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Several new businesses are opening their doors to Greer shoppers next week, starting a trend city officials believe will last throughout the holiday season.

Construction is current-ly nearing completion at a new Aldi supermarket and Cookout restaurant on Wade Hampton Boulevard in Greer. Both businesses are expecting to open by the end of the month.

“We have a lot to of-fer here in Greer,” Greer Chamber President Mark Owens said. “Names like Cookout and Aldi are go-ing to attract feature busi-nesses to locate here as well, based off their suc-cess and selection of this area. The secret is out that Greer is a great place to lo-

cate your business.”Greer Mayor Rick Dan-

ner said it is an exciting time for the city and local shoppers.

“We’re going to try our best to wear the chamber’s big scissors out over the next 90 days,” Danner said. “If you look around, we’ve

got some major openings taking place between now and the first of the year.

“Downtown, there are a couple of new businesses coming online,” he said. “The Aldi project is nearly complete. You’ve got Cook-out finishing up. Folks are

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Costumes, crafts and plenty of candy will be on hand Saturday in Greer City Park, as Halloween Hoopla returns for anoth-er year.

The event, led by Free-dom Fellowship, offers a free Halloween alternative from noon- 4p.m. for local families and trick-or-treat-ers.

“We focus on providing entertainment, fun, crafts and candy for families--for little to no expense,” Free-dom Fellowship connec-tions pastor Donny Kauff-

man said. “Families can come and do everything for free. We just want to have a good, clean family environment at a very low cost.”

Greer Mayor Rick Danner said the event has done well and has traditionally drawn a large crowd.

“Freedom Fellowship has done a really good job of putting an event together that serves as kind of an alternative to the traditional Halloween trick-or-treating,” Danner said. “It’s really is a good event that works well with the season.”

Freedom Fellowship has

been in charge of the event for seven years Kauffman said.

“Originally, Halloween Hoopla was done down-town through the Greer Station Association,” he said. “The chamber asked us if we wanted to take over the event, because we had done some larger

events downtown, and we thought it would be a great opportunity for us.

“We want to show the community we love them by serving them. That’s why we started doing it in the first place.”

More than 100 Freedom Fellowship volunteers, along with volunteers

from The Church at Greer Station, plan to help at this Saturday’s event, which will feature a number of Halloween games for chil-dren.

“We’ll have 2,500-3,000 people show up,” Kauff-man said. “That’s usually kind of the turnout we see. We’ll have over 100 vol-

unteers from the church helping and giving away candy. We’ll have crafts kids can do. We’ll have the blowup rides they can play on. And, this year we’re doing games where kids can win candy as prizes.”

Where there are children on Halloween, there must also be candy Kauffman said.

“Last year, we probably had a little over 150,000 pieces of candy,” he said. “It’s a lot. We’ll probably have close to that amount again this year.”

For more information, visit freedomfellowshipsc.com or cityofgreer.org.

Lyman manreceives 30 yearsFor stabbing

A Lyman man received a 30-year prison sentence last Wednesday for repeat-edly stabbing his wife.

According to Solicitor Barry Barnette, Christo-pher Allen Middleton, 44, was found guilty of at-tempted murder and pos-session of a weapon dur-ing a violent crime at the conclusion of a three-day jury trial.

Barnette said the crime occurred June 19, 2014.

The victim’s father and a friend visited the Middle-ton’s Lilly Lane residence because the victim missed a doctor’s appointment and they were concerned

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Taylors residents address sewerissuesBY KENNETH COLLINS MAPLESTAFF WRITER

Taylors residents are concerned about sewage overflowing from a man-hole near the Enoree River. Renewable Water Resourc-es (ReWa) officials say they are doing what they can to take care of the problem.

Taylors residents Boyce and Annette Foster moved to the town about 30 years ago.

Throughout those de-cades they’ve watched during heavy rains as sew-age gushed from the top of a raised manhole near their property.

“That year, we hadn’t had that much rain, but the river was almost up to the bottom of the bridge,” Annette said, referring to their first year in Taylors. “I haven’t seen it that high since then. A short time lat-er, after it had rained here, the sewage line over the river was gushing out and going into the river. “

Recently, with the heavy rains the state has experienced, the prob-lem occurred again.“It’s been 30 years and they still haven’t done anything about it,” she said.

ReWa insists it is work-ing on the problem. In an Oct. 16 press release, ReWa, which includes Tay-lors Fire and Sewer Dis-trict as a subdistrict, says it is addressing problems all over their service area.

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Afternoon on the lakeAsher Forrester, left, and his aunt, Angel, spend some time in the kayak during the annual Lake Robinson Day of Celebration last Saturday. The event featured live music, exhibits and plenty of recreation.

Aldi, Cookout plan October openings

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Greer’s new Aldi supermarket will be open on Thursday, Oct. 29.


A new Cookout restaurant on Wade Hampton Blvd. in Greer will be open by the end of the month, according to the company.

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BLUE RIDGE LIONS CLUB START-UP MEETING

The Lion’s Club of Blue Ridge will have a start-up meeting Thurs, Oct. 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Big Boys Country Cooking on 430 Groce Meadow Road across from Lake Robin-son.

The meeting is open for anyone interested in join-ing the club.

To learn more, call Jer-ry Hatley at 268-0567 or email him at [email protected].

WALNUT GROVE HALLOWEEN EVENT

Historic Walnut Grove Plantation in Roebuck will be lit up for the season this Saturday, Oct. 24, 5-8 p.m. for its annual Hallow-een event.

Visitors are invited to walk the grounds of the 1767 backcountry farm on a self-guided tour that in-cludes information about the history of Halloween, as well as an opportunity to meet some spirits from Spartanburg’s Revolution-ary past.

Little ones can decorate a cookie, make a toy to take home and hand-dip a candle to light their own jack o’lantern. As always, this is a non-scary event.

Admission is $3 per per-son, children 4 and under admitted free.

FUNDRAISER BREAKFAST IN GREENVILLE

The Eggs Benefit for the Center for Developmen-tal Services (CDS) will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 7:30-9 a.m. at the Poinsett Club in Down-town Greenville.

This is the fourth year that CDS has hosted this breakfast, which has raised over $350,000. All of the money raised will benefit over 6,000 children who receive services at the Center for Developmental Services each year.

For more information, please contact Andrea Christy at 331-1318.

A reservation is required to attend by calling Andrea Christy at 331-1318, or by registering online at www.eventbrite.com

RUSS CROSSON TO SPEAK AT UPWARD SPORTS

Upward Sports in Spar-tanburg will have a real es-tate planning session with Russ Crosson of Ronald Blue & Co. on Friday, Oct. 30, from 9 to 11 a.m.

To confirm a reservation, call 949-5790 by Monday, Oct. 26.

BIG THURSDAY BBQ AUCTION ITEMS NEEDED

The Big Thursday BBQ lunch is on Nov. 5. Those interested in ordering lunch prepared by the Bucket Boys may complete a lunch order form at greer-communityministr ies .com/2015_Big_Thursday_BBQ_Order_Form.pdf.

Churches have been the foundation of Big Thurs-day for 36 tears. Congre-gations are needed to join and fill tables with prod-ucts for the Nov. 5 auc-tion. Items may include baked goods, casseroles and crafts. These items are needed the week of the event.

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

FUNDRAISING EVENT FOR BREAST CANCER SATURDAY

Breast cancer patient support organization, The

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

Tickets range from $40 in advance to $60 at the door. The cost includes admission, craft beer, wine and soft drinks, food and live music. The fam-ily-friendly event also will have activities just for kids, such as face paint-ing, crafts and games.

The event will benefit the Greenville Health Sys-tem.

Contact Cate Tyson at 363-4977 or [email protected].

FAMILY HALLOWEEN EVENT SET IN WELLFORD

The City of Wellford will host a family-oriented Hal-loween event on Oct. 31, from 6-8 p.m..

The event will take place between Wellford City Hall and First Baptist Church.

Activities include trunk-or-treat, face painting, hayrides, popcorn, hot dogs and more.

The event is free to the public.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 22KIWANIS CLUB MEET at 6:30

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

FRIDAY, OCT. 23GRACE PLACE in Greer will

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

SATURDAY, OCT. 24FOOD PANTRY DEVOTION-

AL 9:30 -10 a.m. at Calvary Christian Fellowship, 2455 Locust Hill Road, Taylors. Sup-plies � rst come, � rst serve.

SUNDAY, OCT. 25THE NEVER ALONE Group

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

MONDAY, OCT. 26BARBERSHOP HARMONY

CHAPTER meet at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial United Meth-odist Church, 201 N. Main St., Greer. Call Richard at 384-8093.

TUESDAY, OCT. 27THE NEVER ALONE group

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

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

THE GREER LIONS Club meet at Laurenda’s Family Restaurant, 300 South Line St., at 6 p.m. Call Suzanne at 905-0394.

FIRST TUESDAY ON Trade at 5 p.m. on Trade Street. Visit tuesdaysontrade.com for more information.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSO-CIATION SUPPORT Group meets from 5:30 - 7 p.m. at The Haven in the Village at Chanticleer, 355 Berk-mans Lane, Greenville. Call 275.5022.

GAP CREEK SINGERS rehearse from 7-8:30 p.m. at The Church of the Good Shepherd, 200 Jason St., Greer. For information or to schedule a performance contact Wesley Welsh at 877-5955.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28THE VIETNAM VETERANS

of America Chapter 523 will meet at Greenville Shrine Club, 119 Veverly Road. Greenville Chow time is 6-7 p.m. for $5, with meet-ing following. Call Chapter President Patrick Ramsey at 232-4110 or V.P. Jerry Brock at 918-4451. Signi� cant others invited to join.

THE NEVER ALONE GROUP OPEN at 7:30 p.m. at the Greer Recreational Center,226 Oakland Ave.

THE AWANAS CLUB meets at El Bethel Baptist Church, 313 Jones Ave., from 6:30 - 8:15 p.m. Kids ages 3-11 are invited. Call 877-4021.

Calendar deadline is noon on Tuesdays. Please submit information and updates about area events, meetings, etc. to Kenny Maple at 877-2076 or [email protected].

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Happy hayrideLee Jones and her ‘bat puppy,’ Greta, take a hayride at Wood’RUFF’ Pet Resort and Spa during its Fall Foliage Festival Saturday. The event was a customer appreciation day and open house featuring tours, free lunch, games and pet costume parade and contest.


Trolling for toadsMembers of Bon Secours’ LifeWise Snails Urban Hiking Club look for one of the Toads on Trade. Donna Simpson, Thrive’s Community Relations director, led the senior citizens around Greer in search of the toads. On the tour was Anne Clark, mother of Jason and Allison Clark who came up with the idea for Toads on Trade.

The financial goal for the first Greer Commu-nity Ministries’ (GCM) Big Thursday event in 1979 was $10,000. That goal was exceeded when the community rallied to raise $25,000 for the seven-year-old ministry created to meet the needs of hun-gry people in the Greater Greer area.

“I had the idea that if we did a community-wide ba-zaar it would get a lot of people to participate and come and we could raise a lot of money for Commu-nity Ministries,” said Bette Bridges, the first chair of Big Thursday. “They were living day to day and we needed to create a re-serve.”

Bridges brought the idea of a community bazaar to the board at GCM hav-ing helped with a similar event in Texas. The board agreed to back the event and Bridges was asked to lead it. She put a com-mittee together including Nancy Welch, Pam James, Melvene Owens, and Ann Thomason.

“I really think my com-mittee was super. They are the people that made it happen,” Bridges said. “Greer had a lot of talented people and artsy people. There’s no way one person could do this.”

T h e group

met

weekly to assign duties and update each other on progress. They also en-listed the help of others, Bridges said. J.N. McFad-den put the first auction together. Ruth Ammons was in charge of GCM cookbooks. Joan Wallace prepared the luncheon and fed over 100 more people than the group anticipated. The first hot dog supper was led by the Apalache Methodist Men.

The event was so suc-cessful that Bridges had people wanting to support it after the event. They

would stop her in the grocery store and hand

her cash. She started taking a special

bag to collect the money

to add to the

one-

day event. “You have to remember

that we were only in busi-ness one day,” Bridges said. “You need to sell ev-erything you have in one day. Things didn’t always go for what their true val-ue was but everything was given in love.”

Ruby Painter remem-bers closing her shop, Ruby’s Flowers and Gifts, so that she and employee Hilda Taylor Quinn could attend Big Thursday.

“You would see friends that you hadn’t seen in a year,” Painter said. Her favorite memory of the event was walking through the yard sale tents outside before heading in to check out the items prepared by the members of Apalache Baptist Church.

“They would really spread a beautiful table with jellies, pies, and homemade cakes,” Painter

said.

Another favorite from the beginning was the chance to buy an apple pie made by Ann Helton. The pies in 1979 were $3, but in subsequent years, her pies have sold for as much as $150 each during the auction.

“The first year I sold them all before I even got them in there,” Helton said. She got help from friends the next year so that she could bring more pies.

“Everybody loved to come help because

we had such a

good time,” Helton said. She is currently busy mak-ing 40 pies for this year’s event.

Ruth Lister Kelly got more involved with Big Thursday in the early 1990s when she took early retirement. With friends Gwen Johnson and Lois Vaughn, they turned an abundance of garden veg-etables into 100 quarts of soup to sell at Big Thurs-day.

“It took a number of ses-sions to make 100 quarts,” Kelly said. “They sold like hotcakes. We could have sold 1,000.”

Kelly also worked with ladies at Pleasant Grove Baptist through craft workshops to make goods to sell at Big Thursday like p i l l o w s ,

wreaths, quilts, and flower arrangements. The church also made ornaments and decorated a Christmas tree at the event to display them.

Elsa Poole was a member of the GCM board the year that Big Thursday was held on a Saturday. With more people working during the week, the board decided a move was in order, but that move only lasted one year.

“We didn’t make mon-ey on the lunches, so we moved it back the next year,” Poole said. “The idea of Big Thursday is re-ally wonderful and some of the things people make are incredible.”

Big Thursday is Nov. 5 at Fairview Baptist Church, 1300 Locust Hill Road,

Greer, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more informa-

tion, visit gc-minc.org.

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Celebrating the roots of Big Thursday

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Cheryl Moore, left, and Marsha Strong prepare treats for the annual Big Thursday event.

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Ann Helton mixes ingredients to bake apple pie.‘Things didn’t always go for what

their true value was

but everything was

given in love.’

Bette BridgesFirst chair of of big thursday

How do I say this without sounding macabre?

I think I’ll just plunge in.If our family must endure an extraor-

dinarily long spell of hospice and steel ourselves each morning to see what each day brings, can I just say how very grate-ful I am, we are, to be an Episcopalian? Because of our priest, you might ask? Because of sympathetic fellowship?

Oh, yes! Absolutely! And, also, um, because of the, er, food. Oh, Law, Law, the FOOD!

Those that serve on our in-reach committee have lovingly taken upon themselves to make sure that Paul and I, both vegetarians, don’t even have to think about going grocery shopping or preparing a meal, and have delivered to our doorstep containers of Mediterra-nean tabouli and Greek salads, scattered with tomatoes, olives, and chunks of feta, a freshly made tub of hummus with roasted red pepper, pita bread, chopped pineapple and cantaloupe, black bean salad, not to mention a couple of bottles of Chardonnay...

...which is my other favorite thing

about being an Episcopalian. Because I love you Baptists, you know

I do, I just don’t know how you make it through the grief period with sweet tea.

Even a friend of mine, of the afore de-nomination mentioned, was rather agog at the bounty stuffed within the confines of our refrigerator.

“I don’t even know what any of this stuff is,” she mentioned, pulling back the Tupperware lid.

“Hummus!” I replied. “You use it as a dip or spread.”

“What’s it made of?”“Chick peas.”“Ohhh.”“Would you like some?”“Um, no thanks,” she said, securing the

lid carefully. Taking in the tabouli she asked, “So

your church brought y’all all of this?”I nodded.“I hadn’t ever seen some of that,” she

mused, then offered, “if somebody’s died at our church, we send casseroles. A whole lot of casseroles. And cake.”

“Comfort food.” I declared.Her expression brightened as we were

now sharing familiar footing and she said, “That’s right, comfort food: Mac and cheese, fried chicken, chocolate cake...” Her voice trailed off and then she said, carefully choosing her words, “Does that hummus comfort?”

I leaned against the kitchen island and crossed my arms and thought for a minute, then said, “I wouldn’t say that, no. Although it’s really good- I could eat it every day. But the Chardonnay, now that comforts. A lot.”

“We would never carry alcohol over to somebody’s house.”

“No, I know.”I thought about all that fried chicken

and cake later that evening. Probably fudge brownies as well, not

to mention heaps of mashed potatoes and gravy. Because when all is said and

done, nobody does comfort food like the Baptists.

And nobody steps forward to vol-unteer for community service like the Baptists. Regardless of if you agree with their beliefs, Baptists walk the walk. And talk the talk. And bake the bake.

But y’all, having to drink Tetley’s with my tabouli? That’d just make me cry.

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KENNETH COLLINS MAPLESta� Reporter

Comfort food

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it’s a great chance to educate and also make a difference. My goal this month is to increase awareness and help inform the people of South Carolina about breast cancer and early detection.

One of the best ways we can work towards this goal is sharing the stories of our survivors and those currently battling the disease, as well as the memories of those lost. I have been shar-ing these stories on my Facebook page as part of our “31 Days of Awareness” campaign.

I was inspired to undertake this campaign in part because of the story of my friend Wendy, a survivor who has an amazing story to tell.

In 2002, at the age of 33, Wendy visited her doctor after her boyfriend’s dog Jake jumped on her and hit her right breast. She developed a black and blue bruise and small lump from the border collie’s strong leap. Wendy’s doctor initially diagnosed her with a blood clot. How-ever, once the bruise disappeared, the lump had not, so she began to closely monitor it and eventually got a mammogram. When her results returned, Wendy discovered that she had breast cancer.

Cancer, in its early stages, is not always easy to detect. Wendy was blessed with what she calls her “furry angel” named Jake, and was able to stop a highly aggressive tumor from spread-ing. My friend is now 48 years old and a 15-year survivor. Two years ago, I was incredibly hon-ored to give Wendy away at her wedding, one of those amazing moments you know you will never forget.

My reason for sharing this story is not only to share a life-changing story from a breast cancer survivor who is now flourishing, but to also en-courage women to consult with their doctor and conduct self-assessments and mammograms as directed. Early detection can save lives, plain and simple.

Breast Cancer is currently the most common cancer diagnosed among women. According to the National Institute of Cancer, women in the U.S. have a 12.5 percent chance of developing invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. Women of color are also more likely to die of breast cancer due to late detection, according the American Cancer Society.

