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Job elimination, budget cuts are the order of the day at the DSN. PAGE 14

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The March unemployment rate in Greenville county, down from 7.2 percent in February.

This puts Greenville tied with Charleston and Lexington for the lowest rates in the state.

Value of the tires Michelin has provided Yellowstone National Park. Michelin became

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“I wish I could exercise that little and look as good as they do. They’re the supermodels of the dog world.”

Joanne Johnson of Greyhound Crossroads, on the couch-potato nature of greyhounds.

“History will eventually decide the best measure of this man, hopefully by remembering his accomplishments and his life in its totality.”

Ed Nixon, younger brother of former President Richard Nixon. Ed Nixon will speak at Wofford College on May 3.

“It is my prayer and life’s work to ensure fairness in our communities and eliminate bigotry and racism wherever it exists.”

Roslyn Brock, vice president of Advocacy and Government Relations for Bon Secours Health System and chairman of the NAACP’s National Board of Directors. Brock is in Greenville Friday to deliver the keynote speech at the Stand Against Racism Breakfast at BMW Zentrum.

“It’s a tricky organ, but crucial.” Greenville resident Christy Dias on her decision to form a nonprofit she calls “The Cranky Panky” to spread awareness for pancreas research.

“It’s the little, commonplace decisions that entertain our moments, that make it easier to accept the big life hiccups that challenge our souls.”

Life After 60 columnist Peggy Henderson.

“The horse was out of the barn, and I had to ride it.” Greenville developer Bo Aughtry, on the challenge of opening Main @ Broad during the economic difficulties of 2010.

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Kids and airplanes are a natural combination, and a new park planned for the Greenville Downtown Airport will have both.

Grading for the approximately 1.5 acre park next to the Runway Café will begin in May, said Lara Kaufman, mar-keting director for the airport.

The airport has raised about $30,000 of the estimated $350,000 to $450,000 needed to complete the park, she said. After a total cost estimate is received, the airport will seek grants and dona-tions to finish the project.

One reason for the park is to interest more children in aviation and becoming

pilots, said airport director Joe Frasher. Pilots are expected to be in short supply nationwide within 15 years to 20 years, Kaufman said.

“If you talk to a lot of pilots, they say they became interested in aviation as kids,” she said. “But kids can’t experi-ence aviation like they used to.”

Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks and resulting security changes, some 10,000 school-aged children toured the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport annually. They were allowed to explore areas of the airport the flying public doesn’t usually see and given the chance to board a plane.

National security restrictions no lon-ger allow such freedom at GSP, but the same is not true for the smaller Down-town Airport, located between the commercial corridors of I-385, Laurens Road, Pleasantburg Drive and Haywood Road. And “smaller” is a relative word.

The Greenville Downtown Airport handles about 60,000 flights per year and

is the busiest general aviation airport in South Carolina. The Greenville Jet Cen-ter, which is located at the airport, is the largest fixed-base operation in the state.

With the construction of this park, Downtown Airport staff hope to fill a void for school tours that 9/11 took away.

The new park, which is offering nam-ing rights, will have a playground, “run-ways” and a perimeter “taxiway” around the park for exercisers. A natural amphi-theater will be available for school trip lessons and viewing the airport’s real runway activity. An antique airplane hangar will be transformed into a picnic pavilion and a plane fuselage will serve as the entrance to the park. Airplane wings will provide shade over park benches.

The Greenville Airport Commission is donating use of its land for the park. Donations to the park are tax deduct-ible, Kaufman said.

“We think this park will be a perfect addition to Greenville’s growing avia-tion- and transportation-oriented com-munity,” said Hank Brown, owner of the Greenville Jet Center.

The first fundraising event for the park, “Party Down for the Playground Hangar Party,” will be held May 24 from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m.

Beach band Legends of Beach will perform. Tickets are $30 and admission is limited to those 21 years old or older. Food, beer and wine are included in the ticket price.

Tickets are available online at www.eventbrite.com/event/2875439517 and at the Greenville Jet Center, 100 Tower Drive; Beach Bob Oldies Show, 103.3 WOLT-FM studio at 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive, Suite B3; Donaldson Jet Center, 126 Club Loop; and Smith Drug Com-pany at 441 E. Henry St. in Spartanburg.

Contact Cindy Landrum at [email protected].

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Within one week after S.C. Sen. Phil Shoopman withdrew from the District 5 Senate race, two new candidates had entered the competition, while a third had filed for an injunction to prevent them from appearing on the ballot.

On Sunday, April 16, Shoopman an-nounced his decision to withdraw from the race for District 5, which includes parts of northern Greenville and Spar-tanburg counties. By the next day, state Republican Party Chairman Chad Con-nelly had decided to re-open filing for the seat for a 48-hour period, which ended at noon Wednesday, April 18.

On Monday after-noon, S.C. Representa-tive Tom Corbin was the first to announce that he would file to run for the seat. Corb-in, from Travelers Rest, represents House Dis-trict 17, which overlaps

Senate District 5. He will hold on to his House seat while he runs for the Senate seat, he said; if he wins, a special election will be held to fill his House seat.

“We need solid conservative rep-resentation in the district,” Corbin, a self-described conservative Christian, told the Travelers Rest Tribune. “I be-lieve it is what God wants me to do, and it is in His hands.”

On Tuesday, Green-ville small-business owner and political newcomer Wyatt Mil-er announced his can-didacy. “My decision to run for the open District 5 seat was to provide a new voice for the people of Greenville County,” he said. “I will work to reduce burden-some regulations that are hindering the

growth of our employers, to reduce tax-es and keep a balanced budget.”

Amanda Somers, a Greer businesswoman and physical therapist, also a political new-comer, would have been the only candi-date for the District 5 Senate nomination in the June 12 Republi-

can primary after incumbent Shoop-man withdrew. With no Democratic candidate in the race, Somers would also have been the only candidate for the seat in the November election.

Her suit was filed April 18 in the Court of Common Pleas in Richland County by Columbia lawyer Todd Kincannon, who alleged that “no lawful method was used to reopen filing.”

Kincannon, former general coun-sel and executive director of the state GOP, argued the law specifies that the decision to reopen filing can only come from the state GOP committee, mean-ing Connelly lacked the authority to de-clare a new filing period.

The suit names the South Carolina State Elections Commission and “all late-filing candidates for South Carolina State Senate District 5” as defendants. Somers is asking the court to “enjoin the South Carolina State Election Com-mission from adding any more names to the South Carolina Senate District 5 primary ballot.”

“I am treating this election process the same way I do all business and per-sonal decisions I make,” said Somers in a statement. “I am neither a lawyer nor a politician and I need a deeper under-standing and a clear definition of the law. I feel that taking this course of ac-tion is a part of the due diligence needed to have a full and accurate understand-ing of the process. My ultimate goal is to serve the members of my community and as a hopeful future lawmaker that all laws and processes are followed as written. As the current situation stands, I am not clear as to whether or not that is the case.”

While she waits for the court to act, Somers said, she plans to continue her campaign.

Contact Jerry Salley at [email protected].

Somers, Corbin, Miler battle for District 5 Senate seat

Suit aims to keep last week’s entrants off

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Some good economic news� e best news about the recent high-pro� le economic development announce-

ments in the Upstate – Michelin’s coming expansion in Anderson, BMW’s in Spartanburg – is that they are just a start on the economic good news.

As the Greenville Economic Development Corp. announced last week, 2011 was a record-setting year for encouraging new companies to locate in Green-ville County and established businesses to expand. All total, the GEDC was instrumental in attracting $290.6 million in new investment and the promise of 3,092 jobs – in one year.

Meanwhile, the Upstate South Carolina Alliance is more than halfway to its � ve-year goal to recruit 18,000 new jobs and $4.5 billion in capital investment to the region by 2015.

� e alliance is a public/private regional economic development organization formed in 2000 to market the 10 counties in our northwest corner of the state to the world. Last week, Alliance president Hal Johnson said the region has attracted 13,000 new jobs and $3.7 billion in capital investment “in di� cult economic times” – a col-lective accomplishment that all the region’s local economic developers can celebrate.

Johnson also unveiled a new Alliance approach to Upstate business recruit-ment that will double down on the cluster strategy that South Carolina has been � ne-tuning as a state since 2005.

� is approach operates on the theory that nurturing high-impact � rms in specif-ic trade clusters will give a state (one of 15 clusters identi� ed statewide) a competi-tive advantage because it promotes common interests. A 2011 Brookings Institute report agreed, saying “strong clusters foster innovation through dense knowledge � ows and spillovers … (they) enhance productivity, income levels and employment growth in industries and positively in� uence regional economic performance.”

An obvious example is the Upstate’s automotive cluster – one of 15 clusters identi� ed statewide – with 125 manufacturers, suppliers and related compa-nies that together generate $29 billion in annual sales.

Johnson said a� er a two-year study, the Upstate Alliance sta� has identi� ed � ve targeted industries that have experienced the most activity in our corner of the state. Going forward, the group’s investment recruitment team will focus its energies on clusters of in� uence, aerospace and advanced materials, and biosciences and energy in addition to automotive-related industries, he wrote in a guest column in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

� ese clusters represent “our region’s greatest opportunity for growth” and will position the Upstate as a “global competitor for jobs and capital invest-ment,” he wrote. “Globally, we are seeing more specialization in business re-cruitment, and if the Upstate is to compete worldwide … we at the Upstate SC Alliance need to specialize as well.”

� e alliance will create a task force of Upstate leaders for each targeted in-dustry to serve as sounding boards for the recruitment team, he wrote. � e goal will be “a healthy mix of company headquarters, data centers, call centers, warehouses, information technology, back o� ces, and more. � is means we target companies with 20,000 employees and with two.”

Last fall, Area Development Magazine named South Carolina fourth of 10 in a list of “2011 Top States for Doing Business.” � e magazine credited the cluster strategy as a key reason the state has outpaced the nation in job growth in both manufacturing and professional business service sectors.

� e Upstate Alliance is focusing its energies where it should, and we all will bene� t. Good news, indeed.

Some call it the fastest game on two feet; others call it the fastest game on turf. Either way, it’s coming to the Upstate and it’s going to be exciting.

Greenville is in the � nal preparations to host the MCLA (Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Asso-ciation) National Championships, May 14 to 19. � e competition will be held at Wenwood Park and Sirrine Stadium downtown, and will consist of 32 of the top collegiate lacrosse teams from around the U.S. and Canada, including BYU, Arizona State, Cal Poly and Michigan State, and regional hopefuls Georgia, Florida State and home favorite Clemson. All will compete in a single-elimination tournament leading to a national champion.

Competition begins with preliminary rounds at Wenwood Park in Divisions I and II on May 14 and 15. � en the competition shi� s to Sirrine Stadium for the semi� nals and � nals � ursday and Saturday, May 17 and 19.

MCLA Board President Tony Scazzero said the “intimate setting of Sirrine and the welcoming nature of Greenville in general were major contributing factors in MCLA’s selecting Greenville to host over Denver and San Diego.”

� e MCLA National Championship Finals will be covered live by Fox Sports South and the entire tournament week will be webcast live across the country. Lo-cal event organizers are looking to attract more than 3,000 spectators to the event throughout the week. With 32 teams, fam-ily members and spectators, the Greenville Convention and Visitors Bureau is antici-pating a major economic impact of $2.5 million during championship week.

But MCLA is certainly not all that is on the horizon this spring. We are ramping up to one of the busiest event periods in some time. Simultaneous to the MCLA event is the annual BMW Charity Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tournament, presented by Syn-nex Corporation, which attracts celebrity golfers and pairs them with local and as-piring pros from the nationwide tour.

� e BMW event draws more than 5,000 spectators and hosts numerous events during tournament week. � at same week, the Greenville Drive and Fluor Field will host the SoCon Baseball Tournament fea-

turing competing teams from the South-ern Conference. Add in the annual Greek Festival, and you have one busy week.

But that’s not all. � e following week, Greenville rolls out the red carpet for the Greenville Hospital System USA Cycling Professional Championships, May 28 to 30, which has become an Upstate staple. � e USA Pro attracts more than 100 of America’s top professional cyclists and last year drew over 50,000 spectators over the course of the event weekend.

Combined with Freedom Weekend Alo� and the Scottish Games, this rounds out a very busy May. June picks up right where May leaves o� , with the hosting of the U.S. Youth Soccer Southern Re-gional (Region III) Championships by the Carolina Elite Soccer Academy (CESA) June 14 to 24. Slated for the MeSA Soc-cer complex and other locations through-out the county, more than 280 teams will compete, generating nearly 18,000 room nights and adding $10 million in direct spending to the Upstate economy.

In addition, Greenville Country Club and the new Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center Tennis Complex will host the USTA South Caro-lina 2.5-3.5 Adult Championships June 1 to 4. As you can see, the Upstate has and continues to attract major sports and tour-ism events that can positively e� ect the economy and add to the quality of life and entertainment options for our residents.

Todd A. Bertka is vice president of sales for

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Sports bring nationwide noticeIN MY OWN WORDS byTODD A. BERTKA

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Y Camp Greenville, high atop Standing-stone Mountain, literally overlooks the top of our state at the exact edge of South and North Carolina. It is a haven of tall pines and ravens, a 1,400-acre wilderness of wa-terfalls, streams and lakes, where laurel and wild flowers flourish and wild animals make their homes. Standingstone Moun-tain, at an altitude of 3,200 feet, is the loca-tion of the finest co-ed adventure camp in the entire Southeast. Thanks to Mr. J. Har-vey Cleveland and the Saluda Land and Lumber Company, the small tent camp that had begun in 1912 in Blythe Shoals, S.C., became a permanent camp in the glorious Blue Ridge in 1925. And thanks to the foresight of these donors, the camp property will always remain a camp.

Camp Greenville was created by lead-ers like Dr. Charles J. Kilbourne, who were focused on the proper raising and “rearing up” of young men. They were the leaders of the YMCA of Greenville and such civic organizations as the Greenville Rotary. Times were changing, and folks were now

living in towns as families left the farm and worked in the mills. Idealistic Greenville leaders were concerned that these young-sters, left to their own devices, would grow up rough and thoughtless. Spend-ing weeks together in the wilderness with top-caliber leadership would teach them the vital lessons of good citizenship, living in harmony and Christian character traits while they all enjoyed a great campout.

In the early days, the camp leaders were professional men who gave up sev-eral weeks each summer to work at Camp Greenville to ensure that the boys had the proper guidance. And because of their devotion to helping raise young boys into good men, they were successful. Parents were impressed by the increase in their children’s manners and self-confidence and the kids were just as excited by the adventure of it all. The camp grew in size

every year. The word was out – Camp Greenville was the best place to spend the summer. And many campers elected to stay the entire summer.

Of the thousands of boys, and later girls, who were fortunate enough to attend the legendary camp, many went on to lead gov-ernment, business concerns, churches and non-profits. And, realizing that camp had had a significant role in their character de-velopment and success in life, these grown-up campers sent their children there as well. Many of the children who attend Camp Greenville today are the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of former campers.

Even those campers who did not grow into CEOs, mayors, senators or pastors were, by their own admission, better men and women because of the influence of the Camp Greenville experience. They were better citizens, parents, spouses and role models because of camp. The impact of leaders like Uncle Johnny Holmes, Monk Mulligan and Luther Marchant cannot be overestimated. What would our commu-

nities and our state have missed without Camp Greenville? And how much more special would our communities be if all our children could attend camp?

