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Greenville Health System wants a fast track to private governance – but local lawmakers are primed to slow it down APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Several members of the Greenville legislative delegation say they are poised to take legal action to slow Greenville Health System’s (GHS) progress toward a governance change that could hand operational control to a private non-profit.

Multiple legislators expressed concern about the speed of the process and a potential new private board that would have no public oversight.

On Tuesday, the GHS board of trustees voted 12-2 to approve a resolution to create a new system that would “provide strategic management services” for the health care system: a private nonprofit orga- The vote nization temporarily referred to as GHS Upstate. The current to approve trustees, tem- the resolution porarily called GHS Governmental, would lease the health system’s facilities to GHS Upstate, which would operate them.

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Legislators, GHS tangle over governance GHS continued from COVER

GHS is now structured as a public, government not-for-profit, and GHS officials said a change is needed because the system’s governmental designation inhibits its ability to create partnerships with forprofit hospitals and private universities to provide additional care or research.

The designation also restricts investment types the system can make, creating a financial strain, said GHS VP of strategic services Malcolm Isley. The move is not to create a private, for-profit system, but a private nonprofit, he said.

LEGISLATIVE CONCERN GHS trustees are now self-appointed, but also approved by the Greenville legislative delegation.

After learning about the plan just last week, state Reps. Mike Burns, Dwight Loftis and Garry Smith along with state Sen. Tom Corbin released a statement saying the changes would violate Act 432, the legislation that created the hospital system.

Burns objects to the public assets owned by the public hospital being “turned over without [public] supervision” to a private entity, he said. The GHS Upstate board would not be approved by the delegation, but would be overseen by GHS Governmental, which would be approved by the delegation, Isley countered.

GHS Upstate could be a self-perpetuating, self-selecting board and members could come from anywhere in the country, according to GHS CEO Mike Riordan.

Drawing from expertise in other areas will benefit the system, he said. “There is also a lot of expertise in the Upstate,” he added.

At a crowded meeting on Tuesday, the GHS board of trustees voted 12-2 to move toward creating a new governance system.

“I will never support a hospital system that is governed by a selfperpetuating board that can have board members from all across this country. It’s not in the best interest of South Carolinians or the local community that this hospital serves.”

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In the existing board structure, at-large seats could be tapped from “anywhere in the whole country,” said Riordan, noting some seats are filled by people from Spartanburg and Oconee counties.

The delegation made changes to the GHS trustee approval process several years ago because the relationship had deteriorated, Burns said. GHS had said the change was necessary to increase deal-making speed, he said: “They have always gotten what they wanted from the delegation and gotten action … at lightning speed.” He is concerned about “legal gymnastics” to justify the change.

Corbin said Tuesday, “I will never support a hospital system that is governed by a self-perpetuating board that can have board members from all across this country. It’s not in the best interest of South Carolinians or the local community that this hospital serves. I think members of this hospital board should appear before us [the delegation] and do questions and answers with the public and get everybody’s input.”

12-2 VOTE GHS board members Dell Baker and Lewis Vaughn cast the no votes on the resolution. Baker cited concern about an ad hoc committee planning for the change in non-public meetings. Baker said he was willing to delay progress to get Act 432 changed. Rep. Burns said if Act 432 needs amending, he favors doing it in a public manner.

GHS board member Lisa Stevens said,

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“This is not a done deal. We are on a journey and there are exit ramps.” Isley estimates it will take several months to create a detailed structure for the recommended changes.

“There is unanimity of the trustees of why we need to do this and what needs to happen; we are now in the ‘how’ phase.”

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY Responding to concerns about public input, GHS board chair Jim Morton said GHS already receives input and the public would not see any changes in healthcare, only in administration.

If a new, nonprofit board is formed, it could have increased oversight because it would be subject to IRS scrutiny, Morton said. Isley added that the nonprofit board would also have FDA and Joint Commission oversight. The GHS Governmental board would be able to monitor the private board and litigate if needed, Morton said.

The GHS board will hold meetings with individuals, former board members and groups in the coming weeks, Morton said.

In response to a question about planning “in the dark,” Riordan said, “It’s wide-open now. Let’s have that conversation.”

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Vaughn suggested the delegation hold a public hearing and Morton said it would be up to the delegation to organize.

Riordan said he was open to hearing the SC Attorney General’s opinion on the potential GHS governance restructuring.

“We want to make sure whatever we are doing is appropriate and correct,” he said.

GHS has consulted multiple South Carolina law firms and “they agree with our position,” said Morton. “We feel our position is correct and we are confident that we have the authority to do it.”

The board is in support of moving forward, Riordan said. “There is unanimity of the trustees of why we need to do this and what needs to happen; we are now in the ‘how’ phase.”

“This is not a done deal. We are on a journey and there are exit ramps.”

GHS board member Lisa Stevens

Isley said the next few months will entail “putting some skin on” the framework. How a GHS Governmental board might oversee the GHS Upstate board – and what recourses would be available should things go wrong – will be determined in the creation of the affiliation agreement, Isley said.

Legislators would have a hand in approval of the GHS Governmental members, but not the GHS Upstate members.

“The board [governmental] appointment process will be no different than it is right now,” he said. Appointments would still comply with legislative delegation requirements, he said, and would comply with the “the spirit, the tone, the tenor and the elements of Act 432,” he said.

To slow the process and gather additional information, legislators could file a legal stay until they receive an opinion from the Attorney General, Burns said.

“We’re racing to the finish line without any public input.” Some legislators are also seeking legal counsel independently and are considering a special called meeting before their regular Oct. 12 delegation meeting, he said.

Morton said that he anticipates that “things will evolve” as the board goes through the process of creating a different system. “We can refine our plan and make it better.”

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OPINION VIEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY, HEARD HERE

GHS board has no legal authority to go private IN MY OWN WORDS

by Tommy Stringer

Anyone who has paid a visit to one of our fine hospitals in the Greenville Health System can attest that times have changed for the better. As a graduate of the labor and delivery unit at the old Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital in Greer (i.e., I was born there), I can attest that the new Greer Memorial Hospital is light-years ahead.

The same can be said for those who remember Greenville General Hospital, which gave way to Greenville Memorial. The only positive childhood memory I have of Greenville General was the grill and soda shop on the first floor. They served, in my mind’s childish memory, the best ice cream floats ever created.

Before Greenville Memorial set the new standard for hospital care, my parents decided that my much-needed tonsillectomy would be performed at St. Francis. As a seven-year-old, I was quite impressed with the nuns who came by my room to pray. I was less impressed with the post-operation ice cream reward, which acted as a poor proxy for a Greenville General float.

GHS has progressed with the times.

Even when faced with unprecedented health care confusion, the GHS Board of Trustees continues to work

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through the GHS administration to ensure that the citizens of Greenville County have access to quality health care. Of course, the last thing on any patient’s mind is the GHS board; we are concerned that the physicians and medical staff are the best that we can find. It is they we must thank for making GHS a leading regional health care provider. Like many of the people who I talk with, my family and myself have benefitted greatly from GHS’ superior medical staff.

GHS has proved more than capable to compete and prosper in our current health care environment that favors regional systems over standalone hospitals. GHS has been a success ever since the Greenville County legislative delegation created the GHS Board of Trustees back in 1947.

Having developed a tradition of proactive behavior, we should not be surprised that the GHS board has explored and will continue to explore the most efficient operating structure for the hospital system.

However, the GHS board should be reminded that they were created by Act 432 of 1947 “for the purpose of

operating and at all times maintaining adequate hospital facilities for the residents of Greenville County, including those residents in the City of Greenville.”

To be succinct, GHS is a public hospital system, which means its assets belong to the public. Greenville Health System is neither nonprofit nor for-profit. GHS has trustees, not directors.

Act 432 established the board of

act granted broad authority to the GHS board over the operational and fiscal affairs of the hospital system.

Though amended by us as necessary since 1947 to accommodate the changing needs of Greenville County, Act 432 remains in effect today.

Act 432 does not give the GHS board authority to change its purpose or transfer any board duty or asset defined in the act to another legal entity.

The operation of Greenville Health System must remain the responsibility of the Greenville Health System Board of Trustees.

GHS’ status as a public hospital has proven very successful in the past. I believe strongly that the citizens of Greenville County expect it to remain so for the future.

“To be succinct, GHS is a public hospital system, which means its assets belong to the public.”

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Thinking about the unthinkable IN MY OWN WORDS

by Ron Geyer

Encountering an “active shooter” at work or worship is about as likely as being struck by lightning, 800 church leaders and law enforcement officers learned Aug. 25 at a seminar at Greenville’s Grace Church.

But as the still-fresh attacks at Charleston demonstrated, the consequences of either are too dire to be ignored.

Churches committed to reaching their communities live in tension between communicating an open-door welcome and protecting the people inside. Special Agent Robert Chadwick from the FBI’s Columbia office observed that churches’ biggest strength, openness, is their greatest vulnerability.

Chadwick channeled Joe Friday, saying, “I want you to have the facts.”

Based on 13 years of data from 160 incidents: Only about 4 percent of active shooter attacks happen at churches.

Most attacks happen at “off-hours,” not during worship.

75 percent of attackers come through the front door (not an unlocked side door).

Two-thirds of attacks are over in five minutes or less, before law enforcement arrives.

According to Chadwick, the best defense occurs before anything happens. “Look around and determine where you’ll go if something happens. It’s what flight attendants are doing when they ask you to find the nearest exit. The airline is cultivating a ‘survival mindset’ that prepares you to think more clearly in a crisis.” Develop a plan, he said, and as uncomfortable as it may be, talk about it.

Chadwick advised church members to respond to an attack by trying to escape. “It may seem obvious, but the best way to avoid getting hurt is to not be where the shooter is.”

If that isn’t possible, then “hide out,” he said. If all else fails, the attacker must be stopped. “In hostage situations, it’s better to remain calm and do what you’re told. Most end peacefully. But an active shooter is there to kill, and you have a right to defend yourself.”

Guns in the choir loft are probably not the answer.

Law enforcement officers practice frequently and are certified regularly, but records show they miss 70 to 80 percent of the shots they take in an adversarial environment. Adrenaline reduces precision and judgment, Chadwick said.

“I think it’s reasonable to think that most civilians with a carry permit won’t do better. And the bullet that misses is going somewhere. It will probably hurt someone.”

The arrival of law enforcement represents risks of its own. In 2012, almost 1,000 armed first responders arrived at Sandy Hook Elementary School within hours of an invasion that ended with 26 people dead. Their first job is to stop the bad guy, not to help the victims. “Law enforcement officers don’t know who the bad guys are. Show your hands. Obey whatever instructions you’re given. Tell them what you know. If there’s a problem, sort it out later.”

The facts show that the number and lethality of active shooter incidents is increasing. The challenge for churches is to respond to the realities of a fallen world without becoming bunkers or armed camps. According to the FBI, the best weapons available are awareness, planning, and a commitment to act.

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Miracle Hill appoints new president ASHLEY BONCIMINO | STAFF

aboncimino@communityjournals.com Greenville-based Miracle Hill Ministries appointed Dr. Bryce Norton to replace 30-year President and CEO Reid Lehman, effective Oct. 19 this year.

A St. Petersburg, Fla., native, Norton will lead Miracle Hill’s nine facilities and its transitional housing locations in Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee and Pickens counties, as well as foster families in eight Upstate counties, family support programs and eight thrift stores.

“Through the years I have enjoyed mobilizing God’s people to serve in food pantries, homeless shelters, local public schools, summer outreach programs and efforts focused on children in need overseas,” says Norton. “Miracle Hill has robust and effective staff and volunteers and partnerships – all focused on those with the greatest needs. I’m looking forward to joining this effective team serving the SC Upstate.”

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Hill President and CEO Lehman, who will continue to help Miracle Hill on a reduced schedule and help with special projects, resource development and strengthNorton ening similar ministries in the state and the region.

