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Work to expand the GreenvilleSpartanburg International Airport concourses will begin in late July or early August, the first terminal work in the airport’s $115 million renovation.

Construction has already begun on the airport’s new rental car customer center in Garage A, but that work has gone mostly unnoticed by the majority of the airport’s passengers.

The terminal renovation work is expected to take 48 months.

The airport unveiled a new website Wednesday, www.elevatingtheupstate. com, that will serve as an information hub about construction for travelers and Upstate residents as well as highlight key aspects of the program.

GSP President and CEO Dave Edwards said the program would make GSP one of the most efficient airports of its size.

“To maintain efficiency while the program is underway, communication is critical,” he said.

The terminal improvement program – which will have three phases – will modernize and expand the terminal building, improve traffic flow and upgrade the facility.

“We’re not trying to be Atlanta or Charlotte,” said Kevin Howell, the airport’s deputy director. “We want that small feel and to be customer-centric.

People don’t want us to mess up the

easy-in, easy-out of GSP.” Either later this month or in early August, workers will begin construction on expanded restaurant space and restrooms for Concourse A and B. The ticket counter will be moved to a portion of the terminal’s north wing this summer and utilities will be relocated. That work is expected to be complete in fall 2013.

The second part of Phase 1 will focus on the baggage claim area. The work will include new baggage carousels, a curbside canopy and covered walkway to Garage A, a glass facade on the front of the terminal and a new concessions area for people who are dropping off and picking up passengers and can’t get past screening.

Those renovations will begin as soon as the rental car area in the garage is complete, probably the end of 2013, officials said.

Phase 2 will begin in early 2014 and includes the airport’s in-line automated screening, a “grand hall” space facing the garden in the post-screening area, continuation of the glass facade and canopy, a new landside garden near the flagpole for those who will not have access to the runway garden and new finishings for the concourses.

Phase 3 will wrap up the project, Howell said. By that time, all of the airlines will have been moved to their new ticket counter space and a public conference room will be built on the first floor. New administrative offices will be built on the second floor.

Howell said workers would do as much of the construction at night as they can to minimize impact to passengers.

Airport officials are encouraging passengers to reserve their parking spaces online.They said passengers should get to the airport within the Trans-

portation Security Administration’s guidelines.

“Shaving any time off the 1.5 hours is not a good idea today and it will be less of a good idea a year from now,” said GSP spokeswoman Rosylin Weston.

The airport is calling its terminal improvement project Wingspan. Information on the project is also available on the airport’s blog, regular website and social media platforms such as Facebook.

Skanska Moss, a joint venture between Skanska USA Building and local contractor Moss & Associates, is the project’s construction manager at-risk. Local subcontractors are being sought to work on the project. Howell said breaking the program into smaller projects would allow more of them to participate.

“We are embarking on the most substantial wave of renovations in GSP’s history,” said Airport Commission Chairwoman Minor Shaw. “The terminal improvement program will accomplish needed renovations to the airport while keeping the authenticity and community feel that everyone in the Upstate has grown to love.”

The terminal renovation should be completed in 2016.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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By CHARLES SOWELL | staff

Justin A. Converse and Stewart H. Johnson of Spartanburg were named to the Wofford College board of trustees during the annual conference of the United Methodist Church held last month in Orangeburg.

Converse, who graduated in 1996, and Johnson, a 1967 graduate, were named to replace R. Michael James, whose term has expired after three four-year stints, and Frederick D. Gibbs, who resigned from the board several months ago. Converse and Johnson will serve four-year terms.

Re-elected to new terms were: the Rev. B. Mike Alexander, Dr. James E. Bostic, J. Harold Chandler, Jimmy I. Gibbs, Laura J. Hoy, L. Leon Patterson and J. Edwin Reeves Jr. At the May board meeting, Chandler was voted in as chairman for the 20122013 school year. James M. Johnson, C. Michael Smith and John B. White Jr. were named vice chairmen.

Converse is chairman and CEO of Converse & Co. Inc.-Converse Resource Group. He has served on the Wofford President’s Advisory Board and is involved with the Terrier Club.

He is a trustee for Spartanburg Day School and a former trustee at Spartanburg Methodist College. He is a member of the Young President’s Organization’s Southern Seven and serves as a director for the South Carolina Golf Association.

Johnson is chairman of the board of Morgan Corp. He and his wife, Ann Cobb Johnson, have been longtime Wofford supporters, sponsoring the Terrier Ball for the past 13 years and providing scholarship and endowed professorship funding.

They also recently donated trees for plantings around the Wofford football parking area. Johnson is a member of the Episcopal Church of the Advent, where he serves on the Vestry. Mrs. Johnson is a former member of the Wofford Board of Trustees.

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Deny cafes a toehold The city of Spartanburg has set the example for other Upstate local governments in refusing to grant the smallest toehold to Internet sweepstakes cafes, the latest stealth attack by a powerful gaming industry determined to entrench video poker in the Palmetto State again.

The Spartanburg council is using emergency moratoriums to deny business licenses and rezoning requests to cafes peddling electronic games South Carolina’s top law enforcement officials insist are video poker by another name.

Although defenders claim the games are equal to fast-food promotions that include game pieces with food and drink purchases, the state attorney general’s office says the electronic machines are gambling devices and “illegal per se,” spokesman Mark Plowden told the Journal.

It is immaterial that players buy a phone card or Internet time first: They are playing Vegas-style games of chance on computer screens, and any prizes won can be claimed on the spot in cash or saved as points for future games. As Plowden said, a pig smeared with lipstick is still a pig.

The games’ proponents are using the same tactics that entrenched video poker so deeply in South Carolina two decades ago: They open new cafes as soon as old ones are shut down, relying on conflicting rulings from impressionable magistrates and the protection of senators willing to kill any limiting legislation.

This year’s bodyguards were Sens. Robert Ford and Jake Knotts, who killed a House bill shepherded by Rep. Phyllis Henderson that clarified the new games as illegal. Two decades ago the industry pawn was Sen. Jack Lindsey, now deceased, who slipped one sentence into a complicated law that his colleagues failed to catch.

That sentence allowed video poker machines to give payouts – and the game grew from a smattering of machines to a $3 billion-a-year predator that took a decade to kill. The industry barons were so powerful they took out a governor and spent millions thwarting law enforcement in the courts and trying to buy a Legislature that would bend to their will. Foiling them took the combined cunning and courage of South Carolina’s canniest minds in the General Assembly and Supreme Court.

Now, in today’s echo chamber, local governments are forced to mount piecemeal resistance while Henderson and Sen. Larry Martin, the dead bill’s champion on the Senate side, gird to fight again next year.

Like Spartanburg, Sumter County and the city of Columbia are using their regulatory powers to banish the cafes outright. Irmo Town Council chose to play into the industry’s hands instead, with a $500-per-machine fee – paltry change to a $3 billion-a-year predator that knows cash-strapped governments grow addicted to fees.

In Greenville County, where the cafes are popping up with increasing speed, Sheriff Steve Loftis is gathering ammunition for a County Council work session on the proliferation in August. Greenville Mayor Knox White told the Journal he is unaware of any cafes operating within the city and “right now we have no plans to enact any ordinances on the subject.”

That’s a “see no evil” attitude the city needs to change. Spartanburg sets the wiser example, choosing to “act proactively to keep these machines from becoming entrenched,” as city spokesman Will Rothschild said.

South Carolina history is proof enough that rooting the gambling barons out is far harder than preventing their arrival in the first place.

Summer is slow, so reenergize The temperature has been steadily above 90 degrees for more than a month. Everyone is at the beach or on vacation. Things are just slow.

Is that being said in your office? Is it said every year around this time?

The middle of South Carolina summer takes hold like a kudzu vine when it comes to wanting to be idle in businesses. People take the slow time and simply accentuate it. There are distractions galore, and the heat is brutal even if you aren’t a damn Yankee like I am.

So what should you do to get out of the summer doldrums when business gets slow? Reenergize. Do. Create.

