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Chamber Oyster Roast is Friday

The 10th annual Cypress Internal Med-icine Oyster Roast will be held on Friday (Feb. 28) from 6-9 p.m. at 3315 Brushy Creek Road in Greer.

The Greer Chamber’s oyster roast will also feature a shrimp boil and a pig pick-in’. The cost is $35 for members and $40 for non-members.

To purchase a ticket, visit greercham-ber.com.

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BY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

Byrnes football coach Bobby Bentley, who has led the Rebels to four State Championships as a head coach and two as an assistant, has announced his resignation.

He leaves to accept a new role as a quarterback coach for Auburn Univer-sity.

Auburn won the South-

eastern Conference cham-pionship last season be-fore falling in the national title game to Florida State.

“It will be an honor to work with the SEC cham-pions and work alongside coach Gus Malzahn,” Bent-ley said in a statement. “Coach Malzahn is a Godly leader and the opportu-nity was too good to turn down. It is my hope that one young person will be motivated by this story

and realize you can achieve your goals with hard work, faith in God and believing in your dreams.”

Bentley, whose son, Jake, was slated to fill the vacant quarterback job for

SEE BENTLEY | A6

Cott plant will expandBY AMANDA IRWINSTAFF WRITER

The Cott company is planning an industrial ex-pansion at its Greer loca-tion, according to Greer officials.

The plan was presented for feedback at the Greer Planning Advisory Com-mittee meeting last Thurs-day. The expansion will add 1,800 square feet of office space, 15 docks and 28 trailer parks.

“We’ve been working with Cott Beverages over the past year on expanding a number of their facilities across the country,” said Patrick Sauerland, with In-Site Real Estate.

With facilities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico, the Cott company is one of the largest pro-ducers of beverages. The company was established in the 1950s and manu-facturers, distributes and packages a variety of bev-erages, including carbon-ated soft drinks, juices, teas, alcoholic drinks, en-ergy drinks and flavored waters.

Cott is located at 1990 Hood Road in Greer.

A variance request for March 3, at 5:30 p.m. with the Board of Zoning Ap-peals is scheduled. Two parcels will be combined for the expansion requir-ing new property lines that will have to be presented to the Board of Zoning Appeals for recommenda-tion. A traffic study and sidewalks will not be re-quired for the subdivision of the property.

The next regularly scheduled Planning Advi-sory Meeting will be held on March 20.

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Bentley to leave Byrnes for Auburn

BY AMANDA IRWINSTAFF WRITER

Editors Note: This is part of a month-long series celebrating Black History Month and African Ameri-cans who have made an impact in the Greer and surrounding communities.

Born and raised in Greer, J.W. Gregory was the sec-ond of seven children to parents who were among the first black build-ing owners in downtown Greer.

“They owned sort of like a restaurant, and that kind of inspired me to want to do business because my mom worked, dad was in the Air Force, and they opened a restaurant,” he said. “I didn’t work in it, but I went back and forth watching them work.”

Gregory said his parents instilled in him that he had to work, something he also instilled in his two children. His advice to oth-ers is to get an education because “the more you know the further you’ll go,” so it’s no wonder he initially became a teacher, and during his time as a teacher, desegregation was enacted.

“[Desegregation was] rough,” he said. “I was a reading specialist…my job was to motivate.

“Kids would come in, sit in the floor, we would set goals and talk about life itself, and in the process, I would motivate,” he said.

Gregory said he wasn’t sure what it was like in other schools, but at the once all-black school he taught at in Greenville County, the process of de-segregation was not easy.

“When they transferred whites to the blacks’ school, it wasn’t the best class of white. We had rough kids to start with

and then they sent in rough kids, and the kids were having a time get-ting along and so forth. But, once they got to know us…” he said.

Gregory eventually left teaching and opened a store, Gregory’s Boutique, located at 114 W. Poinsett St. in Greer.

“I was teaching school

and starving, so I had to do something,” he said.

Cultivated by 40 years of history, his store is donned with a wall of hats, several suits and shoes, as well as framed newspaper articles and photos of locals who have since passed.

“People in Greer have been very good to me — the banks, the residents

all have been very good,” Gregory said. “I’ve not had any problem. I don’t give them any problem.

“I was always respected and accepted and I think that’s because of the way I carried myself,” he said.

When asked about Greer’s past, Gregory does not describe a race-torn

SEE GREGORY | A6

Gregory reflects on longstanding history

Bobby Bentley

‘After 22 years of teaching and coaching

at Byrnes, I can truly say that I have been

blessed beyond measure.’

Bobby BentleyByrnes head football coach

MANDY FERGUSON | THE GREER CITIZEN

J.W. Gregory has a longstanding history in Greer. One of seven children, Gregory’s parents taught him to work hard and focus on education.

WILLIAM BUCHHEIT | THE GREER CITIZEN

Sam Brown, right, a 14 year-old eighth grade student at Florence Chapel Middle School, has been � ghting a battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

BY KATIE JONESSTAFF WRITER

Sam Brown has turned something negative into something positive.

Brown, a 14 year-old eighth grade student at Florence Chapel Middle School, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at 10 years old. Now in remission, he’s sharing his survival story with others. He speaks at River Ridge Elementary and Berry Shoals Interme-diate, which is where he attended.

“It’s fun. It brings a lot

of awareness about can-cer research to a lot of the kids, because especially

in elementary school, they don’t know anything about it,” he said. “It re-ally helps to fundraise and bring money for dona-tions. It affects everyone that has cancer and will help, eventually, find a cure and make treatments and life better for all can-cer patients.”

Most students enjoy hearing him speak, “prob-ably because they get to get out of class,” Brown joked. He usually speaks on behalf of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Pasta for Pennies. Brown

SEE BROWN | A6

Leukemia survivor helps promote awareness

‘It’s made me

want to become a

pediatric oncologist

so I can help kids

like me when I grow

up.’

Sam BrownCancer survivor

ROAD TO RECOVERY NEEDS DRIVERS

The American Cancer So-ciety needs volunteer driv-ers to transport patients to local treatment centers. Anyone interested in vol-unteering as a driver must have a good driving re-cord, valid driver’s license, automobile insurance and a vehicle in good working condition. The American Cancer Society provides free training for this pro-gram.

For more information on becoming a Road to Recov-ery volunteer, contact the local office at 627-8289.

HEART DISEASE EDUCATIONCOMMUNITY NIGHT FEB. 27

Always Best Care Senior Service and the Manning House of Greer are host-ing Community Night on Feb. 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Manning House of Greer, 10 Companion Court.

The guest speaker is Marilyn Smedberg-Gobbett of WomanHeart, the Na-tional Coalition of Women with Heart Disease. She will be speaking about the warning signs of heart dis-ease and how to prevent it. Limited seating is avail-able and registration is re-quired.

For more information call Manning House of Greer at 989-0707 or email [email protected].

CYPRESS INTERNALMEDICINE OYSTER ROAST

On Feb. 28, the 10th annual Cypress Internal Medicine Oyster Roast will be held from 6 – 9 p.m. at 3315 Brushy Creek Road, Greer.

Cost is $35 for members and $40 for nonmembers. Register online at greater-greerchamber.com.

FIRST FRIDAY LUNCHEON WILL BE MARCH 7

The First Friday Lun-cheon presented by Greer Memorial Hospital will be held on March 7, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Greer City Hall. Admission is $10 for members and $15 for non-members.

Visit greatergreercham-ber.com for more informa-tion.

SAVED BY THE HEARTSOIREE SET FOR MARCH 7

The third annual Saved by the Heart Soiree by The Heart Companion Animal Services will be held on Friday, March 7 from 7 – 11 p.m.

Items will be auctioned off and food and beverag-es will be available along with live entertainment. All proceeds benefit spe-cial-needs and rescued animals.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit savedbytheheart.org.

LUNG ASSOCIATION HOSTS ANNUAL OXYGEN BALL

Five local celebrities will participate in a dance competition for the lo-cal American Lung Asso-ciation during the Upstate Dancing with the Stars Oxygen Ball on March 14, 7 – 11 p.m. at the Hilton in Greenville.

Visit www.upstateoxy-genball.com.

GREER RELIEF GALA WILL BE MARCH 15

The gala will be held March 15 at the Cannon Centre, 204 Cannon St.

General admission tick-ets are $50 and $65 after March 1. All proceeds ben-efit Greer Relief.

MTCC HOSTS ROLLING ON THE RIVER APRIL 26

The annual Rolling on the River fundraiser for Middle Tyger Commu-nity Center will be held on April 26 at 6:30 BMW Zentrum Center.

The event is an evening of games, food, music and prizes and the proceeds benefit children and fami-lies served by the MTCC.

Tickets are $50 per per-son, which includes dinner. Call Lisa Hall at 439-7760 for more information.

GOD’S PANTRYREQUESTS DONATIONS

God’s Pantry needs nonperishable food dona-tions.

Items can be dropped off at: 100 Enoree Road,

Greer, on Thursdays from 10 a.m. – noon, 2481 Rac-ing Road, Greer, on Thurs-days 1 – 4 p.m. or 700 E. Main St., Duncan, on Wednesdays 9 – 11 a.m.

For questions or to vol-unteer call Wendy at 963-4441.

GCM NEEDSSERVERS, FOOD

Greer Community Min-istries’ Fab Five donation of the week is spaghetti sauce. It is one of five items that go out in every food order.

Front desk volunteers are needed for Monday, Tuesday and Friday after-noons. Donate at the min-istry, 738 S. Line St. Ext., Greer, between 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Fri-

day. Visit gcminc.org or call 879-2254 for more in-formation.

GREER MEALS ON WHEELS SEEKS DRIVERS

GCMs’ Meals on Wheels program needs drivers for a number of routes, including weekly, month-ly or as substitutes, and presently biweekly drivers are needed.

A MOW driver must be a qualified driver with a valid driver’s license and have a heart for serving others. MOW has 19 deliv-ery routes in the greater Greer area. Meals are de-livered Monday through Friday.

For more information, contact at 879-2254 or 877-1937.

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CPW’s Tuttle named to PMPA BY KATIE JONESSTAFF WRITER

With a new Greer Com-mission of Public Works (CPW) general manager named, the commission-ers have started getting him involved.

On Monday, the com-missioners unanimously named Jeff Tuttle to the Piedmont Municipal Power Association.

Randy Olson has been serving has been serving as the CPW’s representative. Chuck Reynolds, finance manager will continue to serve as an alternate.

Tuttle begins his role as general manager March 3. Former general manager Nick Stegall retired in Sep-tember 2013.

The commission meets every fourth Monday.


TODAY, FEB. 26THE AWANAS CLUB at El

Bethel Baptist Church, 313 Jones Ave., Greer, from 6:30 - 8:15 p.m. Kids ages 3-12 are invited. Call 877-4021.

THURSDAY, FEB. 27KIWANIS CLUB at 6:30 p.m.

at Laurenda’s Family Restau-rant. Call Charmaine Helfrich at 349-1707.

THE SOAR BINGO CLUBfrom 10 a.m. - noon at Victor Gym. The cost is 50 cents per card.

FRIDAY, FEB. 28GRACE PLACE in Greer will

have its monthly dinner at 6:30 p.m. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

10 -11:30 a.m. at Calvary Christian Fellowship, 2455 Locust Hill Road, Taylors. Limited supplies available on a � rst come, � rst serve basis.

MONDAY, MARCH 3THE NEVER ALONE GROUP

OF NARCOTICS ANONY-MOUS at 7 p.m. at the Greer Recreational Center.

GRACE PLACE in Greer will have its mini-mall open from 10 a.m. - noon. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.

TUESDAY, MARCH 4THE LIONS CLUB at Lake

View Steak House, Higway 14 at 5:30 p.m.

THE NEVER ALONE GROUP OF NARCOTICS ANONY-MOUS at 7 p.m. at the Greer Recreational Center.

THE ROTARY CLUB of Greater Greer at 7:15 a.m. at Southern Thymes. Call 334-6177.

BARBERSHOP HARMONY CHAPTER at 7 p.m. at Memo-rial United Methodist Church, 201 N. Main St., Greer. Call 877-1352.

GRACE PLACE in Greer will have its clothing closet open from 6-8 p.m. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.

UPSTATE LEWY BODY and Related Dementia Support Group from 5-6 p.m. at The Haven in the Village at Chan-ticleer. Contact Gail Stokes at 350-7160 or [email protected].

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5THE AWANAS CLUB at El

Bethel Baptist Church, 313 Jones Ave., Greer, from 6:30 - 8:15 p.m. Kids ages 3-12 are invited. Call 877-4021.

GRACE PLACE in Greer will have its mini-mall open from 10 a.m. - noon. Grace Place is located at 407 Ridgewood Drive. I.D. required.

To help fundoperationsBY KATIE JONESSTAFF WRITER

Running Greer commu-nity Ministries is no cheap expense.

The food costs more than $100,000 annually. The Meals on Wheels milk alone costs almost $2,000 each month.

Another $80,000-$100,000 in food dona-tions comes from church-es, individuals and the like.

So, the $15,000 donation the ministry received from the Citizens Building and Loan Charitable Founda-tion will go a long way.

“When you start thinking about the cost of milk, the cost of trays, the cost of food and so my request to CB and L this time – even though we’ve got some other requests out for capital projects for other grants for handicapped ac-cessibility and that sort of thing, ‘CB and L’ has been a partner with us through the thick and thin,” said

Cindy Simpler, Greer Com-munity Ministries execu-tive director.

The operations aspect of nonprofits is not glamor-ous, Simpler said.

“It’s not like saying, ‘This restroom is courtesy of (Citizens Building and Loan),’” she said. “Instead, what we can say is ‘Two months worth of meals through our Meals on Wheels program are paid for.’ And that’s huge.”

Without the donation, Greer Community Minis-tries would “be begging.”

“It’s not something that I knew how to do before because my background is operations,” Simpler said. “But I’m learning to hum-bly get on my knees and say, ‘Please will you help us.’ The Greer community is huge.”

The ministry and the Citizens Building and Loan Charitable Founda-tion have been longtime partners.

“Everybody associated with ‘CB and L’ has had significant role with the ministry. It’s not been just showing up for an event,” she said. “It’s the tough stuff. Like I said, operations is not glamor-ous…We’re just so thank-ful that we have a partner like this.”

The foundation is one of about 20-25 businesses in the Greer area that is a long-term partner of Greer Community Ministries, Simpler said.

“And that’s what we need, whether it’s from individuals or churches – People who are in with us for the long haul,” she said. “The fact of the mat-ter is the growing popula-

tion is the elderly popula-tion.”

The Citizens Building and Loan Charitable Foun-dation also supports Greer Christian Learning Center, Greer Relief, Greer Soup Kitchen, Joshua’s Way and Visions of Excellence, among others.

The foundation was founded in 1999 to sup-port local nonprofits and

charities. To date, the organization has given $762,650.

“The community’s been good to us,” said Tommy Johnson, Citizens Building and Loan president/CEO. “And we want to be good to the community. This is the best way to help frag-ile citizens. We’re proud to do it and happy to do it.”

Ministry receives $15,000 gift from CBL


Citizen’s Building and Loan’s Jennifer Jones, left, presents GCM Executive Director Cindy Simpler with a donationof $15,000. Tommy Johnson, right, said this was the best way for the company to help citizens.

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In an effort to establish zoning that reflects the characteristics of the town and to establish consis-tency for future growth, Wellford Council passed the final reading for an amendment to the zoning ordinance for doublewide mobile homes and the wrecker services.

Mayor Tommy Watson said the amendment al-lows for areas with mo-bile homes to be properly zoned, the establishment of additional areas zoned for mobile homes and ad-justments to the wrecker

service ordinance. The town’s R-1 single-family zoning does not allow for doublewide mobile homes, but the now established R-3A zoning does.

At a public hearing held earlier this month, resi-dents were advised that several rezonings can be expected, including the extension of the C-3 cen-tral business district and the rezoning of the U.S. 29 corridor from R-1 resi-dential to C-1 commercial transitional, portions of Old Spartanburg Road area changed from unzoned to C-1 commercial and R-3 residential, and Blue Springs area, Jackson Mills

Area, Ridge Road Area and Meadowbrook subdivision rezoned from R-1 residen-tial to R-3A residential.

An executive session was held for contractual matters, but no action was taken on the matter. Prior to the executive session, the police department re-ported that 446 calls for services and 319 cases were handled last month.

The next regularly scheduled Wellford Coun-cil meeting will be held on March 4 at 6 p.m. at Well-ford City Hall, 127 Syphrit Road, Wellford.


By ChIp ChAnnellfor the Greer Citizen

Greer Children’s Theatre held its opening night per-formance of the Disney musical, “Tarzan” Friday at the Cannon Centre in Greer, the first of several performances throughout the week.

The musical, a popular production based on the Disney script, was per-formed before a sizable audience and included popular songs written by Phil Collins such as “You’ll be in my Heart,” and “Trashin’ the Camp,” as well as the popular “Strangers Like Me.”

The group included a cast made up of young children and teenagers, along with a few adult per-formers.

Sandy Yaggie, a Mauldin resident, attended with her daughter, who had friends in the production, and said she thought the play was well done.

“It was more profes-sional than I would have expected,” she said

While some present came to support local the-ater, many were friends and family of the cast and production team. Among them was Jayme Nelson, whose nephew was the drummer for the orchestra. Nelson said she thought the acting was good and was also impressed by the quality of the writing.

The performance was the culmination of three months’ work for the theater group, and many in the cast were pleased with the fruits of their ef-forts. Benjamin Augusta, who played the leading role of Tarzan, said he felt the performance went very well, and praised the theater group as a whole, saying the group was very talented.

Emily Pate played Tar-zan’s love interest, Jane. The performance was her twelfth production work-ing with the Greer Chil-dren’s Theater.

Pate, who is a senior at Byrnes High School, said she enjoyed working on the production because of its unique character and elements.

“The acting and music are much more ‘in-your-face’ than anything else,” she said.

She said the unique de-velopment of the romance between Tarzan and Jane was a major element of the script she liked, contrast-ing Jane’s lack of romantic expectation with that of other Disney productions.

Alexandra Eshenbaugh, who played the part of Kala, the adoptive moth-er of Tarzan, praised the work of the orchestra, say-ing she thought they did very well.

