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BY BRIAN GARNER/THE N&RA mile and a half-long train of circus cars from the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” slowly rolled through Chester at about 35 mph Monday on its way to the circus’ next show in Charlotte. This was a nostalgic sight for some and a sadder sight for many, as Ringling Brothers has announced at the end of this season they will fold up their tents and the Big Top and silently steal away – for good as they cease operations after 146 years.

The ‘Greatest Train on Earth’

BY BRIAN [email protected]

A service organization that has done much to enrich the lives of Chester County residents and pro-vided a helping hand to other community agencies in Chester County was the recipient of this year’s Duke Energy Citizenship and Service Award.

Lutz Foundation Vice President Joan Lutz Guyton and Foundation President Dewey Guyton accepted the award from Duke Energy Vice President of Community Relations Rick Jiran at the

Chester County Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Banquet Thursday night.

As was his custom, Jiran did his best to keep the name a secret for as long into his speech as he could, describing the win-ner as one of the ones responsible for success in Chester County.

“I am constantly amazed at how the Chamber and its members always manage to select the perfect winner for this award,” Jiran said. “I spent the last five minutes talk-ing about the great things happening in Chester County, and it’s because of

people like our winner that we continue to move for-ward.”

He talked about the his-tory of Clarence Herbert Lutz, who started as a law enforcement officer and enjoyed a distinguished career before beginning a second career as a stock-broker, adding, “our win-ner in not our winner; his legacy is.”

“Clarence Herbert Lutz and his wife Anna spent their last years living in Chester County. Established in 1995 after their deaths, the Lutz

Lutz Foundation awarded Duke Energy Citizenship and Service Award

BY BRIAN GARNER/THE N&RDuke Energy Vice President of Community Relations Rick Jiran, left, presents the Citizenship and Service Award to Joan Lutz Guyton and Dewey Guyton, representing the Lutz Foundation, at the Chester County Chamber of Commerce Banquet last week.

BY TRAVIS [email protected]

A 16-year-old who was allegedly involved in a shooting on Academy Street in Chester last year was denied bond on Friday.

Michael Cohen, 16, was in court Wednesday. According to Karen Fyar, Sixth Circuit assistant solicitor, Cohen and his codefendant (a 14-year-old whose name was not men-tioned) intended to rob an Academy Street house last

September and began beating on the door. When the woman inside hit the door in response, one of the two subjects fired a shot through the door that struck the woman in the chest. Both Cohen and his codefendant claim the other fired the shot. The victim was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center and is still recovering from her wound at the home of a family member. The

Cohen denied bond


Chester City Council-member Angela Douglas called for greater transpar-ency in city government at

the recent meeting of Chester City Council.

Douglas said many citi-zens have become con-cerned about how local government does things in Chester and they are not

able to get the information very readily on what gov-ernment is doing.

“One of the things I have always believed and always will believe in is open and transparent gov-ernment. I am a little frus-trated the City of Chester isn’t as transparent as it

can be. Our website doesn’t reflect the documents or the information that we sometimes share among ourselves. Even some of the reports we get are not very transparent,” she said.

Chester councilmember calls for more levels of transparency in government

City administrator agrees


Chester County School District Chief Operations Officer Jeff Gardner gave an update to school board members at their January meeting on some repair and improve-ment projects around the school district.

Of most interest to the

community, in addition to the students and par-ents of students, was the news about the installa-tion of crossing signals at different points along the route that students walk to Chester High School.

Community organiza-tion The Organic Helpers has been at the forefront

School District Ops chief gives updates

district repair projectsCrossing signals installed at some

crosswalks on the way to CHS


If you taught in the Chester County School system or were an administrator, the Chester County School District would like to honor you. The CCSD is planning the inaugural retiree’s luncheon for March 22 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Gateway Conference Center.

This is the first time the school district has had a lun-cheon like this, said Superintendent Dr. Angela Bain.

“I will have been here a year on February 1st, and as I’ve gone around the district this year, I’ve met so many people who have retired from teaching or retired from being an admin-istrator in the district. I thought

‘We need a way to bring those folks back together and honor their services to our students.’

“Now those retirees are our citizens, and they probably nur-tured a lot of the people of Chester County who were at the recent Chamber Banquet,” she said.

At the previous school dis-trict where Dr. Bain worked, Lexington/Richland 5, the dis-

trict just started honoring retir-ees with a luncheon about five years ago.

“It has been a real hit with people the more and more they find out about it. It’s now an annual event at that school dis-trict,” she said.

“We have a limited amount of space, but we want everyone who is interested to email or call Operations Administrative

Assistant Becky Crouch at 803-581-9537 or by email [email protected].

The district has sent fliers to area churches, and Dr. Bain talked up the event on her monthly radio show on WGCD. Honorary event chair (and key-note speaker) Mozelle Robinson has also been spreading the

Chester County School District inviting retired educators to lunch

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woman was not present at the hearing but wrote a letter asking that Cohen not be given bond, noting that children were playing at a playground next to the house at the time of

the shooting and could have been injured or killed. Chester Police Chief Tammy Levister concurred, saying the city was gripped with fear after the shooting and that Cohen was a threat to the community. Additionally, Fryar said Cohen was a

documented gang member and was connected to a series of burglaries.

Cohen’s attorney, Nathan Sheldon, said Cohen had never been arrested for any burglary and, in fact, had a clean criminal background. He also argued that he’d

never seen any evidence to suggest that Cohen had any gang affiliation. Sheldon said that Cohen had demonstrated good behavior and was making good grades at DJJ, which led Judge Casey Manning to ask why he should leave there if he

was doing so well. Sheldon said DJJ “was wearing on him” and that he wanted to be back in Chester with his mother. He requested “a reason-able bond.”

Manning said he would consider the mat-ter and issue a ruling at a

later date. On Friday, he denied bond, but said Cohen could request bond again in 90 days. That was nearly identical to the ruling handed down by Judge Roger Henderson when Cohen first sought a bond more than three months ago.

Chester City Adminis-trator Sandi Worthy agrees the information concerning the day-to-day operations of running the city and other documents, aren’t as accessible as they could be, or they aren’t on the city’s website. But there are plans to change that. Worthy recently sat down with The N&R and answered some of those concerns Councilmember Douglas brought up.

In her address to coun-cil, Douglas charged the city’s finance report shows only what is budgeted, what has been spent so far and what is encumbered – it doesn’t really show what’s going on.

She gave a list in November-December of items she would like to see on city website, such as minutes from the council meetings. She said citizens should not have to write a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get minutes. Douglas pointed out there were no 2016 minutes on the city web-site.

She said state Comp-troller General Richard Cestrum addressed the government transparency issue in 2008 by establish-ing a data and fiscal trans-parency website. She said the state website has fiscal data and other reports that are readily accessible. She also said the state account-ability portal has budget, procurement and HR (sal-aries and wages) informa-

tion. “I think we need to

adopt some of the these; of course we don’t have the technology or the technol-ogy budget the State of South Carolina has, but there are some things we can do. Under the spend-ing transparency, there are counties and munici-palities that are considered pioneers in making this data available. We have the City of Columbia, the City of Rock Hill (which has a larger budget) and is able to put together a web-site detailing their financ-es and other things.”

“Chester County Councilman Alex Oliphant mentioned in one of the council meetings about six or eight months ago that this information needs to be out there. I applauded

him then and I applaud him now, because it does...I’m not saying that we’re hiding anything, but we shouldn’t make you feel that we are. If we’re improving our transparen-cy, and I mean putting forth real effort to do so, not just saying it, not just taking a vote and saying we’re going to go that way, if we are committed to it like we should be, we shouldn’t have to worry about whether we’re going to get a turnout for public meetings or whether we’re going to be able to connect to the community,” Douglas said, “because if there are citizens who feel they are not getting the information, then they have no reason to talk to us.

“The more open and

transparent we are, the more we don’t have to worry about having those kinds of conversations.”

“We need to get on the ball to be able to offer that information, at very little charge to our people; they’re already paying taxes, but they should have a right to know how our money is being spent and how we are being stewards of their trust.”

“Councilmember Doug-las is right, the reports that we provide on the surface don’t shed any light on the transparency that I think is needed,” Worthy said.

“Let me preface this by saying that getting sys-tems (that provide more transparency) like the one that Rock Hill or larg-er cities have, that’s in our Strategic Plan; creat-ing a financial policy, being more transparent, having a “dashboard” that shows exactly who the checks are written to and that sort of thing, all of that is in our strategic plan. It hasn’t been a focus, because it’s always been a function of the finance department.”

“But Councilmember Douglas is absolutely right. I believe in govern-mental transparency. I think not having the 2016 minutes online was an oversight – we recently got a new website, and that was something that could have been fixed.”

And it was fixed, as of the next day following the council meeting; the min-utes were available online

the next day.“We’ve taken it a step

further – we’ve posted all of the minutes and the agendas of all our boards and commissions, we’ve done the minutes for the council meetings. We’ve also put up our check reg-isters for the past six months of the budget year, and we’re also going to post our code enforce-ment issues,” Worthy said.

“I think it’s important that we do have that level of transparency. We get a lot of calls: ‘What are you doing about this issue?’ or ‘What are you doing about this other issue?’ I think it’s a great tool for people to see we have addressed the issue, we may just not have the right mecha-nism in place to enforce a lot of our ordinances,” she said.

Worthy asked Douglas in the council meeting what the “low-hanging fruit” was in her concerns, and the city immediately complied with putting some of those things – like the minutes and the check register – online.

Regarding the city’s financial transparency, Worthy said she provides council with a budget nar-rative each year that summarizes what hap-pened with the budget during the year, for exam-ple, why there were some changes to the budget or where a surprise expense may have come up.

“Those budget summa-ries are always available to the public, but we may

put them online and make them readily avail-able so citizens don’t have to take the extra step to come to city hall and have to request them,” Worthy said. She said since many of the city staff is having to wear multiple hats because there is no full-time finance director (and many of these documents are finance-related) get-ting those documents online is some of the pri-orities that are having to be weighed.

“Most cities struggle with balancing of priori-ties,” Worthy said. “Once a finance director is in place, the city can be more focused on the transpar-ency issue as far as finan-cial data,” she said.

Right now, the city website has Request for Proposal (RFP) and Request for Qualifications (RFQ) information, the identity of who receives and RFP and RFQs, Planning and Zoning agendas and minutes, Historic Preservation Commission agendas and minutes, audits, annual budgets and check regis-ters, Worthy said.

“We can definitely go further. Again, it’s just a matter of making sure we’re prioritizing,” she said. She also pointed out although they may not be online, a private citizen can request copies of many city documents, because most are public records. She added the citizen might not need to file a FOIA request for many of these documents.

of lobbying for safer routes to Chester High School for students who walk from Ashford Road along the JA Cochran Bypass to the school, and along the bypass to school from the opposite direction also.

“Since the last time we reported on this in September, the SCDOT has done everything we’ve asked up to this point, to the crosswalk at Chester High School,” Gardner said.

“When attention was brought to this situation, the SCDOT went into overdrive and started looking at where they needed crossing signs and where signs had fall-en down,” Gardner said.

He exhibited pictures showing crossing sig-nals, using the Walk/Don’t Walk symbols that have been installed at intersections along the bypass:

intersection of JA Cochran Bypass and Wilson Street Ext. by McDonald’s;

intersection of JA Cochran Bypass and Wilson Street Ext. by KFC;

both sides of the inter-section of JA Cochran Bypass and Columbia Road;

Additionally the school crossing sign (non-electric) has been rein-stalled at the crosswalk to Chester High School

across JA Cochran Bypass.

Garner pointed out the sidewalk does not continue to Ashford Road from that crosswalk.

“If the sidewalk went all the way down to Ashford Road, kids would have a nice safe crossing to get to CHS. According to the SCDOT, the budget is not there to install that sidewalk. In my opinion, we have done everything we can at this point to make it safer,” Gardner said.

The school district would like to work with

the City of Chester and Chester County to find a way to pay for extending the sidewalk, possibly through some grant funding.

In news of other repair projects, Gardner also reported there is a leak in the roof of the Chester County Career Center that will need attention.

“We’ve been looking at this to try and find the cause, because it’s not always as simple as a hole in the roof. This is one of the oldest roofs in the district, and so these leaks can come from a

number of places,” he said.

Gardner pointed where a wall meets the roof of the Career Center and said maintenance is almost positive that’s where the leak is coming from. The brick of the wall has settled and pulled away. Repair efforts have been made to caulk the place where the brick pulls away, he said. Repairs will be removing two courses of brick and installing some flashing to catch the water before it gets into the building.

“This is the type of problem you end up with when a building is old and beyond its life,” Gardner said.

Gardner reported on the power issues being experienced at Chester High School. The power lines go through a con-duit and the conduit has failed, he said. During the Christmas break, repair crews attempted to remove the old con-duit, placing as much as 11,000 lbs. of pressure to remove the old conduit, but were unable to remove it.

“We knew this repair would take time, and we also knew if we had a mistake or we were unable to fix it, the entire school would be down, and we would be moving the kids to another school, because we had no power,” said Gardner.

Repair of this system will have to be done over the summer, because while work is being done, the school would be with-out power for two weeks.

While the one power line is not working, Gardner and school offi-cials have had to manage their power usage in unusual ways.

“We’ve had to sched-ule the power usage – if (the athletic director) is using the dryers for his uniforms, then we don’t have any power going to the cafeteria, because we’ll blow the circuit.

“We’ve been able to do that and we’ve gone on (it’s not a wing and a prayer) because it’s working, it should work, we’re well below any power issue that could give us problems. This has worked because of the cooperation of every-one there,” he said.

He added the students have not been aware of any power issues and the power scheduling has not affected instruction. “At times something that pulls a lot of amps is not going to be running at the same time as we’re pulling a lot of amps in the cafeteria.”

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BY BRIAN GARNER/THE N&RChester City Administrator Sandi Worthy, foreground, listens as City Councilmember Angela Douglas, pic-tured in the background, makes comments on gov-ernment transparency at a recent meeting of Chester City Council.

PHOTO PROVIDEDThis image shows the crossing signals that the SDOT has installed at the intersection and crosswalk of JA Cochran Bypass and Wilson Street Ext. (by McDonald’s).


Retention of police officers will be the topic of a special called Chester City Council meeting on Thursday.

Finding, training and keep-ing police officers has been a struggle at times for the city. Former Chief Andre’ Williams

said the high turnover rate with the city during his tenure was a result of other departments offering better pay and more lucrative benefits. That appears to remain an issue.

In all, 10 city officers cur-rently have applications pend-ing in other jurisdictions. To lose officers at such a rate would leave the city with only 14,

including Chief Tammy Levister. Twelve officers are needed to fully manage a single 24-hour shift. Members of the command staff already work shifts to compensate for short-ages.

City Administrator Sandi Worthy said departments in nearby jurisdictions offer a higher starting salary than

Chester, along with extras like overtime pay and take-home vehicle policies, which are cur-rently not allowed per the city’s handbook. The council would have to take action to change policy, but could be hesitant to do so in the middle of a fiscal year, with a budget already set. However, it could actually be a good time to investigate changes

that would take months to implement, as work on the fiscal year 2017 budget is set to begin soon. Worthy said she will encourage Chester City Council to “think outside the box” and look for long-term solutions beyond just altering take-home policies or overtime rules.

The meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

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From the Chester County Detention Cen-ter jail log:

• Jacquese Montavious Jones, 24, was charged with driving under the influence first offense on Jan. 25.

• Jonathan Ostrowski, 44, was charged with man-ufacture, distribution, etc. of methamphetamine first offense on Jan. 25.

