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Greenville Drive announces $10M renovation for Fluor Field ANDREW MOORE | STAFF

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Fluor Field is getting a serious facelift.

The Greenville Drive announced a $10 million renovation project for the downtown baseball stadium on Wednesday afternoon.

“The Drive’s mission has been to consistently deliver a top-quality fan experience — that ranges from stadium cleanliness, family-affordable entertainment and strong engagement with the community,” said Greenville Drive owner Craig Brown.

The Drive, a Class A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, plans to relocate its front offices to the second floor of The Field House at West End, condos located behind Fluor Field. The old office space will become a 2,500-squarefoot lounge area for Drive ticket plan holders. Ticket plan holders will be able to purchase an upgrade that includes food and beverages. It will accommodate 70 people.

Also, the Drive plans to add a marquee sign, bathrooms, food and beverage stations and an awning on the roof of The Field House. It will accommodate 75 people and will be accessible via an elevator on the ground floor of The Field House.

Other additions include:

• 100 seats on top of the left-field Green Monster wall, a replica of the similar wall in Boston’s Fenway Park. The seats will be accessible via a bridge connecting The Field House and the Green Monster.

• An upper deck lounge on the stadium’s third base side. The 3,700-square-foot space will accommodate 200 people.

• A statue, ticket pick-up area and marquee sign at the South Main Street entrance.

• A marquee sign at the Field Street entrance.

• A roll-up door on the backside of the team store.

“Our goal was to maintain and enhance what we already have versus trying to change it. We wanted to preserve what everyone loves about Fluor Field,” Brown said.

The City of Greenville has committed $5 million to the project. The city is using money from hospitality taxes and fees from Sunday alcohol sales permits. The city committed $1.9 million from the upcoming budget year to the project.

That includes $1.25 million in hospitality tax money and $650,000 in fees for Sunday alcohol sale permits. In the following three years, the city plans to allocate $2.3 million in hospitality tax money and $750,000 in fees for Sunday alcohol sale permits.

“There’s no denying the cumulative Greenville Drive owner Craig Brown unveils the strength of the City of Greenville and planned renovations to Fluor Field. the Drive. Fluor Field has been a driving force for the revitalization of Greenville’s In January, the Drive’s player developaward-winning downtown and the rebirth of ment contract with the Boston Red Sox was its Historic West End,” Mayor Knox White extended through 2020. In March, the Drive said. installed a high-definition scoreboard called The Drive started planning the additions “DriveVision” and a redesigned audio sysin January 2015 as it celebrated its 10th antem with more directional speakers. niversary, according to Brown. The Drive The Drive also partnered with Greenville’s filed designs to the city in June. The city was The Iron Yard to rename its “500 Club” to set to review those plans on Thursday. The “The Iron Yard 500 Club.” The partnership project is expected to begin sometime in also brought about multiple upgrades to the September and end in early 2017 before the club, including better graphics, a roof extennext season begins. sion and new furniture.

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OPINION Views from your community

Greenville grows artists at the Fine Arts Center IN MY OWN WORDS

I walked into the Fine Arts Center for the first time and encountered a massive wooden sculpture. Twelve feet of Honduras mahogany reached to the second-floor atrium in the elegance and unity of ballet dancers with arms stretched overhead.

I was in a special place.

New to Greenville, I am awed by the amount of culture that permeates this city. I have tasted art and theater at Artisphere, listened to music under the stars at Furman’s Music

while next door Eric Benjamin showed middle school students how to paint a dragon. Yoshiko Moon taught origami one day and Japanese printmaking the next. Students played guitar or snare drums for the first time, sculpted clay, created collages, practiced ballet and modern dance, dripped paint on paper, learned new music and dance rhythms and improvised skits.

Maybe, like me, you participated in an arts camp as a kid.

But I wonder if there are many venues that can top the beauty and resources of the Fine Arts Center.

In some ways, it’s like attending a camp in a museum.

Every day the 200 participants passed the school’s art col-

equipment that the adult and high school students in metals class used.

One family made Explore the Arts history this year.

Grandmother Audrey Sheets took collage classes with her daughter, Monica Gibson. In other parts of the school, her granddaughter, rising first-grader Katie Gibson, enjoyed painting on canvas and musical theater classes.

“We’re on a journey to bond over art,” Sheets said.

This family is a tribute to the language of art, which crosses generational boundaries.

My mother painted with oils, acrylics and pastels. I am a writer. We often talked about how we each had our own art,

by the Lake, participated in the release of Emrys 33rd journal, and took two young friends to see Mary Poppins at the Greenville Little Theater.

Not only are there more cultural events than I have time to attend, I am equally impressed at the attention given to arts education in many local schools.

Recently I volunteered for Explore the Arts, a camp for children and adults that uses the facilities of the Fine Arts Center. Begun more than 20 years ago with the purpose of exposing children to a wide variety of art modalities, the camp offered classes on everything from ballet to creative writing — and lots in between.

A local artist who is passionate about his or her craft teaches each class. I witnessed opera star Kimilee Bryant create a safe place for her Broadway bound fourth- and fifth-graders,

lection on their way to class. I was excited to recognize two beautiful glass sculptures by Valerie and Rich Beck. Hanging in juxtaposition to one another was a quilt from Georgia, a wax dye indigo quilt from Mali and a sequined quilt from India. A handmade Persian silk scarf that would look great on a giant decorated another wall. I’ve seen Zan Wells’s famous mice sculptures downtown, but was awed by her “Red Sail” sculpture. Equally impressive was a lithograph by internationally acclaimed artist Robert Rauschenberg.

Daily, Explore the Arts students were surrounded by art to inspire their own creations. And when they got to class, their classrooms were equipped with every type of tool imaginable. Beyond the “normal” supplies of canvas, easels, paint and clay, instructors had access to the black box theater, recital hall, ceramics room and dance studio. I was very impressed with the kilns, soldering stations and welding

yet it would have been wonderful to take a class together with her and one of my children. But it’s not too late to convey my love for art to my grandchildren. Perhaps next year I’ll try my hand at canvas painting and sign one of my grandchildren up for drums & shakers and plaster banks & spin art.

Why not? Greenville grows artists.

Including me.

By Carol Baldwin

Carol Baldwin, author of “Teaching the Story: Fiction Writing in Grades 4-8,” blogs at carolbaldwinblog.blogspot.com.

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Knowledge is (girl) power GE holds STEM camp for 28 middle-school girls at CU-ICAR ANDREW MOORE | STAFF

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Lola Burrell is part of a budding group of female students interested in the world of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The seventh-grader from Northwest Middle School dreams of being an architectural engineer when she grows up.

General Electric is feeding that dream.

Last week, 28 middle-school-age girls from Greenville County, including Burrell, visited Greenville’s Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CUICAR) to learn how to design wind turbines and build miniature solar cars.

The challenges are part of GE Girls, General Electric’s camp for female middle-school students. Started in 2011, the free weeklong program introduces female students to STEM concepts through hands-on activities.

Each year, multiple GE sites nationwide are chosen to participate in the program. In December, Greenville’s GE Power was selected.

Site engineers Melinda Ammerman and Lisa De Bellis decided to lead the area’s first camp to address a bigger problem.

“We’re not seeing a high level of interest in engineering programs,” said De Bellis. “But we’re trying to instill confidence and knowledge in these girls so that they pursue their interests. And it’s also about educating them about the opportunities in these fields.”

Fewer female students are receiving bachelor’s degrees in STEM subjects than males, according to a report from National Student Clearinghouse. That’s despite the fact that more female students are expressing interest in STEM subjects than male students, according to a survey conducted by Cambridge Occupational Analysts.

De Bellis and Ammerman spent six months developing the camp’s curriculum alongside

other engineers. They decided to focus on mechanical engineering, computer science, materials and mathematics. Then they partnered with Clemson University.

“It [GE Girls] explains STEM better than what I’ve learned in the past. But it really gives us the opportunity to learn more about engineering and all that stuff,” Burrell said.

De Bellis and Ammerman reached out to Greenville County School District in the spring to begin a student selection process for the program.

The district selected students from underresourced public schools — Berea, Lakeview, Northwest, Tanglewood and Greenville Early College middle schools. Science teachers nominated five to six female students interested in STEM concepts.

“They’re [students] more interested in exploring concepts and asking questions in middle school,” said De Bellis. “It just seems that this is the age where they could start to lose interest in STEM concepts, and peers start to have a greater influence. So we want to entertain that interest as they head into high school.”

Girls begin to opt out of mathematics and science courses in sixth to eighth grade, according to a study in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. That happens because girls face many barriers to pursuing an interest in STEM concepts. In fact, female students don’t receive as much encouragement as male students do when pursuing an interest in STEM concepts, according to a survey in the Journal of Gender and Education.

To combat those barriers, Greenville’s GE Power assigns staff members as mentors to the participating students. The mentors follow up with their students as they progress through middle and high school, according to De Bellis.

“That’s the only way to make it work,” said Greenville County School District spokeswoman Beth Brotherton. “It’s nice they’ll have someone to be accountable to. That long-term relationship will make them work even harder.”

Students spent the remainder of the week learning about computer programming and 3-D printing at Clemson University. GE Power is also offering a tour of its Advanced Manufacturing Works, which opened in April.

De Bellis and Ammerman plan to continue the program annually. They also plan to hold an annual alumni camp that encourages past participants’ interests in STEM concepts.

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City streets – where the wild things are On four legs or two wings, creeping, crawling or flying creatures prompt curiosity and concern in area neighborhoods Highlights With new building on former habitats, wild animals are getting more comfortable around humans.

More wildlife could be on the way, animal control experts warn — while some Greenvillians are capitalizing on animals with urban farms.

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Greenville’s streets take to the wilder side some time in the witching hours. By day, they hide from view, but come nighttime, creatures that creep, crawl and fly share space with city folk.

“There is wildlife, even the occasional bear,” says JoAnne Smythe, City of Greenville animal control officer. “Typically, people see raccoons, opossums, coyotes, bats and foxes.”

The city handles what it can, but if a call involves wildlife, often the answer is to call a private animal control company or, if it’s a bear, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). “Our greatest resource is a wildlife rehabilitator, because they’re licensed to handle all the different animals,” Smythe notes.

Volunteer-operated Wildlife Rehab of Greenville has received calls from residents about every kind of animal native to South Carolina, plus some that are not native, says Wendy Watson, president of the 23-year-old nonprofit organization. Wildlife Rehab has a website, hotline (864-233-0339) and experts who can deal with injured animals.

“We have urban wildlife because we’re building and building and building, using up their habitat, and they’re adapting very well to living alongside humans,” Watson says.

“So when people feed their cats outside, they’re not just feeding their cats, they’re attracting raccoons, opossums, coyotes and even skunks.”

The wild creatures smell the buffet and partake.

Foxes and bears

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources receives many calls in May and June about foxes spotted in the daytime, says Pat Cloninger, wildlife biologist for Clemson and Upstate counties.

“A lot of times the fox mother will go and have young in the den in the neighbor-

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hood, and then she’s tied to that area to raise them,” he explains. “She has more mouths to feed, so she’s out in the night and daytime, just keeping busy.”

People see her and worry the fox is rabid, but that is almost never the case, Cloninger adds.

More rarely, bears visit urban areas. The prospect of nearly ripe blackberries entices juvenile bears to wander into populated areas. They are pushed out by larger males, finding themselves lost as they search for blackberries and whatever else they can eat, including pet food and birdfeeder seed, Cloninger says.

“If a bear has become habituated to eating trash, pet food and birdseed, they’ll go back,” he says. “We take them to Oconee County and let them go in the mustard ground area.”

Human newcomers vs. animal newcomers

Greenville, Simpsonville and other city residents might be noticing unusual wildlife more now than decades ago because several newcomers have moved into the area, says Frank Lee, owner of Animal Logic, a Greer animal control company.

“Three animals have moved here in the past 15 to 20 years,” Lee says. “One is a coyote, one is a groundhog and the other is a striped skunk.”

A quick look at the comments on the North Main and Simpsonville Facebook pages shows that city residents are reporting wildlife they never expected to see. For instance, a North Main community Facebook page post elicited more than 20 comments about animal sightings: three coyotes, one great horned owl, two barred owls, two raccoons, three opossums, one fox, two deer, five snakes, a black widow spider and even a wild turkey and snapping turtle.

For example, lifeguards at Stone Lake Pool in the North Main area discovered a snapping turtle the size of a miniature dachshund in their pool on a recent Sunday.

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Residents are finding raccoons, opossums, coyotes, foxes, skunks and bears — and sometimes snapping turtles and panthers.

Greenville animal control officers recently had a little help in capturing a goat loose in the North Main Street and Stone Avenue area.

chasing it around the pool a while, and it tried to chew its way through that,” says Libby Evans, president of the private pool club.

Unfortunately, for families heading to the pool after church, the snapping turtle had left a deposit that required the pool to be shocked with chemicals and open an hour late, Evans says. “Someone texted us, ‘If he could only wear swim diapers.’”

Wily coyotes prey on pets

Coyotes have been of particular concern to residents because of fears that they’re killing pet cats.

The Facebook page for the downtown Simpsonville neighborhood of Poinsettia had 10 comments and 20 shares of comments about cats disappearing. People speculated that predators had gotten them, either coyotes or hawks.

“Coyotes love cats — it’s like ice cream for them,” Cloninger says. “A good way to tell if coyotes are in a neighborhood is if cats start disappearing.”

North Main resident Kathleen Moore discovered that coyotes had reached her street when her cat turned up with a bite injury that her veterinarian attributed to a coyote.

The cat looked like he had been in a war, Moore says.

Simpsonville’s animal code office has received calls about cougars and panthers, as well as deer, roosters, raccoons, opossums, coyotes and foxes, says Colleen Jenkins, animal code enforcement officer.

“A man said he saw a black panther out there, and I’ve seen their footprints in the woods,” Jenkins says.

Any increase in wildlife heading into Simpsonville’s urban or suburban areas likely is the result of clearcutting in subdivisions, Jenkins says. “There are patches of wooded areas near the downtown, and they’re getting trapped in those patches and have nowhere to go.”

Powderhorn resident Amy Brown says she has seen coyotes, hawks, wild turkeys and deer in her neighborhood near downtown

Simpsonville. “I see hawks all the time, flying above our neighborhood,” she says.

More animals on the way

Spotting wild creatures on city streets can be the stuff of folklore for most people, but for some, the four-legged invaders are a nuisance. Squirrels and bats take over attics; beavers clog streams; skunks create dens in crawlspaces; raccoons and opossums carouse the neighborhood, upturning garbage or moving into attics; and groundhogs burrow in yards and destroy ductwork.

And, be forewarned, more unwanted visitors are coming our way, Lee says.

“Occasionally, I’ll get calls about wild hogs, and hogs are the last thing I want to deal with,” he says.

