardian to meet with guidance personnel.
Students will receive in-formation about courses for ninth grade, IB and Bonds Career Center and will choose a career clus-ter of interest. Contact Allison Rosemond, career specialist, with questions at 355-5860.
BREAKFAST PROGRAM RECEIVES RECOGNITION
Greenville County Schools’ Breakfast in the Classroom program has received national recogni-tion from the School Nu-trition Foundation.
Currently, Greenville County Schools has Break-fast in the Classroom programs at Alexander El-ementary, Grove Elemen-tary, Welcome Elementary, and Tanglewood Middle School. Monaview Elemen-tary and Armstrong El-ementary are scheduled to join the program in the near future.
Since implementing Breakfast in the Class-room, Urban says that reports from school ad-ministrators indicate im-provement in attendance, lower percentages of tardy students, fewer behavioral issues, and fewer trips to the school nurse.
D5 ALUMNI TO HEADLINE MLK CELEBRATION
Byrnes High School grad-uate Dr. James L. Moore III will return home to head-line Spartanburg’s MLK Unity celebration later this month.
Dr. Moore is a Distin-guished Professor of Ur-ban Studies at The Ohio State University. He’ll re-turn to the Upstate on MLK weekend to be the keynote
speaker at the Unity cele-bration at Twitchell Audi-torium in Spartanburg.
The event will be held on Monday, January 19, beginning at 6:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
WELLFORD STUDENTS GET NEW YEAR SURPRISE
Students from Wellford Academy are enjoying a late Christmas present thanks to their hard work.
On their first day back from the holiday break, students started a new unit in PE with 40 brand new basketballs they re-ceived from saving Camp-bell’s soup labels. The students earned enough points to redeem them for new PE equipment, which included the basketballs.
Saving labels and box tops is a great way to help your school. Anyone can donate these items to a District Five school in your community.
BYRNES HIGH ALUMNI COMPETED ON JEOPARDY
Byrnes High School grad-uate Verna Kale partici-pated on the game show Jeopardy last week.
Kale, who was salutato-rian of the Byrnes Class of 1995, fulfilled a lifelong dream by appearing on the Jan. 9 show, where she came in second place with $13,400.
In high school, Kale was captain of the Academic Team, and went on to com-pete in the College Bowl while attending the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the daughter of retired By-rnes English teacher, Paula Klim.
She is currently a Profes-sor of English at Hampden Sydney College in Virgin-ia.
RUNNIN REBELS TEAM SERVES COMMUNITY
A group of Byrnes High School students, and mem-bers of the Runnin Rebels basketball team, took time out to serve others during the recent holiday break.
Team members met to pack shoe boxes full of mini-basketballs, toys, candy sewing kits, tooth-brushes and toothpaste, and much more. Each box was then stuffed with a personal note from one of the players, wishing the re-cipient a Merry Christmas. The boxes were then sent to children in Kenya, Cos-ta Rica and the Dominican Republic.
The team then volun-teered at the District Five ministries “Christmas House”, loading cars with donated gifts for needy families in our own com-munity.
BERRY SHOALS STUDENTS SUCCEED IN SCIENCE FAIR
Fifth grade students at Berry Shoals Intermediate School recently showed off their science skills to compete in the school’s annual science fair. All 5th graders at the school are required to complete a project, and then enter it in one of several categories: Physics, Biology, Chemis-try, or General. Projects from each of the school’s three fifth grade halls were judged and the win-ners then competed in the school competition.
Congratulations to: An-gela Levasseur, Landon Wi-ant, Brendan Short, Lydia Gardner, Elijah Platt, Tom-my Harding, Alex Brown, Drake Downs, Calee Smith, Ava Wood, Rusty Lipford,
Lily Grace Mitchell, Jessica McAbee, Bailey Cromer, D.J. Lister, Justin Morrisey, Jean-Luc Robitaille, Jill Brown, Andrew Gergley, John Thomas Grant, and Noah Morano.
School winners will now go on to compete in the Region III Science Fair, held at USC Upstate.
WOFFORD’S ELSEY STUDIES ABROAD
Grace Elsey is studying abroad in England dur-ing Interim 2015. Elsey, a member of the class of 2015, is from Greer.
Interim permits stu-dents and professors to concentrate for the month of January on a single study project of his or her choosing. Interim proj-ects are designed to move beyond traditional class-room courses and teach-ing methods, to consider important topics in rel-evant ways and places, to observe issues in action, to develop capacities for independent learning, and to encourage the respon-sible self-direction of edu-cational development.
