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They Said It

“I was cutting hair in the barracks. They may not have been the greatest cuts, but they were a good way to make extra bucks for beer.”

Eric Clary, Iraq vet and barber, on practicing his craft while deployed.

“I realized early on that they could not attack the Sheriff’s Office as a whole. The majority of my opponents’ issues are directly pointed at me, and a lot are totally inaccurate.”

“It’s been a rollercoaster to get here. We’ve had an interesting path, to say the least.”

The quality you expect and the compassion that can only be found here.

Rodney Johnson, principal of Lead Academy in Mauldin, on the school’s planned $9.5 million building.

Steve Loftis, Greenville County sheriff, on his challengers’ accusation that he is disengaged from his duties.

“We sit at the Stone Avenue light, waiting to get to school, and this will be our view now.”

Jean Wilson Freeman, featured mural artist and co-chair of a students’ mural-painting project.

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Absentee sheriff or election year mudslinging?

Loftis, challengers voice differing views of how well the department is doing CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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His challengers have called Greenville County Sheriff Steve Loftis an absentee sheriff who is detached from what’s going on in his office and in the community.

But Loftis, who has been sheriff for 13 years, said the allegations are inaccurate and have come because the four can’t find anything on which to attack the Sheriff’s Office as a whole.

“I realized early on that they could not attack the Sheriff’s Office as a whole,” Loftis said. “The majority of my opponents’ issues are directly pointed at me, and a lot are totally inaccurate.”

Four ex-Sheriff’s Office employees are running against Loftis in the June 14 Republican primary – Bruce Cannon, Sam Manley, Hobart Lewis and Will Lewis.

No Democrats filed to run, so the winner of the primary will likely win the office.

“He’s more interested in keeping the job than doing the job,” said Bruce Cannon, a former Sheriff’s Office captain and director of corporate security at Michelin North America, who said he has seen a “worrisome decline in the service and leadership of the sheriff and the Sheriff’s Office” since he left in 2002.

Loftis, who has been in law enforcement since 1984, countered by saying violent crime and property crimes are down and that sheriff is a difficult job that isn’t for wannabes, amateurs or disgruntled former employees.

“The Sheriff’s Office has performed extremely well in the 13 and a half years I’ve been sheriff,” he said. “I have proven leadership.”

Sam Manley, a former deputy who now works for an exterminator, labeled Loftis “detached.”

“He’s been more active in the last six months than he has been the last six years,” Manley said.

Manley, who was terminated from the Sheriff’s Office after being accused of falsifying time cards at a uniformed side job when he was a security guard at an apartment complex, said his personnel file was released by the Sheriff’s Office “quicker than a BOLO for a murder suspect” and that he couldn’t talk because of pending civil litigation. He said he has retained an attorney.

Loftis said his opponents don’t know the extent of administrative duties and phone calls the job entails. He said he’s involved in the community, does speaking engagements and attends events such as Crime Watch meetings.

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Bruce Cannon Michelin’s director of global investigations; former Sheriff’s Office captain cannonforsheriff.com

“It’s not eight hours a day,” he said. “Most of the time, it turns into 10, 12, 14 hours.”

Cannon said it’s time to get back to fundamental police work where deputies on the beat are empowered to be proactive, get out of their cars and get to know the issues and the people in the areas they cover. “We need to empower deputies to take ownership for their areas,” he said.

If elected, Cannon said in his first 100 days, he would focus on the “broken windows” approach that calls for cracking down on minor crimes to prevent major ones, review equipment needs such as body cameras and in-car cameras, create a citizens advisory panel, institute a lethality assessment in domestic violence cases and focus on recruiting homegrown talent.

“The sheriff has had 14 years to do the job well, and he’s led the Sheriff’s Office into a state of dysfunction and disrepair,” he said.

Hobart Lewis said morale in the Sheriff’s Office is a big issue and that too many experienced law enforcement officers are leaving and too many positions are vacant.

He said he would add five deputies to each platoon, have at least two narcotics officers on each platoon, have a homicide investigator working on each shift and start a community alliance program that would help build trust within the community.

“I’m the only candidate running for sheriff that has a recent working knowledge of the Sheriff’s Office,” Hobart Lewis, who resigned from the Sheriff’s Office last October to run, said. “I understand firsthand the problems at the Sheriff’s Office, and I know how to fix those problems.”

Will Lewis said he’s afraid that law enforcement in Greenville County is not prepared to address the problems of gangs and terrorism.

Of the candidates, he said he has had the most diverse law enforcement career, which makes him uniquely qualified for sheriff. He’s worked in the narcotics unit, homicide, traffic enforcement, uniformed patrol and on the SWAT team. He’s had training in crisis negotiation and counterterrorism. He said crime could be greatly reduced by focusing on drugs and gangs.

If elected, his first actions would be to get body cameras, create a social media gang unit and reduce the size of the Sheriff’s Office’s command staff.

Loftis said his top priorities would be to keep the Sheriff’s Office the premiere Sheriff’s Office in the state.

Loftis said he’ll continue to work to combat the county’s drug trafficking problem, which he said plays a part in the majority of crime in Greenville County. He also said he will continue to keep up with technological advances and said in the near future he will add a new computer-aided dispatch system.

He said he will work to obtain body cameras and that he’s applied for a state grant to pay for them.

“My goal is to continue to ensure Greenville County continues to be a safe place to live, work and visit,” he said.

Manley said if he’s elected, he’ll reduce the size of the command staff and get out of the office.

“My new office will have four wheels and a blue light,” he said.

He said he wants to bring the detention center under the control of the Sheriff’s Office to make it more efficient, to put deputies in elementary schools and to stand up to the federal government if it wants to “regulate or executive order itself into our lives.”

Hobart Lewis Owner of heating, ventilation and air conditioning business; former Sheriff’s Office deputy; and Greer Police Department community patrol sergeant

Will Lewis Security and investigations consultant; former master deputy for Sheriff’s Office willlewissc.com

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Tutor one child, change two lives IN MY OWN WORDS

By Alice Sobray

Are you looking for that perfect volunteer opportunity?

One that combines service with enjoyment and leaves you with a deep sense of actually helping someone? And do you enjoy working with children? If so, the Augustine Literacy Project of the Upstate may be just the volunteer opportunity for you.

As a newcomer to Greenville, I was excited to find the Augustine Literacy Project as just the activity I had been searching for in my previous location and had been unable to find. It is a unique group of volunteer tutors working with children individually twice weekly for 45 minutes to improve their reading, writing and spelling skills. It was founded in 1993 in Chapel Hill, N.C., and brought here as a replication in 2006. Since then, 87 tutors have been trained and 154 children have been assessed and tutored. Our goal is to train people to become tutors who will, in turn, teach children to improve their literacy skills. Tutors need not be teachers – the program is geared to train everyone who wishes to help a child. I have a teaching background, but many excellent tutors do not. Students are recommended for the program

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by their classroom teachers, administrators or parents and must be below grade level and qualify for free/reduced lunch.

Currently, 26 ALP tutors are working with 35 students in 12 schools throughout the Greenville area.

Prospective tutors take a training class to learn the basics of reading instruction and the particulars of the structured, sequential approach this program uses. Then they work with a student in a practicum setting with the help of a coach, a seasoned tutor. After successfully completing the training program and the practicum, tutors can request their school assignment, generally whatever is most convenient. Materials are provided and support is available throughout the year for any and all tutoring.

The motto of the Augustine Literacy Project is “Tutor One Child, Change Two Lives,” a very fitting descriptor of the program. As a tutor and coach with this program for the past three years, I can easily say that I’ve gotten as much out of it as the students I have tutored. To watch a hesitant and uncertain student blossom into a confident reader is truly a rewarding experience. I am as proud as they are when they can apply a new skill to read a word or comprehend a new concept. Top that off with smiles throughout, and the experience can’t be beaten!

The volunteers of the ALP of the Upstate are a wonderful, engaging group of people of all ages and interesting backgrounds. To that point, we are embarking on a growth initiative to raise awareness in the community of the program and its impact so that we can gain additional tutors and reach more at-risk children. Training classes are scheduled for July, September and January.

If you think you would like to tutor a child and change both of your lives, or make a donation, please visit augustineproject-upstatesc.org, contact us at Augustine.upstate@gmail. com or call 864-680-1533 for more information.

Alice Sobray is a retired reading specialist who taught students for 27 years in Texas and New Jersey.

Letter

As a student studying sustainability at Furman University, the thought of the catastrophic environmental consequences of nuclear weapons paralyzes me. As species go extinct, natural disasters worsen and sea levels rise, I question how we can allow disastrous nuclear weapons to exist in a world already filled with enough environmental problems. I believe that a world jam-packed with 15,000 nuclear weapons, which can go off accidentally or at a moment’s notice, is unsafe for any life on earth.

This week, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, one of the cities bombed by the United States government back in World War II. While President Obama stated in 2009 that “the United States will take concrete steps towards a world without nuclear weapons,” we’ve yet to witness a decrease in nuclear spending and in fact are poised to spend $1 trillion over the next 30 years upgrading our nuclear arsenal under his new budget.

As the president embarks on an unprecedented visit to Hiroshima, we have a choice: wait idly by until another devastating bomb is dropped on our cities, homes and families, or urgently act to persuade the president to take a definitive action to get rid of nuclear weapons. As a step in the right direction, we can call for a significant reduction of nuclear weapons in the U.S. and for the president to stand down our nuclear arsenal from high alert. I hope that President Obama will act in our favor and work toward a global zero world.

Celia Castellano, Furman University Global Zero Activist

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Gallabrae brings the Highlands to the foothills IN MY OWN WORDS

by Dee Benedict

They’re baaaack – and badder than ever.

It’s awesome how much Greenville has come to love the marauding Scots – unlike many poor villages of centuries ago. Of course, most have us have learned how to say, “I’m on your side!” in Gaelic. We do love our Scots, and we throw one heck of a party to celebrate them. You’re invited.

Outstanding attractions await you. The 2016 Greenville Scottish Games will be bigger and better than ever! Pipe bands and heavy athletes from around the Southeast will be invading Greenville. Clans are flooding in, kilts everywhere, fantastic hard-charging music – Albannach is back, the premier Celtic Rock band, and “rock” doesn’t even come close to describing them. The demonstrators will be on hand to show you and your family what life was like in Scotland long ago and immerse you in that culture.

Wee Scotland will capture your children’s imagination with the Scottish Woods Faeries, Seamus the Shaggy Dog, Greenville’s own J Dew as MC of our Wee Scotland stage and lots of Scottish characters stopping by. The children will have their own version of Scottish athletics to try. There are crafts galore for the bairns, and they will have their faces painted and make their own swords and shields – turning into fierce little lads and lassies. Speaking of fierce, we have captured an actual fire-breathing Scottish dragon from the secret glens of the Isle of Skye.

He will be prowling around Wee Scotland with an occasional foray into the rest of the Games.

Miss Greenville Scottish Games and Teen Miss Greenville Scottish Games will be headquartered at Wee Scotland. They will have more than 40 of their fellow queens from around the state, and they love interacting with the children with selfies, autographs and helping with the activities. We’ve warned them, and the faeries, about getting too close to the Scottish dragon; we don’t want crowns melted or wings singed.

And the music! In addition to Albannach, Cleghorn is with us again. They have developed a huge following and they insist on coming to Greenville – it’s their favorite venue. We are very pleased to have a new

Celtic rock band coming this year, Burning Bridget Cleary, and they were burning long before we got our dragon. We also have our Scottish country dancers, Scottish fiddlers and other Celtic musicians.

The Joint Military Salute celebrates our military heritage in Scotland and here at home. This event features a flyover by the Vintage Warbirds, Special Forces paratroopers dropping in on the Main Field, the Massed Bands and the SC National Guard Army Band. Our honor guard, eight activeduty members of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (2SCOTS), will lead the proceedings.

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Our chief of the games is James Macnab.

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The Great Scot! Parade starts at 6 p.m.

Friday, May 27, on Main Street in downtown Greenville. We’ll have six of our pipe bands lifting spirits along the parade route. Clans, demonstrators, Braveheart himself, floats filled with Scottish fun and as a special attraction, a Rampant Lion.

We hope to see all of you at the parade and the Games. Gates open at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, May 28. Tickets are $15 for adults if ordered online or $20 at the gate. Tickets for children ages 6 to 12 are $8 online, $10 at the gate. Active-duty military admitted free with a valid military ID.

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The “bedroom community” of Berea holds a rich history, unlimited views of the Appalachian Mountains and a part of the Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit Trail. And now it also holds a unique area setup along the trail for the community to come together alongside one of Berea’s antiques.

The Swamp Rabbit Station at Berea is a “pocket park,” or mini-park, located at the intersection of Sulphur Springs Road and the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail in the Berea neighborhood of Greenville County.

The park was created “to have pride in the community and a space to interact with people that may not be from the Berea community,” said greenways, natural and historic resources director, Ty Houck.

The green railcar that now resides at the station once served as a heater car in the 1940s, providing heat to other freight and passenger cars.

It was placed at the location in 2007 after salvage operations of the rails went underway, waiting to be transferred to a railroad museum in Indiana. But the process of transferring it hundreds of miles required the reinforcement of bridges along the way, and the cost became too high.