“They’re an atrocious thing, and there’s no way to control the hog population as they wreak havoc on our native wildlife,” Lee adds.

“I’ve heard of hog problems around Simpsonville and Saluda, and it’s only a matter of time before they’re spotted in Cleveland Park.”

Reducing human-wildlife conflict ity dwellers can prevent some of the more C common problems with urban wildlife by taking the following precautions, according to the Urban Wildlife Working Group: • L ock all outdoor garbage cans.

•R egularly dispose of fallen fruit from trees.

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•K eep goats, sheep and chickens in a covered enclosure at night.

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•U se birdfeeders specifically designed not to spill or be accessible by non-target species.

•B e aware of any wildlife-borne diseases in your region that could infect you or your pet.

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LIFE IN THE HIVE There are three types of bees in the hive: queen, worker and drone.

The queen may lay 600-800 or even 1,500 eggs each day during her three- or four-year lifetime. This daily egg production may equal her own weight.

The queen is constantly fed and groomed by the worker bees.

The drones’ primary role is to mate with the queen bee.

Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using pheromones (scents).

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Beekeeper Lee White, 12, tends to his hives.

The birds, the bees – and the goats Backyard farmers are milking profits from urban animals MELINDA YOUNG | CONTRIBUTOR

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With the headline “Goat on the run,” Karen Nelson of the North Main area recently posted online her mad dash to capture a goat on city streets.

“My friend and I were out walking and joined the chase at the corner of Croft and Townes, and it continued until we finally captured him at the construction at Main and Stone. He was not easy to catch,” Nelson wrote on the Nextdoor North Main Street social media site, posting a photo of the goat, held by city animal control officers.

Later, Nelson posted on Facebook that they were celebrating their goat herding success at the Lazy Goat restaurant.

A goat running downtown is not as surprising a sight as it might have been a decade ago — it may have escaped from somebody’s backyard. As the city of Greenville grows, bringing in 9 percent more city dwellers since 2010 according to U.S. Census data, it’s also evolving into a hybrid city-farm community.

Increasing numbers of city folks are plant-

ing small gardens, raising chickens and tending to beehives. The city of Greenville doesn’t require permits for chickens and bees, so there are no statistics about how many people are raising them, but an anecdotal look at just one city street shows that chickens are kept in a half dozen backyards, and a couple of households have bees. All were added within the past decade.

The buzz on local honey

For instance, visitors to Greenville’s downtown farmers market in late June might have bought local honey from Lee’s Bees, a youth booth near East McBee Avenue.

Carrying on a tradition from ancient Egypt and Greece, 12-year-old Lee White is a beekeeper of four hives with about 80,000 bees.

Lee first saw a beehive when he was very young, and he had many more questions than his family could answer.

“In fourth grade, Lee picked up ‘Beekeeping for Dummies’ and read it cover to cover, and then he said, ‘I really want bees,’” recalls August White, Lee’s mother.

He’s been stung about five times since he

got his first hive three years ago, but he shrugs off the downside: “You can’t blame them for stinging, because you steal their honey and mess with them,” Lee says. “The body builds up resistance to bee stings, so after several stings your body doesn’t swell as much.”

Plus, the bees produced 88 frames of honey this year, resulting in about 130 jars that Lee sold at the farmer’s market.

“They are constantly producing honey, and we always leave them at least a little bit,” Lee says. “If they’re a strong enough hive, they’ll produce more than they need.”

Lee’s first hive collapsed. “The hive had been losing its queen and got a replacement queen, but she wasn’t the best queen,” Lee says. “We were doing a weekly check of the hive and saw that they were declining pretty quickly.”

The collapse was caused by beetles that moved into the hive, laying their own larvae, usurping the bees. “I knew it was over because the beetles had messed up the wax, and we had a frame 100 percent full of honey, and the beetles had eaten it all.”

Beetles, as Lee learned, are the perpetual

Honeybees never sleep.

Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans. pests in any hive. The trick is for the queen to be strong enough to form an army of bees that can trap beetles in one area of the hive.

Then, like any good jailer, bee guards keep the beetles fed with honey. The beetles can’t be killed off, but they can be contained, Lee says.

“Every time we open the hive we see beetles run out; you always have beetles in a hive,” he explains.

Lee never considered giving up on bees and now has a backyard row of three healthy hives and one additional hive in his front yard.

“People say it all the time — we really need bees,” he says. “Without them, we’d be in trouble. It’d be a lot harder to get food because one out of every three bites you eat could not be grown without bees.”

Coming home to roost

Chickens might not have as noble an evolutionary purpose, but they’re also growing in popularity within city environs.

Artist Linda Furman of the HamptonPinckney historic district had been satisfied with having metal chickens behind her house for some years. But last December, she de-

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“We bought a chicken coop and four pullets,” Furman says.

“I have an art studio and decorated it with a sign that says, ‘All cooped up.’”

Furman named her chickens Gladys, Runaround Sue, Morticia and Audrey Hepburn. Gladys is her favorite, and Furman has painted a portrait of the brown hen.

The hens lay brown and light green eggs, which Furman enjoys for both breakfast and art. She blows out the eggs and paints the shells. “It’s my version of the old Ukrainian Easter eggs.”

In 2011, a year after Jodi and Steve Hajosy moved their family of five to Greenville’s North Main community, they decided to raise chickens. With help from a friend, they built a chicken coop out of a diseased Hemlock tree, old clapboard, and bricks, Jodi Hajosy recalls.

“We got our first eight chickens from Travelers Rest Feed and Seed, and for the first two months we had them in our house in a brooding box because they were only two days old,” she says.

After their original eight hens outlived their egg-producing days, the Hajosy family bought new chicks to brood in a box kept indoors at night and on their front porch on warm days.

They learned the hard way that farming has a downside: a bulldog killed five of their baby chicks this past spring. Jodi Hajosy replaced them before the kids returned home and then comforted her children in their grief over the loss.

“It’s one of those risks: You live in the city, you live in the country — it happens,” Hajosy says.

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Urban tails

Greenvillians share their wild animal sightings Bear on the trail

“During the drought, we were riding bikes from Travelers Rest, and just before Furman, a friend and I were coming up the Swamp Rabbit Trail when I saw this animal. At first I thought it was a big dog, but it was a juvenile bear—one or two years old, not super huge. He was stumbling along the trail. So I hopped off the bike and I put up my arms and waved, saying, ‘Go, bear, go!’ I made a lot of noise, but he wasn’t impressed, so I chased him off the trail. As I hopped back on my bike, my friend said, ‘Man, you’re pretty brave, chasing the bear off the trail like that.’ I said, ‘Bob, I don’t have to outrun the bear; I only have to outrun you.’ It’s an old joke, but he got mad at me.”

Tony Hesketh, near downtown Greenville

Monkey in the family

“The most exotic creature that haunted Augusta Road had to be my older brother, Lido or Leedy-McSqueedy. He was a capuchin monkey that my mother persuaded my father

to buy for her on their honeymoon.

She said that she always wanted a child and Lido would be the start of the family. Lido lived in our basement most of the time, but upon occasion he was known to escape the confines of his home and run up and down the electric power lines in the neighborhood. Needless to say, there was panic throughout our immediate neighborhood when he would peer into various bedrooms late at night. There were so many complaints about Lido and about me, because I was a sickly little fellow and crying all the time, that my grandfather, whom my mother and I lived with after my father died, told my mother that she had a choice — it was either Lido or me, but one of us had to go. Reluctantly, my mother condemned Lido to a life of leisure in Myrtle Beach, and here I remain in my family’s Augusta Road area house.”

Tom Bolt, Augusta Road

Playing possum

“My daughter was in third grade, and there was some work being done in my basement. The garage door was left open. So one day, I was coming

upstairs, putting my daughter to bed, moving her pillows around. When I pulled off one, I saw a cute little stuffed animal, but it was not stuffed!

It was a curled up baby opossum. We were shocked, and my daughter and I screamed. I guess we scared it because it jumped under the bed. So we jumped on the bed. My son ran into the room and we all three were standing on the bed, not knowing what to do. Everything with the kids involved counting back then, so I counted to three, and we jumped off the bed, ran out of the room, and closed the door.”

The next morning, the kids wanted to see the opossum. I got a broom and used the handle end to pick up the pillow. Sure enough, it was under the pillow. It was cute with a curly tail, but after we put it in a cage, it was hissing and showed its teeth. We released it in a field, and I cleaned my daughter’s room very well.”

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When people call wildlife specialists or city animal control officers to complain about wildlife they consider a nuisance, they probably could handle the situation on their own if they learned a little more about their backyard neighbors, notes Wendy Watson, president of Wildlife Rehab of Greenville.

Watson has seen opossums, foxes, a coyote, great horned owls, barred owls, screech owls, Canadian geese, Great Blue herons, flying squirrels, gray squirrels and even a bear in her Half Mile Lake neighborhood.

For instance, Watson recalls how she had gotten to know some opossums in her neighborhood. One that Watson named Lily had an all-black coloring. “I released her in the woods behind my house, and a couple of weeks later I got a call from a neighbor who said there was an opossum that came around her house.”

The woman put out a humane trap with bait, but the wily marsupial would eat the food and leave the trap behind. The woman grew frustrated and called Watson for help. “I made some suggestions, and she finally trapped the opossum.”

To Watson’s surprise, the culprit was Lily, who looked even more brilliantly black than Watson recalled. “Her coat was so shiny, healthy and beautiful, and I found out the neighbor had been feeding her peanut butter sandwiches out of the trap for a month. We had caught Lily with grapes because she had to stop inside the trap to eat each grape.”

Lily probably wouldn’t have lingered in the woman’s backyard if she hadn’t been enticed with peanut butter. Watson explained to her neighbor how to prevent having unwanted backyard visitors, and she also talked about how the gentle creatures have many positive attributes and few negative ones.

“Opossums eat ticks, and ticks are really bad this year,” Watson says. “They eat slugs, spiders, rotten fruit, and they’ll eat carrion or road kill, because they’re nature’s garbage men.”

Also, opossums are immune to venomous snakebites, and their body temperature is so slow they are mostly immune to rabies, she adds. “They will bare their teeth at you and hiss at you and play dead, and if you grab one they might bite you, but they’d rather pass on it.”

Mostly, they’re harmless, Watson says.

“If people would just sit back and relax and listen and look at the animals around us, they’ll discover a wonderful, beautiful world,” Watson says. “And the fact that we can have them in our backyard, to me, is amazing.”

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Buildings purchased for GREEN Charter School MELINDA YOUNG | CONTRIBUTOR

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Greenville’s GREEN Charter School, one of the South Carolina Public Charter School District’s most successful charter schools academically, plans to expand in the 2017– 18 school year with a new school in Columbia and a new high school in Greenville.

On Tuesday, July 5, the charter school purchased 3.22 acres, including four office buildings at 211 Century Drive, for $3 million. The buildings total 55,000 square feet, and each is two stories.

The new space will house a high school and junior high, moving students to the new space for the 2017–18 school year. High school students will be in a separate building from the junior high students. The charter school plans to spend $2 million on the first phase of renovations to turn office space into a learning environment, says Adem Dokmeci, GREEN Charter School principal.

In Columbia, GREEN (Greenville Renewable Energy Education) Charter School has been approved by the state to replicate its school model, and plans are to open the new charter school for kindergarten through sixth grade in the fall of 2017 and to expand it by one grade each year until it’s a K–12 school, Dokmeci says.

“We were approved as the only charter school in the state that is replicated because of our high performance in test scores and our high performance financially,” he explains.

GREEN Charter School, now located at 1440 Pelham Road, will have about 700 students, grades kindergarten through ninth, when school returns this fall, Dokmeci says.

Also in the fall of 2017, there will be students attending the Century Drive location in grades seven through 10. An 11th grade will be added in the fall of 2018, and a 12th grade will be added in the fall of 2019. The first graduates will be in the spring of 2020.

The school’s current location next to the Pelham Road branch library will continue to house students in grades kindergarten through sixth, Dokmeci says.

The 1980s office space on Century Drive will be renovated to fit the new high school’s math, science and engineering academic theme. The architectural firm and construction company will be selected later this year.

Dokmeci says the first phase will not involve all four buildings and some will remain as office space in the first year of the school.

“The high school will have a math and science focus, but also have special classes like pottery clinics and AP labs, and we’d

like to build a studio where kids can create models as part of an architectural/engineering program,” Dokmeci says.

“Also, we’re located very close to Greenville Technical College, and our students are going to be doing dual enrollment with Greenville Tech,” he says.

The new high school’s students will be able to earn advanced placement course credits, as well as actual college credit, which would transfer to the colleges they select after graduation.

When GREEN Charter first opened, with kindergarten through sixth-grade classes, in the fall of 2013, there were 270 students. Its faculty has grown from 24 full-time employees, including 17 teachers, to 60 full-time employees, including 45 teachers. The school now has 500 students on a waiting list for this coming year’s admission, Dokmeci says.

The school’s popularity is partly the result of its unique program and emphasis on math, science and energy, Dokmeci says.

“We have a great relationship with students and families,” he says. “We have a very safe environment and an open-door policy; I think people feel comfortable stepping into the school.”

The high school’s new space will not have room for a full high school gymnasium, so it will focus instead on high-tech gym classes using Nintendo Wii video games on a big screen. “Students can do physical activities, using the screen,” Dokmeci says.

Also, there likely will be a cross-country team and fencing, and Dokmeci says he hopes the high school eventually will be able to acquire land for a gym. Until then, the school will have team sports at other schools’ and churches’ fields and gyms.

Meantime, the current GREEN Charter space is being renovated to add a separate cafeteria in an area that recently was inhabited by a restaurant. The school’s current building had been a grocery store anchor in a small, U-shaped strip shopping center before being abandoned and, later, renovated for GREEN Charter School.

“Currently, half the buildings in the center are vacant, and so we’re using unused space for educational purposes,” Dokmeci says. “Our existing cafeteria in the original building will be our indoor gym area.”

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Researchers from Clemson University’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering received a $487,000 grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop a next-generation sensor that can better detect weapons of mass destruction.

Mark Blenner and Sapna Sarupria, both associate professors, hope to develop the sensor in three years. It would use enzymes to detect tributyl phosphate, a chemical compound used to enrich uranium. Uranium is a radioactive metal used to produce nuclear weapons.

Enzymes naturally accelerate chemical reactions, and that allows investigators to detect the tiniest amounts of a substance.

Blenner and Sarupria hope to integrate enzymes into portable electronic devices that could be deployed remotely or attached to a uniform.

“The technology is there to do this in the near term,” said Blenner, the principal investigator. “What’s missing is what our proposal addresses. It’s understanding how to make these devices work reliably for long periods of time. The thing that goes bad most frequently is the biological component — the enzyme that’s responsible for the detection.”