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The cities of Greer and Simpsonville are partnering with the S.C. Attorney General’s Office to establish special municipal domestic violence courts.

The courts will be the first of their kind in the Upstate. Three South Carolina counties, including Greenville, and nine cities in the Midlands and Lowcountry have special domestic violence courts.

Beginning Oct. 8, the new Greer and Simpsonville courts will be in session the second Thursday of each month.

“South Carolina is second in the nation in domestic violence deaths, so we’re clearly not doing something right,” said Henry J. Mims, municipal judge for the City of Greer. “Our first charge is to make sure defendants have fair treatment.

That’s always foremost. But we have to understand that victims have rights too. … If we can draft good solutions and get away from cookie-cutter solutions, we can make a difference.”

Both cities will initially participate in a three-month trial period to determine the court’s effectiveness, staffing requirements and demands on police officers, officials said.

Megan Gresham, an assistant attorney general in the S.C. Attorney General’s office since 2012, will visit both cities monthly to prosecute cases.

Gresham travels across South Carolina training court officials, judges, lawyers, police officers and others on criminal

STATE

NUMBER OF FEMALE HOMICIDE VICTIMS

HOMICIDE RATE PER 100,000 FEMALES

1

Alaska

9

2.57

2

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50

2.06

3

Oklahoma

39

2.03

4

Louisiana

45

1.92

5

Mississippi

29

1.89

6

Nevada

25

1.83

7

Missouri

53

1.73

8

Arizona

56

1.70

9

Georgia

84

1.66

10

Tennessee

53

1.60

Source: Violence Policy Center, When Men Murder Women

“South Carolina is second in the nation in domestic violence deaths, so we’re clearly not doing something right. … If we can draft good solutions and get away from cookie-cutter solutions, we can make a difference.”

Henry J. Mims, municipal judge, City of Greer

domestic violence issues. She also prosecutes cases involving violence against women, including criminal domestic violence, criminal sexual conduct, harassment and stalking.

Kirsten Pressley, court administrator for the City of Greer, said the time is right for the specialty court.

“I’ve continuously analyzed the numbers, the percentages, the increases, and a few months ago decided that this is really the time for us to be involved in something like this,” Pressley said.

Gov. Nikki Haley, legislators and the Attorney General’s Office this year emphasized the need for domestic violence reforms. Legislators passed a bill creating a tiered system of punishments based on number of offenses and severity of the crime. They also banned toplevel offenders from owning guns for 10 years.

A statewide domestic violence task force created by an executive order in January by the governor recently published a list of 50 recommendations.

According to the report, task force sub-

groups met 35 times for a total of more than 65 hours.

Recommendations included specific ways to improve reporting processes and better ways of educating students and members of the public about domestic violence.

“We want to make sure anyone from a hairdresser to a dentist to a doctor can recognize the signs,” Haley said, according to the Associated Press.

One of the recommendations by the task force is eliminating the practice of allowing law enforcement officers to prosecute domestic violence cases in Municipal Court and Magistrate Court. According to the report, South Carolina is the only state other than New Hampshire and Virginia to allow officers to prosecute cases greater than traffic offenses against seasoned defense attorneys.

Other recommendations outlined training for law enforcement and 911 operators. A survey issued by the task force found that dispatchers at most 911 call centers do not receive annual domestic violence training.

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‘Zero harm’ Craig McCoy returns to Upstate as Bon Secours St. Francis CEO APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com After working as an administrator in multiple hospitals, Upstate native Craig McCoy, 43, recently returned to Greenville as the new CEO of Bon Secours St. Francis Health System. He sat down with the Journal to talk about his path from teen lifeguard to chief executive.

HOW DID YOU BECOME INTERESTED IN HEALTH CARE? I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but became interested in emergency medical services [EMS] when I was a lifeguard and met Pat Browning [then Greenville County EMS director]. I went on a ridealong and got hooked. I trained as an EMT at Greenville Tech and was hired by Greenville County in 1994.

WHAT LED YOU TO HEALTH ADMINISTRATION? I originally wanted to pursue EMS administration, but later realized I wanted to focus on administration, just not EMS. I pursued a master’s degree in health administration at night through MUSC and Clemson at the University Center, finishing in 2001. I then joined Health Management Associated as an assistant administrator in Mooresville, N.C., at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center.

WHERE DID YOU GO FROM MOORESVILLE? I worked at Sandhills Medical Center, Carolina Pines Hospital and Oconee Medical Center as vice president of professional services. We ended up moving to Phoenix, Ariz., after a recruiter asked for my resume. I worked as chief operating officer at Paradise Valley Hospital and later as CEO. I then had the opportunity to work at Emory Johns Creek [in Georgia] and at Emory St. Joseph’s, the oldest hospital in Atlanta. St. Joseph’s was struggling and we helped to turn it around and create positive cash flow.

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On patients rating hospital experience:

“We [hospitals] are rated like a hotel, but the difference is that people don’t want to stay with us and don’t want to pay for the experience.”

HOW DID YOU RETURN TO THE UPSTATE? I was having breakfast with a friend and learned that [then-St. Francis CEO] Mark Nantz had been promoted. There were not a lot of positions where I could come back to the area and it would be a lateral move. Within a week, I had received three phone calls about the job.

We also have to consider the community health piece and our mission as Catholics providing high-quality health care to those who are on the margins.

It’s a constant evaluation of how are we working within the four walls of this facility to provide excellence in what we do in terms of quality of care, our financial performance and patient experience so we can take the earnings and the things we learn here and take them outside these for walls to impact the community.

SINCE YOU STARTED IN JUNE, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES WHO IS A MENTOR? THAT YOU’VE RECOGNIZED? Pat Browning, who showed Improving quality while reducing the cost structure is always a challenge. We want to get to a place of zero harm, not just because it helps reduce cost, but also because it’s the right thing to do. We are working to refine processes and also to decrease unnecessary utilization of services. Another challenge is health care regulation; the rules of the game continue to change.

me the societal impact of EMS and provided exposure to a different side of the socioeconomics of the community. Also, the first CEO who hired me, Paul Smith, was a great leader and friend. Melody Trimble at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center and John Fox at Emory were also mentors.

I watched the leadership styles of each to incorporate into my approach.

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In 2013, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged BMW and one of its logistics labor suppliers violated part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by applying criminal background check guidelines that disproportionately screened out African-Americans from jobs.

The lawsuit alleges that in 2008, BMW switched contractors handling the company’s Spartanburg facility logistics and required the new contractor to use criminal background guidelines that screened out approximately 100 incumbent logistics workers at the facility, including those who had worked there for several years. The EEOC alleged that 80 percent of the incumbent workers disqualified as a result of BMW’s guidelines were black.

BMW denied any wrongdoing related to the lawsuit and has revised its policy concerning the use of criminal background checks, according to an emailed statement from BMW Manufacturing representative Sky Foster. BMW’s Spartanburg facility is under U.S. Foreign Trade Zone jurisdiction under the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security, and “therefore has a business necessity to require criminal background checks” for direct and indirect employees with access to the site, according to Foster.

The company has been ordered not to decline to hire or disqualify applicants in logistics positions “because of criminal arrests or charges of any type if such arrests or charges did not result in a conviction,” according to the consent orders.

The company can postpone offers of employment with pending charges, pending final resolution of the charge, however.

In addition to paying $1.6 million in monetary relief to the 56 claimants, BMW will offer employment to the discharged workers in the suit and up to 90 AfricanAmerican applicants who BMW’s contractor refused to hire based on BMW’s previous conviction records guidelines.

BMW has also been ordered to provide training on using criminal history screenings in compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and will be required to record, monitor and report certain hiring procedures for a period of time for the terms of the consent decree.

“EEOC has been clear that while a company may choose to use criminal history as a screening device in employment, Title VII requires that when a criminal background screen results in the disproportionate exclusion of African-Americans from job opportunities, the employer must evaluate whether the policy is jobrelated and consistent with a business necessity,” said P. David Lopez, EEOC’s General Counsel in a statement.

The lawsuit was filed by the EEOC’s Charlotte District Office, which handles cases in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

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THE NEWS IN BRIEF GREER POLICE GET NEW BODY CAMERAS The Greer Police Department recently purchased four Wolfcom Vision Police Body Cameras.

“We’re a progressive department when it comes to technology,” said Lt. Cris Varner. He said the previous cameras purchased by the department are out of date technologically and the software was not secure.

He said the department will begin phasing out the old cameras and replacing them with the new ones.

An important aspect of the new cameras is the one-touch record button, Varner said. “A lot of times when you’re dealing with a situation, you don’t have time to sit there and press multiple buttons or switches to activate your body camera,” he said. The new cameras can also take snapshots, so officers don’t have to carry a separate device to take pictures.

The department has 29 police officers in uniform patrol.

“Our guys are starting to depend on them,” Varner said.

“Just like when they started using car cameras, no one wanted to use them at first, but now they’re used all the time.”

FISHER MIDDLE SCHOOL A FINALIST FOR NATIONAL AWARD The Council of Education Facility Planners International (CEFPI) has chosen Dr. Phinnize J. Fisher Middle School as one of four finalists for its national James D. MacConnell award, CEFPI’s highest recognition of excellence in school facility planning and design across the United States.

This is the first time CEFPI has named a K-12 facility from the Southeast region as a finalist. Named for one of the 20th century’s most renowned school facility planners, the MacConnell Award focuses on the planning process, including both the educational specifications and programs requirements, as well as the architectural design.

Dr. Phinnize J. Fisher Middle School is the Greenville school district’s first STEAM middle school. Located on 27 acres adjacent to Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), the three-story, 179,000-square-foot building serves 1,000 Greenville County middle school students through small learning communities, a research-based curriculum and team teaching in flexible and adaptable spaces.

McMillan Pazdan Smith architects and Fielding Nair International, a global educational planning expert and co-architect, were responsible for the design. The school opened its doors to students in August 2014.

GREENVILLE WINS GRANT FOR NEW PLAYGROUND The CarMax Foundation and national nonprofit KaBOOM! awarded the City of Greenville and the Community Foundation of Greenville a grant for a new playground at the David Hellams Community Center in the Greenline-Spartanburg neighborhood.

The grant includes the support of an experienced project manager, who will provide guidance and work with the city, the Community Foundation and residents from surrounding neighborhoods to design, plan and build the playground.

In addition to the technical support, the grant also provides funding for the playground equipment, as well as site enhancements to transform the area around the playground into an inviting space for the whole community, city officials said.

The planning process will kick off with Design Day on Sept.

10 and include a youth session, where neighborhood children will describe their dream playground, at 4 p.m.; a site walk at 5 p.m. and a community session for adults at 6 p.m., officials said.

Once the design is finalized, the project manager will order the equipment and work with the city on site preparation. The process is scheduled to conclude with Build Day on Nov. 4.

CITY TO BEGIN RESURFACING EAST PARK AVENUE ON MONDAY Crews will begin resurfacing East Park Avenue, weather permitting, from North Main Street to Atlas Street on Sept. 14.

This is the final phase of the East Park Wastewater Improvement Project and includes milling, resurfacing and restriping East Park Avenue, city officials said.

Primary construction hours will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The contractor may do some staging before 9 a.m., and cleanup work may occur after 6 p.m. Some milling and resurfacing could require nighttime work to minimize the impact on traffic.

Sidewalks will be accessible at all times, and while the roadway will remain open, motorists in the vicinity of East Park Avenue should expect delays. The city says work should be completed by Sept. 21.

DOWNTOWN AIRPORT TO HOUSE MILITARY MUSEUM The Military History Center of the Carolinas (MHCC) will establish a permanent home at the Greenville Downtown Airport in a building near the Runway Café at 14 Airport Road Ext. With members from South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina, the group has operated a mobile museum that visited nearly 70 locations last year and works to honor veterans, educate students and the public about the Revolutionary War, American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam using historical items.

