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Clemson head football coach and lead cheer-

Are these Tigers the real deal?

Eric BoyntonOn the Sidelines

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CLEMSON—There’ssomething in the air atthe school starved forfootball championships,and it isn’t the smellwafting up from thegrills on game day atDeath Valley.Blame Danny Ford.

Blame Jeff Davis, ormaybe Terry Kinard,each of themmembersof the College FootballHall of Fame. If Ford,the coach of the 1981

Clemson team, or Davis, its captain, or Kinard, one ofits best players, hadn’t been there in 1981 and donewhat they did as a team, maybe the feeling on campustoday wouldn’t be quite what it is.But it’s there, even as the undefeated football team

prepares for its second Atlantic Coast Conferenceroad game tonight at College Park against Maryland.People who know will tell you the soaring feeling ofenthusiasm and belief is as unmistakable as it is rareon campus this deep into the schedule.“My son has been telling me for a few weeks now,”

Sherry Thrift Bradshaw said of her son, Brewer, asenior on the Clemson golf team. “He calls and says,‘Mom, it’s electric out here, it’s amazing.’

SeeWRIGHT, Page 7AClemson's undefeated season has ignited a spirit of enthusiasm among, fans, studentsand alumni. BART BOATWRIGHT/STAFF

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FIRST PLACEThe Post and CourierGene Sapakoff

PHOTO PROVIDED

Jeremy Shultz, 37, a freelance camera operator, died Friday from injuries suffered in a Dec. 30 fire.

Unmanned camera a tribute to Jeremy Shultz

Before the fire, Jeremy Shultz always had the best seat in the house, operating large cameras at the edge

of big-time sports action and all over the country for ESPN or CBS or Fox.

But if you watched the Wofford-College of Charleston game Thursday night on ESPNU, you didn’t get the quality camera work you have unknowingly appreciated during countless bowl games,

March Madness doubleheaders and Major League Baseball telecasts.

An ESPNU camera behind one of the baskets at Carolina First Arena was left unmanned, a tribute to Jeremy, who died last Friday at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta of injuries suffered Dec. 30 in an early morning fire at his home in Goose Creek.

He was 37.I ran into Jeremy and his infectious smile

at stadiums and arenas from Charleston to Kansas City, Miami to Blacksburg, Va. We chatted, joked, pulled pranks on each other.

But always the conversation kept going back to family. Jeremy asked about mine and went on and on about Maryann Hernandez, the love of his life, their 3-year-old son Dallas and her 11-year-old

daughter Cinnamin.“Yes, that sounds like Jeremy,” Maryann

said Thursday, a few hours before his funeral. “Nothing was more important to Jeremy than the kids.”

All about familyYou know how at many funerals folks

console themselves by agreeing that the departed lived a long life and didn’t suffer much? This wasn’t one of those.

They arrived at Northwoods Chapel early, filling all the seats. Soon there was no room left to stand in the back of the room. Eventually, the expansive lobby was jam-packed enough to keep people outside the building.

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Lunch with Bethanieand Justin

MOUNT PLEASANT — Soup and salad at Jacob’s Kitchen, just another

Tuesday on the WTA Tour for Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Except that this woman pushes the norm. High socks on the court. Husband watching every serve and volley.

Mattek-Sands, unlike most of the best tennis players in the world, is married and travels the globe with

omnipresent and personable Justin Sands. At 26, she is the top-ranked American player not named Williams (No. 41) and the only seeded American in this week’s Family Circle

Cup singles draw (No. 14).Plus, Bethanie has some darn

impressive tattoos.“These are killer bees,” she says,

pointing to her left forearm. “Because ‘Killer B’ was my nickname growing up.”

Those pretty flowers on the upper arm?

“My Zen garden,” Bethanie explains. “Water lilies. This tattoo is actually not finished yet, but it just hurt so much getting it done I had to stop.”

Justin Sands smiles.He knows what’s coming next.“And this,” says his wife of 29

months, “is Justin’s name written inside my ring finger.”

Justin, 28, has a “Bethanie” tattoo, too. Giant. All the way down his right arm.

“That’s it,” their lunch guest says. “You guys definitely have to stick together now.”

“Yeah,” Justin says jokingly, “and if it doesn’t work out, it will remind me of a great time in my life.”

Their eyes meet. They laugh.

‘Sappy romantics’

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Spurrier’s rant can’t mask problems

Hard to say if it was the most bizarre day in University of South Carolina football

history. I’ve only been around the

program for a quarter-century.Taking stock of the two primary

developments Tuesday:The Gamecocks lost a

quarterback.Head coach Steve Spurrier

might be losing his marbles.It’s hilarious when a head coach

gets ticked off enough to become must-see YouTube, unless he represents your favorite team or the largest institution of higher learning in your home state.

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Or unless he is acting.It’s constructive to roughly

dissect the timeline of South Carolina’s odd start to Mississippi State week.

A little after noon, Spurrier entered his weekly news conferenceat Williams-Brice Stadium and, without taking a seat, said he no longer will take questions in the presence of Ron Morris, a

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HOLLY HILL — Finding strength in memories is one of the ways in which Benjamin Bailey of Holly Hill says he’s been able to cope with the un-timely death of his grandson, who died of a gunshot wound Saturday.

It was in the early morn-ing hours of April 16 that Bai-ley and other family members learned of the death of his 22-year-old grandson, Johnathan M. Bailey, an electrical engi-neering student at South Car-olina State University.

According to Orangeburg County Coroner Samuetta Marshall, Bailey died as the re-sult of a gunshot wound to the

chest. Offi cers of the SCSU Po-lice Department, the Orange-burg County Sheriff ’s Offi ce, the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety and Emergency Medical Services personnel were initially called to what appeared to be a collision at the S.C. State University Campus Services Building on Russell Street Friday night. Bailey’s 1988 green Chevrolet Monte Carlo had crashed into the front steps of the building.

The authorities determined Bailey had been shot once in the chest. He was transported to the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, then airlifted to Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia.

Bailey succumbed to his in-juries while undergoing sur-gery at around 2:15 a.m. Satur-day, according to the incident report.

S.C. State University Po-lice Chief Michael Bart-ley believes Bailey may have been shot in the parking lot of Queen’s Hall apartments on the S.C. State campus. After he was wounded, Bailey ap-parently attempted to escape his assailant by driving down Baldwin Street in front of the apartment complex. He then drove across Russell Street and swerved into the Campus Ser-vices Building.

Officials believe robbery may have been the motive in

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Woman dies, 2 injured, in Bamberg area crashBy CAROL BARKERT&D Region Editor

A 26-year-old Bamberg woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon.

Bamberg County Coroner Wil-lard “Billy” Duncan said San-quenetta Davis died in the wreck that occurred around 3:10 p.m. on U.S. 601 near Grits Road, about 3.6 miles south of Bamberg.

S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Trevor Clinton said Davis was driv-

ing a 1999 Ford Expedition south on U.S. 601 with two passengers, both minors, in the vehicle with her.

When Davis attempted to over-take and pass another vehicle, her SUV ran off the left side of the road, the trooper said. Davis over-cor-rected, causing the Expedition to overturn several times, Clinton said. Both Davis and the backseat passenger were ejected from the vehicle, he said.

One of the passengers was trans-

ported to Bamberg County Hos-pital for treatment and the other was airlifted to Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia, the SCHP spokesman said.

In addition to the SCHP and the Coroner’s Offi ce, other agen-cies responding were the Bamberg County Sheriff ’s Offi ce, Bamberg County EMS and the Clear Pond Volunteer Fire Department.

As of April 17, 210 people had died on the state’s roads, accord-ing to the S.C. Department of Pub-

lic Safety. That is 11 less than the same period a year ago.

Bamberg County had one traffi c fatality before Tuesday’s fatal acci-dent. Calhoun County had two, and Orangeburg County had four.

Last year at this time, Orange-burg County had 13 traffi c fatalities, Bamberg County had one and Cal-houn County had one.

Contact the writer: [email protected] or 803-533-5525.

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Sanquenetta Davis, 26, of Bamberg died Tuesday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 601, about six miles from Bamberg. Two of her passengers were injured.

By DALE LINDER-ALTMANT&D Staff Writer

Dr. Walter A. Tobin will become president of Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College on June 1.

He was selected from among four candidates by a unanimous vote of the Area Commission on Tuesday.

Tobin says he is “humbled and in awe” of the trust the commission has shown him.

“I look forward to developing a re-lationship with the Area Commission and the Foundation and each member of the faculty and staff ,” he said. “We will craft a plan together to move the institution forward.”

Area Commission Chairman Bob Paulling, who also headed the search team, said that selecting the new pres-ident was a tough process, but it was well planned and worth the eff ort.

“I really feel like we got input from

all the diff erent stakeholders, from the Foundation, the executive com-mittee ... open forums with the faculty and staff ,” he said. “We certainly used their feedback.”

All four candidates were strong and had diff erent tools and abilities, Paull-ing said.

“We’d love to have all four candi-dates working for us, but you can only

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Driver faces DUI in fatal crash with ambulanceBy RICHARD WALKER

T&D Staff Writer

An Orangeburg man has been accused of driving drunk during the Sunday morning collision that left one dead.

S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Trevor Clinton said a charge of felony driving under the infl uence has been served against 22-year-old Zachary M. Thomas.

Investigators say Thomas was the

driver of a four-door Dodge that slammed into the side of a Bamberg County am-bulance at the intersection of Magnolia Street and Stilton Road around 7:30 a.m. Sunday.

Thomas’ passenger, Christopher Har-rison, 23, died of injuries received in the crash.

After the crash, Thomas was taken to Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia where he was released around 4:20 p.m. Tuesday.

The driver of the ambulance and two medical employees in the Bamberg County vehicle were treated for injuries, one with a fractured arm.

The ambulance was traveling to the Regional Medical Center with a woman who had just given birth.

Mother and baby were said to be do-ing fi ne.

Contact the writer: rwalker@times anddemocrat.com or 803-533-5516.

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INSIDEFew would argue that

driving while distracted is dangerous. And one distraction is using a mo-bile device to send texts. Some counties and mu-nicipalities are considering whether to pass local laws banning texting while driv-ing. The T&D weighs in on the issue on today’s edito-rial page, A8

S.C. State shooting victim’s grandfatherfi nds strength in memories of him

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By GENE ZALESKIT&D Staff Writer

Tawana Johnson was franti-cally looking for her daughter Monday afternoon after the Orangeburg-Wilkinson se-nior called to say her school bus was stuck in the water.

In the background of her daughter’s call, Johnson heard “crying kids, kids were screaming.

“There was something about the bus was sliding and going along with the water. That is all I could understand.”

And as she tried to locate the bus, she discovered her routes were blocked by the rising water.

The flooding occurred as heavy rains rolled through the area around 3:30 p.m. Monday, dumping lots of wa-ter in a short period of time. Slow moving thunderstorms stretched from St. Matthews southwest to Orangeburg, Cordova and Rowesville.

National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Miller said rainfall totals over a roughly 2.5-hour period ranged from about 3.94 inches at the Or-angeburg County Emergency Management Offi ce on Ellis Avenue to 2.54 inches at the Orangeburg Department of Public Utilities water treat-ment plant. The Orangeburg Airport reported about 1.78 inches, with most falling over the course of an hour.

Miller said the rainfall, which began around 2:30 p.m. and lasted until around 5 p.m. was the result of slow-moving showers and thunder-storms that “trained” over the Orangeburg area.

“There were copious amounts of low-level moisture combined with slow move-ment,” Miller said.

The bus stalled at the inter-section of Lakeside Street and Old Riley Street around 4:30 p.m. Billy Schlins, who lives nearby, said he spotted it while he was out looking at the rain.

“The school bus came down Lakeside Street and was going to take a right onto Old Riley when she stalled out,” Sch-lins said. “The bus could not go any further, and all the stu-dents were trapped.”

Schlins said when he heard them screaming, he put his rubber boots on and ap-proached the bus.

“I tried to tell the students to calm down and not to move around,” he said.

The bus driver told him the

bus had shifted due to the ris-ing water, he said.

“An offi cer and I went to the back of the bus and opened the

back of the bus and helped the

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OF THE ‘BIG HEAD’■ Clemson named national team of the week, B1■ Melvin Ingrim named SEC defensive player of week, B1

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By RICHARD WALKERT&D Staff Writer

One of four remaining defendants in the 2010 shootout that left a New York man dead has pleaded guilty.

Jarrod Jacques, 24, of 394 Jamison Ave., Or-angeburg, has pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder.

Circuit Court Judge Ed Dickson sentenced Jacques to 16 years in prison with credit for time he served since his incarceration in June 2010.

Jacques became the second defendant to be held responsible in what prosecutors have called a “Wild West” shootout at the Chest-nut Street Bojangles.

On Sept. 14, co-defendant Ronald Smith called it quits two days into his trial, plead-ing guilty to murder. He was sentenced to 31 years in prison.

Charges are still pending against the three remaining defendants: Orlando Haynes, 24;

2nd defendant sentenced in fatal shootoutBy RICHARD WALKER

T&D Staff Writer

A 29-year-old Charleston man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges related to the March armed robbery of a Neeses pharmacy.

Sean Phillip Smith of 1021 Encampment Road entered a plea of guilty to armed rob-bery and two counts of fi rst-degree assault and battery.

Circuit Court Judge Ed Dickson sentenced

Smith to 25 years for armed robbery and 10 years on each assault charge, to be served concurrently.

Charges of armed robbery and assault against Smith’s codefendant, 30-year-old Jeff rey Martin Tranchida of Charleston, are still pending.

The two men were arrested March 29 after a robbery at the pharmacy inside the Neeses

Man gets 25 years in Neeses Pig robbery

Streets fl ood,vehicles stallas waters rise

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Hillcrest Street was closed off to traffi c Monday afternoon after heavy rains soaked the area. Area residents say the road fl ooded in a similar fashion about 10 years ago.

T&D CORRESPONDENT RICHARD REID

Flooding on Chestnut Street near the intersection with Magnolia Street stopped traffi c.

T&D CORRESPONDENT RICHARD REID

Water ran fast on Brookside Drive near Riverbank Drive.

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Not much will stop a football game. But a recent matchup in Neeses was postponed for an unusual reason: a fi re ant infestation.

On Friday night, Sept. 30, the game between Hunter-Kinard-Tyler and Cal-houn County high schools was post-poned for a few days after an inspection of the fi eld revealed 15 to 20 active fi re ant mounds.

“What is happening is fairly predict-able,” said Tim Davis, a Clemson Exten-sion agent and invasive species special-ist. “We had a very long, very hot and very dry summer. Fire ants have been there the whole time ... but are not very visible when it is hot and dry.”

He said, “When it rains and it’s cooler weather, they build up the mounds to

control both temperatures and mois-ture in the mounds.”

The dry weather and temperatures that dipped into the teens and single digits two winters ago may have put a dent in the fi re ant population, he said.

“But they rebound from that,” Davis said.

Controlling their population can be “tricky,” he said.

In the case of a football fi eld, a granu-lar treatment can be broadcast at least once a year and then used as needed for spot infestations, Davis said.

“Fire ant management should be a part of a regular maintenance program,” he said.

Davis said there are three primary means of controlling fi re ants: individ-

By JANET MCCONNAUGHEYAssociated Press

NEW ORLEANS — It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper’s metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants nesting behind them. A circle of poison stops them for only a day, and then a fresh horde shows up, bringing babies. Stand in the yard, and in seconds ants cover your shoes.

It’s an extreme example of what can happen when the ants — which also can disable huge industrial plants — go unchecked. Controlling them can cost thousands of dollars. But the story is real, told by someone who’s been studying ants for a decade.

“Months later, I could close my eyes and see them moving,” said Joe MacGown, who curates the ant, mosquito and scarab collections at the Mississippi State Entomolog-ical Museum at Mississippi State University.

He’s been back to check on the hairy crazy ants. They’re still around. The occupant isn’t.

The fl ea-sized critters are called crazy because each forager scrambles randomly at a speed that your average picnic ant, marching one by one, reaches only in video fast-forward. They’re called hairy because of fuzz that, to the naked eye, makes their abdomens look less glossy than those of their slower, bigger cousins.

And they’re on the move in Florida, Texas, Mis-sissippi and Louisiana. In Texas, they’ve invaded homes and industrial complexes, urban areas and rural areas. They travel in cargo containers, hay bales, potted plants, motorcycles and moving vans. They overwhelm beehives — one Texas beekeeper was losing 100 a year in 2009. They short out in-dustrial equipment.

If one gets electrocuted, its death releases a chem-ical cue to attack a threat to the colony, said Roger Gold, an entomology professor at Texas A&M.

“The other ants rush in. Before long, you have a ball of ants,” he said.

A computer system controlling pipeline valves shorted out twice in about 35 days, but monthly

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No liquor storein residentialarea, judge says


The owners of a Mingo Street liquor store cannot continue to operate in an area where liquor stores are not allowed, an Orangeburg judge has ruled.

First Circuit Court Judge Edgar W. Dickson said Ronita and Isaac Clay Briggman cannot operate their liquor store at 455 Mingo Street, upholding an Orangeburg County Board of Zoning Appeals decision in February.

“You can’t win them all,” said Charles Wil-liams III, Briggman’s attorney. “I do believe it was a fair decision. We had a complex legal argument to be made and one that required a lot of research. I think they probably made the right decision.”

Williams said while he still needs to talk to his client, he does not foresee an appeal.

The Briggmans opened the store in an area zoned for residential general property, where liquor stores are typically not allowed. The business had been a convenience store and did not start selling liquor until 2009, after the county implemented zoning.

The Briggmans sought a variance from the Board of Zoning Appeals that would allow them to remain open. In February, the board unanimously denied their request.

Board attorney Lakesha Jeff ries said, “We are pleased with the decision and ruling of the court and believe the same was proper

AP PHOTOS/MISSISSIPPI STATE ENTOMOLOGICAL MUSEUM

In this undated photo, Nylanderia pubens (ants) tend to membracid (treehopper) nymphs in the wild in Starkville, Miss. Hairy crazy ants are on the move in Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. The fl ea-sized critters are called crazy because each ant in the horde seems to scramble randomly, moving so fast that videos look as if they’re on fast-forward.

Hairy, crazy ants invade the South

While not crazy, ants are still tricky to control

ON THE MOVEANTS

A queen Nylanderia pubens (ant) specimen is seen in Starkville, Miss.

19 dead in Cairo

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Area roads set to receive paving cash

T&D Staff Report

A 3.5-mile stretch of Orangeburg’s North Road is scheduled to receive federal money for road paving.

North Road from Columbia Road to Lake Edisto Drive will be rehabilitated and paved with the money. In total, Orangeburg County roads are set to receive about $2.5 million in federal funds to pave fi ve miles of roads.

About .81 miles of Magnolia Street from Chestnut Street to Stilton Road will be rehabilitated.

Also, about .74 miles of U.S. 178 in the town of North is scheduled for rehabilita-tion from Bedford Avenue to Air Base Road.

The money is part of the S.C. Department of Transportation’s 2012 Federal Aid Pave-ment Improvement Program.

About $11.5 million has been allocated for SCDOT District 7, which includes Or-angeburg, Bamberg, Calhoun, Aiken, Al-lendale, Barnwell, Clarendon and Hampton counties.

In Calhoun County, about $446,000 will be provided to pave 4.78 miles of Center Hill Road west of St. Matthews from Columbia Road to near Beaver Creek Road.

In Bamberg County, $677,000 will be pro-vided to pave 6.94 miles on Rivers Bridge Road east of Ulmer from U.S. 321 to the Rivers Bridge State Park. About 1.02 miles on Main Highway in Bamberg will also be paved.

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The federal government is providing the cash to fi x a 3.5-mile stretch of North Road.

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Retired pilot recalls flying during attack

Bob Dunn was fly-ing a Boeing 777 from Ireland to Atlanta on the morning of Sept.

11, 2001, when he received a printed message that not only changed the path in which his aircraft was traveling but also the way his industry conducted business.

The Delta Air Lines pilot was soaring over the Atlan-tic somewhere southwest of

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30,000 visit downtown for event’s 35th year in city

Added attractions and a new layout for Aiken’s Makin’ provided for happier patrons, vendors and event organizers this year as the 35th annual Aiken’s Makin’ came to a close on Saturday.

Arts, crafts, fun and food were the focal points in downtown Aiken throughout the weekend during the two-day event that brought about 200 vendors to the streets and an estimated 30,000 people to the heart of the city.

The hundreds of vendors that flock to Aiken each year to set up shop include glass and wood workers, jewelry mak-ers, bakers, artisans, painters, weavers and many more.

This year, changes were made to the way the event was structured in order to provide

for a “user friendly and better environment so that people can have a good time,” said John McMichael, Aiken’s Makin’ co-chair.

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After 40 years in the sky, area resident ended occupation finding foresight into future of US airlines after terrorist attacks.

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PACING INTO THE GOLDEN YEARSUSCA celebrates half-century of bringing advanced education to county residents.

Jackson man dies after being ejectedin vehicle wreck

An early morning crash in Jackson has left one man dead after his vehicle left the roadway, overturned and ejected the man from the truck, according to the Aiken County Coroner’s Office.

Matthew Turner, 30, was pronounced dead from multiple body trauma at the scene of the crash, which happened around 1:40 a.m. on Sat-urday near Foreman Road in Jackson, according to Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton.

Turner was driving with his friend and pas-senger, 29-year-old Trey Funderburg III, of Martinez, Ga., Carlton said. Funderburg was sent to Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

According to South Carolina Highway Patrol Cpl. Bob Beres, both men were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.


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STAFF PHOTO BY ASHLEEY WILLIAMSONCHECKING OUT WHAT AIKEN’S MAKIN’: Brooke Widener, who comes to Aiken’s Makin’ each year with her mom and little brother, pets a wrought iron pinto horse for sale at the 35th annual event.

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The fate of Aiken County’s branch post offices

remain in limbo as the debate over the U.S. Postal

Service’s budget heats up again in the context of the

country’s federal budget woes.Among the most recent of the U.S. Postal Service’s

proposals are changes such as reducing its network of

processing facilities and mail-processing equipment

by half or more, reducing its staff by approximately

35,000 positions and drastically reducing the national

mail transportation network. The Processing and Distribution Facility in Augusta

is on the list of 250 facilities slated for feasibility stud-

ies to be completed by 2012. The results of the study

could lead to the Augusta facility consolidating with

the center in Columbia or Macon, Ga.

The Postal Service is continually improving efficiencies by making better use of space, staffing,

equipment and transportation to process the nation’s mail. Improving efficiencies has become

increasingly important, given the significant reduction in the amount of First-Class Mail that enters

the postal system. In fact, since 2006, First-Class Mail has declined by 25 percent. During this same

time period, deployment of state-of-the-art automated mail-processing equipment has enabled

more efficient processing than ever before. In many cases, mailers are increasing sortation and

entering mail into the postal system closer to its final delivery point, thereby bypassing many postal

processing and transportation operations.

These factors have created considerable excess processing capacity at many postal facilities where

mail is canceled and sorted, which is why the Postal Service is actively looking at opportunities to

increase efficiency by consolidating mail processing operations.

What is Network Optimization?

For decades the Postal Service expanded its network and infrastructure to accommodate a growing

nation and an exponential increase in mail volume. The nationwide expansion resulted in more

vehicles, more processing facilities, more processing equipment and more employees. Through

network optimization, the Postal Service can adapt its network and infrastructure to the realities

it’s facing today — that for the first time in its history, the Postal Service must significantly reduce

capacity across the board.

Will mail processing facilities be studied for closure like Post Offices?

Yes Similar to Post Office studies, there is a proven, well-established plan called Area Mail

f olidation or closure

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proposal involves eliminating the expectation of overnight service for First-Class Mail

and Periodicals, and, for each of these classes, narrowing the two-day delivery range

and enlarging the three-day delivery range. One major effect of the proposal would

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IN THE NEWS Man brings memories of old Graniteville to YouTube

Kirk Bennett resurrects memories.He seeks out Super 8 and 16mm film

footage shot in the Graniteville area, gener-ally in the 1950s and 1960s, digitizes it and posts the videos to YouTube. In doing this, Bennett keeps the memories of a bygone era alive for those who lived it, includ-ing the memories of a 1958 snow event in Graniteville shot on Ergle Street and a 1979 Graniteville High School football game against Barnwell, for instance.

When people see the videos, “they are, or at least they appear, to be fascinated and want more,” he said.

“The genesis of it all is I knew from my childhood history three to four families in the Graniteville area. One family was

able to secure a camera. I knew they took movies. I wanted to find the film really for selfish reasons; I wanted footage of my family,” he said.

He tracked down the family and found the film essentially wasting away in an attic. Really, most of the film he has obtained since taking on the hobby of digitizing and web posting had been stored away in an attic or basement and forgotten.

Footage of Graniteville High School football games from 1956-76 were to be thrown out when the school closed. But Bennett was able to rescue it and compile a montage that was shown during the GHS reunion cruise in February.

“This video was the highlight of a GHS Reunion PEP rally aboard the cruise ship. We had former players, cheerleaders and band members introduced to all in atten-dance. Brought back a lot of good memo-ries,” he wrote on YouTube.

BY HALEY [email protected]

Lesson takes teachers to sky with studies on modern rockets

In just a few hours Saturday, Kim Whit-man built a rocket and, with a big smile, fired it into space – well, at least a few hundred yards – and watched it parachute safely back to earth.

Whitman, an LBC Middle School teacher, joined other educators in grades K-12 for a rocketry workshop at USC Aiken’s Ruth Pat-rick Science Education Center.

“It’s awesome,” she said. “I didn’t know what to expect, and now I can’t wait to go back and do this with the kids. I’m 30 years old, and this is exciting for me. For a 12-year-old, this absolutely will be exciting. You get to blow something up. Who doesn’t like to do that?”

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STAFF PHOTO BY ROB NOVITROCKET-POWERED: NASA education instructor Miranda Martin helps South Aiken High School science teacher Fred Pilot set up his rocket to launch after Pilot and other teachers built their rockets during a workshop at USC Aiken Saturday.

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O’Donovan officially enters race for City seat

Republican Sunny O’Donovan formally announced her candidacy for the Aiken City Council during a downtown event Saturday, supporting a more business-friendly environ-ment and better pay for firefighters.

She is seeking the District 1 seat, challeng-ing Democratic candidate Gail Diggs in the Nov. 8 election.

The incumbent, Democrat Beverly Clyburn, is not seeking re-election after more than 20 years of service.

“When I heard she (Clyburn) was retir-ing, I called her and urged her not to retire,” O’Donovan said. “But she is, and then the light bulb went off that there might be some-thing available for me to help the City of Aiken.”

A retiree who moved to Aiken with her husband Claude five years ago, she contends that the City of Aiken gives new businesses such a hard time that they’re regretting the decision to open in the city.

“Why aren’t we friendlier to new business so they can get a good start instead of pressur-ing them to conform so strictly?” O’Donovan asked. “Is it because of requirements that are used in places like Hilton Head? Do we want to be Hilton Head? … When people are hurting, we have to bend over backward for them.”

She is qualified to seek out answers to such issues through her work experience as a regional director of sales and marketing, she said. O’Donovan spent 26 years in develop-ing, staffing and training personnel for senior living programs, starting up communities throughout the country. She worked with city departments, such as planning, zoning and building permits.

BY ROB [email protected]

A decade later, the women known as Aiken’s Still Magnolias are proud that they got involved, are satisfied with the tremendous success of their fundraising for the organization and are still actively involved in the local community.

A committee of women working with the council knew that a unique fundraiser was nec-essary for success, and the committee invited women who were active in the community to a tea without giving a reason why until the ladies arrived.

“We said we needed money for the home-delivered meals, and every woman ... reached down for their checkbook, and we said no – we want more,” said Betty Ryberg, one of the calen-dar’s organizers.

They asked the women to consider posing nude for a calendar, borrowing the idea from a fundraiser that was successful in England.

The women would be tastefully covered and posed in ways that didn’t show any private areas but showed women older than 60 who were looking and feeling good and loving life and their community.

The reactions of the women, whose ages at the time range from 60 to 82, were mixed.

