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‘Rebel’ name will standWithoutcontention from NAACPby billy cannadaEditor

Byrnes High School’s “Rebel” nickname is safe for now.

The West Spartanburg Chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Col-ored People) will not peti-tion Spartanburg District Five Schools to change the school’s moniker, officials announced Monday.

“While as a branch we must emphatically oppose any nickname or symbol that is oppressive racially or offensive or divisive, we felt the need for commu-nity input (on this topic),” Barbara Jones, chapter president, said. “After re-ceiving (a) report from the committee, the executive board has decided that to pursue the elimination of the ‘Rebel’ nickname would be contentious and damaging to the Dis-trict Five community as a whole.”

The NAACP addressed the matter in July at the request of Terry Moore, a 1973 graduate of the school who said the nick-name has “painful” conno-tations for African Ameri-cans.

“When we were ap-proached by Mr. Moore about asking the school to remove this nickname, (our initial response) was that it had already been settled years ago with the

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by KenneTh collins mapleStaff writEr

Greer Police hope a new simulation tool will help equip officers should they ever face a situation where deadly force is required.

The equipment is called a FireArm Training Simu-lator (FATS), and the de-partment believes it will be very useful.

To show its abilities, the police department demonstrated in its train-ing room last Wednesday. While there, Sgt. Chris For-rester spoke to the specif-ics of FATS.

“It’s a computer system that has over 500 scenar-ios in the database that we’re able to choose from,” he began. “We choose the scenario it projects it on the screen. Those are real weapon frames and they’ve taken the guts out for the

most part and then put the computer equipment inside of it with a laser. When you fire the weapon it uses compressed air to recoil the weapon, and it hits the screen and there’s a camera down there that

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The South Carolina De-partment of Transporta-tion (SCDOT) met with members of the communi-ty last Tuesday to discuss a proposed roundabout at the intersection of High-way 101 and North McEl-haney Road, and many op-posed the project.

“I didn’t talk to anybody there that was in favor of it.” Rep. Tommy Stringer

said. Stringer believes there are more problem-atic areas on the highway, including the Hwy. 101 and Milford Church Road intersection.

Ron Gunter, a Blue Ridge resident, said he doesn’t have a problem with roundabouts, but dis-agrees with the way this project has been handled.

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A planned roundabout at Highway 101 and North McElhaney Road is being met with a bevy of con-cerns including: safety, ne-cessity, traffic flow, proper communication and finan-cial responsibility.

The intersection was identified as a safety project by South Carolina Department of Transpor-tation (SCDOT) due to a high number of right angle crashes. According to date from the SCDOT, 31 crash-es were reported between 2010 and 2015.

Of those wrecks, 16 were of the right-angle variety, which the SCDOT says is the most severe sort of crash.

When Lake Cunning-ham Fire Department Chief Travis Balliew was asked about the number of crashes, however, he re-ported very low numbers.

“We do have accidents here, but it’s not a normal thing,” he said.

Balliew’s office window looks out at the intersec-tion and he said he is con-cerned about safety, which is why he doesn’t want to

see a roundabout placed at the intersection. He says it could prevent fire trucks from leaving the depart-ment quickly on the way to emergency calls.

SCDOT safety projects engineer Keith Riddle says it shouldn’t prevent fire-fighters from getting to their calls.

“I don’t think it’ll be any worse than what’s there now,” he explained. “As it is now they have to pro-ceed pretty slowly through there, too, to make sure they don’t hit anybody. With a roundabout there they’ll probably still have

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Barney Horton of Greer studies a rendering of the proposed roundabout at the intersection of Highway 101 and North McElhaney Road in Blue Ridge.

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Greer Police are using a new tool, the FireArm Training Simulator, to equip officers who may face deadly scenarios while on duty.

New training tool will assist Greer Police

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these before, and if you treat it real and

act like its real you’ll get a lot out of it.’

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SubmIt�CommENtS� �|�Comments can be submitted to Keith Riddle, Safety Projects Engineer, 955 Park St., PO Box 191, Columbia, SC 29202-0191 or [email protected] by Sept. 30, 2015.

Walk With a Dog Program Dog SaturDay

Mary Black Health Sys-tem will host a special edition of its Walk with a Doc program: “Walk with a Dog” on Saturday, Sept. 26, at 10 a.m.

Community walkers and their dogs can join us on the Mary Black Walking Trail and discuss healthy living with a medical pro-fessional. You can also adopt a dog from the Spar-tanburg Humane Society which will be on site dur-ing the walk. Dog walkers are welcome for those who don’t wish to own a dog.

The walking trail is lo-cated directly across from the main hospital build-ing at 1700 Skylyn Drive, Spartanburg.

Drug take Back offereD By greer PD SaturDay

The Greer Police Depart-ment will collect and prop-erly dispose of drugs Sat-urday, Sept. 26. No ID is required for drop offs.

The collection will be at Professional Pharmacy at 320 Memorial Dr. in Greer. Drugs can be dropped be-tween 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

For more information, contact Sgt. Chad Richard-son at 968-7002,

rock the clock to Benefit greer relief

Greer Relief is encour-aging the public to show up for Rock the Clock on Monday, Sept. 28, from 5-9:30 p.m.

Those attending are asked to dress in fash-ionable attire for decades past. The Clock of Greer will donate 10 percent of the night’s proceeds to Greer Relief.

greer PD coffee With a coP at harDeeS tueSDay

The Greer Police Depart-ment invites individuals to share a cup of coffee and get to know the depart-ment’s police officers.

The department will have Coffee with a Cop

at the Hardees at 14520 Wade Hampton on Tues-day, Sept. 29, from 7-8 a.m.

For more information, contact Sgt. Chad Rich-ardson at [email protected].

grief SuPPort claSSeS claSSeS in greenville

Interim Healthcare Hos-pice will be offering new grief support classes in Greenville. Classes are for those who are struggling with the loss of a loved one.

The classes meet weekly for 10 sessions beginning Oct. 12. Leaders of the classes will focus on basic principles and tools using Alan Wolfeit’s book Under-

standing Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing.

Classes will meet at the Mackey Corporate Office, 5 Century Dr., Suite 220. Interested individuals may sign up with Tonya Tay-lor at 721-4131 or [email protected] or directly online at www.hospicegriefsupport .com.

lake roBinSon Photo conteSt continueS

The Friends of Lake Rob-inson organization is ac-cepted photos of the lake environs for its 2015 jur-ied art competition as part of its Lake Robinson Day of Celebration.

Photographers may submit as many as two original photo files for the competition.

The winning entry will receive a $100 prize. Cash prizes will also be awarded for the second and third place photos.

This year’s juror is Ray Roback, a local photogra-pher who currently teach-es photography classes as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Fur-man University.

Selected art will be dis-played at the Lake Rob-inson Day of Celebration on Oct. 18 at the J. Verne Smith Park, Grere CPW and at the Wall Gallery in Greer City Hall.

For more info, visit cityofgreer.org.

uPState autiSm forumWorkShoP SeSSionS

The Upstate Autism Fo-rum will be on Saturday, Oct. 10 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the BMW Zentrum in Greer.

This free forum is spon-sored by BMW, LUCAS Net-work, the South Carolina Autism Society and Proj-ect Hope Foundation.

Workshop sessions will include Autism 101, par-enting training and toolkit and Medicaid ABA cover-age. Lunch will be avail-able by advance purchase.

Registration is available at www.scautism.org.

Jam for care iSScheDuleD for oct. 13

Jam for Care at Wild Wing Cage in downtown Spartanburg will be held Oct. 13 from 6-8:30 p.m. The fundraiser benefits HIV prevention programs of Piedmont Care Inc.

Tickets are $35 in ad-vance or at the door sponsorships available. For more information call 582-7773.

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Churches have been the foundation of Big Thurs-day for 36 years. Congre-gations are needed to join and fill tables with prod-ucts for their Nov. 5 auc-tion.

Items may include baked goods, casseroles and crafts. These items are needed the week of the event.

Call 877-1937 or email Hannah Rainwater at [email protected].

BreaSt cancerfunDraiSer oct. 24

Breast cancer patient support organization, The Tyanna Foundation will hold BreastFest, its flag-ship fundraising event, for the first time in South Carolina, on Saturday, Oct. 24, at Quest Brewing Com-pany (55 Airview Drive) from 3-8 p.m.

Tickets range from $40 in advance to $60 at the door. The cost includes admission, craft beer, wine and soft drinks, food and live music.

For more information, contact Cate Tyson at 363-4977.

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toDay, SePt. 23Kiwanis Club meet at 6:30

p.m. at Laurenda’s Family Restaurant, 300 South Line St. Call Charmaine at 349-1707.

thurSDay, SePt. 24Kiwanis Club meet at 6:30

p.m. at Laurenda’s Family Restaurant, 300 South Line St. Call Charmaine at 349-1707.

friDay, SePt. 25GraCe 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, SePt. 26Food pantry devotion-

al 9:30 -10 a.m. at Calvary Christian Fellowship, 2455 Locust Hill Road, Taylors. Lim-ited supplies available. First come, first serve basis.

SunDay, SePt. 27moon-rodGers reunion

1 p.m. at 1755 Wingo Rd., Campobello off Jug Factory Road. Bring picnic lunch. Tableware and ice furnished. Call Syble at 895-2196 or Homer at 469-9420 or Earlene at 268-2086 require

the never alone Group of Narcotics Anonymous meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Greer Recreational Center, 226 Oakland Ave.

monDay, SePt. 28barbershop harmony

Chapter meet at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial United Meth-odist Church, 201 N. Main

St., Greer. Call Richard at 384-8093.

tueSDay, SePt. 29the never alone group

candlelight meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Greer Recreational Center,226 Oakland Ave.

the rotary Club of Great-er Greer meet at 7:15 a.m. at Krumms on a Plate, 3318 Brushy Creek Road. Guests welcome. Call 630-3988.

Gap CreeK sinGers rehearse from 7-8:30 p.m. at The Church of the Good Shepherd, 200 Jason St., Greer. For further informa-tion or to schedule a perfor-mance contact Wesley Welsh at 877-5955.

thurSDay, oct. 1the taylors lions Club

meets at 7 p.m. at the “Club-house”, 500 East Main St., Taylors. Call Jerry 420-0422.

SaturDay, oct. 3Food pantry devotion-

al 9:30 -10 a.m. at Calvary Christian Fellowship, 2455 Locust Hill Road, Taylors. Lim-ited supplies available. First come, first serve basis.

SunDay, oct. 4the never alone Group

of Narcotics Anonymous meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Greer Recreational Center, 226 Oakland Ave.

Calendar deadline is noon on Tuesdays. All list-ings are subject to editing and/or omission due to space constraints. Please submit information and updates about area events, meetings, etc. to Kenny Maple at 877-2076 or [email protected] or by mail to The Greer Citizen P.O. Box 70 Greer, SC 29652.

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BY KENNETH COLLINS MAPLESTAFF WRITER

In an effort to engage the community, Greer Re-lief invited folks out on Tuesday morning for a complimentary breakfast and a short presentation on fighting hunger and homelessness.

Executive director Caro-line Robertson said the organization wanted to share what it does during a breakfast because, just across the street, there are those who may be suffer-ing from hunger.

“Our neighbors need your help,” she told a packed Cannon Center en-joying breakfast provided by the Chocolate Toad, the Clock of Greer, The Greer Station Diner and Waffle House.

“Greer Relief will be in Greer for 80 years start-ing next year,” business manager Ken Holliday said. “You ask anybody in Greer, ‘Have you heard of

Greer Relief?’ Most people have, but when you get down the basics of what does Greer Relief do, not many people know. We’ve invited our friends; we’ve invited our neighbors. We just want to explain to ev-erybody what we do, how we do it and who we do it for.”

Greer Relief does it for individuals like Greer resi-dent Annie Bigelow, the special speaker during the breakfast. Bigelow is one of the agency’s clients, and she expressed her gratitude before everyone.

“When you’re at your breaking point and help comes, it just, it liberates

you to a certain degree be-cause it gives you a little hope just to keep moving forward for the next day,” she said. “There are people that care even if they are not your race or they are not biologically your fam-ily. It’s a big world and we all should be more family-oriented to each other be-cause one hand washes the other, and I know that to be true because, as I said before, Greer Relief helped me when they didn’t have to.”

Bigelow shared a testi-mony that included jug-gling work and school and caring for three chil-dren. She was compelled

to share how Greer Relief helped her in her time of need.

“I had to be here today because they helped me when I literally had no-body else to help me.”

To continue the effort of assistance, several agen-cies presented checks to

Greer Relief. Greer Memo-rial gave a $5,000 gift, En-hanced Living Chiroprac-tic gave $4,000 and Greer State Bank Foundation gave the second of two $2,500 gifts.

“How grateful are you for the community that you live in?” Greer Mayor Rick Danner asked at the event. “I’m pretty darn grateful. I don’t know about you, but I think we live in a great community. One of the things that makes us great is the fact that we care for the others in our commu-nity.”

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The Tyger River Fire Department’s new substa-tion at the intersection of Holly Springs Road and Highway 357 in Lyman is nearly complete.

When finished, the de-partment will be able to cut response times to the Holly Springs area by eight minutes. Currently, it takes about 12 minutes to get to the area from the main station and nine min-utes from the Gap Creek station, said Tyger River Fire Chief Jim Redd.

Redd said the station, a 4200 square foot build-ing with living quarter for four, is 70 percent com-pleted. They hope to be able to begin operating out of there in mid November. The station is being com-peted without bond or tax increase, funded by a debt service in the budget that allows for the beginning of a new project once an-other project is paid off.

The cost of the project is $518,000.

With the building, the department will be able to service an area that is growing.

“We purchased the land several years ago in antici-pation of the growth up there,” Redd said. “It was mostly vacant land. It was the only area that could grow. We kind of saw that coming, and I guess about two years after that it was announced that there was a 450 home development going in less than a mile

from there.”The department has

everything it needs for the station. They’ll keep a pumper and a tanker at the station, and many volunteers will be used to help respond to calls.

“We’re saturated with volunteers up in that cor-ner of the fire district, so we got a lot of folks that live around there than can support it,” Redd said. “So it’ll be more of a combi-nation volunteer depart-ment.”

With the station’s prox-imity to Holly Springs Vol-unteer Fire Department, Redd said there may be the possibility of sharing the station with that de-partment.

“It’d be the ideal situa-tion to share with Holly Springs,” he said. “That would be a pretty big deal in the county to see two departments share a fire station.”

Whether or not that hap-pens is yet to be deter-mined.

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A new � re station, located at Holly Springs Road and Highway 357 in Lyman, is expected to be complete by the end of 2015.

‘We purchased the

land several years

ago in anticipation

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Jim ReddTyger River Fire Chief

Mr. Wilton Smith of Greer will be celebrating his 98th birthday on Friday (Sept. 25th). He is pictured (below) with 2 of his great grandchildren,sisters Maddie and Mela Smith, as they begin a week-long birthday celebration. Wilton is the husband of the late Olea Smith, to whom he was blissfully married for almost 69 years. He has 3 children (Keith Smith of Greer, Renee Robison of Greer, and the late Wayne Smith of Lyman), 7

grandchildren,and 6 great grandchildren.Wilton is the brother of Edna Jones of Greenville, Randall Smith of Greenville,the late Loyall Smith of Greenville, and the late Iredell Smith of Greer.

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When it’s time to renew your license, if you’re anything like me, you make an effort to look somewhat

presentable: freshly coiffed hair, careful makeup, favorite top with a flattering neckline...all neatly in place, and with the self assuredness of looking reason-ably attractive, you stand against the wall, the DMV worker steps behind the camera and all your confidence evapo-rates as your face becomes fixed in a sort of jerky half smile, eyes, in an effort not to blink during the flash, unnaturally wide, looking to all the world as if you just sat on your keys.

And you get to carry around that hor-ror in your wallet for the next five years.

When I lived in Los Angeles, where any moment involving a camera becomes as important as a magazine shoot, many people took great pains to look as photogenic as possible at the DMV and I cringe at the memory of stand-ing in line, myself, after having guest hosted some morning show, “Good Day L.A!” or “Wakey Wakey,” or whatever the hell it was, to take full advantage of the fact that people who knew what they

were doing had professionally applied my make-up and fixed my hair which looked decidedly different than my own attempts, which tended to resemble a child playing with finger paints and a leaf blower at the same time.