“Our desire is to set up a special place where people can touch items, not just view them in a glass case. We will still go out into the community and do events, like we always have, but this will give us a home base,” said Bruce Roensch, MHCC’s treasurer.

The organization is taking donations to renovate the restrooms and bring the building up to code. For more information, visit milhcc.org or call 346-5026.

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‘I live with joy’ Mary Mujahid marks 10 years in Greenville after Hurricane Katrina APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Every morning Mary Mujahid sits on her front porch with her morning coffee and sings her own song of thanks to God. This week, the New Orleans native celebrates 10 years since she arrived in Greenville after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

Before the hurricane hit, Mujahid, 72, had already suffered the loss of two of her three children and her husband. When the forecast for bad weather came, she left her Garden District apartment to check on her brother in the Ninth Ward, she said.

They hooked up a generator and spent all day Sunday in a vacant duplex on higher ground. When they woke the next day, the water was rising into the duplex, forcing them up into the attic.

“My first thought was, ‘It’s over, no one can survive this,’” she said. Rats and snakes were swimming by as the pair cowered in the attic. “I was trapped in that attic for nine days. It was dark like you’ve never seen.”

She could hear people calling for help throughout the nights, she said. When the voices stopped, “you knew they had perished.”

On Sept. 6, the Coast Guard freed them from the house, but they both had to walk through chest-deep water to make it to an

Army transport.

“I prayed with every step to not fall … the water was slippery and nasty … I saw bodies floating in the water,” she said. “I planned to walk, find a tree and lay down under that tree and die. To be that hungry, you just want to die. I was skin wrapped around bones.”

Because she waded through the filthy water, a healing surgical site on her arm became infected. A kind Army soldier made a sling for her, which she still has today. After a stopover in the convention center, Mujahid learned the group was going on a plane.

“For some reason I thought I was going overseas,” she said. Instead, she found out they were headed to Greenville. Mujahid was one of 249 housed at what was then the Palmetto Expo Center. A huge crowd greeted them at the airport, she said.

A NEW HOME Mujahid recuperated and spent nearly three months in the shelter. She later spent three months in a hotel. While in the shelter, she met Father Patrick Tuttle of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, who she called often to come and simply sit with her. “Somehow I managed to hold onto his card [from the shelter] and when I called, he would leave his office and come right away.”

Mujahid later lived in the St. Anthony friary, which was updated for her. It was a temporary situation and a friend later showed her a brand-new home and asked if she liked it.

Mary Mujahid, standing in front of her Greenville home, shows off a makeshift sling given to her by an Army soldier for her arm in 2005. Because she waded through Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters, her arm became infected. Later as a teacher at St. Anthony’s (right), Mujahid decorated the scarf to commemorate her survival and happiness.

“I had never lived in a brand-new house,” she said. “If I wanted it, they said, ‘the house is yours.’ I fell down on my knees in thanks.”

A teacher for 35 years in New Orleans, Mujahid was soon teaching students in preschool through sixth grade at St. Anthony’s school. During an art study at the school, she brought her Army-green makeshift sling and decorated it with paint. Part of it reads, “What a night!”

After five years of teaching, she opted to stay home to raise her great-granddaughter, who is now 6 years old. The corner of her front room looks like a tiny classroom for the first-grader, whose schoolwork is posted on the wall for all to see.

“GOD HAS PLACED ME HERE” Mujahid’s son still lives in New Orleans,

and she returned from a visit less than a month ago. The city is so changed and she no longer has friends there, she said.

“I stay there just a few days and I’m ready to come back to Greenville,” she said. “I lived a good life in New Orleans, but there was always something to worry about. In Greenville, Ms. Mary is worry-free.”

Mary Mujahid recalls as she walked through Katrina’s floodwaters to higher ground, “I felt a happy, thankful spirit inside me.” Over her decade in Greenville the spirit has stayed, she said. “I’m thankful for every moment. God has placed me here and I live with joy.”

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Inspired community Farm Fresh Fair coming to Upstate on Sept. 19-20 SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com It’s not every day shoppers can view and purchase wares from local and regional artisans, sample local foods from 15 vendors and hang out with goats, donkeys, pigs and chickens on an 80-acre working farm. But that’s exactly what attendees to the fourth annual Farm Fresh Fair will be doing on Sept. 19 and 20.

The Farm Fresh Fair will feature more than 100 artisans and vendors selling

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vintage, handcrafted, repurposed and salvaged goods. Fresh, local food and craft beer will be served from food trucks and food stalls within the farm’s fruit orchard, and live music will entertain shoppers and visitors, said Amberly Steele, event manager at The Farm at Rabon Creek.

New this year will be a free yoga class, craft beer and local wines available for purchase, an expanded kids area, new artisans and new musical bands. An extra day has also been added to the event due to the record-breaking turnout of 2,500 attendees last year, said Steele.

A “hands-on project” – an 8-by-24foot, hand-painted wooden quilt – created last year by fair attendees will be on

WHERE: The Farm at Rabon Creek, 125 Phillips Lane, Fountain Inn WHEN: Sept. 19, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sept.20, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

COST: Tickets are $5 for adults, $1 for kids. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

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display in the main vendor area.

Lisa and Mike Stamm, owners of The Farm at Rabon Creek, spent three years rebuilding barns and “taming the land” when they purchased the farm. The couple said they always had a vision for the massive steel free stall barn, greater in length than a football field, which had

been used by the former owners for their dairy business.

Lisa envisioned stalls within the barn hosted by artisans who didn’t have an outlet to showcase and sell their creations. Now, it’s the perfect venue for the “Inspired Community” that is now Farm Fresh Fair, said Steele.

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Etched in stone Prehistoric rock art exhibit to open Sept. 19 SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com On an overcast, rainy day in 2003, Michael Bramlett, a volunteer with the South Carolina Petroglyph Survey, was at the Hagood Mill site in Pickens when he noticed faint carvings etched into a large rock on the property that he had not seen before.

Thinking they might be on to something, Bramlett and others called in expert Tommy Charles from The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, recounts Helen Hockwalt, tourism and marketing director for Pickens County.

Charles, along with volunteers, conducted a dig at the site over the next year, uncovering 32 distinct petroglyphs, 18 of them representing people. The petroglyphs are considered to be prehistoric, pre-dating the Cherokee Indians.

The petroglyphs were preserved and covered while Pickens County conducted a capital campaign to raise money to create a building and exhibits around the petroglyphs. On Saturday, Sept. 19, The Hagood Creek Petroglyph site will open to the public.

“We’re really thrilled,” Hockwalt said.

“The fact that it’s on public land is exceptional for all of our visitors. Most petroglyphs in South Carolina are located on private land or accessibility is limited.”

The new petroglyph center is handicapped accessible and climate controlled, and includes an orientation lobby where visitors will find information from Charles’s book, “Discovering South Caro-

“The fact that it’s on public land is exceptional for all of our visitors. Most petroglyphs in South Carolina are located on private land or accessibility is limited.”

Helen Hockwalt

lina’s Rock Art,” displayed on the walls, said Hockwalt. Display cases with “portable petroglyphs” from the area will be on hand, and visitors can watch a video with the story of the discovery and dig.

A darkened main viewing room will provide audio narration and a light show from Charles telling about specific petroglyphs.

The petroglyph site will open during the annual Fiddling Championship. This will be a soft opening with plans being made for an official dedication to recognize donors, have speakers and unveil plaques to be held at a later date, Hockwalt said.

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Benton Blount performs one last time on ‘AGT’ authentic performance more than a performance with flashing lights,” he said.

While Blount couldn’t reGreenville singer-songwritveal the song he’ll sing on er Benton Blount spent the Tuesday, he said it won’t be a week in New York City preparsong that people who know ing for his performance for the him might expect, but he will live finale Tuesday of “Ameristill sing it in his style. ca’s Got Talent.”

Blount said the best part of the “I think I’m a little bit of evshow has been the community ery emotion because it’s at the support, and he’s glad he could end of show,” Blount said durbring attention to “so many PHOTO FROM FACEBOOK beautiful things” in the Upstate. ing a phone interview while taking a short break from preparations.

The finale will air Tuesday at 8 p.m. on After his performance last week, Blount NBC. The live results show will air the foldidn’t make the initial cut, but the audience lowing evening. voted to save him during the elimination show. While Blount said “living in the TV- Wanna watch? show world” has been a “literal emotional WHO: Benton Blount, Greenville singer-songwriter roller coaster,” he feels like the finale will be a little easier than the other performances.

WHAT: Performs on finale of “At this point it just feels like a perforAmerica’s Got Talent mance where I want to go out and make the WHEN: Tuesday at 8 p.m. people who support me proud,” he said.

HOW TO WATCH: NBC For the finale, he wants the performance HOW TO VOTE: For voting methods, go to be “just me telling stories with my guito nbc.com/americas-got-talent/vote tar.” His final performance will be “a raw, BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

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WHAT’S HAPPENING at SPECIAL EVENTS 8th Annual Rotary World Peace Symposium Friday, September 18 • 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m., FREE The day’s events will focus on human rights, economic development and peace through cultural understanding. For more information, visit news.uscupstate.edu/?p=14936.

Author Eric Litwin Performs “The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Your Polka Dot Pants” Friday, September 25, 6 – 8 p.m. • USC Upstate Greenville Campus 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive, FREE Get ready to sing, dance, and fall in love with reading as children’s author Eric Litwin performs! You must purchase a book to receive an autograph. For more information, visit news.uscupstate.edu/?p=14882.

LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, CLASSES Black Lives Matter Speaker Series Thursday, September 24, 6 p.m. • Sansbury Campus Life Center Ballroom FREE Dr. Tricia Rose will discuss “Making Black Lives Matter,” as the first speaker in Black Lives Matter Speaker Series, hosted by the USC Upstate Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Visit www.uscupstate.edu/blacklivesmatter for more details.

Pioneers in Innovation: Three Legends of the Internet Monday, September 14, 5 p.m. • Chapman Cultural Center Cost: $15 Three legendary innovators -- Esther Dyson, Dennis Hayes and David Pensak – talk about how innovation has evolved and shaped our lives over the years. Register at www.uscupstate.edu/upstateinnovates.

EXHIBITS Chesnee High School Art Students Through September 25 Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. • FOCUS Gallery, Performing Arts Center A reception for the artists will be held 4:30 p.m., September 15 The FOCUS Gallery events are free and open to the public. For gallery information, contact Dr. Mary Lou Hightower at (864) 503-5817 or mhightower@uscupstate.edu.

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THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SUMMONS NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ANDERSON C.A. No: 2014-CP-04-02852 Michelle Kaarlie, Plaintiff vs.

Christie Omdahl and Done with Dirt, LLC, Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at this office at Post Office Box 35, Anderson, South Carolina, 29622, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff(s) in this action will apply to the Court for the said relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO INFANT(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE (AN IMPRISONED PERSON): You are further summoned and notified to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem to represent you in this action within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you.

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

TO INFANT(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE (INCOMPETENT OR INSANE) AND TO, (GENERAL OR TESTAMENTARY GUARDIAN) (COMMITTEE) WITH WHOM (S) HE/(THEY) RESIDE(S): You are further summoned and notified to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem to represent said infant(s) under fourteen years of age (said incompetent or insane person) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you.