It is also important to remember that women are not the only people who are affected by this disease. Over years, thousands of men have been diagnosed with breast cancer. This year, approximately 2,300 men have been diagnosed with this cancer. This fact only adds to the im-portance of spreading awareness and educating as many people as we can.

That’s why I recently became a cosponsor of the Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act (S.746), which was sponsored by my good friend Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA). The bill seeks to identify, recommend, and promote initiatives, partnerships, and research that can be turned into strategies to prevent breast cancer with the goal of ending the disease by 2020.

I will continue working to spread awareness, celebrate our country’s survivors, like my friend Wendy, and remember those we have lost. Let us all come together to support everyone who is affected by breast cancer and beat this disease.

This guest editorial was submitted by U.S. Senator Tim Scott.

Celebrating survivors and building cancer awareness

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RICK EZELLPastor, Greer First Baptist Church

A special friend

“As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you” (2 Kings 2:2,4,6 NIV).

Great leaders produce other leaders.”—John Maxwell

The Lone Ranger had Tonto. Batman had Robin. Butch Cassidy had the Sun-dance Kid. Paul had Silas. Elisha had Elijah.

The association that Elisha had with Elijah went beyond that of a teammate or a friend. It was a mentoring relation-ship. Elijah believed in Elisha and wanted him to succeed as a prophet. Elijah was willing to offer himself to Elisha to assure his success. God had brought Elijah into Elisha’s life to prepare, train, and befriend him for fulfilling the role of prophet to the nation of Israel.

The impact of a strong men-tor is undeniable.

In 1919 a young man, recov-ering from injuries suffered in the European war, rented a small apartment in Chicago. He chose this location because it was near the home of Sher-wood Anderson. An author, Anderson had written the popular novel Winesburg, Ohio and was known to be willing to share his wisdom with young writers.The two men were together nearly every day. They shared meals, took long walks, and discussed writing until late into the nights. The young man wrote passages and asked An-derson to critique them, which he did with brutal honesty. The youngster didn’t defend himself or his writing, for, as he said later, “I didn’t know how to write until I learned from Sherwood.” Who is your mentor? The closeness and ac-countability of trusted friends and counselors is critical to our growth. Mentoring is more about maturity and integrity than it is about information and activity. Elisha had Elijah as a mentor, who do you have?

Baseballupdate

It’s time for your MLB update. When we last checked in to the current state of base-

ball’s postseason, I had made an executive decision to name the Texas Rangers my new favorite team, to temporar-ily replace the cellar-dwelling White Sox and Atlanta Braves.

As if on cue, my Texas Rang-ers blew a two game series lead to the Toronto Blue Jays to lose the American League Division Series. I guess I’ll be returning that Adrian Beltre jersey to the MLB online shop.

At press time Tuesday eve-ning, the Kansas City Royals hold a two games to one series lead over those Toronto Blue Jays. In the National League, the New York Mets are up two games to none on the loveable-losing Chicago Cubs. Those two teams were set to square off Tuesday night. Check any other media source for the score on that game.

If the Cubs fail to comeback against the Mets, Major League Baseball will be left with a rat-ings bust. After all, I’m pretty sure only 40 people care about the Mets, and most of those individuals play for the team.

However, regardless of the outcomes of the NL and ALCS, true fans will be left with an intriguing matchup of some of baseball’s most tortured fan bases. The Royals, while they went to the World Series last year, haven’t won on baseball’s biggest stage since 1985. The Mets won the series the very next year. Toronto won in 1992 and 1993, but prior to this postseason, they hadn’t been back to the playoffs since, well, that last World Series win. Finally, maybe sports’ greatest example of futility, baseball’s version of the Washington Generals (the punching bag and punch line of the Harlem Glo-betrotters) – the Chicago Cubs. That ball club has been to the World Series 12 times in its existence, but they’ve only won twice and not since 1908. All this to say that while baseball executives might grimace at the thought of another poten-tially record low in ratings, baseball fans should relish the chance to watch two teams compete that haven’t sniffed a World Series title in a very long time.

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According to the National Institute

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a 12.5 percent chance of developing

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Mystery and intrigue have shrouded parts of the Greer downtown in recent weeks with the filming of a supernatural thriller, “Chronology.”

Dark Corner Films own-er and co-producer of the movie, Bryan Tankersley, said Greer was a perfect fit for some of their scenes.

“There’s a scene where he (Billy Baldwin playing Mr. Rose) looks across and sees two people in front of a diner,” Tankersley ex-plained.

“Just the size of the Greer downtown area where the streets are kind of close and the old build-ings. It gave it the right feel with that particular scene where we didn’t have to fake too much. The set up was just right.”

In addition to the Greer Station Diner, filming also took place at Carolina Treasures and Greer Police Department.

“It looked great in there,” Tankersley said. “They have real jail bars. Most city jails don’t have those anymore.”

He said they had not intended to use the jail initially, but upon request

that police department was accommodating.

“The use of the jail was simply happenstance,” he said. “Jeff Sumerel (co-producer) walked in and talked to Lt. Holcombe.”

When the film is com-pleted and released, Greer citizens will likely recog-nize locales in their own town. Residents may also recognize each other; Tankerlsey said they used several Greer extras.

All in all, cast members, film crewmembers and producers found Greer to be inviting.

“The city was very wel-coming and friendly,” Tankersley said. “And all the people around while we were shooting were

friendly as well.”In addition to Greer,

film crews also took to the streets of Greenville as well as Poznan, Poland, the home of the executive producers.

“Chronology” directed by Kipp Tribble, tells the mysterious and perplex-ing story of two men who swap bodies after sig-nificant events intertwine their lives.

Tankersley said he wasn’t sure when the film would be finished or when it would released, but he said they are nearing com-pletion of filming.

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The Greer Commission of Public Works (CPW) is warning customers of a phone scam in the com-munity. The company re-ceived several reports over the weekend of customers contacted by callers fraud-ulently representing them-selves as CPW employees.

CPW said the callers tell customers that they are late on payments and must pay over the phone or risk being disconnected from service. CPW does not con-tact customers over the weekend, and they do not call to ask for personal or financial information.

CPW advises customers affected by the scam to contact CPW during busi-ness hours from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the week. Customers can check their account at that time and

they should report any fraudulent activity to local law enforcement.

Greer CPW offered the following fraud preven-tion tips:

CPW will not call to ask for payment information. Do not give out bank ac-count or credit card num-bers.

Do not accept offers from anyone, including those claiming to be CPW employees, to pay your bill or provide any other service for a fee.

CPW will not call you to ask for personal infor-mation. Never share this information, including birthday, social security number or bank account information.

Customers can call CPW at 848-5500.

Q: I know you’re all about getting out of debt, and I agree with your stance on that. I started college last month, and scholarships and Pell Grants will pay for every-thing. But is saving money really that important if you’re young and have a good income? What good does money do you if you don’t use it for some-thing?

DR: Congrats on begin-ning college! I’m glad, too, that you understand how I feel about debt.

But it worries me that you seem to think that you’re not doing anything with your money when you save.

Saving money is one of the most important things you can do with your money, because when you save you’re planning for the future and the unex-pected.

Retirement may seem long way off right now, but think for a second how it would feel to have worked your entire life only to end up broke at age 65.

If that thought doesn’t scare you, it should. Have you ever seen someone that age, or older, wran-gling shopping carts in the rain or flipping burg-ers at a fast food joint?

In most cases, it’s not because they love the job and being around people. They’re doing it because they have to, because they failed to plan for the future and save some money.

Let’s talk about some-thing a little closer. You said you agree with my stance on debt.

Okay, so how are you going to buy your next car without going into debt if you haven’t saved anything?

How will you survive if you get laid off from your job if you haven’t saved any money?

Bad things happen when people are foolish enough not to save money.

Saving is doing some-thing with your money. It’s one of the most important things you can do with money — for yourself and those around you!

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Greer Bancshares Incor-porated, parent company of Greer State Bank, re-ported Tuesday a quarter-ly net income, attributable to common shareholders, of $657,000 or $0.26 per diluted common share.

Total deposits at the bank increased to $276 million, up $7.4 million in the third quarter and up $30.8 million since Dec. 31, 2014. Total loans out-standing increased to $200 million, up $1 million in

the third quarter and up $6.5 million since Dec. 31, 2014. Investment gains totaled $411,000 for the nine months ended Sept. 30, compared to $874,000 for the same prior year pe-riod.

Nonaccrual loans in-creased from 1.10 percent to 3.11 percent in the first quarter due primarily to the addition of one large loan, and increased slight-ly in the second and third quarters to 3.14 percent.

Greer State Bank receives report

John T. Bates, Jr. Veteran

Johnny Thomas Bates, Jr., 86, died October 14, 2015 at his home.

A native of Pickens Coun-ty, son of the

late John Thomas Bates, Sr., and Evie Gillespie Bates, he was a retired po-lice officer and a member of the Retired Police As-sociation, District of Co-lumbia, also retired from US District Court Security, a U.S. Army Veteran and a charter member of Praise Cathedral.

Surviving are his wife, Mary Sweezy Bates of the home; one daughter and son-in-law, Susan B. and James Hill of Greer; one brother, Jack M. Bates, MD of Gainesville, Geor-gia; seven grandchildren, Claire B. Hill, Margaret Lipphard, Shawn Bates, Will Bates, Alicia Bates, Anthony Bates and Jason Dietrich and five great-grandchildren.

Mr. Bates was prede-ceased by one son, Ken-neth Bates.

Funeral services were

held 2 p.m. Saturday at Praise Cathedral conduct-ed by Pastor Jerry Madden and Pastor Bob McCuen. Burial followed in Hillcrest Memory Gardens.

Honorary escorts were the senior adults at Praise Cathedral.

Visitation was held 1-1:45 p.m. Saturday at Praise Cathedral.

The family is at the home.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s As-sociation, 301 University Ridge, Suite 5850, Green-ville, SC 29601.

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

Lou B. HoltzclawCorrie Lou Boling

Holtzclaw, at the age of 85 went to be with her Lord on this day, October 18, 2015. Lou is survived by and was married to the love of her life, Edward Holtzclaw for 64 years.

A native of Taylors, a daughter of the late John Gaines Boling, Sr. and Emma Laura Holcombe Boling, she retired from the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Greenville, and was a lifelong member of Brushy Creek Baptist Church, Taylors, where she was very active in the church throughout her life.

Surviving in addition to her husband are, two sons, James M. Holtzclaw (Cin-dy) of Rock Hill and Don

E. Holtzclaw (Kathy) of Fountain Inn; four grand-children, James Tony Holtzclaw (April), Edward Cory Holtzclaw (Jessica), Craig Allen Holtzclaw (Holly), and Kaitlin Marie Holtzclaw; two step-grand-children, Rachel Van Gor-don and Robbie Burgess (Alison); two great-grand-children, Easton and Knox Holtzclaw; one step-great-grandchild, Callie Burgess; and three sisters, Ann Ben-nett of Anderson, Johnsye Boling of Fountain Inn and Dell Waddell of Taylors.

She was also prede-ceased by a brother, John Gaines Boling, Jr.

Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday at Brushy Creek Baptist Church, conducted by Dr. Ralph Carter and Dr. Stephen Clyborne. En-tombment will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum.

Visitation will be held 9:30 until 10:45 a.m. Wednesday at the church prior to the service.

The family is at the home.

Memorials may be made to Connie Maxwell Children’s Home, P.O. Box 1178, Greenwood, SC 29648-9989.

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

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“By the end of 2015, ReWa will have completed a 20-year comprehensive basin plan update to ad-dress and plan for growth and development within ReWa’s service area,” the release reads. “In Tay-lors, which includes Chick Springs, there is sufficient dry weather capacity for growth; however, during rain events, contributions of I&I (inflow and infiltra-tion) from the subdistricts cause overflows.”

Stacey Flax, customer service/ contract manager for ReWa said the only way to permanently fix the problem is for subdistricts to remove the inflow and infiltration from the col-lection systems.

Samantha Bartow, direc-tor of sewer services for Taylors Fire and Sewer dis-trict, was unable to com-ment on how their subdis-trict is working to remove inflow and infiltration.

In the meantime, ReWa is working to raise the manholes.

“One of the current projects that was planned for this budget year con-sists of raising manholes (where the overflows have been identified as well as others) and improving hy-draulics to help prevent sewer overflows until the subdistricts can adhere to the terms of their agree-ments,” Flax said. “Each

of the subdistricts, along with ReWa, are spending millions of dollars in the Taylors area to reduce ex-cess I&I from the system and therefore eliminate the overflows.”

The improvements are especially needed now, residents say.

Mary Lynn Bushong wrote to The Greer Citi-zen saying a developer is looking to add residen-tial units to the corner of Chick Springs Road and Main Street. She is con-

cerned about the sewage problem that already ex-ists and what impact the new development would have on the existing situ-ation.

Annette is likewise con-cerned.

“They just don’t seem to be wanting to do any-thing,” she said. “I’m just afraid they’re going to put in all those units and make it worse.”


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Sunrise 10/23/23 - Sunset 09/13/11

Happy BirthdayIt was on 23rd October 1923

God blessed my Maternal Grandparents

With a beautifullittle baby girl

They named her Maggie Lee

My Grandmother passed awayWhen her baby girl

was only threeHer Mother’s destiny

was Heaven...On earth she couldn’t stay.

Mother was honest, so humble, gentle, and kindA virtuous lady like Mother

That’s so hard to findIn her adult life she met

and married a manMother and Dad meeting

each other was God’s plan.

To this union,six children were born

Two girls and four boys...neither was scornedNow that I’ve shared

her life’s storyI pray that Mother’s watching

over us from Glory.

Love forever,Your son, Jim

Fran StrangeOct. 17, 1958 - Oct. 23, 2014

The moment that you died my heart was torn in two,

one side filledwith heartache,

the other died with you.

I often lie awake at night,when the world is fast asleep,

and take a walk down memory lane,

with tears upon my cheeks.

Remembering you is easy, I do it everyday.

But missing you is heartache that never goes away.

I hold you tightlywithin my heart

and there you will remainUntil the joyous day arrives,

that we will meet again.

We miss you very much -Your Mother Judy

Friends Kay, Vickie,Toni, Cindy, Pat

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working hard to get open for seasonal sales and I think you’re going to see a number of businesses introduce themselves by the end of the year up the Highway 29 corridor and downtown. It’s an exciting time.”

OPPORTUNITY FOR ALDIAldi, which will also

open a Greenville loca-tion on Thursday, Oct. 29, already has a location in Taylors.

“Rising demand for ALDI is fueling significant ex-pansion as growing num-bers of smart shoppers are discovering that they can save time and money at ALDI without sacrific-ing quality,” Thom Behtz, vice president of ALDI Jef-ferson division, said in an email with The Greer Citi-zen. “ALDI is in the midst of a five-year expansion, with plans to open 650 new stores across the country, bringing its total num-ber of US stores to nearly 2,000 by the end of 2018. [We] chose to expand to the Greer, Greenville and Spartanburg-area because of population density, proximity to competition and traffic patterns. We want to be conveniently based where ALDI shop-pers are located.”

The Greer store will have some new features, Behtz said.

“The new stores will also include high ceilings, bet-ter lighting and environ-mentally friendly building materials such as energy-saving refrigeration and light bulbs,” Behtz said. “We are excited to bring

shoppers more than 1,300 of the most commonly purchased items sold un-der ALDI exclusive brands for prices up to 50 per-cent less than traditional supermarkets, including a wide range of new, health-ier options…”

Cookout officials say the restaurant will be open by the end of October or ear-lier November.

OTHER OPENINGSContinuing in the trend,

the Greer Chamber is holding a ribbon cutting celebration for retail bou-tique Palmetto Twist on Wednesday. Blue Ridge Brewing Company is also expected to open a sec-ond location in downtown Greer this fall.

OPENINGS: Will take place by end of October

‘Folks are working

hard to get open for

seasonal sales and

I think you’re going

to see a number of

businesses introduce

themselves by the

end of the year

up the Highway

29 corridor and

downtown. It’s an

exciting time.’

Rick DannerMayor, City of Greer

ISSUES: Raise concerns for residents

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Of course, there’s a serious side to Thrive Assisted Living and Memory Care and Care is at the Core of our community. We have advanced systems to ensure each resident receives exactly what they need accord-ing to their individual care plan.

But care means more than health. It means maintaining personal wellness through socializing, interact-ing, and involvement with friends. Isn’t that what a fun life is all about?

The beautiful community is a great place for residents to play. It features a sunny second floor terrace and spacious private luxury suites. The professionally managed kitchen serves hot delicious food directly to the restaurant-style dining room, where residents have choices of entrées and desserts.

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6:00 p.m. - Sunday, November 1, 2015

Apalache Baptist Church1915 Gap Creek Road, Greer, SC 29651

Pastor: Rev. Eddie Cooper Music Director: Rusty Brooks

This will be a Love Offering Concert(A Nursery will be provided)

Contact the Church Office at (864) 877-6012 for more information

MILFORD BAPTIST HOSTS SWEET STREET

Milford Baptist Church at 1282 Milford Church Road, Greer will be host-ing Sweet Street on Satur-day, Oct. 24 from 5-7pm. This is a free event for the community. There will be games, inflatables, food and candy. For more in-formation, visit milford-baptistgreer.org.

ABNER CREEK FALL FESTIVAL

Abner Creek Baptist Church will host its annu-al Fall Festival on Sunday, Oct. 25 from 4-7 p.m. Bring your friends and family for a night filled with free fun, food and more. There will be carnival games, a cake walk, hot dogs, hay-rides, bounce houses, and much more. The church is located at 2461 Abner Creek Road in Greer.

“GOLDEN HEARTS” CALENDAR

On, Oct. 29 the senior adults plan to meet at “Laurenda’s “restaurant at 6 p.m. for their annual Halloween “Trick or Treat” party and meal. A large group of ABC seniors usu-ally attend this event.

HOLY SMOKE BBQ SET FOR OCT. 31

Covenant United Meth-odist Church will have its annual Holy Smoke BBQ on Oct. 31 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will take place in the church’s gym. The church is located at 1310 Old Spartanburg Rd. BBQ plates are being sold for $8 a plate for pulled pork or chicken. Tickets may be purchased at the church office or online at covumc.org. All proceeds from the BBQ will go to-wards local missions.

BLUE RIDGE BAPTIST FALL EVENT OCT. 31

Blue Ridge Baptist Church will hold its fall festival on Saturday, Oct. 31, from 5:30-7 p.m.