The result was my photo looked great. I mean, unbelievable. I mean, nothing like me whatsoever.

“What are you, a model?” asked the bouncer outside Sloan’s, our neighbor-hood bar, while I waited in a huddle with the rest of my friends as we were being carded to prove our age before admis-sion. Looking up and realizing the li-cense had been handed to him by me, he frowned and said, “Hey, wait a minute, this isn’t you. Get lost.”

“Seriously, that’s me.”

“No way.”“It is- with a lot of make-up.”“Nice try. Next!”“I’m telling you, it’s me with a lot of

make up. Like, a ton.”“Like, Spackle.” added my friend, Roz,

unhelpfully.The doorman stepped back into the

light, peered once more, closely, and shook his head.

“Look at the height!” I cried, “And the weight! How many other women come in here that are this height and aren’t really men?”

“I guess you’ve gotta point,” he admit-ted, “Alright, go ahead.”

With a hangdog expression and suffer-ing the further humiliation of my friends jeering, “After you, Cindy Crawford,” I led the way into Sloan’s and spent the rest of the evening hunched over a Coro-na and scowling most unphotogenically. It’s one thing to be told, when you make an effort, “Hey, you look great!” It’s quite another to hear, “You can’t possibly look this great!”

So I think this time, as I go to my local DMV this month in South Carolina, I’m

going to save myself a lot of time and bother. My hair, usually squashed down by a baseball cap during barn chores, might not even see a comb before I walk in. Forget make-up, I’ll just make sure there’s no grease on my cheek or manure on my collar. I’ll stand against the wall, when its my turn, as if in a police line-up, and as I begin to sneeze from the bits of hay nestled in my shirt pocket, the camera will click: catching me with nostrils flared, upper lip curled like Elvis, and one eye screwed shut.

And when I get pulled over for speed-ing, the cop’ll take one look at my license and say, “That’s you all right.”

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What are you, a model?

There’s a growing belief that a college educa-tion may not be as important as everyone has assumed for a century. This upsets consider-able settled (social) science. For decades Ger-many, for example, has demonstrated that sec-ondary education — what in the United States are called high schools — linked to private in-dustry can be a workable alternative to the col-lege classroom.

When menial and unskilled jobs are replaced by the digital revolution, it’s crucial to imagine new ways to guide young people into techni-cal skills to provide a useful livelihood and a comfortable life. Many employers avoid hiring the graduates of college courses in information technology because the courses are not as ef-fective as they should be.

Better, this new thinking goes, to organize a new kind of high school to teach that tech-nology, to guarantee a young man or woman a solid technical education as the foundation of a prosperous working life. This requires restoring some fundamentals that have been lost along the way. Old methods of “rote learning,” basics as they were once called, were discarded for more “erudite” educational philosophies. But authentic erudition has not always followed, making the choice of the right college or uni-versity all the more important, beginning with whether the student wants to stay in the com-fort of the feathered nest or use college to es-cape the old homestead.

President Obama joins the assumption of the elites that college is for everyman. Hence his scheme to award the campus experience to everyone. But recent testing in California, long regarded as a bellwether state, confirms what many teachers see every day, that many high school graduates are not up to challenge of a classic college curriculum.

For more than a half a century, many col-

leges have required a remedial English course for every freshman because grammar, elocution and even handwriting have been abandoned by elementary and high school administrators as part of the basic education. Many high school graduates have an inadequate comprehensive grasp of the mother tongue, aggravated by the growing number of children from house-holds where English is not even the stepmother tongue. Many of the old standbys in secondary schooling have been abandoned. Phys ed, rang-ing from calisthenics to organized ball games, has gone missing in many elementary and high schools.

Schools that once required basic hygiene and dietary instruction along with the mandatory exercise have been discontinued. An epidemic of obesity followed. All this has required the lengthening of adolescence, assigned to the campus.

The idea that imposing a college education on everyone hardly contributes to a solution for what’s wrong with the modern education of the young. What’s happening on campus is an ex-ample of what happens when “the big,” whether big university or big government, is regarded as the solution to every problem. Sometimes thinking smaller is the biggest idea of all.

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College education may not be essential for students

In someone else’s shoes

During Tuesday morning’s Greer Relief community breakfast, Mayor Rick Dan-

ner asked those in attendance to consider how desperate they would have to be to give up everyhing in search of a better, safer life. “There are thou-sands, tens of thousands, hun-dreds of thousands, millions of people that are doing that right now for a better life.”

Danner was, of course, refer-ring to what’s been in the news of late – refugee migration. Locally, it’s having an impact, with Gov. Nikki Haley’s support of the Upstate Refugee Reset-tlement Program bringing refu-gees to Spartanburg. I’ve heard some strong opposition to this. I’m not here to say how people should think, but I do suggest considering the situations of others. To my knowledge, local citizens are not fleeing from their homes because of war. I think we should consider what that feels like before we get overly protective of our rights and our country – gifts from above as far as I’m concerned.

Hear me correctly, I’m say-ing we should consider where others come from, walk in their shoes if you will. What you do with that is up for discussion. The simple consideration of others should not be up for debate. That seems like a half-decent thing to do.

I’m particularly sympathetic to this situation because of what I’ve seen while living in Sofia, Bulgaria. One day a Syr-ian man and his young daugh-ter showed up to our church where we ministered to refu-gees. The daughter, maybe all of five years old, clung to her father, tears streaming down here face. She never made a sound. Just cried.

The father struggled to hold onto his tears. I could not con-tain mine. He told me that his wife and the girl’s mother had been killed by the war in Syria. They left life behind to arrive in the EU, in many places, a less than hospitable locatiion for refugees. While I don’t have all of the answers (or any of them) for allowing refu-gees and immigrants into our country, I would like to think that given the opportunity, I would do something to make sure that an individual, a fam-ily that had suffered in the way this family did would feel some sort of love and comfort.

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RiCK ezellPastor, Greer First Baptist Church

Wordsmith“. . . I have made a vow to

the LORD that I cannot break” (Judges 11:35 NIV).

Daily we are bombarded by words. Radio. Television. Billboards. Newspaper.

Magazines. Contracts. Work Documents. School projects. We use words to write lists, let-ters, proposals, emails. Not to mention the words we utter to ourselves, our spouse, our chil-dren, our employer, our clients, our friends, and our God.

“Familiarity breeds con-tempt,” a wise person once said. Have we grown so ac-custom to words that they have lost their meaning? Made promises that we have not kept? Signed contracts, but not upholding our end? Offered our pledge, but failing to follow through?

Jephthah, the mighty war-rior and commander of Israel’s army, made a vow that if God gave him triumph over his enemies, the Ammonites, he would offer whatever came through his door as a sacrifice to God. God kept his end of the bargain. And upon Jephthah’s return, his daughter greeted him as she danced through the doorway. Can you imagine the inner turmoil, the emotional wrestling, the mental games he must have played to get out of his predicament? Would any-one have thought less of him if he did not fulfill his promise? It was his only daughter afterall. But, Jephthah was a man of his word. He made a promise. And he would keep it.

Words may not mean much to us, but they mean a lot to God. In God’s eyes, a promise is a promise. You vowed it; you keep it. Another great sage said, “When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not to fulfill it” (Eccl. 5:4-5 NIV). In other words, keep your word. Mean what you say to God.

I think this time, as I go to

my local DMV this month in

South Carolina, I’m going to

save myself a lot of time and

bother...

The idea that imposing a college

education on everyone hardly

contributes to a solution for what’s

wrong with the modern education

of the young.

Q: I recently tried to can-cel a credit card, and the customer service repre-sentative told me that do-ing this would cancel out my entire 14-year credit history. Is this true?

DR: No, it is not true. The rep you spoke with is either a moron or a liar.

Canceling a credit card doesn’t erase a person’s entire credit history, and it doesn’t erase their credit history with that company or their card, either. And by the way, your credit his-tory doesn’t last 14 years. It lasts seven years, but all the information on your record that is older than that — except for Chapter 7 bankruptcy — comes off your credit bureau report. A Chapter 7 filing stays on your report for 10 years.

So, you don’t have a 14-year credit history. Sorry, it’s just not there. And if you talk to this company again, you really need to find an educated rep to speak with. This one doesn’t have a clue!

Simply prepare

Q: With all the economic problems in the country today, what can college students do to avoid mon-ey problems in the future?

DR: There are always three or four things smart things you can do to pro-tect yourself financially. One is to live on a budget. When you give every dol-lar you make a name, and write in down on paper, it helps you know what your money is doing instead of wondering where it went.

Two more good ideas are staying out of debt, and saving as much money as possible. Your money is your biggest wealth-build-ing tool, and when you’re

saddled with debt, your money goes to creditors instead of into your pock-et. Saving money is what prepares you for the good and bad things life throws at you — whether it’s put-ting money aside to buy a car, a house or handling unexpected things that al-ways happen.

Another thing is invest-ing. I know you’re young, but a little bit invested now could make you a million-aire when you’re ready to retire. These are all simple things. But they’ll make a huge difference in your fi-nancial situation now and in the years to come!

A little bit invested

now could make

you a millionaire

when you’re ready

to retire.

BUSINESSThe Greer Citizen

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 THE GREER CITIZEN A5

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Yard of the monthHarold and Gloria Jones, 206 Memorial Drive Ext., were recently awarded The Azalea Garden Club’s Yard of the Month honor for September.

As Draexlmaier expands facility

Draexlmaier will invest $35 million through 2016 for upgrades to its Duncan facility.

The investment will in-clude the addition of a 184,000-squar-foot pro-duction and logistics build-ing, as well as upgrades to the plant infrastructure and equipment. The ex-pansion alone is expected to create 94 new jobs.

“Our plant in Duncan plays an important strate-gic role for our global pro-duction network and for our customers right here in the Americas,” said Bar-bara Bergmeier, head of Production and Logistics for the Draexlmaier Group. “Our company has been in the Upstate of South Caro-

lina for almost 20 years, and we plan to strengthen our ties even further in the near future.

“The expansion shows that we are committed to a steady growth in this region,” Bergmeier contin-ued. “The well-trained and highly-skilled workforce in South Carolina will help us to develop and manu-facture high-quality prod-ucts for our customers in the Americas and around the world.”

The addition will signifi-cantly increase the plant’s capacity and will house state-of-the-art equipment for the assembly of vehicle

interiors and components, including instrument pan-els, center consoles and door panels, as well as warehouse space, social areas and a new cafeteria. Construction is expected to begin in November and to be completed by Sep-tember of 2016.

“We want to achieve a sustainable growth,” said Ulrich Eichler, senior presi-dent and COO for the com-pany. “This investment will allow us to further en-hance our competences as well as our customer and product portfolio in the region.”

Jobs on the way in Duncan

It doesn’t erase your credit history

‘This investment will allow us to further

enhance our competences as well as our

customer and product portfolio in the

region.’

Ulrich EichlerSenior President and COO

Q: I recently tried to can-cel a credit card, and the customer service repre-sentative told me that do-ing this would cancel out my entire 14-year credit history. Is this true?

DR: No, it is not true. The rep you spoke with is either a moron or a liar.

Canceling a credit card doesn’t erase a person’s entire credit history, and it doesn’t erase their credit history with that company or their card, either. And by the way, your credit his-tory doesn’t last 14 years. It lasts seven years, but all the information on your record that is older than that — except for Chapter 7 bankruptcy — comes off your credit bureau report. A Chapter 7 filing stays on your report for 10 years.

So, you don’t have a 14-year credit history. Sorry, it’s just not there. And if you talk to this company again, you really need to find an educated rep to speak with. This one doesn’t have a clue!

Simply

prepareQ: With all the economic

problems in the country today, what can college students do to avoid mon-ey problems in the future?

DR: There are always three or four things smart things you can do to pro-tect yourself financially. One is to live on a budget. When you give every dol-lar you make a name, and write in down on paper, it helps you know what your money is doing instead of wondering where it went.

Two more good ideas are staying out of debt, and saving as much money as possible. Your money is your biggest wealth-build-ing tool, and when you’re

saddled with debt, your money goes to creditors instead of into your pock-et. Saving money is what prepares you for the good and bad things life throws at you — whether it’s put-ting money aside to buy a car, a house or handling unexpected things that al-ways happen.

Another thing is invest-

ing. I know you’re young, but a little bit invested now could make you a million-aire when you’re ready to retire. These are all simple things. But they’ll make a huge difference in your fi-nancial situation now and in the years to come!

A little bit invested

now could make

you a millionaire

when you’re ready

to retire.

BusinessThe Greer Citizen

wednesday, september 23, 2015 the greer citizen A5

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Photo | submitted

Harold and Gloria Jones, 206 Memorial Drive Ext., were recently awarded The Azalea Garden Club’s Yard of the Month honor for September.

As Draexlmaier expands facility

Draexlmaier will invest $35 million through 2016 for upgrades to its Duncan facility.

The investment will in-clude the addition of a 184,000-squar-foot pro-duction and logistics build-ing, as well as upgrades to the plant infrastructure and equipment. The ex-pansion alone is expected to create 94 new jobs.

“Our plant in Duncan plays an important strate-gic role for our global pro-duction network and for our customers right here in the Americas,” said Bar-bara Bergmeier, head of Production and Logistics for the Draexlmaier Group. “Our company has been in the Upstate of South Caro-

lina for almost 20 years, and we plan to strengthen our ties even further in the near future.

“The expansion shows that we are committed to a steady growth in this region,” Bergmeier contin-ued. “The well-trained and highly-skilled workforce in South Carolina will help us to develop and manu-facture high-quality prod-ucts for our customers in the Americas and around the world.”

The addition will signifi-cantly increase the plant’s capacity and will house state-of-the-art equipment for the assembly of vehicle

interiors and components, including instrument pan-els, center consoles and door panels, as well as warehouse space, social areas and a new cafeteria. Construction is expected to begin in November and to be completed by Sep-tember of 2016.

“We want to achieve a sustainable growth,” said Ulrich Eichler, senior presi-dent and COO for the com-pany. “This investment will allow us to further en-hance our competences as well as our customer and product portfolio in the region.”

Jobs on the way in Duncan

It doesn’t erase your credit history

‘This investment will allow us to further

enhance our competences as well as our

customer and product portfolio in the

region.’

Ulrich Eichlersenior president and cOO

BY BILLY CANNADAEDITOR

The Soul’d Out Quartet will perform at Fairview Baptist Church this Sun-day at 6 p.m.

The concert is part of the “God, Home and Coun-try” rally, presented by TheLifeFM.

Cost for admission is $10 at the door and doors will open at 5 p.m. Fairview Baptist is located at 1300 Locust Hill Rd. in Greer.

The Soul’d Out Quar-tet, hailing from Ohio, is comprised of Dusty Bar-rett (tenor), Bryan Hutson (lead), Matt Rankin (bari-tone), Ian Owens (bass) and Michael Howard (pia-nist).

The group is on a nation-al tour that spans through November. For more in-

formation and tour dates, visit souldoutquartet.com.

REVIVAL AT UNITED CHRISTIAN CHURCH

United Christian Church, located just behind Can-non’s Drive In at 105 Dan-iel Ave., Greer, will host a revival Oct. 2-4.

Service times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday. Everyone is invited to attend.

For more information, call 895-3966.

BURNSVIEW BAPTIST HOSTS REVIVAL

Burnsview Baptist Church is having revival every Sunday morning in the month of September with a different speaker each Sunday.

The schedule is as fol-lows:

Sept. 28: Dr. Eddie Sax-on, Pastor Gilead Baptist Church, Union

The church is located at 9690 Reidville Road in Greer.


TRBA HOSTS SPANISH CLASSES UNDERWAY

Three Rivers Baptist As-sociation (TRBA) will host Spanish classes on Mon-days from Sept. 14-Nov. 16.

Intermediate classes be-gin at 4 p.m. Followed by advanced classes at 5 p.m. And beginner classes at 6 p.m. Classes are taught by Karen Bradley. Cost is $35 for new and returning students. Fall classes will have a new curriculum. The classes are held at

TRBA Mission Center, 4305 Locust Hill Road in Taylors. To register, call TRBA 834-9635.