Think. Work.

Call up a potential client or business partner and get coffee or lunch.

Reenergize that relationship. Engage new people by networking – and not just hand-off business cards networking. Develop and establish your ideas.

Don’t be afraid to pick up the phone or send that email.

Reenergizing doesn’t have to be about meeting new people or reconnecting. Take your staff off-site to a swimming pool or go hiking. Have some fun. This will allow them to get their energy flowing. Now is the time to create. Look at your company’s business model. Reexamine your website and social media presence. Create some work to do. You will be amazed at what you can accomplish.

Don’t just think business has to be done in the confines of the office: Go outside and walk downtown. Get out there and connect with people in new and different ways. Great things can result simply from meeting others in a non-work setting.

Help fill the business void by hosting an event and giving people something to do. One of my clients, Liquid Catering, did that with a major grand-opening party for its downtown showcase on a Wednesday night. The response

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was huge because people were looking for something to do.

Try volunteering with a new group, or volunteer maybe for the first time.

Many nonprofits need volunteering slots filled in the summer months because so many people are on vacation.

Reach out to a group that you think would interest you and get going. Volunteering is a great way to make connections.

And speaking of vacations, don’t be afraid to strike up business while out of town. Yes, people are trying to relax, but people have a lot of downtime waiting for seats at a restaurant or waiting to board an airplane. Instead of burying your nose in your phone, talk to people around you. If you get to know them and what they do, you might find that you can do business together.

Practice your elevator pitch for you or your company among friends at a party or social get-together. This will help make you more at ease when striking up conversations, but it also helps you codify your goals and work ideas. However, don’t over-practice: You don’t want to sound forced when talking about what you do.

Make sure to follow up with anyone you meet with an email, phone call – or, best of all, a hand-written letter.

Just because it’s hot doesn’t mean you can’t develop and grow your business.

John Boyanoski is the president and owner of Complete Public Relations, a Greenville-based strategic and media affairs firm.

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Wanted: a lifelong family

By Nichole Livengood | contributor

ArtWalk On the third Thursday of each month, the art galleries in Spartanburg stay open until 9 p.m. so patrons can check out what’s new. On Thursday, July 19, 6-9 p.m., be sure to stop by the Chapman Cultural Center and see what’s new in the Spartanburg Art Museum, the Guild Gallery, and the Student Gallery. No admission fees! This month, free and public receptions in the Guild Gallery and for the National Heart Gallery (Foster Child) Exhibit. Gov. Nikki Haley and the First Gentleman Michael Haley are expected.

Taking Flight Exhibit Local artists Jane Frost and Susan Hopps exhibit their work July 2-27 in the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg’s gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center. Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m., but closed on Sundays. Free!

Auto Racing Exhibit Spartanburg was once at the hub of auto racing.

The Spartanburg Regional History Museum presents an exhibit featuring artifacts, trophies, and the development of the auto racing industry, June 19-Sept. 1, Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Fine Furniture Exhibit Master woodcraftsman Michael McDunn presents Function & Awe, a large sampling of his handmade fine furniture in the Spartanburg Art Museum. It is both heirloom and contemporary.

Tues.-Sat., May 22-Aug. 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Printmakers Exhibit 15 printmakers from the Upstate have come together to create a unique and vastly diverse exhibit of handmade prints in Shifting Plates. The exhibit is in support of a project that collected works for the true “art collector.” Presented by the Spartanburg Art Museum, Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Ends: Aug. 25.

Call for Artists The Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg is now accepting submissions for its 2012 39th annual juried art show, which will be Sept. 20-Nov. 3.

More than $4,000 will be awarded in various categories. Deadline for submissions: Aug. 1.

Foster Child Photo Exhibit The Chapman Cultural Center is the only museum in South Carolina to host the acclaimed National Heart Gallery Exhibit: a large collection of 6x4-foot photos of children in foster care and in need of permanent homes. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free. July 9-Aug. 24.

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Susan Sellers* was 45 years old when she decided to adopt. She was looking for a child around 11 years old, but decided to adopt a teenager when she saw her daughter’s photo at the Department of Social Services open house. That was two years ago.

“When people heard I was going to adopt a teenager they thought I was crazy, but it has been the best experience I have ever had,” the Greenville resident said.

According to the South Carolina Department of Social Services, 1,216 children are currently in foster care statewide. Of those, 477 are free for adoption, meaning parental rights to them have been terminated. Another 739 are in the process of having parental rights terminated.

In Spartanburg County, 208 children now wait in foster care, with approximately 33 percent of those having special needs. Greenville County has 345 children in care; of those, 21 percent have special needs.

“Most people want babies, but the truth is that children who end up in the foster care system tend to be older,” said Isabel Blanco, DSS deputy director. The greatest need is among teenage males, 13 to 18 years old, she said.

“There are children in the state who are free and ready for adoption, but they are not always the type of child people are looking for: the age, the sex, the child may have special needs.

If people are looking for a healthy newborn child, there is a wait,” said Carl Brown, executive director and founder of the South Carolina Foster Parent Association, headquartered in Elgin, just outside Columbia.

Brown and his wife have three adopted children and have fostered 156 children over the past 38 years.

“You have to decide what kind of child you are willing to take,” he said. “How far will you go if they have learning disabilities, physical disabilities, or emotional issues? You have to have a heartfelt calling to do special things in this world. Adoption is a special thing.”

Many people want to adopt a per-

fect child with no health issues and no behavioral problems, but “that’s not the kind of kids that are involved in the system. These are kids who have been hurt,” said a Spartanburg DSS employee who is father to two adopted children. “They blame themselves; they feel like outcasts – rejected, abandoned – and that has consequences.”

This may lead to behaviors that will need to be dealt with, he said, “but even healthy teenagers are

a lifelong family,” Blanco said. States are now urged to make this a priority through whichever avenue is safest for the child, be it adoption or reunification, she said.

Typically, foster children are relocated often, spending long periods of time in foster care with no sense of permanence, Blanco said. Such children are less likely to finish high school, have children at a young age, be arrested, be homeless or have

“You have to decide what kind of child you are willing to take. How far will you go if they have learning disabilities, physical disabilities, or emotional issues? You have to have a heartfelt calling to do special things in this world.

Adoption is a special thing.”

Carl Brown, executive director and founder of the South Carolina Foster Parent Association

hard to handle. That doesn’t mean every child is going to be acting out.

Absolutely not … (but) our goal is to open people’s eyes so they know what they are getting into, so we don’t further traumatize the children …It’s going to take time and effort on the part of the parent, but love does help these guys heal.”

For those worried about the prospect, Sellers said adopting a teenager can definitely work out.

“I am shocked at how much I love my daughter and how much she needs me. She can bring me the greatest joy and the greatest grief all at one time, and we haven’t known each other very long. I always thought there would be a little distance there, but she’s my daughter. There is no question.”

Sellers is in the process of adopting a second child; this time, a teenage son.

Before Congress passed the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), reunification was the primary goal for foster children, leaving many in the system for years, according to adoption.org. Children often aged out of the system. Since the law’s passage, nearly all states have increased their number of adoptions for all ages.

“Before this law was passed there was not an urgency to get a child to

post-traumatic syndrome, she said.

Almost a quarter of young homeless people in America “are people who left the foster care system and don’t have a place to go,” added Brown.

Teen adoptions consistently account for 10 percent of all adoptions, according to the S.C. Children’s Foster Care Review Board. Matching is the biggest hurdle to finding teenagers a forever home. Potential adoptive parents must go through an extensive home study and background check. A social worker meets with the family and ensures the house adheres to safety codes. Once a family decides on a child, there are visits and a pre-placement trial period.

“You have to be honest on the forms they give you,” Sellers said. “You have to be honest about what you can handle and step back and leave it to God.” “Most adoptions work out if you match the right parents with the right child,” Brown said.

People thinking of fostering or adoption can visit SCfpa.com, heartfeltcalling.org or scheartgallery.org to see some of the children who are looking for forever families.