FAMILY FALL FESTIVAL NOV. 8

A Family Fall Festival is set for Sunday, Nov. 8 at Mountain View United Methodist Church, 6525 Mountain View Road, Tay-lors. There will be worship at 10:30 a.m. with free lunch at noon. Fall Festival activities include: inflata-bles, games, prizes, face painting and more until 3 p.m. Contact 895-8532 for more information.

CHRISTMAS PRISONER PACKETS DUE NOV. 18

Christmas Prisoner Pack-ets are due to the Three River Baptist Association office by Wednesday, Nov. 18. The packets are given to the inmates by the chaplains with the help of volunteers. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.

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Churches wishing to list upcoming events should send information to [email protected] or call 877-2076.

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By Kenneth Collins MapleStaff writer

Lyman is making chang-es to town hall, and one such change is reminding residents of the building’s athletic past.

Recently, town clerk Tammy Redd, clerk of court Candy Brock and zoning administrator Matt Bullard pulled up the car-pet in the hallway, reveal-ing the building’s old bas-ketball hardwood floor.

The building was con-structed in the 1920s to be a gymnasium. Back then, it was called the Community Building – a fitting name since the community ei-ther turned out to watch games or to play in them.

“A lot of emphasis was put on basketball and baseball teams,” said life-long resident, Dr. Grady “Brooky” Brookes. “There was a baseball league here, too, as well as a basketball league. That was a very important part of your so-cial life was going to the baseball and basketball games.”

According to various residents, the Lyman Mill played competitive basket-ball during that time. Mau-rice Hawkins is one such resident. After graduation from Byrnes High School in 1977, he worked for Duke Energy and played in the industrial league.

“Best I can remember, I probably played there at least through the early 80s,” Hawkins said.

Hawkins caught the tale end of the league play in the building before it be-came Lyman Town Hall. Resident Ralph Cramer remembers moving to Ly-man as an 11-year-old boy in the 1950s. While he never played league ball, he remembers that the Community Building was in many ways used to en-tertain Lyman. He recalled musical performances on the stage and also places for table tennis and shuf-fleboard on the balcony overhead.

The main event, though, was basketball.

Brookes said companies

would even import people to work in the mills and play basketball or base-ball. Consequently, the games could be quite com-petitive.

“There were guys there, you know six-foot-five, six-foot-six that didn’t play college ball,” Hawkins said. “Because even back in the late 70s you didn’t have a lot of people that went off to college. It’s not like it is now. They went to work. They were good athletes that just never went to college and prob-ably could have played in college.”

Hawkins also shared that Lyman seemed to have the best athletes around, and the gym helped them take advantage of their talents.

“You had some pretty good competition there,” he said. “Being one of three mills in the area with Startex Mill and Lyman Mill and Jackson Mill, this was the only mill that had a gym.”

Of course textile bas-ketball was also popular in other Upstate cities. Brookes said Greenville, Spartanburg and Greer all had textile leagues. And like those leagues, the teams faded as the mills closed.

In the early 80s the Community Building be-came Lyman Town Hall. The shiny hardwood was

replaced with carpet, and more offices were con-structed to accommodate town employees and the police department. Today the building hardly looks like a place where athletes practiced their jump shots. With the removal of the carpet, though, there’s at least some evidence to the building’s past. Redd said they will eventually re-move the carpet from the courtroom. On Tuesday, workers labored to paint some of the office space. Brock said they would eventually replace some of the doors and that where there is no hardwood, the town would put down tile. Outside the building, Tony Wyatt, mayor pro-tem, said they would be replac-ing the sign in the front of town hall.

“We’re just trying to spruce it up, get things more organized, make the best use of the building,” Wyatt said. “Also in doing so we can sort of reach back and touch a little bit of our history like with the exposed floor. At the same we’ll reconnect with our past.”

When asked if Wyatt would be coaching the five-person council in bas-ketball anytime soon, he laughed and said, “Prob-ably not in the near fu-ture.”

By Kenneth Collins MapleStaff writer

Riverside High School students are about to en-ter the busiest week of their school year, and they couldn’t be more excited about it.

Spirit week at the high school runs from Friday, Oct. 23 to Friday Oct. 30. In between those dates, the calendar is packed with event after event to raise money for the Bar-bara Stone Foundation – a non-profit out of Green-ville that strives to help those with disabilities.

Student leaders for Riv-erside Spirit Week hope that the dollars of gener-ous individuals will go towards assisting the Barbara Stone Founda-tion to establish a Recre-ation Exercise Community Education Social Service (R.E.C.E.S.S.) program at the Eastside YMCA, said Riverside student body president Lydia Elsey.

She said they hope to raise between $70,000 and $80,000 for this effort. In order for that to happen, students recognize the need for community gen-erosity and hard work.

Student advisor Dan Tollison says they have in-deed worked very hard.

“They have set their goals very high, and have already worked hundreds of hours to make this the best spirit week we have ever had,” he said.

Some of the events scheduled for the week include a color run 5K on Saturday, a Sadie Hawkins

dance on Sunday night, Tribe Fest on Tuesday and even a hypnotist show on Wednesday.

“We try to fill every day with something every hour so we’re not wasting time,” said Natalie Sprinkle, se-nior class president.

With a bevy of events scheduled, the senior class hopes to make this year’s spirit week more success-ful than in previous years.

“Its almost like a chal-lenge to see what the se-niors that year are doing and then (think), “How can I make it even better?” Elsey said.

Riverside’s Logan Young, the South Carolina asso-ciation of student councils president, said they can make it better through more community out-reach. This year all events are open to the public and some are geared specifi-cally to the public, mean-ing more people will hear of the school’s mission to help the foundation.

Young, Elsey, Sprinkles and student body vice president Mary Varughese all spoke to how they’ve made Spirit Week into

a friendly competition amongst themselves. But it seems that the effects of their efforts extend beyond the Greer and Taylors area. Through time spent with school in other parts of the state, Riverside students say they have inspired other schools to have their own spirit weeks.

“We raise so much mon-ey trying to give back to the community, so much, and it really kind of inspires schools from all over the state to give back,” Young said about students in all Greenville County schools who contribute to their re-spective spirit weeks.

The exact amount raised will be revealed on Friday, Oct. 30 when the football team squares off against Wade Hampton.

To learn about the school’s scheduled events, visit their twitter page at twitter.com/rhs_spirit-week. Individuals interest-ed in donating towards the Barbara Stone Foundation can give during events or during school hours.


Town Hall harkens back to basketball days

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Constructed in the 1920s, Lyman Town Hall previously served as gymnasium.

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A photo taken from the Days At Pacific Mills Lyman Facebook page shows a basketball team posing for a team photo inside the former Lyman Community Building.

RHS raises funds for Barbara Stone Foundation

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Riverside spirit week events planned for next week include a festival, color run and hypnotist show. Student body leaders are hoping to raise over $70,000 for the Barbara Stone Foundation.

‘we try to fill every

day with something

every hour so we’re

not wasting time.’

natalie sprinklesenior class President

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BAPTISTAbner Creek Baptist Church2461 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6604Airport Baptist Church776 S. Batesville Rd., Greer • 848-7850Apalache Baptist1915 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6012Bible Baptist Church6645 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-7003Blue Ridge Baptist Church3950 Pennington Rd., Greer • 895-5787BridgePointe600 Bridge Rd., Taylors • 244-2774Burnsview Baptist Church9690 Reidville Rd., Greer • 879-4006Calvary Baptist101 Calvary St., Greer • 877-9759Calvary Baptist108 Forest St., Greer • 968-0092Calvary Hill Baptist100 Edward Rd., LymanCalvary Road Baptist Church108 Bright Rd., Greer • 593-2643Camp Creek Baptist Church1100 Camp Creek Rd., TaylorsCedar Grove Baptist Church109 Elmer St., Greer • 877-6216Community Baptist Church642 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 848-3500Double Springs Baptist Church3800 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors • 895-1314Ebenezer-Welcome Baptist Church4005 Highway 414, Landrum • 895-1461El Bethel Baptist Church313 Jones Ave., Greer • 877-4021Emmanuel Baptist Church423 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-2121Enoree Fork Baptist Church100 Enoree Dr., Greer • 268-4385Fairview Baptist Church1300 Locust Hill Rd., Greer • 877-1881First Baptist Church202 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 877-4253Freedom Fellowship Greer High • 877-3604Friendship Baptist Church1600 Holly Springs Rd., Lyman • 877-4746Good News Baptist Church1592 S. Highway 14, Greer • 879-2289Grace Baptist Church760 W. Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3519Grace Place407 Ridgewood Dr., GreerGreer Freewill Baptist Church110 Pine Ridge Dr., Greer • 968-0310Groveland Baptist Church2 Groveland Road, Taylors Heritage Chapel Baptist Church218 Alexander Rd., Greer • 989-0170Highland Baptist Church3270 Hwy. 414, Taylors • 895-5270Hillcrest Baptist Church111 Biblebrook Dr., Greer • 877-4206Hispanic Baptist Iglesia Bautista Hispana199 Hubert St., Greer • 877-3899Holly Springs Baptist Church250 Hannon Rd., Inman • 877-6765Locust Hill Baptist Church5534 Locust Hill Rd., Travelers Rest • 895-1771Maple Creek Baptist Church609 S. Main St., Greer • 877-1791Milford Baptist Church1282 Milford Church Rd., Greer • 895-5533Mount Lebanon Baptist Church572 Mt. Lebanon Church Rd., Greer • 895-2334New Hope Baptist Church561 Gilliam Rd., Greer • 879-7080New Jerusalem Baptist Church413 E. Poinsett St., Greer • 968-9203New Life Baptist Church90 Becco Rd., Greer • 895-3224Northwood Baptist Church888 Ansel School Rd., Greer • 877-5417O’Neal Baptist Church3420 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0930Pelham First Baptist Church2720 S. Old Highway 14, Greer • 879-4032People’s Baptist Church310 Victor Avenue Ext., Greer • 848-0449Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church201 Jordan Rd., Lyman • 879-2646

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church1002 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-6436Pleasant Hill Baptist Church4899 Jordan Rd., Greer • 895-3546Providence Baptist Church2020 Gibbs Shoals Rd., Greer • 877-3483Rebirth Missionary Baptist Church2375 Racing Road, Greer • 877-0449Riverside Baptist Church1249 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 879-4400Second Baptist Church570 Memorial Drive Ext., Greer • 877-7061Southside Baptist Church410 S. Main St., Greer • 877-2672St. John’s Baptist Church2 Groveland Rd., Taylors • 879-2904Suber Road Baptist Church445 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 801-0181Taylors First Baptist Church200 W. Main St., Taylors • 244-3535United Family Ministries13465 E. Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer • 877-3235Victor Baptist121 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 877-9686Washington Baptist Church3500 N. Highway 14, Greer • 895-1510Welcome Home Baptist Church1779 Pleasant Hill Rd., Greer • 901-7674

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

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

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

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

LUTHERANAbiding Peace Ev. Lutheran Church401 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville •288-4867Apostolic Lutheran Church453 N. Rutherford Rd., Greer • 848-4568Immanuel Lutheran Church & School LCMS2820 Woodruff Rd., Simpsonville • 297-5815Redeemer Lutheran Church, ELCA300 Oneal Rd., Greer • 877-5876Saints Peter and Paul Evangelical Lutheran400 Parker Ivey Dr., Greenville • 551-0246

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

Sharon United Methodist Church1421 Reidville Sharon Rd., Greer • 879-7926St. Mark United Methodist Church911 St. Mark Rd., Taylors • 848-7141St. Paul United Methodist Church3856 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-5570Victor United Methodist Church1 Wilson Ave., Greer • 877-5520Woods Chapel United Methodist Church1288 Brown Wood Rd., Greer • 879-4475Zoar United Methodist Church1005 Highway 357, Greer • 877-0758

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

OTHER DENOMINATIONSAgape House900 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 329-7491Anglican Church of St. George the Martyr427 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville • 281-0015Barton’s Memorial Pentacostal HolinessHighway 101 North, GreerBethesda Temple125 Broadus St., Greer • 877-8523Beulah Christian Fellowship Church1017 Mauldin Rd., Greenville • 283-0639Calvary Bible FellowshipHoliday Inn, Duncan • 266-4269Calvary Chapel of Greer104 New Woodruff Rd. • Greer • 877-8090Christ Fellowship343 Hampton Rd., Greer • 879-8446Christian Heritage Church900 N. Main St., Greer • 877-2288Christian Life Center 2 Country Plaza • 322-1325Christian Outreach 106 West Rd. • 848-0308El-Bethel Holiness 103 E. Church St. • 968-9474Faith Family Church3339 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 244-0207Faith Temple5080 Sandy Flat Rd., Taylors • 895-2524Glad Tidings Assembly of GodHighway 290, Greer • 879-3291Greer Mill Church 52 Bobo St., Greer • 877-2442Harmony Fellowship Church468 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 877-8287Harvest Christian Church2150 Highway 417, Woodruff • 486-8877International Cathedral of Prayer100 Davis Avenue • Greer • 655-0009Lifesong Church12481 Greenville Highway, Lyman • 439-2602Living Way Community Church3239 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0544Mountain Bridge Community Church1400B Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer • 350-1051New Beginnings Outreach104 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 968-2424New Covenant Fellowship2425 Racing Rd., Greer • 848-4521New Hope Freedom109 W. Wade Hampton Blvd. • Greer • 205-8816New Life in Christ 210 Arlington Rd. • 346-9053Point of Life ChurchWade Hampton Blvd. • Duncan • 426-4933Springwell Church4369 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 268-2299Trinity Fellowship Church3610 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 877-04191700 N. Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville • 244-6011United Anglican Fellowship1001 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 629-3350United Christian Church105 Daniel Ave., Greer • 895-3966United House of Prayer213 Oak St., Greer • 848-0727Upstate Friends’ Meeting (Quaker)P.O. Box 83, Lyman • 439-8788Upstate Tree of Life203 East Bearden St., Greer • 848-1295Victorian Hills Community Church209 Victor Ave. Ext., Greer • 877-3981Vine Worship Center4373 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 244-8175

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

CDVRenay Junior Freeman,

48, of 11 19th St. in Greer is being investigated for do-mestic violence (second).

According to an incident report filed by Greer Po-lice, the victim came to the police department to file a complaint against Free-man, who she said hit her in the face, choked her and struck her in the ribs when she told him she was leav-ing him. The victim had bruises on her face, neck and chest. Photos were taken of her injuries and a warrant is being sought.

MULTIPLE CHARGESLee Earl Mayfield, 47, of

102 Aster Dr. in Greer has

been charged with parking in a handicap zone, pos-session of drug parapher-nalia and open container.

According to the Greer Police incident report, an officer was patrolling the Walmart on East Wade Hampton when a com-plainant approached her and said a man was beg-ging for money nearby. The officer found the vehi-cle in question parked in a handicap space. Mayfield returned to the car and got inside. When his li-cense was checked, police discovered Mayfield had an active warrant for Lar-ceny with the Greer Police. While placing him under arrest, the officer noticed that Mayfield was clutch-ing something in his left hand. It was discovered to be a crack pipe. Addition-ally, a large cup of beer and ice was found in the car’s cup holder. A 40 oz. beer, still cold, was also found under some cloth-ing in the back seat.

CDVJustin Wayne Prosser,

52, of 224 Park Ave. in Greenville is being inves-tigated for domestic vio-lence (second).

According to an incident report filed by Greer Po-lice, Prosser’s wife com-plained that he’d attacked her when she refused to

buy him beer. At the Citgo at Highway 14 and 85, she claims Prosser grabbed her by the arm and threatened to kill her. The victim said Prosser has been charged twice before with domes-tic volence. A background check found that he had a prior conviction on the same charge.

FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELYOrlando Oliveres-Her-

nandes, 31, of 110 One Oak St. in Greenville has been charged with follow-ing too closely, no state driver’s license and open container.

According to a Greer Police incident report, officers were called to the intersection of Wade Hampton and Poinsett in reference to a traffic col-lision. Upon arrival, they determined that Oliveres-Hernandes had struck the other vehicle because he’d been following too closely. Inside his vehicle, police found a broken beer bottle and another bottle of beer that had been half con-sumed. There were un-opened bottles scattered throughout the backseat. The subject was arrested and transported to Greer City Jail.

PUBLIC INTOXICATIONNicole Elizabeth French,

41, of 9 Dagenham Drive

in Greenville has been charged with public intox-ication and possession of schedule II narcotics.

According to the inci-dent report provided by Greer Police, officers were called to Park Sterling Bank, where a suspicious car had been parked in a no-parking area for over two hours. They found French slumped over the wheel. When she awoke,

her speech was slurred and she appeared discom-bobulated and impaired. When asked what she was doing in the parking lot, French responded that a friend had given her $100, which failed to answer the question. A pill bottle was in plain sight inside the vehicle. After a search, po-lice found seven prescrip-tion pill bottles in the car,

one of which contained 15 Hydrocodone/Acetamino-phen tablets, a Schedule II controlled substance. French was placed under arrest for public drunk-enness and, because she failed to produce a valid prescription for the drugs, possession of schedule II narcotics as well.

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Crash at City HallA collision occurred at Greer City Hall last Thursday afternoon, causing a portion of Poinsett Street to be closed brie� y. It is unknown whether injuries were sustained.

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Greer Police are on the hunt for a man who held up the Dollar General at gunpoint Friday evening.

According to the depart-ment’s incident report, a cashier reported see-ing a light-skinned black male enter the business just before 9 pm. He was roughly 145-160 pounds and dressed in a black and gray striped long sleeve

shirt and black Adidas track pants. He also had a goatee. The subject got a can of peanuts and approached a checkout aisle. He paid for the nuts and then pulled a black revolver from his waist-band. Pointing the gun at the clerk, he then reached over and removed the cash drawer and fled towards Suber Rd.

The K9 unit began pur-suit but the subject’s trail went cold behind the busi-ness. Greenville County Forensics came in and pro-cessed the scene. A store surveillance video is being copied for evidence.

If you have any informa-tion about this crime or the suspect, please call the Greer Police Department.

Police seek armed robber

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about her. Middleton an-swered the door with a bloody knife in hand and blood on his clothing. He fled the residence while the father’s friend called 911.

Emergency workers found 50-year-old Undra Cohen Middleton covered in blood with five stab wounds to her chest, left shoulder and her right hand.

The husband had report-

edly stabbed her and then lied in bed next to her for nearly 12 hours while she bled. A medical helicopter was utilized to rush Undra to Spartanburg Medical Center for treatment of life-threatening injuries.

The victim identified her husband as the assailant during an interview with sheriff’s deputies at the hospital and to her father and friend prior to being transported.