WASHINGTON BAPTIST REVIVAL CONTINUES

Washington Baptist will hold a revival featuring “Deeper and Greater” with guest speaker Rev. Curt Bradford of Charleston Sept. 20-23. Revival time is Wednesday at 7 p.m.

The church is located at 3500 Highway 14 North in Greer. For more informa-tion, call 895-1510.

TRBA HOSTS PRISON RE-ENTRY DISCUSSIONS

A Faith Roundtable Dis-cussion for Partnerships with Prison Re-entry Ef-forts will be held at the Three Rivers Baptist As-sociation Mission Center on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m.

The program offers the opportunity for church groups to partner by pro-viding mentors, job train-ing and re-entry kits for men and women returning to communities. The event will feature discussions by the SC Department of Pro-bation and Parole and the Greater Greenville Employ-ment Advocate leaders.

For more information, contact Jimmy Batson at 423-0592 or [email protected].

TRBA ANNUAL MEETINGIS OCT. 18

The Three Rivers Baptist Association will hold its annual meeting on Sun-day, Oct. 18, at 5 p.m. at Enoree Baptist Church.

Special guest speaker

is Dr. Ron Barker, SCBC evangelism and prayer strategist.

The event will feature missions and ministries exhibits; a celebration of God’s work in member churches; testimony of a former Muslim who is now a Christ-follower; presen-tation of 2016 visions for prayer and evangelism; and a prayer for revival.

Member churches are encouraged to move their Sunday night services to the meeting.

CHRISTMAS PRISONER PACKETS DUE NOV. 18

Christmas Prisoner Pack-ets are due to the Three River Baptist Association office by Wednesday, Nov. 18.

Approved packing items include: one black non-retractable pen (no wire clip and no other color pen), one junior legal or no larger than 5 1/2”x 8” writing tablet (no wire bound tablets), one adult toothbrush (individually factory-sealed, no multi-packs), five first-class #10 stamp-embossed en-velopes (purchased at US Post Office), two rolls of candy (LifeSavers, Mentos, Breath Savers type), one 4 oz. to 6 oz. bar of soap (no travel size), one 5.8 oz. or larger toothpaste (no trav-el size), one gallon-size zipper bag.

The packets are given to the inmates by the chaplains with the help of volunteers. For more

information, visit www.scbaptist.org.

COMMUNITY-WIDE FALL REVIVAL SEPT. 27-30

A community-wide re-vival is set for Sept. 27-30, beginning at 6:30 p.m. nightly.

Sunday: Reedy River Baptist Church. Music by Locust Hill Baptist choir. Message by Dr. Steve Pe-terson.

Monday: Enoree Baptist Church. Music by TR First choir. Message by Rev. Da-vid Simmons.

Tuesday: Travelers Rest Baptist Church. Music by Enoree Baptist choir. Mes-sage by Rev. Stephen Can-non.

Wednesday: Locust Hill Baptist Church. Music by Reedy River Baptist choir. Message by Dr. Chris Gray.

Children’s ministry ac-tivities provided nightly by North Greenville Uni-versity Impact team for ages birth through fifth grade.

HELP TRBA RECOVER LOST ADDRESSESS

Due to a computer virus Three Rivers Baptist Asso-ciation has lost the data-base containing all mailing addresses.

In order to continue to receive the bi-monthly newsletter and any other communication from the association through the US Postal Service, call 834-9635 or visit threerivers-ba.org.

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Churches wishing to list upcoming events and programs in Church News should send information to [email protected] call 877-2076. Dead-lines for submission are Monday at noon.

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Each month, travelers voluntarily leave behind 50 to 75 pounds in pro-hibited items at Greenville Spartanburg International Airport checkpoints.

Last Friday, Transpor-tation Security Adminis-tration (TSA) showcased some of those items.

“What we’ve got on dis-play is a small sample of what we collect,” said GSP TSA supervisor Larry Caldwell, stating that the most common items are liquids, creams, aerosols and gels.

“We do get some pret-ty weird things coming through,” he said, mo-tioning to martial arts weapons, replica shotgun shells, toy guns, hammers, drills and saw blades.

“The funny thing is all these items, except for anything that looks like an explosive or explosive de-vice, can actually go down in checked baggage. They just can’t take it through a checkpoint.”

He said airport security is able to detect all of these items, so there should be no concern about individ-uals trying to sneak dan-gerous items through the checkpoint.

Lately, though, more travelers have been bring-ing prohibited items, said TSA regional spokesper-son Mark Howell. He said more people are flying, re-sulting in the higher num-bers of prohibited items collected.

“You really have to check those bags before you come to the airport,” he said. “The excuse we get 99 percent of the time is ‘Oops, I forgot it was in the bag,’ or ‘My husband or wife packed it for me.’ When you bring that bag to the checkpoint you’re ultimately responsible for everything that’s in there.”

Last week TSA saw un-checked guns accidentally brought to four of the five major airports in South Carolina, including GSP. Last year travelers tried to bring 14 guns through

checkpoints at GSP. “We don’t want to in-

fringe on your right to take a firearm with you when you travel, but you have to do it the right way and that’s putting it in a hard sided case in your checked bag, and the rules for that are outlined on the TSA website.”

The items that are vol-untarily given to TSA at checkpoints in South Car-olina and other states are taken by the state of Ala-bama.

Each month Alabama collects these items and resells them. The money goes back into Alabama.

Howell said they col-lect about 300 pounds from Charleston Inter-national Airport and an-other 1800 to a ton from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The spokesperson said check-ing for these items be-forehand will save time at checkpoints and make the check-in process smooth-er.

If passengers have any questions about an item, they can find answers on tsa.gov or call the airport.


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assesses where the shot placement is.”

Greer police officer Clay Anderson went through a few of those scenarios, showcasing the ways in which FATS can be used for training.

Following a particularly harrowing scenario, in which a traffic stop turned dangerous, Anderson said he’s been through some of the situations that FATS simulates.

“I’ve been with the Greer PD for over three years,” he said. “I’ve been in situa-tions very similar to these before, and if you treat it real and act like its real you’ll get a lot out of it.”

The entire department should benefit. Forrester said every officer will be incorporated into the training.

There’s potential for of-ficers to use the training from other departments, too. Forrester said they would work with other po-lice departments so more officers in the area could benefit from time spent with the simulator.

The simulator was pur-chased from Meggitt Train-ing Systems in Georgia for $75,000.

The money came from condemned funds that were taken from a gam-bling operation eight years ago, the department said.

“We’re just fortunate enough to have funds to be able to purchase some-thing like this.”

With the simulator, the department has something that few others have. For-rester said the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office has one.

The FATS system is valu-able because it allows for training indoors right at the police department. With the system’s mobil-ity and ease of operation,

officers will be able to do training quickly, possibly completing a scenario in five minutes or less. The training doesn’t end with the completion of a sce-nario, though. FATS allows for quick pertinent feed-back from officers con-ducting the training.

“We’re able to put the of-ficers in a real scenario mi-nus real people,” Forrester said. “Even though it’s computerized there’s so many different branches of the scenario that we can go off into and actually go back and say, “You might want to think about doing this in this situation.’”

Officers in training can run through situations in which the correct action is not to take forceful action. Actually, Forrester said this is really a goal of the training, to see to it that during live calls the offi-cer and the citizen leave the situation safely.

Police Chief Dan Reyn-olds said in addition to

being better equipped to handle a variety of situ-ations, officers will also improve their communica-tions skills with citizens.

This was clear as Ander-son demonstrated. As the computerized situation materialized in front of him on a screen, the officer talked to the citizen as if he were in a live situation. While the scenario played out before him, Anderson had to make decisions on how to proceed.

With the training, offi-cers will be more exposed to a variety of circum-stances without being in harm’s way. The depart-ment will be able to ex-pand their possibilities with FATS by adding on to its components. Cur-rently the department has rifle and handguns modes available to them, Reyn-olds said. The system can also incorporate batons, flashlights and tasers.

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James A. GreerVeteran

James Arthur Greer, 69, of 111 Overbrook Drive, died Sept. 21, 2015 at Greenville Health System.

A native of Grimsby, Eng-land, he was a

son of the late Elvin Oli-ver and Kathleen Howard Greer, an employee of N.W. White Trucking, a Mer-chant Marine Veteran, and member of Victor United Methodist Church.

Surviving are his wife, Shirley Watkins Greer of the home; a son, Alex Greer of Greer; a daughter, Allison Stone (Thomas) of Greer; four grandchildren; and his extended family in Grimsby, England.

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Thursday at The Wood Mortuary, con-ducted by Rev. Mike Wat-kins.

Visitation will be held 12:30 until 1:45 p.m. Thursday at the mortuary prior to the service.

The family is at the home.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718.

Online condolences may be made at thewoodmor-tuary.com.

Steven HawkinsSteven Isam “Goffer”

Hawkins, 68, of 184 Dodd Street passed away Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. A native of Spartanburg County, he was the son of the late Clyde Isam Hawkins and Mary Hendrix Hawkins.

Survivors include a daughter, Dana Dukeshier of Easley; three sons, Dar-rell Hawkins of Easley, Danny Hawkins and Dean Hawkins of Greer; a signifi-cant other, Susan Dunaway of the home; a brother, Al-vin Hawkins of Woodruff; three sisters, Pat Watson, Lillie Mae Jackson, Barbara Hightower, all of Greer; and eleven grandchildren.

Condolences may be made online at www.strib-lingfuneralhome.net.

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removal of the Confeder-ate flag, the soldier and the playing of the song ‘Dixie’ at the games,” Jones said. “However, as Mr. Moore re-minded us, the name ‘Reb-el’ is still a nickname that is not embraced by all.”

After considering Moore’s request, Jones formed a special commit-tee to survey community members on the issue.

“I know this was not an easy survey,” said Jones. “I was told by some of those that interviewed people that it got kind of continu-ous—some of them. But they did get a true feel about how the (commu-nity) does feel about the nickname.”

According to Jones, 90 percent of those polled suggested leaving the Reb-el name as is.

“This wasn’t just black and white—all differ-ent races were built in in this decision,” said David Jones, member of the spe-cial committee.

Jones said the decision was based “largely on in-formation that students and the most recent grad-uates are not opposed to the nickname.”

“It is a nickname and not a definition of who you are or who you will be known as throughout your life,” she said. “Hopefully, ev-ery individual will decide to embrace all of who God created them to be.”

Mark Cleveland, a 1977 graduate of Byrnes, said the survey process was a difficult one.

“It was not easy,” Cleve-land said. “There’s been some sleep lost—some feelings hurt on both sides. But I thank God for the unity that we can try to

bring District Five back to-gether and unite as one.”

Dorothy Miller-Leach was selected to chair the special committee and she hopes the NAACP’s deci-sion will help unify Dis-trict Five.

“It was not an easy task, but we made a decision that we would see it through and try to understand the feelings of those who felt like it should be changed,” Miller-Leach said. “In the end, the majority of peo-ple—it didn’t matter what race it was—felt like there was no need for the name to be changed. It would take entirely too much to try to change what ‘Rebels’ stands for. It’s just won-derful that we can put this behind us.”

Spartanburg District Five responded to the NAACP’s decision Monday evening, stating: “In District Five Schools, we strive each day to foster an atmosphere of sensitivity and mutual respect of all members of our community. As we move forward, our focus is, as it always has been, on our students. We aim to teach them that same respect and sensitivity.”


DECISION: Prompts response from D5

‘There’s been some

sleep lost—some

feelings hurt on

both sides. But I

thank God for the

unity that we can

try to bring District

Five back together

and unite as one.’

Mark ClevelandByrnes graduate/committee member

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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., GreerGreer 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

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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 • 877-5876Saints Peter and Paul Evangelical Lutheran400 Parker Ivey Dr., Greenville • 551-0246

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 • 879-7926

St. Mark United Methodist Church911 St. Mark Rd., Taylors • 848-7141St. Paul United Methodist Church3856 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-5570Victor United Methodist Church1 Wilson Ave., Greer • 877-5520Woods Chapel United Methodist Church1288 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

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Authorities say John Wil-liam Kennedy, 25, of Greer was driving in the wrong lane when he crashed head on into Jordan How-ard and killed him. And deputies say Kennedy’s at-tempt to flee did not end after that fatal crash.

A day after Howard’s death and one day before loved ones gathered for his visitation service, Ken-nedy was wheeled into court for a bond hearing.

Kennedy has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, reckless homicide, failure to stop resulting in death, a habitual traffic offender and four property crimes.

He has been arrested at least ten times since 2008,

mostly for offenses involv-ing drugs and alcohol.

Jordan Howard’s father-in-law, Gregory Childs, ad-dressed the court at the hearing.

Kennedy will remain be-hind bars at the Greenville County Detention Center.

A judge denied Kennedy bond on three charges and granted him $10,000 bond on the other charges.

Greenville County depu-ties say that Kennedy ran over a deputy Thursday morning, before he led them on what Sheriff Steve Loftis called a “wild high speed chase” before he crashed into Jordan.

Loftis said after the deadly crash, Kennedy ran into a wooded area where deputies quickly appre-hended him.

POLICE AND FIREThe Greer Citizen


1. Park only on the RIGHT hand side of the road so that when you pull out you

is illegal to park on the left hand side and makes merging

as many people as possible to enjoy Greer Station.

stay out of the roadway.

those who need them.

6. Maintain a safe speed and stay alert

Enjoy Greer Station the RIGHT way!

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park the RIGHT

(Note: All information contained in the following blotter was taken directly from the official incident reports filed by the Greer Police Department, 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.)

COUPLE BUSTED WITH METHAMPHETAMINE, GUN

William Jason Casada, 37, and Kimberly Dawn Casada, 39, both of Greer, have been charged with felonies after local police found a gun and metham-phetamine in their car.

According to the incident report supplied by Greer Police, an officer pulled over a Nissan Maxima on West Wade Hampton Bou-levard after seeing that the two occupants were not wearing seatbelts. Neither driver Kimberly nor pas-senger William could pro-duce proof of insurance or a bill of sale for the vehicle. The officer called in the K-9 unit and ran the driver’s licenses of the two occupants. He discovered that William was wanted by the ATF for possession of a firearm by a felon, and considered armed and dangerous. Backup arrived and William was appre-hended. Kimberly then turned over a bag of meth-amphetamine and another bag that contained numer-ous pills.

The dog indicated that drugs were indeed inside the vehicle. Upon search-ing the car, officers found a .380 handgun hidden on the passenger side of the console with a loaded magazine inside. The gun was reported stolen from Greenville County. Police also found over 20 pills of Alprazolam as well as multiple baggies and a

scale. The total amount of methamphetamine was measured at 7.7 grams. William insisted that the drugs and gun were both his, and that he’d handed the drugs over to Kimber-ly when he saw that they were being pulled over.

The ATF said Kimberly was also wanted for pos-session of a firearm by a felon.

COUNTERFEIT MONEY LEADS TO DRUG ARRESTS

Greer Police have arrest-ed three people after one of them tried to use coun-terfeit money at two Dol-lar General stores on Wade Hampton Boulevard.

According to a Greer Po-lice incident report, a clerk at the store reported that a man had tried to use a fake $20 bill. Minutes later, another complaint was made about the sub-ject trying the same stunt at a different Dollar Gen-eral nearby. A witness followed the subject out of the store and observed him get into a silver Ford Fusion. The vehicle dropped him back off at the Kangaroo Express at 14215 East Wade Hampton Blvd. He was identified as Craig Mitchem, and police arrested him after discov-ering a large quantity of counterfeit bills and meth pipe in his possession.

Meanwhile, a traffic stop was conducted on the Fu-sion. The driver, Maranda Renee Hopper, had meth, Clonazepam, Suboxone and Tramadol on her per-son. Inside her purse, officers found syringes, baggies and a pipe. She was arrested on multiple charges, including Posses-sion of Meth With Intent to Distribute. The passenger, Ashley Jeanette German, was also charged with Possession of Meth, Open Container (of vodka) and Possession of Drug Para-phernalia.

The US Secret Service was called about the coun-terfeit money and agreed to interview the suspects about counterfeit charges.

PUBLIC DRUNKENNESSJesus Adan Guerrero-

Castro, 36, of 742 South Line St. Ex. in Greer has been charged with Public Drunkenness and Posses-sion of Marijuana.