Steve Pennington, owner of Rhino Concessions and an active community member,

reached out, and with help from architect Dave Nocella came up with concept renderings for the station. Soon after, Leadership Greenville Class 39 adopted it as one of their projects to develop the park and raise funds through the “All Aboard Railcar Restoration Project.”

During the construction phase, Dave Wilkerson, president of Motive Power & Equipment Solutions, stopped by the park one day and offered his help to the restoration by donating a yellow mini-locomotive engine. Wilkerson purchased the 1942 locomotive from a mine in Arizona to prevent it from getting scrapped and refurbished it before it gained its home next to the green railcar.

“Through different partnerships over the course of many years we have been able to work together to make a space that everyone enjoys,” Houck said.

The Berea community has several events programmed at the Swamp Rabbit Station such as the Berea Pet Party at the Station on May 21 and the Berea Spring Fling at the Station on June 18.

For more information, visit swamprabbitstation.com.

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Gov. Haley launches website, county challenge to address domestic violence EMILY PIETRAS | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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During last Friday’s Statewide Domestic Violence Summit, Gov. Nikki Haley introduced a new website, safeplacesc.sc.gov, that will serve as a resource for victims of domestic violence, loved ones of victims, and offenders.

The website provides a 24-hour hotline, warning signs and safety tips for victims and guidance for individuals regarding how they can support friends and family affected by domestic violence. It also contains a database for individuals to find resources — emergency sheltering, therapy and counseling and crisis services, among others — that are available in their area.

In addition to introducing the website, Haley unveiled the four-step “Safe Place County Certification Challenge” in an effort to effect statewide change starting at the local level.

In April 2016, the first step of the challenge was completed; all 46 sheriffs took a pledge to implement the Law Enforcement Toolkit Year One Initiatives, which were created

by Haley’s Domestic Violence Task Force and the Sheriff ’s Association. The Year One Initiatives are to be completed

by Dec. 31, 2016, and include adopting an internal policy for domestic violence to ensure best practices and conducting a needs assessment for responding to and investigating domestic violence incidents.

The three remaining steps include holding a Community Domestic Violence Coordinating Council meeting and organizing a Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee, adopting a countywide human resource policy on domestic violence, and partnering with local nonprofits to hold a community awareness event.

A STATEWIDE PLAGUE These initiatives, among others, have been implemented in an effort to mitigate instances of and fatalities from domestic violence in South Carolina. It’s a looming problem that has plagued the state for years.

According to an analysis of homicide data released in 2015 by the Violence Policy Center, South Carolina “ranked first as the state with the highest homicide rate among female victims killed by male offenders in single victim/single offender incidents.” In 2013, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 57 women were murdered by men in South Carolina for a homicide rate of 2.32 per 100,000 females. The South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault reports that this is the 18th consecutive year in which South Carolina has been in the top 10 and the fourth year in which the state has ranked the highest.

While raising awareness and creating initiatives are signs of progress, advocates emphasize that funding remains crucial to the implementation and success of these measures.

“The resources available to do those things will cost money,” says Becky Callaham regarding the stipulations of the county challenge. Callaham is the executive director of Safe Harbor, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence in the Upstate.

“As a state, we need to commit to these resources … When you recommend and don’t put money behind it, you aren’t making a very strong recommendation,” she says.

And the resources the state needs to invest in go beyond just having shelters.

“Our common message is that we can use more shelters, but they alone will not solve the problem,” Callaham says. She adds that other crucial resources for victims – counseling services, attorney representation and counsel in family and civil court and temporary assistance for transitional housing – also require financial support.

COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS Amending the state’s domestic violence laws will also be key to any progress.

Currently, the category of domestic violence is limited to crimes against “household members.”

Under South Carolina Code section 16-25-10, a “household member” is defined as a spouse, former spouse, persons who have a child in common or a male and female who are cohabitating or formerly have cohabited. Dating partners are not included under this definition, which means this group is not eligible for some of the common measures used to mitigate a domestic violence situation, such as being granted an order of protection against an abusive partner.

This is a major concern for advocates, and the scope of what constitutes a “household member” is something Callaham and others want to expand.

“That’s been an effort for at least the past 10 years,” she says. “It leaves that entire population out, and it’s so unfortunate … Same-sex relationships have also led to more complexity.”

VIOLENCE LINKED TO GUNS Advocates’ efforts to strengthen South Carolina’s domestic violence laws inevitably turn to a discussion of gun laws and gun ownership. It remains a contentious topic, but the numbers show that gun violence is inextricably linked to the state’s domestic violence fatalities.

Thirty-two of the victims cited in the Violence Policy Center report were killed with guns; 21 of those were killed with handguns. In homicides where a victim-offender relationship could be identified, 52 out of 54 of women were murdered by someone they knew, and 32 victims were “wives, common-law wives, ex-wives or girlfriends of the offenders.” Among that group, 22 victims (69 percent) were killed with guns; 15 of those were killed with handguns.

In June 2015, state lawmakers compromised to pass a new law that imposes a lifetime firearms ban for those convicted of aggravated domestic violence, and other serious cases can lead to an automatic three- or ten-year ban. But when an offender is convicted of a lesser domestic violence charge in the third degree, the decision of whether or not to impose a firearms ban is left up to a judge.

“We fought very hard to include a firearms ban for those convicted of lower-level domestic violence charges as well as for perpetrators who have an order of protection filed against them,” says Callaham. “As an advocate, I would say the combination of domestic violence and just having a firearm be present creates a toxic environment.”

Ultimately, it will take time to see if the website, county challenge and new laws produce their desired effect. Until then, Callaham emphasizes the importance of providing sufficient financial backing for any efforts the state proposes.

“While I am very hopeful, I really feel we would move quickly if we invest money to truly provide these resources,” she says. “That’s what will make the most significant change and get our numbers to decrease.”

“As a state, we need to commit to these resources… When you recommend and don’t put money behind it, you aren’t making a very strong recommendation.”

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Mauldin’s Lead Academy Charter School hasn’t had a permanent place to call home since it opened in 2010. But it could soon.

The county finance committee approved the school’s plan to use a $9.5 million bond – issued through Wisconsin Corporation – to build a 46,026-square-foot school building on the 7.9 acres that the school currently leases and uses at 804 Mauldin Road.

Greenville County Council will conduct a review of the plan on an undecided date next month, according to Butch Kirven, chair of the finance committee.

If approved, the school will receive its funds and begin construction sometime this summer, according to principal Rodney Johnson. The school plans to use its state funding – $5,780 per student – to pay off the bond. The charter school, despite being public, is not tax-based and cannot levy taxes to pay for construction.

The proposed school building will have 25 classrooms and a capacity for more than 400 students. It will also have an art room, cafeteria, media lab, auditorium and science lab.

“It’s been a rollercoaster to get here,” said principal Rodney Johnson. “We’ve had an interesting path, to say the least.”

The school opened at Redemption Outreach Center in 2010. It then moved to Upstate Circle of Friends in 2012 and Reedy River Missionary Baptist Church in 2014.

The school placed two portables on 7.9 acres at 804 Mauldin Road and relocated in April.

The frequent change in location wasn’t a choice.

“There was no place to expand, because the number of students has continued to grow and grow,” Johnson said. “That’s not including our staff.”

Since opening, the school’s enrollment has increased from 80 to 240 students. It also became a kindergarten to eighth-grade school this year, expanding staff from 13 to 29 teachers. The school only enrolled fifththrough eighth-grade students before.

The school decided to expand because of its decision last year to shift to exploratory

learning, a curriculum defined by students concluding relationships between their background knowledge and unfamiliar concepts.

“It can be hard for students to understand if they start this concept in middle school. It just doesn’t happen overnight,” said Johnson. “We can now introduce it to them earlier.”

The school’s approach to exploratory learning focuses on teamwork, community, technology and real-world experiences. The new school building will only improve the curriculum, according to Johnson.

If the school building is approved, classrooms will include walls that can be separated to allow classroom-to-classroom interaction within grade levels.

“There’s going to be so much more room for our students to collaborate, whether that be in the classroom or community,” said board member Allison Roach.

Since the school implemented an exploratory learning curriculum last year, students have worked with community experts to complete a research project that is presented to family members, teachers and the general public. Students will use the auditorium to present projects if the new school building is approved.

The expansion could entail more opportunities. The school is exploring the addition of a Chinese language class, robotics class and athletics program, according to Johnson. The school might also expand its number of Google tablets and computers.

But nothing is set in stone.

“The bond will cover the building,” said Johnson. “We spent a good amount of our cash reserve on land development and fire alarms for the portables. So we’re definitely going to be doing fundraising. We don’t want to stretch ourselves beyond our limits.”

If approved, the school building is projected to be ready by late 2017.

“It’s been an interesting progression to see. But if this becomes a reality, we’ll be able to offer kids more opportunities to be agents of change in the community,” Johnson said.

All renderings courtesy of AWHS Architects.

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Caine Halter Family YMCA dedicates Spirit Center The Caine Halter Family YMCA on Cleveland Street recently held a dedication ceremony for its new Spirit Center.

The Spirit Center and Amphitheater overlooks the Reedy River and enhances the YMCA’s delivery of quality youth and educational programs, as well as special events, the organization said in a press release. The Spirit Center also increases the Y’s capacity for outreach programs in collaboration with community partners. The venue is designed to seat 80 to 100 people and features a roomy stage area with a wooden deck and viewing platform overlooking the river. The seating area consists of terraced stone seat walls with grass walkways and landscaped with a rich mix of native plants.

“This dedication marks a special day for the YMCA. Future generations will benefit from the vision and spirit that Lillian and Ellis Darby provided with the construction of this beautiful amphitheater,” said Jamie Inman, chief mission advancement officer. “This project enhances the YMCA’s mission of youth development, building a healthier community and being socially responsible – not only to the people of Greenville but for our environment,” Inman said.

The YMCA Spirit Center is one element of an overall master plan. In addition to the Spirit Center, the Greenfields Consortium, including the Carol Clement Children’s Garden, is scheduled for a July dedication. The consortium will include several rain gardens, river access areas, science stations, and playgrounds. These are being constructed on the Caine Halter Family YMCA property in coordination with Friends of the Reedy River.

Donations for the additional environmental elements are still needed and being accepted.

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Agency tries to quell fears, anger of Brookhaven, Westview residents ANDREW MOORE | STAFF

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City officials tried to dispel fears, calm tempers and provide important information to residents of Brookhaven Apartments and Westview homes at a press conference this week. The residents face relocation this summer while a $22 million renovation is underway.

The press conference was called in response to charges from a city council candidate that the Greenville Housing Authority had violated federal regulations related to the relocation of some 134 affected families.

Ivory Mathews, executive director of the agency, said it has adhered to the Uniform Relocation Act and has kept residents informed since the renovation project was proposed in 2013.

Residents, who will be relocated to Arcadia Hills, Garden, Evergreen, Heritage, or Ridgeway apartments, will receive a 90-day notice with their temporary location listed, Mathews said. The Housing Authority plans to pay moving expenses, utility connection fees, and first month deposits that are associated with the temporary locations.

But residents continue to be concerned about relocation plans while the renovations are underway.

“It’s like we don’t have a choice about where we move,” said Opal Peoples, a Brookhaven resident. “We’ll have to qualify to come back. And what about our kids?

What are we supposed to do about schools when we’re moved out?”

Relocation for families with children will be delayed until after the school year ends, Mathews said, but those children could be

relocated into a different district after the school year despite the Housing Authority’s best efforts to avoid it.

“I’m just scared about the moving. It just feels like we’re being thrown out without warning,” said Carolyn Goldsmith, a Brookhaven resident.

Renovations “long overdue” Notices have already been issued to 103 families and 29 have already been relocated from Westview Homes due to failing sewer pipes, according to Mathews.

“These communities are long overdue.

They have to be renovated. We’ve got mold and mildew,” said Brookhaven resident Diane Sanders. “I don’t think people understand temporary. They think they’re putting us out and that’s not happening.”

Residents are expected to be out of their apartments for six months during the renovation. When completed, they will have the option of returning to Brookhaven or Westview or accepting a permanent relocation, according to Mathews.

Residents who return to Brookhaven or Westview will continue to pay a rent that is 30 percent of their adjusted gross income.

Rent won’t increase unless a family’s income increases during the relocation period.

A political move or community concern?

The news conference was called to dispel what Mathews called “misinformation” given to residents at a press conference last week held by former state Rep. Ennis Fant and Paul Guy, a former NAACP Greenville chapter president.

Brookhaven resident Opal Peoples sat front and center at the Housing Authority’s news conference Tuesday, questioning the agency’s renovation and relocation plans. “I believe the information they’ve given us has been wrong from the start. We haven’t received Section 8 vouchers or nothing.” According to Mathews, Greenville’s housing market makes it difficult to use the vouchers.

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Former state Rep. Ennis Fant watches as a Brookhaven resident expresses concern to the Housing Authority about the relocation phase of its $22 million renovation project for the Brookhaven and Westview public housing apartments.

“I feel that he’s [Fant] using this situation for political advantage. They’re misleading residents and feeding off their anxiety, said Mathews. “There’s always anxiety when people have to be moved from a place they’ve called home for years.”

