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Frank Holleman, senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, on the gasoline spill reportedly from Kinder Morgan’s Plantation Pipe Line in Anderson County. Upstate Forever intends to join two other environmental groups in a lawsuit against Kinder Morgan.

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OPINION Views from your community

The Newcomers

More Upstate residents are sympathetic to unions, and that’s a problem IN MY OWN WORDS

By Catherine Templeton

A lot is changing in South Carolina because a lot of people are moving in. We have three of the most rapidly growing metropolitan areas on the entire East Coast, Beaufort-Hilton Head-Bluffton, Myrtle Beach-ConwayNorth Myrtle Beach and Charleston-North Charleston.

Greenville isn’t far behind those on the coast with a growth rate of 1.2 percent, just behind CharlestonNorth Charleston’s 2.4 percent, the lowest of the three coastal areas.

In the Palmetto State, we can feel the effects in things like our traffic, housing prices and job opportunities, but I bet you haven’t considered the cultural shift, especially when it comes to unionized workforces.

As a native South Carolinian, I can confidently say that we don’t like to be told what to do. That means, for example, when we earn a fair day’s wage, we don’t want to be told to give it to someone else so they can spend it on wasteful things. It is probably why South Carolina

little patience for government.

If a union organizes a group of people, those people give up their paycheck to the union. The union then spends the money on their own salaries, organizing campaigns in other states and supporting political parties and special interests. In fact, one of the reasons we call Barack Obama “president” is because the unions paid to get him elected by using other people’s money.

It is no surprise then that President Obama turned around and rewarded their efforts by using other people’s money to bail out the Big Three automakers and their legacy union shops. Obama nationalized the auto industry during his first year in office by investing $80 billion into the bankrupt Chrysler and General Motors Corporations. This political allegiance cost taxpayers more than $9 billion and created 340,000 primarily union jobs.

While everyone was concentrating on Obamacare, the Obama administration has funded the unions, supported them politically and even changed the National Labor Relations Board rules to allow things like union

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access to your email server. In fact, with the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, all the new rules of the Obama Labor Board go unchecked because the Supreme Court is split without his deciding vote.

In the ’90s, I worked in an Upstate weave mill. The company I worked for taught us about respect, efficiency and accountability. There was no time or inclination for unions in the Upstate of South Carolina. We worked hard, got ahead, performed well, grew and took responsibility when we needed to make corrections. Unions didn’t allow for that, and we didn’t want them.

Twenty years later, it appeared as if most of South Carolina agreed that they didn’t want unions either. In response to a referendum on the 2010 statewide ballot, it appeared that only about 20 percent of us support unions.

Today, things are different. According to a recent statewide survey by Norman Analytics, 56 percent of newcomers to South Carolina approve of unions. Even more surprising is the number of natives surveyed in the Upstate who approve of unions. We are the second most union-sympathetic region in the state behind the Pee Dee. Further illustrating this critical shift, the majority of employees making less than $25,000 also support unions.

Nationally, we have a resurgence of unions, and in South Carolina we have people with different experiences moving into our workforce.

As union support increases throughout the nation, South Carolina, of course, remains one of the best places to live and work in the United States, and our state is still one of the lowest in unionization because of our Right to Work laws, but this is a reminder that national politics have local consequences and we are not immune. Our workforce culture has shifted monumentally since 2010, in part, because of funding and policy decision in Washington.

It is also a reminder that respect, personal responsibility and accountability in our workforce go a long way to helping our citizens and keeping unions from slowing us down.

Catherine Templeton is the former S.C. Secretary of Labor and the president of Brawley Templeton LLC.

Speak your mind has so little unionization — and so The Journal welcomes letters to the editor and guest columns on timely public issues. Letters should include name, city, phone number and email address for verification purposes and should not exceed 300 words. Columns should include a photo and short bio of the author and should not exceed 600 words. Writers should demonstrate relevant expertise and make balanced, factbased arguments.

All submissions will be edited and become the property of the Journal.

We do not guarantee publication or accept letters or columns that are part of organized campaigns. We prefer electronic submissions.

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More than a year after the Greenville County Council approved a public referendum on allowing Sunday alcohol sales in the unincorporated parts of Greenville County, voters will get their say on Nov. 8.

Sunday alcohol sales once was a sure loser at ballot boxes in South Carolina, but Greenville County could become the 20th county in the state to allow them. Twenty-two municipalities allow Sunday alcohol sales as well, including all of the municipalities within Greenville County.

Sunday alcohol sales in the county have come up at least twice before. Fifty-seven percent of Greenville County voters were against it in a 1999 vote. The City of Greenville approved Sunday alcohol sales a year later.

Sunday alcohol sales came up again in 2010, but the issue never made it to the voters as the Greenville County Council failed to pass an ordinance authorizing the referendum on second reading.

Debate about a potential Sunday alcohol referendum died in 2014 after Council raised concerns that it would negatively affect a referendum on a sales tax to fund road projects. The roads referendum was overwhelmingly defeated.

After the council punted on a 2014 Sunday alcohol sales referendum, David McCraw, owner of the Palmetto Restaurant and Ale House, launched a petition campaign.

The petition drive failed because it didn’t get the required number of signatures from registered voters. But McCraw continued to lobby council members, saying they were not voting to approve Sunday alcohol sales, only to allow voters to decide.

As if stands today, McCraw’s business can’t sell beer, wine or liquor on Sunday because of its location in the unincorporated area on Beacon Drive near the intersection of Pelham Road and Interstate 85.

County hospitality businesses had supported the referendum, saying that they lose revenue to businesses within city limits that can sell on Sundays.

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ON THE BALLOT WHAT IT SAYS:

“Shall the S.C. Department of Revenue be authorized to issue temporary permits in this county for a period not to exceed twentyfour hours to allow the possession, sale and consumption of alcoholic liquors by the drink to bona fide nonprofit organizations and business establishments authorized to be a licensed for consumption-onpremises sales and to allow the sale of beer and wine at permitted off-premises locations without regard to the days or hours of sales?”

WHAT IT MEANS:

A “yes” vote would allow restaurants, bars and nonprofits in the unincorporated areas of Greenville County to sell alcohol on Sundays, and stores to be able to sell beer and wine on Sundays.

A “no” vote would prevent restaurants, bars and nonprofits in the unincorporated areas of Greenville County to sell alcohol on Sundays, and stores to be able to sell beer and wine on Sundays.

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ELECTION 2016

VOTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Greenville County Council Races DISTRICT 21 Rick Roberts, Republican, Education: Clemson University, Occupation: KMC Benefits Inc., General Partner Most Important District Issue The biggest issue is balancing property rights and manageable growth.

Most Important County Issue It’s the infrastructure matching our growth needs.

How Would You Balance District Needs and County Needs?

I’m elected by my district. So my first calling is to the district. But we have to understand that each district combines to make up our wonderful county. I’m making a big effort to get to know more about each district. We’re only as good as our weakest link.

How Would You Address Public Transportation Needs?

I think the system needs to be looked at as a whole. Public transportation is needed as the county grows. But Greenlink has a lot of inefficiencies that need to be looked at from top to bottom.

Bill Michaud, Libertarian, Educaiton: United States Military Academy, Webster University, Occupation: Manufacturing Engineer at General Electric (No photo provided) Most Important County Issue Taxes. For example, Greenville County Council messed up when it decided to put the “penny sales tax” on the ballot. It should have been an up and down vote.

Most Important District Issue I’m going to go back to taxes.

I think we’re overtaxed. Property taxes needed to be reduced.

How Would You Balance District Needs and County Needs?

The district comes first. They’re the customers in this transactional process.

How Would You Address Public Transportation Needs?

Public transportation has always been a financial loser in other cities. The New York subway system doesn’t make money. It loses money and the government subsidizes it. No more money should be spent on that proposal.

DISTRICT 24 Liz Seman, Republican, Incumbent, Most Important County Issue My priorities continue to be promoting economic development, protecting our quality of life and planning for a prosperous future.

Education: B.S. in Marketing, Occupation: Executive Director of Corporate Engagement, Furman University

Most Important District Issue Since District 24 encompasses both the City of Greenville and the City of Mauldin, it is imperative that the leaders of each municipality and the county work together to address issues such as infrastructure, economic development and public safety.

How Would You Balance District Needs and County Needs?

While each council member is elected from a single district, we must work together to address the needs of the entire county.

How Would You Address Public Transportation Needs?

The County and the City continue to collaborate with other partners to find solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the system and ensure the needs of our citizens are met when it comes to public transportation.

John Langville, Constitution Party, Challenger, Education: Lincoln Technical College, Occupation: Automobile mechanic Most Important County Issue That would be keeping the police and the communities together as opposed to tearing them apart.

Most Important District Issue We need to look at the bigger picture in terms of planning. County Council keeps approving building permits and it’s crowding areas. It just keeps the roads jammed for visitors. Just look at Woodruff Road.

How Would You Balance District Needs and County Needs?

I firmly believe the best way to raise yourself is to help those around you. If those around you are doing well, then that will also build you up. Granted, someone has to eventually take the lead and start moving forward.

How Would You Address Public Transportation Needs?

I come from Maryland. And it gobbles up money year after year, and the services are barely adequate. Maryland has no shortage of riders. But ridership can’t support it. So we have to balance that with the needs, use and affordability. Because you must always be mindful of the money you do have.

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ELECTION 2016

VOTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Greenville County School District Races AREA 19 Debi Bush, Incumbent, Education: Greenville County Schools, Occupation: Expressions Unlimited, owner Most Important Issue Funding. We have to make sure that we have advocacy against unfunded mandates from both state and federal levels. We also have to maintain a budget that focuses on providing students with safe, state-ofthe-art schools with quality teachers and outstanding support staff.

Is the District Adequately Funded?

Do You Support a Tax Increase?

There are many state and federal requirements that are still not being fully funded.

This puts the burden on the local taxpayer.

I continue to advocate for full funding on these issues as I review the needs of every year’s budget when asked to levy additional local taxes.

Does the District Adequately Prepare Students?

By having many initiatives such as the G-Plus, we are starting children as early as K-4 on a path for college and career readiness. On the national Career Work Keys test, 89.6 percent of juniors in Greenville County scored ready. This is a 2 percent increase over the previous year.

Greatest Capital Need There are many facility challenges based on the rapid population growth of our area. We must also incorporate new technologies that will prepare our students to be college- and career-ready in our changing economy.

Myra Yeargin Gallagher, Challenger, Education: Berea High graduate, Occupation: Interior designer, former beauty salon ower Most Important Issue The education of our students is always the most important issue. The aim of the school district should be to assure the highest possible graduation rates. I want to know what prevents our high school students to go on to further their educations.

Is the District Adequately Funded?

Do You Support a Tax Increase?

Evaluation and prioritization should be an ongoing process and not just limited to a few days or weeks of the year. I do think Berea and Orchard Park have some of the highest taxes for what we get in this area.

Does the District Adequately Prepare Students?

Greenville Technical College was put in place to align education with workforce needs. K-12 education in Greenville County must be coordinated to make the transition to college and/or careers easier.

Greatest Capital Need School safety is the biggest capital need.

Elementary students need more protection. There should be fencing around their playgrounds. To determine how money is appropriated, I would assess schools’ needs, not wants.

Monica Miller Wofford and Charles E. Winfield will also appear on the ballot, but both have dropped out of the race.

AREA 21 Danna Rohleder, Incumbent, Education: MA English Education, Occupation: Retired eduation Most Important Issue Fully funding public schools is an ongoing problem in South Carolina, whose system of funding public schools is a complex tangle of laws and funding streams that few people can unravel. It is inadequate, unstable and leaves school districts at the mercy of fluctuating state resources.

Is the District Adequately Funded?

Do You Support a Tax Increase?

Our schools have never been fully funded since I have been on the board. The legislature has passed the responsibility of millage increases to the schools when our representatives failed to meet the needs of our students. I have voted for a tax increase to meet unfunded mandates when necessary.

Does the District Adequately Prepare Students?

Yes. In addition to the requirements of earning a diploma, GCS offers college classes and the option of attending a career center to earn a certification for a career immediately after high school. GCS also requires students to take Work Keys, an employment skills assessment, on which employers rely.

Greatest Capital Need Keeping up with Greenville’s growth to fund our long-range plans is a great capital need.

Current construction costs are higher than in years past because of the rising cost of steel based on China’s recent boom in construction. Because of Greenville’s growth, the competition to find qualified workers is challenging.

Michael C. Stewart will also appear on the ballot, but did not respond to any of our questions

AREA 25 Kenneth E. Baxter Sr., Incumbent, Education: Master’s in Education, organizational management, Occupation: Retired Most Important Issue The most important issues facing schools today are school safety and keeping up with technology in today’s environment.

Is the District Adequately Funded? Do You Support a Tax Increase?

Greenville County Schools are not adequately funded with the state providing a base student cost of $2,370. It is estimated to cost $5,536 to adequately educate a child. The GCS budget is around $536 million, or about $40 per day per student. The board will use a tax increase very sparingly.

Does the District Adequately Prepare Students?

Greenville County does this in many ways: OnTrack Greenville, our vocational centers, adult education classes, virtual school, Work Keys program, dual credit classes, IB and Advanced Placement classes. The percentage of students passing AP exams is better than the state and nation in 10 of 26 subjects.

Greatest Capital Need The greatest capital needs are keeping up with the maintenance on 106 schools and refreshing all of the technology. Building and expanding our schools is also a need.

Michelle Goodwin Calwile, Education: BS, fashion merchandising; Master’s in elementary and early childhood education and educational leadership and administration, Occupation: Retired eduation Most Important Issue Getting and keeping committed, dedicated people in this profession who truly have a love for teaching children. I will also work to make sure that our students are provided the resources they need to compete and that our educators are provided the tools and professional development needed to prepare students.

Is the District Adequately Funded?

Do You Support a Tax Increase?

I would not support a tax increase. If you look at tax bills, the school district gets most of the money. I want to make sure we allocate the resources properly. Sometimes more is not better.

Does the District Adequately Prepare Students?

Yes, there are a lot of different initiatives to better prepare our students, for instance, G-Plus.

Greatest Capital Need Making sure that our building plans take growth into account so that years later we do not have to use portables. In the past, the district has not accurately measured the growth in certain areas and we have to use portable classrooms.

Justin Goddard’s name will be on the ballot, but Goddard has withdrawn from the race and is supporting Calwile.

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ELECTION 2016

Health Events House District 22 candidate Brett Brocato claims voters weren’t aware that GOP nominee Jason Elliott is gay.

Paul Guy is a two-decade veteran of the Greenville Sheriff ’s Office and current nonprofit head.

Against All Odds Candidates for House District 22 and Greenville County Sheriff waging write-in campaigns CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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You won’t find the names of Paul Guy and Brett Brocato on the ballot, but they’re running for Greenville County sheriff and South Carolina House District 22, respectively, as write-in candidates.

