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oday the Greenville Journal opens a community dialogue exploring the changes, opportunities and choices we all face as #GreenvilleGrows. Public transit – where to expand it and how to pay for it – is just one of dozens of conversations that challenge Greenville as a rising star on the national stage.

Greenville has an unparalleled gift for pairing government and private enterprise in progressive ways that have won national acclaim. Public and private leaders have given careful thought to how Greenville should grow, with an impressive list to show for it: The Swamp Rabbit Trail.

Lake Conestee Wildlife Preserve. Reedy River Falls Park and Liberty Bridge.

Greenville Drive baseball. The Kroc Center. The Children’s Museum. CUICAR. The Upcountry History Museum.

A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering. The Center for Manufacturing Innovation, set to open next year.

Retail vacancy rates are 6.2 percent, the lowest in 10 years. In the downtown area alone, more than 1,600 apartment and condo units are currently under construction, and last week marked the sixth hotel announcement in the past two years. I could go on and on, and still barely touch what Greenville has to offer, and celebrate.

Where do we go from here? How do we deal with challenges like an aging infrastructure? Gentrification? Infill housing? Parking shortages and the auto-dependence that implies?

Educating the workforce?

Losing $14 million in federal grant money puts a speed bump in transit growth.

WHAT’S GREENLINK’S NEXT MOVE? SEE STORY ON PAGE 8

What challenges and opportunities would you add to that list? Let us hear from you. Greenville’s growing pains demand that we focus and choose together how Greenville will grow over the next 10, 20 and 30 years. Join the conversation at GreenvilleJournal. com, facebook.com/greenvillejournal or twitter.com/gville_journal. Let us know what you’re seeing, thinking and talking about. And watch as we explore these issues whenever you see #GreenvilleGrows.

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Duke scraps plans for substation, transmission line Revised strategy calls for two smaller natural gas units in Asheville CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Duke Energy said Wednesday it will scrap plans for a new substation in Campobello and a controversial 45-mile transmission line that would have cut through the mountains in the Upstate and western North Carolina.

Duke’s new plan calls for building smaller gas units at its Asheville plant that Duke says will negate the need for the new transmission line and substation.

The announcement is a victory for the thousands of Upstate residents who protested the original plan, saying the new line would do irreparable harm to environmentally sensitive areas, tourism and property values.

But Frank Holleman, president of Naturaland Trust, said while the decision is a “great victory,” residents must stay ever vigilant to protect the Blue Ridge Mountains.

“Duke is a monopoly and always has its eye on the bottom line,” he said. “Sometimes the decisions Duke makes to increase profits will be dangerous to our community.”

Duke Energy originally proposed to build a new 650-megawatt power plant, substation and 45-mile transmission line to meet the growing demand for electricity in the Asheville region. The utility said electricity use has more than doubled around the Asheville area during the past four decades, and peak demand has increased nearly four-fold.

Duke’s system is especially taxed in extreme cold weather. Duke said peak demand during the winters of 2014 and 2015 was 30 percent higher than in 2013.

The utility said over the next decade, population and business growth is expected to increase overall power demand in nine Western North Carolina counties by more than 15 percent.

Duke’s new plan • Retire coal units at its Asheville Power Plant by 2020 • Build two 280-megawatt natural gas units at the Asheville site in 2023 or later • No substation in Campobello • No 45-mile Foothills Transmission line from Campobello through the Upstate and Western North Carolina to the Asheville site

Duke’s revised plan calls for construction of two 280-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle units at its Asheville Power Plant site by 2020, with construction of an optional simple-cycle 190-megawatt unit in 2023 or later if needed.

Duke said it would work with customers to reduce peak demand through energy efficiency, voluntary cutbacks during peak times and renewable energy. The new plan calls for construction of a utility-scale solar

“We have to stay ever vigilant … Duke is a monopoly and always has its eye on its bottom line. Sometimes decisions Duke makes to increase profits will be dangerous to our community.”

Frank Holleman, president of Naturaland Trust

power plant at the Asheville site.

“While the previous plan was more robust and scaled for the longer term, the new plan balances the concerns raised by the community and the very real need for more electricity to serve this growing region,” said Lloyd Yates, Duke’s executive vice president for market solutions and president of the Carolinas region.

Duke’s original proposal created a firestorm of protest. In August, more than 800 opponents attended a South Carolina Public Service Commission public hearing, a rare occurrence because Duke hadn’t formally filed its plan to the agency.

Duke received more than 9,000 comments on its original plan.

Holleman said Duke’s reversal shows “the people of our region are determined to protect our mountains.” He said area residents could help do that by installing solar systems.

“There’s a need for Duke and other utilities to embrace new, clean, modern technologies to meet energy demands” instead of relying on natural gas and coal that results in fracking and mountain top removal, he said.

“Duke is still continuing to tie its future and our future to fossil fuels,” Holleman said.

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Gentleman or yutz?

IN MY OWN WORDS

by Marc Howard Wilson I recently came across a photo that was touted as a “brainteaser”: a man and woman walking down the street, picture taken from behind. “What’s wrong with this picture?” the caption cries.

“What’s wrong with this picture?” Duh. A gentleman knows that left or right, he is to always walk between her and the street.

That was inculcated in me before I was five. By now it is second nature. Sometimes when I cross the street with a lady (not just a “woman”) I am obliged to change sides. If she does not know her role, I will occasionally politely tap her to remind her of how it should be done, sometimes even respectfully explain it to her. Most women are flattered. Those who aren’t probably don’t like caviar and

pâté either, so who’s to care?

I’ve taught it to my now-adult kids, walking on the outside, opening the car door, offering a lady your seat. I’ve even told my daughter to expect the same courtesy from the gentlemen in her life, and if not, give them a shove and maybe even tell them why. My boys say that it usually wins her favor and sometimes even her affection. My daughter? Well, for her it’s a litmus test of whether the guy is a gentleman or a yutz.

One caveat, though: Do not invoke the “offer your seat” rule on a New York subway. I did it once and the woman (not the “lady”) barked back at me, “I am perfectly capable of standing!” On the other hand, my cranky grandmother once spied me not offering a lady my seat on a CTA bus, squealed to my mom, and I got a spanking.

“This is not about equality. It is about bending over backwards to snatch common courtesy from the claws of sloth.”

One final note: Ask my friends, and they will all tell you that I am fiercely egalitarian. I assume ladylike treatment from a lady as much as she may expect gentlemanly behavior from me.

Nope, this is not about equality. It is about bending over backwards to snatch common courtesy from the claws of sloth. It is a colorblind, class-blind moment of kindness that conveys dignity, worth, regard, respect for others and self. It is a type of kindness that can re-

mediate the nasty, snarling anti-culture in which we live.

As we walk forward into a daunting world, a man should yet aspire to be a gentleman, and a woman to not cry “misogynist” for being called a lady, and a society to be a society, not a common dump.

Rabbi Marc Howard Wilson is a gentleman and the founder of MeetingPoint – United Interfaith Community in Greenville.

GHS restructuring bad for Greenville IN MY OWN WORDS

by Laird Minor

The Greenville Health System is proposing a fundamental restructuring that would transform it from a public nonprofit into a private one within a regional consortium of hospitals. This is unnecessary, and would be bad for the residents of the Upstate.

GHS plans to transfer all of its assets to a new private nonprofit corporation under a 100-year lease at $1

per year. GHS is supposed to be operated for the benefit of the residents of Greenville County and be under public control through our legislative delegation, which appoints the GHS Board of Trustees. The reorganization would eliminate that oversight.

The board of the new private nonprofit would be self-selecting and self-perpetuating, with no outside input. Its multi-state parent company would be even further insulated from public control. Technically, the shell of the ex-

“GHS is big enough.” isting entity would still exist, but its only function would be to monitor the lease.

With no public oversight of either the new entity or its parent, how can there be any assurance that GHS will be operated for the benefit of Greenville County?

GHS claims that certain restrictions under existing law hamper its ability to partner with other health care entities and efficiently manage its assets. To the

extent these claims have any merit, the problems can easily be cured by simple changes to the law.

GHS further asserts that only institutions of significant size can operate efficiently under the nation’s current health insurance regime. While no one disputes the reality of economies of scale, if an institution that controls 70 percent of the health care business in its market with annual revenues in excess of $2 billion cannot operate at nearly peak efficiency, then it clearly has the wrong management. GHS is big enough.

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The legality of the reorganization is also questionable. Its central feature is the lease of all existing GHS facilities to the new entity. The law under which GHS operates authorizes its board “to dispose of any property, real or personal, that it may possess.”

Nonetheless, it is doubtful that such power was intended to encompass the bulk lease of the entire corpus of GHS’ assets, especially in perpetuity and for nominal rent. I would argue that such a lease is far beyond the intended scope of this power, and requires express authorization by the state Legislature.

For the last decade GHS has been on a massive buying spree, gobbling up medical practices and facilities at a rapid rate.

The result has a con“Competition been solidation of health care in always the Upstate to improves a truly danquality and gerous extent.

Competireduces price, tion always but the GHS i m p r o v e s juggernaut quality and reduces price, has been but the GHS moving in j u g g e r n a u t has been precisely moving in the opposite precisely the direction.” opposite direction. This re o rga n i z a tion would only make matters worse. Studies have repeatedly shown that, far from improving efficiency, hospital mergers increase costs much faster than inflation or other factors would justify. Rather than growing, the GHS system should be separated into smaller, competing units.

The claim of “increased efficiency” does not withstand scrutiny. The reality is that this proposed restructuring is not for the benefit of the residents of Greenville County at all, but rather to satisfy the desires of its executive management for empire-building, self-aggrandizement and, one suspects, personal enrichment. This plan should be rejected.

Laird Minor is a resident of Simpsonville and a small business owner. He has graduate degrees in law and business and currently serves as secretary of the Greenville County Libertarian Party.

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Where are we going?

By the numbers

1,500

After losing the federal TIGER grant, the road ahead is suddenly much steeper for Greenville County’s transit plans

Riders transported by Greenlink trolleys sin one night of Boo in the Zoo

7,700

HIGHLIGHTS Greenlink’s plans to extend its reach will still proceed – only slower

Riders transported during Fall for Greenville (from County Square to downtown Greenville)

Travelers Rest, Fountain Inn targeted as transit-oriented villages Getting workers to their jobs remains a concern

$20 million Approximate size of Charleston’s transit budget

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amorris@communityjournals.com To make public transit more available to Upstate residents, Greenville County must change from a route-clogging hub-andspoke system – which delays all riders if one bus is late – to a circulator transit system with express routes, says Greenlink executive director Mark Rickards.

A bid to accelerate this move failed last week when city and county officials learned that Greenlink will not receive the hoped-for infusion of federal

Comparable transit systems CHATTANOOGA, TENN. • 3.2 million riders (2012) • $19 million budget • Funds come from local, state and federal sources, along with $2.7 million in parking revenue and $5 million from operation of an inclined railway (dedicated funding).

KNOXVILLE, TENN. • 3 million riders • 24 routes • $23 million budget ASHEVILLE, N.C. • 16 routes • $6.6 million budget WILMINGTON, N.C. • 1.5 million riders • 14 routes and downtown trolley • $8.6 million budget GREENVILLE, S.C. • 1 million riders • 17 routes (including trolley and paratransit) • $5.5 million budget JACKSONVILLE, FLA. • 11.5 million riders • $73 million budget • Sales tax generated $70.8 million (2013) • City $2.1 million • Federal and state grants $2.4 million

$5.5 million Approximate size of Greenlink’s transit budget

funds through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants.

USDOT earmarked $500 million nationwide for TIGER transportation projects and received more than $10 billion in requests, according to federal officials. Congress must authorize any additional funds for 2016 grants.

Without that federal infusion, Greenlink will work to implement the transit plan piecemeal at a slower rate, with available funding, Rickards said.

Travelers Rest and Fountain Inn are the next logical areas to reach with public transit, he said. Both municipalities are ripe for creating hubs of development with access to transit that are walkable and friendly, what the industry calls “transit-oriented development,” said Pat Dilger, Greenville Transit Authority (GTA) board chair. Such development could flourish in these cities because both already have a network of mixeduse “bones,” she said.

“Travelers Rest could be that or Fountain Inn could be that [transitoriented villages],” she said, as they already have a network of streets lined with mixed-use development.

“Downtown Greer is like that, too.”

Unlike a single thoroughfare, the grid design of these smaller cities can handle the traffic load while being inviting to pedestrians, said Dilger. Like downtown Greenville, the traffic is spread over several streets rather than funneled onto one multi-lane road.

“There are five to seven lanes on

Woodruff Road and it can’t handle the traffic, but downtown [Greenville] Main Street shares lanes with six other streets, so we actually have 18 lanes in downtown Greenville that carry traffic,” Dilger said.

Greenlink has no timetable as of yet for implementing the Travelers Rest and Fountain Inn connections, and is working to identify funding, including private partnerships and matching funds from the municipalities, Rickards said.

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One-third

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$400,000 $800,000 627 39 Cost of a new diesel bus

Cost of a new electric bus

TIGER grant applications

Connecting workers to employment centers like SCTAC, CU-ICAR, local colleges and retail areas is a goal of the revamped transit system envisioned in the TIGER application. Rickards sees potential for partnerships with manufacturers to transport workers to workplaces.

County officials are beginning to pay attention to the plight of residents who depend on public transit to get to their jobs, said Greenville County Councilwoman Xanthene Norris. The transit service hours now available make it possible for many residents without cars in her district to get to work – but not return home, she said. “That’s a problem.”

Additional funding for even longer service hours is imperative “for people to go to school and go to work,” she said.

“We don’t appropriate enough money to get it done.”

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GREENLINK FUNDING

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TRAINING WHEELS’ Dilger said Greenlink’s fleet of downtown Greenville trolleys – which she dubs “transit with training wheels” – can act as an introduction to public transit for many residents.

These new, sporadic trolley riders could become some of the most desired transit targets: choice riders, she said.

Studies have shown that choice riders will use transit when the frequency between buses is 30 minutes or less.

Greenlink currently operates on a onehour frequency.

To increase bus frequency will require planning studies targeting several routes, including Verdae and Haywood Mall, and doubling the number of buses and drivers, Rickards said.

Tapping into new users is also a necessity. In addition to employees, public transit is built for those who do not or cannot drive, like students and the growing number of senior citizens, Rickards said.

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funds, state money from the gas tax and federal funds. Rickards said he would like for the system to have dedicated funding – where a set portion of a sales tax would go to transit – as is done in Columbia and Charleston.

Greenlink’s federal funds are administered through the Greenville Pickens Area Transportation Study (GPATS) and shared with the City of Clemson. Fares account for roughly $1 million of the system’s revenue, Rickards said.

The city and county were seeking $12 to $14 million in TIGER funding with a local match of $11 million to allow Greenlink to rapidly expand its reach.

The TIGER funds were anticipated as seed money to expand, said Rickards.

Now the transit provider will work through GTA to find funding. As the system expands, it incrementally gains additional federal funding, he said.

Some of the $11 million match, which was contingent on the grant award, may be still available to help move the process forward, said Julie Horton, governmental relations manager with the City of Greenville. Proponents are meeting with groups and entities that committed funds, including health systems, educational institutions and businesses,

WHO WORKED ON THE TIGER GRANT? Mark Rickards – Greenlink Grant Sparks – Greenlink Kathy Vass – Greenlink Sandra Yudice – Greenville Co. Keith Brockington – Greenville Co. Wayne Leftwich – City of Greenville Sarah Cook – City of Greenville Julie Horton – City of Greenville Pat Dilger – Greenville Transit Authority board

in hopes they will commit to “forge a partnership moving forward.”

A “cautiously optimistic” budget to make the necessary changes would be about $10 million, Rickards said. An increase in ridership equals additional federal funding two years later, he said.