Guy declined to comment. But Fant, a

candidate for Greenville County Council, said residents from the two communities had contacted him about their concerns and that he hadn’t heard of it before then. He also added that his involvement has nothing to do with his county council campaign.

At a press conference last week, Fant

said the city Housing Authority was violating U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development policies. He announced plans to file complaints with the NAACP, the Rainbow PUSH coalition, Legal Services and HUD and seek an injunction to stop the renovation project while relocation issues are addressed.

“We’re not trying to stop the project from happening. We just want them to slow down until we can guarantee that these families will be able to move somewhere safe,” said Fant. “We just want to make sure people don’t end up homeless.”

He called the project a sign of “gentrification” — increased property values and the displacement of lower-income families.

Mayor Knox White said the project shouldn’t become “about who said what” and that “there’s always more room for communication.” He said renovations would produce “units that we can all be proud of.”

Mathews said the Housing Authority had received no legal notices and was continuing the renovation project.

The project The renovated units at Brookhaven and Westview apartments will get a number of upgrades.

“When you have buildings this old, there

are a lot of things that need to be brought to standards,” Ivory Mathews, executive director of the city’s Housing Authority, said. “So that’s what we’re doing.”

The project includes plans to replace cabinets, countertops, appliances, windows, doors and carpeted floors with hardwoods, according to Mathews. The renovations also include new underground utilities and roofing.

Other renovations include the addition of a full bathroom in two- to- four-bedroom units, and a half-bathroom in all other renovated units. New wheelchair accessible walkways will also be added to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Brookhaven Apartments, located on Perry Avenue, will also expand as “The Manor at West Greenville” nears its completion in mid-July, according to Mathews. The threestory apartment building includes 55-units that will house adults ages 62 and older from the community.

Westview Homes, located on Textile Avenue, will include 12 one-bedroom units with an art studio, a new clubhouse, and 67 renovated units.

Once renovated, Brookhaven Apartments will become “The Harbor at West Greenville” and Westview Homes will become “The Gallery at West Greenville.” Residents voted for the names, according to Mathews.

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Eric Charles Clary is a barber at Greenville’s Old Crow Barbershop. But in Iraq he was a lifeline to soldiers fighting in the streets of Baghdad. He was their medic.

The former U.S. Army senior specialist deployed to Iraq in 2008 as a member of the U.S. Army’s 464th medical company. He was stationed at Camp Liberty on the Victory Base Complex in Baghdad. While there, Clary treated comrades but also helped maintain the health of high-value detainees, including Saddam Hussein’s parliament members.

But the hardest part of the job for Clary wasn’t suturing bloodied combat wounds or cleaning countless sets of teeth. It was his fear of losing his place at home.

“The scariest part is going. After that, you’re on autopilot. But it’s just hard for a lot of soldiers because you can’t care about home. But you do care because life doesn’t stop for your family and friends,” said Clary. “It’s about maintaining those relationships.”

Clary is from Sacramento, Calif., and is the oldest of five kids.

After graduating high school, he bounced around from bartending to construction work. Clary joined the U.S. Army Reserve when he turned 20 and enrolled in cosmetology school. And then there was deployment, which left Clary unable to finish schooling.

But he continued to practice his craft in Iraq.

“I was cutting hair in the barracks. They may not have been the greatest cuts, but they were a good way to make extra bucks for beer,” Clary said.

After leaving Camp Liberty, Clary worked in several forward operating bases throughout Iraq to care for soldiers before his last assignment – Ibn Sina Hospital.

The hospital, built in the 1960s in Baghdad for Saddam Hussein and his family, acted as an emergency facility for critically wounded soldiers and civilians.

Clary treated trauma patients at the hospital. During his time there, he encountered various threats, including car bombs and gunfire. He also had to undergo operations for a knee injury that would put a damper on the possibility of a military career.

LEAVING THE DESERT BEHIND

In 2009, after his assignment at the hospital, Clary left for Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany to re-class as a dental lab technician. He was sent to Shepard Air Force Base in Texas to complete an eight-month training program and was then sent to Fort Gordon in Georgia to create oral prosthetics for soldiers.

It wasn’t the job or place for him.

“I ended up coming to Greenville a good bit and found a hair school that I wanted to attend,” said Clary. “And going from a combat field unit to a desk job was hard for me because my friends were still in the action. So I just made the decision to get out.”

Clary was medically discharged in 2013 because of his knee injury, and he moved to Greenville. It wasn’t an easy transition.

“I started bartending again, just trying to figure out civilian life.

You almost have to learn how to grow up again,” said Clary. “In the military, you have meals and housing.”

He decided to pursue his passion for hair cutting, attended the Kenneth Schuler School of Cosmetology in Spartanburg and received certification in 2014.

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Clary soon found a job at The Barbershop on Mohawk Drive and reconnected with Josh McCoy, a former classmate at Kenneth Schuler. He also met Bryan Eugene, a punk rocker and one-time graphic designer who had turned to barbering.

The three barbers were unhappy. McCoy left and started his own barbershop in Spartanburg. Clary and Eugene started to make plans for their own shop.

“It was tough for us because we couldn’t talk about it,” said Eugene. “But his excitement really sparked my confidence in the plan.”

REVIVING THE AMERICAN BARBERSHOP

On his way to work last summer, Clary saw it – the perfect space to open a traditional barbershop. Located at 738 Wade Hampton Boulevard, it had once housed Top Hats Hair Salon and wouldn’t require a lot of renovation.

Clary told Eugene about the space that day. The barbers left their jobs and signed the lease a week later.

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“I had no clue how to run a business. I had to use Google to figure out what permits we needed and how to turn the lights on in the building. That’s the make-things-happen attitude the military gives you.”

While the two barbers had a building, they still had a lot of work to do. They started a two-month renovation to perfect the aesthetic they had in mind.

“The American barbershop is a place where guys can just hang out. But it had to be very vintage and antique. It had to stay true to the barbershop style and tradition,”

said Clary. “It was hard to get just right.”

Their mission to perfect the traditional barbershop aesthetic led to a row of barber’s chairs from the 1920s, a stuffed deer head hanging from the wall and a myriad of beer selections in an easily accessible fridge.

They even ordered jean aprons from Billiam Jeans, a Greenville-based clothing company.

The efforts of Clary and Eugene to revive the traditional barbershop experience amid a growing number of corporate salons haven’t gone unnoticed.

“It’s great to see a younger generation interested in that era of trade and supplying

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the barbershop experience,” said Mike Bullock, owner of Bullock’s Barbershop.

“Barbershops are going out of style, but it’s great to see a group of young guys trying to change that,” said Dan Poteat, owner of Super’s Barbershop.

Clary and Eugene opened as Old Crow Barbershop in August 2015. Their schedules were filled immediately. And after six months of business, they started to feel stressed.

Something had to change.

“We were having to turn people away,” said Eugene. “I mean, our schedules and space just couldn’t hold anymore people.”

In February, Clary and Eugene tore down a wall in the shop and put up a chair to hire another barber. They hired McCoy. “I was alone in Spartanburg, and the busi-

ness was bad. It was just dull. But I’m able to work with my friends here. I’m so grateful for that,” McCoy said.

Business has only grown since the addition of McCoy. The shop also adopted a new role.

It has become a community center of sorts.

“This place produces so much conversation,” said Duncan resident Tim Kirkbride. “I meet people from all walks of life in here. I’ve made friends.”

“You can see their level of dedication to the business and community by just being in the shop,” said Greenville resident Alex Thompson. “It’s just a cool place to hang out, and they actually take the time to get to know you.”

The barbershop is community-focused, including sponsoring a benefit in April to raise

funds for the family of fallen Greenville police officer Allen Jacobs. The event raised $1,800.

“Greenville is a great community to be a part of. I’ve never felt out of place here. And as a community barbershop, it’s our job to reach out when people need us,” Clary said.

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

Clary and Eugene have big plans: hiring three more barbers and opening another Old Crow Barbershop in Greenville sometime in 2017.

A location hasn’t been chosen.

“Greenville’s growing, and we want to grow with it. But we don’t want to open up a bigger shop here,” said Clary. “We want another

neighborhood shop that retains that sense of community that we’ve built here. It has to be small and personal.”

The blueprints for their future are much bigger than just a new shop. The duo might open a barber school that focuses on tradition.

“The schools around here are teaching students to care too much about money.

We want to open a school that hones in on the tradition of barbering. It won’t be about pumping students out left and right. It will be a quality education on how to be a true barber,” Clary said.

For more information, visit oldcrowbarbers.com

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Upstate Warrior Solution receives $44K, continues to help veterans ANDREW MOORE | STAFF

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The “Big Break: Warrior Edition” charity golf event, held at The Reserve at Lake Keowee, raised $44,475 for Upstate Warrior Solution recently.

The armed forces-themed charity event, held in conjunction with the BMW Charity Pro-Am, was started last year by Prudential Financial to raise funds for local organizations assisting veterans.

In its inaugural year, 10 teams of Upstate veterans, celebrities and Web.com Tour golfers competed in golf skill challenges to raise funds. The event raised $43,044 for Upstate Warrior Solution and the Wounded Warrior Project last year.

This year, all proceeds from the event will go to Upstate Warrior Solution in Clemson.

“We use these events to advance local education and employment efforts for veterans,” said Charles Sevola, vice president of Prudential’s office of veteran initiatives.

“Upstate Warrior Solution is getting results.”

Fighting the good fight Upstate Warrior Solution was started in 2013 to connect Upstate veterans to health care, education, job training, housing and employment. Operations expanded quickly.

In 2014, the Greenville-based nonprofit received a grant from America’s Warrior Partnership that enabled it to hire 16 fulltime staff members. It also opened satellite offices in Clemson and Spartanburg to extend its services across the Upstate.

One of the most successful efforts of Upstate Warrior Solution is helping vets find jobs. So far, the group has helped place 221 South Carolina veterans in jobs.

The national unemployment rate for veterans was 6.6 percent in 2013. It decreased to 5.3 percent in 2014 and 4.6 percent in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The state unemployment rate for veterans was 20 percent in 2011. That high rate decreased to 4.1 percent in 2013 and 3.5 percent in 2014, according to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce. But it increased to 4.4 percent in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By comparison, the overall unemployment rate in South Carolina for April 2016 was 5.8 percent.

State and national efforts have been made to lower the unemployment rate among veterans. President Obama and the U.S. Congress created tax incentives up to $5,600 for companies that hire soldiers returning from

the Iraq War. And, in South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley launched Operation Palmetto Employment in 2014. The program was designed to help veterans and service members find civilian jobs.

some veterans a day to remember.”

Upstate Warrior Solution chooses combat veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan to participate in the charity tournament.

Those veterans are paired with celebrities

and professional golfers. Fourteen veterans, most of who served in the Army or Marine Corps, participated in this year’s tournament. Greenville resident David Nardone was the winner.

Creating connections “We’re connecting our warriors to the community and our community to our warriors,” said Charlie Hall, executive director of Upstate Warrior Solution.

The nonprofit created those connections through partnerships with educational institutions, government agencies, nonprofits and medical facilities.

• With Greenville Tech, Spartanburg Community College and Tri-County Technical College to offer veterans jobtraining programs • With Veterans United Home Loans to help returning soldiers with housing costs • With Veteran Scholarships Forever to help veterans pay for education when the GI Bill doesn’t cover all costs • With Clemson University, Greenville Hospital System and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Greenville Vet Center to help returning soldiers with emotional stress and post-traumatic stress disorder In 2015, these organizations sponsored a program at Greenville Memorial Hospital to help veterans and their families better understand post-traumatic stress disorder, recreational therapy and heart rate variability.

“It’s important that we have events like this, which has a focus on our post 9/11 veterans,” said Kevin McBride, director of Greenville Hospital System’s military and government liaison office, in a release.

The community-driven mission of Upstate Warrior Solution is one of the reasons it agreed to take part in the charity golf tournament when Prudential reached out to them last year. The nonprofit and financial firm work together to provide veterans with an annual career development workshop at Clemson University before the tournament.

The tournament highlight is seeing residents embrace its mission. The Reserve at Lake Keowee, one of three courses hosting the BMW Charity Pro-Am, has been home to the charity tournament for veterans since it was started. Residents from the community have helped produce the event each year.

“It’s just great to see community members step up to help us. It’s people who’ve had the best in this world. And they came through to help our veterans,” said Hall. “The money raised is important, but the event also gives

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The mission’s sucFormer U.S. Marine David Nardone, left, was chosen by Upstate Warrior cess was no surprise as Solution to compete in the “Big Break: Warrior Edition” charity golf Nardone had 11 years tournament. His team included, from left to right, professional golfer of military experience Matt Bettencourt, junior golfer Alyssa Waddell, and actor Michael Peña. under his belt at the The team won the golf skills challenges at the charity tournament. time.

Off the battlefield, Nardone joined the Marine Corps in 1992. He spent four years onto the green in basic infantry. In 1994, he participated Greenville resident David Nardone in Operation Uphold Democracy, a U.S. stepped onto the fairway at The Reserve at intervention to return Jean BertrandLake Keowee with a tinge of nervousness.