• Lena Elizabeth Tho-mpson, 38, was charged with shoplifting valued at $2,000 or less on Jan. 25.

• Aimee Leigh Nicole Baker, 22, was charged with second degree harass-ment and telephone/unlawful communication on Jan. 26.

• Roosevelt Abraham Beaty, 44, was charged with manufacture, posses-sion of Schedule IV drugs, except Flunitrazepam, with intent to distribute first offense on Jan. 26.

• Preston Caldwell, 44, was charged with open container, driving under the influence first offense and possession of less than one gram of meth or cocaine base first offense on Jan. 26.

• Isaac Fitzgerald Douglas, no age given, was charged with manufacture, possession of Schedule IV drugs, except Flunitraze-pam, with intent to distrib-ute first offense on Jan. 26.

• Brenda Elaine Dye, 51, was charged with assault and battery third

degree on Jan. 26.• Robert Alexander

Dye, 54, was charged with three counts of assault and battery third degree on Jan. 26.

• Syrasheon Direll Rice, 24, was charged with man-ufacture, possession of Schedule IV drugs, except Flunitrazepam, with intent to distribute first offense on Jan. 26.

• Dorothy Taylor Rob-erts, 58, was charged with breach of peace, non-aggra-vated in nature on Jan. 26.

• Michael Wayne Rob-erts, 40, was charged with breach of peace, non-aggra-vated in nature on Jan. 26.

• Mark Wesley Robin-son, 26, was charged with driving under the influence first offense on Jan. 26.

• James Edward Simp-son, 57, was charged with manufacture, possession of Schedule IV drugs, except Flunitrazepam, with intent to distribute first offense and manufacture, distribution, etc. of cocaine base first offense on Jan. 26.

• Deontres Lavell Stro-ng, 24, was charged with manufacture, possession of other substance in Schedule I, II, III or Flunitrazepam or ana-logue with intent to distrib-ute first offense on Jan. 26.

• Ernest Eugene Tal-ford, 23, was charged with manufacture, possession of Schedule IV drugs, except Flunitrazepam, with

intent to distribute first offense on Jan. 26.

• Michael Fitzgerald Hardin, 50, was charged with trespassing/entering premises after warning or refusing to leave on request on Jan. 27.

• DeAngelo Javon Jack-son, 27, was charged with two counts of failure to stop for a blue light first offense, two counts of pointing and presenting firearms at a person, driving under sus-pension first and second offense, two counts of reck-less driving, sale or deliv-ery of a pistol to, and pos-session by, certain persons unlawful (stolen pistol), possession of less than one gram of meth or cocaine base first offense and mali-cious injury to animals, personal property, injury valued at $2,000 or less on Jan. 27.

• Brilton Smith, 66, was charged with transporting alcohol in a motor vehicle with the seal broken, open container, driving under suspension first offense and driving under the influence first offense on Jan. 27.

• Mark Allen Mapp, 48, was charged with two counts of contempt of Family Court by adult (civil remedy only) on Jan. 28.

• DeMarcus Lamont Jennings, 27, was charged with contempt of Family Court by adult (civil reme-dy only) on Jan. 29.

GRIEFSHARE openGRIEFSHARE is a se-

minar and support group whose purpose is to rebuild life after the death of a loved one. GRIEFSHARE is designed around God’s word. New Life Baptist, 1044 Columbia Road, will

host the nondenomination-al group, which is open to the public, from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays March 2-May 25. Everyone is welcome to begin attending at any point. Call Don Etters at 803-209-2807 or email [email protected].

BY BILL MARION/SPECIAL TO THE N&RAt the Chester Rotary Club meeting held Tuesday, Jan. 24, Bill Marion had as his guest Rick Anderson, an employee of the State of South Carolina whose interest in history has led him to explore the maneuvers in the Southeast in the fall of 1941, in which Chester County played a major part. The PowerPoint pre-sentation presented pictures on the worldwide scale and also of S.C. and Chester County, which pointed out the changes in technology that the maneu-vers helped bring about. Rotarians thank Anderson for bringing history to life.

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OYSTER ROASTThe 11th annual Oyster

Roast and Auction Fundraiser will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at the old National Guard Armory, 1025 Armory Road, Chester (off Old York Road). The event will fea-ture a silent auction and a live auction to benefit the council’s arts program-ming, exhibits, classes, youth art workshops and more. Food will include an all-you-can-eat steamed oyster bar and Lowcountry boil buffet (shrimp, sau-sage, corn and potatoes), slaw, bread dessert and

sweet tea. A cash bar (beer and wine) will also be fea-tured. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and food will be served from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. The live auction will begin around 7:45 p.m.

Reserved tables are $650, which includes eight tickets and preferred seat-ing with business recogni-tion. Half tables are avail-able after at least one table has been purchased.

General seating tickets are $45 per Arts Council mem-ber and $50 per non-mem-ber. Tickets can be pur-chased from the Arts Council, 123 Main St. in downtown Chester, or via e-mail, [email protected]. Members will be able to buy their tickets before the general public through Jan. 20. After this date, anyone can buy tick-ets. No tickets will be sold at the event. All reserved tickets must be bought before the event date. Cash or checks only will be accepted. For details, call Lauren at 581-2030 or e-mail to the above address.

BallroomDance Club

The Ballroom Dance Club will not meet Friday, Feb. 17. The next meeting will be Friday, March 17, at the Fort Mill Golf Course Oak Room, 101 Country Club Drive.

Shrine Clubsteak supper

The Chester Shrine Club, located on Pressley Road, will hold its monthly steak supper at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4.

Vouchertraining

Voucher training for fruit and vegetable produc-ers will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Chester Market Building, 116 Columbia St. Any producer who would like to be able to accept senior and WIC vouchers this summer as payment for produce must attend a training. For details, call the S.C. Department of Agriculture, 1200 Senate St., Wade Hampton Building, Fifth Floor, Columbia, at 803-734-2210.

Army ReservesB&D Company

Former members of the Army Reserves B&D Co. 391st Engr Bn, York, will have a reunion planning meeting at 1 p.m. the first Saturday of each month at the YMCA, 157 Columbia St. Call Robert J. Frederick at 377-2843.

Open auditionsfor Culp drama

Open auditions are being held for a new drama by Sheila Culp Productions,

“A Mother’s Heart Delivers A Message Within A Mes-

sage.” Ages 18 and older are needed. Call 374-4216.


ViewpointOur View

Silencing the critics

Over the past two weeks, members of both the South Carolina House and

Senate have introduced legislation that would require much more disclosure.

With one member of the General Assembly already indicted for ethics violations, total-ing above a million dollars in payments he took improperly, according to the charges, and rumors that more indictments will fol-low, these bills should be a welcome change.

But they aren’t. They wouldn’t change the way our legislators do business at all.

Instead, they’d actually shield lawmakers from criticism.

S.255 and H.3571 are nearly identical. Both would force individuals or groups that are “not organized or operating for the pri-mary purpose of supporting or opposing candidates” to disclose all donors if they engage in something called “election com-munication.”

That term isn’t defined in the state consti-tution, or in state law — yet. In these two bills, it means printing material or buying ads that “support or oppose a clearly identi-fied candidate” or “influence the outcome of an election.”

That last phrase is so broad that it could encompass practically any issue advocacy, from fliers about a school board decision to newspaper endorsements. And who can determine what influences the outcome of an election? Have we not just seen how hard that is to do with our last presidential elec-tion?

Under these bills, an organization that engages in non-election-related issue advo-cacy would either have to refrain from criti-cizing any legislator’s voting record, or else disclose all its donors, leaving those donors open to intimidation by lawmakers and their allies.

It’s as though a robber is exiting a bank with the loot (not that far of a stretch really based on how some legislators make money) and stops to tell a legitimate cus-tomer that he really ought to roll his change before trying to deposit it.

The courts have clearly outlined how to regulate speech and when it can be done. These bills fall far short of those standards. Besides showing just how thin-skinned our legislators are, passing them would only invite a day in court.

Phillip Cease is with the S.C. Policy Council.

The robots are coming…I’ve written on several

occasions of my fear that robots are going to take all jobs away from humans eventually and at some point will rebel against us, overthrow us and make us do all the heavy-lifting and menial labor jobs we are currently building those same robots to do. Maybe I’ve seen “Maximum Overdrive” one too many times, but in my mind we’re creating the means of our own unem-ployment and eventual destruction by making these things smarter and more versatile. Sure, it’s cool to have a little robot that sweeps your floor, but it won’t be cool when “Sweepy the floor-cleaning robot” is making you lick dust bunnies out from under the bed. Won’t be cool at all, brother.

I’ve decided to take a slightly different tact this time around. Instead of just complaining or expressing fear, I’m going to try to fairly weigh the positives and negatives of the most recent story I’ve read about how our metal-lic overlords are rendering their creators expendable. According to what I read this morning, one company is working to create a robot that will pick fruit. Now, I don’t mean pick it off the trees, I mean select which pieces of fruit (that are already in a warehouse) will be sent to markets for human consumers to buy. Robots are already used by this particular company to bring large containers of fruit to people, who then sort the fruit, deciding which are market-ready and which, uh, go wherev-er fruit goes when it doesn’t look tasty and edi-ble. Scientists think they are close to having a robot that can do both jobs on its own. I think a “positive-negative” list is in order here.

Positive: Cleanliness. As far as I know, robots don’t have noses to pick or underarms to scratch. The cold, metallic hand of a robot doesn’t sweat either, so there really isn’t a moist playground for bacteria to frolic in. I’m pro-people, but most of us are pretty dirty.

Positive: Efficiency: This is one of the reasons the robots are going to take over and displace us all one day. You don’t have to pay them, they don’t need lunch breaks and they don’t call in sick to work. They’ll just pick fruit 24 hours a day with no naps and no trips to the bath-room.

Positive: No office poli-tics. Again, I’m trying to wave the banner for humans here, but we gos-sip and hold grudges and sometimes don’t work together very well. Robots just keep to their fruit pick-ing without whispering about Becky’s poor moral fiber or Jim Bob’s body odor. Now, probably they are sending secret messag-es to one another slowly planning to overthrow the warehouse management, but at least their quiet about it.

Negative: Quality Control. Yes, I’m sure the robot hand can be pro-grammed in such a way

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I figuratively took my hat off as the Ringling

Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus train went by in Chester yesterday to salute the passing of an era. That was likely the last time we will see a circus train come through town as the Greatest Show on Earth is folding up the Big Top in May at the end of a 146-year run.

I was relating what this sight looked like to my mother at lunch, and she told me the story of how when she was a little girl in Ohio, her great grandmother (my great-great grandmother) had a house with a large lot. The Barnum & Bailey Circus would set up in that lot when they came to Youngstown every year and for this permis-sion, the kids in the fami-ly were given free passes to see the show and had a chance to talk to the circus people, to say noth-ing of the great privilege of seeing them set up the circus.

“They had their own food, but great-grand-mother would give them water,” my mother remembered.

She recalled one time when she came around the corner of the house to

encounter a woman with a green snake wrapped around her. “It was painted green,” Mom recalled. “I turned around and went the other way.” Snakes and my mother did not get along.

Despite that traumatic encounter, she still said the days when the circus came to town, “was a magical time.”

I can well imag-ine. I was one of the lucky ones who got to see the Greatest Show on Earth when it really was the Greatest Show (before the animal rights activ-ists made them get rid of the elephants). When I was knee-high to a grass-hopper (probably about middle school age), my parents took me and my brother to see the circus at the old Greenville Memorial Auditorium.

This was in the circus’ heyday, although every audience member who sees every tour probably thinks that. But this was during the days of the

fearless animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams (which sounds like the name of a fearless animal trainer) and during the years of the death-defy-ing stunt where the motorcyclist rode around in the Cage of Doom or whatever it was called, the great big steel ball. The motorcycle riders rode around inside of that thing at insane speeds, barely missing each other. It was thrilling.

I was young enough to enjoy the circus and cyni-cal enough to witness the marketing efforts that took place during the show.

For example, when the horse riders came out and they were wearing glowing necklaces, here came the hawkers going up and down through the audience selling the same thing. When the clowns came on and had funny squirting flowers, you could look up from watch-ing them cavort in one of the three rings and see people selling similar funny flora. Was it the middle of the show? Expect the popcorn and drinks to be sold soon. Seems like the only thing the vendors didn’t hawk

Editor

Travis Jenkins

I ran away to join the circus, but the circus wasn’t there

Mountainsand Molehills

Brian Garner

BY ED SHARPE/SPECIAL TO THE N&RThe Greatest Show on Earth rolled through Chester County this week on its last voyage. The Ringling Bros. Circus will cease operations in May of this year after a 146-year run.

By Phil Noble

South Carolina is a unique state. We are not like other states – partly because of our history, our culture and our politics.

One of our historic lega-cies is what one writer called our debilitating inferiority complex. It is best summed up by the often-heard phrase “If it’s a list of good things, we are on the bottom and if it’s a list of bad things, we are on the top.” Or, put another way, “Thank God for Mississippi” as they

always seem to be worse off than we are.

This was once true, but in reality, it is no longer so – though we still think it is.

Like so much of every-thing else, this mindset is part of our history and part of our psychology as a state. Much of both goes back to the traumatic events of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

First the history. In the hundred years or so after the Civil War, we were at the bottom of the heap in so many categories. There

were huge swaths of our state that were stagnant backwaters of appalling poverty, ignorance and racism. And for many, this remained largely unchanged until the post-World War II era when this isolation began to break down.

But even beyond the history, our state’s sense of a psychological inferior-ity complex has been even more debilitating. We were a rigid paternalistic system – first with planta-

We’re better than we think we are

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See NOBLE, Page 5-A See JENKINS, Page 5-A

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was a miniature trapeze, but you could be sure they were selling glossy programs full of circus pictures.

When Gunther came out with his lions and tigers and the like, the vendors switched to

stuffed animals.Still, despite the crass

commercialism (and I was still young enough to not know what a term like that meant, ah youth!) the circus – a real live circus – was just something you didn’t see every day and it was, to borrow a phrase, magi-cal.

I’m sorry that there will be a generation of kids who will have to pull up views of the circus on YouTube and never know the thrill of watching high-wire walkers, gasp-ing as they almost fall in a planned routine that you know is fake, but thrill to anyway, watch-ing them live as they per-

form in the air above you.Even though I was

afraid of heights, I want-ed to be up there with the acrobats, listening to the gasps and applause, or wanted to be in the cage with Gunther as he worked with his big cats, or wanted to throw on some clown white make-up and come out of the

tiny car with the rest of the clowns.

When I came back from taking pictures of the last circus train that will probably ever come through Chester, my col-league Nancy Parsons at The N&R asked why didn’t I run away and join the circus.

“I know you always

wanted to,” she joked.I responded, “I would

have, but for two things: I’m too old and creaky to be a high-wire daredevil. And sadly, there’s not going to be a circus to run away to.”

Hmmm. I wonder if the State Fair needs an out-of-shape acrobat that’s afraid of heights?

tions and then with textile mills – where the vast majority of folks in our state, black and white, stood hat in hand waiting on instructions from the big man in the big house or the big office.

Much of this has changed, but our mindset hasn’t.

Today, South Carolina is a growing, thriving state with a diverse popu-lation and diverse econo-my – we are as global as we are local. Just 10 examples:

Our former governor

and now U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations is the daughter of an Indian immigrant. She was a Sikh before she was a Methodist.

We have 1,300 interna-tional businesses in this state, more foreign invest-ment per capita than any state in the Union.

Second only to Washington state, we have the highest rate of new people moving to our state. Horry, Charleston and Beaufort counties are all in the top five counties nationally for population growth.