The proposed sensor requires an enzyme

Second chances

Drug court graduation brings both celebration and reflection EMILY PIETRAS | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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On Thursday, June 30, nine individuals graduated from the 13th Circuit Drug Court Program during a ceremony at the Greenville County Courthouse.

It was a night of both celebration and reflection, according to Rep. Trey Gowdy, the ceremony’s guest speaker. He told the graduates to celebrate their accomplishments but asked them to reflect on what brought them to drug court and what they will do with this new chapter in their lives.

“We’re a society that believes in second chances,” Gowdy said. “The real question

Mark Blenner (left) and Sapna Sarupria (center) analyze the properties of an enzyme. The duo was awarded a grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop an enzyme-based sensor that can better detect weapons of mass destruction.

conic acid. That reaction paired with a mediator molecule causes an electrical current. The current is measured by a meter, which shows the amount of glucose in the blood.

Since immobilized enzymes often fail, Blenner and Sarupria are approaching the problem from different angles. Blenner is conducting experiments in the lab. Sarupria is creating computer simulations that demonstrate how enzymes react in various situations.

“It allows us to get a very detailed picture,” Sarupria said. “Because of the simulations, we can look at a single atom at a time and begin to observe the behavior. It allows us a very high resolution, which then allows us to find those underlying principles.”

The analysis of an enzyme’s molecular properties could lead to a universal solution for creating stable, immobilized enzymes, according to Blenner. And that could affect the medical, agricultural, pharmaceutical and biotech industries since each uses contained enzymes, according to the Research Journal of Biological Sciences.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Defense, plans to use the sensors to fight terrorism and nuclear proliferation. In June, the agency issued a $1 million grant to the University of Colorado Boulder for similar research.

to be affixed to a polymer-coated surface.

That surface is where a chemical signal is translated into an electric signal, which carries data to a computer for analysis. Science has proven that contained or immobilized enzymes often become less functional or fail, which renders any enzyme-based device useless.

There are, however, instances of immobilized enzymes remaining active, accord-

ing to the MIT School of Engineering. For example, blood glucose meters.

Diabetics can’t produce insulin, so they have to test their blood sugar levels regularly. They have to use a test strip to measure the amount of glucose in their blood.

That strip includes an immobilized enzyme called glucose oxidase.

If glucose is present, the enzyme causes glucose to change into hydrogen and glu-

for us is what are we going to do with those second chances.”

Drug court is a diversionary program within the criminal justice system that offers an alternative for nonviolent offenders whose crimes are results of their drug addiction. The National Drug Court Resource Center reports that there are 1,538 adult drug courts in the United States as of June 2014. The first drug court began in MiamiDade County, Fla., in 1989, according to the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.

The 13th Circuit’s 18-month program consists of a year of weekly outpatient counseling, 18 months of case management, random drug testing and frequent court sessions to monitor progress and maintain accountability. The application fee is $100, and each participant must pay $25 per week.

All participants must be employed throughout the length of the program.

Defendants who wish to participate in drug court must plead guilty and are sentenced. The judge suspends or transfers the sentence to the drug court program. If drug court is completed successfully, the sentence is satisfied. Failure to follow re-

quirements could lead to longer treatment, community service assignments or jail time. Consistent noncompliance results in termination from the program. If a defendant fails to complete drug court, he or she will complete the sentence within the S.C. Department of Corrections.

Greenville’s 13th Circuit Drug Court Program is now in its 16th year. The nine graduates are the program’s 52nd graduating class and largest in program history.

The program has graduated 218 participants and terminated 203. At the ceremony, Pat Edwards, clinical director, said the nearly 54 percent graduation rate is Through drug court, graduate Steven Janes became involved with Miracle Hill Ministries, where he is now employed. “something we are all very proud of.” tests during the duration of the program.

Collectively, the graduates attended 2,300 They also have paid $5,300 in indictment support group meetings and took 1,200 drug fees and $14,800 in restitution.

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Edwards said the nine graduates faced a combined 212 years in prison, which would have cost taxpayers approximately $32 million. In contrast, drug court costs approximately $2,500 per person per year.

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Recovery is a team effort

In addition to families and friends of graduates, drug court program staff members and representatives from supporting organizations were also in attendance.

“Drug court is not an easy task, and it does take a team to continue to support what we’ve done,” said Edwards.

Two members of that support team are Miracle Hill Ministries and FAVOR (Faces and Voices of Recovery) of Greenville. Miracle Hill is a nonprofit that provides shelter to the homeless and offers addiction recovery support for men and women, among other services. FAVOR provides those affected by substance abuse problems with the necessary support and resources to work toward recovery. The organization strives to mobilize and create a united network within the recovery community to give recovery “a face and voice” and change public perception and response.

During the ceremony, each graduate made a brief personal statement. Many thanked the drug court program and staff, Judge Charles B. Simmons Jr. and their friends and family.

Phil Scheele thanked Edwards for introducing him to his “FAVOR family” and making him attend meetings twice a week. He credited his involvement with FAVOR for helping him complete the program.

“Actually, I started going to meetings so many a times a week that FAVOR put me on the payroll,” Scheele quipped.

One graduate, Steven Janes, used his participation in drug court to get involved in and give back to the community.

For the last two years, Janes has participated in the Miracle Hill Challenge Ride or Run for the Homeless, and he was the leading fundraiser both years. In 2015, he raised $5,700.35, and this year, he raised $7,837.77. $4,300 of that total came from fellow drug court participants, program supporters and community supporters. To commemorate his efforts, Miracle Hill gave Janes a special cycling jersey.

“I started off at Miracle Hill. I was there before, and I didn’t understand it,” Janes, who was once homeless, said. “And when I came back, they opened up their heart and opened their doors to me, and when I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ in my life, my whole life changed. So I just want to thank everyone from Miracle Hill, and I want to thank everybody in the program.”

“Steven was one of the people who put a face — a positive face — on what these programs can do,” said Edwards regarding Janes’ work in the community. “And he has represented himself so well that he is now employed by Miracle Hill.”

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The $50,000 biscuit Travelers Rest chef Christina Halstead’s recipe wins national award from General Mills ANDREW MOORE | STAFF

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hristina Halstead, executive chef at The Café at Williams Hardware, has created a lot of recipes throughout her career.

But for her, nothing beats a buttermilk biscuit.

Its simplicity made her an award-winning chef.

“That’s where you can really create harmony.

My cooking is about hitting those five elements of flavor — sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami.

You have to hit them all,” said Halstead. “Simple recipes are good for that because you can to add stuff to them.”

In June, Halstead was named the winner of the General Mills Neighborhood to Nation recipe contest. She was awarded $50,000 for her entry — a BLT on a pimento cheese buttermilk biscuit with red pepper jelly. It wasn’t an easy accomplishment.

The Neighborhood to Nation recipe contest was open to food-service operators, chefs and line cooks who develop and prepare recipes for menus at independent, commercial restaurants.

Also, entries had to fall into one of three categories — breakfast, entrees or dessert — and use at least one ingredient from a General Mills product list.

Entries were judged on tastes, appearance, creativity and food-service viability, according to official contest rules. The results were announced on June 22.

“Grand prize winner Christina Halstead’s BLT sandwich demonstrates how to add local flavor and create a unique but familiar signature menu item,” said Melody Chang, senior associate channel manager of General Mills Foodservice, in a statement.

Halstead’s approach to food can be attributed to humble beginnings.

“My entire journey has led me here. Each job has taught me something different about the food industry and has led me to the next big thing,” Halstead said.

Starting from scratch In 1996, Halstead got her first job as a dishwasher and waitress at Thai & I near North Greenville University. She was 15 years old. Then Halstead became a food and beverage assistant manager at Greenville’s Pebble Creek Country Club in 1998.

Halstead then decided to enter the world of fine dining.

She became a dining room supervisor at The Westin Poinsett in downtown Greenville in 2000.

She left for a manager position at Latitude in downtown Greenville in 2002. She then became a chef at Thaicoon Ricefire and Sushi Bar in 2006.

But then former Thaicoon owner Parichart “Gai” Wilson decided to open Tamarind Thai Cuisine in Arden, N.C. In 2007, Halstead relocated to become head chef there. However, she resigned to care for her mother in Travelers Rest in 2008.

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In 2012, she filled out an application at The Café at Williams Hardware and began waiting tables soon after. Halstead was promoted quickly. But it wasn’t easy.

“I became a manager, and was told by the chef I wouldn’t step foot in his kitchen,” said Halstead. “I decided that no one would tell me that again.”

That chef left in 2013, and Halstead became sous chef immediately. Soon after, she was promoted to executive chef.

Halstead then restructured the kitchen staff and made some additions to the menu, including a Reuben sandwich and a pecan crusted chicken salad.

“She just has a wonderful palette,” said Nancy McCarrell, co-owner of the Café at Williams Hardware. “She’s so good at salad dressings and combining flavors. So that’s why we give her the freedom to investigate different recipes and bring them to life here.”

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Halstead attended the Sysco Culinary Expo in Charleston on Feb. 6. That’s when she found out about the General Mills Neighborhood to Nation recipe contest and signed up. Halstead decided to craft the perfect biscuit. But she only had 23 days to do so.

“My fiancé was unemployed then. So while I was testing at the café, he was at home doing the same. We compared notes everyday,” said Halstead. “But then it just came to me. I needed to add pimento cheese to the biscuit. It’s a classic Southern food.”

Soon enough, the recipe included bacon, lettuce, tomato and red pepper jelly.

She submitted her recipe on Feb. 28. In March, Halstead placed as a top six finalist. And then she placed as a top three finalist in June.

Halstead then purchased a flight to Minnesota for an awards ceremony at the General Mills headquarters. Her life changed on June 22.

“They opened an envelope, and my name was announced. It was just so surreal. I still can’t wrap my head around it completely,” said Halstead.

The biscuit has become a local favorite, according to McCarrell. It can be purchased for $11 and is available on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and some weekends.

Halstead has started planning for the future.

“The prize money means security,” said Halstead. “But I’m going to need it when the right opportunity comes along.”

That opportunity is a potential restaurant that would be situated in a plantation home in Travelers Rest. If built, it would feature outdoor seating and a garden, according to Halstead. The menu would feature edible flowers and similar items.

“I could see it happening in 10 years,” said Halstead. “I just want to have a comfortable transition into retirement.

It would just be a nice, relaxing place.”

In the nearer future, Halstead plans to compete in the Tomato Sandwich TasteOff at the Travelers Rest Farmers Market on July 30. She finished in second place last year.

Also, Halstead is donating $10,000 to Foothills Family Resources, an Upstate nonprofit providing financial counseling, job training and more to residents.

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Talking points on sports with Vincent Harris

Greenville Cycling helps riders nationwide get in gear Greenville is full of all sorts of interesting nooks and crannies, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that tucked away above the Swamp Rabbit Café & Grocery on Cedar Lane Road is a team of skilled coaches and mechanics operating as Greenville Cycling & Multi-Sport.

They’ve been in that location for almost three years, but under founder and cycling coach Jim Cunningham, Greenville Cycling has spent the last 15 years becoming a coaching, training and equipment hub for professional and amateur cyclists all over the country.

In addition to Cunningham, who is a USA Cycling-certified coach, there are 13 other coaches on staff at Greenville Cycling, some of whom work outside South Carolina. They offer training plans for running as well as cycling, and Cunningham says that they’re as detailed and meticulous about creating an individual plan as possible.

Greenville Cycling for a training plan or a bike fit are all professionals. “People think that most of the athletes we work with are avid racers,” he says. “Most of the athletes we work with are serious but recreational. They’re riding five days a week, and they do some events, but it’s largely for fun and fitness.”

The Greenville facility is a long way from when Cunningham was creating training plans from his home in the mid-2000s, but through steady word of mouth and hard work, he’s been able to build up an international business right here in the Upstate.

“My business plan included most every piece of what I’m doing right now, but I didn’t know if I’d ever actually have a mechanic on-staff that I could afford to pay,” he says. “We have two

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“It’s a lot like other things in life,” he says. “You decide on a goal, and then you have to have a plan to get you there. So someone will approach us and say, ‘I want to finish this event or win this event or get to this level of ability,’ and we start building the plan from there. It’s very comprehensive.”

How comprehensive? You’re going to be doing a lot of prep work before the plan even starts. “The interview we do is about two hours long in separate sessions,” Cunningham says. “And there’s a nine-page interview form you fill out. We have to understand almost every aspect of the athlete’s life to get it right. It’s not only about the work they do on the bike. What’s your full stress load? Let’s talk about your job, your house, your wife, your kids, your finances, your diet. From there we build the plan with the knowledge we’ve gained.”

Once the plan is in place, Greenville Cycling can both custom fit you with a bicycle that works for you and give you a space to train, thanks to a fascinating machine called a Computrainer.

“We mount your bicycle at one of the stations, then turn on the computer, and on the screens, we have real video of courses all over the world,” Cunningham says. “You’re riding on that course in the video, so when it gets harder for them, it gets harder for you. The machine electromagnetically pushes harder or easier on your tires.”

Cunningham says the biggest misconception that he runs into is that people who come to

BORN: JULY 1, 2016 now. We coach athletes all over the country and some outside the country. I’m a national team coach with USA Paracycling, which is part of USA Cycling. When I did my business plan, the levels were ‘Most Likely,’ ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ and ‘Pie In The Sky.’ I’d say I’m somewhere between ‘Most Likely’ and ‘Pie In The Sky,’ and I can’t complain too much about that, can I?” For more information on Greenville Cycling & Multi-Sport, visit greenvillecyclingcenter.com.

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A walk through Falls Park with Mayor Knox White CAROLINE HAFER | STAFF

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In 2002, a $13 million budget was approved to transform Falls Park into what it is today. Since that renovation took place in 2003, Falls Park has helped turn Greenville into a coveted tourist destination.

No matter how long you’ve lived in Greenville or how many times you’ve walked through Falls Park, there is always something new to experience. In case you think you know everything about Falls Park, we took a walk with Mayor Knox White to discover some little-known facts.

The park was designed by a Boston design team led by Andria Mains, who worked closely with Greenville landscape architect Tom Keith. Mains created the park’s master plan, while Keith coordinated designers, engineers and the overall atmosphere of the park. Keith wanted the park to enhance connectivity, so that you have multiple routes to get to your destination, whether it’s in or outside of the park.

Mayor White recalls one day in particular that Keith had the construction workers digging up the stairs leading into the park

Knox White enjoys Falls Park’s “sweet spot,” an area that offers the best views of the park.

and resetting them because the placement wasn’t right. Keith’s main focus was standing at every spot in the park and experiencing how he felt and what he saw there, which

resulted in a lot of reconstruction from the original plans. White recounts one day when Keith looked at him and said, “I’m living in this place so much I’ve lost perspective. Is this going to be as good as I think it is?”

