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GHS and Clemson join forces to ease the effects of the coming nursing shortage IN MY OWN WORDS

By Kathleen Valentine

For 15 consecutive years, the American public has ranked nurses as the most trusted profession in America, according to Gallup. And with good reason.

Nurses are at the very heart of health care. It’s a reality we know well when we enter an emergency room, doctor’s office, or clinic as a patient or family member. Nurses play a vital role in our individual and family health experiences and serve as a pillar of the health-care enterprise.

But there is another reality that is troubling: a shortage of registered nurses.

In 2002, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration had projected a

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shortfall of more than 1 million registered nurses in the U.S. by 2020. Updated projections in 2014 see that shortfall reversed nationally, but South Carolina is one of 16 states projected to have an RN shortage by 2025.

Clemson University and Greenville Health System are working together to close this gap. As part of their growing collaboration, Clemson will expand its nursing program in Greenville, an effort that will more than double enrollment in the university’s traditional Bachelor of Science in nursing program.

With the program expansion, students will take general education and nursing foundation courses on the university’s main

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campus during their freshman and sophomore years. In their junior and senior years, approximately half of the students will take courses in a new clinical learning and research building to open in fall 2018 at GHS’ Greenville Memorial Medical Campus, and complete their clinical rotations at one or more of the system’s participating campuses. The other half will continue coursework at Clemson’s main campus and complete rotations with our other excellent area health system partners. Students will have access to transportation between the Clemson and GHS instruction sites throughout their years of study.

By expanding the program in this way, the traditional Bachelor of Science in nursing program enrollment will grow from 352 to approximately 800 over the next six years.

This is welcome news for Clemson’s School of Nursing, which historically has only been able to enroll about 8 percent of its applicants because of limited seats and clinical placements, and welcome news for GHS, who will be able to recruit and retain more nurses who are already acclimated and ready to step into their jobs.

But this is also tremendous news for patients — and health care — in the Upstate and beyond.

This nursing program expansion will provide an opportunity to integrate teaching and clinical practice in ways that will positively impact nursing education and patient outcomes. Using an interprofessional model, nursing students will study alongside other GHS students — medical students, pharmacy students, and allied health students. Early goals include medical students and nursing students rounding together, which will lessen redundant rounding and improve communication. The overarching goal is to educate students together in

ways that advance patient care and model best practices for health-care education and practice.

The expansion will also help meet the need for baccalaureate-educated nurses.

Because of the increasing demands and complexities of the health-care system — including those presented by an aging baby boomer population and growing rates of chronic diseases — the Institute of Medicine recommends that 80 percent of nurses have a bachelor’s degree by 2020. Recent research indicates that hospitals employing greater percentages of baccalaureate-prepared nurses experience improved patient outcomes.

This expansion is an exciting development in Clemson’s collaboration with GHS. We are proud to serve as the system’s primary health research partner. This partnership gives Clemson faculty and researchers and GHS clinicians the opportunity to work on solving real-world patient care issues.

The state of health care will be stronger and better because of this nursing program expansion and all of our joint endeavors.

For 50 years, Clemson’s School of Nursing has educated outstanding students who go on to make an indelible mark on health care. As one of only 44 nursing schools in the nation designated a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education, we believe in providing the best experiences for our students. Together with GHS, we look forward to offering this exemplary education to more students who will go on to join America’s most trusted profession.

Kathleen Valentine, Ph.D. MSN RN, is director of the Clemson University School of Nursing, associate dean of Clemson’s College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences, and GHS chief nursing academic officer.

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‘We did the right things with Aida’ Col. Eric Schwartz led a campaign to help his former Iraqi interpreter escape ISIS — but the struggle isn’t over yet Words by ANDREW MOORE Photos by WILL CROOKS

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resident Donald J. Trump’s temporary travel ban, which bars people from Iraq and six other Muslim-majority countries from the United States, has created a rift between military veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some veterans say they are outraged the ban blocks visas for Iraqi interpreters who risked their lives to help U.S. troops on the battlefield. Others say the ban is a commonsense solution to protecting Americans from terrorism at home.

But for Simpsonville’s Col. Eric Schwartz, the issue isn’t as cut-and-dried. He supports the Trump administration’s travel ban despite having helped his Iraqi interpreters escape the Islamic State and start a new life in the United States.

Schwartz deployed to Iraq in 2003 as commander of the U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, also known as the Desert Rogues. They had to capture downtown Baghdad.

On April 7, after three days of fighting Iraqi forces, Schwartz and his battalion captured the city’s main square and set up their base camp. Four days later, Schwartz received a call on his radio while on patrol notifying him of a disturbance at one of the Army’s checkpoints in the city.

Upon arriving at the checkpoint, Schwartz noticed a woman standing with her two small children. Her name was Aida Sarkisian, a 42-year-old Iraqi citizen who had worked for Hewlett-Packard before the war.

Schwartz knew Sarkisian would be a valu-

able asset to military operations in the city and asked her if she’d work for him as a cultural advisor, translator, interpreter, and contractor. In need of money, Sarkisian accepted his offer.

She became the eyes and ears of the Desert Rogues in Baghdad, translating documents and even riding with Schwartz and his men on combat missions to guide them through the intricacies of Iraqi politics, tribal disputes, and social customs.

“We knew very little about Iraqi culture,” Schwartz said. “Aida had some unique skills that benefited the U.S. military. She spoke English. She understood and accepted the risk associated with helping commanders with their day-to-day missions.”

Since 2003, Iraqi interpreters and their families have been hunted down and executed by militias, insurgents, and criminals who consider them traitors for helping American military forces like Schwartz and his battalion.

Two weeks after securing the western half of Baghdad, Schwartz and his battalion were ordered to travel 40 miles west to Fallujah, where they would patrol the streets and get into heated battles with Iraqi forces and insurgents.

Sarkisian and Schwartz exchanged their goodbyes, thinking they’d never see each other again. But she had one more request, one that still leaves Schwartz shaken as he speaks about the encounter almost 14 years later.

“I’ll never forget it,” he said. “She came to work and asked if she and her family could come back to America with us after the war. It

just wasn’t possible. I told her that the economy and security were going to improve and that she’d be okay.”

Sarkisian, who quickly became desperate, tried to hand her two children to Schwartz, asking him to take them to America. But Schwartz refused. He had to follow orders and be in Fallujah the next day with his battalion.

servative stance on immigration policy.

“I believe in doing everything we can to help others improve their way of life. It’s one of the many reasons we invaded Iraq, to free them from Saddam [Hussein]. However, it’s difficult to create desirable conditions when they want to come here,” Schwartz said.

He argued that many Iraqi interpreters were once teachers, doctors, college profes-

A U.S. Army M-1 Abrams tank fires a round at enemy combatants in Baghdad during the Iraq War in 2003. Photo provided by Eric Schwartz.

The Desert Rogues left Baghdad, and it was the last time Schwartz saw Sarkisian before redeploying to Fort Steward, Ga., in August 2003.

Schwartz doesn’t regret leaving Sarkisian behind in Iraq, despite the fact that she was later hunted down by ISIS for helping the U.S. military. The decision mirrors his con-

sors, scientists, bureaucrats, technicians, and entrepreneurs, the very people upon whom the future of the country depends on.

“Aida and others like her represent a smart, educated middle class that are the bedrock of a nation,” Schwartz said. “Unfortunately, the wars in the Middle East created a security situation that we didn’t anticipate.”

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FROM BAGHDAD TO AMERICA When Schwartz left Baghdad, Sarkisian continued working with the Army until the U.S. withdrew from Iraq in 2012. During her nine years as an interpreter, Sarkisian received death threats from ISIS. “We completely abandoned Iraqi interpreters and contractors when we left,” Schwartz said. “In reality, most of them assimilated back into the framework of the country. But in Aida’s case, they hunted her down because she was so supportive.”

In 2013, Sarkisian and her family had to leave Baghdad due to the threats. She and her family went into hiding just outside the city of Mosul, where they stayed for nearly two years while waiting for refugee visas, which they had applied for through the International Organization of Migration in 2008.

ISIS surged into Mosul in August 2014, putting Sarkisian and her family at risk again.

She managed to send a Facebook message to Schwartz, asking for his help.

“Please help, I’m looking out my window and I know that ISIS knows who we are and my family is in hiding,” the message read. “Is there anything you can do?”

Schwartz, who had retired from the Army in 2012 and settled down in Simpsonville, was sitting at his computer when he received the message from Sarkisian. “I had to do something,” he said. “I started a campaign to get her out of there.”

For nearly eight months, Schwartz communicated back and forth with Sarkisian over Facebook as he helped her apply for Special Immigrant Visas through the State Department, a process that isn’t an easy or certain road.

Special Immigrant Visas are issued to Iraqi interpreters and their families because they are at risk of being persecuted due to their allegiance to U.S. military forces. Since 2007, the State Department has issued more than 1,700 Special Immigrant Visas to Iraqi interpreters and their family members.

Interpreters lucky enough to receive a Special Immigrant Visa usually wait for several years while officials conduct additional background checks. It’s also a highly selective program, with only 19 visas issued to Iraqi interpreters during the past three years, according to State Department figures.

Sarkisian wasn’t one of those interpreters.

“Our country abandoned her. I mean, every effort we made to get her assistance was met with resistance from the State Department,” Schwartz said. “They contacted me three or four times asking me to write more letters of support for Aida.”

On April 25, 2015, Sarkisian received a message from the International Organization of Migration. Her family’s refugee visas had been approved, and they were scheduled to leave Iraq from Baghdad Airport on May 5.

“Should I go?” Sarkisian wrote to Schwartz on Facebook. Schwartz told her to go, and

lost contact with Sarkisian for 24 hours.

Then he sent her another message: “Aida, did you leave Baghdad?”

Schwartz eventually got a response from Sarkisian, who told him that she and her family had been sent to an apartment complex in

and that I would always be willing to do whatever I needed to help her out,” Schwartz said.

Earlier this year, Schwartz received a message from Sarkisian, telling him that they had relocated to California to start a new life. “It was a mistake, in my opinion. They shouldn’t

Former Iraqi interpreter Aida Sarkisian (right) and her family had to relocate to the U.S. in 2015 after receiving death threats from ISIS. Photo provided by Eric Schwartz.

“We completely abandoned Aida and Iraqi interpreters when we left,” Schwartz said.

“In reality, most of them assimilated back into the framework of the country.

But in Aida’s case, they hunted her down because she was so supportive.”

Raleigh, N.C. Schwartz drove to Raleigh the next day to check on Sarkisian, who he hadn’t seen since 2003.

Schwartz was appalled when he arrived at the complex.

“She was staying in squalor. It was filth,” Schwartz said. “She had gotten a job cleaning toilets at a nearby hotel. It was just a really bad way to welcome someone who had sacrificed their life for our cause.”

Schwartz returned home and started a fundraiser to relocate Sarkisian and her family to Greenville. “The people of Greenville really rallied together and they did everything they could,” he said. “They put together a support plan for Aida.”

That support plan included a house, doctor, church, car, cellphone, and thousands of dollars in cash, according to Schwartz. He returned to Raleigh and told Sarkisian, but she refused to take the help.

“She told me that they were a proud Iraqi family and that they wanted to do it on their own. I told her that I would always be here

have left,” Schwartz said.

Since relocating, Sarkisian has lost her job with General Electric, her mother has died, and her daughter can’t find work, according to Schwartz, who has kept in touch with Sarkisian since they moved. They will soon be homeless.

“Refugees don’t come to America and live happily ever after,” Schwartz said. “I’m trying to convince them to relocate to South Carolina, where I can help them, but I’m not so sure it’s going to work. … I really hope she listens.”

THOUGHTS ON IMMIGRATION Despite his experience with the Special Immigrant Visa program, Schwartz has retained faith in the U.S. immigration system. “We did the right things with Aida — even if it didn’t work out like we’d hoped,” he said.

It’s one of the reasons why he supports the temporary travel ban.

Trump’s recent executive order bans people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days, and temporarily suspends the U.S. refugee resettlement program for 120 days.

Trump said the temporary travel ban is intended to allow American officials to vet Iraqis and others more thoroughly — even though no one from the seven countries listed in the order has carried out a fatal terror attack on U.S. soil since before Sept. 11, 2001.

“The word ‘ban’ is being used heavily by the media. It’s just a pause. There must’ve been signs that our vetting process needed improvements, and we have a responsibility to secure our homeland,” Schwartz said.

The ban has sparked outrage across the country, with many claiming it’s morally wrong and unconstitutional. Military veterans are also protesting the ban, claiming it blocks Special Immigrant Visa holders, many of whom are former Iraqi interpreters.

Last week, Trump amended the ban to allow Special Immigrant Visa holders to enter the U.S. However, many U.S. veterans are still angry that the administration’s travel ban applies to interpreters and translators who hold refugee visas.