The technology sector of the Charleston area is

booming – growing 30-per-cent faster than the nation as a whole.

Such iconic global brands as BMW, Boeing, Volvo, Michelin, Con-tinental, GITI, Daimler- Benz now all call South Carolina home.

Starting from zero a generation ago, we are now the leading state for tire production and we export more cars than any other state.

We have had four Nobel Laurates in science and chemistry.

The Spoleto Arts Festival is one of the larg-est and most diverse festi-vals of its kind anywhere

in the world.Charleston is consis-

tently rated as one of the top cities in the world to visit and just this month Greenville, yes Greenville, was ranked as one of the 10 best downtowns in America.

USC’s Darla Moore International Business School is consistently ranked as number one or two in the country.

So why do we still think of ourselves as po’ old South Carolina standing with our eyes downcast waiting for instructions from on high?

The answer is simple – politics.

We still have a good old boy political system that is the legacy of the bad old days and is holding us back. It is a system where one party rules, where corruption is rampant, where special interest dominates and where big and important issues are neglected – i.e. education, roads, state pensions, etc.

But it does not have to be this way.

Three things have hap-pened all at once: we have a new governor and a new president and a new round of corruption indictments of legislators is just the beginning.

There are those who

fear these developments – but in change there is opportunity. Thus, the question before us is are we as a state going to build on our new-found success, our new global position and our new opportunities to demand fundamental change in our politics – or not?

How we as a state answer these questions is up to us – and it will deter-mine our future.

Phil Noble has a tech-nology firm in Charleston and writes a weekly col-umn of the S.C. Press Association. Reach him at [email protected]

that it can detect firm-ness, ripeness and what-ever else, but it can’t detect what a person can. I’m not a big fan of canta-loupe, but a lot of people are. I know some people who think you determine

a cantaloupe’s ripeness by thumping it, while others insist on smelling it. Got some news for you…robots don’t have noses. I mean, you could put some-thing there that looks like a nose, but it won’t actual-ly function. As for thump-ing, I imagine that a thump from scary robot

fingers would make a can-taloupe explode. How is the robot going to know what color bananas are or what bad spots looks like? Imagine a big metal hand squeezing a delicate Georgia Belle peach. Those things bruise if you breathe on them too hard. You don’ just need a hand

that grips properly, you need senses and reason and knowledge of what looks good and what doesn’t. I say the quality of our produce drops when a robot does the picking.

Negative: What is what? Maybe there is an easy solution I’m overlook-ing, but how is a robot

hand going to know the difference between a pota-to and a sweet potato? A banana and a plantain? If I want potatoes and bananas and get sweet potatoes and plantains instead, Mr. Robot hand will be getting an earful.

Positive: The whole “robots taking over the

planet and making us their servants” thing.

There you have it, an objective look at the mat-ter. I think the minuses clearly outnumber the plusses where this robot vs. human thing is con-cerned. That’s as easy to pick as a low-hanging peach.

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Informationsession on hair

The owner and opera-tor of Hair By Harmony Salon will offer an educa-tional session with free information for women, men and children of all ages, ethnicities and hair types (kinky, straight, curly, natural, dry, oily, broken off, etc.) at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 116 Columbia St. Everyone is invited to come learn how skin care and hair care work hand in hand. Refreshments will be served. Call Tammy at Battered But Not Broken at 385-2290 in advance for specific ques-tions expected to be

answered on the day of the event.

Gaston Farm Road t-shirt contest

Gaston Farm Road Equestrian Center is hold-ing its fourth annual t-shirt design contest. Contestants design the back of the shirt and Gaston Farm Road will narrow down the results. Followers on Facebook will choose the winner, who will receive bragging rights and a free t-shirt.

Designs must be sub-mitted by March 1 in .jpeg format to [email protected].

Include contact infor-

mation along with submis-sions.

Beekeepingschool

The Chester County Beekeepers Association will hold a beginner’s bee-keeping school from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 7-March 14 (plus a field day) at The Market Building, 116 Columbia St., Chester. This course is for ages 13 and older. Parents must attend with youths. The cost is $75 per individual or $110 per cou-ple and will include a book, curriculum, local and state membership, test and refreshments. To pre-reg-ister or for more informa-

tion, call 803-517-4611 or e-mail [email protected].

Photovoice contest

Hazel Pittman Center is looking for youth ages 11 to 18-years-old to answer the following ques-tion with a photo: “What are the most important health dangers of tobacco use in your community?” For more information on how to apply, call April Spruell at the Hazel Pittman Center at 377-8111 or e-mail to [email protected]. Prizes will be given out to the youth on Kick Butts Day, which is March 15.

Tickets forrifle raffle

Chester American Legion Post 27 will sell tickets for the rifle raffle. One rifle will be raffled each week beginning July 4 through June 2018. These are quality weap-ons. Tickets are sold by all legion members for $25 each. For more informa-tion or tickets, call Chick at 385-2360 or Al at 374-0833.

DSR Scholarship FoundationSpring Golf Tournament

The DSR Scholarship Foundation is hosting its 1st annual Spring Golf Tournament on April 7. The event will be held at

the Chester Golf Club, 770 Old Richburg Rd, Chester, SC 29706. Tournament details are as follows: Captain Choice, $200 per team, shotgun start 9 a.m., hole-in-one $10,000 prize, tro-phies, mulligans, catered lunch and much more. A variety of sponsorship and participation oppor-tunities are available. The DSR Scholarship Foun-dation is a 501c3 organi-zation and your donations are tax deductible. For more information, contact Wade Young 803-207-4597, Wade A. Young 803-601-9003 or Brenda Young Warren 803-444-1252.

News iN Brief


The Chester Sewer District has transformed into Chester County Wastewater Recovery (CWR,) reflecting an emphasis on conservation and their part in the eco-nomic health of Chester County.

The name and logo change were rolled out at the Chester County Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet. The newly-christened Chester County Wastewater Recovery was the sponsor of the “Jazz Hour” meet and greet before the ban-quet began.

The N&R caught up with CWR Executive Director Phillip Thompson-King during

the meet and greet.

“We feel like the change to CWR is a more holis-tic indica-tion of what we actually

do; Chester Sewer District is still our name, but we’re doing business as Chester County Wastewater Recovery. We’re trying to encom-pass the whole focus of what’s going on in the

county. We’re trying to be good stewards of the environment, customer-focused, customer-cen-tered and we’re building on all of the success that Chester Sewer District has had throughout its history. The 26 years Mike Medlin was in charge, he did a magnifi-cent job during times of austerity, keeping the district viable.

“This is just the next step in the growth pro-cess for us,” Thompson-King said.

He said the company is seeking opportunities as they are in a “growth pat-tern” at the moment. They are expanding to serve the new industry that is coming to Chester County.

“The “Recovery” por-tion of our name – that’s something that we’ve always done with regards to what we do with indus-trial customers. When you say ‘sewer,’ you think of primarily domestic wastewater, from resi-dences. The majority of

our customers are resi-dential customers, but the majority of the waste-water flow we treat is from our industrial side. We feel that the name Chester County Wastewater Recovery is a more accurate depiction of what we do,” he said.

Thompson-King said the company has already begun talking to some industries about reusing some of the recovered wastewater.

“We’ve begun talking to some industries to see

if there are some opportu-nities that when we dis-charge our effluent instead of sending it to streams, there might be opportunities to sell it back or send it back to industries where they can use it for cooling water and things of that nature. It’s a lot more ecologically friendly,” he said.

Thompson-King said the logo represents water droplets that form the let-ter “C” for “Chester. The logo came about after a brainstorming session in

the Chester Sewer District office and they partnered with 321 Graphics for the design of the logo.

“Ellis Beam and his staff did a magnificent job in helping us bring our concept into reality,” Thompson-King said. The signs showing the new business name should be up at the Chester Sewer District office within a week.

“Going forward, you’ll see a lot more of the logo,” he said.

Chester Sewer District transformsNew emphasis

on conservation, recovery

BY BRIAN GARNER/THE N&RThe new logo and name of Chester County Wastewater Recovery was on display at the Chester County Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet.

Thompson-King

Obituaries


CHESTER – Mrs. Frances Earline Thompson Austin, 73, died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at the Wayne T. Patrick Hospice House.

The funeral service was held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, at Westside Baptist Church with the Rev. Terry Fowler officiat-ing. The interment was in Old Purity Cemetery.

Born June 15, 1943, in Chester, Mrs. Austin was a daughter of the late Alvin Cleo Thompson Sr. and Josie Bailey Thompson. She was a graduate of Chester High School and retired from Zenith Engraving as an artist. She was a member of Westside Baptist Church, where she was church pia-nist, soloist and Sunday School Teacher.

She is survived by one daughter, Katherine A. Horne (Michael) of Rock Hill; two sons, Brian K. Austin and James A. Austin Jr., both of Chester; eight grandchildren, Lance Williams, Ciera Poag, Ramon Poag Jr., Brittany Pardue (Roscoe), Jason Cook (Amber), Zoey Benjamin, Kris Cook and Haley Estes; three great-grandchildren, Jaden Hill, Kennadie Jackson and Braely Poag; one sister, Patricia Johnson (Mickey)

of Fort Mill; and two broth-ers, Carroll Thompson (Joyce) of Chester and Alvin Thompson Jr. (Juan) of Richburg.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James A. Austin Sr.; four brothers, the Rev. Charles, Henry, the Rev. Raymond and Earl; and five sisters, Eleanor, Gertrude, Doris Jean, Mary and Bonnie.

In lieu of flowers, the family request memorials be made to Westside Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1049, Chester, SC 29706; or Hospice and Community Care, 2275 India Hook Road, Rock Hill, SC 29732.

Online condolences may be made to the family at www.barronfuneralhome.com.

CHESTER – Mrs. Ruby Lynn Wright Delleney, 90, of Chester died on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at the Chester Regional Nursing Center.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, at Chester Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Chester with the Rev. Clint Davis, the church pastor, officiating. The family of Mrs. Delleney will receive visi-tors Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, at the church from noon to 1:45 p.m. prior to the service. Burial will follow the service at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Quaker Cemetery, 713 Meeting St., Camden, S.C.

Born on Sept. 1, 1926, in Chester, Mrs. Delleney was the daughter of the late Clayton Ervin Wright and Wrennie Hanna Wright. She was a gradu-ate of Chester Senior High School, a faithful member of Chester Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and a wonderful homemaker.

Ruby is survived by

her son, Representative Francis Gregory “Greg” Delleney Jr. and his wife, Becky, and by her daugh-ter, Hanna Delleney Kelsey and her husband, Lamar. She is also sur-vived by her four grand-children, Caroline Caldwell Delleney, Lamar Hyatte Kelsey IV, Francis Gregory Delleney III and Harriet Lynn Kelsey; one great-grand-child, Adalyn Grace Delleney; and one broth-er, Earle Rogers Wright of Cerritos, Calif.

Mrs. Delleney was pre-ceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Francis Gregory Dell-eney, and their infant daughter, Joye Delleney; by her brother, John Ervin Wright of Chester; and her sister, Doris Wright Little of For-estville, Md.

Memorials may be made to Chester Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 174, Chester, SC 29706.

Online condolences may be made to the fam-ily at www.barronfuner-alhome.com.

LANCASTER – Mrs. Mary Louise Taylor Roddey, age 84, went to be with the Lord on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017.

She was born June 20, 1932, in Fairfield County, a daughter of the late Charlie Taylor and Lona Mae Boulware Taylor. She was the wife of the late Harry Walker Roddey. Louise was a long-time resident of Lancaster, where she was a member of White Springs Baptist Church. As a mem-ber of her church, she served as a Sunday School teacher for over 30 years in the nursery department, where infants and little children were her passion, and she was also a devoted member of the Senior Adult Choir. Louise worked for Springs Industries from 1949 to 1993, where she worked at Grace Bleachery for 38 years as an inspector and six years at the Close Plant, where she worked in quality audit. Louise is most noted by her col-leagues and friends for her smile and giving to others. After retirement, she enjoyed working in her flower garden and cooking for family, friends and church members. But most of all, she loved her chil-dren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Roddey was sur-vived by two daughters, Deborah Roddey Williams and her husband Howard of Lancaster and Donna Roddey Hagins and her husband Mike of Lancaster; three grandchildren, Alison Williams Shehane and her husband Gary of Lancaster, Scott Hagins of Columbia and Tara Williams Pitts and her husband Dean of Blythewood; four great-grandchildren, Hunter

Shehane, Grayson Shehane, Taylor Dawkins and Larson Pitts; two sis-ters, Lula English of Chester and Lounette Dickens of Chester; three brothers, James Taylor of Carlisle and his wife Georgie, Will Taylor of Carlisle and his wife Frances and George (Buck) Taylor of Carlisle and his wife Judy; as well as many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Roddey was pre-ceded in death by one brother and one sister, Leroy Taylor and Mattie Varnadore Chappell.

The Celebration of Life Funeral Service for Mrs. Roddey was held at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at White Springs Baptist Church by the Rev. Gene Ghent, Mr. Tim Dippel and Mr. Clarence Wishert Jr. Entombment followed at Lancaster Memorial Park Mau-soleum.

Memorial contributions may be made to White Springs Baptist Church, 1249 Grace Ave., Lan-caster, SC 29720.

An online guest register is available on the obituar-ies page at www.burgess-funerals.com.

Burgess Funeral Home & Crematory is caring for the family of Mrs. Roddey.

ROCK HILL – Mrs. Anne Rawlinson West-brook Cassells, 98, died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at Harbor Chase Memory Care in Rock Hill.

The funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at First Baptist Church Chester with the Rev. Clay Waldrip officiating. The interment was private.

Born Jan. 15, 1919, in Rock Hill, Mrs. Cassells was a daughter of the late Ed Westbrook and Annie Wee Wylie Westbrook. She was a graduate of Rock Hill High School and was retired from Chester High School as Cafeteria Director and also from Chester County Library as the driver of the Bookmobile. She was a member of First Baptist Church Chester, where she was an active member until her move to Westminster Towers. At Westminster Towers, Anne was active in the Kazoo and Kitchen Band and water aerobics. Her giving spirit was known by all. In the twilight of her years, Anne was loved and cared for by the amazing staff of Harbor Chase Memory Care.

She is survived by one daughter, Judy Sharp (Jimmy) of Rock Hill; five grandchildren, Jay Sharp (Beth) of Isle of Palms, S.C., Brenna Sharp Brose of Holly Springs, N.C., Windy Sharp Roy of Fort Mill, Anna Scruggs Eubanks (Jared) of Atlanta and Shannon Scruggs

Vecchiarello (Don) of Huntersville, N.C.; eleven great-grandchildren; one brother, Jim Westbrook of West Palm Beach, Fla.; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Bob “Verleen” Westbrook of West Palm Beach, Fla. and Mary Westbrook of Rock Hill; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband of sixty years, James L. “Bunny” Cassells; daugh-ter and son-in-law, Sara and Jim Scruggs; grand-son, Chris Scruggs; sisters, Frances Marshall and Rachel Panter; and broth-ers, Ed Jr., Bob and Charlie Westbrook.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 518, Chester, SC 29706; to Harbor Chase Memorial Care, 1611 Constitution Blvd., Rock Hill, SC 29732; or Hospice Care of S.C., 1639 Ebenezer Road, Rock Hill, SC 29732.


RICHBURG – The funeral for Mr. James “Big Eye” Caldwell of 2318 Mountain Gap Road will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, at Rehoboth AME Zion Church. The Rev. Raymond Massey will offi-ciate and burial will follow

in the church cemetery.Mr. Caldwell, 70,

passed away on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at his home.