But winning as a write-in is nearly impossible, said Furman University political science professor Danielle Vinson. “It either takes a major campaign by a wellknown candidate with a lot of funding or, at the local level, a really small precinct in a low turnout election,” Vinson said, “and this appears to be a high turnout election from absentee voting so far.”

Brocato is running to prevent Greenville attorney Jason Elliott from becoming South Carolina’s first openly gay legislator. Elliott won the District 22 Republican primary, beating incumbent Wendy Nanney by focusing on the number of votes Nanney missed. District 22 includes Bob Jones University, Wade Hampton Boulevard and parts of Greenville’s Eastside.

Guy hopes to beat Will Lewis, who narrowly defeated incumbent Sheriff Steve Loftis in a nasty Republican primary.

“The anti-incumbent fervor was taken care of in the primaries,” Vinson said. Vot-

ers who are turning out mainly because of the presidential election will vote for down-ballot races, but they typically vote for candidates who are listed on the ballot, she said.

In the House race, Brocato said in a Facebook post that Elliott is “uniquely unqualified to defend the family.” Brocato, who is a married father of three with a fourth child due in January, said he was running to give the district an alternative.

Elliott has said the state needs to find ways to fund and rebuild roads and bridges. He also advocates for school choice, is antiabortion and will fight attempts to disarm law-abiding Americans.

Guy, a 20-year veteran of the Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office who is now executive director of the nonprofit Beyond Differences, has been pushing for the county to create a citizen law enforcement review board with subpoena power. One of his priorities is to update the Sheriff ’s Office’s training facility.

Lewis, a former deputy, said his diverse law enforcement career makes him uniquely qualified for sheriff. He’s worked in the narcotics unit, homicide, traffic enforcement, uniformed patrol and on the SWAT team. He’s had training in crisis negotiation and counterterrorism.

Run4Life 5K Sat., Nov. 5 • 8:30 a.m. • Caine Halter YMCA Fight cancer by taking part in Run4Life. Register at run4lifesc.org.

Upstate Salute Fri., Nov. 11 • 5:30 p.m. • Fluor Field This Veterans Day event features food, live music, fireworks and a 21-gun salute. Visit upstatesalute.com to learn more.

Diabetes: What Your Sweet Tooth Isn’t Telling You Thurs., Nov. 17 • Noon-1 p.m. • Events at Sapphire Creek, Simpsonville Join Renee Joseph, MD, for a discussion on how to prevent and treat diabetes.

A diabetes risk assessment test is available. Free; registration required.

Turkey Day 8K & 5K Thurs., Nov. 24 • 8 a.m. • Downtown Greenville This annual walk/run takes place Thanksgiving Day. Visit treesgreenville.org.

Screenings for Uninsured Women Tues., Dec. 6 • Appointment times vary • Hillcrest Memorial Hospital Uninsured women ages 40-64 who meet certain income guidelines can receive free clinical breast exams, pelvic exams, Pap smears, mammograms, cholesterol and diabetes tests, and heart disease and stroke risk assessments.

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Environmental groups file notice of federal lawsuit against pipeline owner ANDREW MOORE | STAFF

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Three environmental groups, including Greenville’s Upstate Forever, intend to file a lawsuit against Kinder Morgan if it doesn’t finish cleaning up a gasoline spill in Anderson County.

Upstate Forever, Savannah Riverkeeper and the Southern Environmental Law Center have sent the Houston-based pipeline company a 60-day notice to clean up gasoline that reportedly spilled from its Plantation Pipe Line in December 2014.

The notice is required for the groups to file a Clean Water Act suit against the company. Clean Water Act lawsuits allow both private individuals and groups to take legal action against polluters, regardless of existing state laws.

“Kinder Morgan is responsible for one of the largest pipeline spills in South Carolina

history, yet thousands of gallons of gasoline have not been cleaned up,” said Frank Holleman, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center. “A year and a half after the spill, petroleum is polluting this waterway that flows through Anderson County, and the stream banks reek of gasoline. This pollution must stop, and Kinder Morgan must take responsibility for its pollution of South Carolina.”

The pipeline, which was acquired by Kinder Morgan in 2000, spilled nearly 369,600 gallons of gasoline on a 365-acre property near Lewis Drive near Belton in rural Anderson County, according to the law center.

The environmental groups estimate that about 160,500 gallons of gasoline remain in the soil, groundwater and area streams.

“Kinder Morgan is not doing enough to protect our watershed, and the people who depend on it, from this spill,” said Tonya Bonitatibus, the Savannah Riverkeeper. “There

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Brown’s Creek empties into Broadway Creek and Broadway Lake.

The statement also said that water samples collected by the environmental groups in August revealed contamination in areas not tested by Kinder Morgan as of July, and showed higher chemical concentrations in the areas Kinder Morgan didn’t test.

“Kinder Morgan must clean up this spill, the fourth largest petroleum pipeline spill in the history of the Upstate,” said Andrea Cooper, executive director of Upstate Forever, in a statement. “Our Upstate waterways and Anderson County deserve no less.”

Kinder Morgan submitted a Corrective Action Plan to DHEC in September. The pipeline company plans to An environmental scientist bags water and soil samples from Brown’s Creek in Anderson County. install a Surface Water Protection System with at least 49 biosparging wells Morgan, said the pipeline company “has takat the primary spill site. en full responsibility for the spill” and continThat system will be fully operational by the ues a “thorough and complete investigation end of this year, according to Ruiz. and remediation of the site in accordance “It is not uncommon for remediation activwith all applicable laws and regulations.” ities to proceed over multiple years. As we’ve “Our investigation and remediation efforts stated before, we will continue these efforts to date have achieved significant measurable until no further action is required,” Ruiz said progress, and we have submitted a corrective in the statement. action plan to the S.C. Department of Health Kinder Morgan currently faces a second and Environmental Control,” Ruiz said. federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court.

The company also listed a series of actions Scott and Eric Lewis claim the 2014 pipeline and investigations it has performed. Kinder spill has ruined their family’s 350-acre farm Morgan currently submits monthly reports on Lewis Drive. Jury selection will begin in to DHEC. It spent $4.3 million through Sep- late spring. tember for remediation and repairs.

The Plantation Pipeline delivers about So far, Kinder Morgan has recovered 700,000 barrels of gasoline, jet fuel and bio209,059 gallons of product and collected and diesel per day more than 3,100 miles of pipeproperly disposed of about 2,800 tons of pe- line, which begins in Louisiana and ends in troleum-impacted soil. the Washington D.C. area, according to KindThe company also completed a Compre- er Morgan’s website. hensive Site Assessment earlier this summer Kinder Morgan recently suspended its that included the installation of monitor- plans to construct a $1 billion extension of ing wells and recovery trenches in Brown’s the pipeline that would run from Belton to Creek to reduce downstream effects to sur- Jacksonville, Fla., after the Georgia General face water.

Assembly passed legislation this year that “I have been monitoring the site since kept the pipeline company from seeking enabout two months after the spill, and evi- vironmental permits or other licenses until dence of the gas has been growing for many July 2017. months,” said Bonitatibus. “Our most recent That stemmed from property owners’ contrip verified what I was seeing: the gas is mov- cerns about Kinder Morgan’s request to get ing and is not contained. It will continue to eminent domain. leak unless cleaned up. It is currently not a The proposed extension would have depressing risk to Broadway Lake, but will con- livered 167,000 barrels of refined petroleum tinue to leak, building up contamination lev- products per day from Belton to Florida. It els in the creek upstream.” would have had a $500 million economic imRuiz said that there is no petroleum sheen pact on South Carolina, according to a study on Brown’s Creek. She added that benzene by the University of South Carolina. and other contaminants have been found where the groundwater meets the creek but FOR MORE INFORMATION, that there are no impacts further downvisit southernenvironment.org stream.

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It’s a million times thinner than a human hair. But it’s stronger than steel and can power an entire bus for a mile. That is the ingenuity behind graphene, which is a microscopic specially designed layer of carbon.

The material could be the answer the electric vehicle industry has been looking for.

Clemson University physicists Ramakrishna Podila and Apparao Rao and students Jingyi Zhu and Anthony Childress have discovered that the nanomaterial boosts fivefold the energy capacity of a supercapacitor without sacrificing strength or durability.

But what is a supercapacitor?

Capacitors are similar to batteries, but they deliver more power over a very short period of time. Batteries, on the other hand, deliver less power but store much more energy.

“While the chemical reactions hold much energy, the ion motion in batteries is rather slow, leading to low power,” said Podila.

That is why electrically powered cars have struggled to take off and fossil fuels remain the dominant energy source; batteries take a long time to charge.

Capacitors, on the other hand, can be charged at a much faster rate. But that rate increases more when it becomes a supercapacitor, which can hold hundreds of times the amount of electrical charge as standard capacitors. Supercapictors store ions on the surface of nanomaterials electrostatically.

Graphene is the best option because it’s

thin, which allows ions to flow better.

“The high surface area of graphene provides space for ion storage (high energy) and the ions are always on the surface ready to race (high power),” Podila said. “The problem, however, has been to effectively use the high surface area.”

He added that ions often can’t access some of the spaces in nanomaterials due to the lack of connectivity, and that the electrons within some nanomaterials can limit the total energy of a supercapacitor through an effect called “quantum capacitance.”

The researchers decided to create microscopic layers of graphene with nanometer pores. Then they sandwiched them together, which opened new channels for ions to access all the spaces in graphene and increased the quantum capacitance.

They also created the pores in specific configurations, which increased storage capacity to 150 percent. Then the researchers introduced two different electrolytes whose ions were smaller than the pores.

“Testing showed the electrolytes with the larger ions did not increase the capacity, but the smaller ions travel through the pores into untapped parts of graphene. The result was a 500 percent increase in capacity,” Zhu said.

Zhu and Childress also configured graphene into thin, flexible electrodes and inserted them into the flexible pouch. They filled the pouch with the electrolyte containing the smaller ions and sealed it, creating a lightweight, flexible supercapacitor that could withstand more than 10,000 charge-

discharge cycles.

That means even faster charging times than what today’s supercapacitors provide.

And it also means longer lives, lighter power sources than batteries, reduced dependency on fossil fuels and less air pollution.

Their research is already garnering international attention.

“A national research and development enterprise in India is interested in the Clemson supercapacitors and visited the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute twice. Negotiations for manufacturing supercapacitors to power a bus are in progress,” Rao said.

Supercapacitors are already powering public buses across the globe.

ABB, the world’s largest maker of power transmission gear, has set up 13 flash-charging stations in Geneva, Switzerland. The stations are located between the airport and a small suburb. At each station, electric buses can charge for 15 seconds and receive a 600-kilowatt blast, which provides enough energy for about a mile.

Each bus runs for about 10 minutes. The buses can recharge in about five minutes.

The project is expected to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 1,000 tons per year compared to diesel buses, which emit 0.055kgs of carbon dioxide emissions per passenger mile, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Supercapacitors can also be used for regenerative braking in hybrid and electric vehicles to providing the power needed to adjust the direction of turbine blades in changing wind conditions.

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The Greenville Zoo was devastated eight months ago when a baby monkey suddenly died shortly after its birth. But staff and guests are celebrating a new arrival – its sibling.

Animal care staff discovered an Angolan colobus monkey on Oct. 14. The new monkey is the second baby of Nuru and Valentino. The monkey, who does not have a name yet, has been on exhibit since its birth.

The zoo waited to make an official announcement until staff was confident the new baby monkey was healthy, Greenville Zoo’s administrator Jeff Bullock said in a statement.

“While we know that the death of Nuru’s and Valentino’s firstborn was an accident, we’ve utilized zoo docents and other volunteers to observe the family for any indications of Nuru not taking proper care of the infant, just to be on the safe side,” Bullock said.

The pair’s first baby was born on Feb. 16 but suddenly died on Feb. 28 due to head and

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• Births peak in September and October.

• Infants are born completely white. Then they turn black and grey and then black and white at three months of age.

• Adults can grow a tail that is the same length of their bodies.

• Although the species is named after Angola, they are rarely found in that country.

• They are forest dwellers native to dense rainforest in the lowlands and coastal mountains in Africa.

chest trauma, which caused a collapsed lung.

“Nuru seemed to be doing well with the newborn. Since no one witnessed any negative behavior between the two other than normal rearing activities, we can only speculate that something occurred overnight that caused Nuru to drop the baby, which led to the life-ending injuries,” Bullock said.

But things are looking up at the zoo.

Bullock said the new baby monkey is doing well, and that the warm weather has made it easier for the monkeys to enjoy being outside.

“There has been so much going on this fall,” said Bullock. “Between the new giraffe, a record-breaking first weekend for Boo in the Zoo and the new baby colobus, it’s hard to believe that the zoo will have even more exciting changes before the end of the year.”

The zoo said the baby appears large for its age and that the zoo should be able to tell its gender soon. The baby was born completely white but its coat will darken over the next couple of months.

Nuru, the female, and Valentino, the male, have been together since June 2015 and are

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Nuru was born at the San Diego Zoo in 2006, and Valentino was born in Miami in 2002.

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NEWS IN BRIEF New Furman University institute focuses on community health A new Furman University institute will focus on improving the health of the greater Greenville community.

In conjunction with the Greenville Health System, the Institute for the Advancement of Community Health will allow students and faculty to be more strategically involved in the work of community organizations working to support healthier lifestyles.

The IACH will assist more than 1,000 Furman students with finding volunteer work at GHS and in the community, says Eli Hestermann, IACH executive director, who also teaches biology at Furman and is GHS’ executive director of pre-professional studies.

GHS and Furman formed a partnership several years ago, but only put a name to it – IACH – in the spring of 2016.

As part of the Affordable Care Act, health care reimbursement is increasingly giving doctors and hospitals incentives to keep patients from using the emergency room or being admitted to the hospital. “This gives us a unique opportunity to partner with a large health system and figure out how we’re going to work with all these different groups to make the community healthy,” Hestermann says.

The institute is part of Furman Advantage, a new initiative that guarantees every incoming

freshman the opportunity for an engaged learning experience. Engaged learning is a strategy that puts skills and knowledge learned in the classroom into practice while serving the community.

More than 40 percent of Furman students are pursuing careers in health care, and the school just created a new major in public health and an interdisciplinary minor in medicine, health and society. “This is a great example of where Furman’s expertise and the needs of the community come into alignment,” President Elizabeth Davis said. The institute will connect those students to internship, research and mentorship opportunities with community partners.

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WHITE FRIGHT Clemson researchers race to stop massive bat die-off from white-nose syndrome WORDS BY ANDREW MOORE PHOTOS BY WILL CROOKS

On an August night in the dense pines of Sumter National Forest in northwestern South Carolina, Susan Loeb and Pallavi Sirajuddin were examining a net stretched across a hiking trail for bats. As the duo were examining the net, the lights from their headlamps settled on a small bat squirming for freedom “We’re catching more than usual tonight,” Sirajuddin said as she stepped towards the net. “Sometimes we come out here and leave empty-handed,” Loeb added as she untangled the bat.