Eshenbaugh, an experi-enced theater performer, said her role was unique because it involved danc-ing, something she said put her to the test.

“We’ve come a long way,” she said.

The performers had to overcome many obstacles along the way in prepa-ration for the show. The recent winter storm that pushed through the area caused several rehears-als to be cancelled, but hard work and dedication

paid off, Director Luke Browder said.

“I thought opening night went fantastic,” he said.

Browder noted the dis-tinct challenge in using a script written for adult performance for a chil-dren’s theater production.

“This is something writ-ten for adults to do, and we’ve got kids doing it,” Browder said. “They’re very much risk-takers.”

Browder praised the work of Augusta and Pate, saying their depiction of the dynamic between Tar-zan and Jane was “spot-on.”

“It’s a great story put on by a very talented group of people,” he said.

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GCT’s ‘Tarzan’ swings into Cannon Centre

PreSton BurCh | file Photo

Tarzan, played by Benjamin Augusta, center, introduces Jane, played by Emily Pate, to his surrogate mother, the ape Kala, played by Alexandra Eshenbaugh, in the Greer Children’s Theatre’s production.

‘this is something

written for adults to

do, and we’ve got

kids doing it.’

Luke Browderdirector

the South Carolina House of Representa-tives returned from its

scheduled furlough (and winter storm) this week to a massive influx of great economic news.

The House Ways and Means Committee spent the week involved in the state budget. Working in sub-committees, look-ing at revenue numbers and debating the budget in full committee. Due to this committee work and other House commit-tee meetings, we did not spend a lot of time on the floor. The House budget will be debated on the House Floor the week of March 10.

This past Tuesday, we were greeted with the announcement of a $1 Billion investment and 500 jobs created by Toray Industries outside of Spartanburg. Toray pro-duces high-quality carbon fiber materials for the aeronautics and energy industries. The company said it liked our proximity to emerging markets in Latin America.

Local officials told the media this week that they

hope Toray’s impact will be similar to BMW’s initial announcement in the Upstate -- $420 million and 1,000 jobs. BMW’s footprint in our state has expanded radically since then, with more than 4,000 people working at the plant in Greer. One official expected Toray to “under-promise and over-deliver.” I think we all share that sentiment.

Toray is simply the lat-est in a long line of major manufacturing announce-ments that validate our efforts to create a strong business climate in our state. We must compete not only with Georgia and North Carolina, but Toray’s announcement shows that we are com-peting for jobs against sites all across the world.

The economic news announced during last week’s winter storm was

also significant. The In-ternational Trade Admin-istration announced that South Carolina merchan-dise exports increased four percent in 2013 to a record of $26.1 bil-lion in goods sold to 202 countries. We helped the United States reach an all-time high for exports of our goods and services.

Some interesting notes, our exports were up 116 percent to Turkey, up 66 percent to the Dominican Republic, up 53 percent to Chile, and up 50 percent to China. Our biggest export categories were transportation equipment, machinery, chemicals, plastics and paper.

The exports report came immediately after the announcement that we had a record year in new investment by com-panies locating or expand-ing in our state. In 2013, we recruited $5.4 billion in capital investment. That translates directly into jobs, higher salaries, and economic growth for our state.

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So...did you feel the Edgefield, earth-quake last week?

Paul didn’t.And the subsequent aftershocks?Paul didn’t.And the huge thunderstorms that just

rolled through?You guessed it.I’m not really surprised because in

1994, at around 4 a.m., and precisely 10 seconds after my cat had stuck her paw in my slack jawed, snoring mouth (some-thing she had never done prior or since), I first noticed the leaves on the plant by my bed begin to tremble, followed by the feeling of our house being dropped a foot, and then the most violent shaking I have ever felt, as we experienced the 7.1 (which means it was 30 times stronger than Edgefield) Northridge earthquake.

You’ve heard the obligatory, “It sound-ed just like a freight train!” description regarding tornados? Well, your Aunty Pam is here to tell you that a freight train is a mere anemic rumble compared to the roar of the earth bellowing all around you.

And Paul was sleeping through it.

Smacking his lips while his body was be-ing lurched from side to side like a scene from ‘The Exorcist.’

“Wake up!” I cried, shaking him as hard as I could, but being drowned out by the quake’s roar, “Paul, Paul, wake UP!”

I heard the crash of our television, in the living room, being tossed on its face from the entertainment center. I saw the plantation shutters on our bedroom windows repeatedly slamming back and forth. I heard all the kitchen and bathroom cabinets fly open and contents crashing against the wall. Had we any breakable stemware, that would have been in splintered ruins as well.

And Paul was still sleeping.Eerie, blue explosions flashed through

the Los Angeles sky - transformers blow-

ing, right and left. A million car alarms were shrieking. The house was shaking so violently that it wasn’t possible to get off the bed and the stucco walls, before my eyes, began to undulate. Our neigh-bor’s chimney crashed to the ground.

I screamed as loud as I could into Paul’s ear and, frankly, I don’t have a very high pitched voice, so it probably sounded like James Earl Jones gargling. But finally, finally, Paul woke, yelling, “What? What?” before realizing he had just been roused from a gorgeous slum-ber to the instant realization that he was on the verge of being killed.

I want to know what it’s like to be able to sleep that deeply. It must be heaven. Paradise. Bliss. Even as a kid, I could never get to sleep after being sent to bed by 8 p.m. In college, before I dropped out, I would fall asleep over my desk in my early class. I think the only time in my life I’ve ever slept well was in the 20 plus years I toured as a stand up comic. When you have to be at work, very fresh and on your game, at 9 p.m., and the adrenalin keeps you up until about 3 a.m. (as well as the after hours open

bar), one could sleep soundly until about the crack of noon.

But Paul has slept like a 14 year old Labrador since I’ve known him. And even more irritatingly, he’s that deeply asleep the second his head hits the pillow. He can snore, as well, and is so dead to the world that, once, out of frustrated fatigue, I swung a pillow, full force, at his head, and there was no reaction whatsoever.

Except another perfectly timed snore.I guess one of us has to be a light

sleeper...one of us has to be able to spring to action at the sound of a strange car coming down our drive, or a kicking horse in its stall at night, or Rosie whining at the foot of the bed at 4 a.m. because she has to be let out.

But one of these days, it is my grim de-termination to experience what that sort of depth of sleep feels like and when I set my mind to something, it generally happens.

And, as it will be an open casket funeral, you might just get to watch me, too.

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The difficult life of a light sleeper

Regulations aim to knock junk food out of schools

As announced by Michelle Obama this week, new federal regulations could soon be installed, preventing companies from displaying certain advertisements for junk food in our schools.

Gone will be the days of the ever-present Coca-Cola logo on the sides of vending ma-chines. Gone will be the familiar Lays logo on many high school scoreboards.

These regulations, if approved, would pre-vent “high calorie” products from advertising in some of the places we’re most used to seeing them.

Companies would still be allowed to advertise low-calorie or healthy products to students.

“We’ll be eliminating advertisements for un-healthy food and beverages in our schools. Be-cause I think we can all agree that our class-rooms should be healthy places where our kids are not bombarded with ads for junk food,” the First Lady recently announced.

This is just another installment of the First Lady’s war on unhealthy eating. She has made headlines before, scratching old school lunch menus in favor of new, “healthier” choices. The federal government has also been confronting the restaurant industry, requiring businesses to display calorie counts on menus.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the topic of hot debate when he began an initiative to restrict the amount of soda a person can buy in a single transaction.

You hear more and more examples of this kind of thing each day, and at some point, it has to become a little insulting. Either the federal government wants to be in our lives so much that they will go to such lengths to tell us how we can live, or they simply think we’re stupid. Both options are cause for worry.

Most of us grew up in high schools that had several soda machines scattered throughout the hallways. We saw the potato chip label while glancing at the score during a football game or we heard a glaring advertisement for pizza over the loudspeaker.

It’s kind of hard to believe someone could

think all of these ads have a serious impact on the person which they are targeting. If any-thing, the advertising companies are flooding the market, making it nearly impossible for the consumer to digest an ad for a single company.

The truth is, advertising doesn’t have much to do with our unhealthy eating habits — nor does the calorie count being absent from a menu or larger cups being available for soda slurping.

Living healthy is a ‘you’ problem. The obstacle we face in 2014 is that our society is constantly looking for someone to blame. If we have blood pressure problems, high cholesterol, diabetes or other health issues, it can’t simply be our fault. It has to be a more devious cause. It has to be the fault of big business. It has to be the fault of too much freedom.

It can’t just be a ‘you’ problem. The simple fact of the matter is that you can-

not legislate good health. There’s no law the government could enforce that would keep someone from doing what he or she ultimate-ly wants to do. That’s what is so great about America. We do have those freedoms. We are free to make our own choices — good or bad.

Sure, it’s nice to cut back on the calories. It’s even nice to brainstorm ways to find healthier choices for our kids. But, banning things be-cause you think the public isn’t smart enough to decide for themselves is a ridiculous concept. Instead of listening to the federal government judge what we should and should not be eating, why not just install some good guidelines for our own families and trust our kids to make the right decisions?

Dancingto God

Read 2 Samuel 6:12-22

David said, “I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undig-

nified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes.” -2 Samuel 6:21-22 (NIV)

While my family leaved over-seas, we attended an interna-tional church. We were all com-mitted followers of Christ but came from different countries and church backgrounds. One

woman’s way of expressing her love for Christ was an example of our different approaches to worship. During the music, she went to the back of the congre-gation; and with tambourine in hand, she started to dance while the rest of us sang

I was bothered the first time I saw her do this. I wondered what she was doing and felt uncomfortable because danc-ing was not part of my idea of worship. My initial thoughts about her dancing were similar to Michal’s response when she saw David dancing before God. I saw dancing as undignified and inappropriate for a wor-ship service.

Michal told David her feel-ings. After reading David’s response, I realized that the dancing woman expressed hr devotion to God by giving herself and her gifts to God without reservation. She didn’t care what people thought; she worshipped God with all her mind, power, and soul. I want to do the same.

Prayer: Dear God, help us make pleasing you the focus of our worship. Amen.

I saw dancing as

undignified and

inappropriate for a

worship service.

Soul survivor lost

Last weekend I attended a three-band show at Hub-Bub in Spartanburg, and

though I walked in without expectations, I walked out thoroughly rejuvenated. Fays-soux McLean, The Bent Strings and The Caroline Hi-Fives — all local bands — performed, and though I’d never heard any of them before, I’m happy I had the chance.

When music flows into my soul, the weariness of the day is washed away. With each chord progression, my mind is put at ease as the lyrics enter my ears and clear out the re-petitive, conventional thoughts that stalk my daily life, and as a result, I have the utmost appreciation for music and its majestic healing capabilities.

This is only a portion of the reason why Alice Herz-Sommer fascinated me. Sommer, who recently passed away, was the oldest known Holocaust sur-vivor, but she was much more than that. Sommer was sent to the Terezin concentration camp — a propaganda camp where arts were performed — where she performed more than 100 piano concerts.

“I felt that [music] is the only thing which helps me to have hope — this sort of religion. Music is God. In difficult times you feel it, especially when you are suffering,” she said in a short documentary about her life. What’s most amazing, though, is Sommer’s consistent optimism inspired by her pas-sion for music.

“I knew that even in this very difficult situation there are beautiful moments…even the bad is beautiful I would say, even the bad is beautiful. It has to be,” she said. Her pure op-timism, despite all she experi-enced, is inspirational, and I’m certain the world will not be as bright without her and others like her.

According to a study con-ducted by the University of Missouri, when listening to mu-sic, areas of the brain receive a rush of dopamine, and even merely remembering a song can cause this reaction as well. While science has its way of justifying music’s effect on the brain, I think its impact is far more substantial on the soul than any science experiment can quantify — and for this and individuals like Sommner, I am humbled and endlessly thankful.

Living healthy is a ‘you’ problem.

The obstacle we face in 2014 is that

our society is constantly looking for

someone to blame.

Ticket sold at Li’l Cricket

A Taylors woman has claimed a $1 million Pow-erball prize won in last Wednesday night’s draw-ing.

The winning ticket was bought at the Li’l Cricket on Wade Hampton Boule-vard and the luck winner said it was her husband’s idea to buy the ticket for a chance at the advertised $425 million jackpot.

“I didn’t really want to buy one, but I handed him a $1 and he told me he needed $2 to get the tick-et,” she said.

South Carolina lottery officials did not identify the couple.

According to the South Carolina Education Lot-tery’s website, the woman did not find out until the next day, when her hus-band called to tell her someone from the area had won $1 million.

“I thought it won’t be us,” she said.

She retrieved the ticket from her car’s cup holder, the corner wet from an iced tea she had sitting on it. She drove to a retailer for a print out of the win-ning numbers (1, 17, 35, 49, and 54 powerball: 34) to be sure the first five numbers matched, and they did.

“My husband was on the phone screaming at me to sign the ticket,” she said.

She said her husband hasn’t been able to eat or sleep since it happened.

She has one regret, ac-cording to officials. “I wish I’d given him another $1,” she said.

Had she spent the ex-

tra $1 for PowerPlay, the $1 million prize would be twice that.

“We’re happy,” said the husband. “We won $1 mil-lion.”

Li’l Cricket 3882 re-ceived a commission of $10,000 for selling the claimed ticket.

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Checkcashing for

the unbankedQ: I know you hate

payday loan companies. Do you feel the same way about check-cashing companies?

DR: Check-cashing companies are not a good deal, but they’re nowhere near as bad as payday lenders. All check-cashing businesses do is charge a fee to cash a check.

Honestly, it’s kind of silly to me that places like this can make money when all you have to do is walk into a bank and open an account. But there’s a

percentage of our population that people in financial circles call “un-banked.” This means they avoid banks for whatever reason, but in the process they leave themselves susceptible to bad deals like this.

So I don’t feel the same way about check-cashing companies as I do about payday lenders. It’s still not a financially smart move to pay a storefront operation a fee just to cash a check, but these businesses aren’t nearly as abusive as payday lenders.

Letting kids make money

mistakesQ: My 6-year old son

has saved up $400. He said he wants to buy a motorcycle with it someday, but he recently changed his mind and wants to buy a computer tablet. Is it OK for him to change his mind like this, and how should I handle things?

DR: I’m not really concerned whether it’s a motorcycle or a tablet, especially if he’s saved his own money. I think the big thing we’re looking for in all this is a teachable moment.

Certainly regret is a concern, especially with a kid so young. But the reality is that neither the decision nor the possible regret afterward will ruin his life. If you talk to him and try to advise him beforehand, and he gets upset later because he feels like he made the wrong choice, it gives you the opportunity to step in and gently say, “I’m sorry you think you made a bad choice, but that’s why I wanted you to really think about it first. You had a chance to listen to mom’s wisdom and didn’t. I’m sorry you feel sad now, but I want you to remember it and learn something from this bad decision.” It’s a process of controlled pain and natural consequences.

Allowing kids the emo-tional dignity of making some decisions for them-selves is vitally important. You just have to make sure this liberty is su-pervised and comes with parental warnings and protections. Just because they saved the money doesn’t mean they can do whatever they want. It still has to be used in a way that you, as a parent, are comfortable with and deem appropriate.

There will be some natural tension in the process, but it’s a great way to teach kids about money, maturity and life.

DAVESAYS

DAVERAMSEY

BY KATIE JONESSTAFF WRITER

When Jen Hunt was looking for work, she was shocked to find the exact job she had in Los Ange-les here in Greer. So she applied through Craigslist – then she tracked down the store’s email address-es and sent her resume – and got in touch through Facebook.

Now, as the Gatherings on Main store manager and events coordinator, Hunt does a little of ev-erything in the store: mar-keting, volunteering with Relay for Life and Brides Against Breast Cancer, de-signing and working with customers.

Hunt said she doesn’t know of another store like Gatherings on Main in Greer, which has antiques, vintage and upcycled items, as well as a café.

“It was kind of like a dream come true,” she said. “I was really sur-prised that a place like this is in Greer. I would think maybe Greenville. It’s pret-ty forward-thinking.”

Hunt has previously worked in interior design in Charlotte and interior and set design in Los An-geles. She became friends with actress Tori Spelling and the two worked to-gether for InvenTORi.

“She wanted to open a store and I never had any retail, but I was like ‘OK,

let’s do this,’” Hunt said. “I ended up doing the buy-ing and renting a store. It was kind of weird because they had the reality show following her around.”

She moved back to Greer to take care of her mother, who died in June from lung cancer.

“I moved back in 2012 and took care of her for a year straight and then she passed away,” Hunt said. “I didn’t know what I wanted to get back into. Then I saw an ad for this place. I was trying to do interior design, but I just don’t like the nine to five, sitting at a desk. I saw this place and it’s exactly like InvenTORi, except it has a café.”

Hunt’s husband is a chef at Tupleo Honey in downtown Greenville and she “has always been a foodie.” She’s worked in

restaurants as well. Six months after her

mother’s death, Hunt felt ready to return to work.

“I had taken care of my mom for a year and that was definitely a labor of love. Taking care of some-one with stage IV cancer – that’s no joke. I was so unprepared. When she passed away, I was just devastated. I literally sat around for six months. I couldn’t do anything,” she

said. “Right when I started feeling like…God and the universe and everything was like ‘You’re healed,’ I found this. It felt destiny-ish.”

The Gatherings on Main café has soups, salads and sandwiches, “lighter fare,” as well as desserts and pastries.

In addition to the store and café, Gatherings on Main is available for events like bridal showers and tea

parties. When the weather improves, she hopes to in-corporate outdoor dining.

Eventually, Hunt would like to host workshops and classes.

“It has so much poten-tial,” she said.

Gatherings on Main, at 504 and 506 N. Main St., is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The café is open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.


Despite delays, the IHOP (International House of Pancakes) in Greer is aim-ing to begin feeding the local public in mid-March, according to Brian Horne, IHOP vice president of marketing.

“The weather’s just been so crazy lately. Construc-tion is just taking a little longer than we’d hope and that’s been across all the IHOPs we’ve been con-structing lately unfortu-nately,” Horne said.

IHOP restaurants typi-cally serve breakfast, lunch and dinner 24-hours a day, seven days a week at what Horne describes as a family-dining destina-tion for all ages. A grand opening will be held and a free breakfast giveaway will probably be offered, said Horne.

