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Reading the Tea Leaves The demise of Hickory, N.C., and the rise of populist anger IN MY OWN WORDS

By Chris Haire

Hickory, N.C. — it’s not a place that I think of very often. In fact, I can’t recall giving the small town much thought since I left the Upstate years ago. That’s the way it goes with all things, I suppose, but there was a time when I remember watching local TV, particularly during the after-school and nightly news slot, and I’d regularly see commercials for one furniture outlet or another in Hickory. They were all more or less the same in their pitches, promising wall-to-wall selections and rock-bottom deals. Judging by their success, they delivered. And with good reason.

For much of my life, and likely well before that, Hickory was arguably the furniture capital of America. While the tiny town still lays claim to that title, or at least the portion it doesn’t share with its Tarheel sister city of High Point, Hickory has fallen on hard times — the kind of hard times the folks living in one-industry towns like Flint, Mich., know all too well. As such they provide a

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lesson that cities around the nation should all pay attention to: If you don’t have a diverse selection of industry, you’re doomed when the boom times come to an end.

And more often than not, they do. As the one-time textile capital of the world, Greenville is proof of that.

In the case of Hickory, the glory days ended with the rise of globalization. As cheap, easy-to-assemble furniture arrived on American shores from China, the furniture industry in the North Carolina town collapsed.

Factories closed, jobs disappeared, and the largely rural and undereducated population saw an abrupt change to their lives. Much like the people of Flint, the then-middle class wages these factory workers enjoyed vanished, never to return.

If that sounds a little too dire, then you don’t really understand the sea change that has affected not just America’s small, single-industry cities, places where folks could expect to find good, well-paying jobs without nothing more than a high school diploma, but tiny, rural towns across the nation. On the receiving end of the one-two punch of globalization and the Great Recession, these communities have seen jobs and federal funds dry up. They’re not ghost towns. They’re the living dead.

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, reporters Bob Davids and Jon Hilsenrath visited Hickory to examine the ill effects of globalization on the community and how the North Carolina city was indicative of a particular political trend — the angry rise of the disenfranchised masses and the dawn of a new, tear-it-down populism. Davids and Hilsenrath write, “In this year’s Republican presidential primary

races, Mr. Trump won 89 of the 100 counties most affected by competition from China … Those counties include Hickory’s Catawba County, where Mr. Trump got 44 percent of the Republican vote in the March primary against 11 other candidates.”

And Trump wasn’t the only candidate to receive a wave of support in hard-hit areas. Bernie Sanders “won Democratic primaries in 64 of the 100 most-exposed counties in the northern and Midwestern states,” Davids and Hilsenwrath also note.

For some, the success of Trump and Sanders surely didn’t come as a surprise. Take Dante Chinni, the author of “Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the ‘Real’ America.” Chinni predicted this very thing before the 2012 election. “The hard economic times are creating real hardships in some places in the United States — particularly the ‘Service Worker Centers’ [the Northeast] and aging Emptying Nests [the Midwest].

As federal, state and local governments look to trim budgets, those small towns will find it much harder to replace the jobs they have,” Chinni wrote in a 2011 column for The Boston Globe. “The austerity moves by government are essentially pulling money out of those places and redirecting it to the private sector, which will almost certainly favor more educated, urbanized areas. Unemployment rates in those more rural areas will grow higher and the people in them will want something done.”

And then he drops the proverbial mic: “In short, if you think voters are angry now, there are large swaths of the country where the mood will be even more foul in 2016.”

Now, this doesn’t make Chinni a prophet. It simply makes him one of the few to read the tea leaves — whether from the Tea Party or Green Party— and read them correctly.

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rop the needle and a crisply strummed acoustic guitar and a standup bass begin a lively musical conversation.

The bass settles on a chugging mid-tempo groove, the acoustic guitar shifts from a delicately picked solo into abrupt, sharp chords, and a singer, confident and deeply soulful, begins his tale…

“It was down by old Joe’s barroom, on the corner of the square / They were serving drinks as usual, and the usual crowd was there.”

This isn’t the feral growl of Howlin’ Wolf, the wounded wail of Robert Johnson or the haunted mumble of John Lee Hooker. This is Greenville native Josh White, and it’s less a cry of pain than it is a conversation with a wise, experienced man. The song is “St. James Infirmary,” one of the best-known and most-covered blues songs of the 20th century, and it kicks off the 1956 album “Josh at Midnight.”

During his lifetime, White was one of the most commercially popular, critically acclaimed, boundary-breaking black musicians in the United States. But unless

you’re a devoted fan of acoustic blues or a record collector, the odds are pretty good that you’ve never heard of him.

Josh White was born right here in Greenville on Feb. 11, 1914, to the Rev. Dennis and Daisy White. School was never part of the agenda for the young boy, but he learned a great deal about where he was from and about how cruel the world could be.

When he was 7 years old, White watched a group of white police deputies beat his father nearly to death and then ship him to a mental institution because the Rev. White had thrown a disrespectful bill collector out of his house. It was an experience that changed both men irrevocably; the elder White was never the same man again and died not long after. The family he left behind had to quickly find a way to support itself.

Several weeks after his father was beaten, White left home with a blues singer named Blind Man Arnold. Arnold would pay Josh’s mother $4 in exchange for Josh leading the Blind Man to Florida to play. After that successful journey, Arnold spent the next

eight years renting White out to 66 different blind and disabled blues performers to help guide them through the Southeast, including Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Joe Taggart.

These men were often cruel to him, but White was a quick study when it came to their music. Through some sort of osmosis, he became a guitarist capable of lightningfast runs, string bends and rhythmic riffs.

He also developed an encyclopedic knowledge of songs, building a huge repertoire of blues and gospel classics. He began recording at the age of 14, first as a sideman and then on his own under a variety of names, including Pinewood Tom, Joshua White, The Singing Christian and Tipp Barton.

From the 1920s until 1939, White’s recording career operated in a series of fits and starts that saw White moonlighting as a boxer to earn extra money. But in late 1939, after recovering from a boxing injury to his hand, White reappeared as a confident, mature performer with a popular version of “Careless Love” on Blue Note Records. From then on, boxing wouldn’t be necessary.

Over the next two decades, White starred on Broadway with Paul Robeson in “John Henry,” became the first blues artist ever to appear at New York’s famous Café Society club, released two racially charged protest albums (1940’s “Chain Gang” and 1941’s “Southern Exposure”) and toured with torch singer Libby Holman as part

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That’s something we can all aspire to.”

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of the first racially mixed concert tour in American history.

Those protest albums landed on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s desk in the early 1940s. White was invited to the White House to perform, becoming the first black artist to give a Command Performance. He also formed a close friendship with the Roosevelts, to the extent that the press occasionally referred to White as the “presidential minstrel.”

White recorded the first-ever millionselling single by a black artist — the humorous, down-and-out saga called “One Meatball” — in 1944 and scored further popular hits with “Frankie & Johnny,” “Miss Otis Regrets” and “Waltzing Matilda.” But White’s high profile as a protest artist (and his playing events sponsored by the Communist Party during World War II) began attracting attention. In 1950, White was notified by his manager that his name had appeared in the premier issue of Red Channels magazine as a communist sympathizer. Ironically, this happened while he was on a goodwill tour of Europe with Eleanor Roosevelt.

After months of interrogations and his job prospects vanishing, Josh appeared before Congress to state his case and clear his name, a move that angered his supporters.

Meanwhile, the FBI wasn’t pleased with his refusal to name names. His popularity in the U.S. declined.

When fledging producer and label owner Jac Holzman came to White offering a $100 advance to record for Holzman’s then-new

label Elektra Records, White was in no position to refuse. They recorded and released the 12-track “Josh at Midnight” album in 1956, and it had an immediate impact on artists from folk to rock ‘n’ roll and beyond.

Dolph Ramseur, founder and president of Ramseur Records, fell in love with “Josh at Midnight” the first time he heard its opening track on the radio. “I grew up in Concord, N.C.,” Ramseur says, “and there was a local radio show on UNCC that dedicated an hour to the Piedmont blues every Friday night. One night, I heard a blues guy with just a guitar, and it jumped right out at me.

At that time with ELO and Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees on the radio, none of it sounded like this. And plus it was from my own backyard. It resonated with me. It was Josh White singing ‘St. James Infirmary,’ from the ‘Josh at Midnight’ album.”

“I bought that record when I was 13 or 14, and man, I thought it was the greatest

White was invited to the White House to perform, becoming the first black artist to give a Command Performance thing ever,” Ramseur continues. “I played that thing over and over and made tapes for people saying, ‘You gotta hear this.’ It combined blues, gospel, folk music, oldtime music … it just had this real feel of the Carolinas in it.”

And as Ramseur moved forward into artist management and eventually label ownership, “Josh at Midnight” stayed with him, until a chance meeting with one of its creators gave him an idea. “A few years ago, I was co-manager of a band called the Carolina Chocolate Drops,” he says. “And lo and behold, they were doing a song for a Bob Dylan tribute album, and Jac Holzman graciously said he’d produce the Chocolate BLUES GREAT continued on PAGE 8

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“There’s a song my father did called ‘Free and Equal Blues’ that talks about if you pull the skin away, we’re all the same.

And that’s exactly what we need to promote all the time.”

Josh White Jr.

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Drops’ Dylan track, and that’s how I got to know him. Jac’s in his mid-80s, and he was tickled that someone my age — I was 40 years old at the time — knew who Josh was.”

Ramseur adds, “He told me that typically he would sell 2,000-3,000 copies of a release, but ‘Josh at Midnight’ sold 50,000 copies. It saved Elektra Records.”

But in talking about this album with its producer, Ramseur realized something.

“I’ve bought about 10 copies of this record and I’ve never had one that was pristine,” he says. “I’d never found one I felt was mint. So I just started thinking, why don’t I just put that record out?”

The master recording of “Josh at Midnight” was then in the hands of Warner Bros. Music Group subsidiary Rhino Records, and Ramseur licensed the record from them with Holzman’s blessing. Then Ramseur worked with Holzman, veteran engineer Bruce Botnick and Bernie Grundman, who Ramseur calls “one of the best vinyl mastering people on the planet,” to pre-

pare a high-quality 180g vinyl version of the album he’d loved since he was a teenager.

All that was left now was to release it, and Ramseur knew exactly where he wanted to do it.

To hear Horizon Records owner Gene Berger tell it, it wasn’t immediately clear to him what Dolph Ramseur wanted to do when he called a few months back. Berger, a lifelong Josh White fan with an extensive collection of albums, singles, sheet music and more, was just happy about getting the record. “Dolph said, ‘I’ve got this record we’re going to reissue,’” Berger says. “And I said, ‘That’s great. We’ll stock it.’ Dolph said, ‘No, what I want to do is have the release event at your place, in The Bohemian Café at Horizon Records, because Josh’s story is a Greenville story.’”

Through an extraordinary coincidence, only a few days before the phone call, Greenville City Council member Amy Ryberg Doyle and Furman University art department chair Ross McLain had come to the store with a group of Furman students

seeking a home for a mural project they were working on. Once Berger agreed to let them create the mural outside of Horizon Records, he suggested that former employee Russ Morin, who’d recently passed away, be included, along with Josh White.

“It’s a remarkable serendipity,” Berger says. “There are so many amazing and wonderful threads being woven together here.”

But Berger decided to go one step further to celebrate the album’s release. “We asked the City of Greenville if they’d be interested in participating,” he says, “and they immediately proclaimed Aug. 20, the day of the album release event, to be Josh White Day.” “This is about history,” Berger says. “It’s about political history, as it relates to acceptance and ethnicity, both back in the day and what we’re going through now in the presidential election. It’s about racial history, things that happened to a family in Greenville. It’s about the music history that came out of this man to the world through him and his son, Josh White Jr. It’s about

acknowledgement, about recognizing the legacy of a man who has fallen off the radar screen for a lot of people, because of changing tastes or changing times.”

Berger adds, “Josh White was a tireless fighter for the rights of his people, for the rights of anyone who is suffering or struggling. That’s something we can all aspire to.”

For City Council member Lillian Brock Flemming, celebrating the career of Josh White is a personal matter. “Having known his mother and his sister in my youth, I was able to hear about him and the great things he was doing,” Flemming says. “I’ve always felt close to Josh White’s sister and mother and felt as if they were my own family. So to hear of all of Josh White’s achievements and impact on the lives of other famous entertainers and this world, I’m just overwhelmed.”

White’s activism is equally as important, Flemming adds. “A Josh White Day in the City of Greenville means that our community will finally recognize and honor a

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There was one more bit of serendipity awaiting Berger and Ramseur. After receiving a message from Josh White Jr. and the Josh White estate giving the release event their collective blessing, Josh Jr. decided to go one better; the 75-year-old singer/

guitarist, who performed with his father for two decades before launching his own musical career, would fly in to speak about his father’s legacy and perform a couple of his signature songs.

“I can’t do enough to help promote my father and his legacy,” Josh Jr. says.

“They’re doing something for my old man.

I want to be there.”

Josh Jr. says he still carries around many of the lessons his father taught him, both musically and in life. “You take an individual as an individual,” he says. “If a white man

did something wrong to you, that white man did something wrong to you. Not all white men. You don’t judge all by one.

That’s an important thing. There’s a song my father did called ‘Free and Equal Blues,’ that talks about if you pull the skin away, we’re all the same. And that’s exactly what we need to promote all the time. There’s no head higher than mine, there’s no head lower than mine.”

