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KERSHAW – Jamie Miller's spe-cialty store takes shoppers on a trip down memory lane while also allowing them to show American loyalty, in an economic sense.

Miller, a Lancaster native, opened Carolina Pickin' in May in the town of Kershaw. The down-town Hampton Street store has two purposes – to provide space for local vendors to sell crafts, an-tiques and various other collect-ibles, and to have a section in the store that offers products only made in the United States.

“The idea came to me: We need a place to go and shop for things available in the United States, in one location,” said Miller, who's been selling antiques for 13 years at a store in Waxhaw, N.C.

Opening the store Miller, who worked about 25

years for Springs Industries, found himself unemployed off and on for about three years between 2008 and 2012. When thinking about what to do next, he decided to open a store inside the Hampton Street building, which he owns.

The space used to be home to Little Valley Antiques, which closed this spring.

Nowadays, Carolina Pickin' is accented by the antiques, wares and collectibles of 10 local vendors – many of whom with their own distinct area inside the store.

Handmade jewelry, scarves, fig-urines, and glassware are just some of the goods available.

Miller also sells his own items there. Some – such as a Revolu-tionary War-era wooden cannon loader – are literal blasts from the past.

“You can get your history lesson while you're here,” she Kershaw resident Linda Callentine, who also runs a business on Hampton Street. “It brings back a lot of child-hood memories.”

With the exception of rare items like the cannon loader, most of the items sell for $100 or less, with many being under $10.

Thinking American A walk toward the store's rear

takes you to the “Made in America” section – an area that appears like a mini all-purpose store. There are cleaning supplies, toys, personal-hygiene items and school supplies, just to name a few.

All are located on aisles just a few short feet from each other. And more importantly, for Miller, all are made in the United States – some even produced in the Carolinas.

Good Sense is one of the brand names that appear on many of the items. That line is a subsidiary of Proctor & Gamble.

Miller said buying those items will support local enterprise as well as the national economy – an ap-proach that combats outsourcing.

“I really wish people would shop locally first,” Miller said. “That's what it's going to take to get this country back where it need to be.”

Angel Vail, one of Miller's ven-dors, believes he's doing a great thing.

“People say we need to buy American,” she said. “Jamie has put his money where his mouth is.”

Miller said business hasn't been as strong as he'd like, though he believes things will pick up as the word gets out.

“I”m just trying to make a differ-ence,” he said.

Carolina Pickin' is located at 122 N. Hampton St., Kershaw. The phone number is (803) 475-7584.

Contact reporterJesef Williams at (803) 283-1152

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Business Business | (803) 283-1155Wednesday, October 10, 20126A

Funeral home garners award

McLean Funeral Direc-tors, which has a funeral home in Lancaster, has re-cently been honored by the National Funeral Directors Association with its most prestigious recognition – the 2012 Pursuit of Excel-lence Award, according to a news release.

Only 164 firms in the world earned this award, placing McLean Funeral Directors home among the top two percent of funeral-service providers globally.

To earn this award, McLean Funeral Directors had to demonstrate a com-mitment to providing ex-ceptional service to griev-ing families and giving back to their community through unique outreach programs, while adhering to the highest ethical and professional standards.

McLean Funeral Direc-tors, which is based in Gas-tonia, N.C., bought Ma-haffey-Wilson Funeral Home & Cremation Center earlier this year.

Krispy Kreme hiring for new Rock Hill store opening soon

Above are crafts for sale inside a vendor’s display area in the store. Below, Miller holds one of his antique items for sale – a wooden can-non loader that’s believed to have been used during the American Revolution.

PHOTOS BY JESEF WILLIAMS/[email protected]

Jamie Miller stands beside some of the American-made products inside his store, Carolina Pickin’, which opened in May in Kershaw. Ten local vendors also sell their crafts and other goods inside the store.

Downtown Kershaw

store off ers unique mix

Antiques & U.S.-Made Goods

From release

In advance of its planned mid-November opening, Krispy Kreme is seeking 40 new team members to staff its Rock Hill store. Online applica-tions are now being accepted at www.sweetplacetowork.com.

The new Krispy Kreme Doughnut Factory will be located at 1525 Cela-nese Road, Suite 101, Rock Hill. An exact opening date has not yet been confirmed.

“Krispy Kreme has been a leader in sharing delicious tastes and creating joyful memories for 75 years and we are looking for team members with passion and a commitment to service with a smile,” said campany official Cindy Bay. “Becoming a team member at Krispy Kreme is not just a grati-fying career choice. Once you put on our signature uniform, you instantly

become part of a warm and friendly family.”Full- and part-time team member, production specialist and shift su-

pervisor positions are now available. Qualified applicants must apply online at www.sweetplacetowork.com for the opportunity to receive a scheduled in-person interview.

The approximately 2,300-square-foot location with a drive-thru will feature more than a dozen varieties of Krispy Kreme’s one-of-a-kind doughnuts, including the signature hot Original Glazed®, as well as a complete menu of Chillers®, iced beverages and Krispy Kreme signature coffee blends.

Expected hours of operation are Monday through Sunday, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Auto Exteriors open for business

Russell Freeman opened Auto Exteriors LLC at 105 Chesterfield Ave. Hours of operation are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For details, call (803) 342-2920.

The Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Lancaster pro-gram provides an education into the past, present and future of Lancaster County. In fact, since its inception 25 years ago, more than 500 Lancaster County business/government leaders have graduated from this pro-gram as informed, commit-ted, and qualified residents who can provide dynamic business, community and government leadership.

Open to Lancaster County residents and members of the business community, Leadership Lancaster offers history, education, leader-ship, health care, business and economic develop-ment, social services, gov-ernment and law enforce-ment in seven all-day monthly sessions. The pro-gram also includes special “retreats.”

Registration is now open for the 25th edition, which begins in November. Total fee for the program is $600 for Chamber members; $650 for non-members. This covers all program expens-es, including speaker costs, retreat lodging, meals, etc. For details or an applica-tion, call (803) 283-4105.

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EducationEbriefs

ducation

School menus

Elementary/middle Meals: Breakfast, students $1, adults $2; lunch: elementary students $1.60, middle school students $1.90, adults $3.50Off ered daily: Fresh fruit or juice, chef salad with crackers, 1/2 pint milk; extra milk, 30 centsMonday: Chicken rings or nug-gets, chef salad with crackers, baked potato rounds, broccoli fl orets with ranch drip, fruit, rollTuesday: Ham and cheese sand-wich or chef salad with crackers, chicken or turkey rice soup, sweet potato fries, peachesWednesday: Beef taco pie or chef salad with crackers, Mexicali corn, pinto beans, pearsTh ursday: Students’ choiceFriday: Pepperoni pizza or chef salad with crackers, tossed salad, potato smiles, pineapplees

High school Meals: Breakfast, students $1, adults $2; lunch: students $1.90, adults $3.50Off ered daily: Grab & Go and hot wings boxes, pepperoni pizza, chef salad/crackers, french fries, tossed salad, fruit and milk; extra milk, 30 cents Monday: Chicken sandwichTuesday: Ham and cheese sandwich, creamy potatoes, green beanWednesday: Spaghett i, green limasTh ursday: Students’ choiceFriday: Sub sandwich

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Sims named high school scholar

Haley N. Sims of Heath Springs has been selected

for mem-bership into The Nation-al Society of High School Scholars, which rec-ognizes top scholars and stu-

dents who have achieved academic excellence. The announcement was made by NSHSS founder and Chairman Claes Nobel, a member of the famiy that established the Nobel Priz-es.

“I am honored to recog-nize the hard work, sacri-fice and commitment that Haley has demonstrated to achieve this level of aca-demic excellence,” Nobel said.

Membership in NSHSS entitles qualified students to enjoy scholarship op-portunies and academic competitions.

IL band fruit saleThe Indian Land band is

taking orders for its annual fruit sale. Orders may be placed through Nov. 25 on-line at www.indianland-band.com or through any IL band student. Proceeds help buy instruments, mu-sic and other items. If you have questions, contact Kathryn Burch at (803) 370-5930 or [email protected].

Reece Murphy [email protected] County School Dis-

trict’s director of maintenance said plans for the new elementary school in Indian Land are on track for groundbreaking early next year.

Maintenance Director David Small said district officials are working closely with district per-sonnel, the school’s architectural firm and the S.C. Department of Education to fine tune and final-ize plans for the school.

The about-100,000-square-foot pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade school is to be built on Har-risburg Road.

“At this point, we’re having meetings with various people in

the district, such as food services and IT, identifying what our needs are,” Small said, “Things like what we want as far as square footage for each grade ... the kitchen and cafeteria.

“The state pretty much has the requirements as far as what you have to provide in the school, but if you want anything more than that, you have to tweak it and make it like you want it,” he said.

The new school is to be built on 26.5 acres across the street from the BridgeHampton neighbor-hood. It will serve students located in the top of the Panhandle, north of Fort Mill Highway (S.C. 160).

The school board approved the new school last year to relieve severe overcrowding at Indian

Land Elementary School. The district is aiming to open the $15.1 million school in time for the 2014-15 school year.

Small said as of Oct. 15, barring any unlikely disapproval by the S.C. Department of Education, the school district is on track as planned.

“They are tentative dates, but that’s our goal,” Small said. “We’re hoping by mid- to late January, somewhere around there, to send out bids for construction and hopefully, to break ground in March.

“The good thing about it is ev-erybody is involved from the su-perintendent on down,” Small said. “We’ve formed a committee and there are principals, district

staff and board members work-ing on the plans.”

The school board closed on the Harrisburg Road property and approved a prototype school lay-out at its July 31 meeting.

The basic layout is an “E-plan” designed to be modified and ad-justed to meet the school’s spe-cific site needs and expectations for growth. The district plans to build the school initially to edu-cate 1,000 children with built-in expansion room for another 300 students.

The school’s plans, designed by Moseley Architects in Ballantyne, allow for further expansion, if needed.

Contact reporter Reece Murphy at (803) 283-1151

New elementary school plans on track

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PHOTOS BY AARON MORRISON/[email protected]

Above, sixth-grader Ashlynn Langley, 11, checks out the first chapter of adventure novel “The 39 Clues” at South Middle School’s book fair Sept. 26. Below, from left, sixth-grader Barickus Culp, 11, dives into a guide on magic tricks; Sergio Vazquez, 11, reads a portion of author Mike Lupica’s “Million Dollar Throw;” and Anari Price, 11, gets lost in a book from Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series.

Book Fair Attracts New Readers

From releaseFour teenagers were crowned

winners in the Lancaster District of AME Zion Churches’ eighth annual Youth Oratorical Expose on Sept. 22.

Thirteen youth participated in the contest, which was held at El Bethel Zion Church and coordi-nated by Mary C. Christian, president of the Lancaster AME Zion District Missionary Depart-ment, and Jessie J. Shannon, la-ity of Mt. Tabor Church.

In the senior division, first-place winner was Lancaster High School student Sha’Ron Brunson of Mt. Tabor Church and second-

place winner was Egypt Ray of St. Paul Church. In the junior division, first-place winner was Indian Land Middle School stu-dent DeVeon Hayden of Gold Hill and second-place winner was Shamanya Jackson of David

Stand Church. Each contestant was given

four topics to choose from. The topics ranged from issues on bullying to politics to other so-cial issues.