Keith named a “sweet spot” in the park

that he claims as the perfect spot to see everything the park has to offer. The spot is at the opposite side of the river from the Main Street entrance, and it provides shade from trees and a slight breeze on hot summer days.

The park was extensively planned out before it went into production, but there were several things that were not expected to be included. The original amphitheater was supposed to be the circular area at the main entrance of the park. During construction, it somewhat organically turned into a playground. Keith didn’t try to fight the idea, so they moved the amphitheater to where is it now. They also didn’t anticipate that the bridge would become a prime spot for proposals. (Among many others, Mayor White’s daughter was proposed to on the bridge.)

White says he’s even seen a full wedding happening on the bridge. While you can rent out certain sections of the park, the bridge is not one of those sections. Another unexpected thing that happens in the park is the amount of people that will picnic and lie out in the open grass beside the river.

Today, Falls Park is a Greenville staple. I think Keith, who died in 2013, could confidently say it was every bit as good as what he imagined.

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The flowered section at the entrance of the park is called “the wow zone” because of the colors and agriculture.

The Governor’s School’s first graduating class was the only class to go to school when the Camperdown Bridge will still in the park.

In 1996, a pipeline ruptured, releasing 1 million gallons of diesel fuel into the Reedy River, one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history.

Commonly known to natives, there is a second waterfall in the park, located near the entrance of The Lazy Goat restaurant.

In the 1920s, the Reedy River was the primary source for sewage discharge and urban runoff in Greenville. In the 1980s, the water would turn different colors depending on the textiles being dyed that day.

The bridge was planned to be phased into the park’s reconstruction but was pushed to happen with the original renovations.

There is an intake pipe at the top of the waterfall that can be turned off and on to change the flow of the river. When it’s on, there are five streams; when it’s off, there are four.

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Scholars and tiaras Miss South Carolina contestants from the Upstate help redefine pageantry ANJALI PATEL | CONTRIBUTOR

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To the contestants’ relief, the 2016 Miss South Carolina pageant didn’t feature the hysteria of a Steve Harvey blunder. However, the pageant did break some new and promising ground.

This year’s contestants showed that the term “beauty pageant” can be deceiving.

Although many skeptics think pageants are simply competitions for attractiveness, Miss Greater Easley Sophie Keyes explained that the contestants think otherwise.

“Beauty is the last thing on our minds,” she said.

Keyes, whose father is a teacher at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, has a more important cause: the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is

very close to her heart. Keyes’ best friend uses a wheelchair. As an avid concertgoer, Keyes found that many venues have poor accommodations for wheelchair users. Often, she would be separated from her friend, because most of the seats for people with disabilities were separate. “Most accessible seating is also at the very top of arenas, or in the very back,” she explained.

She strives to make public events equally enjoyable to all people, no matter their situation. Her cause does not receive a lot of attention, she feels — but through pageantry, she has raised awareness locally and statewide. She has traveled to different entertainment venues, including the Bon Secours Wellness Arena, to meet with representatives and see if the regulations for accessible seating are being met. Keyes also traveled to Texas last year and worked with consulting company Accessology to become certified in the architectural aspects of the ADA. The first runner-up in this year’s Miss South Carolina pageant, Miss Coastal Islands Suzi Roberts, has a personal motto that echoes Keyes’ sentiments. She has been using the hashtag “A Force, Not a Face” throughout the pageant season to show how pageantry isn’t just about a pretty face anymore.

“I hold Miss South Carolina and Miss heritage, was the only full Asian contestant at America accountable to start a movement, this year’s competition. Her platform focused not just to wear a crown for notoriety,” Rob- on diversity and challenged the Eurocentric erts said. standards of beauty that might discourage A former Atlanta Falcons cheerleader, women of different racial backgrounds from Roberts used her lifelong love of dance and competing in pageants. artistic expression to form her own startup.

“My parents were hesitant to let me comShe is the founder of The StART Initia- pete in pageants because of the frightening tive, which helps expose children to music, costs and the stereotype of only beautiful dance, theater and visual arts. This mission blondes winning,” she said. carried over into her platform in this year’s Pham proved that stereotype wrong when pageant, which focused on children’s issues she won the Teen Academic Award, her very including foster care, adoption and child first scholarship. abuse prevention.

Although none of these contestants left The recently crowned Miss USA has led Columbia with the title, they did come away the way in redefining pageantry. An African- with a strong belief in the relevance of pagAmerican Army commander, Deshauna Bar- eants. “I think pageants are important to ber represents the diversification and prog- society, because women are advocating for ress that pageants have made since their social issues that need to be addressed,” inception.

Keyes said.

Although pageants have come a long way, Roberts agrees that our state’s pageant still has a long way to go, especially when it comes to diversity. “I think that is one area where our state specifically could improve,” Roberts said.

Miss Blue Ridge Foothills Teen Trina Pham has made it her mission to improve this aspect of pageantry. The Sophie Keyes, Miss Greenville Technical Charter High Greater Easley School student, who has Vietnamese

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Upstate residents named local Man and Woman of the Year The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Upstate chapter named two Upstate residents as this year’s local Man and Woman of the Year. Susanna Merriman of Anderson and Cornell Sweeney Jr. of Simpsonville raised over $105,000 and $84,000, respectively, in support of LLS’s mission to find a cure to blood cancers and to ensure that all patients have access to the necessary

treatments. Sweeney also won the overall Man of the Year title for the state of South Carolina, and Merriman received runner up for Woman of the Year of South Carolina.

All candidates who compete in the 10-week fundraising campaign are judged solely on their success in raising money, and are then considered for the title of national Man and Woman of the Year, which will be announced later this summer.

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The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) recently launched two new information sources for the public to find local produce and search food establishment inspection scores with ease.

A new web-based app, developed through a partnership with the S.C. Department of Agriculture, S.C. Department of Social Services and S.C. Association of Farmers Markets, will help individuals find and buy fresh local produce in the state. The free S.C. Farmers and Roadside Market app includes an interactive map that “shows the location, hours of operation and accepted payment types, including WIC, SNAP and senior voucher programs, for over 200 farmers markets and roadside produce stands across the state,” according to DHEC. The app also includes healthy recipes each month featuring in-season produce.

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“This app provides many benefits to users by enabling them to locate nearby farmers markets and increasing access to healthy food all while supporting South Carolina farmers and our state’s number one industry,” S.C. Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers said in a release.

Data for the app was collected through the development of the S.C. Fruit and Vegetable Outlet Inventory created by the organizations involved in the app launch. The DHEC community health staff surveyed 229 local markets throughout April, May and June of last year. The data will also be included as part of the S.C. Obesity Action Plan and will be used to identify areas of the state where access to fresh produce may need to be improved, according to DHEC. “Access to fresh fruits and vegetables can be a defining factor that distinguishes a thriving community from a disadvantaged one,” Lisa Davis, DHEC director of health services, said in a release. “The app makes it easy to find local, affordable options for

fresh produce throughout the state, which can help empower people to make healthy eating choices for their families.”

DHEC also launched the S.C. Food Grades web application that provides the public with information on risk-based inspection scores and reports for restaurants, grocery stores and food trucks, among others. IndiS.C. Food Grades app: viduals can use the map search www.scdhec.gov/foodgrades tool to find any DHEC-permitted retail food establishments S.C. Farmers and Roadside Market app: and view their two most recent www.scdhec.gov/farmersmarkets inspection scores, as well as recent inspection reports. lina by DHEC annually or quarterly, and are Risk-based inspections are conducted on based on an establishment’s food processes over 18,000 establishments in South Caro- and their compliance history.

Environmental issues facing the region by Chris Starker

Summertime smackdown for mosquitoes As an African proverb reminds us, “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in the room.” Summer is prime time for lots of outdoor fun, but you can expect some uninvited guests — mosquitoes are coming whether you like it or not. Don’t let mosquitoes ruin your next picnic, but keep in mind another proverb: “You don’t need a cannon to kill a mosquito.”

Mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile Virus still remain a problem in many states. Now with the potential for the Zika virus, some municipalities have ramped up mosquito spraying in an effort to minimize exposure to mosquito bites. Mosquito sprays typically contain permethrin, a synthetic chemical that acts as both an insecticide and a repellent. It can also negatively affect fish, frogs and beneficial garden bugs such as honeybees, butterflies, ladybugs and wasps.

Pyrethroid insecticides are some of the most widely used pesticides in the world because they are believed to be less harmful to than other pesticides. Yet the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends remaining indoors, closing windows, turning off air conditioners and keeping pets indoors during sprays. The decision to spray insecticides should balance the risks versus the benefits.

Spraying insecticides may provide a short-term reduction in mosquitoes, but it is ineffective in the absence of other management methods. The CDC strongly advises an integrated approach

for managing mosquitoes, stating that pesticide sprays should be used only when mosquito samples test positive for threatening diseases. In fact, many cities have curtailed spray programs in favor of education and outreach, which they find more effective for mosquito control while maintaining a healthier environment for people, pets and gardens.

If you have concerns about pesticides and want to avoid exposure to them, check with your local government for an opt-out option and let them know you want to keep pesticides away from your property.

In the meantime, here are some effective steps you can take to reduce mosquito populations in your area and reclaim your backyard.

Step 1: Eliminate breeding habitat Getting rid of breeding sites is the first step in lowering the number of mosquitoes in your yard.

A mosquito can lay up to 200 eggs in something as small as a bottle cap, which is why removing standing water is critical. Empty any open containers that can catch rainwater. Maintain rain gardens and drainage areas to allow water to drain fully. Check air conditioning drip pans and make sure the gutters on your home are clear of leaves. Install mesh on your rain barrels and keep trash containers covered. Regularly change water in birdbaths and drip trays under flowerpots. Be aware of holes in tree stumps. Turn over boats or kayaks, and shake out tarps over firewood and outdoor pools.

Even after you get rid of the water in buckets or pots, eggs can remain stuck to the sides and survive for months. After dumping water from a vessel, scrub right above the water line, which is where the mosquitoes lay their eggs.

Step 2: Make your property unattractive for mosquitoes Keeping grass and shrubbery well-trimmed helps control mosquito populations since adult mosquitoes seek cool, shaded areas to keep out of the sun. But take care not to cut your grass too short, as this may inhibit root growth and increase the need for watering. So mow frequently to maintain grass at a moderate height. This keeps your lawn healthy, improves water efficiency and discourages mosquitoes.

Additionally, some plants can make it more difficult for mosquitoes to find you: lavender, thyme and scented geranium mask scents; wormwood, santolina, tansy and lavender actively repel; and citronella grass contains substances toxic to insects.

so long-sleeved shirts will increase protection.

For added defense, opt for clothing with built-in repellent. Simple electric fans can also help. Since mosquitoes are relatively weak and slow fliers, the added breeze can make it difficult for them to reach you. Plus, fans also disperse the CO2 we exhale that allows them to find you.

Step 4: Work with your neighbors It won’t do a lot of good to reduce mosquito populations in your own yard if your nextdoor neighbor is providing mosquito breeding grounds. Adequate mosquito control is achieved when everyone pitches in, so encourage your neighbors to also adopt mosquito control habits to keep the whole community safe.

Chris Starker is a project manager in the Clean Air & Water Program at Upstate Forever.

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Consider including native plants such as wax myrtles, beautyberry and bee balm that repel mosquitoes while providing foraging habitat for bees, butterflies and many species of birds.

Greenville County Mosquito Hotline: bit.ly/mosquito-hotline

Step 3: Wear appropriate clothing and utilize fans

CDC Zika information: cdc.gov/zika

Mosquitoes typically target your lower extremities, so light and breathable long pants will provide the greatest benefit. Still, some species of mosquitoes like to sneak up from behind and nip your elbows,

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Hagood Mill to host Banjo Extravaganza Hagood Mill will host a Banjo Extravaganza on Saturday, July 16. The Blue Ridge Rounders will open the show with live music at 11:30 a.m.

Two-time national banjo champion, Charles Wood, and Ashevillebased band Nitrograss will perform from 1–3 p.m.

Hagood Mill will offer a variety of “old time” instrument workshops during the event, as well as traditional arts demonstrations that include blacksmithing, bowl-digging, moonshining, pottery and more. There will also be a two-hour fiddling workshop that costs $5 in preparation for the South Carolina Old Time Fiddling Championship in September. Hagood Mill’s centerpiece, an 1845 water-powered gristmill, and other demonstrations will be running from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Admission is free, and there is a $5 parking fee.

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Habitat of Greenville receives four-star rating

Blue Ridge Cooperative and Blue Ridge Security Solutions present beneficiaries with funds

Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County received a four-star rating for the third consecutive year from Charity Navigator, one of the nation’s largest independent charity evaluators.

Charity Navigator helps guide giving by evaluating the financial health, accountability and transparency of over 8,000 charities.

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative employees Tony Kelley and Mark McCall (left) recently presented The Dream Center of Pickens County a check for $17,000 from the 19th annual Blue Ridge Fest. Accepting on behalf of The Dream Center (pictured left to right) were Michael Barnes, Joey Turner, Ashley Cox, Amanda Taylor, Chris and Jim Wilson, as well as co-founders Aimee White and Shannon Leatherwood.

For more information, visit charitynavigator.org.

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Anderson Lights of Hope to host car, truck and motorcycle show Anderson Lights of Hope, a local nonprofit organization, will host the Hot Rods & Sparks car, truck and motorcycle show on Saturday, July 9 at Whitehall Park, across the street from the Anderson Civic Center. Vehicle judging will begin at 12 p.m. The cost for admission is free to the public, judged exhibitors are $25 in advance and $30 the day of the event and non-judged exhibitors are $10. All proceeds go toward Anderson Lights of Hope, the Cancer Association of Anderson and PNG Block Party/Main Street Program. The event will also feature live music by Adam Carter, The Soulution Band and Dennis Murphy. Prizes include gift baskets from Advanced Auto Parts, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Harley Davidson Motorcycles and an autographed photo of Dabo Swinney, among others. Raffle tickets are $5 each or $20 for five tickets.

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AWARD Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative employee Tony Kelley (seated right) and Blue Ridge Security Solutions employee Judy Keenan (seated middle) recently presented the Center for Developmental Services a check for $16,000 from the 19th annual Blue Ridge Fest. Accepting on behalf of the Center for Developmental Services was Dana McConnell, executive director (seated left). Also in attendance (standing from left to right) were Blue Ridge Fest sponsors Tracy Lamb and Henry Harrison of American Services Inc.; Cathy Tabor, Bill Love, Debra Capps and Lee Alexander of Earth FM; Kim Mann of Integral Solutions Group; and John Cessarich of WYFF 4. veterans, Upstate Warrior Solution and Veteran Scholarships Forever. The donation came from the Poinsett Club’s military lecture series, which has raised a total of $15,000 since the series’ launch. The military lecture series began in November 2010 and has featured 46 guest speakers, including four-star Gen. Walter Boomer of Desert Storm and Pfc. “Pee Wee” Martin.

