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Since 1988, mixed-media artist Keith Grace has exhibited and sold his paintings across the country in galleries, museums, and universities.

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The Cherry on Top

The Grand Bohemian is just the type of development downtown needs

By Bobby Barreto

There’s a weird feeling that we are all probably too familiar with, that feeling that happens right after you finish eating a huge meal at your favorite restaurant: You’re stuffed, but the server sets the dessert menu on the table and, as if the 16-ounce bone-in rib-eye never happened, you are hungry for more.

Sure, if you were given the opportunity to order another entrée, you would probably politely decline in hopes of avoiding downright gluttony, but the opportunity for dessert is different: It is a sweet addition that makes one wonder how the entire dining experience could have been complete without it.

In a city that sees a new hotel pop up out of nowhere seemingly every week, enter the Grand Bohemian Hotel: the sinfully indulgent chocolate cheesecake with a cherry on top that is coming to contrast the all-you-can-eat buffet of Greenville development.

Over the last decade, it’s become apparent that, if we want to be a big-kid city, we’re going to need big-kid hospitality that will attract out-of-town recreational and business tourism.

Over the last few years, we’ve made enormous steps toward that goal by adding the countless much-needed hotel rooms to our downtown. However, the monotony of design in these hotel properties hasn’t gone unnoticed.

If there’s a complaint about development in the central business district over the past five or so years, it’s that everything, for the most part, looks to be designed the same way: glass, steel, brick, repeat.

As proud as we are — and should be — about all of this growth in Greenville, the fact remains that you can’t create “the land of milk and honey” with cows alone. You need bees, too, and this city has been seeing more and more proverbial dairy farms pop up as of late.

Right on cue, the Kessler Collection, the company who owns the Grand Bohemian hotel chain, acquired arguably the greatest view in the Southeast, right on “the other side” of Liberty Bridge on the banks of the Reedy River overlooking Falls Park, i.e. the spot currently inhabited by Wyche P.A. Kessler also revealed its design, in partnership with Sottile & Sottile Architects out of Savannah, Ga., for a 160-room boutique hotel.

This Grand Bohemian will not only be a welcome addition to the Greenville hospitality scene but also a case study for how to perfectly represent a city’s spirit through architectural design and site planning, as well.

Greenville’s Grand Bohemian was a design born from the crucible of impossibility.

When it was first announced that the Wyche P.A. property was going to become the home for a new downtown hotel, many immediately thought, “How in the world are they (or anyone, for that matter) going to be able to slap a hotel there without tainting the natural beauty of our city’s crown jewel?”

Well, the Kessler Collection did it. And they did it in a way that makes perfect sense, but that no one would have ever thought of. Even as the city has grown, it still has maintained its love for the great outdoors, and with their national park lodgeinspired design, the Grand Bohemian holds true to that exploratory spirit by incorporating wood and stone.

By embracing the challenge of designing a commercial building adjacent to Falls Park, without resorting to the all-too-common brick, steel, and glass, the Grand Bohemian Hotel is going to swiftly impact the way future development in this city is approached in a very prevailing fashion.

The thing is, though, the Grand Bohemian does this everywhere. The Kessler Collection simply observes the culture in which it intends to enter and then crafts a piece of architectural brilliance that perfectly encapsulates every little nuance of that specific town and culture. Just make the one-hour drive up to Asheville or the three-hour drive down to Charleston to see Kessler’s hotels there, and you’ll see what I mean.

I hope you saved room for dessert, Greenville.

Ah, who am I kidding — there’s always room for dessert.

Bobby Barreto is the CEO of Asterisk Development LLC, a member of the board of directors for the Greenville Area Parkinson Society, and an advocate for the continued growth of downtown Greenville.

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IT’S SHOWTIME S.C. Children’s Theatre unveils plans for its much-anticipated new home

The S.C. Children’s Theatre’s new facility, the front entrance shown here, contains a new performance stage and a second performance space.

Rendering provided by Craig Gaulden Davis

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The S.C. Children’s Theatre could break ground in September on its new multimillion-dollar campus that will include a 300-seat theater, a separate Second Stage space, education classrooms, administrative space, and a large lobby.

The theater will move out of its space on Augusta Street in August, so it can be torn down to make room for the new facility, said Debbie Bell, executive director.

Construction is expected to take 16 months. The theater expects to be in its new facility in January 2019.

The theater got an “exciting but limited window of opportunity” to build a new facility next door to its current headquarters thanks to Josephine Cureton, a longtime Children’s Theatre supporter who said in her will she wanted her 125-year-old Victorian house demolished and her property turned into the Children’s Theatre’s new home.

The Children’s Theatre stages its Main Stage productions in the Peace Center’s

Gunter Theatre. For its smaller-scale Second Stage shows, it transforms the back of the metal building that houses its administrative offices into a “stage.”

“There is no other project underway that has the potential scope and promise to positively impact the future of Greenville and its citizens,” Bell said previously.

About 43,000 people experienced or participated in Children’s Theatre activities in 2015. Bell said the theater has outgrown its leased space and demand for programming and performances continues to increase.

Earlier, Bell said that the theater’s capacity for performances would increase by 40 percent with the new facility. Education programs could grow by 30 percent and outreach programs by 25 percent.

More than half of those who attend SCCT’s Main Stage productions live outside the City of Greenville, with many coming from Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Oconee, and Laurens counties.

The theater is in the midst of a silent phase of a capital campaign. The City of Greenville has committed $1.5 million for public improvements in conjunction

with the campus. The S.C. Children’s Theatre was still working on the final cost of

the planned facility, but previous reports placed it at $10 million.

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Twenty-four-hour fundraising blitzes are a growing trend among colleges and universities — especially private liberal arts colleges — as they try new approaches to the traditional student phone banks and mailings. Columbia College, the first college to hold a 24-hour fundraising event, raised $3 million in one day in 2013.

Some donors designate their gifts to go to specific programs. The rest will be used for general operations and scholarships.

As part of Dins Day, Furman supporters were urged to wear purple and spread the word about what it meant to them to be a Paladin via social media. Dins Day parties were held in several cities across the country, including Atlanta, Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia, Nashville, Boston, and Washington, D.C. —Cindy Landrum

Wade Hampton No. 3 SC school on US News list Four Greenville County high schools were included in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of the nation’s best public high schools, but none cracked the Top 600.

Wade Hampton High School was named the third-best school in South Carolina, behind two North Charleston schools, Academic Magnet High, which was ranked 11th nationally, and School of the Arts, which ranked 271st.

Wade Hampton landed at 632nd in the nation.

U.S. World News & Report used public data from more than 20,000 public high schools nationwide and recognized more than 2,600 with gold and silver medals. Rankings were based on reading and math scores, graduation rates, state proficiency tests, and enrollment and achievement in Advanced Placement courses.

International Baccalaureate courses were not included in U.S. News & World Report’s calculation of college readiness.

Mauldin High ranked ninth in the state and 1,522nd nationwide. Riverside High was 10th

in South Carolina and 1,580th in the country. Greenville High was 12th in the state and 1,762nd nationally.

Brashier Middle College Charter and Greer Middle College Charter, both schools where students can earn college credit, weren’t ranked but received national recognition from the magazine.

The top three schools in the national ranking were charter schools in Arizona.

U.S. News & World report last month ranked South Carolina 50th in education based on standardized test scores, college and high school graduation rates, and preschool enrollment. ­—Cindy Landrum

Clemson official proposes ‘intercultural’ test for student government candidates If an idea proposed by Clemson University’s multicultural studies director comes to fruition, students may have to pass an “intercultural competency” test before they’re allowed to run for positions in student government.

Altheia Richardson, Clemson’s director of the Gantt Multicultural Center, spoke in favor of such a test at a recent presentation to the Clemson Undergraduate Student Government.

“So when it comes to this whole idea of intercultural competence, what would it look like to have a standard for if you’re going to be elected as an officer, or hold a seat within CUSG, that you have to demonstrate that you have a certain level of intercultural competence, before you’re allowed to take that office, or that seat,” Richardson said in a public live stream of the presentation.

The proposal follows a new mandate requiring freshmen students to take a social justice course following enrollment. However, Richardson’s ideas outraged some student senators, who compared it to an ideological purity test that contradicted the concept of a democratically elected student government.

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rate on her idea, she responded, “It could be training, workshops, things like that. It could look very different, but it was just a suggestion that I made to some of the folks that came to me.”

“It could happen before the democratic election process,” said Richardson. “If that is set by your Elections Board as a standard, then if you’re vetting the candidates who are running, then it can happen even before the democratic process takes place.”

Student senator Samuel Thompson, speaking to Campus Reform reporter Mitchell Gunter, said Richardson’s proposal was troubling.

“Ms. Richardson’s comments about multiculturalism at the last Senate meeting unnerved me,” he said. “Vetting the candidates ideologically before elections even happen, through a process of measuring their level of commitment to ‘inclusivity’ and ‘multiculturalism,’ represents a kind of creepy totalitarianism that has no place at a true university.”

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Greenville County teacher launches composting program South Carolina wasted about 640,000 tons of food in 2016, according to the state Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Now a teacher at Wade Hampton High School is trying to change that statistic — at least locally.

Jordahn Shiley, a biology teacher, has implemented a composting program to transform lunch leftovers and cafeteria trash into usable soil for the Upstate’s farmers, gardeners, and landscapers.

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One Clemson employee – out of thousands of Clemson employees – offered her personal observations to student government leaders on campus at a meeting of the student Senate,

to which she was invited to offer her perspective on opportunities and challenges facing student leaders.

There is no university plan to propose a cultural literacy test for student government leaders. It hasn’t been discussed by university leadership, nor is it going to be discussed.

This is a non-story. There is no ‘litmus test,’ nor did the staff member propose one.

Media accounts that have stated or suggested otherwise are, at best, misleading.”

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Organics, a Spartanburg-based waste diversion company, and taught students what materials can be composted. Now, after disposing of trash, they drop food scraps, milk cartons, and paper napkins into blue composting bins provided by Atlas.

Students have composted about 1,500 pounds of waste since January. “Our waste is literally making it full circle, going from the cafeteria to the ground to the farmers who grow produce to the farmers markets and then back to the table for consumption,” said Shiley.

Atlas, which opened a compost facility at Greenville County’s Twin Chimneys Landfill in June, collects food waste from the school

three times a week and brings it back to the facility, where it is combined with mulched yard waste.

The mixture then undergoes a 45-day aeration and monitoring process that converts waste into compost for agricultural, landscaping, and home gardening customers. Compost produces higher crop yields and decreases the use of chemicals and water, according to Leslie Rodgers, educator and compost coordinator for Atlas Organics.

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ing wasted, so the message hasn’t sunk in completely,” Shiley said. “I’m hopeful that we’ll eventually eliminate food waste from our school and become more environmentally conscious.”

While the program’s funding ends in June, Shiley is brainstorming ways to continue the effort —Andrew Moore

Upstate Forever ends fight against natural gas pipeline Greenville’s Upstate Forever has ended its fight against a 55-mile natural gas pipeline that will run through hundreds of properties in Spartanburg County to the Lowcountry.

Last Wednesday, the environmental advocacy group said it will not appeal the state’s decision to issue a water quality certification for Dominion Carolina Gas Transmission’s Transco to Charleston natural gas pipeline project.

“Based on our analysis of the situation… Upstate Forever and SCELP [South Carolina Environmental Law Project] will not request DHEC Board review of the Dominion Transco to Charleston pipeline project,” Shelley Robbins, Upstate Forever energy and state policy manager, said in a statement.

The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control issued the certification on April 11 for the $119.3 million project, which includes an underground pipeline 12 inches in diameter that is slated to cross properties from Moore in Spartanburg County through Laurens and Newberry counties to Greenwood County.

It will also include several support facilities above-ground and a 50-foot easement along its length.

Upstate Forever and the South Carolina Environmental Law

Project have challenged the project since March 2016. The environmental groups most recently challenged a ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approving the project, filing a request for a rehearing of the commission’s decision and a motion for stay.

The request, which was denied by a federal commission on April 5, claimed the commission “rushed” its decision to approve the pipeline project. It also claimed FERC failed to consider an alternative route that would use an existing nearby gas pipeline and lessen its environmental impact.

“Upstate Forever is challenging the decision, because we do not think this project has been scrutinized enough in comparison to the damage it will do to both the environment of the Upstate as well as to the rights of the impacted property owners,” Robbins said in a statement issued last month.

The pipeline, if constructed, will negatively impact 73 streams, 27 timber properties, and 181 residential parcels across South Carolina, according to Michael Corley, an attorney with the SCELP. Dominion expects the pipeline, which is supported and funded by three long-term contracts with SCE&G, Flakeboard, and Wyman Gordon, to be in service by the fourth quarter of this year.

“The purpose of this project is to help meet the growing need for clean, reliable, and domestic natural gas in South Carolina,” Beckham said. “The access to additional natural gas in the Upstate could help the region attract future economic development prospects, additional jobs, and higher standards of living.”

Upstate Forever and SCELP now plan to focus on regulatory reform, said Robbins.

“This will not be the last pipeline project in South Carolina,

and this fact should be on the public’s radar,” she said. “Until sufficient pressure is put on Congress to fix this terribly flawed and biased process, the outcomes will continue to be the same and property rights will continue to be abused without scrutiny.” —Andrew Moore

POLITICS

Don’t celebrate the Roads Bill just yet Although the S.C. Senate passed a gas tax-raising roads bill last week, the two chambers of the General Assembly must rectify the differences between their two bills — and those differences are major.

While the House bill increases the gas tax 10 cents over five years, the Senate bill increases the tax 12 cents over six years.

The Senate bill also offers some tax relief for small businesses and small-to-midsized manufacturers, lowering the small-business personal property tax rate from 10.5 percent to 9 percent and manufacturing property tax from 10.5 percent to 8 percent.

Another difference: The Senate roads bill offers would-be students a tuition tax credit for technical colleges and universities, a move that Jason Zacher, vice president of business advocacy at the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, believes will only benefit our state as a whole.