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

J. David Standeffer, SC Bar # 5302 STANDEFFER LAW, LLC 2124 North Highway 81 (29621) P O Box 35 Anderson, SC 29622 (864) 964-0333 Anderson, South Carolina (864) 964-0930 (fax) Dated: 12-15-14 Attorney for the Plaintiff

PUBLIC HEARING THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE GREENVILLE COUNTY PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE, HEARING OFFICER ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 AT 10:00AM, IN ROOM 5150 OF SUITE 5100, 301 UNIVERSITY RIDGE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE CASES PERTAINING TO THE HABITABILITY OF STRUCTURE(S) ON THE PROPERTY. CASE NO: 14-2976 PROPERTY OWNER: DAWSON MONROE R, RABB JACQUELINE WILLIAMS & ETAL, C/O CHRIS ANN WILLIAMS ROBINSON PROPERTY LOCATION: 200 KONDROS CIRCLE TAX MAP NUMBER: 0253.0001-001.17 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 25 CASE NO: 15-1501 PROPERTY OWNER: WALKER CAROLYN L, WALKER WAYNE EDGAR (SURV) ET PROPERTY LOCATION: 114 PERRY ROAD TAX MAP NUMBER: 0170.0004-007.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 19 CASE NO: 13-2409 PROPERTY OWNER: PENNINGTON RUTH B & WEATHERS MARY COOPER ETAL, JOYCE P NASH, LAURA P MEDLIN, JAMES A PENNINGTON JR., JERRY PENNINGTON, ROBERT EARLE BRIDWELL, TINA LYNN WADDELL SOUTHER, SHAWN MICHAEL BURNS, JOHNNY LEE BRYANT, JUDITH PONDER, LAVINIA YEARGIN BRYANT, CLAVIN SHERBERT, WAYNE SHERBERT, BENNIE SHERBERT, THOMAS SHERBERT, AND AGNES PENNINGTON PROPERTY LOCATION: 6 F STREET TAX MAP NUMBER: 0530.0201-008.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 21 CASE NO: 13-4413 PROPERTY OWNER: BARRY K MCCLAMROCK PROPERTY LOCATION: 201 E SCENIC DRIVE TAX MAP NUMBER: 0492.0001-022.00 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 17 CASE NO: 14-98 PROPERTY OWNER: BARRY K MCCLAMROCK PROPERTY LOCATION: 205 E SCENIC DRIVE, A.K.A LITTLE TEXAS TAX MAP NUMBER: 0492.0001-022.03 COUNCIL DISTRICT: 17

A complaint has been brought before the Code Enforcement Division of a dangerous, insanitary and unsafe structure located at the following locations: 200 Kondros Circle, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0253.00-01-001.17, Greenville County, SC. 114 Perry Road, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0170.00-04-007.00, Greenville County, SC. 6 F Street , Greenville County Tax Map Number 0530.02008.00, Greenville County, SC. 201 E Scenic Drive, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0492.00-01-022.00, Greenville County, SC. 205 E Scenic Drive A.K.A. Little Texas, Greenville County Tax Map Number 0492.00-01022.03, Greenville County, SC. Any persons having interest in these properties, or knowledge of the property owner should contact the Codes Enforcement Office at 864-467-7090 on or before September 24, 2015.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE CIVIL CASE NUMBER: 2015CV2310701052 CIVIL CASE NUMBER IN THE MAGISTRATE’S COURT Washington Holdings, LLC/ Laura Wells 26 Draper St. Greenville, SC 29611 PLAINTIFF(S) vs.

Unregistered in SC 1991 Horton Mobile Home VIN: H931846 DEFENDANT(S) The above captioned matter came before the Court by the filing of a Motion for Publication on September 4, 2015. This court makes the following findings of fact in this matter.

The plaintiff, Washington Holdings, LLC/Laura Wells, has provided sufficient evidence by way of sworn affidavit that he/ she has diligently attempted to serve a Defendant. Pursuant to Rule of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure and SC Code 29-15-10, Plaintiff is entitled to an Order of Publication to achieve service of process on UNREGISTERED IN SC 1991 Horton Mobile Home, VIN: H931846. Publication must be made in one newspaper of general circulation, to appear once a week for not less than three weeks. Now, therefore, IT IS ORDERED, that the Plaintiff is granted the right to serve the Defendant, and all others by publication. IT IS SO ORDERED. Greenville, South Carolina Judge Jonathan D. Anders September 4, 2015 SUMMONS NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF SPARTANBURG CASE NO.: 2015-CP-42-1301 BESSIE SMITH, Plaintiff, v.

JESSY LYNN APPEL AND SAMMY L SMITH, Defendant.

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office at 112 Wakefield Street, P.O. Box 10496, Greenville, South Carolina 29601 within thirty days (30) after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to appear and defend by filing an answer to the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Respectfully submitted, FLETCHER N. SMITH, JR., Attorney at Law 112 Wakefield Street (29601) Post Office Box 10496, F.S., Greenville, SC 29603 NOTICE Powdersville Holdings, LLC, PO Box 6562, Greenville, SC 29606, Contact number 864-295-2011 is seeking Title to a mobile home through a Judicial Sale in the Magistrates Office of Laurens County, SC. This mobile home is a 1993 Fleetwood mobile home, Model GALF with serial number GAFLP75A17981WE and is located at 6025 Neely Ferry Road, Laurens, SC 29360.

The owner of record at the SC DMV Office is Ricky Dale Pace, 6025 Neely Ferry Rd., Laurens, SC 29360.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE FAMILY COURT C.A. No.:2015-DR-23-3295 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS TO JUDD STEWART You have been notified pursuant to SC Code Ann Sec.15-9-710, that custody proceedings have been initiated under the abovereferenced case number by Aleyda Stewart.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED AS FOLLOWS: 1. That within thirty (30) days of receiving notice you shall respond in writing by filing with the Clerk of Court at 180 Magnolia Street, Spartanburg South Carolina 29306, notice and reasons to contest, intervene or otherwise respond; 2. That the Court must be informed of your current address and any change of address during the custody proceedings.

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

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

PUBLIC SALE NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on 9/19/2015, at 9:00 a.m. at Woodruff Road Storage, 1868 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC, the undersigned, Woodruff Road Storage will sell at Public Sale by competitive bidding, the personal property heretofore stored with the undersigned by: 1. Unit: B012, Evangeline Butler Furniture, Clothing, Boxes, Misc.

2. Unit: C008, Colette Huff Appliances, Furniture, Electronics, Misc.

3. Unit: C154, Christopher Ramsey; Furniture, Misc.

4. Unit: C132, Shirley Maddox Furniture, clothing, shoes, dryer, misc.

NOTICE Powdersville Holdings, LLC, PO Box 6562, Greenville, SC 29606, Contact number 864295-2011 is seeking Title to a mobile home through a Judicial Sale in the Magistrates Office of Laurens County, SC. This mobile home is a 1969 Estate mobile home, Model MBH with serial number 24722854 and is located at 6025 Neely Ferry Road, Laurens, SC 29360. The owner of record at the SC DMV Office is James M. Henderson, 810 Jenkins Bridge Rd., Simpsonville, SC 29680-7012.

SOLICITATION NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following: IFB# 22-09/24/15 Curbing and Catch Basin Lid Replacement, September 24, 2015, 3:30 P.M. RFP# 23-11/10/15 GPATS 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan, November 10, 2015, 3:00 P.M. RFP# 21-09/24/15 Replacement of Dozer for Greenville County Landfill, September 24, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty.org/ Purchasing_Dept/ or by calling (864) 467-7200.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Hollow Dive Bar Inc., intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE AND LIQUOR, at 3500 B Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors, SC 29687. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than September 20, 2015. 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 Pivot Pizza Company, 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 AND WINE, at 99 Cleveland Street, Greenville, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than September 20, 2015. 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 Circle K Stores, Inc. intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of BEER AND WINE, at the following locations.

485 HAYWOOD RD GREENVILLE 29607 429 WADE HAMPTON BLVD GREENVILLE 29609 3713 EAST NORTH ST GREENVILLE 29615 1001 WOODRUFF RD GREENVILLE 29607 7901 WHITE HORSE RD GREENVILLE 29617 820 CHURCH ST GREENVILLE 29601 906 HAYWOOD RD GREENVILLE 29615 5010 PELHAM RD GREENVILLE 29615 1814 WOODRUFF RD GREENVILLE 29607 1609 WEST BLUE RIDGE GREENVILLE 29611 To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than September 20, 2015. 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

JL Mann High School students begin spirit week on Sept. 11, with a finale at the varsity football game against Greenville High on Sept. 18. This weeklong event is packed with fundraisers, car washes, yard sales, restaurant proceeds and other activities that benefit the Center for Developmental Services (CDS). The community is invited to participate. For more information, visit jlmannspiritweek.com or cdservices.org/events.

Denny’s is helping to raise money and awareness for No Kid Hungry. This year the restaurant is striving to make an even greater impact on the cause, to which they have donated $2.3 million to date.

Now through Oct. 12, nearly 1,600 Denny’s restaurants nationwide will join the campaign. For just a $3 donation, guests will receive $9 worth of coupons for diner favorites, redeemable at participating locations. Guests may also contribute at dennysnokidhungry.com.

United Ministries’ signature fundraising walk, formerly Walk for the Homeless, is now the Transformation Walk.

Held this year on Oct. 2, the walk, which follows the route that many people take while seeking assistance, will begin with a new Transformation Celebration. For more information or to register, visit transformationwalk2015.kintera.org.

During the recent two-day Radiothon for the Children’s Hospital at Greenville Health System, Entercom Greenville raised $295,552. The eight-year total for the event is nearly $2.4 million. Children’s Hospital serves all of upstate South Carolina, western North Carolina and eastern Georgia, treating children with broken bones, cystic fibrosis, autism, brain injuries, pediatric cancer and other conditions.

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OUR COMMUNITY COMMUNITY NEWS, EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS

A Celebration of Giving U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy speaks with a worker from “The Crew,” Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs’ contract services microbusiness.

U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy recently visited the Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs Board’s (GCDSNB) Patrick Center to learn more about services and talk with the individuals with intellectual disabilities or other special needs employed by the organization. Gowdy toured facilities where consumers are employed, including Standard Auto Parts Inc. and Boss Bolt and Tool. He finished his tour at the newest work project for the organization, the Generous Garden.

The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour will host the College Prep Series at Furman on Oct. 10-11. The tour offers junior boys and girls age 11-18 opportunities to earn national exposure while playing at premier venues.

Any level of player may participate, from high 70s to 100. Carolina juniors will have the opportunity to compete on the national stage against players from all over the country. Players may register as a member or non-member for the event. HJGT members can play the event for $189 while non-members play at $234. To learn more, visit hjgt.org.

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On the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Bob Jones University will commemorate the 2,977 lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, with a static display of 2,977 American flags. In addition, a piece of steel girder from the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City will also be on campus. The flag display will remain until Sept. 14. On Sept.

10 and Sept. 11 from noon to 5 p.m., the public is welcome to view the piece of steel girder from the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the lobby of Rodeheaver Auditorium.

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ACTIVITIES, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS The Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics (GSSM) is hosting an information session for prospective students and their families on Sept. 15. The session will be at 6 p.m. at the Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak Law Firm, 300 N. Main St., Greenville.

Attendees will hear from GSSM recruiters, alumni, faculty, staff and current students.

Register online to attend at scgssm.thankyou4caring.org/smart-talk-registration.

Converse College President Betsy Fleming announced she will retire after the 2015-2016 academic year. Fleming is Converse’s ninth president and is going on 11 years serving in that position. “This decision comes only after much reflection and with the full knowledge that with your engagement and support Converse has accomplished more than I ever imagined possible back in 2005, and certainly more than most colleges would ever dare to dream,” Fleming said to the Converse community when she announced her retirement. During her time as president, Converse has seen a 20 percent increase in net as- Fleming sets and 30 percent growth in the traditional undergraduate student population. Ben Wall, chair of the Converse board of trustees, said identification of a search firm for a new president, search committee members and a timeline will be finalized in the coming weeks.

The St. Mary’s Student Council was inducted at weekly Mass. Front row: Jennifer Windsor (teacher sponsor), Grace Bucci (third-grade rep), Patrick O’Connell (sixthgrade rep), Christian Carmack (fourth-grade rep). Middle row: Melissa Riegel (teacher sponsor), Thomas Armaly (fifth-grade rep), Preston Norwood (treasurer), Brooke Bittner (publicity), Anna Ruggieri (publicity), Sr. Mary Sheila Maksim (principal).