“For more than 50 years, millions of people have made breakfast and dining

memories at IHOP, so our mission is to make every breakfast experience one to remember, and that’s kind of everything that we do,” Horne said.

Since first opened in 1954, of all the items served at IHOP over the past 54 years, 70 percent of the meals served are breakfast. The restaurant does offer a full lunch, dinner, kids and senior menus as well.

“We actually were look-ing for a location that we felt we could serve the community very well that had a good opportunity for us to go into, and look-ing around Greer was one of the perfect opportuni-ties where we felt there wasn’t one really close by,” Horne said. “So we felt this was a great opportunity to locate in Greer and we’re very excited about Greer and we’re very excited about coming to the com-munity.”

IHOP plans to open mid-March

Taylors woman wins $1 million lottery prize

Gatherings on Main ‘a dream come true’

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Jen Hunt is settling into her new gig as manager at Gatherings on Main after having previously worked with Tori Spelling in California.


The IHOP on Wade Hampton Blvd. is slated to open after delays in construction.

‘I was really

surprised that a

place like this is in

Greer. I would think

maybe Greenville.

It’s pretty forward-

thinking.’

Jen HuntManager, Gatherings on Main

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Oveida D. BarnettOveida Louise Darnell

Barnett, 73, of 6 Tumble-weed Terrace, died Feb. 23, 2014 at the McCall Hospice House of Greenville.

A native of Governor’s Is-land, N.Y., daughter of the late William Benton and Willie Mae Loveless Dar-nell, she was a graduate of Blue Ridge High School and attended North Greenville College. She was a retired employee of Fluor-Daniel and a member of Fairview Baptist Church.

Surviving are her hus-band of 57 years, Buddy Norvell Barnett of the home; daughter, Pamela Barnett Williams (Tommy) of Greer; two sons, Benton Darnell Barnett of Lyman and Paul Norvell Barnett of Greer; a sister, Shirley Mc-Curry (Bill) of Lynn, N.C.; and two grandchildren, John and Julia Williams.She was also predeceased by a sister, Mary Lou Still-well.

Graveside services were held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, conducted by Dr. Tom Burns at Mountain View Cemetery in Greer.

Visitation was held 1-2:15 p.m. Tuesday at The Wood Mortuary. The fam-ily is at the home.

Memorials may be made to Susan G. Komen Foun-dation, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, Texas 75265-0309.

A special thanks to care-takers Ken and Tina Mc-Cormick.

Online condolences may be made at www.thewood-mortuary.com.

Marie HughesMarie Hughes was lifted

from this life on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014.

Born on June 2, 1916 in Greenville, S.C. to the late Ansel and Lois Johnson Hughes.

If you are one of the fortunate middle school students who had “Miss Hughes” as your teacher, then you know how awe-some she was. Her stu-dents could tell that she loved them and had a passion for sharing the wonders of science with them. Chances are, she was your all-time favorite teacher. Fellow teachers adored Marie, too. Her humor, helpful attitude, and professionalism were a standard admired by her students and colleagues alike.

After retiring from teach-ing, she chose to pour her time, energy, and finances into helping people. She was a rock of comfort to her beloved sister, Susan and Susan’s chil-dren, Hannah, Dante, and Hope, who were also the

children of Marie’s heart. Marie served as a volun-teer organizer and cook at the Greer Soup kitchen, where her legendary cook-ing skills helped feed the homeless and hungry. Ma-rie always planted a huge garden so that she could share the produce with ev-eryone she knew.

Marie was a loyal mem-ber of the Rowdy Retirees, a group of retired teachers who meet monthly to ex-ult in their freedom from lunch duty and other odi-ous teaching chores, to share news of former stu-dents and colleagues, and to celebrate birthdays.

Often, Marie was the creator of delicious cakes baked for the birthday cel-ebrants. Marie was the life of our gatherings, sharing memories and stories that sent us into paroxysms of laughter. Our lunches will never be the same now. Along with all who knew and loved her, we never dreamed that such a vibrant, young-hearted supporter could leave us so soon.

Marie is survived by one sister, Susan H. Cox of Tay-lors; special nephew and nieces, Dante Cox, Hope Marie Cox an Jahanna Cox all of Taylors; an aunt and uncle, Lena H. and Homer Farr, Jr., and family of Greenville and nephews and niece, James Cox and family, Joseph Cox and family all of Greenville and Jennifer Jones and family of Spartanburg.

Visitation will be held 12:30-1:30 p.m. Wednes-day at Wood Mortuary.

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Wood Mortuary conducted by Dr. Eddie Leopard and Mr. Willie Rowe, Jr. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Park.

The families will be at their respective homes.

Memorials may be made to the Greer Soup Kitchen, P.O. Box 2344, Greer, S.C. 29652 or Fairview Baptist Church, 1300 Locust Hill Road, Greer, S.C. 29651.

Marie was a kind person who went out of her way to help others, standing up for the oppressed and afflicted and against stu-pidity and injustice with the fierceness of a mama grizzly bear. We grieve your passing, Marie, but rejoice that your suffering is ended and trust that our wise, good God orders our days, determining when our end should come. We loved you so much. Go with God and rest in peace until we meet again.

Online condolences may be made at www.thewood-mortuary.com.

E. Richard Taylor, Jr.Earle Richard Taylor, Jr.,

age 83, died on Feb. 19, 2014. Born on Dec. 29, 1930, he was a native and life-long resident of Greer and the son of the late Earle Richard Taylor and Thelma Barbare Taylor.

He received a B.S. in Horticulture in 1953 from Clemson College and served in the Sixth Infan-try Regiment of the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1956, where he achieved the rank of First Lieutenant.

He joined his family’s business, Taylor’s Or-chards, in 1956, where he grew and packed peaches, raised beef cattle, grew ap-ples and other crops, and developed real estate until his retirement. He served on the Agricultural Com-mission of South Carolina from 1977 to 1982, on the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Peach Council for many years, as President of the Greenville County Farm Bureau, as President of the Greenville County IPTAY Club from 1969 to 1970, and as an IPTAY Representative for many decades.

He was a member of the Greer Lions Club for 56 years and received recog-nition for his service to the Lions Club by being made a Melvin Jones Fel-low in 2003.

He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Karo-lyn Kendrick Taylor; his son and daughter-in-law, Earle Richard Taylor, III and Christine Gaffney Taylor of Atlanta, Georgia; his son Charles Kendrick (“Ken”) Taylor of Greer; and three grandchildren: Earle Richard Taylor, IV, Mary Gaffney Taylor, and Luke Kendrick Taylor.

The family will receive friends at the home.

Funeral services were held at First Presbyterian Church, 100 School St., Greer, on Feb. 22, 2014 at 11 a.m. Burial followed in Wood Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memo-rial contributions may be made to First Presbyte-rian Church, 100 School St., Greer, S.C. 29651 or Greer Community Minis-tries, P.O. 1373, Greer, S.C. 29652.

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Byrnes in the fall, was not available for further com-ment.

“This is a huge loss for District Five, but we’re ex-tremely happy for Coach Bentley,” said District Five Superintendent Dr. Scott Turner. “He has served this district for many years as a quality coach, an excellent role model, and a champion for kids. He’s involved in every as-pect of their lives: not just on the playing field, but in the classroom, in church, and in the community. We’ll miss him greatly.”

Last week the Rebels’ football program was la-beled the sixth best “dy-nasty” in America by Ri-vals.

“As a fourth grader in Mrs. Linda Corne’s class at Duncan Elementary School, I dreamed that I was going to be the football coach at

Byrnes High School,” Bent-ley’s statement continued. “After 22 years of teach-ing and coaching at By-rnes, I can truly say that I have been blessed beyond measure. Growing up wanting to be a Rebel and helping build a program that is known nationally was a dream.”

Bentley said Byrnes has seen tremendous success through the years.

“As a 25 year old head coach in 1995, to say we

struggled would be an un-derstatement,” the state-ment read. “In 1995 we scored nine touchdowns in a season. We passed for nine touchdowns in one game this year. We have come a long way because of people believing and following a dream. We started the youth program with one sport and 120 players. Now we have 11 sports in D5 SAC and over 1000 athletes.”

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community, but rather a constantly growing one.

“Now Greer’s big and I think that we had the right kind of leaders and it re-ally boomed, but the best is yet to be seen,” he said.

Gregory’s concerns for the future change aren’t race-related either.

“I think that there’s a need for more jobs, I think that there’s a need for a better education system,

more community involve-ment,” he said.

Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama are two prominent black figures Gregory said

he holds in high regard.“To me, it means that I

can work because of Mar-tin Luther King. So we work. We don’t take that day off,” he said.

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has also helped organize a blood drive for The Blood Connection.

“It makes them en-joy and want to bring in money instead of feeling like they’re being forced to fundraise,” he said. “I think it brings a good at-titude about it.”

Brown tells others about all that can happen with a cancer diagnosis and how dangerous it can be.

“People really need to work to raise money for it and things like that so we can some day find a cure, or at least better medi-cine, so we can have better success rates instead of as many people dying or amputated or things like that because of cancer,” he said.

He had his last chemo-therapy treatment in Octo-ber and is enjoying getting back to normal. Brown works part-time at Zax-by’s, going to school and playing in the band.

“Now I feel really good,” he said.

The family tried to live as normally as possible while Brown was sick and going through treatment, said his mom Ashland Brown.

“We always had a very positive outlook,” she said. “We felt like it was best to be as normal as possible and keep him on schedule with his brother. I think he had a big advantage hav-ing a twin brother because they share friends.”

Having two other chil-dren – Jake, Brown’s twin, and Jill, 10 – helped with normalcy, his mother said. Jake Brown has also spo-ken about his brother’s illness.

Brown eventually wants to be a pediatric oncolo-gist to help kids like him.

“It’s made me more mature, more knowledge-

able about medicine,” he said. “It’s made me want to become a pediatric on-cologist so I can help kids like me when I grow up. I think that was a pretty big change in my life.”

Tammy White, Florence Chapel Middle principal, said Brown is an outstand-ing student.

“He’s just an awesome young man. We’re so proud of him,” White said. “Sam’s a great student. Right now he’s taking honors class. He’s taking two high school credit classes this year. He is an outstand-ing student. He gets along with everyone — teachers and students.”

Last year, he was on the grand level of Duke TIP (Talent Identification Pro-gram).

“For seventh graders that means they scored in the 90th percentile and above on the SAT that’s normally taken by stu-dents at the high school level. This year, he’s a ju-nior scholar,” she said. “He’s pretty awesome.”

Brown has never sought special attention or privi-leges, “although we try to take care of him,” the prin-cipal said.

“One of the things that he really wanted to do – and I’ve tried to honor it. It’s been hard – He just wanted be a middle-schooler,” she said.

It helps others to hear his story, White said.

“I think it helps us all really grow in our compas-sion for what others may be going through,” she said. “It’s a reality check.”

Even an as adult, White said she wouldn’t have handled it as well as Brown.

“I feel like I, myself, as an adult, I don’t know if I would have handled it as well, to be honest with you. I actually nominated him last year for (Rep.) Trey Gowdy’s ‘I Am An Achiever’ program and he did receive (it). It’s just so outstanding what he does,” White said.


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Sam Brown said he wants to become a pediatric oncolo-gist and help others in their battle with cancer.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION

The TLC Circle of the United Methodist Women, an organization of Dis-ciples United Methodist Church (DUMC), located in Greenville, will host the Claflin University Concert Choir from 2-6 p.m. March 2 at the church, 185 Riley Smith Road.

The choir’s powerful young voices will give at-tendees a journey through various genres of music steeped in African Ameri-can history. All proceeds and donations for the event will benefit the Claf-lin Scholarship Fund. It is free to attend.

For more information, please visit the DUMC web-site at mydisciples.org.

OFFERING FREE FOODEBENEZER WELCOME

The Bread of Life Food Pantry at Ebenezer Wel-come Baptist Church, 4005 Highway 414, Landrum, is open on Thursdays from 2-4 p.m.

The pantry is open to families in need of as-sistance. Photo ID is re-quired.

For more information, call 895-1461.

SINGLES BIBLE STUDYPELHAM ROAD BAPTIST

Pelham Road Baptist Church, 1108 Pelham Road, Greer, hosts a Sin-gles Bible Study each Sun-day from 6-8:30 p.m.

SMALL GROUPSGREER FIRST BAPTIST

ENGAGE Small Groups began this past Sunday. Groups offered include Co-Ed Young Adult Sin-gles (twenty-somethings - 35), Newlywed Married Couples (couples married less than five years), Mar-ried with Children (middle adult ages with children

or youth) and Co-Ed Older Adults (married or single over 35).

Groups will meet in the Family Life Center. Dough-nuts and coffee will be available beginning at 9:15 a.m. and the class begins at 9:45 a.m. There will be a large group time and the last part of the class will consist of small group dis-cussion times. Class will be lead by Pastor Rick.

GRIEFSHARE OFFEREDAT FAIRVIEW BAPTIST

Fairview Baptist Church, 1300 Locust Hill Road, Greer, will host Grief-Share, a support group led by Carol Allen, on the sec-ond Sunday of each month from 4:45 - 6:30 p.m.

For more information, contact Carol Allen at 292-6008.

CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOLREDEEMER LUTHERAN

Redeemer Lutheran Church, 300 O’Neal Road, Greer, conducts Sunday School at 9 a.m., followed by the worship service at 10 a.m. each Sunday.

Redeemer’s pastor is Scottie Burkhalter.

For more information, call 877-5876.

TNT TUESDAY CONTINUES AT OUTREACH MINISTRY

New Beginnings Out-reach Ministry will host a bible study entitled “TNT Tuesday” every other Tuesday (beginning Dec. 3) at 105 Marshland Lane, Greer.

New Beginnings Out-reach meets on Sundays at

611 Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer, from 10-11:30 a.m. in the lower level of the strip mall across the street from Kia Dealership.

For more Information, call 325-2714.

GROWTH GROUP MEETSAT RIVERSIDE BAPTIST

Signups are now under-way for “Growth Goups” at Riverside Baptist Church, 1249 South Suber Road.

These small groups study the Bible together and challenge each other to grow in their walk with Christ. If you are already in a Growth Group, there is no need to sign up.

JUDGEMENT HOUSE TRIP AT RIVERSIDE BAPTIST

Riverside Baptist Church will be taking a team to Ohio for the Judgement House Mission Trip, slated for March 22-26. The Cost of the trip is $225 per per-son (double occupancy). All trip fees will be due by March 16.

For more information, contact the church, lo-cated at 1249 South Suber Road, at 879-4400.

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Churches wishing to list upcoming events and programs in Church News should send information to [email protected] call 877-2076.

You may also stop by the office, located at 317 Trade Street, to submit news.

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November and Decem-ber seem to be the typical months when churches, schools and other orga-nizations promote food drives to help the hungry. After all, Thanksgiving and Christmas are two of the biggest meal-related holidays.

But as January rolls around, many local food pantries begin to experi-ence a shortage of food. Hungry folks still show up for food, but donations are sparse.

To help meet the need during the “down times,” Springwell Church has de-cided to collect food dur-ing the entire month of February to help stock the shelves at Greer Relief.

“We plan to do this twice a year during a non-typical month,” said Rev. Brandon Higginbotham, creative arts pastor for the church. “We want to fill the pan-tries during their leaner times.”

The idea first took shape when Springwell member, Karen Burks, felt called to feed the hungry. She approached the pastoral staff, who were already looking for a way to min-ister to the community, and the food drive began to take shape.

“At this point, we are just accepting non-perish-able items,” said Higgin-botham. “We’re a Greer church and we wanted to help Greer Relief.”

To encourage the church family to donate items, the pastoral staff set up a gro-cery shelving display in the lobby, where they could leave their items and see how their donations were helping to meet the needs of the community. But the shelves were quickly filled, and the donations

started to pile up around the display. The church has already donated 1660 food items to Greer Relief this week.

The church hopes to do the drive again in late summer or early fall – an-other time when the food pantries are in need of do-nations.

Donations will be re-ceived at Springwell Church through Feb. 28. Springwell is located at 4369 Wade Hampton Blvd. in Taylors.

Springwell Church feeds the hungry

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Creative arts pastor Brandon Higginbotham said the church hopes to supply food during less busy seasons.

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Springwell Church in Greer is on a mission in February to collect food for Greer Relief. Donations will be received through Feb. 28.

‘We want to fill the

pantries during

their leaner times.’

Brandon HigginbothamCreative Arts Pastor

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Registration for annual GCM Golf Tournament underway

Event will be May 9

The Dick Brooks Honda Meals on Wheels Invita-tional golf tournament has opened registration for the May 9 event at Greer Country Club.

The 17th annual tourna-ment benefits Greer Com-munity Ministries.

Golfers and sponsors

should register online at DickBrooksHondaMOW-golf.com. There is a limit of 48 teams of four and the deadline to sign up is March 31.

Each golfer will receive a gift bag, grilled lunch and snacks. Cost is $160 per individual and $640 per team. Teams will be split into morning and after-noon sessions with a shot-gun start. Winning teams will receive cash prizes.

Competitions this year

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There are many levels of sponsorship support avail-able: partner, $5,000; plat-inum, $2,500; gold $1,500; contest sponsor, $500 and hole sponsors, $125.