On Sunday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., everyone is invited to the moun-taintop to experience this legendary spot for themselves, enjoy a raft of free activities and meet the Camp leadership. This is the official kickoff of the Y Camp Greenville Centennial year and a perfect opportunity for you to find out what it is and what it means. Camp is located about an hour north of the city of Greenville, past Caesar’s Head State Park, off High-way 276. And, while you’re there, leave a message in the Centennial Time Capsule for the campers of 2112.

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“� ere’s nothing like walk-ing two or three dogs in a hoop skirt and a corset,” says Joanne Johnson.

She would know, hav-ing recently returned from a weekend of doing just that at the Georgia Renaissance Fes-tival. She volunteers for � e Hounds of East Fairhaven, a group that performs at festi-vals throughout the Southeast, in full period garb, promot-ing adoptions for greyhounds as well as other “sighthound” breeds, such as borzoi, whip-pets and Ibizan hounds.

� rough her work with Greyhound Crossroads, � nd-ing good homes for grey-hounds has been Johnson’s passion for the past decade. “Ever since I adopted my � rst greyhound,” she said, “I just fell in love with the breed.”

Greyhound Crossroads, based in Greenwood, has been around since 1997, providing foster homes for more than 1,000 retired greyhound racers, and working to � nd permanent homes for them in the Caroli-nas, Georgia and Tennessee.

A� er adopting her � rst greyhound more than a de-cade ago, Johnson immediate-ly volunteered to foster dogs, and is now the Greenville rep-resentative for Greyhound Crossroads.

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tives in Easley, Charleston, Columbia, Myrtle Beach and Augusta, S.C., as well as in Charlotte, N.C. and Augusta, GA., is the longest-running greyhound adoption group in the state. Greyhound Cross-ing describes itself as “pro-greyhound, racing neutral and anti-abuse.”

� e racetracks aren’t neces-sarily the bad guys, Johnson explained. “We like to work closely with the tracks, with the trainers, and with the in-dividual racing owners,” she said. “� ey’re taking good care of them and working very hard with us.”

Some of the greyhounds’ previous owners and train-

ers pay up to $80 to transport a dog to his

new home, or pay for spaying and neutering, or

make other generous dona-tions, Johnson said.

“In most cases, we’re taking a valuable athlete worth thou-sands of dollars from some-body who’s done their best to take care of the dog in the best way possible so they could be a successful racer,” she said.

Greyhound Crossing has no kennels, Johnson said. “We rely on a great network of fos-ter homes to take in the dogs and work with them and teach them how to be in a house.”

� e dogs have a lot to learn before they’re ready for their adoptive homes. “A lot of our dogs have never been in homes before,” Johnson said. “� ey’ve come straight from the racetrack. So we need to teach them how to walk on shiny � oors, because

they don’t have many of those at racetracks.

We teach them how to go up and down stairs. Basic house man-ners. And usually they learn so fast. It’s just amazing that within a few days they can make that transition from living in a ken-nel to living in a home.”

Most of the dogs come from tracks in Florida, and have retired relatively young from racing. “We usually get them when they’re between 2 and 5 years old,” Johnson said. And since greyhounds typically live between 12 and 15 years, “they’ve got a lot of good years le� when we get them.”

Some of the dogs in the worst shape, Johnson said, are the rescue dogs the group � nds at shelters or accepts from fam-ilies who are unable to care for them. “Usually, if a greyhound turns up in a shelter, the grey-hound community will go to the shelter and get the dog and adopt it out ourselves,” she said. “Greyhounds are very unique, just like all breeds are unique. I know a lot about greyhounds, and the adoption community knows a lot about greyhounds. And the Humane Society and groups that handle more breeds of dogs may not know as much about each speci� c breed that they’re handling. We believe that we’ll do a better job of placing that dog and educat-ing the owners about this spe-ci� c breed, because we just deal with this speci� c breed.”

Detailed knowledge of a spe-

ci� c breed is the philosophy be-hind several breed-speci� c dog rescue and adoption organiza-tions in the Upstate and around the country. Locally, FootHills Golden Retriever Rescue in Greenville and Carolina Poodle Rescue in Greer are two groups providing breed-speci� c ser-vices. Nelly’s Nards in Liberty handles St. Bernards, and Ara-rat’s Doxie Haven works with purebred dachshunds.

For example, those unfamiliar with the breed may not know that greyhounds have larger hearts than most dogs. “Not even all vets know that,” Johnson said. Greyhound Crossroads has a network of greyhound special-ist veterinarians, and provides support for other vets.

New greyhound own-ers are also o� en surprised to � nd out their dogs aren’t speed demons. “We call them 45-mile-an-hour couch pota-toes,” Johnson said. “� ey’re sprinters, so they do a 30-sec-ond race at the racetrack once every three to � ve days, and that’s it. I wish I could exercise that little and look as good as they do. � ey’re the super-models of the dog world.”

For more information about Greyhound Crossroads, visit www.greyhoundcrossroads.com.


Finding families for ‘the supermodels of the dog world’Joanne Johnson and Greyhound Crossroads work to rehome retired racing greyhounds

By JERRY SALLEY | staff

Joanne Johnson at the Carolina Renaissance Festival with her greyhounds Moose, standing, and Miles Per Hour, lying down in the background.

ing the owners about this spe- models of the dog world.” resentative for Greyhound Crossroads.

� e organization, which also has re pre s e nt a -

ers pay up to $80 to transport a dog to his

new home, or pay for spaying and neutering, or

So we need to teach them how to walk on shiny � oors, because

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ci� c breed, because we just deal with this speci� c breed.”

Detailed knowledge of a spe-

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for-fun event. These events help the greyhounds stay in shape and give their own-

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On Monday morning at 11:00 a.m., the Greenville County Sheri� ’s O� ce received a call for service at 208 Old Piedmont Highway, according to Deputy Laura Campbell, the GCSO’s public in-formation o� cer. Duke Energy request-ed the Sheri� ’s O� ce’s assistance in re-gard to the the� of electrical current.

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Investigators found several rooms containing various stages of marijuana plant growth in the warehouse, Camp-bell said. In total, the GCSO seized 678 individual marijuana plants, she said.

No persons or suspects were found at the scene, Campbell said. � e investiga-tion is ongoing.


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Near the Milliken mill in Greenville’s Judson community stands a brick church where Rev. Windell Rogers recently held a Pray for Judson event. Visitors and members could come and pray for the restoration of com-munity identity, freedom from poverty and abundance.

Rogers has a vision for restor-ing the sense of community to this neighborhood that was once a vi-brant mill village. With Greater Mt. Calvary Baptist Church as a neigh-borhood resource and his home base, Rogers wants to help spark interest in Judson as an a� ordable and beautiful place to live.

“It’s only two miles from Falls Park. � is is one of the few plac-es close to downtown that you can still � nd a decent structure with yard space,” he said.

Judson faces problems like a high home rental rate and high unemployment, Rogers said, and he wants to help facilitate change. Rogers came to the Upstate from Columbia in 1980. A� er serv-ing seven years active duty in the military, he became a manager with the U.S. Postal Service be-fore beginning pastoral work.

Rogers has been pastor at Greater Mt. Calvary for 14 years. He said he knew this sort of outreach would be part of his focus a� er multiple mission trips to Mexico and Honduras. � ose trips “reminded me that we have some of the same con-ditions at home,” he said.

Rogers is o� en in the neighbor-hood on prayer walks with oth-ers, stopping to pray for residents. He encounters people living in all types of situations. “If they’re spiritually awakened, then that

can cure many ills,” he says. � e church participates in

neighborhood outreach each year at � anksgiving, partner-ing with Southside Fellowship in Simpsonville to provide meals for the community through Boxes of Love. As a result of this work, Rogers met a grand-mother who was raising her grandson the best way she could in adverse conditions. � e two became close and Rogers, who has been married for nearly 40 years and has three grown chil-dren, became the guardian of the 10-year-old boy when the grandmother passed away about 18 months ago. He says going back to childrearing a� er being an empty nester required much prayer, but “he’s worth every minute that he’s been with us.”

Reaching out to the community through the church is vital, Rogers said. Greater Mt. Calvary Baptist Church moved into the area seven years ago and he considers the fa-cility itself a fantastic asset, with 60 rooms, many of those unused. Some of those rooms are being tapped as classroom space for an “I

Can Learn” program that o� ers af-terschool and summer enrichment for students. And there’s a clothes closet and food pantry for those in need. “We try to be a resource for this neighborhood. Ideally that’s what we’d like to be,” Rogers said.

He adds that there are many non-English speakers in the area and he sees a demand for English as a Second Language (ESL) workshops and classes. He sees using some of the church’s space to allow artists or artisans to work and a community garden on the horizon.

Rogers said there are excellent

existing neighborhood resourc-es in the Judson community, among them Hollis Academy and the Judson YMCA. He said he dreams of restoring the old mill village baseball � elds to provide a gathering place and recreation for all ages.

� ough he believes that com-munity change should begin with the residents, Rogers admits that other resources are required. “We are looking for someone to help with renewal. We need peo-ple who have monetary resourc-es. I’m praying for people to get interested in Judson.”

To discover avenues for gen-erating interest in the area, Rogers has been talking with residents and meeting with lo-cal businesses and law enforce-ment. He’s also partnering with Greenville Connect, a church, ministry and business alliance, to o� er assistance in Judson.

“I believe that God wants us to help other people and we have that opportunity here in Judson. We just want Judson to thrive.”

Contact April A. Morris at [email protected].

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Haddon did not return the Journal’s requests for an interview as of press time Wednesday.

The eliminated positions include direc-tor of day programs, the administrative assistant for day programs, medication co-ordinator, healthcare coordinator and the human resources administrative assistant.

Haddon’s efforts to bring spending under control at DSN are one of the reasons he was brought in following the February firing of then agency director Brent Parker over spend-

ing practices that left the agency with a short-fall of more than $1.5 million as of 2011.

This year, sources close to the situation have said, the agency is projecting a slight surplus by the end of the fiscal year.

The document provided to the Jour-nal lists the author as Haddon and came under the Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs Board name and logo.

In it, Haddon writes the agency is con-tinuing to be vigilant in paying down its outstanding debt and shows about $125,000 in outstanding debt to vendors, with Bi-Lo listed as having the largest balance at $50,000.

In terms of the agency’s organizational structure, among the problems and con-cerns Haddon includes are DHEC cita-tions, communication issues between departments and oversight from correct departments and managers.

He also cited management, oversight and training as well as staff abuses and potential neglect.

DHEC cited the agency for actions at its group homes in recent reports that date from March. According to one re-port, a staff member was arrested for

abusing a “consumer,” or patient, at one of the agency’s programs. Another report concerned the death of Heather Dawn Worchester Lemon, 36, after having six abscessed teeth extracted in February.

Haddon has refused comment on the is-sues raised in the DHEC reports and so far has not responded to the Journal’s requests to tour some of the agency’s group homes.

DHEC cited many instances of struc-tural deficiencies at the group homes re-viewed in the reports made available to the Journal.

Regarding fiscal issues, Haddon writes the agency is looking at its van replacement program; HVAC issues at the office building and facilities; spending cuts to all non-criti-cal items; and elimination of positions with restructuring and streamlining the agency.

He also lists plans to outsource em-ployee shots and cut one staff position.

These moves, Haddon writes, will save over $200,000 a year and bring the monthly payroll under the targeted goal of $435,000 a month.

Contact Charles Sowell at [email protected].

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remaining slave structure in Greenville County from demolition were awarded the Palmetto Trust Preservation Award Tuesday.

The two-room 1840s Williams-Earle slave cabin is now at the Roper Mountain Science Center and is used to teach lessons on sharecropping, tenant farming and the Reconstruction era of South Carolina history.

The Williams-Earle cabin “If Walls Could Speak” project preserves and interprets the history of African-Americans in Greenville from 1790 to 1930. “If Walls Could Speak” tells the overlooked story of slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow through a single structure and provides social studies teachers with a venue to teach their stu-dents about the contributions of Upcountry African-Americans.

Since it opened in 2010, more than 8,000 students have been through the Williams-Earle cabin. The cabin is also open to the pub-lic as a part of Roper Mountain Science Center’s Second Saturday program.

The cabin was rescued from demolition in 2009 and moved to the science center with the help of the Earle family, volunteers and grants from The History Channel and the National Trust for His-toric Preservation.

The science center, the Greenville County Historic Preservation Commission and Mountain Sturdy Oak Restoration received the award from the Palmetto Trust, the state Department of Archives and the Governor’s Office.

Furman University is one of 11 schools nationally to receive a highly competitive grant supporting scientific research by undergraduates.

The $77,200 Beckman Scholars Program Institutional Award will fund four Beckman scholarships in the chemistry department over a three-year period beginning this summer.

Furman is one of only three baccalaureate institutions to have received at least five awards in the program’s 15-year history.

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation invites about 100 schools, from baccalaureate to major research institutions, to apply for grants. Thirty-six were chosen for an extensive review by a panel of professors.

The chemistry majors chosen for the scholarships of $19,300 each will be required to do research part-time during one academic year and full-time during two summers.

Seven of Furman’s former Beckman Scholars enrolled in chemis-try Ph.D. programs, four entered M.D. /Ph.D. programs and three attended medical school. Another entered graduate school in pub-lic health administration after serving for two years as a volunteer at rural health clinics in Africa and India.

Other schools to receive grants this year are Allegheny College, Bucknell University, Hope College, San Francisco State University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Cali-fornia at Los Angeles, the University of Chicago, the University of Oregon and Vanderbilt University.

Ron Wilson’s fears seem to be coming true as federal prosecutors start the pro-cess of cataloging the former investor’s as-sets with an eye toward liquidating them and using the proceeds to pay off investors should Wilson be convicted of running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

“I don’t know how long we’ll have this place,” a glum Wilson told the Journal

from behind the counter at the Live Oak Farms store in southern Spartanburg County recently.

U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles has asked a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take charge of Wilson’s assets and come up with a fair way to distribute them should Wilson be convicted of mail fraud.

Wilson said he was doing OK in deal-ing with his legal problems. He was at Live Oak to take care of the store while his daughter, Allison Schaum, and her family were out of town two weekends ago. Schaum has refused to comment on her father’s difficulties.

Schaum owns and operates the farm, which

specializes in heritage breeds and is known for a massive solar panel array used to run the store’s cooling system. As of early this week, the farm was still open for business.

Federal investigators say the farm and Wilson’s Atlantic Bullion & Coin compa-ny share an office in Easley and are there-fore linked in the alleged Ponzi scheme, which reportedly swindled 900 investors across the county out of millions.

“Records I have reviewed show the monies received from investors being used for Wilson’s and his family’s person-al business interests,” Secret Service agent Thomas M. Griffin Jr. wrote in court doc-uments filed earlier this month.

The federal government claims that Wilson told investors that he was invest-ing their money in silver. He is accused of never actually purchasing the silver, but diverting the money for personal gain, court documents say.