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Hub City Empty Bowls will host another art-based campaign to feed the hungry of Spartanburg County.

The public is invited to make handcrafted pottery bowls at free public events during the summer. The bowls will be used for the annual Soup Day fundraiser this fall, where the bowls will be sold for a $15 donation. There will be three bowl-making sessions:

Triune Mercy Center named a Fluor Global Community Project Fund winner Triune Mercy Center was selected by Fluor Corporation as one of ten community projects to receive $10,000 from the company’s $100,000 Global Community Project Fund, along with support from Fluor employee volunteers. The Triune Mercy Center is a mission church near downtown Greenville that provides hot meals, case management, mental health counseling, legal aid and health care to those in need. Triune will use the funds and volunteer support to landscape its grounds and parking lot.

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Saturday, July 16, from 10 a.m.–noon and 1–3 p.m. in the Spartanburg Art Museum studios at the Chapman Cultural Center; Thursday, July 21, from 6–8:30 p.m. at West Main Artists CoOp; and Saturday, Aug. 27, from 10 a.m.–noon and 1–3 p.m. in the Spartanburg Art Museum studios at the Chapman Cultural Center. All proceeds from the fundraiser will go to the food pantry at Total Ministries to help feed the needy in Spartanburg.

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Contact: Kathy Slayter 864.982.7772 The Marchant Company

WELCOME! JOEL DEWEESE

Joining our Greenville Team of Real Estate Professionals

Proud supporters of the American dream www.cbcaine.com

OPEN SUNDAY, JULY 10 from 2-4PM THORNBLADE

SPAUDLING FARM

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403 Father Hugo Drive • 6BR/4f2hBA

403 Spaulding Lake Dr • 4BR/4.5BA

$899,900 · MLS# 1300140 Trish Aston · 275-5452 CODE 2931764

SPAULDING FARM

$549,900 · MLS# 1309165 Margaret Marcum · 420-3125 CODE 3089704

SHENANDOAH FARMS

112 Tuscany Falls Drive • 5BR/3.5BA

249 Strasburg Drive • 5BR/3.5BA

CASTLETON

PREFERRED BUILDERS

LEXINGTON PLACE

$589,000 · MLS# 1319044 Margaret Marcum · 420-3125 CODE 3488278

NORTH MAIN

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$379,500 · MLS# 1324635 Tim Keagy · 905-3304 CODE 3714444

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9 Block House Rd • 4BR/3.5BA

$649,900 · MLS# 1324302 Shelby Jordan · 329-7811 CODE 3698288

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25 Churchill Downs • 4BR/4.5BA

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1 Hunters Run • 5BR/4.5BA

$659,000 · MLS# 1318536 Jenny McCord · 313-2680 CODE 3465238

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SPAULDING FARM

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115 Northwood Ave • 3BR/2.5BA

$349,000 · MLS# 1324159 Amy Hart · 354-3266 CODE 3693132

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$330,000 · MLS# 1316583 Becky Orders · 270-0743 CODE 3368415

OPEN NEW COMMUNITIES Alta Vista Place

Arthur Rutenberg Homes

UPSTATESCHOMETOURS.CDANJOYNER.COM/HOME/VFMPCU

Tues.-Sat. 11 am-5pm, Sun. 2-4 pm Units starting @ $949,000 CODE 2931606 AltaVistaPlace.com, 622-5253

Mon.-Sat. 9 am-5pm Sun. 12-5 pm ARHUpstateSC.com For further info, call 655-7702

304 Lexington Place • 3BR/2BA

105 Hylands Trail • 3BR/2.5BA

$215,000 · MLS# 1308510 Sheila Hasser · 313-7409 CODE 3089679

The Oaks at Roper Mountain Open Sunday 2-4pm MLS 1310435 • $636,000 CODE 3142140 Cynthia Rehberg, 884-9953

Text each property’s unique CODE to 67299 for pictures and details.

$193,500 · MLS# 1320203 Clarence Lewis · 907-2610 CODE 3537071

UPSTATESCHOMETOURS.CDANJOYNER.COM/HOME/N864CH

ALSO OPEN GREER

216 Hammet Rd. • 4BR/4.5BA

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$685,000 · MLS# 1323268 CODE 3658005 Christine Cashman · 688-4209

HIGHLAND CREEK

200 Dunrobin Ln • 4BR/3BA

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$292,900 · MLS# 1322086 CODE 3609219 Chet & Beth Smith · 458-7653

ASHBY PARK

6 Chesden Hall Ct. • 3BR/2.5BA

$270,000 · MLS# 1324076 CODE 3689887 Charee McConchie · 419-4554

ORCHARD FARMS

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$227,500 · MLS# 1323436 CODE 3666499 Kathy Cassity · 414-8408

DRUID HILLS

18 Druid Street • 2BR/2.5BA

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31 Halehaven Dr. • 4BR/2.5BA

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$199,900 · MLS# 1324090 CODE 3690916 Lisa Norton Reese · 414-3477

Agents on call this weekend

Mary Ann Linning 346-2039 Pelham Road

Jon Ferguson 616-7651 Garlington Road

Donna Stegall 414-1212 Easley

Diane Shapuite 505-3692 Simpsonville

Vicki G. Roark 979-8425 Augusta Road

Norm MacDonald 313-7353 N. Pleasantburg

Stephanie Miller 879-4239 Greer

Breean O’Neill 252-3940 Downtown

Becca Crocker 270-3296 Prop. Mgmt.

Interested in Buying or Selling a home? Contact one of our Agents on Call or visit us online at CDanJoyner.com

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SOLD: Greenville Transactions For the week of June 6 – 10, 2016 SUBD.

PRICE SELLER

$7,059,210 PELHAM AT 85 $6,800,000 JOHN C. HAWKINS ESTATE $3,782,400

$2,325,000 KINGSBRIDGE $1,225,000

$1,220,000

$1,050,908 THE OAKS AT FOWLER $920,000

$812,000 MELROSE $795,000 ROCKY CREEK ACRES $779,412 CLUB FOREST $742,000 COBBLESTONE $740,000 EXCHANGED PLANNED DEV. $725,000 COBBLESTONE $675,000 CHANTICLEER $640,000 STONEBROOK FARMS $627,000

$595,000 SPAULDING FARMS $585,000 CHANTICLEER TOWNS $580,000 GOWER ESTATES $569,000 VILLAS @ WEST GEORGIA $565,000 CLUB FOREST $550,000

$550,000 MAHAFFEY PLANTATION $540,000 ALTA VISTA $520,000 ASHETON $493,000

$480,000

$475,000 JUDSON MILL $469,000 ASHETON LAKES $461,000 BELHAVEN VILLAGE@HOLLINGSWORTH $442,980 STONEHAVEN $440,000 FIVE FORKS PLANTATION $434,872

$430,000 WEATHERSTONE $428,039 STONEHAVEN $409,000 BELL’S GRANT $408,500

$396,000 BELL’S GRANT $395,000 BRIGHTON $387,000 COMMONS@HAMPTON PINCKNEY $385,000 COMMONS@HAMPTON PINCKNEY $385,000 SUGAR MILL $383,500 STONEHAVEN $380,500

$380,000 VALLEY OAKS $380,000 THE LOFTS AT MILLS MILL $345,000 VERDMONT $339,671 ADAMS CREEK $339,457 PLANTATION GREENE $338,500 BRIARWOOD MEADOWS $334,000

$330,000 WOODLAND CHASE $329,580 HOLLAND TRACE $325,000 HILLSIDE ACRES $323,000 CAMDEN COURT $320,000 SHADOWOOD $318,000 GLENS @ LEXINGTON PLACE $317,500 HIGHLAND CREEK $315,000 COACHMAN PLANTATION $309,000 DUNEAN HEIGHTS $300,000

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BUYER

ADDRESS

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FORD TOWNE ESTATES $285,100 GREYTHORNE $284,500 KILGORE FARMS $284,000 CAMDEN COURT $275,000 GREYSTONE AT NEELY FARMS $273,000 KELSEY GLEN $267,271 THE RESERVES AT RAVENWOOD $260,000 NEELY FARM - DEER SPRINGS $255,000 WINDSTONE $255,000 LOOK-UP FOREST $255,000 CROSSGATE AT REMINGTON $250,000 FORRESTER HEIGHTS $245,000 EDWARD SPRINGS $244,366 COUNTRY MEADOWS $244,000 ST MARK COTTAGES $240,400

$240,000 NEELY FARM - LAUREL BROOK $239,990 FOXGLOVE $238,000 BETHEL HEIGHTS $235,000 TOWNES AT RIVERWOOD FARM $235,000 COVE AT SAVANNAH POINTE $228,000 AMBER OAKS FARM $226,500 TOWNES AT RIVERWOOD FARM $226,000 RIVERSIDE COMMONS $225,297 WOODLAND CREEK $225,000 LAKE CUNNINGHAM $224,850 WEBBINGTON $222,000 SHERIDAN PLACE $221,800 GRIFFIN PARK $220,894 WINDERMERE $220,000 THE LOFTS AT MILLS MILL $220,000 COUNTRY VIEW $219,900 LAKE CUNNINGHAM $219,635 SUMMERFIELD $219,000 FORRESTER WOODS $217,500

$217,000 WINDSOR CREEK $215,444 EDWARD SPRINGS $214,000

$214,000 SHARON PLACE $212,000 WINDSOR CREEK $211,283 THE BRIO $211,000 PLANTERS ROW $210,000 THE HEIGHTS $210,000 POINSETTIA $210,000 DAVENPORT $209,000 BEAUCLAIRE $208,000 WATERTON $208,000 MORNING MIST FARM $207,000 THE RESERVE AT RIVERSIDE $207,000 RICELAN SPRINGS $206,000 COTTAGES AT NEELY $202,950

$200,000 WATERTON $199,000 SHEILA AVENUE $198,600 BRYSON MEADOWS $198,000 MORNING MIST FARM $197,000 PLANTERS ROW $197,000 MERRIFIELD PARK $195,000

$194,000

$193,500 THE HEIGHTS $189,900

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Tucker Branch

37 Donemere Way, Fountain Inn 29644

Home Info Price: Starting in the high $170’s Schools: Fountain Inn Elementary, Bryson Middle, and Hillcrest High Contact Info: Trey Boiter | 864.354.0622 treyboiter@greatsouthernhomes.com JoAnn Williams | 864-420-4019 joannwilliams@greatsouthernhomes.com

Buyer Great Southern Homes is excited to now be a part of the Greenville community, with one of their premier communities being Tucker Branch. Tucker Branch is an upscale community, conveniently located near downtown Fountain Inn and less than two miles from I-385.

These Great Southern Homes have been tested by the Green Smart Homes program, to ensure maximum energy efficiency for optimal energy use. Honeywell’s Tuxedo Touch Home automation system is also a feature in the homes at

Tucker Branch, which allows you to control your homes lights and security while away, at no extra cost. Great Southern Homes is also building homes in the following neighborhoods: Whispering Oaks, Rolands Crossing (Spartanburg), Victoria Park and Weatherstone. For more information please visit our website at www.greatsouthernhomes.com.

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The Marchant Company recognizes agents for excellent performance in May 2016

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As the Upstate’s “Signature Real Estate Agency,” The Marchant Company is a small boutique business of just 30 agents that is consistently a top performer in Greenville. The

Marchant Company is proud to recognize the following REALTORS® for outstanding performance in May 2016: Congratulated by Seabrook Marchant, broker-in-charge, agents honored included: Kathy Slayter – Top Unit Listing Leader of the Month Charlotte Faulk – Top Volume Listing B. Marchant McCrory and Turpin Leader of the Month Charlotte Faulk & Mikel-Ann Scott – Top Unit Sales Leader of the Month Tom Marchant – Top Volume Sales Leader of the Month Anne Marchant & Brian Marchant -Unit Listing Team of the Month Anne Marchant & Brian Marchant– Unit Sales Team of the Month Nancy McCrory & Karen Turpin– Volume Sales Team of the Month Agents at The Marchant Company are dedicated to providing continued on PAGE 31

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3559 Ballenger Road - Greer

33 Rock Creek Drive - Augusta Road

105 Gascony Drive - Montebello

$875,000 • 1320397 • 4BR/4BA/1Hf BA

$849,000 • 1319653 • 4BR/4BA/1Hf BA

$699,900 • 1324789 • 4BR/4BA

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25 Cheekwood Court - Glen Meadows

116 Sevier Street - Augusta Road

205 Michaux Court - Chanticleer

19 Graywood Court - Weatherstone

$569,000 • 1324278 • 5BR/5BA/1Hf BA

$569,000 • 1316511 • 3BR/2BA/1Hf BA

$549,900 • 1318952 • 4BR/2BA/1Hf BA

$477,500 • 1320362 • 4BR/3BA/1Hf BA

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7 Waterside Lane - Stillwaters of Lake Robinson

10 Bentley Way - Camden Court

403 Winding River Lane - Whitehall Plantation

222 Deer Spring Lane - Neely Farm

$415,000 • 1317100 • 4BR/3BA/1Hf BA

$295,000 • 1325121 • 4BR/3BA

$279,000 • 1321345 • 4BR/3BA/1Hf BA

$269,900 • 1321856 • 4BR/2BA/1Hf BA

Lydia Johnson • (864) 918-9663 • lydia@marchantco.com

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122 Whiffletree Drive - Neely Farm

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$259,000 • 1322057 • 3BR/2BA/1Hf BA

$228,000 • 1320891 • 4BR/2BA/1Hf BA

$67,900 • 1308543 • Residential Lot

Tom Marchant • (864) 449-1658 • tom@tommarchant.com

Barbara Riggs • (864) 423-2783 • barbriggs@marchantco.com

Lydia Johnson • (864) 918-9663 • lydia@marchantco.com Mikel-Ann Scott • (864) 630-2474 • mikelann@marchantco.com

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The Courtyards on West Georgia Road

Community Info The Courtyards on West Georgia Road Address: 350 Laguna Lane, Simpsonville Price: $357,000 - $398,500 Sq. Ft: 2300-3200

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Take a virtual tour from the comfort of your home at http://homejab.com/property/350-laguna-lane-simpsonville-sc-29680/ Come by The Courtyards on West Georgia Road as we unveil our newest floor plan “The Nelson”, named after the builder’s father.

Annell has designed several floors plans but she truly believes this one lives up to its names meaning “son of a champion”.

The Nelson boasts two large bedrooms on the main level including the Master with a third bedroom upstairs. But the real winner of The Nelson is the spacious and functional Chef‘s Kitchen. Also, having the Dining Room and the Great Room adjacent to the kitchen makes this an authentic open floor plan.

If you are ready to build the home of your dreams, stop by The Courtyards on West Georgia Road this weekend to see all “The Nelson” floor plan has to offer. The next door you open could be the dream home you always wanted!!