Contact Nichole Livengood at nlivengood@thespartanburgjournal.com.

*Names and personal details have been changed to protect children and families.

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Lea Center hopes funds will be restored

By CHARLES SOWELL | staff

A quarter million dollars in state funding for Spartanburg’s Charles Lea Center hangs in the balance this week as state lawmakers take up Gov. Nikki Haley’s vetoes of 81 items worth $67.5 million in the state’s total $6.8 billion budget.

“Certainly we hope the Legislature will restore our funding,” said Gerald Bernard, the Lea Center’s executive director. “This money was intended to help reduce our waiting list of about 300 persons.”

Haley’s veto could mean about 70 Spartanburg County families waiting on services for their developmentally disabled relatives may not get help this year.

Local legislators secured $250,000 from the state and $250,000 in federal Medicaid dollars to reduce the 300-person waiting list at the Lea Center, which provides services to about 1,400 developmentally disabled adults.

“If we don’t get that money back there are alternatives we can consider. State DDSN has said we can adjust some of our programs and use that money to work on the waiting list. It won’t be as much money, but it would help,” Bernard said.

The vast majority of clients at Lea are from Spartanburg County, he said. Lea also takes clients from around the state.

“The Legislature is the only body taking this (issue) as a statewide program,” Bernard said.

Several quasi-private nonprofit institutions like Lea are scattered around the state. While Lea runs on a combination of funding sources, more than $20 million of its $24 million budget is

from contracted services with the state Department of Disabilities and Special Needs. The nonprofits are not under the jurisdiction of county boards; they are regulated by DDSN. Haley said in her veto letter to the state House of Representatives that the state is not the best provider for private nonprofits like Charles Lea. “While I do not attempt to question the merits of each organization or the quality of their missions, there are just as many service organizations as worthy who seek private sector support to maintain their operations,” she wrote.

“I understand the governor’s stance on private nonprofits, but I don’t think that addresses the reality of the situation we have in this state,” Bernard said.

Lea Center does seek private sector support; its 2010 Annual Report notes that donations from about 500 people raised $250,000.

Bernard said Haley’s vetoes came despite that fact that the budget was a balanced one.

“I know we’re on the list to have our funding restored,” he said. “I’m not sure if that will happen.”

Last year, lawmakers overturned a similar raft of vetoes from Haley that featured many of the same items she vetoed this year.

This year, two state agencies, the state Arts Commission and Sea Grant Consortium, had to close after Haley’s June 6 vetoes. Haley also slashed $10 million in state funding for mandated teacher salary increases.

Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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Spartanburg County Council voted to give county employees a 2 percent raise in October thanks to an extra $1.5 million in state funding.

The pay increase, the first since 2008, could have started next month were it not for worries about how the county will continue to pay for the increase, council Chairman Jeff Horton said.

The pay hike will cost the county about $1 million per year. By waiting to implement the increase, council will be able to save about $100,000 of the state windfall for emergencies.

Part of the worry for council are the Legislature’s actions during the past few years.

Under state law, the county is owed millions in aid to local government money. That money has never arrived, due to state budget cuts.

“The businessman in me says we should wait on the raise,” said Councilman O’Neal

Mintz. “Our employees certainly deserve this raise, but prudence dictates we should wait a bit before implementing it.”

County Administrator Katherine Hubbard said she is “guardedly optimistic” that county tax collections are on the way up and would have enough money on hand to give workers a raise in January.

With the state money, the raise will take effect on Oct. 5.

“I personally feel like our employees deserve it,” said Councilman Dale Culbreth.

“They need it. ... Our employees have children, they have college tuitions to pay, they have groceries to put on the table, and they have Spartanburg County taxes to pay.”

Filling new positions, two in the Clerk of Court’s office, one in the coroner’s office, and one in probate court, will wait until later in the budget cycle, Hubbard said.

County Council next meets at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 20 in chambers at the county administration building, 366 N. Church St. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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Inglis wants conservatives to end climate change denial

By Cindy Landrum | staff

Bob Inglis’ views on climate change played a big part in his ouster from Congress in 2010.

But the Travelers Rest resident said last week it is time for conservatives to promote conservative solutions to America’s energy and climate challenges.

He is heading the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, a national public engagement campaign that will operate from George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication.

“With the financial system still quaking in 2010, the voters were rightly focused on this month’s paycheck and this month’s mortgage payment,” Inglis said. “As time goes on, though, I’m confident that the champions of free enterprise are going to engage on energy and climate, and I want to be a part of that.”

Inglis said the solution is “real and muscular” free enterprise that holds all fuels accountable for all costs. He said subsidies should be eliminated for all fuels but that all costs must be attached to the price of all energy sources to get its true cost.

Inglis said soot from coal mining causes 23,600 premature deaths a year and 3 million lost workdays.

“If we added those things to the cost of coal-fired electricity, it doesn’t look like such a bargain,” he said. “If we knew the true costs, we’d be looking for alInglis ternatives. But we’re letting coal get away with it and that means we don’t get innovation.”

Inglis supports reducing taxes on desirable things such as payroll, individual income and corporate income, and increasing taxes on undesirable things such as pollution, so that the taxes would be revenue-neutral.

“Government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers,” he said. “We need to return to the bedrock of conservatism – accountability.”

Inglis said he thinks progress could be made on the issue soon, especially if it is included as part of the solution for the problem of the federal deficit and tax reform. Inglis said he believes the lame-duck session of Congress after the next election could take action. If not, he said, progress could come later following a couple of election cycles where “populist rejectionism” loses steam.

Inglis said the campaign would focus on younger people because they are generally willing to accept innovation and change and because he hopes they’ll be able to persuade their parents and grandparents to support the effort.

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Lana Kuykendall ready to go home Victim of ‘flesh-eating bacteria’ spent 10 weeks in hospital By april a. morris | staff

More than two months after she began a harrowing ordeal and battle for her life against necrotizing fasciitis, sometimes called “flesh-eating disease,” 36-year-old Lana Kuykendall has gone home. She faces months of rehabilitation ahead to regain full use of her legs, which underwent multiple surgeries to halt the infection, but also the reality that she will finally be with her infant twins, Abigail and Ian, full time.

The day before her release on Tuesday, Lana Kuykendall, along with her husband, Darren, spoke publicly for the first time since she was admitted to Greenville Memorial Hospital.

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May 11, just days after the birth of her babies. She told reporters she noticed a skin discoloration on her left thigh, thought it was a blood clot, and asked her husband to take her to the hospital.

Between the time they left for the hospital and received treatment – a matter of minutes, said Darren Kuykendall – she had deteriorated from feeling “sick all over” to suffering considerable pain and being severely ill.

“I’m very grateful to God for helping me through what he has helped me through,” Lana Kuykendall said. She said she doesn’t remember the time she was in intensive care, but does know her husband was there with her every day. She said she was also grateful to hospital staff.

“I didn’t realize how many people were involved in my care.”

Her husband said he “got to see firsthand how strong she is and how good the care was. I’m so grateful that she is still here with me because it was very scary and stressful for a good while.”

Darren Kuykendall said that he knew that amputations were a real possibility.

“I was just scared for her life more than the amputation of her legs.” The couple had a friend who also survived necrotizing fasciitis in 2007.

Dr. Bill Kelly, an epidemiologist at Greenville Memorial, said Kuykendall’s quick action saved her life.

Dr. Spence Taylor, vascular surgeon and vice president of academics at GHS, said, “You can literally see the abnormality of the tissue. These infections grow so rapidly that you can actually see the skin change in front of your eyes.”

Taylor said much of the credit goes to a group of acute care surgeons he calls “Jedi Knights.”

“They’re the heroes and they’re the ones who made it happen,” he said.

Greenville Hospital doctors rushed Kuykendall to surgery, and every day over the next 11 days she underwent more surgery to remove infected skin, tissue and muscle, Darren Kuykendall said. She had more than 20 surgeries and spent a total of 38 days in intensive care, 30 of those sedated.