“I’m sure I had the reaction that others had – no way would I do something like that. And then I saw some of my really good friends signing up for it, and I thought, well, if you are going to do it, I’m going to do it,” said Dorothy Ridley, who posed playing tennis, which she still plays today.

Ann Woodard, who was out of town at the time of the tea, heard about it from friends

when she returned. “I thought it was a great idea,” she said.The women, Ryberg said, were already

involved in the community with organiza-tions ranging from the Council on Aging to Meals on Wheels, the Aiken SPCA, Salva-tion Army and various area churches. Some lived and worked near downtown Aiken, and many participated in clubs and athletics like water aerobics, tennis, book clubs and more.

“We wouldn’t have been able to get this off the ground had this not been such an energized group of people,” Ryberg said. “They brought with them an already intact group of supporters.”

A group of local women older than 60 stepped outside their comfort zones and shed their inhibitions – and their clothes – in 2001 to help the Aiken Area Council on Aging to fund

its services to area seniors when the organization encountered difficult times.

“We said we needed money for the home-delivered meals, and every woman ... reached down for their checkbook, and we said no – we want more.”

BETTY RYBERGan organizer for the “Still Magnolias” calendar

STAFF PHOTO BY ROB NOVITJOINING THE RACE: Republican Sunny O’Donovan, right, makes a formal announcement Saturday of her candidacy for the Aiken City Council District 1 seat. Her challenger in the Nov. 8 election will be Democrat Gail Diggs.

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Collision results in one dead, one stabbedAn accident at a motorcycle rally Friday night

left one pedestrian dead and sent the driver of the truck involved to an Augusta hospital after

he returned to the scene and was confronted and stabbed by someone in the crowd.

Police said 48-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Maurice J. Collier, a soldier currently stationed in Ft. Hood, Texas, was visiting a friend in Augusta and helping to direct traffic at the rally at Ellen’s

Bar & Grill on Edgefield Highway, about 12 miles north of Aiken.

According to Cpl. Bob Beres with the South Carolina Highway Patrol, a little after 8 p.m., Glenn Otts, a 57-year-old Trenton man, veered his 2000 Ford F350 Dually pickup truck off the

side of the road, striking Collier. Collier, the treasurer for the Outcast Motor-

cycle Club, was pronounced dead at Aiken Regional Medical Centers.


Driver returns to scene of accident, is confronted by someone in crowd

Journal highlights partnership between SRS, Chernobyl

A partnership between the Savannah River National Labora-tory and the Chernobyl Center’s International Radioecology Laboratory resulted in a special issue of a scientific journal to make knowledge gained through the research collaboration widely available.

A special issue of Health Phys-ics Journal entitled “Radiation Monitoring and Radioecology Research in the Chernobyl Exclu-sion Zone – 25 Years After the Accident” addresses research done through the collaboration studying the effects of radioactive contamination and methods of decontamination in the areas sur-rounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

“Even though Chernobyl is fundamentally different from any U.S. nuclear site, there is much we can learn in the surrounding

area,” said Eduardo Farfan, who, along with SRNL’s Tim Jannik, served as an editor on the special issue. “As a result of the accident, the nearby area has become a unique laboratory where we can observe how the environment changes and how animals and plants change over the following contamination.”

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Manage-ment sponsored the special issue and the collaboration in an effort to assist the Ukrainians’ research efforts and gain valuable informa-tion on subjects of mutual inter-est, according to an SRNL press release.

The journal can be found online at http://journals.lww.com/health-physics/pages/default.aspx.

BY ANNA [email protected]

SUBMITTED PHOTOPictured is a monument erected near

the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power station that is found on the cover of

special issue of Health Physics Journal.

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Marine Staff Sgt. Thomas

Joseph “T.J.” Dudley was

always faithful.

To his country.

To his squad.

To his

community.

To his family.

On Thursday

at Fort Mill

High School,

his country, his

squad, his community, his

family – all turned out to return

the favor.

Semper Fi.

A FINAL FAREWELLCommunity pauses as Fort Mill Marine is laid to rest

PHOTOS BY ANDY BURRISS - [email protected] casket of Staff Sgt. Thomas Joseph Dudley is conveyed on a Tega Cay Fire Department fire truck as it leaves Fort Mill High School for the trip to Rock HillMemorial Park for burial Thursday. At top, Marine stands guard at Dudley’s casket before his funeral at Fort Mill High School.

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“If you were not a whiteperson, you could not sitdown and eat. Now does

that sound right?”

Clarence Graham, of the FriendshipNine to grade school students

By Shawn [email protected]

There’s a moment during lessons onthe civil rights movement when Jim Ko-terba’s eighth-graders perk up.

It’s when the Saluda Trail MiddleSchool social studies teacher describeshow a group of Rock Hill teenagers – notmuch older than his students – stood

against racial injustice and ultimatelyhelped push the nation toward equality.

Koterba explains how, in 1961, thegroup of mostly Friendship Junior Col-lege students refused to leave a lunchcounter at McCrory’s five-and-dime onMain Street that served only whites.

When arrested and found guilty oftrespass, eight of them and an older orga-

nizer refused to pay fines, pioneering the“Jail, No Bail” strategy that became crit-ical to the movement.

They came to be known as the Friend-ship Nine.

“The kids lighten up; they get excited,”Koterba said. “The Friendship Nine just

Friendship Nine stories recall struggle

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Look for extended coverage of Rock Hill’s civilrights movement atheraldonline.com/friendshipnine, where you’llfind historic photos from the 1960s protests,stories from the past, Friendship Nine FAQs,and schedule of commemorative events. Also,Friendship Nine members recall theirparticipation in the Jan. 31, 1961, sit-in at theMcCrory’s lunch counter in an exclusiveheraldonline video slideshow.

Jail, No Bail – 50 years laterThe Herald presents four days of coverage of

the 50th anniversary of the Friendship Ninearrests. In 1961, nine men who were chargedwith trespassing after trying to desegregate aRock Hill lunch counter chose 30 days ofhard labor instead of paying bail.

Inside, see the schedule of The Herald’scoverage and local activities in honor of thehistoric protest.

The plan on the morning of Jan. 31, 1961, was set.

Protest, sit down, get arrested –but don’t post bond afterward.

The Friendship Nine – FriendshipJunior College students David Wil-liamson Jr., Robert McCullough,Willie McCleod, W.T. “Dub” Massey,Mack Workman, John Gaines, Clar-ence Graham and James Wells,along with Congress of Racial Equal-ity organizer Thomas Gaither – metin the student common room at

school around 9:30 on Tuesday morning, Jan. 31,1961.

A few of the women from the school who hadprotested through previous months were there, too.

On the way to the meeting, McCullough ran into

‘No stopping us’

PHOTO BY MELISSA CHERRY - [email protected]/HERALD PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONSeats at the lunch counter where the Friendship Nine protested segregation are shown. Theoriginal chairs from McCrory’s remain at what is now the Old Town Bistro on Main Street.

Friendship Nine’splan: Protest,arrest, resolve

W.T. “Dub”Massey

ThomasGaither

Willie McCleodJohn Gaines RobertMcCullough

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By Jeannine AversaAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — The economic re-covery is now picking up speed, and Ameri-can consumers are the ones pushing the gaspedal. They increased their spending latelast year at the fastest pace since 2006.

The question now is whether they canspend enough this year to make the econo-my grow even faster, and to finally bringdown unemployment. It’s up to them be-cause the housing market and governmentspending aren’t offering much help.

A more active consumer was the mainreason the economy grew at an annual rateof 3.2 percent in the final three months of2010, the Commerce Department said Fri-day. It was up from 2.6 percent the previousquarter and the best since the start of lastyear.

That level of growth would be great newsin a healthy economy that only needed tohold steady. But with unemployment still at9.4 percent a year and a half after the GreatRecession, steady is not good enough. Bysome estimates, the economy would need togrow 5 percent for the entire year to measur-ably bring down the unemployment rate.

Still, the recovery has gained steam sinceadifficult patch last spring. Economists nowthink 2011 will be a pivotal year when con-sumers can finally be counted on to powerthe economy to stronger growth.

A one-year cut of 2 percentage points inthe Social Security payroll tax is a big reasonwhy economists predict Americans willkeep spending enough that the economywill grow more strongly this year.

“Consumers are the most powerful cylin-der the economy has, and finally it is firing,”said economist Sung Won Sohn at CaliforniaState University. “Consumers will be pick-

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“Consumers are the mostpowerful cylinder the

economy has, and finallyit is firing.”

Economist Sung Won Sohn

Spendinghelpspowereconomy Buying and jobskeys to recovery

LEFTERIS PITARAKIS - APAn Egyptian anti-government activistkisses a riot police officer afterclashes in Cairo on Friday. Thousandsof protesters poured into streets,stoning and confronting police whofired back with rubber bullets and teargas in the most violent and chaoticscenes yet in the challenge toPresident Hosni Mubarak’s 30-yearrule. See story, page 2A.

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Molly Barbery, 4, gets a push from her dad, Brian, asshe sleds on Summerwood Drive in Rock Hill onSunday.

WEEKAHEADToday

It’s not racin’: Only seven days are left to seeCarolina Christmas, one of the largest holidaylight shows in the country, at the CharlotteMotor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Visitors drivethrough a 2 1⁄2 mile light park and villagefeaturing more than 500 LED displays. Operatinghours are 6 to 10 p.m. nightly through Jan. 2,rain or shine. Admission is $20 per vehicle, withgroup and motor coach packages available. Forinformation, call 800-455-3267 or visitwww.charlottemotorspeeday.com.

TuesdayOn a streak: The Winthrop women’s

basketball team, co-champions of the HatterClassic in Florida, welcomes Southern Wesleyanto Winthrop Coliseum at 7 tonight.

WednesdayHoliday exhibit still in town: An

exhibition of Vernon Grant’s holiday illustrationsremains on display at the Dalton Gallery in theYork County Center for the Arts in Rock Hill. Thecenter is open this week on Wednesday and

Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

ThursdayBusy week: The Winthrop women’s

basketball team welcomes Colorado State for a 7p.m. game at the Winthrop Coliseum.

FridayNew Year’s Eve fun: Start celebrating the

new year early by watching the Winthrop men’sbasketball team play Presbyterian at 6 p.m. atthe Winthrop Coliseum.

SaturdayIf you hate football: If hockey is your

preferred sport, the Charlotte Checkers take onthe Binghamton Senators at Time Warner CableArena at 7 p.m. The first 3,000 fans get a freewinter hat.

SundayIt’s finally over: The Carolina Panthers end

a disappointing season in Atlanta against theFalcons. Kickoff is 1 p.m.


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By Shawn [email protected]

The days of waiting for progress reports and re-port cards to find out how well students are doingin school are coming to an end for many families.

New software rolling out across South Carolinaschools allows parents to check in anytime theywant. They can see test grades, scores on classwork and homework, their student’s schedule,messages from teachers and even whether theirchild attended each class on time.

Students can use it too.It’s called PowerSchool Parent Portal. York and

Clover schools have already opened it up to fami-lies. Rock Hill’s three high schools will start in Feb-ruary with middle and elementary schools follow-ing later in the year. Fort Mill schools will test it at

No morewaitingfor reportcards

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Christmas trees are beautiful while they last –but they can become a hassle once the holidaysend.

Just last week, a family in Anderson County lostits home in a fire authorities say started with theirChristmas tree.

The fire chief said the family’s live tree mighthave been too dry, or there could have been a shortin the lights on the tree.

Hoping to prevent similar mishaps, Rock Hilland York County officials are encouraging familiesto follow helpful tips for disposing of trees.

For Rock Hill customers, Christmas tree pick-upwill follow the two-week alternating leaf collectionschedule through January. Do not mix Christmastrees with leaf piles. Different trucks are used tocollect each.

Rock HillMonday and Tuesday collection routes■ This week (Christmas trees only, no leaf col-

lection) ■ Week of Jan. 10 (Christmas trees and leaves) ■ Week of Jan. 24 (Christmas trees and leaves)

Wednesday and Thursday collection routes■ Week of Jan. 3 (Christmas trees only, no leaf

collection) ■ Week of Jan. 17 (Christmas trees and leaves)

York County■ Residents in unincorporated parts of York

County can take trees to 16 convenience centers,which are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily exceptWednesdays and Sundays.

■ Take ornaments, lights and stands off yourtrees, county officials say. Every year, people try todispose of trees still fully decorated.

■ The centers have special drop-off points fortrees, said Mel Laws, the county’s recycling super-visor.

■ The county will stop accepting trees Jan. 31,so there’s a limit on how long you can procrasti-nate.

—Matt Garfield

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Little David tackles Goliath

The cigar-shaped David, a tiny Confederate torpedo boat designed and built by two Charlestonians, surprised the Union’s mighty New Ironsides on Oct. 5, 1863.

And while it wasn’t a perfect attack, it appeared Charleston had a new secret weapon.

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SHOPPING MYTHS5If you think a super-size container of peanut butter is always a better deal than a tiny version, think again. Bigger is not always less expensive.

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RECORD RUN34,690 conquer Ravenel Bridge, 10K course

COOPER RIVER BRIDGE RUN

2011

POSTANDCOURIER.COM

Sunday, April 3, 2011 DSaturday morning’s Cooper

River Bridge Run set a record

for finishers, with 34,690

people completing the

10 kilometer (6.2 mile)

course that stretched from

Mount Pleasant to downtown

Charleston. The total sur-

passes by more than 1,000 the

record set in 2006, the first

year the event was held on the

Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge.

PHOTOS: To see a collection

of photos from the run, go to

Page 7A.

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18-page special section

20,000 NAMES, TIMES:The top 10,000 men’s and women’s finishers, with place and chip time. 3D

MEN’S, WOMEN’S RACE: Desisa, Amare each post two-second victories. 2D

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GENE SAPAKOFF:Improvements aplenty, but none were as good as the team competition. 2D

RESULTS FOR EVERY FINISHER: Chip time and overall place, searchable by number and/or name.

MULTIMEDIA: Stories, photos and video from start to finishing party.

TWITTER FEED: A compilation of tweets with the #bridgerun hashtag.

WADE SPEES/STAFF

Just making it to the finish line was a reason for celebration for many of the more than 30,000 runners and walkers who completed the Cooper River Bridge Run on Saturday.

SPECIAL COOPER RIVER BRIDGE RUN EDITION

FINAL FOUR

Butler, UConn chasing history

Butler beats VCU in a battle of tournament darlings, while Connecticut tops Kentucky to set up one of the most improbable title games in NCAA Tournament history.

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Scenes fromFLOWERTOWN

Thousands of people from near and far took in the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of Summerville’s Flowertown Festival on Saturday. To view a gallery of Saturday’s festivities, see Page 6A or go to postandcourier.com/galleries.

Sunday April 3 , 2011



Our city falls FINAL INSTALLMENT

Confederates abandon battered Charleston

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Meeting Street, looking south toward the Circular Church, the Mills House and St. Michael’s Church, is left virtually in ruins after the 585-day siege of Charleston. Much of the rest of the city looked the same.

BY BRIAN [email protected]

On the 514th day of the siege, Charleston was quiet.

No shells would be hurled at the city that day — Monday, Dec. 5, 1864 — as Confederate and Union

troops had called a temporary truce to exchange prisoners. It was a bureaucratic ordeal that The Mercury predicted would take two weeks to complete. And because it was announced in advance, weary residents expected that it would allow them a few days to relax.

But someone at Fort Sumter did not get word in time. That day, a sharpshooter at Sumter spotted a Union soldier at Battery Gregg who was making no effort to hide. The sharp-shooter steadied his gun, took aim and fired.

The Yankee fell immediately — wounded or killed, the newspaper did not know — and the cease-fire was over.

Battery Gregg opened its guns on Sumter at once, the shots echoing through the city for several minutes before Union officers spotted a white flag going up at Sumter. Southern officers sent a note of apology to the battery, and the uneasy truce resumed.

Everybody in Charleston was understandably jumpy as De-cember descended on the Lowcountry. Each day brought new reports of Sherman’s march to the sea. The despised Union general was making his way southeast to Savannah, and there was little doubt he would soon capture the Georgia port. It seemed no one could stop the man who had taken Atlanta.

On Dec. 12, The Mercury reported that the Savannah Rail-road’s tracks had been “menaced” by Yankee shelling, cutting

MULTIMEDIA: For more coverage, including vid-eos, an interactive map, your stories and photos, go to postand courier.com/civilwar.

Houses on the Battery (top) show the effects of Union fire. A dismantled Blakely gun (above) sits in the foreground of South Battery.

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That’s from a food truck?

Food trucks have become a trendy staple in the nation’s metropolitan areas, dispensing gourmet grub

on-the-go to eager foodies wanting something a little quirky in their diets.

How popular are they? Los Angeles has websites, blogs and Twitter feeds devoted to tracking the every move-ment and menu change of dozens of trucks roaming the city. Portland and Austin set up mobile food lots to ac-commodate the demand for vendors. The trucks even have their own show on Food Network.

So it stood to reason that this move-ment would someday make it to Charles-ton. Well, it has. And rest assured, these trucks ain’t your daddy’s lunch wagons.

More than a half-dozen of the trendy trucks are now operating in the area, most run by 30-somethings. They serve up street food with a twist rather than more traditional fare like hot dogs, bur-ritos and bologna sandwiches. They favor local ingredients. They use Twitter and Facebook to advertise their locations and offerings. They hold “rodeos” where all can gather and show off their chops.

More trucks are reportedly in the off-ing, and even some local restaurants are said to be looking at getting in on the meals-on-wheels gig. Taco Boy already has a truck on the road.

Six of the trucks recently formed the Charleston Food Truck Federation, which aims to foster cooperation and sharing of spots. The group also wants to work with municipal leaders to ease restrictions that keep trucks from mov-ing around more freely. Some places don’t allow trucks on the street at all, restricting them to private property.

So who is behind the wheel of this movement? See Page 8A.

Glenn Smith –

“They are usually full of innovative food from people who are really good at what they do but they haven’t gotten it to-gether enough to do a full restaurant. I would like to see one on every corner.”Lucy Schachte, Charleston

For more of your thoughts on local food trucks, see Page 8A

GRACE BEHAM/STAFF

A fine-looking lunch from W.S. Cody Burg and his wife, Ryner, who are the brains and culinary talent behind the Hello My Name Is BBQ food truck in West Ashley.

Charleston’s Food TrucksThey’re a different kind of meals on wheels

HELLO my name is BBQW.S. Cody Burg put his career as a real estate broker on the

back burner last year to open a mobile ’cue wagon with his

if R

HappyCamperSnoballsRena Lasch had a hankering for syrupy, fluffy shaved-ice

treats ever since leaving New Orleans after Hurricane Ka-

trina The Crescent City seemed to have a snowball truck or

Geechee Island Food TruckDesmond Brown was working as a mental health counselor

in Charlotte when he started helping some friends with a

catering business in his spare time. Working with food soon

d h d id d t t ik t his own

GRACE BEAHM/STAFF

Rena Lasch decided that life as a real estate agent wasn’t for her, and now serves frozen treats from her Happy Camper Snowballs at MUSC.

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For a closer look at the local food trucks, see Page 8A

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The rate of teen pregnancy has been cut nearly in half during the past 30 years, but its consequences have not changed.

The No. 1 reason teenage girls drop out of high school is because they have a baby. Fewer than half graduate from high school, and less than 2 percent earn a college degree by the time they are 30 years old.

The responsibility for another’s life forces teenage mothers to make a series of choices. Those decisions affect the rest of their lives.

Out of despair,a life blossoms

A Hollywood native confronts teenage pregnancy BY DIETTE COURRÉGÉ[email protected]

HOLLYWOOD — Darlene Roberson opens the yearbook. She flips to a photo of her with the three other honor students. Her wide smile brightens the snapshot.

Darlene beams in other pic-tures from 1982, the year she graduated from rural Baptist Hill High.

It’s the same smile she has

today when she talks about her husband, her son, or her role in helping establish a new charter school for at-risk students in her hometown.

Darlene spent most of this past year rallying support for the new school. She bumped in-to former classmates at commu-nity meetings, and they asked her to help plan their 30th high school reunion. She agreed.

WADE SPEES/STAFF

Darlene Roberson is a 1982 Baptist Hill High School graduate who visited the Hollywood school last month with her mother, Betty Jean Dunmeyer. Although Roberson became pregnant in high school, “I never allowed what happened to me to hold me back.”

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My 12 years of hard work were wiped out. I was just another student.

Darlene Roberson

Recordnumber get cash from feds

BY BRIAN FALERBloomberg News

WASHINGTON — Political dysfunc-tion is often blamed for Congress’s in-ability to curb the U.S. budget deficit. An even bigger obstacle may be the American public.

A record 49 percent of Americans live in a household where someone receives at least one type of govern-ment benefit, according to the Census Bureau.

And 63 percent of all federal spend-ing this year will consist of checks written to individuals for which the government receives currently no ser-vices, the White House budget office estimates. That’s up from 46 percent in 1975 and 18 percent in 1940.

Those figures will climb in coming years. The 75 million baby boomers have only begun their long march into retirement, while President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul will extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million additional people.

“The more households that are ben-efiting from the programs, the more

Most decry cuts,or higher taxes

Highways arehigh-trafficcrime scenes

BY PRENTISS [email protected]

Stealing from highways has be-come an epidemic here and across the country as thieves make off with everything from stormwater grates to road signs.

Steel rods and construction tractors were stolen during the recently com-pleted Interstate 26 widening project. A trailer vanished from the Johnnie Dodds Boulevard widening project. In Dorchester County, thieves tried to haul away a heavy metal plate that covered a hole in a road.

“It’s anything of scrap value,” said Maj. John Garrison of the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office.

An 80-pound stormwater grate lifted from a road might bring $6 at a recycler.

“If they put that much effort into a full-time job, they could do a whole

Construction sitesprove vulnerable

How to turn a little money into a lot of money

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Someone allegedly tried to make off with this steel plate (bottom left) that covers a hole on Sullivans Landing Road in Dorchester County. The plate weighs more than 2,000 pounds.

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FIRST PLACEThe StateMeredith Sheff er

His children called him “Daddy, the dancingbear.”

On his daughter’s fourth birthday in1996, 6-foot, 4-inch John Robinson Lenoirsnuck out of her ice-skating party, secret-

ly donned a bear costume complete with a giant head,lipstick and tutu, and snuck back into the rink, to thedelight of 20 little girls.

“I loved bears and tutus,” said Court-ney, now 19 and a sophomore at NewYork University.

“Rob” Lenoir had been a star defen-sive tackle at Richland Northeast HighSchool in Columbia, earning a footballscholarship to Duke University.

But ice skating came late for Lenoir,who had been raised in the South —

Memphis, Atlanta, Columbia — and the big man literallyskated like a bear on ice. “It was really, really funny,” saidLenoir’s wife, Susan.

Rob, a large man with a huge smile and a twinkle in hiseye, was killed on 9/11 when a hijacked airliner slammedinto Two World Trade Center in Manhattan. The38-year-old Lenoir was vice president of an investmentfirm housed on the 104th floor.

Tower Two was the second to be hit that day but thefirst to fall.

Lenoir’s body was never recovered.“Our world came tumbling down with that building,”

Susan said from the family home on Long Island.Today, a large memorial to Lenoir stands near the end

zone of Richland Northeast’s football field. It is a tallbrick reproduction of the World Trade Center. The bricksare indented on what would be the 104th floor, whereRob’s office was located.

A plaque reads: “Rob Lenoir represents the best andbrightest of Richland Northeast High School.”

Remember.By JEFF WILKINSON [email protected]

Thousands died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. RNE graduate Rob Lenoir was one of them.

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Sunday, May 8, 2011 Insights & Opinions Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. 11A

Some readers were offended by our choice of headline on the front-page story about the killing of Osama bin Laden. Others fully supported the paper’s decision.

Much has been said about the matter. Some of you called and sent emails. Some even can-celed their newspaper subscriptions because of a single word. Others came into the office to buy additional copies.

It is images, not words, that need to occupy this space. Perhaps parents and teachers should take the time to share the horror of 9/11 with their children and students. Perhaps they should take the time themselves to recall and reflect upon the images of that day. And perhaps then they will understand the word choice. If they still do not understand, perhaps they will look the word up in the dictionary.

We give you some of those images here today. Let them speak for the headline we chose.

Whiting can be reached at [email protected] or 943-2522. Views expressed in this column are those of the writer only and do not represent the newspaper’s opinion.

Why we wrote Monday, May 2, 2011, headline

RICHARD

S. WHITING

WHITING’S WRITINGS

PHOTOS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | FILE

These images, taken Sept. 11, 2001, show the horror inflict-ed by Osama bin Laden’s terrorist attack on the U.S.

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BY CHARMAINE SMITH-MILESIndependent Mail

smithca@/260.1260

Nellie Fisher was a farmer’sdaughter and Alford Fisherwas a traveling salesman. And

they were in love.She lived in northeast Georgia and

he lived in Florida. He made his wayacross the Southeast, selling food forthe Van Camps Products Co.

They met because she worked in acotton gin in Lavonia that his fatherowned. And when they courted in the1920s, they wrote letters. In those let-ters, he told his sweetheart how muchhe loved her. He told her of his days onthe road and of how he couldn’t waituntil they were wed.

Alford told her about the towns hewas traveling to and always called herhis “dearest Nellie.” The letters give aglimpse into his heart and their world.

In one he writes, “My Dearest Nel-lie, … I can hardly wait until Dec. 1, be-cause I am loving you more and moreeach day. Doesn’t seem possible since Ido not get to see you, but just the same,that is what is happening. …”

That letter was dated Sept. 16, 1923.And it is signed as most of the lettersare, “Always yours, Alford.”

They would marry in December of

that year — just as Alford had hoped.And he would continue writing

those letters as they built their family.For a while the newlyweds lived in Mi-ami, and he would keep his job as atraveling salesman.

But eventually, Alford andNellie would come back to theUpstate. Alford opened aToastee Sandwich Shop onNorth Main Street in down-town Anderson in 1928.They raised six children andenjoyed nearly 18 years ofmarriage until Alford passedaway in December 1940.

Alford was 45 when hedied, and Nellie was 35, withsome still-toddling chil-dren to feed. She wouldlater remarry, but itwas four years afterAlford died.

All total, Alford would write nearly200 letters, most of them to his dear Nel-lie. The letters date from 1913 until 1930.

In some of the letters, Alford talkedabout the sights he saw in other citiesand how he was doing with his work.Some detailed a little wreck he had inGreenville, where he had to pay $6 tohave a woman’s car repaired.

For more than 20 years, those letters— the story of romance between thecouple — remained bundled neatlywith a ribbon in a trunk in the Fisherfamily’s basement.

It was Nellie and Alford’s childrenwho would uncover them from thattrunk as they mourned their mother

and prepared to sell the familyhome in Abbeville.

“We found them when wewere cleaning out the house,”said Shirley Shamel, one ofthose six siblings. “They

were in that trunk, tied to-gether. We were shocked be-cause we didn’t even knowthey existed. It was like find-

ing a treasure.”With those letters, theylearned more about

their mother, moreabout their father.

They could seehow hard their

dad fought in World War I. While hewas stationed in France, Germans hithim with mustard gas as he — an am-bulance driver — was moving fromone town to another. He was laterfound face down in the mud, on theroadside, where he’d been attacked,Shamel said.

Those letters showed his childrenhow he suffered later in life as hedrank to numb his pain from that war.The alcohol and a myriad of healthproblems, also stemming from histime in battle, would eventually landAlford in a veterans’ nursing home.

While in the nursing home, Alfordwould continue to write home.

“Those letters were sad,” Shamel said.The ones she likes to focus on, she

said, are those happy letters — the onesthat showed her, her sisters and herbrother how much their father lovedtheir mother. And knowing that the let-ters survived all those years, showed howmuch their mother loved him in return.

Now, the letters are divided among thesiblings and some of them have been re-typed and bound in book for the family,for this generation and the ones to come.

“Mama loved our daddy,” Shamelsaid. “Those letters were an open win-dow to their marriage those first fewyears and how much they loved eachother.”

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Know someone or someplace with a story? The Storyteller is always looking for stories about the interesting places and people who make up this community. If you have an idea, call or e-mail Charmaine Smith-Miles at (864) 260-1260 or [email protected].