Those differences aside, the two bills have one thing in common: They do not substantially reform the S.C. Department of Transportation, a state entity often criticized for funding lessthan-necessary road projects instead of more pressing ones.

As it stands, legislative nominees determine which projects will get funding, many of which inevitably end up in the districts of the more powerful members of the Legislature. Because of this, critics say the General Assembly must relin-

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quish their control over the SCDOT and the governor’s office must be given direct oversight of the department.

According to Zacher, chamber investors were ambivalent about reforming the SCDOT this year, preferring instead to increase roads funding and support tax relief.

Even if the House and Senate reach a compromise, Gov. Henry McMaster has vowed to veto the bill. While the Senate bill has a veto-proof majority, Zacher admits that could all change depending on the terms the two legislative chambers decide upon. —Chris Haire

HEALTH

Tipper Gore praises Greenville For Tipper Gore, it takes a village to address a community’s mental health challenges. And Greenville is a good example of that.

“People in Greenville are doing more than what a lot of communities are doing, and they should be praised for that fact,” she says. “Perhaps if more of us speak up, then more communities around the country can be like Greenville.”

On May 13, Gore will be the keynote speaker at the Second Annual Southeastern Symposium on Mental Health. While married to Vice President Al Gore, she worked with President Bill Clinton’s administration to pass the Mental Health Parity Act in 1996. She also served as mental health policy advisor to the president.

Tipper Gore. Photo provided

still have a way to go,” she says.

Since then, the public’s view of mental illness has evolved, and the stigma has lessened. “We see it with young people, teenagers, who are open to having conversations about mental illness, but we

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One of the major injustices is the high incarceration rate of people with mental health problems.

Families, communities, and police do not know how to handle people with mental health issues, and so they end up in prisons. “It’s terrible. It’s something our country ought to address as a moral issue,” Gore says.

The Southeastern Symposium will include discussions on how to improve access to mental health services and reduce stigma. Writer Pete Earley will be the keynote speaker on Friday, May 12. He was a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist for this book “Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness.”

For more information about the symposium and to register, visit sesmh.org. —Melinda Young

ARTS

First Fridays seeking gallery applications First Fridays, a Greenville-area art gallery crawl that occurs — you guessed it — on the first Friday of each month, is seeking participating galleries for its 2017–18 season. Applications are open until Monday, June 7.

The event, organized by the Metropolitan Arts Council (MAC), is an opportunity to highlight Greenville’s growing artistic and cultural scene by giving a platform to new and established local makers and creatives. On First Fridays, galleries in Taylors, West Greenville, and downtown Greenville are open from 6–9 p.m. A variety of visual arts, including “oils, watercolors, acrylics, pottery, jewelry, glassworks, wood works, photography, [and] mixed media” are represented.

Accepted galleries will receive First Fridays promotional cards and brochure stands, listings on the First Fridays website, a full page ad in the Greenville Open Studios catalog, First Fridays window signage, and promotion via MAC’s arts news e-blasts and the First Fridays Facebook page, among other benefits.

The 2017–18 First Fridays season will be held from July 7, 2017, to June 2018. There is a onetime $25 fee to join. Returning galleries that are renewing participation are also asked to fill out an application.

To access the application, visit bit.ly/firstfridayapp2017. —Emily Pietras

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Spring is a special time in Greenville. The days are longer, the nights are warmer, and all that lovely greenery that disappeared in the fall is back. Now is the time when it seems like everyone in the Upstate wants to spend as much time as possible outside. Enter Artisphere presented by TD Bank, an outdoor celebration of visual art, music, and food running May 12–14. As in years past, scores of local and national artists will be on hand to showcase their wares, while musicians from near and far provide the live entertainment. Of course, some of Greenville’s best restaurants will be serving up some of their finest fare as well, so you can nosh and stroll and otherwise get your art on. To find out what this year’s Artisphere has in store for you, read on.

P.S. Visit Greenville Journal’s Facebook page to vote in our annual Artisphere Crowd Favorite Contest. The winning artist will be profiled in a feature in a future issue.

IF FOOD IS YOUR ARTISTIC MEDIUM . . .

Artisphere Culinary Arts Café provides a wide variety of dining optionss

In between marveling at street chalk artists, ceramicists, musical acts galore, and dozens of tents full of every imaginable artistic medium, you’re going to get hungry (and thirsty).

Here’s a run-down of restaurants presenting their masterpieces in the Culinary Arts Café on East Broad Street, just off of Main Street.

Newbies to Artisphere include Mexican joint Cantina 76 with smoked pork, roasted chicken, and barbecue brisket tacos, and The American Burger Company with Firecracker Sliders, chili cheese dogs, and Lug Nuts, their signature doughnut holes.

The Greenville County School District Career Centers’ Culinary Program will also be making its Culinary Arts Café debut. The Donaldson Career Center and Golden Strip Career Center are teaming up to serve festive treats like street corn and bacon caramel popcorn.

Larkin’s on the River, Barley’s, Babaziki Mediterranean Grill, MiMi’s Steakhouse of Japan, Tupelo Honey Café, and The Trappe Door (last year’s Best in Show winner) will be back with an eclectic mix of festival fare.

In Kidsphere, Funneldelicious will be serving up whimsical treats, while Friday night during the After Hours Concert Series, the Chuck Truck will be slinging its gourmet burgers and sides.

To complement your lunch and dinner selections, stop by Peace Center Plaza for a tasting at the SunTrust Wine & Craft Beer Experience (open Friday and Saturday 1–6 p.m. and Sunday 1–5 p.m.). A $10 tasting card is good for five tastes of wine or craft beer, or both. — Ariel Turner

Kiah Bellows Photo by WIll Crooks

WITH FLYING COLORS Kiah Bellows brings abstract landscape paintings to Artisphere

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Kiah Bellows can recall working with her hands from an early age. Originally from out West, her family frequently moved when she was young before settling in Greenville, often living in eclectic homes that had character but needed a lot of work. Bellows describes being allowed to draw on wallpaper before helping her mother tear it down, and using needle-nose pliers to pull up staples and rip out old carpet.

“It was fun, and now I look back, and I’m like, ‘Man, they just got free help,’” says Bellows with a laugh.

But it was those experiences — in addition to having parents who encouraged her creativity — that helped lay the foundation for her desire to pursue art as a profession.

“Art’s kind of physical, manual labor,” says Bellows, a painter and gallery assistant at Art and Light in the Village of West Greenville.

“I think just doing stuff like that, that was kind of my normal.”

She adds, “My dad got me a drill when I was 12, and we built a treehouse together.”

When Bellows enrolled at Gardner-Webb University on a swimming scholarship in

2008, she knew she wanted to do something in the arts. She initially considered majoring in interior design and minoring in business, but ultimately chose an art major with a concentration in printmaking and painting.

Balancing the demands of athletics and academics was a formidable challenge. “It was hard being in studio late hours. I’d get out at 10 p.m. and have to be up at 4:45 a.m. for practice,” Bellows recalls. “And it almost killed me my senior year, having my last big conference meet and then a month later having my senior show.” But she reflects positively on the experience, adding that it prepared her for the self-sufficiency needed to launch an art career after graduating.

And Bellows will take a new step forward at Artisphere, where she will exhibit her work as one of two Emerging Artists. The category is specifically for artists who lack experience showing their work at festivals.

In addition to being provided with booth space and marketing materials, Emerging Artists also attend an exhibition workshop.

“I just constantly apply for shows, just always try to keep the ball rolling and do something different,” Bellows says, regarding her decision to apply for Artisphere. “I’ve never done a street festival before, and there’s

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a handful of artists who do festivals all over the U.S. every year, and they’re really successful. So I think it’d be a really good thing to kind of get into that.”

Her work largely focuses on abstract landscape paintings, which she says are inspired by trips to visit family out West and along the East Coast. “It’s not necessarily that I’m recreating a specific location in my landscapes, but more of a feeling or a memory.

I’m trying to connote a feeling or an experience,” Bellows says.

Bellows uses acrylic paint as a base, and she often draws on her paintings with pencil, charcoal, and graphite, a technique called mark making. Other media she frequently uses include oil sticks and watercolor sticks.

Although the process varies, when Bellows starts a new work, she usually begins with a basic color palette or composition. She

then sketches an initial draft on paper before transferring it to canvas, with the final painting often departing from what she first envisioned.

Asked if there’s an artwork of hers that she’s particularly proud of, Bellows reflects, “There’s some that I’m more close with, but there’s always those pieces that you feel kind of got you to the next level. Kind of like stepping stones that you love … because you learned something. It’s more of the process.”

After Artisphere, Bellows will have a show with painters Glory Day Loflin and Dorothy Shain from June 2 to July 27 at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts.

Bellows’ abstract landscapes are often inspired by trips from visiting family out West and on the East Coast. Photo provided

A PIECE OF THE WORLD

Daniel Bare’s travels to China and Japan influence his ceramic works Bare will showcase his functional ceramics at Artisphere.

Photo by Will Crooks

Daniel Bare Photo by WIll Crooks

EMILY PIETRAS | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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On an afternoon at ceramicist Daniel Bare’s home studio in Central, an assortment of plates, bowls, jars, cups, and mugs in various stages of completion is spread across multiple tables.

These wares are part of a new body of porcelain work that Bare is preparing to showcase at Artisphere next weekend. The event will mark his art festival debut.

Originally from Pennsylvania, Bare graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in crafts and ceramics and went on to earn his Master of Fine Arts in ceramic art from Alfred University in New York.

In 2010, he relocated to the Upstate with his wife, Valerie Zimany, who is also a ceramicist and was hired to teach full-time at Clemson University. Bare teaches part-time at Clemson and the Greenville Center For Creative Arts. He is one of the fest’s two Emerging Artists, a category for artists who lack experience exhibiting at festivals.

Growing up, Bare didn’t always plan on having a career in the arts. His father is a middle school art teacher and watercolorist, so art was part of Bare’s upbringing, but for a long time he believed his future would involve a “more practical” profession — physical therapy.

“I was an athlete throughout high school and really thought I would make that part of my life,” Bare says. But when it came time to attend college, he realized that being in the studio was where he felt most comfortable.

“The discipline of sports and of being an artist are really similar in that you have to practice, you have to show up, you have to do it — as well as have wonderful ideas,” he adds. “So art kind of fit into that.”

Bare has been an artist-in-residence in China, Japan, and most recently Canada. He had the opportunity to study in China during his graduate studies and describes visiting villages and markets that just make ceramics, with towering stacks of handmade pots lining the roads. “It was seeing that type of culture where it [ceramics] is ingrained into the everyday,” Bare says of the experience.

“Japan was also amazing in a different way,” he adds. The style of Japanese ceramics, he explains, is more about “embracing the plasticity of clay, while in China everything is kind of tight.”

Capturing that malleability of material, as well as the utilitarian aspect of ceramics, is what guides Bare. “My cups are really kind of pushing this element of the softness of clay, so how I push it and how it responds and also kind of trying to preserve that sort of personal touch with the porcelain,” he explains. “It

kind of looks like it could move at any time. Things that teeter on this sense of touch but also on this sense of success versus failure. … I like that edge between where those things are.”

Bare mixes his own clay, which is English porcelain made of feldspar from India and kaolin from Georgia. Feldspar melts gradually during firing and adds glassiness, and kaolin is a white clay that is used to make porcelain. “To be able to make this clay body, it really is a part of the whole world. It’s a little piece of the world,” he says.

Bare’s home studio is equipped with a kiln, which reaches 2,350 degrees. That kiln is mainly used for bisque firing, the initial step in the firing process that is conducted at a slow temperature rise, peaking around 1,800 degrees. Bisque firing solidifies the clay and prepares it for glaze application and later glaze firing, which Bare does in a kiln located at another site.

In addition to his functional work, Bare also does sculpture work and wet clay installations, which he has mainly shown in galleries. He says the idea of having a display booth was holding him back from entering the art fair market sooner. By being named an Emerging Artist, Bare attended an exhibiting workshop and will also be provided free marketing materials and booth space.

“The Emerging Artist really helps you with that side of things,” he says. “They give you guidance. When I’m done with Artisphere, I’ll have a booth shot to apply to my next round of shows, so I’ll probably wind up doing a few more after Artisphere. This gave me the opportunity to showcase this side of my work, which is great, and I’m really thankful for it.”

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BEER ME

Former auto mechanic Paveen ‘Beer’ Chunhaswasdikul explores the manly side of pottery CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Paveen “Beer” Chunhaswasdikul used to make his living as an auto mechanic. But today, instead of being elbows-deep in automotive grease, the Gadsden, Ala.-based artist is getting his hands dirty manipulating clay into what he calls “manly pottery” — mugs that resemble hand grenades and metal-looking clay teapots shaped like jet engines, air compressors, flamethrowers, and gas cans.

“They ask, ‘That’s not metal?’ They’ll tap on them,” says Chunhaswasdikul, who is known by “Beer,” the nickname his father gave him at birth. “I have to glue the lid on, because they’ll pick them up and flip them over and look at the bottom.”

He adds, “The form and color trick your eyes and brain to believe it’s metal. When people see the screws and rivets, they just assume it’s metal.”

Beer, who was born in Thailand and graduated from high school there, moved to the United States to study English at Gadsden

State Community College. After graduating from there, he attended Jacksonville State University, where he discovered pottery during an art class and later earned a fine arts degree.

When he couldn’t find a job, he opened an auto repair shop and worked as a mechanic.

But one day, he saw a notice in the newspaper that an artist was selling a kiln for $50.

“I couldn’t pass it up,” he says. He bought some clay, his wife bought him a pottery wheel, and he started making pottery as a hobby. He decided to become a potter full time after he displayed his work at the Alabama Clay Conference.

“I like mechanical things,” he says. “When I started doing this 15 years ago, nobody was doing anything like it. There was no manly pottery.”

His work has been juried into some of the country’s most prestigious juried arts and crafts shows, including the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, D.C. He’s won awards at three Artisphere festivals, including an Award of Excellence last year and a

Paveen ‘Beer’ Chunhaswasdikul. Photo provided.

merit award in 2013.