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BAPTISTAbner Creek Baptist Church2461 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6604Airport Baptist Church776 S. Batesville Rd., Greer • 848-7850Apalache Baptist1915 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6012Bible Baptist Church6645 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-7003Blue Ridge Baptist Church3950 Pennington Rd., Greer • 895-5787BridgePointe600 Bridge Rd., Taylors • 244-2774Burnsview Baptist Church9690 Reidville Rd., Greer • 879-4006Calvary Baptist101 Calvary St., Greer • 877-9759Calvary Baptist108 Forest St., Greer • 968-0092Calvary Hill Baptist100 Edward Rd., LymanCalvary Road Baptist Church108 Bright Rd., Greer • 593-2643Camp Creek Baptist Church1100 Camp Creek Rd., TaylorsCedar Grove Baptist Church109 Elmer St., Greer • 877-6216Community Baptist Church642 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 848-3500Double Springs Baptist Church3800 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors • 895-1314Ebenezer-Welcome Baptist Church4005 Highway 414, Landrum • 895-1461El Bethel Baptist Church313 Jones Ave., Greer • 877-4021Emmanuel Baptist Church423 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-2121Enoree Fork Baptist Church100 Enoree Dr., Greer • 268-4385Fairview Baptist Church1300 Locust Hill Rd., Greer • 877-1881First Baptist Church202 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 877-4253Freedom Fellowship Greer High • 877-3604Friendship Baptist Church1600 Holly Springs Rd., Lyman • 877-4746Good News Baptist Church1592 S. Highway 14, Greer • 879-2289Grace Baptist Church760 W. Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3519Grace Place407 Ridgewood Dr., Greer • 877-7724Greer Freewill Baptist Church110 Pine Ridge Dr., Greer • 968-0310Heritage Chapel Baptist Church218 Alexander Rd., Greer • 989-0170Highland Baptist Church3270 Hwy. 414, Taylors • 895-5270Hillcrest Baptist Church111 Biblebrook Dr., Greer • 877-4206Hispanic Baptist Iglesia Bautista Hispana199 Hubert St., Greer • 877-3899Holly Springs Baptist Church250 Hannon Rd., Inman • 877-6765Locust Hill Baptist Church5534 Locust Hill Rd., Travelers Rest • 895-1771Maple Creek Baptist Church609 S. Main St., Greer • 877-1791Milford Baptist Church1282 Milford Church Rd., Greer • 895-5533Mount Lebanon Baptist Church572 Mt. Lebanon Church Rd., Greer • 895-2334New Hope Baptist Church561 Gilliam Rd., Greer • 879-7080New Jerusalem Baptist Church413 E. Poinsett St., Greer • 968-9203New Life Baptist Church90 Becco Rd., Greer • 895-3224Northwood Baptist Church888 Ansel School Rd., Greer • 877-5417O’Neal Baptist Church3420 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0930Pelham First Baptist Church2720 S. Old Highway 14, Greer • 879-4032People’s Baptist Church310 Victor Avenue Ext., Greer • 848-0449Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church201 Jordan Rd., Lyman • 879-2646Pleasant Grove Baptist Church1002 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-6436

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church4899 Jordan Rd., Greer • 895-3546Providence Baptist Church2020 Gibbs Shoals Rd., Greer • 877-3483Rebirth Missionary Baptist Church2375 Racing Road, Greer • 877-0449Riverside Baptist Church1249 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 879-4400Second Baptist Church570 Memorial Drive Ext., Greer • 877-7061Southside Baptist Church410 S. Main St., Greer • 877-2672St. John’s Baptist Church2 Groveland Rd., Taylors • 879-2904Suber Road Baptist Church445 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 801-0181Taylors First Baptist Church200 W. Main St., Taylors • 244-3535United Family Ministries13465 E. Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer • 877-3235Victor Baptist121 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 877-9686Washington Baptist Church3500 N. Highway 14, Greer • 895-1510Welcome Home Baptist Church1779 Pleasant Hill Rd., Greer • 901-7674

CATHOLICBlessed Trinity Catholic Church901 River Rd., Greer • 879-4225

CHURCH OF CHRISTRiverside Church of Christ2103 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 322-6847

CHURCH OF GODChurch of God - Greer500 Trade St., Greer • 877-0374Church of God of Prophecy2416 N. Highway 14, Greer • 877-8329Eastside Worship Center601 Taylors Rd., Taylors • 268-0523O’Neal Church of God3794 Berry Mill Rd., Greer • 895-4273Pelham Church of God of Prophecy139 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 801-0528Praise Cathedral Church of God3390 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 879-4878

EPISCOPALGood Shepherd Episcopal200 Cannon St., Greer • 877-2330

LUTHERANAbiding Peace Ev. Lutheran Church401 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville •288-4867Apostolic Lutheran Church453 N. Rutherford Rd., Greer • 848-4568Immanuel Lutheran Church & School LCMS2820 Woodruff Rd., Simpsonville • 297-5815Redeemer Lutheran Church, ELCA300 Oneal Rd., Greer • 877-5876

METHODISTBethel United Methodist Church105 E. Arlington Ave., Greer • 879-2066Covenant United Methodist Church1310 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 244-3162Ebenezer United Methodist Church174 Ebenezer Road, Greer • 987-9644Faith United Methodist Church1301 S. Main St. (S. Hwy. 14), Greer • 877-0308Fews Chapel United Methodist Church4000 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-2522Grace United Methodist Church627 Taylor Rd., Greer • 877-7015Lee Road United Methodist Church1377 East Lee Rd., Taylors • 244-6427Liberty Hill United Methodist Church301 Liberty Hill Rd., Greer • 968-8150Liberty United Methodist Church4276 Highway 414, Landrum • 292-0142Memorial United Methodist Church201 N. Main St., Greer • 877-0956Mountain View UMC6525 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-8532Sharon United Methodist Church1421 Reidville Sharon Rd., Greer • 879-7926St. Mark United Methodist Church911 St. Mark Rd., Taylors • 848-7141

St. Paul United Methodist Church3856 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-5570Victor United Methodist Church1 Wilson Ave., Greer • 877-5520Woods Chapel United Methodist Church2388 Brown Wood Rd., Greer • 879-4475Zoar United Methodist Church1005 Highway 357, Greer • 877-0758

PRESBYTERIANBlue Ridge Presbyterian Church2094 Highway 101 North, Greer • 483-2140Devenger Road Presbyterian Church1200 Devenger Rd., Greer • 268-7652Fellowship Presbyterian Church1105 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 877-3267First Presbyterian Church100 School St., Greer • 877-3612Fulton Presbyterian Church821 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3190

OTHER DENOMINATIONSAgape House900 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 329-7491Anglican Church of St. George the Martyr427 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville • 281-0015Barton’s Memorial Pentacostal HolinessHighway 101 North, GreerBethesda Temple125 Broadus St., Greer • 877-8523Beulah Christian Fellowship Church1017 Mauldin Rd., Greenville • 283-0639Calvary Bible FellowshipHoliday Inn, Duncan • 266-4269Calvary Chapel of Greer104 New Woodruff Rd. • Greer • 877-8090Christ Fellowship343 Hampton Rd., Greer • 879-8446Christian Heritage Church900 N. Main St., Greer • 877-2288Christian Life Center 2 Country Plaza • 322-1325Christian Outreach 106 West Rd. • 848-0308El-Bethel Holiness 103 E. Church St. • 968-9474Faith Family Church3339 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 244-0207Faith Temple5080 Sandy Flat Rd., Taylors • 895-2524Glad Tidings Assembly of GodHighway 290, Greer • 879-3291Greer Mill Church 52 Bobo St., Greer • 877-2442Harmony Fellowship Church468 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 877-8287Harvest Christian Church2150 Highway 417, Woodruff • 486-8877International Cathedral of Prayer100 Davis Avenue • Greer • 655-0009Lifesong Church12481 Greenville Highway, Lyman • 439-2602Living Way Community Church3239 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0544Mountain Bridge Community Church1400B Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer • 350-1051New Beginnings Outreach104 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 968-2424New Birth Greenville3315 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 848-2728New Covenant Fellowship2425 Racing Rd., Greer • 848-4521New Hope Freedom109 W. Wade Hampton Blvd. • Greer • 205-8816New Life in Christ 210 Arlington Rd. • 346-9053Point of Life ChurchWade Hampton Blvd. • Duncan • 426-4933Springwell Church4369 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 268-2299Trinity Fellowship Church3610 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 877-04191700 N. Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville • 244-6011United Anglican Fellowship1001 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 629-3350United Christian Church105 Daniel Ave., Greer • 879-0970United House of Prayer213 Oak St., Greer • 848-0727Upstate Friends’ Meeting (Quaker)39 Hillcrest St., Lyman • 877-9392Upstate Tree of Life203 East Bearden St., Greer • 848-1295Victorian Hills Community Church209 Victor Ave. Ext., Greer • 877-3981Vine Worship Center4373 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 244-8175

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The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office is investi-gating an early Saturday morning shooting on Pel-ham Road that left a Moore man (Rodney J. Nesbitt) dead on his 29th birthday and a woman seriously in-jured.

According to a statement released by The Greenville Sheriff’s Office, a 911 call came in at 3:38 a.m. Satur-day morning regarding a disturbance with possible shots fired at 4100 Pel-ham Road. When deputies responded to the scene, all parties involved had al-ready left the scene. How-ever, deputies received information about a pos-sible suspect’s vehicle and located the vehicle in the roadway in front of 3645 Pelham Road.

Upon approaching the vehicle, deputies learned two of the vehicle’s oc-cupants had been shot in the head, one of which (Nesbitt), was pronounced dead on the scene. The female victim was trans-ported to a local hospital. Nesbitt was a U.S. Army veteran who had served in Iraq. The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office closed a portion of Pelham Road until 9 a.m. Saturday morning to investigate the incident.

Investigators are still searching for the shooter(s) and ask anyone with infor-mation on this roadway altercation/shooting to call Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME.

69-YEAR-OLD MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER

A 69-year-old Greenville man is behind bars after police say he shot a female victim to death in his home on Old Easley Bridge Road. Kenneth T. Campbell, 69, of 2504 Old Easley Bridge Road, Greenville, has been charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

According to a state-ment from the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, police received a 911 call shortly after 5 a.m. Friday morning regarding a gun-shot victim at the above address.

Upon arrival, deputies located Campbell as he was exiting the residence and detained him before proceeding into his resi-dence, where they located a deceased female victim with at least one gun-shot wound. Campbell was transported to the Greenville County Deten-tion Center where he was later charged. If convicted, Campbell could face life in prison.

(Note: All information contained in the following blotter was taken directly from the official incident reports filed by the Greer Police Department or The Spartanburg County Sher-iff’s Office or The Green-ville County Sheriff’s Of-fice. All suspects are to be considered innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.)

DUI, HIT AND RUNJane Marie Tyk, 66, of

439 S. Buncombe Road, Greer, has been charged with driving under the in-fluence and hit and run on a highway fixture.

According to incident reports, an officer was dis-patched to an area due to a report of an intoxicated driver. Dispatch advised that the vehicle left the roadway on Brushy Creek and struck a sign in front of Century Park. The offi-cer initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle on Lake Av-enue. Upon approaching the vehicle’s driver (Tyk), the officer noticed she was very disoriented and un-able to complete her sen-tences. The officer asked Tyk to step out of the ve-hicle numerous times so he could perform a series of field sobriety tests. She, however, refused to do so and was then arrested and transported to the Greer City jail, where she refused a breathalyzer.

ASSAULT AND BATTERYLennell Dyches, 18, of

105 Kelly Ave., Greer, has been charged with two counts of assault and bat-tery (third).

According to incident re-ports, an officer respond-ed to an address on South Main Street in reference to a complaint of an assault that happened on Kelly Avenue. Upon arrival, the officer met with two fe-male victims.

One of the victims stat-ed Dyches grabbed her by the arm and used force to push her to the ground after the two of them got into a verbal altercation.

The second victim stated Dyches threatened to beat her up before shoving her to the ground and pouring a drink all over her.

Dyches was later ar-rested and booked at the Greer City Jail.

POSSESSION ALCOHOL, DRUGS

Cody Anthony Kovach, 20, of 3 Derry Lane, Greer, has been charged with pos-session of beer by a minor, possession of drug para-phernalia and being drunk in public. He also had war-rants pending for posses-sion of marijuana with the intent to distribute and possession of drugs.

According to incident reports, an officer was on routine patrol within Greer city limits when he observed a silver vehicle roll through a stop sign.

When the officer initi-ated a traffic stop on the vehicle, its driver exited the vehicle and walked to the back of the vehicle be-fore being ordered by the officer to get back in the vehicle. When the officer approached the vehicle, he noticed both the driver and passenger (Kovach) to be acting very nervously.

Officers asked both the driver and Kovach to step out of the vehicle, when it became obvious the two were attempting to hide something. Officers ob-served a scale and rolling papers in the passenger side dashboard of the ve-hicle. Kovach admitted to the officers there were drugs in the vehicle.

A search of the vehicle yielded three white pills, marijuana packaged for distribution, a marijuana grinder, two green glass pipes, an unopened bottle containing an alcoholic beverage and a cash draw-er containing a large sum of money.

Kovach confessed to the officers he sold marijuana. He was transported to the Greer City Jail. The driver of the vehicle was charged with rolling through a stop sign.

FAILURE TO COMPLYJami Regina Lakeman,

29, of 1605 Victor Hill Road, Duncan, has been charged with failure to

comply. Gary Robert Ad-ams, 29, of 115 Keith Ave., Greer, has been charged with possession of meth, possession of marijuana (second), improper tag, driving under suspension and possession of drug paraphernalia.

According to incident reports, an officer was on routine patrol within Greer City limits when he observed a vehicle being driven without the use of headlights. Just when the officer turned around to initiate a traffic stop on the vehicle, the vehicle pulled into the Kwick store parking lot.

The driver of the vehicle (Adams) entered the store and stayed inside for a lengthy amount of time. Eventually, the officer made contact with Adams and the passenger (Lake-man). Adams was unable to produce his driver’s license and the officer learned his license was suspended and Lakeman had an active failure to comply warrant.

She was immediately placed under arrest. Ad-ams refused to give the of-ficer permission to search the vehicle, so the officer called for a K9 unit from the Duncan Police Depart-ment. The dog gave a posi-tive alert that drugs were in the vehicle.

A search of the vehicle yielded a bag of mari-juana, four needles (one of which contained clear liquid meth), a spoon and several baggies containing meth residue. It was also discovered that the tag on the vehicle belonged to an-ther car.

Adams stated the drugs and paraphernalia be-longed to him. He was ar-rested and transported to the Greer City jail.

POSSESSION DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

Nicole McKenzie, 25, of 105 Greenvield Dr., Green-ville, has been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Gregory Jason Beal, 34, of the same address, has been charged with posses-sion of drug paraphernalia and has a possession of heroin warrant pending.

James Andrew Groover, 31, of 41 Spring Crossing Circle, Greer, has been charged with simple pos-session of marijuana, pos-session of drug parapher-nalia. He also has a warrant pending for possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.

According to incident reports, an officer was dispatched to 41 Spring Crossing Circle in refer-ence to a burglary in prog-ress. Upon the officer’s arrival, she observed three male subjects at the en-trance of the residence and one female subject in a Honda Civic outside the residence. The officer drew her weapon as two of the subjects ran inside the residence. The other male subject and the female subject were ordered to the ground.

McKenzie admitted to having a needle inside the Honda. The officer located the needle and placed her under arrest. A search of the male subject (Beal),

who had been ordered to the ground, yielded two spoons and a needle. Two small bags of heroin that Beal admitted were his were found on the ground behind the vehicle. One of the male subjects that had run into the house was cleared from investiga-tive detention and allowed to leave the scene. The other subject (Groover) was found hiding in the residence. It was con-firmed by the homeowner Groover owned the spare bedroom in the residence. Inside this room, police found five needles, a scale, a spoon, dozens of small clear bags and two bags of methamphetamine.

All three subjects were arrested and transported to the Greer City jail.

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Yancey, 21, of 94 Old Bo-swell Road, Travelers Rest,

has been charged with: DUI, driving under sus-pension (second), open container in vehicle and possession of drug para-phernalia. He also has a warrant pending for pos-session of ecstasy (pend-ing analysis).

According to incident reports, an officer con-ducted a traffic stop on a vehicle and its driver (Yancey) within Greer city limits due to faulty equip-ment. Yancey told the offi-cer he didn’t have his driv-er’s license with him. The officer detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from Yancey’s person and noticed his speech to be slurred.

Yancey was asked to step out of the vehicle and a series of field sobriety tests were performed on him, which he failed. He was placed under arrest, and a search of his vehi-cle was conducted which yielded a flask of whis-key, a digital scale, small empty Ziploc bags, a short straw and a small pill with a mushroom imprinted on it believed to be ecstasy.

Yancey was transported to the Greer City jail.

MULTIPLE CHARGESChristopher Ryan Asbell,

22, of 800 S. Main St. 9D, Greer, has been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and carry-ing a concealed weapon (other than a pistol).

According to incident reports, an officer was on routine patrol in Greer City limits when he observed a vehicle parked in the dark at the Family Dollar park-ing lot. As the officer was approaching, he observed the driver (Asbell) moving around frantically inside the vehicle. When the of-ficer asked Asbell why he was sitting in the parking lot in the dark, Asbell told the officer he was search-ing for his phone charger.

The officer observed

Asbell’s eyes to be glassy and bloodshot. Asbell gave the officer permis-sion to search his vehicle and the search yielded a knife containing a seven inch blade hidden under Asbell’s jacket. A search of Asbell’s person yielded two spoons, two needles, a glass pipe and a small bag containing trace amounts of a white powder.

He was arrested and transported to the Greer City Jail.

MULTIPLE CHARGESShanna F. Gates, 38, of

109 Frontage Road, Spar-tanburg, has been charged with failure to acquire a vehicle license, driving un-der suspension (second), possession of drug para-phernalia, failure to com-ply warrant and failure to appear warrant.

According to incident reports, an officer was on routine patrol when he ob-served a silver Honda dis-playing an expired dealer issued license plate. The officer initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle and its driver, Gates.

Gates told the officer she did not have a li-cense tag. The officer then learned she had two ac-tive warrants with Greer Police. Gates was placed under arrest and provided the officer with consent to search the vehicle, which yielded a glass pipe.

She was transported to the Greer City Jail.

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It’s a feeling I’ll never get tired of. That “North Carolina just

beat Duke” feeling. That same emotion has

been felt more than 130 times before from genera-tions of Carolina fans.

Last Thursday night, however, marked a special one in the Dean E. Smith Center.

It’s no secret that my Tar Heels have seen some struggles this season. Sure, North Carolina de-feated teams like Louis-ville, Michigan State and Kentucky early on, but the team also dropped games to the likes of Belmont and the University of Alabama at Birmingham before starting 1-4 in conference play.

And trust me, Carolina fans have heard about it all season. I was watching Clemson play Wake Forest with a couple of friends back in January, and it didn’t take long for the Tar Heels’ sloppy play to be the topic of conversa-tion/ridicule.

Since then, UNC has been on a hot streak.