The contest, which included

training sessions on research and speech development, pro-vided a forum for youth to be-come more effective communi-cators. The contestants were rated by a panel of judges on re-search and speech content, or-ganization, delivery and effec-tiveness of presentation. The top winners received monetary gifts sponsored by local business leaders.

Other participants included Aalyhia Young, Crystal Johnson, Keeli Lake, James Gregory, Jr., Keyatta Garris, DaRon Massey, Marquitta Evans, Olivia Billings and Da’Shawn Bethea.

Four teens win local youth oratorical contest

Brunson Ray Hayden Jackson

Sims

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Different types of plastic bottles are treated differently. Bottles used tohold oil have to be specially rinsed and cleaned before being recycled.

Recyclables ride a conveyor belt to be sorted by type at the Sonoco

By Samantha LylesStaff Writer

[email protected]

Many folks don’t give athought to what happens totheir plastic soda or water bot-tle once the finish chugging thecontents, but, depending onhow you dispose of that bottle,the life of that base plasticmaterial continues on for manyyears, and in many ways.

If you litter: the bottlebecomes litter, baking in thesun and very slowly decompos-ing. Make that very, very slow-ly. Scientists using respirometrydegradation projections (basedon how slowly a substancereleases gases and rots) esti-mate that it could take 450years for a standard PET(Polyethylene terephthalate)

bottle to completely breakdown.

If you toss it in a water-way: the bottle degrades morequickly in the water and sun,growing brittle and breakinginto small pieces which looklike food to many fish andbirds. Ergo, the more plastichumans put in the water, thegreater the chance we willwind up eating our owngarbage – literally.

If the bottle is adventurous,it may wend its way out to a“Trash Island,” a gigantic massof plastic particulates floatingin the upper water columns ofthe North Atlantic, Pacific, andIndian Oceans. These plasticpatches are already killingthousands of fish and birdseach year (albatross on Midway

Island often plastic-feast them-selves to death), and estimatesindicate the patches – and themarine life casualties – aregrowing.

If you throw it in thetrash bin: the bottle usuallyends up in a landfill, packedwithin tightly compressed stra-ta of food scraps and otherhousehold garbage. With nomoisture or air reaching thetrash, it may become mummi-fied and not degrade at all, or itmay decompose... over thecourse of 1,000 years.

If you recycle it: the bot-tle’s life is extended and anynumber of fates could be instore. Most of the plastic col-lected in Darlington County issent to the SonocoManufacturing Recycling

Center in Columbia, where it issorted out into types. The moreuseful varieties, like PET andHDPE (High-DensityPolyethylene – such as milk ordetergent bottles) are smushedinto bales weighing 400 poundsper cubic yard and sold to plas-tic processors like DarlingtonCounty’s own Polyquest.

The plastic is then processedinto bolts of film or pellets andsold to manufacturers.

Your simple little plastic bot-tle could take on a new life asplush carpeting for your home(carpet companies are amongthe largest plastic recyclers), afleece top to keep you warmand toasty, or it could even bereincarnated as a plastic bottle– and the cycle begins all overagain.

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Travels of aplastic bottle

PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA LYLES

LITTERING WATERWAYS LITTERING HIGHWAYS FILLING TRASH CANS RECYCLING

RECYCLED INTO FLEECEPiles on compacted plastic bottles sit outside a warehouse waiting to be recycled. Most of the plasticcollected in Darlington County is sent to the Sonoco Manufacturing Recycling Center in Columbia.

TonyDiLeo,left, isseenherewith ashipmatein thePacificTheaterduringWorldWar II.

Tony DiLeo,bottom right,served in the

U.S. Navy1943-45

in the PacificTheaterduringWorld

War II.

This photoof TonyDiLeo isfrom his

high schooldays in

Chicago.

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RememberingTony DiLeo

Anthony ‘Tony’ Raymond DiLeo

Dec. 30, 1923 – May 13, 2012

lifestyles

LeadershipUntil You Spread Your Wings,

You’ll Have No IdeaHow Far You Can Fly

– Tony DiLeo

Tony and Marge moved to Darlington in 1965, raised afamily here and never looked back. Both were committedto serving the Darlington community. In the last fewyears, I truly grew to appreciate Tony DiLeo for unselfish-ly giving of himself and his many talents. He alwayswanted to be a part of any project that would better ourcommunity….

In the last few days I realized a sincere compassionTony had for others. Ronnie Ward and I visited him inthe hospital just five days before his death and withtears in eyes he repeatedly thanked us for coming.Darlington is a much better community because TonyDiLeo was a leader here for last 46 years.

DAVID VAUGHNDDRA Executive Director

Tony Dileo moved to Darlington in the mid 1960’s withPerfection Gear. After 44 years with the company, Tony retired

and in 1988 became manager of the Main Street Program,which later became known as theDarlington DowntownRevitalization Association (DDRA).Tony served as manager of DDRAfor 22 years, retiring in 2010.

As DDRA manager, Tony assistedthe City of Darlington and its mer-chants with façade improvements,streetscape grants, parking lot plans,beautification projects, economicdevelopment, infrastructure improve-ments, grand openings, ribbon cut-tings, promotions, and numerousother projects such as The Taste ofDarlington. Tony could also be seenon national holidays putting Americanflags around the square and checkeredflags around the square during racetime.

Tony DiLeo was the type of individ-ual who performed all of his dutieswith diligence and determination.When given a job, Tony would makeevery effort to complete it as soon aspossible in the best manner possible.Tony had an engineering and manufac-turing background and could drawplans and specifications with utmostdetail and precision. He was one of themost organized and detailed personsthat I have ever known. Tony wouldalways tell me that he was a product ofindustry and that things should be donecorrectly and accountably. He was a tire-less worker and had more energy thanpeople half his age. Tony was like theEnergizer Bunny; he just kept going andgoing. I thought he would probably outlive all of us.

Tony was active in the DarlingtonRotary Club, the Men’s Dance Club, theDarlington Country Club, and the

Darlington Family YMCA. He also loved his garden and enjoyedsharing its bounty with his family and friends.

Tony Dileo was a productive member of our community. Itold Tony on numerous occasions that, even though he movedto Darlington from the Chicago area, he loved Darlington anddid more for our community than most of us who have beenhere all of our lives. Tony will be greatly missed.

RONNIE WARDDarlington

If I could select someone for the Reader’s Digest,“Unforgetable Characters” it would be Tony. He was a high-energy man with a big heart. You could look at a picture ofthe YMCA and admire all our nice facilities. But what youcouldn’t see would be Tony’s “fingerprints” all over the place.By working with and connecting the dots Tony got us fitnessequipment, flowerbeds, nursery furniture, lined parkinglot… I could go on and on. The Y will miss and always bethankful to and for Tony DiLeo.

JAMES C WARDFormer Executive Director YMCA of the Upper Pee Dee

Tony DiLeoin 2010

From the early days of Perfection Gear in Harvey, Ill.,

near Chicago. Tony DiLeo worked as plant manager at

Perfection American for 44 years until his retirement.

Tony Dileo had been an active member of the Main StreetBoard and he applied for the job [as director]. He was amature person with experience in industry and proved to bean energetic and outspoken cheerleader for the downtown.Little did we know then that a quarter century later he wouldstill be as active and outspoken as ever. The Energizer Bunnyhad nothing on Tony DiLeo.

TONY WATKINSCity of Darlington Mayor

hile his contributions toDarlington are varied andnumerous, the World War II

U.S. Navy veteran held the community athis heart.

He saw no problem too big to over-come. He never looked upon anything asa problem only an opportunity. He wouldoften say, “‘It can’t be done’ is not in myvocabulary.’”

His singularly dynamic, kindly brandof optimism propelled him through town,working to build the downtown areathrough a variety of projects includingthe Liberty Lane Winston Walk of Fame;the renovation of the old fire station tohouse Our Pat; Christmas decorationsand lights around the courthouse;maintenance, sign and paint codes forcommercial buildings; the display of

American flags on six national holidays;and his assistance in the organization,fundraising or planning of many memori-als in Darlington and Society Hill,anniversary celebrations, streetscaping,landscaping and downtown developmentprojects.

He organized a Welcome HomeProgram for Desert Storm veterans andalso honored veterans of other conflicts;coordinated with civic clubs to installWelcome to Darlington signs at entrancesto the city; helped develop the DarlingtonYMCA in 2001; got signs for all the YMCAbuildings, organized grand opening andground breaking ceremonies; and servedon fundraising committees to build theDarlington YMCA, expand the Y andretire the debt.

Born in Chicago, Ill., on Dec. 30, 1923,

he was the son of the late Joseph DiLeoand Theresa Manes.

He leaves behind his wife, MargaretAnn Wells DiLeo; two sons, Anthony P.DiLeo of Tucker, Ga., and David A. DiLeoof Darlington; a daughter, Susan(Stephen) Gardner of Darlington; grand-children, Karin, Michael, Devon,Dominick, Joseph, Gabe and Kathy; onegreat granddaughter, Evi; a brother,Dominick DiLeo of Chicago, Ill.; and a sis-ter, Josephine Veselik of Chicago, Ill.

He also was a member of the RotaryClub since 1974 and served as presidentfor the 1986-87 year.

There are few projects untouched byMr. DiLeo, and his leadership inDarlington will be sorely missed.

Below are a memories shared by mem-bers of the community.

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By Lisa Chalian-RockEditor

[email protected]

Sue Josey of Darlington isfamous for a lot of things: col-lard greens, sweet potato pie,turnip soup, and barbecuesauce. A little bit of this, a lit-tle bit of that, and, viola, she’sgot a mouthwatering mealwith the skill of a master chef– and no measuring.

“I like to cook, and I likebarbecue,” says Josey, betterknow as Ms. Baby Ray.

In 1963, she began focusingon her barbecue sauce with herlate husband James, who wasnicknamed Mr. Baby Ray.

“My husband, he was intobarbecuing hogs, and he hadme helping him,” she says.Eventually the student sur-passed the master. “He was try-ing to teach me how, and then Igot to the place I could do it

better than he could.”As friends and family would

ask her to barbecue for differ-ent events and gatherings,she’s been perfecting her recipeover the last 40 years. “I’vebeen making it for years andyears,” Josey says.

After the passing of her hus-band, Sue perfected the saucealong with barbequing pork,and her barbeque and saucebecame known in the commu-nity as Ms. Baby Ray’sBarbeque.

“Everybody used to talkabout it,” Josey said. “Peopleenjoyed it, and I enjoyeddoing it.”

As she’s advanced in age,now 85, her 11 childrenthought the time had come topatent her sauce recipe and putit on store shelves. With theirhelp and more than three yearsof legal paperwork, she did justthat last summer as MaMa

Sue’s Bar-Be-Que Sauce. Now,Josey can direct family andfriends to local outlets for hersauce instead of making it her-self for every function.

It takes some two gallons ofsauce for a whole hog, butthat’s seems small when Joseymixes up batches of the spicyred sauce 19 gallons at a time.