Wofford College, estab-lished in 1854, is an inde-pendent liberal arts col-lege of 1,650 students in Spartanburg, S.C. Wofford ranks 4th nationally in the percentage of under-graduates receiving credit for study abroad. Home to one of the nation’s 280 Phi Beta Kappa chapters, Wof-ford’s historic 175-acre campus is recognized as a national arboretum. Wof-ford is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
MATTHEWS NAMED TO BJU PRESIDENT’S LIST
Megan Matthews, a se-nior English Education major of Greer, was among approximately 450 Bob Jones University students named to the Fall 2014 President’s List.
This President’s List is the inaugural President’s List for Bob Jones Univer-sity. Prior to this semester, all students earning a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) qualified for the Dean’s List. The President’s List now recognizes those stu-dents who earn a 3.75 or higher GPA.
USC AIKEN FALL 2014 PRESIDENT’S, DEAN’S LIST
The University of South Aiken announces its Fall 2014 President’s and Dean’s Lists.
Students named to the Dean’s List must achieve a 3.50-3.99 grade point av-erage. The following area students were named to the Dean’s List:Greer
Jacob D. AndrewsHaley P. Winetroub
SCC ANNOUNCES FALL 2014 DEAN’S LIST
The following Spartan-burg Community College students have earned dean’s list honors for fall term 2014.Campobello
Micheal E. AtkinsAbigail B. BelueMelissa A. BrackettElijah T. BurrellMadison ChaneyLogan M. CollinsLisa C. ConnerMax D. GilbertKristina L. KazadaevLjudmila L. KazadaevNatasha L. KazadaevSvetlana L. KazadaevRay MimsAriel L. NewellAaron B. Owenby
Ashley R. ParrisOlga V. RadionDanielle E. RegoniJoshua S. SatterfieldMorganne L. WilsonCheyenne M. Zucchero
DuncanElizabeth A. CaldwellNoah D. DonahueJerry D. FullerCarol A. GilbertMarissa F. KenneallyXaitao C. LyRuslan A. MakovchikMatthew C. McKinneyJoshua B. ParkerTyler R. RichardLindsey T. SudduthKelly L. Valencia
GreerWilliam T. FreemanRandy W. Hawkins, Jr.Lucas T. PolinRobert L. ShillingburgJesse W. SparveriRobin M. Willis
LandrumLandon C. AlexanderLauren N. BergCourtney R. BlackwellJoshua T. Howard
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Caitlin B. FaulkLiliya FedorchenkoYelena S. GrabelnikNathan S. HowardJoseph B. KameesJuliann R. MatsonKayla M. McDonaldMary K. MorganAmanda J. PattonKenneth F. PhillipsJennifer R. St. Louis
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WellfordKaylynn B. BradleyKoua M. HerAbigail L. JohnsonDustin E. OwnbyBranson R. SolesbeeRegistration is going on
now for spring semester 2015 which begins Janu-ary 12. Interested indi-viduals can apply online at www.sccsc.edu, or contact any SCC location for assis-tance.
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Three Bob Jones Uni-versity Cinema graduates recently received awards in the 2014-15 Intercol-legiate National Religious Broadcasters (iNRB) Stu-dent Production Awards Competition.
This is the second year BJU students have entered projects in the iNRB com-petition and the second year they have won at least one award.
Marc Pagliuca of Greer tied for first place in the short film contest with his project titled “The Un-speakable.”
Justin Kelley of Green-ville won second place in
the documentary category with “Rupert.”
Stephen Pettit of Henri-co, Virginia placed third in the documentary category with “Johnathan’s Very Own.” All three students graduated from BJU in 2014 and entered their se-nior capstone project into the competition.
Each student wrote and directed his own film, the culmination of four years of work in the cinema de-partment, with guidance from BJU’s cinema fac-ulty. Student film projects are judged on a variety of criteria including artistry, originality, production
techniques and how the project furthers a Judeo-Christian purpose or goal.
“We believe our students
do excellent film work, and it’s gratifying to see others recognize the same ability in them, especially
in the Christian media community,” said cinema department head Sharyn Robertson.