Chunhaswasdikul doesn’t use a mold or cast; instead, he makes each piece by hand.

He doesn’t use sketches, either. “I just get ideas in my head and do the pieces by memory. Each one comes out different. A lot of people want me to make them one like one that sold, but I tell them I can’t because all pieces are one of a kind,” he says.

Beer says the engine teapots are challenging because the smaller and larger pieces dry and shrink at different rates, causing the smaller pieces to sometimes detach themselves from the main pot. To combat that, he covers the pieces up with a plastic bag and uses a contraption he created that releases moisture over time so they take two or three months to dry.

Living in Alabama limits the time he can work on his engine pieces — from November or December until about February — because it’s too hot in the summer.

Chunhaswasdikul says he’d rather make an engine-inspired piece of art than fix a broken motor.

“When you’re doing engine repair, you’re really just trying to fix something somebody else created,” he says. “With pottery, I’m the creator. That’s a lot more gratifying.”

The form and color of Beer’s “manly pottery” pieces give the impression that the works are made of metal. Photo provided.

SMALL PACKAGES

Painter Karen Libecap sees everything in miniature CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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For Alabama-based artist Karen Libecap, bigger is not better.

Libecap’s incredibly detailed watercolor and gouache paintings are just 1.25-inch by 1.25-inch, or about the size of an SD card.

“When I was little, I’d write as small as I could. I would fit four lines onto one line of notebook paper and do these little illustrations to go with them,” she says. “Painting bigger was always a struggle, always a challenge.”

Libecap, who wanted to go to college for illustration but was told she wasn’t good enough, took a 20-year-break from painting.

However, all of that changed when Libecap, who studied graphic design and served as an art director in cities such as Chicago, Cincinnati, and Columbus, Ohio, came across

quarter-sized paintings by South African painter Lorraine Loots on Instagram. Libecap decided she would try it herself. Today, she has nearly 23,000 Instagram followers.

Over the years, Libecap has painted Oreo cookies and bottles of Coke, pets and wild animals, toy Army men and superheroes, famous master’s paintings, and rock album covers.

“I like painting vintage objects because it’s nostalgia. I love it when somebody says, ‘Oh, my God, we had one of those,’” Libecap says.

She uses miniature paintbrushes, some with bristles so thin they can hardly be seen, to paint details, such as condensation on the bottle that mimics what happens when an ice-cold Pabst Blue Ribbon is left on a table on a hot summer day.

“When I first started doing tiny paintings, I could finish one in 30 minutes to an hour,” she says. “Now, it takes

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me four to 10 hours. The difference is how much detail my paintings have now.”

Some of the brush strokes are no larger than a dot. “When I’m doing a tiny painting, I have to be more precise than I have to be for a large painting. In a tiny painting, one dot in the wrong spot can ruin or make a painting,” she says. “It takes a lot of patience.”

Incredibly, Libecap doesn’t use a jeweler’s eye loupe or a magnifying glass when she’s working on her tiny paintings. “All I use is 3.0 reading glasses,” she says. “People don’t believe me when I tell them that.”

Over the past two years, Libecap has completed nearly 500 tiny paintings, and in October published “The Big Book of Tiny Art: A modern, inspirational guide to the art of the miniature,” through Walter Foster Publishing. The book guides readers step by step through her process and showcases her work.

When she was first contacted by Walter Foster, she was shocked.

“When I got the email, at first I thought it was a scam,” Libecap says.

Painting tiny also helps Libecap eliminate one of the common excuses people give for not buying original artwork. She says, “They don’t take up much room on the wall.”

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The two members of Smooth Hound Smith deliver a roomful of roadhouse rock

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Smooth Hound Smith’s sound is about as roadhouse-ready as it gets. A primal bass-andsnare-drum thump provides the rhythm, a distorted six-string provides the riffs, and vocalists Zach Smith and Caitlin Doyle provide the vocals, either singing in ragged harmony or doing some sassy call-and-response over their surprisingly flexible acoustic-electric stomp blues.

What’s most fascinating is that Smith and Doyle do all of it themselves onstage. Doyle sings and plays percussion while Smith handles the drums, guitars, harmonica, and even the occasional banjo. It’s a surprisingly full sound from just two people, and it’s one that they’ve honed over 500 shows in the last three years.

It’s a formula they can stretch, too. On their most recent album, 2016’s “Sweet Tennessee Honey,” Smooth Hound Smith can handle rockin’ electric blues, mournful acoustic bal-

and Doyle began to sense a personal and musical connection.

“She came to visit me and played a few shows with me and it blossomed from there,” Smith says. “We ended up going on our first tour and moving in together.”

Doyle adds, “The relationship and the band happened simultaneously.”

Other than a few early shows Caitlin Doyle and Zach Smith of Smooth Hound Smith with an extra mandolin player ladry, and burbling alt-country, all within the or fiddle player, the two-piece lineup was the confines of their two-person blueprint. plan from the beginning, if only for economic The band formed five years ago in Los Anreasons. “We spent a lot of cold winters and geles after Smith, who’d conceived the project hot summers sleeping in a van on the road to and was playing as a one-man band, sat in with save money,” Smith says. “We looked at the Doyle’s group. “I hadn’t really been playing gigs we’d be able to book, being a completely live that much,” Smith says. “I’d just been reunknown band, and realized we couldn’t afcording. But we met through a mutual friend ford to do it with a four-piece or even a threeand I’d play upright bass with her band.” piece.”

Smith moved to Nashville, Tenn., shortly afThe stomp-blues sound that the duo uses terwards, and it was only then, “after I moved as their foundation was there from the begin2,000 miles away,” he says with a laugh, that he

ning, too. “I’ve always loved that country blues with that heavy backbeat to it,” Smith says. “I wanted to be able to walk into any bar or listening room and set up my drums and my amp and have the two of us be able to entertain any loud, unruly crowd and win them over. And the way to do that was to have heavy beats that the crowd can swing their hips to.”

For their first, self-titled album, which was released in 2013, Smith wrote all of the songs, but he says they weren’t really complete until Doyle added to the arrangements and helped him create the vocal harmonies. “It’s amazing what harmony or a short bridge can do to make something feel like a complete song,” he says. “It’s a lot more than just a guy with kick drums and guitar.”

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Jeff Sipe will play at Artisphere with guitarist Billy Cardine and bassist Cody Wright.

CHEMISTRY BROTHERS

Cardine, Sipe, and Wright lock in on a groove and never let go VINCENT HARRIS | STAFF

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Drummer Jeff Sipe has been playing with his own trio, which features guitarist Mike Seal and bassist Taylor Lee, for a while now.

So when Artisphere reached out to him about a trio performance at the festival, he assumed that Seal and Lee would be coming along.

But as it turns out, though, the promoters had a little something different in mind. Apparently, they’d seen one of Sipe’s rare performances with guitarist Billy Cardine and bassist Cody Wright, and wanted that group to come back together.

“We’ve only played a handful of times,” Sipe says. “We’re really good friends and we love to play together, but we’re so busy individually that we don’t get a chance to play that often. But we have a lot of fun when we put on a show, even if it’s only once or twice a year.”

Sipe is a multifaceted player who relies more on a keen improvisational ear than pure percussive power. He can handle jazz, funk, rock, and world music with ease, whether he’s leading a band or sitting in with someone else. So it’s easy to see why a trio that only plays on rare occasions would be a perfect fit for a multitasker like him.

“It keeps things fresh. It’s impossible to go stale,” Sipe says. “It’s new every time we play because there are new tunes being added, and there’s a natural chemistry that is really joyful and easy.”

He adds, “It’s always joyful playing with friends of like mind, and in this group, there’s no pressure. We don’t have the pressure to make a living, so we can enjoy the creative outlet rather than trying to fit it into a particular genre or worry about mass appeal.”

And his admiration for both Cardine and Wright is clear when he talks about their re-

spective playing styles. “They’re both worldclass players, and that shines through in the music,” he says. “Billy’s senses of melody, rhythm, and harmony are pretty unique, so it’s exciting to hear music through his ears.

And he writes really challenging things to play. They’re not entirely symmetrical and they often don’t stay in one key, so it really requires rehearsal to get it right.”

Wright is a multi-instrumentalist, adept at guitar and drums in addition to bass, and Sipe says that gives Wright a unique perspective on the music they play. “Cody is so committed to the rhythm,” he says. “As a drummer, I’m constantly keeping time for the other musicians. It’s rare when you find someone who’s as committed to the time as the drummer. So if I want to go off and be creative, the groove never goes away because Cody’s locking it down. So that gives me some freedom to go in and out. He’s got my back; I’ve got his.”

The trio format is one that all three musicians enjoy because it forces them to be focused and present, but it also allows some space for improvisation.

“The main thing is that like-minded chemistry between three people can be really exploratory, but you have to be really strong on your instrument,” Sipe says. “I’ve heard trios that sound like big orchestras; it’s a matter of using textures and being as creative and as strong as possible within the setting.”

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COMMUNITYJOURNALS.COM Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez of Blue Cactus

DAVIS AUDIOLOGY LISTENS… SO YOU CAN HEAR!

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I was ready for this and I was really struggling at work, listening and understanding during conferences and formulating a response was really hard because I couldn’t hear them. It’s like we flipped a switch, I feel so much better, it is just amazing. I really had no idea that it would be this dramatic.

— Brenda Kinne

LOST COUNTRY

Forget pop-country — Blue Cactus mines the classics to craft their retro sound vharris@communityjournals.com

Blue Cactus, a new duo formed by Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez, calls their sound “modern classic country,” but the cool thing about what they do is that it’s no one specific style of classic country.

For instance, the opening track on their self-titled album, “I Never Knew Heartache (Then I Knew You),” sounds for all the world like some lost Patsy Cline tune. It features a gently picked backing track with layered backing vocals swaying underneath Stewart’s wounded, heartbroken twang.

Another track, the Arnez-sung “Anymore Something (Like Anyone’s Someone)” folds a weeping pedal steel and an almost waltzlike Western swing beat into the mix, and “Pearl” adds some Bakersfield honky-tonk grit. There’s even some vintage Loretta Lynn-style wordplay on the serves-you-right anthem “So Right (You Got Left).” Complementing Blue Cactus’ consciously stylized music, Stewart and Arnez have adopted a throwback wardrobe of matching patterned shirts and cowboy boots.

Regardless, both in sound and look, Blue Cactus is also pretty far from the pair’s previous Appalachian string-band, Steph Stewart & Her Boyfriends.

“Some of the other guys were getting busier, and we weren’t able to consistently say yes to gigs with the whole band,” Arnez says of the Boyfriends. “So it got more into Steph and I doing more duo gigs, and that eventually evolved into moving away from acoustic to writing more classic country-inspired material. We like all sorts of music, but we love that classic country.”

Once the duo decided on that throwback sound, Stewart says there was a lot for Blue Cactus to choose from. “I feel like one of my favorite things about country is that there are so many different aesthetics that you can experiment with,” she says. “We’ve had a lot of fun adding the Nashville-sound kind of strings, but we also enjoy the more basic stuff, the rock-country stuff you get with the

Bakersfield sound. I think it was really fun for us to dabble in little bits of the country aesthetics that we enjoy and not commit to one.

It was nice to experiment.”

For Stewart, the classic county genre is personal. Though she grew up in the ’90s listening to superstar country singers like Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, and Reba McEntire, a close friend of hers introduced her to Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash around the same time.

“There’s a real nostalgia for me,” she says.

“It felt like I was sort of like reclaiming my childhood in a way. I cast that music aside in my early 20s because it wasn’t cool at the time, or whatever, but I came around recently to realizing how amazing that music is and how much I enjoy writing and singing in that style. It’s kind of like what my voice is designed to do. It felt natural to me.”

Arnez and Stewart wrote nearly all the material on the Boyfriends’ two studio albums, but they approached the songs for Blue Cactus in a way they’d never done before.

“We would, in conversation, come up with a really clever song title and then have a go at writing something with that title,” Stewart says. “And that was really fun.”

As for the classic genres and styles that the songs are set in, that came after the writing process was done. “With every song we wrote, we were just thinking, ‘What kind of style do we want to have?’” Arnez says. “We were definitely contextualizing what we were writing and how we might present it from the production standpoint.”

It was an exciting project for both of them to work on, because they were able to dig so deeply into the history of the music. “There’s just this great culture inside country music,” Stewart says. “I feel like it’s one of the few styles that’s uniquely American.”

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Education takes a unique form at Upstate Montessori Academy (UMA).

In building a school, the Kellys have built a community. “We have a wonderful sense of family at UMA and our parents are the foundation of the Students at this school are taught using the Montessori approach that was school’s success,” Jennifer says. One four-year-old’s parent said, “As developed 120 years ago by Dr. Maria Montessori. The classroom uses Montessori materials with real-world a parent you want a learning environment that is stimulating, safe teaching in a collaborative and stimulating environment, Imparting knowledge and fun for your child and Mrs. Kelly has done a great job creating that with Upstate Montessori Academy. My son has loved UMA thus developing children ages 3-6 into inquisitive and and promoting curious young learners. since his first day, which is the best review in my opinion. When self-independence to I drop him off, he’s often so excited to start the day that he doesn’t Jennifer and Chris Kelly, founders and owners, started secure your child’s UMA in June 2016. Opening with only two children last even stop to tell me goodbye. And when I pick him up he usually educational future. lingers not wanting to leave; then chatters all the way home about summer, their school has blossomed to 21 students with the day’s lessons and events. I’m so happy to have found UMA.” expectations to exceed 30 in the fall. One unique feature at UMA is that Jennifer has correlated the Montessori materials to meet state When Jennifer is not shaping Greenville’s young minds, she and Chris enjoy hiking in the mountains with their dogs or completing do-it-yourself standards, something many private schools are unable to provide with their projects around the school. They are currently working on adding a garden curricula.