While Josey developed it forwhole hog barbecue – her per-sonal favorite – a dash of thisvinegar sauce livens up justabout any pork, beef, chickenor fish.

“When people taste it,they’ll realize what they’remissing out on,” she says.

That’s also her slogan forthe sauce: Taste and See. Joseytook the motto from a piece ofscripture, Psalms 34:8, “Tasteand see that the Lord is good;blessed is the one who takesrefuge in Him.”

You can purchase the sauce

in Darlington at Bay IslandSeafood and DarlingtonPacking Company; in Lamar atShort Trip; in Hartsville at IGAon Fifth Street; and in Florence

at Sumter Street Grocery,Orangeland Seafood andNorthside Seafood.

To “Taste and See” for your-self, visit one of the locations

listed above, or, for additionalinformation about MaMa Sue’sBar-Be-Que Sauce, visitwww.MaMaSuellc.com or call(843) 713-6219.

‘Taste and See’ MaMa Sue’s Bar-Be-Que Sauce

Above, children look through eclipse glasses. At right, Francis Marion University assistant professor Dr. Jacob Moldenhauer gives the children a quick tour of the starry night sky during his presentation.

Francis Marion University student Keenan Stone showschildren how to use aCoronascope. PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA LYLES

The Darlington County LibrarySystem’s “Dream Big – Read!” summerreading series took kids on a light-speedtour of the universe as guest speaker Dr.Jacob Moldenhauer (a Francis MarionUniversity assistant professor who worksat the Dooley Planetarium) gave a pres-entation titled “The Stars at Night.”

With the aid of slides, movies, and 3-D models, Moldenhauer showedkids exactly how small our Earth iswhen compared to big brother planetslike Jupiter, then shocked the juniorastronomers by showing them starshundreds of times larger than our ownsun.

Moldenhauer and assistant KeenanStone then took the kids outdoors tosafely peer up at the sun through eclipseglasses, and get a closer look at thetumultuous star through a Coronascope.Judging by their enthusiasm, some ofthe young readers may have chargedback into the library in search of moreinformation – which is exactly whatMoldenhauer was hoping for.

“I’m hoping that they’ll read somebooks about astronomy and the starsand get a lot of enjoyment out of it like Idid when I was a kid, so that somedaymaybe it will be an interest or hobby oftheirs when they get older,” said Dr.

Moldenhauer. The Dooley Planetarium (located on

the FMU campus on the second floor ofthe Cauthen Educational Media Center)offers free programs for the public at 3p.m. on the second and fourth Sundaysof each month. For more information,call (843) 661-1381.

The Darlington Library summer read-ing program will conclude at 10 a.m.July 31 with a presentation by AlmaHarris of Clemson Extension at thelibrary, 204 N. Main St. Bring readinglogs for reading awards presentation.For information, call (843) 398-4940,ext. 305.

Dream Big – Read!

Sue Josey of Darlington sells her famous barbecue sauce in stores and online. PHOTO BY LISA CHALIAN-ROCK

C O M M U N I T YN E W S

Dr. David S. Wood, sen-ior vice president of aca-demic affairs and dean ofWofford College, hasannounced the Dean's Liststudents for the spring 2012semester.

From Hartsville: HollyElizabeth Brown, BettySuiter Coxe who achieveda 4.0 GPA, and Jacob LynnGodwin.

From Florence: FrancesMills Brown, MargaretMary Saverance,Constance EleanorSmith, and KimberlyMae Stauffer.

To be named to theDean's List, a student mustbe enrolled for at least 12semester hours of gradedcourses and attain a semes-ter grade point average of3.6 or higher.

Zachary Query ofFlorence was named to theDean's List for the spring2012 semester atWashington University inSt. Louis, Mo. Query isenrolled in the university'sSchool of Engineering andApplied Science.

To qualify for the Dean'sList, students must earn asemester grade point aver-age of 3.6 or above and beenrolled in at least 12 grad-ed units.

Dianne Dennis hasjoined the Wilson SeniorCare team as their Directorof Marketing. She joinsWilson Senior Care with 15years of experience in mar-keting and public relations.A graduate of FrancisMarion University, Dennispreviously served as thedevelopment director forthe Billie Hardee Home forBoys. She is a 2008Leadership DarlingtonCounty Graduate, a 2003Leadership FlorenceGraduate, a 2012 graduateof FMU’s Non-ProfitLeadership Institute, a grad-uate of South CarolinaEconomic DevelopersSchool, and a CertifiedGrant Writing Specialist.

Active in volunteer andcommunity activitiesDianne serves on theEpsilon Psi Chapter ofKappa Delta’s AdvisoryBoard, and is a pastPresident of the DarlingtonProfessional Women’s Club.She is also a member of PeeDee Business & ProfessionalWomen’s Network and afounding member ofBusiness NetworkInternational FlorenceLunchtime Leaders Chapter.She was awarded theDarlington ProfessionalWomen of the Year Awardfor 2012.

Dianne resides inFlorence with her husbandJay. They have a 2-year-olddaughter, Shelley-Gray.

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SECOND PLACE:Coastal ObserverCharles Swenson

Thursday Pawleys Island,January 26, 2012 COASTAL OBSERVER South Carolina

Every year going into the Souper Bowl, Joan Kreikemeier tells herself she’s coming home empty handed.After 12 years of volunteering for the event, a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity, she and her husband, Ken, al-

ready have quite a collection of the hand-crafted bowls the event is known for. They’re stacked in closets and hold soap and shampoo in every bathroom. Others are in the kitchen, reserved for special dips and treats. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

Story by Jackie R. Broach | Photos by Tanya Ackerman

The Habitat Habit


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been able to do as missionaries has re-ally been a blessing.”

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FridayOctober 5, 2012

GOOD MORNING!

Get the picture?

Can you tell us what and where this is? The first person who identifies it will get his or her name printed here next Friday. Call (803) 416-8410 to leave a message or e-mail your answer to [email protected]. Be sure to say you’re identifying the photo puzzler and the date it ran in the paper. Due to errors in our call-in line, we are giving another chance to guess last week’s puzzler.

LAURA CASKEY/[email protected]

Worth mentioningOctober 5 This day in history Golf

tournamentThere will be a Rally for

the Cure golf tournament at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 at Edgewater Golf Club, 2380 Catawba Ridge Blvd. The event will be a four-player captain’s choice, hadicapped event.

The cost is $50 per player for 18 holes and includes a cart, dinner and gift prizes. For details, call (803) 283-9800.

Community Honors Fest

The Community Honors Festival is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Lancaster County Farmer’s Market on S.C. 9, across

from the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office. Festival or-ganizers say the purpose of the event is to honor the lo-cal agencies that serve the community.

Participants include Lan-caster County EMS, Lan-caster County Sheriff’s Of-fice, Lancaster City Fire Commission, American Red Cross, Lancaster County Rescue Squad, S.C. High-way Patrol, HOPE In Lan-caster Inc. and Samaritan Purse (Operation Christmas Child sponsor.) Items will also be collected for HOPE in Lancaster Inc. The Lan-caster Farmer’s Market is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays starting at 7 a.m.

For details, call (803) 286-8371.

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◆ 1813 – The Battle of Thames takes place during the War of 1812. America defeats the British, losing Tecumseh in the process.◆ 1857 – The city of Anaheim, Calif. is founded by German grape farmers as “Annaheim,” meaning “home by the Santa Anna river.”◆ 1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that will stand until 1908.◆ 1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S Truman.◆ 1969- The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, one of England’s most famous sketch comedy shows, airs on BBC.◆ 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded, replacing National Education Television.◆ 1982 – Tylenol is recalled in the United States after several bottles in Chicago were laced with cyanide.

– Compiled by Laura Caskey

Melinda Myers

GardenTips

Fall care for healthy lawns

S ummer can be hard on our lawns. With much of the country

suffering from extreme heat and drought condi-tions this past summer, many lawns took a beat-ing.

Fall is the perfect time to help your lawn recover from the stressors of sum-mer and prepare for win-ter. The warm soil and cooler temperatures pro-mote root growth and thickening of the lawn.◆ Continue to mow the

lawn as long as it keeps growing. Mow high to en-courage deep roots and leave clippings on the lawn. The clippings addj nutrients and organic matter to the soil and do not cause thatch. There’s no need to cut the lawn shorter for winter unless you are in an area subject to winter diseases.◆ Mow, don’t rake,

those fall leaves. Mowing will save you time and improve your lawn. The leaves add organic matter and nutrients to the soil. As long as you can see the grass leaves through the shredded leaves, your lawn will be fine. You may also shred and collect the leaves in your bagger and add them to your compost, dig them into annual gardens to improve the soil or use them as mulch around perennials in the garden.◆ Consider core aera-

tion if your lawn is suffer-ing from compacted soil and thatch. Core aeration machines remove plugs of soil in the lawn, allowing air and water to reach and nourish the grass roots

From the mission field

into the classroom

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Eve Brooks, right, with her husband, Mike, served as missionaries in both Africa and Indonesia over the past 20 years.

Michele RobertsFor the Lancaster News

E ve Brooks is a preschool teacher at Southside Early Childhood Center. She and her husband Mike moved back to

the Lancaster area in 2010, but they weren’t coming from another county or even anoth-er state. The couple has been doing mission-ary work in other countries for the past 20 years, serving four years in Africa and 16 years in Indonesia.

“We left in 1990 and returned home on short furloughs to get our five children off to college,” she said. “I worked in the missions school as a speech/language pathologist for grades K-12, so I dealt with students of nu-merous nationalities. My husband is a pilot and would provide air transport for church leaders, flights in emergency situations, de-livering translated Bibles and transporting medical supplies. The work we have been able to do as missionaries has really been a blessing.”

Africa was a war-torn country when Brooks and her husband were serving in Kenya. A movie called “Hotel Rwanda” was released in 2004 and chronicled the awful true story of

what happened in that country in 1994 due to genocide.

“It was such a terrible time, and I feel very fortunate that we were able to help,” she said. “My husband flew in to take missionaries out of the area. While we were in Kenya we were able to deliver translated Bibles to the peo-ple, and my husband was delivering medi-cines for cholera. The funny thing is, we were only supposed to be in Africa six months when we got there in 1990. We were sup-posed to leave there and go to Afghanistan, but for some reason, we were never able to get permission to go in. After four years, we still couldn’t get into Afghanistan, and we went to Indonesia.”

Brooks said Indonesia has one of the larg-

est Islamic populations, so as Christian mis-sionaries they had their work cut out for them. According to the CIA website, www.worldfactbook.com, the number of Muslims in the country stands at 86.1 percent.

“To have the opportunity to share the love of Christ in that culture was a tremendous blessing,” she said. “And to work with those people to get Bibles translated into their lan-guage is terribly exciting. One island in Indo-nesia can have as many as 250 languages. We had the opportunity to deliver the finished Old and New Testament that had been trans-lated into the Dani language. It took four years for that translation, and it was just wonderful to be able to hand out those Bibles that were written in their own language.”

Brooks said they are working with a group called Vision 2025 that has started translating the last 2,000 languages left that the Bible hasn’t been translated into.