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BARE CERAMIC EXHIBIT AT TECH
The Department of Vi-sual and Performing Arts at the Benson campus of Greenville Technical College is pleased to an-nounce an exhibition of recent works by ceramic artist Daniel Bare through Feb. 20 with a gallery talk on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 4:30 p.m.
Bare’s practice explores a range of ceramic relat-ed processes, including thrown and altered func-tional wares, experimen-tal post-consumer fused ceramic sculptures, and large–scale wet slip clay collaborative installations. These sculptural and in-stallation works examine the impact of overproduc-tion, consumption, and disposal of resources and its resulting ecological im-pact.
The gallery is located at Greenville Technical Col-lege Benson Campus, Hwy 290, 2522 Locust Hill Road in Taylors. It is open Mon-day-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The exhibition and gallery talk are free and open to the public.
‘THE CIVIL WAR’ OPENS AT CHAPMAN CENTER JAN. 16
One hundred and fifty years after a divisive war rocked our nation, the di-verse voices of Americans whose lives were forever changed by that conflict come vividly to life by The Spartanburg Little Theatre in “The Civil War: The Mu-sical.” Opening January 16 and running for seven performances through January 25 at Chapman Cultural Center, “The Civil War” takes its audience on a heroic and heart-wrench-ing journey through time.
The musical, which fea-tures contemporary Amer-
ican genres like country, rock, gospel, folk, and R&B, expresses a unique and modern perspective on this historical tragedy. Its songs explore the lives of the soldiers and lead-ers who fought in the war, the stories of the families they left behind, and the hopes and fears of the slaves whose freedom was at stake.
Tickets for The Civil War can be purchased by calling Chapman Cultural Center’s box office at (864) 542-2787 or by ordering online at ChapmanCultur-alCenter.org.
WOODTURNING DEMOJAN. 17 IN ASHEVILLE
The Carolina Moun-tain Woodturners and the Southern Highlands Craft Guild will sponsor a woodturning demonstra-tion by Mark Gardner on Saturday, Jan. 17, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville.
Demonstrations by world-class turners are planned for the third Sat-urday of each month, ex-cept for April on the sec-ond and September on the fourth. For information, call John Hill at 828-712-6644 or visit www.carolin-amountainwoodturners.org.
FICTION ADDICTION HOSTS BOOK SEMINAR
Writing a book on your bucket list? Already have a manuscript but don’t know what to do next? Wonder-ing if self-publishing is a good option for you?
Join book industry vet-erans Vally Sharpe, pub-lisher of the highly popu-lar children’s book “Mice on Main” (Linda Kelly and Zan Wells) as well as other Greenville favorites, and Fiction Addiction own-er Jill Hendrix on Thurs-day, Jan. 29, and learn ev-erything you need to know about publishing, launch-ing, and promoting books.
Five cultural arts organi-zations at Chapman Cul-tural Center will offer a student day camp, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., on Monday, Feb. 16, which is a countywide teacher workday. Students have the day off from school, and many working
parents need options for their children.
Go Pro! will be a fun-filled day that provides children experiences with professionals from a vari-ety of arts and humanities disciplines. Campers will hang out with a hip hop performer, create a large work of art together, learn about archaeology, meet professional performers, and learn the art of Kumi-himo, a Japanese braiding technique.
Children ages 6-8 and 9-12 will spend the day ro-tating through programs at Ballet Spartanburg, Art-ists’ Guild of Spartanburg, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and Spartan-burg Regional History Mu-seum.
Parents can register their children on Spartanburg Art Museum’s website or in person at the museum front desk. Cost is $50 per camper, and there is a sib-ling discount. For more in-formation, please contact Spartanburg Art Museum at (864) 582-7616 or visit spartanburartmuseum.org.
GUITARIST PERFORMS AT SUNDAYS UNPLUGGED
Chapman Cultural Cen-ter is a premier destina-tion to relax on Sunday afternoons, 1-5 p.m., with arts and cultural activities. Its Sundays Unplugged program allows patrons free admission to most museums and galleries with a free concert by a local musician, 2-4 p.m. Folk and newgrass artist Ary performs this Sunday, Jan. 18.
Rachel Fleming, also known by her stage name Ary, describes herself as “fairly new to the music scene,” but has already been signed to McFearlis Music, LLC, a locally based label that specializes in original and cutting-edge sounds. Ary is a guitarist who performs both folk and “newgrass,” or pro-gressive bluegrass.
For more information call (864) 542-ARTS or email [email protected].