Back row: Trinity Franklin (secretary), Lauren Champagne (vice president), Christopher Nelli (president), Joseph Poole (eighth-grade rep), Michael Melton (seventhgrade rep).

Westcliffe Elementary recently received a grant from Ronald McDonald House Charities. A Friendship Adventure will promote character education through quality children’s literature. The guidance counselor will visit classrooms and introduce the character trait focus of the month and then share a book that represents that trait. She will then present the class with a copy of the book. At the end of each

month the teacher will choose one student who best represents that character trait to be recognized.

Dr. Nick Gothard will serve as an assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Science at Bob Jones University this fall. Gothard previously served as a visiting research scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory and a National Research Gothard Council Research Associate, both at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. He has also served as a graduate teaching assistant at Clemson University and an undergraduate teaching assistant at BJU.

St. Mary’s School’s eighth-grader Adam Rogers was awarded the Knights of Columbus 2015 Youth of the Year for his outstanding volunteer work, Boy Scout activities, altar boy service and academic success.

BMW has extended its long history of investing in the students of Clemson University with two $50,000 gifts to the Call Me MISTER and the German language programs, respectively. The Call Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) program aims to increase the pool of diverse teachers, particularly among South Carolina’s lowest-performing elementary schools. Student participants are largely selected from among underserved, socioeconomically disadvantaged and educationally at-risk communities. Clemson offers two degrees with concentration in German, with an average enrollment of 170-180 students, approximately 50 percent of who are majoring in engineering or business. The faculty consists of BMW Senior Lecturer of German Lee Ferrell and three others.

The Riley Institute at Furman University and South Carolina Future Minds have named the Teacher Cadet Program a finalist for the 2015 Dick & Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award for Excellence. The Teacher Cadet Program, operated by the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention & Advancement (CERRA), is a secondary recruitment program that aims to attract the “best and brightest” students in South Carolina to the teaching profession.

Marcia Mann taught a 40-hour Orton-Gillingham course for The Chandler School faculty prior to the start of school. Mann is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators, a speech pathologist, and a former student and colleague of Margaret Rawson. She was a board member of the New York and South Carolina branches of the International Dyslexia Association.

The focus of the course, “Orton-Gillingham in the 21st Century,” was to develop an understanding of the links between language and literacy and to implement strategies based on current scientific knowledge for teaching language structures to all students, most especially for those with dyslexia.

Washington Center student Kayla Radi shows off her third-grade spirit in Jean Ashmore’s room.

In Ashmore’s class, students decorate their grade number and pose for first day of school photos. The numbers will be saved until spring when students will pose with them once more for the last week of school.

Furman University has been selected to receive a lectureship in the chemical sciences by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The university is one of five primarily undergraduate institutions to receive the award. The 2015 Jean Dreyfus Boissevain Lectureship in the amount of $18,500 is a grant which funds the hosting of a leading researcher to give public and technical lectures in the chemical sciences, and

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Junior Achievement of Upstate South Carolina and Greenville County Schools will announce the official launch of their joint “JA It’s My Future” Life and Career Skills program aimed at middle school students. Originally announced in late spring and funded by Junior Achievement through grants, corporate sponsorships and private donations, the program will be incorporated into the curriculum this year at Berea Middle, Mauldin Middle, Tanglewood Middle, Greenville Early College, Northwest Middle and Lakeview Middle beginning Sept. 18, with the goal of expanding into the district’s remaining 15 middle schools and serving 5,000 students annually in the next three years.

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LOOK Heroes welcome Several hundred fans, friends and family crowded GSP Airport on Aug. 27 to welcome the Northwood Little League players home from their historic appearance in the Little League World Series.

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Christ Church Episcopal School freshmen Anne Stuart Cox, Brooke Hammond, Ric Filpot, Will Sanchelli, Mary Kate Burgamy, Paula Neugebauer, Will James, Jakob Fritsch, Amelie Groetzbach pose at the Cincinnati Reds game, during their “Mystery Trip.” The Freshman Mystery Trip is a tradition that marks the start of the Upper School experience, taking freshmen to a destination not revealed to the parents or students, allowing the class to bond as a group. This year’s destination was Cincinnati.

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Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit assists freshmen as they move into their residence halls on Friday, Aug. 28.

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The South Carolina Gamecocks and the North Carolina Tar Heels played at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte in the season-opening football game. South Carolina won 17-13.

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Students at Palmetto Elementary School complete a summer reading log through the Barnes & Noble Summer Reading program. Those who completed the program and turned in their logs were able to choose a free book from Barnes & Noble on Woodruff Road in Greenville.

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211 Benjamine Perry Court, Holland Trace Charming home on a cul-de-sac overlooking a sprawling common park area. Hardi board and stone exterior is complemented by cedar window shutters. The foyer gives rise to the wrought iron staircase overlooking the two story Great Room complete with a stained bead board ceiling treatment, a gas log fireplace with stacked stone from floor to ceiling and access to the home’s screen porch.

The dining room with its wainscoating flows seamlessly into the kitchen featuring granite countertops, antique glazed custom cabinetry with pull-out shelving, double wall ovens, smooth cooktop and a large pantry. The breakfast area is quite roomy and offers gorgeous views of the rear grounds with lush landscaping, a screened porch with a TV connection and grilling patio. The owner’s retreat on the main level is gracious in size with a double tray ceiling and comes with a well-appointed walk-in closet with solid shelving as well as a granite countertops, dual sink vanity, sep tub and shower all custom tiled.

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Marketed by Coldwell Banker Caine, No. 220 offers an incomparable, exclusive residential setting. Situated along

the Reedy River above Artists Row, with panoramic views of downtown Greenville, Falls Park and the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, each doubleterraced flat features soaring floor-to-ceiling windows giving front-row access to the beauty of the falls, the river, and the city.

Featuring an architectural style of clean lines and a transitional aesthetic, perfect for customization, No. 220 will offer a block of four East units, closer to iconic Main Street, and a block of four

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• WHAT: Coldwell Banker Caine to host No. 220 Flats at RiverPlace Launch Party • WHEN: Thursday, September 10 from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

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Boxwood Blight (also known as Box Blight) is a devastating fungus disease that affects boxwoods (Buxus spp.), although some species and cultivars are more susceptible than others.

English boxwood (Buxus sempervirens ‘Suffruticosa’) and American or common boxwood (B. sempervirens) are highly susceptible to boxwood blight pathogen. There are no known resistant cultivars; however, tests at North Carolina State University have found B. sinica var. insularis ‘Nana’ and B. microphylla var. japonica ‘Green Beauty’ to be tolerant.

The boxwood blight causal organism, the fungus Cylindrocladium pseudonaviculatum, only attacks the above-ground portions of boxwoods and not the roots. Infected leaves develop light or dark brown spots or lesions. These spots can coalesce and entire leaves turn brown or straw-col-

ored. Eventually the “blighted” leaves drop. Infections on the stems result in dark brown to black lesions or cankers. When these cankers coalesce, the stems become girdled and die. The pathogen survives in diseased tissues— including leaves that have fallen to the ground and cankers on stems that remain attached to the plant. The fungus spreads by splashing water caused by irrigation or rainfall. Pruning also can contribute to movement of the pathogen. Long distance dispersal is facilitated by the transport of infected nursery stock and plant debris. Wind apparently does not aid in dispersal of the spores over long distances.

Boxwood blight can be confused with other boxwood diseases and disorders, such as Volutella blight, Macrophoma leaf spot, boxwood decline, and winter injury or sunscald. If you observe symptoms on your boxwoods, it is important to have the disease accurately identified by a specialist.

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In the Greenville-Midtown Office, Jill Gabler Kountz was Top Listing Agent and John Farr was Top Producer.

The Top Listing and Producing Team for the Greenville-Midtown office is The Robby Brady Team.

In the Easley Office, Kathy Gallamore was Top Listing Agent and Shirley Winchester was Top Producer.

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Maxwell Farm, Simpsonville, SC Simpsonville’s newest community with 52 lots for custom homes. Section One is almost sold out and lots in Section Two can now be reserved through an approved builder. Section Two consists of lots 9 through 19, some of the most desirable homesites in the neighborhood. Don’t want to go through the building process? There are spec homes currently for sale.

Home prices starting in the $500’s. We invite you to contact an approved builder for more information or visit our website at www.maxwellfarmsc.com.

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Make your garden pop Flowering bulbs add brillance year round

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SOIL THERAPY

Greek mythology and with Will Morin lore gave us the names of some of the most popular springtime flowers: Narcissus, Hyacinth and the Crocus. It is our love of these beautiful flowers that brings them back year after year.

Much has been said about toiling in your garden’s soil and planting the proverbial seeds for a renewed garden bounty next season. However, here’s a quick method to achieve a huge impact of color with little effort and have it pop up starting as early as January or February.

Flowering bulbs provide you with enjoyment and brilliant rays of color – strokes of yellows, reds, blues and purple with all the shades in between – throughout the spring and summer months.

Bulbs are machines made up of a stem and fleshy leaves. They serve as energy storage vessels, absorbing nutrients from the soil and energy from the sun to set flowers for the next season. This is also true of bulbs of the edible variety: garlic, shallot and onion.

Certain natural conditions are required for the bulbs to trigger their annual growing cycle, such as the transition from the cold winter to the warmer spring. Different varieties bloom at different times. Depending on the coldness and length of our Greenville winter, the arrival dates of bulbs may vary

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from year to year, with some expressing an eagerness to “stretch their legs” early in January.

For our zone 7, early spring has the blooming of the snow crocus and the Tahiti daffodil followed into mid spring with tulips, the giant crocus, trumpet daffodils and the ever-fragrant hyacinth. A late spring brings the popular large and small-cupped daffodil with gorgeous double blooms with contrasting colors. The next round of tulips will spring up to-

gether with the purple grape (muscari) hyacinths.

The transition into early summer pops into form with much larger bulbs showcasing their taller and varied traits. Lillies, dutch iris, alliums, butterfly tulips and gladiolus show off vibrant blues, reds and purples. The summer continues with the likes of gladiolus and lilies.

Dahlias surprise us with colors that begin with hues of lilac to mauve to lavender-blue to white continuing until the first fall frost. Dahlias will grow dinner-plate-sized blooms that will be the pride of your garden. Use them as the backdrop as a distinctive border or perhaps even a hedgerow. Like most flowers from bulbs, enjoy them in the home, too. Each long lasting, massive dahlia flower is a bouquet all by itself, and the more you cut, the better the flowers bloom.

Last but not least, in late summer you will also be rewarded with the fast spreading and sometimes 10-foot-tall canna lily and the shorter begonia. Begonias have as many varieties of textures and color as stars in the night sky.

Bulbs are an easy solution for any home gardener. When you begin to plant, be sure to feed them naturally with bone meal (phosphorous) and avoid high nitrogen fertilizer on spring flowering bulbs (a simple 10-10-10 mix is ideal after initial planting). After the main color and blossoms fade in the spring, deadhead the flowers but remember not to remove the green foliage until it turns yellow and dies back naturally. The bulbs need the greenery to store energy for next year.

After several years, daffodils and some other species form clumps of multiple bulbs. After the foliage dies, dig up the bulbs, separate them and replant them immediately with wider spacing. You can also store them in shallow boxes in a cool-dry area for replanting in the fall. Mulching is also important, but more on that to come.

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In Greater Greenville, home sales were blistering hot in July. From 912 homes sold in July 2014 to 1,168 sold in July 2015, housing sales were a whopping 28 percent higher than they were a year ago. The number of days it took to sell July’s homes was 66, over 15 percent faster than the year before.