Undra said her husband became violent after learn-

ing she was working to get a divorce.

“Christopher Middleton attempted to kill his wife and he was nearly success-ful,” Assistant Solicitor Meghan Gilmer said.

The victim was hospital-ized 18 days and multiple surgeries were needed to repair her injuries.

Gilmer utilized forensic evidence along with testi-mony from lay witnesses, medical professionals and law enforcement to prove the case.

Christopher will serve 85 percent of Circuit Judge Mark Hayes’ prison sen-tence before he is eligible for release.

His prior criminal re-cord includes convictions for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, criminal domestic violence, false imprison-ment, stalking, criminal conspiracy, escape, grand larceny, third-degree bur-glary and possession of crack cocaine.

SENTENCED: Victim was hospitalized for 18 days

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Participating restaurants will donate 20 percent of their sales from the entire day to LTBM.

Also, for the first time, there will be a raffle as-sociated with the fund-raiser. Tickets are $5 and are available online now through Oct. 31.

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Out ofthe loop

Something’s happen-ing to me and I can’t explain what it is.

Apparently, I’m just a bad sports fan. This comes as a shock to me, as I’ve spent the better half of my life honing my sports knowledge and watching countless hours of games. But during a recent conversation with my non-sports-fan wife, I realized that I’m slip-ping….big time.

Let me set the scene. We’re channel surfing--not an uncommon occur-rence at my house just before bedtime—when we stumble upon what ap-pears to be game three of the ALCS.

I say it “appears to be” game three of the ALCS because the two teams that are playing are the Toronto Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals. Now, I’m not claiming to be a student of Major League Baseball—or even pay that much attention to it, for that matter.

But I am a sports fan, and I like to be able to hold my own in sports-related conversations. But right now, I’m as clueless as my wife, who would always rather be watching HGTV than anything on ESPN.

“Who’s playing?” Shan-non asked.

“Apparently the Blue Jays and Royals,” I responded, ashamed I didn’t know more.

At this point, this is the longest my television has remained tuned in to a Major League Baseball game since we bought the thing.

“Baseball is still going on?” she asked.

“Guess so,” I said, try-ing to recall which teams are remaining in the MLB playoffs.

I think I remember hear-ing something about the Cubs…My New York dad is super excited about the Mets, so that must mean they’re still in it.

“Are these not the four least-likely teams to be involved in the playoffs?” I asked myself. When I stopped watching base-ball, people were talk-ing about the Giants, Yankees, Red Sox and Car-dinals. Guess times are changing…good for you, underdogs.

My lazy fandom doesn’t stop at baseball, however. On Monday night, I found myself tuning into the Giants/Eagles game, not because I loved Mon-day Night Football, but because I had one fantasy player left to play and they were going to show the new Star Wars trailer at halftime.

I actually have no shame in saying Star Wars was more interesting to me than football. I grew up on Star Wars. I’ve seen the trilogy more times than I can count, and even though it was painful, I’ve watched the terrible prequels multiple times as well.

Back to sports—I’m starting to understand what life has been like for Shannon all these years.

Seeing that I know noth-ing about Blue Jays and Royals, other than the col-or of their jerseys (Blue Jays are blue right?...I’m guessing the Royals are blue too? It is right there in the name) gives me an idea of what my wife has been going through.

But I’m not going to start caring about base-ball now.

Our television stayed on that game for two minutes, until the unbear-able boredom that is MLB seemed to set in.

“Wanna watch HGTV?” I asked.

Here lies Billy, a man who traded in his sports fandom for an episode of Property Brothers.

Tigers fall on the road, 20-14BY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

The Tigers have estab-lished a troubling trend this season: turning the ball over during crucial moments in the game.

That trend bit the Tigers yet again last Friday night, as Blue Ridge threw three red zone interceptions en route to a 20-14 loss to Southside on the road.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Clark said. “Especially af-ter how hard these kids played. It’s very easy for them to feel like hanging it up. They want to right

now, but they haven’t done it. We hope they continue to fight like they have been.”

Blue Ridge led for most of the second half, but it was Southside that scored the go-ahead touchdown with just a few ticks re-maining on the game clock to improve to 7-1 on the year.

The Tigers captured momentum early, as Jake Smith hit Sonny Stevens to knot the game up at 7-7 in the second quarter.

“Our guys actually played pretty well, espe-cially defensively,” Clark said. “Neither team could get anything going in the first quarter, but we came right back with a good drive in the second quar-ter. We were going to take the lead, but we threw an interception from the 10

yard line, making it 7-7 at the half.”

Unfortunately for Clark, that wouldn’t be the only time his team would give away points in the red zone.

Smith found Jason Sam-mons in the third quarter to put Blue Ridge on top 14-7, and the Tiger de-fense held strong for the next couple of series. But Blue Ridge was unable to hold off Southside after a few costly penalties.

“We had three really mysterious pass interfer-ence penalties that aided a couple of drives for them,” Clark said.

Blue Ridge gave up a second half touchdown, but Southside missed the extra point, allowing Blue Ridge to hang onto a 14-13 lead. A few minutes later,

SEE TIGERS | B6

Makes case for playoff bidBY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

After a quick, two-game skid, Eastside quarterback T.J. Gist got his team back on track, tossing three touchdown passes during the Eagles’ 41-13 win over Berea last Friday night.

The Eagles are now 3-2 in region play, with two games remaining on the regular season schedule.

It wasn’t smooth sailing early, however. The Eagles gave up a quick score after turning the ball over, fall-ing behind 6-0.

“We started the game very slow,” head coach Steve Wilson said. “We fumbled the ball the first three times we had it. I

just don’t think we were mentally ready to play, for whatever reason. For-tunately, our defense managed to come in and stopped them, so we only went in the hole six points instead of 21.”

Gist answered at the end of the first quarter, hitting Tyius Lewis with a nearly 80-yard touchdown pass to put his team on top 7-6.

From there, Eastside did not look back.

“We finally got our act together in the second quarter and started play-ing pretty well,” Wilson said. “We were able to put 41 points on the board af-ter that, so it was a good night for us.”

In addition to Gist’s suc-cess through the air, Jo-vani Lawton and Chance Pride each rushed for a touchdown in the win.

The victory, Wilson said, puts his team one step

SEE EAGLES | B6

Remains unbeaten BY LELAND BURCHFOR THE GREER CITIZEN

“The first half was pret-ty, but the second half was ugly,” reflected Greer defensive coordinator Travis Perry afterwards. When the game got really tough, however, the Yel-low Jackets got going with a 16-play, 96-yard scoring drive to salt away a 35-21 victory at Chapman on Fri-day night.

“That drive was a great way to end the game,” said Head Coach Will Young of the march that ran 8:40 off the clock. “Besides, we needed to get our de-fense off the field.” Young

added, “it was good to see how our kids reacted to being tested. We are go-ing to get tested down the road, and we haven’t been in a while.”

Before nailing down their eighth straight win, the unbeaten Yellow Jack-ets suffered some unchar-acteristic moments. An interception derailed a first half drive in the red zone, two second-half fumbles opened the gates for Chapman touchdowns and a rash of penalties created setbacks, among them a touchdown that was nullified.

After a holding penalty stopped Greer’s first drive at Chapman’s 34-yard line, the Yellow Jackets struck with a bolt of light-ning, an 80-yard toss and run from Mario Cusano to

Troy Pride. Nick Roberson added his first of five ex-tra point kicks give Greer a 7-0 lead midway in the first quarter.

The Cusano-to-Pride combination clicked again on a 28-yard scoring play a few minutes later as Greer went up 14-0.

When the host Panthers failed to convert a fake field goal at the Greer 20 yard stripe, the Yel-low Jackets zoomed to the opposite end of the field on Cusano’s 66-yard

break-away run to the 14-yard line. Three plays later, however, Chapman defender Shaundre Miller picked off a Cusano aerial to end the threat.

The Yellow Jackets re-turned the favor when Pride intercepted a Colton Bailey pass at Greer’s seven-yard line after the Panthers had driven the length of the field. On the next play, Adrian McGee put the ball at the opposite end of the stadium with an

SEE GREER | B6

SCHSL changes playoff datesDue to flood delays

The South Carolina High School League recently an-nounced several adjust-ments to its fall sports calendar, including new football, volleyball and tennis championship dates.

The changes come on the heels of the devas-tating flood that rocked much of the state, cancel-ing numerous school days and sporting events over the last two weeks.

An extra week has been added to the football, vol-leyball and girls tennis schedules to accommo-date any make-up games that may be needed.

“I wish to sincerely thank our member schools for the long hours and hard work over the past two weeks while review-ing options,” said Jerome Singleton, SCHSL Commis-sioner. “Continued inclem-ent weather created even more obstacles which pre-vented our regions from scheduling a feasible new schedule. Therefore, with the support of the Execu-tive Committee, the 2015-16 fall sports season has a one week extension. ‘Grace under fire’ comes to mind when I read about our student athletes during this stressful time. They have performed a stellar amount of community ser-vice projects, going above and beyond expectations to assist their fellow South Carolinians. They are a shining example of sports-

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Blue Ridge stumbles late during heartbreaker


Blue Ridge couldn’t hang on to what would have been a big win over Southside last Friday night on the road. The Tigers now face Chapman with just two games remaining.


The Jackets held o� a relentless Chapman comeback to seal their eighth win of the year last Friday night on the road.

Greer holds on for win

FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN

T.J. Gist helped lead the Eagles to win over Berea Friday.

Eastside takes care of Berea

‘The � rst half was pretty, but the second

half was ugly.’

Travis PerryGreer defensive coordinator

B2 THE GREER CITIZEN SPORTS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2015

RIVERSIDE HIGH“Warriors”

HEAD COACH - PHIL SMITHAUG. 28 0 EASTSIDE 25SEPT. 4 6 GREER 49SEPT. 11 0 at WOODMONT 32SEPT. 18 3 HILLCREST 70SEPT. 25 7 SPARTANBURG 55OCT. 2 0 B. SPRINGS 52OCT. 9 7 BYRNES 76OCT. 15 14 MAULDIN 49OCT. 23 at J.L. MANNOCT. 30 WADE HAMPTONNOV. 6 at DORMAN

BYRNES HIGH“Rebels”

HEAD COACH - BRIAN LANEAUG. 22 40 NORTHWESTERN 31AUG. 28 42 TL HANNA 21SEPT. 4 31 MALLARD CREEK 29SEPT. 18 14 GAFFNEY 28SEPT. 25 28 B. SPRINGS 23OCT. 2 7 SPARTANBURG 17OCT. 9 76 RIVERSIDE 7OCT. 16 56 JL MANN 7OCT. 23 at MAULDINOCT. 30 DORMANNOV. 6 at WADE HAMPTON

EASTSIDE HIGH“Eagles”

HEAD COACH - STEVE WILSONAUG. 28 25 RIVERSIDE 0SEPT. 4 13 CHRIST CHURCH 15SEPT. 11 41 WADE HAMPTON 34SEPT. 18 33 BLUE RIDGE 21SEPT. 25 31 CHAPMAN 27OCT. 2 7 GREER 48OCT. 9 16 SOUTHSIDE 27OCT. 16 41 BEREA 13OCT. 23 TRAVELERS RESTOCT. 30 EMERALD

BLUE RIDGE HIGH“Fighting Tigers”

HEAD COACH - SHANE CLARKAUG. 28 24 WADE HAMPTON 28SEPT. 4 27 JL MANN 18SEPT. 11 0 STEPHENS CO.21SEPT. 18 21 EASTSIDE 33SEPT. 25 30 BEREA 27OCT. 2 28 EMERALD 49OCT. 9 28 TRAV. REST 33OCT. 16 14 SOUTHSIDE 20OCT. 22 at CHAPMAN (THURS.)OCT. 30 GREER

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SOUTHSIDE 20 BLUE RIDGE 14 GREER 35 CHAPMAN 21MAULDIN 49 RIVERSIDE 14BYRNES 56 J.L. MANN 7EASTSIDE 41 BEREA 13

BLUE RIDGE at CHAPMANGREER SOUTHSIDERIVERSIDE at J.L. MANNBYRNES at MAULDINEASTSIDE TRAVELERS REST

GREER HIGH“Yellow Jackets”

HEAD COACH - WILL YOUNGAUG. 28 40 CLINTON 8SEPT. 4 49 RIVERSIDE 6SEPT. 11 35 UNION 28SEPT. 18 39 EMERALD 20SEPT. 25 41 TRAV. REST 13OCT. 2 48 EASTSIDE 7OCT. 9 61 BEREA 0OCT. 16 35 CHAPMAN 21OCT. 23 SOUTHSIDEOCT. 30 at BLUE RIDGE

WEEKLY FOOTBALL WRAP

LAST WEEK’S SCORES

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK DEFENSE

Quantavious CohenGHS

Urias CookEHS

OFFENSE

Demarcus GregoryBHS

Cole RossiEHS

Cruise to win over MannBY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

Byrnes quarterback Mi-cah Young put up video game numbers during the first half of the Rebels’ homecoming matchup with J.L. Mann last Friday night.

Young threw for more than 380 yards, totaling seven touchdowns in just 24 minutes of play.

Head coach Brian Lane said his team was simply clicking on all cylinders from the start.

“Micah got off to a hot start,” Lane said. “To score 42 points in the first quar-ter, I don’t know if I’ve ever done that as a coach. But they got it done and jumped right on them.”

Byrnes exploded to take a 42-0 lead as Young found wide receivers Chavis Dawkins (twice), Demar-cus Gregory (twice) and Bouvier Howard (once) five times in the end zone, giv-ing his team an unmistak-able lead. After a 10-yard touchdown rush from Dre’Quez Mayes, Byrnes went into the second quar-ter with quite a cushion.

“The defense was locked in all night, and that’s what you want,” Lane said. “They came out playing hard and maintained it the whole game.”

Young found Dawkins and Jaylan Foster on touchdown routes to cap the Rebel scoring in the first half. The advantage gave Byrnes a chance to play some of its second string players who haven’t seen as much time this

season.“With this eight quarter

rule, we’re handcuffed when it comes to getting guys reps,” Lane said. “Be-ing able to allow guys to play and get reps is going to be valuable for their learning experience, may-be not this year, but for next year.”

Lane said he was im-pressed by the play of Gregory, who is only a sophomore.

“At Byrnes, we pride ourselves in growing guys. If you come up in this system, eventually you’re going to make plays some-where, somehow,” Lane said. “(Gregory) has just been working really hard and he’s blossoming. That’s what you look for in a young guy. We know we’re going to get a couple of good years out of him.”


BY LELAND BURCHFOR THE GREER CITIZEN

Greer’s hopes for late season challenges will be fulfilled again this Friday night when the Southside Tigers arrive at Dooley Field for a 7:30 p.m. clash.

Coach Will Young wants his unbeaten Yellow Jack-ets to be well-tested head-ing into the playoffs next month, and Southside will provide a different type of exam, following on the heels of an anxious sec-ond half at Chapman last week.

“They have the most athletic team we will have played since Union,” says Young of the Tigers who are enjoying their best season in decades. At 7-1 overall Southside has the chance to wrestle the reg-ular season Peach Blossom 3-A title away from Greer with a win. “But we are not focused on the region race right now, we only want to win this game,” Young insists.

Southside’s only loss was to Emerald in an early region contest, “but they are playing good football right now,” Young relates. The Tigers, fresh from downing Blue Ridge last week, are led by Jawun Prince, the son of Coach Julius Prince and a three-

year starter at quarter-back. “Prince is a good one,” says Young, of the operator of Southside’s spread offense. “He has some really good receiv-ers, like Union, especially Cam Wrice and Neje Wash-ington.”

He said the Tigers “also have a kid who can really run in Quavian White. He reminds me of Quez Nes-bitt.”

Defensively the Tigers operate out of a 3-3 base, but frequently shift to confuse opposing offens-

es. “They often wind up in a four-man front, using the same players. The de-fensive line is smaller and quicker than most teams, and they are very athlet-ic at linebacker and the secondary.” Shrine Bowl bound Jeremiah Ferguson “is their best linebacker,” he added.

Although Greer will battle archrival Blue Ridge next week, Young said, “I don’t think our kids will be looking ahead. Friday is Senior Night, and that is a really big deal for us.”

The Yellow Jackets could continue to miss three senior starters sidelined with injuries. Center Noah Blosser may be cleared to return this week, while de-fensive tackle Jordan Haw-thorne is expected to sit out again with a torn me-niscus. “I think Jordan will be back next week if he can play through the pain, but he’ll probably have to undergo surgery later on,” Young said. Offensive linemen Noah Hannon and Tyrek Donaldson will be used in spots to shore up the defensive line. Wide receiver Zach Glidden is out for the season with a knee injury.

Young said the Yellow Jackets would be work-ing to correct some issues that arose at Chapman. He said the Panthers defense “tried to force everything inside by pinching in and sending linemen through the inside gaps. We hadn’t seen that before, but our kids did a good job of overcoming it by bouncing the ball outside. You have to give Chapman credit, but we just had too many weapons.”

“We also will continue trying to polish up some new wrinkles that we haven’t used yet,” he con-cluded.

BY BILLY CANNADASPORTS EDITOR

It was another tough outing for a Riverside team that has yet to win this season.

The Warriors fell to Mauldin last Thursday night 49-14, giving up 42 points in the first half against a team that is now 3-1 in region competition.

Mauldin wasted no time getting started, scoring on a 28-yard pass from Dre Harris to Hunter Dawsey with just over eight min-utes remaining in the first quarter. Jason Labrador extended the Mauldin lead with a 1-yard touchdown run and Harris found Dawsey again with under four minutes remaining to put his team on top 21-0.

The Warriors, however, opened the second quar-ter with a bang, as Aaron Odom found Braxton Col-lins on a 72-yard strike with only 11 seconds ex-piring off the game clock. That momentum wouldn’t last, as Mauldin piled on three more scores, leading

42-7 at the half.Riverside’s final score

came in the fourth quarter as Robert Wang found the end zone on a three-yard rush with just over four minutes remaining.

The 0-8 Warriors will be back in action this Friday as they take on the 0-8 Pa-triots of J.L. Mann on the road.

Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

Rebels explode in first quarter

BILLY CANNADA | THE GREER CITIZEN

Jaylan Foster caught a touchdown pass during Byrnes’ 56-7 thrashing of J.L. Mann last Friday at Nixon Field.

Greer hosts Southside at Dooley


Dorian Lindsey and the Yellow Jackets will take on Southside at home this Friday for senior night.

Riverside falls to Mauldin


Riverside dropped to 0-8.