Aristide, the country’s first democratically It wasn’t because he was teeing off beside elected president, to power following a actor Michael Peña. It was because of war. military coup. According to Nardone, he “There was a lot of emotion. It’s a social helped coordinate yet-to-be-declassified event, and it was difficult just to be out counter-drug operations out of Atlanta there in the spotlight. It was great to feel with the Marine Air Group between 1996 that recognition. But it was stressful. I get and 2000. Then came Iraq. wound tight because of my anxiety issue,” Part of the Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Nardone said.

Company, Nardone and his comrades pushed through Iraq and north into Baghdad for five months after securing the oil pipeline. It took its toll.

“Those months are a blur. But I remember my birthday, because I turned 30 in Baghdad. I remember being connected through a satellite phone to talk to my dad,” Nardone said.

After leaving Iraq in July 2003, Nardone spent three years as a military recruiter in Buffalo, N.Y. During this time, he was treated for alcohol abuse. He also met and stayed in touch with organization founder Charlie Hall, who had just retired from the Marine Corps.

Nardone redeployed to Iraq in 2008 and joined 1st Battalion 9th Marines, known as “The Walking Dead” for having the highest casualty rate in Marine Corps history. He returned seven months later and moved from Florida to Greenville.

It wasn’t long after his move that Nardone contacted Hall and found out about Upstate Warrior Solution. He began volunteering but quit in 2014 after starting a new job at MAU Work Solutions in Greenville.

“They’re doing great things that we veterans can’t do on our own,” said Nardone.

“People have got to realize that it’s an ongoing struggle. I’m still transitioning. It’s

100-year-old WWII vet looks back on a life in service MELINDA YOUNG | CONTRIBUTOR

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At age 100, U.S. Air Force and World War II veteran Kenneth Frasher will spend Memorial Day engaged in regular daily activities: He’ll make breakfast, tidy the house, watch the History Channel, and, at lunchtime, visit his 89-year-old girlfriend.

The centenarian is one of about 11,000 World War II veterans living in South Carolina, according to the National WWII Museum. Frasher, who goes by Ken, is also a winner in the lifespan lottery. Of the 16 million Americans who served in WWII, fewer than 700,000 are still alive today.

So what habits have contributed to Frasher’s long life? “I get up in the morning, breathe on something like a mirror to see if I’m still breathing, and then just stay with that,” he says, suggesting that a good sense of humor can’t hurt.

Health and lifestyle changes also might have played a role. Frasher, who was an aircraft mechanic during WWII, spent 33 years working for the U.S. Post Office on a highway run from Greenville to Clinton to Columbia.

He delivered mail to small towns that didn’t have their own rural carriers or post offices. But he retired in 1978, which was around the same time he was diagnosed with diabetes.

“I’ve been retired longer than I worked for the post office,” Frasher notes.

He also stopped drinking hard liquor and smoking cigarettes, pipes, cigars and “corn silk” after the diabetes diagnosis. Frasher’s diabetes symptoms are better now, but he has other health worries that come with age, including an Easter morning fall in the yard that resulted in several broken ribs, and minor eye and heart issues.

Frasher’s family physician, Dr. Robert Johnson of Powdersville Family Practice, is also an Air Force veteran who has patients who served in all of the nation’s wars since WWII. Johnson, who was a family physician at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, says he’s learned a great deal about living well from his veteran patients.“Ken is remarkably healthy and has a very sharp brain, which is also a blessing at his age,” Johnson says. “He’s very resilient, and as far as I can tell, he’s back to his old self since the fall.”

really difficult to find where you fit in. I’ve had a stable job for the past seven years.

I recently lost my last one because of my struggles.”

Those struggles – anxiety and uncontrolled anger – led him back to Upstate Warrior Solution in April. Since then, he’s enrolled in anger management.

“I told them I would do anything they needed because you’re receiving medication by just being around your fellow service members,” Nardon said. “And my wife, Renee. She’s been my stronghold and my rock.”

Nardone conducts community outreach.

It’s one of the reasons he was chosen for the tournament. His team – “3rd Battalion” – included actor Michael Peña, professional golfer Matt Bettencourt and junior golfer Alyssa Waddell.

They won the tournament. But now that Nardone has stepped off the green, he plans to continue volunteering at Upstate Warrior Solution as it continues to grow.

“We want to serve a greater population.

But we also want to build more partnerships with city and county people so that we can educate them on how to help our veterans,” Hall said.

For more information, visit upstatewarriorsolution.org.

All photos provided by Upstate Warrior Solution.

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Meals on Wheels receives funds from art contest

Praise Cathedral Uses Health Challenge To Help Homeless

On Tuesday, May 17, Meals on Wheels of Greenville accepted a check for $5,000 from Jason and Zane Meadors, twin brothers whose winning entry in the Michelin InTIREnational Art Contest allowed them to designate funds to the charity of their choice. Held during the month of March, the Michelin InTIREnational Art Contest, hosted by Michelin North America in conjunction with Upstate International, challenged participants to create a piece of art using up to four scrap tires. Jason

and Zane’s entry Meadors Twinnovation won the judges’ choice competition on behalf of Meals on Wheels. The contest winners were announced at a ceremony at Michelin on April 7 and included both judge’s choice and people’s choice winners.

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Washington Center receives grant for nature trail On May 16, Greenville Women Giving held its 10th annual meeting to award grants for their 2016 cycle. Washington Center received

$35,450 to assist with funding construction of an ADA compliant nature trail that is to be developed collaboratively with Sara Collins Elementary School. The trail will provide accessible recreational areas as well as a venue for environmental instruction, and it will be available to the public during non-school hours. The trail will have a 1/10-mile walkway and will be eight feet wide in order to allow two wheelchairs to pass each other on the trail. Railings will protect the safety of students who have gait difficulties or who utilize various types of mobility equipment.

Greer’s Praise Cathedral will be a presenting sponsor of the 12th annual Miracle Hill Challenge cycling and 5K event that will take place Saturday, June 4, at Furman University. Runners, walkers and cyclists of all ages and abilities are encouraged to participate to raise funds for the homeless and hurting of the Upstate.

Event options include the 5K run/walk; a free fun run for kids; cycling distances of 100, 62, or 40 miles; and a 20-mile option along the Swamp Rabbit Trail. Family-friendly games, activities, inflatables, a healthy lunch and music will round out the day. For more event information and to register, visit miraclehill.org or contact Sandy Furnell, events coordinator, at 631-0137.

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It’s graduation season in Greenville County What you need to know to survive it – whether you have a graduate or not CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Over the next few days, thousands of high school seniors in Greenville County will don caps and gowns in their school colors, walk into school gyms, chapels and big arenas and walk out as high school graduates.

Behind the diplomas earned by members of the class of 2016 are stories of struggle and strength, trying times and triumphs.

But their stories are just beginning.

Some will go to college. Others will go into the military. Still others will go straight into the workforce.

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Many of the start and end times coincide with regular business hours, meaning traffic could be heavier and parking harder to find.

For those who will attend graduation, timing is everything. You’ll want to arrive early to be sure you won’t miss your favorite class of 2016 member walk into the arena to the tune of “Pomp and Circumstance.” But don’t arrive too early. You’ll want the people and cars to clear out from the ceremony before yours.

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Ticket, please Like other events held at the Well and Timmons Arena, you won’t get in unless you have a ticket. Schools allocate a certain number of tickets to each student. Those who need more often get them from students who won’t be using all of their tickets.

At Mauldin High, students have the opportunity to buy five additional tickets for $10 each as long as they last.

No hooting and hollering Lastly, while you may be excited for your graduate when their name is called, don’t hoot and holler, because you will be escorted out of the arena. District officials say the rule is in place because parents of students that come after yours alphabetically want to hear their name called, too.

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Wade Hampton High Wednesday, June 1, 9 a.m.

383 students Berea High Wednesday, June 1, 2 p.m.

238 graduates J.L. Mann High Academy Wednesday, June 1, 7 p.m.

370 students Travelers Rest High Thursday, June 2, 9 a.m.

227 students Blue Ridge High Thursday, June 2, 2 p.m.

295 graduates Woodmont High Thursday, June 2, 7 p.m.

378 students BON SECOURS WELLNESS ARENA Southside High Tuesday, May 31, 10 a.m.

154 students Eastside High Tuesday, May 31, 2 p.m.

333 graduates Riverside High Tuesday, May 31, 7 p.m.

363 students Carolina High and Academy Wednesday, June 1, 10 a.m.

150 graduates Greenville High Academy Wednesday, June 1, 2 p.m.

335 graduates Greer High Wednesday, June 1, 7 p.m.

241 graduates Hillcrest High Thursday, June 2, 10 a.m.

457 graduates Mauldin High Thursday, June 2, 2 p.m.

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When the Southern Conference’s baseball teams returned to Fluor Field this week for their championship tournament, they probably had an idea what to expect. After all, this is the fourth visit to Greenville the Southern Conference has made since 2010, when the conference membership voted to rotate the tournament between ballparks. What they might not have expected is the reception that Greenville prepared for them this time around.

“We have really gotten terrific support from the City of Greenville,” says the Southern Conference’s commissioner, Joe Iamarino.

“Robin Wright [of VisitGreenvilleSC, the official sales and marketing organization of the City and County of Greenville] has been leading the cause to promote the tournament, and together with the efforts of Jordan Trollinger from our office, we’ve been able to put together a local organizing committee.”

That committee reached out to local businesses with special ticket offers. “They’ve done a good job of setting it up so that local businesses can buy packages that include a couple hundred tickets to the tournament, and those tickets in many cases are being turned over to youth groups in the community so we can get kids out to the tournament. We want to be a part of the community we’re playing in, and Greenville has really responded to what we’re trying to do.”

There are also a series of special events that the city and the Southern Conference have created to run in tandem with the tournament, including a $1 beer night on Thursday, a Youth

Day on Friday – when kids in sports uniforms, whether they’re baseball, soccer or basketball, get in free with a paying adult – and a salute to the armed forces during Sunday’s game.

But perhaps the most special event the Conference will hold involves children from the Shriners Hospital. “We’ll have the kids from the hospital in the ballpark on Saturday, and they’re all going to be assigned to one of our teams,” Iamarino says. “The teams have all created videos for the kids welcoming them, and the kids are all going to throw out a ceremonial first pitch before the first game on Saturday. That ought to be a very special moment.”

Perhaps one of the reasons that Greenville pulled out so many stops for this year’s tournament is that the Southern Conference might be looking to change the way they do things. “We have not committed to anything beyond 2017 yet,” Iamarino says. “And so this fall we’ll have a meeting to go over that with the schools’ athletic directors as to whether we want to continue with some type of rotation, or whether we want to look to have a more permanent site, wherever that might be.”

And what about making that permanent site Greenville? “There’s been a lot to find appealing about Greenville for this tournament,” Iamarino says. “You’re starting with a neutral field. Nobody plays their home games at Fluor, though I know that Furman and Wofford play a sprinkling of nonconference games there. The coaches like that aspect of it. It’s also a very central location. It’s

easy for a lot of our schools and fans to get there in a two- or three-hour ride.”

And let’s not forget the quality of the field itself. “It’s obviously a very unique and distinct ballpark,” Iamarino says, “one of the best in the minor leagues. So you couple the support that we’ve received from the community, the uniqueness of the ballpark, the location, and there are a lot of positives.”

All nine Southern Conference teams (including Furman University, The Citadel, Western Carolina and Wofford College) are participating in the tournament, with seeds 8 and 9 participating in a singleelimination game last Tuesday. The next rounds were double-eliminations, leading to the championship game this Sunday at 1 p.m.

For more information, visit bit.ly/socongreenville.

Vincent Harris covers music and sports for The Greenville Journal. Reach him at vharris@communityjournals. com

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Simpsonville Municipal Cemetery receives marker

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The South Carolina Archives and History Center recognized the Municipal Cemetery on Park Drive as a significant part of Simpsonville’s history by awarding it a South Carolina Historical Marker. The designation honors the cemetery as an important and educational part of local history. A dedication ceremony to commemorate the marker was held Saturday, May 21, at the cemetery. South Carolina Historical Markers mark and interpret places important to an understanding of South Carolina’s past, either as the sites of significant events or at historic properties such as buildings, sites, structures or other resources significant for their design, as examples of a type, or for their association with institutions or individuals significant to local, state or national history.

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Simpsonville Garden Club The Simpsonville Garden Club will kick of National Garden Week with “A Tour of Simpsonville Gardens” Saturday, June 4. The five beautiful gardens in Simpsonville and one in Fountain Inn will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. Tickets are $10 (cash or check only) and

can be purchased in advance from Vaughn’s Seed and Feed in Simpsonville, Martin Garden Center and Country Boy’s in Greenville. Day of tour tickets can be purchased at Garden House Inn, 302 S. Main St. and The Bragg Garden in Fox Hollow at 121 Fox Trace, Simpsonville.

Proceeds go to the beautification project in downtown Simpsonville.

For more information, email simpsonvillegardenclub@yahoo.com.

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Senior Leaders Greenville program accepting applications The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Furman is accepting applications through June 6 for its next Senior Leaders Greenville program. Launched in 2013, Senior Leaders Greenville is a program designed for adults 55 and up who want to play a more essential role in the community. The program encourages participants to become active in fostering better lives for seniors in Greenville and the Upstate. It runs August 2016 to May 2017.