The median home price of homes sold in July was $177,500, a little over three percent higher year-over-year. As, of August 10, supplies of homes for sale were nearly 12 percent lower than the same period a year ago. Meanwhile, the median price of homes rose nearly 11 percent to $220,000 over last year.

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The ‘Horror’ of it all Cult classic ‘Rocky Horror Show’ returns to Warehouse Theatre CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com “The Rocky Horror Show” may have celebrated its 40th anniversary back in 2013, but it’s as relevant today as it was when Richard O’Brien wrote the campy, gender-bending tribute to science fiction and horror B movies.

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story of a newly engaged couple, Brad and Janet, who get caught in a storm and seek shelter at a mysterious old castle that turns out to be the home of a mad, transvestite scientist – named Dr. Frank N. Furter – who is hard at work on his new creation, a muscle man called Rocky Horror.

Sexual identity has vaulted to the spotlight with former U.S. Olympian Bruce Jenner identifying as transgender and changing his name to Caitlyn, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that samesex marriage bans are unconstitutional.

“It all goes back to the question of how we can live in society and be who we truly are,” said Brian Clowdus, who plays Frank N. Furter in the Warehouse’s production.

The show is making its third appearance on The Warehouse’s Main Stage. In homage to the famous 1975 film adaptation that became a cult classic as a midnight movie, the Warehouse will have several midnight shows, including on Halloween night.

Movie audiences began to participate with the film in theaters. They’ll get to do the same at Warehouse.

“This show is different every night,” Clowdus said. “The lead of the show is really the audience.”

Miranda Barnett, who plays Magenta, said the cast of “Rocky Horror Show” has permission to really respond to the audience. That forces the actors to be on their toes and very present, she said.

“Some of the best moments are unplanned,” Clowdus agreed.

As with the movie, the play invites callbacks from the audience – but unlike with the film, the actors are going to talk back. While the cast can’t rehearse with the audience, they know what the callbacks are and can anticipate some of the interaction, Barnett said.

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“Rocky Horror Show” will run for six weeks, the longest run in Warehouse history.

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A journalist, Wingate came up with the idea for “The Sea Keeper’s Daughter” after a reader of CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF one of her previous clandrum@communityjournals.com books told her she Whether they were her grandmothhad traveled through er’s stories that she scribbled down in a the mountains many lost and then rediscovered notebook, or times as a child and the narratives written by Federal Writonce noticed doors ers in the 1930s about real people’s real in the mountainside. When the reader struggles to survive the Great Depres- asked about the doors, her father told sion, author Lisa Wingate didn’t want her that during the Depression, famithe stories to be forgotten. lies who lost their farms or had no place Wingate combined her grandmother’s to live would often move into a nearby real stories with a fictional family in her cave. They salvaged doors, windows and first women’s fiction novel, furniture from their re“Tending Roses.” possessed homes before She wove together the leaving and used them life history interviews to outfit their new cave written by impoverished houses. writers, academics, houseWingate said she wives and reporters as a couldn’t resist researchpart of the Federal Writing the tale. Although ers’ Project into her latest she failed to find much novel, “The Sea Keeper’s information about AmerDaughters.” icans living in caves back Wingate, a national then, she did come across best-selling author, will the stories written by the make several appearances Federal Writers about the common man.

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Monroe discovers the letTalk on Federal Writers Project ters of a great aunt who was WHAT: A precursor to Greenville Heritage Textile disowned by her wealthy Festival. Presentation and book signing family after signing on WHEN: Sept. 21, 7 p.m. with the Works Progress Administration as a Federal WHERE: Hughes Main Library, 25 Heritage Green Writer.

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When your last name is Marsalis, people are going to expect you to go into the family business: music, specifically jazz.

Percussionist Jason Marsalis (son of pianist Ellis, younger brother of saxophonist Branford and trumpeter Wynton) has done the First Family of Jazz proud, leading his own band beginning with 1998’s “The Year of the Drummer” album and serving as a sideman with Roland Guerin, John Ellis and Marcus Roberts.

Skilled on an array of instruments, Marsalis has recently concentrated primarily on playing vibraphone, and his most recent release, last year’s “21st Century Trad Band,” showcases his efforts to bring that instrument, and to a larger extent jazz itself, into the modern age.

Marsalis will be both performer and instructor at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville on Sept. 15, conducting a master class for the FAC’s music students during the day and performing with jazz musicians from the Upstate and Asheville in a show for the general public later that evening. The show is being presented by the Greenville Jazz Collective, both a band and a nonprofit organization dedicated to jazz education.

Your family, particularly Ellis and Wynton, have been heavily involved in musical education.

Can you talk about how important places like the Fine Arts Center are for young people?

In this day and age, music isn’t as much a part of the community as it once was, so at this point anywhere that a young musician can learn is of help. In the older days, there were a lot of places that a musician could learn. There were big bands or R&B groups, there was just more music in the community. In America, things are so much about automation now. People can do things in their houses; people don’t go out as much. And music has followed suit. A lot of popular music now is singers that aren’t that great, controlled by AutoTune with producers behind computers.

What will you be talking about with the students?

I’ll be addressing the fundamentals, and the importance of understanding the lan-

guage of music and not just playing it like a style. So I’ll be talking about how music evolved over the 20th century, and how to bring that music into the 21st century.

You’ll also be playing with musicians you haven’t worked with before; what’s exciting about that for you?

What’s exciting is the new situation; something you’ve never done before.

You have to make adjustments based on how they play. It’s exciting because it’s a new experience, and it’s something that I’m looking forward to.

Your new album, “Heirs of the Crescent City,” is being partially paid for by crowdfunding. Do you plan on discussing the business side of being a musician in this new era with your students?

It’s something that I’m interested in discussing, yes, and even though it isn’t part of the set format for the class, per se, it’s something that comes up. And it’s something that’s very important because there are so many things that have drastically changed in the business. First and foremost is the music, but the business side of it IS an important aspect.

“Heirs of the Crescent City” actually began as a soundtrack for a documentary about New Orleans’ jazz tradition (“Heirs”).

What made you decide to make it your new album?

I think what changed it was the performances. When I wrote the music, it was really writing tunes that would fit the film. But after we recorded the music and we edited it together, I realized how well it came together, and how the music actually said a lot more than I expected it to say. So that made me start thinking about what I needed to do to finish this record and complete the picture.

For more information on Jason Marsalis’ performance at the Fine Arts Center, visit greenvillejazzcollective.com or call the FAC at 864-355-2550.

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Universal theme, personal experiences After a writing career hiatus, Drewry pens personal poems CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com The title of Elizabeth Drewry’s soonto-be released chapbook is based on a song by 1930s blues singer Etta James.

Like all good blues singers, James sang about passion, music, love, despair – universal themes, Drewry says, “but I write about them out of my particular experi-

ences.”

D r e w r y, who holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in English, had been an associate editor for a small press poetry magazine in Memphis before taking a 25-year hiatus from writing for a career on the business side of newspapers.

Artists Naomi Nakazato, Anthony Modesto Milian and Glory Loflin (center) with Brandon Fellowship Selection Committee members Frances Gray (far left) and Sandra Rupp (far right)

GCCA to cultivate 3 artists via new fellowship BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

bjeffers@communityjournals.com A Greenville Center for Creative Arts (GCCA) selection committee named three members to the inaugural Brandon Fellows program, which is aimed at supporting young artists who lack the resources to have their own studio.

GCCA is providing Naomi Nakazato, Anthony Modesto Milian and Glory Loflin with a studio space, access to classes, mentorship and engagement opportunities.

Nakazato is a graduate of Anderson University, where she focused on painting and drawing as well as the history of portraiture. The fellowship will help her “communicate the challenges and experiences of mixed ethnicity through new mediums,” GCCA said in a release.

Milian is a graduate of Greenville Technical College and has pursued studies in hospitality at Bob Jones University. As a Brandon Fellow, he will seek to hone his technical and artistic skills to enhance his street photography. He said he plans to explore pub-

lishing a book depicting the cultural richness of the Faces of the Upstate, based on a Facebook page he created.

Loflin is a graduate of the Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where she studied painting, and an alumna of the Fine Arts Center and the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She has taught arts to children and volunteered her artistic abilities to benefit a variety of causes. Through the fellowship, she will preparing a portfolio of ceramics work in view of applying to graduate school in this medium.

“We are extremely pleased to have such a talented and passionate group of young artists in our first class of Brandon Fellows,” said Cherington Shucker, executive director of GCCA. Shucker said GCCA hopes to augment the fellows’ experience by asking them to work together on a community driven project. One of the ideas is to connect the artists with Legacy Charter School and produce a youth art show in December and January, she said.

Emrys Press will release Drewry’s chapbook, “My Wild Hair Undone, Poems” on Sept. 17 at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts. The reading and book release will also serve as Emrys Foundation’s annual meeting.

Emrys, a foundation that seeks to nurture creativity among writers and further the impact of the literary arts, launched a publishing venture that became known as Emrys Press in 1994. Original plans called for publishing the work of a woman poet once a year, a goal the press achieved with publications annually from 1996 through 2002.

In 2003, the foundation’s 20th year, Emrys broadened its scope to print writings outside of the realm of poetry and published two works of nonfiction. With the cost of printing rising, the editors then chose to launch a series of chapbooks that would cost less to produce but still offer women poets an opportunity for publication.

Four chapbooks have been published since 2005.

Yikes!

So you know WHAT: Emrys Annual Meeting and Press Book Release for “My Wild Hair Undone, Poems” by Elizabeth Drewry WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m.

WHERE: Greenville Center for Creative Arts, 25 Draper St. COST: Free, but RSVPs to emrys.info@ gmail.com are requested

“My Wild Hair Undone, Poems” is the first time Drewry’s poetry has been collected in a book, although she has had some of her work published.

About two dozen poems are included in the book.

“I think it’s wonderful they [Emrys] reach into the community to give voice to people who are trying to write,” Drewry said.

Emrys is now taking submissions of unpublished fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction for the Emrys Journal Volume 33. Submissions will be taken through Nov. 1.

For more information on both the chapbook and the Emrys Journal submission guidelines, go to Emrys website, emrys.org.

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SOUND CHECK

WITH VINCENT HARRIS, vharris@communityjournals.com

Snapshots of little lives

For more than 25 years, James McMurtry has musically documented the American landscape

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James McMurtry is quite simply one of the best documenters of the American landscape to ever pick up a guitar, and it’s an incredible bonus that he can also play that guitar viciously and beautifully.

McMurtry has been on an incredible streak of brilliant songwriting since his 1989 debut, “Too Long in the Wasteland,” and his new album, “Complicated Game,” is very much cut from the same rough-hewn acoustic/ electric cloth as his first. The characters, especially on songs like “You Got to Me,” and “Cutter,” are damaged souls and everyday people just trying to get by. These are small snapshots of men and women in crucial moments of their little lives, brought vividly to life by McMurtry’s eye for detail and his offhanded shrug of a voice.

The sound on “Complicated Game” is a lot more stripped-down than your last few albums, and a lot less politically themed. Why the change in sound and subject matter?

I brought in outside producers for this one. I’d produced my last four records, and felt like I was starting to repeat myself sonically and stylistically. So I decided to bring in somebody I could learn from, C.C. Adcock & Mike Napolitano, and they took a bit of a different approach.

So did you collaborate with them for ideas on how you wanted the album to sound?

No. I was out of ideas. That’s why I brought in producers.

Is it a mistake for people to look for parts of you in your songs’ characters?

It can be, because my characters don’t necessarily agree with me, especially politically.

It’s been about six years since your last album; why the long layoff?

Mostly it was economics. We make most of our money on the road now, and our draw at the clubs had held up pretty well for a few years, and it finally started to tail off a couple of years ago, so it was time to get back into the studio. It used

Details

James McMurtry • Sunday, Sept. 13, 4:30 p.m.