So why, with music that popular and a message that universal, do we come back to the question of Josh White being largely

forgotten? Josh Jr. is just as puzzled as anyone. “We’ve been dealing with that question for years and years,” he says. “We’ve never been able to answer that question, but I do know that some of the folk people back then thought Josh had sold out when he started singing to white people. But he thought that you sing to whoever comes to see you! My old man was always a singer with conviction. He would tell my sisters and I, ‘If you’re going to sing a song, you’ve got to believe it, or no one else will.’”

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As it turns out, Greenville has a surplus of affordable rental units for households with incomes ranging from $20,000 to

$49,999 but those rentals are being gobbled up by higher earners.

The shortage on the upper end pushes the problem down, said Ginny Stroud, Greenville’s community administrator, noting that the numbers don’t account for household size that can affect affordability.

“It has a domino effect,” she said.

“Just because you can afford to pay for something doesn’t mean you should.”

That makes it difficult for households making less than $25,000 to find decent housing in the city, CZB’s founder Charles Buki told the city’s affordable housing steering committee.

Housing is considered affordable if a family spends no more than 30 percent of their income to live there. Households earning up to 120 percent of the area mean income are eligible for some type of affordable housing assistance. That equals

$69,600 for a family of four in Greenville.

Help ranges from Section 8 rent vouchers for households at the lower end of incomes to down payment help and financial literacy classes for those at the upper end of those limits.

Stroud said it is important that the inventory of subsidized housing increases within the city limits but that inventory at other price points needs to increase to relieve pressures at other incomes.

“Affordable stocks for different price points is a problem that can be solved,” Buki said. “But it’s expensive.”

In Greenville, meeting the demand for affordable housing for households with less than $20,000 in yearly income has a huge price tag — $10 million a year for the next 25 years, Buki said.

“That’s just a catch-up number, not a keep-up number,” he said.

While the income of some Greenville residents will keep rising, allowing them to keep up with the price of housing, the wages of other groups will remain flat and jeopardize their ability to afford decent housing.

School Security Studied Review: metal detectors in Greenville County schools not practical CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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The installation of metal detectors in all Greenville County schools is neither warranted nor practical and would likely cause more problems than they would solve, according to a review of the district’s security and emergency response plans.

The review came after a May 13 shooting at Southside High. A 16-year-old was arrested after Greenville County Sheriff ’s Office investigators said he brought a loaded gun into the cafeteria and it unintentionally fired, hitting him in the stom-

ach. Three other students were arrested in connection with the incident.

Retired Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent Mike McComas, who has been contracted by the federal government to conduct security and antiterrorism training internationally, led the review. Representatives of the seven Greenville County law enforcement agencies participated in the review.

Zoned patrols established after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 students and six staff members dead are more appropriate than having school resource officers in each elementary school, the review found.

The review recommended substitute teachers receive additional training in emergency procedures and that 10 first responders in each school take and become certified in a national emergency management course.

The review recommended all middle school students be shown a version of an active shooter video already being shown to high school students.

In addition, the review group concurred that background checks should be conducted on chaperones immediately prior to a field trip. In May, a parent on the sex offender registry participated in a Woodland Elementary fifth-grade field trip to Charleston. While the buses were en route, the school received a phone tip about the chaperone. The parent was removed from the trip. An investigation showed that Woodland personnel failed to follow district protocols that required background checks immediately prior to field trips. The school used clearance it received in September.

Other minor changes were recommended by the group and were adopted into the school district emergency plan.

Those changes are not being made public.

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palsy, tremors, blindness, deafness and other malformations, according to the National Institute of Health.

“Fish caught in the state’s waters are safe to eat if people follow the fish consumption advisory guidelines,” said David Baize, chief of DHEC’s Bureau of Water. “The advisory helps anglers know what amounts are healthy to eat based on location and species they are catching.”

The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) issued its annual fish consumption advisory on Monday, warning residents to eat limited amounts of bass from two waterways in the Upstate.

DHEC added spotted bass and largemouth bass from Lake Keowee and spotted bass from Lake Hartwell to its advisory for rivers, lakes and coastal waters because of high mercury MORE INFO: levels that were found in the tissue Find the complete DHEC advisory at samples from those species. www.scdhec.gov/fish/#Map The advisory warns that residents should eat no more than one meal per week of spotted or largemouth bass Contamination in fish occurs because of from Lake Keowee. It also suggests that resi- fossil fuel emissions and pollution. Harmdents should eat no more than one meal per ful chemicals such as mercury are released month of spotted bass from Lake Hartwell. into the atmosphere and then dispersed into One meal is equal to half a pound of fish. waterways by rainfall. Mercury then embeds DHEC also recommends that pregnant into the tissues of fish through the plants women, women who might become preg- and animals they eat. However, contaminant, infants and children younger than 14 nation can only affect humans through the years old not eat fish from areas included consumption of fish. So residents can still in the advisory. These groups are listed be- enjoy swimming, boating and other water cause of the damaging effects that mercury recreation, according to DHEC. causes to the developing brains and nervous systems of infants and young children.

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Carolina’s Disturbing Schools Law Travelers Rest High student among five plaintiffs in federal lawsuit CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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A Travelers Rest High student is among the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union last Thursday challenging South Carolina’s disturbing schools law, saying the law allows students to be criminally charged for normal adolescent behaviors.

The role of police in schools became an issue in South Carolina in October after a Richland County deputy working as a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia was videoed forcefully pulling a female student from her desk and tossing her to the floor. Niya Kenny, one of the other plaintiffs, was arrested after recording the incident on her phone. Both the girl who was tossed out of her chair and Kenny were charged with disturbing schools.

Earlier this week, the state Board of Education said school resource officers should only get involved with student behavior when it reaches criminal levels. A proposed regulation, recommended by a task force state Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman formed after the Spring Valley High incident, says possession of a cell phone by a student in violation of school policy would not be enough to get police involved. A student would have to be engaged in criminal activity with a cell phone or electronic device to warrant intervention by police.

The lawsuit said the state’s disturbing schools and disorderly conduct laws are too broad and cannot be enforced with consistency and fairness. The disturbing schools statute also chills the ability of students to speak out against abuses and to participate in conversations about the policing of their own classrooms and campuses, the lawsuit said.

The disturbing schools statute impacts hundreds of adolescents each year and is among the leading sources of referral to the S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice.

The lawsuit said black students were nearly four times as likely to be referred for charg-

es of disturbing schools compared with their white classmates during the 2014–15 school year.

The lawsuit said incidents that lead to disturbing school and disorderly conduct charges cannot be distinguished by any objective standard from the types of behaviors schools address regularly without resorting to the criminal justice system, including cursing, refusing to follow directions and involvement in a physical altercation that did not result in significant injuries and where the student was not the initiator. Students as young as 7 years old have been arrested for disturbing schools, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit alleges the Travelers Rest student, identified only by her initials because she is 15 years old and a minor, was arrested for failing to comply with instructions to leave the school library and cursing at a student who was making fun of her.

The freshman, who is white, has behavioral and emotional disabilities, the lawsuit said.

Other students began to clap as the girl was escorted out of the library by a school resource officer.

“The bottom line is that the state has imposed an impossible standard for school children to follow and for police to enforce with any consistency or fairness,” said Shaundra Scott, executive director of the ACLU of South Carolina, in a statement.

The other plaintiffs include a 21-year-old Benedict College student, a student at Stall High in Charleston and Girls Rock Charleston, a Charleston nonprofit organization that operates an after-school program for at-risk youth and youth who have been involved in the criminal justice system. Girls Rock is a plaintiff, because the population it serves is most affected by the law, Scott said.

The heads of Greenville County law enforcement agencies were named in the suit because their officers enforce the two laws being challenged. Greenville County Sheriff Steve Loftis, Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller, Travelers Rest Police Chief Lance Crowe, Simpsonville Interim Police Chief Steve Moore, Mauldin Police Chief Bryan Turner, Greer Police Chief Dan Reynolds and Fountain Inn Police Chief Keith Morton are named as defendants, along with S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson and heads of law enforcement agencies in Columbia and Charleston.

Advanced Technology Improves Lasik Outcomes ADVERTORIAL

LASIK uses lasers to correct vision problems like nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. It is the most popular refractive surgery performed in the United States and considered the safest elective procedure in all of medicine.

Laser vision correction gives you great vision, generally restoring 20/20 vision and eliminating or reducing reliance on glasses and contacts.

Clemson Eye is a well respected leader in laser vision correction, having treated more than 15,000 Upstate patients to freedom from glasses and contacts. Not all LASIK procedures are created equal. Some outcomes are

better than others, depending on many factors, including the equipment and technique used. In 2016, Clemson Eye purchased a topography guided laser system called Contoura Topography-Guided LASIK. It is the most advanced laser vision correction in the nation.

lens wear. Results from a recent study¹ exceeded expectations.

When treated with a topography guided system, 92.7% of all patients achieved an uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA), that is vision without glasses, of 20/20 or better, and 68.8% achieved a UCVA of 20/16 three months after surgery. ²

Recently FDA approved, Contoura is a step into the future.

The system uses advanced technology to incorporate a patient’s prescription and corneal irregularities into a highly customized map of their eye. It plots approximately 22,000 points of curvature on the cornea (front part of eye) versus 168 points through traditional topographers, allowing for greater customization and accuracy in treating the prescription or refractive error. While these advancements improve surgical planning and visual outcomes for all LASIK patients, they are particularly beneficial to patients with irregular corneas caused by past surgery, eye disease or corneal scarring due to contact

Symptoms traditionally associated with LASIK, such as glare, halos, difficulty driving at night, light sensitivity and eye dryness, also improved after topography guided LASIK treatment. There has never been a better time to have laser vision correction.

1. Results from FDA T-CAT-001 clinical study for topography-guided vision correction (with the 400 Hz ALLEGRETTO WAVE® Eye-Q Excimer Laser).

2. Post hoc analysis of postoperative UCVA compared to preoperative BSCVA of 230 eyes contained in the FDA T-CAT pivotal trial at 12 months. The primary end point evaluated changes in BSCVA.

Understanding Cataract Surgery Cataracts, a clouding of the eye’s natural lens, affect about 22 million Americans over age 40. Left untreated, cataracts can lead to blindness. They are the leading cause of vision loss in the United States.

Surgery is the only known treatment for cataracts. Two things happen during the surgery: Your clouded lens is removed and an artificial intraocular lens is implanted. The lens requires no care and simply becomes a permanent part of your eye. You don’t see or feel the lens implant.

Cataract surgery is one of the safest and most commonly performed surgeries in the U.S.1 It is a 15-minute outpatient procedure. People with cataracts can opt for basic or laser cataract surgery.

Basic Surgery Basic cataract surgery involves removing the diseased lens and implanting a monofocal lens. The monofocal intraocular lens clears your vision at a single focal point.

It cannot correct astigmatism or other refractive errors, such as near- or farsightedness. This manual, bladed surgical procedure is covered by Medicare and most health insurance plans. It is a safe, excellent option. However, if you wore eye glasses before your basic cataract surgery, you will still need them after it.

Laser Surgery Laser cataract surgery involves using a laser and computerguided software system to create incisions that are up to 10 times more precise than manual incisions. Here, patients have the option of advanced lenses that can correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.

“Through laser cataract surgery with advanced lenses, we can deliver excellent visual outcomes for our cataract patients, regardless of their age,”2 says Dr. Joseph Parisi.

A portion of the cost of laser cataract surgery and advanced lens implants is covered by Medicare and most health insurance plans. However, an additional payment is required. Clemson Eye patients have the option of 24-month, 0% payment plans.

Beverly Sweitzer is a senior living in the Upstate.

When cloudy vision started to interfere with her passion, quilting, she booked an eye exam.

After discussing all the options with Dr. Parisi, Sweitzer selected laser cataract surgery with an advanced multifocal lens implant. This lens provides a full range of vision, from near to far away.

“The surgery was easy and painless,” says Sweitzer. “And I was very happy because the next morning I could thread these tiny needles I use to sew quilt patches together. I didn’t need glasses or the magnifying glass I used to have to use. I’m just delighted that I no longer have to wear glasses!”

Eye Exams Whether or not you think you may have a cataract, an annual eye exam is recommended for all seniors to help ensure your best visual health. Call Clemson Eye today to book your appointment.

1. http://www.aao.org/publications/ eyenet/200609/pearls.cfm 2. Clemson Eye Laser Cataract with Advanced Intraocular Lens Replacement Results, 2015.

Clemson Eye Cataract Patient, Beverly Sweitzer, now enjoys quilting without the need of eye glasses.

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will require disposal of the non-approved bag unless that bag fits into the clear bag.

South Carolina branded clear bags are available for purchase at retailers.

Retailers around the Clemson area have approved clear bags available for purchase.

At Clemson’s Fan Day on Aug. 21, Clemson athletic department and IPTAY will provide one complimentary Clemson-branded clear bag per season ticket account.

NFL teams implemented clear bag policies in 2013. Other colleges and universities, including Auburn, the site of Clemson’s season opener, have adopted similar policies.

In addition to football, Carolina’s policy covers baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, softball and volleyball. At Clemson, the policy is in place for soccer as well.

Clemson is also eliminating hand stamps for re-entry into the stadium.

At Clemson, fans wishing to exit the stadium and return must pick up a voucher prior to leaving. To re-enter the stadium, the fan must present the voucher and a valid game ticket. Fans can re-enter the stadium until the beginning of the fourth quarter.