Jennifer’s desire to teach Montessori education began early in her so students can start growing their own fruits and vegetables for snacks. career. “I went to a session on Montessori at Lander University during At UMA the Kellys have created a place for students, parents, and my sophomore year in college and knew that’s where I needed to be,” she Jennifer to grow. She says, “It doesn’t seem like work anymore. I’m doing something that I love, and it just comes naturally to me.” remembers. “After attending my first Montessori class, my heart raced with excitement and a fire was lit inside of me that has only grown stronger as my years in a Montessori classroom have passed.”

109 North Leach St., After graduating from Lander with her Elementary Education and Lower Greenville Elementary Montessori degrees, Jennifer taught in Laurens 55 and Anderson 4 districts for 14 years, 10n of which were in a Montessori classroom. While at Anderson 4 she also obtained her Primary Montessori certification.

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AN OVERLOOKED NECESSITY The Homeless Period Project provides menstrual products to homeless and disadvantaged women and girls

The Homeless Period Project assembles “period packs” with feminine hygiene products and delivers them to shelters and other institutions throughout the state. The organization donates to between 30 and 40 entities in the Upstate region alone.

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Having dependable access to pads, tampons, and other feminine hygiene products is a necessity for any woman who gets a period. But across the country, many homeless and economically disadvantaged women find themselves without these products, either because they cannot afford them or because agencies like shelters do not have them readily available.

It wasn’t an issue that Sharron Phillips ever considered until June 2015, when her sister-in-law, Stephanie Arnold, shared an article about the difficulties homeless women in the United Kingdom face in accessing feminine hygiene products.

“Never once had I thought about what homeless women do while on their periods,” Phillips says.

The two women wondered if this lack of access was also a problem for homeless women in Greenville, so they called a few shelters to inquire about the frequency of donations.

They quickly discovered a pattern. “Everyone said very rarely do they see donations of menstrual products, and if they do, they’re the first things gone,” Phillips recalls.

She and Arnold decided to host an event called the Homeless Period Project to collect donations and assemble “period packs” — which include a supply of pads, tampons, liners, and feminine wipes — to deliver to local shelters. The two women didn’t have a specific plan going forward, Phillips says, but when a guest said she wanted to host her own event, they agreed to help.

The concept soon caught on, and the Homeless Period Project ultimately evolved into a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with Phillips and Arnold as co-founders. As its name would indicate, the Homeless Period Project initially supplied donations to street ministries and shelters, but it has since branched out to assist low-income individuals.

Phillips estimates that the Homeless Period Project, which now serves all of South Carolina, donates to between 30 and

“ As of now, we’re averaging 3,000 women and girls per month, and half of those are students.”

Sharron Phillips, co-founder, The Homeless Period Project 40 entities in the Upstate alone. Current recipients include the Salvation Army, Place of Hope Day Shelter, Samaritan’s House, the Julie Valentine Center, Safe Harbor, some Title I schools in the Greenville County School District, and free medical clinics, among others.

“There is a great need for feminine hygiene products at the Salvation Army Women and Children’s Shelter,” says Rachel Wilkes, development director at the Salvation Army. “[They] are not frequently donated by the public, and when they do get donated, it is usually in small amounts. We are very grateful for the quantity and quality of hygiene products donated by the Homeless Period Project, as we do not have worries of running out.”

The cost of feminine hygiene products varies depending on brand and quantity, but for homeless and low-income women, even the least expensive generic products, which may cost between $4-6, can be challenging to afford. To add to that cost, South Carolina is one of 40 states that taxes feminine hygiene products as a “retail luxury.” In March 2016, the Post and Courier reported that some state lawmakers were considering introducing legislation to eliminate the so-called tampon tax, but it is currently still in effect.

Because having access to feminine hygiene products is so critical to women’s health, some women will ultimately resort to shoplifting if they’re desperate enough. “If you’re down to $10 and you’ve got meals to buy, then spending $5 on pads or

tampons is just expensive,” Phillips says. “It’s sad how often we go shopping for these products and we see bags [of pads] already open or two or three tampons missing from a box.”

Both Jason Evans, community outreach specialist at New Horizon Family Health Services, and Nick Bush, program manager of United Ministries’ Place of Hope Day Shelter, have seen firsthand how the cost of feminine hygiene products impacts homeless and low-income women — and how the Homeless Period Project is helping to meet a critical need.

“Most of the women we see are transient and have no funds in order to purchase these products. The Homeless Period Project has been a huge help in supplying our need of feminine hygiene products,” Bush says. “I can tell you women really rely on us to have the products they need. Most of them have nowhere else to go to get access to these products.”

“I have been distributing the products to women we meet on the street and also women we are seeing on the mobile unit,” Evans says, “The women on the street mention that they often go without products, because any money they do come into goes toward food.”

Those who are interested in becoming involved with the Homeless Period Project have a variety of options. In addition to attending the organization’s events, which are sporadically held at various local businesses, individuals can host their own events to assemble period packs, help with deliveries to shelters and other locations, and donate supplies or money.

Looking ahead, Phillips hopes to add more volunteers to reach out to other institutions and find out what their needs are. “We’re just touching a small base. We’re finding out about a lot of school-age girls without these products,” she says. “As of now, we’re averaging 3,000 women and girls per month, and half of those are students. It’s sad to me that there’s such a need, but I’m proud that we’re finding it and helping it.”

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I know dogs and cats are known as being enemies, but you can’t always believe stereotypes. I LOVE kittens. Since Animal Care opened the new kitten nursery last week I haven’t been able to stay away. I love looking through the window and watching litters of week-old kittens climb all over each other. They’re so adorable I can’t stand it! Anyone from the public can come by and see these adorable babies in the kitten nursery to get a daily dose of cuteness. You can even take one home to foster it until it can grow big enough to be adopted. It’s okay if you don’t have experience. The staff at Animal Care will train you on how to take care of these little fur balls of joy. If you can’t foster, you can still help by donating supplies. Get a list of needs at GreenvillePets.org!

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Writing a 208-page cookbook while opening a new restaurant wasn’t exactly something that Biscuit Head owners Carolyn and Jason Roy had planned to do, but the husband-and-wife team not only finished writing “Biscuit Head: New Southern Biscuits, Breakfasts, and Brunch,” they opened their third location of their popular Asheville-based chain in downtown Greenville’s South Ridge development within six months of

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each other.

Carolyn says, “The publisher asked us if we were interested while we were in the process of opening the Greenville store, which was crazy, but we saw it as a good opportunity.”

Published by Voyageur Press in Minneapolis, “Biscuit Head: New Southern Biscuits, Breakfasts, and Brunch” is a collection of the couple’s favorite recipes, many of which have been served as spe-

cials in the three restaurants. The book also includes Biscuit Head’s now-famous Cathead biscuits and the jams, spreads, and gravies that top them off.

Carolyn says her favorite recipe in the entire book is the mac ’n’ cheese biscuit, which is a Cathead biscuit with mac ’n’ cheese folded into the dough. “It’s just so good,” she says.

Jason, despite many more complicated recipes in the book, says the figs soaked

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in a bourbon simple syrup tops his list. teach readers how to use certain methAnd when they’re served over buttermilk ods that may, at first, seem daunting. ice cream, that sends them over the edge.

“I wanted to teach people how to make One of the biggest challenges for the barbecue. And the best way to make baRoys was creating a cookbook that could con — it’s possible to make it at home,” be used by the cook with minimal kitch- he says. “We wanted to make the book en experience. Like many seasoned chefs, simple with the approaches nice and difJason, the main recipe creator, doesn’t ferent.” use exact measurements.

Speaking of barbecue, “Biscuit Head” “I think there was a whole recipe what includes a recipe for a smoked beef briswas a list of ‘a ket. After being pinch of this,’” smoked for eight Carolyn jokes. to 10 hours, the Carolyn, a forbrisket is shredmer English maded and piled jor in college, high on a Cathead was tasked with biscuit. translating JaAnother dish son’s non-specific that some kitchrecipes. An examen newbies might ple of what she shy away from is had to deal with: the duck confit “Just cook it ’til hash. For some, it’s done,” Jason slow cooking the says. “Salt until it duck in fat might tastes right.” He’s seem complicatmostly serious. ed.

“It’s hard to “It can seem write a book that over whelming,” will come out Carolyn says. Jaright in every son chimes in, kitchen,” he says.

“But it’s such a Carolyn Roy “Every kitchen is delicious thing to different.” make.”

A main concept of the cookbook is to In the end, the Roys simply want home give cooks the tools to break free from cooks to enjoy their time in the kitchen. rigid instructions.

“It’s all about the fun and the joy,” Jason “We want them to use their eyes, nose, says. “You should be having a good time and fingers to tell if it’s good,” Carolyn says. while cooking.”

For Jason, the cookbook is a way to

“The publisher asked us if we were interested while we were in the process of opening the Greenville store, which was crazy, but we saw it as a good opportunity.”

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The greenhouse is full of brightly colored flowers such as impatiens, petunias, lantana, geraniums, and hanging baskets. Vegetables include tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, squash, and zucchini. The students, along with their teacher, Cathy Bush, have worked tirelessly, participating in every part of the process from planting the seeds to tending the plants as they grow in the greenhouse. Money raised will provide funding to continue the gardening program, a key part of Washington Center’s curriculum. For more information, call 864-355-0250 or visit Washington Center at 2 Betty Spencer Drive.

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North Greenville University honors alumni

Three North Greenville University alumni and PRUINING friends were recently honored by the univeralumni association. Chris Brank, a 2009 CONTRACT CLIMBING sity’s alumnus from Greenville, was named distin24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE TREE REMOVAL STUMP GRINDING PRUINING BRIDGING PHILANTHROPY & PURPOSE CONTRACT CLIMBING

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Jeannette and Marshall Winn established a Donor Advised Fund to make their charitable giving easier, tax-effective, cost-efficient, and more powerful.

guished alumnus of the year. Eddie Fisher, 2003 alumnus from Tigerville, was awarded the alumnus of the year. Kayla Morgan, 2012 alumnus from Travelers Rest, was recognized with the alumni association president’s award.

Jack Connors, general manager of WLOS-TV and WMYA-TV from Asheville, was named friend of the year.

BOB JONES UNIVERSITY

BJU students present at American Chemical Society Several senior biochemistry and molecular biology students at Bob Jones University recently presented poster sessions on various research projects at the Western Carolinas Section of the American Chemical Society at Furman University. Paige Heiple and Lauren Watts presented a poster on “Hantzsch Thiazole Synthesis of Sphingosine Kinase Inhibitor II.” Andrew Lewis, Tiffany Radle, Steven Woodard, and Tim Nye presented their research on “Biosynthesis and Purification of Human Prostaglandin E2 Synthase from E. coli BL21 Star (DE3).” All of the students’ research was done in collaboration with Cayman Chemical, a company that produces pharmaceutical ingredients and products for

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Radle also presented a poster on “Distinct Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate Binding Properties of EEA1 and Phafin2,” based on her work as part of a summer research internship at Virginia Tech in 2016.

FURMAN UNIVERSITY

Fulbright grants awarded to Furman graduating seniors Three 2017 Furman University graduating seniors have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Nathan Mathai, an accounting major, will serve as an English teaching assistant in Malaysia. Emily Matthews, a German studies/English double major, will be an English teaching assistant in Germany. Michael Robinson, a Spanish and sustainability science double major, will serve as an English teaching assistant in Colombia.

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Sandlapper Securities LLC raises more than $45,000 in latest philanthropic efforts Sandlapper Securities LLC recently announced that they helped raise over $33,000 at the 2017 Cornhole Derby for the Center for Developmental Services (CDS), which is the largest multidisciplinary treatment facility in the Upstate for children with disabilities and developmental delays. In addition, during the Sixth Annual Sandlapper Securities Sales Conference, Sandlapper raised $12,000 for T.E.A.R.S (True Evangelism Always Requires Sacrifice) to support children in the Dominican Republic.

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Countybank supports local cancer institute

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Countybank recently reinforced its longtime support of cancer research in our local community through a major gift to Greenville Health System’s McCrary Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. The Countybank Wellness Suite will be a place of respite and recovery for patients at the Transplant Unit and allow patients to receive world-class care closer to home and family. Over the past six years, the personal gifts and fundraising efforts of Countybank’s employees, combined with annual

grants from the Countybank Foundation, have resulted in aggregate total donations in excess of $215,000 in support of ITOR (the Institution for Translational Oncology Research) and the Cancer Institute at Greenville Health System.

OUTREACH

Hero Games kicks off in West Greenville The inaugural Hero Games brought the Greenville Police Department, Greenville Police Foundation, Clemson football alumni, South Carolina Football Hall of Fame, and residents of West Greenville together for a day of unity and play at the West Greenville Community Center. Former Clemson, Arizona Cardinals, and Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Patrick Sapp created the Hero Games as a community outreach event for the Greenville Police Foundation to give something back to the West Greenville neighborhood. Sapp enlisted the help of former Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd, Jason Richards at NAI Earle Furman, Chi Blair from Greenville Police Department, and Ben Bounds at the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame.

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Vanilla Cinnamon Amazeballs • 1 tbsp. creamed coconut

• 1/4 c. unsweetened coconut milk

• 2 tbsp. unsweetened almond butter

• 2 tbsp. roasted, unsalted sunflower seeds (without husks)

• 1/8 tsp. cinnamon • 1/4 c. vanilla vegan protein powder

• 2/3 c. rolled oats (not quick-cook)

Instructions In a large dish, warm the creamed coconut for 10-15 seconds in the microwave, until it softens. Mix in the almond butter to make a paste, and then stir in the cinnamon. Mix in the protein powder and coconut until well combined and protein powder is fully incorporated.

You want the consistency to be like that of cake frosting, so add more coconut milk if needed. Finally, stir in the oats and sunflower seeds. You can add more oats if you like, so long as you have enough of the wet mixture to bind them together. Place the “dough” in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to help solidify the mixture before rolling them into balls.

Store in the fridge.

Chocolate Amazeballs

Same recipe as above, except (1) sub chocolate protein powder for vanilla (2) sub 1 tsp. cocoa powder for the cinnamon.