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‘Always yours,Alford’

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Shirley Shamel, left, and her sister Carolyn Sharpton look over letters from theirfather that they discovered years after his death.

Upstate siblings find love letters between their parents written in the 1920s

Shirley Shamel flips through a book she made of the letters herfather wrote during his life. The book also records moments in Fish-er’s life, including his wedding day and his obituary.

The children of AlfordBrantonFisherfound about200 lettersthat hewrote during hislifetime.

“Those letters were an openwindow to their marriagethose first few years and howmuch they loved each other.”

Shirley Shamel Alford Fisher’s daughter

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SECOND PLACEThe Sun NewsAmanda C riswell

Corporate profits are up. Stock pric-es are up. So why isn’t anyone hiring?

Actually, many American companiesare – just maybe not in your town.They’re hiring overseas, where sales aresurging and the pipeline of orders is fat.

More than half of the 15,000 peoplewho Caterpillar Inc. has hired this yearwere outside the U.S. UPS is also hiringat a faster clip overseas. For both com-panies, sales in international marketsare growing at least twice as fast as do-mestically.

The trend helps explain why unem-ployment remains high in the UnitedStates, edging up to 9.8 percent in No-vember, even though companies are per-forming well: All but 4 percent of the top500 U.S. corpora-tions reported prof-its this year, and thes t o c k m a rke t i sclose to its highestp o i n t s i n c e t h e2 0 0 8 f i n a n c i a lmeltdown.

But the jobs aregoing elsewhere.The Economic Poli-c y I n s t i t u t e , aWashington thinktank, says Ameri-c a n c o m p a n i e shave created 1.4million jobs over-seas this year, com-pared with less than1 million in the U.S. The additional 1.4million jobs would have lowered the U.S.unemployment rate to 8.9 percent, saysRobert Scott, the institute’s senior in-ternational economist.

“There’s a huge difference betweenwhat is good for American companiesversus what is good for the Americaneconomy,” says Scott.

American jobs have been movingoverseas for more than two decades. Inrecent years, though, those jobs have be-come more sophisticated – think semi-conductors and software, not toys andclothes.

And now many of the products beingmade overseas aren’t coming back tothe United States. Demand has growndramatically this year in emerging mar-kets like India, China and Brazil.

Meanwhile, consumer demand in theU.S. has been subdued. Despite a strongholiday shopping season, Americansare still spending 3 percent less than be-fore the recession on essential items likeclothing and more than 10 percent less

MorehiringgrowthabroadU.S. companiesboost staff wherebusiness is rising

BY PALLAVI GOGOI

The Associated Press

By thenumbers1.4 millionNumber of jobs

created overseas in

2010

9 percentHow much the

number of U.S.

employees shrank

at DuPont from

January 2005 to

October 2009.

Associated Press file photo

An engine technician works on avessel engine at the Caterpillarcompany in Friedrichsort nearKiel, northern Germany. Morethan half of the 15,000 peoplethat Caterpillar Inc. has hired thisyear were outside the U.S.

See JOBS | Page 2DS low and steady.That’s how economists predict the economy will grow this year as it con-

tinues to climb out of the doldrums left by the Great Recession – with someimprovement in the job market and increased consumer spending expected in 2011.

“People will begin to feel that the recession is over,” said Doug Woodward, direc-tor of research at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School ofBusiness.

Tourism along the Grand Strand is expected to have another good year and willhave a new, multimillion-dollar Ferris wheel to help lure visitors. Road projectsalong the Grand Strand will kick into gear, and the steel mill in Georgetown willrestart production, bringing back jobs.

But not everything will be rosy. Foreclosures will still plague the market, and

11issues

to watchin 2011

BY DAWN BRYANT, ADVA SALDINGER AND JAKE SPRING

The Sun News

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V isitors enteringSouth Carolina onU.S. 17 from North

Carolina will find the wel-come center in Little Riverclosed on Tuesday andWednesday this week.

The S.C. Department ofParks, Recreation and Tour-ism will close all of its ninecenters, including the LittleRiver location, two days aweek to cut costs, starting

Tuesday,PRTspokesmanMarionEdmondssaid.

Theindoor areawherestaffersdistributetravel in-formationto visitorswill close,but bath-rooms,vendingmachinesand picnicareas willremainopen 24hours a

day, seven days a week,Edmonds said. The interiorof the centers will operatenormally Thursday throughMonday from 9 a.m. to 5p.m.

Tuesday and Wednesdayare the slowest days of theweek, Edmonds said.

Tourists will be greetedby a sign that reads:

“Dear visitor, we aresorry that this South Caroli-na welcome center is notopen today to serve you dueto state budget cuts … weapologize for theinconvenience.”

The signs will directtravelers to go to othervisitors’ centers nearby. Forexample, the Little Riverwelcome center will givedirections to centers operat-ed by the Little River, NorthMyrtle Beach and MyrtleBeach Area chambers ofcommerce, said DebbieCausey, a travel coordinatorat the center.

PRT has sought to cutcosts since the state legisla-ture reduced its funding by$5.6 million in the 2010-2011budget. The agency aims tohand over operations atsome of the centers to not-for-profit organizations suchas chambers of commerce,convention and visitorsbureaus, and regional tour-ism organizations. TheMaterial Management Officeof the state Budget andControl Board is overseeingthat bidding process,spokesman Michael Spon-hour said, with applicationsbeing accepted until Jan. 20.

Savings from handingover some of the centersmight allow PRT to reopenremaining centers sevendays a week, Edmonds said.PRT will wait to see how thebidding process and the2011-2012 state budget playout before it considers fullyreopening the centers, hesaid.

Mykonos to test thewaters in offseason

It’s unusual for any hospi-tality business to open in thedead of the tourist offseason,but that didn’t stop formerClub Kryptonite ownersChris and Andrew Maniosfrom launching a new res-taurant this weekend.

The Manioses’ New Year’sEve opening party at Myko-nos, a Greek restaurant andbar at 1002 29th Ave. N. inMyrtle Beach, gives way tothe slowest time of the yearfor tourism. Business maybe slow at first, but it willgive staff a chance to pre-pare for the summer, ChrisManios said.

“If they come and have a

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PFC. MELISSA HOBART, 22, LADSON. JUNE 6, 2004

She collapsed and died while on guard duty near Baghdad as an Army medi-cal specialist. She left behind a 4-year-old daughter. Four days before she died, Hobart emailed her mother saying she didn’t want her to worry, but she wanted her family to know she loved them all very much. “Being out here, with people you know and work with being killed every day, changes you. I realize now that all my life I ran from my problems. I finally ran all the way to Iraq. I don’t know what we’re doing out here anymore. It seems like just trying to stay alive.” She also asked her mother to send makeup to help cover up a black eye she suffered when she passed out from the heat.

LANCE CPL. JONATHAN GADSDEN, 21, JAMESTOWN NATIVE. OCT. 22, 2004

He died while recovering from severe head injuries, a neck fracture and broken bones in his back. A Marine combat engineer, he was in a Humvee that ran over a land mine in Iraq. A quiet man, the sort of person who is quick to volunteer, he had a reputation among his fel-low Marines for never curs-ing and always talking about his family. The night before he died, after his mother fed him a few spoonfuls of dinner in his hospital bed, he asked her to pray with him and she held his hand as they did.

STAFF SGT. JEROME LEMON, 42, NORTH CHARLESTON. OCT. 27, 2004

He died when the truck he drove was struck by either a missile or a mine in Iraq. He left behind a wife and four children. An Army transpor-tation squad leader, he was a trooper on administrative leave from the S.C. Highway Patrol. He was on a National Guard re-deployment, the older officer who steadied younger soldiers nervous about the treacherous trans-portation job. He had told his wife he didn’t want to go back but knew he had to. “I am concerned about where we are going. But I’m not worried,” Lemon told The Post and Courier while wait-ing to deploy. “I’m doing this for my country.”

MAJ. EDWARD MURPHY, 36, MOUNT PLEASANT. APRIL 6, 2005

The transport helicopter he rode in crashed during a sandstorm in Afghanistan. An Army Ranger with more than 300 jumps, he was one of those people who are described as having a heart of gold. He could light up a room making mischief or be quietly reserved. The 155-pound Murphy loved foot-ball enough that he “gutted it out,” his Wando High School coach said, playing tenaciously even though he was undersized and never made the starting team. He left behind a wife and three children.

2ND LT. CLIFFORD “CC” GADSDEN, 25, RED TOP. APRIL 29, 2005

He was killed by a truck bomb while traveling in a convoy from Baghdad to Kuwait. He left behind a wife, a son and a daughter. An Army mechanical engi-neer, he wanted to join the military, like his grandfather had, since he was a child growing up in the rural com-munity along Rantowles Creek. He was one of those people who smile all the time and never complain. He loved the service. A highway intersection in Red Top has been named for him, giving the community a local hero. “It’s a great honor for his kids to look at, to remind them that he did something to change the world,” said his wife, Erica Murdock Gads-den. “Children who live here can look at it and say, ‘I can be strong just like him.’ ”

PFC. ALLAN YANCEY, 22, GOOSE CREEK. NOV. 4, 2005

A bomb exploded along-side his armored Humvee just weeks before he was to come home. An Army infantryman, he was part of a platoon whose job was to provide security of military convoys. He often drove the lead truck because he had a knack for finding his way through the streets of Bagh-dad. He loved comics Weird Al Yankovic and George Carlin, and loved the guitar. Six days before he died, he posted on the web, “That what we do here is for the safety of America, the free-dom of Iraq, and ourselves. We do what others aren’t and we do what others can’t — not to say we are better than them but for them.”

SGT. JOHN PHILLIPS, 29, ST. STEPHEN. AUG. 16, 2006

He died in a Texas military hospital. A Marine bomb disposal technician, he had been in a vehicle that ran over an improvised explo-sive device in Iraq. Doused with flaming fuel, he was critically burned and died from infections. He mar-ried his longtime girlfriend while in the hospital bed; she stayed by his side until the end and accompanied his casket back home. “I’ve been with John every day since this nightmare began, and it’s not over for him until he’s buried,” Stephanie Phil-lips said.

SGT. JAMES CRAIG, 26, HOLLYWOOD. JAN. 28, 2008

He was one of five Army infantrymen who died when their convoy truck was blown to pieces by an improvised explosive device in Iraq. Machine gun, rocket and mortar fire tore into the rest of the convoy as the de-bris fell. The platoon stood off the three-hour-long am-bush because they wouldn’t leave their fallen behind. Craig had a quick sense of humor and a deep faith. He married little more than six months beforehand and was on his third deployment.

SGT. MATTHEW TAYLOR, 25, SUMMERVILLE. SEPT. 21, 2008

An Army infantry squad leader, he died from wounds received in small arms fire in Baghdad. Just weeks before, he had spent his leave in a rented beach house with his wife and three children, in-cluding a baby daughter he had not seen until then. One of those people who took charge and got things done, he went to the recruiting office the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. He was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism under fire, among other medals. He deployed twice to Afghanistan, and was on his first deployment in Iraq.

CAPT. RICHIE CLIFF, 29, MOUNT PLEASANT. SEPT. 28, 2008

A Special Forces officer, he died when an improvised explosive device blew up his vehicle on combat patrol in Afghanistan. He was in the first brigade sent to Iraq and shipped out for the 2008 re-deployment on Sept. 11, the anniversary of the ter-rorist attack. He left behind the wife who married him before his first deployment and a son born the week before he shipped out for his last. Two years later, his son Richie, on a visit with his grandparents, loved to take them to the refrigerator and point to the photo of the man in uniform. “Grand-mom, Granddad,” he said. “My daddy.”

SGT. STEVE THEOBALD, 53, GOOSE CREEK. JUNE 4, 2010

He died in Kuwait from injuries when the military vehicle he was in rolled over. An Army Reserve transporta-tion soldier, he left behind a wife and three children. He was one of those people who instilled confidence in those he worked with. One soldier who trained with Theobald posted on a mes-sage board after Theobald’s death that he hated that the two were separated in war, Theobald to Iraq and him to Afghanistan, according to militarytimes.com. He enlisted in the Army in 1975 and was on his second duty in the Iraq War.

PVT. CHEZIRAY “CHEZZY”PRESSLEY, 21, NORTH CHARLESTON. MAY 16, 2011

Just a few days deployed in Afghanistan, he died when a roadside bomb de-stroyed the vehicle he rode in. He had called home for Mother’s Day just the week before, but didn’t say much about his job. “He had, for one reason or another, to keep that under wraps, to keep that secretive,” his father said. Pressley was a fun loving cut-up who kept the people around him laughing. He loved sports. He left behind a wife he married the December 2010, and a daughter.

JAMES W. “WILL” COKER, 59, MOUNT PLEASANT. SEPT. 6, 2011

He was murdered after being kidnapped near a power plant in Afghanistan while working as a civilian contractor with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He left behind three children and five grandchildren. He was one of those people who seemed to be always at work on something, a religious man who did over-seas mission work, his family said. When he called home from Afghanistan, he talked about good times with the family, not about what he faced there. His daughter called him her best friend.

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9/11: AS IT HAPPENED

FALLEN HEROES FROM THE LOWCOUNTRY

8 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 92 people on board, takes off from Boston’s Logan International Airport for Los Angeles.

8:14 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767 with 65 people on board, takes off from Logan for Los Angeles.

8:21 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 64 people on board, takes off from Washington Dulles Int’l Airport for Los Angeles.

8:40 a.m. Federal Aviation Administration notifies North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Northeast Air Defense Sector about suspected hijacking of American 11.

8:41 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 44 people on board, takes off from Newark International Airport for San Francisco.

8:43 a.m. FAA notifies NORAD about suspected hijacking of United 175.

8:46 a.m. American 11 crashes into north tower of World Trade Center.

9:03 a.m. United 175 crashes into south tower.

9:08 a.m. FAA bans takeoffs nationwide for flights going to or through its New York Center airspace.

9:21 a.m. All bridges and tunnels into Manhattan are closed.

9:24 a.m. FAA notifies NORAD of suspected hijacking of American 77.

9:26 a.m. FAA bans takeoffs of all civilian aircraft.

9:31 a.m. President Bush, in Florida, calls crashes an “apparent terrorist attack on our country.”

9:40 a.m. American 77 crashes into Pentagon.

9:45 a.m. FAA orders all aircraft to land at nearest airport as soon as practical. More than 4,500 aircraft are in air at the time.

9:48 a.m. U.S. Capitol and White House’s West Wing evacuated.

9:59 a.m. South tower of trade center collapses.

10:07 a.m. United 93 crashes in Shanksville, Pa.

10:28 a.m. North tower of trade center collapses.

11:00 a.m. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani orders evacuation of lower Manhattan.

1:04 p.m. Bush, at Barksdale Air Force base in Louisiana, announces U.S. military on high alert worldwide.

2:51 p.m. Navy dispatches missile destroyers to New York, Washington.

3:07 p.m. Bush arrives at Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.

5:25 p.m. Empty 47-story 7 World Trade Center collapses.

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SOUTH CAROLINA DEATHS

L exington’s transforma-tion from small town tobooming suburb is achange that Karen Woo-

ten and Edie Harmon neverimagined.

Its metamorphosis is both ap-plauded and mourned by resi-dents, as the community begins its150th birthday celebration.

Wooten, 34, is happy with a pacethat is busier than it was when shewas a youngster, but notoverwhelming.

The arrival of local outlets of sev-eral national retailers and neigh-borhoods steadily sprouting are ahit with her.

“I love the choices,” she said.Harmon, 75, appreciates the

convenience of more stores butsays it’s rare to encounter friendsthere and catch up, as was the casein years past.

“We’ve lost the Lexington weknew and love,” she said.

Keeping both happy is a chal-lenge for town leaders.

Mayor Randy Halfacre wants to

This photo was taken around 1912 in Lexington. It shows many of the wooden structures that would later burn down in a huge fire in 1916.PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE LEXINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM AND THE LEXINGTON COUNTY LIBRARY

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From left, the fourthcounty courthouse,built in 1882 and torndown in 1957; theJohn Fox House,constructed in 1832;and the CharltonRauch House, builtaround 1886

LEXINGTONTURNS 150

Celebratory events begin Saturday

BY TIM [email protected]

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ONLINESee a photo gallery of the town

at the state.com.

Gov. Nikki Haley appoint-ed her last cabinet memberThursday, raising the ire ofthe Legislative Black Cau-cus, which says the Republi-can governor failed to ap-point a racially diversecabinet.

An organization thatworks to get more womeninto office says it too is dis-appointed in Haley, thestate’s first non-white andfirst woman governor.

Of 14 appointments Haleyhas made — one appointee

to direct theState Bud-get andControlBoard and13 cabinetdirectors —all but fivehave beenwhite men.

The oth-er five are women, includingone one African-Americanwoman, Lynne Rogers, ap-pointed to the Department ofProbation, Parole and Par-don Services.

Minoritiesrip Cabinet

choicesBy GINA SMITH

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Parrish,tourism pick

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Haley panel diversity criticized

Columbia City Council’slongest-serving member,E.W. Cromartie, reportedWednesday to a federal pris-on in Williamsburg County.

Cromartie, 65, was sen-tenced to 12 months plus oneday in prison after pleadingguilty to one count of tax eva-

sion and two charges ofstructuring bank deposits toavoid federal income-report-ing requirements.

An online inmate locatorlists his release date as Dec.9. Under federal sentencinglaws, felons are eligible forparole for any sentence overa year. Legal experts had pre- Former Columbia Councilman E.W. Cromartie

has begun his 12-month and one-day sentence.

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Cromartie beginsprison sentence

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By DAWN [email protected]

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State lawmakers and otherelected and appointed officialswill not get special privileges tocarry firearms while on statebusiness.

A bill, sponsored by state Rep.

Ted Vick, D-Chesterfield, to ex-pand the list of officials allowedto pack heat failed Thursday.House subcommittee membersvoted down the measure 5 to 0,saying it isn’t fair to others in thestate who have concealed weap-ons permits.

Instead, subcommittee mem-

bers said they will work to ex-pand the gun rights of all SouthCarolinians with concealedweapon permits.

“To carve out a special placefor elected officials is a slap inthe face to the rest,” said Rep.

No special gun rights for lawmakersBy GINA SMITH

[email protected]

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THURSDAY

When warm weather begins to be steady, that is the indication that

fresh asparagus will soon be avail-able in our area.

Asparagus is fairly expensive during winter months.

But when spring arrives, the price falls to a reasonable level and asparagus shoppers are able to enjoy the vegetable in abundance.

The nutritional attributes of asparagus are as appealing as its flavor. Six spears, a typical serv-ing size, have only 22 calories and about 60 percent the daily require-

ment for folic acid. Folic acid, one of the B vitamins, is best known for the role it plays in neural tube defect prevention in dur-ing pregnancy.

When pur-chasing fresh asparagus, look for bundles with stalks that are about the same diameter.

This will ensure that the stalks cook in the same

amount of time. Asparagus tips should be tightly closed with abso-lutely no signs of decay (slick or mushy.)

Typically, asparagus is sold in standing water. This is done because asparagus will continue to grow after harvest if placed upright with the cut ends in shallow water. Lack of water on the other hand, will yield a droopy wilted product.

When you purchase fresh aspara-gus, the best results are achieved when the vegetable is cooked the same day. If cooking the same day is not possible, store it at home

by washing in gently under run-ning water to remove any grit and then wrapping a moist paper towel around the cut end of the stalks before placing the bundle in the refrigerator. Stored in the manner, asparagus will remain in good con-dition for at least three days.

Asparagus is easy to cook. Make sure to trim away the woody, lower portion of the stem prior to cook-ing.

There is no amount of cooking that will suffice to make the woody portion an acceptable texture.

When ready for cooking, fresh

asparagus is best when given mini-mal preparation. Sautéing, boiling, roasting, microwaving, and grilling are all options.

When sufficient heat has been applied to the vegetable, it will turn brilliant green and be tender crisp. Just a sprinkle of salt and perhaps a tiny splash of olive oil and the asparagus are ready to serve.

For information on selecting and preparing asparagus, check out the Clemson University Home and Garden Center at www.clemson.edu/hgic and look for fact sheet No. 4248.

The first fresh vegetable — asparagus

RHONDA MATTHEWS

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Debbie Motte, center, puts together chicken sandwiches on whole wheat bread Tuesday for students’ lunches at Mathews Elementary School. If a state law passes, it could mean more fresh fruit and vegetables from local farms.

By ST. CLAIRE [email protected]

Amy Splittgerber, execu-tive director of Eat Smart, Move More South Caroli-

na, a coalition coordinating obesity prevention efforts across the state is attempting to rally support for Sen-ate Bill 498 and House Bill 3529.

“By passing the nutritional snacks and beverages bill in South Carolina, our legislators will dem-onstrate they are taking initiative to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic in our state, and not wait-ing for the federal government to mandate these directives,” Splitt-gerber said.

Splittgerber has also conducted training sessions for other nonprof-it organizations on how to advocate for the legislation. Among local groups Splittgerber has enlisted is Healthy Greenwood Neighbor-hoods Inc.

“Healthy Greenwood Neighbor-hoods Inc. (HGN) is involved in healthy eating and active living issues in Greenwood,” Splittgerber said. “To that end, Eat Smart, Move More South Carolina has awarded Healthy Greenwood Neighbor-

hoods Inc. a small grant to expand its community gardening initia-tives, and although the group is not involved with school food services, it is an advocate for healthy eating in general.”

That’s why Splittgerber invited HGN’s Toni Able to be part of a recent training and advocacy ses-sion.

“Splittgerber’s focus during a recent training session was how

local coalitions can impact com-munity health, with a focus on obesity prevention,” Able said. “Any time you can get people to eat more fruits and vegetables, health status improves. Community gar-dens are a great way to get kids and adults excited about producing healthy food.”

Able said Healthy Greenwood Neighborhoods Inc./Keep Green-wood County Beautiful received

an implementation grant from Eat Smart, Move More South Carolina to continue community vegetable garden sites HGN has in Green-wood.

“Five have been up and running in Greenwood, and we now have three more,” Able said. “I’m still looking for two more sites. We’re looking to provide education on how to properly prepare and store those vegetables. Another compo-nent is programming promoting healthy eating, active living and obesity prevention for all ages involved in the gardens. Hopefully, that will spill over in communities where these gardens are located.”

Also, the implementation grant is helping provide raised beds for plantings in community gardens, making gardening more physically accessible to a variety of people.

Through a different grant from Keep America Beautiful, HGN has recently completed a second train-ing on community gardening.

“Gardening is important nutri-tionally, but it can also be used as a form of physical activity,” Able said. “A healthy cooking class would be wonderful, too. We welcome res-taurants and partners to help out.”

FOODFORTHOUGHTHealthy Greenwood Neighborhoods focusing on local eating habits

Matthew Pittman receives a lunch complete with a chicken sandwich, corn, coleslaw and oranges Tuesday at Mathews Elementary School.

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Laura Bentley’s classroom is dec-orated with pennants representing the schools of the Atlantic Coast Conference, because that was the conference for which she had donated paraphernalia.

Some of her Northside Middle School students asked for the

Southeastern Conference to be represented as well. She said the focus on sports was typical for her students at the beginning of the school year, as they often asked about a particular university just because they were playing Clem-son or USC.

Now, however, the students are focusing on the school’s reputa-tion in a given academic field. A

girl interested in animal care has become interested in the veterinary science program of the University of Georgia. She said she has been amazed by the transformation.

Bentley is the elective teacher for the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, which aims to close achievement gaps among student demographics by preparing all students for col-

lege. She focusing most directly on the path to college study of the seven-member AVID team.

She said her students have this year learned time management, inquiry skills, collaboration and how to discuss differing view-points.

They are currently in process of

Northside teacher ‘AVID’ about students’ futureLaura Bentley is the elective teacher for the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program at Northside Middle School.

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First-year program helping middle school students learn about college education

By MICHELLE [email protected]

Parker Hite did not want the nor-mal college experience.

Right now, he’s a 19-year-old sophomore at Newberry College. He’s majoring in math education and was a quarterback for Newber-ry this past season. He has a dorm room on campus, but will occasion-ally come home to Ninety Six for his mother’s cooking and quality

family time.But just weeks ago, Hite was

accepted into the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. — bet-ter known simply as West Point.

“I felt like the normal college life, maybe it’s not for me, and maybe I’m supposed to do something more than just that,” Hite said.

West Point is often considered one of the most prestigious univer-sities in the country. Forbes named West Point the country’s No. 1 col-

lege in 2009, and it has remained one of the magazine’s top-10 schools since it started ranking colleges in 2008.

Candidates must endure an admissions process that includes obtaining a nomination from the local congressman, a physical fitness test and a mental health test.

Once a cadet starts school, there are curfews, strict rules, military

Parker Hite, a 2009 graduate and former quarterback

of Ninety Six High School, was recently accepted

into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Hite is now

a sophomore at Newberry College,

where he continues to play football.

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Ninety Six native bound for West Point


Kayla Blackwell and Ben Dobson compete live on XLR Lander Radio as a team in Breakfast Club Celebrity Throwdown Trivia on Wednesday morning.

TURN ON YOUR RADIOLander students gaining communications experience with campus station

Lander XLR general manager Paul Crutcher laughs Wednesday dur-ing the station’s morning broadcast.

By MICHELLE [email protected]

E ven though more and more people get music through

iPods and iTunes, Land-er University’s Internet radio station is still cap-turing listeners.

Since its launch in October 2009, XLR Lander Radio has soared to be the No. 6 college radio station out of the 359 other col-lege stations hosted on Live365, the largest hosting website for Internet radio. It hosts a total of 10,000 radio

stations.“Online we’re doing quite

well,” said the station’s general manager and Broadcast and

Emerging Media Spe-cialist Paul Crutcher. “The kids are excited about that.”

The No. 6 rating out of the 359 col-lege radio stations on Live365 is based on total listening hours, average time listening and listener ratings, all collected and reported by Live365.

XLR Lander Radio is, for the most

How to listen Listen to

XLR Lander Radio online at www.live365.com/stations/landerradio or on the radio at 1610 AM.

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MONDAY

When our friends email or text us, we make promises to get together in the real

world and climb out of our cyber comfort zones.

In our hearts, we know these are probably just words, sentiments to keep the friendship going without scroung-ing up time to meet face-to-face.

I’m not sure where I heard my favorite phrase about friend-ship: “Friends are the gloves God wears when he touches us.”

I just know our lives have gotten so

crammed with insane schedules and duties, that friends are coming in last.

We text. We shoot off an email promising girls’ nights out and weekends away. Once my book club decided we’d all go on a cruise.

None of this ever transpired. Every-one had separate lives and not even a slivered moment for themselves.

I remember my mother and her group of “hens,” as we jokingly called her estrogen crew. They’d get together and exercise, play bridge, meet at the pool. It seemed my mother was always with another female. Live and in person. Not on the Internet because we had no such thing.

I first met my friend Leslie about 10 years ago. A stunning blonde in her 50s, mother of grown and nearly grown kids, she and I clicked. It would be years before I ran into her again in a Zumba class a few months ago.

We exchanged cell phone numbers and those promises to talk over cof-fee.

This interaction came to fruition.Pretty amazing what mocha cara-

mel latte and healing conversation can do for a woman’s soul.

The day we planned to meet unfolded like spring braided with fall. It didn’t feel like winter.

I got to Starbuck’s first, ordered my designer coffee and pumpkin bread and found us a table.

She burst through the doors, breathless from a Zumba class and running countless errands.

Our time together was limited, but both of us felt we needed real contact, essential in boosting women’s moral and equally effective at softening or dissolving problems.

The laughter alone seems to deflate the hot-air balloons of pain we carry.

Leslie and I had common ground. Our sons had endured a troubled spell and were rebuilding their lives and coming around.

I blew on my hot mocha and lis-tened as she animatedly told me the latest in her world.

“It’s those Popeye prayers,” she said. “Every time I see a Popeye car, I say a prayer of make a wish.”

I told her about Popeyes months ago. “They are cars with only one headlight. Every time you see one, say a prayer.”