Attention, Clemson and Carolina fans.

Both schools have adopted new policies that restrict the size of bags and require clear bags for anything bigger than a small hand-sized clutch. The school’s athletic departments say the policies, which are similar to those in place at many sports stadiums, will improve security and expedite fans’ entry into their stadiums.

Tiger and Gamecock fans that bring any bag larger than 4.5 inches by 6.5 inches — about the size of an adult’s hand — must now use clear bags. The clear bags can’t exceed 12-inches by 6-inches by 12-inches.

Diaper bags, backpacks, fanny packs, drawstring bags, camera cases and stadium cushions and seat backs with pockets are not allowed. Medically necessary items are allowed after passing inspection at specified gates.

Fans may still carry binoculars, cameras and smart phones into the stadium but cases are not allowed.

Fans are still allowed to tailgate in parking lots.

At Carolina, fans who show up at the gate with an unapproved bag may either return their bag to their car or will be provided a one-gallon freezer bag into which they can MORE INFO: transfer their belongings before entering the staClemson’s policy is here: bit.ly/clemson-clear-bag dium. Transferring items Carolina’s policy is here: bit.ly/usc-clear-bag to a venue-provided bag

CLARIFICATION: An article in the Aug. 5 Greenville Journal, “Remembering women in jazz,” contained some inaccurate and misleading information. Although music features strongly in the production, playwright Dawn Hilton-Williams describes “A Month of Sundays” as a play, not a musical.

Defoy Glenn, the namesake of a $500 scholarship, is Hilton-Williams’s godfather. A reference to “ups and downs” in Hilton-Williams’s personal life and career was an editorial interpretation. And a 2010 show in Spartanburg was of the same play.

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The Race Is On Three school board members face opposition in November election CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Three of the six Greenville County School Board seats up for election in November — now filled by Debi Bush, Danna Rohleder and Kenneth Baxter — will be contested.

The three other seats — Area 17 held by Joy Grayson, Area 23 held by Glenda Morrison Fair and Area 27 held by Crystal Ball O’Connor — are uncontested.

Filing for the seats closed Monday at noon.

AREA 19 Incumbent Debi Bush, who has represented Area 19 since 1996, faces three opponents — Charles E. Winfield, Myra Yeargin Gallagher and Monica Miller Wofford.

Bush currently serves as the board’s secretary, but she’s served as vice chairman and chairman in the past. She is owner and founder of Expressions Unlimited Inc., a chain of retail florist and gift stores.

Winfield, who is retired, is a former internal auditor for the school district. He has run unsuccessfully for the school board at least twice before.

Gallagher, an interior designer, graduated from Berea High as did both of her sisters and both of her children.

Wofford, a front office receptionist for a dental office and a long-time resident of Berea, is seeking public office for the first time.

AREA 21 Incumbent Danna Rohleder will face Michael C. Stewart for the Area 21 seat, which represents the eastside.

Rohleder is serving her third term on the board. She is a former Greenville County Schools English teacher.

The Greenville Journal could not reach Stewart before press time.

AREA 25 Michelle Goodwin Calwile and Justin Stoddard filed to run against incumbent Kenneth E. Baxter Sr. Baxter is a retired logistics manager with AT&T and has worked as a special education paraprofessional for eight years. He is on the executive board of the South Carolina School Boards Association. He has served as president of the School Improvement Council at Carolina High and previously served as a coach for the school’s varsity girls tennis and varsity boys golf team.

Calwile retired from Greenville County Schools in July after working for the school district for 20 years, the last 11 as a Title I school facilitator at Cherrydale Elementary.

Stoddard is a 2006 Woodmont High graduate and a call center manager.

Pokemon Predicament GCS teachers hunt for app’s academic value CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Educators across the country are trying to cash in on the Pokemon Go craze in the classroom. But if any Greenville County Schools’ teachers want to join in on the location-based augmented reality game that became an overnight global phenomenon after it was released in July, they will have to convince district administrators that Pokemon Go has academic value, said Beth Brotherton, GCS Assistant Director of Communications.

“Our administration is not aware of any educational value in the Pokemon Go app,” Brotherton said. “If an individual teacher can map out how they would use the app in the classroom, it’s something we’re willing to consider.”

The district does allow teachers to incorporate the use of personal electric devices, including cell phones and tablets, when appropriate to enhance learning, Brotherton said.

Rules vary at each individual school regarding the use of cell phones during noninstructional times such as before school, at lunch and after school.

Brotherton said it would be up to each school’s principal whether students can play the game during those times.

“Our concern is instructional time,” she said.

The International Society for Technology in Education and Discovery Education lists ways educators can use Pokemon Go in their classrooms, including as a digital storytelling tool, and to help students learn digital data crunching, mapping skills, increase their fitness levels and to learn about local history.

“If an individual teacher can map out how they would use the app in the classroom, it’s something we’re willing to consider.”

The school district does not allow the Pokemon Go app to be installed on any district-owned devices. It does not have the ability to block apps on a student’s personal device.

The Roper Mountain Science Center became a popular Pokestop this summer.

Deputy Superintendent Mason Gary sent principals instructions on how to block their schools from becoming a Pokestop. It will be up to principals to decide whether to do that or not.

The Insider Scout Guide Greenville launches volume 2 STAFF REPORT

When volume two of The Scout Guide Greenville launches this week, it will be filled with insider information on the community — and headed up by a new owner and editor, Keaton Stroud.

Stroud, who describes the publication as “an innovative guide that highlights the passion, originality and character of the region’s small businesses, local artisans and entrepreneurs, as well as the community at large,” announced on Tuesday that TSG

Greenville would be released at a launch party Thursday, Aug. 18, at Halls Chophouse on South Main Street in downtown Greenville.

Stroud and assistant editor Elizabeth Hughes will also publish The Scout Guide Greenville blog at thescoutguide.com/ greenville, and contribute Greenville-focused content to The Scout Guide national blog at thescoutguide.com.

Nationally, the Scout Guides feature “independently owned businesses and business owners that both locals and travelers should know about in more than 60 cities,” according to The Scout Guide website. The Greenville city guide will feature images of local businesses from local photographer Angela Cox.

Stroud, whose career has included stints at Elle Décor and Lucky magazines, clothing label Milly by Michelle Smith and department store Saks Fifth Avenue, moved from New York City to Greenville after her brother’s death to be closer to family. She founded DECO Creative in January 2016, and began working with previous editor Paula Rallis on TSG Greenville in June.

Stroud is “excited to highlight and expose local businesses to a national network of conscious consumers and business owners,” she says.

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Double Team Greenville Police build relationships with kids on the basketball court

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For three hours on Friday evenings at Augusta Heights Baptist Church, Greenville Police Department officers swap their uniforms for gym clothes and play basketball with local at-risk youth through Cops on the Court, a program that provides both outreach and mentorship.

By presenting kids with an opportunity to interact with officers in a fun and relaxed environment, Cops on the Court aims to build relationships based on trust and understanding. Through this program, kids have an outlet where they aren’t potentially out on the street getting into trouble, and they can also make connections with positive role models.

The program, funded by the police department, was launched in July 2015 through a combined effort between Sgt. Ed Irick and Detective Andrew Smith. Smith and Irick were working together in the same zone on the community response team; Irick is the unit’s supervisor, and at the time, Smith was the community coordinator.

It is the police department’s hope that these relationships between officers and community youth will produce long-term effects that lead to a decline in neighborhood crime, violence and gang participation.

“We believe that this program has the ability to change lives, even though it is only for several hours once per week,” says Officer Thom Sample, one of Irick’s partners on the community response team.

“It was really just to reconnect with the community, specifically reconnecting with kids,” Irick says regarding the motivation to start the program. “[It was about] breaking down the walls that have been built up.”

Augusta Heights Baptist Church donates the use of their gym space for Cops on the Court. When the church was approached to house the program, Pastor Greg Dover had just began his tenure at Augusta Heights. He welcomed the proposal.

“When I came to the church, I told them up front that we needed to be a community center where people could see us as a resource — where we’re not just a church but a part of the community,” Dover says. “I thought this was a great opportunity to start

that relationship building.”

“We’re in a good location for their purposes, because we’re on the edge of a highcrime area in the city,” he adds. “And just with everything that has been going on nationally, it seemed like a good idea to make connections and build relationships and trust between police and the community …

This is a good opportunity to create a different kind of community in Greenville.”

Program attendance fluctuates each week but typically ranges from 40 to 60 kids ages 10 to 18 — mostly teenagers — and six officers. On one particular Friday, there were about 25 kids and four officers, but despite the relatively lower turnout, the gym was still bustling, with a continuous echo of bouncing basketballs and the high-pitched sound of sneakers squeaking against the floor. One group took turns taking jump shots and layups at one of the hoops, while at another hoop two kids played a game of one-on-one.

On the other side of the gym, officers played a lively, fast-paced pick-up game with some teenagers, who were trying to one-up their competition with blocked shot attempts and acrobatic basketball moves as they drove to

the hoop. And other kids opted to sit on the bleachers and observe, chatting with their peers and the officers.

There are many kids who regularly attend each week. Two of those participants, ages 14 and 15, said they enjoy coming to Cops on the Court due to their love of basketball and the opportunities to meet new people.

Many of the kids who regularly attend Cops on the Court come from the nearby Pleasant Valley neighborhood, says Irick, especially from Shemwood Crossing, a Section 8 low-income housing assistance community.

In addition to their regular patrol duty in the area, Irick says many officers, including him, work a side job as an off-duty security officer at the Shemwood Crossing complex.

Their presence leads to a sense of familiarity for members of the community.

“Oftentimes, all we have to do is get down there and park, and we get people coming to us; we get kids running over to us,” says Irick. “Most of the kids know us, and most of the kids aren’t afraid of us. And that’s the ultimate goal, to break down those walls.”

That holds true at Cops on the Court.

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“I’ve gotten to know some of their parents, and they’ll tell me, ‘Hey, he’s not doing this. Can you talk to him about it?’ So I’ll get to sit down and talk to them about it besides just playing basketball,” says Collier.

The police department and participating officers have received “overwhelmingly positive” feedback regarding Cops on the Court, according to Sample. Many mothers have told Irick and other participating officers that they don’t want their child to miss the event.

Regarding the parental response, Collier says, “I’d say overall most police officers are positive leaders in the community, and I’d want my little boy to be around a positive leader … Parents have faith in us, because

they see us doing the right things.”

Beginning in September, Cops on the Court will expand into Nicholtown at the Phillis Wheatley Center. About two months ago, the police department received a grant through Greenville Women Giving, and that money will cover operational costs for the facility. The Nicholtown program will be held on Thursdays from 4:45 p.m.–7:45 p.m., and it will serve as an after-school program, says Irick. The start date at that location is tentatively set for Sept. 8.

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“They see us out of uniform and in gym clothes, so when they do see us in uniform, they don’t see us just as a police officer — they know who we are,” the officer adds.

“It is invaluable for police officers to have these relationships, especially in the areas that they work,” says Sample. “I enjoy the weekly interaction with the kids that make up the heart of the very neighborhood that I work in on a daily basis.”

Officer Anthony Collier, who works in the central business district downtown and at-

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Teacher of the Year Had Help From Justin Timberlake CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

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Katie Saunders grew up in a family of doctors. She intended to follow suit until she took a basic education class at Furman University as an elective that required her to volunteer in a third-grade classroom.

It was in that classroom that Saunders realized her heart wasn’t into medicine. Teaching was, and each week, she spent more time in the class than required. “I realized teaching was where my heart was,” she said. “Teaching is not just my career; it’s my passion.”

That passion for the classroom and her students earned Saunders, who teaches in a multiage classroom of first- and secondgraders at Bethel Elementary, the title of Greenville County Schools’ 2016 Teacher of the Year. It’s a passion that she shares with her students every day.

“I know the more excited I am about teaching, the more excited they’ll be about learning,” Saunders said. “I want to make learning fun and exciting.”

One way she accomplishes that is by writing songs to help her students learn math, reading, science and social studies.

She’s turned Justin Timberlake’s song

Greenville County Teacher of the Year Katie Saunders accepts her award.

Greenville County Schools Teacher of the Year awards Teacher of the Year

Second runner-up

Katie Saunders, first and second grade

Lori Nelson, counselor

Bethel Elementary

Third runner-up

First runner-up Cara McFarlane, special education

Paris Elementary Kristen Griffin, kindergarten Buena Vista Elementary

Wade Hampton High

Elementary Emerging Teacher of the Year Brooke Chibbaro, second grade Berea Elementary

“Can’t Stop the Feeling” into a promo for Bethel’s summer reading program. She’s turned Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” into “Matter Funk” and One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” into “You Make Up the Earth’s Land” to teach science. When she taught third grade, she wrote a rap song to the tune of Young MC’s “Bust a Move” called “Pass the Test” to encourage her students to do their best on the state’s standardized test.

But instead of doing it for only students in her class, Saunders involved other teachers and administrators in creating a video that aired on the school’s morning news show the week of the high-stakes test.

“Songs are memorable and they help teach difficult content,” Saunders said. “I write songs that are current, so they are relatable.”

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A one-time pro volleyballer, Shane LeCroy never intended to become a lacrosse coach Back in 2004, Coach Shane LeCroy was a happy, busy man. He was coaching volleyball and basketball at Greenville High School after retiring from the Pro-Am Beach Volleyball tour.