Greenville County Council Chairman Bob Taylor said the county has been reluctant “to put a lot of money into transit because there are so few users.”

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recent years with additional routes, he said. However, the average car owner is not inclined to use transit, which Taylor considers responsible for helping those who need transportation to work. He would see funneling additional county funding toward paying for infrastructure like roads or sewer capacity rather than transit.

Greenville’s air is too clean. The City of Seneca is served by five Proterra electric buses that were launched in 2014 and operated by Clemson Area Transit (CAT).

The buses were made possible through a $4.1 million Federal Transit Agency’s Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant awarded in 2011 and a $1.8 million Bus Livability Program grant. Greenlink transit does not qualify for clean air grants to purchase electric buses because the air quality is too high in the area, said Rickards. “We would love to have Proterra buses in our fleet, but we can’t afford it now,” he said.

GROWING ANYWAY Rickards said Greenlink will continue to expand without the TIGER funding, just at a slower rate. Over the last few years, new connections have included Mauldin and Simpsonville in 2012, the Clemson University commuter route in 2013 and new trolleys in 2014, he said.

Use of the Clemson commuter service is encouraging, he said, with full buses during peak times.

In the spring of 2016, the Greenlink system will extend service hours from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The trolleys and Clemson routes now run through 11:30 p.m. Extending the hours will help capture riders who are restaurant and service workers along with Upstate visitors, Rickards said.

Growing the system will also require two times the number of buses and op-

erators that Greenlink has now, and two times the funding to purchase electric buses, Dilger said. Losing the TIGER grant was a disappointment, but the planning that went into it created “a good foundation,” said the city’s Julie Horton. “We didn’t get the grant, but we’ve got a great concept.”

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Trump opening campaign office downtown BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

bjeffers@communityjournals.com Billionaire Donald Trump is opening a campaign office at 2 N. Main St. in downtown Greenville.

James Epley, Upstate regional director for Trump’s presidential campaign, said the office will hopefully open officially by the end of next week. He said he could provide more exact details about the office at a later time.

Signs and boxes with Trump’s campaign logo could be seen inside the office this week. A table in the back of the space was stacked with T-shirts.

Trump, who led Republican candidates in national polls since his announcement in June to run for president, has seen his support slip recently.

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“Reflecting and Affecting Memory: Cinema as a Medium for the Holocaust” Thursday, November 12 • 7:30 p.m.

George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics, 160 E. St. John St.

Transfer Tuesdays Tuesday, November 17 • 3 p.m.

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Open House Saturday, November 21 • 10 a.m., University Readiness Center Wondering what college life is really like? Come see for yourself! Open House is designed to give you an in-depth look at the University of South Carolina Upstate. For more information, visit www.uscupstate.edu/openhouse.

Gobble Your Giblets 5k Thursday, November 26 Packet pick up/Race day registration 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. • Race starts at 9 a.m.

Burn some calories while the turkey cooks and support USC Upstate’s Track & Field and Cross Country programs by signing up for the 5K ($25 entry fee) or the one mile Dog Jog and Fun Run ($15 entry fee). Register at www.active.com. For information, call Carson Blackwelder (864) 205-9371 or cblackwelder@uscupstate.edu.

Jewish film scholar and Turner Classic Movie commentator Dr. Eric Goldman will serve as the scholar-in-residence and will present five public programs on the theme, “An Interfaith Conversation About Film, Religion and Culture.” To view the full schedule, visit news.uscupstate.edu/?p=15400.

“Why Your Personal Brand Matters” Monday, November 16 • 12:05 – 12:55 p.m.

“How to Create Your Brand” Tuesday, November 17 • 12:05 – 12:55 p.m.

George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics, 160 E. St. John St. Tickets are $10 per session; register at www.uscupstate.edu/brainsonfire The Moore Professorship presents Brains on Fire executives Moe Rice and Laura Garvin during two lunch sessions on branding. Ticket price includes a boxed lunch. For information, email Miranda Tollison at jcbeinfo@uscupstate.edu.

EXHIBITS Contemporary Print Collective 2015 Print Exposition November 12 – December 31 Tuesday-Saturday, 12 – 5 p.m., Upstate Gallery on Main, 172 E. Main St.

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The artists from the CPC 2015 Print Exposition will be at the Spartanburg Art Walk from 5 – 8 p.m. on Nov. 19. For contact Jane Allen Nodine at 503-5838 or jnodine@uscupstate.edu or Mark Flowers at 503-5848 or mflowers@uscupstate.edu.

Shoestring Players present “The Cripple of Inishmaan” November 12-14 • 8 p.m.

November 15 • 3 p.m., Performing Arts Center Box Office: boxoffice@uscupstate.edu or call (864) 503-5695 between 1-5 p.m.

“The Other Brother: The Art of Jesse and Tom Flowers” Through December 4 Artists’ Reception, November 12 • 4:30 p.m., Curtis R. Harley Gallery, Performing Arts Center Free and open to the public from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday-Friday

Set in the community of Inishmaan off the western coast of Ireland, a Hollywood film crew’s arrival is set to make a film about life on the islands. The one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy to escape the boredom, gossip and isolation of his own life. Tickets are $8 for the public, $4 for Upstate students, faculty and staff.

A documentary screening will be held at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at the George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics in downtown Spartanburg. For more information, contact Mark Flowers at 503-5848 or mflowers@uscupstate.edu.

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Simpsonville, Fountain Inn get new mayors by was one of Grounsell’s allies.

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Curtis said she wanted to one person. A “get past the nonsense that community is a got us to this point” and heal relationships in the commuwhole.” nity. “We are a community, Curtis

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“I’m deeply honored and moved by the support of the citizens of Fountain Inn. … For those whose vote I have yet to earn, I hope to prove my unwavering commitment to our city to you over the next four years. I look forward to being a servant of the people.” and a community is not one person,” she said. “A community is a whole.”

OTHER SIMPSONVILLE RACES In addition to the mayoral race, Simpsonville held three city council elections.

Matthew Gooch won reelection to Ward 1 over James Ashe and Kevin Glenn by a vote of 879-386-291, respectively.

Ward 3 Councilwoman Geneva Lawrence, who is serving as mayor pro tempore in Eichor’s absence, chose not to run for reelection. Jenn Hulehan won her seat over Mark Rodeffer by a vote of 1,026-522.

Ward 5 Councilman George Lee Curtis, husband of the mayor-elect, also chose not to run for reelection. Ken Cummings

won that seat over James Donnelly and Vic Smith by a vote of 1,086-268-171 respectively.

NEW FOUNTAIN INN MAYOR Fountain Inn’s mayor since 2003, Gary Long, lost reelection to a fourth term on Tuesday to challenger Sam Lee by a vote of 527-381.

“What an emotional night!” Lee wrote on his Facebook page. “I’m deeply honored and moved by the support of the citizens of Fountain Inn. … For those whose vote I have yet to earn, I hope to prove my unwavering commitment to our city to you over the next four years.

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Bill Gates: Improving education system ‘frustrating’ Mogul tells Clemson audience that Common Core was ‘breakthrough’ CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates told Clemson University students on Monday that work to improve this country’s education system is “a little frustrating.”

Gates, the richest man in the world, said during an hourlong question-andanswer session at Tillman Hall that Common Core was a breakthrough in reading, writing and especially math standards.

“The United States is one of the few countries in the world without national standards,” he said, adding that in some states, math skills were not taught in the correct order.

“Multiplication is not different in Georgia versus Washington State,” Gates said.

South Carolina is one of three states that adopted Common Core and later dropped it for their own standards.

Gates, who appeared at Clemson with U.S. Sen. and Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, said government often doesn’t fund research and development in education. But, he said, charter schools extended school days and school years and some got amazing results.

“If you want to see innovation, go to a charter school,” he said.

Outside of education, Gates said he expects science and information technology to be hot spots of innovation. “I think science will advance as fast in the next 30 years than any time in our history, twice as fast,” he said.

He said the new generation of robotics coming along is “mostly good” but will take blue-collar jobs away. But highpaying jobs will be created to maintain and manage those robots, he said. That makes a college education even more important, he said.

Gates said the country has to deal with the cost of entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare liabilities or it will end up defunding investments in the future such as K-12 education, higher education and research.

Gates said U.S. foreign aid is a good investment. As countries such as India become more self-sufficient, the more stable they become and can play a bigger part in the world economy.

“I have a very optimistic view of your generation and what you can do. I think you have a stronger commitment to creating equity than any other that has come before,” he said.

Gates, who has worked to battle disease and economic inequity around the world, told the budding philanthropists it’s best to start with something they can see every day, “that charter school, that organization.”

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Clemson University teams up for a creek cleanup TABITHA CORLEY | CONTRIBUTOR

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In the Piedmont area of South Carolina, pollutants are a threat to the Golden Creek, Twelve Mile and Eighteen Mile watersheds.

Clemson University’s Cooperative Extension, along with several other organizations and partners, are joining together on a plan to combat pollution based on each watershed’s individual needs.

“We all want to have water resources that are clean and enjoyable,” said Cal Sawyer, associate director of the Center for Watershed Excellence at Clemson University. “If we go down to the beautiful streams and rivers that we have, we don’t want to have something nagging in the back of our heads saying ‘I wonder if that is clean.’ We can put our kayak in there and go swimming or we can go fishing without fear or concern for any health-related problems.”

Charles Gill, chairman of the Pickens County Beautification and Environmental Committee, said to his knowledge no one has experienced sickness due to the water quality, which has been an “ongoing problem.”

Sawyer said they are about six weeks

in a parking lot, and rainfall hits into planning the project. Next it and washes it into the nearest summer, the team will submit the surface water body.” plans to the Department of Health Sawyer said many people will and Environment Control (DHEC) have a chance to help with the for approval before the cleanup cleanup process, especially in can begin. the initial planning stages where Heading this effort is the Pickthey are currently. He said at least ens County Beautification and Entwo public meetings will be held vironmental Advisory, which won where people can come to share the nearly $28,000 grant in Sepinsights and view photos and tember to study the three creeks maps of the cleanup areas. and watersheds. The later phases “We can look down and say, of the cleanup will require more ‘Here is probably where a spot funding. Upon approval from From left, Clemson research assistant Alicia McAlhaney, extension could be.’ Then we have to talk DHEC, more money could become agent Cathy Reas Foster, Pickens stormwater technician Kyle to the people who actually live available as they instill a manage- Bennett and Pickens County stormwater manager Scottie there, work there and play there ment plan, Sawyer noted.

Ferguson check out the water quality in Twelve Mile Creek. and ask them, ‘Does this make “I think that it is a goal of our contamination. sense?’” Sawyer said. The goal is state regulatory agency and a goal Sawyer said water runoff is contami- for the public to be “intimately involved,” of the university that we have to make the water resources clean and usable by ev- nated from fertilizers and wildlife, live- he said.

Sawyer said the meetings could start as erybody,” Sawyer said. These regulations stock or human defecation combined are backed by the Environmental Protec- with rainfall or snowmelt washing down early as January 2016. In the meantime, into the creeks.

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amorris@communityjournals.com Greenville County Council tackled issues from refugee resettlements to used tires this week at its regular meeting. For a front row seat, see below:

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Council discussed a resolution to reject the expenditure of state funds for the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program, but voted 9-3 to hold the proposal in committee until the next meeting.

Jason Lee, director of the Upstate office of World Relief, answered questions about the process of vetting, receiving and supporting potential refugees.

Lee said refugees arriving are mostly persecuted Christians from Burma and the Congo. No Syrians have come to the Upstate, he said.

The council chambers were crowded with residents concerned about security, proper vetting and the public financial burden of resettling refugees in Greenville. Councilman Joe Dill requested

representatives from the federal government and Department of Social Services present additional information. Members will reconsider the resolution at the next meeting.

USED/WASTE TIRE ORDINANCE A proposed ordinance regulating used and waste tires was sent back to the council’s Planning and Development Committee for revision. Tire dealers spoke at a public hearing, saying they provided a valuable service for lowincome residents and requirements for indoor storage adhering to fire codes would put them out of business.

ZONING A rezoning request to allow additional units at a 41-unit development on Chick Springs Road was defeated unanimously at second reading. Council members said sewer capacity issues in the area need addressing.

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GHS withdraws proposal to operate Greenville County EMS APRIL A. MORRIS | STAFF

amorris@communityjournals.com Ending months of controversy and public concern, Greenville Health System (GHS) has opted to withdraw its proposal to operate the Greenville County emergency medical system (EMS).

In a letter to Greenville County Administrator Joe Kernell, GHS chief medical officer Angelo Sinopoli lauded the partnership between the health system and county to date, but said politics “will continue to prohibit substantive discussion on the merits of the proposal, not to mention the ability to implement the innovative mobile health model proposed.”

Bon Secours St. Francis health system said it was excluded from meetings and planning for the proposal, which county staff presented to Greenville County Council in June. After St. Francis offered to become a partner in running EMS and

funding the system, County Council heard a presentation from St. Francis in late August proposing a three-way collaboration to fund and operate EMS. In early September, council approved a resolution encouraging the two health systems to meet and determine a way to collaborate. Leaders of the health systems met in late September and reported they would reconvene for more discussion, according to St. Francis CEO Craig McCoy. In his letter to Kernell, Sinopoli wrote, “We believe it is in our residents’ best interests to maintain the present EMS system. This will preserve the high-quality EMS services currently in place and allow GHS to focus on advancing its population health efforts within the community.”

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“EMS is functioning at a very high level,” said Kernell, who added the county will continue to monitor effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which could have an impact on the business side of EMS operations.

This week, a practice of posting ambulances at gas stations to augment coverage was reversed to return the ambulances to fire stations, according to Ballard. The posting in other locations was a response to peak call volumes and may still happen, but not as frequently, Kernell said.

In the 2016 budget, EMS had added eight staff members and several vehicles, Kernell said. The county is investigating a partnership with a fire department in southern Greenville County to provide two ambulances and a quick response vehicle (QRV), he said.

County staff is also evaluating providing basic life support (BLS) services with a separate staff. The system now only offers advanced life support (ALS), he said.

Greenville County has a top-notch EMS now, said Councilman H.G. “Butch” Kirven, and can continue to operate as is for a time. Because of requirements under federal health reform, increasing costs are predicted to come, he said.

When the county can no longer afford to offer high-quality EMS service, changes may need to be made, he said. Taylor agreed that the issue might need to be revisited in the future.

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The City of Greenville will have a new type of left-turn traffic signal at the intersection of Laurens and Henderson roads.

The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) unveiled the new signal, called a Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA), in Columbia, and its use has since spread across the state.

The flashing yellow arrow is part of a four-section signal head that includes, from top to bottom, a steady red arrow, which means stop; a steady yellow arrow, which means drivers turning left should stop if safe to do so; a flashing yellow arrow, which means drivers may turn left but must first yield to on coming traffic and pedestrians; and a steady green arrow, which means drivers may turn left.

All new left-turn signals installed in the future on state roads in the city will be equipped with FYAs. According to Valerie Holmes, a city traffic engineer, the use of FYA left-turn signal heads is the result of a national study conducted for the Federal Highway Administration, which found that drivers made fewer mistakes with the new signals than with traditional left-turn arrow signals. In addition to increasing safety, the signals give traffic engineers more options to handle variable traffic volumes.

• The build-up of FOG can eventually block sewer lines, causing back-ups into your home.

• Simply pour FOG into an unwanted can, jar, or other container and throw into the trash.

The City of Mauldin has once again been named one of the safest cities in South Carolina, ranking fifth in a SafeWise Report released last week detailing the “30 Safest Cities in South Carolina.”

“Improving to fifth place from sixth place illustrates our city’s continuing efforts to promote a high quality of life and a safe community,” said public safety committee chair and Mayor Pro Tem Bob Cook.