The Byrnes soccer team was out at Fuddruckers of Greer Monday night from 5-8 p.m. to raise funds for the program. Top: Thomas and Jennifer O’Connor are served by Nick Volino. Above: Ryan Herzberg brings drinks to Jodie Martin and her son Dominick.

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RUNNIN’ REBEL GOLF TOURNAMENT

Rebel fans can tee it up for a good cause next month, at the Byrnes High School Runnin’ Rebel fourth annual golf tourna-ment.

The event will be held Saturday, Oct. 24, at River Falls Plantation. Cost is

$300 per team, or $75 per player. The tournament will be Captain’s Choice.

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RIVERSIDE SWIM TEAMS SWEEP STATE

Both the boys and girls swim teams for Riverside High won the Class AAAA state title this year.

This is the third straight year that Riverside has won the state champion-ships.

LADY REBELS AT TOPOF THE CLASS

The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) recently recog-nized the Lady Rebel soft-ball team in its Top 10 list for team GPA’s nation-ally. Of all teams across the U.S., Byrnes had the eighth highest team GPA with a 4.125.

In addition, 13 players

were named to NFCA’s list of scholar athletes based on their academic perfor-mance for the 2014-15 school year.

The players honored were: Regan Messenger, Kate Burnett, Katelyn Sloan, Alexis Glenn, Bri-ana Durrah, Allison Neely, Payten Bennett, Kaila Kyz-er, Kayce Shelton, Parker Birch, Haven Pesce, Chris-ta Whitesides, and Kassie Rimel.

VOLLEYBALL TEAMS DEFEAT WADE HAMPTON

Byrnes High School JV and Varsity volleyball teams won over Wade Hampton last week.

The JV team won their match 2-0 (25-10, 25-16), and finished the sea-son with a 12-2 record, in a three way tie for 1st place.

Varsity won their match 3-0 (25-18, 25-15, 25-10), and will travel to Region IV on Oct. 29 for playoffs.

SPORTS

ROUNDUP A SPORTING VIEWBY MARK VASTO

It’s Tuesday, and every-thing I think I know to be right in the world is

wrong.The Broncos are 5-0

but all Denver fans think Peyton Manning is a bad quarterback. “His num-bers are slipping,” they cry, but for the past three seasons he has been 19-1 through five starts.

In South Carolina, Man-ning’s old nemesis, the ball coach named Steve Spurrier, has resigned. Faced with his first losing season since he coached the professional football team from Washington, Spurrier just decides to bail. It’s not something that should have taken anyone by surprise. Spur-rier has been slipping of late. What kind of coach

tells people during the off-season that he plans on coaching another “two to three years”? The kind of coach who isn’t interested in his recruits, that’s who. Who would want to play for Spurrier when by their senior or junior year he’s off to go fishing? The ones who got suckered into seeing him leave them as a freshman, that’s who.

The Jets have the second-best defense in the NFL. Saying the word “best” and Jets in the same sentence is hard to fathom, but the numbers don’t lie.

Tom Brady’s “guru” doctor is found to not be a doctor at all. How does that happen? That’s almost as bad as Hill-ary with the e-mails. In the same way you would think that the president’s

staffers would have noticed that they all had .gov email accounts, you would think the Patriots would be on the lookout for an M.D. credential at the end of the doctor’s name. It would just seem to make better sense.

What’s next? Manny Pac-quiao wanting a rematch with Floyd Mayweather? Yes, turns out he did say that yesterday. Because that’s something we all want to see. Mayweather just made $300 million for a fight that nobody wanted to watch in Sep-tember. A rematch of a dud fight. That’s what we have to look forward to?

Next you’ll tell me that the Cubs will beat the Car-dinals to advance to the NL Championship Series. On second thought, don’t. I’ve heard enough for one day.

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DEFENSIVE LINEMAN OF THE WEEKUrias Cook

Position: DEAge: 18Class: Senior

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEKQuantavious Cohen

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEKDemarcus Gregory

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN OF THE WEEKCole Rossi

#53 Position: OLAge: 17Class: Senior

Parents: Ron and Michele RossiAway from the � eld: Enjoys spending time with

friendsFavorite athlete: Derek Jeter Favorite movie: Friday Night LightsFavorite video game: Madden Favorite artist or band: Migos

#5 Position: WRAge: 16Class: Sophomore

Parents: Tony and Lynn GregoryAway from the � eld: Enjoys hanging out with friendsFavorite athlete: Sammy WatkinsFavorite movie: The Blindside Favorite video game: NBA 2KFavorite artist or band: Drake

#3 Position: LBAge: 15Class: Freshman

Parents: Diane Colbertson and Damien WallaceAway from the � eld: Enjoys hanging out with friends,

playing backyard football and visiting collegesFavorite athlete: Lance TaylorFavorite movie: Friday Night LightsFavorite football team: Carolina PanthersFavorite artist or band: Drake

#76Parent: Barbara CookAway from the � eld: Enjoys hanging out with friends Favorite athlete: Sammy WatkinsFavorite movie: The Purge: Anarchy Favorite artist: J. ColeFavorite football team: Clemson

THE GREER CITIZEN PLAYERS OF WEEK EIGHT

PLAYERS OF WEEK SEVEN


Byrnes High’s John Guthrie and Micah Young were named Greer Citizen/Owens Insurance Players of week seven. Pictured, left to right, are Chad Hannon (Owens), Guthrie (O� ensive Lineman of the Week), Young (O� ensive Player of the Week), coach Brian Lane and Chris Crist (Owens).


Greer High’s Jordan Hawthorne and Adrian McGee were named Greer Citizen/Owens Insurance Players of week seven. Pictured, left to right, are Chad Hannon (Owens), Hawthorne (Defensive Lineman of the Week), McGee (Defensive Player of the Week), coach Rashaad Jackson and Chris Crist (Owens).

BY BILLY CANNADA SPORTS EDITOR

Costly mistakes have taken Blue Ridge out of the playoff picture, but don’t expect the Tigers to give up just yet.

Head coach Shane Clark said his guys want to make a statement during their final two games of the regular season, but it’s going to mean knocking off two of the region’s top contenders.

“If you look back at our schedule, we really don’t feel like we’ve been blown out in any game,” Clark said of his 2-6 squad. “Four of these games have been decided by six points or less. It’s just been a close fight all year. You have to give credit to the guys. They keep fighting every week.”

The Tigers will travel to take on Chapman, which currently sits at 6-3 on the season, this Friday

“A lot of teams in our situation would be look-ing ahead to next season, but our guys are living in the moment right now and they’re trying to make the most of the time they have left,” Clark said. “We’re finding ways to get motivated these last two weeks. We realize, at this point, playoffs are out for us. Now, we’re going to see how they react in adverse

conditions.”Despite his team’s re-

cord, Clark said it is un-likely Chapman or Greer, Blue Ridge’s remaining op-ponents, will see the game as an easy win.

“Since I’ve been at Blue Ridge, the thing I hear the most is how hard our guys play, so I don’t think any-body’s going to overlook us,” Clark said. “People al-ways prepare their best for us, which is why we always end up in close games that can go either way. I expect we’ll see nothing differ-ent from Chapman and

Greer.”Clark said looking ahead

to Greer won’t be a prob-lem for his team this sea-son.

“They do a pretty good job of focusing each week on who our opponent is,” Clark said. “There’s always opportunities for looking ahead, but we can’t worry about who our opponent is next week. Our most important game is always our next game, and our guys understand that.”



Coming off two blowout wins, Byrnes is getting set to take on a Mauldin team that has surprised region opponents this season.

The Mavericks are 5-3 heading into the contest with a 3-1 record in the conference. Mauldin’s only loss in region play came to Dorman on Oct. 2.

“They’ll give you mul-tiple looks offensively,” Byrnes coach Brian Lane said. “They’ve got a really good quarterback. He runs the ball well and throws it when he needs to. He’s a very athletic kid.”

The Mavericks will also

present multiple looks on defense, Lane said.

“They’re very sound on defense,” he said. “They’ll line up in some four-man fronts and some three-man fronts. They’ll run some man, they’ll play some zone and they will roll coverages. They’re just very sound.”

Lane said his team won’t be tempted to look ahead to a matchup with its rival, Dorman on Oct. 30.

“We take it a week at a time,” Lane said. “I’m not even thinking about Dor-man right now because Mauldin is a good football team. Mauldin almost beat Dorman. They had them down 17-7 with six min-utes left in the game and

Dorman came back to beat them, so we definitely have to stay focused. We’re not looking forward.”

With only one blemish on their schedule, the Reb-els are aiming to wrap up the regular season with a top seed in the state play-offs.

“We have to continue to grow together as a teams—special teams, of-fense and defense,” he said. “We have to under-stand that we’re a unit and we pick each other up. If the defense isn’t getting it done, the offense has to pick it up, and vice versa. I just want to see us grow as a team.”



The Eagles know now is not the time for a slip up as they get set to take on Travelers Rest this Friday at home.

Eastside has worked its way to a 3-2 region record so far, knocking off Berea 41-13 last weekend. The Devildogs, however, have seen plenty of improve-ment this season as well, and currently sit at 4-4 on the year.

“They’re obviously a much improved team also in our region,” Eastside coach Steve Wilson said of the Devildogs. “We’re put-ting all of our focus and

attention on those guys. They’re a good, solid foot-ball team, but at this point in the year, our guys are starting to believe they’re a pretty good, solid foot-ball team as well.”

Eastside hit a slight bump in the road after losing to Greer, falling to Southside the following week. The Eagles had won three straight leading up to the matchup with the Yellow Jackets.

“It was a good feeling for us to get back to winning football games,” Wilson said. “We really felt like we’d given one away play-ing Southside because we had 510 yards off offense and they only had 250.

That was one we shouldn’t have lost, so we were glad to be able to stay in con-tention in our region.”

Remaining on the sched-ule for Eastside are Travel-ers Rest and Emerald.

“If we can play these last two really well, we’re still right in the thick of things,” Wilson said. “That would be the first time (making the playoffs) for Eastside in a very, very long time.”

Wilson expects the game to come down to the wire.

“It will be another tough, hard-nosed night for us,” he said. “It will probably come down to the fourth quarter like most of our games have.”

Eagles to square offwith Travelers Rest Friday

Tigers hope to salvage season with two wins

Rebels take on Mauldin


Byrnes will take on Mauldin this Friday . The Mavericks are currently 3-1 in region play, only dropping one game to Dorman. MANDY FERGUSON | THE GREER CITIZEN

With two games left on the schedule, Blue Ridge is hoping to secure upsets over Chapman and Greer.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2015 NASCAR THE GREER CITIZEN B5

In overtimeBY REID SPENCERNASCAR WIRE

Block me once, and I’ll cut you some slack.

Block me twice — and it’s “Gotcha.”

That, in essence, was the conversation on Joey Logano’s team radio after Logano spun race leader Matt Kenseth in Turn 1 with less than five laps left in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.

Logano went on to win the race after a green-white-checkered-flag re-start that sent the race two laps past its scheduled distance of 267 laps. The driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford has monopo-lized the Contender Round of the Chase for the NAS-CAR Sprint Cup, having won back-to-back races at Charlotte and Kansas.

The victory was Loga-no’s second at the 1.5-mile track — the first coming in last year’s Chase — his fifth of the season and the 13th of his career. But it may have come at the ex-pense of the title hopes of the driver who replaced him in the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

He finished .491 sec-onds ahead of runner-up Denny Hamlin, who held off Jimmie Johnson at the stripe to take the second spot. Johnson ran third, followed by Kasey Kahne and Kyle Busch.

Desperately needing a victory to revive his chances to make the cut for the Chase’s Elimina-tor 8 Round, Kenseth had grabbed the lead from Jimmie Johnson after a re-start on Lap 248. Using all his skills to keep the faster car of Logano behind him, Kenseth blocked Logano on the frontstretch as the duo ran up on lapped cars

near the start/finish line.Kenseth moved up to

block again as he entered Turn 1, but a tap from Logano’s Ford sent the No. 20 Camry spinning.

Kenseth kept his car off the wall and finished 14th, but the result was far more costly than a mere 13 posi-tions. After finishing 42nd at Charlotte a week ear-lier, Kenseth could have salvaged his season with a victory and a guaranteed entry into the Eliminator 8 Round.

Now Kenseth, who is 35 points out of the final transfer position (eighth place) likely must win at Talladega to advance.

Understandably upset by the outcome, Kenseth had a clear-cut view of the incident.

“It was really cut and dry,” Kenseth said. “He (Logano) picked my rear tires off the ground and wrecked me, so there’s no debate about that one… He was a little bit tighter on that short run than I was, and I couldn’t get away from him.

“All day we had him pretty good. I still thought I was going to be able to stay in front of him and saw those lapped cars coming and tried getting a couple runs off the top there and I was plenty clear, got up in front of him and he just decided to take us out.”

To Logano, it was merely a case of aggressive rac-ing on the part of both drivers. As Logano pur-sued Kenseth during the decisive run, Logano was squeezed into the outside wall, scraping the right side of his car.

“It was good, hard rac-ing,” Logano said. “We were racing each other re-ally hard, and I got in the fence twice on the straight-aways. He raced me hard, and I raced him hard back. That’s the way I race. If I

get raced like that, I’ll race the same way.

“That’s how I’ve always been, and it will always be that way. I really couldn’t be more proud of this team. To be sitting in such a great position going into Talladega makes us feel really, really good.”

Asked whether he thought turning Kenseth was a good move, Logano replied, “I didn’t think it was a good move when I hit the wall. I’m sure we’ll talk about it. I felt like, ‘Hey, I’ve got to race hard. I got in the fence twice,’ so

I wasn’t going to put up with it.”

Kenseth said he had no plans to discuss the inci-dent with Logano.

“I’m really disappoint-ed,” Kenseth said. “I’ve probably been one of his biggest supporters. It was an awkward thing, obvi-ously, taking his ride, and I was excited for him when he started winning at Pen-ske and when he got that ride and even found him today and congratulated him about racing against each other for a champi-onship.

“I was very disappointed that he would do that… Yeah, I was running the lane he wanted to run in, but, my goodness, isn’t this racing? Strategically, I don’t think it wasn’t the smartest move on his part. He’ll probably sleep good tonight — I hope he en-joys that one. It’s not what I would have done, but he had a decision to make and that’s the one he made.”

Logano insisted he didn’t wreck Kenseth on purpose.

“We were just going for the same piece of real es-tate,” Logano said.

Kenseth believed other-wise. Asked whether he thought the wreck was intentional, Kenseth as-serted, “Absolutely — 100 percent.”

Without the magnitude of drama Kenseth experi-enced, Dale Earnhardt Jr.

also leaves Kansas in dire straits. A loose left rear tire forced Earnhardt to pit road for an unsched-uled stop in Lap 165. The No. 88 Chevrolet finished 21st, two laps down.

Currently 11th in the standings, 31 points be-hind eighth-place Martin Truex Jr., Earnhardt, like Kenseth, enters next Sun-day’s race at Talladega (2:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN) with a win-or-bust mental-ity.

Other than Logano, none of the other Chase drivers will be able to relax next Sunday. Only 20 points separate second-place Hamlin from Ryan New-man in 10th — with seven spots in the Eliminator 8 Round still up for grabs.

BY REID SPENCERNASCAR WIRE

Overcoming obstacles in the XFINITY Series is com-monplace for Kyle Busch.

In Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway, Busch brushed aside a pit road speed-ing penalty, a hole in the nose of his No. 54 Toyota, a pit stop that dropped him to seventh for the penultimate restart, an unwelcome green-white-checkered-flag restart and a teammate who had the fastest car for much of the afternoon.

The end result was Busch’s 75th XFINITY Se-ries victory, extending his own record. Busch won for third time at Kansas and for the fifth time in 20 starts this season.

The race also saw Chris Buescher add one point to his series lead over Chase Elliott. Though both driv-ers had issues — Elliott a wreck during qualifying that sent him to a backup car and the back of the field; and Buescher a pit road speeding penalty — Buescher won a drag race to the stripe to come home sixth to Elliott’s sev-enth and leads the stand-ings by 27 points over the defending champion.

But the final 43 laps of the event were vintage Kyle Busch. Restarting seventh on Lap 157 after the seventh caution of the afternoon, Busch surged

into second place in a sin-gle lap. For the next 28 cir-cuits he harried teammate and eventual runner-up Matt Kenseth before clear-ing his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate through Turn 4 on Lap 185.

Busch survived a green-white-checkered after Joey

Gase’s engine blew and oiled the 1.5-mile track with five laps left. Picking the outside lane, Busch cleared Kenseth entering the first turn and pulled away to win by .607 sec-onds.

“I wasn’t sure we had enough for that 20 car

(Kenseth) today, but there at the end of the race, the track was cooling down and certainly getting freer and it looked like Kenseth just was too loose,” Busch said. “And I was able to re-ally get the gas down and drive real hard and had a good car to stick through

the corner.“This Monster Energy

Camry was awesome, (crew chief) Chris Gayle and the guys did a fantas-tic job for me in getting me a really good piece there at the end to be able to battle with Matt, and it’s cool to end up in Victory Lane any

day… I wasn’t sure how I was going to get the pass done, but fortunately, fi-nally there I was able to do it.”

Kenseth suffered a loose handling condition late in the race and couldn’t keep Busch behind him.

“It’s frustrating to get beat again,” said Kenseth, who has finished second in each of his last four XFINITY Series starts. “We were out front in Chicago and had the better car, but second is the (next) best place to finish, I guess.

“Kind of aggravating when you get beat, but we were too free at the end. I didn’t give Wheels (crew chief Mike Wheeler) good enough information on the tires. I did everything I could to hold off Kyle except for wrecking. Just couldn’t do it.”

Joey Logano finished third, followed by fourth-place Ty Dillon and fifth-place Regan Smith.

Busch would like noth-ing better than to dupli-cate his victory in Sun-day’s Hollywood Casino 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Kansas (2:15 p.m. ET on NBC). After a 20th-place finish last Sunday at Charlotte in the first race of the Chase’s Contender Round, Busch could earn a spot in the Eliminator 8 Round with the ninth XFINITY/Sprint Cup week-end sweep of his career (including his three-series sweep at Bristol in 2010).

LOGANO ADVANCES TO ELIMINATOR 8 ROUND

Joey Logano led 227-of-334 laps on his way to Vic-tory Lane in last Sunday’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway to become the first driver to advance to the Elimina-tor 8 Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

The No. 22 Ford driver becomes a member of the Eliminator 8 by win-ning the Contender Round opener for the second straight season.

Logano’s checkered flag was his first at Charlotte. His previous best Queen City finish was third in 2011.