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pay $2,000, we can put her on a club team.’ And I didn’t feel like paying $2,000 for volleyball for my 9-year-old.”

He adds, “[My wife and I] decided that now that we have time, why don’t we do for volleyball what we did for lacrosse?’

That quickly changed. “I fell in love with it,” LeCroy says. “But there was nothing for the boys to do after a season, because it was brand new here in Greenville.”

That’s when LeCroy and his wife Stephanie got the idea for Excell Sports, a program that offered additional skill training, positive reinforcement, exposure to high-level competition camps, clinics and a tenured coaching staff.

For the past 13 years, Excell Sports has helped grow and popularize lacrosse across the Upstate. Bringing in coaches Matt Hogue, Corey Strauss and Brian Barnett, LeCroy has created an intensive training program which builds players from the ground up. “One of the kids’ dad owned a field and we met out there,” he says. “We had 25 kids the first summer, and that grew to 40 the next summer, and we moved to the YMCA and it continued to grow.”

“So I started looking around and found some really great coaches that shared my passion and my vision of where the club program should lie, and we came together and formed the Excell volleyball side,” LeCroy says.

Something must have clicked, because LeCroy and his Greenville High lacrosse teams won consecutive lacrosse championships from 2006–2010. But he still loved volleyball, too. He was voted Coach of the Year three times for his volleyball program at Greenville High, and his teams were three-time regional champions.

So naturally, there were just as many kids (and parents) interested in continuing to play volleyball for LeCroy in the offseason as there were for lacrosse. But with two small children to take care of in addition to his coaching duties, LeCroy didn’t see any time to add anything else.

Enter his 9-year-old daughter.

But it’s not as much about the tournaments for LeCroy as it is about to teach people the sports he loves. “My passion is in coaching,” he says.

“I love working with young adults and teaching them life lessons and seeing them grow and mature. God gives people gifts in their lives, and I feel like I’m really good at relating to young people. Some people are in it for money, but we’re in it to grow the game and pass it on to others and have people fall in love with it.”

“We were asked to add volleyball to Excell Sports a bunch of times,” he says, “but when my daughter came up to me two years ago and said she wanted to play volleyball, we searched all around and found a lot of people saying, ‘If you

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For more information, visit excellsports.org.

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

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Japan-America Association of SC hosts annual Bon Dance Festival

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The Japan-America Association of South Carolina will be hosting the 21st annual Bon Dance Festival on Aug. 20 in McAlister Square in Greenville. The festival will offer traditional games, food and entertainment, as well as a raffle and demonstrations on origami and shuji (calligraphy), among others. The Ronin Taiko group will also be putting on their Taiko (drum) demo. Proceeds will go to the Greenville Japanese language school. Admission and demonstrations are free. Individuals can buy tickets for food, games and prizes.

For more information, visit jaasc.org/bon-dance.

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Annual Benson OctoberFAST event to benefit Greer Community Ministries The 10th annual Benson OctoberFAST will be held on Saturday, Oct. 1, outside of Greer First Baptist Church. The event will benefit Greer Community Ministries (GCM) and will celebrate the 80th birthday of Jim Benson, owner of the Benson Automotive group. There will be a 5K race at 8:30 a.m. and a classic car show from noon–4 p.m. The New River Band of Greer will open for John Anderson, country singer/songwriter who will headline the event.

Mutts BBQ and Sno Hut will provide lunch and refreshments.

Greenville Health System will also give free flu shots and blood pressure checks from noon–2 p.m.

Manufacturers Caring for Pickens County (MCPC) recently helped in the grand opening of the new Helping Hands of Clemson facility. Helping Hands is an emergency shelter and foster home for abused and neglected children. The new facility, which houses 45 children, opened on July 29.

MCPC provided 40 sets of sheets and a check for $800. MCPC board members John Cutchin and Ed Martin presented the check to Leigh Anna Kennemore, development director for Helping Hands of Clemson.

DONATION

Mast General Store raises funds for Upstate Forever Greenville’s Mast General Store recently donated $7,815 to support Upstate Forever’s land protection efforts. Since 2003, the store has partnered with the Greenville-based conservation group for the regional chain’s annual Land Trust Day, held each year on the first Saturday in June, donating a portion of that day’s sales. Upstate Forever permanently protects more than 20,000 acres of critical lands across the Upstate through voluntary conservation agreements with landowners.

For more information on GCM, visit gcminc.org.

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Annual Upstate SEC Tailgate Party to benefit Legacy Charter School The third annual SEC Tailgate Party will take place on Thursday, Aug. 25, to celebrate the kickoff of this year’s football season. The event will be located at the Fox & Hound on Laurens Road in Greenville from 5–8 p.m. Each participating alumni association will have their own tent, with an award going to the most spirited group. There will be music by bluegrass band My Girl Whiskey & Me, and ESPN Upstate will be broadcasting live from the event. Admission is $5 and will include entry into a raffle and goody bag provided by Fox & Hound. Proceeds will go to Legacy Charter School.

For more information, contact Christopher Nordmeyer at 505-3521.

TOUR

Greenville Little Theatre raises funds to buy tour vehicle Since 2000, GLT on Tour has served over 140,000 students.

To continue sharing live theatre, GLT is taking “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” to elementary schools throughout Greenville County, the Upstate and the Southeast. But to get there, a tour vehicle is needed to keep actors safer, cut down on gas costs and help GLT be more efficient when unloading at schools and venues.

For more information, visit greenvillelittletheatre.org.

GLT hopes to purchase a Nissan Pathfinder for a tour vehicle.

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Lovers of Latin music and dance gathered at the Peace Center last Saturday evening to wrap up the three-part summer series of Salsa Under the Stars.

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Adam Siegfried joins SMC faculty Dr. Adam Siegfried was recently appointed as a professor of chemistry at Spartanburg Methodist College (SMC).

Siegfried has been employed at SMC as an interim professor of chemistry since August 2015 and previously served as an adjunct instructor at Anderson University and Tri-County Technical College. He has also trained undergraduate students in crystal growth and design as part of the Clemson University Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

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The J.L. Mann High School dance team recently hosted their annual kiddie dance camp for area youth.

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Say Goodbye to Summer and Hello to Your Fall Garden An observant gardener would have noticed in early August a surge of new growth on your plants and shrubs in and around your home garden and landscape. It is as if the plants are giving off their last “hurrah” before the cold season. This is your personal sign that it is time to plant the fall garden. The gardenias bloom again, boxwoods send up stray shoots of new growth, camellias sprout up and you see new growth in the vegetable garden. Don’t be fooled on the veggies, though; most won’t come to maturity by first frost.

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There is just something special about picking a big bowl of greens on a chilly fall morning from the garden that is intoxicating.

to the same place each year? Only your own observation will determine if plant rotation is viable. If you decide that it is, as you prepare for your fall garden, be sure to note in your garden journal where you planted what this summer, so next spring you can plant those same plants in a new location in the garden.

Time for trees, shrubs and bulbs Fall is for planting pretty much any trees or shrubs in the Upstate — and add bulbs to that list. Bulb catalogs should begin arriving in your mailbox this month. Have fun ordering some exotic varieties or planning your next wave of tulips for a riot of color in the spring. Bulbs make wonderful gifts for fall birthdays. Planting trees and shrubs in the early autumn allows their roots to get established before the cold weather and well established by next summer’s heat.

The many joys of the fall veggie garden The fall vegetable garden is my favorite garden. Yes, I love tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and peppers, but there is just something special about picking a big bowl of greens on a chilly fall morning from the garden that is intoxicating. This week I will be tearing out the remnants of my summer garden, bagging or burning the discards and preparing the soil for fall. As always, we advise a soil test to determine if you need to add amendments. I do like to turn my raised beds by hand, with my shovel and hoe, to break up the clods. Never leave clods as you turn the soil, my dad used to say, as they will harden into big clumps. I

enjoy reaching into the soil and feeling the crumbling dirt, knowing it will soon yield things as delicious as lettuce, arugula, spinach and all manner of greens, including mustards, kale, chard and beets and tiny “ball” carrots.

When picking vegetables to plant for fall, be aware of “maturity time” on the seed packet, as the plants should be mature by early October.

Your local nursery will offer six packs of collards, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts and parsley soon. Plant them as soon as they are available and harvest by late fall. Garlic can be planted now as well as onion sets. Read up on cool season crops for the garden online to understand the difference between cool season and summer season veggies.

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Cover your bases with cover crops If you choose not to plant a fall garden, some advise “cover cropping” with buckwheat, clover or other cover crops.

Cover crops add nutrients to the soil. You plant them now, they grow up in the fall and then you can turn them into the soil in the late fall to break down in the soil and be ready for your spring garden plants to enjoy.

Clemson Extension has information on cover crops at bit.ly/cover-crops-clemson.

You can add all your falling leaves to the garden beds as well for turning into the fall soil around Thanksgiving, giving the leaves time to decompose in the soil and be ready for spring planting.

The soil is a living entity that feeds us.

Cherish and nourish it and your garden will flourish. As you work in your garden daily, it becomes more vivid to you. Let these living beings become a part of you and teach you life lessons. How can a plant teach me a life lesson, you ask? The delicate chemical balance in every plant can help restore that same balance that is so necessary to all of us. As Georgia O’Keefe reminds us, see the pattern within the pattern. See you in the garden.

Kathy Slayter is a Greenville Realtor and Clemson-certified Master Gardener who is passionate about growing, cooking and eating her homegrown food. Contact her at kathyslayter@ gmail.com.

Composting, no; rotation, maybe I have said it before: Do not compost your discarded veggie plants from the summer garden. Most likely if you garden organically like I do, these plants are full of eggs of insects or bugs themselves, and you want to rid the garden of most of these pests.

By burning or bagging and discarding the plants, you can at least try to prevent some of the pests from returning.

Should you rotate your plant locations to “confuse” bugs that seem to return Mini tomato variety – still coming in

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Home Info Price: Starting in the low $400’s Sq. Ft: 2070, 2588, 2705 Sq Ft Lots: 31 wooded, waterfront homesites Schools: Keowee Elementary, Walhalla Middle, and Walhalla High Contact Info: Lake Keowee Real Estate | 864.886.0098 lakekeoweerealestate.com | lakekeoweeoffice@gmail.com

Buyers from all over the country have been asking for it, so Crescent Communities and Lake Keowee Real Estate are here to deliver! We are introducing a new cottage concept for Lake Keo wee Living called The Cottages at Riverbirch. This gated, planned community consists of 31 wooded, waterfront home sites in a low-maintenance community. Craftsman-style cottages with exposed beams and stone entry are now being offered in three attractive models, all with open floor plans and beautiful outdoor living spaces. Buyers have recently been saying that “less is

more” and so this community will offer floor plans of 2070, 2588 and 2705 finished square feet, rather than the traditional larger home sizes found in our lakefront communities.

In order to make it easy for our buyers, lot surveys are already done, dock permits have been obtained, septic permits are on file with SC DHEC, and financial institutions are prepared to start lending money for this construction project. And if you aren’t ready to build yet, you can buy the lot now and build at a later date.

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Michael Atkinson joins the North Pleasantburg office of C. Dan Joyner, Realtors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce that Michael Atkinson has joined the company’s North Pleasantburg office as a sales associate.

A graduate of Furman University, Atkison brings a wealth of sales and marketing expertise to his real estate career. His most recent position was inside sales at UPS in Greenville. Previously, he has held positions in retail sales and regional sales management covering five states for a dental manufacturer.

Atkinson “Mike brings exceptional sales and marketing experience with him as he begins his career in real estate,” said Fritzi Barbour, Broker-In-Charge of the North Pleasantburg Office. “Our entire office welcomes him and looks forward to seeing his positive results for his clients.”

A lifelong resident of Greenville, Atkinson resides in the Pebble Creek area. He is father to three sons and grandfather to three grandsons. In his spare time, he enjoys playing and teaching golf.

Trish Swift joins the Pelham Road office of C. Dan Joyner, Realtors

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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS is pleased to announce that Trish Swift has joined the company’s Pelham Road office as a sales associate.

Swift brings seven years of industry experience to her position within the company. Most recently, she built a successful real estate career with Eagle Realty in St. Paul, Minnesota. Swift has recently relocated to the Upstate and looks forward to utilizing her expertise to serve the needs of her home buying and selling clients. continued on PAGE 34

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“We continue to grow in response to the market’s needs, and we are happy to welcome Trish to the Upstate and our office,” said Duane Bargar, Broker-In-Charge of the Pelham Road Office. “Her real estate background, insights and negotiation skills will prove valuable for clients on either side of a transaction.”

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A native of Dayton, Ohio, Pryor attended Cincinnati Academy of Design where he studied advertising art. Since then, he has lived in numerous cities throughout the US and made the Pryor Upstate his home in 2006. Pryor has amassed over 25 years in the service industry which has resulted in his strong commitment to customer service. Most recently, he spent nine years as a server and bartender at Portofino’s restaurant in Greenville.

“On behalf of our entire company, I welcome Chris to our Pelham Road office,” commented Duane Bargar, Broker-InCharge of the Pelham Road Office. “His passion for stellar customer service will forge long-term relationships with his clients.”

Pryor and his wife, Angie, reside in Greer with their two children.

leadership to C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS’ management team. He will oversee the operations of the Easley/Powdersville location and help its 15 agents develop their real estate businesses while providing C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS’ high level of services to homebuyers and sellers throughout the area. Garrett also will focus on increasing the company’s footprint in the Easley/Powdersville area by growing its business and recruiting qualified real estate professionals.