She sipped her iced fruit drink and nibbled the pumpkin bread. I confided in her about marriage issues and she diffused the severity with her wisdom.

“When men are angry, there’s always pain underneath,” she said. I would have paid a therapist $150 to hear this.

Leslie is the kind of friend women need. She talks and shares, but listens with equal compassion.

“I haven’t seen you in a year,” one of my male friends said. “We used to go eat all the time. Have I done some-thing to upset you?”

No, he hadn’t. I felt guilty about our phone exchanges planning meals we never got around to eating.

Facebook and cell phones are one thing. Going to an outdoor café with a pal one hasn’t seen in months or years is an ultimate reward.

Reinhardt can be reached at www.susanreinhardt.com or [email protected]. Views expressed in this column are those of the writer only and do not represent the newspaper’s opinion.

Friendship the way it’s supposed

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Jean Rogers can’t recall how many years she has worked at Doris’ Green-

house, so she says it’s been at least 30 years, which is more than half of her life. When visitors call her Doris she responds to the title warmly without correction because Doris Elledge was like family.

“She was the sweetest per-son,” Rogers said. “She loved the flowers, and I guess I got that from her because she was like a second mother to me.”

Rogers keeps the tradi-tions of Elledge alive by taking special care of Doris’ Greenhouse for customers like Wayne Livingston. For 20 years he has visited the greenhouses on Highway 34 to decorate his home. He said the consistent quality and large variety of plants and getting to visit with Rog-ers keeps him returning each year.

Her work allows her to see more than the growth of the plants each season; it also lets her see the development of families. Gil Sampson, owner of Doris’ Greenhouse since 2000, said Rogers has seen up to four generations

of families.“You see the little kids, and

they come back as they grow and everything,” Rogers said. “It’s a family business and it’s just good to seem them as they grow.”

Sampson and Rogers are the primary workers but receive help on occasion from Sampson’s family or through young volunteers. They spend their days plant-ing, watering, fertilizing, repairing greenhouses, cleaning, making sales and hauling equipment.

Asked how she manages this lifestyle in addition to her home life, Rogers said, “I don’t know, I just do it. I just go. I’m not going to stop because if you stop you give up.”

The job is not something most people can do, young or old, according to Rogers. Without her dedication each day, Sampson would lose a special part of Doris’ Green-house.

“You’re not going to find anyone as self-conscious and hard working as her,” Sampson said. “You can’t find anyone like her. She’s invaluable.”

GREENHOUSEHER MISSION

Beads of water rest on

dianthus leaves

after being

watered by Jean Rogers.


Jean Rogers pauses while watering flowers to laugh with a customer at Doris’ Greenhouse on Wednesday afternoon. Rogers has worked at Doris’ for more than 30 years.

Rogers maintains multitude of plants for multiple generationsBy SAM O’KEEFE [email protected]

Doris’ Greenhouse has seen generations of families pass through its doors since its creation by Doris Elledge.

Geraniums are given their own

greenhouse at Doris’

Greenhouse because

of their popularity.

Doris Greenhouse

has many regularly

customers who visit

the Highway 34 location.

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Beyond wordsVeteran recalls the horrors of the Pacifi c

By RICHARD WALKERT&D Staff Writer

For an Orangeburg man, the past six decades have off ered no great barrier nor have they taken the edge off memories of days spent on bloody beaches prior to the expected invasion of Japan.

“Dolph” Sweat says he still has diffi culty dealing with the trauma of war, a war that still rages with all of its horrors in his memories.

“I refuse to go into detail, because there are no words to explain how we did this, why we did this,” he said. “There’s no word to de-scribe it.”

Some people have the ability to put a memory back in its box, forget it, hide it away.

Not Dolph. Some of his memories just won’t allow themselves to be forgotten.

He didn’t want to talk about it at all, actually, his war experi-ences. He stood up to the worst the Japanese could throw at him, watched buddies die, lived on nothing for food and even less to drink.

He says it’s not the shooting, the shells, the constantly staring death in the face and seeing again the faces of those lost.

“There’s just no way to describe it,” he said.Dolph’s wife of 65 years, Lucille, says it does good for her

husband to talk, to get some of it out in the open.“I think any wife who had a husband who fought in the

Pacifi c, in the European Theater, I think that soldier had problems,” Lucille said. “He tried to put it in the back of his mind.”

But it’s always there, one memory away.In June 1943, Benny Goodman held the top spot on the pop charts with “Taking a Chance on Love,” a song

of rainbows and happy endings.About to graduate from Summerville High School, an 18-year-old Dolph fi gured he had rain-

bows and happy endings just around the corner. He had thoughts of landing a good job, marrying his high school sweetheart, maybe having a family.

But that colorful ribbon of rainbows would be olive drab.The U.S. Army called, placing Dolph in the 147th Infantry

— miles away from Lucille and the dreams they shared.Sent to Colorado for ski training, the South Caro-

linian was being prepared for combat in the Swiss Alps. However, still clad in winter gear, Dolph’s unit

was suddenly sent to the Pacifi c.“We were ready for anything, I guess,” he said.

First up for Dolph, in July 1944, was the battle for Tin-ian, part of the Mariana Islands, where U.S. forces suf-fered nearly 2,000 casualties. The Japanese lost 8,000.“I landed as a private and, two months later, left as a ser-

geant,” he said.But that was little to compare with what would come next

— the black sand and unique smell of one of the deadliest battles of the entire war.

“There I am, a 19-year-old with 50 men under me, making the landing at Iwo Jima,” Dolph said.

His unit, the 147th Infantry of the U.S. Army, was part of a CAM Division — a composite Army-Navy unit made up of both Army units and Marines.

Some say there was no Army at Iwo Jima. Only Marines. Dolph says otherwise. If his memories of horrifi c night shellings aren’t enough, he has a picture he took from a landing craft the day he landed. It shows

Mount Suribachi after Marines raised the fl ag of the United States.On the third day of fi ghting, Dolph’s landing craft moved forward to the

shore, where he and his unit would spend the next 31 days in the most brutal combat imaginable.

“There’s no words I can come up with to make them understand,” Dolph said. “We landed there with 50 of us. Fourteen of us walked off the island.”

Dolph was not one of the lucky 14.He called up a spotter to direct artillery fi re at a pocket of resistance. That fi rst

round fell short.“All I remember is hearing it coming — you can hear them coming,” he said. “It killed

the spotter.”The blast of the shell blew him backward almost 20 feet. His buddies told him he looked

like a rag doll. They fi gured him to be the newest of the many dead who lay strewn about the island.Dolph closes his eyes and shakes his head. He gives no hint as to the nightmare only visible to

him.He moves on. Leaves the dead behind.

Okinawa.Dolph and his men move inland but are soon ordered to return. A new kind of warfare is being

used.

“Th ere’s no words I can come up with to make them understand.

We landed there with 50 of us. Fourteen of us walked off the island.”

— DOLPH SWEAT

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Dolph Sweat says his wife, Lucille, kept him sane after he returned home from World War II. The 86-year-old served in the Pacifi c Theater, fi ghting in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns. For the fi rst time, he talks publically about his horrifi c experiences fi ghting the Japanese.

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Dolph and Lucille Sweat are seen as teenagers in 1943. This photograph was taken before Dolph was shipped out to the Pacifi c.

6. Don’t swear off morning glories.While some varieties of morning glories can become a nuisance, others are better

behaved in both their growth habit and propensity to go forth and multiply. “Heavenly Blue” is a very rewarding variety that is well-suited for containers or beds where a trellis or fence is available for climbing.

You will be blessed with a profusion of blooms and few to no seedlings springing up from the seedy capsules produced.

7. When shopping online for garden seeds, plants and supplies, go rst to the site’s ‘Clearance,’ ‘Deep Discounts’ or ‘Limited Quantities’ options.

You might be surprised at the selection of items you can choose from to fi ll up your “shopping cart” at really low prices. See if the company off ers free shipping on orders of a certain size. Check with fellow gardeners to see if you can combine orders and get ex-tra savings. Some companies also off er a free gift with orders of a certain size.

Ordering online has its advantages and disadvantages. One really big advantage is re-ceiving updates on the status of your order. You can track your package and anticipate its arrival, usually within a 24-hour window. This means there is no excuse for not being prepared for your shipment, especially important if you are ordering live plants.

8. Keep up with current, well-documented research about plant care.

For example, it was previously recommended that when you dug planting holes for trees and shrubs that you greatly amend the soil within the hole itself. Just like in the medical fi eld, ongoing horticultural research often comes up with better ways to get

better results. According to Clemson University, “research has shown that when adding organic matter to a soil, it is best to incorporate it throughout

the rooting zone as opposed to placing it in the planting hole.”To learn more, visit clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/land-

scape/trees/hgic1001.html.

9. Don’t throw away things you can nd another use for.An old, dingy-looking ce-

ment birdbath can be turned into an interesting planter fi lled with cascading plants. “Re-cycle and reuse” is not just for the home or offi ce — it applies to the yard and garden, too.

10. Don’t keep using old, leftover garden fertilizers and chemicalsfrom years past.If you have kept them dry and out of di-

rect sunlight, they should be good for years. On the other hand, if labels are missing or mois-

ture has crept in, you should dispose of them. Contact your county landfi ll or recycling service to

learn how to properly dispose of old chemicals.

■ Contact the writer: 138 Nature’s Trail, Bam-berg, SC 29003.

By MINNIE MILLERT&D Garden Columnist

Ah, spring! And a gardener’s fancy turns to tilling the soil and planting.

But before you dig in, consider the following 10 tips for the yard and garden that just might make this year’s gar-

dening experience the best ever.

1. Don’t let limited space keep you from growing vegetables.

Whether you’ve decided to grow your own because they’re fresher, more readily available or you can control what goes into and onto them, spring is the perfect time to get started with vegetables.

Tomatoes are, by far, the most widely grown vegetable in the country. But don’t limit your-self to them alone. You can now fi nd a wide variety of vegetables, especially for small-sized gardens. Choose from space-saving

peppers, squash, cucumbers and eggplants, or grow vining crops on trellises, which require minimal space.

Whether you decide to dig up a small plot and turn it into a raised bed, convert a stack of used tires into a planter or switch your 10-gallon glazed fl owerpot into a mini-veggie garden, you’ll reap a rewarding and edible harvest. Don’t forget to toss in a couple of herbs to fl avor all your delicious, home-grown meals.

2. Keep the birds and butter ies in mind.

Look into plants that serve double duty. A butterfl y garden doesn’t have to have a wide variety of fl owers, though that will increase the diversity of visitors it attracts. Just a simple plot of zinnias or cos-mos will bring in the butterfl ies.

When adding shrubs, think about what they will off er birds this winter in the way of berries or seeds. A plant like Ilex verti-cillata “Winter Red” will brighten your landscape in the dead of winter while providing birds a source of tasty berries.

3. Find more ways to use your garden vegetables, fruits and herbs.

Bake bread and incorporate chopped herbs. Learn the basics of canning, and put up your homegrown or pick-your-own strawberries.

Try freezer jams, which are exceptionally easy to make and do not require special kitchen equipment to prepare. Check out the grocery store shelf for boxes of liquid or powdered pectin, and you will fi nd delicious recipes right inside the box.

4. Add a little something crazy to your yard.

Try a colorful, wall-mounted metal gecko made from recycled material or a giant-sized pair of cement cupped hands that form garden seats.

Shop for fi nished products, or make your own by looking at ideas in magazines and books. This is your opportunity to make your yard unique and individually enjoyable.

5. Refer to planting charts if you are not sure when to plant certain crops.

This is especially important with plants that need time to mature before cold weather. It may be hard to think that far ahead when spring has just arrived, but it can make a big diff erence with crops that take a long time to mature, such as pumpkins and gourds.

Planting charts — available through Clemson Extension Service — can also give you a heads-up on timing for second plantings of beans, squash, peas and other vegetables that you can seed for fall harvest, as well.

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Green thumb10 TIPS FOR THE YARD, GARDEN

Plant a little something for the birds and the butterfl ies. Even a simple patch of zinnias will attract nectar-seeking butterfl ies, and mature seed heads will provide food for

smaller birds such as titmice and sparrows.

Reuse and recycle things to give them a second life and add spunk to your garden and landscape.

Learn to do more with your garden produce. Mix chopped fresh herbs into sauces, salads or breads, if you don’t want to tackle canning jellies or jams.

SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2011 / SECTION C

Look for space-saving vegatable varie-ties that can be easily trellised in pots or small plots.

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SWAMP GLASS

Art has brightened Christmas at White House and beyondBy DALE LINDER-ALTMAN

T&D Staff Writer

Like King Midas, Branchville’s “swamp artist” has a magi-cal touch. But where Midas’ gift turned everything he touched into

cold, lifeless gold, Herman Leonhardt’s touch creates multi-faceted works of art ranging from his brilliantly colored, blown glassware to his metal work to the rustic home he designed and built in the Edisto River swamp.

Leonhardt is an outdoorsman who lives a simple life with his cat and two Chesa-peake retrievers. He calls his work “swamp art” after the beauties of the environment around him. Though he has a gas heater, he mainly warms his home with a free-stand-ing heater that he stuff s with wood foraged from the forest. He even has a wood stove that he uses when he’s in the mood — but he usually cooks the modern way, he says.

“I’m still using fi rewood from the tor-nado that hit Branchville three years ago,” he said. “I was looking out the window, and the trees were going down — boom, boom, boom — but not one hit the house.”

Leonhardt is best known for the brilliant blues and golds and reds and yellows and greens and intricate shapes of his blown glass artwork. It ranges from Christmas globes — one of which graced the White House Christmas tree in 1997 — to vases and bowls and lamp shades that are sup-ported by metal bases he fashions in the shape of the tangled vines that grow along the river.

Leonhardt sold one of his lamps for $17,000 to Florence-Darlington Technical College and recently turned down $6,500 for one he wants to sell for at least $10,000.

“I designed it (the lamp) to be beautiful,” he said. “It doesn’t have to say anything or represent anything specifi c. It’s just got to be wonderful, awesome, beautiful, fantas-tic — but not perfect. I don’t do perfect.”

He says the cost of blowing glass is as-tronomical, and the work is beyond ex-hausting. Even though Leonhardt claims he’s the fastest glassblower in the country, he can produce only four pieces a day be-cause of the drain on his body.

It costs $5,000 to $10,000 to fi re up the furnace, plus the cost of the glass and col-oring, he says.

“I spend about a thousand dollars a week on propane,” he said. “It takes many days to blow all that glass, and twisting that iron was an ungodly task.”

Glass is heavy, and sometimes he has to have help supporting the glass on the pipe as he blows and shapes it into beautiful pieces. He “dances” as he waves the pipe to create his art. If you wave the pipe one way, you get a long, cylindrical piece, and if you wave it another way, you get a rounder, fl atter object, he says.

Leonhardt says he appreciates some of

his contemporary glassblowers. He says Dale Chihuly, one of the world’s most re-nowned glasswork artists, makes it pos-sible for him to make a living.

“If I charge a thousand, he charges $40,000,” Leonhardt said. “People fall to the ground quivering when they hear his prices, and then they buy from me. What can I say?”

Because of the economy and because he was in an accident earlier this year, Leonhardt isn’t running the glassworks this winter. But normally, he and a couple of helpers spend fi ve months during the coldest time of year working on almost 300 pounds of glass a day. The furnaces

Salvaged wood from the Edisto River provides a rustic display for fi nished pieces of hand-crafted glass art inside Leonhardt’s home.

PHOTOS BY LARRY HARDY

Above, a standing fl oor lamp made out of twisted iron and blown glass similar to the one shown here was recently sold to Florence-Darlington Technical College. Below, glass artist Herman Leonhardt demonstrates a part of the technique used to create his Christmas globes.

The bright, bold colors of Herman Leonhardt’s artwork can be seen throughout his hand-built home.

This colorful hanging lamp serves a practical purpose in Leonhardt’s rustic kitchen.

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“I designed it (the lamp) to be beautiful. It doesn’t have to say anything or represent anything specifi c. It’s just got to be wonderful, awesome,

beautiful, fantastic — but not perfect. I don’t do perfect.”

— HERMAN LEONHARDT

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Shoppers brave snow to warm economy

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIOThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Americans didn’t stop splurging after the holidays.

They braved snowstorms and shopped in force in January, handing retailers such as Costco, Victoria’s Secret and Macy’s surprisingly strong sales.

Along with two encouraging econom-ic reports — the biggest service sector expansion in fi ve years and a plunge in weekly unemployment claims — the

sales figures offered more evidence Thursday that the economic recovery is picking up speed.

“It’s one more piece of the econom-ic puzzle that’s falling in place,” said Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Consumer spending has been improving for more than a year now, and this holiday season was the stron-gest for stores since 2006, before the recession, according to the council. Sales figures for January showed that shoppers weren’t spent out after Christmas.

The council’s index of 32 stores showed a robust 4.8 percent increase

for the month, well above the expected 1.5 to 2 percent. Analysts were worried that snowstorm after snowstorm, par-ticularly in the Northeast, might have kept shoppers at home.

Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, so how shoppers behave is an important measure of economic health. The next question is whether they will shell out full price for spring items starting to show up in stores.

Rising gas prices and other house-hold costs could squeeze lower- to middle-class shoppers. The next few months could be a “long spring thaw,” said John Morris, an analyst for BMO Capital Markets.

Retailers encouraged by sales in January

By TAREK EL-TABLAWYThe Associated Press

CAIRO

For more than a week, Zaki Abdel-Aziz had been out of work and nearly out of money, joining millions of Egyptians liv-ing more on hope than cash as the capital

plunged into chaos and the economy ground to a virtual halt.

His wife and three children were hungry, tired and tense. There was a little more than $17 in their apart-ment, and no way to borrow more. Then a chilling call came Tuesday night.

“The guy asked me, ‘Zaki, you haven’t worked for a week, right? You don’t have money?’ ” Abdel-Aziz, 45, recalled. “He said, ‘Come out tomorrow and you’ll get 100 pounds and a bag of food. All you have to do is join us against those traitors in Tahrir.”

Abdel-Aziz, who works in a government records offi ce, angrily rebuffed the offer. “I’m hungry, but I won’t sell my soul to eat,” he said. On Wednesday, supporters of President Hosni Mubarak converged on Tahrir Square in central Cairo, fi ghting deadly battles with protesters who seek the Egyptian leader’s ouster.

The protests engulfi ng Cairo since Jan. 25 have shuttered businesses, forced factories to halt opera-tions, closed banks and the stock exchange, and lim-ited suppliers’ ability to restock store shelves. Three days into February, many salaries have not been paid, even as rents are due. The price of some basic goods has spiked more than 50 percent, and other products have started to disappear from shelves.

The shortages and price increases are adding to the economic pinch that many protesters say was among the key catalysts for joining the demonstra-tions. But they also have fueled anger, both at the gov-ernment and the protesters, pitting Egyptian against Egyptian.

Anti-government protesters allege that some of those who attacked them in Tahrir Square were paid to do so. And some Egyptians are losing patience with the demonstrators, saying Mubarak’s offer not to run for offi ce again was a major concession.

“Enough,” said Mamdouh Sweilam, a mechanic who has been out of work since the fi rst day of the unrest. “Like them, I want to be able to live, to earn a decent salary. But this isn’t living. The hope for democracy isn’t going to put food on the table right now,” he said.

Before the protests, Egyptians had complained of low salaries and rising costs. Analysts say the roughly 17 percent annual infl ation in food prices will remain a key challenge, even if Mubarak steps aside.

The unrest has only exacerbated the problem.Staples such as bread, lentils and rice have spiked

by as much as 80 percent in some neighborhoods. Inexpensive Egyptian pasta largely has disappeared from others. Cigarette prices have spiked by at least 50 percent for some brands.

In Ma’sara, an impoverished neighborhood near Cairo’s notorious Torah prison, residents complained the only things available in the local market were potatoes, tomatoes and onions, and prices have nearly quadrupled since the protests began.

Prices are likely to continue climbing. The depre-ciation in the Egyptian pound has typically been accompanied by price spikes.

“Tourism? It’s dead. Foreigners coming to start businesses? Forget it,” said civil servant Kamal Abdel-Hamid.

Dubai-based port operator DP World said Thurs-day the Sokhna port it operates on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, near the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, has reopened after being shut earlier in the week.

Other companies have resumed operations, though many factories remained shut. The Paris-based Orga-nization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated that the government’s shutdown of the Internet for several days cost Egypt $90 million.

The losses are likely to climb as the world absorbs images of thousands fl eeing this nation that relies heavily on tourism.

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A customer shops at Victoria’s Secret at Glendale Galleria mall in Glendale, Calif., on Thursday. Consumers shopped in force in January, handing retailers such as Victoria’s Secret surprisingly strong sales.

The price of

Above, Egyptian tour guides and security sit near the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. The protests that have engulfed Cairo since Jan. 25 shuttered businesses, forced factories to stop operating, closed banks and the stock exchange and limited suppliers’ ability to restock store shelves. At left, consumers shop at the Hiber Market in the outskirts of Cairo last week.

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Super Bowl ads go long to score By MAE ANDERSONThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — The Super Bowl commer-cial blitz is extending beyond the usual talk-ing babies and offi ce chimps to engage view-ers online and get more for advertisers’ $3 million-plus investment.

Marketers are using every trick to dominate the buzz before the game and long afterward, too. The gimmicks include online contests, a car “race” powered by Twitter mentions, and a secret new level of a hit iPhone game.

The goal is to build buzz, not get lost in the 42 minutes of Super Bowl ad time, and get cheap or free exposure when viewers watch again on YouTube.

“Nowadays you’ve got to get more out of your investment than 110 million view-ers watching a 60-second spot,” said Steve Cannon, head of marketing for Mercedes-

Benz USA.As part of a tie-in to the automaker’s fi rst

Super Bowl ad, which introduces fi ve new vehi-cle models and celebrates the company’s 125th anniversary, Mercedes developed a pre-game race among fi ve teams headed for the Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas. The racers buy gas based on the number of times they are tweeted and retweeted.

Advertisers have bought up all the commer-cial time on Fox’s broadcast. Thirty seconds of air time is selling for $3 million . Most other nights , a 30-second prime-time commercial runs between $100,000 and $500,000.

Companies covet the Super Bowl audience because it is huge and because viewers are paying attention. As people spend more time on computers and smartphones , it’s perhaps the only broadcast that allows advertisers to reach such a broad audience.

A scene from the Super Bowl commercial “One Epic Ride,” shows the 2011 Kia Optima being held by Poseidon.

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READY,

T he heat is coming.With summer about a month

away, it’s time to start thinkingabout how you can get your home and gar-den ready for those hot months, which onthe Strand can last all the way throughSeptember.

We’ve compiled a list of steps you cantake to not only make sure your living andgardening space is ready to take the heat,but that will hopefully save you some mon-ey, too.1. | Stock up now on light or white cloth-

ing. White is the perfect shade for summerbecause it reflects the light from the suninstead of drawing it toward you. It mayseem like a small step, but it could make abig difference if you spend a lot of timeoutdoors. To cut down on the cost of newclothes, try finding lightly worn garmentsfrom Goodwill or other thrift stores. 2. | Set out bins, buckets and/or barrels

to collect rain water that you can usethroughout the summer to water the grassand plants. This will help you reduce theamount of water you use from the gardenhose, and save you some money on yourwater bill. Plus a well-placed and attrac-tive bin or barrel can be the perfect accentto your yard or garden.

“If used and emptied frequently, a smallcontainer can also be placed under the out-flow for the HVAC condensation system,”said Gary Forrester with the Clemson Ex-tension Service. “These will generally putout several gallons of water per weekwhich can be caught and used to waterplants.”

If you do find yourself needing to waterthe lawn from the hose or a sprinkler, killtwo birds with one stone. Do it on a daywhere the kids will be home or havefriends over, and let them wear their bath-ing suits and spend the day playing outsidein the hose and the sprinkler. Not only willit water your lawn, but it will get them tobe active outdoors during those monthswhen the heat may have them feelingtrapped inside the air-conditioned house.

If you don’t have children, consider wa-

SUMMER!SET,

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Don’t go to a partyempty-handed.

Jayne Michaels, designer

tips for a perfect

holidayparty

Compiled by House Beautiful

Create a music playlist that’sready to begin as soon as the

doorbell rings.Colin Cowie, event planner

Put lamps on your buffet orserver. We all look better with

light on our faces.Jan Showers, designer

Always start with an emptydishwasher.

Chesie Breen, founder,clovermag.com

Always include the singlefriend or extra surprise guest,

even if it’s 13 at your table.You can always make room.Kelli Ford and Kirsten Fitzgib-

bons, designers

Keep hors d’oeuvres to onebite. No one wants to talk with

a mouthful.Larry Laslo, designer

Flowers are overused as cen-terpieces. Use seasonal fruit,

a tureen or an interestingsculptural centerpiece.

Christopher Spitzmiller, ceramicdesigner

Let guests make their owncocktails. I have a few favor-ite recipes on cards, and all

the ingredients on hand. Peo-ple mix and shake and think

it’s super-fun. Paul Lowe, food/prop stylist

Don’t wait for late guests.People resent being hungry.

Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer

Ever notice how guests gath-er in the kitchen? Place a barsomewhere in the corner ofyour living room to create afew different conversation

spots.Cassandra Lavalle interior/

event designer

People with big personalitiesare best in the center of the

table. They can help carry theconversation.

Michael S. Smith, designer

Atmosphere is half the battle.A low-lit atmosphere with

candles can even give pizzaold-movie glamour.

Mary McDonald, designer

I try not to have everythingdone when the guests arriveso that people can pitch in

and help in the kitchen. It’s agreat icebreaker.

Ruth Reichl, author/formereditor, Gourmet Magazine

Don’t ever make it feel for-mal. It’s such a snooze.Jonathan Adler, designer

Never run out of ice.Bryan Batt, actor/shop owner

Put individual guest napkinsin the powder room (prevents

yucky overused guest tow-els). And a soap pump (no

gooey soaps).Rachel Ashwell, designer

Light up the backyard sothere won’t be a big black

hole outside your windows.Joni Webb,

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Make a home-cooked meal,even if it’s just a bowl of chiliand a salad with garlic bread.

Lisa Fine, textile designer

If you’re throwing a cocktailparty, have fewer chairs than

people so people mingle.Brad Ford, designer

As a host, don’t sit at thehead of the table – presump-

tuous and archaic.Darryl Carter, designer

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CoastingHome & garden

C limate change hasmade weather lesspredictable for

gardeners. Now that wehave awakened to a fewfrosty mornings, it is timeto lay plans for the worst ofwhat winter brings tocoastal South Carolina.

Succulents can be chal-lenging because some spe-cies are tropical and othersare winter-hardy.

There are more than 125species of kalanchoe, forexample. They includegarden and containerplants commonly namedflapjacks that sport biground green leaves bor-dered in orange, as well assmall winter-blooming

house-plants.Most of usare familiarwith thesered, pink,orange oryellowfloweringkalanchoehouse-plantsbecause

florists, grocery stores andgarden centers sell them asgift plants during the win-ter.

But beware: No form ofkalanchoe tolerates freezingweather. Take kalanchoeinside; do not even leavethe plants on a screenporch.

Among the more than400 species of sedum (alsocalled stonecrops), many ofus recognize Autumn Joy,which carries masses ofstarry shaped flowers aboveits leaves in late summerand early fall. Flowersbloom pink, turn red andfinish rusty red. AutumnJoy is a perennial succulent,but other sedums are trop-ical – heat-loving andfreeze-intolerant. Still oth-ers are cold-loving and willnot grow outside in SouthCarolina summer heat.

Agave americanus andvarious yuccas are familiarsights in coastal yards.These two succulents areeasy. By virtue of their size,frequent use and evergreenleaves, we know they arewinter-hardy.

Ideally each of us wouldhave a well-organized stashof plant tags that tells thehardiness zone for each ofour plants. Unfortunately,most of us do not. When indoubt take succulents in-side. The alternative is toleave them outside and youwill learn which ones makeit through the winter.

Before submitting yourplants to possible sacrifice,however, take a few cut-tings from each plant. Putthem in well-drained pot-ting soil or a sandy mix andset them on a windowsill inbright light. Water themsparingly, allowing them todry out before each water-ing; too much water will rotsucculents.