On the season, Logano ranks tied with Kevin Harvick for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series lead in top 10s with 24.

His five Coors Light Pole Awards are the most in the series.

STRIVING FOR GREATNESS: HARVICK JOINS ELITE

After placing second last Sunday at Charlotte, Kevin Harvick became the 13th driver in NASCAR’s modern era (1972-pres-ent) to collect 20 top-five finishes in a season. The other drivers to achieve the feat include: Bobby Al-lison, Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, Benny Par-sons, Darrell Waltrip, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte, Dale Jar-rett, Bobby Labonte and Jimmie Johnson.

If Harvick can finish within the top five in the

final six races he will tie Jeff Gordon’s record for most top fives in a modern era season – 26 in 1998.

Harvick’s Charlotte re-sult also earned him his 11th runner-up of the sea-son, the most since Bobby Allison logged 12 in 1972. The No. 4 Chevrolet driver boasts 14 top-two finishes this season, double the total of the next-highest driver (Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson, 7).

In addition to his im-pressive finish totals, Har-vick has led 2,031 laps – his second straight sea-son with over 2,000 laps

led. The last driver to lead 2,000 laps or more in con-secutive seasons was Jeff Gordon (1995-96).

EARNHARDT, KENSETH IN NEED OF A WIN

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Matt Kenseth have to be thankful for the simple formula that embodies the new Chase for the NAS-CAR Sprint Cup format – “win and you’re in.”

Earnhardt, 11th on the Chase Grid, sits 19 points behind Brad Keselowski on the cutoff line. Kenseth, 12th on the Chase Grid is 32 points below the

cutoff line. In 31 starts at Talladega, he claims one win, six top fives and 10 top 10s.

NEWMAN AND BUSCH ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

If the Contender Round ended after Charlotte, Ryan Newman and Kyle Busch would be among the four drivers eliminat-ed from the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

Luckily for them, there’s still time left. Newman (-6) and Busch (-10) are also close enough to the cutoff in points where they do not need wins to advance.

Busch outduels Kenseth for XFINITY win

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Kyle Busch secured his 75th XFINITY Series victory, winning for the third time at Kansas and for the � fth time in 20 starts this season.

NEWS

AND NOTES

Logano turns Kenseth, wins Kansas race

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Joey Logano outlasted Matt Kenseth during the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway last Sunday afternoon.

‘Strategically, I don’t think it wasn’t the

smartest move on his part.’

Matt KensethNASCAR racer


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88 yard run to the Chap-man five. Cusano scored on a keeper up the middle that pushed the lead to 21-0.

28-0 AT HALFTIMEGreer made it 28-0 at

intermission after a short Chapman punt. Cusano found Adrian Lindsey streaking down the side-line on a 40-yard touch-down bomb with 1:24 re-maining in the first half.

With the game seemingly out of hand, the Panthers treated a large Homecom-ing crowd to a second half show.

Chapman took the third quarter kickoff and drove 80 yards to score. A key play was a fourth down penalty that gave the Pan-thers a first down at their own 34-yard line. Bailey later delivered a 40-yard touchdown pass to Rich-ard Tucker, and Carlos Montalvo-Coralles booted the extra point.

The Yellow Jackets pro-ceeded to suffer a couple of disastrous turnovers that let the Panthers back in the game.

After Cameron Kelley returned the kickoff into Panther territory, Lindsey fumbled in the “wildcat” formation, and McArthur Scott recovered for Chap-man at the hosts’ 32-yard line.

Although Greer forced a punt, Cusano fumbled on the next play from scrim-mage, and Miller recov-ered at the Yellow Jackets’ 32-yard line. Chapman needed just four plays to score with Bailey getting the points on an 11 yard run that cut Greer’s lead in half, 28-14, with 4:37 remaining in the third pe-riod.

“It’s our job to stop them no matter where they get the ball,” Perry said of the Yellow Jackets defense. “But we had some poor tackling, and I think we need to settle down and keep our composure.”

The Panthers tightened the game even more after stopping Greer on downs at their own 34-yard line. Bailey engineered a 66-yard scoring drive, includ-ing several key scrambling gains, a 25-yard pass to Tucker to put the ball in the red zone, and then a five-yard scoring pass to Tim Beach.

MOST IMPRESSIVE DRIVE YET

Although leading 28-21 with 10:10 left in the game, the Yellow Jackets had their backs to the wall when Lindsey fumbled the ensuing kickoff out of bounds at Greer’s four-yard line. That’s when the team mounted its most impressive drive of the

season. McGee, who got some long awaited block-ing up front, powered the ball out to the 23-yard line in four carries. Cusano later delivered a 22-yard pass to Lindsey, but a holding penalty nullified a 40-yard touchdown carry by McGee.

No matter. Cusano and Lindsey

hooked up for a 19-yard pass to the Panthers’ 15-yard line, and McGee took the ball the rest of the way, scoring on a one-yard blast with 2:30 left to play.

“You have to give Chap-man credit,” Young said.

“They have a good team. They’re well coached and played hard. But we really stopped ourselves most of the time with turnovers and mistakes. You can’t give the other team the ball in the red zone and expect them not to do any-thing with it.”

The Yellow Jackets had one of their most produc-tive offensive outings of the season, piling up 501 total yards for 21 first downs. Greer rushed for 302 yards with Cusano leading the way, gaining 151 yards on 16 carries. McGee added 142 yards on 20 rushes. Cusano completed 15 of 23 passes for 199 yards and three touchdowns.

Chapman dented Greer’s defense for 319 yards and 17 first downs. Bailey con-nected on 19 of 31 passes for 139 air yards.

The sophomore quarter-back also led the ground game, gaining 80 yards on 19 carries.

Greer was flagged 11 times for 105 yards and suffered three turnovers. Chapman had only one turnover and was penal-ized five times for 35 yards.

THE SCORE BY QUARTERSGreer 14 14 0 7 - 35Chapman 0 0 14 7 - 21

First quarter: Cusano (G) 80 yard touchdown pass to Pride, Roberson kick; Cusano (G) 28 yard pass to Pride; Roberson kick.

Second quarter: Cusano (G) five yard run, Rober-son kick; Cusano (G) 40 yard pass to Lindsey, Rob-erson kick.

Third quarter: Bailey (C) 40 yard pass to Tucker, Montalvo-Coralles kick; Bailey (C) 11-yard run, Montolvo-Coralles kick.

Fourth quarter: Bai-ley (C) five-yards pass to Beach, Montalvo-Coralles kick; McGee (G) 1 yard run, Roberson kick.

INDIVIDUALSGreer rushing: Cusano

16/151 yards; McGee 20/142 yards; Lindsey 1/1 yard; Pride 1/8 yards.

Greer receiving: Lindsey 8/124 yards; Pride 4/53 yard; Chance Coleman 1/13 yards; Alex Syphrett 1/9 yards.

Chapman rushing: Bailey 19/80 yards; D.J. Twitty 14/43 yards; Cody Chavis 3/53 yards; Tucker 1/4 yards.

Chapman receiving: Twitty 2/2 yards; Beach 5/16 yards; Patrick Phong-stat 3/13 yards; Tucker 3/75 yards; Tyrell Oglesby 2/8 yards.

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manship, leadership and champions in their own right.”

The football state play-offs will now begin on Nov. 13 for all classes ex-cept Class AAAA.

Postseason play starts on Nov. 20 for Class AAAA.

Football State champion-ship dates have also been pushed back a week:

Class A – Dec. 4Class AA – Dec. 5Class AAA – Dec. 12Class AAAA – Dec. 12The volleyball state

championship will now be on Nov. 14 at White Knoll High in Lexington. The last regular season contests will be held on Oct. 26 for Class A and Class AA and Oct. 27 for Class AAA and Class AAAA.

Volleyball playoff sched-ule will now change to:

Class AAAA - Oct. 29, Nov. 3, Nov. 5, Nov. 10

Class AAA - Oct. 29, Nov. 3, Nov. 5, Nov. 10

Class AA - Oct. 28, Nov. 2, Nov. 4, Nov. 10

Class A - Oct. 28, Nov 2., Nov. 4, Nov. 10

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closer to its ultimate goal.“[Making the playoffs]

would just have really good ramifications for us,” he said. “The seniors here have never even been close to getting into the playoffs, so it would be a new experience for them. We really have inherited some good seniors that haven’t had any success, so I would love to see this happen for them.”

Wilson hopes this year’s turnaround will have a positive impact for the long-term success of the football program.

“I hope we’re starting to set a precedent around here for winning football games,” he said. “Hope-fully, that’s going to infil-trate our younger kids in our other programs and we’ll have more kids com-ing out for football. This season means a lot for our football program.”

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Clark’s offense managed to put together a solid drive, moving the ball into the red zone before it was picked off again inside the 20-yard-line.

Southside took posses-sion at its own half-yard-line and managed to drive the length of the field to score the game’s final points. Blue Ridge ended the game by throwing yet another interception in the red zone, putting the Tigers’ third win of the season out of reach.

“We just had some key mistakes at critical points in the game. You can’t do that against good teams,” he said.

“There’s several guys out there that this is their first go-around with var-sity football,” Clark said. “They’ve been thrown into the fire. We knew that go-ing in, but we hoped that the maturity would come a little faster than it has.

We’ve been in some tough situations—trying to come from behind and things like that—so it’s just been difficult.”

Blue Ridge will take on Chapman this Friday. Kick-off is set for 7:30 p.m.


Ashton Heard’s school record 314 yards on the ground and two touch-downs helped lead the North Greenville Crusad-ers to a 35-24 homecoming win over Tusculum College last Saturday afternoon in Younts Stadium.

Hughes tied the career record for touchdowns with his 66th career touch-down toss. The Crusaders sprinted out of the game in the first quarter as Heard took the first play from scrimmage 68 yards for a touchdown. NGU would hold a 6-0 lead after a missed extra point.

Ben Kramm would tack on an NGU field goal later in the quarter to make the score 9-0 before the Pioneers finally found pay dirt. Cameron Thomas would put Tusculum on the board with a 54-yard interception return to cut NGU’s lead to two. The in-terception broke Hughes’ streak of 150 pass at-tempts without an inter-ception while making the score 9-7.

Ashton Heard would score again in North Greenville’s next drive as he punched in his second score of the half. The 49-yard scamper would be his sixth rushing touchdown of the season, extending the lead to 13-9. Heard finished the first half with 218-yards on the ground,

11 yards from tying the NCAA Division II first half rushing record.

NGU’s passing game would get fired up in the second quarter when Nel-son Hughes would find Mason Sanders in the north end zone for the first touchdown pass and catch of the game. A 54-yard rushing touchdown run from Isaac Robinson for Tusculum and two NGU field goals from Ben Kramm would make the score 28-14 at intermis-sion.

The Pioneers would creep closer in the third quarter with a 39-yard field goal to make the score 28-17 in favor of North Greenville. The Tus-culum field goal was the first points of the second half and came with 12:05 left in the third quarter. North Greenville would score its only touchdown of the second half eight minutes later. The Hughes to Sanders connection would strike once more, this time from seven yards out to cap a 53-yard drive.

Tusculum would score the only touchdown of the fourth quarter to cut NGU’s lead to 35-24 leaving 4:58 left on the game clock. The Crusaders would melt the clock away in the fourth quarter with two rushing first downs on the back of Simeon Byrd. The Cru-

saders finished with 408 yards on the ground and 141 through the air. It is the fourth week in a row the NGU offense compiled at least 400-yards and sec-ond of four weeks with 500 or more.

North Greenville’s de-fense also put together its fourth solid performance of the in a row. The Black Swarm held the Pioneers to 310 total yards. The Crusaders picked off three Tusculum passes and re-covered two fumbles. Tony Godbolt spearheaded the North Greenville defense with seven total tackles (one tackle for loss) while forcing a fumble and in-tercepting one pass. Sam Houston led in the tackle category with eight.

The Crusaders extended their winning streak to four games. It is also NGU’s fourth win in five meetings with the Pioneers. NGU, now 5-2 on the season will host the University of God’s Chosen next week-end in a 1pm matchup in Tigerville.

LADY CRUSADERS FALL TO KING

The Lady Crusader soc-cer team’s attempt to comeback from three goals down fell short as North Greenville dropped a 4-3 decision to confer-ence rival King University.

King opened the game on

the front foot and jumped ahead with an early goal. King’s Kara Garrett scored off a corner kick in the first minute and put the Tornado ahead 1-0. The Crusaders equalized in the 10th minute off a goal from Sarah Singh, her first of the season. After al-lowing the first goal, King took over for the remain-der of the first half, grab-bing the lead in the 16th minute behind a goal from Lindsay Curtis off a set piece. The Tornado would add one more before the end of the half on a pen-alty kick. Hulda Sigurdar-dottir put it past Crusader keeper Madelynn Schoberto make the score 3-1.

King opened the sec-ond half in the same style as the first and won an-other penalty kick in the 47th minute. This time it was Catherine Walsh who stepped up to the spot and put it past Schober to make it 4-1.

North Greenville stead-ied the ship after conced-ing its second penalty kick and began to mount a comeback bid. Lindsay Tuten reopened the scor-ing for the Crusaders in

the 54th minute when her shot from outside the box found the back of the net. Tuten got another goal in the 58th minute off an assist from Gabriella Por-ter to make the score 4-3. North Greenville pushed for an equalizing goal but King was able to finish off the game and take the con-ference win.

Tuten’s two goals put her to a conference-lead-ing total of 13 on the sea-son while Schober spent the full 90 minutes in goal, making five saves.

Yomi Adeyeye and Tay-lor Dupes combined for 61 kills in two games as NGU cruised to a pair of 3-1 wins over Loyola Uni-versity and Clark Atlanta, Friday night in non-con-ference action.

CRUSADER VOLLEYBALL TEAM CRUISING

The Crusader volleyball team rebounded from a loss to Southern Wesleyan with a pair of dominating wins. NGU dropped the first set of the night as the Panthers earned a 25-22 win. North Greenville bounced back to earn a 22-19 win in the second set to even the tally before grab-bing the set lead with a 25-10 win in the final frame. The Crusaders wrapped up the win over Clark At-lanta with a 25-16 victory.

Adeyeye finished the

game against Clark At-lanta with 21 kills while Dupes put down 10. Madi-son Pogue finished with 47 assists while Kenzie Pierce finished the game with nine kills and a team leading three blocks. The Crusaders dished out six service aces as a team led by Sara Miller who had two.

The game against Loyola started out in the same manner as North Green-ville found itself in a 1-0 deficit after a 25-21 loss in Frame one. The Crusad-ers rallied to win the next three sets however to im-prove to 18-8 on the sea-son. NGU bounced back to take a 25-14 win in the second frame to even the score. The Crusaders se-cured the win with a 25-23 set three victory and a 25-16 triumph in the fourth.

Adeyeye finished with 17 kills to lead all players while Dupes finished with 13. Megan Gouge also put together a solid perfor-mance with 11 kills. Madi-son Pogue topped her best performance of the season with 50 assists while lead-ing the Crusaders with nine digs. Gouge also led NGU at the net with three solo blocks.

NGU will be back in ac-tion on Oct. 23 against Erskine at 7 p.m. in Due West, South Carolina.

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CORNER

GREER: Remains unbeaten on season


Greer jumped on top of Chapman in the � rst half, only to see its lead vanish in the � nal two quarters.

PLAYOFFS: Rescheduled

TIGERS: Fall apart in � nal minutes against Southside

‘We just had some

key mistakes at

critical points in the

game.’

Shane ClarkBlue Ridge head coach

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For Gail and Vic Camp-bell, October is about taking a horse-drawn trip down memory lane—back to a time when life was simpler and things were made by hand.

That’s why the couple is bringing back Olde Tyme Farm Day, an event that began in the 1980s, for an-other year.

“The best thing is see-ing people who are still interested in doing things by hand—the way our parents and grandparents did them,” Vic said. “The camaraderie (at farm day) is great,” Vic said. “People have been so willing to help and give their own time. They’ve really just jumped in here to help year after year.”

The event is held each year at Log Cabin Farm. This year’s Olde Tyme Farm Day will take place on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Vic and Gail had consid-ered hosting one last, final Farm Day last year, but the couple received so much positive feedback that they decided to reopen their farm to the public.

“It makes you feel good that people are still so

interested in it,” Vic said. “My wife (Gail) wanted to do it again this year, so I didn’t argue.”

The event has been around since 1984 when Vic accepted his friend, Hayden Kemp’s, challenge

to use his molasses mill with the farm’s Brabant draft horses.

“He was my best friend and just a great ‘ol guy,” Vic recalled. “He pestered me about making molas-ses for about three years

and we finally did it.”Campbell grew the sor-

ghum, cut and stripped the cane and put the horses to work. Friends and fam-ily came to help with the process, and friend Evelyn Allen prepared breakfast over a cookstove for the volunteer.

“People just had a fit over it and they came in to help us,” Vic said. “One thing led to another and it just gradually expanded. Next thing you know, we got this farm day started.

“For the last five years or so, we’ve drawn about 2,500 people all because Hayden Kemp wanted to make molasses,” he said

Among the activities will be antique displays, an ap-ple cider press, spinning and felting, blacksmithing, and children’s crafts. Visi-tors can also enjoy blue-grass music, sample old style cooking and tour the Amish barn.

“The horse-drawn mill is still going on. We’ll have a horse-drawn plow-ing demonstration in our garden,” Vic said. “We’ll have all kinds of displays all over the farm and it’s hard to say which is the one most people appreci-ate. It’s probably still the molasses making.”

Vic and Gail have had plenty of help organizing

this year’s event, much of it coming from Theresa Land.

“There’s just a lot of work and a lot of effort that they put into it,” Land said. “It’s amazing how much goes into it, but we enjoy it. The people that come—they’re the ones that keep asking, ‘are you going to have farm day again?’”

Log Cabin Farm is lo-cated at 3855 Pennington Road in Greer, one mile from Blue Ridge High School. Admission is $5 per carload. Barbecue and hot dogs by Sims BBQ will be available for sale. Rain date will be Nov. 7.


Who would your wife want you to marry after she passes away?

That’s the question Greer’s Nancy Turner Welch explores in her new fiction book, “Alice’s List,” recently released online and in local stores.

Welch describes her 93-page work as a “clever way to look at life after you lose a spouse.”

“It’s kind of a humorous way of treating a rather serious subject,” she said. “I think, so often, men and women feel so guilty after a spouse dies. They think, why did that person die instead of me? There’s this turmoil there and you think, ‘I shouldn’t enjoy

the rest of my life because I’m the one that got to live.’