“Rusty is a top-notch professional and leader who exemplifies the core values that we hold at C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS, and I’m excited to welcome him to our team,” says Danny Joyner, president and CEO. Garrett started his career in the Upstate area, and at one time served as an Associate Broker for C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS. Garrett was a partner with the Xtreme Team, which was Anderson’s number one real estate team for six consecutive years. He most recently served as Vice President of Real Estate Sales for a real estate firm in Myrtle Beach, and is pleased to be back in the Upstate.

A graduate of Clemson University, Garrett became a licensed broker in 1987 and has held many leadership roles in the real estate industry, including president of the South Carolina Association of REALTORS in 2011 and NAR Director from 2008-2012. Married to Jennifer, they have two sons, Austin and Davis.

As the market leader in the Upstate for more than 20 consecutive years, C. Dan Joyner, REALTORS continues its founder’s legacy to attract the best people who share a passion for service, integrity and the Upstate community. “We’re committed to preserving the values that are the foundation of our success, and our people are the key to making a positive throughout the Upstate,” Joyner says. “Rusty will no doubt be a leader that will uphold our principles and help continue our growth and success in the Easley/ Powdersville area.”

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Coldwell Banker Caine recently welcomed Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices C. Dan Pam Hall as a residential sales agent to its Joyner, REALTORS recently announced the Greenville office. addition of Rusty N. Garrett as the BrokerPam holds a Computer Science degree from In-Charge at the Easley/Powdersville ofUSC Upstate and joins Coldwell Banker Caine fice. As the company continues to grow, it is with real estate experience with another firm in committed to bringing in top industry prothe area. She also enjoyed a career as a business fessionals to provide leadership, coaching, owner with Bella Casa of the South, an interior management, and supervision of its 400 sales Hall Garrett design company. associates.

An Upstate native, Pam stays involved in her community With nearly 30 years of real estate experience as the broker/ owner of a top producing team in Anderson, Garrett brings great continued on PAGE 37

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

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

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HUNTINGTON $1,270,000 VICTORIA PARK $930,000 THORNBLADE $820,000 COLLINS CREEK $800,000 GLEN ABBEY $800,000 MARSHALL FOREST $785,000 CLAREMONT $780,000

$770,000 GLEN ABBEY $740,000 COBBLESTONE $695,000

$678,955 DEERFIELD $625,000 BARRINGTON PARK $600,000 BARRINGTON PARK $600,000

$545,000 FIVE FORKS PLANTATION $538,500 MAHAFFEY PLANTATION $535,000 GRIFFITH FARM $530,000 GRIFFITH FARM $530,000 EAST HIGHLANDS ESTATES $495,000

$469,400

$465,000 WOODBERRY $460,000

$456,000

$455,000 RIVERSIDE COURT INDUSTRIAL PARK $455,000 BEECHWOOD FARMS $450,000 CHEROKEE PARK $420,000 SILVER MEADOWS $411,500 RICHWOOD $406,500 SAVANNAH $392,000 KILGORE FARMS $391,644 SUGAR MILL $382,000 SILVER RIDGE FARMS $380,000 HOLLY TREE PLANTATION $380,000

$365,000

$360,000 STONEHAVEN $360,000 SILVER MEADOWS $359,900 FOREST HEIGHTS $352,500 WESTHAVEN $352,090 HOLLAND PLACE $347,000 LIBERTY PARK $339,777

$325,000 GREYSTONE COTTAGES $321,525 THORNHILL PLANTATION $321,250 RIDGEWATER $320,069 WOODRUFF CORPORATE CENTER $320,000 KILGORE FARMS $318,000 PROVIDENCE SQUARE $315,000 SHANNON TERRACE $315,000 ISBELL HEIGHTS $313,810

$309,000 ADAMS CREEK $307,126 SUMMER PLACE $306,000 BELSHIRE $301,575 GREYSTONE COTTAGES $301,059 KING’S CROSSING $299,952 TUSCANY FALLS $299,900

$298,000 TUSCANY FALLS $295,174 GREYTHORNE $295,000

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GREYTHORNE $295,000 OVERLOOK AT BELL’S CREEK $295,000 STONEWYCK $291,000 TOWNES AT THORNBLADE $287,475

$283,000 RAVINES AT SPRING MILL $282,000 GREYTHORNE $279,900 WATERS RUN $278,450 ASHETON LAKES $276,205

$275,000 MERRIFIELD PARK $275,000 ASCOT $275,000 FOREST ACRES $275,000 BELSHIRE $274,770 GREYSTONE COTTAGES $272,600 PARTRIDGE RIDGE $272,500 KELSEY GLEN $270,075 ESTATES AT GOVERNOR’S LAKE $270,000 HOLLY TRACE $270,000 BRIDGEWATER $269,999 PELHAM FALLS $268,500 SHOALLY RIDGE $264,777 FORRESTER CREEK $264,000 THE ELEMENTS $263,000 CAROLINA OAKS $260,000 WOODINGTON $260,000 WALNUT RIDGE $259,860 CAMERON CREEK $255,386 BRIDGEWATER $255,000 LAKE HARBOR $255,000 KELSEY GLEN $254,075 KELSEY GLEN $249,085 BRIDGEWATER $247,000 PEBBLECREEK $246,000 ROPER MEADOW $245,000 CAMELOT $242,000 SEVEN OAKS@BLUE RIDGE PLN $242,000 BELMONT ESTATES $240,000 BEAVER CROSSING $239,900 PROVIDENCE SQUARE $239,436 EMERALD OAKS $238,500 PENNINGTON PARK $237,843 EAST PARK $235,000 CARRIAGE WEST $234,999 HEARTHSTONE@RIVER SHOALS $230,000 NORTHCLIFF $229,800 PEBBLECREEK $229,000 PENNINGTON PARK $226,213 AUGUSTA HEIGHTS $225,500 WINDSOR CREEK $225,047 CARTERS GROVE $225,000 AUGUSTA HEIGHTS $225,000 TOWNHOMES@PENDLETON WEST $225,000 FOREST HILLS $225,000 COACH HILLS $224,900

$223,000 PENNBROOKE AT ASHBY PARK $222,000 PEBBLECREEK $215,500

$210,000 HOWARD’S PARK $209,570 GUNTER PINES $208,860 LAKE CUNNINGHAM $208,100

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Loar is a native of Lawrenceville, Georgia and attended the University of Georgia, where she earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in education. Prior to initiating her real estate career, Loar served as a middle and high school classroom teacher and high school Loar assistant principal. Her most recent assignment in education was with the Greenville County School District.

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NAR Identifies Top Markets Where Renters Can Afford to Buy The U.S. homeownership rate has slowly fallen in recent years to currently its lowest level since 1965, but new research from the National Association of Realtors® reveals that there are affordable metro areas right now with aboveaverage hiring and a large segment of current renters who earn enough income to qualify to buy a home.

NAR reviewed employment growth, household income and qualifying income levels in nearly100 of the largest metropolitan statistical areas across the country to determine which areas with employment gains above the recent national average also have the largest share of renters who can currently afford to buy a home. Of the top 10 metro areas with the highest share of renters who earn enough to buy, nine were either in the South or Midwest — including three cities in Ohio.

Len Fletcher, 2016 President of The Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS® and Broker-Associate with RE/ MAX Moves in Simpsonville, SC, says there’s been a significant increase in renter households — both young adults and those who lost their home — since the Great Recession, and especially in metro areas that have seen robust job creation and a resulting influx of new residents. This has led to a multi-year run-up in rents in several markets that have contributed to many of these renters’ inability to advance into homeownership.

“Even in a time of expanding home sales, steady job growth and historically low mortgage rates, the homeownership rate recently tumbled to its lowest level in over five decades as many renters struggle to juggle escalating rents without commensurate income gains,” he said. “However, this new study reveals that there are several affordable, middle-tier markets with solid job gains and a large segment of renters who earn enough to buy.”

The top 10 metro areas highlighted in NAR’s study were all outside of the West Coast and each had a share of renters who qualify to buy3 that was well above the national level (28 percent).

The top markets with the highest share of renters who can afford to purchase a home are: Toledo, Ohio (46 percent)

Little Rock, Arkansas (46 percent) Dayton, Ohio (44 percent) Lakeland, Florida (41 percent) St. Louis, Missouri (41 percent) Columbia, South Carolina (41 percent) Atlanta (40 percent) Columbus, Ohio (38 percent) Tampa, Florida (38 percent) Ogden, Utah (38 percent) According to Fletcher, it’s no surprise that many of the markets with the most renters qualified to buy are in the Midwest and South. The median existinghome sales price in these two regions continue to be lower than the Northeast and West4, and while many of these areas were slower to recover from the recession, improvements in their local labor markets in the past year have pushed their hiring levels to at or above the national average growth rate.

“Overall housing affordability and local job market strength play a pivotal role in a renter’s decision on whether to buy a home or sign another lease,” adds Fletcher. “The good news is that other recent NAR survey data shows that those residing in the two regions were the most likely to say that now is a good time to purchase a home.”

Concludes Fletcher, “With mortgage rates now at their all-time low, these identified markets are well-suited for the many renters financially capable and interested in taking advantage of the stability and wealth-building benefits owning a home can provide.”

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The 2016 Belk Fall For Greenville musical lineup was announced earlier this week, and there are 71 different acts scheduled to play during the three-day festival, which will take place Friday, Oct. 14, to Sunday, Oct. 16.

Here are just a few of the highlights of this year’s schedule.

SHOOTER JENNINGS W/ WAYMORE’S OUTLAWS Son of outlaw country pioneer Waylon Jennings, Shooter has been as iconoclastic as his father, putting out a total curveball disco-heavy album, “Countach (For Giorgio),” last year after years of ragged country-rock releases. It’ll be interesting to see what he chooses to play for his headlining set.

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THE MARCUS KING BAND Fresh from finishing up a new album with producer (and former Allman Brothers guitarist) Warren Haynes, guitar wunderkind Marcus King and his fiercely talented band return home to the Upstate. King is barely out of his teens but plays blues guitar like he was born with a six-string in his hands, and he’s assembled a backing band that can handle hard rock, blues and soul with equal aplomb.

GREG PAYNE & THE PIEDMONT BOYS These straight-ahead honky-tonkers are one of the most popular bands in the Palmetto State. There are some bands that like to mix in some pop-music smoothness to get on country radio, but the Piedmont Boys hearken back to the outlaw sounds of Waylon, Willie and Hank.

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Amigo is a North Carolina-based power-trio that combines rock muscle with insanely catchy songs and a happy-go-lucky stage presence. They can create a true wall of sound live, but their sense of humor and an affinity for shaggy-dog stories is the real reason to check them out.

SARAH CLANTON Another hometown favorite, Sarah Clanton rocks the cello like an electric six-string. She’s a compelling live performer whose recent self-titled EP, recorded after a stint as a session player and writer in Nashville, reveals a strong songwriting sensibility.

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The Upstate’s own Angela Easterling released a first-rate folk-rock album called “Common Law Wife” last year that took her already incisive songwriting to another level. Faced with an unexpected trip into motherhood while pursuing music full-time, Easterling came out of the experience with an album that perfectly portrays the joy, fear and ambivalence of parenting.

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The eighth annual Foodie Fest is coming up this weekend, and we already invested in elastic-band pants. This year 20 local restaurants are participating in Foodie Fest, and it’s safe to say they’ve put their best food forward.

The restaurants have created set menus and pricing for two- to four-course meals ranging from $15 to $45. The course options have been carefully curated and intentionally crafted for Foodie Fest, so you have plenty of great dishes to choose from.

To make deciding what to order easiest, we asked the managers, chefs and owners which meal they would select at their own restaurants.

1 Rick Erwin’s Eastside Chef Bryan Lindsay

First Course: Yellow tomato gazpacho:

Pickled shrimp, mint, pink peppercorn Entrée: Sautéed flounder: Summer squash,

green beans, peas, Carolina gold rice,

almond brown butter, Dessert: Lemon panna cotta: Fresh

blueberry compote, candied almonds

2 Bonefish Grill Manager Ben Nauman

Passerelle 7 Assistant Manager Rachel Maurer

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First Course: Bang-Bang Shrimp Second Course: Imperial longfin tilapia: Stuffed with shrimp, scallops, crabmeat, and cheeses topped with lemon caper sauce Third Course: Jen’s Jamaican coconut pie

3 Ruth’s Chris General Manager Megan Cromwell

Starter: Louisiana seafood gumbo: Flavored with onions, celery, garlic, bell pepper, okra, shrimp, crabmeat and andouille sausage Entrée: Salmon fillet: Broiled and served with lemon, butter and parsley Dessert: Mini bread pudding with

whisky sauce

Oakblue 4 Executive Chef Chris McGowan

First Course: House salad: Fresh greens with tomatoes, cucumbers and pickled onions.

Second Course: Korean barbecue plate with rice and house-made kimchi, served with sautéed Brussels sprouts, greens, fries or tots.