North Carolina had won its previous eight games leading into the rivalry matchup with Duke—which put the sports world on hold last Thursday night.

You could feel the anticipation, too. Even in my Taylors, S.C. living room, there was a sense that the roof was about to come off the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill.

North Carolina didn’t play great either. Duke built a solid lead and maintained it throughout most of the game. The Devils tortured UNC on the backboards early in the second half, securing second chance points and stretching their lead to 11 at one point.

I don’t know if any of you have ever experienced such a rivalry, but being down 11 to your nemesis feels like you might as well forfeit and go home. That’s not what hap-pened.

The Tar Heels re-sponded by hitting shots and cleverly switching defenses at key moments, coming from behind to steal its ninth win in a row.

But, this victory was much sweeter. Players said they could feel the floor shaking with a few seconds remaining on the game clock. Everyone knew what was coming.

At a university where it has become commonplace among traditionalists to say “we don’t storm the court unless we win a national championship,” students flooded onto the floor, quickly removing any trace of the hard-wood. All that was left was a sea of blue.

It was special to watch. My wife and I celebrated with a hug, while my dad sat on the couch (a place he refused to leave be-cause he said it was help-ing Carolina come back to win) grumbling about the kids rushing the floor.

“No,” he exclaimed. “Don’t storm the court. We don’t do that.

“Act like you’ve been there before,” he added.

These kids had just witnessed their team beat Duke in one of the loud-est basketball games I’ve heard in a while. Let them have fun.

As one person on twit-ter put it: students who saw their team lose a home game to Belmont earlier in the season are allowed to rush the floor when they beat Duke.

As I tried (and failed) to go to bed, I could only think one thing…

“Why can’t the season just end tonight?”

SPORTSThe Greer Citizen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014

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Kyle Peheny has only been playing varsity foot-ball for two years, but NCAA Division I coaches have taken notice.

The senior defensive back, who had 41 tackles and 7 interceptions for the Blue Ridge football team this season, signed a letter of intent to play his col-lege ball at Presbyterian College last week.

“This is a great example for our other athletes to model after,” Tiger coach Shane Clark said. “He did have a huge learning curve to get through in a short amount of time.”

Peheny said the decision was a tough one.

“It really came down to two colleges, Newberry and Presbyterian,” Peheny said. “What decided it for me wasn’t necessarily the football aspect, it was the college itself. The college has a great reputation and you’re guaranteed suc-cess going to that school. It’s a family atmosphere and we’re going to build a great program. It’s going to be really exciting.”

Peheny hopes he can go in and have an impact

with his new team imme-diately.

“They just recently moved to NCAA Division I football and they’re just getting over the hump,” Peheny said. “Everybody there is ready to succeed and already to make a name for a small Division I school. I’m excited to be apart of that.”

Clark said the speedy defender has plenty of po-tential.

“He’s very fast,” Peheny said. “They may end up

SEE PEHENY | B4

Survive and advanceBY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

The Rebels are still alive.

With two postseason wins under its belt, the Byrnes boys’ basketball team advanced past South Pointe and Spring Valley last week, meeting Hill-crest in the quarterfinals of the Class AAAA play-offs on Tuesday.

Results of that game were not available at press time, but Byrnes coach Layne Fowler said his team has shown plenty of heart in the playoffs.

“The kids are really buy-ing into what we’re doing and they’re buying into each other. They’re just trusting and competition,” Fowler said. “Earlier in the year we were kind of streaky. We would only play a quarter or two, or sometimes we would play three quarters. They’ve re-ally put it together.”

The Rebels began their

playoff run with a 71-62 win over top-seeded South Pointe.

“They just played so to-gether,” Fowler said. “They had some preparation go-ing into the South Pointe game and we clicked on all cylinders. You could just see it in their eyes. They believed it when they got there. I think the region prepared them for those kind of games.”

Byrnes led by eight at the half and maintained that lead throughout the second half to secure the win. Syverio Jones led the team with 18 points on the night, while Bouvier Howard and Jaylan Foster added 14 points and 13 points respectively.

The Rebels were not done, pulling out a 63-54 win over Spring Valley on Saturday.

“South Pointe was 95 miles and Spring Valley was way out there so it was a little bit of a slow start,” Fowler said. “They weren’t satisfied with just one win. They really rallied around each other.”

Jones again led the team with 25 points, sparking

several key runs to seal the win. Fowler said re-gion play has prepared his team to face some of the state’s more difficult op-ponents.

“Our region play really prepares you for playoff basketball,” Fowler said. “South Pointe was as ath-letic a team as I’ve seen in my years in our state. They’re just so athletic, but we’ve got some good players too. They didn’t let it intimidate them.

“There’s just so many good players and good teams that, on any given night, can beat you,” he said.

Byrnes faced Hillcrest yesterday (Feb. 25).

“They’ve got some re-ally good, solid pieces,” Fowler said. “They’re fast and athletic and they’ve been tough all year for teams. They can shoot the three and they’ve got guys that can finish in the post. You’re going to have to have a collective effort defensively to have a chance.”


Eastside wins state titleBY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

Last week was a lot like déjà vu for the Eastside wrestling team.

The Eagles captured their second consecutive state championship with

a 47-21 win over Socastee. The win marks another milestone for a program that has become a dynas-ty.

“Winning a region cham-pionship every year (since the late 1990s) and win-ning 10 championships over that time period, a lot of people have put in a

lot of time and effort into this program and what it has accomplished,” East-side coach Jack Kosmicki said. “A lot of people have played a part in this. That’s what I cherish the most, the relationships I’ve built with everyone involved.”

Eastside fell behind quickly in the champion-

ship dual. Mike Fernandez lost a decision to Socast-ee’s Joseph Smolenski and Eastside’s Jesus Esparza was pinned by Kyle Bur-ton, securing a nine-point deficit for the Eagles.

The defending champi-ons would respond, how-ever, winning the next sev-en matches, which would

be enough to seal the win.Taylor Chemell (170

weight class), Cole An-derson (138), Clay Walker (132), David Walker (126), Fred McCurry (113) and Zane Mitchell (106) each won by pin for Eastside.

“It’s special,” Kosmicki said. “You could say it’s special because of all the

success we’ve had, but more importantly to me it’s special because of all the people that have been involved with this success since I’ve been here since ’95.”

Kosmicki said the team had plenty of distraction to throw them off in route

SEE WRESTLING | B4

Back-to-back champions


Eastside’s Clay Walker powered his team to another state championship last Wednesday during a 47-21 win over Socastee. Walker is wrestling for his fourth individual state title this week.

Rebels defeat South Pointe, Spring Valley

BILLY CANNADA | THE GREER CITIZEN

Blue Ridge’s Kyle Peheny, third from left, signed his letter of intent to play football for Presbyterian last week.

Tigers’ Peheny signs withPresbyterian

FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN

Byrnes is moving on in the playo� s after upsetting top-seeded South Pointe last week. The Rebels faced Hillcrest on Tuesday.

‘A lot of people have

played a part in

this. That’s what I

cherish the most,

the relationships

I’ve built with

everyone involved.’

Jack KosmickiEastside wrestling coach

‘The college has a

great reputation

and you’re

guaranteed success

going to that

school. It’s a family

atmosphere and

we’re going to build

a great program.’

Kyle Peheny

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By Billy CannadaSportS Editor

The Lady Eagles came up short against Daniel last week, falling in the first round of the Class AAA playoffs 60-49.

Eastside finishes with a 16-8 overall record on the season.

“We got down early,” Eagle coach Cindy DeHart said. “At the beginning, we were really feeling their full court pressure and we once we got down, we played the rest of the time as hard and as smart as we have played.

“We just couldn’t quite get ourselves out of the hole,” she said.

Eastside outscored Dan-iel in the fourth quarter, but the damage was al-ready done, and the Eagles were sent packing. Daniel was 21-32 from the free throw line, while Eastside was only 17-28.

“I was very proud of the girls,” DeHart said. “They did not quit and they fought until the very end. We went in there with a positive attitude and we knew we could compete even though they were a very good basketball team. We’re young, but they

went in with that attitude and played until the horn went off.”

DeHart said her team has nothing to be ashamed of this season.

“We had a great year,” DeHart said. “We lost three games that were within eight points. That would have given us first place. We know we competed well, we know we’ve im-proved and we know we’ve got a bright future.”

Eastside saw several of its young players step up this season, including Tay-lor Thompson, Allie Miros, Grace Jordan, Megan Jones and Danae Ferguson.

“We’ve got youth and we gave some of those youth experience,” DeHart said.

“They’re going to have to step in and play.”

Their play this season will serve as a stepping-stone for the future.

“We have a good number of youth coming back,” DeHart said. “Hopefully we’ll continue to build and be better next year than we were this year.”

DeHart said this team was a fun one to coach.

“They were probably the most pleasurable group to work with,” DeHart said. “They were always happy and they were always ready to work. They liked each other and they had a great sense of humor. They realized that, as im-portant as basketball is, it’s a game that teaches you how to deal with life.”

Although the season may be over, the Lady Eagles plan to get a lot ac-complished in the offsea-son.

“We take off a couple of months and come back during the offseason,” DeHart said. “Quite a few of our girls run track so they’re occupied. Around June or so, we’ll get back in the gym and go to camp. I like to give my kids some time to be kids, but around September we’ll start go-

Eagles fall to Daniel

LowerRichland wins 74-39By Billy CannadaSportS Editor

The Blue Ridge girls’ basketball team ran into more than it could handle in the second round of the Class AAA state playoffs last week, falling to Lower Richland 74-39 after earn-ing a 57-51 win over Pal-metto in round one.

Head coach Byron Hardy said his team has nothing to regret.

“The girls played with tremendous effort,” Har-dy said. “They battled, banged and did everything they could possibly do, but there’s a reason (Low-er Richland is) 23-1.”

Hardy was pleased with the Tigers’ performance against Palmetto.

“Palmetto is an extremely well-coached team,” Hardy said. “They’re strong and they’re very good at what they do. We were down by three points going into the third quarter and we had to come back to win that game.

“It was just a good over-

all team performance,” he said.

Blue Ridge’s playoff run was cut short, however.

“(Junior) Courtney Rob-inson was about 75 or 80 percent after spraining her ankle (against Palmetto),” Hardy said. “That’s hard when you have to play the best team in the state on Saturday.

“Had Courtney been healthier, things may have changed a little bit,” he said. “I don’t know if the final outcome would have been different, but usually when she would have gone in for a layup, she was having to pull up for jump shots. It was really kind of a rough game.”

Blue Ridge started out steady against Lower Rich-land.

“We were only down by about seven in the first quarter, but they ran a press the entire time and when you have about 20 different girls that you’re subbing in and out, I don’t have that kind of fire pow-er on my bench,” Hardy said. “Lower Richland has three or four girls at every position that can come in and they don’t lose any ground. It’s hard to battle against something like that.”

The Lady Tigers will lose key seniors Ross Mathis

and Eden Holombo, who each recorded more than 1,000 points for Blue Ridge during their careers.

“When you lose two 1,000 point scorers, there’s going to be a little bit of a drop off,” Hardy said. “I still think there are some things to build on.”

Hardy said his team nev-er gave up.

“We were very proud of their effort,” Hardy said. “They didn’t give up or back down. 20-5 on the season is a great record no matter who you are. We knew we were going in for a battle and the girls performed as best they could.”

The head coach knows he will have to make some adjustments in the offsea-son.

“Our style of play will be different next year be-cause I won’t have the out-side shooting I’ve had in the past, but it should be a good tea,” Hardy said. “Will we finish at the top of the region, I don’t know, but I think we can battle and get to the playoffs again.

“We’ll have a year to re-load,” He said. “We’ll just have to get after it and see how it goes.”



Despite making the play-offs for the first time in five years, the Byrnes girls’ basketball team was dealt a tough 70-40 first round loss against top-seeded Greenwood.

Rebel coach Stacey Par-ris said she was proud of her team.

“We were just really ex-cited about making the playoffs,” Parris said. “It was a really good goal for our program to meet. It was important for our older kids to get to the playoffs and get that expe-rience. Nobody really had that experience.

“It was nice to see where we are, how we measure up and what we need to work on,” she said.

The Lady Rebels fell be-hind early in round one and were never able to rebound on the road. Par-ris said the loss will give some of her younger play-ers something to think about in the offseason.

“It’s exciting for the girls that are coming back be-cause we’re only gradu-ating two,” Parris said. “I think they’re really hungry and they’re really excited about going forward. All year round we’ve done training and we’re just re-ally proud of the girls for the time they’ve put in. The playoffs was their re-ward for all they’ve done and now that they’ve ex-perienced it, they’re even more hungry.”

The playoff experience is going to be valuable go-ing forward.

“We want to keep build-ing, and this was that first step,” Parris said. “This will give us the confidence we need.”

Parris said she will re-member this team for its ability to battle in tough spots.

“We finished the season with eight players and they worked really hard,” Par-ris said. “We have a really strong nucleus of young players coming back. Now, we have numbers, which

is a good thing. We’re ex-cited about the numbers we have going into next season. It changes how we can play.”

Byrnes will take some time off to regroup, but will be back to work soon.

“We’ll take about two weeks off and after the state championship we’ll start right back,” Par-ris said. “We’ll do some weights and conditioning. We’re pushing the girls to do travel teams so it will definitely be a big sum-mer. We’ll have about five or six seniors next season so we want to spend a lot of time with them over the summer.”

Senior leadership is go-ing to be key for the Lady Rebels heading into next season.

“It will be a veteran group,” Parris said. “We’ll have a lot of depth, a lot of speed and a lot of height. There’s going to be some potential in next years’ team.”


Billy CannadaSportS Editor

Eastside’s hopes of reaching another state title game were cut short last week, as the Eagles fell on the road in a heartbreaker to Dreher 55-53.

The Eagles knocked off Wren in the first round by a score of 46-44.

“In the playoffs, you’ve got to be good, but you’ve also got to be a little bit lucky,” Eastside coach Tom Chamness said. “The ball just bounced their way at the right time. That’s just what happens.”

Chamness’ team, which is no stranger to close games, got all it could handle from Wren in the opening round.

“Wren played really hard. They shot the ball extremely well,” Chamness said. “When we scouted them on tape, we knew they didn’t shoot well from the perimeter, but they did that night. They played extremely well and it was a dog fight right down to the end.”

Eastside then had to go on the road to face Dre-her.

“Going to Dreher, we had done our homework,” Chamness said. “We knew it was going to be a tough place to play and a tough environment. It was a little bit out of our routine, but ultimately we missed some shots where we had some

open looks. That hurt us down the stretch.”

Eastside was down six at halftime at Dreher, but took a nine-point lead late in the game to put the home team on the ropes.

“We weren’t trying to run the clock, but we were trying to be picky about

the shot we were going to take,” Chamness said. “We were still running our of-fense, but they ended up kind of chipping away at our lead. They pressed us and that gave us a little bit of trouble.”

A late go-ahead shot sealed the win for Dreher.

“At the end of the day it was a hard-fought game and I was proud of the way

we played in that environ-ment,” Chamness said. “It really could have gone either way. I felt like we were in a position to win, but we missed a couple of free throws in the last little bit that would have helped us.”

Eastside finishes with a 20-7 record.

“They were upset and I told them I wouldn’t ex-pect anything less. You’re upset because you care,” he said. “You care about yourself, you care about your teammates, you care about the program and you’re winners.”

Chamness said he was proud of his team’s effort all season.

“I just couldn’t have been any more proud of what they accomplished this year,” Chamness said. “It’s tough when you’ve only got two guys that have re-ally every played varsity minutes. To win 20 games is impressive. That’s our third consecutive year of 20-win seasons.”

Eastside seniors that be-gan varsity competition as sophomores wrap up their careers with a 70-13 over-all record.

“That’s something to celebrate and be proud of,” Chamness said. “They have to stick their head up because they played their hearts out. That’s all you can ask.”


Eastside comes up short against Dreher

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Eastside’s Wesley Johnson slams one home during the Eagles two-point win over Wren last week.

‘I just couldn’t have

been any more

proud of what they

accomplished this

year...To win 20

games is impressive.

That’s our third

consecutive year of

20-win seasons.’

tom Chamnesseastside boys’ basketball coach


The Lady Tigers came up short on the road against Lower Richland last week, ending the season with a 20-5 record.

Defending champs knock out Lady Tigers

Greenwood ousts Byrnes

‘they realized that,

as important as

basketball is, it’s a

game that teaches

you how to deal

with life.’

Cindy DeHarteastside girls’ basketball ooach

wednesday, February 26, 2014 sports the greer citizen b3


Five area basketball teams were left on the out-side looking in as postsea-son play cranked up last week. Those teams, how-ever, are already shifting their focus towards next season.

Greer BoysThe Yellow Jackets were

in unfamiliar territory dur-ing postseason play this year.

Jeff Neely’s team nar-rowly missed the play-offs after falling short in key games against several teams this season.

The head coach said Greer could have played with anybody.

“We saw that we were a good enough team to play with everybody we played with,” Neely said. “That’s also a negative because we lost some games we should’ve won. I just felt like we could’ve competed with anybody, and now that I’ve seen some of the other teams in the state, we’re as good as anybody I’ve seen.”

Not having a chance to compete for a state cham-pionship did not sit well with Neely.

“We didn’t fulfill our goal, but we’ve got a lot of good kids returning and we’ve got an opportunity to be very good next year,” he said.

The way the season end-ed was especially tough for the seniors.

“All the seniors played a key role this year,” Neely said. “Matthew Moore, Dre Terry, Connor Hash and Anthony Parks all played and started most of the time. We’ll definitely miss them. They were good players and that always makes it a little harder.”

With a long offseason ahead, Neely said his re-turning guys are going to do a lot to prepare for a 2015 run.

“Things have changed a lot with the high school league,” Neely said. “You can do more than you used to during the offsea-son, but summer is where we can get most of our work in.”

Part of that preparation will include playing as many basketball games as possible.

“We want to get in the gym and play a lot,” Neely said. “Most of our kids are involved in AAU during the offseason, so they’ll be involved in that during the spring and into July. They will play all the time.”

Neely said the Yellow Jackets will have some po-tential next year.

“I think they can do whatever they want to do,” Neely said. “I just felt like we never gelled this year. If we can do a better job of that, these guys that are coming back are going to

have a chance to be really good.”