According to an incident report supplied by Greer Police, an officer drove up to find the subject stag-gering towards him on McDaniel Ave. He had a strong alcoholic odor on his breath and scratches all over his face and body. Guerrero-Castro told the officer that he’d fallen and hit his head on some rocks.

He refused medical at-tention and was arrested for public drunkenness. Inside his jeans pocket, police found approximate-ly 5 grams of marijuana.

AIN’T TOO PROUD TO BEGJames Earl Mitchell, 51,

of 107 Mt. View Road in Greer has been charged with public drunkenness, breach of peace / threats and begging.

According to the Greer Police incident report, of-ficers responded to the Li’l Cricket store on Middle-ton Way, where Mitchell was allegedly disturbing the business and threat-ening the clerk on duty. Police found the subject at 110 North Beverly Ln. and walked him back to the Li’l Cricket, where the clerk positively identified him. She claimed Mitchell had lain across the coun-ter and cried because he didn’t have enough mon-ey to buy Newports. He then began begging and wouldn’t allow other cus-tomers to purchase items for themselves. He then went outside and contin-ued to beg. He was drunk and yelling and police de-termined he had breached the peace of the business.

He was arrested and a copy of the store’s inter-nal security footage was sought for evidence.

CHOICE WORDSJericho Allen Bible, 21, of

12212 Greenville Highway in Lyman has been charged

with public drunkenness. According to an incident

report filed by Greer Po-lice, an officer went to in-vestigate a report of drunk people in the parking lot of the Waffle House on North Main St. Upon arriv-al, he found Bible standing drunk in the parking lot and cursing at people in a gold Jeep.

He was taken into custo-dy and transported to the Greer City Police Depart-ment.

TRESPASSINGJonathan Martel Oliver,

22, of 150 Burlwood Dr. in Greer has been charged with trespassing after no-tice.

According to the Greer Police incident report, an officer was dispatched to Oakland Place apartments, where Oliver was allegedly trespassing after notice. Police found the subject sitting in a vehicle in the parking lot. He stated that he was only there to pick up his child from an apart-ment.

He was arrested and transported to the Greer Detention Facility.

POSSESSIONTyral Demone Garner,

34, of 102 Clowney Ct. in Spartanburg has been charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

According to an inci-dent report filed by Greer Police, an officer pulled Garner for Speeding on East Wade Hampton Blvd. Upon smelling marijuana coming from the car, the K9 unit was called in. Af-ter the dog alerted that there were drugs in the vehicle, police found a digital scale and two bag-gies of marijuana with a combined weight of 10 grams. Garner admitted that he might sell a couple dime bags per week, but wasn’t any “hardcore drug dealer.”

He was arrested and transported to the Deten-tion Center.

Greer man denied bond

CRIME

REPORT

A woman, wanted for at-tempted murder and third degree arson, has been ar-rested.

A Greer Police Depar-ment report states that Tanesha Lanette Talley, 34, of 111 Millbank Rd. in Wellford faces charges fol-lowing an incident that oc-curred at 112 Willow Road in Greer.

According to the report, the police department re-sponded to a call at 5:26 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12. The responding offi-cer found the victim who had called 911. The victim, who smelled of gasoline, walked the officer into his home and there saw that the floor had stains of gasoline.

The victim said he had been in an argument with a friend, Talley. Following the argument, the victim saw Talley pouring gaso-line around the house. Tal-ley allegedly also poured gasoline on the victim.

The report further states that the victim went out-side to call 911 and Talley attempted to leave in her vehicle.

The victim was forced to the porch of the house to avoid being struck by Tal-ley’s vehicle. Talley then got out of the vehicle and poured gasoline on the front porch.

Talley left the scene in her vehicle. The fire de-partment arrived to fume out the house.

Woman arrested, facing charges

a10 the greer citizen news wednesday, september 23, 2015

Through GSB Foundation

The Greer State Bank Foundation distributed more than $10,000 to lo-cal non-profit organiza-tions during the last two months.

Recent recipients in-clude, Upstate Media-tion ($250); Boy Scouts ($500); Turning Point ($1,000); Eastside YMCA ($1,000); Riverside Debate and Speech Booster Club ($1,000); JDRF Diabetes ($1,000); Greer Relief In-frastructure ($2,500) and Greer Christian Learning Center ($3,000).

“It’s been great to see how our new Foundation has already positively af-fected numerous local organizations. Each dona-tion given by our Founda-

tion is solely made possi-ble by the people of Greer State Bank,” Jim Boyd, senior vice president and commercial lending man-ager, said. “During our initial campaign, every

Greer State Bank employ-ee, along with the bank board of directors, made a contribution. Because of their commitment, every donation is very personal to us.”

Local bank donates $10,000 to charity

Photo | Submitted

The Greer State Bank Foundation donated $3,000 recently to the Greer Christian Learning Center.

Photo | Submitted

The Riverside Debate and Speech Booster Club received $1,000 from the Greer State Bank Foundation.

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to maneuver around some cars but the cars already in the roundabout will just get out of the way.”

He said the outer edges of the roundabout would be raised splitter islands that allow for motorists to move out of the way.

Still, Balliew believes it will be problematic.

“If there’s 50, 60 vehi-cles coming down the road especially in the morning and the afternoon you’re yielding to each other,” he said. “You’re going to have a lot of traffic that’s past my bay doors and down past North McElhaney, and I wont be able to get my trucks out and with the circle there they won’t be able to get out of my way. They wont have a place to go.”

anaLYSISTo identify problems

with traffic flow through the intersection, the SC-DOT had a traffic analysis report performed by the Civil Engineering Consult-ing Services. The report, completed in March of 2014, analyzed traffic conditions in 2012 and compared them to what the intersection’s projec-tions would be in 2023 and 2034. The conditions in 2012 were graded as a B overall, taking into con-sideration morning and afternoon/ evening traffic. Cars, on average, were de-layed 12.3 seconds in the morning and 14.3 second in the afternoon, respec-tively. If no improvements were made to the spot, the report projects a “D” and “F” rating in 2034, with significant delays.

If a single lane round-about were installed in 2012 conditions, the overall traffic flow would improve to an “A” in the morning and a “C” in the afternoon. In 2034 the re-port projects “D” and “F” ratings with similar de-lays.

Above the statistics for this particular alternative, the reports reads: “If a one lane roundabout is in-stalled it will not compro-mise the capacity of this intersection. In the later years of the projects (sp) design life, the LOS (level of service) will begin to deteriorate and by 2023 will begin to operate near capacity.”

In order to improve the roundabout’s function-ality as the area experi-ences growth, the report includes possibilities for a channelized right turn for the northbound lane. The reports grades the pos-sibility with an “A” rating for both morning and eve-ning in 2012. In 2034 the results would be similar to current conditions and a non-channelized round-about.

An alternative that does not call for a roundabout calls for adding a left turn lane on 101 and a right turn lane on North McEl-haney. With 2012 condi-tions this alternative with the installed traffic light would keep conditions at a B and is projected to drop to a C rating in 2034.

The report lists this op-tion first in its conclusions saying, “This alternative provides a better LOS over the design life of the proj-ect.”

Riddle said this does not, however, take care of the safety issue. It also requires widening of 600 feet in either direction on 101 and 135. The report agrees, concluding “Based upon the above compari-son of impacts and expect-ed benefits of each alter-native it is recommended that a single lane round-about be constructed to improve the safety of this intersection.”

Riddle acknowledged the conclusions of the re-port.

“Retaining the signal and adding turn lanes would be the best solu-tion operationally as far as

queues go. Now that would not address the safety problem,” he said, stating there could be more angle crashes and more impacts to the fire station.

CUrrenT ConDITIonSNorth McElhaney Road

and Highway 101 come to-gether at a “T-type intersec-tion.” Primarily the area is a two-lane suburban road that houses several busi-nesses, a church, a park near a lake and the above-mentioned fire station. The posted speed limits vary from 35-45 mph on the highway. Along North McElhaney, the speed limit is 40 mph.

A traffic light was in-stalled at the intersection in 2007. The road was re-paved a couple of weeks ago.

Balliew says the primary cause of wrecks is inatten-tion.

“There’s really nothing other than inattention to the red light that’s causing it,” he said. “If you come up on the intersection from North McElhaney you have a field of vision down past the bridge at Memorial Drive Ext. If you look north you have a good view above past the church.”

Riddle has two reasons--speed and a pre-emptive emergency signal.

“There’s some confu-sion being caused with the fire station’s preemptive signal in conjunction with the traffic light at the ac-tual intersection.”

Danny Lister, who works for Trey Thompson’s Cars Plus at the intersection, agrees that the light can cause confusion.

“I think a lot of people see that caution light and they don’t look for a red light,” he said.

Balliew acknowledged that the light may cause confusion. He said they haven’t used the emergen-cy signal in years. It was installed before the traffic light.

Lastly, the traffic report cited a low-lying limb, “blocking the driver’s view of the signal head heading westbound on S-135.”

fIre DeparTmenTSanD roUnDaBoUTS

Riddle said there are some roundabouts or plans for them near fire departments. Riddle said there is one on Fork Shoals Road and Conestee, but it is not right at the intersec-tion,

Bobby Pappas, Lake Cunningham fire commis-sioners, said the Florida DOT has a document con-cerning roundabouts in their state, and they cau-tion against having round-abouts near fire stations.

“They have a phrase that says you should take fire stations near the round-about into consideration when you’re designing your roundabout,” Riddle said. “There’s no law about

putting a roundabout near a fire station. It says you should take it into consid-eration.”

Riddle said they have considered it and have met twice with Lake Cun-ningham Fire Department.

The meetings have not convinced the department, though. In addition to be-ing concerned about their response times through the roundabout, officials are also concerned about the future of their station if the roundabout proves to be inefficient in the fu-ture as numbers indicate.

“Once they go back to Columbia, and I can’t oper-ate as a fire station, who’s going to pay to move that building?” Balliew said. “Lake Cunningham tax payers. Now, if the state would like to move us, that’s (OK). I know its ag-gravating going in and out of a traffic circle, but it can be done. But if it hin-

ders the fire departments response to a call then the fire department isn’t as efficient as it should be and that’s what matters. Minutes matter, seconds matter.”

ConSTrUCTIonRiddle said the proj-

ect should cost about $750,000 in federal grant money, if they go through with it. Provided they do, construction would likely begin in mid to late 2016 and would take four to six months.

“We’ll still need to work with the fire station and local politicians,” he said. “We still have some pub-lic outreach to do, so we’ll just have to evaluate it af-ter we have some talks.”

Riddle said they are still taking comments up until Sept. 30.

“We’ll review them and go from there,” he said.

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“The thing is, I don’t like the way the politics of this work,” he said. “That it was done in secret and nobody knew about it until Tom-my Stringer, our state rep-resentative, found out.”

Stringer said he found out in February of this year, even though the report was prepared in March of 2014. When he received a letter from the SCDOT about the round-about, he called the Lake Cunningham Fire Depart-ment. Stringer found out at that time that they too had not been approached about the changes to the intersection. The station sits right at the juncture.

Lake Cunningham Fire Department chief Travis Balliew said he found out in December of 2014 when he saw an AT&T worker outside the fire station. An individual with the de-partment asked what was going on and the worker responded they had to prepare for the construc-tion of a roundabout.

“When I called the Greenville office for SC-DOT, they had no clue for what I was talking about.” Balliew said. “They had not even been informed from Columbia that this was happening and that’s December of 2014.”

Stringer proceeded to schedule meetings involv-ing himself, Sen. Tom Corbin, the fire department and the SCDOT. While the meetings were informa-tive, and nobody argued that safety was important to consider Stringer and Corbin remain against the proposed plan.

I don’t think that it’s enough for the coming growth anyways,” Stringer said. “I think ultimately you would see one big ole line of cars kind of stuck”

Corbin said he is against placing the roundabout in front of the fire station.

“The fact that our DOT is wanting to do this when other states are saying it’s a catastrophe right out in front of a fire department is ludicrous.”

Corbin refers to a Flori-da DOT report on round-

about that advises consid-eration before placing a roundabout in front of a fire station.

Rep. Mike Burns was also at the public meeting on Tuesday. He is concerned about the financial aspect of the roundabout.

“Can you imagine how these heavy weighted trucks will cut this out within a year?” he asked, referring to logging trucks that travel the highway. “It’s a ridiculous waste of money.”

Bobby Pappas, Lake Cunningham fire commis-sioner, agreed, pointing to a traffic analysis report of the intersection that states that proposed changes to the intersection will not be sufficient in eight years.

“Not only that you know in 2023 they’re going to rip the whole thing up and put in turning lanes,” he said. “It’s a complete waste of money.”

“I don’t think we’d tear it down,” said SCDOT safe-ty project Engineer Keith Riddle.

“We would reevaluate at that time to see what we would do. In the mean-time we’re going to reduce crashes a lot by putting in this roundabout, and It’s not going to be any worse than the current configu-ration.”

Another concern by in-volved parties is the dis-crepancies in the number of crashes.

Balliew said there were zero crashes at the loca-tion in 2014; Riddle said there were five.

Some individuals specu-lated that the intersection was being pinpointed as the location for wrecks that occurred nearby on the road without actu-ally being the precise loca-tion. To that, Riddle said via email, “our method of finding and attributing crashes to an intersection is quite involved. We have

a specific group dedicated to it.”

The safety project man-ager offered to put this reporter in contact with the spokesperson for the group, but that individual was not available before press time.

Some individuals heard the numbers and believe for this reason that the roundabout will be help-ful. One of those individu-als is Danny Lister who works for Trey Thomp-son’s Cars Plus right at the intersection across North McElhaney from the fire station.

“I’m not against it,” he said, acknowledging that any future work could im-pact the business’s prop-erty. “If it’ll stop accidents that’s the main thing.”

Patti Kellems, Blue Ridge resident, said something should be done about single car crashes in the area.

Kellems, a teacher at Skyland Elementary, said they have lost too many students from the high school to crashes. At the same time, though, she said this roundabout is not right for the area. A former California resident, she said roundabout in California are for the flow of traffic.

“This isn’t here for the distribution of traffic,” she said. “This is here to make some people feel like they’re doing the right thing but not with the in-terests of the community in mind.”

Barney Horton of Greer is concerned people will be confused by the changes.

“I don’t think people un-derstand the yield.”

While individuals have a whole host of reasons, Stringer said it may be too late to do anything about it.

“I don’t know that any of us have any say so beyond just protesting about how the project will go,” String-er said. “I think if still falls on the DOT to make a de-cision. We can’t stop it. We can certainly express our opinion about it which I’ve done via letter them.”


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conceRns: being raised by Lake Cunningham Fire department on roundabout

‘it’s a ridiculous

waste of money.’

Mike Burnsstate representative

SPORTSThe Greer Citizen

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

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BLAMECANNADA

BILLYCANNADA

The great Dennis Green (former Arizona Cardinals head coach),

when asked a question about the Chicago Bears, once exclaimed: “THE BEARS ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE!”

To steal a line from one of the most famous press conferences ever, in the case of the 2015 Eastside Eagles, “THEY’RE NOT WHO YOU THOUGHT THEY WERE!”

When Steve Wilson was introduced as the new Eastside head coach earlier this year, I don’t think there were a lot of people who shifted their thoughts on Eagle football. Despite Wilson’s success at Furman and in Georgia, everyone knew it was going to take a lot to get Eastside back on track on Friday nights.

During his introductory speech to Eastside foot-ball players, Wilson told a room full of Eagles that it was going to take a lot of hard work to turn things around.

Fast-forward to the start of this season, and his team is doing just that.

I remember, back in early August, standing at Eastside’s picture day get-ting a first look at the full varsity roster. While my photographer was getting her camera set up, we had a quick discussion about how this Eastside team didn’t look like you’re average Eastside team. For starters, there were simply more players. The more numbers you have, the better off you’re going to be.

But beyond the num-bers, this Eastside team looked athletic. Seeing guys like T.J. Gist, Chance Pride, Shamarius Rucker, Tyius Lewis and Qualen Anderson painted a stark contrast to last year’s team. These guys were developed, they were fast and they looked like they were ready to take some teams by surprise.

Now, the Peach Blos-som conference is full of extremely smart coaches who have years of football experience under their belt. These guys aren’t surprised by Eastside. They’ve seen the Eagles on tape and they’re more than aware of what they’re capable of.