Interpreters who receive refugee visas typically resettle in the U.S. with help from the International Organization of Migration. The State Department confirmed last week that fewer than 60,000 visas had been provisionally revoked.

Some veterans want the administration to allow an exception for Iraqi interpreters with refugee visas, arguing they’ve already gone through an extensive security process to accompany American forces on combat missions overseas.

“It’s the most stringent process we have.

I’d say it’s even more stringent than getting top-secret clearance,” said Benjamin Curtis, a Clemson University student who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2012 as an Arabic and Farsi linguist for the Marine Corps.

“They risked their lives to help us, and they deserve the chance to come here,” he added.

“They’ve proven themselves worthy of the freedoms we have in America. They fought for it just like we did, and they’ve saved my life,” said S.C. Rep. James Smith, who deployed to Afghanistan with the U.S. Army in 2007.

Smith said interpreters would often scan unsecure radio channels and tell U.S. soldiers when the Taliban was planning an ambush.

(While Afghanistan isn’t on Trump’s list of banned countries, many Afghan interpreters fear they could be next.)

Schwartz, on the other hand, agrees with the Trump administration’s decision and says Special Immigrant Visa holders should be the only people allowed to emigrate from the seven listed countries while the temporary travel ban is in effect.

“I don’t have a hardened heart toward refugees,” Schwartz said. “I’m a realist and want to make sure that refugees come to America for the right reason. And those that enter have been properly screened.”

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One thousand people attended the No Hate, No Fear, No Ban protest last weekend to voice their opposition to President Trump’s recent executive order on immigration.

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A crowd of around 1,000 crammed into ONE City Plaza downtown on a cold Saturday afternoon to demonstrate support for the Upstate’s Muslim and refugee communities.

Hundreds of protest signs were held high, including one man’s “I’m a refugee, Love me Tender, Love me Long, In America I Belong.”

The No Hate, No Fear, No Ban protest on Feb. 4 was organized by the Islamic Society of Greenville in response to President Donald J. Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order that suspended visas to people from seven Muslim-majority countries, and indefinitely stopped Syrian refugees from entering the United States.

The travel ban was halted nationwide last Friday by U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle. The Trump administration said it would file an emergency motion to stop the judge’s order. It was unclear over the weekend how many people from the banned nations would be allowed to return home to the United States.

The variety of handmade signs included some that called for the U.S. to bring home Upstate scientist and Clemson graduate Nazanin Zinouri, who had been stranded in Iran during her vacation. The day after the rally, Zinouri flew to the United States and cleared customs. She arrived Monday afternoon at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, welcomed by a crowd of well-wishers.

The anti-ban rally was the fourth big rally — with total numbers of demonstrators exceeding 3,500 — held in Greenville in as many weeks. More than 300 people attend-

ed the Solidarity rally on Jan. 8 at the Peace Center Square.

Two thousand people with nearly as many umbrellas spread throughout Falls Park on Jan. 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration, for the Women’s March Greenville, and about 200 people protested Trump’s immigration ban, gathering at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport on Jan. 29.

Several Muslim women wearing hijabs spoke to the ONE City Plaza crowd of the discrimination they experience and the hope they have for America’s ideals.

The women told about their personal distress over the dehumanization of millions of Muslims in the United States and elsewhere.

“They see my hijab, and they think I am a security threat,” said Johnna Malici. “They have bought into the false, but very powerful, narrative of fear. This narrative is good at winning votes. It’s good at driving up ratings. But it’s bad for our democracy, folks.”

Another woman asked, “What if it was an American child washed upon the Turkish shores?”

The speaker referred to refugee Aylan Kurdi, a 3-yearold Syrian Kurdish boy. The 2015 photo of his body in a red T-shirt and blue pants, lying face-down in the surf, raised awareness worldwide about the Syrian refugee crisis.

Furman English professor Melinda Menzer spoke to the crowd about her Lithuanian Jewish immigrant grandfather who came to the United States in 1925 and was allowed in because he was a German citizen. The rest of his family tried to leave Lithuania before Hitler’s army invaded the country, but no nation would take them. Her grandfather’s family and 2,000 other villagers were brutally murdered by Nazis, she said.

“Some Jewish refugees made it to the United States.

There is a statue of one of them up the street. His name is Max Heller,” Menzer said. “Max and Trude Heller came here as Jewish refugees. Greenville welcomed them in, and they spent the rest of their lives repaying Greenville for that kindness.”

Heller, who is credited with helping to start Greenville’s downtown renaissance, escaped from Vienna, Austria, after Hitler’s 1938 invasion. Heller gave credit to a Greenville woman he had met in Vienna for saving his and his family’s lives. She helped him enter the United States as a refugee.

In 1948, Heller founded a Greenville apparel company, which employed 700 people, and he became the city’s mayor in 1971, according to a Furman University biography. Heller died in 2011.

Syrian and other immigrants and refugees have long made incredible contributions to the United States, several speakers said.

“Without immigrants, you would not have an iPhone,” said Ali Alkelani of Greer. “Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian immigrant from my hometown.”

Archbishop Edmund N. Cass of Progressive Catholic Church compared the refugee ban and the protests to the Civil Rights Movement.

“My great uncle was the mayor of Greenville for 16 years, James Kenneth Cass,” Cass said. “He had the unfortunate duty to have been mayor when Jesse Jackson sat at the Woolworth lunch counter.”

Mayor Cass told the police to follow the law, and they arrested Jackson.

“So the Civil Rights Movement erupted here in a positive way,” Cass said. “Years later, the Rev. Jackson and my uncle sat down when he was very old and had coffee here on Main Street.”

Jackson, a Greenville native, was a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and had emerged from the Civil Rights movement as a national political leader.

“My uncle said, ‘I didn’t want to have you arrested.’ Rev. Jackson said, ‘I’m glad you did,’” Cass told the laughing crowd.

The peaceful rally included musicians and songs. Occasionally, protesters crowded the sidewalk and needed to make room for pedestrians, but, otherwise, they gave Greenville police officers little to do. Some of the rally signs read, “Muslims are your co-workers…,” “Keep calm, but resist,” “We the people will not hate our America,” “United Against Demagogues,” and “Muslims make America GREAT.” The point speakers continually drove home was that Americans need to speak up for the world’s most vulnerable.

Refugees are fleeing death and destruction, but do not become terrorists, according to data showing that no refugees have engaged in terrorism resulting in a death in the United States in four decades. CNN estimates Americans have one chance in 3.6 million of dying in an attack by a foreign-born terrorist. The chances of being killed by a refugee are much smaller.

“The Muslim refugees of today are the same as Jewish refugees of the ’30s and ’40s,” Menzer said. “In a time of fear, the Jews were thought to be a threat to national security.”

Immigrants and refugees, as one protest sign noted, are inventors and artistic creators. Immigrants wrote “God Bless America,” designed the White House, co-founded Google, and created the first blue jeans. Locally, they helped to make Greenville one of the most popular places to live, as Menzer noted.

“Think of the Muslim Max and Trude out there now, barred from this country by hate and fear,” Menzer said.

“Greenville wants them. Greenville needs them. Greenville welcomes them.”

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Later this month Greenville officials will seek money from the Greenville County Legislative Delegation Transportation Committee for a new road city officials say could ease some of the gridlock on a part of Woodruff Road — but there’s no guarantee they’ll get any C-funds money.

“The committee gets $5 million a year and gets $10 million dollars a year in requests,” said Jeff Hilderbran, president and CEO of CoTransCo, program manager for the Greenville Legislative Delegation Transportation Committee.

Piedmont Natural Gas, which has a facility behind Target, has said it is in negotiations with Verdae Development to build a road from Woodruff Industrial Lane to Verdae Boulevard to provide an alternate way for the utility to get trucks out of its facility without having to get on Woodruff Road. The city wants to connect that road to Green Heron Road and Ketron Court with roundabouts, giving motorists traveling from Verdae Boulevard to the Magnolia Park development or the shopping centers where Target, Home Depot, Academy Sports, and Trader Joe’s are without having to actually get on Woodruff Road.

Mayor Knox White said the PNG Connector with roundabouts would cost $3.2 million, $1.6 million of which still needs to be funded.

“Part of the answer to Woodruff Road is utilizing smarter practices,” he said.

The new street would not take the place of a Woodruff Road Connector that the city and state transportation officials have been talking about for years. The Woodruff Road Connector could run from Miller Road to Verdae and perhaps extend to Salters Road. But its route hasn’t been determined and the project won’t get funding for easements until 2018, Cooper said. The Woodruff Road Connector isn’t scheduled to get any construction money until 2021, and it could take two or three years to fund the entire project.

The PNG connector could be similar to the Market Pointe connector the city built on Woodruff on the other side of Interstate 85 near Whole Foods, because it would allow drivers to travel between some locations on Woodruff Road without having to actually get back on Woodruff.

White said the Market Pointe connector, a plain two-lane road with no sidewalks or

lighting, was finished about the same time Salters Road was closed for widening and replacement of an overpass over Interstate 85.

Salters Road gave motorists an alternative to Woodruff Road to get from Verdae Boulevard and Carolina Point Parkway, which is near Whole Foods. The latest state Department of Transportation traffic count showed nearly 6,000 vehicles traveled Salters Road a day, keeping additional traffic off the most clogged part of Woodruff Road.

“When Salters Road is finished, it will become more obvious that the Market Pointe connector was a smart move,” White said.

The new PNG connector would allow motorists on Verdae to access Costco and Magnolia Park without having to get on Woodruff Road, an option that they do not currently have, and help create a traffic grid system in that area.

Greenville County Legislative Delegation Transportation Committee Vice Chair Ruth Sherlock said the committee would consider the city’s request. “Anybody who has traveled Woodruff knows there’s a problem,” she said.

“It used to be just at Christmastime, but now it’s all the time.”

C-funds date back to the 1940s as a funding source for secondary roads in South Carolina.

The original intent was to pave farm-to-market dirt roads. The state reserves 2.66 cents per gallon of the state gasoline tax for C-fund projects. Counties must spend at least 25 percent of their C-funds for construction, improvements, and maintenance of state-owned roads. The PNG connector would not qualify as a state road, Hilderbran said.

Hilderbran said the top goal of the PNG connector is to get the utility’s trucks out to Verdae Boulevard, which could be accomplished without any additional funding.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Greenville Zoo highlights Madagascar’s endangered wildlife

Louis Zoo and a member of the Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group, will be giving a free presentation about the island’s conservation efforts from 7–8 p.m. at the Children’s Museum of the Upstate in downtown Greenville.

The presentation will focus on the St. Louis Zoo’s WildCare Institute, which studies the health and genetics of Madagascar’s animals, including lemurs, as well as provides protection for the island’s plants and trees.

In recent years, logging and other commercial practices have reduced Madagascar’s rainforests by 90 percent, pushing many plant and animal species to the brink of extinction.

Photo by Mathias Appel / Flickr Creative Commons.

The black-and-white ruffed lemur is just one of Madagascar’s many critically endangered species.

In 2005, the animated comedy film “Madagascar” shed light on the mysterious island and its lemurs.

But more recently, loggers have flattened Madagascar’s rainforests, pushing many of its plants and animals to the brink of extinction.

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Luckily, a group of researchers is working to save the subtropical island from deforestation.

That will be the message from Dr. Eric Miller on Wednesday, Feb. 22. Miller, the director of the St.

Miller’s presentation is funded by the Greenville Zoo Conservation Fund and Furman University’s biology department. They partnered last year to hold a series of free lectures that highlight various global conservation efforts.

“The goal is to help the public learn and understand the importance of being responsible stewards of the planet,” said Nikolay Kapustin, deputy zoo administrator and veterinarian for the Greenville Zoo. He added that there could be three or four additional lectures this year that highlight various conservation efforts and animals, including anteaters and armadillos.

For more information, visit greenvillezoo.com. — Andrew Moore

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The state’s annual Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, a census of the area homeless population, ended earlier this week, although final numbers will not be available until May 1.

As expected, the PIT Count left some volunteers feeling dismayed.

“I’m the data person, and I work a lot with the numbers and outcomes and those kinds of things, so it was a helpless feeling to talk with someone and know their needs,” says Natalie Worley, director of program planning and evaluation at United Housing Connections (UHC), a mostly federally funded Housing and Urban Development (HUD) lead agency for 13 counties in the Upstate.

The Upstate homeless count takes place over one week. Previous PIT Counts reported 1,829 homeless in 2016 and more than 1,900 in 2015.

The Upstate region covers 13 counties: Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Edgefield, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick, Oconee, Pickens, Saluda, Spartanburg, and Union. Among the 1,829 homeless in 2016, 251 were “chronically homeless individuals, 246 victims of domestic violence, 207 households with at least one child, and 141 veterans,” according to United Housing Connections.