SafeWise, a community-focused security organization, used the most recent FBI crime data from 2013 to analyze and rank cities, which all have a minimum population of 2,000 people.

CLEMSON AND BOB JONES BOOST RECYCLING Clemson University and Bob Jones University are among the top five colleges in the state for total recycling.

Bob Jones had the highest per capita recycling rate with 0.37 tons recycled per student/employee. Clemson had the most total recycled material of the 39 colleges and universities in the state that reported recycling data.

Clemson reported 3,565.73 tons. Coastal Carolina University came in second overall with 2,189.3 tons. Bob Jones was third with 1,535.88 tons. Medical University of South Carolina was fourth with 1,324.44 tons. University of South Carolina rounded out the top five with 1,112.33 tons.

The five universities together contributed about 68 percent of the material reported recycled by colleges and universities in the state.

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The magnet academies allow students specialized academic opportunities such as foreign language immersion, arts-integrated classes, International Baccalaureate programs or a focus on law or business.

The first application period runs through Nov. 24.

The district’s magnet schools are:

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Elementary: Blythe, foreign language; East North Street, mathematics and science with an emphasis on environmental studies; and Stone, communication arts.

Middle: Beck, International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program; Greenville Middle, global and traditional studies; Hughes, science and technology and partial Spanish immersion program for students who completed a similar program in elementary school; League, communication arts.

High: Carolina, engineering and health professions; Greenville, law, finance and business; J.L. Mann, math, science and technology; and Southside, International Baccalaureate.

Admission is open to all eligible students but spaces are limited. Students may apply to more than one magnet academy.

Applications are scored based on attendance, discipline, grade average or student interview for kindergarten through second-graders, and a student statement indicating why the student would like to attend.

A lottery system is used when applicants outnumber available slots.

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14 SCHOOLS START AUTOMATIC FREE BREAKFAST Students at 14 schools in Greenville County will be eligible for free breakfast and lunch beginning in December.

Students at Alexander, Armstrong, Berea, Chandler Creek, Cherrydale, Duncan Chapel, East North Street, Grove, Hollis, Monaview, Slater-Marietta, Sue Cleveland and Westcliffe Elementary and Berea and Lakeview Middle schools will no longer have to fill out meal eligibility applications.

All students enrolled in those schools may participate in the breakfast and lunch program at no charge through a community eligibility program of the Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010. Grove, Thomas Kerns and Welcome Elementary and Tanglewood Middle schools already participate.

HALF IRON TRIATHLON TO SHOWCASE THE UPSTATE A new triathlon and running event are coming to Greenville on May 22.

Mountains to Main Street will consist of both the half iron distance triathlon and half marathon distance for runners. The triathlon will start at South Cove Park in Seneca and the half marathon will start at Trailblazer Park in Travelers Rest. Both races will finish in downtown Greenville on the TD Stage at the Peace Center Amphitheatre.

Retired professional cyclist George Hincapie said, “I’m so excited that a half iron distance triathlon is coming to Greenville to showcase our lakes, mountains and city.

I look forward to coming out and supporting it.”

The swim and first transition will be held at South Cove Park on Lake Keowee. The cycling will take athletes from Seneca along rural Pickens and Oconee County roadways before finishing at the second transition in Travelers Rest.

Runners in both the triathlon and half marathon will finish with a 13.1-mile course on the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail and around the campus of Furman University.

Mountains to Main Street will raise charitable funds for SaBaR Charities. Registration information and additional event details are available at MountainstoMainStreet.org.

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PRESCHOOL TEACHER CHARGED WITH ASSAULT The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office arrested and charged a Fuller Normal School teacher with third-degree assault and battery for an act against a student.

Kathy Higgins Gilliam, 56, of Greer, grabbed and pulled one of her student’s ears on Sept. 22, according to a warrant.

Reports say the school fired Gilliam after learning about the incident.

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Campus beauty Furman turning heads nationally and internationally CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@commu nityjournals.com Furman University’s campus beauty is turning heads – again.

With iconic spots such as the Bell Tower, the James B. Duke Library, a mall and its fountains, accolades for the splendor of the university’ campus are nothing new for Furman.

Several lists, ranging from Best College Reviews to the American Society of Landscape Architects, have recognized the beauty that Furman students and Greenville-area residents experience every day. The latest is the education research site, StartClass, which listed Furman as 23rd on its list of most beautiful college campuses. The StartClass list is limited to colleges and universities in the United States.

But Furman’s campus is now getting international attention, thanks to a recent posting on Buzzfeed that ranked Furman 19th most beautiful worldwide, joining schools from countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland and South Korea.

The international list’s Top 10 included Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla.; the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa; Stanford University; Iowa State in Ames, Iowa; Trinity College in

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Dublin; Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J.; Elon University in North Carolina; Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia; and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

The international list’s top beauty is just north of Rome. Not Italy, but Georgia.

Berry College, a private, four-year liberal arts college, has an eagle cam website that received more than 31 million hits last year.

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A silver anniversary on the green

Thornblade Club celebrates 25 years with commemorative book CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com A mile-high idea conceived by some Greenville businessmen in a Beechcraft Baron twin-engine plane on a trip home from a Sunday golf trip nearly three decades ago helped transform some land around Devenger Road into The Thornblade Club.

“Thornblade is only 25 years old, but there’s a lot of history packed into those 25 years,” said Grant Burns, a former Thornblade board member and author of “Thornblade Club: The First 25 Years” to commemorate the club’s silver anniversary. The book goes on sale to the public on Nov. 13.

When the foursome of Champ Covington, Joe Jelks, Irv Welling and Barton Tuck talked about developing a new residential golf community in Greenville, the Greenville Country Club had a wait list that stretched more than seven years.

Covington, who had served on the club’s Board of Governors and as the president of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, had suggested the country

club set aide a few memberships for top executives of business prospects for Greenville’s economic growth. The idea was shot down.

A year earlier, Covington had met professional golfer and Greenville resident Jay Haas, Burns said. Haas had missed the cut in the U.S. Open at Shinnecock

Charlotte businessman John Harris (left), who developed the Pelham Green area near The Parkway and Pelham Road, when the late Champ Covington (right) approached him about plans to develop a golf course and residential development. Harris became the fourth official member of the development team, joining Covington, Irv Welling and Joe Jells.

Hills Golf Club in New York and was trying to rearrange travel plans home when then-Greenville News sports reporter Dan Foster told him a man from Greenville was waiting outside the locker

room to talk to him. Haas wasn’t in the mood to talk to a stranger, Burns said, until Foster told him the man (Covington) had a private plane and was heading home that night.

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Irv Welling, Joe Jelks and Champ Covington talk about developing a new residential golf community in Greenville.

Thornblade hosts BMW Charity ProAm for first time.

Thornblade golf course undergoes its first major renovation.

1987 1988 1988 1989 1990 1996 1999 2001 2008 2010 Plans for First house Thornblade completed in Club unveiled to Thornblade. invitation-only group at the Hyatt Regency ballroom.

Tennis center and pool opens.

Golf course opens.

Flood closes golf course’s front nine for much of summer (bottom photo, opposite page).

Clubhouse burns (top photo, opposite page).

New clubhouse opens.

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Two of golf’s top golf course architects – Tom Fazio and Rees Jones – agreed to meet with the principals about building a golf course on property originally slated to become the Sycamore Ridge subdivision. Fazio, who had recently moved to Hendersonville, N.C., visited first and was hired on the spot.

The project now had one of golf’s top architects and one of the top players in the world on board. Its name was chosen five weeks before an invitation-only gala where the plans would be revealed.

The Thornblade Club’s tennis center and pool opened on July 22, 1989. The golf course opened for member play on April 1, 1990. The clubhouse burned in 1999 and a bigger one was built in its place.

The first Thornblade Classic, a charity event featuring golf and tennis, was held in 1992. One of the participating golfers, Fred Couples, had won the Masters a few weeks earlier. Tennis players Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Cliff Drysdale and Fred Stolle participated as well. The Blade Junior Classic, an event to showcase junior golf and fund scholarships for the South Carolina Junior Golf Association, started in 1999. Thornblade hosted the BMW Charity Pro-Am for the first time in 2008.

“Charitable giving is in Thornblade’s DNA,” Burns said.

Burns said at a time when golf courses are closing and being converted to other uses, Thornblade is well positioned for the next 25 to 50 years.

Thornblade “really has been a hub since it was built. The eastside and Pelham Road have grown up around it,” Burns said. “The growth of Greenville and Spartanburg is still booming and we’re right in the middle of it.”

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Recycled ride GTC students fixing car to give someone a needed lift CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Greenville Technical College auto body students need an opportunity to learn their trade with hands-on training on late-model vehicles. A person in Greenville lacks a reliable way to accomplish

everyday tasks like getting to work, grocery shopping, taking the kids to school.

“Recycled Rides” will help them all.

Through a Creative Inquiry class, four Greenville Tech students secured from an insurance company a car totaled for economic reasons. From there, the students will acquire the parts and paint needed to bring the car back to original equipment manufacturer specifications and organize a donation event for the chosen recipient.

“This will change someone’s life,” said Virginia Davis, one of the students. “A lot of people have no job because they don’t PHOTOS BY CINDY LANDRUM / STAFF

Greenville Tech auto body students (from left) Nikkie Sims, Josh Gilliam, Eden Mays and Virginia Davis work on repairs to a car that will eventually be donated to a family in need.

Greenville Tech auto body students Virginia Davis (left) and Eden Mays (right) work on a car as a part of their “Recycled Rides” Creative Inquiry class. A team of Tech students is repairing a car that an insurance company totaled because of the cost to fix it. It will be donated to someone in need.

have a way to get there.”

The students went to a local totaled car graveyard and picked out an Impala that had its radiator punctured and motor pushed back in a likely rear-end collision. Recycled Rides, a national program through which almost 1,000 vehicles have been donated to needy families since 2007, requires the car be 2005 or newer with no severe structural damage or airbag deployment.

The students will contact dealers to donate parts for the repairs that are estimated to cost more than $5,000.

They will choose a charity to chose the recipient. The students hope to present the car at the International Car Show in January.

“At the end of this project, a family in need will have practically a brand-new car,” said student Eden Mays. “Not only will we learn the entire process, we’re able to give back to the community at the same time.”

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Greenville Zoo gets South American exhibit BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

bjeffers@communityjournals.com The Greenville Zoo has a new exhibit featuring the grasslands in South

America.

The Greenville Zoo and Greenville Zoo Foundation held a grand opening last Friday of the new exhibit and dedicated a 6-by-6-foot mosaic of Joy, the elephant

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who resided at the Greenville Zoo from 1977 to 2014.

The Pampas exhibit is named for the flat, fertile grasslands in the southeast region of South America and will eventually represent the zoo’s largest mixedspecies exhibit to date focusing on an individual ecosystem.

A 90-pound anteater named Mochila is the first resident. Later this year the zoo will add rheas, which are large, flightless birds similar to a small ostrich.

Zoo administrator Jeff Bullock said the zoo plans to introduce additional South American species to the enclosure that will co-exist with the rest of the exhibit collection.

The scope of the exhibit project includ-

ed demolition of the old turtle pool and construction of a new plaza to serve as a gathering place for visitors.

The zoo launched the mosaic art project a year ago to give the community an opportunity to honor former residents Joy and Ladybird, and help raise funds for new exhibit space and elephant conservation efforts.

The completed mosaic is a compilation of nearly 1,500 individual tiles, and is located in a children’s play area across from the former elephant exhibit. The majority of the tiles were colored or painted by students from 25 different Greenville County schools, as well as children in the after-school programs at the city’s community centers.

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GAME ON

WITH VINCENT HARRIS

Good news and bad news for Tigers and Gamecocks Clemson and USC sure kept interesting last weekend. Next up:

USC VS. TENNESSEE, 4 P.M. SAT. NOV. 7

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The good news is that, for a team transitioning to a new coach and trying to mold a thirdstring quarterback into a starter, the Gamecocks looked pretty good against Texas A&M on Saturday, especially in the first half. They totaled a season-high 445 yards of offense, and running back Brandon Wilds came back from his rib injury spectacularly, rushing for 128 yards and two touchdowns.

The bad news is that A&M’s backup quarterback Kyler Murray decided to have a coming-out party all over the Carolina defense, throwing for 223 yards and rushing for 156. The game stayed close, but ultimately the Aggies were too

much for a still-young USC team. Perry Orth, in particular, looked shaky in the second half and ended up throwing an interception that iced the game.

The worse news for the Gamecocks is that it’s going to be about three weeks before they have a shot to win again. The steadily improving Tennessee Volunteers are always hungry to beat any team associated with the word “Spurrier,” and after they get done, the No. 11 Florida Gators will be patiently waiting at the Swamp.

One thing, though: Why is no one talking about removing the “Interim” from Head Coach Shawn Elliott’s job title? He has the passion, he has the team’s loyalty, he’s able to motivate good players to streaks of greatness, and he’s taken a season without a glimmer of hope and given it some life. I know that USC’s last two coaches were first-ballot Hall of Famers, but they were also at the tail end

of their careers. Why not inject some life and long-term stability into the program?

CLEMSON VS. FSU, 3:30 P.M. SAT. NOV. 7 Well, here it is.

As the veteran sportscasters say, it all comes down to this. Clemson faces the Florida State Seminoles, a team that has spent the last three seasons starring as the bane of the Tigers’ existence, and the barrier between Clemson and the next level.

Dabo, DeShaun and company are no doubt reeling from the nauseating rollercoaster ride that was their game at N.C. State last weekend, and they should be. It shouldn’t be possible for a quarterback to throw for 383 yards and five touchdowns and still have to look over his shoulder, but that’s exactly what the Wolfpack did to DeShaun Watson. Every time it looked like Clemson had put N.C. State away,

they’d score. Every time it seemed like quarterback Jacoby Brissett was headed for a sack or at least a few negative yards, he escaped and completed a daggerthrough-the-heart pass. The Tigers walked out of Carter-Finley Stadium with a win, but it was a 41-point wake-up call for the Clemson defense.

The good news is that Clemson tends to rebound fiercely after a good scare.

They’ve got the No. 5 defense in the nation, they’re playing at home, and they’ve got something to prove against Florida State.

I expect Shaq Lawson, Ben Boulware and Jayron Kearse to spend the day harassing either Everett Golson or Sean Maguire (whichever one plays) because they know – the whole team knows – that the whispers and doubts will quiet down significantly if they beat Florida State.

Vincent Harris covers music and sports for The Greenville Journal. He can be reached at vharris@communityjournals.com.

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On Friday, Oct. 23, CBT performed “Ghosts,� a frightfully unique, costumed fundraiser complete with ghosts, goblins and dance. Pictured above and right are Sam Chester and dancers.

Trace Johnson and Courtney Wallington (Right) Patrick and Jennifer Britt and Madeline and Matt Harvey

The Monster Mutt Mash brought a crew of costumed critters and their human compan downtown Greenville Oct. 24 for trick-or-treating at local businesses. Proceeds from th entry fees went to benefit Greenville Animal Care. Some participating dogs (pictured a currently available for adoption through Animal Care.

Michael Kaufmann, Jack Frasher, Pace Wills and Christopher Kaufmann trick or treating on Crescent Avenue.

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Jim Balderson of Greenville was the winner of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) 2015 sweepstakes. He accepted his prize, a Piper J3 C-65 Cub, in Oshkosh, Wis., before taking it on a 10-hour flight home.

Greenville County Animal Care recently held the inaugral Howl-o-Ween party. The winner, pictured here, earned first prize for his teddy bear costume.

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The Pink Tie Power Guy fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen SC Mountains to Midlands Foundation was held at On the Roxx in Greenville.

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Clemson wide receiver Deon Cain makes a touchdown catch.