The family will receive friends at the home.

King’s Funeral Home, 135 Cemetery St., Chester, is in charge of arrange-ments.

BLACKSTOCK – Mr. Charles Floyd Gwin, 80, died Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at his home.

The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, at Catholic Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Wayne Pruitt and the Rev. Wayne Dickson officiating. The interment will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at Barron Funeral Home.

Born Sept. 30, 1936, in Chester County, Mr. Gwin was the son of the late John Harper Gwin Sr. and Sarah Wallace Gwin. He was a graduate of Blackstock High School and a farmer and was also a retired mechanic from

Gwin Automotive. He was lifelong member of Catholic Presbyterian Church, where he served as deacon and elder.

He is survived by his wife of over sixty-one years, Barbara Mahaffey Gwin; one son, Kevin Gwin (Jada) of Blackstock; two daughters, Mary Beth Gunter (Tag) and Sarah Lea McLean, both of Blackstock; eight grand-children; nine great-grand-children; one sister, Essie Morris of Easley; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to a charity of one’s choice.


CHESTER – The funeral for Ms. Eloise “Snookie” Minter of 622 Ebony Grove Lane will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. Pastor Stoney Minter will officiate and burial will follow in

Evergreen Cemetery.Ms. Minter, 68, passed

away on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, at her home.


Viewing will be from 1 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, at King’s Funeral Home, 135 Cemetery St., Chester.

CHESTER – Mr. Brawley Chisholm, 81, of 856 Nelson Road passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, at Palmetto Baptist Hospital in Columbia.


Arrangements will be announced later by King’s Funeral Home, 135 Cemetery St., Chester.

Mrs. Frances T. Austin, 73

Mrs. Ruby W. Delleney, 90

Mrs. Mary Louise Roddey, 84 Mrs. Anne W. Cassells, 98

Mr. James ‘Big Eye’ Caldwell, 70

Mr. Charles Floyd Gwin, 80

Ms. Eloise ‘Snookie’ Minter, 68

Mr. Brawley Chisholm, 81

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VOluNteers NeeDeDDSR Scholarship FoundationSpring Golf Tournament

The DSR Scholarship Foundation is hosting its 1st annual Spring Golf Tournament on April 7. The organization was established September 2008 in memory of Derresha Shardaye Rhinehart. Shardaye was an 11-year- old honor roll student at Chester Park Elementary School who passed away in 2002 short-ly after being diagnosed with leukemia. Since 2009, the year Shardaye would have graduated, the DSR Scholarship Foundation has awarded 25 students with scholarships. We are seeking volunteers for our Golf Tournament. Additionally, a variety of sponsorship packages are available. The DSR Scholarship Foundation is a 501 c 3 organization and your donations are tax deductible.

For more information, contact Wade Young 803-207-4597, Wade A. Young 803-601-9003 or Brenda

Young Warren 803-444-1252.

word about the luncheon.“During the luncheon,

we will have some student performances and the retirees will be gifted with some things the students have made for them.

“This is just a lun-cheon and a thank you for all they have done for our students and our community, and it reminds me of the Springs-Close “Fabric of

Our Com-mu-ity” Award. These retired teachers and adminis-trators really have been the ones to make the fabric of our community, so we want to say thank you and cel-ebrate what they have done for us,” Dr. Bain said.

Seating is limited, so retired teachers and administrators from the Chester County School District are urged to make reservations by March 1st.

“I’ve met so many retired educators in the community, and they’re so proud to be from Chester. They’re proud to have par-ticipated as an educator in Chester County schools, and retired from here.

“I love that pride they have, and hopefully that will transfer and let the

community know that they’re still out there and most of them are still work-ing with children in some capacity, teaching Sunday school or mentoring kids in some way. The best educa-tors always still educate – they probably taught their teddy bears when they were kids. They started young, and if it’s their call-ing, they’re still working with children,” said Dr. Bain.

“Those are the people we want to celebrate.”

Foundation was endowed by the family to fund vari-ous religious and commu-nity needs, as well as edu-cational, health and wel-fare programs,” said Jiran.

He said the Lutz Foundation averages 20 to 25 grants each year, pri-marily in Chester County, awarding over 450 grants totaling more than $6 mil-lion since 1996.

“This year they hope to fund around 25 projects and dole out checks total-ing more than $280,000.”

“But it’s more than the dollars, it’s the reasons behind the dollars. They want to enrich people’s lives, as many lives as pos-sible. They want to help

make Chester County a better place to live, raise a family and retire,” Jiran said.

He then listed some of the grants the Lutz Foundation has awarded:

$400,000 to the YMCA to help fund the swimming pool, mini bus and the Fitness on Request room;

Funding for a meeting room at the Lewisville branch of the Chester County Library;

Funding at Chester State Park for playground equipment, disc golf, a fishing pier and a board-walk;

Defibrillators for all city and rural fire departments and Chester High football programs;

$40,000 to help fund nursing programs at

Chester County Career Center and York Tech;

Scholarships to Winthrop, USC and Clemson.

Jiran concluded, “The Lutz Foundation has truly given back, time and time again. And they have given back for the right reasons – love of Chester County, love of those who call Chester County home.”

In accepting the award, Lutz Foundation Vice President Joan Lutz Guyton said, “We are very humbled. We look around this room and see so many people that work all year long to help Chester County and make it a bet-ter place to live. We feel very undeserving and humbled by this award. It is very special.”

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Palmetto CitizensAgainst Sexual Assault

Palmetto Citizens Aga-inst Sexual Assault is look-ing for dedicated individu-als who may be interested in becoming a volunteer victim advocate with the agency.

Volunteers will learn how to serve as providers of support for victims of sexu-al assault.

Volunteer training class-es fit each individual per-son’s schedule. Classes will meet at 177 Columbia St., Chester.

If interested in volun-teering or for more informa-tion about the PCASA pro-gram, contact our office at 581-8313.

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The boys basketball teams at Chester and Lewisville are both on pace to not only win their respective region titles, but win them convincingly.

On Friday, Chester ran its region record to 6-0 with a 67-45 victory over Columbia High School. The game was actually closer than the score would make it appear, with the Cyclones lead-ing by a single point at halftime and only holding a 41-36 advan-tage after three. Coach Sebastian Hopkins said turnovers and a 2-3 zone defense employed by Columbia gave his team some trouble, but said defense made the difference in a fourth quarter where the Cyclones outscored

the opposition 26-9.“By the fourth quarter our

defense just kicked into another gear,” Hopkins said. “We started pressing full court man and caused them to turn the ball over which led to a lot of transition layups for our team. We were led by Quay Hardin, Pha’leak Brown Dorrien Bagley, Malik Williams and T.J. Hollis. They caused Columbia guards to turn the ball over a lot and we got a lot of easy steals that led to easy buckets.”

Williams led the team with 23 points, while Quay Hardin chipped in 12. Overall, it was Chester’s eighth straight victory.

The Lewisville boys picked up a 62-47 win over Timmonsville. To demonstrate the teams domi-nance, it was actually the second-closest region contest of the year

for the Lions. The team moved to 6-0 with the win.

The Great Falls boys team also remains in the thick of the playoff race after beating Lamar 46-43 to sweep the season series. At 4-2 in the region, Great Falls currently holds the third and final playoff spot from Region II-A.

The Lewisville girls played Timmonsville tough, with the game tied at 16-16 at the half. The Lady Whirlwinds pulled away in the second half, though, for a 42-28 win. Amber Bass had 15 points, seven rebounds, five steals and five blocks in the los-ing effort. The team fell to 2-4 in the region with the loss.

The Great Falls girls lost to unbeaten Lamar 53-17 to drop to 1-5 in region play.


The region is new, but the results were much the same for the Chester wrestling team.

The Cyclones claimed the Region IV title and had six individual players crowned as champions. Chester did lose one meet during the season to Indian Land, but beat them in another and took the title on a tiebreaker.

The individual cham-pions were Javy Gonzales (120 pounds), Chauldray

Evans (160 pounds), Ty Simpson (170 pounds) Antwan Patton (182 pounds) Jeriel McClurkin (195 pounds) and Xi Simpson (285 pounds). Additionally, Simpson won “Region Wrestler of the Year” honors. Chester has essentially owned that honor recently, with a Cyclones grappler claiming the award in five of the past six years, when Chester was in Region III.

Now, Chester will host team playoffs for the first time since 2002 and for

the first time in the suc-cessful tenure of Coach Joe Conlan. On Saturday, starting at 11:30 a.m., Powdersville, Chapman and Walhalla will come to town. Chapman, a four seed, will face Chester, with the winner taking on the Powdersville-Walhalla winner. That is getting the team’s full attention, certainly, but the squad is keeping one eye on another team, though not a wrestling team.

“We are also paying close attention to our boys

basketball program and are really pulling for them to win the region as well,” Conlan said. “We are not sure, but we think

it will be the first time ever that the boys basket-ball team and the wres-tling team have won the region in the same year.”

The Chester basket-ball team, unbeaten in the region, had a chance to clinch the title last night at Camden.


Wednesday is “National Signing Day” for prep ath-letes, but Saturday was decision day for Josh Belk.

The Lewisville junior, one of the nation’s top-ranked defensive line pros-pects, committed to play for the Clemson Tigers during a visit to the school on Saturday. Belk had offers from the University of South Carolina, LSU, Florida State, Auburn, Ohio State, Louisville and others. Belk said he will graduate in December and enroll at Clemson next January. Clemson “had a little bit of an edge” already with Belk but his visit Saturday cemented his decision.

“I just felt like Clemson was the one,” Belk said. “I just had a good feeling about them.”

Those good feeling had a number of roots. One of the strongest came in the form of new Tigers defen-sive line coach Todd Bates. Belk said he hit it off with Bates right off the bat.

“I’ve never connected with a coach like that the first day,” Belk said.

Belk also said he looked forward to playing for Clemson Defensive Coordinator Brent Venables. The coach who is so excitable during games that he requires a “get-back coach” to keep him on the sidelines, is almost as excitable on a day-to-day basis, Belk said.

“He’s full of energy. Everybody there is ener-getic, even the other play-ers and students. It’s a good feeling to be sur-rounded by people like

that,” Belk said.That was already

apparent to Belk before this past weekend. He vis-ited the campus for a game this past season and said he was “a little down” when he arrived, but the atmosphere was upbeat and everyone he met was so happy and enthusiastic that it became contagious. He also felt a real family vibe at the school, which he said was important to him. Belk thinks that starts all the way at the top with head coach Dabo Swinney.

“He and his staff can make you great on the field, but they also give you the tools to succeed in life. They can help make me into the man I need to be,” Belk said.

Belk said he looks for-ward to spending his col-lege years in Clemson’s new, 140,000 square foot, multi-million-dollar foot-ball operations facility. He said he loved everything about it, right down to the much-talked-about sliding board. He hasn’t decided on a college major yet, but Belk said academics were a big part of the equation for him. A good student, he was impressed with the academic support system that will available to him at Clemson. Belk took notice that only eight of the more than 100 juniors to declare for the NFL Draft nationally had obtained their degrees, and that four of them came from Clemson. On thing that surprisingly did not play a part in his decision was Clemson’s win over Alabama for the national championship last month. He said his decision was

based on what he felt was best for him, not any one game.

Belk said coaches told him he will help fill “a critical need” on the defen-sive line, which figures to lose All-Conference player Christian Wilkins after the 2017 season. They see Belk as being powerful enough to play inside but nimble enough to line up at defensive end as well. He said Clemson coaches were impressed by his pad level, his drive, his quick-ness off the snap and the fact that he is a good stu-dent.

Belk’s future greatness on the field was foretold by one of his uncles, who told his mother years ago that her son was going to be a special player. He has good bloodlines, with father having played in high school and his uncle Tim having led Great Falls (Lewisville’s rival) to a 15-0 state championship season in 1991. Belk played one year of mite league ball, but didn’t go out for middle school foot-ball in seventh grade. He did in eighth grade but sustained an injury.

“I sprained my knee or something and didn’t go back. I’m not even sure why,” he said.

When he got to Lewisville High School, Belk said a number of friends convinced him to play again, figuring he’d be successful given his size. As a 6-foot-2, 340-pounder, he got into four games his ninth grade year. Like most young players, he was finding his way and still learning the game, but Coach Will Mitchell knew he had something special

on his hands.“He can do things ath-

letically that most people his size just can’t do,” Mitchell said then.

Belk went to some camps after that year and was told by a coach that the difference between him being an All-State player and All-American player was about 25 pounds. He took that to heart, stopped drinking soda and stopped eating bread.

“I was 345 at one time and got down as low as 280,” Belk said. “I’m 302 right now. I’ll probably lose some more weight before I go to Clemson. I know I’ll add a lot of muscle mass once I’m there. I want to get rid of the baby fat before I go.”

When he showed off his new, leaner physique the summer before his sopho-more season, a lot of people took notice. A national recruiting writer penned a story about him and the first domino was knocked over. Clemson coaches saw the story and called shortly thereafter to ask Belk to come to a camp at the school. Former Gamecocks Defensive Coordinator Lorenzo Ward came to watch Belk go through a

workout and invited him to a camp in Columbia. He went to that camp and left with on offer from the University of South Carolina. When news of that offer hit Twitter a few minutes later, Mitchell’s cell phone rang. As he drove Belk and a few team-mates home from that camp, LSU called and offered Belk a scholarship without having seen him in person or on film. He camped at Clemson the next weekend and was offered by the Tigers. Florida State wasn’t far behind, then came Auburn, N.C. State, Ohio State and others. Belk has battled a few injuries, but when he’s been on the field for the Lions, he has proven to be worth the attention. Belk, simply put, has been phys-ically dominant on the defensive line and offen-sive line (where he also plays) and his play helped the Lions advance to the third round of the playoffs in 2016. A bevy of big-time college coaches made regu-lar stops at Lewisville for practices and for games. The amount of mail he received at school was so voluminous, he often had to take books out of his

satchel to make room for all of it.

“My mom said she was going to start charging me because I was getting so much mail at home,” Belk joked.

The mail ran the gamut from school-issued pam-phlets, to personal letters from coaches, to photo-shopped pictures of Belk wearing a school’s football uniform. Recruiting ser-vices called frequently to check on his status and his name was frequently men-tioned on TV and other platforms. Belk almost had to pinch himself at times.

“When I was younger, I looked up to a lot of these people, and thought ‘I want to do that one day.’ I look up to those people all the time. I was kind of shocked. It was like ‘am I really living this?’” Belk said.

Belk won’t be living it any longer. He posted a message on Twitter over the weekend announcing his decision and thanking all the schools and coaches who showed interest in him. His time as a recruit is over. He’s decided to go to Clemson…and his deci-sion is final.

Big man on campusLewisville DT Belk commits to Clemson

BY TRAVIS JENKINS/THE N&RJosh Belk takes down a quarterback this past season.

Chester claims region wrestling title

PHOTO PROVIDEDChester had six wrestlers win region titles.

Basketball round-up: Cyclones and Lions stay unbeaten in region

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The Chester County School District held their annual Championship Spelling Bee on Jan. 26, 2017. The winner of the spelling bee was Christopher Craven from Chester Middle School and the runner-up was Grayson

Wilburn from Chester Park School of the Arts. Christopher will travel to Charlotte, N.C. on Feb. 27 to compete in the Regional Spelling Bee with students from North and South Carolina. Congratulations to all of our young scholars on their academic achieve-ment!

District Spelling B-e-e

PHOTOS PROVIDEDDr. Anne Collins, Chester County Board of Trustees, is pictured with the 2016-2017 District Spelling Bee Champion, Christopher Craven (left) and District Runner-Up, Grayson Wilburn (right).