Cost for the program is $350, and scholarships are available. The program is limited to 40 participants per year. For more information about Senior Leaders Greenville including application details, visit the OLLI website, or contact

Nancy Kennedy, OLLI director, at 294-2998 or nancykennedy2767@furman.edu.

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High school cheerleaders host Kiddie Cheer Kamp Cheerleaders at JL Mann High School will be holding their annual Kiddie Cheer Kamp June 13 to 16 from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the high school.

Any students age four to 14 are invited to attend.

Registration fee is $60. Participants will receive a camp T-shirt, a certificate of participation, a group photo and a daily snack/drink. For more information and a copy of the registration form, email jlmanncheerleading@gmail.com.

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County Square hosts annual Memorial Day program The County Square annual program for Memorial Day, sponsored by Greenville County Council in association with the Greenville Joint Veterans Council organizations, will take place on May 30 at 10 a.m. at 301 University Ridge, Greenville. The program will include flags and military uniforms, while honoring past, present and future military. It will also feature music from the Upstate Senior Band. Refreshments and bleacher seating will be provided.

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otorists driving down Stone Avenue might notice a new burst of color near Bennett Street, as a group of North Main area artists, college students and fifthgraders have been painting the third mural of a series of 12 to line the street.

Collaborating with the city, business community, Stone Academy, Furman University and local artists, the Stone Mural Project’s goal is to redefine the major artery’s culture by creating a new walking destination, says Stephanie Burnette, a North Main resident, who spearheaded the project.

Another new mural will come to life each spring. The first fifth-grade class at Stone Academy of Communication Arts to help with the mural project will be graduating from college in the same month the last mural is being painted by a fresh group of fifthgraders.

This year’s mural is being painted on the east side of the 1950s-era United Building, at 217 E. Stone Ave. The building’s solid bluegray color and multiple windows form the mural’s backdrop.

“The murals will add vibrancy to an already unique area of the city,” says Tracy D. Ramseur, development coordinator and staff liaison to the Arts in Public Places Commission, which helped fund the project.

“Murals not only help to revitalize areas but also they create neighborhood landmarks and encourage community pride,” Ramseur adds.

Last year, the group painted a mural on a West Earle building owned by the Earle Street Baptist Church, and, in 2014, the first mural was painted on the west side of the Rite Aid building at the intersection of North Main Street and Stone Avenue.

Inspiration from Philadelphia This year’s mural weaves a floral design with midcentury elements, including bicycle wheel flowers; lush jungle-like foliage; and bright hues of green, yellow, chartreuse, turquoise, orange and pink, says Jean Wilson Freeman, a decorative painter, who is this year’s featured mural artist and project cochair. Her son was one of the 120-plus Stone Academy students who worked on the mural recently.

The inspiration for the mural project came to Burnette during a visit to Philadelphia in the early 2000s. She had moved to the visually austere North Main area in 1998. That was before Horizon Records and the Bohemian Café, before the Universal Joint and even before The Handlebar (a musical mainstay for a decade before closing in 2014), and far before any visions of the

“I like the concept of walking in one section of town looking at public art, and I thought I’d love to have that on Stone Avenue.”

mixed-use development now being erected.

When Burnette visited Philadelphia, all North Main had was potential. Philadelphia had a similar mural project and Burnette “fell in love” with it. “I like the concept of walking in one section of town looking at public art, and I thought I’d love to have that on Stone Avenue.”

A mom with two kids attending Stone Academy, an arts magnet school, Burnette began with the concept of engaging elementary school students in creating community art. Her first funding, a seed grant, came from the Stone Academy PTA. She later received additional funding from Art in Public Places. She enlisted artists she knew through Stone Academy, including the school’s art teacher, Eric Benjamin, who designed the first mural.

The project’s talent depth has expanded to include a site manager, Rayne MacPhee, a Stone Academy grad who is a fine arts major at the College of Charleston. Furman professor Ross McClain and six Furman students have assisted with the mural as part of their “Maymester” class. “This was the partner we needed to get to the next step,” Burnette says.

“This will be our view now” This year’s mural gracing the United Building will be visible to people walking to the Universal Joint restaurant or to families walking or driving to school from Bennett Avenue and Stone.

“We sit at the Stone Avenue light, waiting to get to school, and this will be our view now,” Freeman says.

The project gives students a way to serve the community while leaving their imprint on it, notes Michelle Simpson, an artist who works with oils and is co-chairing the mural project. Simpson is scheduled to be the mural artist in 2018 when her daughter is in fifth grade at Stone Academy.

“This makes students feel important and that they’re part of something bigger than their school,” Simpson says. “It’s for the community, and it’s something that will be here forever, and so when they go off to college and return to walk by the wall they painted, they can say, ‘I did this.’”

Each spring, as another mural pops up, visitors and community folks will find them hidden around corners or between tall buildings. “People will walk down Stone Avenue and find these hidden treasures,” she says.

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Find Stone’s Murals 1 E. Stone Ave.: The mural is titled “Sunday in the Park a la Reedy River,” as a Greenville take on George Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte.” Eric Benjamin, an art teacher at Stone Academy of Communications Arts, was the mural artist. The painting depicts Falls Park and several recognizable Greenville figures, including Shoeless Joe Jackson. It was painted in the spring of 2014 and is on the west-facing wall at Rite Aid.

214 W. Stone Ave.: It’s titled “Be the Change You Want to See in the Neighborhood!” Created by Calista Bockenstette, the mural was painted in May 2015. It depicts an aquarium with vegetation, fish and a boy peering at it. The mural uses interferon paint that changes colors as people walk by, and it’s on the east-facing wall.

217 E. Stone Ave.: Based on the theme “Live Big,” the mural makes use of midcentury style flowers and vegetation growing around the long building’s many windows. The guest artist is Jean Wilson Freeman, and the mural will be completed this spring on the east-facing wall of the United Building.

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Summer library Public Education Partners (PEP) kicked off its annual Make Summer Count reading program this week at East North Street Academy. Students selected 11 books to build their home libraries, and were given PEP book bags to carry them home in.

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Richy Werenski was the winner of last week’s BMW Charity Pro-Am, part of the Web.com tour. Celebrities, musicians and fans filled Greenville’s downtowns and golf courses for the annual event.

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The James F. Daniel Jr. Post 3 of the American Legion recognized Officer Allen L. Jacobs with The American Legion 2016 Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer Award. The award was received by his wife, Meghan Jacobs. A duplicate of the award was presented to Jacobs’ parents, and a plaque of remembrance will hang in the Greenville Law Enforcement Center. On March 18, Jacobs was killed in the line of duty. The ceremony was held at the American Legion War Museum.

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CCES Girl Scouts presented the money earned through their snack sale during chapel.

SFCS students in Molly Spurgeon’s and Brooke Thompson’s classes display their historical characters in a recent wax museum project.

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CCES third grade students performed in their annual Salute to S.C. play featuring famous names and important state facts. The production highlighted South Carolina’s history, geography and culture.

SFCS third grade students were “frozen in time” during their recent wax museum presentation. Students selected famous historical figures and dressed the part – complete with detailed props and sets.

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Two student athletes receive award

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Student wins ReWa Clean Water Challenge

Justin Harms placed second, Zoe Dinkel placed fourth and Claire Lindberg placed sixth. Each student competed in the algebra 1 or geometry categories.

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Math team places first in competition The SCS eighth grade math team placed first overall at the May Invitational Math Competition. Individually, Jenny Zhang placed first,

CCES juniors Nathan James Akerhielm, Andrew Newell Allen, Sydney Patricia Baker, Zoe Dhamma Bell, Barnes Thomas Elliott, Emma Collins Grover, Austin Gunther Hayden and Jacquelyn Colleen James were inducted into the Cum Laude Society on May 18.

CCES students Anabelle deBrux, Sienna Fox, Reid Botzis and Hope Springhart show their artwork that was chosen to be on the front cover and title pages of this year’s lower school literary magazine.

The SCS athletic association presented the Walt and Libby Handford Award to Clay Anderson and Caitlyn Raber. The award is given to one male and one female athlete who strive to achieve their potential with the evidence of success in the areas such as heart (character), strength (athletics) and mind (academics).

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Feel the churn

For unique flavors, nothing beats homemade ice cream My husband recently lost a longstanding marital battle. (Subtext: I won the battle.) He surprised me with an ice cream maker after resisting for some time with the same, tired excuse – “It’s not a good idea. You’ll make ice cream every week and make us fat.”

he’d rather not pick. Regardless, he gave this expecting mama an ice cream maker for her first-ever Mother’s Day. (Nailed it.)

To be fair, his concern was justified. I like to spend hours in the kitchen, so I’m probably willing to put in the effort required to make ice cream more frequently than the average home cook. And ice cream is our dessert of choice.

Neither of us exhibit self-control when there is some in the freezer, despite our otherwise prudent diet of mostly healthy foods.

The thrill of an ice cream maker lies in making flavors that can’t be purchased (or at least can’t be found easily), and that are tailored to the creator’s individual tastes. There are some exquisite options for simple flavors like plain vanilla and plain chocolate in the supermarket.

No need to churn up anything basic. But an ice cream inspired by chocolate-covered strawberries, like this strawberry custard ice cream with chocolate fudge swirl? That’s one you’re going to have to make yourself.

So, I get it. He had respectable intentions. But then I got pregnant and he threw in the towel.

Maybe he thought the timing was ideal because mommies aren’t known for having gobs of free time for complicated recipes. Or perhaps he simply thought that telling a pregnant woman that she shouldn’t make ice cream is a battle

A custard ice cream, in case you’re wondering, is thicker and richer than traditional ice cream thanks to the addition of egg yolks in the base.

(Because why not make it richer if you have the option?) The fresh strawberries in this recipe make the flavor seasonally appropriate, while the chocolate fudge swirl ensures that the final

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product is obscenely decadent (again, why not?). Do not confuse the words “rich” and “thick” and “decadent” with “overly sweet.”

There is just enough sugar, and fortunately/ unfortunately that means that ice cream lovers can indulge in second helpings without maxing out the sugar taste buds. This is truly a recipe that invites overindulgence. My dear husband’s fears were justified, but I still won.

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Strawberry Custard Ice Cream With Chocolate Fudge Swirl 1. First, make the custard base.

2 cups heavy cream 2/3 cup sugar 1/8 tsp. fine sea salt 6 large egg yolks In a small pot, simmer cream, sugar and salt until sugar completely dissolves, about five minutes. Remove pot from heat. In a separate bowl, whisk yolks vigorously. Continue to whisk yolks constantly and slowly pour about a third of the hot cream mixture into the yolks, then whisk the yolk mixture back into the pot with the cream. Return pot to medium-low heat and gently cook, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until mixture is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon. Be careful with the heat at this step, being sure to that you don’t boil the mixture. The heat must stay medium-low.

Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl to remove any partially cooked bits of egg yolk.

Cool mixture to room temperature and set aside. (Tip: You can speed up this process by stirring frequently to let the heat escape.)

2. Make the strawberry puree.

1 pound strawberries, hulled (thaw if frozen) 3 tbsp. sugar ½ tsp. balsamic vinegar Pinch of salt Combine strawberry puree ingredients in a food processor and pulse until desired consistency.

If you want some bits of strawberry in the ice cream, just be sure that the chunks are very small or they will be overly hard once frozen.

You can also fully puree the mixture for a smoother strawberry ice cream. Your choice.

3. Combine custard base with the strawberry puree.

Stir the strawberry puree into the custard base.

Once fully cooled to room temperature, cover and chill at least 4 hours in the refrigerator (overnight is fine too).

4. Make the chocolate fudge sauce.

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 6 tbsp. sugar 1/4 cup brown sugar Pinch of salt 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/4 cup salted butter, cut into pieces 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract (NOT vanilla flavoring) In a double boiler over medium heat (meaning water is actually not boiling in “double boiler”), stir together cocoa, sugars and salt. Add the

cream and butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the butter is melted and sauce comes together and is smooth and glossy.

Bring the water in the double boiler to a boil for 1 minute, continuing to stir constantly. Remove from heat and let cool for 5 minutes. Stir in the vanilla extract. Let come to room temperature.

(Tip: If you do this while the custard is chilling, you should have plenty of time for the chocolate fudge sauce to fully cool. However, if you need to speed up the process, simply stir the chocolate fudge sauce over an ice bath until it cools. It will have to be completely cool before going into the ice cream.)

4. Make the strawberry custard ice cream.

Follow the manufacturer’s directions for your ice cream maker. This will make a soft-serve style ice cream, most likely. Soft-serve is fine, but even a slight bit milky is not. Keep churning until it’s totally frozen.

5. “Swirl” in the chocolate fudge sauce.

It’s not really a swirl. It’s actually a layering that looks like a swirl when you scoop it. Layer an inch or so of ice cream in the base of a freezer-safe dish with an airtight lid. Spoon a few dollops of fudge sauce on top of that layer (see photo), and repeat these two layers until the ice cream is used up, finishing with a layer of ice cream on top. You will need to work quickly with this step. Once the ice cream starts to melt, you risk ice crystals in the final product.

You will have more chocolate fudge sauce than you need. (Keep the leftover fudge sauce in your fridge in a jar and eat it by the spoonful. It will last two weeks or more in the fridge.)