The absence of clouds and abundance of pestering mosquitos gave them premium access to the area’s bats. Loeb, a U.S. Forest Service research ecologist and Clemson professor, and Sirajuddin, a graduate research assistant, wanted to know how bat populations had changed in the forest since the appearance of white-nose syndrome, a deadly fungal disease that has caused millions of bats to die around the country.

From May to August, the two researchers captured and identified bats at 11 sites in the Sumter and Chattahoochee national forests.

They also used acoustic devices to record bats’ echolocation calls, which were used to count the number and species of bats flying overhead at night.

“Bats just don’t bounce back from these declines. It can take years to rebuild colonies – and that’s if they even rebuild at all.”

In September, the researchers compared their results to data previously collected at 18 similar sites in 2007, the year white-nose syndrome appeared in the United States.

In October, they presented their findings in San Antonio at an annual conference on managing the country’s struggling bat populations. Their findings are unsettling.

The group found that some bats have completely vanished from the surveyed sites, which suggest that white-nose syndrome is continuing to spread across areas of northwestern South Carolina and northeastern Georgia. The disease has killed between 5.7 million and 6.7 million bats since it was first detected in the U.S., according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

White-nose syndrome, which is not a threat to humans, targets hibernating bats in caves and abandoned mines. South Carolina has seven of those species, including the big brown bat, little brown bat, small-footed bat, Northern

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Five bat species have tested positive for the disease in South Carolina.

In 2013, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources found a dead tricolored bat at Table Rock State Park in Oconee County and later confirmed it had the disease.

“We knew it was coming when it hit the Appalachian chain,” said Mary Bunch, a wildlife biologist with SCDNR. “I’d say it’s living up to expectations.” The disease was later confirmed in Pickens County and Richland County.

Population declines are significant because bats do not reproduce rapidly. “Bats just don’t bounce back from these declines.

It can take years to rebuild colonies – and that’s if they even rebuild at all. Most species only have one pup a year, and there’s a high mortality rate when they’re young,” Loeb said. “It’s not looking good for these important mammals.”

The ecological consequences of population reductions are not yet known.

But bats are crucial to the ecosystem. Fortyfive bat species occur in the United States and Canada, and they represent more than 10 percent of mammals in the region, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Because bats eat large amounts of mosquitoes, they help can control viruses spread by insects. That includes West Nile virus, which has been contracted by 44,000 people across the U.S. since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

They also provide economic benefits.

Bats can save the agriculture industry up to $53 billion per year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That accounts for the amount of money that farms didn’t have to spend on insecticides because bats had already eaten the insects.

Some species can eat more than 70 percent of their body weight in insects per night. One little brown bat can eat up to 1,000 insects in a single hour, according to the U.S. Beurea of Land Management. But that number of insects being eaten by bats is dwindling.

For example, one million little brown bats that have already died from the disease could have eaten between 660 and 1,320 metric tons of insects in one year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

“The disease has progressed faster than I thought it would,” said Loeb. “It’s only going to get worse and continue to spread until a treatment or cure is found. But we’re continuing to work here on campus and with our partners to understand the spread of this deadly disease and to minimize its impacts.”

Loeb is working alongside several Clemson University researchers, including Sirajuddin, to understand how the massive bat die-off is altering ecosystems and the structure of bat communities across the Southeast. That team also includes Clemson wildlife biologist David Jachowski and wildlife biology graduate students Katie Teets and Ben Neece.

But she’s also worked to minimize the effects of white-nose syndrome.

No one knows for sure how the disease arrived in North America. Though a recent study by the Royal Veterinary College suggest that the disease was brought over from Europe by humans.

The disease was first detected in New York State in 2007. It has since spread throughout 31 states, including South Carolina, and five Canadian provinces.

In 2007, Loeb started catching bats in northwestern South Carolina and Georgia in order to collect data before the disease began to decimate bat populations across the Southeast. “I knew we’d need that data some day,” said Loeb. “I’m just glad we collected it. Because it allowed us to see those declines.”

Loeb partnered with scientists from the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Canadian Wildlife Service and other wildlife and conservation groups to create the North American Bat Monitoring Program.

“With white-nose spreading, we needed a monitoring program that would allow agencies and researchers to document the impact on bat populations. So the goal was to develop a program that could identify priority species for conservation and measure the effectiveness of our actions to mitigate stressors,” Loeb said. “There really wasn’t anything like it at the time.”

Eventually, Loeb published “A Plan for the North American Bat Monitoring Program,” providing the details that researchers and managers needed to start monitoring bat populations and contributing their survey results to a database. The plan includes four approaches to gathering bat population data:

Throughout areas of the Northeast, the mortality rate for tricolored bats has exceeded 98 percent, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

• Hibernaculum counts made of bat populations in caves and mines in winter; • Counts of bats in maternity colonies in summer; • Mobile acoustic surveys along road transects; and • Acoustic surveys at stationary points.

Together, with an array of federal and state collaborators, the bat researchers are using radio transmitters and acoustic technologies to conduct studies that could have implications for the future management of bats.

A BLUEPRINT FOR CONSERVATION The researchers’ efforts are rooted in the life work of Loeb, who has become one of the leading bat researchers in the Southeast.

“Her work throughout has established a lot of the basic ecological information we have about bats in the Southeast. I don’t think

our projects could have happened without her,” said Sirajuddin.

Loeb graduated from the University of California - Davis in 1987 with a doctorate degree in ecology and joined the U.S. Forest Service’s Southern Research Station in Asheville, N.C. She was then assigned to the Upland Hardwoods Research Unit and located to Clemson University, where she later became an adjunct professor.

Throughout the 1990s, Loeb studied flying squirrels and red cockaded woodpeckers.

But then the Forest Service redirected her to bats in 1999. Since then, Loeb has devoted her career to answering questions about bat ecology and conservation.

The program allows researchers to input their data into a Bat Population Database.

As data accumulates, the program will issue reports to biologists and managers that reveal trends in the abundance and distribution of North American bats. It will also release periodic reports focused on individual species that are threatened.

Thirty-one states and 10 Canadian provinces use the program.

In March 2015, Loeb was honored with the Forest Service’s “Wings Across the Americas Research Award” for her contributions to the North American Bat Monitoring Program.

She has since continued to research bats, develop conservation plans and coordinate recovery efforts across the Southeast.

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NEWS Bats contract the fungus from others that have already been infected, often when spores lands on their wings. The fungus then spreads throughout the bat’s body, causing a white growth to form on its nose and wings.

THE FIRST STATEWIDE BAT POPULATION STUDY One of those efforts is the Carolinas Acoustic Bat Survey.

Last spring, Loeb helped Neece secure funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the first statewide bat population study in South Carolina, which he is currently completing with help from SCDNR. “The goal is to find out more about bat distribution throughout the state,” Neece said.

For the past two summers, Neece has collected bat echolocation calls from more than 30 areas across the state. He selected the locations for habitat variety, bat species

diversity and low clutter that would interfere with recording. Each summer, Neece started in the Lowcountry and worked his way up to the Upstate. Neece used stationary acoustic samples and mobile acoustic routes to detect the high-pitched frequencies emitted by the flying mammals as they capture bugs and navigate through the dark.

“Bats are notoriously difficult to study.

They are active at night, can detect nets and traps, and are fairly secretive when roosting,” said Neece. “So the acoustic surveys really helped me effectively monitor these elusive animals.”

For the mobile acoustic routes, Neece had to drive in each area for two consecutive nights with a bat detector and stainless steel microphone attached to the cab of his green pick-up truck. He would then drive at least 20 mph in order to capture

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the echolocation calls accurately.

For the stationary surveys, Neece had to place several bat detectors at select spots within the survey areas for up to four nights at a time. The process had to be repeated in the same week each summer.

Neece completed the first phase of his study earlier this summer in Oconee County.

Now, he is using classification software to help him identify the calls by species and abundance.

North America has more than 150 bat species, 47 of them in the U.S. “Many bat calls sound the same,” said Neece. “But there are subtle differences by species. The computer software helps me identify them visually since bat calls are at frequencies humans can’t hear.”

His analysis of the second survey should be done next spring. He will then turn over his data to SCDNR, where it will be uploaded to the database and used as the foundation of future North American Bat Monitoring Program efforts in the state.

“The goal is to establish these routes and perhaps add more routes in areas that haven’t been surveyed. It is wonderful that so many people have pulled together to make this happen. After we have the kinks worked out, this can provide a volunteer opportunity for citizen scientists,” Bunch said.

Neece recorded about 30,000 bat calls after noise-filtering technology cut insect sounds and ambient noise. He detected no tricolored bats in several areas of Oconee County.

TROUBLE FOR THE TRICOLORED BAT The tricolored bat has one of the highest mortality rates among bats affected by whitenose syndrome. Throughout areas of the Northeast, the mortality rate for tricolored bats has exceeded 98 percent, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

“These bats tend to hibernate in the deepest parts of caves, where temperatures and humidity are highest, which are ideal growing conditions for the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome,” Loeb said.

She added that they also hibernate longer, which increases their exposure to the fungus.

In June, the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the tricolored bat under the Endangered Species Act. The act currently protects the northern long-eared bat and could potentially protect the little brown bat, which is under consideration.

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“Our goal is to help forest managers and policy makers,” said Susan Loeb.

“They can then use our findings to focus treatment efforts; implement better forest management techniques; and protect certain species under state or federal law.”

Loeb said that an endangered species listing is the best option for Southeastern bat populations at the moment. She says, “There is no cure for the disease. But there are a few treatments being tested. Really, conservation is the only option for now.”

In 1973, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act to protect and recover imperiled species and their surrounding ecosystems. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service oversee the program and maintain a listing of imperiled species, ranging from mammals to insects.

Species may be listed as endangered or threatened. The term “endangered” means that a species is in danger of extinction throughout all or significant portions of its range. And the term “threatened” means that a species is likely to become endangered in the future, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The law requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to ensure that management actions don’t threaten the listed species.

That includes the destruction of habitats.

The law also prevents the “taking” of any listed species from its habitat.

Designating a bat species as threatened or endangered triggers regulations and protective measures designed to help boost the species population and protect them from harassment from humans. That includes restricting some tree removal

“The tricolored bat is in grave trouble, and it’s time the federal government took action to keep this species from tumbling off the cliff of extinction,” said Mollie Matteson, a senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity. “Among the three bats most devastated by whitenose syndrome, the tricolored bat has been virtually forgotten, but that can’t continue if this species is to survive.”

Sirajudden and Loeb received grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service last year to understand the vulnerability of tricolored bats to whitenose syndrome in the South. They plan to test whether the skin temperature of tricolored bats during hibernation is within the range for the growth of the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which causes white-nose syndrome.

from forested areas, especially in the summer months when newborn bats are nesting.

South Carolina also offers similar protection through the state Nongame and Endangered Species Act. SCDNR also maintains a list of native species that need protection. That list includes bats.

Twelve of South Carolina’s 13 bat species are on the list of South Carolina’s “Species of Greatest Conservation Need.”

The Rafinesque’s big-eared bat is South Carolina’s only endangered species, and the Eastern small-footed bat is the state’s only threatened species, according to Bunch.

SCDNR also assesses population data for species and ranks them. That ranking decides how the state allocates resources to protect species. “The rankings are flexible,” said Bunch. “It’s also based on input from researchers, like Susan and David. We’re actually adjusting our current rankings now.”

Bunch added that the state recently sent a survey to bat researchers across the state. That survey will gauge their input and research results. The state plans to complete the survey in November.

“The research influences priorities. So we look at these studies and their findings to determine the best course of action,” Bunch said.

She added that the listings could be complete by 2017.

SCDNR then plans to update its Bat Conservation Plan, which provides natural resource managers and researchers with the updated rankings and a detailed guide to the methods and regulations that must be used to protect bats.

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Pseudogymnoascus destructans grows in caves with a temperature range of 39 degrees to 59 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a study in the Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

South Carolina caves typically range between 50 degrees to 58 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the U.S. Beurea of Land Management.

Sirajuddin and Loeb will be studying a cave not far from Clemson University that has suffered a major population decline.

Its tricolored bat community has been reduced from 321 individuals in 2014 to 67 individuals in 2016, according to Sirajuddin.

In late November, the researchers will dress head-to-toe in white Tyvek suits and venture head first into the darkness with their headlamps. With surgical precision, they will affix small temperature-sensitive radio transmitters to tricolored bats, which

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are about as small as a wine cork. A nearby radio receiver and data logger will record torpor temperature and duration as well as arousal temperature and duration.

Torpor is the state of decreased physiological activity in hibernating animals.

It results in reduced body temperature and metabolic rate. The duo is trying to

understand how these patterns make bats more susceptible to white-nose syndrome.

In North America, cave-dwelling bats that hibernate in groups contract the fungus from other bats that have already been infected, often when spores lands on their wings. The fungus then spreads throughout the bat’s body, causing a white growth to form on its

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nose and wings, according to Sirajuddin.

The disease causes bats to wake up more often during the winter. “The increased waking from torpor is using up their fat stores during a time of year when there are not a lot of insects for them to eat,” Sirajuddin said.

Bats with white-nose syndrome exhibit unusual behavior, including flying outside during the day and clustering near the entrances of caves and mines. The increased activity and lack of food leads to starvation and death. The fungus can also produce lesions on the delicate skin of the wings, disrupting flight and causing dehydration.

The study will also test the assumption that bats come out of their hibernation to forage on warm days during the winter. That tactic could help them survive even if they were infected with white-nose syndrome.

“A lot of scientists thought that as the disease moved south, our bats wouldn’t be hit as hard because of our short, mild winters.

They also thought that some of these bats would be able to forage more during the warm days of winter. But obviously, we know that many bat populations are declining despite that prediction,” Loeb said.

The researchers plan to travel to Florida this winter to collect similar data. They have also teamed up with the U.S. Army Research and Development Center, which will collect data from a bat colony in Mississippi for comparison.

Unlike other species affected by whitenose syndrome, tricolored bats extend as far south as Florida and Texas, where they also go into deep hibernation, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “Comparing the results will help us understand whether or not the other bat colonies are vulnerable to white-nose syndrome,” said Sirajuddin.

“We’ll be able to somewhat predict how these bats might react to the disease throughout the Southeast.”

She added that their findings would be submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, which will use it to predict the spread of white-nose syndrome across the region and design more effective treatment applications.

THE CAVES ARE CHANGING The disease could have significant ecological impacts if it continues to spread.

The average population decline among bat

species with white-nose syndrome is 73 percent, according to a 2015 study by Duke University. However, some bat experts estimate that the fungus kills between 75 and 90 percent of an infected cave, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

From 2003 to 2011, Jachowski and his colleagues at Virginia Tech led a study of bats in New York. They observed and collected data before and after the appearance of white-nose syndrome at several sites in Virginia. The researchers found that little brown bats were up to 53 times more active before the disease appeared at the site.