For Greer, it’s about learning from mistakes that have been made.

“We felt like we should have been in the play-offs,” Neely said. “We felt like we were one of the best teams. We have to do some things to make sure that the same things that kept us out of the playoffs this year don’t happen next year.”

Greer GirlsThe Greer girls’ basket-

ball team did not see the finish it hoped for this season, but coach Carlton Greene said the Lady Yel-low Jackets’ youth provide a bright future for the pro-gram.

Greer finished with a 13-11 overall record on the season, and Greene said he saw improvement.

“We improved a good bit from last year,” Greene said. “I think our players have grown and matured and really were just a few minutes away in each game from having a highly successful season.”

Interest in the program continues to grow.

“We have about 25-27 girls in our program,” Greene said. “We’re look-ing at the possibility of having 35 girls in our program, and players will be competing for playing time. It’s a nice problem to have if you’re a coach.”

Adding young players to a roster with experience could make the Yellow Jackets dangerous next season.

“With only one senior, we’re looking forward to

great things next year,” Greene said. “We’ll have about five or six seniors next year and our other girls will be a little bit older and more wise in the game of basketball.”

Greene said he saw shades of his team’s po-tential this year.

In certain games, there were quarters where we could see the level of play they were capable of,” Greene said. “Our chal-lenge as coaches is to get them to play at that level every single night. Some-times we were able to do that and sometimes we weren’t able to do that.

“One of the things that’s really exciting about next year is that, during sev-eral of the games they’ve

played, they’ve shown they’re ready to turn that corner and be consistent,” he said.

The offseason will con-sist of workouts and get-ting more game experi-ence.

“They’ll do some trav-el ball and AAU stuff,”

Greene said. “We’ll pick up in June with workouts and things like that.”

Greer will have a new tool to help its players during the summer.

“With the help of some fundraising, we were able to purchase a Shoot-A-Way machine,” Greene said. “That will give us more individual and team op-portunities. We’ll be able to see how our players are developing.”

The new technology will be a valuable asset for coaches.

“In practice you can say, ‘that person looks like they’re shooing pretty well,’ but you don’t have any hard and fast data,” Greene said. “The machine we’ve got gives us that hard data. We can look at the numbers that the ma-chine records and we can do a lot of things that help us figure out how best to utilize that player offen-sively.”

riverside BoysDespite struggling in the

second half of the season, the Riverside boys’ basket-ball team has the makings of a good team.

That’s what first year coach Greg Miller believes, and his team hopes to prove it on the court next season.

“This team had good comradery. It was like a family-type atmosphere,” Miller said. “It was just a tight-knit group and it really showed how they stuck together through all the down slopes of the sec-ond half of the season.”

Miller said he continued to see a fighting attitude from his group.

“They always came back ready to practice and wanting to work,” Miller said. “Most importantly, they came back and en-joyed each other’s compa-ny. The day we came back from all those snow days, it was neat to see how all the kids missed being in the gym and missed being around one another. That bond we were able to help create with them will hope-fully last a long time.”

With several players re-turning, Miller said the po-tential will be there.

“Their potential is un-limited,” Miller said. “It all comes down to the off-season. The old adage of ‘players are made in the offseason, teams are made in season’ I think is 100 percent true. These kids are talking, they’re ready to come back and get to work. They want to be the best basketball players they can be, so if every-

thing falls in line and ev-eryone shows up to work, I think we have unlimited potential.”

For Riverside, the offsea-son will be about promot-ing leadership.

“I want to try to create leaders,” Miller said. “I want to teach them not to just show up and play. There’s a purpose behind everything you do and hopefully that will drive them to continue to want to work hard.”

Miller said he has begun to settle into his new gig and believes he is sur-rounded by people who want the best for the pro-gram.

“This is a great place,” Miller said. “The parents, players and administra-tors are very supportive. We just really feel a lot of support in trying to build and grow the program into what we all want it to be.”

The Warriors will get some much-needed time off, but will get back to workouts in a couple of weeks.

“We’re definitely going to hit the weight room as soon as possible,” Miller said. “We want to get big-ger, faster and stronger. The new rules allow us to start practicing the day after the state champion-ship game. We’re not go-ing to jump in there full speed, but we’re going to utilize that time to do some skill work, get a lot of shots up and keep the family together.”

riverside GirlsFor a team that is used

to winning a lot more than just a handful of games, this season was a tough one for the Lady Warriors.

The Riverside girls’ bas-ketball team is relying on a young core, however, to ig-nite success next season.

“This was an important year for a lot of folks,” Riverside coach Jenny Taylor said. “We only lose two seniors. We’ve got four starters coming back. I think this is just a year we needed to iron things out. It was a totally differ-ent group that we had out there this year. We had some things we had to work through.”

Despite the ups and downs, Taylor said her team had great leadership throughout.

“I felt like we had great leadership from our kids,” Taylor said. “They worked hard. They never quit. I think this was a learning year for a lot of our kids. We had some very young, inexperienced players, so it was a good thing for us

(to get them that experi-ence).”

Taylor saw her team start to gain some traction in the final two games of the season.

“I thought we played the last two games really well,” Taylor said. “We were right there in the ball game and I think that shows the improvement we made throughout the year.”

Riverside’s offseason is going to focus on players getting faster, stronger and more consistent.

“We’ve got to get stron-ger and we’ve got to get quicker,” Taylor said. “We’re going to work on those things. We’re going to play a lot and practice during the summer and just continue to get better. We’ve got to really work on our quickness and just individual things. They’ve got to work on ball han-dling and finding their shot. We have to change the way we shoot. We have to be more consistent. Our percentage this year wasn’t what it needs to be.”

Blue ridGe The Tigers’ slow start

to the season hurt them down the stretch, keeping them from any hopes of a playoff run in 2014.

Blue Ridge went on a los-ing streak throughout the first half of the season, go-ing 1-9 before finally pick-ing up a win over Greer af-ter the Christmas holiday.

That win sparked a cou-ple more for Blue Ridge, which took down Pickens, Eastside and Berea in the weeks that followed.

The Tigers wrapped up the season with a 72-56 loss to Greer.

This season marked the return of head coach Ray Riley, who has plenty of history in this region, hav-ing coached Blue Ridge in several previous seasons.

“We’re going to lose four big seniors and they will be hard to replace,” Riley said. “We’ve got to bring up our JV guys and, begin-ning the second week of March, we’ll start lifting and running.”

In the offseason, the process for Blue Ridge will consist of filling holes where need be and getting stronger.

“Going into the sum-mer, we’ll get our alumni in here and start playing some pick up games,” Ri-ley said. “We know what we’ve got to do now. We’ve got to find a post player and a back up point guard. It will be a process, but I think our guys will work hard.”

Area teams set sights on future


The Greer girls’ basketball team wrapped up the season with a 13-11 record, but it was not enough to get the Lady Yellow Jackets into the playoffs.


Greer’s Matthew Moore led his team to a blowout win over Blue Ridge, but the Yellow Jackets were left on the outside of the postseason looking in.

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Coming off a year in which it struggled, Riverside will be looking to rebuild next season.

‘We have to do some

things to make sure

that the same things

that kept us out of

the playoffs this

year don’t happen

next year.’

Jeff Neelygreer boys’ coach

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The Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District has applied to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control for a Water Quality Certifi cation for the construc-tion of the Greenville-Spartan-burg Airport Authority Logistics Park on an approximate 240 acre site located to the south-west of the intersection of East Poinsett Street (Route 290) and J. Verne Smith Parkway (Route 80) in Greer, SC.

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even using him as a spe-cial teams type player. His speed gives him a lot of op-tions. He’s just very coach-able.”

Peheny said he has had to learn a lot of football in just two years.

“Everyone’s support is going to stick with me,” Peheny said. “Everyone has supported me through this. I’ve only been play-

ing football for two years and they’ve supported me like I’ve been playing it my whole life.”

The senior is excited for the next chapter in his football career.

“It’s just going to be a new experience,” Peheny said. “This gives me a fresh start with something new.”

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to another championship.“The biggest obstacle we

ran into was the schedul-ing,” Kosmicki said. “It felt very off, but the kids did a great job of overcoming and focusing on what they had to do. They just fo-cused on the task at hand and went out and battled hard.”

The head coach had time to reflect on what the win

means for his program on the long drive back to Eastside last Wednesday night.

“If you were an eighth grader or younger since my first year at Eastside in ’95, everyone of those kids from that class and since then have all been associated with a state championship team,” Kosmicki said. “You want everybody to have that op-portunity. It’s rare to be

able to find one person, and here you have almost 19 years worth of students that are able to say, ‘I was on a state championship team.’”

Seven Eastside wrestlers qualified for the individual portion of the state tour-nament. Those included: Mitchell, Charlton Clark, David Walker, Clay Walk-er, Anderson, Chemell and Fernandez.

“All seven have a legiti-

mate chance to win,” Kos-micki said. “Not all seven are favored to win, de-pending on who you ask, but in my mind they all have a shot.”

Other area wrestlers competing in the indi-vidual state tournament include Blue Ridge’s Jer-emy Holbrooks (132) and Jordan Mills (138).



The Byrnes boys’ basket-ball team is moving on in the playoffs, and senior guard Syverio Jones has been providing the spark.

Jones scored a combined 43 points in games against South Pointe and Spring Valley, advancing his team to the third round of the Class AAAA state playoffs and earning The Greer Cit-izen’s and Clock Restau-rant/Clock Express’ Player of the Week honors.

Jones said the two wins meant a lot to his team.

“It means a lot,” Jones said. “Coach just told us to believe in ourselves, stay positive and just to work hard. We’ve been working hard in practice and we’ve been trying to start off ev-ery game with a lot of en-ergy. If we play together as a team, we’ll go far.

“We’ve been getting bet-ter and better as the sea-son goes along,” he said.

In his final year with the team, Jones has seen his

role take on more respon-sibility.

“I think my role is to keep the team together and keep their head on straight,” Jones said. “I just want to help keep every-body focused and keep our energy level up.”

Jones said he has been trying to become more of a leader.

“I just have a leadership mentality,” Jones said. “I love all my teammates and I don’t want to let them down. Every move I make and every decision I have to make, I have to be smart.”

After somewhat of a slow start to the season, the Rebels have been on a tear. Jones attributes the success to hard work.

“We practice a lot and we run a lot of drills so when the game starts we’ll be ready for anything,” he said.

His team upset a No. 1 seed in the first round, and Jones said his team loves having the pressure on them.

“It wasn’t a surprise,”

Jones said. “Coach just told us to go out there and play good basketball and once we all played good basketball, we ended up coming up with the win. (Being in these situations is) very fun, but it is tense. I like that. The whole team likes that.”

The Rebels took on Hill-crest on Tuesday. Results

were not available at press time.

“It’s going to be a hostile environment,” Jones said. “We just have to stay fo-cused and just listen to the coaches and do our part on the court.”


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FILING NOTICE = Town of LymanNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a non-partisan election will be held in the Town of Lyman on Tuesday, JUNE 10, 2014 at which time a Council member will be elected for a four year term beginning JULY 7, 2014.

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The FINAL day for filing the papers for the office of Council member is noon on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Filing receipt must be presented to the Spartanburg County Voter Registration and Elections office.

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Despite the country’s move-ment toward renewable energy, in South Carolina,

mills are a dying way of life. This leaves Suber Mill as one of the few — if not the only — continuous running grist mills in the state.

“They talk about energy being in short, anybody on the street ought to be making their own power now. This costs nothing. The water’s going to run down hill,” Jim Suber said.

The Suber family has owned and operated Suber Mill, located at 2002 Suber Mill Road, Greer, since 1908, and it is presently owned by its fourth genera-tion — husband and wife Jim and Linda Suber, who, with the assistance of a cousin, run the mill every Tuesday and Friday.

“My daddy went to run the mill when I was about 12, and I just helped him and when he re-tired — about 1980 — just kind of moved into his job,” he said.

The mill used to be a sawmill owned by the King family, but was converted to a corn mill when the Suber family took over and began producing cornmeal, grits and feed. Feed, however, is no longer made at the mill because of the labor it

requires.The water-powered mill takes

about 30 minutes to start up and is fueled by water running from a holding pond that flows down a wooden chute pour-ing onto a large, vertical, steel wheel and propelling it forward. The wheel, weighing about 4,000 pounds, is composed of four separate sections and has been replaced three times since 1908.

“When I first come down here

they said, ‘You better hope that belt down there don’t break or that wheel don’t run away and tear the mill down.’ Had me scared half to death. And it actually happened, but it didn’t get but so fast,” Jim said.

The wheel presently in place was installed in 1988 and is the first brand new wheel used at the mill, and the second steel wheel used. The first steel wheel was installed in 1949. The wheel sits behind the build-ings, and behind the wheel is a tattered wall that has been weathered.

“It’s about the only [water-powered grist mill], I don’t know about the oldest, but we’re the only one that’s con-tinually run. At one time the state give an exemption for the water powered mills from the inspection because it’s tough on old buildings, and there were only two of us then,” Jim said.

The mill buildings themselves are composed of multiple levels settled onto a slope, and the entrance room is accented by white-dust leftover from gristed products. The walls are adorned with photos of the generations before — James Asford Suber, Walter Hillary Suber and Walter Hillary Suber Jr.

“Dad run a saw mill when I was growing up. Then I got 11 or 12 years old and great-grand-pa died, and he left the mill to his two sons and daughters and they offered daddy a chance to buy their part. So that’s the way we lined up with it,” he said. “He was running the saw mill and working at textile mill too. He said anything other than that would be better.

“My dad really he learned it from his grandfather, which is my great grandfather,” Jim said. “And he said he used to come over here when he was real young and follow him around and would always talk about running it, but he hadn’t had his chance to get into it until af-ter he (great-grandfather) died.”

The process of breaking down the corn begins with shelled pieces being dropped into an upper portion of the mill with the assistance of a forklift.

“The corn actually drops through the middle of the top rod, which is turning. And you’ve got a bedrock on the floor that’s stationary and the corn just runs between the two rods,” he said.

The position of the rods changes how course or fine the grains are and, when the rods are raised, the results are cours-er creating grits rather than cornmeal. Up to 100 pounds of corn can be gristed in an hour, depending on the size of the order.

The biggest hazard in the job is slipping or falling when replacing gears or spokes due to the water and steepness.

“We try to do a little bit every year to keep it up — put new boards on, new spokes, new gears. Just normal maintenance really though, no more than you would with any other machine,” Jim said.

“Everything’s pretty basic. If you grew up doing it you don’t really think about it,” he said.

Jim said he hopes to keep the mill in the family, but someone in their 20s or 30s would have to take over.

“You’ve got to be able to do a lot of mechanical work and not want to get rich,” he said. “You can work yourself for years and not get rich.”

The mill used to be required to keep up with inspections, but now it is considered historic and receives exemptions for updates to maintain the historic integrity of the facility.

Future plans for the mill will include a viewing deck in the back beside the water-wheel.

“We’re going to have a good observation deck,” Jim said. “That back wall fell out about a month ago and so we opened it up and we gonna build us a little window up there.

“I love it. I love it. I’m 70, I wouldn’t be working if I didn’t,” he said.

LIVING HEREThe Greer Citizen

B6 THE GREER CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014

History flows

from Suber Mill

‘You’ve got to be able to do

a lot of mechanical work

and not want to get rich.

You can work yourself

for years and not

get rich.’

Jim Suber


Linda Suber helps her husband operate Suber Mill. Above she weighs cornmeal for a shipment to Greer Quality Foods.

Fourth generation carries on family business

Adjusting the rods changes grain courseness.

Out the window the large steel, water-wheel can be seen.


Jim Suber is a fourth generation miller at the historic Suber Mill. With the assistance of his wife and cousin, he carries on his families business.

PART 1

Editor’s Note: The follow-ing story is a recollection of true events from a fishing trip that took place a few weeks ago. Some names have been changed to protect certain people from offense, embarrass-ment or anger.

You just never know what you’re going to get with fishing

guides. When my brother Phil

first saw Billy in the res-taurant that morning, he thought he was going to rob us.

It was about a quarter after six on day two of our trip to central Florida, and we were eating at an IHOP with the two men we’d fished with the day before.

“Listen, I’m gonna put you two with Billy, today,” said Bud, the 84-year-old owner of the guide ser-vice. “I got to take these two guys from Canada out, but Billy here knows how to fish and where to go. He’ll do a good job.”

He nodded his head at the guy sitting across from us. The man had curly red hair he kept inside a greasy hat with a fishhook on the bill. His complexion was tan and tough, like his skin could withstand the sunlight anywhere in the world. His eyes were blue, with deep lines etched around them. He wore a Harley Davidson Daytona T-shirt and tattered blue jeans. His gut pushed like a soccer ball against his shirt and he wore a baby blue cast on his arm that looked 10 years old.

In the next few min-utes, we learned quite a bit about him. When we told him we were from S.C., he said he’d gone to basic training at Paris Island before flying out to Vietnam.

“I was a sniper,” he said in a gravelly Southern accent. “I’d wait for those little heads to come up out of the bush and I’d blast ‘em,” he said, gig-gling.

“You seem a little young for Vietnam,” I said.

“Enlisted when I was 17,” he said, nodding. “I was hitchhiking down in Ocala and got picked up by these kids. Few minutes later, we got pulled over … turns out they’d just held up a convenience store. When they let me out of jail, my daddy signed the forms and I was shipping out within a week.”

He crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair alongside the table. “Yeahhhhhhhhh, buddy,” he said, crinkling his nose and giggling.

“Should be interest-ing,” I said to Phil as we

followed Billy’s truck to the marina. “This cat’s a lunatic.”

ON THE WATERTwenty minutes later,

we were all three in the boat, cruising slowly through the shallow channel of the Garcia Reservoir towards deeper water.

“I go slow through here,” Billy said, eyes squinted and a cigarette hanging from his lip. “…Hit a sunken tree here the other week and bout threw everybody out the boat.”

He laughed into the wind.

Eventually, we found a clearing and he opened up the motor, slowing to a crawl minutes later between grass mats. We hooked two of the live minnows we’d bought earlier and began trolling them around the mats. It didn’t take long to realize Billy had no idea what he was doing or even where he was, for that matter.