William J. Watkins, the federal prosecu-tor in the case, said the government would seize the farm, and the receiver would have the power to sell the farm’s assets to recoup victims’ losses if Wilson is convicted.

Wilson is a former Anderson County councilman who lives in Powdersville.

Contact Charles Sowell at [email protected].

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with Ponzi scheme By CHarles sowell | staff

The "Willie Earle" historical marker on Highway 124 and Old Bramlett Road has been stolen. The sign, which marks the site of the last lynching in South Carolina in 1947, was last seen approximately two to four weeks ago. The Greenville County Sheriff's Office asks that anyone with information regarding the theft call Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME.


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Eight years ago, when Christy Dias be-gan su� ering with excruciating abdominal pain, she was treated for re� ux, had her gallbladder removed and endured batter-ies of tests without relief. One physician � nally mentioned that the trouble may be with her pancreas, the organ that regulates blood glucose and aids in digestion.

Doctors at MUSC Charleston discovered that Dias had a congenital anomaly in which the pancreas was le� divided when formed, as well as a malfunction of a pancreas duct. Multiple surgeries failed to alleviate her symptoms for long; though they would go away, they would inevitably return. She could no longer care for her family. Some days, she couldn’t get out of bed.

Dias began researching a new surgical procedure and, in 2011, became the 49th person at MUSC to undergo surgery to remove her pancreas. � e groundbreak-ing surgery required extensive recovery and le� Dias a diabetic, but she no lon-ger su� ers pancreatitis symptoms.

Most people hear only about pancre-atic cancer, which they know has a very low survival rate, Dias said. But there is little known, even in the medical com-munity, about the pancreas and pancre-atitis. “Many doctors were just taught ‘don’t touch the pancreas,’” she said. “It’s a tricky organ, but crucial.”

Pancreatic cancer is one of the top four causes of cancer deaths in the U.S., yet has very little funding for research, she said.

� at is why, in 2010, Dias formed a nonpro� t she calls “� e Cranky Panky” to spread awareness for pancreas research. � e organization’s website exists as a forum for pancreatitis su� erers to talk, learn and share tips about daily life with pancreatic disease, which o� en involves severe pain and debilitating digestive problems.

To support the National Pancreas Foundation and create awareness in the Upstate, Dias is also holding a fundrais-er, Create the Cure, on May 3 at Twigs Tempietto in Greenville.

Dias paints as therapy and is an art lov-er, so in addition to dinner, music and an auction, the event will showcase local art-ists, including Patricia Crandall, Justice Littlejohn, Marie Scott, Bridgett Crocker, Jacki Newell, Michelle Wright, Joy Evans and Rhonda Leonard. Dias hopes the fundraiser will become an annual event.

A� er nearly a decade of pain and sev-eral years of not knowing what the prob-lem was, Dias still struggles daily to bal-ance her health. “It’s certainly not ideal to live without a pancreas,” she says, “but living with a diseased pancreas can be deadly. I’m lucky to have my life.”


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Greenville businessman Scott Ste-phens announced this week that he will run as a Republican candidate for the District 20 seat on the Greenville Coun-ty Council.

Stephens, owner of Camille’s Sidewalk Café and Director of Advancement for the Piedmont Women’s Center, said his business background and nonpro� t expe-rience will be a unique skill combination for a County Council member. He has worked with various nonpro� ts and said “many social issues can be solved if we empower the nonpro� ts to do their jobs.”

Stephens said he will run on a pro-business and pro-taxpayer conservative platform. His focus will be on encour-aging job growth, bringing transparen-cy to local government and promoting small business. He also said he would like to see more activity in the district by local government representatives.

District 20 includes the area east of Poinsett Highway and north of High-way 29 up to Tigerville Road, and is currently represented by Sid Cates, who was elected in May 2007.

In other county primary races, Coun-cilman Bob Taylor (District 22) is being challenged by Jenn Webb. Council mem-ber Lottie Gibson announced she will be seeking a sixth term to represent District 25. Gibson’s opponent in the Democratic primary is Ralph Sweeney, who chal-lenged her in the 2008 primary. District 18 candidates are incumbent Joseph Baldwin and Mike Barnes. Incumbent Jim Burns will be facing o� against Fedra E. Campbell for the District 21 seat.

Greenville County underwent redis-tricting in October 2011 as part of the 10-year U.S. Census cycle.

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Carl Sobocinski could soon have another restaurant in downtown Greenville.The Greenville restaurateur could be operating the Overlook Grill restaurant at the

entrance to Falls Park if the Greenville City Council gives final approval to the lease.The city has leased space to Overlook Grill Inc. to operate a restaurant in the Falls

Park building and lower plaza since 2004. But Overlook Grill Inc. President Sam Kleckly has requested the city assign the lease to the building and plaza to Falls Park Eatery, LLC. Sobocinski is Falls Park Eatery’s president.

City Parks and Recreation Director Dana Souza said that under the current lease, the Overlook Grill pays $22,000 a year in rent and the money goes into the city’s general fund.

Sobocinski has proposed that the city collect 2.5 percent of gross revenue and that the money go into the Falls Park Endowment. The city has proposed that 1.5 percent of the restaurant’s gross revenue go into the endowment and the other 1 percent go into the city’s general fund for the first five years of the lease.

Souza said in the Overlook Grill’s worst year, gross revenue was $660,000 and that would have generated $16,250. Its best year, with $1.1 million in gross revenues, would have generated $27,500, he said.

“The percentage gives us the opportunity to share in the restaurant’s success,” Souza told council.

Falls Park Eatery would have the ability to extend the lease for two three-year terms. During the extensions, the restaurant would be charged $18 a square foot and contribute 1 percent of its gross revenue to the Falls Park Endowment.

The city would have to approve any changes to the restaurant’s menu. The restau-rant would continue to be called Overlook Grill.

In other action, Council approved the purchase of 50 electronic ticketing ma-chines for the city police department’s first responders at a cost of $41,879 through an Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance grant.

The department bought 70 of the machines last year.The machines allow officers to scan a driver’s license and automatically print a

citation instead of having to write it by hand.“I’ve been assured they are totally officer-proof,” said Chief Terri Wilfong.“So you’re saying it has spell-check,” Councilwoman Lillian Brock Flemming said

during an exchange that got laughs from other council members.In addition, council members gave initial approval to an ordinance that requires

proposed nightclubs, bars and other establishments open after midnight to go be-fore a technical committee comprised of city staff members before their request is sent to the Board of Zoning Appeals.

Jean Poole, the city’s planning and development manager, said the new require-ment is to ensure applicants submit all of the information required by the board such as menus, percentages of income from food and alcohol sales and staffing.

The council also approved the rezoning of six parcels of property on Conestee Avenue, Woodside Circle, North Pleasantburg Drive and Woodruff Road.

The next regular meeting of the Greenville City Council is May 14 at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers on the 10th floor of Greenville City Hall.

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The hospital celebrated the des-ignation and Earth Day on Tuesday with an Energy Fair and staff picnic that showcased the ways the hospital is reducing waste, saving money and conserving energy along with sev-eral vendors.

Jerry Shepard, manager of the hospi-tal’s engineering department, said the hospital began working towards ener-gy saving in 2006 with concentration on the heating and cooling systems. Hospital staffers worked to eliminate pockets of heat and cold in the build-ing by making changes to the HVAC systems responsible for temperature and humidity regulation.

The adjustments have aided in ar-eas where temperature and humidity are critical, helped with energy costs and increased employee and patient satisfaction, said Shepard. When the temperature outdoors is around 54 de-grees, the building can use outside air

for cooling, he added. “We can run on outside air for several months.”

St. Francis reports that energy con-sumption was reduced by 22 percent, and Shepard believes “we can get to 25 percent. I don’t think you’re ever done.” Cumulative system-wide cost savings are more than $1.1 million, the hospital reported.

Karen Schwartz, vice president of operations and facilities, is also head of the hospital’s Green Team that works with a multidisciplinary plan across both campuses. The group focuses on ways to reduce landfill waste, conserve energy and educate employees in ways to become greener. The Green Team also tracks the recycling rate; currently, 38 percent of the hospital’s total waste is recycled, Schwartz said.

“What we want to do is reduce our carbon output and the number of BTUs we use per square foot,” says Schwartz. “The biggest cost is heat-ing, cooling and lighting.” Since 2009, the Eastside facility has reduced BTUs used by 24,534 million.

There is also an initiative to ex-amine the hospital’s food service to use less energy, create less waste and offer the healthiest fare possible, Schwartz said.

According to Energy Star, there are 21 other certified Energy Star buildings in Greenville, including schools, stores and office spaces.


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Roslyn Brock knew she wanted to focus on hospital administration – after all, the as-sessment test she took in high school told her she would be good at it. It also said she would do well as a lawyer or doctor. She followed the hospital administration path and has truly made health advocacy her life’s work.

While she has focused on health in her career, many may know her from her vol-unteer work as chairman of the NAACP’s National Board of Directors. As an un-dergraduate at Virginia Union Universi-ty, Brock says she discovered the NAACP, an organization that was allowing young people to take leadership roles.

“I saw young people running meetings and serving as leaders and I wanted to be a part of that,” Brock said. She has served more than 25 years in the NAACP. “I’ve literally grown up in the organization,” she said.

Because of her interest in health issues, she successfully lobbied to have the NAACP

board change the organi-zation’s constitution to include good health as one of its civil rights is-sues. And in 2010, Brock was elected board chair-man, the fourth woman to hold the post and the youngest at 43.

This Friday, Brock’s two passions will bring her to the Upstate. Friday morning she will deliver the keynote speech at the Stand Against Racism Breakfast hosted by the Greenville YWCA, BMW and the Greenville Hospital System. The event is part of a nationwide Stand Against Rac-ism Day involving 39 states and potentially 300,000 participants. The breakfast is de-signed to raise awareness and bring togeth-er organizations and individuals who want to eliminate racism and celebrate diversity.

Brock said the focus of her message will be what she tries to take with her wherever she goes in the U.S. “It is my prayer and life’s work to ensure fairness

in our communities and eliminate big-otry and racism wherever it exists.”

Racism still exists, she said, and is larger than issues affecting black and white: it also involves males and females, sexism, ageism and homophobia. “We all have the oppor-tunity and responsibility to treat each other with respect and dignity. We can celebrate our differences and not have it divide us.”

Brock’s position as vice president of ad-vocacy and government relations for Bon Secours Health System is another reason she will be in the Upstate this Friday. After work-ing in philanthropy for the Kellogg Founda-tion for 10 years, Brock came to Bon Secours and has been with the hospital system for 11 years. Two years ago she became a vice presi-dent and focuses on health advocacy.

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black public high school in Green-ville County), which was destroyed by � re in 1967. Since then, the area has dealt with poverty, high crime, poor in-frastructure and poor health.

� e Healthy Communities Initiative was launched in 2008 to help build the area’s health from the inside out, using the input of residents. � is type of ini-tiative produces stronger, more sustain-able results, Brock said. “Relationships are primary and all else is derivative. � e residents have to want to do it. People then see the success and results of their labor and it just grows, it snowballs.”

According to Maxim Williams, direc-tor of community relationship building for the Healthy Communities Initiative, the e� ort has used input from Sterling residents to do everything from estab-lishing a farm that will generate healthy produce and income to forming a unique senior citizens’ program that meets � ve days a week throughout the year. And with the partnership of public and pri-vate entities, a sewer easement is being turned into a walking trail that winds through a portion of the community.

“I’m excited to see the Sterling community and how they are bring-ing about life, wholeness, healing and health,” Brock said.

She recently took responsibility for Bon Secours’ Community Works in the Baltimore area and says taking back the successes and challenges of the Sterling program will help with the Healthy Com-munity outreach in southwest Baltimore. Brock is particularly interested in how the Sterling initiative is utilizing social media to disseminate information and encour-age people to participate. “� is is cutting-edge and I’d like to take some of that back to Baltimore,” she said.

In addition to touring the Sterling community, Brock will be meeting with the people who have provided input on the project. “I’m excited about sharing with community leaders, but also meet-ing residents of the Sterling community and hearing about the work they’re do-ing. � e Sterling community is a prime example of a community in action.”


SO YOU KNOWWhat: Stand Against Racism Breakfast

When: Friday, April 27, 7:45 a.m.

Where: BMW Zentrum, Greer, SC

Tickets: $10

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VILLAGE HOSPITAL GREER FAMILY FESTSaturday, May 5

10 a.m.-3 p.m., free health screeningsJoin us at Greer Family Fest for screenings like blood pressure, BMI and the latest information about Village Hospital and Village practices. Look

for our tent on Trade Street, where you’ll find music, food vendors and a free family movie both nights at 6 p.m. The Fest runs Friday, May 4, 6-10 p.m.

and Saturday, May 5, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

FAMILY MEDICINE THROUGH THE AGESTuesday, May 8

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Join Jan Kneeland, M.D., of Village Family Medicine, for a discussion of life stages and what immunizations and screenings are needed and when.

Topics included are colonoscopies, mammograms and prostate screenings. Register online for this free event.

DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT EDUCATIONWednesday, May 16

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Village Hospital Community Center

Diabetes affects every organ in your body and Carolinas Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology can help you learn how to manage it. You

must have a physician’s referral to participate, and insurance will be filed for the program’s cost. Participants receive a free blood glucose meter and

diabetes reference book. Please contact Erica Moore at 560-6465 for more information and to register.

NICOTINE ANONYMOUS Tuesdays • 6 p.m.

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Elected County Council members are the final stop when it comes to county policy and decision making, but before the issues reach the council chambers they are often heard by a group of volunteers.

Approximately 230 appointed volunteers serve on 34 boards, commissions and spe-cial tax districts and are helping to oversee everything from local transportation and libraries to fire protection and tourism.

Greenville County boards, either countywide or special tax districts, range in size from three to 12 members who typically serve two to three years. Members are selected twice a year and go through a six-month long selection process. County Council voted on se-lecting members for 20 boards earlier this month and will begin the applica-tion process again in July.

According to Theresa Kizer, Clerk to Council, there is a 30-day application pe-riod when residents can apply for a po-sition on only one board at a time. This allows candidates to choose the board they are most interested in and prevents changes in the ballots at the last minute.

Applicants must be Greenville County residents, registered voters and, if apply-ing for a special tax district seat, live in the district involved. Council members receive copies of all applications, though the standing committee members review the applications for the areas they over-see. The committees then interview the applicants and make recommendations.

“It reduces the marathon sessions we used to have for review,” Kizer said.

Applicants are asked to list the district they live in, volunteer experience, un-derstanding of the position, skills they can contribute and availability. Those with unpaid property taxes will hit a snag because the county verifies wheth-er taxes are paid. In addition, applicants must disclose any criminal record, fines for ethics violations and whether they have served on other boards or com-missions or in an elected office.

County Council chooses appointees from a final list of recommendations by

ballot vote. Some boards are high-profile boards, says Kizer, like the Greenville Area Development Corporation or Plan-ning Commission. Others are joint boards with the City of Greenville, including the Airport Commission, the Airport Envi-rons Commission, Greenlink (Greenville Transit) and South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center (SC TAC, formerly the Donaldson Commission).