“We are so excited about that, because that means we are so much closer to carrying out the mandate of preaching the gospel to all the world,” she said. “We are getting into the hands of everyone around the globe.”


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GOOD MORNING!

Get the picture?

Can you tell us what this is? The first person who identi-fies it will get his or her name printed here next Friday. Call (803) 416-8410 to leave a message or e-mail your answer to [email protected]. Be sure to say you’re identifying the photo puzzler and the date it ran in the paper. Christine Hunter was the first reader who knew last week’s puzzler was the new Lancaster County Farmers Market sign on Pageland Highway.

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Worth mentioningDecember 16 This day in history Shag dinner

The Lancaster Shag Club will hold its annual Christ-mas dinner dance Saturday in the ballroom of the Lan-caster Moose Lodge, 200 Moose Drive.

Doors open at 6 p.m., dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. and dancing will be at 8 p.m. The DJ is Gene Sistare. Dinner admission is free for renewed mem-bers, $5 per Lancaster Shag Club members who have not renewed and $15 for guests. Dance only after 8 p.m. is $8 for guests. There will be a 50/50 drawing, a basket drawing and cash bar with reasonable prices.

For details, call (803) 285-5254 or (803) 286-6360.

Book Santa, help HOPE

Book Santa Claus this holiday season for a $25 donation per hour to HOPE (Helping Other Peo-ple Effectively) in Lancast-er.

For details, call (803) 287-9483.

Angel Tree seeks sponsors

The Christian Services Angel Tree desperately seeks sponsors for 1,067 children signed up for the Christmas Angel Tree. The organization still needs about 200 sponsors.

For details, call (803) 285-4444 or (803) 235-5455.

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– According to a recent Petplan Pet Insurance survey,

63%The number of pet own-ers who include a photo of the animal in a Christ-mas card.

80%The number of pet own-ers who plan to buy a gift for a pet this year.

$50 (or more)

The amount that 28 per-cent of pet owners plan to spend on that gift.

76%The number of pet own-ers who hang a stocking for their pet.

Th e great Christmas gifts for pets and pets for Christmas gifts

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For some, the notion of buying Christmas gifts for pets is un-thinkable – a yard dog is a yard dog, they say, worthy

of an occasional sow’s ear (maybe). Cats find their own amusement, so why waste money?

But with 78.2 million pet dogs in the United States, according to a national pet survey, owned by 45 million Amer-ican households and 86.4 million cats in 38 million homes, it’s no surprise many think otherwise.

A 2006 Gallup Poll showed 76 per-cent of dog owners surveyed bought Christmas presents for their pets, with 67 percent of cat owners doing the same.

“I get her new leashes, new collars and sweat-ers, and Christmas bones, and plush toys,”

Brady, a maltese, shows off his Christmas outfit.

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Gregory A. Summers

Just passing through

Springs photo

creates buzz

On Nov. 30, we pub-lished a photo taken in front of the club

house at Springs Mills’ Lan-caster Plant in 1970 that in-cluded the new 25-year club members.

We asked you to call in and you certainly did. We even managed to get a phone call from one of the people in it. So far, 20 people in the photo have been identified, including some twice.

Twice... how can that be? There is some debate as to

whom three of the people are. However, when you get phone calls from wives and children, that’s who you go with.

It certainly stirred up memo-ries and have elicited loads of smiles. Look on page 2B to see the ones we’ve been able to identify so far. If you recognize anyone not identified, call The Lancaster News at (803) 283-1156 or e-mail [email protected], and tell us who it is.

Back in businessSpeaking of stirring up mem-

ories, Dr. John Griffin, distin-guished professor emeritus at the University of South Caroli-na, came by The Lancaster News on White Street on Wednesday to let us know he finally received more copies of his book, “Silent Heroes: Lan-caster County in the Civil War.”

Griffin, who has published 19 works of non-fiction and one

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◆ 1773 – A group of Massachusetts colonists dis-guised as Mohawk Indians board three British ships in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea overboard (Boston Tea Party).◆ 1944 – Three German armies begin a massive attack in the densely wooded Ardennes region of Belgium (Battle of the Bulge).◆ 1950 – President Harry Truman declares a state of emergency after Chinese troops invade Korea.◆ 1973 – Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson becomes the first player in NFL history to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single season.◆ 1977 – The movie “Saturday Night Fever” ignites a disco craze across America, as well as the film career of actor John Travolta.◆ 1998 – President Bill Clinton orders air strikes on Iraq after dictator Saddam Hussein refuses to cooper-ate with United Nations weapons inspectors. It was the day after the U.S. House of Representatives issued its report on the Monica Lewinski scandal.


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Andrew Poeng carefully dips a hotdoughnut into melted chocolate Thursdaybefore sprinkling a coat of chocolate chipsover the top of the pastry.

Poeng places the chocolate bar onto anoven rack at 6 a.m. as his dad, Sunny, cooksan apple doughnut pastry inside the kitchenat Sunny’s Donuts in Gaffney. The 26-year-old Poeng is learning the homemade familyrecipes his dad concocted to develop a pop-ular doughnut shop in Ukiah, Calif.

For 17 years, Sunny Poeng would leavehis family at midnight and stay awake allnight to put together the tasty doughnuts.His family recipes are now being passedonto his son Andrew who has restartedSunny’s Donuts as his first business atLogan and Granard streets.

Speciality items include “Tiger Claws”filled with cinnamon and apple chunks, but-termilk bars, and chocolate chip bars bakedin chocolate chip dough. The doughnuts areserved with locally roasted coffee fromBroad River Coffee Roasters in BoilingSprings, N.C.

There is more than just doughnuts atwork here, though, as Andrew Poeng fol-lows in his father’s footsteps to pursue theAmerican Dream.

Andrew became the first college graduatein his family when he earned his degree atAppalachian State University four yearsago. He sees his effort to own and operate abusiness as a symbol of the freedoms hisparents were denied in Cambodia.

“We are a working family,” Andrew said.“We have never taken any vacations be-cause my parents always had to open thebusiness to support their family. Now Ihave been given a chance to live a dream

that was taken away from them by earningan education and starting my own busi-ness.”

His parents, Sunny and Lang, survivedthe Khmer Rouge silent genocide institutedby Pol Pot from 1975-1979. Pol Pot and hisguerilla followers ruthlessly imposed an ex-tremist program to reconstruct Cambodiaon the communist model of Maoist China.

Residents in the towns and cities fledunder the threat of death.

Lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers,scientists and professional people in anyfield were murdered, together with their ex-tended families.

“It was possible for people to be shotsimply for knowing a foreign language,wearing glasses, laughing, or crying,” An-drew said.

One Khmer slogan ran ‘To spare you isno profit, to destroy you is no loss.’

People who escaped murder became un-paid laborers, surviving on minimum ra-tions and working long hours. They sleptand ate in uncomfortable communes delib-erately chosen to be as far as possible fromtheir old homes.

“Children were not allowed to have aneducation. They just wanted us to work,”recalled Lang Poeng, Andrew’s mother.“They would give us only one meal a day.It was a cup with a little rice and water. Peo-ple soon became weak from overwork andstarvation. Many people got sick and died.”

Sunny Poeng attempted to escape Cam-bodia on three occasions. The first twotimes he was captured and returned to thecountry by Thailand soldiers.

Sunny found freedom by walking acrossa mountain, relying only on water for suste-nance. His journey included crossing minefields and sleeping with dead bodies atnight in order to escape detection.

“My father has lived through horrors I

can only imagine,” Andrew Poeng said. “Itwas really tough for him, but he faced cer-tain death if he had not escaped Cambodia.He met my mother while they lived on aUnited Nations Red Cross refugee camp forCambodia residents in Thailand for a yearand half. They married and moved withtheir family to New York in search of a bet-ter life.”

The Poengs spent six years in Connecti-cut before settling in Ukiah, a city of 15,000people in northern California. They openedtheir first doughnut shop as part of a Chi-nese restaurant in a shopping center.

Lang became a U.S. citizen in 1990 whileSunny became a U.S. citizen in 1994. Thecouple worked every day to run their familybusiness and raise their three children.

“My dad would go into the doughnutshop at midnight and work all night so hecould have his doughnuts ready by 6 a.m.He would work all day and then go home inthe evening,” Andrew recalled. “We wouldsee him for a little bit. He would sleep for afew hours before he had to go back intowork. After 17 years of running the dough-nut shop, my dad decided he wanted aslower pace to life.”

The Poengs moved from their home inCalifornia to be near Lang’s brother inKings Mountain, N.C., in 2004. They haveowned and operated Sunny’s Quik Stop gasstation in Gaffney for the past eight years. Itis one of the few places where Bi-Lo cus-tomers can redeem Fuel Perks earned at thegrocery store and recently had a $200,000lottery winner.

In the next few months, Andrew Poeng

hopes the gas station will become knownfor another reason.

Andrew opened his own Sunny’s Donutsstore on Oct. 3 in Gaffney.

While there are still a few stores with thisname in California, none have the secretrecipes Andrew is now learning from his fa-ther. He was even able to locate an Atlantafood distributor so he can order the sameflour his dad used to make doughnuts inCalifornia.

“It’s a funny story actually,” Andew said.“During my teenage years, I once told myparents in my teenage voice, ‘I hate thedoughnut shop. I will never work in thefood industry,’” Andrew said. “I had a goodjob for a few years at Hanes Distribution,but I decided the corporate track didn’t re-ally fit me. Now I have gone back to myfamily’s bread and butter and started myown doughnut shop.”

His mother, Lang, is presently working toearn her GED from the Cherokee CountyAdult Education program. She plans to takethe practice test this week and hopes to takethe regular GED exam in the next fewweeks.

“My mother is going back to school tofinish the education she didn’t have an op-portunity to get when she was young. It is areminder to me about the sacrifices my par-ents have made for their children’s free-dom,” Andrew said. “I want to live out theirdreams by starting my own successful busi-ness. One of the things I tell each of mycustomers before they leave is ‘Have aSunny Day.’ I want them to know anythingis possible.”

Sunny Poeng shapesone of the doughnutrecipes he createdfor the Sunny’sDonuts shop heowned in California.Sunny is a refugeefrom Cambodia whoescaped the KhmerRouge silent geno-cide instituted by PolPot from 1975-79.His son, Andrew, hasestablished his ownSunny’s Donuts in-side the Sunny’sQuick Stop conven-ience store his par-ents have operatedsince moving toKings Mountain, N.C.eight years ago.

Andrew Poeng carefully dips a doughnut into melted chocolate and covers the freshly made pastry in chocolate chips Oct. 4 to prepare for his secondday operating his new Sunny’s Donuts business.

(Ledger photo/ SCOTT POWELL)

Poeng seeks sweeter end to doughnut story

Cinnamon rolls are one example of the tasty treats Andrew Poeng hopeswill tempt people to stop by his new Sunny’s Donuts shop in Gaffney. It islocated inside the Sunny’s Quik Stop at the intersection of Logan and Gra-nard streets.

“One of the things I tell each of my customers before they leave is ‘Have a Sunny Day.’ I want them to know anything is possible.”