About 400 volunteers statewide visited places where homeless people congregate to count them for an annual HUD tally of the homeless.

that support housing programs and services. The data collected will be analyzed for demographics, including gender, disability, veterans, length of time homeless, age, race, and ethnicity. It also is a way for social service organizations to learn why some people still live in their vehicles or in tents.

“It helps us as local service providers to plan services and programs,” Worley says. “It helps us to understand who the homeless are in our community.”

Besides having about 400 volunteers statewide visit abandoned buildings, tent areas, and other outdoor locations to count the homeless, local organizations do their part by counting people who use their shelters and other services. For example, the Wounded Warrior organization helped UHC identify homeless veterans.

UHC also counts available beds for the homeless population. In its count of emergency shelter and transitional housing beds, there were 1,657 in 2016 and 1,749 in 2015. The bed count declined partly due to HUD’s cuts in funding for transitional housing, Worley says.

People without homes often are overlooked in society, so the annual count is a way to show them they are not forgotten. “We emphasize in the count that everybody counts, that there are people behind all of those numbers,” Worley says. —Melinda Young

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and depended on alcohol more than Jesus.”

“However … during this entire time [Elevation founder and lead pastor] Steven Furtick hasn’t been someone who ‘had my back’ but rather has stood by my side and been a source of encouragement, friendship, and has been willing to tell me what I needed to hear,” Noble posted on Facebook. “Last night he allowed me the honor of returning to preaching on the stage at Elevation — and what I thought was dead came to life again.” —Cindy Landrum

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In a Facebook post Sunday morning, Noble said that in July, he thought he would never preach again. But on Saturday, he preached at Elevation Church in Charlotte.

Noble, who said in an earlier post that he went to an Arizona treatment facility, wrote that he allowed himself to “be deceived by the enemy

More than 100 people, including Greenville residents, gathered outside the S.C. State House last week to protest President Donald J. Trump’s renewed efforts to construct two controversial oil pipelines.

Protesters held signs bearing messages like “No more pipelines, keep it in the ground” and “Spills kill.” The demonstration was held by 350 Columbia, South Carolina’s chapter of the climate action group 350.org.

“Trump is a direct threat to the environment, and his decision to renew these pipelines is solid evidence of that,” said L.L. Gaddy, cofounder of 350 Columbia and a University of South Carolina student.

Trump recently signed two executive

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orders advancing the Keystone XL and North Dakota Access oil pipeline projects. Both projects have garnered strong opposition from activists over environmental concerns.

The Dakota pipeline was the focus of Friday’s demonstration.

“We believe it’s symbolic of our generation’s fight against these large companies and their pipelines,” Gaddy said. “These tribes are fighting to keep their drinking water clean, and we want to show that we support them.”

The 1,172-mile Dakota pipeline would carry oil from reserves in North Dakota to Illinois pipeline networks. Standing Rock Sioux tribal leaders and activists have protested the pipeline for months, saying it would threaten their water supplies and disturb sacred burial grounds if routed beneath the Missouri River.

In December, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stopped construction of the pipeline to conduct an environmental impact review and determine alternative routes. Trump’s executive order directs the Army Corps of Engineers to review and approve the pipeline in an “expedited manner.”

Rock for months,” said Greenville resident Aileen Laughlin. “They’re not asking for anything unreasonable. Trump’s order is just disappointing to me. It’s just wrong. That’s why I’m protesting, to let others know about this injustice.”

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Protesters also marched and demonstrated outside the Wells Fargo office building in downtown Columbia.

Gaddy said the main goal of the demonstration was to get Wells Fargo to withdraw its financial support from the Dakota pipeline. The bank is among the 17 financial institutions funding or overseeing the construction of the pipeline.

Protesters were also encouraged to close their accounts with the bank on Friday.

“This is going to put pressure on Wells Fargo,” Gaddy said. “They’re going to notice this issue if enough customers shut down their accounts.”

Some protesters managed to enter the Wells Fargo lobby despite warnings from the police that they could be arrested. At least one protester was detained after that. — Andrew Moore

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A Greenville Journal valentine to our fair city

Greenville’s been getting a lot of attention lately. Hardly a week goes by when some media outlet or another doesn’t have some right swell thing to say about our beloved Upstate town. While we’re pleased GreenVegas is getting some national attention as a must-see tourist destination, it’s still the place we call home — and many of the things that we most love about it, well, the tourists will never know about.

That’s not to say we don’t love all the good stuff the national mags and papers highlight. We do. In fact, some of them made our list of our favorite things. So without further ado: Enjoy.

P.S. Yes, we love the Mice on Main and Falls Park too.

Those go without saying.

Mini-Golf at McPherson Park

Everybody’s all a-tingle over Greenville’s new park west of downtown, whenever that’s going to happen. But while Greenville’s oldest park (circa 1884) may be a little frayed around the edges, it retains a certain raffish charm for those who aren’t too fussy about their recreation. And it’s the only place we know where you can play miniature golf for free — as long as you bring your own clubs and balls, which you can get for just a few bucks at your nearest thrift store, less than it would cost to even walk onto one of your fancier suburban courses. Yes, the course could use some cleaning up, but on the right day, with the right companions, 18 holes in the heart of downtown is all you need. —Jerry Salley

Lemonade at Northgate Soda Shop

The fresh-squeezed lemonade at North Main’s Northgate Soda Shop is like summer in a cup. And it’s refreshing whether it’s 45 degrees outside or pushing 100. It’s especially fun to watch it being made; the lemons are fresh-sliced and squeezed, and then two (or more) pumps of simple syrup topped off with water. We don’t think about the sugar content — just how happy we are when we’re slurping it down. —Ariel Turner

Quarters for Conservation

At the Greenville Zoo, you can stand face-to-face with an African lion, watch red pandas crawl across the treetops, and listen to monkeys howl. But you can also make a real difference for endangered species. In 2011, the zoo started

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With each visit to the zoo, visitors receive a “quarter” token with their admission fee.

That token can be used to vote for a specific wildlife project at a kiosk just beyond the admissions booth. Projects have included the International Elephant Foundation, Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project, and more. —Andrew Moore

The Candy Selection at Mast General

It’s hard not to feel nostalgic when you see the candy selection at Mast General Store. With barrels filled with both oldfashioned and contemporary favorites, people of all ages can easily conjure up memories from childhood, when walking into a candy store could be the highlight of a day. From candy bars to taffy and hard candy to gummies, there’s something for everyone. —Emily Pietras

Kroc Tennis Center’s Patty Lauritzen

Patty Lauritzen, the Kroc Tennis Pro Shop coordinator, is a rare find: She’s an ever-grinning face that welcomes one and all by name to downtown’s only tennis club. Patty has played tennis for 15 years, but never gave a thought to working at a tennis club until 2011 when a friend and tennis coach told her to apply for a job at the Kroc Center. “He said I’d be perfect for the job,” she recalls. He was right. If those leaving the tennis pro shop feel especially buoyant on a particular afternoon, it’s likely because they had a brief chat with Patty and she noted that their backhand was looking sharp. —Melinda Young

Café and Then Some

Bill and Susan Smith and the rest of the Café and Then Some crew are nonpartisan — in their comedy skits, at least. They’ve been making fun of current events and politicians of both parties since 1978 with their uproarious, original musical comedies. And

Greenville has laughed along with them ever since. —Cindy Landrum

Wilson’s Five and Dime

Technically, the name is Wilson’s 5 cents–$1 Store, but you’re not going to find many Greenvillians who know it as anything other than Wilson’s Five and Dime. The store, perched atop what remains of Laurens Road’s retail epicenter, resists all attempts to simply categorize its inventory — but it remains a kitsch lover’s Valhalla. You’ll always find arts and crafts stuff, and flags and lawn ornaments of all kinds, but the tightly packed shelves are so crammed full of random, cheap housewares, toys, and novelties that you may find yourself at the checkout an hour after entering (and jostling with the crowd down several narrow aisles) with a basket full of stuff you had no idea you needed until you saw it. —Jerry Salley

Rainer’s Café

Flat-screen TVs and Wi-Fi access are as much a part of the entertainment as food and conversation at most 21st-century restaurants and cafés. So it’s a pleasant surprise to walk into Rainer’s Café and see signs prohibiting any and all electronic devices. The mission is the quiet murmurs of lunchtime talk. That alone might make the visit worthwhile, but then there also is the Red and Blue Salad, almost as lovely as the designs on the handcrafted pottery plates themselves. And there is $3 dessert Thursday or the chicken pesto sandwich on sourdough bread to entice one to walk into 610-A S. Main St. —Melinda Young

Hiking at Paris Mountain

Greenville is an outdoor lover’s dream, and in addition to nearby Jones Gap, Table Rock, and Caesars Head, we’re lucky to have Paris Mountain State Park in our backyard.

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Mountain provides a rejuvenating escape from the daily grind, whether you go by yourself or bring along family, friends, or your dog. —Emily Pietras

Milkshakes at Pickwick

The Pickwick Pharmacy and Soda Fountain is like stepping back into the past when almost every Southern town had a soda fountain that gave its residents a break from the heat via frosty treats. While you’re sitting on one of the swivel stools at the counter or at one of the tables, it’s likely you’ll see somebody you know, especially on a nice spring Saturday as the Pickwick is a Greenville gathering spot. Grab a hot dog for lunch. And be sure to get a milkshake. You can’t go wrong with chocolate. —Cindy Landrum

The Lights at ONE City Plaza

The patio lights strung between the buildings bordering Laurens Street from East North to Washington streets give us all the feels. It’s almost as if we’re starring in our own rom-com when we exit the Richardson Street Garage and traipse down to Caviar and Bananas after dusk under the twinkling canopy. Cue sweeping strings and predictable meet-cutes. —Ariel Turner

Greenville’s Trolley

On a recent warm winter evening, three Spartanburg dads and their children – big on grins and wide eyes – hopped aboard the Greenville trolley to take a ride up North Main Street to Earle Street and back downtown. The men had never taken the trolley ride before, and their kids had never even heard of a trolley. The trolley’s brightly colored exterior and friendly driver welcomed the visitors to a charming experience. For most trolley riders, looking out the big windows at Greenville’s shops and crowded sidewalks, it’s all about a journey — slow enough for conversation — and not the destination. —Melinda Young

Putting an Egg on It at GB&D

You’ve probably noticed — fried eggs on non-breakfast dishes are a thing right now. Most restaurants offer them as add-ons on a burger or possibly a salad. Enter Golden Brown & Delicious (GB&D) in the Village of West Greenville where we can get a fried egg on any menu item we want. Fried egg on pork belly mac ’n’ cheese? Go right ahead. Runny yolk on your chicken ’n’ waffles? You won’t catch any side-eye.

—Ariel Turner

Baseball at Fluor Field

Sure, binge-watching another season of your favorite Netflix show might seem like a good idea on a Friday night. But it can’t possibly beat watching the Greenville Drive hit home runs over the Green Monster at Fluor Field. Between the endless selection of ballpark foods, the double plays, and the shenanigans of Reedy Rip’It, there’s enough entertainment to go around for everyone. —Andrew Moore

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Greenville has several notable history destinations, but few match Springwood Cemetery. In this sprawling green lawn with its 11,000-plus monuments, one can read tweet-like autobiographies. For example, there is Elizabeth Earle, wife of William S. Grady, who died at age 29. According to her stone, Elizabeth was “blessed” and “pure of heart.” From its first burial in 1812 to gravestones from the 21st century, the cemetery’s tombstones list these common local last names:

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52 Earles, 22 Whites, 19 Woodsides, 14 Peaces, and 12 Parkinses. Also, there are 135 graves for infants, who died before they were named, and countless markers for women who died in childbirth and men who died in wars. —Melinda Young

Biking the Swamp Rabbit Trail

A trip down the Swamp Rabbit Trail can be exhausting, but there’s a lot to see. The nearly 18-mile walking and bicycling trail traverses along the Reedy River and through downtown Greenville. But along the way, you can stop

at the Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery for a Green Hulk smoothie, picnic in Falls Park, and visit Reedy River Farms, where owner George Dubose can teach you the ins and outs of urban farming. —Andrew Moore

WPCI 1490 AM

Do you remember the thrill of discovering your friend’s cool record collection? (For that matter, do you remember record collections?) That’s what it feels like to stumble across WPCI, aka “Radio Randy,” 1490 on your AM dial. (Remember AM radio?) Essen-

tially the record collection of owner/operator Randy Mathena, stored on a hard drive and set on shuffle, you’ll hear classic R&B, blues, reggae, country, rock, and folk. No playlist, no format, no Top 40. And the music is pretty much all you’ll hear — the station airs no ads or even song IDs (so keep your Shazam app handy), and the bare minimum station IDs needed to keep it all legal with the FCC. Mathena, owner and president of Paper Cutters International (the “PCI” in WPCI), isn’t doing this for the money, so take advantage of his musical generosity and hear some tunes you’ve never heard before through an old-

school, near-obsolete medium you may not be able to hear for long. —Jerry Salley

Lake Conestee Nature Park

When we need to slow down, we often find ourselves at Lake Conestee Nature Park. It’s only 6 miles from downtown Greenville, but once you get out in the park’s hardwood and evergreen forests or on one of its boardwalks, it seems like you’re a world away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Bonus: You can spend hours watching hawks, herons, and hooded mergansers. —Cindy Landrum LOVE LETTER continued on PAGE 18

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Sunrise from the Chapel at Pretty Place. Photo by Cindy Landrum.