That being said, the shock is still real with fans. Last Friday night, Eastside beat a pretty darn good Blue Ridge team, which has struggled to finish games early this season. The win marked Eastside’s first region victory in the past two seasons.

As I was reading off the high school football scores to a buddy over the weekend, I told him the Eastside result and he responded, “Really?”

There’s only one thing I could tell him: Eastside is legit.

Like the 2014 River-side Warriors, Eastside is bouncing back in a BIG way this fall. Unlike the 2014 Warriors, the Eagles’ schedule is much more fa-vorable. This region is one the Eagles have a chance to do really, really well in. Sure there are your top dogs: Greer and Emerald, but Eastside could very well find itself competing right up there with those guys by the end of the season.

If you ask coach Wilson about his team, he’s still going to be incredibly humble and self-deprecat-ing. Perhaps its because he feels his team still has a long way to go, or perhaps it’s because he simply doesn’t want to jinx his 3-1 team. I know it’s still early in the sea-son, butthese guys might keep surprising you.

Eagles soaring

Jackets continue hot startBY LELAND BURCHFOR THE GREER CITIZEN

With the offensive line and running back Adrain McGee leading the charge, Greer cruised past Em-erald 39-20 in the Peach Blossom AAA opener here Friday night.

While taking a huge first step toward repeating as region football champs, the Yellow Jackets again gave up some huge num-bers defensively. But Greer took advantage of turnovers and made some clutch stops to improve to 4-0 on the season.

Coach Will Young said, “you have to give Emer-ald some credit. Any team that beats Daniel is pretty good.

I was pleased with our offensive line blocking for the running game, “said Young of the ground game that churned out 289 yards. He blamed the team’s anemic air effort, 5-of-14 for 94 yards, to “missed communication on pass protection that caused us problems. We have to get that fixed if we are going to be a great team,” he added.

Troy Pride, who’s daz-zling pass catches and runs had helped Greer to defeat Union, turned in a pair of defensive gems by converting a Viking touch-down into a turnover and blocking an extra point kick. And McGee had three clutch tackles to help snuff out Emerald’s last opportunity to get back in the game. Otherwise, Young said “it looked like we were playing defense in show motion out there at

times. Maybe the kids got too comfortable when we got ahead, but we are very young in spots.”

Greer never trailed af-ter taking advantage of a huge break to put the first points on the board. Emer-ald punter Braden Batson bobbled a fourth down snap and was dropped for a loss by Tyrek Smith at the Vikings’ 25-yard line. The Yellow Jackets needed just five plays to score with McGee crash-ing into the end zone from two yards away at the 8:13

mark of the first period. Nick Roberson added the extra point.

The Yellow Jackets went up 14-0 on their next pos-session, capping a 75-yard drive with a 32-yard pass from Mario Cusano to Dorian Lindsey.

HUGE TURNOVERAnother huge event oc-

curred before the end of the quarter when Emerald’s Willie Reynolds emerged from a swarm of Yellow Jacket defenders and set sail toward the goal line

some 36 yards away. Pride overtook Reynolds at the five-yard-line and stripped the ball that bounced into the end zone where Quan-tavious Cohen recovered for a touchback.

Taking over at their own 20-yard line, Greer marched to the opposite end of the field where Roberson booted a 25-yard field goal after the drive stalled at the Emer-ald eight yard stripe.

The Vikings roared back into the game with a two-play drive that covered 65

yards. Quarterback Melde-cous Jones reeled off a 38 yard gain on a sweep be-fore Reynolds scored from 27 yards out on a sprint off left tackle. Josh Davis added the extra point that made it a 17-7 affair.

The scoring was just beginning. Greer ran four minutes off the clock with a 65 yard drive capped by McGee’s two-yard run. Roberson added the con-version.

Emerald promptly gashed the Yellow Jackets

SEE GREER | B4


Byrnes knocked off rival Gaffney 28-14 Friday night at Nixon Field, picking up its first region win of the season and improving to 4-0.

The rivalry was fea-tured as part of the Great American Rivalry Series, presented by the United States Marine Corps.

Gaffney tried to keep the game close, but Byrnes proved to be too much for the indians, particu-larly on the ground, where the Rebels had the better game. The home team ran for 142 yards compared to 39 for Gaffney. Thirty-four of those yards came from Jaylan Foster, who also found the endzone on one of those carries. He also caught a three-yard

touchdown pass. With his two scores, Foster was awarded the most valu-able player of the game.

Gaffney receiver Scott McCluney did his best to take the MVP for himself. He caught two touchdowns of 69 and 80 yards.

With the long passes, quarterback Bryson Ward and the Indians led the Rebels in passing yards 233 to 152.

The most important stats, though, came from penalties. Byrnes was pe-nalized 10 times for 89 yards and Gaffney eight times for 71.

Byrnes coach Brian Lane said his team would pay for their penalties.

“Every Monday we run for penalties,” he said. “They must want to run a lot on Monday.”

SEE RIVALRY | B4

For first region win in twoseasonsBY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

A new chapter began for the Eastside football team last Friday night, as the Eagles picked up their first region win in two seasons.

With the 33-21 victory over Blue Ridge, Eastside now sits at 3-1 on the sea-son.

“We couldn’t be more excited to start region play in that fashion,” Eastside coach Steve Wilson said. “To be away from home and at Blue Ridge—the seniors on this team have never even beaten Blue Ridge. It was a really sweet victory for us.”

The two teams were at each other’s throats in the first half, trading punches on the offensive side of the ball. The Tigers estab-lished a 21-14 advantage in the second quarter, but

Eagle quarterback T.J. Gist found Chance Pride on a 65-yard touchdown route to tie the game with just under two minutes to play in the half.

After a Blue Ridge mis-cue on the ensuing kick-off, Eastside gained pos-session at midfield, and Gist hooked up with Tyius Lewis on a long touch-down pass to put the Ea-

gles ahead 27-21—a lead the Eagles would not relin-quish.

“We were their home-coming, so this was nice for our seniors and our coaches,” Wilson said. “Hopefully we can keep the momentum going.”

Vonta Jenkins had the big game for Blue Ridge, scoring the Tigers’ first two touchdowns. Blue Ridge’s Jake Smith then found Jason Sammons for the team’s final points of the game.

Blue Ridge head coach Shane Clark said his team struggled to stop Eastside in the first half.

“In the first half, we seemed a little confused (on defense),” Clark said. “Between both teams, there’s 48 points in the first half and then there’s six in the second half. We

SEE EAGLES | B3

McGee leads charge against Emerald

PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN

Adrian McGee was dominant for the Yellow Jackets last Friday night against Emerald, scoring several times and recording three key tackles to help Greer seal its � rst region win of the season.


Quez Mayes and the Byrnes o� ense escaped rival Ga� ney last Friday at Nixon Field.

Eastside tops Blue Ridge

Byrnes beatsrival Gaffney

MANDY FERGUSON | THE GREER CITIZEN

Eastside was all over Blue Ridge in the second half of last Friday night’s matchup, holding the Tigers scoreless for a 33-21 victory.

‘It was a really

sweet victory for us.’

Steve WilsonEastside head coach

B2 THE GREER CITIZEN SPORTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

BY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

Greer High inducted three former athletes into its Hall of Fame last Friday night, honoring the new class at halftime of the Yellow Jacket’s football game against Emerald.

The class consists of Daniel Palka, Chandler Hash and honorary induct-ee Carlton Greene, who spent 25 seasons coaching basketball at Greer.

Palka, class of 2010, was a five-year varsity base-ball letterman (2006-2010) for the Yellow Jackets. As a pitcher, he threw two no-hitters, boasting an average 1.86 ERA for his career. In 2010, Palka re-corded a batting average of .470 with 14 home runs and 32 RBI. He was select-ed to the All-Region team four times and twice to the All-State team. He was selected to the Rawlings & Under Armour All-Ameri-can Teams in 2010. Palka was drafted by the Phila-delphia Phillies in the 19th

round of the 2010 MLB draft and chose to attend Georgia Tech. At Georgia Tech, he was a three-year letterman (2011, 2012 and 2013). He was named first team All American and All-ACC in 2013. He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the third round of the 2013 MLB draft. Palka is currently playing in the California League for the Visalia Rawhide. He was selected as a California League All-Star in 2015 and he led the

Midwest League in home runs in 2014.

Greene acquired many accolades during his time at Greer. Greene coached the junior varsity boys for nine seasons, lead-ing the jackets to three Peach Blossom Tourna-ment Championships. He coached the girls varsity basketball team for 16 seasons, recording a re-cord of 254-137. Greene was the assistant coach for the SCACA North/South All-Star Basketball game in 2009, and was the head coach in 2014. He is a three-time region coach of the year and a 2004 Upper State finalist. He produced 10 All-Star players and 32 All-Region players, leading the lady Yellow Jackets to three Lady Sandlapper Christmas Tournament championships. Under Greene, Greer’s varsity girls qualified for the state playoffs 13 times.

Hash, class of 2010, was a four-year varsity bas-ketball letterman for the Yellow Jackets. During his junior season, Hash was named to Region 3-AAA All-Region team and was the Region 3-AAA Co-Player of the Year. He was named The Greer Citizen Player of the Year in 2009, also making the South Car-olina Basketball Coaches Association AAA All-State team. Hash set a school record for most three-pointers in a game (10) and tied a school record for most points scored in a game (43). During his se-nior season, he was named MVP of the FCA Christmas Tournament, Region 3-AAA Player of the Year, Greer Citizen Player of the Year and WYFF Impact Player of the Year. He was a McDonald’s All-Ameri-can Nominee, making the North-South All-Star team. At Greer, Hash totaled

1909 points. He went on to play for Anderson Uni-versity, where he made first-team All-Conference in 2012-2013. He also ranked third nationally in three-point field goal percentage. In the 2013-2014 season, Hash made first-team All-Conference and was a Reese’s Division II College All-Star. Also during that season, Hash earned an NCAA Division II Honorable Mention as an All-American. He is the third all-time leading scor-er at Anderson University with 1,537 points. He led Division II in scoring in 778 points in 2014, the most scored at Anderson in a single season. He was named Anderson Univer-sity’s Male Athlete of the year in 2014.


BY LELAND BURCHFOR THE GREER CITIZEN

“Getting better” is Coach Will Young’s goal this Fri-day night when the 2015 football schedule takes Greer on the road for the first time in a month. The unbeaten Yellow Jackets will battle an improved Travelers Rest team in a 7:30 p.m. Peach Blossom 3-A match.

Although Greer is off to a 1-0 start in the region and 4-0 overall, Young is not worried that the team will suffer a letdown, but he is far from satisfied. “We have to think we are playing the next best team in the state each week, and we’ve got to practice that way. If we do that, this team will not have a let-down,” Young said.

“We can’t be displeased about being 4-0 after a tough part of the sched-ule. But our coaching staff and players are still disappointed that we did not make it past the sec-ond round of the playoffs last year, so we really have a big drive going to get

better. We want to get to Columbia this Decem-ber. That’s something we haven’t done in a while,” he said. The only way to achieve that goal, Young believes, “is to make sure we do get better. We’re playing several freshmen and sophomores a good bit, and they have a way to go. They are learning, but it is good they can learn while we’re continuing to win.”

The region competition is a greater challenge this year, and that will require Greer to play at a higher level. Young explained, “Southside is undefeated, Chapman is better, and I think Blue Ridge will turn things around. They al-ways play us tough.” Not to mention Travelers Rest which got off to a 3-0 start with wins over Southside Christian, Landrum and Powdersville before falling to Chapman last Friday.

“This week, we are only thinking about Travelers Rest, and of course im-proving ourselves,” Young said. He noted that the Devildogs have “one of the

best running backs in the state in Xavier Terry. They also have a great H-back in Bo McKinney who is 6-5, 300 pounds. We don’t have a kid that size unless it is Adam Tapp.”

Although the Devildogs operate out of the spread formation with four wide receivers, Young said, “they really prefer to run the ball.”

Emerald’s ground game gave the Yellow Jackets all they could handle last week, “and stopping the run is one area where we have a lot of work to do. Our safeties, Adrian Mc-Gee and Troy Pride, were our leading tacklers last week, and that tells you we have issues at the first and second levels of our defense. Emerald blocked well, but our kids weren’t getting off those blocks and making plays.”

He noted that Travelers Rest employs multiple de-fenses. “They run some 3-3 and 4-2, and are improved from last year. Primarily they have some bigger kids this year including McKin-ney who also plays on the

defensive line along with a defensive tackle who is 6-4, 250 pounds.”

McGee gashed Emerald for 220 yards and a pair of touchdowns but the Yellow Jacket air attack nosedived with only two second-half pass comple-tions. Young took the blame for the passing decline saying, “that was on me. We were trying to match our pass blocking what Emerald was doing defensively, but there was a lot of communication that did not happen. We have to clean that up. We also will be working this week to get better at inter-mediate pass routes, and to start throwing more to our other receivers, espe-cially Zach Glidden and Alex Syphertt.”

In addition to improving to 5-0 with a win at Trav-elers Rest, Young said “I also would like to look at the film with the kids on Saturday morning and be able to say, “we did get better this week, here and here and here.”


A winless Warrior team will be up against its toughest task yet this Fri-day night: dealing with Ta-vien Feaster.

The Clemson commit has led his nationally ranked Spartanburg team to an undefeated record thus far, leaving opposing coaches searching for a game plan.

“A lot of people focus on Feaster and rightfully so,” Smith said. “He’s going to Clemson for a reason. He reminds me a lot of how Marcus Lattimore ran the football. He never falls backwards, his stride is a lot like Lattimore’s, and that’s pretty great compa-ny. He has a gear coming out of the backfield that nobody else has.”

But Spartanburg poses more threats than just Feaster.

“A lot of people forget about (Tavaris) Scott at quarterback and all the surrounding weapons that he has,” Smith said. “You’re going to take your medicine one way or the other. If you try to stop the pass, Feaster’s going to eat you alive and if you try

to stop him, Scott and the rest of the boys are going to eat you alive. They’re so balanced.”

Smith, who has faced Spartanburg many times, dating back to his assis-tant coaching days at Dor-man, said his players will have to be ready come Fri-day night.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for Chris Miller—him be-ing a defensive guy like I am,” Smith said. “I’ve gone up against this offense for years now, and I’d rather defend an offense like this, to tell you the truth. It’s fun and it’s like a big chess game. I just want us to perform well.”

EASTSIDEThe Eagles are learning

about their potential early this season, picking up three wins in the first four weeks.

Eastside will now host Chapman, having picked up its first region win of the season against Blue Ridge last week.

“We think we’ve got po-tential,” head coach Steve Wilson said. “Certainly, it’s our goal to make improve-ments every week. We feel like we can do that every week, but it has been so

long since these guys have been coached individually, from what I understand. That’s what we want to focus on—coaching these guys at their position to make sure they’re getting better. They’ve responded well so far.”

Wilson said he has been pleased with the develop-ment of his quarterback, T.J. Gist, along with stand-out playmakers such as Chance Pride.

“We’re really pleased with our progress, but we’re not where we want to be,” Wilson said. “We’re a fragile team. They could very easily revert back to the old Eastside. We hope we’ve gotten over that threshold and that they’re starting to believe in the system and the changing of the culture. We’re try-ing to make a difference over here and these guys are starting to buy into the fact that they can com-pete.”

BLUE RIDGEBouncing back is going

to be important for a Blue Ridge team that dropped its first region game of the season last Friday night.

The Tigers will travel

to Berea this Friday night in search of their second win.

“We probably had our best practice of the year on Monday, and that was very important for us,” Clark said. “We’re see-ing some guys step up in leadership roles to help carry this team, and we need them to because this stretch we’re going into is very important.”

Despite last week’s loss to Eastside, the Tigers re-main confident in the play-ers they’re putting on the field. Blue Ridge will have a tough road however, as the Tigers will be on the road for four of their next five games.

Kickoff for Friday’s con-test is set for 7:30 p.m.

BYRNESThe Rebels hope to con-

tinue their winning ways at Boiling Springs this Friday night, putting their unde-feated record on the line.

With wins over North-western, Mallard Creek, T.L. Hanna and Gaffney to boast, this battle tested By-rnes team has been streak-ing as of late. The Rebels will face Spartanburg, Riv-erside and J.L. Mann in the next three games.