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Thursday Pawleys IslandMarch 15, 2012 COASTAL OBSERVER South Carolin

Socks, dogs& rock ’n’ rollFundraising goes to extremes

BY JACKIE R. BROACHCOASTAL OBSERVER

OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, Sally Swineford and Susan Sanders have spent a lot of time explaining the details of the S.C. Maritime

Museum’s newest fundraiser.It’s called the Burning of the Socks and, while

it’s popular in other areas of the country, it’s a first in Georgetown County and has raised more than a few eyebrows.

“Everybody wants to know ‘why are you burn-ing your socks?’ So we have to keep going through that story,” said Swineford, a museum board member and volunteer.

Sanders is the museum’s director.Luckily for them, there is a good story behind

the Burning of the Socks, a celebration of the spring equinox, which in the case of the museum event, will also feature an oyster roast and live music by John Lammonds.

The event is Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. on the waterfront behind the museum. Advance tickets are $35 ($30 for museum members). The price goes up to $40 on the day of the event.

The Burning of the Socks is a coastal tradition that has its roots in Annapolis, Md., with a boat yard manager named Bob Turner.

“He had been working on other people’s boats SEE “SOCKS,” PAGE 16

Save the dates

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LOCALIFETenell Felder, Localife editor Wednesday, September 26, 2012/Page [email protected]

Rachel Joy Scott’s chain of kindness

By TENELL FELDER

C-I (Camden, S.C.) Localife Editor [email protected]

Approximately 12,000 elementary, middle and high school students had the opportunity to participate in the legacy of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student whose life was taken in the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.

Scott’s message of kindness con-tinues to impact students 13 years after her death through Rachel’s Challenge, the program created in honor of her memory by her father and stepmother.

“I thought it was really inspiring. I do believe a person can make a difference. If people would

do what Rachel said, the world would be a better place,” said L-EMS eighth grader Jarod Skrabak about the presentation.

Lugoff-Elgin Middle School hosted Rachel’s Challenge for local students from Doby’s Mill and Blaney Elementary, Camden High School, Lugoff-Elgin High School, North Central High School,

the Continu-ous Learning Center and Camden Mili-tary Academy.

The five c h a l l e n g e s p r e s e n t e d at Rachel’s C h a l l e n g e encouraged

students to forgive, not to judge and to treat oth-ers with kindness.

The presenter at Rachel’s challenge ended by asking students to sign the Rachel’s Challenge banner that will be displayed in L-EMS.

“I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People never know how far a little kindness can go,”

-Rachel Scott from “My Ethics, My Codes of life”

C-I photos by Tenell Felder

Students from eight Kershaw County schools gather to sign the Rachel’s Challenge poster pledging their acceptance of one or all five challenges.

Students after the first session of Rachel’s Challenge.

Student signatures

Rachel’s Challenge is for all of usWhen I first heard about Ra-

chel’s Challenge coming to Lu-goff-Elgin Middle School I wasn’t sure what to expect. Well, then again, I expected a run-of-the-mill “be kind to others” presenta-tion. I wondered what relevance a school tragedy that occurred 13 years ago could have today.

Then I talked with Rachel’s older sister, Dana Scott who works with Rachel’s Challenge.

She excitedly recalled her sis-ter’s life and heart with a pas-sion that I was not expecting to hear. After all, how many times has she recounted the story of her sister’s life?

That was my first clue that Ra-chel’s Challenge was special and that Rachel was no ordinary girl.

I was 8 when the Columbine shootings took place so I don’t

remember much, except for news scenes of students running out of the high school that had become a playground for terror.

As I watched the presentation I was again taken aback by the horror of what took place.

The pure evil of the shootings would leave anyone wondering how could any good come from that awful day in 1999?

That’s where Rachel Scott’s legacy shines as light through oppressive darkness.

Rachel was an extraordinary young woman. Though she only lived for 17 years she’s left an deep impact that continues to echo a simple yet profound mes-sage to anyone who will listen -- be kind to others.

And being kind is what she’s remembered for.

During the presentation I got to hear three people who had been touched by her kindness and it blew me away.

As Rachel’s powerful legacy showed, we have the ability to change someone’s life through kindness.

Though the organization is non-religious I couldn’t help but see God’s fingerprints over her life and in the ripple effect that it’s having. It served as a gentle reminder that good is stronger than evil.

I hope that the students who saw that presentation really take it to heart.

I hope that this community takes the message of Rachel’s Challenge to heart.

Here are a few words from one of Rachel’s essays that really

stood out to me.“Imagine you have just met

someone...you reach judgement based on these three encoun-ters. Let me ask you something ... did you ever ask them what their goal in life is ... did they experience love? ... You have to look for their beauty, their good ... Look hard enough and you will always find a light, and you can even help it grow.”

Challenging words from a amazing girl.

I agree with a student who talked with me after the event ... if we heeded Rachel’s words, the world would be a better place.

(Tenell Felder is the localife editor of the Chronicle-Independent. Email responses can be sent to [email protected])

17-year-old Rachel Scott

was the fi rst victim of the

Columbine school shoot-

ings.


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BY TENELL FELDER


The Fine Arts Center (FAC) of Kershaw County and Claire Bryant & Friends will be presenting a five day residency in Camden, Monday through Friday.

The residency consists of an interactive performance at North Central and Camden high schools, a performance at Morning-side of Camden, a free preview show at The Venue on Broad, and the culmination Cham-ber of Music per-formance at the FAC’s Wood Audi-torium on Friday.

Cellist Claire Bryant, a Camden native, is a mem-ber of the New York City cham-ber music society, The Declassified. The Declassified is described as “a cutting-edge chamber music society forging an inte-grated role for classical music in communi-ties around the world”

Bryant has performed internationally and nationally and is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 2009 she estab-lished Claire Bryant & Friends as a com-munity residency project

“The whole point of the residency model is for musicians and community members to come together and be united through music happening around town ... we wanted to find a fresh way to bring classical music to peo-ple,” said Bryant.

Bryant does not want people to assume that only certain people can enjoy classical music or attend a classical concert.

“Many people feel they have to put on a tux and pay $100 for a concert, unfortunately that’s the image that comes to mind...We really believe that anybody can enjoy clas-sical music. The idea we are trying to drive home is that music is music and you don’t have to know anything about classical mu-sic to enjoy it,” said Bryant.

“It rocks sometimes, it soothes some-times, it has so many different flavors ... That’s what’s so wonderful about it. It has the ability to connect to the deep part of someone’s core.”

As a special treat this year, The Danish String Quartet will be per-forming with Claire & Friends

“The most exciting thing is that we were able to land an interna-tionally renown string quartet -- The Danish String Quartet. They are kind of the headliners for us, a really hot quartet -- on the brink of international fame in the classical music world,” said Bryant.

Before coming to Camden, The Danish String Quartet will per-

form in concerts in Washington, D.C., and New York.

This will be the group’s first time in the Southern region of the United States.

Bryant jokes that one of the first things they requested was Southern

cuisine. “Before we had even decided what we were

going to play -- they said, ‘Claire you’ve got to take us to get barbecue,’” said Bryant.

Fans of Bluegrass might particularly enjoy the group’s free performance at The Venue on Broad, where The Danish String Quartet will be playing Danish folk music.

“They also do a lot of folk music, includ-ing Danish, Scandinavian and Scottish fid-dling which is really similar to Bluegrass. At The Venue, they will be showcasing that, and it is quite similar to the Appa-lachian Bluegrass tradition,” said Bryant.

Also performing with Bryant is fellow musician Owen Dalby. Dalby, a Yale grad-uate, has been with Bryant to Camden before.

He has performed nationally at places such as the Lincoln Center, as well as in-ternationally. Dalby is also the co-founding artistic director of The Declassified.

Friday evening’s concert in the Wood Au-ditorium will feature a full-length chamber music concert with works by Erno Dohnányi, Leoš Janácek, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Tickets are on sale now and are $30 for adults in advance; $35 for adults the day of and $15 for students. For more infor-mation about tickets for the Claire Bry-ant & Friends performance at the FAC, contact 425-7676.

“It rocks sometimes, it soothes sometimes, it has so many different flavors ... That’s what’s so wonderful about it. It has the ability to connect to the deep part of someone’s core.”

LOCALIFETenell Felder, Localife editor Friday, October 12, 2012/Page [email protected]

Claire Bryant & Friendscome to Camden

Camden native Claire Bryant and fellow mu-

sician Owen Dalby from The Declassifi ed, will

be performing with The Danish String Quartet

(from left to right, Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen,

Frederik Øland, Fredrik Sjölin and Asbjørn

Nørgaard), Monday through Friday.

The Danish String Quartet

Claire Bryant

Owen Dalby

Performances, Oct. 15 -- Oct. 19Oct. 17 & Oct. 18

Interactive Performances at North Central & Camden high schools at 1 p.m.

Oct. 16 Performance at Morningside of Camden at 4 p.m.

Oct. 17 Late-Night Preview Show at The Venue on Broad at 9 p.m. (free)

Oct. 19 Chamber Music Performance at the FAC at 7 p.m.

Attic Sale Sneak Peek Attic Sale hours

Friday, noon to 6 p.m.Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.The sale is located in Springfield Plaza between Goodwill and the Belk Department Store

Proceeds go towards theKC Community Medical Clinic

Floor display of clothes

Men’s clothing fl oor display Christmas display

Tie display

McCaskill’s Farm hosts Fall Farm Day, Sunday

BY TENELL FELDER


Sunday, McCaskill’s Farm will host Old McCaskill’s Farm Fall Day from 1 to 6 p.m.

Kathy McCaskill of McCaskill’s Farm has been preparing for a few weeks now,

“It’s a matter of planning and getting vol-unteers to help,” said McCaskill.

McCaskill’s Farm Fall Farm Day will fea-ture plenty activities such as children games, face and pumpkin painting, grits grinding, ice cream churning and making apple cider.

In addition to these activities, Kathy Mc-Caskill is excited to add a few new events

“This year, we are going to have horse back rides and we didn’t have that last year. We’ve also got the root cellar that people can go into this year,” said McCaskill.

McCaskill’s Fall Farm Day will have con-cessions available for guests.

“We will have a lot of farm food from our farm -- barbecue, pork ribs and Italian sau-sages, We’ll also have baked goods such as pies and cookies,” said McCaskill.

Admission is $4 per person and children under two are free. Music will be provided by Laddy & Friends.

McCaskill’s Farm is located at 377 Cantey Lane, Rembert. For more information call 432-9537.

Sunday, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.$4 for admission

Children 2 and under free


FIRST PLACE:The Summerville Journal SceneJudy Watts

BY ROGER LEEThe Journal Scene

Some believe it is abenchmark that will neveragain be reached.

Summerville High Schoolfootball coach JohnMcKissick notched his600th career coaching winFriday, in a 37–21 victoryover Ashley Ridge. He isthe first football coach atany level to have reachedthe benchmark.

“I knew it was a lot ofwins,” McKissick said. “Ifit totals up to 600 that’sgreat. It feels good and I’mglad for the kids. Now theycan tell everybody theywere part of this win and beproud of it.”