5 Larkin's on the River VP of Operations Bruce Wise

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6 Halls Chophouse Assistant General Manager Pam Salvey

Starter: Caesar salad Entrée: South Carolina certified striped bass: Three cheese polenta, broccolini, sweet chili lemon sauce Dessert: Key lime pie

First Course: Caesar salad Second Course: 8oz Filet Mignon: Tenderloin with bordelaise sauce Third Course: Chef’s nightly dessert feature Accompaniments: Oscar Style ($22 additional charge): With jumbo crab, asparagus and hollandaise

First Course: Mussels a la Brooksie:

PEI mussels, garlic, white wine, crispy

artichokes, scallion butter

Second Course: Portobello Wellington:

Tomato veloute, creamy spinach, fingerlings

Liberty Taproom 8 Operating Manager Mark Connolly

First Course: Ham and Brie dip:

Slow-roasted ham chunks, creamy Brie and

champagne dip served with toasted

crostini bread

Second Course: Cocoa and cayenne

crusted mahi-mahi: Grilled, wild-caught

mahi-mahi filet encrusted in a blend of

coffee, cayenne pepper and cocoa powder

and served with polenta cake, squash

and zucchini, drizzled with a chili citrus vinaigrette

Third Course: Coconut rum cake

9 The Peddler Steakhouse Owner Deborah Schneider

First Course: Soup or salad bar

Second Course: Grilled 12 oz (hand cut

at your table): Aged certified Angus beef ribeye

Third Course: House made key lime pie For more information check out the Upstate Foodie Fest Facebook page.

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mwillson@communityjournals.com Liquid Catering, a Greenville company that provides bartenders, mixologists and the accompanying booze for all occasions, conducted a survey of more than 5,000 Upstate event attendees, planners and vendors on their drink (or drinks) of choice.

The results?

Southern Pressed Launches To-Go App CAROLINE HAFER | STAFF

chafer@communityjournals.com Southern Pressed Juicery, Greenville’s first organic raw food restaurant and juicery, launched a mobile ordering app this week.

The app allows customers to order, prepay for their meal and set a pickup time. It also gives customers the option to request curbside pick-up, with an employee bringing your order out. Past orders will also be available, so you can order your “regular” as easily as possible.

Southern Pressed’s co-owner, Olivia Esquivel, says the idea of the app was sparked by customers wishing the restaurant had a drivethru window. She started encouraging them to call in their orders before they got there so they could just pick them up. The demand for to-go orders got so high the idea for an app was born.

The app has been in the making for three months to ensure that customers would have the easiest experience while ordering. “We took some time to experiment with the ordering process as well as the execution to make sure that guests would receive the same level of experience and service as they would if they were ordering in the store,” said Esquivel.

For Esquivel, the ultimate goal is to make eating healthy easier. “We have found that accessibility is often the biggest barrier to eating right,” said Esquivel. By cutting down order time and avoiding parking completely, customers can order fresh, organic products with a drive-thru convenience.

Orders can be placed through the app or their website.

“Wine is wine.” That’s right — a shocking 69.9 percent of event attendees didn’t mind boxed wine as long as it tasted good. When it comes to liquor, vodka has an edge over all others with a 36 percent preference rate, while there is a tie between scotch, Canadian whiskey and rum with an identical 6.92 percent preference rate.

When it comes to beer served at events, Blue Moon outperforms with 21.82 percent preference, and Yuengling is last at 18.18 percent.

Liquid Catering conducted the survey to understand what the “average wedding attendee, gala fan or corporate event patron really wants.”

“We want people to get the best customer service,” said Tammy Johnson, the company’s owner. “That means we need to know what they want when they go to an event.”

The bottom line? Serve vodka, any type of wine and Blue Moon at your next party — although maybe not at once.

For more information on the survey or company, visit liquid-catering.com.

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Tales of Tigers and Cadillacs for Clemson and USC Fans

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The Clemson Tiger and the Tiger Cub – their faces are never seen and they don’t utter so much as a syllable, yet they entertain hundreds of thousands of Clemson fans at sporting events each year. Who are these elusive heroes of Clemson athletics?

“Clemson Through the Eyes of the Tiger,” by John Seketa, offers an “inside” look at the lives in those famed striped suits. From FAQs to game day antics and pranks on the opposing team, former mascots share their memories of being the Tiger. You don’t necessarily have to bleed orange to appreciate this fascinating collection of “tales behind the tails.”

The career of USC football legend Steve Wadiak comes to life in “The Cadillac” by local author Mike Chibbaro. Readers get the inside story of the unlikely football star from Chicago’s South Side and his rise from waterboy to two years of naval service then as star running back for University of South Carolina during the late 1940s and early ’50s.

During his four seasons at USC, Wadiak rushed for 2,878 yards and was christened “Th’ Cadillac” by a local sports reporter to associate him with highest levels of performance and

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excellence – both on and off the field. College Football Hall of Fame coach Lou Holtz once said of Wadiak that “his greatest achievement would be in how he spent his life and how it would inspire other people.”

Both of these books are available at the Greenville County Library System. Library cardholders can easily reserve books through greenvillelibrary.org.

Meet the author John Seketa, former assistant athletic director at Clemson University, will be at the Hughes Main Library speaking about “Clemson Through the Eyes of the Tiger,” Saturday, Aug. 27, 2-4 p.m. The program is free. Call 864-5279293 to register.

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CULTURE Sound Bites THE BRAD JEPSON QUARTET The Wheel, 1288 Pendleton St., Greenville Thursday, Aug. 25, 10 p.m. $10

Trombone player Brad Jepson has done some great work with various ensembles all over the Upstate, including the Greenville Jazz Collective and the Craig Sorrells Project. But the upcoming show by the Brad Jepson Qurtet at The Wheel, part of the Wheel Sessions jazz concert series, is something special. “I’ve wanted to put together this kind of quartet for a long time now,” Jepson says about the band featuring featuring Jason Moore, Ryan Kiljanka and Kevin Korschgen, “and the Wheel Sessions provided the perfect opportunity. What’s unique about this band is that there’s no chordal instrument like a guitar or piano. The bass will outline the basic harmony, but the two horns have a lot of freedom to explore different harmonies.” It’s a format that takes a lot of communication between the musicians, and Jepson chose his players carefully. “They’re all great listeners,” he says. “Good listeners will improvise off of each other in a sort of musical conversation, rather than just playing a melody and having distinct solo sections. This format gives us a lot of freedom to be musical without being tied down to certain structure or harmony, and it makes the whole performance more dynamic.”

CARPOOL PARTY W/ AC NOVA-ARIE ELLE & MCWAVY Radio Room, 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville Saturday, Aug. 20, 9 p.m. $8 The Upstate duo Carpool Party has been together a little less than a year, but they’ve already made a mark on the music scene with a blissfully melodic combination of electronic dance music and pure-pop melodies. While DJ Danny Olguin provides the beats and washes of synths from behind his laptop — plus the occasional rap — his wife Mary provides the onstage focal point, belting out catchy choruses and dancing like crazy. Their debut album, Hot Tapes, is the result of six months of stage-testing their material.

“We picked these 10 songs out of maybe 20 or 30 that we think are the best ones,” David Olguin says. “We recorded them, got the vocals down and made sure everything sounds the way we thought it should when we heard it in our heads. The duo calls their music “vapordance,” which combines dance music with an internet-driven visual artform called vaporwave.

“People would take these ‘80s and ‘90s cultural tropes and add things and create this nostalgic aesthetic,” Danny says. “So we have visuals with our music that uses ‘80s CGI videos, and we chop them up into artwork that goes along with our music.”

Want to submit a show to Sound Bites? Email vharris@communityjournals.com.

KENNY GEORGE BAND Smiley’s Acoustic Cafe, 111 Augusta St., Greenville Saturday, Aug. 20, 10 p.m. Free Coming straight out of Aiken, the Kenny George Band is a roughly 50/50 mix of barroom rock and honky-tonk country.

It’s a crowd-pleasing combination, but the band felt like their debut studio release, the 2014 EP Gunshy, didn’t quite convey what they were really capable of. Their new live album, which bears the awesomely Southern title Live from Sky City, rectifies that problem. “We’d wanted to do a live record for a while,” George says. “So we decided to record it at the end of the summer after we’d been playing a lot of shows. It felt like we were really on point.” The band sounds loose and raucous on George’s gritty-butmelodic songs, but there’s definitely a little more twang to the band onstage. “I think a lot of the time it feels like the country comes through more live, because of the pedal-steel guitar,” he says. “There’s more of a barroom feel, I guess. The record stuff is much more song-based and a little more lyric driven. Live, it’s a completely different energy.”

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specialize in funky, electronica-laced dancerock; and Greenville’s Milli Fungus are a psychedelic rock outfit that likes to jam.

But there’s another genre being showcased at the Shoeless Jam that sometimes goes unrepresented at music festivals: gospel music. From noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, the Gospel True Tones, the Bibleway Gospel Choir and Kirby Cheeks and W4C will perform.

The festival will also feature more than 15 different artisan vendors and 10 different food and beverage vendors, but Hughes

After the Block Party event last May, and the weekly VILLive Series throughout the summer, Greenville’s West End is coming into its own as a great spot for live music, after years of being one of the richest parts of town for visual arts. A lot of that activity is thanks to The Village Of West Greenville’s Special Events Coordinator Katie Hughes, who’s helped put together another music-centric event in the West Village this weekend called the Shoeless Jam. The two-day event will feature 10 bands, including Stop Light Observations, Milli Fungus, The Fritz and, perhaps most notably, Greenville’s own Marcus King Band, who are fresh off finishing up their new album with producer (and former Allman Brothers Band guitarist) Warren Haynes.

The planning for the Shoeless Jam, which will kick off Friday at 6 p.m. and is free of Marcus King Band charge, began right after the Block Party event, which drew an unexpect- says the focus for the Shoeless Jam is on the ed 1,000 people. “Jon Creighton, who co- music. “West Greenville is growing rapidly,” organized the Block Party and is one of the she says, “and it’s branded as the city’s arts owners of Naked Pasta, said we should re- district. Visual art is certainly one compoally do something like this in the summer,” nent of that, but performance is something that hasn’t been represented as much. MuHughes says.

Through co-organizer Kenny Ridgell, sic is something I’m passionate about, and a CEO of Ridge Media LLC, the event con- lot of musicians in town have been coming nected with singer Will Blackburn, and out for these VILLive shows. They’re really Hughes and co. were able to recruit Charles- starting to love the area and the vibe of it, ton’s Stop Light Observations. From there, and I think it has the potential to become a the other acts started rolling in. “Typically, music hub for the city.”

Oh, and in case you’re wondering? While what happens is there will be an idea and it snowballs,” Hughes says. “And that’s what the name is certainly a reference to one of happened here. It started as just Stop Light, West Greenville’s most famous residents, and then I started thinking about other there’s another meaning behind it as well. people who I’d really love to come up. If “This is Shoeless Joe Jackson’s home, but we’re going to have a crowd coming for this also when I think about going to a music fesone band, why not have multiple bands and tival, I think about taking my shoes off and showcase all of them? I spoke with a couple dancing in the grass,” Hughes says. “So it’s of people in the Marcus King Band to see if something playful that’s also respectful of that date was available, and it happened to the history of the area.” work out that they could play the next day, so it turned into a two-day festival. That’s when we added The Fritz from Asheville and Shoeless Jam some local bands as well to make sure that When: Friday, Aug. 19, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Greenville is represented.”

Saturday, Aug. 20, noon to 3 pm.

It’s an eclectic lineup, to be sure. Stop Where: The Village Of West Greenville Light Observations has dabbled in everyTickets: Admission is free thing from acoustic stomp blues to electronic dance music; The Marcus King Band are a Information: villageofwestgreenville.com fierce blues/Southern rock hybrid; The Fritz

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Food Truck Friday

Greenville County Museum of Art Heritage Green, 420 College St. 11:30 a.m-1:30 p.m.

FREE Head over to Heritage Green for a delicious food truck lunch. Afterward, visit a few of your favorite artworks in the GCMA galleries.

271-7570 | gcma.org | media@gcma.org

The O’Jays and Chaka Khan Biltmore Estate, South Terrace One Lodge St., Asheville 7:30 p.m.

The O’Jays have been performing for over 50 years. Their single “Lovetrain” rose to #1 on both the R&B Singles and the Billboard Hot 100 charts upon release. Other chart-topping hits include “Backstabbers,” “For The Love of Money” and “Use Ta Be My Girl.” Chaka Khan is a ten-time Grammy Award winner with 10 No.1 Billboard magazine charted songs, eight RIAA certified gold singles and 11 RIAA certified gold and platinum albums.

800-411-3812 | bit.ly/biltmoreojays guestsupport@biltmore.com

Patrick Moss Blues Boulevard (Greenville) 300 River St., Ste. 203 Tickets: $5 (plus $10 food/drink minimum) Jazz trumpeter, bandleader and member of the US Army Reserve Band.

242-2583 bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com

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tine and her aging Grandmother Sandra, a pair of women destined to inherit a valuable piece of property but there is one caveat: the building must be turned into a jazz club. Join the greats like Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald as they unravel family history and mysteries galore as told through the eyes of the music.

467-3000 | peacecenter.org

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Women’s Seminar: The Jesus We’re Aching For The Cove, 1 Porters Cove Road, Asheville Friday & Saturday, Aug 19 & 20 Registration required FREE Come gain a deeper understanding and assurance of Jesus’ absolute love for you and secure hope for the unforeseeable future. Renew your mind with a more biblical, missional and sacrificial worldview. thecove.org

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A Month of Sundays: Remembering Women in Jazz The Peace Center, 300 South Main St. 7:30-10 p.m.