Chester County School District 2016-2017 Spelling Bee participants: (From left to right) MacKenzie Harter, Logan Munn, Christopher Craven, Miracle Thomas, Braylon Fourney, Grayson Wilburn, Vanessa Harrison and Haley Smith.

BY CHESTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTSpecial to The N&R

Editor’s note: Chester County School District’s 1:1 initiative, hiTEC (Helping Integrate Technology Education Careers), was implemented to ensure that students master the skills they will need to compete in a 21st century world econo-my.

In 2013 CCSD was cho-sen as one of twelve Micro-soft Education Alliance dis-tricts in the entire United States and since that time has advanced the use of technology within the classroom, providing take-home tablets to high school students and classroom tablets for grades 4-8.

Innovative apps are uti-lized within the classroom environment to move instruction and student learning to higher levels.

Periodically, we will high-light an instructional tech-nology tool utilized by teachers across the school district.

Featured Teacher: Felicia Ferguson-Tinsley

Grade Level/Subject: 3rd – 5th Grade Math

School Location: Chester Park School of Inquiry

Favorite App/Website: www.jeopardy.rocks

Felicia Ferguson-Tins-ley used the website https-://jeopardy.rocks/ with her 3rd-5th grade students to teach math concepts.

One great benefit of this website is that students are highly engaged in the lesson and motivated to participate and learn in class.

Student involvement was high, and as a result, the students earned high marks on their math tests.

Technology Tool of the Month

The Jeapordy.Rocks game board looks like that of a certain game show we all know.

PHOTOS PROVIDEDStudents in Ms. Ferguson-Tinsley’s class work on some math problems.

PHOTO PROVIDEDThe Lunch With Leaders held on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at Chester High School focused on careers in heavy machinery, auto mechanics and firefighting. Guest speakers were Chief Paul Caldwell and Tim Gibson of the Chester Fire Department; Reid Baker of Carolina Construction School; Thomas Monroe of York Technical College; and Lin Moore of the Department of Transportation. Students attending were James Billings, Trenton Davis, Dominick Hargett, Jarrett Hawkins, Logan Robertson, Deandre Thomas, Austen Youngblood, Jonathan Pearson, Tyler Deese, Ethan McGriff, William Cato, Cassidy Ford, Kyle Knox, Danielle Sampson, Princeton Feaster, DelMonta Ferguson and Alexous Mayfield. Also pictured are coun-selors Susan Kovas and Shelley Copeland. Lunch With Leaders is provided through a grant from the Springs Close Foundation.

Lunch With Leaders held at CHS

FCL scholarshipapplications

Applications for the Chester County Family and Community Leaders Scholarship are available at the Clemson Extension Office on Ella Street and from CCFCL club presi-dents. Applicants must be Chester County residents who are bona fide 4-H Club members or children or grandchildren of a CCFCL club member. The appli-cant must also have already been accepted to an accredited college, a technical school or a trade school. The deadline for submitting the completed application is Wednesday, March 15, at the Clemson Extension Office. For more information, contact an

FCL club member.

Alpha Alpha GammaPsi scholarship

Alpha Alpha Gamma Psi will accept applications for its 2017 scholarships from Feb. 1 until April 30. The scholarship is for young ladies who are grad-uating from high school in Chester County only. For more information, e-mail Renata Davis at [email protected].

DSR ScholarshipFoundation

The DSR Scholarship Foundation is now accept-ing applications in Chester, Lancaster and York coun-ties for the graduating class of 2017. Applications will be accepted from

through April 16. The DSR Scholarship Foundation is a non-profit organization that awards scholarships to graduating seniors who plan to pursue a career in the human health care field. For more informa-tion, visit www.dsrschol-arship2008.com/index.html or call Brenda Young warren at 444-1252 or Georgia Young Moore at 803-448-6870.

Finley Class of 1967 reunion trip

The Finley High School Class of 1967 will hold its 50th reunion in Niagara Falls and Toronto June 11-17. All classmates and friends interested in going should call Mary Moffatt at 581-5721 or Donald

Stringfellow at 377-0561.

CHS Class of 1991

The Chester High School Class of 1991 will have its 25th class reunion March 17-19. There will be a meet and greet from 7 p.m. to midnight on Friday, March 17, at the Summit in Chester. The Saturday night banquet and dance will be held from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Chester War Memorial Building. Classmates will attend church on Sunday. From Dec. 30-Feb. 3, the fee will be $70 per person. All money must be paid in full by Feb. 3. All classmates are asked to attend. For more information, call 899-4295.

African Americancultural breakfast

The second annual African American Cultural Breakfast will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Chester County War Memorial Building, 154 Main St., Chester. This event is free to the public but you must RSVP to 385-5133 by Monday, Feb. 6. Speakers include Vivian Ayers, Chester native, poet and cultural activist, and Dondraico Johnson, Fort Lawn native, choreogra-pher and dancer.

Sponsors of the event include Chester County, Chester County Museum and Historical Society, Hunter’s Creative Florist,

WGCD, WalMart and Exclusively Yours Design.

AARPtax prep

AARP offers free tax preparation and e-filing for the elderly and low and moderate income earners from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Monday and Thursday at the Chester County Library, 100 Center St. Sign in by noon. Taxpayers need to bring last year’s return, Social Security cards for yourself and dependents, a photo ID, all this year’s W-2s, 1099, interest income state-ments, all necessary rece-ipts and a blank check if you would like your refund direct deposited. There is

no age limit and you do not have to be a member of AARP to participate in the program. Call Carrie Green at 385-6884.

Trail Life USA Troop

A Trail Life USA Troop has been chartered thro-ugh Trinity Presbyterian Church, located next to Chester Regional Medical Center. Trail Life is a Christ-centered outdoor character development adventure program open to boys and young men ages five to 17. The first troop meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6. For more information, call Rick Wheeler at 385-5724 or e-mail to

[email protected].

Farmingworkshop

On Wednesday, Feb. 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., instructors Mary Roberts of Windcrest Organics and Ann Christie of the USDA-NRCS will discuss site and high tunnel selection, con-struction, soil manage-ment, irrigation, pest man-agement, bed design, crop-ping systems, environmen-tal control, tools to help growers succeed and new crops to consider. Participants will visit a high tunnel at Howell Specialty Farmz. The workshop location is Integra Wellness, 1040 Edgewater Corp. Parkway,

Indian Land, S.C. Register at www.catawbafarm-andfood.org/workshops or call 385-6181. Registration deadline is Friday, Feb. 3.

Christ Central sponsorsvolunteer tax assistance

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) pro-gram opened Jan. 31 at Christ Central Ministries, 127 Hudson Street, Chester (beside the Shoe Shop) for free tax prepara-tion assistance. Volunteers are IRS certified and trained. Volunteers will electronically file (e-file) federal and state income tax returns. The estimated turnaround time for a direct-deposited refund is within days of e-filing. Tax

assistance will be provided on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Applicants should bring current year’s tax forms W-2s and 1099s, information regarding other income, information for all deductions or cred-its, a copy of last year’s tax return, proof of account for direct deposit, such as a voided check, Social Security or individual Taxpayer Identification Card for you, spouse and/or dependents and proof of identification for you and/or spouse. All tax informa-tion received is strictly con-fidential and will not be disclosed to unauthorized individuals.

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BY NANCY [email protected]

A love of art, the out-doors and creating custom leather jewelry and acces-sories are three driving forces in Randi Rawls desire to start her own business.

Rawls, owner/designer of Double R Designs, LLC, said the story of her ven-ture actually began when she was a child.

“I loved art. I loved to make things, to create and design doll clothes but I also loved the outdoors,” she said from her home (the former Hunter Farms on Great Falls Highway).

“I was a ‘renaissance child,’ I guess. My daddy and my older brother were fierce outdoorsmen so I grew up with a great admi-ration for wildlife and nature. I wanted to live in the country and ride hors-es.”

“When I dressed up and played pretend, I would be Geronimo, the fierce Apache warrior, and my daddy would be Cochise, the wise chief. So I’m sure that’s where my deep-root-ed love and respect for Native American culture originated – including their beautiful art, jewelry and fashion. I have an admiration and respect for the Indians. I think my work gives a nod to that!” Rawls said.

Fast forward a few decades, Rawls met her husband, Bobby Rawls, the other “R” in Double R. She said her husband shares her passion for the outdoors, riding and the country life.

For a long time, Rawls said she had little time for anything other than work-ing. The vice president of marketing for The Tuttle Company in Rock Hill, Rawls said she gained experience and insight from the business world that will be beneficial in her quest.

“You have to work hard and work long just to keep afloat,” she said. “But that was still part of the Double R plan because I was learning and gaining expe-rience, using my creativity, my ‘design flair.’”

A couple of years ago, Rawls said she began to dabble with leather jewel-ry designs, experiment with leathers, shop and compare her pieces with others in the market.

“I started with one necklace and I couldn’t let go!” she said. “I realized that I might, maybe, pos-sibly, just be able to make a go of this leather jewelry addiction I had devel-oped.”

Rawls said her hus-band, family and friends and a little recognition from some well-known individuals in the market gave her the push she needed to step out and chase her dream.

The Rawls celebrated a

late 20th anniversary with a trip out west in August 2016. Wearing her custom made jewelry, Rawls went into a boutique in Fredericksburg, Texas and received compliments on her creations.

“I’m my own model! I love what I wear. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t’ make it! I like something different,” Rawls proclaimed.

Rawls gained valida-tion after doing business with a major player in the market. She also emailed an HGTV personality and drew attention to her cre-ations.

In January, Rawls walked away from her 17-year corporate career to pursue her passion of cre-ating her brand of custom, Double R, leather adorn-ments.

“I know I’ll regret it if I don’t do it,” she said. “It’s now or never. Life is too short. So whether I ever make a boatload of money or whether I am recog-nized far and wide remains to be seen. But one thing is for sure, I’ll be happy creat-ing and sharing my designs.”

“Being very cautious in nature, I’ve attempted to talk myself out of this deci-sion numerous times. But for every time I said ‘Nah, I can’t do that…at my age?’ ‘What if?’ Something would happen – something would scream at me to do it, to jump, to leap. You know, you only get one go-round and I already have enough regrets, so here we go! I’m building those wings!”

In her leap of faith, Rawls has faced some major obstacles.

“I have some serious personal hurdles coming my way,” she explained. “I’ll be undergoing open heart surgery in February for a valve replacement but I am confident and encouraged that I can eat that elephant, one bite at a time! I know I am in good hands, His hands.”

“Life happens and it’s just plain hard sometimes so you have to pull yourself up by your boot straps,” Rawls said.

Double R Designs fea-ture Rawls’ style that are unique, interesting and trendy.

“I have jewelry that is boho-chic, funky cowgirl, biker babe to Native American inspired. I’m a small town girl (formerly of Chester) with a big idea. I’m the next west thang,” Rawls joked.

Rawls creates designs from deerskin, elk skin, deer antlers and various pearls and beads.

Rawls loves Native American jewelry and décor. In addition to neck-laces and earrings, Double R offers cuff bracelets with Conchos and key chains. Tiva tassel ear-rings, she said, are named after the Hopi Native American word for dance.

“The earring tassels

are long and dance around,” she said.

She also has Tiva neck-laces.

Rawls incorporates jas-per, halolite and turquoise beads in her rustic work. She uses black cultured pearls to represent the dessert moon.

“I love using genuine beads when I can get them,” Rawls said. “In the same hand, I like my jew-elry to be affordable.”

“Lindsey,” the first piece Rawls designed, was named after her maiden name and her daughter.

Another piece, “The Dakota,” is made of soft leather and was named after the Sioux Native American Indian word for friend. Rawls said it fea-tures an open circle to show a person is open to making new friends.

“The Messenger” fea-tures a bone, a feather and elk skin. Native American Indians, Rawls

said, believe the feathers of great birds carry prayers to the Great Spirit.

Featuring part of a cow skull, “The Honky Tonk Angel” is dedicated to Indian medicine men.

Rawls has a specialty collection, “The Legacy Collection,” that incorpo-rates deer antlers with pearls. The collection is dedicated to Rawls’ broth-er, Mick Lindsey of West Columbia, and to her late father. Rawls uses her father’s tools and her brother helps her. Her husband lends a hand also by making the cuff bracelets.

The first pair of ear-rings Rawls made, “Kyrie,” incorporate deer-skin and Conchos.

She does all the cut-ting, sanding, drilling and polishing for her pieces. And if you need a “fringe fix,” she’s got it. Each piece of Rawls’ jewelry is a

custom made.“There will never be

another one like it,” she said.

Rawls said she has spent many hours start-ing, putting together and taking pieces apart. “But that’s part of it,” she said.

Rawls sold as a vendor at the Carolina and Colonial Cups in Camden last year. Ellie’s Attic in Camden has also market-ed her pieces.

Earrings are $15 and

For Rawls, Double R spells rustic designs

Tiva is a Hopi Native American Indian word that means dance. Rawls’ earrings “dance” as she holds a couple of her homemade necklaces. Her husband made the cuffs she’s wearing.

PHOTOS BY NANCY PARSONS/GREAT FALLS REPORTERRandi Rawls, owner/designer of Double R Designs, shows some of the unique jewelry she has created using leather and beads.

A gold cross is surrounded by colorful beads on the Native American style necklace created by Rawls.

A black leather necklace adorned with beads adds a little pizzazz to this modern dress.

BY NANCY [email protected]

Tickets are still avail-able for “Dance Down Memory Lane” on Sat-urday.

The dance, sponsored by the Great Falls Home Town Association, will give people a change to relive some memories from their high school days.

Don’t miss out on the fun!

To reserve your tickets, call the Great Falls Home Town office at 482-2370.

Tickets are $10 each.The dance will be held

from 7-11 p.m. at the old “Youth Center,” now named “the ballroom” at the War Memorial Building.

Music from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s will be provid-ed by Fish.

Food and soft drinks are included with your ticket.

The dance is a fund-raiser for the Great Falls Home Town Association.

Everyone is invited to join in the “Dance Down Memory Lane.”

Tickets still available for dance

OnlineChester.com

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up. The “Warrior” necklace costs $80.

“Big things come from small packages or places,” Rawls laughed.

Rawls’ designs can be viewed on her website at www.DoubleRDesigns-LLC.com on her Facebook page, www.facebook.com/

doubleRdesignsLLC or on Instagram @doubleRde-signsllc.

“I think there is a mar-ket for my jewelry. It’s not something you find every day. I’ve just got to get my name out there,” Rawls said.

“Stay tuned for what’s happening at Double R. You never know where we’ll turn up next!”

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Miss Ashley Smith of Lancaster and Mr. Jordan Hinson of Great Falls were united in marriage during a snowy day cere-mony held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, at Mitford Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr. Marty Roberts, pastor of Mitford Baptist, officiated.

The bride is the daugh-ter of Kristopher Smith of Naples, Fla. and Karen Smith of Mt. Holly, N.C. Her grandparents are Mildred and the late Joe Williams. She earned a bachelor’s degree in busi-ness from the University of South Carolina and is employed as a legal assis-tant at the Laubshire Law Firm in Columbia.

The groom is the son of Daniel and Janet Hinson of Great Falls. His grand-parents are James and Clara Hinson, Lorene Minors and the late David Minors, all of Great Falls. He earned an associate degree in business from the USC-Lancaster and is employed as general man-ager of Edgewater Golf Club.

Given in marriage by her parents and escorted by her father, Mr. Kristopher Smith, the bride wore a full lace ball gown with a sweetheart neckline. She carried a bouquet of red and white

roses with small accents of pine cones.