Making the accomplish-ment that much moreimpressive is the 86-year-

old earned all 600 as theGreen Wave coach.McKissick is in his 61stseason with the school,where he has compiled arecord of 600-147-13.

According to the NationalFederation of State HighSchool Associations’ HighSchool Sports RecordBook, the coach closest to

McKissick in terms of winsis J.T. Curtis, the headcoach of John CurtisChristian School in RiverRidge, La. Curtis, now inhis 44th season, earned his500th win in October oflast year.

Larry Campbell, headcoach of Lincoln CountyHigh in Lincolnton, Ga.,

entered this season withmore than 450 wins. This ishis 41st season.

McKissick was hired asthe Summerville footballcoach in 1952. He alsocoached girls’ and boys’basketball, baseball andtrack for a number of years.As the school grew fromClass B to AAAA andeventually became one ofthe Big 16 schools, hisresponsibilities becamemore focused. Today, headfootball coach and athleticdirector are the only hatshe wears for SHS.

He has led 10 Green Wavefootball teams to a statechampionship. His firstcame in 1955. He alsocoached state champi-onship teams in 1956,1969, 1978, 1979, 1982,

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McKissick stands in the glow of a spectacular sunset as he talks to the media before his historic 600th win Friday night against Ashley Ridge.

Victory burnishes 6 decades of McKissick’s Green Wave footballJOHN MCKISSICK

RESUME HIGHLIGHTS• Born Sept. 25, 1926

• Graduated Kingstree High School, 1944; BrevardCollege, 1949; Presbyterian College with

bachelor's degree in business, 1951; WesternCarolina with master's degree in psychology and

education, 1969.

• Coached Clarkton (N.C.) High School (six-manfootball), 1951; Summerville High School,

1952-present.

• Has won 10 state championships

• Has seven undefeated seasons, includinga 15-0 mark in 1998.

• Has only two losing seasons at Summerville:1-8-1 in 1957 and 5-7 in 2001.

See 600th Page 3C

Win #600

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THIRD PLACE:The Berkeley Independent

Linda Anderson


SECOND PLACE:The GazetteRob Gantt

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The Creek Rises

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Goose Creek tight end Nick Roach basks in the glow of a Gators touchdown in the third quarter that tied the score at 21-21.

BY ROB GANTTThe Gazette

CLEMSON - Goose Creek High School’sdecade-long transformation in football is com-plete.

The Gators set a new high mark for the programwith a 37-21 victory over Greenwood HighSchool on Saturday in the Class AAAA Div. IIchampionship game at Memorial Stadium, alsoerasing painful memories of close calls in 2009and 2010.

“The feeling is indescribable,” said Goose

Creek coach Chuck Reedy, who took over a 0-11team before the 2002 season. “I don’t know how

you can put it intowords.”

Reedy’s team scoredthe final 23 points,

storming back from a 21-14 third-quarter deficit,to finish the season with a 14-1 record and sendoff 28 seniors with a memory that will last a life-time.

“They’ve worked very hard the last few years,”Reedy said. “… I’m very very proud of theseguys. This is very rewarding.”

Fullback Virgil Smalls’ tied it at 21-21 on a 1-yard plunge with 57 seconds left in the third peri-od, igniting the big finish. Tramel Terry’s 21-yardrun on fourth-and-3 reverse play set up the tyingscore.

Early in the final quarter, Gerald Turner’sblocked punt out of the end zone resulted in asafety, giving the Gators the lead for good.Smalls scored on another short run with 7:52 leftas the lead swelled to 30-21 and Terry all butsealed it with a 31-yard gallop with 5:13 remain-

The feeling isindescribable. Idon’t know howyou can put it

into words.

CHUCK REEDYGCHS Football Coach

Gators storm back for state titleGoose Creek 37,Greenwood 21

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Sophomore running back Caleb Kinlaw rushed for nearly1,500 yards this season for the Gators.


The outgoing senior class at GooseCreek High School etched in stone atitanic legacy and the players leftbehind will be charged with carryingit on.

“You can’t replace the guys we’relosing,” Gators coach Chuck Reedysaid of his 28 seniors after they ledthe way in capturing the school’sfirst-ever state title. “They’re irre-placeable because of the experienceand the success they’ve had.”

Yet, the goal and expectation willbe to repeat as state championsdespite the massive turnover. The2012 motto will have to be someplay on the word repeat, Reedy said.

“My wife (Debbie) and I weretalking about that (Sunday) night,”he added. “We’ve got to have some-thing to do with repeating. That’sgot to be our theme. One thing Ihonestly believe is that for 10 yearsin a row we’ve gotten better. Afterlast year, it was a challenge to saythis year’s team was going to be bet-ter. The challenge of topping this isgoing to be gigantic but that’s goingto have to be the goal.”

Among the players moving on is agroup that started the better part ofthree years. Quarterback JaquanMarsh finished his career with a 33-4 mark under center and combinedfor over 2,300 yards passing andrushing this season. He rushed for


Goose Creek’s basketball teamstake to the hardwood this week for

their first games of the season.GCHS opens at home against

Timberland on Wednesday thenhosts Hanahan on Friday andBerkeley on Saturday.

The Lady Gators, coached by TimBaldwin, opens the season at No. 2in the Class AAAA poll. Last sea-son, Baldwin’s team played for thestate championship, losing to

Spring Valley. A year earlier, GooseCreek defeated Spring Valley forthe title.

The key player to replace is for-ward Aleighsa Welch, now at South

Carolina. She led the Gators to a28-3 record.

The group returning is led by

See CHAMPS Page 3B

‘The challenge of toppingthis is going to be gigantic’

See CHALLENGE Page 2B

High School Basketball

Goose Creek hoops teams finally on floor, open with three Berkeley County rivals


Chuck Reedy’s recipe for winning has beenthe same his whole tenure at Goose CreekHigh School.

Mix toughness with someintensity and pour in anunflappable desire to win, andthe results will be there whenthe final horn sounds.

As Saturday’s state champi-onship game unfolded inClemson’s MemorialStadium, the Gators got stronger, used mentaltoughness to surge past Greenwood and

Reedy’s recipe:Toughness willlead to results

Reedy

See REEDY Page 3B

See HOOPS Page 4B

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Three Berkeley Countyschools will get extra timeunder the lights when thesun comes up on the 42ndannual Sertoma footballjamboree this week.

Goose Creek, Stratford andCane Bay will be a part oftwo-quarter scrimmages inthe event, a format imple-mented last year at Sertoma.All other scrimmages in thetwo-day event will be one-period games.

This year’s Sertoma, whichwill showcase 28 local foot-ball teams, will be heldThursday and Friday atCitadel’s Johnson HagoodStadium. Action will beginat 6 p.m. each night.

Cane Bay will tangle withWest Ashley in the next-to-

last scrimmage on Thursday,followed by Stratford and

Bishop England. “Sertoma is a good oppor-

tunity for our kids to get outthere in front of a bigcrowd,” CBHS coachRussell Zehr said. “I reallyenjoy it. The kids reallyenjoy it. It gives teams achance to iron out kinks andshows us what we have towork on before the firstgame.”

The Sertoma is the lastdress rehearsal before Week1 of the regular season onAug. 24. Teams have beenworking diligently in prepa-ration for those openers.

“We want to see moreimprovement individually,”Stackley said, “but, moreimportantly, we want to seemore improvement in kidsunderstanding our conceptson offense and defense.

“With this reduced practiceschedule we’ve got, we’ve

Rob Gantt/Gazette

Quarterback Shon Swett and the Cane Bay Cobras will meet West Ashley in a two-quarter scrimmage on Thursday during Sertoma.

Sertoma last dress rehearsalGoose Creek, Cane Bay and Stratford getting extra time under lights

Rob Gantt/Gazette

Goose Creek defenders DeShawn Evans (2) and Bryce Kelly (44)pursue North Augusta’s quarterback during a recent scrim-mage. The Gators tangle with Ft. Dorchester in Sertoma.

2012 Sertoma Classic ScheduleThursday

• Baptist Hill vs.Military Magnet

• St. Johns vs.Garrett

• Hanahan vs.James Island

• Palmetto Christianvs. North Charleston

• Scotts Branch vs.Wando

•Cane Bay vs. WestAshley (2 quarter)

• Stratford vs. BishopEngland (2 quarter)

Friday• Stall vs. Lincoln• Woodland vs.• Academic Magnet • Colleton County vs.

Pinewood• Northwood vs.

Burke• Porter Gaud vs.

Berkeley• Goose Creek vs.

Fort Dorchester (2quarter)

• Ashley Ridge vs.Summerville (2 quarter)

See SERTOMA Page 2B


Rains in the area almostslowed down the Stratfordfootball team’s road toimprovement last week butthe Knights were able toget in some action.

They made the drive toWest Ashley for a three-way outing with Hanahanand West Ashley when atwo-way scrimmage withConway was washed away

on Tuesday.“I thought we learned a

lot about our footballteam,” SHS coach RayStackley said. “We were alate addition to the scrim-mage so they worked us inas many times as theycould afford to work us in.”

Stackley said the scrim-mage time was more situa-tional than actual gameimitation but that his teamfaired well.

“We don’t keep score but

we scored just about everytime we had the football,”Stackley said. “I thoughtour run game was excel-lent. Both of our quarter-backs threw the short passvery well.

“We got a lot of folkswork on both sides of theball, trying to developsome depth.”

Even more important thanpoints was evidence ofprogress. And the Knightsare moving in the right

direction as far as Stackleycould tell.

In their first scrimmageagainst Aiken, the Knightsleft a lot to be desireddespite winning 28-7.

“We had tremendousimprovement from scrim-mage one to scrimmagetwo,” Stackley said.“We’ve still got a lot ofwork to do on our offensiveline. Our secondary was aconcern to us but it’s com-ing along pretty well. And

our two inside linebackers,who are new there, arecoming along too which iscrucial for our defense.”

The Knights were set toplay a scrimmage gameTuesday at West Florencebefore taking part in theSertoma Jamboree againstBishop England onThursday night. TheKnights and Bishops areset to tangle for two quar-

Knights make progress in second scrimmage

Rob Gantt/Gazette

SHS coach Ray Stackley is pleasedwith the Knights’ progress.See KNIGHTS Page 2B

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Goose Creek coach Chuck Reedychecked out the film after the game,and trying to find fault with any-thing in a 55-0 victory over CaneBay on national TV was nearlyimpossible.

“We challenged the guys to showthe country what kind of footballteam we are and the type of footballthat we play,” said Reedy, whoseteam coasted to its 21st straight vic-tory in its ESPNU debut. “I thoughtour guys responded well. We took(Cane Bay) out of the game veryearly.”

Gators offensive standouts TramelTerry and Caleb Kinlaw scoredthree touchdowns apiece in the rout.

Kinlaw finished with 185 yardsrushing, including a 73-yard touch-down run on Goose Creek’s open-

ing possession. Terry had 77 yards rushing on 74

receiving on 10 touches. His 50-

yard scamper with 28 seconds leftin the opening quarter gave theGators a comfortable 21-0 lead.

It was 41-0 at the break for the 8-0 Gators, who travel to MountPleasant Friday to tangle with 8-0Wando.