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Darren (standing) and Lana Kuykendall with their twin babies, Abigail and Ian. Lana Kuykendall was set to return home this week after 10 weeks in the hospital undergoing treatment for flesheating bacteria.

fasciitis are common, including some that live in the body, such as group A streptococcus, the cause of strep throat infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

The bacteria causes an infection in a damaged area, such as the site of a bruise, or where the skin is pierced, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine.

Kelly said Kuykendall’s is not the first case of necrotizing fasciitis at GHS. He calls it “not common, but not rare” and said the cases vary in severity.

The Kuykendalls said their twins were cared for by family and friends.

Lana Kuykendall said she did not worry about them because a family member quit her job to help care for the infants.

“At times, I’m able to focus on the fact that the best thing for them is for me to get better and at other times I break down and cry,” she said.

After moving to Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital on June 21 and several weeks of aggressive physical therapy, Kuykendall can walk more than 250 feet on her own and care for her twins, said Dr. Kevin Kopera, medical director of Roger C. Peace. Initially, she was so weak, she couldn’t stand

without braces.

“To Lana’s credit, she wanted the most aggressive approach,” Kopera said.

Kuykendall now faces home therapy and months of outpatient therapy, he said.

When asked about the aggressive rehabilitation she chose, Lana Kuykendall said, “I had to do it. I had to get better and the way to get better is to work hard.” She said she is looking forward to going home and has been getting used to having people help her with everyday tasks.

She added that she had planned to return to work at some point and still may.

“We take life one day at a time now.”

One day the couple would like to resume a favorite pastime, traveling, maybe even to visit her best friend in Australia, she said.

A fund has been set up to help the Kuykendall family with medical costs.

Donations can be sent to GHS Federal Credit Union, 211 Patewood Drive, Greenville, SC 29615, 864-455-7112.

The website www.faithhopelana.com also provides information about fundraisers.

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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The Glendale Outdoor Leadership School will lead a Lake Jocassee paddle trip on July 21. This trip offers a chance to beat the summer heat with this lake paddle that also visits waterfalls. For more information, call 864-529-0259 or visit www.palmettoconservation.org.

Day. Tailgate cuisine will be offered along with an auction, live entertainment by Mighty McFly, games and a football toss contest. Tickets are $45 in advance and $50 at the door. To purchase tickets and for more information, call 864-573-9223 or visit www.spgirlshome.com.

Bring your lunch to the West Wing conference room at the Chapman Cultural Center for an informative hour with Dr. Sheila Breitweiser, the executive director of the Spartanburg Regional Foundation, who will discuss the duties of the Regional One helicopter personnel. This Lunch and Learn event will be on Friday, July 27, 12:30-1:30 p.m. It is presented by the Spartanburg County Historical Association and admission is $5. For more information, call 864-542-ARTS.

The Advent Shoppe, a community outreach project of The Episcopal Church of The Advent, is offering a special book bag sale through the end of July. Each backpack is loaded with school supplies. Some even include special computer equipment. All are offered at $15 and $17. Staffed by volunteers with profits going to community outreach, the “destination shop” features eclectic, secular, non-secular, classic and unique items from around the world, 10,000 Villages, and is a Fair Trade Store. Located at 161 Advent St. in Spartanburg, The Advent Shoppe is open Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, 8:30 to 11 a.m. Free gift wrapping is available.

Spartanburg Community College recently honored faculty and staff members for outstanding service at the annual Employee Recognition Program. The recipients of the 2011-2012 faculty and staff of the year awards included academic director of social sciences Dr. Bruce L. Dillenbeck: Faculty of the Year, Peer Award; history and political science instructor Ivory D. Wilson: Faculty of the Year, Student Award; Expanded Duty Dental Assisting adjunct faculty member Brenda G. Johnson: Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award; and veteran’s affairs coordinator Katherine J. Payne: Staff of the Year Award. “Each year the college honors individuals who go above and beyond to uphold the college’s mission and values,” said Henry Giles, SCC interim president. Registration for SCC fall semester classes is going on now. Individuals interested in registering for fall semester classes that begin August 15 can apply online at www.sccsc.edu.

Mellow Mushroom locations in Greenville and Spartanburg will be holding an all-day fundraising event to support The Transportation Museum of the World featuring the Miniature World of Trains on Tuesday, July 24. Anyone dining that day should mention that they want to donate to the Transportation Museum or Miniature World and the Mellow Mushroom will take 10 percent of the meal total (excluding tax and alcohol) and donate it to the project. The yet-to-be-named Transportation Museum mascot will be at the Greenville location from noon until 2 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. for photographs. For more information, visit www.miniatureworldoftrains.com/eventscalendar.htm.

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Grass-fed cattle fills healthy niche

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Walker Century Farms builds thriving business selling Devon cattle and free-range pork

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Nancy Walker’s battle with breast cancer was the defining moment in the decision that led to founding Walker Century Farm’s grass-fed cattle business.

“I was diagnosed in 2003,” she said, “and went through the whole regimen of treatments from chemo to surgery to reconstructive surgery. Afterward, my husband (Dr. Bill Walker, a pulmonary physician) decided we needed to start eating healthy and dug into the issue of just what constitutes a healthy diet.”

Grass-fed beef came up as the most Bill and Nancy Walker with one of their Red Devon cows at Walker Century Farms.

After some “head fakes in the past,” the residential real estate market has taken “meaningful strides toward recovery,” the South Carolina REALTORS Association said, based on June sales and other signs.

Statewide, the association’s multiple listing service recorded an increase of 5 percent in sales, a 1.9 percent increase in median sales price and a 15.7 percent decline in the inventory of housing on the market – the latter a continuation of the trend toward a better balance between supply and demand.

In the Upstate, the Greater Greenville market showed strong gains in June and Spartanburg did moderately well.

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cludes Greenville, Pickens and Laurens counties. Sales were up 3.6 percent in Spartanburg. They were down in the rest of the Upstate.

The median home price rose 6 percent in Greenville to $159,000.

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logical way for the family to change their eating habits. “Bill had been thinking about getting back into the cattle business on the family farm, so we purchased Devon cattle, which do very well on a grass diet.”

Today, Walker Century Farm is stepping into the niche soon to be vacated

by Live Oak Farm near Woodruff, which will likely go on the auction block if owner Ron Wilson is convicted of fraud charges in connection with his precious metals business.

They opened a farm store in May of this year and have a thriving business selling their beef to Greenville restaurants catering to high-end clients.

“It’s just tragic what has happened with Ron,” Nancy Walker said. “We knew him (Wilson) slightly through meetings of the Devon cattle growers association.

This is going to leave a big hole in the grass-fed beef trade in the area.”

If need be, it’s a hole the Walkers are happy to fill as they grow their red cattle in the rolling hills just east of Anderson off Interstate 85.

“I was leery of cattle at first,” Nancy Walker said. “We had been renting the farm to another cattle grower who kept Limousin cattle. They scared me.”

The large French breed is one of the oldest cattle varieties in Europe. They look very similar to the Devon cattle the Walkers now raise, except for one difference: Devons are notoriously gentle; Limousins, not so much so.

As soon as the Walkers stepped into the pasture, about a dozen Devons ambled up to greet the couple, with none of the typical jostling when a face associated with food and care arrives in the pasture.

For such large creatures, the Devons demonstrated a knack for treating people with deference. Even the massive

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One of the Walkers’ English cows. Nancy and Bill Walker, in cooperation with two other Devon breeders, are importing embryos from the United Kingdom to broaden the traditional genetic base of the Devon breed in America by utilizing genetics that have been in England for over 2,000 years.

herd bull seemed painfully aware of just where his masters were at all times.

“Bill and I took a trip to North Carolina to see some Devons,” Nancy Walker said. “When I first saw them, I said, ‘I like these cows.’ ” “That was enough for me,” Bill Walker said.