In addition, the council may make rec-ommendations that are sent to the gov-ernor for final approval, as with mem-bers of the Arena District (BiLo Center), Boiling Springs Fire District, Disabili-ties and Special Needs Board, Greater Greenville Sanitation and Recreation District. If the governor must approve the selections, the governor’s office will do a background check, Kizer said.

Generally, the process involves no cam-paigning, though applicants sometimes contact council members via email.

Until recently, newly appointed board members had orientation only with their board. However, the council has decided to reinstitute a short, general overview and orientation covering ethics, require-ments for serving and council liaisons.

Once board and commission members have served out their terms, they can reap-ply for another term. “Sometimes having served once gives a member experience and they might get council to reappoint them, but sometimes they [council] mem-bers are looking for new members and new ideas,” Kizer said. Since there is not a very large pool of applicants for some of the special tax districts, there’s a higher number of reappointments, she said.

Once board members are installed, they cannot be removed unless they have a criminal conviction, move out of the district or county or have been reported to have excessive absences. If members violate Greenville County codes involving conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest, they are required to resign. Members of a board who were approved by the state cannot be removed by the county government, but must be removed by the governor.

In the past 12 years, Kizer says she could count on one hand the number of board members removed. “We seldom remove for cause,” she said. She also re-calls only one person who had applied for a governor-approved position and had a criminal record.


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� e late President Richard M. Nixon will forever be known for his failures: the Watergate scandal and his resignation from the highest o� ce of the land.

But he should be judged on his ac-complishments as well, according to his youngest brother, Ed.

“History will eventually decide the best measure of this man, hopefully by re-membering his accomplishments and his life in its totality,” Ed Nixon wrote on the website for a book he authored in 2009 titled “� e Nixons: A Family Portrait.”

Ed Nixon will speak at Wo� ord College on May 3, describing how he retraced his brother’s footsteps on Richard Nixon’s his-toric visit to China 40 years ago, and dis-cussing the future of U.S.-China relations.

� e 7 p.m. lecture, the second event in Wo� ord’s endowed Hipp Lecture Series on International Af-fairs and National Se-curity, will be held in Leonard Auditorium in Main Building on campus. It is free and open to the public.

� e � rst event in the series was the Republican Presi-dential Candidates Debate in November.

During his recent trip to China, Ed Nixon was honored at a state dinner at-tended by Mao’s daughter.

President Nixon’s visit to China was a mile-stone in the history of post-World War II American foreign policy, said Dr. John Far-renkopf, associate professor of government at Wo� ord, who teaches a course titled “China: Politics, Economy and Foreign Relations.”

“It helped set the stage for the estab-lishment of full diplomatic relations be-

tween the United States and the People’s Republic of China in 1979 under the Carter administration and the initiation of a foreign policy of engagement with China – a policy which all subsequent presidents have followed,” he said.

Relations with China helped the U.S. deal with the Soviet Union during the Cold War and played a role in facilitating the remarkable economic rise of post-Maoist China, Farrenkopf said.

Ed Nixon is the president of Nixon World Enterprises Inc. and the chairman of the Pyron Solar Advisory Board in San Diego, Calif.

“By re� ecting on heritage, education, extensive world travel, plus the encourage-ment of his older brother,” the younger Nixon “tells the story of an ordinary fam-ily striving to make a positive di� erence in the world,” according to the book’s web-site. “� eir global mission aims to inspire more young Americans to reach for a new threshold of greatness for the country.” Dr. Li Qing Kinnison, associate professor of Chinese studies, says Wo� ord’s Chinese lan-guage and studies program would not exist

without President Nixon’s historic trip.“� e Chinese people love him as an old

friend of China for his contribution to the normalization of diplomatic relation-ships between China and the USA, and for opening the door for both Chinese and American people to learn from each other and build up a strong friendship, which has mutually bene� ted both sides in every aspect, including education,” he said.


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SO YOU KNOWWHO: Ed Nixon

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School board members Tuesday night endorsed a new vi-sion for public schools in South Carolina:

“Educators envision a South Carolina public school sys-tem where race, ethnicity, socio-economic circumstances or where a student lives does not determine the quality of edu-cation they receive.

“They envision a system in which students routinely learn at least one foreign language, where five-year-olds enter school eager and ready to learn and high school stu-dents are given flexibility in the time it takes for them to earn a high school diploma.”

This “vision for public schools” has been endorsed by the South Carolina School Boards Association and the South Carolina Association of School Administrators. The vision statement originated during a series of meet-ings of school superintendents around the state regard-ing what they wanted public schools to look like in the future.

In other business, the school board approved issu-ing $3.8 million in bonds under the federal Qualified Zone Academy bond program to pay for heating and air conditioning projects at Crestview and Fountain Inn el-ementaries.

At least 35 percent of the students attending each school had to be eligible for free or reduced-price lunches to qualify for the program, which requires a contribution from a private entity equal to the value of 10 percent of the proceeds each

school will receive.� e contribution may be in volunteer hours, and the PTA

presidents from both schools have signed a letter saying their organizations will volunteer 8,914 hours.

The interest rate on the bonds will be less than 1 per-cent. The debt doesn’t count against the district’s 8 per-cent debt limit.

In other action, the board gave � nal approval to naming the Fine Arts Center’s recital hall a� er the late Ann Sutherlin, a staunch supporter of the arts and a member of the school board for 16 years.

Final approval was also given for an increase in Green-ville Technical Charter High’s enrollment cap to 440 stu-dents. The change allows each grade level at the school to have 110 students instead of 105, which school officials say will help student retention and sibling enrollment.

And finally, retired Superintendent Dr. Phinnize Fisher returned to have her portrait unveiled in the boardroom at the school district’s central office. Fisher is the ninth superintendent to have a portrait hung behind the dais and the first woman.

Tuesday was Burke Royster’s first meeting as superin-tendent. He served as Fisher’s deputy superintendent.

� e board’s next Committee of the Whole meeting is scheduled for May 8 at 9 a.m. in the boardroom at

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Michelin hopes its first travel guide for a national park will help the coun-try’s oldest national park, Yellowstone, in its goal to become greener.

The nearly 3,500-square mile Yellow-stone National Park is one of the last re-maining strongholds of the grizzly bear and home to hundreds of waterfalls, extensive remote mountain ranges and more than half of the world’s geysers.

“The notion of greening Yellowstone may seem counterintuitive,” said Dan Wenk, the park’s superintendent. “But it uses a tremendous amount of fossil fuel and water and it generates a lot of solid waste. We’re working to make it the green-est park in the national park system.”

Michelin teamed up with the Yellow-stone Park Foundation to produce “The Yellowstone Park Foundation’s Official Guide to Yellowstone National Park.”

Proceeds from the book will go to the foundation to help pay for projects in the park including sustainability efforts, research on bears, upkeep of the park’s cultural and historic sites and new ex-hibits, said Karen Kress, the founda-tion’s president.

Kress said the guide would help en-gage a larger portion of the park’s 3.3 million annual visitors in the founda-tion’s sustainability efforts while height-ening awareness of environmental stew-ardship in the park.

Yellowstone has been working on sustainability for about 20 years and is about to launch a set of new goals for 2016, among them increasing its use of renewal energy sources by 20 percent, decreasing water consumption by 20 percent and overall energy consump-tion by 35 percent and diverting 75 per-cent of the solid waste the park gener-ates from landfills, Kress said.

The guide expands Michelin’s rela-tionship with the park.

In 2009, the company became the of-

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Michelin has provided the park more than $350,000 in tires.

The company also deploys field en-gineers to the park to consult with the park’s fleet managers to optimize tires for better fuel efficiency through proper care and inflation, meeting the demands of the harsh Yellowstone environment across more than 420 miles of roadways.

The guide suggests itineraries for trips to the park ranging from one day to five days.

The guide provides insider tips from park experts and recommendations for sightseeing and shopping, rental cars and accommodations.

The guide has sections on seven ar-eas of the park: the Old Faithful area, Madison-Norris, Mammoth, Tower-Roosevelt, the Canyon area, Yellow-stone Lake and Grant Village.

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Project Rx: A River Remedy will hold its fourth drug take-back event on April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., encouraging commu-nity members to properly dispose of unused medications. Project Rx will continue in partnership with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to provide multiple collection sites across the Upstate. Interested participants can visit the drive-thru locations including McAlister Square, 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive; St. Francis Millen-nium Campus near CU-ICAR, 2 Innovation Drive; and the Greenville Tech Greer Campus, 2522 Locust Hill Road. The collection sites offer free and anonymous acceptance of unwanted or expired prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, vitamins and supplements, and veterinary medicine. Sharps or syringes will not be accepted. Event managers ask that participants use a black Sharpie to eliminate any personal information on prescription medication labels, but to leave the name of the drug visible to ensure proper disposal procedures. For more information, visit the Project Rx website, www.aRiverRemedy.org, or call 864-467-4099.

One of America’s most distinguished authors will combine talents with Converse alumna for a reading, book signing and art exhibition in Twichell Auditorium on Fri-day, April 27. National Book Award winner and Elizabeth Boatwright Coker visiting writer Joyce Carol Oates will give a reading at 3 p.m., followed by a reception featuring artwork by alumna Jane Yarborough Creech, whose portrait of Oates was selected for the cover of Oates’ book, “A Widow’s Story.” Limited edition prints of Creech’s portrait from “A Widow’s Story,” as well as books, will be sold for signing by both the artist and the author. The event is free and open to the public. For additional information, contact Catherine Hayes, Catherine Hayes Art + Sculpture 864-353-6151.

The Greenville Earth Market opens its second season May 17. The market will take place outside the Michael McDunn studio at 741 Rutherford Road, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. every third Thursday from May through September. This year the market will have 14 producers, including two new beef producers: Gibson Farms and Walker Century Farms. The Greenville Earth Market opened in 2011 and is the first Slow Food Earth Market in the United States. Earth Markets are a group of 24 specialized community-run farmers’ markets that have been established according to the strict guidelines set by Slow Food International. Products sold at an Earth Market must be raised according to environmentally sustainable methods – without chemicals, hormones, antibiotics and genetically modified organisms in any part of the food chain.

Memorial Day weekend will again be filled with high-flying hot air balloons, live music and family fun as the 31st annual Freedom Weekend Aloft festival returns to Simpson-ville’s Heritage Park May 25-28. Festival organizers announced this week that individuals and families can take advantage of free admission on Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27 during the first 100 minutes gates are open, noon-1:40 p.m. Free admission will con-tinue all day or 450 minutes on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, on Bi-Lo Day. Regular admission is $8 in advance at Bi-Lo stores and $12 at the gate with children 12 and under free. Parking is $5. The festival also features live music, with headliners Colbie Caillat and Gavin DeGraw performing Friday, Jake Owen on Saturday and Eddie Money on Sunday. Visit www.freedomweekend.org for more information.

Family Fun Day at the Augusta Road (Ramsey Family) Branch of the Greenville County Library System will be held Saturday, April 28 from 11 a. to 4p.m. There will be Zumba for ages 15 and up, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.; Hoops Dance for ages 15 and up, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.; storytime for ages 4 to 8 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.; South Carolina Children’s Theater Glee Club for all ages, from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; salsa dancing for ages 15 and up, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; a 39 Clues scavenger hunt for ages 6 to 12, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; and a family movie for all ages, from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 277-0161.

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SCBT Financial Corporation’s 2012 Souper Bowl of Caring raised over $105,000 to alleviate hunger in the local communities it serves in North Carolina, South Caroli-na and Georgia. In addition to collecting cash donations in branches, employees con-ducted various fundraising activities, collected 14,596 pounds of canned goods and also volunteer 626 hours in their local communities. � is year’s competition raised $105,846 – 100 percent of which goes directly back into the local community.

� e Northwestern Mutual Fun Fest bene� ting the Center for Developmental Services will be held on Friday, May 11, at Fluor Field. � ere will be games, food, in� atables, face painting, live music, characters and mascots. � ere will also be an exhibition game played by the Mauldin Miracle

League. � e Mauldin Miracle League is a baseball league for special needs. � e gates open at 5:30 p.m. � e cost to attend is $5 per person. � ere will be a � reworks show at dark. For more information, please contact Joy Blue at [email protected] or 331-1314.

On April 15, nearly 400 people participated in the Let � ere Be Mom Seek and Snap digital scavenger hunt. Teams competed to locate and take photos of items and locations based on clues. � e event raised more than $10,000 for the nonpro� t that provides a legacy for parents facing a life-threatening illness. For more information, visit www.lettherebemom.org

� e American Heart Association’s Upstate Heart Walk had a record setting year raising $515,000. In addition to surpassing the event’s goal by $40,000, there was also a record setting attendance with more than 4,000 walkers. For information on participating in the Upstate Heart Walk, please call the American Heart Association at 864-627-4151 or visit www.upstateheartwalk.org.

Greenville Family Partnership has received a $5,000 grant from the TD Charitable Foun-dation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, to support the Hispanic Outreach Program. GFP has been serving Greenville County for almost 28 years in areas related to substance abuse prevention. � e Hispanic Outreach Program will provide culturally appropriate life skills, eco-nomic and educational training for the under-served Hispanic families who are at-risk.

� e Alzheimer’s Association South Carolina Chapter is hosting the 24th Annual Upstate Alzheimer’s Education Conference, entitled “Navigating the Challenges of De-mentia” on Tuesday, May 22, from 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at � e Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, 424 West� eld St. � e conference is for individuals and professionals caring for someone with dementia. Speakers include neurologist John Absher, MD; geriatric psychiatrist, Vonda Gravely, MD; and caregiver and actress Karen Stobbe. � ere is a $25 registration fee, $50 if educational credits are required. Please reg-ister by visiting www.alz.org/sc or by calling 800-272-3900 by May 11. � e Alzheimer’s

Association can help arrange in-home care for a person with dementia at no cost for their caregiver to attend. Please call at least three weeks in advance with � rst time request.

� e � ird Annual BBQ Cook-O� & Festival bene� t-ing Project Host Soup Kitchen will be held April 27 and 28 in downtown Greenville. Sanctioned by the S.C. Barbe-cue Association, the two-day event consists of a pork bar-becue cooking competition, a people’s choice “Best Wings” competition, and unlimited sampling. Held at the corner of Main and Broad Streets, the event is open to the public. Friday evening features a “Best Chicken Wings Ever” event from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is free and samples are $1 each. Attendees will also have an opportunity to vote for their favorite batch of wings in the people’s choice “Best Wings” Award, the winner of which receives $250. On Sat-urday, festival hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Barbecue pork samples will be available for $1 each from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; the barbecue competition prizes will be announced at 3 p.m. Plates of barbecue pork (includes sides) will be available for $10 each from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. � e festival will feature music from DJ Phat Father Pat on Friday night and local favorites � e Note Ropers on Saturday night. Face painting and a variety of other children’s activities will also be available. Beer, wine and other food and beverages will be sold separately. For information, visit www.projecthost.org.

Margaret Nix tries out brand-new, “senior-friendly” exercise equipment during Orchard Park Fitness Center’s grand re-opening last week. The machine is an “Octane” seated elliptical that allows for greater muscle engagement through a smooth, low-impact elliptical motion.