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I was hesitant to call my protein ball recipe “Amazeballs,” thinking that this is a slang term that might be lost on many, but the internet tells me that the word was added to the Oxford dictionary in 2014 (at the same time as “neckbeard,” “cray,” “clickbait,” and “YOLO” — look them up if you need to). For those who don’t follow pop and internet culture, “amazeballs” simply means amazing. As in, “Living in Greenville is amazeballs.” And these protein balls are amazeballs. More on that later; first, let me back up.

I’ve spent the month of April following one of those healthy eating and food elimination challenges. I chose the Arbonne plan, but there are others. Most have similar goals: have more energy, sleep better, lose weight.

And most achieve results by eliminating foods that work against these goals (caffeine, sugar, simple carbs) while focusing on foods that support these goals (vegetables, fruit, lean protein, complex carbs). The formula is simple: Don’t eat junk + eat healthful foods = look and feel better. Anyone can do it without joining a program or challenge, but many of us (I know I do) need the structure of rules to really pull it off. It’s a change in mindset, from “I probably shouldn’t eat that donut” to “I can’t eat that donut [because it’s against the rules]!”

Back to the amazeballs. Protein ball recipes are all over the internet and are touted as healthy snacks. The vast majority of these use sweetener to keep them bound as a

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ball (and, let’s be honest, because we like the taste of sugar). Honey, agave, maple syrup, and even dates are sticky and work well for this purpose. Certainly these sugars are better options than plain ol’ white table sugar because they contain other nutrients (i.e., are not empty calories) and have a low glycemic index (do not cause sharp spikes in blood sugar). But unfortunately, the sugar content of the protein balls starts to approach that of a dessert. If weight loss is a goal, as it is for many who embark on these healthy eating challenges, the “better alternative” sugar is still extra calories that are working against the goal. I wanted to

eat protein balls during this challenge, but also wanted to lose weight (I have a 9-month-old!), so I had to get crafty in the kitchen to pull off a low-sugar, yet tasty, protein ball.

The amazeballs recipe here can be made using either vanilla or chocolate protein powder. I chose a vegan protein because one of the “rules” of my program was no dairy, but you shouldn’t have an issue making these with whey protein. The protein powder that you choose will affect the flavor of the final product, so make sure you like the taste of the protein (I like the Arbonne one because I think it tastes like cake batter). Most protein

powders have some sugar, but it tends to be low and serves as the only sugar source in the amazeballs.

The secret to keeping them glued is creamed coconut. This is not to be confused with “coconut cream” or “cream of coconut.”

Creamed coconut is simply the meat of the coconut ground into a paste. In this recipe, it blends with the almond butter (unsweetened, of course) to create a paste that effectively binds the other ingredients together. It’s important to follow the recipe as stated, mixing ingredients in order, so that they bind properly. If you try to dump all the ingredients

into a bowl and stir, the end result will be less than amazeballs.

True confession: I only made these into actual balls for the photo. Digging into the mound of ingredients with a spoon is also an option!

Emily Yepes is an advertising representative at Community Journals and a fitness instructor. She is “just” a home cook whose favorite hobby is to test and perfect recipes for her annual family cookbook.

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The Greenville Symphony Orchestra will be playing some of the best-known classical pieces in the world during their final Masterworks performances of the season this weekend. You’ll hear Ravel’s “Bolero,” Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre,” and many all-time favorites during the two performances. But don’t count on keeping your eyes on the orchestra while they’re playing. Leave that to your ears, because there will be thrilling acrobatics going on all around the GSO for the entire performance.

The orchestra will be accompanied by the Cirque de la Symphonie, a collection of some of the greatest aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers, and strongmen in the world. During the pieces, they’ll be flying through the air or hurling themselves across the stage in time with the music, performing dazzling aerial stunts and logic-defying feats of strength.

The program will include various aerial features including rope and strap performances, a magic act, a giant-sized wheel with a performer inside, ring jugglers, and more.

“It’s a combination of great music with great acrobats, aerial flyers, and gymnasts,” says the GSO’s conductor and artistic director, Edvard Tchivzhel. “It’s a combination of music with choreography that’s very similar to ballet, but it’s ballet in the air, flying in front of our orchestra, which is really something.”

It’s the first time that the Cirque has come to Greenville to perform

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That Ain’t Bluegrass Billy Strings is a fascinatingly unpredictable performer VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

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Music is a family business for William Apostol, aka Billy Strings. His father, Terry Barber, is an accomplished bluegrass guitar picker, and his uncle Brad picked a mean banjo. And once you hear what Strings can do on an acoustic guitar, his talent becomes obvious.

Strings, who got the nickname from his aunt, is absolutely dazzling, tossing off impossibly fast solos that sparkle like a mountain stream and singing in a sweet-and-sour tone that recalls Doc Watson.

“My dad introduced me to Doc, and he’s always been my favorite,” Strings says. “But he introduced me to all the other bluegrass dudes, too: Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Larry Sparks, and Ralph Stanley with Keith Whitley.”

On closer inspection, though, Strings’ technical mastery of his instrument might come from some decidedly non-bluegrass sources, as well. “My dad also showed me Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix,” he says. “I feel like I’m just as influenced by Johnny Winter as Doc Watson sometimes.”

It’s an interesting mix of styles that has made Billy Strings, just now in his mid-20s, a fascinatingly unpredictable performer. He has a sense of tradition that dovetails nicely with a sense of stagecraft. This isn’t a player that’s content to stand behind a mic onstage in a suit and play the classics. He’s more likely to perform in a T-shirt that shows off his nicely inked arms, and he and his band can get into some truly experimental territory.

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with the symphony orchestra, and Tchivzhel’s excitement is audible as he talks about the combination of sights and sounds.

“All the great emotional experiences of the music will be doubled by choreography, and it’s really amazing,” he says. “This team is all world-class champions in acrobatics or gymnastics; they’re all exceptional people. I think it will be a brilliant show. We’re really looking forward to this.”

The group has been performing with orchestras all over the country, but it’s not the same collection of music every night. They allow the orchestras to choose from several

Billy Strings

“We’ll play some new song that’s totally far-out and progressive, and takes bluegrass as far as we can get,” he says. “And then the next song we’ll play The Stanley Brothers’ ‘How Mountain Gals Can Love,’ which is as straight as an arrow. I really love doing that,

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because if you’ve got younger people, they want to hear you go out on a limb and do some crazy stuff, but you might also have older folks there that just want to hear some good old bluegrass. I try not to pigeonhole myself in any way; I just call it music.”

The balance between innovation and tradition is an important one for any young bluegrass musician, but it’s one that Strings has thought about a great deal. “I really respect my dad’s style, and I want to carry that torch,” he says. “But I think that you need to make music that’s new while respecting the traditions. Think about Sturgill Simpson.

He’s coming out with this crazy new stuff that’s amazing, but it really sounds like older country, and that’s what’s so good about it.

It still has that integrity. You can make this new bluegrass that still has the chops of Bill Monroe and still has the drive of the bluegrass of the 1950s, and I think that’s really important.”

But the genre does have limits, and Strings, who will headline the Greenville Literacy Association’s Lyrics For Literacy show at Greenville’s Revel event space next Thursday, sees a lot of music slipping in that doesn’t quite fit. “It’s so hard to say what bluegrass is anymore,” he says. “People will call just about anything bluegrass. Some of

different combinations, and it was a task that Tchivzhel easily embraced. “I chose the most exciting music,” he says, “‘Carmen’ by George Bizet, ‘Capriccio Espagnol’

by Rimsky-Korsakov, Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries,’ all kinds of the most popular tunes. It’s a broad selection of short brilliant pieces from the classical repertoire. So even if we played the music without the circus, it would be a great musical evening. But it will be twice as exciting with the acrobats.

It will be reinforced by this great ballet of gymnasts.”

He adds, “It’s the magic of music and the

magic of circus coming together.”

Phil Elkins, the director of operations of the GSO, says that they decided to bring Cirque de la Symphonie to Greenville not just because of the thrilling acrobatic feats, but because the musical program was a perfect mix of classical favorites as well. “The first consideration was the appeal of the music,” Elkins says, “and then the pairings with these visual acts that are quite stunning.

They’ve had a tremendous amount of success with other orchestras throughout the region, and we just thought it would appeal to our audience a great deal.”

“Think about Sturgill Simpson. He’s coming out with this crazy new stuff that’s amazing, but it really sounds like older country.”

the stuff I do, I wouldn’t consider it bluegrass. Bill Monroe is bluegrass. Del McCoury is pretty damn bluegrass, but people call Old Crow Medicine Show or Mumford & Sons bluegrass. That ain’t bluegrass. Or is it?

Who’s to say? It’s such a broad word now.”

BILLY STRINGS EVENT Lyrics For Literacy: A Concert Event Benefiting GLA, w/ My Girl, My Whiskey & Me and Vilai Harrington WHEN Thursday, May 11, 8 p.m.

VENUE Revel Event Center, 304 E. Stone Ave. TICKETS $50–$100 INFO 864-467-3456, lyricsforliteracy.brownpapertickets.com

CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE WHEN Saturday, May 6, 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 7, 3 p.m.

WHERE Peace Center, 101 W. Broad St. TICKETS $20–$80 INFO 864-467-3000, peacecenter.org

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Full Circle With anti-Semitism on the rise, Centre Stage’s ‘DelikateSSen’ is unfortunately timely

SUMMER NEVER SOUNDED SO GOOD

CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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between Jews and Germans, culminating in what Atkins says is an inescapable, yet dramatic, climax.

While “DelikateSSen” is about Jews and Germans, Atkins said you could easily substitute Catholic vs. Protestant, Yankee vs.

Southerner, black vs. white.

“The story examines how the hatred affects not only that generation but two, three, or four generations that follow,” he said. “It shows the need to let go of our hatred and move on,” The playwright adds, “Unfortunately, a lot of us can’t.”

Atkins has penned 27 plays and seven musicals and has a screenplay in the pipeline.

The dramaturge for “DelikateSSen” is Mark Medoff, a Tony Award winner for “Children of a Lesser God.” Ellen Jones is directing the Centre Stage production. Bruce Meahl plays Yossi Shapiro. Other cast members include Rachel Jeffreys, Richard Beveridge, Tiffany Nave, Anna Lee Altman, Peter Godfrey, and Ken Kraft.

Seven years ago, playwright Richard Atkins started working on “DelikateSSen,” a play about two Jewish brothers, both orphans of the Holocaust and concentration camp survivors, and how they react to Atkins a German expat’s decision to build a restaurant across the street from their New York City deli.

Set shortly after the 1972 Munich Olympics, where 11 Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed by a Palestinian terrorist group, Atkins didn’t realize how much more vital the play would feel today than when he started writing it.

“It resonates with the recent threats to Jewish community centers, desecration of Jewish cemeteries, and terrorist threats with ISIS,” he said. “We’ve gone full circle in an unfortunately negative way. The climate today is more threatening than ever.”

Atkins, who served as Centre Stage’s playwright-in-residence during its 2016 New Play Festival last September, also stars in the play. He plays David Shapiro, the older deli shop-owning brother who can’t get rid of his angst over Photos by Escobar Photography what happened to his family. “DelikateSSen” scribe Richard Atkins was the playwright-inThe family’s own struggles, in residence for Centre Stage’s 2016 New Play Festival. addition to the events in Munich and the German’s decision to locate his DELIKATESSEN restaurant and beer garden across the street, trouble David.

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The core mystery aside, “DelikateSSen” INFO explores how the sins of the Third Reich afcentrestage.org, 864-233-6733 fect Holocaust survivors and creates friction

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

MAY 5

MAY 5

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Free Movie Night at Falls Park Having iconic films such as “Smoky and the Bandit,” “Forrest Gump,” and “Driving Miss Daisy” being filmed within its borders helped Georgia gain a reputation as the “Hollywood of the South.” Our southwest neighbor has dubbed 2017 “The Year of Georgia Film” and will celebrate with a free showing of “Smoky and the Bandit” at the amphitheater area of Falls Park.

Greenville residents chose the 1977 film starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field in a vote held on Facebook. “Film tourism has been a fast-growing segment of Georgia’s visitor experience,” said Kevin Langston, deputy commissioner of tourism at the Georgia Department of Economic Development. “From blockbuster movies to pop culture phenomena like ‘The Walking Dead,’ visitors are excited to see the actual locations where their favorite movies and shows were filmed.” —Cindy Landrum

FUNDRAISER

Caribbean Crush Caribbean Crush is the premier annual fundraiser hosted by the S.C. Children’s Theatre (SCCT). The event offers attendees the opportunity to make a difference through a silent auction while enjoying a laid-back, beach-themed party complete with steel drums, food, and tropical drinks.

The largest year-round children’s theater in the state, SCCT affords children the opportunity to develop their imaginations and confidence in a nurturing and supportive environment. SCCT serves over 47,000 Upstate children each year and partners with local schools, hospitals, and nonprofit organizations to reach children who are typically underserved by the arts community. —Kristen Ferris

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MAY 6

CONCERT

Eric Church EMI Nashville recording artist Eric Church is bringing his Holdin’ My Own Tour to the Bon Secours Wellness Arena this Saturday.

Church will play two full sets, performing more than 30 songs each night with an intermission in between sets — and no opening act. And with the recent introduction of Church’s one-of-a-kind 360 stage, every seat in the house is a great seat.

Church’s fifth studio album, “Mr. Misunderstood,” was recently named Album of the Year at the 50th Annual Country Music Association Awards. After accepting the award, Church said, “I always believed that, if you put everything into making the best record you can make, regardless of how you release it, and regardless of the press and the hype, that the music wins.” And don’t forget about the fans. They win, too.

—Kristen Ferris

WHEN Saturday, May 6, 8 p.m.