6. Freeze the completed, swirled ice cream for a few hours or overnight.

Although it is edible as soft serve before freezing, the swirl just doesn’t hold up properly without having the chance to firm up inside the ice cream. If you absolutely cannot wait, I suggest foregoing the “swirl” and using the fudge sauce as a topping on the soft-serve strawberry custard.

Emily Yepes is an advertising representative at Community Journals and a fitness instructor at Barre Evolution and RevUp Indoor Cycling.

She is “just” a home cook whose favorite hobby is to test and perfect recipes for her annual family cookbook.

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Home Info Price: $750,000 Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 4 Lot Size: 1.04 Acres

Sq. Ft: 5200-5399 Built: 1991

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There is not a better deal to be found in this price range and location. Come to this fantastic family-friendly subdivision, convenient to all that Greenville has to offer as well as the wonderful shopping of Woodruff Road and a short ride to our international airport and downtown .This home is extremely wellbuilt and has a wonderful family floor plan including amazing an exterior space on an elevated patio that overlooks the private and large level backyard with amazing mature landscaping with an additional private garden patio that makes for an exquisite “dinner in the gardens” evening! The gourmet kitchen has a large island that creates a wonderful workspace and gathering spot.

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$550,000 STONEHAVEN $475,000

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$409,909 LANNEAU DRIVE HIGHLANDS $400,000 SUGAR MILL $392,000 BELHAVEN VILLAGE@HOLLINGSWORTH $385,235 WINDWOOD COTTAGES $382,666 FAIRWAY VIEW $375,000 GREEN VALLEY ESTATES $373,364 SUMMIT AT CHEROKEE VALLEY $371,500 FORRESTER WOODS $365,500 COURTYARDS ON W GEORGIA RD $360,000 RIVER OAKS $353,000 ASHFORD $349,750 SHELLBROOK PLANTATION $345,000 RIVER WALK $338,000 SUGAR CREEK $333,400 THE LOFTS AT MILLS MILL $322,500 COACHMAN PLANTATION $320,000 PELHAM FALLS $314,500 HOLLY TREE PLANTATION $310,000 TUSCANY FALLS $308,622 HEARTHSTONE@RIVER SHOALS $308,000 FORRESTER WOODS $307,000 VERDMONT $305,595 CARILION $305,000 MOUNTAIN MEADOWS $304,500

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GLOW LYRIC THEATRE What: “West Side Story” and “Romeo et Juliette” When: “West Side Story” Friday, July 29, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 30, 2 p.m.

Saturday, July 30, 8 p.m.

“Romeo et. Juliette” Wednesday, July 27, 8 p.m.

Sunday, July 31, 2 p.m.

Where: McAlister Auditorium at Furman University 3300 Poinsett Hwy, Greenville Tickets: Season tickets $75 (orchestra) or $55 (main floor) Regular season tickets $85 (orchestra) or $65 (main floor) Individual tickets $45 (orchestra) and $35 (main floor) Information: glowlyric.com

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South Carolina’s premier professional opera company is lighting up the stage for their sixth annual summer festival season with a combination of a musical theatre production and an opera.

The two big shows featured this year are Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and Charles Gounod’s opera “Romeo et Juliette.” GLOW general director, Christian Elser, said they will be contemporizing the stage for “Romeo et Juliette” from the 14th century to modern time, and going to “’West Side Story’-ify it a little bit.”

“It’s an election year, and there’s a lot of talk about immigration and refugees,” Elser said. “And we thought, it’s also Shakespeare’s 400th birthday, so those two synergized.” Elser said one of GLOW’s overall missions is to produce lyric theatre in response to social conflicts, he said.

With a steady growth throughout the years, GLOW is moving venues this season. The organization has held several past season performances at venues such as the

Gunter Theatre, Centre Stage and the Peace Center. However, this season they entered into a partnership with Furman University.

GLOW has moved to McAlister Auditorium at Furman. With the partnership, GLOW is taking on several apprentice artists from the university’s music and theatre departments.

Elser said they would be getting experience while performing in small roles.

Moving into the McAlister Auditorium will give the cast the ability to rehearse and perform at the same location. Elser said in the past, cast members would have a long drive to Presbyterian College in Clinton for rehearsal. “It’s nice being able to rehearse there and perform there,” he said. “We’re really excited about the partnership, which we anticipate will go on in the future. It’s a great win-win for everybody.”

The performances feature a mix of talented artists from New York, New Jersey and California, among others, as well as locals.

The shows also provide live music from a local orchestra band.

Another element of GLOW Lyric Theatre allows younger students to be a part of the

performances. This year, the GLOW Lyric Theatre opera experience camp will give rising second- to 12th-grade students the opportunity to perform in the ensemble chorus for “Romeo et Juliette.” Students will train with vocal coaches and rehearse with professional opera singers from across the country. “The educational program started out small, but it really changed some kids’ lives,” Elser said. “It’s become a major component of what we do.”

In collaboration with several Upstate organizations, GLOW is steadily growing every year, and plans are in place to move it forward. “While a small opera company, we’ve grown quickly,” Elser said. “There’s a great hunger for [opera].”

In the next five years, he said, the goal is to move toward three shows during the season instead of two and “do some serious audience development” that includes partnering with more organizations and staying active in the community.

GLOW Lyric Theatre kicks off its sixth summer festival season on July 27 at McAlister Auditorium at Furman University.

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THE SWEET SOUNDS OF SUMMER

VILLive Friday summer concert series scheduled through August VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

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Katie Hughes has a vested interest in the success of Greenville’s West Village. Yes, she wants to promote the burgeoning arts scene that’s been steadily growing in the Village for years, but there’s a more personal connection, as well.

“My mom [Julie Hughes Shabkie] has been one of the resident artists in the area since 2005,” she says. “I started getting involved with events and fundraising and music and local entertainment because I really wanted to help put the Village on the map.

For the last two years, I’ve coordinated special events for the Village, and all of the artists who are there, all the local business and residents, everyone’s coming together to make it shine.”

Local musician Darby Wilcox wanted to promote the arts on the West End, as well, specifically music. But when a venue she’d been working with reneged on a series of concert dates she’d already booked, she was in a bind, until she spoke with Hughes. The two met last year when Hughes asked Wilcox to be a part of the Block Party, an annual arts-and-music event.

“I came to Katie because Roots Smokehouse was having to take a step back with their building and I had all these bands booked,” Wilcox says. “I had everything booked from May through part of July. I couldn’t just tell all these people that this wasn’t going on anymore, because this was the first time I’d ever done something like this; I don’t want my reputation to be tainted. And Katie said, ‘Why don’t we just do a music series? We have that outdoor stage in the Village that they just built [for the 2016 edition of the Block Party], why don’t we use it?’”

And so, under the banner of Sweet Lime Productions, the pair has teamed up to present The VILLive Summer Concert Series, a 16-show weekly event on Friday nights that kicked off May 13 with Jake Erwin and will run through Aug. 26. The schedule is a mixture of Greenville favorites and acts from around the state, including Brooks Dixon, J. Michael King, Little Lesley & The Bloodshots, Jordan Igoe and She Returns From War. The bands are paid through a combination of beer and wine sales and sponsorships, including those from Community Journals, Fete Greenville, Consolidated Planning Inc. and local artist Dumah.

Hughes and Wilcox’s working partnership has so far been a smooth one, chiefly because their skill sets tend to complement each other. “I think I’m more analytical and

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she’s obviously extremely creative,” Hughes says. “My strengths are logistical and marketing related, and Darby has the musical side of things, taking care of the musicians.

That’s what I don’t know, is what the musicians need. But we both want the same outcome, which is to make a place where musicians and artists and creative culture in general can thrive.”

And when it comes to handling the musical side of things, Wilcox is able to bring her years as a performer on the Greenville music scene to bear as a booker. “It’s helpful because I know what it’s like,” she says. “I know what makes me happy when I go to play somewhere. It’s the little details, from taking care of the backstage stuff to making sure the sound is great to making sure that the artists feel that they’ve been compensated well, and that they’re appreciated. It sucks when you go places and they’re ill-prepared.”

“It’s super cliché to say it takes a village, but it does,” Hughes adds. “And everyone has stepped up. When power is needed, we have different business owners donating the power. The landowner has donated the land for us to use. All of the pieces that make up the Village, everyone wants to see it succeed, and the generosity has been ridiculous.”

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The career of The Mavericks, who will play the Peace Center’s outdoor TD Stage this Friday, can be divided into two distinct phases. The first phase found the Florida quartet, led by the gorgeous near-operatic voice and stellar songwriting of Raul Malo, becoming a hit-making country band in the early 1990s, scoring gold and platinum albums and popular singles like “What a Crying Shame,” “There Goes My Heart” and “All You Ever Do (Is Bring Me Down).” And that phase is all well and good, with plenty of great songs to recommend it. But it’s phase two, beginning with the 1998 album “Trampoline,” that will always be closest to my heart.

Put simply, “Trampoline” is an unheralded masterpiece of genre-free music, combining country, rock, Latin music, jazz, gospel and even ragtime into one joyous sunburst of a record that continues to reveal its brilliance almost 20 years down the line. It began a series of records (punctuated by occasional lengthy band hiatuses) that ignored any sort of barriers between different kinds of music and created a whole new, more adventurous fanbase for the band.

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That sense of creative restlessness endures in the Mavericks to this day and is in full display on their new album, “Mono,” which was, as its title suggests, recorded in mono instead of stereo. It’s a record that seems to leap from the speakers, particularly the heavy, almost ominously lustful first single, “All Night Long.”

“When we started the process of making the record, we were listening to some of our favorite old vinyl records like the Beach Boys,” says the Mavericks’ guitarist, Eddie Perez. “And we started kind of grooving on the vibe of those albums, those classic albums we all loved. So as we started getting further into the process, I think it was our producer Niko Bolas who suggested we do it in mono. At the time it was something we thought he was joking about, but it ended being something that Raul felt we had to do. So we went with it.”

Perez says that it was fascinating watching the album’s sound being shaped in the studio.

“From an engineering point of view, you have to know how to place each instrument within the sonic landscape so that everything is heard,” he says. “It was a pretty crazy process to see that being done as we were developing it.”

The album has garnered a lot of attention both critically and commercially, and Perez says the band is grateful for the renewed attention. “It’s a crazy thing to have a moment again where there are people coming to us and discovering us for the first time,” he says. “And they’re discovering us from these last two albums that we put out on the Big Machine label group [“Mono” and 2013’s “In Time”]. It’s certainly renewed our spirits about what we do.”

As for the band’s current set, which can run over 2 1/2 hours, depending on their mood, Perez says they try to mix new and old material to please their fans and themselves. “What we’re really trying to do is play everything from the catalog that has grooved us from time to time,” he says.

“There are some nights we go all the way back to the first record in 1990. And then there are some nights we just play the last two records.

It’s always a collection of music designed to hopefully conjure up a lot of great joyous moments for people. And people seem to really respond to it.”

An Evening with The Mavericks When: Friday, May 27, 8 p.m.

Where: TD Stage, 300 S. Main St. Info: 467-3000; peacecenter.org

Vincent Harris covers music and sports for The Greenville Journal.

Reach him at vharris@communityjournals.com.

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An appreciation of Kurosawa Last week I wrote about my favorite Swedish director, Ingmar Bergman. This week I’m writing about my favorite Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese all consider Kurosawa to be one of their major influences.

Scorsese actually appears in Kurosawa’s film “Dreams,” playing Vincent Van Gogh. For the original “Star Wars” film, “A New Hope,” Lucas lifted much of the storyline from Kurosawa’s “Hidden Fortress.”

The following Kurosawa films are all available at the Greenville County Library.

“STRAY DOG” 1948 Social norms are a bit different in Japan, where fewer than 10 people a year are killed by firearms, than they are here in the United States. This film is about a police detective whose gun is stolen, so he has to track it down and deal with the shame of finding it’s been used to commit a crime.

“RASHOMON” 1950 Rashomon is the name of a gate to the city of Kyoto.

The first scene takes place at the gate as a man is telling two other men about a terrible crime that occurred. From there, the film is told in various flashbacks and narrated by different people who witnessed the crime. The details vary from one person to the next so in the end it is difficult to know what is true. Today when a crime occurs and contradictory testimony is offered, it is sometimes referred to as the “Rashomon effect.”

“SEVEN SAMURAI” 1954 This film takes place in 16th century Japan. It

involves a group of villagers who hire seven Ronin (samurai without a master) to battle bandits who are stealing the villagers’ crops. The film was later remade in Hollywood and titled “The Magnificent Seven.”

“THRONE OF BLOOD” 1957 “Throne of Blood” is Kurosawa’s adaptation of “Macbeth.” It takes place in feudal Japan with Samurai warriors. Much of the film was shot on Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain.

“HIGH AND LOW” 1963 Many of Kurosawa’s films involve samurai and take place in the past. “High and Low” is a bit different, because it is a crime genre set in present time — the present being 1963. The film is about an executive whose son has been kidnapped. At one point Chris Rock was slated to rewrite the film for a Hollywood remake directed by Mike Nichols, but Nichols passed away, and the film was never remade.

All of these films star a brilliant actor named Toshiro Mifune. Mifune appeared almost exclusively in Japanese films, but he was also an actor in the mini-series “Shogun” as well as in Steven Spielberg’s “1941.”