BILL HALEY’S COMETS AT NEWBERRY OPERA HOUSE
The Newberry Opera House will host Bill Haley & His Comets on Friday, Jan. 16. It is a show sure to heat up a cold winter’s evening.
The American rock and
roll band was founded in 1952 and continued un-til Haley’s death in 1981, and now original and new member’s tour with the original charts, doing the songs which changed the American musical land-scape. The band is now led by original bass and trum-pet player, Al Rappa.
Call the Newberry Opera House Box Office at 803-276-6264 or visit www.newberryoperahouse.com.
SC CHILDREN’S THEATRE SHOWS ‘FANCY NANCY’
The South Carolina Chil-dren’s Theatre will present “Fancy Nancy The Musical” Jan. 30-Feb. 8 at the Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre.
Nancy and her friends are excited to dance in the school recital, but when she is denied the role of her dreams, the story takes an unexpected twist. Nancy realizes that when she uses her imagination, being fancy comes in many forms.
Performance times are Fridays, Jan. 30 and Feb. 6, at 7 p.m.; Saturdays, Jan. 31 and Feb. 7, at 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.; and Sun-day, Feb. 1, at 1:30 p.m.
and 5:30 p.m.; and Sun-day, Feb. 8 at 1:30 p.m. For more information, visit scchildrenstheatre.org or call 467-3000.
GREER OPRY HOUSE HOLDS LINE DANCING
“Classic Country Band” with Ed Burrell at is at 8 p.m. each Saturday night at the Greer Opry House. Admission is $9. There will be free line dancing from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
STOMPING GROUNDS HOLDS JAM SESSION
Stomping Grounds hosts “Old Time Jam with Bob Buckingham”, every first and third Tuesday of the month. Buckingham in-vites anyone who has a banjo, guitar, bass, fiddle, etc. to come and jam from 7-9 p.m. Even if you don’t play, come listen to this group of musical folks. Ccall Bob at 423-5576.
Stomping Grounds now has a Celtic Ses-sion 7-9 p.m. every other Wednesday. This is an open session to Irish/ Scottish folk music and anyone can participate. Call Alan Dillman at 828-329-2640.
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PICKS OF THE WEEK“Fury” (R) — Sgt. Collier
(Brad Pitt) — or Wardaddy, as he is called — has led his tank crew through car-nage of World War II, all the way from North Africa to Germany. “Fury” is the name of their Sherman tank, manned by Wardad-dy, “Bible” (Shia Lebouf), “Gordo” (Michael Pena) and an uncouth hillbilly called “Coon-Ass” (Joe Bernethal). Near the end of the war, the hardened crew gets a fresh-faced typist (Logan Lerman) as a new assistant driver. His first task: find his seat and wipe up the remains of his predecessor.
Director David Ayer (best known for gritty crime dramas like “Train-ing Day” and “End of Watch”) shows battle in brutal intensity. It’s a grim affair, but the mood and tone match the severity of what’s going on. The mov-ie shows heroism in war without chest-beating or draping itself in a flag.
“The Book of Life” (PG) — This animated feature mixes pop culture and Mexican folklore to make an adventure about life, death, love and goofi-ness. Manolo (voiced by Diego Luna) is a passion-ate young guitarist who’s competing with a narcis-sistic soldier (Channing Tatum) for the love of the fairest — and toughest — young lady in town. This love triangle has the atten-tion of the gods of the af-terlife, setting up Manolo for an adventure through the worlds of the dead.
The mythology of the movie is a lot of fun, es-pecially the colorful and exciting “Land of the Re-membered.” The film was produced by Guillermo del Toro, and his fantasti-cal and ghoulish sensibil-ity is reflected here. Last year was a good year for animated flicks, and this one ranks among the best in its class.
“The Judge” (R) — This family/courtroom super-drama reaches out for a hug while smothering your face with pages of old Grisham novels. Hank (Robert Downey Jr.) plays a big-city lawyer who jour-neys back to his unloved small-town roots for his mother’s funeral. Hank’s father (Robert Duvall) is a judge — and windbag — who has ruled his small-town Indiana courtroom for decades. Just as the family tension thickens, Judge Father is arrested for a hit-and-run homicide. In his desperate hour, the high-and-mighty patriarch must rely on his son’s de-fense.