WHERE Bon Secours Wellness Arena TICKETS $35–$89 INFO 864-241-3800, bonsecoursarena.com

AMAZING. BREATHTAKING. AWE-INSPIRING

CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE Featuring Edvard Tchivzhel, Conductor

SAT., MAY 6 AT 8 PM & SUN., MAY 7 AT 3 PM THE PEACE CENTER This spectacular and mesmerizing program marries symphonic hits with live, heart-pounding acrobatic feats by some of the world’s greatest cirque artists.

Each performance is perfectly choreographed to popular orchestral masterpieces and will astonish and captivate in this incredible, once-in-a-lifetime event.

Reserve your seats now before it sells out.

For tickets call (864) 467-3000 or purchase online at greenvillesymphony.org.

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MAY 5 CONCERT

Black Hand Throne (album-release show), w/ Hexxus, Coffin Torture, & Power Take-off

Radio Room 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive 9 p.m. | $7

Black Hand Throne’s new album, “Sheol,” is seven tracks of intense, grinding doommetal. The Greenville quintet packs more tightly coiled riffs, demonic growling vocals, and slow, menacing rhythms in one song than many bands do on a whole record. “Sheol” is a pretty merciless collection, and that’s saying something, given that the band’s last release was a lone 37-minute track. “We wanted to make it a little more user friendly,” says guitarist Todd Holford. “Songs in the doom genre are typically pretty long, and people who are into that kind of music like that. But we wanted to make it more accessible for other people, while still keeping it brutal. People have a hard time making it all the way to the end of an hour and a half album.” What’s also interesting about “Sheol” is how crisply produced it is, given that the band recorded it themselves. Or maybe it isn’t that surprising, given Holford’s other job. “I’ve been recording music for about 15 years,” he says. “I have a little studio called Greenhouse Studios, and that’s where we recorded it.” —Vincent Harris

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TICKET ALERT: PNC Bank Zootunes Concert Series

$150, VIP $250 ZooTunes is a concert series, hosted by The Greenville Zoo Foundation, and offered in partnership with the Greenville Zoo, the City of Greenville, and Eleven Events.

These concerts featuring Keller Williams (June 23) and The Revivalists (Aug. 25) are offered in an intimate and unique setting at the Greenville Zoo. In addition to amazing music in this unusual venue, beer, wine and food offerings will complete the intimate VIP experience.

Series tickets are on sale now at zootunes.eventbrite. com. Proceeds benefit the Greenville Zoo Foundation. zootunes.eventbrite.com

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La Fiesta

Hispanic Alliance The Old Cigar Warehouse | 912 S. Main St. 6:30 p.m. | $100 (single ticket) The Hispanic Alliance will host La Fiesta, an evening celebrating Latin cultures in the Upstate. This year’s theme focuses on the blend of Hispanic-American cultures, food, music, and dance. bit.ly/2m1WQzt

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Greenville Health System 2017 Swamp Rabbit 5K

Gateway Park 115 Henderson Drive, Travelers Rest 6:309:30 p.m. | $6, $15 starting 4/30 Sign up for the ninth annual GHS Swamp Rabbit 5K, the largest 5K in the state. Pre-registration is online only through a secure site. The low $6 fee ($15 starting 4/30) includes processing fees. All online registrants receive a free GHS Swamp Rabbit 5K T-shirt. Electronic scoring will be used for all runners and walkers to capture start and end times. Awards will be given for age groups afterward. Join us for a block party from 7-8:30 p.m. where you can enjoy free food, drinks, and music.

We also will feature many children’s activities.

864-455-9259 | ghs.org/events/swamprabbit5k/

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05-06

COMMUNITY

Project Host BBQ Cookoff & Music Festival

Future City Park | 320 S. Hudson St. 6-4 p.m. | FREE Project Host has announced its eighth annual BBQ

Cook-Off & Music Festival on May 5 and 6. The festival will include a best chicken wing competition, a barbecue and rib cooking contest, and great family entertainment including live music, food trucks, and games.

864-905-1026 projecthost.org sallyg@projecthost.org

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Railroad Concert Series

Mauldin Outdoor Amphitheater 101 East Butler Road, Mauldin 7 p.m.

FREE The Railroad Concert Series features musicians offering up a heady mix of bluegrass, Americana, and folk every Friday night in May. Come enjoy those early summer nights with live music, food trucks, local wine, and craft beer. This year’s lineup includes The Secret Sisters, Mountain Heart, Cereus Bright, and My Girl, My Whiskey and Me.

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America’s Boating Course

Lake Hartwell Sail & Power Squadron Cabela’s 1025 Woodruff Road, #H101 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. | $50 America’s Boating Course, developed by the United States Power Squadron, will be presented by Lake Hartwell Sail & Power Squadron on Saturday, May 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The course will be at Cabela’s on Woodruff Road. The eight-hour course covers boat handling, anchoring, finding directions, adverse condition, and using the marine radio. This course has been approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and reecognized

by SCDNR and many major insurance carriers and the U.S. Coast Guard. The cost of the course is $50 and $10 for each additional family member.

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THEATER

24-Hour Play Festival

Greenville Little Theatre 444 College St. 8 p.m. | $15 We have 24 hours to create it. You have one hour to watch it. click4tix.com/glt/selectseats_ichart. php?chart_id=711&s_id=121&p_id=700

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GTP Artists & Small Businesses 1801 Rutherford Road 7-9 p.m. | FREE Spring has sprung, and the quiet halls of the Greenville Trade Park (formerly Steel Heddle) are bustling with artists, artisans, and small-business owners who are dedicated to turning this once empty space into a thriving community. Enjoy live entertainment by Hillary Keane, Niad Dance Company, and Hoop Dance Party in the gallery, giveaways, and special deals from all of our businesses, including Liz Daly Designs, Vitti Tile, Niad, Speckled Cakes, Color of Grey, Fairy Godmother Project/People’s Pantry, and Complete Life Coaching. Finish off the evening at the Niad studio after-party, a glow dance party.

CONCERT

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COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY

Greenville Family Partnership (GFP) and the Chris and Kelly’s HOPE Foundation M. Judson Booksellers | 30 S. Main St. 10 a.m. | FREE M. Judson Booksellers and the Swamp Rabbit Inn present the second annual Blessing of the Bikes to signify National Bike Month with a blessing for safety for all cyclists. A group ride will follow the blessing on the Swamp Rabbit Trail to the Swamp Rabbit Café and back to M. Judson Booksellers for those who wish to participate. This is a family-friendly, casual ride to raise awareness for bike safety, remember those who have lost their lives on a bicycle, and celebrate our vibrant bike culture in the Upstate of South Carolina.

864-602-2412 | debi@mjudsonbooks.com

TD Convention Center, Crosrol parking lot 1 Exposition Drive 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | FREE The city holds this event twice a year at the TD Convention Center in the Crosrol parking lot. A local nonprofit partner, Harvest Hope, will be onsite throughout the event. Citizens can dispose of unwanted electronics and have their sensitive documents destroyed and recycled in a secure manner.

All paper to be shredded MUST be bagged or boxed, and each person is limited to three large trash bags or three small boxes of paper. Reusable bags, boxes, or containers will be returned to you. City residents and businesses can drop off the items listed below for free during this special event. There is a limit of

Blessing of the Bikes

Shredding & E-Waste Recycling Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xxz6hnS-nY Hans Wenzel & The Eighty-Sixers w/ Anna Leigh Band

Gottrocks | 200 Eisenhower Drive | 9:30 p.m. | $8

For those who saw Hans Wenzel perform heavy metal with the Upstate band Noxious, or saw his more playful, cover-packed shows with the Swinging Richards, his new material might be a bit of a surprise. Wenzel moved to Charleston a few years back and formed a band called The Eighty-Sixers, and he now specializes in a country-tinged brand of raw, straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll in the style of the Drive-By Truckers. On the band’s just-out new album, “Lost and Lawless,” Wenzel and guitarist Chris Fulmer have created a twangy but rock-solid collection of songs that puts heartbroken country-music storytelling into a meat-and-potatoes rock context. “My vocal style is around the same range of things I did in Greenville, especially with the Swinging Richards,” Wenzel says. “But I think people are going to be surprised by the country edge the music has. We’re not a country band, and we’re not trying to be.

We’re just trying to be a band that writes good stories. But if we happen to have a country edge to those songs, then that’s what’s coming out.” —Vincent Harris

10 electronic items per person. The city no longer is accepting fluorescent bulbs for recycling. Drop the following off for recycling: televisions, computer monitors, keyboards and mouse, wires, circuit boards, CPUs, scanners, and printers.

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Tour de Fat Battle of the Bands

New Belgium Brewing 21 Craven St., Asheville 2-6 p.m. | FREE Asheville will host a Battle of the Bands competition to play on the New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat stage on May 20. On Saturday, May 6, two local bands, Carolina Wray and Ian Ridenhour, will compete against each other for this hometown honor. Collection buckets will be available for nonprofits Asheville on Bikes and Mountain True and the crowd will vote with their dollars. If Mountain True gets the most donations, Ian Ridenhour will play the Asheville Tour de Fat show. If Asheville on Bikes gets the most donations, Carolina Wray will play Tour de Fat.

CHARITY, RECREATION, COMMUNITY

Tails & Trails 5k

Greenville County Animal Care Conestee Park | 601 Fork Shoals Rd. 8:30 a.m. $25/entry+$15 per person for teams of six or more/$30 entry after April 24 This is your chance to help save lives. By starting a team or individual fundraiser for Tails & Trails, you can ask your friends and family to help you reach your goal of raising funds to help build a no-kill community in Greenville County. pchurch@greenvillecounty.org

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Greenville Kennel Club | Astro Kennels 418 Scuffletown Road, Simpsonville 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | FREE Join the Greenville Kennel Club at Astro Kennels for a Responsible Dog Owner Day celebration. Events include “My Dog Can Do That,” a training and companion sports demonstration; dog dock diving; “Meet the Breeds” learning session; a fun dog show; and more. There will also be Upstate vendors and food trucks. The event is free and open to the public. All leashed and well-behaved dogs are welcome. (Proof of rabies, DHPP, and bordetella vaccination is required for dog entry.) bit.ly/2mfGUGS

COMMUNITY

Reedy River Duck Derby

Greenville Rotary Club | Falls Park 601 S. Main St. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | FREE Come spend the day in Falls Park and cheer your little yellow duck across the finish line. The day is filled with entertainment from Tim TV and the Secret Cirkus, My Girl Whiskey and Me, Vilai Harrington and the Hamptones, and Morgan Riley. There will be food, face painting, balloon artists, games, and more. bit.ly/2oD2WGQ

COMMUNITY

International Drone Day Greenville & MultiGP Drone Race Carolina Dronz, Synergy Mill, International Drone The First Tee | 10 Reach St. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | FREE Admission is free, but a release will need to be signed prior to entering the property. A couple of food

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trucks will be present. If you bring a drone over .5 lbs to fly, it must be registered with the FAA and have numbers displayed on the craft. bit.ly/2oukFNC

SPORTS

Insane Inflatable 5k

Insane Inflatable 5k Heritage Park | 861 SE Main St., Simpsonville $49, $75, $100 Be part of the fun fitness experience. The Insane Inflatable 5K, a run series made up of inflatable objects, will be taking place in more than 120 cities across the U.S. and Canada. The event is coming to Greenville on May 6. The event is a new take on fitness that will challenge everyone from seasoned marathon runners to weekend warriors. The course features a dozen extreme inflatable obstacles and is over 3 miles long. Participants and spectators have access to games, food, beverages, merchandise, and swag from local vendors and sponsors. No matter where you are in your fitness journey, you’ll be sure to have a blast at this event. bit.ly/2lfRaR9

ART

Figure Drawing Workshop with Visiting Artist Susan Vecsey

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | $90 This workshop, offered for artists with previous drawing experience, explores the fundamentals of figure drawing from a model. By working from direct observation, we will investigate composition and structure, scale, space and depth, form, the nature of mark making, the correction process, and the concept of relational drawing. Participants

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Greenville Symphony Orchestra presents “Cirque de la Symphonie”

Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. $20-80 GSO’s final Masterworks of the 69th concert season comes to a breathtaking conclusion in this spectacular and unique program marrying classical symphonic hits with live, heart-pounding acrobatics. Each performance is perfectly choreographed to popular masterpieces and is sure to astonish and mesmerize in this incredible, oncein-a-lifetime event.

864-467-3000 | peacecenter.org

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THEATER

“Seussical”

South Carolina Children’s Theatre Peace Center | 300 S. Main St. various times | $27 (adults), $18 (children) Rhyme, dance, and sing with this fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza. The mischievous Cat in the Hat is the master of ceremonies as Dr. Seuss’ beloved tales are brought to life. This fast-paced musical features Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and all of the Whos in Whoville. So let your toes tap, your fingers snap, and your imagination run wild. See website for performance times.

864-467-3000 | scchildrenstheatre.org

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Sundays at 2: Artist Talk with Susan Vescey

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 2 p.m.

Join us as Susan Vescey shares the inspiration and techniques behind her unconventional landscapes.

864-271-7570 | gcma.org

COMMUNITY

Red Ribbon VIP Party

Greenville Family Partnership and the Chris and Kelly’s HOPE Foundation Green Valley Country Club 225 Green Valley Road 5-8 p.m. | FREE Greenville Family Partnership and the Chris and Kelly’s HOPE Foundation host this annual auction to raise funds to educate, prevent, and support young people who have to navigate a culture in which drugs are an everyday way of life for many. This Sunday evening will include a fun evening of heavy hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and silent auction. The emcee for the evening will be WYFF 4’s very own Geoff Hart. Auction items include a football signed by Dabo Swinney, a Kate Spade tote, hotel stays, an Apple watch, and much more. To donate an item to or participate in the auction, contact Karen Hyatt at 864-467-4099 for more information.