Sago palms are differentfrom palm trees; as a re-sult, they require somewhatdifferent care. Sago palmscan be overwintered withor without leaf protection,

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I s it paranoid to thinkthat the women at theKorean nail salon at

the mall are talking aboutme?

This may come as ashock to y’all but I don’tspeak Korean all that well.OK, at all. So it’s a littleunnerving when, after scru-tinizing my pitifully roughheels, one says somethingvery loud which soundslike: “Dong Chow Hok WadHoe!” and the other scur-ries over, takes one look inthe direction of my feet andlaughs out loud.

I can only imagine that“Dong Chow Hok WadHoe” is Korean for: “Y’alllook! This triflin’ heifer has

feet tough-er’n wood-peckerlips.” Iknow whatthey’rethinking:“Ooooh,birthdaypedicure.Big spend-er.”

Onetime, the

nail tech took a long look atmy feet and said withsomething approachingsorrow: “You work in gar-den all the time?”

I’m pretty sure that wasa diss in any language.

I love these nail placesbecause they’re fast, they’rereasonable and there’s abetter than average chancethat one of the pictures onthe wall will have one ofthose moving waterfalls init. I love that crap. And Ilove how, if they’re busy,they just text more techswho magically appear inunder a minute. How is thateven possible? Were theyhanging out at the pretzelstand waiting for the call?If so, wow.

The only downside isthat they always try tosuggest that you upgradeyour service.On my lastvisit, it was a bright andcheery “Nail art today,ma’am?” I hated to tell herthat I was a little long inthe tooth for yin/yang sym-bols on my big toe so I justshook my head a bitviolently.

“New glitter acrylic?”another technician suggest-ed with a big smile on herface. When I said, “Nothank you,” she looked as ifI had just strangled herkittens. There is nothingsadder than the face of aKorean nail tech who expe-riences the firm decline of aservice upgrade.

Did I really look like theglitter acrylic type? On theother hand, well, thank you.

Earlier in the week, I’dpopped in for a quick man-icure only to be dumped bymy formerly attentive maletechnician as soon as awoman came in for a fullacrylic set.

“Ding Bong Yuk Boo!” hesaid and a young womanrushed over to finish myless-expensive and infinitelyless interesting mani. I feltlike a rose-less bachelorette.

One day, I’ll have thesethings done at some fancyspa but, for now, I’m in thechair in the center of themall getting my eyebrowsthreaded every couple ofmonths while (seriously)some redneck stands thereeating a drippy ice creamcone and asking me, “Do ithurt?”

You can get a lot done forlittle money at the mall.And it’s getting more per-sonal all the time. Next up:Brazilian waxes in front ofForever 21. Hey, it couldhappen.

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MINNEAPOLIS | Christ ianPeterson has heard the ques-tions so many times that he hasstock answers ready: Yes, heknows that he’s running bare-foot. No, he didn’t run so fastthat he came out of his shoes.And, for the record, he’s notcrazy.

He has one more answer that

typically comes as surprise: It’snot painful.

“People are always asking:Does that hurt?” said Peterson,president of the Minnesotachapter of the Barefoot Run-ners Society. “No, it feels good.”

Although logic would seemto dictate that slapping ex-posed flesh onto asphalt run-ning paths would lead to allsorts of uncomfortable prob-lems, a study at Harvard Uni-

versity found that for some run-ners, going barefoot actuallycan reduce injuries or mitigaterepetitive stress maladies.

Researchers at the school’sSkeletal Biology Lab conductedthe study last year after notic-ing an explosion in the numberof barefoot runners. There haslong been the occasional onetaking part in elite competi-tions – South African distancerunner Zola Budd, who set

world records in the mid-1980sand has since coached at Coast-al Carolina University, proba-bly is the best known – but thenew breed of barefoot runnerscome from the ranks of casualrunners.

“There’s a barefoot frenzy,”said Lisa Zeman, a physicaltherapist for the running pro-gram of Regions Hospital’s

Runners put their (bare) foot down

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Christian Peterson runsbarefoot in Weaver LakePark in Maple Grove, Minn.Peterson thinks barefootrunning prevents injuries.

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Olivia Nelson of Myrtle Beach celebrates her birthday by visiting the world’s deadliest animals exhibit at Ripley’s Aquarium at Broadway at theBeach.

LEARNINGAND LIVING IT UP

A capuchin monkey eats a carrot at Waccatee Zoo.

Lwanda Campbell and her grandson ConnorCampbell, 7, are hands on at Ripley’s Aquariumwith a horseshoe crab.

Clinging to a glowing strand of vegetation, a seahorse is part of thedisplay in the Ripley’s Aquarium “Babies” exhibit.

Kacie Ricketts (from left), of Statesboro, Ga., Jaimee Harrison ofMyrtle Beach, and Justin Ricketts of Statesboro, check out a peacockspreading it’s feathers Monday at Waccatee Zoo in Socastee.

During the summer, the last thingthat kids want to think about isschool.

But education can continue – es-pecially if the learning is about ani-mals and the coastal environment.Outings to various local sites, one ofwhich offers learning camps as well,offer information about conservingthe coastal environment, beach ani-mals (birds, turtles, mammals, fishand more) and other wildlife.

Like vegetables hidden in a pastasauce, these outings pack learninginto every fun minute. From the ul-tra-modern Ripley’s Aquarium toold-fashioned Waccatee ZoologicalFarm (or Waccatee Zoo), and naturewalks at local parks, opportunitiesabound on the Grand Strand to keepthe little “gray cells” of your littleones active and excited during thesummer.

Lessons don’thave to stopfor summer

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My students “just think it’s the greatest thing in the world. I want to expose them to as much as I can. Some of the students may not have all this at home. ... It’s a lot of work. I work a lot of weekends, but I love it. I absolutely love it. I love for it to have a homey feel.” — Andi Rogers

“We get to make whatever we want.” — Shelley Stevenson, 6, while writing at the classroom’s creative center. Shelley said she likes spending time in the learning centers.

R ogers, above, began collecting and creating eye-catching decorations and learning tools for her classroom when she began teaching 17 years

ago. Her classroom is divided into learning centers, where students can study science, create works of art, build with blocks or learn housekeeping skills. Even her classroom door is decorated according to season or holiday. Morning center time is students’ favorite time of the day. They interact with the classroom as much as with each other.

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Into everyone’s life, a little cat, pig, mule or donkey must fall

In my experience, stray animals often wander to the “funny farm” a day or two after a vio-

lent storm. We have taken in cats, the odd

pig (who truly was odd) and even an ancient mini mule that had been abandoned and terribly neglected. We lost that mule, you may remem-ber, last summer, to a terrible bout of colic at the age of 40.

Heady with the comfort one feels after paying off remaining vet bills, Paul and I were remark-ing how chores certainly had been easier this past winter as we were now down to two horses, our terri-

ers and the usual assorted cats. Feeding and mucking take

but a half hour in below-freezing temperatures in the early morn-ing dark, and this was a welcome treat. The amount of hay fed was certainly less, and when your critters go through $12 of hay per day, that is another gift, as any surpluses must now go into the gas tank.

It was only a day or two after a recent pounding rain that my vet, of all people, having been very patient with our dribbling payment balance, sent me an e-mail that read, “I was just thinking that you

and Paul might like a little, sweet, abandoned donk.”

Truth be told, I had just been thinking the day before, as I hand-grazed my 20-year-old gelding, Fozzy, still recovering from his leg injury, how nice it would be for him to have a little donkey as a friend when he’s able to transition back to the pasture for his retire-ment.

However, when you see the offer digitally before you, all the wor-ries come careening back at full force: “What if it gets really sick?” “Surely it belongs to someone?” “What if it kicks my dog?”

I was reassured that it was “the sweetest thing, loves to get and give hugs,” (with its neck, if you’re wondering) and the caring woman who had taken him in had given him all the vaccinations needed as well as worming. She would keep it, she explained, except that she already had two horses on only 2 acres, and her fi elds couldn’t handle another grazer.

She had even gone to great lengths to try and fi nd anyone who might be missing the little fellow, but no one had reported a lost don-

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ANDI ROGERS’ ROOM, WEST VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

J obe doesn’t believe in a typical learning environment. A teacher for 17 years, Jobe constantly has an eye out for all things history, and plasters them to every visible inch of his classroom — bookshelves, walls and even the ceiling tiles. From magazine clippings to album covers to movie posters, Jobe makes sure his students, including Maria Kapousidis, above, stay engaged, even if their eyes wander away from the

lesson at hand. Jobe also welcomes student contributions to his own history museum. The result is a quirky, visually stimulating, yet educational classroom that keeps students guessing.

“I try to draw them in and really get inter-ested in history. ... We’re trying to make some sort of environment that’s relaxed and not so uptight.” — Steve Jobe (above)

“I was really surprised to see (a cardboard cutout of) Paris Hilton in the room. I thought (Mr. Jobe) must be sort of weird, but then I understood why he had it. It’s to prove the point that we know a lot more about celebri-ties than we do about some of the other people in the room.” — Kathleen Smith, junior

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N eumann wants her fourth-grade English/language arts stu-dents to think of her

classroom as a second home. Soothing music plays in the background as students pick their reading material and settle in at the “book nook”; at left, Calika Bridwell reads “Titanic.” Oversized stuffed animals and cushy pillows help students get comfortable while reading under yellow stars hanging from the ceil-ing. Creative learning materi-als are posted throughout the classroom, which is decorat-ed in a new way each month. As a teacher for 17 years, Neumann said she strives to create a homey, relaxed envi-ronment for her students.

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By KARI JACKSON For the Herald-Journal

If you search for author Ron Rash online, you won’t fi nd a ronrash.com or Facebook page. And you can’t follow his days or his meals on Twitter. He’s a hard man to fi nd beyond the essential one paragraph biog-raphy common on book-selling sites.

Rash laughs. “That’s deliber-ate.”

“It’s a desire for solitude,” he said. “I need time for myself, and I’d rather be outdoors than online.”

And his fans and critics don’t seem to mind that they can’t interact with him through social media or a website.

“My biggest obligation is to write as good of a book as I can,” he said. “The greatest appreciation I can show is to do

that and put energy into writ-ing.”

In addition to his full-time job as Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western

Carolina University in Cul-howee, N.C., Rash has written three prize-winning novels over the past decade, including “Serena,” “The World Made Straight” and “One Foot in Eden,” and his short story col-lection, “Burning Bright,” won the 2010 Frank O’Connor Inter-national Short Story Award.

But this month’s release of “Waking,” Rash’s new poetry collection from Spartanburg’s Hub City Press, is his fi rst book of poetry in nearly a decade. The offi cial book release will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at The Showroom in downtown Spar-tanburg. Rash will give a read-ing and signing.

He started writing mainly poems as an undergraduate at Gardner-Webb University

Hours, times for the Piedmont Interstate Fair4 to 10 p.m. Monday-Friday10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday1 to 10 p.m. Oct. 16Rides close at 11 p.m. each night.

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Sometimesit’s better to just sleep through it

‘OK,” I said to Paul last Thursday morning. “That was offi cially

the most horrible thing that has ever happened to me.”

“Really?” Paul replied, opening the fridge to retrieve the orange juice. “Worse than having a horse fall on you and break a few ribs?”

“Worse.”“Worse than getting up in

the middle of the night, only to step in something revolting from the cats?”

“Oh, much worse.”“Worse than that fl ight out

of Spain when you and your tour manager had had too many Bloody Marys, turbu-lence hit and all the bathrooms were occupied?”

“OK,” I capitulated. “That was pretty bad.” (And I’ve never had a Bloody Mary since.)

Gentle reader, before I divulge the details, be fore-warned: If you are the squea-mish sort, read no further. Go take your cup of coffee and turn on HGTV and watch total strangers destroy someone’s bathroom. Because what hap-pened to me was the kind of thing that will prevent you from going to sleep tonight.

To begin with, I’ve been sleeping in the downstairs bedroom. Insomnia plagues me of late, and this way, Paul can stay up as long as he likes and snore his head off without fearing my bloodshot, accus-ing glare the following morn-ing over breakfast.

And, because the nights have been gorgeously cool and crisp, I have kept the patio French doors open with aban-don, cultivating true “sleeping weather.”

The dogs and cats, evidently concerned that I must be rather lonely on my own, have taken to sharing my bed (actu-ally staking their respective territories before I even climb in), generously leaving me 6 inches of mattress, next to the edge, on which to slumber. One cat, Tippy, has taken to sleep-ing under the bed, occasion-ally attacking the box spring covering, only stopping when I smack my hand repeatedly upon the frame.

It was sometime around 2 a.m. Thursday when I was star-tled awake by what I, blurry from REM sleep, supposed to be an earthquake. The entire bed was shaking, and the ter-riers, like fur-clad sentries, stood rooted on either side of me, tensed and growling.

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This year’s Piedmont Interstate Fair features 48 rides of various levels. Children enjoy the high-flying swings at last year’s fair.

WANT TO GO?What: Book release for author Ron Rash’s “Waking”

When: 7 p.m. Tuesday

Where: The Showroom, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave., Spartanburg.

Info: Betsy Teter, 577-9349, or [email protected]

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Spartanburg welcomes back the smell of corn dogs and funnel cakes this week, when the Piedmont Interstate Fair begins at 4 p.m. Monday.

The fair brings a week’s worth of tasty foods and exciting rides, games and entertainment to the Upstate, serving a wide area that includes Spartanburg, Union, Cherokee and Laurens counties in South Carolina

and Polk and Rutherford counties in North Carolina.

Entertainment for this year’s fair includes 48 rides of varying thrill lev-els, Boo Boo the clown, a petting zoo provided by Hollywild Animal Park, a motion simulator, a house of fl ow-ers, several contests and much more.

Wayne Harmon, the fair’s execu-tive director, says there are many attractions offered at the fair that

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Author Ron Rash will introduce his new book of poetry Tuesday in Spartanburg.

Author Ron Rash recalls ‘spots of time’

“A lot of what poetry does is help us

not to forget, and sometimes that

means not forgetting what it means to be

a child.”RON RASH,

on returning to his childhood with “Waking,” a new poetry collection

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Film celebrates architectBY BILL [email protected]

As part of the continuing Bluesphere environmental art initiative, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the Col-lege of Charleston will present a free screening of the documen-tary feature “Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Cannon Park, Rut-ledge and Calhoun streets.

Documentary screening part of Bluesphere

3-D exhibit to show city post-Civil WarBY BILL [email protected]

It is a portal into the past, but unlike most photography that con-jures a bygone era, the exhibit “Post Civil War Images of South Caro-lina” is in 3-D.

This, courtesy of Web designer Buff Ross of Sullivan’s Island and the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia.

Only this is an online experience, “opening” Monday at www.southcarolinastatemuseum.org/civilwar3-D/index.html and focusing on the Lowcountry.

The exhibit features modern

“anaglyphs” of 53 steroscopic im-ages taken by military photogra-pher Sam Cooley and two other unidentified lensers, mostly during the period immediately following the war, 1865-66. However, visitors to the Web exhibit will see several shots of Fort Sumter’s interior and exterior walls soon after the 1861 surrender of the fort to Confeder-ate forces, as well as images of the fort at war’s end.

“All the images on the site repre-sent recent acquisitions by the State Museum, and 90 percent of them depict a time right after the war,”

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Dust off your broomsticks, ye mul-titudes. It’s reckoning time.

The seventh film in the Harry Pot-ter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1,” heads aloft Friday with Harry, Ron and Herm-ione embarking on a frightfully perilous quest to reveal the secret to Voldemort’s immortality. Namely, the Horcruxes.

A Horcrux, for the uninitiated, is a darkly enchanted object employed to attain eternal life, a concept for-mally introduced in J.K. Rowling’s sixth novel, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

The retrieval and destruction of Lord Voldemort’s Horcruxes is the main focus of the seventh and

final book in the series, “Harry Pot-ter and the Deathly Hallows” (2007), which in classic moviedom fashion is being divided into two films.

The first opens at 12:01 a.m. Friday (with some additional 12:15 a.m. screenings) at Charleston-area theaters.

The tale: Minus the sage guidance and protection offered by the for-midable Professor Dumbledore, the three chums (older and perhaps some-what wiser) must rely on each other’s resources more than ever before. But

First of two-part ‘Deathly Hallows’ movies to premiere Friday

BY SUSAN KINGLos Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — With the long-running “Harry Potter” franchise beginning to draw to a close, the three young actors who star in the epic fantasy films are finding themselves at the dawn of a new stage of their careers.

Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, is preparing to star in February in a Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser musical classic “How to Succeed in Busi-ness Without Really Trying,” in

addition to lining up new movie roles.

Emma Watson, who plays the studious Hermione Granger, is attending Brown University in Rhode Island and will appear in the movie “My Week With Marilyn,” set for release next year.

And Rupert Grint, who portrays Harry’s best wizard buddy, Ron Weasley? Well, he’s blissfully unemployed.

“I am quite enjoying not doing anything,” said the laid-back

Rupert Grint enjoying unemployment after wrapping up ‘Potter’ films as Harry’s wizard friend Ron Weasley

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Halsey honored for Aldwyth catalog

The Halsey Institute at the Col-lege of Charleston School of the Arts has received the 26th annual Mary Ellen LoPresti Award for outstanding exhibition catalog for the publication “Aldwyth: work v. / work n.: Collage and Assemblage, 1991-2009.”

The 112-page catalog was de-signed by Gil Shuler of Gil Shuler Graphic Design, edited by Mark Sloan, with text by Sloan and Rosa-mond Purcell, and published by the Halsey Institute.

Presented by the Southeast Chap-ter of the Art Libraries Society of North America, the award honors art and architecture books, exhibi-

tion catalogs, serials and artists’ books published or copyrighted during 2009 in the Carolinas, Ala-bama, Florida, Louisiana, Missis-sippi, Tennessee, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands.

The exhibition “Aldwyth: work v. / work n.: Collage and Assemblage, 1991-2009,” was the first major ret-rospective of this reclusive 73-year-old artist, and served as the debut exhibition in the new Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts.

Organized by the Halsey but also shown at the Ackland Art

PBS

Documentary filmmaker Adriana Bosch’s “Robert E. Lee” is the latest entry in PBS’ “American Experience” series.

Lee profile on PBS shows complex manBY BILL [email protected]

It is not the deified “Marble Man” who emerges from documentary filmmaker Adriana Bosch’s “Rob-ert E. Lee,” the latest entry in PBS’ “American Experience” series, but a flawed, flesh-and-blood individ-ual who commands both respect and pity.

Airing at 9 p.m. Monday on South Carolina ETV, the 90-min-ute program seeks not to roman-ticize Lee’s life and career nor to judge him by modern standards, but to afford a complex narrative a degree of balance it has not always

been granted in years past.Lionized in numerous equestrian

statues in cities and towns across the South, and elevated to near god-like status by those who most revered him, the leading Confeder-ate general of the American Civil War remains a fascinating figure a century and a half after his death.

In time, he would reside firmly in the affections of most Americans for his unquestioned abilities, ex-traordinary endurance, noble bear-ing and grace in defeat.

Yet for all his audacity and deter-mination on the field of battle, he

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35th festival to highlight more variety BY BILL [email protected]

Breadth and depth are superlatives to which any ambitious arts festival aspires, though few manifest both.

Working to widen its customary range of offer-ings still further, and augment it with complexity,

the 35th annual Spoleto Festival USA approach-es a milestone season with characteristic verve and optimism belying tough economic times.

“I think that it is a very strong festival in the sense that we have a very broad range, as broad as any we’ve put on in my memory,” says Spoleto Festival General Director Nigel Redden in announcing the 2011 artistic lineup. “I hope that no one’s taste embraces absolutely everything we do; we are testing the edges of anyone’s taste in a variety of directions.”Running May 27 through June 12, the festi-

val will spotlight nationally and internation-ally respected artists in the arenas of opera,

theater, dance, music, musical theater, contem-porary circus and visual arts. Among the principal highlights of the festival

will be an opera program including the Ameri-can premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s “Emilie,” with soprano Elizabeth Futral in the title role; Festival founder Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Medium,” pre-sented in honor of the 100th anniversary of the late composer’s birth; and a production of Mozart’s

“The Magic Flute.”The theatrical showcase harbors the festi-val debut of Ireland’s Druid Theatre with

Martin McDonagh’s “The Cripple of In-ishmaan” and the return of Great Britain’s Kneehigh Theatre with a production of “The Red Shoes,” while the dance series presents Angel Corella’s Spain-based Corella Ballet as well as the fusion of East and West embodied by Shen Wei Dance Arts.Apart from the festival debut of guest

conductor James Gaffigan, who will lead the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, concerts

by celebrated jazz chanteuse Dianne Reeves, Bela Fleck and the Original Flecktones and New

Orleans-based Trombone Shorty & Orleans Av-enue are to be highlighted.

Seeking to attract an even wider audience, the festival also will offer edgier fare in the form of “13 Most Beautiful ... Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen

Tests” with indie-pop’s Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips; “County of Kings: The Beauti-

ful Struggle” by hip-hop theater artist Lemon Andersen; “Comparison Is Violence or Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook” with Taylor Mac; and derring-do by the Austra-lian contemporary circus company Circa.

“ ‘The Magic Flute,’ done in the way we plan to do it, will be a very humane version, not the pageant, dealing more with the human qualities of overcoming challenges and so on,” says Redden. “It will possess a greater degree of maturity, done in a way very sympathetic to one deeper aspect of

what that opera means.”Redden is equally enthused about the venue

for “The Magic Flute,” which will utilize a somewhat reconfigured Sottile Theatre.“The College of Charleston is taking down

those curtains on the side walls, which will im-prove acoustics as well as change one’s impression of the space. It becomes much more square than long, and that seems more intimate to me. One of the things that we have been doing over the last

An unconventional take on “The Magic Flute.”

The dance series offers Spain’s Corella Ballet.

Jazz chanteuse Dianne Reeves.

From top: Banjo baron Bela Fleck.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue bring Big Easy style to Spoleto.

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“For a gymnast or an artist, you know you only have five to 10 years to do this — a brief career. And we all realize that we must take advantage of it. It’s wonderful to be able to travel the world while we can and make people happy every night.”

Trudy McIntosh, a performer in Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegria”

Troupe blends dance, theater, circus arts


Gasp in wonder and delight in the tableau.

You’re a kid again.A hypnotic meld of grace,

athleticism and daring, Cirque du Soleil is artistry personified. When it comes to the “wow” factor, few manage to transfix the eye

and stir the imagination quite like the inimi-table Canadian performance troupe, which alloys theater and dance with the circus arts, not to forget a street entertainer’s brio.Fittingly, the Montreal-based company was

founded in 1984 by two former street perform-ers, Guy Laliberte and Daniel Gauthier, and has developed a dramatically expanded repertoire of shows that has thrilled audiences worldwide.

Coming Thursday to the North Charleston Coliseum, Cirque du Soleil opens a four-day,

seven-performance run of its touring production “Alegria” (Al-e-GREE-ah), a staple of the troupe since its world premiere in 1994.

“Alegria,” the Spanish word for joy or jubila-tion, showcases a cast of 55 performers and musi-

cians from 17 countries. Its vocabulary: high-level acrobatics.

So, who better to command the stage than a former Olympian, a member of the Australian gymnastics team?

“As a child, my goal was strictly to be an athlete and to go to the Olympic Games,” says Trudy McIntosh, who will perform here in Cirque’s “Power Track” seg-ment. “It wasn’t until after the 2000 Olympics in Syd-ney that I wanted to see what else was out there, what opportunities there were. Then I saw Cirque, and it was so compelling.”

“Power Track” is a display of synchronized choreog-raphy and tumbling on a hidden trampoline system, and it’s not for the faint of heart.

But McIntosh, who already experienced one remark-able recovery from injury, suggests that any risk is far outweighed by the honor of being in the cast.

“Very much so,” she says. “ ‘Alegria’ represents a very high level of acrobatics, dancing, singing and everything else, and to get in the troupe was very hard. You may be gifted athletically, but you still have to have a character to play as well as (exhibiting) the gymnastic skills.”

“Alegria” is further composed of such acts as the “Synchro Trapeze” and the “Aerial High Bars,” in which aerialists fly to “catchers” swinging more than 40 feet above the stage. Youthful vibrancy is the hall-

mark of “Russian Bars,” featuring artists executing spectacular somersaults and midair turns, landing on bars perched on the shoulders of still more catchers.

“ ‘Power Track’ is really full of energy,” adds McIn-tosh, a native of Geelong, Victoria. “There are 15 of us on stage on two trampolines, and we’re flipping over each other and trying to get synchronized. We train very hard to avoid accidents. But for the audience, there’s so much happening at one time that they’re not sure where to look.”

It goes without saying that it all requires meticulous choreography and precise coordination, enlivened by the camaraderie of the players.

“We really are family, and I’ve never experienced that in exactly this way. It’s a magical vibe. The acrobats and artists all get along really well and respect each other and what we can do. We’re a young group on this arena tour, and we are all really passionate about it.

“For a gymnast or an artist, you know you only have five to 10 years to do this — a brief career. And we all realize that we must take advantage of it. It’s wonderful to be able to travel the world while we can and make people happy every night.”

The Charleston appearance is the continuance of a program begun in May 2009, when “Alegria” was taken on the road, not just to major metro areas, but to arenas throughout North America.

“That’s the point of the ‘arena’ tour,” says McIntosh, “for us to take the show to towns that don’t always get the opportunity to see Cirque du Soleil. Since I feed off the energy of an audience, sometimes you find that audiences in smaller cities are more into it and more giving, which makes it easier and more fulfill-ing to perform.”

It’s a small miracle that McIntosh, 27, is still in the game of derring-do. She barely made the cut, age-wise, for the 2000 Olympics at 16 years and 2 months, but trained 38 hours a week leading up to the Olympiad and performed admirably in the floor exercises, vault and beam.

After gymnastics, she tried her hand at aerial skiing for four years, again competing for Australia.

“But I blew my knee out. It was bad. The doctors said I’d never run again. But after three operations and three and a half years of recovery, I’m back. Which makes me appreciate all the more what I do now. I’m so thankful.”

Reach Bill Thompson at 937-5707.

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WHAT: Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegria.”WHERE: North Charleston Coliseum.WHEN: Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.; March 20 at 1 and 5 p.m.TICKETS: $28-$94. Call Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000 or visit www.cirquedusoleil.com/alegria or www.coli-seumpac.com/events.php.


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Four events to catch this season

DanceThe Charleston Concert

Association kicks off its 75th anniversary season Oct. 22 with Momix. The mesmerizing dance com-pany performs its fantasy piece, “Botanica,” a meld of athletic dance, music, outrageous costumes and inventive props. Performances are at the Gaillard Municipal Audi-torium.

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Somewhere along the line, our remote ancestors

took a break from finding food and shelter long

enough to create the arts.

Crude they may have been, and formative, these were

early efforts at music, painting, song and dance. It was a

start.

How remarkably diverse and sophisticated the arts have

become over the millennia. What extraordinary harvests

have come from the seeds so modestly planted.

As a new fall arts season dawns in the Charleston area, it

is good to reflect on the contributions of countless genera-

tions of artists who have poured their treasures into the

world’s cultures. The richness of it all beggars the imagina-

tion — and fires it.

Celebrate the new season, but also pay homage to the

centuries of creativity that are its wellspring. Herein, our an-

nual Fall Arts Preview.


For our detailed listing of arts events, please see page 2E.

MOMIX

Momix will perform its fantasy piece “Botanica,” a meld of athletic dance, music, outrageous costumes and inventive props, in October at the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium. Find more details on page 3E.

CHARLESTON STAGE

Gabriel Wright (as the Count) menaces Prentice Clark (as Mina Grant) in the Charleston Stage production of “Dracula.”

ArtAt the Halsey Institute of Con-

temporary Art, two exhibits present the same theme. Run-ning Oct. 21-Dec. 9, “Hamid Rah-manian: Multiverse” and “Tanja Softic: Migrant Universe” present visualizations of their experience as immigrants while working in different media. Softic also will explain her work in an artist lec-ture. The Halsey is in the Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts at 161 Calhoun St.