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The Tigers beat the N.C. State Wolfpack 56-41 last Saturday in Raleigh.

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The fund is designed to help veterans and their spouses successfully re-enter the workforce. The money was made available to VSF through the Upstate Warrior Foundation and the Graham Foundation. Demonet established VSF in 2013 after seeing the high unemployment rate of veterans.

The Shannon Forest Christian School Class of 2016 recently posed for the traditional senior picture at Windy Gap. The photo was taken at the school’s annual spiritual retreat for seventh- through 12th-graders in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Christ Church Episcopal School students worked at the Humane Society during the school’s Spirit Week Service Day. The Upper School dismissed at noon that day and sent students to more than 15 different locations to serve the community.

Southside Christian School will host an Open House and Campus Tours on Nov. 6 at 8:45 a.m. Please arrive early for registration. Visitors will have a chance to meet the superintendent and principals and ask questions about various programs. Anyone interested in learning more about Southside Christian School is invited to attend.

As part of their eighth-grade English class, four of Maisie Hansen’s classes at Riverside Middle School submitted essays to the South Carolina State Fair. The competition asked students to write a persuasive essay on why their grandparent should be chosen Grandparent of the Year. Tori Greene’s essay won her grandfather, Wayne Harrington, this distinction. She won the contest for students ages 14 to 18. Greene and her grandfather were honored at a ceremony at the State Fair.

Bob Jones University’s Alumni Association named Mike Miller of Greenville as its 2015 Alumnus of the Year. Miller graduated from BJU with an accounting degree in 1976. In 1982, he co-founded PlanFIRST, a financial planning and management firm that today manages more than $300 million in client assets. He has also been involved in the Greenville community serving as president of the Civitan Club, a board member of Grace Harbor Ministries, a church deacon and elder, and involved in various financial planning and professional associations. He serves as host of “Talking Money,” a live call-in radio show. He supported BJU by serving on the President’s Advisory Council, as a sponsor and tournament committee member of the BJUSF Golf Tournament. He is a charter Bruins Booster.

St. Joseph’s Catholic School and Christ Church Episcopal School celebrated the culmination of their joint “Together Greenville” spirit week with a donation to St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School totaling $41,000. The two schools hosted a 5K Color Run, multiple spirit nights at local restaurants, a roller skating night, a Powderpuff game and several other activities.

Student Council Presidents Teddy Snow and Austin Ferrell from SJCS and CCES presented the Spirit Week check to a St. Anthony’s of Padua Catholic School student.

Asher Getz, a fifth-grader at Stone Academy of Communication Arts, spent his fall break in Columbia, S.C., with his family and members of his church providing relief to victims of the recent floods.

Christ Church Episcopal School ninth-graders went to Harvest Hope during their Spirit Week Service Day where they packed 600 boxes in 45 minutes, breaking a record.

Students from Steffanie Martin’s second-grade class at Taylors Elementary have fun in The Children’s Museum of the Upstate’s wind tunnel during a recent field trip. u Ron Demonet, managing director of Veteran Scholarships Forever (VSP), has added $20,000 to a scholarship fund at Greenville Technical College.

The Bob Jones Academy Middle School Lions soccer team finished the regular season as the No. 2 team in the Carolina Middle School Conference (CMSC). After two consecutive victories in the consolation game and two consecutive third-place trophies in previous years, the Lions were determined to earn a spot in the championship game this year. Their quest for a championship began with a 5-0 playoff game victory over Spartanburg Day School and ended with a penalty kicks-win in the championship game over Mitchell Road Christian Academy.

Bell’s Crossing Elementary Principal Mr. Chris Ross performs a trick with Harlem Globetrotter Kris “Hi-Lite” Bruton from Greer. Bruton was at Bell’s Crossing to speak to the first and second graders about bullying.

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The Bob Jones University delegation to the South Carolina Student Legislature (SCSL) was named “Best Medium Delegation” during the fall SCSL session.

The delegation, chaired by junior Margaret Stegall of Greenville, is comprised of Kristen Ince of Simpsonville, Will Peek of Greenville, Nate Hudson of Greenville, Nikki Arnold of Brook, Indiana, Elliott Kelley of Easley, Seth Sanders of Independence, Missouri, Kacey Nanney of Greenville, Hannah Zakaria of Burke, Virginia, Sam Martinez of College Point, New York and Josh Strubel of Mauldin. Kristen Ince, BJU senior and outgoing President Pro Tempore of the SCSL Senate, was awarded SCSL’s highest award, The Carlisle Award, named in honor of SCSL’s founder, Dr. Douglas Carlisle. Stegall and Hudson were elected to serve as Speaker of the House and Comptroller General respectively, while Nikki Arnold was honored with the “Best Legislation” award for her legislation which dealt with domestic violence. Ten colleges and universities throughout South Carolina participated in the session.

Cherrydale Elementary School Student Council officers 20152016 are Fifth-Grade Vice President Ashley Romero Garcia; Fifth-Grade President Alexandra Cardenas; Student Body Vice-President Jamijah Austin; Student Body President Tameia Tate; Fourth-Grade President Nevaeh Chapman; Fourth-Grade Vice President Virengia Houston; and Student Body Treasurer Zion Miller (Not pictured: Student Body Secretary Za’Cariaha Thompson)

On Oct. 24, the Greenville Chorale, along with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and Chicora Voices, presented “Serenade and Songs” at the Peace Center Concert Hall. Chicora Voices is conducted by Stone Academy’s music teacher, Laura Jean Reed. Participating in the concert were Stone students Joseph Bibb and Poppy Hinson. Participating Stone alumni were Hazel Curran, Sara Dorsey, Sam Guza, Kiegan Lynch, William Oros, Madison Powers and Alden Wise.

Students in Julie Sellars’ Shannon Forest Christian School’s Enrichment Cluster class made colorful flowerpots that will be taken to Gardens at Eastside by sixth-grade BRIDGES students. Pictured are: (front row) Wyatt Sivori , Gabby Thompson, Leah Tysinger, Kaylee Meyer, Addison Lopez, Cate Malone and Ali Ruth Armfield. Back row: Kyle Kivett, Ella Mitchell and Aubrie Bolding.

Southside Christian School recently inducted new members into its National Honor Society, National Junior Honor Society and Beta Club. Twenty new National Honor Society members and 58 new National Junior Honor Society members were inducted. The NHS and NJHS membership is recognition for students who reflect outstanding accomplishments in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service. Students must have at least a 3.8 GPA for NHS and a 91.38 average for the year for NJHS. The BETA Club inducted 66 new members. BETA membership is for qualified juniors and seniors who have completed at least one semester at SCS and have a minimum 3.4 GPA and fulfill all academic, leadership, service and character requirements.

Chrissy Layton’s K3 class at St. Mary’s School has had a very busy fall working on numbers, patterns, letters, sounds and Spanish with weekly themes on family, good hygiene, healthy eating, fire safety, fall and their five senses. K3 student Stone Barrett works on his fall leaf.

Jane Cooper’s first-grade students at Sara Collins Elementary School wrote an email to Mayor Knox White, who came to visit the students to answer their questions. u

Shannon Forest Christian School teachers Jen Malone and Stephanie Web taught an Enrichment Cluster class called #thecraftycru. Students painted original Crusader masterpieces. Pictured are: (back row) Camden Bennett, Daniel Henao, Asher Wynn, Brock Hinson, Seth Ryman, James Nickles and Andrew MacMeccan. (front row) Anna Ward, Anna Marina Segars, Rachel Jue, Rebecca Smart, Siana Schlegel, Marley Vose and Delaney DeJong.

Each nine weeks, homeroom teachers at Stone Academy nominate one student for the Terrific Kids Program recognition. Teachers elect a student who is not only improving academically but who also demonstrates good character and citizenship. The recognition program was held on Oct. 27. Terrific Kids for the first nine EDUCATION continued on PAGE 32

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weeks were Macy Coler, Finley Otto, Nate Johnson, Zaier Jenkins, Olivia Shirley, Joe Stewart, Gabriel De La Garza, Annabel Hall, Jack Bradley, Michael Williams, Eden Vicary, Troy Sweet, Lucien Biggerstaff, Antonia Downs, Cayden Passannante, Sitka Arnold, Haley Helms, Alexander Klapperich, Devrin Burris, Rachel Greene, Campbell Thompson, Ivan Barest and Cami Achterhoff.

the classroom. The BJA faculty and staff planted and built learning areas where students could extend classroom learning. QR codes located through BJA’s courtyard garden allow students to link information correlating with various plants and features, and use their devices to interact with features, a garden and weather equipment. A website enlightens students to plants, wildlife and aquatics in the courtyard.

The Shannon Forest Christian School Crusader Club will once again be selling Roebuck Greenhouse poinsettias for the Christmas season. Orders will be due on Monday, Nov. 23. Delivery will be on Monday, Nov. 30. Order forms are available online at shannonforest.com or in any school office.

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Ellen Woodside kicked off Red Ribbon Week with athletes from Woodmont High School and Upstate Karate teachers Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson and Ray Thompson. Basketball and baseball players from WHS gave every student at Ellen Woodside a red ribbon to wear throughout the week.

They talked to students about the meaning of wearing a red ribbon. The students also learned about the importance of being healthy, respectful and drug free during a presentation given by the Thompsons from Upstate Karate.

Bob Jones Academy band and chorus students performed with the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus during their community concert held in Rodeheaver Auditorium on the Bob Jones University campus. The students were able to perform with the band and chorus for a number during the program that featured varied selections. Daniel Leedy (euphonium), Bryn Carrier (oboe) and Ethan Thompson (trumpet) played with the U.S. Army Field Band while Lyndsie Gray, Elliott Martin, Emaley Fuller and Jared Miller sang in the chorus. The Concert Band and Soldiers’ Chorus are the oldest and largest of The U.S. Army Field Band’s performing components.

In preparation for an upcoming trade show in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., Greer High’s Virtual Enterprise class toured TPM Inc. to help them come up with ideas for the booth display for the trade show. Students in Brad Redd’s VE class this year are: Hannah Bailey, Makenzie Cain, Ghaliyah Cohen, Dylan DeHaven, Cassey Freeman, Noah Hannon, Tori Henderson, Mesia Morris, Houston Osborne and Kristin Thomas.

Bob Jones Academy was awarded the Technology Innovation Program (TIP) Award at the elementary school level by the South Carolina Association for Educational Technology (SCAET) for its innovative technological interactive environment. The award was presented during the annual SC Educational Technology Conference (SC EdTech 2015) in Charleston. BJA’s innovative technology program, known as “Learning Beyond the Walls,” highlighted the use of an educationally technological interactive environment outside

Stone Academy hosted its main fundraiser, the Boosterthon Fun Run. Boosterthon is a nine-day program where families collect pledges for every lap their student runs. The fundraiser was celebrated with a Fun Run on Friday, Oct. 30, which included a color run for the fourth and fifth grades.

Donations from Boosterthon will go towards an outdoor art studio at Stone.

Hughes Academy’s sixthgrade team visits fifthgraders at local elementary schools each week. Hughes believes the transition to middle school is one of the toughest times in a child’s life.

The team works a year in advance to build relationships with parents and students to make the transition to middle school as smooth as possible.

Carrie McCain, a sixth-grade counselor at Hughes Academy, poses with Evie Frank, a fifth-grader at Augusta Circle Elementary.

Furman University education professor Judy Stuart, Ph.D., has been awarded the inaugural James H. Smart Award by Furman’s Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection. Presented annually to a Furman faculty or staff member, the Jim Smart Award is designed to promote encouragement of vocational exploration and reflection by Furman students, and to recognize those who exemplify this work in their teaching, advising, mentoring, service, public engagement and other aspects of their roles at the university. The award celebrates the memory of Jim Smart, a longtime Furman history professor (1967-1995) who died in 2013. Smart was known for his passion for teaching and learning, his dedication to student development, and the importance he placed on students’ exploration of values and purposeful living. Dr. Stuart is an associate professor and the coordinator of special education programs for the education department at Furman. Stuart also coordinates programs and advises students seeking an education major without certification as preparation for non-teaching fields.

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Greenville Health System reports it is on the verge of meeting an $80 million philanthropy goal in its Campaign for the Second Century: Transforming Health Care. Funds raised through the campaign will strengthen clinical care programs and expand academic and research programs. Campaign chairman Jerry Dempsey announced $72 million has been raised to date and the campaign will meet its goal before its 2017 anticipated end date.

The Greenville League of Women Voters celebrated Estelle Ross’s membership of 50 years.

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Co-president Kathleen Kempe (left) presented Ross with a certificate and pin from the national League Office.

The Greater Greenville Association of Realtors will present $9,000 to each of the two charities supported by the Community Service Committee: The Frazee Dream Center and

Rebuild Upstate. The presentation will be held at a Mix and Mingle event on Dec. 1. For more information, visit ggar.com or email connie.winslow@ggar. com to RSVP. In honor of Veterans Day, Beef Jerky Outlet is collecting bags of beef jerky to donate to local troops ahead of the holiday season when many troops will not be able to spend time with their families. The outlet is collecting jerky in a barrel at the front of the store throughout November and December. Customers will receive 10 percent off bags they choose to donate.

The United Way of Greenville County is making a final push toward its 2015 campaign goal with a textto-give option. Donors can text UWGC to 41444 to join the #IGaveHere campaign. They will receive a link to complete an online pledge card. Donors choose the amount, and whether they want to make a one-time donation or set up installments. United Way asks donors share their support by using #IGaveHere.

Last year, United Way fell short of its $17 million goal with a final total of $16.6 million. Organizers hope the text campaign will reach a new audience and push the campaign over its goal. Results will be announced on Nov. 19.

The University of South Carolina and Clemson University launched the Certified SC Grown Palmetto Series Food Drive to benefit Harvest Hope Food Bank and tackle hunger. Donations can be made at on-campus collection points or online. The winner of the matchup will be announced at the Clemson vs. Carolina football game on Nov. 28. Visit harvesthope.org and click Events for program details and to donate online.

Greenville Women Giving (GWG) announced it is changing its 2016 grant-making process to award grants totaling $100,000 in each of five funding areas: arts, education, the environment, health and human services. If GWG has funds in excess of $500,000 to award, the excess will be divided equally among the areas. Grants will continue to be $40,000 to $100,000 each. Nonprofit organizations serving Greenville County are encouraged to apply at greenvillewomengiving.org/grants by Jan. 8, 2016, for the 2016 grants.

As part of its 10-year anniversary celebration, GWG’s membership goal is 500 members, with each contributing $1,000 to the grant pool. GWG is open to all women who commit to the annual contribution.

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In fall, nature is queen There is so much to do in the yard and in the garden right now it can make your head spin, but the way my grandmother taught me to keep up with all the yard chores is to break them down, one side of the house at a time. The four directions keep me on track so that I am not wandering around my yard doing a little here and a little there. I tackle one direction a week, and you would be amazed how this helps me keep some semblance of order.

When I focus on my garden and what is happening there, nothing else seems to distract me. Have you ever noticed that when you walk your garden? Peace of mind is just one additional benefit to being in the garden. There are no failures in the garden. Your results become your teacher.

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Radicchio, kale and lettuce

PROTECT PLANTS FROM THE COLD Vegetable gardening into the colder months is possible if you have planted your seeds already. Now you can plan to protect your plants from frost and frigid winds, which are the gardens’ nemesis. (Frost can oc-

cur any time after Oct. 15 ). By now, we already have had some lower nighttime temperatures.

Keep in mind that soil temperature is what matters. I take the high of the day and the low of night, add them, divide them, and get my average mean soil temperature. Not like baking a roast with a thermometer, but it is a rule of thumb. That is why veggies can continue to grow as long as the soil has some warmth in it.