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CONCERT

Greenville Concert Band presents “The Fairest of

May 7 at 3 p.m. at the Cascades at Verdae May 13 at 3:30 p.m. at Rolling Green Village FREE You are invited to take a musical journey with the band as it performs outstanding selections from an eclectic assortment of genres. greenvilleconcertband.org

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may choose to work in whatever medium they would like to bring to the class, such as graphite, charcoal, pastels, or paint. Cost of this workshop is $90, which includes a catered lunch. Space is limited to 15 students. Adults only. bit.ly/2oZLMBh

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Eric Weiler Band

The Fourth Annual Joy Dubail Relay For Life Comedy Classic, w/ Eric Hunter, Jerry Farber, Chris Dubail, & The Eric Weiler Band Friar’s Tavern | 1178 Woodruff Road $25 | 8 p.m.

It’s a pretty good bet that wherever you see the Eric Weiler Band, they’re going to put on a good show. Weiler is a talented blues guitarist with a knack for connecting with a crowd, and the band — guitarist Matt Morgan, bassist Neil Alexander, drummer Kevin Mavis and, occasionally, keyboardist Adam McFarlane — are a tight, versatile unit. But Weiler’s upcoming performance at Friar’s Tavern, which benefits the American Cancer Society, is bound to have a little more emotion behind it. “To me, it’s personal,” Weiler says. “My dad passed away a little over a year ago from pancreatic cancer. He was one of the healthiest guys in the world, and it came and took him quick. The American Cancer Society does so much stuff helping families and doing research, and I’m happy to be able to take part in something like this and find a way to combat this disease. It brings a more positive slant to the situation.” —Vincent Harris

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Second Annual Rotary Charities Cup

Pebble Creek, Links Golf Course 101 Pebble Creek Drive, Taylors 8 a.m. | $95 for single player The proceeds from the Second Annual Rotary Charities Cup Golf Tournament, presented by Rush Wilson, will benefit Rotary Charities, a not-for-profit entity affiliated with Rotary Club of Greenville. This captain’s choice tournament will be held at Pebble Creek, Links Golf Course. Breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. with a “shotgun” start at 9 a.m. An awards luncheon will follow the tournament. greenvillerotary.org

COMMUNITY

Red Ribbon Golf Classic Tournament

NAI Earle Furman Green Valley Country Club | 225 Green Valley Road 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. | FREE The 29th annual Red Ribbon Golf Classic Tournament will be presented by NAI Earle Furman at Green Valley Country Club from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. The proceeds from the tournament will be shared by Greenville Family Partnership and the Chris & Kelly HOPE Foundation to educate, prevent, and support young people who have to navigate a culture in which drugs are an everyday way of life for many.

864-467-4099 | phillip@gfpdrugfree.org

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Mother’s Day Sale May 8-13 Everything in the store is on sale.

Shop the Celebrate NEW Spring Collection!

Mom!

Clark’s Fine Jewelry

Celebrate special times both past and present with this fine collection of sterling silver jewelry inspired by historic wrought iron gates throughout the South.

679-B Fairview Rd., Simpsonville, SC 864-228-2920 clarksfinejewelers.com

Going For The Green Charity Golf Tournament Benefiting The Greenville Free Medical Clinic Celebrating 30 Years Of Serving Our Community Co-Hosted by Piedmont Association of Health Underwriters Thursday, May 25, 2017 11:00am Check-in / 12:00pm Shotgun Start Location: Preserve at Verdae in Greenville, South Carolina Contact for any questions: Jay Holloway Email: Jay.holloway@bluechoicesc.com Cell: 803-361-6387

Tournament Sponsor Levels $3000 Gold Sponsor includes: Registration for 3 tournament teams (12 players) • • Prominent clubhouse and event signage • First choice hole sponsorship signage

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CONCERT

Peace Concert Hall 7:30 p.m. | $45-$75 For more than five decades, Steve Winwood has remained a primary figure in rock ’n’ roll. Bursting into prominence in 1963 with the Spencer Davis Group, Winwood also co-founded Traffic and Blind Faith. His solo career has yielded a rich catalog of popular songs, including “When You See a Chance,” “Valerie,” and “Higher Love.” Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and listed among Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, Winwood remains one of the most influential artists in popular music.

864-467-3000 | 800-888-7768 | peacecenter.org

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Learn to Play Appalachian Music

Trinity United Methodist Church 2703 Augusta St. | $60 Registration begins April 24 for banjo, guitar, fiddle, or mandolin lessons. Classes are grouped by skill level and will begin on Thursday, May 11, at Trinity UMC. Beginners are welcome. Lessons are open to children (at least 9 years old) and adults. The total fee for six weeks of lessons is $60. Rental instruments are available and can be reserved if needed. This program supports the nonprofit Preserving Our Southern Appalachian Music.

864 979-9188 susu9196@gmail.com

MUSIC

Lyrics for Literacy Benefit Concert

Greenville Literacy Association Revel Event Center | 304 E. Stone Ave. 7 p.m. | $50, $70, and $100 ticket packages available Greenville Literacy Association (GLA) will host its first annual Lyrics for Literacy benefit concert featuring renowned bluegrass guitarist Billy Strings; My Girl, My Whiskey & Me; and Vilai Harrington. This evening of rockin’ bluegrass will benefit GLA’s programming and raise awareness of the ever-present issue of adult illiteracy in the Upstate. Three ticketing tiers allow concertgoers to optimize their experience. The audience package, $50, includes admission to the concert plus two drinks. The promo package, $70, includes admission to the concert, two drinks, and the 2017 Lyrics for Literacy collectible T-shirt. The all-access package (limit 20), $100, is the ultimate fan package and includes an exclusive meet-and-greet with Billy Strings and his band, concert admission, two drinks, and the 2017 collectible Lyrics for Literacy T-shirt and poster. lyricsforliteracy.brownpapertickets.com

COMMUNITY

Physician Lecture: There is No Incurable

West End Community Development Center 404 Vardy St. 7 p.m. | FREE Healed people report how they became healthy.

Professionals present medically documented healings.

Speakers convey Brun Groening’s knowledge in such a way that everyone can experience his statement that “There is no incurable.”

864-402-4606 bruno-groening.org/english

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Storytime Thursdays

Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Road 10:30 a.m. | FREE Local independent bookstore, Fiction Addiction, hosts a free children’s storytime at their shop at 1175 Woods Crossing Road #5 every Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. (Fiction Addiction is located in the shopping center with Fried Green Tomatoes, Boardwalk, and Jimmy John’s.)

$2000 Silver Sponsor includes: Registration for two tournament teams (8 players) • Prominent clubhouse and event signage • Hole sponsor signage

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FESTIVAL

Artisphere

Downtown Greenville | FREE Artisphere will present some of the country’s most promising performers and veteran entertainers. After GE Artist Row closes on Main Street, the GSP Airport After Hours Concert Series begins Friday night at 8 p.m. when Southern rock-soul artist Marc Broussard (Carencro, La.) takes the WYFF-4 Main Stage. Opening for Broussard at 6:30 p.m. is rhythm & blues duo Smooth Hound Smith (Nashville, Tenn.). Saturday’s 8 p.m. concert on the Main Stage will feature Gulf Coast soul band The Suffers (Houston, Texas). The Suffers are currently touring Europe leading up to their Artisphere performance. The Suffers’ 6:30 p.m. opening act is neo-folk trio The Ballroom Thieves (Boston). Artisphere will also feature a variety of local culinary delights and rising musicians. bit.ly/2mkeom2

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COMMUNITY

Books, Bites, & Bubbly

Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Road 2 p.m. | FREE On Mother’s Day weekend, treat yourself to free champagne and some yummy nibbles as three women’s fiction authors talk about their book series, followed by a Q&A session and a book signing: Christine Nolfi (author of the “Liberty” series, starting with “Second Chance Grill”), Julie Allan (author of the “Lowcountry Home” series, starting with “The Eyes Have It”), and Pamela Poole (author of the “Painter Place” series, including new book “Jaguar”). Please RSVP to Fiction Addiction if you plan to attend.

864-675-0540 | fiction-addiction.com info@fiction-addiction.com

COMMUNITY

Race for Adoption 5K

Covenant United Methodist Church 1310 Old Spartanburg Road, Greer 9 a.m. $25 adults, $12.50 kids All proceeds help families with adoption expenses.

Last year the race raised enough funds to help three families with their adoption expenses. This year Covenant United Methodist Church is looking to help three more families. bit.ly/2oPvmK9

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15-15 Prize

LITERATURE

Call for Manuscripts: Emrys Press Chapbook

$20 entry fee The Emrys Press Chapbook Prize honors a book of original poetry in English by a single author. The winning poet will receive a $1,000 honorarium upon publication plus 20 copies of the book. In addition, the winner will be invited as a guest for one week at the Rensing Center, a gorgeous arts and writing retreat near Greenville in the Appalachian foothills.

The winning book and author will be featured on the Emrys website. Rules: All entries should be made via our submission manager system. Manuscripts should be 24 to 26 pages in length, submitted in PDF, RTF, or MSWord formats only. The author’s name must not appear in the manuscript. Do not put your name on the entry. The title page should contain the title only.

Author contact information is to be collected separately via Submittable. Include a contents page. Do not include your name, acknowledgments, author bio, or any other identifying information in the manuscript file. Manuscripts will be read anonymously. Work must not have been previously published as part of a book or as a self-published chapbook. Individually published poems are acceptable. emrys.org

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COMMUNITY

Book Talk and Signing: Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Road 2 p.m. | $40 You don’t have to own a beach house to enjoy New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews’ recipes. Meet the author and enjoy some nibbles from her new cookbook, “The Beach House Cookbook,” at her book talk and signing at Fiction Addiction, where Mary Kay will give a talk about her new book, take questions from the audience, and then sign books.

Tickets, available online, include one copy of “The Beach House Cookbook” as well as samples to taste.

864-675-0540 | bit.ly/2p5G5os

COMMUNITY

Generations Group Luncheon

TD Convention Center 1 Exposition Drive noon | FREE Join us for our 12th annual fundraising luncheon on May 17 featuring speaker Tony Williams, CEO and president of Infinity Marketing. Of the over 900 kids that have gone through Generations’ programs, 98 percent have returned to their communities as successful, taxpaying, contributing citizens who become employees, employers, husbands, and caring parents.

Though this is a fundraising luncheon, there is no cost to attend. Come witness the impact Generations has on our communities and make an investment in our work. Donations are not required, and any amount of support will make a big difference. conta.cc/2pn2opT

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THEATER PRODUCTION

Centre Stage Series

The Academy of Arts Ministries The LOGOS Theatre 80 Schools St., Taylors 2-5 p.m.

FREE This exciting recital given by the Academy of Arts Christian Conservatory students will include several cuttings from some of your favorite books and stories of all time. Don’t miss this opportunity to get a glimpse into our unique, hands-on conservatory program and show your support to each student for their hard work.

268-9342 | theAcademyOfArts.org information@theAcademyOfArts.org

COMMUNITY

Super Saturday: Mess Fest

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | free with admission The annual Mess Fest event is back and better than ever. Artist-in-residence Michael Albert will be in the Off the Wall area creating cereal box collages. All classrooms are dedicated to messy science and art. tcmupstate.org

COMMUNITY

Train Day at the Museum

Hub City Railroad Museum 298 Magnolia St., Spartanburg 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

FREE The museum and caboose will be open. Come view artifacts of the railroading, textile, and peach industries from the Spartanburg area. Explore a model railroad inside the restored historic Southern Railway caboose #X3115 built in Spartanburg and see advanced train control system computer displays showing Norfolk Southern train locations in real time.

We will have a rubber tire train ride, bounce house, and Thomas and Friends model train layout for the kids, plus live music, food, railroad book authors, and more. If you love trains, be here.

COMMUNITY

Tour de Fat

New Belgium Brewing 21 Craven St., Asheville 4 p.m.9 p.m. $25 plus fees Grab your tickets and start planning for the Asheville Tour de Fat on May 20. Expect to experience the unexpected. We’re bringing the party with Third Eye Blind and the Tour de Fat ensemble cast of performers. Ready your eyes and ears for a mix of musicians, circus performers, vaudeville acts, magicians, comedians, and mind-blowing provocateurs. Costumes are highly encouraged (and a mindset to party is mandatory). Proceeds from the Asheville Tour de Fat benefit Asheville on Bikes.

888-598-9552 bit.ly/2qejKFv nbbavl@newbelgium.com

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• Hormones • Mood Swings • Fatigue • Insomnia • Hot Flashes • Anxiety • Stress • Female Pain and Dryness • And much more

We’re Here for You! Compounding Solutions Pam Bramlett, RPh

Certified Hormone Specialist

864-558-0507 115 Pelham Rd., Suite 12, Greenville Monday - Friday 9:30 am - 5:30 pm www.MyCompoundingSolutions.com

VISUAL ARTS

The Art of Dr. Seuss: A Retrospective and International Touring Exhibition

Upcountry History Museum 540 Buncombe St. $4–$6; 3 and under, free Visitors will walk through Dr. Seuss’s life as they weave through a mind-altering collection of estate authorized artworks adapted and reproduced from Dr. Seuss’s original paintings, drawings, and sculpture. This incredible exhibition explores known and unknown facets of Ted Geisel’s life, including careers as an editorial cartoonist, advertiser, military propagandist, children’s book author, poet, sculptor, and influential artist.

864-467-3100 upcountryhistory.org

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FAMILY

Biltmore Blooms

Biltmore 1 North Pack Square, Asheville Biltmore’s gardens - designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted - come to life with immense floral displays featuring nearly 100,000 tulips across the estate. Biltmore’s restaurants will include special menu items, with the winery offering specialty tours.

800-411-3812 biltmore.com

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COMMUNITY

Lakeside Summer Concert Series

Furman University Amphitheater 3300 Poinsett Highway 7:30 p.m. | FREE Furman University’s Music by the Lake Summer Concert Series, a Greenville tradition since 1968, celebrates the sounds of summer. Relax on the grounds of the spacious amphitheater by the Furman Lake and enjoy a cross-section of big band, jazz, bluegrass, Latin, contemporary, marches, and orchestral favorites. Each Thursday during the series, a concert basket filled with goodies will be given away to a lucky concert goer. Thanks to generous sponsors, all concerts are free.