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minute of lost sleep once the twilight starts revealing the beauty of the foothills and first ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. One tip: Check to make sure the open-air chapel will be open before you go.

—Cindy Landrum

Coffee, Coffee, and More Coffee

The influx of local coffee shops has been a welcome addition in town. In the heart of downtown, Coffee Underground remains a staple with its cozy atmosphere, and a visit to Methodical Coffee offers an experience in itself, with a curated aesthetic interior and record player always spinning. Tucked away in the Village of West Greenville, Village Grind’s bright environment and eclectic decor is immediately welcoming. (Tip: Order the lavender mocha.) Due South Coffee was an early newcomer toward

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the revitalization of Taylors Mill, and the shop’s open, rustic-industrial vibe pays homage to the location’s roots. And we’d be remiss not to mention Liquid Highway, one of the early independent coffee shops in the city. —Emily Pietras

Sunrise at Pretty Place

We know of no other place more aptly nicknamed as Pretty Place at Camp Greenville, and there’s no better time to be there than at sunrise. The nearly hour-long drive in the pre-dawn darkness is worth every

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While the rise of e-readers has spurred discussion of the “death of print” for years, it’s comforting to know there still remains a demand for the local independent bookstore. Located on the first floor of the old courthouse on South Main Street, M. Judson Booksellers has been a hit for both

locals and tourists. The store rotates a diverse series of staff-recommended reads, and the young adult and children’s sections are top-notch. The place-based Southern selections, many of which are focused on food and bev, add to the store’s charm, as does the addition of Chocolate Moose Bakery & Café. —Emily Pietras

The Love Muffin and Chicken Salad at Brick Street

Brick Street Café’s chicken salad and Love Muffin go together like peanut butter and jelly. The crunch of walnuts and the zing of fresh onions and creamy cheddar cheese

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make Miss Sue’s chicken salad some of the best around. And the Love Muffin — it’s a fresh-baked, palm-sized muffin with a cream cheese and raspberry jam center. Need we say more? —Ariel Turner

Local Legends at Alchemy Comedy Theatre

Full disclosure: I have been a Local Legend.

I have stood up before a crowd in the back room at Coffee Underground and told five stories from my personal and professional life. The stories may have once only seemed funny to me, but then I sat down and the performers from Alchemy took over. My anecdotes became the inspiration for a number of rapid-fire improvised comedy bits, and suddenly the whole room was laughing. The Local Legends series features a new storyteller each week — and if the stories don’t seem “legendary” at first, just give the Alchemists a few minutes to turn personal history into shared comedy. —Jerry Salley

Aloft’s Fourth Floor

There is something a little serendipitous for dog lovers about stumbling across Aloft Greenville Downtown’s fourth floor. Sure, there are plenty of clues on the ground floor, including paintings of dogs and the doggie bobbleheads. But it’s not until you take

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the elevator to the fourth floor and meet the cream-colored Dabo or an equally perky canine hotel guest that you fully realize the unexpected pleasures of a hotel that equally celebrates dogs and people. Retro arcade games and billiards complement the bar and snack café. A mini-version of the white picket fence home next to guest services showcases adoptable and adorable strays. They’re offered through Let ’em Live Upstate for $200, and the adoption includes plenty of snacks from the holistic pet food company Solid Gold. Since taking in the first foster dog in the summer of 2016, the hotel has seen more than two dozen adoptions. But adopting the dog isn’t the point for most guests. As Aloft’s sign advises, “Keep Calm and Pet the Dog.” —Melinda Young

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Shopping for local produce at the TD Saturday Market

Through the years, the TD Saturday Market has become a must-do on the weekends and a mecca for shoppers seeking locally grown produce and fresh snacks. That includes baby greens from Greenbrier Farms, honey from May Farms, and the Truffle Brownie Granola from MoCa KaBranola. With a wide selection of vendors, the market is sure to fill shopping bags. —Andrew Moore

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you h a d asked Peggy Phillips 20 years ago on her 50th birthday whether she would be spending her retirement years cycling for exercise, she likely would have raised a skeptical eyebrow and shook her head.

Phillips didn’t learn to ride a bike until she was 30, and gave it up after a bad spill six months later.

And, yet, here she is twice a week at a local YMCA, cycling for her health and to slow

down the progression of Parkinson’s disease.

Speaking about herself in the third person, Phillips said, “I made a New Year’s resolution for Peggy, to take care of myself and to do what I have to do to improve my quality of life.”

The resolution led her to lose weight and eat healthy foods, to take a yoga class, and en-

roll in the special Parkinson’s Wellness Recovery (PWR!) and Pedaling for Parkinson’s program that was started late in 2016 at four sites of the YMCA of Greenville. So far about 20 people have signed up for the program.

Within just a couple of weeks, Phillips could see physical improvements. “I feel much more fluid and limber than I ever have, after yoga and after cycling – I feel the energy.

I haven’t felt this good in years,” she says.

Phillips’ balance — a big issue in Parkinson’s disease — also is improving.

“If I start to trip, I can catch myself,” Phillips says. “I have so much more balance, and I can’t believe it’s only been this short time.”

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder that can result in minor symptoms, including hand tremors, for a decade before a person is diagnosed, says Laryn Weaver, executive director of the Greenville Area Parkinson Society (GAPS), which is working with the YMCA to get the

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Cycling, yoga, boxing, and dancing can help slow down the progress of Parkinson’s disease.

word out in the community about the PWR! and Pedaling for Parkinson’s program.

An estimated 5,000 people in Greenville have the disease, Weaver says.

Cycling, yoga, boxing, and dancing all help slow the disease’s progress. The key is to work with experts who are trained to work with Parkinson’s patients, Weaver says.

The PWR! program helps alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms by helping people produce high physical effort with forced use, intensity, and repetition, and making them think, says Leslie Knox, wellness program coordinator and personal trainer at the GHS Family YMCA in Simpsonville.

“Cycling does a lot for them, as well,” Knox says. “It works on their balance by hav-

ing them sit on the bike, increase muscles in their legs, and increasing their stamina.”

The YMCA program has 14 coaches trained by a national Parkinson’s trainer to work with PWR! and Pedaling enrollees.

Honey and Doyle Yates funded the training program.

Doyle Yates is a lifelong YMCA member and has served on the Caine Halter Family YMCA’s board, as well as led the organization’s Open Doors Annual Giving campaign.

“As a Parkinson’s patient myself, I have a keen interest in this program and to help others that have Parkinson’s,” Doyle Yates says. “It was important to Honey and me that the YMCA be able to offer this program to our community.”

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“An Open Letter to the American People”

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“How to Make America Great”

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raditionally, I write an open letter to the new President, noting how I believe scripture, Christian principles, can and should be applied to the goals of the new administration.

After this past election, described by some as one featuring no worthy candidates, this was most tempting. But it struck me that if we are honest, political candidates are no more than a reflection of ourselves. If we are unhappy with who is running for office, maybe what we need to do is look in the mirror. So, instead of the new President, I have addressed this letter to the American People, to you and me, with an obvious nod to the incoming administration by subtitling it: “How to Make America Great.”

I believe America is great when we listen to the core elements of scripture, not the peripheral concerns that so often sidetrack us, but the heart of the Christian message.

Number one: Luke 6:31 “Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

The Golden Rule. Even non Christians can repeat it. We learn it at home, in the weekday school, at church. But what does it really mean?

Okay. I want you to turn and look at your children. Really look at them. If your children aren’t here, visualize them. Or, look at your spouse, or yourself. Now, what kind of health care do you want for your children? Or your spouse? Or yourself? Think in your mind what that health care looks like.

Jesus’ words mean that is exactly the kind of health care you must want and seek for every other child, man and woman. If the members of Congress were determined to give every American the same health care they receive, we would have already solved this issue. Most of us don’t care whether it is called Obamacare or Trumpcare or any other care. All of us want affordable, quality health care for us and our loved ones.

Now, my guess is that as soon as I mentioned health care, whatever your political leaning, you began to immediately think of all the reasons health care should be structured in a certain way.

Sadly, we have allowed the politicians to divide us over issues that should be problems to be solved rather than issues to be exploited.

There is no question there are numerous financial considerations.

And if you are a health care worker, you possess a double interest in these decisions. But if I want, if I believe Jesus wants, every person to have the same health care I enjoy, it radically changes the direction of my decision making.

Ok. Let’s do another one.

Immigration. You didn’t think I would just do easy ones, did you?

You’re Syrian. The war rages all around you. Food stores.

Doctor’s offices. Schools. All closed. No safe place. No future.

Now, I want you to look at your children again. What are you going to do?

I know exactly what you are going to do. You are going to do everything in your power to get your children to a safe place, a place where they have a future.

Now, imagine you live in Mexico. Lousy schools. Drug cartels.

Crooked Cops. No future for your children. Across the border are schools. Jobs. Safety. Opportunity. Look at your children. What would you do?

I know what I would do. And I’m pretty sure I know what you would do. This does not mean there should not be sensible discussions about border control or paths to citizenship. But, when we put ourselves in the place of immigrants, we see them differently. And, we ask ourselves, if I was an immigrant, desperate to get my family to a safe place where they had the opportunity for a future, how would I want to be treated?

Leviticus 19:34 says: “The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord.” Unless your ancestors were American Indians, your family, my family, were all immigrants, looking for opportunity.

The Reverend Shelley Matthews, commenting on Matthew 2:13-23 in her blog writes of Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus fleeing into Egypt to escape Herod’s murder of the Bethlehem children. She writes: “As conversations concerning the problem of immigration swirl around us, all those who identify as Christians, and who thus honor the Christ at the center of our faith, would do well to contemplate the following: The baby Jesus is saved from the wrath of Herod only because he and his family are able to cross a border.”

Second: I Corinthians 3:5-6 In Paul’s first Letter to the Corinthians he writes: “What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.”

Every single one of us stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before us, as individuals, in our families, our churches, and our nation. For America to be great, we must have a sense of community, a commitment to the welfare and prosperity of all our people. That doesn’t mean we will all agree. That has never occurred, and never will. But diversity can be a strength when it is undergirded with a radical commitment to do what is best for our people, even if it is not what benefits me.

Again, too often, we have allowed strident political voices to draw our attention from core values. We must desire clear water for the children of Flint, Michigan as we do for our own children, and be willing to pay for it.

We must desire for African American children to feel safe when walking the streets as do our own children, and be willing to pay a decent wage to policemen and women.

Clean air, clean water, access to mental health workers and facilities, quality public education, these are not political issues, but national interest issues, theological issues, that strike at the very core of who we are as a nation.

If America is to be great, we must acknowledge the work and sacrifice of those who went before us, and commit ourselves to working together to build on that legacy. But the core of that must be our personal and national commitment to do what is best for America, and not just what is best for me.

Third: Matthew 25:40 “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these… you did it to me.”

America will be great when we open avenues for all to share its promise and potential. America stands at its greatest when the doors of freedom, opportunity, and power open for everyone.

This isn’t easy. It takes a belief that what is good for everyone, makes it good for me. Just like we had to learn to share our toys, we decide to share our wealth, power, and opportunity. If the tide of prosperity only raises some of us, eventually all of us will suffer.

As much as we might like to leave behind the poor, the mentally ill, the elderly, Jesus is quite clear about our obligation to the corporate body, the nation.

We plan, work, strive for the good not only for those we like, or with whom we agree, but those on the other side of the political spectrum, those not in our educational or socioeconomic strata, even those we do not like or we believe do not deserve it. Greatness is not about the 1% or 10% or 30% or 50% living large. Greatness seeks to include, support, and care for the least of these, in our backyard, in America, and all over the world.

“How to Make America Great” This past fall we expanded our weekday school to accommodate so many new babies and children becoming a part of our congregation. Unexpectedly, DSS showed up and informed us that because of the expansion, we had to put two new exit doors in rooms we have used for decades. The doors, which also mandated canopies and exit signs, would cost us $54,000 and restrict occupying these classrooms until they were completed. This news greeted me as I came back from my sabbatical. I was not happy.

But it also made me consider two points. First, none of us like regulations. But regulations are there because of original sin. The Bible tells us that we are sinful in our hearts. Without the love of God changing our hearts, we will do what is best for us, however it affects others. This theological doctrine is self evident on a daily basis, as it is within us if we are honest. On a large scale, the Great Recession of 2008 is a perfect example, perpetrated by simple greed.