RIVERSIDE HIGH“Warriors”

HEAD COACH - PHIL SMITHAUG. 28 0 EASTSIDE 25SEPT. 4 6 GREER 49SEPT. 11 0 at WOODMONT 32SEPT. 18 3 HILLCREST 70SEPT. 25 at SPARTANBURGOCT. 2 at BOILING SPRINGSOCT. 9 BYRNESOCT. 15 MAULDINOCT. 23 at J.L. MANNOCT. 30 WADE HAMPTONNOV. 6 at DORMAN

BYRNES HIGH“Rebels”

HEAD COACH - BRIAN LANEAUG. 22 40 NORTHWESTERN 31AUG. 28 42 TL HANNA 21SEPT. 4 31 MALLARD CREEK 29SEPT. 18 14 GAFFNEY 28SEPT. 25 at BOILING SPRINGSOCT. 2 SPARTANBURGOCT. 9 at RIVERSIDEOCT. 16 JL MANNOCT. 23 at MAULDINOCT. 30 DORMANNOV. 6 at WADE HAMPTON

EASTSIDE HIGH“Eagles”

HEAD COACH - STEVE WILSONAUG. 28 25 RIVERSIDE 0SEPT. 4 13 CHRIST CHURCH 15SEPT. 11 41 WADE HAMPTON 34SEPT. 18 33 at BLUE RIDGE 21SEPT. 25 CHAPMANOCT. 2 at GREEROCT. 9 SOUTHSIDEOCT. 16 at BEREAOCT. 23 TRAVELERS RESTOCT. 30 EMERALD

BLUE RIDGE HIGH“Fighting Tigers”

HEAD COACH - SHANE CLARKAUG. 28 24 WADE HAMPTON 28SEPT. 4 27 JL MANN 18SEPT. 11 0 STEPHENS CO.21SEPT. 18 21 EASTSIDE 33SEPT. 25 at BEREAOCT. 2 EMERALDOCT. 9 at TRAVELERS RESTOCT. 16 at SOUTHSIDEOCT. 22 at CHAPMAN (THURS.)OCT. 30 GREER

THIS WEEK’S GAMESBLUE RIDGE at BEREABYRNES at BOILING SPRINGS EASTSIDE CHAPMANGREER at TRAVELERS RESTRIVERSIDE at SPARTANBURG

BYRNES 28 GAFFNEY 14GREER 39 EMERALD 20HILLCREST 70 RIVERSIDE 3EASTSIDE 33 at BLUE RIDGE 21

GREER HIGH“Yellow Jackets”

HEAD COACH - WILL YOUNGAUG. 28 40 CLINTON 8SEPT. 4 49 RIVERSIDE 6SEPT. 11 35 UNION 28SEPT. 18 39 EMERALD 20SEPT. 25 at TRAVELERS RESTOCT. 2 EASTSIDEOCT. 9 at BEREAOCT. 16 at CHAPMANOCT. 23 SOUTHSIDEOCT. 30 at BLUE RIDGE

WEEKLY FOOTBALL WRAP

LAST WEEK’S SCORES

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK DEFENSE

Troy PrideGHS

Devin DexterBHS

OFFENSE

T.J. GistEHS

Taylor PattersonEHS

Jackets induct three into HOF

Carlton Greene, left, with Mazzie Drummond Chandler Hash

Warriors look to contain Feaster

Jackets hit the road in week five

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SPORTS THE GREER CITIZEN B3

The North Greenville football team fell to 1-2 on the season Saturday after suffering a 31-6 loss to in-state rival Newberry College.

The Crusaders had trou-ble moving the ball on of-fense, amassing just 224-yards of total offense. The Crusaders rushed for 133 while putting up just 91 yards through the air. Trey Walker led the ground at-tack for NGU with 92-yards on 11 carries while Nelson Hughes ran for 34 yards and NGU’s only touchdown.

The Wolves put up 384-yards of offense, 254 of which came on the ground. Taylor Anderson led the Crusaders with eight tack-les while Sam Houstonhad six. Nigel Gay forced the only turnover for the Crusaders with a first half interception while Eddie Studyvance notched the Crusaders’ only quarter-back sack.

The two defenses held each other’s offense in check in the first quarter as neither team was able to crack the scoreless tie. The Wolves broke through in the second quarter to take a 7-0 with a three-yard rushing score by Kev-in Miller. Newberry would tack on one more score in

the second quarter to take a 14-0 lead.

NGU would look to cut the deficit in half but a penalty on the two yard-line would end the second quarter as the Wolves took a 14-0 lead into halftime. Newberry finished the first half with 10 first downs compared to just three for the Crusaders.

The Wolves would pile on two more touchdowns and a field goal in the third and fourth quar-ters to extend the lead to 31-0 with just over seven minutes left to play in the game. Hughes would final-ly break NGU’s scoreless streak with on a two-yard rushing touchdown with 4:35 left in the game.

The Crusaders will re-turn home next weekend to host the University of North Carolina at Pem-broke at 7pm in Younts Stadium.


Hillcrest scored early and often during last Fri-day night’s 70-3 win over Riverside, a team that hasn’t seen a win all sea-son.

The Warriors gave up 23 points in the open-ing quarter and 26 more just before the half, dig-ging themselves in a hole against the defending state champions.

Riverside gave up three more touchdowns after intermission, only tack-ing on a field goal in the fourth quarter to avoid the shutout.

“It was a huge embar-rassment,” head coach Phil Smith said after the game. “It was a disappointing way to lose.”

With losses to Eastside, Greer and Woodmont un-der his belt, Smith said his guys will have to regroup quickly if they hope to

make any kind of a push this season.

“We’re still going over the basics,” Smith said. “As we watch film, we’re seeing the same mistakes being made. But we’re try-ing to find small victories within the game.”

Smith said his team has begun more physical prac-tices and he hopes that will translate into success on Friday nights.

“We had a great week of practice last week and

some kids got better,” Smith said. “On Friday night, some kids found out about those small victories and hopefully that flipped the switch. In those games, you’ve got to be willing to sacrifice your body and we saw some of that Friday night from some kids that hadn’t done it yet.”

The Warriors will face another AAAA state champ this Friday night at Spartanburg. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.

Rams embarrass Riverside, 70-3

WILLIAM BUCHHEIT | THE GREER CITIZEN

Hillcrest ran away from Riverside last Friday night, cruising to a 70-3 victory over the winless Warriors. Riverside is 0-4.

North Greenville falls to Newberry

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEKTroy Pride

Position: DB/WRAge: 17Class: Senior

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN OF THE WEEKTaylor Patterson

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEKT.J. Gist

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN OF THE WEEKDevin Dexter

#2 Position: DLAge: 17Class: Senior

Mother: Antwion and Benita YoweAway from the � eld: Hanging out with friendsFavoritemovie: Gone GirlFavorite athlete: Bo JacksonFavorite artist: Jay ZFavorite video game: Call of Duty

#9 Position: QBAge: 16Class: Junior

Parents: Lekicia and TimAway from the � eld: Enjoys working out with brotherFavorite athlete: Dez BryantFavorite movie: SupermanFavorite video game: FifaFavorite football team: Dallas Cowboys

#73Position: OLAge: 17Class: Senior

Parents: Ed and SusanAway from the � eld: Enjoys hanging out with friendsFavorite movie: Blades of GloryFavorite video game: MaddenFavorite athlete: Bo JacksonFavorite artist: Rise Against

#5Parents: Angela and Troy Pride Sr.Away from the � eld: Enjoys relaxing, running track

and � eldFavorite movie: Coach CarterFavorite video game: MaddenFavorite athlete: Richard ShermanFavorite artist: PartyNextDoor

PLAYERS OF WEEK THREETHE GREER CITIZEN PLAYERS OF WEEK FOUR


Greer’s C.J. Collins and Mario Cusano were named Greer Citizen/Owens Insurance Players of the Week for Week 3. Pictured, left to right, are Chris Crist (Owens), Collins, Cusano, coach Will Young and Shane Lynn (Owens).


Eastside’s Deshawn Sullivan and Drake Garrett were named Greer Citizen/Owens Insurance Players of the Week for Week 3. Pictured, left to right, are Chris Crist (Owens), coach Steve Wilson, coach Rich Hargitt, Sullivan, Garrett and Shane Lynn (Owens).

FROM B1

were just focused on clear-ing up some of the confu-sion in the second half.”

Citing the special teams error in the second quar-ter, Clark said mistakes cost his team the game.

“They are much better,” Clark said. “It’s still dis-appointing from our end. Not to take anything away from them, but there were some mistakes we had that were key. We can’t make mistakes during critical times of the game. We’ve got to find a way to stop those.”

Blue Ridge will travel to Berea this Friday while Eastside hosts Chapman.

“It’s not how we wanted to start the region,” Clark said. “At the same time, they’re the ones that hold the pen and they can write what happens the rest of the way.”

EAGLES: Pull away from Blue Ridge

NC 0-0 NGUNC 14-0 NGUNC 17-0 NGUNC 0-6 NGU

Newberry outscored NGU in two quarters to seal the win.

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Eastside’s Jovani Lawton � ghts o� a Blue Ridge defender during Friday night’s game on the road.

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While the team beat their rival, Lane expressed that the win was not pretty.

“As a team, anytime you can beat Gaffney that’s a plus,” he said. “You mark this one down. Twenty years from now this will be a “W” in the books.”

Though the penalties clearly hurt Byrnes, Lane said he was proud of his defense. With the excep-tion of the two long pass plays, the unit played well, particularly in regard to sacks. The Rebels got af-ter Ward, sacking him six times for 38 yards. Devin Dexter recorded two of

those for 22 yards.Byrnes plays at Boiling

Springs next Friday.

Gaffney 0 6 0 8 - 14Byrnes 14 0 7 7 - 28


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defense with a four-play scoring drive highlight-ed by Reynolds’ 51-yard touchdown run through the left side of the line. That cut Greer’s lead to 24-14 with 2:02 remaining in the half.

Young pointed out, “Emerald ran a mid-line against us in the playoffs two years ago, and did it again. Although it was not unexpected, it was a chal-lenge because Emerald did a good job blocking, and we didn’t do a good job of getting off the blocks and making tackles.”

Again Greer answered, however, scoring in just under a minute with a 65-yard drive capped by Cu-sano’s 24-yard touchdown pass to Lindsey. Although Roberson misfired on the extra point kick, the Yel-low Jackets led 30-14 at intermission.

ONSIDE SURPRISEWhen Emerald launched

the second half with a surprising on-side kick-off, Greer’s Isaiah Long scooped up the bouncing ball and returned it to the Vikings 36-yard line. That set the stage for a 36-yard Roberson field goal.

The Vikings came back with a 65-yard drive capped by a 24-yard touchdown pass from Jones to Myles Williams. Then Pride shot across the line to block the conversion kick, which left the score 33-20 with 6:32 remaining in the third pe-riod.

Greer wrapped up the scoring just a minute later with a 68-yard touchdown

blitz featuring McGee. The senior running back opened the drive with a 26-yard run, and two plays later bolted through the line on a 40-yard scoring gallop. Emerald managed to block Roberson’s extra point try, but that was the last hurrah for the Vi-kings.

The Yellow Jackets made a defensive stand that stopped Emerald at the 17 yard line when Jones bobbled the center snap and lost a yard on fourth-and-two.

McGee helped stop the Vikings on their next possession with a pair of clutch tackles as Emerald came up short on fourth-and-five at their own 44 yard line.

“Those stops in the second half were huge,” declared Greer Defensive Coordinator Travis Perry. “We knew Emerald had a good offensive team com-ing into the game, and we were able to make some adjustments at the half that helped. But we have a lot to work on.”

Both teams chalked up 21 first downs. Greer had a more balanced attack with 287 yards on the ground and 94 yards through the air. Emerald punched the Yellow Jackets defense for 367 yards rushing but got only 34 yards passing.

Cusano completed five of 14 passes, all to Lindsey, while the Vikings’ Jones hit on four of ten tosses. Em-erald lost one fumble, but Greer did not have a turn-overs. The Yellow Jackets are being flagged about half as much as a year ago,

drawing four penalties for 40 yards. The Vikings were also penalized four times for 45 yards.

Emerald 0 14 6 0 - 20Greer 14 16 9 0 - 39

First quarter: McGee (G) 2-yard run, Roberson kick; Lindsey (G), 32-yard pass from Cusano, Roberson kick.

Second quarter: Rober-son (G) 25-yard field goal; Reynolds (E) 27-yard run; Davis kick; McGee (G), 2-yard run, Roberson kick; Reynolds (E), 51-yard run, Davis kick; Lindsey,(G), 24-yard pass from Cusano, kick failed.

Third quarter: Rober-son (G) 36-yard field goal; Williams (E), 24-yard pass from Jones, kick blocked; McGee (G), 40 yard run; kick blocked.

Individual stats:Greer rushing: McGee

24/220 yards yards; Cu-sano 11/28 yards; Pride 3/30 yards; Dre Williams 2/9 yards.

Emerald rushing: Reyn-olds 22/227 yards; Jones 20/117 yards; Williams 6/13 yards; Elijah Sloan 1/2 yards; De Drennon 2/8 yards.

Greer passing: Cusano 5/14 94 yards.

Emerald passing: Jones 4/10 35 yards.

Greer receiving: Lindsey 5/94 yards

Emerald receiving: K.J. Chamberlain 2/2 yards; Williams 1/24 yards; Reyn-olds 1/9 yards.

GREER GIRLS TENNISFALLS TO CHAPMAN

Final: Greer 4 Blue Ridge 3

Singles:No. 1 M. Davis (G) def.

H. Cox 4-6, 6-3, 13-11No. 2 R. Driscoll (B) def

H. Henline 6-3,, 6-1No. 3 M. Harvey (G)

def. H. Chapman 6-7, 6-1, 10-4

No. 4 H. Taylor (G) def. A. Lynn 6-4, 7-6

No. 5 O. Turner (G) def. A. DiPerri 6-4, 6-1

Doubles:No. 1 Cox/Driscoll (B)

def. Davis/Henline 8-4No. 2 L. Anderson/K.

Harvey (B) def. G. Harvell/A. Barnett 6-3, 6-2

Greer 3-5 (3-3)BR 4-4 (4-3)

FREE BASKETBALL CAMP AT GREER FIRST BAPTIST

Greer First Baptist will host a free basketball camp for girls ages 6-10 for four weeks, beginning Oct. 5.

The camp will run from 6-7:30 p.m. on Mondays. No registration is re-quired.

For more information, call Paul Lister at 630-6625.

NGU MEN’S SOCCER FALLS TO EMMANUEL COLLEGE

The North Greenville Men’s Soccer team fell to 1-4 on the season and 0-3 in Conference Carolinas play after a 4-0 loss to Em-manuel College.

The Lions took a 1-0 lead into halftime after a goal from Jordan Davis

in the 33rd minute of the game. Emmanuel outshot the Crusaders 6-4 in the opening 45 minutes; forc-ing Mateo Barzola to make three saves for the Cru-saders.

The Crusaders put two more shots on frame in the second half but the Lions would extend their lead to two quick as Mark Shrosbree found the back of the net in the 58th min-ute.

The Lions would tack on two more goals in the 78th and 80th minutes to extend the lead to the final deficit of four.

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B6 the greer citizen Wednesday, september 23, 2015

By Billy CannadaEditor

Two local art enthusiasts are putting a new spin on an old, downtown Greer building.

Sharon Murry and Sarah Betancourt are the brains behind a new entertain-ment venue in Greer Sta-tion called “The Spinning Jenny,” located in the old Greer Opry House at 107 Cannon St.

Murry took over man-agement at The Spinning Jenny early this sum-mer and the building has seen constant renovations since.

“A lot of people who haven’t been here in years come in and say, ‘Wow, this place looks beauti-ful,’” Murry said. “A lot of it was just cleaning and fixing up things. It was just small things like that that really made the dif-ference.”

You might not recognize The Spinning Jenny.

After all, this building has served many purposes since the 1940s. Accord-ing to Murry, the building has been a grocery store, a rock and roll venue, a roller-skating rink and a wrestling arena—to name a few.

But the years can take a toll on a frequently used space.