Sometimes, the best way to tell a story is through the power of music. Enter Nadia Valen-

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Random Acts of Science: Musical Science Children’s Museum of Upstate 300 College St. Wednesday-Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.; Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

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Bon Dance Japanese Culture Festival 2016

The Cove 1 Porters Cove Road, Asheville 5-10 p.m.

12:30-4:30 p.m.

thecove.org

There will be traditional games for the kids, toys and other goodies, a raffle, Japanese food, a dance put on by Japanese ladies in traditional costumes, Japanese archery, female spear fighting, origami (paper folding) and shuji (calligraphy) demonstrations. Plus the Ronin Taiko group putting on their Taiko (drum) demo.

Kids can practice writing Japanese with brush and ink and then bang the drums.Proceeds go to the Japanese language school here in Greenville. jaasc.org/bon-dance

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An Afternoon of Astronomy Hughes Main Library 25 Heritage Green Place 1 p.m.

FREE

Join us for interactive demonstrations that teach science skills in fun ways. The demonstrations change every other week. Try your hand at special musical instruments to learn all about pitch and sound this week in Random Acts of Science. Free with admission.

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On Golden Pond

Walhalla Civic Auditorium 101 E. North Broad St., Walhalla 7:30 p.m. | August 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 & 28 Evenings 7:30 pm, Sundays 2:30 pm Day of show tickets $16 This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. They are joined by their teenage grandson, and quickly form a bond with him over the course of the summer, bringing the couple closer together in the waning moments of their lives.

Tackling Summertime Fishing Cabela’s, 1025 Woodruff Road, H101 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

FREE

Come see the hit musical 9 to 5. Based on the 1978 movie starring Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, 9 to 5 the musical tells the story of three secretaries who devise a plan to overthrow their egotistical boss. Featuring Marcy McGuigan as Violet, Ryah Nixon as Doralee and Natalie Storrs as Judy.

828-693-0403 flatrockplaghouse.org info@flatrockplayhouse.org

Soundbox Tavern 507 W. Georgia Road, Simpsonville FREE Ethereal electro-piano-pop singer/songwriter.

228-7763

Tickets: $8

Tool Time

Album-release show for atmospheric electronic dance duo.

263-7868 radioroomgreenville.com/home

Children’s Museum of Upstate | 300 College St. 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

233-7755 | tcmupstate.org

Flat Rock Playhouse Clyde and Nina Allen Mainstage 2661 Greenville Hwy., Flat Rock

Kamber, w/ The Lengths & Quality Time

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Admission is free but tickets are required for activiities

Join us today to learn the tips and tricks of warm water fishing. If you are looking to perfect your fly fishing cast, visit our fly fishing department for an introductory class.

516-8100 | Cabelas.com

Learn about basic woodworking skills and concepts through the use of various materials such as glue, nails, screws, sandpaper, finishes, paint and hardware in the construction of wood projects. Huge thanks to the amazing volunteers from The Woodworkers Guild of Greenville for their leadership and expertise. Real Tool Time is brought to you with the generous support of Tide Water Lumber. Recommended for children 7 and older. Space is limited.

638-5277 | walhallacivic.com/events.html

McAlister Square 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive

Come for a worshipful evening of music and fellowship. Enjoy friendly conversation over a fine buffet dinner, followed by an uplifting concert program.

Lee Ott from the Roper Mountain Astronomers presents an introduction to astronomy and the night sky. Learn recommended equipment and accessories for stargazers from the beginner to the serious amateur. Followed by an outdoor demonstration of solar telescopes.

242-5000

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Kenny George Band Smiley’s Acoustic Café 111 Augusta St. FREE Band blends country, folk & Southern rock.

282-8988 smileysacousticcafe.com

Carpool Party w/ AC Nova, Arie Elle & McWavy Radio Room 2845 N. Pleasantburg Drive

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Weekend Programs: School Bus Art Children’s Museum of Upstate 300 College St. Saturdays at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Sundays at 2 p.m.

Free with admission Enjoy special lessons taught by our phenomenal programming team centered around various topics that encourage learning through play.

Work together to create a school bus with various shapes and read “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.” 233-7755 tcmupstate.org

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Foothills’ Art of the Horse Tryon International Equestrian Center • 4066 Pea Ridge Road, Mill Spring • 6:30-9:30 p.m. • $75-$600 • ourcarolinafoothills.com Art of the Horse, a community arts project brought to you by Our Carolina Foothils will hold a live auction fundraising gala. Of the 16 horses that are currently on display throughout Landrum, Tryon, Columbus and Saluda, 14 will be put on the auction block. Purchase tickets at bit.ly/ArtOfTheHorse.

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Flat Rock Playhouse 125 S Main St., Hendersonville

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

Seats from $28 A tribute to Buddy Holly and his music of the ’50s.

Experience Holly’s greatest hits like “Peggy Sue” and “Everyday.” Starring Jeremy Sevelovitz as lead guitar and singer, Christopher Fordinal as rhythm guitar and singer, Daniel Iannucci on bass and Paul Babelay on drums, The Music of Buddy Holly is sure to be a throwback enjoyed by both young and old.

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Sundays at 2: Art Adventure

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

FREE Jump in and try this hands-on printmaking activ-

ity inspired by the works of Jasper Johns. Explore a variety of shapes, colors and patterns while creating a collection of prints to take home.

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Monday Movie Matinee

Upcountry History Museum 540 Buncombe St. 2 p.m.

Free with admission Take a break from the heat at the Upcountry History Museum. Enjoy classic films and documentaries throughout the summer in our very own theater. This week, “Edison: The Father of Invention” will be featured. Drinks and snacks will be for sale at each movie.

467-3100

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Auditions - Greenville Chamber Singers John Knox Presbyterian Church 35 Shannon Drive

women’s chorus, will hold auditions for all parts.

Please fill out and submit the audition form online.

You will be contacted to set up an audition time.

244-3340 | greenvillechambersingers.org patfuller101@bellsouth.net

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Fear Nuttin Band w/ Positive Mental Attitude Independent Public Ale House 110 Poinsett Hwy. Tickets: $8 ADV/$10 DOOR Band combines reggae, rock, hip hop, dancehall and metal.

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Rick Springfield with Night Ranger and The Romantics Biltmore Estate, South Terrace 1 Lodge St., Asheville

ARTS EVENT

7:30 p.m. | $65

Furman Presents Art

by Greenville’s Jackie Shapiro Brooker

Grammy-award musician Rick Springfield has sold 25 million albums with 17 U.S. Top 40 hits, including “Jessie’s Girl,” “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” “An Affair of the Heart,” “I’ve Done Everything for You,” “Love Somebody” and “Human Touch.”

Night Ranger is celebrating 34 years with more than 17 million albums sold. The Romantics are known for having scored hits with “That’s What I Like About You” and “When I Look In Your Eyes.”

Furman University | 3300 Poinsett Hwy. Thompson Gallery of Roe Art Bldg.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Monday-Friday

5:30-7 p.m.

FREE

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Art by creative stylist and Off The Grid Greenville founder Jackie Shapiro Brooker will be

The Greenville Chamber Singers, a four-part

on display through Aug. 23. Brooker presents “Another Roadside Altar: A Retrospective of Assemblages.” Off the Grid Greenville’s mission is to connect people through a visually appealing resource for the widely diverse people of the Upstate. A reception with Brooker is set for 6-7:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 22.

294-2074 | jsrstyling.com marta.lanier@furman.edu

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Seal

Butterfly Release Planned at Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health

Peace Concert Hall | 300 S. Main St. 7:30 p.m. | $65-$95

Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health Garden 101 East Wood St., Spartanburg

With nine studio albums totaling well over 30 million in sales worldwide, a prestigious BRIT Award for “Best British Male” and a host of hits like “Kiss From a Rose,” “Crazy” and “Killer,” Seal has managed to reach music-lovers of multiple generations, giving them a glimpse into his most intimate thought processes and helping them fall in love with his unique singer/ songwriter style over and over again.

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6:30 p.m.

FREE Adults join us for the fun and calming practice of coloring while enjoying tea. Coloring sheets and colored pencils provided or bring your own.

242-5000

5:30-6:30 p.m. $30 donation, mass butterfly release attendance; $100 donation, an individual butterfly release in honor of or in memory of a loved one Join us for the 2016 Wings of Hope event, and release your own butterfly in the beautiful BeardenJosey Center for Breast Health Garden. Proceeds benefit the heart, cancer and hospice divisions of Spartanburg Regional Foundation.

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Hott Gritz

Business On Tap

Peace Center Amphitheatre 300 S. Main St. 7 p.m.

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FREE Moore, S.C., band Hott Gritz brings their urban jazz, funk, R&B, gospel and smooth jazz to the Peace Center Amphitheatre.

467-3000

A networking event for Upstate business professionals. First drink is on us! upstatebusinessjournal.com nmularski@communityjournals.com

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Gimme The Gig winner

Piedmont Natural Gas Downtown Alive | NOMA Square FREE Winning band closes out the 2016 Downtown Alive season. greenvillesc.gov/239/PNG-Downtown-Alive

18 Community Leaders Go Head-to-Head in a Pro-Am Culinary Challenge Vote for your favorite chefs at ChopCancerUpstate.com! Each vote helps participants climb the leaderboard and meet their fundraising goals, so vote often to help your favorites CHOP! cancer. Here are this year’s teams and competitors:

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Annalynn Barnett Charlie Stone Dr. Chris Siachos Dr. Suzanne Fanning Mary Freeman Polly Joyner

Honorary Chef: Nancy Welch

Weapons of Mass Reduction Dr. Alex Yang Fred Gilmer Jenny Bright Jim Kaltenbach Satreva Dogan Susan Reynolds

Friday, August 26th, 2016 6-10pm, TD Convention Center For more information on voting, visit:

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What’s the Hoopla All About?

Greenville County Library Fountain Inn | Kerry Ann Younts Culp Branch 311 N Main St., Fountain Inn 3-4:30 p.m.

FREE Learn about Hoopla Digital and how to borrow digital books, comics, video, music and audiobooks free with your library card.

834-3650 | greenvillelibrary.org fountaininn@greenvillelibrary.org

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Brad Jepson Jazz Quartet The Wheel, Wheel Session III 1288 Pendleton St. 7:30-9:30 p.m. | Bi-monthly | $10 The “Wheel Sessions” is a jazz performance series hosted at the Wheel, in the West End Arts District. Performances are held in front of an intimate listening audience. Entrance fee includes a complimentary cocktail and two sets of music. All proceeds go to the artists.

Attendees may also BYOB. RSVP required.

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The Music (and dancing!) of Dirty Dancing

$30

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

Hailing all the way from New Orleans, Louisiana, The Revivalists are a diverse septet of close-collaborating, like-minded, best friends who have been touring together since 2007. And judging by the live shows they put on, these musicians absolutely love what they do.

Discover the gravity-defying creations of South Carolina sculptor Grainger McKoy, opening July 16 in Gallery 3.

271-7570 | gcma.org

467-3000 peacecenter.org

Greenville Tech Barton Campus 506 S. Pleasantburg Drive 8:30 a.m.-11 a.m.

Seats from $30 Come have the time of your life with all the songs you know and love from the hit movie “Dirty Dancing.” Featuring electrifying singers, breathtaking dancers, and Flat Rock’s own Music on the Rock band, this production includes all the best songs from the movie in the form of a multimedia concert. This production is sure to be a highlight of the North Carolina Apple Festival, so grab your tickets today.

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

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New Exhibition: “Syd Solomon Retrospective”

FREE Suzanne Shattuck knows about refugee resettlement issues, the Islamic mandate to migrate (hijra) and their impact on America. Her work helped expose the secretive, dangerous, and unfair policies of the UN, our own government, and the Volunteer Agencies (VOLAGS) that work with them. She believes refugee resettlements pose a clear threat to the welfare of communities across the U.S. She knows more about the implications of this program than the people who run it.

283-6195 thenewgreenvilleteaparty@gmail.com

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Greenville Drive vs. Asheville Fluor Field at the West End 945 S. Main St. Friday through Sunday Come watch your Greenville Drive take on the Asheville Tourists Friday through Sunday. milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t428

CONCERT

The Piedmont Boys w/ Mac Leaphart Gottrocks 200 Eisenhower Drive Tickets: $8 ADV/$10 DOOR

Make plans to see the vibrant and beguiling Abstract Expressionist paintings in the “Syd Solomon Retrospective” on view in Gallery 5.

271-7570 | gcma.org

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Grainger McKoy Exhibition

8 p.m.

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St. FREE

ZEN, The Event Center | 924 S. Main St.

The Peace Center, TD Stage 300 South Main St.

ARTS EVENT

Flat Rock Playhouse, Playhouse Downtown 125 S Main St., Hendersonville

Exhibit Opening: Syd Solomon Retrospective

Monthly meeting of the New Greenville Tea Party

The Revivalists

NOW THRU

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St.

ARTS EVENT

COMMUNITY MEETING

CONCERT

The Upstate’s most popular pure honky-tonk country band.

235-5519 gottrocksgreenville.com Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College St.

CONCERT

FREE

Delaney’s Irish Pub 117 W Main St, Spartanburg

Make plans to see the vibrant and beguiling abstract expressionist paintings in the “Syd Solomon Retrospective” on view in Gallery 5.

271-7570 | gcma.org | media@gcma.org

FRI

26

HEALTH/FITNESS

Turtle Trail Naturalist Hike

Soulshine Duo covers 1950s to the 1990s and beyond.