“Come on, fish,” he’d say, smoking and shaking his head. “I don’t know what’s going on with them today.”

Phil and I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, remaining upbeat and polite as we watched the bobbers skirt through the water about 100 feet behind the boat. The min-nows hooked about two feet behind the bobbers

were dying a slow death. The bass sure weren’t eating them like they had the day before when we’d gone with Bud in his boat.

As two hours went by without a single bite, silence dropped on the boat like an old tarp. The sun was shining down and the temperature was approaching 70, but we were paying a whole lot of money to get a suntan.

“Reel ‘em in. We gonna try this other spot,” Billy said, sensing our restless-ness. “Y’all get ready. We’re goin’ where we tore them up the other day.”

As he propelled the boat forward, the mo-tor threw up muck from

the lake’s floor, blending an ugly swirl of brown and green around us. It couldn’t have been more than two feet deep, but Billy finally wrestled the vessel through the shallow channel and into deeper water, where we accelerated so fast that I almost lost my hat. For about ten minutes we carved through the 3,000-acre body of water at about 30 mph. About four times, Billy slowed the boat and looked around perplexed.

“I wish I could find that spot where we were the other day,” he said. “That was a goooooood spot.”

SEE FISHING | B9

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Mr. and Mrs. Tim Wells, of Landrum, announce the engagement of their daughter, McKenzie Bri-ana Wells, to William Nor-man Gribble, III, son of Mark and Deborah Sabol, of St. Augustine, Fla., and Bill and Judy Gribble, of Clearwater, Fla.

Miss Wells is the grand-daughter of Bill and Fran-ces Herman and Larry and Reba Wells. She is the great-granddaughter of Lou Herman. A 2011 graduate of Presbyterian College with honors, she holds a double major with a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writ-

ing and BA degree in Span-ish.

She will graduate in May, 2014, from North Green-ville University with a Master of Arts in Teaching English.

Mr. Gribble is the grand-son of William Gribble, Sr., and Ms. Beverly Roden-berry. He is a 2013 gradu-ate of Presbyterian Col-lege with high honors. He holds a double major with a BA in English and BA in Political Science and is an admissions counselor at Presbyterian College.

They will be married Au-gust 2, 2014, at Greer First Baptist Church.

Mr. William Gribble, III, and Miss McKenzie Wells

Wells - Gribble

Mr. and Mrs. David Lewallen of Greenville, for-merly of Greer, celebrated their 50th wedding anni-versary Jan. 9, 2014.

They have three chil-

dren, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchil-dren.

Mrs. Lewallen is the for-mer Sharon Crawford.

Mr. and Mrs. David Lewallen

Celebrate 50th anniversary

In this week’s issue of The Greer Citizen, I wrote a story on Sam

Brown, a 14 year-old eighth grade student at Florence Chapel Middle School. Sam has spent the past few years dealing with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

Sam, fortunately, is in remission now.

In preparing to write this week’s story on Sam Brown, I spoke with both his mom and principal, Tammy White.

Sam’s mom told me how brave he was during his illness and treatment. That he didn’t flinch during his many tests. Sam showed me his port, which he kept after it was removed from his chest. (Everyone does this, he told me. I had never seen one outside of someone’s chest.)

His mom also told me that Sam only cried once or twice during the whole ordeal. I don’t want to equate crying with bravery. I’ve cried from happiness, frustration, anger, stress, exhaustion – you name an emotion, I’ve cried in reaction.

You better believe

cancer diagnosis and treatment would leave me teary.

Full disclosure: I am a fairly emotional person. I’ve been known to get teary at commercials. When explaining movie plots and the like, I cry. When explaining what elements in movies makes me cry, I get choked up.

(If you’re curious, it’s selflessness. Selfless-ness in pop culture and real life is my kryptonite. “Toy Story 3” and “Home-ward Bound” both leave me sobbing, as do the many articles that claim to “restore your faith in humanity.”)

I asked Tammy White if she thought her other students would have handled something like this as well as Sam has. I don’t think I would have handled this like Sam has.

Sam is the only person

I’ve met who was diag-nosed with cancer at 10 years old. I don’t have anyone to compare him to, but I can’t imagine his reaction – selflessness, bravery, composure – are the norm for childhood cancer.

Principal White told me she wouldn’t have handled this as well. I think that’s probably true for most adults.

Sam is braver than most people – not just his peers.

I know that if I had been diagnosed with any sort of cancer, I would have cried my face off. I would have started crying and not stopped. I would have cried repeatedly.

When I was 14, I thought I had life figured out. I only spent an hour with Sam, but he actually does seem to have his life pretty well figured out.

It’s not often I say I want to be more like a 14-year-old boy. But, I do want to be more like Sam – brave, compassionate, turning my hardships into motivation to help others.


Taking a cue from SamKEEPING UPWITH JONES

KATIEJONES

A long day in Florida

PHOTO | COURTESY OF DOUG WHITEHEAD

Phil Buchheit, left, and William Buchheit had a story to tell after a recent � shing expedition to Florida.

THE BUCKSTOPS HERE

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GOWDY VISITS CHANDLER CREEK STUDENT

Congressman Trey Gowdy came to Chandler Creek Elementary School and presented Aud’i Lind-say, a fifth grader in Pat-rick Jarrett’s class, with the award for the “I am an Achiever” initiative.

The award recognizes students showing success in the classroom, though grades and attitude, who have overcome unique challenges and obstacles.

WASHINGTON CENTER RECEIVES GRANT

Washington Center re-ceived a $2,500 grant from The Macy’s Founda-tion to purchase five iPads with protective cases. The additional iPads will pro-vide every classroom with a device.

The iPads have proven motivational in helping students to reach their In-dividualized Educational Plan (IEP) goals and a per-fect avenue for academic standards instruction.

Students use a variety of unique sensory modali-ties to learn, and teachers provide creative solutions to the multiple disabili-ties that challenge these students. The iPad project allows students to receive individualized instruction based on their learning needs.

RMS BAND STUDENTS SELECTED FOR ALL-STATE

The following Band stu-dents were selected by au-dition for the Region All-State Band: Natalie Boulos, Annalie King, Elyse Hartz-og, Annika Samuel, Alex Riese, and Chase Black-well.

They will attend a clinic at Converse College in Spartanburg on Feb. 21.

GMC TRAVELS TO BETA CLUB CONVENTION

Greer Middle College Charter High School at-tended the 76th Annual SC State Beta Club Con-vention Feb. 7-9 in Myrtle Beach. Forty-seven stu-dents participated in vari-ous competitions over the weekend and Junior, Mi-cah Williams ran for State President.

The weekend culmi-nated Saturday night dur-ing the awards ceremony. Junior, Savannah Ralph, won first place in pencil drawing. Junior, Rachel Lawrence, competed in the finals of special talent. All 47 students assisted, cam-paigned, and encouraged Micah Williams through-out the weekend and cel-ebrated together as he was announced the 2014 SC State Beta Club President.

GMC STUDENT PLACES SECOND IN ESSAY CONTEST

Greer Middle College Charter High School stu-dent, Gabi Laserna placing second in her age division in the City of Greer’s 2014 Black History Month Essay contest.

Laserna was recognized at the Black History pro-gram and presented with a $50 visa gift card.

ANNE FRANK EXHIBITTO VISIT RMS

“Anne Frank, A History for Today,” the traveling exhibit from the Anne Frank museum, will be at Riverside Middle School Feb. 18-March 28.

The exhibit will be open to schools for field trips March 11-28 and to the public March 15-27 during select hours.

Visit greenville.k12.sc.us/rms/ for more infor-mation and times. Contact Mary Higgins at 355-7902 to schedule a field trip.

A $1 donation per per-son is requested.

CAREER VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR RMS

Riverside Middle School is seeking parents and people in the community that may be interested in coming to speak to stu-dents about their career to expose students to a variety of career opportu-nities and/or would like

to host a student for a job shadowing experience for a day.

Contact Brooke Howard at 355-7987 or [email protected]

LANGSTON DRIVE FOR UR COMMUNITY IS APRIL 5

Langston will host a Ford Drive 4 UR Commu-nity Event starting 9 a.m.-3 p.m. April 5 at Fairway Ford. In exchange for a test drive, Ford will donate $20 to Langston.

There will be a Market-place in the gym with local vendors, a food truck ro-deo in the parking lot, and a blood drive sponsored by the Blood Connection. This event is open to the public.

Contact Alison Thomp-son at [email protected] for more information.

LANGSTON FOUNDATION TO HOLD GOLF TOURNAMENT

Langston will hold its Golf Classic Invitational on Friday, May 2nd at River Falls Plantation Golf Course, Duncan.

Many levels of sponsor-ship opportunities are available, as well as team sign-ups. The deadline for sponsorships is Friday, March 21.

Contact Alison Thomp-son at 312-9307 or [email protected].

LANGSTON CHARTER GIRLS BASKETBALL FINISH 4TH

The Langston Charter girls’ basketball team, the Chargers, finished fourth in the Carolina Middle School Conference. Sam Woodard received the All-Conference award.

STEVI B’S SPIRIT NIGHT FOR LANGSTON IS FEB. 27

Langston’s Spirit Night is 5-8 p.m. Feb. 27 from at Stevi B’s Pizza on Woodruff Road. The restaurant will donate $1 for each person who mentions Langston.

LANGSTON INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN REEDY RUN

Langston will participate in the Fit’s Cool School Challenge as part of the TD Bank Reedy River Run on Feb. 28 and March 1.

Runners can register for the Reedy Great Youth Mile, 5K or 10K races for the reduced rate of $14. Registration forms and checks made out to LCMS are due Feb. 14 and may be turned into the school office.

Contact Barbara Myers 286-9700 with any ques-tions.

GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY DONATIONS

Langston is collecting towels, blankets, canned food, baby wipes, and hand sanitizer for the Greenville Humane Society. Items can be dropped off in the col-lection box located in the front office.

LANGSTON STUDENTS BAKE TO SHOW APPRECIATION

Langston Charter Mid-dle School sixth graders Aneesa Weaver and Riley Parker delivered home-baked cookies and pump-kin spice bread to the fire-fighters and police officers of the Greer Fire Station and Greer Police Station in appreciation of their ser-vice to our community.

DR HILL MATH STUDENTS HEADED TO STATE

D.R. Hill Middle School Math Counts team won first place at this year’s Spartanburg County com-petition.

The group is now headed to the state finals at USC in Columbia on March 8. Kelly Marsh, Leilani Cassie Crook, Drew Rodgers, and Thomas Burkett make up the team.

FLORENCE CHAPEL HOSTS FAMILY NIGHT

Parents had the opportu-nity to experience learning at Florence Chapel Middle School.

The school hosted an ELA/Social Studies night this week as an opportu-nity for parents to engage in what their students are studying. Teachers cre-ated lessons for the family activity and then students on each team served as their parents’ facilitator.

CANCER SURVIVOR SHARES STORY WITH STUDENTS

Florence Chapel Middle School eighth grader, Sam Brown, is using his own story of survival to help fellow students. Brown recently received his last chemotherapy treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a disease he’s been battling since 2010.

Brown spoke to students at River Ridge Elementary about his experience and surviving cancer.

TAYLORS STUDENT NAMED TO DEAN’S LIST

Berit Walters of Taylors received academic honors from the College of Nurs-ing & Health Innovation at Arizona State University by making the University’s Dean’s List for the fall 2013 semester.

Undergraduate students who earn 12 or more grad-ed semester hours during a semester in residence at ASU with a GPA of 3.50 or higher are eligible for the Dean’s List.

TECH PRESENTS ‘AND THEN THERE WERE NONE’

The Agatha Christie thriller, “And Then There Were None,” will be pre-

sented by the Greenville Technical College Visual and Performing Art’s Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27-March 1 and at 3 p.m. March 2 at 3 p.m.

The play will be held on the college’s Barton Campus in the Technical Resource Center (building 102).

For reservations, please contact [email protected] or call 250-3021.

FAFSA FRIDAYS MEANS FINANCIAL HELP IS HERE

Get a jump-start on completing the 2014-2015 FAFSA.

The Financial Aid Office at Greenville Technical College will be sponsor-ing free FAFSA workshops called FAFSA Fridays. Fi-nancial aid officers will be available in the Admis-sions and Registration Center (ARC) computer lab to assist students in completing their 2014-2015 FAFSA every Friday, from 8 a.m.-noon Feb. 14 - April 18.

• Brashier Campus: March 14

• Greer Campus: Feb. 21 and April 4

• Northwest Campus: Feb. 28 and April 11

Sessions are by appoint-ment only, so please con-tact the Greenville Techni-cal College Financial Aid office at [email protected] to schedule an appointment.

LOCAL STUDENTS HONORED AT THE CITADEL

The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina,

honored the following students with Gold Stars for outstanding academic achievement during the fall semester of the 2013-2014 academic year.

Gold Stars are awarded to students that achieve a 3.7 grade point average or higher. Students that achieve Gold Star recogni-tion are also placed on The Citadel’s Dean’s List.

Clay Walter Allen of Duncan, SC. Major: BS in Business Administration.

Inderpal Singh of Dun-can, SC. Major: BA in Politi-cal Science.

Wesley David Kennedy of Lyman, SC. Major: BS in Education.

Philip Edward Brasher of Greer, SC. Major: BA in English.

William Shafter Jackson of Greer, SC. Major: BA in History.

Dylan Andrew Maier of Greer, SC. Major: BS in Business Administration.

Capers Brooks William-son of Greer, SC. Major: BA in Criminal Justice.

Jacob Thomas Riggs of Greer, SC. Major: BS in Business Administration.

Joseph Victor Russo of Greer, SC. Major: BA in Criminal Justice.

Kenneth Carl Sparano of Taylors, SC. Major: BS in Business Administration.

GREER STUDENT AMONG HARDING GRADUATES

Jeanie Cavender of Greer is one of nearly 400 gradu-ates who received a diplo-ma at Harding University’s commencement exercises Dec. 14, 2013.

Cavender received a Bachelor of Music Educa-tion in vocal music educa-tion.

DUNCAN STUDENT NAMED WAKE FOREST DEAN’S LIST

Christian Earnhardt from Duncan, SC was named to the Fall 2013 Dean’s List at Wake Forest University.

Students who achieve a 3.4 and no grade below a C were named to the list.

GREER STUDENT NAMED TO MERCER DEAN’S LIST

Rafaela Baranzano, of Greer, S.C., a freshman, was named to the Dean’s List of Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics for the fall 2013 semester.

Inclusion on this list re-quires students to meet rigorous grade-point-aver-age standards specific to the college or school with-in the University.

GREER STUDENT MAKES LETOURNEAU DEAN’S LIST

Anila Thomas of Greer was recognized for out-standing academic ac-complishments by being named to the LeTourneau University Dean’s List for the Fall 2013 semester.

Thomas achieved a grade point average be-tween 3.50 and 3.99 for the semester to receive this honor.

TAYLORS STUDENT MAKES WHEATON DEAN’S LIST

Wheaton College student Rhoda Oehrig of Taylors was named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2013 se-mester.

Dean’s List honors are earned at Wheaton by un-dergraduate students who carry 12 or more credit hours and achieve a 3.5 grade point average or higher on the 4.0 scale.

TAYLORS STUDENT NAMED TO BERRY DEAN’S LIST

Eli Miller, of Taylors has been named to Berry Col-lege’s Dean’s List for the fall 2013 semester.

To be eligible for dean’s list, a student must carry a semester GPA of 3.5 or better.

USC UPSTATE ANNOUNCES CHANCELLOR’S LIST

The University of South Carolina Upstate announc-es its Fall 2013 Chancel-lor’s List. To be eligible for the Chancellor’s List, stu-dents must earn a 4.0 and be enrolled in at least 12 course hours.

The following students have been named to the Chancellor’s List:

DuncanBrooke AllenderKelsey CarterBrittany FisherLoviisa HannuBrooklyn HowellGreerJuanita ArcosMichael ArsiniegaKatrina BakerShaun BelueHilary BuchananMary CavanaghMatthew CoponenBrittany DickersonJosie DuckKristen EhrChristopher EverlyJoanne FoliEmily GrayLaurel HendersonSamuel HinesTarek ItaniDaniel IvesterYvonne KaoHeather KempJessica KirkpatrickJillian KnottekMehnaz KouserCasey LeonhardtPalmer MadsonBenjamin McSwainMatthew NeelyWilliam NeymanLauren ParksJayme RamosAnthony SerraoAnna SloanChristian ViewegLin WangSamantha WhiteSamantha WickliffeDiane WilsonLymanHeather DillardJesse LeonardTaylorsMadison AndersonAndri AngrinoRobin BallentineNicole BoebelJenna DolanCandice EzellWhitney FrenchNeena LoweryImanuelle Noell-BabaJeffrey PetersonHannah ShepherdBrian SorrellsWellfordSean Biggs

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Greer Middle College Charter High School attended the 76th Annual SC State Beta Club Convention February 7-9 in Myrtle Beach.

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Fifth grade teacher Patrick Jarrett, left, congratulates Aud’i Lindsay, centerm on her recent award. The award was presented by Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), right.

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Greer Police O� cer Wesley Keller (center) is all smiles with Langston Charter Middle School sixth graders, Aneesa Weaver, left, and Riley Parker, right.

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“Oh yeah?” I asked.“Yeahhhhhhhhhhh,

buddy,” he said with a wide grin, dragging off his cigarette then hammering the gas again.

We ended up in a nar-row cove about 70 feet wide and less than two feet deep in spots.

“Bud don’t even like to come in here cause he can’t get his boat through it,” Billy said and laughed.

“So why are we here?” Phil asked.

“Cause I thought you boys wanted to catch some fish,” he said.

We soon realized, how-ever, that he really just wanted to get out of the wind. The boat’s trolling motor and anchor were woefully inadequate, and he couldn’t keep the boat in one place for more than a minute. What that meant was that the fish hanging out under the grass mats didn’t have much time to watch or ambush the minnows, meaning far fewer bites than we’d had the day be-fore. The boat’s constant movement also meant that we had to keep recasting the minnows, smacking them constantly into the water and killing them in just a few min-utes. By noon, Phil had caught a couple fish but I was still on the snide. I

decided to take a breather and eat my lunch, a cold grilled cheese I’d bought at IHOP hours earlier.