TheaterCharleston Stage pres-

ents “Dracula,” dramatized from Bram Stoker’s novel and directed by Julian Wiles. The famous produc-tion runs Oct. 14-30 at the Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St. This is the company’s 34th season. A little-known fact is that “Dracula” has ties to South Carolina. The great-great-nephew of Stoker is Dacre Stoker of Aiken, who has written a sequel to the fa-mous book.

MusicJazz Artists of Charleston was

established in 2008 by vocalist Leah Suarez and is now among the most respected purveyors of jazz and jazz education. The JAC’s Charleston Jazz Orchestra holds performances at the Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St.

Its season starts off with “Latin Night” at 7 p.m. Sept. 24. Swing and sway with some special guests.

TANJA SOFTIC

“Map of What Happened” by Tanja Softic, whose exhibition opens Oct. 21 at the Halsey Institute.

REESE MOORE

Leah Suarez milks a lyric during the Charleston Jazz Orchestra’s annual Latin Night.

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It is undeniable that he, Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie were the most influential of trumpet players, but where even the pioneering Armstrong basi-cally introduced a single stylis-tic approach, Davis gave birth to at least three interrelated trum-pet styles: lyrical minimalism (exemplified by 1959’s “Kind of Blue” with Coltrane and Can-nonball Adderly), the dramatic use of “space” in live albums of the period 1961-64 and the elec-tric trumpet of the late 1960s and early ’70s.

His emotional range is no less astonishing.

Honoring his legacy and cel-ebrating his music, the Charles-ton Jazz Orchestra presents “The Music of Miles Davis” at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Charleston Music Hall.

“Just like playing a Count Basie concert or a Duke Elling-ton concert, the hardest thing

about this one is selecting the material, because there is so much from which to draw,” says CJO trumpeter and bandleader Charlton Singleton. “Of course, I knew we had to do some stuff from ‘Kind of Blue,’ which is widely regarded as the greatest jazz recording ever.

“Miles was brilliant, but people forget some small facts about him, like how he cut his teeth in bebop. You can’t look at any of the styles of jazz that came after bebop and not see Miles’ fingerprint on them. He

helped give voice to a who’s who of the jazz world, and is on that Mount Rushmore of trumpet play-ers and jazz influences.”

Davis was born into a prosperous middle-class family in Alton, Ill., in 1926 and given

his first trumpet at age 13. In the early ’40s, he met and was befriended by the likes of Gil-lespie, Clark Terry and Charlie Parker and briefly studied at

the Juilliard School (1944) before dropping out to

play in the small clubs on 52nd Street in New York alongside such lumi-

naries as Coleman Hawkins.

By age 19, he was performing

BY JACK MCCRAYSpecial to the Post and Courier

June Bonner sang, taught, directed and produced in her own way with her own style. And that has her lega-cy alive and well in the Lowcountry.

The popular artist and voice teacher died May 23 last year. Since then, her ef-forts have lived on through her friends, colleagues and students.

On Thursday, Laura Ball and Friends will mount the next edition of Ball’s highly acclaimed Unedited Se-ries. It’s called “Unchambered Melody” and features art for the ears and eyes.

Visual artists

have collaborated with contempo-rary chamber music perform-ers and a dancer. It’s a salute, Ball said, “to the creative spirit of this great lady.

“She was one of my heroes growing up. I used to volun-teer at Dock Street in my youth. I always sat outside of her studio on breaks and listened to her teach. It was the stuff of fantasies to a little girl who wanted to be a great singer.”

Bonner’s studio was in the vener-able Church Street building.

In honor of Bonner’s teaching legacy, 20 students will be at-tending the concert courtesy of the C. June Bonner Memorial Fund, a foundation created to further the musical education of young people in Charles-ton.

Performers include vocalists Jennifer Goldsmith Morlan and Ann Caldwell, violinist Rachael Kistler, cellist Courtney Sharp, pia-nists Ball and Wayne Helmly and percussionist James Cannon.

Visual artists are Nathan Baer-reis, Lisa Abernathy, Kristin Gior-dano, Ellen Greenblum and Kenton James.

“The music being played features a wide selection of contemporary chamber works,” Ball said. “Howev-er, the idea behind the evening is to

embody the chamber performance through

an incorporation of vi-sual and dance elements interacting simultaneously with the aural expe-rience of the music performances.”

The repertoire comprises “Cafe Music” by Paul Schoenfield, “Julie-

O” by Mark Sum-mers, “Ballada,” by Leo Janacek,

“Mother Goose Suite” for four-hand piano by

Maurice Ravel, “Elegy” and “Digitel” by Ryan

Francis Anthony and songs by Ted Hearne from his

Charleston Songbook.Following the performance,

there will be an after-party with complimentary hors

d’oeuvres at Muse Restaurant, where everyone is invited to gather around the piano and sing their

favorite songs.Muse owner Beth Anne Crane is

one of Bonner’s former students. She started the foundation.

“June made me a better singer, but more importantly, she made me a better person,” Crane said. “She in-spired my creativity and hard work and instilled in me a sense of integ-rity. She was a major inspiration in my opening Muse, and it was her idea that it become a local gathering point for musicians and artists.

“Numerous cabaret-style concerts

have been held as well as impromp-tu musical evenings as a result. Thisyear, the Unedited Series concertgoers and musicians have mingled at Muse after all of the concerts and made music and merry in that very vein.”

Bonner had a huge influence on the local arts scene after her arrivalfrom New York’s Metropolitan Op-era Company in 1972.

In 1958, she won auditions at the Met, where “Carmen” became her signature role. She performed at Carnegie Hall and summer seasonsat Marlborough and Tanglewood. She appeared with the Boston Sym-phony, the National Symphony of Washington, the Lincoln Center Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic, among many others

From 1973 to 1976, she was presi-dent of the Charleston Opera Com-pany.

In 1984, she opened the Vocal Studio. In the early 1990s, she pro-duced the Coconut Club, a travelingjazz club that operated during the

MILES DAVIS

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Miles Davis in the early days, revolutionizing jazz styles.


As composer and master of the trumpet, Miles Davis was and

remains a milestone figure in jazz with an unparalleled body

of landmark recordings.

He is unique, largely because his creativity and far-reaching influ-

ence as player and conceptualist were sustained over the course of

four decades, beginning in the 1940s. Together with his contempo-

rary, John Coltrane, the leading exponent of the “modal” school of

improvisation, Davis defined an age — or, rather, several.

If you go

WHAT: Charleston Jazz Orchestra plays “The Music of Miles Davis.”WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday.WHERE: Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St.TICKETS: $30, adults; $25, seniors; $20, students; in advance. $40, $35 and $25 the day of the show. Visit www.jazzartistsof-charleston.org or www.etix.com, or in person at the JAC box office, 185-C St. Philip St.

Charleston Jazz Orchestra to present the music of

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Artists, performers honor June Bonner in ‘Unchambered Melody’

If you go

WHAT: “Unchambered Melody,” a multimedia contempo-rary chamber music recital.WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday.WHERE: Charleston Library Society, 164 King St.TICKETS: $15. Call 723-9912 or visit www.charlestonlibrarysociety.org.

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Jazz legend Davis is shown in concert

in 1987, in the twilight of an

unparalleled career.

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Redux art institute offers young artists studio experienceBY BILL [email protected]

There is nothing new in art except talent, insisted the great short story writer Anton Chekhov.

He might have added that talent benefits from guidance and focus as well as exposure to new worlds.

The Redux Contemporary Art Center’s Summer Art Institute was established in 2004 to provide 30 talented Charleston County high school students with three weeks of intensive visual art experiences, instruction and production “beyond the scope of the regular visual art curriculum.”

This year’s institute was June 5-24.Opening Thursday with a 5-8 p.m.

reception and running through July 23, visitors to Redux can view the product of their labors. The 2011 Summer Art Institute Exhibition showcases oil paintings, etchings, block prints, monoprints, screen-prints and sculptures.

“There are two ways in which the program is beyond the normal scope in schools,” says Karen Ann Myers, Redux’s executive director. “First,

in the materials that are being used, such as oil paints, which are not often utilized in a high school class. For the first time, students are working in a studio environment, not a classroom, and participating alongside some of

Charleston best professional artists. For many, it’s their first glimpse into what a career as an artist can look like. In a way, they are taken out of their role as students and challenged to be an artist.

“Second, is the structure. They’re here for three weeks. And for the first time, some are spending 35 hours on one piece of work, building stamina for studio practice.”

In March, students are encouraged by their high school art teachers to apply to the program. Any student with an interest in visual arts is eli-gible. Those applying send a small six-piece portfolio of their work for consideration and are selected to participate by that year’s designated instructors.

“Their instructors this year were College of Charleston professors Tony Csavas and Tina Hirsig and Conrad Guevara, an artist and instructor at Redux,” says Myers. “Each year, we get some repeat students, so each year we bring in a new group of instructors in hopes that repeat students get diverse viewpoints and experiences and form new relationships.

“We prefer that the instructors have master’s degrees, are comfort-able teaching at the college level and be serious practicing artists. We want the students to have exposure to all aspects of being an artist. It is

amazing to see what these students can do when they are provided the opportunity, enthusiasm and ma-terials. And the energy and passion that developing young artists have for their studio practice is a source of inspiration for those who work directly with them.”

Students who go through the program are assisted in preparing a professional-caliber art portfolio for applications to college, advanced placement art classes and the S.C. Governor’s School.

Visit www.reduxstudios.org or call 722-0697.


If you go

WHAT: Redux Summer Art Insti-tute Exhibition.WHEN: Thursday (opening recep-tion, 5-8 p.m.) through July 23.WHERE: Redux Contemporary Art Center, 136 St. Philip St., 722-0697.ADMISSION: Free.

Few actor woes for young cast

REDUX CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

Painters Christie Lawrence (left) and Madison Hall experienced intensive training in the annual Redux Summer Art Institute.

‘Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ marks end of the journeyBY BILL [email protected]

oe to toe and wand to wand with Lord Voldemort, at last.

Well, it’s about time, Harry.Loyal readers and filmgoers have been awaiting

this day, bittersweet though it is, for years.Finally, in Friday’s opening of “Harry Potter and

the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the last film in one of moviedom’s most successful franchises, Harry dons

destiny like a sorcerer his robe.Christina Lor, for one, is excited at the prospect.

The Mount Pleasant resident practically grew up with the boy wizard, starting when she was 14.

“I’ve read all the books multiple times, begin-ning with the first, ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ (1997),” says Lor, 26, communications man-ager with Pearlstine Distributors of Charleston. “I heard about J.K. Rowling’s sensational series on television and thought I’d give it a go.”

‘Potter’ party time‘Harry Potter’ Premiere

Party at the Hippodrome Wide Screen Cinema, 360 Concord St., downtown Charleston.

At 10 p.m. Thursday, with midnight and 3 a.m. screen-ings to follow.

The fest includes a cos-tume contest ($200 first prize) and trivia games, plus theme drinks and candy. Expect the butterbeer to be a bit more potent. No cover charge for the party. Screen-ing is $10.

Visit www.hippodromewidescreen.com for ad-vance ticket purchases. Call 724-9132.

The Final ‘Harry Potter’ Festival at Cinebarre, 963 Houston Northcutt Blvd. in Mount Pleasant.

The brooms come out at sundown Thursday, with screenings (two indoor, one outdoor) at the chime of midnight. The party offers free wizard wands for all, a magician, jump castle, Harry Potter DJ, face-painting, a photo booth with costumes

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and a fortune teller. There will be a “Harry Potter” trivia contest with prizes, costume contests (Best Look-Alike, Most Creative and Best Group) with prizes, themed food and drinks for all ages.

Visit www.cinebarre.com for advance ticket purchases. Call 216-2690 or 884-7885.

‘Harry Potter’ Marathon at area AMC Theaters

Though not a party as such, it’s still a festival at the Northwoods Stadium 13 (2181 Northwoods Blvd., North Charleston, 518-6000) and Citadel Mall 16 Cinemas (2072 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., 556-4629 or 769-7600).

All eight movies in the series will be shown starting Monday and ending with a 12:05 a.m. Friday screening of “Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”

Visit www.moviefone.com/theater/northwoods-stadium-13 and www.moviefone.com/theater/amc-theatres-citadel-mall for showtimes.

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BY DAVID GERMAINAP Movie Writer

LOS ANGELES — If the young cast of the “Harry Potter” films received report cards for their school days at Hogwarts, they’d all probably earn the notation, “plays well with others.”

Cast as impressionable children in Hollywood’s biggest fantasy franchise, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and many of their young

co-stars have maneuvered through 11 years of fame, and the temptations it brings, with surpris-ingly few whispers of Lindsay Lohan-style melt-downs that can derail child actors.

They’ve grown up smart, humble, polite and professional, eager to balance modest private lives with productive acting careers rather than leap into the party-till-dawn celebrity lifestyle.

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to be worried?A: Let us just say this from the

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One thing to realize is that cats do not have the inhibitions about vomiting that we do. To them, it is like sneezing, just an-other way to clear things out of the body.

If they feel the urge, they will vomit. No matter where they are and with no regard to what they are vomiting on. This means that even minor problems will cause a cat to vomit. But how do you know when there is a real prob-lem?

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Winterize, protect your homeBY TOM SKEVINThe Record (Hackensack N.J.)

HACKENSACK, N.J. — As the weather turns cooler, it’s time for homeowners to take prudent steps to protect their houses and property, so that the weather does not turn on them.

After the damage caused by last winter’s nasty weather and this year’s floods, there’s no reason to delay or to hope that nothing happens this time around.

Homeowners should “sit down and think about what some of the challenges from last winter were and try to stay ahead of those this year,” advises Dave Palmer of Palmer Brothers hardware in River Edge, N.J. “A little planning goes a long way, and it can save you money in the long run.

Let’s take a look at what can be done.

Gutters, leadersIgnore this, and there can be

costly damage, in and out, caused by water and ice backing up from the gutters.

Gutters must be cleaned and flushed, with water running away from the home. Use a splash pan, patio block or small stones at the exit point to help disburse the water.

Fasten leaders, elbows and lead-er straps with hex-head screws (at least ¾ -inch length; No. 8 thick-ness). Use caution with ladders, and if not comfortable, hire a pro.

RoofingInspect for missing/damaged

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“A limo makes sense for a lot of reasons, but it’s very expensive,” says Charleston mom Laurie Nichols. “It’s nice if a bunch of kids can go together, and they don’t have to be on the roads in their own cars, and it’s sort of a luxurious treat, but it also was going to cost about $50 per person.”

A group of West Ashley teens found a different way to travel togeth-er: They rented a 15-passenger van for the night, which will be driven

by one child’s dad, at a cost of about $20 each.

Another mom says she is letting her son drive her vehicle that night.

“I just couldn’t see him picking up his date in a beat-up old pickup truck,” says Mount Pleas-ant mom Betsy Gardner.

One mom reported having a dif-ficult time finding the right fit for her daughter, so they wound up spending $250 when they finally found the “perfect” dress.

But many others found a more affordable way out. One high school senior purchased a dress at Goodwill for $6.99, another junior swapped last year’s dress with a friend, although she hopes no one will notice.

“I wish there was something nice blooming in my yard,” says Goose Creek mom Latrice Glover. Instead, she says, she found another way to save money. Instead of ordering a corsage for her son’s date from a florist, he is getting it from the grocery store, which costs less.

A nice wrist corsage with some baby roses is setting another teen back about $20, he says.

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So you’re going to the

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BY BRENDA [email protected]

here are few occasions as important to teenagers as their high school prom.

But by the time they get dressed and out the door, it can be a very expensive night.

Add on things like dinner and a limo, and the night can set them — or you — back a few hundred bucks.

The good news is it seems to be cool to do “Prom on a Shoe-string” this year, even though most teens don’t want to admit it. Several moms said their teens picked one area in which to splurge while cutting costs in other areas.

We took an informal poll of prom costs, and we present here

what parents told us.

Many guys will get a trim, which is at the lower end of the cost spectrum. Some girls do plan to splurge on a complete wash, cut and updo, which is at the higher end of the cost range.

However, many girls will ei-ther fix their hair themselves or enlist the help of a friend or mother.

“My daughter has practice straightening her hair and trying to fix it herself, but I think she’ll wind up going to the hairdresser,” says Kelly Parker of Mount Pleasant.

Nails:$10-$50

Some girls plan to do mani-cures at home, while others head to the beauty shop for full mani-pedis.

“She has cut costs in lots of other places, so this is my present to her,” says Charles-ton mom Laurie Nichols. “She got a very affordable dress and is doing her own hair. I thought this would be a nice splurge.”

Dress: Up to $250Shoes: $25

A junior attending his first prom said he paid $150 to rent a tux for the evening, but one mom who has been through this before instead opted to buy her son a suit, which costs about the same.

“He is going to two proms this year, and he’ll go to at least one next year, so it made sense financially,” says Mount Pleas-ant mom Betsy Gardner.

Tux: $150

Tickets:$30-$50 each

“Shoes are pretty far down on the list,” says Kelly Parker of Mount Pleasant. “I don’t think most of the kids keep them on anyway. My daughter was con-tent to get something comfort-able and inexpensive.”

Corsage/Boutonniere:

“Several of the parents got together to provide a formal dinner for my son and his group,” says Cathy Peters of Charleston. “It’s costing about $20 per person.”

The meal includes several courses and even some spar-kling cider.

Sherry Scott of Charleston said her son wanted to take his date to dinner, which she expects to cost about $100.

“They are only having fin-ger foods at the prom and it’s a long night,” she says. “Plus, I think it’s nice for them to go for a special meal.”

The only way to save money on tickets is for students who are not taking a date to pair up with a friend. For instance, single tickets at most area high schools range from $30 to $50, but students buying two tickets often get a $5 to $10 discount. Otherwise, teens can expect to spend around $50-$90 per couple for the big night.

Transportation: Up to $50

Dinner: $20-$100

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Here’s a great family his-tory activity that won’t require you to ponder

a date, decipher impos-sible script or psychoanalyze Great-grandpa. It starts by writing a list of your geneal-ogy questions and brick walls that have gone unresolved months, even years. It ends with your having a real plan to resolve them.

Focus on those questions that get in the way each time you try to make progress tracing a family line.

They’re the ones that make you doubt the reliability of the “progress” you have made since you encountered them. They may even be ones that give you sleepless nights.

Here’s the deal:Those who attend the Na-

tional Genealogical Society 2011 Family History Con-ference May 11-14 can start planning now to make the best of the opportunity. It would be easy to walk into the Charleston Area Conven-tion Center and attend ses-sions just because they sound as if they might be interest-ing. And you shouldn’t attend a session just because there are long lines of genealogists waiting to get in.

Pick most sessions based on your needs. Some may be related to brick walls you need to push through. Some should be ones that teach you to find certain documents. Others might tell you how

‘Hop’RATING: PG for some mild rude humor.WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Guy hits the Easter Bunny with his car and must help him recover and realize his rock ’n’ roll dream.THE KID ATTRACTOR FAC-TOR: A smart-mouthed, rock-drumming animated bunny, and James Marsden, the goofy prince from “Enchanted.” GOOD LESSONS/BAD LES-SONS: Sooner or later, you will meet your destiny.VIOLENCE: A car accident, mild cartoon peril.LANGUAGE: Disney clean.SEX: Nary a hint.DRUGS: Nary a whiff.PARENTS’ ADVISORY: Harm-less, this blend of animation and live action is aimed at the very youngest filmgoers. Suit-able for all ages.

‘Insidious’RATING: PG-13 for thematic material, violence, terror and frightening images, and brief strong language.WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A haunted house, a little boy “possessed” and parents trying to reason their way out of the horror.THE KID ATTRACTOR FAC-TOR: Good, clean frights.GOOD LESSONS/BAD LES-SONS: Follow your mother’s voice “home.” VIOLENCE: Brutal bare-hand-ed assaults.LANGUAGE: A random and superfluous F-bomb.SEX: None.DRUGS: None.PARENTS’ ADVISORY: Think “Poltergeist,” and for heaven’s sake, leave kids prone to night-mares at home. Otherwise, OK for 12 and older.

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‘Glee: The 3D Concert Movie’RATING: PG for thematic elements, brief language and some sensuality.WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The kids from the hit TV show appear, in character, in a concert of their greatest hits.THE KID ATTRACTOR FACTOR: It’s your favorite actors playing high school underdogs, singing their little hearts out.GOOD LESSONS/BAD LESSONS: “Don’t stop. Believing. Hold on to that feeling.”VIOLENCE: NopeLANGUAGE: Pretty clean.SEX: One fleshy bump-and-grind number, lots of talk about sexuality.DRUGS: Not in this high school — or this concert.PARENTS’ ADVISORY: If they’re watching the show, they already have seen more sensuality and sexuality than this. Suitable for 8 and older.

‘The Help’RATING: PG-13 for thematic mate-rial.WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The civil rights era as seen by black maids working for rich white people in 1960s Jack-son, Miss.THE KID ATTRACTOR FACTOR: This subject is coming up in school this year — might as well see the movie before reading the book.GOOD LESSONS/BAD LESSONS:

Ignorance and intolerance can be passed down, generation to genera-tion.VIOLENCE: Off-camera spousal abuse, old TV news coverage.LANGUAGE: A smattering of old South profanity, racial epithets.SEX: None

DRUGS: A drunk scene, cigarettes.PARENTS’ ADVISORY: Profanity and adult themes aside, this is a must-see for school-age children in need of a history lesson. OK for 12 and older.

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Actor Patrick J. Adams doesn’t boast a photographic memory like the character he plays on USA’s new “Suits,” which airs Thursday at 10 p.m. In fact, Adams can’t remember names or references in books, but he can memorize a script after three readings.

He doesn’t harbor the daring of his character either. But he says falling in love and being scared speechless to work with Dustin Hoffman has helped him earn the confi-dence he needs.

“I spent a lot of years in that place, with the walls down to try to protect my-self and my way of life and my way of thinking. And every time I return to what I think acting is, it’s the

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Since returning to the Lowcountry from Maryland in 1999, Nancy Hussey has spent thousands of hours at Charleston’s go-to surfing spot, the Washout at Folly Beach, as a photographer and volunteer for the Southern South Carolina District of the Eastern Surfing Association.

Photographer, mom fosters surfing cultureBY DAVID [email protected]

W hen it comes to the Charleston area surfi ng scene, nobody wears as many hats as Nancy Hussey,

which is ironic for one big reason.She hardly ever surfs.And while the full-time volunteer works

on organizing surfing contests, surfing-related charity events and fundraising year-round, it all crests in August with the two biggest surfing events in the Charleston area.

This month, the Governor’s Cup of Surf-ing, which is the championship for the Southern South Carolina District of the Eastern Surfing Association, is Aug. 19-21. Three days later, the fourth annual Surfer’s Healing camp for autistic children will be held on Folly Beach.

It’s prime time for Folly’s No. 1 surf mom.Besides roles as co-director of the local

ESA district, which hosts a dozen surf-ing contests from March to October, and Charleston team director for Surfer’s Heal-ing, Hussey also is the vice chairwoman of the local chapter of the environmentally minded Surfrider Foundation and a partner in Follywaves.com and remains the go-to photographer for all things surfing on Folly Beach.

Meet Nancy

BORN: May 1959, at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston.OCCUPATION: Volunteer, co-director of the Southern South Carolina District of the Eastern Surfing Association; director for Team Charles-ton for Surfer’s Healing; vice chairwoman of the Charleston chapter of the Surfrider Foundation; partner in Follywaves.com; photographer; alter-nate for Folly Beach Wahines team in Dragon-boat Charleston.FAMILY: Husband, Charlie Hussey; children, Tim Hussey, 41, Curtis Mitchell, 32, Sarah Mitchell, 30, Michael Hussey, 29, and Charlie Hussey Jr., 22; parents, Duke Warren and Sally Warren; brother, Bill Warren.EDUCATION: College of Charleston, 1977-80;

Baxter Perfusion Services Autotransfusion Train-ing School, graduated in 1991.MOST COMMON QUESTION I’M ASKED: “Did you get that shot?”FUNNIEST QUESTION I WAS ASKED: I was on a beach sweep and someone asked me if it was part of my parole agreement.CHILDHOOD MEMORY: Taking family vacations to the mountains of North Carolina, including camping in Maggie Valley.MOST MIND-BLOWING SURF MEMORIES: Watching tandem surfing on the big waves in Maui, Hawaii, and watching waves and taking photos of professional surfers in Rodanthe, N.C., before the Eastern Surfing Championships as Hur-ricane Kyle passed offshore in September 2008.

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Charlie Hussey Jr., Sarah Mitchell and Nancy Hussey at the Eastern Surfing Championships in September at Cape Hatteras, N.C.

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‘The Help’ actresses recall rolesBY NICOLE SPERLINGLos Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — A period drama set amid the explosive racial politics of the 1960s South. An all-female ensemble cast. An inexperienced director.

It sounds like a recipe for a movie that would send studio executives running. Yet “The Help,” a complex tale of white women and their relationships with the black maids who clean their houses and care for their children, didn’t just get made.

Based on Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel, the DreamWorks film, which premiered Wednes-day , had one thing going for it: the book’s popularity. Reviewers loved it, and readers couldn’t finish it fast enough; it stayed atop best-seller lists for nearly two years. The five actresses who brought the book to life gathered

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NINETY SIX — After shooting a personal-best six shots under his age, Sam Zit-trouer sent a message to d e f e n d i n g Super Senior C l a s s i c c h a m p i o n Pete Shum-way.

“If I play like I played (Saturday), then he bet-ter play bet-ter than he did (Satur-day),” Zit-trouer said.

Zittrouer shot a tour-nament-best 2-under-par 70 Saturday in the first round of the Star Fort Senior Classic at the Golf Club at Star Fort. Shumway is two strokes back after going even-par while Gary Hannah finished three strokes behind.

The final round of the two-day tourney will tee off at 8:30 a.m.

The 76-year-old Zittrouer said he was able to hit all but one of his drives down the fairway and sink every putt he needed to except for two as the reason for his success.

Zittrouer began the day with birdies on the first and fifth holes, but those shots were erased when he bogeyed No. 6 and No. 11. However, Zittrouer got hot late as he

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NEW YORK — Mobbed by his pinstriped pals after the ball sailed into the left-field seats, showered by ovations from his fans, Derek Jeter stood alone — the first New York Yankees player to reach 3,000 hits.

His first home run at Yankee Stadium this year, too.

A fitting crown for the cap-tain.

With a swift swing of his shiny black bat, Jeter jolted himself into historic compa-ny, hitting a solo home run off Tampa Bay ace David Price in the third inning Saturday. He became the 28th major

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J erome Singleton had only one thought when he got off the blocks: his start was nowhere near where it should have been.

Running the 100-meter dash at January’s IPC Athletics World Championships in New Zealand, Singleton heard the runner to his left, just after the start of the race for the title of “Fastest Amputee in the World.” As a runner with one prosthetic leg, he expected to gain an edge at the start, and a hint of

panic set in when he saw the double-amputee runner almost beside him.

In that moment, he altered his stride a bit and went at the finish line like he went at any challenge in his life: with singular determination.

“Just start praying, ‘Well, you didn’t start out well, hopefully you’ll finish,’” Singleton said.

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Post 20 advances after beating York in Game 4By CHENG [email protected]

Greenwood American Legion Post 20 coach Billy Dean Minor was chatting with Tyler Boyles’ father when a couple of unsus-pecting players snuck up behind

Minor.Those players had a large

bucket of liquid and the next thing Minor knew, he was drenched as those players show-ered him with a Gatorade bath.

“Head to toe,” Minor said.Post 20 had cause to celebrate

as they advanced to the second round of the American Legion playoffs after dispensing York Post 66 with a 13-3 mercy-rule shortened victory to win the best-of-five series 3-1 Saturday

By WILL GRAVESAssociated Press

SPARTA, Ky. — Kyle Busch won the inaugural Sprint Cup race at Ken-tucky Speedway on Saturday night, pulling away from Jimmie Johnson on a restart with three laps to go to collect his 99th NASCAR series victory.

Busch won the Trucks race here on Thursday night and had little trouble finding his way to Victory Lane for the second time in three days at the 1.5-mile oval.