583-3100 delaneyspubsc.com

FRI-SUN

26-28

TRADE SHOW

Southern Women’s Show

Paris Mountain State Park 2401 State Park Road 10 a.m. | $7

Charlotte Convention Center 501 S College St., Charlotte Friday through Sunday

On fourth Fridays in the summer, families are invited to take a hike with a ranger on the Turtle Trail, practicing the skills of a naturalist. In addition to using our senses to better understand the natural world, leaf and track ID sheets are provided in this two-hour program, After a mile hike, we will bring back some of our finds to observe under the microscope in the Park Lab.

$12 at the door

244-5565 | ctaylor@scprt.com

A festive, entertaining and inspiring show for you to enjoy with your family and friends. The show offers unique shopping, fashion shows, health screenings and cooking schools. southernwomensshow.com

SAT

27

HEALTH/FITNESS

2016 Mutt Strut

The fifth annual Mutt Strut, presented by Papa John’s, is South Carolina’s largest dog-friendly race, and with a two-mile run/walk course. The event is a fun and easy outing. Although dogs are encouraged to attend, they are not required to register. This year’s event features a vendor village called the Mutt Market, live entertainment and more. Last year, more than 1,800 people and 1,500 dogs participated and this year’s event is expected to be even larger. ghsmuttstrut.com

FUNDRAISER

2016 Upstate SC Walk for Apraxia Hatcher Gardens and Woodland Preserver 832 John B. White Sr. Blvd, Spartanburg 9:30 a.m.

Each year a growing number of families, friends and supporters of children with Apraxia come together at towns and cities throughout North America to participate in the Walk for Apraxia. While the walk is a tremendous avenue to raise awareness about Apraxia and raise critical funds for programs and research, it is also so much more. At its heart, the Walk for Apraxia is about the children. casana.apraxia-kids.org laslatter@yahoo.com

BOOK SIGNING

Book Talk & Signing with Clemson Author Kelly Durham Fiction Addiction | 1175 Woods Crossing Rd., #5 12 p.m.

FREE Clemson author Kelly Durham has captured Old Hollywood in his entertaining new novel, The Movie Star and Me (paperback, $15.99, on sale 8/9/16), and exposes readers to the history of the movie business in this historical fiction tour de force. Movie magic, labor strikes, HUAC committee hearings and the business of show business are revealed as a colorful cast of characters fight for their self-interests -- with surprising results.

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Clemson: Through the Eyes of the Tiger Hughes Main Library, Meeting Room A 25 Heritage Green Place 2 p.m.

FREE Former assistant athletic director at Clemson University and author, John Seketa, shares his book “Clemson: Through the Eyes of the Tiger” which explores the history of the Clemson Tiger mascot and the individuals who have worn the tiger suit. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

242-5000 bit.ly/Hughes_Clemson explore@greenvillelibrary.org

FAMILY

Greenville Back to Homeschool Bash Devenger Road Presbytarian Church 1200 Devenger Road, Greer 1 p.m.

FREE Join us to explore what Greenville has to offer for the homeschool community. Exhibitors will be showcasing information about accountability organizations, clubs, fine arts classes, homeschool sports teams, co-ops and more. Bring the kids along for face painting, a bouncy house and other fun outdoor activities. greenvillehomeschoobash.weebly.com

CONCERT

Jazz trio with Jean Calvert The Starving Artist Cafe 114 NW Main St., Easley 6:30-9 p.m.

FREE Jean Calvert and Company, a jazz and blues band based in Greenville, South Carolina, featuring Jean Calvert on vocals swinging and sultry. Calvert’s voice has been compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, June Christy, Carmen McCrae, Julie London, and contemporarily to Diana Krall and Jane Monheit. jeancalvert.net

TRADE SHOW

Repticon Greenville Greenville Shrine Club 119 Beverly Road Saturday and Sunday A perfect event for local reptile enthusiasts, the South Carolina Reptile and Exotic Animal Show provides an opportunity to see exotic animals up close. Join us in 2016 as Repticon Greenville returns. repticon.com/greenville.html

FAMILY

FORUM

York Summerfest

Science on Tap: Saving Tigers the T4T

Downtown York 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE Held annually on the fourth Saturday in August, Summerfest has been recognized at the South Carolina Governor’s Conference on Tourism and Travel as the Most Outstanding Festival of the Year in a community between 5,000 and 15,000, by the Southeast Tourism Society for its Top 20 Events calendar and by the Olde English District honored as its Attraction of the 1996 Year. yorksummerfest.com

CONCERT

Baasthyrian, w/ Enthean, Everthrone & Ozai Ground Zero 3052 Howard St., Spartanburg Tickets: $10 Bands blend death metal, prog, symphonic metal.

948-1661 reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2

ARTS EVENT

SUN

28

Sundays at 2: Gallery Tour – Back to School!

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

FREE Art allows us to explore history from different points of view. Join us in the exhibition, “Right Before Your Very Eyes,” to consider how art and history combine to connect us to our past.

271-7570 gcma.org media@gcma.org

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29

FAMILY

Open Art Studios: Body Art

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

Daily until Oct. 2 FREE Each week we will create a different part of the human body in Off the Wall. From skeletons and hearts to brains and noses, don’t miss learning about our bodies through art. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

Moe Joe Coffee and Music House 20 S. Main St. 6 p.m.

FREE A forum where people come to learn about and discuss recent discoveries in science and technology while having fun. An expert will give an informal talk for 20-30 minutes, followed by Q&A and discussion. Attendees can get up, eat or refresh their beverages at any time. Science on Tap is free and open to all ages.

656-1634 vcorbin@clemson.edu

FAMILY

Story Time & More: I Am Awesome The Children’s Museum of the Upstate 300 College St. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Daily until Sept. 3 FREE It is so awesome being a preschooler. This week in Story Time & More we will learn how there is no one else in the entire world just like us. What a cool thought. Free with admission. tcmupstate.org

for local schools. Sherri Dunlap directs this show. This is a large cast and the Auditorium needs men, women and children ages 10 and up. The auditions will be cold reading from the show script. No prior theater experience is necessary.

638-5277

TUE

30

FAMILY

Open Art Studios: Body Art

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

Daily until Oct. 2 FREE Each week we will create a different part of the human body in Off the Wall. From skeletons and hearts to brains and noses, don’t miss learning about our bodies through art. Free with admission.

FAMILY

Greenville Drive vs Rome Fluor Field at the West End 945 S. Main St. 7 p.m.

Come watch your Greenville Drive take on the Rome Braves.

240-4500 milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t428

CONCERT

The Wheel Sessions: Brad Jepson Jazz Quartet The Wheel, 1288 Pendleton St. 7:30 p.m. $10 The “Wheel Sessions” is a jazz performance series hosted at the Wheel, in Greenville’s West End Arts District. Performances begin at 7:30pm, and are held in front of an intimate listening audience. The entrance fee includes a complementary beverage and two sets of music. All proceeds go to the artists. Attendees may also BYOB. 312-520-2760

MON-TUE

29-30 Giant Peach”

THEATER PRODUCTION

Auditions for “James and the

Walhalla Civic Auditorium 101 E. North Broad St., Walhalla 6:30 p.m.

FREE The Walhalla Civic Auditorium holds auditions for its production James and the Giant Peach on Monday and Tuesday. The show dates are Nov. 18-21 and include daytime performances

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Bon Secours Wellness Arena Cost: $101, $57, $49.50 On sale: Aug. 19, 10 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 800-745-3000, GSP box office at Bon Secours Wellness Arena, ticketmaster.com

GOO GOO DOLLS Nov. 23 Peace Center Cost: $45-$65 On sale: Aug. 19, 10 a.m.

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Rapid Eye Reality with Brad Willis

How to Be an Ambassador, Michael Chavis-Style It was one of those days Michael Chavis could’ve been forgiven if he’d chosen to be a jerk.

It was a sticky Sunday afternoon, and when it came time to play ball, the air over Fluor Field field was 93 degrees. More than 3,000 people sat in the stands and watched Chavis go hitless during the Greenville Drive’s 6-3 loss to the Rome Braves. It had not been the man from Marietta’s best day, and no one would’ve thought less of him if he’d hit the showers as quickly as possible after the final out.

Instead, as he made his way toward the clubhouse, he spotted my kid just outside the dugout and took a minute of his otherwise forgettable night to give my son a memory that would last forever. Chavis — a 21-year-old Boston Red Sox first-round draft pick — seems like a lock to leave Greenville soon, but he made time for my baseballobsessed boy. It was simply an autograph and a few kind words, but it’s the kind of moment my son will talk about nonstop when Chavis gets called up.

A few hours later, when I thanked Chavis via Twitter for his generosity, he took a moment to confirm himself as a stand-up guy, responding, “Glad y’all could make it out to a game. Hope you both enjoyed it!”

Our family goes to a lot of ballgames — baseball, football, you name it — in a given year, and autographs are nothing new for my kids. Where Chavis distinguished himself from other players, however, was taking a second to be more than a guy with a Sharpie in his hand. In that moment, Chavis became an ambassador.

Ambassadorship isn’t something your average guy thinks about very much.

When I was Chavis’ age, I didn’t consider what it meant to be one. The only official ambassador I’ve ever known was former state Speaker of the House David Wilkins, the one-time U.S. Ambassador to Canada. (I don’t know his batting average.)

For the most part, we teach young people the virtues we learned as kids: diligence, kindness, honesty and so on. We teach them how to write, throw or sing. A rarer lesson is how to represent.

It’s not an easy thing to understand. I know this, because I spend more than my fair share of time around successful young

people, some of whom share a more selffocused philosophy. It goes a little like this: I’ve paid my own money to get where I am.

My success is a result of my hard work. Why should I take my valuable time to work for free as an ambassador?

Looked at through a ballplayer’s eyes, such an attitude could be boiled down to this: The Greenville Drive makes the money on ticket sales, merchandise and concessions.

Chavis isn’t going to make any extra Drive cash by stopping to be nice to a kid, so why should he?

It’s the same reason anybody — ballplayer, businessman or Main Street busker — should do it. Taking the time to be a good ambassador for a thing that you love helps ensure that thing you love will be around for much longer. When you take the time to represent your passion with kindness, people will feel like they are a part of it, too.

Passion breeds passion, and that creates a kind of fire that doesn’t go out. It’s not just being nice. It’s good business.

It’s a lesson I try to teach my sons as often as I can. When you leave the house, you are an ambassador for our family. When you take the field, you’re an ambassador for your team. When we go other cities, we are ambassadors for Greenville.

Nearly none of us will find the kind of success Michael Chavis has or the kind he will achieve when he’s playing in Boston.

That doesn’t mean you can’t look for opportunities to better represent your family, faith, business or city when you find people who care enough to want to be a part of them. The more we love something, the more we should seek to include people who love it like we do.

Put another way, I know there’s a pretty good chance my kid will never be a slugger like Chavis, but I’ll still take my boy to the ballpark, because I’m certain he can learn how to be an ambassador. For him — and most of us — that will be a lot more valuable than a chance to make it to the big leagues.

Brad Willis is a writer who lives in Greenville County. In addition to his other professional work, he writes at RapidEyeReality.com. You can find him on Twitter as @BradWillis.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Local Haul LLC / DBA The Anchorage 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 586 Perry Avenue, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 28, 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 EJA Enterprises, LLC dba Mansour’s Liquors intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of LIQUOR at 2111 North Pleasantburg Drive, Unit G, Greenville, SC 29609. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 28, 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 Coastal Crust Grenville 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 at 1180 Pendleton Street, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 21, 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 Dzign Associates, LLC (DBA) Tirado’s Empanadas and More 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 1316 Stallings Road, Greenville, SC 29609. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 28, 2016.

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 AT 6:00 p.m. (or at such time as other public hearings are concluded), IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, TO CONSIDER THE MILLAGE REQUEST BY THE LAKE CUNNINGHAM FIRE DISTRICT FOR THE 2017 TAX YEAR. THE LAKE CUNNINGHAM BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF S.C. CODE ANN. SECTION 6-11-275, AS AMENDED, HAS REQUESTED THAT GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL MAINTAIN THEIR PRESENT MILLAGE RATE OF THIRTY-TWO AND THREE-TENTHS (32.3) MILLS FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, WHICH IS ABOVE THE FIFTEEN (15) MILLS ESTABLISHED BY STATUTE FOR THE LAKE CUNNINGHAM FIRE DISTRICT. THE REQUEST OF THE LAKE CUNNINGHAM BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL REPRESENTS NO INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR’S AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE LEVY. BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

PUBLIC HEARING A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2016, AT 6:00 p.m. (or at such time as other public hearings are concluded) IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, GREENVILLE, SC, 29601, TO CONSIDER THE MILLAGE REQUEST BY THE DUNKLIN FIRE DISTRICT FOR THE 2017 TAX YEAR. THE DUNKLIN BOARD OF FIRE CONTROL, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF S.C. CODE ANN. SECTION 6-11-275, AS AMENDED, HAS REQUESTED GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL MAINTAIN THEIR PRESENT MILLAGE RATE OF TWENTYSEVEN AND NINE-TENTHS (27.9) MILLS FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE. THIS REQUEST INCLUDES ONE AND SEVENTENTHS (1.7) MILLS FOR A RESERVE ACCOUNT PREVIOUSLY LEVIED PURSUANT TO S.C. CODE ANN. § 6-1-320(D).

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