Goose Creek, ranked as high asNo. 17 in the country, amassed 530yards of total offense, with 410coming on the ground. FullbackRico Blanding added 91 yards onthe ground and scored once.

Gators quarterback DantezBennamon was 10 of 13 for 100yards and a pair of touchdown pass-es, one to Terry and another toCaleb Holmes.

The Gators defense limited Cane

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Goose Creek senior Tramel Terry breaks loose for a 50-yard touchdown run against the Cobras, one of his three scores in the game.

nstoppableGators’ stars show off on national television

Terry, Turnerselected forShrine Bowl

Goose Creek High School foot-ball standouts Tramel Terry andGerald Turner were selected toplay for the South CarolinaShrine Bowl team at the conclu-sion of the season.

The 76th annual game will beplayed Dec. 15th at WoffordCollege against the top NorthCarolina seniors.

Terry, a wide receiver/runningback for the Gators, has account-ed for 15 touchdowns this seasonand has 850 total yards on theground and in the passing game.

He is committed to Georgia.Turner, one of the state’s top

defensive players, helps powerthe Gators on that side of theball.

He has 34 total tackles and sixsacks.

The South Carolina squad iscoached by Stratford footballcoach Ray Stackley.

Shane Roper/For the Gazette

Gators defenders Gerald Turner (33), Daylin Julius (30) and JalenStevens combine to stop Cane Bay quarterback Devin Kilgore.

Rob Gantt/The Gazette

Stratford running back Jamar Stevens tries to elude a Wando defender aftercatching a pass.


It was a hard fall from theranks of the unbeaten forStratford’s football team.

Wando scored the final 32points, pulling away for a 42-7victory over the Knights onFriday night in Mount Pleasant.It was the second straight victo-ry in the series for the Warriorsafter losing 14 in a row.

“The wheels fell off in the sec-ond half,” SHS coach RayStackley said. “We had a chance

to be in the ball game. We didn’tplay very well but it’s a credit tothem. They played especiallywell.”

The Warriors took advantageof poor special teams play byStratford to improve to 8-0.Wando recorded a safety in thesecond quarter to lead 12-7 athalftime and then blocked twopunts in the second half. Adefensive pass interference on afourth-down play helped Wandocontinue another scoring drivein the second half.

“We hadn’t had a miscue on

the punt team all year and it wasan inopportune time for it tohappen,” Stackley said. “… Agood team is going to takeadvantage of that.”

The Knights (7-1, 1-1 Region7-AAAA) host West Ashley forhomecoming on Friday. Wando(8-0) hosts Goose Creek (8-0) inone of the state’s top matchupsthis season.

Stratford’s lone score againstthe Warriors was a 10-yard runby Jacob Park in the second

Knights take tumble on road at Wando

See KNIGHTS Page 2B

See GATORS Page 2B


FIRST PLACE:Carolina Forest ChronicleMichael Smith

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Coastal Carolina soccerrallies to beat Campbell

BY MATT MONTGOMERYFOR THE CHRONICLE

For a brief period in Satur-day’s soccer game, visitingCampbell had some hope toconquer the Big South’s onlyunbeaten team, the CoastalCarolina Chanticleers.

Though as they have doneall year, the nationallyranked Chants (16-2, 9-0)

found a way to score – a lot –and kept their 12-game winstreak intact entering thisweekend’s conference tour-nament.

Today at 2:30 p.m., the No.1 seeded Chanticleers playthe eighth seed in the BigSouth Conference tourna-ment, UNC Asheville. ShouldCoastal advance to the sec-ond round, it would play the

winner of Liberty v. Radfordon Friday.

The conference tourna-ment champion receives anautomatic bid the 48-teamNCAA Tournament.

However the Chanticleershave seemingly proventhemselves in the nationalranks this season, garneringa top-25 rank in three differ-ent Division-I polls. There isan outside chance Coastalgets invited to the NCAAtournament even if theydon’t win the conferencetournament title.

Wind, rain ruin playoff bid‘This was an old fashioned butt whooping,’ coach saysBY NICK MAMARYFOR THE CHRONICLE

Carolina Forest’s playoffhopes deteriorated about asquickly as the weather con-ditions Friday night.

Braving a wind-drivenrain much of the night, thePanthers struggled to findtheir pass game en route toa 32-0 loss to Conway.

Carolina Forest finished 7-

4 overall, 2-3 Region VI-AAAA just as the team did ayear ago. Conway improvedto 6-5 overall, 3-2 region,clinching third place and aroad playoff game at Strat-ford as the No. 3 seed.

If the Panthers won, theywould’ve clinched the No. 2seed and a home playoffgame because region cham-pion West Florence defeatedSouth Florence and CFHS

held the tiebreaker overSumter.

Conway seemingly hadcontrol from the beginningof the evening, and headcoach Drew Hummelthought that his team strug-gled with momentum.

“This was an old fash-ioned butt whooping,”Hummel said. “We did didn’thandle the adversity of thegame very well. I thought we

got a little bit rattled, and wedidn’t recover from it.”

On Conway’s first drive,the Panthers were able toget a defensive stop, but thedrive was continued after alate hit penalty.

This set up the first scoreas Conway quarterbackMykal Moody crossed thegoal line on a 3-yard quar-

PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SMITH | THE CHRONICLE

Carolina Forest receiver/defensive back Jarvez Holmes (left)has been selected to the North South All Star Team.

MICHAEL SMITH | THE CHRONICLE

CFHS players (from left) Blaine Kowalkowski, Jarvez Holmesand Dejour Wilson react after Friday’s loss to Conway.

HOLMESHEADINGSOUTHBY MICHAEL SMITHEDITOR

Danny Daly wasn’t kidding when the CarolinaForest quarterback said he has the best re-ceivers. One of them, in fact, proved it when hewas picked to play in one of the state’s most cov-eted all star games.

Jarvez Holmes has been selected to play defensive back inthe North South All Star Football. The game will be played atDoug Shaw Memorial Stadium in Myrtle Beach.

“It feels good to know that I can represent my team,”Holmes said. “Being the first one selected out of Carolina

CFHS defensive back namedto North South All Star Team

� 2011 statistics

Catches | 40.Touchdowns | 7.Receiving yards | 700.Defensive INTs | 4.Schools scouting | Georgia

Tech, N.C. State, Liberty,Coastal Carolina University.

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Chanticleers move to 9-0 in BigSouth, ranked No. 10 in country

COURTESY PHOTO

Pedro Ribeiro dribblesaround Campbell de-fenders during Satur-day’s 5-1 win. CoastalCarolina enters thisweekend’s Big SouthConference tourna-ment as the top seed.

HOLMES, A9

SOCCER, A8

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WHO’SNEXT?

CCU stuns Clemson at buzzer, then falls to FIUBY MICHAEL SMITHEDITOR

First they beat LSU.Then Coastal CarolinaUniversity toppedClemson. Following apair of exciting winsover teams from two

power conferences, one questionremained.

Who’s next?The answer to that question

appeared to beFlorida Interna-tional.

CCU (5-1) ral-lied from a 12-point deficit toshock Clemson 60-59 on their homecourt last Tuesday.Deja vu struck Sat-

urday in Miami, Fla., when mid-major team Florida Internationalscored at the buzzer, sending the

Chants to a 64-62 loss, the team’sfirst of the season.

At Clemson, CCU’s Chris Grad-nigo tipped in the game-winningbucket as time expired givingCoastal Carolina the victory atLittlejohn Coliseum.

With 7.1 seconds left, Gradnigotook the inbounds pass from An-thony Raffa and tried drivingdown the lane against two Clem-son defenders.

Gradnigo punched through,

but was forced into making atough shot, which clanked off therim. He followed his own shot,however, for the tip-in.

Before the ball even hit thefloor, the CCU bench cleared injubilant celebration. It wasCoastal’s first win over Clemsonin six tries and the program’s thirdBCS win in a year.

“We were very fortunate in thatsituation that we were able to getthe miss and put it back,” said

head coach Cliff Ellis. “It’s just agreat win for our team...with theLSU win and this win it says a lotabout our team and program.”

On Nov. 15, CCU defeated LSU71-63, the Chanticleers’ secondwin over the SEC opponent. CCUalso upended LSU 78-69 on theirhome court on Dec. 13, 2010, thewin coming on LSU’s home court.

The wins over LSU (SEC) and

Ellis

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THIRD PLACE:The Press & Standard

Drew Tripp


SECOND PLACE:The Cherokee ChronicleJon Martin

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FIRST PLACE:The Summerville Journal SceneRob Gantt

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Summerville High Schoolfootball coach JohnMcKissick is only a win shyof his 600th career victoryafter the Green Wave defense

turned in a stellar perform-ance Friday.

The Summerville defenseset up one score and madeanother as the Green Wavedefeated Colleton County 22-7. Summerville (5-4, 3-0 inRegion 8-AAAA) only sur-

rendered nine yards toColleton County (0-8, 0-3)on the Cougars’ five first-halfdrives.

“We came out and got thejob done,” linebacker KyleKeeney said. “We didn’t giveup any points until the fourth

quarter so I’m really proud ofmy team.”

Summerville finished with339 offensive yards on thenight while holding Colletonto 123 yards.

Senior running back JerodTucker again fueled the

Summerville attack, finish-ing with 201 rushing yardsand two touchdowns on 27carries and 52 receivingyards on a pair of catches.

The victory putsSummerville in a tie for theregion’s top spot with

Bluffton.Freshman quarterback

Sawyer Bridges surpassed amilestone of his own onSummerville’s first posses-sion. The QB connected withsenior Kendall Parker for a

Milestone AheadMcKissick one win away from career victory No. 600

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Summerville running back Jerod Tucker dives into the end zone Friday during the Green Wave’s 22-7 win over Colleton County.


The Patriots outrushed andout passed the Bobcats, butdidn’t out score them.

Fort Dorchester let a winslip away in Bluffton Fridayas the Bobcats rallied to earn

a 27-26 victory and keeptheir regular-season winningstreak intact. Bluffton, whichdidn’t suffer a loss in 2011until it fell in the Class AAAstate championship game,improved to 9-0 with a 3-0mark in Region 8-AAAA.Fort Dorchester fell to 4-5, 1-

2.Fort Dorchester finished

with 413 offensive yardswhile Bluffton finished with370.

“Bluffton is a tough place toplay, but our kids handled itwell,” Fort Dorchester coachSteve LaPrad said. “We had

them on the ropes but didn’ttake advantage of the oppor-tunities we had to win it. I’msure they feel fortunate theygot out of there with thewin.”

Bluffton jumped out to itsnormal fast start, scoring onits first two possessions. But

the Patriots tied the game ona pair of Charles Loftlandtouchdown runs. The secondcame from 51 yards out.

Unfortunately for thePatriots, Bluffton thenreturned a kickoff 50 yards toset up another Bobcat score.The 20-yard TD pass gave

Bluffton a 21-14 lead enter-ing the half.

“Our special teams didn’tplay that well which is disap-pointing because we spend somuch time working onthem,” LaPrad said. “Wepretty much shut Bluffton

Patriots let one slip away on road at unbeaten Bluffton

See PATRIOTS Page 6B

See MILESTONE Page 3B


Ashley Ridge earned a keyregion win Friday.