• The Bohemian Cafe, 2-B W. Stone Ave., Greenville • Tickets: Admission is free • 864-235-7922; blog.horizonrecords.net

to be that we toured to promote records, and now we put out records to promote tour dates.

How have the changes in the music industry, especially the new focus on singles, affected you, since you probably still think in terms of complete albums?

I haven’t really noticed. My crowd still buys a lot of hard product. A little more than half of my sales are CDs. And LPs, unfortunately.

Why do you say “unfortunately”?

I don’t like vinyl albums. Everyone’s machines seem to run at different speeds, so they’re not playing at the same pitch every time, unless you’ve got a really good turntable. I remember when CDs first came out, I thought they were headand-shoulders above vinyl. CDs play at the same speed every time [laughs].

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Page turners

‘Redeployment’ captures the reality of war

BEST. WEEK. EVER.

The tragedy of 9/11 grows more remote every year. In college, I sometimes only recognized the anniversary by the small flags stuck in the ground on the quad. But we all know where we were and how we felt on that day.

In today’s news we hear about ISIS holding land hard-won by United States troops in the invasion of the early 2000s. A day we might like to forget is a day that leaves a slowhealing wound.

In his collection “Redeployment,” Iraq War veteran and National Book Award winner Phil Klay beautifully renders the struggle and shock, bravery and monotony, chaos and command of war with such ease that you would think the 12 award-winning short stories about the men and women we call “the troops” are true accounts. Whether men are joking about the attention their battle scars will get them from women back home (“After Action Report”) or the unforeseen results of operations with names like “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” (“Frago”), “Redeployment” is just as intense as “The Hurt Locker” and rewarding to the end.

War doesn’t go away, but we get the privilege of hindsight when it comes to wars we have already fought. The Upcountry History Museum-Furman University allows visitors to connect with the legacy of those who fought in an older war, through a new exhibit, “The Forgotten War: Korea 1950-1953,” open until Jan. 31, 2016. We hope the incredible artwork brings a not-so-distant past into focus.

MORE THOUGHTFUL READS: “HOME” by Toni Morrison When Frank Money returns from fighting in the Korean War, he feels lost and disconnected from the rest of America.

Through his journey to his Georgia home, he recovers not just his old self, but also his courage to live hopefully in an imperfect world.

“THE ORPHAN-MASTER’S SON”

by Adam Johnson North Korea is frozen in time to us, but not for

Pak Jun Do, the son of the man in charge of a state-run orphanage. Upon reaching adulthood, his perilous adventures impersonating a military commander bring light to an area literally gone dark on the world map.

Johnson won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2012 for portraying lives within a regime about which most can only speculate.

FOR THE KIDS: “THE LIBRARIAN OF BASRA: A TRUE STORY FROM IRAQ”

by Jeanette Winter Read this beautifully illustrated book about Alia’s efforts to save the books in her library when you want something a bit deeper than “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” that still ends on an upbeat note.

Reviewed by Katie Womble, curator of oral history at the Upcountry History MuseumFurman University, upcountryhistory.org.

All books are available through Greenville County Library System.

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Must-See Movies

What day is it?

SEPTEMBER 16 – Play-Doh Day 1956 – year Joseph McVicker began selling his company’s wallpapercleaning product as a pliable molding clay toy called Play-Doh.

1957 – year Play-Doh began selling colors. (It started with primary colors and expanded to more colors in the 1980s.)

1998 – year Play-Doh was introduced into the Toy Hall of Fame.

950 MILLION – pounds of Play-Doh produced since its inception.

100 MILLION – cans of Play-Doh produced each year.

OFF-WHITE – original color of Play-Doh.

By Eric Rogers

To raid your dreams Three surrealistic films spotlight the bizarre Do you ever fall asleep with the TV on and have really bizarre dreams? Do you then spend a lot of time analyzing the dream, trying to figure out why the Skipper and Gilligan were showing up at your house for Thanksgiving dinner? If so, you might enjoy the following films made by surrealist filmmakers.

“ERASERHEAD” Directed by David Lynch | Available on Hulu, Netflix DVD and Amazon Instant Video.

Long before he made “The Elephant Man,” “Dune,” “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks,” David Lynch spent five years making the most bizarre film in his repertoire, and perhaps the most bizarre picture ever. The film, which takes place on another planet, is the story of a man raising his severely deformed infant child. Along the way he gets encouragement from a lady who lives in his radiator. Lynch refers to this film as his most spiritual movie.

“BLOOD OF A POET” Directed by Jean Cocteau | Available on YouTube.

The

Avant-garde filmmaker Jean Cocteau made this 50-minute film in 1930 as the beginning of a trilogy. The film involves an artist travelling through a mirror where sculptures come to life. Cocteau later made an interesting, surrealist version of “Beauty and the Beast,” which is available at the Greenville County Library. It’s a far cry different from the Disney version.

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Directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí | Available on YouTube and Vimeo.

Translated “An Andalusian Dog,” this 15-minute film from 1929 has a very loosely defined plot, so it’s more of a sensory experience. Fair warning: The opening contains one of the most disturbing images in film history. Buñuel went on to direct many more surrealist films through the 1970s and Dalí later created a dream sequence for the Alfred Hitchcock film “Spellbound,” starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. That scene can be found here: bit.ly/DaliSpellbound Hitchcock once stated that his goal for an audience was to “give them pleasure; the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” I think each of these filmmakers may have had similar philosophies.

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

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

PHOTOS PROVIDED

Waggin’ at the Waterpark September 12 • Discovery Island Waterpark, 417 Baldwin Road, Simpsonville September 26 • Otter Creek Waterpark, 101 W. Darby Road, Greenville 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. • greenvillerec.com/event/waggin-in-the-waterpark Bring your four-legged friend out for a fun-filled day of swimming. Two waterparks and two dates to choose from. Come out to Discovery Island on Sept.

12, go to Otter Creek on Sept. 26, or go to both.

Sept. 11 CONCERT

A Night with the Greenville Jazz Collective Swamp Rabbit Cafe & Grocery 205 Cedar Lane Road 6-8 p.m.

Food and Beverage available for purchase.

FREE Join us for a cool fall evening and the smooth sounds of the Greenville Jazz Collective.

Automatic Taco will be serving dinner and the Swamp Rabbit Cafe will be pouring draft craft beer and wine. This is a great opportunity to enjoy our local music scene in a unique location. All ages are welcome.

255-3385 | swamprabbitcafe.com/events

ADMISSION: $17 pre-registration, $22 day-of, $30 for both events, $4 each additional person

info@swamprabbitcafe.com CONCERT

Rock & Roll Reunion Main Street Fridays FREE Sextet re-creates great rock hits from the past. bit.ly/greenville-main-street-fridays

CONCERT

Calvin Edwards Trio Blues Boulevard (Greenville) Tickets: $5 (plus $10 food/drink minimum) Former Five Blind Boys of Alabama guitarist leads his own combo.

242-2583 bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com

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Driving Tour of 1960’s Greenville Hughes Main Library, Heritage Green 25 Heritage Green Place 11a.m.-noon FREE Durham Hunt, librarian with South Carolina Room uses historical images to take history buffs on a ride back through time in downtown Greenville. Learn about the history of our Greenville’s Civil Rights activists, the Textile economy and see how Main Street evolved.

527-9258 | greenvillelibrary.org dhunt@greenvillelibrary.org FUNDRAISER

JL Mann Spirit Week Yard Sale Merovan Shopping Center parking lot 1254 Woodruff Rd. 7 a.m.-noon FREE Come join the JL Mann students and families at their Spirit Week community yard sale. Proceeds will go toward their spirit week totals which benefit the Center for Developmental Services. jlmannspiritweek.com dana.mcconnell@cdservices.org EDUCATION

America’s Boating Course Augusta Road Library | 100 Lydia St. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $50 first family member, $10 additional family member Lake Hartwell Power Squadron is offering America’s Boating Course. The 8 hour course covers boat handling, anchoring, finding directions, adverse conditions and using the marine radio. This course has been approved by National Association of Boating Law Admin, recognized by insurance carriers and US Coast Guard.

281-9774 | upstateboatingcourse.org education@lake-hartwell.org FUNDRAISER

Daddy Daughter Dance presented by J.L. Mann Spirit Week J. L. Mann High School 60 Fairforest Way 5-7 p.m. $30/couple, $5 each additional child This memorable dance is designed for fathers and their daughters or grandfathers and granddaughters in Pre-K through 5th grade. There will be music, food, games, dancing, and a photographer. eventbrite.com/d/sc--greenville/jl-mann dana.mcconnell@cdservices.org

FAMILY

CONCERT

VIP Day

Lady Antebellum w/ Hunter Hayes & Kelsey Ballerini

Devils Fork State Park 161 Holcombe Cir., Salem 9 a.m.-noon FREE A special “Pack a Park Truck” event will be held Sept. 12, at Devils Fork State Park during the park’s annual VIP Day and as part of the statewide “Hunger Takes No Vacation” food drive. The focus of the day is volunteering, improving and protecting the natural resources of the Jocassee Gorges and Lake Jocassee. For more information, visit Friends of Jocassee web page at friendsofjocassee.org.

944-2639 | friendsofjocassee.org dforksp@scprt.com CONCERT

Second Saturday Concert Series Hagood Mill Historic Site 138 Hagood Mill Rd., Pickens noon-2 p.m. | Every 2nd Saturday of the month thru Dec. 12 FREE Hagood Mill presents traditional roots, gospel, and bluegrass music with the Heartstrings. Visitors will be delighted by the traditional sounds created by instruments such as the autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, stand-up bass, guitar and mandolin. Hagood Mill is located 3 miles north of Pickens off of Hwy 178 at 138 Hagood Mill Rd. 898-2936 | VisitPickensCounty.com BillyC@co.pickens.sc.us

Bon Secours Wellness Arena Tickets: $32.25, $57.25 Superstar country trio.

241-3800 | bonsecoursarena.com CONCERT

Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues Dr. Mac Arnold’s Blues Restaurant Tickets: $10 Mac Arnold & his house-rockin’ band bring the show to Mac’s own stage.

558-0747 | drmacarnoldsbluesrestaurant.com CONCERT

Rene Russell Smiley’s Acoustic Café Admission is free Folk singer/songwriter with a percussive style.

282-8988 | smileysacousticcafe.com

Sept. 12-Nov. 5 ARTS EVENT

Stabat Mater

Two of Greenville’s operatic stars, Myra Cordell and Elspeth Davis, will return home to perform Giovanni Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. The 18th century composition sets to music a medieval poem about the suffering of Mary during the crucifixion of Jesus. Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is written for soprano (Cordell) and alto (sung by mezzo soprano Davis) and a small instrumental ensemble.

Vance Jenkins will provide piano accompaniment, and assemble local musicians.

233-3402 | triunemercy.org deb@triunemercy.org CONCERT

Aaron Watson Blind Horse Saloon Tickets: $10, $12 Rising country star comes to Greenville.

233-1381 | blind-horse.com

This is the second South Carolina Printmakers folio of original prints in a variety of media including lithography, intaglio, relief, screen-print and collograph. This connected group of artists began as a print exchange between fellow printmakers but quickly grew into an atelier of committed individuals representing sixteen prominent printmakers in South Carolina.

898-5963 pickenscountymuseum.org allenc@co.pickens.sc.us

Sept. 13 FUNDRAISER

JL Mann Spirit Week Golf Tournament Embassy Suites, The Preserve at Verdae 650 Verdae Blvd.

1-5 p.m. | $100 The 2015 J.L. Mann Spirit Week golf tournament will be held at the Preserve at Verdae on September 13th, 2015. The cost is $100, and it includes 18 holes of golf on one of Greenville’s premier courses, a golf cart, a post round dinner, drinks, and T-shirt. All proceeds will go towards J.L. Mann’s spirit week, benefitting the Center For Developmental Services. jlmannspiritweek.com dana.mcconnell@cdservices.org

Sept. 14

CONCERT

Triune Mercy Center, Sanctuary 222 Rutherford St. 6:30-8 p.m.