Now, it is likely those doors will never be used here at Westminster. And, I may believe the one door exit was sufficient.

But, if a fire occurred and one child was saved because of those doors, it will be the best money we ever spent. Protection of the vulnerable is an important element of any church, or society.

And second, that $54,000 came out of all our pockets. If you have a child in the weekday school, though it may seem expensive to you, you do not pay anywhere near what it costs for your child to be here. The church pays for the utilities, the custodial care, the renovations, the upkeep of the building, the $54,000 doors.

Why? Because we believe, we know, that the way we love, care for, and teach our children gives them a great head start in life – intellectually, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Our entire membership helps to fund that school because the start in life we give those children will eventually benefit each and every one of us as they become our teachers, doctors, child care workers, pastors, choir members, lawyers, church elders, etc. Providing them opportunity aids every one of us.

This morning, as each of us asks ourselves the part we can play in making America great, do I want for others exactly what I want for myself?

Do I seek to water the seeds of opportunity planted by those who went before me?

Do I work for the prosperity and wellbeing of all people?

Will I define greatness as Jesus did?

The full text of this sermon can be found at www.wpc-online.org

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the Move initiative. The initiative partners with schools, after-school programs, county 4-H clubs, and community youth organizations to provide education resources that work to increase student interest and exposure to STEM subjects and careers. Organizers encourage families to accompany their youth participants to the STEM Fair that will be open during the event. Exhibits will be set up around campus with interactive STEM activities and presentations. Organizations interested in providing an exhibit for the event’s STEM Fair can contact korishe@clemson.edu. Registration is $15 per team or individual and open through March 1 at bit.ly/2j1zHfe.

Mill Village Farms receives $25,000 grant

RIBBON CUTTING

Rubye H. Jones Head Start cuts ribbon for its return to Nicholtown Community The Nicholtown Child and Family Collaborative (NCFC) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Rubye H. Jones Head Start Center on Jan. 27 at 3 p.m. The celebration commemorated the return of Early Head Start classrooms to the Nicholtown community. The center serves 25 children.

NCFC was established to provide services for the children and families of Nicholtown to improve child outcomes; provide parent training, education, and employment; and build lasting community infrastructure. The ultimate goal of the NCFC, supported by the Nicholtown Master Plan, is to create a two-generation community empowerment center. NCFC will become a family advocate for parents and caregivers, and the community empowerment center will encourage early learning and offer support to children and their families.

CONTEST

Young Women’s Writing Contest now open for entries The Junior League of Greenville is now accepting entries for its fifth annual Young Women’s Writing Contest. The contest is open to all female students in Greenville County public, private, and home school programs in grades six through 12.

The Junior League of Greenville invites interested candidates to write an essay in response to the following topic: “Conflict and working with people we do not see eye-to-eye with is part of life.

Discuss a conflict resolution strategy you use successfully in school or with friends. How did you develop this strategy? Do you have a success story?”

State Farm is providing a $25,000 grant to Greenville’s Mill Village Farms, a community organization focused on job training and revitalizing Greenville’s Westside. The grant, which is part of the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program, will be used to provide employment and training opportunities for teenagers. Organizations around the nation competed through online voting to receive a grant that would be used to improve their communities. Mill Village Farms provides youth ages 14–18 with job experience in sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship, and basic job skills as support through their transition from adolescence to young adulthood.

COMPETITION

4-H, electric coops partner on statewide STEM challenge The fifth annual S.C. 4-H Engineering Challenge, sponsored by EnlightenSC, offers students ages 9–19 a chance to participate in a multichallenge competition on March 25 at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College. Students will compete in seven competitions, including two new events that spotlight solar energy and photography. The event is organized by the statewide 4-H Science on

Essays should be between 750 and 1,200 words and are accepted until March 7. The winner will be announced on May 1 and receive a $500 scholar award. The essay will be published in the summer 2017 issue of VISIONS magazine. They can be submitted online at jlgreenville. org/?nd=YoungWomenWriting.

NONPROFIT

DNA Creative Communications offers free community event DNA Creative Communications is holding a free event to benefit the nonprofit community at Zen on March 1, 4–6 p.m. The purpose of the event is to recognize the leaders in the nonprofit community and to create Greenville’s nonprofit landscape by designing a large format canvas to include local organizations and announce the 2017 Shine the Light Nonprofit Forums workshops.

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FOOD & FIRE A SOUTH AFRICAN GRILL MAKES ITS WAY TO THE UPSTATE Former ‘Top Chef’ contestant Kevin Gillespie is a big fan of KUDU’s braai grill.

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aturner@communityjournals.com Some call it the African TV, but this little wonder has nothing to do with digital images being transmitted from the earth to the sky and back again. And now it’s coming to Greenville. The name of this decidedly low-tech wonder: the braai (rhymes with “dry”). And it’s a woodfired charcoal grill.

Much like television, the braai is designed to bring people together for community and conversation. Families and friends stand around the lid-free braai and watch the embers and flames while their food is cooking.

“It’s about getting your kids to put down their iPads and spend 45 minutes outside,” says Stebin Horne, owner of KUDU Safari Braai of Macon, Ga. “There’s noth-

ing more attractive than fire and food. It’s in our DNA.” The term “braai” can also be used as a verb, or to indicate the type of gathering.

Horne has partnered with chef Anthony Gray of Bacon Bros. Public House in Greenville to bring the KUDU braai to Greenville. (Kudu is an African antelope.)

Gray, now a designated “braaimaster” after being trained on the KUDU, will be using the braai at his Greenville location Bacon Bros. and his new Bacon Bros.

Texas offshoot; he’ll also use it to host special events locally and has plans to showcase several braai at Euphoria food and wine festival in September.

“We love to celebrate around food and fire,” Gray says. “Food brings people

together.”

Currently, the only retail location in the Upstate at which to purchase the KUDU Safari Braai is Ace Hardware Landscape Supply, 620 N. Pleasantburg Drive, for $699, but you can also buy it online at the official KUDU site.

Still wonder what the big deal is?

In South Africa, Sept. 24 is National Braai Day. The entire country takes off work to cook over open flame all day.

“In a country where 11 different languages are spoken, [braai] is the only word recognized in all 11 languages,” Horne says. “It’s a way to bring people together around food and fire.”

After Horne lived with his wife on her family’s South African farm for several

years, and experienced the braai culture, he knew he needed to bring it back to the United States.

“I wanted to bring it in to allow people to put aside their differences,” he says.

The biggest differences between the South African braai and the typical grill used in the U.S. are that the braai sits lower to the ground and has no lid, so everything is visible.

Traditionally, individuals using a braai burn any kind of coal or wood available.

Horne recommends using 80 percent coal and 20 percent wood for flavor. KUDU sells a specific African wood — camel thorn – some of which comes from his in-laws’ farm on the Indian Ocean. Horne says a few U.S. chefs recently described the camel thorn after burning it for the first time as smelling like their grandfathers’ pipe. It is available wherever KUDU braais are sold, but not online.

“It’s a very firm wood that burns slow — it gets really hot at a slower temperature,” Gray says. “It’s like mesquite but not as harsh. It’s nutty and sweet and smells like no other wood.”

Gray says the KUDU can smoke chicken, grill pork belly pastrami, roast vegetables, and fry eggs, thanks to multiple attachments and its patented system of raising and lowering the cooking surface over the heat source.

Because the braai is central to any gathering, it keeps the grill master at cookouts from being relegated to a corner, Horne says.

The partnership between Horne and Gray was initiated by Gray’s friend — “Top Chef” Season 6 finalist Kevin Gillespie of Atlanta’s Gunshow and Revival — who had stumbled upon KUDU and became fast friends with Horne after inviting himself to Horne’s house for dinner to see the KUDU work its magic.

For that no-pressure dinner, Horne cooked “beef and braai breads,” typically a large cut of beef and sandwiches with cheese, tomato, onions, and chutney.

Having previously cooked on an immoveable cast-iron braai, Gillespie was sold on the KUDU because it was more versatile and moveable.

Through a fellowship with Mercer University and a highly successful Kickstarter campaign in the fall of 2016 with Gillespie’s endorsement, KUDU was born.

Coincidentally, Horne and Gray are both about the same age and from Macon, Ga., but never met when they lived there. Gillespie introduced the two.

“I fell in love with it,” Gray says about when he first cooked on the KUDU. “The whole premise is what we’ve been doing for years — helping people gather around good food.”

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Menkoi Udon & Soba House was set to officially open this week at 241 N. Main St. The North Main Street noodle shop in the former Dark Corner Distillery space across from NOMA Square is owner Kazuhiro Sato’s second location in Greenville. The other is Menkoi Ramen House at 1860 Woodruff Road. The original location is in Columbia.

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burrito joint will open in the Village of West Greenville at 1268 Pendleton St. later this summer.

Neo Burrito President Walter Godfrey says the Village location was chosen specifically because it has a similar feel to Neo’s River Arts District location in Asheville. “West Greenville feels like Asheville,” he says.

“Maybe not quite as hippie, though.”

Godfrey and owner Zak Yancey worked with Rakan Draz of Avison Young to find the perfect new home for the restaurant.

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Visual galleries in Taylors, downtown Greenville, Village of West Greenville, and Travelers Rest were open last Friday night as part of the First Friday series, which promotes local art, artists, and crafters.

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Last Saturday, the Children’s Museum of the Upstate unveiled its new Spark!Lab exhibit. The “hands-on invention experience” originated at the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.

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Last Saturday, Auction for a Kaws auctioned off 29 Upstate bachelors and bachelorettes in support of various animal rescue organizations that seek to end animal cruelty and neglect.

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A conversation with Greg Payne (of Greg Payne and the Piedmont Boys, pictured) led Charles Hedgepath to co-found CHASS Productions.

Musician Charles Hedgepath moves into management with CHASS Productions VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

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Upstate singer/guitarist Charles Hedgepath has been managing his own career for over two decades, both as a solo artist and a member of bands like The Bad Popes and The Work. A versatile player who can go from jazz to jam-rock to country, Hedgepath essentially learned on the job, developing relationships with venues, bookers, and recording studios, balancing that with practicing, songwriting, and, oh yeah, the gigs themselves.

So when he struck up a conversation with his friend Greg Payne, of the popular local outlaw country band Greg Payne and the Piedmont Boys, about who was booking their shows, Payne’s answer gave Hedgepath an idea.

“Greg said that somebody had basically screwed them over,” Hedgepath says. “And I said, ‘You know what? Give me the chance.

I’ll do it for you.’”

It was an idea that made sense to Hedgepath, because over the years, he’d actually come to enjoy the behind-the-scenes work involved in being a musician. And luckily enough, he had a friend that he could bring in with event-organizing experience: Steven Scott.

Scott is the director of Upstate Splash, a charity dedicated to promoting childhood water safety. The charity often raises funds through concerts.

“Steven and I did a couple of shows together at Gottrocks, and from that we realized that we both liked putting on events,” he says. “And we both felt there was a need for someone to connect artists with venues.

One thing Steven’s famously said is that we’ve already made enough mistakes that we’ve learned from.”

Scott and Hedgepath formed CHASS Productions at the beginning of the year — CHASS stands for “Charles Hedgepath And Steven Scott.” Initially, they worked primarily with Payne and his band, which will play at the Revel Event Center in Greenville on Feb. 17. They also work with Upstate singer/ songwriter Darby Wilcox and jam-grass veterans Blueground Undergrass.

“I compare it to someone who played Major League Baseball and then their career goes into being a coach,” Hedgepath says. “I think I can relate to the artists; they don’t have to wonder whether I know what I’m talking about when it comes to the importance of a gig or of social media. And the cool thing about the Piedmont Boys is that they have a great fan base. They’re very passionate. So there’s already an infrastructure.

They already have albums out. They have their website; it’s not like having to start from scratch. My job is to take some of the pressure off. The only thing they need to worry about is writing songs and showing up for the gigs.”

And as it turns out, CHASS made that re-

lationship with the Piedmont Boys pay off almost immediately when they helped land the band a sponsorship from Canadian Club Whisky. “They were looking for alternative marketing,” Hedgepath says of Canadian Club. “And for me, a honky-tonk band drinking the whiskey as opposed to a billboard or something like that was common sense. So then you just think about how you can find common ground and make sure they know who we are and what we’re trying to do.”

Hedgepath says that in the internet-era, bands and their management teams have to find new ways of sustaining themselves. “Before, you’d be selling your CDs for $15; it’s a download now,” he says. “So you have to play a lot and sell merch and bring in people like Canadian Club who want to do crossmarketing. With The Work, we’d get on the road and not have any merch with us. What was the point of playing these two weeks on the road if we didn’t have it? If we’d had somebody else helping us out, they might have been able to help us address that, instead of one of us going, ‘Hey, did you bring the T-shirts?’”