As the herd grew, the Walkers started selling some of their beef to staff at the AnMed Health Medical Center, Bill Walker said. Next came sales to people outside the hospital and, eventually, the restaurants.

“We opened the store in May,” Mary Walker said. “Originally it was only open on weekends. We’ve added Thursday just recently.”

The farm store is an old portable classroom that the couple saw near a local school with a for-sale sign on it, Mary Walker said.

“The cost of a stick-built building was just prohibitive,” she said. “We harvested and milled the cedar paneling and beams from trees on the farm.”

dropped to 94 days in Greater Greenville, the lowest in the state and well below the state average of 134 days.

In Spartanburg, the average in June was 171 days on the market, up 14 percent from a year ago. That index also rose throughout the remainder of the 10 Upstate counties.

SCR, the state association of Realtors, saw enough encouraging indicators in June activity to be upbeat.

“Residential real estate has finally taken some meaningful strides toward recovery, and they’ve all been self-pow-

The end result was a rustic-looking building rife with the smells and tastes of an earlier era.

In addition to their Devon cattle, the Walkers sell heritage breed pork. The hogs are raised free-range with supplemental feedings.

They also carry various vegetable and dairy products from area producers.

A Devon rib-eye has a lovely texture and flavor when cooked on the grill. The meat lacks the heavy marbling of grainfed animals and, Nancy Walker said, the steak has more of the good cholesterol and omega 3 and omega 6 ratios.

The family divides the farm chores.

“I’m the only one without a day job,” Nancy Walker said.

She sees the farm as part of a heritage that goes back more than a century.

“We’re a certified Century Farm,” she said. “Raising cattle in much the same way as Bill’s grandfather did.”

Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@thespartanburgjournal.com.

ered without divine (or government) intervention,” SCR said. “Yes, there have been some head fakes in the past, but there’s real reason to believe that market turnaround awaits us.”

Housing in the $200,000-$300,000 range is experiencing the greatest gain in appreciation, 14.5 percent, and has the shortest days-on-the-market with the exception of homes selling for $100,000 or less, SCR said.

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Bank Plans Coastal Branch

Southern First Bancshares, the holding company for Greenville First Bank and Southern First Bank, is expanding into the coastal market with a branch in Charleston.

The Greenville-based company hired Len Howell, who was regional executive for National Bank of South Carolina for the last 13 years, as executive vice president and Charleston regional executive.

Art Seaver, chief executive officer of Southern First, said Howell “has been extremely successful in serving the Charleston market and we believe that his leadership and performance will add significant depth to our executive team.”

The bank said it expects to open the Charleston branch on East Bay Street in the current quarter.

The company has three offices in Greenville and one in Greer operating as Greenville First and two in the Columbia market as Southern First. A third branch in Columbia is under construction in Forest Hills.

Southern First, which was founded in 1999, reports assets of $760 million.

FDA Approves Lab for Test

The Greenville CLIA lab of the British company Lab21 has been approved by the FDA to offer a diagnostic test to determine whether patients with colorectal cancer are suitable for treatment with the drug Erbitux.

The lab is one of nine in the United States approved by the FDA to offer the test. Lab21 said the test has been routinely used in Europe since 2008.

The approval makes Lab21 “well positioned to be the first provider of this valuable service to the regional cancer community,” said Michael Bolick, president, in a statement from Cambridge, England.

Firm Closes In on Acquisition

KEMET Corp. has moved closer toward the first step in eventual acquisition of NEC Tokin, a Japanese rival in the global capacitor business.

The European Union last week cleared the Simpsonville-based company to complete the first stage of the acquisition.

KEMET has an agreement with NEC Tokin to acquire the company in three steps.

Initially, KEMET will pay $50 million for 34 percent interest and $50 million in a second step to bring its equity to 49 percent in a joint venture.

In the final stake, KEMET would acquire the remaining 51 percent for an amount “based on multiple performance at that time.”

The acquisition would make KEMET one of the largest makers of tantalum, ceramic, aluminum, film, paper

and electrolytic capacitors in the world.

KEMET CEO Per-Olof Loof told financial analysts the union will result in “one of the most exciting component solutions in the world. Ever since I joined KEMET, I have felt that without a real presence in Japan we cannot truly call ourselves global.”

The acquisition of NEC Tokin still requires regulatory approval from China, which has aggressively extended the capacitor business of its companies. KEMET expects the transaction will close during this quarter.

EDTS Buys a Competitor

EDTS, an information technology consulting firm with offices in Greenville and Augusta, Ga., has acquired Axios Data of Augusta effective immediately, EDTS announced.

With the acquisition, EDTS has more than 40 IT professionals, “placing it among the upper tier of Southeastern IT firms,” the company said.

EDTS specializes in networking, security and managed support services in a broad range of industries with a particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, professional services and state and local government.

“Not only are we adding depth to our team, but we are adding talented colleagues that we know embrace our EDTS culture of client service first,” said Charles Johnson, chief executive officer of EDTS. Inc. Magazine has named EDTS one of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America.

County Shares a Planner

Greenville County has designated its first employee to work jointly for the county and for the Greenville Area Development Corp.

The county said that Brooke Ferguson, a demographic and market research analyst in the county’s planning and development department, would provide “expert assistance in site certification and selection” to the GADC. “This sharing of resources is yet another action by Greenville County that highlights our commitment to growing our economy,” said Joe Kernell, county administrator. “This is an effective, efficient use of our best asset – our people.”

Jerry Howard, president and chief executive officer of GADC, said Ferguson’s “proven success working with municipalities, utilities and other community stakeholders will provide GADC a valuable service.”

The county pays Ferguson’s salary; the shared portion of her duties would be considered an “in-kind contribution” to GADC, a spokesman said.

The GADC is a nonprofit entity supported by public and private funding.

Refreshing Fresh Market’s Home

The Forest Park shopping center on South Pleasantburg Drive, where The Fresh Market is the anchor, has a new owner.

Kimco Realty Corp. of New York said it paid “approximately $11.8 million” for the 52,000-square-foot shopping center. The company said Fresh Market “serves the upscale neighborhoods bordering the Greenville Country Club.”

Kimco said it believes it can increase occupancy from the current 79 percent by repositioning the center “to better appeal to these upscale patrons, as well as the 15,000 students at nearby Greenville Technical College.”

The acquisition of Forest Park was one of four shopping centers Kimco bought as a package from EDENS, a Charlotte, N.C., shopping center operator, for $63.8 million. The others are in Asheville, Charlotte and Davidson, a Charlotte suburb.

Moonshine Whiskey to Gin

Dark Corner Distillery, where moonshine is distilled on Main Street in Greenville, says it is producing South Carolina’s first hand-distilled gin.

The distillery said a limited batch of 100 bottles of what it calls White Tiger Gin went on sale July 13.

Head distiller John Wilcox said 90-proof White Tiger is a fusion of Dark Corner’s corn whiskey, juniper, Szechuan pepper, lemongrass, jasmine and Thai basil.

White Tiger won a bronze medal at the Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition, the company said.

Festivities for Olympics

The International Center, the nonprofit that helps international families settle in the Upstate, is holding a two-day drop-in event to bring “global professionals” together for the summer Olympics in London.

The celebration begins Friday, July 27, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., with opening ceremonies over “a few drinks” and hors d’oeuvres and a speaker from REI, the outdoor outfitter.

On Saturday, the International Center will hold an open house from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Events include watching the games, playing Olympic trivia, a “parade of nations” and a potluck luncheon with the center providing the entrée and participates providing side dishes.

The events are free for Upstate Global Professional members; guest refreshments are $5. RSVP to Whitney Walters at 864-631-2188. The International Center is at 9 S. Memminger St., Greenville.

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Winfred Rembert was sent to work in a Georgia cotton field when he was six.

He was arrested as a teen for making off with a car while trying to escape two white men who were chasing him after gunshots rang out at what had been a peaceful Civil Rights march in Americus, Ga. He was nearly castrated by the KKK during a near lynching – a lynching he said was stopped by a white man wearing large wing-tip shoes.