Since the beginning of June, Murry and Betan-court, who serves as assis-tant manager, have seen the building’s interior re-painted, the floors thor-oughly cleaned, new light

fixtures installed and old, unique craftsmanship re-stored.

“The majority of the renovations are done,” Murry said. “We have a lot of little things to do that we’re working on, but a lot of the major projects are done.

“The one big project that we’re still working on is redoing the kitchen in the back,” she said. “That project hasn’t started yet, but we’ll get that going soon, hopefully.”

The work is paying off. The Spinning Jenny has already played host to a number of dance events and live music, as well as a few private parties.

“We’ve been able to have more events in the space,” she said. “We’ve had people rent it out for meetings. We’ve had some private parties come in. We’ve had different danc-es. We’ve booked differ-ent musicians and some artists from out of town. We’re just slowly adding more things.”

The Spinning Jenny will host an arts and crafts show on Nov. 20-21, along with a number of other events, including a Hal-loween costume party, in October. Murry said she hopes to have a grand opening in October as well.

“There’s really a variety

of things that are happen-ing right now,” she said. “It’s really exciting.

“We’re just starting to do a lot of our promoting. We’ll book an artist for the space and they’ll tell some-one else that might want to come. It’s great for us, especially since we’re just getting started.”

The revamped Opry House already sees plenty of action during a typical week. Many of the events are different in nature.

“We have at least one dance a week with a live band,” she said. “We have a church that meets there every Sunday—The Church at Greer Station. We have other kinds of

concerts each week. Other than that, it’s just random. We’ve got a lot of things happening in October, so we’re looking to make our big push then as far as things to do. Eventually, we want to have some-thing going on every day. That’s the plan.”

As the City of Greer’s next Community Master Plan begins to take shape, turning Greer Station into an “Arts District,” Murry said the future for her venue is bright.

“The opportunities are there for the arts in Greer,” Murry said. “Our location is great because it’s near Greenville and Spartanburg. It’s easy for people to get here. The parking is still really nice downtown. For the arts, I feel like we’re going to be able to attract some re-ally great musicians and shows that will help grow our community.”


By Kenneth Collins MapleStaff writEr

A community walk to help those impacted by suicide is set for Oct. 11 at Greer City Park.

Out of Darkness Com-munity Walks occur all over the country, benefit-ing the American Founda-tion for Suicide Prevention (ASSP), the largest suicide prevention organization in the nation.

Lucinda Davis, chairper-son for the 2015 Upstate Area Out of the Darkness Walk, said the organi-zation’s goal is to lower suicide by 20 percent in 2025.

The walk is actually for the entire Upstate. Davis said people from all over the area will come to the park to participate. The ceremony and walk goes from 2 to 4 p.m.

Registration is just be-fore that at 1 p.m., or in-terested individuals may register online at afsp.org/walk.

Last year’s event brought at 335 individuals even in the rain. Davis is hoping for even more this year.

“We actually had it in Spartanburg for several

years and moved it to Greer to be the Upstate Walk,” she said.

The event will have a DJ, snacks, a bake sale and a closing ceremony featur-ing a candlelight time to remember loved ones and then a butterfly release.

“It’s a very touching cer-emony,” Davis said.

The ASSP also works to prevent suicide through other means. Davis said the organization does research, education in schools, interactive screen-ing programs for colleges and students at risk and various other programs that are intended to help lower the suicide rate.

“Obviously it’s going to take a lot of awareness, a lot of education that sui-cide is preventable,” she said. “The research needs to have treatments that are available to people.”

Suicide walk offers healing, encouragement

filE photo | thE GrEEr CitizEn

More than 300 people turned out for last year’s Out of Darkness Community Walk, despite the rain. Organizers are hoping for an even better turnout this year.

New entertainment venue spins into action


The Spinning Jenny, located at the former Greer Opry House on Cannon Street downtown, has been undergoing renovations this summer. The building now features fresh paint, clean floors and new light fixtures.


Sharon Murry, left, and Sarah Betancourt are managing The Spinning Jenny at 107 Cannon St.


This downtown Greer building has been repurposed through the years, serving as a grocery store, entertainment venue and a roller-skating rink.

‘For the arts, I feel like we’re going to be able to attract some really

great musicians and shows that will help grow our community.’

Sharon Murraymanager, the spinning Jenny

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.afsp.org/walk

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GCM SFFERS SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY

High school students participating in the 9th Annual Benson October-FAST 5K on Saturday, Oct. 3, will have the opportuni-ty to win a $1,000 scholar-ship for their school.

The race begins at 8:30 a.m. at Greer First Baptist Church, 201 W. Poinsett St. The fast, flat course is certified.

Points will be awarded for the following: num-ber of paid participants representing a particu-lar high school including family and friends; wear-ing school colors or other spirit wear during the race; number of support-ers at the event including mascots, cheerleaders, drumline, and others.

The school with the greatest number of total points will be awarded the scholarship. Students from the winning school will then be eligible to ap-ply for it in January 2016.

Rules for eligibility are available at gcminc.org. Sign up for the 5K at go-greenevents.com. Adults can register for $20 and students for $5 without a shirt or $15 with a shirt. Indicate a preferred high school at that time.

Register for the 5K at go-greenevents.com. RSVP to [email protected].

GMC FISHING TEAMFUNDRAISER IS SEPT. 26

Greer Middle College Charter High will host a Blazer Bass Fishing Bo-nanza on Saturday, Sept. 26, at Lake Keowee – Mile Creek Park. Blast off will be at 7 a.m. (or safe light) with weigh-in at 3:15 p.m.

Participants can meet BASS Elite Series Fishing Pro Marty Robinson, and purchase tickets for a prize drawing. Hot dogs, drinks and dessert will be available for purchase.

All proceeds support the Greer Middle College Char-ter High Fishing Team. For more information, e-mail [email protected].

LANGSTON ENROLLMENT LOTTERY MEETINGS SET

Prospective par-ents must attend one of three Application Orienta-tion Meetings, as part of the lottery application pro-cess for Langston Charter Middle 2016-2017 school year enrollment lottery.

The meetings will be on Saturday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m.; Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m.; and Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. All meetings will be held at Woodruff Road Christian Church, 20 Bell Road in Greenville.

In addition to attending a meeting, parents must submit a lottery applica-tion, which will be avail-able on the school website (www.langstoncharter.org) at the conclusion of the first meeting on Sept. 26. The deadline for all lottery applications is Fri-day, Oct. 23, at 3 p.m.

A lottery of all complete applications will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 5 p.m. at the school and is open to the public. Par-ents of former or current students with a sibling planning to enroll for next year must attend a meet-ing and submit the lottery application by the dead-line of Oct. 23.

Call Celanie Martin, reg-istrar, at 286-9700 with any questions.

PARIS ELEMENTARY BACK TO SCHOOL PARTY SEPT. 26

It Takes a Village SC will host a back to school party to celebrate “Little Buddies” at Paris Elemen-tary on Saturday, Sept. 26. RSVP number of attend-ees to [email protected].

Volunteers will pack food bags at 10 a.m. with a pizza party to follow at 11:30 a.m. at Christ the King Lutheran Church located at 1925 Pelham Road in Greenville.

Volunteers and dona-tions are needed.

Following is a list of needed items for the food bags. Organizers also need school supplies for the

party goody bags for the Little Buddies, balloons for decoration, shelving for the food pantry and two large bulletin boards.

For more information or to make a financial con-tribution, contact Ellen Pourmand at 525-4616 or 234-5647.

COUNTY HOSTS BUS DRIVER JOB FAIR OCT. 13

Greenville County Schools will host a Job Fair for bus drivers and bus aides on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 5-7 p.m. at Berea High, 201 Burdine Drive, Green-ville.

Applicants can apply online at the Job Fair. Bus driver pay is $13 per hour with no experience needed, and bus aides earn $9.32 per hour with no prior ex-perience.

Benefits, including health and dental, retire-ment, pension, sick leave, and free life insurance, are available for employ-ees who work 30 or more hours per week.

RHS STUDENTS PLACE AT YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT

Five Riverside High stu-dents attended the Youth in Government National Judicial Competition in Chicago, Illinois, recently.

The team competed as attorneys and witnesses for both sides of a trial court case and placed 11th in the nation out of 55 teams, and senior Au-tumn Shea won an individ-ual award as Best Witness in the Nation.

The team was made up of Autumn Shea, Carolyn Bubanich, Nikita Annand, Lauren Brady and Emma Buckley.

BUENA VISTA SUGGESTS READING PROGRAM

Buena Vista Elemen-tary is inviting students to participate in the Six for Sticks Reading Program. Students who read six books by Oct. 12 can receive a voucher for a hockey ticket.

Each student who com-pletes the challenge will receive a Buy One, Get One ticket voucher for the game night on Nov. 14 along with a certificate of completion.

Each student must read a minimum of six grade level books in six weeks. The six week period runs from the week of Labor Day to Columbus Day (Sept. 7-Oct. 12).

Parents should return the child’s reading log to their teacher by Oct. 16.

Vouchers can be re-deemed online or through the box office before or on the game night of Nov. 14.

BUENA VISTA REQUESTS TRANSPORTATION INPUT

Buena Vista Elementary is seeking input from par-ents about children walk-ing and biking to school.

The survey takes about five- to 10-minutes to complete and can be ac-cessed at www.greenville.k12.sc.us/bvista.

Results of the survey are anonymous and confiden-tial.

‘EVENING OF EXCELLENCE’ RECOGNIZES STUDENTS

The best and brightest at Byrnes High were hon-ored this week for their hard work in the class-room when the school held its annual “Evening of Excellence” awards, showcasing academic ac-complishments for the 2014-15 school year.

The top 15 students in each class, according to GPA, were recognized, along with the students who received the highest grade in each course at By-rnes last year.

The top 15 for each class were:Class of 2016:

Michael Blake ChandlerMatthew Cam ComptonHunter Paul CorkrenHarsahib Singh DevMaya Nicole ElhageRebecca Elizabeth GlennDillon Todd GreenJohn Wesley GuthrieDanika Shea HalvorsenHaley Marie JonesShaylyn Elizabeth SimmonsEmily Marie SimpsonJessica Renee SpurlingHarry Leroy StathakisAustin Jacob Thomas

Class of 2017:Katherine Evans BlackwoodEmily Ann BrookeArlind BytyqiPeyton Grace ElmoreCamille Malyn FendleyKlaara Anna HannuHayle Lane HudginsQuinton Michael KinzieGrayson Joshua McAlisterEmily Lynne MorrisonRachel Marie SetoEllie Rose StephensHaley Rose ThackstonMartin Duong TrinhAnna Lily Wang

Class of 2018:Savannah Grace AllenBrittney Nicole AtkinsSamuel Blair BrownThomas Douglas BurkettLauren Catherine GohsMargaret Ruth GurleyVictoria Elise HallMia Joy HannuCarolina Kristine HopkinsAnna Rebecca HornerNikki Christine JacksonKelly Elizabeth MarshArsen MosijchukKassondra Lynn RimelRebecca Grace TurnerThe event, sponsored

by SEW Eurodrive, is in its 19th year.

D.R. HILL, LYMAN CLASSES TEAM FOR READING

D. R. Hill Middle and Lyman Elementary have launched a Buddy Reading program that pairs mid-dle school students with younger students from their neighboring school.

Each Friday, students from D.R. Hill will visit the Lyman media center and spend 20 minutes reading with their “buddies”.

During the time, they’ll also provide their reading partners with strategies, and set goals for their next session. The hope is to foster lifelong reading habits for all the students who participate.

BYRNES HIGH HOLDINGCHEERLEADING RAFFLE

The Byrnes High Cheer-leading Booster Club is holding a benefit raffle for a Yeti Ice Blue 45 Tundra.

Tickets are available for a $5 donation. The raffle will be held on Friday, Oct. 2, during halftime of the Byrnes versus Spartan-burg football game. (Win-ner does not have to be present to win.)

Tickets are available from Byrnes cheerlead-ers during home football games and during first half of the Oct. 2 game.

BHS, DUNCAN STUDENTS ARE LUNCH BUDDIES

Duncan Elementary is partnering with Byrnes High for its Byrnes Bud-dies lunch program once again.

Leadership Byrnes stu-dents meet with Duncan third graders weekly. Over the semester, they share lunch together.

The program is organized by Duncan guidance coun-selor, Leslie Cash, along with Leadership Byrnes teacher, Teresa Schiltz.

DISTRICT FIVE ADDS NEW MATH COACHES

Leigh Hanke and Ed-wina Perry are the District Five’s new Math Coaches, working with kindergar-ten through fourth grade teachers in all elementary schools.

As part of their new job, the duo will be offer-ing monthly professional development sessions to help teachers become more successful in the classroom.

Every month will fo-cus on a different issue, whether a grade-specific agenda or a unified meet-ing of math teachers. In October, the coaches will cover a grade level spe-cific overview of the S.C.

College and Career Ready Standards.

The date and location has not been determined. All meetings will be held after school, from 3-4 p.m. at locations throughout the district.

MENTORS PROGRAM KICKS OFF AT BYRNES

Some students at Byrnes High, many of whom strug-gle in the classroom, will get help this year, thanks to dozens of volunteers from the community. The school’s business mentor program held its annual kickoff this week, inviting dozens of leaders from lo-cal companies to team up with the school.

The program, organized by guidance counselor Rubye Calhoun, pairs mentors with individual students. Mentors meet with students once a week, for everything from help with class assignments to talk about home life. The goal is guide each student through graduation.

The program is nearing its 20th year.

FLORENCE CHAPEL TEACHER WINS SUPPLIES

Students in Sunshine Furner’s class at Florence Chapel Middle will be get-ting a large box of school supplies since the teacher was awarded “Teacher of the Week” by FSI Office.

Furner was among the top vote recipients out of teachers in the Carolinas.

ABNER CREEK STUDENTS REWARDED FOR READING

Students at Abner Creek Academy put on their game face recently, and brought in a big win for learning.

Students that participat-ed in Abner Creek’s “Game On Summer Reading Chal-lenge” earned a ticket to the school’s “Game Zone” last Friday. Participants

were allowed to bring their favorite board games to play with friends.

Several Byrnes High athletes stopped by to congratulate readers on crossing the finish line and meeting their summer reading goals.

NORTH GREENVILLE OPEN HOUSE IS SEPT. 26

North Greenville Uni-versity will host an open house on Saturday, Sept. 26, for potential students.

For more information, visit www.ngu.edu.

TWO LISTED ON CITADEL’S PRESIDENT’S LIST LOCALLY

The President’s List is one of the most distin-guished cadet awards pre-sented by The Citadel.

It indicates excellence in academics and military du-ties. The list is a combina-tion of the Dean’s List and the Commandant’s Distin-guished List and is com-posed of cadets who con-tribute the most to their companies while main-taining excellent military and academic records.

The following Greer resi-dents earned President’s List recognition for the spring 2015 semester:

Chase BlackwellJacob Riggs

USC UPSTATE OFFERS 12 FOREIGN LANGUAGES

The University of South Carolina Upstate’s World Languages Institute will offer instruction in 12 for-eign languages this fall in non-credit, evening cours-es.

Classes start the week of Oct. 19 and run through the week of Nov. 30, meet-ing once per week on the USC Upstate campus.


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Tiger homecomingChase Crist was crowned Blue Ridge High School’s Homecoming Queen 2015 during halftime of Friday’s game against the Eagles.

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STOMPING GROUNDS UPCOMING EVENTS

Stomping Grounds Open Mic Night is held the sec-ond and fourth Friday of each month. Dan and Lu-ann Gray are hosting open mic on the second Friday of the month and Mr. John is hosting on the fourth Friday of the month, each from 7-10 p.m.

Upcoming events:Saturday, Sept. 26: MP3-

Mills Party of Three Group playing from 7-10 p.m. Eclectic mix of 70s pop and country music.

Ongoing events:Mondays: Colored Pen-

cil Art Class with Robert Decker, 7-9 p.m.

Tuesdays: Weekly Ma-jong Games, 2-5 p.m.

First & third Tuesdays: Old Time Jam with Bob Buckingham, 7-9 p.m.

First & third Wednes-days: Celtic Session, 7-9 p.m.

Visit www.stomping-groundsgreer.com for more information.