FREE

307 Johnson Street, Pickens 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | daily except Sunday & Monday Donations Accepted FREE

COMMUNITY MEETING

Kay Larch: Galeria Mexicana Pickens County Museum of Art & History 307 Johnson Street, Pickens 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | daily except Sunday & Monday Donations Accepted FREE Originally from Huntington Beach, CA, Kay Larch has been living in Greenville for some time and is active with a distinct style of painting interpreting her passion for Mexican Folk Art and her love for its- concentrated abundance of vibrant colors and exotic styles.

898-5963 | pickenscountymuseum.org allenc@co.pickens.sc.us

Sept. 12-Nov. 12 ARTS EVENT

Shifting Plates II: Works By Sixteen South Carolina Printmakers Pickens County Museum of Art & History,

Upstate Monarch Lymphedema Support Meeting Earth Fare | Pelham Road 5 p.m. | 1st Monday of each month YES The Upstate Monarch Lymphedema Support Group meets at Earth Fare on Pelham Road the first Monday of each month at 5 p.m. Due to the Labor Day holiday, the September meeting will take place on Sept. 14.

630-4084 COMMUNITY

Poetic Conversation: Translations Honoring National Hispanic Heritage Month Peace Center, Ramsaur Studio 101 W. Broad St. 7 p.m.

FREE Poetic Conversations bring together different guest poets to share their work on

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a common topic and to start a poetic dialogue with audiences of all ages. Translations will kick-off National Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring poems read in both Spanish and English, led by guest poet Vera Gomez. Following Vera’s set, community members will share selected poems from such prominent Hispanic poets as Pablo Neruda, Sandra Cisneros, Federico Garcia Lorca, Julia Alvarez and more.

467-3000 peacecenter.org boxoffice@peacecenter.org COMMUNITY MEETING

Monthly meeting of the Democratic Women of Greenville County The Runway Cafe, 21 Airport Road 5:30-7 p.m.

Buffet dinner is available for $15 per person.

Guest speaker is Greenville Attorney, Jeff Martin. The title of his talk is “Opposing Opt-Out Worker’s Compensation Legislation: A Bipartisan Approach.” Reservations are strongly requested.

232-5531 headquarters@greenvilledemocrats.com

Sept. 14-Nov. 19 EDUCATION

Pottery Classes for All Levels Taylors Mill, William Felton School of Crafts 250 Mill Street, Suite 1A, Taylors 6:30-9 p.m.

Once-weekly classes for nine weeks $225; Beginner’s class is $250 and includes basic tool set Pottery classes for the beginner, intermediate and more advanced student will begin the week of Sept. 14 and end on Nov. 19. No experience is necessary for the beginner’s class where students learn hand-building techniques, wheel-throwing and glazing. Taught by ceramic artist and experienced teacher, Shane Bryant, classes are held in historic Taylors Mill.

325-4233 williamfeltonschool.com feltonschool@gmail.com

Sept. 14 -Nov. 30 EDUCATION

National Alliance on Mental Illness Greenville (NAMI Greenville) Familyto-Family Education Greer 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Mondays FREE Family-to-Family, a free 12-week course with highly-structured standardized cur-

riculum, is conducted by trained family members of those with a mental illness.

The purpose is to meet families’ needs that health care workers are unable to provide. Family-to-Family delivers education about mental illness and treatments; emotional and practical support; and problem-solving and communication skills for those dealing with the mental illness of a family member. The course is free, but registration is required at 864331-3300 331-3300 namigreenvillesc.org info@namigreenvillesc.org

Sept. 16 FOOD TRUCKS

Who’s coming to the Lunchtime Pile-Up this week?

WHO: The Chuck Truck, gourmet burgers Ellada Kouzina, Greek cuisine Automatic Taco, mobile taqueria The Nomadik Few, gourmet shaved ice WHEN: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday WHERE: Corner of Broad and Falls streets (lot leased by Table 301 Restaurant Group) SPONSOR: Euphoria

ARTS EVENT

Emrys Annual Meeting/Poetry Book Launch My Wild Hair Undone Greenville Center for Creative Arts 25 Draper Street 6-8 p.m.

FREE Join Emrys at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts for our Annual Meeting and a program about Emrys Press, culminating in a presentation of its most recent publication, My Wild Hair Undone, by poet Elizabeth Drewry, who will read from her book. Free and open to the public. Do not need to be a member to attend. emrys.org | 409-3679 | emrys.info@gmail.com CONCERT

Pathways Guest Artist Concert Series: Andreas Bodye SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Smith Recital Hall 15 University St. | 7:30 p.m.

FREE The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities kicks off the 2015-16 Pathways Concert Series with guest artist Andreas Boyde. A worldrenowned pianist, Boyde has performed in prestigious, worldwide concert venues and appeared as a soloist with orchestras across the globe. The concert is free and open to the public.

282-3758 | scgsah.org

Sept. 18

Upstate selected especially for you. Choose the 25-, 40- or 79-mile route. The Preservation Ride is a great way for you to show your support for one of the Upstate’s most respected and effective conservation organizations.

327-0090 upstateforever.org/2015-preservation-ride/ bmckee@upstateforever.org CONCERT

The Travelin’ Kine Independent Public Ale House Charleston quintet incorporates acoustic bluegrass into straight-ahead country.

552-1265 | ipagreenville.com

Sept. 20 HEALTH/FITNESS

Hearts for the Homeless 5k Walk Barnet Park and downtown Spartanburg, 248 East Saint John St., Spartanburg 2-4:30 p.m. $20 registration fee/10% discount for teams Miracle Hill Ministries invites you to participate in the Hearts for the Homeless 5k Walk in downtown Spartanburg. Walk the roads the homeless walk every day. See where they live and access services. After the walk, enjoy a family-friendly celebration complete with food, activities and fun for all as well as an award ceremony for top fundraisers. Make a difference for homeless children and adults. Register at www.miraclehill.org 631-0137 | miraclehill.org sfurnell@miraclehill.org

CONCERT

Dave Britt Gottrocks

Sept. 17 FAMILY

Slow Food Upstate Earth Market Roper Mountain Science Center (Parking Lot), corner of I-385 & Roper Mtn. Road 2-6 p.m.

FREE At this farmers market, you will only find producers who refuse to use chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, steroids, hormones, and seeds which are genetically modified. There are Slow Food Earth Markets all over the world (mostly in Italy), but only one in the US -- right here in Greenville. Come support the farmers who have committed to sustainable production. Expect poultry, eggs, beef, cheese, and of course seasonal produce. slowfoodupstate.com/earthmarket eyepes@communityjournals.com

Anthemic alternative pop-rock.

235-5519 | gottrocksgreenville.com CONCERT

Unearthly, w/ Mysteriarch & Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus Ground Zero | Tickets: $10 Death-metal outfit from Rio De Janeiro headlines triple bill.

948-1661 | reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2

WANT TO SEE YOUR EVENT HERE? Complete our easy-to-use online form at www.bit.ly/GJCalendar by Monday at 5 p.m. to be considered for publication in that week’s Journal.

TICKET OFFICE LAST CHANCE SEPT. 12; 7 P.M. LADY ANTEBELLUM

RIDE

Bon Secours Wellness Arena Cost: $57.25, $32.25 To purchase tickets: GSP Box Office at The Bon Secours Wellness Arena, ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000

Upstate Forever’s Fourth Annual Preservation Ride

Additional info: Lady Antebellum’s Wheels Up Tour with Hunter Hayes and Kelsea Ballerini

Sept. 19 Strawberry Hill USA | 3097 Hwy 11, Chesnee 8 a.m.-1 p.m. | Registration $40 Join us for our 4th annual event and enjoy one of 3 beautiful courses, a fully catered lunch, free prizes, and a ride t-shirt. Ride at your pace on the most scenic routes in the

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FIGURE. THIS. OUT. FOWL TASTING ACROSS 1 Kitchen head 5 Sail holders 10 Belt locale 15 Swedish auto 19 Verdi slave 20 Greek market of old 21 Act announcer 22 Big, wild cat 23 Start of a riddle 26 See 129-Across 27 In a way, informally 28 Tour crew member 29 Awaiting 31 Sit-up muscles 33 Below zero: Abbr.

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CULTURE | 09.11.2015 | GREENVILLE JOURNAL | 51

COMMUNITY VOICES

LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE WITH JOAN HERLONG

WEDDINGS

A many-splendored thing

ANNIVERSARIES

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We’re honoring Labor Day by taking the day, the week, off, at the beach, as a family. We’ve reached the point where life is not governed by any school calendars, including graduate school. We get to enjoy our kids and their significant others, and CBE (Cutest Baby Ever), during the “off season.”

This is appropriate, as anyone willing to claim us as friends will tell you we’re a little off.

We love the beach. We love these times when all the kids are too-briefly together, when childhood contests shift back into automatic (Shotgun!!), adult children get away with teasing their parents along with one another, and significant others snap into place within our imperfect puzzle of familial pecking orders.

Is it OK to refer to your kids as kids when “the baby” is 23? I occasionally refer to them as “you people” or “those people,” but if age is a state of mind, my Reason for Living and I are not quite mature enough (with little hope in sight) to refer to those people as “our adult children,” and so they shall remain our kids. would have been too perfunctory. No, We love kids. We especially love it she wrote an actual heartfelt letter, one when we catch other people’s kids being of those things people keep in their sock good, and also the rare occasions when drawer forever, to read and re-read years other people catch ours. later, and smile.

I keep meaning to tell McKoy’s parBoth kids are not kids anymore, and ents how astounded and pleased we those kids will go far in life. were when their lovely, poised daughter Every perfect parent dreads the tooapproached our table at a restaurant re- numerous calls we get over the years, cently and engaged us in conversation. informing us that our perfect little darMind you, this girl is at an lings have shoplifted age when her peers deflatus-odored spray, or vote astounding stretches He told us he scheduled a fistfight for of time to hair-tossing, was ready Friday after school, or got eye-rolling, and phone- to cross the arrested with 20 of their checking. People like us closest friends for underare literally invisible. Yet threshold age drinking, or ditched McKoy was able to see us from boyfriend school, or sassed back to and chat with us for about a teacher, or … there is a to husband five minutes. When she whole litany of transgresdeparted, we picked our because “Just sions we’d like to pretend jaws up from the table so dating isn’t are impossible. we could resume eating.

So when someone tells enough, I can’t I did tattle on Sarah to this parent that their little her parents this summer. stand not being darling is extra good, it’s She’s the college fresh- married to her.” extra special. man I recently caught Two weeks ago, our being good, in writing. baby’s significant other Sarah could not bring herself to write a came to us and asked for our blessing to thank-you note when my daughter wrote marry her. He’s been hanging around for her a “rec letter” for sorority rush. That over five years now. There’s nothing quite

ENGAGEMENTS

so wonderful as someone who knows your family through and through, but he wants to be part of it anyway.

He told us he was ready to cross the threshold from boyfriend to husband because “Just dating isn’t enough, I can’t stand not being married to her.” He asked us to keep it a secret until he popped the question, and so of course we promised it would not leave this city.

Two days ago, he popped the question, we all popped the Champagne, and then showered them with kisses.

We all agree, this daughter, the baby, is “the nice one, the easygoing one.” Maybe her secret to equanimity is her unique, self-soothing habit of rubbing one fingertip over the fingernail of the opposite finger. She’s done that since she was a tiny baby.

As we were all draped all over couches in this beach house, I noticed she still does it, that funny fingertip self-soothing thing. Except now she absent-mindedly runs her fingertip over his fingernail, instead of her own.

She is his baby now, and we love that.

Joan Herlong is a Realtor who loves to write. She can be reached at Joan@AugustaRoad.com

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