And they also found that the disease had decimated the population.

“There’s evidence that the presence of high numbers of certain bat species can suppress other bat species through competition, but we don’t know a lot about the effect of bat species decline on the overall structure of bat communities. Essentially, we are seeing a reshuffling of where and when remnant bat communities are using the landscape.

It appears that areas formerly dominated by little brown bats are being made available to other, historically imperiled bat species,” Jachowski.

He added that the “reshuffling” of these communities could have major implications for how biologists and land managers try to identify areas to protect and conserve the remaining bat populations.

Clemson University graduate student Katie Teets won a U.S. Department of Interior grant earlier this year to partner with Jachowski and Loeb to find out more about how white-nose syndrome is altering the structure of individual bat species.

Teets and Loeb spent the summer capturing bats at survey sites that were sampled during previous studies prior to the arrival of white-nose syndrome. They partnered with a group of researchers at Virginia Tech who completed the same process earlier this summer at survey sites across New England and the Mid-Atlantic.

“We want to understand what habitats need to be conserved and the effect whitenose syndrome is having on individual bat species populations and their habitat use, so it’s very important to understand how population numbers and community structure are being affected by white-nose syndrome and other stressors,” Teets said.

The researchers are currently comparing results.

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ADAPTING, THRIVING AND EVOLVING A mile of boardwalks keeps Lake Conestee Nature Park accessible for everyone.

Lake Conestee Nature Park celebrates 10 years as a sanctuary, exceeding the expectations of its toxic past LAURA HAIGHT | CONTRIBUTOR

We are standing smack-dab in the middle of Greenville County — 2 miles from I-85, surrounded by more than half a million people within a 30-minute drive. And yet, no noise blocks out the calls of some of the 207 distinct species of birds, the splashing water play of a gaggle of Canada Geese or the rustling of an October breeze blowing across 402 acres of wildlife sanctuary.

But before you get a bucolic, National Geographic nature picture in your mind’s eye, know that we are also surrounded by a toxic soup of PCBs, metals, DDT and all the residue of Greenville’s industrial past.

The Lake Conestee Nature Park, which celebrated its 10th year of operation last week, is a dichotomy. Dave Hargett, executive director of the Conestee Foundation and the

park, describes it as a “monitored natural recovery site,” a contaminated area where nature is making a comeback. “It is,” Hargett says, “a story of evolution – what has evolved and what is evolving.”

Technically, the park is one of 450,000 areas in the country classified as a brownfield site by the EPA, meaning redevelopment or reuse is “complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.” Years of environmental studies found “a lot of contamination, but the good news is that it wasn’t going anywhere,” Hargett says. The pollutants are the kind that “glom onto sediment” and stay there, “so long as we don’t stir it up,” he adds.

The nature park is 402 acres, surrounded by another 400 acres of open space owned by ReWa and the city. Today only remnants of the 150-acre Lake Conestee remain, and the area has evolved into more of a wetland and what Hargett describes as a “bottomland forest.”

While monitoring the evolution of the area and allowing nature to take its course, the park has also developed into an education center. There are 30 learning stations throughout the area that tell both the natural story and the human history. The stations are situated along three “learning loops,” each

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about a 1-mile walk. A fourth loop with 10 more stations is in the works.

Since the education program kicked off in 2013, more than 5,000 school kids have visited the park. Students from Furman, Wofford and Clemson also use the park for advanced study. It is here that the Hargett and the Conestee Foundation see the future of the park. Looking down the winding banks of the Reedy, Hargett points out the site he envisions for a “nature center” that will serve as the park’s headquarters, as well as an education facility with classrooms and event space.

Anticipating a cost of more than $1 million followed by a year to build, Hargett sees a significant expansion of educational efforts including after-school and evening programs.

The price tag is high for an organization that operates on a tight budget and depends heavily on the generosity of donors and corporate sponsors, the availability of grants and stipends from the city. The unrestricted annual budget is $200,000. The staff, including Hargett, is a lean group of five part-time employees.

“Since our inception in 1999, we’ve raised about $10 million,” Hargett says, “but we’ve got a lot to show for what we have invested here.”

And so they have.

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In 2009, the park received the designation of an “Important Bird Area of Global Significance” from the Audubon Society. With its 207 species of birds, including one of the largest concentrations of “overwintering” rusty blackbirds in the U.S., the site surpasses Congaree National Park, which can claim only 202 species over 23,000 acres. The “rusties” are not endangered, but they are threatened, declining in number by more than 80 percent over the past 40 years.

Standing on an observation platform overlooking the West Bay, Hargett points out six to seven great blue heron nests in a copse of green ash trees. But nearby there’s a row of those same trees that are dying. “They are drowning,” he says, noting that the industrious beaver population has built dams responsible for significantly increasing the water’s elevations. He’s not worried about them, though. “They will provide nesting cavities for the birds. Come here in the winter, and there will be lots of rusty blackbirds nesting in them,” he explains.

As he walks through the park, picking up the errant cup or wrapper, making note of areas in need of attention, Hargett also greets

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and occasionally stops to talk to patrons. Arthur Williams and Dave Palmer are birders, who have taken note of some changes. “It looks like the beavers have brought the lake up about a foot from the last time we were here,” remarks Williams. “It’s as high as I’ve seen it,” agrees Hargett, “except during the flood.” He points out that the park is a floodplain for the Reedy and at times will come up 7 or 8 feet under the main bridge. Capturing the Reedy’s overflow also brings some of Greenville’s garbage into the park, and there are fences set up in some areas to corral the debris and make it easier to remove.

As the birders continue on their quest for something they haven’t seen yet, Palmer leaves Hargett with a compliment: “You’ve done a wonderful, wonderful job here.”

Strolling along the riverbank, Hargett reflects on what has evolved. “This is a place that nobody wanted. In 1975, the DNR [state Department of Natural Resources] categorized the Reedy River as ‘devoid of life.’ Today, the river’s recovered, these wetlands have recovered and regulation can and has, in this case, worked.”

WHAT TO KNOW WHEN YOU GO LOCATION: 840 Mauldin Road, Greenville. There are 13 entrances to the park.

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HOURS: Sunrise to sunset, Monday–Sunday HANDICAPPED ACCESS: Most of the park is accessible by wheelchair with 6

miles of paved walkways and more than a mile of wide, elevated boardwalk.

CAN I BRING MY DOG: Yes, but dogs must be leashed at all times and picked

up after.

HOW ABOUT A PICNIC: Lovely. There are a few picnic tables, but there are no

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garbage cans. The park follows the Leave No Trace principle: Pick up your debris and take it with you, and do not throw anything in the water or on the ground.

ACTIVITIES ALLOWED: More than 60,000 visitors a year walk, bike and run through the park.

COST: Admission is free.

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Church requests donations, volunteers to provide meals for needy children Christ the King Lutheran Church is hosting a backpack packing event on Nov. 12. The bags will be filled with canned fruit, protein items and nonperishable milk and given to children in need from Paris Elementary School. Volunteers to help pack the bags and donations of food items are still needed. Financial donations may be sent to Christ the King Lutheran Church, 1925 Pelham Road, Greenville, SC, 29615. For more information, email ittakesavillagesc@gmail.com or call 525-4616.

at the Center for Community Services. “This type of partnership is what I always strive for, because it utilizes resources already within a community, allowing us to work together to meet a common goal.”

Meals on Wheels will continue to test the program with the hope of identifying additional community partners to expand the service area in 2017.

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Healthy Kids event teaches students about healthy lifestyle

Meals on Wheels program provides groceries to homebound clients

Home Run for Healthy Kids is designed to engage students to practice healthy lifestyles and to ensure students receive the support they need to grow up safe, happy, healthy and thriving. This is accomplished through handson learning activities, giveaways and educational information sessions.

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Meals on Wheels of Greenville, in partnership with the Center for Community Services, has announced a pilot program to provide free, supplemental groceries to its homebound clients. The program is being tested in the Golden Strip area, with 12 Meals on Wheels clients receiving a bag of shelf-stable groceries once per month.

Make-A-Wish South Carolina was honored with the Rising Star Award at the 2016 MakeA-Wish America Annual Conference held in Phoenix.

The honor is awarded to chapters who have made significant strides to effect organizational improvements and serve as examples of best practices and models of excellence through improved financial stability, dedicated and engaged board members and strategic fundraising efforts.

“Meals on Wheels provides a hot, nutritious meal every weekday to nearly 1,500 homebound clients throughout Greenville County,” said Nichola Bricco, the director of nutrition and client services at Meals on Wheels of Greenville. “However, many of the clients we serve struggle with food insecurity or are unable to leave their home to buy groceries, and could benefit tremendously from additional food.”

“Our goal with this program is to increase our efforts in providing food security to those struggling to make ends meet in our community,” said Andrew Ross, executive director

“This event is a great opportunity to reach a large number of children in a short amount of time, and we have seen a significant impact on the lives of Greenville County students over the last nine years,” said Leslie Latimer, Home Run for Healthy Kids Event chair for the JLG.

Each student attendee also receives healthy snacks and a backpack filled with quality giveaways promoting a healthy lifestyle and physical activity at home.

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The groceries are provided by the Center for Community Services, which is collecting donations of shelf-stable products like peanut butter, canned soup and breakfast bars.

partnered with Greenville County Schools and sponsors to reach more than 17,000 students.

Make-A-Wish South Carolina granted 180 wishes for South Carolina children with lifethreatening medical conditions.

The Junior League of Greenville (JLG) held their ninth annual Home Run for Healthy Kids event on Oct. 19-21 at Fluor Field. This year, Home Run for Healthy Kids expanded to three days to serve more students. Approximately 2,700 children participated in this free, educational field trip. Since 2008, the JLG has

The chapter also increased its focus on volunteer engagement by restructuring outreach, training and management of its vital volunteer base to provide a more direct connection between the chapter and its more than 200 volunteers. Board recruitment was increased and board engagement was strengthened through new mission opportunities.

DONATION

Southeastern Grocers donates Clemson home game tickets Southeastern Grocers (SEG), parent company of BI-LO, is donating 160 Clemson home game tickets to local families through the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Clubs of Anderson County and Clemson Community Care.

BI-LO has been a proud member of the Clemson community for many years and recently announced a continuation of a nearly 30-year partnership with Clemson as the official supermarket of the Clemson Tigers.

“We’re committed to encouraging young athletes of the future to stay active by fueling, coaching and inspiring them, so they can aspire for greatness,” said Fred Shropshier, regional vice president for BI-LO. “I can’t think of a better way to inspire than to send young fans to a football game to experience firsthand the excitement of game day and to cheer on their Clemson Tigers from the stands.”

FUNDRAISER

Inaugural golf tournament raises more than $65,000 for Upstate Warrior Solutions The inaugural Cliffs Salutes Fairways for Warriors Memorial Day Golf Tournament raised $65,651.12 for Upstate Warrior Solution, a local nonprofit organization that generates quality of life solutions for Upstate veterans, active duty, National Guard and reserve warriors and their families.

The monies raised will be used to further enhance the various programs at Upstate Warrior Solution that have already assisted 2,240 warriors in three years. The mission of UWS is to connect warriors to community solutions, lead them to self-empowerment and inspire the community to embrace warriors and their families as valued neighbors and friends.

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The Tigers escaped Tallahassee last Saturday with a thrilling 37-34 win against ACC foe Florida State, improving their record this season to 8-0. Clemson has now won nine straight road games, a school record; 14 straight conference games; and 22 consecutive regular-season games.

Boo in the Zoo, an annual non-scary Halloween event at the Greenville Zoo, was held the last two weekends. Kids ages 12 and under enjoyed trick-or-treating, activity booths, an extinct species graveyard and a princess castle, among other festivities.

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Maya Movement Arts, an aerial yoga, dance and fitness studio in Greenville, hosted a studio showcase on Saturday night. Teachers and students performed in the air and on the ground during a Halloween-themed routine.

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It all started with some jazz musicians who wanted to play a gig. A few months ago, The Greenville Jazz Collective (guitarist Matt Dingledine, bassist Shannon Hoover, pianist Keith Davis, drummer Justin Watt, saxophonist Tom Olson and trombone player Brad Jepson) found out that Ryan Keberle, a celebrated trombone player who’s worked with Wynton Marsalis and Beyoncé, among many others, was coming to town to play a show at Furman University. So the GJC contacted him about playing together while he was in town, which eventually led to a two-day, 80-musician event called the Spartanburg Jazz Festival. The festival will take place on the campuses of USC Upstate and Wofford College this Friday.

How exactly did that happen? Well, the Jazz Collective is also a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness and educating the Upstate about jazz music, and they’ve held master classes and other programs for schools around the GreenvilleSpartanburg area. So they decided to make their show with Ryan a master class. And that’s where the bigger idea was born. “It kind of ballooned into the festival, because we wanted to find some way to include other schools and get people out,” says Shannon Hoover. “So we extended it to two days and talked to some of the local schools.”

Trumpeter Wallace Roney

All in all, nine different combos will perform on Friday and Saturday, including the GJC Big Band, the USC Upstate Jazz Band, the SC Governor’s School Jazz Combo and the Clemson University Jazz Combo. Keberle will perform with the GJC Big Band on Friday and take part in the Late Night Jazz Jam later that night.

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And along the way, the Collective recruited another big name for the festival’s Saturday night shows: trumpeter Wallace Roney.

“Wallace is definitely a jazz legend,” Hoover says. “He was basically Miles Davis’ only protégé, the only one he took under his wing, and as a trumpet player you don’t see that much.

But he welcomed Wallace; Wallace sounds a lot like Miles did in the ’60s when he was playing with Herbie Hancock, and he’s been in a group with [Davis’ mid60s drummer] Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea.”

Hoover says he and his bandmates are thrilled about their shows with Keberle and Roney, but the real goal is to allow the Upstate’s jazz musicians a chance to shine. “All the ensembles need more opportunities to play, and we wanted to do something that might turn into an annual event,” he says. “Even at the college level, jazz musicians don’t get many opportunities to play out and meet other students, so we think it’s a good opportunity for them to meet each other and get to play together, and some of them will get to play with Wallace and Ryan too.”

Admission to the festival is only $10, a move the GJC made to encourage as much attendance as possible. “We didn’t want to put

the ticket prices at $20 or $25 and exclude people,” Hoover says. “We’re trying to do something anybody can go to. We’ve had generous support from USC Upstate Commercial Music Program, and Wofford donated the space, and most of the musicians other than the main players are donating their time.”

Scheduling 80 musicians in two different locations over two days has been quite a headache for the GJC, but Hoover says that when it’s all over the only goal is to bring a big crowd to hear some underappreciated players. “I’m looking forward to people in the area coming out,” he says. “I’d like to see a good turnout for both nights. I don’t want it to be just musicians; I want people from outside the music world to appreciate what we have.”