BLACK LIVES MATTER SPEAKER SERIES

The University of South Carolina Upstate will host

Dr. Tricia Rose as the first lecturer in the Black Lives Matter Speaker Series “Race Relations in the 21st Century,” on Thursday, Sept. 24.

Rose will speak about “Making Black Lives Mat-ter” at 6 p.m. in the Sans-bury Campus Life Ball-room.

The event is free and open to the public.

To view the full sched-ule of speakers and topics for the Black Lives Speaker Series, please visit http://www.uscupstate.edu/blacklivesmatter/.

For more information, contact Dr. Esther God-frey, interim director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, at 503-5602 or [email protected].

MOONSHINERS OF THE DARK CORNER

The Squire of the Dark Corner, Dean Campbell, and Spartanburg County Historical Association will host the latest installment of SCHA’s Lunch & Learn lecture series on Friday, Sept. 25, from 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Campbell will highlight the importance of moon-shine to the health and social,cultural, and eco-nomic history of the Dark Corner and the impact of the eminent domain va-

cating of residents from 37,000 acres in order to build the Poinsett Reser-voir and watershed area. The presentation will include selected video excerpts from the Dark Corner documentary DVD produced five years ago by Dark Corner Films, Inc., with Squire Campbell as the lead storyteller.

Lunch & Learns are held in the Callie and John Rain-ey Conference Room in

the west wing of Chapman Cultural Center. Catered lunches will be available through Palmetto Palate, reserved in advance. Tick-ets and a limited number of lunches will be available at the door.

Reserve tickets by visit-ing www.spartanburghis-tory.org or by calling Spartanburg Regional His-tory Museum at 596-3501 Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

There aren’t too many movie directors who’ve made a career

in horror. Wes Craven, the 74-year-old filmmaker who died of brain cancer a few weeks ago, almost singlehandedly saved the genre in the 1980s, and masterfully subverted it the following decade. Not all of his movies were good, of course, but he certainly scored some classics. Here are his best five.

5. “The People Under the Stairs” (1991) – This one marked an important step in Craven’s career, illustrating his rare abil-ity to fuse horror with dark comedy. The story follows a young black kid and his cohort as they unwittingly sneak into a house owned by canni-bals. Thrilling and fun, it introduces us to the more mature and lighter-hearted filmmaker that would give us “Scream” five years later.

4. “The Serpent and the Rainbow” (1988) – Cra-ven’s most underrated film is a scary old-fash-ioned voodoo flick set in Haiti. It stars Bill Pulman as an ethnobotanist that ventures to the island to investigate the case of a man allegedly converted into a zombie. I know it sounds farfetched, but the story was adapted from a 1985 non-fiction book of the same name. In the years that followed,

voodoo became a promi-nent subject in the horror genre, but Craven was one of the first directors to explore it in such a spooky, direct way.

3. “The Hills Have Eyes” (1977) – The director’s debut, “Last House on the Left” (1972) stunned and repelled viewers with its sadistic violence and characters. Though Craven’s follow-up, “The Hills Have Eyes” is also relentlessly violent at times, it features far better writing and acting than its predecessor. The movie is about a fam-ily that breaks down in a remote desert town

occupied by inbred sav-ages. Influential and gory, it was shot for just $230,000.

2. “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984) – I’ll never forget seeing the preview for this one when I was a child. It scared me to death. Even today, the concept is brilliant. A badly burned child killer with a glove made of blades stalks teens in their dreams. In addi-tion to some spellbinding chase scenes and mind-blowing death sequences, Craven gave us Freddy Kruger, one of the most sinister and amusing villains in horror history.

The film’s major flaw is its bad acting. You’d have to be a psychic to see po-tential in Johnny Depp’s first major performance.

1. “Scream” (1996)– Both nailbiting thriller and self-deprecating satire, “Scream” stands as Craven’s masterpiece. In fact, many credit it for saving the entire Horror genre in the mid-90s. Aided by Kevin William-son’s splendid screenplay, Craven uses unpredict-able narrative techniques to keep us guessing about the identity of “ghost-face,” as he rips his way through the student body of Woodsboro High. A true classic that both salutes and deconstructs the genre, “Scream” is the director’s finest mix of horror, humor and suspense.

‘UNFRIENDED’ AN INNOVATIVE CHILLER

Rating: 7 out of 10

I haven’t been a teen in two decades, and “Un-friended” makes me glad I didn’t grow up in today’s world. With a camera in everyone’s hand and an instant audience at

everyone’s disposal, mod-ern teens must navigate a minefield of peer pres-sure, bullying and online anonymity. Combine it all with the permanence of online video and the long-standing temptations of drugs and booze and kids are going to get hurt.

Such modern-day cyber staples form the frame-work for the 83-minute, one-million-dollar budget thriller, “Unfriended.” Directed by Russian Levan Gabriadzee, the entire film takes place as a screencast on a character’s computer. As five teens skype with one another, their session is interrupted by someone claiming to be a classmate who committed suicide a year ago.

Things go from ag-gravating to terrifying when the mysterious figure chips away at their facades to reveal the secrets underneath. Gabriadzee’s film is in-novative, fast-moving and unpredictable, climaxing in an intense game of “Never Have I Ever.” The cast, featuring mostly a group of no-names, is a bit generic but certainly up for the task once the stakes are raised. There’s no question the premise is far-fetched, but nothing seems out of the question in this murky cyberworld rigged with time bombs of teen emotions. (83 minutes, rated “R” for language and graphic violence)

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Dying Girl” (PG-13) -- Greg (Thomas Mann) is a high-school senior who’s skilled at distancing himself from others. He’s friendly but has almost no friends. His mom makes him spend time with a classmate, Rachel (Olivia Cooke), because she’s been di-agnosed with leukemia. While painfully awkward at first, the two hit it off. Greg introduces her to his only friend, Earl (RJ Cyler), who reveals that he and Greg produce intentionally horrible home movies out of mangled film titles -- like “A Sockwork Orange,” made with sock puppets. It’s a clever coming-of-age flick that explores the joys and pains of actually con-necting with others.

“When Marnie was Still There” (PG) -- Anna (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) has never felt like she’s inside “the magic circle” that in-cludes most of humanity. Her foster mother sends her on a summer vacation to a small, coastal town in northern Japan, hoping it will do some good for An-na’s asthma and outlook. Once there, Anna becomes drawn to a supposedly abandoned old mansion, where she meets Marnie (Kiernan Shipka), a myste-rious and kind-hearted girl about her own age. What does it mean if your only friend is a ghost?

Studio Ghibli -- the Jap-anese animation studio renowned for some of the most amazing and en-chanting hand-drawn mov-ies ever -- is on its way out, and it appears this could be the last feature with the name. True to the legacy, this movie reels you in vi-sually, and surprises you with perspective and emo-tion you wouldn’t expect from a children’s movie.

“We Are Still Here” (R) -- Not all ghosts are as friendly as the one in the above review. The Sachet-tis (Barbara Crampton and Andrew Sensenig) find this out after they move from the city to a dreary town in rural Massachusetts. Right away, it’s a perfect storm for a haunting: young mar-ried couple, new in town with emotional baggage, weird standoffish locals and an old house with a surprise gruesome back-story! Also, it’s the late 1970s, so there are no cell-phones and everything is 15 percent creepier.

First-time director/writer Ted Geoghegan takes all of that familiar haunted-house stuff and does such a good job with it. The script and direc-tion keep you guessing, and the casting gets the right balance of talents for screams, paranoia, and grim comedy.

“Magic Mike XXL” (R) -- The oiled muscleman with a dream, Mike Lane (Chan-ning Tatum), gets back in the swing of things for One Last Show. In the last movie, Tatum was a strip-per who longed to chase his other passion -- mak-ing custom furniture. Now his furniture-smithing business is doing OK, but he jumps at the chance to hang with his bros when they come through town on their way to a convention in Myrtle Beach. There’s plenty more bumping and dancing, but this time Mat-thew McConaughey is out of the line up, so the other musclemen from the back move up and get more de-velopment. It’s a silly se-quel, but the same sense of self-awareness and ear-nestness is there.

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Zende lost his cool after finding out that Thomas kissed Nicole. Brooke urged Ridge to tell Caro-line about his vasectomy sooner rather than later. Thomas and Caroline spent a tense afternoon as design partners. Zende worked up the courage to ask out Nicole. Later, the twosome came clean with Rick about the state of their relationship. Ivy came up with a plan to get her job back at Forrester Creations. Thomas hoped to win his father’s approv-al with his new designs. Ridge attempted to evade Brooke’s questions about Caroline’s whereabouts. Thomas kept silent when Steffy asked him how he felt working so closely with Caroline. Wait to See: A heartbreak leads to a re-bound.

DAYS OF OUR LIVESTo prove his devotion

to his family, Steve told Joey about his love story with Kayla. Rafe exploded when a key figure from his past returned. Nicole fumed when she learned that Theresa’s silent in-vestor was actually Kate. Eve and Kate formed an unlikely bond. Marlena was attacked by the se-rial killer. Ben exploded when he found Abigail and Chad sharing a close mo-

ment. Rafe was shocked to discover that he had a personal tie to one of the murder victims. Justin and Adrienne tried to recon-nect, but their date didn’t go very smoothly. Abigail took a major risk by help-ing Chad out. Jennifer made a potentially dan-gerous slip while speaking with Clyde. The identity of the Necktie Killer was re-vealed! Wait to See: Chad comes up with a way to prove his innocence.

GENERAL HOSPITALCarly and Michael urged

Morgan to get help, but Morgan had other plans. Julian was grateful for Alexis’s loyalty. Ava sought Scott’s help in getting baby Avery back home. Tracy told Maxie about her past with Paul. Sam was wist-ful about Jason but deter-mined to do right by Pat-

rick. Dillon and his father, Paul, strengthened their bond after spending time together. Sam offered to help Julian. Sonny noticed qualities in Jake that were reminiscent of Jason. Pat-rick confided in Elizabeth about his relationship with Sam. Carly made a bold move. Sam ran into Jake at the restaurant where she married Jason. Wait to See: Nikolas wonders if he can really trust Hayden.

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS

Adam told Jack that he should be wary of any new people like “Fred” entering his life because of Para-gon. Stitch offered Abby a trip to Europe so she could meet with the fash-ion designers over there. Victor warned Marisa about causing problems for his family. Later, Noah confided in Sage that he was having doubts about Marisa. Gwen admitted to Devon that she was fall-ing for Neil. Abby accused Victoria of sabotaging her at Newman Enterprises. Devon chased a lead in Hilary’s disappearance. Victoria accused Nick of trying to secure his place as head of the family. Jack and Ashley clashed over a business transaction at Ja-bot. Nikki told Victor that Nick might not want to fol-low in his footsteps. Wait to See: Paul reconnects with Patty.

DEAR DR. ROACH:Could you write about the effect that angina, stopped quickly by nitro, has on one’s system? My husband takes Imdur (30 mg) twice a day to control angina, al-though he still experienc-es it several times a week, necessitating a nitroglyc-erin pill. Sometimes an-gina comes from exertion, such as climbing stairs a few times or doing home-maintenance chores. He is 89 and in relatively good health. He has had bypass surgery and several cath-eterizations, with eight stents. He doesn’t need a cane or use oxygen. His cardiologist suggested EECP, which my husband does not want to endure, believing the medicines are working fine.

His quality of life is good -- angina does not interfere with going out and enjoy-ing himself. Is he taking angina too lightly because he can stop it by popping a nitro? -- M.W.

ANSWER: Angina pecto-ris literally means “chest pain,” but in my experi-ence people with angina due to blockages in the arteries of the heart are more likely to complain of pressure or tightness than actual pain. Angina occurs when the heart’s demand for blood oxygen exceeds the supply. This usually means during ex-ercise. If the blood supply is fixed due to a blockage in the heart, the heart sim-

ply can’t get enough oxy-gen above a certain level of exercise. If the person with angina stops exercis-ing, the demand for oxy-gen goes back down be-low what can be supplied, and the angina goes away. Stable angina is associated with a low risk for heart attack.

Medications like isosor-bide (Imdur) and nitro-glycerine work by dilat-ing the blood vessels in order to increase supply. These medicines also di-late veins, which reduces the demands on the heart. Stents are designed to keep blockages open. None-theless, there are many people who continue to have angina despite what can be done with medicine and stents.

EECP (enhanced exter-nal counterpulsation) is a new technique. Cuffs wrapped around the legs are synchronized with the EKG and squeeze strongly when the heart is at rest. This forces blood back-ward through the arteries and into the blood vessels of the heart. It may work by making some blood vessels larger, but the ex-act mechanism isn’t clear. EECP is used for people

with stable angina. It takes 35 hours of EECP over four to seven weeks to get ben-efits, and about 70 percent of people had improve-ment from severe angina to mild or none. EECP is a big investment of time, and is usually reserved for people whose angina is more disabling than your husband’s.

At 89, your husband cer-tainly is entitled to say he is doing fine the way he is and not wanting further treatments.

Coronary artery disease can go unnoticed until you have a heart attack. The booklet on the disease explains its causes, symp-toms (such as angina) and treatment. Readers can or-der a copy by writing: Dr. Roach -- No. 101W, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for deliv-ery.

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Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer in-dividual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever pos-sible. Readers may email questions to [email protected]. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rb-mamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803.

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I read a CNN article the other day about a 12-year-old British girl who

reportedly has a higher IQ than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Lydia Sebastian achieved a perfect IQ score of 162 on Mensa’s Cattell III B test, placing her in a stratospheric intellectual category above those two scien-tific groundbreakers. Not surprisingly, Sebastian is a bit annoyed by the comparisons.

“I don’t think I can be compared to such great intellectuals such as Al-bert Einstein and Stephen Hawking,” she said recent-ly. “They’ve achieved so much. I don’t think it’s right.”

Such a comment illus-trates the girl’s humility and maturity. Though Sebastian will most

certainly surpass her less intelligent classmates in academic achievement and earning power, her odds of changing human thought the way Einstein and Hawking did are, in reality, as minute as Newton’s atom.

As most people know, there’s a big difference between being a genius and having a genius-level IQ.

The Mensa Society, an elite membership of individuals with an IQ in the second percentile, has some 121,000 members across the world, about half of whom hail from the US. In contrast, there are probably less than 100 people on earth today who can rightfully be called “geniuses.”

A website called Mindre-ality.com defines “genius” quite nicely:

“A genius is someone who is able to think at such a high order that he/she comes up with a unique and original idea that elevates the thinking of humanity to the next level.”

Thus, intelligence is but one of three critical ingre-dients that must converge to create a genius. The other two are creativity and determination (ob-sessiveness). The most brilliant scientists, artists, doctors and philosophers over the years have had all these qualities, and

most have been ridicu-lously prolific. Einstein wrote over 30,000 docu-ments. Hitchcock made over 50 movies, and Dylan wrote nearly 500 songs.

Most geniuses also teeter on that thin line between sanity and mad-ness. In fact, in his ac-claimed 1988 book “The Key to Genius,” D. Jablow Hershman asserted that

manic depression (now known as bipolar disor-der) was an illness that helped and tormented four of history’s great-est geniuses – Van Gogh, Mozart, Charles Dickens and Beethoven.

It makes sense, as the mania triggered by bipolar disorder can ac-celerate the creativity and obsessiveness required to produce something sci-entifically or artistically transformative.

American mathemati-cian John Nash, immor-talized in the movie “A Beautiful Mind” and one of the great geniuses in US history, suffered from schizophrenia. Vir-ginia Woolf battled (and eventually lost to) bipolar disorder. And many modern psychiatrists have theorized that Bobby Fischer, probably the best

chess player in history, suffered from Asburger’s Syndrome and/or schizo-phrenia.

Of course, not all geniuses are tortured. Fy-odor Dostoyevsky, Leon-ardo Da Vinci and Ben Franklin were all pretty well-adjusted. Dylan has lived a long healthy life and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s biggest defect was his perfectionism.

Ultimately, what makes a genius is his or her vi-sion, not just the ability to see something as no one else can, but the tal-ent to put that conception to some kind of practical use. Only time will tell if Sebastian has the brains and vision to be a genius or just the brains to be a person with a genius-level IQ.

A New Genius?Only time will tell

if Sebastian has the

brains and vision

to be a genius or

just the brains to

be a person with a

genius-level IQ.

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