Mrs. Emily Hinson, sister-in-law of the groom, served as matron of honor. She wore a tan lace dress and carried red and white carnations.

Bridesmaids were Miss

Katie Bearden, Miss Meghan Moore and Miss Kristin Hinson, all close friends of the bride. They also wore tan lace dresses and carried red and white carnations. All attendants wore cowgirl boots.

Mr. Dan Hinson of

Great Falls served his son as best man.

Groomsmen were Mr. Jamie Hinson, brother of the groom; and Mr. Zack Dry, Mr. Gaither Bumgardner and Mr. Josh Payseur, all friends of the groom.

Serving as ushers were Mr. Drew Smith, Mr. Colt Smith and Mr. Jarrett Hinson.

Miss Parker Dry, daughter of the bride’s best friend, served as flow-ergirl. She wore a gold and white lace dress and cow-girl boots.

Ringbearer duties were entrusted to Master Gavan Sisler, nephew of the bride. He wore a Gamecocks bowtie.

For her daughter’s wedding, Ms. Smith wore a wine-colored jeweled gown with matching calla lilies.

Mrs. Hinson, mother of the groom, chose a blue lace dress with a white rose.

Following the ceremo-ny, a reception was held at Mitford Baptist Church. Those who assisted with entertaining and serving included Tina Blakley, Lori Bearden, Reagan Payseur and members of the church family.

Following a honeymoon to Savannah, the couple will reside in Great Falls.

Miss Ashley Smith becomesbride of Mr. Jordan Hinson

Mr. and Mrs. Jordan HinsonThe former Miss Ashley Smith

GREAT FALLS HIGH SCHOOL

Ninth gradeAll A’s

Jeffery Baker, Destiny Black, Kiara Dunham, Khayla Johnson, Jakayla Lynn, Allie Martin, Kaylee McMurray, Brianna Quick and Preston Seeby.

All A’s and B’sAnaya Canty, Cameron

Culp, Stanley Cunningham, Mary Hall, Nasya Hayes, Austin Hill, Layla Johnson, Adrieonna McMullen, Bri’Anah Montgomery, Jordan Ramsey, Jordan Roberts, Dwayne Robinson, Jar’Qwone Spence, Jyren Talford, Kelton Talford and Lindsay Trent.

10th gradeAll A’s

Shi’daya Brown, Andrea Burchett, Landon Digh, Jessica Dutton, Jazmine Floyd, Breanna Hartley, Sumer Hinson, Carol Horton, Destiny Hunter, Alexis Miller, Hannah Mitchell, Tanadje’ Price, Trinity Stevenson, Sarah Taylor, Chandler Wertz and Skyler White.

All A’s and B’sDonaesh’ah Adams,

Kaylee Allen, Ty Beaver, Kateria Beckham, Kristian Cirwithian, Tamyia Cloud, Ashley Getzen, Gerrica Gladden, Trenton Isenhower, Zyonna Jones-Moore, Taylor McCurry, Hailey Mosley, Travis Payne, Aubrey Rowles, Tydris Tharp and Jonathan Trent.

11th gradeAll A’s

Devin Banks, Brent Blakley, Isabella Davis and Joshua Hannah.

All A’s and B’sHaley Albert, Kayla

Coleman, Ricky Harris, Tonia Hobson, Cierra McIlwain, Lydia Mills, Koby Ruff and Matthew Trent.

12th gradeAll A’s

Eric Gage, Abigail Hopper, Aaron Rice, Emilee Smarr, Ka’Terra Talford and Shyquana Walls.

All A’s and B’sCandace Baker, Kanijah

Belk, Zachary Bigham, Drake Dixon, Titanna Gladden, John Hall, Michael Howe, Jonathan Lyles, Zy’Kevious McIlwain, Kerrigan Mullis, Jarrett Noland, Clayce Reid and Johnny Roberts.

GREAT FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL

Sixth gradeAll A’s

Valerie Harrison.

All A’s and B’sAntonio Hills, James Jones,

Jared Lockhart, Jarod Lockhart, Emma Suthard and Aaliyah Talford.

Seventh grade All A’s

Ally McKeown, Harley Mitchell and Emery Smith.

All A’s and B’sSydney Bailey, Barden

Baker, Sarah Baker, Xavier Brown, Dakota Carman, Christopher Dixon, Santos Ubiel Ferrufino-Stanley, Karla Gomez, Nathan Grant, Elizabeth Harris, Christian Jackson, Breanna Lucas, Brianna Patterson, Logan Payne, Christian Seeby, Dreona Stinson, Jaderias Weldon and Natorris Woodard.

Eighth grade All A’s

Austin Buresch, Hunter Funderburk, Kaleb Funderburk and Christopher Munn.

All A’s and B’sAshleigh Dixon, Da’Shawan

Johnson, Kerin Lewis, Jazimen Price, Demichael Rice, David Rodriguez, Robert Seagle and Ta’Niyah Woods.

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Blakley, Christiangraduate from USC

On Dec. 12, 2016, the University of South Carolina held its winter graduation at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia.

Matthew Lee Blakley graduated with a bachelor of science degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society. Since graduation, Blakley has worked for Santee Cooper in Monks Corner. He is the son of Roger and Tina Blakley of Great Falls.

Karlee Ruff Christian graduated Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor of arts in Organizational Leadership from Palmetto College The daughter of Russell Ruff and Mary Evans of Great Falls, Christian is now living in

California.

Local students honoredat USC-Lancaster

Several Great Falls stu-dents have been honored for academic achievement at USC-Lancaster for the fall 2016 semester.

Karlee Brooke Ruff was named to the dean’s list for earning a 4.0 grade point average in the university’s Palmetto College, which is an online course of study.

Named to the dean’s list for earning grade point averages of 3.5 or higher were Brandon Allen Christopher, Courtney Anne Kemmer, Kamri Briana Mahaffee and Katlyn Taylor.

In the Palmetto College, Jacqueline Nicole Latislaw and Corey Renee Steen were also named to the dean’s list.

BY BRIAN GARNER/THE N&RAt the Chester County 4-H mid-year recognition program, Great Falls 4-H Club members Carson Marino, Layla and Khayla Johnson talked about some of the experiences they’ve had traveling around to the differ-ent counties of South Carolina as they take part in the Youth Cultural Summit.

Youth Cultural Summit members

Great Falls 4-H recognition

Daniel and Carson Marino, Great Falls 4-H

Club, were recognized at the mid-year Chester

County 4-H recognition program recently for

their participation in the 4-H Garden project.

Pictured above, they accept their Certificates

of Achievement from Chester County 4-H

Coordinator Robin Currence. At right shows

the garden Daniel and Carson Marino cultivated

as part of the project.

TOP PHOTO BY BRIAN GARNER/THE N&R

Great Falls Police Department arrests include:

• Marcus Cornelius Reed, 37, of Chester was charged with burglary, first degree, on Jan. 22.

• Lena Elizabeth Thompson, 38, of Lancaster was charged with shoplift-ing/value $2,000 or less (enhancement per 16-01-0057) on Jan. 25.

Lake Wateree BaptistLake Wateree Baptist

Church will hold a wild game dinner at 6:30 p.m. tonight, Feb. 1. The men will provide the meat and side dishes. Women are asked to bring desserts.

New Life MinistryNew Life Ministry will

hold a Women’s Conference at 10 a.m. Feb. 11. All women are invited. The pastor of New Life is the Rev. Jeffery Stroud. For details, call Alberta Stroud at 374-9938.

M.T. Community Praise ChoirEvangelist Mary Talford

is seeking singers for her new gospel choir. For more information, send a text to 209-6516.

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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz

I thought I’d write, for the next couple weeks,

about love. Love is some-thing we all need as a peo-ple and as a nation. Love is something we cannot live without. Real love. True love. Sacred love. Dreamy love. Unconditional love. Happy love. Just love, love, love!

There are so many things in this world that I just love! And there are so many things I have loved so dearly in this world that I have lost! For me, I think I am scarred and bruised, battered and rugged, but alive because of the love that is inside of me, living on through a person I loved ever so deeply, even intimately, or one of my babies I loved oh so freely and wildly, or through an awesome experience I had and dearly loved, or through some unbelievable moment in time when I was overcome by love, or through some overwhelm-ing beautiful adventure I went on and loved. Everything I am in love with, and have been in love with, is inside of me, a part of me! I think, had I not had all the colorful love in my life, I would not be able to make it day in and day out. I call my love colorful because when I close my eyes and relive my loves in this world, I see color – beautiful, wild vivid colors – colorful love!

Here are some quotes I truly love. Enjoy as you read through them and I

hope one sparks a little bit of love in you!

“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.” – Johnny Weir

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.” – Marilyn Monroe

“If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love your-self.” – Josh Billings

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost

“I’m just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.” – Sherman Hemsley

Peace and love!

Sharon Furr is a Charlotte native but has been living and farming in Chester County since 2000.

LifestyLesWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2017 • The News & Reporter • 3B

What'd She Say?

Sharon Furr

Ms. Rosa Lee Dixon Wylie celebrates her 95th birthday today, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. She was born Feb. 1, 1922, to the late Rev. Sumter and Sarah Hinton Dixon.

Ms. Wylie is known for her delicious fried apple pies. She was married to the late George Wylie Sr. and togeth-er they had six children, Sarah, Linda, Shirley, Nathaniel, David and the late George Jr. She has 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Ms. Wylie is an active member of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.

Ms. Rosa Lee Dixon Wylie

Ms. Rosa Lee Dixon Wylie celebrates

95th birthday

All you need is love!

You can’t live without it!

From release

Chester Middle School recent-ly had their annual Winter Won-derland House Showcase, where the different houses (Amistad, Takuetsu, Reveur, and Mag-estrium) compete with each other in the areas of talent, step, art, technology and athletics.

All of the students did a wonder-ful job.

The following winners of the showcase include:

Art:Zach Laws (Amistad) Overall

WinnerEmma Wooten (Reveur)Courtney Watson (Takuestsu)

Megan Gustafson (Magestrium)Athletics- AmistadLego/STEAM- MagestriumTechnology- ReveurTalent- ReveurStep- Takuetsu

Overall winner of the Winter Wonderland House Showcase was Amistad.

Winter Wonderland House Showcase

PHOTOS PROVIDEDMembers of two of the Houses at Chester Middle School compete in the Winter Wonderland House Showcase.

The Pilot Club of Chester presented BrainMinders to the First Baptist Church four-year-old kindergarten class on Thursday, Jan. 26. BrainMinders is a project of the club that teaches brain safety through puppets and a story. The puppets emphasize the importance of wearing a helmet when riding a bike, skating, riding a four-wheeler, etc., always being buckled up in a car seat and to play safely on the playground. Pictured on the front row from left to right are Addison Dunchan, Alayah Partain, Bella Watts, Caroline Partain, Ella Kathryn Houston and Lilly Roberts. The back row includes Abel Sanders, Annabelle Farr, Caroline Freeman, Auri Grace Enix, Knox Wells, Turner Martin and Wilkes Bramlett. Pilot Club members are Becky Cannon and Dianne Foster. Not pictured are Bridges Hall, Ellen Hope Moore, Piper Sealey and teachers Charli Smith and Kelly Thompson.

Pilot Club teaches students brain safety

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USC-L students honoredSeveral local students

have been honored for aca-demic achievement for the fall 2016 semester at USC-Lancaster.

Cassandra Lynn Herr of Chester was named to the president’s list for earning a 4.0 grade point

average. Also named to the president’s list was Jona-thon Lewis of Richburg, who is enrolled in the uni-versity’s Palmetto College online course of study.

Students named to the dean’s list for earning grade point averages of 3.5 or higher include D’Andre

Baldwin of Blackstock; Misty Leddick, Cherneice MaeLyn Pendergrass, Shavonne K. Rhodes and Ariana Sanders of Chester; Cristina Sorcia Blanco, Brittany Kennedy, Chris-tian Michael Mead, Amari Callista MerChant, Jacin-da Tierney MerChant,

Devang R. Patel and Elisabeth Holly Streeter of Fort Lawn; and Savannah Payne Crosby, Kaitlyn Olivia Queen and Patrick J. Renwald of Richburg.

In the Palmetto College, Moriah Faith Chavis of Chester was named to the dean’s list.

On Wednesday, Jan. 18, the Chester High School

Army JROTC Color Guard team presented honors as

the national anthem was played on cello by Mr.

Justin Page, prior to the Charlotte Hornets home

game against the Portland Trailblazers. The Color Guard team members

were Alexus Brown, ShaQuinta Feaster, Janay

Martin, and Alicia Banks. The Color Guard team

received many encourag-ing comments on their duty performance and intermin-gled with members of the

Hornets entertainment staff, including the team

mascot, Hugo.

BY LT. COL BOYD JOYE/SPECIAL TO THE N&R

PHOTO PROVIDED

CHS Color Guard presents at Hornets game

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Public RecoRdBuilding Permits

These building permits were issued last week in the Chester County Building and Zoning Office:

William Rucker, 2393 Boyd Road, permit for inground pool.

Curtis R. Stewart, 3365 West End Road, permit to repair front right wall and sheetrock.

Robert Michael Layton, 2051 J.A. Cochran Bypass, permit for car lot.

Ken Marsh, 743 Spirit Circle, permit for dry wall, insulation.

Michael R. Layton, 2051 J.A. Cochran Bypass, permit for sign on top of building, stickers.

Juergen Hanebrink, 759 J.A. Cochran Bypass, permit for occupancy, sign.

Fred Lalli, 1790 J.A. C ochran Bypass, permit for wall sign.

JudgmentsThese civil judgments were

published last week at the Chester County Courthouse:

Against Sherry Ammons, awarded to Midland Funding LLC.

Against Danny Joseph Baker, awarded to First Franklin Financial Corporation.

Against Industrial Piping Inc., awarded to JE Oswalt and Sons Heavy Hauling and Rigging Inc.

Against Michelle Jolley, awarded to Michele J. Boyne DMD.

Against Peter Rice, award-ed to Kathy Berry.

Against Harry R. Totherow, awarded to Portfolio Recovery Associates.

Marriage LicenseThis couple was issued a

marriage license last week in the office of the probate judge at the Chester County Government Complex:

Jamey Lamon Miller to Morgan Elizabeth Wessinger.

Real Estate TransfersThese real estate transfers

were published at the Chester County Courthouse recently:

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Choon Neo Chua, trustee of the Choon Neo Chua Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $30,000, to Kin Keung Kenneth Chung, trust-ee of the Kin Keung Kenneth Chung Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 3/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Yasuhiko Fukumoto, trustee of the Yasuhiko Fukumoto Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $70,000, to Philippe Pascal Garcet, trustee of the Philippe Pascal Garcet Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 7/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Hooi Khoon Goh, trustee of the Hooi Khoon Goh Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Tze Wei Goh, trustee of the Tze Wei Goh Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Maki Hikita, trustee of the Maki Hikita Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $20,000, to Fumiko Hirata, trustee of the Fumiko Hirata Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 2/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $30,000, to Yin Kham Ho, trustee of the Yin Kham Ho Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 3/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $20,000, to Francis Yin Fatt Hou, trustee of the Francis Yin Fatt Hou Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 2/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Chun Mo Hui, trustee of the Chun Mo Hui Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Siew

Chen Kang, trustee of the Siew Chen Kang Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $30,000, to Hiroaki Kano, trustee of the Hiroaki Kano Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 3/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Michiko Kashiba, trustee of the Michiko Kashiba Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $20,000, to Masayo Kishimoto, trustee of the Masayo Kishimoto Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 2/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Itsuko Komori, trustee of the Itsuko Komori Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $30,000, to Eng Teck Kong, trustee of the Eng Teck Kong Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 3/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Hannu Tapio Kortelainen, trustee of the Hannu Tapio Kortelainen Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $20,000, to Izumi Kozasa, trustee of the Izumi Kozasa Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 2/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Anil Kumar Kundan Lal, trustee of the Anil Kumar Kundan Lal Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Wing Yi Kwan, trustee of the Wing Yi Kwan Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

James D. Lilly, deed of dis-tribution, to Sarah H. Lilly, 1.35 acres with improve-ments at 585 No Name Road.