Eric Rogers has been teaching filmmaking at The Greenville Fine Arts Center since 1994.

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CULTURE Sound Bites ADAM KNIGHT TRIO WXYZ Bar @ ALOFT, 5 N. Laurens St., Greenville Friday, May 27, 7 p.m.

Free Guitarist Adam Knight’s typical gigs are with his jazz-funk band Earsight, but he likes to take a little more straightforward approach now and then. “I went to school for jazz, both undergrad and grad school,” he says. “I teach it and perform it; it’s just sort of one of the more straightahead aspects of what I do.” That’s why he likes to moonlight every once in a while with the Adam Knight Trio (which also includes bassist Ethan Burkhardt and drummer Lex Nordlinger), playing swing, bebop bossa nova and the occasional blues number. “It’s about honoring the tradition of what I do,” Knight says. “I try to keep those gigs on the books because they’re challenging for me and they keep me on my toes. There are so many tunes you can learn, and it’s some of the best music that’s ever been written. So I want to continue to do that. I think it makes me a better player.”

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The band came together when bassist Joel Walter and drummer Sheldon Bird, who were already working together on a project, saw Woodruff performing at Smiley’s Acoustic Café’s open mic night. “After they saw me perform, they asked me to play with them,” Woodruff says. “We started jamming and went from there.” Woodruff says that the band’s trio lineup suits them best both for songwriting and practical reasons. “It’s good for us,” he says. It’s a lot easier to write and schedule practices and keep everybody on the same page.”

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The Burlington, Vt., sextet Gang of Thieves is a machine on stage. Blending funky rhythms with rock guitar riffs, R&B horns and an experimental jam-band streak, the group has a high standard for their live shows. “We always say that we’re all in,” says guitarist Nick Wood.

“This is what we do, and this is all we want to do. To put in anything less than everything we could possibly give it almost seems disrespectful to the people that are watching the show.”

That sense of onstage dedication is what the band is trying to bring to their new, as-yetuntitled album, which they’ve just finished recording with noted producer and musician Steve Jankowski (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chicago). “We’ve actually worked with Steve in the past,” says trombone player Nate Relt. “But getting to go in there as the band we are now, it was really special. We’re really excited about the way the album came out.”

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Roaring ’20s inspire author Amber Brock Furman grad sets debut novel in ‘the adolescence of America’ CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Furman graduate Amber Brock has always connected with the 1920s, a time she calls the adolescence of America.

“We were coming out of a war and were a nation struggling to find out what kind of nation it wanted to be. You really see a nation struggling to define itself,” said Brock, who graduated from Furman in 2002 with a Spanish degree and two classes short of a double major in English.

Brock’s debut novel, released earlier this month by Crown Publishing Group, tells the story of Vera Bellington, a married but restless woman ingrained in New York City’s high society in the 1920s. Her life of charity balls and endless cocktail parties becomes complicated after an artist from Europe arrives to paint a mural in her building, Park Avenue’s most prominent.

Brock, who grew up in Spartanburg, will conduct a book talk and signing at Fiction Addiction on June 4 at 2 p.m. She has an appearance at Hub City Bookstore in Spartanburg two days earlier at 7 p.m.

She said the idea for “A Fine Imitation” came from a dream she had about a woman in a high-rise apartment and a man painting a mural in the basement of her

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building.

“I sensed the strongest connection between the man and the woman, and I woke up with ‘On the Street Where You Live’ from ‘My Fair Lady’ playing in my head,” she said in a phone interview. “That song is such a beautiful expression of a kind of hopeless infatuation that most people only feel once in a lifetime – the kind of magnetic attraction that makes even the street where the loved one lives a magical place.”

Brock set the story in the 1920s, an era that has fascinated her since she was in middle school and read the “Time-Life” series on the decade at the library.

“America was fighting itself in so many ways during that period,” she said. “It seemed like an appropriate time for a woman to question the antiquated values imposed on her by her class and status.”

Brock said the beautiful aesthetics of the 1920s didn’t hurt, either.

In addition to having to research the 1920s, Brock had to research art, too, since the main character in the book was an art expert and collector. Brock said she came to appreciate art herself later in life after she had to research for a unit about art in a high school Spanish class she was teaching.

“I hope people get the message of the transformative power of art,” she said. “Art can be a release, a way to express emotions, a way to connect emotionally with others in real ways.”

Book talk and signing Who: Amber Brock, Furman University graduate and author of “A Fine Imitation.”

When: June 4, 2 p.m.

Where: Fiction Addiction, Greenville Nina Parker

CONCERT

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The Mavericks

Fountain Inn Natural Gas Friday Night Bandstand

TD Stage 300 S. Main St.

Tickets: $35-$50 Beloved country band hits the Upstate, led by powerhouse vocalist Raul Malo.

467-3000 peacecenter.org/events/td-stage-summernights

Cost: Free, but RSVPs are requested to fiction-addiction.com. “A Fine Imitation” will be available for sale.

Commerce Park 200 Depot St., Fountain Inn

purchase with ID; snacks and soft drinks also available. Visit fountaininn.org for a complete schedule of performers.

409-1050 fountaininn.org cheryl.pelicano@fountaininn.org

7-9 p.m.

Fridays thru Aug. 12

CONCERT

FREE Bring a chair and come hear some great music at the Farmers Market Pavilion at Commerce Park in Fountain Inn. Beer and wine available for

Solaire w/ Bobby Meader & Sweat Lodge Soundbox Tavern 507 W. Georgia Road, Simpsonville

Raucous, fuzz-coated garage rock.

228-7763

CONCERT

Eric Weiler Band Smiley’s Acoustic Café 111 Augusta St., Greenville Free Dazzling blues guitarist leads a versatile combo.

282-8988 smileysacousticcafe.com

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Gallabrae - Greenville Scottish Games May 27-28 Parade: Main Street, downtown Greenville, 6 p.m. Friday, May 27 • free Games: Furman University, Saturday, May 28 Gates open at 8:30 a.m.

Opening Ceremonies at 9 a.m.

Military Tribute at 11:30 a.m.

Greatest Scottish Happy Hour & Celtic Jam at 5:30 p.m.

Games Tickets: $20 adult, $10 children 6-12 Info: gallabrae.com Craig Lee / contributing

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Legacy Charter School Commencement Exercises Legacy Charter School Parker Campus Gymnasium 900 Woodside Ave. 6-8 p.m.

Free Legacy Early College High School’s graduation ceremony legacycharter.org

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Story Time and More: Animal Adventures Sneak Peek

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 10 and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Free with admission This week we will read “Harry the Dirty Dog” as we celebrate the four-legged friends in our lives. We will make a “Harry the Dirty Dog” puppet to take home. tcmupstate.org

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28

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Free Lowrance Sonar Class

pick-up) and $10 for the kid’s run. book-events.com/takeflight5k/ LaraLKaufmann@gmail.com

Cabela’s | 1025 Woodruff Rd. Ste. H101

CONCERT

2-3 p.m.

Matthew Church w/ The Things They Carried

FREE Lowrance Pro Staff, Ken Sturdivant will teach a free sonar class. This class will walk you through the basic steps of setting up your device to navigating its features. Class is limited to the first 30 participants. Call to register. If this class is in high demand, another time slot will open.

516-8100 | cabelas.com

Ground Zero | 3052 Howard St., Spartanburg

HEALTH/FITNESS

Rosemarys Boomerang w/ WPOS

Take Flight 5k to raise money for Runway Park Grenville Downtown Airport Runway Park at GMU | 21 Airport Road Ext. 8 a.m.

Random “door” prizes. The 5k is at 8:30 a.m. with the kid’s run at 9:15 a.m. Run or walk down a Greenville Downtown Airport runway.

Participants of all ages will taxi to the runway to be cleared for takeoff. Registration is $25 until May 26 ($30 after that); $20 for active military/ veteran (proof of service required at packet

Tickets: $10 Alt-rock singer/guitarist.

948-1661 reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2

CONCERT

IPA Rutherford Road | 110 Poinsett Hwy. 8:30-11:30 p.m. | $5 Rock with WPOS on at 8:30 p.m. with Rosemarys Boomerang on at 10 p.m. kevinlatham2015@gmail.com

CONCERT

The Greenville Scottish Games anchor Gallabrae, a massive celebration of all things Scottish. A wide range of activities brings the best of Scotland and the region’s rich Southern heritage together. For more, see our guest column on page 6.

Tickets: $5 (plus $10 food/drink minimum) Veteran bassist leads versatile jazz-soul combo.

242-2583 bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com

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28 & 29

FAMILY

Fun and Games Opens

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. Saturday, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.

Free with admission Join us this weekend to play some childhood games with our TCMU programming team and explore our newest exhibit. tcmupstate.org

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Off the Wall: Game-Inspired Art

Soul Ripple

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St.

Blues Boulevard (Greenville) 300 River St., Ste. 203

Create game-inspired art in Off the Wall

2-4 p.m. | Free with admission

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this week as we gear up for the opening of Fun and Games. tcmupstate.org

ARTS EVENT

eclipse 2 sculpture

by Leah Cabinum Greenville Technical College Riverworks Gallery 300 River St., Suite 202 1-5 p.m. | Wednesday-Sunday FREE The word eclipse references the lunar-solar cycles that through the calendar and clock, have come the universal measurement of the cycle of our lives,” says Leah Cabinum in speaking of her exhibition “eclipse 2.” “The works in this exhibition are intended to mimic life’s cyclical nature through an active exploitation of materials.” In “eclipse 2,” she is exploiting bicycle tire inner tube and repurposing them as if they are the elegant draping folds of fine fabric.

201-5683 gvltec.edu/dva fleming.markel@gvltec.edu

THEATER PRODUCTION

Les Liaisons Dangereuses The Warehouse Theatre 37 Augusta St. 8 p.m. $30 general admission, $35 reserved When two Parisian aristocrats grow bored with their days, they enter into a lethal game of seduction and betrayal. When the Marquise de Merteuil challenges her ex-lover Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he develops a fascination with a virtuous married woman as well. As the pawns in their game engage, the consequences prove to be deadly.

235-6948 warehousetheatre.com jason@warehousetheatre.com

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Flags of Our Fathers

Greenville County Square 301 University Ridge 10 a.m.

Free The program will include the flags and military uniforms of our nation’s history while honoring our military past, present and future. Music by the Upstate Senior Band. Refreshments provided. Bleacher seating provided, or bring your own chair. This program is conducted by the Veterans Council Membership.

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30-04

FAMILY

Story Time and More: Fun in the Sun

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Let’s celebrate summer vacation by learning about our favorite star, the sun. We will read books, sing songs and make a bright and beautiful sun to take home. Free with admission. tmupstate.org

MON-JUN

30-12

FAMILY

Open Art Studios: Scent Painting

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 1-4 p.m.

Use all your senses in this week’s painting experience in Off the Wall. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

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FAMILY

Random Acts of Science: Science of JENGA

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. | Wednesdays-Sundays What does it take to build a tall tower? Join us at designated times to play and learn in Fun and Games as we see what makes a tower balance.

Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

THU

02

CONCERT

Home By Dark

Peace Center, Gunter Theatre 300 S. Main St. 7:30 p.m. | $35

COMMUNITY MEETING

Pickleball

Taylors Rec Center Gymnasium | 200 W. Main St., Taylors Wednesdays | 9-11 a.m.

Tuesdays | 6:30-8:30 p.m.

FREE Pickleball is a paddle sport created for all ages and skill levels. The rules are simple and the game is easy for beginners to learn, but can develop into a quick, fast-paced, competitive game for experienced players.

292-4060 | darylh@taylorsfbc.org taylorsfbc.org/reach/taylors-rec/events/

Free Les Hicken and guests present outdoor concerts: June 2, Kings, Queens, and Royal Things; June 9, Music from Far and Away; June 16, Contemporary Jazz; June 23, Rhapsody in Blue (McAlister Auditorium); June 30, For Amber Waves of Grain; July 7, The West End Brass Quintet; July 14, Bluegrass Night; July 21, The Magic Kingdom; July 28, An Evening with Henry Mancini and Aug. 4, Greenville Jazz Collective.

294-2086 FurmanMusic@furman.edu news.furman.edu/2016/04/18/music-by-thelake-summer-concert-series/

THU-SEP

02-29

FAMILY

GHS Fountain Inn Farmers Market

Greenville Hospital System Fountain Inn Farmers Market is a yearly event in downtown Fountain Inn. Thursday evenings, come buy some produce and see the vendors, then stop in at some of the shops on Main Street, or grab dinner at one of our great restaurants. There’s lots to see in Fountain Inn. 363-0345 fountaininn.org market.manager@fountaininn.org

Free

31&1

7:30-9 p.m. | Thursdays through Aug. 4

FREE

6:30-8:30 p.m.

HEALTH/FITNESS

Furman University | Amphitheater 3300 Poinsett Hwy

4-8 p.m. | Thursdays

Hughes Public Library 25 Heritage Green Place

TUE & JUN

Furman Presents Lakeside Concert Series Every Thursday at Amphitheater

Commerce Park 200 Depot St., Fountain Inn

Forum: 2016 Primary Candidates for Greenville County Legislative Offices

The Greenville Branch of the NAACP, Freedom Fighters Upstate SC, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Greenville(SC) Alumnae Chapter and the Greenville County League of Women Voters have partnered to hold a public forum for the 13 candidates running in the primary June 14 for the legislature for Greenville County.