He spent time working on a Georgia chain gang.

Rembert, who now lives in Connecticut, tells his story through art, now on exhibit at the Greenville County Museum of Art through Aug. 19.

Instead of canvas, Rembert uses leather.

Instead of brushes, he uses knives, bevels and hammers. Instead of paint, he uses vivid commercial leather dyes that are “painted” into the substrate to achieve rich and varnished hues.

He uses a craft he learned from a fellow prison inmate to create images both personal and rooted in the South of a half-century ago. The images range from chain gangs to baptisms, pool hall and kitchen scenes, from church services to cotton fields.

Rembert left the South for Connecticut in the 1970s after he got out of prison, part of a migration of African-Americans fleeing the South for freedom and jobs. He

Winfred Rembert, “Dinner-Time in the Cotton Field,” 2001. Dye on carved and tooled leather. 27 x 34 3⁄4 inches. Private collection.

found work as a longshoreman, a career he pursued until an injury forced him to retire in the mid-1990s.

It was then that his wife, Patty, a woman he met while working on that Georgia chain gang, suggested that Rembert, who has had no formal art training, tell his stories.

According to the catalog for “Winfred Rembert: Amazing Grace,” Rembert begins his work by purchasing one “side” of vegetable or oak-tanned cowhides from a Connecticut leather factory.

He sketches an image on paper, then Rembert continued on page 20

Benjamin Busch says his parents – novelist Frederick Busch and his librarian mother – were both Vietnam War protestors and had no intentions of raising a soldier.

But Busch had other ideas.

He was a soldier in real life – Busch is a decorated U.S. Maine Corps infantry officer who served two combat tours in Iraq – and in the movies: He played a Marine in the film “Rules of Engagement,” starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.

“I was a martial creature,” he wrote in his memoir, “Dust to Dust.” His parents’ “prolonged effort to dissuade me from my natural tendencies had failed.”

Busch, who played Officer Anthony Colicchio on the HBO series “The Wire” and has appeared on “Homicide,” “The West Wing” and “Generation Kill,” will hold a reading and book signing at Hub City Bookshop on July 24 at 7 p.m.

“Dust to Dust” is a memoir written in elemental-themed chapters – water, metal, bone and blood – that includes vivid Busch continued on page 20

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traces that image onto a piece of leather.

After he sprays the leather with water, Rembert begins to cut the image into the leather with a swivel knife. He uses more than 100 different tools to create shading, textures, patterns and other three-dimensional impressions, the catalogue said.

He then paints the scene with commercial leather dye.

“Ain’t much room for a mistake and that takes practice,” he said.

He said his jailhouse “teacher,” T.J., was not a good man. He was jealous of Rembert’s abilities and stole his leatherworking tools.

“I kind of wish T.J. could see what I’m doing now,” he said.

“Amazing Grace,” an image of pickers in a cotton field with musical staffs superimposed on them, is in the permanent collection of the Richard M. Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University. “‘Amazing Grace’ is one of the songs I remember that was sung in the fields. I just loved to listen to that singing. Singing was the only thing about the fields that I loved,” Rembert said.

“Dunlap’s Quarters II” shows quarter houses a farmer had built for his workers.

SO YOU KNOW Who: “Winfred Rembert: Amazing Grace” What: an exhibition of Rembert’s leatherworks Where: Greenville County Museum of Art, 420 College St., Greenville When: through Aug. 19 Information: 864-271-7570

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memories of Busch’s pastoral childhood in rural New York, Marine training in North Carolina, the Ukraine and California, and deployment to Iraq.

Busch writes of his boyhood days spent building forts and exploring rivers and woods, and of his brushes with mortality, going down in a helicopter and being wounded by shrapnel in Ramadi.

Ironically, Busch told Publishers Weekly, it wasn’t until he was in Iraq that he became much of a reader or writer.

“When I was in Iraq, writing was what I had and I began to use it to describe

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Winfred Rembert, “All Me II,” 2002. Dye on carved and tooled leather. 31 1/2 x 37 3/4 inches.

Collection of the artist.

“All of his workers were black. Dunlap did all types of work: cut wood to sell, picked cotton, shook peanuts, pulled corn,” Rembert wrote. “The Quarters were large and consisted of about 50 houses.

But like every farmer, cotton was his big crop. And he had the workers to do it.”

Rembert said he visited Dunlap in 2006 before he died.

“Winfred Rembert Going North?” shows a black man with two bags and a loaded car. A woman stands nearby. “They’re surely leaving home.

No more picking cotton for 2 cent a pound. Got to be something better. I believe they’re going north because that’s what everybody talked about during dinner time in the cotton

my experience and explain as I learned it,” he said in the Publishers Weekly interview. “This book began then. Unlike my father, I needed the war to find the words.”

He decided to write the memoir in themed chapters instead of chronological order because he said that’s how people remember things.

Busch’s writing has been featured in Harper’s and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has also been a guest commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@thespartanburgjournal.com.

field,” Rembert wrote.

In “The Struggle,” Rembert pictures some famous African-Americans such as Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods in a cotton field.

“I just wanted to show that, even though these folk may never have been in a cotton field, they are still connected to the cotton field,” Rembert wrote. “So it is possible to go through the cotton fields, corn fields, peanut fields and watermelon patches with all the rest of us and still end up being famous or even being president of the United States.”

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@thespartanburgjournal.com.

SO YOU KNOW Who: Benjamin Busch, author of “Dust to Dust” What: Reading and book signing Where: Hub City Bookshop When: July 24, 2012 Information: 577-9349

My philosophy teacher finished writing in my yearbook, punctuating his note with a Tibetan word.

“A special word,” he said, smiling. “Emaho (ay-mah-hoe). It means, ‘Oh how wondrous!’”

Lover of language that I am, I could have wept. I adored my word. I felt he had presented me with a self-contained celebration, had inscribed the letters on my forehead like a grace-given tattoo. It was not an earned gift, but one of inspiration. To be lived and shared.

At that moment, I’m not sure either of us understood the prescience of his angular script.

I certainly wouldn’t have predicted that, come September, I would be penning him a letter from Tibet itself.

The spring of 2011 found me on the cusp of graduation. I had accepted an offer of admission for college, was prepared to move on from my high school community, and my diploma was signed and sealed, soon to be delivered.

But the conviction to wander was gnawing at my bones.

I wanted to make a classroom of the world, to wring out my mind, to fly a long way away.

My feet itched. I wrote to my college-to-be, requesting a oneyear deferral. The admissions officer responded with consent.

I had successfully enrolled in the School of Life.

In autumn, rural China left me breathless. I traveled from province to province in the backs of buses and on crowded overnight trains. I didn’t shower for days at a time and yet felt cleaner that I had my whole life. Villagers

journal sketchbook welcomed me into their homes and took me into their fields to pick vegetables. Their generosity of time and space humbled and instructed me.

Peace soon grew out of the knowledge that I needed nothing beyond one foot in front of another, beyond the view of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain that brought me to my knees and then to tears, beyond the look on the 10-yearold monk’s face when I offered him my bicycle or the circle of laughing Naxi minority villagers shucking corn around a fire.

In the winter, my Chinese homestay family in the city of Kunming claimed me as daughter, granddaughter, sister. My nainai knit me socks and told me stories about the Cultural Revolution. Yeye cooked vast meals with vegetables I had never seen before, and Ma doted on me when I washed the dishes. My sixyear-old sister sang songs with me as I hung laundry out to dry. I spent afternoons at a local hospital of traditional medicine, mentored by a tui na doctor who healed people with the work of her hands.

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Winter unfolding into spring took me to the Netherlands where I lived at L’Abri Fellowship (a commune of sorts) in the countryside. There, I pored over books of theology and philosophy, and works of great literature. I let lifequestions multiply in my mouth, and

“In all these places, I have been both humbled by my shortcomings and grateful for the awareness that leads to change.”