The Swamp Foxes defeatedthe Eagles 17-12 in Beaufort.With the victory, AshleyRidge improved to 3-6 with a2-1 mark in Region 8-AAAA. Beaufort fell to 3-6,

0-3.“Going on the road and

winning down there is alwaysan accomplishment,” AshleyRidge coach Kenny Walkersaid. “It is a big win thatkeeps us in the race and setsup some big games the nextcouple of weeks. The key wasour defense. We gave up a

Jairy C. Hunter MD/for the Journal Scene

Ashley Ridge QB Jacob Thompson helped the SwampFoxes pick up a win in Beaufort Friday.

Swamp Foxes earnkey win at Beaufort

See FOXES Page 6B


The Ashley Ridge seniorsled the Swamp Fox volleyballteam to a win over Cane BayThursday.

Kayla Bass, Raelyn Fateand Addie Clower all posteddouble-digit scoring onSenior Night as the SwampFoxes earned a 25-14, 25-16,

25-20 victory over the Cobrasin their final regular seasongame. Ashley Ridge (13-5, 7-3) has earned the No. 2 seedfor its region and opened theplayoffs at home Tuesdayafter press time with a matchagainst West Ashley.

“We have a lot of experi-enced players so I think weare ready for the playoffs,”

ARHS gets by Cane Bayin regular season finale

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Right now nothing wouldbe better to the Cougars thanspoiling the Green Wave’shomecoming.

Summerville hosts ColletonCounty for its homecominggame at 7:30 p.m. Friday.The Green Wave carries a 4-

4 record into the game and is2-0 in Region 8-AAAA whilethe Cougars are 0-8 with apair of region losses.However, Summervillecoach John McKissick isexpecting a fight.

“Those Colleton playersdon’t quit,” McKissick said.“They play hard but theyseem to have some tough

luck. They’ll be playing goodand then they give up a bigplay. They run a lot of optionso we will have to stop that.”

The Cougars have lost theirlast 31 games but nearlybroke the streak twice lastmonth. Colleton fell 8-6 toWest Ashley Sept. 14 andblew a 21-0 lead over CaneBay and ended up falling 26-

21 after a furious Cobra rallySept. 27.

According to scfootballhis-tory.com, Colleton Countyhas never beat Summervilleon the gridiron. However, theCougars gave the GreenWave all they could handle inlosing efforts in 2002 (17-14), 2005 (24-21) and 2008(19-14). In 2001, the year

before Colleton County HighSchool opened, WalterboroHigh School defeated theGreen Wave 15-9.

Colleton quarterbackRamon Hall and runningback Diquan Crosby arecapable runners. Last weekagainst Fort Dorchester, Hallled all rushers with 91 yardsand Crosby picked up 56

yards on 11 carries.The Cougars held the

Patriots to 73 passing yards,which is below average forthe Fort this season.

However, the Cougars willlikely need to catch somebreaks in order to upset theGreen Wave. Summervilleseems to be hitting its stride

Shane Roper/For The Journal Scene

The Green Wave football team is looking to help coach John McKissick notch the 599th victory of his career during its homecoming game Friday against Colleton County.

598 and countingMcKissick isn’t looking past Cougars as countdown to milestone continues


The Fort Dorchester volleyball teamcame out on top of a spirited tri-matchwith Summerville and StratfordTuesday.

The Patriots had to rally in theirmatch with the Knights, who won thefirst game 25-21. Fort Dorchesteranswered with its own 25-21 win andthen claimed the match with a 25-19win in the tiebreaker.

The Patriots pulled away from theGreen Wave roughly halfway throughthe first game between the cross-townrivals and went on to claim a 25-17win. However, Summerville didn’t godown without a fight.

During the second game,Summerville scored six straightpoints to pull out to a 14-9 lead. ThePatriots rallied for a tie and it was titfor tat afterwards. Finally JasmineQuinn went up for a spike to give theFort a 28-26 victory and the match.

“It’s always good to win againstSummerville, especially when it’s attheir house,” Fort Dorchester captainAshley Rogers said. “This is one ofour big rivalries so we are excited. Ithink we did a better job of coveringtonight and that is something we’vebeen been working on at practice.Also we’ve been emphasizing keep-ing a positive attitude and I think that

Patriot volleyball teamavenges defeat to Wave

Roger Lee/Journal Scene

The Fort Dorchester volleyball team defeated area rivals Summerville and Stratford in a spirited tri-match on Tuesday. The Lady Patriots will take a 20-9 record into the Class AAAA playoffs that begin nextweek.

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The Coosaw CreekCrocodiles clinched their sec-ond consecutive CoastalCarolina AquaticsAssociation ChampionshipTuesday.

Last summer the Coosawswim team ended SneeFarm’s 22-year reign as CityMeet champion, becomingonly the second team in asso-

ciation history to win thethree-day, season-ending,title meet. This year, Coosawtallied 2,816.5 points at WestAshley’s Jewish CommunityCenter to repeat.

“Our team was phenome-nal,” Coosaw swimmerMicah Bohon said. “We hadsome really good times. Oneof our younger relay teamsthat was supposed to placefifth won their event andthose are the types of things

that push a team up to thetop.”

Snee Farm was the runner-up with 2,673.5 points andDaniel Island rounded out theTop 3 with 2,637.5 points.This year 22 Lowcountryteams participated in themeet.

Newington had the nextbest finish for the DorchesterCounty teams, placing 10thwith 1,303.5 points.Ashborough (922.5) placed

15th, Pine Forest (620.5)18th, Legend Oaks (343.5)20th and the SummervilleYMCA (28.0) 22nd.

There were six meet recordsbroken this week and Coosawswimmers broke four ofthem.

Bohon finished the Girls15-18 50-meter Backstroke in30.51 seconds to set a newrecord and broke the Girls15-18 100 Individual Medleyrecord that had stood for 12

years with a 1:06.40 finish.She also teamed up withBrandon Rattigan, JeremiahBohon and Marina Filo to seta new record in the Mixed15-18 Medley Relay with a1:58.41 time. It was the onlyrelay record to fall this sum-mer.

“I’m probably most proudof breaking KatieMotsinger’s backstroke


Coosaw Creek swimmer Aaron Wheat (r) pulls ahead of a competitor during the Boys 9-10 50-meter Butterfly. For more photos from the 2012 City Meet, visitseenit.journalscene.com.

‘Our team was phenomenal’Coosaw Creek captures second straight CCAA championship

CityChamps!CityChamps!


Coosaw Creek's Micah Bohon and Brandon Rattigan brokeCity Meet records this week.


Swimmers and spectators alike enjoyed the mist fans setup to help alleviate the heat during this year’s City Meet.


Ashborough’s Rhett Andrews comes up for some air duringthe city meet.

• Top 10 TeamsCoosaw Creek 2,816.5Snee Farm 2,673.5Daniel Island 2,637.5Hobcaw YC 2,213.5Shadowmoss 2,207.5Parkshore 2,152Northbridge Terr. 1,771.5Dunes West 1,688.5Longpoint 1,383Newington 1,303See CHAMPS Page 2B


The Azalea Sertoma Clubneeds cheerleaders and theyare even willing to train

them.The non-profit club, which

sponsors the cheerleadingteams for the SummervilleSertoma youth footballleague, is gearing up for

another season. Cheer regis-tration is open through July28 and this year prior to theopening of practice the clubis offering something new,Basic Cheerleading Training.

“This Basic Training isopen to any girl or boy age 5-15, and it is free,” club mem-ber Jackie O’Cain said.“Participants are welcome tojoin in on as many sessions

as they want, and no experi-ence is required.”

The first two sessions wereoffered last week and thefinal two are scheduled from6-8 p.m. July 24 and July 26

at Doty Park. Azalea Sertomapresident Kati Taff says theclub is using the training as away to “meet and great”those interested in becoming

Azalea Sertoma Club offers free cheer training, open for ages 5-15

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THIRD PLACE:The Island News

Pamela Brownstein


SECOND PLACE:The Greer CitizenJulie Holcombe

SPORTSB6 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2011 Sports Editor: Joel FitzPatrick | 864-877-2076

Milestones, moves shaped 2011

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Whether it was teams winning championships or coming up just short, or coaches moving on or deciding on staying put, 2011 was another memorable year for the Greer area.

By Joel FitzPatrickSports Editor

The year began with change as Eastside football coach Jay Feltz decided to step down, and Greer High welcomed a pair of new soccer coaches. Kevin Brabham, who had been involved with the program at Riverside, became the coach of the Greer boys, while former Converse College coach Rob DePaol took over the girl’s program.

February was a good month for the Greer High basketball programs. Both squads won Region III-AAA titles, while boy’s coach Jeff Neely earned his 300th victory when the Yellow Jackets defeated rival Blue Ridge.

Jeff Thomason, a former student-athlete at Greer, was introduced as Eastside’s new football coach.

Thomason was looking forward to a fresh start at Eastside, while several athletes took the fi rst step in the next stage of their lives by signing with colleges on National Signing Day. Twenty-three student-athletes signed, highlighted by Greer’s Mario Sanders (Duke) and Riverside’s Kevin Dodd (Clemson).

In March, three Eastside High wrestlers won state titles, leading the Eagles to a 100-point performance, more than any other AAA school. Individual winners included EHS’s Clay Walker, Jacob Simmons, and Cullen Gallimore. Riverside High’s Brian Ettari also walked away with a state title.

Another Eastside athlete was recognized for his accomplishments when Davaris McGowens was named The Greer Citizen Male Basketball Player of the Year. The top female player was Blue Ridge freshman Ross Mathis.

Highlighting the month of April was Greer High’s fi rst home track meet in 10 years. The Yellow Jackets hosted Blue Ridge in a meet that was helped made possible by a $10,000 gift from District 18 Councilman Joe Baldwin.

Area baseball teams made news in May. The Byrnes Rebels advanced to the Class AAAA state fi nals for the second consecutive year before falling to White Knoll, and Eastside was one win away from the AAA fi nals, but lost twice to Union County.

The Eastside boy’s soccer team won its fi rst state title since 2005 with a 2-1 win over Myrtle Beach, and Blue Ridge’s Cory Taylor won his second consecutive Class AAA state gold title.

Byrnes’ Emma Jennings won a state title in track and fi eld, and the North Greenville University men’s tennis team won its seventh national title in 12 years.

Travis Pitman replaced Mark Kish as the Riverside High baseball coach, and Glenn Reese became the new boy’s basketball coach at Blue Ridge, replacing Jay Freeman.

Steven Gay was offi cially promoted to general manager at the Greer Country Club, replacing Zach Easler.

Coaching changes continued in June when Brian Dender left the Riverside boy’s soccer program, and Dwayne Haun resigned as Byrnes baseball coach.

Dender was replaced by Kevin Brabham, who had just fi nished his fi rst season at Greer. Greer replaced Brabham with Jorge Santos.

Travis Henson, who had led North Greenville to a national title two years earlier, was hired to replace Haun, but had a change of heart a week later. The following day, Byrnes promoted former assistant Michael Maus to head coach.

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