The selection of your builder is a very important decision and should not be done hastily. Make sure you do you homework and compare the beautiful homes created by John & Annell Bailey to other Builders in the area. We think you will agree there is no comparison.

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Bill Forrest joins the Anderson office of C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce

that Bill Forrest has joined the company’s Anderson office. He joins Foronda Hall & Associates as a residential real estate sales associate.

Forrest has spent the last 30 years as the owner and operator of Bill’s Restaurant in Anderson, SC. He was previously a business manager for Snyder’s Auto Sales in Greenville. He joins C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS as he commences his post-retirement real estate career.

Forrest received an associates degree in accounting from Forrest Col- Forrest lege in Anderson. He still resides in his hometown of Anderson with his wife, Linda. They are parents to two children, Kristi and Will. In his spare time, Forrest enjoys golf and theatre.

“I am happy to welcome Bill to C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS and our Anderson office. I am confident his previous experiences will serve him well in his real estate endeavors,” said Anush Showghi, Broker-In-Charge of the Anderson Office.

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Dual citizenship

Upstaters make Lowcountry living second nature There’s no denying that we Greenvillians love our city. And there’s no denying that others love our city as demonstrated by the continued growing numbers of newcomers to our hometown.

What’s not to fall in love with in our cool, trendy, hip, eclectic — and above all, friendly — growing town?

But as much as we love it, more and more Greenvillians are opting for second homes in the Lowcountry. The ever-growing areas between Horry to Beaufort counties are filled with beautiful beaches, graceful Southern homes, palmetto trees, shrimp boats, upscale shopping, decadent dining and yes, more and more Greenvillians. What used to be an annual one- or two-week visit to our sunny shores is now a routine drive between the Upstate and coast for a growing number of Upstate families.

“The difference in demographics is amazing,” says Theresa H. Cooper, Realtor and partner in Inland Reality of the Lowcountry and an expert in South Carolina coastal real estate for 27 years. “Until 10 years ago, the persons buying a second home were retirees. Now my clients are mostly baby boomers. What used to be a strong 60 percent of second-home owners who were retired now comprises only 15 percent, with 85 percent being in their late 40s and early 50s.”

What was once thought of as an opportunity that happened later in life, mostly around the retirement years, is now enjoyed by those who aren’t looking at a second home for a slower pace of life but rather to drink up all that a Lowcountry lifestyle has to offer.

Many “Uplows” are still pursuing full-time careers with children in high school or just entering college. Technology allows the luxury of working from home, which may help explain

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But regardless of how much time is spent at a second home, the emphasis is on enjoying the time there.

Second homes are as comfortable and as upscale as the primary home.

Greenville resident Dawn Morgan and her family of five, which includes Murphy the dog, took the plunge four years ago and have never looked Dawn and Murphy taking a break from fishing to enjoy a Lowcountry back. “It was definitely sunset. a dream of ours since the girls were young,” we continued that tradition with our girls, so she says. “My husband and I grew up with when the opportunity came to purchase here, our families vacationing in Charleston and it was an easy decision. We wanted

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Morgan is joined by her husband, Mark, on the weekends, which are mostly spent on the water entertaining family and friends.

She admits that the Lowcountry lifestyle has taken root, leading to the purchase of a boat that can accommodate their growing family — including their new son-in-law, Kevin. “The girls consider Charleston as much their home as Greenville,” Morgan says — so much so that the Morgans’ eldest daughter, Hannah, decided to have her dream wedding on Daniel Island last May. “In our opinion, Charleston is the most beautiful beach city in the world,” Morgan adds.

Perhaps there’s something within our DNA that causes us to yearn for our beautiful Carolina coast, akin to the instinctive drive of migratory birds. An unquenchable restlessness that is relieved when we walk down one of our beaches or look over a marsh divided by saltwater creeks winding their way through bright-green sea grass. The excitement of that first glimpse of Spanish moss hanging from trees as you near your destination, or crossing a bridge and seeing dolphins below. For a South Carolinian, it’s as close to heaven as one can get.

So whether you visit our coast annually or monthly, relish it and all its people have to offer.

In the words of the late author Pat Conroy: “To describe our growing up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, ‘There. That taste. That’s the taste of my childhood.’”

Dawn Morgan and a nine-year-old Hannah. One of many Charleston vacations.

As for me and mine, our hearts are in Greenville, but our souls are on a 3.2-mile strip of land in Beaufort County called Fripp.

In the words of every kid under the age of eight, “Are we there yet?”

Happy summer, Upstaters! Now, go eat some fried shrimp.

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Insects invade the Well as part of Cirque du Soleil show CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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While Cirque du Soleil has wowed audiences worldwide with its artistry and aerobatics, some of the magic happens well before the first audience member steps into the arena.

It takes 19 53-foot trailers to bring the OVO show to town and close to 100 laborers about 16 hours to transform the Bon Secours Wellness Arena into the magical setting for a seven-show run that begins Wednesday, July 13.

OVO, which means “egg” in Portuguese, is a headlong look into a colorful ecosystem teeming with life, where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight or love in a nonstop show of energy and movement.

The show, which debuted in Montreal in 2009 and has since traveled worldwide, features 50 performing artists from 12 countries, including the United States, Colombia, Ukraine, France and Mongolia. Cirque du Soleil originated from a street troupe that roamed the streets of Baie-Saint-Paul, a town near Quebec City in Canada, walking on stilts, juggling, dancing, playing music and breathing fire.

The show starts with a giant egg on stage, obscuring much of the performance space from view.

The largest set element is the wall, which is set against the rear of the stage. The performers climb on it, disappear into it and use

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it as a stage, a platform and a launching pad.

The wall measures 64 feet wide and 30 feet tall. It’s a giant projection surface. There are almost no straight lines on the set, just like the natural world. The wall and stage are curved. Since real spider webs are made up of straight lines, so is the one on the set.

The stage and acrobatic structure had to be adapted from the big top show to arenas.

Since the show was being remounted, new acts were added and the storyline given a small adaptation.

“The show is newly adapted to go into arenas and we’re at the beginning of the arena tour, so it’s been taking two to three days, but in Greenville, we’re going to try to do it in one day,” said Sheldon Abel, the show’s production manager, in a phone interview from the show’s stop in Hartford, Conn.

“We’ll unload at 6 a.m. and build all of the stage in one day. The next day, we’ll bring the artists in.”

The acrobatic structure is 45 feet from the ground and weighs more than 22,000 pounds. The stage floor has 225 panels.

In addition to the stage the audience sees, the crew has to build a complete training structure for the artists to practice and warm up in, Abel said.

“Right now, it’s crazy. We’re just getting our legs with the arena show so it’s very labor-intensive,” Abel said. Eventually, the show will get set-up time down to about 10 hours.

Abel, who has been with Cirque du Soleil for eight years and with the OVO show for six months, said it’s one of the best shows he’s ever seen.

“You’ll see some amazing stuff,” he said.

“When you watch, there’s so much going on that you can could come back again and again and see things you didn’t notice before.”

Abel said the show is very family-friendly and one he’s proud to be associated with.

“We get paid to travel the world and put smiles on faces,” he said. “There are moments in the show that still send a shiver up my spine.”

Stan here, reporting from my swimming pool at Animal Care. It’s a HOT summer and as a dog, it’s tough having to wear a built-in fur coat all the time.

I’m here to warn you about the dangers your dog might face during the summer months. First of all, hopefully everyone knows by now that leaving your dog in a hot car, even just for a few minutes, can be deadly. Make sure you leave the pup at home if you plan on making any stops that aren’t dog-friendly. If your dog likes the water, a kiddie pool or some fun with the water hose is a great way to cool down. And don’t forget to protect their paws from hot pavement! It can heat up throughout the day and burn their protective pads.

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July 16 at 4 p.m.

July 17 at 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.

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The groove goes on After singer’s stint in rehab, jam-band favorites Perpetual Groove are back From 1997 until January of 2013, Savannah band Perpetual Groove worked hard to expand the already broad parameters of jamband music. They were skilled at lengthy, psychedelic experimentation within their songs, for sure, but they were also adept at incorporating unexpected influences. They mixed in guitar-heavy anthemic rock, shimmering electronics and more muted, contemplative sections to counter the instrumental fireworks.

The reward for all that musical adventurousness was a hardcore fan base that was fiercely loyal to the group. And a large portion of that audience was taken by surprise in 2013 when the band abruptly announced a hiatus, with three of the four members starting a different group and singer/guitarist Brock Butler taking time off to, as he said in a statement, “break bad habits.”

As it turns out, Butler was in the throes of drug addiction (he has hinted in the past that the problem was opiate-related), and

Perpetual Groove’s Adam Perry, Brock Butler and Matt McDonald

he landed in a yearlong court-ordered drug rehabilitation program in 2014. But while he was there, he heard from an old friend: PGroove keyboardist Matt McDonald.

“In the middle of that, Matt and I started talking again, about the potential for the future,” Butler says. “After everyone had a little bit of time to be independent of Perpetual Groove, everyone was hip to doing it again.”

In fact, after Butler successfully completed the program in 2015, the band did a well-received reunion show at the Georgia Theatre,

and a full-scale band reunion was underway.

“We’ve done some touring and engagements over the last year, and this fall we’re going to do an extensive tour,” Butler says.

One of those shows will be an acoustic trio performance at Independent Public Ale House in Greenville this Tuesday.

It might be surprising that a band so well known for psychedelic rock improvisation would play a stripped-down trio set, but Butler says that it’s not as out of character as some might think. “A good bit of our cata-

log has always started with an acoustic guitar,” he says. “A testament to a quality song is how it exists when it’s stripped down to less bells and whistles.”

A full tour is a big step for Butler and the band, but he says that everyone is ready to get back at it. “I think I’ve executed getting back into the live musician life pretty well,” he says. “I really think it was a burnout situation for everybody involved, and also I think before the hiatus, we’d all gotten to a point where we were spinning out. I don’t think anybody was all that happy with the situation, and in my case I was just self-medicating to try to continue. So taking time away from it, everybody had the opportunity to realize, at least in my case, how much I really did value it in my life and how much I missed it. My hopes are that everybody with the time off has been able to reassess not just how we approach the band but how we approach our lives.”

Perpetual Groove (acoustic trio show) When: July 12, 8 p.m.

Where: Independent Public Ale House 110 Poinsett Hwy. Tickets: $8 advance or $10 at the door Information: 552-1265 ipagreenville.com

Must-See Movies By Eric Rogers

Harsh truths in a sympathetic eye

Three documentaries show German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s sincerity and empathy Werner Herzog is a German documentary filmmaker whose films are characterized by slow, simple pacing and a sincerity that comes from his ability to show genuine empathy for the people he’s interviewing. The tone of his films is often established by a haunting guitar-based musical score. When interviewing his subjects, Herzog has a kindness to his voice that comes off as nonjudgmental. As a result, he captures revealing and emotional responses.

He also takes a lot of time between interviews to pause and show his viewers the details of his subjects’ lives, whether it is their living space, their relationships or a crime scene.

“INTO THE ABYSS” 2011 This film is about a crime committed in a small town in Texas in 2001. One of the subjects of the film was on death row during the shooting of the film, and another is serving a life

sentence. As Herzog speaks with the victims, as well as those accused of the crime, we begin to see just how tragic all of their lives have been.

Practically everyone interviewed has dealt with criminality and tragedy.

Hearing them speak about their lives in this depressed rural town, it’s difficult to imagine that any of them ever had a chance at normalcy.

“GRIZZLY MAN” 2005 “Grizzly Man” refers to Timothy Treadwell, a man who loved bears so much that he chose to live with them until he met a tragic end. Much of the footage comes from Treadwell’s own video diaries. Even the bear attack that killed

Treadwell was recorded.

There’s a scene where Herzog tells Treadwell’s business partner that she must never ever listen to the audio of his death. She tearfully says, “I know, Werner.

I’m never going to.” That exchange tells you all you need to know about Herzog’s directing style. He cares about the people he is interviewing.

“FROM ONE SECOND TO THE NEXT” 2013 This film should be required viewing prior to anyone receiving a driver’s license. It’s available on both You Tube and Netflix. In this 34-minute documentary, Herzog interviews the family members of victims of texting and driving. He also interviews some of the drivers involved

in the accidents. One story involves a young boy struck on the side of the road who is now paralyzed from the chest down. Another involves a woman struck while walking her dog. Although she lived, her medical bills have amounted to over a million dollars. Another involves a young man who texted “I love you” to his wife just prior to rear-ending an Amish family in a carriage, resulting in three deaths. A fourth involves a heartbroken man who killed two people.

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

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CULTURE Sound Bites JAKE XINGU W/ RIGOR MORRIS & LEOS NEED LOVE, TOO Radio Room, 2845 Pleasantburg Drive Thursday, July 14, 9:30 p.m.

What kind of music, exactly, does Jake Xingu perform? Does he play DIY electronic pop songs with a childlike whine of a voice and programmed beats backing him up? Or does he play naïve, chaotic DanielJohnston-style acoustic songs while wearing a dress? The answer, like Xingu’s music, is tough to pin down. “After my wife and I had a son in 2012, that really put a damper on my musical activities,” Xingu says.

“So I when I started getting back into it late last year, I eased into it in an acoustic way. But the last show I played, it was a lot more electronic and noisy.

So I’m slowly getting back into it.” Fair enough; now let’s talk about that singular musical style, a blend of melodic pop and pure anarchic cacophony. “It’s definitely a weird mix of things,” he says. “My dad was really into the Moody Blues and ELO and The Alan Parsons Project, so I grew up listening to that kind of stuff. From there I got really into choir and marching band in high school, and from there I went straight into punk and avant-garde noise music.”

ROB NANCE & THE LOST SOULS Smiley’s Acoustic Cafe, 111 Augusta St. Saturday, July 9, 6:30 p.m.

Free The difference between Rob Nance & the Lost Souls’ 2013 debut, “Lost Souls & Locked Doors,” and their new album, “Signal Fires,” is fascinating. While the former is a not-bad-atall collection of rough-hewn acoustic Americana, the latter is a blissfully melodic, cohesive album that combines delicately performed, folk-influenced acoustic music and an atmospheric production. “When we did the first record, even though I’d been playing music for a good while, I was essentially a novice,” Nance says. “I think I was kind of hung up on us doing live takes and that being the exact picture of what we were doing. But in the process of that, I started to learn the ropes to a certain extent. I was starting to develop more of an appreciation for the process of recording and being in the studio. So while I’m very proud of ‘Lost Souls,’ by the time we got around to doing ‘Signal Fires,’ we were a little more ready to explore and kind of push ourselves a bit more.”