The Spartanburg Jazz Festival, featuring Wallace Roney & Ryan Keberle Venue: USC Upstate, 800 University Way, Spartanburg & Wofford College, 429 N. Church St., Spartanburg Date: Friday, Nov. 4, 2-10:30 p.m. & Saturday, Nov. 5, 1-10:30 p.m.

Tickets: $10 Info: 214-6810, greenvillejazzcollective.com

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ago,” he says. “But it evolved behind the scenes in the House of God church as a lead instrument, which then influenced players like Robert Randolph and Roosevelt Collier to expand the music into rock, funk and blues. Chris is just building upon that legacy to take pedal steel guitar music to even further heights.”

And that, in turn, pushed Marvelous Funkshun to create an original sound out of familiar elements. “I think music these days has to draw on as many influences as possible to stay relevant and fresh,” Robinson says, “and artists from different genres focus on the same kinds of things such as song craftsmanship and musicianship. We strive to write songs that have a little more meaning than just a catchy hook.”

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On the surface, there would seem to be a lot of similarities between the Winston-Salem group called Marvelous Funkshun and acclaimed pedal-steel player Robert Randolph’s Family Band. After all, both groups prominently feature the crying, rubbery, liquid-mercury sound of the pedal steel alongside deep funk grooves and a jam-heavy approach to their songs. And both outfits acknowledge a debt to the Sacred Steel genre, a vein of gospel music that uses the pedal steel as flexibly and emotionally as a human voice. But a closer look reveals some key differences.

Randolph’s band, though all skilled musicians, essentially serves as a platform for his jaw-dropping playing. It’s easy enough to imagine another player taking someone’s place in the Family Band and not making that much of a difference, musically. Marvelous Funkshun is a much more democratic group.

Chris Johnson’s steel shares equal time with guitarist Sam Robinson, who serves as the band’s main songwriter, and bassist Will Bagley. In fact, as skillful as Johnson’s solos are, Bagley might be the band’s secret weapon: His bass solos are dizzying displays of technique.

Also, the band, which will play at Gottrocks in Greenville next Thursday, focuses far less on gospel in their music than Randolph does. They tend more toward heavy funk with a great deal of ensemble playing, which is exactly what Robinson and Bagley were aiming for when they formed the group. “We not only wanted to be able to play original music and tour with it, but we wanted a band that had an identity behind it,” Robinson says. “We try to draw on our individual backgrounds and include the styles and feels that embody who we are as individuals and represent it with the group.”

Marvelous Funkshun When: Thursday, Nov. 10, 9 p.m.

Where: Gottrocks, 200 Eisenhower Drive Tickets: $10

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That sound involves a great deal of improvisation, especially on stage. “The songs are written out, but they have sections that allow for the musicians to improvise,” Robinson says. “We don’t have any particular order for who leads these sections, but we like to see where it goes. The jams and the general flow are definitely part of a musical conversation. Being able to communicate musically is an important part of any live band and listening is the key. We try every show to listen as closely as possible and have an actual ‘conversation’ versus the band backing up guitar solos or whatnot all night. It’s a lot harder than it sounds, too.”

As for the pedal steel, Chris Johnson says it creates an entirely different dynamic than another guitar player or keyboard player might. “I personally think that the pedal steel is a very versatile instrument that covers a ton of sonic territory,” he says.

Robinson adds that the instrument has so much history in so many different kinds of music that it can’t help but expand the horizons of any ensemble it’s used in. “The pedal

“We try every show to listen as closely as possible and have an actual ‘conversation’ versus the band backing up guitar solos or whatnot all night. It’s a lot harder than it sounds, too.”

– Guitarist Sam Robinson

steel was first popularized by country artists like the late Buddy Emmons half a century

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Open Studios, Greenville’s weekendlong visual arts event, continues to grow each year, adding new artists, drawing more interest and attendees and increasing local art sales revenue.

This year, the 15th annual Greenville Open Studios presented by the Metropolitan Arts Council will showcase 131 artists in their studio environments Nov. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Nov. 6, noon-6 p.m.

MAC executive director Alan Ethridge says the ongoing goal of the weekend is to educate the public on opportunities to support local artists and provide an environment that makes them as accessible as possible.

Ethridge says that while Open Studios has had a loyal following since the beginning in 2001, there are a large number of newcomers each year.

“It’s such an anticipated event,” Ethridge says. “Our following isn’t stagnant.”

This year, 26 new artists have joined the event.

Mixed-media artist Suzanne Woolf is a newcomer to Open Studios and also relatively new to Greenville. She and her husband, Adrian, moved from just outside of Boston in May 2015, specifically because of the lower cost of living, warmer winters and the arts community.

“We did our research, and Charleston and Asheville were cost-prohibitive,” Woolf says. “There’s such a vibrant and growing arts community here.”

After years in the corporate world, Woolf says she was looking for a chance to do more with her artwork. She officially opened her art studio in December 2015 at 200 Perry Ave. in the West End. Woolf says she attended Open Studios last year and was impressed with the diversity and quality of the work.

“I thought, ‘I can do this,’” she says.

Woolf uses found objects, such as old letters, sheet music and game pieces, and sometimes napkins and tissue paper, and layers them with acrylic paint on canvas to create collages.

One series she will display during Open Studios, “Games People Play,” uses playing cards and game pieces.

She says she’s both excited and nervous

to open her studio to visitors because it’s the first time she will be showing her art to the community.

Another new artist to Open Studios, painter Nathan Bertling, says that although he’s been involved in the Upstate arts community for years, he waited until this year to join the weekend event because he wanted to have a sufficient body of work that he believed best represented him. His studio is located in Taylors Mill and will also be open during the First Friday event on Nov. 4.

Bertling, a 1996 Furman graduate who grew up in Spartanburg, spent from 20022008 in Asheville as an apprentice to Benjamin F. Long IV, a painter who had studied classical techniques in Italy.

Prior to that, he attended Reformed Theological Seminary but left the program only six classes short of his degree to focus on his art full-time. He says that time greatly informs his perspective and inspiration.

He says he likes to explore what it means to be made in the image of God – a God who is relational and concerned for the whole universe.

Bertling is primarily a portrait artist but also paints landscapes and other still-life scenes.

“I love to travel and see different styles and explore different places stylistically,” Bertling says. “But realism is my home. I love honoring the mystery of the beauty of people and places.”

Greenville Open Studios When: Nov. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Nov. 6, noon-6 p.m.

For studio locations: greenvillearts.com

By the numbers First year: 2004, 62 artists, 7,005 visits, $82,300 in sales Last year: 2015, 133 artists, 41,284 visits, $277,548 in sales Highest number of artists: 142 in 2010 Highest sales: 2015 with $277,548 Highest number of visits: 2010 with 63,070

Artist stats for 2016 131 artists 81 returning from 2015 24 returning from 2012-2014 26 new artists By 2009, the number of artists and revenue doubled since 2004. 2009: 124 artists and $194,695

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Independent films made locally and abroad are the focus of the second annual Reedy Reels Film Festival Nov. 4 and 5 at the Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre.

Matt Foster, the festival’s executive director and co-founder, says organizers are expecting to nearly double the number of tickets sold this year as more people in the community learn about the festival and understand the purpose.

“A lot of folks in Greenville have never been and may be wondering ‘What do you do at a film festival?’” Foster says.

Along with screening dozens of full-length and short films, guests will have a chance to meet and talk with the filmmakers, actors, actresses and directors who are represented on the big screen.

Providing networking opportunities for those involved, and thereby helping grow the local film scene, is a primary priority, Foster says.

This year local filmmaker Geoffrey Gunn is showing a horror short, “In a Room at the Edge of Infinity,” shot in January at locations in Furman University and Duncan Estates.

Gunn says he wrote the film specifically for actor Javon Johnson, whom he met at the festival. Gunn also met his special effects artist, Jean-Baptiste Chuat, without whom there would have been no monster.

Chris White’s film “Cinema Purgatorio” won best feature last year, and this year, his submission, “Unbecoming,” was filmed entirely within 50 miles of his house off of Rutherford Road. White says the entire crew, except for two people, was from the Upstate.

“I want people to know that they shop at the same BI-LO as the guys working on the film,” he says.

Reedy Reels Film Festival When: Nov. 4 showings: 2:30, 5:45 and 8:45 p.m.; Nov. 5 showings: 11 a.m., 2:45, 5:45 and 8:45 p.m.

Where: The Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre Tickets: Single Session: $9.99 • One Day Pass: $29.99 • Festival Pass: $49.99 Info and tickets: reedyreels.com/schedule

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The Master Bedroom is on the main level, has a beautiful trey ceiling, full bath with large ceramic tile shower, custom cabinetry and free standing tub. There is also has a second bedroom on main level with private bathroom. Both bathrooms have ceramic tile and granite countertops.

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Pending Home Sales Edge Up Pending home sales shifted higher in September following August’s notable dip and are now at their fifth highest level over the past year, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Increases in the South and West outgained declines in the Northeast and Midwest.

The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, grew 1.5 percent to 110.0 in September from a slight downward revision of 108.4 in August. With last month’s gain, the index is now 2.4 percent higher than last September (107.4) and has now risen year-over-year for 22 of the last 25 months.

Nick Sabatine, CEO of The Greater Greenville Association of Realtors® in Greenville, SC, says a robust increase in the West and a healthy bump in the South pushed pending sales upward in September. “Buyer demand is holding up impressively well this fall with Realtors® reporting much stronger foot traffic Sabatine compared to a year ago,” he said. “Although depressed inventory levels are keeping home prices elevated in most of the country, steady job gains and growing evidence that wages are finally starting to tick up are encouraging more households to consider buying a home.”

In last week’s report on September existing-home sales, according to Sabatine, there are many positive indicators showing that the housing market’s overall health continues to improve as we near the end of 2016. In addition to sales matching their third highest pace (5.47 million) since February 2007 (5.79 million), distressed sales — foreclosures and short sales — fell to their lowest share since NAR began tracking them in October 2008 (4 percent). Furthermore, sales to first-time buyers reached 34 percent, which matched the highest share since July 2012 and was up convincingly from September 2015 (29 percent).

“The one major predicament in the housing market is without a doubt the painfully low levels of housing inventory in much of the country,” added Sabatine. “It’s leading to home prices outpacing wages, properties selling a lot quicker than a year ago and the home search for many prospective buyers being highly competitive and drawn out because of a shortage of listings at affordable prices.”

The PHSI in the Northeast fell 1.6 percent to 96.5 in September, but is still 7.7 percent above a year ago. In the Midwest the index declined modestly (0.2 percent) to 104.6 in September, and is now 1.0 percent lower than September 2015.

Pending home sales in the South rose 1.9 percent to an index of 122.1 in September and are now 1.7 percent higher than last September. The index in the West jumped 4.7 percent in September to 107.3, and is now 4.0 percent above a year ago.

The National Association of Realtors®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America’s largest trade association, representing 1.1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® represents over 2,300 members in all aspects of the real estate industry. Please visit the Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® web site at www.ggar.com for real estate and consumer information.

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Home Info Price: $305,000 Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 2.5 Garage: 2 Car

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Golf Course Community! This beautiful home features 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and a large bonus over the garage which features attic wall access doors for storage. Entertain in the formal living and dining rooms. The large sunroom is located off the large den which features a masonry fireplace. The sunroom is the perfect spot to enjoy some quiet time overlooking the lush backyard with extensive decking. This home is situated nicely on a corner lot and features a wonderful yard for kids and pets to play. The chef in the family will love the large kitchen with all the amenities.

The kitchen features beautiful cabinetry with some pull out drawers, spice rack, and lazy susan. Don’t miss the large pantry, granite countertops, large island, gas cooktop, built in microwave and oven, and much more! The breakfast area has a beautiful built in cabinet with granite countertop. The bathrooms feature vanities with granite countertops. The master bath features an all tile shower, dressing area, and large walk in closet. This is the perfect home to spend the holidays in!

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ciety for Education. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she now lives in Easley.

O’Brien earned her Bachelor of Science in social work from SUNY College at Brockport, and her Associate of Applied Science in business administration from Corning Community College. After gaining relevant work experience, she is now active in the real estate industry in Simpsonville, where she also resides.

“We happily welcome Trish and Jane to our office. Their achievements O’Brien and experiences will certainly bolster their ability to succeed here in the Upstate real estate market,” said Matthew Thrift, Broker-In-Charge of the Simpsonville office.

Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Kathy Beckham as a residential sales agent to its Greenville office.

Kathy joins Coldwell Banker Caine with immense sales experience, most recently as a sales associate with another real estate company in the Upstate. She holds an Associate Degree in Business at Morris College in Randolph, New Jersey.

Kathy is widely involved in many organizations, including the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and the Home Builders Association (HBA) Beckham Sales and Marketing Council. She is a charter member of Professional Women in Building, a supporter of United Way for over 20 years, and actively volunteers at her church. In addition to her community involvement, she enjoys traveling with her Allen Tate Greenville-Downtown Office to Host Open House Event husband of 37 years and her three children and spouses.

Allen Tate Realtors® will host an open house celebration and ribbon cutting at the com“We are so glad to have Kathy join our Greenville team,” said Stephen Edgerton, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker Caine. “Her strong sales background and passion for pany’s new Greenville-Downtown location on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, from 4-6 p.m.

The new office is located at 323 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville. community involvement make her an excellent attribute to our firm and our clients.”

The drop-in event is open to the public and reservations are not required. Guests are invited to tour the office, meet Allen Tate Realtors and enjoy food and beverages. A ribbon Trish Dellaccio and Jane O’Brien Join the Simpsonville office of C. Dan cutting by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce will be held at 4:30 p.m.

Joyner, Realtors “We love our new home in downtown Greenville and we’re excited to show it off to the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is community,” said Martha Hayhurst, Allen Tate regional vice president, Upstate. pleased to announce that Trish Dellaccio and Jane O’Brien have joined Allen Tate moved its Greenville-Midtown location to this new downtown location in the company’s Simpsonville office as sales associates.

September.

After receiving two bachelor’s degrees from St. John’s University, Allen Tate Realtors is the Carolinas’ largest real estate company, leading in listings and Dellaccio earned her Master of Education from Rutgers University. She sales volume. Allen Tate Company operates five branches in the Upstate and total of 43 then went on to work at Ally Solutions as a project consultant. Dellac- branches in the Charlotte, Triad, Triangle and Upstate South Carolina regions. cio belongs to several organizations, including the American Society for For more information or directions, call 864-297-1953.

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So, you’ve been thinking about what life would be like without the hassles of yard work and home maintenance. We understand. If you’re like most of our home buyers, you’ve been thinking about “right-sizing” your next home for a long time. But you don’t want to sacrifice quality and you don’t want to compromise on features. We understand.

You need to check out The Villas at Carriage Hills and West Georgia where architecture and natural beauty intersect with a no-maintenance platform where all exterior maintenance is handled by others – giving you the freedom to enjoy your free time.