354-2512 patrick.prince1971@gmail.com

CONCERT

Home By Dark takes a step back from the popmainstream to celebrate the songwriters behind the chart-topping hits. Founded and hosted by songwriter James Casto, Home By Dark pairs the best writers in the world with expert instrumentalists in this musical journey through multiple stylings and genres, proving once and for all that a song can truly change your life. Performing in the Peace Center concert will be Tony Arata, Michael Logen and Emily Shackelton.

467-3000 | peacecenter.org boxoffice@peacecenter.org

CONCERT

Josh Roberts & The Hinges Downtown Alive Free NOMA Square, Main St Rising Americana rock band. bit.ly/downtown-alive

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Nathan Angelo

Greenville Heritage FCU Main St. Fridays NOMA Square Free Singer/keyboardist creates infectiously melodic pop songs. bit.ly/greenville-main-street-fridays

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Lynne Holcombe Gottrocks 200 Eisenhower Dr. Quirky, banjo-driven experimental folk.

235-5519 gottrocksgreenville.com

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Grown-Ups Only Night: Flashback Friday The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 6-9 p.m. $10 in advance/$12 at the door This Grown-Ups-Only Night is all about the ’90s.

Come out and enjoy a Flashback Friday full of ’90s-themed activities, music and entertainment, with a cash bar by Liquid Catering. Ages 21 and up only. tcmupstate.org

FRI-FRI

03-24

FAMILY

Fantastic Fridays: Board Game Makers

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 10-11 a.m. | Fridays Children will have opportunities to design their own games in Creation Station with the help of staff. Some Board Game MAKER days will take place outside where children can use chalk and other mediums to create a new game. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

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Harry Connick, Jr. Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St.

8 p.m. | $65-$105

Be Me,” it’s easy to see why Connick is ranked amongst the top male artists in the world. He’s won three Grammys, two Emmys, and has received two Tony Award nominations.

467-3000 | peacecenter.org boxoffice@peacecenter.org

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Archer Vs. Gunman w/ Pony League & Great Yankees Radio Room | 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive Crunchy Upstate alt-rock quartet.

263-7868 | radioroomgreenville.com

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Dolly Parton Peace Center | 300 S. Main St.

7:30 p.m. $100-$500

Guitar rock-electronic music hybrid.

552-1265 | ipagreenville.com

An internationally renowned superstar, the iconic and irrepressible Dolly Parton has contributed countless treasures to the world of entertainment. All-inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits collections, paid digital downloads and compilation usage during her illustrious career have topped a staggering 100 million records worldwide.

467-3000 | peacecenter.org boxoffice@peacecenter.org

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CONCERT

SALES Independent Public Ale House 110 Poinsett Hwy. Tickets: $8-$10

A Tour of Simpsonville Gardens featuring five beautiful gardens

26th Annual Cancer Survivors Day Celebration Embassy Suites Ballroom | 670 Verdae Blvd.

Simpsonville

2-4 p.m.

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

Free

Advance tickets can be purchased at Vaughn’s Seed and Feed at 109 Trade St. Simpsonville, or Martin Garden Center at 198 Martin Road, Mauldin. Day of tour tickets can be purchased at Garden House Inn at 302 S. Main St. Simpsonville or The Bragg Garden at 121 Fox Trace, Simpsonville. Exception one garden in Fountain Inn. 688-2356 | simpsonvillegardenclub.com jkm43066@yahoo.com

Sunday, June 5, is National Cancer Survivors Day, a celebration for those who have survived, an inspiration for those recently diagnosed, a gathering of support for families, and an outreach to the community. Join CSPA and the Upstate Cancer Networks for the 26th annual celebration of survivors. Celebrate your survivorship with food, fun, friends and festivities.Register at CancerSurvivorsPark.org/cancersurvivorsday.

255-5010 | cancersurvivorspark.org kay@cancersurvivorspark.org

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Weekend Programs: Game Invention

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Join us in Creation Station this weekend as we explore the process of designing a game. Get your ideas started in our Fun and Games exhibit, and join us at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday or 2 p.m. Sunday to expand your ideas with our educators on staff. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

THU-AUG Harry Connick, Jr. is a pianist, vocalist, composer, writer, band leader, actor, philanthropist and master of multiple music genres. With a daytime TV show on its way, multiple other television appearances, major movie roles and the release of his new album, “That Would

Upstate. Bring a chair. Visit fountaininn.org for the full list of scheduled performers.

363-0345 fountaininn.org cheryl.pelicano@fountaininn.org

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Depot PickInn

Commerce Park 200 Depot St., Fountain Inn 7-9 p.m. | Saturdays FREE The only free weekly bluegrass festival in the

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Furman Accepting Applications for Senior Leaders Greenville

Furman University | Herring Center 3300 Poinsett Hwy. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | $350 The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Furman is accepting applications through June 6 for Senior Leaders Greenville. Limited to 40 participants, the program is designed for adults 55 and up who want to play a more essential role in the community. Cost for the program is $350, which covers nine day-long education sessions Sept.-May; activists and community leaders; lunch each day; orientation and graduation events; and class materials. Scholarships are available.

294-2998 | nancykennedy2767@furman.edu furman.edu/sites/OLLI/Senior-LeadersGreenville/Pages/default.aspx

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Candidates’ Forum State Senate District 6

The Event Center at ZEN | 924 S. Main St. 6:30-8 p.m.

Free The Greenville Tea Party will sponsor a “Candidates’ Forum” for the office of state senator, District 6. 106.3/WORD radio personalities Bob McLain and Tara Servatius will moderate. The format will allow each participating candidate to make remarks and answer prepared questions from the moderators and spontaneous questions from the audience.

283-6195 | greenvilleteaparty.com ron.tamaccio.gtp@gmail.com

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The Explorers Club Scavenger Hunt

Downtown Greenville | Main Street noon Free In honor of The Explorers Club, Centre Stage is teaming up with Greenville360 for a Downtown Scavenger Hunt. At noon, we will provide clues to several locations on Main Street. Each location on the hunt will give you a free goodie or coupon. Compete alone or a Team of 2. Everyone gets Free tickets to Centre Stage and free wine/beer at the final restaurant. There will be a grand prize winner. It’s free to register. Email Allison.fields@centrestage.org.

233-6733 | centrestage.org

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Learn to Play Appalachian Music

Trinity UMC | 2703 Augusta St. Thursdays | $60 for six weeks of lessons All ages can learn to play the banjo, guitar, fiddle or mandolin. Join the fun. Registration is now open for the Evening Music Program which begins June 16. These lessons are open to students third grade through adults of all ages. The fee is $60 for 6 weeks of lessons. Rental instruments are available. Register now by contacting Susan Ware-Snow. This program supports the nonprofit: Preserving Our Southern Appalachian Music.

979-9188 yamupstate.com susu9196@gmail.com

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Recreational mathematics By Frank Longo ACROSS 1 Sovereign 9 “And on and on and on”: Abbr.

15 Like saltines 20 Fit to send via the postal service 21 Old-time comedian Russell 22 Designer Oscar de la — 23 Olive Oyl’s guy, to a math lover?

25 Hall’s partner in music 26 Chicken — 27 “Have — a deal for you!”

28 Increases, as debt 30 2011-15 speaker of the House 34 Huge grin, to a math lover?

38 Meditative discipline 39 “Oh really? — who?!”

41 Old Carl Sagan series 42 Guitarist Nugent 43 Layer with a “hole” in it 45 Hand lender 48 Narrow coastal inlet 49 R.E. Lee’s org.

52 Male Oscar category, to a math lover?

58 Cry audibly 59 Sir — Newton 60 One like the previous one 62 Suffix with leopard

65 Will subject 67 Lump of mayo, e.g.

69 Harsh in tone 70 “Les Misérables” author, to a math lover?

73 More done than “bloody,” to a math lover?

75 Pretty up 76 Mimic 77 Ballpark bite 78 Casual greetings 79 Cry upon arriving 81 Air, as an oldie 82 Wallach of “The Misfits” 85 Spinning measure, to a math lover?

92 — while 93 Extra NBA periods 94 Petrol station name 95 “— Marner” 96 Stick on 99 Reporter, informally 102 South, south of the border 104 Tetra- + five 105 Protective spirit, to a math lover?

110 Motoring TV series 112 No fewer than 113 Burglarizes 115 Jerry’s uncle on “Seinfeld” 116 Certain floor specialist 117 1950 black-comedy film noir, to a math lover?

125 Lift with effort 126 Motionless 127 Talked nonsense 128 Pack-toting animals 129 Carmelite nun 130 Vampire novelist DOWN 1 Mini-demon 2 — Zedong 3 Domino spot 4 Pachyderms 5 Silky fabric 6 Alpine goats 7 Height stat 8 Utah City near Provo 9 Belgian artist James 10 Big name in breath mints 11 Tax doc. pro 12 U.S. aliens’ subj.

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114 Mixer choice 98 City in Texas 35 Classical column style 118 Aztec cousin 100 Annoys a lot 36 “The ball — your court” 119 “I’m cold!”

101 Way to leave 37 Hi-tech ’zine 120 View 103 Arrive, as fog 40 “Hush!”

121 It may dispense 106 Christopher of 44 Tijuana “that” 13-Down “Superman” 46 Prescription measure 122 Old ring king 107 Ventures 47 Lyric Muse 123 Abbr. on a camcorder 108 Bunch of, informally 50 Derision 124 HST follower 109 Diminish 51 Floral oil 111 Annoy 53 Rival of Lyft Crossword answers: page 7 54 — kwon do 55 One-named Italian model

by Myles Mellor and Susan Flannigan 56 “Hey, I was thinking ...”

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88 Beat big-time 89 Balm plant 90 Mama’s ma 91 Old overlord 96 Christie of mystery Sudoku answers: page 7 Medium 97 Import taxes

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Life Without Parole by Christopher Myers

The problem

What’s worse: the candidates, the voters or the media? Why choose?

Amorphophallus titanum, aka titan arum, is native to the rainforests of Sumatra. Ten feet tall, its flower emits the combined odors of Limburger cheese, sweat socks, rotting fish, Chloraseptic and human feces. Dung beetles, flesh flies and sweat bees are attracted to the smell. It flowers an average of once every four years.

In other news, there’s a presidential election this year, an event dictated by the Constitution, a document accorded the respect of a Kardashian wedding certificate by those who swear to uphold it and twisted beyond recognition by nine lawyers, none of whom you’d trust to keep a goldfish alive.

They say this is democracy in action, a chance for the American people to choose the leader of the free world. Wig lice. The election, like the college football season, exists for only two reasons: to satisfy those who crave competition, no matter how meaningless, and to remind the rest of us that Iowa (home of corn subsidies and caucuses, both of which produce low-quality gas) is still part of the country.

One year before the election, anchorettes and male models with alliterative names are taken out of storage by the networks, propped behind desks and fed a diet of designer water and hairdo compliments. No one has to tell them to read slowly.

Candidates – equal parts outrage, sincerity and lapel pins – tell us how hardworking we are, even as they promise to pay people who aren’t working. They crisscross the country, eating rubber chicken with relish (the only way to get it down), watching the polls and debating the difference between a flip-flop and a pivot.

Candidates need something to run against, an evil beyond all others, something worse than Stalin or the Borg, worse even than Eddie Haskell. Voters (like people but without the brains) will never get off the couch to vote for anything; but they’ll stand in a hailstorm to vote against whatever they’re told by such real-world philosophers as Bruce Springsteen and Whoopi Goldberg. The public knows there’s a reason they have an average of only three televisions, two cars, four cellphones and one beer belly.

The media are all about this thing. It’s what sells commercials. Let’s call it “The Problem With America.” They – reporters, candidates, pollsters, website administrators, advisors, strategists and others your mother would

tell you to wash your hands after being with – spend cornucopias of energy and money talking about TPWA. The energy is theirs. The money? Don’t be silly.

Candidates – equal parts outrage, sincerity and lapel pins Perennial TPWAs include: racism, the debt, health care, racism, poverty, trade, racism, pollution, energy and racism. Other TWPAs – free silver, free trade, Free Willy, ethylene, waterboarding, Watergate, China, Charlie Chaplin, TV violence, LSD and the leisure suit – have occasionally grabbed the spotlight.

When thinking was truly diverse, America had more than one TPWA at a time (witness the H-bomb and Mamie Pink); this was in the heady days when we had two political parties.

Now we have groupthink spread by tweet and post. Consequently, we have one TPWA. It was born in the 1930s, watered with envy for decades, and now blossoms like titan arum.

It reached full stench at Occupy Wall Street.

Pols and other microphone-monkeys rail, either directly or indirectly, against it. It is, with apologies to Sauron in “The Lord of the Rings” (aka “The Problem With Middle Earth”), One Plague to identify, One Plague selected, One Plague to decry . . . and thus to get elected.

Who presents the question but not the answer? What kind of person offers a deceptive cadence without resolution? Who tells people to wait for the next column?

Christopher Myers is that kind of person. He can be chastised at cbmyers32004@ yahoo.com.

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