Senior Action has opened an upgrad-ed Orchard Park Fitness Center. Facility renovations, state-of-the-art equipment, along with newly established � tness programs tailored to seniors’ needs were part of the project made possible by generous grant funding on behalf of Greenville Women Giving. Additional � -nancial support was also provided by the World Acceptance Center. � e � tness center and its programs are designed with the needs of older adults in mind. Daily group � tness classes o� er a variety of exercise types—from low-impact aer-obics to muscular stretching. Addition-ally, professional sta� is available on-site to customize wellness plans for seniors that incorporate both � tness goals and personal needs.


A major Fountain Inn employer is planning an expansion that could add as many as 250 full- and part-time jobs to the 500+ they already have in the Upstate, including both entry-level and experienced positions on all shifts. Look for more details on job fairs over the next several weeks…

Look for big news com-ing out of InnoVenture next week…

A new subdivision could be coming to Buist Avenue in Greenville…

The Greenville Chamber of Commerce is trying to re-energize its Greenville Business Leadership PAC, which was first launched about 20 years ago to help give Greenville businesses a stronger political voice…

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When Windsor Aughtry Co. moves into Main @ Broad, it will nearly complete occupancy of the Greenville hotel, o� ce and retail complex the company planned in good times but started and � nished when the economy was in bad shape, costs were high and the future uncertain.

� ose were not the times when most developers were willing or able to ride out a $45-million construction proj-ect, least of all one in a down-town urban center.

Adding to the nervousness was the fact that the centerpiece 135-room Courtyard Marriott would be in competition with the com-pany’s own 115-room Hampton Inn & Suites at RiverPlace.

In an interview, Bo Aughtry, founder and managing director, talked about those risky times, how the company got through them better than many did and what it sees on the horizon.

In the latter regard, the com-pany has “for some time been

sni� ng around” Greenville for opportunities to build apart-ments and has in mind “a larger project that would add a mean-ingful number of units to the downtown market.”

But nothing is imminent, he said. “We are working on a couple of locations, but we’ve been chas-ing this for three years. � at’s the nature of the commercial devel-opment business.”

On the hotel side, the com-pany is “working on an urban hotel in Western Virginia.”

A� er coming out of 2009, “the worst year we had,” Main @ Broad opened in May 2010 when activity, while picking up, still was slow, Aughtry said.

“When we started, we saw an upward trend, but when con-struction was under way and when we opened I was very con-cerned about the impact on the Hampton. But the horse was out of the barn, and I had to ride it.”

“� e project was a major ex-pense, major, major,” Aughtry said. “We built that project, one

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With warm weather pushing jobs in hospitality, South Caro-lina’s unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent in March, and every one of the state’s 46 counties wit-nessed a decrease.

It was the � rst time in more than three years that the state’s jobless rate was below 9 percent.

Abraham J. Turner, director of the S.C. Department of Em-ployment and Workforce, said “this means South Carolinians are � nding jobs.”

Nationally, the unemploy-

ment rate was 8.2 percent in March, down from 8.3 percent.

� e unemployment rate fell from 7.2 percent in February to 6.8 percent in Greenville Coun-ty, which matched Charleston and Lexington with the lowest rates in the state.

A year ago March, Greenville’s rate was 7.9.

� e employment picture in Spartanburg improved dra-matically, edging below the state rate for the � rst time in months. � e March unem-ployment rate of 8.7 percent was down from 9.4 percent

in February and 10.1 percent in March of last year.

Anderson County experi-enced one of the largest month-to-month declines, going down to 8.4 percent in March from 9.8 percent in February. Pick-ens’ rate dropped more than a full percentage point to 7.5.

According to the state em-ployment agency, the biggest gains in employment came in leisure and hospitality in-dustries with the addition of 8,400 jobs, most notably in food and beverage services.

Transportation and utili-

ties employment was up 3,800 jobs, mostly in the retail trade subsector, while professional and business gained 2,600 jobs, and government, mostly local, gained 1,400.

Employment in manufac-turing, which had until the last couple of months led the state in job creation, rose a modest 600, but that sector still leads the state in year-to-year job growth of 3.75 percent.

Construction employment showed a modest increase of 200 jobs in March. While

Upstate job picture improves dramaticallyUnemployment rate drops for every county in MarchBy DICK HUGHES | contributor

could argue, at the worst eco-nomic time since the Great Depression. � at project was priced out at the absolute peak of construction costs at the cusp of the downturn.”

Aughtry is satis� ed Main @ Broad “is working, albeit not at levels we were accustomed to. � e hotel is doing good, not great.” He said getting to 90 percent occupancy, includ-ing the company itself taking space, was fortunate given the short time it has had securing leases in a so� economy.

What helps, he said, is that “Greenville with its down-town vibrancy and panache has fared certainly better than most … (and) was never a hot market so it didn’t have as far to fall” in the downturn.

On July 10, Aughtry is sched-uled to move his 22-employee company from the Green Point o� ce park – where it has been for 25 years – into 7,500 square feet on the � � h � oor of the six-story Main @ Broad.

� e city sold the lot for the building – named for the in-tersection of Main and Broad streets next to City Hall and across from the Peace Center – to Aughtry for $3 million and retained a voice in how it was to be developed.

Aughtry said � nancing with Carolina First (now TD Bank)

was “nip and tuck,” closing in early 2008 as “the river headed toward the waterfall” to drown credit access across the country.

What made the project possible, he said, was $27.5 million in New Market Tax Credits from Carolina First and Greenville New Markets Opportunity. � e federal tax credits, which banks take over a seven-year period, typically reduce construction costs by about 20 percent.

During Main @ Broad’s con-struction period, the compa-ny’s “earnings were depressed” by the housing collapse. Its housing business took “a huge hit” with sales o� 55 percent and margins down 90 percent, Aughtry said.

Business at the company’s ho-tels (through separate entities, the company had seven) was o� just 8.5 percent, unlike some “friends who had hotels that were down 45 percent,” he said. “We never had a hotel that didn’t experience positive cash � ow.”

As di� cult as those times were, Aughtry said the com-pany was able to ride out the recession and emerge “healthy today” because Drew Norwood, his part-ner who runs the residential side, and Russell Smart, chief � nancial o� cer, were instru-mental in keeping ambitions in check and debt low.

“We were fortunate. � ere

were things we didn’t do in the prior 10 years that might have given us the opportunity to ex-pand to greater earnings, but also would have … required us to take on more debt.”

Main @ Broad was the fourth commercial project Windsor Aughtry has built in downtown Greenville. � e Hampton and Marriott hotels are just two of 14 hotels it has built and owned across the country since 1993.

Six have been sold. In addi-tion to the Hampton and Mar-riott in Greenville, the compa-ny’s entities own Hampton Inns in Columbia, Johnson City, Tenn., and Tallahassee and Gainesville, Fla., and a Hilton in Columbia. A Hampton Inn & Suites is near completion in downtown Baton Rouge, La.

� e hotels are managed by Hospitality America Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. Windsor Aughtry receives a percentage of revenues from the franchis-ing hotel chains. � e company is designated as a “preferred developer” for Hilton, which owns the Hampton Inns.

Most of the commercial developments, including the hotels, are done as separate single-asset limited liability companies in which “almost without exception, 50 per-cent or more of the capital for whatever the endeavor is comes from individuals asso-

ciated with the company.”For example, Aughtry

explained, Broad @ Main is owned by a separate LLC. Windsor Aughtry “de-veloped the project for a fee for that entity.” Ownership is sep-arate from Windsor Aughtry, although Aughtry, Norwood and Smart are principals and managing partners.

� e company was formed in 1988 with the merger of Aughtry’s commercial development and brokerage business and Wind-sor’s residential business.

Trim and � t at 62, Aughtry is an avid outdoorsman. He moved to Greenville, his mother’s hometown, from Co-lumbia when he was seven and attended public schools. A� er graduating from the Citadel, he moved back to Greenville “literally not knowing what I wanted to do.”

At a friend’s suggestion, he started selling real estate on commission, and he credits mentoring by Greenville Re-altor Tommy Huguenin with teaching him the business.

“I am very fortunate in a lot of ways,” Aughtry said. “I still love my business, and it still stimulates me. You’ve got construction, � nance, so many aspects of business within that spectrum.”

Contact Dick Hughes at [email protected].

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still slow, that uptick signi� es an upward trend, considering construction employ-ment is down 3.13 percent from last March.

Citing the Conference Board’s track-ing of online help-wanted ads, the state agency said online job ads in South Carolina increased 1,600 in March to

52,000, while the number of job-seekers per opening fell from 3.9 to 3.7. Most in demand were job openings in health-care and technical occupations.


It’s a done deal. Advance America, Spartanburg’s homegrown payday lend-er, became a part of Grupo Elektra, the giant Mexican � nancial services � rm, closing on the sale Monday.

Under the terms of the sales agreement, shareholders of Advance America will receive $10.50 per share. � e company said they will receive payment “shortly.” � e sale is valued at $780 million.

� e biggest individual shareholder is George D. Johnson, the Spartanburg busi-nessman who started the company, along with others, in 1977. According to Yahoo/ABC Financial, Johnson held 3.3 million shares in indirect ownership as of August 2011, the latest recording available.William Webster of Greenville, also a founder, held 1.3 million shares in indirect ownership as of October 2010. Patrick O’Shaughnessy, president and chief executive o� cer, held 827,645 shares as of Feb. 28, 2012.

Still, the largest paydays will go to institu-tions and mutual funds that hold 83 percent of Advance’s common shares available for trading. Insiders holding more than 5 per-cent of the company constitute 13 percent.

� e closing followed approval of the deal Friday at a special meeting of Ad-vance’s shareholders. � e sale was ap-proved by holders of 47.7 million shares of Advance America’s common stock, representing 99.7 percent of those voting and 76.2 of total shares entitled to vote.

Although the company now is in foreign

hands, its new owners have said Advance America’s headquarters will remain in Spartanburg and that it will continue to op-erate under the Advance America brand.

Advance has about 250 corporate em-ployees in Spartanburg and about 5,000 spread across 29 states in about 2,500 cen-ters. It also has stores in Canada and the United Kingdom, but has said they are un-pro� table and were to be sold or closed.

� e purchase gives Grupo Elektra its � rst � nancial holding in the United States. � e Mexican company o� ers banking services and credit and other � nancial products to “underserved consumers” in Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Peru.

� e holding company is publicly traded on the Mexican stock market ex-change. Advance America was delisted on NASDAQ Tuesday.

Negotiations between the two compa-nies began in May 2011. Grupo Elektra’s � rst o� er of $8.50 per share was rejected out of hand by Advance America. Af-ter months of back and forth, Advance America’s board accepted Grupo Elektra’s “last o� er” of $10.50 per share Feb. 15, a premium of 33 percent over the market closing price of $7.91 on that day.

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aeSolutions invests in new HQaeSolutions, a supplier of safety

engineering and automation solu-tions, will invest $2 million and add 43 new jobs in consolidating Up-state facilities in a corporate head-quarters in Greenville, the company said Thursday.

The company will upgrade to 24,000 square feet of “state-of-the art” office space at 250 Commonwealth Drive for its corporate, engineering and research and development teams, the company said. The new person-nel will be added to its existing workforce of 140.

aeSolutions’ automation and manufacturing will re-main in the Merovan complex on Woodruff Road.

aeSolutions was founded in Greenville in 1998 by Chief Executive Officer Brian Merriman, Vice President of Engineering Ken O’Malley and Vice President of Pro-cess safety Mike Scott.

The company provides process safety engineering and automation solutions for the petroleum, chemical and process manufacturing industries. It has service and de-livery offices in Anchorage, Alaska; Baton Rouge, La.; Johnson City, Tenn., and Houston.

It recently developed a software products group. Its first product, which automates industry-standard safety lifecycles, is “growing in popularity,” the company said.

“We are pleased to expand our corporate headquarters, engineering and research and development operations here in Greenville County and appreciate the support and leader-ship of the Greenville Area Development Corp., the South Carolina Department of Commerce and all who assisted in making this advancement a reality,” said Merriman.

Auto Supplier ExpandsJTEKT Automotive, a

Japanese company, will invest $102 million in a new plant next to an existing one in Piedmont “to expand our product line and reach new customers,” the company’s South Carolina president said Tuesday.

JTEKT will add at least 80 new jobs over two years, said the Greenville Area Development Corp., which joined in the announcement along with Gov. Nikki Haley, Commerce Secretary Bobby Hitt and Greenville County Councilman Butch Kirven.

The company also has a technical center for bearings in Clemson’s International Center for Automotive Re-search and bearing plants under its Koyo division in Orangeburg and Walhalla.

Katsuhiko Ishikawa, president of JTEKT Automotive South Carolina, said the new plant at Piedmont will in-crease the company’s driveline component capacity and flexibility.The company will begin hiring for the new positions in October.

“JTEKT is a world leader in the automotive industry and had no shortage of options of where to place this investment and new positions, so we’re delighted that they have selected Greenville County,” said Chris Riley,

chairman of GADC.In 2006, Koyo and Toyoda Machine Works merged to

create JTEKT. It has nearly 37,000 employees worldwide. Its North American headquarters is in Plymouth, Mich.

Bank Has Best Quarter in Three YearsSouthern First Bancshares, par-

ent of Greenville First Bank, in-creased net income by 28 percent to $688,000 in the first quarter of 2012 over that of the same quarter last year, the company reported.

After paying the dividend on TARP preferred shares, net income to shareholders was $399,000 compared to $253,000 in the first quarter of 2011.

“Our first quarter earnings represented the strongest quarterly earnings performance in over three years,” said Art Seaver, chief executive officer.

The bank said net interest margin rose to 3.45 percent from 3.18 percent a year ago. Core deposit balances in-creased $17 million to $430.1 million.

The percentage of nonperforming loans to to-tal loans was 1.79 percent; the average is around 5 percent for state banks. The total of Southern First’s nonperforming loans, including delinquent and fore-closed loans, was $13.8 million at the end of March, down $1 million from last March.

Southern operates as Greenville First in the Upstate and as Southern First Bank in Columbia.

Tank Farm Expands for BiofuelsLincoln Energy Solutions of Greenville is building new

storage tanks for biofuels storage at its facility in Belton.The new tanks will add 1.5 million gallons of storage

capacity for ethanol and 400,000 gallons of storage for biodiesel fuel, the company said.

The company also is building a 225,000-gallon water tank for its foam fire suppression system and expand-ing its rail line to accommodate six additional biodiesel tank cars.

The expansion will cut off-loading time for an 80-tank-er train by half to 48 hours. Construction is expected to be complete the end of May.

“This is an important project for us because the entire off-loading process will be expedited, which means faster biofuel delivery to meet customer demand,” said Jim Far-ish, chief executive officer and founder of the company.

Making Trash PayInternational Automotive Components Group, which

is located in Greenville, has been recognized by the S.C. Smart Business Recycling Program as one of three leaders in “protecting the environment and conserving resources while improving their bottom line.”

Also honored were Rodeway Inn’s Mount Pleasant mo-tel and the Lexington Medical Center.

The state program said IAC was leading by example through “its waste reduction and recycling program

It cost South Carolina Bank and Trust $41.8 million to acquire The Peoples Bank -- $28.4 million in a stock exchange and $13.4 million to get Peoples off the hook for the pre-ferred shares it sold to the U.S. Trea-sury in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) rescue program.