“Art and Craft” — For years, the most prolific art forger in U.S. history got hundreds of fakes into museums and collections. His forgeries looked mas-terful, and he mimicked the works of artists from a wide array of styles and eras. Most of his art sup-plies were things you could pick up at Wal-Mart. He lied and schemed to pass off his work as the originals, but he never re-ally made any money do-ing it. He wasn’t trying to. This documentary sits down with the unassum-ing middle-aged man, and puts light on a surprising human story.
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If you are one of the four million Ameri-cans that read Lauren
Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken,” you know it’s hard to imagine a more harrow-ing, inspirational and American story. Louie Zamperini’s voyage from the California streets to the Olympic track alone would have been enough material for a pretty good film. But it was the tor-ment that nature handed him on the high seas and the Japs meated out in their WWII prison camps that made Zamperini one of the all-time American heroes.
Adapting his amazing story for the big screen was a project that offered both pitfalls and possi-bilities for Angelina Jolie. In her first big-budget directorial debut, the famous actress comes away a winner. Though Jolie and screenwriters Joel and Ethan Cohen tell the narrative mostly in traditional, by-the-numbers fashion, it has enough sweeping cinema-tography, thrilling scenes and powerful moments to resonate with viewers.
Essentially, the film has three chapters. The first chronicles the action Louie (played convincingly by Jack O’Connell) saw in the Pacific arena during his days as an Air Force bombardier. These scenes are spliced with flash-back sequences in which we see our protagonist blossoming into a track
star. Chapter 2 deals with Louie and his crewmates’ six-week ordeal at sea after crashing into the middle of the Pacific. And Chapter 3, the longest and best, focuses on our hero’s tortuous months in prison camp, where he is subjected to endless punishment by a sadistic Japanese guard (a superb Takamasa Ishihara).
The first half of “Unbro-ken” plays like an early ’60s war flick. There is hardly any swearing or gore and the look of the film is as polished as a pair of soldier shoes. In these sequences, both grit and characterization remain minimal, while everyone and everything appears prettier than it should.
It’s in the prison camp chapter that Jolie hits her stride, recreating the hellish experience in vis-ceral detail. Though the bruises, cuts and emaci-ated physiques clearly convey the soldiers’ physical misery, Jolie blends tight close-ups with Roger Deakins’ spec-tacular overhead shots to demonstrate the psycho-logical toll.
The sheer malnutrition and monotony produce an environment of learned helplessness that makes our hero’s refusal to back down all the more amaz-ing.
KORYATA’S NEW NOVEL A SUBPAR SURVIVAL STORY
Rating: 5 out of 10
I don’t care much for today’s novels, but oc-casionally I’ll pluck one off the shelf to see if I’m missing anything.
When I picked up Michael Koryata’s “Those Who Wish Me Dead” at a bookstore several months ago, the elaborate cover and plot synopsis were compelling enough to get my attention. The story follows a 13-year-old who accidentally witnesses a murder and must go immediately into hiding. Child protection experts feel his best chance of evading and/or surviv-
ing his hitmen is to flee to a survival camp for troubled boys in the mountains of Montana. There, his life is entrusted into the hands of survival-ist teacher and his wife. As you might guess, the killers eventually catch up to him and all hell breaks
loose. The book’s heart-pound-
ing start got my hopes up, but Koryata soon resigns himself to conventional melodrama, one-dimen-sional characters and improbable plot develop-ments. There are a few redeeming virtues. The sociopathic brothers, for instance, make memora-ble villains, and the novel stays mildly entertaining all the way through. You might even pick up some helpful survival tips if you’re ever in the woods and need to start a fire (or flee from one).
Apart from that, though, Koryata’s work is an easy read with little payoff – another reason not to judge a book by its cover.
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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Rick was put on the spot when Maya asked him if he truly loved her or was he just using her to get back at Caroline. Regard-less of Caroline’s unwaver-ing desire to reunite with Rick, Ridge advised her against fighting a losing battle. Ridge then pointed out to Caroline that there were no more reasons why they couldn’t pursue a relationship together. Ivy and Aly connected through their family’s history and shared some laughs at Rick and Maya’s expense. Having reached a new crossroad in their re-lationship, Rick and Maya spent a romantic evening between the sheets. Carter was still reluctant to be-lieve Maya’s relationship was genuine. Wait to See: Spencer Publications has new management.