He started from the pole and domi-nated long stretches of the 400-mile race to pick up his third Cup win of the season.

David Reutimman slipped past Johnson to finish second. Ryan New-man was fourth, followed by Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth.

The first visit by NASCAR’s top series provided few fireworks on the track, but plenty off it as traffic issues plagued the race.

The 1.5-mile oval’s long-awaited

Cup debut was marred by a massive traffic snarl that left fans stuck out on Interstate 71 for miles even as the green flag dropped.

Cars were still slowly streaming into the parking gates more than 125 miles into the 400-mile event as nearby interstate turned into a massive park-ing lot.

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Abby Best hit a home run, rounded the bases and returned to

the dugout. It didn’t seem like much.

On the Irmo High School scoreboard at the deciding game of the Class A state softball champion-ship series, the only impact the home run showed was Abbeville 6, Lake View 2, in the top of the sixth inning.

But for Best and her mother, Tracy, it meant so much more. When Abby returned to the dugout, Tracy stood outside waiting for her.

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COLUMBIA — Champions.It was the word the Abbeville High

School softball team broke out of its huddle chanting about 15 minutes before the game.

Little did the Panthers know that two hours later, they would actually be crowned champions.

Jordan Ashley hit two home runs and Gennifer Durham pitched a com-plete game as Abbeville won its first state title in softball by defeating Lake View 6-2 Friday in a do-or-die Game 3 of the Class A state championship series at Irmo High School.

“Ever since playoff season, we’ve been saying that,” shortstop Abby Best said. “We just believe that we’re cham-pions.”

Durham added, “It feels awesome.

We have worked so hard all season to get this and we finally met our goal.”

Furthermore, these Panthers are the first girls team in school history to win the Holy Grail. Although, the journey had gotten rocky at times near the end, it was worth going through the adver-sity for some.

“It’s just tough because everybody plays so well when you get to the play-offs,” Abbeville coach Tim Collins said. “We just battled, battled and battled. We got young girls and they just don’t ever quit even when we get down and bad things happen to us.”

During the title run, Abbeville had to win two elimination games in the best-of-three series against Lake View after the Panthers lost the opening game on a Morgan Wethington walk-off home run. In the Upper State championship

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Right now, there’s a void under cen-ter for the Greenwood High School football team.

Departed senior D.J. Dunlap left a chasmic hole at the quarterback spot; a hole measured not in depth or width, but in production.

Nearly 1,400 passing yards, 802 yards on the ground and a combined 21 touchdowns, all gone with the play-er who deftly ran the offense of a 13-2 state finalist. And the Eagles will go

into the summer still unsure who will get the chance to replace him.

“You’re going to have attrition, graduation. You’re going to have inju-ries. You’re going to have situations where other people have to step up,” Greenwood coach Gene Cathcart said. “You’ve got D.J. from last year. You’ve got (linebacker) Quinn Backus from last year. You’ve got several guys on our defensive line and offensive line that were key contributors. The spokes change but the wheel’s got to roll on.

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WARE SHOALS — Ware Shoals High School running back Wesley Jordan was used to mostly playing defense and car-rying the football last fall.

Funny how things can change with the hiring of a new football coach.

Since coach Jeff Murdock left and took his Wing-T offense to Crescent, new coach Lance

Abernathy’s spread offense has brought a new identity to the Hornets.

They intend to pass the ball. A lot.

Jordan, a rising junior who ended spring practice as the starting quarterback, threw three touchdown passes during 7-on-7 drills, and even caught two more before 11-on-11 play in Friday’s spring game.

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By BARRY WILNERAP Pro Football Writer

ARLINGTON, Texas — NFL commis-sioners can’t root, so Roger Goodell will just

sit back and smile as he watches this Super Bowl.

A season that saw pro football claim boffo TV ratings and reach new heights of popularity

— even as it dealt with a stream of off-field woes — will end with two classic, hard-nosed teams clash-

ing in its championship game.“When you look at this matchup,” Goodell said, “and

you say Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers — that’s football.”

“This isn’t just about fans in western Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. They have national followings. And I think that

is what’s so exciting for this country and the whole world. This is fun. This is celebrating the game that I love, that we all love,

and I think this is going to be a terrific night.”It’s hard to argue with the mystique and tradition that comes

with this one, stretching all the way back to football’s blue-collar roots.

The Steelers (14-4) already own the most Vince Lombardi Tro-phies (six), which must gall their opponents from Titletown USA.

Pittsburgh goes for its seventh Super Bowl title Sunday at Cow-boys Stadium. Green Bay (13-6) has three, taking the first two

Super Bowls under Lombardi’s guidance, and winning another in 1997. The Packers also took six NFL championship games

before there was a Super Bowl.What’s funny, in this age of tweeting players and 24/7 Super

Bowl week coverage, is that these teams would probably look familiar to the Steelers and Packers of 1933, the first year both franchises were in the league.

Both the Packers and the Steelers have 16 homegrown starters.

Each has a dynamic defense led by the top two vote-get-ters for Defensive Player of the Year, Steelers safety Troy

Polamalu and Packers linebacker Clay Matthews, the run-ner-up. Both have playmaking quarterbacks who have risen to elite status — although in entirely different man-ners. Just as the two teams went about getting to the Super

Bowl in opposite ways: Pittsburgh as a division winner and second seed that won two home games, the Packers as a wild-

card that hit the road for three victories over division champs.Through it all, there’s that history of success that bonds the Rooney

family-owned Steelers and the community-owned Packers.“Coach (Mike) Tomlin uses the term with his players,” Green Bay general

manager Ted Thompson says of the Steelers coach. “He says, ’The standard is the standard.’

“Quite frankly, that philosophy seems to fit pretty good with us, too.”Yes, there’s the Steelers Way and the Packers Way. Through the Lambeau, Lombardi

and Holmgren years in Green Bay, the Noll, Cowher and Tomlin years in Pittsburgh, the common thread has been sticking to your roots no matter how bumpy the journey.

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OMAHA, Neb – In the midst of a celebra-tion at an old baseball stadium here on 13th Street, Ray Tanner was hit with a question he did not like.

South Carolina’s veteran coach was asked last summer, just after his team had won the school’s fi rst men’s national title, about a re-peat. Tanner laughed, shook his head and re-fused to answer.

Fast forward to Tuesday night, to a cele-bration at a new baseball stadium here on 13th Street. Tanner could talk with ease about that repeat – because his Gamecocks had just ac-complished it.

“These guys believed they could win,” Tanner said, “and they got in the position to do that a lot.”

To become the sixth team to repeat as an NCAA champion, South Carolina won all 10 of its games in the NCAA Tournament. That includes fi ve College World Series games, with a 2-0 fi nals win against SEC rival Flor-ida as an exclamation.

The Gamecocks won a 2-1 thriller against the Gators in 11 innings Monday, and they claimed the title with a fairly straightforward 5-2 victory Tuesday.

“Our players, they made it happen be-tween the lines,” Tanner said. “They made plays. They made pitches. They got big hits. They always felt they had a chance to win.

They believed.”Paired with last year’s similarly dramatic

run, South Carolina (55-14) now holds re-cords for consecutive victories in the College World Series (11) and NCAA Tournament (16). The Gamecocks, with what they’ve done in 2010 and 2011, have carved a spot for them-selves in college baseball history.

“History happens here and it’s pretty spe-cial to be part of history,” said top pitcher Mi-chael Roth, who fi nished the year 14-3 with a 1.06 ERA.

The Gamecocks rode a deep and successful pitching staff through the 2010 title trip. Well, the 2011 staff was even better in Omaha.

The ballpark helped, some. TD Ameritrade Park is far more spacious than Rosenblatt Stadium was, and the prevailing wind blows in from the Missouri River.

The new bats helped, some. Home runs were down 40 percent in college baseball in 2011. After 34 home runs a year ago in Rosenblatt’s last stand, there were a total of 10 home runs hit at the new park – and USC didn’t have one until the fi nal innings of Tuesday’s victory.

But do not take anything away from the six Gamecocks pitchers who logged 51 in-nings and gave up just fi ve earned runs, for a 0.88 ERA.

Roth, who went from left-handed spe-cialist in 2010 to All-America ace in 2011, made three starts in nine days, taking on the role of Blake Cooper from a year ago. Roth threw 342 pitches in 22 innings, keeping his team in the fi rst two starts and winning the third. He was on the mound as the starter for this week’s title-clinching game, as well as last year’s against UCLA.

Roth was 1-0 with a 1.23 ERA in the CWS this season, giving him a 1.17 ERA in 38 1/3 innings in his CWS career – second all time.

“I would have been happy with him even winning eight or nine games; now he’s won 14,” Tanner said. “He started it all for us.”

Forrest Koumas and Colby Holmes each gave up one earned run in their starts, two no decisions.

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By JEFFREY COLLINSAssociated Press Writer

COLUMBIA — The Gamecocks fl ag is fl ying on top of the South Carolina state capitol.

Columbia’s classic rock station is taking requests for the school’s fi ght song and state senators briefl y put aside debate on redistricting to call for university trustees to name the baseball stadium after the team’s head coach.

Yep, Columbia is celebrating South Carolina’s second straight baseball na-tional championship.

The team came home Wednesday to 11,820 screaming fans at the school’s basketball arena. On the stage was the 2010 trophy. Captain Scott Wingo brought in the 2011 trophy as “We Are the Champions” played.

The second trophy might even have been a surprise to coach Ray Tanner. Athletic director Eric Hyman told a story about consulting Tanner on the

trophy case for the baseball stadium after winning last year’s title. Tanner appeared to be happy with a design that would fi t just one trophy. Hyman said there needed to be more room.

“I won out on that one,” Hyman said.

The crowd chanted “one more year” to junior ace pitcher Michael Roth, who was picked in the 31st round of the Major League draft by the Cleve-land Indians.

“I’m pretty sure I’ll see you back here in August,” said Roth, who in fi ve appearances in the past two College World Series has a 1.17 ERA in 38 1-3 innings.

The party happened just a few block from the Statehouse, where the gov-ernor’s declaration put the Gamecock fl ag on the dome in the same spot where the Confederate fl ag waved for decades. The party keeps going Friday, when the city of Columbia plans a pa-rade down Main Street.

Although it will likely never be as

big as football in South Carolina, the baseball team has found a special place in the hearts of long-suff ering Game-cocks fans. After all, how many of them could imagine a time where they could talk about a national championship in a major sport? And now they can have the enviable discussion about which one was better.

The fans wore T-shirts not just cele-brating the baseball titles, but also last year’s appearance by the football team in the Southeastern Conference title game as well as the Gamecocks wins in the past 18 months over No. 1 Alabama in football and No. 1 Kentucky in men’s basketball.

“We’ve been through the grinder. We’ve seen heartbreak for many, many years. That’s why this means so much,” said 78-year-old Frank Hays of Hartsville.

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By BRIAN LINDERT&D Sports Editor

Tommy Brown glanced down at his hands and started counting fi ngers.

“Youngstown State called today,” the Orange-burg-Wilkinson Bruins head football coach said. “North Greenville, Livingstone, Clark Atlanta, Johnson C. Smith and Alabama A&M.”

Brown paused for a moment and looked up try-ing to remember the rest of the schools on the list. At the beginning of the 2010 prep football season, Brown’s quarterback, Cyril Davis, did not have a sin-gle off er. Obviously, things have changed.

In 2010, Davis, a 6-3, 175-pound se-nior, exploded onto the scene, going 246 of 399 passing for 4,147 yards with 43 touchdowns and 10 in-terceptions. That performance earned him the 2010 T&D Of-fensive Player of the Year honor and caught the eye of all the col-leges Brown named off .

“It feels good to know that I’m going to get a chance to play football,” Davis said. “Because, that is what I really wanted to do all along.”

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Thacker Staley’s football career was made on Sun-days at Orangeburg Prep.

That might sound funny considering Staley and his Indians’ teammates took the fi eld, like all other prep

football teams in the region, on Friday nights. But, for Staley, his success on the gridiron can largely be attributed to Sundays in the offi ce of Indians’ defensive coordinator Howie Bayer.

“I give (Bayer) all the credit,” Staley said. “With-out him, I wouldn’t be much. He worked me hard,

and he put me in the right place to make plays. “We would sit in his offi ce, every Sunday, for

hours and go over the other team’s plays and my steps. He really studied his scouting

reports and knew everything that was coming.”

The statistics suggest that Staley, the 2010 T&D Defensive Player of the Year, also knew everything that was coming his way. The all-time tackles leader for Orangeburg Prep,

Staley recorded 204 tackles in 2010, six for loss, led the

team in interceptions with four, caused three fumbles and re-covered two. Enter-

ing the season, Staley


Nobody expected Shamier Jeffery to play.After all, Jeffery took part in the Shrine

Bowl on the morning of Dec. 18, catching a pass in the South Caro-

lina Sandlappers’ 42-10 win over North Carolina. So, even Calhoun County basketball head coach Zam Fredrick didn’t expect him to take part in the Calhoun County Saints’ game against Or-angeburg-Wilkinson in St. Mat-

thews that night.Standing on the court after

the game, however, Jeffery was a smiling, sweaty mess. As far

as athletic feats go, Jeffery was masterful that night, hustling back

home to score 15 points and lead his team to a 68-53 win over Orange-

burg-Wilkinson, hours after compet-ing in the state’s top all-star football game.

“I knew I was going to play to-night,” Jeffery said. “I just told every-body that I wasn’t going to play.”Jeffery might have fooled some, but

it is hard to believe he fooled his football coach, Walt Wilson, who took in both the football and basketball game.

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THIRD PLACEThe Post and CourierLuke Reasoner

South Carolina’s Sam Muldrow

is averaging 11 points, seven

rebounds and an SEC-high 3.3 blocks a game. But during SEC play, the senior

from Florence is averaging 12.4

points, 7.6 rebounds and

four blocks.

Hard work paying off for MuldrowSenior center has morphed into Gamecocks’ most reliable playerBY TRAVIS [email protected]

COLUMBIA — This has not been the season South Carolina’s basket-ball team wanted. There are myriad

reasons for that fact for the Gamecocks — 14-13 entering tonight’s final regular

season home game against Tennessee.But senior center Sam Muldrow is not

among those reasons.Before the season began, coach Darrin

Horn applied some heat to Muldrow. As the only player that has spent more than two seasons in the program — junior-college transfer Johndre Jefferson is the team’s other senior — more would be asked of Muldrow.

“You name it, we’ve done it,” Horn said in January. “We’ve watched film. We’ve challenged him. We’ve met privately. We’ve called him out. We’ve encouraged

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to watch this spring for Clemson football, 5C

BY TOMMY [email protected]

As Andrew Goudelock approaches the final games of his basketball career at the College of Charleston, he knows one thing is

missing from his resume. The Cougars have not been to the NCAA tournament since 1999, something Goudelock and his teammates hope to rectify at this week’s Southern Conference tournament.

The Cougars enter the SoCon tournament in Chattanooga, Tenn., as the No. 1 seed in the South Division with a 14-4 league record, 22-9 overall.

A tournament title lands the College of Charleston in the NCAA tournament.

“That’s our biggest goal. It’s going to be tough,” Goudelock said. “People don’t understand the quality of the teams in this league.”

Goudelock is motivated by the fact this is his last go-round in the league.

“I don’t want to leave here and have regrets,” Goudelock said.

Spurned by major colleges, Goudelock has blossomed into a superstar at the College of Charleston

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

Duke too much for ClemsonBY KEN TYSIACMcClatchy Newspapers

DURHAM, N.C. — With the game getting away from Clemson on Wednesday night, Tigers forward Bryan Narcisse soared on the baseline for what could have been a two-handed, m o m e n t u m -turning dunk.

It was not to be. Duke forward Ky l e S i n g l e r leaped and ex-tended his right hand to shove t he ba l l back away from the rim. The crowd at Cameron Indoor Stadium roared its approval.

The homecourt environment was especially amped up for the senior night of Singler and Nolan Smith, and for good reason.

No. 4-ranked Duke’s 70-59 win over the Tigers gave the Blue Devils back-to-back undefeated seasons in their home arena.

Timberland gunning for second titleBY PHILIP M. [email protected]

The Timberland girls basketball team faces a tough challenge Saturday when the Wolves play Keenan in the Class AA state championship.

Keenan won the state title in 2008. Timberland captured the champion-ship in 2005.

But the competition is just half the battle when the two teams square off at 3 p.m. Satur-day at Colonial Li fe Arena in Columbia.

T i m b e r l a n d c o a c h C l e v e Touchberry said his team will like-ly face a hostile crowd because Keenan is also in the boys title game at 5 p.m.

“I kind of feel like they have the home-court advantage,” Touchberry said. “Their school is only 15 minutes away, so they will have a big crowd.”

Timberland has accepted a l l challenges this season as it enters Saturday’s game with a 24-2 record. Both losses were against Goose Creek, a team that is playing in Friday’s Class AAAA state championship game. The Gators beat the Wolves, 54-31, on Dec. 8 and again five days later in a 49-40 game.

The Wolves had another tough challenge when they played Silver Bluff last weekend in the Lower State

CLASS AA GIRLS BASKETBALL

Today’s GameWHO: Tennessee (17-12, 7-7 SEC) at

South Carolina (14-13, 5-9 SEC)

WHEN: 7 p.m.

TV: ESPN

Next GameWHO: Virginia Tech at Clemson

WHEN: Saturday, noon

TV: ESPN2

Next GameWHO: College of Charleston vs. Citadel/Elon

winner

WHEN: Saturday, 9:30 p.m.

WHAT: Southern Conference quarterfinals

Please see GOUDELOCK, Page 3C

Touchberry

Please see TIMBERLAND, Page 5C

Smith

Please see MULDROW, Page 4C

INSIDE: Goudelock, Monroe, Wiedeman and Cremins earn SoCon accolades. 3C

NO. 4 DUKE 70, CLEMSON 59

Please see CLEMSON, Page 4C

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2011 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES CHAMPION

Back-to-BackSouth Carolina wins second straight College World Series title

ERIC FRANCIS/AP

South Carolina players celebrate after defeating Florida, 5-2, on Tuesday night to win the Gamecocks’ second straight College World Series championship.

TUESDAY’S STAR KEY STAT KEY MOMENT INSIDECWS STAR

On three days’ rest, ace Michael Roth gave up two runs on five hits in 72⁄3 innings against a good offensive lineup, throwing 127 pitches. He started both of USC’s title-clinching games.

South Carolina forced opponents into nine double plays in the College World Series. The Gators rolled into one in each game of the finals, including an important one Tuesday to end the fifth inning.

Down 3-1, Florida had two on and none out against Roth in the sixth. But the left-hander dug deep for a strikeout, a grounder to third base and a grounder to second to end the Gators’ threat.

Senior second baseman Scott Wingo was named the College World Series’ Most Outstanding Player after he drove in two runs Tuesday. He also had the game-saving defensive play on Monday.

Local fans celebrate second straight championship. 5C

Sapakoff column: Repeat feat for the ages. 5C

Gamecocks top Gators, repeat as national champions. 6C

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Cavalier StadiumDorman High School

CAPACITY: 15,200BUILT: 2002COST: $4 millionNOTABLE: The stadium seats 10,200 and the

hill in the end zone can handle an additional 5,000 fans. That makes it bigger than Wofford College’s Gibbs Stadium. The two-story press-box is state of the art and the stadium has PSLs (personal seating license), common in NFL sta-diums but rare at the high school level.

THEY PLAYED HERE: Wide receiver Charon Peake (Clemson); safety Walt Cantey (Duke).

MEMORABLE GAME: Dorman beat Byrnes 21-14 on Oct. 29, 2010, televised by ESPNU.

Memorial Stadium, Summerville High

CAPACITY: 10,000BUILT: 1948COST: $20,000NOTABLE: The stadium, owned by the Sum-

merville Exchange Club, is the epitome of what you would expect in a Southern town that loves high school football. The stadium is ringed by beautiful live oaks. The two-story pressbox is one of the best in the state. In 2008, more than $150,000 in improvements were made, includ-ing a $115,000 videoboard/scoreboard.

THEY PLAYED HERE: Wide receiver A.J. Green (Cincinnati Bengals); offensive lineman Kevin Long (Tennessee Titans).

NOTABLE GAME: Coach John McKissick gained his 500th career victory on Sept. 10, 2003, when Summerville beat Wando, 34-17.

Harry Parone Stadium, Spring Valley

CAPACITY: 12,000BUILT: 1971COST: $1 millionNOTABLE: The stadium underwent a massive

renovation two years ago that included a new

track, new scoreboard, new pressbox and improved seating, restrooms and concession areas. Not only that, it has a peristyle that makes you think you’re in the Los Angeles Coliseum.

THEY PLAYED HERE: Linebacker Peter Boulware (Baltimore Ravens); wide receiver Andre Roberts (Arizona Cardinals).

MEMORABLE GAME: Spring Valley topped undefeated Spartanburg, 20-17, on Nov. 30, 1973, to win the state championship in front of approximately 13,000 fans.

The Reservation, Gaffney High School

CAPACITY: 8,250BUILT: 2008COST: $8 millionNOTABLE: The new Reservation replaced the

old Reservation in 2008. Brumbach Stadium was the school’s football venue from 1937-2007. The new stadium has the traditional tunnel, a big videoboard and no track, which puts fans closer to the field.

THEY PLAYED HERE: Offensive lineman Denzell Good (North Carolina State)

MEMORABLE GAME: Dorman beat Gaffney 6-0 in the first game at the new Reservation before an overflow crowd of more than 10,000.

Nixon Field, Byrnes High School

CAPACITY: 6,500BUILT: 1955COST $300,000NOTABLE: The stadium, located in Duncan,

was evaluated a few years ago by engineers to see if it was still structurally sound. More than 12,000 fans have been shoe-horned into the facility. The main attraction is the $320,000 videoboard with a 10x14-foot screen.

THEY PLAYED HERE: Running back Marcus Lattimore (South Carolina)

MEMORABLE GAME: Byrnes beat Glades Central (Belle Glade, Fla.), 27-15, on Aug, 26, 2006, in a game televised by ESPN.

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BY PHILIP M. BOWMAN || [email protected]

Football and Friday night lights.It’s a fall ritual played out in more than 100 towns and cities across

South Carolina.The rivalries, pageantry and glory are what the games are all about.

But it’s also about where the games are played. Is your high school stadium a football cathedral or an outdated clunker?High school football is becoming big business, with games now

being televised. The stadiums, scoreboards, concession stands and video boards are reflections of a community’s pride, budget and priorities.The Post and Courier has spanned the Palmetto State and come up

with its list of the top 10 high school stadiums:

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Dorman High School’s Cavalier Stadium can hold more than 15,000 fans, more than some small colleges in the state.

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Summerville High School’s Memorial Stadium was built in 1948 for just $20,000.

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Spring Valley’s Harry Parone Stadium has also hosted the state track and field championship meet.

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Gaffney High School’s The Reservation was built in 2008 for $8 million.

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INSIDE: For stadiums ranked 6-10, see Page 8C

Drew Meyer, future collegehead coach

Drew Meyer remembers watching his alma mater win the 2010 College World

Series, at the bar inside the Holiday Inn Select hotel in Nashville, Tenn. He was on his way to Colorado Springs to join the Triple-A Salt Lake City Bees, having just been released by the Houston Astros’ organization and signed by the Los Angeles Angels.

South Carolina won the College World Series again in 2011 and, with Meyer off the minor league merry-go-round and back in a garnet uniform, the Gamecocks are not deflating talk of a three-peat.

“It’s definitely great to be back, giv-en the success they’ve had, especiallythe last couple of years,” said Meyer, a 30-year-old Bishop England High School graduate and former All-Southeastern Conference shortstop. “A lot of guys retiring from profes-sional baseball may fall into a lull but I decided to attack it full speed and go back to school. Coach (Ray) Tanner has given me a great oppor-tunity to help out the program.”

NCAA clears BaruCharleston basketball recruit gets OK to play

BY TOMMY [email protected]

It was the news College of Charles-ton basketball fans have been wait-ing and hoping for since 6-9 AdjehBaru signed with the school almost 10months ago.

Short ly af ter 11 a.m. on Thurs-day, the NCAA sent word that the Cougars’ highly touted recruit f rom A f r ica’s Ivory Coast was eligible for the upcoming bas-ketball season.

The news first came to Otto German, the school’sassistant athletic director for com-pliance, who was in the academic af-fairs office when his cell phone rangAlmost as soon as German got off thephone, Baru happened to walk up.

“He said, ‘Please Mr. German, don’tjoke with me.’ I said, ‘No, you are nowofficially eligible to compete. One ofthe first things Adjehi did was call hismother,” German said.

GENE SAPAKOFF

Meyer


Baru

Rangers even World Series

Ninth-inning rally sends series to Texas tiedBY BEN WALKERAssociated Press

ST. LOUIS — Josh Hamilton and the Texas hitters looked lost. They chased pitches that bounced, broke their bats and seemed totally overmatched.

Until the ninth inning, that is.Down to their last three outs and

in danger of dropping into a serious World Series deficit, the Rangers rallied against St. Louis’ vaunted bullpen.

Hamilton and Michael Young lifted sacrifice flies in the ninth and

Texas startled the Cardinals, 2-1, on Thursday night to even the Series at 1.

“It wasn’t a Series-saving rally, but it was huge,” said Ian Kinsler, whose single and steal set up the come-back.

In a city excited by a Rally Squirrel, it was Groundhog Day — almost.

For the second straight night, Cardinals pinch-hitter Allen Craig greeted reliever Alexi Ogando with a go-ahead single. This time, Craig did it the seventh. In Game 1, his hit in the sixth sent the Cards to a 3-2 win.

Texas’ Ian Kinsler celebrates during the ninth inning against St. Louis on Thursday. The Rangers won Game 2 of the World Series, 2-1, to even the best-of-seven series 1-1.

MATT SLOCUM/AP

WORLD SERIES GAME 2RANGERS 2,CARDINALS 1

Please see BARU, Page 5C

Next GameWHAT: World Series Game 3

WHEN: Saturday, 8:05 p.m.

WHO: St. Louis (Jackson 12-9)

at Texas (Holland 16-5)

SERIES: Tied, 1-1

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2011 � WWW.THESTATE.COM � PAGE G1COLLEGEGAMEDAY

GAMECOCKS VS. RAZORBACKS

WHO: No. 10 South Carolina(7-1, 5-1 SEC) at No. 8Arkansas (7-1, 3-1)

WHEN: 7:15 p.m.

WHERE: Reynolds RazorbackStadium, Fayetteville, Ark.

TV: ESPN with Brad Nessler,Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe

RADIO: WNKT-FM 107.5 withTodd Ellis, Tommy Suggs andTerry Cousin

SATELLITE RADIO:XM 220/Sirius 199

Just the factsSERIES RECORD: Arkansasleads 12-7

LAST MEETING: Arkansaswon 41-20 in Columbia in2010

CURRENT STREAK: TheRazorbacks have won four ofthe past five

What to know■ A victory today would givethe Gamecocks six SEC winsin a season for the first time.

They have won five in 2000,’01, ’05 and ’10.

■ Alshon Jeffery needs 34yards to move past KennyMcKinley (2,781) andbecome USC’s career leaderin receiving yards.

■ Steve Spurrier has wentfor it on fourth down 19times, with 12 conversions —both SEC highs. Nationally,only Duke (26), Army (22)and Air Force (20) have morefourth-down attempts.

Page G2GAME KEYS: Gamecocksseek early wake-up call;secondary will be tested byArkansas receivers.

KEY MATCHUP: USC’s MartyMarkett squares off with theSEC’s leader in receptionsand receiving yards pergame.

FIVE QUESTIONS: Seniorcenter T.J. Johnson believesthe offense is making weeklprogress.

The term “game manager” is mostoften used derisively in relation toquarterbacks.

It’s a tag few signal-callers want, butSouth Carolina’s Connor Shaw doesn’tmind as long as he’s managing a teamranked No. 10 and on course to play ina second consecutive SEC title game.

“When you’re winning, I don’t thinkit’s an insult at all,” Shaw said.

And Shaw is doing that. He is 4-0 as astarter and would become the firstSouth Carolina quarterback since atleast 1971 to start his career 5-0 if theGamecocks beat No. 8 Arkansas today.