We’ve designed Carriage Hills and West Georgia with a quaint and intimate streetscape – combined with charming architectural elements and high-quality construction practices. The well-coordinated community will be one-of-a-kind for the residents of Greenville.

You’ll soon discover the benefits of maintenance-free living and the convenience of having all of life’s amenities right outside your front door. You’ll have no need for a lawn mower, edger, hedge trimmer or leaf blower. These services will now be handled by someone else.

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Kimber Roberts Joins Coldwell Banker Caine in Greenville

Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Kimber Roberts as a residential sales agent to its Greenville office.

Kimber joins Coldwell Banker Caine with vast experience in account management and sales.

Most recently, she worked as a Roberts REALTOR with another upstate firm focusing on new construction and relocation. She holds both a Business Administration degree from Florida State University and a Hospi-

tality Management degree from Florida Atlantic University.

Kimber is involved in several upstate organizations, including United Way, Habitat for Humanity and the Greenville Humane Society. During her free time, you can find Kimber on the tennis court or spending time with her husband and two children.

“We know Kimber will be a wonderful asset to our Greenville team” said Stephen Edgerton, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker Caine. “Her strong background in management and real estate will provide an exceptional foundation for her clients.

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Shrub Strategy, Holly Hints and Compost Chemistry Fall is the best time to plant shrubs in the Upstate. Usually – the exception being this fall – we have steady rain and cooler temperatures to help the plants develop roots.

When you plant your shrubs in the fall, the main growth occurs under the soil and takes place with root development. You generally don’t have to water as frequently, as the soil is cooler, the rains help with watering and the cooler temperatures are not so stressful on the plants. Another benefit is that most established nurseries have plenty of shrubs in stock. You get to see what the plant leaves look like as the season changes and whether the plant has berries or other interesting features. What you select will depend on what the goal is for your garden – what type of foliage, its colors, its bark shape and texture and its fruits. Cooler temperatures make it easier to work outside this time of year as well.

You may need some shrub strategy, which requires advance planning. Decide where you need shrubs. Is there a view to hide? Do you need a big shrub somewhere? If so, allow enough room for the shrub to fully mature without having to prune it all the time. I have learned this lesson the hard way. Don’t plant shrubs directly under your windows. Place the proper size shrubs near doorways and pathways; otherwise you’ll need a machete to get in and out of the house in a few years.

Don’t line the shrubs up all in a row; stagger them and mix them up. Place them far enough from a fence or wall so they have room to develop to full maturity. For example, the distance from a wall or fence should be half of the shrubs’ eventual spread, and the distance between two shrubs should be half of the sum their spreads. That’s why it’s called shrub strategy. Stagger the height of your shrubs for more interest, and plant a variety of textures and colors for interest. Your local nursery can

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berries formed now. Some are just beginning to turn colors. Hollies offer a multitude of sizes, shapes and berries. The Nellie Stevens holly is naturally cone-shaped and needs little to no trimming – it shapes itself. Savannah hollies are delicate red and feed the cedar waxwing birds when they come through in the winter. Yapon hollies, one of my favorites, offer delicate pink translucent berries that glisten in the winter cold.

Yaupon holly

Tea olive

Pyracantha is a great attractor for the yellow finch that flock to the Upstate in the fall.

Have some fun and do some research for the perfect holly for your yard. Hollies do not lose their leaves in the winter, so they can be a great hedge plant or an ornamental for a bare corner in the garden. You can also use holly to decorate at Christmas, the berries making wonderful accents for the holiday table.

One last favorite to mention is tea olive, which is in full bloom now in my gardens and has a delightful fragrance. A must-have plant is edgeworthia, which is covered in scented blooms that will spring forth in the middle of winter. Look for plants that add fragrance, variety and berries for the winter garden.

Find the right fertilizer

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help you if you ask. Take a photo with you and ask for ideas if you need some advice.

Deck the garden with boughs of holly I love hollies. Hollies of many types have their

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Let’s also talk about plant fertilizers. Soil testing before you fertilize is of the utmost importance. NPK fertilizer refers to its three major elements: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). You can buy different ratios of this formula, the most common being 10-10-10. Nitrogen helps the plant in growth and development. It is a critical component of chlorophyll, which aids the plant in photosynthesis. Phosphorus develops the plant oils, sugars and starch. It aids in the transformation of solar energy into chemical energy. It encourages growth of

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roots and helps the plant withstand stress.

Potassium is greatly active in the process of photosynthesis. Potassium stores protein in the plant and helps prevent disease. Once you have a soil test, set up a schedule for fertilizing your plants.

Another benefit this time of year is the falling leaves. They are fantastic for making compost or for bagging up to add to your vegetable garden beds in the early summer. Mowing the leaves first and piling them up in a corner of the yard, or in wire cages for further decomposition, will yield you wonderful results in the garden.

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If you wish to start a new section of your garden, now is the time to layer newspaper down and pile the mulched leaves on top. By spring you will be able to plant the new bed.

You can divide iris bulbs and perennials to make more of the same for free now as well.

This will allow the root development to occur before the demands of summer fall upon the garden.

You want to clean up the plant debris in the garden and around the property before you mulch with either pine needles or bark mulch.

I prefer to wait for the leaves to be all down before I mulch, but that’s my preference. You

have to develop your own. I like to think of the mulching as “putting the garden to bed” for the winter. Cleaning and sharpening all tools is also a great fall task.

A moment of Zen Poet and Zen practitioner Gary Snyder has a simple, radical suggestion for citizens of this millennium: Don’t move. Stay still. Once you find a place that feels halfway right, and it seems like the right time, settle down with a vow not to move any more. Take a close look at one place on earth, your place that you call home, and know it as well as you can. Observe

your own place, slowing down enough to allow you to really see. You may be surprised by what you see. Pay attention to the subtle changes as well as the obvious ones. Your garden has much to reveal. See you in the garden.

Kathy Slayter is a Greenville Realtor and Clemsoncertified Master Gardener who is passionate about growing, cooking and eating her homegrown food.

Contact her at kathyslayter@gmail.com.

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Coneja Blanca formed as a duo two years ago, with Matthew Sircey playing guitar and his friend Wayne Brock on drums. They created a different sound than you might expect, mostly eschewing thick White Stripes-style swagger in favor of a more intricate approach with a balance between heavy and light. It’s a mix that only got more pronounced after they added a second guitarist (there’s no bass), Justin Hallas. “Justin and I keep our guitars fairly independent of one another,” Sircey says. “We try to find the balance in the music and try things that haven’t been done before with that setup. I really like the moments the guitars come together, but once that moment is over, I really like to explore and see if we can find a different way to do things.” The band also incorporates unusual vocal harmonies into their songs, with Sircey and Hallas’ high-range voices blending together in off-kilter, angular unison. “I pay a lot of attention to the harmonies, and Justin’s helped me a lot with that,” Sircey says. “We try to do things that people haven’t really heard before but are still catchy.” —Vincent Harris

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per pound, $5 max/child. All candy is donated to our troops overseas.

Great Candy Buy-Back Program

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Holly Tree Pediatric Dentistry 1334 South Highway 14, Simpsonville 11/1 and 11/3, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; 11/2, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and 11/4, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Swamp Rabbits Hockey Opening Night

Bon Secours Wellness Arena 650 N. Academy St.

Furman Undergraduate Evening Studies Annual Art Exhibition Word & Image Opening Exhibition Herring Center for Continuing Education at Furman University | 3300 Poinsett Highway 6-7:30 p.m.

Opening celebration for the Furman Undergraduate Evening Studies community art exhibition, featuring works of our students, alumni, instructors and staff.

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Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation First Annual Your Next Step is the Cure 5K walk/run Duncan Park | Spartanburg

7 p.m.

7-10 a.m. | $15-35

$10 Rescheduled from last week because of technical difficulties, the opening home celebration festivities include special ticket prices --$10 for orange-level seating instead of the original $15 – and an orange rally towel giveaway for the first 1,000 fans. swamprabbits.com

The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation will host the first annual Your Next Step is the Cure 5K walk/run in Spartanburg to raise funds and awareness for lung cancer. The 5K series not only raises much-needed funds for the patient services and innovative clinical research projects of the ALCF but also they include fun, family activities, including a kid’s dash,

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916-658-0144 spartanburg2016.yournextstepisthecure.org

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South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Open House South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities 15 University St. 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Discover the opportunities available to South Carolina’s young artists at Open Doors: First Look.

SCGSAH invites interested students and families to tour our campus in Downtown Greenville and learn more about our summer and residential high school programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and visual arts.

282-3810 | SCGSAH.org/open-doors.php

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Jericho Brothers with Joie and Shadow Show

Rolling Green Village Offers: Independent Living Patio Homes • Independent Apartment Homes Assisted Living • Memory Care • Rehabilitation • Skilled Nursing

Radio Room 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive 9 p.m. | $5 (over 21), $7 (under) J52

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Interesting mix of bands here: The Jericho Brothers have been working their way up the Greenville music chain with a mix of tight, funky rhythms and indie-rock guitars, while Joie specializes in vast, floating soundscapes that seem more like emotional tone poems than concrete songs.

263-7868 | radioroomgreenville.com

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Contra Blues Band with Dark Korner Soundbox Tavern 507 W. Georgia Road 9 p.m.

FREE The Contra Blues Band doesn’t care too much about what the current cover bands on the Upstate circuit are playing. They prefer more obscure artists like Chris Knight, Reckless Kelly or Cross Canadian Ragweed. And if their strippeddown The Mavericks-meet-The-Blasters sound isn’t to your liking, that’s fine, too.

228-7763

BOOKSIGNING

Open House 7-11 November

Call to schedule your school tour: 864.679.4117 1 0 1 Ha m pto n Aven u e, Gr eenville, S C 29601

Grades K3-8 SAC S Ac c re d i t e d Na t i o n a l B l u e R i b b o n S ch o o l

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Author Nick Thomas Furman University bookstore 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Author Nick Thomas will be signing and discussing his novel, “The Heart of Atlanta,” at the Furman University bookstore during homecoming weekend. Thomas attended Furman in the early ’80s, and the novel is set during that time.

Thomas’s novel is also available in print and digital versions on Amazon.com.

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Sun Dried Vibes Gottrocks 200 Eisenhower Drive 9 p.m.

You might guess by the name that Sun Dried Vibes plays straight-ahead reggae, and that certainly is part of the equation. But they also mix in funk danceability, rock muscle and pop hooks.

235-5519 gottrocksgreenville.com

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12th Annual Pottery, Art and Bake Sale Central United Methodist Church 233 N. Church St., Spartanburg 9 a.m.2 p.m.

The potters and clay artists who will have their locally made work for sale include Patsy Simmons, Heike Tonhaeuser, Nancy Williamson, Libby Wood and Wilma Younkman. The baked goods, including frozen entrees, will be provided by the church’s Mary Martha Women’s

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The Greenville Symphony Orchestra presents “Genius Against Tyrant” Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 6 at 3 p.m. $18–$69 Winner of 17 international piano competitions, the young Canadian virtuoso and composer Dmitri Levkovich will shine in Rachmaninoff’s sparkling “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” while Shostakovich rejoices victory over oppression in his dramatic 10th Symphony.

467-3000 | greenvillesymphony.org

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The Wobblers Aloft Greenville | 5 N. Laurens St. | 9 p.m. | Free

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Circle. Artists Joy Walker, Caroline Berry and Jan Francis will present their collections of repurposed jewelry, notecards and recycled greeting cards. Proceeds from the food and art sale will benefit Spartanburg’s Bethlehem Center and Heifer International. The church’s Women’s Circle will sell baked goods, including cakes, cookies, pies and rolls.

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The Wobblers are a versatile Upstate sextet that can handle cover material as well as any other group, but its approach isn’t like any other beach music or Top 40 cover band you might have seen before. The band takes on more obscure, deep cuts like Bob Dylan’s “Nothing Was Delivered” or War’s “Mother Earth,” often expanding or outright changing the songs’ arrangements. It’s a bold and unique approach for a cover band, but if it’s puzzled any of the audiences The Wobblers have played for over the past three years, bassist Jeff McAleer hasn’t noticed. “It seems to go over really well with people,” he said.

“They seem to enjoy what we’re doing, even though we’re not necessarily playing stuff that they know the words to. We like to change up and rearrange a lot of the songs. And I think people hear that other stuff so much that it’s refreshing for them to hear a band play something they might not have heard before. A lot of people seem to respond well to that.”

—Vincent Harris

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“Vintage Hitchcock, A Live Radio Play” Flat Rock Playhouse Playhouse Downtown 125 S Main St., Hendersonville

Thursday (2 and 7:30 p.m.), Friday (8 p.m.), Saturday (2 and

8 p.m.), Sunday (2 p.m.)

Seats from $15 to $40 Calling all blondes, saboteurs, spies and everyone else that enjoys a good “whodunit.”

The Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown presents a three-part collaborative thriller from the master of suspense, “Vintage Hitchcock, A Live Radio Play.” Full of chilling drama, this production will

be one of the last of the 2016 season. Taking the form of a radio show and featuring vintage commercials with the magic of live sound effects, this gripping production will let your imagination run wild.

826-693-0731 flatrockplaghouse.org info@flatrockplayhouse.org

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THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE All museum events and activities are free with admission.

Science + You, the traveling exhibit, is open. Stop by to learn about the science of health and nutrition, human anatomy and more. Stop by for our weekend programs, Random Acts of Science and special art projects in Off the Wall.

• 11/12 & 13 – Thankful Turkeys: In addition to our regular Off the Wall art activities, children can join us from 1–4 p.m. to create Thanksgiving art and make a special card for someone they are thankful for.

Weekend Activities

• 11/26 & 27 – Holiday Traditions: Holiday Traditions is open. Join us for a special lesson in holiday traditions.

• Week 4 (11/22–27): Do you know how useful feathers are for birds? Join us in Off the Wall to learn why feathers are so helpful and use feathers in your art projects.

Off the Wall

• Week 5 (11/29–12/4): Even if it doesn’t snow this December, we are creating our own snowy scenes in Off the Wall this week.

Weekend activities take place at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays unless otherwise posted.

• 11/5 & 6 – Theatre Games and More: Lights, Camera, Action! Join us on Saturday and Sunday to participate in our favorite theatre-based activities.

• 11/19 – Tool Time: Children 7 and older can join us to make bird feeders at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Limited space and registration is required.

• Week 1 (11/1–6): Do you know what a mosaic is? Join us in Off the Wall to explore famous mosaics and create your own turkey mosaics.

• Week 2 (11/8–13): Do you know what a mosaic is? Join us in Off the Wall to explore famous mosaics and create your own turkey mosaics.

• Week 3 (11/15–20): Do you know how useful feathers are for birds? Join us in Off the Wall to learn why feathers are so helpful and use feathers in your art projects.