DAYS OF OUR LIVESClyde dropped another
bomb on Jordan about the death of her mother. Hope started to realize that she was not getting the full story from Aiden. A venge-ful Eve was tempted to tell Jennifer that she had sex with JJ. John made a big career change. Eve sug-gested to Paige that they leave Salem. Melanie and Brady agreed not to tell anyone they were plan-
ning to date ... but the cat was out of the bag when someone caught them kissing. Nicole and Serena got into a heated exchange at the opening of Victor’s new club. Wanting to get Brady out of her system, Theresa set her sights on a new man. Will tried to reach out to Paul. Adrienne spent time with Lucas and found herself laughing for the first time in ages. JJ made a stunning confes-sion to his mother. Wait to See: Nicole and Serena get into a physical altercation.
GENERAL HOSPITALRosalie was in cahoots
with someone who urged her to get Michael out of the old Spencer house. “Fluke” had a warning for Johnny. Nikolas ques-tioned Helena about her underling and business
partner. Sonny instructed Shawn to follow “Fluke” in order to determine his true identity. Anna en-couraged Jordan not to blow her cover. Meanwhile, Sloane questioned Dante and Nathan about Anna’s confidential informant. Despite Dante’s warnings to stay away from his wife, Johnny had a business proposal for Lulu. Michael asked Lucas if he would be interested in running his new clinic. Elizabeth inter-rupted Jake as he prepared to carry out Helena’s latest task. Wait to See: Johnny runs into Maxie.
THE YOUNG ANDTHE RESTLESS
Kevin asked Mariah to be honest about what she wanted. Nick confided in Avery. Devon learned some surprising news about Neil and Hilary. Vic-tor asked Jack why he was bringing up Adam’s name out of the blue. Austin accepted a new job offer. Phyllis made a shocking discovery. Nikki struggled with her sobriety and then lashed out at Victor. Adam feared Chelsea was slip-ping further and further away. Ashley wasn’t happy to see Victoria show up to the lab with Stitch. Sharon made a fresh start. Lauren and Michael decided to tell their friends that Michael was battling cancer. Wait to See: Avery reminisces about her past with Joe.
DEAR DR. ROACH: I have just returned from seeing my doctor, and was told that the cause of what I experienced is a mys-tery!
In the late afternoon, my husband and I were sit-ting at the kitchen table. He noticed that a bruise was forming on my right temple -- a dime-size purple mark, with a bump near the hairline. Over the next few hours the bruise grew larger, with red dis-coloration down the right side of my face, to the jaw. I had not been injured in any way, and it did not hurt! I called a 24-hour advice nurse, and was told I probably had broken a blood vessel.
The next day, I called my doctor for an appoint-ment, just to be on the safe side, but my doctor didn’t have anything to look at. When I got up, all the bruising and discolor-ation was gone! She told me that there would still be some discoloration if it had been a broken blood vessel, so therefore it was a mystery. -- C.C.
ANSWER: I agree with the nurse that it likely was a broken blood vessel, which can happen sponta-neously to anyone. Once the blood is under the skin, it gets cleaned away by cells with enzymes that break down the blood. The color typically goes from dark red to green to yel-low. This way, we can tell approximately how old a
bruise is.Very superficial bleed-
ing also can move, as the blood literally gets pulled by gravity (which is why you had a darkening down to the jaw). I suspect that while asleep, the remain-der got pulled into the hairline or lower down, where it could no longer be seen.
Many people have come down with another mysteri-ous illness, chronic fatigue syndrome. The booklet on it explains the illness and its treatment. To obtain a copy, write: Dr. Roach -- No. 304W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.
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DEAR DR. ROACH: Are men less likely to wash their hands after using the bathroom (for any reason) than women? Are there any studies provid-ing statistics? I “preach” hand-washing as the sin-gle greatest preventive for most illness. -- L.P.
ANSWER: If you can think of it, it’s probably been studied. In 2003, a study at a university found that after using the wash-room, women washed their hands with soap and wa-ter 61 percent of the time, and men 37 percent of the time. Placing a reminder sign increased the rate to 97 percent of women, but only 35 percent of men washed their hands with the reminder, although 53 percent rinsed their hands without soap.
Keeping hands clean re-duces infection transmis-sion to yourself and to others. Unfortunately, too often even doctors forget to wash our hands (only 65 percent of the time, in several studies). Our nurs-ing colleagues are better at washing their hands. Many hospitals, including mine, have policies in place to improve hand-washing compliance.
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