What makes some of these seasonal vegetables hold on through the winter if properly protected and nurtured is that they are biennial – the plant intuitively plans to hang on through the winter so they can complete their inherent life cycle by setting seed next summer. I find that fascinating because it shows the life force in the plant.

You will find an amazing amount of information online about covering your veggie beds to protect them from frost. Go to Google and search using the words “hoop gardening covers.” Trust me and do it now, as frost can sneak up on you and all it takes is one cold night to nip the lettuce and it will be gone. Be ready and be prepared.

VARIETY IS KEY Planted now in my fall garden and doing well are arugula, beets, two types of turnips (one for greens and one for bulbs), collards, savoy cabbage, carrots, radishes, lots of La-

An overview of the garden in October.

cianto Kale, Scottish Kale, spinach, chard, scallions, garlic, cilantro, several types of lettuce Green beans and one row of snap beans that are just now setting flowers. Successive plantings yield lettuce well into December.

Beet thinning serves as additional greens for the salad.

I have picked my first batch of turnip greens, which I simmered with spinach and cabbage. Delicious! My family called the broth made from the greens “pot liquor,” and I can still see my Dad smiling as he soaked it up with his cornbread. Turnip greens and collards taste best after a good frost. Anyone know why?

The rest of the garden lends much interest and attention as well. I have been busy bringing in tools, sharpening blades, coiling hoses, bringing in houseplants, properly storing clay pots, and creating my fall container gardens. As you walk the garden, you will see weeds popping up wherever you have not properly mulched. I, for one, have lots of chickweed popping up. You can eat the fresh green leaves of chickweed in your salad, or just pull it up before it goes to seed.

MULCH ADO But the perfect opportunity for free mulch comes from the falling leaves in the yard. I mow over them, bag them and store the bags away in a discreet location until spring – or you can spread the chopped leaves now over your beds. You can add leaves to the compost pile as well. If you are saving your grass

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clippings, which I do, just note that you should not compost grass that has been fed with weed and feed for three mowings. The weed killer in the fertilizer may harm your plants.

PLAN AHEAD FOR BULBS You can also be planting bulbs, bulbs and more bulbs. Tulips as a rule don’t come back after they bloom in the spring here in Greenville. But if your budget allows, they are gorgeous. Tulips require a plan, as they come in many different heights, and bloom times. So plan in your mind’s eye where you want your bulbs and then start digging.

I like to put some bone meal in the hole before I plant the bulb. I love daffodils, jonquils and narcissus bulbs, as they come back here every year and continue to multiply. More is better, right?

Visit your local nurseries for many fresh ideas on how to use bulbs in the landscape, in the container garden and your home.

Kathy Slayter is a Greenville Realtor and third-generation gardener who became a Clemson-certified Master Gardener in 2007.

She has worked her own garden on Greenville’s Eastside for more than 20 years and is passionate about growing, cooking and eating her homegrown food. .

Allee' of camellias with Fatsia in bloom

CAMELLIAS ARE FEAST FOR THE EYES One other plant in the garden I have to mention is the camellia. Only your eyes can eat it. They are loaded with buds or blooms now. I am familiar with two types of camellias; one is called sasanqua and the other is japonica. Within these types are a multitude of colors, sizes and shapes. They stay green all year so they make great hedge plants or specimen plants. Sasanqua’s flowering can dominate a fall landscape. I have an allee of white single bloom sasanquas that now tower about 15

feet tall on the side of my home. When they bloom and the wind blows, the petals fall to the brick walkway below and it looks like it has snowed.

Understanding the life cycle of a plant helps me to focus on the energies and the life force of nature ever present and influencing my life at all times, even when I don’t acknowledge it. Nature is truly the queen right now, putting on a splendid show of sight and color. Robed in ruby-colored dawns, golden afternoons, royal purple evenings and crys-

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R E A L E S TAT E N E W S Pending Home Sales Lose Further Steam in September

Pending home sales cooled in September for the second straight month and to their second lowest index reading in 2015, according to the National Association of Realtors®. All four major regions experienced a pullback in activity in September.

The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward–looking indicator based on contract signings, declined 2.3 percent to 106.8 in September from a slightly downwardly revised 109.3 in August but is still 3.0 percent above September 2014 ( 103.7 ). With last month’s decline, the index is now at its second lowest level of the year ( 103.7 in January), but has still increased year–over–year for 13 straight months.

Matthew Thrift, 2015 President of The Greater Greenville Association of Realtors® and Broker-in-Charge of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices in Simpsonville, SC, says a combination of factors likely led to September’s dip in contract signings. “There continues to be a dearth of available listings in the lower end of the market for first–time buyers, and Realtors® in many areas are reporting stronger competition than what’s normal this time of year because of stubbornly–low inventory conditions,” he said. “Additionally, the rockiness in the financial markets at the end of the summer and signs of a slowing U.S. economy may be causing some prospective buyers to take a wait–and–see approach.”

Despite contract activity softening from the more robust levels seen earlier this year, Thrift believes the housing market will still likely be one of the brighter spots in the economy in coming months.

“With interest rates hovering around 4 percent, rents rising at a near 8–year high, and job growth holding strong — albeit at a more modest pace than earlier this year — the overall demand for buying should stay at a healthy level despite some weakness in the overall economy.”

The PHSI in the Northeast fell 4.0 percent to 89.6 in September, but is still 3.9 percent above a year ago. In the Midwest the index declined 2.5 percent to 104.7 in September, but remains 4.3 percent above September 2014.

Pending home sales in the South decreased 2.6 percent to an index of 118.3 in September and are now 0.1 percent below last September. The index in the West inched back 0.2 percent in September to 104.4, but is still 6.6 percent above a year ago.

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An inside look Open Studios gives public a chance for a peek at Greenville’s growing visual arts scene CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF

clandrum@communityjournals.com Jim Campbell has noticed a difference in some of his conversations with visitors to his studio over the years he has participated in Greenville Open Studios.

Campbell was among the handful of artists gathered around a breakfast table 15 years ago when one floated the idea of Greenville artists jointly opening their studios on the same weekend and inviting the public in to see where and how they worked. From Day One, he has participated in every Greenville Open Studios, now in its 14th year as the premier showcase weekend for Greenville’s visual artists.

So you know WHAT: Greenville Open Studios WHO: 133 artists WHERE: Within a 15-mile radius from downtown Greenville WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 7, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 8, noon to 6 p.m.

INFORMATION: Metropolitan Arts Council, 467-3132 or greenvillearts.com.

“In the first years, we had to do a lot of technical explanations.

We still do,” Campbell said. “But those who attend Open Studios now seem to have a broader background about techniques, and there’s more discussion about our specific take on things.”

This weekend, 133 artists will participate in Open Studios, which is organized by the Metropolitan Arts Council.

“Open Studios has catalyzed public interest in the visual arts,” said Alan Ethridge, MAC’s executive director. “There has been such an explosion of awareness of the arts community in the last decade.

Having a greater understanding of the creative processes drives appreciation of what the life of an artist is all about.”

Demystifying the artistic process was one of the goals of the artists who originated the idea for Open Studios.

Last year’s events attracted nearly 45,000 studio visits, Ethridge said, and more than $215,000 in art was purchased as a direct result. Since 2002, the first year of the event, participating artists have recorded more than $2.2 million in sales as a result of Open Studios.

“It’s a testament to the community’s interest in the visual arts,” he said.

Twenty-six artists are participating in Open Studios for the first time this year, including Amy Panosian, a painter

Lynn Greer (Watercolor)

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Marty Epp-Carter (Printmaker)

whose studio is in Greer.

“I have been a visitor to Open Studios for several years, and I love the idea of people buying local art,” she said.

“Greenville Open Studios 2015 is my first major push to get my art out in the community.”

Artists participating this year represent all visual art mediums, including painting, printmaking, jewelry, glass, sculpture, multimedia, clay, drawing, furniture making, photography, metalsmithing and textiles.

All of the studios are within a 15-mile radius of downtown Greenville.

Open Studios hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Some studios may be open on Friday night during First Fridays.

The free, self-guided tour of the studios gives people an opportunity to see art being made and ask questions of the artists.

Some artists will have works in various stages of completion to illustrate their artistic process, while others will actually perform demonstrations.

Photographer Brian Hiott, who has a studio in Taylors Mills, has participated in two previous Open Studios.

“It gives me great pleasure to have so many people in my studio to show them my processes and have them witness them firsthand,” he said. “They all seem to enjoy the interaction, and most visi-

Details GETTING AROUND Several tools are available to help Open Studio visitors select the studios they want to visit.

THE WEBSITE The Metropolitan Arts Council’s website at greenvillearts.com has complete information about Open Studios

THE CATALOG A catalog listing directions to all of the participating artists’ studios, websites and an example of their work – complete with maps – is available at the MAC office at 16 Augusta St.

THE MOBILE APP A Web application with all of the information in the catalog can be downloaded at greenvillearts.com.

OPEN STUDIOS EXHIBIT: “A TwelveInch Program,” displays one 12-inch by 12-inch work by each Open Studios artist for browsing in the MAC gallery through Dec. 18. tors are very curious about my traditional photography methods.”

JoAnn Taylor, a painter whose studio is in Easley and a participant in every Open Studios held so far, said, “Greenville Open Studios has come a long way in 14 years – every year there are new artists and the publicity is great. The camaraderie among participating artists is also very important, as it strengthens our arts community.”

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“The plan for the music is to widen the palette.”

Wes Gilliam, new majority owner of Independent Public Alehouse

Wes Gilliam, at Greenville’s Radio Room.

Man with a plan Wes Gilliam takes on a new musical challenge: the Independent Public Alehouse VINCENT HARRIS | CONTRIBUTOR

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For almost five years, talent booker Wes Gilliam has been bringing cuttingedge music to Greenville’s Radio Room on Pleasantburg Drive. On any given night, you could see up-and-comers like Brigades, SUSTO and Cusses, up close, at a low ticket price.

Gilliam quickly used the contacts he made booking bands at the Radio Room to expand beyond its confines, creating the daylong HeyLook Music Festival and co-hosting a monthly concert series at Zen Greenville through his event production company, HeyLook Entertainment.

But as the bands he booked started to outgrow the Radio Room’s capacity, Gilliam began looking for a larger space.

That’s where the Independent Public Alehouse comes into the picture.

For the past two years, IPA owners Allen McKenna and Michele Golobic-Moore (and a series of talent buyers) had tried to do what no one else had been able to do with the Poinsett Highway space: make it consistently successful. Despite the venue’s near-300-capacity size, and performers of note like Larry Keel and Col. Bruce Hampton, IPA was struggling financially.

“It seemed like it was the same bands over and over,” Gilliam says. “I felt like they hadn’t really learned to harness live music as an opportunity or a mutu-

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ally advantageous thing. I thought, ‘Man, if they just had the right music there, they’ve already got a great bar staff and a great kitchen. If the food and beverage programs are great, that’s two out of three. They just have to get the music program up and running.’”

And so after a few weeks of negotiations and a significant financial investment, Wes Gilliam has left the Radio Room and is now the majority owner of Independent Public Alehouse.

“There’s nothing malicious about [leaving Radio Room],” he says. “I’ve just hit the ceiling. I’m limited by the capacity, which dictates size of stage, size of PA, fulfilling contract riders, etc. There are so many bands that I’ve worked with, like Brigades and Islander, who have outgrown the venue, and it’s bad business to hand them off to somebody else.”

Gilliam says his vision for IPA is based on another well-known venue in Columbia.

“My goal has always been to do a New Brookland Tavern-type venue,” he says.

“The plan for the music is to widen the palette. In the past, it’s been a very jamband-centric kind of thing, which is great, but we’re going to be bringing in bigger and more competitive acts across the spectrum of music.”

The process of turning IPA into that kind of a venue is going to take some time, and Gilliam is taking a pragmatic approach.

“The idea is: Don’t spend dumb money,” he says. “Make very conscious decisions. You have to be conscious of the market. You need to be realistic about goals.”

Gilliam says that the day-to-day look and feel of IPA will generally remain the

same, though he is planning a new paint job for the concert area of the venue, along with some improved sound. “It already sounds great, but we need to refine it.”

IPA will host a few more shows booked before Gilliam became an owner, meaning his vision won’t really begin to take shape until mid-December. But he’s confident that his four years at the Radio Room have given him the foundation and word-of-mouth he needs among local and regional musicians.

“Bands are looking for consistency,” he says, “and they’re looking to build relationships. I’ve developed a reputation as someone who gets back to you immediately, answers your questions and maintains an open line of communication. As long as you do that, people will want to work with you.”

Given that this is Gilliam’s first move from employee to owner, it seemed logical to wonder if he was a little hesitant to make this move.

“Oh, there’s fear,” he says with a laugh.

Independent Public Alehouse on Poinsett Higway.

“If there wasn’t, I’d be blind. But over the last few years, without being an owner, I’ve done a lot of preaching about how things should be at a music venue; I’ve done so much of that. And now I have to practice what I preach. There’s no more time to be scared. It’s time to go to work.”

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Page turners

Creepy, squirmy and gross Books that appeal to that yuck factor kids love

Have you ever wanted to live in the past? If so, you may just change your mind when you read “Ick! Yuck! Eew! Our Gross American History” by Lois Miner Huey.

Crossword puzzle: page 54

Sudoku puzzle: page 54

In this book, you’ll learn that things probably weren’t all that great a few hundred years ago. The smells were horrible, bugs were everywhere, germs spread awful diseases, and the clothes were extremely uncomfortable, dirty and just plain nasty. Take a trip through time in “Ick! Yuck! Eew! Our Gross American History” and decide if you’d really like to live in the past. Maybe the present isn’t so bad after all.

This book is sure to be a hit with elementary and middle grade readers. Kids like gross stuff, and this book has it in spades. It’s interesting, entertaining and full of yucky facts (and illustrations) that will make young readers either laugh out loud or get a little sick. Maybe both. Either way, kids may read this and appreciate how far things like hygiene and medicine have come.

“Ick! Yuck! Eew! Our Gross American History” is an essential book for studies of early American history, scientific advances or comparisons of early life to the modern day. The book is also a nominee for the 2015-16 South Carolina Children’s Book Award.

If you like “Ick! Yuck! Eew!,” give these books a peek: “What’s for Dinner? Quirky, Squirmy Poems from the Animal World” by Katherine B. Hauth and David Clark “I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History’s Strangest Cures” by Carlyn Beccia

“What If You Had Animal Teeth?”

by Sandra Markle

Reviewed by Kelly Knight, Fork Shoals School librarian. Visit her blog for young adult and middle grade readers at Knight Reader (knightreader.wordpress.com) and for the elementary-aged set Knight Reader Junior (knightreaderjunior.wordpress.com)

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Must-See Movies

By Eric Rogers

Going long

Join us!

The complex choreography of filming one continuous shot

Sandra Savell will share her story as caregiver for her mother and how it inspired her to write this book for you.

This week, I present several incredible long takes (meaning a sequence filmed in one uninterrupted shot during filmmaking).

As you watch them, keep in mind all that had to occur to make them work: The scene had to be lit in such a way that the studio lights would not be visible on camera. The focus had to be adjusted throughout the scene and the actors not only had to be choreographed, but they had to maintain character in the midst of so many technicians moving around them. In some cases, they had to trust that they weren’t going to be harmed by explosives, moving vehicles and animals.

“TOUCH OF EVIL” Directed by Orson Welles | bit.ly/TouchofEvil This is one of the most famous shots in movie history and perhaps the most famous long take. When the film was released in 1958, titles were placed over this shot, much to the dismay of Welles.

Welles wrote a letter to the studio protesting, but he was ignored.

Forty years later, the film was rereleased with the titles removed from this shot.

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“DURVAL DISCOS” Directed by Anna Muylaert | bit.ly/DurvalDiscosOpening This shot also serves as the opening title sequence, but it’s brilliantly done. The titles have been placed into the scene as street signs.