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Nightmare Dungeon Nightmare Dungeon Haunted House 645 Old Anderson Road $25 or combo ticket for $30 Considered to be one of the scariest and longest-running haunted houses in the Upstate, this attraction has been haunting people for nearly 20 years. Put

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on by Scream Productions, this is an old two-story farmhouse walk through attraction with real actors.

There are two events for 2016: Nightmare Dungeon and Death Trap — tickets can be purchased for Nightmare Dungeon on its own, but Death Trap tickets are only available as an add-on ($5 extra).

905-2289 | nightmaredungeon.com

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Bulldog Fun Run

begins at Greenville County Animal Care, 328 Furman Hall Road ends at Fitzpatrick’s Food & Spirits, 1565 Laurens Road 1-5 p.m. | donation to GCAC The Bulldog Fun Run is an annual fundraiser for Greenville County Animal Care, presented by Upstate MINIs motoring club. The fifth annual event starts at Greenville County Animal Care.

The Bulldog Fun Run is a unique motoring event featuring only MINI Coopers. Participants are teams of two – a driver and navigator – and everyone leaves from GCAC at the same time, but headed in different directions. Participants go to different locations and earn points by participating in events at each stop. Everyone meets at Fitzpatrick’s Food & Spirits on Laurens Road for a final activity and points tally.

444-8771 or 354-3622 | Hawkbit55@gmail.com

“Peter and The Starcatcher” Open Auditions Greenville Little Theatre, Magill Rehearsal Hall 44 College St.

9 p.m.

A theatrical musical based on the best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, this magical play takes you on a wild journey. Using the power of music and storytelling, it chronicles the adventures of an orphan, soon to be called Peter Pan, and Molly, a girl charged to protect a parcel of stardust from falling into the wrong hands. A dozen actors play more than a hundred unforgettable characters employing ingenious stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of the imagination. To schedule an audition time, call Emily Grove at 864-233-6238 or email emily@greenvillelittletheatre.org.

233-6238 greenvillelittletheatre.org info@greenvillelittletheatre.org

Bassist and bandleader Mike Frost remembers the first time he fell in love with the instrument as a child. He’d actually started out as a drummer before a little sibling rivalry kicked in. “One day my brother came home with an electric bass,” he says.

“Somehow I got my hands on it and I never wanted to put it down. The feeling I got when playing that instrument made me realize I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.”

And so he has, studying under legendary bassists Jaco Pastorius and Pat Martino and playing in his own trio while working with Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, the Gipsy Kings and Wycliffe Gordon, among many others. “The primary function of the bass is supporting role in music providing the foundation for both rhythm and harmony,” Frost says of his playing style. “In jazz, there are opportunities for the bass to take on a melodic function or to become a ‘lead’ instrument.

In my band, the instruments (saxophone, keyboards, bass and drums) take on different roles at different times, which keeps things interesting. The thing we all share is a love for the improvisational element of music.” —Vincent Harris

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VISUAL ARTS

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9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Monday-Friday FREE The Furman Faculty Art Exhibition features faculty members Terri Bright, Michael Brodeur, Robert Chance and Ross McClain

SECOND LOCATION IN GREATER GREENVILLE

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Rainer’s Café 610-A S. Main St. FREE

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and adjunct faculty R.G. Brown, Jeremy Cody, Zachary Frazen and Glenn Miller. Photography, ceramics, paintings, graphic design and more will be shown. Artists will be on hand during reception and talk Friday, Nov. 4, 6-8 p.m. bit.ly/2dSoqMH

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FREE

Partner of the Year Luncheon Monday, November 21, 2016 • Noon Embassy Suites, 670 Verdae Boulevard

Proudly Honoring

Keynote Speaker: Ron Suskind Pulitzer Prize Winner & Best Selling Author www.ronsuskind.com

vote411.org

Need information on candidates that will be on your primary and November election ballot?

The League of Women Voters of Greenville County has prepared a voters guide that will introduce the candidates and present their views and plans for office. To access, go to vote411.org and enter your address. Then click on “Get personalized information on candidates and issues.” Click on “Show my races.”

Under the word “Progress” use the scrolling arrow. greenvilleco.sc.lwvnet.org lwvgreenville@yahoo.com

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Farewell, My Love with

The Funeral Portrait and Matt Skajem Ground Zero 3052 Howard St. 8 p.m.

Farewell, My Love plays an interesting mix of styles. The music is pure emo-punk-pop with tightly coiled rhythms and choppy guitars, but the vocals are drama-heavy goth, with all the theatricality that implies.

948-1661 reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2

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Brand New with The Front Bottoms & Modern Baseball Bon Secours Wellness Arena 650 N. Academy St. 7 p.m. $35.50, $42.50 Brand New is an alt-rock powerhouse that takes the grungy bottom end of ‘90s faves like Weezer and Sunny Day Real Estate and combines it with the shiny pop surfaces of bands like The Cars, with a little touch of Beach Boys harmonies thrown in.

241-3800 bonsecoursarena.com

I C S S CAR A L C SHOW

With closing remarks from

Grier Mullins

Public Education Partners Executive Director - 1989-2016

November 12th from 12 to 3PM To purchase a $25 ticket, please visit www.pepgc.org/partner-of-the-year Ron Suskind’s books will be available for purchase at the event, and a book signing will take place immediately following the luncheon.

Public Education Partners Greenville County 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive, Suite E6 • Greenville, SC 29607 • 864-233-4137

The Springs at Simpsonville 214 East Curtis Street Simpsonville, SC 29681 $25 Registration Fee Please contact Heather at 864.546.9665 to reserve your spot!

Our Spring Chickens will be voting on 1st, 2nd and 3rd place!

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“Luna Gale” Centre Stage | 501 River St. 7 p.m.- | Tuesday and Wednesday $10-15

there are no clear protagonists. “There are no villains and no heroes,” she says. “There are frustrating moments and it’s a challenge not to judge the characters.” Tromsness says that, like the real world, this play shows characters in a great deal of pain and a great deal of love. centrestage.org

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Wednesday Night Pickleball

Sterling Community Center 113 Minus St. 6-8 p.m. | Wednesdays thru Dec. 28 $3 Matthew Murphy

This play by Rebecca Gilman is part of Centre Stage’s Fringe series. It confronts the complicated subject of children in foster care. “Despite what we try to put in place, the systems are only as strong as the people running them,” says director Anne Tromsness. “Even people with the best intention lose their way.” The plot follows veteran social worker Caroline, who will do whatever it takes to protect the baby named Luna Gale in her care. She unwittingly sparks a family conflict that exposes a shadowy, secretive past and forces her to make a risky decision with potentially dangerous consequences.

Tromsness says while the play is not a tragedy,

Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America. The game combines elements of tennis, ping-pong and badminton. It is easy for beginners to learn and is a challenging, fast-paced, competitive game for more experienced players. There are hundreds of Pickleball players in the Upstate. New players are always welcome.

We play every Wednesday night at Sterling Community Center (113 Minus St., Greenville, SC 29601) starting at 6 p.m. No paddle, no problem. We have loaner paddles. Cost is $3 with the money going to Sterling.

603-3558 Upstatepickleball.com

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$18/adults, $15/seniors, $10/students

Furman University High Noon Series: “And the New President of the United States Is...”

In December 1988, a small Scottish town hosted unusual guests: dozens of corpses that lay for days in streets, fields and gardens until investigators could process them as forensic evidence. The dead were victims of the Pan Am 103 bombing that claimed 259 passengers and crew, and 11 people on the ground. Deborah Brevoort wrote her tribute to “The Women of Lockerbie” eight years before 9/11. Inspired by true events, “Lockerbie” depicts the extraordinary efforts of the town’s women to wash 11,000 pieces of clothing from the plane’s wreckage as both a practical and symbolic act of cleansing. Guest Jayce Tromsness directs.

294-2125 | bit.ly/2eflQLI Mickie.spencer@furman.edu

Upcountry History Museum Furman University | 540 Buncombe St. noon FREE Will it be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? Did the Democrats make significant inroads into the Republican majorities in the House and Senate?

Furman University professor of political science Dr. Jim Guth, who regularly shares his political insight with the national media, will be at High Noon the day after the election to explain what happened and what it all means.

294-3107 | bit.ly/2dhn8GX Vince.moore@furman.edu

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Furman University Theatre Presents “The Women of Lockerbie” Furman University | The Playhouse 3300 Poinsett Highway Nov. 9-12 and Nov. 17-19 at 8 p.m.Matinee showings Nov. 13 and Nov. 20 at 3 p.m.

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Bill Gerhardt Quartet featuring Mike Holstein on guitar for Wheel Session VII The Wheel | 1288 Pendleton St. 7:30 p.m. | $10 Gerhardt and Holstein return to the Wheel.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear two of the country’s finest jazz masters. The “Wheel Sessions” is a jazz performance series in the West End Arts District. Entrance fee

The Military Order of the Purple Heart presents

COMEDY Huguenot Loft at the Peace Center Tickets are $35.00 at the Peace Center Box Office or at peacecenter.org

NIGHT Monday, Nov. 7th

Reception at 6pm • Show at 7pm

Please join us for a HILARIOUS evening of amateur joke telling!

All proceeds benefit Combat Wounded Veterans.

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includes complimentary beverage and two sets of music. All proceeds go to the artists.

Attendees may also BYOB. (312) 520-2760 | kmkorschgen@gmail.com

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Storytime Thursday Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods Crossing Road #5 10:30 a.m. | Thursdays FREE Bring your preschool children to Fiction Addiction for a storytime reading of the picture book “If You Give a Mouse a Brownie” by Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond.

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

BOOK SIGNING

Book Your Lunch with Bestselling Novelist Cassandra King Poinsett Club | 807 E. Washington St. Noon | $55 Bestselling novelist Cassandra King’s fiction has won the hearts of readers everywhere, especially in the American South. Now hear her discuss “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life,” a

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new nonfiction collection of pieces by and about her late husband Pat Conroy, including an introduction from King, at a Book Your Lunch. Each ticket admits one and includes lunch and a copy of “A Lowcountry Heart.” We will also have the author’s other books available for sale prior to and at the event.

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

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Sixth Annual Holiday Craft Fair The Woodlands at Furman 1500 Trailhead Court 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

The Woodlands at Furman will transform into a holiday market on Thursday, Nov. 10, as local vendors kick off the holiday shopping season for the Greenville community at the sixth annual Holiday Craft Fair. Items for sale include a wide variety of Christmas ornaments, home decor, candles, handmade soaps, wreaths, gourds and baked goods.

371-3100 | thewoodlandsatfurman.org

the Greenville Zoo. Guests will enjoy an evening of solo piano from Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Bruce Hornsby, drinks from the Community Tap and light bites from Augusta Grill & Haywood Grill. This is the second ZooTunes concert, hosted by the Greenville Zoo Foundation and offered in partnership with the Greenville Zoo, the City of Greenville and Eleven Events. This is an adults-only event. No one under 21 will be admitted. zootunes.eventbrite.com

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Ticket Alert: Disney’s “The Lion King”

Greenville Zoo 7 p.m. | $100 ZooTunes is an intimate concert experience at

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SC Veterans Upstate Salute Fluor Field at the West End | 945 S. Main St. 5-8 p.m.

Free, but registration is required and tickets are limited.

Join us Friday, Nov. 11, at Fluor Field at the West End to show support of our nation’s veterans with a free, family-friendly event featuring fireworks, aerial flyovers, paratroopers and a special concert by country superstar Tracy Lawrence.

240-4528 upstatesalute.com

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ZooTunes, featuring a solo performance by Bruce Hornsby

2017, for four weeks. Showtimes will be Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 1 and 6:30 p.m. There will also be 2 p.m. matinees on Thursday, June 1, and Thursday, June 22. Premium ticket packages, which include a prime seat location, a commemorative souvenir program and an exclusive merchandise item, are also available.

467-3000 or 800-888-7768 peacecenter.org

Peace Center | 101 W Broad St. 10 a.m.

Tickets start at $35 “The Lion King” will return to Greenville May 31,

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Furman University Presents Tribute Concert Honoring Robert Chesebro Furman University | Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Highway 8 p.m.

FREE Furman University music faculty and guests will present “A Tribute to Robert Chesebro.” Joining faculty member Dr. Cecilia Kang are guest clarinetists and alumni Elizabeth Crawford, Jennifer Everhart, Erik Franklin and Tod Kerstetter. Guest clarinetists are former students of Chesebro, who joined the Furman music faculty in 1965 and retired in 2015 after a 50-year career with the university. Also part of the program is a 20-plus member Paladin Clarinet Choir comprised of Dr. Chesebro’s current and former students, ensemble members and other friends.

294-2086 furmanmusic@furman.edu furman.edu/academics/music/Pages/default.aspx

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“A Thousand Cranes”

Flat Rock Playhouse, Playhouse Downtown 125 S Main St., Hendersonvlle Friday (7 p.m.), Saturday (2 and 7 p.m.), Sunday at (2 p.m.)

Seats from $10 to $18 Flat Rock Playhouse presents a Studio 52 production, “A Thousand Cranes.” This show tells the true story of Sadako Sasaki, who was a 2-year-old in the center of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. Although seemingly unharmed at the time, 10 years later she was diagnosed with “radiation sickness,” or leukaemia. While in the hospital, Sadako attempted to follow the Japanese legend that her wish of healing would be granted if she folded 1,000 paper cranes.

826-693-0731 flatrockplayhouse.org info@flatrockplayhouse.org

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“Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical” Centre Stage 501 River St.

Thursdays–Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. $20–$35 The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon of “Jekyll & Hyde” at Centre Stage. Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop-rock hits from multi-Grammy- and Tony-nominated Frank Wildhorn and double-Oscar- and Grammy-

winning Leslie Bricusse, “Jekyll & Hyde” has mesmerized audiences the world over.

233-6733 centrestage.org

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COMEDY

New South Comedy Festival

Alchemy Comedy Theater 1 E. Coffee St. $14 This year the festival expands to two weeks in order to accommodate more than 200 improv, stand-up, musical and sketch comedy performers from New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Knoxville and throughout the Southeast. newsouthcomedy.com

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VISUAL ART

Exhibition: Drawn South

Greenville Technical College’s RIVERWORKS Gallery 300 River St., Ste. 202 1-6 p.m.

FREE Carly Drew, Katelyn Chapman and Kolton Miller are all Drawn South through their childhood immersion in and reverence for South Carolina’s culture and landscape. Their images explore and narrate their home landscape with layers of media that present a compression of history and multiple perspectives. Miller says, “It is important that the work questions the time, place and realness of your standard landscape, pushing something normally thought of as concrete into an unearthly event.” While studying together at Clemson, the three became friends and colleagues. A reception will be held First Friday, Nov. 4, 6-9 p.m. gvltec.edu/riverworks/

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25 1994 sci-fi action film 26 Tailless cat 27 Secretive govt. group 28 Small city’s package deliverer?