Local Legends with Greg Payne and the Piedmont Boys, Darby Wilcox & The Peep Show, Jacob Johnson, and WPOS When: Friday, Feb. 17 Where: Revel Event Center, 304 E. Stone Ave. Tickets: $12.50-$25 Information: chassevents.com/locallegends

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story of a lonely woman’s relationship with a conductor of an express train she’s been waving at as it passes her house. They’ve never met; they only correspond through poetic letters. But then the train line is canceled.

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You’re breezing through your Oscar office pool selections until you get to the categories devoted to short films.

While some of the year’s wittiest and smartest films are shorts, there’s a good chance you’re unfamiliar with those nominated for 2017 Oscars unless you’re a true film aficionado.

But you can get a leg up at the 2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films festival. All of the Oscar-nominated live action, animation, and documentary shorts will be screened Feb. 17–19 at the Peace Center.

They’ll be shown in categories and, for those who want to binge, it’s possible to see them all on Saturday. The shortest film is six minutes, the longest 41.

The Academy Awards will be presented on Feb. 26.

LIVE ACTION “Ennemis Intérieurs” France, 28 minutes, 2016

“Timecode” Spain, 15 minutes, 2016

“Pear Brandy and Cigarettes” Canada and the UK, 35 minutes, 2016

A man has a difficult assignment — bring Techno Stypes, a man who liked to drink, smoke, and fight, back home to Vancouver from China and get him sober long enough so he could get a liver transplant

This film shows the cost of secrets. A homeless shelter volunteer, Inger, falls in love with an illegal immigrant, Kwame. When Kwame steals money from the shelter, Inger believes his story. But the lie comes back to haunt Kwame when his mobile phone reveals details about his life in Ghana that he hadn’t told Inger.

This is the story of Luna, a daytime parking lot security guard, and Diego, who patrols at night.

“Pearl” United States, 6 minutes, 2016

ANIMATION “Blind Vaysha” Canada, 8 minutes, 2016

“Sing (Mindenki)” Hungary, 25 minutes, 2016

The Short Film Festival says this film follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country chasing their dreams. It’s a story about the gifts we hand down and their power to carry love, and finding grace in the unlikeliest of places.

Vasyha’s left eye sees the past. Her right sees the present. How does her split vision keep her from living in the present?

A look at France’s history with its former colonies through the story of a French Algerian-born man being interviewed at a police station and accused of protecting the identities of possible terrorists. The film is set in the 1990s, a turbulent time.

“Piper” United States, 6 minutes, 2016

“Borrowed Time” United States, 7 minutes, 2015

“La Femme et le TGV” Switzerland, 30 minutes, 2016

This film shows the struggle between trying to fit in and doing what’s right. Zsofi sings in the choir at her new school. When she and a friend discover the choir director may not be the inspirational teacher everyone thinks she is, she has to decide whether to fight a corrupt system or fit into it.

Inspired by true events, the film tells the

After spending a lifetime trying to erase an accident from his memory, a sheriff must face those memories when he returns to the remains.

This Pixar film is about a hungry sandpiper hatchling who fears the sea so much that it is scared to dig for food by the shoreline.

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“The White Helmets” United States, 41 minutes, 2016

“4.1 Miles” United States, 22 minutes, 2016

Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a captain in the Greek Coast Guard, and his crew try to save the lives of refugees, who try to get to the island of Lesbos in their desperate attempt to flee the Middle East from Turkey.

Unarmed civilians rescue survivors of bombings in war-torn Syria. According to press material, they have already saved more than 60,000 lives since 2013.

“Watani: My Homeland” United Kingdom, 39 minutes, 2016

“Extremis” France, 28 minutes, 2016

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The Short Film Festival lists this film as a look at Dr. Jessica Zitter, who treats terminally ill patients in the intensive care unit in an Oakland, Calif., hospital and how she tries to help them make critical and heartbreaking decisions.

“Joe’s Violin” United States, 24 minutes, 2016

After ISIS captures their father, four children and their mother are forced to flee to Germany. This film looks at their search for a safe home in a foreign country.

Oscar Nominated Short Films Festival When: Feb. 17-19 • Live Action (130 minutes): Friday, 8:30 p.m., Saturday, 1 p.m., and Sunday at noon • Animation (90 minutes): Friday, 6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, 3:30 p.m.

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For many in Greenville’s theater community, Shirley Sarlin was the ultimate “theater mom.”

A prominent member of the scene for a half-century, Sarlin was known for leaving Hershey’s chocolate bars backstage prior to each performance she attended.

“When you were working on a show and you were greeted by her traditional candy bars backstage, you just knew you had to give it your best because Shirley was out there,” said John Fagan, director of the Upstate Shakespeare Festival. “If you happened to have had the good fortune to have worked with her on a project, you knew instantly that you were going to be taken care of, both on and off stage.”

Sarlin died Jan. 29 at Hospice Atlanta. She was 90.

A member of Actors’ Equity for more than 24 years, Sarlin appeared in productions in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. Most recently, she starred in Warehouse Theatre’s production of “Uncle Vanya” last January, her final appearance on stage.

“Watching her weave her magic on stage was a master class in acting,” Fagan said.

“Shirley loved — no, lived — the theater as only so few of us are blessed to do. … She understood the joys of it, as well as how frustrating it could be, too. Yet Shirley got up, dusted herself off, and got on with it, always with that smile, a chuckle, and that uniquely

Sarlinian gleam in her eye.”

But theater wasn’t the only genre of the arts Sarlin supported.

She also taught public speaking at the Pickens Adult School and established three annual awards for Liberty High students for excellence in drama, chorus, and band.

She was a member of the Crescent Music Club in Greenville and served on its board for 32 years. She also was a charter member of the Pickens County Arts Commission, on which she served for 32 years, nine as its chairwoman. An annual prize at the Pickens County Juried Show is named after her.

In 1994, Sarlin received a Lifetime Community Service Award from the Liberty Chamber of Commerce. Beth Israel Sisterhood honored her as a “Woman of Achievement” in 1996 and “Woman of Distinction” in 2010.

In addition to her parents, Sarlin was predeceased by Ralph, her beloved husband of more than 60 years, and by her son, Dr. Milton Sarlin. She is survived by her daughters, Becky Lou Alper of Heathrow, Fla., Janet Duncan of Marietta, Ga., and Linda Chidsey of Highland Village, Texas; daughter-in-law Sandy of Marietta, Ga.; nine grandchildren, Mitsi Sarlin, Elana Sarlin, Eli Alper, Gideon Alper, Moriah Alper, Miles Duncan, Hillary Duncan, Matthew Chidsey, and Morgan Chidsey; and two great-grandchildren, Aaron Alper and Micah Alper.

Memorials may be sent to Beth Israel Synagogue, 425 Summit Drive, Greenville, SC 29609, or Crescent Music Club, 200 Rocky Point Way, Greenville, SC 29615.

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For the Love GLOW Lyric Theatre LGBT-themed, Valentine’s Day cabaret seeks to heal and unite the community ARIEL TURNER | STAFF

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Love takes on deeper meaning than chocolate hearts in GLOW Lyric Theatre’s Valentine’s Day cabaret “Love Is Love Is Love” Feb. 14, 7 p.m., at the Warehouse Theatre.

In collaboration with Upstate Pride SC, the show features dance, poetry, stand-up comedy, and a myriad of musical styles, including musical theater, pop/hip-hop, and opera. The evening’s seven LGBT singers, actors, and dancers will add touches of their own personal stories, from humorous anecdotes to brutally honest depictions of their lives as part of the Upstate LGBT community.

“Theater and music has such a great way of healing and uniting communities, and

that’s what we are trying to do here,” says Jenna Tamisiea, GLOW artistic director.

Tamisiea says the inspiration for GLOW to produce this show, which is the second performance of its Raising Voices series, came from a need they identified in the community to find a respectful way to start a dialogue.

“In our seven years of existence, one of GLOW’s primary values has always centered around diversity,” Tamisiea says. “We seek out artists and audience members from all backgrounds and ethnicities and produce works like ‘Love Is Love Is Love’ that celebrate this diversity.”

Performers featured include Feather Sissom, a mother of three who identifies as pansexual (attracted to the person and not the gender); Sara Magun, who also identifies as pansexual, a native of New York who has performed eight times with GLOW since she moved to the Upstate in 2010; Vaughn Newman, a dancer born in Philadelphia, who realized his passion for performing while at the New World School of the Arts in Miami; Cindy Mixon, a vocalist who is the mother of a biracial, gay son; and Nicholas Hawkins, a Fine Arts Center alumnus, who received his degree in vocal performance at the University of South Carolina in 2016.

Tamisiea says the current political climate was a big motivator in initiating the performance.

“There is a lot of uncertainly going into 2017, and people are looking for hope and compassion,” she says. “We’re hoping ‘Love Is Love Is Love’ can illuminate issues important to the Upstate community and inspire people to grow in empathy and understanding.”

To add to the holiday celebration, there will be a pre-show reception at 6 p.m. featuring desserts provided by Upstate Pride SC, as well as beer and wine. The audience is also invited to join the cast and members of the community for a brief talkback after the show.

“Love Is Love Is Love” Who: Presented by GLOW Lyric Theatre When: Feb. 14, 7 p.m. (6 p.m. pre-show reception; 8:15 p.m. post-show community talkback) Where: The Warehouse Theatre, 37 Augusta St. Tickets: $25 Info: glowlyric.com, 864-235-6948 *This performance is intended for audiences 18+.

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For Valentine’s Day, put your heart into a cake For the first Valentine’s Day that I spent with the man who would eventually become my husband and baby daddy, I spent an embarassing amount of time scouring the internet for the perfect Valentine recipes. Nearly overwhelmed by the cutesy options (turns out you can make just about any food pink and heart-shaped), I settled on a laborious menu that stained my hands red for a few days.

Most memorably, I made a “hidden heart” pound cake. It looks impressive but is actually quite simple, especially if you have a helper. I struggled through it solo that first Valentine’s, using my elbows in lieu of a spare set of hands.

Would he have married me if I hadn’t pulled off a heart inside a cake? We’ll never know.

The recipe below is for a vanilla heart inside a chocolate loaf, but the combinations are

That cake for someone special Ingredients • Favorite vanilla or butter pound cake recipe or mix (1 loaf) • Favorite chocolate pound cake recipe or mix (1 loaf) • Frosting of choice (optional) Tools • Loaf pan • Small heart-shaped cookie cutter that fits fully inside loaf pan. You want to be able to set the cookie cutter inside the loaf pan with space left over on each side of the cookie cutter.

Instructions Bake the vanilla pound cake according to recipe or mix instructions.

Remove from pan and let cool completely.

Place vanilla pound cake loaf on a cutting board. Using the thickness/ depth of the cookie cutter as a guide, slice the cake into slices the same thickness as the cookie cutter using a serrated knife. If you have any trouble making clean slices, refrigerate the cake before slicing.

Use the cookie cutter to cut hearts out of each slice of cake and discard edges.

endless — pink strawberry cake hearts inside a vanilla loaf, red velvet hearts inside a vanilla loaf with pink frosting, etc. The key is to use a pound cake or other dense cake recipe so that the two flavors/colors stay separate when

baked. (If using a gluten-free cake recipe, make sure to use the “for a denser cake” version of the mix.)

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by side, and place as a unit down into the loaf pan on top of the layer of chocolate batter. The cutouts should be point down. It will take two hands to hold the stack together on the two ends inside the loaf pan.

While one person holds the cut-outs stable, slightly pressing them together so that there are no cracks between slices, the other person spoons chocolate batter on either side of the hearts, alternating sides.

A spoonful of chocolate on one side of the hearts, then a spoonful on the other side. This will help stabilize the hearts. Pour the remainder of chocolate batter on top of the hearts. (Note: There are a handful of blogs featuring the technique if you want to see photos of the process. Just Google “hidden heart” pound cake.)

Bake the loaf at the temperature that the chocolate cake recipe/mix calls for, but note that baking time will be shorter. Check the cake frequently until the chocolate batter is done. You’ll have to use your best baking judgment on the cooking time.

Prepare the chocolate pound cake batter according to recipe or mix instructions.

Let cool 20 minutes or so before removing from loaf pan, then cool completely on a rack. Slice the cake to reveal the pretty hidden hearts.

Spread a half cup of batter along the bottom of a clean, greased loaf pan.

Frost if desired.