“I AM CUBA” Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov | bit.ly/IAMCuba This film has mostly been unknown to U.S. audiences. In this shot, the camera appears to have been placed on a cable so as to be transferred from one building to another.

“TRUE DETECTIVE” Created by Nic Pizzolatto| bit.ly/TrueDetectiveLongTake This shot from HBO’s first season of “True Detective” involves an amazingly choreographed fight scene where the camera travels from one house, over a fence and to the yards of several other houses. It took only six takes to get the one shot seen here.

“ATONEMENT” Directed by Joe Wright | bit.ly/AtonementLongTake This shot not only involved coordination from 1,300 human extras, but from nonhuman ones as well. It takes place in war-torn Dunkirk during World War II. “HARD BOILED” Directed by John Woo | bit.ly/HardBoiledLongTake If the camera work weren’t difficult enough, the gunplay and fight choreography are major feats on their own.

“CHILDREN OF MEN” Directed by Alfonso Cuaron bit.ly/ChildrenofMen This is the most impressive take I’ve ever seen, largely because it takes place in a car with several actors inside and multiple events going on outside the car.

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The Fire Tonight goes for ‘the weird stuff ’ In an increasingly fast-paced world where you only a have a few seconds to tell people what you’re all about, drummer Stephen Russ of the band The Fire Tonight has come up with a pretty attention-getting description of the trio’s music: “Rage Against the Machine as a piano trio, playing jazz,” he calls it.

Which is both catchy and a little misleading. What the band – Russ, singer/bassist Collin Derrick and keyboard player Jesse James – have done on their new, self-titled album does resemble RATM, but only in the jagged, coiled-spring riffs that James pounds out. Using Details the natural melodicism of James’ keyboards as a foundation, the band The Fire Tonight w/ Darby Wilcox has crafted a challenging but infecVENUE: Independent Public Alehouse, tiously melodic record of muscular 110 Poinsett Hwy., Greenville progressive rock, except that there’s DATE: Saturday, Nov. 7, 9 p.m. not a guitar in sight.

The album kicks off with a decep- TICKETS: $5 tively straightforward mood piece INFO: 864-552-1265; ipagreenville.com called “Vore” before veering off into impossibly complicated song structures (the incredibly-arranged “How then we put out ‘How Could Anyone Do Do You Wait” and the vertigo-inducing This?’ as a test-beacon of sorts to see “Suckerpunch”), free-jazz digressions how people responded to it and to us, (“The Space Interlude”), Pink Floydian, and to see how we might enjoy playing disturbingly quiet intensity (“Le Cote live again. And the second show we did, Sombre”) and even a nod to rap on “Don’t everything kind of clicked. The crowd Fear Failure,” which features MC Logic. was into it, and we were more into it than “Doing the weird stuff has always come we had been in a long time. So that really naturally to us,” says Russ, who also kicked off a flurry of writing new songs, co-produced “The Fire Tonight.” “We’re and we tested a lot of the new songs out very inspired by guys who don’t take a on the road, which we had never really traditional approach to music. What really done before. The whole process really rekicked it off for this record was that Jessie energized us and got us excited about came in with a couple of demos, including what we were doing musically.” the song that became ‘Suckerpunch,’ and When it came time to record the new that really set the tone for everything we songs, the band, who will play at the Inwrote. It was really fun to challenge each dependent Public Alehouse this Saturday, other and see what we could do, and also knew that they wanted to go in the oppoto write something really complex that site direction of their previous release. people would actually want to listen to.”

“We wanted to record it live with just The stripped-down trio setup is also a the three of us,” Russ says. “We hunkered far cry from their last album, 2013’s aptly down in Columbia with an analog tape titled “How Could Anyone Do This.” That machine and recorded all the instruments record was a kaleidoscope of different in a couple of days. We just cranked out styles featuring over 25 guest musicians the songs. We spent a lot of time perfect– and it was also probably going to be The ing the vocals, but the album-creation Fire Tonight’s last release. process had already happened by that “We were pretty much just writing point. There were no frills; we just wanted music and not touring,” Russ says. “And to put down what we were doing.”

NOT ALL STORIES ARE FOUND IN BOOKS. Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College Street Greenville, SC 29601 864.271.7570 gcma.org Wed - Sat 10 am - 6 pm Sun 1pm - 5 pm

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MEET ME AT THE MILL: FIRST FRIDAY AT GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS Nov. 6, 6-9 p.m. • Greenville Center for Creative Arts • 25 Draper St. Admission is free • 735-3948 • artcentergreenville.org Fun for the whole family at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts. Food trucks will be in the parking lot, dining on the patio, with King of Pops for dessert.

Visit the current show in the GCCA Gallery with a free kids activity. Continue the art adventure to the 2nd floor to meet 16 GCCA Studio Artists who call the GCCA home.

Nov. 6 BOOK SIGNING

Diane Chamberlain Talk and Book Signing Fiction Addiction 1175 Woods

Crossing Road 2 p.m. | $28.61 or $10 Perennially bestselling North Carolina author Diane Chamberlain will be discussing her new novel and store staff pick, “Pretending to Dance,” at a book talk and signing at Fiction Addiction. Her previous novel, “The Silent Sister,” was a Publisher’s Weekly and USA Today bestseller. $28.61 admits two and includes one copy of “Pretending to

Dance.” $10 admits one and is redeemable for $10 off merchandise.

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

Jaguar Land Rover Greenville Grand Opening Event Jaguar Land Rover Greenville 2668 Laurens Road

5:30-8:30 p.m.

FREE This grand opening event will feature hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment by the Carolina Dance Collaborative, a grand prize giveaway and more. Attendees will have the opportunity to get a close look at the full lineup of 2016 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles.

810-6412 | greenvilleluxury.com WSterling@greenvilleautomotive.com

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THEATER PRODUCTION

BOOK SIGNING

The Dozen Divas with Dorothy Bishop

Kay Bratt Talk and Book Signing

Centre Stage 501 River Street 8-10 p.m. | Friday and Saturday $35 or $50 (includes VIP After Event) A fantastically fun and utterly unique show featuring Dorothy Bishop’s hilarious spot-on impressions of Stevie Nicks, Barbra Streisand, Adele, Renee Fleming, Madonna, Cher...and pretty much anyone in between. We are also offering a VIP after party with complimentary hours d’ oeuvres provided by The Playwright and libations provided by Boca Loca Rum and conversation with the star of the show, Dorothy Bishop.

233-6733 | centrestage.org information@centrestage.org

Nov. 6-8 ARTS EVENT

Southern City Film Festival Various locations, Downtown Aiken

Fiction Addiction | 1175 Woods Crossing Road 3 p.m. | $10 each. Each ticket admits one and can be redeemed for $10 off any merchandise purchased at the event Grab your friends and come to Fiction Addiction to celebrate the launch of the Upstate’s author Kay Bratt’s new novel “The Palest Ink” and hear more about why she has chosen China as the basis of her passion and career.

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

Austin Brashier Band w/ Max Hightower Blues Boulevard (Greenville) Tickets: $5 (plus $10 food/drink minimum) Mac Arnold’s main-men step out for duo show.

242-2583 bluesboulevardjazzgreenville.com CONCERT

The Fire Tonight w/ Darby Wilcox Independent Public Ale House Tickets: $5 Dynamic, gorgeously melodic progressive piano pop.

552-1265 ipagreenville.com

The Southern City Film Festival will bring an array of films, from amateur to professional in 6 categories: Feature Films, Documentary Films, Short Films, “Script to Screen”, Homegrown, Animation, with the winning films receiving a distribution deal to showcase their work. Join us to see the shows. southerncity.org/festival hello@southerncity.org

CONCERT

Nov. 6-Dec. 4

SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, throughout campus 15 University St. 12:30 p.m.

FREE

ARTS EVENT

The Last Portrait: Polly Gaillard SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Lipscomb Gallery 15 University St. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Mondays-Fridays Gallery visitors must sign in at the Administration Building at the front of campus FREE Photographer Polly Gaillard will exhibit works in Lipscomb Gallery at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.

282-3705 | scgsah.org

Tim Halperin Moe Joe Coffee & Music Talented singer/songwriter/pianist 263-3550 facebook.com/moejoecoffeegreenville/ timeline ARTS EVENT

Open Doors

The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities will host interested students and their families on campus for Open Doors. Sessions will include program and art overviews, student performances, campus tours, arts demonstrations and opportunities to meet the admissions staff. Register online at scgsah.org or call 282-3810.

282-3810 scgsah.org bjdillard@scgsah.org

COMMUNITY

Unbirthday Party Food Drive to benefit Harvest Hope Food Bank Bon Secours Wellness Arena 650 N. Academy St. noon-2 p.m.

FREE Families who donate five or more cans during the Unbirthday Party Food Drive will receive a complimentary ticket voucher for opening night while they last. Limit two per family and supplies are limited. The Unbirthday Party Celebration includes party hats, face painting, balloon animals, a live radio remote from 1073 Ja.m.Z, prizes and more. Get there early because vouchers for free tickets are limited.

BOOK SIGNING

The Fresh Market welcomes Chef Troy Gagliardo to Greenville The Fresh Market 27 S. Pleasantburg Drive, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

1601 Woodruff Road, 3-6 p.m.

FREE Shoppers are invited to join Chef Troy Gagliardo at The Fresh Market’s two Greenville locations for meet and greets and book signings of his latest cookbook, “Pseudo Southern - A Playful Twist on the Art of Southern Cooking.”

Chef Troy will also cook and sample items straight from the cookbook deemed as a celebration of both traditional Southern cuisine and Gagliardo’s homemade family recipes that span generations.

404-233-3993 | thefreshmarket.com/chef-troy krehn@bravepublicrelations.com

advanced features of the device such as security options, syncing social media accounts, capturing screenshots, transferring and backing up files, and managing music. Tablet workshops are designed to help users stay productive by getting the most out of your tablet and your Verizon service. Call to register.

627-3000 CONCERT

Southern Culture On The Skids Gottrocks Tickets: $15, $25 Beloved Southern-kitsch-surf rock trio.

235-5519 | gottrocksgreenville.com

thru Nov. 8 FUNDRAISER

Katydid Combined Driving Event Katydid Farm 359 State Park Rd., Windsor This is a 3-phase carriage driving competition, featuring dressage (Thu./Fri.), cross-country (Sat.), and cones (Sun.).

The show includes both horses and ponies, driven as singles and pairs, at the Training, Preliminary, and Intermediate levels. Competitors will include some of the top carriage drivers in the U.S. Spectators are welcome free of charge. Tailgating spots are available on Saturday. This event benefits the Aiken Land Conservancy.

803-295-6785 katydidcde.com dilsaiken@aol.com

Nov. 8

Nov. 7-17

CONCERT

TRAINING

Bon Secours Wellness Arena Tickets: $30-$65

Verizon Wireless Workshops Verizon Wireless Store 469 Congaree Road 11/7 - Android Getting Started, 9-10 a.m.

11/11 - Apple iPhone Getting Started, 6-7 p.m.

11/12 - Android Getting Started, 6-7 p.m.

11/14 - Android Doing More, 9-10 a.m.

11/17 - Android Tablet Doing More, 6-7 p.m.

FREE Getting Started workshops will help users develop a general understanding of their device. Topics may include: Siri, placing and receiving phone calls, sending text messages, adding and updating contacts, connecting to Bluetooth devices, utilizing the camera and connecting to a wi-fi network. Doing More workshops are designed to help users explore the most

Mercy Me, w/ Phil Wickham, Tim Timmons and John Lynch

Massively popular Christian rock band headlines four-act show.

241-3800 bonsecoursarena.com CONCERT

New Pilgrim Musical Department presents Musical Tribute Bishop Walter Hawkins New Pilgrim Baptist Church 105 Bethany Road, Simpsonville 4-7 p.m.

FREE The New Pilgrim Baptist Church Sanctuary choir will present a musical tribute to Walter Hawkins by featuring many of his well-known songs. The concert

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will feature C.B. Jackson Singers from Columbia, Nicholtown Community Choir, Nu Heart Community Choir and many more.

363-3908 newpilgrimbcsc.com mnrobin1@aol.com

CONCERT

sic; 6:45-8 p.m. - program with speakers; and 8-8:30 p.m. - dessert social. Speakers will include Bill Connor, Lt. Colonel of the U.S. Army and Brian Wingard, former U.S. Marine and current Sgt. SC Army National Guard. New socks, cheese crackers and protein bars will be collected for homeless veterans.

908-2555 gsprwomen@gmail.com CONCERT

University Singers Concert Stratton Hall, Bob Jones University 1700 Wade Hampton Blvd.

5-6 p.m.

FREE Enjoy an inspiring program of choral music performed by the University Singers, BJU’s 100-plus voice, all-freshman choir under the direction of Dr. Eliezer Yanson.

242-5100 go.bju.edu/finearts COMMUNITY MEETING

Democratic Women of Greenville County November Meeting

International Ballet presents Fall Chamber Concert Younts Center for the Performing Arts Fountain Inn Civic Center 315 N. Main St., Fountain Inn 3-4:30 p.m. $25 ($15 for Seniors/Students) International Ballet opens its 12th season with an ode to local concert artists, showcasing excerpts from classic ballets alongside contemporary dance, chamber music and vocal performance. With dance selections featuring original choreography as well as classics such as “Swan Lake” and “La Bayadere,” International Ballet also proudly presents guest artists from Furman University including the Hartness String Quartet, and vocalists Jessie Barnett and Alicia Russell.

879-9404 internationalballetsc.org juliana@internationalballetsc.org

Nov. 9 COMMUNITY MEETING

Celebrating Our Veterans Rocky Creek Church, Main Sanctuary Woodruff Road 6:30-8:30 p.m.

FREE Because they are heroes every day, this event will celebrate and honor our veterans. From 6:30-6:45 p.m. - patriotic mu-

Southern Fried Green Tomatoes 1175 Woods Crossing Road noon-2 p.m.

Buffet lunch $15 per person Speaker is Katy Seppi, LMSW, SC Mobilization Manager for Save the Children Action Network. Save the Children Action Network is a non-partisan organization that engages our government, businesses, partner organizations and supporters to take bold action and hold our elected leaders accountable for our children.

RSVP required.

232-5531 headquarters@greenvilledemocrats.com

Nov. 9-10 EDUCATION

Testimony To The Human Spirit: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story Nov. 9 at Furman University Younts Conference Center 3300 Poinsett Hwy. | 7-8:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School Pope John Paul II Center 100 St Joseph’s Drive | 7-8:30 p.m.

FREE Join us for a thought provoking experience about the resiliency of the human spirit with a first-hand account from Mr. Robbie Waisman, one of

about 900 boys who survived the Buchenwald concentration camp. Organized by the Greenville Jewish Federation. jewishgreenville.org Programs@JewishGreenville.org

thru Nov. 10

losing a spouse, loss of an adult child, grief 101 and grief 102, navigating pregnancy loss, using music and art therapy in bereavement support, and tips for taking care of yourself.

325-3526 | holidaygriefseminar.com kathryn.helt@dignitymemorial.com CONCERT

EDUCATION

National Alliance on Mental Illness Greenville (NAMI Greenville) Basics 6:30-8 p.m. | Tuesdays FREE NAMI Basics is a free evidence-based peer-delivered education program for family and caregivers of children and adolescents with mental illness. Over six sessions, families are provided education, skills training, family communication skills and advocacy support. NAMI Basics was developed around elements that have been extensively tested and found to be highly effective. The group setting of NAMI Basics provides mutual support and shared positive impact and a shared experience of compassion and reinforcement from others.