30 Eight-armed mollusks 33 London lav 35 Muslim chief 36 Marshy inlet near Boston?

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48 Bang, as a big toe 49 Supper crumbs 50 Long oar 51 Actor Max 53 Spanish cheers 55 Carne — (Mexican steak dish) 59 Vicinity 60 Vigor, in music 61 Coup d’état?

65 As dry as — 67 Prefix with tourism 68 1998 Australian Open winner Korda

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78 Award in the ad business 79 P.O. item 80 Directive 82 Unfeeling person’s fakeout?

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110 Graf — (ill-fated German warship) 111 Notch shape 112 Inner layer 116 “My poetry is terrible compared to Maya’s”?

122 Hearing thing 125 Dog in “Garfield” 126 Setting 127 Messed up during a film shoot?

131 Really stuck 132 “Paradise Lost” figure 133 Mongoose cousins 134 How china is often sold 135 Noodges

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37 “Star Trek” helmsman 38 $5 bills, in slang 39 Forest buck 40 Shell rival in Canada 41 Curious as —

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SUMMONS NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ANDERSON IN THE FAMILY COURT TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE #: 2016-DR-04-1547 MICHELLE LYNN LANFOR, PLAINTIFF(S), -vs- STEPHEN MITCHEL LANFOR, DEFENDANT(S).

TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: STEPHEN MITCHEL LANFOR 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 said Complaint on the subscribers at their office, 514 S. McDuffie Street, Post Office Box 1965, Anderson, South Carolina 29622, within thirty days after the service hereof; exclusive the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff( s) will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Complaint.

IN THE EVENT THAT YOU ARE AN INFANT OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR AN IMPRISONED PERSON, you are further summoned and notified to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem to represent you in this action within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you.

If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.

IN THE EVENT THAT YOU ARE AN INFANT UNDER THE AGE OF FOURTEEN YEARS OR ARE INCOMPETENT OR INSANE, you are further summoned and notified to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem to represent said infant(s) under the age of fourteen years of age, or said incompetent or insane person, within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you.

If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.

CASE CLOSURE NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES Written request for a final hearing in this case must be delivered by a party or attorney to the Clerk’s Office within 365 days of this filing date July 19, 2016.

Failure to comply with this case closure notice result in the dismissal of this case by the Chief Administrative Family Court Judge of this Circuit.

DUNAWAY LAW FIRM Tom W. Dunaway, III Attorney for Plaintiff Post Office Box 1965 Anderson, South Carolina 29622 (864) 224-1144

F. CASE NO: 16-2973 PROPERTY OWNER: DAVID HELTON AND LINDA HELTON PROPERTY LOCATION: 8 SELMA STREET TAX MAP NUMBER: 0171.00-07-054.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 19

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE GREENVILLE COUNTY PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE, HEARING OFFICER ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 AT 10:00AM, IN CONFERENCE ROOM F, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE CASES PERTAINING TO THE HABITABILITY OF STRUCTURE(S) ON THE PROPERTY.

G. CASE NO: 16-353 PROPERTY OWNER: AARON CROUCH, ETAL AND UNKNOWN HEIRS/HEIRS WITH WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN PROPERTY LOCATION: ROCK ROAD TAX MAP NUMBER: 0531.01-01-020.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 21

A. CASE NO: 15-3082 PROPERTY OWNER: DEE RAY BALLEW, JAMES PAUL BALLEW JR., HERSCHEL WAYNE BALLEW AND CATHY DIANE BALLEW PROPERTY LOCATION: 209 EDGEMONT AVENUE TAX MAP NUMBER: 0146.00-05-003.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 19

H. CASE NO: 16-1764 PROPERTY OWNER: ADAM J GREENE AND ROBIN J GREENE PROPERTY LOCATION: 67 DORSEY AVENUE TAX MAP NUMBER: 0117.00-10-006.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 23

B. CASE NO: 16-2872 PROPERTY OWNER: HELEN LOUISE BUCHANAN PROPERTY LOCATION: 22 A GENTRY STREET TAX MAP NUMBER: 0235.00-04-031.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 23

I. CASE NO: 15-3107 PROPERTY OWNER: WILLIAM DEMPSEY PROPERTY LOCATION: 527 NEW HARRISON BRIDGE ROAD TAX MAP NUMBER: 0575.01-01-015.25 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 26

C. CASE NO: 14-2369 PROPERTY OWNER: ALBA ESQUIVEL PROPERTY LOCATION: 18 CATAWBA TAX MAP NUMBER: 0135.00-07-020.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 23

J. CASE NO: 14-1903 PROPERTY OWNER: CARL D BURTON AND PAMELA ANN BURTON PROPERTY LOCATION: 14 LIBERTY STREET TAX MAP NUMBER: 0616.03-01-111.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 26

D. CASE NO: 16-956 PROPERTY OWNER: KENNETH T POWELL PROPERTY LOCATION: 205 HAMMETT STREET TAX MAP NUMBER: 0153.00-09-006.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 23

COMPLAINT NOTICES A complaint has been brought before the Code Enforcement Division of a dangerous, insanitary and unsafe structure located at the following locations:

E. CASE NO: 15-4215 PROPERTY OWNER: SUE MCKINNEY MORGAN WITH A LIFE ESTATE TO SYLIVA LEE BRIDWELL, JOE ALLEN BRIDWELL, FRANKLIN BRIDWELL, AND JOE ALLEN PROPERTY LOCATION: 5906 LOCUST HILL ROAD TAX MAP NUMBER: 0502.03-01-018.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 17

209 Edgemont Avenue, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0146.00-05-003.00, Greenville County, SC. 22 A Gentry Street , Greenville County Tax Map Number 0235.00-04-031.00, Greenville County, SC.

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18 Catawba, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0135.00-07020.00, Greenville County, SC. 205 Hammett Street, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0153.00-09-006.00, Greenville County, SC. 5906 Locust Hill Road, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0502.03-01-018.00, Greenville County, SC. 8 Selma Street, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0171.00-07-054.00, Greenville County, SC. Rock Road, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0531.01-01020.00, Greenville County, SC. 67 Dorsey Avenue, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0117.00-10-006.00, Greenville County, SC. 527 New Harrison Bridge Road, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0575.01-01-015.25, Greenville County, SC. 14 Liberty Street, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0616.03-01-111.00, Greenville County, SC. Any persons having interest in these properties, or knowledge of the property owner should contact the Codes Enforcement Office at 864-467-7090 on or before November 17, 2016.

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: RFP#35-11/29/16 – 2017 LiDAR Acquisition, November 29, 2016, 3:00 P.M., E.S.T. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty.org or by calling (864) 467-7200.

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: RFP# 37-11/30/16, Rail Removal Project for Swamp Rabbit Trail South Segment, November 30, 2016, 3:00PM. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty.org/ Procurement/ or by calling (864) 467-7200.

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: RFP#36-11/29/16 – Food Services for Inmates at Greenville County Detention Center, November 29, 2016, 4:00 P.M., E.S.T. .

Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty.org or by calling (864) 467-7200.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE FAMILY COURT No.:2016-DR-23-3545 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS TO STEPHEN ANDREW PITTMAN You have been notified pursuant to SC Code Ann Sec.15-9-710, that adoption proceedings have been initiated under the abovereferenced case number by Carmen Julia Bermudez Marin.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED AS FOLLOWS: 1. That within thirty (30) days of receiving notice you shall respond in writing by filing with the Clerk of Court at 301 University Ridge Greenville, South Carolina 29602, notice and reasons to contest, intervene or otherwise respond; 2. That the Court must be informed of your current address and any change of address during the divorce proceedings.

3. That failure to file a response within thirty (30) days of receiving notice will constitutes judgement by default rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Nathalie M. Morgan (69848) 201 West Stone Avenue Greenville, SC 29609 (864)242-6655 (864)242-6111 (facsimile)

PUBLIC SALE NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on 11/12/2016, at 9:00 a.m. at Woodruff Road Storage, 1868 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC, the undersigned, Woodruff Road Storage will sell at Public Sale by competitive bidding, the personal property heretofore stored with the undersigned by: 1. Unit: B012: Evangeline Butler Furniture, Clothing, Boxes, Misc.

2. Unit: A010: Katherine Flanagan Furniture, Boxes/Misc.

3. Unit A016: Alan Johnson Furniture, Appliances, Tools, Misc 4. Unit B040: Carlos Cuffie Totes, Clothing, Misc 5. Unit B089: Edmund Jacek Furniture, Golf Clubs, Clothes, Misc 6. Unit F04: Aaron Hall Baby Items, Furniture, Clothing/ Shoes, Misc.

7. Unit C166: Joseph Burgess Furniture/Electronics, Decor, Games, Boxes/Misc.

8. Unit B217: Dennis R Young Tools, Mini Fridge, Clothing/ Misc.

9. Unit C233: Dennis R Young Tools, Furniture/Misc.

10. Unit E16 Allison C Burnett Furniture, TV, Appliances, Boxes/Misc.

11. Unit B056: Sherrie L Lawson Furniture, Collectibles/Misc.

NOTICE OF REFERENDUM $2,100,000 OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS BOILING SPRINGS FIRE DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Referendum will be held in the Boiling Springs Fire District, South Carolina (the “District”), on January 10, 2017, for the purpose of submitting to all persons qualified to vote in the District pursuant to the Constitution and laws of the State of South Carolina, the following question: Question Shall the Boiling Springs Fire District, located in Greenville County, South Carolina (the “District”), be authorized to issue and sell, either as a single issue or as several separate issues, general obligation bonds of the District in an aggregate principal amount of not exceeding $2,100,000, the proceeds of which shall be applied to defray the costs, along with legal and related expenses, of the following: (i) acquiring and equipping fire apparatuses; (ii) payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds as they respectively mature; and (iii) creation of a sinking fund as may be necessary therefor.

Yes, in favor of the question [ ] No, opposed to the question [ ]

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that BON APPETIT MANAGEMENT CO. intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/ permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER & WINE at 3300 Poinsett Hwy, Daniel Din. Hall-Hartness, Greenville, SC 29631. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than November 20, 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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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Noble-Interstate Management Group, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 40 W. Orchard Park Dr. Greenville, SC 29615.

To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than November 20, 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 Prime Time Restaurant.

LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR at 2726 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors, SC 29687. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than November 13, 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

If you are in favor of the question, place a check or cross-mark in the square after the words “Yes, in favor of the question”; if you are opposed to the question, place a check or cross-mark in the square after the words “No, opposed to the question.”

The question is being submitted pursuant to Article X, Section 14 of the Constitution of the State of South Carolina, 1895, as amended, Title 6, Chapter 11, Article 3 and Title 4, Chapter 15 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976, as amended; a resolution of the Board of Fire Control of the District, the governing body of the District, adopted on June 14, 2016; an ordinance of the County Council of Greenville County (the “County Council”), the governing body of Greenville County, South Carolina (the “County”), enacted on September 20, 2016. If a majority of the qualified electors of the District voting in the Referendum approve the issuance of not exceeding $2,100,000 of general obligations bonds of the District, such bonds may be issued by the District either at one time as a single issue or from time to time as several separate issues. As acknowledged in the Question, the proceeds of the bonds will be used for the purpose of defraying the costs of: (i) acquiring and equipping fire apparatuses; (ii) payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds as they respectively mature; and (iii) creation of a sinking fund as may be necessary therefor.

Every person offering to vote must be at least 18 years of age on the date of the Referendum, must reside in the County and must be duly registered on

the books of registration for the County as an elector in the precinct in which he or she resides and offers to vote on or before the date on which said books of registration are closed for the Referendum, and must present either a South Carolina driver’s license, another form of identification containing a photograph issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, a passport, a military identification card containing a photograph issued by the federal government, or a South Carolina voter registration card containing a photograph of the voter pursuant to Section 7-5-675 of the Code. If a voter cannot produce any type of the aforementioned identification at his designated precinct, the voter may cast a provisional ballot that is counted only if the voter brings a valid and current photograph identification to the Greenville County Department of Voter Registration and Elections before the results of the election are certified.

Any person wishing to register to vote in this election, if registering by mail, must either have such registration postmarked no later than 30 days prior to the Referendum, to the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration, 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900, Greenville, SC 29601, or appear in person and register at the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration, at 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900, Greenville, SC 29601. Any registered elector who has moved his or her place of residence within the District shall be entitled to vote in his or her previous precinct of residence in the Referendum.

Persons who become of age during the 30 day period preceding the Referendum shall be entitled to register before the closing of the books if otherwise qualified.

Any person eligible to register to vote in the Referendum who has been discharged or separated from his service in the Armed Forces of the United States prior to January 10, 2017, and has returned home too late to register at the time when registration is required, is entitled to register for the purpose of voting in the Referendum after the discharge or separation from service, up to 5:00 p.m. on the day of the Referendum. This application for registration must be made at the office of the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration and Elections, and if qualified, the person must be issued a registration notification stating the precinct in which he is entitled to vote and should be placed on the registration rolls of the precinct.

The polls shall be open from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the polling places designated below and shall be open during those hours without intermission or adjournment.

Appropriate vote recorders will be provided at the polling places for the casting of ballots on the aforesaid question. Managers of Election will be appointed by the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration and Elections. The

precincts (or portions thereof) within the District and locations of the several polling places for such Referendum are as follows: PRECINCT: Pelham Falls Thornblade Rolling Green Feaster Rocky Creek Oakview Granite Creek Ashton Lakes LOCATION: Boiling Springs Fire District Headquarters - 5020 Pelham Road, Greenville, SC PRECINCT: Palmetto Dove Tree Devenger Boiling Springs Del Norte Mission LOCATION: Boiling Springs Fire District Station 15 - 208 Blacks Drive, Greenville, SC PRECINCT: Sugar Creek Canebrake Silverleaf Riverside Suber Mill LOCATION: Boiling Springs Fire District Station 14 - 234 South Batesville Road, Greer, SC Voters who are blind, who are otherwise physically handicapped, or who are unable to read or write are entitled to assistance in casting their ballot.

This assistance may be given by anyone the voter chooses except for his employer, an agent of his employer, or an officer or agent of his union. The Managers of Election must be notified if assistance is needed. Voters who are unable to enter their polling place due to physical handicap or age may vote in the vehicle in which they drove, or were driven, to the polls. When notified, the Managers will help voters effectuate this curbside voting provision. Registered voters may be eligible to vote by absentee ballot. The process of examining the return-addressed envelopes containing absentee ballots may begin at 2:00 p.m. on the date of the Referendum at the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration and Elections located at 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900, Greenville, SC 29601. Persons wishing more information concerning absentee balloting should contact the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration and Elections by telephone at (864) 467-7250 or email at absentee@greenvillecounty.org.

After the Referendum, the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration and Elections shall hold a hearing on ballots challenged in the election at the office of the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration and Elections located at 301 University Ridge, Suite 1900, Greenville, SC 29601 at 12 Noon on January 13th, 2017.

Immediately following the provisional ballot hearing, the Board will certify the official results of the election.

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