“But there is life after-ward, and in the book, my character Ed receives a wonderful gift from his wife, Alice.”

That gift is a list of five women Alice approves of Ed settling down with after she’s gone. In the book, Ed explores what a relationship with each of these women would look like and his wife’s’ reason-ing for choosing them.

“I really think it’s a chick book,” Welch said with a smile. “It was fun to write.

“There was a character in my mind—a woman who had been widowed a long time. Through the years, she had collected cats, so I sort of refer to

her as a ‘cat woman,’” she said. “Ed is not much on cats, so there’s a little bit of conflict when he goes to visit her and tries to figure out how he would fit in to that household. There’s another woman who hasn’t been so lucky in love. She had a not-very-faithful husband and she’s just kind of down. This book really runs through the gamut of all the kinds of women you might run into if you were 58 years old trying to find someone who is a widow.”

Welch has had plenty of writing experience in the past, but she traditionally sticks to non-fiction.

“I’ve been writing for years,” Welch said. “I’ve written several other books, but never a fiction book. I’d only ever written true stories.”

Welch learned the basics of fiction writing through a class at Furman Univer-sity.

“The instructor said, if you’ve never written fic-

tion, start with something you’re familiar with. So I started thinking of things that were kind of unusual in my past. One thing I re-membered was, before my mother died, she gave me a list of five women she wanted my father to con-sider marrying after she died. It started with that idea, but from then on, it was all fiction. I really had fun creating these five women.”

Like her character, Al-ice, Welch has also battled cancer.

“I’ve had my own battle with cancer, so this was

sort of something where you might as well say it like it is…not everyone is going to survive cancer,” she said. “I’m in my fourth round with it and so far, I’m surviving, but the real-ity is that there are a lot of people that lose their lives to cancer.

“I think the more we dis-cuss it and the more that it’s out there, the easier it is,” Welch added. “I’ll nev-er forget standing in the doctors office when they told me I had cancer. I thought, ‘oh my goodness, what does this mean?’ I thought everything was

fine, but as it turned out, not so much.”

Welch is continuing to write and her next work will likely involve ghosts.

“It’s a ghost book,” she said. “I’m working on it now and I’m trying to get it into some kind of order, but hopefully I will be able to share it soon.”

Alice’s List is available on Amazon.com. You can also find copies at Fiction Addiction in Greenville and Dobson Gifts and Gen-eral Hardware in Greer.



‘Alice’s List’ is Nancy Welch’s � rst non-� ction work, and it is available on Amazon.com and in local retail shops.

Welch takes on life after death in new book

Olde Tyme Farm Day returns Saturday

To Gail and Vic Campbell’s Log Cabin Farm


Vic Campbell is getting set to open his farm for Olde Tyme Farm Day on Saturday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

‘It’s kind of a

humorous way of

treating a rather

serious subject.’

Nancy WelchAuthor


Nancy Turner Welch signs a copy of her book during a reading last week in downtown Greer.

OLDE TYME ACTIVITIES & DISPLAYS |Molasses making with horse-drawn millApple butter makingApple cider pressHay wagon, pony cart & horse ridesBluegrass musicGrist millPlowing demonstrationQuiltingChildren’s crafts

Spinning & feltingButter churningAntique displayPeanut boilWood cookstove, dutch oven & camp� re cookingblacksmithLye soap makingClothes washing & ironingFarm animalsAmish barn

RIVERSIDE WINS DEBATE SWEEPSTAKES

The Riverside High speech and debate team participated in the 29th Bob Jones Academy Invi-tational this last weekend, winning the sweepstakes.

Individual winners and their results included:Children’s literature

Stephanie Gonzalez (2nd), Allison Watts (4th) and Lucy Wang (6th)Dramatic interpretation

Devin Remley (4th) and Allison Watts (5th)Duo interpretation

Andi April and Matt Thomas (3rd)Expository speaking

Michael Gallagher (1st)Carol Lee (2nd)

Extemporaneous speaking

Jared Boggs (2nd)Raghed Adbel-Tawab(3rd)

Humorous interpretationMonique Louw (4th)Cevlin Ucok (5th)

Impromptu speakingDevin Remley (5th)Jared Boggs (7th)Dhruv Dattani (10th)

Informative speakingDevin Remley (1st)

Novice L-D debateJaimie McKeel (1st)Julia Murray (5th)

Novice readingErdin Ucok (1st)Stephan Voelk (3rd)Mit Patel (4th)Matt Thomas (7th)

Oral interpretationCevlin Ucok (2nd)

Oratorical declamationAhva Zadeh (2nd)Michael Gallagher (3rd)

Original oratoryCarol Lee (1st)

Student congressSarai Dai (6th)Best presiding officer

Varsity L-D debateAbigail Holland (1st)Carolyn Bubanich (2nd)

Varsity public forumNeil Gramopadhye (2nd)Nicole Patterson (2nd)

GREER HIGH BAND SELLING FRUIT

Greer High School G Force marching band be-gan its annual fruit sale last week and will accept orders through Nov. 5.

Orders can be placed through one of the band students, at the front of-fice, from one of the band directors at the next game or through band director Jeff Norman.

For more information, contact Norman at 355-5738.

GREER HIGH CAREER EXPO

Greer High will hold an Advanced Manufacturing Career Expo on Oct. 29 from 11:50 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (during all three lunches).

Local industry and educational representa-tives will be on hand with booths and displays to share information about their field.

Committed participants in the expo to date in-clude 3M, Bonds Career Center, BMW, Caraustar, ECPI, Greenville Tech, In-tegrated Feeding Systems, Pierburg, Roechling Auto-motive, SEW Eurodrive Inc. and Tietex.

The event is open to the public.

For more information, contact Rick Schwartz, Greer High technology/manufacturing teacher, at [email protected] or 355-2591.

RHS HOSTS LITTLE MISS RED AND BLUE PAGEANT

Riverside High will hold its first Little Miss Red and Blue Pageant for ages 5-12 on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 11 a.m.

The first category will be casual wear to give the girls an opportunity to express themselves and show their personal, everyday style. The second category is formal wear. The third cat-egory is a Riverside spirit wear category. (It doesn’t have to be Riverside ap-parel, so get creative with colors and outfits.)

The cost to enter is $30 for the first child and $10 for each additional child. General admission is $5.

All of the money bene-

fits Riverside High’s spirit week for the Barbara Stone Foundation.

For more information, visit the school’s website.

BRUSHY CREEK COLLECTSCANDY FOR CARNIVAL

Brushy Creek Elementary will hold its Spooktacular Carnival on Oct. 30, 4:30-8 p.m., with games, rides and food.

Candy and volunteers are needed for the event. Parents can send one large bag of wrapped nut-free candy to school with their student starting now until Oct. 23, and the student will receive a homework pass.

Advance ticket sales will start soon and will also be sold during the carni-val. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Tieraney Rice at [email protected].

BRUSHY CREEK STUDENTS FOOD DRIVE

Brushy Creek Elemen-tary students will be col-lecting canned food from Nov. 16-20 for the student council’s annual drive to benefit Greer Relief.

Students can vote as a fan for Clemson or South Carolina with their dona-tions. The cans will be counted each day and the winner announced.

A “neutral” zone will be available for donations not supporting either school.

WOODLAND STUDENTS KIDS’ MARATHON CLUB

Woodland Elementary students can now register for the Kids’ Marathon

Club offered through the Greenville Track Club in conjunction with the Spinx Run Fest .

Last year more than 60 students participated. The goal this year is for students to log enough miles to complete a half-marathon (13.1 miles).

Students run their final mile around the Greenville Drive Baseball Stadium on Oct. 31.

The program is designed to encourage students to establish lifelong fitness habits by becoming in-volved in a participative/goal setting activity.

For more information or to register, visit the school’s website.

TIGERVILLE PUMPKIN DECORATING CONTEST

The Storybook Pumpkin Patch at Tigerville Elemen-tary will be Monday, Oct. 26.

Students may decorate a pumpkin to look like a book character. (No carv-ing is allowed.)

All entries must be turned in at the school caf-eteria on Monday, Oct. 26, and must include an entry form.

GREER MIDDLE COLLEGE FALL 4 GMC IS NOV. 14

Greer Middle College Charter High Fall 4 GMC 5k Walk/Run will be Saturday, Nov. 14, at 9 a.m. along the streets of Greer.

The money raised from the event will help pur-chase a new activity bus for Greer Middle College Charter High School.

DISTRICT FIVE CELEBRATES TEACHERS OF THE YEAR

Twelve District Five Schools teachers, named 2014-15 Teachers of the Year, were honored recent-ly at the District’s annual banquet at the Piedmont Club in Spartanburg.

Each of the honorees was selected by the staff at their individual schools last spring.

The teachers are: Ma-mye Gardner (Abner Creek Academy), Paje Smith (Duncan Elementary), Debbie Smith (Lyman El-ementary), Paula Quinby (Reidville Elementary), Ava Skinner (River Ridge Elementary), Sammie Bur-man (Wellford Academy), Kristy Fulbright (Beech Springs Intermediate), Freddy Coan (Berry Shoals Intermediate), Cassie Le-mus (D.R. Hill Middle), Sunshine Furner (Florence Chapel Middle), Barry Bur-nette (Byrnes Freshman Academy), and John Rat-terree (Byrnes High).

Quinby was honored as District Five’s Teacher of the Year.

SUPPORT EMPLOYEES OF THE YEAR

The District honored the Support Employees of the Year for each individual school/location at its year-ly luncheon recently.

Wanda Chasteen, a bus driver and assistant at Beech Springs Intermedi-ate, was recognized as the overall District Support Employee of the Year.

Other employees hon-ored include: Doreen Riceputo (Abner Creek Academy), Ann Canty (Duncan Elementary), An-gela Classen (Lyman El-ementary), Dee Spaniol (Reidville Elementary), De-nise Garland (River Ridge Elementary), Kristie Bent-ley (Wellford Academy), Wanda Chasteen (Beech Springs Intermediate), Jackie Moore (Berry Shoals Intermediate), Denise Cantrell (D.R. Hill Middle), Lois Irby (Florence Chapel Middle), Rhonda Bradey (Byrnes Freshman Acad-emy), Rita Jackson (Byrnes High), April Peel (District Office), Kathy Buckson (Middle Tyger Commu-nity Center), and Travis Lister (District Five Main-tenance).

ORCHESTRA STUDENTS RECEIVE HONORS

Dozens of District Five students have been tapped among the best in the state, after a top show-ing at the Region I Honors orchestra auditions earlier this month.

During the auditions, held October 2-3, stu-dents are required to learn scales, play prepared mu-sic, and sight-read pieces they have never played before. Fifty-eight District Five students were se-lected for the prestigious honor, out of more than 500 students from Spar-tanburg, Rock Hill, Union and Laurens County audi-tioning.

Receiving honors were:

Junior OrchestraViolin Students Payton Lee (FCMS), Chris-

topher Trinh (FCMS), Ben Harding (FCMS), Lauren McClary (FCMS), Campbell Quinby (FCMS), Angeline Novikov (FCMS), Adrianna Gergley (FCMS), Ella Mc-Garity (FCMS), Makenna Patterson (FCMS), Caroline White (FCMS), Lauren No-dine (FCMS), Sophie Smith (DRH), Lily Kozub (DRH), Charla Gentry (DRH), Me-gan Stephens (DRH), Lexsis Jennings (FCMS- alternate), Sydney Durham (FCMS- al-ternate)

Viola StudentsKimberly Seto (FCMS),

Noah Heck (FCMS), Maris-sa Powe (FCMS), Arianna Wilson-Brown (FCMS), Em-ily Gaffney (FCMS), Mia Godbee (FCMS), Brittany Hawkins (DRH)

Cello StudentsPreston Lee (FCMS), Nat-

alie Pickren (FCMS), Mol-lie Hance (FCMS), Diana Ilie (FCMS), Aggie Fowler (FCMS)

Bass StudentsSilas Payne (FCMS)

Senior OrchestraViolin StudentsLily Moore (BFA), Kayla

Brock (BFA), Brooke Dan-iels (BFA), Presley Rimel (BFA), Victoria White (alternate- BFA), Darla Valderrama (alternate- BFA), Emily Carroll (BHS), Maggie Hance (BHS), Mo-lina Srey (BHS), Andrew Vaughn (BHS), MacGregor Latimer (BHS), Jacob McA-bee (BHS), and Sarah Beth Cobb (BHS)

Viola StudentsKristeena Cole (BFA),

Grace Greer (BFA), Brianna Bourguignon (BHS), Caitlin Blackburn (BHS), Steven Greer (BHS), Erin Hackney (BHS), Cassandra Kondzich (BHS), Faith Sexton (BHS), Morgan Powe (BHS), Aus-tin Click (alternate- BHS)

Cello StudentsLauren Lee (BFA), Con-

nor Gaffney (BFA)Bass StudentsRebecca Lewis (BFA),

Robert Gregory (alternate- BFA), Katelyn Gilbert (al-ternate- BFA), and Rebecca Porter (BHS).

DISTRICT FIVE STUDENTS SERVE COMMUNITY

A group of District Five students is learning a special lesson outside the classroom.

The students, all part of Girl Scout Troop 2659, recently learned of a Spar-tanburg woman who had suffered severe flooding damage in her home.

Madysis Curtis (FCMS), Victoria Munson (DRH), Madilyn Millici (BSIS) and Olivia Gonzalez (BSIS) be-gan by cleaning up around the victim’s home. They later teamed up with Motor Racing Outreach (MRO), a national ministry supported by Nascar, to finish the project.

WELLFORD RECEIVES WALMART GIFT

Students at Wellford Academy received a $1,000 check from Walmart re-cently.

Teacher Jennifer Crosby was awarded the educa-tion grant after being nominated by her fiance’s mother who works for the retailer.

REBEL REGIMENT CLAIMS 84TH CHAMPIONSHIP

The nationally ranked Rebel Regiment overcame the weather and other bands from across North and South Carolina to claim the Grand Champi-onship of the Harrison El-liot Tournament of Bands at Landrum High School recently.

The Byrnes High School band collected the tro-

phies for High Music, Marching, Colorguard, and Percussion.

D5 students compete in First Tee Team Challenge

A group of District Five students recently hit the links to compete against more than 100 others from across the Upstate for the annual First Tee Team Challenge.

First Tee, a national ini-tiative that provides educa-tional lessons about char-acter, values and healthy choices through golf, was recently sponsored in four District Five Schools.

Students from Reidville Elementary, River Ridge Elementary, and Abner Creek Academy, along with P.E. teachers from those schools, participat-ed in the challenge.

Receiving awards were: Bailey Taunton (1st Place-Healthy Habits) and Thom-as Skierski (3rd place-Healthy Habits), both of River Ridge Elementary, who placed in the annual essay contest.

REIDVILLE FOCUSES ON SUN SAFETY

Students at Reidville El-ementary learned the im-portance of sun safety this week when “Dr. Dermis” a.k.a. Principal Kim Deer-ing visited the school to help students learn about acne, skin care, and sun protection.

Reidville’s School Im-provement Council start-ed this project last year, as it led the effort to earn a grant for a new sun shade for the school’s Sheppard’s Walk area and playground.

This week, the school made a video in hopes of receiving that new shade so students’ skin can be protected while they play.

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Rebel queenShaylyn Simmons was crowned the Byrnes High School homecoming queen during halftime of the Rebels’ game against J.L. Mann last Friday.

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When people talk about who invented heavy metal, they

talk about three British bands – Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. The first of these was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two decades ago, the second in 2006. It is one of rock history’s great travesties that Deep Purple still remains on the outside of the hall looking in.

In a way, it would be less reprehensible if they hadn’t been nominated and denied twice already. Yet, Deep Purple failed to garner the necessary votes in 2012 and 2013, despite pleadings from members of Rush, Metal-lica and Guns ‘n’ Roses.

Most casual rock fans know Deep Purple from the 1972 hard rock anthem, “Smoke on the Water.” But the band pro-duced far more than that. In fact, in the early ’70s, the group put out three albums that rank right up there with Sabbath’s best work and almost up there with Zeppelin’s. 1970’s “Fireball” featured the epic anti-war song, “Child in Time.” One of the all-time great vocal perfor-mances, the 10-minute tune showcases front man Ian Gillen singing/howling in three different octaves.

Do yourself a favor and look up any of guitarist Ronnie Blackmore’s solos on Youtube. You will see pretty quickly why every heavy metal guitarist in the 1980s grew up worshipping him. So I ask, how can a group that had one of rock’s all-time greatest singers and rock’s all-time greatest guitarists be denied entry into its sacred halls in Cleveland?

Obviously, the answer is political. The Hall of Fame has always been

transparent about its nomination process but remains gleefully mute about how exactly it chooses its three induct-ees each year. It’s hard to comprehend why some acts are in there and others aren’t. While most acts certainly deserve to be their spot in the hall, there are a few head-scratchers in there as well. The Mamas & the Papas, KISS and Abba all seem a bit questionable to me; while Steely Dan, Blondie and Dr. John hardly seem like obvious choices either.

Meanwhile, there are more than a few great rock acts that haven’t yet made the cut. The Zombies have been nomi-nated and shunned, while such brilliant acts as The Guess Who and Warren Zevon haven’t even been nominated.

Obviously, those acts will have to wait another year (or decade) for their names to come up. Deep Purple is on the ballot this year, along with many other famous names including NWA, Janet Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, Chicago and Steve Miller. Only three will be voted in. With the Hall’s bias towards celebrity, it’s very possible that Deep Purple will again miss the cut. For both rock enthusiasts and the band that helped invent and define heavy metal music, that’s a slap in the face even louder than their concerts.

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With “The Martian,” Ridley Scott ac-complishes the dif-

ficult task of making an intelligent science fiction film the whole family can enjoy. A director tradi-tionally known as much for his dystopic view of the world as his creative vision, Scott may be light-ening up as he nears the end of his career. Using a standout performance by Matt Damon, the direc-tor’s most recent effort is a validation of the virtues of teamwork, problem solving and – most of all— the will to live.

Damon plays Mark Whatley, a NASA botanist who’s stranded on Mars after his team evacuates the red planet during a storm. Believing he died in an accident during the storm, his crewmates mourn him and NASA holds a memorial service. Soon, however, NASA of-ficials discover a series of satellite images confirm-ing what we already know – Whatley is alive and

hoping to stay that way. To do so, he must rely on his scientific wisdom to solve one problem after the next, all the while the space experts on earth try to come up with a way to rescue him before his supply of food and water runs out.