331-3300 | namigreenvillesc.org jill@namigreenvillesc.org

Nov. 10 BREAKFAST

Pendleton Place’s Annual Benefit Breakfast TD Convention Center | 1 Exposition Drive 7:30-8:50 a.m.

FREE Pendleton Place hosts its Annual Benefit Breakfast on Nov. 10 at the TD Convention Center. Guests will have the opportunity to learn more about the agency while enjoying a delicious breakfast. All in the Greenville community are welcome. To register, visit pendletonplace.org.

467-3650 | pendletonplace.org emurphy@pendletonplace.org EDUCATION

5th Annual Hope and Help for the Holidays Grief Seminar Fellowship Hall | First Baptist Church 847 Cleveland St. 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

FREE Featuring Gloria and Heidi Horsley of opentohope.com and Nigel Robertson of WYFF News. Four hours CEUs are available. Topics will include helping families continue bonds after loss, the grief care for children, grief care for the adolescent,

Furman Faculty Members Present Chamber Music Concert Furman University, Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Hwy. 8-9:30 p.m. $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students/youth The Furman Faculty Chamber Music Series will present a concert Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on campus. The 90-minute concert features Furman music faculty members who will present a diverse array of older and newer repertoire for chamber ensemble.

The program includes a playful duo for cello and bass by Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn’s dramatic Piano Trio in C minor, and jazz tunes by John Scofield and Leonard Bernstein.

294-2086 | furman.edu FurmanMusic@furman.edu CONCERT

WSSL Acoustic Jam featuring Jarrod Niemann, Cassidee Pope, Chris Jansen & Craig Campbell Blind Horse Saloon Tickets are only available from WSSL radio Rising country stars go unplugged.

233-1381 | blind-horse.com CONCERT

BJU Symphonic Wind Band Concert Founder’s Memorial Amphitorium Bob Jones University 1700 Wade Hampton Blvd.

8-10 p.m.

Tickets range from $20-$38 Under the direction of Dan Turner, the Symphonic Wind Band presents an evening with guest artist Matthew Vaughn, co-principal trombone of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The program features the exciting concerto “Colors” by Belgian composer Bert Appermont, as well as

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other virtuoso works for the trombone. Also included are several outstanding pieces for wind ensembles, including “Lincolnshire Posy,” a five-movement symphony of British ballads and folk songs by Percy Grainger.

770-1372 | bju.edu

Nov. 11 EDUCATION

America and the Holocaust Upcountry History Museum | 540 Buncombe St. noon-1 p.m.

FREE The role of the United States in dealing with the Jewish victims of Nazi Germany has been the subject of a long and heated debate. Furman history professor Dr. Diane Vecchio, an immigration historian, will discuss the role of FDR and the State Department in the crisis, as well as the impact of U.S. immigration laws, antiSemitism and anti-immigrant sentiment.

467-3100 | info@upcountryhistory.org upcountryhistory.org

Nov. 12 COMMUNITY MEETING

Memory Cafe Upcountry History Museum 540 Buncombe St. 2-3 p.m. | 2nd Tuesday of the month FREE This is a memory impairment/early stage dementia and their care partners social group. Each month there will be a tour of an exhibit or completion of an activity, fellowship, and refreshments at the Upcountry History Museum. This is a great social time for those new to this journey.

250-0029 alz.org/sc jguay@alz.org CONCERT

FAMILY

Greenbrier Farms Porch Series Greenbrier Farms 766 Hester Shore Rd., Easley 5-8 p.m. | Wednesdays $10 per person / free children under 5 Featuring farm-to-table snacks and live music each week. It’s the perfect way to unwind, take in the farm’s beauty, catch up with friends and see exactly where your food is coming from.

855-9782 | greenbrierfarms.com amy@greenbrierfarms.com

thru Nov. 12 ARTS EVENT

Shifting Plates II: Works By Sixteen South Carolina Printmakers Pickens County Museum of Art & History 307 Johnson Street, Pickens 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | daily except Sunday & Monday Donations Accepted FREE 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 16 prominent printmakers in South Carolina.

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

SAMANTHA WHITEHEAD PHOTOGRAPHY

Joe Bonamassa Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Tickets: $79-$125 Blazing blues guitarist returns to the Upstate.

582-8107 crowdpleaser.com EDUCATION

Vietnam Combat Vets Speak at Furman University Furman University, Trone Student Center Watkins Room 3300 Poinsett Hwy. 7-9 p.m.

FREE Two Vietnam combat veterans and authors J. L. Bud Alley, and James T. Lawrence, will speak in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center on campus. The event, “The Agony of Vietnam: A Discussion With Two Combat Veterans,” is free and open to the public. The discussion is sponsored by The Friends of the Furman University Libraries and the Furman Department of History.

294-2191 furman.edu kathleen.hamlin@furman.edu

CONCERT

COMMUNITY MEETING

Faculty Recital featuring Erik Franklin & Stephen Taylor

Representative Wendy K. Nanney

SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Smith Recital Hall 15 University St. 7:30 p.m.

FREE South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities will present a faculty recital featuring performances by Dr. Stephen Taylor and Erik Franklin. scgsah.org LESSONS

Rural Development Strategies: Lessons From the Field USC Upstate, Health Education Complex 276 North Campus Blvd., Spartanburg 2:30-5 p.m.

FREE This Active Living Event Series free workshop will inform and engage a broad audience regarding successful strategies to protect small town quality of life, strengthen rural community character, and foster a sense of place within rapidly suburbanizing communities. Concerned citizens, elected and appointed officials, leaders in business and education, agricultural and open-space landowners, professional and citizen planners, architects, homebuilders, and real estate development professionals are encouraged to attend. Host: Upstate Forever Sponsor: Mary Black Foundation.

907-5739 | upstateforever.org sbarrett@upstateforever.org CONCERT

Pianist Gilead Mishory in Recital Furman University, Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Hwy. 8-9:30 p.m.

FREE As a professor at the Freiburg University of Music (Germany), Gilead Mishory’s pedagogical activity has expanded all over the world. In the last 12 years, his compositions have earned him worldwide acclaim.

Jerusalem-born Mishory has performed solo with orchestras and with renowned chamber music partners in Europe, the United States, East Asia and Israel. His wide-ranging repertoire includes all musical styles, with a special emphasis on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

294-2086 | furman.edu FurmanMusic@furman.edu

ZEN, The Event Center, Downtown 924 S. Main St. 6:30-8 p.m.

FREE Rep. Wendy Nanney will discuss her expectations for the second session of the 2015-16 legislative cycle, and give the audience some insights into the key issues affecting the citizens of Greenville County - including the ongoing discussions about Greenville Health System’s proposal to restructure its system of governance.

283-6195 greenvilleteaparty.com ron.tamaccio.gtp@gmail.com

Nov. 12-15 THEATER PRODUCTION

God of Carnage Furman University, Playhouse 3300 Poinsett Hwy. 8-10 p.m.

Furman University Theatre will present “God of Carnage” by Yazmina Reza Nov. 12-14, and Nov. 18-21, at 8 p.m., with a matinee showing Nov. 15, at 3 p.m. In the production directed

by Rhett Bryson, a playground altercation between two 11-year-olds brings together two sets of parents who attempt to resolve the dispute in a civil way.

294-2125 furman.edu mickie.spencer@furman.edu

Nov. 12-22 THEATER PRODUCTION

“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”

by Barbara Robinson NGU Billingsley Theatre North Greenville University 7801 N. Tigerville Road, Tigerville 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday $5 Children/Students and $12 Adults In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids – probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won’t believe the mayhem - and the fun - when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on.

977-7085 ngu.edu/theatre.php marnie.daniel@ngu.edu

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CABARET

March 15-20 Peace Center Cost: $25-$85 On sale: Nov. 6; 10 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 467-3000; Peace Center Box Office; peacecenter.org Info: Direct from Broadway, the acclaimed masterpiece returns to Greenville. As part of their 50th anniversary season, the critically acclaimed and award-winning Roundabout Theatre Company presents Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall’s Tony Award-winning production of “Cabaret.”

EDUCATION

Pianist Gilead Mishory Leads Master Class at Furman

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

April 20-24 Peace Center Cost: $30-$85 On sale: Nov. 6; 10 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 467-3000; Peace Center Box Office; peacecenter.org Info: The hills are alive. A brand new production of “The Sound of Music,” directed by three-time Tony Awardwinning Director Jack O’Brien, is coming to the Peace Center. 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the film version, which continues to be the most successful movie musical in history.

RIVERDANCE - THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR

June 28-July 3 Peace Center Cost: $25-$85 On sale: Nov. 6; 10 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 467-3000; Peace Center Box Office; peacecenter.org Info: The international Irish dance phenomenon is back by popular demand in “Riverdance - The 20th Anniversary World Tour.” “Riverdance - The 20th Anniversary World Tour” is composed by Bill Whelan, produced by Moya Doherty and directed by John McColgan, and comes directly to North America from a sold out run across Europe and Asia.

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

July 19-24 Peace Center Cost: $25-$85 On sale: Nov. 6; 10 a.m.

To purchase tickets: 467-3000; Peace Center Box Office; peacecenter.org Info: “The Bridges of Madison County” first captured the nation’s attention as a best-selling novel and is now an irresistible, two time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. This stunning new production features gorgeous, soulful music by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown. With a book by Pulitzer Prize Winner Marsha Norman and direction by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, “The Bridges of Madison County” is the unforgettable story of two people caught between decision and desire, as a chance encounter becomes a second chance at so much more.

Submit your Last Minute Ticket Sales for Upstate Events at bit.ly/LastTicketsGville For Upcoming Ticket Sales, enter them at bit.ly/UpcomingTicketsGJ

season, come join the students, families and staff for the First Annual Holiday Extravaganza. Students have been busy making a variety of crafts and food items such as: fall home decor, ornaments, candles, mason jar crafts, monogrammed items and more. The school’s greenhouse will also be open for purchase of flowers and greenery.

355-0250 greenville.k12.sc.us/washctr/

Minneapolis Guitar Quartet Peace Center | Huguenot Loft 8 p.m. | $35 The newest program from the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet is played entirely from memory, featuring music from classical and contemporary composers as well as original pieces - a couple of which were composed by quartet members themselves. David Crittenden’s new work is inspired by music from the British Isles (think ‘Scarborough Fair’), while Maja Radovanlija’s new piece nods to a wellknown Macedonian folk song.

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

Republican Presidential Town Hall with Dr. Ben Carson

Furman University, Daniel Recital Hall 3300 Poinsett Hwy. 4-6 p.m.

FREE As a professor at the Freiburg University of Music (Germany), Gilead Mishory’s pedagogical activity has expanded all over the world. In the last 12 years, his compositions have earned him worldwide acclaim.

Jerusalem-born Mishory has performed solo with orchestras and with renowned chamber music partners in Europe, the United States, East Asia and Israel. His wide-ranging repertoire includes all musical styles, with a special emphasis on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

294-2086 | furman.edu FurmanMusic@furman.edu CONCERT

Shrimp City Slim Smiley’s Acoustic Café FREE

ter. Lydia Dishman is a business journalist covering innovation, entrepreneurship and style. She is a regular contributor to Fast Company and has written for CBS Moneywatch, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Popular Science, and the New York Times, among others.

616-6630 | emrys.org emrys.info@gmail.com FUNDRAISER

Fall 4 Greer Middle College 5K Walk/Run Along Miller Street in downtown Greer 9-11:30 a.m. | $25 per runner/walker Fall 4 GMC is a 5K Walk/Run through the streets of downtown Greer. The proceeds from the event go toward the Greer Middle College New Building Fund.

469-7571 | greermiddlecollege.org hwyss@greermiddlecollege.org EDUCATION

Using Nautical Charts Cabela’s | Woodruff Road 9:30 a.m.-noon FREE This seminar covers what charts show navigators above and below the water, chart features, chart scales, aids to navigation, latitude and longitude, planning your course and what is in the way 281-9774 | lake-hartwell.org education@lake-hartwell.org CONCERT

Fall of an Empire w/ Gruzer & Devil Gone Public Radio Room

Rodeheaver Auditorium Bob Jones University 1700 Wade Hampton Blvd. noon-1:30 p.m.

Tickets required FREE

Veteran dynamic acoustic bluesman.

282-8988 | smileysacousticcafe.com

Nov. 15

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott will host Dr. Ben Carson for his “First in the South” Republican Presidential Primary Town Hall.

Congressman Trey Gowdy will also participate in the event.

888-683-4846 timstownhalls.com/carsonrsvp

CONCERT

Shindig is Turning One: A Celebration

CONCERT

ARTS EVENT

Washington Center Craft Extravaganza Washington Center Courtyard 2 Betty Spencer Drive 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

FREE For a great opportunity to purchase unique gifts for the upcoming holiday

Nov. 14 Shindig Furnishings | 542 Rutherford Road 5-8 p.m.

FREE Join Shindig for their one year anniversary party. This will feature food trucks, live DJ spinning old school records, beer, prizes and the best mid century modern furniture. shindigfurnishings@gmail.com EDUCATION

“Writing for Online Magazines” Workshop With Lydia Dishman M Judson Books | 130 S Main St. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | $65 This course will cover how to generate a few saleable ideas, how to find markets and editors to pitch, how to find people to interview, how to write a good query let-

Epic sludge-metal band.

263-7868 | radioroomgreenville.com

Jucifer, Waft & Coffin Torture Ground Zero Pure-noise alt-metal duo creates wall of sound.

948-1661 reverbnation.com/venue/groundzero2

Nov. 16 DEVELOPMENT

Workforce Development Salute TD Convention Center | 1 Exposition Drive 6 p.m.

Join us as we celebrate workforce development in the Upstate. This event will fund scholarships and various critical needs for Greenville Technical College.

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The keynote speaker, Carlos Ghosn is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, one of the world’s largest automotive groups.

The head of France’s Renault and Japan’s Nissan Motor, and chairman of Russia’s largest automaker, AVTOVAZ, Ghosn is the first person to run two Fortune Global 500 companies simultaneously.

679-8588 workforcedevelopmentsalute.org lacey@crawfordstrategy.com

Nov. 17 EDUCATION

Leading with an Exceptional Team Kroc Community Center | 424 Westfield St. 8 a.m.-noon Nationally recognized leadership coach Patrick Jinks will help nonprofits learn how to build a talented and engaged team to achieve their organization’s long-term vision. Designed for nonprofit professionals, executive directors and board members, this workshop will include a keynote address by Jinks and interactive roundtable discussions. Attendees will explore strategies for attracting, motivating and retaining talent within organizations and frameworks for effectively engaging employees. Shine the Light Nonprofit Forums is presented by DNA Creative Communications.

420-0195 | nonprofitforums.org debbie@dnacc.com

Nov. 19 FUNDRAISER

7th Annual Big Brothers Big Sisters Pep Rally The Peace Center, Huguenot Loft 101 W Board St. 6-10 p.m. | $50 Help Big Brothers Big Sisters kickoff the 113th Renewal of the Battle for the Palmetto State--Clemson-Carolina Football.

It is said if you are from South Carolina, you are either born a Clemson or a Carolina fan. Come out, show your team colors--an evening of food, drink (open wine and beer bar), music, drum lines, team mascots, sports talk, live and silent auctions, and much more. Support Big Brothers Big Sisters and Upstate kids.