864-294-2086 bit.ly/2oVHWsT furmanmusic@furman.edu

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Naturally Sweet Melange ACROSS 1 Temporarily trendy things 5 Huge chasm 10 Nile serpents 14 Navajo neighbors 19 “Oh, gotcha” 20 Flip (out) 21 Mets’ old home 22 Blue color of the clear 9-Down 23 Eau de vie applied to a head injury to reduce swelling?

25 Having the same figure as Sheriff Wyatt?

27 Verb suffix in London 28 Vast age 29 Average golf scores 30 Kindhearted 31 Clutch, e.g.

33 Sets of two 37 Gyro holder 39 “Fish Magic” painter Paul 40 Drink you can only get by contacting someone by beeper?

43 See 8-Down 45 Her cow was notorious 46 Bite slightly 47 Q-V linkup 49 Designer Schiaparelli and others 54 Jethro — (rock band) 56 Strong Dutch gin that’s inexpensive?

59 “The gloves are off!”

62 Like alfresco events 64 Obedient dogs, maybe 65 Rival of HBO 66 Male bud 67 Bert’s bud 69 14th-century Russian ruler 70 Golf club for extremely long shots?

74 Unit for measuring the force of some PC picture files?

77 “I pass,” in cards 78 Cantina cooking pots 82 Chast of cartoons 83 The sun, e.g.

84 Negatively charged, as an atom 86 Banned diet-drug combo 88 Major alarm 90 Pie topping that originated in Edison’s lab?

92 Base for poi 94 Lung, for one 95 Mail, e.g.

96 Lacerate 98 Taking the middle out of 102 Santa — (some hot winds) 104 Surrounded by a spicy Indian condiment?

107 Grungy sort 111 Fierce whale 113 Tatum with an Oscar 114 Post office gizmo 115 Sushi condiment 117 Like hand-me-downs 119 Altar vow

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121 Vitamin no.

122 Gusto shown by a wild Asian ass?

124 Apt alternate title for this puzzle 128 Did a fall yard chore 129 “I concur!”

130 Circus site 131 Concept, in Soissons 132 Clock parts 133 Org. against dogfights 134 Shindig 135 Unhip type DOWN 1 Painter Fra — Lippi 2 Predictably 3 Split up, as a corporation 4 Summer and fall mo.

5 “Hair” hairdo 6 Marlon of movies 7 Appetite 8 With 43-Across, tear-jerking tune 9 Pilot’s milieu 10 Far offshore 11 On the ball 12 Soldiers on 13 Undermine 14 Taunting cry 15 County in Missouri 16 Iris part 17 Dunne of old Hollywood 18 Bog plant 24 Trip during a kegger, say 26 Eye carefully me!”

110 Deli nosh 29 Chi-omega link 97 Links org. since 1916 112 Good thing 32 1954-77 treaty gp.

99 Trespass 116 Nap spots 34 Over there, old-style 100 Less well-off 118 Peak in Sicily 35 Wonderland visitor 101 Whirled 120 Attack time in WWII 36 Wife of Niles on “Frasier” 103 Film genre 123 Tase, e.g.

38 Feel 105 In vogue, in the ’60s 124 Road guide 41 1995-2013 Arizona senator 106 Customer 125 Nest egg inits.

Jon 107 Fencing tool 126 Reagan-era teen, e.g.

42 Free of fluid 108 Oahu porch 127 — Tin Tin 44 Capital of Suisse 109 Port in Japan Crossword answers: page 45 48 Bit of parsley 50 Onetime TV legal drama 51 Shelled out for

by Myles Mellor and Susan Flannigan 52 Deduced, not observed 53 Mil. draft inits.

55 British noble 57 Stirrup site 58 Big name in ketchup 59 Suffix with capital 60 Paint diluter 61 Going it alone 63 — stick 66 Obfuscate 68 St. Pat’s isle 71 Virus in 2014 news 72 Ryder of “Black Swan” 73 Puckish 75 Courier, e.g.

76 “Grimm” network 79 — helping hand 80 Film director Lee 81 Goad 84 “Ti —” (Italian “I love you”) 85 French film award 87 Poet Heinrich 88 Bragging about 89 Vena cava neighbor 91 Cry for help Sudoku answers: page 45 93 Wilhelm’s “Woe is Hard

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Life Lessons from a Dog Trainer with Connie Cleveland

Who’s Sorry Now?

The purpose and the power of an apology A student, working with her small dog in heel position (close to her left foot), inadvertently stepped on him. He squealed and jumped back. In her horror, she dropped to her knees and said, “I’m sorry!” as she scooped him up in her arms to comfort him.

Watching the scenario play out and applying what I know about behavior modification, it was clear to me that the dog did not understand the apology, but instead stood to learn that if he squealed, he would receive a lot of positive attention.

As with many service-oriented businesses, we meet with clients by appointment. Invariably someone is late for a scheduled time. “I’m sorry” is easily said, but it’s interesting how often the same clients are tardy on a weekly basis.

Another apology, also easily uttered, is “I’m sorry, I forgot.” Surely, forgetfulness is a forgivable offense. So, just as easily uttered is our typical response, “That’s OK.” But is somebody who is consistently late really sorry? Is his apology authentic and credible?

And is our response of “that’s OK” respectful of a genuine apology, since a response to a genuine apology is one that treats it with dignity — “I accept your apology.” We often reply with “That’s OK” as flippantly as the apology was offered. But if I do that, have I really accepted the apology with no more hard feelings or resentment?

We live in a culture full of apologies. Sadly, many of them are said out of obligation rather than sincerity. As with my student’s small dog, other apologies are misunderstood by either the giver or the recipient. And then, those who receive apologies will often brush them off.

Our culture of shallowly offered — and shallowly received — apologies brings up many questions. Does the sense of obligation, rather than authenticity, mean we shouldn’t apologize to those we offend? And given that dogs don’t understand apologies, does this mean we shouldn’t apologize to them either?

Beyond the bare verbal basics of apology, most of us realized early on in life that even if we say we are sorry, there is still some sort of restitution that needs to be offered to the offended party. It may have been as a child when you inadvertently broke something that did not belong to you. Most of us learned that we could be really sorry, but still needed to replace the broken item. That begs the question, were you sorry you broke the item?

Or sorry that it was going to be money out of your piggy bank that was used to replace it?

Later in life it may have been a more expensive mistake, like backing into another car. You can be really sorry for your error, but still need to pay for the damages.

Remember hearing “Tell your sister you are sorry!” How many of us learned to say we were sorry because of a parent’s admonishment, but had no real remorse whatsoever?

Some say that forcing a child to apologize before his or her heart feels remorse is not necessarily wise. I’m not certain I agree. If we don’t insist on an apology, how does the child learn what he should be sorry for? What is unkind? What is unacceptable behavior when dealing with another person?

Though I value authenticity, sincerity, and genuine communication and response, an apology fundamentally represents an acknowledgement of another’s boundaries.

Though we may not feel sorry for being late, for forgetting, for breaking somebody else’s toy, our acknowledgement that we ought to feel sorry — that we have transgressed where we should not have — is a central quality of a civilized society. It demonstrates to another person that we respect and acknowledge human boundaries and limitations on behavior — that we are a fit person for others to allow into their lives.

My student put the calmed and content dog back on the ground. Fully recovered, he bounced around, seemingly oblivious to the inadvertent offense, or perhaps, having truly accepted her apology. He appeared eager for whatever training we might start next.

“Well,” she said, breathing a sigh of relief, “I must change my footwork. If I step on him many more times like that, he will stop trusting me, and won’t want to be near me at all!”

I smiled, the lesson being obvious. Perhaps the dog could not understand the words of the apology, but the owner’s apology acknowledged that her behavior fell short, and that relational trust was ultimately at stake.

Apologies build relationships, and that’s why we offer them.

Again, a dog had made the lesson clear.

Connie Cleveland, a nationally recognized dog trainer, is the founder of Dog Trainers Workshop, a training and boarding center in Fountain Inn.

THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept bids for the following: Medical Supplies and Pharmaceuticals, IFB #7805/18/17, until Thursday, May 18, 2017, 3:30 PM, EDT. Solicitations can be found at http://www.greenvillecounty. org/procurement/ or by calling (864) 467-7200.

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: • Auctioneering Services for Greenville County, RFP #7605/17/16, 3:00 P.M. • Construction of New Playgrounds Including Equipment for Greenville County, RFP #77-05/18/17, 3:00 P.M. Solicitations can be found at http://www.greenvillecounty. org/Procurement/ or by calling 864-467-7200.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that LJ Golf LLC DBA Cherokee Valley Golf Club intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/ permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 450 Cherokee Valley Way, Travelers Rest, SC 29690.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than May 21, 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 1705 Grill LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 1705 White Horse Rd., Greenville, SC 29605. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than May 14, 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 The Firmament intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 5 Market Point Drive, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than May 14, 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

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864.679.1205 email: aharley@communityjournals.com GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ADOPTION OF ANNUAL BUDGET 1 JULY 2017 THRU 30 JUNE 2018 SECOND READING Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, at 4:00 p.m. in the Education Room of the Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission Headquarters located at 1600 West Washington Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29601, a public hearing will be held for a second reading of the 2017/2018 Annual Budget for the Sanitation Commission. The public is invited to attend.

2016/2017 Annual Operating Budget ------------------ 11,123,553 2016/2017 Annual Capital Budget ---------------------- 1,647,484 Anticipated 2015/2016 Revenue ------------------------ 13,050,000 Anticipated 2015/2016 Expenses ----------------------- 12,850,000 ——— 2017/2018 Proposed Operating Budget ---------------- 11,534,567 2017/2018 Proposed Capital Budget ------------------- 1,650,000 Projected 2017/2018 Revenue--------------------------- 13,186,000 Projected 2017/2018 Expenses-------------------------- 13,184,000 ——— The percentage of change in the Operating Budgets from 2016/2017 and the Proposed 2017/2018 Budget is: 3.7% Increase 2016/2017 Tax Millage (14.54) ----- $4,284,025.00 2017/2018 Tax Millage (14.54) ----- $4,404,000.00 2017/2018 No change in Sanitation Fee ——— This Notice is given in lieu of the requirements of Section 4-9-130.

Anyone wishing to be placed on the Agenda for Public Comment is asked to call the District at 232-6721 extension 220 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Public comments will be limited based on the number of persons addressing the Commission.

Public comment can also be posted on the website. www.ggsc.gov

NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GREENVILLE COUNTY The Republican Party will hold the City of Greenville District 4 Primary Election on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. Any person wishing to vote in the primary must register no later than Saturday, May 13.

Voters will be asked to provide one of the following Photo IDs at their polling place.

• S.C. Driver's License • ID Card issued by S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles • S.C. Voter Registration Card with Photo • Federal Military ID • U.S. Passport If you have one of these IDs, you are ready to vote. Voters should remember to bring one of these IDs with them to the polling place. Voters without Photo ID can get one free of charge from the Department of Motor Vehicles or their county voter registration office. Voters who encounter an obstacle to getting a Photo ID should bring their paper voter registration card without a photo with them to their polling place. These voters can then sign an affidavit swearing to their identity and to their obstacle to obtaining a Photo ID and vote a provisional ballot. This ballot will count unless the county board of voter registration and elections has grounds to believe the affidavit is false. For more information on Photo ID, visit scVOTES.org or contact your county board of voter registration and elections.

At 9:00 a.m. on June 13, the County Board of Voter Registration and Elections will begin its examination of the absentee ballot return envelopes at Greenville County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900, Greenville, SC 29601.

At 12 Noon on June 15, the County Board of Canvassers will hold a hearing to determine the validity of all provisional ballots cast in this election. This hearing will be held at Greenville County Square, County Council Chambers, 301 University Ridge, Greenville, SC 29601.

The following precincts and polling places will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.: Precincts Polling Places Greenville 10 ............ Springfield Baptist Church .......................600 E McBee Ave Greenville 16 ............ Augusta Circle Elementary School ...........100 Winyah St Greenville 17 ............ St Matthew United Methodist Church ......701 Cleveland St Greenville 18 ............ Augusta Circle Elementary School ...........100 Winyah St Greenville 20 ............ Trinity United Methodist Church...............2703 Augusta St Greenville 21 ............ Meals On Wheels ....................................15 Oregon St Greenville 22 ............ Sanctuary Church ...................................302 Parkins Mill Rd Greenville 23 ............ Eastlan Baptist Church ............................625 S Pleasantburg Dr Greenville 24 ............ Beck Academy ........................................901 Woodruff Rd Greenville 29 ............ J L Mann High School .............................160 Fairforest Way Dove Tree ................. Morningside Baptist Church ....................1115 Pelham Rd Mauldin 1 ................. J L Mann High School .............................160 Fairforest Way Mauldin 2 ................. Forrester Woods Clubhouse .....................424 Piney Grove Rd Mission .................... Morningside Baptist Church ....................1115 Pelham Rd Rock Hill ................... Morningside Baptist Church, ...................1115 Pelham Rd

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Laurens Electric’s 22017 017 Annual Meeting

Saturday, June 3

2254 Highway 14, Laurens, SC

Registration Gift

Each member who is present and registers at the Annual Meeting will receive a

Registration & Voting for Board of Trustees 8:30 —10:30 A.M.

$25 credit on his/her electric bill.

Entertainment 9 —10 A.M.

(Limit one $25 per registered member.)

Grand Prize

Early Bird Prize Drawing 10 A.M.

H 2008 Chevrolet

Trailblazer

(grand prize vehicle is similar to the one pictured)

Business Meeting Begins 10:30 A.M.

Entertainment HONEY AND THE HOT RODS A Rockabilly band that combines elements of old-school rock and country, bringing back the attitude and music of the 1950s.

Prize drawing will follow the business session.

Early Bird Prize Drawing H Must be registered prior to 10 A.M.

Registration cards for the Annual Meeting will be mailed by May 19.

You should receive one card and will be given one gift, even if you have multiple accounts.

Only customers who register in person will receive a gift.

You cannot register or receive a gift for another member who does not attend. www.laurenselectric.com

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