With a helper, stack the heart-shaped vanilla cake cut-outs together, side

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Radio Room, 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive 9 p.m. | $5 The first album by the Upstate quintet Fall of an Empire, 2014’s “Songs of Steel & Sorrow,” was a molten slab of grungy stoner metal, with the band charging through seven slabs of ultra-heavy Sabbath-style stomps while singer Kenny Lawrence’s wounded howl towered over the top. It was a stunning first effort, but it was almost entirely the brainchild of guitarist and band founder Brent Carroll. For the two-part follow-up album, “Croweater: An Echo in the Bone Vol. 1” (released last August) and the just-finished “Vol. 2” (out in March), the band mixed the heaviness with more atmospheric production and more melodic songs. “We grew as musicians and settled into our sound after the first record,” says bassist Shane Smith. “A lot of the songs on the first CD were written before there was even a band; it was Brent on an acoustic in his room coming up with ideas. But over time it evolved into its own thing. A lot of the new record is a mixture of different points of view.” —Vincent Harris

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8 p.m. | $8 Machine Funk is a veteran Widespread Panic tribute band with 120 Panic tunes at their disposal. But they’ve also expanded their repertoire recently to include songs from Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Talking Heads, and others.

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Furman Jazz Ensemble and Combos in Concert Furman University, Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Highway

phone and director of jazz studies at Furman, will conduct the ensemble and combos. The jazz combos are coached by both Olson and Furman faculty member and jazz guitarist Steve Watson.

The performance features the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Tito Puente, and more.

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Greenville Symphony Orchestra presents “Inspired by the Classics” Gunter Theatre | 300 S. Main St.

8 p.m. | $12 (adults), $10 (seniors), $5 (students)

Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m. $44

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Three great composers of the 19th and 20th

centuries pay tribute to their classical predecessors with these witty, sparkling compositions, masterfully imitating the Baroque style. Yet, you’ll still notice distinct flavors of German expressionism, the sweet nostalgia of Russian romanticism, and some “spices” of 20th century modernism.

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Peace Concert Hall 300 S. Main St. 8 p.m. | $35 Celebrated singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz is coming to the Peace Center for the Performing Arts and tickets go on sale Feb. 10 at 10 a.m. Jarosz is only 25 years old. By the time she signed a record deal with Sugar Hill in her senior year of high school, she’d learned to play clawhammer banjo, guitar, and mandolin.

And around the same time that her first album came out in 2009, she enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music, graduating with honors in 2013 with a degree in contemporary improvisation.

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Designed for Drama: Fashion from the Classics Biltmore 1 North Pack Square, Asheville The artistry of great literary works, costume design and moviemaking comes together in “Designed for Drama: Fashion from the Classics,” Biltmore’s new exhibition in Biltmore House. Inspired by George Vanderbilt’s love of literature, “Designed for Drama” showcases more than 40 award-winning movie costumes from films based on favorite books in his collection.

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The Jon Stickley Trio Independent Public Ale House 110 Poinsett Highway 9 p.m. | $8 adv/$10 door The Jon Stickley Trio’s new EP, “Triangular,” is strictly no-frills. Rather than the jazzbluegrass hybrid of their first album, “Lost at Last,” the new record is just three musicians playing rings around one another, with Stickley’s lightning-fast acoustic guitar and Lyndsay Pruett’s dive-bombing violin spurring each other to new heights, all while drummer Patrick Armitage flexes some serious full-kit muscle. And if it sounds as immediate and raw as a live performance, that’s because it is. “We didn’t really have the resources to overproduce that record,” Stickley says. “It was done in a real-time crunch, with some free recording time in Virginia. We kind of busted in there for two days, recorded it, finished it, and put it out. I’m not surprised that it came out sounding live.” The title is a reference to the specific musical chemistry the three players have. “It’s three points making a very strong shape,” Stickley says.

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FEBRUARY 11 An evening of beloved arias and songs, ranging from Schumann and Massenet to the silver screen.

CALENDAR « FRI-SUN THEATER 10-12 Christ Church

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THEATER

Christ Church Episcopal School, Hartness Performing Arts Center | 245 Cavalier Drive

Centre Stage | 501 River St.

Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.

If you thought you knew the story of “The Princess and The Pea,” you may be in for a surprise.

Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, this rollicking spin on the familiar classic of royal courtship and comeuppance provides for some sidesplitting shenanigans. Chances are you’ll never look at fairy tales in quite the same way again.

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Wake Up, Brother Bear SCCT Headquarters | 153 Augusta St. Various times | $8

Weeplay Theatre is now offering up more interactive fun for the very young. Join Brother and Sister Bear and experience a full year of glorious seasons. Watch a waterfall melt, meet a butterfly, chase a fish, and skate on an ice pond. Children get to join the action with a bag of props that help create magical moments. Please note

“Jukebox Heroes” Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. $35, $30 and $25; students are $15 with school ID, as available Get ready to rock with the greatest classic rock and Motown songs of the 20th century. With songs by legends like The Rolling Stones, Earth Wind & Fire, David Bowie, Carole King, Queen, and many more, Centre Stage’s hit rock show “Jukebox Heroes” is bringing all the hits. Featuring iconic songs including “Walk This Way,” “Beautiful,” “Do You Love Me?,” “Gimme Some Lovin,” and “Think,” this show will have you dancing in the aisles and reliving the ’60s and ’70s by the end of the night.

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Play in Clay Make & Take

Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. | FREE Create a special take-home clay project.

FEB. 11 CONCERT

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Winter Skunk Music Fest, featuring Brooks Dixon Band, Tellico, Taylor Martin, Forlorn Strangers, The Trongone Band, & Grass Is Dead

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CALENDAR Educators provide guidance throughout the process of making and modeling. All ages are welcome.

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8-10 a.m.

Imagination Play

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Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St.

Grab your tiara and help support the Greer Cultural Arts with the princesses, including Anna and Elsa. Breakfast includes pancakes, sausage links, maple syrup, butter, mixed fruit, coffee, tea, and milk. Limit one “free” child to one adult ticket.

Purchase tickets in advance by phone or email.

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11 a.m. and 2 p.m. | FREE Create your own imaginary world and all its characters while learning the basics of improvisation and character development in a fun, inclusive environment. Most appropriate for ages 5-10.

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CONCERT Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. 8 p.m. | $20-95 Known as “the people’s diva,” soprano Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. In 2013, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America’s highest honor for an individual artist, by the president at a White House ceremony. She will perform a collection of beloved arias and songs, ranging from Schumann and Massenet to the silver screen.

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A Valentine’s Special The Belton Center for the Arts The Listening Room on Main 300 City Square 8-9:30 p.m. | $20

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B n Luv Valentine’s Dinner and Dance True Joy Occasions Nirvana Cultural Center 30 Howard Creek Drive, Fountain Inn 7 p.m. | $120 (couples), $75 (singles) Join us for a night of elegant eats, libations, great music, dancing, entertainment, games, giveaways, and more. Proceeds will benefit Safe Harbor Women’s Shelter, so help us share the love. There will be a sweet decadent dessert bar created by True Joy Bakery, savory Cajun and Caribbean cuisine provided by Artistic Soul Catering, and profound performances by Journey to put you in the loving mood. Greenville Sound will soothe your soul, then summon you to dance the night away. RSVP online by Feb. 4. bit.ly/BnLuv

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Ten Minute Tarot: Phil Powers Joe’s Place | 640 S. Main St., Ste. 101B 5-9 p.m. | $10 What to expect: an enlightened look into your present future and guidance through situations.

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Emile Pandolfi in Concert

8 p.m. | $35

Handmade Paper workshop Greenville Center for Creative Arts 25 Draper St.

Share your Valentine’s Day with us for an evening of romance, music and laughter.

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10 a.m.4 p.m. | $89

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Explore the art of handmade paper with Carol Funke in the one-day workshop. Learn the basics of pulling paper, creating textured surfaces, pulp painting, embedding, molding, and embossing.

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A Musical Valentine featuring Edwin McCain and the Greenville Symphony Orchestra

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7 p.m. | $25-$65

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Greenville Little Theatre | 444 College St.

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Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. Celebrate the most romantic holiday with some of the most romantic music ever composed in a very special Valentine pops concert featuring the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and the talented singer and songwriter Edwin McCain.

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Consider American and world history from the viewpoint of such accomplished African-American artists as William H. Johnson, Merton Simpson and Kara Walker, among others.

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CALENDAR Story” and “My Fair Lady,” as well as Edwin McCain’s hit songs, “I’ll Be” and “I Could Not Ask for More.” greenvillesymphony.org

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Raising Voices Series: Love is Love is Love The Warehouse Theatre | 37 Augusta St. 7 p.m. | $25 Filled with humor and honesty, the show performance reimagines Valentine’s Day to focus on how the power of love can stop oppression. Seven Upstate LGBT singers, actors, and dancers perform personal songs and stories that reflect their life experiences. To add to the holiday celebration, there will be a pre-show reception at 6 p.m. with desserts provided by Upstate Pride SC. Audiences can also join the cast and members of the community for a brief talk back after the show.

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Exhibition: Carew Rice

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. Wednesdays-Saturdays 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays 1-5 p.m.

FREE Renowned silhouettist and South Carolina native Carew Rice captured the Lowcountry landscape and its people in these captivating silhouettes from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

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Exhibition: “In a Mirror, Darkly” Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. Wednesdays-Saturdays 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays 1-5 p.m.

FREE Explore the issues and images created when white artists portray black subjects and experiences in this insightful exhibition.

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“Mini Racer” storytime

Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Road #5 10:30 a.m.

FREE Bring your preschool children to Fiction Addiction for a storytime reading of the picture book “Mini Racer” by Kristy Dempsey and illustrated

by Bridget Strevens-Marzo.

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Book Talk & Signing with Susan Rivers Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Road #5 6 p.m. | FREE Award-winning Upstate South Carolina playwright Susan Rivers will discuss her debut historical novel, “The Second Mrs. Hockaday,” at a book talk followed by a Q&A session and book signing.

Through a narrative that unfolds in letters, diary entries, and inquest reports, Rivers vividly brings to life the story of 17-year-old Placidia, who marries a Confederate soldier in haste and is, only days later, left alone to care for his 2-year-old child, manage his slaves, and run and defend his isolated 300-acre farm in rural South Carolina. This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP. 675-0540 | fiction-addiction.com

VISUAL ARTS

Third Thursday Tour: Wyeth Dynasty

Kristin Davis, Au.D. Doctor of Audiology Alexandra Tarvin, Au.D. Doctor of Audiology

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St.

COMING SOON:

11 a.m.-noon | FREE Meet in front of The Salon near the GCMA front door for a free, docent-led tour of the exhibition Wyeth Dynasty.

271-7570 | gcma.org

COMMUNITY

Coloring & Conversation Joe’s Place | 640 S. Main St., Ste. 101B 6-8 p.m. | FREE A time to hang out, have a drink or two, and just relax. There will be coloring books and pencils you can purchase or feel free to bring your own.

864-558-0828 | joesplacellc.com info@joesplacellc.com

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Sunrift’s Free Survival Bike Maintenance Class Sunrift Adventure | 1 Center St.

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6-8 p.m. | FREE Learn what you need to know to keep your bike on the go. This class is free and inviting. Bike up to Sunrift (with a headlight and a red blinky light of course).

Check in with Sha at Sunrift for more details.

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COMMUNITY

Panel Discussion at Chapman Center

The public is invited to attend a panel

4318 East North Street, Greenville, SC 29615 135 Botanical Circle, Travelers Rest, SC 29690 www.davisaudiology.com

CALL 864-655-8300 TODAY FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT!

Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light Chapman Cultural Center 200 E Saint John St. 6-8 p.m. | FREE

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discussion with internationally renowned artist Erwin Redl and the Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light creative team. The panel will share their professional roles and experiences from the design and installation of the light exhibits to generating programming during the exhibition.

864-542-2787 | info@seeingspartanburg.com

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Simpsonville Garden Club Meeting

Simpsonville Garden Club Rotary Hall | 126 S. Main St., Simpsonville 2 p.m. | Third Tuesday of each month FREE Speaker Jane McCutcheon, a master gardener, will give a talk on how to grow tasty herbs for the kitchen. Anyone with an interest in gardening is welcome to attend. simpsonvillegardenclub.com

CONCERT

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Local musician Charles Hedgepath and business entrepreneur Steven Scott announce their new full service agency, CHASS Productions, and their first full-scale production event: Local Legends. This will be the first large live music event featuring popular Upstate singer-songwriters in the newly renovated space where many musicians started their careers. This is a celebration of local legends that call Greenville “home” and will highlight musicians Greg Payne and The Piedmont Boys, Darby Wilcox, and the Peep Show, Jacob Johnson, and a VIP pre-show with WPOS. The emcee for the evening is local comedian Zane Mitchell. chassevents.com

EDUCATION

Guided Tour, Film, and Reception Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light Chapman Cultural Center 200 E Saint John St. 6 p.m. | FREE Erwin Redl will lead a special guided tour for museum and art professionals. The artist will speak about his process and materials for each of the nine works of art within Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light. Guests can view short, informative films about the project and the artist, learn more about Redl and the exhibitions he has participated in around the globe, and see the media-based tools and materials he used in his work, as well as the specific components used in this project.