I asked them all. I learned the value of labor and, daily, to pit my strength against the tasks required to keep L’Abri functioning. Together, members of the community split wood and scrubbed toilets, tiled floors and pre-

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pared dinner. I found joy in working with my hands, in repairing what was once broken and using it anew.

I learned to love the people who lived alongside me, in all of their peculiar and wonderful and terrible forms. Existence became an act of serving and receiving, an exercise in patience and in grace. In those months, I wrestled with God and, like Jacob, walked away limping and joyful and blessed.

Returning to the Carolinas for the summer, I had fresh eyes to recognize the capacity for adventure and rich experience all around me. I got a job and navigated Greenville as an empowered young adult – seeking community, holding responsibilities, and knowing that time is my resource, relationships are the investments worth holding, and love is the universal prerogative.

In all these places, I have been both humbled by my shortcomings and grateful for the awareness that leads to change. And grateful, in no short measure, for every good door I went through and every strong arm

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Emaho is always on my lips.

To anyone approaching ends, bridges or beginnings, I say, do not fear the narrow gate, nor the road less traveled. Tap every resource for beauty. Whether we go or stay, a season of wonder is at hand.

“Allons! The road is before us!

It is safe – I have tried it – my own feet have tried it well – be not detain’d!”

-Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road” Givens Parr graduated in 2011 from Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts. She is a longtime student of Mandarin, a painter, a writer and a seeker of Truth. This summer, Parr served as an intern at the Spartanburg Journal and in the fall will be a freshman at Brown University. Parr highly recommends “Vagabonding” by Rolf Potts to wonderers and wanderers of any age.

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The July exhibit in the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg’s gallery features two women who retired from Spartanburg School District 7 and now have second careers as artists. Susan M. Hopps, a watercolorist who produces representational canvases of people, places, plants and animals; and Jane Frost, who works in several media and experiments with representational, non-representational and three-dimensional projects. The “Taking Flight” exhibit is free Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Chapman Cultural Center.

The Chapman Cultural Center ended its fiscal year on a strong note by surpassing its 2012 UnitedArts Annual Fund campaign fundraising goal for the second year in a row. 1,078 donors gave to the United Arts Annual Fund campaign raising $847,233 for the arts in Spartanburg County. United Arts campaign donors provide funding for award-winning and innovative arts education programming, which serves approximately 47,000 school children and teachers in Spartanburg County. Contributions to the United Arts Annual Fund campaign also provide funding for the Chapman Cultural Center. For more information about the United Arts Annual Fund Campaign, call 864-278-9690 or visit www.chapmanculturalcenter.org.

The West Main Artists Co-op will host Pottery Palooza, a ceramics show and sale featuring Co-op artists Bryan Davis, Tracie Easler, Jason Galloway, Al Hofmann, Anges Martin, Terry Murdock, Teresa Prater, Katherine Rausch, Rebecca Savage, Garry Turpin, Holly Williamson, Nancy Williamson and Kathy Wofford. The exhibit will feature functional stoneware and earthenware pottery, decorative wall art and sculptural work. The exhibit runs from July 19 through Aug. 11. The Co-op’s regular hours will be extended for this show to include July 20 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and July 21 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. The Coop’s regular hours are Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment.

The Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg is now accepting submissions for its 2012 39th annual juried show, which will be in the Spartanburg Art Museum at the Chapman Cultural Center, Sept. 20-Nov. 3. An opening reception and awards ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29, 6-8 p.m. The show is open to all artists in South and North Carolina and Georgia. More than $4,000 will be awarded in various categories. The deadline to submit work for consideration is Aug. 1. Media categories are 2D Painting, 2D Drawing and Mixed Media, 2D-Photography, and 3D-Sculpture, which includes ceramics and jewelry. The juror this year will be Mana Hewitt, MFA, director of the McMaster Art Gallery, as well as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Art Department of the University of South Carolina. For more details, please visit www.artistsguildofspartanburg.com, contact director Robin Els at 864764-9568 or email artistsguildofspartanburg@gmail.com.

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Jack Gregg throws his flying disc at a basket during a round of flying disc golf at the course at Wofford College.

Shannon Hetrick watches her flying disc sail toward a disc golf basket at Wofford.

Frances Jarratt-Hortis, director of counseling services at USC Upstate, speaks to freshmen and parents at the 2012 Freshman Orientation at the University Readiness Center.

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A large crowd attended the 2012 freshman orientation.

Donny Robinson of Spartanburg walks along the Rail Trail in Spartanburg during his lunch hour. Robinson said he tries to get out and walk every day. If he can’t get out during lunch, he walks later in the evening.

When you held your son for the first time, you were overwhelmed – by the love pounding your heart and the awesome realization of fatherhood hitting you. Since that moment, you’ve done your best to teach and train him, to pass on what matters most.

We can help with Guyology, a program for rising fourth- and fifth-grade boys and their dads (or dad substitute) to discuss puberty, hygiene and girls in a setting that is active, entertaining and cringe-free. Join Michael Guyton, M.D., a GHS internal medicine-pediatrics physician, as he leads …

Just the Facts Wed., Aug 1 • 6-7:30 p.m. • Fee: $50/father and son Patewood Center • 255 Enterprise Blvd., Greenville To learn more and to register, visit GIRLology.com.

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1 Abbey denizens 6 Bar lineup 11 Black __: covert missions 14 Take for a spin?

19 “The Tempest” spirit 20 Weird Al Yankovic spoof of a Michael Jackson hit 21 With 43-Across, cocktail made with Curaçao 22 Asian princess 23 Film about the appliance supervisor at Sears?

26 Woodard of “Cross Creek” 27 Shelf-clearing sale 28 Baltic capital 29 Inability to make good pitches?

30 Rover’s reward 31 Film about a small chicken that won’t stay away?

34 Milk: Pref.

38 Volleys 40 Make __ of: jot down 41 In need of liniment 43 See 21-Across 44 Lab medium 45 Feature of a two-ltr. monogram 48 Film about a sculpture that defies description?

53 Sent the same 97-Down to 54 Tributes 55 More learned

56 “SNL” alum Oteri 57 Gravy absorber 58 “Since __ Eyes on You”: Faith Hill song 61 It means nothing 62 Pitcher Jesse with a record 1,252 regularseason appearances 63 Film about a smoothlegged fellow?

65 Film about a deli specializing in heros?

67 Well-harmonized 70 La __ Tar Pits 72 Deli offerings 73 Fed. property manager 76 Prepare chestnuts 77 Inclined 79 Less respectful 81 Not working 82 Film about following a pack up a mountain?

86 Salem-to-Reno dir.

87 Educ. for tots 88 Lennon collaborator 89 Olay competitor 90 Prepare in a pan 92 Placing in direct competition 96 Richard who played the garage attendant in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” 97 Film about fans of confessional rock music who enjoy spicy food?

100 Over simplified?

102 Christie’s Miss 103 Prompter lead-in 104 Improved, as one’s skill level

109 Bill’s “Groundhog Day” co-star 110 Film about a prince’s affair with actress Fletcher?

113 Not moving 114 AQI monitor 115 Up from Méjico 116 Vagabond 117 Early strings 118 Urge 119 Evil spirit 120 Assuages

33 Brand on vermicelli 34 Wooden slats 35 Sound in an allergist’s office 36 Congo River area denizen 37 Brown of publishing 39 ABA member

42 Language that gave us “slogan” 44 Oxygen-dependent bacterium 46 Former Ford div.

47 Peculiar: Pref.

49 Romanov title 50 “Les __”

51 Consumes 52 Blood bank supply 53 Word with house or shop 56 It may decide an election 59 Return remark 60 Puccini’s “Vissi __” 62 Ontario’s second most populous city 63 Where “F” means “Ford” 64 Reprimand to a dachshund?