R. Carlisle Roddey and

Lois H. Roddey, for $1 and other valuable consideration, to R. Carlisle Roddey and Lois H. Roddey, land with dwelling and improvements on Briarcliff Circle.

Sallie G. Hudson and Loren E. Hudson Sr., for $1 and other valuable consider-ation, to Lynn Dove and Samuel Eugene Clack, land with improvements at 61 Holly St., Great Falls.

Jeffrey A. Lett, for $40,000, to Ashley Nichols, land with improvements on Ella Street.

Jerry E. Crump as attor-ney-in-fact for Rachel N. Crump, for valuable consider-ation, to Jerry E. Crump, trust-ee of the Jerry E. Crump Revocable Trust, 6.5 acres with improvements in Rossville.

Eulah M. McKeown, for $1, reserving life, to Eulah M. McKeown and Lee Wells McKeown Jr., 4.688 acres with improvements at 6234 Richburg Road.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A., for $10, to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1 acre with dwelling and improvements on S.C. Highway 9.

Mary C. Deese, for $12,000, to Bowers Properties of Lancaster LLC, 2 acres with improvements on Hightower Road.

Daniel Jackson Scott, deed of distribution, to Carolyn Parkins Scott, lots in Baton Rouge.

Carolyn Parkins Scott, deed of distribution, to Danette Scott Parker, lots in Baton Rouge.

David Byars Crosby, deed of distribution,m to Sandra G. Crosby, 2.43 acres with improvements near the City of Chester.

David Byars Crosby, deed of distribution, to Sandra G. Crosby, land with improve-ments on Brawley Street.

F. Lynn Hough and Katie F. Hough, for $159,900, to Damareo J. McCrorey, 1 acre with improvements on Church Street.

Damareo J. McCrorey, for $5, to Damareo J. McCrorey and Cynthia McCrorey, 1 acre with improvements on Church Street.

Sara F. Ferguson, for $1 and other valuable consider-ation, to Timothy Bowers and Melissa Bowers, land with improvements at 13 Hill St.

Lorene B. Minors, for $1 and other valuable consider-ation, to Lemonade Investments LLC, land with improvements at 12 West Jefferson St., land with improvements at 10 West Jefferson St. and land with improvements on West Jefferson Street.

Roger D. Roof, Randy Roof and Joshua Caleb Turner, for $1, to Saluda Street Church of God, land with improvements on Saluda Road.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $20,000, to Dave Chee Choong Lam, trustee of the Dave Chee Choong Lam Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 2/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Sharon Meow Lin Law, trustee of the Sharon Meow Lin Law Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Bee Lian Lee, trustee of the Bee Lian Lee Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $30,000, to Hayden Bin Soon Lee, trustee of the Hayden Bin Soon Lee Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 3/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Hui Seng Lee, trustee of the Hui Seng Lee Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Lay Lin Lee, trustee of the Lay Lin Lee Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $30,000, to Sze Kan Lee, trustee of the Sze Kan Lee Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 3/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Kwong Weng Liau, trustee of the Kwong Weng Liau Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina

LLC, for $10,000, to Hsiu-man Lien, trustee of the Hsiu-man Lien Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Khong Hee Lim, trustee of the Khong Hee LIm Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Rachael Ju Yun Lim, trustee of the Rachael Ju Yun Lim Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $60,000, to Ting Liu, trustee of the Ting Liu Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 6/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Chee Wee Loo, trustee of the Chee Wee Loo Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $20,000, to Zhenyan Lu, trustee of the Zhenyan Lu Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 2/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Yoshiko Matsumoto, trustee of the Yoshiko Matsumoto Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th percent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Chui Nah Ng, trustee of the Chui Nah Hg Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $20,000, to Wee Tong Ng, trustee of the Wee Tong Ng Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 2/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Jin Teong Ong, trustee of the Jin Teong Ong Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

Walton South Carolina LLC, for $10,000, to Kok Tong Ong, trustee of the Kok Tong Ong Richburg Lakes Revocable Trust, 1/880th per-cent interest in lots in Lewisville.

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Honor rollsCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Sixth grade All A’s

Brandon Edwards, Omarion Gilmore, Gabrielle Hardin, Christian Howze, Ja’Miaya Mack, Aniya Minter, Aeriel Moyd, Brittney Stokes, Jai’Den Stringfellow, Andrew Myers and Liam Phillips.

All A’s and B’sKathryn Barker, Kentavious

Beaver, Kayla Bennett, Ky’Mari Brown, William Chen, Daniel Darby, Jimmani Davis, Noah Davis, Ariyonna Emerson, Sherard Feaster, Bryson Ford, Jada Gaston, Jehquavin Gregory, Megan Gustafson, Melissa Hartsell, Landon Hoyle, Nathan Johnson, Corey Jordan, Kanisha Kee, Johnathan Kopp, Nasir Kirkpatrick, O’Mari Land, Kattie Lee, Aleona Mack, Donnie Melton, Ardestinee Murphy, Ternayja Murphy, Olajuwon Rice, Kanye Richardson, Ryan Robinson, Destiny Smith, Shaniya Stevenson, Taylor Stevenson, Ariana Trevino, Julia Wells and Zackary Young.

Perfect attendanceKentavious Beaver, Caliche

Boulware, Makayla Bowser, Amante Campbell, William Chen, Ra’Yonna Crosby, AlonTae’ Curry, Jimmani Davis, Jimmeria Davis, Noah Davis, Trinity Davis, Ka’Mani Dixon, Brandon Edwards, Ariyonna Emerson, Jy’Asia Evans, Sherard Feaster, Sirmarcus Feaster, Loyd Gaston, Megan Gustafson, La’Niyah Hall, Melissa Hartsell, Christian Howze, De’Ontrea Johnson, Corey Jordan, Da’Kendray Keener, Montais Keener, Johnathan Kopp, O’Mari Land, Carl Loftis, Aleona Mack, Ja’Miaya Mack, Juelz McCullough, Shydem McCullough, Chris-topher McDowell, Harlee McKenzie, DeMarie Mea-dows, Kahlayjah Meadows, Aniya Minter, Mikayla Minter, Abria Morrow, Shanice Morrow, Aeriel Moyd, Ardes-tinee Murphy, Andrew Myers, Liam Phillips, Iyuanah Price, Kamryn Radford, Jayden Rood, Caitlyn Shirley, Destiny Smith, Shaniya Stevenson, Taylor Stevenson, Brittney Stokes, Samiya Stringfellow, Tamyra Stringfellow, Kenneth Thompson, Ariana Trevino, A’Leeya Truesdale, Ke’Mareon Turner, Andrew Washington, Jasmine Woodard, Joshua Woodard, Cortes Woods and Treasure Young.

Seventh gradeAll A’s

Jessica Garcia, Crischan Hemphill, Kel’Veon Kelly, Kaitlyn West and Emma Wooten.

All A’s and B’sGregory Bailey, My’Zoriah

Brown, Olivia Creamer, Lana Davis, Tyler Fleming, StarLecia Foster, Jeyli Gomez-Domingo, Dakota Hall, Zykeria Hughes, Hayley Hunter, Christionna Jackson, Douglas Jaffray, Courtney Jackson, O’Niyah Kelly, Ty’Jala Lightner, Murphy McClellan, Rathael Pendergrass, Lucas Perdue, Laila Price, Hunter Rector, Mikayla Thompson, Jayden White and La’Mya Woods.

Perfect attendanceRaven Alexander, Ky’vin

Anderson, Bavon Avoki, Herman Beckford, Jermanie Boulware, Trenton Bowser, Kyla Brown, Issac Caldwell, Demarrion Carter, Lozoria Carter, Cedric Chambers, Ka’Miyah Chambers, Kyarika Chambers, Bruce Coleman, Jarquavious Curry, Serenity Dulceak, A’Maya Glenn, Jaila Graham, Reagan Griffin, Dakota Hall, Darius Head,

Jagen Hinton, Corianna Jordan, O’Niyah Kelly, Camisha Kennedy, Mygel Kennedy, LaQuasia Land, Alexis Minter, Arsenio Myers, Ny’Asia Radford, Riley Rogers, Zanyiaha Sanders, Rahnia Smith, Bryce White, Jayden White, Ja’Casia Williams, Jasmine Williams, Judah Williams, La’Mya Woods, Moaderell Woods, Dylan Yarborough and Gene Young.

Eighth gradeAll A’s

Austin Burtelle, Ja’Nya Cole, Christopher Craven, Devin Doby, Ki’yaunia Dye, Victoria Floyd, Andrew Hinson, Matthew Lindsey, Joy Wells, Rafeale White and Aaliyah Wilkes.

All A’s and B’sAzarrian Banks, Keileigh

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Perfect attendanceJordan Allen, Alisha Bell,

Sacarria Boyd, Austin Burtelle, DaVahria Burton, Da’Koya Cherry, Eric Conner, Gia’ Crank, James Craven, Derrius Crockett, Devin Doby, Christian Feaster, Victoria Floyd, GioVanni Franklin, Jaelyn Gaston, Johnathan Goldsborough, Joshua Hardin, Jorayal Head, Troy Hindley, Ja’Vonti Jackson, Omarion Johnson, Zakiyah Johnson, DyQuan Lightner, Keoma Lightner, Matthew Lindsey, Malent’e McElveen, Octaveon Minter, ShaCoreia Minter, Akosua Muhammad, Ka’Dashia Murphy, Evan Nathan, Gilberto Ponce-Lopez, Aiden Roberts, Cornellieus Simpson, Zyon Simpson, Hayley Sketoe, Kevin Stanley, Courtney Stevens, Joseph Stevenson, William Stuart, Haley Thompson, Joseph Thurman, Darrion Wilkes, Jaisline Wilson, Jayla Woods, Deston Worthy, Kemari Worthy and Charles Yarborough.

CHESTER PARK COLTFour-year-old kindergartenCOLT Club (Principal’s Award)

Jordan Carruthers, Braylen Clayton, Montasia Cousar, Ar’Riana Dunifer, Zay’Den Gore, I’Yonna Hall, Trinity Jackson, Cheyenne Rey-nolds, Journee Stringfellow, Bryson Clayton, Camiyah Douglas, Kamora Jones, Ronaldo Garcia, Ja’Mason McClendon, Kelis White, Shaun Foster, Auburney Worthy, Nakia Bowler, Knylen Boyd, Cayden Cash, Clara Evans, Tony Kennedy, Charday Macon, Jose Missouri, Lyrik Wilmore and Christopher Wright.

Technology Award

Jordan Carruthers, Braylen Clayton, Montasia Cousar, Ar’Riana Dunifer, I’Yonna Hall, Bryan Koloski, Cheyenne Reynolds, Ja’Nyjha Vanderhorst, Cayden Cash, Clara Evans, Tony Kennedy, LaDarrian Woods, Bryson Clayton, Ronaldo Garcia, Jaquarius Brantley, Shaun Foster, Ja’Mason McClendon, A aliyah Lightner and Auburney Worthy.

Proud To Be PoliteZay’Sen Gore, Clara Evans

and Ronaldo Garcia.

Five-year-old kindergartenCOLT Club (Principal’s

Award)Maryah Chisholm, Landon

Darby, Jermany Legette, Kaidyn Sanders, Ray Steed, Zhoe Kennedy-Robinson, Emonii Bratton, Daniel McDaniel, Teyon Land, Justin McMillon, Dallas Haynes, La’Christa Chalk, Ariel Long-Stroud and Za’Naiya Foster.

Technology AwardMarshall Bailey, Jeremiah

Brice, Jayden Caldwell-Ervin, La’Christa Chalk, Aden Chambers, Charez Feaster, Za’Naiya Foster, Brydan Gibbs, Crystal Gibson, Ja’Leigh Glenn, Alaysia Graham, Cam’Ron Hall, Pamela Hardin, Dallas Haynes, Aubree Hinton, John Holley, Taraji Kelley, Ariel Long-Stroud, Elijah Stradford, Camarion Stewart, Makhiya Suber, Camari Williams, Joseph Woods, Ayden Young, Amauri Campbell, Jamikal Campbell, Macie Catledge, Kamiah Davis, London Feaster, Marqqulen Glenn, Kidar Goodwin, Kamerin Heath, Teyon Land, Teyona Land, Marshall McCarty, Andriyonna McClurkin, Marquis McClurkin, Justin McMillon, Daniel McNeil, Damarion Miller, Brooke Shabazz, Jonathan St. Clair, Dexter Street, Zy’Kirah Strong, Camron Tobias, Savannah Welch, Ethan Wilks, Reagan Worthy-Chisholm, Mason Wright, Chloe Bellue, Isaiah Bowser, Emonii Bratton, Demarion Chambers, Maryah Chisholm, Demarcus Coleman, Jayden Culp, London Darby, Liam Ferrell, Jayden Gladden, Alease Hall, Marquita Head, Marlaya Hill, Kameron Jones, Zhoe Kennedy-Robinson, Jermany Legette, Jayla Mobley, Tyrik Rambert, Kaidyn Sanders, Ray Steed, Amir Suber and Samuel Hernandez Vega.

Proud To Be PoliteLandon Darby, Mason

Wright and Camari Williams.

First gradeCOLT Club (Principal’s Award)All E’s

Clarie Gordon, Johnathan King, Caleb Miller, Trinity Rolan, Kai’Rek Cousar, Xavier McLurkin, Celina McWatters, Cameron Douglas, Amelia Glenn, Jasper Prichard, Tessa Sanders, Bella Wagner and Aimiyah Williams.

All E’s and S’sPueblo Buchanan Jr.,

De’Asia Cunningham, Jeremy Grant, Zoe Jackson, A’Laiyah Ladson, Kyri Martin, Amari Sanders, Marqttis Tobias, Miniah Williams, A’Layla Backstrom, LaShari Dixon, Ka’liyah Everett, Kaziel Head, Talayia Johnson, Taniyah Macon, Aiden Meadows, Sha’Niya Minter, Taraji Simpson, Christian Colvin, Aryhonna Gladden, Laila Murphy, Caden Norris, Tamia Brannon, Alexis Hensley and Preston Peoples.

Technology AwardMallory Alexander,

Andreyah Barnes, Christian Colvin, Aryhonna Gladden, Bishop Gore, Jeremiah Grant, Zy’Niaya Head, Morgan

Heath, Kamira Jordan, John Laster, Marlaysha Lowery, Faith McClinton, Zeddy Mobley, Laila Murphy, Ariona Nelson, Caden Norris, Jonathan Prichard, JaCorey Starnes, Trysten Terry, Jordan Young, Trinity Rolan, Johnathan King, Aiden Meadows, Sha’Niya Minter, Kaziel Head, A’Layla Backstrom, Talayia Johnson, Claire Gordon, Ja’Marion Rambert, LaShari Dixon, Taraji Simpson, Caleb Miller, Jadya Brice, Ka’liyah Everett, Prince Price, Taniya Macon, Dustin Brown, Jaylin Heath, Ethan Smart, Lillyana Marquez, Jocquese Bowler, Timia Brannon, Zariah Crank, Cameron Douglas, Amelia Glenn, Alexis Hensley, Miriah Jordan, Tyquwan Mayfield, Preston Peoples, Jasper Prichard, Brian Rambert, Darius Roberts, Jayvonne Robinson, Tessa Sanders, Nyla Steed, Bella Wagner and Aimiyah Williams.