Adapting Andy Weir’s 2011 novel of the same name, screenwriter Drew Goddard (“World War Z,” “The Cabin in the Woods”) manages to keep the story moving at a good clip. At nearly two-and-a-half hours, it’s a long movie, but mostly avoids me-andering. As one would expect from Scott, it’s a beautiful film to behold, especially in 3-D. Cinema-tographer Dariusz Wolski, who did all the “Pirates of the Caribbean” flicks and worked with Scott on the spectacular-looking 2012 3D flick “Prometheus,” gives us landscapes, sun-rises and sunsets literally

and figuratively out of this world.

Not all of the film’s ele-ments work.

“The Martian” isn’t as funny as it wants to be, and its attempts at comic relief prove more corny than humorous. The movie’s biggest flaw is its lack of three-dimensional supporting characters. As such, acclaimed talents like Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty”) and Michael Pena (“End of Watch”) don’t get to flex their acting muscle. There is a wonderful cast here, but it is underuti-lized.

Thankfully, Damon doesn’t suffer the same fate. His performance here is one of the best the sci-fi genre has ever seen, moving seamlessly be-tween despair and hope, surrender and conviction, self-pity and self-confi-dence. Despite the best efforts of the production crew, the film begins and ends with him. And he deserves high praise for keeping Mark Whatley believable no matter how outlandish the events portrayed in the movie may be.

GREER FARMERS’ MARKET CONTINUES THURSDAY

The Greer Farmers’ Mar-ket will continue Thurs-day, Oct. 1, from 4-7 p.m. in the parking lot at Main and Poinsett streets (across from BB&T).

The market will be held each Thursday through the end of October.

Visit greerfarmersmar-ket.com.

STOMPING GROUNDS UPCOMING EVENTS

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

Mondays: Colored Pen-cil Art Class with Robert Decker, 7-9 p.m.

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

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

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

Visit www.stomping-groundsgreer.com.

FURMAN UNIVERSITYIN CONCERT OCT. 22

The Furman University Men’s and Women’s Cho-rales and the Furman Sing-

ers will present their fall concert Thursday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Memo-rial Chapel on the Furman University campus.

The concert is free and open to the public, and is part of Furman’s Cultural Life Program.

Conducted by Furman music professors Dr. Viv-ian Hamilton and Dr. Hugh Ferguson Floyd, the program includes a mix of sacred and traditional hymns, folk tunes and spirituals.

Accompanying the cho-ral groups are Furman freshman Gabriel Small-wood of Florence, and Fur-man senior Grace Odell of Pelzer.

‘TWELVE ANGRY MEN’ AT LOGOS THEATRE

“Twelve Angry Men” will be staged The Academy of Arts Logos Theatre Oct. 23-24.

Based on the 1957 award-winning film with Henry Fonda, the play follows the closing argu-ments in a murder trial and the 12 members of the jury who must delib-erate, with a guilty verdict meaning death for the ac-cused, an inner-city teen. As the men try to reach a unanimous decision while sequestered in a room, one juror casts considerable doubt on elements of the case. Personal issues soon rise to the surface, and conflict threatens to derail the delicate process.

For ticket information, contact The Academy of Arts Logos Theatre at (864) 268-9342 or visit www.theacademyofarts.org for more information.

WINGS OF FREEDOM TOUR IN GREENVILLE OCT. 23-25

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine” WWII Heavy Bomber, Con-solidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft” WWII Heavy Bomber and P-51 Mustang fighter will be on display at the Greenville Down-town Airport Oct. 23-25.

The B-17 is one of only eight in flying condition in the United States, the B-24J and Full Dual Con-trol P-51C Mustang are the sole remaining examples of their type flying in the world. Visitors can ex-plore the aircraft inside and out during the event sponsored by The Collings Foundation – Wings of Freedom Tour. Ground tours and display times are 2-4:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for children under 12 to tour the air-craft. WWII veterans can tour at no cost. Flights on the B-17 or B-24 are avail-able for $450 per person. P-51 flights are $2,200 for a half hour or $3,200 for one hour.

The planes will be dis-played at Runway Café at the Greenville Downtown Airport, 21 Airport Road Ext.

For more information or to reserve a flight, call 800-568-8924.

SHERMAN COLLEGE HEALTH CENTER TRUNK OR TREAT

Sherman College Health Center will host Trunk or Treat for families on Friday, Oct. 30, from 5-8 p.m.

Cars will be deco-rated, and their own-ers will be dressed to match. Visitors are asked to bring your bags or buckets.

The event will be held in the Sherman College of Chiropractic – Health Center parking lot, 2020 Springfield Road in Boil-ing Springs (use zip code 29316 for GPS).

HUBBARD FEATURED ARTIST IN LANDRUM

The artist for the month of October at Carolina Foothills Artisan Center in Landrum will be Erin Hub-bard, a recent graduate of Western Carolina Uni-versity and intern at the Center.

Carolina Foothills Arti-san Center in Landrum is open Mondays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Call (864) 461-3050.

WESTERN CAROLINA RADIO CONTROL HOSTS FLY IN

Western Carolina Radio Control will host its fifth annual Charity Fly In on Oct. 31 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. to benefit the Miracle Hill Boys Shelter in Greenville.

Admission to the event is free for spectators. Food and drinks will be avail-able for sale.

Pilot landing fee is $20 and includes lunch.

There will be drawings for remote control planes and candy for kids’ trick-or-treating.

The event will be held at the WCRC club field on Highway 417 one mile south of Highway 101 near Willow Creek Golf Course in between Dean Road and Bragg Road.

FICTION ADDICTION HOSTS STORYTIME THURSDAYS

Local independent book-store Fiction Addiction hosts a free children’s sto-rytime for preschoolers every Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m.

Upcoming books to be read include:

Oct. 22: “The Nonsense Show” by Eric Carle.

Oct. 29: “The Fun Book of Scary Stuff” by Hyewon Yum.

Nov. 5: “Imaginary Fred” by Eoin Colfer.

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PICKS OF THE WEEK“Inside Out” (PG) -- Pix-

ar goes on an inward-jour-ney with this inventive animated adventure about the struggles of growing up and having emotions. Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias) is an 11-year-old who has trouble adjusting after her family moves to a new state. Like all of us, Riley has a rich inner-world full of memories, and her emotions influence how she acts and how she sees the world. Usually, Riley is guided by Joy (Amy Poe-hler), in conjunction with the other personified feel-ings: Fear, Sadness, Anger and Disgust (Bill Hader, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black and Mindy Kaling).

When kids movies try to tackle complicated topics, the result is usually either dumbed-down to point-lessness, or the complexi-ty suffocates the fun. Pixar has made a movie that is both pricelessly fun and original, without compro-mising on the message.

“Vacation” (R) -- The leg-acy of National Lampoon’s vacation flicks lives on this hard-R sequel. Ed Helms (of “The Office”) leads as Rusty Griswald, the son from the old “Vacation” movies, now a grownup failure who is borderline reviled by his wife and kids -- just like his dad! Rusty has the brilliant idea to rekindle his marriage and impress his sons by taking them on the same horrendous road trip his dad dragged him on!

The raunchy humor in this outing is generally more cringe-inducing than laugh-out-loud. The last set of Griswalds weren’t a really happy bunch, but there’s a weird bitterness to many of the jokes be-tween these family mem-bers. The intense gross-out factor also is much higher than before, which could be a draw for some.

“The End of the Tour” (R) -- In 1996, the literary world received a huge hit to the head from a heavy book. David Foster Wal-lace’s novel “Infinite Jest” quickly established the author as The New Guy to Watch. This movie is an up-close study of an unre-leased interview with the young author, just coming to grips with the success headed his way. In ‘96, Rolling Stone sent journal-ist and novelist David Lip-sky (Jesse Eisenberg) on a five-day ride-along with Wallace (Jason Segel). This is a major turn for Segel -- until now best known for comedy -- successfully tak-ing on such a challenging role in an unconventional movie.

“Roar” (R) -- The bloodi-est, most recklessly life-threatening film produc-tion in Hollywood history resulted in this light-heart-ed comedy about a family “acting” afraid while they share a home with at least 100 untrained tigers, lions and panthers. Writer/di-rector Noel Marshall felt so strongly about this movie that he cast his own fam-ily, literally feeding them to lions -- including his wife Tippi Hedren (from Hitchcock’s “The Birds”) and her daughter, Melanie Griffith (who would later need facial surgery after a lion attack). At least 70 people were seriously in-jured during production, which was a never-end-ing nightmare thanks to money problems and en-tire crews wisely walking away from the project. But Marshall finished his movie. Never released in the U.S., the 1981 film is now available on Blu-ray, and it’s a must-have for collectors of Hollywood’s worst ideas.

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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Brooke wondered how Ridge could be the father of Caroline’s baby if he once had a vasectomy. Caroline became anxious when Pam told her that Brooke knew about her pregnancy. Meanwhile, Steffy was concerned about how Thomas would react to the baby news. Ivy tried to make Wyatt un-derstand why she no lon-ger wanted to be a model. Nicole hoped that the talk she had with Zende wouldn’t jeopardize their relationship. Ridge and Caroline speculated about Brooke’s true intentions. Zende confided in Carter about his and Nicole’s re-lationship challenge. Maya and Nicole received some news that was going to impact their lives substan-tially. Wait to See: A Hal-loween party is filled with more tricks than treats.

DAYS OF OUR LIVESBen admitted that he

was the Necktie Killer. An-dre and Stefano pressured Aiden. Rafe tried to ignore his feelings for Hope by fo-cusing on another woman in town. Lani questioned Abe about his past. Steve encountered extreme dan-ger in Mexico. An ailing Bo struggled to get back to his loved ones. Aiden took the first steps to carry out his deadly plot. Daniel and

Nicole shared a day of ro-mance. Sonny said good-bye to Salem once again. Abigail visited Chad in the hospital and was still con-flicted over whether or not he was innocent. Adrienne blew up at Justin when she felt that he was trying to control her life. Steve and Bo were finally reunited, but not under the best of circumstances. Wait to See: Bo is shocked to learn that Hope is getting mar-ried.

GENERAL HOSPITALAlexis shared some jaw-

dropping news with Julian that would change his life forever. Kiki helped a be-wildered Nina prepare to host a family visit with Maxie and Nathan. Franco was thrown by Nathan’s comments about his in-tentions for Nina. Nathan urged Dante to tell Lulu

the truth. Carly, Michael and Morgan offered sup-port to a struggling Sonny. Spinelli made an impor-tant discovery while help-ing Sam and Jake. Alexis advised Julian on how to handle Olivia. Liz asked Jake to quit the investiga-tion into his identity. Lulu observed tension between Laura and Nikolas. Liz’s colleagues threw her a bridal shower at the hospi-tal. Wait to See: Dillon and Dante fight over Lulu.

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS

Neil and Gwen tried to convince Dr. Neville to help them with Hilary. Noah was hurt when the psychiatrist told him that his mother didn’t want any visitors. Lily felt that her marriage to Cane was back on track -- until she made a shocking discov-ery. Luca taunted Marisa with details of her past. Noah sensed that Marisa was upset and pressed her to open up to him. Devon and Paul discussed possi-ble motives on why some-one might kidnap Hilary. Christine warned Billy not to take the law into his own hands. Sharon got upset when Patty, of all people, voiced concern about her behavior. Adam forced Chelsea to admit her true feelings for him. Wait to See: Victor blames Billy when tragedy strikes his family.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 80-year-old woman who always had excellent health until about four years ago, when I was diagnosed as having bronchiectasis. Since then, I have had to use an albuterol solution, plus an Airway Vest, in pe-riodic daily treatments in order to continue breath-ing.

A few weeks ago, my doctor prescribed 10 mg of prednisone daily in addition, and the results have been amazing. In-stead of five to six inhaler treatments each 24 hours, I need only two or three, and (the best result) I can sleep through the night! Previously, I woke every three to four hours nightly for a treatment with the in-haler and vest, and I often slept poorly afterward.

My prednisone dosage has been reduced to 5 mg daily, and although I know it is a (possibly dangerous) corticosteroid, I dread the prospect of going back to the days of arranging my life around the use of the albuterol inhalers, as well as feeling so much less able to enjoy what life I have left. What would be the result of continuing a minimal dosage of pred-nisone (5 mg or less per day)? What alternatives do I have? -- C.B.

ANSWER: This is a good question, not just for bronchiectasis (a scar-ring condition of the air-

ways, so they can’t clear mucus properly), but for the many, many diseases treated with prednisone. Long-term use of high-dose prednisone (and similar steroids, such as cortisone and methyl-prednisolone, or Medrol) can cause diabetes in sus-ceptible individuals, and it raises blood pressure, weakens bones, increases hunger and causes weight gain in most, causes thin-ning and other skin prob-lems and, in high doses, causes confusion or psy-chosis. It is indeed a dan-gerous drug.

However, as bad as it is, it sometimes is so effec-tive at improving the dis-ease it’s treating that the benefit is worth the risk of all these side effects. There are some conditions where the prednisone has to be permanent, although we are finding more and more alternatives to re-duce or replace the pred-nisone.

The body makes its own steroid, cortisone, at the daily equivalent of rough-ly 5 mg of prednisone. At that dose or less, the risks of prednisone are much less than at the high dose

of 40 mg, 60 mg or greater used for inflammatory and autoimmune diseas-es. If you have to stay on this dose, it sounds like the benefit outweighs the risk.

One alternative you haven’t mentioned is ste-roid inhalers. For asthma and sometimes for bron-chiectasis, steroid inhalers, which use far more potent steroids than prednisone, can have as good a benefit. They are poorly absorbed, and as such have little or no systemic side effects, like raising blood sugar and blood pressure. If you are doing well on a 5 mg dose of prednisone, you would likely do well on a steroid inhaler.

***DR. ROACH WRITES:

I wrote recently about loss of eyebrow hair. One reader wrote in to tell me that in her case, a magne-sium supplement solved her problem entirely. I did find that magnesium defi-ciency can cause hair loss, so it may be worth a try.

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer in-dividual letters, but will

incorporate them in the column whenever pos-sible. Readers may email questions to [email protected]. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rb-mamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive Orlando, FL 32803.

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STUDENTS ART ON DISPLAY AT DISTRICT OFFICE

The artwork of several aspiring artists is on dis-play in the District Five administrative office.

The following students from Reidville Elementa-ry and

Wellford Academy have work on display for the month of October: El-vin Osorio Torres, Emma Otto, Lily Estola, Brianna Chambers, Brock Franklin, Jacksen Whitener, Emer-son Moody and Kerigan Chesney.

Teachers Elizabeth Brown and Tommie Ham-met assisted the students.

FALL FESTIVAL AT BERRY SHOALS

The Fall Festival at Berry Shoals Intermediate will be held Thursday, Oct. 22, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

The event will offer games, a hot dog supper, and a bike giveaway.

BYRNES STUDENTS HELP WITH CLEAN-UP EVENT

Byrnes High students pitched in to help the en-vironment at Spartanburg County’s annual “Lake Sweep” event recently.

The students helped pick up 20,000 pounds of trash around Lake Bowen, Spar-tanburg County’s drinking water reservoir.

Participants included: Allison Stewart, Desti-nee Panyasiri, Emmetria Spells, Kaylan Cain, Abigail Thompson, Emily La Croix, Bailey Sturgis, Ryan Patter-son, Skylar Tipton, Mitch-ell Hall, Khalil Goodman, Pawel Podedworny, Gabri-elle Butz, Karolyn McClain, Katelynn Kitts and D5 em-ployees, Rhonda Dodson and Laura Thompson.

BJU ORCHESTRA AMERICAN PRIZE SEMI-FINALIST

The Bob Jones University Symphony Orchestra, un-der the direction of Dr. Mi-chael W. Moore, has been named as a semi-finalist

in the orchestral perfor-mance – college/university division of The American Prize. In consideration for the award, Moore submit-ted the BJUSO’s “In Cel-ebration of Song” concert presented in March 2015.

A collaboration between the BJUSO and faculty and students in the Division of Music voice department, the performance featured selections from Hump-erdinck’s opera “Hansel and Gretel,” Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutti,” Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale,” and several mu-sical theatre selections.

The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit national competitions in the performing arts pro-viding cash awards, pro-fessional adjudication and regional, national and international recognition for the best recorded per-formances by ensembles and individuals each year in the United States at the professional, college/uni-

versity, church, commu-nity and secondary school levels. Administered by Hat City Music Theater, Inc., a nonprofit organi-zation based in Danbury, Connecticut, The Ameri-can Prize was founded in 2009 and is awarded an-nually.

The competitions of The American Prize are open to all U.S. citizens, wheth-er living in this country or abroad, and to others cur-rently living, working and/or studying in the United States of America, its pro-tectorates or territories.

JOHNSON NAMED TO MUSC DEAN’S LIST

Kinsley Johnson has been named to the Sum-mer 2015 Dean’s List at the Medical University of South Carolina College of Dental Medicine.

To be named to the Dean’s List, a student must earn a GPA of 3.5 or better for any given semester.

AREA STUDENTS NAMED TO PRESIDENT’S LIST

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

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

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

Chase BlackwellJacob Riggs

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Breakfast to savor....Amy Natiel Ross, of Greer, became the bride of Tad Bryant Forrester, of Greer, during a 4 p.m. ceremony on October 17, 2015, conducted by Rev. Jamie Bertolini at New Covenant Fellowship in Greer.

A reception was held at The Cannon Centre. The wedding party was greet-ed during a 6:30 p.m. re-hearsal dinner on Friday evening at the Greer Coun-try Club hosted by Chuck and Wanda Forrester.

The former Miss Ross is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ross, of Greer, and granddaughter of Mrs. Judy Bomar, of Greer, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Leop-ard, of Taylors, and Mr. and Mrs. Mansel Bomar, of Jacksonville, Florida. She is a 2010 graduate of Greer High School.

Mr. Forrester is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Forrester, of Greer, and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John Forrester, of Greer,

the late Sarah Massengale, of Woodruff, and Mrs. Mary Pruitt, of Greer. He is a 2009 graduate of Greer High School.

The bride was attired in a multi-textured lace fit and flare dress by Allure. The bodice featured a strap-less sweetheart neckline, and the train held dra-matic layering with trinity crystal buttons cascading down the back.

Attending her were Ms. Tiffany Patterson, as her maid of honor, and Ms. Meg Forrester, Ms. Heather Bell and Ms. Savannah Bell, as her bridesmaids. Miss Jada Cannady served as flower girl.

Attending the groom was his father as his best man, and Mr. Andy Ross, Mr. Chris Forrester, Mr. Taylor Allen, and Mr. Tai-lor Mcabee, as his grooms-men.

Upon their return from Destin, Florida, the newly-weds will reside in Greer.

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