864-542-2787 info@seeingspartanburg.com

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FILM

Peace Center Screens OscarNominated Short Films Peace Center | 300 S. Main St. various times | $10 Live action screening runs for approximately 130 minutes and includes “Ennemis Intérieurs,” “La Femme Et Le TGV,” “Silent Nights,” “Sing (Mindenki),” and “Timecode.” Shows Friday at 8:30 p.m., Saturday at 1 p.m., and Sunday at noon.

Animation screening runs for approximately 90 minutes and includes “Blind Vaysha,” “Borrowed Time,” “Pear Cider and Cigarettes” (not suitable for children), “Pearl,” “Piper,” and a selection of additional films. Shows Friday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., and Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Documentary screening runs for approximately 150 minutes and includes: “4.1 Miles,” “Extremis,” “Joe’s Violin,” “The White Helmets,” and “Watani: My Homeland.” Shows Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m. Separate tickets are required for each day and category.

864-467-3000 | peacecenter.org

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THEATER

“Two Dancing Princesses”

South Carolina Children’s Theatre SCCT Headquarters | 153 Augusta St. various times | $8 Who doesn’t love a fairytale? Follow the two daughters of an overprotective father who escape to a dance party every night. Dad has agreed to give half of his land and the hand of one of them to the suitor that can determine where they are going. This “swing” version of the Grimm Fairytale, based on “Twelve Dancing Princesses,” is fun for boys and girls, and there will be a post-show dance party after every performance. See website for performance times.

864-467-3000 | scchildrenstheatre.org

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Furman Theatre Presents World Premiere of “Kappa Kappa Scream”

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Furman Theatre Furman University The Playhouse 3300 Poinsett Highway various times $18 (adults), $15 (seniors), $10 (students) Every October, the new pledge class of Kappa Kappa Delta sorority enjoys a weekend retreat together. This year, the sorority president has decided that placing the women in a cabin in the woods and scaring them will lead to deeper bonding and friendship. Unfortunately for them, someone – or something — at the cabin has other ideas. The world premiere production of Randall David Cook’s “Kappa Kappa Scream” is intended for mature

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Jewelry for Kids

Greenville Center for Creative Arts 25 Draper St. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. | $75 Kids (ages 7-12) will combine sculpture with jewelry design and innovation to create wearable art with Kate Furman in the one-day workshop.

864-735-3948 | bit.ly/2kQXVt8

MUSIC

Al Watson - Live Music Joe’s Place 640 S. Main St., Ste. 101B 6:308:30 p.m. | FREE Our favorite “old folkie” is back, and if you haven‘t had a chance to hear Al perform, you’re missing out. The man wrote a song about Joe’s Place; he’s gotta be cool.

864-558-0828 | joesplacellc.com info@joesplacellc.com

HEALTH

Reflexology Massage Joe’s Place | 640 S. Main St., Ste. 101B 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | $25/30 minutes Book your appointment now with Carlos O’Neal, certified reflexologist. Your feet will thank you for it.

864-363-7717 | joesplacellc.com info@joesplacellc.com

MUSIC

Deep Winter Blues Hagwood Mill | 138 Hagwood Mill Road, Pickens 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | $5 parking fee Hear the old music that made Upcountry South Carolina a famous “roots environment” for the Piedmont Blues; some tunes are primitive in nature and others from the sweet soul of the South Carolina bluesmen of long ago. This year ‘s lineup features Folk Heritage Award winning bluesmen, Freddie Vanderford and Steve McGaha, accompanied by musician Brandon Turner. As a special treat, Freddie Vanderford will be hosting a harmonica workshop immediately following his performance. There will be a variety of folk life and traditional arts demonstrations.

864-898-2936 visitpickenscounty.com/calendar

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Beecher’s Fault Joe’s Place | 640 S. Main St., Ste. 101B

6 p.m. | FREE They’re back; if you missed Beecher’s Fault’s performance last March, now’s your chance to

hear the band that Deli Magazine says has “one foot in pearly pop, while including sonic somersaults to keep your head twirling while your feet are moving.”

864-558-0828 joesplacellc.com info@joesplacellc.com

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Trivia Night

Joe’s Place 640 S. Main St., Ste. 101B 7-9 p.m.

FREE Questions will cover random trivia including, but not limited to, books, wine, and art.

Previous categories have covered musical instruments, cereal, and common bonds, just to name a few. The winning team will receive their bar tab (including food) paid up to $50!

The team in second place will get to choose a book each from the Joe’s Place secret stash.

You can have teams up to six. Please note that food/drink ordered after the winning team is announced cannot be included in the $50 prize.

864-558-0828 joesplacellc.com info@joesplacellc.com

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VISUAL ARTS

Film Screening: “I Am Not Your

The Peace Center 300 S. Main St. 7 p.m. | $10 “I Am Not Your Negro” is a 93-minute film by Raoul Peck from the writings of author James Baldwin, featuring narration by Samuel L. Jackson. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. “I Am Not Your Negro” is a journey into black history that connects the past of the civil rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond.

And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.

864-467-3000 peacecenter.org

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Lambo Taps, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 120 South Main Street , Suite B and C, Simpsonville, SC 29681. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 26, 2017. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Fireforge LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON AND OFF premises consumption of BEER and ON premises consumption of WINE at 311 E. Washington St., Greenville, SC 29601.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 19, 2017. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Make your announcement to the Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed Greenville to: (803) 896-0110 Greater Area

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“I miss you guys” ACROSS 1 After, in Paris 6 Paparazzi target 11 Speedy 15 Close loudly 19 Instant replay mode 20 St. Teresa’s town 21 Guthrie of folk music 22 Snow beast of legend 23 Frenetic cartoon marsupial [#1] 25 Banging, as a drum 27 Bread type 28 Caviar eggs 29 It’s not currently erupting [#2] 31 — distance 32 Capital of Kazakhstan 36 Kia model 37 Fragrant compound 38 “Just name it and I’ll do it” [#3] 43 Zine staff 44 Sarcastic laugh sound 45 Dust bit 46 Direction of sunup 49 Real guy?

52 House-building charity [#4] 59 Shouts from cheerleaders 60 Recording studio control 61 Watch 62 Concave tummy part 63 Sauna spot 64 — tai (mixed drink) 65 Hive group

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66 “Sorority Row” actress Evigan 67 Annual publication of Benjamin Franklin [#5] 73 Jonathan Swift’s genre 75 Ark crafter 76 Egg case qty.

77 Prefix with con 80 Her “Hello” was a big hit 81 Horror film helper 82 Composer Franz 85 Singer Baez 86 What a green card grants an alien [#6] 89 Dated yet trendy 90 Be a vagrant 91 “Othello” baddie 92 “No kidding!”

93 — -jongg 96 Available again because folks asked for it [#7] 104 Not silently 107 August sign 108 Old office note-takers 109 Ending with ethyl 110 Classic song by Rodgers and Hart [#8] 114 Platform that runs on Apple devices 115 Audiophile’s stack 116 Certain shore area 117 1988 film about an old baseball scandal (and what this puzzle has?)

122 Bakery tool 123 Brother of Cain 124 Comic Anderson 125 Passover dinner 126 Cruel emperor 127 Simple 128 Bulges 129 Not well-kept DOWN 1 Wandering 2 Seek the approval of 3 Capital of Dominica 4 Record label for Bowie 5 Take off from a high nest, as an eagle 6 Academy students 7 Mother of Cain 8 Ullmann or Tyler of film 9 Yale athlete 10 Dis-tressed?

11 Cloth 12 “Am not!” reply 13 Serb, say 14 Pooch in Oz 15 Matches up, as files 16 Papal envoy 17 Paid (for) 18 Tweens, e.g.

24 Army denial 26 Sicile, e.g.

30 Suffix with access 33 Sportscaster — Rashad 34 Weeper in myth

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83 Bar of gold 84 Range 85 Taunt 87 Eatery check 88 Handy-andy’s inits.

89 Evaluate anew 92 Low spirits 93 Remit, say

94 — -Lorraine 95 Schnozz 97 Maker of an exact copy 98 Brewing pot 99 “Sk8er —” (2002 hit) 100 Merges 101 Crack, as a cipher 102 Provided, as with talent 103 “— Rides Again” (old Western)

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105 In — (not yet born) 106 “What’s the —?”

111 Trolley car 112 Caftan, e.g.

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Past and Present with Courtney L. Tollison Hartness, Ph.D.

The Great War’s impact on Greenville is still evident On April 6, our nation will commemorate the centennial of the declaration of war against Germany in World War I. The story of all that Greenville contributed to the war effort, and how the city was so extensively impacted by the war, is significant.

During the war years, Greenville hosted a U.S. Army cantonment site, Camp Sevier, which ultimately trained 100,000 men. Local churches welcomed soldiers to worship and provided reading rooms with stationery for soldiers to write home.

Furman hosted a Students’ Army Training Corps program on campus, while Greenville Woman’s College (GWC) students sewed mouth guards for the Red Cross and knit sweaters and mittens to help soldiers at Camp Sevier combat the unusually cold temperatures in the winter of 1917–1918. GWC students also enjoyed late-night rendezvous with soldiers, prompting the need for a military policeman to be stationed on campus.

Even local children lent their support; officers at Camp Sevier issued a “patriotic appeal” to Greenville children to bring their “patriotic cats” to the camp to help eradicate a rat problem.

Despite this dedication and effort, however, World War I is not featured prominently in our national or local narrative, and is often depicted as a prequel to the much larger World War II that erupted two decades later.

Today, the legacy of the war persists.

Locally, Greenvillians today benefit from important advances that developed soon after the war, as Greenville quickly evolved into a modern city as a result of the economic progress stimulated by WWI. The presence of Camp Sevier and the wartime demands placed upon the local textile industry resulted in a financial boom during the war and throughout the Jazz Age of the

1920s. Greenville’s downtown landscape continued to change significantly after a new Beaux Arts-style county courthouse was built on Main Street in 1918.

John T. Woodside built the tallest building in the state in 1923, and the Poinsett Hotel replaced the Mansion House Hotel in 1925.

established the Greenville Airport Commission and built a Municipal Airport within a decade of the war’s end.

One of the goals of the Progressive Era was national reconciliation from wounds lingering from the Civil War, fought less than 60 years prior, Progressive Era changes brought and WWI provided a culminating on by the war introduced better opportunity for the South to roads, electricity, new businesses, rejoin the national fold. Wartime inoculations from disease, patriotism prompted elaborate improved health care, and an celebrations of the Fourth of awareness of the importance of July among all Greenvillians, even Furman University Special Collections and University Archives whites who for decades prior to literacy. Mill schools benefited Camp Sevier trench practice significantly from profits generated the war preferred Confederate by the war: Attendance rose over Memorial Day, deeming Sevier and returned after the war, later wrote, the course of the war even as the Independence Day a holiday “Many soldiers had made friends, liked what student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 66.7 celebrated primarily by “Yankees” and Africanthey saw, and stayed behind.” to 50.3. The State Federation of Women’s Americans.

In 1917, South Carolina became the third to Clubs successfully campaigned for a statewide While much progress was made, racial prejudice the last state to require license plates. The city literacy campaign, arguing that increasing and a limited view of women’s roles in society purchased the new public hospital, formalized literacy was a strong defense against German persisted despite the involvement of Africanits operations, and significantly expanded its propaganda.

Americans and white women in the war effort. facilities on Memminger Street and Arlington In 1919, South Carolina established the nation’s Segregation, for example, remained a way of Avenue. In 1918, a city referendum approved first state-supported adult education program. life in Greenville for the next 45 years, and while the purchase of the local water company and a These Adult Schools were particularly popular the state abided by the Women’s Suffrage public commission was established to oversee among women in the area’s mill villages, and in Amendment beginning in 1920, the S.C. General its operations.

1921, led to the establishment of Opportunity Assembly did not ratify it until 1969.

In the year after the war’s end, Central School, Schools for white textile mill operatives. That the city’s segregated white high school, added same year, the whites-only Greenville Public Dr. Courtney L. Tollison Hartthe 11th grade and was renamed Greenville Library opened on East Coffee Street. ness teaches history at Furman High. The use of aircraft during the war University. She can be reached at During the war, the area’s demographic and gave way to the “Golden Age of Aviation” courtney.tollison@furman.edu. religious diversity increased, reflected by the in the 1920s, and the City of Greenville founding of Greenville’s first Conservative Judaism congregation, Congregation Beth Israel, in 1916, and the establishment of a These and other stories from Greenville’s experiences during World War I are presented in reform congregation, the Children of Israel, the exhibit “Over Here, Over There: Greenville in the Great War,” on display through May 31 in 1917. Many non-native soldiers who trained on the second floor of Furman University’s James B. Duke Library. There is no charge, and here returned after the war, providing a complimentary parking is available in the lots on either side of the chapel. sustained boost to Greenville’s diversity. As The public is invited to attend the exhibit’s opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 16, from 4–5:30 p.m.

Henry Bacon McKoy, who trained at Camp

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