The Connor Shaw era started withflying colors. He completed 26 of 39throws for 311 yards and four touch-downs against Kentucky after replac-ing senior Stephen Garcia, and Shawseemed to be off to the races. However,against Mississippi State and Tennes-see, he totaled 242 passing yards, twotouchdowns and three interceptions.

The slowdown hasn’t affectedShaw’s demeanor, teammates said.

“Ever since Day 1 that he got here, hehas done everything he is supposed todo as far as conditioning. His dad is acoach, so he is used to getting

Shaw is OK with being a‘game manager’— as long

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BY TONY [email protected]

It’s 3 a.m. on Bogard and Ashe streets, dead center in the arsonist’s hunting zone. It’s quiet except for the hum of air conditioners and a dis-

tant voice. I move closer and see a young man on a porch. He’s talking on his cell phone and smoking a cigarette. Ahead, a fan of palmet-to fronds blocks the glow from a street lamp; I walk into its shadow, my footsteps scrape the sidewalk.

An arsonist has walked these same blocks, perhaps for as many as ten years. He passed the porches of these tightly packed wooden homes, some of which date to the Civil War. He moved through this same time of stillness, a time after the bars close and before the delivery trucks roll and early risers rise.

At some point, his footsteps turned toward the porches of these homes and crossed that invisible line between public and private. Then came the sound of a match or the click of a lighter. Did his heart beat faster as the flame grew in his hands? Did his hands shake as they moved the flame to a couch cushion or rag?

I’ve lived near these streets for 15 years, worked in a building blocks from homes that burned, watched how this unique area has been transformed by college students, wondered how one thing remained constant amid this change: the mystery of these fires. How has the arsonist been able to set them undetected all these years? Who is this person? Which house will burn next?

A city task force is trying to put this jigsaw puzzle togeth-er but knows it can’t be done alone. “We need the com-

munity’s help,” Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said in a news conference after the most recent fire.

With this plea in mind, I’ve searched for pieces that might fit, looked for clues in police reports, talked with experts about why arsonists do what they do. In the process, I learn that at least 83 sus-picious fires have been set in this area since 2002, 27 more than po-lice and fire investigators have so far acknowledged.

Each fire generates data, and because so many fires have been set, a large amount of information is public. These details can reveal new clues about patterns and fires that investigators may have missed.

Police, for instance, have said that the arsonist hasn’t killed anyone yet, but a review of old reports turned up a case in which an elderly man died, a case that investigators originally dismissed as an accident but in retrospect has the hallmarks of other intentionally set fires.

While discussing this with investigators, I see the de-termination in their faces, hear the frustration in their voices that their manhunt so far has failed.

It’s also clear that they’re sidetracked by the daily crush of crimes and fire calls, and that their system of stor-ing records hamstrings them from building databases on serial crimes, even though past crimes are crucial to understanding when an offender might strike next.

But it isn’t until I spend hours early one morning in the arson zone that the mystery sheds some of its veils, particularly why arsonists are so hard to catch in an old city like Charleston, a place of many shadows.

Charleston has been terrorized by more than 80 fires. What do we know

about these blazes and who is behind

them?

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Need forpolice inschoolsdebated

BY DIETTE COURRÉGÉ[email protected]

The resource officer at Fort Johnson Middle School spends far less time investigating crimes than he does prevent-ing them.

He heads up the school’s peer mediation program in which selected eighth-graders are trained and he lp ot her students work through dis-agreements.

He speaks to every student in the school four times each year on bully-ing, and he’s part of a team that meets regularly for students having behavior problems.

Principal David Parler isn’t convinced that the money for Master Deputy John Droney’s salary would be better spent elsewhere, but some school board members wonder wheth-er it would.

The county school board agreed last week to approve agreements with law enforce-ment in Charleston County, Charleston, North Charles-ton and Mount Pleasant to provide school resource of-ficers to the middle and high schools in their jurisdictions, but not before having an ex-tensive conversation about the value of police officers in schools.

Board member Elizabeth Moffly said she wanted to get

Most favor practice,but 2 on countyboard have doubts

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Gridlockhas manyculprits

BY CHARLES BABINGTONAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — How did it get this bad on Capitol Hill?

Why does Congress barely function today?

The legislative branch of the world’s most powerful nation is now widely scorned as it lurch-es from one near-catastrophe to the next, even on supposedly routine matters such as setting an annual budget and keeping government offices open.

Congress is accustomed to fierce debate, of course. But veteran lawmakers and schol-ars use words such as “unprec-edented” to describe the cur-rent level of dysfunction and

Congress scorned overdysfunction, paralysis

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CHARLESTON — The bills for Gov. Nikki Haley’s weeklong trip to Europe in June with a con-tingent of state officials add up to more than $127,000 so far and are still coming in. And although Haley said the trip resulted in two closed deals with foreign employers, a top state official

said those deals are still in the works and haven’t been closed.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reported the $127,000 figure represents spending by only the Commerce Department. Department Secretary Bobby Hitt said agency covered many, but not all of Haley’s expenses.

During a news conference in Charleston, Haley said the state

“closed two deals” while abroad. She referred further questions to the Commerce Department.

But Hitt said two agreements involving foreign employers are still in the works. He provided no details, and it’s unclear from doc-uments what Haley accomplished during the taxpayer-funded trip. Many documents released to The Post and Courier in response to

a Freedom of Information Act request were heavily redacted.

Critics are calling the trip an inappropriately timed junket, but Hitt said it’s a vital link for attracting foreign employers to South Carolina instead of other states.

Haley, a Republican who took office with a promise of fiscal restraint, represents a state with

an unemployment rate of almost 11 percent. It’s not clear how her trip benefited South Carolina residents, said critics.

John Crangle, executive direc-tor of South Carolina Common Cause, asked, “What did they bring home from the hunt?”

Crangle, whose organization is

Haley’s trip cost $127,000 plusSC Gov and other state officials spent one week in Europe in June; bills still coming in

NIKKIHALEY See HALEY, page 4A

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By ERIN [email protected]

Preston Rodgers was never happy with his assignment as an Army cook in the Vietnam War.

Growing up, he dreamt about being a Marine. Once he was old enough, he planned to join the Marines, but joined the Army at the suggestion of a relative instead. Then, training at

boot camp, he injured his shoulder and had to spend four months in the

hospital.After recovering, he said he hoped

to work on helicopters, doing mainte-nance or radio repair, but because of the limited mobility of his shoulder, he was given the assignment of cook.

His injury and subsequent job assignment was the first of many dis-appointments Rodgers experienced during the Vietnam War, not the least of which included disease, injury and the deaths of close friends.

Though he is happy he did what he could for his country, Rodgers could do without some of his memories of Vietnam.

“I wouldn’t take nothing in the world for what I went through,” he said, “but I wish I could lose the memory of some of the things that happened.”

One memory that sticks out for

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By CHRIS [email protected]

A pair of local filmmakers will look to spook moviegoers this Hal-loween.

Greenwood’s Austin Newman and Brock Scott are completing the filming of a horror film titled “What Lurks Inside.”

Newman and Scott co-wrote the film, with Scott directing and New-man serving as producer.

According to Newman, “What Lurks Inside” is set to play at Green-wood Community Theatre at 8 p.m. Oct. 28, 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 29 and 6 p.m. Oct. 30. Tickets will be $6.

Scott and New-man said filming on the new movie

is essentially complete, and the edit-

ing process has already begun.Newman is no stranger to the

independent film scene. He previ-ously produced and directed films including “Til’ Death Do Us Part” and “Third on a Match,” which played at Greenwood Community Theatre upon release. Those films also can be purchased on DVD at Amazon.com.

“What Lurks Inside” will be Scott’s first turn behind the camera. He said the film is chilling in nature, some-

what in the vein of the mainstream horror hit “Para-normal Activity.”

“It’s a (fiction-al) documentary about a series of strange occur-rences that startle a young couple into believing that their new home might be haunted,” Scott said. “The real terrifying part is

that it’s all caught on tape. ... It’s not a demonic possession or anything. It’s more of a story about discovery, about when you find dark secrets about your family that you didn’t know and also about the lengths to which someone will go keep the loved one that they have.”

Newman said he and Scott tried several techniques that will please local horror fans. While neither

Local filmmakers to write, direct, produce horror movieNewman and Scott’s ‘What Lurks Inside’ to show at Greenwood Community Theatre on Halloween weekend

AUSTINNEWMAN

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COLUMBIA — Pledg-ing fidelity to the Constitu-tion and vowing to carry the tea party’s priorities to the White House, the Repub-licans chasing the GOP’s presidential nomination pitched themselves Mon-day to their party’s libertar-ian activists as the strongest candidates to roll back four years of President Barack Obama’s tenure.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said the Obama administration flouted the Constitution to push a political agenda. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota stridently called Obama’s policies “uncon-stitutional” at the same tea party-backed forum

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By Tony PughMcClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Continued high unemploy-ment drove the number of Americans living in povertyto a record high in 2010 and dragged down medianhousehold income for the third straight year.

More than a year after the economic recovery offi-cially began in June 2009, 46.2 million people had an-nual earnings below the poverty line last year, up from43.6 million the previous year, according to new U.S.Census Bureau figures released Tuesday.

That’s the largest number in the 52 years for whichpoverty estimates have been published.

The 2010 U.S. poverty rate of 15.1 percent was thehighest since 1993, and it was up nearly a full percent-age point from 2009. Poverty rates increased for all ra-cial groups except Asians.

Government analysts say the problem is rooted inthe 86.7 million working-age adults who were unem-ployed for at least a week last year, compared with 83.3million in 2009.

That spike of 3.4 million people “might be the singlemost important factor contributing to the increase inthe poverty rate,” said Trudi Renwick, the head of pov-erty statistics at the Census Bureau.

The numbers reflect the sputtering labor marketfrom 2009 to 2010, when payroll jobs fell by 600,000,unemployment rose to 9.6 percent and the share ofpeople unemployed for six months or more grew from31.2 percent to 43.3 percent.

That labor market decline also helps explain whymedian household income – the amount at which halfof U.S. households earn more or less – continued to fallin 2010, while the number of Americans without

Unemploymentpushes numberliving in povertyto 52-year high

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Somebody ought to tell the alligators down in theSantee swamp southeast of Columbia that the week-end after Labor Day means the gator family hadbetter go to the beach.

Or Carowinds. Maybe go see the leaves change inthe mountains.

That’s because a family ofEdgemoor guys named Martin,and tough Rock Hill paper millhands named Fields and Seay,well, they are just brawny anditching for a fight against some-thing that looks like a dinosaurwith big teeth and bad breath andweighs more than a quarter-ton.

No – not a mother-in-law.These Martins and Seays and

Fields don’t lose fights. And theydon’t come home empty-handed –

even when the fight is against an alligator that is 11feet long from nose to tail, and weighs more about520 pounds.

During the opening weekend of South Carolina’smonth-long alligator hunting season, JonathanMartin, his father Marion, Tim Fields and boatcaptain Dennis Seay bagged a monster gator in thesame secret spot that has yielded titans to this groupthe last three years.

This year’s gator wasn’t quite as big as 12-footers

Third year in a row,area hunters bag amassive alligator

AndrewDys

Columnist

Rock Hill area group knowsreptiles, including 11 feetworth of ‘big, mean ol’ gator’

See DYS ● 5A

By Kimberly [email protected]

FORT MILL — Clifton Carter wasthe “spark” his club soccer teammates

needed when they were down.Now, his teammates and coaches

are down because of Carter’s absence.Carter, 15, died Tuesday morning in

what officials are calling an unusualand tragic one-car accident near hisFort Mill home.

“When we were down, we’d look to

him to give a spark of energy,” said hisDiscoveries Soccer Club coach Domi-

Fort Mill student diesin vehicle accident

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Soccer standout found pinned between car and tree near home

See CARTER ● 7A

Clifton Carter, right, of Fort Mill died Tuesday morning in a vehicle accident. His passion was soccer, and his teammates say he was a motivator.

By Marilynn MarchioneAssociated Press

What’s killing us? For de-cades, global health leadershave focused on diseases thatcan spread – AIDS, tuberculo-sis, new flu bugs. They pushedfor vaccines, better treatmentsand other ways to controlgerms that were only a planeride away from seeding out-breaks anywhere in the world.

Now they are turning to anew set of culprits causingwhat United Nations Secre-

tary-General Ban Ki-mooncalls “a public health emergen-cy in slow motion.” This time,germs aren’t the target: We are,along with our bad habits likesmoking, overeating and toolittle exercise.

Next week, the U.N. Gener-al Assembly will hold its firstsummit on chronic diseases –cancer, diabetes and heart andlung disease. Those accountfor nearly two-thirds of deathsworldwide, or about 36 mil-lion. In the United States, they

kill nearly 9 out of 10 people.They have common risk fac-tors, such as smoking and sed-entary lifestyles, and many arepreventable.

It’s hard to fathom the suf-fering these maladies are caus-ing in some parts of the world.

For example, until a fewyears ago Ethiopia had onecancer specialist, Dr. BogaleSolomon, for more than 80million people.

“Now three more oncolo-gists have joined,” he said, andthese four doctors struggle totreat patients in a countrywhere cancer drugs and evenpainkillers are in short supply.

Wondu Bekele took his2-year-old son, Mathiwos, tothat lone cancer center in Ad-dis Ababa when the boy devel-oped leukemia. The desperatefather got advice from St. JudeChildren’s Research Hospitalin the United States, procuredchemotherapy drugs from In-dia, and against all odds, gothis son treated. Yet the littleboy died because the hospitalhad no separate ward to pro-tect him from catching diseasefrom other patients. The fatherfounded a cancer society in hisson’s name and will representcancer groups at the U.N.meeting.

“Practically all cancer-relat-ed medicines are either nonex-istent or beyond the reach ofordinary Ethiopians,” he said.“We are struggling to make adifference here.”

Advocates may be strug-gling to make a difference atthe U.N., too. Key officialshave been unable to agree be-fore the meeting on specificgoals – reducing certain dis-eases or risk factors such assmoking by a specific amountand date. With the global econ-omy in turmoil, finding moneyto meet any goals could be an

U.N.: Worldwide, biggest threat to our health is ourselvesHeart disease, diabetes, cancers are‘health emergency in slow motion’

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By Shawn [email protected] seven public schools

opening their doors to any RockHill student in August, familieswill have more options than ever.

And it’s just the beginning, saydistrict officials, who expect morecampuses to become “schools ofchoice” in coming years.

Starting Feb. 14, families canapply to enroll children in one off ive programs across sevenschools of choice. Applicationswill be available Tuesday. Enroll-ment is first-come, first-served,as-sociate superintendent LuanneKokolis said.

Families can choose from:■ Norths ide E lementary

School of the Arts■ The Children’s School at

Sylvia Circle’s Montessori pro-

gram■ Sunset Park Center for Accel-

erated Studies’ magnet programfor gifted and talented students

■ Ebinport and RichmondDrive elementary schools’ Span-ish language and global studiesprograms

■ Saluda Trail and Sullivanmiddle schools’ Middle Years In-ternational Baccalaureate pro-grams

Any Rock Hill student can ap-ply to attend a school of choice.Those in the school’s attendancezone get first choice and bus trans-

portation. Families outside the at-tendance area must provide trans-portation.

The exception is Sunset Park’sgifted and talented magnet pro-gram, which requires applicantsto meet the state’s “gifted and tal-ented” guidelines. However, anyelementary-age student can applyfor the school’s accelerated stud-ies program.

Rock Hill joins a growing num-ber of districts statewide offeringfamilies more options for theirchildren’s education.

From science and technologymagnets to virtual schools to Mon-tessori to charter schools, the op-tions for public school studentsare growing.

Following a push by former

SCHOOLS OF CHOICE

ANDY BURRISS - [email protected] Lori Jewell works with Malaysia Wilson, 4, using a movable alphabet at The Children’s School at Sylvia Circle. The school isone of seven schools of choice in Rock Hill, which are open to all students.

Rock Hill increasesoptions for education

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■ How to apply toa school ofchoice ● 7A■ Open housedates ● 7A

Coming MondayOver the rest of this week, The Herald

will examine the programs offered atRock Hill’s seven schools of choicefor the 2011-2012 school year.

On Monday, we profile the NorthsideElementary School of the Arts.

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By Jamie [email protected]

History has a way of gettingplowed, or buried, or worse – bull-dozed.

That’s true in York County,where the Catawba Indians havelived for centuries. There’s no tell-ing what historical treasures havebeen lost to make way for develop-ment, archaeologists say.

But on the banks of the CatawbaRiver – on land destined for the siteof a new county museum – lie theremnants of two 18th-century Ca-tawba Indian villages, unearthedwhile the land was being preparedfor development.

Now, more than 50,000 artifacts– from large pottery pieces to tinyshards – excavated from the villag-es are helping archaeologists at theUniversity of North Carolina atChapel Hill weave a more completenarrative of who the Catawbaswere and how their culture under-went abrupt transformations as aresult of trade, war and a devastat-ing epidemic.

The sites near Interstate 77 andSutton Road are the historic Cataw-ba towns of Nassaw and Weyapee,said Steve Davis and Brett Riggs, re-search archaeologists from UNC’sresearch laboratories of archaeolo-gy.

The sites are extremely valu-able, especially since only a hand-ful existed at the same time as Nas-saw and Weyapee, and few remain,Riggs said.

A 1756 map of the Catawba Na-tion and its trade routes shows sixtowns that make up the CatawbaNation located along the CatawbaRiver and the Great Trading Path:Nassaw, Weyapee, Noostee, Su-cah, Weyane and Charraw.

“When you know how manyyou start with, you know how ma-ny you’ve lost,” Riggs said.

While archaeologists havefound evidence of most of the sites,some sites have weathered time,erosion and other forces better thanothers.

“Sucah is basically gone,” Riggssaid, lost to development.

“At this point,we can say at least50 percent of this record is gone,”he said. “It’s a very finite resource.”

Last fall, the artifacts were dis-played at UNC’s Wilson Library as

part of “Unearthing Native Histo-ry,” an exhibit tracing the develop-ment of the Catawba Nationthrough historical accounts and ar-tifacts excavated by UNC research-ers at sites including Nassaw andWeyapee.

Unearthing historyIn summer 2007 and 2008, Davis

and Riggs led a team of UNC ar-chaeologists in excavating the twovillages in Fort Mill, bordered bythe Catawba River, I-77 and SuttonRoad.

More than a decade ago, JaneSpratt McColl donated the land tothe Culture and Heritage Founda-tion, which supports York County’sCulture and Heritage Museums, forthe purpose of green space and anew museum.

The foundation set out to buildan environmentally-focused com-muni ty on a por t ion o f the 400 acres, hoping the sale of real es-tate would pay for a new countymuseum on the river.

Catawba banksyield clues to once greatIndian nation

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Brett Riggs, researcharchaeologist with theResearch Laboratories ofArchaeology at the Universityof North Carolina at ChapelHill, holds a piece of a CatawbaIndian pot from the 1750sfound at the site of NassawTown on the Catawba River.

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By Gina Smith [email protected]

COLUMBIA — Each Tuesdaymorning, Harry Ott tries to rallyDemocrats before they hit the S.C.House floor to battle with Repub-licans.

“These Republicans are not in-troducing bills that would create asingle job in South Carolina,” theHouse minority leader bellowed tothe dozen or so Democratic Housemembers at a recent meeting.“We’re gonna call them out on it.”

Twenty years ago, white Demo-crats such as Ott, a St. Matthewsfarmer with a Southern drawl asthick as syrup, controlled theHouse.

Today, Ott is an anomaly.White Democrats are a nearly

extinct breed in the House.Of 124 House members, only 19

are white Democrats. A 20th, stateRep. Cathy Harvin, who represent-ed Clarendon and Williamsburgcounties, died in December.

When redistricting, the once-in-a-decade redrawing of state Houseand Senate district lines, happenslater this year, many lawmakerspredict white House Democratswill number fewer than 10. Most at

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CHANGING POLITICAL LANDSCAPE

50 years ago, theyruled StatehouseNumber of whiteDemocrats couldkeep dwindling

By Bradley KlapperAssociated Press

WASHINGTON—Seeking re-form in Egypt, the U.S. increasing-ly is counting on a small cadre ofPresident Hosni Mubarak’s clos-est advisers to guide a hoped-fortransition from autocracy to de-mocracy.

It’s a plan that relies on long re-lationships with military men andbureaucrats who owe their profes-sional success to Mubarak’s ironrule. To the regret of some U.S. dip-lomats, it’s also a plan that steersaround the Muslim Brotherhood,the powerful Islamist politicalmovement that almost surelywould play a central role in any fu-ture popularly chosen govern-ment.

Not that Washington has muchchoice.

Mubarak has so smothered po-tential political opposition thatthere is no clear alternative for theU.S. as a bargaining partner, evenif dealing with aging Mubarak stal-warts reduces U.S. credibility withEgyptians fed up with the Muba-rak era.

The Obama administration’stelephone diplomacy this pastweek was indicative of the Ameri-can strategy to keep Egypt fromtearing itself apart.

Secretary of State Hillary Clin-ton and Vice President Joe Bidenspoke to Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s74-year-old intelligence chief who BEN CURTIS - AP

An anti-government protester holds the bayonet of a soldier’srifle as he pleads to not remove opposition barricades.

Mubarak’s men arekey to U.S. reformhopes in Egypt

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It’s not clearwhenSouthCarolina voters will dotheir choosing for the Re-publican presidentialnomination because of un-usual state rules that putthe cards in the hands of

the party chairman — andhe’s holding them close.

The early primary cal-endar, upended this weekby Arizona’s decision tohold its 2012 contest thesame day as South Caroli-na, dictates where candi-dates do much of their re-tail campaigning in dinersand fairgrounds and how

much of the internationalmedia glare falls on the cit-ies and towns being wooed.

“We’re going to hold ourfirst-in-the-South date, andI’m not going to share itwith anybody,” state Re-publican Party ChairmanChad Connelly told Green-villeOnline.com Tuesday,pledging to leapfrog Arizo-na’s Feb. 28 date and work“in concert” with otherearly primary states.

But hewillwait until the

“last possible moment” toset the date, pointing to anOct. 1 deadline imposed bythe Republican NationalCommittee.

South Carolina Republi-canshave long insisted thatthey deserve to be the first

state in the South to votefor a Republican candi-date, inpart becauseofvot-ers’ demographic makeupand their history of pickingthe eventual GOP nomineeevery presidential electionsince 1980.

The state party has astrong hand to play, be-cause a rule written sever-al years ago gives Connellythe unilateral authority toset the date.

Other states have to in-volve a commission or sec-retary of state, Connellysaid, adding the lessonshould be to stay put be-cause South Carolina willsimply counter rapidly.

GOP waits to set primary dateArizona’s move to share the spotlightgets cold shoulder from party chief

By Ben SzobodyStaff [email protected]

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“We’re going to hold ourfirst-in-the-South date, and I’m notgoing to share it with anybody.”REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN CHAD CONNELLY

The Taylors Free Med-ical Clinic has seen a 25percent increase in thenumber of people lookingfor medical care in thepast two years, a sign ofthe country’s ongoing eco-nomic pain.

“The number ... con-tinues to increase everyday,” executive directorKaren Salerno told green-villeonline.com. “We aresignificantly overwhatwewere this time last year,

andthereareweekswherehave to cut off and say wecan’t take any new pa-tients.”

More Americans — in-cluding children — arefalling into poverty andgoing without health in-surance, the U.S. CensusBureau reported Tuesday.

The real median house-hold income in 2010—$49,445 — dropped 2.3percent from 2009, theCensus reported.

And the official pover-ty ratewas15.1percent, upfrom 14.3 percent a yearearlier, the fourth consec-

utive annual increase andthe largest number in 52years, growing to 46.2mil-lion last year, or 2.6millionmore than in 2009.

The poverty rate forchildren, meanwhile,grew from 20.7 percent to22 percent.

And the number of peo-ple without health insur-ance grew from 49 millionto 49.9 million, despitegrowth in thenumberwithgovernment-sponsoredcoverage, according to thecensus.

“These numbers arenot surprising, especiallyconsidering how poorlyour economy is doing,”said Sue Berkowitz, direc-tor of South Carolina Ap-

pleseedLegal JusticeCen-ter.

“This is not a good signfor South Carolina,” shesaid. “People are reallyhurting.”

Though final statenumbers weren’t avail-able, preliminary censusdata show that the numberof uninsured in South Car-olina grew from 16.8 per-cent in2009 to20.6percentin2010, orabout one in five

‘People are really hurting’

Ashley M. Frisch checks a patient Tuesday at Taylors Free Medical Clinic, where demand is up. MYKAL MCELDOWNEY/STAFF

More state residents gowithout health coverageMore than 20 percent lack insuranceas unemployment rate stays high

By Liv OsbyStaff [email protected]

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GROWING NEEDSee a video outlining thearea’s growing health careneeds at GreenvilleOn-line.com/video

COLUMBIA — Thechairman of the state De-partment of Transporta-tion is denying a requestfromanotherboardmem-ber to allow public com-ment at each commissionmeeting.

But another highwaycommissioner said thematter is likely to comeup for a vote and thinksthe board will approvethe proposal.

Commissioner SarahNuckles of Rock Hill re-quested a public com-ment section in July, amonth after the boardvoted 5-2 to not change itsprocedure and allow pub-lic comment on a case-by-case basis as it had in thepast.

The board voted 5-2 inJuly to allow it for thatmeeting, with ChairmanDanny Isaac and Com-missioner J. Craig For-rest of Blufton votingagainst it, according toDOT minutes.

Nuckles brought theidea up again as a perma-nent part of meetings in amemo to Issac, who toldher this week her requestwas denied.

“I will continue to al-low the public to addressthe commissionwhen it isrequested and will ofteninvite members to

speak,” Isaac said in hisemail response to Nuck-les, according to a copy ofthe email released by her.

“You are free to con-tinue to request to over-turn (the) commission de-cision, although I feel it isvery unprofessional.”

Nuckles toldGreenvil-leOnline.com she feelsIsaac’s response is “odd.”

“I amnot so concernedabout being ‘unprofes-sional’ or in pleasing thecommission as I am inmyresponsibility as a publicofficial to protect andhonor the public trust,”she said.

The Senate Transpor-tation Committee lastweek began what is ex-pected to be a series ofpublic hearings about theagency and its cash flowproblems that causedDOT to pay contractorslate this summer.

In addition, DOT offi-cials said they made latepayments for twomonthsto the State Infrastruc-tureBankdue to staff “in-attentiveness.”

Some senators havecriticized the agency aswell for proposing to bor-row as much as $344 mil-lion for five road pro-jects, twoofwhichareun-ranked in the state’stransportation plan, eventhough a law passed fouryears ago requires all

DOT won’tput publicon meetingscheduleRoads chairman’s denial of boardmember’s request may go to vote

By Tim SmithStaff [email protected]

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The National Transpor-tation SafetyBoard has rec-ommended banning the useof mobile phones by truck-ers and other commercialdrivers, citing distractionfrom the use the device by

the driver of an 18-wheeltruck as the probable causeof a crash that killed 11 peo-ple in Kentucky.

“Distracted driving isbecoming increasinglyprevalent, exacerbating thedanger we encounter dailyon our roadways,” saidNTSB Chairman DeborahA.P. Hersman. “It can be es-

pecially lethalwhen the dis-tracted driver is at thewheel of a vehicle thatweighs 40 tons and travelsat highway speeds.”

The proposed ban wouldcover commercial truckdrivers and bus drivers,NTSB officials said Tues-day. They said it would pro-hibit the use of both hand-heldandhands-freecellulartelephones by all commer-cial driver’s license holderswhile driving in commer-

cial operations, except inemergencies.

The NTSB doesn’t havethe power to ban cellphoneuse and texting, so it sent itsrecommendation to theFederal Motor CarrierSafety Administration andall 50 states for action.

RickTodd, president andchief executive officer ofthe South Carolina Truck-ing Association, said most

Cell phone ban for truckers urgedInvestigators blame distracted drivingfor 18-wheeler wreck that killed 11

By David DykesStaff [email protected]

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