Billy wouldn’t shut up about all the fish he’d caught the week prior, but when we quit respond-ing, he tried a different path, rapping about some fishing tournament he en-tered with some girlfriend 40 years ago.

“I never will forget it,” he said.

He laughed but I couldn’t even look at him. I gnawed at my grilled cheese and stared at the dead minnows floating beside the boat. It was shaping up to be an aw-fully long day indeed.


GLT PRESENTS AGATHA CHRISTIE’S ‘SPIDER’S WEB’

Agatha Christies’s “Spi-der’s Web” runs through March 8 at the Greenville Little Theatre. Showtime is 8 p.m. Feb. 27-28.

All shows are at the Greenville Little Theatre, 444 College St. in down-town Greenville.

Tickets can be purchased through greenvillelittlethe-atre.org. For more infor-mation, call the GLT box office at 233-6238. Tickets are $26 and discounts are available for seniors, chil-dren and groups of 10 or more.

GREER OPRY HOLDS SATURDAY DANCE

The Greer Opry House at 107 Cannon Street pres-ents Classic Country Band with Ed Burrell on Satur-days at 8 p.m.

Admission is $9 per person. Free line dancing from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. No alcohol, smoking or out-side food and drink. The event is family entertain-ment.

Visit greeropryhouse.5u.com.

LUNCH AND LEARN: A CLIFTON MILLS STORY

The history of textile mills in Spartanburg af-fects many families in our community. Ann Rob-bins Phillips, whose fam-ily worked in the Clifton Mills, was so compelled by her family’s mill story that she decided to turn it into a historical fiction book, “Sorrow: The Sighted Sis-ter,” the third in her Re-venge book series.

On Feb. 28, Spartanburg County Historical Asso-ciation will give audiences the opportunity to learn about the history of the Clifton Mills, as well as the process that Phillips undertook to translate her genealogical research into a historical fiction book in this month’s “Lunch & Learn: A Clifton Mills Story.”

The presentation will take place 12:30-1:30 p.m. and the cost is $5 per person. The presentation will be in the West Wing Conference Room at Chap-man Cultural Center at 200 E. Saint John St. in down-town Spartanburg. For more information, call 596-3501 or email [email protected].

For more information about the Historical As-sociation or the Regional History Museum, visit the website at spartan-burghistory.org, Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/spartanburghistory, follow them on Twitter at twitter.com/sptbghistory or see photos from special events on Flickr at flickr.com/spartanburghistory.

AUTHOR NELSON TO VISIT FURMAN UNIVERSITY

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign English professor and author Cary Nelson, Ph.D. will speak about academic freedom Friday, Feb. 27 at 3:30 p.m. in McEachern Lecture Hall

of Furman Hall on the Fur-man University campus.

His talk is based on his most recent book, “No Uni-versity is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom (NYU Press, 2010),” in which he unveils struggles over gov-ernance and unionization and the increasing corpo-ratization of higher educa-tion.

His lecture is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the A.S. Reid Fund and the fol-lowing Furman University departments: communi-cation studies, earth and environmental sciences, education, history, phi-losophy, political science, religion, and sociology.

Nelson will also be giv-ing a keynote address March 1 at the state chap-ter of the AAUP’s annual conference, hosted by Fur-man University, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., in McEachern Lecture Hall.For more information about the event, contact Furman’s news and infor-mation office at 294-3107.

TAP AND MUSICAL THEATRE JAZZ CLASSES OFFERED

June Horton will be of-fering a tap class and a musical theatre jazz class on Tuesdays, March 4-April 8 at the Tryon Recre-ation Center, 226 Oakland Road. The cost is $45 for one class or $75 for both. The tap class is 4-4:45 p.m. and the theatre jazz class is 5-5:45 p.m.

Those interested should checks payable to June Horton and mail them to GCAC 301 E. Poinsett St., Greer, 29651. There must be a minimum of eight students to hold the class. Email [email protected] to reserve a spot.

‘TARZAN’ SWINGS INTO CANNON CENTRE

Based on the story Tar-zan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Disney film “Tarzan,” tells the story of an infant boy, orphaned on the shores of West Africa.

Taken in and raised by a tribe of gorillas, the young boy strives for acceptance by his ape father while grappling with his unique-ness. When a human ex-pedition enters their ter-ritory, Tarzan, now a man, encounters strangers like himself for the first time. “Tarzan” features music and lyrics by pop icon Phil Collins, including the Grammy and Oscar win-ning song, “You’ll Be in My Heart,” and book by Tony Award-winning playwright, David Henry Hwang.

The Greer Children’s Theatre will present 7 p.m. performances on Feb. 21, 22, 28, and March 1. Matinees are planned for 2 p.m. on Feb. 23 and March 2. Visit greerculturalarts.com to purchase tickets.

‘SLEEPING BEAUTY’ KIDS AUDITIONS ARE UPCOMING

Third through 12th grade students can audi-tion for Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 6-8 p.m. March 6-7 and 10 a.m.-noon March 8 at the Greer Recreation Center, 226 Oakland Ave.

Bring a non-returnable photo. Be prepared to read from a script and sing 16 bars of your favorite song. Wear appropriate clothes and shoes for dancing.

Callbacks will be 6-9 p.m. March 10. The call list will be posted by 5 p.m. March 11, followed by a par-ent/cast meeting 6-8 p.m. March 13. Performances are May 9 and 10.

GREER HOSTS FIRSTINTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

The City of Greer will be hosting the first Inter-national Festival 11 a.m.-3 p.m. March 29. The Greer Cultural Arts Council will be providing crafts from around the world, includ-ing face painting.

Greer goes global The City of Greer has be-come an international destination with the addi-tion of the inland port to the GSP Airport and BMW Manufacturing.

To celebrate our diversi-ty, the city will hold an In-ternational Festival March 29. Because this year’s art show will be closely tied to the festival, the city would like to broaden entries beyond imagery of down-town Greer and add an in-ternational theme that re-flects the diversity of the Upstate.

This can be depicted through cultural happen-ings, events, people and places.

Please consider these themes (Greer: Interna-tional Destination) when submitting artwork for the exhibition.

Entries will be accepted 8 a.m.-5 p.m. March 10-12 at the business office at Greer city hall. The artist reception is 6-8 p.m. March 28 at Greer City Hall. Visit greerculturalarts.com to download an entry form.

GREER IDOL AUDITIONS WILL BE MAY 2, 3

Auditions for the 2014 Greer Idol/Greer Idol Teen are tentatively scheduled for 6-7 p.m. May 2 and 1-2 p.m. May 3 at Village Hos-pital.

AMIGO ROCK TRIO WILL PLAY CHICORA ALLEY

Amigo, an Americana/rock trio from Charlotte, will perform at Chichora Alley in Greenville on March 6 with Lone Canes. The band is touring be-hind their full-length de-but Might Could, released on Feb. 18.

Amigo consists of band members Slade Baird (gui-tar, vocals), Adam Phillips (drums, vocals) and Craig Lentz (bass guitar). The 11 original tracks are a mas-terful blend of Americana, blues, honky-tonk and rock and roll, with pedal steel guitars, horns, pia-nos and organs.

For more information, amigotheband.com.

FINKLESTEIN TO SPEAKAT FURMAN

Amy Finkelstein, Ford Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak about Medicaid Wednes-day, Feb. 26 at 3:30 p.m. in Younts Conference Center on the Furman University campus.

Dr. Finkelstein’s talk will be followed by a brief re-ception in the Younts Con-ference Center.

Her talk, “The Impact of Expanding Medicaid: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experi-ment,” is free and open to the public.

The event is Furman’s 2014 American Enterprise Lecture sponsored by the Department of Economics, and is part of Furman’s Cultural Life Program.

Finkelstein is the win-ner of the 2012 John Bates Clark medal, which is awarded to the American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most sig-nificant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. She is one of the world’s

For more information about the event, contact

Furman’s News and In-formation Office at 294-3107.

DISASTER DEMONSTRATION AT CHAPMAN CENTER

More than 150 local stu-dents will be looking for a natural disaster at Chap-man Cultural Center on March 8.

When they find it, they will attempt to use sci-ence, Lego building blocks, robots, and their own cre-ativity to solve a real-world problem.

Spartanburg Science Center will host the sec-ond annual Upstate Junior First Leg League (Jr. FLL) Robotics Expo, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., where the students, ages six too nine, will present their solutions to the problem of natural disasters, such as torna-dos, earthquakes and tidal waves.

Their solutions will be presented on “Show Me Posters,” in disaster mod-els, and with robotics, and will be the result of weeks of study and preparation.

In addition, the students will be asked to demon-strate their teamwork in the Core Values Chal-lenge.

The Robotics Expo is sponsored locally by CH2M Hill and is the cul-mination of weeks of work spent by students explor-ing this year’s theme “Di-saster Blaster.”

SPARTANBURG POETRY CONTEST CLOSES FEB. 28

Spartanburg poets from age eight to 108 are in-vited to participate in the Spartanburg Soaring. Poetry Competition. The theme of this written-po-etry contest is “What do you think makes Spartan-burg soar? Is it a feeling? A place? A person? A group of people?” This is an op-portunity for individuals to contribute their words to express what they be-lieve is great about Spar-tanburg.

The Poetry Competition is open to all citizens of Spartanburg County in the following age brackets: Grades 2-8, Grades 9-12, college and adults age 22 and older. All entries must reflect the theme of the contest. Poems not related to the theme will be dis-qualified.

Up to three entries are allowed, and each should be typed in 14 point Times Roman or Times New Ro-man font. The deadline for submission(s) is no later than 5 p.m. on Fri-day, Feb. 28, 2014. Sub-mit poetry through email to [email protected] or in-person to Ava Hughes at Chapman Cul-tural Center, 200 East Saint John Street, Spar-tanburg, Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. or Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

For complete entry in-formation, visit Spartan-burgSoaring.com.

For more information, please contact Ava Hughes, Arts Education Director, Chapman Cultural Center, at (278-9693 or [email protected].

ENTERTAINMENTThe Greer Citizen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014 THE GREER CITIZEN B9

DVD previews

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THINGS

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By Sam Struckho�

NEW RELEASESFOR WEEK OF MARCH 10

PICKS OF THE WEEK“The Book Thief” (PG-

13) -- During World War II, a young German girl, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) moves in with her new foster par-ents. Liesel’s new home is a strange place for a kid to learn about the world: The city is wracked by war, piles of books burn in the street, and her fos-ter parents are hiding a young Jewish man under the stairs. Liesel begins “collecting” books wher-ever she can get her hands on them. Through reading and writing, she’s able to make some kind of sense out of the world around her.

Based on the wildly suc-cessful young adult novel of the same title, the film tries to bring this dreamy, glossy, coming-of-age feel to the proceedings. There’s something whim-sical trying to work its way through the charred setting, but it’s not get-ting through. It’s the per-formances that carry the film, especially the foster parents, (Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson), who are complicated-but-car-ing people.

“Inside Llewyn Davis” (R) -- It’s 1961, and New York’s Greenwich Village is the cradle of a deep and expanding folk music scene. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is a soulful young musician who just can-not get ahead. He’s mel-ancholy, broke, bearded, locked-out and technically homeless. He knows he might never achieve suc-cess in his artistic career. All of this happens with a sort of dark, dry humor around it.

Joel and Ethan Coen (“Raising Arizona,” “No Country for Old Men” and many more) are working with familiar themes, but taking them even further than before. The movie is no barrel of laughs, but there are moments of sin-cere truth, which is a nec-essary ingredient for a real comedy.

“Out of the Furnace” (R) -- This chest-thumping revenge flick has just the right cast to make some-thing more. Russell (Chris-tian Bale) works at the mill in a run-down Pennsylva-nia steel town. His young-er brother, Rodney (Casey Affleck), has returned from Iraq with head full of pain and anger. Rodney gets tied up in bare-knuck-le boxing for a crime ring run by a menacing, theat-rical, brutal boss (Woody Harrelson). When Rodney goes missing, the local law enforcement refuses to get involved, putting it on Russell to get justice for his younger brother.

“Broken Circle Break-down” (R) -- Didier and Elise are Belgian musi-cians in a bluegrass band -- they love each other, Americana, playing music together and their 6-year-old daughter, Maybelle. The storytelling begins when 6-year-old Maybelle is diagnosed with cancer. The story then jumps to the moment Didier and Elise fell in love. This bi-zarre and beautiful cycle of sadness and joy sets the pattern for the rest of the film. Between bouts of drama and elation, the film also delivers some fine music.

TV RELEASES“In The Heat of the Night

Season 2 and Season 3”

Sophie Nelisse in ‘The Book Thief’

PHOTO | SUBMITTEDRev. Deb Richardson-Moore, Triune Mercy Center director, will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 at Furman University.

FISHING: Long afternoon, too few bites

BY DANA BLOCK

THE BOLD ANDTHE BEAUTIFUL

Wyatt was oblivious to the true meaning behind Quinn’s confession when she told him about her re-cent interaction with Bill. Ridge attempted to quell Katie’s overwhelming guilt about how her feelings for him might affect Brooke. Aly confided in Thorne about her concerns re-garding Hope’s personal life. Bill set Quinn straight about how what happened between them would nev-er happen again. Eric and Pam discussed the dis-turbing secret that the For-resters have kept quiet for many years. Wyatt pitched a new jewelry line to the creative team at Forrester International. Old wounds were reopened when Eric got a surprise visit from a former lover. Wait to See: Thorne asks an old friend to keep a secret.

DAYS OF OUR LIVESJennifer wanted to re-

unite with Daniel but was worried that Theresa was still a threat. Meanwhile, Theresa was busy bonding with Brady over drinks. EJ attempted to end his affair with Abigail. Sami blasted Nicole when she learned that Eric was leav-ing the priesthood. Hope and Aiden were forced to work together. Gabi agreed to go out with T, but Nick schemed to nip

that potential romance in the bud. Jordan was con-fronted by her past. Hope clashed with Aiden when he made the wrong as-sumption. Marlena made a deal with the devil. Jen-nifer helped Eric out with a job opportunity. Jordan was shaken after her con-frontation with Ben. Wait to See: John comes home to Salem.

GENERAL HOSPITALSonny and Shawn had a

lot to say to TJ when he told them what Julian wanted him to do regarding the shootout. When Nathan showed Kiki the file on her father, he warned her it contained some shocking information. Sonny paid an unexpected visit to the Metro Court’s latest occu-pant. Alexis saw Julian in a bad light after learning how he threatened TJ. A distant relative of Sonny’s

returned to Port Charles with a warning for him. After being attacked by Carlos, AJ wondered why anyone would want him dead. Anna suspected that Robin wasn’t being entire-ly forthcoming about her bad news. Sonny offered Lulu emotional support regarding Dante’s new situation. Wait to See: AJ is shot.

THE YOUNG ANDTHE RESTLESS

Colin tried to appeal to Cane that he was a changed man. Summer be-gan meeting with her new life coach, Ian. Jill agreed to allow Colin to kiss her in exchange for informa-tion on the music-box mystery. Sharon received a new prescription from her psychiatrist after her visions of Cassie wouldn’t stop. Chelsea and Kevin got into a heated conver-sation about Chloe. Victo-ria was surprised to find Kelly and Stitch talking. Courtney assured Noah that her feelings for him were real, even if he didn’t know she was an under-cover cop. Jack and Hilary talked about the kiss they shared. Neil pleaded with Leslie to give marriage a chance. Lauren realized that nothing would stop Carmine from returning to Genoa City. Wait to See: Everything changes for Nick and Sharon.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: What is the best way to get rid of tonsil stones, besides sticking my finger down my throat as far as I can and trying to dis-lodge the smelly things? More importantly, what is the way to prevent tonsil stones? I never had them until a year or so ago. -- S.M.

ANSWER: Tonsil stones, or tonsilloliths, are the not uncommon (one study re-ported them in 7 percent of young adults) but sel-dom discussed clusters of calcified material that lodge in the tonsils. Your tonsils, those oval-shaped swellings on the sides of the back of your throat, are important for the cells of the immune system.

Tonsilloliths form in the crypts (deep valleys) of the tonsil, and sometimes are visible as white or yel-low spots when looking in the mirror. They become bothersome if they are large enough to cause dis-comfort or difficulty swal-lowing, but often they are noticed because of their unpleasant odor. Tonsillo-liths often spontaneously come out of the tonsils; they usually are described as waxy or hard, with a pe-culiar odor.

I don’t recommend stick-ing your finger in the back of your throat. The gag reflex can be very strong, and the tonsils have a very good blood supply, so damaging them can be very bloody. Some author-

ities recommend removal using the tongue attach-ment of a Waterpik (or similar device), but I have had general success with saltwater gargles. Very large or recurrent tonsillo-liths are an indication for a visit to the ENT doctor.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My blood count showed that my hemoglobin is too high. Everything else is normal. My doctor says the hemoglobin is high be-cause I smoke.

The doctor is on me, ev-ery time I see him, to stop smoking. I want to, but I haven’t been able to. Is he putting me on with anoth-er scare tactic? -- S.C.

ANSWER: Hemoglobin is the stuff inside red blood cells that grabs onto oxy-gen as the blood cells pass through the lungs. Deter-mining a person’s hemo-globin is a surrogate for determining the number of red blood cells.

The carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke prevents the attachment of oxygen to the red blood cell. The body senses an oxygen deficit. It ups the produc-

tion of red blood cells to compensate. The hemo-globin count rises. Your doctor is telling you the truth. Now you’ve got two doctors harping on you.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am writing to see if the medicine I get in the Unit-ed States is the same that I get from India. I took Evista by Eli Lilly, who says there is no generic; however, my supplier from India says there is a generic. -- A.O.

ANSWER: India has no patent protection of medi-cations, so many Indian companies make versions of U.S. pharmacologic drugs at greatly reduced cost. Some of the compa-nies are exceedingly repu-table, and the drugs are identical. However, you don’t have the guarantee of purity that comes with government regulation of pharmaceuticals in the United States and Canada. While I understand want-ing to save money on an expensive medication, you’re taking a risk.

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer in-dividual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newslet-ters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

(c) 2014 North America Synd., Inc.

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AMBER WAVES by Dave T. Phipps |

RFD by Mike Marland |

THE SPATS by Je� Pickering |

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PAUL G.DONOHUE

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