The sale was completed after approval of Peoples’ shareholders.

Under the agreement, share-holders of Peoples receive 0.1413 shares of SCBT common stock for each Peoples share. There are a little more than 7.1 million shares of Peoples shares outstanding. The aggregate total of SCBT shares giv-en in exchange is approximately 1 million, SCBT said.

“We are fortunate to add such a great bank to the SCBT franchise,” said Robert Hill, SCBT president and chief executive officer.

Hill said SCBT was “glad to an-nounce that SCBT repurchased” Peoples’ preferred stock shares sold under TARP. SCBT also took TARP money ($64.8 million), but was among the first banks in the country to pay it back.

The two banks, which have had a long cooperative relationship, agreed to the acquisition in De-cember, saying it was a natural fit.

SCBT strengthens its position in the Upstate, adding Peoples’ eight branches to the seven it al-ready has. Peoples operated three banks under separate charters: Peoples National Bank, Bank

of Anderson and Seneca Na-tional Bank. SCBT gets its first branches in Anderson, Pickens and Oconee counties.

John F. Windley, president and chief banking officer of SCBT, has said he expects the three Peoples banks to be converted over three consecutive weeks to be “operat-ing under the SCBT flag” by the end of July, first of August.

Windley and Andrew West-brook, president and chief execu-tive officer of Peoples, said a ma-jority of Peoples’ 120 employees would be retained. There could be a few jobs eliminated where duplication occurs, they said.


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The Cigar Boxx has purchased a 3,400-square-foot building at 23-25 College St. in Greenville for a retail store and a cigar lounge. Spectrum Commercial Properties represented The Cigar Boxx in the transaction.

Spectrum also represented CF Thermal in renewing the lease for their offices at 222-A LaDean Court in Simpsonville, and Cox Photography in lease of a retail suite in the West End Market Building at 1 Augusta St., Greenville.

Stag Industrial Inc., a Boston company that buys and manages industrial prop-erties, paid $9.1 million for 400,000 square feet of warehousing in four adjoining buildings on approximately 25 acres at 160 National Ave. in Spartanburg.

The buildings were sold by Bridgeport Properties National, which had owned them since 2008. Grace Hunt and Ford Borders of NAI Earle Furman represent-ed the seller. The buildings are leased to Louis Dreyfus Commodities Cotton Storage for storing and distributing cotton. Stag, which focuses on industrial properties with single tenants, said the lease has four years to run.

SC Upstate Investors LLC purchased a 27,000-square-foot flex building in the Southridge Business Park in Greenville for $1.5 million, or approximately $55 per square foot, according to Co-Star real estate information.

The building, which was built in 1993, sits on 3.1 acres at 1120 W. Butler Road. It was 95 percent leased at the time of sale.

CBRE/The Furman Co. represented the seller, Park Place Corp. of Greenville. Agent Owned Realty represented the buyer.

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The practice, which is led by Dr. Matthew Miller, offers cosmetic, medical and surgical procedures. It is moving from St. Francis Drive.

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First things first: The Indigo Girls are not breaking up.

The Atlanta-based folk-rock duo re-leased its 13th album last year, and has scheduled tour dates in the western states later this spring. But before that tour launches in June, singer/song-writer and guitarist Amy Ray is taking the opportunity to promote her own new album, “Lung of Love,” with a tour that brings her to the Handlebar in Greenville on Thursday, May 3.

The record, Ray’s fourth solo album, was released in February by Ray’s own non-profit record label, Daemon Re-cords. “Lung of Love” may hold some surprises for listeners who are only familiar with the Indigo Girls’ best-known work, particularly their 1989 self-titled platinum album and its sunny, dual acoustic-guitar driven ra-dio hit, “Closer to Fine.”

“Lung of Love” gives Ray a chance to explore more of her diverse musical influences, from punk to gospel.

“It’s not like I felt short-changed or blocked by the Indigo Girls,” said Ray of her solo career, which started with

Amy Ray brings ‘Lung of Love’ to UpstateSinger-songwriter detours from Indigo Girls’ folk-rock to explore territory from punk to gospelBy Jerry Salley | staff

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Families play big roles in St. Peter’s Players production of classic musical

This church will be filled with the Sound of Music

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” is all about family.

So it seems only fitting that the St. Peter’s Players’ production of the classic musical features eight different families, including one that has three generations in the cast.

“I know it sounds trite, but it brings us closer together,” said Ken Shabel, who has been with the theater ministry of St. Peter’s since it was formed in 2000.

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her 2001 release, “Stag.” “But there was something I was trying to express that didn’t fit into that format.”

Working with producer and co-writ-er Greg Griffith in his Greensboro, N.C. studio, Ray reunited with drummer Melissa York and guitarist Kaia Wilson of the Durham, N.C. punk band The Butchies. The band had backed Ray up on “Stag” and on her subsequent tour. Julie Wolf, who has also played with Ani DiFranco, Maceo Parker, Bruce Cockburn and Dar Williams, plays keyboards on “Lung of Love,” while Griffith plays bass and guitars.

Griffith recorded the album on analog tape, and “even though they had to con-stantly wrestle with the machine, it was worth the glue it provided,” said Ray.

The songs on “Lung of Love” cover a lot of musical territory, from the punk-ish thrash of “From Haiti” (a tribute to that country’s earthquake survivors) to the Appalachian gospel-influenced “The Rock Is My Foundation.” The al-bum’s title song, a song about “trying to rekindle love after absence,” which Ray wrote after being on the road, has a soulful, funk-influenced groove that

Ray credits to her collaborator.“I couldn’t make the song translate

the way I heard it,” she said. “But this is where I think Greg really shines. He has such an in-depth and creative mu-sical language to draw from.”

“Lung of Love” is the first project in which Ray has worked with a co-writer. She and her Indigo Girls part-ner, Emily Saliers, both usually write their own songs and then collaborate

on the arrangements.Ray and Saliers met in elementary

school and began performing to-gether as high school students in De-catur, GA. Their major-label debut, 1989’s “Indigo Girls” (Epic Records) included their most well-known song, “Closer to Fine,” which made it to the Billboard Hot 100 and still receives radio play today. The album was nominated for a Best New Art-ist Grammy, but lost to Milli Vanilli. Their latest album, “Beauty Queen Sister,” came out last October.

Atlanta’s The Shadowboxers will open Ray’s show at the Handlebar.


Indigo Girls singer / songwriter and guitarist Amy Ray is promoting her own new album, “Lung of Love,” with a tour that brings her to the Handlebar in Greenville on May 3.

Who: Amy Ray

Where: The Handlebar, 304 East Stone Ave., Greenville

When: Thursday, May 3

Tickets: $17 advance; $19 day of show

Opening act: The Shadowboxers

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Shabel’s wife, Jessica, plays a nun. His father, Ron, plays German Admiral von Schreiber. Shabel’s 7 ½-year-old daughter, Delaney, plays the youngest von Trapp child, Greta. And his niece, Brittany Carr, plays a nun.

“It’s always been a thrill to be on stage with my dad and it’s my daughter’s first play. I’ve seen her gain confidence and have such a wonderful time, it brings a tear to my eye,” Ken Shabel said. “It’s great to get out of our normal element, to escape and get out of the normal hustle and bustle, and it’s great to do it together as a family.”

Robyn Zimmerman found-ed St. Peter’s Players as a the-ater ministry for the church.

“The plays we do must have some kind of message, usu-ally about family,” she said.

But the plays aren’t the re-ligious-themed productions that many churches stick to for their drama programs. St. Peter’s Players have per-

formed many secular plays such as “Pollyanna,” “Little Women,” “A Doll’s House” and “Our Town.”

“I like to do great American classics,” said Zimmerman, who is directing “Sound of Music.” “We use the theater to glorify our Lord and bring the community to our church.”

The Players usually do one big production and one small production a year, she said. Auditions and the produc-tions are open to the public.

“It is a celebration of the-ater in God’s house,” Zim-merman said.

The church setting is espe-cially fitting for “The Sound of Music,” she said, because several scenes in the musical are set in an abbey and there’s a wedding as well.

“The great thing about ‘The Sound of Music’ is that it is a secular play with a spiritual message,” Ken Shabel said. “Performing it in a church gives a whole new meaning to a special piece of theater.”

To pull off “The Sound of Music,” a cast must have a strong Maria and strong chil-dren, Zimmerman said.

The production’s Maria, Eme-lyn Pagel, is a member of the church choir and the daughter of a professional opera singer.

The church’s choir director has worked with the children in the cast since last fall, she said.

“It’s ‘The Sound of Music’ – if you don’t have singers who understand music and singing, it probably won’t be successful,” she said.

Ken Shabel met his wife in the Vanderbilt University chorus.

“It’s a wonderful experi-ence to spend time with your children, your extended fam-ily and your church family,” Jessica Shabel said. “It’s great to put on a production that is age-appropriate for all ages.”

Zimmerman said she’s cut some songs and interludes between scenes to try to cut down the production’s length.

But the songs that have be-come standards, including the title song, “The Sound of Mu-sic,” “Edelweiss,” “My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Moun-tain” and “Do-Re-Mi” remain.

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Who: St. Peter’s Players

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The Fountain Inn Arts Academy located in the Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts has partnered with Hillcrest Memorial Hospital to provide original art-work for display in their lobby. Each quarter, a new group of artists will be selected to be on display in the lobby of Hillcrest Memorial Hospital. This quarter’s artists are: Sandra Dickson’s “Palm Trees,” Cami Ingles’ “Bird on Branch,” Anna Knutson’s “Love,” Sydney Hyer’s “Northern Lights” and Sandie Gemmet’s “Running Horse.” For more information the Fountain Inn Arts Academy, visit www.ftinnarts.org or call 864-409-1050.

Carolina Bronze, a handbell group, will hold spring concerts in April and May. Founded in 2001 by a group of experienced ringers and di-rectors, this auditioned ensemble recently joined the Greenville Symphony Orchestra at the 2011 Holiday at Peace Concerts. The free spring perfor-mances will feature a mix of original and sacred melodies, spirituals and folk music: May 6, 5 p.m. at Boulevard Baptist Church, Anderson and May 10, 7 p.m. at the Hughes Main Library, downtown Greenville. Visit www.carolinabronze.net for more information.

Dave Partridge will present a program on “Transformation: The Story of the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center” at the spring meeting of the Greenville County Historical Society on Sunday, May 6, at 3 p.m. at Greenville Hospital System. This meeting is free and open to the public. For more informa-tion, call 233-4103 or email [email protected].

Firewater Photography and Canvas One Creations recently teamed up to create artwork for Greenville City Hall. Photographer Kris Decker of Firewater Photogra-phy captured an image of the Liberty Bridge at twilight and Canvas One Creations printed and stretched the photograph over 4 panels, for a combined size of roughly 6 feet by 14 feet. The work hangs just above the front desk in City Hall.

Book Your Lunch will host bestselling Southern author Mary Alice Mon-roe on Tuesday, May 8, from noon-2 p.m. at The Lazy Goat in Greenville. Monroe’s latest book, “Beach House Memories,” is a prequel to “The Beach House.” She weaves together issues of class, women’s rights and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s. Tickets are $55 each and the price includes a copy of “Beach House Memories” to be provided at the event. Tickets must be purchased in advance at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.

The Foothills Chorale will presents John Rutter’s “Mass of the Children” on April 29, 3 p.m., on the campus of Southern Wesleyan University in Central. This is the first complete performance of this work in the Upstate and will feature the Seneca High School Honors Women’s Chorus and soloists from the SC Governor’s School with chamber orchestra and organ. Also on the program is the premiere of Lyndell Leatherman’s “We Are the Music Makers,” prize winner of the international com-position contest. Tickets are available online, by phone or at the door. Visit www.foothillschorale.org or call 1-888-937-4642 for more information.

The City of Greenville’s Fidelity Investments Moonlight Movies return on Wednes-day, May 2, with a new location in Falls Park. The temporary venue is a result of the construction at The Peace Center Amphitheatre. The free film series will run for five weeks and feature movies from a wide range of genres and periods, including “The Muppet Movie,” “An American in Paris,” “Angels in the Outfield” and a special View-er’s Choice. The films begin at sundown (approximately 8:30 p.m.), but moviegoers are invited to arrive early, bring lawn chairs, blankets and a picnic. Individuals con-suming alcohol at the event must purchase a $1 wristband. For more information, contact Will Young at 467-4484 or visit events.greenvillesc.gov.

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Mauldin Middle School’s Wind Ensemble recently traveled to Florida to com-pete in Festival Disney. The ensemble has earned Superior ratings at Festival Dis-ney for several years. The middle school musicians were scheduled on a weekend and ended up competing only against high schools. To be judged rather than rated, the group opted to be judged as a high school band and received a Superior rat-ing, first place in the class (high schools with 600 or fewer students) and the Silver Award for all bands, topping 16 high school bands.

All 10 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists and both National Achievement Scholarship semifinalists at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM) were recently announced as finalists. The National Merit fi-nalists are now among 15,000 students from across the nation competing for 8,300 scholarships worth more than $34 million. The National Achievement finalists are among 1,300 students from across the nation competing for 800 scholarships worth more than $2.4 million. Local GSSM’s National Merit Finalists include Max Franks of Greenville, John Isenhower of Greenwood and Karl Schober of Greer. In addi-tion, Karl S. Schober and Hannah J. Brown of Spartanburg, a Spartanburg High School student, were named as National Merit Corporate-sponsored winners.

APEX Adventure Day Camp Program is a day camp program being offered through Langston Charter Middle School this summer. Campers will experience whitewater rafting, mountain biking, hiking and more in the mountains. Five ses-sions are being offered: June 11-14, June 18-21, June 25-28, July 9-12, July 16-19 and July 30-August 2. This camp is open to all area middle schoolers. For more information, e-mail Matt Griffin at [email protected].

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Blue Ridge Middle School announces the art students, under the direction of Kent Peggram, who won in the 2012 GC Middle School Juried Art Show. Their work is on dis-play at the Greenville County central office downtown. All works entered are in the Artsonia web gallery and will be on display soon in the Blue Ridge Middle School lobby, along with the other 25 works entered. This year’s winners include: 6th grade: Marina Gallegos, Honorable Mention in Sculpture for “Dog and Bone” and Reagan Wofford, Honorable Mention in Mixed Media for “Crayon Caverns,” 7th grade: Elizabeth Gibson, Third place in Drawing for “Wolf” and Noah Stafford, Second place in Painting for “Skunk,” 8th grade: Jordan Grissop, Honorable Mention in Drawing for “Imagination & Creation.”

Local students recently traveled to Nicaragua to construct community buildings for the children in the community of La Pintada with Clemson University’s Engineers Abroad. The group is a Creative Inquiry team that built an official baseball field for the community that included a new fence, benches and real bases. Baseball is the primary commu-nity activity for children in the area. Local members of the group are: Matt Kofoed of Simpsonville and Chris Hapstack of Greenville. The group plans to return to Nicaragua this summer to complete construction of a school and imple-

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The Travelers Rest High School Fine Arts Department will perform “Singing in the Rain,” a musical based on the classic 1952 MGM movie, on three successive eve-nings, May 3-5, at 7 p.m. The production features 60 TRHS drama, music and choral students. Tickets are $8. The full-length play is sponsored by the Metropoli-tan Arts Council, the City of Travelers Rest, the school PTSA and the Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Per-

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Registration is underway for Furman’s academic en-richment day camps, Microscope, Kaleidoscope and Telescope throughout the summer for grades 1-8. Small group swim lessons for beginners and strokes classes are also offered. Visit www.furman.edu/learningforyou or call 864-294-2153 for more information.