66 Miss America accessory 67 Bearded flower 68 Some okays 69 Pitcher’s goal 71 Municipal rep.

73 Yields 74 “I __ reason ...”

75 Bad lighting?

78 “... __ tango” 80 Holiday card drawing 82 Bandleader Shaw 83 Strive for 84 Still competing 85 Cargo unit 87 Young hens 91 Aim (to) 92 Nursery rhyme merchant 93 “__ have to do” 94 Words after “ever after” 95 Parachute color?

97 Modern letter 98 12-time All-Star Ramirez 99 L’__ du Tour: French cycling event 101 Slippery swimmer 104 Opposite of ecto105 Claimed psychic detection 106 Reunión attendees 107 Edward’s adoptive mother in the “Twilight” series 108 Bank acct. additions 110 “You, there!”

111 Water tester 112 Pitcher’s asset

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1 Cleo’s lover 2 Like some surgery 3 Kid in Cádiz 4 Brewpub supplies 5 Potential powerhouse not to be “awakened” 6 Humdingers 7 Lewis Black delivery 8 Cockpit approx.

9 Old powdered apparel 10 Caterer’s can 11 Pair of horseshoes?

12 Carrier founded in 1927 13 Watch kids 14 Arnold, notably 15 Squirrel’s treat 16 Subtle case crackers 17 Aired again 18 Looks like a rake 24 Extinct kiwi cousin 25 Tiny pest 29 Hr. some stores open 31 Humdrum 32 Miller’s “__ From the Bridge”

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Words of Wisdom

in my own words

By: Richard deBondt

with Steve Wong

The natural order of things Mother Nature can be beautifully brutal.

I live in the foothills, pretty far out in the northern countryside of Spartanburg County, within shouting distance of Hogback Mountain. It is a serene place, envied by many for its up-close view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Here, I have the luxury of having five dogs, three cats, and an abundance of wildlife that includes turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, possums, raccoons, big brown rodent-like things, woodpeckers, whippoorwills and, of course, deer.

It is a common morning privilege for me to sip coffee at sunrise on my wooden deck and watch the deer breakfast in my poor excuse for a garden. They don’t eat much, and I’m not much of a gardener anyway, so I am just glad at least the deer can get a little morning nibble out of my well-watered weed patch. I sit very still on those mornings, hoping that Futar, my big yellow dog, is fast asleep under the deck. Otherwise, my pastoral bliss can easily turn into a bloodbath.

Futar is about the best, most wellbehaved dog in the whole world. He can sit on command and will offer his paw in friendship to little children at the farmers’ market. When it’s time for a walk, he will wait impatiently for me to tie shoelaces, fill a water bottle, lock the door, hide the key and loop the chain around his neck. And when he walks, it is straight and forward, only stopping at the stop signs to briefly mark his territory the way male dogs do. He’s one of those strays that came up one day and just stayed.

But make no mistake about it. Futar is a big male outdoor dog whose favorite sport is to chase deer through the peach orchards. I am glad that deer are skittish creatures, ready to bolt at the slightest threatening movement. Big deer can outrun my big dog, so normally it is just goodnatured aerobic exercise. There’s a mad chase through the orchards, and some 10 minutes later Futar returns

home, panting and tired, with nothing to show for his efforts but a burrcovered coat.

Except last week. This is that Bambi time of the year, when does give birth to fawns. Until last week, I had never seen a fawn up close enough to take in just how beautiful they can be. I was down in the garden digging new potatoes on a Saturday afternoon. At first I thought I heard a goat bleating. I looked up and saw the two big pups playing, but where was Futar? A slight panic stirred, and I dropped my shovel and started up the hill, calling “Futar! Futar!”

The bleating got louder and more urgent, and so did my calls to my favorite dog. As I crested the backyard hill, I saw Futar with a baby deer in his mouth. It was thrashing about, screaming. And then I was running and screaming too. “Futar! Futar! Let go of that deer. Put it down. Futar!”

Futar ran; I ran after him. Then I saw the mother deer running. The pups joined in the chase. My yard is about three acres big, and I was part of a racing, screaming melee of dogs and deer, when my wife came out and joined in, too.

I’m not as young or as thin as I used to be, and running full tilt in the heat of a summer’s day in sandals can be tough on a guy who takes high blood pressure pills.

About the fourth lap around the house, Futar stopped, the deer still struggling in his jaws. “Futar, let go of that deer,” I demanded. He set it down until it tried to get away, and then he grabbed it again. More painful bleating.

When we advanced within reach, I gently pried the deer, which Futar now gave up willingly, out of his mouth. As I held the terrified deer in my arms, Futar wagged his tail and nosed his prize, obviously proud. He was giving me something that meant a great deal to him.

The fawn didn’t appear to be hurt.

We took it into the dog pen (leaving the dogs outside) and found it

could walk. It was one of the most beautiful creatures I had ever seen – so fragile, so small. A fawn’s legs are strangely long and spindly and its coat is short and medium-brown with light and dark spots in an organized pattern that proves there is a Grand Design. And it just lay down and awaited its fate.

Our friend the vet said it would be best to reunite the fawn with its mother. She said to pen the dogs for the next 12 hours and to put the fawn somewhere in the woods where the doe could find it. So we left the fawn nestled in a tangle of vines and leaves that evening. It was still there just before dark, but that was okay, we told ourselves. The mother would come later.

The next day brought a misty and rainy morning. I was up at sunrise.

I downed my coffee and quickly headed outside, sure the fawn and doe were reunited and long gone.

The rain was very gentle that morning and the air was just a little bit cool. The sun had just risen, and the promise of a great day was at hand.

It took a few minutes for me to walk through the woods to where we had left the deer, but I felt good, and I was confident that I would find nothing but underbrush.

But there the deer lay in the morning rain among the tendrils of green.

It was still and staring. I knew immediately what had happened, but I hoped I was wrong, that it would jump up at my touch. But what I touched was cool and wet and unmoving. The deer had died in the night, and there were tears mixed with raindrops that cool Sunday morning in the foothills of the Carolinas.

Steve Wong and his wife and their dogs and cats live in a peach orchard in Gramling, which is a quiet little rural community in northern Spartanburg County. He loves to get feedback on the stuff he writes: Just4Wong@gmail.com.

It is HOT! Time for Rosé. The traditional summertime table wine of Europe is ideal for our Carolina summers. Great for picnics and light snacks, it also serves well with red meat dishes that might cry out for big red wine in cooler times. Who needs high-alcohol heavyweights when you break into a sweat just walking across the patio? Rosé is the thing.

Just about every traditional red wine region has its Rosés. Bordeaux, the Rhone, Rioja, and even Burgundy all have important Rosé products.

Producers can’t help themselves wanting to make Rosé. Winemakers’ get hot and thirsty too! A similar situation exists in California, Oregon, and Washington.

Even wineries famous for expensive red wine occasionally release rosés from every grape imaginable.

Provence, in the South of France, is legendary for Rosé. Estate grown Provence Rosé can be $35. Don’t be shocked at the price, these wines are classic, dry, elegant and worthy of special attention. However, if your backyard barbeque has less royal standards, good, dry Provence Rosé can be under $15. For all but the elite, youth is a virtue. Drink the youngest available.

Throughout the rest of Europe Rosé is common. The best examples tend to mention a region rather than a grape.

Look for Bordeaux, Tavel, Lirac, Rioja, or Navarra; not for Merlot, Cabernet, Grenache, or Syrah. There are even classic European districts famous for slightly sweet fresh Rosé, notably Anjou in the Loire valley.

Don’t overlook the U.S.A as a source for premium Rosé. “White Zinfandel” (Rosé really) still tops the sales charts but there are many fine dry alternatives. Pinot Noir producers often make “Vin Gris”.

However many good U.S. bottles will bear the name of the principle grape from which they are made. Any top producer is likely to make good Rosé, although there is no region dedicated to the style. Again, youth is generally a virtue.

Richard deBondt founded Northampton Wines in Greenville in 1975. With his business partner David Williams, he oversees retail wine and restaurant operations, along with wine travel.

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