242-0676 | bbbspeprally.com sullivanL@bbbsupstate.com CONCERT

Music in Familiar Spaces concert with cellist Steuart Pincombe Swamp Rabbit Cafe | 205 Cedar Lane Road

7-8:30 p.m. | Name-your-own-ticket-price Internationally-recognized cellist Steuart Pincombe will present “Adaptation,” a concert of virtuosic pieces from the earliest to latest music for solo cello without the endpin (1689-1875). Three different bow styles (baroque, transitional, and modern) will be used to sample works by Gabrielli, Bach, Dall-Abaco, Duport, and Piatti. The cafe will stay open later than usual and concert-goers will have the option of purchasing dinner, snacks or drinks to enjoy during the concert. musicinfamiliarspaces.com info@musicinfamiliarspaces.com

thru Nov. 20 ARTS EVENT

Making Faces 11 Artists Interpret the Portrait Greenville Center for Creative Arts 25 Draper St. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE Greenville Center for Creative Arts presents Making Faces: 11 Artists Interpret the Portrait. The artists are Cassia Abbott, Allison Anne Brown, Anthony Conway, Polly Galliard, Kevin Isgett, Dabney Mahanes, Glen Miller, JJ Ohlinger, Adam Schrimmer, Tim Speaker, Eli Warren.

630-1652 | artcentergreenville.org info@artcentergreenville.org

thru Dec. 10 EDUCATION

Homework Help Center for Developmental Services (CDS) 29 N. Academy St. 2:30-4:30 p.m.

FREE Every Thursday beginning Sept. 10, CDS will be hosting Outshine, our program to help cultivate young minds. From 2:30 to 4:30, students ages 5-13 will be able to attend and receive extra homework help for various school subjects. There will be prizes and raffles weekly for students with good grades. CDS will also be hosting a party in December for Outshine students with outstanding report cards. cdservices.org kim.perez@cdservices.org

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.

THE DESIGNATED LEGAL PUBLICATION FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SOLICITATIONS NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following:

SOLICITATIONS NOTICE Greenville County, 301 University Ridge, Suite 100, Greenville, SC 29601, will accept responses for the following:

Police Interceptor Equipment – IFB #35-11/16/15, by 3:00 P.M.

RFP #29-01/26/16 GPATS 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan, January 26, 2016, 3:00 P.M.

Solicitations can be found at http://www.greenvillecounty. org/Purchasing_Dept/IFB.asp or by calling 864-467-7200.

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Mobile Attic will hold a public sale to enforce a lien imposed on units, as described below, pursuant to the South Carolina Self- Service Storage Facility Act, South Carolina Code 3920-10 to 39-20-50. The sale will commence at 9:00 AM on Thursday, 12 November 2015, at Mobile Attic, 200 Shortie St. Greer, SC 29651 The personal goods stored therein by the following: # 103549- Brenda Coats Household goods, # UP013- Colleen Nelson Household goods, # UP113Doug McMullen Household goods, # 200253- Felicia Hallums Household goods.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Management reserves the right to withdraw any unit from the sale and reserves the right to refuse any bid.

RFP #34-11/20/15 Digital Orthophotography and LiDAR Acquisition, November 20, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Solicitations can be found at www.greenvillecounty. org/Purchasing_Dept/ or by calling (864) 467-7200.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SPARTANBURG IN THE FAMILY COURT CASE # 2015-DR-42-2461 GJane and John Doe vs Amber Russnak, et all TO AMBER RUSSNAK: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint upon the Attorney Robert A. Clark at his office at 5409 Augusta Road, Greenville, South Carolina 29605, within thirty (30) days of the date of service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service, and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief requested in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that DTM Social Club Inc./ DBA Tommy’s, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR, at 500 Cedar Lane, Greenville, SC 29611. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than November 22, 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 Mustard Seed Social Club Inc/ DBA Rendezvous Sports and Spirits, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR, at 5021 Pelham Road, Greenville, SC 29615. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than November 22, 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 Coffee House Holdings, 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, at 1130 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC 29607. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than Novermber 15, 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 The Metro Complex, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR, at 1310 Cedar Lane Road, Greenville, SC 29617. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than November 8, 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 Dream Play Group LLC, DBA Gizmo Bar, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER & WINE, at 245 N. Main St., Greenville, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than Novermber 8, 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 La Rumba Bar & Grill, LLC., intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE & LIQUOR, at 1123 Cedar Lane, Greenville, SC 29617. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than Novermber 15, 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

LEGAL NOTICES Only $.99 per line ABC NOTICE OF APPLICATION Only $145 tel 864.679.1205 fax 864.679.1305 email aharley@communityjournals.com

PUBLIC NOTICE THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 6-11470 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015, GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL ADOPTED A RESOLUTION, WHICH ENLARGED THE METROPOLITAN SEWER SUBDISTRICT TO INCLUDE REAL PROPERTY LOCATED OFF OF LEE VAUGHN ROAD, BAUGHMAN COURT, JONESVILLE ROAD AND MCKINNEY ROAD. THE NEW BOUNDARY LINES TO RESULT FOR THE METROPOLITAN SEWER SUBDISTRICT WOULD INCLUDE THOSE AREAS KNOWN AS GREENVILLE TAX MAP NUMBERS (TMS#) 0554.01-01029.00; 0559.01-01-028.08; 0559.01-01-032.03; 0559.0101-032.00; 0559.01-01032.07; 0559.01-01-032.11 and 0559.01-01-032.12.

THE PURPOSE FOR THE PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT IS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORDERLY COLLECTION OF SEWAGE AND WASTE BY EXTENDING LATERAL AND COLLECTOR LINES FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF SEWAGE AND WASTE TO THE TRUNK AND TREATMENT FACILITIES OF THE WESTERN CAROLINA REGIONAL SEWER AUTHORITY (Re-Wa).

THE RESULT OF THIS ACTION IS THE NEW BOUNDARY LINE WHICH WILL REFLECT THE AREA AND TAX MAP NUMBER LISTED ABOVE. MAP OF THE NEW BOUNDARY AND A LEGAL DESCRIPTION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE. NO ADDITIONAL BONDS WILL BE ISSUED BY THE SUBDISTRICT, NOR WILL THERE BE ANY CHANGES IN THE COMMISSION OR THE PERSONNEL OF THE PRESENT COMMISSION OF THE METROPOLITAN SEWER SUBDISTRICT AS ENLARGED. BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

PUBLIC NOTICE THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 6-11470 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015, GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL ADOPTED A RESOLUTION WHICH ENLARGED THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT BY INCLUDING CERTAIN PROPERTIES LOCATED WITHIN THE DREXEL TERRACE SUBDIVISION, AND A CERTAIN PROPERTY ON EVEREST STREET, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ORDERLY COLLECTING AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE, GARBAGE AND TRASH WITHIN GREENVILLE COUNTY. THE NEW BOUNDARY LINES TO RESULT FOR THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT WOULD INCLUDE GREENVILLE COUNTY TAX MAP NUMBERS ("TMS#") 0538010110100; 0 5 3 8 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 ; 0538010110300; AND P016010106100.

THE REASON FOR THE INCLUSION OF THE AFORESAID PROPERTY IS DUE TO THE PROPERTY OWNER HAVING PETITIONED THE COUNTY TO BE ANNEXED INTO THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE SANITATION SERVICE FOR THEIR RESIDENCE. THE RESULT OF THIS ACTION IS THE NEW BOUNDARY LINE WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE AREA AND TAX MAP NUMBERS LISTED ABOVE. MAP OF THE NEW BOUNDARY AND A LEGAL DESCRIPTION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE. NO BONDS WILL BE ISSUED

BY THE DISTRICT, AS A RESULT OF THIS ACTION, NOR WILL THERE BE ANY CHANGES IN THE COMMISSION NOR IN THE PERSONNEL OF THE PRESENT COMMISSION OF THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT. BOB TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL

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FIGURE. THIS. OUT. NAME-DROPPING ACROSS 1 Motherly 9 Makes tired 16 “Back in Black” rock band 20 Open to persuasion 21 Yellow-orange fruit 22 Correct 23 Give a call to someone who lied on the stand?

[Benaderet] 25 Like giraffes 26 Bottom-line amount 27 Civil rights concern 28 “Folkabilly” singer Griffith 29 — nitrite (blood pressure lowerer) 31 — Sad (city on the Danube) 34 Look at some poultry?

[Snead] 37 Cop who arrests people for swearing? [Hanks] 41 Beginner 42 Erenow 43 Diner sandwiches 44 31-Across resident 47 T.I.’s music 48 “This — a test” 50 Cobblers in certain plastic containers? [Carney] 57 Scamp 60 Buck’s mate 61 Menial laborer 62 Palest U.S. residents?

[Turner] 68 Stark 69 ER worker 70 Long of films

By Frank Longo 71 Gp. for teachers 72 Towing gp.

75 Coat edge 76 At the vertex 78 Big brawls in the Northeast?

[Benatar] 84 Ricky Martin’s former band 87 Prefix with east or west 88 Actor Jason of the Harry Potter films 89 Spuds placed on a slant?

[Ripken] 93 Alternative to Ding Dongs 97 Python’s kin 98 Watchful one 99 Play’s start 102 Leafy climber 103 “Certainly!”

108 Trojan War hero’s perfect dive? [Knotts] 111 Throw some condiment shakers? [Blanc] 114 A Baldwin brother 115 Lot measure 116 Toothy tools 117 “Truly” singer Richie 120 Status — 121 Verdi solo 122 Said “Not guilty” way in advance? [Landers] 129 Also- — (race losers) 130 Civil rights leader — Scott King 131 Poet and feminist Rich 132 Gin flavoring 133 Consents 134 Susan Lucci was one

DOWN 1 Sully 2 Pal, to René 3 “Idylls of the King” poet 4 Marx associate 5 Whole bunch 6 Cagers’ gp.

7 APB part 8 The, to René 9 H20, to a tot 10 Colossal 11 “— a jealous mistress” 12 Wash off 13 Bygone delivery guys 14 Goddess of dawn 15 Some map lines: Abbr.

16 Pin on, e.g.

17 Irritable 18 Mellifluous 19 Singer Dion 24 Screen Idle 28 Pooch biting playfully, say 29 Brazilian juice berry 30 Joe holders 31 Bengals’ org.

32 Frequently, to poets 33 Views from lookouts 35 “Juno” co-star Michael 36 Stockpile 38 Procure 39 Psychic skill 40 Dem.’s rival 45 Label on sale goods 46 Sweat spot 49 Hockey great Bobby

51 City in south Germany 52 “Aren’t — pair?”

53 British bar 54 Boise’s state 55 Fen bird 56 Appears 58 Geog., e.g.

59 “Thief” star James

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62 Dilbert drawer Scott 63 Roadside lodging 64 — Lodge (63-Down) 65 Sometime eventually 66 Capitol fig.

67 Auntie’s mom 73 Listerine bottle abbr.

74 Pal of Jughead

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Sudoku answers: page 44

77 Litter critter 79 Rock music subgenre 80 — -Out (Bic brand) 81 Be prone 82 Lace into 83 Same: Prefix 85 Fixes, as a program 86 Bouquets 90 “Qué —?”

91 Caddy option 92 Tolkien beast 94 Number of visitors to a website 95 All done 96 “Auld Lang —” 100 Cavs, on a scoreboard 101 “NY Ink” channel 103 “Titanic” haul 104 Like leis 105 “The Deer Hunter” director Michael 106 At first, e.g.

107 Fictional sleuth Queen 109 “Hold it!”

110 Fries a little 112 Ebbing things 113 Pushover 118 Jot down 119 Time chunks 120 Wit’s remark 122 Dell options 123 Mauna — Observatory 124 Contains 125 Tokyo of old 126 Monk’s title 127 Viroid material 128 Ballad finale?

Crossword answers: page 44

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COMMUNITY VOICES LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE WITH JOAN HERLONG

Saints alive

Divine dress-up inspiration comes in many forms I don’t know how it came up, but last weekend, Halloween, one of our kids asked me if Halloween existed “back when you were a kid?”

Um, yes, I think I can remember back that far. We began observing Halloween right after we got indoor plumbing.

That’s a bit of an exaggeration. Until I was 9, my Halloween took a secular back seat to the original point of the whole thing: All Saints’ Day. At Sacred Heart School, the fall decor on classroom walls was limited to leaves, squirrels, acorns and crucifixes. Pagan jack-o’-lanterns need not apply. All Saints’ Day was the pinnacle, and first-graders proudly led the annual Parade of Saints in full regalia, dressed as our patron saints.

I had not read any hagiographies (because insomnia was not yet an issue for me), but I suspected the other moms owned revised editions of “The Lives of the Saints.” Turns out, every other patron saint of every other girl in the class was a PRINCESS. Saint Martha? PRINCESS. Famous for pink tulle. I’ve no idea what her wand was for.

Saint Teresa? Full-on PRINCESS (go figure). Known for long purple dress, with a steeple headdress and long chiffon veil.

And Saint Mary? The QUEEN, duh. At least half the girls in my class were named Mary, Mary Katherine, Mary Pat, Mary Beth, Mary Anne, Mary Margaret, Mary Louise or Mary Claire. It was the Gang of Mary, and they were breathtaking.

Queen Mary wore virginal white and a powder-blue satin cape, topped off with a modest gold crown or tasteful rhinestone tiara. Never mind that Mary’s assumption into heaven happened before 50 A.C.E. No patron saint in our pageant would have been caught dead looking anything less than Renaissance royalty.

Except moi.

My patron saint is Joan of Arc. Lucky me, St. Joan was the French G.I. Jane of the early 15th century. I arrived on All Saints’ Day dressed like an extra in “Game of Thrones,” sporting tights, a felt tunic, my brother’s old sneakers and a tinfoil sword. There wasn’t a shred of tulle or chiffon on me. If Birkenstocks had been invented, they would have topped off my outfit nicely.

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Four saintly sisters had come before me: Martha, Patricia Mary, Helen and Blanche Agnes. You’d think that Mom might have figured out that religion could parade in harmony with the willing suspension of disbelief, and I could pretend that Joan of Arc wore a fancy long dress, once.

But no. Mom went for realism (and something she could whip up 10 minutes before school started). I was going for something more elusive, like fitting in with princesses. I came home whining that all the kids had made fun of me for dressing up as a BOY. Mom (nee Martha) snorted that the other mothers had better consult their Bibles before their Butterick sewing patterns, because Saint Martha was no princess, nor any of the other female saints. She insisted, “It’s not about what you wear, it’s who you ARE. Those kids committed the sin of envy because you were TRUE to your saint. Joan of Arc was a hero.”

I have no idea what saint I was true to, two years later, in the third-grade Twelve Days of Christmas pageant. Our parochial school was small. My class wagged the tail end of the Baby Boom, so we could not field a full “Nine Ladies Dancing” in our act.

So I was one of just five “Nine Ladies Dancing.”

Mrs. Berner, the mom in charge of the

five “Nine Ladies Dancing,” sent us home from rehearsal with a yard of tulle, and instructions for the moms to make that into a tutu, worn over a black sleeveless leotard, pink tights and pink ballet shoes.

At 8 years old, I hadn’t yet divined that Mom viewed instructions as suggestions.

Sewing was not Mom’s thing. She preferred safety pins and staples to needles and thread.

In her defense, it’s near impossible to create a tutu using those tools. Better to build on something that already has elastic to work with.

When I arrived for the play, the other four of the five “Nine Ladies Dancing” were all lined up for our dance. They gaped at me. But just like All Saints’ Day, I don’t think their staring had much to do with envy.

I had on pink tights, pink ballet shoes and a sleeveless black leotard… over my short-sleeved undershirt. My yellow tulle

tutu was stapled to the elastic band on my white Carter’s underpants, which I was wearing over my black leotard. I remember Mrs. Berner praying. She said, “Oh, dear God…” I’m not sure what all this explains, but it explains a lot. When my three-yearold granddaughter asked for LOTS OF DRESS UPS for her birthday, I produced lots. She now has a dozen princess outfits, lots of sparkles, lots of pink, lots of chiffon and tulle.

Her mother admired each gown, and noticed the “new” Snow White gown had an unfortunate large stain on it. Oh well.

It’s new to us.

Like Joan of Arc, I sacrificed fashion for a just cause. The latest edition of Saint Martha must be smiling from above.

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

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