Registration is open for The Young Writers’ Camp, June 18-29, Upstate Writing Project Film Camp, June 18-29, and Upstate Writing Project Gaming Camp, July 9-13. All will be held at the University Center in Greenville. Young Writers’ Camp offers kids the opportunity to tap into their own experiences as they create and share writing with new friends. Film Camp helps young writers bring their words to life as they use different types of technol-ogy to create movies and other multimedia presentations. Gaming Camp allows students to take their writing to a new dimension as they write their own video games and use software to bring them to life. All camps are open to students entering grades 4-8. For more information, visit www.upstatewritingproject.org or call 864-735-8897.

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A trio of students at Legacy Charter School won a poetry contest and were recognized April 14 at Greenville Hospital System’s annual Minority Health Summit, where they had a chance to attend a special meet-and-greet with the event’s keynote speaker, Dr. Maya Angelou. The winners are: Isaiah Chapman, elementary school, Scotdaija Jenkins, middle school and Valentina Vasquez, high school.

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GILDER CREEK FARM SUN 2-4PM (4/29)

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Prudential Real Estate, a real estate brokerage franchisor, is a company of Brookfield Residential Property Services. Prudential Real Estate franchises are independently owned and operated. Companies are selected based upon outstanding performance records and high levels of customer service. Prudential Real Estate provides franchises with business strategies using Operation Reviews as well as numerous benefits, including access to Prudential Real Estate’s Online Seller Advantage® program designed to provide real-time information to sellers with the touch of a keystroke; and Online Buyer Advantage®, which enables consumers to easily search for property in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Prudential Real Estate is one of the largest real estate brokerage franchise networks in North America, with more than 1,500 franchise offices and 50,000 sales professionals in the franchise Network as of Dec. 31, 2011.

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The Community JournalsWhole Foods MarketPhotos available from Greenville County Historical Society - 233-4103

As Greenville experienced a downtown boom in the 1920s, some of those involved in that boom were putting up substantial residences in new, fashionable neighborhoods. The most dramatic building constructed on Main Street during that period was the 17-floor Woodside Building. The building was financed by the Woodside Securities Company owned by John T. Woodside and three of his brothers. John T. and Lucile Woodside built their new home on Crescent Avenue. Designed by William Ward, the two-story residence was constructed of cream-colored brick. When the Woodside Securities Company fell victim to the Great Depression, the Woodsides moved into a more modest dwelling on Broadus Avenue.

From “Remembering Greenville: Photographs from the Coxe Collection,” by Jeffrey R. Willis

While undergoing extensive renovation in 1947, the former home of the Woodsides was damaged by fire. The structure was restored after the fire as a one-story residence. The home as it appears today was rebuilt to the original design in 2002-2003.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATIONNotice is hereby given that Green Apple of NC, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1221 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to:

S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125,

Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 898-5899

NOTICE OF APPLICATIONNotice is hereby given that Green Apple of NC, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 430 Congaree Road, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to:



NOTICE OF APPLICATIONNotice is hereby given that Green Apple of NC, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 3944 Grandview Drive, Simpsonville, SC 29681. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person pro-testing resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to:



NOTICE OF APPLICATIONNotice is hereby given that Green Apple of NC, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 6200 White Horse Road, Greenville, SC 29307. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writ-ing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person pro-testing resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to:



NOTICE OF APPLICATIONNotice is hereby given that Chipotle Mexican Grill of Colorado, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 4 Market Point Drive, Suite C, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, writ-ten protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the busi-ness; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to:



NOTICE OF APPLICATIONNotice is hereby given that T-P Greenville, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1034 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than May 13, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writ-ing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person pro-testing resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to:



NOTICE OF APPLICATIONNotice is hereby given that Greer Lao Hu Cheng Asian Bistro, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 912 South Batesville Road, Greer, SC 29650. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than April 29, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person pro-testing resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to:



Precincts Polling Places (location) Greenville 01 League Academy 125 Twin Lake Rd Greenville 03 Summit Dr Elementary School 424 Summit Dr Greenville 04 Stone Academy 115 Randall St Greenville 05 Sears Shelter 100 E Park Ave Greenville 06 Mount Calvary Baptist Church 115 Cedar Ln RdGreenville 07 W Greenville Recreation Cntr 8 Rochester St Greenville 08 YWCA 700 Augusta St Greenville 10 Springfi eld Baptist Church 600 E McBee Ave Greenville 14 Phillis Wheatley Cntr 40 John McCarroll Way Greenville 16 Augusta Rd Baptist Church 1823 Augusta St Greenville 17 St Matthew United Methodist Church 701 Cleveland St Greenville 18 Augusta Circle Elementary School 100 Winyah St Greenville 19 Pleasant Valley Connection 510 Old Augusta Rd Greenville 20 Trinity United Methodist Church 2703 Augusta St Greenville 21 Meals on Wheels 15 Oregon St Greenville 22 Sanctuary Church 302 Parkins Mill Rd Greenville 23 Eastlan Baptist Church 625 S Pleasantburg Dr Greenville 24 Beck Academy 901 Woodruff Rd Greenville 25 McCarter Presbyterian Church 2 Pelham Rd Greenville 26 E North St Academy 1720 E North St Greenville 27 Overbrook Baptist Church 1705 E North St Greenville 28 Francis Asbury United Methodist Church 1800 E North St Greenville 29 J L Mann High School 160 Fairforest Way Aiken Alexander Elementary School 1601 W Bramlett Rd Altamont Forest Duncan Chapel Fire Station 5111 Old Buncombe Rd Asheton Lakes Five Forks Baptist Church 112 Batesville Rd Avon Changing Your Mind Ministries 3506 Edwards RdBaker Creek Valley Brook Baptist Church 8323 Augusta Rd. Belle Meade Disciples Fellowship Church 105 Crestfi eld Rd Bells Crossing Bells Crossing Elementary School 804 Scuffl etown Rd Belmont Belmont Fire Station 701 Fork Shoals Rd Berea Berea Elementary School 100 Berea Dr Boiling Springs Devenger Rd Presbyterian Church 1200 Devenger Rd Botany Woods Lutheran Church of Our Saviour 2600 Wade Hampton Blvd Bridge Fork Crossroads Community Church 416 Holland Rd Brook Glenn Brook Glenn Elementary School 2003 E Lee Rd Canebrake Buena Vista Elementary School 310 S Batesville Rd Carolina Carolina Academy 2725 Anderson Rd Castle Rock Washington Baptist Church 3500 N. Hwy. 14Chestnut Hills Dunean Baptist Church 21 Allen St - Fellowship HallCircle Creek Cross Roads Baptist Church 705 Anderson Ridge Rd Clear Creek Pleasant View Baptist Church 110 Old Rutherford Rd.Conestee Reedy River Baptist Church Conestee Rd @ Lakewood Dr-Family CntrDarby Ridge St Andrews Presbyterian Church 1860 Reid School Rd Del Norte Brushy Creek Elementary School 1344 Brushy Creek RdDevenger St Giles Presbyterian Church 1021 Hudson Rd Donaldson Donaldson Center Fire Dept 2291 Perimeter Rd Dove Tree Dove Tree Club House 2 Sugarberry Dr Dunklin Dunklin Fire Station 11353 Augusta Rd Eastside Eastside High School 1300 Brushy Creek RdEbenezer Heritage Elementary School 1592 Geer Hwy Edwards Forest Taylors Elementary School 809 Reid School Rd Enoree Enoree Career Cntr 108 Scalybark Rd Feaster Shannon Forest Presbyterian Church 830 Garlington Rd Fork Shoals Fork Shoals Elementary School 916 McKelvey Rd Fountain Inn 1 Fountain Inn Civic Cntr 315 N Main St Fountain Inn 2 Fountain Inn Activities Cntr 610 Fairview St Fox Chase Northwood Baptist Church 888 Ansel School Rd. Frohawk Grace United Methodist Church 627 Taylor Rd Furman Mt Sinai Baptist Church 1101 Roe Ford Rd Gowensville Gowensville Community Cntr 14186 Hwy 11Granite Creek Pleasant Grove Baptist Church 1002 S. Buncombe Rd. Graze Branch Holly Ridge Baptist Church 260 Adams Mill Rd. Greenbriar Messiah Lutheran Church 1100 Log Shoals Rd Grove Grove Elementary School 1220 Old Grove Rd Hillcrest Hillcrest Middle School 510 Garrison Rd Holly Tree Faith Baptist Church 906 Hwy 14Jennings Mill Cleveland First Baptist Church 5 Church Dr Kilgore Farms Gilder Creek Farm Clubhouse 404 Grimes Dr.Lakeview Lakeview Middle School 3801 Old Buncombe Rd

Laurel Ridge St Mark United Methodist Church 901 St Mark Rd Leawood Leawood Baptist Church 401 State Park Rd Locust Hill Fairview Baptist Church 1300 Locust Hill Rd. Long Creek Rocky Creek Missionary Baptist Church 239 Rocky Creek RdMaple Creek Brushy Creek First Assembly of God 3610 Brushy Creek RdMaridell New Liberty Baptist Church 1798 N Hwy 25Mauldin 1 Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church 739 N Main St Mauldin 2 Forrester Woods Club House 424 Piney Grove RdMauldin 3 Mauldin First Baptist Church 150 S Main St - Fellowship HallMauldin 4 Mauldin United Methodist Church 100 E Butler Rd Mauldin 5 Mauldin Miller Fire Station #1 802 Miller Rd Mauldin 6 Ray Hopkins Senior Cntr Corn Rd @ 699 E Butler RdMauldin 7 Mauldin Middle School 1190 Holland Rd Mission Morningside Baptist Church 1115 Pelham Rd Monaview Monaview Elementary School 10 Monaview St Moore Creek South Greenville Fire Station #6 1800 W Georgia Rd Mountain Creek Mountain Creek Baptist Church 255 W Mountain Creek Church Rd Mountain View Mountain View Elementary School 6350 Mountain View Rd (Hwy 253)Mt Pleasant Mt Pleasant Community Cntr 710 S Fairfi eld Rd Neely Farms Christ Community Church 700 Harrison Bridge Rd Northwood Northwood Middle School 710 Ikes Rd Oakview Oakview Elementary School 515 Godfrey Rd Oneal Living Way Community Church 3239 N Hwy 101Palmetto Grace Church 2801 Pelham Rd Paris Mountain Piedmont Park Fire Station Hdqt 2119 State Park Rd Pebble Creek Pebble Creek Baptist Church 1300 Reid School Rd Pelham Falls Cornerstone Baptist Church 8505 Pelham RdPiedmont Beattie Hall Main St Pineview Canebrake Fire Dept 100 Hillside Church Rd Poinsett Duncan Chapel Elementary School 210 Duncan Chapel Rd Raintree The Bridge Church 257 Harrison Bridge Rd Ranch Creek Robert Cashion Elementary 1500 Fork Shoals Rd.Reedy Fork Reedy Fork Baptist Church 3115 Fork Shoals RdRiver Walk River Walk Clubhouse 103 River Walk Blvd Riverside Riverside High School 794 Hammett Bridge Rd Rock Hill Mitchell Rd Elementary School 4124 E North St Rocky Creek Rocky Creek Baptist Church 1801 Woodruff Rd- Storehouse Bldg.Rolling Green Rolling Green Retirement Cntr 1 Hoke Smith BlvdRoyal Oaks Rock of Ages Baptist Church 105 Donaldson Rd Saluda Berea Fire Station 7401 White Horse Rd Sandy Flat Faith Temple Church 5080 Sandy Flat Rd Sevier Sevier Middle School 1000 Piedmont Park Rd Silverleaf Heritage Bible Church 2005 Old Spartanburg Rd Simpsonville 1 Simpsonville City Park Cntr 405 E Curtis St Simpsonville 2 Plain Elementary School 506 Neely Ferry RdSimpsonville 3 Simpsonville United Methodist Church 215 SE Main St Simpsonville 4 Westside Church 611 Richardson St Simpsonville 5 Center for Community Services 1102 Howard Dr Simpsonville 6 Calvary Baptist Church 207 Davenport Rd - ChapelSkyland Skyland Elementary School 4221 N Hwy 14Slater Marietta Slater Marietta Elementary School 100 Baker CrSouthside Southside High School 6630 Frontage Rd. @ White Horse Rd. Sparrows Point Immanuel Lutheran Church 2820 Woodruff Rd Spring Forest First Church of the Nazarene 1201 Haywood Rd Standing Springs Standing Springs Baptist 1111 W. Georgia Rd.Stone Valley Springwell Church 4369 Wade Hampton Blvd Stonehaven Advent United Methodist Church 2258 Woodruff Rd Suber Mill Praise Cathedral 3390 Brushy Creek RdSugar Creek Sugar Creek Clubhouse 103 Sugar Creek Rd Sulphur Springs Armstrong Elementary School 8601 White Horse Rd Sycamore First Presbyterian Church 510 E Curtis St Tanglewood Tanglewood Middle School 44 Merriwoods Dr Taylors Taylors First Baptist Church 200 W Main St - Ministry CntrThornblade Oakleaf Village@Thornblade 1560 Thornblade Blvd Tigerville Tigerville Elementary School 25 Tigerville Elementary School Rd Timberlake Aldersgate United Methodist Church 7 Shannon Dr Trade Needmore Recreation Cntr 202 Canteen Ave Travelers Rest 1 City Hall 6711 State Park Rd Travelers Rest 2 Renfrew Baptist Church 951 Geer Hwy. Tubbs Mountain Enoree Baptist Church 881 Tigerville Rd - Youth CntrTyger River Chandler Creek Elementary School 301 Chandler Rd Verdmont Hopewell UMC 1420 Neely Ferry Rd.Wade Hampton Faith Baptist Church 500 W Lee Rd Walnut Springs Clear Spring Baptist Church 301 Bethany Rd Ware Place Ellen Woodside Elementary School 9122 Augusta Rd Welcome Welcome Elementary School 36 E Welcome Rd Wellington E North St Baptist Church 4108 E North St - Fellowship HallWestcliffe Westcliffe Elementary School 105 Eastbourne Rd Westside John Calvin Presbyterian Church 1801 W Parker Rd Woodmont Woodmont Middle School 325 N Flat Rock Rd Woodruff Lakes Woodruff Rd Christian Church 20 Bell Rd

NOTICE OF ELECTIONSSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE

The Republican and Democrat parties will hold primaries on Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Any necessary runoffs will be held on Tuesday, June 26. Any person wishing to vote in the primaries and runoffs must register no later than Saturday, May 12. At 9:00 a.m. on Election Day the County Election Commission will begin its examination of the absentee ballot return envelopes at 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900. On Thursday, June 14, at 12:00 Noon the County Board of Canvassers will hold a hearing to determine the validity of all provisional ballots cast in this election. This hearing will be held at Greenville County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900. The following precincts and polling places will be open from

7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.:

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATIONSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN

THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF ANDERSON

2010-CP-04-1065Dell Jones and Lorraine Jones, Plaintiff, vs. Bradley H. Batson and James C. Owens, individually and doing business as Tylar Construction Company, Inc. and Capital Indemnity Corporation, Defendants, AND Bradley H. Batson, individually and doing business as Tylar Construction Company, Inc., Third-Party Plaintiff, vs. James C. Owens, individually and doing business as Tylar Construction Company, Inc., Third-Party Defendant. TO: THE DEFENDANT AND THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT, JAMES C. OWENS, INDIVIDUALLY AND DBA TYLAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.YOU will please take notice that the Summons and Amended Complaint in the above entitled action was fi led in Court of Common Pleas on October 4, 2011, and is now on fi le therein. You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Amended Complaint in this action upon the subscriber at his offi ce, 116 West Whitner Street, Anderson South Carolina, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service and if you fail to answer the said Amended Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded.