TRAE PIERCE & THE T-STONES Independent Public Ale House, 110 Poinsett Hwy. Wednesday, July 13, 9 p.m. $5 in advance/$8 at the door

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Before forming his viciously versatile new funk-rock band The T-Stones, bassist and bandleader Trae Pierce spent time with the Ohio Players and the Blind Boys of Alabama. And he took more than a little of those groups’ knowledge with him when he formed his own band. “I learned pretty much everything from them,” he says. “Like how to run my band like a business, as they would. That’s the first thing. And then there’s the discipline of getting better on your instrument. And then, of course, there’s the entertainment part. I don’t care if I’m at a 150-seat venue or 1,500, I perform the same way.”

As for their tight and heavy mix of rock and funk, Pierce says that combination makes them flexible.

“We can fit in with pretty much anybody,” he says. “If we play with a funk band, we’re going to satisfy that audience. If we play with a rock band, we’re still going to satisfy that audience.”

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Pickle, jam, freeze, ferment – repeat

These three books provide plenty to satisfy locavores’ appetites Locavores whose taste buds yearn for homemade yogurt, or are tempted to try brewing a batch of hard apple cider, will appreciate the in-depth approach of “Real Food Fermentation” from author Alex Lewin. Lewin does his best to keep his reader from making any uninformed mistakes. Before sharing his substantial array of recipes, he introduces the “why” and the science behind fermentation processes that takes the reader on easy-tounderstand, mini-science adventures.

In the book “Canning for a New Generation,” author Liana Krissoff readily admits that her many food “In 2007, the Oxford American Dictionary became longer by one curious yet satisfying word: ‘locavore.’”

This opening sentence of “The Locavore’s Kitchen,” from author Marilou Suszko, launches a delicious work celebrating the passions of the culinary movement dedicated to growing, cooking, buying and preserving food raised close to home.

With Greenville now a premier stop on Southern farm-to-table food trails and an overflowing abundance filling farmers markets from Travelers Rest to Fountain Inn, locavores will easily find this a trusted sourcebook for capturing the best in seasonal flavors.

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adventures in the Big Apple satisfied her food curiosities, but left her increasingly hungry for the “real” foods from her childhood — the “rosy, homemade applesauce, watermelon rind pickles and black plum jam with cardamom.”

What has resulted is a culinary homecoming in the form of a clear, modern, easy-to-follow canning book with almost 300 pages of recipes that will leave readers ready to start serving up the jellies, jams and veggies that feed the soul as well as the body.

All these books are available at the Greenville County Library System. Library cardholders can easily reserve these books through the library’s website, greenvillelibrary.org.

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CULTURE Sound Check Notes on the Music Scene with Vincent Harris

Aoife O’Donovan’s magic hour Singer/songwriter brings her indie folk to TD Stage

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There’s a warmth, an ethereal sweetness to Aoife (pronounced eee-fuh) O’Donovan’s album “In the Magic Hour.” Her crystal-clear voice sighs and whispers and wails over a drifting body of music that seems to change shape from verse to verse. A mandolin moves forward, then recedes; a wash of cymbals flashes briefly; a piano or guitar will float blurrily by… it’s almost like a dreamscape of music where each element is immediate but just out of reach.

It serves O’Donovan’s subject matter well, because the album, to a large degree, is about death and memory. It’s a study in muted sadness and joyful nostalgia that’s an embarrassment of riches both emotionally and musically.

O’Donovan was touring behind her previous album “Fossils” while writing “In the Magic Hour,” and only as time went on did the theme of her grandfather’s death reveal itself. She found herself in an interesting mix of emotions while writing.

“I think there’s a difference between nostalgia and sadness,” she says. “A lot of it was written in the wake of my grandfather’s death, which of course was a sad thing. But when a 93- or 94-year-old person passes away, it’s not sad in the way that it is when a younger person passes away. He led a very long and full life. It’s not sad to grow older, but there is a sense of loss. And I think I was trying to channel the contrary nature of being melancholy without having to be sad.”

As for the album’s layered, atmospheric approach, that, too, would only come with time. “It started out in a very spare style with just [Grammy-nominated producer] Tucker Martine and me in the studio getting the record started,” she says. “So it was mainly guitar and vocals. But when we moved past that and started adding these instruments, piece by piece, the mood just started presenting itself.”

As the album took shape, O’Donovan says

that each musician who came in to play was able to build on what had already been recorded. “I remember a week in December when we were doing a bunch of overdubs on the tracks, and one day Chris Thile came in and played these beautiful mandolin lines, and the next day Eyvind Kang, the violist, came in and started doing all of these beautiful parts, and having Chris come in first definitely changed what Eyvind did, and the guitar player who came in after him was informed by both of them. Everything was informed by what came before it, which turned out to be the perfect order.”

Ultimately, though, O’Donovan says that her collaboration with Martine on “In the Magic Hour” was the most important factor in how the album turned out. “What I always wanted to get out of this record was having him help arrange the songs more than on “Fossils,” because those songs kind of pre-dated my relationship with him,” she says. “With this album, I really wanted him to put his stamp on it, and I think the mood that his records and the sonic landscape that he’s known for creating are really present on this record, and I’m really happy about that.”

The Lone Bellow w/ Aoife O’Donovan When: Friday, July 8, 7:30 p.m.

Where: TD Stage, 300 N. Main St. Tickets: $35-$50 Info: 467-3000, peacecenter.org

Vincent Harris covers music and sports for the Greenville Journal.

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SCCT season brings children’s favorites to the stage CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and all the Whos in Whoville.

Why it was picked: “Dr. Seuss is such a great writer for young people, and this musical adaptation brings the stories triumphantly to the stage — a lively, colorful compilation of the best of Dr. Seuss,” said Bisson.

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From “Beauty and the Beast” to hardnot-to-root-for Charlie Brown to the most beloved Doctor in the world – one named Seuss – the South Carolina Children’s Theater’s 2016–17 Main Stage season will bring children’s favorites to life on stage.

Main Stage tickets are $27 for adults and $18 for children under 18. Discounted group rates are available, as are season subscriptions.

“A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS” Dec. 2–11

“BEAUTY AND THE BEAST” Sept. 10–25 When SCCT last produced “Beauty and the Beast,” it set the theater record for most popular show. The Academy Award-winning film comes to life in the story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress.

Why it was picked: “We’ve been trying to get the rights for this one every year since 2007, and this was the first year since that they have been available to us. A great big Broadway-style musical for our season opener,” said Betsy Bisson, the SCCT’s artistic and education director.

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Fountain Inn Natural Gas Friday Night Bandstand

Commerce Park 200 Depot St., Fountain Inn 7-9 p.m.

Fridays thru Aug. 12 FREE Bring a chair and come hear some great music at the Farmers Market Pavilion at Commerce Park in Foun-

es. It reminds us to always be a good friend and believe in yourself.”

This musical adaption of the classic animated television special brings the holiday season back to life and tells the true meaning of Christmas.

Why it was picked: “It’s perfect for our audience,” said Bisson. “There’s something special about Charlie Brown’s unshakeable belief in that little fir tree, and it helps us all remember that Christmas isn’t about the wrapped gifts and commercialism, but about giving from the heart. It’s also got great music — traditional Christmas tunes mixed with jazz.”

“MISS NELSON IS MISSING!” June 17–25, 2017

“CHARLOTTE’S WEB” Jan. 27–Feb. 5, 2017 The Children’s Literature Association has called “Charlotte’s Web” the best American children’s book of the past 200 years. This childhood classic tells a story about an unlikely friendship between a lovable pig and everyone’s favorite spider.

Why it was picked: “I absolutely adore the story,” said Bisson. “This adaptation is very funny along with having all the feels you expect from the book, and it allows the actors great range for their character choic-

tain Inn. Beer and wine available for 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

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The Lone Bellow w/ Aoife O’Donovan TD Stage, 300 S. Main St. Tickets: $35-$50

“SEUSSICAL” April 29–May 7, 2017 Last produced by the SCCT in 2008, “Seussical” rhymes, dances and sings its way to bringing Dr. Seuss’ beloved tales to life in a musical extravaganza. The mischievous Cat in the Hat is the master of ceremonies for a show that features Horton the Elephant,

Vocal-harmony-drenched Americana trio.

467-3000 peacecenter.org

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The SCCT has never put this show on its Main Stage, but a 2nd Stage production and subsequent tour in 2011 proved it was a story loved by the Upstate. The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. They were the worst behaved class in the whole school — until Miss Nelson goes missing.

This musical has sold out shows all over the country.

Why it was picked: “Really great summertime fun as we see the students in Room 207 learn their lesson and to be careful what you wish for,” Bisson said.

For more information, visit scchildrenstheatre.org.

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The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. Take a trip to the beach, right here in the Children’s Museum. This week, we will explore the beach through a storybook. Afterwards, children will be able to make their own sandy starfish craft. Join us at 10 and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

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Random Acts of Science: Board Game Science The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. Explore a different science board game this week in our Random Acts of Science Program. Join us at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

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Depot PickInn

Commerce Park 200 Depot St., Fountain Inn 7-9 p.m. | Saturdays thru Aug. 27 FREE The only free weekly bluegrass festival in the Upstate. Bring a chair. Visit fountaininn.org for the full list of scheduled performers.

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

COMMUNITY MEETING

Mauldin Downtown Farmers Market Mauldin Cultural Center Amphitheater 101 East Butler Road, Mauldin 8 a.m.-noon | Saturdays through Aug. 27 Free

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Open Art Studios: Summer Origami

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

Use origami paper to make various summer items in Off the Wall this week. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

ARTS EVENT

Women Under Pressure: Converse Alumnae Printmakers Greenville Technical College | Riverworks Gallery 300 River St., Suite 202 1-5 p.m. | Wednesday - Sunday Free “Women Under Pressure” is a union of life experiences with the processes of printmaking and features Converse College alumnae Jamie Bunney, Katy Butler, Carly Drew, Mandy Ferguson, Elena Hernandez-Rubio, sisters Hailey Hodge and Victoria Hodge, Rozetta Nesbitt and Jasmine Sanders. Three of the featured artists and Caren Stansell, the curator, are also Greenville Technical College graduates.

271-0679 | gvltec.edu/dva fleming.markel@gvltec.edu

Join over 28 local vendors to find produce, great breads, food, artisan crafts and much more.

289-8903 | mauldinculturalcenter.org vbroad@mauldincitysc.com

Free Talented guitarist leads versatile combo.

282-8988 | smileysacousticcafe.com

CONCERT

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

09-10 300 College St.

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate

Create a game based on your favorite story this weekend. Children can come to the Museum with their favorite book and learn how to turn the adventure into a real board game. Join us Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

It is Build It Week at the Children’s Museum.

Join us in Story Time & More as we explore the world of building. We will read a book about building new things, and the children will have the chance to create their own structures, using various materials. Join us at 10 and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

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Sundays at 2: Drama at the GCMA

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 2-3 p.m.

Free Don’t miss Greenville Shakespeare Company’s streamlined version of “The Tempest.” A tale of romance, revenge and redemption, Shakespeare’s magical island adventure has captivated audiences for more than 400 years.

271-7570 | gcma.org

CAMP

Summer Art Camp: Drawing Studio

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. 1-4 p.m. $85 + $30 for take-home materials Aspiring young artists will improve their drawing skills using charcoal and conte crayons.

Students will explore shape, proportion, scale, perspective, contrast and shading. Discover different techniques to develop personal style and find inspiration in the GCMA galleries. For ages 11-14. Instructor - Amanda Griffith 271-7570 gcma.org

Open Art Studios: FAMILY Build-It Day Summer Art Camp: The Children’s Museum of the Upstate Rainforest Adventures 300 College St. 1-4 p.m.

Gear up for Build-It Day by using recyclables and other materials to build and create in Off the Wall this week. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

WED

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Coloring and Tea

Greenville County Library System Greer (Jean M. Smith) Branch 505 Pennsylvania Ave., Greer

WED-FRI

Tickets: $7 (plus $10 food/drink minimum)

Fun and Games

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

Coloring is for everyone. It might seem silly to color as an adult, but therapists and other experts believe coloring can help adults manage stress and create mindfulness. So, stop by your library, pick up a colored pencil and relax. Join us for an evening of the fun and calming practice of coloring while enjoying tea. Coloring materials provided or bring your own.

877-8722 greenvillelibrary.org greer@greenvillelibrary.org

Smiley’s Acoustic Café | 111 Augusta St.

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Story Time & More: Build It Week

Free

Eric Weiler Band

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11-16

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7-8 p.m.

CONCERT

Soul-jazz group led by drummer Gerald Smith.

242-2583 | bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com

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Summer Art Camp: Winter in July

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. $75 + $25 for materials Think cool and travel in time to winter, complete with snowflakes, penguins and a trip to the North Pole. In this hands-on camp, kids will explore working with clay, collage and printmaking to create imaginative art inspired by the natural, wintry world. For ages 5-7. Instructor: Katie Jones 271-7570 gcma.org

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. $85 + $25 for materials

Find inspiration in the wild world of the rainforest as we make art featuring animals like birds, lizards and maybe even monkeys. Whether hand building with clay or creating colorful prints, budding artists will experience something truly magical as they bring this diverse ecosystem to life. For ages 8-10. Instructor Katie Jones 272-7570 gcma.org

WED-SAT

13-16

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Random Acts of Science: Board Game Science

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

Explore a different science board game this week in our Random Acts of Science Program.

Join us at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

WED-WED

13-27 Works

EDUCATION

How a Computer Really, Really

Greenville County Library System Hughes Main Library 25 Heritage Green Place 2-3:30 p.m. | Wednesdays Free Teens learn binary code and how to assemble a basic motherboard. Register once for all classes. Ages 12-17.

527-9248 greenvillelibrary.org teenlibrarian@greenvillelibrary.org

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WHAT’S HAPPENING Snakes Alive!

Greenville County Library Sysytem • Monday, July 11-Friday, July 15 • Free • greenvillelibrary.org Children ages 4-12 learn about reptiles from herpetologist Ron Cromer.

Children will have the opportunity to see and touch many species. July 11, 10:30 a.m., Travelers Rest; July 11, 3:30 p.m., Mauldin; July 11, 7 p.m., Main Library; July 12, 10:30 a.m., Berea; July 12, 3:30 p.m., Greer; July 13, 10:30 a.m., Fountain Inn; July 13, 3:30 p.m., Pelham Road; July 14, 10 a.m., Augusta Road; July 14, 3:30 p.m., Simpsonville; July 15, 10:30 a.m., Anderson Road; and July 15, 3:30 p.m., Taylors.