Proud To Be PoliteTalayia Johnson, Laila

Murphy, Jeremy Grant and LaBron Killian.

Second gradeCOLT Club (All E’s)

Tamira Tolliver, Kaden Land and Javaria Lilley.

All E’s and S’sJoshua Bland, Zoey Darby,

Emarion Douglas, Michael Hardin, Carrie Asia Jackson, Kharson Kennedy-Robinson, Dominick Lutz, Amari Nesmith, Je’laya Moore, Kiahna Carr, Drequan Gibson, Talaijah Heath, Joshua Jackson, Rezonne McClurkin, ShaVonta McCrorey, Noah Nelson, Ashanti Sanders, Callista Stewart, Brittany Taylor, Mekenzie Woodle, Jadarrion Woods, Aspyn Carter, Camari Douglas, Gavin Colvin, E’Cariyah Jordan, Michaya Land, Desmond McClurkin, Elizah Moore, Jayden Perkins-Erwin, Christopher Still and Jordan Woodard.

Technology AwardJoshua Bland, Zoey Darby,

Karall Dixon, Emarion Douglas, Miheaven Evans, Michael Hardin, Idesha Head, Carrie Asia Jackson, Kharson Kennedy-Robinson, Dominick Lutz, Jamerical McClurkin, Je’Laya Moore, Amari Nesmith, Tekora Roseman, Desiire Shealey, Tamira Tolliver, Kiahna Carr, Dorrean Chambers, Drequan Gibson, Omareonia Gibson, Maurice Head, Joshua Jackson, SeMaj Johnson, Eric Jones, Kaden Land, Javaria Lilley, Rezonne McCrorey, Noah Nelson, Ashanti Sanders, Callista Stewart, Brittany Taylor, Emmanuel Wilkes, Mekenzie Woodle, JaDarrion Woods, Morgan Belk, Swadarrious Boddie, Aspyn Carter, Reaynah Chalk, Kayla Delo Santos, Shamari Duncan, Camari Douglas, Hayden Green, Ray Lee Hatcher, Jeremy Jackson, Gavin Colvin, E’Cariyah Jordan, SaNiya Jordan, Michaya Land, Jamaya Legette, Desmond McClurkin, Elizah Moore, Jayden Perkins-Erwin, Christopher Still and Jordan Woodard.

Proud To Be PoliteJoshua Bland, Joshua

Jackson and Michaya Land.

Third gradeCOLT Club (All A’s)

Alayla Colvin.

All A’s and B’sJaeda Gaston, DiAsia

Gladden, Kaden Wagner, Miracle Barrino, Keon Dye, Isaiah Kelly, Necorian Pendergrass, Cory Prichard and Daniel Wagner.

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Jaylen Feaster, Jaeda Gaston, DiAsia Gladden, Marissa Hensley, Norris Hicks, Jose Marquez, Kyleigh Miller, Ali’jah Neal, DaTorian Pearson, De’Asia Stevenson, Omar Anthony, Mircle Barrino, Alayla Colvin, JaDorian Feaster, Aaron Hoag, Kaitlyn Miller, Rain Minter, Adrianna Barnes, Mariah Williams, D’Omini Boulware, Jasmine Bullock, Zion Carson, Aaliyah Davis, Lazoria Dunovant, Travon Feaster, Miracle Gilmore, Kevin Heath, Jaun Higuera, Shannon Kahle, Zonobia Kelley, Kaleisha Mack, Azariah McCoy, Travion McCrorey, Jasmine McMaster, Cameron McMillon, Nevaeh McWatters, Necorian Pendergrass, Cory Prichard, Nila Rice, Daniel Wagner and Zy’Taviouos Whitlock.

Proud To Be PoliteChantel Curbeam, Kaitlyn

Miller and Azariah McCoy.

Fourth gradeAll A’s and B’s

Jaharmoni Cole, Jerrica Davis, Christopher King, Abigail McCluney and Grace McCullough.

Technology AwardJaylin Campbell, Jaharmoni

Cole, Lexi Dixon, Devyn Elwell, KeAsia Foster, Cadarrius Heath, Jylan Johnson, Mileadrionna Johnson, Marquese Jordan, Jackson Kennedy, Nazir Moore, Amarise Perkins-Erwin, John Slack, Justin Thompson, Corinthian White, Shikira Williams, Joy Woods, Ja’Marion Barrino, Ja’Nia Carter, Jacquese Cherry, Daniel Conner, Amya Davenport, Jerrica Davis, Quardarius Fair, Chakari Feaster, Christopher King, Jordenne Mobley, Alyssah Peay, Landon Vess, Erin Wilks, Kayden Zarko, Ty’Darrien Tuner, Tyree Bagley, Kiana Bey, Jacob Burgess, Keyon Colvin, Anaya Culp, Noah Johnson, Yesenia Leon, Abigail McCluney, Grace McCullough, Aaron Nelson, Brennan Roach and Kimora Roseman.

Proud To Be PoliteJaharmoni Cole, Amya

Davenport and Kiana Bey.

Fifth gradeAll A’s and B’s

Callie Gordon, Ke’Mauri Mack, Trenton Pelkey, Chancee Smart, Jenna Conner, Mackenzie Harter and O’Keyvon, White.

Proud To Be PoliteJenna Conner and

Ke’Mauri Mack.

Perfect attendanceTyree Bagley, Adrianna

Barnes, Curtis Bouler, Aiden Brown, Esmariah Brown, Yazzmine Brown, Israel Bunting, Amauri Campbell, Kiahna Carr, Aspyn Carter, Ja’Nia Carter, Johnathan Chambers, De’Asia Coleman, Jenna Conner, Trabeon Culp, Maurice Davis, Emarion Douglas, Ka’liyah Everett, Travon Feaster, Amelia Glenn, Marqulen Glenn, Tavion Hall, Dimira Head, Juan Hernandez, Cameron Jennings, Adrian Jones, Isaiah Kelly, Christopher King, Teyon Land, Teyona Land, John Laster, Alayah Lyles, A’niah Mack, Charday Macon, Taniyah Macon, Abigail McCluney, Jaylan McClurkin, Grace McCullough, Cameron McMillon, Angi’Lee Moore, Elizah Moore, Je’Laya Moore, Sa’Nia Moore, Laila Murphy, Noah Nelson, Alyssah Peay, JaCobe Pelkey, Trenton Pelkey, Amarise Perkins-Erwin, Ka’Mal Perkins-Erwin, Jacob Queen, Ja’Marion Rambert, Logan Read, Amari Sanders, Harmonie Smith, Jonathan St. Clair, JaCorey

Starnes, Christopher Still, Journee Stringfellow, Ty’Darrien Turner, Kelis White, Breunna Williams, JaDarrion Woods and Brehanna Wright.

CHESTER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF INQUIRY

Third gradeAll A’s

Ar’Destiny Brown, Gabriell Collazo, Alyssa Kelly and Nataliya Smith.

All A’s and B’sDarriyarn Baxley, A’zariyah

Boyd, Donovan Browning, Christian Copeland, Destiny Foster, Miracle Gordon, Jocelyn Howard, D’marion Hughes, Toccia Jackson-Lockett, Odarrica Massey, Shakshi Patel, Ava Polk, Ania Reid, Starlah Vaughn, Allison West and Mekhien Wilmore.

Fourth gradeAll A’s

Mari Strong.

All A’s and B’sOlivia Aghenebit,

Robtavious Allison, Trista Estes, Dasani Gregory, Da’Kaden Hemphill, Nequavis Jennings-Peay, Olivia Macon, Quinton McCrorey, Daiquan McCree, Khamani Richardson, DaKota Sanders, Kyla Tinsley, Christopher White and Tyler Williams.

Fifth gradeAll A’s

Anari Foster, Rubbionna Kelly, Kenneth McClinton and Jala Sims.

All A’s and B’sJoseph Alvarez, Layla

Boulware, Azaria Elam, Alexus Frazier, Ashley Gregory, Talaya Mack, Charles McCree, Haven Sparks and Makayla Williams.

Perfect attendanceJames Aghenebit, Olivia

Aghenebit, Zacharias Aghenebit, Robtavious Allison, Jovani Alvarez, Braylon Binnall, Layla Boulware, Shania Bowler, Lonnie Brice, Amira Brown, Ar’Destiny Brown, Jeremiah Brown, Keyanna Brown, Tremirous Bryant, Taliah Burrell, Sequoia Caldwell, ShyNae Caldwell, Ta’Mari Caldwell, Keishana Camps, A’drion Chisholm, Jordan Chisholm, Keyanna Chisholm, Kory Chisholm, Ta’Niyah Chisholm, TyErica Chisholm, Terrick Clifton, Christian Copeland, Amariona Culp, Gabriel Davis, Ky’Ara Douglas, Jacob Duckworth, Adrian Dula, Azaria Elam, E’Riyah Foote, Kaleib Gaddy, Jeremiah Gladden, Bakari Gordon, Breshon Gordon, La’Keyshia Gordon, Dasani Gregory, Rylan Gregory, Deontrai Hall, Rihanna Hall, TamyJae Hall, Da’Kaden Hemphill, Antonio Hopkins, Jocelyn Howard, Xavier Howze, Terry Jackson, Toccia Jackson-Lockett, Natalya Jackson-Porter, A’Jayla Jordan, John Kean, Janaya Keener, Alyssa Kelly, Rubbionna Kelly, Salle’ Lowry, Adam Lutz, Josiah Martin, Kevin McClurkin, Daiquan McCree, Quinton McCrorey, Ariunna McLurkin, A’miyah Meadows, Morgan Minter, Diamond Murray, Aaden Parker, Makenzie Paulding, Kaleb Peoples, Ava Polk, Josie Price, Jaheem Rambert, Raheem Rambert, Montrell Rice, Quawntrell Rice, Khamani Richardson, Deja Roberts, Mariah Sanders, C’Marya Simpson, Kaniyah Simpson, Jala Sims, Shamiya Smith, Eris Steele, Donald Stevenson, Brycen Stokes, Rachel Stringfellow, Mari Strong, Nylah Strong, Christopher White, Joshua White, Kadin White, Broderick Wilks, Makayla Williams, Cloey Woods, Genesis Worthy, Alexander Wright and Landon Young.

From release

Chester Middle School’s first ever Mock Trial Team recently participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Chester. These talented students worked hard in November to pre-pare for their competition in Greenville.

During the competition, Jai’Den Stringfellow won most effective attorney, Jimmeria Davis and Malenta McElveen won Most Effective Attorney and Luke Simpson and Tellajah Chalk were

named Most Effective Witnesses.

Members of the CMS Mock Trial Team are: Jai’Den Stringfellow, Luke Simpson, Jimmeria Davis, Azia Cousar, Tellajah Chalk, Victoria Floyd, Troy Moore, Jr, Malente’ McElveen, Zion Simpson, Zhariah Sims, Sacarria Boyd, Gia Crank, Keshawnte Chambers and Adrianna Faster. La’Jessica Stringfellow is the attorney coach, Wanda Stringfellow, Malissa Giles, and Nijala Ervin are the teacher coaches.

CMS Mock Trial team competes

Members and coaches of the Chester Middle School Mock Trial team on the float they entered into the MLK Jr. Day parade in Chester.

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Legal NoticeSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINAIN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEASCOUNTY OF CHESTERD O C K E T N O . 2016CP1200441 Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff, v. Shawn E. Roth a/k/a Shawn Edward Roth; Founders Federal CreditUnion;Defendant(s). (01326309227) SUMMONS Deficiency Judgment Waived TO THE DEFENDANT(S), Shawn E. Roth a/k/a Shawn Edward Roth:YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 3018 Heather Hill Ln, Richburg, SC 297299512, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 1160000127000, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 100 Executive Center Drive, Ste 201, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 292023200, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein. Columbia, SouthCarolina 1162017 NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

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a public sale to enforce a lien on said property, as described below, pursuant to the SC Self Storage Facility Act, SC code section 39201 to 392050 at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, February 3, 2017 at Palmetto Storage, 1840 J.A. Cochran Bypass, Chester, S.C.Management reserves the right to withdraw any unit from the sale.Spaulding's Auction Service Auctioneer SCAL 3303 / NCAL 7751CASH ONLY SALE and please bring your own locks to secure your purchased unit(s). $60.00 deposit for each unit purchased until cleared out.Deloris Weldon R050 Household ItemsKeisha Aghenebit R075 Household ItemsLois Carter R091 Household ItemsFelicia Coleman R100 Household ItemsAshley Mills R133 Household ItemsConsuela Stingley BB09 Household ItemsBrandon Grant BB21 Household ItemsRosa ReedBC01 Household ItemsJohnna HodgeBD15 Household ItemsRafeal CampsCOF1 Household ItemsCharles LandCOH4 Household Items 1 4 7 9 2 W P a l m e t t o StorageBill

Legal NoticeNOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATESAll persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371ES with the Probate Court of Chester County, the address of which is PO DRAWER 580 CHESTER, SC 29706, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 623801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements on the perscribed form (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and

the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.Estate: Ralph Mitchell Funderburk Date of Death: 01/04/2017Case Number:2017ES1200007Personal Representative:Sarah E. Funderburk Address:105 Edgewood Ave. Great Falls, SC 29055Estate:Morris W. Hall, Jr. Date of Death: 10/24/2016Case Number:2017ES1200009Personal Representative:Timothy Wayne Hall Address:606 Dent StreetChester, SC 29706Attorney:F.M. Nick Cotten Address:114 East Main Street Suite 103Rock Hill, SC 29730Estate:Dolly Millwood Mathews Date of Death: 01/01/2017Case Number:2017ES1200013Personal Representative:Edward L. Mathews Address:997 Peden Bridge Road Chester, SC 29076Estate:Skippy Dale Yon Date of Death: 01/13/2017Case Number:2017ES1200014Personal Representative:Tammy Elaine Bell Address:1231 Cornwell Road Blackstock, SC 29014157113WProbatePaid

Legal NoticeNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGCITY OF CHESTERThe City of Chester will hold a Public Hearing at 6:30pm on Monday, February 13, 2017 in the Council Chambers at City Hall (100 West End Street) for the following properties:PC 201701 Old Eureka School, First Street Zoning Light Industrial (LI)PC 201702 Domestic Fowl Egg Production OrdinanceDocuments related to these notices are available for public inspection in the Office of the Zoning Administrator at 100 West End Street, Chester, SC17792WCityChesterBill

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OF ESTATESAll persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371ES with the Probate Court of Chester County, the address of which is PO DRAWER 580 CHESTER, SC 29706, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 623801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements on the perscribed form (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.Estate: Moffatt Ann Dewitt Date of Death: 01/14/2017Case Number:2017ES1200015Personal Representative:Virgina H. Hunter Address:2274 Mountain Gap Road Richburg, SC 29729Estate:Sidney E. Christopher, Jr. Date of Death: 01/07/2017Case Number:2017ES1200021Personal Representative:Carolyn C. Harding Address:5352 Cemetery Street Fort Lawn, SC 29704Estate:Horace Lee Porter, Jr. Date of Death: 01/20/2017Case Number:2017ES1200024Personal Representative:Betty Brandon Porter Address:4498 Mt. Pleasant Church Road Chester, SC 29706Estate:Sylvia Wilbanks Parrish Date of Death: 01/20/2017Case Number:2017ES12026Personal Representative:Oscar V. Parrish Address:5566 Harmony Church Road Edgemoor, SC 29712189133WProbatePaid

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