Robert L. Waldrep, Jr.Robert L. Waldrep, Jr., P.A.116 West Whitner Street

Anderson, SC 29624(864) 224-6341

NOTICEOn December 19, 2012, W. Benjamin McClain, Jr. was defi nitely suspended from the practice of law for two years, retroactive to March 13, 2007. He has now fi led a petition to be reinstated.Notice is hereby given that members of the bar and the public may fi le a notice of their opposition to or concurrence with the Petition for Reinstatement. Comments should be mailed to: Committee on Character and Fitness, P.O. Box 11330, Columbia, South Carolina 29211. These comments should be received no later than June 18, 2012.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICEA PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012, AT 6:00 p.m. (or as soon thereafter as other public hearings are conducted), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADJUSTING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT AND THE FOUNTAIN INN FIRE SERVICE AREA SO AS TO ENLARGE THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT, AND TO DIMINISH THE FOUNTAIN INN FIRE SERVICE AREA. THE BOUNDARY LINES TO RESULT WILL INCLUDE THAT AREA KNOWN AS TAX MAP NUMBERS 0552010100328, 0555010100700 and 0552010100902, INTO THE CLEAR SPRING FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT, AND WILL REMOVE THE SAME FROM THE FOUNTAIN INN FIRE SERVICE AREA. A MAP OF THE BOUNDARIES AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE.

HERMAN G. KIRVEN, JR., CHAIRMAN

GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICEA PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012, AT 6:00 P.M. (or at such time thereafter as the hearing may be concluded), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC 29601, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNING AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND EXHIBIT A, ESTABLISHED AS AN ADDENDUM TO ORDINANCE NO.4079, AS LAST AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 4459, SO AS TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL OPERATING FUNDS FOR TOURIST RELATED PROJECTS.

HERMAN G. KIRVEN JR., CHAIRMAN

GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

SOLICITATION NOTICEGreenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following:

Carpet Cleaning Services,on May 11, 2012, 3:00 P.M.

Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillevillecounty.org

or by calling 864-467-7200.

GREENVILLE COUNTY ZONING AND PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE COUNTY COUNCIL ON MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012 AT 6:30 P.M. IN COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, COUNTY SQUARE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING

THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-15APPLICANT: MIKE TAPIOCONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] OR 444-7444PROPERTY LOCATION: E. COLEMAN ROAD AND ROBERTS CIRCLEPIN: 0534010100800 (PORTION)EXISTING ZONING: R-S, RESIDENTIAL SUBURBANREQUESTED ZONING: R-M3, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE: 1.58COUNTY COUNCIL: 21 - BURNS

DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-16APPLICANT: ALLAN HILL CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] OR 242-4995PROPERTY LOCATION: E NORTH STREET PIN: 0541020101602EXISTING ZONING: POD, PLANNED OFFICE DISTRICTREQUESTED ZONING: POD, PLANNED OFFICE DISTRICT (NEW STATEMENT OF INTENT AND CONCEPT PLAN)ACREAGE: .59COUNTY COUNCIL: 22 – TAYLOR

DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-17APPLICANT: NARRAMORE HOLDINGS, LLCCONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] OR 242-9881PROPERTY LOCATION: WHITE HORSE ROAD AT SALUDA DAM ROAD PIN: B013030101001 (PORTION) AND B013030100901EXISTING ZONING: C-2, COMMERCIAL, R-M20, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL, AND S-1, SERVICES REQUESTED ZONING: C-3, COMMERCIAL ACREAGE: 2.65COUNTY COUNCIL: 19 – MEADOWS

DOCKET NUMBER: CZ-2012-18APPLICANT: JERRY CALLOWAYCONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] OR 968-1243PROPERTY LOCATION: CEDAR LANE ROAD PIN: B012000101900 (PORTION) EXISTING ZONING: R-M20, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL, AND R-10, SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL REQUESTED ZONING: C-3, COMMERCIAL, AND R-M20, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE: 7.8COUNTY COUNCIL: 19 – MEADOWS

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DRUG TAKE-BACK EVENT:Sat, April 28, 2012 • 10am – 2pm

From left to right, Hughes Academy’s Adeline Beeks was named the SCPTA Student Volunteer of the Year, Dr. Patrick Mark was named SCPTA Middle School Principal of the Year, and Carole Flashpoehler was named the SCPTA middle school volunteer of the year.

Dr. Patrick Mark receives high fives from the students and faculty of Hughes Academy in recognition for his being selected as the SCPTA Middle School Principal of the Year.

J.L. Mann teacher Jennifer Cook’s AP French class traveled to France for a 12-day visit and exchange with sister school, the Lycee Godefroy de Bouillon in Clermont-Ferrand, France. This exchange has been an integral part of Cook’s French program since 1996 when the first exchange occurred. As always in the past, students spent the last four days of the exchange in Paris.

These 19 high school students from the area competed in the Junior Achievement Titan Challenge in the business simulation competition in downtown Greenville on Saturday, April 14 at Clemson at the Falls. The culminating competitive simulation placed each student in the CEO’s seat to help increase understanding of business while they competed for college scholarships.

The first-place team, winning scholarship money, were, from left to right: Eastside High School students Travis Dixon, Dane Greinke, Kira Coker and Daniel Justice, and John Petruxick from TD Bank, who mentored and volunteered for Junior Achievement with the students.

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CityRangeDavani’s

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Ford’s Oyster HouseThe Galley Restaurant

The Green RoomHandi Indian Cuisine

Hans & Franz BiergartenHarry & Jean’s

John Paul Armadillo Oil CompanyThe Lazy Goat

Liberty Tap Room & GrillMary Beth’s

The Mellow MushroomMidtown Deli

Nami Asian BistroNantucket Seafood GrillNorthampton Wine Café

Nose DiveOn The Border

Open Hearth Steak HouseP. Simpson’s

The Plaid PelicanPortofino’s Italian Restaurant Rick Erwin’s West End Grille

Ristorante BergamoRoman’s Macaroni Grill

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Natalie Dougherty, Health Promotion Coordi-nator with the Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, left, talks to St. Francis Surgical Tech Terry Holcomb about an upcoming book of recipes and garden tips submitted by St. Fran-cis employees that will be sold to raise funds for the St. Francis Community Garden. The pair were at the Energy Fair and Earth Day picnic at St. Francis Eastside. Dougherty was selling organically raised vegetable plants to raise money for the community garden.

Paula Cawfield, Food Services Director at St. Francis, left, gets information on the vegetable plants she just bought from Rebecca McKinney, Sustainability Specialist, Community Ministries, St. Francis Health System.

Ana Lark with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System pedals a blender bike at the picnic.The stationary bike was fitted with a device that operated a blender when pedaled. The blender was being used to make smoothies.

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System employees line up to get their picnic lunches in the courtyard of St. Francis Eastside during the Energy Fair and Earth Day picnic. St. Francis Eastside is the first hospital in South Carolina to earn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star certification.

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Approximately 600 students, faculty and staff from Furman University converged on Poinsett Highway recently for a day of service that officially kicked off the Poinsett Corridor Revitalization Coalition (PCRC) project. The Poinsett Corridor Revitalization Coalition is a collaborative venture to revitalize the Poinsett Highway corridor in order to establish a vibrant atmosphere conducive to the economic development the corridor deserves.

Furman University recently hosted a “WaterWalk” on campus to raise awareness about the developing world’s need for water and to raise funds to construct a water system for a Guatemalan village. For approximately one mile, participants carried water in various-sized containers along a selected route on campus. The walk simulated what millions of people in the developing world do where there is no ready access to water. The purpose is to raise $12,500 to match a grant from The Duke Endowment of Charlotte, N.C. Furman students and faculty will use the funds to help with the construction of a water system in the village of Esperanza San Antonio in Guatemala.

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A c r o s s1 Colorful talker6 Hair net11 Thai currency15 Legal opening?19 Prominent period20 New Mexico county

whose seat is Alamog-ordo

21 Buck chaser?22 Elliptical23 Steal25 Shows no restraint27 Hit sign28 Work out an agree-

ment29 Wouk work, with

“The”30 Honorary Muslim

title in old India32 Fed. auditing

agency34 Crib sheet users35 2000 Sean Penn film,

with “The”40 Spoils45 WWII Italian beach-

head46 Waterfront org.47 It’s gone in less than

a flash: Abbr.49 Go for an ace, maybe50 Corporate honcho51 King in “The Tem-

pest”53 Bilko and Klinger,

e.g.: Abbr.56 “The Namesake”

director Mira

57 Busy, design-wise59 Have a drink62 Blowup source, briefly63 Shield border, in

heraldry65 Germany, to Meg

Ryan: Abbr.66 Conference clip-on67 Defended69 Nailed down71 “It’s my fervent wish!”74 French monarchs76 Dr. visit77 “Cheers” bartender80 Last book in Robert-

son Davies’ “Deptford Trilogy”

83 Mexican man, say85 Summer treat86 Whim87 Rock and Roll Hall of

Famer David89 Had too much90 Sole protectors92 Said three times, a

story shortener94 Sudden death cause95 Last word in dough-

nuts96 Self-important boss,

facetiously99 Sage advice102 Aid factor104 Sun Valley loc.105 Parts of some area

calculations106 Laurel and Hardy

film set in Brushwood Gulch

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114 Go downhill, in a way117 Basically118 ‘30s show tune that

became a 1960 Dion and the Belmonts hit

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battle site125 Unwanted messages126 Prevailing tendency127 Giving lip

D o w n1 Cat calls2 On __ with3 Empire-building activity4 “Eew!” kin5 A-list6 Cook for three min-

utes, say7 Abbr. on many a can8 Eye, in Versailles9 Maker of Taco Kits10 “How stupid of me!”11 Indonesian island on

its own sea12 Isn’t for couples?13 Show off14 Have an easy catch

with15 Disappearing word16 Declare17 Tabula __18 Tiger, e.g., briefly

24 Something to be proud of

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movie gunfight occurs35 Aired, as a TV show

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Order”43 Walled Spanish city

44 Easing of govt. restrictions

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administered58 Schlepped60 Sadat’s predecessor61 “__ man who wasn’t

there ...”64 Bath scrubber67 Anger68 Rather rival70 Othello’s lieutenant71 “If only!”72 __ Minh City73 Hydrox rivals, once75 Driver’s license, often77 Fries and slaw78 Prefix with meter79 Computer accessory81 Like some humor82 Spoils84 Sculptors’ subjects88 Get close to91 One may get con-

gested93 “Go ahead!”95 Former children’s

clothing chain97 Chewable Asian

leaves98 Clinched100 Reindeer name101 Baylor University

site103 “Rock Around the

Clock” label106 Mental faculties107 Gray area?: Abbr.108 Whoop it up109 Munch Museum

city110 Appear to be112 Nice bean?113 Online __ print115 Guy dolls116 Fedora-wearing

adventurer, familiarly118 Driver’s lic. stat119 FDR program

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LIfe AfteR 60by peggy henderson

Let’s be honest. When it comes to making a lifestyle choice of giving up the color sessions with your hair styl-ist and going cold turkey with your present natural hair color (gray), it can be risky business.

Why risky?When an average Ameri-

can, regardless of age, sees gray hair, it’s an automatic reaction like lightning is to thunder, or after spring comes summer. The brain registers “old.” It doesn’t matter whether the gray-haired person is perky, runs an Ironman marathon, or drives a snazzy BMW sports car. Cultural perception dic-tates either “over the hill,” or, even worse, “slowing down.”

In the competitive work-place, gray heads remain an obstacle to promotion or an uninvited push for early retirement.

Doing my research for this column, I revisited the Age Discrimination in Employ-ment Act of 1967, which was created to protect em-ployees 40 years of age and older. I’m gratified to know that there is such a law on the books, but I can just imagine the subtle, blurred transparencies that must play out in professional of-

fices, corporate hierarchies and administration boards around the country.

I was disheartened to find, in a study on geriatrics and gerontology from the Uni-versity of South Carolina, that among workers in the middle- to- upper-level in-come bracket, the research-ers found there were definite footprints of age discrimina-tion. Results indicated that “more than 81 percent of the older workers encountered at least one workplace discrimi-natory treatment a year.”

Unfortunately, sexism along with ageism still shadows the workplace like a timeless albatross.

Men score equally in re-gards to their shared hair anxiety as women. How-ever, men continue to carry a slight edge with the per-ceived status that males aged 50 and older carry an air of being especially seasoned, or possess an entitled, dis-tinguished vibe.

Have you noticed that President Obama keeps his hair closely cropped? The more he asks his stylist for a “shower cut” the grayer his hair appears. Presiding in the White House can do that to our Executive Chiefs.

On the flip side, for fe-males middle-aged and up, no matter how classically or stylishly in-touch the hair-cut, most of the time the re-sponse to natural gray is to see the woman as matronly, bored on the job or maturely jaded. It’s the “I’ve seen it all; been there” vibe.

A tip from a networking firm called Gray Hair Man-agement advises women to start with the salt and pep-per look or blond and gray streaks, and in time let the “salt” become permanent.

For me, being a senior, sea-soned female without hair prejudice, I try to observe and not judge.

Personally, the first time I noticed those squiggly, un-controllable strands of gray sticking out of my crown, I wasn’t surprised. If I remem-ber correctly, I was around 50 and I determinedly plucked them out. One by one. Being a strawberry blonde and always outdoors more than in, I probably then didn’t even notice the gray. Now, 17 years later, I am still and plan to continue to be a colored, understated, strawberry blond.

I duly applaud the smart ladies who go natural with

their shining, silver manes signaling their self-esteem. It’s a glorious, wordless statement. Count Hubert de Givenchy, renowned fash-ion designer and founder of The House of Givenchy in 1952, said in Vogue, “Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself ”.

I’ve read that healthy, gray hair is tricky to maintain. Like silverware, it requires constant polish. Not to wor-ry; I’ve learned since age 50 that the whole nine yards of aging gracefully means daily maintenance forever.

No wonder we ask our-selves why the months and years zoom by far too fast.

The truth is, we must be living a blissful existence if all we have to worry about is the color of our hair. It’s the little, commonplace decisions that entertain our moments, that make it easier to accept the big life hiccups that challenge our souls.

Just an ending thought: On bad hair days, just wear a saucy hat.

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Color choices: to dye, go gray or wear a hat?

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