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Furman Presents Lakeside Concert Series

Furman University | Amphitheater 3300 Poinsett Hwy 7:30-9 p.m. | Thursdays through Aug. 4 Free Les Hicken and guests present outdoor concerts: 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 bit.ly/FurmanMusicByTheLake2016

lots to see in Fountain Inn. 363-0345 | fountaininn.org market.manager@fountaininn.org

CONCERT

Tom Wright’s Cat and Mouse Ensemble The Wheel Sessions | The Wheel 1288 Pendleton St. 7:30-9:30 p.m. | $10

listening audience. There is a $10 entrance fee, which includes complimentary beverage and two sets of music. All proceeds go to the artists. Attendees may also BYOB. (312) 520-2760 | kevinkorschgenjazz.com kmkorschgen@gmail.com

ARTS EVENT

Bookmark Your Summer

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Coffee House concert with Danielle Miraglia

Standing on the Side of Love Coffee House Tigg’s Pond Retreat Center 212 Fiddlehead Lane, Zirconia 5-9 p.m. | $15 and $10 for students

Greenville County Library System Mauldin | W. Jack Greer Branch 800 W Butler Road 3-4 p.m.

Free Use paper weaving techniques to create a cool bookmark. For ages 13-17.

277-7397 | greenvillelibrary.org mauldin@greenvillelibrary.org

FAMILY

GHS Fountain Inn Farmers Market Commerce Park | 200 Depot St., Fountain Inn

CONCERT

4-8 p.m. | Thursdays through Sept. 12

Brooks Dixon & The Noble Sound

FREE

Piedmont Natural Gas Downtown Alive NOMA Square, Main Street

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

FRI

“The Wheel Sessions” is a jazz performance series hosted by The Wheel in Greenville’s West End arts district. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m., and are held in front of an intimate

Free Last year’s “Gimme The Gig” winner fronts unique, versatile nine-piece band. bit.ly/downtown-alive

Danielle Miraglia comes armed with a strong steady thumb on an old Gibson, an infectious stomp-- box rhythm and harmonica with

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tunes ranging from heartfelt to socially conscious that will move both your heart and hips. On her latest “Glory Junkies” she’s joined by a killer cast of musicians blending the classic rock vibe of The Rolling Stones and Janis Joplin with Danielle’s signature lyrical ability to explore human nature at its best and worst.

828-697-0680 tiggspondretreatcenter.com tiggspond@gmail.com

CONCERT

2-3 p.m. | Sundays

The Flashbacks

Free

Greenville Heritage FCU Main St. Fridays NOMA Square, Main Street

Meet renowned sculptor Grainger McKoy and hear firsthand insights into his remarkable work that transforms intricately carved birds into dramatic, soaring sculptures.

271-7570 gcma.org

CONCERT

The Joe Davis Band

Wasted Wine

Ground Zero 3052 Howard St., Spartanburg

Gottrocks | 200 Eisenhower Drive Genre-hopping, fiendishly talented musical gypsies.

235-5519 | gottrocksgreenville.com

FAMILY

Tech Discovery Greenville County Library System Hughes Main Library | 25 Heritage Green Place 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free Calling all tech enthusiasts of all ages. Join us to see a variety of new technologies, including 3D printers, e-NABLE prosthetic hands, drone simulators, Ozobot and Meccanoid robots, a Sphero, littleBits circuits and more.

527-9258 | greenvillelibrary.org explore@greenvillelibrary.org

ARTS EVENT

Food Truck Friday Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College Street 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Free Stop by Heritage Green for a tasty food truck lunch, featuring at least two of Greenville’s favorite on-the-go purveyors. After lunch, take a look at what’s new in the GCMA galleries.

271-7570 | gcma.org

Free Beloved beach, rock, soul cover band. bit.ly/greenville-main-street-fridays

CONCERT

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$10 Trend-free Southern metal.

948-1661 reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2

TICKET OFFICE

CONCERT

Carpool Party, Damn The Witch Siren & McWavy

LAST CHANCE

Radio Room 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive

JULY 13-17 CIRQUE DU SOLEIL OVO

Blissfully melodic electronic dance music.

263-7868 radioroomgreenville.com

Bon Secours Wellness Arena Cost: See Ticketmaster.com To purchase tickets: 800-745-3000; GSP Box Office at The Bon Secours Wellness Arena; ticketmaster.com Info: July 13-15, 7:30 p.m.; July 16, 4 and 7:30 p.m. and July 17, 1:30 and 5 p.m.

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Build-It Day

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

Join us for our annual Build-It Day. We will have guest favorites, including Imagination Playground and a LEGO room, as well as new and exciting ways to build. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

SAT-AUG

16-27

ARTS EVENT

Grainger McKoy Exhibition

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College Street Free Discover the gravity-defying creations of South Carolina sculptor Grainger McKoy, opening July 16 in Gallery 3.

271-7570 gcma.org

SUN

17

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Sundays at 2: Artist’s Gallery Talk with Grainger McKoy Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College Street

JULY 20, 7:30 P.M. MY2K FEATURING 98 DEGREES, O-TOWN, DREAM AND RYAN CABRERA Bon Secours Wellness Arena Cost: $78, $52.50, $32.50 To purchase tickets: 800-745-3000; GSP Box Office at The Bon Secours Wellness Arena; ticketmaster.com Submit your Last Minute Ticket Sales for Upstate Events at bit.ly/LastTicketsGville For Upcoming Ticket Sales, enter them at bit.ly/UpcomingTicketsGJ

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Turning red ACROSS 1 Dull hurt 5 Language of Islamabad 9 Thorny plant 13 Series start 19 Hurdle 20 Really smell 21 Very eager 22 Chlorine or fluorine compound 23 “A Clockwork Orange” novelist 26 Steeped in salty water 27 Ridden horse 28 Tree bearing catkins 29 “Take that!”

30 Derivations 33 Commotion 36 “Modern Family” co-star 39 Popeye creator Elzie 40 Get the idea 41 “Boys” co-star Lukas 42 Not aweather 43 Arizona tree 44 Pen choice 47 Sharp tool 48 Shifty 49 He played Radar on “M*A*S*H” 54 Many mini-maps 56 Golf target 58 Not trite 59 Irving of 101-Down 60 Let go of

By Frank Longo

64 Festive 65 Stretch, with “out” 66 BBs, e.g.

68 No light load 70 Notion 71 KO counter 72 “Not impressed” 73 Freedom from germs 74 Commotion 75 Big name in tires 78 Takeoff guess, briefly 79 Cheap flicks 82 Lean patty option 86 Just-painted 87 Meadow 88 Go — rampage 89 Totally spoil 90 Pentagram 92 Galley tools 93 Bit of an oval 96 Complaints, informally 97 Preppy-boho fashion label 99 Line of fruity Cheerios cereals 103 Unit of dew 104 Further on 105 Danish toast 107 Flooded (in) 111 Shiny fabrics 112 Singer of the 1960 hit “You’re Sixteen” 116 Happenings 117 Balm additive 118 Make simpler

119 Slightly 120 Fix, as a shoe bottom 121 Look awed 122 Colorless 123 Red color hidden backward in nine answers in this puzzle DOWN 1 Cry of woe 2 Euro division 3 Can’t stand 4 Ancient Greek city 5 “Ode on a Grecian —” 6 Playa del — 7 Utter failure 8 Island guitar 9 Angry display 10 Listen to incidentally 11 Bro’s sibling 12 Pub. house workers 13 “Yippee!”

14 Second of two sections 15 Yale’s Yale 16 S.F. NFL team 17 Swimmer Gertrude 18 Flight leaving late at night 24 Scent 25 Hwys., e.g.

29 Camera type, in brief 31 Eurasian mountains 32 Depend (on) 34 Unattractive 35 Exceptionally tough guy

36 Some spicy cuisine 93 Bully, e.g.

106 Leg midpoint 37 [Boring!]

94 Put new asphalt on 108 Outermost Aleutian island 38 Common yule tree 95 Jalopies 109 Blind guess 39 Hot tub locale 96 Amigo 110 Lamarr of old Hollywood 44 Wilson of the Beach Boys 98 Bit of coffee 112 Cut unevenly 45 Punk rock’s — Pop 100 Safari animal 113 Ending for schnozz 46 Phi-psi linkup 101 Streisand film of 1983 114 Yank’s land 48 Pigs’ place 102 — -Terre (capital of 115 Yank’s rival 49 Slaty colours Guadeloupe) 50 Compels 103 Singer Ho Crossword answers: page 16 51 100 cents 52 Counterfeit 53 Tiny parasite

by Myles Mellor and Susan Flannigan 55 Punk variant 56 Stew veggie 57 Thomas — Edison 60 “Get clean” program 61 ’60s prez 62 “Fantastic!”

63 Once, formerly 66 In — (trapped) 67 Bistro card 68 #1 OutKast hit of 2003 69 Completed 70 Tyrant Amin 72 Brand of faucets 74 Back, at sea 76 “The Thing” studio 77 Tempting one 79 Emerald, e.g.

80 Former Ford div.

81 Obi, for one 83 Regrets 84 Store selling souvenirs 85 Naval off.

86 Get skewed 90 Left the fold 91 Strip of computer icons Sudoku answers: page 16 92 Last longer than Easy

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Life in the Slow Lane with Joan Herlong

Verbal hygiene Warning: The following article contains some mild profanity, just like life.

A few Saturday mornings ago, my rather Amish daughter called to ask if I had something to confess. It didn’t take me long to come up with a long list of infractions to get off my chest, but thankfully none of them applied to her.

“Um, no.”

“You sure? Because CBE* has said the S-word three times this morning. She spent three hours with you on Thursday, so she must have heard that word from you.”

“Well, did she use the word in proper context?”

This line of questioning can really set the Amish off. I held the phone away from my ear while she recited Lecture 49 about cleaning up my act around her 3-year-old. She forgets that I raised her, and that she turned out OK, so I just listened, and rolled my eyes the way she used to roll hers at me.

“I’m innocent. If I had slipped up, I would have told you right away, remember?”

There was this ONE time when I repeated a bad word — several times — while holding CBE on my hip. It was the same bad word my daughter suspected me of this time. In my defense, that one incident involved projectile vomiting by another toddler in an extremely tight space with no immediate exit. Mother Teresa would have cussed in the same situation. Thankfully, CBE was only 18 months old at the time, with the memory of a guppy. Even so, I had called my daughter and confessed right away (because CBE was technically old enough to tattle).

The Amish are not easily placated. “Well, SOMEONE taught her that word, and no one else comes to mind.”

The problem is, I have a sordid past when it comes to “verbal lets,” and unfortunately, my older children are witnesses with elephantine memories.

When my eldest daughter was 18 months old, dressed to the nines for a trip to the grocery store, she greeted her public as we inched through the checkout line. She pointed to my nose and said, “Say nose, Mommy.”

I did.

She pointed to my eyes, and said, “Say eye, Mommy.”

I did. She applauded with dimpled hands, prompting the ladies around us to clap with delight. So cute!

“Say g------t, Mommy.”

I looked around, to see WHOSE KID would say such a thing. I tried to distract my adorable toddler with a

copy with a copy of the National Enquirer.

“Look honey, say ‘Elvis!’”

She would have none of it. “Say g-------t, Mommy!!”

The assembled ladies stared in horror. So I said whispered what I had to whisper, in order to get my daughter’s shrieking to stop.

“Good girl, Mommy.”

In hindsight, I’m pretty sure she learned that phrase from her father, not me, just as I had learned it in the age-old tradition from my father.

If it weren’t for my dad, I wouldn’t know that Jesus even had a middle initial: H. The most charitable interpretation is that I think Dad uttered His entire name (title?) during times of stress as a form of prayer. (And Dad was a peach, so don’t you dare judge unless you’ve raised 12 kids without cussing.)

My mother-in-law once remarked that profanity was the “sign of a lazy mind.”

The next time My Reason for Living exercised his lazy mind (about 10 minutes later), I reminded him of his mother’s remonstration.

He thought about it for a moment, and said, “Yes, that’s probably true, but I’ve decided I don’t give a ----.”

I’m not proud of the time when our fourth child, then 2, tattled on her big sister for spilling milk. In those days, I bought four gallons of milk a week: three to drink, one to spill. The milk gallon jug was still glugging its contents all over the floor, and my 5-year-old had absconded.

Without words, I righted the jug, got down on my knees, and started sponging up the milk pond.

My toddler squatted next to me, observing the process.

“Mommy, you sergot to say g-------t.”

The ironic thing is that while we were very young, very imperfect parents, we were too tired, mentally and physically, to practice rigorous verbal hygiene in our children’s presence, yet they’ve all grown up to be clean-spoken adults, at least around us, and their niece.

There’s nothing like a good fricative to express frustration or even joy. But now that we’re even more tired, extremely imperfect grandparents, we cherish the (mercifully) limited time we get to spend with a scrumptiously bossy 3-year-old way more than the freedom to utter expletives.

For the record, CBE has not learned (very) bad words from me, yet, and I’m flossing for verbal hygiene daily, dadgummit. *Cutest Baby Ever

Joan Herlong is a Realtor who loves to write.

She can be reached at joan@augustaroad.com.

SUMMONS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case # 2016-CP-23-01138 VIRGINIA L. CARVER, Plaintiff, TAMMY FOSTER, Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office at 112 Wakefield Street, P.O. Box 10496, Greenville, South Carolina 29601 within thirty days (30) after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to appear and defend by filing an answer to the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint Respectfully submitted, FLETCHER N. SMITH, JR., Attorney at Law 112 Wakefield Street (29601) Post Office Box 10496, F.S., Greenville, SC 29603 Dated: March 11, 2016 SUMMONS NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C.A. NO. 2014-CP-23-05240 Stephen Demosthenes and Lauren D. Demosthenes, Plaintiffs, vs. O. Johnson Small, II, Robbie B. Small, and Manly Street Property Owners Association, Inc., Defendants.

Manly Street Property Owners Association, Inc., Third-Party Plaintiff, vs. McKay, Zorn & Associates, and Crown Grading Services, Inc. Third-Party Defendants.

TO THE THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT – CROWN GRADING SERVICES, INC. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Third-Party Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to this Third-Party Complaint upon the subscriber, at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the complaint, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Third-Party Complaint.

By: James P. Walsh (15180) Clarkson, Walsh, Terrell & Coulter, P.A. P.O. Box 6728 Greenville, SC 29606 (864) 232-4400 (864) 235-4399 (fax) Attorneys for defendant Manly Street Property Owners Association

FORFEITED LAND COMMISSION SALE Properties owned by the Forfeited Land Commission (FLC) of Greenville County will be sold at a timed online auction by Meares Auction Group beginning on Monday, July 11 through July 22, 2016 at www.mearesauctions.com.

Details can be obtained at www. mearesauctions.com or in the Forfeited Land Commission section of the Greenville County Treasurer’s web page –http:// www.greenvillecounty.org/ County_Treasurer/ or in the Greenville County Treasurer’s Office, located at 301 University Ridge, Suite 600, Greenville, SC 29601, telephone number (864) 467-7210.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that that Bowl New England, Inc. intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE, & LIQUOR at 822 Congaree Road, Greenville, SC 29607.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than July 24, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that TSD Social Club, Inc. intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE, & LIQUOR at 119 Cedar Lane Road, Greenville, SC 29617. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than July 24, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214 or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

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